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22-year-old criminology student went berserk and went on a stabbing spree, killing her grandparents and a four-year old brother and wounding two others Thursday afternoon in Pizarro Village, Panacan, 14 kilometers from the Davao City Hall.

The suspect was identified as Marivic Liloc, said to be a lesbi-

Two others wounded in stabbing spree Suspect a UM criminology student

an and Criminology student of the University of Mindanao.

Couple Fidel and Teodora Liloc, both 60, succumbed to multiple stab wounds while four-year-old Christian Mark Campano died in

GRAND OPENING. Hans T. Sy, SM prime Holdings president (leftmost), Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte (3rd from left) and Congresswoman Mylene Garcia-Albano (4th from right) cut the ceremonial ribbon marking the grand opening of SM Lanang Premier yesterday.

With them are Herbert T. Sy, SM Supermarket vice chair (rightmost), Atty. Raymond Dacudao

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PERATIVES of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 11 arrested the regional legal officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for alleged extortion in an entrapment operation yesterday at the Apo View Hotel along Legaspi Street in Davao City.

Sr. Supt. Albert Ignatius Ferro, CIDG regional director, identified the suspect as lawyer Roderick Orallo, 54, a resident of Topaz St., Marfori Heights, this city.

Ferro said Orallo was caught red-handed receiving P50,000 from Edgar Delibo, the owner of Dok Alternatibo Herbal Medicine Clinic and former broadcast journalist.

The suspect reportedly refused to issue a statement on the circumstances of his ar-

Edgar Delibo, a.k.a. “Dok Alternatibo,” files complaint

Delibo was giving P50,000 to lawyer when CIDG agents moved in

rest.

The CIDG regional director said Delibo appeared at his office at 10 a.m. yesterday alleging that Orallo demanded a big amount of money to settle amicably his pending case with the BIR. Acting on Delibo’s complaint, Ferro formed a team composed of Chief Insp. Jojie

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the hospital. Fidel got his neck slashed by the suspect.

Christine, 11, and Kat-Kat, 3 months old, are still in critical condition at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC).

Police investigation show that the suspect, who is now detained at the Sasa police station, was reportedly despondent over her breakup with a girlfriend.

When interrogated by police homicide operatives, the suspect displayed calmness. She appeared unrepentant about what she did.

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(3rd from right), Elizabeth Sy, SM senior vice president for marketing (5th from right), Archbishop Romulo Valles (6th from right), Felicidad T. Sy (4th from left) and Robert Dakudao (2nd from left). LEAN DAVAL JR.

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Hugpong holding convention today

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HE Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod (HTL) political aggrupation will hold its convention today at the SMX Convention Center of the newly-opened SM Premiere in Lanang, this city.

The convention is expected to bring together over 1,300 members, among them its officers and founding members, party candidates, deputy mayors, political coordinators and barangay captains from the three political districts of Davao City.

Hugpong, as it is referred to for short, has been in existence as a political aggrupation since 2001 when then Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ran for mayor in the May 2001 elections against the

incumbent mayor and the political organization Duterte himself founded in the preceding election.

Hugpong is considered a mass-based organization of the urban poor and indigenous residents which supported various candidates in the 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2012 elections.

The Commission on Elections’s second division recently granted the petition of Hugpong to formally become a local political party.

The petition for registration and accreditation was filed on March 28, 2012 by the party’s Secretary General, lawyer J. Melchor Quitain.

Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte chairs the party while Mayor Sara Duterte is party president. PR

Asean warned against losing its credibility

By Kerima Bulan T. Navales

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group aggressively working for the passage of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) warned that the flaws of the declaration will “get ASEAN closer to losing its credibility.”

The Human Rights

Working Group (HRWG) said the ASEAN Foreign Ministers must return the draft to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) for revision and to make sure that it complies with “international human rights standards

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Streamer expressing support for TESDA Secretary Joel Villanueva for senator

Group wants Villanueva in the Senate

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N various parts of the Philippines, members of the Jesus is Lord (JIL) congregation have started putting up posters urging Tesda director Sec. Joel Villanueva to run for a Senate seat in the 2013 elections.

Posters and tarpaulins showing the group’s support for the senatorial bid of Villanueva have been put up in Davao City, Davao Oriental, Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley, and the cities of Cagayan

de Oro, General Santos, and Surigao.

Villanueva was earlier included in the Liberal Party senatorial lineup of the Aquino administration, but latest development shows him being gradually eased out of the list.

In a telephone interview, JIL Pastor Inphil Gilbuena said they have been urging President Benigno Aquino to include Villanueva in the administration senatorial slate.

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“Pinapakita po ng mga JIL members and supporters ang tunay na pag-iingay dahil alam po namin na may malaking kontribusyon si Sec. Joel (Villanueva) sa ating bansa sa kanyang paninindigan at prinsipyo. Naniniwala po kami na marami po syang magagawa sa Senado,” Gilbuena said.

When reminded of the growing “anti-epal” sentiment of the public against politicians who display their faces and names on

posters, Pastor Gilbuena said that their activity is not funded by government money and that Villanueva has nothing to do with it.

“Sa mga private supporters po ni Sec. Villanueva galing ito. Nabigla nga po kami dahil meron pong tumatawag sa amin at nagbibigay na lang ng mga posters at tarpaulin.

Wala po kaming pakialam dyan (anti-epal) basta ang sa amin ay alam po

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Every day is Ozone Day at Camella Northpoint

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T may not be well known locally but September 16 was the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, a United Nations General Assembly proclamation commemorating the same day in 1987 when the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed.

In Davao, there’s no big celebration of the Ozone Day, but other parts of the globe devote this date to raising awareness on what depletes the ozone layer and how it can be prevented, by holding “Ozone Day” activities across e nv i ro n m e n t a l ly- awa re schools, organizations, cities, and countries.

While there was no fanfare during the Ozone Day in Camella Northpoint, this British colonial themed condo community can proudly claim that every day is ozone-friendly day within its community.

That’s because this landmark condo development of Camella in Davao is built to specifications of green architecture, landscaped with a naturally green environment, and espouses green living among its homeowners. All these contribute to the protection of the ozone layer in the atmosphere, by reducing harmful emissions.

As green buildings, the condo towers of Camella Northpoint yield ample space to accommodate indoor gardens to bring inside the outdoor freshness.

