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322 now dead;City gives P9.5MSearch and rescue operations

yielded more bodies on the third day in the aftermath

of Typhoon Pablo while author-ities continue the search for missing residents in the hardest

hit areas--Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental.

Liza Mazo, director of the Of-

fice of Civil Defense 11, in her re-port to the National Risk Reduc-tion and Management Council

said that as of 6:00 am Thursday, the death toll in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental had risen to 322, with 194 in Compostela Valley and

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AN estimated 396 crew-members of six fishing companies based in Gen-

eral Santos City remained miss-

ing as of Thursday afternoon. Fishing magnate Marfin Tan,

former president of Socsksargen Federation of Fishing & Allied In-

dustries, Inc. (SFFAII), told Edge Davao that they came up with such figures during their meeting on Thursday morning.

“Fishing operators met and we came up with such figures as of Thursday afternoon,” Tan said.

396 fishing boat crewmembers missing

Kaluoy!Typhoon Pablo

LOOKING. Residents who are looking for their missing relatives gather to identify bodies of villagers killed by the flash floods caused by typhoon Pablo in New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province on Wednesday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

By Aquiles Z. Zonio

VOL.5 ISSUE 199 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7-8, 2012THE BIG NEWS2 EDGEDAVAO

FDSWD, 11

FCARAGA, 11

FPANABO, 11

In Davao del Norte

In Panabo City

In Caraga

DEPARTMENT of Public Works and Highways assistant

secretary Dimas Juguilon and DPWH 11 regional director Mariano Alqui-za and Davao Oriental 1 District Engineer Joseli-to Caballero inspected Wednesday the collapsed Teodoro Palma Gil Bridge in San Antonio, Caraga, Davao Oriental to assess the damage caused by Ty-phoon Pablo.

Dennis Flores, DPWH 11 spokesperson, said that the officials con-template building a new bridge as replacement for the bridge whose five spans were destroyed.

Flores said commut-ers will have to bear the inconvenience of waiting

until a new bridge is in place.

“The Bureau of De-signs which is under DPWH has first to ap-prove the layout of the replacement bridge, and we are hoping that the budgetary requirement of P96-million will be included in our 2013 in-frastructure projects,” he said.

However, even if it will not be included in its 2013 infra projects, other sources of funding, like maintenance or calami-ty fund, could be used to construct the bridge.

The collapse of the bridge has caused prob-lems in the delivery of relief goods and in the

P96-M bridge to replace what ‘Pablo’ destroyedBy Anthony S. Allada

MEETING. Davao City Watershed Management Council (WMC) members led by acting city administrator Zulieka Lopez, its co-chair, discuss environmental concerns and issues during the WMC monthly meeting at City Hall yesterday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

TyPHOON Pablo left Davao del Norte province with zero

casualty, but with almost P1-billion worth of dam-age in agriculture and in-frastructure.

“The zero casualty status is an indication of how well-prepared the disaster workers in the province are,” Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) executive offi-cer Sonio J. Sanchez said

yesterday. However, he said,

the province’s agricul-ture and infrastructure have not been spared with P60,000 worth of irrigation damaged, P205,000 worth of infra-structure destroyed and P996,736,740 worth of crops, particularly ba-nana and rice destroyed.

Hardest hit in terms of crop damage are the 14 barangays in the munici-pality of Kapalong, Davao

del Norte where majority of the banana plantations are.

The local government has yet to determine the total number of hectares planted to banana and rice crops affected by the typhoon.

Sanchez said a total of P205,000 worth of church structures have been damaged by the typhoon, including two structures worth P45,000 (partially damaged) and P135,000

(totally damaged) in ba-rangays Maniki and Kati-punan in the municipal-ity of Kapalong and one structure worth P25,000 (partially damaged) in barangay Sawata, munic-ipality of San Isidro.

A total of 4,357 fami-lies equivalent to 13,945 persons are in various evacuation centers of the province, like gymnasi-ums, churches, barangay halls and public schools. [PIA 11]

Zero casualty but P1billion in agriculture, infra damaged

THE regional of-fice of the Depart-ment of Social Wel-

fare and Development has intensified its relief assis-tance to those affected by the rampaging typhoon Pablo even as its teams are trying to reach isolat-ed areas.

The office has so far released about P12.8 mil-lion worth of food and

non-food goods to affect-ed families in the Davao region.

Meanwhile, Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Julia-no-Soliman is set to visit areas still reeling from the impact of the super typhoon.

Soliman is expected to join the entourage of

DSWD intensifies relief operations

THE Energy Regula-tory Commission (ERC) has recently

approved the distribution rates of Davao Light and Power for Regulatory year 2013 covering the period July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

Following the order, Davao Light will be im-plementing the said rates starting December 2012 billing rate cycle. The av-erage increase is 0.0309 P/kWh. However, the increase per customer

schedule is different. For example, for resi-

dential customers the av-erage distribution increase is P0.0508 per kWh. The impact to a residential customer whose month-ly usage is 175 kWhrs is an increase in his total distribution charges of P8.89/month. Including the effect of VAT and fran-chise tax, the increase will be P0.0574 per kWhr or P10.04/month.

The details of the in-crease by customer sched-

ule will be shown in the message box of the cus-tomer’s December bill.

Customers consum-ing 100kWhrs and below will still enjoy the lifeline subsidy. Of Davao Light’s 301,339 customers, 36% or 109,518 customers avail of the lifeline subsidy dis-counts. An estimated 12% or 12,601 of these 109,518 customers whose con-sumption is 0 to 20 kWhrs enjoy 100% discount and pay only the fixed charge of P5.00 a month.

ERC approves DLPC’s new distribution rates

INVESTORS in Pana-bo City’s Maricul-ture Park are facing

a bleak Christmas after they suffered millions of pesos in losses as a result of typhoon Pablo which ravaged the provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao

Oriental, and Davao Ori-ental on December 4.

“At least P33.6 mil-lion worth of bangus and fish cages have been de-stroyed, and this is only a conservative and par-tial estimate,” said Ma-ria Lourdes Campeon of

the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-11, Wednesday.

The Mariculture Park is the main money-earner of Panabo City generating an income-seed money of P601.65 million as of

P33.6M in bangus, fish cages destroyed

FNEW, 11

A New Zealander law student on an in-tegration program

with banana plantation workers in Compostela Valley experienced Ty-phoon “Pablo” firsthand, and lived to tell the tale.

Cameron Walker, 25, of the University of Auck-land, was hosted by the Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa OsMiguel (NAMAOS), a labor group affiliated with the Kilusang Mayo Uno with 117 members among banana farm workers in the villages of Osmeña and Miguel in the municipality of Compos-tela.

Walker attended a commemoration on the International Day of Po-litical Prisoners at Com-postela Valley Provincial Rehabilitation Center in Tagum City last Monday afternoon. (ComVal used to be part of Davao del Norte, whose capital is Tagum.)

He was informed that Compostela Valley would be placed under public storm signal no.

2 by Tuesday and would be experiencing “strong winds,” which he thought was manageable like the strong winds in his coun-try.

From Tagum he trav-elled to Compostela town, some 40 km away, and ar-rived at Barangay Osmeña in the evening. He was be-ing hosted by the family of NAMAOS member Tommy Atamosa, whose house is situated 10 meters away from a stream.

“When I woke up at 4 a.m. the next day, I saw the stream getting wider and wider and flowing in a direction towards the house. The water was ankle-level,” Walker re-called.

At that time, Typhoon Pablo was about to make landfall in the coastal mu-nicipality of Baganga in neighboring Davao Orien-tal, just 50 km away.

By then, coconut trees were swaying violently so Walker and Atamosa’s family could not get out the house. They all hid under the table together.

“They didn’t know what to do. They’re not used to it. They said the last time a storm hit the area was in 1960s,” Walk-er said.

Suddenly, the water level rose to knee-high and they all had to leave the house. He was sepa-rated from the group and later found a sturdy house about 50 meters from the stream and stayed there with 50 strangers.

Despite the flooding and the danger around them, he said it was fun-ny because the strangers were treating him with hospitality, asking him if he wanted coffee, tea or mango.

Determined to find his way home, Walker wad-ed through the knee-high flood amid the strong current, until he reached a banana packing plant where he slept among hundreds of evacuees from 9 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday.

“I heard the crying of children all through

New Zealander recounts ComVal ‘Pablo’ experience

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SOCCKSARGEN Re-gion’s Department of Environment and

Natural Resources (DENR 12) and government-run University of Southern Mindanao (USM) in North Cotabato have agreed to es-tablish a center that would push for the protection of the region’s biodiversity.

DENR 12 regional executive director Datu Tungko Saikol and USM President Jesus Antonio Derije signed a memoran-dum agreement for the es-tablishment of the facility, which shall be called the Biodiversity Rescue and Research Center inside USM’s main campus in Ka-bacan town.

The MOA signing was held at the USM Agricul-tural Research Center (USMARC) auditorium on November 28 and was witnessed by the state uni-versity’s faculty, staff and students and DENR offi-cials and employees.

Through the MOA, both parties vowed to work to-gether for the establish-ment and operation of the biodiversity center.

USM, being a premier state university involved in four-fold function of in-struction, research, exten-sion and production, shall provide the physical facil-

ity equipped with labora-tory and wildlife holding areas.

DENR, on the other hand, shall provide the center’s office equipment and technical personnel, among others.

Dr. Evangeline Tango-nan, dean of USM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), told PIA 12 that the estab-lishment of the biodiversi-ty center is an offshoot of several conservation stud-ies recently conducted by the faculty members of the college’s Department of Biological Sciences.

These studies included R&D activities on croco-dile, birds and algae in Mt. Apo, and bats in Kabacan town’s Pisan Caves, to name a few. She said the facility will be manned by the faculty members of the Department of Biological Sciences.

In his message, Direc-tor Saikol underscored the importance of the agree-ment in conserving the bi-ological diversity of Ligua-san Marsh.

“The MOA envisions to sustain the gains of the Liguasan Marsh Biodiver-sity Conservation (LMBC) Project, a five-year initia-tive implemented by the DENR in 11 municipali-ties, seven of which are in

Maguindanao while four are in North Cotabato,” Di-rector Saikol said.

At the same occasion, Saikol turned over some P2 million-worth of equip-ment to the University President for use in the biodiversity center.

Meanwhile, Dr. Derije, in his acceptance speech, thanked the DENR for the donation while express-ing the readiness of the

university in doing wild-life rescue and research in terms of human resource and facilities.

Derije who is a vet-erinarian by profession, boasted that the universi-ty has a pool of experts in animal science, veterinary medicine, and biology backed up with research and animal care facilities.

This 60-year old uni-versity also boast of an

animal hospital and diag-nostic facility.

The Liguasan Marsh is one of the priority sites under the National Program Support – Envi-ronment and Natural Re-sources Project (NPS-EN-RMP) which is funded by an almost US1 million grant from the World Bank – Global Environ-ment Facility .

