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DANCING ASEC. Department of Health Assistant Secretary Eric A. Tayag, in this sequence of photos, dances to the tune of “Gentleman” during yesterday’s Red Orchid Awards 2013 at SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center in Lanang, Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

Mediaman in drugs?

Suspect to be Tok-Hanged by Sr. Supt. Dela Rosa THE WHO? Male Reporter From print media Not just drug user but shabu pusher

Hala! Reporter gi-report.

By EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ

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MEMBER of Davao City’s media community is suspected to be pushing illicit drugs, specifically methamphetamine hydrochloride otherwise known as shabu.

IGNORING THE BAN. Employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Region 11 take a “smoking break” while resting after hours of declogging a canal along E. Quirino Avenue in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

This was confirmed by Davao City Police Office (DCPO) chief Ronald dela Rosa who said that the police have not questioned the media practitioner, a male, whom he did not identify.

Dela Rosa told Edge Davao Thursday that he will subject the newsman to TokHang (TokTok Hangyo) wherein local police drug operatives led no less than by dela Rosa go around knocking on doors (toktok) of homes where suspected drug pushers or users live and ask them (hangyo) to turn a new leaf in life and stop their involvement in the illegal drug trade.

Dela Rosa merely answered “secret” in a text message to this reporter when asked to identify the mediaman and the media company he works for, his position in the company (whether reporter, editor, columnist, cor-

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INSIDE:

2 Miss USA 2013 4 bets are too skinny Davao chesser to play 14 in World Universiade CebPac victims demand P1M each

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Our operations punish the military --Parago

By CHE PALICTE cdp@edgedavao.net

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WITH POPE FRANCIS. Retired Davao Archbishop Fernando “Nanding” Capalla visited Pope Francis in the Vatican last month. Archbishop Capalla (beside the Pope) was with Dabawenyo priest Fr. Junar dela Victoria, son of the late city employee Napoleon dela Victoria, who just finished his doctorate

in Rome summa cum laude, and will be back in Davao City in October. The two elderly ladies are Archbishop Nanding’s sisters, while the three young ones are his nieces. Bishop Capalla marked the 37th anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination this week.

EW People’s Army 1st Pulang Bagani Battalion commander Leoncio Pitao also known as ‘Ka Parago’ said that NPA operations were meant to punish Armed Forces of the Philippines units, especially the Civil Military Operations Battalion (CMOB) headed by Maj. Jacob Thaddaeus Obligado.

Parago said that the CMOB continues to encroach, and conduct psychological warfare and intelligence operations in the villages of Paquibato.

Parago operates in Paquibato and adjacent hinterland villages.

Parago warned the military to stop its hot pursuit and rescue operations to retrieve abducted soldiers for it will only endanger their lives.

He confirmed that the abducted soldiers from the Philippine Army’s 60th Infantry Battalion are their prisoners of war (POW) now, adding that the POWs were not harmed during the abduction.

10th Infantry Division chief Maj. Gen. Ariel Bernardo, said the “NPA is a non-international state actor classified as a terrorist organization. How can they say that they have POWs? They are kidnappers, terrorists and torturers who could and would rightfully be charged in court under the anti-terrorism and anti-torture act,” Bernardo said.

Meanwhile, Maj. Obligado told Edge Davao that the rebel groups are really frustrated and that the masses are beginning to be awakened and enlightened about their real intents to deprive the communities of the true meaning of peace and development.

“These rebels worsen poverty when they prevent government to deliver basic services much needed by the masses,” he explained.

“I am more inspired and motivated as ever to continue my duty in serving the Filipino people, perhaps I’m the NPA’s nightmare,” he said.

HE newly signed Republic Act 10536 also called “Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines” stipulates different fines and penalties on the sale and transport of “hot meats” which could reach up to P1 million.

Signed by President Benigno Aquino III last May 15, the law states that violators shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than six years and one day, but

not more than 12 years or a fine not less than P100,000 to P1 million or both, such fine and imprisonment upon the discretion of the court.

Hot meats are the carcasses or parts of carcasses of food animals which are slaughtered in unregistered/unaccredited meat establishments and have not undergone the required inspection.

Doctor Clarita Tellano, veterinarian IV of

Flight 5J971 victims ‘Hot meat’fine may reach P1M demand P1M each T

By EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ ejf@edgedavao.net

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HE 33 adult passengers of the ill-fated Cebu Pacific Flight 5J971 that figured in a mishap last June 2 at the Davao International Airport have demanded P1 million each from the airline headed by business-

man Lance Gokongwei.

Lawyer Robert de Leon, legal counsel of the Flight 5J971 Victims group, told Edge Davao it may take three days before their demand letter reaches Gokongwei, and that the group is giving

CTO official corrects news item on probe D

AVAO City assistant treasurer Anastacio Jardin yesterday corrected a local daily’s report on collections being allegedly used as rolling funds (capital?) by certain employees (collectors?) of the city treasurer’s office (CTO). The news item referred to the employees as “cashiers” instead of the correct term “collectors”.

Jardin said the CTO employees being probed are collectors not cashiers and that it is not true that those involved in the alleged anomaly number five, nor was the reported amount of P8 million correct. Only after the investigation shall have been terminated will the true story be bared.

Meanwhile, those under investigation have been assigned elsewhere pending results of the probe, Jardin told Edge Davao.

Jardin said, when reports surfaced that there were remittances issued past the deadline that were not penalized, his office re-shuffled five employees last June 5 as preventive measure.

He said, only three employees are being investigated, but refused to divulge more information on the matter.

Jardin said he was perplexed by the reporter’s coming out with the figure P8, million and questioned her source of information. EJF

Cebu Pacific at least a week to reply to their demand.

“Personally, I hope the amount will be given, or even a lower amount, since we have basis for demanding the amount,” de Leon said.

He said that the P1 million is for the emotional distress suffered by the passengers.

They came up with the amount by comparing other similar events in America and Canada

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RED ORCHID AWARD. Southern Philippines Medical Center officials led by Director Leopoldo Vega (3rd from left) receive the Red Orchid award from the Department of Health’s Assistant Secretary Eric A. Tayag (right) and

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DOH 11 assistant regional director Ma. Socorro D. De Gracias in yesterday’s Red Orchid Awards 2013 at SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center in Lanang, Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

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USAID implements 8 GEM infra-Projects T

HE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is now starting to implement the construction of their eight (8) Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program Infrastructure Projects for the province.

GEM Infra Projects Provincial Coordinator Florentino G. Go, Jr. of the Provincial Planning & Development Office (PPDO) said that the USAID aims to finish the 8 infra projects by August of this year.

Monkayo shall benefit 3 of these projects, intended for Sitio Mahayahay Brgy. Bridge Repair in Brgy. Baylo; Purok Duranta Brgy. Bridge Repair in Brgy. Union and; Sitio Santol Brgy.

Bridge Repair in Brgy.

Salvacion.

They have 2 projects also for Compostela, the Overflow (Spillway) Structure Rehabilitation at Brgy. Ngan and

the Trading Center at Brgy. Poblacion in which Governor Arturo T. Uy and USAID-Philippines Mission Director Gloria Steele led its ceremonial ground breaking on June 14, 2013.

The other 3 shall be a Trading Center at Brgy.

Aguinaldo, Laak, Brgy.

Bridge construction at Brgy. Panag, New Bataan, and the construction of Lebanon-San Jose Bridge in Montevista.

Aside from these projects, USAID together with DepEd Central office’s Chief of Staff Asst. Secretary Reynaldo Antonio Laguda also turned-over armchairs, teacher’s tables and chairs, and pupils’ school bags with school supplies to Cabinuangan Elementary School in New Bataan through Mr. Marcelino Delos Reyes, the School Principal on June 14. [GRACE ALMEDILLA/ GILBERT M. CABAHUG, IDS-COMVAL]

INVESTING IN EDUCATION. U.S. Embassy Manila’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Gloria D. Steele hands over a bag containing education supplies to a student of Cabinuangan Central Elementary School during the turnover of a Php1.2 million education package consisting of student and teacher kits, reference materials and furniture. Thirty elementary and high schools, with a combined population of 25,000 students and 680 teachers, will benefit from similar USAID assistance under the U.S. Government’s on-going Php201 million disaster recovery

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program, implemented in partnership with the Philippine Government, in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, the two provinces most severely affected by Typhoon Pablo. Also at the event were Compostela Valley Governor Arturo Uy, Department of Education (DepEd) Assistant Secretary Reynaldo Laguda, Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Development Officer Jojo Reynaldo, and USAID/Philippines Office of Education Chief Robert Burch.

[USAID-GEM/Sonny Mendoza]

CATEEL, DAVAO ORIENTAL

DAR-12 pushes climate-proof rice varieties Centenarian I

N a bid to sustain Region 12’s surplus rice production, agriculture experts are pushing for the adoption by local farmers of eight rice varieties that were found highly-suitable for planting within the region. Loreto Pagarigan, Department of Agriculture (DA) Region 12’s research and development for rice focal person, said Wednesday they are currently promoting the utilization of rice varieties that had been tested as tolerant to the changing weather patterns and extreme climatic conditions.

“These are varieties that are tolerant to wet and dry field conditions and also resistant to some pests that usually come out in a certain period,” he said in a statement.

