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He he. Dont wori. At least kini dili banned:

Hmm, fools and madmen? How about a mad fool?

Certainly not pure evil. His megalomania should also be accounted for.

Published November 6, 2016 1:06pm
Updated November 6, 2016 2:44pm


Manny Pacquiao made a victorious return to the ring after a rousing unanimous decision victory over Jessie Vargas on Saturday (Sunday PHL time) in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao, fighting for the first time since winning a Senate seat in May, won the WBO welterweight title after winning in the judges' scorecard, 114-113, 118-109, and 118-109.

The Filipino ring icon dominated the fight from the opening rounds. He caught Vargas flush to the chin in the second round, sending the Mexican-American fighter to the canvas. With his speed and his power, he dictated the pace of the fight the rest of the way, cruising to the easy win against his overmatched foe.

With the victory a month before his 38th birthday, Pacquiao improved his record to 59 wins against six losses and two draws. The 27-year-old Vargas suffered his second loss in 29 fights.

Pacquiao, whose last previous bout was a unanimous decision over Timothy Bradley in April, showed quickly that he had not lost his skills, knocking Vargas down in the second round with a straight left to the champion's face.

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The President of the Phillipines’ flip-flops over the South China Sea disputes have been crashing the country’s equities market, which is down 7.2 percent in the last month. Apparently, investors are concerned about the political and economic future of that nation, and the prospects for on-going economic integration of the region and the global economy â€" most notably China, which needs a market frontier for its manufacturing products.

That’s why the Philippines market sell-off has touched other markets in the region, like Vietnam’s and China’s own market.

Disputes in the South China Sea began as a regional tug of war between China and several neighbors, but they quickly turned into a showdown of economic and military power between China and the US, with each country eager to write its own navigation rules for the region.

Two years ago, China raised tensions by building artificial islands in the South China Sea. America countered that move by expanding its naval presence in disputed waters, and by advancing its missile capabilities in South Korea.

Not surprisingly, the offspring of females in the first groupâ€"those allowed to cannibalise their partnersâ€"were bigger, more numerous and longer-lived than those of females in the second. But they were also bigger, more numerous and longer-lived than those of females in the third, cricket-fed group. In fact, the offspring of the third group did no better than those whose mothers had received no extra nutrients at all. Evidently, something in male fishing-spider flesh is particularly advantageous for the production and development of young.

Exactly what this something is, Dr Schwartz and Dr Hebets cannot yet say. But they do have a theory about what is going on. The fact that the male spider dies after mating, and thus makes sure his body is available as a feast for his mate, suggests the mysterious extra nutritional value of that body has evolved specifically for the purpose of nurturing the eggs that will turn into his offspring. Possibly, in the past, females have been so good at catching males that few survived to father a second brood anyway. In that case, any adaptation which enhanced the number and fitness of a male’s firstborn clutch, even at the expense of his life, would be favoured by natural selection. Whatever the truth, though, the fate of the poor male dark fishing spider is surely the cruellest and most unusual one-night stand of all.

The latest to do so are Steven Schwartz of Gonzaga University, in the American state of Washington, and Eileen Hebets of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr Schwartz and Dr Hebets note that, after mating, the males of one species of arachnid, the dark fishing spider, spontaneously die and thus ensure that they get eaten. This is in contradistinction to the behaviour of most male spiders, who usually attempt at least some sort of a getaway, even if it is futile. And, as the two researchers report in a forthcoming paper in Current Biology, there is, indeed, method in the male fishing spider’s suicidal madness.

Dr Schwartz and Dr Hebets came to this conclusion by collecting male and female dark fishing spiders and subjecting them to an experiment. In one group of the animals, females were allowed, as per normal, to eat their deceased partners after mating. In a second, the males’ bodies were removed and the females ate nothing. And, in a third, the males’ bodies were substituted by a cricket of about the same weight as a male spider.

Oct 22nd 2016


Sexual cannibalism in spiders
Male dark fishing spiders sacrifice themselves for the good of their offspring


ANIMAL mating can be a cruel and unusual process. Male bedbugs inseminate females by piercing their bellies and depositing sperm inside their paramours’ body cavities. Male chimpanzees and lions kill the suckling infants of females before mating with them, as this brings those females more rapidly into oestrus. Male dolphins routinely engage in rape. Nor are aggressive mating practices perpetrated solely by males against females. In many species of insects and spiders, females eat their partners after sex.

Such cannibalism clearly brings advantage to the female, who gets an easy snack. But the benefits (if any) for the male are less obvious. That there might sometimes be such benefits, though, is an idea that intrigues zoologistsâ€"and so, from time to time, some of them look into the matter.

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$1-B bridge connecting 4 Visayas islands to be completed in Duterte’s term
By MARCHEL P. ESPINA


THE $1-billion bridge connecting four islands in the Visayas is expected to be completed within the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Department of Public Works Secretary Mark Villar said the Iloilo-Guimaras-Negros-Cebu Link Bridge is the “most ambitious bridge program in the history of our nation.”

Villar, along with National Economic and Development Authority Director General Ernesto Pernia, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, and Bases Conversion and the Development Authority President and Chief Executive Officer Vivencio Dizon, held a press conference Thursday, to bare the nine infrastructure projects of the Duterte administration, which will start construction next year.

The administration wants to decongest Manila and disperse the development in the regions.

Villar said the Iloilo-Guimaras-Negros-Cebu Link Bridge project, after its completion, is seen to replace San Juanico Bridge, which links Samar and Leyte, as the longest bridge in the country.

He said the length of the bridges that will connect Iloilo, Guimaras, Negros and Cebu, ranges from two to 10 kilometers.

“Once finished, you will be able to take a road trip to Iloilo and Cebu,” Villar said.

He said that 25 percent of the budget is allocated to the nationwide decongestion program of the administration.

Pernia, for his part, said the infrastructure projects, including the Iloilo-Guimaras-Negros-Cebu Link Bridge, have gone through the “eye of the needle” and are ready to be implemented by the concerned agencies next year.

He said the projects are already in the state of bidding, adding that it will generate more jobs once the construction begins.

Pernia added that the “work regimen of 24 hours a day, seven days a week” will hasten the construction of the infrastructure projects.

He warned though that the works can cause inconvenience to the public.

“Before the country can rise up and be world-class, there will be some inconvenience. If there is construction going on, it can cause inconvenience,” he added.

Tugade, meanwhile, said the infrastructure projects can address unemployment and traffic problems in the country.