It is among the larg-

est wetlands in the coun-try with an area of about 220,000 hectares. Com-posed of three marshes, namely: Liguasan proper, Libungan, and Ebpanan marshes, it comprises about 10 percent of the Mindanao River Basin.

In 1979, about 30,000 ha of Liguasan Marsh was declared a game refuge and bird sanctuary. [PIA/DENR 12]

4 SUBURBIA EDGEDAVAO

DENR 12, university put up center for biodiversity rescue, research

VIRTUAL LAKE. What used to be a vast rice field in Carmen, Davao del Norte turned into a virtual lake after super typhoon Pablo wrecked havoc in Davao Region with flashfloods and landslides resulting from strong wind and heavy downpour.

THOUSANDS of res-idents from the di-saster-stricken town

of New Bataan, Montevis-ta and Compostela in the Province of Compostela Valley flee to Tagum City on the night of December 5, 2012 in fear of yet another avalanche of mud and flash-floods coming from the mountains that prompted the local government of Tagum City to readily ex-tend a helping hand.

Tagum City Mayor Rey T. Uy facilitated the evacu-ees who camped inside the gymnasium in the city’s Rotary Park (Basketball Court and also at Beach Vol-lleydrome) that were later given medical assistance courtesy of the City Health Office and the Rotary Club of Tagum, Rotary Club of Tagum Golden Laces and the LyR Group of Compa-nies.

The local government also provided City Bus and Metro Shuttle buses that fetched the residents from New Bataan who requested for transportation.

Another sizeable group

was also seen gathering in Curvada in Barangay Mag-dum hours before midnight yesterday which prompted Mayor to decide to settle them in the Rotary Park.

In interviews, residents said they flee away from their hometown since ru-mors have circulated that

another flashflood and surge of mud will strike once more, a thing Mayor Uy labeled as mere hearsay in his talk with residents.

Some of them said they don’t have no more homes to return to since their houses were destroyed by the storm that hit their

town last Tuesday.He then facilitated the

return of the residents to its Municipality in New Bataan Montevista and Composte-la through the trucks com-missioned by the local gov-ernment and Metro Shuttle buses. [Louie Lapat/CIO Tagum]

LGU Tagum, private sector extend help to ‘Pablo’ victims

UPDATING. DILG Secretary Mar Roxas updates local media Wednesday morning on the status and relief operations under-taken by both local and national agencies relative to the dev-astation wrought by Typhoon Pablo. Also present at the Davao Oriental Capitol gymnasium for the briefing was DSWD OIC Di-

rector Priscilla N. Razon along with other officials and volunteer groups. To date, DSWD has released over P12 million-worth of food and non-food goods to affected families in Davao Region. (DSWD/Carmela Cadigal-Duron)

THE Police Region-al Office (PRO) 12 recently honored

three courageous police-men who fought lawless elements in the city and put their lives at risk in the name of service.

PRO 12 Public In-formation Officer (PIO), PSInsp. Benjamin Mauri-cio, Jr. said that awards, recommendations, and honors for gallantry were given to PO1 Mark An-thony Santillan, PO2 Pe-ter Quinzon, and a SWAT member of the General Santos City Police Office (GSCPO) whose identity is withheld for security reason.

Mauricio said PRO 12 Director PCSupt Alex Paul Monteagudo personal-ly conferred the “Meda-lya ng Kasanayan” and “Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting” to the these brave policemen who brought not only pride and honor to the police forces in the region, but also uplifted their morale in the midst of grief over the loss of two police offi-cers last week.

These police officers, he said, were killed sepa-rately on the same day by “riding in tandem” crimi-

nals who were using mo-torcycles with “no plate.”

Mauricio narrated that the said SWAT member killed one of the suspects on the act of committing the crime, and wounding another who is now at the custody of the PNP for tactical interrogation.

In a press conference Thursday, Police Com-munity Relations Officer, PCInsp. Reynaldo Denila Jr. revealed that the GSCPO has intensified its crack-down against “no plate, no travel” violators to avert carnapping incidences and address the prolifera-tion of motorcycles riding in tandem criminals.

Denila advised owners to register their single mo-torcycles to avoid being used for criminal activi-ties.

“We should not only own motorcycles for com-fort, but we should also be responsible owners,” he emphasized.

Denila also disclosed that the local PNP is strengthening its forces by tapping the help of the community, the local in-telligence units, and other force multipliers to deter criminal acts. [PGFruylan/PIA-Gensan]

3 cops honored

VOL.5 ISSUE 199 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7-8, 2012 5EDGEDAVAO SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

LEMMINGS became “regionally extinct” five times due to rapid

climate change during the last Ice Age, scientists have found.

Each extinction was followed by a re-colonisa-tion of genetically different lemmings, according to the study.

It investigated how Europe’s small mammals fared during the era when large numbers of megafau-na became extinct.

Previously, experts be-lieved that small mammals were largely unaffected during the Late Pleistocene.

But when the interna-tional research team anal-ysed ancient DNA sequenc-

es from fossilised remains of collared lemmings (Di-crostonyx torquarus) from cave sites in Belgium, they were surprised by the re-sults.

“What we’d expected is that there’d be pretty much just a single popu-lation that was there all the way through,” said re-search team member Dr Ian Barnes from the school of biological sciences at Royal Holloway University in Surrey.

Instead the tests re-vealed that genetically distinct populations of lemmings were “present at different points in time” during the Late Pleisto-cene, 11,700 to around

126,000 years ago, mean-ing that the lemming popu-lation had been wiped out multiple times and then re-colonised some time af-ter, possibly from popula-tions in eastern Europe or Russia.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, found that these “regional extinctions” oc-curred during periods of rapid warming within the last Ice Age.

Scientists suggest such climate fluctuations may have left lemmings unable to adapt to the changes in the vegetation they relied on as a food source. [BBC Nature]

THE preserved body of a woolly rhinocer-os has revealed new

insights into how this now extinct giant animal once lived.

The woolly rhino was once one of the most abundant large mammals living in Eurasia, but only a handful of preserved car-casses have been found.

Now an analysis of a female woolly rhino found preserved in Siberia re-veals that the animal was a herbivore that grazed mainly on cereals, and was similar in size to today’s Javan rhino.

However, it was slow to reproduce, had a short stubby tail and ears, and was likely driven to ex-

tinction in part due to its inability to wade through deeper blankets of snow, which became more common as the climate changed, say scientists.

Details of the discov-ery are published in the journal Biology Bulletin.

Woolly rhino (Coe-lodonta antiquitatis) re-mains have been found spanning Eurasia, from the UK in the west to Chu-kotka and Kamchatka in the Russian far east.

But few whole skele-tons have been discovered and only four whole car-casses, including the ani-mal’s soft tissues as well as the bones, have survived.

These remains allowed scientists to determine

that the woolly rhino had a long body and short legs, a flattened front horn and thick skin covered by a coat of thick fur.

Those insights have now been added to, fol-lowing a study by Gennady Boeskorov from the Rus-sian Academy of Sciences in yakutsk.

He analysed a woolly rhino carcass first discov-ered in 2007, in the lower reaches of the Kolyma Riv-er. The animal was found buried at a depth of five to nine metres from the surface of the opening of a gold mine.

The female rhino lived 39,000 years ago.

Her head, with two horns, remains together

with much of her trunk and all four legs. Most in-ternal organs have been lost, but her stomach and its contents are intact.

Dr Boeskorov stud-ied the woolly rhino’s features, comparing it to those of modern rhinos.

His study confirms that the woolly rhino had thick brown skin and fur, and was a heavy lumbering animal, weighing around 1.5 tons, with dimensions similar to that of a modern Javan rhino.

Its feet would have placed a pressure on the ground of 1.8kg per square centimetre, more than three times that of a modern moose.

The female rhino had an udder with two nipples,

making it likely that wool-ly rhinos gave birth to one, or occasionally two calves.

It also had a short, fur-covered tail com-pared to modern rhinos and short, lancet-shaped ears - much narrower than those of its living relatives. The ears match the shape of those drawn in artwork by Palaeolith-ic humans on cave walls. These shortened extrem-ities are likely to have been adaptations to a cold climate.

But the snow in which the woolly rhino lived ul-timately proved its undo-ing.

The rhino’s thick skin and long fur made it ini-tially well adapted to the cold, dry climate of the

late Pleistocene.However, its consid-

erable body weight, short legs and the huge pres-sures imposed by its feet would have made tackling deep snow difficult.

Modern ungulates such as the saiga and musk ox find it difficult to move in snow layers thicker than 30cm.

If the snow reaches their bellies, these ani-mals become almost help-less.

As the late Pleistocene gave way to the early Ho-locene, climate warming and moistening created deeper layers of snow in winter, and a similar fate is likely to have befallen the woolly rhino, said Dr Boeskorov. [BBC Nature]

Prehistoric rhino reveals secret

Did deep snow eventually do for the woolly rhino?

Cave art depicting a woolly rhino in the Chauvet cave, France.

Ice Age warmth wiped out lemmings, study finds


THE Malaysian national oil firm, Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is welcome

to return to explore oil and gas deposits in Mindanao, once the issue of natural resources owner-ship, under negotiations between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Philippine government, is completed.

MILF chairman Al-Haj Mu-rad Ebrahim said Petronas is one of the oil and gas companies the MILF is looking at, once Mindanao

is ready to exploit its hydrocarbon resources.

“Once we are ready to open for (oil and gas) exploration, then Petronas can be one of the com-panies that we are looking to,” he told Bernama in an exclusive in-terview here.

There was no immediate re-action from the Philippine gov-ernment. He said Petronas had established its presence in the Mindanao region a few years ago, carrying out early stage explora-

tion works.Petronas had partnered with

the Philippines National Oil Com-pany to search for oil and gas de-posits in several potential blocks in the country, without achieving much success.

Murad, the head of southern Philippines’ largest armed rebel groups, was in Johor Baharu to attend the 8th World Islamic Eco-nomic Forum at the Persada Johor International Convention Center.

The MILF and the Philippine

government recently entered a historic Framework of Agreement on the Bangsamoro, ending years of conflict between the two par-ties. The framework agreement, brokered by Malaysia, was signed at the Malacanang Palace in Ma-nila and witnessed by Prime Min-ister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III.

Murad said oil and gas was one of the natural resources it wanted to exploit for economic purposes, as a means to uplift the economic status of the Bangsam-oro people. He cited an area in central Mindanao called the “Li-guasan Marsh”, claimed to contain huge hydrocarbon reserves.

The MILF chief said before any oil and gas exploration could begin, the group and the Manila government would have to iron out details concerning the issue of natural resources ownership.

“On the government side, it seems that they are agreeable for the ownership of the natural resources to be given to the Bang-samoro, but then they wanted to exclude oil and natural gas. So it is still subject to further negotia-tions,” he said.

