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FLAGS. A security personnel peeks between Philippine National flags during the com-memoration of the country’s 115th Independence Day yes-terday at the Annex of SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr.

INDEPENDENCE DAY. Mayor Sara Duterte Carpio (4th from right) and Commodore Antonio A. Habulan Jr., Eastern Mindanao Naval Forces commander (3rd from right), lead the ceremoni-al raising of the Philippine National flag during yesterday’s celebration of the 115th Philippine In-dependence Day at the Rizal Park, in Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

Poverty is the new en-emy that Filipinos should strive to be free

from. However, this will not yet happen in the near fu-ture, according to outgoing Mayor Sara Z. Duterte.

At a ceremony celebrating the 115th Anniversary of Philippine In-dependence yesterday at Rizal Park fronting the city hall, the mayor said that foreign colonizers are no longer the enemies, but poverty.

The mayor said that we can’t eradicate poverty in the near future since it is something handed down to

INDEPENDENCE DAY BATTLE CRY

By EJ Dominic Fernandez

‘Freedom from poverty’

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JOB FAIR.Thousands of job seekers troop to the Activity Center of the Abreeza Mall for the Department of Labor and Employ-ment (DOLE) Kalayaan 2013 Job Fair yes-terday. Lean Daval Jr.

FOLK DANCES. Students of Imelda Elementary School perform a folk dance as part of the commemoration of the country’s 115th Independence Day at the Rizal Park, in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

A total of 1,199 job-seekers went to the NCCC Mall in

Ma-A, Davao City as of 4:00 p.m. yesterday to avail of the Kalayaan Jobs Fair 2013 initiat-ed by the Department of Labor and Employ-ment (DOLE) region 11 to coincide with the 115th anniversary of Philippine Indepen-dence.

Of the total, 255 ap-

plied for overseas jobs, according to the DOLE, 159 of who were male and 96 female.

Another 944 ap-plied for local jobs, 446 of whom were male and 498 female.

DOLE confirmed that 2,000 applicants were pre registered last June 5-11, some of whom had already been interviewed by prospective employ-

ers.The pre-registra-

tion was conducted by five representa-tives from employers and agencies who will in turn short list the pre-registrants.

There were 11,887 job vacancies for the Independence Day jobs fair, majority of the jobs being for are overseas hiring.

The top 10 occu-

pations with the most number of vacancies include call center agents, sales person-nel, product special-ists, customer service assistants, sales clerks, drivers, service crew, technical support staff, cashier and fac-tory workers. The Ka-layaan Jobs Fair is said to be among the three biggest organized by DOLE annually.

IN commemoration of the 115th Anniversary of Philippine Indepen-

dence, Filipinos not only in the Philippines but also those working abroad (OFWs) celebrated the event.

Karen Gay Beloria, who worked for four years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) as a hospital nurse, she told Edge Davao that the Filipinos here cel-ebrated Independence Day

differently from KSA. “I’m just wondering

why Philippine Indepen-dence is least celebrated in our country where we are more excited to go malling for midnight sales and discounts on Indepen-dence Day. Based on my experience, people in other countries prepare for such event two weeks before the day itself, seeing to it that they will feel the spirit

Job-seekers swamp NCCCBy Che Palicte

What some OFWs thinkof Independence Day

A survey is being con-ducted to generate inputs and recom-

mendation to currently be-ing reviewed land use plan and zoning ordinance in the City Council.

With this, the Davao City Chamber of Commerce calls on to all business-men– chamber member and non-chamber member to submit their inputs as to how the proposed plan and zoning ordinance will impact their business op-erations.

The Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Zon-ing Ordinance is the end product of the decision and planning process con-ducted by the local govern-ment. It includes mapping out how the land will be used and how it will be regulated. Moreover, the plan will serve as guide to the investors and business-men on the viability of the business establishment to which it will be located.

The Davao Chamber has been given the full copy of the plan and ordi-nance last Thursday, June

6. However, the members of the Board could not is-sue any recommendations and/or endorsement to the plan without proper consultation with the var-ious sectors of business affected.

“We would like to con-duct a more substantive review of the plan and the ordinance by consulting you so we will know your concerns & suggestions to ensure a balanced and harmonized plan for the City of Davao,” said DC-CCII past president and trustee John Y. Gaisano, Jr., who was appointed by the group’s board of trustees to spearhead the review committee that will gather the inputs and process the recommendations of the business sector.

In light of this, the Davao Chamber of Com-merce calls the attention of the concerned busi-nessmen to obtain a copy of the plan with the or-dinance and examine it. Copy of the plan is also available at the Davao City Chamber.

Businessmen urged to studyland use, zoning ordinance

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“WE started e x p o r t i n g P h i l i p p i n e

upland rice and we saw the potentials.” This was bared by Agriculture As-sistant Secretary Dante Delima in a consultative planning workshop on export of Heirloom or Ar-omatic Rise, Thursday at Pinnacle Hotel, Davao City.

Delima said the coun-try is capable of export-ing upland rice varieties that are not found in oth-er countries. He cited the first two batches of upland rice export to Dubai and Hongkong, which are still waiting for official feed-back but confident that it has been positive.

“After sending off our red rice to Hongkong, we became popular and many countries signify their interest to import these

kinds of rice which include Indonesia, Singapore and another batch in Hong-kong,” Delima said.

He also emphasized that the purpose of ex-porting rice to other coun-tries is for the benefit of rice farmers. “We are do-ing this tedious job of rice exportation to help our farmers earn more, and later they will be the one to export their own pro-duce,” Delima said.

With this endeavor, he cited challenges in sus-taining rice exportation which include the un-countable varieties of up-land, scattered production areas, lack of good quality processing plant, lack of capital, and lack of prop-er labeling of the export product which include name tag and nutritive value among others.

With these issues, the Department of Agri-culture gathered farmer leaders in regions 11, 12, 13 and ARMM to discuss issues and even solic-it their commitments to help their constituents in the endeavor to continue exporting upland rice by consolidating needed data in each area.

They were also taught about the simple guide-lines in rice exportation which includes the stock preparations, business preparations, estimated cost of export per con-tainer, export permits and documentation, and ex-port loading at the port.

Delima also empha-sized the problem on no standard export price in which farmers are rush-ing in exporting without knowing that this should

be considered. “Dili ta pwede mag

buot-buot sa presyo, kay kung sobra kamahal, wa-lay mupalit ana. Kung wa-lay mupalit, dapat pamub.an ang presyo”, Delima stated. He added that high value product with right system of costing should be on the note. (We cannot name the price because if it goes too costly, no one would buy the product that’s why we need to ad-just.)

“The capability of the Philippine rice to compete in global market is grow-ing because it is catego-rized as premium rice that is why DA’s primary goal is to maximize the product exportation, for it means an increasing profit for the farmers”. Delima added. [llbocado-Aggie Media Service]

Agriculture Assistant Secretary Dante Delima challenges upland farmers to sustain upland rice export.

DA exec cites challenges in upland rice exportation

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resourc-

es (DENR 11) through its Protected Areas and Wildlife Division (PAWD) recently conducted a three-day training on Bio-diversity Monitoring Sys-tem (BMS) held at Blue Bless Resort, Mati, Davao Oriental.

The said training was attended by a total num-ber of 30 participants coming from the Provin-cial and Community Envi-ronment and Natural Re-sources Office (PENROs and CENROs), Deputy Protected Areas Super-intendents (PASUs) and some PAWD personnel. It aims to let all the partici-pants be knowledgeable on BMS as it is one of the tools to help strengthen the management of both terrestrial and marine protected areas.

BMS is designed by the DENR in order to improve the information available for decision-makers in protected areas through regular collection of data on natural resources and their utilization. The fo-cus of BMS is to identify trends of the flora and fauna within the pro-tected area and its use to guide the actions of the Protected Area Manage-ment Board (PAMB), the Local Government Units (LGUs) and the local com-munities in natural re-sources management.

Schemes involved in the data collection are: using of field diary; con-duct of photo documen-tation; transect walk for terrestrial PAs or tran-sect swim for marine Pas and; Focus Group Discus-sion (FGD) involving the DENR, PAMB, LGUs and the communities.

PAWD OIC Chief Edu-

ardo V. Ragaza said that the significance of con-ducting BMS is to have improved conservation actions and more sus-tainable use of forest, wetlands and marine resources as well as in-tensify further the partic-ipation of the communi-ties within the protected area.

Ragaza also em-phasized that the said training was conducted especially for the new-ly-installed PENROs and CENROs with protected areas under their juris-diction considering that they are the implement-ers of such areas.

Some of the topics discussed during the training were Seagrass Species Identification, Transect swim and Reef Check Guide and salient features of Republic Act 7586 or the National In-tegrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act. All the participants also con-ducted their BMS practi-cum at the identified sites in Brgy. Bobon, Mati City and Brgy. Maputi, San Isidro.

