By Jade C. Zaldivar

A Philippine Army lieutenant was killed, while three other soldiers where wounded when a landmine

planted near a church and a school exploded in a barangay in New Bataan, Compostela Valley (Comval) Province last Friday night.

Killed was Lt. Rodel Daguio who died while undergoing treatment in a hospi-tal . Those wounded were Private First Class Richie Ursal of 4th Scout Ranger Company, Staff Sergeant Arnold Pacino, and Corporal Jaime Clara of 1001st In-fantry Brigade.

Daguio’s remains now lie in state at

the Villa Funeral Homes in Panabo City.Ursal was transferred to the Davao

Regional Hospital in Tagum City for fur-ther treatment, while Pacino and Clara are receiving treatment at Montevista District Hospital.

The incident occurred at around 11

By Lorie A. Cascaro

VICE President Jejomar C. Binay urged mining industry stakeholders to en-sure that impacts of mining on envi-

ronment will be managed by applying all necessary measures and technology pos-sible, aside from undertaking massive reha-

bilitation programs. “We cannot forever look at these riches

as taboo and refuse to touch them, but nei-ther can we be wasteful and careless in its consumption,” Binay said last Friday in a speech at the Philippine Society of Mining Engineers’ 2nd Mining Convention in Davao City.

He said it is everyone’s duty to use the earth’s resources wisely and prudently for the benefit of all.

Binay, along with President Benigno Aquino III, believes that a multipartite ap-proach can find sustainable and environmen-tally-sound mining principles that will help

Binay to miners: ‘Manage impact on environment’

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ALL THAT REMAINS. A mother and her children watch over their remaining belongings including an icon of Sto. Niño after a fire razed their house in Barangay Leon Garcia Sr., Davao City, Saturday afternoon. More than 15 houses were damaged by the fire. [KARLOS MANLUPIG]

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By Lorie A. Cascaro

HUMAN settlements within the Davao River watershed

have triggered social, po-litical and environmental issues concerning the river basin, a government forest-er said in an interview.

Forester Alfredo B. Zarasate, chief of the forest resource development divi-sion of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 11, said upland migration of people has resulted in inappropri-ate land-use practices.

He said settlers within the watershed planted crops on mountain slopes making the land suscep-tible to erosion which causes loss of soil fertility and flashfloods destructive to humans residing both in the hinterlands and the lowlands.

“With no fertility, pro-duction of crops will conse-quently be reduced which would result in the loss of livelihood among farmers,”

he said, adding that envi-ronmental issues would create economic and social problems.

However, he said it is never too late to save the Davao River basin.

He said saving the river basin also means people can still feed themselves with aquatic resources both from the rivers and the sea.

The key problems of the watershed identified by the DENR 11 include river pollution; health impacts by pesticide use and lack of force in the imposition of existing laws; riverbank erosion, soil erosion, flood-ing; and, water drainage and surface run-off.

Zarasate said in his pre-sentation that water pol-lution can be attributed to poor methods and unregu-lated use of pesticides and fertilizers.

Aside from inappropri-ate land use, other major is-sues and concerns he cited were unregulated banana and pineapple expansion; inadequate monitoring of

industrial and commercial premises and activities; and, poor maintenance of septic tanks and absence of a sewerage system.

Right now, he said rivers already contain high con-centrations of sediments indicative of severe soil ero-sion caused by denudation and improper cultivation of the upland areas.

He said watersheds are the foundation for many health-related ecosystem services, such as water pu-rification, water storage, flood protection, food pro-vision, recreational oppor-tunities, income opportuni-ties and cultural values.

Considered to be sev-enth among the largest river basins in the country, the Davao River is also the city’s largest principal wa-tershed as it serves as the main natural reservoir of the city’s aquifer.

It is also susceptible to various and complex hu-man-made interventions that bring about negative

THE teacher short-age in Region 12’s 396 public high

schools has increased to 2,657 as the total enroll-ment in the area was seen to hit nearly 240,000 by the end of the month.

Herlita Caraan, Na-tional Statistical Coor-dination Board (NSCB) Region 12 chief, said data released by DepEd Region 12 showed that the area’s high school population for school year 2012-2013 was projected to grow by two percent or reach a to-tal of 239,058 students.

Enrollment in public schools in the region will continue until the end of June as set by DepEd.

Region 12 covers the provinces of South Co-tabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cota-bato and the cities of Gen-eral Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotabato.

Caraan said that based on DepEd 12’s projec-tions, the teacher require-ment in the region’s sec-ondary schools this year has increased to 8,849 from last year’s 8,680.

DepEd 12 presently has 6,534 regular high school teachers, increas-ing by 214 from last year’s 6,320, she said.

In school year 2011-2012, the official said the region’s teacher short-fall reached 2,360 based on its total enrollment of 234,371.

“(DepEd 12) needs to hire an additional 2,657 teachers (this year) to better serve its nearly 240,000 students,” Cara-an cited in a fact sheet is-sued by NSCB-12.

Among Region 12’s five cities, she said such shortage was “most evi-dent in General Santos City, which needs an addi-tional 440 teachers.”

“All four provinces in the region have severe shortage of teachers but it’s most acute in Cota-bato Province at 765,” the official said.

Caraan pointed out that the current teacher shortage was based on the standard ratio of 45 students per teacher and 5:3 teacher-class ratio as provided for by DepEd Order No. 77-2010 or the

“guidelines on the alloca-tion/deployment of new teaching, teaching-related and non-teaching posi-tions.”

The DepEd order not-ed that the 5:3 teacher-class ratio “means five (5) teachers to handle three (3) classes or a require-ment of 1.67 teachers for every organized class.”

“Overall, all provinces and cities in the region satisfied the standard teacher-student ratio of 1:45. However, the situ-ation at the school level particularly for large na-tional high schools re-flected otherwise. Of the 396 public secondary schools in the region, 182 schools have teacher–stu-dent ratio of more than 40 students per teacher,” Caraan said.

She said 64 schools in Cotabato Province have teacher-student ratios of over 40 students while Sarangani has 46 schools.

Caraan said they ex-pect the teacher shortage in the region to worsen with the implementa-tion starting this year of

THE BIG NEWS2 EDGEDAVAO

By Jade C. Zaldivar

THE Davao City Chamber of Com-merce and Industry,

Inc. (DCCCII) is support-ing the proposal to re-quire business establish-ments employing 10 or more people to have their workers undergo random drug testing as it will im-prove the city’s image as an investment location.

“This is a positive change for the investment sector since it will ensure that employees are free of prohibitive and narcotic drug use,” DCCCII presi-dent Ma. Lourdes Monte-verde said the other day.

Monteverde said that employees who are not abusing prohibited drugs are expected to be more productive.

“This is a positive im-age for Davao, not only as a top investment haven in the country, but also au-gurs well for its long-held reputation as the most livable city in the Philip-pines,” she added.

City Councilor Melchor Quitain along with the Davao City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CA-DAC) heded byu lawyer Eliseo “Boy” Braganza, are currently lobbying for the passage of an or-dinance requiring estab-

lishments with more than 10 employees to conduct random drug testing among them.

Once such an ordi-nance is approved, proof of having conducted ran-dom drug testing on their workers will be part of the requirements in ap-proving application for li-cense or renewal of busi-ness permits.

CADAC action officer Braganza said it is the responsibility of the local government to create a “sweeping action” to stop the proliferation of drugs.

“Which do you prefer, a clean city or a city op-

Davao Chamber backs random drug testing

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LAND USE PLAN. ARMM OIC Governer Mujiv Hataman and Vice-President Jejomar Binay on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the strengthening

of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan in the region to address the problem of housing shortage.[KARLOS MAN-LUPIG]

Teacher shortage in R-12 high schools almost 3000

DENR 11 hits settlements in Davao River watershed

INSTEAD of tapping pri-vate investors to venture into housing projects, the

Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-ibig) is extending financial assistance to lo-cal government units (LGU) to act as developers them-selves, a local government officer said last Friday.

Noli Armada, manager of Pagi-ibig Kidapawan City branch, on the sideline of the signing of thr Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Royal Mandaya Hotel here between Pag-ibig and three LGUs to avail of devel-

opment loans, told reporters that through housing loans shortage of housing will be addressed in the area.

“The LGU itself (will be the developer) kasi alam mo naman sa ating banda wala masyadong private develop-er na mag venture kasi ma-layo,” he said, adding that the peace and order situation in areas covered by his branch is a factor.

Local governments unit (LGU) of the cities of Kidapawan and Tagum, and province of Davao del Sur entered into an MOU with

Pag-ibig for housing proj-ects.

The LGU of Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, represented by Mayor Joel Ray L. Lopez, will avail of Pag-ibig’s end user financing program.

Kidapawan City govern-ment led by Mayor Rodolfo Y. Gantuangco will develop a total of 2.4 hectares in Barangay Magsaysay to pro-duce 135 housing lots.

Mayor Ramon A. Piang, Sr. of North UPI, Maguin-danao province, also signed a MOU for the development of 1.5 hectares with 62 hous-

ing lots in Brgy. Pob Nuro while Mayor Emilio F. Sala-manca will also develop 1.5 hectares with 73 lots in Brgy. Tuato.

The MOU for Tagum City was signed by Josephine I. Fadul, division superinten-dent of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Pana-bo, and by David Liban, head of disaster response to de-velop 10.39 hectares to pro-duce 286 housing lots but with only 143 lots allotted for habitat and DepEd.

“Later we will be ex-ecuting the MOA if there’s

amount involved, the amount depending on the phase, with the maximum loan per phase at P20 mil-lion,” Armada said.

Emma Linda B. Faria, deputy chief executive of-ficer of Pag-ibig, said, “The housing projects certainly increase our membership for the savings, which is the main source of funds for housing, and at the same time provid-ing homes for our members.”

She added that that they are hoping that from the vari-ous MOUs that were signed between Pag-ibig and LGUs,

there will be 3,000 new members generated.

Further, Armada men-tioned that most of the LGUs under his branch are will-ing to avail of this program, although one of the require-ments is that they must have the approved land use plan under their jurisdiction.

“And that is the require-ment also if you are extend-ing financial assistance to a group or LGUs. Pag-ibig will only enter into an agreement wirh an LGU if the property falls within the residential area,” he added.[LORIE A. CASCARO]

Pag-ibig taps LGUs to develop housing projects

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THE Department of Sci-ence and Technology (DOST) 11 is helping

small and medium enter-prises (SME) through tech-nological interventions to enhance their competitive-ness.

Speaking at the work-shop for local vehicle assem-blers and manufacturers last Thursday at the Grand Regal Hotel, Elsie Mae A. Solidum, DOST 11 assistant regional director, discussed the programs and services of her department to SMEs.

She cited the technol-ogy upgrading program, which includes provision of technology; conduct of tech-nology needs assessment; and technology matching, transfer and commercial-ization.

The S&T department provides technology train-ing to address human resource capability to im-prove their productivity.

It also has a technology consultancy and advisory services to ensure success-ful adoption of technology and improve levels of pro-ductivity.

Under consultancy, the services include manufac-turing productivity expan-sion program to increase productivity by 20% to 30%.

Consultancy for cleaner production technology is being offered to provide assistance on waste mini-mization.

This employs preven-tive environmental pollu-tion strategy in improving public health and enhanc-ing profitability of SMEs.

DOST 11 also offers en-ergy audit, and it has a S&T experts volunteer pool pro-gram to move experts all over the country; and move experts globally through its “balik scientist” program. [LORIE A. CASCARO]

THE University of Southeast-ern Philippines

(USeP), a state univer-sity in Davao City, is one of the top 300 Asian universities as rated by education and career network Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). For the second year in a row, USeP joins the roster of top Asian universities. In 2011, the University made it to the top 201+ ranking, still rated by QS.

In the recent QS rank-ings (overall in 2012) released on its official website, USeP is one of the Asian universities that occupied the 251-300 bracket. Also for

the second time, USeP ranks fifth among the Philippine universities that made it to the list. The top four (4) slots were still occupied by University of the Philip-pines; Ateneo de Manila University; De La Salle University; and Univer-sity of Santo Tomas.

“Staying on the list of Asia’s top universi-ties for two consecu-tive years is a big ac-complishment for the University let alone the number of higher edu-cational institutions in Asia”, President Perfecto A. Alibin said in an in-

terview. The University President underscored that the USeP admin-istrators, faculty, staff, and students hail this achievement.

“In the Philippines alone, there are already more than 2,000 uni-versities and colleges. It is also noteworthy that USeP is the only state university (outside of the UP system) and the only school from Mind-anao that made it to the top five (5) best schools in the country per QS ranking score”, Alibin added.