Nevertheless, Murad expects the Bangsamoro people to have significant control over the natu-ral resources in the area. Besides oil and gas deposits, the Mind-anao region is also blessed with huge untapped amount of high-ly-valued minerals such as gold, copper, iron, chromite ore and nickel. [PNA/Bernama]

6 EDGEDAVAOTHE ECONOMY

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2009 - December 2011)

Month 2012 2011 2010

Average 43.31 45.11December 43.64 43.95November 43.27 43.49October 43.45 43.44

September 43.02 44.31August 42.42 45.18

July 42.81 46.32June 43.37 46.30May 42.85 43.13 45.60April 42.70 43.24 44.63

March 42.86 43.52 45.74February 42.66 43.70 46.31January 43.62 44.17 46.03

Stat Watch5.8%

1st Qtr 2012

6.4 %1st Qtr 2012

USD 4,931million

May 2012USD 4,770

millionApr 2012USD -135

millionApr 2012USD -209

millionMar 2012

P 4,580,674 million

Apr 2012

4.1 %May 2012P131,403

millionMay 2012

P 5,075 billion

Apr 2012

P 42.78Jun 2012

5,091.2May 2012

130.1 Jun 2012

2.8 Jun 2012

3.7 Jun 2012

349,779Apr 2012

18.8 %Jan 2012

7.2 %Jan 2012

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/Sat MI588 12:55 Davao-Cebu-Singapore 09:05Cebu 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 Mon/Sat MI588 / MI588 18:55 Davao-Singapore 13:35 Silk Air Wed/Sun MI566 / MI566 18:55 Davao-Singapore 15:20Silk Air Thurs MI551 / MI551 15:45 Davao-Singapore 12:05Cebu 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

THE Department of Ag-riculture is utilizing the value-chain marketing

approach to provide more op-portunities for smallholder farmers.

DA undersecretary Joel S. Rudinas said the concept of val-ue-chain approach would help push for the promotion of farm-ers’ produce into the higher lev-el of the market.

“The value-chain approach will be a vehicle of the Philip-pine Rural Development Pro-gram (PRPD),” Rudinas said.

DA is now preparing PRDP, a six-year national govern-ment platform for an inclusive growth, value-chain oriented, and climate-resilient agricul-ture and fisheries sector ex-pected to pool total funds of $671.59 million or close to P28

billion from a World Bank (WB) loan portfolio and equity share of national and local govern-ment units (LGUs).

“There are production sur-plus but they are seasonal and some volumes of this surplus just get rotten or perished and accounts for harvest losses,” Rudinas said.

“With PRDP as the plat-form, we want to create a chain of economic opportunities to bring farmers’ produce in the higher level of the value-chain to generate more income, and more opportunities and reduce our harvest losses,” Rudinas added.

Value chain refers to the full range of activities that are required to bring a produce or services through the different phases of production, including

physical transformation and the inputs of various producer services and response to the consumer demand stated in a separate presentation of World Bank Marketing Specialist Flor-deliza Lantican.

Rudinas noted that most of the value-adding activities are done in the urban areas far from the production areas of the farmers.

“We want to link this gap by building the social and physical infrastructure for the continu-ous flow of product to the val-ue-chain,” Rudinas said.

PRDP aims to increase farm-ers’ income in agri-fishery sec-tor in the program area and de-velop a more market-oriented and climate resilient agriculture and fishery sector.

Rudinas added that for sus-

tainable agri-fishery to generate income for smallholders for fur-ther investments, all stakehold-ers share in the investment and utilize climate-smart approach-es to farming activities.

Rudinas further said PRDP did not start from scratch; its springboard is the successful implementation of the Mindan-ao Rural Development Program.

PRDP is expected to roll out its first set of projects next year.

The program’s components include I-Plan (Investments in agriculture and fisheries modernization plan); I-BUILD (intensified building up of in-frastructure and logistics for development); I-REAP (invest-ments in rural enterprises and agriculture and fisheries pro-ductivity); I-SUPPORT (imple-mentation program support).

DA introduces value-chain approach to uplift farmers

By Sherwin B. Manual

RELIEF GOODS. Student volunteers pack rice for the relief goods which will be distributed to the victims of typhoon Pablo in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley Province at the Department of Social Welfare and Devel-

opment (DSWD) XI office in Suazo Street corner R. Magsaysay Ave., Davao City yesterday. LEAN DAVAL JR.

MILF welcomes Petronas investment in Mindanao


THE biggest industrial and business trade exhibition ever in

the region, Philconstruct and HVAC/R Mindanao, successfully debuted at the new SMX Convention Cen-ter, SM Lanang Premier last November 29 to December 2.

Now on its third year in Davao, the exhibit was simultaneously held with the Manufacturing Tech-nology Davao (MTD) and its own complementary show, Pack Print Plus.

Organized by the Phil-

ippine Constructors Asso-ciation, Inc. (PCA) and the Davao Constructors Asso-ciation Center Inc. (DCACI) together with their event organizer, Global Link MP Events International, Inc., the exhibit showcased the best in the industry, includ-ing 80 new exhibitors and attracted record partici-pants to its seminars.

“We hope to prove that you need not travel far to find technologies, prod-ucts, and services that meet international stan-dards. Here in Davao City, we already have the best,” shared Lito Madrasto, ex-ecutive director of the PCA.

“This show has helped the region prove its worth as the business destination of choice for the construc-tion industry. This year, together with the PCA, we have put in our best efforts to give exhibitors and buy-ers an even more impres-sive show,” said Manuel Gonzalez, Immediate Past President of the DCACI.

Patrick Lawrence Tan, CEO of Global Link, echoed

their upbeat sentiments. “I think there are few plac-es in the country that you can label with these two words—opportunities and possibilities—and Davao as a city has these two as-pects that are very clearly engraved in the minds of business people who are here,” enthused Tan.

Giving his assessment on the business outlook, Tan said, “As a country, we are getting fantastic ratings; we are the only country in the world that the IMF has upgraded this

year. The investor’s con-fidence is back; business-men’s confidence is back and that’s very important. “The projection, especially for Davao, should be easily a forecast of five years of consistent safe growth.

“There are more ex-hibitors right now and the show has grown 50%. The buyers are back, and more importantly, they are not just from Davao but from all over. There is excite-ment in the air,” Tan dis-closed.

“The biggest need we see for construction is in-frastructure like roads and energy development,” Tan observes. “There are some areas here wherein if you develop the roads, growth will take place. Once you take care of the basics, con-fidence cones back and you will have bigger require-ments. For manufacturers, it would be factories. you have a lot of land, so you have a lot of investment opportunities,” he added.

Two first-time exhib-itors at the Philconstruct

exhibit were Segway Phil-ippines and Lianco Sun En-ergy--two new companies that have brought in green technology to the country.

Wilson Lei, President and CEO of Segway Phil-ippines, related that his company wanted to give the public an alternative mode of transportation to lessen carbon emissions of gas-powered vehicles. “We wanted to start bringing in green transportation using electric vehicles,” said Lei, whose company belongs to the Electric Vehicles As-sociation of the Philippines (EVAP).

Just a year after trans-porting them into the coun-try, Segway Philippines al-ready has units patrolling around Makati, the Ayala malls and Mind Museum. Here in Davao, Paradise Resort, Pearl Farm Resort, and D’Leonor Resort are the first to use them.

“It helps in the efficien-cy of responding to the se-curity personnel and the guards aren’t tired in go-ing around. They can also be used by big factories, malls, villages, and con-certs,” explained Lei. Using a lithium-ion battery, the self-balancing light electric vehicle can last for three years with eight hours continuous usage and uses only one kilowatt of power for every 38 kilometers.

Lianco Sun Energy is not only a first-time exhib-itor at Philconstruct, it is also the first ever this start-up company has joined, which is test marketing their solar equipment in the hopes of putting up a factory in Manila and a storage warehouse here in

Davao. Owner and Manager,

Ricky Jay Cheong, believes that solar energy can help address the electricity shortage in Mindanao. Be-cause costs in solar ener-gy production have gone down, it has become more affordable.

“We can accommodate all budgets because we’re also pushing for DIy or do it yourself, even for those with just a little knowledge of electricals. I’m not an electrical engineer but I

was able to do it myself,” he says.

“People are into re-newable energy now, so we want to give them a full line-up of equipment, from panels to converters to installation kits so that it would be easier to do it themselves. We also teach people how to do it them-selves so it’s cheaper for home installations.

“But we can also equip a solar power plant,” Cheong said. “Our US pan-els work in a way that even

without full sunshine it still collects electricity ef-ficiently,” he explained. He has already received inqui-ries for distributorship and plans to come back next year to properly introduce his product.

Another new entrant to the Philconstruct exhibit is the Cheonsai Ind. Co. Ltd., which has chosen Davao City to introduce its wire-less control for metering water pumps to the Phil-ippines, the first wireless control in the industry.

7EDGEDAVAO COMPETITIVE EDGE

In the land of opportunities and possibilities

Lianco Sun Energy Owner and Manager Ricky Jay Cheong

Segway Philippines Pres and CEO Wilson Lei

Cheonsia Ind. Co.Ltd. VP Young K. Paik (left, holding the wireless control)

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EDITORIALUrgent help needed

MANy of the multitude of television viewers who saw footages capturing

the untold misery being experi-enced by victims of super storm Pablo in the provinces of Com-postela Valley and Davao Orien-tal could not help but shed tears in pity. These hapless men, wom-en and children will have a very bleak Christmas, even a bleaker new year considering the long-time effects of the widespread devastation that destroyed their homes and wiped out their farms and other sources of livelihood.

Now, their future is not even that important. What is imme-diately needed now are things urgent for their survival, ba-sic needs that the government with its limited resources could not even provide satisfactorily. These are food, water, medicine

and shelter.The victims need our urgent

help now, not tomorrow. We are their nearest neighbors and as such, we are expected to be the first ones to come to their succor.

Mercifully, the city govern-ment of Davao is showing a good example. yesterday, the Davao City Council, upon the request of Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, allocated P9,543,450 as food assistance for Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley. The ur-gently needed assistance in gro-cery packs of P300 per person will be delivered without delay to the typhoon victims starting today.

However, the city of Davao can only do so much. We, the res-idents who have been spared by typhoon Pablo must do our share. Not tomorrow but now.

VANTAGE POINTS

IF the photograph that R. Umar Abbasi shot and the New york Post ran on its cover Tuesday of a subway car bear-

ing down on Ki-Suck Han doesn’t make you shudder, you’re probably a little dead inside. And if, after looking at the cover once or twice, you didn’t return for another quick glance, or replay the image in your mind’s eye, you might be a cyborg.

The subway photograph conveys a kind of terror that’s different from the terror produced by red-meat shots from the battlefield, photos of monks self-im-molating, or even surveillance video of car bombs detonating and blasting peo-ple over like bowling pins. The subway photo doesn’t document human destruc-tion, it documents the anticipation of destruction, and that rattles a separate part our psyche, explains media scholar Barbie Zelizer in her 2010 book, About to Die: How News Images Move the Pub-lic.

