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Inspirasyon ang iniwangInspirasyon ang iniwangInspirasyon ang iniwangalaala ni Cory sa kabataan

RM Awards go to 2 Chinese, Burmese, Indian, Filipino, Thai P 6 & 7

KA HSAW WA, Burma YU XIAOGANG, ChinaMA JUN, China DEEP JOSHI, India ANTONIO OPOSA JR., Phils. KRISANA KRAISINTU, Thailand

Corazon AquinoCorazon Aquino’98 RM A’98 RM Awardeewardee

BY HONOR BLANCO CABIE

FORMER President Corazon Aquino has beennamed 1998 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Inter-national Understanding, the awarding foundationannounced on Aug. 4.

The 65 year old widow of assassinated Sen.Benigno Aquino Jr. was cited for “giving radiantmoral force to the non-violent movement for democ-racy in the Philippines and in the world,” the foun-dation said in a statement.

Aquino, with the other four recipients of theMagsaysay Award for 1998, will be honored at theannual presentation ceremonies in Manila on Aug.31, birth anniversary of the country’s third post-World War II president.

The occasion will also mark the 40th anniversaryof the Award, first given in 1958, the year afterMagsaysay died in an air crash in Cebu.

The Filipino laureate is the second woman award continued on page 5

Ang laban na sinimulan,anila, dapat ipagpatuloy

NI DINO BALABO

LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS — Inspirasyon anginiwang alaala sa mga kabataang Bulakenyoat Kapampangan ni dating Pangulong Corazon“Tita Cory” Cojuangco-Aquino na pumanawnoong Agosto 1 at inilibing noong Agosto 5.

Gayunpaman, maramisa kanila ang hindi nakaka-alam na isang Bulakenyaang dating Pangulo at maybahay ang pamilya nito saLungsod ng Malolos na i-lang beses din niyang dina-law matapos paslangin angkanyang asawang si datingSen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aqui-no noong Agosto 21, 1983.

Ang mga kabataang Bu-lakenyo at Kapampanganay nakapanayam ng Ma-buhay mula Agosto 5hanggang 10 sa tulong ninaShane Velasco ng pahaya-gang Punla, Melanie Brio-nes ng University of the As-sumption (U.A.)sa Lungsodng San Fernando, Pampan-ga, at ng mga guro ng Fe-

lizardo Lipana NationalHigh School na matatag-puan sa Barangay Sta.Rita, Guiguinto, Bulacan.

Ayon kay Ida de Jesus,19, ang pagpanaw ni TitaCory ay “isang wake up callsa mga kabataang bumu-buo ng malaking bilang ngpopulasyon na pahalaga-han ang demokrasya atipagpatuloy ang laban nakanyang sinimulan.”

Ani De Jesus, “Dapatpagbutihin ang pagkilatisat pagpili sa mga opisyal nailulukllok sa posisyon sadarating na halalan.”

Si Tita Cory, para kayDe Jesus, ay “simbolo ngdemokrasya at larawan ng

sundan sa pahina 5

To commemorate the 26th anniversary ofthe assassination of Ninoy Aquino and tohonor the memory of President CoryAquino, the Benigno S. Aquino Jr.Foundation is declaring August 21, 2009as “Araw ng Dilaw”. This Friday everyfreedom-loving Filipino is urged to wearsomething yellow. We ask everyone to lighta candle as a way of keeping the spirit ofNinoy and Cory alive and of reciprocatingtheir love for the Filipino people. Motoristsare likewise encouraged to turn on theirhazard lights from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

as a sign that the Yellow Spark has beenignited in their hearts. — Press statement ofthe Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Foundation

Ang pagpapahalaga sa kapwa kahit na sa isang paslitay bahagi ng pagiging makatao, makabayan at maka-Diyos ni Pangulong Cory Aquino. Binigyan niya ngpansin at kinausap ang batang ito matapos niyangmakipagdasal sa mga taga-parokya ni P. Robert Reyes

sa Project 4, Quezon City noong Oktubre 7, 2005. Angpanalangin ay para sa kapayapaan ng bansa na noo’ynahaharap sa krisis-pulitikal sanhi ng inihaing impeach-ment complaint o kaso ng pagpapatalsik kay PangulongGloria Arroyo. — MABUHAY PHOTO

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Makasaysayang buwan ng AgostoAlaala ni Manuel L. QuezonNI CESAR L. DEL ROSARIO

BALIK-TANAW: Ang artikulong ito ay unang inilathala ng Mabuhay noong Hulyo 29, 1984,

tatlong araw bago sumapit ang ika-40 taon ng kamatayan ni Manuel L. Quezon, ang

pangulo ng Komonwelt, na yumao noong Agosto 1, 1944 sa Estados Unidos. — Patnugot

SA Miyerkules, Agosto 1, sasapit na ang ika-40 anibersaryo ng kamatayanni Manuel Luis L. Quezon, ang yumaong pangulo ng Komonwelt. Pero,bago pa siya nalagutan ng hininga — sa mismong araw ng kanyangkamatayan — patuloy siyang nakipaglaban magkaroon lamang tayo ngkalayaan.

Sa librong The Good Fight ni James Wingo, isang amerikanong awtor,nakapaloob ang matinding pagnanais ni Quezon na mapalaya ang Pilipinassa kamay ng mga Hapones. Ayon dito, plano na noon ni General DouglasMacArthur, kasama ang pwersa ng mga Amerikano, na magtungo na saPilipinas. Gusto na nitong tuparin ang binitiwan nitong salitang “I ShallReturn.”

Pero sa Australia pa lamang ay kumalat na ang bulung-bulungan nalalampasan ng pamunuang Amerikano ang paglulunsad ng sandatahangmilitar nito ang Pilipinas at uunahin muna ang east coast ng Tsina.

Dahi dito, ayon pa sa libro, nagpahatid ng isang sulat si Quezon kayFranklin Delano Roosevelt ng Estados Unidos na nagsasabing, “Wala akongkaalaman sa estratehiya militar, pero hindi ko malaman kung bakitlalampasan pa ang aming bayan …”

Kalaunan, pumutok na ang balitang si Quezon ay nagbantangmagbibitiw sa pagka-Pangulo ng Pilipinas. Ito’y bilang tutol niya sa pag-aantala pa ng pagpapalaya sa ating bansa.

Binigyang diin sa libro na si Quezon ay mandirigma at marubdob anghangaring magkaroon ng kapayapaan para sa kanyang bayan. At ayondito’y hindi siya maaaring magpahinga hangga’t hindi natatamo ngPilipinas ang kalayaan sa pagsasarili.

Kinaumagahan pa lamang ng Agosto 1, 1944, ay narinig ni Quezonsa radyo na dumaong na sa Sansopor, may 600 milya ang layo sa Pilipinassi MacArthur, kasama ang mga kawal na Amerikano. At ani Quezon,“Mapapalaya na rin ang Pilipinas.”

Pero, pagkatapos niyo’y sinasal siya ng matinding ubo. Na nasundanng pagsuka ng dugo. Ganap na 10:05 ng umaga’y binawian ng buhay siQuezon.

Sayang at namatay agad siya; sapagkat ang kanyang kamatayan aydumating sa bisperas pa naman ng pagpapalaya sa Pilipinas.

Nang si Quezon ay namatay itinayo ang Quezon Institute bilangpaggunita sa kanya (siya’y namatay sa sakit na tuberkulosis). At di langsa pagbibigay ng kalayaan naririyan pa rin ang pagkikilala’t pagpapahalagasa Wikang Pilipino.

Katunayan, nang balangkasin ang saligambatas ng Komonwelt,ipinasiya na isalig sa Tagalog ang Wikang Pambansa (Seksyon 3, ArtikuloXIII). Bilang pagtupad sa saligambatas, nilagdaan ang Batas KomonweltBlg. 184 at itinatag ang Surian ng Wikang Pambansa noong ika-13 ngNobyembre, 1936.

Laging nasa likuran ng kilusan si Pangulong Quezon sa buong panahonng paghahanda ng Wikang Pambansa. Kaugnay nito, nilagdaan niya noongDisyembre 30, 1937 (Rizal Day) ang Kautusang Tagapagpaganap Blg. 134.Dito’y ipinahayag na sa susunod na dalawang taon ay ihahanda na angTagalog para maging saligan ng Wikang Pambansa.

Kalaunan, natupad ang nabanggit na kautusan na ihanda ang Balarilasa loob ng dalawang taon. Ang Tagalog ay kinilala nang saligan ng WikangPambansa.

Kastigo BIENVENIDO A. RAMOS

Ang pamana ni Tita CoryTULAD ng sino mang nagsisiyaosa daigdig na ito, ang nagingPangulong Corazon C. Aquino aynag-iwan ng napakahalagangpamana sa sambayanang Pili-pino—pamanang hindi tulad ngkaraniwang dokumentong ginawang isang abugado, kundi isinulatng tadhana sa dahon ng kasay-sayan—ng Pilipinas at ng buongdaigdig.

Higit sa demokrasya na ibina-lik ni Tita Cory nang pangunahanniya ang tahimik na “rebolusyonng mamamayan”—na nagbagsaksa diktaduryang Marcos, nag-iwansi Tita Cory ng mga halimbawangdapat gawing patnubay at maginghuwaran ng lahat ng mga publicofficial, lalo na ng Pangulo oPunong Tagapagpaganap ngbansa. Ito’y ang mga sumusunod:

• Hindi nag-abuso si Tita Corysa kapangyarihan. Bihirang mag-lakbay sa ibang bansa si Gng.Aquino—at yaon ay nang inan-yayahan lamang siyang magsalitasa magkasanib na sesyon ngKongresong Amerikano, nangmagsalita siya sa miting ng Asean,at sa ilang pagkakataong pina-rangalan siya ng pamahalaan ngiba’t-ibang bansa. At iilan lang angkasama niya—hindi lumalampassa sampu katao. Tipid pati sapagkain.

Kung ginusto ni Tita Cory—sapanahong nasa anyong rebolus-yonaryo pa ang kanyang pama-mahala, baka nagawa niyangmapakilos ang NBI, pulisya atAFP—upang tuklasin ang utak omga utak sa pataksil na pagpataysa kanyang asawang si Ninoy. Perosa halip, ang proseso ng mga batasang ipinairal niya. Sa halip napalusutan o paikutin ang mgabatas (gaya ng ginagawa ngayonnina GMA et. al), pinatay ni TitaCory ang lahat ng mapanikil nadekreto na ipinalabas ni Marcossa panahon ng martial law.

• Hindi makasarili at lalonghindi ambisyosa si Cory Aquino.Simple ang kanyang pamumuhay,mapagpakumbaba, hindi sinunga-ling at walang pagkukunwari siTita Cory. Ni hindi ikinatuwirano ginawang dahilan ni Gng.Aquino ang may 7 coup d’ etat naibinunsod ng isang grupo ngmilitar laban sa kanyang gob-yerno—sa pagtagilid ng ekono-miya noon. At kung sinamantalani Tita Cory ang kasakitan at po-pularidad niya sa daigdig noon,baka hindi na niya kailanganingmaglibot sa iba’t-ibang bansaupang ganyaking mamuhunandito ang mga dayuhang kapita-lista. Naniniwala kasi siyang kayanating tumindig sa sariling mga

paa, unti-unting umunlad nangmay dignidad, malaya at igina-galang ng mga dayuhan bilangbansang soberanyo.

Hindi nga ambisyosa si TitaCory. Hindi kailan man sinusu-hulan ni Tita Cory ang matataasna opisyal ng Sandatahang Lakas(AFP), at lalo na ang Comelec-upang mandaya sa halalan, obrasuhin, suhulan ang Kongresona magpasa ng mga panukalang-batas; sirain ang matatandangpanuntunan; o pakialaman angKongreso, mga hukuman upangupuan o idismis ang kaso sakatiwalian ng kanyang mga kaal-yado o kakutsaba.

Iyan ay dahil hindi nga nag-aambisyon pa si Tita Cory namagtagal sa kapangyarihan, mag-kamal ng yaman. Sapat na sakanya na naibalik sa bansa angdemokrasya, at ang tanging ha-ngarin na lamang niya ay ma-pangalagaan at mapamalagingmatatag ang demokrasyang na-bawi niya kay Marcos.

Pero higit sa demokrasyang ibi-nalik sa bansa, ang mahalagangpamanang iniwan ni CorazonAquino ay ang matapat, malinis,bukas at makatao at makadiyos napamamahala—na siyang kaila-ngan ng bansa sa madilim napanahong ito.

Promdi DINO BALABO

Pagsasawalang kibo ng KapitolyoTIKOM pa rin ang bibig ngKapitolyo ng Bulacan hinggil sakontrobersyal na artikulonginilathala ng Bahay-saliksikan ngBulacan sa huling isyu ng DBMagazine.

Sabi ni Father Pedring ngLeighbytes Computer Center,nagtitipid ang Kapitolyo. Wikanga ay “economy of words.”

Ibig sabihin “less talk, lessmistake.” Pero paano kung ang“mistake” ay nasulat na at humi-hingi ng paliwanag.

Sabi Father Pedring, ang sagotdiyan ay “turo-turo.” Hindi po itoyung karinderya. Ang ibig sabi-hin ni Father Pedring sa “turo-turo” ay ituturo kung sino angdapat sumagot.

Isa sanang magandang pagka-kataon na linawin ang sagot saartikulo ng DB Magazine aynoong Agosto 15 kung kailan ay

ginunita ng Bulacan ang ika-431taong pagkakatatag bilang isanglalawigan.

Ngunit minabuti nilang mag-sawalang kibo sa paniniwalanglilipas din ang isyu.

Ngunit paano lilipas ang isyukung ito ay may kaugnayanmismo sa araw na ginugunita atipinagdiriwang.

Imagine, ipinagdiwang ngBulacan ang ika-431 taon bilanglalawigan batay sa pananaliksikng Bahay Saliksikan ng Bulacanna ito ay isang lalawigan mula panoong 1578. Pero mismong si Dr.Agnes Crisostomo, ang direktorng Bahay Saliksikan ang nag-sulat na hindi pa isang lalawiganang Bulacan noong panahongiyon.

Balikan natin ang sinulat niDr. Crisostomo sa huling sipi ngDB Magazine (Tomo III, Blg. 4,

Mayo Disyembre 2008) na pinon-dohan ng pamahalaang pangla-lawigan ng Bulacan.

Sinabi ni ng direktor ng BahaySaliksikan na si Dr. Crisostomona, “Naging bahagi rin ng rehi-yong Kapampangan ang Bulacanmula 1571 hanggang 1755, sapanahong ito’y hindi pa isanglalawigan at ang mga unangbayan nito ay siyang mga orihinalna mga bayan ng noo’y ProvinciaDe Pampanga.”

Malinaw ang sinulat ni Dr.Crisostomo. Sinabi niya na baha-gi ng rehiyong Kapampangan angBulacan mula 1571 hanggang1755.

Bilang direktor ng BahaySaliksikan, ano naman kaya angdokumentong kanyang pinag-batayan ng kanyang sinabi? Masmaganda ay ipaliwanag niya ito.

sundan sa pahina 4

SA lahat ng buwan, ang Agostoang pinakamakasaysayan saating bansa batay sa aking sari-ling pagkakaalam. Una rito, ika-19 ng nasabing buwan nangisilang si Pangulong Manuel L.Quezon, ang unang pangulo ngating bansa.

Ika-21 naman ng nasabingbuwan nang barilin si SenadorNinoy Aquino sa tarmac ng noo’yManila International Airportmay 26 na taon na ang naka-raraan, na naging mitsa ng pag-bagsak ng rehimeng Marcos.

Ika-26 naman ng Agosto nangmagtipon-tipon ang mga nagma-malasakit sa ating bansa, pinunitang kanilang mga sedula at sapangunguna ni Gat Andres Boni-facio ay inilunsad nila ang “Sigawng Pugad Lawin.”

Ika-30 din ng Agosto nangisilang ang dakilang propagan-dista ng rebolusyon na si GatMarcelo H. del Pilar, na siyangpumukaw sa nahihimbing nadamdamin ng mga Pilipinoupang labanan ang mga Kastilasa pamamagitan na kanyang La

Solidaridad.Sana sa pagsapit ng kaarawan

ni Gat Marcelo ay magising angkaisipan ng ating mga pinunoupang unahin ang kapakanan ngtaumbayan kaysa sa kanilangsarili.

Wala pa yatang isinisilang nakatulad ni Gat Marcelo H. del Pilar.

Kayo, ano sa palagay ninyo?

Sa pagka-mayor ng ObandoAPAT ang matunog na magla-laban sa pagkamayor ng Obandosa nalalapit na halalan sa Mayong susunod na taon. Ito ay pina-ngungunahan ni kasalukuyangMayor Orencio E. Gabriel (OEG)at ang kanyang vice mayor ay siNemie Ocampo.

Ang tatlong iba pa ay sina BiseAlkalde Ding Pantanilla at si dat-ing Mayor Zoy Santiago ang kan-yang vice mayor, Edwin Santosna ang katiket ay si Wayo Legaspiat si dating Mayor Nesty Joaquinna katiket si Atty. Rey Rafael.

Kina OEG, Pantanilla, Santos,at Joaquin, marami ang nagsa-sabi na malakas si Santos,dahil

binigyan niya ng mga pedicab anglahat ng barangay sa Obando.