QS said on its website that “the QS Asian Rank-ings identify excellence in higher education in

the most dynamic and fast-growing region of the planet”. The ranking is based on the follow-ing criteria: academic reputation; employer reputation; faculty/stu-dent ratio; papers per faculty; citations per pa-per; international facul-ty review; international student review; student exchange inbound; and, student exchange out-bound.

QS is the world’s leading network for top careers and education. It launched the World University Rankings in 2004, and the Asian University Rankings in 2009. (MCPAGKALIWAGAN, USEP

PIO)

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THE BIG NEWS

By Lorie A. Cascaro

THE government is pushing for the formulation and

revision of the Compre-hensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of all municipali-ties in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mind-anao (ARMM) to address housing shortage.

To fast track this, the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) will provide ARMM with technical as-sistance on the CLUP Clus-ter Planning Program.

Last Friday, Vice Presi-dent Jejomar C. Binay, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), led the sign-ing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) be-tween the HLURB and ARMM at the Royal Man-daya Hotel, Davao City.

He also signed the Memorandum of Under-standing with ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman witnessed by ARMM local government officials, say-ing that it is a “signal of their mutual commitment to pursue real urban de-velopment.”

In a brief address, the Vice President expressed confidence that the hous-ing shortage in the ARMM will be addressed through the CLUP.

He said through the MOA, the HLURB commits to assist the local govern-ments in ARMM to come up with their CLUPs and zoning ordinances.

“This is why we are here today. We are ex-tending our hand to help the LGUs of ARMM assess their needs opposite their resources, strategically

plan for their communi-ties, prioritize projects and turn these into in-vestment opportunities,” he said.

The CLUP is the result of a structured decision-making process on how land is used in a local gov-ernment unit (LGU), and is used as the primary and dominant bases for the future use of land re-sources and reclassifica-tion of agricultural lands.

Thanking the Vice President for the timeli-ness of the MOU and MOA as they are aligned with the ARMM’s reform agen-da, Hataman said they will work hard that by 2013 all their municipali-ties will have CLUPs.

Binay mentioned that only 49 of 118 munici-palities of ARMM or 42% have CLUPs and zoning ordinances, and these are due for updating as CLUPs should be revised after every ten years.

“Umaasa akong ang araw na ito ang simula ng mas malapit na samahan ng ARMM at ng mga ahen-siyang pabahay ng pama-halaan,” he said, adding that the HLURB is tapping all of its regional field of-fices to support its CLUP zero backlog program.

He thanked Hataman for giving the national government the opportu-nity to orient the ARMM LGUs on the different programs and housing services of the key shelter agencies.

Also at the event, 97 Transfer of Certificate of Titles (TCTs) were dis-tributed to beneficiaries of the Social Housing Finance Corporation’s (SHFC) Community Mort-gage Program (CMP).

HLURB supportsARMM’s CLUPs

LIMSO HOPITAL TURNS 31. Prominent Davao business-man Samuel C. Uy, president of Ricardo Limso Medical Center, center; Carlos C. Tenedero, Unilab (United Labo-ratories, Inc.) geographic business unit head for Mind-anao, left; and Dr. Thomas Marquez-Lim watch as a priest officiates at the blessing of the newly renovated outpatient pharmacy of RLMC on Friday on Ilustre St., Davao City. Unilab is piloting in RLMC its countrywide outpatient pharmacy program designed to improve the services and financial viability of pharmacies run by hospitals. RLMC, now owned by Sammy Uy, Jose Saavedra and other Davao-based investors, is the first to pilot the program in Mindanao. [LEAN DAVAL, JR.]

By Lorie A. Cascaro

THE Philippine Health Insurance Corpora-tion (Philhealth) has

deputized six local govern-ment units (LGU) as collect-ing bodies in the absence of local offices, following the signing of memorandum of agreements last week.

The six LGUs are Bansa-lan, Sta. Cruz and Sulop in Davao del Sur; Banaybanay and Lupon in Davao Orien-tal, and Mawab in Compos-tela Valley.

Officials from the LGUs were given an orienta-tion on updates on the Philhealth new premium contributions last Friday

at The Marco Polo Davao, Davao City.

Philhealth informed them about the LGU-spon-sored one year renewal, which is up to December 31, 2013 or exact end date, and two-year renewals up to December 31, 2013.

Under LGU-sponsored one year renewal, all re-newals done on or before June 30, 2012 for the year 2012 are subject to the P1,200 annual premium. With the three-month ex-tension, the actual premi-um for 2012 is P900.

The premium for re-newal in 2013 shall be P2,400; and the actual pre-mium for two years (2012-

2013) is P3,300.Under LGU-sponsored

two-year renewals, all re-newals done on or before June 30, 2012 and locked-in for two years retain the P1,200 annual premium for two years (January 2012 to December 2013).

Additional three months extension at no cost to the LGU once mem-bers are locked-in for two years (April-June 2012).

Payments can be made through installment during the two-year period, with actual premium of P1,800 for two years (P600 for 2012 and P1,200 for 2013).

The implementation of the new premium contri-

butions and requirement of policy for the Individual Paying Program (IPP) are stated in the Philhealth Cir-cular No. 20 series of 2012.

Effective in July this year, the new premium contributions will cover enrolled and to-be-en-rolled under the IPP.

One will sign an In-dividual Policy Contract (IPC) with a Philhealth for a lock-in period of two years.

He or she should pay in advance the first premium requirement of P1,200 with the balance to be set-tled on a quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis as agreed in the IPC.

Philhealth deputizes 6 LGUs

USeP is one of top 5 PHL universitiesDOST 11 provides tech aid for SMEs

VOL.5 ISSUE 75 • JUNE 17 - 18, 20124 EDGEDAVAOSCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

AUSTRALIA will create the largest network of ma-

rine parks in the world, protecting waters cover-ing an area as large as India while banning oil and gas exploration and limiting commercial fishing in some of the most sensitive areas.

Australia’s marine re-serves will increase from 27 to 60 under the new scheme, covering more than 3 million sq km, or one third of the island na-tion’s waters.

The announcement of the network was made a week before more than 130 heads of state and govern-ment will gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations’ sustainable de-velopment conference as part of global efforts to curb climate change, one of the biggest conferences in U.N. history.

New reserves will be established from the Perth Canyon in the southwest to Kangaroo Island off the southern coast, but the “jewel in the crown” will be the protection of the Coral Sea area which surrounds the Great Barrier Reef in the northeast, Environ-ment Minister Tony Burke said on Thursday.

“The Coral Sea marine national park ... combined with the Great Barrier Reef area, becomes the largest marine protected area in the world,” Burke said.

The protection plan will ban oil and gas explora-

tion in all marine national parks, including across the Coral Sea and off Marga-ret River, a popular tourist and wine-growing area in the southwest.

Burke acknowledged the plan would also have an impact on thefishing industry. The plan attract-ed immediate criticism from some environmental groups, as well as indepen-dent and opposition politi-cians and lobby groups.

“This is devastating and those that will suffer most will be coastal communi-ties,” Dean Logan, chief executive of the Australian Marine Alliance, which represents commercial and recreational fishers, told Australian television.

Burke said the govern-ment would talk to the fish-ing industry about com-pensation during a 60-day consultation period.

“NOT FAR ENOUGH”A lawmaker from the

minority Greens party said the government had been bowing to oil and gasin-terests in drawing up the boundaries for non-exploration areas.

“The boundaries the minister has deter-mined have been very strongly determined on oil and gas prospectiv-ity, and clearly deter-mined by lobbying from the oil and gas sector,” Rachel Siewert, the Greens’ marine spokes-woman, told reporters.

Conservative oppo-sition leader Tony Ab-

bott said the plan would “damage the rights of commercial fishers and commercial tourist op-erators”.

Wildlife and envi-ronmental groups also said the steps did not go far enough to protect marine mammals from the impact of oil and gas exploration in many areas.

“Offshore petroleum exploration hasn’t been addressed properly by this process,” said Matthew Collis, a cam-paigner for the Interna-tional Fund for Animal Welfare.

“This is bad news for whales and dolphins be-cause many of the areas where industry operates or wants to operate are also important habi-tats for whales and dol-phins,” he said.

Earlier this month, a United Nations report said Australia’s world-famous Great Barrier Reef was under threat from industrial devel-opment and may be considered for listing as a world heritage site ““in danger” within the next year.

Last week, Australia delayed environmen-tal approval for a A$10 billion coal project pro-posed by India’s GVK Power & Infrastructure in Queensland state that would increase shipping traffic through the Great Barrier Reef.

Australia creates world’s biggest marine park, bans exploration

A tourist swims on the Great Barrier Reef in this undated file picture. [REUTERS]

UNESCO on Saturday urged decisive ac-tion from Australia

to protect the Great Barrier Reef from a gas and mining boom, warning it risked be-ing put on its list of world heritage sites deemed “in danger”.

Australia is riding an unprecedented wave of resources investment due to booming demand from Asia, with projects worth Aus$450 billion (US$435 billion) in the pipeline.

The world’s largest coral reef is not yet at suf-ficient risk to be declared in danger but UNESCO said the sheer number and scale of proposals including liq-uefied natural gas (LNG), tourism and mining proj-ects could threaten it.

Declining water quality

and climate change were the major issues and it was “essential to reduce devel-opment and other pres-sures as much as possible to enable an increase in the reef’s resilience”, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee said.

The committee said it would recommend the reef be put on the “in danger” list if some of the biggest projects went ahead, giv-ing Australia eight months to chart a more sustainable course.

Australia’s Environ-ment Minister Tony Burke agreed that the reef was at a “crossroads” and Canberra was “acutely aware of the challenges facing the reef such as climate change and the impacts of coastal de-velopment.”

“While these issues are complex, we are committed to addressing them through a range of approaches both on land and in the marine environment,” Burke said.

Campbell Newman, premier of Queensland state which is locally re-sponsible for the reef, was more combative, warning that “we are in the coal business”.

“We will protect the en-vironment but we are not going to see the economic future of Queensland shut down,” Newman said.

Environmental groups said the report should be a wake-up call for the gov-ernment, with the Austra-lian Conservation Founda-tion (ACF) describing the potential danger listing as a “national disgrace.”

This satellite image shows Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2004. UNESCO has urged for action from Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef from a gas and mining

boom, warning it risked being put on its list of world heritage sites deemed “in danger”.

Great Barrier Reef heading for danger, says UNESCO

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By Neil BravoIn Singapore, they call it boot car sales, but really, it’s more of the classic cars than the bootilicious items on sale.

The Orchard Central right on the central business district of this rich island na-tion was teeming with clas-sic car connoisseurs as the mall featured the array of automobiles from 1930s to the 1960s.

At the entrance of the busy Orchard sidewalk, the centrepiece Porsche 1967 912 Coupe greets everyone with its unadulterated look in light ivory.

This classic Porsche is described as a “modern classic if ever there was one.” Porsche’s long-run-

ning 911 arrived in 1964, replacing the 356 and pro-viding the Stuttgart man-ufacturer with a product worthy of comparison with the finest sports cars from Britain and Italy. The 356s rear-engined layout was retained, but the 911 switched to uni-tary construction for the bodyshell and dropped the 356s VW-based sus-pension in favour of a more modern McPherson strut and trailing arm ar-rangement.

Inside the mall’s mez-zanine is a stretch where the rest of the classic cars with their booties on board were on display. Walking past the line of old cars brought me back to scenes I only see in vin-

tage movies or in vintage car magazines.

The first car in the flank is a black-red 1934 Holden Roadster. The Holden is a masterpiece by Louis Chevrolet who began manufacturing his cars in 1911. Little did he knew, his Chevrolet brand will go on to sell 211 mil-lion (and still counting!) cars and trucks.

Then there’s the 1935 Ford 5-Window Coupe, one of the first Fords fea-turing its very own mass-produced V-8 engines.

It also sports a “rumble seat” which is an up-holstered exterior seat which opens out from the rear deck of this pre-World War II automobile. It seats one or more pas-sengers who would be es-sentially exposed to the elements—especially to mothers-in-law (haha-ha!).

Next on the line was a British 1938 Standard Flying 8 Saloon, a real rare car. Only 400 units were manufac-tured before the outbreak of the second World War halted

its production. I like the two-tone ivory-beige combina-tion.

Next car was a 1951 Singer 4AD Roadster manu-factured by Singer Motor Company which is popular for its sales pitch from 1935 to 1955 which says “The man in the Singer is the man in the know.”

There was also the 1965 Plymouth Valiant Barracuda which features a fastback super-struccture with a mas-sive wrap-around backlight which is the largest single piece 14.4 square foot glass that’s ahead of their time.