“About-to-die images tweak the landscape on which images and pub-lic response work,” Zelizer told me two years ago in an interview. “[I]mages of impending death play to the emotions, the imagination, and the contingent and qualified aspects of what they depict.”

The cinema has been exploiting the power of about-to-die images for more than a century, routinely placing char-acters in death’s path and extending the anticipatory moment to yank our strings like puppet masters. Inside the cinemat-ic moment, we become the person in peril, especially when the character in peril is an innocent victim, or young, or a “woman in peril.”

When such moments as the Ki-Suck Han moment are photographed in the real world and published in a prominent place like the cover of the New york Post, the first instruction our instincts give us is that his impending death could have been ours. Even if we live hundreds of miles from the nearest subway, we think, I could have been the one shoved into the path of the Q train! The nightmare of being alive but seeing your death ap-proach was precisely the effect theNew york Post‘s editors sought when they unknowingly channeled Zelizer’s thesis into their cover headline: “DOOMED: Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die.”

As horrific as photos of corpses, splat-ter shots, and images of body parts may be, they don’t have the psychological effect on us that an about-to-die photo-graph has. Explicit images of death tend to repel viewers, Zelizer says, and that distance tends to tamp down the terror. But images ofimpending death tend to attract curiosity and study. “They often draw viewers in, fostering engagement, creating empathy and subjective involve-ment, inviting debate,” Zelizer told me.

The debate over the New york Post‘s publication of the subway photograph has turned visceral, with experienced journalists writing straight from the gut. In the New Republic, Tom McGeveran of Capital New york calls the photograph unpleasant and nasty, and its publication “tasteless,” explaining with distaste that tastelessness and the trafficking in “cru-elty” of such human circumstance defines the New york Post formula. In the New york Times, David Carr describes the photo’s appearance on the Post‘s cover “sickening to behold,” asserting that “We are all implicated by this photo, not just the man who took it.”

About-to-die images inspire many of us to replay the tragedy in a way that would have avoided the disaster. It’s hard to look at the subway picture and not mentally exhort Han to vault back onto the platform even though you know he is cold dead. The Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart was seduced by this urge, obliquely wishing that Abbasi had discarded his camera and rescued Han.


TECHNOLOGy is changing how pow-er struggles are waged between the White House and Congress. For

the last few years, negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders have too often led to stalemate. The battle over how to avert the “fiscal cliff” is the latest example.

Since President Barack Obama’s re-election, he has begun to shift strategies — taking his case directly to the Ameri-can people as a way to pressure Congress. After all, members of Congress ignore their president without penalty, but ig-noring the opinions of their constituents can cost them their jobs.

Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both effectively used television to address the nation when facing off against a House of Representatives controlled by the opposing party. While TV will remain important, going directly to the American people continue to morph in the era of the Internet. Political messages can be cus-tomized and narrowly targeted.

Much of the political broadcasting of the past may ultimately be replaced by po-litical narrowcasting. We saw this already during the 2012 presidential campaign — candidates began with broad appeals to the nation and ended up focusing on a rel-atively few undecided and therefore per-suadable groups living in key swing states like Ohio and Virginia.

We may even see specific groups of American citizens playing the role of jury, as they are bombarded with carefully tai-lored appeals from both sides, while the rest of us remain apart from all the sound and fury.

On the Internet, messages can be cus-tomized based on the recipient’s congres-sional district. This could allow Obama, who never has to run for reelection again, to directly challenge every opposing mem-ber of Congress by name during the 2014 elections — especially those who won

narrowly in 2012.Political messages can be fitted to the

interests and political leanings of each recipient. For example, as the president makes the case for his energy policy, he could emphasize to some the jobs this pol-icy could create, to others the environmen-tal benefits – depending on their interests.

Obama’s targeted messaging prob-ably begins with the treasure-trove of information collected for his re-election campaign. In addition to email addresses, the re-election campaign staff also knows where supporters live, and even which is-sues interest them most. In supplying in-formation to voters, the re-election team regularly asked about their interests, in addition to basics like their home zip code and perhaps a Facebook account. The team could also have maintained a record of which position papers a voter views, and the campaign events she signs up for.

When a customized email now asks one of these supporters to contact his rep-resentative in Congress about tax reform, for example, the request can include the telephone number to call and specifics on what that representative has said and done about tax policy — perhaps affecting that representative’s standing in the polls in the process.

The request could also urge support-ers to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to influence friends and neighbors.

The Republican Party and many oth-er organizations can, of course, use these same techniques. But the Obama re-elec-tion campaign reportedly used sophis-ticated methods of analysis, and it looks like the GOP probably now lags behind the president’s re-election team in informa-

tion and organization.Though email is powerful and free, it is

most useful for reaching those who want to be reached. To bring targeted mes-saging to a broader audience, including those swing voters who will likely decide the 2014 congressional elections, politi-cal leaders and other organizations could turn to the advertisements that people see as they browse the Web.

There is a common misconception that these online ads are like billboards, which look the same to everyone driving by. In reality, however, many online ads are se-lected specifically for the person viewing them, not far from the advertising post-ers in the sci-fi movie, “Minority Report,” which speak directly to the characters walking by.

Consider, when you access a website, it knows from your IP (Internet protocol) address roughly where you are located, and can show you an ad praising or con-demning the member of Congress repre-senting your congressional district. When choosing which ad you should see, this site can also use a variety of techniques to know which websites you frequent, which Google searches you have tried this month, or the value of homes in your neighbor-hood — all to get a better idea of where you stand on the big issue of the day.

If targeted messaging becomes an important force in policy debates, the impact will depend on which groups are being targeted. As both sides seek to reach beyond their base to swing voters in contested congressional districts, this may even give our leaders a newfound in-centive to work together toward shared solutions.

While many activists like to hear the kind of tough rhetoric that leaves little room for compromise, a politician usual-ly gets more support from swing voters with pragmatic proposals that actually can get things done.

( 1st of two parts )

By honor Blanco caBieSPECIAl FEATURE

By Jon PehaANAlYSIS

Filipinos get the chill, but are ready for Christmas dawn

Masses

VANTAGE POINTSEDGEDAVAO 9

Policy debates in the Internet Age

AS the December winds get frosty, with the Siberian winds blow-ing south to this predominantly

Christian country, many Filipino Cath-olics start preparing for dawn Masses which usher in what many celebrate as the birth anniversary of Jesus.

From up north in San Pablo, Isabela to Moncada in Tarlac to Looc, Romblon and the cities of Silay and Sagay in Ne-gros Occidental in the Visayas to Bislig City in Mindanao, the faithful are sepa-rately looking at their budget schedules for the Christmas eve dining table.

In many other Catholic-dominated towns of this archipelago, which re-ceived the Cross in 1521, lanterns of dif-ferent designs and colors make the cel-ebration even brighter at night, not far from giant Christmas trees decked with bulbs and other blinking equipment.

The so-called “noche buena” – as the Christmas eve dinner has become known for scores – has become part of the custom among Filipino Catholics, many persuaded that Mary’s son Jesus was born on Dec 25, a celebration that some theologians say is not historically correct.

To many this is the highlight of the nine Masses – which begin at 4 a.m. Dec 16 in many Catholic parishes nation-wide. The dawn mass is called “miatinis” in some towns of northern Philippines, “simbang gabi” (literally Mass at night) in Metro Manila and even in some Visay-an towns like Minglanilla in Cebu, San Joaquin in Iloilo and Bato in Leyte.

The “simbang gabi” has become an integral part of a Filipino Christmas tradition which has been highlighted by cheers, gift-giving and parties in the run up to the date itself.

The nine dawn Masses are also seen as a novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Catholic faithful, a reference to the Roman Catholic practice of per-forming nine days of private or public devotion to obtain special graces.

Some theologians say in traditional Catholic belief, completing the nove-na is also supposed to mean that God might grant the devotee’s special wish or favor.

This tradition was introduced by the Spanish friars to allow the Filipino farmers to hear mass before going to the fields early in the morning.

In 16th century Philippines, the church bells started ringing as early as 3 a.m. waking people up so they can get ready for the 4 a.m. dawn Mass, when Roman Catholic churches across the nation start to open their doors short-ly before the break of dawn to welcome the faithful to the “simbang gabi” Mass.

Today, the tradition has continued – in the urban centers, like Metro Manila, and the far-flung towns of this country of 98 million people, nearly 90 per cent of whom are Christians – in different ways and lights, literally.

Churches are decorated with var-iegated lights and lanterns of different colors.

”Simbang gabi” is also a tradition among Catholic Filipino communities overseas – in Toronto, Canada, Alberta in Canada’s Calgary, Texas, California and Guam as well as European towns where Filipinos have stamped a liv-ing, indicating what observers call the depth of their Catholic faith despite their hectic work schedules.

TROPICAL typhoon Pablo (interna-tional codename: Bopha) brought home the message that Mindan-

ao (or at least most of its provinces) is beginning to lose its advantage as a ty-phoon-free island. Climate change has changed all that; the curse once confined to the rest of the country is now a creep-ing reality for the South.

In the past, storms and typhoons would only ravage the northeastern and northern part of Mindanao. Surigao, which directly faces the Pacific, took the hardest blows as the area where these weather disturbances would usu-ally make a landfall. From there, storms would swerve towards the Visayas and Luzon regions, leaving the rest of Mind-anao free to party outside their homes. At most, there would be rains and occa-sional gusts.

In short, the path of these natural events used to be predictable that Min-danaoans could afford to ignore alerts issued by weather forecasters and au-thorities.

But Pablo came, and from here on the people of Mindanao – in addition to the victims of storm Sendong last year – will have reason to fear storm warn-

ing signals. For one, Pablo made land-fall not just in Surigao. Its “arrival area” s t r e t c h e d down to Com-postela Valley and Davao Oriental, the p r o v i n c e s with the most number of ca-sualties in Mindanao. Presumably, the residents there were yet to appreciate the dangers of being along the direct path of a typhoon that they – or local of-ficials – must have taken minor prepa-rations.

Indeed, Pablo’s unusual path proved to be something new for Mindanao. As far as I can remember since mov-ing here in 1989, it was the first time that Pagasa, the state weather agency, hoisted storm signal number 3 over Bukidnon. Perhaps it was the first time too that the local government ordered classes suspended in all levels and all offices closed.

The heightened alert only bothered me a bit. Clouds had gathered the day before the typhoon came, but they drift-ed away by late afternoon, giving a false sense of security. It was only at dawn on Tuesday that an intermittent rain start-ed to fall. Signal number 3, what’s that again? I reassured myself.