At present, there are a total of 11 protected areas all over Region 11 namely: Baganga Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape; Baganga Protected Landscape; Mati Protected Land-scape; Mabini Protected Landscape and Seascape; Mainit Hot Springs Pro-tected Landscape; Samal Island Protected Land-scape and Seascape; Mt. Apo Natural Park; Mala-gos Protected Landscape; Pujada Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape; Mt. Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary and; Aliwagwag Protected Landscape. [DENR 11 PR]

AROUND 20,000 public elemen-tary students in

Koronadal City are set to receive various ba-sic health care packages through a school-based health initiative adopted by the city government.

Dr. Jean Genevieve Aturdido, city health of-ficer, said Monday the lo-cal government will im-plement this school year the “Essential Health Care Program” for pub-

lic elementary schools within the city’s 27 ba-rangays.

She said the program will be launched on June 19 at the San Roque El-ementary School in Ba-rangay San Roque in partnership with the De-partment of Education (DepEd) and non-gov-ernment group Fit for School Inc.

Under the program, the official said each beneficiary will initial-

ly receive an essential health care kit compris-ing of a soap, toothbrush and toothpaste with flu-oride.

She said the benefi-ciaries will also undergo biannual deworming as part of the program’s key components.

Aturdido said the city government adopted the program to strengthen its ongoing efforts to im-prove the health and nu-tritional status of school-

children in the area.“We’ll not only dis-

tribute the health kits but we’ll also educate our schoolchildren about their use and the importance of proper health practices and hy-giene,” she said.

Aturdido said they will specifically teach the schoolchildren about proper hand washing and tooth brushing tech-niques. [Allen V. Estabil-lo/MindaNews]

AT the piercing sound of siren, people bring their bundles

of household wares, pull their carabaos, carry their pet dogs as they rush to the evacuation center. They are evading the fast-rising Libuak River where up-stream floodwaters flow down.

Rescuers rush toward the river banks to save a nursing mother, a wound-ed farmer and a woman with sprained legs, who all are brought to a medical team. Trucks are deployed to transport about 50 fami-lies who face the danger of being swept away by the rampaging floodwaters.

This was the scene of the flood drill that the IG-aCoS City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRMMC) con-ducted this morning in Barangay Libuak in Babak District in this island city component of Davao del Norte.

Contrary to the sce-nario projected, the drill was conducted under the seething heat of the morn-ing sun with some 60 resi-dent-families participating along with the barangay officials, members of the CDRRMC, Philippine Na-tional Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Task Group Samal, Office of Civil Defense (OCD), City Health Office.

CDRRMC executive officer Janus Rafailes ex-plained Libuak was chosen as venue of the flood drill due to its vulnerability to flashfloods when rain-wa-ters from upstream ba-rangay San Antonio would flush down .

Libuak Punong Baran-gay (Barangay Captain) Jose Oradaneza recalled in April 2011 how a huge vol-ume of floodwaters swept farm animals of families living near Libuak River, bringing real danger to the lives of residents.

“We hope it won’t hap-pen again,” he said in an interview during which he cited the flood drill as helpful in keeping resi-dents aware of the need to be alert and be prepared when heavy rains come.

“There should be res-cuers here,” he said.

Ordaneza revealed moves of CDRRMC and oth-er allied groups to heighten alertness of civilian volun-teer officers (CVOs) who were being formed into a first responder team in the barangay, along with youth members.

Having witnessed the flood drill, Davao del Norte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) execu-tive officer Sonio Sanchez encouraged other local government units to also conduct such drill “since rainy season is entering.”

While he rated well CDRRMC’s initiative to con-duct the flood drill, Sonio

called on Libuak Punong Barangay Ordaneza to take steps to coordinate with the upstream barangay to calculate the time floodwa-ters would reach Libuak.

He also asked Libuak residents living near the river bank to now think of transferring to safe grounds away from the flood danger zone.

Meanwhile, OCD re-gional director retired Brigadier Gen. Loreto Rirao urged residents to keep vigilance of the weather situation not only during the rainy sea-son because the climate change phenomenon has caused erratic weather conditions.

He suggested house-holds to adopt wholistic and comprehensive di-saster preparedness for various types of natural calamities such as earth-quake, landslide, flood and flashfloods. [PIA 11/ Jeanevive D. Abangan]

IGaCoS conducts flood drill under sunny day

Health care package set for 20,000 public pupils in Koronadal City

Biodiversity Monitoring System training held

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COUNTRIES should stop the degrada-tion of marine en-

vironment, the United Nations chief said, as he noted that oceans affect virtually all aspects of life on Earth.

“Let us work togeth-er to create new waves of action for ocean sustain-ability—for people and the planet,” UN Secre-tary-General Ban Ki-Moon said. “From trade to food to climate regulation, the oceans are integral to all of humanity. This is partic-ularly so for coastal dwell-ers whose income and cul-ture are irrevocably bound to the sea,” he added.

“If we are to fully ben-efit from the oceans, we must reverse the degra-dation of the marine envi-ronment due to pollution, overexploitation and acid-ification,” Ban said.

A new report in August 2012 pegged the health of the world’s oceans at 60 points in a 100-point in-

dex.Among the 10 indica-

tors in the Ocean Health Index, food provision got the lowest score of only 23 out of 100. The highest score (87 points) was in artisanal fishing oppor-tunities. The Philippines’ meanwhile scored lower than the global average,

bagging an overall score of 51 points.

Its worst performance was in tourism and recre-ation where it was given a score of zero, as pres-sure posted by tourism (71 points) is higher than tourism resiliency (70 points).

The Philippines’ ocean

health is also expected to further worsen in the short-term in eight out of the 10 indicators, the re-port said.

Only scores in food provision and sense of place are expected to post slight improvements of 0.007 percent and 0.15 percent respectively.

4 EDGEDAVAOSCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

THE 220-hectare Li-guasan marshland in Maguindanao

must be preserved and protected for the sake of future generations.

This was the state-ment issued Monday by an advocate for environ-mental protection di-rected to the provincial governments of Maguind-anao, North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat.

“It is very important to protect and preserve the marsh for the future generations,” Surayda An-ayatin, an environmental-ist and regional represen-tative of the Soccsargen to the Foundation for Philip-pine Environment (PEF), said.

The marshland is

bounded by the provinc-es of Maguindanao, Sul-tan Kudarat and North Cotabato whose leaders are urged by Anayatin to have a common stand and possibly craft a local pol-icy for its protection and preservation.

“God gave us the envi-ronment not only for our generation but also for the coming generations,” she stressed.

“Our local officials, the three provincial gover-nors, should have a firm stand on how they can protect the people, as well as the flora and fauna of the marsh,” Anayatin said during a forum.

Liguasan Marsh occu-pies an area of 220,000 hectares located in the

Mindanao river basin. The area is believed to have rich oil deposit that once drilled “can propel the economic growth of the region.”

It is also a haven for reptiles, wild ducks and other migratory birds. Several species of fresh-water fishes such as mud-fish, tilapia, carp and cat-fish are found in marsh which provide income to the locals.

Anayatin believed that extraction of crude oil from the marsh may eventually happen once the Bangsamoro Govern-ment is established.

“Should that happen, we should not drain the minerals deposit be-neath the marshland,” she

warned because it shall bring environmental de-struction.

She is confident that the Bangsamoro Govern-ment, the New Political Entity that will give real-ization to the aspiration of Bangsamoro people for self-governance, will ad-here to responsible min-erals development.

“Maybe we should only get 20 percent of the resources therein,” she suggested.

“We must see to it that our children in the future will be able to catch fish-es in the marsh,” she said.

“Should there will be extraction, the local communities must get their ‘fair share’ and the protection and preser-

vation program of the Liguashan should have sufficient funds,” Anaya-tin added.

At the same time, she expressed alarm over what she said is the worsening condition of many mountainous areas of Mindanao, the denuda-tion of forestland which results in flooding.

She said several flood-ing incidents have hit some parts of the country which claimed hundreds of lives.

“Environmental pro-tection and preservation is everyone’s concern,” she said. “If we neglect our environment, de-bacle may come and re-gardless of tribes, gender and beliefs, we can all be

victims of natural calami-ties,” she warned.

Anayatin further ex-plained that population, health and environment are factors that must be considered if the people wants peace and sustain-able development.

The government and the Moro Islamic Liber-ation Front are nearing completion of a peace process in southern Phil-ippines that will pro-vide the establishment of a new political entity where the Bangsam-oro people can exercise self-determination.

Included in the in-coming peace agreement is revenue sharing on natural resources of the region. [PNA]

Environmentalist seeks LGUs’ help in protecting Maguindanao marshland

GARBAGE. Fishermen prepare to fish, amidst floating garbage off the shore of Manila Bay during World Oceans Day in Paranaque, Metro Manila June 8, 2013. [REUTERS]

UN chief asks world leadersto stop ocean degradationGLOBAL tempera-

tures are on track to rise by more

than double the two-de-gree Celsius (3.6-degree Fahrenheit) warming goal set by the UN un-less urgent measures are taken, the International Energy Agency warned yesterday.

“The path we are cur-rently on is more likely to result in a temperature increase of between 3.6 and 5.3 C (6.5-9.5F),” IEA chief Maria van der Ho-even said in presenting a new report on green-house gases.

