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�� Bukod dito, sinabi ng EMB na walangaplikasyon sa kanilang tanggapan angMing Hong para sa Environmental Com-pliance Certificate (ECC) sa kabila ng pag-pipilit ni Apolonio Marcelo, ang isa sa mganagmamay-ari ng planta at dating alkaldeng bayan ng Angat, na mayroon silangaplikasyon.

Nagpalabas na ng Notice of Violation(NOV) ang Kapitolyo laban sa Ming Hong,ngunit patuloy pa rin ang operasyon nito,bukod pa sa muling nagsampa ng petisyonang mga residente sa pamahalaang ba-rangay ng Partida at pamahalaang bayanng Norzagaray upang ipatigil ang pag-susunog ng gulong dahil sa perwisyong idi-

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NORZAGARAY, Bulacan — Hindi tumigilang Ming Hong Trading sa pagsusunog nggulong sa bayang ito kahit tapos na angtaning na araw, ayon sa mga apektadongresidente. Ngunit pinabulaanan ito ng isasa mga nagmamay-ari ng planta sa SitioDiliman, Barangay Partida.

Batay naman sa ulat ng Environmen-tal Management Bureau (EMB) sa GitnangLuzon, ang ahensyang nagbabantay sapolusyon, bagsak ang Ming Hong Tradingsa isinagawang pagsusuri sa laboratoryong water sample na kinuha sa nasabingplanta noong Hulyo 31, ngunit pumasa saair test.

LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS — Mata-gumpay na naitanghal ng Bulacan angpaggawa sa pinakamahabang pastilyas sabuong mundo na may habang 202.6 metronoong Setyembre 12, ngunit hindi pa itonapapabilang sa Guinness Book of WorldRecords.

Nabahiran na naman ng kaguluhanang nasabing pagtatanghal nang mag-agawan ang mga tao sa pagkain ngpastilyas matapos ibigay ang hudyat namaaari na iyong kainin.

“We have successfully staged a 202.6

meter long pastillas,” ani Gob. Joselito“Jon-jon” Mendoza sa mikropono natinugon naman ng hiyawan at palakpakanng daan-daang Bulakenyong nagtipon saharap ng kapitolyo upang tunghayan angpagtatangka ng Bulacan na mapabilangsa Guinness Book of World Records.

Ang sukat na 202.6 na metro ay masmahaba ng 2.6 na metro sa naunangplanong 200 metrong pastilyas na maydiametrong limang pulgada.

Ang sukat ng pinakamahabang pas-tilyas sa buong mundo ay sinertipikahan

nina Dr. Hjordis Maruska Celis, directorng Bulacan Medical Center (BMC);Ronaldo Tiotico, director ng Turismo saGitnang Luzon; Engr. Victory Fernandezng Aklan, pangulo ng Provincial Engi-neers Association of the Philippines(PEAP).

Ang pinakamahabang pastilyas o ken-ding yari sa gatas ng kalabaw ay inihandang may 200 Bulakenyo na nagmula saiba’t ibang sektor.

Ito ay tumimbang ng 4,000 kilo, ma-tapos lutuin ang 12,800 litro ng gatas ng

kalabaw na tinimplahan ng 1,600 kilo ngasukal na puti.

Ayon kay Gobernador Mendoza, angdokumentasyon ng paghahanda at pag-tatanghal ng pinakamahabang pastilyasay isusumite ng Bulacan sa tanggapan ngGuinness sa London upang ito ay maser-tipikahan at mapabilang sa Book of WorldRecords.

“At least one month ang hihintayinnatin bago lumabas ang desisyon ngGuiness,” ani Mendoza sa Mabuhay.

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Buntot Pagé PERFECTO V. RAYMUNDO

��-158 �� IPINAGDIWANG ng mga Bula-kenyo ang ika-158 taon ng pagsi-lang ni Gat Marcelo H. Del Pilar,ang dakilang propagandista nagumising sa damdamin ng mama-mayang Pilipino sa ginawangpang-aalipin ng mga Kastilanoong panahong iyon.

Ang pagdiriwang ay nagsi-mula sa pamamagitan ng isangparada sibiko mula sa harapanng munisipyo na humantong saDambana ng Bayani sa BarangayKupang, San Nicolas, Bulacan,Bulacan.

Naging panauhing pandangalsa nasabing okasyon si Kint. Mari-vic R. Alvarado ng Ika-1 Distriktona siyang nanguna sa pag-aalayng bulaklak sa paanan ng ban-tayog na bayani.

Kabilang sa mga dumalo sinaNational Historical Institute(NHI) Executive Director Ludi-vico Badoy, Bokal Michael Ferminna kumatawan kay Gob. JoselitoMendoza, Bokal Centi Cruz,Bokal Ariel Arceo, Vice Mayor

Noel Sacay ng lungsod ng Malolos,mga opisyal ng Grand Lodge ofFree Masons at Fr. Albert R.Suatengco.

Naging punong abala ng pag-diriwang si Mayor Anacleto Me-neses katulong si Vice MayorPatrick Neil Menenes at mgakonsehales.

Sa pagsasalita ni Kint. Alvara-do sinariwa niya ang pagpapaka-sakit at kabayanihan ni Plaridelalang-alang sa ating Inang Bayan.

Naging masigla ang pagdiri-wang sa ipinakitang pampasig-lang bilang ng Sining BulacanDance Troupe ng Bulacan StateUniversity.

Sino kaya sa mga Bulakenyoang susunod sa yapak ni Gat Mar-celo H. Del Pilar na hindi inalin-tana ang sariling kapakananmasunod lamang ang pinipithayaniyang kalayaan ng ating bayan.

�� MAY ibang tricycle driver angsobra kung maningil sa mga

Promdi DINO BALABO

Ô�� ÕNAKAKAHIYA ang kinalabasan ngpagtatapos ng pagtatanghal ngBulacan ng pinakamahabang pas-tilyas sa mundo sa harap ng kapi-tolyo ng Bulacan noong Biyernes,Setyembre 12 kaugnay ng taunangisang linggong Singkaban Fiesta.

Pagkatapos ipahayag ni Gob.Joselito “Jon-jon” Mendoza sa mgaopisyal at libo-libong Bulakenyongdumalo na umabot sa 202.6 metroang haba ng pastilyas na maydiametrong limang pulgada aynagkaroon ng countdown. Pagka-tapos nito ay kanya-kanyangsunggaban na sa pastilyas. Iyan ang“Sunggaban Fiesta.”

* * *Parang mga gutom na gutom na

nagsipag-agawan ang mga naka-hilerang tao sa kahabaang ngnasabing pastilyas. Kabilang sakanila ay mga mag-aaral, kawaning pamahalaan, simpleng resi-dente at iba pa na nagmula sa iba’tibang sektor.

Kung sabagay, talagang gutomsila dahil maaga pa ay nandoon nasa harap ng kapitolyo upang su-maksi at kumain. Iyan ang isa samga epekto ng mga atrasadong

palatuntunan ng pamahalaan, atdi pagkain ng almusal!

* * *“Susmariosep, nakakahiya,” ani

ng isang nakamasid samantalangkulang na lamang ay magka-sakitan ang mga taong dumumogsa pastilyas.

Ilalahok ang pinakamahabangpastilyas sa Guinness Book ofWorld Records na ipinalalabas satelebisyon sa iba’t ibang bansa samundo. Huwag naman sanang angparang gutom na pag-aagawan angibandila sa telebisyon.

* * *Bakit nakakahiya ang mga

pangyayari. Una, ito ay naganap sapanahon ng pagdiriwang ng tau-nang Singkaban Fiesta na ang ibigsabihin ay “sining at kalinanganng Bulacan.”

Matatawag bang kalinangan okultura ang kawalan ng modo saharap ng pagkain?

* * *Sabi ng ilang nakasaksi, “Parang

di nag-aral.” Ang masakit, mgaestudyante pa mula sa iba’t ibangpaaralan sa lalawigan ang nagsi-pag-agawan.

Nagtuturo pa ba sila ng “val-ues” sa mga paaralan? Ano na angnangyari sa GMRC o good mannersand right conduct?

* * *Pangalawa, ang pagtatanghal sa

pinakamahabang pastilyas ayisinagawa sa harap ng gusali ngpamahalaang panglalawigan saloob ng bakuran ng kapitolyo kungsaan ay mahigpit na ipinatutupadang disiplina na bawal maniga-rilyo.

Ito ba ay nangangahulugan nakahit ano ang gawin mo sa loob ngbakuran ng kapitolyo ay puwedehuwag ka lang maninigarilyo?Nasaan ang diwa ng disiplina?

* * *Take note, “harap ng gusali ng

pamahalaang panglalawigan” at“bakuran ng kapitolyo.” Ito aynangangahulugan na sagrado angnasabing lugar. Doon hinuhubogang mga polisiya ng pamahalaan,ang mga batas na nagtatakda ngdisiplina sa mamamayan.

Ang “Sunggaban Fiesta” ba aysalamin ng kawalang-galang sakasagraduhan ng nasabing lugar

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Kastigo BIENVENIDO A. RAMOS

�� Ô��ÕSA kasaysayan ng pagsama ngpanahon sa Pilipinas, dadalawa angmasasabing bagyong nag-iwan ngmatinding pinsala, nagwasak ngmatatanda at dating matitibay naistruktura at pumuti ng maramingbuhay— ang bagyong “Marcos” atang bagyong “Gloria”.

Sa paghampas ng bagyong“Marcos”, nagdeklara ng state ofcalamity (martial law). Pero sabagyong “Gloria” na papahina attila papalayo na (matatapos na sa2010), bagamat malaki na angnagagawang pinsala (kasama angpinatay na mga peryodista ataktibista), ang weather bureau(Malakanyang) ay ayaw pa ringmagpahayag ng state of calamityo ano mang pahayag na ang bansaay nasa matinding krisis (atkalamidad na gawang-tao).

Sa halip, ang patuloy na ipina-lalabas ng Malakanyang ay guma-ganda ang buhay ng mga Pilipino,milyon ang taun-taon ay nabibig-yan ng trabaho, patuloy na bina-baka ang katiwalian, pinanga-ngalagaan ang mga karapatang-pantao, at ang mga mahihirap aytinutulungan na makabayad ng

elektrisidad, makabili ng murangbigas at mabigyan ng maliit napuhunan na maipagsisimula ngisang maliit na negosyo.

