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“The implementation of development programs across the province resulted to better scores on eradicat-ing extreme poverty and hunger,” Moreno said.

For the education sector, he said classrooms are built and national high schools are established to improve the quality of education that the students of Misamis Oriental receive.

Moreno also said that his administration helped alleviate poverty in for-

MISAMIS Oriental––Governor Oscar S. Moreno told in his State-of-the Province Address (SOPA) that Misamis Oriental has the least poverty incidence in Northern Mindanao as shown by the latest available record of the National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB).

mer insurgency hot spots, reached out to indigenous communities and supported farmers in attaining agri-cultural productivity.

He further said that his administration is focused on doing the province’s share in fullfilling the coun-try’s commitment to the Millenium Development Goals.

“We have focused to do our share in the country’s commitment of achieving the Millennium Develop-

ment Goals (MDG) on eight (8) areas: reducing pov-erty and hunger, educating all children, empowering women, saving children, caring for mothers, com-bating diseases, using re-sources wisely and working together,” he said.

Finally, he assured his constituents that during his term, the government will continue get closer to people through the various projects of his administra-tion. pia

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By ED N. MALIZACorrespondent

MALAYBALAY City––As of June 2012, the BIR’s Revenue District Office here is labeled as number one in collection within Region 10.

District’s collection goal of P957,575,000 this year is reduced as of June as January to June collection of the district has an excess of 6.62%.

Luna Pundamudag, Rev-enue Officer II/Chief of Staff of the district, said that they got the number one place

Editor: CRIS DIAZ, Email: crisguardian@yahoo.comNews In Focus

SCHOOLCHILDREN re-quire adequate nutritional supplementation to help them keep up with the de-mands of their increasingly active lives.

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RDO-Malaybalay tops in collectionbecause of their regular tax seminar to taxpayers which has contributed a lot to their collection.

“Since the assumption of RDO Myrna Bernardo some-time in February 2011, we are conducting the tax informa-tion seminar or orientation to tax payers intended to new registrants every last Tuesday of the month. But we are also conducting the same kind of seminar should there will be new issuances,” Pundamudag said.

Second, Pundamudag said,

the implementation of tax laws and administrative procedures, the information drive and tax compliance verification drive which means tax mapping by inspecting stores if registered and if they pay the correct taxes, “Has also contributed to the district’s collection”.

“Taxpayers should know why they pay taxes and how necessity tax paying is because if they don’t they will not pay their taxes promptly,” the chief of staff lamented.

He said that personnel wise, the district is underman.

“Kulang ta ug manpower but despite ana ang city gov-ernment sa Malaybalay and provincial government of Bukidnon are providing us job orders, to include some municipalities mao nga I am very thankful to the city mayor, provincial governor and some municipal mayors of their sup-port,” he said adding that unlike Iligan City and the provincial government of Lanao are not supportive to the BIR.

District 99 of Malaybalay City which includes the prov-ince of Bukidnon or of the six districts, has the highest col-lection over Cagayan de Oro City which includes Misamis Oriental; Gingoog City which includes Camiguin Province; Ozamis City which includes Misamis Occidental; Iligan City which includes Lanao del Norte and Marawi City which

Republic of the PhilippinesFOURTH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT

Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City

IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-062AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE AGREFMENT OF SPOUSES MANUEJJDO V. SUSON AND GEMMA L. SORIANO-SUSON,

MANUELIDO V. SUSON AND GEMMA L. SORIANO-SUSON

ORDER

Before me this court is a verified joint petition for the approval and Registration of Divorce filed by petitioners on July 11, 2012 alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife, they got married on January 26, 2002, under civil rites, 3nd residents of Iligan City and Tangke, Talisay City, respectively, at which they can be served with summons and other legal processes e/o Zaide Law Of-fice, Pafs Mejia Building, Roxas Avenue, Iligan City; That said marriage did not last, but not long after their marriage, they manifested incompatibility that reach the point of irreconcilability. Due to inability of petitioners to perform essential marital obligations to each other, they decided to live physically separated from each other and executed agreement to formalize their separation. Since their separation in the early part of 2007, or for more than five (5) years already, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding other’s affairs, petitioners seek to approve their divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on January 26, 2002, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on August 3, 2012 at 9:00 A.M. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show cause why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 11th day of July, 2012.

HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding JudgeMDN: July 14, 20 & 27, 2012

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CAGAYAN de Oro City––Calling their campaign “Pipol’s Power” (Women & children leading the fight to Keep Mindanao’s Hydro-power Resources in People’ Hands) , women leaders of Mindanao are “up in arms” to stop the sale of Napocor’s Agus-Pulangi Hydropower complex, and to rally local governments to press for the amendment or scrapping of the EPIRA law.

The group led by Mind-anao Commission on Wom-en chair Ms. Irene Santiago and Ms. Teresa dela Rosa, and supported by Kon-sumanting Kagay-anon Inc. and the Office of the MisOr vice governor, declared in a press conference, July 19, that they will start Pipol’s Power enlistment campaign in all Mindanao cities and provinces by asking LGU leaders to first submit board resolutions to Malacanang stopping the sale of Min-danao’s natural electric-ity sources, and to scrap or amend the EPIRA law. This will be followed by a person-to-person “sales” drive asking for pledges “to buy the Agus – Pulangi Hydro Power Complex. The pledges will collected from public drop-boxes installed in Pipol’s Power Pledging stations. Arm bracelets marked “Pipol’s Power. I am buying the Agus Pulangui Hydro Power Complex” were distributed to the at-tendees of the conference.

When asked why they dub their campaign as “Pipol’s Power, the conve-nors said: “Because PNoy (president Noynoy Aquino) insiusts on privatizing Agus Pulangi, the people will “buy” the power complex collectively. We will buy it so that it will be owned by the people now and in the future.

The group added that the campaign hopes to “remind PNoy who his real boss is –

By GERRY L. GORITCorrespondent

CAGAYAN de Oro Mayor Vicente Y. Emano said there is nothing wrong with the travels abroad of Represen-tative Benjo Benaldo of the city’s first district and that his lifestyle is just being made an issue by political opponents because of the coming elections.

Speaking during an in-terview over a local radio program, Emano said the congressman can person-ally afford the expenses of travelling abroad and that Benaldo has not been

PHOTO BY GERRY L. GORITCAGAYAN de Oro Mayor Vicente Y. Emano (inset) says the personal lifestyle of Rep. Benjo Benaldo is just being made an issue because of the coming elections but that there’s nothing wrong with the confgressman’s travels abroad.

Nothing wrong with Benaldo’s lifestyle: Cagayan de Oro mayor

remiss in the city’s first district when it comes to projects.

Emano even said that Benaldo just recently gave rice to the poor and that the congressman’s projects encompass all barangays in the first district.

The city mayor like-wise brushed aside reports that Benaldo was not seen around in the aftermath of the Sendong calamity, saying there was no end the help extended by the congressman.

Emano said it is not right that Benaldo’s pho-tograph with a Russian

woman should be made an issue as the congressman’s marriage has been annulled.

“Gihimo lang kini issue kay hapit na ang election,” Emano said.

The latest project of Benaldo for the city’s first congressional district is the purchase of an additional tractor for farmers.

Political observers say that Misamis Oriental Gov-ernor Oscar Moreno is running for congressman in Cagayan de Oro’s first district––and will no longer vie for the mayoral seat comes the 2013 midterm elections.

Pipol’s Power launched to stop sale of power sources

By ALLAN M. MEDIANTE, Executive editor

the very people who toppled a dictator and installed the country’s first woman presi-dent, his mother.” Political and electrical power must remain in people’s hands. When asked why the cam-paign is now spearheaded by women, the group an-swered that electricity prob-lems such as paying bills is a woman’s issue because they are the ones doing the household budget, and that electricity is important to women’s productive and reproductive roles.

During said conference, Ms. Santiago also reiterated their opposition to the sale of Napocor assets, particu-larly the Agus and Pulangi Hydro complex to private businesses. She cited that Republic Act 9136 known as the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) has failed to protect consumers from alleged abuses and

greediness by electric com-panies all over the country.

EPIRA Law, A Failure:“The EPIRA is a failure

since, we are now, instead, paying the highest elec-tricity rates in Asia,” they argued. (EPIRA sought to establish a liberalized and market-based power indus-try supposedly to deliver a quality, reliable, secure and affordable supply of electric-ity for the public. EPIRA’s comprehensive power sector plan defined the restructur-ing and privatization of power generation, trans-mission and distribution in the country. In short, it articulated how the govern-ment will rely primarily on the profit-seeking private sector, including foreign investors, for the country’s electricity needs.

However, even lawmak-ers admit that the said law was a huge failure. Calls have been passed thru bills filed in Congress to correct

the error and immediately review and repeal the EPIRA and pass measures that will bring help electricity rates down.

Even House Speaker Fe-liciano “Sonny” Belmonte was urged to consider all pending proposals at the House of Representatives aimed at reviewing and repealing the EPIRA.

Stop oil drilling: SiaBy ED N. MALIZACorrespondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City––The most dangerous tragedy earth can give to the people is the negative effect of oil drilling.

This was the statement of City Councilor Juan Sia in his special report Tuesday.

He said that environ-mentalist should look into this and not only focus on illegal logging and mining activities.

“Angay masayod ang atong mga environmental-ists nga ang pinakadako nga

mahitabo sa kalibotan mao ang epekto sa oil drilling kay pareho ra nga gidunggab ang kalibotan. Why not go against oil drillers,” Sia said.

The City Councilor said that a single oilrig can dump more than 90,000 metric tons of drilling fluid and metal cuttings into the ocean; can drill between 50-100 wells, each dumping 25,000 pounds of toxic met-als, such as lead, chromium and mercury, and potent carcinogens like toluene, benzene and xylene into the ocean and can pollute

Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING

AND REGULATORY BOARDRegion X, Cagayan de Oro City

ROMEO AWITAN CASE NO; 2012-10-1226 Applicant/s (2007-10-1179)

NOTICE OF HEARING

APPLICANT request authority for extension of validity to operate FILCAB service on the line;Malaybalay City-Valencia City –Kibawe and vice versa with the use of one (1)unit/s. This application will be considered by this Board on July 19, 2012, 10;00 A.M. at its Office, Apovel, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, on which date applicant shall formally submit his/her evidence. At least FIVE(5)days prior to the date of hearing applicant shall publish its notice once in one(1) DAILY newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao Island. Parties opposed to the granting of the application must file their written opposition with documentary evidence submitted by the parties; unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral evidence to be submitted by the parties. N.B. FAILURE TO APPEAR AT THE SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICA-TION. WITNESS THE HONORABLE MAN-DANGAN P. DARIMBANG, CESO V, Regional Director, this 13th day of July, 2012.

MARIANNE C. ULEPMARIANNE C. ULEPRecords Officer/Acting Docket Officer

MDN: July 14, 2012

Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING

AND REGULATORY BOARDRegion X, Cagayan de Oro City

JULIA MANZANO CASE NO; 2012-10-1228 Applicant/s (2007-10-1427)

NOTICE OF HEARING

APPLICANT request authority for exten-sion of validity to operate PUJ Service on the line; Cogon Market to Bulua and vice versa with the use of one (1)unit/s. This application will be considered by this Board on July 19, 2012, 10;00 A.M. at its Office, Apovel, Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, on which date applicant shall formally submit his/her evidence. At least FIVE(5)days prior to the date of hearing applicant shall publish its notice once in one(1) DAILY newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao Island. Parties opposed to the granting of the application must file their written opposition with documentary evidence submitted by the parties; unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral evidence to be submitted by the parties. N.B. FAILURE TO APPEAR AT THE SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME OF HEARING SHALL MEAN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICA-TION. WITNESS THE HONORABLE MAN-DANGAN P. DARIMBANG, CESO V, Regional Director, this 13th day of July, 2012.

MARIANNE C. ULEPMARIANNE C. ULEPRecords Officer/Acting Docket Officer

MDN: July 14, 2012

THINK a minute.Imagine you are walk-

ing through your town or village.

Suddenly, you notice how red everyone’s eyes are and that many people are wearing sunglasses—indoors!

You don’t have to be a genius to know that a bad eye infection is spreading, infecting people who in turn infect other people.

You and I can catch many different kinds of infections from other people, especially from those with whom we spend a lot of time, such as our mate and close friends. And we do not just catch physical infections of our bodies.

We catch other people’s attitudes, priorities, way of

A good infection

thinking and living. This is the meaning of the well-known saying: “People are known by the company they keep.” That’s why we should choose the person we marry and our close friends very carefully.

Like it or not, sooner or later we’re definitely going to be infected and influenced by their way of thinking and living. We will become like them in varying degrees.

Imagine there was some-one whom you wanted to influence you with the best character, thinking and life-style.

Someone you could be with all day every day. A person who understood and accepted you, yet who also challenged and helped you improve daily in every area of your life.

Soon everything about you started to change: your

attitudes and character, your job and career success, your relationships, lifestyle and habits. All because of this one successful, exciting person you spent time with every day.

Well, Jesus Christ came to do just that.

He came to infect and start changing you with His character so you can start enjoying real satisfaction and success everyday. So why not ask Him to forgive you for your wrong heart, relationships and lifestyle? Then ask Him to take charge of your character and way of living.

Only then can you catch His divine infection that will change your life per-manently.

Just Think a Minute.

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Has the Aquino government lost momentum in running after Arroyo?

By BENJIE OLIVEROSof Bulatlat.com

THE impeachment and even-tual resignation of former ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, and the impeach-ment of former chief justice Renato Corona last year, which resulted in his removal this year, would surely ban-ner the enumeration of ac-complishments of President Benigno Aquino III.

The removal of Gutierrez and Corona, the principal protectors of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the biggest stumbling blocks to holding her to ac-count for her crimes against the people, are laudable ac-complishments.

However, these would lose its significance if the process falls short of bringing Glo-

ria Macapagal-Arroyo, her family and top officials to account for all their crimes against the people, to include plunder, electoral fraud and sabotage, and most especially extrajudicial killings, en-forced disappearances and other human rights viola-tions.

It is a bad enough deed for a president and his or her family to dip their hands into the nation’s coffers; it becomes worse, if they also deny from the people, their only means of democratic participation: voting. Add these to the most terrible crimes of all: killing 1,026 people, and making 206 others disappear.

As of the present, the Aquino government has been able to file a case of electoral sabotage against

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. This, it did shortly after Arroyo tried to sneak out of the country but was held at the departure area. The bail hearings have just been concluded – with Judge Jesus Mupas of the Pasay Regional Trial Court about to issue a decision on the petition – and the pre-trial has been set on August 23.

Also graft charges have been filed before the San-diganbayan against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s husband Miguel and 20 Philippine National Police (PNP) offi-cials for the fraudulent sale of second-hand helicopters to the PNP, which were mis-represented as brand new. However, the wheels of jus-tice in these cases have been grinding so slowly.

Thus, after the frantic

pace of the two impeachment proceedings last year, the process to put the Arroyos before the bar of justice has considerably slowed down. The question is why?

With two of the biggest obstacles – Gutierrez and Corona – out of the way, why has the process slowed down? Why is it that the Aquino government seems content with the electoral sabotage case? With the nu-merous corruption scandals involving the Arroyos, why hasn’t a plunder charge been filed? Surely, there are a lot of evidences that have been gathered as these have been the subject of numerous Congressional investigations. Aren’t two years enough to build a case? It took only three months for a

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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Then God said, ̀ I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food’…” (Genesis 1:29, the Holy Bible).

-ooo-C ORON IMPORT S

RICE AND CORN: When a tourist, local or foreign, talks with a native of Coron, Palawan, the conversation invariably leads to the lack or shortage not only of elec-tricity in the town, but of rice and ordinary vegetables as well. The reason? Farm-ing is virtually non-existent in Coron, requiring the importation, as it were, of rice and vegetables needed by Coron residents from Manila and Mindoro.

Many natives of Coron find this anomalous, or so I am told. The reason advanced by them is the

Coron: neglected tourist haven

existence of a 48,000 hect-are-vacant land, greatly suited for agriculture, sur-rounding the Francisco B. Reyes Airport. This vast estate was formerly known as the Yulo King Ranch of the Yulo family.

I am told that this ranch, which was used to grow cows and horses imported from Australia and which was planted with grass like-wise coming from Australia during the time of President Marcos, was sequestered by the first Aquino gov-ernment, as soon as the Presidential Commission on

Good Government (PCGG) was first established.

-ooo-48,000 HECTARE YULO

RANCH REMAINS UN-USED: But then, after it was sequestered, the ranch was never used anymore. As of now, and even dur-ing the terms of President Ramos, President Estrada and President Arroyo, the Yulo ranch is inexplicably left idle, the natives told me. It became, and remains to this day, untended, unused, and totally unproductive.

Coron natives are won-dering why, after the Cory

Aquino government took the ranch away from the Yulo family on charges that they merely fronted for the Marcos family to acquire the estate, nobody wanted to touch it anymore, leaving it to the elements and wild weeds and grasses.

At the very least, the natives are saying, the gov-ernment could subject the ranch to either corporate farming, so rice, corn and other agricultural crops could be planted and grown thereon, or subject it to land reform and divide it into several parcels for distri-bution to Coron residents who are willing to go to farming, and thereby ease up the rice and vegetable shortage in the island.

-ooo-WHAT TO DO WITH

YULO RANCH: As of now, a group of settlers from

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MINDANAO’S economic life today, from power-intensive industries to ordinary households, requires higher level of electricity supply but at reasonable rates.

The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA), a law which sought to establish a liberalized and market-based power industry supposedly to deliver a quality, reliable, secure and affordable supply of electricity for the public, has not delivered its promises. IT IS AN EPIC FAILURE according to the Mindanao Commission on Women. The group is now spearheading a campaign dubbed as Pipol’s Power to stop the sale of Agus Pulangi Hydro complex because it will only aggravate the situation.

Under the EPIRA law, privatization of Mindanao’s power sources would only led to monopoly of the power industry and will only enrich them, like the so-called “Voltage Five,” families according to the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) who identified them as the Lopezes, Aboitizes, Manuel V. Pangilinan, Danding Cojuangco, and Henry Sy. These five super-rich families, have become much, much richer, having cornered the fruits of EPIRA privatization, critics say.

NPC generating plants and contracted capacities with independent power producers (IPPs) have been sold particularly to the San Miguel, Aboitiz and Lopez groups. The power industry from generation, transmis-sion, distribution to supply is thus now almost entirely controlled by the private sector.

The World Bank’s public-private partnership (PPP) in infrastructure database shows that the Aboitiz Group is the foremost beneficiary of privatization, followed by the Lopez Group, DMCI, Suritimo and J-Power.

The result? Electricity rates in the Philippines today are among the highest in Asia. Comparing electricity rates in 31 major cities in Asia, residential consum-ers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao, and the Davao and CARAGA regions are paying twice the electricity rates of residents in Seoul and Beijing. Except for CARAGA, all the Mindanao regions have more expensive residential power rates than Hong Kong. These areas in Mindanao, plus Cotabato City, Iligan City, SOCKSARGEN, and the Zamboanga Peninsula all have higher residential rates than major Asian capitals.

EPIRA restructured and privatized power genera-tion, transmission and distribution in the country, mak-ing the government inutile, relying primarily on the profit-seeking private sector, for the country’s electricity needs. The rising power rates over the last decade of EPIRA have become the worst problem of the poorest Filipino families.

Hence, Power industry should not be turned over to private corporate interests. Instead of laws like EPIRA, the government should develop a state-supported energy sector to fulfill the promise of sufficient, affordable and efficient electricity for Filipinos.

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heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30). The implication is that if we yoke ourselves to the Savior (a yoke joins two animals) we have Him to labor with us at our sides. When yoked together, the

two animals must go in the same direction and be united in their efforts. What a marvelous anal-ogy, that we should go in the same direction as the Savior! Going in His direction, we would learn of Him. Two animals are yoked

together for the purpose of pulling loads. Often the loads are very heavy and the animals exert all their strength to pull the loads, and the yokes rub against their shoulders, often pro-ducing troublesome sores. The Savior’s yoke, however, is easy, and His burden is light. The statement tells us that when we are teamed with the Jesus, we will not need to struggle as do yoked animals in order to do our part. To work with the Him, going in His direction and doing His will, we are in-structed, is easy and the burden associated therewith

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is light. The Lord would be our companion, and would give us the necessary strength always to accomplish His will. Nothing could be more delightful than to be yoked to the Lord in doing all that we undertake to do. Why not take His yoke instead of ours? If you have not found that rest offered to all who will learn of Him who is meek and lowly in heart, would you not better yoke up with Christ without

delay? Bear only His bur-dens. Do not load yourself with cares that weigh you down to the ground. Your troubles come because you are so anxious to manage matters yourself that you do not wear the yoke of Christ. Claim every promise; all are yours if you will comply with the prescribed terms. Entire self-surrender, an acceptance of Christ’s ways, is the secret of perfect rest in His love.

Iligan gets P7M SALINTUBIG grant

ILIGAN City – The city will receive a grant of P7 million, under the Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig Para sa Lahat (SALINTUBIG) pro-gram of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). According to DILG-10 Director Rene K. Burdeos, the amount will be used in the provision of safe and potable water for 1,000 survivors of tropical storm Sendong at the Santa Elena resettlement site. The project compo-nents are construction of reservoir, chlorination house and installation of distribution pipelines to the individual units in the resettlement site. Distribution pipelines will tap the existing trans-mission line of the Iligan City Water System (ICWS),

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hence, the project is not quite complex, as it will only take three months to complete, Director Bur-deos added. It is expected to com-mence next month after

all the documentary re-quirements shall have been complied with by the city government. The ICWS, a depart-ment of the city govern-ment that handles the

city-owned water system facilities, will manage the project. Iligan City is one of the beneficiary-cities of the SALINTUBIG program. (ACWF/asf)

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Recognizing this phenom-enon can save lives. A tsunami is usually composed of a series of waves, called a wave train, so its destructive force may be compounded as succes-sive waves reach shore. People experiencing a tsunami should remember that the danger may not have passed with the first wave and should await of-ficial word that it is safe to return to vulnerable locations. Some tsunamis do not appear on shore as massive breaking waves but instead resemble a quickly surging tide that inundates coastal areas. The best defense against any tsunami is early warn-ing that allows people to seek higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning System, a coalition of 26 nations headquar-tered in Hawaii, maintains a web of seismic equipment and water level gauges to identify tsunamis at sea. Similar systems are pro-posed to protect coastal areas worldwide. (Google)

meteorite plunging into an ocean. Tsunamis race across the sea at up to 500 miles (805 kilometers) an hour—about as fast as a jet airplane. At that pace they can cross the entire expanse of the Pacific Ocean in less than a day. And their long wavelengths mean they lose very little energy along the way. In deep ocean, tsunami waves may appear only a foot or so high. But as they approach shoreline and enter shallower water they slow down and begin to grow in energy and height.

The tops of the waves move faster than their bot-toms do, which causes them to rise precipitously. A tsunami’s trough, the low point beneath the wave’s crest, often reaches shore first. When it does, it pro-duces a vacuum effect that sucks coastal water seaward and exposes harbor and sea floors. This retreating of sea water is an important warn-ing sign of a tsunami, be-cause the wave’s crest and its enormous volume of water typically hit shore five minutes or so later.

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Power...from page 3

Another Bill also called for a review of unjust taxa-tion schemes being imposed on electricity consumers such as taxes for genera-tion charges, transmission charges and even for systems loss.

EPIRA only strength-ened monopoly of power

industryAn analysis from the

IBON Foundation says that after ten years after, all the EPIRA has done is usher in the monopolization into private hands of the power industry where giant cor-porate energy players have been making significant profits at the expense of the public and national development.

Ibon says that under EPIRA, the bulk of the coun-try’s generation facilities and contracted capacities have been privatized, the transmission sector is in private hands, and the dis-tribution sector which was already liberalized prior to EPIRA remains dominated by a handful of private dis-tribution utilities. Increased control of the industry by foreign and local companies over the past decade has increased private power profits at the cost of more expensive electricity for the Filipino people.

Ibon bared that under EPIRA, the National Power Corporation (NPC) gener-ating plants and contracted capacities with independent power producers (IPPs) have been sold particu-larly to the San Miguel, Aboitiz and Lopez groups. For instance, the San Miguel group took 76% worth of total 3,346 megawatts (MW) rated capacity of privatized NPC-IPP contracts in 2009 and 2010, aside from 620 MW worth of generation plants. The Aboitiz group meanwhile bought 36% of the total 4,103 MW rated capacity of privatized gener-ating/operating plants. The Lopez group in turn took 14% of privatized plants. The power industry from generation, transmission, distribution to supply is thus now almost entirely controlled by the private sector.

Coron...from page 4

Mindoro have sort of “invaded” the Yulo ranch and started tilling portions of it. The group calls itself “Pesantes”, which is a word taken from the English word “peasant”, or farmers. I am not sure if there is any gov-ernment permission for what they are doing now, but they have blazed a trail, so to speak, on what to do with the vast land.

Some members of the group told me that if even only a tenth of the Yulo ranch is devoted to rice production---which means, about 4,800 hectares would

Arroyo...from page 4

plunder charge to be filed against former president Joseph Estrada when he was ousted in 2001. Added to this, a plunder case is non-bailableso it could provide the basis for the continued detention of former president Arroyo.

Why has the Aquino government been ignoring the cries for justice of the relatives of victims of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances? Surely these had been the most virulent and worst crimes of the previ-ous Arroyo administration.

Moreover, holding Arroyo and her top military and police officials accountable for these abhorrent crimes against the people would have been a major step in

Palace...from page 6

are employees of the rubber plantation. The in-formation that we now have is that the investigation is underway, conducted by the PNP in that area, while the AFP will continue to provide support by way of securing the area,” Valte said.

Authorities suspect the Abu Sayyaf Group as re-sponsible for the ambush of the rubber plantation workers in a convoy that was escorted by govern-ment militiamen in Sumisip on Wednesday killing six persons and wounding 22 others.

The military said that a four-vehicle convoy of the workers of the Tumajubong Agrarian Reform Benefi-ciaries Integrated Develop-ment Council (TARBIDC) was traversing along the

Drilling...from page 3

the air as much as 7,000 cars driving 50 miles a day.

“In 1998, a rupture in Torch Oil’s pipeline spilled 21,000 gallons of oil, dam-aging a rich ocean fishing ground and killing wildlife in the delicate coastal eco-system at the mouth of the Santa Ynez River,” Sia said.

In his special report, Sia said that oil and natural gas are so dominant and subsidized that alternative solutions seem out of reach. Change happens whether we are ready or not. Global oil production is peaking right about now, the downslope means that growth for the world corporate economy is directly threatened.

“Everyone must get ready for sustainable alternatives to survive oil scarcity. We will puts off serious and overdue cuts in energy waste today and will incorporate slashing energy use now

confronting impunity. It could have spared the lives of Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, Willem Geertman, councilor and Bayan Muna Fernando Baldomero of Aklan, farmer Guillermo Castillo of Mind-oro, urban poor leader Anto-nio Homo, Rodel Estrellado of Bicol, B’laan tribal chief Rudy Yalon-Dejos and his son Rody Rick, and more than 80 others.

Has the Aquino govern-ment run out of momentum?

“To those who are talking about reconciliation, if they mean that they would like us to simply forget about the wrongs that they have committed in the past, we have this to say: there can be no reconciliation without justice.”

These are tough words uttered by President Be-nigno Aquino III during his inaugural address. But these need to be matched by action. And so far, the actions of the Aquino government for justice have come far in-between, and have fallen short of what is expected of it. (http://bulatlat.com)

be planted to palay and some 100 cavans of the staple could be produced for each hectare---that would mean 480,000 cavans for just one planting. Imagine how much more could be produced if the land is planted twice in a year.

Indeed, the present Aqui-no government should start giving this matter serious consideration. Especially because Coron, despite its shortcomings at this stage, is fast shaping up as a top tourist destination for the Philippines for local and foreign tourists alike, and it is going to be pity if minor problems would derail this direction of the town.

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Circumferential Road in Barangay Sapah Bulak at around 6 a.m. when it was attacked.

Meanwhile, another violent incident took place in Lamitan town also on Wednesday where f ive people were killed while 30 others, including eight soldiers securing the vot-ers’ re-registration, were wounded in an ambush, Valte said, adding that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has been coor-dinating with the police to provide tighter security for the people in the area.

The 10-day relisting of voters is being held in areas under the Autonomous Re-gion in Muslim Mindanao in efforts to cleanse the voters’ list. The re-registration will run until July 18.

with our efforts to stop the exploitation of oil fields that should be off limits forever,” Sia’s special report disclosed.

City Councilor Ramon Tabor, on his part, said that we should give emphasis to the report.

“Kaniadtong gamay pa ako, nadunggan ko kana sa akong mga iyaan nga ang pagadto sa tawo didto sa bulan comicks lang kana makit-an. But look it hap-pens. Karon kinahanglan nga aduna gayod kita’y panagang ug mapugngan ba nato kini kay sa ako lang mura’g dili nato kini matugkad. Mapasalama-ton kita nga aduna kita’y walking encyclopedia nga sama kang Kag. Juan Sia,” Tabor said.

City Councilor Alvin Calingin who was happy of the topic said that the coun-cil should create a principle to protect and adopting a policy of exhorting to reduce carbon consumption in the community.

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includes Lanao del Sur.When asked of the highest tax

payer of the district, Pundamudag replied: “DPWH and the provincial government of Bukidnon due to their withholding tax”.

Tax col lect ion goals of the d is t r ic t in 2011 was P794,629,000 and was increased to P957,575,000 or 20.5%.

“Our goal every year is being increased by no less than 15%;” the chief of staff said.

Tax collection of the district in 2010 was increased by 18.43% in 2011 or from P690,481,008 to P817,764,698 while January to June in 2011 has an increased of 26.40% the same period this year.

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PCSO DRAW RESULTS - JULY 13, 2012

4-D : 7-3-0-4

14-45-30-04-13-31Jackpot Prize:

Php30,000,000.00

45-49-30-30-20-44Jackpot Prize:

Php25,272,259.20

22-17-01-13-32-06Jackpot Prize:

Php6,552,570.60

43-31-29-27-23-25Jackpot Prize:

Php12,597,001.20

11a.m. - 28-314p.m. - 24-119p.m. - 03-05

11 a.m. 4-4-44 p.m. 6-9-39 p.m. 3-1-8SUERTRES RESULTS

DATE 11 am 4 pm 9 pmJuly 6 973 346 185July 7 166 352 377July 8 489 146 728July 9 022 204 156July 10 548 376 318July 11 834 249 258July 12 098 888 363

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