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Full-time agriculturist, BSU maintains global susi sa pagpapalakas ng positioning, hosts int’l agrikultura sa lalawigan research conference >>>NEWS....sundan sa P/2

>>>LIFETIMES.....turn to P/7

Sweetest Christmas launch at SM City Batangas >>>F.E.S.T. .....turn to P/8

AT least five (5) Batangas City-based schools made it to the Top and bagged 12 out of 18 winnings in the 2015 Regional Search for Sustainable and EcoFriendly Schools at the awarding ceremonies held at the Bayview Hotel, Manila, on a Friday the 13th.

The competition was organized by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), in cooperation with the Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education and private sector partners. >>>SUSTAINABILITY...... P/3

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Batangas’ Bantay-Dagat network, adjudged as best managed in PH “IT really pays to be proactive and conscientious of what would be the best for your community and its environs. Eco-tourism and other development efforts are worthwhile concerns, but a holistic approach in ecological management with all the stakeholders actively participating is even more better.” Thus, this is how Mayor Sophia Grandoza Palacio reacts on the recent developments concerning the marine protected area operations in the province of Batangas.

Last October, the Batangas MPA and Bantay Dagat Network topped the Most Outstanding MPA Network category which recognizes multiple MPAs handled by multiple local government units working together.

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CALABARZON’s BEST, NATIONAL FINALISTS. The group of stakeholders from Batangas City-based schools that were adjudged as Regional Winners and National Finalists to the 2015 Search for Most Sustainable nad Eco-Friendly Schools... and some of their awards.| CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

LIST of CANDIDATES for 2016 ELECTIONS for BALAYAN and CALATAGAN >>>NEWS...... P/2

And now there are 15 (on EDCA) MALAPIT NA NGA! Dala ang pananabik na madaanan nang muli ang ibinangong Calumpang Bridge, karaniwan na ngayong nakikita ang mga taong tila pinagmamadali ang mga tauhan ng kontratistang JBL Builders and Wlliam Uy Construction Joint Ventures. Mapapansin ding ang magkabilang gutter na lamang at ang railings nito ang hindi pa natatapos sa tulay at inaasahang madaraanan na ito bago sumapit ang Kapaskuhan. Kuha ang larawan, Nob. 13.| BALIKAS PHOTO / RENZ F. MENDOZA

Benjie Oliveros >>>OPINION...... P/5

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LIST of CANDIDATES for 2016 ELECTIONS Municipality of BALAYAN For MAYOR: 01 CASTELLO, ROMMEL II M. IND. 02 FRONDA, EMMANUEL SALVADOR II P.NP 03 MACALINDONG, RODEL L. LP 04 MALABANAN, PEDRO M. IND. 05 RAMOS, FRANCISCO S. PMP For VICE-MAYOR: 01 ARADA, JOEL T. 02 CHAVEZ, EFREN R. 03 ESPERON, CRISTETA C. For MEMBERS, SANGGUNIANG BAYAN 01 ABIAD, RITA D. 02 ALARAS, MELCHOR GAUDENCIO JR. 03 ALIPIO, MARIO T. 04 ANDAL, JASMIN. O. 05 BULASAG, FRANCISCO 06 CABASIS, MANUEL 07 CARINGAL, RONAN 08 DE GUZMAN, EDWIN FRANCIS 09 DE GUZMAN, RAVENGAR M. 10 DE LUNAS, GAUDIOSO C. 11 DE MESA, ROGELIO R. 12 DEL CARMEN, ELMA 13 ESPIRITU, ERNESTO O. 14 HERNANDEZ, DEMETRIO P. 15 JAVIER, GIL 16 LOPEZ, FERNANDO 17 MAHILUM JHOMARI 18 MAPALAD, JOHN ALBERT 19 MARTINEZ, MARLON 20 PAMINTUAN, DANILO STA. ANA 21 PANTOJA, BERNANRDO 22 SANTOS, VITALIANO JR. 23 VERDILLO, ARCELI

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LIST of CANDIDATES for 2016 ELECTIONS Municipality of CALATAGAN For MAYOR: 01 PALACIO, PETER OLIVER M. 02 PANTOJA, LANIE C.

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For MEMBERS, SANGGUNIANG BAYAN 01 AFABLE, RENATO A. 02 BABARAN, JAIME G. 03 BAUTISTA, ELIGIO C. 04 BAUTISTA, REXIO P 05 CAHAYON, FLORENTINO 06 CAISIP, TEODULO 07 COZ, JOSE JR. Z. 08 CUETO, ALBERTO C. 09 DELAS ALAS, NOEL A. 10 DEPUSOY, RUEL S. 11 HERNANDEZ, RICARDO 12 ILAO, GLICERIO 13 PELEA, THERESA P 14 ROL, KIM RUEL R. 15 SALAZAR, LEON SR. 16 SAYO, ANTHONY R. 17 TORRES, MARILYN A.

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Political Party / Affiliation KBL - Kilusan sa Bagong Lipunan LP - Liberal Party NP - Nacionalista Party NPC - Nationalist people’s Coalition NUP - National Union Party PDP-Laban - Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban PMB - Partido ng Masang Batangueño UNA - United Nationalist Alliance IND. - Independent Compiled by BALIKAS Reportorial Team

LUNSOD NG LIPA – ‘KAILANGAN ng ating lalawigan na magtalaga ng isang full-time na agrikultor o hepe ng departamento, upang matiyak na mapapalakas natin ang agrikultura at sektor ng sakahan sa probinsya.” Ito ang pahayag ni 4 th District third termer Congressman Mark Llando Mendoza sa panayam ng Pahayagang BALIKAS kaugnay ng kaniyang adbo-kasiya para sa sektor ng mga magsasaka sa Lalawigan ng Batangas.

Ayon kay Cong. Dong Mendoza, malaking bagay para mapalakas ang isang sektor kung may maayos na mangangasiwa rito at buo ang kagawaran o departamento ng pamahalaang panlalawigan na nakasasakop dito.

Aniya pa, “mahalagang matutukan ang sektor ng

INIHANAY na ni Congressman Mark Llandro L. Mendoza sa mga iskolar sa Lunsod ng Lipa ang mga plataporma at adbokasiya niya, bukod pa sa larangan ng edukasyon at pagsasaka.| agrikultura sapagkat, prima- kultura, kailangang matu- (PAO). Ang kasalukuyang rily, ang ating lalawigan ay tukan ito ng sadyang hepeng department head designate isa ring agricultural province ito lamang ang hinaha- rito ay si Provincial Chief of na may malalawak na lupa- wakan,” dagdag pa ni Cong. Staff Pedrito Dijan Jr. na siya ing nakalaan sa mga sakahan Mendoza. Sa kasalukuyan, ring kasalukuyang hepe ng at produksyon ng pagkain.” ang lalawigan ng Batangas Provincial Assistance for “Kung meron man ay walang hiwalay o depi- Community Development tayong mga programa sa nidong hepe para sa Pro- (PACD). kasalukuyan para sa agri- vincial Agriculture Office >SAKAHAN... sundan sa P/3

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3 sugatan, 1 patay sa pagkasunog ng karinderia SUGATAN ang tatlong tauhan ng isang karinderia sa Lunsod Batangas, samantalang sinawimpalad namang ma-trap sa kusina nito ang isang babaeng dishwasher nang sumiklab ang sunog banadang alas-7:00 ng umaga noong Martes, Nobyembre 17.