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For irrigated areas, Pagarigan said they are mainly recommending the NSIC RC 283, which can post an average yield of 6.4 metric tons (MT) per hectare, grow up to 104 centimeters (cm) and mature in 110 days. NSIC stands for the National Seed Industry Council, which replaced the Philippine Seed Board based on the provisions of Republic Act 7308 or the Seed Industry Development Act. Aside from NSIC RC 283, he said local farmers may use NSIC RC 240, which can grow up to 107 cm and post an average yield of 6.4 MT per hectare.

For lowland rice areas, Pagarigan said the suitable varieties are NSIC RC 222, NSIC RC 226, NSIC RC

158 and NSIC RC 224.

Farmers in rainfed areas may utilize NSIC RC 192 and NSIC RC 222, which are both highly-recommended as they are considered as drought-resistant and could post a production record of 3.4 MT per hectare, he said.

For those in upland areas, Pagarigan recommended the planting of the dinorado and azucena rice varieties. With the ongoing rainy season expected to intensify in the coming weeks, he advised farmers to adopt appropriate rice varieties that could withstand the impact of heavy rains.

“Before selecting the rice variety to plant, a farmer must ensure that they are resistant to pests and only grows short

enough to avoid being easily blown away by rains,” he said. He said they should also consider varieties that mature early or in a shorter period.

Gilbert Romares, research specialist of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in Southwestern Mindanao, reminded farmers to select the rice varieties which are already “tested and proven” in their respective areas. He said PhilRice had conducted various field research studies for the eight rice varieties in various parts of the region.

Romares said the recommended seeds are now available at the PhilRice center in Midsayap, North Cotabato. [Allen V. Estabillo / MindaNews]

DTI recommends funding of trade-related projects

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HE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in South Cotabato has recommended the funding and implementation of six trade-related projects under the agency’s Shared Service Facility (SSF) program. Flora Gabunales, DTI-South Cotabato provincial director, said the six projects were the initial ventures that they identified and recommended for

approval by DTI Region 12 as recipients of the SSF initiative in the area.

“These projects require a funding of P3.28 million,” the official said. The projects are the production center for processed herbal products of the Danlag Women Association in Tampakan town; San Felipe pottery industry development project of the Purok O. Belo Pottery Makers’

Association in Tantangan; meat processing center of the Concepcion Women’s Association in Koronadal City; production center on bag making of the Libas Bag Making Association in Tantangan; production center for T’nalak-based indigenous crafts of the Klowil Agricultural Enterprise Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Lake Sebu; and the Crossing Palkan bamboo indus-

try development project of the Crossing Palkan CARE Group in Polomolok town.

Gabunales said the SSF is a priority program of Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo that was launched last year by the DTI. She said the DTI central office has set aside around P700 million for the program’s implementation this year. [Allen V. Estabillo / MindaNews]

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HE made it! Felisa Oros Veroy marked her 100th birthday last April 13, 2013, defying the offensive of Typhoon Pablo.

Born April 13, 1913, Nanay Feling, as she is fondly called, is second child and the only daughter to her farmer parents Vicente Sayod Oros and Tmotea Edurece Odales.

Her mother was 28 while her father was 27 when Felisa was born in Sitio Tagada-o, Barangay San Rafael. She was delivered by traditional midwife Memay Andipa of the same village. She had two brothers, Martiniano and Demetrio.

Her family relocated in Barangay Taytayan in 1926 where she attended elementary education.

One teacher she remembers was a Mr. Pedro Dacuycuy. Felisa completed Grade 4 level and witnessed the 2nd World War. She married Leonardo Sillada Veroy and was blessed with her first child Raul, in 1944. During the Liberation in 1946, she gave birth to twins followed by Amador in 1948, then by Urlita in 1950 and finally, her youngest Fe-

lizueta in 1952.

When Nanay Feling got older, she decided to stay with daughter Urlita.

Then her daughter Felizueta took care of her when Urlita died. Only three of her children got married who eventually produced 20 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren for her.

At her simple centennial birthday celebration, her youngest daughter Felizueta said the opening prayer while Taytayan Barangay Captain Deonicito P. Manangkis gave the opening message. Some Taytayan senior citizens, her children and grandchildren provided the entertainment.

Felisa’s brief autobiography was read at the middle of the program. Cateel Mayor Camilo T. Nunez along with her son Amador also shared their message for the celebrant while Cateel municipal officials, Felisa’s relatives and friends offered tokens and presents. Throughout the short program, Nanay Feling was very attentive and extremely overwhelmed with the tribute granted her. [DSWD/Carmela Cadigal-Duron]

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Miss USA 2013 bets are too skinny, former winners say H

AS the pageant stage become just another fashion runway filled with scary-skinny physiques? According to several former Miss USA and Miss America competitors, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” -- at least when it comes to the bikini bodies on display during Sunday night’s Miss USA 2013 competition. (Miss Connecticut Erin Brady was crowned the winner.)

Speaking to HuffPost Live, Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund said, “The girls, I thought, were much too thin. I agree that if you would have tested their BMIs that they probably would

MANILA

have been much too thin. And that’s the standard in the modeling industry and the fashion industry as well.”

Miss USA 2003 Susie Castillo was also disturbed by the shrinking figures. “I was a little shocked, too, sitting in the audience and seeing ribcages showing, protruding from these girls’ skins. I was like, ‘Wow, these girls…’ “ “I realize that 10 years ago, when I was Miss USA, I was a lot thinner too…. I was an athlete. I wasn’t that thin. And I agree that it’s going in a way where girls are just super thin,” Castillo continued.

Some of the Ms. USA 2013 candidates walk the ramp.

‘Emong’ exits PHL, new LPA has high chance to become tropical cyclone T

ROPICAL storm “Emong” continues to move away from the country towards southern Japan, the state weather forecaster said on Thursday.

In a interview, weather forecaster Aldczar Aurelio said that tropical storm Emong has maintained its strength but is now out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility around 2:00 a.m. Thursday.

Aurelio said that as

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of 4:00 a.m., the center of tropical storm Emong was located at 570 km northeast of Basco, Batanes (25.5°N, 124.8°E) with maximum sustained winds of 75 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 90 kph. It is forecast to move north at 22 kph.

He added that Emong will continue to enhance the southwest monsoon which will bring moderate to occasionally heavy rains and thunderstorms

over the western sections of Luzon including Metro Manila and Visayas and light to moderate rainshowers and thunderstorms over the rest of the country.

Meanwhile, a low pressure area (LPA) spotted 450 km west of Ambulong, Tanauan, Batangas (14.5°N, 116.5°E) has a high chance to become a tropical cyclone, Aurelio said.

“Nakikita namin na

malaki ang posibilidad nito na maging isang bagyo since nasa dagat itong LPA ,” he noted.

In case, Aurelio said this possible cyclone is not expected to make landfall in any part of the country.

“Ipinapakita sa ngayon ng mga numerical models na pataas ang galaw nito, papuntang Southern China o Hong Kong…

Kaya hindi ito inaasahan na magla-landfall sa ating bansa,” he noted. (PNA)

5 Cebu rice traders face P36-M smuggling raps

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HE Bureau of Customs on Thursday filed before the Department of Justice smuggling charges worth P36,156,740 against five rice traders.

Charged were Ramil L. Olita, owner of JM ARS Trading based in Carrita, Cebu City; Marlon R. Sampang, owner of JJM Global Trading in Carrita, Cebu City; Marcos A. Custan, owner of Custans Enterprises in Tejero, Cebu City; Noel F. Wison, owner of NMW Enterprises in Lapu-Lapu City; and Ben-

jamin A. Garcia, owner of Neon Gateway Trading in Alegria, Cebu.

In a press conference, Customs Commissioner Rozzano Rufino “Ruffy” Biazon said the five respondents were charged for violation of Section 3601 in relation to Section 101 of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines.

Biazon said the five cases were all committed on March 22, 2013 such that the 10 20-footer vans owned by JM ARS Trading were declared as “ceiling insulator slab” but found

to contain 5,205 bags of white rice from Vietnam with a market value of P6,662,400.

The 10 20-footer container vans owned by JJM Global Trading were declared as “granite slab” but found to contain 5,206 bags of white rice from Vietnam valued at P7,132,220.

The 10 20-footer container vans owned

by Custans Enterprises were declared as “granite stone” but found to contain 5,196 bags of white rice from Vietnam valued at P7,586,160.

The 10 20-footer container vans owned by NMW Enterprises were declared as “cellulose fibers” but found to contain 5,196 bags of white rice from Vietnam valued at P7,586,160.

The 10 20-footer container vans owned by Neon Gateway Trading were declared as “granite slab” but found to contain 5,210 bags of white rice from Vietnam valued at P7,189,800.

The total value of the illegal rice shipment was pegged at P36,156,740.

(PNA)

B R I E F S JBC starts screening nominees for next Sandiganbayan presiding justices MANILA-- The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)on Thursday started screening the applicants for the next Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan. There are 10 nominees vying for the position vacated by retired Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Francisco Villarus, Jr. For Thursday, to be interviewed are Court of Appeals Associate Justice Apolinario Bruselas, Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Amparo Tang, Atty. Jasper Lucero, Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Efren dela Cruz, Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Rafael Santos and Abra Provincial Prosecutor Nestor Tolentino. On Friday, Sandiganbayan Associate Justices Teresita Diaz-Baldos, Gregory Ong, and Alex Quiros and Justice Undersecretary Leah Aumentado will be interviewed.

