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Nanawagan naman siSabino Mejarito, provincialelection supervisor ngCommission on Elections(Comelec) sa Bulacan, samga botante na magbo-luntaryo para sa ikatata-gumpay ng halalan sa su-sunod na taon. At sinabiniya, na nabawasan angbilang ng mga botante salalawigan ngayon kumparasa dami ng botante noong2007.

Ang mga bagong partidosa Bulacan ay ang Del Pi-lar Party (DPP) na pina-ngungunahan ni datingGob. Josefina “Josie” DelaCruz; ang Kalapian ng mgaKaibigan ng Kaunlaran

MALOLOS — Hinikayat ng mataas naopisyal ng Commission on Elections salalawigan ang mga Bulakenyong botantena makiisa at magboluntaryo para saikatatagumpay ng May 10, 2010 auto-mated elections kung sakali mang ma-tutuloy ang makasaysayang halalan.

Ang nasabing paghikayat sa mgabotante ay upang mabawasan, kundi manay mapigil ang mga pandaraya sa halalan.

Ayon kay Abogado Sabino Mejarito,provincial election supervisor ng Bulacan,magsasagawa ang Comelec ng pulong parasa voters education sa lalawigan saNobyembre 24 at 29.

Ito ay bilang paghahanda sa kanilang

MALOLOS — Sa halip namadagdagan, nabawasanpa ang bilang ng botante saBulacan sa kabila na halosmapuno ang mga tang-gapan ng Commission onElections (Comelec) sa mgabayan at lungsod sa lala-wigan noong huling linggong Oktubre.

Samantala, magkata-liwas naman ang pahayagng mga Bulakenyo hinggilsa muling pagkandidatobilang punong lalawigan nidating Gob. Josefina“Josie” dela Cruz na bi-bigyan daan ng kanyangkapatid na si Gob. Joselito

MALOLOS — May sapat na bigas hanggang Hulyoang may 3.2-Milyong populasyon ng Bulacan sakabila ng mababang ani sanhi ng pananalasa ngmagkakasunod na bagyo.

Batay sa tala ng National Food Authority (NFA)sa Bulacan, umaabot sa 1.2-M kabang bigas ang nasakanilang imbentaryo na nakalagak sa iba’t-ibangbodega sa lalawigan.

Bukod dito, nakahanda na rin ang NFA naumangkat ng bigas sa Vietnam bilang paghahandasa pangangailangan ng bansa sa susunod na taon.

“We have enough rice supply until July 2010,” aniSerafin Manalili, ang manedyer ng NFA Bulacan.

Kabilang sa imbentaryo ng NFA ay ang 500,000sakong palay na natira sa may halos 1-Milyongsakong palay na kanilang napamili sa Bulacan noongnakaraang taon. sundan sa pahina 6

pag-oorganisa ng mga grupong magbobo-luntaryo para sa darating na halalan. Angpulong ng mga magboboluntaryo ayisasagawa naman sa ika-7 ng Disyembre.

“We need volunteers na makakatulongsa pagtuturo sa mga botante ng mgaproseso sa 2010 automated elections, atgagabay sa mga botante sa araw nghalalan,” ani Mejarito.

Sinabi niya sa Mabuhay na bukod sapagtuturo ng proseso ng halalan, kai-langan ding mapataas ang moralidad ngbotante sa pamamagitan ng pagtuturokung ano ang mga dapat at hindi dapatgawin sa panahon ng halalan.

“We have to impart to the voters the

value of volunteerism and that they haveto understand that to be volunteers meansbeing neutral,” ani Mejarito.

Batay sa kanyang paliwanag, ang mgamagboboluntaryo ay nakakatulad ng mgawatcher ng iba’t-ibang partido, subalit sahalip na kapakanan ng partido at kan-didato ang bibigyang pansin ng mga vol-unteer ay ang kapakanan ng botante atbuong proseso ng halalan ang tututukan.

Una rito, ilang opisyal na ng Comelecang nagpahayag na mababawasan angmga pandaraya matapos makaboto angbotante sa 2010 automated elections,ngunit marami rin ang nangangamba saposibilidad ng pag-igting ng pamimili ng

boto at iba pang uri ng pandaraya bagomakaboto ang mga botante sa araw ngmakasaysayang halalan.

Kabilang sa mga makalumang paraanng pandaraya ay ang pamimili ng boto,pananakot, pagkawala ng pangalan ngmga botante sa listahan ng botante o Cer-tified Voters List (CVL).

Ito ang dapat bantayan ng bawatbotante upang matiyak ang katapatan nghalalan sa susunod na taon.

Ang mga pandarayang ito, ay na-gaganap bago bumoto ang botante, ayonkay Zoilo Perlas, direktor ng Comelec saGitnang Luzon.

sundan sa pahina 6

(KKK) ni Mayor AngelCruz ng Hagonoy; at angPartido Malolenyo (P.M.) nidating Interior and LocalGovernment Undersec-retary Carol Mangawang.

Naitatag sa lalawiganang mga bagong partidongpampulitika sa unang pag-kakataon simula noongdekada ‘70.

Ayon sa mga opisyal ngtatlong bagong partido, angkanilang ginawa ay isangdirektang pagsusulong ngsimulain at pangangaila-ngan ng mga Bulakenyo,ngunit may nagsasabi ringito ay bunga ng pagsasanibng mga pangunahing par-

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NI DINO BALABO

MALOLOS — Tatlong lokal na partidongpampulitika ang isinilang sa Bulacan na angpangunahing layunin ay isulong ang ad-yendang lokal.

“Jon-jon” Mendoza.Batay sa tala ng Come-

lec, umabot sa 1,513,389ang bilang ng rehistradongbotante sa lalawigan nangisagawa ang halalang pam-barangay at SangguniangKabataan (S.K.) noongOktubre 2007.

Ito ay higit namang ma-taas sa bilang ng rehis-tradong botante sa lala-wigan sa halalang pam-bansa at panglokal noongMayo 2007 na umabot sa1,431,618.

Ayon kay Sabino Meja-rito, ang provincial election

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DEL PILAR PARTY — Ang paggaya sa sakripisyo niGat Marcelo H. Del Pilar ang layunin ng Del Pilar Party(DPP) ni dating Gob. Josie Dela Cruz. — Dino Balabo

KKK — Layunin ng partidong Kalapian ng mga Kaibiganng Kaunlaran (KKK) ni Mayor Angel Cruz angmaisulong ang kaunlaran ng Hagonoy. — Dino Balabo

PARTIDO MALOLENYO — Kaunlaran at patuloy napagsulong ng Malolos ang layunin ng partido ni datingDILG Undersecretary Carol Mangawang. — Dino Balabo

NFNFA BulacanA Bulacan: May sapat: May sapatna bigas hanggang Hulyona bigas hanggang Hulyo

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EDITORYAL

BoluntarismoPARANG sirang plaka na ang Commission on Elections (Comelec) sakanilang panawagan para sa pakikiisa ng sambayanang Pilipino saikatatagumpay ng makasaysayang automated elections sa susunod nataon. Paulit-ulit nilang sinasabi sa bawat talakayan at maging sa panayamng mga mamamahayag na hindi nila makakayang maisagawa nangmaayos, matapat at mapayapa ang darating na halalan kung walangkooperasyon ng bawat botante.

Para sa Comelec, nasa kamay ng taumbayan ang susi sa tagumpayng halalang gagamitan sa unang pagkakataon ng Precinct Count OpticalScanner (PCOS) machines. Ang pananaw na ito ay totoo, dahil angnakakahalintulad ng halalan ay ang pagbebenta ng produkto na kungwalang bibili ay mawawalan ng halaga. Kung walang boboto sa halalan,o kung hindi makakaboto ang mga botante sa Mayo 10, 2010 sanhi ngkalituhan, kaguluhan at iba pang dahilan, ang makakatulad ng daratingna halalan ay luma at panis na paninda.

Dahil dito, patuloy ang panawagan ng Comelec sa mamamayan namagboluntaryo, makiisa, at tumulong sa pagpapaliwanag ng mga prosesosa darating na halalan, o kaya ay hikayatin ang kapwa na bumoto.

Samantala, ang hindi nabibigyang pansin ng Comelec ay ang mgakatanungan sa sarili nitong kredibilidad. Kabilang diyan ang pagbili ngmga makinang gagamitin sana sa computerization ng halalan noong 2004,ang “Hello Garci” scandal noong 2005, ang milagro ni Abogado LintangBedol noong 2007, at marami pang ibang iskandalo’t kontrobersya.

Aminin man ng Comelec o hindi, ang mga insidenteng nabanggit ayilan lamang sa mga bagay na pumipigil sa maraming Pilipino ngayon naibigay ang kanilang kakayahan, panahon, at maging ang sarili para sapaglilingkod sa bayan. Sa isipan ng marami, nagagamit lamang sila sakabuktutang dinisenyo ng ilan para sa pansariling kapakanan.

Hindi madaling baguhin ang pananaw ng tao lalo na kung wala silangnakikitang pag-asa ng pagbabago, pagtutuwid at pagkulong sa mgagumawa ng kamalian sa nagdaang panahon. Ngunit hindi naman sapatang mga kamalian sa nagdaang panahon upang ipagwalang bahala natinang pagkakataong inihahain ng isang bagong umaga. Isipin natin, na bakaito na ang simula. Baka ito na ang daan patungo sa tunay na pagbabagong lipunang ating ginagalawan. Baka ito na ang pagkakataon natinghinihintay para magkaisa at maging responsableng mamamayan.

Hindi pa tayo sigurado kung ito na nga. Pero, iisa ang tiyak: walangpinipiling pagkakataon ang pagbabago. Ito ay nasa ating kamay. Kunggusgustuhin natin ang pagbabago ngayon, magagawa natin. Maaaringhindi natin mabago ang buong bansa, ngunit ang ating sarili ay mababagonatin, at iyon ang simula ng higit na mas malaking pagbabago.

Sa diwang ito, nais naming ipaalala sa bawat isa ang matandangkaugaliang Pilipino na “bayanihan” na ngayon ay kinakatawan ng katagang“boluntarismo.” Ang “bayanihan” ay pagsasama-sama ng datingmagkakahiwalay na lakas sa iisang direksyon, katulad ng inilalarawan ngpagbuhat ng bahay o kaya ay ang pagtutulungan sa gawaing bukid noongunang panahon.

Ang “boluntarismo” naman ay nangangahulugan na ito ay nagmumulasa personal na pagsang-ayon, katulad ng pagsang-ayon sa pagtulong sapagbuhat ng bahay o pagtulong sa gawaing bukid. Kung ang bawat isa saatin ay magboboluntaryo na makiisa sa “bayanihan” para saikatatagumpay ng darating na halalan, matitiyak nating ito ay magigingmalinis, maisasantabi ang dayaan, at muli nating mabibigyang buhay angkabayanihang ipinakita ng ating mga ninunong nabuwal sa mga digmaannoong huling bahagi ng 1800 at dekada ‘40; at sa Edsa noong 1986.

Kaibigan, ito na ang pagkakataon sa pagbabago. Simulan natin itosa ating sarili. Magboluntaryo at kumilos tayo para sa ikatatagumpay ng2010 automated elections.

Promdi DINO BALABO

Mga milagro sa MalolosMAKASAYSAYAN ang Lungsodng Malolos dahil doon iniluwalang unang demokratikong re-publika sa buong Asya matapositong pagtibayin ng Kongreso ngMalolos ang noong Enero 1899.Ngunit sa kasalukuyan ay na-babalot ang kabisera ng lalawi-gan ng Bulacan ng mga kuwen-tong may halong “milagro” tuladng “Lonely District” ng Malolos,pamamaril sa production assis-tant ng isang mamamahayag, atisang kakandidatong “umibig sabading.”

***Ayon sa Commission on Elec-

tions, nakahanda na ang LoneDistrict ng Malolos mataposmapagtibay ang batas hinggildito noong Mayo kahit hindinapirmahan ni Pangulong GloriaMacapagal Arroyo.

Sa kabila nito ay parang wa-lang gustong kumandidato bilangKongresista ng Lone District ngMalolos, dahil daw sa nakabinbinpa sa Korte Suprema ang isa pe-

tisyon laban dito na kumuwesti-yon kung ang pagkalikha ng LoneDistrict ay ayon sa Saligang Ba-tas. Sabi tuloy ng mga taga Ma-lolos, ‘di na Lone District ang Ma-lolos, “Lonely District” na daw.

***Noong Pebrero ay nagpakalat

ng mga polyeto si dating Gob.Josie Dela Cruz bilang pagtutolsa paglikha ng “Lonely District”ng Malolos.

Ngunit habang nalalapit anghalalan ay parang natahimik angkanyang grupo.

***Isa sa mga kinuwestiyon hing-

gil sa “Lonely District” ng Ma-lolos ay ang diumano’y kakula-ngan nito sa populasyon. Iti-natakda kasi ng batas na angpopulasyon sa isang distrito aymay bilang na 250,000.