The featured car inside is a 1947 Ford Mercury Convertible. With its white side wall tires and its cham-pagne brown color with red upholstery, this Ford is a killer. This particular car is a legend of its own. History has it that 50 of this Mercury cars were manufactured in Singapore in 1941 in Bukit Timah Road where the old Ford Motor Factory stands. All 50 were shipped outside Singapore but the one on display was ordered by a lo-cal. However, before the car could reach this man, WWII broke out and the car was confiscated by the Japanese Imperial Army. When the Al-lied Forces freed Singapore in 1945, so was this car. The Dutch shipped the car to In-donesia until another man bought the car to be brought back (once and for all) to Singapore. This car stretches to five meters.

Then there were several Volkswagen Combi vans, a 1957 Morris Mini Cooper with top carriage and donut tires, and a green convertible with eye-glass-shaped drop-down windshields.

As I took my steps to-wards the end of the line of these awesome classics, I closed the page of this vir-tual vintage magazine with the thought that I have once more breathed close to the early machines that roamed this planet.

Escape to Singapore’s classic cars

VOL.5 ISSUE 75 • JUNE 17 - 18, 2012THE ECONOMY6 EDGEDAVAO

THE Philippine De-posit Insurance Corporation (PDIC)

announced that it will start paying valid deposit insurance claims of de-positors of the closed Ex-port and Industry Bank (EIB) on June 19 in three batches.

Starting June 19, the first batch of the claims settlement operations (CSO) will be conducted at the Head Office and 12 other branches namely: Bel-Air, Pasay Road, Ru-fino, Acropolis, Cubao-P. Tuazon, Binan-Carmona, Calamba, Angeles, Baguio City, Dagupan, Cabanatu-an and Mabalacat.

The second batch of

CSO, starting June 29, will be for depositors of the following 12 branches: The Fort, Boni, Bacolod City, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu Plaridel, Cebu IT Park, Cebu Business Park, Davao Jacinto, Davao Rec-to, Iloilo, Imus, Cavite and San Pedro, Laguna.

On July 11, the third batch of CSO will be at the following branches: An-napolis-Greenhils, Green-hills-Ortigas, Ayala Ala-bang, Las Piñas, Banawe, Del Monte, E. Rodriguez, Roosevelt, Timog, Binon-do, Juna Luna, Masangkay, Sto. Cristo, Tutuban, UN Avenue, BF Homes, NAIA, Emerald Avenue, San Miguel Avenue, Kalookan,

LRT Monumento, Valen-zuela, Malabon, Navotas and H.V. Dela Costa.

PDIC will start issuing priority numbers to in-sured depositors on June 18 for the first batch; on June 28 for second batch; and July 10 for the third batch at the designated claims payout sites.

PDIC said the Prior-ity Number corresponds to a specific appointment date when PDIC repre-sentatives will service the claims of deposi-tors to ensure an orderly CSO. The schedule of ap-pointment dates will also be posted in the bank’s premises and at the PDIC website,it added.

Depositors who main-tain only one account with EIB which is in the form of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) accounts, are not required to file deposit insurance claims regardless of amount of deposit PDIC said.

The PDIC also said de-positors are only required to secure a printout of the ATM Balance Confirma-tion Receipt (BCR) from the designated EIB ATM sites during the specified dates starting on June 18, June 28 and July 10 for the first, second and third batches, respectively.

The ATM card, print-out of the ATM BCR and valid ID will be needed in

obtaining Priority Num-bers from designated pay-out sites of their branch-es.

Claims of depositors will be processed onsite during the depositors’ ap-pointment dates, and if found valid and support-ed with complete require-ments, will be paid onsite.

Valid insured deposi-tors who are not able to file their deposit insur-ance onsite during the designated dates can file their claims starting on August 9, 2012 either through mail or person-ally at the 4th Floor, SSS Bldg., Ayala Avenue cor-ner V.A. Rufino St., Makati City on office days from

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.The PDIC reminded

that depositors have un-til April 28, 2014 to file their claims. After April 28, 2014, the PDIC will no longer accept any claim for insured deposits.

The schedules of the CSO, requirements and procedures in filing claims and instructions to depositors are posted in the premises of EIB Branches, designated payout sites and at the PDIC website, www.pdic.gov.ph.

PDIC assured deposi-tors that it will pay all valid deposit insurance claims as soon as pos-sible.

Payout for Export Bank depositors on June 19

MINING engineers of this year’s Mining Engineers

Convention (MINECON) were encouraged to prac-tice and communicate re-sponsible mining.

Addressing about 500 mining-engineer partici-pants, mining consultant Rufino B. Bomasang told them to make sure that the companies they work with are applying the principles of responsible mining, which he cited as similar to sustainable de-velopment.

He quoted the United Nations definition of sus-tainable development as a development, “that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.”

Citing such definition, Bomasang looked at sus-

tainable development to have three vital elements which are economic vi-ability, environmental compatibility, and social acceptance.

Looking at respon-sible mining from the viewpoint of sustainable development, Bomaslang said the absence of the three elements in a min-ing project would mean failure to meet the clas-sification as responsible mining.

He admitted that some mining projects in the past failed to meet the standards of responsible mining, and had not inte-grated economic viability, environmental protection and social acceptance.

“I don’t blame the envi-ronmentalists for harping on these,” he said refer-ring to a number of min-ing blunders in the past.

However, he believed that large scale mining com-panies have shifted their mining practices based on the prescription of the 1995 Philippine Mining Act.

He gave credit to gov-ernment’s mining regula-tory bodies such as the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB), the En-vironment Management Bureau (EMB), and even the mining companies “for setting high stan-dards” of mining prac-tices.

Meanwhile, Bomasang asked mining engineers to communicate the re-sponsible mining practic-es, which have been inte-grated especially in large-scale mining operation.

But he cautioned them to “mean what they say” and put into practice what they are claiming.

He also encouraged them to always seek im-provement of their pro-fession as the time calls for mining engineers to become more efficient.

Bomasang discussed the essence of this year’s MINECON theme, “Mining Engineering Profession: Meeting the Challenges of the Present Society.”

Meanwhile, the Philip-pine Society of Mining En-gineers (PSME) national board president Ceasar I.

Lao-as explained that this year’s MINECON aims “to strengthen the capability of mining engineers” as they are facing present challenges anchored on complicated environmen-tal issues.

Aside from coopera-tion and understanding of stakeholders, players and the community, Lao-as counted education and training as among the major components to sharpen the efficiency of

mining engineers to meet the challenges of times.

Among the educa-tional inputs of this year’s MINECON are Mining Policy Updates, Philip-pine Energy Development Program, A Review of the Value Chain Analysis of Mineral Development in Davao, Underground Min-ing, Electronic Detona-tors, The National Green-ing Program, Mine Rehab and Decommissioning Plan.

Responsible mining has three components

CONSUMERS are pro-tected anywhere in the ASEAN Region

with the ASEAN mem-ber-countries united to strengthen their welfare and protection efforts for the consumers.

Director Victorio A. Mario Dimagiba, head of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Bureau of Trade Regulation and Con-sumer Protection (BTRCP) and the current chairman of the ASEAN Committee on Consumer Protection (ACCP), said that consum-ers could now file their complaint to the consumer protection agency of the country where the viola-tion happened.

“Consumers , who may be tourists or citizens, may go to the focal agency of the country they are staying in or visiting to file a com-plaint,” Dimagiba said.

The complainant will

get an action number or complaint tracking num-ber from the focal agency to serve as his reference for tracking. The complain-ant may seek help from the focal agency of his/her home country to follow up the case abroad.

This consumer welfare initiative by the ACCP is part of the ongoing process of economic integration towards ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, and is geared towards protect-ing the consumers in the ASEAN region, particularly the tourists and business-men coming from different countries by facilitating their complaints in a quick, less-hassle manner.

In the Philippines, the national focal agency for consumer complaints is the DTI-Bureau of Trade Regulation and Consumer Protection (BTRCP). For-eign tourists who are stay-

ing in the Philippines can bring their complaints to this agency for immediate action.

Likewise, Filipinos who are in ASEAN countries may file their consumer complaints to the national focal agency of the country they are staying in.

Dimagiba advised that it is better that the com-plaint is filed in the coun-try where the defective product or services was purchased. Complainants are not required to be physically present during the case hearings since the focal agency will take care of tracking the progress of the case, thus it saves them time, money and effort.

In the same breath, a complainant can also fol-low the case while back in his/her home country, by communicating with the focal agency through email.

Consumer rights valid throughout ASEAN

VOL.5 ISSUE 75 • JUNE 17 - 18, 2012 7THE ECONOMYEDGEDAVAO

Stat Watch

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2009 - December 2011)

Month 2011 2010 2009

Average 43.31 45.11 47.637December 43.64 43.95 46.421November 43.27 43.49 47.032October 43.45 43.44 46.851

September 43.02 44.31 48.139August 42.42 45.18 48.161

July 42.81 46.32 48.146June 43.37 46.30 47.905May 43.13 45.60 47.524April 43.24 44.63 48.217

March 43.52 45.74 48.458February 43.70 46.31 47.585January 44.17 46.03 47.207

3.5%4th Qtr 2011

3.7%4th Qtr 2011

USD 3,342Million

Nov 2011USD 4,985

MillionNov 2011

USD -1,643Million

Nov 2011USD -114

MillionDec 2011

P4,442,355Million

Nov 2011

4.71%Oct 2011P128,745

MillionNov 2011

P 4,898Billion

Oct 2011

P 43.65Dec 2011

3,999.7Sept 2011

128.1Jan 2012

3.9Jan 2012

3.4Dec 2011

284,040Sept 2011

19.1%Oct 2011

6.4%Oct 2011

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

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

3. Exports 1/

4. Imports 1/

5. Trade Balance

6. Balance of Payments 2/

7. Broad Money Liabilities

8. Interest Rates 4/

9. National Government Revenues

10. National government outstanding debt

11. Peso per US $ 5/

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

16. Visitor Arrivals

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

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

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

as of august 2010

DAMAGES to infrastruc-ture and agriculture in the June 12 flash flood

could easily reach P10 million, Mayor Rolando Garcia of Kala-mansig, Sultan Kudarat said.

“The amount is initial based on assessment and validation of the aftermath of the flash flood,” Mayor Garcia said in a telephone interview with PIA 12 yesterday afternoon.

“The cost of damage could exceed P10 million once all the barangays have submitted their respective incident reports.”

Ernie Quillo, acting local DRRM officer, explained that damaged roads and bridges, and landslides prevented the assessment teams led by Mayor Garcia from reaching some re-mote barangays.

“(Officials) of affected ba-rangays have been instructed to submit details of damages and immediately report assis-tance needed,” he said.

The mayor assured they are

trying every means to establish communication with still un-reached villages and open ob-structed roads.

Eleven of the 15 barangays of Kalamansig were hit by ei-ther flooding, flash floods, land-slides, and storm surge that started about 9:30 p.m. on June 11 and lasted until 4:30 p.m. the next day, Quillo reported.

The municipality’s early warning system (EWS) was im-mediately activated, which he said, led to immediate evacua-tion of residents out of harms way.

No casualty was reported but the incident rendered two national bridges impassable, left two families homeless, and damaged crops and livestock.

Quillo identified the na-tional bridges that sustained damages as those in Barangays Limulan and Sta. Clara.

Barangays affected by flash floods include Obial, Sta. Clara, Hinalaan, Limulan, Pag-asa, Sta.

Maria, Cadiz, Dumangas Nuevo, and Nalilidan.

Agricultural losses were ac-counted from Brgy. Sta. Maria, Cadiz, Dumangas Nuevo, Limu-lan, Sabanal, Datu Wasay, and Sangay.

Mayor Garcia also con-firmed Sec. Paquito Ochoa has called him by phone and as-sured assistance from the na-tional government. The local chief executive, however, did not disclose the nature of assis-tance promised.

Meanwhile, Mayor Dionesio Besana of Lebak town, which is adjacent to Kalamansig, con-firmed in a telephone interview with PIA 12 yesterday after-noon that 13 of its 27 baran-gays were also affected by the June 12 flood.

Lerma Loria, social welfare and development officer of Lebak, reported later that at least 1,869 families were af-fected. Worst hit were the vil-lages of Barurao I, Barurao II,

Salaman,Tibpuan, and Nuling. One person was reported

missing. Loria identified the missing person as a certain Faustino Paman Sr., a fisher-man. Four fishing boats with estimated value of P1.7 million were also damaged.

Yesterday, the Department of Social Welfare and Develop-ment (DSWD) 12 through its provincial office has distrib-uted more than 2,400 family food packs to affected families in Kalamansig and Lebak to augment relief operations of the local governments.