Batay sa ulat ng Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) sa lunsod, isang concerned citizen umano ang dumulg sa kanilang tanggapan upang ipagbigayalam ang nasusunog na karinderia kayat kaagad ding rumesponde ang mga tauhan ng BFP. Mistulang kinain ng apoy at naabo ang malaking bahagi ng kusina ng Bukatoots Food Station sa kahabaan ng Rizal Avenue, sakop ng Barangay 18 sa Downtown Batangas City.

Kinilala naman ang mga sugatang biktima na sina Jun-jun Frane at Rudy

Mendoza, kapwa mga helper sa nasabing eatery na pagmamay-ari ni Roman Frane ng Brgy. Maruclap, Lunsod ng Batangas. Isa pang tauhan ang umano’y nabalian ng binti nang tumalon ito mula sa staff quarters sa ikalwang palapag ng nasabing establisimyento.

Agad na dinala ang mga biktima sa malapit na ospital.

Nakilala naman ang nasu-nog na biktima na si Catherin Arcega ng lunsod ding ito.

Bandang alas-7:15 ng umaga idineklarang fire out na ang insidente na umano’y umabot lamang sa 1 st alarm, batay sa pagtaya ni Fire Ground Commander SFO1 Marino Montealto.

Sa paunang imbestigasyon ng mga bumbero, nabatid na

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nagkaroon ng gas leak sa panggatong na LPG ng karinderia na siyang dumiklap at pinagsimulan ng sunog.

Nabigo namang makatakbo pang palabas ang nasawing biktima bunga ng

ITO ang LPG tank na umano’y nagkaroon ng pagsingaw na siyang pinagsimulan ng malagim na insidente ng sunog na ikinamatay ng isang babae at ikinasugat ng 3 iba pa.| JERSON J. SANCHEZ

SINISIYASAT ng mga tauhan ng Bureau of Fire Protection ang napinsalang bahagi ng nasunog na karinderia sa Lunsod Batangas. Kapansin-pansin ang maliit na pinto na tanging lagusan papasok at palabas sa kusina ng naturang karinderia.| JERSON J. SANCHEZ

kawalan ng fire exit at ang masikip na nag-iisang pinto nito na may nakaharang pang mga kagamitan sa karinderia.

Hanggang sa sandaling sinusulat ang balitang ito, patuloy pa ring isinasagawa ang imbestigasyon, maging ang resulta ng otopsya sa biktima. Hindi pa rin matiyak kung magkanng halaga ang napinsala sa sunog.

Ang Bukatots Food Station ay may mga sangay rin sa Brgy. Cuta at Brgy.

Maruclap, kapwa sakop ng lunsod ng Batangas.| DHALENZ R. LANDICHO, may ulat ni JERSON J. SANCHEZ

Nakawan ng motorsiklo, 2 sa magkasunod na gabi HALOS magkasabay na naganap ang nakawan ng mga motorsiklo sa dalawang (2) magkahiwalay na lugar sa Lunsod Batangas sa loob lamang ng isang gabi nitong nakalipas na linggo.

Sa 46 Noble St., Brgy 7, Batangas City, sa sumbong ng bikimang si Geraldine Balmes y Guerrero, 47, nabatid na nagulat na lamang ang kaniyang asawang si Nelson Bartolome Balmes, na nawawala ang Blue Honda Dream Motorcycle, may plakang JH1991, engine number KFM0004288E at chassis number KFM0000X004288, na

nakapangalan sa biktima.

Iniwan umano nila itong nakaparada sa loob ng kanilang compound noong Huwebes ng gabi ngunit nang gagamitin nila ito kinabukasan ng umaga ay di na nila natagpuan.

Samantala, kinagabihan naman noong Huwebes isa pang nakilalang si Eleuterio Andal Jr. y Antenor, 31, binata, isang guro at residente ng 802 Gov. Carpio Road, Brgy Kumintang Ibaba, Batangas City ang nabiktima ng nakawan ng motorsiklo.

Sa sumbong ng biktima sa pulisya,

ipinarada umano niya ang kaniyang itim na Yamaha Mio Sporty Motorcycle, may plakang DS-169916, engine number 40C-169916 at chassis number PA040C000E0211737 bandang alals8:00 ng gabi noong Huwebes sa bakanteng lote sa gilid ng kanilang tahanan ngunit wala na ito nang kukunin niyang muli bandang alas-6:45 ng umaga kinabukasan ng Biyernes.

Wala rin umanong anumang bakas na mapagkakakilanlan sa posibleng magnanakaw na tumangay sa motorsiklo ng mga biktima.| RENZ F. MENDOZA

NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2015

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LUNSOD BATANGAS – PINAHAHARAP ngayon ng Sangguniang Panlunsod sa susunod na sesyon nito ang kontratista ng slaughterhouse ng lunsod kaugnay ng sunudsunod na reklamo ng mga magtitinda ng karne sa mga pamilihang bayan ng lunsod.

Nitong nakaraang Lunes, hiniling ni Kagawad Aileen Grace M. Ariola-Montalbo, tagapangulo ng Committee on Market na paharapin sa sesyon ng kosneho si G. Mario Amano, tagapangasiwa at kontratista ng slaughterhouse, upang bigyang linaw ang mga reklamong iniuugnay sa umano’y hindi

maayos na pagkakatay ng mga ibinebentang karne, maging ang mga reklamo sa singilin ng taripa rito.

Ayon kay Montalbo, ilang mga magtitinda ng karne sa lunsod ang nagpadala ng liham sa kagawad upang ireklamo ang umanoy mga nawawalang parte ng baboy, mga pasa o basag na pige ng baboy, at mga kaso pa ng pagkawala ng timbang sisidlan ng dugo o minsan pa’y wala na ring dugong dumarating.

Bukod dito, may mga kaso pa na pahulihuli ang delivery ng kinatay na baboy samantalang inirereklamo rin ang umano’y

hindi maayos na paglilinis ng baboy kaya madalas ay idinedeliver na itong may mga balahibo pa sa ulo at paa.

Samantala, isa pa sa idinadaing ng mga magtitinda ng baboy ang umano’y pagtataas ng taripa mula P220 na gustong gawang P270 o karagdagang P50 kada ulo. Anang mga magtitinda, nagkasundo na silan P40 lamang ang itataas ngunit sinisingilan naman sila ng

P12.50 araw-araw sa loob ng apat na araw kaya kung susumahin ay P50 rin ang nagiging pagtataas ng taripa.

Nakiusap din ang mga magtitinda na ipatupad ang pangongolekta ng taripa pagkabenta ng baboy sa hapon sa halip na ang ipatupad ay ang polisiyang no pay, no entry.| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS

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Pagkakaroon ng full-time agriculturist, susi sa pagpapalakas ng agrikultura sa lalawigan

Ayon kay Mendoza, kung sakaling mabibigyan siya ng pagkakataong maihalal na susunod na gobernador ng Batangas, isa sa pangunahin niyang agenda ay ang makapagtalaga ng provincial agriculturist upang matutukan ang mga programa sa sektor ng sakahan at maging mas produktibo ang mga magsasaka at maging matagumpay ang mga programang aalalay sa kanila gaya

ng pagpapalakas ng ani, support system sa produksyon at marketing programs and strategies para naman sa kanilang mga ani.