Ngunit, ayon kay Mayor Da-nilo Domingo, sobra pa sa250,000 ang populasyon ng Ma-lolos batay sa projected popula-tion ng lungsod.

***Ipinagtaka rin ni Domingo

kung bakit ang populasyon ngibang bayan sa unang distrito ngBulacan tulad ng Hagonoy, Pa-ombong, Bulakan, Pulilan atCalumpit ay tumaas, samanta-lang ang populasyon ng Malolosay halos hindi nadagdagan.

Sabi ni Father Pedring ngLeighbytes Computer Center saMalolos, “baka epektibo angpopulation control program ngMalolos.”

***Ayon pa kay Mayor Domingo,

ang Malolos ang may pinakama-raming subdivision sa mga bayansa lalawigan, ngunit halos hindinadagdagan ang populasyon nitona parang walang nanganganakna babae sa Lungsod.

“Baka, nakunan at hindi na-tuloy ang panganganak,” ani Fa-ther Pedring

***Hinggil naman sa kaso ng

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Buntot Pagé PERFECTO V. RAYMUNDO

Ayaw kumampi sa Lakas-KampiMUKHANG tanggap na ng Mala-cañang na hindi nakakabuti angpag-e-endorso o madikit man la-mang ang pangalan ni PangulongGloria Arroyo sa napipili nilangkandidato lalung-lalo na sa pag-ka-pangulo at pagkapangalawangpangulo ng bansa.

Minabuti kasi ng adminis-trasyong Arroyo na bitiwan naang kani-kanilang mga sensi-tibong posisyon sa Lakas- Kampi-CMD at ipaubaya na lamang samga nakababata ang direktangpagpapatakbo ng partido.

Pinangunahan na nga ni Pa-ngulong Arroyo ang pagbibitiwbilang chairman ng Lakas-Kampi-CMD at nagsisilbing pre-sident emeritus na lamang. Su-sunod nang magbibitiw sa ka-nilang mga posisyon sa partidosina Executive Secretary Edu-ardo Ermita, Presidential Ad-viser on Political Affairs GabrielClaudio at Department of Inte-rior and Local Government(DILG) Secretary Ronaldo Puno.

Hindi nga ba’t kaliwa’tkanang depeksyon ang mara-ranasan ngayon ng partido La-

kas-Kampi-CMD? Karamihan sakanilang miyembro ay nagsi-silipat na sa kalabang partidongNacionalista Party (NP) at Lib-eral Party (LP).

Kasabay ng laban ni MannyPacquiao at pag-aanunsiyo niSenador Chiz Escudero ang kan-yang plano sa kandidatura, maydeklarasyon ding gagawin si dat-ing pangulong Fidel V. Ramos saNobyembre 15. Nakalalamang naang ipapahayag ni FVR ay hindipapabor at nahati ang sarilingpartidong Lakas-Kampi-CMD.

At tila may ketong na iniiwa-san, ay nahirapang makahanapang Lakas-Kampi-CMD ng maka-katambal ni Secretary Gilbert‘Gibo’ Teodoro sa pampangu-luhan. Lahat ng nililigawanmaging bise presidente, mapa-administrasyon man o mapa-oposisyon ay hindi mapasang-ayon kahit nasa likod ni Gibo angbuong puwersa ng gobyerno.

Mula kay Senate MajorityFloor Leader, Sen. Miguel Zubirina nagsasabing marami pa siyanggustong gawin sa Senado at batapa siya para mag-ambisyon ng

mataas na posisyon. Si SenadorBong Revilla, na ang idinadahilanay ang pagkakapangako sa kan-yang ama na tatapusin ang ter-mino sa Senado.

Nariyan din sina Local WaterUtilities Administrator ProsperoPichay, dating Senador TitoSotto, Gob. Vilma Santos-Rectoat Senadora Loren Legarda napawang tumangging makatambalni Gibo Teodoro.

Hanggang sa mapapayag dinsa wakas si dating Optical MediaBoard (OMB) Chairman EduManzano na tanggapin ang pa-giging bise presidente ni Teodoronoong Biyernes, ika-13 ng Nob-yembre.

Pagkakataon nga naman, sadinami-dami ng petsa ay Fridaythe 13th pa. Tumalab kaya sakanilang tambalan ang kasa-bihang kamalasan ang dala ngnaturang petsa.

Isa lang ang makatitiyak tayo,hindi na makakatakbo sa pagkabise presidente sa nalalapit nahalalan si Pangulong Arroyo.Hindi na bakante ang posisyong

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Kastigo BIENVENIDO A. RAMOS

Kanlungan ng krimenANG halalan, kung idinaraos ngmalinis, payapa at maayos, aypinakamahalaga at mabisangmekanismo sa pananatili ngisang demokratikong pama- ha-laan. Na ang nanghahalal aytunay na masasabing “tinig ngbayan, na tinig din ng Diyos.”

Ngunit sa pagdumi ng pu-litika—sa pagsisimula pa lamangng pamamahala ng mga Pilipino,pagkaraang pagkalooban ngAmerika ng pagsasarili noong1945, ang halalan, sa halip namaging mekanismo ng demok-rasya sa mga reporma sa pag-unlad, ay naging arenang ma-dugo—sa pag-aagawan sa ka-pangyarihan.

Sa demokrasya, isinasaad naang kapangyarihan ay nasa ka-may ng mamamayan, kapang-yarihang pumili ng mga karapat-dapat na pinunong uugit sagobyerno, mahigpit na magpa-patupad ng mga batas, at mag-gagawad ng tunay na kataru-ngan—nang walang takot atpinapaboran.

Sa halip, ang halalan ay na-ging madugong larangan ng

mahigpit na tunggalian, na angnagwagi ay naghahati-hati sanaging bunga ng tagumpay,gaya ng kasabihang “to the vic-tor belongs the spoil.” Na nag-luwal ng sistemang tayu-tayo (pa-tronage system), at lumikha ngpagbabago—pero pagbabagongtungo sa kapariwaraan ng ma-mamayang Pilipino!

Naging kasangkapan at kanlunganKARANIWAN na lang slogan ngmga pulitiko ang programang“para sa interes ng bayan,” “parasa mahihirap.” Ito ang konseptong mga programa de gobyerno nghalos lahat ng lapiang pampu-litika.

Pero ang totoo, at napatu-nayan na natin, ang halalan aynaging kasangkapan lang upangmangibabaw ang mayayaman,otangkilik ng malalaking negos-yong lokal at dayuhan—negos-yong legal o ilegal. Sa tatlongmagkakahiwalay na sangay ngpamahalaan, ang lehislatura obatasan, ang masasabing pina-kamakapangyarihan pero maymabigat na reponsabilidad sa

maayos na takbo ng gobyerno atng bansa. Sa mga batas na gi-nagawa ng dalawang kapulunganng kongreso—nakasalalay angikabubuti o ikasasama ng isangpamamahala—na may direktangepekto sa buhay ng mamamayan.Kaya nang pagtibayin ng Kong-reso ang Batas sa Oil Deregula-tion, (na minadaling ipatupad niPres. Fidel V. Ramos), parangkasulatan sa hatol na kamatayan,ang inakda—na ngayon natinnapatunayan ang kapinsalaangidinulot sa buhay ng mga Pi-lipino ng Oil Deregulation Law.

Sa kabilang dako, ang batas saparusang bitay, na may dalawangtaong pinagtalunan sa Kongresobago napagtibay, sa sandalingipinatupad ay ipinarebuka na niGng. Macapagal-Arroyo.

Isang masamang batas naayaw rebukahin—ang Oil De-regulation Law. Isang mabutingbatas, na di pa nagtatagal naipinatututupad—ang ParusangKamatayan—ay ipinarebuka na.Ang resulta: KRISIS. Walangpatumanggang pagtataas ng

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NOBYEMBRE 13 - 19, 2009 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 3

Regarding Henry

HENRYLITO D. TACIO

Never wait for tomorrow“IF I had only known it was ourlast walk in the rain, I’d keep youout for hours in the storm. Iwould hold your hand, like a life-line to my heart and underneaththe thunder we’d be warm. If Ihad only known it was our lastwalk in the rain.”

Those famous lines weretaken from “If I Had OnlyKnown,” sang by Reba McEntireand was featured in the movie,‘8 Seconds.’ Actually, the lyricswere from the pen of JanaStanfield. “Since I didn’t knowmuch about writing melodies yet,I took the unfinished lyrics to themost talented songwriter I knew,Craig Morris, and asked if hecould craft something beautifulfrom my simple words,” Stanfielddisclosed.

Oftentimes, there is always astory behind the song. So, whydid Stanfield write the lyrics inthe first place? Actually, the songwas in remembrance of her great-aunt Dorothy whom she consid-ered her angel when she was 14.

In the United States, 15-year-old kids can get their own driver’slicense if they have successfullycompleted Driver’s Education.Most of Stanfield’s 15-year-oldfriends got their driver’s licenseand she was looking forward fora summer riding with her friends.

But Mr. Stanfield would notlet daughter go with them unlesstheir mothers drove them. Janadid not defy her father so shestayed home during the summeruntil her great-aunt Dorothycame into her rescue. Dorothywas a bookkeeper out at DocStewart Chevrolet in Texas andshe asked Jana if she was inter-ested to work with her.

Jana accepted the offer andshe worked with her and thethree secretaries of the company.“Those women treated me sobig,” she recalled. “Most morn-ings, they complimented me onmy outfits, playfully saying theyhated me because I could eatthree chocolate donuts for break-

fast and stay skinny. They talkedwith me and asked what Ithought about deep stuff like des-tiny, religion and politics. Ilearned all the important grown-up stuff, like how to curve yourfingers when you reach down intoa file, so you won’t drive a stapleunder your fingernail.

“The best part of my job wasthat after I finished my work, Icould play on the typewriter,teaching myself how to type.Since I wanted to be a writersomeday, my dad said typingwould be important.”

By the end of the summer,Jana saved enough money to buyall her own clothes for school. “Istarted high school feeling differ-ent in a real good way – older andstronger and more confident,”she said. “The most amazingthing happened. For the firsttime in my life, I became popularat my school. I barely got mydriver’s license before I gotHomecoming Court, StudentCouncil, and then the honor thatmeant so much to me after thoselonely days, Class Favorite.”

Stanfield was already living inNashville when she came to knowthat her aunt was dying of can-cer. Before she died, she talkedwith her over the phone. “I toldher how much I loved her. Ithanked her for reaching out tome when I needed somebody Ithanked her for always reachingout to me when I needed some-body. I thanked her for alwaysseeing the best in everyone shecared about. I didn’t want tohang up. I wanted to hang on. Iwanted that moment to last. Iwanted to stop the clock and goback to spend more time withher.”

Here’s another memorablelines from the song: “If I had onlyknown it was my last night byyour side, I’d pray a miraclewould stop the dawn. And whenyou smiled at me, I would lookinto your eyes and make sure you

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JOYCE Kilmer probably neverimagined it, but if she is alive to-day, she might say that trees areeven lovelier now, because moneycan now grow on trees, literallythat is. And the wonderful thingis, money grows on trees nowa-days not just once, but thrice andI do not mean that in a figura-tive sense.

Congressman Rodolfo“Ompong” Plaza of Agusan DelSur is not only a lawmaker, he isalso a money maker even as hesleeps, and that is because he hasplanted thousands of trees in hisorchards, trees that are growingin value every day even as hesleeps.

Mr. Joseph Reynolds is notonly a trader of goods, he is alsoa planter of trees and that is pre-cisely where he gets his goods totrade, from the forests that hehas revived out of denuded moun-tains. Just like CongressmanPlaza, he too makes money evenas he sleeps, from the trees thathe has planted.

Both Plaza and Reynolds haveprobably made their own compu-tations as to how much moneythey would make from theirtrees, but perhaps it was onlylater on when they realized thatthey could make money from

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these trees not just once, butthrice.

The debt-for-nature (DFN)swap is a scheme that is not new.It has been around many years.What is new is the new found re-alization that it is a scheme thatwe should have adopted manyyears ago as a means to pay forour national debt, instead of al-locating more than a third of ourbudget for our national debt ser-vice.

The clean developmentmechanism (CDM) is relativelynew, but what is even newer nowis our realization that it is a realmeans of making money, by sim-ply growing tress that could beused as a basis for claiming car-bon credits that would convertinto real money, aside from themoney made from the incomefrom the trees and from the DFNscheme.

Making money is already verygood, but saving money on top ofthat is even better. What is evenbetter than that is to save humanlives that could not be valued inmoney terms. During the lastfloods, we realized that peoplewould not only die in the floods,more would even die because ofthe diseases that came about be-

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Cebu Calling FR. ROY CIMAGALA

Gap between morality and legality

Forward to Basics FR. FRANCIS B. ONGKINGCO

Marian momentsMORNINGS weren’t really herbest moments. Sliding off her bedlike a snail –more like a slug– wasa horrendous effort to get up ontime. She was up but not reallyout of bed, since the greater partof her body –except for her knees–was still hugging the bed’s widthand height.