Ayon naman sa mahihilig satakbo ng pulitika sa nasabingbayan pare-pareho raw may asimang mga maglalaban, kaya wa-lang nakasisiguro sa kanila.

Hintayin na raw lamang natinang magiging resulta ng halalansa Mayo.

Linabelle vs. DimpleLABANANG babae sa babae parakinatawan sa ika-apat na distritong Bulacan. Sila ay sina LinabelleVillarica at Atty. Dimple Nicolas.Si Nicolas ay anak ni Kint.Reylina “Neneng” Nicolas.

Ang ika-apat na distrito aybinubuo ng mga bayan ng Oban-do, Meycauayan, Marilao, at Sta.Maria. Dati-rati ay kasama sadistrito ang Lungsod ng San Josedel Monte, ngunit ngayon aynaging isang lone district na.

Mas marami ang botante saMeycauayan kaysa sa Sta. Mariakaya sa palagay ko ay medyollamado si Villarica.

Abangan.

BALIKTANAW

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Depthnews JUAN L. MERCADO

Unique vocation

Regarding Henry

HENRYLITO D. TACIO

Cebu Calling FR. ROY CIMAGALA

Playing God

Eight ways to die younger“BECAUSE of the way she lived,the death of former presidentCorazon Aquino touched many:from cynical professionals, hard-nosed journalists to idealistic do-gooders,” a friend e-mailed.

“What was remarkable to me,now in the twilight of life, washow she affected even ‘baby-boomers’. Most were born eitherafter imposition of martial law in1972 or eruption of ‘People Po-wer’ in 1986.

“Soon, I will turn 80. For me,death will come sooner ratherthan later. Some stations airedCory Aquino’s prayer for a happydeath. That resonated perhapsmore for people like me .

“Our memories tend to beswamped by those ‘who havebeen called from this life’, as thecanon of the Mass puts it: par-ents, siblings, relatives, formergirl friends. ‘Of all the girls I’veloved before,’ as the pop songputs it.

“Prayers that they bebathed in ‘perpetual light’surge from deep within you.They do so more often as the

I WAS dismayed recently when Igathered a number of newspapercolumns and started to read andstudy them in preparation for thetalk I had to give to a school clubof aspiring journalists. I was try-ing to get ideas on style and con-tent, but I think I got somethingelse, something dreadful.

I have been noticing this dis-turbing trend in the local scene,but it’s much worse in otherplaces like the US. There manywriters and columnists play God,completely lost in their ownworld. When I look for examplesof a holier-than-thou person, theyinstantly come to mind.

It seems that they make theirown law of what is good and evil,proper and improper, fair andunfair. Their sense of balance andperspective, to be charitableabout it, resembles an abstractpainting. You have to be espe-cially motivated to discern beautyin the bizarre twists and turnsand tears.

I know that I have to be opento any writing style, and I should

Forward to Basics FR. FRANCIS B. ONGKINGCO

Memorizing Mary’s face

LANDSLIDES and mudslideshave again victimized many partsof the country, a sad reality thatmakes me wonder whether haz-ard mapping data is really avail-able and accessible to our localgovernment officials. Availabilityis one thing, and accessibility isanother thing of course. To putthis discussion in the right per-spective however, I should saythat computers are just tools forpeople to use. Even if computersystems are available and acces-sible, these would be of no use ifthe people who are not supposedto use them would not do so.

Running on their own steam,a group of volunteers are nowactively looking for used comput-ers here and abroad, with the in-tention of having these donatedto local communities for the im-provement of local governance,hoping to eventually connectthese computers into a VirtualPrivate Network (VPN) as I havepreviously suggested in my col-umn. In order to put this volun-teer power into good use, I amnow looking for local organiza-tions that could support the longterm sustainability of the localcomputerization projects.

Dr. Ernesto Gonzalez, Presi-dent of the National EconomicProtection Association (NEPA)

Fair & Square

IKE SEÑERES

not be surprised if there arethings in others that are dia-metrically opposed to mine. Butthis is no excuse to go wild intopure malice and poor taste.

When an article is simply drip-ping with sarcasm, insults, exag-gerated one-sided arguments,etc., all articulated in livid elo-quence, I can’t help but wonderwhat’s inside the heart of thewriter.

Writers, being creative per-sons, are vulnerable to get com-pletely unhinged from the basicnorms of courtesy and humangoodness. When they don’t makedeliberate effort to be in God’spresence while writing, they cantend to run amok with theirviews and ideas, pitiable slaves totheir own passions.

When they are not careful,writers can miss the crucial dis-tinction between persons and is-sues. They can easily fall to theaddictive world of creative intem-perance and verbal incontinence.They end up already with a poi-soned mind and attitude, some-

times at a level that is invinciblyincurable.

This ugly state of affairs ismost true among political opin-ion-makers. I suppose the natureof politics itself lends itself easilyto this kind of predicament.There, propelled by the will todominate others, shameless dog-matizing of issues subject to opin-ion is often made.

One writer can claim to haveall the reasons, while the othersdon’t have any. He can project theimage of omniscience, while theothers are simply dumber thandumb. Rash judgments, leaky ar-gumentations are spewed out,and they fail to notice it.

Restraint and respect for thepersons involved strangely do notmake it to their vocabulary. Butthey can have the latest versionin their armory of irony, hyper-boles, and other instruments ofattack and abuse, etc., and areproud to flaunt them. It’s reallyheart-rending to see them sinkhelplessly in this hole.

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has agreed to bring together agroup of Linux users and othercomputer literate people to sup-port the computerization of thelocal government of Sariaya,Quezon, including the barangayunits and the cooperatives in thattown. Hopefully, this will be thestart of an experiment where wecould actually learn lessons fromthe dynamics of interfacing theentry of computer infrastructureand the cooperation of local man-power.

In my actual experiences ofimplementing computer systems,the cooperation of manpower hasalways been more difficult thanthe installation of computer hard-ware and software. In the end,content will always be the “king”,but suffice it to say that withoutmanpower, we could not easilybuild content. In the end, whatis going to matter is to have thepeople who will build and owntheir own systems, for their ownbenefit. People are more impor-tant than machines, as always.

The volunteer group orga-nized by Ms. Elsa Bayani is alsoinclined to help in the provisionof computers to the local publicschools, similar to the GILASproject of Ayala Foundation. Ithink that this is a very good ob-

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Local computerization

years slip by. Soon, one realizesit has evolved quietly into aform of reaching out. RonRolheieser underscores thisfact in his column: “The Com-munion of Saints.” (See below.)

“Is this a unique ‘vocation’ forus? We are what PresidentClinton once jokingly dubbed: the“near-elderly’. Are we called totouch, with the gift of prayer,those who once touched our liveswith their affection?

“Grace builds on nature,welearned in classrooms of long-vanished youth. And nothing ismore natural than to grow old,hopefully in wisdom as well asgrace. Shouldn’t that drive us, inthe little time that remains, toserve more, as Corazon Aquinodid?

“‘The work is never donewhile the power to work re-mains,’ Justice Oliver WendellHomes said on his 90th birthday.‘To live is to function, That is allthere is to living.’ As the Latinpoet said more than 1,500 yearsago: ‘Death plucks my ears andsays: ‘Live – I am coming.’”

The Communion of Saintsby Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI

Growing up, as part of ourfamily prayer, we’d pray for ahappy death. You died cradled inthe loving arms of family, friends,and church, fully at peace withGod and everyone. That’s a goodpicture, the ideal.

But not everyone gets to diethat way. Randomness, contin-gency, and accidents often haveus die bitter, unforgiving, un-forgiven, alienated, some as sui-cides. Too often we die with un-finished business, too much of it.As the old confiteor says: we needforgiveness for what we’ve doneand left undone.

Here are examples: I coun-selled a priest in his 50s, unableto forgive himself. As a frightenedboy of 7, he was too afraid to givehis dying mother a hug when sheasked for it. More than 40 yearslater, he still nursed guilt.

In another case, I blessed thecoffin of a man who’d been hap-pily married for 35 years. He had

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MOST parents tell their childrenof things not do. But just thesame, children do the opposite. Ifa mother tells her daughter, “Iwill allow you to attend the party,but please to go home early.”Sure, she’s home early — earlyin the morning.

Today, people don’t care any-more about rules. They do whatthey want to do. They have validreasons of doing such things. Thesame is true with health; theygamble. “Eat, drink and be merryfor tomorrow you will die” seemsto be their motto.

“Give them what they want,”a television network executivetold his reporters. “If our view-ers want rape, gore, violence andeven death, then that’s what youshould report. Don’t worry aboutthose good news, only a fewpeople watch them.”

For a change, here are tenways to die younger. The point-ers here will surely give you anedge of not dying older. You won’thave the problem of getting ar-thritis, osteoporosis, or evenAlzheimer’s disease.

1. Eat what you want. Youare what you eat. Since your con-cern is to die younger, eat any-thing, especially those choles-terol-laden foods. Major dietarysources of cholesterol includecheese, egg yolks, beef, pork,chicken, and shrimp. Cholesterolis not present in plant-based foodsources unless it has been addedduring the food’s preparation.

Excess cholesterol settlesalong arterial walls, and that ex-cess can clog arteries and restrictblood flow, leading to angina pain,heart attack or stroke. Choles-terol is also a leading cause ofgallstones.

Also, enjoy eating those foodssaturated heavily with salt. Ac-cording to the World Health Or-ganization, salt is the major con-tributing factor to high bloodpressure. “If we could only reduceour salt consumption by even six

grams, it would reduce deathsfrom strokes by nearly 25 per-cent,” it said. “This level of re-duction would also reduce heartdisease by nearly 20 percent.”

Health disease, though, isn’tonly the disease which worsensin the presence of salt. Excessivesalt intake is also associated withan increased risk of osteoporosis,asthma, obesity, and cancer of thestomach.

2. Drink like there’s no to-morrow. Alcohol drinking is abig part of the Filipino merry-making activities. Beer is an es-sential part of fiestas, birthdays,and parties. Even when there isno special occasion, many Filipi-nos hang out together in thestreets, in front of their housesand convenience stores drinkinggin and tonic, which is a consid-erably cheaper alcoholic drink.

According to the 1997 FamilyIncome and Expenditure Survey,an average Filipino family spendsone per cent of its income on al-coholic beverages. Unknowingly,drinking alcohol is a serioushealth issue and among thephysical health effects associatedwith alcohol consumption mayinclude cirrhosis of the liver, pan-creatitis, epilepsy, polyneuropa-thy, alcoholic dementia, heart dis-ease, increased chance of cancer,nutritional deficiencies, sexualdysfunction, and even death.

“A journey of a thousand milesbegins with the first step,” sogoes a Chinese proverb. Anddrunkenness begins with the firstdrink. It is estimated that 40 per-cent of those who started drink-ing became problem drinkers.

3. Drive like crazy. “If youdrive, don’t drink. If you drink,don’t drive.” But in a countrywhere drunk driving is tolerated,that caution is irrelevant. “Per-haps this is one of the reasonswhy foreigners love to stay in ourcountry,” one Filipino wrote inhis blog. “Here, they can drink

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“JAMES, what are you doing?” Iwas curious to find out what hewas up to inside the chapel as hestood at the center of the nave.He was intensely staring, eyessquinting in concentration, atscenes of Mary’s life on the altar-piece.

“Oh, I’m just trying to memo-rize Mama Mary’s face,” his facerelaxed for a second as he smiledto answer me.

“Memorizing Mary’s face?” Iwas a bit surprised to hear some-thing so odd. “What exactly doyou mean by that, James?”

“Well, I figured that if Ikindda’ stared long enough atHer image, I could easily see Herface in my mind every time Ipray,” he said while appearing todigitally scan the colorful sceneof the Annunciation.

“But there are so many repre-sentations of our Lady, James,”how is this supposed to help yousee Her face.

“That’s what I mean, Father,”his eyes didn’t budge a centime-

ter away from the altarpiece. “Re-membering every image of MamaMary will help me to see Her facein different ways and love Hermany ways too!”

* * * Who said images aren’t help-

ful in making us pray with morelove and devotion. Thanks to Godwe are able –through the gift ofour sight and imagination– to seeMary’s face as we pray.

Of course, this doesn’t meanthat prayer quality only dependson looking at images. It is aboveall the movement and conversionof the heart to see and do ourFather’s loving will. But in aworld filled with numerous visualdistractions, it is sometimesharder to focus when we pray.That’s when it’s advisable to havesome sensible reference thatwould help orient and focus ourminds, hearts and souls towardsa more fruitful contemplationand dialogue with God throughMary.

John Paul II, in his apostolic

letter about the Holy Rosary thatalso inaugurated the Mysteries ofLight, tells us how important itis to contemplate our Lady’s life–Her example of prayer and self-surrender– so that we can deepenour contemplation of Jesus’ life.

The reason for this, he says,is that the “contemplation ofChrist has an incomparablemodel in Mary. In a unique waythe face of the Son belongs toMary. (…) No one has ever de-voted himself to the contempla-tion of the face of Christ as faith-fully as Mary. The eyes of herheart already turned to him atthe Annunciation, when she con-ceived him by the power of theHoly Spirit. In the months thatfollowed she began to sense hispresence and to picture his fea-tures. When at last she gave birthto him in Bethlehem, her eyeswere able to gaze tenderly on theface of her Son, as she “wrappedhim in swaddling cloths, and laidhim in a manger” (Lk 2:7).

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Ngunit ang malaking problema aynang sabihin ni Dr. Crisostomo nahindi pa isang lalawigan ang Bulacannoong 1571 hanggang 1755.

Balikan nating muli ang bahagi ngkanyang sinulat para mas higit namaliwanag sa mga mambabasa. Ayonkay Dr. Crisostomo, “…sa panahongito’y hindi pa isang lalawigan at angmga unang bayan nito ay siyang mgaorihinal na mga bayan ng noo’yProvincia De Pampanga.”

Ulitin natin ang sinabi ni Cri-sostomo,”sa panahong ito’y hindi paisang lalawigan.” Ibig sabihin ba ayhindi pa lalawigan ang Bulacan sapagitan ng 1571 at 1755?

Eh,ano ang halaga ng bunga ngpananaliksik ng Bahay Saliksikan ngBulacan na isinagawa nina Dr.JaimeVeneracion at Rey Naguit na nag-sasabing ang Bulacan ay isa nglalawigan mula pa noong 1578 ?

Dalawa ang posibleng kasagutansa sitwasyong ito. Una, tama angpahayag ni Dr. Crisostomo hindi palalawigan ang Bulacan sa pagitan ng1571 at 1755; at mali ang panana-

liksik nina Dr. Jaime Veneracion atRey Naguit na ang Bulacan ay isa nglalawigan mula noong 1578.

Ikalawa, tama ang pananaliksiknina Dr. Veneracion at Naguit; at maliang pahayag ni Dr. Crisostomo, angkasalukuyang direktor ng BahaySaliksikan ng Bulacan, ang insti-tusyong itinuturing na awtoridad sakasaysayan sa lalawigan.

Tingnan naman natin ang epektoang dalawang kasagutan. Kung tamasi Dr. Crisostomo na hindi pa ngalalawigan ang Bulacan noong 1578,lumalabas ay naloko nina Dr. Vene-racion at Naguit ang Kapitolyo.

Aba, hindi ba’t noong 2006 aybinago ng Kapitolyo ang administra-tive code nila dahil sa resulta ng pa-nanaliksik nina Dr. Veneracion atNaguit?

Kung sina Dr. Veneracion atNaguit naman ang tama, at mali siDr. Crisostomo sa pagsasabing hindipa lalawigan ang Bulacan sa pagitanng 1571 at 1755, lumalabas na malakiang pagkukulang sa responsibilidadng Kapitolyo.

Kakampi mo ang Batas ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO

Ari-arian ng namayapang magulangTANONG: Dear Atty. Batas, sumulatpo ako sa dahilang hihingi po sanaako ng advice kung ano po ang dapatnaming gawing magkakapatid salupang namana ng aming yumaongtatay. Ganito po kasi ang aming story.

Maliliit pa lang po kami nang na-matay ang aming ama at makaraanang limang taon namatay po angaming ina. Sa aming paglaki kamilang pong magkakapatid at sa gabayng Panginoon kami ay nagsipagtaposng pag-aaral sa sarili naming pagsu-sumikap.

Mayroon pong lupa ang aming lolasa Lipa City na may sukat na 1,143square meters. Apat po silang mag-kakapatid sa katauhan ni Benito,Pila, Merced at ang bunso ay amingama na si Delfin. Samakatuwid tatloang kapatid ng tatay namin. Angnabubuhay na lang ngayon ay angaming Tiya Merced na may hawak ngtitulo ng aming lola na namatay narin. Si Tiya Pila ay namatay pero wa-lang anak at si Tiyo Benito namanay namatay na rin at mayroon siyangisang anak na matagal nang nanini-rahan sa Amerika.

Tanong ko po kung may karapa-tan kaming mga anak ni Delfin samana niya sa kanyang ina, kasi posabi po ng aming Tiya Merced na mayhawak ng titulo ng lupa ay wala dawkaming karapatan magkaroon ngmana dahil siya daw ang gumastossa lahat ng pagkakasakit ng aminglola at pagpapalibing. Siya lang dawang magsasabi kung kami ay kan-yang bibigyan o hindi at hindi dawpo namin puwedeng hiramin ang ti-tulo ng lupa ng aming lola sapagkatsa kanya daw po iyon.