These indoor gardens thrive on real sunshine that penetrates the building’s interior

through the skylights, allowing them to grow and give off fresh oxygen.

Camella Northpoint’s fourth tower, Liverpool, will have Sky Gardens, which are wide openings on the building’s facade that let natural light in and allow cool breeze to flow through the structure. These novel gardens will have real live plants, further greening the condo tower.

Liverpool will also have an Atrium that allows cool air to enter its vertical shaft and push warm air out and away from the building. This is one important principle of green architecture, where indoor air quality is never compromised.

But that’s only talking about indoors. Camella Northpoint’s outdoors is even fresher with its over P4 million worth of imported Caribbean pine trees dotting the whole property, enhancing an already green environment of olden trees and verdant foliage.

The pine trees can grow to about a hundred feet tall, further cooling the whole condo property and giving it a fragrant whiff of aromatic pine. Camella Northpoint homeowners not only enjoy a sweet scented coolness, but also breathe in clean, crisp, fresh air.

With enhanced indoor and outdoor air quality, Camella Northpoint’s condo towers are cooler, in turn cooling the environment within each condo unit and lessening the need for allday air-conditioning. With

Camella Northpoint green architecture and green lifestyle makes it an ozone-friendly community. natural lighting streaming through the Sky Gardens, skylights, and each condo unit’s wide windows, there is also less need for artificial lighting.

So how does minimal usage of air-conditioning and lighting help the ozone layer? It helps plenty. Chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs were used in cooling units such as air conditioning and in cleaning electronic equipment.

Hopefully, there are less air-conditioning units

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Crop insurance is low, declining

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ROP insurance coverage for small farmers is low and declining.

“Increasing agricultural insurance is urgent because of climate change,” says Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit, Jr., Director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). “This is particularly true for small farm holders that constitute about 90 percent of all Filipino farmers.”

SEARCA and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) are conducting a study on how much meager crop insurance coverage impacts on farmers who grow rice and corn, the country’s two major crops.

SEARCA will focus on corn farmers while PhilRice will zero in on rice farming.

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verely affected because they live in areas that are more vulnerable to floods and other disasters and plant crops that are greatly affected by climate change,” he said.

“They also have the least access to risk-sharing services such as insurance.”

Agricultural insurance helps insulate income and consumption against shocks and make losses more bearable especially to marginal farmers, he said.

About 3.5 million farmers out of 5.2 million smallholders were covered by the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) from 1981-2000.

That’s a cumulative figure, according to a study conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

The yearly data is a lot more dismal: from about 300,000 farmers with crop insurance in the 1990s, the annual coverage gradually decreased such that in 2006, only 36,000 farmers were written insurance policies.

The SEARCA-PhilRice study – “Improving the Agricultural Insurance Program to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change” – will identify Good Agricultural Practices to complement crop insurance and provide more protection to poor farmers against losses caused by adverse climate, pests and diseases.

Good Agricultural Practices include matured technologies and crop management as well as climate-resilient varieties. [SciencenewSPhiliPPineS]

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ONCERNED Dabawenyos are closely watching current efforts, chiefly by the Sangguniang Panlungsod, to update the city’s comprehensive development plan and zoning ordinance.

Obviously, the undertaking is designed to make the twin documents keep in step with the ongoing economic boom. Such a boom will spawn concomitant challenges which, if not addressed, will worsen and become more difficult to overcome.

That the city has come a long way from the

time it was just a settlement at the mouth of the mighty Davao River is evidenced by the need to include in the comprehensive development plan and zoning law the establishment of a metro railway system and a much bigger and more modern international airport.

Of course, there are other aspects of the documents that are also very important, thus the need for all stakeholders to pay closer attention to, and be involved in, the process while the SP is still at the stage of considering all inputs and proposals.

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HAT do ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, the late Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo and Rep. Manny Pacquiao have in common? They topped the list of most-searched Filipino newsmakers in the first three quarters of 2012. The listing of the search engine Google was reported by the Philippine Daily Inquirer yesterday.

Corona was the most searched newsmaker on www.google.com.ph as of September because of the Senate impeachment trial which was watched by millions of Filipinos at home and abroad.

Robredo made the headlines and was a hot topic in Google when he died last month in a plane crash.

On the other hand, searches on Pacquiao surged following his controversial “defeat” to Timothy Bradley.

The rest of the 10 top searches were on Robert Blair

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little over 140 kms from Manila is a balmy barangay, inappropriately named Caturay, which has become, at least among highway travelers, an early Central Luzon symbol of Christmas in this predominantly Christian country.

The barangay name is derived from the corkwood tree whose flowers are relished as salad by Ilocanos in the Central Plains north of the capital up to the northernmost towns and villages of Ilocos and the Cagayan Valley.

As early as the latter part of September up to the cold weeks of December, the area provides stiff business competition to lantern makers 73 kms south of this town, where the giant lantern parade has become an icon for Christmas festival in this country which received the Cross in the 16th century.

The highway in Caturay here, a dominant agricultural economy with rice and sugar cane as main products of this second class town of Tarlac, the “melting pot” of Central Luzon, twinkles with different colors and lantern shapes from sundown to dawn.

Farther north, in Rosario town in La Union, 216 kms from Manila, a tree house at the junction is decked with multi-colored lanterns that provide lights to and tribute from night travelers passing by –- those from the Ilocos and Benguet or those driving from the metropolis for quick visits to the province at this time.

Some towns in La Union, like Aringay and Bacnotan, Ilocos Sur, like Cabugao and Sinait, and Ilocos Norte, like Badoc, the hometown of the Lunas, and the Darat junction in Pinili, where Filipino guerrillas fought hand-to-hand combat against the Americans during the Philippine American War, have their share of the night lights from giant lanterns along the concrete MacArthur highway.

In the metropolis, particularly near the Greenhills shopping center, motorists can switch off their head lights with the bright gleam from lanterns of different shapes on both sides of Gilmore street.

At the busy Roxas Blvd. fronting Manila Bay, lanterns of different shapes and with several bulbs are hung on electric posts, making a kaleidoscopic skyline for the capital during the night.

The Christmas lanterns are like the carols being sung starting in September in this country, one of two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia -– the other is East Timor -- which have become a lasting symbol for one of the biggest holidays in this archipelago of 98 million.