Si Mendoza ang Secretary General ng partidong Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) at siya ring pambato ng partido sa pagkagobernador ng Batangas sa 2016 national and Local Synchronized Elections.| BALIKAS NEWS TEAM

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Region’s most sustainable and eco-friendly schools named Most of the major awards for both elementary and secondary levels were received by the schools belonging to the Division.of Batangas City and a local university system.

For the main category, the Search for Sustainable and Eco-Friendly School, San Isidro Elementary School was adjudged Champion or Regional Winner for elementary level. The 1st Runner Up, Polo Elementary School, will join SIES as national finalists for the elementary level.

Two (2) Batangas City public high schools made it to the secondary level – the Sto. Niño National High School was adjudged Champion, while Talumpok National High School is 1st runner up. Cagbalete National High School of Quezon Province made it to be the 3rd runner up. All of the three will be the Calabarzon’s national finalists for the secondary level.

For the collegiate level, only two Batangas City-based universities – Batangas State University (BSU) and Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas (LPU) were adjudged as regional winners and national finalists; BSU being the champion, and LPU as runner-up.

Smart Communications Inc. joins the activity for the fourth leg as part of its corporate social responsibility and community service program Kabalikat. Other private partners include Nestle Philippines Inc. and One Meralco Foundation Inc. Land Bank of the Philippines joins the activity for the first time this year.

Jesus Reyes, vice president for corporate affairs of Nestle Philippines, said: “Education is a powerful tool to inspire positive behavior and attitude towards the environment and water stewardship. When students learn about the environment and water stewardship – they will not only see this in their textbooks but feel it in their surrounding as well, thanks to the many school policies and initiatives in place.”

“Nestle is very much looking forward to this multi-sectoral partnership which we believe will encourage the nation, through our schools, to take care of our precious natural resources,” Reyes added.

The “Nestle Water Leadership Award” is aimed at recognizing and promoting water management solutions and practices of schools. A prize of PhP10,000 and certificate of recognition will be awarded to each of the regional winners of all categories.

For this category, San Isidro Elementary School was again adjudged as the champion.

SIES is known in the locality to have pioneered in catching rainwater for watering plants and

other water use in the school premises with its plastic drums strategically positioned at the back of almost every school buildings in the campus. Sta Cruz Elementary School and SWA Elementary School were cited as 1st and 2nd runner ups.

For the secondary category, this is the only category that a school from outside the province made it to the top; this time by Cavite National Science High School of Maragondon, Cavite; However, Talumpok NHS and Sto. Niño NHS, both of Batangas City were hailed as 1st and 2nd runner ups.

Another special award entitled “Meralco Energy Leadership Award” recognizes schools that promote practices and initiatives in electrical safety, energy efficiency and conservation. A prize of PhP10,000 and certificate of recognition will be awarded to each of the regional winners of all categories.

According to Jeffrey Tarayao, president of One Meralco Foundation, “one of the things we can do as a foundation is help public and private schools better understand energy’s role in our lives as it’s something we should take care of.”

For this category, San Isidro Elementary School, Batangas City is the sole winner. SIES has the distinction of mobilizing the academic community with its Energy/Electricity Patrol composed of students who supervise and monitor the responsible use of energy in the campus.

For the high school level, the regional energy leadership winner is Cagbalete National High School, Quezon Province while the Lyceum of the Philippines UniversityBatangas made it for the college level.

The said nationwide search is the Philippine initiative in support to the ASEAN Environmental Education Action Plan (20142018) and ASEAN Environment Year 2015 with the theme: “Empowering the Youth for a Green ASEAN Community.”

It can be recalled that San Isidro Elementary School and its Eco-Patrollers was also awaded as Champion in the citywide Search for Most Innovative Environmental Program of Batangas City in the year 2014.

Also, Talumpok National High School placed second in the said competition.

Meanwhile, all other participating schools were given Certificate of Recognition by the Awards Committee. Four elementary schools and two secondary schools are recognized.

These are the Dao ES, Julian A Pastor Memorial ES, Bolbok, ES and Parang Cueva ES; as well as Pedro S. Tolentino Memorial NHS and Nathalia V. Ramos Memorial NHS.| MAGIELYN M. RAYOS-BABAO

LIVE CORALS. The colorful coral reef in Batangas is a far cry from the white dead corals found in many marine ecosystems in the country.| Photo courtesy of MSN

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Batangas’ Bantay-Dagat network, adjudged as best managed in PH Batangas is seconded by the Central Negros Council for Coastal Resources Development in Negros Occidental while Lanuza Bay Development Alliance in Surigao del Sur got the third place.

All the winners were awarded a trophy, cash prize, and snorkeling gear sets during an awarding ceremony in General Santos City on October 24.

On a separate category, the Buluan Island Marine Sanctuary in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay, won first place in the Most Outstanding Marine Protected Area (MPA) category in the 5th Marine Protected Area Awards and Recognition or Para El MAR. Following Buluan Island MPA are Buntod Marine Sanctuary in Masbate City and Sta. Cruz-Molopolo Marine Park Bird and Fish Sanctuary in Macrohon, Southern Leyte, as second and third placer respectively.

Recognizing well-managed marine sanctuaries is a way of highlighting best practices and rewarding communities that work hard to protect their marine ecosystems.

The MPAs were judged based on how well they are managed, how the conservation has made an impact on the ecological and biophysical status of the sanctuary, and how the MPA management has created social and economic benefits for nearby communities.

Elements of a top marine reserve What makes a well-managed marine reserve?

The finalists had several things in common, said multi-awarded marine biologist

Porfirio “Perry” Aliño, coordinator of the Marine Protected Areas Support Network (MSN), which organizes the competition.

First, they were “diligent in keeping records such as financial statements, management plans, meeting minutes, and photos,” said Aliño.

Documentation served as the bases for judges to evaluate how the MPAs were being managed.

BRAVO 2015 Meanwhile, a separate award-giving activity recognizes the efforts of the different groups of stakeholders of the Batangas Bay and other marine enclosures in Batangas.

The 2nd Barangas Rehabilitation Awards for Verde Passage Outstanding for Marine Protected Areas and Bantay Dagat (BRAVOMPA & BD) was held at Hotel Pontefino last Wednesday.

On the first category, the Lobo MPA topped with both the second and third places wined by the Lian MPAs. On the second category, all of the places were won by Calatagan MPAs. As to the search for Best Bantay Dagat, the team of Tingloy Bantay-Dagat networks was adjudged winner. The second place goes to Lobo Bantay-Dagat while the third place was won by Mabini Bantay-Dagat.

The BRAVO 2015 is a joint undertaking of First Gen Corporation, Conservation International, USAID and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS

WINNERS TAKE ALL. The reprsentatives of the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Bantay Dagat Bridages in the Province of Batangas.| CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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OCTOBER 12 - 18, 2015

OPINION

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THANKS to the wonders of the Internet, we now have easy access to many things, among them, newspapers, and magazines. Sometimes, we don’t have to subscribe to local and foreign papers to be able to read them.

With this exposure, I’m certain we are also forming many views and opinions, and we slowly discern the various underpinnings, political, ideological, religious, and otherwise, that the media outfits have.

I personally find it very interesting to compare opinions, styles, approaches, and see how they play out. There’s a thrill always in observing the flashes of genius as different writers argue and often clash.

Also I want to fish, even if only tentatively, the different trends and biases the different papers can have. These considerations always shed some light on things to make them more understandable.