Henry Albano, PSWDO of Sultan Kudarat, added that to-day 3,000 more food packs are slated for dispersal in the area.

“Each family food pack con-tains three kilograms of rice as well as noodles, sardines, and corned beef,” Albano said.

He also confirmed that both municipalities have been declared under state of calam-ity.

Floods destroy P10-M worth of agri, infra in Central Mindanao

THE old Spanish fort of Pikit which recently has been declared as a national his-

torical landmark is being eyed for further preservation efforts by the local government of North Cotabato.

During a press conference in Davao City last June 9, Governor Emmylou Taliño said that the municipal local government has put up a memorandum banning the building of new structures inside the fort which was built by the Spanish Army in 1893 part of a series of fortifications aimed to consolidate Spanish control in central Mindanao.

Built by stone it had two tow-ers with artillery batteries and a rubble wall 38 meters a side. It was designed to house one Span-ish officer, 60 infantrymen and 6 artillerymen. The towers and the rubble wall can still be seen at the site which is located at the back of the Pikit Municipal Hall.

According to the Governor Taliño there has been many mod-ern interventions introduced in the old Spanish Fort which served as a military camp in re-cent years. She likened the Fort as a small intramuros which un-fortunately has been neglected for many years.

Joey E. Recimilla, Technical Working Group Chairman for the

preservation of Fort Pikit said that after Spanish troops left it was used as an encampment for American soldiers, a Philippine Constabulary barracks, a gar-rison for Japanese soldiers in World War II then by the Philip-pine Army. A unit of the Philip-pine Marines occupied the camp until they left in 2007. Currently the old Fort is unoccupied.

Taliño said that she is plan-ning to document the fort and submit the necessary papers to the Spanish embassy hope-ful that it could be included in a Spanish government’s program of restoring old Spanish struc-tures in its then colonies.

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) through a Resolution No. 7 series of 2012 declared Fort Pikit a National Historical Land-mark. These after a team from the NHCP conducted ground validation, site visit and investi-gation of historical facts in March of this year.

The Governor is hopeful that the restoration and development of the fort can help in promoting tourism in the place.

Aside from restoring Fort Pikit, the provincial government of North Cotabato is developing the newly discovered Asik-Asik Falls in Alamada town.

Governor Taliño said that she has allocated P1.5 million for de-velopment of the place. P1.2 mil-lion will be for the construction of comfort rooms, spring devel-opment, bamboo walkway and relocation of commercial struc-tures to the higher grounds.

P300,000 has been allocated as a subsidy to the barangay and local government for six months as the development is set to commence. The Provincial Gov-ernment is also fixing the roads to the site which is 25 kilome-ters away from the National Highway.

Asik-Asik Falls is actually a vertical spring. Water gushes out of the cracks in the stone cliff which shields an aquifer, this is unlike traditional waterfalls where a body of water like a river or stream plunges off from a cliff.

According to the Governor the waterfalls was once hidden from view by thick vegetation until a storm uprooted a giant balete tree last year which once covered the falls from plain sight, it didn’t take long when Asik Asik was discovered by residents.

Photos of the waterfalls be-came viral in the internet partic-ularly in social networking sites which contributed to the surge of tourists in the area.

Old Spanish fort, waterfalls to boost tourism in Pikit THE country’s jobless rate

fell to 6.9 percent in April this year from 7.2 percent

last year, according to the Na-tional Statistics Office (NSO).

Data from NSO showed that the number of Filipinos with-out jobs dropped to 2.8 million in April from 2.87 million in the same period last year.

The agency said that the Na-tional Capital Region registered the highest unemployment rate at 10.4 percent, while the Auton-omous Region in Muslim Mind-anao (ARMM) posted the lowest at 2.9 percent.

The country’s total labor force was at 40.6 million— higher than the 39.97 million recorded in April — with a labor force participation rate of 64.7 percent.

The country generated 1.02 million jobs at the end of April to 37.84 million jobs from 36.82 million in the same period last year.

Of the total employed, 51.4 percent are engaged in services sector; 33 percent, agriculture sector and 15.6 percent, indus-try sector.

Among the various occupa-tion groups, the laborers and un-skilled workers comprised the largest group, making up 33.2 percent of the total employed persons in April 2012.

Farmers, forestry workers and fishermen were the second largest group with 14.7 percent share.

Unemployment rate is at 6.9% in April

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Time is ticking

SO MUCH sound bites have been spent on the conflict between resigned senator Juan Miguel “Migs” Zubiri and incumbent senator

Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III. Both are from Mind-anao.

Zubiri was the reason Koko Pimentel lost four years of his six year-term as senator after cheating in the 2007 senatorial elections catapulted Zubiri to the Senate instead of Pimentel. It was Zubiri, not Pimentel, who landed in No. 12.

On the other hand, Pimentel was the reason Zu-biri lost his seat in the Senate, with the latter re-signing just days before the Senate Electoral Tribu-nal decided that it was Pimentel, not he, who won.

The current controversy has do to with the insistence of leaders of the United Nationalist Al-liance (UNA), a coalition of the Puwersa ng Masa headed by former President Erap Estrada and the PDP-Laban led by Vice President Jejomar Binay as chairman and Senator Koko as president, to take in Migs Zubiri on the senatorial ticket.

Naturally, Koko opposes the inclusion of Migs who had taken away four years of his Senate term, aside from making him spend millions for an elec-tion protest. But Binay, Estrada, and Senate Presi-dent Juan Ponce Enrile, insist on Zubiri’s entry.

Quite logically, Koko would not want to stand on the same campaign stage with the man who caused him deprivation of his term and money. Some peo-

ple who do not like Zubiri expect him to have the decency to quit UNA rather than cause its rupture. But then that is Zubiri and he is not about to shy away from yet another awkward situation.

The conflict has drawn into the fray the elder, po-litically battle-scarred Nene Pimentel who has been saying a mouthful against the UNA leadership, al-beit without naming names, simply calling them “denizens of the darkened recesses of dinosaurian politics.”

The former Senate President has gone as far as accusing the UNA leaders of engaging in money pol-itics for favoring Zubiri, who is moneyed, over Koko who has no money. The scathing remarks have not merited a satisfactory answer from the “dinosau-rian politicians.”

There is no telling how the Migs-Koko tussle will end. This early though many Dabawenyos prefer that the animosity would linger until election day. Yes, indeed, let the 2013 senatorial derby in Davao, be likewise a contest between Zubiri and Pimentel. Or better still, a great battle between money poli-tics and principled politics.

Those who want some clue about the possible re-sults need only to review the results of the senato-rial derby in the 2007 elections in the Davao region. This is one mighty good reason for Dabawenyos—and Mindanaoans, for that matter -- to look to the 2013 mid-term elections with great anticipation.

WHETHER M a n n y Pacquiao

was an innocent victim of Las Vegas stick up or a will-ing participant to a farce as many are now suggesting, his controversial loss Sunday leads one to ask: “Is it Manny’s time to leave the game?”

Skills-wise, Manny has not really lost some big steps. He still packs power in both hands. He is still nimble with his feet and he still can pull the trigger so to speak although, admittedly, he seems to be adding flab all over his body.

Timothy Bradley, the hapless benefactor of the foul decision, visibly cannot stand the heat of Man-ny’s flurries. The newly appointed champion lost his patented aggressiveness from the third round up after being tagged by left straights from Manny. When he chose to engage, Bradley found himself at the receiving end of the power punches both fight-ers threw with bad intention, albeit wild abandon.

At 28, Bradley is five years Manny’s junior and has been either a lightweight or a welterweight his entire professional boxing career. With just 29 fights, he is still fresh. With an undefeated record (before he met Manny), he definitely has a career ahead of him.

By contrast, the 33-year old Manny had already logged 60 fights, including Sunday’s 17th title fight. If he were a tire, Manny had already been through a variety of humps and bumps and had logged more mileage than the distance prescribed by its manu-facturer. No, the steel belts are not yet showing but some of its thread are beginning to lose traction. Manny, like a car however, can only endure so much tire changes as he did bounce back from three previ-ous defeats.

Imagine a 1995-model car still running on the road today. That is Manny. Only a few of them are still running, much more still in A-1 condition. If these are still on the road, either they are special edi-tion or well-maintained by their owners. Yes, there will be dents and some scratches. But they will still be reliable rides.

Manny still is.But there are writings on the wall beyond Man-

ny’s control.If Vegas can be so cruel as to rob him of a victory

even though he is half of the duo that packs in the fans and brings in the money, then some foul smell is in the air.

There were three boxing superstars who came in the era of pay-per-view before Manny. Mike Tyson, Oscar de la Hoya and arch-rival Floyd May-weather Jr. Only Mayweather is still in the mix with Manny.

Tyson and de la Hoya were the kings of PPV events in their prime. The two still own records of PPV buys in their respective division and are second and first, respectively, in the most number of PPV buys in boxing history. Pacquiao and Mayweather are not far behind at third and fourth, respectively, depending on which total number of PPV buys you are fed.

Both Tyson and de la Hoya suffered defeats in their careers. Incidentally, both also lost their first ca-reer defeats at the age of 24. It is easy to understand why they stayed long enough to enjoy their super-star status and rake in millions on the side.

Tyson was the youngest heavyweight champion ever and was a fierce and feared young man by the time he captured his first heavyweight title just two years of af-ter turning professional and a mind-boggling number of 28 fights in that short span. De la Hoya was an Olympic gold medal winner and was al-ready a celebrity by the time he turned professional. He won his first of six division titles in his 12 profes-sional fights, also in a span of two years.

By their standards, de la Hoya and Tyson had su-perstar status written all over their faces before they could even hit the PPV jackpot. One was the atypical bad boy while the other was boxing’s golden boy. Together, they changed the way business is con-ducted in boxing.

Sadly, both also stayed too long leaving a dent on their otherwise sterling careers. After boxing, the two went opposite directions, lifestyle-wise. Tyson would file bankruptcy to fend off creditors. De la Hoya now continues to be a successful promoter and a big voice in boxing.

What has Tyson and de la Hoya got to do with Manny?

Tyson never figured in a controversial decision, he either won by knockout (well, most of his fights anyway) or he lost convincingly or disgracefully (he once bit Evander Holyfield in the ear out of frustra-tion). De la Hoya however was in several contro-versial decisions, as beneficiary in some and at the receiving end in others.

De la Hoya’s controversial losses or victories are however arguably close enough to leave some doubt in nonbelievers.

Manny has been in four controversial decisions, three of them against Juan Manuel Marquez. But all of them were close enough everyone could argue his case. But his loss to Bradley was so brazen almost all agree but the two judges who saw his foe the win-ner not to mention it was before live audiences seen by tens of millions all over the world. [MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. Edwin G. Espejo writes for www.asiancorrespondent.com]

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NO, I’m not going to write

about the 114th anniversary of Philippine Inde-pendence. This is a tribute to a girl in a faraway land who dreamed of becoming a journalist but never became one. War and the mad ambition of Adolf Hitler to purify the Aryan race led to her early death, in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

Her name was Anne Frank, the Ger-man-born Jewish girl who whose di-ary about her experiences during World War II revealed not only the sheer inhu-manity that she and her family suffered but also the depth of her thoughts and feelings. She was an old soul trapped in a young body.

Anne’s family moved to The Nether-lands to escape persecution in Germany after the Nazis came to power. Fate how-ever caught up with them when the Ger-mans invaded The Netherlands, in 1940. They tried to evade arrest by hiding in a “Secret Annex” to a building in Am-sterdam. But betrayal came on August 4, 1944, and the whole family was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in Po-land. Later, Anne and her sister, Margot, were sent to Bergen-Belsen where they died shortly before the camp was liber-ated by British troops. Their mother, Ed-ith, was left behind in Auschwitz where she died.

Most of Anne’s works were done while her family stayed in hiding, al-though it’s been reckoned that she wrote the first entry on June 12, 1942, her thir-teenth birthday and the same day that she received the diary as a gift, which was actually an autograph book.

As a private recording of her

thoughts, Anne did not want anybody to read her diary. Her father, Otto, who sur-vived the Holocaust, would have wanted to respect his daughter’s wish. But since the diary revealed her dream of becom-ing an author he decided to have it pub-lished.

Otto Frank had to experience several rejections before Anne’s work finally saw print. Publishers only took notice of it after Dutch journalist Jan Romein wrote an article about it. Romein wrote that the diary “stammered out in a child’s voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at Nuremberg put together.” Nuremberg was the venue of the trials for Nazi war criminals.

The diary showed that Anne found strength during those dark days in writ-

ing. As she said in one of her entries: “I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great ques-tion, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very

much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.”

If only she knew that her words would become immortal.