The Paris-based agen-cy urged governments to act, saying the 2C target could still be met with lit-tle economic pain.

“Much more can be done to tackle en-ergy-sector emissions without jeopardising economic growth, an im-portant concern for many governments,” it said.

The IEA report was issued as nations gath-ered in Bonn for a second week of talks on forging a global pact to limit car-bon emissions. It would be signed in late 2015

and take effect in 2020.“Once again we are

reminded that there is a gap between current efforts and the engage-ment necessary to keep the world below a 2C temperature rise,” UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said of the IEA report in a statement from Bonn.

“Once again we are reminded that the gap can be closed this de-cade, using proven tech-nologies and known pol-icies, and without harm-ing economic growth in any region of the world.”

The United Nations is targeting a global av-erage temperature rise of 2C from pre-industrial levels for what scientists believe would be man-ageable climate change, avoiding worst-case-sce-nario increases in droughts, storms, floods and sea level rises.

In its “Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map” re-port, the IEA said carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel use rose by 1.4 percent last year to a record 31.6 billion tonnes. [AFP]

Global warming ‘to be double” than expected

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THE ECONOMYVOL. 6 ISSUE 64 • THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013

THE Social Security System (SSS) collect-ed a total of P4.76

billion in contributions from members in Visayas and Mindanao from Jan-uary to March 2013, up by nine percent from its P4.35-billion collection during the same period in 2012. This was disclosed by SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emilio de Quiros, Jr. during a “Kapi-han sa SSS” with members of the local press.

De Quiros, who was in Northern Mindanao for the formal launch of SSS part-nerships with two informal sector groups as well as meet with employers and members in the area, said collections in this region also grew by five percent for a total of P704.25 mil-lion.

“Our accomplishments in Visayas and Mindan-ao, as well as in Northern Mindanao, are in step with overall SSS performance during the first quarter, which is characterized by higher contribution col-lections complemented by improved management of benefits,” he said. Vis-

Min benefit payments for January to March 2013 amounted to P5.4 billion, of which P4.83 billion were for retirement, death and disability benefits; P205.11 million in mater-nity benefits; P258.83 mil-lion in funeral grants; and P101.87 million for sick-ness, medical services and rehabilitation.

“Total benefit payments in Vis-Min decreased by four percent compared with the P5.6 billion to-tal for the first quarter of 2012. For Northern Min-danao, benefit disburse-ments slightly rose by one percent this year to P833.2 million,” de Quiros said.

The SSS enhanced its Annual Confirmation of Pensioners (ACOP) pro-gram in 2012 to ensure that only rightful beneficia-ries receive SSS pensions. Early this year, the agency further improved the ACOP by basing the compliance date on the member’s birth month to help pensioners remember their annual schedule for confirming their continued eligibility for pension.

The “AlkanSSSya” mi-

crosavings program and accreditation of organized groups as collecting and servicing partner agents helped bolster the pension fund’s efforts to widen SSS coverage and encourage more workers to save for retirement through active SSS membership.

“We have stepped up our campaign to reach out to workers in North-ern Mindanao, with the AlkanSSSya launch for the Magallanes Cabadbaran Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association on June 7. We will also sign an agreement on the same day with the Baug CARP Beneficiaries Multi-Pur-pose Cooperative for the SSS coverage of over 6,800 farmers,” he said.

The SSS North Mindan-ao division office is locat-ed in Cagayan de Oro City. The SSS also has offices in Butuan, Cabadbaran, Ca-miguin, Gingoog, Iligan, Oroquieta, Ozamis, San Francisco, Surigao, Tan-dag, Trento and Valencia to serve over 49,700 employ-ers and nearly 1.5 million registered members in the region.

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EDITORIALKeeping children away from lawlessness

THE Juvenile Justice Law is up for amendments and is waiting for the President to sign it into law.

The amendment will house youth offenders aged 12 to 15 who commit heinous crimes punishable by more than 12 years imprisonment in a youth care welfare facility. The minimum age for criminal liability will remain at 15 years, though. Children above 12 to 15 years old who commit an of-fense for the second time and who were previously subjected to a community-based intervention program are also covered by this amendment.

This development came after the Senate ratified a bicam-eral conference committee report on the amendments to the Juvenile Justice Law seeking to lower the age of criminal lia-bility for minors. The Senate ratified the committee report on Senate Bill 3324 and its counterpart House Bill 6052. Under this bill, the age of criminal liability for minors would remain at 15.

The amendment thereby considers a child offender, 12 to 15, of a heinous crime a neglected child under the Child and Youth Welfare Code. This makes sense as most child offend-ers, under the present law, get away with parental care after the commission of a crime for the simple reason that they are most likely abandoned or have left their families.

Considered heinous crimes are murder, infanticide, kid-napping and serious illegal detention, rape, destructive arson and crimes punishable under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

The amendment provides that “as a neglected child, the minor should be placed under a special facility within the youth care facility called the Intensive Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC). The social welfare officer of the local government unit where the crime was committed, or the social worker of the Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment (DSWD) is required to file a petition before the court for the involuntary confinement of the minor in the JISC.”

The amendment also provides that children under 15 years who commit crimes considered not heinous, would be subjected to a community-based intervention program under the supervision of the local social welfare and development officer.

In Davao City, mayor-in-waiting Rodrigo R. Duterte is set to strictly implement the child curfew ordinance which is seen to deter crimes involving youth offenders. The curfew for children in the city is set at 10 p.m., but a lot of children, especially those who are made to work as vendors by their parents outside bars and drinking joints roam around until the wee hours of the morning.

We view the amendment of the Juvenile Justice Law, if eventually signed by the President, and the implementation of a strict compliance with the child curfew law as steps in the right direction both in curbing crimes involving children and protecting the welfare of children.

It goes both ways. We protect the children from crimes by keeping them away from the lure of lawlessness.

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AN odd thing is happening in the world’s self-declared pinnacle of democracy. No one — except

a handful of elected officials and an army of contractors — is allowed to know how America’s surveillance levi-athan works.

For the last two years, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have tried to describe to the American public the sweeping surveil-lance the National Security Agency conducts inside and outside the Unit-ed States. But secrecy rules block them from airing the simplest details.

Over the last few days, President Barack Obama and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intel-ligence, have both said they welcome a national debate about the surveillance programs. But the president and sen-ator have not used their power to de-classify information that would make that debate possible.

“I flew over the World Trade Cen-ter going to Senator Lautenberg’s fu-neral,” Feinstein said this Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” referring to New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg. “And

I thought of those bodies jumping out of that building hitting the canopy. Part of our obligation is keeping Amer-ica safe.”

Feinstein is right, but our obses-sion with preventing terrorist at-tacks is warping our political debate and threatening basic rights. Edward Snowden’s release of classified doc-uments has exposed two destructive post-2001 dynamics: the rise of secre-cy and contractors.

First, secrecy. In the initial years af-ter September 11, the focus on thwart-ing another major domestic terrorist attack was understandable. Twelve years later, there have been only two major al Qaeda-inspired terrorist at-tacks inside the United States: the 2009 killing of 13 soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas, and the April Boston marathon bombing that killed three. No evidence has emerged of terrorist

groups infiltrating American execu-tive, intelligence or defense agencies.

Yet documents released by Snowden show that the amount of surveillance information that the gov-ernment collects is ballooning. The American public has no clear sense of how the metadata is used by the government, how long it is held and which agencies have access to it.

The culture of secrecy that per-vades Washington borders on the absurd. American officials say they cannot discuss “classified” U.S. counter-terrorism tactics that are well-known worldwide – from wa-ter-boarding to drone strikes to data mining.

The White House refuses to re-lease the legal memo it used it used to justify the killing of an American citizen in a drone strike in Yemen. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court will not publish sum-maries of the rulings that made data mining legal. And Feinstein will not declassify a redacted version of her committee’s 6,000 page report on the Bush administration’s use of en-hanced interrogation techniques.

AUTHORITIES ADMITTED THERE ARE CAUSES FOR CONCERN – Consumers beware! The Food and

Drug Administration (FDA), the agency task to regulate and monitor food and drug products warned anew unknow-ing consumers and now in the thick of investigating the reported proliferation of chemically-altered food items from Taiwan. On FDA’s account, there is some evidence that some Taiwanese food companies dealing in food thickener and ingredients, health drinks, flavored-juic-es and other kinds of thirst-quenchers churn out endless varieties of chemical-ly-laced food and drink products. And the layers of increased risk are already passed on to the unsuspecting consum-ers.

Health authorities and the FDA, which started with identifying the doubted food items being sold openly, were those promising to promote better nutritional values. Most of the imported food products from Taiwan believe to contain high level of harmful substance are starch ball, pearl and crystal starch beads that are made from tapioca, com-monly used as food thickener, pudding, dessert and ingredients for cold drinks and flavored juices. As a result, health officials and the FDA immediately or-dered the banning of 15 brands of said food junk.

