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With barely 42 days before Christmas,
lawmakers and consumerists warn the
public to be wary and cautious of unla-
beled and unlicensed toys that contain
toxic or poisonous ingredients that are
harmful to children.
Last September, the Eco Watch Coali-
tion detected potentially brain-damaging
and cancer-causing chemicals in 74 of
150 samples of toys sold in Divisoria==
the bargain hunters haven in Metro Ma-
nila. Since these toys were very afford-
able at prices ranging from P10 to P100,
they sold like hotcake and the traders
enjoyed brisk sales.
The proliferation of these toxic toys and
hazardous materials has prompted mem-
bers of Congress like Rep. Teodoro Ca-
sino, House Assistant Majority Leader and
Citizens Battle Against Corruption Rep.
Sherwin Tugna and Zambales Rep. Omar
Ebdaneall members of the Committee on
Health in the House of Representativesto
raise the alarm.
The EcoWaste Coalitions Project Protect
had conducted a pre-Christmas testing of
toys sold in the local market in its efforts to
stop theindiscriminateand irresponsible trade
in toxic toys and other products that may be
harmful to people and the environment.
Using a portable X-Ray Fluorescence
equipment to analyze the toxicity of chem-
icals found in toys, the EcoWaste Coalition
has been doing a yeomans job in exposing
the hazards of toxic toys and in ensuring
that they are banned from distribution to
consumers.
Toys containing lead above the US regu-
latory limit of 90 parts per million (ppm)
on lead in paint is considered hazardous,
Eco Wastes Anthony Dizon said.
The watchdog group conducts tests to
help the government ensure that the lo-
cal toy industry and imported toys com-
ply with provisions of the Department of
Health Administrative Order 2007-0031
on the Regulations on the Issuance of a
License to Operate to Companies that
Manufacture, Import or Distribute Toys
for the Philippine Market, among other
existing laws.
Our latest pre-Christmas analysis of
toys indicated that 60 of the 100 samples
contained lead and other toxic metals that
have been linked with reproductive abnor-
malities, endocrine disorders, behavioral,
developmental and learning problems and
even cancers, Dizon said in a statement.
The EcoWaste Coalition in its website
said that its investigation also showed
that 148 samples or 98.6 percent of toys
werenot properly tagged or labeled.
There were no licenses to operate (LTO)
on the labels of toys tested, and that none of
the samplesor a hundred percentprovided
complete product information, including
their chemical composition, the watchdog
group also revealed.
Four Fil-Ams vying
for US state legislatures
Toxic toys come in cheap abundance
By Maricel V. Cruz and Ferdie Fabella
C
hristmas is usually toy time for the children. And Christmas without
toys is an unthinkable and unacceptable notion to doting parents, grand-
parents and godfathers/godmothers because toys are part of any childs
growing-up years. But unknown to many parents and generous gift-giv-
ers, some of the varied toys that spill out of the store counters and display cases
can be very dangerous and harmful to children.
can lead to GRIEF
MILF EMBARKS ON PR BLITZ FOR PEACE
Christopher Mateo
Christopher Manabat
Jennifer Ong
Rob Bonta
By Sara D. Fabunan
UNITED States Ambassador
Harry Thomas Jr. revealed that
Philippine inuence in the U.S.
elections is growing, as evi-
denced by four Filipino-Ameri-
can candidates who are vying for
public ofce in the November 7
polls (Manila time).
In a recent Kapihan sa Emba-
hada, Thomas said that four Fil-
Am aspirants will compete in
state legislatures.
The four Fil-Ams are: Dr. Jen-
nifer Ong, Christopher Mateo and
Rob Bonta of the California State
Assembly, and Christopher Man-
abat of the Hawaii State House.
Ong of the Union City is a
Filipino-Chinese immigrant
who moved in the United States
with her family when she was
11 years old.
She owned and operated a
small optical clinic for over 13
years. Ong has over 23 years of
legislative experience, where
she had helped draft and pass
legislation to maintain health
and vision care for seniors and
the underserved.
Her top priorities are: creat-
ing jobs; increasing health care
access; making quality public
education accessible; and re-
ducing crime within and outside
of home.
Heavenly bodies
on Earth. Miss Earth
candidates (from left)
Camilla Brant of Brazil,
Tamerin Jardine of South
Africa, Phoebe Tan of
Singapore and Lourdes
Aguilar Concha of Mexico
pose for photographers
as they suit up for the
2012 Miss Earth beauty
pageant which will
be held on Nov. 24 at
the Versailles Palace in
Alabang.
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The JOY of giving
PRESIDENTIAL
KISS. President
Barack Obama
kisses a small child
while greeting
supporters at a
campaign event at
Lima Senior High
School, in Lima,
Ohio. AP
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TheNBI is part of an inter-agency task
group that enforced the cease and desist or-
ders issued by the Mines and Geosciences
Bureau in Zamboanga Peninsula to stop
the destructive illegal mining operation of
illegal miners in Balabag, Depore, Bayog,
Zamboanga del Sur.
Lawyer Jose Rommel Ramirez, chief
of the agencys Environment and Wild-
life Protection Division, said on Thurs-
day that witnesses revealed that the
almost three decades of illegal mining
in the area have affected not only the
residents of Bayog town but the entire
province of Zamboanga del Sur.
Earlier, Zamboanga del Sur Governor
Antonio Cerilles disclosed that illegal
mining operation in Balabag has contami-
nated the bodies of waters in Sibugay Val-
ley that supplies water for irrigation of the
rice-producing municipalities of Bayog,
Imelda, Buug, Diplahan and Siay.
Farmers from these municipalities
are getting irrigation waters from Dipili
River whose tributaries include Balabag
and Depore Creeks, he said.
Tons of mine wastes heavily laden
with mercury and cyanide owed out
freely from shallow ponds dug by illegal
miners and merged with the waters from
Dipili River. The Dumanguillas bay has
become the catchment basin of the wa-
ters from the said river.
A resident of Kabasalan town, of the
neighboring Zamboanga Sibugay prov-
ince told the media here that sh kills
had happened in their town and that anti-
illegal mining advocates attributed it to
illegal mining operation in Balabag.
Governor Cerilles surmised that mine
wastes from Balabag might be one of
the causes of the recurring red tide of
Dumaquillas bay, the provinces source
of marine products that include giant
Illegal miners
facing Zambo
kalikasan writ
THE National Bureau of Investigation is
consolidating evidence that will lead to the ling
of Writ of Kalikasan against illegal miners in
Bayog town in Zamboanga del Sura rst in the
peninsuladue to the magnitude of environmental
destruction they caused during their almost 30
years of elicit mining operation.
clams, shells, and the famous dangguit
and other isda sa bato species of sh.
Ramirez added that Bayog town mayor
and several barangay ofcials had already
submitted their sworn statements attesting
several alleged violations of the Mining Act
of 1995 and other environmental laws of the
country committed by the illegal miners.
The writ of kalikasan means a legal
remedy available to any natural or ju-
ridical person, entity authorized by law,
peoples organization, non-governmen-
tal organization, or any public interest
group accredited by or registered with
any government agency, on behalf of
persons whose constitutional right to
balanced and healthful ecology is vio-
lated, or threatened with violation by an
unlawful act or omission of public of-
cial or employee, or private individual
or entity, involving environmental dam-
age of such magnitude as to prejudice
the life, health or property of inhabitants
in two or more cities or provinces.
Meanwhile, Barangay Chairman
Romeo Sungcad of Barangay Depore,
one of the witnesses who submitted
their afdavits, said that his constituents
have suffered long enough from the en-
vironment destruction wrought by the
illegal mining operations.
We cant make use of the Dipili River
anymore because we know it is laced
with toxic chemicals like cyanide and
mercury, said Sungcad.
Sungcad also testied that since the
illegal mining operations, his rice pad-
dies have turned reddish, prompting
him to report the matter to the
Department of Department of Environ-
ment and Natural Resources.
Ernesto Mancao, a councilman of
the same village, likewise testied on
the massive siltation caused by illegal
mining by saying that during rains, the
waters that ow from Balabag are now
accompanied with mud causing damage
to their rice lands.
Four...
Mateo, 61 years old, a Democrat who was
originated in Baguio City and joined the Unit-
ed States Navy at the age of 19 worked as an
Aviation Machinist Mate for four years.
He is now the incumbent Vice Mayor of
the California State Assembly and is now
running for legislature district 12.
In 2008 he run for a seat in the City
Council and won.
One of my highest priorities would be
in the area of employment. Through inno-
vation, the Central Valley can be the next
Silicon Valley. If we integrate high-tech and
agriculture, we can increase food production
and employment at the same time, thereby
improving the economy and our standard of
living in the Valley, Mateo said.
Like Mateo, the 41-year-old Bonta
is the current Vice Mayor of the City of
Alameda and an Alameda Country Trans-
portation Commissioner.
Throughout his career in public ser-
vice, Bonta has distinguished himself as a
strong advocate for public school.
He has fought for public safety, to fos-
ter economic development, exercise scal
responsibility, and improve recreation op-
portunities for families.
Bonta recently worked with the Obama
administration to acquire nearly 1,000
acres of former Naval Base property at no
cost and which will now be used for sig-
nicant economic development and job
creation for residents of the East Bay.
He is the son of a proud native Filipino
mother and a father who taught him the
value of public service to his community.
Manabat, 27, is the youngest candidate
among the four Filipinos, a democrat who will
run for Honolulu, Hawaii, House District 40.
Manabat is the son of state Rep. Rida
Cabanilla, 59, who is running for re-elec-
tion to represent District 41 (Ewa Beach,
West Loch Estates). Her Republican op-
ponent is Adam Reeder, 36.
Thomas said that Filipinos must care about
the US election because there are four-million
Filipinos who are now residing in the US.
And due to the increasing population
of Filipinos in the U.S., Thomas admit-
ted that the Philippine inuence is grow-
ing, noting that even ballots in Nevada are
even available in the Pilipino language.
In Nevada there are over 100,000 Fil-
ipino-Americans registered voters.They
all vote. Imagine how they will inuence
the elections, he said.
Other indicators of this growing inu-
ence, he said, is the world boxing cham-
pion Manny Pacquiao campaigning for
a senatorial candidate in Nevada, and
the candidacies of at least four Filipino-
Americans in state legislatures.
US Embassy deputy public affairs ofcer
Cynthia Cook said that social media has be-
come a bigger and more inuential means to
campaign for the United States 2012 presi-
dential elections.
Cook said that Facebook, Twitter, and
even You Tube are powerful tool for can-
didates and parties to convey their message
not only in the US but around the world, to
raise money, and get people to vote for them.
Based on the Gallup poll, Cook said that
60 percent of those surveyed trust more their
friends who are connected to them through
these sites than the mass media.
People gather information on their
loyal followers and monitor what they say
on their comments, Cook said.
Twitters hashtags also allows aspirants
to brand themselves and their messages,
in this campaigh, Cook said, Republican
presidential candidate Governor Mitt
Romneys hashtags is #cantafford4more
while for President Barack Obama of the
democrats is #romnesiathese hashtags
serves to campaign and convey their mes-
sage to the public.
In YouTube, candidates can easily up-
load any personalized videos of their cam-
paign anytime and show to the world how
are they doing as a candidate.
The joy...
As far as Eco Waste is concerned, the
Bureau of Customs is largely to blame for
the uncontrolled importation and smug-
gling of toxic toys.
There is also a decient number of
regulators who will carry out market sur-
veillance and initiate legal action against
non-compliant toy traders, Dizon said.
Citing data from the US Center for Dis-
ease Prevention and Control, the EcoW-
aste Coalition said lead may be found in
the paint on toys, or as an additive to make
the plastic material soft and pliable, or as
an agent to stabilize molecules from heat.
Lead is a neurotoxin that is exceptionally
bad for young children and whose health ef-
fects are often permanent. Health scientists
have recognized that there is no safe thresh-
old for lead exposure, especially for children,
the EcoWaste Coalition said.
The watchdog group said that lead ex-
posure through ingestion, skin contact or
inhalation in the form of dust can cause
mental retardation, learning disabilities,
decreased intelligence quotient scores,
growth delays and behavioral problems
among children.
The EcoWaste Coalition also revealed
that other metals found in some of the toy
samples contained highly-toxic and harm-
ful chemicals like antimony, arsenic, bar-
ium, cadmium, chromium and mercury,
which are said to be harmful chemicals.
All the 150 samples provided zero in-
formation about their chemical ingredi-
ents, and not a single sample that tested
positive for toxic metals indicated that
they contained these harmful chemicals.
Given the test results, the EcoWaste Co-
alition has renewed its appeal to the toys
industry to strictly manufacture, import,
distribute and sell products that have been
fully tested for safety, contain no toxic
chemicals of concern and provide truthful
product information in keeping with the
consumers right to know.
An ocean of chemicals
Dr. Suzette Lazo, former director of the
Food and Drug Administration under
whose watch a relentless campaign against
toxic toys was launched in cooperation
with the EcoWaste Coalition, warned that
of all people children are the most vulner-
able if they are exposed to lead.
Its in the nature of kids to put everything
into their mouth. After having swallowed a
material laced with lead, for instance, the or-
gans are then impaired, Lazo said.
Pediatric toxicologist Dr. Bessie An-
tonio of the East Avenue Medical Center
had pointed out that children are most
susceptible to absorbing lead because of
their habitual hand-to-mouth practices as
they grow, explore and develop.
Children tend to put their hands and other
objects such as toys that may contain lead in
the paint or dust into their mouths resulting
in direct ingestion of poison. Their bodies
and vital organs are still developing, mak-
ing them more vulnerable to lead and other
chemical poisons, Antonio said.
It is the duty of everyone to protect the
most vulnerable segment in the market-
ing of toys the children who receive these
gifts. We must protect children from toxic-
toys, Lazo stressed.
Lazo said that the government has been
actively moving to regulate the prolifera-
tion of toxic toys.
But she said the reality andmagnitude of
checking and inspecting toy distribution in
markets throughout the archipelago is a
monumental task.
She said that total, full control of the
problem of toxic toys distribution inour con-
sumer markets must be done and relentlessly
attended to by all sectors ofsociety.