�� TULAD ng karaniwang bagyo, no-ong una’y marami ang nag-akalana ang pamumuo ng masamangpanahon ay hindi magiging mala-kas at mapaminsalang bagyo.

Noon kasing Araw ni Rizal, saharap ng libu-libong taong gumu-nita sa pambansang bayani, sinabini Gng. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyona “yamang ako ang magigingdahilan ng pagkakahati-hati ngmga Pilipino, hindi na ako kakan-didatong pangulo sa 2004.”

Pero sa kung anong sumpa ngDiyos, nagbagong landas anghihip ng hangin, ang tropical de-pression ay naging ganap na bagyo.

At tulad ng isang bagyonghumampas nang hatinggabi, angbantulot na hihip ng masamanghangin ay naging supertyphoon!

At ang nakapagtataka, angAFP, PNP at Comelec — na dapatsanang gumawa ng kaukulangparaanupang pangalagaan ang

pasahero. Minamantak mo, mulasa St. Mary’s Academy sa Baran-gay Sto. Niño hanggang sa Baran-gay Malhacan II na wala pangapat na kilometro ay P60 na angsinisingil.

Dapat siguro ay magkaroon ngtaripa ng singil ng mga tricyclepara naman hindi maging abu-sado ang ilang tricycle driver sapagsingil sa mga pasahero.

Mayor Joan Alarilla, baka na-man puwedeng pagsabihan angmga tricycle driver na sobra kungmaningil.

�� SINIBAK ng Korte Suprema angisa sa mga mahistrado ng Courtof Appeals na inakusahang sang-kot sa suhulan sa Apellate Court.

Sa iskor na 12-1 sa ginanap naen banc session ng Korte Sup-rema, sinibak si Court of AppealsJustice Vicente Roxas na siyangponente sa kaso ng Meralco vs.Government Service Insurance

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mamamayan sa mapaminsalangbagyo — ay naging kasabwat pang bagyo (sa pamamagitan ngpagdaraya sa eleksiyon) sa pag-pinsala sa mga institusyon ng de-mokrasya, lalo na sa pinakaimpor-tanteng proseso ng demokrasya —ang pagdaraos ng isang payapa atmalinis na halalan.

Ang signal No. 3 ng bagyong“Gloria” ay unang inihayag ng“Hello, Garci” tape. Pagkaraangmabunyag ang “Hello, Garci”tape, ang bagyo ay nagsimulanang manalasa — iginiba ang mgaistraktura ng Kongreso, Hudika-tura at iba pang itinuturing namga haligi ng katotohanan atkatarungan.

Sa mga istrukturang pilit naiginigiba, dalawa ang natirang ma-tatag: ang Mataas na Kapulungano Senado at ang Korte Suprema.

Sa higit na malalim na pagsu-suri, hindi lamang pisikal at pang-kabuhayan ang pininsala ng bag-yong “Gloria”kundi ang mganakatatag na institusyon, tradis-yon, kundi ang mismong kaluluwang mga Pilipino!

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Depthnews JUAN L. MERCADO

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Forward to Basics FR. FRANCIS B. ONGKINGCO

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Regarding Henry

HENRYLITO D. TACIO

Cebu Calling FR. ROY CIMAGALA

�� ONE of the most surprising if dis-turbing phenomena in our timesis that with all the undeniableproblems related to chastity,there’s hardly anything doneabout it. No concerted effort, nocampaign nor drive is being done.

Problems, of course, includepremarital and extramarital sex,pornography and self-abuse thatseem to be an epidemic left to fes-ter especially among the young,infidelity, homosexual activities,forms of immodesty, etc.

We even have celebrities nowpublicly confessing they are help-lessly addicted to sex, treatingtheir perversions just like a caseof alcoholism or drug dependence.Some of them, quite wrecked byit all, now avail of rehab which, ofcourse, is not a bad idea.

And let’s not forget that a fewof those who for religious reasonsare consecrated to celibacy havecommitted highly scandalouscrimes from which the Churchcontinues to reel. To me, theseanomalies comprise the most hei-nous of all sins against chastity.

But many if not all of theseproblems have mutated, in anenvironment of tolerance, ratio-nalizations and dignification, intosomething considered socially ac-ceptable, normal, and even moral.But their bad effects appearsooner or later, no matter howcleverly they are avoided or cov-ered.

It could be that we are stillgripped by the childish, long out-dated attitude that any talkabout this delicate virtue shouldbe strictly limited to a very per-sonal, very private affair. It would

“SOME 35 million laws try to en-force the 10 Commandments,”Leonor Montemayor writes fromCadiz City. But self-serving provi-sions, in the Philippine MedicalAssociation’s new “Code of Eth-ics” devalue the stone tablets into“10 Suggestions”.

“We hoped the “Code” wouldend under-the-table filching fromdrug companies. But Article IV,Sections 10 to 14 and Article VI,Section 3 dash that hope. They le-gitimize being on-the-take in-stead. Pillaging the 20 Per CentDevelopment Fund, denounced byDepthnews, is kid stuff.

Some physicians and familiesgo on all-expense paid trips to at-tend “medical conferences”. Drugfirms pick up the tab. This bra-zenness stuns most doctors who’rehonest.

I ARRIVED quite early at the air-port to catch my flight bound forDavao. I didn’t want to take mychances especially when traffic canbe horribly unpredictable on Fri-day afternoons.

I handed the taxi driver the fareand a good tip for his safe andspeedy driving. “Here’s a bit of anextra which you may want to useto buy your kids some sweets.”

“Thank you so much, Father!”he said. “May you have a safe tripto Davao.”

“Same to you, we’re all travel-ers in life after all,” I replied be-fore gently closing the door.

As soon as I got my baggagechecked-in I headed for the depar-ture area to find myself a nice quietspot where I could spend some time

be incorrect, politically or socially,to be talking about it in public.

I truly believe this attitudeneeds to be dismantled as quicklyas possible, since it’s based on awrong understanding of humansexuality.

While it’s true that there issomething very personal and in-timate in things sexual, but givenour social nature, there’s also aneed to ventilate things in publicand to undertake a cultural effortso everyone can be helped to livehis sexuality properly.

Obviously, what we need is toknow more about chastity, whatit really is, what it involves, howit is lived, etc. We should not wastetime simply lamenting and com-plaining. Let’s talk more aboutthe positive things of chastity.

But what do we see around?Instead of chastity, we are bom-barded with nasty images andmessages against chastity, oftenpresented as art or forms of funand leisure, or fashion and enter-tainment.

In this, Hollywood is the evilempire that generates its world-wide network to spread its sweetpoison. We tend to gobble whatHollywood produces and trend-sets, with hardly any concern fordecency, let alone, the finer re-quirements of chastity. We end upbeing treated as objects or beasts,not as persons.

Now that our world is satu-rated with sex, there’s talk aboutsex education. It’s a clever com-promise that’s dangerous for atleast two reasons: it’s taught inschools to young children, and it’smore on safe sex techniques

rather than the virtue of chastity.If the government is serious

about sex education, it has to ca-ter more to the parents who needto be encouraged and trained ineffectively teaching chastity, thevirtue and not just techniques, totheir children.

Even some Church officials getentangled in the mess by promot-ing a brand of responsible parent-hood based on a natural familyplanning that’s more of a contra-ceptive tool than an expression ofconjugal love and chastity.

We need to spread the goodnews of chastity — that it’s pos-sible and practicable with God’sgrace and our efforts, that it’sbeautiful and helpful to make usgrow in maturity, etc.

Since chastity involves inte-grating sexuality within the per-son, it permeates our passions andsenses with right reason. It fos-ters unity of the person, and isopposed to any form of double lifeor duplicity.

Chastity leads us to attain self-mastery and self-possession, a pre-requisite for us to be able to giveour whole selves to God and toothers, which is what love is allabout. In short, chastity facili-tates love.

In my personal efforts of teach-ing students about chastity, I haveobserved that once they under-stand the true nature of the vir-tue and start living it, they im-prove as persons, and tend to bemore simple, transparent andgenerous. They become happierand more able to grapple withlife’s challenges.

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Now, Article IV, Section 10blesses “continuing medical con-ferences” organized “in coopera-tion with sponsoring entities”. Sec-tion 12 adds: “Physicians may ac-cept reasonable subsidies fromhealth and other industries to sup-port their participation in continu-ing medical education events.”

Section 13 authorizes accep-tance of honoraria and reimburse-ment from “health industries”.Section 14 okays “scholarships” ifacademic institutions handle se-lection. “Gifts of reasonable valuethat primarily benefit the patientmay be accepted …”

PMA drafters weren’t botheredby possible conflict-of-interest insubsidies from drug firms right?“There’s no such thing as a freelunch.” Delicadiza would ask: Werethese grants right? “How much is

reasonable?” they bickered. Relativesums smothered principle. “Relativ-ity applies to physics, not ethics,”Albert Einstein once noted.

The cap for a gift to a U.S. con-gressman is $20. FBI agents payfor their own lunch — or be fired.“A gift is something of value givenwithout expectation of return,”says a Santa Clara Universitystudy. “A bribe is the same thinggiven in the hope of influence orbenefit” — like ordering drugs.

The American Medical Associa-tion’s Opinion 8.061 dealt with“gifts to physicians from the in-dustry.” It is far more stringent.

“During the late 1980s, somegifts became more lavish, rangingfrom frequent flier miles to cashand trips to luxury resorts,” AMAsaid. “Their appropriateness was

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“I AM going to be the greatest base-ball catcher that ever lived!” Thatwas what the eight-year-old boysaid to his mother one summer.People who would hear him saythat would tell him, “Dream, yousilly boy.”

His mother patiently told him,“You are only eight years old; that’snot the time to be talking aboutimpossible dreams.” However, thelittle boy refused to listen to thosewho would attempt to talk himout of his goal.

When he graduated from highschool, he walked across the plat-form to get his diploma. After giv-ing the diploma, the superinten-dent asked him, “Tell these peoplewhat you want to be.”