Too bad indeed, the country now be-comes the dumping ground of imported food products that are unfit for human consumption. Of course, health officials and food experts acknowledged that there are causes for concern especially when public health is at stake. Unrec-ognized, chemically-fortified food items attack the body slowly and stealthily. Ini-tially, it produces subtle symptoms so a

person getting affected nota-bly junk food loving chil-dren is often unaware that anything is wrong. Slowly but increas-ingly sub-stance-mixed food items damages body tissues; clog blood vessels and the inter-nal organs.

In such a situation there was no way for the consumers to know that the food they eat endangers their health. It is only appropriate to raise this query: Are the chemically-tainted food products im-ported from Taiwan being foisted inten-tionally on unsuspecting consumers? Is it being done on purpose and for what reason? But is it really wise to put the people’s health in danger? After the dis-closure nobody not even the concerned agency could provide the poor consum-ing public a correct answer to the sur-reptitious business undertaking. All of this contributes to a growing and gnaw-ing sense of wariness among Filipino consumers.

Immediate health risk aside, the gov-ernment’s great worries in a case like this is the rampant smuggling of vari-ous food items into the country. That’s what one way of looking at it. Another is that, despite much-vaunted strict and tight regulations, poor and inefficient enforcement of the law may still allow unscrupulous local entrepreneurs to il-legally import “unhealthy and unsafe” food products from neighboring coun-tries. As may be expected, government

efforts should be trained and directed at closely monitoring the illegal inflow of imported but chemically-spiked food products.

All this is expected right now. The FDA assured the suspicious consum-ing public that the proliferation of sub-stance-adulterated food commodities from Taiwan and other countries is closely monitored. If the reports and as-surance of health authorities and FDA officials are accurate, consumers sup-posedly would have less fear of poison-ing, but the sad thing is that different brands of the banned food items could still be found in many store shelves. These products have no required label-ing such as if they contain known toxins, allergens or an entirely new substance. The more consumers don’t have the knowledge about the products, the more fearful they will be.

That is sort of puzzle some consum-ers’ groups are trying to know how and in what way these “unsafe” foodstuffs gained entry into our seaports and air-ports without getting detected by law enforcement units notably elements of the Bureau of Customs (BoC). As in this particular case, clandestine activities of unscrupulous businessmen actually happened right under the very noses of authorities who, unfortunately, are all looking at the opposite direction – for obvious reason.

The word inefficiency, of course, is the catch. We have laws full of loopholes and law enforcement procedures pock-marked with ineptitude. When it comes to performing their designated task, law enforcement agencies suffer from what can be called a clumsiness problem. The result of all that incompetence?– public health in peril.

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AQUILES Z. ZONIOStaff Writer

Dumping ground

The ‘secrecy industrial complex’

(1st of two parts)

Hope is your biggest enemy in the stock market

BY DAVID ROHDECOMMENTARY

IF YOU’RE a scarred v e t e r a n

of four to five bull and bear markets and watched the “bloodbath” of stock mar-ket crashes several times in the past, another stock market crash wouldn’t be such a big deal.

We all saw it coming as the stock mar-ket index of the Philippine stock exchange broke beyond 7,000 the other week and PSE traders flew colorful balloons and blew toy trumpets inside the cubicles of the exchange, celebrating another mile-stone of the country’s stock market.

I’m still surprised today after all these years, Pinoy investors and traders are still as naïve, as ignorant and as idiotic as ever in reacting to financial news like this. They’re still talking and asking about “ when will the market recover ?” while they’re still holding on some stocks they bought when the index was already hit-ting 6,000 to 7,000--- hoping the market would still go higher and prices would still recover.

Market analysts say “the country’s fundamentals were still intact” and there was nothing to worry about but to wait and HOPE that prices of stocks they bought would still recover---while watch-ing the prices of their stock go down and see their losses growing bigger.

In our blog “Pinoy Stock Trader”, we kept reminding traders, both old and new, that “your biggest enemy in the stock market is HOPE, while your biggest friend is FEAR.” (pinoystocktrader2012.wordpress.com)

If they fear the market as it went higher to 5,000 and 6,000, they would have taken their profits and got out (sell all their stocks). What’s the point of buy-ing a stock at P20 a share, watch it go up to P40 ( 100% gain), then holding on to it as the index broke down at 7000? You’ll watch helplessly, as the index sink back to 6,000, losing all your P20 gains and watch your stock price drop even lower to P15. Pera na, naging bato pa !

In my stock market forum held here in Davao a few years back, I kept remind-ing participants that they should always set profits targets at 20% to 25% and stop-loss targets at 7%--- meaning when your stock is already making 20% prof-its, just get out (sell) and take your prof-its. And when the stock price drops 7% below their buying price, they should get out (sell) to cut their losses short. If you don’t follow this basic trading rule, you’re bound to lose money in the stock market. Paskang gahi-ah ug ulo !

Just think of this : if you can make 20% every 3 months, you’ll end up mak-ing 80% gain on your investment after 12 months. This means, if you’re trading with a P100,000 capital, you’ll end up with P180,000 in one year.

Now, compare that to the bank Time Deposit of 1.50% if you “park” that mon-ey in your bank. You’ll earn only P1,500 interest after one year of “parking” your money in Time Deposit. Trading stocks and following the rules strictly, could earn you P80,000---- or even much more.

This is not bull-shit talk. This is done by disciplined Pinoy traders who follow trading rules and whose biggest friend is FEAR and biggest enemy is HOPE in the stock market…

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NEWSRepublic of the Philippines

Department of Transportation and Communications

LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND

REGULATORY BOARDRegional Office No. XI

Davao City

Petition for Renewal of a Cer-tificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB Ordinary Regular Service

MARIO M. GETIGAN, Petitioner

Case No.2010-XI-01080

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NOTICE HEARING

Petitioner is a grantee of a Certifi-cate of Public Convenience issued in this case authorizing the oper-ation of a FILCAB Ordinary Reg-ular Service on the route: CIR-CULATION ROUTE 10 with the use of ONE (1) unit, which cer-tificate will expire on December 31, 2013. In the petition filed on May 3, 2013, petitioner requests authority to extend the validity of said certificate 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, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, TEN (10) 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 writ-ten opposition supported by doc-umentary 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 documentary ev-idence submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it nec-essary to receive additional doc-umentary and/or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable BENJA-MIN A. GO, CESO V, Regional Di-rector, this 6th day of May 2013 at Davao City.

TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZChief Transport

Development Officer

Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION

FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARDRegional Office No. XI

Davao City

Petition for Renewal of a Certif-icate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ DUAL Ordinary Regular Service.

MATINA APLAYA TRANSPORTSERVICE COOPERATIVE(MATRANSCO), PetitionerCase No.98-XI-01347

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NOTICE OF HEARING

Petitioner is a grantee of a Certifi-cate of Public Convenience issued in this case authorizing the oper-ation of a PUJ-DUAL Ordinary Regular service on the route: MATINA APLYA ROUTE and for cargoes as dual service from said route to any point in Region XI with the use of FIVE (5) units, which Certificate will expire on February 23, 2014. In the petition filed on May 7, 2013, petitioner requests authority to extend the validity of said certificate to oper-ate along the same route with the use of FOUR (4) units out of FIVE (5) units previously authorized. NOTICE, is hereby given that this petition will be heard by this Board on JUNE 25, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. at this office at the above address.

At least, TEN (10) 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 writ-ten opposition supported by doc-umentary 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 documentary ev-idence submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it nec-essary to receive additional doc-umentary and/or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable BENJA-MIN A. GO, CESO V, Regional Di-rector, this 8th day of May 2013 at Davao City.

TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZChief Transport

Development Officer

the present generation from the past.

With this year’s theme, “Kalayaan 2013: Ambagan tungo sa Malawakang Kaun-laran,” the mayor re-minded citizens to con-tribute their share and be united to achieve prosperity.

According to the mayor, prosperity can be achieved by in-vesting in education, healthcare, and the city’s development.

The Armed Forc-es of the Philippines (AFP) commander of Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao, Commo-dore Antonio A. Habu-lan Jr., the guest of

honor of the ceremony, supported the mayor’s statement that “pover-ty remains an insidious challenge to society.”

He said that the theme is just “apt for there is still much to do for our nation to-day.”

“Today we continue to fight for our free-dom for there are still forces that are trying to undermine the free-dom that our heroes fought for,” sad Habu-lan.

The Independence Day ceremony kicked off yesterday at 7 a.m. with the raising of the national flag led by the mayor and Habu-

lan, followed by the ceremonial offering of flowers at the base of national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.

The ceremony was attended by personnel from the Department of Education, Order of the Knights of Rizal, Veterans Federation of the Philippines and The Sons and Daugh-ters Association Inc, Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines, Knights of Colombus Fourth Degree Assem-blies, Davao Historical Society Foundation Inc, Boy and Girl Scout of the Philippines, to name a few.

of Independence,” she said.She added that Inde-

pendence Day should be celebrated with fervor and we should not for-get the sacrifices of those brave persons who helped make Philippines an inde-pendent nation.