Government cannotdo it alone, Lazo
added.
We live in an ocean of chemicals today
so we have to be cautious of these things,
Lazo said.
The bills led in Congress to address the
problem of toxic and dangerous toys is a ma-
jor and signicant step that paves the way for
serious deliberation and study and ultimate-
ly providing concrete solutions in curbing
the toxic toy menace in the country, she said.
Curb and control
Several bills have been led before the
House of Representatives that seek to reg-
ulate the importation, manufacture, sale
and distribution of childrens toys, school
supplies, child care articles and related
products containing toxic chemicals.
Among these measures is House Bill
6552, or the proposed Safe and Non-toxic
Childrens Products Act of 2012, which
was approved on third and nal reading
last October 9.
The approved measure substituted
House Bill 321 authored by Tarlac Rep.
Susan Yap, House Bill 5961 and House
Resolution 1669 introduced by Davao
del Norte Rep. Anthony del Rosario and
Privilege Speech 323 of Rep. Cinchona
Cruz-Gonzales of Cibac party-list group.
The measure proposes to delineate the
roles played by the different implement-
ing agencies in ensuring the health and
safety of consumers relative to the use
of toy products.
The bill requires the Health depart-
ment to publish and update the list of
toxic chemicals and substances used in
the manufacture, sale and distribution of
covered products for the information of
the general public.
The bill mandates the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources to
regulate or prohibit the importation, sale
and handling or disposal of chemical sub-
stances mixtures under Republic Act No.
6969, Toxic Substances and Hazardous
and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990.
The Department of Finance, on the oth-
er hand, is responsible under the proposed
Act to monitor the entry of imported prod-
ucts as well as review and conduct exami-
nation of documentary requirements of
imported products pursuant to the guide-
lines of the Department.
The Department of Trade and Industry
is mandated to enforce policies and regulate
the importation, manufacture, distribution
and sale of educational kits or school sup-
plies, ensure that covered products comply
with the Philippine National Standards on
the Safety of Toys set by the Bureau of Prod-
uct Standards and monitor and conduct mar-
ket inspections on covered products.
HB 6552 imposes the penalty of impris-
onment of 10 years and a ne of P500,000
or both consistent.
The bill also proposes the creation of
a Childrens Product Safety Council , at-
tached to the DOH to engage in studies and
researches on harmful and toxic chemicals
and substances among other actions.
Safety labeling
Similarly, the House recently approved
on third and nal reading a proposed law
providing protection to children against
potential hazards to their health and safety
by setting standardized labeling require-
ments for certain toys and games.
House Assistant Minority Leader and
Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez
led lawmakers in pushing for the passage
of House Bill 6529 which provides for the
protection of children against harmful and
toxic chemicals and substances in toys and
other game equipments.
HB 6529, a consolidation of bills au-
thored respectively by Camarines Sur
Rep. Diosdado Macapagal-Arroyo, for-
mer president and Pampanga Rep. Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo, Leyte Rep. Lucy Ma-
rie Torres-Gomez, prescribes the printing
of cautionary statements and requires the
inclusion of graphics for the labeling of
certain toys or games.
The Romualdez bill acknowledges the
States obligation to secure the right of chil-
dren to proper care and special protection
from all forms of neglect and other condi-
tions prejudicial to their development.
The health of our children is always a
priority and should be a major concern
of everybody, especially from hazard-
ous toys. We need special safeguards to
nourish their physical and mental devel-
opment, Romualdez, also member of the
House Committee on Trade and Industry,
said in the bills explanatory note.
The measure requires that safety label-
ing of toy or game be applied to food items
which contain or whose packaging includes
a toy or descriptive material of a game.
It tasks the DOH to publish every
six months the list of all mis-branded or
banned hazardous substances the sale, of-
fer for sale and distribution of which shall
not be allowed subject to the requirements
of this act.
Under the measure to be known as the
Toy and Game Safety Labeling Act of 2011,
packaging of any descriptive material, and in
case of bulk sales, bins, containers for retail
display or vending machines from which
the unpacked toy or game is dispensed,
shall bear the cautionary statements with
corresponding graphics intended for the
use of children below 14 years old includes
a small part and is manufactured for sale,
offered for sale or distributed in commerce
in the Philippines.
The bill authorizes the DTI and the
DOH to include in their respective annual
budgets the amount necessary for the ef-
fective implementation of this act.
Penalties range from P10,000 to P50,000
and imprisonment of two years or both.
Casino, chairman of the House Com-
mittee on Small Business and Entrepre-
neurship Development, agreed to the in-
tent of Romualdez bill on labeling.
But Casino said that proper enforce-
ment of any law is needed to make the
measure effective.
Adequate labeling can be a good step,
but just like the existing laws, what mat-
ters more is the implementation. We need
to have our government agencies working,
and really working hard, to protect our
children and consumers, Casino told the
Manila Standard.
Endorsed. Former president Joseph Estrada raises the hand of former
Congressman Chuck Mathay, who is gunning for Quezon Citys 2nd
congressional district seat under the Partido ng Masang Pilipino. Mathay is a
son of former QC Mayor Ismael Mathay Jr.
Denuded forest and soil erosion are among the visible effects of illegal mining in Zamboanga del Sur.
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Date: July 16, 2012
Name of the Organization: Confederation of Filipino
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Moros embark on PR blitz
Manila archbishop laments practical atheism
You are my father. Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle, newly designated cardinal of the Catholic Church, kisses the hand of his father
Manuel and mother Milagros during the launching of the Year of Faith in a Mass at the San Fernando de Dilao Parish Church in Paco, Manila
on Saturday. The launching also served as a welcome home rite for archbishop who returned from Rome on Thursday. DANNY PATA
Asia-Europe summit set Nov. 5
FRESH from the Vatican where
he was named cardinal last
Oct. 24, Manila Archbishop
Luis Antonio Tagle lamented
practical atheism as one
of the major obstacles to
evangelization.
The archbishop, who will
be incardinated at a consistory
in Rome on Nov. 24, mourned
the belief and practise of some
Catholics who claim they believe
in God, but act like they do not
believe in a Supreme Being.
There is atheism where they
openly say that they dont believe
in God and there are also those
who claim that they are faithful
but live as if God doesnt exist,
Tagle said during his homily in
a Mass he celebrated at teh San
Fernando de Dilao parish church
in Paco, Manila.
During Sundays, we profess
our faith to God. But starting
Monday, cheating happens
because of money we take
advantage of other people for
our own interests, he said.
The Mass was also celebrated
to launch the Year of Faith form
Oct. 11 until Nov. 24 next year
as declared by Pope Benedict
XVI.
Tagle, who just arrived in
Manila on Thursday after almost
a month in Rome for the Synod
of Bishops, said that the occasion
seeks to bring the faithful back
to the fundamental tenet of the
Christian faith.
The Year of Faith is for all of
us. Like what a theologian said,
there is an unbeliever in every
believer, the archbishop said.
We are all invited to renew our
faith. We shouldnt be ashamed
of knowing God. Lets show it
because we are called to share
his message with everyone, he
added.
In his pastoral letter, Tagle
said that the Year of Faith is
an invi tation for Catholics to
study again the Second Vatican
Council and the Catechism of
the Catholic Church that is its
fruit in order to rediscover the
vitality of the faith we have
inherited.
Aside from celebrating
Vatican II and the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, the
Year of Faith invites us to look
closely at the contemporary
world, its beauty and wounds,
he added.
The continuity of the Church
through ages allows various
forms of renewal. The Church
receives, celebrates and lives
the faith in different historical
settings with their unique
demands and challenges, Tagle
also said.
Benedict XVI has recently
named Tagle along with ve
others from Lebanon, Nigeria,
Colombia, India and the United
States as new cardinals.
By Florante S. Solmerin
THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front has
embarked on a public relations blitz in
various parts of Mindanao to explain the
Framework Agreement it signed with
the government last Oct. 15 and stave
off criticism of division among Muslim
factions.
Mohammad Muntassir, head
of the MILFs Department
of Dawah (preaching), the
rebel group has formed at
least six teams and tasked
them to undertake a massive
information drive in the areas
of Sulu-Tawi-Tawi-Basilan,
Zamboanga peninsula, Lanao,
Davao, Maguindanao-Cotabato,
and South Cotabato, according
to a statement posted in the
MILFs website Luwaran.com.
Muntassir said each team will
be accompanied by a member
of the MILF Central Committee
who will serve as leader in the
discussions.
The same statement announced
that some 600 MILF political
and military leaders, including
some MNLF foreign-trained
commanders attended the one-
day seminar in Darapanan,
Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao
last Oct. 31.
The MILF issued the statement
after its rival organization, the
Moro National Liberation Front,
revealed that at least four key
MILF commanders have defected
to the MNLF because they felt
that the agreement a deception by
the government and a conspiracy
with the Americans to attain their
secret objective in Mindanao.
MNLF political director
Gapul Hadjirul identied the
four commanders as Samer
Samsudin Lungkatay, Samer
Salamat, Abdulwahid Jainalan
and a certain Saidale.
He betrayed his supporters
when he conspired with the
Malaysians in entering into a
Framework Agreement that is a
deception by the government and
a conspiracy with the Americans
to attain their secret objective in
Mindanao, Hadjirul said on
Oct. 27.
Handjirul also claimed that
MILF Chairman Ebrahim
Murad purportedly offered to
pay the leaders of the defection
P5 million each to stay with
the MILF and stop obstructing
the implementation of the
Framework Agreement.
But Murad and other MILF
leaders denied both claims and
claimed Hadjirul and the MILF
were lying threough their teeth.
The MNLF later revealed that
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Najib Tun Razak had offered
about P27 billion to the MILF for
the right to search for oil at the
Liguasan Marsh in Mindanao.
The MILF did not conrm nor
deny that they received the money,
but Murad asked the government
to suspend the awarding of any
service contract in the Liguasan
Marsh.
The Liguasan Marsh is around
200,000 hectares of dry and wet
basins bounded by the Mindanao
River in south-central Mindanao,
North Cotabato and South Cotabato
provinces. It is reported to be rich in
oil and gas deposits, and is home to
112,000 Maguindanaon families
whose primary means of livelihood
is shing.
The area is a vast complex of
river channels, small freshwater
lakes and ponds, extensive
marches and arable land subject
to seasonal ooding in the basin
of the Mindanao River.
Most of the area is under water
during periods of heavy rainfall,
but some 140,000 hectares dry
out during the dry periods and
are cultivated.
By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan
FOR the rst time in his presidency, President
Aquino will leave Sunday afternoon for
Vientiane, Laos to attend the 9th Asia-Europe
Meeting (ASEM) from Nov. 5 to 6.
Deputy Presidential Spokeswoman Abigail
Valte said the meeting will be an opportunity
for Mr. Aquino to interact with European
countries and discuss Philippine economic
progress and promote the countrys investment
opportunities.
This is an opportunity really for us to
dialogue with them on so many issues. It is
[also] a chance for the President to inform
other heads of states of our countrys progress
and what we can offer them so that they will
be enticed to seriously take another look at the
Philippines, Valte said.
She said that the makeup of the delegation
in the ASEM is very diverse, noting that
even the European countries are very well-
represented.
If you look at the delegation, it is very rare
to have this kind of composition when it comes
to a particular summit, she said, adding that
the President will leave the country at 1 p.m
via Philippine Airlines ight PR001.
The members of his entourage are Foreign
Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario,
Ambassador to Laos Maria Lumen Isleta,
Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, Trade and
Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo, outgoing
Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras;
Presidential Communications Operations
Ofce Secretary Sonny Coloma and National
Economic Development Authority Director
General Arsenio Balisacan.
The total number of delegates traveling
with the President is 61. We are still waiting
for imformation from the Executive Secretary
as to the actual expenses that will be incurred
for this trip, Valte said.
Mr. Aquino is expected to arrive in Lao by
4:10 p.m. (Manila time) of Sunday.
Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Buensuceso
of the DFA Ofce of European Affairs said Mr.
Aquinos attendance signals the Philippines
renewed focus on Europe and reafrms the
importance of the region as an economic and
political partner.
The President will seize the opportunity
provided by ASEM to engage relevant
European partners in order to rm up support
for the development of Mindanao.
At the summit, President Aquino will
exchange views with counterparts from the
two regions on the Eurozone crisis, trade
and investment facilitation, energy and food
security, disaster management, counter-
terrorism, migration, and regional issues,
among others.
By Maricel V. Cruz
A RANKING administration lawmaker has
proposed that the Internal Affairs Service of
Philippine National Police be placed under
the Ofce of the President to rid the police of
scalawags and mists who are being protected
by the crony system prevalent within the
police organization.
House Assistant Majority Leader and
Davao City Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles
made the proposal as he expressed alarm
over the rising incidence of police ofcers
involved or even discovered as leaders of
criminal syndicates and groups prying on
helpless civilians.
Imagine what will become of the PNP
roster when incoming ofcers make it through
cheating? Scalawags could become the rule
rather than the exception. We have to act
fast before all of our policemen are infected
by the virus of corruption and abuse. We
have to toughen our campaign against rogue
policemen, Nograles said.
Nograles, also a member of the House
Committee on Public Order and Safety,
lamented that the PNPs Internal Affairs
Service and even the National Police
Commission has been largely ineffective in
the campaign to cleane up the police force
because of the culture of brotherhood among
policemen.
Honestly, I cant fault them for this culture
of brotherhood because you really cannot
remove this bond especially because they
went through the same hardships during
training. Right or wrong, they tend to protect
each other lest they want to be ostracized,
he said.
The only way to remove the possibility
of collusion and cover-up among our
policemen is to detach the IAS from the
PNPs chain-of-command and make them
directly answerable only to the president
as part of the campaign to ght graft and
corruption, he added.
Revamp of police probers urged
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A photo contest, dubbed
Photo-Guro-Phy, was launched
in early October asking employ-
ees to take pictures that depict
the struggles that teachers and
pupils go through in schools
located in isolated barangays all
over the country.
Through the photo title and
caption, their stories represent
the hundreds of schools in the
country that have fallen in the
cracks of the educational sys-
tem, highlighting the need for
additional assistance from com-
panies and private individuals.