“Infrastructure means connectivity and mobility, connectivity among local government units and mobility to go to one place to another,” he added. -- http://www.sunstar.com.ph/

The United States is no stranger to misbehaving allies. Even France, when it was led by Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s, repeatedly hedged against Western unity in the Cold War. De Gaulle withdrew from NATO, offered Mao diplomatic recognition and opposed British integration into new European institutions.

By acting out, de Gaulle cultivated French nationalism in a period of national decline (it was on the verge of losing a long war in Algeria) and consolidated his control over a country that was rived by unrest and by very real threats of a military coup.

While these practices declined with the Cold War’s end, Mr. Duterte would not be alone in deploying them since.

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, whose authoritarian government has long been tied to Moscow, occasionally hints at a Myanmar-style opening to the West. In response, the European Union willgrant him some concessions, Russia will offer him energy subsidies, and, in the end, nothing will change.

Great powers, it turns out, have little choice but to endure these small humiliations.  -- http://www.nytimes.com/

Mr. Fravel suggested that Mr. Duterte was really seeking Chinese economic aid and an end to American pressure over his rights abuses â€" both more domestic than foreign issues.

Mr. Gaddis, in his 2005 book, wrote that leaders often exploited Cold War geopolitics to their domestic political advantage, using “the defiance of external authority as a way to enhance their own internal legitimacy.”

Had Mao fully aligned with the more powerful Soviet Union, for instance, there would have been less need for a strong leader in Beijing. By spurning both superpowers, he cultivated the perception that China was surrounded by enemies whom only he could balance, justifying his consolidation of control.

Mr. Duterte is no Mao, but his support of extrajudicial killings appears to be part of a larger strategy of strengthening his control, which includes his self-made image as an unapologetic nationalist.

Though the United States is popular in the Philippines, those attitudes are layered with a sense of wounded pride at being treated as less than equal. Mr. Duterte, by showing up the Americans (without actually expelling them), can indulge that latent nationalism. And by securing Chinese concessions, he can present himself as standing up to both powers.

And while Mr. Duterte is taking a risk by defying his own military leadership, which is deeply invested in the United States alliance, prevailing could improve his control of that institution.

President Charles de Gaulle of France visiting Soviet Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in 1966. De Gaulle hedged repeatedly against Western unity in the Cold War. CreditGamma-Keystone, via Getty Images

Mao Zedong, left, with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in China in 1958. Mao spurned the Soviets and the Americans, cultivating a perception that China was surrounded by enemies whom only he could balance, justifying his consolidation of control. CreditXinhua, via Agence France-Presse â€" Getty Images


Mr. Fravel, in an interview, said he was “skeptical” that Mr. Duterte would follow through on his threats to cut ties with Washington, which he has already walked back. Still, the threats had helped him ease tensions with China.
“He thought the Philippines’ isolation from China was not good for the Philippines,” Mr. Fravel said. “And so he wanted to end that.”

Other Cold War leaders pitted the superpowers against each other as a means to win independence from them and extract concessions along the way. Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt took handouts from both sides, for instance, and relied on them to eject a 1956 invasion by British, French and Israeli troops.

China, now a target of this strategy, was once among its cleverest exploiters. Mao Zedong, though aligned with the Soviet Union for decades, bragged of wielding a pair of disputed islands in the Taiwanese Strait as “two batons that keep Eisenhower and Khrushchev dancing, scurrying this way and that.”

This sort of balancing has another benefit: giving leaders a freer hand to act against their patron’s wishes.
In the weeks before Mr. Duterte threatened to separate from the United States, Washington had withheld an arms sale and increasingly criticized his support for vigilante and police violence that has killed 2,000 people. Now, American focus has shifted to preserving the alliance â€" something that security analysts doubt Mr. Duterte would ever really break.

Though these threats were often empty, the superpowers so feared losing ground against one another that they quickly catered to the whims of smaller countries.

“The very compulsiveness with which the Soviet Union and the United States sought to bring such states within their orbits wound up giving those states the means of escape,” Mr. Gaddis wrote. “Tails were beginning to wag dogs.”

Mr. Duterte’s actions call to mind, for example, Josip Broz Tito, the Communist leader of Yugoslavia who broke with Moscow in the Cold War’s first years by declaring himself “nonaligned.” The United States rewarded him with economic aid; the Soviet Union, desperate to keep Tito from joining NATO, rewarded him with autonomy and shows of respect.

In the end, Tito won concessions from both sides, enhanced his image at home â€" and remained in the Communist fold. Rather than becoming a victim of the Cold War, he exploited it to his advantage.

Mr. Duterte, likewise, distanced himself from his American sponsors just enough that China, eager to win him over, offered him $9 billion in low-interest loans and allowed Filipino fishermen to return to certain disputed waters in the South China Sea. Yet Mr. Duterte returned home to a country that is still protected by the United States military.

“China didn’t woo Duterte. Duterte wooed China,” M. Taylor Fravel, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of the deal in a Twitter post.

Rather than switch allegiances between the two nations, Mr. Duterte managed to play them off each other, in that way improving his position with both and cementing his image at home as a strong nationalist unbeholden to foreign powers. And he did it while keeping his nation’s security guaranteed by a 65-year-old treaty with the United States.

Whether he knows it or not, Mr. Duterte is following a strategy that leaders used throughout the Cold War: balancing between the powers by threatening to change loyalties. That strategy’s track record illuminates why Mr. Duterte’s seemingly reckless actions have borne him such fruit, and may offer a hint of his goals.

The historian John Lewis Gaddis called this a “new kind of power balancing” in his 2005 book, “The Cold War: A New History,” which chronicles midsize nations in Asia, Africa and Europe that won concessions from the Soviet Union and the United States by hinting they might swap sides.



Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, right, sharing a toast with Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, center, and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in 1961 in Yugoslavia. Tito won concessions from both the United States and the Soviet Union, as did Nasser when he served as Egypt’s president. CreditAssociated Press

The Interpreter
By MAX FISHER
NOV. 3, 2016



President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, right, and President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing in October. Mr. Duterte has exploited the rivalry between the United States and China, improving his position with both.CreditHow Hwee Young/European Pressphoto Agency


President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Beijing recently, promising to announce his country’s “separation” from the United States and alarming the White House and his own defense secretary.