The official observance does not begin until Dec. 16, with what Tagalogs call the “Simbang Gabi,” or what Ilocanos call “Miatinis,” or what Cebuanos call “Misa de Gallo” from the Spanish term which means Mass of the Rooster, and lasts until Epiphany.

The Philippines, which became a predominantly Christian nation in the 16th century following the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan, has several symbols of Christmas, but the lanterns are the biggest in this country.

Homes and buildings are dolled up with beautiful star lanterns called “parol,” from the Spanish “farol” which means lantern.

Traditionally, “parols,” made of bamboo sticks wrapped with crepe paper and a candle to illuminate it, are denotative of the star of Bethlehem which led the lowly shepherds to Jesus’ manger 2,000 years ago.

Almost every home, city street, building, shopping district, public square, department store, commercial area, and church are decorated with lustrous Christmas trees and prismatic blinking lights.

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‘Blood’ ivory statues

HAT if Jesus Christ died by electrocution? Are we going to hang a small replica of the electric chair on our necks or put a bigger one on top of our church cathedrals? The cross was actually a favored means of executing criminals during ancient Roman time. Jesus was only one of the thousands so hanged. Its modern equivalents are the electric chairs and lethal injections. In China, during Mao’s time, it was the rifle, with the surviving family of the executed enemy of the state paying for the cost of the bullet used. Despite its dreadful use, the cross emerged as the most important and powerful symbol of the world’s largest organized religion. Of course, the faithful should not lose sight of the true essence of religious symbolism. Venerate not the cross, but the man hanged on the cross.

I actually believe that the more appropriate symbol of Christianity is the open stone tomb, signifying resurrection, although I can hardly imagine how you make the sign of the “open tomb” with your hands every time you pass by a church.

The October issue of the National Geographic magazine headlined the ongoing illegal ivory trade. Necessarily, it involves rampant killing of the endangered African elephants known for their huge tusks. In 1981, the Philippines became a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Possession of any of the prohibited species, including their derivatives, is considered a felony. According to a CITES report, in 2011,

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an estimated 25,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks. In 2005, custom agents seized in Manila around 7.7 tons of ivory.

The following year, 6.1 tons of ivory for shipment to the Philippines were confiscated in Taiwan. In 2009, another 5.4 tons were impounded in Manila.

By its reckoning, NatGeo estimates that those seizures were equivalent to 1,745 dead African elephants.

Illegal trade of items derived from those species is still rampant worldwide.

Regulations seem to fail in deterring criminal-traders, sometimes involving the live animals and plants. The lure of quick and huge money is hard to resist. From a standpoint, that may be a bit understandable, considering that abject poverty still plagues more than half of the global population. But the lead story in NatGeo magazine is not just about money. Many of those tusks were and still are exported to the Philippines because they are made into expensive religious statues. In Sta. Cruz, Manila, quoting a Philippine Daily Inquirer report, one such statue is being sold at P230,000 because the “faces and hands of Mary and of baby Jesus were made from ivory.” In early evening

news aired over national TVs, one work of a known religious icon sculptor is worth almost a whooping million pesos!

It appears that this is another continuing vice among rich Catholics. Only those who are rich enough can afford to pay outrageously expensive icons. By extension, this is merely an offshoot of the earlier abuse over the sale of indulgences during the medieval times. Higher price then meant higher mass and quicker absolution of sins.

What is appalling with the recent NatGeo story was an interview of a Catholic prelate

by Bryan Christy, author of the report titled “Ivory Worship.” The priest was not at all bothered in admitting ownership of those ivory statues; he even shared a tip on how to smuggle them to the US. NBI says the priest needs to show proof that those statues were acquired before 1981; otherwise, the government will sue him. Church doctrine says that statues are only intended to remind us of God and to whom we should actually address our pious prayers as well as our endless lamentations.

Running after smugglers is a function of the government. Ordinary citizens cannot do that. Our only job is to stop buying those ivory statues. We kill the trade by killing the demand for it. If we truly care about God’s creations, then we should look after those endangered species. The African elephant is one of them. After all, God does not make a distinction between an ivory statue and a cheap wooden one.

Balancing food, weather and population

YCLICAL or secular? That’s the question economists, historians, climatologists, farmers, consumers – just about anyone with an interest in the future, which is more or less everyone – are trying to answer.

During bad times, the idea of cyclicality is encouraging. We can ride out hardship because prosperity is just around the corner – although we also can’t relax when things are looking up because the economy is sure to head south again.

A secular change, on the other hand, means we’ve entered a new era, which is swell if that era is prosperous and plentiful – the two-decade “great moderation” that started in 1985, for instance. But secular change can also mean we get locked into sluggishness and scarcity as far as the eye can see. That’s the worry that has accompanied the Great Recession that began in 2007 and persists in many sectors of the world economy.

The drought that has gripped the agricultural heartland of the United States, Russia, Australia, India, and other food-producing regions of the world in 2012 (see this current Monitor cover story) has a cyclical/secular dimension. If the climate has changed, drought could be the new normal, with big implications for consumers, especially in poor countries. But parched conditions could also just be a bad patch of weather similar to the great droughts of the 1930s, early 1950s, and late 1980s. Tree-ring data indicate droughts even more severe than those in the 1930s occurred in pre-Columbian North America.

If that seems cyclical, there’s still a secular dimension. The 21st-century combination of global population and global trade is

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By JoHn yemma unprecedented. Never before have 7 billion people lived on this planet (with 2 billion more on the way by 2050). Never before have far-flung markets been so interconnected.

If droughts merely come and go, feeding the burgeoning world population would be difficult enough. If droughts are a more permanent condition now because the climate is growing warmer, feeding the world will require the best and brightest in agriculture and resource management.

You may not recall the drought of 1988.

There was plenty of other news that year – a US presidential election; the start of anticommunist revolutions inEastern Europe; a devastating earthquake in Armenia; the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. But the ’88 drought at one point covered 45 percent of the US, and until hurricane Katrina it was the costliest natural disaster in US history. A study commissioned by Oxfam indicates that if an ’88-scale drought recurred in 2030, poorer countries that import corn and wheat would face a shock so severe that famine and social unrest would be the result.

A sharp rise in food prices in 2007-08 roiled populations from Mexico to Sri Lanka and helped set the stage for today’s Middle East upheaval. So far, the drought of 2012 has not caused panic, largely because governments from Egypt to India warehoused foodstuffs for just such a contingency.