The young man smiled, squaredhis shoulders, and told the audience,“I am going to be the greatest base-ball catcher that ever lived!” And youcould hear the snickers across thatgraduation crowd.

To make the long story short,that young man went on to makebaseball history. On one occasion,the former great manager of theNew York Yankees, Casey Stengel,was asked about what he thoughtof the young man. His reply was:“Johnny Bench is already the great-est baseball catcher that everplayed the game!”

What makes this story so amaz-ing? Already, at age eight, JohnnyBench had set his goal in life. Dur-ing his playing career, he was twicevoted the most outstanding playerin baseball. It started as a dream,and then became a goal that wastranslated into reality.

“You can have anything youwant, if you want it badly enough,”American president Abraham Lin-coln once said. “You can be any-thing you want to be, do anythingyou set out to accomplish if youhold to that desire with singlenessof purpose.”

The world is full of people whothink it cannot be done. We callthem pessimists. But there are alsothose who think it can be done.And they are known as optimists.A pessimist is one who is seasickduring the entire voyage of life. Anoptimist, on the other hand, is aperson who finds a lot of satisfac-tion on the dark side of life.

* * *During a war, the Army was draft-

ing young men by the thousands. Asimple young man walked down thestreet right in front of the draft boardoffice. A neighbor, who saw what hewas doing, told him, “You had betterstay away; you might get drafted intothe army.”

The teenager, who had actuallynot even heard of the war, did notunderstand what it was all about.So the neighbor explained the situ-ation. After hearing it, the teen-

ager answered:“Well, I always figure I have two

chances: I might get drafted — andI might not. And even if I’mdrafted, I still have two chances: Imight pass and I might not. And ifI pass, I still have two chances: Imight go overseas or I might not.And even if I go across, I still havetwo chances: I might get shot andI might not. And even if I got shot,I still have two chances: I mightdie and I might not. And even if Idie, I still have two chances.”

* * *Ever hear of Edgar A. Guest? In

1895, he worked for a newspaperin Detroit and worked his way upfrom office boy to eventually be-coming a “Poet of the People.” Withthe consent of the Free Press,Guest’s “poem a day” went intosyndication and appeared in over250 newspapers. With a poem inprint every day for thirty years,Guest’s poems reached a wide andadmiring audience. At the sugges-tion of readers, Guest compiled hispoems into book form, totalingtwenty. In 1952, he was madeMichigan’s Poet Laureate, the firstand only person ever to be giventhat title.

Next time, you are confrontedwith negatives and negativepeople, take time to read again thepoem written by Guest:

“Somebody said that it couldn’tbe done, but he with a chuckle re-plied. That ‘maybe it couldn’t,’ butwould be one who wouldn’t say sotill he’d tried. So he buckled right inwith the trace of a grin on his face. Ifhe worried he hid it. He started tosing as he tackled the thing thatcouldn’t be done, and he did it.

“Somebody scoffed: ‘Oh, you’llnever do that; at least no one everhas done it.’ But he took off hiscoat and he took off his hat, andthe first thing we knew he’d be-gun it. With a lift of his chin and abit of a grin, without any doubtingor quit it, he started to sing as hetackled the thing that couldn’t bedone, and he did it.

“There are thousands to tell youit cannot be done. There are thou-sands to prophesy failure. Thereare thousands to points out to you,one by one, the dangers that waitto assail you. But just buckle inwith a bit of grin, just take off yourcoat and go to it. Just start to singas you tackle the thing that ‘can-not be done,’ and you’ll do it.”

* * *When he was a little boy, he suf-

fered horrible burns as a result ofan accident. The doctor told hismother that he would almostsurely die. If he should ever live,he would likely never walk again.

The little boy didn’t want todie, and to the amazement of at-

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reading and praying without anydistractions.

I wasn’t travelling during apeak season and the area was lit-erally empty. I calmly walked to-wards the front row. It would bestill some 45 minutes before thisplace turned into a beehive of trav-elers.

“Ah, peace and quiet, at last!” Isaid to myself as I settled downand pulled out M. Gladwell’s en-tertaining book entitled Blink. Ihad just advanced two pages in hisinteresting insight on the “Theoryof Thin Slices” when a low and veryfamiliar voiced thundered behindme.

“Father Ongkingco …,” and thiswas immediately followed by ashort pause and then by a brief but

precise narration of my entire life:“Birth: (…) of November 1968,

Polomolok, South Cotabato[PAUSE] Parents: [PAUSE] Fa-ther: Manuel B. Ongkingco[PAUSE] (…) Educational Attain-ment: [PAUSE] Elementary andHigh School [PAUSE] Dole Philip-pines School. [PAUSE] College:[PAUSE] Ateneo de Manila Uni-versity […]

I turned around to find outwho the nosey culprit declaimingmy entire life to the four windswas. Just as I thought! It was EdLards, my foreign journalist andaccidental flight de-parture com-panion. “Ed! What on earth areyou up to announcing my wholelife to the whole world like I was

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Ang pambubugbog ng pulis omilitar ay mapapagaling pa, angmga constitutional body tulad ngComelec at mga hukuman aymapapalitan o mababalasa.

Pero ang kanser na wala nangkagamutan ay ang pagsasainsti-tusyon ng pagsisinungaling, pan-daraya upang makapasa sa isangpagsusulit o manalo sa isanghalalan.

Sinisira na ng bawal na drogaang kabataang Pilipino, lantaranpang kinukunsinti ang panunuholat pagmumudmod ng pabor paralamang pilit na maitago ang kato-tohanan sa paggamit ng tinatawagna “executive privilege”, “Presi-dential prerogative” at iba pangmaliwanag na pag-abuso ng isangPunong Tagapagpaganap sa kan-yang kapangyarihan.

Ang patuloy na paglilihim, ngtagos-sa-kaluluwang pamiminsalang bagyong “Gloria” — tulad ngpakikipagkasundo sa Hapon(JPEPA) at sa kinansela umanongZTE-NBN deal — ay mga senyal

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Kastigo �� 2ng pagkakanulo. At kataksilan.

Hindi malayong humantong itosa tuluyang pagbebenta ngPilipinas — tulad ng inilihim napaglagda sa Memorandum ofAgreement – Ancestral Domain —na maliwanag na pagpayag ng Gov-ernment of tne Republic of thePhilippines (GRP) sa udyok ngMalaysia at Amerika na magtatagng sariling bansa na hiwalay saPilipinas ang mga Moro, ang mgaPilipinong tagasunod ng Islam.

Nagkatotoo ang sinabi ni Gng.Arroyo sa paggunita sa kamatayanni Dr. Rizal noong Disyembre 30,2002 sa mismong Luneta Park.“Yamang ako ang magiging dahi-lan ng pagkakahati-hati ng mgaPilipino ...”

Pero tila hindi lamang mgaPilipino ang nagkakahati-hatingayon; mismong ang kalupaanng soberanyong Pilipinas angpinagpaparte-parte na kahithindi pa nababago ang Konsti-tusyon at napagtitibay ang uma-no’y sistemang pederalismo.

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NPA muling nagpakitang gilas sa Bulacan��

NORZAGARAY, Bulacan — Mu-ling sumalakay ang rebeldengNew People’s Army (NPA) sabayang ito noong Agosto 30 o ha-los dalawang taon matapos angintensibong kampanya ni datingHeneral Jovito Palparan na nag-sabing nalumpo na ang mgarebelde sa Gitnang Luzon.

Kinumpirma naman ng NPAang nasabing pananalakay saisang pahayag na inilabas sakanilang website noong Agosto 30kung saan ay iginiit nila na silaang sumalakay sa “security out-post ng mga tauhan ni Sen. Ma-nuel Villar sa lupang kinamkamsa ngalan ng Palmera Homes.”

Nagpahayag naman ng pa-ngamba ang mga residente ngSitio Tiakad, Barangay San Mateosa bayan ito na sinalakay ng may60 rebelde dahil ang mga ari-ariannila ay tinangay ng mga rebelde,maging ang kanilang mga alaganghayop, bukod pa sa mga armas nanakuha sa outpost ng pulisya.

Ayon kay Sr./Supt. Allen Ban-tolo, ang nanunuparang police di-rector ng Bulacan, mga NPA nanagmula sa lalawigan ng Rizalang lumusob sa Sitio Tiakad,Agosto 30 sa pagitan ng ika-1:00at ika-2:00 ng hapon.

Sinabi ni Koronel Bantolo nakumilos na ang magkasanib napuwersa ng pulisya at militar, nanakahimpil sa Barangay Matictic,Norzagaray, upang imbestigahanang insidente.

Ayon kay Mayor Feliciano Le-gazpi, at mga taga-Tiakad, hindiagad umalis ang mga armadongkalalakihan na tumangay ng kani-lang mga manok at kambing, atnanatili pa sa kanilang lugar ngilang araw.

Sinabi ni Mayor Legazpi naang mga ito ay pansamantalangnagkampo sa bundok na maydalawang kilometro ang layo sasilangan ng ipinagawang higan-teng sanitary landfill sa Tiakad.

Ayon pa kay Legazpi, napagka-malan ng mga residente na angmga rebelde ay mga sundalo dahil

nakasuot ng camouflage uniformna may tatak “Army”. Ngunit angilan sa mga dumating ay naka-tsinelas.

At naghinala ang mga residen-te, ani ng alkalde, nang magsimu-lang tangayin ng mga ito angkanilang mga alagang hayop,habang hinahanap ang isangnagngangalang “Genaro”.

Kinumpirma ang sinabi ni Le-gazpi ng ilang residenteng naka-panayam ng Mabuhay sa tele-pono noong Setyembre 2, ngunitsila’y nagsitangging ipabanggitang kanilang pangalan.

“Hindi namin malaman kunganong grupo ang mga ito, kayatakot-na-takot na ang mga kapit-bahay namin dito,” ani ng isangresidente.

Sinabi rin ng mga taga-Tiakadna tinangay ng grupo ang isangM-16 rifle at isang 12 gauge shot-gun mula sa di kalayuang outpostng pulisya.

Sinabi pa nila na hindi lamangngayon nagkaroon ng insidente ngpananakot at pananalakay sa ka-

kanilang pwersahang pinapaalissa mga lupain.”

Sinabi pa rin ng NPA na angpananalakay nila at taktikal naopensiba ay isang pagpapakita nanabigo ang pamunuan ni Pangu-long Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,maging ang Sandatahang Lakas,na durugin ang NPA.

Ayon pa sa pahayag, “Sa halipna madurog ay lalo pang lumakasang BHB (Bagong Hukbong Ba-yan) dahilan sa walang habas napanunupil, pandarahas at pagpa-pahirap ng pasista, tuta at tero-ristang rehimeng US-GMA.”

Matatandaan na mula Setyem-bre 2005 hanggang Setyembre2006, kung kailan nagretiro siHeneral Palparan sa serbisyo, aynaging matindi ang kampanyalaban sa mga rebelde sa Bulacanat ibang bahagi ng Gitnang Luzon.

Bago maretiro si Palparan natinatawag ng mga rebeldeng“Berdugo”, ipinagmalaki niya nanalumpo na ng militar ang puwer-sa ng mga rebelde sa rehiyon dahil95 porsiyento ang inihina ng mgaito.

of a person, country or object,” hiseyes widened with excitement.

At that moment nothing oc-curred to me as I squirmed imag-ining what would happen if thegooey earpiece got permanentlystuck inside.

Then suddenly the PA systemannounced, “Paging Mr. EduardLards! Paging Mr. Eduard Lards!Please proceed to Counter 5 toidentify your baggage.”

“Shucks,” he bounced like jellyoff his seat. “That must be theother bag I was lookin’ for. Goahead, Fathu. Just try it while I’msortin’ out my luggage.”

Suddenly, from nowhere, it oc-curred to me to say: EduardLards.

I hear a soft static from the ear-piece, and a synthetic female voicefeeding me information about Ed:“Processing Information… Pleasewait…”

Subject: Eduard P. Lards.Birth: [PAUSE] 29 February1957, [PAUSE] … Parents:[PAUSE] Father: John E. Lards,[PAUSE] Mother: Ellen L. Pesada...

I felt embarrassed hearingabout Ed without his knowledge.I didn’t know how to stop themachine from feeding informa-tion. One detail after anotherchurned out of the device. Educa-tional Attainment, Profession,Wife, Awards, Health Status …then suddenly the GABS pausedfor a rather long time, “Process-ing …”

Then I saw Ed coming back ina hurry. “Well, Fathu, whadda yethink? Cool ain’t it?”

“Yup,” I gave him a half-smile,“but it seems to have hanged upon me?”

“Impossible, Father!” he im-mediately took the earpiece fromme and squeezed it deeply intohis ear. Then after a few secondshe says, “Yer right, Fathu. It ain’trespondin’!”

I shrugged my shoulders to ex-press that I didn’t know whatcould have caused the hi-tech de-vice to conk out unexpectedly.

“What did you ask the GABS,Father?”

At first I felt a bit reluctant totell him I had asked about him.But I guess there was no other way,“I’m sorry, Ed. I gave your name.”

“Hey, that’s alright, Fathu! Butin what part did it hang up aboutme?”

I looked up to him and smiled,“The part about your WEIGHT!”

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nilang lugar dahil noong dekada’90 hanggang 2004 ay may mgaarmadong lalaki, na nagpakila-lang security guard ng isang landdeveloper, ang sama-samanglumulusob sa kanilang mga bahayat giniba iyon.

Batay naman sa pahayag ngNPA sa kanilang website noongAgosto 30, “Matagumpay nainilunsad ng mga pulang mandi-rigma ng NPA-Bulacan ang dala-wang magkakasabay na pagsala-kay sa San Jose Del Monte at Nor-zagaray, Bulacan.”

Sabi pa sa pahayag, “Kasabaynito, sinalakay din ng iba pangpwersa ng NPA-Bulacan ang mgaSecurity Outpost ng mga tauhansa seguridad ni Sen. Manuel Villarna nagbabantay sa mga kinam-kam na lupa sa ngalan ng PalmeraHomes. Nakumpiska dito ang wa-long mataas na kalibreng baril atisang pistola. Kinumpiska angkanilang mga armas upang alisansila ng kapangyarihan na mulipang makapanakot at makapan-dahas sa mga magsasaka na

Kakampi mo ang Batas ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO

�� TANONG: Batas, magandanghapon po. Sinanla po ng kapatidko ang pag-aari kong videocam saisang tao. Walang kahit anongkasulatan. Ngayon po nang pina-tutubos ko na, sabi naipagbili nadaw sa iba. Ano po ang gagawinko? (639163688283 Adet Gatcha-lian).

Sagot: Adet Gatchalian, mara-ming salamat po sa tanong na ito.

Sa ilalim ng Civil Code of thePhilippines, ang dalawang panigay maaaring magkaroon ng ka-sunduan kahit na wala silangpinirmahang kasulatan.

Ang isang kasunduang berba-lan lamang ay may bisang kagayang isang nakasulat na kontrata,basta’t ito ay malaya at kusangloob na pinasok ng magkabilangpanig. Dahil diyan, maaaringpilitin ang sinumang nakipag-kasundo ng berbalan na gam-panan ang kanyang mga tung-kulin, at kung hindi niya itogagampanan ay maaari siyangmademanda sa husgado upangang hukuman ang siyang mag-utos sa kanyang gawin niya angkanyang mga tungkulin at obli-gasyon.

Sa usapin ng sanlaan ng anu-mang gamit kagaya ng videocam,may bisa ito kahit na walangkasulatang nilagdaan ang magka-bilang panig. At sa bisa ng nasa-bing kasunduan ng sanlaan, maytungkulin at obligasyon ang nag-sanla na magbayad ng kanyangpagkakautang sa panahong iti-nakda ng magkabilang panig at,sa kabilang dako, may tungkulinat obligasyon naman ang pinag-sanlaan na ibalik ang gamit obagay na isinanla sa kanya.

Batay sa batas, kung ang nag-sanla ay hindi makakabayad sakanyang pagkakautang, maaaringrematahin ng pinagsanlaan anggamit na naisanla, sa pamama-gitan ng prosesong itinakda ngmga alituntunin sa rematahan.Ganundin, kung ang pinagsanlaanay hindi makakapagsoli ng bagayo gamit na isinanla sa kanya, saanupamang kadahilanan, mayobligasyon siyang bayaran anghalaga ng nasabing bagay o gamit,at bayaran din ang danyos perhu-wisiyos para sa pinsalang dulot nghindi na niya maibalik ang isi-nanlang bagay o gamit.

Kailangang padalhan muna ngdemand letter ang pinagsanlaanat hilingin sa kanya ang pagba-balik ng bagay o gamit na isinan-la, at kung hindi niya magagawaito, maaari na siyang masampa-han ng kaso sa hukuman.

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Tanong: Batas, magkasama posa isang lupa pero magkabukodang bahay ng bilas ko at biyenan

ko. Sa anak ng biyenan niya naka-pangalan ang title. Wala silangrespeto sa bawat isa. Ano angdapat gawin? (639198487960 Ve-roma Garcia).

Sagot: Veroma Garcia, mara-ming salamat sa tanong na ito.

Ayon sa Civil Code of the Phil-ippines at ang Presidential De-cree 1529, o ang Property Regis-tration Decree, ang sinumangnakapangalan sa titulo ng isanglupa ay siyang ituturing na may-ari ng lupa. Itinuturing ng batasna hindi mailalagay ang pangalanng isang tao bilang may-ari ngisang parsela ng lupa kung hindinga siya ang tunay na may-ari.

At dahil kinikilala ng batas angnakapangalan sa titulo bilangsiyang tunay na may-ari ng lupa,maaari niyang gawin ang anu-mang nais niyang gawin sa ari-arian, kasama na ang pagpapaalissa mga taong nakatira doon, kekamag-anak niya ang mga ito ohindi.

Sa kabilang dako, kung mali-wanag na mayroong ibang tunayna may-ari sa lupa bagamat ito aynakapangalan o nakatitulo saibang tao, maaari namang magha-bol ang tunay na may-aring ito.Pero ang paghahabol, sakalingtumatanggi naman ang titula-dong may-ari na kilalanin ito, aykailangang dumaan sa hukuman.

Ibig sabihin, kailangang mag-sampa ng kaso ang naghahabolupang mag-utos ang hukuman nakilalanin ang kanyang tunay napagmamay-ari. Ang tawag saganitong klase ng kaso ay “peti-tion for recovery of ownership”.

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Tanong: Batas, 1991 nag-loan poako ng P5,000 calamity sa SSSdito sa Pampanga. Nakakaltasanako sa trabaho ko ng SSS contri-bution. Mga magkano na po kayautang ko sa SSS? Nababawasanba yung utang ko? (63918-2973693 Edwin Pingol).

Sagot: Edwin Pingol, mara-ming salamat sa tanong na ito.

Ayon sa Republic Act 1161, asamended by Republic Act 8282,ang Social Security Law, ang lahat

ng mga kinakaltas mula sa sahodng mga manggagawa para sakanilang kontribusyon bilangkasapi ng SSS o di kaya ay bilangkabayaran nila sa mga pagkaka-utang ng nasabing mga kasapi saSSS ay dapat inere-remit nilakaagad ng diretso.

Kung hindi nire-remit ngkompanya ang mga kontribusyono bayad sa loan na kanilangkinakaltas, magkakaroon sila ngdalawang kasong kriminal.

Una dito ay ang paglabag saSSS Law, na may parusang pagka-kabilanggo ng hindi bababa nganim na taon at isang araw. Angpangalawa dito ay ang kasongestafa, sa ilalim ng Art. 315 ngRevised Penal Code, na mayparusa ding pagkakabilanggo nahindi bababa ng anim na taon.

Sa ilalim ng mga batas, kai-langang mapadalhan muna ng de-mand letter ang kompanya, angmay-ari nito at ang kanyang mgaopisyales, at mahilingan sila naipadala na nila ang mga kinaltasnila mula sa mga manggagawa.Kung sa kabila ng pagkakatanggapng demand letter ay hindi pa dinire-remit ng employer ang mgakinaltas mula sa manggagawa,maaari na itong demandahin ngdalawang kasong binabanggitnatin dito.

* * *PAALALA: Maaari po kayongtumawag sa aming mga landline,(02) 994-68-05, (02) 433-75-49at (02) 433-75-53, o di kaya ay saaming mga cellphone, 0917-984-24-68 at 0919-609-64-89. Osumulat sa aming address: 18 DMahiyain cor Mapagkawanggawa,Teachers Village, Diliman, Que-zon City. O mag-email sa websitena ito: www.batasnews.com, o [email protected].

* * *PARTY LIST: Maaari na pokayong maging kasapi ng BATASParty List, o ang Bagong AlyansangTagapagtaguyod ng AdhikaingSambayanan. Ipadala po anginyong mga pangalan at kum-pletong address sa parehong mgaaddress at telepono sa itaas.

in the final judgment?”“Sheesh, Fathu, can’t you even

take a joke? [CHUCKLE] ’Sides,this place’s empty and hot likethe Sahara!”

Even though I felt comfortablycold inside the departure area, Iunderstood how the walrus of Edmust have felt under his layers ofblubber.

As usual, he was sweating pro-fusely like an oversized SpongeBob with tons of bags and luggagedangling on almost every part ofhis blob. He always had the knackof bringing the whole world withhim, but also forgetting the mostessential things.

“Hey, it looks like you’re outto cover the entire world. Let meguess, you just came from theBeijing Olympics and are nowheaded for London just to have agood head start over the other jour-nalists and athletes as well.”

“Go ahead, Fathu! Laugh atme! Ye’ll see how I’ll have the lastlaugh yet.”

“Hey, now you’re the one whocan’t take a joke. ’Sides, remem-ber the last time we met? If Ihadn’t found your passport youhad laminated between yourquarter-pounder and your seat,you would have missed your flightthen. Hey, take a seat, Ed! It’sbeen some time. So what’s newon your side of the fence?”

“Fathu, this is not only thenewest thing I want to show you,”he said as he looked around tomake sure I was the only oneabout to hear what he had to say.“How do you think I kneweverythin’ bout ye, Fathu?”

I had almost forgotten hisrather apocalyptic entrance ear-lier. I examined him from head totummy but didn’t really noticeanything special. “So, what’s newon or in you, Ed?”

He whispered, “It’s a high-techmicro-device that’s designed togive me any, I mean ANY infor-mation. Ya name it, — forward orbackward information — I haveit. All I have t’do is whisper thesubject, and the gadget startspromptin’ th’ info inta yuh ears!”

“What’s it called, Ed?”“It’s a Global Awareness

Broadcasting System,” he smiledproudly as he removed a smallearphone from his right ear.

“But why would anyone needtoo much information all at once?No wonder it’s called GABS forshort,” I quipped.

“Go on, go on. Laugh all yewant, but till ye see what this cando ye won’t believe yuh ears.”

He hands me the earpiece.I reluctantly cuddle the tiny

black gadget in my palms as Isense that it was rather warm andmoist from Ed’s sweat.

“Go on, Fathu. Try it!”I closed my eyes and fought off

the icky sensation of stuffing whatfelt like an over-chewed gum intomy ear.

“Then what?” I asked.“Go ahead, jest say any name

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2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees

BEHIND Japan’s famous façade of socialharmony and homogeneity lie complicatedrealities. Often hidden from view are trou-bling elements of the country’s social lifeinvolving stigmatized communities suchas the burakumin and minority ethnicgroups like the Ainu or the many Koreans,Filipinos, and other foreigners living inJapan today. Also hidden, and often denied,are troubling accounts of Japan’s past roleas an imperial power. Discrimination, ex-ploitation, predatory colonialism, warcrimes: these subjects are taboo, especiallyin print. Akio Ishii thinks it should be oth-erwise. As head of Akashi Shoten, a pub-lishing house, he is exposing the undersideof Japan’s smooth social surface and bring-ing difficult subjects to light.

In pre-modern times, the buraku weresocial outcasts and reviled as dirty. Despiteofficial emancipation over a century ago,this stigma lingered. Ishii himself experi-enced it as a boy. He was five years old whenthe end of World War II ushered in Japan’spost-imperial era. As a politicized youthin the 1960s, he agitated against injusticesin Japanese society and also opposed therenewal of Japan’s security ties with theUnited States. In the 1970s, he joined astudy group dedicated to eliminating dis-

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crimination against the buraku and be-came editor of its magazine. This led toAkashi Shoten in 1978, a publishing com-pany of his own. Ishii determined to buildhis company as “a bastion for the move-ment to eliminate discrimination inthought and culture.”

At first, Ishii concentrated on the burakuissue itself and on other beleaguered Japa-nese minorities. But he soon expanded toother human rights issues. Koreans hadbeen colonized by Japan and compelled intoforced labor during World War II. Ishii pub-lished accounts of this brutal episode andalso of the plight of Koreans living in Ja-pan, where they were discriminated againstin housing, employment, and marriage.

Similar forms of discrimination faced anew wave of foreign workers who flockedto Japan in the 1990s.

Ishii exposed their dilemma to readersin a stream of new books. He published aHuman Rights Handbook for Foreignersin Japan in Urdu, Vietnamese, Persian, and15 other languages, to guide migrantsthrough Japan’s vexing laws and proce-dures and to steer them to services andsupport groups. In a similar spirit, Ishiipublished a book in Japanese on the 1990United Nations convention on “The Pro-

tection of the Rights of All Migrant Work-ers and their Families,” which Japan de-clined to ratify.

Over time, Ishii’s books drew attentionto the “comfort women” of World War II,to Filipino women trapped in Japan’s ex-ploitative entertainment industry, to thephysically and mentally disabled, abusedchildren, and victims of domestic violence— to everyone, in fact, who was invisiblebehind Japan’s curtain of respectable nor-mality. Ishii also published books that coun-tered rightwing efforts to exaggerate thebeneficial influence of Japanese colonialism,to cover up Japan’s war crimes, and to de-pict its former military leaders as heroes.

In recent years, many of Akashi Shoten’sbooks have introduced Japanese readersto human rights issues outside Japan, in-cluding the caste system in India and thestruggles of other oppressed groups aroundthe world. In the 21st century, says Ishii,“We must create an era where the humanrights of individuals are truly respected.”

Ishii is not a public figure but his influ-ence is large. Some 2,800 Akashi Shotenbooks are in print. They sell well amongintellectuals, scholars, university students,and civil society activists. Ishii is content.What is important for a publisher, he says,

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“These books,” he says, “are my real as-sets.”

In electing Akio Ishii to receive the 2008Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism,Literature, and Creative CommunicationArts, the board of trustees recognizes hisprincipled career as a publisher, placingdiscrimination, human rights, and otherdifficult subjects squarely in Japan’s pub-lic discourse. Ñ ��

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IN ISLAM, authority rests in knowledge.In times of crisis and for guidance in day-to-day life, Muslims turn to scholars. It istheir role to apply the truth of the HolyQuran and the lessons of the ProphetMuhammad to human life in matters largeand small. Yet, Islam’s religious scholars—who these days may be teachers or preach-ers or public intellectuals, and are oftenall three—do not always see eye to eye.

Their debates over the centuries haveproduced the heterogeneous world of Is-lam today, with its various sects and schoolsof law. In such debates, the authority ofindividual thinkers weighs heavily. And incountries like Indonesia, with vast Mus-lim majorities, intellectuals such as AhmadSyafii Maarif can influence millions andshape the character of national life.

Syafii Maarif was born in West Sumatrain 1935. Through his family and earlyschooling, he was exposed to the teachingsof reform Islam as espoused by Muham-madiyah, one of two mass organizationsthat dominate Muslim life in Indonesia.After university, he shifted naturally intoteaching and later earned his doctorate inIslamic thought at the University of Chi-cago under the eminent scholar of Islam,Fazlur Rahman. By the 1980s he was an

intellectual of serious reputation and a ris-ing leader in Muhammadiyah.

The Indonesian nationalists who de-clared their country independent in 1945created a secular state.

They chose not to enshrine the shari’a,Islamic law, as the law of the land for Mus-lims. Instead, befitting Indonesia’s ex-traordinary diversity, the new nation’screed became Panca Sila, whose ecumeni-cal five principles began with “belief inone God” and otherwise spoke to the ide-als of a just and civilized humanity, nationalunity, democracy, and social justice.

This decision became a matter of bitterdispute among Indonesian Muslims thatlingered under the 33-long dictatorship ofSuharto. His downfall in 1998 brought anew era of openness, reform, and demo-cratizaton to Indonesia but also tumultu-ous sectarian conflict. It was at exactly thistime that Syafii Maarif assumed leader-ship of Muhammadiyah and its 30 millionmembers and sympathizers.

Syafii Maarif embraced his country’sfresh hopes for democracy and good gover-nance and, in the stormy seas ahead, be-came a force for calm and moderation.When violence erupted between Indone-sian Muslims and Christians, he reminded

Muslims that Islam teaches the equalityof all people; he took the lead in interfaithdialogues and warned against provocateurswho fanned fear and hate.

When activists revived the call for anIslamic state and pressed urgently forimplementation of the shari’a, he opposedthem; the nonsectarian principles of PancaSila, he said, were the right ones for Indo-nesia’s plural society. And when the im-pact of 9/11 and the American invasions ofAfghanistan and Iraq reached Indonesia,and when terrorism struck home in Baliand Jakarta, he stressed that “Terrorismis not the authentic face of Islam.”

In concert with other moderate lead-ers, he denounced it as a “crime againsthumanity.” He said much the same aboutthe new American wars but urged Indone-sian Muslims to reject spurious calls to HolyWar, and to make their protests peacefully.He did so himself.

As Muhammadiyah’s president, SyafiiMaarif spurned the trappings of power andresisted the call to politics. Today, at 73and retired, he relishes his role as an inde-pendent thinker and mentor to the young.

We must learn to look beyond our indi-vidual nations, he says, and see the worldfrom a global perspective—“from a human

perspective and from a justice perspective.”Indeed, justice is the key to “global wis-dom.” Without it, he says, “I think theworld will go astray forever.”

In electing Ahmad Syafii Maarif to re-ceive the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardfor Peace and International Understand-ing, the board of trustees recognizes hisguiding Muslims to embrace tolerance andpluralism as the basis for justice and har-mony in Indonesia and in the world at large.Ñ ��

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NO ONE is ever truly prepared for a natu-ral disaster. The humanitarian interven-tions that follow are inevitably improvisedand hasty, as relief workers make urgentarrangements to provide water, food, shel-ter, and sanitation and to relocate the dis-placed survivors. Such was the case in SriLanka when the great tsunami of 2004 leftthousands of people dead and tens of thou-sands homeless. But as Ananda Galappattiknows, victims of catastrophes like this oneare also burdened by shock and grief, and byfear, insecurity, depression and rage—psy-chosocial consequences of trauma similar tothose of war. As a young psychologist, he isdevoting himself to these neglected needs.

Ananda Galappatti was born 33 yearsago in Colombo. After attending highschool at the American InternationalSchool in Dhaka, Bangladesh, he studiedpsychology at Cambridge University in theUnited Kingdom. The Sri Lanka to whichhe returned in 1996 was locked in a bloodycivil conflict of many years running. Thefollowing year, he assisted Dr. GameelaSamarasinghe in a psychosocial epidemio-logical survey of Sri Lanka’s conflict zones.This revealed that 50 to 60 percent of thosein the affected areas displayed signs of post-traumatic stress linked to war and vio-

lence. Yet, in all Sri Lanka there were fewerthan 10 psychologists specializing intrauma. To help fill this gap, Galappattiand Samarasinghe formed the War TraumaPsychosocial Support Program (PSP).

As head of PSP’s capacity building arm,24-year-old Galappatti trained 160 psy-chosocial “helpers” to serve the towns, vil-lages, and refugee camps of Vavuniya, a war-demoralized district six hours from Colom-bo, and otherwise enabled the area’s primi-tive psychosocial sector with skill-build-ing seminars, new intervention strategies,and resources such as databases and proce-dure manuals. In Vavuniya, Galappatti ob-served that psychological suffering cannotbe separated from the real-world circum-stances of its origins, including war itselfand “deeply rooted political divisions.” Hisapproach adapted lessons from Westernpsychology to Sri Lankan conditions andreligious practices.

Then, on 26 December 2004, came thetsunami. Hardest hit was Batticaloa on SriLanka’s east coast, a district like Vavuniyaalready traumatized by years of war. InJanuary 2005 Galappatti took the lead infounding The Mangrove, a network of or-ganizations and individuals in Batticaloadedicated to coordinating psychosocial as-

pects of the relief effort.Not wanting to be a “fly-in fly-out” ex-

pert, Galappatti moved directly to Batti-caloa. As the Mangrove’s coordinator, helobbied incessantly for better psychosocialservices. He liaised with local, national, andinternational agencies; convened meetingafter meeting for aid workers and psycho-social practitioners; and briefed newly-ar-rived aid organizations. He set up a rapidassessment system for orphaned children,organized training workshops, and medi-ated quarrels between aid organizations.Constantly networking, Galappatti spreadword of “best practices” and warned ofharmful ones. Meanwhile, he and his col-laborators made countless humane inter-ventions, insisting that women in refugeecamps have private places to bathe andsleep, that anxious students have their ex-aminations postponed, that orphans beplaced with relatives or familiar care-giv-ers, and that families be granted privacywhen identifying their dead.

In time, political violence and instabil-ity in Batticaloa forced The Mangrove toscale back its work and Galappatti em-barked on his doctorate at the Universityof Edinburgh. Today, with his wife andsmall child, he is again living and working

�� , �� , �� , �� , �� , �� in crisis-torn Batticaloa. Despite his West-ern education, his colleagues say that he“thinks and acts as a Sri Lankan,” embrac-ing his country’s pluralism and also itsdangers. As a leader, they say, “he workswith the group as one of them” and “gen-tly and firmly gets them to think and act.”

In electing Ananda Galappatti to receivethe 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emer-gent Leadership, the board of trustees rec-ognizes his spirited personal commitmentto bring appropriate and effective psycho-social services to victims of war trauma andnatural disaster in Sri Lanka. Ñ ��

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Bugso ng BahaghariMAGSASAGAWA ng sama-samang eksi-bisyon ng kanilang mga natatanging obraang mga kasapi ng Bahaghari ng Malolossa Galeria De Las Islas sa Setyembre 20 namatatagpuan sa 3rd Floor ng El Almancer,744 Calle Del Real Palacio, Intramuros,Manila.

Ang eksibisyon ay pinamagatang Bugsong Bahaghari.

Ayon kay Nards Gomez, pangulo ng Ba-haghari ng Malolos, maipagmamalaki angmga obra ng mga pintor na kasapi ng kani-lang grupo dahil karamihan sa mga ito aymga premyado na.

Ang mga lalahok sa eksibisyon ay sinaJun Alvarez, Welbart, Rey Bautista, BrianBernardo, Abet Caparas, Roen Capule,Mon Castillo, Buddy Ching, Jayson Cortez,Rolly Dela Cruz, Jun Delos Santos, SelmerDel Rosario, Ross Dionisio, Billy Doctora,Nards Gomez, Allan Jumaquio, HermieJumaquio, Jun Miranda, Rodel Omampo,Freddie Pelipada, Bernie Pelipada, CrisRebutiaco, Chris Pasco, Rey Salamat, Tap-ing Salamat, Marlon Tantoco at RexTatlonghari.

Campus journalism seminarNAGING matagumpay ang dalawang arawna pagsasanay sa pamamahayag ng mgamag-aaral ng Bahay Pare High School(BPNHS) sa bayan ng Candaba, Pam-panga. Ang pagsasanay ay ginanap noongHulyo 30 at 31 sa nasabing paaralan. SinaDino Balabo ng Mabuhay at PhilippineStar at Clarence Cruz ng Bulacan StateUniversity (BulSU)-Bustos campus angnaging mga tagapagsanay.

Ayon kay Sheryl Dela Peña, isa sa mgatagapayo ng mga kabataang mamama-hayag ng BPNHS, mula sa 40 kabataangdumalo sa pagsasanay ay pipili sila ng ila-lahok sa Cluster V Press Conference nagaganapi sa Setyembre 11-12 sa bayan ngSan Luis, Pampanga.

Ang Cluster V Press Conference ay binu-buo ng 12 pampublikong paaralang sekun-darya sa Candaba at San Luis.

Ilan sa mga kategoryang lalahukan sataunang timpalak ng mga kabataangmamamahayag ay news writing, editorialwriting, photojournalism, copy reading,sports writing, feature writing at edito-rial cartooning.

75 dumalo sa SPAM workshopUMABOT sa 75 kabataang mamamaha-yag mula sa iba’t ibang pamantasan sabansa ang dumalo sa tatlong araw na Jour-nalism workshop na isinagawa sa Univer-sity of the Assumption (UA) sa Lungsodng San Fernando, Pampanga noong Agosto20-22.

Ayon kay Melanie Briones, pangulo ng

Ang pitak na ito ay isang paglilingkod pampamayanan ng pahayagangMabuhay. Maaari kayong magpadala ng inyong mga pahayag at pagbatina may kalakip na larawan sa [email protected]. Mangyari polamang na ilagay ang inyong tunay na pangalan, tirahan, numero ngtelepono, at maging e-mail address. — PATNUGOT

School Press Advisers Movement (SPAM)na nag-organisa ng pagsasanay, napa-panahon at naging makabuluhan sa mgakalahok ang mga itinuro ng mga tagapag-sanay.

"Hindi mo matatawaran ang mga kaa-laman at mga payo na ibinahagi ng mgaresource person sa mga bata," ani Brionesat idinagdag na maging katulad niyang guroay maraming natutuhan.

Kabilang sa mga naging tagapagsanaysa SPAM workshop ay sina Tonette Orejasng Philippine Daily Inquirer, BenjaminDomingo, isang beteranong mamamahayagna ngayon ay nagtuturo sa Central LuzonState University (CLSU) sa Nueva Ecija;Dino Balabo ng pahayagang Mabuhay atPhilippine Star; Prof. Expectacion Gon-zales ng Wesleyan University, Prof. CeciliaCunanan ng UA; at John Vincent Trindad,editor-in-chief ng Cars & Lifestyle Maga-zine ng Laus Automotive Group.

Ang mga paksang tinalakay ay coveringpolitics, copy reading and content editing,dynamics of sports writing; framing, plan-ning and writing the civic journalism story;issues, controversies and fallacies of cam-pus journalism; at short story writing.

Ang mga nagsilahok naman ay nagmulasa Eastern Visayas University, TaclobanUniversity, Northern Philippines Univer-sity sa Ilocos Sur, Don Honorio VenturaCollege of Arts and Trades sa Bacolor, Pam-panga; Holy Angel University sa AngelesCity, Columban College sa Olongapo City,St. Mary's Academy of Sto. Niño sa Mey-cauayan City, Bulacan; Angeles UniversityFoundation, St. Dominic Colleges sa Ba-coor at Imus Institute na kapwa matatag-puan sa Cavite, University of the Assump-tion, Colegio De San Juan de Letran-Bata-an; St. Scholastica-Pampanga, WesleyanUniversity-Cabanatuan City, Feliciano Col-leges-Dau, Dr. Yanga Colleges sa Bocaue,Bulacan; at Ramon Magsaysay Technologi-cal University sa Castillejos, Zambales.

Libreng gamutan sa PaombongUMABOT sa halos 100 residente ng Pa-ombong, Bulacan at Lungsod ng Malolosang nabenepisyuhan sa isinagawanglibreng gamutan sa Barangay Sto. Niño,Paombong noong Agosto 24.

Ang libreng gamutan ay pinangunahanng mag-asawang Dr. Jay-R at Dr. EarvinDela Rosa ng Manila Health Office.

Ayon kay Dr. Jay-R, bukod sa librengkonsulta ay namahagi rin sila ng mgalibreng gamot sa mga residente.