“The celebration is supposed to commemo-rate the efforts of so many people, some known and some unknown, but it has turned out to be a ‘holiday’ for shopping,” she said.

Annaliza Miña, who worked in Dubai, said that the essence of celebrating

the event was no longer felt by Filipinos for it has become an ordinary day where there is no work and all they do is to have fun.

“We should preserve the values of our indepen-dence, the government should add activities and preparations for the cel-ebration to be felt,” Miña said.

Philippine Indepen-dence was based on the Declaration of Indepen-dence on June 12, 1898 by General Emilio Aguinaldo and Filipino revolutionary forces from the Spanish

colonizers. The Philippines’ flag

was raised and its national anthem was played for the first time in 1898.

The Philippines re-volted against American occupation in 1899 and achieved national sov-ereignty on July 4, 1946, through the Treaty of Ma-nila.

Independence Day used to be officially ob-served on July 4 until Re-public Act No. 4166, which set out to move the holiday to June 12, was approved on August 4, 1964. CMP

AFP EXHIBIT. Commodore Antonio A. Habulan Jr., Eastern Mindanao Naval Forces commander (left), checks out the Independence Day exhibit of the

Armed Forces of the Philippines at the Abreeza Mall on J.P. Laurel Avenue, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Just like na-tional hero Andres

Bonifacio, who rose from selling fans in Tondo to become the father of the Philippine revolution, ordinary residents may also rise up and become “modern heroes in these challenging times.”

Speaking at the 115th Independence Day pro-gram in nearby Koro-nadal City on Wednesday morning, Mayor Peter Miguel challenged every resident to become he-roes by their own right by emulating the selfless sacrifices of the coun-try’s founding fathers.

The mayor stressed that the country does not need another revolution or face foreign aggres-sion for more heroes to arise.

“We can become he-roes ourselves by taking simple selfless sacrifices at these times of crisis. It’s as simple as religious-ly following our laws,

paying our taxes and vol-unteering our services in our own communities when needed,” he said.

Miguel said the city government needs the help of “local heroes” to allow the city to further move forward.

He said residents may help the city realize its goals to become a mod-el “smoke-free” area by strictly following its reg-ulations.

The mayor said the lo-cal government has been continually calling up for more volunteers for the city’s third tree-growing festival slated on June 29.

The city is targeting to plant around 500,000 trees during the festivi-ties, which is considered as the biggest annual tree planting activity in Re-gion 12.

Koronadal City is the regional seat and center of Region 12 or the Soc-csksargen Region.

The region comprises the provinces of South

Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotaba-to and the cities of Gener-al Santos, Koronadal, Ta-curong, Kidapawan and Cotabato.

Miguel initially led the traditional flag raising rites at the Rizal Park in Koronadal City that was followed by a wreath lay-ing at the monument of national hero Jose Rizal.

A 21-gun salute was also offered to the hero by members of the Phil-ippine National Police.

The Independence Day rites was attend-ed by local government leaders, officials of re-gional line agencies and departments, private and government workers and various community stakeholders in the area.

In this city, the local government also held a simple flag-raising cere-mony and wreath laying in honor of the country’s national heroes at the Plaza Heneral Santos.(PNA)

Ordinary folks urged to become ‘modern heroes’

AGENTS from the Philippine Drug E n f o r c e m e n t

Agency (PDEA) regional office 11 together with Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Opera-tions Task Force (PAID-SOTF) of the Davao del Sur Provincial Police Office conducting a buy-bust operation last Sat-urday evening on Miral Street, Digos City, ar-rested suspected drug pusher named Charlie Alderete, 43, who had in

his possession one sa-chet of shabu worth one thousand pesos.

Noli Nephi Dimaan-dal, PDEA information officer, said that anoth-er suspect identified as Miraflor Dela Rosa elud-ed arrest after sensing that it was a buy bust op-eration. The police team chased after her but failed to catch their prey.

The suspect is de-tained at the Digos City Police Station facility while the seized items

were submitted to the Philippine National Po-lice Provincial Crime Laboratory, Digos City, and Davao del Sur for ex-amination.

Charges for violation of Section 26 in relation to Section 5, Section 6 and Section 12, Article II of Republic Act 9165 otherwise known as “The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002” are being pre-pared against the sus-pects. CMP

Man nabbed selling shabu

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THE Philippines will soon have its sec-ond warship, as the

newly-refurbished BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16) is now on its way to the country from South Car-olina.

On its Twitter account, the Philippine embassy in Washington D.C. con-firmed the missile-firing capable warship has left Charleston and will ar-rive in Manila around first week on August.

“Members of the Fili-pino community on hand to send off crew of the Alcaraz, the Philippine Navy’s latest acquisition,” the Philippine embassy in Washington said.

“Emotional farewells for members of the Filipi-no community in Charles-ton and the crew of Al-caraz prior to departure for the Philippines,” it added.

Alcaraz, a 378-foot de-commissioned US Coast Guard ship that the Phil-ippines acquired last year, underwent a $15.5 million or P620 mil-lion-worth of refurbish-ment in Charleston.

The Filipino commu-nity in Charleston served as foster families for the crew of Alcaraz, which

stayed in South Carolina for a year.

The Hamilton-class weather high endurance cutter, which also un-derwent another month of sea trials, was named after World War II hero, Commodore Ramon Al-caraz.

The warship will join BRP Gregorio del Pilar, the country’s first warship, amid continuing tensions between Chinese and Taiwanese governments over various islands in the West Philippine Seas.

“Expectations are high but I am sure the men and women of the BRP Ramon Alcaraz will live up to those expectations,” Cap-tain Ernesto Baldovino, who will lead the voyage, said prior departure.

Reports say the war-ship has been fitted with anti-ship harpoon mis-siles, which is heavier and more sophisticated than that of BRP Gregorio del Pilar.

Aside from harpoon surface-to-surface mis-siles, Alcaraz is has also been armed with 76-mm Oto Melara automatic cannon, two 25-bushmas-ter guns and heavy ma-chine guns.

The new warship has

a cruising range of 14,000 miles and can stay in the high seas for 45 days.

On the eve of its de-parture, Ambassador Jose Cuisia reminded the crew of BRP Alcaraz of their duty to defend the

country’s territory even as the Philippine govern-ment continues to ease tensions in the West Phil-ippine Seas.

“As you know, there are some tensions in the West Philippine Sea

and this may put you in harm’s way but there is no doubt that you will perform your duty of pro-tecting Philippine territo-ry if needed,” Cuisia said .

“We do not want to see a confrontation and

we are hoping that diplo-matic efforts would ease these tensions. We are for peace and for the stabili-ty of the region but at the same time, we are pre-pared to defend what is ours,” he added. [Yahoo!]

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BRP Ramon Alcaraz [Photo from the Philippine Embassy in Washington]

New ‘missile-firing’ warship on its way, says U.S. gov’t

NOW is the time to come together to move the country

forward.This was the message

of President Benigno Aquino III on Wednes-day, June 12 at Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila to celebrate the 115th inde-pendence day of the Phil-ippines.

At the same time, the President, in subtle refer-ences to recent territori-al disputes involving the Philippines such as the Sabah conflict that result-ed in bloodshed and the return to the country of thousands of Filipinos, reminded Filipinos that fighting for independence means “we must also show the true qualities of the Filipino.”

“It’s not in our blood to be aggressive but nei-ther will we fold under pressure or challenge. And while we stand for

our rights, and cooperate with all sides in order to reach an understanding, we must also improve our armed forces. At the same time, we need to prioritize the safety of the millions of Filipinos who may be affected by my decisions as President,” he said.

Aquino added, “We are not asking for anything but to respect our terri-tory, rights and humanity, the same way we respect territory, rights and hu-manity of others. We do this because this is the key to maintaining stabil-ity...to an encompassing and long-lasting progress not just in our country but also in our region and the world.”

Aquino addressed a large crowd and encour-aged Filipinos to unite and move the country for-ward. While it took 300 years for Filipinos to work together to gain indepen-

dence from Spain, he ex-pressed hope it would not take nearly as long for the country to overcome its current problems.

“Huwag sana tayong maghintay pa ng tat-londaang taon, o ng tat-long dekada, o kahit ng tatlong taon, bago tayo magpasyang magbuklod para maging malaya tayo mula sa gutom, kahira-pan, o anumang banta sa ating soberenya’t seguri-dad. Hindi tama na map-ahaba pa ang pagtitiis ng mga Pilipino ni isang minuto,” he said.

(Let us not wait for 300 years, or 3 decades or even 3 years before we come together in order to free ourselves from hun-ger, poverty or whatever threats to our sovereign-ty and securtiy. It is not right to prolong the suf-fering of Filipinos by an-other minute). [Rappler.com]

Unite, fight like a Filipino -- Aquino GOVERNMENT me-

dia policies should be gender fair and

government programs should promote gender mainstreaming.

This was the call of the P-Noy administration as it issued Memoran-dum Circular No. 48, on May 30, signed by Exec-utive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa, Jr., directing all concerned government agencies to adopt the Gender Equality Guide-lines.