Anne was also an idealist, a bud-ding feminist if you may. She vowed that “if God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!”

It was an idealism that raged against the darkness that had descended on the land, and revealed the humanist in her.

She wrote: “... In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradu-ally being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”

Apologists of Nazism had tried to discredit the diary. They ques-tioned its authenticity saying the writ-ing style could not have been that of a teenager. But witnesses and his-torical evidence, including forensic handwriting comparisons, proved that Anne had indeed written it.

Such is the power of the writ-ten word that even the Nazis would cringe at the thought of the horrors of the Holocaust being read by mil-lions. Such is the power of Anne Frank, the underground “journalist” whose diary shows that the human spirit can always be free if it chooses to be. [Min-daViews is the opinion section of Min-daNews. H. Marcos C. Mordeno can be reached at hmcmordeno@gmail.com]

9VANTAGE POINTS

Monkey Business

EDGEDAVAOYet another look at why man does sin 

June 12 and a gift

BY HONOR BLANCO CABIESPECIAL FEATURE

Semblance of economic recoverySPEEDY RE-COVERY – While political

experts and econo-mists may argue about who can de-liver what the Phil-ippines needs, they generally agree what is: bold lead-ership to revive the economy, reform the country’s institutions and energize the people with new national goals. Private sector economists and finan-cial managers say everyone is fed up with the seeming rudderless drift the country has been in during former President Gloria Arroyo’s almost 10-year reign.

A coalition of political forces led by Ar-royo forcibly took over the leadership from the beleaguered President Joseph “Erap” Estrada, riding a wave of public disdain for old-style money politics, immorality and high hopes for change. But the old-fashioned financial scandals involving some members of the presidential family and political in-fighting likewise brought the unpopular Ar-royo administration down. The partnership of convenience that took its place – between

Arroyo’s Kampi political party and other new allies such as Lakas-NUCD – seemed too preoccupied with jockeying for power to offer a strong united front for real change.

That was few years ago. Now, all eyes are on the country’s first bachelor Chief Execu-tive, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, a.k.a. PNoy. People always have high expec-tations of the new leader – a reputation for bold actions and strong words, so unlike the typical Philippine politician, had made PNoy seems a more likely agent of reforms than most of his peers. However, some people, notably his political adversaries and crit-ics, raised this question: does PNoy have a vision for a country reeling from a strained economy?

When President Aquino assumed the presidency two years ago, political watch-ers debated on whether the elitist-type and inexperienced PNoy style could provide the drive and direction for national renew-al and economic recovery.

Immediately following the news that President Aquino’s recent official trip to UK and the US generated as much as $3 billion in investments, the country pretty

much got what it wanted. The good news that spawned around the business com-munity must have been exactly what the Philippines was hoping for. The agreement reached over seven intense days of nego-tiations between the country’s trade and investment mission and representatives of the US and UK governments certainly will solve some of the country’s major econom-ic problems.

Foreign investments and a package of economic assistance are indubitably essen-tial to speedy recovery. This explains why business leaders are cheering over the suc-cess of the President’s latest foreign trips. The good news likewise is helping restore investors’ confidence in the country’s eco-nomic well-being. But the confidence can only be sustained if PNoy delivers on eco-nomic reforms.

President Aquino is seen by detractors as an indecisive leader unwilling to take necessary risks. Still the big question is: how fast can the PNoy government move on structural and operational adjustments in the economy and how long will it take for the measures to produce results?

‘Her name was Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish girl who whose diary about her

experiences during World War II revealed not only the sheer inhumanity that she and her family suffered but also the depth of her thoughts and

feelings. She was an old soul trapped in a young body.’

IT was a typical lazy Sunday in the outskirts of Metro Manila, after the whole family – all in three genera-

tions – attended a mid morning Mass at their parish only four blocks away from their residence.

While enjoying the breeze wafted into the blue grass-carpeted garden by the suburban winds from the middle income subdivision neighborhood, the four-year-old grandson that carries the name of his grandfather’s old man was overheard asking:

“Lilo,”—an address of endearment for grandfathers by grandsons in the far north of the Philippines – “ bakit nagka-kasala ang tao?”

The question, while it was unexpect-ed from Mikhail Bernard VIII, the little boy who only days previously watched cartoons on cable, quickly made the grandfather, an erstwhile catechist, dash to the zone of his stock knowledge on religion, helped by his 24 units of Theol-ogy in college.

“Why indeed does man sin?” is a doc-trinal question that affects many doc-trines, even as there are several answers ready for the picking.

But what is sin and how must it be explained by a grandfather to his grand-son waiting for an answer to his solici-tous inquiry?

The grandfather’s close friend could not decode, from his distance, the exact flow of the grandfather’s explanation on what sin is and why does man sin.

If the grandfather found it hard to get quick answers to the Sunday question, less than an hour after hearing Mass that bright morning, he did not show it in the manner he addressed his grand-son’s question.

He knew that the topic was not a popular topic in this generation of cell phone technology and social network-ing services – many boldly convinced the concept of sin as archaic and demean-ing, given today’s so-called “modern thought.”

But the boy’s question begged itself and was asked again, while the grand-son’s grandfather must tell the grand-son what sin was all about and the topic would never be outdated, they being Christians.

He patted the boy’s shoulder, told him what a good and relevant question he had asked, relevant in his generation as it was 2,000 years ago.

Then he found an opening – the Bible which explains that the wages of sin is death, that Jesus gave His body and shed His blood, pouring out the life of His sin-less soul, to suffer the penalty of death in man’s place that man might be for-given and declared righteous before the throne of God.

Even the lengthy explanation made the grandfather squint his eyes.

Then he chased his prose in thought that God, to whom they prayed earlier on in church, did not create man a sin-ner with a tendency for sin which could not be overcome.

Neither did God, the grandfather told his grandson, arrange for the inheri-tance of the Adamic sin to pass upon all men so they are sinners by unalterable “nature.”

Of course, he added, some men sin by ignorance, a state where they do not know God’s word, which doubtless is a common cause of sin.

But quoting the Bible to the grand-son, who was intently listening to his fa-ther’s old man, was a useless exercise in that impromptu Sunday religion session.

Then he remembered a question that bothered him when he was himself in pre-primary grades: if God was all-knowing, did he know that Adam and Eve would sin after His commandment?[PNA] 

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JOINING the nation in celebrating the Den-gue Awareness Month

of the Department of Health (DOH), the provin-cial government through the Provincial Health Of-fice (PHO) intensified its advocacy on preventive measures against dengue through disseminating health advisories, lec-tures, and other forms of community orientation and self-protection mea-sures.

With the idea that cleanliness is still the key to prevent such mosquito-borne disease, everybody is encouraged to practice proper health sanitation and maintain a clean en-vironment.

Another continuing service is the distribution of Long-Lasting Insecti-cide Treated Nets (LLIN) to the municipalities. In 2011, a total of 43,304 LLINs were already dis-tributed in the province.

A program is also hosted by the provincial government on June 15 to support the ASEAN (As-sociation of South East Asia Nations) Dengue Day, an annual advocacy cam-paign day for dengue pre-vention and control.

On its Malaria Control Program, the province is now busy preparing for the coming visit of “Biya-heng Kulambo” (Travel-ling LLIN), a DOH new advocacy campaign. It is a

public health intervention against malaria aiming to heighten public aware-ness in preventing and eliminating such disease.

The caravan started roaming from province to province on April 25 and to culminate on August 17, 2012. ComVal expects it to drop by on July for the ceremonial transfer and acceptance of LLIN as a manifestation of the prov-ince’s support and partici-pation to the campaign.

ComVal intensifies dengue awareness program

With the school opening, the new chairs from Tagum LGU’s Care for School chairs program have benefitted Compostela Valley public schools the recent of which on June 11 in Nabunturan.

Pupils, teachers and local officials led by Sports Coordinator Tyrone Uy join hands in delivering the new school chairs to San Isidro Elementary School, Nabunturan on June 11 despite the long walk to and fro the school.

HEDCOR invested Php3 million for the past years in building

classrooms for host schools – Catalunan Pequeño Na-tional High School (CPNHS), Tugbok National High School (TNHS) and Sibulan Elemen-tary School (SES), for a total of five classrooms.

“Our enrollees increased by 70% after Hedcor do-nated 2 classrooms in our school,” said CPNHS school head Evelyn E. Magno. “We started here in 2003 with 300 students only but now we have over 800 students,” she added.

Hedcor, a subsidiary of AboitizPower, donated the first classroom built for CPNHS in 2006 followed by another building in 2010. The Tugbok NHS benefited a classroom last 2008 and this year, a two-classroom building aptly called as «Silid Pangrap» was constructed for kindergartens of Sibulan Elem School in partnership with Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. and AGAPP (Aklat, Gabay, Aruga tungo sa Pag-angat Pag-asa) Foundation.

“We are truly blessed when Hedcor partner our school in providing students a quality education. We are now teaching the kids inside a fully furnished room and no more under-the-tree class-es,” said SES Principal Roder-ick P. Orpilla referring to the Silid Pangarap. «The school building is packed with edu-cational materials like books, charts, and posters. It caters 45 pupils and they pioneered the K+12 program of our government,» Orpilla added.

The host schools are ben-eficiaries of the 47-MW Hed-cor run-of-river hydropower plants in the Davao region.

“One of our commit-ments in operating our hy-dropower plants is to provide educational assistance to our host communities. Many stu-dents were able to study well through the school buildings we have constructed, provid-ing scholarships to deserv-ing students, assistance of internet connectivity and a lot more,” said Hedcor vice president for Mindanao op-erations Engr. Rolando Pac-quiao.

New classroom boosts enrollment, school head says

SCHOOL BUILDING. Gearing towards quality education, Hedcor supports the educa-tion program by building classrooms for students to host schools – Catalunan Pequeño National High School, Tugbok National High School and now for the Sibulan Elementary School. School Head Evelyn Magno (top) leads the inspection of computer units during first day of school. The third batch of freshmen students (below) are now the beneficia-ries of the classroom

VOL.5 ISSUE 75 • JUNE 17 - 18, 2012 11COMMUNITY SENSEEDGEDAVAO

LAST June 12, SM City Davao marked the celebration of

the 114th Philippine In-dependence Day with a Flag Hoisting ceremony participated in by differ-ent civic and government groups in the city.

Joining the parade of 114 colors led by the SM Davao security team were the Region XI RPSB Philippine National Police through the leadership of PSSupt Florencio Orti-lla, Department of Foreign Affairs headed by Acting OIC Ma. Cristina Baller-da, Boy Scouts and Rover Scouts from Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School, Philippine Red Cross, Davao Volunteer Fire Brigade, Davao City Investment and Promo-tions Center, Department of Education with ARD Dr. Fe Delos Reyes and the Davao Horse Club headed by president Mr Andrew Tan.

“Isang karangalan na-min dito sa SM City Davao ang makapiling ang mga kinatawan mula sa iba-ibang kagawaran sa ating komunidad lalo na sa makabuluhang araw na ito,” says SM City Davao Mall Manager Lynette Lopez. SM City Davao has been hosting events for the community for the past 10 years.

As part of the celebra-

tion, SM also mounted Hi-mig Pinoy and Tunog Pi-noy which featured some of Davao’s best musical ensembles UM Chorale, the Davao City Communi-ty Rondalla and the Colli-sion band who performed OPM hits for the mall-goers.

Last June 10, Bal-let Manila with no less than Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja amazed the crowd in Sayaw Pinoy which was a remarkable showcase of excerpts from ballet clas-sics and Filipino-inspired numbers.

The Philippine flag made of 5,000 pieces of tower yema from Eng Seng Food Products, was a hit not only with the locals but with tourists, as well. The Aguinaldo Shrine replica by the Philippine Women’s Col-lege also stirred fascina-tion and a sense of history among mall-goers.

The very successful commemoration of the Philippine Independence Day was also supported by Collezione C2, Jollibee, Greenwich, Piyesta KTV and Restobar, Dencio’s Kamayan and Pizza Hut.

Everything indeed, is at SM City Davao-- includ-ing love for country.

Catch more exciting events at the City’s hip-pest hub, SM City Davao!

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SM Davao staff poses with the 5,000-pc tower yema flag.

The singing of Lupang Hinirang at Sm City Davao.

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Concept store

ENCOURAGED by the strong smartphone and handheld music

player market in the Phil-ippines, German audio spe-cialist Sennheiser is put-ting efforts to expand its business in the Philippines.

Despite a cutthroat au-dio accessory sector in the Philippines, Sennheiser opened its first concept store at the V-Mall Shop-ping Center in San Juan City in an effort to boost its reputation.