Prudence is important even if Earth’s weather isn’t undergoing secular

change. Rains come and go. Years of lean follow years of plenty. But feeding 9 billion people by midcentury is more than a cyclical challenge. It will require levels of innovation and co-operation never before seen in human history.

‘The drought that has

hit the United States and other grainproducing nations could be global warming or just a oneseason aberration.

But while weather fluctuates year to year, global population doesn’t. And that means that feeding 9 billion mouths by 2050 will require unprecedented effort.’

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Unintelligent, but constitutionally protected OpiniOn

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USHDIE, as he makes clear in his just-published memoir, Joseph Anton, bent Verses to fictional purposes only, and thought little of any offense: He saw the Koran, as all religious writing, not as revelations but as texts of their time, created by fallible humans with particular ends in view. He, from a largely secular Muslim family in India, was the first high-profile target of radical Islamism in the West. He lived behind Special Branch guard for over a decade, shuttled from house to house, the target of energetically manufactured hatred.

After Rushdie, we cannot say we don’t know the costs of provocation. Was it intelligent to rack them up again?

There is, finally, the issue of what we, the media, make of the freedom we claim.

The British philosopher Onora O’Neill has argued that the concept of freedom of expression and of the press, passionately proposed by radicals and liberals from the 17th century to our own day, had to be combined with accountability and a sense of responsibility or it could itself become tyrannous: ”freedom of the press does not require a licence to deceive”, she writes. Where there is clear deception, or worse, clear provocation, the media also acquire a license to kill.

An awesome power – but an intelligent one? The answer is certainly no.

The makers of Innocence of Muslims and the little group that put out Charlie Hebdo are testing the extremity of freedom. They live on the margins and have less to lose from giving offense than a large media group embroiled in a scandal that might hit its bottom line.

Indeed, they have more to gain: Charlie Hebdo tripled its modest circulation with the Mohammad cartoons. In the case of the filmmakers, we can assume a certain measure of revenge. In the case of the magazine, the calculation of increased circulation could not have been absent (it rarely is in journalism).

But the main impulse, here as in other issues, is to shock and provoke.

We know enough about our societies to understand that the margins contribute much, sometimes most, to our freedoms. In the past century, these groups have rallied from the margins and been mocked for doing so: women claiming the vote, the colonized claiming independence, minorities claiming equality and the censored claiming a voice. The filmmakers and cartoon publishers are not in line with these groups. They’re not fighting for a great cause. They’re sticking it to the radical Islamists, and watching them howl.

And yet democratic societies, if they are to be true to themselves, have little choice. What we believe in is freedom of the individual – freedom to do much that is deeply unintelligent, as well as to produce intellectual marvels. Onora O’Neill draws a distinction between powerful media corporations and the single voice of the individual, and privileges the latter: ”we have good reasons for allowing individuals to express opinions even if they are invented, false, silly, irrelevant or plain crazy.”

She did not, perhaps, foresee the day when a greater ability to cause mayhem would reside with the silly, false and plain crazy products of individuals and tiny groups, rather than the behemoths of the media.

But that is what is happening. We, most of all in the media, have to consider responsibility as the indispensable adjunct to freedom. But in the end, we must protect the right to free expression against those whose demand for “respect” cannot be assuaged. Little that was intelligent has been published, and nothing but evil has come of it in the short term. But having fought for centuries to achieve freedom to say what we wish, it would be dumb to give up on it. We’re stuck with liberty.

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SMX opens new 7,986.17 sq. m. convention center in Davao!

4750 sq. m.

It figures

ToTal space of SmX davao

main function room

1,751.49 sq. m.

Function room 1

1,731.20 sq. m.

Function room 2

1,267.30 sq. m.

F

INALLY, the bigger and more spacious convention center that Dabawenyos have been praying for has finally arrived. SMX Convention Center, the same company that owns and operates the SMX Convention Center in Manila has arrived in the shores of Davao City.

A humungous almost 8,000 square meters of total space has been allocated at the SM Lanang Premier into SMX Davao, the first of its kind outside Metro Manila.

With the opening of SMX Davao, a new dawn is set to take place in Davao City. From conventions, concerts, and even the much coveted Ad Congress are no longer an impossible dream.

SMX Convention Center, the leading and largest private facility of its kind in the Philippines, will be opening another venue in one of the

country’s fastest growing cities and the biggest outside Metro Manila. Davao City is a natural choice location for another facility that supports the Philippines’ MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, exhibitions) industry that is now a major tourism driving force.

Located at the 3rd level of the soon-to-open SM Lanang Premier Mall in Davao City, SMX Convention Center Davao will be launched in the third quarter of this year. It boasts of 4,745 square meters fully-carpeted function room space that is divisible into three separate rooms, depending on the requirements of the event. Five well-designed meeting rooms will also be in place to cater to smaller functions.

Be it a meeting, a convention, an exhibition, a concert, or a social event, SMX Davao can accommodate from 25 to 5,000

persons or up to 380 exhibit modules. Clients can enjoy customized packages to suit their needs and budget.

As the first SMX outside Manila, its opening will definitely create a buzz among event orga-

nizers based in Mindanao as well as those from other places who are considering holding their events in Davao. Clients can expect the same exceptional facilities and exemplary service that SMX is known for.

Function room 3

53.76 sq. m. meeting room 1

49.77 sq. m.

meeting rooms 2 and 3

170.17 sq. m. meeting rooms 4 and 5

SMX OPENING. Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte (6th from left), Margie Moran-Floirendo (leftmost) and Gene Bangayan of Duaw Dabaw (2nd from right) hold a symbolic key to open SM Lanang Premier’s SMX yesterday. Also in the photo are Hans T. Sy, SM prime Holdings president (5th

from left), and other SM executives. Photo above shows Mary Ann “Baby” Montemayor, Davao Regional Tourism Council chair (4th from left). [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

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10 THE ECONOMY Stat Watch

1. Gross National Income Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)

5.8% 1st Qtr 2012

2. Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)

6.4 % 1st Qtr 2012

3. Exports 1/ 4. Imports 1/ 5. Trade Balance 6. Balance of Payments 2/ 7. Broad Money Liabilities

USD 4,931 million May 2012 USD 4,770 million Apr 2012 USD -135 million Apr 2012 USD -209 million Mar 2012 P 4,580,674 million Apr 2012