The guidelines, collectively called “Towards a Gender Fair Media,” were launched by the Gender Equality Committee (GEC) on March 22. They consist of three documents, namely: Code of Ethics for Media, Guidelines to Protect Women from Discrimination in Media and Film, and Gender Equality Guide.

“Towards a Gender Fair Media” outlined several ‘challenging’ roles for media practitioners. These include being on the look out for wom-en’s stories, using gender fair language, breaking

stereotypes in media portrayals, deliberately seeking out women ex-perts as news sources and giving marginalized women a voice by telling their stories.

The circular cites Section 16, Chapter 4 of R.A 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women, which mandates the State to for-mulate policies and pro-grams for women’s ad-vancement. It also states that, through strategic use of mass media, the consciousness of the gen-eral public in recognizing the dignity, role and con-tribution of women in the family, community and the society will be raised.

Agencies, according to the circular, may charge expenses related to implementation of the Guidelines to their gender and development (GAD) budget, which is at least five percent (5%) of the total agency budget. They may also utilize other available funds.

Meanwhile, the Mov-ie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has entered into a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) with private media cor-porations and organiza-tions in March 2012 to develop positive images of women and men and eliminate stereotypes and discrimination. The MOU states that grantees of congressional broad-cast franchise, such as ABS-CBN, TV5, GMA, UNTV, and IBC, shall protect women against discrimination in media portrayal and use gender sensitive language and images in television pro-grams and films among others as part of their corporate social respon-sibility.

PCW and MTRCB are members of GEC. Other members are: Presiden-tial Communications Op-erations Office (PCOO), National Telecommu-nications Office (NTC), Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP), Opti-cal Media Board (OMB), National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Film Develop-ment Council of the Phil-ippines (FDCP) and Cen-ter for Media Freedom and Responsibility.

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DAVAO City Wa-ter District con-ducted a Kontra

Tetanu activity last May in Purok 1 Dalia-on Plantation in Toril and in barangays Mala-gos and Baguio Proper benefitting 80 family members of DCWD’s partner People’s Orga-nizations in watershed rehabilitation.

Spearheading the vaccination activities was the utility’s Envi-ronment and Water-shed Protection Divi-sion of the Community Relations and External Affairs Department with assistance from the Human Resource Department.

Kontra Tetanu is part of DCWD’s Health and Wellness program in line with in its envi-ronmental protection efforts in Mt. Talo-mo-Lipadas, Malagos and Mt. Tipolog-Ta-mugan watersheds.

DCWD acting gen-eral manager Edwin V. Regalado explained that taking care of the immediate settlers in the watershed areas is very important in the success of its wa-tershed rehabilitation and protection proj-ects. “They are our main partners in pro-tecting Davao City’s water sources as they are directly living in-side the watersheds. Thus, their welfare is also our major con-cern,”he said.

For years since it has started its cam-paign on environmen-tal protection, DCWD has conducted various projects that aim to improve the living con-ditions of its upland partners like the giving of education assistance and livelihood train-ings and opportunities. [Jovana T. Duhaylung-sod]

Free vaccination to Davao City Water District’s upland partners. Company nurse Roxanne Sayago administers tetanus toxoid vaccination to one of the residents in Brgy. Malagos.

DCWD’s upland partners get free vaccine

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EDGEDAVAOFOOD

When food meets wineEVERYBODY knows that good food and good wine go hand-in-hand and Entrée at The Apo View Hotel recognises that.

Already one of Duri-anburg’s buffets of choice with an extensive array of sumptuous appetisers, crisp salads, fresh seafood, international dishes and luscious desserts, Entrée introduces a fresh new dining concept with the introduction of their Wine Quartet. For just Php250 you get a set of four tasting glasses of thoughtfully selected wines ranging from crisp white wines to delicious bold red wines to taste on top of your regular buf-fet (Php630 for lunch and Php750 for dinner). The Apo View Hotel President and CEO Chris Pamintuan believes the Wine Quartet will allow Dabawenyo diners to ex-pend their culinary hori-zons, introducing them to the delicious art of match-ing food and wines. The new concept is not found anywhere else and combines the fine dining experience of having mul-

tiple courses together with a wine ‘flight’, giving diners a chance to sample various wines and their different qualities and characteris-tics along with foods that will match them or vice versa. And since Entrée is a buffet, you have a limitless number of food to pair you wines with (provided you don’t drink up all the wine in one gulp). This is definitely one food promotion that I can really raise my glass to. Follow me on Twitter or on Instagram @kenneth-kingong for more foodie finds in, around and be-yond Durianburg.

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Apo View Hotel salutes fathers this weekend

Wine and Dine at Polo Bistro

CELEBRATE Father’s Day at Apo View Hotel, where a line-up of promos and treats await the man of the house. Round up dad and his buddies at the hotel’s newly re-launched bar, Blue Room, where extended Happy Hour kicks off Father’s Day weekend. On Friday (June 14) and Saturday (June 15) local beers are only Php40 net, while mixed drinks are buy-one-take-one with free pica-pica from 5:30 p.m. to

10:00 p.m. Dads will surely be raising their glasses to this one! G a t h e r the family on Sunday (June 16)

and treat dad to a lavish lunch or dinner at the hotel’s re-nowned buffet restaurant, Entrée, where dads with a group of five get to dine for free (5+1). With Entrée’s wide and var-ied selection of culinary delights, his appetite and taste will surely be satisfied. To make your celebration even more special, avail of the Entrée Wine Quartet, a new approach that allows diners to savor a set of four carefully selected wines to match their favorite dishes at the buffet. This new offering allows din-ers to have small quantities of two white wines and two red wines for a special bundled price of only Php250 net so that they can enjoy differ-ent varieties of wine to accentuate different types of food. Now that’s a great combination for a really satisfying dining experience! Entrée and Blue Room are located at the ground floor of Apo View Hotel, the city’s first and the country’s second longest-running hotel. Recently celebrating its 65th year in business, Apo View Hotel remains to be one of the city’s best. For inquiries and reservations, please contact us at (082) 221-6430.

CELEBRATE the good things in life in an evening of wine appreciation and delectable dishes on June 21, 2013 at the Polo Bistro. The featured wines for the event are Chardonnay, Blanco, Reserva and Reisling. Each wine has its own unique per-sonality and is especially chose to complement the full course menu by our award-winning Executive Chef, Ed Tuazon. Special limited offer avail-able for Php 1, 300. 00 net. For reservations and inquiries, please call (82) 221 0888 local 7955.

Luis Buñuel’s name is synonymous with the surrealist film style, due to his collaborative work with Salvador Dali

THE Film Develop-ment Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and the Film Cul-tural Exchange Pro-gram (FCEP), in partnership with the Embassy of Mexico, is proud to pres-ent, “Luis Buñuel in Mexico”, a series of film screenings in tribute to the epony-mous director. The retrospective fea-tures five films of Luis Bunuel, all situated within the early part of his career and will be screened at the Davao Cinematheque at the following dates: Nazarin (1958) on Wednesday, June 26 – 6:30 p.m. El Gran Cavalera / The Great Madcap (1949) on Thursday, June 27 – 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Subida al Cielo / As-cent to Heaven (1951) on Friday, June 28 – 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. La Hija del Engaño / Daughter of Deceit (1951) on Saturday, June 29 – 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. La Ilusion Viaja en Travia / Ilusion Travel by Streetcar (1953) on Sun-day, June 30 – 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Luis Buñuel’s name is synonymous with the sur-realist film style, due to his collaborative work with Salvador Dali, Un Chien Andalou. Spanning across decades, his works have then evolved and transcended into varying genres. Regardless of the change in style and scope, fellow director John Hus-ton admires the recog-nizability in all his works.

Luis Buñuel Festival at Cinematheque Davao

(Source) Buñuel has been hailed a genius with re-gards to his economic ap-proach and philosophy in filmmaking. Several of his works have received hon-ors in various film festivals including, Los Olvidados, Viridiana and Le Charme

Discret de la Bourgeoisie. The cycle opens with Nazarin (1958), a film about a priest with an honest and pure life, who becomes alienated from his community and his church, after living like a “true Christian.” It went

on to win the internation-al prize at the Cannes film festival. El Gran Caval-era / The Great Madcap (1949), follows, which is about a family deceiving their patriarch in order to get his money. Third to be featured is Subida al Cielo / Ascent to Heaven (1951), a film showcasing a son’s unusual adventures on a bus in order to alter his mother’s will, and stop his siblings’ treacherous schemes. Next is La Hija del Engaño / Daughter of Deceit (1951), a film about a father who abandons his daughter after his adulter-ous wife spitefully informs him that their daughter is not his. The cycle ends with La Ilusion Viaja en Travia / Ilusion Travel by Streetcar, a bizarre jour-ney of two senior citizens while taking their last ride on the Mexico City public transit system. 

GLOBE TELECOM IS FROST & SULLIVAN PHILIPPINES MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR. Globe Telecom was honored as Frost & Sullivan Philippines Mobile Service Provider of the Year for 2013 following its remarkable performance in 2012 despite intense competition in mobile markets. Receiving the award (as shown in photo) is Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu (right) from Nitin Bhat, Frost & Sullivan Partner and Head of Consulting. The leading t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s company was also recognized by the business consulting firm as Philippines Emerging Infrastructure-as-a-Service Vendor of the Year.