Expand

CAMELLA, the coun-try’s most preferred and trusted real es-

tate brand continues the trend for innovation as it launches multi-million peso projects in multiple locations across the Phil-ippines. Camella, pursues its dynamic and strate-gic expansion program, strengthening its domi-nant position in the real es-tate industry in Mega Ma-nila and across the regions.

Jerylle Luz Quismundo, Camella President reveals new ventures that will cre-ate unprecedented growth aimed at surpassing last year’s success

Urged

HEIRS of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo have sped up their drive

to popularise the gains of the Philippine Revolution, including what is arguably the era’s most important treasure: the first Philip-pine flag.

Emilio Aguinaldo Sun-tay III, great grandson of the country’s first Presi-dent, said the latest exami-nation of the flag revealed a large fabric tear that could worsen because of natural decay.

Convinced

SENATOR Sergio Os-meña is convinced that former First Gen-

tleman Mike Arroyo was behind the P660 million in behest loans given to busi-nessman Roberto Ongin by the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).

“This loan could have been done in the behest of [former DBP president Reynaldo] David. But of course David takes his or-ders from somebody. I’m 110 percent convinced that FG controlled Rey Da-vid,” Osmeña said.

Open

UNITED Nationalist Alliance (UNA), the coalition between

Vice President Jejomar Binay’s PDP-Laban and former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada’s Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), has opened its doors to lo-cal candidates as the Phil-ippines prepares for elec-tions in 2013.

UNA spokesman JV Bautista said the coalition is ready to field candidates on the local level, even as it firms up its senatorial slate. Bautista said UNA plans to have candidates run for governor and vice governor, for seats at the House of Representatives, “and for municipal and city governments, too.”

IN the midst of the Philippines’ most notorious slum, Brit-

ish expat Jane Walk-er transforms lives by turning rubbish into top-end fashion items.

A unique four-story building houses the Phil-ippine Christian Foun-dation, an organisa-tion Walker founded 16 years ago to help scaven-gers at the Smokey Moun-tain garbage dump in Ma-nila’s chaotic bayside Tondo district.

Walker teaches mothers to make colour-ful bags, purses and jew-ellery using items com-monly discarded by the public - from toothpaste tubes, plastic bottles and lollypop wrappers to magazine pages and soft drink cans.

“It’s inspiring when you realise such a simple project helps so many families,” Walker, 48, told AFP during a recent visit to the school.

“We design things from laptop bags and iPod cases, computer cases, all ranges of dif-ferent handbags, shop-ping bags, clutch bags, fashion accessories and even place mats made from waste paper.”

The products are sold in the country’s biggest

department store chain, as well as to high-end and specialty shops in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, the Middle East and Singapore, with price tags ranging from 10 to 100 dollars.

A portion of the pro-ceeds goes to the moth-ers and the staff, while the rest is used to finance the foundation’s opera-tions.

Apart from teaching livelihood skills, Walk-

er’s foundation also runs a primary school where up to 500 slum children are enrolled at any given time free of charge.

The building in itself is remarkable and true to the foundation’s recy-cling mantra.

It is made from ship-ping containers welded and cemented together in what Walker says is the first such structure housing a school any-where in the world.

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Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING

AND REGULATORY BOARDRegional Office No. XI

Davao city

Petition for Renewal of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate

A FILCAB Ordinary Regular Service

JERILYN F. NACION, Petitioner Case No.2007-XI-02085

x- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - -xNOTICE HEARING

Petitioner is a grantee of a Certificate of Public Convenience issued in this case authoriz-ing the operation of a FILCAB Ordinary Regular Service on the route: CIRCULATION ROUTE 10 with the use of ONE (1) unit, which Certificate will expire on December 31, 2012. In the peti-tion filed on March 30, 2012, petitioner request authority to extend the validity of said certifi-cate to operate along the same route with the use of the same unit previously authorized.

NOTICE, is hereby given that this petition

will be heard by this Board on JUNE 25, 2012 at 09:40 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, FIVE (5) days prior to the above date petitioner shall publish this Notice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao

Parties opposed to the granting of the petition must file their written opposition sup-ported by documentary evidence on or before the above date furnishing a copy of the same to the petitioner, and may if they so, desire appear on said date and time.

This petition will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of its records and the docu-mentary evidence submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable BENJAMIN A. GO, CESO V, Regional Director, this 30th day of March 2012 at Davao City.

TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZ Chief Transport Development Officer

/hocCopy furnished:Petitioner, Jerilyn F. Nacion, Purok 25, Malu-piha, Malagamot, Panacan, Davao City Counsel, Atty. Marvin G. Camino, Rm 202, New Borgaily Bldg., San Pedro St., Davao CityNOTE: Affidavit of Publication and newspaper where notice was published must be submitted three (3) days before the scheduled hearing.

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT11TH JUDICIAL REGION

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT DAVAO CITY

BPI FAMILY SAVINGS BANK, INC., Mortgagee, EJF-REM CASE NO. 13,395-12versus –

FELICISIMA O. HILAY AND VICENTE LEONILO R. HILAY, Mortgagor/s.

NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the above-mentioned mortgagee against Felicisima O. Hilay and Vicente Leonilo R. Hilay with postal address at 404 Nidea St., Barrio Obrero, Davao City, to satisfy the mortgage indebt-edness which as March 12, 2012, the unpaid indebtedness of the mortgagor, which is to be satisfied out of the proceeds of the foreclosure sale, consists of the total outstanding obligation in the amount of Php 492,030.83, Philippine Currency, plus other interest and charges thereon from March 12, 2012 up to the date of foreclosure sale, cost of publication of the notice of sale, expenses of the foreclosure proceedings, an addition sum equivalent to fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount due as and for attorney’s fees and additional sum equivalent to fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount due as and for liquidated damages and other expenses allowed by law; the undersigned Sheriff of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on July 5, 2012 at 10:00 A.M., or soon thereaf-ter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland, Davao City, to the highest bidder for CASH and/or Manager’s Check and in Philippine Currency, the real property with all its improvements found thereon particularly described below, to wit:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-321460A parcel of land (lot 2, Blk. 23, of the conso-subd. Plan (LRC) Pcs-10016,xxx) situ-

ated in Barrio of Ma-a; City of Davao; Island of Mindanao. xxx Containing an area of THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE (333) SQUARE METERS, more or less.”

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

In the event that the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be

held on August 2, 2012 without further notice. Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the condition of

the unit and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines, May 30, 2012

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD) SERGIO LEONARDO J. TUPAS Sheriff IVNOTED BY:ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR. Clerk of Court VI Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff(Edge 6/18,25,7/2)

p.m. last Friday near an Ignesia ni Kristo Church and a public school in Ba-rangay Bantacan in New Bataan.

“The landmine attack was directed against military troops passing through the vicinity of said church and school al-legedly perpetrated by an organized crime group under the support of the New People’s Army (OCG-NPA),” 10th Infan-try Division (ID) spokes-person Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza said in a text message yesterday.

“The landmine was laid on the concrete high-way 100 meters away from church of Iglesia ni Kristo and about 300 meters from the school in New Bataan, Comval,” Paniza said the state-

ment.“The troops were on

board the military truck while on their way to headquarters of 66th Infantry Battalion in the same town,” he add-ed. The military truck (KM450) was damaged.

Following the land-mine blast, government troops launched pursuit operations.

Paniza noted that the use of landmines is considered forbidden as agreed upon by military and NPA.

“It is sad to note that this incident happened just before Father’s Day celebration.,” Paniza said, adding that Lt Daguio was expected to be home in Calinan, Davao City on Sunday to celebrate with his wife and two children.

the mining industry fulfill its true role in the economic de-velopment of the country.

He added that at the moment, the government is currently drafting a mining policy statement that seeks to increase the government’s share of mining revenues.

“Our beloved President has assured us that discus-sions with the various enti-ties that are very much con-cerned with mining in our country, including ecological groups, the mining groups, and local government units, will still have to be made,” Binay said.

Binay also said mining is a social justice issue and goes beyond economic con-siderations.

He said communities that host mining operations should be the first ones to benefit from the economic gains from mining indus-tries, thus should be granted

opportunities like education, health care, clean water, and power as a bare minimum.

Citing that minerals are non-renewable, which means they will not grow back once utilized, he said, “It is therefore important that the gains from this enterprise bring financial strength to the true owners of this wealth, the people.”

“We have billions of tons of metallic and non-metallic mineral deposits buried in our soil,” Binay said, not-ing that the Philippines has about nine million hectares of potential mining land with only 1.4 million hectares be-ing covered by mining per-mits.

“This is the strange con-tradiction that we live in, so many look for food and decent living above ground, while so much wealth lies literally beneath our feet,” he added.

erated by drug cartels?” he said during a media forum at the city hall last week.

“The truth is naay at least isa among drivers, jeepney drivers, taxi driv-ers, kanang naa sa call centers nga naka-take ug drugs but we cannot seek them out without the law,” Braganza said.

Meanwhile, monitor-ing of drug-related activi-

ties continue near areas of leisure where fun and enjoyment are found, he said.

“Kung asa ang kalin-gawan diri na sila usually, that’s why we, along with the PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agen-cy), continue our moni-toring there,” Braganza said.

“Hindi lang sa mga bar, drugs are usually sold

in coastal areas sa mga beach resort, even near schools, colleges,”

Meanwhile, CADAC’s plan is to appoint baran-gay anti-drug officers (BADO) in every commu-nity.

“All barangays will be covered by this program. We are encouraging peo-ple to volunteer and par-ticipate in the program,” he said.

DepEd’s K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education Program.

Under the program, incoming high school stu-dents this June 2012 will belong to the first batch of students projected to enter Grade 11 by school year 2016-2017.

The K to 12 program made kindergarten man-datory for children aged five years-old and added

two more years for sec-ondary education.

Based on the K to 12 model, a child will have to pass two years of kin-dergarten, six-years of elementary education, four years of junior high school (Grade 7 to 10) and two years of senior high school (Grades 11 to 12), or a total of 14 years of basic education. [ALLEN V. ESTABILLO/MINDANEWS]

modifications of anyone of the Watershed’s compo-nents.

With these, he said, an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach of managing the watershed is an essential remedy to ad-dress various issues and problems.

The Davao River is 169.58 kilometers long with eight major sub-wa-tersheds.

It spans a total area of 175,776 hectares, 70% of it running through tim-berlands. About 22% of it belongs to alienable and disposable lands.

The river’s total area is 121,385 hectares with 113 barangays in Davao City. It extends to Bukidnon par-ticularly Kitaotao town

with seven barangays and the municipality of San Fernando with four baran-gays.

Some parts of the wa-tershed are situated in a barangay in Arakan, North Cotabato.

Zarasate also men-tioned the declaration of the United Nations-driven Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, saying that human well-being, key components of which are health and freedom from preventable disease, is fun-damentally dependent on ecosystem services.

He quoted: “Maintain-ing ecosystem services through watershed man-agement can be vastly cheaper than trying to en-gineer alternatives.”

THE Philippine Na-tional Police (PNP) on Saturday an-

nounced that it has meted severe administrative pen-alties to active and retired PNP personnel indicted for the alleged anomalous pur-chase of police light opera-tional helicopters in 2009.

PNP Director General Nicanor Bartolome said the sanctions were imposed pursuant to a resolution passed by the Ombudsman on May 30 and duly ap-proved on June 1.

Dismissed from the service effective June 15 with accessory penalties of forfeiture of retirement benefits and perpetual dis-qualification to hold public office were Chief Supt. Luis Saligumba; Chief Supt. Her-old Ubalde; Senior Supt. Job Nolan Antonio; Senior Supt Mansue Lukban; Senior Supt Edgar Paatan; Supt. Roman Loreto ; Supt. Er-milando Villafuerte; Chief Insp. Ma. Josefina Reco-meta; SPO4 Ma. Linda Pa-dojinog; SPO1 Avensuel Dy and Non-Uniformed Per-sonnel (NUP) NUP Ruben Gongona.

Penalized with six months suspension effec-tive June 15 were Senior Supt. Joel Crisostomo Gar-

cia; SPO3 Jorge Gabiana; PO3 Dionisio Jimenez; NUP Emilia Aliling; NUP Edwin Chavarria; and NUP Edwin Maranan.

Penalized with fines equivalent to one year sala-ry deducted from payment of accumulative leave cred-its with accessory penalty of forfeiture of retirement benefits and perpetual dis-qualification to hold public office pursuant to Ombuds-man Resolution dated May 30 for serious dishonesty and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the ser-vice, was Director Leoca-dio Santiago Jr. (retired last March 16); Director George Piano (retired last April 8); and Supt. Claudio Gaspar. Jr., (retired last Feb. 2).