8. Interest Rates 4/

4.1 % May 2012 P131,403 million May 2012 P 5,075 billion Apr 2012

9. National Government Revenues 10. National government outstanding debt 11. Peso per US $ 5/

P 42.78 Jun 2012

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

5,091.2 May 2012

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

130.1 Jun 2012

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

2.8 Jun 2012

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

3.7 Jun 2012

16. Visitor Arrivals

349,779 Apr 2012

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18.8 % Jan 2012

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

7.2 % Jan 2012

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2009 - December 2011) Month Average December November October September August July June May April March February January

2012

2011

2010

42.85 42.70 42.86 42.66 43.62

43.31 43.64 43.27 43.45 43.02 42.42 42.81 43.37 43.13 43.24 43.52 43.70 44.17

45.11 43.95 43.49 43.44 44.31 45.18 46.32 46.30 45.60 44.63 45.74 46.31 46.03

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Global pork shortage seen to affect Mindanao in 2013

By Carlo P. Mallo

E

XPECT the price of pork to increase by 2013 as global supply of the food product is expected to be way lower than the demand.

Eduard So, president of the Davao Hog Farmers Association, said that based on the current selling price, the price on the live weight of hogs could increase by P10 to P15 per kilo.

“Right now selling is at P85 per kilo for live weight, by next year we expect it to increase to P95 to P100 per kilo,” So said in an interview at The Marco Polo Davao’s Club 888 Forum.

Global producers of hog are now offloading their products due to the high cost of grains, while farmers in the central U.S. have also been bearing the brunt of extreme heat in their farms brought about by drought, thus greatly affecting global supply.

United Kingdom’s National Hog association recently issued a statement saying, “New data show the European Union pig herd is declining at a significant rate, and this is a trend that is being mirrored around the world. Pig farmers have been plunged into loss by high pig-feed costs caused

by the global failure of maize and soya harvests. All main European pig-producing countries have reported shrinking sow herds.”

In Mindanao, backyard hog producers are also offloading their animals to ease the burden of high cost of feeds and grains.

“Lugi na talaga ngayon,” So said, adding that government should help protect the hog industry in the country. “Everybody is selling just to get rid of their products.”

So added, that if played right, the hog industry can actually be a sunshine industry for the country.

“We should play it in our favor, the fact that we are bird flu free and foot and mouth disease free. We can actually export to other parts of the region,” So said.

Meanwhile, Tess Pascual, director of Davao Hog Farmers Association, said the Davao Trade Exhibit in October will be a great avenue for aspiring businessmen and farmers who want to enter the hog industry.

“Hog raising is no longer what it used to be. With advances in technology, it is now easier to raise hogs and make profit,” Pascual said. “It is a promising industry for profit and job generation.”

DA, LGUs to procure 10 tractors to help mechanize agriculture L

OCAL government mechanization of farming will City Engineer’s Office when a ommends the practice of “plow units (LGU) and the result in increased productivi- disaster happens. under” among farmers, espeDepartment of Agri- ty and output.

Meanwhile, the lack of cially for those planting corn. culture (DA) in the Davao He said land preparation is mechanization in farming has Instead of burning wastes of Region will procure 10 a basic requisite to planting. limited farmers in maximizing harvested plants, he said these farm tractors this year as “The faster we can prepare farm wastes for fertilizing their can be plowed under the soil to part of the effort to mecha- the land, the bigger the area land, according to Dr. Apolonio help in recovering the fertility nize agriculture. that can be utilized, and the M. Ocampo, researcher and of the soil.

DA regional director higher volume is expected. The affiliate assistant professor at He added that such recomConstancio C. Maghanoy more profit to the farmers,” he the University of the Philip- mended practice cannot be apJr. said his office will turn- said. plied using carabaos but can pines-Los Baños (UPLB). over on Friday (Sept. 28) He added that the tracOcampo was a resource per- only be done using farm tracits equity worth P1.2 mil- tors will also be utilized in re- son for corn research technolo- tors, noting that most small lion for each of the 10 farm sponding to landslide and road gy during the corn congress. farmers in the country still tractors that will be pro- accessibility so that the city He said the Institute of have backward farming syscured by its counterpart does not have to wait for the Plant Breeding at UPLB rec- tem. [loRie Ann A. cAScARo / MinDAnewS] LGUs. He said the turnover of equity is part of the culmination program of the four-day 8th Philippine National Corn Congress being held at the Waterfront Insular Hotel here.

This city will have 3 of the 10 farm tractors, while the LGUs of Digos City, Island Garden City of Samal, New Corella in Davao del Norte, Manay and Caraga in Davao Oriental will have one unit each, and the provincial government of Davao Oriental will have two units.

City Agriculturist Office chief Leo Avila III said in a text message the tractors will be utilized primarily in farming districts with Marilog, Paquibato and Toril as priority areas.

Citing that a utilization plan for these tractors will be formulated, he said the GIVE AWAY. Meghann Patricia Sta. Ines, Marco Polo Hotel’s public relations manager, shows a box of moon cake, the hotel management’s give away in time of mid-autumn celebration. [leAn DAVAl JR.] as of august 2010

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Gov’t sets P90-B borrowing

T HOUSING ROADMAP TALK. Christopher G. Narciso, first vice president of Subdivision and Housing Development Authority (SDHA), discusses the convention overview

BIR...

during the SDHA-HUDCC Launching of the Housing Industry Roadmap 2030 at Marco Polo Hotel yesterday. [leAn DAVAl JR.]

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Tabios, Insp. Rodolfo Urbano, SPO4 Florante Fornolles, PO3 Al Faustino Openda and one PO3 Palma to conduct an entrapment operation.

Delibo agreed to meet Orallo at a restaurant inside

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that use CFC as it has been phased out when its damaging impact to the ozone layer was determined. However, there’s a big chance that old refrigeration and air-conditioning units using ozone-depleting CFCs are still in use.

The bigger contribution of Camella Northpoint to lessening ozone layer depletion is the significantly reduced energy consumption of its homeowners. Keeping the aircon off greatly lowers power demand, as this is one of the biggest consumers of power among household appliances.

While artificial lighting may appear to be insignifi-

the Apo View Hotel around 12:20 p.m. so that he can give the money to him while operatives were sitting in a separate table.

Just as Delibo handed over the P50,000 cash to

Orallo the CIDG men immediately declared the lawyer’s arrest.