Bruselas said to the members of the JBC that if he will be appointed as the next Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice, he will prioritize the modernization of the anti-graft court and the fast-tracking of trial period. Next to be interviewed by the JBC is Tang. (PNA)

Debate begins in crafting IRR of RA 10586 MANILA-- A debate has started in crafting Implementing Rules and Regulation of the controversial Republic Act 10586, known as the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act of 2013. This was the assessment of some stakeholders after they expressed contradicting statements on the new law which will eradicate some existing requirements in securing a driver’s license.

Land Transportation Office Chief Assistant Sec. Virginia Torres said her office will press for the retention of drug testing, claiming this is a deterrent in fighting illegal drugs. “Drug testing is consistent and not inconsistent,” Torres said in a text message to the Philippines News Agency.

She said it has been proven effective in the past although not 100 percent that drug testing before securing new driver’s licenses is a deterrent to drug use. When asked if she will insist in retaining this provision under the new law, Torres did not directly say yes but she wants to read the final version of the IRR.

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Gov’t spends more on prisoners than the poor, NSCB study says K

ILLING poverty may be among the government’s top agenda but most public funds actually went to prisoners than on poor families last

year, data show.

The cost of maintaining each Filipino inmate a year stood at P19,345 in 2012, the National Statistical Coordination Board

said in a recent analysis.

This means that one inmate received more than the P15,000 maximum a poor family can be given under the condition-

al cash transfer program.

Moreover, the amount spent for every prisoner received in one semester (P9,672.50) was slightly

SAMPLING. Curious onlookers crowd a bakery equipment booth in the ongoing World Food Expo Mindanao 2013 exhibit at the SMX Convention Center of SM Lanang Premier yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

higher than the poverty threshold, pegged at P9,485.4 in the first six months of 2012.

This made prisoners “even non-poor by definition,” NSCB Secretary General Jose Ramon Albert said in his latest “Beyond the Numbers” post.

The high cost of maintaining prisoners is also coupled with rising occupancy rates in jails, which as per 2011 data already had four times their capacity.

These data, the Statistics chief said, highlight the need to examine the criminal justice system to reduce backlogs and speed up the resolution of cases.

“Statistics show that the judiciary faces serious difficulties in addressing case backlogs, and that additional investments will be required to improve the adjudication process,” Albert said.

This, as he noted, that the number of cases filed before lower courts has been on the downtrend since 2005, the number of cases resolved has posted a steeper decline.

Inflow of cases dipped by 2.4 percent annually to 385,067 in 2012 from 457,146 in 2005 while outflow slowed by 3.4 percent a year to 382,957 cases from 485,605 cases.

New cases and backlogs meant that lower courts face more than a million cases in a year, Albert said, noting that each judge has to resolve an average of 664 cases annually or three cases a day.

Bottlenecks in the justice system also suffer due to high vacancy rates continuously posted by lower courts, he said. In 2006 to 2009, some 24 percent of judicial positions had been vacant.

“Part of the inefficiencies suggested by trends in the statistics may be issues of budget, but of course, it is also important that budgets are properly used” Albert said.

Last year, only 0.7 percent of the P1.8-trillion national budget was allotted to the judiciary.

This was lower than its 0.9-percent share of the budget in 2009. [Yahoo!]

6 THE ECONOMY Stat Watch

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

7.1 1st Qtr 2013

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

7.8 1st Qtr 2013

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

USD 3,741 million Feb 2013 USD 4,708 million Feb 2013 USD -967 million Feb 2013 USD -640 million Dec 2012 P 4,964,560 million Feb 2013

8. Interest Rates 4/

2.4 % Mar 2013 P113,609 million Mar 2013 P 5,281 billion Mar 2013

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

P 41.14 Apr 2013

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

6,847.5 Mar 2013

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

132.8 Apr 2013

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

2.6 Apr 2013

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

3.1 Apr 2013

16. Visitor Arrivals

418,108 Feb 2013

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

20.9% Jan 2013

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

7.1% Jan 2013

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2012-April 2013) Month Average December November October September August July June May April March February January

2013

2012

2011

40.67 40.73

42.23 41.01 41.12 41.45 41.75 42.04 41.91 42.78 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

It figures

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1st Phil iCon to gather 600 stakeholders T

HE first-ever Philippine Investment Conference (Phil iCon) is expected to gather at least 600 industry cluster stakeholders from all over of the country.

Dubbed as “Investing in Priority Industry Clusters for SMEs: A Conference”, the two-day event is slated on June 25 to 26 at SMX Convention Center at SM Lanang Premier here.

The Phil iCon is spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry-Regional Operations and Development Group (DTIRODG) in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The event which banners the theme “Industry Clustering Towards Inclusive Growth” is aimed at creating awareness on the cluster-based industrial development strategy through the National Industry Cluster Capacity Project (NICCEP), a technical cooperation project of DTI and JICA. Furthermore, the event is likewise aimed at

promoting various promising industries in the Philippines as investment opportunities for existing and would-be investors, particularly for Japanese businessmen.

The focus industry clusters are: milkfish, dairy, coffee, bamboo, tourism, information and communications technology (ICT), health and wellness, and wearables and homestyles for Luzon; gifts, decors, and housewares (GDH), tourism, ICT, and health and wellness for Visayas; and, banana, mango, coconut, seaweeds, wood, mining, tourism, ICT, rubber, poultry, tuna, and palm oil for Mindanao.

“The overarching goal is to spur development and growth in the countryside with infusion of fresh investments and creation of employment opportunities,” said DTIDavao Regional Director Marizon S. Loreto, who also chairs the Conference Regional Cooperators’ Committee.

Loreto added that being a convergence of industry leaders, DTI is very optimistic about generating the most necessary inputs and strategies on how to corner more investments for the country’s three islands.

“We all know that more investments means more job opportunities

that’s why we really are working double time to make the conference truly successful,” she said.

For more inquiries about the Phil iCon, interested participants may contact Romeo N. Vasquez at (082) 2240511 local 304 or the nearest DTI office. [DTI 11/JenMendoza]

The Asian Economic Community’s goal for 2015 is to transform the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) into a region with free movement of goods, services, investment, skilled labor and capital.

Pampi is seeking the government’s support to help them prepare for that economic integration. ”As far as the industry is concerned, the government is not supporting us.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is leaning toward supporting the hog raisers’ industry. The programs should be fair to all stakeholders,” Tuikinhoy said.

He noted that meat processors should be given the chance to share their

inputs in whatever programs will be implemented, especially concerning the whole meat industry. ”There should be industry dialogue,” said Tuikinhoy, referring to the recent DA guidelines on meat importation.

The group warned that Administrative Order No.09, issued on March 18, could lead to high prices of meat products because it restricts trade and distribution of imported meat.

Tuikinhoy said that the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), an attached agency of DA, had started implementing the order without consulting the meat industry players. ”There is a definite

shortage of pork but the NMIS continues to strangle our only other alternative for raw materials, imported pork, by making the importation of pork more difficult, and in fact, impossible for new industry entrants,” the Pampi statement said.

It added that the AO had stopped the operations of some meat processors, causing a production slowdown for companies that depend on accredited importers for their raw materials.

The country’s local consumption of processed meat per year is pegged at P200 billion, of which 80 to 90 percent is supplied by the local meat processing industry, Tuikinhoy said. [PNA]

BY THE NUMBERS There are approximately

1.8 million self-employed professionals in PHL but only

22 percent are filing and paying their taxes.

SOURCE: BIR

PHL meat processors see need to prepare for Asean integration

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N official of the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. (PAMPI) wants its members to update standards and get ready to compete globally, with the ASEAN integration in 2015. ”We need to upgrade and elevate our systems for us to penetrate other Asean markets, otherwise we will be contented with the domestic market only,” PAMPI president Felix Tuikinhoy said.

“We will see to it that companies gear towards ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certification,” said Tuikinhoy, who is also the president and chief executive officer of Cebu-based Virginia Foods Inc. (VFI).

52 percent According to Transportation Secretary Joseph Abaya, Naia Terminal 3 is operating at 52 percent of its total capacity of 13 million passengers a year since it opened in 2008.

21 billion Property giant Ayala Land Inc. plans to offer as much as P21 billion in long-term domestic retail bonds, raising fresh funds for “general corporate purposes,” the company said.

8 billion The illicit trade of cigarettes has become a key concern of the Philippines, with the government seen to lose a potential revenue of P8 billion this year, LTG Group president Michael Tan said.

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Northpoint studio buyers get free interior T

HE British colonial themed condo development, Northpoint, will provide free interior design and furnishing for studio units of its third tower, Nottingham.

An up and coming interior designer from Davao has been commissioned to develop three unique design concepts from which homebuyers can choose to cater to their needs and preference.

“This is exciting for our buyers because when they get a Nottingham studio unit, the interior will be furnished and designed by a professional--for free,” said Anna Mae dela Pena, Camella Davao Marketing Head.

That means homeowners only need to bring their personal things when moving in, as the studio unit will already be livable once the unit is turned over to them.

The three designs to choose from are Quirky Achiever, Structured Bliss, and Free Spirit. The first design concept is especially developed for students, revolving around their comfort to inspire them to focus on their studies.

The studio unit for the Quirky Achiever will be designed to allow students to do their studying in comfort. The dining, kitchen, toilet and bath will

be designed to allow them to relax well after burning the midnight oil.