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IN case you didn’t know, Will Smith and his son Jaden are pretty close. But even Jaden was sur-prised when his actor father planted a big smooch on his son’s lips during an inter-view in Thailand to promote their latest film After Earth. So how did this come about? Well, you can thank The Woody Show’s host Woody Milintachinda (and the 14-year-old star for even bringing up the idea—we’ll explain). “I sense there’s a distance in terms of affection be-tween the general and his son,” Woody mentioned re-garding the pair’s characters in the film. “Is it like that at home, or no?” “Nah, we’re very affection-ate,” both Will and Jaden said as the actor playfully tried

to touch and hug his son. “He even tried to kiss me once,” Jaden said, technically jumpstarting what’s about to happen. Woody was then prompted to ask, “Oh, have you ever kissed your son on Thai television before?” That’s when Will grabs Jaden’s face as his son yells, “No, no, no...” for what ev-

eryone expects will just be a peck on the cheek, but nope! Will goes for a full-on kiss on the lips (it’s at around 4:50 in the video). “This is ridiculous!” Jaden says as he jumps off the couch and wipes his lips. Even super-cool celeb parents have to embarrass their kids from time to time.

APPARENTLY Roberto Cavalli isn’t a big fan of Beyoncé’s curves. The fashion house sent out a press release this morning showing an illus-tration of the vibrant cutout gown designed for her Mrs. Carter Show world tour with an obviously altered version of the star’s signature phy-sique. While the embellished dress was positively magnifi-cent in all of its multicolored splendor, we couldn’t help but notice that Jay-Z’s lady-love looked superskinny in the sketch. Not only were her legs extremely elongated and

thinned out, but her waist was teeny tiny, as were her dainty little arms. Um, where’s the boo-tylicious babe we know and love? A quick side-by-side com-

parison of the illustration and the star in real life shows a dramatic difference in how her hot bod really looks in person. Phew! Hey, Roberto, we’ll take curvy Bey any day!

CAN’T wait for Alexa Chung’s style book? Then you’re in luck, be-cause the Brit babe has taken to Twitter to give her fans a sneak peek at her new tome. “Do judge a book by It’s [sic] cover,” Chung wrote, along with a pic of a pretty pink cover. Sounds like the television personality is pretty satisfied with the end result! Though, there isn’t too much to for us to judge, given the fact that the Twitpic only reveals the cover art—a close-up of

what appears to be Chung’s eye done up in shimmery metallic eyeshadow—and the work’s short-and-sweet title: It. (Get her tweet now?

Judge a book by It’s cover?) We’re guessing that Chung’s referring to the It Girl tag many people attach to her name, but we’re pretty sure the Twitter-happy gal will tease us with many more clues in the coming months about what we can expect from her new work. Just last week, she gave us our first look at her debut ad for L’Oréal via the social networking site, so we think it’s only a matter of time un-til she’s sharing more shots from the pages of her up-coming style bible!

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Will Smith kisses son Jaden on the lips during interview in Thailand

Alexa Chung’s book: Star shares first look at style guide

Beyoncé’s curves erased in Roberto Cavalli press release

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IRONICALLY, I am letting go. Oh wait, this is not about me; this is not my diary. Sorry, wrong page. With the sky always on ‘cry’ mode, we cannot help but seek for something that could verily allevi-ate the gloomy mode that hovers atop our head. In the process, we create a list of gastronomically com-forting foods that are truly Pinoy and are enough to brighten up a day of driz-zled spectacles. Today’s recipes are in my top list of favorite pi-noy treats come this time of the year. Admittedly, I am one to snuggle up in my comfy Japanese bed, lights out, movies and these while the sky cries for and with me. Oh and do not forget that hot cup of pure tsokolate! Maligayang Araw ng Kalayaan Sa Lahat!

Suman Malagkit Whenever I seek for comfort, I always end up craving for a hot piece of ‘suman’. Be it from the stalls in the mall or from the supermarket, I just love the way it soothes my wholeness and eases me back to the real world. PS Jeff, it ain’t ‘hot porridge’.

Ingredients3 cups malagkit (glutinous rice)5 cups coconut milk, first extract1 tsp salt1/2 cup white sugarBanana leaves

Procedure Wash the malagkit very well. Drain. In a deep saucepan, cook the washed malagkit with coconut milk, salt and sugar. Stir constantly. Be sure to keep stirring to prevent it from sticking at the bottom of the pan. Reduce heat to low and cover the pan with banana leaves instead. You can add pure vanilla extract of whatever essence you like I just like mine raw and simple. Remove from heat. Scoop 2 to 3 tablespoons of the malagkit mixture in the middle of a cut wilted banana leaves. Roll from both ends (like a sushi) and tie both ends. Repeat

until done. Steam for 30 minutes. Serve with a hot cup of tsokolate or slices of ripe mangoes. Drizzle with pure choc-olate liqueur (thanks Siao) for that added kick! Another on my comfort and rain list is the Pitchi-Pitchi. I simply adore the sticky feel it leaves my pal-ate that enables me to calm and engulf the world that I am in. Be it hot or cold, I’d gobble on a few balls of this all-time Pinoy treat anytime of the day.

Ingredients2 cups cassava, grated1 cup white sugar2 1/4 cups tepid water1/2 tsp lye water3 stalks pandan leaves, tied in a knot1 cup freshly grated coconut

Procedure In a deep saucepan over low heat, pour water and add pandan leaves. Bring to a boil and simmer for a good 15 minutes. Set aside and let cool. Once cooled, remove pandan leaves. Scoop about 2 cups of pan-dan water and set aside. If lesser, adjust with water. Meanwhile, in a bowl,

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Pagkaing Pinoy for the rainy season!

add grated cassava, sugar and lye water. You can add food coloring. Mix well until consistency is even. Place in moulds or ra-mekins. I did mine using an ice cream scoop and medium sized puto mould. Steam for 1 hour or until it turns translucent. Once done, let it cool. Remove from moulds and refrigerate for another hour. Pour freshly grated co-conut in a plate. Roll each piece over. Repeat until done. Others opt to add grated cheddar cheese. Which-ever way, you are surely to love a homemade pitchi-pitchi. Serve immediately.

Surely, rainy days are but an excuse to be emotional and binge. Whichever way you spend yours, keep in mind that nothing beats a home cooked meal to beat the blues away. Forever grateful --- Happy Father’s Day to my Daddy, Samel G. Am-bolodto. I love you! And to all the father’s, cheers for more years! Do you want to be a part of Davao’s Thursday habit? Send me your recipes, ques-tions, suggestions and com-ments and be featured. If you are interested, then email me at leebai@che-froyale.com or visit www.chefroyale.com for more recipes. Happy Cooking!

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QUITO - Argentina took a fourth-min-ute lead with a Ser-

gio Aguero penalty then hung on desperately for a 1-1 draw away to Ecuador in a World Cup qualifier in the energy sapping thin air of Quito on Tuesday.

The Argentines, with World Player of the Year Lionel Messi only playing for the last half hour, had

their lead in the South American group cut to three points with Colom-bia’s 2-0 home win over Peru.

Argentina have 26 points, Colombia 23 and Ecuador, who dropped their first points in sev-en home qualifiers at the Atahualpa where visiting teams struggle at 2,800 metres, remain third with

21. Argentina made a

quick start and Ecuador goalkeeper Alexander Dominguez could only parry Angel Di Maria’s stinging shot then upend-ed Rodrigo Palacio as the striker chased the loose ball.

Aguero stepped up to send the penalty into the bottom left corner with

Dominguez diving the other way.

Ecuador hit back at a free kick near the corner flag in the 17th minute with a static defence al-lowing Segundo Castillo a free header from inside the six-yard box.

“We’ve been making do with draws,” Messi, who recently recovered from a hamstring injury,

complained after Argen-tina’s third successive stalemate result in the qualifiers. “We are closer to qualifying and that’s what’s important.”

“We scored a quick goal and I wonder if the goalkeeper shouldn’t have been sent off.

“It’s difficult to play here, then they equal-ised,” added Messi, who had also struggled in the rarefied air in La Paz, which is even higher than Quito, in the 1-1 draw with Bolivia in March.

Messi, who had also only played for half an hour in the 0-0 draw at home to Colombia on Friday, played mostly at walking pace on Tuesday, waiting to receive the ball

and then attack at speed.The home side failed

to capitalise on a string of corners in both halves that the Argentine de-fence desperately cleared.

Argentina had mid-fielder Javier Mascherano shown a red card towards the end of the match in a bizarre incident off the pitch after he kicked the driver of the medical cart that took him off follow-ing a knock.

The top four teams at the end of the quali-fiers in October will go through to next year’s fi-nals in Brazil.

The fifth-placed team will enter a playoff against an Asian qualifier in November for another berth.