A l m o s t aut omat ic ally , several categories emerge in the mind as I instinctively try to sort out, classify, brand, and label the different positions. Among these categories are the conservative/liberal, right/left, open-minded/close-minded, serious/ commercialized.

With all these developments, we need to pay more attention to what is fundamentally important to those involved in the media. What is clear is that everyone in the media, just like everybody else, should realize very sharply our need for continuing formation.

This need cannot be set aside, much less, alienated. This is the lifeblood of our profession, as it is in any other profession. Anyone who marginalizes the need for formation in his work is doomed to stagnate, if not fail miserably.

And formation should not just be some vague and generic term. It should strike us as something urgent, and with many concrete elements that need to be attended to.

For example, people in media should know how to attain greater independence and gain better objectivity, how to adapt to a fast-changing world driven by technologies that develop quite speedily these days, etc.

These are some concerns that need to be looked into if we in the media wish to really serve the people and contribute to the common good.

We have to be sensitive to subtle tricks, personal, social, and cultural, that can warp the integrity of our profession. These tricks are a constant threat. We cannot be naïve.

It would be good if we could have an inventory of biases and other conditionings that can affect our work. Some of them are unavoidable, but at least if we are aware of them, we can do something about them.

We have to be wary that unless we simply content ourselves with catering only to the ignorant and the impressionable, we need to improve our competence to satisfy the legitimate expectations of a more demanding and discerning audience.

But before we start thinking of what new style and techniques to learn to attain this goal, we have to remember one basic, indispensable requirement, one that needs continuing renewal and purification, given the condition of our life and work.

This requirement hopefully will give us a firm grounding, a sound sense of perspective, a clear focus, and sense of purpose. It’s the understanding that our media work is not just our work but rather is part of the divine redemptive plan for all mankind. We have to attune our work to that context.

This is our usual problem. Many of us still have the primitive pagan notion that the business of communication is purely a human affair, so completely personal, private or autonomous that God has nothing to do with it.

Or at best, that it is just a social phenomenon, ruled purely by some social consensus, with God and His commandments playing no more than a cameo role.

Of course, with this attitude we become most vulnerable to all sorts of pressures and temptations that certainly distort the standard of justice and fair play, of freedom and truth, etc.

Unaware of the divine character and redemptive mission of our work, we can tend to go in circles, stuck in the mud of wranglings, self-righteousness, and useless speculations or worse, prone to the tailspin of frivolity, greed, and inanities.

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And now there are 15 ON September 16, 1991, 12 senators, collectively called the “Magnificent 12,” went against the wishes of President Cory Aquino and voted for the non-renewal of the US-RP Military Bases treaty. This paved the way for the pull out of US troops in the country and the turnover of the biggest US naval base in Asia the Subic Naval Base and the Clark Air Base, where US fighter and bomber planes used to refuel during their combat sorties in Vietnam in the 60s and 70s, to the Philippine government.

Promoters of the extension of the bases treaty warned that the people of Olongapo and Subic would not be able to recover from the loss of their livelihood, which revolved around the bases, and the Philippines would wobble and be vulnerable with the discontinuance of US military and economic aid and the removal of the “protection” that the presence of US troops and armaments provided. Supporters of the US even sarcastically claimed that one could not eat patriotism but the loss in US aid was real.

In a matter of years, the former US bases in Subic and Clark became tourism and business hubs, the conversion of which was presided over by the former mayor of Olongapo, who was a supporter of US bases, and eventually elected senator Richard Gordon. The purported negative effects of the removal of the former US bases were hardly felt in Olongapo, Subic and the whole country. More than two decades hence, the gloomy prognostications of supporters of US bases in the country never materialized.

Of course, there were several attempts by succeeding administrations to gradually reestablish US bases in the country through several agreements such as the Mutual Support and Logistics Agreement, which paved the way for the construction of ‘temporary’ facilities by US troops and their access to the country’s ports and facilities, signed by former president Fidel V. Ramos, the Visiting Forces Agreement signed by Joseph Estrada, which opened up the country to the return of US troops, albeit ‘temporarily’, and the Balikatan joint US-

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PH military exercises under the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, which effected the actual return and continuing presence of US troops in the country.

The final return of US bases in the country was effected by the administration of Benigno Aquino III with its signing of the Enhanced Defense Coope-ration Agreement (Edca). It was an Aquino who campaigned for the retention of the US bases, but failed in the process; it is another Aquino, this time the son, who paved the way for the return of US bases.

Worse than the US-Philippine Military Bases treaty, the EDCA allows the establishment of not one or two but several US bases inside military camps of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) all over the country.

There are already several restricted areas accessible only to US military personnel inside camps of the AFP where US facilities have been constructed, such as in Camp Navarro, the main operating base of the Western Mindanao Command of the AFP, in Zamboanga City, and even inside the General Headquarters of the AFP in Camp Aguinaldo, where Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton, who was accused of choking to death Filipina transgender Jennifer Laude, is currently detained.

To add insult to injury, the Philippine government would shoulder a substantial part of the costs of constructing and maintaining these US bases, much like the arrangements in South Korea and Japan. In South Korea, the government has reportedly spent $866.5 million in 2014 for the upkeep of US bases in its country. It paid $819 million in 2013. Japan, which pays for the labor costs of Japanese nationals working at US military facilities, utility costs of the bases, and other expenses, has earmarked ¥912 billion for 2015.

For this reason, the 15 senators who asserted that the Edca is not valid as a treaty without the concurrence of two-thirds of senators did the country a service.

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Miriam Santiago

Benjie Oliveros

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APEC Blues  SARAH RAYMUNDO Blood Rush THE Aquino regime has only buried us deeper into conditions of social and economic backwardness.

As president, he has brought the liberalization of trade to its foregone conclusion: a local econoomy that cannot move anywhere beyond export-orientation and import-dependence.

The Aquino regime has opted to derail the Peace Talks in favor of the criminalization of political dissent, enforced disappearances, and extra-judicial killings. All that sits well with its compliance to the US COIN (counter-insurgency program) and its localized version, Oplan Bayanihan. The Aquino regime has refused the opportunity to sit and talk about a much needed comprehensive agreement on social and economic reforms (CASER) with its so-called “enemies” whose draft on the topic has only been waiting to be discussed fruitfully. Furthermore, the Aquino regime has also resorted to the violation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL) in almost all encounters between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the New People’s Army (NPA).

It has dumbed down a populace by making it believe that killing rebels in the most brutal of ways is legitimate.

No LAW allows for the killing of any suspected rebel and/or criminal. But IMPUNITY is Aquino’s game for which he prides himself and his mercenary army.

The only reason why Professor Emeritus Winnie Monsod and Jesuit priest Fr. Alejo can attempt at dampening the worldwide call to #StopLumadKillings is precisely because the Aquino regime has succeeded in distorting the laws that guard human rights so that by linking the revolutionary NPA or the Communist Party of the Philippines to the Lumad campaign, people are supposed to find good reason for the killings of indigenous peoples.

Do you see how this government attempts at making each and everyone of us a stupid citizen, oblivious of human rights and with a very crude sense of the struggles of the indigenous peoples in our land? Aren’t you enraged? I am!

Now this regime is all set for APEC. It is hosting it for the second time after 19 years. Aquino’s hosting of APEC only proves its criminal design and implementation of a monolithic national agenda.