But something different happened. Instead, Mr. Duterte kept the alliance with the United States intact, appeared to reach an understanding withChina to allow Filipino fishermen to return to disputed waters, and, by threatening a geopolitical realignment, distracted from American objections to his country’s growing human rights abuses.

How to tell if eggs are fresh


The easiest way to tell if your eggs are fresh is by the Best Before Date on your egg carton, so it’s best to always keep your eggs stored in their original carton. Here are a few more simple ways to determine the freshness of your eggs:

Grade A eggs have a firm white, a small air cell at the wide end and a centered yolk.

A fresh egg will sink in water while an older egg will float. As an egg ages, the size of the air cell inside increases, causing it to float.

In a fresh egg, the yolk sits up high, and the white is thick and closely surrounds the yolk. An older egg has a flat yolk that breaks easily and a thin, watery white.

To differentiate between hard-cooked eggs and raw eggs, simply spin it. A hard-cooked egg will spin longer than a raw egg. The liquid centre in a raw egg prevents it from building up enough momentum to keep turning.

A cloudy egg white is a sign of freshness, not age: the cloudiness is the result of the high carbon dioxide content when the egg is laid.

Cooking with Frozen Eggs


To use frozen eggs for cooking or baking simply thaw them overnight in the refrigerator or under running cold water. Use the eggs as soon as they're thawed and only in dishes that will be thoroughly cooked. The following is a list of the recommended substitutions for raw egg.

Substitute 2 tbsp (30 mL) thawed egg white for 1 large fresh white.
Substitute 1 tbsp (15 mL) thawed egg yolk for 1 large fresh yolk.
Substitute 3 tbsp (45 mL) thawed whole egg for 1 large fresh egg


Cooking food safely

When preparing perishable foods, including eggs, follow these four simple steps to make sure food is prepared safely:

Clean - Wash hands and surfaces often. Proper hand washing may eliminate nearly half of all cases of food-borne illness.

Chill - Refrigerate/freeze food promptly. Cold temperatures can prevent the growth of most types of harmful bacteria.

Separate - Don’t cross-contaminate. Keep raw meat/poultry/seafood and their juices separate from one another and other food during storage and preparation.

Cook - Cook meat, poultry and eggs to proper temperatures.


Here are a few more simple guidelines to follow when preparing and serving eggs:

Serve eggs and food prepared using eggs immediately after cooking, or refrigerate and use within three to four days.

For entertaining, serve all egg dishes within two hours. Cold egg dishes and beverages should be kept on ice.

If a recipe calls for eggs at room temperature, immerse them in warm water for a few minutes.

To prevent toughness, always use moderate heat and controlled cooking times for eggs.

Don't eat cracked eggs or eggs that have been out of the refrigerator for more than two hours.

Use a glass or metal bowl instead of a plastic bowl when making meringue. The greasy film on a plastic bowl can prevent foaming.

The egg yolk and white separate best when they are cold.

Egg whites will beat to a better volume if they're allowed to stand at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes before beating.

Unless otherwise specified, most recipes are written based on the use of large eggs. One large egg = ¼ cup or 4 tablespoons or 50 mL.


For more information on safe food preparation and fighting bacteria, consult the FightBAC!â,,¢ website at www.canfightbac.org.

How to Freeze Eggs


Did you know that you can freeze eggs? Certain kinds of raw and prepared eggs (not in their shells) can easily be frozen following these simple instructions:

Whole eggs: Beat eggs just until blended, pour into freezer containers and seal tightly. Label the container with the number of eggs and the date, and freeze.

Whites: Break and separate the eggs one at a time, making sure that no yolk is mixed in with the whites. Pour them into freezer containers, seal tightly, label with the number of egg whites and the date, and freeze. For faster thawing and easier measuring, first freeze each white in an ice cube tray and then transfer to a freezer container.

Yolks: Egg yolks require special treatment. The gelation property of yolk causes it to thicken or gel when frozen. If frozen as-is, egg yolks eventually become so gelatinous they are almost impossible to use in a recipe. To help slow this process, beat in either â...› tsp (0.5 mL) salt or 1½ tsp (7mL) sugar or corn syrup per ¼ cup (50 mL) egg yolks (4 yolks). Label the container with the number of yolks, the date, and whether you've added salt (for main dishes) or sweetener (for baking or desserts)

Hard-cooked: Hard-cooked yolks can be frozen to use later for toppings or garnishes. Carefully place the yolks in a single layer in a saucepan and add enough water to come at least 1 inch above the yolks. Cover and quickly bring just to boil. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, in the hot water for about 15 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain well and package for freezing. Hard-cooked whole eggs and whites become tough and watery when frozen, so don't freeze them.

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Keep it Fresh: How to Store Eggs





Always Keep Eggs in their Carton


We know a lot of people like to throw away the egg carton when they get home and store their eggs in the little egg caddy that comes with your fridge or in a separate bowl. This may look pretty, but we recommend always storing your eggs in their original carton. Why? Firstly, the carton protects the eggs and prevents them from absorbing strong odours and flavours of other foods in your fridge through the thousands of tiny pores in the egg shell. Secondly, the Best Before Date is always visible to you so you can guarantee freshness. Lastly, eggs should always be stored with the large end up, the same way they are packaged in the carton. This helps the yolk remain centered.


Other tips for storing raw and cooked eggs

Eggs should not be stored on the refrigerator door, but in the main body of the refrigerator to ensure that they keep a consistent and cool temperature.

Leftover raw egg whites and yolks should be put in airtight containers and stored in the refrigerator immediately. To prevent yolks from drying out, cover them with a little cold water. Drain the water before using.

When storing hard-cooked eggs, you may notice a "gassy" odour in your refrigerator. The odour is caused by hydrogen sulphide, which forms when eggs are cooked. It's harmless and usually dissipates in a few hours.


Recommended storage times for eggs

Fresh shell eggs   By best before date
Leftover yolks or whites   Within 2 to 4 days
Hard-Cooked eggs   Within 1 week
Prepared egg dishes         Within 3 to 4 days
Pickled eggs   Within 1 month
Frozen whole eggs (blended)          Within 4 months

Such willingness to exploit gender for power has an insidious influence. Filipinos now emulate the methods of our leaders, with women all along the political spectrum threatened online with rape and criticized for their sexuality or their gender as a way to impugn their opinions. The perceived weakness of women remains an easy target.

In the Philippines, as elsewhere, our leaders pretend that they’re like the common people. That is their greatest lie and failing. Most are better educated, all enjoy enormous privileges and few lead by example worth following.