Argentina steals point in Ecuador

Argentina’s Lionel Messi, right, kicks the ball past Ecuador’s Frickson Erazo , center, and Jorge Guagua during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Quito, Ecuador on Tuesday. 

SEATTLE (AP) -- Jozy Altidore continued his scoring run. Ed-

die Johnson earned a moment to remember getting a goal before his raucous home crowd that matched the hype that came with playing a World Cup qualifier in Se-attle.

It became a perfect night for the United States to collect three points and vault into first place half-way to another World Cup trip.

Altidore scored in the first half, his third straight match with a goal, Eddie Johnson thrilled his home club fans with a score in the 53rd minute, and the United States took over first place in its World Cup qualifying group with a 2-0 win over Panama on Tuesday.

‘’Right now we’re hav-ing fun. But most impor-tantly we’re on the same

page and have one com-mon goal which is quali-fying for the World Cup,’’ Johnson said. ‘’We’ve got one more game to put ourselves in a good po-sition to make that hap-pen.’’

Altidore scored in the 36th minute on a perfect cross from Fabian John-son, moments after a po-tential penalty kick for the Americans was denied.

Eddie Johnson then gave the U.S. some cush-ion when he collected Geoff Cameron’s pass over the top of Panama’s de-fense and slid a left-foot-ed shot past Jaime Penedo less than 10 minutes into the second half.

‘’Obviously very pleased with our per-formance,’’ U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. ‘’Throughout the entire game, we were in control of every area on the field. The guys did their job.’’

US beats Panama in World Cup qualifier

Sergio Garcia, left, and Tiger Woods shake hands on the driving range during practice for the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.

ARDMORE, Pa. -- Ti-ger Woods, trying his best to move on

from the controversy with Sergio Garcia, said that there hasn’t been time for an apology for the Spanish star’s “fried chicken’’ com-ments from three weeks ago.

Woods, speaking Tues-day at a news conference at Merion Golf Club in advance of the 113th U.S. Open, referenced their Monday handshake on the driving range in which it was believed Garcia at-tempted to set up another time to talk.

“No, we didn’t discuss anything. Just came up and said, ‘Hi,’ and that was it,” Woods said.

Asked if Garcia apolo-gized, Woods said: “It’s al-ready done. We’ve already gone through it all. It’s time for the U.S. Open and we tee it up in two days.”

Woods clarified later that Garcia did not apol-ogize yet, saying “we hav-en’t had time for that.”

Garcia met with the media later and confirmed that there wasn’t the prop-er time, although he left Woods a handwritten note and apologized again for the incident, which took place last month at a Euro-pean Tour function.

Garcia was joking-

ly asked on May 21 if he would be having dinner with Woods this week at the U.S. Open. In an attempt at humor, Gar-cia said: “We’ll have him ‘round every night. We will serve fried chicken.”

Such references are viewed as a racial stereo-type, and Woods did not take kindly to the remarks, saying on Twitter that they were “wrong, hurtful and inappropriate.”

But since then, at both the Memorial Tourna-ment and again Tuesday at Merion, Woods sought to move on -- and Garcia concurred.

“Hopefully he can take a look at it [the note] and, you know, it’s a big week and I understand that it’s difficult to meet up and stuff,” Garcia said. “So hopefully I’ll be able to do it. If not, at least he has read the note and he’s happy with that.”

Garcia declined to re-veal the contents of the note, saying that was up to Woods if he wanted to dis-close it. At his earlier news conference, Woods made no mention of a note, al-though both players ap-pear to not have been at Merion during the same time Tuesday.

“First I saw him was on the range,” Garcia said

of their Monday meeting. “I felt like it wasn’t the ap-propriate place to, for me to, out of respect to him and to the other players to do it there. So I was hoping to see him afterwards.

“Unfortunately, when I got done practicing, he

was gone already, so I couldn’t see him. And this morning he wasn’t here. But like he said, he thinks he considers the matter closed. He’s moved on. And I’m happy that he feels that way, so hopefully we can do the same thing.”

Woods on Garcia: We didn’t talk

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SAN ANTONIO – So much for all the Big Three star power in

these NBA Finals. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili? LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh?

All of them had to make room for the San Antonio Spurs’ Dynamic Duo: Danny Green and Gary Neal.

With Green scoring 27 points and Neal adding 24, the Spurs blitzed the Mi-ami Heat 113-77 in Game 3 to take a 2-1 lead in the Finals.

Danny Green, left, and Gary Neal combined for 51 points for the Spurs in Game 3. (AP)

The Spurs buried the Heat with a staggering Fi-nals-record 16 3-pointers.The previous record was 14.

“We got what we de-served,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said in a clear reference to his team’s de-fense, or lack of one.

Game 3 was a com-plete reverse from Game 2. After the Heat erupted late in the third quarter and well into the fourth to rout the Spurs on Sun-day, San Antonio respond-ed with its own barrage. Leading the way? Neal, Green, Kawhi Leonard and Cory Joseph.

Neal, an undrafted role player who played over-seas and has bounced in and out of the Spurs’ rota-tion, made 6 of 10 3-point-

ers. Green, who had twice been cut by the Spurs before finally sticking last season, made 7 of 9 threes.

“Those guys step-ping up on this stage in this game is huge for us,” said Duncan, who had 12 points and 14 rebounds. “We talked about it before the series started, how we’re going to have to have guys step up and guys play well in certain games. And we don’t expect a perfor-mance like this from those kind of guys, but they were great.”

When Parker had to leave in the second half with a hamstring inju-ry, the Spurs didn’t slow. Joseph, the Spurs’ back-up point guard, helped keep the charge going as San Antonio won by 36 points. Green has now made 17 of 24 3-pointers (70.8 percent) in the first three games of the Finals.

“It’s been a while since I shot the ball like that,” Green said. “A cou-ple games in the season, I shot it pretty well, but tonight it was a totally different level of feeling – comfort level on the pe-rimeter.”

James wasn’t much of a factor offensively for the Heat. He missed 11 of his first 13 shots and finished the game 7 for 21 with 15 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. He also didn’t have a single free-throw attempt for the first time this season.

SPURS TROUNCE HEAT

Miami Heat small forward LeB-ron James reacts during the sec-ond quarter of game three of the 2013 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs.

San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan (R) shoots over Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem in the first quar-ter during Game 3 of their NBA Finals basketball playoff in San Antonio, Texas on Tuesday. 

SAN ANTONIO – LeB-ron James delivered the message multiple

times in the sullen and stunned losing lock-er room.

“I’ve got to be better,” James said after the San Anto-nio Spurs crushed the Miami Heat 113-77 in Game 3 on Tuesday.

He said it no less than five times during a six-minute post-game interview at his cubicle.

James had one of the worst play-off games of his career – 15 points on 7-for-21 shooting – i n v o k i n g m e m o -ries of his 3-for-11, e i g h t -p o i n t p e r f o r -m a n c e a g a i n s t

the Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 of the 2011. Finals.

With 3:04 left in the third quarter, James had made just 2 of 13 field goals, and the Heat were well on their way to their worst playoff loss in fran-chise history and worst loss of the season.

“I’m putting every-thing on my chest and on my shoulders,” James said. “I’ve got to be better. It’s that simple. My team-mates are doing a great job, and I’m not doing my part.”

For the third consecu-tive game, James failed to score at least 20 points. It’s the first time he has not reached 20 points in three straight games since the 2011 Finals.

James is averaging 16.7 points and shooting 38.9% from the field, in-cluding just 3-for-13 on three-pointers. All the more surprising because James set career highs in field goal percentage and three-point shooting per-centage this season.

But he has not been

at the top of his game against the Spurs. He had an amazing eight-minute stretch in Game 2, but oth-er than that the MVP has been pedestrian.

“I’ve got to do more. I’ve got to do more both offensively and defensive-ly,” James said. “I’ve got to put the ball in the basket. I had some great looks. They didn’t go.”

Six seasons and hun-dreds of games have passed the Spurs beat James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2007 Fi-nals, but interestingly, the Spurs are employing a similar game plan against James in 2013: keep him out of the lane and away from the rim and make him shoot long jump shots.

Given that James just turned in the best shoot-ing season of his career, it was a bold move by the Spurs and working so far.

“I’m just miss-ing shots,” James said. “They’re going under my pick-and-roll. They’re daring me to shoot and

any time I get into the paint, they’re putting two bodies in front of me. When I get in transition, they’re putting two bod-ies in front of me. So I’ve got to be able to knock down shots. If I knock down shots, it would draw them close to me and give me the lane.”

The day before the Spurs-Heat Finals began, James talked about the differences in his game. He said he was smarter and more mature. He also discussed how the Spurs defended him then.

“They went under a lot of my pick and rolls and dared me to shoot,” James said nearly a week ago. “Back in ‘07, I ran a lot of pick and rolls. They … dared me to shoot it and didn’t allow me to get to the paint where I did most of my damage back in ‘07. If you go into my pick and roll now, I’m go-ing to shoot. And I’m con-fident I’m going to make every last one of them. I’m just more confident in my ability to shoot the ball.

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