“Ugh!” Francine groaned, “Ihate mornings!” She managed todetach herself from the bed’smagnetic pull. She straightenedup herself, groggily glanced at animage of Mary on the wall oppo-site her bed and –almostrobotically– mumbled her morn-ing offering prayer.

Her first zombie steps weretowards the kitchen. [BEEP!]She turned on the coffee maker.She opened the cupboard andreached out for her favorite mugthat had the pink laced decoratedphrase: “Think GOD and then,only then, think BEAUTIFUL!”

The scent of the chestnut fla-vored coffee began to permeatethe air. Francine was automati-

cally drawn to the CD player inher living room. Some musicwouldn’t hurt to create whateverambience. But she had secondthoughts, and opted for a moresilent setting.

Her house had a small patiothat had a small garden arrange-ment of ordinary orchids andsome almost wilted African vio-lets. In the middle, not exactly, –since she was opposed to perfectsymmetry–, but more off-cen-tered, was a simple kawai foun-tain basin that her mom erectedmany years ago. Its random trick-ling sound paired pretty well thechirping birds that bathed in itscool waters.

[SNAP!] She flicked herlighter to light her cigarette.“One…,” she counted mentally.This was the first of the ten sticksfor the day. That was quite a fitconsidering that she used to fin-ish off a pack and a half before.She took a deep reflective puff asshe slowly closed both eyes. Thatwould surely wake her up. The

smoke of cigarette rose to the air.It embraced not only her patioand the garden but also herthoughts.

* * *Angel Gabriel lingered around

the room where Mary was pray-ing. Perhaps, he could lend her ahand in the kitchen or the laun-dry. Then he noticed something,“Mary, where is all that smokecoming from?”

Mary only smiled and saidcalmly, “It must be from theneighbor who forgot to put off thefireplace.”

* * *[PEEP!] The coffee maker

sounded that the brew was ready.Francine balanced the cigaretteon the table’s edge. She smiled toherself feeling delighted at thatrebellious gesture that wouldhave made her mom scream offher head.

As she served herself the cof-fee, she couldn’t help miss hermother despite the fast seven

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Depthnews JUAN L. MERCADO

Skills bleed“HISTORY has no present, onlya past rushing into the future,”John F. Kennedy once warned. Tomark the past, University of SanCarlos and Filipinos of Hawaiipresented, this week, “Mabuhaywith Aloha”.

This documentary recalls thearrival, a century ago, of the first15 sakadas in Hawaii’s sugarcane fields. That exodus triggereda “rush into the future”. Today,some 3,752 Filipinos leave daily,in search for jobs in 190 coun-tries. More than 1.376 millionflew or sailed out last year.

“Filipinos now make up 23percent of Hawaii’s population,”multi-awarded TV producerEmme Tomimbang notes. Herfather was one of the sakadasfrom Siquijor. The Hawaii Fili-pino Centennial Commission andU.S.C.’s Cebuano Studies Center,produced the film. It excerpts 50interviews with survivingsakadas and families, in Oahuand Kauai by U.S.C.’s Dr. ErlindaKintanar-Alburo.

The landscape has radicallychanged. There were 7.63 millionFilipinos when Cebuano sakadas

sailed for Hawaii. Today, Filipi-nos number 93.2 million. Theymake up the second largest groupof U.S. immigrants (1.07 million).

Composed of farm hands,Hawaii’s sakadas constituted “abrawn drain”. In contrast, al-most 40 percent of Filipino emi-grants to the U.S. had a collegeeducation.

Honolulu Star Bulletin car-toonist Corky Trinidad and East-West professor Belinda Aquinoexemplify this “skills bleed”.When Trinidad passed away lastyear, his cartoons were syndi-cated from Sao Paolo to Co-penhagen.

Alburo analyzes the tug-and-pull on “actors in a dramaticchapter in Philippine history notin our textbooks.” On one sidewere recruiting plantations, des-perate for workers. Writers, onthe other side, “used the press todiscourage sakadas.”

Between 1909-1934, Cebu be-came a major recruiting point forthe Visayas . The Hawaiian SugarPlanters’ Association publishedthe Manual for the ProgressiveLaborer in Ilokano and Cebuano-

Visayan . Ilokanos and Bisayansoutnumbered Tagalogs then.

The Manual publicized facili-ties such as school houses, hospi-tals, etc., plus it “package”: freepassage to Hawaii; three years ofwork at $36 a month for men and$24 for women; housing, medicalservices, free wood fuel, water —and return fare. Chapter Threeseems written for OFWs of 2009.It is titled: “Work and SendingMoney Home”. Will padalas orremittances from OFWs exceed$18.3 billion this year? Abangan.

Separately, U.S.C. professoremeritus Resil Mojares analyzed150 newspaper articles of the pe-riod. The critical featuresswamped “the positive items at aratio of 8:2”

A 1925 Bagong Kusog edito-rial, for example, has a two part-cartoon. On the left, recruitsboard a ship with happy faces.“Hawaii is paradise for the Fili-pino laborer”, the caption reads.

On the right, the same work-ers return looking bone-weary.“We departed young and returnold and sick!”

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Money grows on trees

THESE are two different reali-ties. It’s good to know each ofthem� —their nature and prop-erties� —and how they are re-lated to each other. There’s a lotto gain from this knowledge, es-pecially the light we need tocruise through our increasinglycomplicated times.

Morality is the objective qual-ity of our human acts, startingwith the internal ones like ourthoughts and intentions, insofaras these bring us or not to ourproper end. Thus, our humanacts can be either morally goodor bad.

Morality covers everythingthat can be called as a human act,one that is done knowingly andfreely, and thus one for which weare responsible. The morality ofour actions, good or bad, is mostclear to the extent that ourknowledge, consent and respon-sibility for such actions are alsoat their fullest.

That’s in theory and in prin-

ciple. In practice and in real life,things are a lot messier, since as-sessing oneœ knowledge, consentand responsibility for his actionsis a very dynamic affair, oftenshrouded in mystery and beset byignorance and confusion by thepersons concerned.

In the end, morality dependson oneœ self-knowledge and onGod, who is the Creator of allthings and continues to governeverything with his Providence.Thus, we can readily see howimportant it is to have good self-knowledge and clear and deepconvictions about religion, ourrelation to God.

Weak and vague in this fun-damental aspect, we may as wellset off a course that later willturn to pure chaos and anarchy.

Thus, morality is based on ournature and dignity as personsand ultimately as children of God.It depends on our core ideas andbeliefs about who and what wereally are. These will ultimatelydefine what our nature and dig-

nity is, who we really are.Legality, on the other hand, is

a human construct made to pro-mulgate and determine the con-tent of morality. Its purpose is toregulate our life in society so thatwe can attain our common good.

Since our common good al-ways include not only the mate-rial, social and political, but alsothe spiritual and personal, legal-ity cannot get away from moral-ity.

Legality can only have a verylimited scope compared to the oneof morality It cannot promulgate,determine and regulate every-thing in the moral law. But it can-not stay away from morality. Ithas to be the moon to morality’ssun. It can only reflect and workfor morality, never against.

Thus, we can have the follow-ing principle to follow: no actmorally bad can be sanctioned bycivil law, and no act morally nec-essary can be prohibited. But notall morally good acts can be regu-

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Kakampi mo ang Batas ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO

Apelyido lang ng ina ang puwedeng gamitinTANONG: Magkakaroon ba ng prob-lema kung ang magiging anak ko aysa akin ipangalan dahil hindi namanpo kami kasal ng kanyang ama? Atkung sa akin po siya ipapangalanpuwede po ba na ang middle name korin ang gamitin niya? Ang sabi po kasing iba parang lalabas daw po kasingmagkapatid kami, ganun po ba ‘yun o‘yun lang po ang akala ng iba? Dahilako naman po ang pipirma sa gaga-wing birth certificate ng bata bilangkanyang ina. Maraming salamat poand God bless...

–[email protected]: Maraming salamat po sa e-

mail na ito. Sa ilalim ng Family Codeof the Philippines, maliwanag ang na-kasaad doon na ang mga batang isi-nilang sa mga magulang na hindi kasalsa isa’t isa ay ituturing na nasa ilalimng natatanging karapatan (o exclusiveparental authority) ng ina. Dahil di-yan, nakasaad din sa nasabing batasna ang mga batang ito ay dapat isunodsa apelyido ng ina. Kung isusunod angapelyido ng mga batang ito sa apelyidong kanilang ama, ituturing na ito ayisang palsipikasyon sa isang opisyal nadokumento, na maaaring maging ba-tayan ng kasong kriminal pagdatingng araw. Sa mga alituntunin kasi nga-yon, ang mga ospital, klinik at mgaduktor o iba pang mga nagpa-anak ngbata ay binibigyan ng tungkulin naipagamit ang apelyido ng ama bilangapelyido ng bata kung maliwanag naang mga magulang ng bata ay kasalsa isa’t isa. Ngayon, isusunod lamangng nasabing mga ospital, klinik at mgaduktor ang apelyido ng bata sa apel-yido ng ama kung sasabihin ng ina ong ama na legal na kasal ang nasabingina at ama, kahit na hindi nga sila ka-sal. Ito ay maliwanag na palsipikasyonat hindi magiging maganda sa bata atsa magulang na gumawa ng kasinu-ngalingan at palsipikasyon. Sa isyu ngmiddle name ng batang ‘di kasal angmga magulang, maliwanag ang FamilyCode: obligadong gamitin ng bata angapelyido ng ina. Ngayon, kung obliga-dong gamitin ng bata ang apelyido ngina sa kanyang birth certificate, wa-lang dahilan kung bakit hindi namanniya pupuwedeng gamitin ang middle

Buhay Pinoy

MANDY CENTENO

Miguel ‘na-cotto-ngan’ni Manny Pacquiao

Sikat na “fire power” magiging pukpukanNitong mga matso na Cotto at PacmanHinagpis ni Hudas. ang naging bakbakanAy atras-abante katulad ng “fire ply.”Si Pacquiao ang ilaw umiikot ditoAy ang gamu-gamo na tulad ni CottoAla-Michael Jackson mga “foot work” nito“Thriller” na talagang umaatikabo.Sa “first and second rounds” ito ay palitanNitong mga suntok wari ay tantyahanKung ang mga banat ay makakayananKaya bara-bara at naging subukan.Sa ikatlong yugto, wari ay tiyak naAng target ni Manny sa ulo at pangaMatinding kaliwa binitiwan niyaSumemplang si Miguel apat naging paa.At sa “fourth round” naman ay inumpisahanAng ala-F.P.J. na kaliwa’t kananMuling napatumba itong Puerto RicanNakatikim siya ng 1,2,3 . . . bilang.Tulad ng Motolite, “express delivery”Itong mga hataw idol na si MannyHanda sa labanan, wari ay SamuraiBida ang Henebra, ang tagay ni Pare.Sa sabak ng “round nine” dito’y binilang koAng “left and right” bira, arangkada’y todoSiyam ang tumama sa mukha at uloNa “save by the bell” lang si Mang Ige Cotto.Si Miguel ay groggy sa round na pang-doseSinangga ng muhka, rapido ni MannyDito ay naawa si Reperi KennyNiyakap si Cotto, “Okey ka ba pare?”Lumuhod si Pacman, pinasalamatanPalaging kakampi, Si BRO mapagmahalHabang nagdarasal, siya’y nilapitanYumakap si Cotto,mukha ay duguan.Bugbog sarado pa taga Puerto RicoAt kaawa-awa naging lagay nitoNagbubunyi naman mga PilipinoLaking karangalan na nakamit dito.Ito’y pampito na sa mga koronaSa “seven weight classes” kay Manny talaga“Best pound for pound boxer” sa buong mundo naSi Miguel na champion na COTTOngan niya.Muling pinamalas ang diterminasyonDisiplina’t sikap natatanging PinoyLubhang mahalaga noon hanggang ngayonKanyang pananalig sa ‘ting Panginoon.

name o middle initial ng ina. Hindi na-man maaaring magkaroon ng pagka-kamali na ang ina at ang kanyanganak ay magkapatid, sapagkat ma-liwanag naman ang ibang impor-masyon sa birth certificate na magpa-pakitang sila nga ay tunay na mag-ina.