Orallo was brought to the office of CIDG while an extortion case was filed with the City Prosecutor’s Office.

cantly less power-consuming than air-conditioning, the kind of bulbs that are being used spell a great difference. Camella Northpoint, as well as other Camella developments, only uses Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) in its condo homes.

CFL bulbs use only a quarter of the energy used by an incandescent bulb.

That means ¾ less energy consumption and more savings for homeowners. They also lessen heat-trapping emissions of carbon dioxide, another ozone depleting substance. These will lessen power demand and reduce pollution caused by power-generation.

A passive benefit Camella Northpoint gives to the ozone layer is its location.

Because everything a Camella Northpoint homeowner needs is within short distance, they can either ride public transportation, walk, or drive the short distance to get what they need. That means less motor vehicle on the road, and less toxic emissions that can be harmful to the ozone layer.

To find out more about green living in Camella Northpoint, get in touch with Camella Davao at 2/F Delgar Building, JP Laurel Ave., Bajada, Davao City, telephone numbers (082) 222-0963 and (082) 222-5221.

HE government has set a P90-billion domestic borrowing program in the last quarter of 2012, half of the current quarter’s P180-billion program.

In a memorandum to all government securities eligible dealers, National Treasurer Roberto Tan said P45-billion worth of Treasury bills (T-bills) and the same amount of Treasury bond (T-bond) is scheduled to be auctioned off from October to December this year.

In particular, P7.5 billion worth of 91-day, 182day and 364-day bills will be offered on October 1, 15 and 29; November 12 and 26; and December 10, 2012.

During each auction, offering for the three-month paper will be P1 billion, the

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six-month paper at P2.5 billion and P4 billion each for the one-year paper. These are the same levels as in the current quarter.

Similarly, P9 billion worth of five-year bond will be offered each on October 9 and November 6; P9 billion of seven-year bond will be auctioned off on October 23 and November 20; and P9 billion worth of 10-year bond will be offered on December 4.

Only three tenors of bonds will be offered in the last quarter this year, fewer than in the previous quarter.

The government’s bond offering set for the current quarter involves tenors of five, seven, 10, 20 and 25year.

The government continues to rely on on-shore fund sources rather than foreign creditors to meet its funding

requirements to take advantage of the current low-interest rate environment and lessen foreign exchange risks.

It has set a P279 billion deficit ceiling for this year, which accounts for 2.6 percent of gross domestic product, lower than the three percent share of GDP set for 2011.

As of last August, the government’s budget gap stood at P71.21 billon, 106.4 percent higher than year-ago’s P34.49 billion.

Revenues in the first eight months this year amounted to P 1.01 trillion, 11.1 percent higher than the P912.85 billion in end-August 2011.

Expenditures also continued its rise with the amount at P1.08 trillion as of last August, 14.5 percent higher than year-ago’s P947.24 billion. (PnA)

they have 1.7 million members and three million more supporters all over the world with the group Philippines for Jesus Movement. He said other affiliate groups of the JIL have also expressed support for Villanueva’s candidacy.

“Pinapakita namin kay Sec. Joel na marami pong madidismaya kapag di po nya itutuloy ang laban na

ito. Kaya marami po ang naghihinayang. Makikita naman ng presidente yung suporta namin kay Sec. Joel, talagang dapat ituloy nya ang suporta nya kay Sec. Joel,” he said.

“Makikita nyo po na

by October 5 anniversary po ng JIL sa Quirino Grandstand doon po ang talagang declaration ng kanyang pagtakbo,” he ended. [BOT]

AHRD to be in line with international standards.

These are to include the inclusion of national and regional particularities in Article 7 and the clause of limitation of rights in Article 8,” said Anam.

Yuyun Wahyuningrum, senior advisor on ASEAN and Human Rights of HRWG, also noted that Article 6 of the declaration is problematic.

Article 6 states that the “enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms must

be balanced with the performance of corresponding duties as every person has responsibilities to all other individuals, the community and the society where one lives. It is ultimately the primary responsibility of all ASEAN Member States to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

If ASEAN insists on their idea of human rights, it will eventuall lose its credibility, Wahyuningrum warned.

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ng Diyos ang puso namin.

Bahala mamisinterpret kami kasi sanay naman kami dyan. Ang importante po ay maipatuloy po ang adhikain ng Diyos sa bayan natin,” he said.

“Because kailangan natin ng matitinong leader, especially isang batang leader na may dedikasyon para sa bayan natin,” Gilbuena added.

The JIL pastor said

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and principles.”

The 10 ASEAN Foreign Ministers are meeting in New York for the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. On the sidelines, they are expected to discuss the declaration.

The meeting, said M. Choirul Anam, deputy director of HRWG, is a “make or break for AHRD or ASEAN.” “AHRD has number of shortcoming articles in General Principles section that potentially challenge the aim of putting

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A new medical center rises in Davao City The Metro Davao Medical and Research Center opens its doors to Dabawenyos.

With Davao City’s population growing in leaps and bounds, there is already a need for more medical facilities to meet the needs of the populace. Enter the newly opened Metro Davao Medical and Research Center.

Strategically located along J.P. Laurel Avenue, this sprawling medical complex just opened its health and Wellness Center and Ancillary Department composed of pharmacy and laboratory and imaging center last September 16, 2012.

Boasting of an eightstory tower with 152 bedrooms and a multi-level parking space that can accommodate around 180 cars. The new tertiary hospital is a sprawling complex that is fit and ready to serve the needs of every Dabawenyo. its bright colors and airy ambiance provides a lesser stress to the patients while the open layout promotes airflow.

Dr. Yvette Yenco-tan, the hospital’s medical director, says their aim is to

help Dabawenyos with the best medical assistance.

“We hope to live up to the expectation of the people by putting up a hospital that gives ‘healthcare with a heart,’” Yenco-tan said.

This philosophy is evident all throughout the hospital as access ramps, and elevators abound, providing easier access for differently abled persons.

Davao can now truly have a choice when it comes to better medical services and i hope the opening MDMRC is just the tip of better things to come.

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Sledger’s shoes intruduces Davao brand ambassadors FOr 90 yEArS NOW, Sledgers has been engineering men’s shoes that are not only extremely comfortable but also elegant.