Mr. Sotto once blamed a contestant on his TV show for having been raped. “You were wearing shorts,” he scolded her, “but still you went and did shots?” And after Mr. Duterte spoke wistfully about not being first in the gang rape of the murdered Australian missionary, he shrugged off the outrage. “This is how men talk,” he said.

That may sometimes be true, but Mr. Duterte is also our leader. He, and all those we empower, should finally act like it.


Miguel Syjuco, a contributing opinion writer, is the author of the novel “Ilustrado” and a professor at N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi.

All that is dismissed by Mr. Duterte’s supporters as proof of his authenticity, innocuous wit or frankness about the West and its values. Some prominent women’s groups even back him because of his laudable initiatives when he was a mayor. He established laws against harassment and discrimination, distributed contraceptives and is said to have spent his own money on lawyers for battered women.

Yet, he, too, has no problem playing on gender biases for political ends.

Recently, an opposition senator, Leila de Lima, led an investigation into the thousands of murders committed during Mr. Duterte’s drug war. The president described Ms. de Lima as “immoral” and an “adulterer.” He said that he had seen a video of the senator having sex with her driver, who, he alleged, was her link to drug lords.

That declaration titillated the nation. Like insecure schoolboys in the locker room, Mr. Duterte’s allies gleefully followed his lead. One congressman seconded the president’s remark that the video made him lose his appetite, adding that it was a “horror story” featuring “ugly performers.” Another congressman said: “The male performer is good.”

No charges have been filed against Ms. de Lima, and the video was debunked as showing a look-alike. Yet the tactic was the dirtiest of many that succeeded in discrediting her opposition to the president.

How do our leaders get away with all this? Patronage politics ensures their immunity from their own offending words â€" and from much worse.

Congressman Romeo Jalosjos, for example, received a double life sentence for raping an 11-year-old girl. Yet from behind bars he won re-election twice. And the president commuted his sentence in 2009 â€" after only 13 years in jail.

Similarly, President Joseph Estrada, in office from 1998 to 2001, celebrated having many mistresses. His 2007 life imprisonment for corruption resulted partly from investigations into the mansions he provided them. He was quickly pardoned by his successor, to assuage pressure by his supporters and relatives in government. Mr. Estrada is now mayor of Manila.

Our new president, Rodrigo Duterte, seems to understand well how machismo and chauvinism can be spun as populist proof of shared veniality. This septuagenarian boasts of having two wives and two girlfriends, and his love of Viagra. He harassed a female reporter during a news conference. He infamously bantered about raping an Australian missionary.

It took more than a decade of vicious debate before the Congress passed a law in 2012 to help provide poor women with reproductive health care and contraception. One of its most vociferous opponents was Senator Tito Sotto, whose popular TV variety show features scantily clad dancers. “Reproductive health in the context of a true Filipina does not pertain to safe and satisfying sex,” Mr. Sotto said, as he tried to strike a provision from the bill. “When a true Filipina speaks of reproductive health, she means family, marriage, responsible parenthood, nurturing and rearing her children.”

Such domineering hypocrisy, paired with the political pull of Christian groups, also explains why the Philippines is the last country, aside from the Vatican, where divorce is prohibited. Many wives remain stuck with husbands who hold power and purse strings.

Our penal code even treats with particular leniency murders committed by “any legally married person who, having surprised his spouse in the act of committing sexual intercourse with another person,” kills those involved. The male possessive pronoun is telling, especially since the law also protects parents who kill “daughters under 18 years of age, and their seducer.”

The rights of homosexuals also remain controlled by macho politicians. Senator Manny Pacquiao, most famous for his boxing, has declared that “if we approve male on male, female on female, then man is worse than animal.” Other leaders readily disparage gay people to suit their agendas. Teddy Locsin Jr., the Philippines’ new ambassador to the United Nations, once derided those seeking to refurbish Manila’s decrepit airport as “homeless gays” bemoaning the lack of “kneepads in restrooms.”

What ‘Locker-Room Talk’ Sounds Like in the Philippines
By MIGUEL SYJUCO
The New York Times Opinion section
NOV. 3, 2016


Machismo isn’t quite what it used to be. Backlash and hashtags now hold politicians accountable for their so-called locker-room talk in much of the world. Yet the Philippines remains a glaring example of how men use language and law to try to emasculate opponents and maintain power.

At first glance, Filipinos do well in terms of gender equality. We beat the United States in having a female president by at least 30 years. Our nation has one of Asia’s highest percentages of women in government. Women on average receive more schooling, and their life expectancy leads men’s by almost seven years. This year Filipinos even elected our first transgender congresswoman â€" a milestone anywhere.

Our male leaders, however, belie those achievements. While the Philippines officially aspires to egalitarianism, being a woman can still be a liability and misogyny is still an effective weapon in politics. That happens around the world, but in the Philippines that hypocrisy is worsened by our endemic inequality.

In my country, any kind of privilege cultivates impunity, the church influences the state and dynasties control an overwhelming majority of elected positions. These factors help institutionalize sexism and patriarchy into public policy.

Let them be

Security guard Jeffrey Tapalla at Terminal 3 said that two other women roamed the arrival area of the airport and that they let them be because they never attacked anyone and mostly kept to themselves. “They would return empty pushcarts left haphazardly by passengers and often helped maintenance personnel keep the premises clean,” he said.

Tapalla added that he hardly sees these “lost souls” now, since those who roam the airport’s public areas and seem to be of unfit mind are immediately turned over to the social worker at Barangay 183 in Villamor, Pasay City.

The airport police department meanwhile assists “lost souls” and brings them home if the address is just within Metro Manila, according to the MIAA-PAO chief. Those who live outside the city are referred to the DSWD, Bungag said.

“You have to pity them because for some reason or another, they are attached to the airport,” she added. “You want to help them return to their families instead of seeing them slowly wither.”

Almost skin and bones, Erlina would smile pleasantly and ask  “Uwi ka na? (Are you going home?),” addressing homebound airport workers who have become familiar to her in all her years of staying at the airport. She would then return to her corner at Terminal 1 to patiently wait for her employer on the phantom plane that never comes. TVJ

Notorious habit

Another lost soul is “Rosa,” who has the notorious habit of borrowing money with the promise of paying it back as soon as members of her family arrived. But they never did.

Rosa often stayed at the east wing of the departure area just outside the Terminal 1 gate. She said she hails from Leyte and is waiting for her family, who now lives in Cavite, to fetch her. She claims her husband works as an OFW in the US.