Crimes against public interestTANONG: Good day to all of you! Iam here once again to ask legal ques-tions. Here are my questions: 1) Whatcrime does a barangay official commitwhen he appoints his close relativesas lupon and tanod? 2) Do I need tohave a competent authority to orderour barangay officials to make pay-ment of due government obligations(non-payment of rental of place) be-fore I can file a violation for Art. 221of the revised penal code? 3) Whatcrime is committed by a spouse of thebarangay chairman if the said spouseis appearing in his place during abarangay inquiry from private indi-viduals? 4) Can anybody file a com-plaint for crimes committed againstpublic interest like perjury and viola-tions made by a public official? Thanksagain in advance for the enlighten-ment! Good day and God Bless! –[email protected]

Sagot: Thank you too for this e-mail. Here are our answers: to the firstquestion, the appointing authority ina barangay is the barangay captain,but his appointments must be con-curred in by a majority of the mem-bers of the barangay legislative bodyknown as “sangguniang barangay”.Under the Local Government Code of1991, or Republic Act 7160, there isno prohibition for a barangay captainto appoint his close relatives as luponand tanod. This means that a ba-rangay captain can appoint anyone,even his close relatives, as tanods andlupon members. The only prohibitionthat is found in the law against thebarangay captain is with respect to hisappointment of his relatives within thefourth civil degree (or up to his firstcousins) to the positions of barangaytreasurer and secretary. No relative ofthe barangay captain up to this fourthcivil degree can be appointed by him

as a barangay treasurer or secretary.With respect to the second question,let us make it clear what Art. 221 ofthe Revised Penal Code is all about.Under this law, it is a crime for anypublic officer who is under obligationto make payment from governmentfunds in his possession to fail to makesuch payment. It is also a crime underthis provision for any public officerwho, being ordered by competent au-thority to deliver any property in hiscustody or under his administration,refuses to deliver such property. It isevident, therefore, that there is noneed for any “competent authority” toorder barangay officials to make pay-ment of any government obligationthat has become due before they canbe held liable under Art. 221. It isenough that the public officer is un-der obligation to pay and that he hasin his government funds which he re-fuses to use as payment. To establishthis refusal to pay, however, it wouldbe necessary for the obligor or the per-son who wants to be paid to write andsend first a demand letter to the pub-lic officer, asking him to pay within acertain period of time. If the period oftime given to pay lapses without anysuch payment being made, the publicofficer can already be sued under Art.221 of the Revised Penal Code. To thethird question, the crime committedby the spouse of a barangay captainwho appears in place of the barangaycaptain if he or she is absent is graftand corruption, under Section 3 (e) ofRepublic Act 3019, the Anti-Graft andCorrupt Practices Act. This is graftand corruption because the spouse ofa barangay captain is actually causingundue injury to the persons involvedin a barangay hearing by his or herappearance, which is not authorizedby law. On the fourth question, crimesagainst public interest like perjury andviolations committed by a governmentofficial of his duties and responsibili-ties constitute public crimes. Thismeans that they can be commencedand prosecuted by anyone who knowspersonally the commission of thecrime, even if no right of theirs wasviolated or damaged.

Napapanahon LINDA R. PACIS

Magandang balita ng Pag-ibig Fund (1)UPANG makatulong sa mga biktimang baha dala ng bagyong Ondoy, ‘dinag-atubiling gumawa ng programaang Home Development MutualFund o ang Pag-ibig Fund ng pag-bibigay ng calamity loan at 3 monthsmoratorium sa pagbabayad ng utang.

Ayon kay Florentino Yumul,Branch head ng Region 3 na naka-kasakop sa Malolos, Cabanatuan atBaler, ang dalawang programa aytumutukoy na mapagaan ang pa-sanin ng mga utang pabahay. Una,tutulungan ng Pag-ibig ang mgamiyembro nito na makautang ng ca-lamity loan at pangalawa, di munasisingilin ng tatlong buwan ang hulogsa housing loan.

Sa calamity loan, ang pinauutangay karaniwang P18,000 sa mga mi-yembro na nakabayad na ng 24 bu-wanang kontribusyon at 80% ng to-tal na kontribusyon nito.

Noong ika-6 ng Nobyembre, angnatanggap na aplikasyon ay 27,148,na-approved ang 22,018, subalitpatuloy na tatanggap ang Pag-ibig ngaplikasyon hanggang Disyembre 24.Sa loob ng isang buwan, naipautangna ang halagang P408.3 milyon napuwedeng bayaran sa dalawang taon.

Samantalang, sa tatlong buwangmoratorium ay naaprubahan ang 400aplikasyon noong Nobyembre 6.‘Yung mga nakapagbayad na ngbuwan ng Setyembre ay pahingamuna ang pagbabayad mula Oktubrehanggang Disyembre.

Si Ginoong Yumul ay galing sa Na-tional Irrigation Administration(NIA) bago siya pumasok sa Pag-ibigmula pa ng itatag ang nasabingahensiya. Ikinuwento naman ni Gng.Lucy Ramos, hepe ng processing, bill-ing at collection na na-istranded sila

ng asawa niya sa North Luzon Ex-pressway. Galing sila sa isang kasalansa Cainta, Rizal at mabuti nakaalissila kaagad bago tumaas ang tubigngunit sa kasamang palad ay inabotnaman sila ng baha sa NLEX kaya’tinihinto na lang nila ang kotse atnaghintay na humupa ang tubighanggang kinabukasan.

Barangay Batia, BocaueISA pang magandang balita ang ma-husay na pagpapaayos sa BarangayBatia, Bocaue, Bulacan ng kanilangkapitan na si Juanito Enriquez. Nag-patayo siya ng mga street lamp na pa-rang pang-siyudad at ang mga kalyeay nilagyan ng mga pangalan. Kaya’tkahit maglakad sa gabi ay maliwanagna ang dati rati’y walang kuryentenglugar na ilaw de gas lamang angnakaliliwanag sa mga bahay na nga-yon ay mga yari na sa modernongistilo ng mga bungalow at two-storeybuilding.

Ayon kay Urbano S. Concepcion,barangay secretary, ang BarangayBatia ay may humigit kumulang na18,000. May apat na purok ang Batia:Panluwasan, Gitna, Likod Gubat atRodriguez.

Inilahad ni Concepcion ang ka-nilang mga proyekto sa Mabuhaygaya ng 1) flood control at pag-aayosng drainage canal; 2) rehabilitasyonat pagsesemento ng mga kalye sa Ba-rangay; 3) street lights (15 poste naang itinayo sa sito Rodriguez); 4)opisina ng mga Tanod; 5) Day Carecenter at health Center.

Ang Barangay Batia ay pinangu-ngunahanay ni Kapitan Juanito En-riquez ng mga kagawad na sinaVirgilio Valentin, Alberto Gonzales,Roman A. Roxas, Jose A. Bautista,

Cornelio S. Castillo, Reynaldo N.Galvez at Frederick Cristobal.

Bukod sa mga proyekto ay iki-nagagalak daw nila ang paglapit nilasa ginagawang MRT-7 at sa NorthFoof Exchange (NFE).

Ayon pa kay Concepcion, angbarangay ay may dalawang public el-ementary school, isang pribadonghigh school (Nehemiah Academy), atmagtatayo din ng isang pribadong pa-lengke (ang isa ay nasa Northville 5).

“Kahit anong negosyo dito ayumuunlad,” ani Concepcion.

Ang kanilang barangay hall ay dipa natatagalang ginawa, magandaang pintura ng dalawang palapag.Malaki din ang itinutulong sa kanilang Meralco Village na tirahan ng mgaempleyado ng opisina ng Meralco saBalagtas.

Ngunit ang pinaka-ikinatutuwanila. Ito daw ang pinakamataas nalugar sa bayan ng Bocaue, gaya dinng Duhat at Bundukin. (itutuloy)

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years that have gone by since she passed away. She real-ized that she even missed her nagging moments. She tooka sip at her coffee. “Now, where was I?” she said.

* * *Mary went off with haste to a hill country in Judea.

Elizabeth was gathering some firewood.“Elizabeth,” Mary called out to her cousin.“Mary!” Elizabeth cried out and wiped the sweat from

her forehead. She suddenly was caught by some unknowninner force that she dropped all the firewood she was car-rying. Then suddenly, [COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!]

“Where did all this smoke come from?” she asked.“Oh, Mary smiled, “It must be your neighbor burning

their garbage.”“But, child,” Elizabeth replied, “we don’t have neigh-

bors up until half a mile from here!”* * *

“I must really give up on smoking,” Francine pon-dered. “Well, little by little, with our Lady’s help and in-spiration.”

* * *The cold was unbearable. Joseph patiently tried to make

a fire in that dark and inhospitable night. He heard theaudible cries of a Child. He dropped everything to attendto Mary. He would have wanted to give whatever warmthhe could to both Mother and Child. And even a cup ofcoffee if he could.

* * *Francine contemplated these scenes as she emptied

her mug and also longed to give something to Jesus, Maryand Joseph. She was about to serve herself another cup,but she rectified, “One cup is enough for the day. I’ll justmiss the second one for them.” She was ready for an-other day. The last two mysteries will be waiting for herin the kitchen where her breakfast of bacon, eggs, andpancakes waited for her. “Yummy!”

* * *Francine’s mornings with Mary were a wonderful dis-

covery. They have mysteriously helped her to gain an in-ner serenity that the world could not give. Unknowingly,through some special grace, Mary has led her towards amore secure and fulfilling path in her spiritual life andwork.

She has filled her soul with gentle and renewed awak-enings in her faith, hope and love. And above all, theyhave helped her to realize how much Mary is a mother toall of us, and how She longs to be part of everything weare and could be –our joys and sorrows– if only to lead usto Her Son’s heart.— http://fatherongkingco.blogspot.com

EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENTOF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF SHARE

Notice is hereby given that the estate of thelate Victoria Cabanting Doles who died in-testate on January 10, 2007 in Sta. Maria,Ilocos Sur left real property with transfercertificate of title No. T-9921551 and con-taining an area of one hundred twenty (120)sq.m. more or less were extra-judicially sett-led and equally divided among legitimateheirs: Elena Doles Andress, Bernardo Ca-banting Doles, Herminigildo Cabanting Dolesand Irene Cabanting Doles-Martin with wai-ver of rights as per Doc. No. 189;page No.38; Book No. I; Series of 2009 in the NotaryPublic of Atty. Randy P. Bareng.

Mabuhay: November 13, 20 & 26, 2009


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Naglagalag si Pacquiao sa edad 14 mula sa pahina 8

Nang mapatumba niya si Cotto sapangalawang beses, ito ay nangyarinang makakita si Manny ng puwangsa depensa ng Puerto Rican. Nangmamataan niya ang pansamantalangpagkalimot nitong dumepensa. Sapatna ito upang tuluyan na niyangmadumina ang hinubaran niya ngkorona sa mga susunod na roundtungo sa isang technical knock-outvictory na yumanig di lamang sakampo ni Cotto kundi maging sakabuuan ng mundo ng boksing.

Sa buong distansya ng laban siPacquiao ay mistulang umiiwaspalabas ganoong pumapasok siyapaloob at kapag pumapasok siya saloob animo’y umiilag siyang palabas.Sabi nga ni Roach, na isang datingboksingerong propesyonal, si Pac-quiao ay isang boksingerong mahirapbasahin. “He draws them in, thentakes them by confusion.”

Si Pacquiao, aniya, ay patuloy nasumusuntok samantalang ang akalang kalaban ay magpapahinga. Unor-thodox ang salitang ginamit ni Roachsa kakaibang estilong ito ng kali-weteng si Pacman na dagdag niya’y“master of destroying the timing andrhythm of a conventional fighter.”

Ang lahat ng karakter na ipi-nakikita ni Manny sa kanyang mgalaban ay dala niya mula pagkabatana kumbaga ay nalinis sa pamama-gitan ng paggiya sa kanya ni Roach.Si Roach ay kinilalang pinakama-husay na trainer sa mundo at pa-ngatlong beses nang ginawaran ng

“Trainer of the Year” award ng Box-ing Writers Association of America.Si Roach na nagturo sa kanya paramaging counter-revolutionary strat-egist sa ibabaw ng ring mula sapagiging conventional fighter natulad ng ordinaryong boksingero.

Inamin ni Roach, biktima ngParkinson’s Desease, na hindi niyatinangkang baguhin ang pagiging un-orthodox ng fighting style ni Pac-quiao. Pinabuti lamang umano niyaang estilong ito ng kanyang alaga.May pundasyon na, aniya, nangdumating sa kanya ang Pilipinongboksingero noong 2001 ay pinalawaklamang niya ito. Gumugol siya ngmahabang oras, araw, linggo atbuwan para mahubog niya ang nga-yon ay sandata ni Manny.

Tinuruan niya si Manny kungpaano pag-aaralan ang kalaban.Kung paano makikita ang masamangbisyo ng kalaban at gamitin ito parasa kanyang kalamangan. Ginamitnila ito mula kay Erik Morales, MarcoAntonio Barrera at Juan ManuelMarquez, mga lamat ng Mexico natinalo niyang lahat bago siya du-mating kay Juan Diaz, Oscar De LaHoya at Ricky Hatton.