A monolithic national agenda that allows for the exploitation of farm workers through contract growing and corporate agriculture has also resulted in peasant poverty and landlessness. A monolithic national agenda legitimizes the killings of indigenous farmers to pave the way for mining plunder. A monolithic national agenda rejects a program for a genuine national industrialization, and therefore frustrates any plan to bolster local manufacturing or a self-reliant economy.

Cleary, there have been alternatives to impunity, poverty, landlessness, economic backwardness, corruption, and misery.

When I was still very small, my mother would almost always reproach me for not finishing all the rice on my plate. I was told that farmers worked hard to put rice on our table yet most of them are so poor. Back then I did not know how cleaning up my plate helps poor farmers in any way. I never bothered to clarify because she made it appear like the sense in her “table manners” was self-evident. Quite predictably, I grew up a riceloving creature who feels responsible for other people’s leftover. And apart from that, growing up and growing old with people whose defense of human rights does not seem to waver, I have come to realize that my mother’s “table manners” were less a solution to the misery of Filipino farmers than a demand to be mindful of the labor of others on which my own and yours rest.

The 1996 massive APEC protest was my first mobilization out-of-town. I owe it to myself and to the politics that brought me here to encourage everyone to join the November 19 APEC protest, and in the process, understand more how “economic cooperation” that refuses a harvest for the world can be opposed and replaced by something else, something better, something that can unite us with the basic sectors in Philippine society. And I sure hope it will be something that will no longer make us feel guilty each time we leave the table without finishing the rice.| ____________________________ *Sarah Raymundo is a full-time faculty at the University of the Philippines-Center for International Studies (UP-CIS Diliman) and a member of the National Executive Board of the All U.P. Academic Employees Union. She is the current National Treasurer of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and the External Vice Chair of the Philppine Anti-Impeiralist Studies (PAIS).

She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Interface: A Journal for Social Movements.

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ALDUBbing Values WE’VE done it again! The Philippines has once more hit the global trending limelight as it becomes a ‘Twitter worldwide phenomenon’ with ALDUB! BBC called it “The Most Popular Show You Have Never Heard Of” because it’s more popular in the Philippines than any other part of the globe.

ALDUB, according to BBC, smashingly dethroned Brazil’s 2014 Twitter record for its victory over Germany during the World Cup. The British channel continued to analyze the elements that made this simple scripted snippet go viral and now media-lucrative.

Personally, I believe what makes it a socio-cyber media success is the simplicity of the ‘quasi-scripted’ romantic sad-turned-into-a-happy affair. It is spiced with the common ingredient of Filipino humor and slapstick that is always welcomed as a brief sought-for respite for the nerves of our politically-socially and traffic jammed countrymen.

Then it mixes this ‘romantic comedy’ with the soughtafter kilig effect (Literally: to tickle the emotions) that every human relationship naturally has. Finally, it sprinkles the entire concoction with a very basic moral lesson: Getting into a Real Relationship 101.

Pretty much up to this point, one can say that the romantic vignette is an entertaining and a good vehicle to remind ourselves, – especially the youth – how certain values are important to consider if they wish their own future relationships to be meaningful and lasting.

However, as I thought more about this, I started having my doubts about the effectiveness of how the show effectively communicates values and if its message is really forged into firm convictions in the minds and hearts of our youth.

The reflection that follows is not an attempt to dishearten ALDUB fans the world over. Nor does it seek to discredit the good intentions of the producers behind the show. Perhaps, my point is better understood in the following scenario: DAUGHTER: “Mom, I’m going out with Alec.”

MOTHER: “Okay dear, but remember no holding

hands, no this and that, blah, blah, blah.”

[Mother fixes her daughter’s collar and hugs her] DAUGHTER: [Rolles eyes at her mom.] “Ugh, mom, you’re so conservative! What makes you think we going to do any of that.”

MOTHER: “Remember ALDUB, honey! Just reminding you.”

[Mom kisses her daughter on the cheek] DAUGHTER: “You don’t have to worry, mom.

Thanks to ALDUB, I know how to carry on with my relationship well!”

[Daughter hugs mom and leaves the house] Of course this is totally unreal! But in reality, how many parents or children would really use ALDUB (or any show for that matter) as a moral reference to remind themselves and others about treasuring and transmitting values on courtship and marriage? If at all, we may be witnessing something that we could call the ALDUBBING of values.

Dubbing refers to ‘the process of voicing over the original language with a local tongue’ so that a foreign film or song can be understood. Through this course something of the original message and cultural nuances are lost in the translation.

In the case of ALDUB, we are witnessing an attempt to ‘make the local culture’ understand and rediscover certain values (i.e. pertaining to love and courtship) that perhaps, have been ‘lost in tradition’. But how much of this ‘cultural dubbing’ is genuinely capable of sending a lasting moral lesson to viewers? Are fans, for example, more inclined to live these values that give meaningful, lasting, and fruitful relationships?

We are not attempting to over-analyze or dissect the simplicity and viral attractiveness of ALDUB. Let’s just take it for what it is, right? But I can’t help reading it as a symptom of traditions and institutions that are no longer properly functioning in our society and how values are being neglected or classified as morally and culturally irrelevant for the ‘times’.

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Principle of participation ON the occasion of the forthcoming local and national elections that as a matter of course bring about the presentation of candidates for elective public offices, the registration of voters and other related matters, it might be not only right and proper but also quite relevant to have even given a little look at the Social Doctrine of the Church pointing out the inherent significance and consequences of the “Principle of Participation” in matters that have social relevance to the life and plight of the people.

Considering his human dignity and ingenuity, his social nature and disposition, his rights and obligations, his personal perception and vision, his ethical and/or moral convictions – among other human particulars – it becomes not only natural but even mandatory for man to participate in many and different, continuing or periodical social agenda for his own good and welfare. And the primary reason for such a “Participation” is precisely because man is not only a member of society but also directly or indirectly affected by decisions made for and about the society he is a member of.

Let it be duly observed, however, that one thing is when someone is by deceit and/or by force deprived of his rightful participatory intervention in socio-economic, cultural, and political issues, directly or indirectly affecting his present life and/or future lot. And quite another thing is when certain individuals on their own and for whatever reason, refuse to participate in social issues as if society has nothing to do with them and so too, they have nothing to do with society – both of which stances are objectively wrong, considering that the “Principle of Participation” is both a right and an obligation. The truth of the matter is that the said “Principle” is in fact meant to safeguard and promote the rightful concerns and just interests of the participants themselves.

Thus it is that when someone dares to claim that he/she has nothing to do with society and society has nothing to do with him/her such that participating in questions and issues affecting society are irrelevant as far as he/she is concerned – this is not simply an expression of indifference but a confirmation of ignorance. The common saying that “No man is an island” has its basic and concrete references to such an indifference – if not the actual scorn of social realities which directly or indirectly affect man precisely as a social being – something that is both a reality and a profundity.

Conclusion: The calls made by different groups of people to abstain from participating in the forthcoming elections for one reason or another, may be well-intentioned but contrary to the said “Principle”. In the event however that their “Participation” is in fact ignored or neutralized for one devious reason or another – such as due to cheating in the elections – this would call for another “Participation”, viz., moving for the ouster of the cheaters, the elected, and all those involved in thus violating the “Principle”.|

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Serge Osmena III Koko Pimentel Grace Poe Ralph Recto Cynthia Villar Pia Cayetano

Shame on Sen. Sonny Trillanes for voting against Senate Resolution No. 1414, which was sponsored by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

A little less acquiescent but nevertheless a national embarrassment are Senators Franklin Drilon, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Bam Aquino who abstained.