Maraming beses na po kamingnakiusap kay Tiya Merced na sanakung puwedeng magtayo ng bahay salupa ng lola namin pero ayaw niya.Sabi na lang ng mga kapatid ko,ibenta na lang sa kanila iyong lupang aming ama na minana sa aminglola. Ayaw pa rin ng aming TiyaMerced. Sa totoo lang po dinadayo panamin mula Manila ang Lipa Citysubalit lagi kaming bigo sa pakikipag-usap lagi kaming pinaasa sa wala,tapos po gabi na kaming nakakauwisa Manila. Ang katwiran nila kasa-lanan daw namin at kami daw angmay kailangan kaya magdusa dawkami.

Sobra na ang aming tiyahin, ayawsana namin idaan sa ganito kaya langwala na po kaming alam na mabisangparaan, at ang kanilang pinagma-malaki ay ang kanilang kamag-anakna nagtratrabaho sa City Hall ngLipa. Natatakot nga kami bakanapalitan na nila ang titulo ng aminglola. Maaari po bang mangyari iyon?Puwede po ba kaming humingi ngtulong? Salamat po ng marami.

—jhejhomark08@yahoo.comSagot: Maraming salamat din po

sa inyong e-mail sa amin. Sa inyongpinakahuling tanong kung puwede

kayong humingi ng tulong, maaaripo, dahil marami naman ang nagbi-bigay ng tulong sa ganitong mgaproblema. Sa amin sa BATAS, oBuklod ng mga Abogadong Tagapag-taguyod ng Adhikaing Sambayanan,maaari po kayong lumapit at, de-pende sa sitwasyon at sa usapan,maaari din po namin kayong bigyanng libreng abogado.

Sa kabilang dako, maliwanag anginyong karapatan, bilang mga anakni Delfin, na magkaroon na mana obahagi sa mga ari-ariang naiwananng nanay ni Delfin. Ito ay dahil samayroon kayo ng tinatawag na rightof representation, o karapatangkatawanin ang inyong magulang namay mamanahin upang tanggapinang kanyang mamanahin.

Ito ay makikita sa Art. 970 ng CivilCode, na nagsasabing “Representa-tion is a right created by fiction of law,by virtue of which the representativeis raised to the place and the degreeof the person represented, and ac-quires the rights which the latterwould have if he were living or if hecould have inherited.”

Ayon naman sa Art. 971: “The rep-resentative is called to the successionby the law and not by the person rep-resented. The representative does notsucceed the person represented butthe one whom the person representedwould have succeeded.”

At, panghuli, sinasabi naman ngArt. 972 ng Civil Code na: “The rightof representation takes place in thedirect descending line, but never inthe ascending. In the collateral line,it takes place only in favor of the chil-dren of brothers or sisters, whetherthey be of the full or half blood.”

Batay sa mga batas na ito, angisang anak ay may karapatang maku-ha ang ang mga ari-ariang dapat aymamanahin ng kanyang mga magu-lang. Kung hindi papayag ang ibangmga kapatid ng kanilang mga ma-gulang na bigyan sila ng bahagi ngmana, maaaring magsampa ng kasoang mga anak upang piliting makuhaang dapat mapuntang ari-arian sa ka-nilang mga namayapang magulang.

Violations of the Building Code canbe remedied by a late application

TANONG: Ako po si Perry Florendo28 years old na taga Quezon City.Nireklamo po kami ng Q.C. BuildingOfficial ng P.D. 1096 or NationalBuilding Code sa dahilan na meronpo kaming fire exit sa ikalawangpalapag ng likod ng bahay na parangveranda. Nakatira po kami sa dulo ngisang iskinita at wala po kamingmalalabasan in case na magkasunogsa aming lugar. Bukas po ang fire exitna ito sa isang bakuran na may punong mangga. Wala po kaming butas obintana sa kaliwa at sa kanan ngbahay para po sa firewall. Maka-tuwiran po ba ang ginawa ng Build-ing Official na ito? Maaari po ba

kaming magsampa ng reklamo sabuilding official na ito? Nireklamo pokami bilang ganti lang na nireklamopo namin sila sa Pollution Control(DENR) dahil nagpipintura sila ngkotse at nalalanghap po namin angamoy ng pintura mula sa bahaynamin, at ang nabanggit ko pongpuno ng mangga ay lumalagpas na posa bubong ng bahay namin na naka-kasira din po sa alulod ng bahaynamin. Ano po bang dapat naminggawin? Marami pong salamat in ad-vance at napakaganda ng palabasninyo. More power!

— perryflorendo@yahoo.comSagot: Salamat din po sa e-mail

na ito, Mr. Perry Florendo, at morepower din sa inyo. Sa inyong mgatanong, maliwanag sa National Build-ing Code o Presidential Decree 1096na ang isang istruktura ay mai-tuturing na illegal kung ito ay ginawang walang paunang building permitmula as Office of the Building Offi-cial o Office of the Engineer. Pero,batay din sa nasabing Code, angganitong problema ay maaaringmabigyan ng solusyon sa pama-magitan ng pagsusumite ng apli-kasyon upang makakuha ang may-aring istruktura ng building permitbagamat late na. Makakakuha siyang building permit kahit late na, perokakailanganin niyang magbayad ngmulta. Sa kabilang dako, kung tala-gang wala kayong building permit nanauna nang kinuha bago ninyoginawa ang isang istruktura, gaanoman ito kaliit o kalaki, tungkulin ngbuilding official o engineer na sitahinkayo at pagsabihang gawan ninyo ngparaan ang inyong violation. Hindisiya pupuwedeng mabigyan ng anu-mang pananagutan sa kanyangpagganap sa kanyang tungkulin,puwera na lamang kung siya aynanghingi ng lagay o gumawa ng ibapang katiwalian laban sa inyo. Sa isyung punong mangga, sinasabi namanng Civil Code of the Philippines nakung ang mga sanga ng punong itoay lumagpas sa bakuran ng may-ari,maaaring putulin ng may-ari ng lupakung saan napunta ang sanga o ugatang nasabing sanga o ugat na lumipatng bakuran.

* * *PAALALA: Panoorin po si Atty. BatasMauricio sa worldwide TV sa Internet, saYouTube, metacafe at iGoogle, at paking-gan siya sa kanyang mga programa saradyo: DZRB RADYO NG BAYAN 738khz. Sa Luzon, Lunes hanggang Biyernes,ika-5:30 ng umaga (at sa www.pbs.gov.ph);DZRM RADYO MAGASIN, 1278 Khz.sa Luzon, Lunes hanggang Biyernes, ika-6:45 ng umaga (at sa www.pbs.gov.ph);DYKA 801 khz. sa San Jose, Antique (atsa www.wowantique.com, o www.kiniray-a.com), Lunes hanggang Biyenes, ika-10:00ng umaga; at DYMS Aksiyon Radyo saCatbalogan City, Samar (at sawww.samarnews.com), Lunes hanggangBiyernes, ika-11:00 ng umaga.

Aba, hindi ba’t sa DB Magazinena pinondohan ng Kapitolyo lumabasang artikulo ni Dr. Crisostomo?

Sa sinundang pitak na ito, ipinayona ng Promdi na dapat at mulinglikumin ang kopya ng DB Magazinena ipinamahagi dahil sa malingimpormasyong nakatala doon.

Ngunit hindi lang ang Promdiang may katulad na pananaw. Ayonsa mga kaibigan ng Promdi, magingsi Dr. Veneracion at nagpayo nahuwag ipamahagi ang kopya ngnasabing magazine.

Muli, nais linawin ng Promdi naang pitak na ito at bukas sa mga pag-lilinaw. Kung may pagkakamali angPromdi, mangyaring ipabatid agad,at nakahanda ang Promdi na iyonay ituwid at humingi ng paumanhin.

Pero kung ang mga taong respon-sable sa pagkakamali ay totoong nag-kamali, at matutukoy ang mga taongnagpalabas ng pondo para sa pag-imprenta ng DB magazine na maymga maling impormasyon, nararapatlamang sigurong magsipagbitiw kayosa tungkulin bilang delicadeza.

Halalan 2010, rehistrado ka na ba?

Fr. Arevalo: Churchmust help the poor

A KNOWN Jesuit theologian told the Asian bishops atthe culmination of their 9th plenary assembly in Manilaon Sunday, Aug. 16, to lead the church in helping thepoor.

Fr. Catalino Arevalo, S.J. said the church must con-tinue taking particular interest in those who are the mostdeprived. The mission of the Federation of Asian Bish-ops’ Conferences (FABC) is to be defender of the rightsof the poor, Fr. Arevalo said.

“We should always be the church of the poor becausemost people in Asia are poor,” he said.

Fr. Arevalo made the call in his short speech after anaward of recognition was given to him at the Piux XIICenter in Manila for his “invaluable contributions” tothe FABC.

The Jesuit priest has been actively involved in thefoundation and development of the Federation, since itslaunching in 1970 in Manila.

He has also served as the main theological adviser tothe FABC, and chaired the body’s “Theological AdvisoryCommission” from its beginning in 1985 up to 1995.

The “Father of Asian Theology,” as the award citationreads, Fr Arevalo is the main author of the final docu-ment of the first FABC Plenary Assembly in 1974 inTaipei, which has helped to set the theological orienta-tion of the Federation.

In 1998, Fr Arevalo received a doctorate honoris causain Humanities from the Ateneo de Manila University.Jaime Cardinal Sin called Fr Arevalo the “Dean of allFilipino Theologians and Godfather of hundreds ofPriests,” when he conferred the Vatican’s Pro Ecclesia etPontifice award on him in 1997.

Fr. Arevalo who is widely known as the spiritual ad-viser of the country’s “icon of democracy”, the late formerpresident Corazon Aquino, is Professor Emeritus of theLoyola School of Theology.

The church leader said he was praying that that FABCwould continue its mission in confronting problems fac-ing the church in Asia and promote and defend whateveris for the greater good. — CBCPNews

RECOGNITION — Fr. Catalino Arevalo, S.J. (left) re-ceives his award of recognition at the 9th plenary as-sembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Confer-ences at the Pius XII Center in Manila on August 16.Fr. Arevalo was the spiritual adviser of former Presi-dent Cory Aquino. — CBCP PHOTO

NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONWHEREFORE, premises considered, the petition is hereby GRANTEDand the marriage between Emeritus S. Yuson and Ma. Victoria P. Layugsolemnized on October 2,1978 and November 4, 1978 are hereby de-clared null and void under Article 36 of the Family Code, as amended.

This Decision shall become final upon the expiration of the fifteen-dayperiod from notice to the parties and from the time that the corre-sponding Entry of Judgment has been made if no motion for reconsid-eration or new trial, or appeal, is filed by any of the parties, the PublicProsecutor or Solicitor General.

Let a copy of this Decision furnished the parties, their counsels, ThePublic Prosecutor, the Office of the Solicitor General, Local Civil Regis-try of Quezon City, Local Civil Registry of Manila,Local Civil Registry ofAntipolo, Rizal and the Civil Registrar General at their respective officeaddresses.

SO ORDERED.

Done in Chambers,this 28th day of July 2009 in Quezon City.

ROSANNA FE ROMERO-MAGLAYA

Presiding Judge

Mabuhay: August 14, 2009

BAYAN MUNABAGO ANG SARILI!

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mula sa pahina 1isang kahanga-hangang mayba-hay, ina, mamamayan at, higit salahat, isang babae. Siya’y akinginspirasyon.”

Inayunan ito nina EvangelToribio, 20; Whiene Thein, 19;Nina Torres, 20; at Jamila Mara-sigan, 19, na pawang mag-aaralng Bulacan State University(BulSU) dito sa Malolos.

Ayon kay Toribio, ipinakita sakanya ng pagpanaw ni Tita Coryang tunay na kahulugan ngdemokrasya, kung gaano kahala-ga ang “people power revolution”at “ipagmalaking ako ay Pilipi-no.”

Sinabi naman ni Thein, “Itoang simula na tayo naman angmay gawin para sa ating bayandahil pinaalala nito ang Edsarevolution na naging daan paramuling magkaisa ang Pilipino.”

Binigyan diin ni Marasiganang kahalagahan ng pagkakaro-on ng malinis na hangarin sapanunungkulan tulad ng ipinaki-ta ni Tita Cory at sinabing isa sabunga nito ay pagkakaroon ngpaggalang sa sarili at sa taum-bayan.

Nagpahayag din ng paghangakay Tita Cory ang mga kabataang

Inspirasyon ang iniwang alaala ni Cory sa kabataanKapampangan na tumugon sakatanungan ng Mabuhay naipinahatid nila kay MelanieBriones ng U.A.

“Para sa katulad kong kabata-an, si Gng. Aquino ay napakagan-dang modelo na dapat tularan.She is an inspiration to everyone.Hanggang sa huling hininga ngkanyang buhay, hindi niya pina-kita na mahina siya. Tinanggapniya ng buong-puso kung ano angitinakda ng Diyos sa kanya.Tunay ngang isa siyang mabu-ting ina, hindi lang sa kanyangmga anak kundi sa buong ba-yan,” ani Arlene Osano Viloria,isang mag-aaral ng Mary theQueen College sa Guagua, Pam-panga.

Inamin naman ni Mary RoseC. Viloria ng Del Pilar IntegratedSchool sa Lungsod ng San Fer-nando na hindi pa siya mulatnoong 1986, ngunit sinabi niyangmananatili sa puso ng maramiang halimbawa ni Tita Cory.

“’Di pa man ako mulat noon,pero napag-aralan ko sa akingeskuwelahan ang kabayanihanng Unang Babaeng Presidente ngPilipinas kaya’t sa kanyangpagpanaw, alam kong mananatilisiya sa puso ng bawat Pilipino at

ng mga susunod pang heneras-yon ’di lang bilang Ina ng Demo-krasya kundi bilang Presiden-teng maka-Diyos,” ani MaryRose.

Gayundin ang pananaw ninaNielsen Ocampo, Ron ChristianPangilinan, Paul Kyrby Balingitat Adon Henrik Dizon na pawangestudyante ng kursong MassCommunications sa U.A.

Ayon kay Ocampo, si TitaCory ay inspirasyon para sapagiging makabayan at para kayDizon si Tita Cory ay “Pilipinongdapat tularan.”

Samantala, marami sa mganakapanayam ng Mabuhay anghindi nakakaalam na may dug-ong Bulakenya si Tita Cory atmay bahay ang kanyang pamilyasa Malolos na ilang beses niyangbinisita.

Kabilang sa mga hindi naka-kaalam na may bahay ang pamil-ya ng dating Pangulo sa Malolosay ang mga mag-aaral ng Felizar-do Lipana National High Schoolsa bayan ng Guiguinto na nagsi-dalo sa isang campus journalismseminar noong Agosto 7 kungsaan ay naging isa sa mga taga-pagsanay ang mamamahayag naito.

Gayunpaman, nagpahayagsila ng paghanga kay Tita Corymatapos hilingin ng mamama-hayag kung ano sa kanilangpalagay ang mensahe sa kanilang yumaong Pangulo. (Basahinang kaugnay na balita.)

Ayon naman sa mga betera-nong mamamahayag at mgahistoryador sa lalawigan ngBulacan, ilang beses ding dinalawni Tita Cory ang kanilang taha-nan sa Barangay San Agustin saMalolos matapos paslangin angkanyang asawang si dating Sen.Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.

Sinabi ni Maria “Ka Nene”Bundoc-Ocampo, ang publisherng pahayagang Punla at isa samga nabubuhay na orihinal namamamahayag ng pahayagangMabuhay, nakapanayam pa niyapara sa Mabuhay si Tita Cory salumang bahay ng mga Cojuangconoong 1984.

“May exhibit noon sa Co-juangco House ng memorabilia niNinoy,” ani Ka Nene at sinabingnagpakuha pa sila ng larawannna inilathala sa Mabuhay.

Kinupirma naman nina AlexBalagtas at Isagani Giron ngSamahang Pangkasaysayan ngBulacan (Sampaka) ang pagsasa-

gawa ng ng exhibit sa bahay ngmga Cojuangco.

Sinabi pa ni Giron na binigyanpa siya ng dating Pangulo ngisang kopya ng video footage ngpamamaslang kay Ninoy sa tar-mac ng Manila International Air-port (MIA) noong Agosto 21,1983.

Ikinuwento naman ni Perfecto“Ka Peping” Raymundo, associ-ate editor ng Mabuhay, sa kan-yang kolum ang pagbisita ni TitaCory sa kanilang lumang bahaymatapos dumalo ang datingpangulo sa misa para sa kanyangika-56 na kaarawan sa BarasoainChurch noong Enero 25, 1989.

Batay naman sa mga tala ngkasaysayan, ang ama ni Tita Coryna si Don Jose Cojuangco ayisinilang sa Malolos noong 1896.

Si Don Jose Cojuangco aypanganay na anak nina MelencioCojuangco at Tecla Chiochico nakapwa taga-Malolos, ngunit maynagsasabing si Tecla ay nagmulasa bayan ng Hagonoy, Bulacan.

Ang mga Cojuangco ay lumi-pat sa Paniqui, Tarlac noong1896, o ilang buwan mataposisilang ang ama ni Tita Cory nasi Don Jose sa Malolos. — DinoBalabo

Pagmamay-ari ng sakahan sa nagdaang panahon

Corazon Aquino’98 RM Awardee

mula sa pahina 12lupang sakahan, anuman angnakatanim.