Ngayon pa lamang, ilang arawmatapos niyang pataubin si Cotto aypinag-uusapan na ang susunod ni-yang laban malamang kay FloydMayweather Jr. Kung matutuloy manito o hindi ay ang kampo lamang ngdalawang panig ang nakakaalam.May iba pang matunog na mgapangalan ang lumalabas: Marquez,

Valero, Mosley, Clottey at iba pa.Samantala ay may ibang pagka-

kaabalahan ang bayani ng bansa. AngPambansang Kamao. Ang kanyangentertainment career na ngayon palamang ay nagdudulot na sa kanyaat sa kanyang pamilya ng kaguluhandala ang bali-balitang may kinalo-lokohan siyang katambal niya sakanyang pelikulang “Wapakman.”

Sa susunod na taon ay buo na angplano niyang tumakbo bilang mam-babatas ng distrito ng Sarangani,lalawigan ng kanyang kabiyak na siJinkee. May balita pa ngang isasabaksiya sa pagka-senador ng kanyangpartido. At may ibang ang gusto aypatakbuhin siya para sa panguluhanng bansa. Na para bang ang kanyangpagiging “pound-for-pound boxingking” ay sapat na para malutas niyaang napakarami at napakalakingproblema ng bansa at ng Pilipino.

Ito ay mga labang kumbaga ay“alien” sa kanya. Ibang klase ngmundo na walang makakatulong nagurong tulad ni Roach. Mayroon si-yang mga pinalalabas na “ama-ama-han” na diumano’y siyang umuugitsa kanyang buhay na uugit din sakanyang ambisyong maging pulitiko.

Kung ang mga ito ay magigingkapareho ni Roach na tunay natitingin sa kanyang ikabubuti, siPacquiao lamang ang nakaaalam.Sana nga’y ang mga itong itinuturingniyang “ama-amahan” ay hindi siyaitutulak sa bangin ng kapariwaraanna dinanas ng maraming tuladniyang madaling pagsamantalahan.

know my love for you goes on and on.If I had only known, if I had onlyknown.”

The song came humming into mymind as I read the farewell letter ofGabriel Garcia Marquez. He wrotethe letter as his goodbye to his friendsafter he was diagnosed with a termi-nal cancer. A few of the people whoread the letter cried. Read it and con-template:

“If God, for a second, forgot whatI have become and granted me a littlebit more of life, I would use it to thebest of my ability. I wouldn’t, possi-bly, say everything that is in my mind,but I would be more thoughtful of allI say. I would give merit to things notfor what they are worth, but for whatthey mean to express. I would sleeplittle, I would dream more, because Iknow that for every minute that weclose our eyes, we waste 60 secondsof light. I would walk while othersstop; I would awake while otherssleep.

“If God would give me a little bitmore of life, I would dress in a simplemanner. I would place myself in frontof the sun, leaving not only my body,but my soul naked at its mercy.

“To all men, I would say how mis-taken they are when they think thatthey stop falling in love when they

grow old, without knowing that theygrow old when they stop falling inlove. I would give wings to children,but I would leave it to them to learnhow to fly by themselves. To oldpeople I would say that death doesn’tarrive when they grow old, but withforgetfulness.

“I have learned so much with youall, I have learned that everybodywants to live on top of the mountain,without knowing that true happinessis obtained in the journey taken andthe form used to reach the top of thehill.

“I have learned that when a new-born baby holds, with its little hand,his father’s finger, it has trapped himfor the rest of his life. I have learnedthat a man has the right and obliga-tion to look down at another man,only when that man needs help to getup from the ground.

“Say always what you feel, notwhat you think. If I knew that todayis the last time that I am going to seeyou asleep, I would hug you with allmy strength and I would pray to theLord to let me be the guardian angelof your soul. If I knew that theseare the last moments to see you, Iwould say, ‘I love you.’

“There is always tomorrow, andlife gives us another opportunity to

do things right, but in case I amwrong, and today is all that is left tome, I would love to tell you how muchI love you and that I will never forgetyou.

“Tomorrow is never guaranteed toanyone, young or old. Today couldbe the last time to see your loved ones,which is why you mustn’t wait; do ittoday, in case tomorrow never arrives.I am sure you will be sorry you wastedthe opportunity today to give a smile,a hug, a kiss, and that you were toobusy to grant them their last wish.

“Keep your loved ones near you;tell them in their ears and to theirfaces how much you need them andlove them. Love them and treat themwell; take your time to tell them ‘Iam sorry,’ ‘forgive me,’ ‘please,’‘thank you,’ and all those lovingwords you know.

“Nobody will know you for yoursecret thought. Ask the Lord for wis-dom and strength to express them.Show your friends and loved oneshow important they are to you. Sendthis letter to those you love. If youdon’t do it today, tomorrow will belike yesterday, and if you never do it,it doesn’t matter either, the momentto do it is now.”

—For comments, write me [email protected]

lated civilly, nor can all morally badacts be coercively prohibited, Onlythe morally bad relevant to our so-cial or political common good can beprohibited.

It’s this gap between morality andlegality that we have to most cautiousabout these days. At the moment,many pieces of evidence all over theworld point to how this gap is clev-erly manipulated to pursue question-able objectives. A case in point is theReproductive Health Bill. Its good in-tentions are patent, but its means areimmoral. Our local version may notyet include the clearly immoral abor-tion, but it promotes contraceptionand other things that are also clearly

immoral, though not in the same cat-egory as abortion.

This is an example of how legalityis made to go against morality. Ofcourse, many justifications and ratio-nalizations are now made, includingrewriting Christian morality by thosewho claim to be Catholics but do notfollow Christian moral doctrine. Theylook like mongrel Christians.

Of course, those who are notChristians or Catholics, not to men-tion, the professed atheists and non-believers, make their own version ofmorality derived from their own un-derstanding of the natural moral lawthat highly favors what they want:contraception, sterilization, etc.

Fortunately, there are also manynon-Christian people who follow thecorrect morality based on their ownreligion and their own efforts to knowthe contents of the natural moral law.This only shows that the naturalmoral can transcend religious differ-ences.

Whatever the situation may be, weneed to raise everyone’s awareness towork for an increasingly harmoniousrelation between morality and legal-ity. Our leaders, especially Churchand civil leaders and politicians andother people of influence, should bein the forefront of this effort.

How we behave in this gap willshow the kind of persons we are!

cause of the floods. This is just an example, because thereare many other environmental problems that are killingpeople everyday.

It is already a known scientific fact that trees improvethe water holding properties of soil in the mountains andin the lowlands. On the other hand, it does not requiremuch science to plant trees, and it does not cost that muchmoney either. Money should not even be a problem, be-cause the carbon credits scheme would actually enablelocal governments and private companies to earn backwhatever money they would invest in planting trees, plusmore profits to earn.

If planting trees could enable our country to makemoney and create new value added, why are we not do-ing it aggressively? Since obviously the government isnot in a position to lead the nation in this undertaking,could it at least provide the policy frameworks and theincentive packages? Obviously as well, it is going to bethe private sector that could lead in the tree plantingbusiness, but it would certainly need the incentives thatonly the government could give.

To be precise, it is not only trees that could qualify forboth DFN and CDM rewards. Looking at the overall pic-ture however, planting trees should be part of an overallstrategy to deploy a mix of solutions all of which couldenable our country to engage in climate change adapta-tion (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR).

Aside from the value of money, agro-forestry has thepotential of addressing not only our food security but alsoour human security as well, in terms of reducing the natu-ral hazards in and around our communities. Are we go-ing to wait for mass hunger and more disasters to hap-pen before we act?

On a related issue, I think that tree planting presentsa good opportunity for our indigenous peoples to earnfrom the function of guarding our natural forest pre-serves, whatever is still remaining. On top of that, theycould of course earn from the rewards of both DFN andCDM. By and large, they could possibly earn more fromagro-forestry compared to mining activities.

presyo ng langis at kaugnay naprodukto.

Walang takot at walang habas napagpatay, panloob, panggahasa,pambobomba, at iba pang krimengang nagsagawa ay nanatiling naka-lalaya.

Ang tugong-paglutas ng gobyerno:“makiusap” sa mga kompanya nglangis—na huwag namang magtaaspa ng mga presyo ng langis.

Ang reaksiyon ng gobyerno sakriminalidad: magpagawa ng dagdag

na bilangguan, magpatawad ngmalalaking bilanggong gumawa ngkarumal-dumal na krimen—sa pag-aabuso sa “Presidential Prerogative.”

Parang pag-ulit sa mitolohiya niSisyphus: walang katapusang pagtutulak paitaas ng pababang gumugu-long na bato mula sa tuktok ng bun-dok—Bundok ng kahirapan, kamang-mangan, kagutuman, at kalamidad sabuhay ng mga Pilipino—ang lahingpinagpala, o isinumpa na tulad niSisyphus sa mitolohiyang Griego.

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nabanggit sa kanyang sariling partido. At iyon angsuwerteng natanggap na nating mga Pilipino.

Bakit ika ninyo? Eh di kayo ang mag-isip.

Pulitika sa BulacanSA bayan ng Baliwag ay malamang na apat angmaghahangad na tumakbong mayor sa nasabing bayan.Sila ay sina kasalukuyang Mayor Romeo Estrella, Ex-Mayor Rolando Salvador, Vice Mayor Ferdie Cruz atKonsehal Cris Clemente.

Sa lungsod ng Malolos, ay nangunguna ang pangalanni Carol Mangawang sa mga nagnanais na maglingkodbilang Mayor. Gayundin sina Al Tengco at Christian Na-tividad. Sa tatlong pangalang nabanggit, medyo llamadosi Mam Carol.

Kayo, Ano sa palagay nyo?

pamamaril kay Erwin Bunag noong Sabado ng gabi,Nobyembre 14, ibat-ibang kuwento ang pinalabas ngpulisya. Si Bunag ay production at personal assistant ngmamamahayag na si Rommel Ramos ng GMA7, CLTV36 at Punto Central Luzon. Kung minsan, siya angdriver ni Ramos, minsan ay camera man, minsan namanay nurse dahil siya ang kumukuha ng blood pressure niRamos (kaya siguro laging high blood).

***Ayon sa pulisya, traffic altercation ang ugat ng

pamamaril kay Bunag. Pero wala namang kum-prontasyon, sa halip ay basta na lamang pinaputukan attinamaan sa kaliwang braso si Bunag.

Sabi pa ng pulisya, lasing daw si Bunag, pero walanaman silang ipinalabas na affidavit ng mga testigo, okaya ay medical report na nagsasabing mataas ang alco-hol content ng dugo ni Bunag. Ano bang klase ngimbestigasyon ang ginawa ng pulis, hula-hula?

***Ayon sa pulisya, si Konsehal Jeff Tansinsin ng

Bulakan, Bulacan ang lumalabas na suspek sa pamamarildahil pag-aari nito ang motorsiklong nasagi at naibuwalni Bunag Sabi pa ng pulisya, may nakarehistrong barilna kalibre 45 sa pangalan ni Tansinsin, na tumutugon sadalawang basyo ng bala ng kalibre 45 na nakuha sapinangyarihan ng krimen.

Pero ang tanong bakit hindi pa iniimbestigahan ngpulisya si Tansinsin? May iniiwasan ba sila o wala silangkakayahang magsagawa ng matinong imbestigasyon?

***Marami naman ang hindi makapaniwalang isang

negosyanteng lalaki sa Malolos na diumano’y kakandidatosa susunod na halalan, na umibig ito sa isang bading.

Ganito po ang kuwento, uminom ang poging negos-yante sa isang beerhouse sa Malolos at nakursunadahanang isang kaakit-akit na “waitress.” Siyempre, umandarang pagkalalaki ni pogi at diniskartehan ang “waitress.”

Matapos uminom, tinipan pa ni pogi ang “waitress”sa isa mall ng sumunod na araw. So, nag-date sila atnamasyal, pero matinik pala ang “waitress.” Nabola sipogi at umutang ng pera. Pasikat naman si pogi, pina-utang ang “waitress” sa pag-aakalang maibabaon niyaito sa utang na loob. Pero si pogi pala ang nabaon, dahilisang kaibigan ang nakakita sa kanila habang nama-masyal sa mall, at sinabihan siyang, hindi “waitress” angkanyang, nai-date mo, sa halip ay isang “waiter.”

Nakupo, hindi makapaniwala si pogi. Naisip niya, nai-sahan siya. Sa halip na siya ang makabarako, siya angnabarako. Naglaho ang lahat ng pangarap ni pogi sa wait-ress. Ngunit hindi pa doon natapos ang lahat.

Laging mainit ngayon ang ulo ni pogi lalo na kapagnarinig niya ang nilalaman ng awiting ito: “Ako ay maylobo, lumipad sa langit, hindi ko na nakita, pumutok napala. Sayang ang pera ko, pinangbili ng lobo, sa pagkainsana, nabusog pa ako.”

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On the Notice of the Sheriff’s Sale filed byRural Bank of San Rafael (BUL.), Inc. ver-sus Mamerto Inovero M/to Rosalinda V.Inovero published in the Mabuhay datedSeptember 25, October 2 & 8, 2009 thesecond (2

nd) TCT No. should read “TCT No.

180615” and not as published.Mabuhay: November 13, 2009

PANGALAGAAN ANG KALIKASAN,

HUWAG MAGKALAT SA LANSANGAN


mula sa pahina 1tidong pambansa.

Binigyan diin naman ng ilangtagamasid sa pulitika na ang 2010 au-tomated elections ay isa sa mga bagayna nagbigay ng lakas loob sa mga pu-litiko sa Bulacan na magtayo ng lokalna partidong pampulitika. Inakala ngmga partidong lokal na sa makasay-sayang halalang gagamit ng auto-mated counting machine sila ayposibleng makatanggap ng electionreturns (E.R.).

Ngunit, ayon sa Comelec, tangingang mga dominant majority minor-ity party lamang ang bibigyan noon.

Ang Del Pilar Party ay binuo atitinatag noong 2003, ngunit hindinagamit ng grupo ni Dela Cruz sahalalan noong 2004 at 2007 dahil silaay nakasapi pa noon sa mga par-tidong Lakas-Christian MuslimDemocrat (Lakas-CMD), at Kabalikatng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi).

Ang partidong Lakas-CMD ay iti-natag ni dating Pangulong Fidel V.Ramos nang siya ay kumandidatobilang Pangulo ng bansa noong 1992.Ang partidong Kampi naman ay iti-natag ni Pangulong Gloria MacapagalArroyo noong 1998 nang siya aykumandidato bilang Bise Presidente.

Ang Lakas-CMD at Kampi aykapwa naging dalawang pangu-nahing dominanteng partido ngbansa sa ilalim ng adminsitrasyonnina Ramos at Macapagal-Arroyo, atpinagsanib nitong Mayo sa kabila ngpagtutol ni Ramos na nagsabing hindisiya kinunsulta at maging ang ilangkasapi nila.

Ang KKK naman ni Angel Cruzay binigyan na ng akreditasyon ngComelec noong Nobyembre 16, sa-mantalang ang P.M. ni Mangawangay naghihintay pa ng akreditasyonhabang sinusulat ang balitang ito.

Matatandaan na noong dekada ’70hanggang 1986 o noong panahon ngpanunungkulan ni dating PangulongFerdinand E. Marcos, ang domi-

nanteng partido sa bansa ay angKilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL),ngunit matapos mapatalsik si Marcossa posisyon sa pamamagitan ng EdsaPeople Power noong 1986, ang Par-tido Demokratiko ng Pilipinas (PDP)at Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino(LDP) ang namayani.

Ang LDP ang partidong nagingdominante sa Bulacan sa panahon ngpanunungkulan ni dating Gob. Ro-berto “Obet” Pagdanganan mula1986 hanggang 1998.

Ayon kay dating Gob. Dela Cruz,ang layunin ng DPP ay gayahin angpersonal na pagsasakripisyo ng daki-lang propagandistang Bulakenyo nasi Marcelo H. Del Pilar na pumanawsa Espanya sa sakit sa tubercolosismahigit 100 taon na ang nakararaan.

Sinabi ni Dela Cruz na ang kasa-lukuyang takbo ng pulitika ay na-ngangailangan ng pagsasakripisyo sahanay ng mga namumuno at ngbawat isa.

Para naman sa mga bumubuo ngKKK at P.M., ang pagsusulong ngagenda ng Bulacan at panganga-ilangan ng bawat Bulakenyo ang isasa mga layunin ng pagtatatag ng lokalna partido.

Ito, anila, ay dahil na rin sa anglayunin at agenda ng mga pam-bansang partido tulad ng Lakas-CMD-Kampi ang palaging namamayani, atkadalasan ay naisasantabi ang panga-ngailangan ng mga mamamayan salalawigan.

“May mga pangangailangan tayosa Bulacan na dapat isulong, perohindi iyan nabibigyang pansin sanasyunal dahil sa marami din silangproblema doon,” ani Wendell Ta-mayo, secretary general ng P.M.

Kabilang sa mga problemang higitna dapat bigyang pansin sa Bulacanay ang pangangalaga sa kalikasan,pagsasaka na kinakapos ng tubig satag-araw, hanap-buhay at iba pa.

Ngunit, bukod sa layuning isulongang agenda ng Bulacan, may mga

nagsasabi ring ang dahilan ng pag-silang ng tatlong lokal na partido salalawigan ay ang magulong pag-sasanib ng mga pangunahing par-tidong pambansa tulad ng Lakas-CMD-Kampi.

“Nagkagulo-gulo sa national dahilsa merger ng Lakas at Kampi, peroang naiipit ay ang mga nasa ibabadahil mayroong kasapi ang Lakas atKampi dito,” ani ng isang kakan-didatong konsehal sa bayan ngHagonoy na tumangging ipabanggitang pangalan.

Sinabi pa niya na ang pagsasanibng mga partidong pambansa ay paralamang sa kapakanan ng mga ka-kandidatong presidente at senador.

Hanggang sa kasalukuyan, hindipa rin siguradong matutuloy ang2010 automated elections dahil sapagkaantala ng paggawa ng mgaPrecint Count Optical Scanner(PCOS) machines. Ang produksyonng nasabing makina ay sa Shanghai,China na isinasagawa ngayon buhatsa Taiwan.

“Noong 2007, ang Lakas-CMD saBulacan ay si dating Gob Obet atBise-Gob Willy, at ang Kampi ay siGob Jon-jon, eh, ngayong nagsanibang Lakas-CMD at Kampi, sino angkandidato nila?” ani ng kakan-didatong konsehal ng Hagonoy.

Sinabi niya na isa ito sa dahilankung kaya binuhay na ni dating Gob.Dela Cruz ang Del Pilar Party.

Ngunit may nagsasabi rin nanagkalakas ng loob ang mga pulitikosa Bulacan na magtayo ng lokal napartido dahil sa 2010 automated elec-tions kung kailan ay 30 kopya ng elec-tion returns ang ipamamahagi ngComelec.

Nilinaw naman ni Bulacan Elec-tion Supervisor Mejarito na tangingang mga dominant majority at minor-ity party lamang ang pagkakaloobanng E.R. at ang huli, ani Mejarito saMabuhay, ay magmumula pa rin samga partidong rehistrado sa Maynila.

3 partidong pampulitika isinilang sa Bulacan

mula sa pahina 1supervisor sa Bulacan, ang kabuuangbilang ng botante na kanilang naitalanitong Oktubre 19 sa lalawigan ayumaabot lamang sa 1,391,939.

Ang nasabing bilang ay hindi papinal dahil hindi pa naisasama angmga nagsipagparehistrong botante salalawigan nitong huling linggo ngOktubre.

Ang pinal na listahan ng mgabotante sa lalawigan ng Bulacan aynakatakdang ilabas ng Comelec sasusunod na linggo.

Sinabi ni Mejarito na maramingrehistradong botante ang kanilangtinanggal sa listahan dahil sa hindinagsiboto ang mga ito sa dalawanghuling halalan. Ito ay bahagi ngpaglilinis nila ng listahan.

Dalawa ang dahilan kung bakithindi nakaboto ang mga rehistradongbotante sa dalawang huling halalangisinagawa.

Una, patay na ang botante. Ika-lawa, walang interes bumoto ang bo-tante katulad ni Carolina Bautista,70, ng bayan ng Hagonoy na nag-sabing hindi siya bumoboto dahilwala namang nagbabago sa gobyerno.

“Sila-sila rin naman ang nasa gob-yerno, wala namang pagbabagong na-ngyayari,” ani Bautista sa Mabuhay.

Kaugnay nito, may natuwa ngunit

mayroon ding hindi pabor sa planongmuling pagkandidato ni dating Gob.Josie dela Cruz bilang punong lala-wigan.

“It’s a positive development know-ing the good qualities of Gov. DelaCruz which we missed in the last threeyears,” ani Alex Balagtas, tagapa-mahala ng Pambasang Dambana niGat Marcelo H. Del Pilar sa bayan ngBulakan.

Iginiit din ni Balagtas na “al-though with Gov. Jon-jon Mendozarunning for Congress, we are con-cerned that another political dynastyis being pushed in Bulacan.”

Para naman kay Celia Payonga-yong, isang nurse sa pribadongospital sa Hagonoy, “maganda namanang ipinakitang pamamahala ni GobJosie sa panahon ng kanyang pa-nunungkulan.”

Ngunit, may mga nagpahayag dinng di pag-sang-ayon sa pagbabalik niDela Cruz sa pulitika sa lalawigan.

Ayon kay Vice Mayor Elmer San-tos ng Hagonoy, isang paglalaro salarangang pulitikal ang gagawin nidela Cruz.

Para kay Arnold Mendoza, isangmang-aawit sa Dalmacio’s GardenGrill sa Malolos, “dapat na silangmagpahinga.”

Matabang naman ang dating ng

pulitika kay Ariel Bastro ng Malolosnang sabihin niya sa Mabuhay na“hindi magdadala ng pagkain sapamilya ko ang pulitika.”

Matatandaan na huling nanung-kulang gobernador si Dela Cruz salalawigan noong 2007 kung kailanang pumalit sa kanya ay ang kanyangkapatid na si Gob. Joselito Mendozana tumalo kay dating Gob. Roberto“Obet” Pagdanganan, na pinalitan niDela Cruz noong 1998 matapos ang12 taong panunungkulan ni Pagda-nganan na nagsimula noong 1986.

Nitong Nobyembre 9, kinum-pirma ni Dela Cruz ang kanyangmuling pagkandidato bilang punonglalawigan. Siya ay tatakbo sa ilalimng bandila ng Del Pilar Party, isanglokal na partidong kanyang itinatagnoong 2003.

Ang nakatakda namang makaka-tunggali ni Dela Cruz ay si Bise Gob.Wilhelmino Sy Alvarado na nagling-kod bilang alkalde ng Hagonoy (1986-1998), at bilang kongresista ngUnang Distrito (1998-2007).

Si Alvarado ay kakandidato sailalim ng bandila ng Lakas-CMD-Kampi. Siya ang asawa ni Kint. Mari-vic Alvarado na nagsilbing Bise-al-kalde ng Hagonoy noong 2004 hang-gang 2007 hanggang sa mahalal nakongresista noong 2007. — DB

mula sa pahina 1“Tuwing halalan ay maraming report ng bilihan ng

boto at tiyak na hindi mawawala iyan sa 2010 automatedelections,” ani Perlas at ipinayo sa mga botante na magingmapagbantay.

Inayunan naman ito nina Comelec CommissionerArmando Velasco at Director James Jimenez, taga-pagsalita ng Comelec.

“There is no foolproof system and some people will al-ways try to outsmart it,” ani Velasco nang makapanayamng Mabuhay sa Lungsod ng Calamba, Laguna noongAgosto 27 kaugnay ng apat na araw na pagsasanay samga mamamahayag hinggil sa halalan na pinangunahanng Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ).

Upang maiwasan ang dayaan sa halalan, nanawagansi Commissioner Velasco sa publiko na makipagtulungansa Comelec para sa isang tapat at malinis na halalan.

“Lets work hard at pagtiwalaan natin yung systemlalo na ngayon, we are adopting a new technology,” aniVelasco.

Bukod sa nasabing pamamaraan, isa pang paraan ngpandaraya ay ang “line stalling” o ang pag-iipon ng isangkandidato ng may 100 botante na unang pabobotohin sapresinto upang antalahin ang pagboto ng iba pangbontante.

Ang pamamaraang ito ay inilahad ng mga mama-mahayag na dumalo sa tatlong araw na pagsasanay naisinagawa sa Lungsod ng Cagayan De Oro sa MisamisOriental noong Oktubre 19 hanggang 21.

Ang pagsasanay ay pinangunahan ng Philippine PressInstitute (PPI) sa pakikipagtulungan ng The Coca-ColaExport Corporation of the Philippines (TCECP).

Ayon sa mga mamamahayag, ang “line stalling” aypinaplano nang ilang pulitiko upang hindi makaboto angibang botante na boboto sa kalabang pulitiko.

Dahil dito, itinanong ng mga mamamahayag kayDirektor Jimenez kung magkakaroon ng “time limit” saisang botante mula sa paghahanap ng kanilang pangalansa CVL hanggang sa pagboto at pagpapasok ng malapadat mahabang balota sa PCOS machine.

“Pinag-aaralan na namin iyan at bibigyan namin ngdireksyon ang bawat kasapi ng Board of Election Inspec-tor (BEI) sa bawat clustered precinct kung paanotutugunan ang problemang iyan,” ani ng tagapagsalitang Comelec.

Ang direksyon na kanilang ibibigay sa BEI ani Ji-menez, ay nakapaloob sa binubuong election procedureo mga alintuntunin na susundin ng BEI sa araw nghalalan, ngunit hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa iyonnaisasagawa ng Comelec.

Hinggil naman sa iba pang uri ng pandaraya sapanahon ng halalan, ipinayo ni Malou Mangahas, execu-tive director ng PCIJ, sa mga mamamayan na gamitinang kanilang mga digital camera o kaya cellular phonena may kamera upang kunan ng larawan at video angpandaraya at mai-dokumento ang mga iyon.

Ayon kay Mangahas, ang pagkuha ng mga larawan atvideo ng mga dayaan sa halalan ay isang paraan upangmangilag kung di man ay mapigil ang mga taongnagnanais na mandaya.

“Isipin natin na may mga gamit tayo tulad ng cellularphone na magagamit natin para matiyak ang katapatanat magtatagumpay ang halalan,” ani Mangahas.

— Dino Balabo

mula sa pahina 1Batay sa tala ng NFA-Bulacan

umabot sa halos 1-M kabang palayang kanilang napamili mula samagsasakang Bulakenyo noong na-karaang taon bilang tugon sa krisissa bigas.

Subalit sa taong ito, umaabot palamang sa 110,000 kabang palay angkanilang napamili na halos ay 10porsyento lamang ng may 915,000kabang palay na target nilang bilhinmula sa mga magsasakang Bula-kenyo.

Isa sa mga dahilan ng mababangbilang ng sako ng palay na napamiling NFA-Bulacan sa taong ito ay angmababang produksyon ng palay sanhing pananalasa ng mga bagyongOndoy at Pepeng.

Ayon kay Manalili, karaniwan samga palay sa Bulacan na nasalantang bagyo ay malapit ng anihin.

Ito naman ay inayunan ng pang-rehiyon at panglalawigang tanggapanng agrikultura na nagsabing umabotsa mahigit P2-Bilyon ang halaga ngnasalantang pananim sa GitnangLuzon.

“Bumaba ng halos 50 porsiyentoang ani ng mga magsasaka sa Bula-can dahil sa bagyo,” ani Manalili.

Bukod sa pananalasa ng bagyo,sinabi ni Manalili na ang agresibongpamimili ng palay ng mga negosyanteay naka-apekto rin sa kanilangpamimilli kaya’t kakaunti ang ka-nilang napamili sa taong ito.

“Mas mataas ang bili ng mga trad-ers kaysa sa amin kaya sa kanilaibinebenta ng farmer ang mga palay,”ani Manalili patungkol sa halagangP18.50 bawat kilo na ibinabayad ngmga negosyante sa palay ng mgamagsasaka.

Ang halagang ito ay higit na

mataas sa P17 bawat kilo na ibina-bayad ng NFA sa palay ng magsasaka.

“Pabor din naman sa mga mag-sasaka ‘yung pagtaas ng presyo palay,dahil mas malaki ang kikitain nila,kaso nga lang, kulang ang palay nanabili namin,” aniya.

Hinggil sa presyo ng bigas naibinibenta sa mga pamilihan, sinabini Manalili na nagpapasalamat dinsila sa mga negosyante dahil sa hindinagtaas ng presyo ng bigas ang mgaito sa panahon ng kalamidad.

“Stable ang presyo ng bigas dahilwalang hoarding at pagtataas ngpresyo matapos manalasa si Ondoy,”aniya.

Sinabi niya na ang bawat Bula-kenyo ay kumokonsumo ng kalaha-ting kilong bigas bawat araw, kaya’tumaabot sa 16,000 kabang bigas angkailangan ng buong lalawigan bawataraw. — Dino Balabo

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Depthnews from page 3

Mojares pinpoints four grounds for the negative cov-erage: (1) deceit in recruitment; (2) exploitation in a for-eign land; (3) adverse effect on internal economic devel-opment; and 4) “lack of patriotism” among migrants.

Cebu media highlighted the plantation strike of 1924.Many of the 16 sakadas killed were Visayans. This re-sulted in a shift from Cebu to Ilocos as primary source oflabor.

For whom the 1930 manual was written?, Alburo won-ders. After the Hanapepe strike of 1924, recruiters ac-cepted only illiterate workers. As early as 1920, alreadyhalf of laborers in California, for example, came fromHawaii. Thus employers tried to hold on to their labor.

Women stabilize social life. But scarcity of Filipinowomen in the U.S. ratcheted temptations against fidel-ity. The plantation jargon for wife-snatching was “cow-boy.”

This was a misnomer. “A serious proportion of adul-tery and remarriage is due to the unusual strains upon awife’s loyalty where her sex is at such a premium”. Manycame from very simple home environments and found itdifficult to adjust.

“Through time, important changes were introduced.With the more progressive Japanese family as example,plantation managers allowed Filipinos to bring theirfamilies. ‘Cowboy’ became a thing of the past.”

Overall, the interviewees agreed: Plantation life washard. But still their life in the early part of the 20th cen-tury was something they wished for their own children,who now embrace the new values.

“Manang Mirang wasn’t sure how her stories weretold by University of Hawaii researchers. She could notspeak the language of the interviewer: Tagalog. At last,she said, she could tell her story freely in her own tongue”.

What of the future?Women now make up 65 to 73 percent of migrants

from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. Coun-try studies show continuing “skills bleed” for labor ex-porting nations.

Asian governments are just beginning to think aboutlong term plans, notes the Migration Policy Institute.When today’s recession eases, East and Southeast Asiancountries are likely to pull in large numbers of migrantworkers. Social and political consequences will be far-reaching.

“The 21st century has been dubbed the ‘Pacific cen-tury’ in terms of economic and political development,”the Institute notes. “But it may also be an epoch ofrapidly growing migration and population streams.

—[email protected]

Hinikayat magboluntaryo...

Bilang ng mga botante sa lalawigan bumaba

NFA Bulacan: May sapat na bigas hanggang Hulyo


E.J.F. NO. 289-2009EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORELOSURE

OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesSUPREME COURT

Office of the Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos, Bulacan

STERLING BANK OF ASIA, INC.

Mortgagee

- versus -

NOEL P. CASTILLO M/TOAMOR L. CASTILLO,

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUPON extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended byAct 4118 filed by STERLING BANK OF ASIA, INC, with principal officeand business address at Ground Floor, SSS Makati Bldg., Ayala Av-enue corner R.V. Rufino St., Makati City, the mortgagee against NOELP. CASTILLO m/to AMOR L. CASTILLO, with residence and postal ad-dress at No. 444 Dr. Pedro Reyes St., Poblacion, Pulilan, Bulacan themortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of Au-gust 10, 2009 amounts to TWO MILLION SIX HUNDRED FIFTY EIGHTTHOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTY NINE PESOS & 63/100(P2,658,659.63) Philippine Currency, including interest thereon, in-cluding __% of the total indebtedness and as by way of Attorney’sfees, plus daily interest and expenses thereafter, also secured by saidmortgage and such other amounts which may become due and pay-able to the aforementioned mortgage. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacanthru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interested par-ties to the public in general that on December 8, 2009 at 10:00 o’clockin the morning or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-OfficioSheriff of Bulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan,Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at publicauction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidder in CASH and in Phil-ippine Currency, the real property/ies below together with all the im-provements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. T-259021

“A parcel of land (Lot 7235, Cad-345), situated in the Mun. ofPulilan, Prov. of Bulacan. Bounded on the N., along line 1-2 by lot7234, Cad-345; on the E., along line 2-3 by lot 99, Cad-345; on the S.,along line 3-4 by lot 7236, Cad-345; and on the W., along line 4-1 byRoad. X X X containing an area of SIX HUNDRED THIRTY THREE (633)SQ. M. X X X

This Notice of the Sheriff Sale will be posted for a period of twenty(20) days in three (3) conspicuous places in the municipality the sub-ject property is located and at Malolos, Bulacan where the sale shalltake place, and likewise, a copy will be published for the same periodin the Mabuhay a newspaper of general circulation in the province ofBulacan, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before the dateof the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressedto this office must be submitted to the undersigned on or before theabove stated date and hour at which time all sealed bids thus submit-ted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on the saiddate, it shall be held on December 15, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soonthereafter without further notice.

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

Malolos City, Bulacan, November 4, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio sheriff

By: NORMAN S. IPAPO

Sheriff IVCopy furnished: All parties concerned

Mabuhay: October 30, November 6 & 13, 2009



BY ACT 4118



THE REAL BANK(A THRIFT BANK), INC.,

Mortgagee

- versus -

MARIGOLD S. DE CASTROAND SPOUSES OFELIA DE S. CASTROAND GERONIMO A. DE CASTRO

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUPON extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amendedby Act 4118 filed by THE REAL BANK ( A THRIFT BANK) INC.,with principal office at &F President Tower, #8 Timog AvenueQuezon City, the mor tgagee against MARIGOLD S. DE CASTROAND SPOUSES OFELIA S. DE CASTRO AND GERONIMO A. DECASTRO, with residence and postal address at #105 CamiasStreet, San Miguel Bulacan the mor tgagor/s, to satisfy the mor t-gage indebtedness which as of September 14, 2009 amounts toTWO MILLION TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND PESOS AND43/100 (P2,000,216.43) Philippine Currency, including interestthereon, including 25% of the total indebtedness and as by wayof Attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses thereafter,also secured by said mor tgage and such other amounts whichmay become due and payable to the aforementioned mor tgage.The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriffhereby gives notice to all interested par ties to the public in gen-eral that on December 4, 2009 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning orsoon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Pro-vincial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at publicauction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidder in CASH and inPhilippine Currency, the real proper ty/ies below together with allthe improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. RT-74262 (T-270478)

“A parcel of land (Lot No. 833 of the Cad. Survey of SanMiguel), situated in Mun. of San Miguel, Bounded on the NE., byLot No. 829; on the SE., by Lot No. 834. X X X containing an areaof THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE (373) SQ. M. more or lessX X X

This Notice of the Sheriff Sale will be posted for a period oftwenty (20) days in three (3) conspicuous places in the munici-pality the subject proper ty is located and at Malolos, Bulacanwhere the sale shall take place, and likewise, a copy will be pub-lished 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 ad-dressed to this office must be submitted to the undersigned on orbefore the above stated date and hour at which time all sealedbids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on thesaid date, December 4, 2009, it shall be held on December 28,2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter without fur ther notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to inves-tigate for themselves the title to the proper ty/ies and encumbrancethereon, if any there be.


EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio sheriffCopy furnished: All par ties concerned

Mabuhay: November 6, 13 & 20, 2009

E.J.F. NO. P-101-2009EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORELOSURE


BY ACT 4118



NATIONAL HOME MORTGAGEFINANCE CORPORATION

Mortgagee

- versus -

RAUL E. TOLENTINO

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUPON extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amendedby Act 4118 filed by NATIONAL HOME MORTGAGE FINANCE COR-PORATION, with principal office and postal addresss at 104Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City against RAUL E.TOLENTINO, with postal address at Heritage Homes, Lot 7, Blk.403 Bo. Loma de Gato, Marilao, Bulacan/ 189 P.R. Sotto St., SanJuan, Metro Manila the mor tgagor/s, to satisfy the mor tgage in-debtedness which as of October 30, 2009 amounts to ONE MIL-LION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDREDTWENTY SIX PESOS & 98/100 (P1,189,426.98) Philippine Cur-rency, including interest thereon, including 25% of the total in-debtedness and as by way of Attorney’s fees, plus daily interestand expenses thereafter, also secured by said mor tgage and suchother amounts which may become due and payable to the afore-mentioned mor tgage. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru theundersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interested par tiesto the public in general that on December 4, 2009 at 10:00 o’clockin the morning or soon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ngKatarungan, Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacanwill sell at public auction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidderin CASH and in Philippine Currency, the real proper ty/ies belowtogether with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. T-531475 (M)

“A parcel of land (Lot 7 Blk.403 of the subd. plan, Psd-031411, being a por tion of lot 3 Pcs-031411-005417 L.R.C. Rec.No.), situated in Bo. of Bahay Pari, Mun. of Marilao, Prov. ofBul.Bounded on the X X X containing an area of NINETY SIX (96)SQ. M. X X X

This Notice of the Sheriff Sale will be posted for a period oftwenty (20) days in three (3) conspicuous places in the munici-pality the subject proper ty is located and at Malolos, Bulacanwhere the sale shall take place, and likewise, a copy will be pub-lished 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 ad-dressed to this office must be submitted to the undersigned on orbefore the above stated date and hour at which time all sealedbids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on thesaid date, December 4, 2009, it shall be held on December 28,2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter without fur ther notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to inves-tigate for themselves the title to the proper ty/ies and encumbrancethereon, if any there be.


EMMANUEL L. ORTEGAEx-Officio sheriff

By: OSMANDO BUENAVENTURASheriff IV

Copy furnished: All par ties concerned




BY ACT 4118



BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Mortgagee

- versus -

SPS. SEGUNDA C. REYES & MANUELF. REYES, SR. AND YOLANDA S.PALMA (AIF),

Mortgagor/s,

X————————————X

NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUPON extra-judicial petition for sale under act 3135 as amended y act4118 filed by the BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS with principaloffice and place of business at BPI Bldg., Ayala Avenue corner Paseode Roxas, Makati City, the mortgagee against SPS. SEGUNDINA C.REYES & MANUEL F. REYES, SR. and YOLANDA S. PALMA (AIF), withresidence and postal address at Km. 29 Quirino Highway, TungkongMangga, SJDM, Bulacan and/or Blk. 9, Lot 21, Phase 1, Pleasant HillsSubd., SJDM, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgage in-debtedness which as of September 30, 2009 amounts to ONE MIL-LION FOUR HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY TWOPESOS & 00/100 (P1,410,572.00) Philippine Currency, including in-terest thereon, including/excluding__% of the total indebtedness byway of attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses thereafter, alsosecured by said mortgage and such other amounts which may be-come due and payable to the aforementioned mortgagee, the Ex-Offi-cio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives noticeto all interested parties and to the public in general that on November26, 2009 at 10:00 A.M., 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 set at public actionthru sealed bidding to the highest bidder for CASH and in PhilippineCurrency, the described real property below together with all the im-provements existing thereon.

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-171318 (M)“A parcel of land (Lot 35, Blk. 23 of the subd. plan. Psd-04-

002159, being a portion of Lots A (LRC), Pcs-24863, LRC Rec. No.4935), situated in the Bo. Of Sapang Palay Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Province of Bulacan, Is. of Luzon, Bounded on the xx xx xx xx contain-ing an area of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY NINE (829) SQ. METERS.”

This Notice of the Sheriff’s sale will be posted for a period oftwenty (20) days in (3) conspicuous public places in the municipalitywhere the subject property is located and at Malolos City, Bulacanwhere the sale shall take place and likewise a copy will be publishedfor the same period in the MABUHAY a newspaper of general circula-tion in the province of Bulacan, once a week for three (3) consecutiveweeks before the date of auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressedto this office must be submitted to the undersigned on or before theabove stated date and hour at which time all sealed bids thus submit-ted shall be opened.

In the event in the public auction should not take place on thesaid date, is shall be held on December 3, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. withoutfurther notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigatefor themselves the title to the property and encumbrance thereon, ifany there be.

Malolos City, Bulacan, October 27, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGAEx-Officio Sheriff

BY: NORMAN S. IPAPOSheriff IV

Copy furnished: All parties concerned


EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF LEONOR ESPINO WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the deceased Leonor Espino who died interstate on February 13, 1990 at FEU Hospital, Manila left a certainparcel of unregistered land her title of ownership being evidence by Tax Declaration No. 97-0297 with an area of 4,500 sq meters or less wasextrajudicially settled among legitimate heirs with Deed of Absolute Sale as per Doc. No. 261, Page No. 54; Book No. 11, Series of 2009 in the NotaryRegistry of Atty. Joel Amos P. Alejandro

Mabuhay: October 30, Nov 6 & 13, 2009

Ito ay dahil sa planong pagbili ng 38electric tricycle (E-Trike) ni MayorFeliciano “Sonny” Belmonte ng nasabingng lungsod.

Ayon kay Inhinyero Allan Aguilar naisa ring konsehal ng bayang ito, angplanong pagbili ni Belmonte ng E-Trikeay isang tugon sa kakulangan ng pro-duktong petrolyo sanhi ng Executive Or-der 839 na ipinalabas ng Malakanyang nanag-uutos sa mga kumpanya ng petrolyona panatilihin ang presyo ng krudo sapresyo nito noong Oktubre 15 bilang tugonsa state of calamity.

“Balak ni Mayor Belmonte na ipama-hagi ang E-trike sa mga barangay ngQuezon City sa may West Triangle bilangpagpapakita ng green initiatives nglungsod,” ani Aguilar.

Ayon kay Aguilar, magsisilbing patrolvehicle ng mga barangay sa Lungsod ngQuezon ang E-Trike.

Ito ay karagdagan sa may 20 E-trikena naibenta ni Aguilar sa Bulacan, NuevaEcija, Pampanga at Boracay kung saan ayginamit ito ng pamahalaang lokal bilangservice at patrol vehicles.

Ang konsepto ng E-Trike ay nabuonoong 2007 kaugnay ng panawagan niMayor Epifanio Guillermo ng Marilao paraproteksyon at preserbasyon ng kalikasan,matapos mapabilang ang kailugan ngMarilao sa listahan ng 30 pinakama-ruming lugar sa mundo na ipinalabasnoong taong iyon ng Blacksmith Institutena nakabase sa New York, U.S.A.

Noong Nobyembre 2008, ang E-trike ayinilunsad sa bayan ng Marilao at ipi-nagmalaki ito bilang “Gawang Marilenyo,proudly Bulakenyo and truly Filipino.”

Ang E-trike ay pina-aandar ng apat na12 volts rechargeable batteries na tu-matagal ng walong oras o magagamit sapamamasada sa habang 80 hanggang 100kilometro.

Dalawang paraan ang pagre-recharge

Quezon City bibili ng 38E-Trike na yaring Bulacan

Bulacan, si Aguilar ay isa sa mga unangtumugon sa hamon ni Mayor EpifanioGuillermo na gumawa ng mga proyektoat produktong makakalikasan mataposmapabilang ang Marilao River sa listahanng 30 pinakamaruming lugar sa mundona ipinalabas ng Blacksmith Institute saNew York noong 2007. —Dino Balabo

sa mga baterya ng E-trike. Una ay angtinatawag na fast charging na umaabot ngisa hanggang dalawang oras; at pangalawaay ang slow charging na umaabot ng animhanggang walong oras.

Sa pagre-recharge sa E-trike, kailanganlamang isaksak sa regular na electric out-let battery charging kit nito kung saandadaloy ang kuryente patungo sa baterya.

Katulad ng ordinaryong tricycle, ang E-trike ay nakapaglululan ng apat napasahero kabilang ang driver, at maaaringtumakbo sa bilis na 30 hanggang 40kilometro kada oras.

Ayon sa mag-amang Aguilar, ang bawatE-trike ay nagkakahalaga ng P150,000hanggang P175, 000, kasama ang mgaaksesorya tulad ng battery charging kit,watt hour meter, ampere/voltage meter atbuilt-in automatic overcharge protectiontimer.

Ngunit kumpara sa regular na tricycle,ang isang dagdag na katangian ng E-trikeay ang kakayahan nitong umurong ka-tulad ng kotse.

“May reverse drive din iyan, pero op-tional,” ani Aguilar.

Binigyang diin niya na mas higit namataas ang presyo ng E-trike sa regularna tricycle, ngunit iyon ay “one-time nagastos lang” hindi tulad ng regular na tri-cycle na habang ipinapasada ay gina-gastusan sa gasolina at langis.

Hinggil naman sa konsumo sa kur-yente kapag nagre-recharge, sinabi niKonsehal Aguilar na maliit lamang angmagagastos dahil apat na 12 volts lamangang bateryang gamit nito na may ka-buuang 48 volts.

Ipinaliwanag pa niya na kung gaga-miting pamasada ang E-trike, aabotlamang sa P20 hanggang P25 ang ma-gagastos sa kuryente, kumpara sa P200hanggang P250 gastos sa gasolina ng isangordinaryong tricycle sa pamamasada sabawat araw.

TUGON SA KRISIS — Nakangitingnagpakuha ng larawan si Inhinyero AllanAguilar sa tabi ng nakahanay na electrictricycle na kanilang nilikha bilang tugonsa patuloy na pagkasira ng kalikasansanhi ng polusyon, at patuloy na pagtaasng presyo ng produktong petrolyo.Bilang isang konsehal ng Marilao,

Naglagalag si Pacquiao sa edad14 para mabawasan ang anakna pakakainin ng kanyang ina

NI EDDIE G. ALINEA

(Si Eddie G. Alinea aybeteranong sports writer,columnist at editor. Siya ayisa sa mga orihinal nakasapi ng grupo ng mgamamamahayag na nag-lunsad ng Mabuhay saBulacan noong Enero 20,1980. — Patnugot)

ANG boksing ay una, isangkarakter at, pangalawa,isang uri ng palakasan nanangangailangan ng ka-galingan na nakukuha samatagal na pagsasanay.Ang karakter ni MannyPacquiao, pitong beses nakampeon sa pitong magka-kaibang dibisyon, ay na-kuha sa kanyang kahaponna tigib ng kahirapan nakamang-kama sa isangboksingero.

Si Pacquiao ay naglaga-lag sa edad na 14 upangmatulungan ang kanyangina na mabawasan ang mgapinakakaing supling. Ipi-nagpalit niya ang kahira-pan sa mas lalong kahira-pan para mag-sakripisyo sakanyang murang gulang palamang.

Kung kaya naging ma-dali sa kanya ang lumabanna isang katulad lamangniyang mahirap ang maa-aring gumawa para sa kan-yang sarili, sa pamilya at sabansa. Natutuhan ni Pac-quiao ang disiplina paragawin ito.

Ang sport na “sweet sci-ence” ay mahalaga para sakanya. Ang boksing para sakanya ay paglalahad ngpag-ibig sa kapwa kungkaya’t nakaya niyang ha-rapin ang pakikidigma saibabaw ng ring at sa buhayna masaya.

At ang pinakamahalagaay naniniwala si Manny nanasa balikat niya ang Pa-nginoon sa lahat ng kan-yang gawain at hindi niyamararating ang kanyangkasalukuyang kalagayankung hindi sa tulong ngPanginoon.

Ang pagiging relihiyosong “pambasang kamao”ang nagbibigay ng lakas atpaniniwala na kaya niyanggawin ang nais niyang ga-win dahil kasama niya angDiyos sa bawat galaw.

Kinikilalang “The Grea-test Fighter” sa kanyangpanahon si Manny na may50 panalo, 3 talo, 2 tabla at38 na knock-out. Siya ayinihahalintulad kay SugarRay Robinson, ang kiniki-lalang “Greatest Fighter”of all time at mga alamatng boksing na sina SugarRay Leonard, Henry Arm-strong at iba pang kam-peon na boksingero.

Matapos talunin ni Pac-quiao si Miguel Cottonoong Nobyembre 14 saLas Vegas, upang maagawang korona nito bilangWorld Boxing Organizationwelterweight champion, aynasabi ng “pambansangkamao” ng Pilipinas saisang nakapanayam namanunulat: “Ako ay isangordinaryong boksingerolamang”.

Sagot ng kanyang trai-ner na si Fredie Roach:“Hindi ka ordinaryo.”

Isinagot niya: “Pata-wad, Master.”

Masasalamin sa mgakatagang binitiwan kapwanina Pacquiao at Roach anglihim kung bakit nagingmatagumpay ang siyam nataon nilang pagsasama nanagbunga ng 7 kampeo-natong pandaigdig: 1) fly-weight, 2) super-bantam-weight, 3) featherweight, 4)super-featherweight, 5)

lightweight, 6)super-light-weight at 7) welterweight.

Ito ay tagumpay na siyalamang ang nakagawa samahabang kasaysayan ngboksing sa mundo. Tagum-pay na pinuhunanan ngpawis, paghihirap at sakri-pisyo na nag-ugat sa pag-mamahal sa kanyang inana ginusto niyang maibsanang paghihirap matapos naang pamilya ay iwanan ngkanyang ama noong siya ayanim na taong-gulang palamang.

Kung paano niya pi-natumba si Cotto sa ikat-long round. At minsan pasa ikaapat na round. Kungpaano niya tinanggap ang’di birong suntok ng datingkampeon. Malalakas na

right straight at ang kina-tatakutan ng lahat na lefthook. Kung paano niyapatuloy na hinamon angtumatakbong si Cotto nalumaban at sumuntok aynagpapatunay lamang nglakas ‘di lamang ng kan-yang pangangatawankundi ng kanyang isip namatagalan ang lahat ngparusang ibinigay ng ka-laban.

Kung paano niya si-nunod ang aral mula kaySun Tzu, isang kilalangwar tactician na nagbilinng: “Strike at their (en-emies) gaps, attack whenthey are lax, don’t let theenemy figure out how toprepare.”

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VOL. XXX, NO. 46 • NOBYEMBRE 13 - 19, 2009 • PAGE 8

Aling Dionisia at Pacman, ang “pambansang kamao”... ngiti ng nagmamahalan at nagtutulungang mag-ina

Pacquiao at ang kanyang “Master” na si Freddie Roach... ika-7 kampeonato sa 9 na taong pagsasama

Disiplina’t pagsasanay ng disipulo mula sa guro... tagumpay na pinuhunanan ng pawis at sakripisyo

Bitbit ito ng sumalubong kay Pacquiao sa Las Vegas...nauwi sa pulitika ang paghanga sa kanilang idolo

Mga larawan mula sa MNS

NI DINO BALABO

MARILAO, Bulacan — Malapit nang matunghayan at mamasada sa mga lan-sangan ng Lungsod ng Quezon ang de-kuryenteng tricycle na tugon sa mataasna presyo ng petrolyo na naimbento ng Bulakenyong inhinyero.

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