Senate Resolution No. 1414 is not an expressed rejection of Edca, but the 15 senators went against the wishes of the Aquino administration, asserted the Senate’s power of check and balance, and, IF respected by the Supreme Court and President Aquino, would open the Edca to public debate.

What the Filipino people now needs to follow vigilantly would be

the decision of the Supreme Court on the petitions asking the High Court to declare the Edca as unconstitutional, and the next steps of the Aquino administration.

Well, of course, Pres. Benigno Aquino III has already demonstrated his proclivity for being obstinate. When the Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional substantial portions of the Aquino administration’s version of pork barrel funds the Disbursement Acceleration Program, President Aquino openly defied the High Court. He has consistently refused to hold his friends to account. And he has been turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the plight of the Lumad and their demands for justice. For someone who has declared that the Filipino people are his bosses, Aquino has been one of the most dense, insensitive and obstinate presidents this country has ever had. Even the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. bent to strong political pressure, nationally and internationally.

It is now up to the Filipino people to use the Senate resolution to amplify the call and strengthen the campaign for the removal of US troops, bases, facilities and materiel in the country.| BULATLAT.COM

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BUSINESS CALABARZON, Manila JCIs win top awards in 2015 World Congress in Japan CALAMBA CITY — The country’s more than 100 delegates to the week-long 2015 Junior Chamber International (JCI) World Congress held in Kanazawa, Japan from November 3 to 8 took pride for bringing home the bacon as among the world’s JCI international awardees as JCI marks its centennial year.

Jeffrey Rodriguez, city public affairs chief of the Calamba City Mayor’s Office and now a life-time member as JCI Senator told PNA here on Tuesday that JCI Manila romped off with the World’s Most Outstanding Local JCI Organization.

Rodriguez said the Manila Jaycees was recognized for its Project 101 with its

AUCTION REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF BATANGAS FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION LIPA CITY OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EXOFFICIO SHERIFF SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE EJF CASE NO. 2015-0099 Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended by Act 4118 filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (otherwise known as PAG-IBIG FUND), mortgagee, with office address at Petron Megaplaza Building, 358 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave, Makati City with branch office at 14th Floor JELP Business Solution Center, No. 409 Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City against ALICIA S. CUENCA married to RENATO L. CUENCA, mortgagor with postal address at Dizon Village, Fernando Air Base, Lipa City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of September 16, 2015 amounts to PhP 330,472.72 including/excluding interest and other charges agreed thereon and other expenses in connection with this sale, secured by the mortgagee the undersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 85, Lipa City, will sell at public auction on December 7, 2015 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the main entrance of the Hall of Justice, Marauoy, Lipa City to the highest bidder for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the described real property and its improvements thereon to wit:

National Flagship Project on its Rescue Operations amid the devastation wrought by Super Typhoon “Yolanda.”

He said the Philippine delegation presented five entries out of the participating 30 JCI chapters for the global competition.

JCI Imus (Cavite) Wagayway also bested other countries for bagging the “World’s Best New Local Chapter Award” following the feat as “Most Outstanding Local New Chapter Organization” in the Asia Pacific region.

Rodriguez also revealed that JCI Philippines nominee Dagupan Vice Mayor Brian Lim of JCI Dagupan Bangus

was elected world vice president for next year’s term of JCI elected world officials.

The city public affairs chief and JCI Calamba Dimasalang official shared how JCI’s world leaders underwent an enriching experience during the poverty simulation as part of the workshop exercises in the week-long congress.

Rodriguez observed how delegates from the first world and developing countries have varying degrees of assessing poverty situations during the “role play” as a poor senior citizen left to fend for himself or an indigent youth who has to quit school to serve as caregiver to her

aging parents.

He said the delegates also experienced how a poor single mom strives to make both ends meet and how poor people have to face day-today subsistence mired in poverty.

Rodriguez said the JCI members also explored ideas for international initiatives and leadership of the young generation to address poverty in the more than 100 member countries and territories with highly diverse backgrounds.

Calamba’s JCI Dimasalang delegates also learned from shared experiences and ways of the JCI movement to create positive change at the local levels then to the global

arena especially in fostering world peace and international understanding.

The Philippine delegation was awed by the Kanazawa JCI World Congress logo which depicts a “paper crane” as a symbol of peace, care for others, friendship, social activity and a flight into the future.

The delegates heaped praises for the JCI forum’s crane symbol of choice colors where red stands for passion; orange for wisdom; green for peace; light blue for co-existence and co-prosperity and blue for the youth dynamism that could spur into action for positive impacts.| SAUL E. PA-A

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Kontrata para sa disenyo at konstruksyon ng Calumpang Third Bridge, nilagdaan na

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-82297 ‘A parcel of Land (Lot 1673-C-1-B-14, of the subdivision plan, Psd-04-051041, being a portion of Lot 1673-C-1-B, Psd-04-032075, L.R.C. Record No. ___), situated in the Barangay of Tambo, City of Lipa, Bounded on the SE., along lines 1-2-3 by Lot 1673-C-1-B-19, (Road), of the subdivision plan; on the SW., along line 3-4 by Lot 1673-C-2, (LRC) Psd-109367; on the NW., along line 4-5 by Lot 1666, Cad-218, Lipa Cadastre; on the NE., along line 5-1

by Lot 1673-C-1-B-15, of the subdivision plan. x x x containing an area of TWO HUNDRED THIRTY THREE (233) SQUARE METERS,” Prospective buyers and bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the title herein above described and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

In the event that the Auction Sale should not take place on said date it shall be held on December 14, 2015, same place and time without further notice and republication.

“All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and place.”

Lipa City, October 22, 2015.

PORMAL nang nilagdaan nina Mayor Eduardo Dimacuha at ng Frey-Fil Corporation na kinatawan ni Engr.

Leoncia Maneja, authorized Managing Officer, ang kontrata sa pagdedisenyo at konstruksiyon ng Calumpang Bridge 3, Nobyembre 6.

Ayon kay Maneja, ang Frey Fil Corp. ay may 41 taon ng karanasan sa ganitong larangan. Hindi din ito aniya

ang unang pagkakataon na gagawa sila ng ganitong klaseng tulay kung kayat sinisiguro nila ang integridad at kalidad ng kanilang trabaho.

Kabilang sa kanilang ginawang proyekto ang upgrading ng Ayala Bridge sa Maynila na gumugol lamang ng kalahating bilyong piso sa halip na P 1 bilyon na orihinal nitong presyo.

EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE (Sgd.) REMER S. REYES Sheriff IV

Award of publication hereof in the Pahayagang Balikas drawn by raffle in accordance with law.