Ang CARP ay nakatakdangipatupad sa loob ng 10 taon ohanggang 1998, ngunit dahil sapanawagan ng Simbahan angpagpapatupad nito ay dinagda-gan pa ng 10 taon o hanggang2008.

Ngunit para sa mga magsa-saka, hindi pa rin sapat ang iti-nakdang panahon, kaya hinilingnila sa pamahalaan na dagdaganpa ang panahon ng pagpapatupadsa CARP.

Kaya naman noong Agosto 7nilagdaan ni Pangulong GloriaMacapagal Arroyo ang R.A. 9700sa bayang ito rin kung saan

unang inilunsad ng kanyang amaang programang reporma salupa.

Ang R.A. 9700 ay nagtatakdang dagdag pang limang taon sapagpapatupad ng CARP.

Ayon kay Pangulong Arroyo,ang CARP ay isang daan para sapagpapaunlad ng buhay ng mgamagsasaka sa kanayunan.

Ang pananaw na ito ay inayu-nan naman ng Department ofAgrarian Reform (DAR). Batay samga impormasyong naipon ngMabuhay mula sa DAR, angproblema ng mga Pilipino hinggilsa lupaing sakahan ay nagsimulanoong kalagitnaan ng 1700 kungkailan ay sinimulan ng mgaKastila ang komersyalisasyon ng

pagsasaka.Ayon sa mga lathalain ng

DAR, simple lamang ang buhayng mga Pilipino sa panahongiyon, ngunit nagsimula ang prob-lema nang simulan ng mga prayleang pag-angkin sa mga lupain atpagpapalawak ng kanilang ina-aring lupain.

Sinabi ng DAR na para sa mgaprayle noon ang pagpapalawakng kanilang mga lupaing sakahanay maghahatid ng kaunlaran,ngunit nagkamali sila.

Sa halip ay bumagal ang kaun-laran partikular na sa mga kana-yunan na di nagtagal ay nagsi-lang sa “padrino system” o pama-manginoon ng mga magsasaka samga may-ari ng lupa.

Ang padrino system ay nagbi-gay daan din sa tinaguriang “pa-tronage politics” kung saan angmga mamamayan ay palagingumaasa sa mga ibinibigay ng mgapulitiko na umaasa naman sakanilang boto kapag halalan.

Ayon pa sa DAR, ang kawalanng pagkakapantay-pantay sakalagayang pang-ekonomiya sakanayunan ay nagsilbing mitsasa pagsiklab ng pag-aaklas ngmga magsasaka mula sa panahonmg Kastila hanggang sa panahonng pamamahala ng mga Ameri-kano sa bansa.

Ngunit hindi doon nagkaroonng katapusan ang pag-aaklas ngmga magsasaka. Ito ay nagpatu-loy pa hanggang noong dekada

’30 kung kailan sumambulatmula sa Nueva Ecija ang pag-aaklas ng mga magsasaka atmabilis na kumalat sa iba panglalawigan ng Gitnang Luzon.

Ito ay ang tinaguriang “Hukrebellion” noong dekada ’40 nasinundan naman ng insureksyonng Communist Party of the Phil-ippines (CPP) at ng armadonggrupo nito na tinawag na NewPeople Army (NPA) mula noong1969 hanggang sa kasalukuyan.

Para sa pamahalaang Arroyo,wawakasan nila sa susunod nataon ang nasabing insureksyon,ngunit para sa mga militatinggrupo imposible ito dahil patuloypa rin ang kahirapan sa kana-yunan. — Dino Balabo

from page 1winner for 1998. She will receivea certificate, the medallion bear-ing the likeness of Magsaysay,and a cash prize of $50,000.

The foundation said the Inter-national Understanding Award isgiven for “advancement of friend-ship, and mutually beneficial re-lations between peoples of differ-ent countries.”

It is the fifth and last for 1998to be announced by the Board ofTrustees of the Ramon Magsay-say Award Foundation, which ad-ministers the prize named afterthe popular president.

Earlier, the Board announcedthe selection of Dr. Adibul HasanRizvi of Pakistan (governmentservice); Sophon Suphapong ofThailand (public service); PhayNuon of Cambodia (communityleadership); and Ying Ruochengof China (journalism, literature,and creative communicationarts).

He awarding foundation ob-

served that Mrs. Aquino, thePhilippines first woman presi-dent, emerged from the shadowof her late husband after his as-sassination on Aug. 21, 1983.

It noted that the late senatorwas “one of the fiercest and mostvocal opponents of Ferdinand E.Marcos’ dictatorial rule (which)led to his imprisonment”.

Mr. Marcos, who died in Ho-nolulu exile in September 1989,declared martial law on Sept. 21,1972, a year away from the endof his second four year term, tocheck what he said was a state ofrebellion and to enable him to in-stitute urgent national reforms.

Following Aquino’s 1983death, the Magsaysay foundationsaid his widow, “became the uni-fying symbol for diverse forces ofthe opposition (and then) ran forpresident” in the 1986 snap elec-tions called by Marcos, then inpower for 20 years.

— This article was first publishedin the Mabuhay on August 9-5, 1998.

http://mabuhaynews.come-mail: mabuhaynews25@yahoo.com

2 Chinese, Burmese, Indian, Filipino and Thai are 2009 RM awardees

Ka Hsaw WaBurma

PURSUING NONVIOLENT DEFENSE OFHUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Ma JunChina

REVERSING WATER POLLUTION BYLEVERAGING THE POWER OF INFORMATION

Yu XiaogangChina

ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN DETERMININGTHE FUTURE OF THEIR ENVIRONMENT

Deep JoshiIndia

PROFESSIONALIZING THE COMMITMENTTO TRANSFORM RURAL COMMUNITIES

Antonio Oposa Jr.Philippines

PRESERVING THE FUTURETHROUGH THE LAW OF NATURE

Krisana KraisintuThailand

MAKING LIFE-SAVING DRUGSAFFORDABLE FOR ALL

IN Burma, large-scale human rights abuses are be-ing committed and natural resources despoiled bythe ruling military regime. The voices of the victimshave largely been silenced. One young man has de-cided that these voices should be heard in the out-side world, and their legitimate concerns addressed.

Ka Hsaw Wa ceased to be a teenager abruptlyand prematurely. As a seventeen year-old studentactivist in the anti-dictatorship demonstrations of1988, he was arrested and tor tured for three daysby the military. Subsequently, in the aftermath of thestudent uprising of August 1988 when an estimatedten thousand people were killed, he fled to the jungle(as did many others) to seek refuge. His wanderingsexposed him to scenes and stories of the horribleatrocities committed against ordinary villagers. Hedecided then, instead of taking up arms as an insur-gent as he had planned, he would take up the pen,record the abuses, and find a way to get these sto-ries out into the world.

For five years, he talked to more than a thousandvictims and witnesses of human rights and environ-mental abuses. Most of these abuses were connectedto the building of the Yadana Gas Pipeline. Financedby the US-based Unocal and the French corporationTotal, Yadana was then the largest foreign investmentin Burma. In enforcing the project, the ruling junta,the project’s principal beneficiary, had militarized thearea along the pipeline, dislocated communities, im-posed forced labor, and damaged a rich, biodiverseenvironment.

Ka Hsaw Wa was later joined in his documenta-tion work by a visiting law student, Katie Redford,who had entered Burma to investigate the humanrights situation. In 1995, they founded Ear thRightsInternational; they were married the following year.

Ear thRights is a nonprofit organization with of-fices in the US and Thailand. It focuses on what itcalls “earthrights,” the intersection of human rightsand the environment, and combines “the power oflaw and the power of people” in defense of theserights.

In 1996, Ear thRights filed a case in the UnitedStates against Unocal with the help of private andpublic-interest lawyers. The suit alleged that Unocalwas complicit in the human rights and environmen-tal abuses committed by the Burmese military in thebuilding of the Yadana pipeline. After nearly ten yearsof complicated litigation, Unocal agreed to compen-sate the eleven victim-petitioners in the case. Thepetitioners decided to commit substantial funds fromthe compensation to humanitarian relief for other vic-tims.

This precedent-setting case has served as awarning to the Burmese government and to multina-tionals investing in Burma. It has also inspired KaHsaw Wa and EarthRights to investigate other infra-structure projects in Burma and the larger MekongRegion, such as the mega-dams along the MekongRiver and the Shwe natural gas pipeline project inwhich Burma’s military junta is collaborating withforeign investors.

Ear thRights does much more than litigation-re-lated work. It carries out research, publication, andadvocacy on behalf of the people of Burma. It main-tains Ear thRights Schools in Thailand, training youngpeople from Burma and other countries in nonvio-lent social change, environmental monitoring, andcommunity organizing. Its network of alumni has be-come, for Ear thRights, an important resource for mu-tual assistance and information sharing.

Equally impor tant, the network has inspiredEar thRights to hope that by training young peoplefrom Burma and neighboring countries it is plantingthe seeds of civil society throughout the region. De-spite the constant threat of government reprisal, KaHsaw Wa stays committed to the mission he foundin the jungles of Burma. “There’s no dead end forme,” he says. “I don’t give up easily, and I don’t liketo give up.”

In electing Ka Hsaw Wa to receive the 2009Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership,the board of trustees recognizes his dauntlessly pur-suing nonviolent yet effective channels of redress,exposure, and education for the defense of humanrights, the environment, and democracy in Burma.

WATER is now a major issue in China, where major-ity of the rivers and lakes are polluted, and four hun-dred of its six hundred cities are facing water shor t-ages. The problem has serious repercussions forhealth, food security, biodiversity, and economicgrowth. With rapid industrialization and urbanization,the problem has become even more critical. For ty-one year-old Ma Jun is using creative and construc-tive ways to address the pollution crisis.

Ma joined the Beijing bureau of South China Morn-ing Post after finishing his university studies in En-glish and journalism. As he traveled the country andwrote reports, he saw how China’s economic boomwas taking a destructive toll on the environment. In1999, he published his book China’s Water Crisis,which has been hailed as China’s “first great envi-ronmental call to arms.” In it, Ma warned: “Sixty per-cent of our rivers are polluted, the proliferation ofdams destroys ecosystems, our air quality is deplor-able. This is simply unbearable.”

After leaving South China Morning Post, heworked as an environmental consultant, then wentto Yale University and did comparative research onenvironmental governance in the US and China. Hisexperiences as a journalist and scholar deepened hisunderstanding of the environmental issues and howto deal with them in China’s unique economic andpolitical context. He concluded that active, meaning-ful “public participation is the key to dealing with[China’s] environmental problems” and that accessto information is the precondition for such public par-ticipation.

Thus, in 2006, he established the Institute of Publicand Environmental Affairs (IPE) and launched the ChinaWater Pollution Map, the first public database of waterpollution information in China. The database is a facilityaccessible in and outside China, using official data fromvarious government agencies in charge of water re-sources and environment protection. Through the digitalmap, with the click of a button, people can survey thewater quality in specific rivers and lakes all over the coun-try, monitor pollution discharges, and find out which com-panies discharge pollution exceeding statutory levels. Inthis strategy of “name and shame,” thirty-five thousandrecords of violations by corporations have been postedin the map to date.

Ma expanded his work in 2007 with the China AirPollution Map. Providing public access to air quality data,it has already named over ten thousand companies vio-lating emission standards. Together with the water pol-lution database, this map has dramatically increasedpublic awareness of the state of China’s environmentalpollution.

But Ma and his organization do not just “name andshame;” they also proactively help companies resolvetheir pollution management problems. Polluters are re-moved from the offenders’ list after professional, third-party audits have shown that they have made changesto improve their company’s pollution control. To comple-ment its database program, IPE, together with twentyother NGOs, has organized the Green Choice Alliance,which works on supply chain management systems bygetting corporations to openly commit not to use pollut-ers as suppliers of products or services. Leading multi-nationals like General Electric, Wal-Mart, and Nike whichhave made such a commitment are using the IPE data-base regularly to track the performance of their suppli-ers in China.

It is Ma’s fervent belief that public knowledge exertspressure on government and corporations to act. Takingadvantage of the government’s greater openness to publicparticipation in environmental protection, he has intro-duced initiatives that are both constructive and realistic.For this reason, his work is exerting a unique influenceon environmental practices in China. Ma says that thenext twenty years is a critical period for his country. “Weneed to make sure that this generation of Chinese hasthe best environmental health standards. We need to keepthe best of our natural and cultural heritage, and hand itover to the next generation.”

In electing Ma Jun to receive the 2009 RamonMagsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizes hisharnessing the technology and power of information toaddress China’s water crisis, and mobilizing pragmatic,multisectoral and collaborative efforts to ensure sustain-able benefits for China’s environment and society.

TODAY, thir ty-eight million people across the globeare living with the silent scourge of HIV/AIDS; morealarmingly, over twenty-five million have died of thedisease in less than three decades. Any serious ef-for t to fight the AIDS epidemic requires that treat-ment be both accessible and affordable; sadly, thisremains an unresolved issue for patients in develop-ing countries, where nine out of ten HIV/AIDS casescan be found. Here, countless lives remain at riskbecause patent protection laws and the lack of ge-neric alternatives make desperately-needed drugs tooexpensive. Thai scientist Krisana Kraisintu works de-terminedly to address this crisis.

Krisana sees the huge gap in access to medi-cines between rich and poor nations as “a crimeagainst humanity, and a holocaust of the poor.” De-voting her life to addressing this problem, she playeda pivotal role in Thailand’s success as one of thefew countries in the world to have reversed a seri-ous HIV/AIDS epidemic. But not one to rest on herlaurels, Krisana has since brought her exper tise andcompassion to other par ts of the world.

A highly-trained pharmacologist, she earned adoctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry from BathUniversity in England. In 1983, she joined the Gov-ernment Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO), whichmanufactures pharmaceutical products to supportThailand’s public health activities. Leading GPO’snewly created Research and Development Institute,she guided the production of numerous generics fora wide range of illnesses, including hypertension anddiabetes.

When AIDS became a national epidemic in Thai-land, she conducted research on antiretroviral drugsdespite the lack of government suppor t, the skepti-cism of many colleagues, and lawsuits from drugcompanies. In 1995, after months of solitary toil withtoxic materials in a windowless lab, Krisana success-fu l ly formulated the gener ic vers ion of AZT(zidovudine), which treats HIV generally and reducesthe risk of mother-to-child transmission. Introducedinto the market at only one-four th the cost of thebranded product, it is the developing world’s first ge-neric antiretroviral (ARV) drug.

Working with NGO advocates lobbying for lowerconsumer prices, she weathered major legal battlesto produce the second generic ARV drug ddI(didanosine); still later she and her team invented a“cocktail” drug known as GPO-VIR, which is eigh-teen times cheaper than the regimens of multiple pillstaken by AIDS patients. GPO currently producesseven types of ARVs, with production sufficient totreat 150,000 patients a year in Thailand, Cambo-dia, Laos, and Vietnam.

In 2002 Krisana took her exper tise to sub-Sa-haran Africa, the region hardest-hit by the disease.As she star ted her work, she was painfully awarethat only 1 percent of the four million people in needwas receiving ARV therapy. This time, she sur-mounted another set of formidable obstacles: work-ing in zones of armed conflict, traveling to remotelocations, and contending with grossly inadequatefacilities. In war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo,she set up a pharmaceutical factory that was able toproduce generic antiretrovirals af ter three years. InTanzania, she helped upgrade an old pharmaceuticalplant to produce affordable antimalarial drugs andARVs. Going further, she brought her expertise tothir teen more African countries, helping them to lo-cally manufacture affordable medicines.

The intrepid Krisana easily commiserates withvictims of disease. She admits, “I know I’m a scien-tist, but I’m also very sensitive. When I see sufferingI feel very sad, and I want to do something.” So sheshares her generic formulas for free and trains chem-ists and technicians, often using her own money inthe course of her work. Making health affordable forthe poor, she says, is a matter of social justice. “Thatis why I want to teach people to make medicines, sothey can help themselves.”

In electing Krisana Kraisintu to receive the 2009Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board of trustees rec-ognizes her placing pharmaceutical rigor at the ser-vice of patients, through her untiring and fearlessdedication to producing much-needed generic drugsin Thailand and elsewhere in the world.

CHINA boasts of a staggering eighty-five thousand damsthroughout the country, or 46 percent of all such struc-tures in the world. Clearly, hydropower is a key require-ment for China’s economic development. Yet dams haveled as well to the displacement of over fifteen millionChinese and incalculable damage to the natural environ-ment. A leading figure in the debate on dams and theirsocial impact is Yu Xiaogang.

Yu fell in love with nature early on, having been raisedin Yunnan, a province of amazing beauty and home tothree of the largest rivers in the world: Nu, Yangtze, andMekong. His interest in the environment was cultivatedduring a stint in the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences,and was further deepened when he attended the AsianInstitute of Technology, where he earned a master’s de-gree in watershed management.

His graduate research on the social impact of China’sManwan hydroelectric project documented its negativeimpact on local communities. Dissemination of his find-ings stirred controversy and led then Premier Zhu Rongjito order the conduct of an investigation; additionally, theYunnan government was instructed to release funds tomitigate the dam’s adverse effects.