Pablo, however, had the last laugh. By 8 a.m., the rain had become sus-tained and heavier. Swirling gusts of wind pummeled the surroundings I thought the roof of our house would yield to it. Jean informed me that the road outside of their hotel in Cagayan de Oro City was already flooded while our daughters texted to say they were fine, although the one in Iligan said she had to make do with burgers as no oth-er food stores were open.

But the real story – aside from the human lives that were lost – is the changing nature of storms and ty-phoons in the Philippines. What used to be unusual may become normal in the years ahead. A typhoon-free island? Think again. [MindaViews is the opin-ion section of MindaNews. H. Marcos C. Mordeno can be reached at [email protected].]

Lessons from Pablo


INTERNATIONAL envi-ronment campaigner Greenpeace has again

brought its newest and big-gest ship to Manila to rally Filipinos in protecting local seas which the group said is among the world’s most threatened.

“Greenpeace is sound-ing the alarm on the crisis currently facing Philippine seas, and is working to promote the conservation, protection and sustained management of the coun-try’s marine resources,” the activist group said in a statement.

This, as it noted that its ship “Esperanza” docked in Manila Bay Dec. 1 and is set to engage in a series of activities in line with ma-rine conservation before it departs Dec. 16.

“The Esperanza will go on a tour within Philip-pine waters, working with local partners to expose the threats confronting the health of our oceans such as overfishing and destruc-tive fishing, pollution and climate change,” Greepeace said.

“She will also present solutions on how we can all move forward and help

restore our seas,” it added.The Esperanza (Span-

ish for “hope”) was launched in 2002, and is the biggest and latest ad-dition to the Greenpeace fleet. It is 72 meters long and can sail at a speed of up to 16 knots.

This is the ship’s sec-ond visit to the Philippines, after Greenpeace’s global “Defending Our Oceans Tour”, which had the Es-peranza docking in several bays in the country from August to September 2006.

Its recent arrival coin-cides with the launch of the Greenpeace Oceans Cam-paign in the Philippines on Dec. 8.

The ship will also be part of the Manila-hosted meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fish-eries Commission (also dubbed the Tuna Commis-sion) from Dec. 2 to 6.

Greenpeace meanwhile announced that it will sub-mit to the Tuna Commis-sion a record of violations of fishing rules commit-

ted by the Philippines and Southeast Asian countries.

“While at sea, we saw firsthand that pirate fish-ing and destructive fishing methods abound in the Pa-cific,” said Chow yuen Ping, Greenpeace campaigner onboard the Esperanza.

Among the violations recorded were illegal tran-shipment, vessels operat-ing in the high seas without permits and operating in the high seas without man-datory observers onboard. [yahoo!]

10 EDGEDAVAONATION/WORlDNATION BRIEFS

Easier

Patent, trademark and other intellec-tual property reg-

istrations will be easier in the Philippines, the government vowed, as it launched a new informa-tion technology system to improve application processes.

“[A] fully automated system will now be used to process utility model, industrial design, patent, and trademark applica-tions from end-to-end,” the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said in a state-ment.

French

More Pinoy stu-dents will get a chance to learn

French in public schools and become more “glob-ally competitive,” the De-partment of Education (DepEd) said, as it an-nounced a renewed part-nership with the French Embassy.

A new memoran-dum of agreement has been signed to continue French as a second for-eign language and as an elective offered to some high schools including one in Mindanao, the DepEd said in a state-ment.

Fraud ring

At least 17 members of a telecom fraud ring preying on

Chinese and Taiwanese were arrested in a raid in a subdivision in Caloocan City before dawn Thurs-day. National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents arrested the 13 Chinese and four Taiwan-ese following months of surveillance, according to a report on Balitangh-ali.

The suspects would allegedly call up victims and claimed the victims were facing charges and had to pay a certain amount of money, the report said. Initial in-vestigation showed the suspects had been in the country for three months.

New chief

President Benigno Aquino III has ap-pointed Ateneo

law professor Eugenio ‘Toto’ Villareal as the new chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.

Villareal assumed the post late Wednesday af-ternoon after receiving his appointment papers dated November 28. He takes over the post va-cated by Grace Poe-Lla-manzares, who will be seeking a Senate seat in the 2013 polls. Movie di-rector Emmanuel Borla-za was earlier tapped to temporarily head the board.

Forged

The Commission on Higher Educa-tion (CHED) and

IBM forged Thursday a pact to configure some Philippine courses and develop Filipino college graduates who will form the world’s first data an-alytics army.

CHED chairperson Dr. Patricia Licuanan and IBM Philippines pres-ident Mariels Almeda Winhoffer signed the agreement on develop-ing an analytics educa-tion master plan.

WORLD TODAYCalmed

SUPPORTERS and op-ponents of Egyptian President Mohamed

Mursi hurled rocks at each other on Thursday outside the presidential palace, over the heads of soldiers deployed there to protect the building, a Reuters wit-ness said.

Soldiers urged both sides to stop and helped calm the flare-up. Violence outside the palace that erupted on Wednesday had mostly abated by the early hours of Thursday. At least five people were killed and 350 wounded in the violence, the health ministry said.

Missing

Dutch rescue work-ers on Thursday re-sumed their search

for seven crew missing after their cargo ship sank in the North Sea, but said there was little hope of finding survivors.

“There are still sev-en missing, we’re now searching with planes and helicopters,” coastguard spokesman Peter West-enberg told AFP after the search resumed early Thursday.

Nanny

Norway’s Crown Prin-cess Mette-Marit secretly traveled to

India in order to care for infant twins born to the surrogate mother of a gay palace employee unable to get a travel visa, the palace said.

Armed with a diplo-matic passport that grant-ed her immediate access, the future queen jumped on a plane in late October when the employee, who is also a friend, and his hus-band were unable to travel to care for their newborns.

Pretext

Western powers are whipping up fears of a fateful

move to the use of chemi-cal weapons in Syria’s civil war as a “pretext for inter-vention”, President Bashar al-Assad’s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.

He spoke as Germany’s cabinet approved station-ing Patriot anti-missile bat-teries on Turkey’s border with Syria, a step requir-ing deployment of NATO troops that Syria fears could permit imposition of a no-fly zone over its terri-tory.

Charged

Thai authorities charged former Prime Minister

Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thurs-day with giving orders to use live ammunition that led to civilian deaths during a military crackdown on an anti-government protest in May 2010.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI), part of the Justice Minis-try that has a similar role to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, charged Abhisit and former Depu-ty Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban for their role in the 2010 events.

NATION/WORlD

EGyPT’S army de-ployed tanks outside the presidential pal-

ace on Thursday after five demonstrators died over-night in clashes between supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mo-hamed Morsi.

Morsi was expected to issue a statement on Thursday to address the worst violence since his June election, which has pitted Islamists against an opposition that has esca-lated protests since he as-sumed extensive powers on November 22.

Running street battles that carried on through

the night outside the Iti-hadiya palace in north-ern Cairo also left 350 people wounded, many from buckshot, the official MENA news agency re-ported.

The opposition has said it would organise further marches to the palace as a top presidential aide ac-cused them of coordinating with loyalists of deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Morsi is expected to “re-veal that facts and call for a dialogue,” the head of his office Refaa Al-Tahtawy told the official Al-Akbar news-paper.

The stage was set for

Wednesday’s violence when Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement announced a march to the palace, where opposition protesters were staging a sit-in a day after tens of thousands surrounded the sprawling complex.

The protesters threw fire bombs and rocks at each other on Wednesday as their simmering stand-off over the president’s ex-panded powers and a draft constitution turned violent.

Bloodied protesters were seen carried away as gunshots rang out and the rivals torched cars and set off fire crackers near the

palace, where opponents of Morsi had set up tents before his supporters drove them away.

Riot police were even-tually sent in to break up the violence, but clash-es still took place in side streets near the palace in the upscale neighbourhood of Heliopolis.

The opposition says it will not stand down un-til Morsi discards his new powers, which allow him to take decisions uncontested by courts, and cancel a snap December 15 referendum on a new constitution op-posed by liberals and Chris-tians. [AFP]

Egyptians walk past army tanks deployed near the presidential pal-ace in Cairo on December 6 after five demonstrators died overnight in clashes between supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mo-hamed Morsi. Morsi was expected to issue a statement on Thursday to address the worst violence since his June election. [AFP]

Egypt deploys tanks at presidential palace

International environment campaigner Greenpeace’s ship Esperanza docks at the Port of Manila. [Voltaire Domingo/NPPA Images]

Biggest ‘activist’ ship docks at Manila Bay

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128 in Davao Oriental. She said 169 people

remain unaccounted for in the two provinces, 144 missing in Compostela Valley and 25 in Davao Oriental.

“Many of the victims drowned,” Mazo said, add-ing that 592 people were injured--441 in Composte-la Valley and 151 in Davao Oriental.

Mazo said a total of 958,050 families equiva-lent to 4.7 million people were affected by the storm in the Davao region.

She said that a day after the storm the Sangguni-ang Panlalawigan of the af-fected provinces declared a state of calamity in their respective areas and that a total blackout still prevails in the two provinces after many power lines were downed by the storm.

However, services of telecommunication com-panies are gradually being restored, particularly in New Bataan, Compostela Valley, Mazo said, while the towns of Boston, Ca-teel and Baganga remain

isolated from the capital, Mati City, due to collapsed bridge in Caraga while an-other route to Cateel via Compostela town in Com-val is impassable due to landslides and fallen trees.

A total of 866 houses in the affected areas of the Davao region were totally destroyed.

Davao del Norte placed the damage to ag-riculture at P7.9 million, with 633 hectares of rice and corn fields destroyed in Caraga, Davao Oriental but the cost of damage has yet to be determined.

Among the municipal-ities affected, New Bata-an was the hardest hit with six of its 16 baran-gays, particularly Andap, Camalangan, Cogonon, Cabinuagan, San Roque and Batacan where most of the deaths, injuries, and damage to property happened.

“Andap and Cabinua-gan remain inaccessible to all types of vehicles due to landslides and thick mud,” Mazo said, adding that all houses and utili-

ties in New Bataan were destroyed in the storm.

Initial government re-sponse included the set-ting up of a command cen-ter headed by the mayor, mobile evacuation hospi-tal by the Comval Provin-cial government, search, rescue and retrieval op-eration spearheaded by members of the 10th In-fantry Division, and dis-tribution of food packs to the evacuees.

Lt. Colonel Lyndon Paniza, spokesperson of the 10th Infantry Division, said the death toll maybe higher as the search, res-cue and retrieval efforts continue.

yesterday, the Davao City Council approved a resolution allocating P9.5 million assistance to Davao Oriental and Com-postela Valley.

Councilor Pilar Braga said the funds will be used in purchasing grocery packs at P300 per pack. [PIA 11/Joey Sem G. Da-lumpines/ 1Lt. Christy Isis Achanzar/10th Civil-Mili-tary Operations Battalion]

Tan bared that during their meeting, owners of six fishing companies based in Gensan reported that a to-tal of 11 mother boats, two carrier boats and 27 light boats remained missing as of this date.

“The owners of these six fishing companies abso-lutely have no contact with their boats,” Tan added.

According to Tan, a mother boat usually has 30 crewmembers, a carri-er boat has five to six pas-sengers and a light boat is manned by two persons.

“Based on these fig-ures, we came up with an estimate that at least 396 fishing crew of six fishing companies here remained missing,” Tan said.

Tan identified the fish-ing firms with missing crewmembers as Rogela Fishing (2 mother boats, 5 light boats and 1 carrier boat missing), RMG Fish-ing (3 mother boats and 9 light boats), Raffy, Inc.

(1 mother boat missing), DCG Fishing (1 mother boat confirmed to have sank with 8 crew mem-bers missing, one dead and 3 injured), LPS Fishing (3 mother boats and 12 light boats missing) and Trinity Fishing (1 mother boat, 1 carrier boat and 1 light boat missing).

Tan claimed that all these missing fishing ves-sels are operating in the high seas off Mati, Davao Oriental.

“Affected fishing oper-ators are closely coordi-nating with the Philippine Coast Guard in region 11 hoping to find and res-cue all the missing fishing crewmembers,” Tan said.

Meanwhile, a certain Renato Licayan, a fisher-man from Tamba, Mati Oriental, was rescued by the crewmembers of LPS Fishing early Thursday morning while on their way home to Gensan.

Licayan was totally na-

ked and almost exhausted when he was rescued by the LPS Fishing crew.

He was brought here where he was clothed, as well as, given food and first aid treatment by the city social welfare office.

Licayan narrated be-tween sobs that he and his two other colleagues – Dino Matugas and Row-elan Para of Malapatan, Sarangani - were on their way back to Mati when Typhoon Pablo caught up with them.

“Strong wind and giant wave smashed our boat. My two other colleagues failed to survive. I person-ally saw how the raging wave gobbled them up but I’m helpless,” Licayan said.

He said that upon hear-ing on transistor radio that there’s a typhoon coming, they tried to rush back to Mati.

“On our way back, ty-phoon caught up with us,” he said.

rescue and retrieval oper-ations in the three coastal towns of Baganga, Cateel and Boston, all in Davao Oriental.

Another route, the Compostela-Cateel na-tional highway, was also rendered unpassable due to landslides burying and destroying roads.

Governor Corazon Malanyaon has tapped

the services of the Phil-ippine Navy to deliver relief assistance to affect-ed families in the three towns.

As of Wedneday af-ternoon, 31 deaths were registered in Baganga, 30 in Cateel and 15 in Boston while 95 percent of houses in poblacions were destroyed along with municipal buildings,

classrooms, and commer-cial establishments.

Flores said the new-ly-constructed DPWH district office in Baganga was not spared the ty-phoon’s wrath, saying “it is a total wreck.”

He said district en-gineer Caballero was ordered to construct a temporary facility as its administrative office.

President Benigno Aqui-no who is scheduled to visit Boston in Davao Oriental and other areas in the region that were heavily affected by the ca-lamity.

Eleven debriefers are set to arrive Friday from the central office of the agency to help in stress debriefing of victims.

The regional office has also deployed its Ka-pit-Bisig Laban sa Kahi-rapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kala-hi-CIDSS) engineering teams to build bunkhous-es in areas where shelters are needed.

“We will continue to do everything to provide help to those who need it the most as soon as pos-sible,” said acting regional director Priscilla N. Ra-

zon, who has been visit-ing areas devastated by the typhoon.

Razon said the region-al office has mobilized not only its regular employ-ees but also employees of its programs and at-tached agencies to help in the distribution of relief goods and to look into the state of other employees who were stranded in ar-eas where they were de-ployed.

“We call on our em-ployees in the field to continue holding on be-cause we will eventually reach them, God willing,” she said, noting that some of the project-based em-ployees were in areas that were isolated.

The agency released additional 1,000 family food packs to Mati City and another 2,000 to

Boston, both in Davao Oriental.

Another 2,000 fami-ly food packs were also released to displaced residents in New Bata-an, a town in Compostela Valley which was among the most devastated ar-eas in the region. The of-fice also sent about 500 food packs to residents of Davao City who left their homes due to the rise in the level of rivers within their area.

The agency also de-ployed power generating sets and family tents for those needing them in Davao Oriental.

The regional office thanked groups that have sent relief goods through the agency, among them private companies from Cebu. [DSWD/Leslie Lao-Francisco]

the night,” he said, and demonstrated how he slept with bended knees because there were so many of them in such a small space.

Showing his photos of a ruined packing house and devastated banana plantations owned by the Japanese company Sumif-ru, he said the village peo-ple are not only suffering from their lost homes, but also from their lost liveli-hood.

Walker said the res-idents’ main source of income is harvesting ba-nana, and gets paid for P5 per tree. “After the storm, they have nothing left to harvest,” he added.

He managed to reach the highway that morning

and rode a bus straight to the city.

Walker said he did not see any rescue team in the area, but the people were relying on themselves. He added that only a small truck of soldiers and some policemen along the road, all of them holding rifles, were the only represen-tatives of the government he had seen that day.

Walker is soliciting donations from his coun-trymen to help the people affected by flashflood, and supporting the Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio Founda-tion in its ongoing relief missions.

Cirila Anding, presi-dent of NAMAOS-KMU, in a phone interview Thurs-day, said a total of about

2,000 hectares of Sumi-fru’s banana plantation have been destroyed by flashflood.

“Not a single banana tree was left standing here. Most people have lost their houses and properties,” he said in Ce-buano.

Asking for food and water assistance, the res-idents have evacuated to a public school in antici-pation of a landslide, he said, citing that although there was no more flood-ing, they were surround-ed by knee-high mud.

There was still no electricity there as of this writing as their power lines are down. [Lorie Ann A. Cascaro / MindaN-ews]

October 2012 from the initial seed money of only P235.8 million in 2006.

Campeon said 318 fish cages in the Park are operational but 110 cag-es have no fingerlings. Out of the 208 produc-tive fish cages, she added, 112 have been affected by the strong rains, wind and waves during the ty-phoon.

“Up to 75 percent or 84 of the 112 fish cages are totally damaged, with the frame totally destroyed and a hundred percent of the fish inside let loose,” Campeon said. The tech-nical staff confirmed that some of the fishes were already ready for harvest or weighing 400 grams and up while others were newly stocked.

She said a total of 28 fish cages have been partially damaged which could mean the fish nets are still intact but the

frames on one or more sides already destroyed, or the net has already been destroyed.

The destruction wrought by the typhoon has affected 32 private investors and 11 fishers, most of whom have just re-loaned from the banks. She said one private in-vestor owns between five to 17 fish cages.

One fish cage can cost as much as P100,000, in-cluding the shade (payag) and mooring, she said.

“The damage is ac-tually only a conserva-tive estimate because we priced the cages with fish at only P300,000 when it can reach as much as P500,000 each during normal days,” she said.

She said the investors and fishers have started to repair their cages.”We have instructed them to secure their cages and re-pair those that can still be

repaired the soonest pos-sible time to avoid further losses,” she said. [RGA/LAC-PIA 11]

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FOR 11-year old Chi-no Tancontian, a stint in the youth

Olympics in 2015 will be the realization of a dream.

For his father Paolo, it is the continuing legacy of the rich Tancontian tradi-tion.

Fresh from another swashbuckling perfor-mance in Singapore, Chi-no and sister Sydney are setting their sights on the Olympics in Tbilisi, Geor-gia two years from now.

“Sana po makapaglaro

sa youth Olympics,” said the double gold medallist Chino during the week-ly DSA Sports Forum at Dexter’s Pizza at The Sta-dium.

Chino won golds in judo and wrestling in the recent Jag Sport Champi-onships in Singapore. His sister Sydney, who could not make yesterday’s fo-rum due to her studies, was awarded most out-standing player of the tournament despite los-ing the gold in open cat-

egory judo against a male judoka from Uzbekistan.

But the road to the youth Olympics in Georgia will have to go through the Asian Qual-ifying next year in Nan-jing, China.

“We hope to earn our slot to the youth Olym-pics next year kaya ngay-on pa lang training na kami,” said Paolo, himself a gold medallist in judo in the 2001 Arafura Games and in the Southeast Asian Games.

BOXING fans will be treated to the best seats of the Pac-quiao-Marquez 4 fight out-

side of Las Vegas right inside Dex-ter’s Pizza at The Stadium.

The only sports-inspired pizza parlor in Davao will be hosting live pay-per-view of the much antici-pated fight at a reasonable price of P299 that goes with a free meal combo.

“For all the sports fans out there, we are offering the best place to watch the Pacquiao fight while be-ing in the good company of fellow sports aficionados,” said Bai Lim,

The Stadium manager, during the weekly Davao Sportswriters As-sociation (DSA) Forum hosted by Dexter’s Pizza.

Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino boxing star, will cross paths with the Mexican counterpunching art-ist Juan Manuek Marquez for the fourth time. The two battled to a draw in their first fight before Pac-quiao had two close but question-able shaves in the next two.

The Pacquiao-Marquez view-ing opens at 9 a.m. at The Stadium located along McArthur Highway (across MTS). (NJB)

Davao bets eye Youth OlympicsBy Neil Bravo

Chino Tancontian shows his two gold medals won in Singapore’s Jag Sport Championship. (Lean Daval, Jr.)Pacquiao-Marquez at The Stadium

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NEW ORLEANS — Before Kobe Bryant had even turned in

his latest dominant perfor-mance, NBA Commissioner David Stern sought him out to offer a congratulatory hand shake for the extraor-dinary scoring milestone the Lakers star was about to surpass.

Stern assumed Bryant would score the 13 points he needed to become only the fifth player in NBA his-tory to reach 30,000, and who wouldn’t?

Bryant had 17 points by halftime, finished with 29, and Los Angeles snapped a two-game skid with a 103-87 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night (Thurs-day, Manila time).

“He just congratulated me and told me I was one of the best competitors that he’s seen in this game and I really appreciated that,” Bryant said of his pregame exchange with Stern.

Now Bryant in is elite company. The only oth-er players to score more than 30,000 are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain.

“It’s pretty awesome,” Bryant said. “These are players I respect tremen-dously and obviously grew up idolizing and watching and learned a great deal from.”

When Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni was asked before tipoff about Bry-ant’s impending milestone, the coach joked, “That just means he is old.”

In fact, at 34, Bryant is younger than the other four were when they hit the mark, but Bryant also turned pro at 18, and is in his 17th season.

“Honestly, I don’t know why I’m still working as hard as I am after 17 years,” Bryant said. “I enjoy what I do. I think that’s the thing that I’m most proud of: ev-ery year, every day work-ing hard at it. It’s a lot of years, a lot of work.”