Structured bliss is a design concept intended for young professionals or yuppies who want an organized look for their studio, with appropriate places for clothes, documents and their other daily essentials for work and home. Their studio will be designed with a seamless flow for their ease and convenience.

The Free Spirit design is created for the outgoing individual who is not constrained by convention and wants to be able to come and go and still expect to come home to a well-appointed and welcoming condo home.

The design considers smart cabinet spaces and storage for luggage to help unit owners organize all their stuff. Customized bed and furniture will be set up to add to their sense of comfort and convenience.

The free interior design complements Northpoint’s irresistible promo for studio homebuyers such as reduced reservation fee of P10,000 and flexible financing.

Down payment can get as low as 7% and outright discounts can start from P60,000 for a studio unit upon loan release, and as much as P200,000 for

bigger units in Nottingham.

Liverpool buyers will also get discount privileges such as 15% down payment payable in 28 months and discounts as high as P100,000.

Completion of these two condo buildings is already slated within the 3rd quarter of this year for Nottingham and towards the 4th quarter of 2015 for Liverpool.

L o cated at the junction of Buhangin Road and JP Laurel Avenue in Bajada, Northpoint’s deluxe facilities and amenities include a majestic clubhouse, Wakefield Manor, that houses a multi-purpose hall, soccer table game, a fitness gym, cabanas and grill pits, a salinated wellness pool, and provides free WiFi access.

Northpoint’s grounds

a re verdant with a green carpet of grass, preserved Acacia trees, and over P4 million worth of imported Caribbean pine trees.

There are playgrounds, nature park, jogging track, pocket gardens, and 24/7 security system bolstered with CCTV. On top of all these world-class features, Northpoint’s status has been recently upgraded by becoming one of the

upscale residential condos of Vista Residences of the Vista Land & Lifescapes, the country’s largest homebuilder.

Inquiries are welcome at Camella offices in Delgar Bldg., JP Laurel Ave., Bajada, telephone 2953973. For more on Camella, check out www.camella.com.ph, like “Camella Official” on Facebook and follow “@CamellaOfficial” on Twitter.

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Reckless driving cabbies

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OW do you solve a problem like reckless taxi drivers?

If you are a motorist, you most likely will have a long list of taxi license plate numbers or taxi company names and body numbers on the folder of your mobile phone. It’s almost everyday that you get to encounter a speeding taxi cab cutting you on the corner or overtaking on the wrong side.

At stop lights, they will honk their horns on you no end once you miss a beat when the green light goes like it’s a drag race and reaction time matters.

We’re not saying all taxi drivers are bad drivers here. We are saying at this age of closed circuit television cameras, green-clad traffic officers to go with their boot-fitted blue traffic cop counterparts, how on earth can reckless cabs like these roam on our streets and get away with it?

The blue cops are bunched in gangs at select spots like Dakudao Avenue and Lanang hailing cars and trucks fishing for violations like non-use and absence of seatbelts or non-visible plates. The non-tinted and

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old cars are easy targets but the flashy ones, with superblack tint and unauthorized plates, zoom past their mobiles like they are invisible cars.

So instead of going after errant taxicab drivers, nary do we see them on congested streets to enforce the law on those speed monsters.

The Rescue 911 headquarters has 17 CCTV cams in most parts of Davao City to monitor traffic and crimes. Some stubborn taxicab drivers do not seem to care. The situation is expected to get worse in the coming weeks when traffic jams escalate as the school season goes full blast and the rainy season begins.

Now, if you can help it and you care about your safety and that of your hard-earned car, steer clear of these speed freaks while praying our traffic enforcers clamp down on these Schumacher-wannabes.

At the rear side of every public utility vehicles are words that read: “How’s my driving?”

A heckler’s taunt that must be. For sure, it only adds insult to injury.

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Is the party over?

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NITIAL EFFECT OF CURRENCY FALL IS FOREIGN INVESTMENT SLOWDOWN AND TRADE DIVERSION – The gradual fall of many Asian currencies has led to speculation about the fate of the Philippine peso. While the local currency started to weaken against the US dollar, government economists and financial wizards still believe there is no need for the peso to devalue. Experts noted that the first effect of currency depreciation is trade diversion. They pointed out the Philippines competes with countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and, of course, China in labor-intensive goods. A decline of the peso by 20% or more will definitely cause shifts in the sourcing by importers away from the Philippines to the competing countries. Thus, the country will face a slowdown in its export growth in the coming months or maybe even a year or two if its exchange rate remains unchanged, or worse, plunge.

Like the economists, some investors are likewise wary of the present situation by saying that “you don’t have to look farther to see what happens when a peg goes wrong.” The second effect is foreign investment diversion. With the currency melting down, foreign investment that flows to the country likewise will go-slow. Another would-be effect is a rise in the cost of funds to the country on international capital markets. Philippine enterprises, like others in East Asia and the ASEAN region will have to pay higher interest rates for their loans. An increase in rates could be devastating. The more curious private economists noted other basic causes for the currency problem and can be identified as a large spending-investment gap, an excessive reliance on foreign portfolio investment and

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appreciating real exchange rate.

The euphoric sentiment of the past weeks and months is directly related to the country’s sound economic fundamentals and strong currency control. Evidence of the frenzy: stable peso, stock markets setting new records and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) achieving a historically high percentage ratio. While government economic think-tanks and financial planners believe the party is far from over – predictions of a more robust and vibrant economy is too common – others see an achievement hangover on the way. But it can’t last forever.

The key is the country’s position in its economic cycle – which is precarious.

Consider this: the US economy’s rally is rebounding and on top of that its capital spending is fast recovering while foreign investment packages slowed down.

Actually any currency problem emerged slowly at first presenting a challenge to our highly-paid economic advisers and financial consultants.

If they were unable to maintain the exchange rate despite favorable economic fundamentals, they will have no credibility at all when it comes to the defense of the Philippine peso. Nonetheless, a devaluation of the peso will severely undermine the efforts of the country’s monetary authorities to defend the fixed peg with the US dollar. After all, a successful defense of the exchange rate is

really based on maintaining the confidence of the domestic population.

But for the idealists a currency crisis presents a challenge as well as opportunity to the country. With a slowing export growth and decline of foreign portfolio investments, the Philippines will have to stimulate domestic demand.

This it can do in at least two directions, simultaneously. First, it can undertake more infrastructure projects especially those dealing in property development, tourism and other income-generating and job-producing ventures. Second, it can promote the expansion of agricultural programs by developing appropriate methods that would facilitate long-term plans - formulation, farm-tomarket roads, water supply, fertilizer, herbicide and insecticide, pre-harvest to post-harvest stages, storage facilities, and eventually marketing of farm produce. The impending currency crisis can thus provide precisely the stimulus for the Philippines to realize its potential as self-reliant and demand-driven economy.

WHILE ECONOMISTS AND POLITICAL EXPERTS may argue about who can deliver what the country needs, they generally agree what it is: in time of crisis, a tough leadership to revive the slumping economy, reform the country’s institutions and energize the people with new national goals. Political authorities, private sector economists and financial geniuses say everyone is fed up with the seeming rudderless drift the Philippine government has been into especially during the previous administration. Is the country now heading to the right path (tamang daan) or straight path (matuwid na daan) or maybe the same old crooked path (liku-likong daan)?

The price of ignoring climate change

HE effects of climate change, driven by carbon pollution, hit Americans harder each year.

Extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires and droughts are growing ever more frequent and severe.

Beyond our borders, these changes are hitting developing nations.

Since our nation’s founding, America has stood as an example for the world. Now, we owe it to ourselves and to other nations, who look to Washington, to lead the way on climate change by putting a price on carbon pollution and taking other steps to minimize the harm being done to developing nations — and our own.

In many of the world’s poorest regions, the sun scorches drought-stricken farmland and parches freshwater sources. Fierce storms bring ravaging floods. Warming, rapidly acidifying oceans and shifting seasons drive off economically valuable species and foster pests and disease.

COMMENTARY

BY SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE

(1st of two parts) This year, the worst flood in a decade killed at least 38 people in Mozambique and left 150,000 homeless. Warmer weather allows malaria-bearing mosquitoes to move into previously unaffected altitudes, infecting cities like Nairobi, which had purposely been built above the “malaria line.” Ten of the 15 largest cities in the developing world, including Shanghai, Mumbai and Cairo, are at risk of flooding from rising sea levels or coastal storm surges. Rising seas are swallowing low-lying land in countries such as Bangladesh and India.

Climate change endangers much of the world economy as well. Economists calculate that a 3.5°F rise in global temperature would reduce global gross domestic product by 1

percent. But loss will be 4 percent in Africa, and 5 percent in India. The United Nations estimates that environmental disasters could drive as many as 3 billion people into extreme poverty by the year 2050.

These regions face a crisis not of their making. Developed countries have churned out two-thirds of all the carbon dioxide pollution since the Industrial Revolution — one-quarter of that from the United States alone.

We have much to gain here at home from efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change: safer coastal communities, healthier farming and fishing industries, and cleaner air to breathe. But the American experiment has always been about more than that.

Indeed, as one of the largest emitters of carbon pollution, the United States has a responsibility to help emerging nations adapt to the stark reality of a changing climate, lest, as Daniel Webster warned, our own example “become an argument against the experiment.”

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Who’s the real national hero of this country?

(1st of two parts)

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’M NOT a history buff, that’s why I can’t answer my son’s question why he can’t see any monument of Gen. Emilo Aguinaldo here in Davao. My son is grade six and always nag me that he sees only the monuments of Andres Bonifacio and Jose Rizal everytime he goes home from school.