NILALAGDAAN ni Mayor Eduardo Dimacuha ang kontrata sa design at construction ng Calumpang 3rd Bridge habang nakamasid (mula kaliwa) sina City Administrator Narciso Macarandang, Asst. City Accountant –OIC Aster Marasigan, City Engineer Adela Hernandez, City Legal Officer Teodulfo Deguito, at mga kinatawan ng Frey-Fil Corporation na sina Engr. Leoncia Maneja at Engr. Ana Cristina Encarnacion, Sr. Business Development Manager.| JERSON J. SANCHEZ

DULY RAFFLED: HON. NOEL M. LINDOG Executive Judge ATTY. GERALD F. RABENA OIC-Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio

Sheriff Copy furnished: PARTIES CONCERNED WARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove deface or destroy this Notice of Sale on or before the date of sale UNDER PENALTY OF LAW. Pahayagang BALIKAS / November 9, 16 & 22, 2013

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the late TEDDY C. HERNANDEZ who died intestate on October 11, 2014 in San Jose, Batangas consisting of six (6) real properties, to wit: a water purification equipment covered by Tax Dec. No. 20030-00606, and five (5) other real properties -- covered by Tax Dec. No. 20-030-00410 with an area of 184.30 sq. m.; covered by TCT No. T-117510 and Tax Dec. No. 20-030-00152 with an area of 342 sq. m.; covered by Tax Dec. No. 20-03000605 with an area of 34.08 sq. m.; covered by OCT No. P37564 and Tax Dec. No. 20-030-00705 with an area of 143 sq. m.; and covered by by OCT No. P-39900 and Tax Dec. No. 20-030-00707, all situated in Brgy. Sto. Cristo, San Jose, Batangas have been extra-judicially settled by and among his heirs per Doc. No. 492; Page No. 99; Book No. 199; Series of 2015 of Atty. ANGELITO MARAÑA, Notary Public.

Pahayagang BALIKAS | Nov. 9, 16 & 23, 2015

Ang Calumpang 3rd Bridge ay may sukat na 140 linear meters, at gagawing longer span ang center span upang hindi magbara ang mga debris sa ilog kapag bumabaha. Gagamit sila dito ng pre cast system.

Kaugnay nito sisimulan na anila sa susunod na linggo ang mobilization kung saan magpapadala na sila ng mga tauhan, equipments at construction materials bilang paghahanda.

Bagamat mayroon na aniya silang conceptual design, kasalukuyan pa nilang ginagawa ang final design ng tulay para sa full implementation nito sa susunod na buwan.

Ang kontruksyon ng tulay ay nagkakahalaga ng Php338,088,880.00 at inaasahang matatapos sa Mayo ng taong 2016 ayon pa rin kay Maneja.| RONNA E. CONTRERAS

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Media today

This does not mean that media work should be some kind of sacred, rigid, and monolithic business. It can go mundane. It can and should respect the legitimate plurality of opinions proper of our autonomous earthly affairs.

But when there is this awareness of the divine character of our work, then the search for justice,

freedom, and truth can be pursued, hindered less by our tendencies to be shallow in thinking, rash in judgment, rough in manners.

Even when there are conflicting views, there will always be charity in the discussions. Even when we are having fun, we don’t forget God. This is our media challenge.|

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BSU maintains global positioning, hosts international research conference Leads the region in research and innovation IN its pursuit to maintain its excellent academic standing through its endeavors in research, the Batangas State University will host the International Research Conference on Innovations in Engineering, Science and Technology (IRCIEST) 2015 at the GPB Main Campus I on November 18-20.

CHED chairperson Dr. Patricia Licuanan will give her opening message.

Led by its University President Dr. Tirso Ronquillo, guests and participants will engage in the following activities: ribbon cutting ceremony for poster paper presentation; poster viewing; master classes; plenary discussions; conference banquet; panel discussions; and fellowship and awards night.

The University’s credo “Leading Innovations, Transforming Lives,” becomes more apparent as it delivers conferences geared towards globalizing research and instruction. True to its commitment to national development, it will open the conference with the conferment of an Honoris Causa degree to the founder and chairman of PhilDev Dr. Diosdado “Dado” Banatao. He is also the managing partner and founder of Tallwood Venture Capital in Silicon Valley, USA.

Dr. Banatao will deliver the keynote speech for Day 1 of the conference which will center on “Innovative Development through Entrepreneurship Acceleration (IDEA). Meanwhile, the plenary sessions for the day will include “ASEAN Beyond 2015 – Implications for the Philippines”

by Dr. Federico Macaranas, Asian Institute of Management full professor.

On another plenary session, Dr. Carlos Primo David, Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development executive director, will discuss on “Implementing Relevant and Cost Effective R & D Programs for the Country.”The panel discussion for that day will be on “Re-Engineering Philippine Education for ASEAN Beyond 2015”. Discussants include Dr. Banatao, Dr. Macaranas and Dr. Filemon Berba, Jr., Philippine Foundation for Science and Technology president. The conference banquet will cap the day’s activities.

For Day 2, the plenary session will focus on “Strengthening Engineering Science and Technology Innovation Ecosystem – A Key to Spur Inclusive Growth in the Philippines”. This will be given by Dr. David Hall, chief party for

USAID Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) program.

The master classes for that day will be given by Dr. Celso Co, Technological Institute of the Philippines’ Research and Development Management Office director and Engr. Gerrald Carlo Mateo, Planet NI Program coordinator and National Instruments field engineer.

They will talk about “An Introduction of Genrich Altshuller’s Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) through Logic and Language Perspective” and “Design Mechatronics and Control Systems Fast with NI myRIO and LabVIEW” respectively.

The sesssions on the second day include presentations on automation and control and food and agriculture, electronics, information and communication technology, biochemistry and molecular biology, nanotechnology, materials science, energy and environment and science and technology education.

Fellowship and awards night will cap the activities for the second day while the last day will be the participants’ tour to various tourist sites in the province.| ANGELICA SERRANO

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Iodized salt campaign, lalo pang pinalakas MAHIGIT sa 50 participants mula sa CALABARZON ang nakilahok sa Regional Launching ng Saktong Iodine sa Asin Seal sa Makati Palace Hotel, Makati City, Nove. 9.

Nagbigay ng lecture tungkol sa National Salt

Iodization Program si Mr. Julius Cesar Alejandre, Nutrition Officer II ng National Nutrition Council Central Office. Binigyang diin niya ang kahalagahan ng iodine sa katawan ng isang tao. Ang mga seafoods tulad

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ng lato, tahong, hipon at isda ay mayaman sa iodine pero dahil medyo may kamahalan ito, iodized salt pa rin ang abot kayang bilihin. Ang iodized salt ang siyang pinaka murang pinagkukunan ng iodine.

Ang Republic Act 8172 O An Act Promoting Salt Iodization Nationwide ASIN Law ay unang ini launch ni dating DOH Secretary Juan Flavier Jr. noong 1993 kung saan ang Fidel Iodized Salt ang flagship brand.

Ibinahagi naman ni Ms. Digna Ilustre, kinatawan ni Dr. Rosvilinda Ozaeta – Provincial Health Officer ng Batangas Province ang naging mga proyekto nila hinggil sa salt iodization, sinabi niyang hindi nakakasama ang paggamit ng

iodized salt sa paggawa ng bagoong, bilang ito ay isa sa pangunahing ikinabubuhay doon. Ipinahayag din niya kung paano matagumpay na naisa batas ang salt iodization at paggamit nito sa buong Batangas.

Ang pagtitipon ay pinangunahan ni Ms. Carina Santiago, Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Mula sa National Nutritional Council – CALABARZON. Naging tampok din ang unveiling ng Saktong Iodine Sa Asin Seal na pinangunahan ng mga pangulo ng PNAO, BNS, CNN, UNICEF, SALINAS at NNC. Sa kasalukuyan, may tatlong malalaking kumpanya ang gumagawa ng iodized salt sa Batangas Province.| ALVIN M. REMO

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” - Theophrastus, philosopher Scorpio (Okt. 24-Nob. 22) Kailangang maramdaman ng madla na may pagkakapantaypantay. Suwerte sa kulay pearl white. Lucky numbers ay 15, 19, 29, 25, 13 at 22.