It embodies its tag line - “French Style and Comfort” in its truest essence. It applies French elegance and heavenly comfort to manufacture shoes that becomes a working professional’s best friend. Sledgers traces its roots in France in 1921 and created a revolution by creating shoes that were both comfortable and stylish back then shoes where were either comfortable but not stylish or stylish but not comfortable.

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One big party at SM Lanang Premier

Sledgers recently introduced their brand ambassadors in Davao to the local press, namely Dir. Art Boncato, Jr., Director of Department of Tourism region XI, Jasper Huang, President of Group 101, ruel Guanzon, General Manager Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao, and Dr. Benedict Valdez, Head of Medical Mission in Southern Mindanao.

They join the national Sledgers brand ambassadors Michel Lhuillier, Owner of Lhuillier Company, Daniel Matsunaga, Actor & Model, TJ Trinidad, Actor & Director, Francis Kong, Motivational Speaker, and Louis Thevenin, Director of Alliance Francoise in the Philippines is spreading the word for Sledgers.

The Sledgers concept store is at the ground floor of SM City Davao’s Annex. you can also find Sledgers shoes at res Toe run at the 2nd floor of Abreeza Mall.

Smart Money joins BSP-OECD expo Smart Money – the world’s first electronic wallet service – presented its fast, convenient, and secure services to foreign and local participants of the Asian Seminar on Financial Literacy and Inclusion hosted recently in Cebu by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

High-level officials of central banks and state governments in Asia Pacific were among those who learned about the functionalities of Smart Money that made it the country’s largest mobile money services provider.

With 10 million registered users, Smart Money continues to dominate the industry, with ten times more users than its competitor.

Smart Money allows users to transfer money electronically to any Smart subscriber, pay bills, reload their Smart prepaid account, and receive remittances from more than 95,000 partner-agents all over the world – all with just a few clicks on their mobile phone. These services have been found to be especially helpful in areas that have limited or no access to financial services.

A Smart Money card also enables the holder to do cashless shopping in more than 32 million MasterCard merchants worldwide, and withdraw cash from over 10,000 BDO, BancNet, Megalink, and ExpressNet automated teller machines nationwide and from Cirrus ATMs abroad.

In the photo taken at the Smart Money booth at the sidelines of the seminar are BSP Deputy Governor Nestor Espenilla [center], Smart Senior Manager for Financial Services Maybelle Santos [second from left], and Smart Money personnel manning the booth.

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Proving that ess in singing, it rightfully de- and of course, serves to put local talents that “premier” in its have shown the and name, SM La- country nang prepared the world what a smorgasbord Davao City is of events that made of.

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Andy Williams bids adieu at 84 ANDy WILLIAMS was, and probably always will be, a little bit of Christmas. And a whole lot of “Moon river.”

The crooner, whose signature songs include that romantic ballad and the holiday favorite “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the year,” died Tuesday night at his home in Branson, Mo., following a yearlong battle with bladder cancer, the publicist Paul Shefrin said. He was 84.

“Music to Watch Girls By” and “Days of Wine and roses” were other Williams standards.

“It gives me a great deal of satisfaction to do a show I think the audience really loves and needs during this time of year,”Williams once said of the Christmas shows he staged annually.

It was at one of those shows, in November 2011 in his longtime theatrical home of Branson, that Williams revealed he’d been diagnosed with bladder cancer. (His survivors, wife Debbie and adult children robert, Noelle and Christian, have asked fans to donate to the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network.)

In the 1960s and 1970s, Williams marked the yuletide season before millions of TV viewers. On the occasion of his second prime-time Christmas special in 1963, the singer introduced “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the year.”

“I did that every [song] Christmas, and then other people started doing it, and over 30 years it’s

become a big standard,” Williams told the TV Academy.

Though never out of style, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the year” was a chart-climbing single in Britain as recently as Christmas 2007. Born Dec. 3, 1927, in Iowa, Williams got his start as a child in the family act, the Williams Brothers. He performed in nightclubs, appeared in movies—and was even said to have supplied Lauren Bacall’s sultry singing voice in 1944’s To Have and Have Not. (Bacall long denied the rumor; modern-day movie historians debunked it.)

Williams went on to become a solo hitmaker in the 1950s with his lightas-air tenor. TV, however, might have been his true medium. For a decade, The Andy Williams Show was a pleasant, sweaterclad diversion that introduced audiences to the likes of the Osmonds and earned a trio of Emmys.

In the 1970s, Williams enjoyed a long run as host of the Grammys—in fact he emceed the ceremony’s first televised edition in 1971 and was a show fixture through 1977.

Williams found himself embroiled in tabloid drama when his ex-wife, singer Claudine Longet, was tried for manslaughter in the shooting death of her boyfriend, skier Spider Sabich. Williams stood by the mother of his three children and told jurors at Longet’s sensational 1977 trial that he believed her when she said the killing was an accident. In the end, Longet was convicted only of a misdemeanor.

Through it all, Williams continued to perform, taking only a one-year break from 1999 to 2000 to treat a node on his vocal cords with rest.

Said Williams to the Associated Press: “I guess it just got tired of singing all my life.”

Kristen Stewart lands solo in Paris!

THOSE Twilight ties are strong.

Despite Kristen Stewart’s cheating scandal with rupert Sanders, the 22-year-old actress is back talking with jilted beau robert Pattinson. Sources told E! News last week the duo were meeting up in secret, and now Us Weekly reports that robsten is once again living under the same roof.

“They are living together and have reconciled,” an unnamed “insider” tells the mag. However, up until recently, sources told E! News Pattinson was crash-

ing with a buddy and Stewart was staying at her mom’s home in Malibu

and we have been unable to independently confirm the Us report.

Publicly, at least, they are keeping their distance. Over the weekend, Pattinson made the social rounds in Hollywood, hanging out at an event with Natalie Portman and then hitting Jimmy Kimmel’s post-Emmys bash.

Stewart, meanwhile, arrived solo in Paris Wednesday. Without cracking a smile, a sunglasses-wearing Kristen made her way past the paps while keeping her hood up.

Chic, Bella.

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EDGEDAVAO Oktoberfest dining at the Swiss Deli The Swiss Deli celebrates a traditional event of fun, food and drinks. This year’s Oktoberfest is bigger and better with more authentic German specialties and nightly live entertainment.