Ang pagsasagawa ng libreng gamutanay parang isang panata na tumulong sakapwa tao, aniya.

Ito naman ay sinuporthan ng StratlinksPharmaceuticals na nagbigay ng librenggamot para sa tuberculosis at mga volun-teer nurse mula sa Colegio de Sta. Monicasa Maynila na nagsagawa ng urinalysis.

BALIUAG, Bulacan — Puspusan angkonstruksyon ng ika-33 mall ng SMPrime Holdings sa bayang ito para sapagbubukas nito sa Nobyembre.

Ayon kay Sheryl Baltazar, public rela-tions officer ng SM City Marilao, tiyak namatatapos ang SM City Baliuag at mabu-buksan iyon sa Nobyembre 14.

“We are on schedule for the Novemberopening,” ani Baltazar patungkol sa ika-33 mall ng SM Prime Holdings na mata-tagpuan sa kahabaan ng Donya RemediosTrinidad (DRT) Highway sa BarangayPagala sa bayang ito.

Batay sa paglalarawan ni Baltazar, magi-ging kapansin-pansin ang kulay berdengharapan ng SM City Baliuag.

Ang loob nito ay may kabuoang54,789.70 metro kuwadradong floor area,kung saan ang 9,500 metro kuwadrado aypagtatayuan ng Hypermart o pamilihan ngmga grocery at iba pang gamit sa bahay, atang 18,900 metro kuwadrado ay para sadepartment store o pamilihan ng mgadamit at iba pang kagamitan.

Ang SM City Baliuag ay magkakaroondin ng apat na sinehan kung saan ay

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mayroong kabuoang espasyo na 1,200metro kuwadrado para sa manonood,bukod pa sa mga restoran, specialty storeat food court o kainan.

Sa labas naman nito ay mayroong mala-wak na paradahan kung saan kakasya ang575 kotse o katulad na sasakyan.

Ang SM City Baliuag ay ang ikalawangmall ng SM Prime Holdings sa Bulacan.Ang una ay ang SM City Marilao.

Ang bayan ng Baliuag na kilala sa mgaproduktong sombrerong buntal, paputok,at mga resort ay tahanan ng 34 residentialsubdivision, 12 kolehiyo at pamantasan,22 ospital, 23 bangko, 25 simbahan at 43industrial establishment.

Inaasahan namang bukod sa mgananinirahan ng Baliuag, dadayuhin din itong mga residente ng mga kalapit bayan ngSan Rafael, San Ildelfonso, San Miguel,Pulilan, Plaridel at Bustos na pawang ma-tatagpuan sa Bulacan, bukod pa sa mgaresidente ng Candaba at San Luis sa timogPampanga.

Batay sa pag-aaral ng SM Prime Hold-ings aabot sa may 800,000 katao angnakatira sa mga nasabing bayan. Ñ ��

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System (GSIS).Suspendido naman ng dalawang buwan

si Associate Justice Jose Sabio, saman-talang pinatawan ng reprimand sina CAPresiding Justice Conrado Benitez at As-sociate Justice Bienvenido Reyes.

Pinagalitan din ng Korte Suprema siAssociate Justice Myrna Dimaranan-Vidal

at ipinaubaya ng Korte Suprema sa BarConfidant ang kaso ni PCGG Commis-sioner Camilo Sabio dahil sa pakikialamsa kaso.

Inerekomenda naman ng Korte nakasuhan sa Department of Justice ang busi-nessman na si Francis De Borja dahil sapagsisinungaling at panunuhol kay Sabio.

Nag-inhibit sa pagboto sina Chief Jus-tice Reynato Puno at Associate JusticeAntonio Carpio.

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increasingly being calledinto question.”

The Opinion provides,among other things: Giftsaccepted by physicians in-dividually should prima-rily entail a benefit to pa-tients. They ought to be ofminimal value, e.g. a bookor note pad. “Cash pay-ments should not be ac-cepted.”

Disclosure of financialsupport or conflict of inter-est in conferences must bemade. “Token consulta-tion” does not justify perks.“Subsidies from industryshould not be accepted, di-rectly or indirectly, paytravel costs.”

PMA’s new Code gutseven it’s “General Prin-ciples”. Drafters squirreledin Article II, Section 7. Thisadds a third priority: tolook after treatment ben-efits that flow from the“health products com-pany”. Why should doctorsuse, as treatment guide-line, the bottom line ofdrug companies financial

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at sa mga dakilang tao naminsan ay nagsipaglingkodsa pamahalaang panglala-wigan tulad ni dating Gob.Alejo Santos at iba pa?

* * *Pangatlo, sa harap mismo

ng mga pangunahaing opis-yal na dumalo tulad ninaGob. Jon-jon, dating Gob.Josie, Senador Bong Revilla,MMDA Chairman BayaniFernando, Senior Supt.Allen Bantolo at mga bokalat mayor naganap ang ka-walan ng modo ng mara-ming tao.

Ang “Sunggaban Fiesta”ba ay nangangahulugan ngkawalan ng pasintabi atpaggalang ng mga tao samga katulad nilang namu-muno o talagang nagkulangsa pamumuno ng pagkaka-taong iyon?

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kenyo ang nagsisunggab sapastilyas. Ang mga Bula-kenyo ay karaniwang inilala-rawan ni Gob. Mendoza namga Bagong Bulakenyo, naayon sa kanyang paglala-rawan ay kakikitaan ngmagagandang katangiantulad ng maka-Diyos, maka-kalikasan, makabayan, maymalasakit sa kapwa, maa-sahan, may disiplina, ma-tapat at iba pa.

Teka, mukhang taliwasang mga katangiang ito saipinamalas ng mga nagsi-sunggab sa mahabang pas-tilyas. Iyan ang tatak ngLumang Bulukenyo.

tending doctor he survived.But with all the damage tohis legs, the doctor remindedhis mother again that hewould be a lifetime invalid.

Once more, the boy madeup his mind — he wouldn’tbe a cripple, not be an invalid,he would walk and run! Itlooked helpless — the legsdangled uselessly. He was re-leased from the hospital andhis mother massaged thoselegs after the burns had healed.When he was taken outside inhis wheelchair he threw him-self from the chair on wheeland pulled himself across thegrass, dragging those uselesslegs to the picket fence, where,with great effort, he managedto raise himself to a standingposition. He would then walkaround the yard, pulling him-self along beside the pickets.

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Nakalulungkot dahil angmga simulain at magandangkatangian ng isang BagongBulakenyo ay parang nana-natili lamang sa pahina ngmga concept paper ng Kapi-tolyo at hindi pa naipamu-muhay ng mga tao.

Ito ba ay nangangahulu-gan na walang nakikitang ma-tinong ehemplo ang mga tao?

* * *Ang ipinamalas na pag-

uugali ng mga nagsisunggabsa pastilyas at kawalan ngkaayusan sa pagdadaos ngpalatuntunan ay isang sam-pal sa liping Bulakenyo.

Sayang, ang Bulacan paman din ang sinasabing du-yan ng demokrasya at taha-nan ng mga dakilang mgabayani tulad nina Gat Mar-celo H. Del Pilar, HeneralGregorio Del Pilar, FranciscoBalagtas at marami pang iba.

* * *Isa pang nakakahiya ang

paghahangad sa media mile-age ng mga bisitang nag-sidalo tulad nina SenadorRevilla at Chairman BayaniFernando.

Pagdating nila ay hina-wakan ang malaking sandokat humarap sa mga kamerahabang naghahalo ng nilu-lutong gatas ng kalabaw naginagawang pastilyas. Alamkaya nila ang problema saindustriya ng pastilyas saBulacan? Iyan ang benepisyong isang pulitiko, kahit sakawa ng kumukulong gatasng kalabaw ay pwedengmakisakay.

Soon, he wore a path.With more struggles, daily

massages by his mother, aniron will, and determined per-severance, he began to standalone, walk with help, andthen walk alone. Soon he wasrunning! His goal was to be-come the fastest human in themile distance. Soon, the sheerjoy of running became his life.In college, he made the trackteam and one day in MadisonSquare Garden in New York,this young man with perse-verance ran the mile fasterthan any human being beforehim. Yes, you’re right, theman was Dr. Glenn Cunning-ham, the fastest human milerin his day.

“You never achieve realsuccess,” Dale Carnegie said,“unless you like what you aredoing.”

�� 1nudulot at maaari pangidulot nito sa kanila.

Sinabi naman ni MayorFeliciano Legazpi na muliniyang kakausapin si Mar-celo na minsan ay nangakona sa kanya na ililipat angplanta.

Ayon kay Guillerma Cruz,isa sa mga residente ng SitioDiliman, patuloy ang ope-rasyon ng Ming Hong Trad-ing sa kabila ng pangako niMarcelo na titigil ang pag-susunog ng gulong mataposang Agosto 31 kung hindimagiging epektibo ang pol-lution control device na

statements?Bad practice is dolled up

as good ethics in this Code.They remind all of theGalilean axiom: “Physi-cian, heal thyself.”

Viewpoint (PDI/ Aug.19) cited the stress on sol-diers in Mindanao. ChristianJohn Pavio emailed callingattention to less-than-ad-equate health care for sol-diers and families. AtArmed Forces hospitals, pa-tients find themselves pay-ing for medicine. Refundsare tedious “Many times,you’re told: No funds.”

AFP spends millions toevacuate sick or woundedsoldiers — only to depositthem in ill-equipped medi-cal facilities. There aregood private hospitals inmost provinces. Why notsubstitute our presentPhilHealth cards with pri-vate health care providers?

Use AFP hospital fundsinstead to pay health careproviders. That will savelives and money. Possiblyeven relatives, can be in-

cluded in said benefits. Wecan pay premiums fromour salaries.

Viewpoint (PDI/Sept.2) cited the new book “For-est Faces” to document of-ficials linked to Lanao’smassive deforestation. AZamboanga del Norte resi-dent e-mailed he’d runrisks if his name were pub-lished.

“But large-scale andmechanized logging opera-tion here continues un-checked,” he wrote. “En-closed are some photos.They show the “log pond”where 18-wheeler trucksdrop and stock logs beforeloading them on a boat forZamboanga City.