The Ombudsman said the police officers con-spired with one another in committing “numerous ir-regular and illegal related acts” pertaining to the ne-gotiated procurement by the PNP of two units of he-licopters.

The information signed by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales cited three “illegal and related acts” committed by all accused in the chopper deal – the con-tract was overpriced, the Manila Aerospace Products

Trading (Maptra) lacked technical and financial eli-gibility and its net financing contracting capacity was at negative P4 million, which were in violation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations.

Moreover, the Ombuds-man said the units were not compliant with the Na-tional Police Commission specifications as regards its endurance and ventilating system, and had expired en-gine warranties.

According to the graft agency, the helicopters were paid by the PNP for P104,985,000 each, but had a net amount of P99,360,803.60 with the deduction of the 10 percent VAT and two percent E-VAT.

The negotiated pro-curement, however, was overpriced by at least P34,632,187.50, which was paid by the PNP to Maptra for the two hand-me-down units.

The Ombudsman said the deal has caused undue injury to the PNP and the government, and resulted in grave damage to the in-stitution since it was de-prived of its new helicop-ters with engine warranties and longer serviceability. [PNA] 

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Republic of the PhilippinesREGIONAL TRIAL COURT11TH JUDICIAL REGION

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTDAVAO CITY

NICKEL COLLECTION LENDING INVESTOR,INC. REPRESENTED BY MARITESS V. SIANGCOMortgagee,

versus – EJF-REM CASE NO. 13,417-12

PRINCESITA L. COMISO,Mortgagor/s.

NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the above-mentioned mortgagee against PRINCESITA L. COMISO with address at Blk. 14, Lot 44, Phase 29 85 A Rosa St. La Verna Hills, Brgy. Pampanga, Davao City, to satisfy the mort-gage indebtedness which as of date of the petition amounted to FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE PESOS AND 55/100 (577,485.55) Philippine Currency, exclusive of penalties,past due interest ,and plus expenses of fore-closure and attorney’s fee representing 25% of the total obligation due ; the undersigned Sheriff of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on July 12, 2012 at 10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland, Davao City, to the highest bidder for CASH and/or Manager’s Check and in Philippine Currency, the fol-lowing real property/ies mentioned and described below together with all the improve-ments found thereon , to wit:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-455289“ A parcel of land of the consolidation-subdivision project (lot 44, Blk. 14, of the con-

solidation-subdivision plan Pcs-112402-001422,xxx) situated in Barangay of Pampanga; City of Davao; Island of Mindanao. xxx Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE (135) SQUARE METERS, more or less.” And

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-453137“ A parcel of land (Lot 2-A, Psd-11-103533) being a portion of lot 2, Psd-11-042139,

situated in the Barrio of Matina, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao.xxx Containing an area of EIGHTY EIGHT (88) SQUARE, more or less.”

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

In the event that the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on August 9, 2012 without further notice.

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

Davao City, Philippines, June 6, 2012

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD) TERESITA M. CEBALLOS Sheriff IV

NOTED BY:ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR. Clerk of Court VI Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff (Edge 6/18,25,7/2

OKLAHOMA CITY – Here was his chance to deliver

LeBron James into a liv-ing hell of a weekend, a this-is-your-life ava-lanche of failed fourth quarters and foiled championship chases. All the way back Kevin Durant had brought the Oklahoma City Thun-der, pushing past James’ touch of tentativeness with a flurry of shots. Finally, the clock ticking down, ball in his hands, Durant had a chance for overtime.

The pass had come sooner than the play had called for, catch-ing Durant as he crept down the baseline with 12 seconds left. As his long arms lifted into the air, James made the cal-culated gamble of these playoffs. He locked arms with Durant on his way into the air, and Durant’s shot sailed to the rim, bounced off the side, and bounced into his hands. The refs didn’t dare blow the whistle on the three-time MVP, and it wouldn’t be long until James deliv-ered his 11th and 12th free throws without a miss, and a 100-96 Game 2 victory over the Thun-der.

When it was over, Du-rant understood the su-perstar code. Whatever the contact, whatever the no-call, these stakes, his stature, offer no leeway for excuses.

“I missed the shot, man,” Durant said.

Again and again, Durant was given the chance to raise an eye-brow, send a message to the officials demanding the proper respect for the NBA scoring cham-pion, and Durant didn’t dare do it. The questions came, and the responses were unwavering.

This is turning into a monumental matchup, the planet’s two most devastating talents trad-ing shot for shot, mo-ment for moment. James and Durant would go the distance in Game 2, go for 32 points each, and these NBA Finals are threaten-ing to turn into a classic.

Something else hap-pened here. No one would’ve been surprised if the Heat collapsed in the fourth quarter, but they didn’t. Miami held onto the victory that it desperately needed in the 2-3-2 series format, and so much of it had to do with James crossing a threshold in the final minutes. James’ hardest NBA Finals tests – tight road games – was playing out like the others in his troubled championship history. Up until the final four and half minutes, he was scoreless in the fourth quarter. His gait, his disposition looked decidedly old LeBron.

All night, James had beaten a path to the bas-ket, finishing with sev-

The DuelJames lives to beat Durant another day

eral lefty bank shots of the highest degree of dif-ficulty. All night, James dropped his head down, pushed past Thunder defenders with rippling muscles and a relentless resolve to finish at the rim, and get to the free-throw line. And yet, the Heat were rapidly los-ing a 13-point lead in the fourth, when James would go silent, and Du-rant would be closing hard with 26 of his 32 in the second half. Everyone started to get that sinking feeling that James could be on the wrong end of a crushing collapse.

And then, with the Thunder within three and Erik Spoelstra’s play falling apart in the final seconds of the shot-clock, James hit a daring, dif-ficult 15-foot bank shot with 1:26 left. Before the deed was done, James made a beautiful pass to Chris Bosh on a dunk. He also went 4-for-4 at the foul line in the final quar-

ter. No ghosts for James, no goblins. And yet, James gave Durant a final chance for victory when he shot a lazy, long jump-er with 14.9 seconds left and the Heat holding on, 98-96. Where was the drive to the rim? Where was the aggression?

Out of the timeout, Thunder coach Scott Brooks had diagrammed a pin-down play, where the ball handler dribbles to the opposite side, only to turn back quickly to have the shooter come free off the screen. Be-fore it developed, Derek Fisher trusted his in-

stincts that Durant had a step on James, fired a pass and Durant had the ball in a place that even he admitted, “That’s a shot I shoot all the time.”

Here was his chance to bring Oklahoma City all the way back, all the way on James, and from seven feet away, Durant missed. Seven minutes earlier, James and Spoel-stra had come to the Heat huddle with the same thought: Get Miami’s best defender on Okla-homa City’s best scorer.

“I want to guard the best on the biggest point of the game,” James said.

“He can make every shot on the floor.” And James, realizing that Durant had gotten past him, would say, “I just wanted to keep a body on him, make him take a tough shot,” and it was made all the tougher with James’ big hands clawing Durant. That’s how it goes in the final moments, where offi-cials are sluggish to blow a whistle when it’s the MVP checking the scor-ing champion.

Durant’s job was to force overtime, force James into pressure plays and make him match ev-erything. He had been downright brilliant, bal-ancing five fouls and de-termination to still rush the rim. For the second time here, the Heat had a huge lead to start the game, and this time, it took until late in the fourth before Oklahoma City got within a whis-per. Suddenly James has thrust pressure on Du-rant.

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Kevin Durant and Lebron James’ match-up is expected to be fierce as they take their acts to Miami for Game 3.

But when I strayed one day into the Singapore Art Museum, those words and yes, my artwork, once more flashed before me. It’s like travelling back in time. Here I was in front of hundreds of recycled boxes in a boxed up art gallery room awed by the possibilities.

This room on the third level of SAM Garden fea-tured the work of Justin Lee entitled “The Art of Imagination.” Recycled cardboard boxes, ink transfer, and acrylic made up the very simple Lee media. The room greets you with Lee’s art pieces made of recyclable boxes. More than the artwork is Lee’s message. Large boxes spell out gallery’s theme by the entrance to the room. A few tables were laid out for viewers, mostly fam-ily groups where children tinker on the small boxes with their own expression. Two panels of layered large boxes were painted with Chinese charac-ters Xue (which means “Learn”) and Jue (which means “Feel”). Small box-

es were laid on the floor and some were piled on a shelf neatly mounted on the flat white wall. Kids can take the boxes with Justin’s drawings and paint their own drawings or write their own words on them. Justin Lee’s “The Art of Imagination” is an in-teractive installation with graphics and text painted on recyclable cardboard boxes. This work reflects

how text and images influ-ence and shape our daily thoughts and expressions. In Lee’s gallery, visi-tors are invited to explore popular local images, texts and motifs, and are en-couraged to unleash their own imagination by add-ing their personal draw-ings to this creative mash-up. They can also replace and rearrange the boxes to create a new message or image.

The artist, Justin Lee, has received awards from the Mont Blanc Artists World Patronage Project (2007), the Philip Mor-ris Singapore Art Awards (2005) as well as the High-

ly Recommended Award in UOB Painting of the Year (2003). Lee is well known for his representations of Sin-gapore society and lifestyle using a unique blend of eastern and western cul-tural icons. Some of his significant solo exhibi-tions include “Toy Nation” and “Double Happiness-Fantasy” in Red in 2003. I felt Lee’s simple but provoking works pick the imaginative brain while you are in front, of all things, boxes. Which takes me back to the question what I will feel if I had been put in a box. If I had been asked the same question all over again, I am more certain this time the answers could fill up a room.

By Neil Bravo

I had an artwork back in high school where my art teacher commented on. She wrote: “How do you feel like being put in a box?”

At that age, I did not mind its real meaning. Not even the inner meaning behind its real meaning.

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Imagination in a boxLost in Singapore Art Museum

HELPING YOU MAKE INFORMED BUSINESS DECISIONS.

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THEY say the taste of a wine varies on the year the grapes are grown, harvest-ed, fermented, and bottled, hence the importance of the vintage of the wine, making each wines character, unique. And looking for the perfect wines to keep in their cellar can become a daunt-ing task for an aver-age oenophiles, that is why they attend wine tasting events. The Swiss Deli at Lanang, together with Sommelier Wine Selec-tions, recently hosted such a wine tasting at the wine cellar of the Swiss Deli to help educate and inform the average urbanite of the complexities and nuances a wine has (aside from the alcohol everybody loves.) We were given a selec-tion of fine French wines to taste and evaluate while being paired with cheeses and a selection of sausages and meats. Among the selection of wines was the Chateau De La Liiquiere A Mi Chenim from (Languedoc, France, showing its brilliant color and yellowish tint, fresh, citirus aromas with citrus and white flower notes that is best paired with seafood, grilled fish and veal.

Another white wine, Champalou Vouvray Vin Sec from Loire Valley of France, is pale gold in col-or with green highlights, evoking aromas of apples and peaches mingling with lemons.  It is perfect with grilled pork with wok vegetables, seafood, fried cod and Japanese cuisine. Red wine enthusiasts will love the Les Demoi-selles De Falfas 2010. This fine Bordeaux has aromas of violets and tobacco with a taste of fresh black fruit and spices. It has light

tannins and is great with pasta. Another beautiful red is the Domaine la Croix Caringole 2010 that is easy to drink. The wine is fresh and supple with black ol-ive, herbal and mineral, cherry, meaty flavours. It is so nice and easy to drink and is great value for mon-ey. People who enjoy big, bold wines that really pack a punch will like this wine that is best paired with

steaks and dishes with rich sauces. Of course all my talk-ing will be for naught if no one would actually go and taste the wines I have mentioned. So try to visit the Swiss Deli Lanang and Matina and go French for a night or two (or three.) Follow me on twitter for more foodie finds, random thoughts, and happenings in and around Durian-burg.

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Going French

Mr and Mrs Butch PachecoThe Pacheco sisters.

Doris Villareal, moi, and Rochelle Venuti.Dalia Limbago, Beth Limbago and Cecil Co.

Benjamin of Sommelier Wine Selections shows off the finer points of a wine to guests.

The wine cellar at the Swiss Deli Lanang.

Stella Estremera nd Aimee Garcia

CHRIS Brown appar-ently had an eventful evening last Wednes-day. The R&B star posted a picture on his Twitter page Wednesday that revealed a pretty gnarly gash on his chin, resulting in specula-tion that the cut was caused by an altercation involv-ing bottles being thrown between Brown and fel-low singer Drake and their respective entourages at a New York City nightclub. So what supposedly went down? E! News has confirmed with the NYPD that, at 4:08 a.m., officers responded to a call of disorderly con-duct at the WIP nightclub. Five victims suffered non-threatening lacerations and were removed to area

hospitals. There were no ar-rests and the investigation

is ongoing. “How u party wit rich

n**** that hate? Lol... Throwing bottles like girls?