One entry talks about Teacher
Madelyn of Punta Cogon El-
ementary School in Capiz City.
She teaches kindergarten pupils
in a makeshift classroom made
of bamboos with the sand for a
classroom oor, making them
all vulnerable even to just the
slightest of rains or the scorch-
ing heat of the sun.
Another story was about the
three classrooms of Caroyroyan
Elementary School in Pili, Ca-
marines Sur burned by arsonists
in 2008. Teacher Zeny literally
took the schools stage, and to
this day, still holds classes there.
A teacher of Iram II elemen-
tary School in Sitio Mampweng,
Old Cabalan, Olongapo City,
lectures to a class coming from
different grade levels under a
nipa hut, one of the schools two
classrooms. With inadequate
facilities, the older students
make way for their younger
schoolmates in using the chairs
and tables.
Located about 2,500 feet
above sea level is Barangay
Buscalan of Tinglayan, Ka-
l i ngahome t o Kal i ngas
Butbut tribe and the Buscalan
Elementary School. A very
remote area, teachers have to
walk kilometers of mountain-
ous t rai l s everyday j ust t o
reach the community.
IN 2008, believing that early detection is a major
step in the ght against breast cancer, and with
October designated as Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, The Peninsula Manila embarked on a
month-long pink-themed promotion at its restau-
rants where a percentage of the sales beneted local
breast cancer organizations.
For the fth year running this October, the hotel
continued with its pink-themed promotions but
with an added twist. In support of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, from Oct. 1 to 31, the grand
fountain at the front of the hotel became a shining
pink landmark at the junction of Ayala and Makati
Avenues when its 34 feet curved water-cascading
steps was illuminated in pink light every night
starting at 6 p.m.
On the same evening, a fundraising-auction
cocktail party was held at the Art Deco-inspired
bar-lounge Salon de Ning to raise funds for the
Philippine Foundation for Breast Care, Inc. Bids
were accepted for an overnight stay at The Penin-
sula Suite, a Methuselah or six-liter bottle of Met
HELPING
SCHOOLS
By Elaine Ruzul R. Alanguilan
SMART Communications Inc. has
involved its employees in a spe-
cial project to provide assistance
to schools and teachers in far-flung
communities as part of the recent-
ly concluded National Teachers
Month celebration.
THROUGH
PHOTOS
More than just the difcul-
ties that the teachers go through
every day in the course of their
noble profession, the pictures
also underscore the enthusiasm
of the school children to learn
despite the many inconveniences
they had to contend with.
The beneficiary schools of
the four best photos will each
receive a P10,000 grant from
Smart. A special story-telling
session will also be conducted
for the pupils of the school that
get the most support.
Following the photo contest,
Smart employees can campaign
for additional funds and sup-
port from their families and
friends through social media
tools like Facebook. Donations
can be made via a Smart Money
account assigned to the select
beneficiaries.
Smart has chosen education
as one of its key pillars for cor-
porate social responsibility and
has been implementing special-
ized programs with the overall
goal of improving the quality of
basic education in the country
from elementary, high school
to college.
Smart hopes to complement
the Department of Educations
goal of providing education
for all, taking from the United
Nations target of meeting the
learning needs of all children,
youth and adults by 2015.
MARIA Cr uzs exhibition of
new paintings the motif are
simply straight lines, spheres,
colors and text. They appear to
be elaborations and fragments
of patterns, revitalizing shapes
through repeated layering of
different colors and shapes
reminiscent of masks, fabric,
and other decorative ornaments
and artifacts. The artisr com-
bines them with text, disclosing a view of painting as an activity,
juxtaposing such activity with other forms of activity. They are
architectonic, somehow giving the impression that the paintings
belong to an invisible building, a small dwelling, a store, jeepneys,
tricycles and buses in Manila.
Maria Cruzs art practice goes beyond traditional painting
approaches. Incorporating installations and constructions, she is
interested in the abstraction of text as forms, in the possibility
of impressions and meanings derived from combining loud
colors, and in representing the process of making paintings.
She has two ongoing proj-
ects-- archiving (through
painting) the titles of Yoko
Onos musical composition,
which started 1998, and paint-
ing One Million (1,000,000)
spheres, which began in 2005.
Cruz was born in the Phil-
ippines, studied Fine arts in
Manila, Sydney, and Dsseldorf
from the early to late 80s. She
was a lecturer in Contemporary Arts at Canberra Institute of the
Arts, Sydney College of the Arts until 2000 and a senior lecturer
at University of Western Sydney until 2008.
A recipient of various arts awards, prizes, grants from the
Arts Council of Australia, and international artist residencies, she
currently live and work as an artist in Berlin. Her works are in
collections in Australia, the Philippines and in Europe. Painting
Rituals, Ritual Paintings by Maria Cruz will be on exhibit at the
Galleria Duemila from Nov. 10 to Dec. 1. Opening reception
will be on Nov. 10, Saturday at 4 p.m.
Beyond traditional painting approaches
RAISES OVER P3M FOR CHILDREN
Unicef's online auction
UNICEF Philippines through its online
fundraising event Auction for Action held
from Oct. 1 to 7, raised over P3 million
to help the poorest and most vulnerable
children in the Philippines.
The annual online auction is a collaboration between Unicef
and Daphne Osena-Paez, Unicef Special Advocate for Children,
to bring the worlds of art, furniture and design together with ad-
vocacy to protect and promote the rights of children.
This years auction had twice as many items as the rst year,
held in May 2011. More than 70 Filipino artists and designers
brought together by Daphne donated paintings, sculpture, furni-
ture and jewellery items including famous names such as Ramon
Or lina, Juvenal Sanso, Kenneth Cobonpue, Manuel Baldemor ,
Amina Ar anaz, KawayanTech and Plet Bolipata.
Well-known pieces such as Fly Up from artist Michael Cac-
nios balloon series got the highest bid at P215,000 while Elmer
Bor longans pastel on paper painting Convoy fetched over
P90,000 from a starting bid price of P21,000. J ovan Benitos
Solo Concierto oil on canvas was the most hotly contested
item, with a total of 64 bids from eBay buyers.
My heart is overowing with gratitude for all the friends,
artists and supporters who participated in our auction. In order
to maximize funds going to children, we didnt have a big, live
event this year but instead worked through online promotion
and harnessing the power of social media. Filipino art lovers
and netizens amazed me with their willingness to participate and
generate much needed funds for disadvantaged children in the
Philippines, said Daphne.
Bidders from all over the Philippines, the US and Singapore joined
the auction through eBay Philippines.
Angela Tr avis, Unicef Communication and Fundraising chief
added, Unicef Auction for Action provides artists and buyers an
opportunity to come together and help children at the same time.
Everyone who participated in our auction can be assured that through
Unicef, all the proceeds will go to education, health and nutrition,
protection and emergency programs for children who need it the
most. Thank you again to everyone who helped make our 2
nd
online
auction a success!
The pinkest party of the season
& Chandon, jewelry from Jul Dizon and a P 10,000 gift
card from Itsie Bitsie Boutique.
The partys pink theme extended throughout the hotel,
where guests commented on the lovely pink owers and
candles scattered all over The Lobby and restaurants, as
well as the specially-designed ribbons worn by the hotel
staff, while sipping free-owing Met & Chandon Ros
Champagne, nibbling on signature pink-themed canaps
and listening to live music and entertainment.
From left: The Peninsula Manila general manager Sonja Vo-
dusek, The Philippine Foundation for Breast Care Inc. President
Maria Lourdes Cortez, Hayden Kho, Jr. and his Peninsula Suite
prize and host Tim Yap
Avon Philippines president, Kanwar Bhu-
tani, Lisa Biddle and Paula Mckeown
From left: Mario Katigbak, The Peninsula Manila
Director of Events Stephanie Chong, Vicky Zubiri,
Grace Ang and Felix Ang
Rochelle modelling Jul B
Guests enjoyed Met & Chandon Ros Champagne and
signature pink-themed canaps
Fly Up by Michael Cacnio
Convoy by Elmer Borlongan
Solo Concierto by Jovan Benito
Wouldnt it be more fun listening to the teachers lessons if all the students have their own chairs?
Imagine what a good pair of shoes could do to make the teachers daily upward trek easier Teacher Madelyn teaches in a classroom with sand as ooring
Movable blackboards and other teaching materials would make Teacher Zeny more effective to her pupils
Pintor Tubero
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TV host Daphne Osena-Paez
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ARTS & LIFE
ManilaStandardTODAY
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
A photo contest, dubbed
Photo-Guro-Phy, was launched
in early October asking employ-
ees to take pictures that depict
the struggles that teachers and
pupils go through in schools
located in isolated barangays all
over the country.
Through the photo title and
caption, their stories represent
the hundreds of schools in the
country that have fallen in the
cracks of the educational sys-
tem, highlighting the need for
additional assistance from com-
panies and private individuals.
One entry talks about Teacher
Madelyn of Punta Cogon El-
ementary School in Capiz City.
She teaches kindergarten pupils
in a makeshift classroom made
of bamboos with the sand for a
classroom oor, making them
all vulnerable even to just the
slightest of rains or the scorch-
ing heat of the sun.
Another story was about the
three classrooms of Caroyroyan
Elementary School in Pili, Ca-
marines Sur burned by arsonists
in 2008. Teacher Zeny literally
took the schools stage, and to
this day, still holds classes there.
A teacher of Iram II elemen-
tary School in Sitio Mampweng,
Old Cabalan, Olongapo City,
lectures to a class coming from
different grade levels under a
nipa hut, one of the schools two
classrooms. With inadequate
facilities, the older students
make way for their younger
schoolmates in using the chairs
and tables.
Located about 2,500 feet
above sea level is Barangay
Buscalan of Tinglayan, Ka-
l i ngahome t o Kal i ngas
Butbut tribe and the Buscalan
Elementary School. A very
remote area, teachers have to
walk kilometers of mountain-
ous t rai l s everyday j ust t o
reach the community.
IN 2008, believing that early detection is a major
step in the ght against breast cancer, and with
October designated as Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, The Peninsula Manila embarked on a
month-long pink-themed promotion at its restau-
rants where a percentage of the sales beneted local
breast cancer organizations.
For the fth year running this October, the hotel
continued with its pink-themed promotions but
with an added twist. In support of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, from Oct. 1 to 31, the grand
fountain at the front of the hotel became a shining
pink landmark at the junction of Ayala and Makati
Avenues when its 34 feet curved water-cascading
steps was illuminated in pink light every night
starting at 6 p.m.
On the same evening, a fundraising-auction
cocktail party was held at the Art Deco-inspired
bar-lounge Salon de Ning to raise funds for the
Philippine Foundation for Breast Care, Inc. Bids
were accepted for an overnight stay at The Penin-
sula Suite, a Methuselah or six-liter bottle of Met
HELPING
SCHOOLS
By Elaine Ruzul R. Alanguilan
SMART Communications Inc. has
involved its employees in a spe-
cial project to provide assistance
to schools and teachers in far-flung
communities as part of the recent-
ly concluded National Teachers
Month celebration.
THROUGH
PHOTOS
More than just the difcul-
ties that the teachers go through
every day in the course of their
noble profession, the pictures
also underscore the enthusiasm
of the school children to learn
despite the many inconveniences
they had to contend with.
The beneficiary schools of
the four best photos will each
receive a P10,000 grant from
Smart. A special story-telling
session will also be conducted
for the pupils of the school that
get the most support.
Following the photo contest,
Smart employees can campaign
for additional funds and sup-
port from their families and
friends through social media
tools like Facebook. Donations
can be made via a Smart Money
account assigned to the select
beneficiaries.
Smart has chosen education
as one of its key pillars for cor-
porate social responsibility and
has been implementing special-
ized programs with the overall
goal of improving the quality of
basic education in the country
from elementary, high school
to college.
Smart hopes to complement
the Department of Educations
goal of providing education
for all, taking from the United
Nations target of meeting the
learning needs of all children,
youth and adults by 2015.
MARIA Cr uzs exhibition of
new paintings the motif are
simply straight lines, spheres,
colors and text. They appear to
be elaborations and fragments
of patterns, revitalizing shapes
through repeated layering of
different colors and shapes
reminiscent of masks, fabric,
and other decorative ornaments
and artifacts. The artisr com-
bines them with text, disclosing a view of painting as an activity,
juxtaposing such activity with other forms of activity. They are
architectonic, somehow giving the impression that the paintings
belong to an invisible building, a small dwelling, a store, jeepneys,
tricycles and buses in Manila.
Maria Cruzs art practice goes beyond traditional painting
approaches. Incorporating installations and constructions, she is
interested in the abstraction of text as forms, in the possibility
of impressions and meanings derived from combining loud
colors, and in representing the process of making paintings.
She has two ongoing proj-
ects-- archiving (through
painting) the titles of Yoko
Onos musical composition,
which started 1998, and paint-
ing One Million (1,000,000)
spheres, which began in 2005.
Cruz was born in the Phil-
ippines, studied Fine arts in
Manila, Sydney, and Dsseldorf
from the early to late 80s. She
was a lecturer in Contemporary Arts at Canberra Institute of the
Arts, Sydney College of the Arts until 2000 and a senior lecturer
at University of Western Sydney until 2008.
A recipient of various arts awards, prizes, grants from the
Arts Council of Australia, and international artist residencies, she
currently live and work as an artist in Berlin. Her works are in
collections in Australia, the Philippines and in Europe. Painting
Rituals, Ritual Paintings by Maria Cruz will be on exhibit at the
Galleria Duemila from Nov. 10 to Dec. 1. Opening reception
will be on Nov. 10, Saturday at 4 p.m.
Beyond traditional painting approaches
RAISES OVER P3M FOR CHILDREN
Unicef's online auction
UNICEF Philippines through its online
fundraising event Auction for Action held
from Oct. 1 to 7, raised over P3 million
to help the poorest and most vulnerable
children in the Philippines.
The annual online auction is a collaboration between Unicef
and Daphne Osena-Paez, Unicef Special Advocate for Children,
to bring the worlds of art, furniture and design together with ad-
vocacy to protect and promote the rights of children.
This years auction had twice as many items as the rst year,
held in May 2011. More than 70 Filipino artists and designers
brought together by Daphne donated paintings, sculpture, furni-
ture and jewellery items including famous names such as Ramon
Or lina, Juvenal Sanso, Kenneth Cobonpue, Manuel Baldemor ,
Amina Ar anaz, KawayanTech and Plet Bolipata.
Well-known pieces such as Fly Up from artist Michael Cac-
nios balloon series got the highest bid at P215,000 while Elmer
Bor longans pastel on paper painting Convoy fetched over
P90,000 from a starting bid price of P21,000. J ovan Benitos
Solo Concierto oil on canvas was the most hotly contested
item, with a total of 64 bids from eBay buyers.
My heart is overowing with gratitude for all the friends,
artists and supporters who participated in our auction. In order
to maximize funds going to children, we didnt have a big, live
event this year but instead worked through online promotion
and harnessing the power of social media. Filipino art lovers
and netizens amazed me with their willingness to participate and
generate much needed funds for disadvantaged children in the
Philippines, said Daphne.
Bidders from all over the Philippines, the US and Singapore joined
the auction through eBay Philippines.
Angela Tr avis, Unicef Communication and Fundraising chief
added, Unicef Auction for Action provides artists and buyers an
opportunity to come together and help children at the same time.
Everyone who participated in our auction can be assured that through
Unicef, all the proceeds will go to education, health and nutrition,
protection and emergency programs for children who need it the
most. Thank you again to everyone who helped make our 2
nd
online
auction a success!
The pinkest party of the season
& Chandon, jewelry from Jul Dizon and a P 10,000 gift
card from Itsie Bitsie Boutique.
The partys pink theme extended throughout the hotel,
where guests commented on the lovely pink owers and
candles scattered all over The Lobby and restaurants, as
well as the specially-designed ribbons worn by the hotel
staff, while sipping free-owing Met & Chandon Ros
Champagne, nibbling on signature pink-themed canaps
and listening to live music and entertainment.
From left: The Peninsula Manila general manager Sonja Vo-
dusek, The Philippine Foundation for Breast Care Inc. President
Maria Lourdes Cortez, Hayden Kho, Jr. and his Peninsula Suite
prize and host Tim Yap
Avon Philippines president, Kanwar Bhu-
tani, Lisa Biddle and Paula Mckeown
From left: Mario Katigbak, The Peninsula Manila
Director of Events Stephanie Chong, Vicky Zubiri,
Grace Ang and Felix Ang
Rochelle modelling Jul B
Guests enjoyed Met & Chandon Ros Champagne and
signature pink-themed canaps
Fly Up by Michael Cacnio
Convoy by Elmer Borlongan
Solo Concierto by Jovan Benito
Wouldnt it be more fun listening to the teachers lessons if all the students have their own chairs?
Imagine what a good pair of shoes could do to make the teachers daily upward trek easier Teacher Madelyn teaches in a classroom with sand as ooring
Movable blackboards and other teaching materials would make Teacher Zeny more effective to her pupils
Pintor Tubero
Snoop (X) Untitled
TV host Daphne Osena-Paez
The steps was illuminated in pink every night of October
Donna (O)
By Colin Read
EVEN as global nancial turmoil induces
some to advocate for freer markets, the
heavier hand of Keynesian macroeconom-
ic policy is also experiencing a resurgence.
Yet John Maynard Keynes was far more
than the Ivory Tower academic economist
we think we know. He was, above all, a
practitioner and student of high nance.
Investment and nance were his vocation,
and political economics was his avocation.
Keynes came from a line of academics.
His father was a renowned philosopher
and senior administrator at Cambridge
University. Keynes was academically
precocious. As an undergraduate, he was
captivated by mathematical theory, and
especially probability theory.
After graduation, he served two years as
a lowly clerk to the Crown, stationed in In-
dia. This otherwise unfullling experience
gave Keynes the time to contemplate both
the meaning of probability and the waning
political and economic inuence of Great
Britain. He began to write articles on in-
ternational economics that demonstrated
his clear thinking. He also caught the eye
of the U.K. Treasury, and soon rose to the
highest echelon of international nance.
Self-investing
Keynes eventually realized that his
worldview was incompatible with politi-
cal pragmatism, and he forged an alterna-
tive career. He had frequented the highest
levels of Britains government, arts and
society. He also had been dabbling in -
nance as an extension of his experiences at
the Treasury and as a way to invest some
of his own savings and borrowings.
Keynes began to advise an exclusive
clientele, and became known for the qual-
ity of his investment advice. He quickly
became the nancial adviser to a veritable
whos who of Britains intelligentsia.
Keynes rst ourished by investing in
bonds and foreign exchange. His interest
was sparked when he amassed a small
fortune for the Treasury during World War
I. In his responsibility for securing for-
eign exchange to purchase war supplies,
Keynes accumulated, and then rapidly
sold, Spanish pesetas that resulted in a
large drop in the sterling/peseta exchange
rate and a large prot for the Treasury.
He held a dim view of the stock mar-
ket, which he likened to casino gambling
or a beauty contest. Keynes argued that
investors dont trade on an assets funda-
mental value, but rather in anticipation of
the strategies of other investors. In turn,
investors watch their colleagues, also with
little regard for the fundamental underly-
ing value of the security. Asset valuation
is obscured as traders strategize over their
assessments based more on animal spirits
than on reason.
Instead, Keynes devoted his investment
energies to bond marketswhere traders
sought competitive and regular xed- in-
come owsto the construction of hedges
to reduce risk, and to the foreign-exchange
markets where relative economic progress
and terms of trade between nations dictate
equilibrium. He believed that the more ra-
tional and seasoned investors operated in
these markets.
When Cambridge University needed a
trust manager, it called on Keynes. Over
two decades of management of the uni-
versitys Chest Fund, he garnered a spec-
tacular 400 percent return, even though
the stock market was little changed in that
period. Keynes succeeded because of his
long-held interest in market psychology,
which dated to his 1921 book, A Treatise
on Probability.
Valuation theory
He observed that probability assessments
by humans differ from the calculable risks in
nature and science. He believed our personal
probabilities are what we think they are,
not those predetermined by unseen natural
forces. Similarly, to Keynes, and to propo-
nents of personal probabilities, the value
of a stock is what a group of sometimes
irrational speculators is willing to pay for
it. Kenneth Arrow went on to enshrine
this valuation theory in his revolutionary
model of security prices.
A contemporary of Keynes, the investor
Bernard Baruch, is reputed to have quipped
that if economists are so smart, why arent
they rich? When Keynes died, his net
worth, mostly from his investments, was
about $30 million in todays dollars.
Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman
of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., modeled his
value investing after Keyness invest-
ment strategy, and once said the econo-
mists brilliance as a practicing investor
matched his brilliance in thought. When
Keynes died, the Financial Times reported:
Some surprise has been expressed about
the large fortune left by Lord Keynes, yet
he was one of the few economists with the
practical ability to make money.
Keynes remains an enigma. Viewed as a
theorist, and one who made a career chal-
lenging conventional theory, he earned
a living on Londons equivalent of Wall
Street while he eschewed the emerging
academic concepts of the efcient-market
hypothesis and the market-disciplining ef-
fect of arbitrage.
He observed, Markets can remain irra-
tional far longer than you or I can remain
solvent. He viewed markets as often ir-
rational, especially during nancial crises.
While politicians debate the appropriate-
ness of Keynesian macroeconomic policy,
we may learn more from his insights on
the animal spirits that sometimes rule mar-
kets, especially in times such as ours.
Bloomberg
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THERE are many lessons that could be
derived from Superstorm Sandy that
battered parts of the East Coast of the
most powerful country in the world,
many Caribbean nations, as well as
Cuba a few days ago. It is important
to highlight the latter because most of
the media attention around the super-
storm was focused on New York and
New Jersey alone. In fact, many people
thought Sandy only devastated parts of
the United States.
The tragic fact is that Superstorm
Sandy wrought more havoc on the
poorer countries of the Caribbean such
as Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic
and of course, Cuba. There is something
that can be said about how pictures of
shanties swept away by strong winds
and people burying their dead with
their bare hands are heart-tugging but
not anymore as cinematic as pictures of
subways being ooded
by water and hundreds
of cars submerged in
oods. So the rst les-
son is that everyone
rich and poor alike
are all puny to Mother
Natures wrath, but the
poorer countries not
only get the brunt of
the fury but the least at-
tention as well. I really
hope that now that the
United States is already
rising from the tragedy,
attention can also be focused on the dif-
culties in Haiti, Cuba, and the other
countries that were also hit very badly.
Not that I blame traditional media
for its hysterical coverage of the su-
perstorm as it cut a swathe across the
United States East Coast. This was the
strongest storm to hit many parts of the
US in a long while. More importantly,
it seemed many Americans didnt think
the worst could happen to them. Those
of us who were tuned in to CNN as the
storm hit land couldnt help but worry
over the fate of kith and kin that hap-
pened to reside in the states of New
York and New Jersey. Things looked
really bad and they probably were in
some places.
But trust Filipinos to dismiss a ca-
lamity as just another one of those
things that he needs to overcome. A
friend who resides in New York wrote
to tell me that the storm wasnt really
that scary for him; he said that it was
just like the ordinary storms that he
experienced growing up in the Philip-
pines. A relative who lives in New
Jersey narrated how they took the op-
portunity to reminisce Typhoon Sur-
vival 101Philippine Style, includ-
ing securing loose outdoor furniture
xture with ropes, laying down potted
plans so that they dont get destroyed
by strong winds, and yes, preparing
champorado and tuyo for meals. A
friend and his wife who were on a
business trip in New York immedi-
ately resumed their sightseeing tour
the day after the storm and posted pic-
tures of themselves posing at Times
Square. There are distinct advantages
to being a Filipino and being on rst-
name basis with typhoons, after all.
Still, there were many things that we
witnessed that I wished we could practice
in the Philippines. Given how our coun-
try is visited by at least 20 typhoons ev-
ery year, there really is no reason why we
havent been able to reduce our state of
preparation to a science. As Superstorm
Sandy approached the states of NY and
NJ, the presence of National Guards and
rescue teams became very visible in the
streets. Although there were people who
still got stranded in their homes, most
were successfully evacuated prior to the
arrival of the storm. And although elec-
tricity still had to be restored in many
places until last Friday, federal and state
authorities were clearly working triple
time to deliver services to its citizens and
restore everything to normal at the soon-
est possible time. I was
particularly inspired by
the way government
was immediately able
to put up telephone
helplines for people to
call for specic help
and services. Util-
ity providers were also
able to put up a map
and a schedule that
detailed how the resto-
ration work was going
to be implemented and
how and when services will reach specic
districts, buildings, and subscribers. The
organization was truly awesome.
Obviously one of the most urgent
concerns for people would be com-
munication. This is something that
we should really consider in this coun-
try after a calamity when electricity is
downputting up charging stations in
many public areas where people can
charge cellular phones and laptops. It
was amazing how local authorities in
the United States immediately put up
charging stations in many street corners
powered by generators.
The President of the United States
was also very visible during the storm
and immediately after. Of course it
can be argued that Barack Obama
needed the media mileage to prop up
his reelection bid, but he didnt really
have to go all out to reach out to as
many people as he could. There was
also the real possibility that NJ Gov-
ernor Chris Christie who is a staunch
Republican would yield to party pres-
sure to use the tragedy to diss Obama
as the country also prepared for a
midterm election in a few days. But
Christie trumped party lines and gave
Obama credit for his leadership dur-
ing the crisis. In so doing, he became
a bigger political giant whose nomi-
nation for President in 2016 just be-
came almost certain.
BONG C.
AUSTERO
ARE WE THERE YET?
REMEMBERING the dead is sup-
posed to be a somber exercise.
The All Saints Day and All
Souls Day holidays enable Fili-
pinos to take a break from the fre-
netic pace they observe the rest of
the year to visit the graves of loved
ones who have gone ahead of them.
Over the decades, Filipinos
have perfected the art of turning
this occasion into a festive gath-
ering of family and friends. In-
stead of mourning, family mem-
bers celebrate the lives of their
departed and fondly recall their
time with them. An abundance
of food and drinkssometimes,
loud merrymakingaccompa-
nies the yearly reunion.
Media coverage of the early No-
vember holidays always includes
crowds in bus terminals, airports
and piers, heavy trafc on the ex-
pressways, the number of visitors
peaking on November 1, and inci-
dents involving these visitors.
Increasingly, however, men-
tion of the pile of garbage left at
the cemeteries and the shameless
posturing of politicians has found
its way into the news.
Measures to educate cemetery-
goers to dispose of their trash
properly, if there were any at-
tempts to begin with, proved in-
effective as food waste and other
containers were strewn around
cemetery roads with little regard
for hygiene, aesthetics or the en-
vironment.
Unfortunately, there is little
initiative from the visitors them-
selves, who seem to believe that
cleaning up is solely the job of the
memorial park administratorsor
the local government, in case of
public cemeteries.
Numerous public ofcials have
no qualms showing their names
and faces on banners and other
items anyway, obviously taking
advantage of the occasion to make
themselves known for next Mays
elections.
They have not only become
known; they have become no-
torious, as well. Discerning
voters would know better than
elect these cheap shots who
milk every opportunity to pro-
mote themselves.
As people start coming back to
the city after the Undas holiday,
they might feel relieved that they
have done their duty to the dead.
Trash throwers and opportunistic
candidates, however, have made
the occasion more deplorable,
and done the living great harm.
Haiti, Jamaica,
the Dominican
Republic and
Cuba were also
devastated by
Sandy.
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Republic of the Philippines
COMMISSION ON AUDIT
Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City
POSITION TITLE : DIRECTOR IV
SALARY GRADE : 28
ITEM NUMBER/S : CHO-RB14-0005
QUALIFICATION : Masters Degree. Five (5) years of supervisory experience;
Senior Executive Development Program (SEDP) training;
Appropriate eligibility for second level positions; Appropriate
(RA 1080) BAR/Board (for positions involving practice of
profession)
JOB DESCRIPTION : The Director for COAs Public Information Offce is the
Chairpersons and the Commission Propers manager of
communications, whose primary purpose is ensuring a
positive perception of the COA to its various publics as
well as throughout the Commission. The PIO Director is
responsible for promoting, cementing and protecting COAs
position as an independent government agency vis--vis its
vision, mission and strategic goals. He/She is a team leader,
team player, proactive communicator and credible resource
both for COAs principals and the public, and is responsible
for the following areas:
Strategic communications
Targeted messaging, branding and publicity
Public affairs and crisis response
Internal communications
Information management
Specifically, the PIO Director will refine the PIOs
communications plan, develop a crisis alert and response
mechanism, and ensure the PIOs effcient operations
while continually building staffs capabilities. He/she will
orchestrate and execute proactive publicity and crisis
response. He/she will develop positive relationships with
colleagues and the Commissions publics, prioritizing two-
way communications and facilitating conversation with the
citizenry.
ADDITIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS : Minimum of 5-7 years of experience as a journalist or
PR professional
Government, NGO or multilateral institution experience
is desirable
Bachelors degree required; post-graduate degree
desirable
Background in fnance, accounting and/or auditing is
encouraged but not imperative
Excellent oral and written English; Tagalog fuency
THE IDEAL
CANDIDATE : Is proactive, self-starter, independent
Is a team player with proven leadership skills
Is highly organized and works well under pressure
has superior people skills
has a passion for good governance and transparency
has an open, critical and progressive mind set
POSITION TITLE : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER III
SALARY GRADE : 24
ITEM NUMBER/S : CHO-CA73-0001
QUALIFICATIONS : Masteral Degree. Four (4) years in position/s involving
management and supervision; 24 hours of training
i n management and supervi si on; Career Servi ce
(Professional)/Second Level Eligibility.
JOB DESCRIPTION : The Online Communications Offcer with position title
of Information Technology Offcer III works in the Public
Information Offce under the supervision of the PIO Director
and in close coordination with the Offce of the Chairperson
and the Information Technology Office. Together with
project point-persons, the Online Communications Offcer
will be crucial in the planning and implementation of the
COA website development, ensuring the interface is in line
with strategic objectives. He/she will also take the lead
in developing operational procedures to ensure effcient
website administration. The Online Communications
Offcers primary responsibility is the health of the website
and its objectives by ensuring timely content, functionality
and interactivity. He/She manages website operations
through:
Information and content management and collection
Coordination with ITO to ensure full operability at all
times
Interactivity and participation strategies
Analytics
Editorial duties
ADDITIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS : Minimum 2 - 3 years relevant professional experience
required
Agency or corporate communications experience
preferred
Experience in government, NGO or multilateral
institutions desirable and may suffce in lieu of agency
experience
Basic knowledge and understanding of Web 2.0
coding and environment required; advanced technical
knowledge desirable
Advanced social media skills required in online
community management desirable
Bachelors degree required
Excellent written English; Tagalog fuency
THE IDEAL
CANDIDATE : is a self-starter and team player
is highly organized and is an effcient information
manager
has a passion for good governance, transparency and
citizen participation
willing to learn and continually develop skills
(MST-Nov. 4 & 11, 2012)
PUBLICATION OF VACANT POSITIONS
As of October 17, 2012
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Cordillera Administrative Region
BAGUIO CITY DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Engineers Hill, Baguio City
Tel. No. 442-8195 Fax No. (074) 442-8195
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH Baguio City District Engineering Offce
invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned project/s:
Source of Fund: RA Fund 101 General Fund
1. Contract ID: 12PD0090
Contract Name : Repair/Restoration of Infrastructure Facilities affected by recent
typhoons and Flashfoods (Gener and Heavy Monsoon Rains),
Marcos Highway (Damage Slope Protection), Km.282+411.7
Km.282+440
Contract Location : Baguio City
Scope of Work : Reinforcing Steel Bars, Structural Concrete, Grouted Riprap
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 3,500,000.00
Contract Duration : 60 calendar days
Cost of Bidding Documents : Php 5,000.00
Contract Name : CLUSTER FCD 2: Repair/Restoration of Infrastructure Facilities
affected by recent typhoons and Flashfoods (Gener and Heavy
Monsoon Rains) along;
a.) Asin Road (Roadslip and Damage Slope Protection), Km.299+000
Km.299+050
b.) PMA Road (Roadslip and Damage Slope Protection), Km. 249+580
Km 249+630
c.) Pacdal Road (Collapse Slope Protection), Km.252+150 Km.252+210
Contract Location : Baguio City
Scope of Work : Grouted Riprap
a.) Php 1,000,000.00
b.) Php 1,250,000.00
c.) Php 1,750,000.00
Contract Name : Preventive Maintenance along Balatoc Road, Chainage
0000-Chainage 0743
Scope of Work : Asphalt Overlay (Hot Mix)
Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt
of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the
Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instructions to Bidders.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary
pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act
9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with
at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the
Philippines.
Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering
Offce and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the
address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents as indicated.
It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government
Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that
bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids.
The DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Offce will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on
November 09, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Offce Conference
Hall which shall be open only to all interested parties who have purchased the Bidding Documents.
Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 21, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at
DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Offce. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in
any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
Bids will be opened on November 21, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at DPWH- Baguio City District
Engineering Offce in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the
address below. Late bids shall not be accepted.
The DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any
bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without
thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
For further information, please refer to:
Nora R. delos Santos
DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Offce
Engineers Hill, Baguio City
Telefax No. (074) 442-8195
dpwh.bcdeo.bac@gmail.com
Approved by:
(Sgd.) GIL L. NUQUE
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
Noted by:

(Sgd.) IRENEO S. GALLATO
District Engineer

(MST-Nov. 4, 2012)
The NBC News/Wall Street
Journal/Marist College sur-
vey of likely voters put
Obama ahead of Romney in
Ohio, 51 percent to 45 per-
cent, and in Florida, 49 per-
cent to 47 percent.
In Ohio, 52 percent of likely
voters viewed Obama favorably
and 45 percent viewed him un-
favorably. Forty-eight percent
viewed Romney unfavorabl
y and 45 percent favorably. By
48 percent to 46 percent, they
said Obama would do a better
job than Romney in handling
PRESIDENT Barack Obama
directed the Pentagons Defense
Logistics Agency to purchase
as much as 22 million gallons
of unleaded gasoline and diesel
fuel to relieve miles-long lines at
service stations after the super-
storm Sandy.
This purchase will be transport-
ed by tanker trucks and distributed
throughout New York, New Jersey
and other communities impacted
by the storm, the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency said
yesterday in a statement.
The defense agency will deliver
as much as 12 million gallons of
unleaded gasoline and 10 million
gallons of diesel fuel. It will seek as
many as 120 civilian trucks for the
project, Lieutenant Colonel Tom
Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman,
said in an e-mailed statement.
With the tempers of motor-
ists aring and stations shutting
down for lack of supplies, the
Obama administration took ac-
tions including waiving a law
that ordinarily permits only
US-ag tankers to move rened
products between US ports. In
New Jersey, Governor Chris
Christie imposed alternate-day
fuel rationing in 12 counties
based on license-plate numbers.
The price of a gallon of regular
unleaded gasoline in New Jersey
yesterday was $3.56, down a pen-
ny from last week before the storm
hit, according to the AAA automo-
bile clubs daily pricing report. In
New York, the price was $3.94 a
gallon, two cents less than a week
ago before Sandy hit.
For the Pentagon, the unaccus-
tomed role of gas-station supplier
was part of a mobilization by air,
land and sea to assist in New York,
New Jersey and neighboring states
struggling in the aftermath of the
storm that made landfall near At-
lantic City on Oct. 29.
The Defense Department is
focusing on providing unique
capabilities to support civilian
efforts to restore power to vital
facilities and to assist with the re-
sumption of mass transit services
in the New York and New Jersey
area, the department said yes-
terday in a statement.
Marines in V-22 Osprey tilt-
rotor aircraft arrived Nov. 1 on
the deck of the USS Wasp, the
rst among about 320 Marines
and sailors based in North Caro-
lina deployed to three Navy war-
ships oating about ve miles
off of Brooklyn, according to
Captain Lucas Burke, a Marine
spokesman.
The V-22, made by Textron Inc.
and Boeing Co., ies like a plane
and lands like a helicopter.
The Pentagons commitment
of military equipment and per-
sonnel also included 17 cargo
planes that brought equipment,
vehicles and crews to help re-
store power. Bloomberg
SAFED, IsraelMoshe Rute
survived the Holocaust by hid-
ing in a barn full of chickens. He
nearly lost the use of his hands
after a stroke two years ago. He
became debilitated by recurring
nightmares of his childhood fol-
lowing his wifes death last year.
But after I found this, eve-
rything has been better, said
the 80-year-old, as he gingerly
packed a pipe with marijuana.
Rute, who lives at the Hadar-
im nursing home outside of Tel
Aviv, is one of more than 10,000
patients who have ofcial gov-
ernment permission to consume
marijuana in Israel, a number
that has swelled dramatically, up
from serving just a few hundred
patients in 2005.
The medical cannabis industry
is expanding as well, fueled by
Israels strong research sector in
medicine and technology - and
notably, by government encour-
agement. Unlike in the United
States and much of Europe, the
issue inspires almost no contro-
versy among the government
and the countrys leadership.
Even inuential senior rabbis do
not voice any opposition to its
spread, and secular Israelis have
a liberal attitude on marijuana.
Now, Israels Health Ministry
is considering the distribution
of medical marijuana through
pharmacies beginning next year,
a step taken by only a few coun-
tries, including Holland, which
has traditionally led the way in
Europe in legalizing medical
uses of the drug. AP
LONDONA British safety ofcial who inspected Titanic before its
maiden voyage thought it should have more lifeboats, according to
his private notes, which are being offered for sale this month.
However, Capt. Maurice Clarke, a Board of Trade safety and emigra-
tion ofcer, didnt express that belief when he testied at the ofcial
British inquiry into the ships sinking. He also was not asked then wheth-
er he thought Titanic carried an adequate number of lifeboats.
There is no record of Clarke ever expressing his view publicly,
auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Friday.
The US Senates inquiry concluded that 2,223 people were aboard the
Titanic but there was
room for fewer than
1,200 in its lifeboats.
The ship had plenty of
lifebelts for everyone
but it sank in frigid
water on the night of
April 14-15, 1912,
and only 706 people
aboard survived.
Henry Aldridge &
Son auctioneers are
offering 70 pages
of Clarkes private
papers at a sale on
Nov. 24 in Devizes,
England. Its the last
of a series of sales
marking the centen-
nial of the ships
sinking. AP
Latest polls put Obama ahead
President Barack Obama holds leads
in the key swing states of Ohio and
Florida over Republican challenger
Mitt Romney, according to a poll
released today.
Pentagon brings fuel to areas hit by Sandy
Israel pushes for use
of marijuana as medicine
Document about Titanic
safety fears up for sale
This undated combination image made
available by Henry Aldridge and Son
Auctioneers Friday Nov. 2, shows notes made
by Capt. Maurice Clarke, a British Board of
Trade safety inspector, recording his view
that Titanic should have carried 50 percent
more lifeboats, AP
President Barack Obama kisses a small child (left) while greeting
supporters during a campaign sortie at Lima Senior High School in
Lima, Ohio, while at right, Republican presidential candidate, former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, his wife Ann Romney, Republican
vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, and his wife Janna Ryan,
greet supporters at a campaign stop at The Square at Union Centre in
West Chester, also in Ohio, last Friday, Nov. 2. AP
the economy.
Likely voters in Florida viewed
Obama positively, 50 percent to
46 percent, as well as Romney,
48 percent to 45 percent. Forty-
eight percent said Romney would
do a better job handling the econ-
omy, compared with 46 percent
that said Obama.
Three other surveys out this
week also had Obama ahead in
Ohio, a state without which a
Republican has never won the
presidency.
A CNN/ORC International
survey out yesterday put Obama
ahead of Romney, 50 percent to
47 percent, among likely voters
in Ohio. Both candidates cam-
paigned there yesterday.
Two surveys released Oct. 31
also found Obama ahead in the
state. A CBS News/New York
Times/Quinnipiac University
poll had Obama leading, 50 per-
cent to 45 percent, and the Ohio
Poll by University of Cincinna-
tis Institute for Policy Research
gave Obama a two-point lead, 48
percent to 46 percent.
Lee Miringoff, director of the
Marist College Institute for Pub-
lic Opinion in Poughkeepsie,
New York, said Obamas num-
bers in Ohio match his support
there from four years ago, when
he carried the state.
An Obama victory in Ohio this
time will make it easier for him
and harder for Romney to get the
270 electoral votes needed to win
the presidency, Miringoff said.
In most of the states, Obama
runs substantially below what
he got four years ago even
though he may be ahead in those
states, Miringoff said. In Ohio,
clearly it has a lot to do with
the whole auto bailout issue. It
doesnt mean that Obama win-
ning Ohio gets him automati-
cally to 270 but it gets him very
close and makes it much more
problematic for Romney.
One in eight Ohio jobs is con-
nected to the automobile in-
dustry. Obama backed the use
of government funds to rescue
General Motors Co. and Chrysler
Group LLC, while Romney was
proposing that they go through
bankruptcy with private funding.
Mike Jackson, chief executive
ofcer of AutoNation Inc., the
largest US auto-dealer group, has
said it was a fantasy that pri-
vate nancing was available.
Bloomberg
By Othel V. Campos
STEADFAST and unwavering. This is
how Marivic Aonuevo approaches life
and the challenges that go with it. Twenty-
eight years of the corporate world made
her stronger and gave her a clarity of
purposein work, family and even self-
development.
Ayala Land, the property arm of
prestigious conglomerate Ayala Corp.,
was her home during her entire corporate
career. Before her retirement, Anonuevo
was the senior vice president and head of
the Ayala Malls group.
When I was with the corporate world,
it was always about the bottom line. But
after my retirement last year, I said to
myself this is the time to give back to
society. When an offer to do something
rather radical came up, I grabbed the
chance, she says in an interview.
Time to give back
So, she took on a developmental job
as managing director and chief executive
of Millennium Challenge Account-
Philippines, an organization led by no
less than US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton.
Now that Im retired, Ive more noble
goals than just simply increasing the
stakeholders dividends. All my kids are
married now. They are professionally
stable with families of their own. I have
more time for myself and this new line of
work that Im really excited about. Im at a
loss of words to describe how it feels when
you see people walk up to you to give the
sincere appreciation for the support that
came their way, she says.
Aonuevo shares that when
her husband passed
away 21 years
ago, she discovers
that managing a
company or a public
initiative is a lot
similar to managing
a family. She juggled
work and family
s i ngl e - ha nde dl y,
holding on to her goal
of providing good
education for her three
children who were still
quite young when her
husband left them.
This could be the
reason why I am so
conscious of targets and
outputs. I have kids who
are dependent on me. I
was thankful that I have
a career that I could fall
back on when my husband
passed away. He was a
liberated man. He encouraged me to have
a career of my own, knowing pretty well
that he could provide for us being the vice
president of one of the countrys top banks. It
was easy to pick up where he left, she says.
Aonuevo says she also learned to be
independent from her father, who raised
her and her three sisters not to rely on
their husbands. I still remember my
parents, especially my father, telling us to
be independent and develop a professional
career that will not only help support our
own families but a career that will give us
self-fulllment, self-gratication. They
tell us we were not
sent to school just
to become simple
housewives, she
says.
She says the same
principles were
also inculcated
by the nuns at the
College of the
Holy Spirit, where
she nished grade
school and high
school. She kept
her deep religious
conviction during
college and joined
the UP Student
Catholic Action,
where she met
her friend,
Social Welfare
S e c r e t a r y
C o r a z o n
Soliman.
Weve known each other since our
activist days. I remember we used to go
to communities around the school to teach
catechism to children. Krus na Ligas was
one of our favorite poor areas in Diliman,
she says. Soliman also sits as one of the
board members of MCA-P.
Aonuevo took up her undergraduate and
Masters degree in business administration
at UP Diliman. She says she also found it
convenient to teach while she goes for her
MBA degree.
My degree came in handy when I
decided to try the corporate setup. I rose
from the ranks to manager for market
strategies to SVP of Ayala Land. Then
I had a short stint at the NDC [National
Development Corp.] before I moved on to
MCA-P, she says.
Aonuevo says she lived a life that
was fullling and her new found joy, the
MCA-P, is what keeps her going these
days apart from her group of friends she
fondly calls Ada.
Circle of friends
This group I really give time to. I was
called Ada because I have a friend who
is diborsyada, abusada, byuda and
so forth. We go out, have dinner, [engage
in] small talk. Except from my work, my
Ada friends keep me grounded, she says
MCA-P was established to manage the
Philippine Compact, a grant agreement with
the United States involving the dispersal
of $424 million to empower the poor
and needy towns in the Philippines. The
Philippines is one of the three countries in
Asia that qualied for the American grant.
Earlier this year, Indonesia and Tanzania
were also chosen as grant beneciaries.
The MCA-P grant, signed on Sept. 23,
2010, funds pro-poor programs and projects
over a ve-year period with emphasis on
gender sensitivity and social equality.
Were big on the gender issues. We
support projects that will help uplift the
social standing of marginalized sectors
like women, elders, youth and the disabled.
Women, for instance, have seen themselves
as second-class citizens in a world
dominated by men. Because of the grant,
rural women realized that they are the real
catalyst. They are now vocal enough to
raise concerns, says Anonuevo.
There are three main Compact projects in
the Philippines - the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa
Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated
Delivery of Social Services, the Revenue
Administration Reform Project and the
Secondary National Roads Project.
Kalahi-CIDSS is a community driven-
development project where communities and
their local government units are trained to
choose, design and implement sub-projects
that address their most pressing need. The
program allots $120 million to nance rural
development projects such as livelihood
programs; the establishment of more day
cares; and other related projects.
Kalahi-CIDDS
This project is expected to benet over
ve million beneciaries over the next 20
years, with an economic rate of return of
13 percent, says Aonuevo.
On the other hand, MCA-P allocated
$54.3 million to fund the reformation of the
countrys taxation system. It aims to assist
the Bureau of Internal Revenue to redesign
policies and practices and implement the
electronic tax information system. It will
also fund the acquisition and customization
of case management software, a related
depository system and training.
The idea here is to strengthen
surveillance and discipline of the Finance
Department and its attached agencies
through administrative actions such as
temporary suspensions or dismissals of
erring employees, Aonuevo says.
The third project, she says, involves the
construction of a 220-kilometer road in
Samar Island, one of the poorest areas in
the Philippines. This initiative got the bulk
of funding with as much as $214.4 million
of available funds.
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A 37-year-old lady executive, who once worked as
a magazine writer, now heads the Philippine opera-
tions of the largest provider of extended warranty
services for cars, motorcycles, home appliances,
gadgets and soon condominium units.
Former
writer
,
now a
country
manager
Sharon Marie Camesa
Sharon Marie Camesa, the comely
country manager of Asia Warranty
Services, is the only lady among the top
executives of the multinational company
which is present in 22 countries. Asia
Warranty is backed by Dubai-based
GapCorp Holdings and the Zuellig
Group.
Camesa explains in an interview
at a restaurant in Makati City that her
company protects consumers from
unexpected repairs of the product, long
after the manufacturers warranty had
expired.
The company, she says, is involved in
business-to-business deals and counts
among its clients in the Philippines the
likes of Volvo, Hyundai, and Chevrolet.
Asia Warranty extends the warranty
of these vehicles to ve years or even
seven years, from just three years under
the manufacturers warranty.
Camesa says extended warranty is a
right that consumers should demand
from the product manufacturer or
distributor. When you buy a product,
you should get more for your money,
she says.
Devoted mother
A 37-year-old mother of two kids, the
youthful looking Camesa also serves
in concurrent capacity as the business
development manager of GapCorp FNI
for Asia-Pacic, a job that takes her to
Singapore frequently. In the Philippines,
her ofce is at the 24th oor of Phil Axa
Life Center in Makati City.
Camesa nished high school at Saint
Scholasticas College and graduated
with an AB Psychology degree at the
Dela Salle University in 1995. She
originally wanted to become a doctor,
but was tempted to accept job offers from
high-prole companies, where she had
her training. She worked for the sales
division of the United Airlines for two
years, before transferring to the Subic
Bay Yacht Club, where she worked for
three-and-a-half years.
She became a senior training consultant
at Salesmans Centre Inc. and pursued
her own business venture, marketing
and retailing Philippine-made products.
She also became the vice president of
Marsun Ofce Warehouse in Manila.
Magazine writer
When she left sales, Camesa found a
gratifying work as a magazine writer,
focusing on health issues. She wrote
for the Singapore-based CMP Medica
from 2003 to 2006. She contributed
articles for the companys two popular
publications, Health Today Magazine
and Moms & Babies Magazine, which
are distributed all over Asia.
As a writer, she conducted interviews
with celebrities and wrote feature
articles on family, relationships, health
and other related topics.
In 2005, she responded to a job
advertisement placed by an international
head hunter. She recalls undergoing a
rigorous interview in front of a panel
of top executives from GapCorp at the
Makati Shangri-La Hotel.
After the interview, she was surprised that
no less than the British-American chairman
of GapCorp. approached her to offer a job
that eventually changed her career.
We feel that you are better in the head
ofce in Dubai, she remembers him
telling her. Despite the initial hesitation,
she left with the whole family for Dubai
and everything was paid for.
She found her new job challenging.
When I rst worked abroad, it was a
total culture shock. Feedback is required
at the end of the business day, not after
several days or a week, she says.
After just a few weeks in Dubai, she
was ready to give up and pack her things
to go back home, but the chairman
talked to her and asked: If you go
home, what will you tell yourself you
have achieved?
Those words stuck
in her head. I took
courage and toughened
and policed my bad habits,
she says.
She also realized how
fortunate she was to get the job.
The best way you can appreciate
your job today is to imagine your
life without it, she says.
Camesa managed to cope with the
challenges by discovering a simple
fact. If you want to pick up a new
habit, do it 21 consecutive times. Then
it becomes a habit, she says.
Hard work
She developed not only a habit of
hard work, but discipline. The chairman
took notice of her transformation. In
2007, she was sent to the Philippines
to become the business development
manager for Asia Pacic of GapCorp and
was appointed as the country manager
for the Philippines in concurrent capacity
the following year.
These two jobs now keep her busy
most of the time, as she attends four
meetings a day with prospective clients
and travels to Singapore often to oversee
the regional operations.
One of her assistants admires her
discipline, but considers her to be strict
and perfectionist.
Camesa admits she hates half-baked
work in the ofce. I am strict for doing
things right, she says.
Now, Camesa says she would like to
help educate Filipino consumers about
their rights. Warranty extension is already
available in our market, she says.
Importance of warranty
As the holiday season approaches,
Camesa says Filipino consumers should
look for products that have longer warranty.
Instead of just one-year warranty, look
for the longer protection. It is your right
as a consumer, she says.
Camesa says warranty is different
from insurance in the sense that if
external factors caused the damage, it is
covered by comprehensive insurance. If
it is internal reasons such as mechanical
breakdown, then it is covered by
warranty.
Asia Warranty, she says, does not
sell products to individual buyers, but
deals with manufacturers, importers or
distributors to offer products covered by
a longer warranty. Our product is sold
to another company for the benet of
end-users, she says.
Camesa says as of the rst quarter of
2012, there were about 60,000 Filipinos
who were protected by the AWS extended
warranty. Of the total, 82 percent
were owners of vehicles; 13 percent,
motorcycles; and 5 percent, gadgets.
Bullish outlook
Asia Warranty, which has been in the
Philippines since March 2005, expects to
post a 20-percent increase in sales in 2012.
The company, a pioneer in the automotive
and motorcycle extended warranty, offers
extended warranty for cars of up to seven
years; washing machines and other
appliances, four years; motorcycles, 2
years; and laptops and desktops, 2 years.
Camesa says the plan is to offer
extended warranty for homes beginning
2013. If a new condominium unit
sustains cracks or leaks, the homeowner
will be burdened with expensive repair
while he or she is still paying for monthly
amortization. We would like to protect
the homeowners from these unexpected
costs, she says.
Camesa says manufacturers or
distributors that offer extended warranty
for their products and absorb the cost
themselves will eventually benet in terms
of higher sales. Hyundai, for example,
posted the fastest growth in sales among
car makers in the Philippines over the
past few years, when it offered a ve-year
warranty for its vehicles, she says.
If you offer longer warranty, you
offer better quality and value for money.
Your initial investment will come back
to you 100 fold. You will have a good
customer retention level and the brand
will be known for good performance.
Of course, it will benet the Filipino
consumers, she says.
Consumer rights
Camesa says the key is educating
the Filipino market. When you buy a
product, you should get more for your
money. People thought they should pay
for warranty. I tell them no. Ask for
it. Consumers need to ask for it from
the manufacturers, distributors and
resellers. RTD
MARIVIC AONUEVO
Ex-Ayala Malls head now finds joy in helping the poor
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2012
ENTREPRENEUR Rex Puent-
espina has his priorities straight.
He leads a busy life as head of his
family business, Puentespina Or-
chids and Tropical Plants, Inc., and
he constantly looks forward to the
moments outside of his work, when
he is able to spend time with his
family and pursue his hobbies and
advocacies.
Rex does business in a way
that allows him to maintain what
he calls Work-Life Balance. He
doesnt allow himself to become so
absorbed in work that he forgets to
allot some time to his family and his
personal pursuits.
According to Rex, achieving
such a balance is not always easy to
do, since his business can be hectic
and stressful. I go to the office in
the morning and visit our branches
and key customers in the afternoon.
In short, I am out on field most of
the day, he says.
Besides the day-to-day operations
of the company, Rex has to deal
with the problems that go with the
business, like the delayed arrival
of flights; crop quality problems,
as well as delayed or advanced
harvest.
In order to cope with his work-
related stress, Rex says that he
makes it a point to spend time with
his family at the end of the day.
Going home to my family relieves
me of my stress. I also unwind by
playing tennis or by going sailing
every weekend.
These days, however, Rex says that
he has new tools for minimizing stress
and for setting aside time with family
and hobbiesall these tools are
based on modern telecommunications
technology. He shares how modern
telecommunications is helping his
business, his family life and even his
hobbies and other personal passions.

Flowers go digital
What is now Puentespina Orchids
& Tropical Plants Inc. started as
an orchid-growing hobby of Rexs
mother, Charita Puentespina in
1977. Today, it is one of the biggest
producers of cut flowers in the
Philippines, supplying its products
to major cities nationwide.
Like many other successful
businesses, Rex is taking advantage
of the Internet to make innovations
in the companys operations. By
innovating, we are able to better
serve our existing customers and at
the same time, expand our market
base, he said.
For example, Puetespina Orchids
and Tropical Plants now has a digital
link with customers in remote areas
thru its recently launched website,
www.orchid.ph. The Web site
serves as the online presence of
Puentespina Orchids and generates
more business for the company.
The Web site allows us to present
products and services offered by
Puentespina Orchids and Tropical
Plants, Inc., and Waling Flowers
from Davao to a much wider market
than ever before. It emboldened us
to dream bigger for the industry that
we are impassioned to serve.
We look at this information
superhighway as a channel through
which we can accommodate more
cartloads of fresh, quality products
from the outskirts of our islands, and
deliver with speed and efficiency, to
our customers in the metropolitan
areas, said Rex.
The Internet adds to the advantages
that the company has over the
competition. Puentespina Orchids
already has a loyal customer base that
appreciates the service and quality
offered to them by the company.
Puentespina Orchids always
makes sure that product quality is
maintained. We see to it the owers
are fresh and will last so customers
can enjoy them longer. Secondly, we
give excellent customer service. We
ensure orders are served and delivered
on time. If goods are not available,
we inform our customers ahead of
time and give them options. This way
they can adjust their requirements
accordingly, Rex explains.
He adds that Puentespina
Orchids & Tropical Plants Inc. also
has a special pricing scheme that is
friendly to its regular customers.
Another very important service
that the company provides is the
great ease and convenience that
customers experience when ordering
flowers. This is also where the
digital component of Rexs business
operations becomes crucial.
We have three branches.
Theres the Manila Seedling Bank
Compound in Quezon City; theres
also our branch in No. 910 Colbella
Arcade in Makati; and the one in
Dos Castillas Street in Dangwa,
Sampaloc to serve our customers
in Manila. Our Davao City Office
handles orders from the Visayas
and Mindanao regions. Then theres
our Web site www.orchid.ph which
is updated regularly for easy access
and reference to products being
sold. We also accept orders placed
online, says Rex.
Business tools
Besides the Internet service, Rex
also uses products and services
from Globe Business to make
his business operations simpler
and more efficient at less cost.
He uses the Blackberry email
service, Business Plus package
and TextConnect service of Globe
Business in his daily operations.
The instant access to email
accounts through the Globe Business
Blackberry email service gives me
complete mobility. I am able to stay
on top of my emails while Im out
on eld. I dont have to go back to
the ofce just to check emails on my
computer. More time on eld equals
more quality time with customers,
and that is very important to our
business, he says.
Rex adds that the Business Plus
package lets him communicate with
his personnel and clients instantly
and reliably at lower cost.
Family and hobbies
All the modern telecommunications
tools that Rex uses are helping his
business in important ways. Since
he started using them, Rex has seen
Puentespina Orchids benet from
improved efciency, increased
productivity and bigger savings.
But more importantly for Rex,
these same telecommunications
tools allow him to have more quality
time with his family and loved ones.
He also has more time to engage in
his hobbies and advocacies.
One of Rexs hobbies is
competitive sailing and he has won
prizes in national competitions for
Hobie 16 one-design catamaran
racing.
PERFECT
HARMONY
While undoubtedly a looker on and off
stage, Abbys appeal lingers mainly through
her music that quickly mesmerizes and capti-
vates an audience.
With much liberty along with band mates,
Abby dabbled with composing and arrang-
ing music that was to be known as the bands
signature sound. And it was that sound that
catapulted Fuseboxx in the mainstream music
scene when they took the top prize at the Red
Horse Beer Muziklaban Challenge in 2003.
Fueled by their victory, Fuseboxx
waxed their rst self-titled album a
year after, under the distributorship of
Universal Records. Abbys voice de-
livered the more popular tune Ula-
narao, the sole Filipino cut in the
said album, while Outlet is a
25-minute song showcasing the
local prog music.
Her interest in music was
rst recognized when she
started singing and play-
ing the piano at the tender
age of four. Following her
passion, she took up music
education at the College of
Music, University of the
Philippines-Diliman and
majored in Choral Conduct-
ing. There Abby honed her
musical abilities, acquire skills
and nd her unique technique with
different instruments.
Abbys musicality blossomed when
she joined Fuseboxx in 2001. The band
gig came along while she was an en-
semble member of the former San
Miguel Master Chorale under the
helm of the Music Man himself, Ryan
Cayabyab.
When the bassist player left the
band, Abby was encouraged to bring
in the Chapman stick to support the
base end and complete their har-
monies. After some adjustments
in the arrangement, the Abbys
Chapman stick was formally in-
tegrated in the bands line up of
instruments in 2009.
This proved to be quite challenge for Abby
since she did the vocal works while focusing
on the fret board of the stick player. Later on,
I was able to manage both tasks while per-
forming on stage once I decided to use a wire-
less mic, reveals Abby.
Today, with band members Eric Tubon on
synthesizers/keyboards, Mico Ong on guitars
and Lester Banzuelo on drums, Abby is busy
with Fuseboxx making the rounds of weekly
performances while promoting their second
independently-produced album, Animated.
With eight originals tracks of prog music,
Animated contains heavy rock grooves and
technical sounds tempered with soul-searching
strains and lyrics that are distinctly Filipino. Its
carrier cut, Pagbalik, is a haunting track with
Abbys voice permeating sentimentality along
with the fusion of different musical elements.
Encouraged by her fans and friends, Abby
plans to release a solo album. With the Chap-
man stick, she is currently dabbling with
new arrangements of old-time favorite Fili-
pino songs and collaborative compositions
as well. I will be inviting musician friends
to play with me. With this album, the audi-
ence will surely have a taste of what music I
like listening to, enthuses Abby.
For now, Abbys work in Fuseboxx paves
the way for other prog bands in the local
rock community to continue producing their
kind of music and convert listeners to the
genre. Despite the snub of the commercial
music industry, progressive bands have or-
ganized their ranks under the Pinoy Progres-
sive Community in 2005.
I guess prog will never be mainstream,
as it is in other parts of the world but were
happy to see some new bands that are exper-
imenting and including some prog elements
in their own music, shares Abby. Were
strengthening the Pinoy Progressive Com-
munity so we can further promote local art-
ists and give prog enthusiast more avenues
to channel their support.
Aside from Fuseboxx, Abby shares her
musical talent with the ANMA Choir and
Strings, Manila Philharmonic Orchestra
and bands like Firey Logic, Humanfolk
and Drip.
Business is blooming for Rex Puentespina
By Carla B. Mortel
LOCAL acts that are considered to be in the progressive
rock genre are not that many let alone one that is fronted
by a female lead singer, keyboardist and Chapman stick
player. And yet there is Abby Clutario playing a three-
fold role in the band Fuseboxx, the most recognizable
progressive rock band in the country today.
PROG
BANDS
The poster girl for
Abby Clutario plays a three-
fold role in Fuseboxx
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2012
and
FOR the rst time in more than
four decades, the Manila paint-
ings of Claudio Br avo were
exibited in the Metropolitan
Museum, an event that paid
tribute to an important hyperre-
alist artist and a celebration of
the ties between the Philippines
and Chile.
The Embassy of Chile and
geothermal energy producer
Energy Development Corp.
jointly presented Claudio Bra-
vo: Sojourn in Manila at the
Metropolitan Museum of Ma-
nila. The retrospective high-
lighted the strengthening of
bilateral ties between the Phil-
ippines and Chile.
EDC chairman emeritus Os-
car M. Lopez afrmed that
"EDC, with its focus and exper-
tise in geothermal energy has
been undertaking exploration ac-
tivities in the mountains of Chile
for some time now. In the near
future, we hope, to likewise con-
tribute to the supply of clean and
renewable energy into the homes
and industries of Chile." He said
the "the bonds forged can be fur-
ther strengthened by our endeav-
ors in Chile. There is much to
share, and much to gain between
our two countries, culturally, as
well as commercially."
Lopez recalled that he had
met Bravo in January 1968 as
one of the guests at the 40
th

wedding anniversary of his par-
ents, Eugenio Sr. and Pacita.
The artist's six-month stay in
the country predated the re-
nown that was later bestowed
on him as one of the world's
leading hyperrealist painters.
Chilean Ambassador to Ma-
nila Rober to Mayor ga said that
aside from honoring the distin-
guished gures of his portraits,
Claudio Bravo: Sojourn in Ma-
nila is a realistic contribution in
strengthening the solid and tra-
ditional friendship between the
Philippines and Chile.
Art acionados, private col-
lectors, businessmen and fam-
ily members of the people in
the portraits painted by Bravo
in 1968 attended the opening
reception.
Claudio Bravo: Sojourn in Ma-
nila was accompanied by weekly
activities on Saturdays, including a
curator's talk by Tats Manahan, a
lecture on still life painting by Cid
Reyes and drawing sessions.
The Metropolitan Museum
of Manila is located at the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Complex, Roxas Boulevard,
Manila.
Jaycees members welcome new president
CLAUDIO BRAVOS
Manila paintings at the Met
JUNIOR Chamber International Philippines, a
non-profit organization of young adults capped
its annual two-day National Convention (Nat-
Con) in Legazpi City, bringing together 1,320
JCI members from 160 local chapters all over the
country.
This years NatCon welcomed over 1,000 new
JCI members who joined in 2011, achieving the
goal that 2012 JCI national president Randolf
Ivan Rust e set at the onset of his term.
I am happy with how far the organization
has come, especially now that our network of
active citizens has broadened tremendously.
Our membership has increased by 1,044a
20 percent growth from last year and the
highest increase the group has recorded 20
years, shares Ruste.
During the convention, Ruste turned over the
leadership to a fellow JCI Senator who will be
the organizations 2013 National President, Ryan
Ravanso. Ravanso served under Rustes admin-
istration as the National Treasurer. But even now
that his term has come to an end, Ruste affirms
that he will remain supportive of JCI Philippines
and its new National President.
My one year of service to JCI has been a
very humbling and inspiring experience. Work-
ing with these passionate and active individuals
made me realize that there are people who are
really willing to go out of their way to help out
others. I hope that the growth and difference we
have made will continue to the next administra-
tion, he adds.
Baby Araneta Fores next to her portrait by Claudio Bravo
Energy Development Corp. chairman emeritus Oscar Lopez and Chilean Ambassador Roberto Mayorga cut the ribbon at the opening of the Claudio Bravo exhibit together
with (from left) Usec Erlinda Basilio, Cid Reyes, Chilean Consul Luis Alberto Palma, Connie Lopez, Paula Palma, Paulina Mayorga, Cedie Vargas and Tats Manahan
Tessa Prieto Valdes, Mr. and Mrs. Araneta
Jaime and Bea Zobel next to their portrait by Claudio Bravo (original portrait in Spain) Chile Consul Luis Alberto Palma, Joselito Campos Jr. and wife Ollie
Energy Development Corp. chairman
Federico Lopez and wife Monina
Hohinboa and US Amb. Harry Thomas
Randolf Ivan Ruste
B3 NOVEMBER 4, 2012 SUNDAY
Sunday
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ManilaStandardTODAY
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TO SPUR the development of IT
parks outside Metro Manila and the
main business district of Cebu, the
government should not just rely on
giving out tax incentives but also build
up the infrastructure and labor pool in the
countryside.
need more than just tax
breaks, says analyst
Rural parks
This is according to Jessica
Mae Go, assistant manager for
real estate management rm
Jones Lang LaSalle, who noted
that a recent resolution of the
Philippine Economic Zone
Authority (PEZA) may not attain
its objective of developing IT
parks in the provinces if the
government does not create
a conducive ecosystem for
investors.
PEZA, the government
agency tasked with promoting
investment and facilitating
investments in various economic
zones throughout the country, last
month released Resolution No.
12-329 amending the incentives
provided to developers of IT
parks and facilities.
PEZA may have had good
intentions in creating this
resolution but, to truly encourage
the development of IT parks and
buildings outside Metro Manila
and Cebu City, it will take more
than just these incentives provided
by the PEZA, Go noted.
The private and the public
sectors need to cooperate to
improve the quantity and quality
of the labor pool, and enhance the
telecom and power infrastructure
in provincial areas, she said.
Go said the publication of
the resolution initially brought
confusion as it was not clear
how the resolution would affect
developers, BPOs, and IT rms
the main occupants of IT parks
and ofce buildings.
The resolution mandated the
removal of incentives for future
IT ofce building projects not
yet accredited by the PEZA,
which are located in the rst
four PEZA-registered IT parks
in Metro Manila: Eastwood
City Cyberpark, Northgate
Cyberzone, Robinsons
Cyberpark and the E-square
IT Park in Bonifacio Global
City with another, the Cebu
IT Park in Cebu City, outside
Metro Manila.
All IT buildings whether
completed, under planning or
construction that were already
registered with the PEZA prior to
the resolution are entitled to the
incentives.
Meanwhile, the resolution also
granted the developers of future
IT parks and buildings outside
Metro Manila and Cebu City
such scal incentives as a much
discounted 5-percent tax on gross
income instead of the normal 35-
percent corporate tax.
Go said BPO rms within
IT parks and buildings are not
affected by the resolution.
According to PEZA, the main
purpose of the resolution is to
encourage the development
of new IT parks and buildings
outside Metro Manila and the
regional center of Cebu City.
In general, developers are
primarily encouraged to construct
IT buildings where there is
potential demand for space in
such projects, with the demand
coming mainly from BPO and IT
rms, Go said.
But she said BPO rms have
their own criteria in determining
a location for their operations.
Among these major criteria
include the availability of a
qualied labor pool, reliable and
redundant telecom and power
infrastructure, and ample supply
of real estate.
The presence of a highly
qualied labor pool is the
top criterion, followed by the
availability of a reliable, highly
sophisticated and foolproof
infrastructure network to transmit
voice, and data in order to ensure
a high level of service to their
clients, she said. newsbytes.ph
More than 100k Google Play Android
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MORE than 100,000 Android applications in the Google Play
store25 percent of the total examinedpose a security risk to
mobile device users and the enterprise networks to which they
connect, according to a new research by security vendor Bit9.
The research classied these applications as questionable or
suspicious due to the permissions requested by the application
which could potentially provide access to sensitive information
such as GPS location data; and personal data including contacts
and email.
A signicant percentage of Google Play apps have access to
potentially sensitive and condential information, said Harry
Sverdlove, chief technology ofcer for Bit9. When a seemingly
basic app such as a wallpaper requests access to GPS data, this
raises a red ag. Likewise, more than a quarter of the apps can
access email and contacts unknown to the phone user, which is of
great concern when these devices are used in the workplace.
In its examination of the more than 400,000 Android apps,
Bit9 found that 72 percent (or about 290,000 apps) use at least
one high-risk permission. The research also revealed that:
(i) 42 percent of applications access GPS location data, and
these include wallpapers, games and utilities
(ii) 31 percent access phone calls or phone numbers
(iii) 26 percent access personal data, such as contacts and email
(iv) 9 percent use permissions that can cost the user money
The research also included a survey of IT professionals in
charge of mobile security for more than 400,000 users in their
organizations. The survey showed that almost three quarters
of the respondents said their organization allows employees to
bring your own device (BYOD) to work and access company
email, calendar and schedulinga risky decision given the
signicant percentage of applications Bit9 found with access
permissions to these programs. It found:
(i) 78 percent feel phone makers do not focus enough on
security, yet 71 percent allow employees to bring their own
smartphones to the workplace
(ii) only 24 percent of companies employ any sort of application
control or monitoring to know what applications are running on
employees mobile devices only 37 percent have deployed any
form of malware protection on employee-owned devices
(iii) 84 percent of respondents believe iOS is more secure
than Android.