In 2002, Yu established the nonprofit organizationGreen Watershed, which developed an integrated water-shed management program in the Lashi Lake area, inYunnan. Lashi was seriously affected by a dam projectthat had diverted 40 percent of the lake’s water, floodedfarmlands, and devastated the livelihood of people in thedammed area. Using participatory approaches, GreenWatershed helped the affected communities organize amultisectoral Watershed Management Committee, andmobilized village associations for irrigation, fishery, andother purposes. The communities undertook other ac-tivities as well, including microcredit and training in wa-tershed forest protection and biodiversity conservation.

These initiatives proved so successful that new,ecologically-friendly, and profitable enterprises flour-ished in the area. The first of its kind in China, theLashi project became a model for par ticipatory wa-tershed management, and was cited by governmentas one of the top ten cases of sustainable develop-ment in the country. The Lashi project became thespringboard for Yu’s advocacy in other dam sites.Green Watershed conducted research and forumsand used mass media to promote the cause ofpeople’s par ticipation in the planning and develop-ment of dams.

When the local government announced plans tobuild thir teen new dams on the Nu River, plans thatthreatened to displace fif ty thousand people andnegatively impact a UNESCO-designated “World Heri-tage” nature site, Green Watershed and other envi-ronmental NGOs mounted a public debate. The con-troversy occasioned Premier Wen Jiabao’s decisionto put the planned dams on hold, requiring a morescientific study.

Still, it has been an uphill challenge. Yu has metwith opposition and even harassment in the courseof his work, including a ban on travel outside thecountry. His posit ion, however, is not simplyadversarial. In 2008, he initiated Green Banking, anetwork of eight major environmental NGOs that givesthe “Green Banking Innovation Award” to banks andfinancial institutions that have contributed to envi-ronmental protection in their financing and corpo-rate practices.

Yu recognizes that large-scale infrastructureprojects like dams will go on. He is not against damsper se; however, he and his fellow environmentalistswill persist in showing that local communities andecosystems need not be sacrificed in the process ofdevelopment. Thus, he advocates that a true socialimpact assessment, in which the people themselvesare actively involved, should be a precondition in alldam building programs. For Yu, their initial successes“are only the first steps in the Long March. To real-ize true sustainable development and build a harmo-nious society throughout China, we need the full par-ticipation of all Chinese citizens.”

In electing Yu Xiaogang to receive the 2009 RamonMagsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizes hisfusing social science knowledge with a deep sense ofsocial justice, in assisting dam-affected communities inChina to shape the development projects that impact theirnatural environment and their lives.

DESPITE India’s remarkable economic boom in recentyears, poverty remains urgent and widespread in thisvast country. Forty-two percent of India’s population, orroughly four hundred million people, still live below theglobal poverty line. At the frontlines in addressing thisproblem is a huge civil society movement of a millionnon-government organizations, or NGOs. Yet, many ofthese organizations are small or ineffective. It is in thecontext of these challenges that Deep Joshi evolved hisdevelopment work.

Joshi was raised in a remote village in Uttarakhandin the Himalayas, where until today there are few motorroads. But this marginalization did not prevent him fromearning a degree from the National Institute of Technol-ogy in Allahabad, a master’s degree in engineering atMassachusetts Institute of Technology, and a manage-ment degree from MIT’s Sloan School.

Returning to India, he worked as a Ford Foundationprogram officer and accumulated experience in devel-opment work. Encounters in the field inspired him, inpar ticular a visit to the US-trained medical doctorsRajanikant and Mabelle Arole, who were working on ru-ral health in remote West-Central India. Deeply impressedby how the Aroles combined their sophisticated trainingwith strong empathy for the poor, Joshi concluded that ifonly more people equipped with both knowledge andempathy decided to work in the villages, India’s ruralsociety would be transformed.

This idea led him in 1983 to form, together with somecolleagues, Professional Assistance for DevelopmentAction (PRADAN). A non-profit organization, PRADANrecruits university-educated youth from campusesacross the country and grooms them to do grassrootswork through a rigorous year-long apprenticeship whichcombines formal training and guided practice in the field.“Professionalizing” development work is PRADAN’s mis-sion. Joshi says: “Civil society needs to have both headand heart. If all you have is bleeding hearts, it wouldn’twork. If you only have heads, then you are going to dic-tate solutions which do not touch the human chord.”

Living and working directly with India’s poorest com-munities, PRADAN staff empower village groups withtechnical, project implementation, and networking skillsthat increase both their income-generating capabilitiesand their actual family income. Its staff, combining theirprofessional expertise with local knowledge, also trainvillagers as para-veterinarians, accountants, and tech-nicians who support their fellow-villagers in building andsustaining collective livelihood projects.

In its twin programs of training development profes-sionals and reducing rural poverty, PRADAN has pro-duced impressive results. It has reached over 170,000families in over three thousand villages of India’s poor-est states. Over a thousand graduates have joined itsapprenticeship program. More than three hundred pro-fessionals comprise its staff, most of them working infield-based teams across the country.

PRADAN is not founder-centric. It is a decentral-ized, collegial body that has developed institutionalspace for second-generation leaders. Joshi is him-self an exemplar of its strength and character as aprofessional organization, retiring at the policy-pre-scribed age despite the wish of his colleagues forhim to stay on. Still, he remains deeply committedto PRADAN, now working purely as an Advisor. Mod-est, deeply respected by colleagues for his integrityand intelligence, he has shaped the professionalethos of the organization.

Joshi began by asking himself: Why would engi-neers and management professionals, with degreesfrom universities like Harvard and MIT, choose to ap-ply their brainpower to a small village irrigationproject? For someone who did exactly that, the press-ing question was, what is stopping them? Joshi de-sires to show that for people with the finest educa-tion, there are few intellectual challenges more wor-thy than addressing rural pover ty. He says: “Devel-opment work is considered intellectually inferior tohigh science, industry, or diplomacy. We want toprove it is both a challenging and a noble choice.”

In electing Deep Joshi to receive the 2009 RamonMagsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizeshis vision and leadership in bringing professional-ism to the NGO movement in India by effectively com-bining ‘head’ and ‘hear t’ in the transformative workof rural development.

THE Philippine marine ecosystem is one of theworld’s richest, but it is also one of the most abused.Today, only 5 percent of its coral reefs remain pris-tine. Seventy percent of the country’s mangrove for-ests have been logged or conver ted to other uses.Half of all seagrass beds are now either lost or se-verely degraded. Antonio Oposa Jr. remains con-vinced that the situation can be reversed, for the sakeof future generations.

The young Oposa found his sentimental home inhis grandfather’s seaside farm on Bantayan Island,in Cebu, and in his teenage years became passion-ate about preserving the environment. This passionlater found expression in a career of wide-rangingand sometimes risky advocacies on behalf of MotherNature: field enforcement of fishing and logging laws,environmental litigation, education on sustainable liv-ing, advising local governments on crafting environ-ment-preserving legislation, establishing marinesanctuaries.

As a lawyer and environmental activist Oposamade his mark with an unusual case that laterpopularized the “Oposa Doctrine” in internationallegal circles. This was a class action he filed inwhich for ty-three minors asked government tocancel timber licenses on the grounds that ram-pant logging violated their constitutional rights toa healthy environment. In a 1993 decision, the Su-preme Cour t uphe ld the pr inc ip le of “ in ter-generational equity,” affirming Oposa’s argumentthat the interests of future generations could beprotected in cour t. A triumph of principle, the caseset a precedent for how citizens can leverage thelaw to protect the environment.

Oposa demonstrated this in 1999 when a citi-zens group boldly filed a case holding governmentliable for the pollution of Manila Bay and responsiblefor its cleanup.

Marshalling the resources of law and pursuingthe case for all of ten years, he won a Supreme Cour tdecision compelling twelve government agencies tocoordinate their effor ts in rehabilitating Manila Bay,submit action plans, and to regularly repor t to theCour t on the progress of their work.

After earning a master’s degree in environmentallaw from Harvard Law School, in 1998 Oposa de-cided to devote himself entirely to environmentalwork. Despite the attractions of a lucrative practice,he declared that from thereon “my clients will be theland, the air, and the waters.”

Setting up his base on Bantayan Island, he orga-nized the Law of Nature Foundation, a network ofcitizen volunteers engaged in monitoring coral reefsites, establishing marine sanctuaries, and assist-ing local governments in drafting environmental leg-islation. Coordinating with law enforcement bodies,he organized the Visayan Sea Squadron, under tak-ing sea patrols and raids on boat operators and dy-namite producers engaged in illegal fishing. At greatrisk to his life, he organized and led some of the mostdaring enforcement operations against environmen-tal crime syndicates behind the banned dynamitefishing.

Recognizing that education is the key to sustain-able change, he founded School of the SEAs (Seaand Earth Advocates), a non-profit, experiential learn-ing center that has already trained more than fivethousand people in environmental awareness andsustainable living.

Hailed as one of Asia’s leading voices in theglobal arena of environmental law, the ebullientOposa describes himself as basically a storytellerfor man and nature, and explains that law is onlyhis medium. Nonetheless, he says that the law isimpor tant as “a tool for thinking,” and to save theenvironment, “there must be a revolution of themind, of att i tudes.” “We need,” he says, “tochange the way we think.”

In electing Antonio Oposa Jr. to receive the2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board oftrustees recognizes his pathbreaking and passion-ate crusade to engage Filipinos in acts of enlight-ened citizenship that maximize the power of lawto protect and nur ture the environment for them-selves, their children, and generations sti l l tocome.

The 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award laureates are two from China and oneeach from Burma, India, the Philippines and Thailand. Disclosing this onAugust 3, the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) said theAwardees are:

Ka Hsaw Wa, Burma — who is beingrecognized for “his dauntlessly pursuing nonviolent yet effective channels of redress, ex-posure, and education for the defense of hu-man rights, the environment, and democracyin Burma;”

Ma Jun, China — for “his harnessingthe technology and power of information toaddress China’s water crisis, and mobiliz-ing pragmatic, multisectoral, and collabora-tive efforts to ensure sustainable benefits forChina’s environment and society;”

Yu Xiaogang, China — for “his fusingthe knowledge and tools of social science witha deep sense of social justice, in assistingdam-affected communities in China to shapethe development projects that impact theirnatural environment and their lives;”

Deep Joshi, India — for “his vision andleadership in bringing professionalism to theNGO movement in India, by effectively com-bining ‘head’ and ‘heart’ in the transfor-mative development of rural communities;”

Antonio Oposa Jr., the Philippines — for “his pathbreaking and passionate cru-sade to engage Filipinos in acts of enlight-ened citizenship that maximize the power oflaw to protect and nurture the environmentfor themselves, their children, and genera-tions still to come;”

Krisana Kraisintu, Thailand — for “her placing pharmaceutical rigor at the ser-vice of patients, through her untiring andfearless dedication to producing much-needed generic drugs in Thailand and else-where in the developing world.”

Established in 1957, the RamonMagsaysay Award is Asia’s highest honorand is widely regarded as the region’s equiva-lent of the Nobel Prize. It celebrates thememory and leadership example of the thirdPhilippine President, and is given every yearto individuals or organizations in Asia that

manifest the same sense of selfless servicethat ruled the life of the late and belovedFilipino leader.

“The Magsaysay awardees of 2009,” saysRMAF President Carmencita T. Abella,“are true Asian Heroes, putting their ad-vanced knowledge and skills at the serviceof critical needs of their people. They are,each one, addressing major issues affectingthe growth and preservation of their respec-tive societies – health care, mass poverty,community displacement, environmentaldegradation, human rights. They are eachusing calibrated strategies to craft lastingsolutions to problems besetting their people.Nevertheless, these six laureates share agreatness of spirit which infuses their lead-ership for change. They all build collabora-tion and seek consensus wherever possible. They all refuse to give up, despite adversityand opposition. Four of them share a pas-sionate concern for the environment, whichthe Foundation wishes to give special atten-tion to at this time.

Starting in 2009, the Magsaysay Awardis no longer being given in fixed Award cat-egories, except for Emergent Leadership,which honors “outstanding work of an indi-vidual, 40 years of age and below, on issuesof social change in his/her community, butwhose leadership is not yet broadly recog-nized outside of this community.”

The six 2009 Magsaysay awardees join271 other laureates who have received Asia’shighest honor to date. This year’s MagsaysayAward winners will each receive a certificate,a medallion bearing the likeness of the latePresident, and a cash prize. They will beformally conferred the Magsaysay Awardduring the Presentation Ceremonies to beheld on 31 August 2009 at the Cultural Cen-ter of the Philippines, to which the public iscordially invited. — RMAF

The Ramon Magsaysay AwardTHE Ramon Magsaysay Award was createdin 1957, the year the Philippines lost in aplane crash a President who was well-lovedfor his simplicity and humility, his passionfor justice, particularly for the poor, and hisadvancement of human dignity. Among themany friends and admirers of the late Presi-dent around the world were the Rockefellerbrothers. With the concurrence of the Phil-ippine government, the trustees of theRockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) estab-lished the Award to honor his memory andperpetuate his example of integrity in pub-lic service andpragmatic ideal-ism within ademocratic soci-ety.

S u p p o r t e dwith a generousendowment fromthe RBF, the Ra-mon MagsaysayAward Founda-tion (RMAF) wasorganized in Ma-nila in May 1957,with seven promi-nent Filipinos asfounding mem-bers of the foun-dation’s board oftrustees. TheFoundation hassince implemen-ted the Magsay-say Award pro-gram, pursuingthe mission of“honoring greatness of spirit in selfless ser-vice to the peoples of Asia.” The first RamonMagsaysay Awards were given on August 31,1958 to five outstanding individuals work-ing in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Repub-lic of China (Taiwan) and Sri Lanka, and aPhilippine-based organization.

Today, the Ramon Magsaysay Award pro-gram is managed by the RMAF board oftrustees composed of nine Filipinos servingstaggered four-year terms. An appointedpresident oversees the full-time administra-tion of the program. Annually, the RMAFsolicits award nominations from a wide-rang-ing pool of international nominators. Nomi-nations are carefully investigated and theawardees are determined after rigorousevaluation by the Foundation’s board oftrustees. Presentation Ceremonies are heldannually in Manila on 31 August, the birth

anniversary of the late President.The Ramon Magsaysay Award is given to

persons - regardless of race, nationality, creedor gender - who address issues of humandevelopment in Asia with courage and cre-ativity, and in doing so have made contribu-tions which have transformed their societ-ies for the better. The Award is given in sixcategories: government service; public ser-vice; community leadership; journalism, lit-erature and creative communication arts;peace and international understanding; andemergent leadership. The Magsaysay Award

for EmergentLeadership seeksto inspire youngpeople to applytheir talents andenergies to self-less and innova-tive service inAsia; this awardcategory was cre-ated in 2000 withsupport from aFord Foundationgrant, and honorsgreatness of spiritamong men andwomen fortyyears old and be-low.

Collectively,the Awardees’ sto-ries paint a por-trait of remark-able change andachievement inareas as diverse as

rural and urban development, poverty alle-viation, public health, the environment, gov-ernance, education, business, human rights,culture, and the arts. In the five decades ofthe Ramon Magsaysay Award’s existence,Asia has made great progress, some nationsmore than others. Yet the region continuesto grapple with problems of poverty, malnu-trition, disease, and violence - as well as withnewer problems that have come with eco-nomic progress itself.

In continuing to recognize individuals andorganizations who address these issues withextraordinary vigor, integrity and selfless-ness, the RMAF seeks to honor the legacy ofPresident Ramon Magsaysay and to placeliving examples of inspiring leadership andservice before the public. From them, presentand future generations may draw courage,challenge, and hope.

THE RAMON MAGSAYSAY MEDALLION

6 AGOSTO 14 - 20, 2008 VOL. XXX, NO. 33 7MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980

8 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 AUGUST 14 - 20, 2009

PAGBABAHAGING LABAS SA HUKUMANNA MAY BILIHANG GANAP O LUBUSAN

ALAMIN ng lahat na ang namayapang si NICOLAS VALERIO, na namataynoong Setyembre 17, 2000, sa Obando, Bulacan, at nakaiwan ng isanglagay na lupa na matatagpuan sa Paco, Obando, Bulacan, at mapagki-kilanlan sa Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) No. 29803 P (M), aynagpagpasiyang manahin sa labasng hukuman ng mga lehitimongtagapagmana na may bilihang ganap o lubusan ang isang kabahaginglupa na may sukat na dalawang daan at limampu (250 sq. meters)metro pasukat na babawasin sa lupang nasa unahan kay Pedro Panganat mas higit na kilala sa Kas. Blg. 67; Dahon Blg. 15; Aklat Blg. XIX;Taong 2008 ni Notaryo Publiko Atty. Oliver C. Castro.Mabuhay: Hulyo 31, Agosto 7 & 14, 2009

PAGBABAHAGING LABAS SA HUKUMANNA MAY BILIHANG GANAP O LUBUSAN

ALAMIN ng lahat na ang namayapang si NICOLAS VALERIO, na namataynoong Setyembre 17, 2000, sa Obando, Bulacan, at nakaiwan ng isanglagay na lupa na matatagpuan sa Paco, Obando, Bulacan, at mapag-kikilanlan sa Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) No. 29803 P (M), aynagpagpasiyang manahin sa labasng hukuman ng mga lehitimongtagapagmana na may bilihang ganap o lubusan ang isang kabahaginglupa na may sukat na dalawang daan at limampu (250 sq. meters)metro pasukat na babawasin sa lupang nasa unahan kay Noberto DelaCruz Jr. at mas higit na kilala sa Kas. Blg. 68; Dahon Blg. 15; Aklat Blg.XIX; Taong 2008 ni Notaryo Publiko Atty. Oliver C. Castro.Mabuhay: Hulyo 31, Agosto 7 & 14, 2009

Republic of the PhilippinesSUPREME COURT

Office of the Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

FILIPINO SAVERS BANK, INC.