Asked how old she is, she claimed to be just 37, and said she looks about 20 years older because she was being hexed.

“I’m always here because I’m waiting for my family. We’re going some place where they are going to give us P5 million,” she explained, but would not say where they were going because it was a “secret.”

Another regular at the Naia Terminal 1 is “Beth,” a former teacher from Iloilo in her 60s who is fixated with actor Jake Cuenca who, she maintains, had promised to marry her.

No. 1 fan

Beth has been known to throw fits whenever people teased her about Cuenca. Her most precious possession is a jacket that he allegedly gave her.

She claimed that her husband, an engineer working in Singapore, left her because he found out about her “relationship” with the actor.

According to Bungag, Beth’s family had fetched her from the airport several times and brought her home to Iloilo. But a week later, she was back and has since become a perennial sight at the airport.

Another lost soul is a Caucasian man, nationality unknown, who usually stays at a corner on the westside of the departure area. He is generally harmless but has been known to growl at anyone who approaches him. Asked what he was doing at the airport, he growled that his Filipino girlfriend had robbed him of everything and that he wanted to go home. Offered something to eat, he dismissed it with a snort and slept in his corner.

Two other lost souls barely spoke to people. One frequently pushes a trolley piled with luggage and approaches persons randomly to ask when the President was coming because he had allegedly promised to take her with him abroad.

The other slept outside the Naia Terminal 1 complex, carrying plastic bags of her stuff. She sleeps most of the time and hardly resists whenever airport security personnel shoo her away.

Waitress

Erlina said she worked as a waitress in Japan for a year, from 1994 to 1995, and in Palau from 1996 to 1999.  When she returned to the country, she got married. Everything’s been a confused mess after that, she told the Inquirer.

“When we managed to reach her relatives in Meycauayan, Bulacan, they said that Erlina got depressed after her husband left her and took their three kids with him,” an airport cleaning woman told the Inquirer.

It was after that when Erlina started going to the airport, waiting for a “Mr. Sato” to take her back to Japan. The notes, which she asked the airport cleaners to send through text to “Mr. Sato,” grew in frequency and length through time, with some of them complaining about people who allegedly wanted her dead after they had deprived her of hard-earned money.

The public affairs office of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA-PAO) assisted and turned over Erlina to the DSWD twice, first in 2014 and a second time last year, but she returned to the terminal shortly after, division chief Connie Bungag said.

Bungag said the lost and wandering souls at the Naia, “have some attachment to the airport. They were either former overseas workers or they have family members who were OFWs and left them.”

Thin and frail-looking, they walk among passengers and staff at the airport’s public areas, a subject of curiosity among people who often avoid them for fear of what their unstable minds might compel them to do.


By: Jeannette I. Andrade / @jiandradeINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:57 AM October 30, 2016





Lost souls haunt the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia), where they wait for flights that never come and loved ones who never redeem their promises.

Thin and frail-looking, they walk among passengers and staff at the Naia terminal’s public areas, a subject of curiosity among people who often avoid them for fear of what their unstable minds might compel them to do.


Most of these “lost souls”  have been turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or their families, but for some reason they gravitate back to the country’s premier airport to resume their wait for non-existent flights and people.

Erlina, 48, has been waiting at the Naia terminal 1 for some five years now for her Japanese employer to keep his promise and return for her. Or so she says.

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


GIBALHOG sa selda sa Talomo Police Station ang usa ka 60-anyos nga lolo human gipadakop sa 24-anyos nga dalaga kay giayo'g kumot ang iyang tutoy sud sa Manila Memorial Park, Barangay Magtuod, Talomo District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Alas 4:20 sa hapon, Miyerkules, Nobyembre 1, gisikop si Pepeng (bansagon gitago sa SuperBalita) taga Manambulan, Tugbok District, kay gireklamo ni Maricar (bansagon gitago), 24, taga Bonifacio Street, Barangay 33-D Poblacion.

Subay sa blotter nga natala sa kapolisan, alas 3:30 sa hapon sud sa maong sementeryo gidikit ug gibag-id sa suspek ang iyang lawas sa dalaga nga nagreklamo.

Pagdikitog piit sa iyang lawas sa atubangan nga bahin sa dalaga, dali niyang gihimas ug gikumot-kumot ang tutoy sa babaye.

Daling nagpakitabang ang babaye sa iyang inahan ug higala maong nanawag sila og pulis nga nagpatrolya sa sementeryo.

Depensa sa suspek nga wa siya masayod sa iyang nahimo sanglit hubog siya niadtong taknaa.

Dihang anaa na sa selda ang suspek, nagdanguyngoy kini gumikan nabalaka siya sa iyang mga binuhi nga kabaw ug baka kay wala nay motugway niini.

Sukad sa pagsuwat ning balita, nakabalhog gihapon sa selda sa Talomo ang suspek ug pursigido gayud nga mopasaka og kasong acts of lasciviousness ang dalaga sa korte.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Nobyembre 04, 2016.

I assume that genomics is not the way people have always studied primates.
No, it’s not.

Does this mean scientists are not going to chase monkeys around in the field anymore? Are you just going to look at data on your computer?
As somebody who really enjoys fieldwork, that’s something I worried about. In my first postdoc, getting more and more into the genomics, I was like, okay, am I going to sit in front of a computer and just run programs in order to understand this variation? Or am I going to be able to take this back to the whole organism and understand it better that way? I really think using a combination of these two approaches, the genotype-forward and the phenotype-back approach, is actually a really great way of keeping more traditional methods of understanding and measuring organismal variation linked to the increasingly micro and data-driven ways we study biology.

Are there obese vervets in the wild?
We don’t usually see obese animals in the wild, except where they run into humans. But within the vervet captive colony, there’s a certain proportionâ€"around 16 percentâ€"that becomes obese, even though they’re all eating the same diet, a standard monkey chow. Among those, a smaller proportion of them become chronically obeseâ€"they’re obese for years at a time. I found that not only is there a genetic component to becoming obese in the first place, but there’s also a genetic component to this developmental pattern leading to chronic obesity. When we looked at whole genome sequences to find out what’s going on, we found some correspondence with regions of the genome that we know associate with human metabolic problems.

Are these obese vervets eating more monkey chow or just sitting around more?
Well, this is one of the things we need to find out. This kind of genotype-forward approach can be difficult, because we get a hitâ€"we get a region of the genome that we know associatesâ€"and the pathway to getting from that to an actual intervention that we can use with humans is a long pathway.