“Other logs are deliv-ered to the port in Sirawaitown. A two unit crane thenloads them on to boats. Ourprovince has rich naturalresources. But it remainsone of the poorest provincein the entire country be-cause of crime.”

“Viewpoint (PDI/March 18) titled its col-

umn on brazen officialswho ignored festering pov-erty as ‘Too Old To Blush’.Carmen Lagsaca from CebuCity emailed, “Sorry. Ourofficials are genetically un-able to blush.”

Lapu-Lapu Mayor Artu-ro Radaza campaigns for aP10.2 billion land reclama-tion project. In his city, 34out of every 100 kids aremalnourished. A full quar-ter of homes lack toilets.And he bought P12,000street lamps for P95,000during the Asean Summit.

“Two to three indigentpatients are crammed intoone bed at Cebu City’sMedical Center. They’reshort of medicine, food,water — you name it. Yet,Mayor Tomas Osmeña andcouncilors bask in a reno-vated P152 million legis-lative building, when billsfor aircon, furniture, land-scaping, etc, are tallied.Now, they ask for P810,000more to doll it up further.The greedy never blush.” Ñ��@��.��

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ikakabit sa planta.“Sa gabi sila nag-oope-

rate, pero sa araw tuloy angpaggawa nila sa planta,”ani Cruz nang makapana-yam ng Mabuhay sa tele-pono noong Setyembre 7.

Iginiit ni Cruz na hirapna hirap na sila dahil sabaho ng usok na ibinubugang Ming Hong sa patuloyna pagsusunog nito nggulong kaya, aniya, muli si-lang nagsampa ng petisyonsa pamahalaang barangayng Partida at pamahalangbayan ng Norzagaray upangipasara ang Ming Hong.

Ngunit sinabi ni Mar-celo na dalawang linggo

bago dumating ang sinabiniyang taning na Agosto 31ay tumigil na sila ng ope-rasyon, at iginiiit na kasa-lukuyan pa rin nilang iki-nakabit ang pollution con-trol device na dapat sanaay noong pang unang ba-hagi ng Agosto ikinabitbatay sa kanyang naunangpahayag.

Iginiit din niya na mayaplikasyon sila sa EMBpara sa kanilang ECC ngu-nit, ayon sa naunang pa-hayag ni Raldy Pagador ngEMB nong Agosto 21, wa-lang aplikasyon para saECC ang planta.

“Walang file ng applica-

tion sa computers naminang Ming Hong, at kahityung pangalang ‘MengHong’ ay wala rin,” aniPagador.

Ngunit, ayon kay Mar-celo, may aplikasyon sila saEMB Central Luzon at maykopya raw siya.

Gayunpaman tiniyak niPagador na masasara angMing Hong kahit ina-angkin ni Marcelo na mayaplikasyon ito para sa ECC.

Ito ay dahil bumagsaksa water quality test angMing Hong matapos nakumuha ng water samplesi Pagador sa nasabingplanta noong Hulyo 31.

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Ang paggawa ng pinaka-mahabang pastilyas angpinakatampok na gawain saisang linggong taunang Sing-kaban Fiesta na nagsimulanoong Setyembre 7 at na-tapos noong Setyembre 15.

Matatandan na noongHulyo 23 ay nagsumite ngaplikasyon ang Bulacan saGuiness hinggil sa isasa-gawang pagtatangka.

Kinumpirma naman ngGuinness ang aplikasyon sapagtatangkang makagawang pinakamahabang pas-

tilyas sa mundo noongAgosto 8, na nasundan pa ngpagpapalabas nito ng mgaguideline o pamantayan.

Noong Agosto 15, por-mal na inilunsad ng Bula-can ang simula ng “count-down” para sa paggawa ngpinakamahabang pastilyaskaugnay ng pagdiriwang ngika-430 guning taon ngpagkakatatag ng Bulacanbilang isang lalawigan.

Samantala, nagpahayagnaman ng pagkadismayaang ilang Bulakenyo hing-gil sa kawalan ng kontrol ngpamahalaang panglalawi-

gan sa mga taong sumaksisa pagtatanghal at nag-sikain ng nasabing pastil-yas. Ito ay dahil, anila, saparang gutom na nagsipag-agawan ang mga tao.

“Hindi tama iyon. Nag-mukhang parang timawaang mga tao,” ani OrlandoLim ng Malolos na maagapa ay nagpunta na sa ka-pitolyo.

Sinabi naman ng pintorna si Nards Gomez ng Ba-haghari ng Malolos: “Paranghindi mga Bulakenyo angnagsikain.”

Ayon naman sa iba pang

nakasaksi sa pag-aagawanat pagkakagulo, may pag-kukulang ang Kapitolyo sapaghahanda at pamama-hala sa mga tao sa araw ngpagtatanghal.

“Dapat binigyan nila ngstub na may number atpinapila ang mga tao paramas marami ang nakatikimng pastilyas,” ani ng isangopisyal ng lokal na pama-halaan.

Ngunit, sinabi naman ngisang opisyal ng kapitolyo,“Napakahirap pakiusapanng mga tao; hindi mo bastamapipigil.” — Dino Balabo

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Sa kanyang maikling talum-pati sa harap ng may 1,000 luma-hok sa limang kilometrong Ken-yo Fun Run sa lungsod na itonoong Setyembre 13 bilang baha-gi ng pagdiriwang ng taunangSingkaban Fiesta, sinabi ni Gob.Panlilio na ang pagsasabi nila niGob. Mendoza ng katotohanan aynagbigay ng lakas ng loob at pag-asa sa marami.

“Marami ang nagsabi sa akinna ang ginawa naming pag-aminat paglalahad ng katotohanan aynagbigay sa kanila ng pag-asa nahindi lahat ay nabibili at muk-hang pera,” ani Panlilio.

Binigyang diin niya na angpagiging matapat ay isa sa mgapamantayan ng mabuting pama-mahala na isinusulong nila niMendoza at iba pang opisyal sabansa tulad ni Gob. Grace Padacang Isabela na kamakailan lamangay napabilang sa mga tumanggapng parangal na Ramon MagsaysayAward sa kategorya ng pama-mahala.

“We share something in com-mon, pareho kaming bagito, butwe are ready to tell the truth to theextent of defying authorities,” aning paring naging gobernador ngPampanga patungkol sa kanila ni

Mendoza na isang dating kapitanng barangay bago naging isanggobernador.

Ngunit hindi lamang iyon angpagkakatulad nina Panlilio atMendoza.

Si Panlilio ay nahaharap sa re-call petition na isinusulong ngisang grupo sa Pampanga nanangangalap ng mga lagda upangmagkaroon ng isang espesyal nahalalan dahil sa diumano’y ka-walan ng tiwala sa kakayahan ngdating pari.

Si Mendoza naman ay naha-harap sa isang election protest naisinampa sa Commission on Elec-tions ni dating Gob. RobertoPagdanganan kung saan ay mu-ling binilang ang mga botongkanilang naipon sa halalan noongMayo 2007.

Bukod dito, sina Panlilio atMendoza ay kapwa hindi ma-kasundo ang namumuno sa Sang-guniang Panglalawigan ng Pam-panga at Bulacan. Ngunit na-kalalamang si Mendoza dahil sakakampi niya ang mayorya ngSangguniang Panglalawigan ngBulacan.

Patungkol naman sa pagtang-gap nila ng P500,000 noongOktubre 11, 2007 sa Malacañang,sinabi ni Panlilio na isa ito sapangalawang hamon, na kanilangnalampasan ni Mendoza.

“Nakapasa na kami sa pagsu-bok sa pera, at alam kong pasadona rin kami sa pagsubok sababae,” ani Panlilio at idinagdagna kayang-kaya na nilang harapinang mga pang-araw-araw na pag-

subok sa pamamahala bilang mgagobernador.

Ayon pa sa dating pari, malapitna ang anibersaryo nila ni Men-doza at pabirong iginiit na “Ithink we will celebrate on October11.”

Patungkol sa perang kanilangtinanggap sa Malacañang, sinabidin ng dalawang gobernador nahindi pa nila ginagalaw iyon.

“Hindi pa namin ginagalawdahil may naka-pending pa angkaso sa Ombudsman,” aniMendoza.

Sinabi ni Mendoza na nawalaang lahat ng takot niya mataposang kontrobersya sa pagtanggapnila ng pera sa Malakanyangnoong nakaraang taon at iginiitna hindi na niya masyadong ini-isip iyon dahil sa ang konsen-trasyon niya ngayon ay nasatrabaho bilang isang gobernador.

Dahil naman sa hindi pa nilaginagalaw ang nasabing pera,sinabi ni Mendoza na may posi-bilidad na isauli nila iyon mataposmagdesisyon ang Ombudsman sakaso nito.

Matapos umamin sina Panlilioat Mendoza sa pagtanggap ngP500,000 matapos ang isangpulong sa Malakanyang noongnakaraang ika-11 ng Oktubre aypinabulaanan nila na iyon ay isangsuhol.

Sa mga unang araw mataposang kanilang pag-amin ay nagingkuwestiyon kung saan nagmulaiyon, ngunit di nagtagal ay sinabing League of Provinces of the Phil-ippines (LPP) na sa kanila galing

ang nasabing pera at iyon ay tu-long sa mga baguhang punonglalawigan tulad nina Panlilio atMendoza.

Gayunpaman, marami anghindi kumbinsido lalo pa nangituro ni Mendoza na isa sa mganakasaksi sa pag-aabot ng bag ngpera sa kanya ay opisyal ng Phil-ippine Amusement and GamingCorporation (Pagcor) na si Eddie“Bong” Plaza, ngunit pinabu-laanan naman nito na ang pera ay

nagmula sa Pagcor.Matatandaan din na matapos

na aminin ni Mendoza na tu-manggap siya ng pera sa Mala-cañang ay sinabi niya sa mgamamamahayag sa lalawigan naang nasabing pera ay gagamitinniya sa pagtulong sa mga programasa barangay at ang ibang bahaginaman ay ibibili niya ng ha-lamang namumulaklak na ita-tanim sa Hardin ng mga Bayanisa harap ng kapitolyo.

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