From his school at Kapitan Tomas Monteverde elementary school, the Sasa-bound jeepney passes by Magallanes street behind City Hall where a blackened bronze of Rizal is still pondering to this day, why he didn’t escape from his exile in Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte and hid in the mountains of Bukidnon and maybe, rode a horse all the way to Davao. Who knows?

Maybe he’s still wondering to this day why he was stupid enough to believe the bluff of the Spanish governor-general who promised to send him off to Mexico, only to end up at Fort Santiago and face the firing squad at Luneta at early dawn.

Maybe he’s wondering why Pinoys are still looking up to him as a “national hero”--- when it should have been the guys who fought the Spaniards to liberate us from oppression and tyranny. Guys like Andres Bonifacio or even Emilio Aguinaldo.

That’s why it was so confusing for Pinoys like me to watch two indie films at Cinematique Davao (where admission is free at Palma Gil street) titled “El Presidente”, a two-hour movie on the memoirs of Aguinaldo (written by himself) and another indie film titled “Supremo” a movie focusing on the life and exploits of Andres Bonifacio.

Although “El Presidente” was a better-made movie compared to “Supremo”, my son could see the bias of the first movie on Aguinaldo because he knows it was written by Emilio himself when he got nothing else to do after driving off the Spaniards from Cavite and waved the first Philippine flag from the balcony of his huge house at Kawit town.

What really confused me and my son was the two different versions how Andres Bonifacio was killed by the executioners of Aguinaldo after the Tondo rebel was found guilty of “rebellion” by the new Philippine government---which Andres, ironically helped set up.

Bonifacio was earlier asked by Aguinaldo to help settle the dispute between the two warring groups in Cavite—the Magdalo and the Magdiwang group. To settle the dispute, the Tondo boy who didn’t finish high school, told the rowdy group of Pinoy insurgents to settle the dispute by a vote to find out who’s the real leader of the Philippine revolution. Someone in the group suggested why don’t they just set up a revolutionary government instead?

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Davao accepts DOH’s dare on Endgame for Tobacco

By EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ ejf@edgedavao.net

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ILL Davao City be able to completely rid itself of tobacco

products by Department Assistant Eric Tayag’s

accepting of Health Secretary challenge

Philippine Press Institute president Jesus Dureza (left) assures new director general of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)Usec. Jose Mari Oquinena that he will get all the support that he needs from the media communi-

to take on the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Endgame for Tobacco program?

ty of Davao City during yesterday’s Hermes media forum at the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

Mediaman in drugs?.. FFROM 1 respondent of a Manila or foreign-based media establishment).

“Oplan TokHang” is a unique program initiated by Dela Rosa last February 3 after Vice Mayor Rody Duterte warned barangay 23-C chair Amilbangsa Manding to rid his area of drugs.

From February to May 2013, dela Rosa said DCPO “tokhanged” and “taphanged “(Tapok Hangyo, gathering suspects in a particular venue) a total of 1,214 suspected illegal drug pushers and users from 45 different barangays in the city.

It’s been quite a

time when rumors flew thick and fast that some media practitioners are marijuana and shabu users. Years ago, no less than a defunct broadcast network owner was rumored to be a user. However, this is the first time that a mediaman is suspected to be into drug pushing.

the City Veterinarians Office (CVO) told Edge Davao that also included for fines and penalties are ‘hot meats’ that are undocumented, illegally shipped, and unregistered carcasses and those that are classified as hot meat by the National Meat Inspection

Service (NMIS),” she explained.

Tellano added that violators of the law will be obliged to pay to concerned consumers for damage they have suffered as a consequence of the unlawful act.

“Yung previous R.A. 9296 walang nakastipu-

late kung ano yung mga fines and penalties when it comes to money value, ang nakasulat lang dun ay yung mga applicable laws ng Philippines,” she explained, adding that “applicable laws of the Philippines” are: Consumers Act and City Ordinance. CMP

where passengers had not suffered injuries but were emotionally distressed.

In a similar instance, victims received the equivalent of P650,000 each while in another case, the victims received P2.5 million each.

Businessman John Gaisano and Vice Governor Joel Almario who were aboard the flight have not been included in the Flight 5J971 Victims group that registered themselves as one association with SEC, according

to de Leon.

“We can still admit those who want to be included,” he said, inviting the other victims of the flight who want to receive compensation for being among the victims.

‘Hot Meat’.. FFROM 2

Flight 5J971..FFROM 2

Davao City Anti-Smoking Task Force chair Domilyn Villareiz accepted the dare yes-

terday’s Red Orchid Awards 2013 event of the DOH at the SMX Convention Center in SM Lanang. Tayag challenged Davao to be dare

to completely free the city of tobacco products in line with the ban on their retail since the city pioneered laws against smoking.

Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio affirmed Villareiz’s acceptance, saying that a hundred percent smoke free Davao City is attainable if the total ban on retail of tobacco products could be legislated and strictly enforced.

City Councilor Bernard Al-ag said that he is for (taking on WHO’s Endgame to Tobacco program) challenge if the matter reaches the council.

WHO’s Endgame for Tobacco program is part of its 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in response to globalization of the tobacco epidemic.

It focuses on creating multi-sectoral partnerships and taking tobacco control beyond the health sector to integrate it with global development goals and appropriate treatment under trade agreements

and treaties.

WHO’s framework inspired the creation of DOH’s Red Orchid Awards, which follows the Administrative Order No. 10 re Comprehensive 100 percent Smoke-Free Environment Policy that calls on absolute smoking ban in DOH offices, hospitals, and attached agencies.

It also encourages local government units to do the same in their health facilities and other public places.

In line with the ban on tobacco, the Civil Service Commission issued memorandum circular no. 17 in 2010 to have a hundred percent smoke free environment policy in all government agencies.

In this year’s Red Orchid Award, only the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center was given the Hall of Fame Award, while in 2012 the cities that were cited for this award were Davao, Legaspi, Maasin, Caluag, Quezon, and Talisayan, Misamis Oriental.

fice and two from DPWH-Bureau of maintenance.

The theme of the OJT was “Improvement of Quality Management for Highway and Bridge Construction and Maintenance, Phase II” under the JICA-assisted Technical Cooperation Project (JICA-TCP).

The training was conducted by Japanese experts led by Hideo Nagao, team leader/ bridge expert, Hiroyuki Matsuyama, pavement expert, Kensuke Matsushita, project coordinator, and Seitaro Tsukuda, JICA road planning and manage-

ment advisor.

Most of the participants came from district engineering offices of region 11 led by Engr. Rowena P. Jamito, DPWH 11 regional project manager, JICA– TCP. An actual field demonstration was conducted on the bridge and pavement along the national highway in Davao del Sur. Engineers Elsa G. Grumo, Ruth Duyo, and Alex R. Tamundong facilitated the on-thespot demonstration as DPWH-JICA counterpart resource speakers.

JICA, DPWH conduct maintenance training

By CHE PALICTE cdp@edgedavao.net

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APAN International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) conducted the “1st On the Job Training on Routine Maintenance” at the DPWH 11 on L.M. Guerrero St., Davao City last June 1314.

Dennis Flores, information officer of DPWH 11, said that 38 DPWH employees from different regions joined the training.

Of the 38, 28 came from region 11, two from Caraga region, two from region 7, two from DPWH central of-

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Aboitiz Group full force for schools ‘make-over’

BEAUTIFICATION. Keeping the spirit of volunteerism alive.AEV, SNAP, AboitizFoundation, and AboitizPower joined forces to beautify Napindan Elementary School in Taguig City, the new host community of its new head office in Bonifacio Global City.

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O give learning a whole new appeal to the students of academic year 2013 to 2014, the Aboitiz group of companies have participated in full force during this year’s Brigada Eskwela, servicing some 155 schools throughout the country.

The Aboitiz Group recorded a 9% increase in the number of employee volunteers, which totaled 1,511 this year from 2012’s 1,372 volunteers. “This is a testament that the employees are embracing and imbibing the Aboitiz’s way of helping people

help themselves,” said AboitizFoundation, Inc. President Jon Ramon Aboitiz.

The business units participated in batches, with some implementing the Department of Education’s annual program, also known as National School Maintenance Week program, as early as the first week of May, while others chose to hold the activity early June.

The Aboitiz companies, through the A b o i t i z Fo u n d a t i o n , have been participating in the annual Brigada Eskwela since 2008.

“The foundation continues to prioritize edu-

cation-related projects as our way of helping improve the country’s public education system,” AboitizFoundation Managing Trustee Sonny Carpio said.

Holding company Aboitiz Equity Ventures, SN Aboitiz Power, AboitizFoundation, and AboitizPower joined forces to revamp newly-adopted school Napindan Elementary School in Barangay Napindan in its new corporate headquarter’s host municipality, Taguig City, and Banilad Elementary School in Cebu.

Around 150 team members, together

a Thomson Reuters publication.

It will be one of the biggest IPOs in the Southeast Asian country, although the filing for the deal comes after Manila’s benchmark stock index has shed more than 12% since midMay amid fears that foreign investors will continue to sell out of emerging markets.

Share sales from two IPOs and several follow-on deals by Philippine compa-

nies early this year -when foreign buying of local stocks had pushed the key index to all-time highs -exceeded the record $2.53 billion of sales for all of 2012.

Robinsons Retail is a unit of the Gokongwei group’s property development arm, Robinsons Land Corp. It competes with SM Retail of SM Prime Holdings, Inc. and Puregold Price Club, Inc. Philippine com-

with local government representatives, teachers and students of the beneficiary school worked on the repainting of the school’s exterior walls, boards, and gates, and some minor repairs, disclosed Mr. Carpio. ”With this initiative comes our confidence that providing a conducive learning environment will inspire these students to study better,” he said.

Meanwhile, AP Renewables, Inc., Hedcor, Inc., Luzon Hydro Corporation, Subic Enerzone Corporation, and Therma Mobile, Inc. engaged its team

Robinsons Retail group plans IPO

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OBINSONS Retail Group, which operates supermarkets, hardware and department stores in the Philippines, plans to raise up to $924 million in an initial public offering in Manila, IFR reported on Wednesday, citing a filing for the deal.

The company plans to sell 461.9 million shares at a maximum price of P86.64 each, putting the total deal at P40 billion, said IFR,

panies posted higher profits in the first quarter as domestic demand fuelled better-than-expected 7.8% economic growth year-on-year, the fastest in Asia.

The listing is slated for the third quarter, IFR said.

Robinsons Land is part of the JG Summit conglomerate, which controls food group Universal Robina Corp. and budget airline operator Cebu Air, Inc. [Reuters ]

members in improving the condition of various school facilities across Albay, Batangas, Benguet, Ilocos Sur, Navotas, Subic, and Tarlac.

Food subsidiary, Pilmico was able to rally 50 and 20 team members from its feeds and flour groups, respectively.

City Savings Bank gathered the most number of employee volunteers, which totaled 420 to reach out to the bulk of school beneficiaries from April to June. Some 126 schools nationwide underwent minor repairs and repainting work

during the activity.

Adopted school beneficiaries in Visayas and Mindanao had a fair share of beautification and preparation as 650 employee volunteers from Mactan Enerzone Corporation, Metaphil, Visayan Electric Co., Cotabato Light & Power Co., Hedcor Sibulan and Tamugan, Davao Light and Power Co., and Therma Marine, Inc. worked on major repairs, construction of new classrooms, total refurbishment of facilities, and concreting of canal within the school vicinity to prevent flooding in the area.

Bosch aims to deliver high-level automotive service to Davaoeños

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or more than 80 years, leader in automotive technology Robert Bosch, Inc. has pioneered innovation to foster unparalleled product quality and performance. As a global provider of overall support for independent car service workshops, Bosch endeavors to push the industry forward with new partnerships and see an expanded network in the growing Davao business sector.

Aimed at reinforcing its commitment to the local automotive market, Bosch is set to extend automotive efficiency and reliability in Davao with key regional partner Pitstop Car Service

Workshop on June 22 at Victoria Plaza, Bajada, Davao City. Pitstop is set to deliver Bosch’s extensive product portfolio of premier car parts, workshop equipment and top-of-the-line repair services closer to Davao vehicle owners and motorists.

The one-day fete will offer the public a chance to experience first-class automotive services and to learn about Bosch parts and Bosch diagnostic test equipment.

Bosch will continue to strengthen and forge partnerships with key stakeholders in Visayas and Mindanao to drive superior automotive service in the country.

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VOL. 6 ISSUE 70 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, JUNE 21-22, 2013

Davao’s Palero to play th in 27 World Universiade S

HE looks meek as a kitten but a fighting tiger roars inside 20year old Mary Israel Palero who earned the rare distinction of carrying the Philippine colors in the 27th World Universiade in Kazan, Russian Federation.

The Holy Cross of Davao College senior business management student was handpicked by the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) in a letter addressed to her school on June 6, 2013 by FESSAP president David

Ong. “I was surprised to receive the letter informing me that I will be playing in the Universade in Russia. This is a great honor for me and I take this opportunity as a blessing,” Palero told members of the Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) at Calle Cinco Rest-Bar yesterday.

With an ELO rating of 1894, the former Philippine Youth Team member will be competing in the biennial event known popularly as World University Summer Games slated on July 6-17. The Universi-

ade is a multi-nation event open to college-based athletes aged 18-24.

Palero is currently training under the watchful eyes of coach Cecilo Acas although she admitted she had to shuffle her time from school to her internship at appliance firm Emcor and her training.

“I sleep less than eight hours now, I need to manage my time,” said Palero who will be joining Super Grandmaster Wesley So in the Russian joust. The national chess team will be coached by Ed Andaya.

Palero was actually a

second choice after the original pick Jodelyn Fronda of Dela Salle University begged off due to conflicts in schedule.

Despite being a late substitution, Palero hopes she will make a good showing in the Universiade. She was close to winning the national women’s title in 2010 and won a tournament in Indonesia which are among the asterisks on her portfolio.

James Infiesto, the regional director of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines, said Palero will surely gain experi-

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RUSSIA-BOUND. Mary Israel Palero of Holy Cross of Davao College will be seeing action in the 27th World Universiade in Kaza, Russian Federation. ence and knowledge in the tournament.

“That stint is already an achievement, plus there’s a bonus of playing in Russia were chess is a national pastime,” Infiesto said.

China, Mongolia, Ukraine and Georgia have dominated the chess competitions in the 2011 Universiade with the Chinese winning 6 medals.

Kazan was announced

as the host city for the 2013 Summer Universiade in Brussels on May 31, 2008. 20 out of 27 members of the FISU Executive Committee gave their votes to the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The 27th World University Summer Games in Kazan will be the first Universiade, and even more, the first high-profile multisport event in the history of modern Russia. (NJB)

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 11TH JUDICIAL REGION OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT-SHERIFF DAVAO CITY

NATIONAL HOME MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION (NHMFC) Mortgagee, -versus-

LITA A. PARAS

EJF-REM CASE NO. 14, 235-13 Mortgagor/s.

x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the above-mentioned mortgagee against LITA A. PARAS with postal address at Ciudad De Esperanza, Lot 37 Blk.23 Cabantian Davao City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of 11/29/2012 amounted to Php752,727.55, Philippine Currency, plus other legal expenses incident to foreclosure and sale; the undersigned Sheriff IV of Regional Trial Court, Davao City; the undersigned will sell at public auction on June 28, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland ,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit: Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-239758 “ A parcel of land xxx (Lot 37, Blk. 23xxx) situated in Barangay Cabantian; City of Davao, Island of Mindanao xxx. Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN (167) SQUARE METERS, more or less xxx.”

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

That in the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on July 26, 2013 without further notice.

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

Davao City, Philippines, May 14, 2013.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF:

Noted by:

(SGD.) NICOLAS L. SUMAPIG Sheriff IV

(SGD) ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR. Clerk of Court VI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff 6/14,21,28

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STYLE

Casual meets street:

Inspired by Hong Kong’s eclectic street fashion

By Aidx Paredes “THEIR fashion scene is definitely a few years ahead of Philippine fashion,” says a friend of mine whom I’ve had lunch with on the day before I flew to Hong Kong.

When I arrived, I decided to walk along the roads of Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, and Granville Road to look for fashion inspirations on the streets of a foreign country. It wasn’t long enough when I found myself amazed with how people dress up there. My friend’s statement was echoing inside my head as I was secretly taking pictures of fashionable strangers.

Mixing high end fashion pieces with casual sports wear, they cross the street in casual pieces mixed with sneakers.

Wearing snapbacks over long dresses or New Balance sneakers topped with peplum skirts and sheer blouses, and they even mix turbans with canvas bags!

Seeing worlds of high fashion and street wear being mixed was a bit astonishing. Though it is a reflection of how fashion can easily evolve over time, it is also a representation of how they are willing to take fashion risks.

Let me end this with a challenge for us fashion enthusiasts here in the Philippines. It may seem awkward at first, but why don’t we try to be risk takers? Let’s try to take our casual wear with a street wear spin.

Stand out from a crowd without being too intimidating.

Here’s a couple of ways on how to mix casual with street wear: For girls: Take your Sunday dress out on a Saturday! Borrow your boyfriend’s snapback, bring your little purse, and wear your favorite sneaks.

Don’t forget to add some cuffs for a little more attitude. Who says you can’t be sporty and girly at the same time?

For boys: It’s time to dress up a little more than the usual, you think? Take your simple jeans and shirt up a notch.

Grab your casual polo and button it all up, wear your colored pants and match it with your trainers! In case you can’t leave the house without your backpack, match it with a snapback.

Don’t worry, you won’t look like a One Directioner with this.

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UP AND ABOUT

Coffee Festival at SM Lanang Premier

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Tough Jeansmith SS’13 highlights ‘heroic chic’

INSPIRED by the concept of hero film, SS13 image photo is like the poster of the movie, TOUGH Jeansmith also launches a comiclike catalogue to present the SS13 colFROM June 21 to 23, coffee lovers are expected lection.

to get an enticing treat as SM Lanang Premier celAccentuating TOUGH ebrates its first ever Coffee Festival at the Atrium. Ladies is top-notch miliMall shoppers are invited to savor the different flavors and aromas of coffee and to witness various activities lined up for the Coffee Festival.

Catch various baristas contend for the 7th Philippine Grand Barista Cup 2013 on June 21, at 5pm. Listen to a discussion on your favorite brew on “Java Talks: Loving Coffee” on June 22, at 5 pm. Then enjoy a musical special, “Coffee Brews on Blues,” on June 22 and 23 at 4 pm.