Bryant eclipsed the scoring milestone with a short jumper late in the first half that was perhaps the least spectacular of his baskets, which included

the usual array of soaring dunks, demoralizing tran-sition 3-pointers and turn-around, off-balance jump-ers.

Dwight Howard added 18 points and five blocked shots for the Lakers, who trailed 48-47 at halftime but seized control with a 13-0 run to open the third quarter, and the lead grew as large as 20 in the fourth.

Ryan Anderson scored 31, hitting 5 of 8 3-pointers for the Hornets, who were playing their ninth straight game without top overall draft choice Anthony Da-vis. Greivis Vasquez added 16 points, while Robin Lo-pez scored 15 points and blocked five shots.

Anderson said Bryant “deserves all the recogni-tion that he gets.”

“He’s a special guy to play against. Unfortunate-ly, we didn’t get the win,” Anderson added. “I would have liked him to get the 30,000, but for us to get the win.”

Antawn Jamison scored 15 and Metta World Peace 11, and Chris Duhon had 10 assists for Los Angeles, which is playing without Steve Nash and Pau Gasol and won for only the sec-ond time on the road this season. The Hornets fell to 3-7 at home and lost for the 10th time in 12 games overall.

The Hornets led from early in the first quarter un-til halftime, going up by as many as eight points when Al-Farouq Aminu slammed down an alley-oop lob from Vasquez, energizing the largest crowd of the season at the New Orleans Arena.

Bryant helped the Lakers trim their deficit after that, hitting five free throws and his milestone on 3-foot jumper in the last 2:15 of the second quarter.

Jamison opened the third-quarter onslaught with 3-pointer, Howard followed with a fast-break layup and Bryant had two straight fast-break dunks, one of which he created himself with a steal. How-ard finished the surge with a layup.

“I just didn’t think our defense was there, espe-

cially that first five or six minutes of the third quar-ter,” Hornets coach Monty Williams said. “Our defense was really poor, and we can’t afford those lapses.”

Kobe Bryant is 34. Wilt Chamberlain was 35 when he hit the mark, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone were each 36 and Michael Jordan was 38. AP

Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) President Charles Maxey (left) inducts the new members of the DSA during the General Assembly of the longest-running sports media organi-zation in Davao at Dexter’s Pizza at The Stadium. Inducted were

Robinson Ninal of the Mindanao Daily Mirror, Marizz Robilla of Sunstar Davao, Lean Daval of Edge Davao, and King Gutierrez of Sunstar Davao. Not in photo is Ruji Peter Abat of Sunstar. (NJB)

THE Football Asso-ciation of Singa-pore has released

details for securing tick-ets for the second leg of the semifinal encounter between the Philippines and the city-state in the 2012 ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup.

Tickets for the second leg, which will be played at the Jalan Besar Stadi-um in Singapore on De-

cember 12, will be made available for Filipino fans on December 10 and 11, while Singapore fans can already buy their tickets starting on Friday.

Prices are pegged at S$18 for grandstand seats, S$10 for the gallery and King George’s Stand, and S$3 for the conces-sion section.

However, Filipino fans can only avail of seats

from the gallery section.Each person are only

allowed to buy up to four tickets.

Fans are also advised to occupy the designated sections in the stadium for the teams they will support.

The Azkals will play Singapore in the first leg of the semifinals on Sat-urday at the Rizal Memo-rial Football Stadium.

Kobe reaches 30k plateau

Pinoy fans’ seats limited in Singapore leg

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Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by Balikatan Property Holdings, Inc., with postal ad-dress at the 24th Floor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Maka-ti City, against ELIAS C. GAMOROT III, with postal addresses at Aquino St., Sto. Domingo, Pampanga, DAVAO CITy, and Lot 19, Blk 7, Ph. V. yakal, Hillside Subd., Brgy. Buhangin,Davao City , DAVAO DEL SUR, the mortgag-or/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of August 9, 2012 amounts to Three Hundred Eighty One Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Seven Pesos and 75/100 (381,767.75),Philippine Currency, exclusive of interest, penalties and charges, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to 25% of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale;the undersigned will sell at public auction on December 20, 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 or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate/s of Title No/s. T-176210 “ A parcel of land of land of the consolidation-subdivision pro-

ject(Lot 19,Blk.7 of the consolidation and subdivision plan , situated in the Barangay of Buhangin ; City of Davao,Island of Mindanao.xxx con-taining an area of ONE HUNDRED FIFTy (150) SQUARE METERS, MORE OR LESS. xxx”

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

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,it shall be held on January 24, 2013 without further notice.

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

Davao City, Philippines, November 12, 2012

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD.) JOSEPH T. CASTRO Sheriff IVNoted by:

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

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caTe of fUll PayMenT no(s) under loyola Plan issued to the following

planholders, to wit;

Ph naMe cfP no. conTracT no.

1. MaDraZo, eDMUnDo 37714 418035-2

2. orTiZ, GlaDyS floranGel 1005301 nnn400267455

were lost. any transaction entered into shall be null and void.

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notice is hereby given by loyola PlanS conSoliDaTeD inc. that cerTifi-caTe of fUll PayMenT no(s) under loyola Plan issued to the following planholders, to wit;

PH NAME CFP NO. CONTRACT NO.

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Damosa Fairlane fetes Phase I sell-out!

And as a gesture of its heartwarming gratitude and appreciation, the manage-ment of Damosa Land Inc., the developer of Damosa Fairlane hosted a thanks-giving dinner for future residents and selected guests last November 29. The feast shared with these exclusive invitees in their Hawaiian getup as they relished the night with cocktails, cheers, exclusive giveaways and sur-prise entertainment marking the beginning of a life well-lived in their newest urban refuge. Limited to around 200 houses, Damosa Fairlane promises to deliver an exclu-sive living experience with its detached home units, giving homeowners an opportu-nity to have their own private spaces. A distinct feature of the development is the city living experience it offers-- with convenient access to major city landmarks and commercial establishments such as the Damosa District, SM Lanang Premier, Abreeza Ayala Mall, Robinsons Cy-bergate, Davao International Airport and other key city destinations just within the neighborhood. This gives homeowners endless possi-bilities for both business and leisure activities. With the equally rapid

construction activities on site, the development aims to unveil soon three model houses to give buyers a glimpse of the full potential of their future homes. “The robust sales take-up has inspired the team to work harder to allow us provide the community as promised to our buyers,” said Alex Gocotano-Project Head. The Damosa Fairlane is meticulously-planned to harmoniously confine the richness of nature merging it to the dynamic movement of the city through its land-scaped gardens, exclusive

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Damosa Fairlane celebrated the successful sell-out of all its units in Phase 1, a result of their sales efforts starting last August.

Microtel Davao General Manager Rene Jorolan with Capt. Ronald Go, Florante Santiago of RCBC, and Tony Ajero of Edge Davao.

Dr. Miguel P. Niez, Norman L. Clemente, and Edgardo O. Villaver of Damosa Land, Inc.

Ricky Pineda (middle) enjoys the party with ANFLOCOR’s Oscar V. Grapa, Alexander N. Valoria, Jesse G. Chiongson, and Edgardo B. Espiritu.

ANFLOCOR’s Board of Director Anthony B. Sasin is joined by his lovely family (l-r) Angelita P. Sasin, Jennifer Sasin-Floirendo, and Yvonne Sasin.

Damosa Fairlane Staff enliven the crowd with their Hawaiian-themed dance.

Damosa Fairlane homeowner Rizaldy Clapis with property specialists Jumar Galdo and Mark Jones Malhin

Patrick Villana, Ellena Marcelo, and Michael R. Reyes of NewTHINK! Property, Inc.

country-club-like environ-ment, and unmatched pro-visions of private garden and greeneries. Damosa Fairlane truly complements the needs of the fast-rising families for a well-planned, efficient and conveniently located urban haven that balances spaces with comfort. With its un-paralleled urban living expe-rience that takes advantage of the scenic view of nature for immediate escape and luxury of serenity, Damosa Fairlane truly engages the homeowners to move up to a better life. Damosa Fairlane is part of a series of residential projects of Damosa Land, Inc. that are all designed to

provide today’s discerning family a home in a nurtur-ing community. Part of the highly respect-ed conglomerate--Anflo Group of Companies of the Floirendos, Damosa Land Inc., is known for develop-ing what has become a life-style commercial landmark to Davaoeños – the DAMO-SA District – within which are Damosa Market Basket, Damosa Gateway, Damosa Business Center, and the PEZA-registered Damosa IT Park. Damosa Land, Inc. likewise fully owns and operates the franchise of Microtel by Wyndham in Davao and in General San-tos which will open soon in January 2013.

EDGy, and creative, TOUGH Jeansmith introduces its latest Fall Winter collec-tion. TOUGH Ladies FW 2012 is themed “Sweet military” with designs that are military inspired but given a sweet twist like fur elements or slim silhou-ettes in army jackets. This season also highlights ani-mal and checkered prints with the combination of contrast colors, giving a modern and glamorous look. In line with the ele-ment of “Sweet military”, colors include army green and black as the spotlights, whereas beige, khaki, cam-el and cream colors make the looks more modern and stylish. The TOUGH Men FW12 collection features denim that is strong and resilient. It retains the mas-culine feel with a strong vintage workwear style. Fabrics and treatments give an authentic raw fin-ish, from studs and buttons embellishment on sleeve-less jackets and shirts, to vintage look washed denims. Printed tees and checked shirts make a statement this season, cre-ating a twist of playful and stylish look. The Fall Winter collec-tion will not be complete without TOUGH’s trade-mark leather and down jacket collection. The col-lection’s palette is enriched

in vivid hues like red, yel-low, blue and orange har-monized by basics like black and brown to capture the autumn mood. For La-dies’ wear, red, pink and purple are the highlighted colors in the collection and army green color is special-ly designed for menswear collection. For both ladies’ and men’s down jackets, the colors of royal blue, or-ange, red, shocking pink, yellow and dark purple make complete contrast with camouflage and other cool patterns like snow-flakes and trees to create a unique winter style. Of course what is TOUGH without jeans? In the most famous denim se-ries of TOUGH Jeansmith, the jeans have innovative processing techniques that brings out the unique style of TOUGH Ladies and TOUGH Men. Skinny Jeans by add-ing patchwork embellish-ment or torn-out effect are the highlight of TOUGH Ladies FW12 collection, which make a perfect match with a leather jacket for an understated style. For TOUGH Men, the straight cut jeans with patchwork design and stone washing are the highlighted items. It’s easy to mix and match and will also bring a new unique style to customers. TOUGH Jeansmith is available exclusively at Bauhaus, on the second floor of Abreeza Mall.