Sagittarius (Nob. 23-Dis. 21) - Darating na ang matagal ng hinihintay na love.

Suwerte sa kulay blue. Lucky numbers ay 47, 32, 22, 51, 15, 51 at 20.

Capricorn (Dis. 22-Ene. 19) - Ang diplomatic approach ay iyong paraan upang maging cooperative ang mga kasama. Suwerte sa kulay lilac. Lucky numbers ay 22, 19, 35, 39, 25 at 44.

Aquarius (Ene. 20 - Peb. 18) - Isang babaeng biyuda ang maging life partner.

Suwerte sa kulay orange. Lucky numbers ay 17, 44, 19, 13, 22 at 35.

Pisces (Peb. 19 - Mar. 20) - Isasalaysay mo ang kuwentong alamat. Suwerte sa kulay scarlet red. Lucky numbers ay 19, 41, 25, 27, 23 at 29.

Aries (Mar. 21 - Abril 19) - Palagi ka nang magkakalat ng kuwento na hindi naman totoo. Suwerte sa kulay violet. Lucky numbers ay 23, 56, 29, 11, 45 at 60.

Taurus (Abril 20-Mayo 20) - Ang iyong reward ay makakabili ka na ng sasakyan. Suwerte sa kulay baby

COMMENDABLE ACT. Arnold Jeffrey Mea, also known as AJ, a regular employee of SM City Lipa returns to Ms. Baby Shahriza Benamer, a 24K gold bangle which AJ recovered from SM Lipa’s theater premises last November 2, 2015. The bangle have a market price of Php29,000.00

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ALDUBbing Values First, more and more the family’s role of nurturing and modeling virtues for its members is being substituted by media and other external mediums. There is nothing really negative about this, except that what is shown in movies or TV will still be far from reality unlike the virtues that exemplary parents can teach and leave as a legacy to their children.

Second, values can be communicated through countless creative channels. But one cannot risk ‘losing the true essence’ of certain values through mediums like slapstick, comedy, and reality shows. There is a need to go beyond an ‘entertaining scheme’ in order to transmit them.

These shallow attempts are a subtle revival of our very own infamous Juan Tamad (John the Bum). The comical icon of laziness in Juan was an attempt to arrest the vice of sloth in the youth. But in presenting him to be a ‘funny, happy-go-lucky and cool chap’, I believe my generation had a more lasting memory of his ‘foolishness’ instead of the more important lesson on diligence.

How, I ask, can a people still maturing in ‘good governance’ and battling constant bouts with ‘historical dementia’ (i.e. still remember which EDSA is real?) properly absorb and apply ‘values’ when these are ‘sugar-coated’ and ‘comically’ transmitted? Undoubtedly, through such ‘romantic snippets’ they may be aware of what is good, but media cannot go so far as to teach them how to be good.

Finally, ALDUB is staged within another show, Eat Bulaga.

This hosting show often has hot, gyrating, slut-wearing dancers who constantly come in and out of the stage and without fail steal the limelight. With this, one wonders how long will the ‘faint glimmer of romantic kilig’ lessons of ALBUD on decency, love and courtship remain faintly lit in the hearts and minds of millions of viewers?| blue. Lucky numbers ay 19, 41, 25, 27, 23 at 29.

Gemini (Mayo 21-Hun. 21) - Mag-oracion mediation para maging normal ang resulta ng iyong mga laboratory check-up. Suwerte sa kulay bronze. Lucky numbers ay 34, 43, 35, 55, 51 at 39.

Cancer (Hun. 22-Hul. 22) - Nakapasa ka na ngayon sa tatlong pagsubok na kung saan nasubukan ang iyong bilis. Suwerte sa kulay peach. Lucky numbers ay 22, 57, 11, 33, 15 at 22.

Leo (Hul. 23-Ago. 22) - Nasubukan mo na ang kapangyarihan ng iyong isip dahil dumating sa tabi mo ang taong iniisip mo.

Suwerte sa kulay apricot. Lucky numbers ay 15, 35, 19, 23, 47 at 29.

Virgo (Ago 23-Set. 23) - Makikilala mo ngayon ang iyong perfect life partner sa isang nakakairitang pagtagpo. Suwerte sa kulay sapphire blue. Lucky numbers ay 33, 15, 39, 27, 39 at 45.

Libra (Set. 24-Okt. 23) – Makilala upang ang pinuno ng babaylan na isang professor ng University na isang respetadong pinuno ng lahi sa bandang south ng bansa.

Suwerte sa kulay ruby red. Lucky numbers ay 49, 33, 39, 27, 25 at 44.

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Sweetest Christmas launch at SM City Batangas  BY JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS | PHOTOS BY RENZ F. MENDOZA

UWANG TUWA ang mga bata at panay ang picture-taking nila at ng kanilang pamilya sa gigantic 26-feet tall centerpiece cake na puno ng designs ng candies at sweets sa Atrium, ground floor, ng SM Batangas City kaugnay ng kanilang “Sweetest Christmas Launch” recently.

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Sa simula ng okasyon, nagbigay ng dance number ang mga empleyado ng SM at ibang candy character performers kasabay ang pagbubukas ng mga ilaw at shower ng balloons at confetti.

Ayon kay SM Assistant Mall Manager Mina Buenaflor, kada taon, iba’t ibang tema ang kanilang ipinakikita sa mga shoppers at mall goers at ngayong taon, sweet candies ang kanilang napili upang mag-enjoy ang mga bata.

“Candies would make us feel a great fun out of the box, exciting, colorful and filled with candies and anything sugary for everyone’s sweet tooth to enjoy,” pahayag ni ms. Buenaflor.

Sinabi rin niya na magkakaroon sila ng Grand Christmas Parade ngayong Disyembre at magbibigay ng iba’t ibang Christmas freebies. Aabangan din ang raffle promo kung saan ang tatamaang jackpot ay isang kotse.| LIZA PEREZ DE LOS REYES

Bring Christmas to Your Home BRING the all joy, love and beauty of Christmas to your home with delightful ornaments and décor from SM Home.

There are stars, balls, reindeer, and snowmen that recall nostalgic Christmases at home; as well as creative touches that bring a modern spin to holiday decorating.

There are confectionery- inspired ornaments that look good enough to eat – cupcakes, ice cream, donuts that seem

fresh from the bakeshop; as well as peppermint and candy ornaments that show us the sweet side of Christmas.

Translucent ornaments are sculptural and artistic; while fancy frosted pieces will give your home a wintry look.

Perfect to hang on your trees or garlands, or a create a fancy tabletop, the collection is available at the SM Home Section of the SM Stores at SM City Batangas and SM City Lipa.

EVERYTHING is sweetness and light this Christmas with these scrumptious cupcake ornaments.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AT ITS BEST. In celebration of his birthday last November 8, Batangas Lions Club Pres. Lion Alex Yap, PMJF, with the solid support of his family and fellows Lions, distributed hundreds of bags of groceries to indigent families from the Parish of St. Rita de Cascia in Batangas City. His wife Jackie Lou personally distributed the

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gift packs while Lion Alex is manning the line of the beneficiaries. His fellow Lions are are also with them during the occasion. Prior to the distribution, Pre. Lion Alex was also joined by the group in the offering of the Holy Mass at the said church.| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS