asian journal july 29, 2011

To Live, to Learn, To Love, And To Leave

A Legacy: .. p. 21

RP’s Malnutrition and Religion .. p. 11

President Aquino Delivers Second SONA

Paquita Adaza, President of the Divine Mercy Foundation of Mindanao, was invited to San Diego to share the story of the Divine Mercy Hills at the home of Zarina Cruz where about 30 people at-tended and gave pledges to build the church. (See page 18)

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Remember the money I have been paying you during our hospital equipment business?” Bobby asked Danny.

“Yes.”“That’s the solution to your problem.”“How?” Danny asked.“You need to earn $12,000 to make enough

points so you can claim benefi ts for your mi-nor children, right?”

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much money. In fact, you’ve earned it already. All we have to do is to apply my payments to you as your income, fi le an income tax return on it, and presto! You will then have earned the required points!”

“But do I have to pay an income tax?”“Of course! Even if you pay $1,000, you

will get $800 every month with $400 each for your two minor children! You will be way ahead!”

“But I do not have the $1,000 to pay for my tax,” Danny lamented.

Anybody would get frustrated with that kind of attitude, but not his friend Bobby. Although Bobby grew exasperated by Danny’s reply, he calmed himself down. He reminded himself he was dealing with an irresponsible person, somebody he had known as such so for years. Once he recovered his senses, Bobby offered to shoulder the payment for the taxes.

An American Daughterby Simeon G. Silverio, Jr.

Publisher & Editor in Chief, Asian Journal San Diego

Chapter 23

By Jenelyn C. Baligat, Philippine Daily Inquirer | July 24th, 2011 -- For those born with silver spoons in their mouths, life is comfort-able and getting a college degree is not a problem, as-suming they have the smarts for it. Silver or gold, spoon or otherwise, our family has none. Not even educational plans to fi nance our studies. But we had hopes and aspira-tions aplenty.

I am the youngest of fi ve children. My father is a policeman-farmer and my

mother is a dry goods vendor. In our home in a small town in Isabela, my parents’ meager incomes were used to make both ends meet.

A Church for Divine Mercy Hills

113 Reasons Why I Love My Country and Proud to be a FilipinoIn celebration of the Philippines’

113th year of Independence, here’s a list of why I love my country and proud to be a Filipino. Its simple and straight forward, ranked and numbered in no particular order.

My Family and RelativesBarkadaKaraoke (Wired and Wireless)Original Pilipino Music (Martin,

Gary V, Zsa Zsa, Regine, APO Hik-ing Society, Ogie etc)

Teleseryes/TelenovelasLechonWorld-Class Beaches (Boracay,

Palawan etc)Tingi-Tingi (Candy, Cellphone load)

Dirty Ice Cream (Cheese, Chocolate, Vanilla)

Ernie Delfi nMsgr. Gutierrez Ben MaynigoSana, SONA, South China,

Saan Na. p. 20

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Adopt A Hospital In Pandan, AntiqueIn the recent issue of

Asian Journal, July 8-14, 2011, pp 18, a serial cover-age of my book, Memoirs of a Filipino American Doctor From Antique to America was written. Excerpts of that article are in the following manuscript to demonstrate the dreams do come true. The concept of adopt a hospital was envisioned eleven years ago as narrated in my book. As of this writing, the Justice Calixto O Zaldivar Memorial Hospital in Pandan, Antique, a 25 bed community hospital, will received medical equip-ments and supplies from Pan-dan Antique Foundation, Inc.

(PAF,Inc) through a benevolent donor, Medical Ministries Inter-national (MMI).

When I took the pictures of the hospital’s unpleas-ant environment and incomplete facilities from room to room it stirred a thousand, nay, a hundred thousand words. If you look at the photos, the environs must be like hell’s ferment. If you are unmoved of what I have just said, your heart must be made of solid-rock, of gran-ite. The poignant sight of this

small community hospital in my small town Pandan stirred my soul and indelibly etched in my mind. It spurred me to help.

A Dream Come True:

by Dr. Caesar Candari, M.D.

Philippines President Benigno Aquino,III addressed the joint ses-sion of the Congress of the Philip-pines which resumed its Second Regular Session of the 15th Con-gress on Monday, July 25, 2011.

Here the president reported on the progress of government pro-grams and the successes of his ad-ministration.

Highlights of President Aquino’s speech include:

The reduction of rice importa-tions to the Philippines and contin-ued steps to rice self-suffi ciency.

The lower unemployment rateThe 4,000 housing units distrib-

uted to personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and PNP

He vowed to protect Philippine sovereignty and territory, saying that the government is studying to elevate the West Philippine Sea is-sue to an international tribunal.

Here is the full transcript of the State of the Nation address:

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte; Senate President Juan Ponce En-rile; Vice President Jejomar Bi-nay, Chief Justice Renato Corona, Former Presidents Fidel Valdez Ramos and Joseph Ejercito Es-trada; Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate; distinguished members of the dip-lomatic corps;

My beloved countrymen:Our administration is facing a

forked road. On one direction, decisions are made to protect the welfare of our people; to look after the interest of the majority; to have a fi rm grip on principles; and to be faithful to the public servant’s sworn oath to serve the country honestly.

This is the straight path.On the other side, personal inter-

est is the priority, and where one becomes a slave to political con-siderations to the detriment of our nation.

This is the crooked path.For a long time, our country

lost its way in the crooked path. As days go by (since I became President), the massive scope of the problems we have inherited becomes much clearer. I could almost feel the weight of my re-sponsibilities.

In the fi rst three weeks of our administration, we discovered many things, and I will report to you some of the problems we have uncovered, and the steps we

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Dear Fellow Asian Americans,

We, Asian Pacifi c Americans in San Diego, have been again ignored and dis-criminated by the special interest mem-bers of the Redistricting Commission even though we are the fi rst one to present our case to the Commission with the loudest voice and have presented over 2,300 peti-tion signatures to the Commission.

The Commission is dividing our com-munity into three ( 3 ) separate City Coun-cil Districts. That means it further dilutes our representation, our self determination and our voting rights in this city we called home for another 10 years.

We are not “SICKMAN OF ASIA” of the 19th Century whom can be bullied at will. We will stand up for our rights pro-tected by our Constitution or we and our children will continue to be treated as 2nd class citizens.

Asian countries are becoming more and more affl uent like Japan in the 60’s and more jobs are out-sourced to Asia. Do we need to have another case of brutal murder-ing of Mr. Chen, Guo-Ren before we will act and stop such unfair treatment by the Commission? ( Mr. Chen was murdered by a Detroit auto worker who blamed the Japanese for taking their jobs and because of Mr. Chen looked like a Japanese.)

Please join us at the Asian Pacifi c Amer-ican Coalition Protest against unfair and biased treatment by the Commission. It is going to be on Thursday 7/28 at 5:00pm at Thurgood Marshall Middle School The-ater, 9700 Avenue of Nations in Scripps Ranch.

Attached are a list of media coverage, mostly have shown their sympathy to API, and comment from one Commissioner with the conscience, Commissioner The-resa Quiroz.

The following are the request from and

my response to John Lamb, reporter from City Beat regarding APAC’s response to the Pre-Map approved by the Commis-

We Are Not The “Sick man Of Asia” Of The 19th Century

Redistricting Open Letter to Asian Americans:

sion which, despite of the original goal to unite communities of interest for minori-ties, actually divides our community of interest from the current 2 city council districts into 3 districts. I have just made minor additions for clarifi cation purposes for those who are not quite familiar with the redistricting process and the recent de-velopments:

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM,

<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Dr. Chan,

Hope this fi nds you well.

First, any news about how Mitz is do-ing? I know surgery was planned for to-day, but not sure what time. Hope she’s doing OK.

Second, just wanted to see what you’re thinking as you head for the fi rst post-map hearing this Tuesday. Are you still hope-ful? There also seems to be this question about the 13% deviation that Dave Pot-ter mentioned. Vince Vasquez sent me a spreadsheet that puts the number at 0.85%, a clear difference of opinion. And also, wondering what response you’ve received since APAC Facebook posting about Com-missioner Potters “luxury” comment.

My deadline is tomorrow at 10 a.m.Much appreciated!

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Good Morning John. Thanks for your caring. Mitz had under gone surgery yes-terday around 5:30pm that lasted 5 hours. She is now in ICU for 24-48 hours. I don’t know the extent of her disease yet. Be-cause of fi ghting for Asian representation in San Diego, she had been ignoring seri-

are taking to solve them.This report is merely a glimpse

of our situation. It is not the entire picture of the crises we are facing. The reality was hidden from our people, who seem to have been deliberately obfuscated on the real state of our nation.

In the fi rst six years of this year, government expenditure exceeded our revenues. Our defi cit further in-creased to PhP196.7 billion. Our col-lection targets, which lack PhP23.8 billion, were not fully met, while we went beyond our spending by PhP45.1 billion.

Our budget for 2010 is PhP1.54 trillion. Of this, only PhP100 billion - or 6.5% of the total budget – can be used for the remaining six months of the current year. Roughly 1% of the total budget is left for each of the re-maining month.

Where did the funds go? A calamity fund worth PhP2 billion

was reserved in preparation for an-ticipated calamities. Of this already miniscule amount, at a time when the

rainy season has yet to set in, PhP1.4 billion or 70% was already spent.

The entire province of Pampanga received PhP108 million. Of this, PhP105 million went to only one dis-trict. On the other hand, the province of Pangasinan, which was severely af-fected by Typhoon Pepeng, received a mere PhP5 million, which had to be used to fi x damages infl icted not even by Pepeng, but by a previous typhoon, Cosme.

The funds were released on elec-tion month, which was seven months after the typhoon. What will hap-pen if a typhoon arrives tomorrow? The fund has been used up to repair damage from typhoons that hit us last year. Our future will pay for the greed of yesterday.

This is also what happened to the funds of the MWSS. Just recently, people lined up for water while the leadership of the MWSS rewarded itself even though the pensions of re-tired employees remain unpaid.

The entire payroll of the MWSS amounts to 51.4 million pesos an-nually. But this isn’t the full extent of what they receive: they receive additional allowances and benefi ts amounting to 81.1 million pesos. In short, they receive 211.5 million pe-sos annually. Twenty four percent of this is for normal salaries, and sixty six percent is added on.

The average worker receives up to 13th month pay plus a cash gift. In the MWSS, they receive the equiva-lent of over thirty months pay if you include all their additional bonuses and allowances.

What we discovered in the case of the salaries of their board of trustees is even more shocking. Let’s take a look at the allowances they receive:

Attending board of trustees and board committee meetings, and you get fourteen thousands pesos. This totals ninety eight thousand pesos a month. They also get an annual gro-cery incentive of eighty thousand pe-sos.

And that’s not all. They get a mid-year bonus, productivity bonus, an-niversary bonus, year-end bonus, and fi nancial assistance. They not only get a Christmas bonus, but an additional Christmas package as well. Each of these amounts to eighty thousand pesos. All in all, each member of the board receives two and a half million

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I splash water on my face and I would become truly awake, ready to start another seminary day.

I would take my place at the angelic like line in front of the chapel. We appeared like angels without wings with our white shirts and pants. Only those with

watches and golden tie clips ap-peared to be more endowed with wealth than the rest of us. None-theless, we all appeared equal with our palms clasped unto our chests like saints entering the chapel in silent cadence with the piped mu-sic like there were cherubs strum-ming lyres above the heavenly ceilings.

Dominus Vobiscum, Et cum espiritu tuo…Kyrie Elyson…stand up, sit down, kneel, mostly kneel, receive the body of the Lord – we com-mune with the saints and reach a blessed state until we hear each other’s stomach growl. Though we struggle to still commune with the saints, our stomachs bring us down to terrestrial fangs of hunger. We had to hold on, however, until it was time for us to “go in peace, the mass is over” and reverently leave our pews to reverently march out of the chapel as cherubs played the exit hymn in dissonance to the non rhythmic growling fangs of our terrestrial need for breakfast.

Hell would break lose as we live behind the heavenly confi nes of the chapel. Our shoes dashed in resonating scrapes on the pave-ment as we rushed to divest our-selves off our angelic garbs and be on varying hues of shirts, sweaters, pants, socks and shoes - now more revealing who among us were more endowed with blessings here on earth. Nonetheless, richer or poorer, we remained equal in the need to quell the pangs of hunger as we reverently rushed to the rec-tory hall.

A sunny side, two sausages, fried rice from left over rice the night before, crowd on each of the eight plates for eight table to where I belonged. For the ten tables at the rectory, a sunny side up, two sausages, fried rice from the left over rice the night before, crowd on each of the eight plates for the ten eight seats tables.

The coffee would be soggy but

would still be a welcome brew to enliven our breakfast which is equal for all. The food we were about to receive from His bounty made us all equal except that there were also apples and juice and non soggy coffee at the head table

where the Flemish rector, Flem-ish assistant rector, and Flemish principal sit.

Our stomachs would now really be howling, gurgling, clamoring for whatever they have to partake on but we all had to equally wait for the last seminarian to enter the dining hall, half embarrassed, half reverent. The rector, frowning for the delay would glare at the late comer before his right hand would fl y to his forehead, chest, left shoulder, right shoulder, Amen. Bless us Oh! Lord, in these thy gifts which we are about to receive from thy bounty through Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The last vestiges of reverence would now be totally broken as the terrestrial need to fortify one’s body take precedence over the needs of the soul. Chairs crackled as we pulled unto them. Spoons and forks banged to scrape on eggs, sausages, and rice as they slid from the plates into munching mouths to mediate the growling, gurgling stomachs.

After a while, I would be satis-fi ed with the egg, two sausages, fried rice, and soggy coffee but wondered as I have wondered since I started to wonder why those Flemish priests also had apples, juice, and non soggy cof-fee and we, seminarians, do not.

And again I wondered to myself as I had asked everyday since the day I had wondered, why are the Flemish priests’ food different from ours? Why is their coffee not soggy like ours? Is it because they are priests? Priests who are white? Because they have a different culture of eating that they could not content themselves with the food served to us? Is it because we are being prepared for our vow of poverty or are we just Filipinos? But those Flemish priests must have also been prepared for their vow of poverty. So why do they now feast on apples, juice, and non soggy coffee and we do not? Didn’t Jesus Christ share the same enliven bread and fi sh with his apostles?

Nonetheless, I burped, thank-ful for the egg, two sausages, fried rice, and soggy coffee which were actually a feast considering that I would only maybe have a pan-de-sal bread or two dunked in soggy coffee for breakfast if I was at home. I burped, thankful that slum dwellers in the remote squatter areas of Manila might

not even have any sight of even just the white of an egg, a sliver of sausage, a grain of fried rice, or a drop of soggy coffee. I burped as I stood up with all the seminar-ians and the Flemish priests as the rector’s right hand fl ew to his forehead, chest, left shoulder, right shoulder. Amen. We give thanks for all your gifts, almighty God, who lives and reigns forever. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

I still wondered why the priests’ food was different from ours, ordi-nary seminarians.

To be continued…

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Perhaps it has to do with me being Filipino-American, or that being an artist is “impractical” in the real world. Although my mom is typi-cally supportive of any decisions I make in life, her concerns about me being able to make a living off of art was inculcated to me. Another reason why I put aside my interest in pursuing something in art was because it wasn’t really encouraged by the family--they considered it as something novel and that was just a hobby for me.

Having so many forms of en-tertainment, it would be impos-sible for me to narrow it down to a favorite one. I think it is because of my exposure to different types of entertainment at the same time that I am growing up. The first form of entertainment I enjoy is making art- painting, drawing, sculpting, etc. I consider art to be my form of stress relief. Although I do not make art of-ten today, when I am overwhelmed with schoolwork or have any spare time, I tend to spend hours either drawing or painting on canvases. I would make art in the masses, on canvases and paper, because my time is so sparse.

When I am in school, I also have

a habit of doodling in notebooks. If I liked a sketch I did earlier in class,

I would save it and maybe make a bigger version of it at home. I usually make art alone in my room be-cause I think of it as my

time. There’s no need to have people there if all I am focusing on is art. I also prefer to make art by myself because I want to be alone with my thoughts and not have to bother with the opinions of other people. How-ever, when it comes to visiting art, I enjoy going with my friends who also have an interest in this form of entertainment.

However, fine art was not always

my favorite form of entertainment. My favorite past times during child-hood was reading and writing. I think what first got me interested was my teachers in elementary school. I remember that creative writing was encouraged by almost all of my teachers. In the first grade, my teacher Ms. McCann had this class activity where the students had to pick a postcard from a pile and create any story from it. I used to be so enthralled about reading every-

thing and anything. The world was full of possibilities, in each story I read, with alternate universes and interesting characters. I also had a knack for writing poems when I was younger. I loved how words could rhyme, while telling a story. I used to read famous poets for inspiration. Being an introverted little girl, read-ing and writing kept me preoccupied and kept to myself.

The older I got, my taste of literature began to change. As I learned more about the world in school, I wanted to broaden my horizons by reading all kinds of genres. I finally found joy in reading about philoso-phy and satirical books. I started to be more critical about the books that I chose to read. There was a point in time when I would only read books that were prominent at their time or had high regard in the literary world. Unfortunately, my poem writing ceased as I got older. It was no longer interesting to me because I preferred to read the words of others instead of creating my own.

My mom also played a part in introducing me to more creative things. When I was in elementary school, she would sign me up to attend informal art classes during the summer. There, I was introduced to new techniques and using nature as a subject in my artwork. When I was 12, she signed me up for private piano lessons. That same year, I joined a band in middle school and learned how to play the trumpet. A little bit after that, I was able to pick up the guitar and teach myself how to play. Having been introduced to music, all the poems I wrote in my youth lent itself to songwriting. Al-though music is an interest of mine,

I do not think it overshadows my interest in art.

Coming in to college, my forms of entertainment would vary, depend-ing on my mood. Having been sur-rounded by so many creative outlets at a young age, I would play music on my guitar or piano, read nov-els for fun, or even paint canvases whenever I needed to relax from the

pres-sures of school. I remem-ber taking a couple of art classes when I was still in the be-ginning of my

college path. I took life drawing and design classes. I thought they were fun, yet challenging in a different way than my more academic classes. However, my mother’s idea that art was just a hobby, not a future career, stuck in my mind and eventually stopped me from taking additional art classes.

If I could, I wish I could have pursued my passion for art. I had this notion growing up that I would be a full time artist who only was concerned with self-expression. I remember that at one point in time I wanted to become a children’s book writer and illustrator because it was a combination of both my past and present interests. Perhaps it has to do with me being Filipino-American, or that being an artist is “impracti-cal” in the real world. Although my mom is typically supportive of any decisions I make in life, her con-cerns about me being able to make a living off of art was inculcated to me. I also think that another reason why I put aside my interest in pursu-ing something in art is because it wasn’t really encouraged by the family. They considered my art as

something novel and that was just a hobby for me. Maybe it was a hobby when I was younger, but I never got to explore it more and see where it could have taken me.

Although I love being creative, I didn’t mind the academic chal-lenges of school. I realized that I could thrive in both environments. I think that as long as put my mind into something, I can excel. How-ever, there are days when I would go visit art museums or art shows when I would feel a pang of regret. Although I do have a passion for the field I am pursuing, the legal field, there are times when I feel unsatis-fied with my decision. There are choices one makes in life. However, I think that as long as I set aside a little time for me to be creative, I’ll be content with life. I feel as if there’s always going to be conflict in life because we constantly change. Out interests, passions, and tal-ent change throughout our lives. It would impossible to try and stay the same person.

Christal is a junior student at San Diego State University majoring in Journalism/Media Studies. She was a student of Dr. Dirige in Asian Studies 460, “Contemporary Issues in Filipino American Communities” last spring semester.

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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program have collaborated to mount the Smithsonian’s first major showcase

Smithsonian’s first major showcase of contemporary Asian American portraiture

of contemporary Asian American portraiture. Through the work of seven artists from across the country and around the world, the exhibition offers thought-provoking

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“The ‘Portraiture Now’ exhibition series showcases innovative trends in portraiture,” said Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “‘Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter,’ is a provocative and pathbreak-ing show that affirms the complex realities of Asian identity in today’s culture.”

“These exceptional works are

portals into the souls of the Ameri-can experience, world cultures and their intersections,” said Konrad Ng, director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program. “‘Asian American Portraits of Encounter’ provides engaging points of view that will enrich the understanding of Asian Pacific America.”

This group of artists represents a diverse cross-section of Asian American experiences and demon-strates, in microcosm, the nuances inherent to the Asian American experience. Roger Shimomura is a third-generation American of Japanese descent who has spent his career fighting stereotypes through his art.

Shizu Saldamando was born in San Francisco and blends references to youth culture in Southern Califor-nia with nods to both her Japanese and Mexican heritage. Other artists use concepts of diaspora, migration and transnationalism to expand the meaning of their Asian American identity. Some are artists from Asia who work in the U.S., like Satomi Shirai, who moved to New York from Japan, and Hye Yeon Nam, who came to the U.S. from Korea to study art. Zhang Chun Hong has spent the past

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National Portrait Gallery An-nounces Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Call for Entries

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Portrait Gallery opens a “call for entries” for the next installment of the “Outwin Boochever Portrait

Competition.” The juried competi-tion is open to artists over the age of 18 to submit portraits in any visual art medium that has been created after Jan. 1, 2010. Submissions may be submitted online at portraitcom-petition.si.edu from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. The exhibition of finalists will be presented in 2013.

There have been two installations of the “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.” Both attracted entries from every state in the United States. The winner of the first competi-tion, David Lenz, created a portrait of Eunice Kennedy Shriver for the museum’s collection. Dave Woody, who was awarded the top prize for the second competition, has also been commissioned to create a work for the Portrait Gallery’s collection. “I am pleased to announce the dates for this call to enter the third Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition,” said Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “This program and subsequent exhibi-tion demonstrates the widespread interest in portraiture and identity and showcases the talent of artists working with the subject today.” Entries will be accepted online at the Portrait Gallery’s website and will initially be judged using an online jury system. The competition invites submissions of portraits in all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, photography, elec-tronic and digital media. All finalist works will be shown in a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery March 22, 2013, through Jan. 4, 2014. The grand prize winner will receive a $25,000 cash award and will have the opportunity for a separate commission to portray a remarkable living American for the Portrait Gallery’s collection. In addition, entrants may be featured on “Face to Face” face2face.si.edu, the Portrait Gallery’s blog, as the competition unfolds.

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ous signs of cancer and had been delaying seeking medical attention. We pray for her speedy recovery. Mitz has been an inspira-tion and role model for us. She has told us not to send flowers but to donate to our APAC Legal Fund.

We are very much disappointed and con-cerned that the Commission has bent over backwards to please the other minority and special interest community yet would not even consider the 3 adjacent and most populated API neighborhoods of RP, MM and north UC as community of interest. Commissioner Theresa Quiroz has said it all about this unjust treatment to the API in San Diego.

We don’t know how Potter came up with the 13% deviation and how a small corner of Linda Vista with API was added to the district “in order to increase API % in the district” which in fact has decreased the %. It clearly shows and proves that the Com-mission has never seriously considered empowering San Diego’s API community of interest and has not spent any time in considering anything that we have stated and requested.

During the last hearing one of the re-quests that I have made was to give us back the 2 parcels at the intersection of 805 and Miramar Road where the water treatment plan is. Even I had reminded Commission-Chair Dalal, it was delib-erately ignored and was not addressed at all while they spent 45 minutes on just 1 athletic field to be united with the rest of University of San Diego, and spent hours on all the other issue that the public had put forth except mine. Is the request to carve out this two parcels of land into La Jolla by one single lady in District 1 car-ries more weight than the 3,000 comments in various forms from the Asian Pacific community? Are the comments from 5 people representing the Penasquitos Town Council, who claimed that NO ONE in Pe-nasquitos wants to unite with Mira Mesa, are more convincing then the petitions to unite our API neighborhood from the 200+ Penasquitos signatories attended the July 4th celebration in Mira Mesa?

And for the people from NDC(hired ex-perts to draw the map) to say that or for the Commissioners to think that Asian Pacific Americans are not united and are fragmented communities therefore can be ignored is just clearly showing that how ignorant and/or discriminating are some of the Commissioners and the so called hired expert toward the API in San Diego. All they have to do is Google search and will find how united and cohesive are the Asian Pacific community in San Diego. If we are fragmented and dispensable then why there are Asian Business Association, Asian Film Festival, Asian Heritage Foun-dation, Asian Cultural Fair, Asian Heritage Month and so on and on. Why not just call them Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino events only? How many Cuban or Porto Rican events have the Mexican Americans joined. Yet there are considered as a Latino community of interest.

I have lived in the three largest cities in California and have not yet seen a city where the people from various Asian coun-tries are more united than San Diego.

APIs in San Diego are no longer the stereotypical quiet Asians and would not ask what we want. Nor are we the “Charlie Chans” who would take abuses and still be apologetic. It is sad to see that there are people on this Commission still living up to that model citizen stereotype and just go along with everything that others proposed every time.

We are not “Sick Man of Asia” of the 19 century. We are Americans just like others. We are not demanding special treatment but Fair Treatment like the Commission has given to the African American commu-nity and the Gay community that are only 1/3 our size. Are the APIs with 16% of the City’s population less important than other minorities? We will not accept deliberate neglect and discrimination to the 200,000+ Asian Pacific Islanders in San Diego. Commissioner Potter’s “luxury”comment is not worth commenting.

We will continue going to state our case at the rest of the Hearings and are staging a demonstration at the Scripps Ranch’s Post-Map Hearing site at 5:00 pm this Thursday 7/28/11 against the unfair treatment to San Diego’s Asian American community. Press release will be sent shortly.

No one is perfect. We think there is still time for the Commissioners to correct their mistakes, to recognize and grant a true Asian Influenced District where the most densely Asian populated, compact and contiguous neighborhoods of Mira Mesa, Penasquitos, & north University City as Asian American community of interest and be united in one district as we have proposed. This is not a luxurious request but to be able to exercise our basic consti-

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IMMIGRATION 911 by Atty. Susan V. Perez | SAN DIEGO, 7/29/2011 --The K visa allows the noncitizen fi ance(e) to enter the U.S. in order to marry the U.S. citizen (USC) within 90 days of admission. The K-1 nonimmigrant classifi cation was created in 1970 as a means for a fi ancé or fi ancée to bypass the lengthy wait for a nonprefer-ence immigrant classifi cation and enter the United States as a nonim-migrant despite an intent to stay in the United States. The sole purpose of this visa is to enter into a marriage with the United States citizen petitioner. After the marriage, the noncitizen spouse is required to fi le an adjustment of status petition to get the green card. The law imposes a two-year condition on the status as a legal permanent resident (LPR).

The process is initiated with the fi ling of the K-1 Fiance(e) petition by the USC with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The nonciti-zen fi ancé(e) should be residing outside the U.S. The basic re-quirements are: 1) the petitioner must be a U.S. citizen; 2) they are both free to marry; and 3) they have met in person within two years prior to the fi ling of the petition unless it would violate strict and long-estab-lished customs of the noncitizen fi ancé(e). Once the petition is approved by USCIS, the case is sent to the consulate where the fi ancé(e) resides. The fi ancé(e) will receive a letter from USCIS advising her/him to pay the visa fee and call the consulate to set an appointment for interview. At the interview, the fi ancé(e) should present, among other things, an affi davit of support executed by the USC petitioner, result of medical exam, NBI and/or police clearance, original birth certifi cate, passport, and proof of engagement.

My client fi led his fi ancée peti-tion without the assistance of an attorney. He came to me a few days after the petition was de-nied. The denial letter said that the benefi ciary is not eligible for a K-1 visa because the consular offi cer has reason to believe she has been traffi cking illegal drugs. An investigation conducted by the consulate revealed that the benefi ciary had a prior arrest for violation of Philippine Anti Narcotics Act. While the case was dismissed for failure to prosecute, the consular offi cer still believed that the benefi ciary was guilty of drug traffi cking. In

Successful Appeal From Denial Of K-1 Fiancee Visa

visa denials, the consular offi cer is not bound by court decisions such as dismissal of a criminal case. A visa can be refused when the consular offi cer has “reason to believe” that the applicant is not eligible to receive the visa. Under our Regulations, the term “reason to believe” shall be considered to require a determi-

nation based upon facts or circum-stances which would lead a reason-able person to conclude ineligibility.

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provide that nonimmigrant visa refusals must be reviewed in accordance with the guidance by the Secretary of State to ensure compliance with laws and procedures. The refusal must be reviewed without delay, that is, on the day of the refusal or as soon as it is admin-istratively possible. An applicant for a visa is usually given oppor-tunity to overcome ineligibility.

In this particular case, I sub-mitted the motion for reconsid-eration within two weeks from denial of the visa. It was a good thing that my client came to me a few days after the denial. As stated in the regulations, the refusal must be reviewed with-out delay. In my motion for reconsideration, I pointed out that the consular offi cer was not reasonable in making the con-clusion that my client’s fi ancée was a drug traffi cker. There was no evidence linking her to the charge of drug traffi cking. In the fi rst place, the charge was for drug use only and not traffi cking. Drug traffi cking requires renu-meration for sale or distribution of drugs. It ordinarily means some sort of commercial activity. In one case, the court said that distribution of less than 30 grams of marijuana without renuma-ration is not a drug traffi cking crime. I attacked the complaint- affi davit submitted by the arrest-ing police as fl awed and that the allegations in the complaint-af-fi davit do not justify conviction for drug traffi cking. The police did not state how many grams of drugs were recovered and whether monies were recovered. My motion for reconsideration also described the hardship that my client will suffer if his mo-tion for reconsideration is not granted. I think the latter had the effect of humanizing the adjudi-cating consular offi cer.

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As I was growing up, it never came to my mind that I will live the day to witness the life changing impacts of modern technology. Back then, peo-ple in my neighborhood marveled at the sight of men landing on the moon as they watched from our black and white television. The TV was the big-gest invention during my days, and one that I think was responsible for population control in most families, including mine. I come from a family of ten and I believe the television put a halt to our growing family. As a stu-dent, I remember using the typewriter to prepare my thesis. I had to use an eraser to delete my mistakes, not sim-ply press a button the way it is done now. I was amazed when the pager came to existence.

Technology can be a powerful tool

for change. On a bigger context, mod-ern technology has impacted even the social awareness of the Filipinos. Most children grew smarter because information is easily accessible. The once passive Filipino youth became more involved on public issues and community projects. The students started to participate in rallies to fight for their rights. Even politics became everyone’s genre, not just the rich but anyone who cared to watch the news on TV, or surf the Internet for the latest news. Lately, there are many cause-

The New Breed of Community Workers

oriented groups that reach out to the youth through social networking.

Distances between countries are eas-ily bridged through the Internet. The Facebook phenomenon has made it possible to reach out to others in a matter of minutes. Facebook has also allowed me to start friendships with people who can make a difference not just in my life, but on others as well.

One of my latest discoveries is a new friendship with two amazing young people who are heroes in their own rights. Through Facebook, I met RJ Garcia and Josh Mahinay, the “new breed of community workers” who are among the young volunteers of the “Lets-Share.TV” Foundation.

The “Let’s Share” Story “Let’s Share” is a relatively

new initiative. It is based on the idea that everyone has something to share. The organization be-lieves that if we share money, our resources, our skills, without expecting anything in return, the world will be a better place to live.

The organization is now pres-ent in many countries, including the Philippines, where millions of families still lack access to a regular income, safe drinking water, health-

care, and even education. The “Let’s Share” foundation informs people of the need to share through interactive videos, and photographs on their web-site, www.let-share.tv. Let’s Share foundation wants to tell the world that sharing is fun.

“Let’s Share” Philosophy of Shar-ing

Donations to local projects in the Philippines are always welcome, but “Let’s Share” philosophy is that it takes more than money alone to change the lives and futures of the Filipino chil-dren. The foundation seeks out talent-ed people all over the world to come and share their time and talents with

underprivileged children in the Phil-ippines. In the Philippines, the Let’s Share volunteers encourage people all

over the world to experience life in the Philippines themselves.

Let’s Share believes that change has to come from within. Young people, especially, have the power to change their lives and not be content with mere dole outs. Motivation is the key and Let’s Share spreads the call mostly to young people to generate their own solutions to their problems. The Foun-dation shows that sharing can spread love and happiness.

The Founder

“Let’s Share” is a privately funded organization started by its founder, Eric van den Arend. Eric, after falling in love with the Philippines almost 20 years ago, sold his successful software company Prolox in the Netherlands in 2002 and used the money from it as a seed fund for the Let’s Share projects he started in the Philippines.

In 1991, Eric went to the Philippines at the invitation of his brother, who was a dive master at Alona Beach. He fell in love with the country and its people. Eric became convinced that the Philip-pines can be his home and he can start a life more challenging than the one he had in his own country.

His software company, Prolox be-came very successful, becoming one of the leading companies providing jurid-ical and financial software in his coun-try. But the fast paced life became too stressful for Eric. In 2001, he decided to give his company to his employees

with the condition that they guar-antee him a fixed income for the rest of his life. Eric’s philosophy is that people are not meant to spend their lives simply making money. People should live life to the fullest and make the most of their time touching other people’s lives too.

In 2009, Eric made a big leap and decided to migrate to the Philippines to start a foundation for poor children. He also want-ed to bring attention to the beauty

of the Philippines, its rich nature, the kindness of its people and at the same time bring focus to the misery

of the poorest of the poor. In Holland, he set up the Let’s Share Foundation, with the goal of encouraging the more fortunate people in richer countries to share their resources with the poor.

The New Breed of Community Workers

Two young people who spend their

time volunteering for Let’s Share.TV are RJ Garcia and Josh Mahinay.

RJ is from Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan. He is the 5th child from a family of 9. He studied at the University of the Philippines in Baguio and obtained a degree in B.S. Psychology.

RJ has always had the calling for volunteer work. He was a Red Cross volunteer in Dagupan City and was also a fundraiser for the American Dia-betes Association. In my interview, RJ told me that his parents used to work as bakers so he knows the meaning of poverty. Like many Filipinos, RJ is frustrated with the social condition of our country men. What sets him apart from most Filipinos is his outlook in life. He never doubts that our country can be great again. He would like to be an inspiration to others who have given up on their dreams of a better life.

Josh was born on September 10, 1984 in Tabina, Zamboanga del Sur. He grew up in Lalab, Libay, Sibutan Zamboanga del Norte, a mining mu-nicipality. The family moved to Gui-noman, Diplahan, Zamboanga del Sur to do farming. He spent his elementary years at the Libay Elementary School where he became the salutatorian of the class. He studied at the Bahog National High School in Zamboanga del Sur and graduated Valedictorian. He took up Bachelor of Arts in Politi-cal Science at the Misamis University with a weighted average of 1.4. He pursued further studies at the Poly-technic University of the Philippines as a law student in 2007 although he had to temporarily put his education aside to pursue other goals. He hopes to be a lawyer in the future but for now he is focused on pursuing a career in composing and singing.

The Volunteers

Aside from the volunteer work they do here in the Philippines, these two good looking dudes are also the hosts of the USA channel of Let’s Share.TV. They do travel shows and promote places in the Philippines as part of their commitment to Philippine tour-ism. They feature people, famous or not, who are examples and inspirations of good deeds. They are yuppie art-ists and they want to reach out to the same group of people in their gen-eration. They want to break the idea that community workers wear sloppy clothes and are underdogs. They are the new breed of community workers

- the young, the successful, the artists, the fashionistas, the entrepreneurs, the call center agents, etc. They don’t rely on the government to create change. They do what they can to better our community. They believe that the best legacy they can leave behind is to impact even just one life in their life-time.

Last May this year, RJ, Josh and some college friends did “Ligo Day” in Olango Island, Cebu City. About 300 children participated in the one day “free shower” for kids. Hygiene is often a problem in the island and the group wanted to raise awareness among the residents of the community that keeping oneself clean is important for good health. The kids had great fun taking a bath in an open space. After their “group baths”, the children were treated to lunch and were given hy-giene packs.

This coming September, RJ and Josh will facilitate the “ Fit meets Feet” proj-ect. It is a shoe drive for the children of Olango Island, Cebu City. They are collecting shoes from their circle of

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by Atty. Rogelio Karagdag, Jr.Member, State Bar of California & Integrated Bar of the Philippines

Phil - Am Law 101

Sale Of Property Over Wife’s Objection

May the husband sell a property acquired during the marriage

despite objections from his wife? The answer to this depends on several factors, according to the Philippine Supreme Court in the 2009 case of Ravina vs. Abrille.

The case involved two lots located in Davao City. The first lot was ac-quired by the husband prior to their marriage. The second lot was acquired by the spouses in 1982 while they were already married. Since the law in effect at that time was still the Civil Code, the property regime of the marriage was governed by the conjugal partnership of gains, which simply says that all incomes earned and properties acquired during the marriage are considered owned in common by the husband and wife. (In con-trast, marriages from Au-gust 3, 1988 are governed by the Family Code which observes the absolute com-munity of property regime, under which even assets acquired before the marriage are owned in common by the spouses).

Several years into the marriage, the spouses separated. Husband moved out of the house. Wife was forced to sell or mortgage their movables to support the family and the studies of her children. For his part, husband sold the two lots. Wife objected and notified the buyer of her objections, but the sale proceeded. It appears on the said deed that wife did not sign on top of her name.

Wife went to court to void the sale. During the trial, husband claimed

that he purchased the first lot while he was still single, while the second lot was acquired during the marriage from funds derived from the sale of another property which he also pur-chased while he was still single. In other words, husband claimed that the money used to purchase the second lot came from his exclusive funds.

The Supreme Court said that to ad-dress the issue, it is imperative to de-termine: (1) whether the lots are ex-clusive properties of the husband or conjugal properties, and (2) whether its sale by husband was valid consid-

ering the absence of wife’s consent.The Supreme Court agreed with

husband that the first lot was his ex-clusive property, since he acquired it under his own name alone before the marriage. However, as regards the second lot, the Supreme Court cited Article 160 of the Civil Code which provides, “All property of the marriage is presumed to belong to the conjugal partnership, unless it be proved that it pertains exclusively to the husband or to the wife.”

Since the second lot was acquired during the marriage, it is presumed to be conjugal, and husband has the bur-den of proving that it is his exclusive

property. However, no evidence was adduced to show that. His bare asser-tion would not suffice to overcome the presumption that the second lot, acquired during the marriage, is con-jugal.

For his part, the buyer argued that he was a buyer in good faith, but the Supreme Court rejected his claim and said that a purchaser in good faith is one who buys the property of another without notice that some other person has an interest in it. For a buyer deal-ing with land registered in the name of and occupied by the seller whose capacity to sell is restricted, such as the husband, the buyer must show that he inquired into the husband’s capacity to sell. In the present case, the second lot is registered in the name of both husband and wife. The buyer cannot deny knowledge that during the time of the sale, husband was married to wife, yet he proceed-ed to buy the property even without wife’s conformity. Even assuming that the buyer believed in good faith that the lot is the exclusive property of husband, he was apprised by wife of her objection to the sale and yet he still proceeded to purchase the prop-erty without wife’s written consent. Moreover, wife was in actual, visible and public possession of the property at the time the transaction was being made. Thus, at the time of sale, buyer knew that wife has a right to or inter-est in the property and yet he failed to obtain her conformity to the deed of sale. Hence, buyer cannot now in-voke the protection accorded to pur-chasers in good faith.

Atty. Rogelio Karagdag , Jr. is li-censed to practice law in both Cali-fornia and the Philippines. He prac-tices immigration law in San Diego and has continuously been a trial and appellate attorney in the Philippines since 1989. He travels between San Diego and Manila. His office address is located at 10717 Camino Ruiz, Suite 131, San Diego, CA 92126. He also has an office in the Philip-pines at 1240 Apacible Street, Paco, Manila, Philippines 1007, with tele-phone numbers (632)522-1199 and (632)526-0326. Please call (858)348-7475/(858)536-4292 or email him at [email protected]. He speaks Tagalog fluently. Articles written in this column are not legal advice but are hypotheticals intended as general, non-specific legal in-formation. Readers must seek legal consultation before taking any legal steps.

pesos a year exclusive of car service, technical assistance, and loans. Let me repeat. They award themselves all of these while being in arrears for the pensions of their retired employees.

Even the La Mesa watershed wasn’t spared. In order to ensure an adequate supply of water, we need to protect our watersheds. In watersheds, trees are needed. Where there should be trees, they built homes for the top of-ficials of the MWSS.

We cannot remove them from their positions quickly because they are among the midnight appointees of former president Arroyo. We are in-vestigating all of these things. But if they have any shame left, they should voluntarily relinquish their positions.

Now let’s discuss funds for in-frastructure. The DPWH identified two hundred forty six priority safety projects to be funded by the motor vehicle user’s charge. This needs a

budget of 425 million pesos. What they ended up funding were only 28 projects. They disregarded 218 proj-ects and replaced these with seventy projects that weren’t in the plans. The 425 million pesos originally asked for became 480 million pesos, increasing because of projects allocated for a fa-vored few.

These projects make no sense: un-studied and unprepared for, sprouting like mushrooms.

The era of such projects is at an end. Under our administration, there will be no quotas, there will be no overpricing, the funds of the people will be spent for the people.

There’s more. Five days before the term of the previous administration ended, they ordered 3.5 billion pesos to be released for the rehabilitation of those affected by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng. This was supposed to fund eighty-nine projects. But nine-teen of these projects amounting to 981 million pesos didn’t go through public bidding. Special Allotment Release Orders hadn’t even been released and yet the contracts were already signed. It’s a good thing Sec-

retary Rogelio Singson spotted and stopped them. Instead, they will all go through the proper bidding, and the funds will be used to provide re-lief to those who lost their homes due to typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng.

Let’s discuss what happened in Na-pocor. From 2001 to 2004, the gov-ernment forced Napocor to sell elec-tricity at a loss to prevent increases in electricity rates. The real motivation for this is that they were preparing for the election.

As a result, in 2004, NAPOCOR slumped deeply in debt. The govern-ment was obligated to shoulder the 200 billion pesos it owed.

What the public thought they saved from electricity, we are now paying for using public coffers. Not only are we paying for the cost of electricity; we are also paying for the interest arising from the debt.

If the money we borrowed was used properly, then there would be added assurance that constant supply of electricity is available. However, this decision was based on bad politics,

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Most say they succeeded in reduc-ing their taxes

EAGAN, Minn., July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Some homeowners are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to their property tax bills. One in four homeowners say that at one time or another, they have at-tempted to reduce their property taxes by challenging the tax-assessed value of their homes. And the majority who did so say that they were successful in lowering their tax bills. That’s ac-cording to a new nationwide survey by FindLaw.com, the most popular legal information website.

As home values have declined as a result of the housing crisis, some hom-eowners feel that the tax-assessed val-ue of their homes – which is the basis for calculating their property taxes – may not accurately reflect actual mar-ket conditions. Homeowners may file an appeal or challenge with their local tax authority in hopes of reducing their assessments, and in turn, their property tax bills.

According to the FindLaw.com sur-vey, 24 percent of homeowners say they have challenged their assessments at some point during their home owner-ship. When a challenge was filed, sur-vey respondents said it was successful in lowering their property tax bills in approximately three-quarters of those instances.

Most often, the net reduction in their annual property tax bills was between 1 and 4 percent.

1 in 4 Homeowners Have Chal-lenged Their Property Taxes,

Says New FindLaw.com Survey

“It’s not enough to simply march into the tax assessor’s office and say, ‘I think my property taxes are too high,’” said Stephanie Rahlfs, an attorney and editor with FindLaw.com. “Challeng-ing an assessment requires research and due diligence. A challenge needs to be presented with a well-researched and well-organized set of facts. In ad-dition, the formulas for calculating property taxes and the procedures for appeals can vary widely depending on the county and state.

“For example,” Rahlfs continued, “in some jurisdictions, the assessed value is the full market value, while others use an assessment ratio that assigns a percentage of the market value. An independent appraiser or an attorney specializing in property taxes may be helpful in determining whether an ap-peal of your assessment makes sense. They also can help you collect and present your materials in the most ef-fective manner possible to the taxing authority.”

Free Internet resources, such as Find-Law.com’s Real Estate Center (http://realestate.findlaw.com/taxes-home-ownership/), can provide helpful in-formation on how property taxes are determined and the impact of chang-ing property values on property taxes, and can offer tips on how to challenge property tax valuation. (The FindLaw survey was conducted using a survey of a de-mographically balanced sample of 750 Ameri-can adult homeowners and has a margin of er-ror of plus-or-minus 4 percent.)

SAN DIEGO (July 25, 2011) – Tails are wagging more than ever at Del Sur, now that an enclosed off-leash dog park is open as part of the community’s new Old Stonefield Park.

Secured by chain link fencing, the new 8,200-square-foot grass park is open from dawn to dusk and features a supply of doggie bags and a canine water faucet.

“The dog park is Del Sur’s newest amenity, built by popular demand,” said Bill Ostrem, pres-ident and CEO of Black Moun-tain Ranch LLC, developer of Del Sur. The San Diego master-planned community is centrally located between Interstates 5 and 15, just north of state Route 56.

Also new at Del Sur is Kristen Glen Park, featuring a solar-heated pool dedicated to lap swimming. This new park also includes a stone and grass laby-rinth that provides a quiet place to relax and meditate. There’s a fireplace in the pool area as well.

Six neighborhood parks, five with solar-heated swimming pools, are scattered throughout Del Sur. Another popular ameni-ty is the 18-mile trail system and 1,000 acres of surrounding open space shared with sister Black Mountain Ranch community Santaluz. Community-hosted

Off-leash dog park now open at Del Sur

events are another attraction for Del Sur residents, with movie nights and concerts scheduled in the parks throughout the summer months.

One of San Diego’s most

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Ang Buhay Nga Naman (1) RP’s Malnutrition and Religion

Little by Little...(Continued from page 1)

Noong unang araw ginawa ng Diyos ang kalabawsinabihan niya ito na sa bukid ay magbungkalmagtrabaho ng husto’t ang magsasaka ay tulunganararuhin ang lupang tigang, umulan at umaraw.

Sinabihan din siya na dapat ay mag-kaanakat sa nangangilangan magbigay ng gatassa pagkain at trabaho, tutulong sa lahat may animnapung taong buhay kanyang ilalakas.

Medyo umangal ang kalabaw sa tinuran ng Diyosmasyadong mahaba buhay na ipinagkakaloobsana daw dalawampu na lang ang sa kanya’y idulot ang sobra’y ibabalik sana ay huwag malungkot.

Noong ikalawang araw ginawa ng Diyos ang asosinabihan niyang maghapon na ito ay umuposa may pinto ng bahay nitong kanyang magiging amoat tahulan ang bawat lumapit o pumasok dito.

At siya ay binigyan ng dalawampung taong buhay subalit tulad ng kalabaw ang aso ay umangal ang dalampung taong pagtatahol ay napakatagal katwiran sa Diyos at siya naman ay pinagbigyan.

Joke of the week: A bleary-eyed man stood before an irate judge the morning after a large binge. He was accused of having taken over a taxi and having driven it several blocks down a busy street. “What made you take the taxi?” the judge demanded. The accused fi shed about in a pocket, pulled out a crumbled card, and handed it to the bench. It was an

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Scripture: First Reading: Isaiah 55: 1-3. The prophet Isaiah

urges the people in Babylonian exile to trust in God who feeds them on the basis of his Covenant made with Israel through King David. The prophet warns the Israelites against looking at reality that is shaped by their Babylonian experience and re-minds them to live in their relation-ship with God who feeds them abun-dantly. Second Reading: Romans 8:

35-37, 39. Jesus embodied the power of God, the will of God for human-ity, and the love of God for us. Faith is not something we do for God, but is God’s abundant love for us.

This love is everlasting and though nothing can separate us from that love, yet our rejection of it means courting eternal sorrow and suffer-ing. Gospel: Matthew 14: 13-21. Matthew is consistent with his theme that Jesus is the Promised Messiah who was sent to look for the lost sheep of Israel. The evangelist sets the background for this passage by contrasting two banquets: Herod Antipas’ sumptuous birthday party at the royal court that ended with the murder of John the Baptist and Jesus’ feeding of the hungry crowd in a deserted place with only a few loaves and fi sh with the result that everyone had their fi ll and gathered plenty of leftovers.

Refl ections: Majority of Filipinos live below the poverty line throughout the country’s 78 prov-inces, 84 cities or 41,940 baran-gays. October 2001 statistics reveal that some 32.5 million Filipinos, comprising 66.3 percent of the population, are considered matured enough to work. But 3.3 million of these people, or 10.1 percent of the workforce, cannot fi nd jobs while 5.2 million others, or 17.7 percent, have no regular source of income. Among Southeast Asian countries, poverty incidence is most extreme in the Philippines where some 15.3 million Filipinos (half of the poor population) wake up every morn-ing without food on the table. The Philippine government fi gures, according to Reuters, “show that the income poverty rate increased to 33 percent in 2006, up from 30 percent in 2003, with the number of poor Filipinos rising from 10.8 million to 12.2 million over the same period. In the Philippines, one out of four chil-dren is considered underweight or stunted – a telling sign of nutritional problems. But this fi gure, which translates into four million children under 10 being undernourished, is considered an improvement, ac-cording to the country’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI). In the early 1990s, 30 to 40 percent of the same age group were found to be either underweight, stunted or in a worse physical condition. With the surge in global food prices, however, these gains are at risk. The Philip-pines is one of the world’s largest importers of rice and food security is one of the major determinants of nutritional status, according to specialists.

The Gospel passage in today’s reading teaches us that the problem with malnutrition is not that there is not enough food, but that few people who have an abundance of food do not share it responsibly and charitably with those who need it most. Jesus instructs his disciples and us that no matter how little we have, and especially if we have an abundance of food, we have to share

it with others. St. Caesarius of Arles (470-542 A.D.) in one of his homi-lies wrote the following: “In this life God feels cold and hunger in all who are stricken with poverty … When the poor are starving, Christ hungers … It is he who deigns to hunger and thirst in the persons of the poor. And what he will return in heaven tomor-row is what he receives here on earth today.”

SHARING WITH THE POOR IS JUST ONE PART OF OUR RELI-GIOUS DUTY. Another is respon-sible eating and drinking. The First World is a wasteful society. Just look around how much unfi nished food and drinks are wasted every time we dine at all-you-can eat restaurants and buffets. In today’s Gospel Jesus blesses the fi ve loaves and fi sh and shows the kind of gratitude and respect our behavior must manifest when we dine. True to his messianic mission to give life in abundance, Jesus fed the hungry crowd. Those who have more than enough to eat and drink should realize that true happiness rests not on the acquisi-tion and hoarding of more and more provisions, but in faithful relation-ship with God who loves and feeds us abundantly. Let our hunger for food and thirst for drink be trans-lated into hunger and thirst for a loving relationship with God and our neighbors.

In spite of his grief for the death of his cousin, John the Baptist, Jesus does not abandon, but remains committed to his people who need healing and feeding. The crowd did not feel his grief, because they were more concerned with their personal hunger and thirst. The disciples also were more preoccupied with their own sustenance, so they suggested that the crowd should be sent away. Excessive drinking and eating could be a symptom of selfi shness. When we overindulge with food and drinks and unmindful of others who are starving, we manifest not only an uncaring attitude toward those who are malnourished and dying of hun-ger, but also a selfi sh motive to feed only ourselves. Selfi shness feeds on our desire for bodily sustenance. Concerns for others’ needs curb our selfi sh appetite. True religion is altruistic. It is a love that starts with self and reaches out to God and neighbors.

Quotation of the week: “The road to Jericho today, the road to the Good Samaritan runs through every under-developed country.” Michael Quoist.

Impoverished Filipino children line up to receive a cup of soup during a feeding program by a child advocacy group in Manila. Filipino children suf-fer intense hunger and are adversely affected by economic challenges, with 28 percent of children in the country below the age of fi ve severely malnourished and another 26.7 percent of children 6-10 years old underweight and suffer-ing from poor health and nutrition. (Jes Aznar-AFP/Getty Images, March 27, 2009 Washington Post Gallery)

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As my way of helping my parents and generous benefactors to pay for my tuition, books and case materi-als, I worked in the daytime as legal researcher for one of the Regional Trial Courts in Baguio, and went to school at night. I worked eight hours a day for four consecutive semesters, and such experience taught me valu-able lessons in time management, self-discipline, tight budgeting and reasonable spending.

The best days in the life of a work-ing student are the 15th and 30th of the month. Having a regular salary, no matter how measly, allowed me to plan and allocate for my daily expenditures.

As a self-supporting student I faced a day-to-day battle. I stayed in a small dormitory with four occu-pants in one room, defi nitely much less comfortable than living solo or with a companion in an apartment. But never mind the inconvenience. A dormitory space cost me just a little over P1,000 per month, whereas an apartment could have cost as much as P4,000-5,000 to rent, depending on the location and proximity of the place to the school. Add to that the utility bills (water, electricity, etc.) and your expenses can really go up.

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Kris Aquino still the no.1 in Yes Magazine’s list of Top 20 endorsers for the year 20011.Last year siya rin ang nanalo sa survey na naturang magazine, kaya naman tuwang-tuwa ang Queen of All Medias dahil siya pa rin ang no.1.

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“But you will return it to me once you get your fi rst extra pension payment, okay?” he demanded.

Danny agreed.Danny fi led the necessary

papers; in due time, he col-lected the extra money. He was earning about $600 from his own pension. The balance was supplemented from the pen-sion of his ex-wife so he could earn the same $1,400-a-month from before. The law required he could not collect his and his wife’s pension, plus the ben-efi t of his minor children. His monthly pension should remain in the $1,400 level, but his kids received $400 each, a total of $800. It was a big boost for Danny’s income. He didn’t have to tell the mothers of his children about the extra income. All he needed was to meet his obliga-tions as before, but now with the extra money he was using as savings.

Bobby was happy to help. He did not expect a “thank you” from his friend, and he was sur-prised when Danny gave him an expensive lacrosse T-shirt.

“Thanks,” he told his friend.“That’s not enough for all the

help you have given me.” He was telling the truth. He was lucky to have Bobby as a friend.

THE NEXT MATTER DANNY TOOK CARE OF was the American citizenship of his Mexican daughter Blanca. He fi led the necessary papers; after an interview and verifi ca-tion of the authenticity of the documents, Blanca was given an American passport.

Blanca and her mother Mer-cedes could not believe what had just happened. Blanca merely wanted to meet her long-lost father. She did not expect him to give her an opportunity to become an American citizen and enjoy all that America could give. For years, the wealth and prosperity in America were just dreams she felt unattainable. But now she was an American her-self, will all the benefi ts of being one. To top it off, she could petition her own mother; hence, Mercedes could earn the right to stay permanently in the U.S. This development also sat well with her grandfather, who had pro-vided for his daughter and grand-daughter for years, ensuring they were not wanting of any material needs. This was why Mercedes did not see the reason to marry and raise a family, as she too enjoyed the love and comfort her rich parents could provide. But Mercedes’ father could also use a right to stay permanently in the U.S. Although he had a thriving business in Tijuana, being able to live in the U.S. was also a great opportunity. While he had always resented Danny for aban-doning his daughter and grand-daughter, he could not hide the fact he was their ticket for them to live in the U.S. Grudgingly, he accepted Danny at his home when his granddaughter celebrat-ed her birthday. For once, Blanca was able to introduce her father to her friends.

“DAD, CAN YOU TAKE ME TO THE PHILIPPINES?” Blanca once asked. “I want to see your country and the places where you were born and grew up.”

Danny was not surprised. His daughter, Carol, had been e-mailing her Mexican half-sister on Facebook, telling her of the beauty of her native country.

Danny thought about it for a while and tentatively agreed to grant his daughter’s wish.

“Let’s go during school vaca-

tion so Carol can come too,” he said.

“Can we bring mom?” Blanca asked. “She will pay for her own fare.”

“No, I will take care of it my-self,” Danny said. He had extra money and thought he could afford to treat the mother and daughter to a Philippine vaca-tion. That was the least he could do to somehow compensate for abandoning the two. He was aware he did not give Mercedes child support during those years; he owed her big time.

But Danny had to lie to his wife Mindy about the planned Philippine vacation.

“Mercedes volunteered to pay for our expenses, including Carol’s,” he told her.

Still, Mindy was reluctant to let Carol go. Although she was not opposed to the bonding of her daughter with Blanca, Carol’s half sister, she was worried a relationship might redevelop between Danny and his former girlfriend Mercedes. But then again, there was Margie in the Philippines, Danny’s girlfriend with whom he had a daughter. In the end, Mindy gave in; accept-ing that there was nothing she could do. She could no longer rein in her husband; whatever he wanted, he would do.

IT WAS A HOT HUMID MORNING when Danny, Mer-cedes, Blanca and Carol arrived at the Ninoy Aquino Interna-tional Airport for the planned vacation. It was the fi rst time for the mother and daughter duo of Mercedes and Blanca to ride in an airplane, much less travel fourteen hours across the Pacifi c Ocean. Although the trip might be tiring to some, it was not for them, for they were just too excited to embark in a new adventure. Carol sat by the win-

dow while her half-sister Blanca sat between her and Mercedes in the middle seat. Across the aisle sat Danny. Carol felt comfort-able enough with Mercedes that she agreed to stay with her and Blanca in their hotel room. Danny planned to sneak in to his girlfriend and their baby daughter, as Carol was still an-tagonistic against the women she thought took her dad away from her mom.

Mercedes and Blanca were in awe as they stepped out of the airport. Manila, to them, was a far cry from their hometown in Tijuana, although San Diego was much more modern compared to it. Nonetheless, they were very much impressed.

“Let’s eat fi rst, then check in at the hotel,” Danny told the three. He ordered the taxi driver to drop them off at the Aristocrat Restaurant on Roxas Blvd.

Inside, Carol suggested to her half-sister Blanca what to order. Mercedes followed suit and liked the dishes served. They had the usual fare of Tapsilog, which consisted of dried meat, fried egg and fried rice. Blanca liked the kalamansi juice, a far cry from the usual packaged orange juice she used to take back home. Her eyes were wandering, looking at the Filipino families partaking of their breakfast, most of them coming from the airport like them.

“We cannot check in at the ho-tel before noon,” Danny told the three after breakfast. “Let just go sight-seeing around this area for a while.”

To give his companions a tour of the area, they boarded a horse carriage known as “calesa.” From Aristocrat, the rig trans-versed along the busy Roxas Blvd. to the Luneta. Here Danny took his companions to the Rizal Monument and explained to them the heroism of the National Hero, Jose Rizal. They walked towards the Chinese Garden and took pictures. From there, they crossed the street to take a look at the water at the Luneta Park. They walked towards the famed Manila Hotel, went inside and took pictures of the interior décor in the lobby. Like a tour guide, Danny told them what the hotel was all about.

From the hotel, they took another calesa ride that brought them to Intramuros, the Walled City during Spanish control. They viewed the exhibits at the Fort Santiago; afterwards, they marveled at the antiques of the San Augustin Church and the magnifi cence of the Manila Cathedral. Mercedes was very much impressed. Blanca felt proud of being part Filipino. - AJ

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It’s a travesty of the health care system if compared to our adopted country where we now live. Our hearts bleed for those needy people. They cannot afford to go to another distant hospital with more facilities. It is at this juncture that my goal in my civic organiza-tion aims to stir medical and social awareness of their plight and radiate some light in the life of less fortu-nate people in our home country.

I was in my hometown Pandan, Antique, in the year 2000. I volun-teered to chair the committee on “adopt a hospital concept,” i.e., help the municipal hospital of Pandan.

us with our humanitarian endeavors, for we have the same goals: to help our people. I pray to God for His and your help. That there is a commu-nity of concerned Pandananons and friends, their supporters, and people with warm hearts, all of whom share blessings from around the world, is very touching and moving. I hope this demonstrates and spreads the fervor among all kasimanwas (town-mates) so that they contribute in some manner, regardless of their magnitude and amount. Praises and thanks to the Almighty for blessing us with this breed of good Sa-maritans! With this inspiration and support Pandan has all the reason to succeed and break out of obscurity so as to stand out to the world as a model of humanitarianism and social commitment. When this donation is done, Pandan should have some kind of appreciation gesture or token for the organizations and people involved in this noble deed.

Many are supportive of my mis-sion and vision. I have worked arduously with writings in news-papers, alumni and friends to raise social consciousness of our projects to good samaritans in this country and appeal for help. For example, we need to raise funds for shipping charges. This is not a fancy outreach endeavor. It is not a grandiose effort, although it will affect the impover-ished people of my town. We do not seek glory. Our supporters just want to help the health conditions of our poor town mates and comfort them in whatever little way.

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I have seen fi rsthand the de-plorable condition of my home-town’s 25-bed community hospital. In 2000, I saw the sad situation in person. Last January 2011, I visited the hospital again and the situation has not improved much, with rusted spring beds without mattresses, two vastly unequipped surgical rooms, and other signs of bad conditions.

When I returned from Pandan, my mission was to collaborate with indi-viduals and organizations to improve our community and the community hospital. I was able to get Medical Ministries International (MMI), our donor, benevolence personifi ed, to help us. It is sending an estimated $500,000 worth of used hospital equipments and supplies under my leadership and work as a consignee. But we need help in facilitating this process. We are hoping Secretary Dr. Enrique Ona of the Department of Health will help us waive all custom taxes for a 40x40 footer container loaded with hospital supplies and materials, which are otherwise due at the Bureau of Customs port area of entry in Manila. Our foundation is short on funds and these expenses are problematic; we cannot afford the custom taxes. I believe it is in the best interests of the DOH to help



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My publisher-editor Sim Silverio and I were talking by phone about the “exile years” of the Filipinos here in the United States, specifi cally here in San Diego, during the martial law years in the Philippines. I mentioned to him that in 1981, KGTV 10 had a program called “Viewpoints” and in one segment, it featured an interview of two people with opposing views: pro-martial law and anti-martial law. He said it’s good to take a look back at yesterday, and he asked me to write about it.

In 1981, I was asked by KGTV 10 to fi nd two people needed for the “Viewpoints” program in a segment about “Martial Law in the Philip-pines”. I was given only a few days to fi nd two people here in San Diego, but there were no takers. So I in-vited two people from Los Angeles: Sergio “Serge” Osmena III, Direc-tor of Political Affairs for the Move-ment for a Free Philippines (to speak against Martial Law), and Luis Ople, Information Representative for the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles (to speak in favor of Martial Law).

In July 11, 1981 at 7:30 P.M., “Mar-tial Law in the Philippines” was the topic of discussion in “Viewpoints ‘81” hosted by Robin Robinson, a

Looking Back at Yesterday: Osmena vs. Ople on KGTV 10’s

“Viewpoints”30-minute public service program with a “Meet the Press” format aired live over KGTV 10. The panelists were: this columnist, then known as Zeny Babao, news editor for the Phil-ippine News, and Ernie Flores, Jr., publisher-editor of the Asian Ameri-can News. Fred Norfl eet, fi lling in for Robin Robinson who was on va-cation, was the moderator and host.

The transcript of the “Viewpoints” segment with Osmena and Ople, pro-vided to me by KGTV-10, came out in the Philippine News, July 22-28, 1981 issue, and in the Asian Ameri-can News, August 1-15, 1981 issue. On the night of the “Viewpoints “ program, most Filipino-Americans and Filipinos in San Diego were out attending Rico Puno’s show, or the South Bay Fil-Am Community Asso-ciation’s dinner-dance, so Ernie and I decided to publish the transcript of the program for those who were not able to view it. Looking back at yes-terday, here it is:

* * * STATION: Welcome to View-

points ’81! Your moderator for to-night’s program is Fred Norfl eet.

NORFLEET: Good evening, and welcome to another edition of “Viewpoints”. Robin Robinson is on vacation tonight. I’m Fred Norfl eet

and I’m fi lling in. Our guests tonight are Mr. Luis Ople, who is an informa-tion representative for the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, and Mr. Sergio Osmena III, who is with the Movement for Free Philip-pines. Joining me in questioning the guests tonight about the Philippine government is Ms. Zeny Babao, who is the News Editor for the Philippine News, and Mr. Ernie Flores, Pub-lisher-Editor of the Asian American News right here in San Diego. We’ll begin our discussion about the Phil-ippine government right after these important messages.

(Commercial Break)NORFLEET: Welcome back to

“Viewpoints”. Tonight we are talk-ing about the “Government in the Philippines” and I’m gonna get start-ed by asking my fi rst question of Mr. Osmena, who is with the Movement for a Free Philippines. Mr. Osmena, what is the Movement for a Free Philippines?

OSMENA: The Movement for a Free Philippines is an organization composed of Filipino and Americans and other nationalities. We have 94 chapters all over the world today, and its purpose is to hasten the restoration of democracy in the Philippines.

NORFLEET: Okay, Mr. Ople, you’re with the Philippine Consul-ate General in Los Angeles. What is your position with regards to the Movement for Free Philippines?

OPLE: Well, I think it’s a misnomer because the Philippines is free. We are not under a foreign power. And also we just had our elections, martial law has been lifted, so I don’t think the name means anything.

NORFLEET: Okay, with that I’m gonna toss to Ms. Zeny Babao of the Philippine News.

BABAO: My fi rst question is for Serge Osmena. Philippine President Marcos has been hailed as the fi rst man in history to deliberately and voluntarily lift martial law. However, his critics are skeptical. Why?

OSMENA: Well, because those

who are closely in touch with the situ-ation and who live in the Philippines, they know that it is nothing but a pa-per lifting. All he had done is change the label. He had all the restrictions, all the public orders, presidential decrees, stay in place. For example with martial law you had an unde-fi ned term with regards to the Phil-ippine constitution and Philippines jurisprudence before. It was just martial law, it never said what you could do or not do under martial law so President Marcos took advantage of that and made it more expansive. He used it to detain people, political enemies for an indefi nite period of time, without charges, without trial, without benefi t of lawyers.

So what happened? When all these decrees were in place, his decree against rumor-mongering, for ex-ample, it’s a very broad decree which could mean anything and every-thing. You start a rumor, and if you say President Marcos is a “clubfoot” they will pick you up and put you in jail. That’s still in force. All he did now was lift the label martial law, the same mad dog with a different collar. For example, right after the lifting of martial law, two days before the lift-ing of martial law, the dictator passed Presidential Decree No. 1737 which said, and I will just quote to this posi-tive portion: “Wherefore, I, Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, that whenever in the judgment of the President-Prime Minister (he was both at that time) there exists a grave emergency or a threat of imminence thereof, he may issue such orders as he may deem necessary including restraining or restricting the move-ment and other activities of persons or entities, and among other things, directing the closure of ‘subversive’ publications and other media of mass communications.”

What does this mean? What it simply means is this: if President Marcos, in his mind, thinks that you, Fred Norfl eet, is about to commit a crime, he can order you arrested and detained. Fred Norfl eet might not be thinking about it, but if he decides that you are thinking of something, he can order you detained. With those kinds of laws in place, lifting martial law was no problem to him because his powers are intact, he still has the power to rule by decree, over and above the incumbent parliament, and he can arrest you anytime he wants to for no reason at all.

NORFLEET: Okay, Zeny, you have another question?

BABAO: Yeah. My second ques-tion is for Mr. Ople. The Philippines has switched constitutions three times within the past several years: from American-style democracy to British-style parliament to French-style democracy. Could you please tell us why?

OPLE: Well, ah, we have changed constitutions, ah, through ratifi ca-tion by the people. It was the people who voted for the constitutions. And that’s why they are in effect right now. Ah, the Philippines, ah, was under the United Sates for 50 years and, ah, the United States gave us the form of government here in the Unit-ed States. But, ah, the conditions and traditions of the people of the Philip-pines are of course different from that of the United States. We decided that in, ah, to fall back on the unicameral style of government in the Philip-pines before the Americans took over from the Spaniards. This was the style of the fi rst Philippine Republic. And, ah, right now we have gone to the French model in which we have a strong President because the times, ah, and the situation in our part of the world calls for a strong government.

Ah, all around us, ah, we have ex-perienced, ah, these problems, for example, in Vietnam. The Philip-pines is so strategically situated that if anything happens to the Philip-pines, you know, Japan will be af-fected. So we are in effect in a very important position in the globe, and, ah, the other superpowers, the other interested parties would very much want to have the Philippines. So in this situation, and also the oil crisis, and our dreams for progress and de-velopment, we have to have a strong government that will enable us to achieve this progress. And, ah, so we have, ah, a constitution now that, ah, so in effect, ah, is wanted by the Fili-pino people. They voted for the new constitution last April this year, and this, ah, this constitution, this amend-ments paved the way for the holding of the Presidential elections last June 16, where President Marcos won by 88 percent.

NORFLEET: Okay, our next ques-tion is from Ernie Flores.

FLORES: My fi rst question is di-rected to Mr. Osmena. For years the opposition has been beating the drums telling all the world how bad the Marcos regime is. What exactly are the objections of the opposition like yourself to President Marcos? Is the Marcos regime really all that bad, or are you just saying that because

you happen to be on the opposite side of the fence?

OSMENA: Well, let me just cite a few examples. Before martial law was declared, we had three problems obtaining in the Philippines. One, you had social exploitation – social exploitation by the oligarchy of the poor, the laborers, the peasants. They could never succeed. Two, you there-fore had social unrest because the peasants found no other outlet to be able to make their dreams come true. And then, three, we had what we call a very, very uneven distribution of wealth in the Philippines wherein about 70 percent were very poor and about 5 percent were very rich.

With martial law, President Mar-cos vowed to reform society. He ac-knowledged that these problems did exist. He said he had not only to crush the rebellion, or the so-called rebel-lion, which he said was in existence during that time, but to extirpate the causes for the rebellion, which was social injustice. What happened after eight years of martial law? We not only have the same three problems in even worse dimensions, but he has added two more. We have the most corrupt government that the Philip-pines has ever seen, and we have lost our freedoms to boot.

Now, what were Mr. Marcos’ mo-tivations for having declared martial law? That’s most important. He said he wanted to reform society. What do we have today? We can see that he is so far away from reforming society, because all he has done was replace one set of oligarchs with a new breed of oligarchs – people who are his cro-nies. They have enriched themselves so much, and the poor have gotten poorer so much that the United Na-tions report that the unskilled laborer has lost about 40 percent of his pur-chasing power from 1972, when mar-tial law was declared, up to today. That’s fi rst. The second, you’ve got the biggest and wealthiest bunch of cronies, ever, that side of Asian. That in the Philippines there is a joke that says, “Success is relative. In order to be successful, you’ve got to be a relative.”

NORFLEET: Hmmm. We have another question from Ernie Flores.

FLORES: Yes. I’d like to follow that up later on, because I think that’s a very interesting answer. But I’d like you, Mr. Ople, to answer that. I mean, what do you think of what Mr. Osmena said?


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by Romeo Nicolas

Pagmasdan Nyo Kababayan

(Spratly Islands II)

show nga niya sa GMA 7, sa launching namigay kaagad ito ng bahay at lupa na katapat naman ng show ni Willie Revillame.

Pero sabi naman ni Pacman, wala namang intriga between him and Willie tungkol sa tapatan nila ng show, basta ang mahalaga raw ay marami silang natutulungan ng mga tao.Kaya huwag na silang intrigahin ni Willie ng ibang tao, pareho na-man ang purpose nila.

CLAIRE DELA FUENTE SASAMPALIN SI CRISTY FERMIN NG 50 MILLION LI-BEL SUIT !!! Galit na galit pala ngayon si Claire kay Ate Cristy dahil sa ibinalita ng TV host ng “Juicy” ang tungkol sa reklamo ng isang nagtitinda ng isda na pinakukuhanan ng singer , at ayaw ito bayaran ni Claire.

Sabi nga ni Ate Cristy, kung anu-anung masasakit na salita ang tine-text sa kanya ni Claire.Ayon naman sa TV host kum-pleto naman ang mga dokumento ng nagrereklamo kaya naman tinulungan pa niya ito dalin kay Mon Tulfo para lalo itong matu-lungan at matutukan.

Nagsalita pa raw si Claire na di niya uurungan ang mga alipores na ito, na pinatatamaan ang mga hosts ng “Juicy”.Sabi nga ni Dolly Anne Carvajal sa yaman ni Claire hindi pa niya mabayaran yung mga nagtitinda ng isda na halos nawalan na ito ng puhu-nan.

Abangan na lang natin kung hanggan saan makakarating ang banggaan nina Cristy Fermin at Claire Dela Fuente.

RUFFA GUTIERREZ TINANGGIHAN ANG 2 MIL-LION DOLLARS NA ALOK NG DATING ASAWA !!! Inamin ni Ruffa na inalok siya ni Ylmas Bektas dati niyang asawa ng 2 million dollars kapalit ng pag-punta sa turkey ng kanilang dalawang anak, pero tinanggihan niya.

Natakot siya na baka hindi na ibalik ni Ylmas ang kanilang mga anak, puede naman daw na bisitahin niya ito sa Pilipinas o kaya dito sa Amerika tutal mga American Citizen ang mga anak nila, pero hindi raw siya papa-yag na kunin ito dahil wala raw kapalit na halaga ang kanyang dalawang anak.

Basta raw, handa raw ni-yang ipaglaban ang custody ng kanyang mga anak tutal hindi naman niya pinipilit si Ylmas sa sustento nito.

VILMA SANTOS AND SHA-RON CUNETA MOVIE HINDI TULOY ! Inamin ni Gov. Vilma Santos na hindi tuloy ang movie nila ng Megastar Sharon Cuneta sa Star Cinema, instead isang suspense movie with Kim Chiu ang sigurado.

May isang drama movie rin na gagawin si Sharon kaya hindi ito natuloy, nilinaw din ni Ate Vi na walang offer para magsama sila ni Nora Aunor sa isang movie or Tv show.

Nakipag-meeting na siya sa management ng TV5 para sa isang Tv show pero walang Nora Aunor together na offer.

Basta raw yung gagawin niyang movie sa Star Cinema, e kakaiba at tiyak magugustuhan ito ng kanyang Vilmanians at mga tagahanga.

Naku, naku at heto na, itong barko ni “Uncle Sam”

Kasapi raw sa “exercise”, China Sea po ang syang daan.

Ang totoo’y magmamatyag, ang sitwasyon, pagmamasdan,

Ano nga ang nangyayari sa isla ng KAGULUHAN.

Sa totoo’t siyang tunay, mayroon ngang NAAAMOY,

Kalapit na munting bansa ganon din ang tinutukoy.

Dudutdutin yaong yaman hanggang GULO ay umusbong,

At ang bansang China naman, abot langit ang pagtutol.

Kapag ito’y nagpatuloy sa usaping ‘di maganda,

Relasyon ng mga bansa, MABIBITAK, pornada pa.

TUSONG MATSING magwawagi kung hayaang YAPAKAN NA,

Nitong bansang mayrong lakas, yaong BANSA na SISIW PA.

Kaya heto, dumarating ang bigating kaalyado,

Na nangakong MAGTATAGOL sating bansang PILIPINO.

Alam naman nating tunay, na sa ayaw mo at gusto,

Tayo pa ring PILIPINO ang syang mahal ni KANUTO.

Si UNCLE SAM ang syang dapat mamagitan sa usapan,

Ngunit ito’y ‘di gagawin, “standby” lang, mamatyagan.

Batid din ng AMERIKA, yaong tama at paraan,

Na makamit ng tiwasay ang usaping walang AWAY.

Kaya tayo’y HUMINAHON, aayos din itong gulo,

Na ‘di dapat umabot pa, PUTUK doon, PUTUK dito.

Mapayapang paguusap, malamigang mga ulo,

Aabot ding UNAWAAN, ang syang wakas nito’t dulo.

Hirit ni:

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OPLE: Well, ah, I don’t know. The thing which he said, really, are so dif-ferent from what the reality in the Philippines is. In the first place, ah, President Marcos has done so much to improve the economy, which is the main problem of underdevelop-ment. Ah, if I may, (shows a graph), these are the economic indicators in the Philippines from 1972 when the President declared ma, ah, mar-tial law, to 1980. All these indica-tors, the gross national product, the government tax collection, exports, international reserves, individual income, minimum wage, electrifica-tion, roads, irrigation. All these are tangible economic achievements that help bridge the gap between the rich and the poor. Then there’s also the land reform program. One million tenants who were formerly tilling the land that they didn’t own are now given by the government their land to till. And this is one of the main reforms achieved by the New Society government of the Philippines during the eight years of martial law.

And, ah, in the economy, there is now, ah, more systematic and more efficient planning of resources to achieve progress. This is why we have achieved one of the highest gross national product, ah, growth trade in Asia. And, ah, recently the World Bank in a meeting in Paris said that the “Philippines is one of the shining stars in the developing world”. It is because we have a new king of lead-ership in the Philippines, a leadership that is concerned with the people, with the economy, and they have the dynamism and the courage, and the ability to transform our country into another Japan, or another South Ko-rea, or another one of those miracle economic growth countries.

BABAO: Mr. Osmena, Mr. Ople has mentioned that the “Philippines is one of the shining stars in the de-veloping world.” I think that is true. It is known all over, and it has been published in several newspapers, that whenever Mrs. Marcos comes to the United States on her jet-setting trips she spends millions of dollars in cash, and ...

OPLE: There is no proof of that.BABAO: Mr. Ople, my question is

directed to Mr. Osmena, and I haven’t even stated the question.

OPLE: But, ah, that is a question that’s, ah, I know I object to because, ah, because you have no proof. I mean, it’s, it’s derogatory to, ah, the First Lady of the Philippines. Ah, I don’t think it should be asked.

NORFLEET: We have estab-lished that you object, Mr. Ople. But


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Reasons for Senior Citizen Discounts

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not on the true needs of the people. The people, after having to sacrifice, suffered even more.

This is also what happened to the MRT. The government tried again to buy the people’s love. The operator was forced to keep the rates low.

In effect, the guarantee given to the operator that he will still be able to recoup his investment was not ful-filled. Because of this, Landbank and the Development Bank of the Philip-pines were ordered to purchase the MRT.

The money of the people was used in exchange for an operation that was losing money.

Let us now move on to the funds of the National Food Authority (NFA).

In 2004: 117,000 metric tons (of rice) was the shortage in the supply of the Philippines. What they (the government) bought were 900,000 metric tons. Even if you multiply for more than seven times the amount of shortage, they still bought more than what was needed.

In 2007: 589,000 metric tons was the shortage in the supply of the Philippines. What they bought were 1.827 million metric tons. Even if you multiply for more than three times the amount of shortage, they again bought more than what was needed.

What hurts is, because they keep purchasing more than what they need year after year, the excess rice that had to be stored in warehouses ended up rotting, just like what happened in 2008.

Is this not a crime, letting rice rot, despite the fact that there are 4 mil-lion Filipinos who do not eat three times a day?

The result is NFA’s current debt of 177 billion pesos.

This money that was wasted could have funded the following:

- The budget of the entire judiciary, which is at 12.7 billion pesos this year.

- The Conditional Cash Transfers for the following year, which cost 29.6 billion pesos.

- All the classrooms that our coun-try needs, which cost 130 billion pe-sos.

This way of doing things is revolt-ing. Money was there only to be wasted.

You have heard how the public cof-fers were squandered. This is what is clear to me now: change can only come from our determination to

ability, the answer to the dearth in funds is a new and creative approach to our long-standing problems.

We have so many needs: from edu-cation, infrastructure, health, mili-tary, police and more. Our funds will not be enough to meet them.

No matter how massive the deficit is that may keep us from paying for this list of needs, I am heartened be-cause many have already expressed renewed interest and confidence in the Philippines.

Our solution: public-private part-nerships. Although no contract has been signed yet, I can say that on-going talks with interested investors will yield fruitful outcomes.

There are some who have already shown interest and want to build an expressway from Manila that will pass through Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, until the end of Ca-gayan Valley, without the govern-ment having to spend a single peso.

On national defense:We have 36,000 nautical miles of

shoreline, but we only have 32 boats. These boats are as old as the time of (US General Douglas) MacArthur.

Some had this proposition: they will rent the Navy headquarters on Roxas Boulevard and the Naval Sta-tion in Fort Bonifacio.

They will take care of the funding necessary to transfer the Navy Head-quarters to Camp Aguinaldo. Imme-diately, we will be given 100 million dollars. Furthermore, they will give us a portion of their profits from their businesses that would occupy the land they will rent.

In short, we will meet our needs without spending, and we will also earn.

There have already been many pro-posals from local to foreign investors to provide for our various needs.

From these public-private partner-ships, our economy will grow and every Filipino will be the beneficiary. There are so many sectors that could benefit from this.

We will be able to construct the needed infrastructure in order to help tourism grow.

In agriculture, we will be able to



stamp out this extravagance and prof-ligacy.

That is why starting now: we will stop the wasteful use of government funds. We will eradicate projects that are wrong.

This is the point of what we call the zero-based approach in our budget. What used to be the norm was every year, the budget merely gets re-enact-ed without plugging the holes.

Next month we will be submitting a budget that accurately identifies the problem and gives much attention on the right solution.

Those that I have mentioned were only some of the problems we have discovered. Here now are examples of the steps we are undertaking to solve them.

There is a case of one pawnshop owner. He purchased a vehicle at an estimated cost of 26 million pesos.

If he can afford to buy a Lambo-rghini, why can’t he pay his taxes?

A case has already been filed against him. Through the leadership of Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, BIR Commissioner Kim Henares, Customs Commissioner Lito Alvarez, and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, every week we have new cases filed against smugglers and against those who do not pay the right taxes.

We have also already identified the suspects of the cases of Francisco Baldomero, Jose Daguio and Miguel Belen, 3 of the 6 incidents of extra-legal killings since we assumed the Presidency.

Fifty percent (50%) of these inci-dents of extralegal killings are now on their way to being resolved.

We will not stop the pursuit of the remaining half of these killings until justice has been achieved.

We will hold murderers account-able. We will also hold those who are corrupt that work in government ac-countable for their actions.

We have begun forming our Truth Commission, through the leadership of former Chief Justice Hilario Da-vide. We will search for the truth on the alleged wrongdoing committed in the last nine years.

This week, I will sign the first ever Executive Order on the formation of this Truth Commission.

If the answer to justice is account-


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Do You Know What Corks Are Made Of?

Do you know what corks are made of?

In a recent party I attended, my friends and I were drinking cham-pagne and had a hard time to open the bottle covered with cork, where we don’t have the cork remover. Jeff got a fl at screwdriver to break the cover instead and said, “I wonder what cork are made of, in fact I don’t even know any factory where this is made?” There were six of us in the group and nobody dared to give an answer, including myself. Unexpectedly, yesterday, I learned what is cork made of, a woman hand

me a religious booklet “Gumising”, when I bought a bread in a local bakery in our area. I scanned the pages and read in Tagalog version, “Mula Puno Hanggang Bote”, an article about cork.

Cork is a familiar material, where you can see mostly in wine, medici-nal and soft drinks bottles, even in the manufacture of baseball, engine parts and spaceships and also com-monly used for shoes and sandals for women, but is sometimes assumed wrongly to be he product of a great deal of factory processing. Instead cork literally grows on trees and is a forestry product. The raw material

for corks is the bark of the cork oak, an evergreen tree present in south-west Europe and northwest Africa and through the years in now avail-able in Florida. Cork bark contains a high proportionof suberin, a waxy substance that repeals water.

Once every nine or ten years, most of the bark is stripped from the trunk of a cork tree. The resulting thick planks are left out in the open to dry and season. To make corks , planks of bark are boiled in water to clean them and improve their fl exibility. The corks are then punched right out of the bark itself. Items such are cork boards, cork liners and cork fl ooring are made by grinding up the cork planks and reprocessing them, often using a glue or some other binding agent.

Cork is an impermeable, buoyant material, which composed of hydro-phobic substance, and because of its impermeability, buoyancy, elasticity, and fi re resistance, it is used in a va-riety of products. Portugal produces approximately fi fty per cent of cork harvested annually worldwide. There are about 2,200,000 has. of cork forest worldwide; 32.4% in Portugal, and 22.2 % in Spain. Annual produc-tion is about 300,000 tons; 52.5% from Portugal, 29.5% from Spain, 5.0% in Italy.

Once the trees are about 25 years old the cork is stripped from the trunks every ten years. The trees live for about 200 years. The fi rst two harvests produce poorer qual-ity cork. But the cork industry is generally regarded as environmen-tally friendly. The sustainability of production and the easy recycling of cork products and by-products are two of its most distinctive aspects. Cork Oak forests also prevent desertifi cation and are the home of various endangered species.

Since Cork Oak trees need some-time to grow, not many business people ventured into this, specially Asians including Filipinos, so not so many of us knew what the cork is made of. Next time you empty a champagne bottle, think of it, that you are holding a natural, biode-gradable, self producing tree which lasts for numbers of years, unlike other trees that you have to cut and replant. Cork Oak tree is even environmentally friendly. What else can you look for in a tree? -- Joe C.Son [email protected] San Diego, CA

we’ll let Ms. Babao fi nish the ques-tion and we will let both of you an-swer.

BABAO: Well, whether true or not, do the Filipinos know about this, Mr. Osmena?

OSMENA: The press in the Philip-pines is controlled by the cronies of Mr. Marcos. That’s an established fact. As a matter of fact, there’s the L.A. Times article over here (shows clipping) where they had a press con-ference in the Philippines, and one foreign correspondent, I quote “com-plained that Manila newspapers falsi-fi ed their stories on the travel of Mrs. Marcos, wife of the president.” One example cited was a report that Mrs. Marcos spoke to a large crowd at the United Nations, where in fact, the chamber was virtually empty. A Fili-pino reporter answered, and I quote him, “If you don’t write what the First Lady likes, then you will lose your job and you won’t get another one” unquote. That is the truth of the matter in the Philippines and there is not much anybody can do about it.

Is she rich? Look up the Time ar-ticle when, ah, beautiful young lady Brooke Shields was over there for the Philippine International Film Fes-tival and she saw Mrs. Marcos with real diamonds studded on her dress, and Ms. Shields commented it was “neat.” Or the New York Times front-page article on the “Making of a Dy-nasty in the Philippines” which said that the reporter was just astounded that she was wearing a huge dia-mond choker during the same festi-val, which would have meant several years’ salary if all their income was the salary of a president and a cabinet minister.

NORFLEET: Can I interject some-thing here?

OSMENA: Yes?NORFLEET: Is it, ah, all that out of

the ordinary for government offi cials – take the President. I’m sure that the President of the United States is probably more wealthy than the aver-age citizen. So is that so unusual?

OSMENA: It is unusual in this sense. Nobody has even seen any-thing like this on that magnitude, except the wife of the Shah of Iran. Nobody has ever spent money the way Mrs. Marcos has spent. Mrs. Marcos spends money like wives of

potentates who have access to unlim-ited wealth. So in here we could re-ally see that those funds she spends must be coming from somewhere, perhaps the National Treasury, or perhaps corruption.

NORFLEET: Mr. Ople, would you like to respond to that?

OPLE: I’m really surprised with the, ah, question. Because, ah, we don’t go into personalities here, I mean, why always attack the First Lady, when Mrs. Marcos has done so much. I mean, look at what she has done. She has built the Philippine Cultural Center, the Philippine Heart Center for Asia, and as Minister of Human Settlements she has instituted this, ah, BLISS program, or model communities, ah, housing, electric-ity, water to the countryside. And the why, I don’t know … I have seen, ah, the First Lady, ah, several times and I haven’t seen her dressed out of the, ah, I mean she’s dressed elegantly, but certainly not wearing those, ah, things, ah, that Mr. Osmena has been saying.

Ah, as a representative of the Phil-ippine when she goes abroad, she has to dress well because she carries the image of the Philippines. And, ah, I don’t know why, ah, would say that because she is the, ah, the First Lady, she should pick up her clothes at Sears. I mean, we have our dig-nity in the Philippines. I mean, ah, whenever we go to an affair, for ex-ample as a Filipino, whenever we go to an American affair, we don’t dress shabbily because it will refl ect our country and our people. But regard-ing these, ah, these stories, they are all exaggerated, because they have no basis at all.

NORFLEET: Okay, let’s going to move on to Mr. Flores.

FLORES: Well, I’d like to change the subject of Mrs. Marcos to some-thing more, I think, more mundane. This question is, ah, directed again to Mr. Osmena more or less as a follow-up to what he said a while ago. Ah, I have always wondered about this phenomena. The opposition keeps saying that the Marcos regime is re-pressive, that there is no freedom in the Philippines, and yet thousands of thousands of Filipinos residing in the United States, Canada, and other foreign countries visits the Philip-pines every year, and majority if not all of them come back with some nice impressions of the country. Do you think maybe the opposition like your-self is just painting an exaggeratedly

dreary picture of the Philippines?OSMENA: I don’t think so. Am-

nesty International (showing the book), the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978, made a very factual report on the Philippines. And if you want me to read to you some of the tortures that they have obtained over there under the military, and under certain colonels, lieutenant coronels and sergeants, then I don’t think any-body can say we are exaggerating.

FLORES: I am sorry. I think what we are trying to address here is some-thing like why do Filipinos from here go to the Philippines if it’s really that repressive. I mean, it is known …

OSMENA: Oh no. That’s a differ-ent point altogether. You never have what they call 10 percent repression anymore in this world, not even in Russia. Russian Americans go over to Russia and visit their relatives, Chinese from San Francisco and Los Angeles go to China and visit their relatives, but just make sure they never, never criticize Deng Xiaoping or Brezhnev over there.

For example, we were talking with Fred Norfl eet and Zeny Babao ear-lier, and they said that most of the Filipinos here in the United States are afraid to even discuss martial law in the Philippines. Why? Because they say that they have relatives back home. That indicates a pervasive de-gree of fear that the administration of the dictator has impressed upon each and every Filipino everywhere, not only in the Philippines.

OPLE: I’d like to retort to that.NORFLEET: Mr. Ople –OPLE: Yeah, there is no repression

in the Philippines. I mean, all these Filipinos who are coming here and then going back. And then you have the former Senator Aquino released from jail although he was convicted of murder to get his operation, and then the chairman of UNIDO, the opposition conglomeration of Ma-nila, is in New York now having his operation also. I mean, there is no repression in the Philippines. There are no tanks in the street. There are no guns, ah, lying around. Ah, mar-tial law has been lifted, and, ah, we have our plebiscite, and we had our elections. We have returned to the democratic form of government.

NORFLEET: Mr. Ople, is there any truth to the notion that many Filipi-nos would love to see the Philippines become the 51st state of the Union?

OPLE: Well, in the, ah, last Presi-(Continued on page 21)

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By the National Cancer In-stitute

BETHESDA, Md., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNews-wire/ -- Many cancer patients today receive part of their care at home. People with cancer are living longer, and many patients want to be cared for at home as much as possible. This support is often given by family caregivers, who may be spouses, partners, children, relatives, or friends -- anyone who is helping a loved one get through cancer treat-ment. Today, family caregivers do many things that used to be done in the hospital or a doctor’s offi ce. In fact, they play a large role in the health care system in the United States.

Your life will change in many ways when you begin to provide care for someone with cancer. As the patient’s needs change during and after cancer treatment, your role will also change, and the entire experience can affect your quality of life. There may be physical and emotional demands from caregiving, and, for some, social and money issues as well.

Cancer patients may need help with many basic activities dur-ing the day, such as using the toilet, moving around the house, and changing positions in bed. As you try to meet the physical demands of caregiving, you need to take care of yourself. Some caregivers have found that they don’t get enough rest and don’t let their own health needs get met. Engaging in healthy habits such as exercise, a healthy diet, and regular medical checkups may keep you from developing health problems or making exist-ing ones worse.

In the beginning, there may be a lot of support from your friends

Caring for a Loved One with Cancerand you may be able to continue working and keep up your rela-tionships. But some caregivers note that as they continue to care for their loved one, the time de-mands may increase, and friends may call or visit less often. If this happens to you, and if there are problems in your relationship with the patient, your sense of isolation can become a problem, and you may want to seek out-side help. On the other hand, the challenges of caregiving can also bring you closer to the patient as you help them cope with the challenges cancer brings.

There are many fi nancial costs of cancer. Families must pay insurance deductibles, copay-ments, and the cost of services that are not covered by insur-ance, such as transportation and home care help. Some caregivers give up their jobs and income so they can stay home with the patient, which can make it harder to pay for everything. And fi nan-cial stress often causes additional emotional stress.

All of these changing circum-stances, new feelings, and major demands on your time can be overwhelming. But this is a crucial time to care for your own mind, body, and spirit. Giving care and support during cancer isn’t easy, yet many caregivers fi nd that it helps them look at life in new ways. Some have said that it’s an honor and a privilege to care for someone they love. You may think more about the purpose of life, and recognize more clearly which people and aspects of life mean the most to you. Looking for meaning can be a way to cope. Other caregiv-ers discover they can be strong during hard times, and develop a better sense of self-worth or

personal growth.

Getting support from health care professionals may help you take better care of your loved one and yourself. You can also fi nd support from caregiver groups and cancer organizations, where you can talk with other families. Some caregivers fi nd it helpful to join a support group or to talk to a counselor, psy-chologist, or other mental health professional. Many people who are active in their faith or spiri-tual community will fi nd support and resources readily available. Advice about caregiving is avail-able from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the booklet “Caring for the Caregiver” and in the fact sheet “Home Care for Cancer Patients”. More informa-tion can be found at the Coping with Cancer: Supportive and Palliative Care page of the NCI Web site.

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New FDA-Approved Tech-nique Quickly Reduces Cel-lulite Without Diet, Exercise, Pain, or Surgery

BOSTON, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Boston company is doing its part to fi ght the battle of the bulge. Since opening several months ago Sound Shapes has collectively dissolved hundreds of inches of body fat from area cli-ents without diet, exercise, anesthe-sia or surgery. Clients report walking out the door after just one session looking and feeling like they’ve lost several pounds around their midsec-tion or other areas.

Utilizing a newly developed treatment recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, Sound Shapes features an entirely non-invasive ultrasound body sculpt-ing technique that provides instant results similar to liposuction without anesthesia, incisions, compression garments, or lengthy recovery time.

Clients who have undergone this groundbreaking treatment compare it to a hot stone massage yet with immediate reduction in problem body areas one would get through invasive surgical techniques. A typi-cal client will reduce their waistline or other areas by as much as an inch in just one session, though multiple sessions are recommended.

“This treatment, called VASER© Shape, is really targeted at the person who eats right, exercises regularly but has some areas of the body that they just can’t improve or aren’t happy with and who isn’t comfortable submitting to invasive reduction techniques,’’ said Theresa Sapienza-Cote, a licensed nurse and the founder, CEO and president of Sound Shapes LLC.

Sound Shapes is the only Boston-area facility to feature the break-through VASER© Shape, which recently received FDA approval for body sculpting and removal of cel-lulite. The treatment is also effective for skin tightening and spot reduc-ing.

The new technology non-inva-sively breaks down the fat cells and removes them from the body.

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Refreshing News | July 25, 2011 -- Modern society has created a sad state for our over-processed livers. Anytime we overeat or eat processed or fried foods, and, anytime we are exposed to environmental pollut-ants or stress, the liver becomes overworked and overloaded. When the liver is taxed, it cant process toxins and fat in an effi cient way. There are many foods that can help cleanse the liver naturally by stimulating the natural ability to clean toxic waste from the body.

List of Foods that Cleanse the Liver

1. GarlicJust a small amount of this

pungent white bulb has the abil-ity to activate liver enzymes that helps your body fl ush out toxins. Garlic also holds high amounts of allicin and selenium, two natural compounds that aid in liver cleansing.

2. GrapefruitHigh in both vitamin C and

antioxidants, grapefruit increasea the natural cleansing processes of the liver. A small glass of freshly-squeezed grapefruit juice will help boost production of liver detoxifi cation enzymes that help fl ush out carcinogens and other toxins.

3. Beets and CarrotsBoth extremely high in plant-

fl avonoids and beta-carotene, eating both beets and carrots can help stimulate and improve overall liver function.

4. Green TeaThis liver-loving beverage is

14 Foods that Cleanse the Liverchock-full of plant antioxidants known as catechins, a constituent known to assist the livers overall functions. Green tea is not only delicious, it’s also a great way to improve your overall diet. Learn more about the benefi ts of green tea.

5. Leafy Green VegetablesOne of our most powerful

allies in cleansing the liver, leafy greens can be eaten raw, cooked or juiced. Extremely high in plant chlorophylls, greens literally suck up environmental toxins from the blood stream. With their distinct ability to nu-etralize heavy metals, chemicals and pesticides, these cleansing foods offer a powerful protective mechanism for the liver.

Try incorporating leafy greens such as bitter gourd, arugula, dandelion greens, spinach, mustard greens and chicory into your diet. This will help increase the creation and fl ow of bile, the substance that removes waste from the organs and blood.

6. AvocadosThis nutrient-dense super-food

helps the body produce glutathi-one, which is necessary for the liver to cleanse harmful toxins. Recent studies indicate improved liver health when avocados are eaten regularly.

7. ApplesHigh in pectin, apples hold the

chemical constituents needed for the body to cleanse and release toxins from the digestive tract. This, in turn, makes it easier for

ScienceDaily (July 22, 2011) — Scientists from the Centre for Allergy and Environment in Munich (ZAUM), the Helm-holtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München believe the have discovered the causes of atopic eczema and pso-riasis. The results of the studies have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The fi ndings of a research study conducted by Stefanie and Kilian Eyerich show that both diseases are caused by an im-paired immunological memory.

The couple, who are engaged in research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Department of Dermatology and Allergology Biederstein, Technische Universität München (TUM), based their study on a rare group of patients who suffer from both diseases. As their re-sults show, the T-cells of the im-mune system in the skin activate an infl ammatory programme that causes either atopic eczema or psoriasis. Professor Ring, co-au-thor and Director of Department of Dermatology and Allergology Biederstein believes that “this

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taken to the hospital for my diet of carinderia food for four consecutive years.

In sticking to my budget, I bought no new clothes. Instead, I made do with my old wardrobe plus jackets bought from the tiangge or ukay-ukay to combat the cold weather in the city. I took no taxi rides. I frequently walked from the dormi-tory to the Hall of Justice and to the university. Walking served as good exercise for me, too.

I had no expensive cell phone to use to share with my loved ones in Isabela my bittersweet stories and painful experiences. Instead, I wrote letters home. We spoke on the phone only twice a month. No frequent vacations for me despite having

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been homesick a lot because bus fare cost too much. I did budget for trips home on our semester breaks.

For a poor working student like me, every hard-earned peso is a ticket to my goals of becoming a lawyer, changing the living condi-tion of my family and extending help to the underprivileged, the lost, the last and the least.

With the grace of God, and with good budgeting, the dreamer became a lawyer in 2007. It led me to be-lieve that the poor are not destined to wallow in poverty forever. As the French say, “Petit a petit, l’oiseau fait son nid,” which means “little by little, the bird builds its nest.”

Let me now share with you some simple tips to save money and help your parents while you’re in school:

If you have to live away from home, look for a clean boarding house or dormitory near the school. The closer to the school, the better,

so you don’t have to budget for transportation;

Eat healthy food at a clean, inexpensive food stall. If you’re a regular, the shop helpers will give you bigger helpings.

If you have to take a ride, take the jeepney, the MRT or the bus, not the FX or the taxi. But walking can do a lot of good to your body. Safety and good health should be a primary concern.

Buy school materials only when necessary.

Bring just enough money for the day to avoid buying on impulse.

Save P10 a day. In one month, you’ll have P300. In a year, you’ll have P3,650, enough to buy you a new uniform and a new pair of shoes for the next school year.

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“Our clients go right back to work or home after the treatment and no one knows they’ve had work done,” said Sapienza-Cote. “They are often asked if they’ve been working out or have lost weight.”

More on the breakthrough tech-nology and technique can be found at Sound Shapes’ website at www.sound-shapes.com.

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the liver to handle the toxic load during the cleansing process.

8. Olive OilCold-pressed organic oils such

as olive, hemp and flax-seed are great for the liver, when used in moderation. They help the body by providing a lipid base that can suck up harmful toxins in the body. In this way, it takes some of the burden off the liver in terms of the toxic overload that many of us suffer from.

9. Whole GrainsGrains, such as brown rice, are

rich in B-complex vitamins, nu-trients known to improve overall fat metabolization, liver function and liver decongestion. If pos-sible, do not eat foods with white flour, instead try eating whole wheat alternatives.

10. Cruciferous VegetablesEating broccoli and cauli-

flower will increase the amount of glucosinolate in your system, adding to enzyme production in the liver. These natural enzymes help flush out carcinogens, and other toxins, out of our body which significantly lowers our risk of cancer.

11. Lemons & LimesThese citrus fruits contain very

high amounts of the vitamin C, which aids the body in synthesiz-ing toxic material into substance that can be absorbed by water. Drinking freshly-squeezed lemon or lime juice in the morning helps stimulate the liver.

12. WalnutsHolding high amount of the

amino acid arginine, walnuts aid the liver in detoxifying am-monia. Walnuts are also high in glutathione and omega-3 fatty acids which support normal liver cleansing actions. Make sure you chew the nuts well (until they are liquefied) before swallowing.

14 Foods That Cleanse the Liver


study highlights the critical role of T-cells in psoriasis.”

The scientists now aim to find out which T-cell molecules are responsible for triggering these diseases. “Clearly, future therapy strategies should focus on the impairment of the immuno-logical memory,” says Professor Carsten Schmidt-Weber, Director of ZAUM.

T-cells together with the B-cells form the body’s immuno-logical memory. They initiate an immune response when they recognice substances that are foreign to the body.

In the case of atopic eczema / neurodermatitis, the T-cells rec-ognise substances that trigger an immune response: these include components of pollen, house-dust mites and also bacteria. In the case of psoriasis, it remains unclear which molecules are responsible for the response.

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President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino won the presidential elec-tions based on certain expectations by the Filipino people. I, for one, voted and endorsed him primarily because I was convinced that among all the candidates, he pretty much personified my vision of a leader who would bring honesty, humility, honor, and hope to the Presidency.

As I saw it, many Filipinos includ-ing my barber are in agreement with me in what we all want.

SANA: People’s Wish List

Sana we would have an Honest Government: “Walang Corrupt, Walang Mahirap”;

Sana we would have Humility or No Arrogance of Power;

Sana we would have Honor and National Pride; and

Sana we would have Hope for a brighter future.

It is against these wishes that we will try to assess the State of the Nation under President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino as he reported.

SONA: Honest Government: In his first

year in office, P-Noy has started to remove the culture of corruption that has engulfed the Filipino society for generations. By putting together a team of “incorruptible” managers in many sensitive positions, he is indeed committed to build the foun-dation for good governance.

In his address he cited a sample of honest governance in the Depart-ment of Public Works and Highways under Secretary Babes Singson: “We are eliminating the patronage politics that had been prevalent in DPWH, and replacing it with a culture in which merit prevails. All projects must have work programs; we will require those involved in projects to submit well thought out plans for consideration, so that each project complements the other. We have also instituted an honest and transparent bidding process to pro-vide equal opportunity to interested contractors.”

The Department of Justice under Secretary de Lima has been ag-gressive in investigating and filing anti-corruption cases. So has the

Department of Finance under Secre-tary Purisima against customs duties violators and tax evaders.

The appointment of Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Conchita Carpio Morales is a clear signal that P-Noy is serious in having “an honest-to-goodness anti-corruption office, not one that condones the corruption and abuses in government.”

Humility in Government: P-Noy began his tenure by acknowledg-ing who his real bosses are—the

sovereign people. He identified the “Wang-Wang” as signifying arro-gance of power.

In his own words, “Over the years, the Wang-Wang had come to symbolize abuse of authority. It was routinely used by public officials to violate traffic laws, inconveniencing ordinary motorists—as if only the time of the powerful few, and no one else’s, mattered. Instead of behaving like public servants, they acted like kings. This privilege was extended to their cronies and patrons, who moved along the streets as if they were aristocracy, indifferent to those who were forced to give way and were left behind. Abusing privilege despite promising to serve—this is the Wang-Wang mind-set; this is the mind-set of entitlement.”

He also drew our attention in his SONA to the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. He said, “The politics there have been dominated by horse-trading and transactional politics. During national elections, whoever is in power in ARMM is free to manipulate the electoral machinery in his region, ensuring that non-allies do not get votes. That Mayor or Governor then demands

payment for his services come the ARMM election, and it is the administration’s turn to manipulate the electoral machinery to secure the win of their candidate.”

Indeed, for public service to result in public welfare, honesty and hu-mility in governance are necessary ingredients.

Honor and Pride: There are many things that Filipinos can be proud of nowadays. Pacquiao for one brought us on top of the world in sports. We have become the Text, Facebook, Twitter, and Call Center Capital of the world. This is despite the fact that Filipino access to the Internet is less than 30%.

He also enumerated examples of creativity displayed by Filipinos benefiting other Filipinos in his address. Constructing a monorail using a homegrown technology was specified.

SOUTH CHINAI cannot however be prouder than

when P-Noy expressed his willing-ness to stand up against the bullying of China on the issue of Spratlys, West Philippine or South China Sea. His approach of using International Law in resolving the dispute speaks well of his belief that RIGHT trumps MIGHT. His resolve to fight for our sovereignty over KALAYAAN, the island, or the RECTO bank in the same manner that we would protect or defend RECTO Avenue is indeed a courageous move worthy of praise and honor.

Globalizing the issue and bringing it up to the international community is the better approach. Knowing that the current leadership, includ-ing P-Noy’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs del Rosario, cannot be bribed or corrupted into signing agree-ments inimical to the interest of the Philippines—as what happened in the previous administration—gives us comfort, honor, and pride.

Hope: The fact that we own an island that has gas and oil deposits equaling if not exceeding those of rich Kuwait gives us plenty of hope for an energy and economically independent future.

Even today, there are plenty of things that give us reasons for hope. Our credit rating was upgraded four times within one year. As shown by the record highs in the stock market and GDP growth rate, our economy is better. P-Noy indicated that most recently “a new contract was signed for a power plant to be constructed in the Luzon grid, so that by 2014, our country will have a cheaper, more reliable source of energy.”

Growing up as a young boy in Pangasinan, I learned that we used to be the “rice granary of the Philippines.” Helping my parents during rice harvests gave me pride

in contributing to the feeding of a nation. But I understand that we have been importing our rice needs for sometime now.

P-Noy just reported that we have substantially reduced the importation of rice and that we have increased our rice production by 15.6%. Using more hectares of land for produc-tion and weather permitting, we now

hope to be self-sufficient in rice in the immediate future.

Meanwhile, “Self-rated hunger has gone down from 20.5% in March to 15.1% this June—equivalent to a million Filipino families who used to go hungry, but who now say they eat properly every day.”

Saan Na? Where indeed are we heading? A

good foundation for good gover-nance versus the culture of corrup-tion is slowly but surely being built. A team is in place. A Freedom of Information law is expected to pass. If more Filipino men and women participate positively in the build-ing of a nation, I am quite confident that success will come. Positivism, not negativism, would propel us to a prosperous Philippines.

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dential elections there was one for-mer, ah, one politician, Filipino politician who ran under the platform and he got about five percent of the vote. Ah, it means that, ah, it means that, ah, the Filipinos love the United States, but only a minority would actually want us to be a part of the United States.

NORFLEET: Okay, we have time for two more quick questions. Zeny –BABAO: Okay. This is for Mr. Ople. Why is there a 40 percent in-fant mortality rate in the Philippines, which according to the World Bank, is due to malnutrition?

OPLE: It’s not, ah, 40 percent mor-tality rate. It’s much lower. Ah, the Heart Center, heart disease, ah, is one of the leading, ah, killer, killer diseases in the Philippine, that’s why we have the heart center. And also to train doctors, ah, Filipino doc-tors in the field of medicine. With regards to malnutrition that you are talking about, the Philippine nutri-tion program by the First Lady, ah,

Looking Back...(Continued from page 18)

by Mrs. Marcos has been cited as a model by the United Nations itself. It is because we have distributed, ah, all these government resources in the form of, ah, community hospi-tals, nurses, and, ah, nutri-buns, this, this kind of nutritious food for school children all over the Philippines.

NORFLEET: Okay, we have time for one more question, a quick one from Ernie Flores.

FLORES: Alright, Mr. Osmena. General Haig and Vice-President Bush recently visited the Philippines with laudatory words in favor of President Marcos. Don’t you think the opposition in the United States has suffered a severe setback in the propaganda movement in this coun-try?

OSMENA: Definitely. When you can get the officials of the United States to stand up and say you are a very democratic country when in fact you are not, then definitely you have suffered a setback. As a mat-ter of fact, the L.A. Times came out with an extremely strong editorial the other day asking Vice-President Bush where he has been all this time. And he said it might be all right to have operational treatise but you don’t

have to stand up and –NORFLEET: I’m sorry we have to

cut you off, we are out of time. We have been talking about “Martial Law in the Philippines.” And I wan-na thank my guests tonight, Mr. Luis Ople who is the Information Repre-sentative for the Consulate General in Los Angeles, and Mr. Sergio Omena III, who is the representative of the Movement for a Free Philippines.

Now, I’d like to thank my panel to-night – Ms. Zeny Babao who is with the Philippine News, and Mr. Er-nie Flores with the Asian American News. I wanna thank you for join-ing us tonight. Robin Robinson will be back next time, so tune in again. Good night!

* * *After the Viewpoints program,

Channel 10 asked me to take the guests to dinner (courtesy of KGTV-10) but both Mr. Ople and Ernie Flores, Jr. declined. My husband and I took Mr. Osmena and his little girl (who was with him at the TV station) to dinner at Anthony’s Seafood Grot-to at the Embarcadero in downtown San Diego.

THE METAMORPHOSISBy Ernie D. Delfin | FOUNTAIN

VALLEY, CA -- 7/29/2011 -- Six decades and 5 years ago this month of July, I first saw the light of day in an unpolluted village called Anis, in the town of Laoac (formerly part Manaoag, the town made famous by the Blessed Virgin Mary’s apparition hundred years ago), as the second child of seven (and first born son) of my simple but hardworking farmer-father and my vendor-mother who are both deceased, joining my two sisters (the eldest and the 4th child) who died even before them, and my youngest sister joining them a few years ago to the Life Beyond. With that brief family background, I am quite grateful to my God and Creator, that I have reached this age, reasonably healthy, enjoying life’s comfort with a loving family that includes a son EJ and my daughter Donna (with her engineer husband Tri) who just gave us our first apo (grandchild) a year ago. Life is indeed a precious gift from God and what we do with it is our gift to God. Now, without the nor-mal pressures of professional and business work, there is more time in a week for me to do many things that makes my waking hours even go faster than.