Clark, PamPaNga, PhiliPPiNES – Cebu Pa-cific air (PSE: CEB), the Philippines’ largest na-tional flag carrier, and CaE (NYSE: CaE; TSX: CaE), world leader in aviation training, today inaugurated their new aviation training center in the Clark Freeport Zone, northwest of the national capital of manila. The joint venture, known as the Philippine academy for aviation Training, inc. (PaaT), will initially cater to airbus a319/320/321 series pilot type-rating training requirements and will provide “wet” instructor-led type-rating training to CEB’s current and new-hire pilots, and to other aircraft op-erators of the region. “PaaT will definitely put the Philippines on the map when it comes to world-class, state-of-the-art aviation training,” said Cebu Pacific air President and CEO lance gokongwei. “This is the first CaE aviation training center in the Philip-pines, and we are very proud of this joint venture. it will be essential in meeting the training requirements not only of our growing number of aviation professionals at Cebu Pa-cific air, but also of other aircraft operators in the region.” CEB will take delivery of a total of 50 airbus a320, a321neo and a330 aircraft until 2021. it is scheduled to launch its long-haul flights in the 3rd quarter of 2013. “CaE is very pleased to partner with Cebu Pacific air to of-fer the highest-quality aviation training in the Philippines,” said Jeff roberts, CaE’s group President of Civil Simulation Products, Training and Services. “Our global network of train-ing locations provides airlines and other aircraft operators a complete training solution for their personnel. The PaaT is equipped with the latest simulation and training technol-ogy, and the training is delivered by well-qualified, experi-enced instructors. We are confident that this new facility will enhance aviation safety and operational efficiency in the region.” The state-of-the-art training center is currently equipped with one airbus a320 full-flight simulator. Delivery of a sec-ond a320 simulator is planned for 2013, and the facility can accommodate two additional simulators. The center will have the capacity to train over 2,500 pilots annually, as well as other aviation professionals, offering initial, recurrent, conversion and jet indoctrination training to airbus op-erators. Training for other aviation personnel such as cabin crew, dispatch, ground handling personnel and cadets is also planned for the future. This is the 45th location in CaE’s global network of train-ing locations for commercial aircraft, business aircraft and civil helicopter operators. PaaT is also part of the CaE-airbus Training Cooperation Network.

aTENEO DE DaVaO Batch 84 (gS)/88 (hS) is invites you to One Down, 88 to go! an ultimate 80’s Disco Party on December 8, 2012 at 8:00Pm at Damosa gateway Complex. The party features Juan miguel Salvador together with the mu-sic authority Band. Tickets to the One Down, 88 to go! party is at P500 each with a free drink. The event will benefit the healing hands Center for Brain injured Children Tickets are available at Dimsum Diner (guerrero & Damosa) branches and Pops restobar. You may also call (082)2842552 and (0922)8833996 for more information.

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Cebu Pacific Airand CAE inaugurate Philippine Academy for Aviation Training

One Down 88 to Go! party on December 8

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Who and what to watch for:The 2013 Grammy nominations

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Will Psy be the new adele? Will Carly rae Jepsen be the new Taylor Swift? Will the old Taylor Swift and the young harry Styles have an excuse to walk the red carpet together?

Stars and storylines to look for from tonight’s scheduled 2013 grammy nominations announce-ment:

1Actually, Frank Ocean Could Be the New Adele: he came out, and

he broke out. look for his statement- and career-making Channel Orange to be a talking point, and maybe a front-runner in album of the Year.

2Will Grammy Voters Dare Deny “Gangham Style”? and deny

themselves a Psy perfor-mance at the grammys? impossible. Even for the grammys.

3Carly Rae Jepsen vs. Taylor Swift: The singer-song-writer showdown

could occur in record of the Year, with Jepsen’s “Call me maybe” in one corner, and Swift’s “We are Never Ever getting Back Together” in the oth-er. Overall, though, 2013 is going to be Jepsen’s grammy year more than Swift’s, as Jepsen prob-ably will compete for a host of other awards, in-cluding Best New artist, while Swift will have to wait until the 2014 show for all of her red period to be eligible.

4Nicki Minaj vs. Mariah Carey: guess which american idol

judge could be a major grammys winner by the time idol’s live shows roll around? a hint and a pre-diction: (1) it won’t be the

career five-time winner, who only has a couple of singles eligible this time out, and (2) this turn of events will be noted on air by someone whose name rhymes with ricki rinaj.

5Most Likely to Be Snubbed: One Di-rection: Boy bands and the grammys

don’t go together. it’s not that they, the boy bands,

don’t win, although they don’t; it’s that they, the boy bands, rarely even rate nominations. So, if you were hoping for a Best New artist nod for the gang from the United kingdom, then you’re probably going to be crushed tonight. Nomi-nation or no, we suppose Styles can still walk the red carpet with Swift. he does, after all, have a lot of practice walking in and out of her hotel.

6Will Justin Bieber’s “Boy-friend” Be the Ticket? Bieber’s

never won a grammy, which given that his re-cording career is still only of preschool age is not the same as saying that the Beach Boys have never won, but still...”Boyfriend” was his bid to prove he was more than a haircut; if it ends up in the record of the Year category, we’ll know he’s going to last longer than, well, a hair-cut.

7The Lana Del Rey Live-Perfor-mance Watch: if the “Video games”

singer and unacclaimed Saturday Night live musi-cal guest breaks through in Best New artist, she’ll have a shot at bringing her moves to the grammy telecast, and that could be interesting—or not. Ei-ther way, we’ll have Brian Williams’ commentary to look forward to.

8How Sick Will You Be of “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Feb-

ruary? Possibly a lot de-pending on your love, of lack thereof, for the go-tye smash, which should figure prominently in the

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The Marco Polo Davao choral group, led by Emelyn Mauhay, director for sales and marketing (3rd from right), serenades with Christmas songs the management and staff of Edge Davao and its sister company, Zion Accuprint Publishing,

Inc. during the hotel’s annual Christmas caroling activity at the Edge Davao office on Quirino Ave. Wednesday afternoon. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Edge Davao and Zion Accuprint Publishing GM Olivia D. Velaso (2nd from right) and Edge Davao editor-in-chief Antonio M. Ajero (2nd from left) are shown with The Marco Polo Davao’s Bruno Simeoni, general manager (rightmost), and Emelyn Mauhay, director for sales and

marketing during the hotel’s annual Christmas caroling activity at the Edge Davao office on Quirino Ave. Wednesday afternoon. LEAN DAVAL JR.

The Marco Polo Davao choral group regales with Christmas songs the management and staff of Edge Davao and its sister company, Zion Publishing, while Bruno Simeoni, TMPD general

manager, rightmost, beams proudly. The hotel’s annual Christmas carol activity took place at the Edge Davao office on Quirino Ave. Wednesday afternoon. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Bruno Simeoni, The Marco Polo Davao general manager (2nd from left) expresses his appreciation for the support the hotel received from Edge Davao while editor-in-

chief Antonio M. Ajero (rightmost) listens during the hotel’s annual Christmas caroling activity at the Edge Davao office on Quirino Ave. Wednesday afternoon. LEAN DAVAL JR.

Sharing Christmas cheer!

The hotel’s choral group of 14 male and female singers ren-dered several lively Christmas songs be-fitting the spirit of the festive season. The hotel’s annual drop-in visit to the busi-ness daily during the Christmas holidays culminated with a merienda of mouth-watering pasta, cake, cookies, lumpia and mango juice straight from the hotel’s cu-linary department served by a couple of uniformed waiters.

it was truly an oc-casion to remember for those who shared the wonderful mo-ment. Cheers!

The management and staff of Edge Davao and its sister com-pany, Zion accuprint Publishing inc., are shown sharing a mem-orable Christmas experience last Wednesday with some of the the staff of The marco Polo Davao led by its general manag-er, Bruno Simeoni, and director of sales and marketing, Emelyn mauhay.


AS the saying goes, defense is the best offense.

That adage will be the guiding principle of the Philippine Azkals which came from no less than its most potent offensive weapon.

Star striker Phil youn-ghusband, whose marks-manship is now the object of the opponent’s defen-sive strategies, is himself convinced that the key to the Azkals’ progress in the AFF Suzuki Cup is defense.

Now facing Singapore in the two-legged semi-finals, younghusband knows what he’s talking about.

“That’s one of our strengths, defense,” youn-ghusband said.

Singapore, which scored seven goals during

the group stages en route to notching the top spot in Group B, boasts of mid-fielder/striker Shahril Ishak, who leads the tour-nament with four goals, and 42-year-old striker Aleksandar Duric, who has been one of the Lions’ deadly threats on the at-tack over the years.

Knowing that, young-husband knows that the Azkals have to stifle their opponents’ attack, which he believes they did to nail victories against Viet-nam and Myanmar during the group stages which earned them a second straight trip to the semifi-nals of the Suzuki Cup.

“Once we get our goal, we are difficult to break down,” he said. “There’s no space. They can’t find any space to get a shot.”

The Azkals, now beefed up with more seasoned players based abroad, were expected to deviate to a more attack-ing strategy this year after

being known for parking the bus on defense and counterattacking on of-fense in their memorable semifinal run in the tour-nament in 2010.

But the Filipinos have shown toughness on the defensive side, so far only giving up two goals in the tournament which came in a 2-1 loss to Thailand

thanks to the superb goal-keeping of veteran Eduard Sacapaño and the backline composed of Dennis Caga-ra, Rob Gier, Juani Guirado and Ray Jonsson.

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LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez

wage another war set for 12 rounds to once again prove who’s better.

Three days before their fight, both are already claiming they’re the one.

“I know he trained hard for this fight because he needs to prove something. And I’m ready for that,” said Pacquiao, wearing an all-white suit, at the podi-um as he spoke during the final press conference for his fourth meeting with

Marquez on Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time).

The bout is set Satur-day at the MGM Grand.

This being the fourth time he will be meeting his old rival, Marquez, 39, said he expects the same ac-tion-packed fight that typi-fied the first three matches, which until now, the Mexi-can believes he did win.

“Manny Pacquiao knows me, and I know him. This is going to be another war,” Marquez said when it was his turn to speak on stage.

All three fights ended in controversial fashion.

The first in 2004 was a draw even though Pac-quiao knocked down Mar-quez three times in the first round.

Their rematch in 2008 was a split decision in fa-vor of the Filipino boxing star, while their last fight in 2001 was a majority de-cision, also for Pacquiao.

“I feel good, I feel great. I just don’t know what happened in the last fight,” said Marquez, a four-time world champion known as one of the best count-er-punchers in boxing history, referring to their meeting last year that had a highly-debatable out-come.

That’s why Pacquiao challenges Marquez to go toe-to-toe with him at the center of the ring to see who’s really tougher be-tween them.

Manny wants all-out actionWAR

Manny Pacquiao (left) and Juan Manuel Marquez are joined by the Philippines’ entry to Miss Universe 2012 Janine Tugonon (second from left) and Mexican counterpart Karina Gonzales. AP

Here’s a picture of the scene in Times Square during the exclusive Manny Pacquiao workout.

The MGM Grand will once again be the venue of this epic rivalry.

The Azkals have transformed into a feared defensive unit.

Defense is Azkals’ best offense

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