Taste authentic German dishes that are specially made for this merry festival. Try Gulasch Suppe, a tasty soup with beef cubes, onions, potatoes

and carrots served with bread, or rinds rouladen, a tasty German Beef roll served with mashed potatoes and vegetables.

The hungrier set can order Schwein’s Haxe, the German version of pork knuckle with sauerkraut and potato while enjoying traditional German music from rolf.

And what is an Oktoberfest without delicious sausages? Take your pick on the full range of home-made sausages.

From frankfurter, weisswurst, to leberwurst and blutwurst, the Swiss Deli has them all.

Oktoberfest is also about beer and the Swiss Deli serves the widest choices of German beers.

If ever there was a time to drink beer, this would be it. From Paulander, to Erdinger, Oetingger to Franziskaner, you can literally drink until you drop.

The Swiss Deli Lanang’s Octoberfest celebration is from September 28 until October 7 while Swiss Deli Matina will have its Oktoberfest celebration from October 10 until the 14th.

For reservations call The Swiss Deli Lanang at 2340271 or the Swiss Deli matin a at 2956168

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PBA looks ahead to another banner season A

FTER a banner season that saw record numbers in live attendance and gate receipts, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) isn’t tampering with its formula for success and will continue to offer a fast-paced game for its 38th season which opens this Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

“Our fans have spoken,” declared PBA Commissioner Atty. Chito Salud. “They want a fastpaced game, they want a balanced competition among the 10 teams. They look forward to seeing new faces and new rookies who will challenge the status quo.”

The 37th season, which crowned different champions for each of the three conferences, “broke all records in terms of live attendance and gate receipts,” according to Salud. “I have always

stressed that our product is the game, and the game is the product and we will always continue polishing that product.”

Salud also acknowledged the work of the league’s broadcast partner, AKTV, which took over broadcasting chores last season, in helping improve TV coverage.

“It’s important to note that our partner in broadcasting our games is continuously making innovations. That is very key, an element that the PBA missed over the last few years.”

Following through on what worked and what didn’t work last season, the league will continue its three-conference format while at the same time further reducing the number of no-bearing games.

“We expect the games will be exciting because our format for the three

conferences will be exciting, eliminating no-bearing games,” Salud continued. “We’re really very optimistic about this season. Every game will count.

“Powerade made it to the Philippine Cup finals (last season). Rain or Shine won the Governors Cup. So in terms of balance among the teams, we’re getting there. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting there. You will see the likes of Barako Bull, Meralco, and even Air21 making improvements.

And also Global Port.”

The league has also shortened its season to accommodate the national team’s FIBA Asia commitments.

“Even before the SBP made known publicly that they will be bidding for the hosting rights, the Board of Governors already agreed to compress the schedule of the PBA,”

Salud explained. “We will end this 2013 season by July 28, leaving August and September, the usual FIBA Asia months, free.”

Salud also had put in a final word about the debacle suffered by the SBP in its bid to host next year’s FIBA Asia Championship, even as there remains a slim chance the country will be awarded the hosting rights.

“If we don’t get that chance to host, I have these words for FIBA: we could have wowed them.”

Meanwhile , Petron Blaze, San Mig Coffee (formerly B-Meg) and defending champion Talk ‘N Text emerged as the pre-tournament favorites, at least in the eyes of the Board of Governors.

“The three San Miguel teams (Petron, San Mig and Barangay Ginebra) will be the teams to beat,” said Air21 Express Governor Lito Alvarez.

PBA Commissioner Chito Salud speaks at the press conference launching the league’s 38th season. [PBA iMAgeS] “I share the same sentiment as Sir Lito,” said Eric Arejola, head of basketball operations of newcomer GlobalPort. “However, you can’t count out TNT because they’re the defending champions.”

“Petron and San Mig Coffee, and my gut feel, Rain or Shine,” was the assessment of TNT representative to the Board Patrick Gregorio.

“TNT, Petron and San

Mig Coffee,” said Barako Bull Governor Manny Alvarez. “As for the fourth team to compete the semifinals, don’t count out Barako Bull.”

Rain or Shine alternate Governor Andy Jao said: “Petron has the strongest lineup. But can they stay together? If they can, they’ll be tough to beat. No one is paying much attention to Talk n text. They’re the defending champion.”

Quiet man Stricker leads by example

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TEVE Stricker earned his first Ryder Cup cap at 41 and even now as the oldest player in the 2012 Ryder Cup he still thinks of himself as someone who has a lot to learn.

“I feel like I’m an old kind of rookie, even though I’ve played in three of these, it’s still a learning experience,” said the 45-year-old Stricker, who is making his third consecutive Ryder Cup appearance this week.

Both Stricker and Woods have made no secret that they enjoy playing together in these team events and their record reinforces that.

They formed a formidable partnership in Presidents Cups and in the most recent Ryder Cup in 2010 in Wales where they went 2-1-0.

Stricker says he doesn’t expect any of the four rookies to come to him for advice this week but if asked he will gladly give his opinions.

“I do my thing. I’m quiet,” Stricker said. “If somebody asks my opinion or asks me a question, I’ll offer it up. But I’m not one who’s going to be overbearing and be at the forefront.

“I try to be a good team player and if somebody were to ask me a few things here or there, I’d surely love to help anybody out who’s asking for it.

“Those guys have been around the block way more than I have, Jim (Furyk) and Tiger (Woods)

and Phil (Mickelson).

“I think even those guys will tell you it’s a learning experience every time we play in one of these events you learn, and if you didn’t, I think you’re missing something.”

Stricker said he and Woods make a good team because they are opposites on the golf course.

“I don’t know why guys have struggled. I’ve enjoyed playing with him,” Stricker said.

“We’ve had some good matches, and we’ve gotten beat up a couple of times, too.

“Our games are totally different. He bombs it, I’m more of a control player. But I think our ability to scramble, to get it upand-down, to make some putts here and there I think is our one connection. We hang out in the team room a little bit and we talk a lot, so it’s a comfortable pairing for the both of us.”

Even with their success last year, Woods still has a losing record in Ryder Cups. Stricker defended Woods’ record, saying the 14-time major winner goes out there with a target on his back.

“Everybody wants to beat him,” Stricker said.

“He’s the best player in the world over that period of all these past Ryder Cups.

“Obviously Rory (McIlroy) has been playing well now, but every time Tiger goes out there, guys are gunning for him, and they want to beat him.

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