Celebrate the brew that everybody loves! Don’t miss the Coffee Festival at the Atrium, SM Lanang Premier this coming Friday to Sunday.

For inquiries, call 285-0943 loc. 135-138. Like SM Lanang Premier on Facebook and follow @SMLanangPremier on Twitter for event and promo updates.

tary style with a sweet girlish touch, the SS13 collection goes with the theme of “Sweet Army” by juxtaposing Rock Chic, Punk Style and Folklore Touch. Cropped tees, colorful jeans, loose cutting, studs and foil print merge together to demonstrate a stylish Rock style. Light

Weekday specials at Friday’s Abreeza MAKE every Monday to Thursday a Friday with T.G.I.Friday’s Weekday Specials. For only P295 from Monday to Thursday, diners can take a pick from any of our new and discounted dishes.

Try our all new Chop House Chicken, Parmesan Crusted Chicken, and Buffalo Pasta. Also available for only P295 is our Shanghai Chicken Salad, Fish Veracruz, and our famous Jack Daniel’s Pork Chop. Even better, get a refillable glass of iced tea by adding P50 to your meal.

Visit Friday’s Abreeza now where everyday is a Friday.

purple, peach and reddish orange color with the funny print pattern, including cartoon print, portrait and skull, add a romantic touch.

Hippie elements such as ethnic print, tassel, chiffon, and feather prints are used to create the Folklore Forever style with yellow and orange color, creating a funny touch. In the element of Sweet Army, rouge, pink and yellow color combine with the military green color. The highlight part is adding feminine feel by using sheering and soft fabric with a laser cut collar for the military shirt.

Skinny jeans with patchwork embellishments and wrinkle effects are the highlights of TOUGH Ladies SS13 collection. In this season, TOUGH Ladies use sharp colors like orange, shocking pink and fuchsia for the buttons which brighten up the jeans. Embellishment is the keyword of jeans design, a fake waistband creates a visual illusion that one is wearing two jeans and is exceptionally eyecatching.

Tough Jeansmith is exclusively available at Bauhaus located at the second level of the Abreeza Mall besides Columbia.

on Thursdays. Revisit the flavors of home as we pay tribute to Pinoy Pride on Fridays with only the best of modern Filipino cuisine.

Add color to your lunch break and join us on a daily food trip to Asia, America, Europe and back for only P595.00 net person.

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DISCOVER GREAT FINDS AT THE SM STORE MEN’S SHOES SALE! Enjoy up to 50% Off on great selections from June 14-30. You also get a chance to win one of 3 Barkada Trips for 2 to Singapore F1 Grand Prix Race in September! Visit your closest SM Store today!

Park Inn by Radisson Davao takes you on a gastronomical tour to some of the globe’s most exciting destinations. Go around the world in 5 days with RBG’s new themed lunch buffet, perfect for busy professionals and urbanites on the go.

The lunch spread features the flavors of the orient on Mondays and shifts to allAmerican on Tuesdays. Trek through Italy on Wednesdays, and then the rest of the Mediterranean stretch

RBG is located at the ground level of Park Inn by Radisson Davao. For reservations, please call 272 7608.

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James Franco praises Man of Steel but slams Spider-Man reboot JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES James Franco has kindly provided us with another movie review. His latest victim? Man of Steel.

But instead of critiquing the new Superman flick, the Spring Breakers star, in a new piece for Vice, slams the The Amazing Spider-Man not for its cinematography or acting quality, but because he believes the reboot was made too quickly “even before there was time to bury the corpse of the old one.”

And here we thought he was focusing on his Indiegogo campaign.

Franco begins by reminding us that he, too, acted in a comic-book film, the SpiderMan trilogy directed by Sam Raimi, and says young children still approach him as “fans of the original.”

“I don’t really feel much distress over its being remade, for many reasons,” Franco writes. “But what is in-

teresting to me is that it has been remade so quickly— and the reasons why. The answer is, of course, money.”

He continues, “We are in the film business, and the studios are owned by large corporations who want to make money. And in this art form, where so much is spent and so much profit can be made, one criterion for success is inevitably the financial. And when movies become so big that they can make $200 million in one weekend like The Avengers did, everyone

from studios to filmmakers are going to want to get in on making comic-book movies.”

After slamming the Spider-Man remake, Franco praises Man of Steel which he calls “a great film.”

“One of the main reasons I liked it was because in this film, Superman’s S symbol stands for ‘hope’ on the planet Krypton,” he writes.

He also comments on star Henry Cavill’s obsession with Superman after the pair worked together on Tristan and Isolde.

“What Henry took seriously back then was Superman. He wanted to be Superman more than anything in the world...The night of the premiere I saw Henry from afar on the red carpet and knew this was the moment his whole life had been building toward. His dream had come true, and I was happy for him,” he recalls.

Whatever you say, James.

JUNE 19, 2013

NOW

SHOWING

11:30 2:40 5:50 9:00

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11:30 2:30 5:30 8:30

MAN OF STEEL

MAN OF STEEL (PG-13)

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MAN OF STEEL (PG-13)

6:40 9:00 DANCE OF THE STEELBARS

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GAMBIT (PG-13)

12:00 3:00 6:00 9:00

MAN OF STEEL 3D (PG-13)

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Paris Jackson testifies in MJ trial via pretaped video deposition A healthy-looking Paris Jackson spoke out at Michael Jackson’s wrongful-death trial Tuesday in Los Angeles—via a video testimony shot months before the 15-year-old would be hospitalized for an alleged suicide attempt.

In a deposition recorded on March 21, the late King of Pop’s daughter—who is currently recovering at a Los Angeles hospital—testified about former nanny Grace Rwaramba as legal eagles sought to shed light on her relationship with the singer’s children and the circumstances behind her sub-

sequent firing.

Per CNN, the deposition was an attempt by AEG’s lawyers to counter testimony by former Jackson personal chef Kai Chase, who depicted Rwaramba as a nurturing figure to the children and claimed she “was the mother they knew.”

Justin Bieber, step aside: Rihanna’s No. 1 YouTuber now!

JUSTIN Bieber’s reigning era of YouTube has come to an end.

Early Tuesday morning, Rihanna edged out the Biebs as the most viewed artist on YouTube, per Billboard.

Rihanna’s 77 videos on her VEVO channel now have a combined total of 3.784 billion views, roughly 2 million more combined views than the 79 clips on Justin’s VEVO channel.

To be fair, Rihanna does have 8.73 million subscribers, while Justin has 3.7 million. Unsurprisingly, Beliebers are highly engaged, on average, where Rihanna’s Navy seem to be less active but more abundant and widespread.

Rihanna also outranks the Biebs on Facebook by around 18 million fans. Not to worry, though: The “Believe” singer is the king of Twitter. In January, he finally surpassed Lady Gaga to become the most followed person on the social net-

working site. As of Wednesday morning, J.B. has over 40.6 Twitter followers, Gaga checks in with 38.3 million and Rihanna has around 30 million.

Let’s not get too competitive though. They’re all social media superstars!

MAN OF STEEL 2D Henry Cavill, Amy Adams PG 13

1:45 | 4:30 | 7:15 | 10:00 LFS

WORLD WAR Z 3D Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos PG 13

12:00 | 2:30 | 5:00 | 7:30 | 10:00 LFS

WORLD WAR Z 2D Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos GP

12:40 | 3:00 | 5:20 | 7:40 | 10:00 LFS

R-16 MAN OF STEEL 2D Henry Cavill, Amy Adams PG 13

12:30 | 3:15 | 6:00 | | 8:45 LFS

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VOL. 6 ISSUE 70 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, JUNE 21-22, 2013

Going gaga over M&S

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DMIT it! We are addicted to British pop culture. Their dry humour, their quirky eccentricities, their boy bands, their fashion sense, the Royals and Beckham, these are essentially the stuff from the British Isles that we love and go gaga about.

And just last July 14, the British invasion was in full swing as Marks & Spencer opened their biggest store in Davao to date. Trading across 1,515 square meters, at the ground floor of SM Lanang Premier, the new M&S store features a completely new in-store format (the first in the Philippines I might add) that provides shoppers with a new shopping experience.

Present for the party of course were Anthony Tantoco Huang, the Executive Vice President of Stores Specialists Inc. along with Dino Pineda, Dir.-Rustan Commercial Corp; Lucille Tolentino-Merchandising Div. Man., M&S; and Catherine Huang-Asst.

Dino Pineda, Dir.-Rustan Commercial Corp; Lucille TolentinoMerchandising Div. Man., M&S; Catherine Huang-Asst. GM, Specialty Office Concepts, Inc.; Anton Huang- EVP, Rustans Marketing Specialists, Inc. GM, Specialty Office Concepts, Inc. Dabawenyos also came in full force with cash and cards in tow, eager to experience M&S Lanang’s exciting new take on fashion and food displays which they did after a quick store unveiling graced by M&S’ Guests of Honor, Cong.

Karlo Nograles and DOT

Rustans Marketing Specialists, Inc.’s Exec. Sec. to the GM, Met Sassak; Human Resources Manager, Eve Caluag; Operations Manager, Lisa Yao-Yap.

XI Dir. Arturo Boncato.

And as the crowds raided the racks and the store’s much bigger food section, the lines leading towards the cashier show how we love to go gaga over M&S. Follow me on Twitter or on Instagram @kennethkingong for more happenings in, around and about Durianburg

Marijac Pamintuan & DOT XI Dir. Art Boncato.