Mortgagee,

- versus -

ROEL ENRIQUEZ AND SPOUSESGLORIA & LAMBERTO ENRIQUEZ,

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act4118 filed by FILIPINO SAVERS BANK, INC., with principal office andpostal address at No. 457 Tandang Sora Avenue, Quezon City the mort-gagee against ROEL ENRIQUEZ AND SPOUSES GLORIA & LAMBERTOENRIQUEZ, with residence and postal address at Tuktukan, Guiguinto,Bulacan the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness whichas of June 15, 2009 amounts to FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT THOU-SAND EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY SIX PESOS & 42/100 (P568,826.42)Philippine Currency, including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees,plus daily interest and expenses and thereafter, also secured by saidmortgage, and such other amounts which may become due and pay-able to the aforementioned mortgagee, the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacanthrough the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interestedparties to the public in general that on September 2, 2009 at 10:00A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provin-cial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auctionthrough sealed bidding to the highest bidder for CASH and in Philip-pine Currency, the described real property/ies below together with allthe improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. T-16684“A parcel of land (Lot 1232- G of the subd. plan, Psd-03-047957, be-ing a portion of lot 1232, Cad. 334, Guiguinto Cad., LRC Rec. No.),situated in the Bo. of Tuntukan, Mun. of Guiguinto, Prov. of Bulacan Is.of Luzon. xx xx xx Containing an area of EIGHTY (80) SQ. M. x x x”This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty(20) days in three (3) conspicuous public places in the municipalitywhere the subject property/ies is/are located and at Malolos City,Bulacan where the sale shall take place and likewise a copy will bepublished for the same period in the MABUHAY a newspaper of gen-eral circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week for three (3)consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed tothis office must be submitted to the undersigned on or before the abovestated date and hour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shallbe opened.In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,September 2, 2009, it shall be held on September 24, 2009 at 10:00A.M. or soon thereafter without further notice.Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate forthemselves the title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, ifany there be.Malolos City, Bulacan, August 6, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGAEx-Officio Sheriff

By: BENJAMIN C. HAOSheriff V

Copy furnished: All parties concernedMabuhay: August 7, 14 & 21, 2009

E.J.F. NO. 186-2009

EXTRA-JUDICAL FORELOSURE OFREAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IES

UNDER ACT 3135 AS AMMENDEDBY ACT 4118

“Thereafter Mary’s gaze, ever filled with adoration andwonder, would never leave him. At times it would be aquestioning look, as in the episode of the finding in theTemple: “Son, why have you treated us so?” (Lk 2:48); itwould always be a penetrating gaze, one capable of deeplyunderstanding Jesus, even to the point of perceiving hishidden feelings and anticipating his decisions, as at Cana(cf. Jn 2:5). At other times it would be a look of sorrow,especially beneath the Cross, where her vision would stillbe that of a mother giving birth, for Mary not only sharedthe passion and death of her Son, she also received thenew son given to her in the beloved disciple (cf. Jn 19:26-27). On the morning of Easter hers would be a gaze radi-ant with the joy of the Resurrection, and finally, on theday of Pentecost, a gaze afire with the outpouring of theSpirit (cf. Acts 1:14).” (Rosarium Virginis Mariæ, no. 10)

By praying the Rosary, we do not only remember thepast, but we learn with our Lady’s help how to threadthese mysteries into the joyful, brilliant, sorrowful andglorious moments of our life. Through these mysterieswe discover and identify ourselves with –through Mary’sface– to the face of Christ.

* * * “And you know what, Father?” James said after be-

ing satisfied with memorizing Mary’s face.“What?” I said while wondering at such a childlike

but wonderful piety.“I see Mama Mary’s face too when I say the Litany?”“Really? Show me…,” I said quite bewildered since I

haven’t heard of a Litany of the Rosary that has images.James pulls out a worn out piece of prayer guide. He

opens it to the page where the litany was and said, “Canyou see Her face, Father?”

(Note: Below is the Litany of the Holy Rosary. Canyou also find our Lady’s face discovered by a child’s eyes?Clue: Squint to blur the list of Marian titles in order tobetter see the profile of a face.)

Holy Mother of God.Holy Virgin of virgins.Mother of Christ.Mother of the Church.Mother of divine grace.Mother most pure.Mother most chaste.Mother inviolate.Mother undefiled.Mother most amiable.Mother most admirable.Mother of good counsel.Mother of our Creator.Mother of our Savior.Virgin most prudent.Virgin most venerable.Virgin most renowned.Virgin most powerful.Virgin most merciful.Virgin most faithful.Mirror of justice.Seat of wisdom.Cause of our joy.Spiritual vessel.Vessel of honor.Singular vessel of devotion.Mystical rose.Tower of David.Tower of ivory.House of gold.Ark of the covenant.Gate of heaven.Morning star.Health of the sick.Refuge of sinners.Comforter of the afflicted.Help of Christians.Queen of angels.Queen of patriarchs.Queen of prophets.Queen of apostles.Queen of martyrs.Queen of confessors.Queen of virgins.Queen of all saints.Queen conceived without original sin.Queen assumed into heaven.Queen of the most holy Rosary.Queen of the family.Queen of peace.

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Regarding Henry from page 3

as much as they want and drive without any fear.”It is a known fact that driving while intoxicated or

drunk is dangerous. In the United States, for example,alcohol is estimated to play a role in 39 percent of ve-hicle-related deaths and to cost $51 billion annually.

Drivers with high blood alcohol content endanger notonly themselves but other people on the road. While lawsagainst driving under the influence or drunk driving wasalready implemented by other countries like Englandsince 1897, the Philippines, where numerous cases of roadaccidents involving intoxicated or drunk drivers, is stillfollowing an “obsolete” law against drunken driving.

4. Puff a smoke every now and then. “A customloathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to thebrain, dangerous to the lungs” was how James I of En-gland described smoking in the sixteenth century. Today,there is 100 percent proof that smoking is indeed harm-ful.

Smoking causes lung cancer, emphysema, heart at-tacks, osteoporosis, peptic ulcer and reproductive prob-lems like impotence. Whenever smoke passes, it spreadsits deadly trademark: starting from the mouth where itcauses oral cancer, then cancer of the vocal cords, thencancer of the esophagus and finally lung cancer. Recentadditional diseases attributable to smoking: leukemia andcancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach, ab-dominal aortic aneurysm, cataracts, periodontitis andpneumonia.

The United National health agency reports that smok-ing related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or causefour million deaths. “Every eight seconds, someone diesfrom tobacco use,” it points out.

By 2030, if current trends continue, smoking will killone in six people. In the Philippines, there are about20,000 smoking-related deaths every year. Someone oncequipped, “Hundreds of Filipinos stop smoking every day– by dying!”

5. Disregard regular medical check-up. There areseveral medical check-ups that a person should undergoto maintain well-being. For medical history, vital statis-tics are height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, breath-ing rate. Routine blood and urine tests are done to checkfor things like cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Heartexamination is conducted to check heart rate whilebreathing test is carried out to check lung capacity whichcan be affected by smoking, asthma or other conditions.

Two tests that men under the age of 40 should un-

Writers can be highly selective and biased. There aretimes when they can claim privileged vision of a mostmysterious phenomenon, and yet they can also choose tobe indifferent to the most obvious and palpable develop-ment.

That is to say, they can weave very sophisticated, so-lipsistic rationalizations, but they can fail to simply puttwo and two together to make four in an issue so clear ineverybody else’s mind.

Some of them, usually women, get so irritably bitchyin their comments that they seem to validate the saying,“Hell has no fury than a woman spurned.” Of course, themen can also create their own kind of hell. Hell can in-deed be gender-specific.

When this state of affairs involves men of the cloth—and sadly there are some of them—the situation ap-proaches apocalyptic dimensions. Only God knows whatto do with them.

Compounding this lamentable status quo is a certainaspect of the current journalistic culture that fosters thiskind of anomaly. The other day, I read some tips on howto be effective in writing letters to the editor.

I was horrified to learn that people were encouragedjust to let their emotions loose and lead them practicallywherever. It was said that this style would make themstrong and effective writers. Eloquence would just incar-nate itself spontaneously.

The worst part of this mess is that many of these writ-ers seem never to feel the duty to examine themselvesand make regular contrition and atonement for damages,intended or unintended, made.

What can we do about this widespread predicament?

dergo are prostate examinations (to check for signs ofprostate cancer) and testicular examinations (to checkfor abnormal swellings which may be a sign of testicularcancer).

For women, the two most often recommended testsare breast cancer screening and pap smear (to detect earlysigns of cancer of the cervix).

“Check-ups are done yearly,” says Dr. Willie T. Ong, acardiologist at Manila Doctors Hospital and Makati Medi-cal Center. “It will not cost much and it will add years toyour life. Life is short and let us not make it shorter byour stubbornness and fear of doctors.”

6. Stop thinking about exercises. “Those whothink they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner orlater have to find time for illness,” said Edward Stanley.A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicinereported that 30 minutes of walking daily brings as muchrisk reduction for heart attacks as a high-intensity exer-cise program.

According to the Journal of the National Cancer In-stitute, one to three hours of exercise a week over awoman’s reproductive lifetime may bring a 20 to 30 per-cent reduction in the risk of breast cancer. A study fromU.S. Consumer Reports ranks single tennis as one of thetop five-calorie blasting workouts. The study said thatan average 140-pound person can burn about 254 calo-ries in thirty minutes.

There are more benefits you can get from exercise. Itcan prevent you staying away from chronic illnesses suchas diabetes and even some cancers. It does stabilize yourblood pressure and cholesterol level. Also, exercise canexcrete the toxic wastes from your body through sweat-ing.

7. Keep yourself awake at all times. Recent stud-ies have also shown that getting a good night’s rest ismore important than you can ever imagine. According tothe National Sleep Foundation (NSF), the amount yousleep can contribute to your overall health.

For instance, women who responded to the poll whichNSF conducted reported that those who were in “poorhealth” also experienced daytime sleepiness a few days aweek, have missed work due to sleepiness, and are morelikely to have used a sleep aid than those who catego-rized themselves as in “excellent health.”

On the other hand, research in Japan has shown thatmen who sleep five hours or less a night are more thantwice as likely to suffer a heart attack as men who sleepeight hours. And according to Neil Stanley, chairman ofthe British Sleep Society, “Night workers – or anyone whoworks on a shift – have been shown to have an increasedrisk of cardiovascular disease.”

Dr. Rafael Castillo, a consultant cardiologist at theManila Doctors Hospital, agrees. “Sleep deprivation maypotentially increase risk for the development of cardio-vascular problems,” he points out. A study done by Co-lumbia University found that sleeping less than five hoursdoubled the risk of high blood pressure.

8. Greet stress with gladness. If you’ve been sicklately, suspect stress. Some doctors say that as many asnine of ten visits to the doctor may be related to stress.That includes everything from allergies and asthma toherpes and heart disease.

Now if that little bit of news isn’t stressing enough,there are also those angst-inducing traffic jams and longlines, jerky bosses and inept workers, too much to do andtoo little time to do it. And don’t forget unemployment,pollution, crime and separation.

Stress is a biological term which refers to the conse-quences of the failure of a person to respond appropri-ately to emotional or physical threats, whether actual orimagined. Maybe this sounds a little overdramatic, butthe reality is that excessive, untreated stress can actu-ally kill you.

Dr. Peter Taggart, of the University College London’sCentre for Cardiology pointed this out: “Some people areat risk of sudden death from stress, mainly people whoalready have heart disease. In these cases the combina-tion of heart and brain irregularities means that heartfailure could occur during a stressful or emotional eventlike a family gathering or even a boisterous New Yearparty.”

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Cebu Calling from page 3

AUGUST 14 - 20, 2009 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 9

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. ALFREDO A. ESCUADRA and

GLORIA ESCUADRA

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.ALFREDO A. ESCUADRA AND GLORIA ESCUADRA, with postal addresses at 24JUNE ST., CONGRESSIONAL VILLAGE, PROJECT 8, QUEZON CITY and LOT 34BLK 28, PH 3A, VENUS ST., PALMERA HOMES-NORTHWINDS CITY III, BO. OFSTO. CRISTO, SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, BULACAN, the mortgagor/s to sat-isfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of May 28, 2009 amounts to TwoHundred Eighty Eight Thousand Six Hundred Twenty Five Pesos (Php.288,625.00),Philippine Currency, including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding25% of the total indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest andexpenses and thereafter, also secured by said mortgage, and such other amountwhich may become due and payable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee,the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby givesnotice to all interested parties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed biddingto the highest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described realproperty/ies together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-184469 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 34 Blk. 28 of the subd. plan Psd-031420-054124, being aportion of Psu-155849 L.R.C. Rec. No. ), situated in the Bo. of Sto Cristo, Mun.of San Jose del Monte, Prov. of Bul. xxx containing an area of FIFTY (50) SQUAREMETERS. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

BY: JUNIE JOVENCIO G. IPAC

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-181-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. DOMINADOR B. FRANCISCO JR. and

ELIZABETH FRANCISCO

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.ALFREDO DOMINADOR B. FRANCISCO JR. AND ELIZABETH FRANCISCO, withpostal addresses at 6244 ILANG-ILANG ST., BATASAN HILLS, QUEZON CITYand LOT 12 BLK. 3, PH. 7, BOSTON ST., PALMERA HOMES-NORTHWINDS CITYVII, BO. STO CRISTO, SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, BULACAN, the mortgagor/sto satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of May 28, 2009 amounts to TwoHundred Fifty Three Thousand Six Hundred Twenty Five Pesos (Php.253,625.00),Philippine Currency, including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding25% of the total indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest andexpenses and thereafter, also secured by said mortgage, and such other amountwhich may become due and payable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee,the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby givesnotice to all interested parties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed biddingto the highest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described realproperty/ies together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-215083 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 12 Blk. 3 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-031420-005410,being a portion of cons. lot 598 Cad. 352, Lot 5-A-2 (LRC) Psd-133875 & lot 5-B-2 (LRC) Psd-222079 L.R.C. Rec. No. ), situated in the Bo. of Sto Cristo, Mun.of San Jose del Monte, Prov. of Bul. xxx containing an area of FIFTY (50) SQUAREMETERS. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

BY: JOSEPH ELMER GUEVARA

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-197-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. JORGE H. CASTRO andMARIETTA CASTRO,

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.JORGE S. CASTRO AND MARIETTA CASTRO, with postal address at #9-D SCOUTCHUATOCO, ROXAS DISTRICT, QUEZON CITY and LOT 3, BLK 45, PH IV-A, AL-LEY 29, CARISSA HOMES NORTH IV, BO. STA CRISTO, SAN JOSE DEL MONTECITY, BULACAN, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which asof April 28, 2009 amounts to One Hundred Sixty Thousand Nine Hundred TwentyFive Pesos (Php.160,925.00), Philippine Currency, including/ excluding interestthereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of attorney’sfees, plus daily interest and expenses and thereafter, also secured by said mort-gage, and such other amount which may become due and payable to the afore-mentioned Mortgagee/Assignee, the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through theundersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interested parties to the public ingeneral that on August 27, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of theOffice of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ngKatarungan, Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at pub-lic auction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidder for CASH and in PhilippineCurrency, the described real property/ies together with all the improvements ex-isting thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. T-220319Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 3 Blk. 45 of the subd. plan Psd-031420-063771, being aportion of lot 2, Psu-175040 Amd. LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Bo. of Sto.Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Prov. of Bulacan xxx containing an area ofTHIRTY FIVE (35) Square Meters.xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

BY: OSMANDO C. BUENAVENTURA

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-139-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY

UNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDEDBY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial Court Third Judicial Region

Malolos, BulacanBRANCH 78

SPC NO. 134-M-2008IN RE: PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF ENTRY

IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OFMINOR ANGELICA Y ANTIPASADO,

AS REPRESENTED BY HER MOTHER ANABELANTIPASADO QUIRIEQUIRIE,

– versus –

THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE,THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF STA. MARIA,BULACAN AND JOVENCIO AYSON ANCHETA

Respondents,

X----------------------------------X

AMENDED ORDERA verified amended dated May 22, 2009 having filed with this Court bypetitioner through counsel on the same date, stating among others that:

“x.x.x.”2. That the Petitioner is representing her minor daughter ANGELICA

AYSON Y ANTIPASADO, whose certificate of live birth is sought to be cor-rected and whose custody and parental authority is with the petitioner to-gether with his husband, JOVENCIO AYSON Y ANCHETA copy og minorANGELICA AYSON Y ANTIPASADO’s Birth Certificate is hereto attached asAnnex “B”

3. That the Local Civil Registrar of Sta. Maria Bulacan, as well as theNational Statistics Office are made respondents herein because they are thecustodians of the record of birth of the minor ANGELICA AYSON Y ANTIPA-SADO. They may be served with summons and other processes of the hon-orable Court at their place of office in Sta. Maria, Bulacan and at EDSA cornerTimes Street, West Triangle, Quezon City, respectively. Furthermore, the fa-ther JOVENCIO AYSON Y ANCHETA is also impleaded herein pursuant to Sec.3, Rule 108 of the Rules of Court and he may be served with the processesand notices at 1530 kilometer 40, Pulong Buhangin, Sta. Maria, Bulacan;

4. That the Certificate of Live Birth of minor ANGELICA AYSON YANTIPASADO was duly registered with the Offices of the respondents andwith Local Civil Registry No. 99-240;

5. That some of the entries in the Certificate of Live Birth of minorANGELICA AYSON Y ANTIPASADO were found to be erroneous and forwhich reasons this petition was filed to correct said erroneous entries;

6. That entry no. 6 in the Certificate of Live Birth of minor ANGELICAAYSON Y ANTIPASADO regarding the Mother’s Name where the entry“ANNABELE QUERE QUERE ANTIPASADO” appears is erroneous and shouldbe corrected by the entry “ANABEL QUIREQUIRE ANTIPASADO” as it ap-pears in the Certificate of Libe Birth of ANABEL QUIREQUIRE ANTIPASADO,herein attached as Annex “C”, and Identification Card as Annex “D” & “E”;

7. The entry No. 11 in the Certificate of Live Birth of minor ANGELICAAYSON Y ANTIPASADO regarding the Mother’s Age at the time of this Birthwhere the entry “21” appears is erroneous and should be corrected by theentry “18” as it appears in the Certificate of Live Birth of QUIREQUIREANTIPASADO.