LIKE SOME RETIRED PEOPLE, it seems that we are now busier than when we were working! Neverthe-less, my activities are really getting more exciting although they are no longer measured by the inflows of dollars into our bank accounts. Life

continues to be exciting depend-ing on what we do with it. For instance, my wife and I are looking forward to a totally new experience, a bold adventure, travelling to Eu-rope by ourselves, to be hosted by fellow Rotarians in Vienna, Lodon and Paris as a member of our Inter-national Travel and Hosting Fellow-ship (ITHF). In Rome, my Domini-can nun sister is also helping us to be special guests in their Dominican Sisters House in Rome. In the past, we were the hosts and also enjoyed the experience. As guests in a for-eign land for the first time, with full trust and faith in the goodness of others, adds to our excitement, that may also bring us some seren-dipitous moments along the way.

To be happy and fulfilled is one of man’s innate cravings. I still vividly remember a seminar I participated over 30 years ago where the speaker gave a formula to be truly happy is simply to have an equilibrium of all our human activities during our entire life. The seminar creator, Dr. Steven R. Covey, the author of the best seller “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” opined that in order for a person to have a well balanced life, he must consciously integrate the essential quadrants into his life, namely: the Physical Quadrant (TO LIVE) Mental Quadrant (TO LEARN) Social Quadrant (TO LOVE) and Spiritual Quadrant (TO LEAVE A LEGACY).

Like most professionals and businesspeople, in the earlier years

of our careers or professions, I too was very much preoccupied in working hard and long to live and learning to get a degree while working. With a business degree and CPA license, I even worked harder to reach my own dreams and also to fulfill some sup-pressed desires of my faded youth: the “earthly” games and adven-tures that my rich classmates in Letran College were already enjoying then. Working hard and long for over 40 years allowed me to live comfortably now, but those years left me barely enough time to get really involved in civic work (the last two quadrants of a meaningful life) in giving back to my own community, locally and internationally.

Now in my 60’s I think I am now making up with those “missed” opportunities to love more (social work) and to leave a legacy (spiri-tual work nor necessarily religious). With a redirected focus what is truly important thing worth doing, I believe that I can contribute more time and energy in a true Service Above Self or be a Man for Others as St. Ignatius of Loyola de-

scribed it. For that blessing alone, I am eternally grateful to my God that I have lived this long, longer than my own father’s life on this earth.

On a nostalgic note, once we the retreatants in a Franciscan Retreat Center were asked who do we think are the genuinely happiest people? Responses were varied and many: good health , enough money, good family, successful career, world travel. etc etc. Lo and behold we had it all wrong, accord-

ing to this Franciscan retreat master-friar! He said that the most happy people are the GRATEFUL people. Grateful for what they are, how they are and what they have, without complaining what they “lack” in this life. At this stage of my life, I now believe it is indeed true. This phi-losophy made me realize now why my only living sister Sor. Letty, a Dominican nun for almost 30 years now, is definitely happier and more fulfilled despite that fact that she has almost no material possessions like a car, house or a retirement money compared to many of us who often worry about these things to make us “happier” by not worry-ing about tomorrow.

It is sometimes difficult to make sense of all these life’s philosophies but then I console myself by re-flecting on an old poster in my home office that says “Life is a mystery to be lived, and not a problem to be solved!” Probably I am just ratio-nalizing too much about my own life’s journey to this day!

***

WHILE WE ARE INTO THIS TOPICS OF “LEAVING A LEGA-

CY AND TO BE A MAN FOR OTHERS”, I invite the my

readers to visit our www.gkerotaryclub3780.org

about our Global Kalin-ga e-Rotary Club that I just founded this sum-mer, as one effective and proven way to render a true Service

Above Self. As a Ro-tarian for about 15 years

now, I find that Rotary International is an ex-

cellent vehicle to do humanitarian service because through it, one’s efforts are compounded a thousand times throughout the world. One of the oldest organizations in the world, Rotary is 106 years old with over 1.3 million members in about 200 countries and territories throughout the world. With matching grants from the Rotary Foundation, one’s contribution to alleviate poverty or any humanitarian project can be multiplied many times over.

Our new GK e-Rotary Club is embarking some ambitious long term project in the Philippines that was never been done before on a national scale. It will be our flagship project called Entrepre-neurship Development for Socio-economic Advancement (EDSA) Training Seminars for the Filipi-no YOUTH. Rotary experience in other countries, that out of 100 stu-dents going through this Entrepre-neurship Training, 20 go into their own business, who in turn employ 4-6 employees each entrepreneur, is very encouraging! It is our hope that this project (where we can train, mentor the young entrepreneurs and even help capitalize the best business plans of the students) can make a dent on the massive unem-ployment of our youth, to reverse the trend of millions of people, includ-ing college graduates, leaving the country to do menial jobs, maids and helpers in foreign lands where many are exploited and maltreated or even sexually abused. This is our big dream in unchartered waters, but we have the experience and the unselfish passion to do it. But we still need more supporters (morally and financially) to make it a reality. God willing, we can start implementing this project by next

To Live, to Learn, To Love, And To Leave A Legacy: A Prescription For

A Joyful And Fulfilling Life

year. If you, dear reader, would like to

inquire about the details, just email this columnist, and I personally will send you a brochure or answer your questions that you may have. These projects will have no pecuni-ary benefits for us, volunteers but we are doing it for humanitarian rea-son to follow our Rotarian’s motto of Service Above Self, Reaching Within To Embrace Humanity!

We hope to get some support from others to make this bold gargantuan project possible. If you are moved, please help our GKeRotary, to help us help others. Thank you and God bless us all!

***The Metamorphosis’ Food for

Thought this week:The Dalai Lama was asked what

surprised him the most; he said, “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, then he dies having never really lived.

A noted theologian C.S. Lewis wrote, “Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.”

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have access to grains terminals, re-frigeration facilities, orderly road networks and post-harvest facilities.

If we can fix out food supply chain with the help of the private sector, in-stead of importing, we will hopefully be able to supply for the needs of the global market.

The prices of commodities will go down if we are able to make this ef-ficient railway system a reality. It will be cheaper and faster, and it will be easier for travelers to avoid crooked cops and rebels.

A reminder to all: creating jobs is foremost on our agenda, and the creation of jobs will come from the growth of our industries. Growth will only be possible if we streamline pro-cesses to make them predictable, reli-able and efficient for those who want to invest.

We make sure that the Build-Op-erate-and-Transfer projects will un-dergo quick and efficient processes. With the help of all government agencies concerned and the people, a process that used to take as short as a year and as long as a decade will now only take six months.

The Department of Trade and In-dustry has already taken steps to ef-fect this change, under the leadership of Secretary Gregory Domingo:

The never-ending horror story of registering business names, which used to take a minimum of four to eight hours depending on the day, will be cut down drastically to fifteen minutes.

What used to be a check list of thir-

ty-six documents will be shortened to a list of six, and the old eight-page application form will be whittled down to one page.

I call on our local government units to review its own procedures. While we look for more ways to streamline our processes to make business start-ups easier, I hope the LGUs can also find ways to implement reforms that will be consistent with the ones we have already started.

All will certainly benefit from this streamlining -- be it businessmen, soldiers, rebels and ordinary Filipi-nos. As long as the interests of Filipi-nos will not be jeopardized, we will explore all available avenues to make this a reality. We must start now, and we should all help achieve this and not stand in each other’s way.

The time when we will no longer be made to choose between our people’s security and the future of our children is upon us now.

Once we implement these public-private partnerships, we will be able to fund public service in accordance with our platform.

This will enable us to fund our plans for education.

We will be able to expand our basic education cycle from seven years to the global standard of twelve years.

We can build more classrooms, and we will fund service contracting under the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Ed-ucation Program (GASTPE).

Conditional cash transfers that aim to lessen the burden of education on parents will also be funded if this partnership becomes a reality.

Our plans for improving PhilHealth can now be within reach.

First, we will identify the correct number of Filipinos who sorely need PhilHealth coverage, as current data is conflicting on this matter. On one hand, PhilHealth says that eighty-seven percent (87%) of Filipinos are covered, then lowers the number to only fifty-three percent (53%). On the other hand, the National Statistics Office says that only thirty-eight per-cent (38%) of Filipinos are covered by Philhealth.

Even as we speak, Secretary Dinky Soliman and the Department of So-cial Welfare and Development are moving to implement the National Household Targeting System that will identify the families that most urgently need assistance. An estimat-ed 9 billion pesos is needed in order to provide coverage for five million poor Filipinos.

Our country is beginning to see bet-ter days ahead. The private sector, the League of Provinces headed by Gov-ernor Alfonso Umali, together with Governors L-Ray Villafuerte and Icot Petilla, are now ready to do their share when it comes to shouldering the financial burden. I know that the League of Cities under the leadership of Mayor Oscar Rodriguez will not be far behind.

If the local governments share in our goals, I know that I can surely count on Congress, the institution where I began public service, to push for our agenda for change.

Our Cabinet has already showed it skill by identifying not just problems but also proposing solutions in a mat-ter of three weeks.

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Spanish and American colonizers, an indigenous spirit in the Philip-pines swells, and heroes are made. A maverick of American indepen-dent cinema, director John Sayles

journeys across cultures to find that in the heat of conflict, there are no easy answers, and only the efforts by those destined to make the most of their situation.

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Inyo bang nababatid tunay na kasaysayanNg Barong Tagalog, damit ng kalalakihanMananakop na Kastila ang may kautusanKaya tayo ngayo’y may pambansang kasuotan?

Mahigit sa tatlong siglong tayo ay sinakopBatas ng Bansang Espanya noo’y sinusunodMga katutubo’y kung ituring ay astang hayopPalalong dayuhan, sa Indio ay bumusabos.

Upang ang mga Indio’y may pagkakakilanlanTandang pagbukurin ang mahirap at mayamanIsinabatas ng Kastila ang kasuotanYari sa kayong manipis, silag ang katawan.

Kaya naman manipis ay upang maaninagKung ang nagsusuot ay may sukbit na armasBawal ding bulsahan at baka makapanikwatAng Indiong pinagdududahan kahit matapat.

May mga Pilipinong umunlad at rumangyaNakapagpatitulo ng pag-aaring lupaNakapagpaaral ng anak sa ibang bansaNatutuhan ang batas at nag-asal kastila.

Umangat ang buhay nakilalang Don at DonyaNagkakarapatang sa poblasyon ay tumiraNguni’t ang utos ng pamahalaang EspanyaDamitin ang barong upang Indio’y makilala.

Sadyang ang Lahing Pilipino ay malikhainIpinagkait ang sutla, telang mamahalinUpang ipakita sa dayuhang anong sindingDahon ng pinya at jusi’y nagawang habihin.

Hindi pa nasiyahan ay pinakaburdahanAng dibuho’y nabuo ng mai-ingat na kamayAng Barong Tagalog napabantog kahit saanKinilala ng bansa at ng mga dayuhan. Ika-31 ng Mayo, 2011

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We are also considering fi ling a lawsuit against the Commission for such unfair treatment to 16% of the City’s population.

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nancefriends and volunteers and will donate these to children who sometimes have to go to school barefooted.

RJ and Josh aspire to be instruments of social change in the Philippines. Their ultimate goal is to empower Filipinos and to tap on the network of overseas Filipinos and make them aware of how they can change peo-ple’s lives through their own skills and talents. Today, Lets-Travel.TV has volunteers from the United States, Norway, Denmark, and London.

What drives two young people to de-vote their lives to something as noble as volunteer work? RJ sums it up - “We may not immediately see our country progress into a well-developed self suffi cient one. Perhaps we will never see this happen in our own lifetime. Still, we should fi nd ways, no matter how small, to create change. This is the best legacy we can leave behind to the next generation of Filipinos.”

To you, RJ and Josh, may other young people follow your examples. The future of the Philippines belongs to leaders like you, and yes, change is not that impossible if we fi nd joy in sharing with the needy and the under-privileged.

The New Breed ...

(Continued from page 8)without electricity for four days. The quick action of Secretary Rene Almendras and the Department of Energy resulted in the restoration of power to almost all those affected within twenty-four hours.

The so-called water shortage in Metro Manila was quickly attended to by Secretary Rogelio Singson and the Department of Public Works and Highways. Secretary Singson did it without prodding, which alleviated the suffering of those affected.

We also witnessed the competence and initiative of those we appointed to be part of our Cabinet. It is but just that they not be forced to go through the eye of a needle to be confi rmed by the Commission on Appoint-ments. Should this happen, compe-tent Filipinos will be encouraged to help our country by becoming public servants.

In the soonest possible time, we will convene the Legislative Execu-tive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) to discuss the important bills that need to be addressed. Rest assured that I will keep an open mind and treat you honorably.

We will push for the Fiscal Respon-sibility Bill, which will limit spend-ing bills only for appropriations that have identifi ed a source of funding. We need 104.1 billion pesos to fund those laws already passed but whose implementation remains pending be-cause of lack of funds.

We will re-evaluate fi scal incen-tives given in the past. Now that we are tightening our purse strings, we need to identify those incentives that will remain and those that need to be done away with.

We will not allow another NBN-ZTE scandal to happen again. Wheth-er from local or foreign sources, all proposed contracts must undergo the scrutiny of correct procedures. I now ask for your help with amending our Procurement Law.

According to our Constitution, it is the government’s duty to ensure that the market is fair for all. No monopo-lies, no cartels that kill competition. We need an Anti-Trust Law that will give life to these principles, to afford

Small- and Medium-Scale Enterpris-es the opportunity to participate in the growth of our economy.

Let us pass into law the National Land Use Bill.

It was in 1935, during the Com-monwealth, that the National De-fense Act was passed. There is a need to amend for a new law that is more responsive to the current needs of na-tional security.

I appeal to our legislators to pass the Whistleblower’s Bill to eradicate the prevalent culture of fear and si-lence that has hounded our system.

We will strengthen the Witness Pro-tection Program. We must remember that from 2009 to 2010 alone, cases which involved the participation of witnesses under the program resulted in a ninety-fi ve percent conviction.

There is a need to review our laws. I call on our lawmakers to begin a re-codifi cation of our laws to ensure

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harmony in legislation and eliminate contradictions.

These laws serve as the basis of or-der in our land, but the foundation of all rests on the principle that we can-not grow without peace and order.

We face two obstacles on our road to peace: the situation in Mindanao and the continued revolt of the CPP-NPA-NDF.

Our view has not changed when it comes to the situation in Mindanao. We will only achieve lasting peace if all stakeholders engage in an honest dialogue: may they be Moro, Lumad, or Christian. We have asked Dean Marvic Leonen to head our efforts to talk to the MILF.

We will learn from the mistakes of

the past administration, that suddenly announced an agreement reached without consultations from all con-cerned. We are not blind to the fact that it was done with political moti-vation, and that the interest behind it was not that of the people.

We recognize the efforts of the MILF to discipline those within its ranks. We are hopeful that the nego-tiations will begin after Ramadan.

To the CPP-NPA-NDF: are you prepared to put forth concrete solu-tions rather than pure criticism and fi nger-pointing?

If it is peace you truly desire, then we are ready for an immediate cease-fi re. Let us go back to the table and

begin talking again. It is diffi cult to begin discussions

in earnest if the smell of gun powder still hangs in the air. I call on every-one concerned not to waste a good opportunity to rally behind our com-mon aspiration for peace.

Our foundation for growth is peace. We will continue to be shackled by poverty if the crossfi re persists.

We must understand that now is a time for sacrifi ce. It is this sacrifi ce that will pave the way for a better future. With our freedom comes our

responsibility to do good unto our fellows and to our country.

To our friends in media, especially those in radio and print, to the block-timers and those in our community newspapers, I trust that you will take up the cudgels to police your own ranks.

May you give new meaning to the principles of your vocation: to pro-vide clarity to pressing issues; to be fair and truthful in your reporting, and to raise the level of public dis-course.

It is every Filipino’s duty to closely watch the leaders that you have elect-ed. I encourage everyone to take a step towards participation rather than fault-fi nding. The former takes part in fi nding a solution; from the latter, never-ending complaints.

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