Itang Laxa, Sylvia Garcia & Baby Garcia.

Jinggoy Salvador & Anton Huang.

Anavi Ramos, Golda Divinagracia, Debbie Hao & Otoy Mercado.

Joji Ilagan-Bian.

M&S’ Lucille Tolentino with M&S’ Guests of Honor, Cong.

Bing Taojo, Vivian Galang, Joy Gallenero, Brenda Karlo Nograles with wife Marga & DOT XI Dir. Arturo Cabang & Jeannie-Pie Garcia.

Boncato.

Karen Alabado & Rochelle del Rosario.

M&S Merchandising, Marketing & Creative TeamMalouchi Gahol, Chiqui Recto, Martha Flores, Maita Mendoza, Johndale Tenorio, Christina Asperilla & Patty del Rosario.

Afe Garcia & me.

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RAY OF HOPE. Ray Allen celebrates after his historic three. Will he come up big again in Game 7?

GAME 7 FINALS PREVIEW

FAST FACTS: finals Game 7s, Home teams are 14-3 in ce Washington g sin with no road team winnin 8 197 in ttle Sea at be nt the distance The last five finals that we all went to the home team. in the finals. They The Spurs have never lost mpionship, but cha 5 200 won a Game 7 for the s at home. that victory over Detroit wa the NBA’s first The Heat could become ers in 2010 Lak the ce repeat champions sin

NEXT SPORTS CHIEF?

Infiesto: I’m ready E

VERYONE knows when James Infiesto weaves his magic, he mesmerizes the crowd. But will the deputy sports development office head weave the same magical effect if picked to head the sports office under the administration of mayor-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte?

The 43-year old Infiesto said” “I am ready if called to the duty.”

That bold and straightforward declaration was Infiesto’s answer to the

INFIESTO. Showing off his Asian officiating ID.

reports his name is being floated as among the candidates to head the sports development office of the city. Acting CSDO chief Pocholo Elegino, a nominee of former Philippine Sports Commission chairman William “Butch” Ramirez, is the city’s sports manager during the term of Mayor Sara Duterte who will bow out of office on June 30.

“Despite our personal differences, I know he did a good job,” said Infiesto whose misunderstanding with Elegino is known among sports circles.

“I rate him 7 or 8,” he added when asked to give his rating to Elegino.

Incoming mayor Rodrigo Duterte is reportedly shopping around for personalities to form part of his executive office team, including the sports office.

Last January, he asked members of the Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) on their opinion of the performance of Elegino.

Some members of the DSA openly gave the thumbs down on Elegino who is not expected to return to office.

Duterte is also soliciting from the DSA to nominate the next sports chief.

No formal stand has been given by the 18-year old sportswriting organization.

Another local sports media organization is reportedly pushing a member of their association to the office.

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IAMI (AP) -- Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.

No matter what happens Thursday night, LeBron James and the Miami Heat, and Tim Duncan’s San Antonio Spurs have already won NBA titles and secured a place in history.

Now is their opportunity to elevate it.

The truly memorable teams won the hard way, and that will be the case for the one celebrating at center court this time. It’s either a Heat repeat, possible only after James led them back from what seemed certain elimination in the closing seconds of Game 6, or the Spurs shaking off as gut-wrenching a loss as a team can have to become just the fourth club to win a Game 7 of the NBA Finals on the road. ‘’As a competitor you love it, because you know you have an opportunity and it’s up to you,’’ Heat guard Ray Allen said. ‘’We have a chance in our build-

ing to make something great. All of our legacies are tied to this moment, this game. It’s something our kids will be able to talk about that they were a part of. Forever will remember these moments, so we want to not live and have any regrets.’’

Allen played in the game the last time the NBA’s season went down to the very last day, the Boston Celtics fading at the finish and falling 83-79 to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010. That made home teams 14-3 in finals Game 7s, with no road team winning since Washington beat Seattle in 1978.

Overcoming those odds, not to mention the NBA’s winningest team, would make this more memorable than the Spurs’ previous four titles, though this is a franchise that never dwells too much on the past or looks too far into the future.

All that matters is now. ‘’You know what, it’s all about just winning the title. It’s not about situ-

ation or what has led up to it,’’ Duncan said. ‘’It’s a great story for everybody else, but we’re here for one reason, one reason only: It’s to try to win this game (Thursday). We have had a very good season thus far, and I think we just want to get to the game more than anything. We just want to see what happens and be able to leave everything out there.’’

The teams trudged back to the arena Wednesday, some 12 hours after the Heat pulled out a 103-100 overtime victory in Game 6 to even the series. The Spurs, five points ahead with 28 seconds left in regulation, had to fight off fatigue and heartbreak, insisting neither would linger into Thursday.

By far the best game of this series, Game 6 immediately took its place among the best finishes in finals history, with everything from James’ triple-double to Allen’s tying 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in regulation.

BONG GO, executive assistant of Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte: Heat in Game 7. Actually Miami got the championship as early as Game 6, ast 5.2 seconds on Allen’s heroics. Momentum shifted to Miami.

CHO LEONOR, businessman-golfer: SPURS!!! More balanced team…but I believe it won’t matter in Game 7 since both teams know each other’s move and counter attacks. It all boils down to who makes the extra push, who gets the breaks and of course, who wants the championship more.

ASTRID VISLENIO, PR Suzuki Philippines: SPURS

JASON MAGNAYE, City Tourism Officer: Spurs all the way! Tomorrow will be the day when Tim and his team trample the Heat in their own home.

CHARITO GEVERA, Pharmacist: Spurs. Great players.

RAQUEL K. MARTINEZ, Nurse, Florida resident: HEAT...even greater players..

Plus I live here in Lakeland,Florida..!!

ATTY. JULIUS ESPINA, Clerk of Court: Heat. The momentum is there, likewise the intensity. It’s gonna be the Heat!

AL MENDOZA, sports columnist: Heat in Game 7!

Momentum is with them after their improbable escape act in Game 6. Spurs need tons of fightback to pull off a stunner.

CHITO U MALABANAN, engineer, OFW: Spurs...the team is rock solid, on court and off court, each one have their own roles and they know their boundaries unlike the other team. This year’s version of Spurs is the best compared to the previous champion teams.

JEK MELENDRES, executive assistant, DASIA: Coach Spo’s Miami will be heavily favored to win. Miami will win in a blowout but I will pick the Spurs in a tight game.

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GAME 7 FINALS PREVIEW WITH YOU ALL THE WAY. Coach Greg Popovich tucks Tim Duncan during a break in practice on Thursday ahead of Game 7 of the NBA Finals in Miami.

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STAND BY ME M IAMI – They brought out a big yellow rope and a small army of security guards to ring the court. There was a NBA title to be won. Perhaps. The San Antonio Spurs held a three-point lead with just 19.4 seconds remaining. Thousands of Miami Heat fans already fled into the night.

It was right there for the Spurs, who’d come here to eliminate the Heat, and that’s when Gregg Popovich made a substitution.

In went Boris Diaw, 6-foot8 and somewhat athletic. Out came Tim Duncan, 6-11 and 37 years old, but perhaps the greatest power forward of them all and certainly the greatest Spur. He owned 30 points and 16 rebounds at that moment. He was shown the bench anyway.

The Spurs like to switch off picks in those moments, like to be fluid and versatile, and Gregg Popovich is not a man prone to variation or sentimentality. So for the final two Miami possessions of the fourth quarter, Duncan was out.

Seconds later, a LeBron James shot bounced off the rim and high in the air. There were gasps from the crowd.

Everything was floating in the balance when Chris Bosh, who Duncan had owned all night, leaped, grabbed the ball and kicked it to Ray Allen.

San Antonio could’ve tried to foul in an instant, giving Allen two free throws rather than the 3-pointer that forced overtime and will go down in Finals lore. But Popovich has an answer to that foul rather than defend strategy.

“We don’t,” the coach said.

Later in overtime, the Spurs trailed by one with 8.8 seconds left. Kawhi Leonard grabbed a rebound. San Antonio had a timeout in the bag and now the ball with a shot at everything. One basket and they’re champions.

Popovich decided to let them play, rather than get Tony Parker, by far his most dynamic playmaker, into the game.

No set play was called, leaving a struggling Manu Ginobili, who had seven turnovers at that point, to drive hard into traffic, essentially hoping to hit a circus shot or get bailed out by a foul. Neither happened. Miami got the ball. Allen iced it on the line.

A desperation shot by Danny Green was blocked.

Final score: Heat 103100. Game 7 is Thursday.

“Obviously,” Duncan said, “disappointing.”

“So, it’s terrible,” Ginobili said.

This was basketball at its finest, back and forth, ups and downs, heroes and goats, a thriller for the ages. Miami came up off the canvas to erase a 13-point second-half deficit and claw its way to another day to fight.

The game is won and the game is lost in a million small battles, but in the end the decisions by Popovich remained glaring and open to question. No Duncan when a rebound could clinch it? No Parker when a basket was needed? These are Hall of Famers.

And this is the essence of Gregg Popovich. This is what won the Spurs those four NBA titles, what’s made him the NBA’s finest active coach.

Everything is considered beforehand and nothing shifts with the emotion of the minute, even the final minute of the Finals.

The Spurs don’t foul, they defend. The Spurs switch on final possessions. The Spurs believe in playing on in transition.