8. The entry No. 13 in the Certificate of Live Birth of minor ANGELICAAYSON Y ANTIPASADO regarding the Father’s Name where the entry “BENANCHETA AYSON” appears is erroneous and should be corrected by theentry “JOVENCIO ANCHETA AYSON” as it appears in the Certificate of Live

Birth of JOVENCIO ANCHETA AYSON, herein attached as Annex “F” andIdentification Card as Annex “G” to “J”.

9. The foregoing entries were erroneously filled-up due to the honestmistakes, excusable oversight and error in typing/writing of the one whoprepared the same at the time said Certificate of Live Birth of minor AN-GELICA AYSON Y ANTIPASADO was prepared and registered with the localcivil registrar of Sta. Maria Bulacan.

10. The entry No. 18 in the Certificate of Live Birth of minor AN-GELICA AYSON Y ANTIPASADO regarding the Place and Date of Marriage ofParents where the entry “MAY 07, 1998” appears is erroneous and shouldbe corrected by leaving the same in blank.

11. That entry No. 18 was erroneously filled-up due to the fact that atthe time of its entry, the parents of the minor ANGELICA AYSON YANTIPASADO believed in good faith that the marriage they’ve contractedMay 07, 1998 in Gadtaran, Cagayan Valley, a mass wedding ceremonyofficiated by the Mayor, was valid subsisting, but contrary to their belief,when they checked with the National Statistics Office, no entry of suchmarriage on January 22, 2007 in Sta. Maria, Bulacan as evidenced by theirCertificate of Marriage herein attached as Annex “A” hence at the time ofbirth of the minor ANGELICA AYSON Y ANTIPASADO no record/registeredmarriage was subsisting;

12. That considering the aforementioned petitioner is constrained tofile this instant petition pursuant to section 2(a) of Rule 108 of the RevisedRules of Court of the Philippines so that the above-cited erroneous entriesin the said Certificate of Live Birth be corrected to avoid further complexi-ties that may arise in the future concerning the minor child, ANGELICA AYSONY ANTIPASADO;

13. That the said errors are not intentional and cannot be attributedon the part of the petitioner who was then recuperating from child birth ordelivery, and unaware of the facts and circumstances when the Certificateof Live Birth of her minor child, ANGELICA AYSON Y ANTIPASADO wascaused to be registered on January 15, 1999 by Femina Sanchez, the mid-wife who attended her;

14. That considering further that the petitioner is represented by thePUBLIC ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (PAO) by virtue of R.A. 9406, Sec. 16-D,which provides for the exemption from payment of fees and cost of the suitof the client of PAO and under OCA Circular No. 121-2007 of the SupremeCourt of the Philippines dated 11 December 2007.

WHEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the said petition will beheard by this Court sitting at the New Hall of Justice Building, ProvincialCapitol Compound, City of Malolos, Bulacan; on September 25, 2009 at8:30 in the morning, at which place, date and time, all interested personsare hereby cited to appear and show cause, if they have any, why the saidpetition should not be granted.

Let this Order be published, at the expense of the petitioner, in a news-paper of general circulation in the Province of Bulacan once a week for three(3), consecutive weeks, at least (30) days prior to the aforesaid date ofhearing. Let a copy of this Order, together with the copy of the petition, beserved upon the Local Civil Registrar of City of Sta. Maria Bulacan, NationalStatistics Office of the Solicitor general, at the expense of the petitioner.Finally, let copies of this Order and of the petition be posted in three (3)conspicuous places within the province of Bulacan, also at the expense ofthe petitioner.

SO ORDERED.

City of Malolos, Bulacan, July 6, 2009

Gregorio S. SampagaJudge

Mabuhay: August 7, 14 & 21, 2009

jective, because many of our public schools are not yetcomputerized. One way to improve and define this ideahowever, is to start in the preschools operated by theDepartment of Social Work & Development (DSWD)where computers are more scarce compared to the gradeschools and high schools.

I remember that during the time of President BillClinton, he set the goal of putting a computer in everyAmerican classroom. A few years back, this would havebeen an impossible goal for us to set in the Philippines ,but with this new movement to solicit and upgrade usedcomputers, this is now doable. More than anything else,the bigger challenge I think is to also aim for the electri-fication of the public schools, so that computerizationcould follow. As I understand it, about 40% of our publicschools do not have electricity yet.

Since the local organizations will be the one to buildand maintain their own computer systems, it would bebest to leave it up to them which local needs they shouldprioritize, as upgraded computers are made available tothem. For instance, they would have to choose betweendisaster management applications and public school ap-plications, but that is entirely up to them. I hope how-ever that this would not be an issue later on, as morecomputers arrive for them to use locally.

As I have written many times in the past, it would begood for cooperatives to be also computerized. It wouldbe good also for cooperatives to have their own VPN sothat they could connect with each other and transact witheach other, but even without that, they could already useemail to contact each other. What is important howeveris for the buyers to be able to contact them, both hereand abroad.

I would like to thank Ms. Elsa Bayani and the otherswho volunteered to help out in this movement. Althoughthe technical part is easy enough to figure out, I couldforesee that there will be other challenges to meet, suchas getting the donated units our of customs. I will workon these first.

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10 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 AUGUST 14 - 20, 2009

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. MA. CHRISTINA L. YABOT-AMOROSOAND EDGAR DELA CRUZ AMOROSO

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135, as amended, filed by BalikatanHousing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI Buendia Center,

Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS. MA. CHRIS-TINA L. YABOT-AMOROSO AND EDGAR DELA CRUZ AMOROSO, with postaladdresses at BLK 22 LOT 15, PH. 2, PALMERA HOMES-NORTHWINDS CITYBRGY. KAYPIAN, SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, BULACAN and LOT 15 BLK. 22,PH. II-A, ROAD LOT 17, CARISSA HOMES NORTH II, BO. STO. CRISTO, SANJOSE DEL MONTE CITY, BULACAN the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage in-debtedness which as of May 28, 2009 amounts to Two Hundred Sixty Nine Thou-sand One Hundred Twenty Five Pesos (Php.269,125.00), Philippine Currency,including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebt-edness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses and thereafter,also secured by said mortgage, and such other amount which may become dueand payable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee, the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interestedparties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soonthereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan, located at theback of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial Capitol Compound, MalolosCity, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidderfor CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described real property/ies togetherwith all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-164718 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 15 Blk. 22 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-031420-004377,being a portion of cons. B-3-A & B-3-B (LRC) Psd-0342449, B-21 (LRC)Psd-294928,1 & 2, Psu-145622, 1, 2 & 3, Psu-192395, L.R.C. Rec. No. ), situated inthe Bo. of Sto Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Prov. of Bul. xxx containing anarea of FIFTY (50) SQUARE METERS. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

By: NORMAN S. IPAPO

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-144-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. DAVE DELA MERCED BAUTISTA

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.DAVE DELA MERCED BAUTISTA, with postal address at BIGTE, NORZAGARAY,BULACAN and LOT 15, BLK 1, BLUE BIRD ST, PALMERA HOMES-NORTHRIDGESUBD., BO. STO CRISTO, SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, BULACANthe mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of April 28, 2009 amounts toFour Hundred Twenty Two Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty Five Pesos(Php.422,825.00), Philippine Currency, including/ excluding interest thereon, in-cluding/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plusdaily interest and expenses and thereafter, also secured by said mortgage, andsuch other amount which may become due and payable to the aforementionedMortgagee/Assignee, the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the undersignedSheriff hereby gives notice to all interested parties to the public in general that onAugust 27, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan,Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auctionthru sealed bidding to the highest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, thedescribed real property/ies together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-210715 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 15 Blk. 1 of the subd. plan Pcs-031420-005268, being aportion of cons. lots 1-5, 11-12, 14-15, 19, 28 & 29 blk. 8; lots 1-24 blk. 9; lots1-18, blk. 10; lots 1-41 blk. 11; lots 1-26 blk. 12; lots 1-48 blk. 13; lots 1-24 blk.14, lots 1-13 blk. 15, lots 1-23 blk. 16; lots 1-20 blk. 17; lots 1-13, blk.18, blk.19 to 21, rd. lots 7-18 Rd. widening creek 1 & 2 all of (LRC) Psd- 18443, LRCRec. No. ), situated in the Bo. of Sto Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Prov. ofBul. xxx containing an area of SIXTY SIX (66) Sq M. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

By: Osmando C. Buenaventura

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-140-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTYIES

UNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDEDBY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. RODOLFO B. BRON and

REMEDIOS N. BRON

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.RODOLFO B. BRON AND REMEDIOS N. BRON, with postal addresses at BO.TUNAS, IBA, MEYCAUYAN, BULACAN and LOT 1, ROAD LOT 4, HAZEL HEIGHTSSUBD., BRGY. BAGBAG, CALUMPIT, BULACAN, the mortgagor/s to satisfy themortgage indebtedness which as of April 28, 2009 amounts to Three HundredSixty Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty Five Pesos (Php.365,125.00), Philip-pine Currency, including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding 25% ofthe total indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expensesand thereafter, also secured by said mortgage, and such other amount whichmay become due and payable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee, theEx-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives noticeto all interested parties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at 10:00A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan,located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial Capitol Com-pound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed bidding to thehighest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described real property/ies together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-58927Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 1 of the cons.-subd. plan Pcs-031407-005740, being aportion of consolidated lots 12, 14, 16 & 18, blk. 4, Psd- 031407-060973,L.R.C. Rec. No. ), situated in the Bo. of bagbag, Mun. of Calumpit, Prov. of Bul.xxx containing an area of ONE HUNDRED TWELVE (112) SQUARE METERS. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

BY: BENJAMIN C. HAO

Sheriff V

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-163-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. LORENZO C. CANADA andMILAGROS F. CANADA,

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.LORENZO C. CANADA AND MILAGROS F. CANADA, with postal address at SITIOKABATUHAN GEN. T. DE LEON, VALENZUELA, METRO MANILA and LOT 25,BLK 408,PH. IV, KEPLER ST., HERITAGE HOMES, BO. BAHAY PARE, MARILAO,BULACAN, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as ofMarch 31, 2009 amounts to Five Hundred Eighty Thousand Three Hundred Sev-enty Four Pesos and 51/100 (Php.580,374.51), Philippine Currency, including/excluding interest thereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness byway of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses and thereafter, also se-cured by said mortgage, and such other amount which may become due andpayable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee, the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interestedparties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soonthereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan, located at theback of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial Capitol Compound, MalolosCity, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidderfor CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described real property/ies togetherwith all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. T-240849 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 25 Blk. 408 of the subd. plan Psd-031411-064811, beinga portion of lot 3, Pcs-031411-005471, LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Bo. ofBahay Pari, Mun. of Marilao, Prov. of Bulacan xxx containing an area of EIGHTYFOUR (84) SQ METERS.”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe tile to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

BY: MANOLITO G. EUSEBIO

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-136-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. REMIGIO T. DE LUNA and

NIEVES F. DE LUNA

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.REMIGIO T. DE LUNA AND NIEVES F. DE LUNA, with postal addresses at NO. 37710

th St., 11

th AVENUE, GRACE PARK, CALOOCAN CITY and LOT 16 BLK 54, PH II,

ZODIAC COR. PISCES STS., HERITAGE HOMES, BO . BAHAY PARE, MARILAO,BULACAN, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as ofApril 28, 2009 amounts to Four Hundred Sixty One Thousand (Php.461,000.00),Philippine Currency, including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding25% of the total indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest andexpenses and thereafter, also secured by said mortgage, and such other amountwhich may become due and payable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee,the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby givesnotice to all interested parties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed biddingto the highest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described realproperty/ies together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-146031 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 16 Blk. 54 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-03-003556, beinga portion of cons. lots 3817, 3821, 3822 & 3824, Lolomboy Est., LRC Rec.No.), situated in the Bo. of Bahay Pari, Mun. of Marilao, Prov. of Bul. xxx contain-ing an area of NINETY (90) SQ METERS. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

BY: OSMANDO C. BUENAVENTURA

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-204-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTAND Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.

Mortgagee/Assignee,

- versus -

SPS. FROILAN S. DE MESA and

YOLANDA DE MESA

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filedby Balikatan Housing Finance Inc., with postal address at the 24

th Floor , BPI

Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, the mortgagee, against SPS.FROILAN DE MESA AND YOLANDA DE MESA, with postal addresses at 32 HYA-CINTH S., ROXAS DISTRICT, QUEZON CITY and LOT 21 Blk. 36, BLUEBIRD,PALMERA HOMES-NORTHRIDGE SUBD., BO STO. CRISTO, SAN JOSE DELMONTE CITY, BULACAN, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtednesswhich as of April 28, 2009 amounts to Three Hundred Seventy Seven ThousandSix Hundred Twenty Five Pesos and 26/100 (Php.377,625.26), Philippine Cur-rency, including/ excluding interest thereon, including/excluding 25% of the totalindebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses andthereafter, also secured by said mortgage, and such other amount which maybecome due and payable to the aforementioned Mortgagee/Assignee, the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice toall interested parties to the public in general that on August 27, 2009 at 10:00A.M. or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan,located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial Capitol Com-pound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auction thru sealed bidding to thehighest bidder for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the described real property/ies together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-207662 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch-Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 21 Blk. 36 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-031420-005268,being a portion of consolidated lots 1-5, 11, 12, 14-15, 19, 28, &29 blk. 8; lots1-24 blk. 9; lots 1-18, blk. 10; lots 1-41 blk. 11; lots 1-26 blk. 12; lots 1-48 blk.13; lots 1-24, blk.14; lots 1-13 blk. 15; lots 1-23 blk. 16; lots 1-20 blk. 17; lots1-13 blk. 18; to 21, Road lots 7-18 road Widening, creek 1 & 2 all (LRC) Psd-18543 Rec. No. ), situated in the Bo. of Sto. Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte,Prov. of Bul. xxx containing an area of SIXTY-SIX (66) SQ METERS. xxx”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty (20) days inthree (3) conspicuous public places in the municipality where the subject prop-erty/ies is/are located and at Malolos City, Bulacan where the sale shall takeplace and likewise a copy will be published for the same period in the Mabuhaya newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week forthree (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to this officemust be submitted to the undersigned on or before the above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, it shall beheld on September 3, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselvesthe title to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, if there be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 28, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

EJF NO. B-158-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED

BY ACT 4118

AUGUST 14 - 20, 2009 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 11

EXTRA- JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREOF REAL ESTATE PROOERTY/IES

UNDER ACT 3135 ASAMENDED BY ACT 4118

EJF NO. 196-2009

Republic of the PhilippinesRegional Trial CourtThird Judicial Region

Office of the Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos City, Bulacan

TANAY RURAL BANK INC.,

Mortgagee,

- versus -

REYNALDO D. LOJUCO, MARRIEDTO MA. MELANIE C. LOJUCO,

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended by Act4118 filed by Tanay Rural Bank Inc., with principal office and place ofbusiness at F.T. Catapusan St., Plaza Aldea, Tanay, Rizal, the mort-gagee, against Reynaldo Lujoco & Ma. Melanie C. Lojuco, with resi-dence and postal address at 16 Maimpok Street Sikatuna Village, QuezonCity, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which asof July 31, 2009 amounts to TWO MILLION THREE HUNDRED NINETYEIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SIX PESOS and TWENTY FIVECENTAVOS (P2,398,806.25) Philippine Currency, including/ excludinginterest thereon, including/excluding twenty five percent (25%) of thetotal indebtedness by way of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest andexpenses and thereafter, also secured by said mortgage, and suchother amount which may become due and payable to the aforemen-tioned mortgage. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan through the under-signed Sheriff IV hereby gives notice to all interested parties to thepublic in general that on August 25, 2009 at 10:00 o’clock in the morningor soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provin-cial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at public auctionthru sealed bidding to the highest bidder for CASH and in PhilippineCurrency, the described real property/ies together with all the improve-ments existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. T-407060 (M)

“A parcel of land (Lot 2 Blk 8 of the cons. Subd. Plan LRC Pcs-11373being a portion of the cons. of lots 3685-B LRC Psd-3491; 3686, 3691,& 4198 Lolomboy Est. & lots 3698-A to E LRC Psd-3032 Amd. LRCGLRO Rec. No. 8509, Situated in the Bo. of Muzon, Mp. of SJDM,Prov. of Bul. Is. of Luzon. x x x containing an area of TWO HUNDREDFIFTY SIX (256) Sq. M. more or less. x x x.”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period of twenty(20) days in three (3) conspicuous public places in the municipalitywhere the subject property/ies is/are located and at Malolos City,Bulacan where the sale shall take place and likewise a copy will bepublished for the same period in the Mabuhay a newspaper of generalcirculation in the province of Bulacan, once a week for three (3) con-secutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed tothis office must be submitted to the undersigned on or before the abovestated date and hour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shallbe opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the said date, itshall be held on September 1, 2009 at the same time and place with-out further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate forthemselves the little to the property/ies and encumbrance thereon, ifthere be any.