What does it mean to collect biological samples?
Well, one thing we do is swab all their orifices.

Do you advertise that at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)? “How would you like to swab a monkey anus?”
Well, my UROP students this summer actually did collect samples fresh from the butt of a vervet monkey in order to get feces that haven’t been contaminated by hitting the ground. The reason we do that is so that we can get a good representation of the microbiome communities inside the gut.

That seems important.
Yes. Especially when talking about obesity. There’s this idea that the ratio of two different families of bacteriaâ€"the Firmicutes and the Bacteroidetesâ€"is strongly tied to body condition in humans. People who are obese tend to have a different proportion of those bacteria, versus people who are not obese. We’ve found in other species that this correspondence holds as well. So we’re very interested in how the microbiome in the gut actually does influence body condition in these animals, and we’re planning to compare the gut microbiome of vervets in captivity versus those that are in the wild to see if the gut microbiome can be implicated. On a related note, Duke University researcher Jenny Tung recently found that gene expression patterns are very, very different between two populations of baboons, one that forages on human foods and one that doesn’t, so I’d like to do some work comparing how expression levels of obesity-related genes differ between the captive and wild vervets as well.

BU Today spoke to Schmitt about monkey development, genes, and the joys of working with vervets in the field. The following interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

BU Today: Don’t anthropologists study humans?
Schmitt: Yeah, a lot of people wonder why I’m in an anthropology department studying monkeys, but biological anthropology is actually the study of human evolutionary history. We try to understand primate biology in order to understand more about what makes us human.

A lot of people would say vervet monkeys aren’t much like humans.
You’d be surprised. My postdoc at UCLA is where I started working with the vervet monkeys, partly to study how they resist developing AIDS when infected with immunodeficiency viruses, something we found vervets have evolved to do in a few different ways. To do this, I traveled across Africa and the Caribbean, and we trapped, measured, and collected biological samples from hundreds of vervets.

Why Do Monkeys Get Fat?
CAS biological anthropologist on primates, genes, and obesity
10.25.2016
By Barbara Moran


A vervet monkey. “They’re very clever. They’re very social,” says Christopher Schmitt. “Research on vervets is kind of exploding right now.” Photo by skibreck/iStock


People may suspect that Christopher Schmitt was drawn to study vervet monkeys because of their intelligence, irresistible cuteness, and curious, most distinctive characteristic: their brilliant blue scrotums. While all these things are fascinatingâ€"he does use #BlueScrotumSummer to catalog some of his fieldwork on social mediaâ€"it’s another feature that attracts scientists like Schmitt to vervets: their genes.

Schmitt, a College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of anthropology, studies vervets in the wild, and also in a captive colony at Wake Forest University, where most of the monkeys are pedigreed and genotyped. Some of the captive monkeys become obese, a trait uncommon in their wild cousins and of particular interest to Schmitt, who is searching for a genomic role in the disease. “I look at developmental patterns that lead to adult-onset obesity in order to understand better why we become obese,” he says. “And I also work with these animals in the wild so that I can understand the ecological context for these developmental patterns.”

Sumilon Island

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/
Thursday, November 03, 2016


THE United States Embassy has warned American citizens against traveling to areas frequented by foreigners in southern Cebu, specifically around Dalaguete and Santander, including Sumilon Island.

In an advisory posted on the US Embassy in the Philippines' website, the embassy said terrorist groups are planning to conduct kidnappings in those areas in Cebu.

"US citizens should avoid travel to these areas and are reminded to review personal security plans; remain aware of their surroundings, including local events; and monitor local news stations for updates. Be vigilant and take appropriate steps to enhance your personal security," it said.

It also reminded the US citizens of the most recent Department of State Worldwide Caution, dated September 13, 2016, "which indicates there is an ongoing threat of terrorist actions and violence against United States citizens and interests abroad, including the Philippines."

"Extremists have targeted sporting events, theaters, markets, mass transportation systems â€" including airlines, and other public venues where large crowds gather. Crowded nightclubs, shopping malls, buses, and popular restaurants have also been targets," the advisory stated.

Americans were also reminded about the importance of taking preventative measures "to ensure their safety and security while traveling and residing in the Philippines."

In the advisory, US citizens were encouraged to contact the US Embassy in Manila at +(63) (2) 301-2000 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday for more information.

They may also call 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States and Canada or 1-202-501-4444 from other countries from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (EST) from Monday through Friday (except US federal holidays). (LMY/Sunnex)

Sakto. Kay way makasaka nga tiil, way kagaw sa kurikong...

He he. The brat is herein marked for life...

Hmm, sa amoa kay pwede ra dad-on sa mga bisita sulod sa balay ang tsinelas o sapatos. Basta ibilin lang ang tiil...

Sie haben es sofort! Nia pay pakapin...

Happy National Cat Day, my good friend Cat Lady Islander! Please accept my humble gift:

Posted on October 31, 2016


HENRY SY, SR., the Philippines’ richest man, has joined a group pursuing a $20-billion plan to build a new airport and seaport on reclaimed land near Manila, putting him in competition with fellow billionaire Ramon S. Ang.

Belle Corp., part of Sy’s SM Group, will become an almost equal part in Solar Group-led All-Asia Resources & Reclamation Corp., said Edmundo Lim, the venture’s vice-chairman. He declined to say how much Belle will invest. China Communications Construction Co.’s dredging unit is also set to take part in the project, which could take five years to build, Mr. Lim said.

“This is such a big a project, and we need big muscles,” Mr. Lim said by phone. “We are still open to other partners because this project is no joke and it has many components for interested investors.”

All-Asia plans to reclaim 2,500 hectares (6,180 acres) of land near a naval and air base at Sangley Point, south of Manila, as the Philippine capital struggles to cope with a rising number of flights and increasing road traffic. The proposal competes with a 2014 plan from Mr. Ang’s San Miguel Corp. to build a $10-billion airport on reclaimed land in Manila Bay.

All-Asia has resubmitted its proposal, first made in 2013, since President Rodrigo R. Duterte took office on June 30, Mr. Lim said. It is now being reviewed by the investment coordinating committee of the National Economic and Development Authority, he said. Mr. Duterte has signaled plans to pursue infrastructure projects and to accelerate implementation.