#shameonya!” Brown tweeted along with the

photo, although both have since been removed from his account. There are reports that rapper Meek Mill was with Drake last night as well, and rumors are running rampant that the fight may have started because both men are believed to have romanced Brown’s ex, Rihanna. Mill has since posted a tweet this morning, say-ing simply, “It wasn’t me... (shaggy voice) lol.” No word from Drake on his Twitter page regarding the spat. Coincidentally, Mary J. Blige, according to the nightclub, also just hap-pened to be there, but she has yet to comment on Twitter about what may or may not have gone down.

CHRIS Brown might not be done tweeting about the brutal melee that erupted early Thursday morning be-tween he and his posse and rapper Drake and his entou-rage at the W.i.P. nightclub in SoHo. And while various reports indicate the “Run It” singer has since been interviewed by investigators probing the incident, the NYPD isn’t say-ing one way or the other. But one thing Brown’s camp definitely wants to clear the air about is the no-tion that he sent a peace of-fering to his rival. The 23-year-old R&B star’s management, Phase Too Inc., took to Twitter today to smack down reports that quoted witnesses as say-ing the Brown had a $2,000 bottle of Ace of Spades champagne delivered to Drake’s table—a gesture that purportedly prompted the Young Money enter-tainer to send back a note that read, “I am f--king the love of your life.” That re-ported note being a refer-ence to Brown’s 24-year-old ex, Rihanna, whom Drake hooked up with following Brown’s highly publicized assault on the “Disturbia” diva. Phase Too, however, called the story a crock. “There was no bottle sent to @drake and there was no note! Stop the lies,

TMZ/MTO!!!! There were no punches thrown, just glass,” tweeted his managers. Not long after photos surfaced showing broken glass strewn everywhere throughout the W.i.P. club’s interior, a spokesperson for Greenhouse, the SoHo club run which operates W.i.P., confirmed to E! News that the hot spot’s manager, Jonathan Cantor, was taken into custody by police today on two outstanding war-rants stemming from noise complaints there. Per the New York Daily News, Cantor was charged with a minor noise violation and is currently behind bars, but the bust supposedly has nothing to do with skirmish at W.i.P, which is located in the same building as Green-house. The arrest is sparking speculation that investi-gators might use his legal situation to lean on him for information about the feud. Police are also combing through the club’s surveil-lance video to determine who threw the first punch (and bottle). Such details would be most helpful to model Ingrid Gutierrez—who was sitting at Brown’s table when the fight went down—and was hit in the head with a bottle that left her bleeding. Her attorney, Sal Stazzul-lo, tells E! News his injured

client is aggressively inves-tigating all aspects of the fight and he is sending out subpoena’s to the W.i.P club to obtain the security videos as well as the names of all the waitresses, waiters, bar-tenders and security guards who were on duty. He is also getting a subpoena to obtain the names of all the patrons that used a credit card there that night. “We want to get the wit-nesses that eye witnessed the crime of assault with a bottle against Ingrid,” the lawyer said, adding that Gutierrez suffered bruises, stitches and trauma to her face. “Plastic surgery is prob-ably likely,” he added. “At this moment right now she is just getting treated.” Stazzulo noted the 21-year-old Brooklyn native has not been contacted yet by the police to tell what she witnessed with the row. Lastly, E! News can con-firm that a video that pur-portedly emerged on You-Tube and has been making the media rounds purport-edly showing footage of the fight is a fake. Along with Guiterrez, Brown suffered a gash to his chin and subsequently tweeted a photo of it in the aftermath before taking it down. While his bodyguard, Big Pat, sustained a nasty head wound.

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Chris Brown fights with Rihanna’s flame

What started the brawl?

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Lindsay Lohan found unconscious in her hotel room!?PARAMEDICS were called in to tend to Lindsay Lohan Friday morning after the actress was be-lieved to be unconscious in her hotel room. However, E! News has confirmed that while emergency services were called to the Liz & Dick star’s hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey this morning, Lindsay’s rep tells E! News the situation wasn’t quite as dramatic as it sounds. “Lindsay has been working a grueling schedule for the last couple of days,” Lo-han’s rep Steve Honig told E! News. “Last night she worked from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. She was exhausted and went back to her room to sleep. Producers were apparently con-cerned and called the fire department and paramedics found her sleeping but deter-mined that she was fine, just extremely ex-hausted and slightly dehydrated. “She is on her way home now to rest and will be back on set later today.” He added that no drugs or alcohol were involved in the incident. The Marina del Rey sheriff’s department, meanwhile, confirmed to E! News that para-medics responded to the hotel at 10:15 a.m. on the call of an unconscious person after the production crew tried and failed to rouse the actress and grew concerned. After paramedics arrived on the scene, Lohan woke up and responded to ques-tions about what had happened. She was

determined to be fine by those on scene and was at no point transported to the hos-pital. A source on the set, meanwhile, tells E! News that Lindsay left the set after wrap-ping up her scenes at around 8 a.m. She reportedly could return to work as soon as today, but everything is “totally up in the air” right now. The source added that the production was shooting on location at the marina, and that Lindsay was staying in a suite on the Ritz-Carlton’s upper floor. A member of the production staff dis-patched to Lindsay’s room this morning was “pounding” on her hotel suite door for sev-eral minutes, and after failing to receive any response from inside, they grew concerned, thus leading to the call to paramedics.

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kevin Durant had the ball in his hands

and LeBron James in his face.

With 10 seconds left in Game 2, the NBA Finals were providing all the the-ater anyone could ask. Two superstars going head-to-head, the Miami Heat try-ing to hold off another stir-ring rally by theOklahoma City Thunder, television ratings reaching levels last seen when Kobe Bry-ant and Shaquille O’Neal played together.

James forced Du-rant to miss that tying at-tempt - perhaps getting away with a foul - and the Heat held on for a 100-96 victory on Thursday night that evened the series at one game apiece. And as it shifts to Miami for the next three games, the only thing that seems certain is a tense series that looks to be lengthy.

Game 3 is Sunday night (Monday morning in the Philippines) and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra thinks it will look similar to the first two.

‘’This is going to be probably like this every single game, and that’s the beauty of competition at this level, and embracing that competition and see-ing what it brings out of you collectively,’’ Spoelstra said.

It’s brought out the best of league MVP James and Durant, the NBA scor-ing champion. The series hype was built around them and they spent the first two games living up to every ounce of it.

James has bounced back from his disappoint-ing 2011 finals by scoring 30 and then 32 points, and even that was only good enough for a split because Durant has been just as good. He followed up his 36-point performance in Game 1 by scoring 32 on Thursday, 16 in the fourth quarter after he scored 17 in the final period of the

opener. Yet that was wast-ed because the Thunder had fallen into a 17-point hole in the first half.

The Thunder also spot-ted Miami a 13-point lead in the first half of Game 1 and have fallen into dou-ble-digit holes in three straight games. Coach Scott Brooks said after Game 2 he wasn’t considering a new starting lineup, even though the Thunder have been more effective with a smaller group on the floor.

Instead, he said the only change the Thunder needed was greater inten-sity from the start.

‘’We didn’t come out with the toughness that we need to come out with. We’re an aggressive team, we’re a physical team,’’ he said. ‘’Defensive mindset

was not where it needs to be, and hopefully we change that going into Game 3.’’

The slow starts at home could mean trouble for the Thunder in Miami, where they won’t have their raucous crowd to help rattle the Heat. But Oklahoma City has been good on the road in the postseason, winning twice in Dallas in the first round, taking a game in Los An-geles in the second round and pulling out a Game 5 victory in San Antonio in the Western Conference finals.

‘’These are the two best teams. They’re con-fident no matter what building they’re in,’’ James said. ‘’We’re happy now that it’s a 1-1 series and we’re going back to Miami and will take control of the home court. It doesn’t mean that the series has changed. Both teams can win on each other’s floor and both teams are confi-dent.’’

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Roar!Tiger ontop ofUSOpen

SAN FRANCISCO -- There were no fist pumps for Tiger

Woods, just a deep breath and a slow exhale. Jim Fu-ryk walked most of the 7,170 yards at Olympic Club with his head down. David Toms couldn’t think of a single shot he hit without his full attention Friday.

They were not the sur-vivors of the U.S. Open. They were the leaders.

And it’s no coincidence that all of them have been tested in the majors, none more often than Woods, who survived a patch of bo-geys early in his round for an even-par 70 that took him another round closer

to a 15th major title.‘’I know that it takes a

bit out of us, but so be it,’’ Woods said. ‘’Much rather be there than missing cuts or just making the cut. So it’s a wonderful place to be with a chance to win your nation’s open.’’

Just when this U.S. Open was starting to look like child’s play, a trio of major champions took it back.

Furyk rolled in a 40-foot birdie putt from off the third green in the morning for a 69. Woods and Toms, who showed a steady hand with the putter for a 70, joined him in the afternoon when the conditions were fiery and emotions were

frayed.They were the only

players to beat par for 36 holes at 1-under 139.

And they restored some sanity to a major that for a brief and stunning moment had been taken over by a 17-year-old who only two weeks ago didn’t even win his state high school cham-pionship. Beau Hossler went 11 holes without making a bogey, and took the outright lead on one of the toughest holes at Olym-pic. He got lost in the thick rough and trees on the bru-tal front nine, dropping five shots in eight holes for a 73 that left him four shots be-hind.

Game 3 shifts to Miami

Kevin Durant of Oklahoma will have Chris Bosh to worry about in defense.

Tiger Woods heaves a sigh after sinking a difficult putt.

By Neil Bravo

FIRST Tee came in third with 16 points in the final round but that was more than

enough to propel them past the tough field and win the 2012 Dynasty Cup at the Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday.

First Tee finished just within their tough rivals FHM and Ami-ya to complete the three-round unique team golf tournament with 56 aggregate points. Amiya wound up second with 45 points while FHM was third with 42 points.

Eagle Masters 1 scored 14 points in the final round for a 39

total and a fourth place finish while the Beijing Dream Team had 37.5 to narrowly edge Barce-lona Dream Team (37) for 5th.

The third round was a one-ball twosome format which pitted the field’s best pair. FHM topped the one ball twosomes with 20 while Amiya was second and First Tee third.

First Tee had enough cushion going into the final round after topping the first two rounds com-posed of the best net aggregate and the best ball scrambles.

Rounding up the top ten are Pomelo Verdes A (36), Korean Red Heroes (35), Eagle Masters 2 (33.5), D Builders (32) and Dream High (30).

FILIPINO teenager Miguel Tabuena pro-duced a gutsy come-

back with a battling one-under-par 70 to share the halfway lead with in-form Thai veteran Thaworn Wiratchant in the Queen’s Cup in Koh Samui Friday.

The 17-year-old Tabuena was three-over through six holes on a wind-swept day at the Santiburi Samui Country

Club before fighting back with four birdies on his inward nine for a two-day total five-under-par 137 in the $300,000 Asian Tour event.

Thaworn, a former Asian Tour number one with 12 career wins, pro-duced an impressive 67 to give himself a chance of tying countryman Thong-chai Jaidee’s record 13 Asian Tour victories.

Tabuena tied for lead in Queen’s Cup golf

First Tee wins Dynasty Cup

Miguel Tabuena of the Philippines studies his line of putt.

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KIEV – France put six years of finals misery behind them on Fri-

day to beat Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine 2-0 in their Group D clash and record their first victory at a major tournament since the 2006 World Cup, where they fin-ished runners-up.

In doing so in a match that was under threat after a dramatic thunderstorm forced it to be suspended shortly after the initial kick-off they leapfrogged Ukraine in the table.

The Euro 2000 cham-pions were joined on four points later on Friday by England, who won a thrill-ing encounter against Swe-den 3-2 and as a result ended Swedish interest with regards to reaching the last eight.

France, who extended their unbeaten run under Laurent Blanc to 23 games, had fought out an uninspir-ing 1-1 draw with England in their first game but were

England eliminates Swedenin more adventurous form against the Ukrainians.

However, they had to wait till the second-half for their efforts to be rewarded as goals by Jeremy Menez – who had been preferred to Florent Malouda – and

Yohan Cabaye secured the three points.

It left Blanc not only re-lieved that the match had gone ahead and pleased to have put themselves in an ex-cellent position to progress but also waxing lyrical over

Paris Saint Germain winger Menez’s performance.

“(Menez) is someone who needs confidence but he has an increasingly rare quality, which is the ability to play behind the opposition defence.

Danny Welbeck of England scores against Sweden.