These results spotlight an interestingand disturbingpolicy
contradiction, according to Bit9.
While the majority of organizations allow employees to
bring their personal devices to work and connect to the company
network, the organizations have little visibility into the privacy
and security risks the mobile applications on the devices pose to
the companies networks. Convenience, and not security, drives
the growing trend to allow BYOD policies, it said.
The survey highlights a clear call to action for companies to
realize that when employees access company data from a smart
device, their intellectual property is being put at risk.
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THE market has conrmed
it. Around 75 percent of
all smartphones shipped
worldwide in the third quarter
run Android operating system.
That is equivalent to around
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THE Android smartphone operating
system was found on three out of every
four smartphones shipped during the
third quarter of 2012 (3Q12), according
to market intelligence rm International
Data Corporation (IDC).
A recent IDC report showed that
total Android smartphone shipments
worldwide reached 136.0 million units,
accounting for 75 percent of the 181.1
million smartphones shipped in 3Q12.
The 91.5 percent year-over-year growth
was nearly double the overall market
growth rate of 46.4 percent.
Android has been one of the primary
growth engines of the smartphone market
since it was launched in 2008. In every
year since then, Android has effectively
outpaced the market and taken market
share from the competition. In addition,
the combination of smartphone vendors,
mobile operators, and end-users who
have embraced Android has driven
shipment volumes higher. Even today,
more vendors are introducing their
rst Android-powered smartphones to
market, said Ramon Llamas of IDC.
The share decline of smartphone
operating systems not named iOS
since Androids introduction isnt a
coincidence, said Kevin Restivo, senior
research analyst at IDC. The smartphone
operating system isnt an isolated product,
its a crucial part of a larger technology
ecosystem. Google has a thriving, multi-
faceted product portfolio. Many of its
competitors, with weaker tie-ins to the
mobile OS, do not. This factor and others
have led to loss of share for competitors
with few exceptions.
Mobile Operating System Highlights
Android, having topped the 100
million unit mark last quarter, reached a
new record level in a single quarter. By
comparison, Androids total volumes
for the quarter were greater than the
total number of smartphones shipped in
2007, the year that Android was ofcially
announced. Samsung once again led all
vendors in this space, but saw its market
share decline as numerous smaller vendors
increased their production.
iOS was a distant second place to
Android, but was the only other mobile
operating system to amass double-
digit market share for the quarter. The
late quarter launch of the iPhone 5 and
lower prices on older models prevented
total shipment volumes from slipping to
3Q11 levels. But without a splashy new
OS-driven feature like Siri in 2011 and
FaceTime in 2010, the iPhone 5 relied on
its larger, but not wider, screen and LTE
connectivity to drive growth.
BlackBerrys market share continued
to sink, falling to just over 4 percent by
the end of the quarter. With the launch
of BlackBerry 10 yet to come in 2013,
BlackBerry will continue to rely on its
aging BlackBerry 7 platform, and equally
aging device line-up. Still, demand for
BlackBerry and its wildly popular BBM
service is strong within multiple key
markets worldwide, and the number of
subscribers continues to increase.
Symbian posted the largest year-on-year
decline of the leading operating systems.
Nokia remains the largest vendor still
supporting Symbian, along with Japanese
vendors Fujitsu, Sharp, and Sony. Each of
these vendors is in the midst of transitioning
to other operating systems and IDC believes
that they will cease shipping Symbian-
powered smartphones in 2013. At the same
time, the installed base of Symbian users
will continue well after the last Symbian
smartphone ships.
Windows Phone marked its second
anniversary with a total of just 3.6 million
units shipped worldwide, fewer than the
total number of Symbian units shipped.
Even with the backing of multiple
smartphone market leaders, Windows
Phone has yet to make a signicant dent
into Androids and iOSs collective market
share. That could change in 4Q12, when
multiple Windows Phone 8 smartphones
will reach the market.
Linux volume declined for the third
straight quarter as did its year-over-
year growth. Samsung accounted for
the majority of shipments once again,
but like most other vendors competing
with Linux-powered smartphones, most
of its attention went towards Android
instead. Still, that has not deterred other
vendors from experimenting, or at least
considering the open-source operating
system, as multiple reports of Firefox,
Sailsh, and Tizen plan to release new
Linux-based experiences in the future.
Android powers 3 out of every
4 smartphones shipped in Q3
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Opera BrowserA fast,
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CamscannerTurn your device into a
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simple as taking photos.
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abroad.
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Top Six Smartphone Mobile Operating Systems, Shipments, and Market Share, Q3
2012 (Units in Millions)
Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, November 1, 2012 Note: Data are
preliminary and subject to change. Vendor shipments are branded shipments and
exclude OEM sales for all vendors.
Manila StandardTODAY
Sports
Sunday
B4
By Lito Cinco
ORIGINALLY, Gianes Floradele Dolar
wanted to go into badminton as a sport.
She was a Grade V student at the Uni-
versity of St. La Salle (USLS) in Ba-
colod City when a P.E. teacher in the
school saw her potential in volleyball.
So I tried volleyball but I almost
gave up because I felt my teammates
were so much better than me, and at
that time, there was no formal training
for us in the sport. I only started seri-
ous training in volleyball when I was in
high school and playing already in the
Palarong Pambansa, and other regional
and provincial meets for my school,
said Gianes who made a lot of heads
turn, particularly from the opposite sex,
whenever she was elded in the game
in the recently-concluded week-long
17th Sandugo-University Games (Uni-
Games) hosted by USLS in Bacolod.
And Gianes kept on getting better
at the game, even emerging as Most
Valuable Player (MVP ) in 2008 when
she played in a Shakeys V-League
tournament in Bacolod. That same
year she tasted her rst UniGames
championship in Dumaguete, while
still a rookie on the team.
In 2010, USLS made it to the nal
4 in the national Shakeys V-League
in Manila, the highest that the team
has reached at this level of competi-
tion where the countrys best volleyball
players meet and compete.
It was also while playing in the V-
League that Gianes and her teammates
realized that no matter how good their
team was in provincial or regional
meets, they still had to play even bet-
ter when competing against teams from
Metro Manila.
Here in the province, when I spike
the ball, the rally ends. But against Ma-
nila-based teams, the players are good
not just on offense but also in defense.
Our exposure in the league improved us
individually and made us a better team,
said Gianes who is an excellent player
on both defense and offense.
At the last Unigames in Roxas City,
the team showed how much better it
has become. Gianes, 22, a senior Hos-
pitality Management student at USLS,
led her team to the womens volleyball
championship by beating Adamson
University in the seminals to earn a -
nals slot against De La Salle University.
Unfortunately for Gianes, DLSU
proved to be the stronger team and
USLS was swept in three sets, disap-
pointing the huge local crowd that
stayed up to early evening for that
championship match.
But Gianes accepts that there is time
for everything and she now looks for-
ward to her future beyond volleyball.
She admits that when she was
in Grade 6, she, like so many other
young athletes, dreamed of making it
to the national team and representing
the country abroad. That dream also
did not materialize.
I was looking more at playing volley-
ball as an opportunity to get an education,
to bring honor to my team and the school,
and to show my gratitude to coach Roger
Banzuela for making me part of the school
team. I have no more dreams of making it
to the Philippine team, she said.
And now that she is already on her
last year with the school, Gianes looks
to the future and she sees herself in her
chosen eld, the hospitality industry
working in a ve star hotel, an airline
company, a cruise ship, or abroad.
After all, volleyball has taught her
valuable lessons in life, lessons that she
says she has learned and is thankful for.
Her future may still be uncertain for
now, but for sure, boys will be miss-
ing seeing her in her volleyball shorts,
doing what she knows best, playing
the game.
CLARICE
grabs the spotlight
It may be a difcult task es-
pecially with a father like Alvin
who is considered the countrys
greatest professional basketball
player with four Philippine Bas-
ketball Association Most Valu-
able Player trophies.
Alvin has practically rewritten
the PBA record book and holds
the distinction of having played
the most consecutive games
(596); is number three in most
points scored (15,091); grabbed
the fourth most rebounds (more
than 6,000); won back-to-back
MVP awards in 1993 and 1994;
won three consecutive Best Play-
er of the Conference awards; and
who has represented the coun-
try in the four Asian Games, the
most by any basketball player.
It may be just as difcult to
step out from behind elder sister
Tintin of Pinoy Big Brother and
Pantene commercial fame who is
not only a budding TV artist but
also a much sought-after com-
mercial model.
But leave it to Clarice to carve
out a niche for herself and earn
her place in the sun. Only 18
years old Clarice is already the
countrys number one tennis
player. Genes has a lot to do with
it of course. Clarice is a 510
dynamo of muscle and sinew in a
country where men who are 58
are considered tall.
She also had the benet of
the best training possible while
growing up. She and elder sister
Tintin went to Spain in 2005, to
train at the renowned Altur and
Alvario Centro de Tennis in Va-
lencia. They were accompanied
by mother Cindy. In Spain they
spent virtually all their waking
hours honing their tennis to its
best. Undoubtedly, few other lo-
cal tennis players could boast of
a better foundation than that.
She returned home after three
years but still focused on her
tennis she has since been home-
schooled.
Tennis coach Karl Santamaria
has been the mentor of Clarice
since she rst started playing
when she was eight years old.
Santamaria says the future is
bright for the young Patrimonio.
He adds that Clarice has all the
attributes which can lead to suc-
cess not just locally but in the in-
ternational arena as well.
And its not just the physical
but the mental game as well.
Clarice has that predatory,
competitive nature necessary to
be successful in sports. Mother
Cindy Conwi reveals that they
have a very competitive fam-
ily. They compete at everything
even if its just getting the high-
Badmintons loss is volleyballs gain
By Reuel Vidal

AT FIRST, she was known as Alvin
Patrimonios youngest daughter. Lately,
she is more known as up and com-
ing, rising TV star Tintin Patrimonios
younger sister. But Anna Clarice Patri-
monio is ready to step out of the shadow
of her illustrious kin and nally take her
turn at the spotlight.
est score in a video game.
Clarice is the closest thing
you can probably come to a fe-
male version of an Alvin Patri-
monio. Just like father Alvin,
who relied on speed and power
to overwhelm his taller and big-
ger opponents in basketball,
Clarice relies on a power game
that is similar to the way a Maria
Sharapova or a Serena Williams
plays tennis.
That is to say she doesnt rely so
much on nesse and strategy but
dominates her opponents through
brute force and power. She would
rather hammer down a booming
serve or smash a cannonball vol-
ley than place a drop shot.
Clarice is like a predator fo-
cused on competing and over-
whelming her opponents. She
has won everything to win in
the local circuit and has been
quite successful in the inter-
national arena as well.
Clarice won her rst In-
ternational Tennis Federa-
tion (ITF) juniors singles
championship October,
2010 when she beat
Maria Ayuksua of Ja-
pan, 7-5, 6-1 in the
Hong Kong Junior
Open.
But her test of char-
acter came in the
seminals when she
had to post a pulse-
pounding come-
from-behind victory
over Chinas Pu Ze-
Xin. Clarice was
shut out by her
Chinese op-
ponent in the
rst set, 0-6.
She then fell
behind, 2-5, in
the second.
Staring elimi-
nation in the eye
Clarice then dug deep and in a
display or Roger Federer like
resolve she fought back and tied
the match. Clarice then trailed
1-3 in the third set before rallying
to post the scrambling victory.
Clarice considers her Hong
Kong win as her most memora-
ble victory not just because of the
signicance of the tournament
but more so because of the man-
ner she won the tournament. She
added that she never expected to
win but nonetheless overcame all
odds to prevail.
A few months later Clarice won
her second ITF juniors singles ti-
tle March, 2011 in Brunei. She
won the title by completely out-
classing Ching Wen Shu of Tai-
pei, 6-2, 6-0, to clinch the girls
singles crown in the 43rd Brunei
International Tennis Federation
Junior Tennis Championships in
Bandar Seri Begawan capital city
of Brunei.
At just 17 years old she emerged
as a double bronze medalist in
the 2011 SEA Games in Palem-
bang, Indonesia. She earned a
bronze in the Womens Singles
and shared a second bronze med-
al with teammates Denise Dy and
Marian Jade Capadocia when the
Philippines bagged third place in
the Womens Team.
She nally showed her poten-
tial when she beat the worlds
100 to 200 ranked players, at
the open and not age-group
competition, in the 2011 SEA
Games stage.
From then on Clarice has
simply overwhelmed her local
competitors. Her latest triumph
was when she won the Ladies
Open Singles Crown in the 2nd
Olivarez-Philta Open at the Oli-
varez Sports Complex in Sucat,
Muntinlupa.
She came back from a set
down to subdue Marinel Ru-
das, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, and claim
the ladies Open singles crown.
Clarice, now top seeded,
dropped just ve games in
four matches to reach the -
nals where she survived a battle
of attrition which lasted three
hours and 55 minutes to nish.
She then teamed up with Ai-
leen Rogan to beat Rudas and
Maika Tanpoco, 6-1, 6-4, to grab
the ladies Open doubles crown as
well.
Can Anna Clarice Patrimonio
become the best ever female ten-
nis player the Philippines has
ever produced? Well, her father
just happens to be the best pro-
fessional basketball player the
country has ever produced. It
runs in the family, so to speak.
And I wouldnt bet against
Clarice achieving this milestone.
At the SEA Games. Anna Clarice Patrimonio (right) with her teammates during the 2011 Southeast
Asia Games in Palembang, Indonesia. With her are, right to left: Marian jade Capadocia, Denise Ingua Dy
and coach Karl Santamaria.
Anna Clarice Patrimonio returns a serve by Marinel Rudas during the
championship match of the ladies Open singles. Clarice beat Rudas,
3-6, 6-4, 6-4, to win the 2nd Olivarez-Philta Open at the Olivarez Sports
Complex in Sucat, Muntinlupa.
Gianes
Floradele
Dolar

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