Building a new port and special economic zone will help ease traffic in Manila, home of the nation’s largest sea-cargo facility, Mr. Lim said. Between 6,000 and 7,000 vehicles a day travel between the Manila port and industrial sites, he said. The airport is also used by about 40,000 vehicles a day, he said.

Sy’s businesses include SM Prime Holdings Inc., the nation’s biggest property company by market value, and BDO Unibank Inc., its largest lender. Solar, owned by the Tieng brothers, has investments in industries including TV networks, real estate and consumer goods, according to Mr. Lim. -- Bloomberg

Sa nawong lang daan aning Andy...


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Ramos argued further that failure to ratify the Paris Agreement would limit the Philippines' participation in the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in Marrakesh to mere observers, and we would thus be unable to advance the interests of the country.

Ratification, however, will "enable us to secure more investments towards our climate goals and gain access to the financial, technological, and capacity-building support to be provided to parties of the Agreement."

Ramos concluded by calling on the president to approve the Paris Agreement "forthwith", and "certify it for Senate ratification to promote our country’s interests and fight for climate justice." â€" DVM, GMA News

The ex-president believed that Duterte's main problem with the Paris Agreement was the 70 percent emission-reduction goal the Philippines submitted to the UN last year as its intended Nationally Determined Contribution.

"However, [the submission was] just an indicative number and is conditioned on the provision of financial, technological, and capacity-building support," Ramos countered, adding that the Paris Agreement did not impose emission reductions on the Philippines.

"Should any country decide to eventually become a party to the agreement, it will only be asked to submit its Nationally Determined Contributions," Ramos point out.

And already, last July, the Philippine Climate Change Commission and concerned national agencies had agreed to consider revising the numbers, while prioritizing and highlighting the country’s adaptation and loss and damage actions in its final Nationally Determined Contribution.

The former president explained that Duterte was wrong if he thought the agreement limited greenhouse gas emissions similarly among participating countries, not taking into account the major responsibilities developed countries have to the problem while also stunting the economic progress of developing nations.

Rather, Ramos argued, the Paris Agreement was based on the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR), and thus recognized the larger burden for emissions limits for developed countries while allowing for the growth of developing ones.

"[The agreement], in fact, recognizes that developing countries can peak their emissions at a later time, as they pursue sustainable development and poverty eradication according to their respective national plans," wrote Ramos.

Furthermore, the Paris Agreement also called on developed nations "to set aside at least $100 billion yearly as financial assistance to developing countries starting 2020 to enable all countries to actualize renewable (or green) energy sources."

Published October 31, 2016 1:32am


In his own bluntly-worded manner, former President Fidel V. Ramos said that President Rodrigo Duterte was


"full of "


if he thought his diatribes against the Philippines' allies and the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change Agreement was his God-given destiny, given that his rejection of the climate agreement was akin to him and the entire country "shooting [themselves] in the mouth".

Ramos, in an opinion piece written for a Manila broadsheet, pointed out that mitigating the effects of climate change required international cooperation and collective positive action, and that this collective action was embodied in the Paris climate agreement.

Published October 9, 2016 3:58pm
By MIKAEL ANGELO FRANCISCO


For someone whose profession involves keeping his eyes on the stars, one of the only three Filipino astrophysicists has recently been devoting more time and energy to being on the ground.

As the program leader of the National Space Development Program (NSDP) under the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), Dr. Rogel Mari Sese coordinates with legislators, government institutions, and fellow space scientists in laying the groundwork for the Philippines’ very own national space agencyâ€"one giant leap for a nation whose way of life has been influenced by celestial bodies long before its earliest colonizers could.

Sese’s team is also pushing for a policy that would cover all space-related functions on a national level. This space policy will provide direction for the government in terms of space development and utilization, with the aforementioned space agency functioning as the main implementing body for all space-centric endeavors.

“[Currently,] a lot of government agencies are doing space-related work, but it’s all uncoordinated,” says Sese. “[With the space agency and space policy], instead of having it all under separate branches or agencies of the government, it will all be unified.”


More at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/584375/scitech/science/why-the-philippines-needs-a-national-space-agency

http://www.newyorker.com/
By Andy Borowitz , OCTOBER 29, 2016



PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY REX FEATURES VIA AP IMAGES


LONDON (The Borowitz Report)â€"In an unexpected televised address on Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore British rule over the United States of America.

Addressing the American people from her office in Buckingham Palace, the Queen said that she was making the offer “in recognition of the desperate situation you now find yourselves in.”

“This two-hundred-and-forty-year experiment in self-rule began with the best of intentions, but I think we can all agree that it didn’t end well,” she said.

The Queen urged Americans to write in her name on Election Day, after which the transition to British rule could begin “with a minimum of bother.”

Elizabeth acknowledged that, in the wake of Brexit, Americans might justifiably be alarmed about being governed by the British parliamentary system, but she reassured them, “Parliament would play no role in this deal. This would be an old-school monarchy. Just me, and then, assuming you’d rather not have Charles, we could go straight to William and those children of his who have mesmerized you so.”

Using the closing moments of her speech to tout her credentials, the Queen made it clear that she has never used e-mail and has only had sex with one person “very occasionally.”


Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report for newyorker.com.

Pila kaha tang tanang mga Bol-anon kon apilon og ihap ang tua sa gawas...

Friday, October 28, 2016
By JULIET C. REVITA



TOKYO. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to journalists after inspecting a coast guard training demonstration at a Japan Coast Guard base in Yokohama, Thursday, Oct. 27. (AP)


PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte bared Thursday evening, October 27, that he will stop cussing in between his public speeches after claiming that he heard God’s voice that made him promise not spew expletives again.

Duterte shared his epiphany inside the plane during his arrival at the Davao International Airport in Davao City, as he returned back to the Philippines from the three-day state visit in Japan. He said that while everybody was asleep, he heard a voice in which he said was God.

The voice, according to him, told him to stop bursting with profanity in expressing his emotion or else, the plane will crash. There and then he decided not to cuss anymore.

"I was looking at the skies as I was coming over here. Everybody was asleep snoring," Duterte said. "A voice said that you know if you don't stop, I will bring this plane down now."

"So, I promise God not to express slang, cuss words and everything. So you guys hear me right always because a promise to God is a promise to the Filipino people," Duterte said.

His statement elicited loud applause from the audience, but, Duterte said to them not to make it louder for he might fail to fulfill it.

"Huwag masyadong palakpak baka mapalpak pa tuloy (Don't clap too much because I might fail)," he said.