Malolos City, Bulacan, July 27, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio Sheriff

By : ALVIN G. PADILLA

Sheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: July 31, August 7 & 14, 2009

Republic of the PhilippinesREGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF BULACANThird Judicial RegionBranch 77- Malolos

SP. PROC. NO. 135-M-2009

IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF THEMINOR JERIKA MAQUILING AND HER NAMEBE MADE TO CHLOWIE IGNACIO

SPOUSES WILFREDO IGNACIO AND

LAURA IGNACIO

Petitioners.

X——————X

ORDERThis is a verified amended petition for adoption of minor Jerika Maquilingfiled by petitioners spouces Wilfredo Ignacio and Laura Ignacio, thrutheir counsel, Atty. Rey Christopher G. Gonzales, alleging, among oth-ers, that they are husband and wife, both Filipino citizen and residentsof Cut-cot, Pulilan, Bulacan; that they desire to adopt the minor childJerika Maquiling; that the subject child is declared as an abandoned,neglected and dependent child, as per Decision of this Court; that bothof them are of legal age, are in possession of full civil capacity andlegal rights of good moral character, has not been convicted of anycrime involving moral turpitude; is emotionally and psychologicallycapable of caring for children; that they have reared and cared for theminor child and have developed a kind of paternal and maternal lovefor the child; that they do not have any child of their own; that they arequalified to adopt the said minor child; that they are financially capableof providing to the minor child both her economic and educationalneed; that they have developed such filial feelings and treated the saidminor child as their own; that they are financially, emotionally and psy-chologically capable of caring the said child to be adopted; that there isa need to change the name of the minor adoptee Jerika Maquiling toChlowie Ignacio because this is the surname of her adopted parentsand this change of name is necessary to put semblance of legitimacy inher name in the eyes of the public.; that the child and home study re-ports for the petitioners and minor Chlowie Ignacio are not yet availableand will be complied with by the petitioners during the presentation ofthe social worker for her testimony; that this adoption will serve the bestinterest and well-being of the child. Attached to the petition are the pho-tocopies of the Certificate of Live Birth of Jerika Tambiling Maquiling(Annex “A”); Decision of this Court dated December 9, 2008 (Annex“B”); and Child Study Report dated December 13, 2007 (Annex “C”).

WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and sub-stance, let the same be set for hearing on October 13, 2009 at 8:30 inthe morning, before this Court, on which date, time and place, all inter-ested persons may appear and show cause, if any they have, why thispetition should not be granted.

Let copy of this Order be published before the hearing in a newspaperof general circulation published in the Province of Bulacan, at leastonce a week for three (3) successive weeks, at the expense of thepetitioners.

Let copies of this Order be furnished the petitioners and their counsel,the Office of the Solicitor General and the Provincial Prosecutor ofBulacan, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Cityof Malolos, Bulacan, the Local Civil Registrar of Meycauyan, Bulacan.The DSWD is ordered to prepare the Child Study Report on the adop-tee and his biological parents and the Home Study Report on the adopt-ers, pursuant to Section 13 of the Rule on Adoption (A.M. No. 02-6-02-SC), and to submit the same to this Court at least one (1) weekbefore the date of the hearing, and to appear and testify on the saiddate.

Petitioner is ordered to furnish with copies of the petition of the Officesof the Solicitor General and the Provincial Prosecutor of Bulacan, DSWDCity of Malolos, Bulacan, Local Civil Registrar of Meycauyan, Bulacan,and to submit to this Court proof of service thereof on or before thescheduled date of hearing as aforestated.

SO ORDERED.

City of Malolos, Bulacan, July 31, 2009.

ROLANDO L. BULANPresiding Judge

Mabuhay: August 14, 21 & 28, 2009

from page 3a bitter argument with his wife over some minor thing,rushed out of the house in anger, and was killed in anaccident minutes later.

Many of us can empathize with these examples. Whoamong us doesn’t have unfinished business with some-

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Depthnews one whom death has taken away? Now it’s too late! Deathhas separated us. And some painful bitterness now liesirrevocably unresolved. We live with the guilt, wishingwe had done something before it was too late.

But it’s not too late. It’s never too late if we take seri-ously the Christian doctrine of “the communion of saints”.This doctrine, so central and important that’s enshrinedin our creed, asks us to believe: we are still in real commu-

nity of life and communication with those who have died.To believe in the communion of saints is to believe

that those who have died are still alive. They’re linked tous in such a way that we can continue to talk with them;that our relationship with them can continue to grow;that the reconciliation that wasn’t possible before theirdeaths can now occur. ‘

Why can this happen now, when it seemed so impos-sible before? Because our communication with them isnow privileged. Death washes some things clean. This isnot the stuff of fantasy, but of solid dogma. We know it’struth because we experience it.

How often in a family, a friendship or community weexperience a tension, misunderstanding, anger, irrecon-cilable differences, a hurt that can’t be undone. And theneverything changes because someone dies. Death bringsa peace, a clarity, and a charity, that were not possiblebefore. Why?

It’s not simply because death took someone out of thefamily, the office, or the circle of friends, or even, thesource of tension. It happens because, as Luke’s accountof Jesus on the cross teaches, death washes things clean.

“Today you will be with me in paradise!” Jesus speaksthose words to the good thief on the cross. And they’remeant for every one of us who dies without having hadtime and opportunity to make all the amends and speakall the apologies that we owe.

There is still time after death, on both sides, for recon-ciliation and healing to happen. Because inside the com-munion of saints, we have privileged access to each other.And there we can finally speak all of those words that wecouldn’t speak before. We can reach across death’s divide.

It is gift a to die a happy death, reconciled in the armsof love, with no unfinished business. But, happily, there’stime still after death for this to happen for those of us whoaren’t so lucky and who end up dying with some bitter-ness, anger, wound, and frustration still gnawing away.

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Hawak ni Pangulong Arroyo ang kopya ng Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Pro-gram Extension with Reform (CARPER) o ang Batas na nagdagdag ng limang taonsa pagpapatupad ng reporma sa lupa. Ito’y nilagdaan niya noong Agosto 7 sa DonCaesario San Diego Gym sa Plaridel, Bulacan. Saksi sina Juan Ponce Enrile, pangulong Senado (kaliwa), at Kint. Edcel Lagman, Ika-1 Distrito ng Albay (kanan), SenadorGringo Honasan at iba pang mambabatas. — OPS-NIB PHOTO

Pagmamay-ari ng sakahan sa nagdaang panahonPLARIDEL, Bulacan — Nagbibinata palamang ay nagsimula na sa pagsasaka siAnastacio “Ka Tacio” Isidro ng bayang itosa pamamagitan ng pagtulong sa mgagawain sa bukid na sinasaka ng kanyangama.

Minana niya sa kanyang mga magulangang nasabing bukirin, na kanyang pinag-kunan ng ikabubuhay sa pagsisimula niyang pagbuo ng sariling pamilya, hanggangsa ito ay maisalin sa kanyang pagmamay-ari hatid ng programang reporma sa lupanoong unang bahagi ng dekada ’70.

Hindi lingid ang kagalakan ni Ka Taciona ngayon ay 81 taong gulang na, mataposna maging pag-aari niya ang lupang sina-saka. Bilang patunay, ipinakita pa niya saMabuhay ang isang itim at puting lara-

wang naka-kuwadro kung saan ay maki-kita siya kasama ang asawa’t mga anakna naglalakad sa bukid na noo’y bagongsalin sa kaniyang pagmamay-ari.

Hindi nagtagal, ang bukirin ay ipinag-bili ni Ka Tacio dahil sa gitna nito dumaanang kalsadang ngayon ay tinatawag naPlaridel By-pass Road na nagmula sa ka-habaan ng Cagayan Valley Road sa bayangito sa may harap ng kasalukuyang WalterMart Community Mall.

Para kay Ka Tacio, isang benepisyo ngprogramang reporma sa lupa ang pagka-kasalin sa kanyang pangalan ng pagma-may-ari ng nasabing bukid.

“Kung hindi nasalin sa akin iyon bagodinaanan ng kalsada, baka wala akong na-ging pakinabang dahil ang babayaran la-

mang ay ang may-ari ng lupa,” aniya.Matatandaan na, ang programang

reporma sa lupa ay unang inilunsad saPlaridel ni dating Pangulong Diosdado P.Macapagal noong Agosto 8, 1963 kungkailan kanyang nilagdaan ang RepublicAct 3844. Ngunit hindi ito nagkaroon ngkatuparan dahil sa hindi pinondohan ngKongreso ang nasabing programa.

Nagkaroon lamang ng katuparan angnasabing batas sa panahon ni datingPangulong Ferdinand E. Marcos nanglagdaan niya ang Presidential Decree 27,na kilala sa tawag na “Operation LandTransfer” noong 1972 na naging daan sapamamahagi ng gobyerno sa mga magsa-sakang walang lupa ng mga lupaing pinag-tataniman nila ng mais at palay.

Ayon sa mga magsasaka, ang Plaridelang napiling paglunsaran ni PangulongMacapagal ng reporma sa lupa at niPangulong Marcos ng Operation LandTransfer dahil dito sa bayang ito mata-tagpuan ang noo’y modernong irigasyono padaluyan ng tubig mula sa Bustos Dampatungo sa mga bukirin.

Noong Hunyo 1988, nilagdaan namanni dating Pangulong Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino ang Republic Act 6657 na maskilala sa tawag na Comprehensive Agrar-ian Reform Program (CARP), na nagpa-lawak sa programa sa reporma sa lupa.

Batay sa R.A. 6657, hindi lamang mgasakahang natataniman ng mais at palayang isinailalim sa CARP, kundi lahat ng

sundan sa pahina 5

Batas na nagdagdag ng 5 taon sa pagpapatupadng reporma sa lupa nilagdaan ni GMA sa Plaridel, Bulacan

NI DINO BALABO

PLARIDEL, Bulacan — Nilagdaan niPangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo sabayang ito noong Agosto 7 ang RepublicAct 9700 o ang batas na nagbibigay ngdagdag na limang taon sa pagapapatupadng Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Pro-gram (CARP).

Ang paglagda sa nasabing batas na ina-asahang magpapaunlad sa buhay ng mgamagsasaka ay isinagawa sa Plaridel kungsaan unang inilunsad ng ama ni Gng. Arro-yo na si dating Pangulong Diosdado Ma-capagal ang reporma sa lupang sakahannoong 1963 o makaraan ang 46 na taon.(Basahin ang kaugnay na balita sa pahinang ito.)

Ikinagalak ng Catholic Bishops Confer-ence of the Philippines (CBCP) ang pag-lagda sa R.A. 9700 at sinabing iyon aytagumpay para sa mgasasakang walanglupa. Ngunit para sa mga magsasakangBulakenyo bahagi lamang ng pulitika angpaglagda at hindi makatutugon sa patuloyna pagliit ng mga lupang sakahan nanakakaapekto sa produksyon ng pagkainng lumolobong populasyon ng Pilipinas.

Ang paglagda ni Pangulong Arroyo saR.A. 9700 ay sinaksihan nina Senate Presi-dent Juan Ponce Enrile, nina SenadorGregorio Honasan at Aquilino Pimentel,Deputy Speaker Amelita Villarosa, HouseMajority Leader Arthur Defensor, at mgaopisyal ng Bulacan na sina Gob. Joselito“Jon-jon” Mendoza at Kint. Lorna Silverio,mga alkalde, magsasaka, emepleyado nggobyerno at mga taga-lalawigan.

Kasunod ng kanyang paglagda, ipina-hayag ng Pangulo na paglalaanan ng P150bilyon ng Malacanang ang pagpapatupadnito tungo sa pamamahagi ng 10,853ektarya ng lupaing sakahan sa mga mag-sasakang benepisaryo ng programa sa iba’tibang panig ng bansa.

Ayon sa Pangulo, ang reporma salupaing sakahan ay hindi lamang pagha-hati sa pagmamay-ari ng lupa, kundi dapatitong magpaunlad sa buhay ng mgamagsasaka sa pamamagitan ng pagigingproduktibo ng lupa.

Sa ilalim ng R.A. 9700, P150 bilyon angilalaan ng pamahalaan sa loob ng limangtaon para sa pagpapatupad nito kung saangagamitin ang 40 porsyento sa mga pro-gramang susuporta sa pagiging produktibong mga lupain, samantalang ang 60 por-syento ay gagamitin sa pagbabayad sa mgalupang ipamamahagi sa mga magsasaka.

Ipinaalala rin ng Pangulo na ang bataspara sa reporma sa lupa ay nilagdaan ngkanyang ama na si dating PangulongDiosdado Macapagal noong Agosto 8, 1963sa bayang ito at iyon ang bumasag sa

“kasama system” sa pagsasaka at nagsi-lang sa panibagong uri ng magsasakangnagmamay-ari ng sariling lupa.

Ang “kasama system” ang pamamara-an ng pagsasaka bago ipatupad ang repor-ma sa lupa kung saan ang isang magsa-sakay ay hindi nagmamay-ari ng lupa atsa halip ay nagbibigay o nagbabayad ng50 – 60 porsyento ng kanyang ani sa maya-yamang may-ari ng lupa.

Ayon sa mga matatandang magsasa-kang nakapanayam ng Mabuhay, dito sa

Plaridel, Bulacan napiling ilunsad ni Pa-ngulong Diosdado Macapagal ang kanyangprograma para sa reporma sa lupa noong1963 dahil ang mga sakahan sa bayan itoay itinuring na maunlad hatid ng makaba-gong padaluyan ng tubig o irigasyon nanagmumula sa Bustos Dam at Angat Damna matatagpuan sa lalawigan ng Bulacan.

Sa panayam ng Radio Veritas kay Arso-bispo Angel Lagdameo ng Jaro, Iloilo, sina-bi niya bilang pangulo ng CBCP na isangtagumpay para sa mga magsasaka angnasabing batas.

Ngunit para sa mga magsasakang Bula-kenyo, hindi sila kumbinsido sa mga pa-hayag ni Pangulong Arroyo na uunlad angbuhay ng mga magsasaka dahil sa CARP.

Para kay Anastacio Isidro, 81, ng Pla-ridel, pulitika lamang ang layunin ng pag-lagda ni Gng. Arroyo sa CARP.

“Mas makabuluhan ang land reform sapanahon ni Marcos,” ani Isidro patungkolsa programa sa reporma sa lupa ni datingPangulong Marcos.

Si Isidro ay ang pangalawang magsa-saka sa bansa at sa bayang ito na nagingbenepisaryo ng programa sa reporma salupa ni Marcos noong 1972.

Sinabi naman ni Liza Sacdalan, taga-pangulo ng Central Luzon Organic RiceProducers Association (CLORPA), na ha-los hindi na kumikita ang mga magsasakadahil sa pamamaraan sa pagsasakang naumaasa sa kemikal na abono at pestisidyo.

“Dapat ang isulong nila ay organicfarming dahil puro sa pestisidyo atabonong kemikal lamang mapupunta angkikitain ng magsasaka,” ani Sacdalan.

Iginiit naman nina Joseph Canlas,Melencio Domingo at Agaton Milagrosoang problema sa patuloy na pagliit nglupang sakahan sa Gitnang Luzon nanakakaapekto sa produksyon sa pagkainng lumolobong populasyon ng bansa.

“Paanong tataas ang produksyon kungang lupang sakahan ay lumiliit dahilibinebenta ng magsasaka ang kanilangbukid dahil hindi sila kumikita,” aniDomingo. — Dino Balabo

NGAYON AT NOON — Ipinakikita ni Anastacio “Ka Tacio” Isidro, 81, (itaas, kaliwa)ng Barangay Bagong Silang, Plaridel, Bulacan ang larawan niya at ng kanyang pamilyahabang naglalakad sa kanilang bukid matapos matanggap ang Certificate of Land

Transfer mula kay dating Pangulong Ferdinand E. Marcos noong 1972. Si Ka Tacio ayang ikalawang benepisyaryo ng reporma sa lupang pangsakahan sa bansa. Anglarawang hawak ni Ka Tacio ay kinunang muli ni Dino Balabo (itaas, kanan). — DB