Duterte’s colorful and bold statement has drawn various reactions from the Filipino citizen. He earned criticisms while some admire his transparency and being true to his thoughts.

Nevertheles, Duterte said he would not change his style as it would no longer be true to himself.

That can be hard to do when the states where many immigrants live â€" Texas and Arizona in particular â€" gerrymander Latino communities out of political power and limit funding to their neighborhoods. Latinos aren’t uniformly liberal; some are conservative because of their religious beliefs or fiscal views. And yet if all of the eligible Latinos voted, a number of states would turn from red to blue.

We need a Latino Spring in this country. We need to demand power and equal opportunity. A friend of mine recently did a small experiment to tease out anti-Latin sentiment. She sent out two résumés for an acting job with her picture attached. She happens to be very dark skinned (“morena,” as we say in Spanish). On one résumé she used her own traditionally Latina-sounding name, while on the other she used a traditionally white-sounding name. The Latina name received zero callbacks while the white name received a few responses.

Where else is this racial profiling going on while we are “living while Latin”? It is going on while we are working for the promotion that doesn’t come, while we are trying to rent an Airbnb for vacation but no one will respond, while we are hoping to make our children’s lives better than our own.

Latinos need to demand our place in American history, and in corporate, political and social fields. We must demand an equal share of the American dream, and not accept a downgraded version of it. We need to stop accepting exclusion over persecution. In this critical election, and in the future, I urge you all to register and vote, to be counted and heard.


John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) is an actor, writer and producer.[/]


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/opinion/too-bad-youre-latin.html

It’s as if our heroism and sacrifice somehow counted less, as if we didn’t exist in history at all. Without a past to glorify and uplift you, how do you propel yourself into an unknown, tenuous future?

I’m only an amateur historian. But I am an expert on my own life and career. So to bring it around to more contemporary slights: Hispanics are the most underrepresented ethnic group in film and television. “Saturday Night Live” has only just hired its first Latina comic. Are we really to believe there are so few funny Latinos? We are similarly marginalized in business and corporate life.

This exclusion sends a painful message to every Latino child about how he is seen and judged. Latino people face a double challenge: to create our own positive self-image while battling against the way the broader society portrays us. Without textbooks in schools that do justice to our contributions to the making of America, and without media representation expanding to include more Latin faces and voices, we are vulnerable to a demagogue like Mr. Trump claiming that we are all “drug dealers,” “rapists” and “criminals.”

But a range of studies find no link between violent crime and immigration. The fact is that immigrants as a group commit far fewer crimes than the rest of the American population. Almost every immigrant is just here to make a better life for himself.

The dominant narrative is that we have just “illegally” crossed the border or are “fresh off the boat.” In fact the Spanish are evidence of America’s first original sin: We were mistreating indigenous people here long before the British brought slaves to the colonies. People forget that Latinos founded some of America’s first cities.

Latinos have been dying for America since before we were a nation. Why have our children not heard that thousands of Latino patriots fought for America in the Revolutionary War? Bernardo de Gálvez, a Spanish general, recruited Mexicans, Cubans, Native Americans and free African-Americans to fight against the British in the South, while Cuban women donated their jewelry and money to help the patriots. Where is the Ken Burns documentary about that?

Why don’t they know about the many Latinos in the War of 1812? Or anything of the 20,000 Latinos who fought valiantly in the Civil War? Or of those who earned Purple Hearts or the Croix de Guerre in World War I? Or of the up to 500,000 who served in the military in World War II?

By JOHN LEGUIZAMO
OCT. 21, 2016


A well-intentioned producer once said to me, “John, you’re so talented, but too bad you’re Latin â€" otherwise you’d be so much further along.” When I pitched a movie about Latinos, another producer said: “Latin? People don’t want to see Latin people.” This is not just my experience but a typical Latino person’s experience in America.

Donald J. Trump has done one good thing. He has galvanized a conflicted and diverse community. For years, activists and politicians have struggled to get Latinos to vote and show their power. But not until Mr. Trump’s racist rhetoric shone a light on anti-Latino sentiment did we feel the need to make our voices heard on the issues that matter to us: from proper funding for our schools, better infrastructure in our communities and financial aid, to health care that doesn’t consider poverty a pre-existing condition.

There are around 56 million of us. We are the largest ethnic minority in the United States, at almost 18 percent of the country’s population. And yet Latino students drop out of high school at a higher rate than members of any other minority. We are victims of neglect, discrimination and ignorance. We have grown up amid an entrenched disrespect for Latin culture, and we have often internalized that disrespect.

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


USA ka Pakistani national ang mitiyabaw nga nagpatabang sa Tugbok Police Station kay gusto na siya makigbulag sa iyang Pinay nga asawa human niya nasayran nga bisan kinsa na lang ang mohuong niini sa ilang balay.

Si Abhar (bansagon gitago), 45, Pakistani-National, negosyante ug lumad nga taga Karachi, Pakistan, nagpuyo sa Deca Homes Subdivision, Barangay Tugbok, dakbayan sa Davao, nagpa-blotter sa kapolisan labot sa iyang sitwasyon uban sa asawa nga si Gretchin, 40.

Subay sa impormasyon nga nakalap sa SunStar SuperBalita gikan sa Tugbok Police Station, nasayran nga gusto na sa langyaw nga makigbulag ug buot niyang kuhaon ang kustodiya sa iyang anak nga babaye gikan sa iyang asawa.

Ang panghitabo nagsugod human iyang nasayran ug nasaksihan nga bisan kinsa nalang ang karelasyon sa iyang asawa nga daw wa nay gusto kaniya.

Naguol siya human iyang nasayran nga mi-text ang iyang asawa nga padung na sila sa Manila ug gidala ang ilang anak nga babaye.

Gusto sab unta sa langyaw nga bawion ang iyang napundar nga mga gamit, apan nakapangalan kini sa iyang asawa.

Sumala sa langyaw nga di na gayud siya makigbalik sa asawa gumikan hilabihan kining pagkapabigaon, magparemedyo ni bisan kinsa na lang, sulod pa gyud sa ilang panimalay, butang nga di na niya gusto nga ila pang maareglo.

Gusto na sab niyang mouli sa Pakistan ug didto nalang mag-negosyo.

Ang maong reklamo giduso na sa kapolisan sa Barangay Tugbok aron didto sila husayon.


Gipatik sa mantalaang Superbalita Davao Oktubre 24, 2016.