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ERNIE’S JOURNEY

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“WHEN I am in the water, I feel like I’m a normal per-

son.” Like a fish in the water, Er-

nie Gawilan is a natural wheth-er in the pool or in the sea. He considers the water his second world.

But who is Ernie Gawilan and why does he think his world belongs to the water?

23-year old Ernie Gawilan was born with underdevel-oped extremities. He has no legs and his left arm is incom-plete. As if that’s not enough, he grew up without parents and a family to take care of him.

Ernie’s story is one tai-lored-fit for an episode on a television tearjerker. But this Manobo native is not one to live on the crying side of the world and forever sulk in mis-ery. He is determined to over-come the challenges that life has thrown on him.

Ernie’s mother tried to abort Ernie to conceal her pregnancy from another man. His father abandoned them when he discovered it. Luckily, Ernie survived the attempted abortion but he later lost his mother to cholera when he was only five months. He bare-ly survived with his grandfa-ther taking care of him.

“Swimmer na gyud siguro ko katong naa pa ko sa sabakan sa akong mama kay wala man gyud ko nadala pagpa-abort. Nagsalom-salom ra ko (I must be a good swimmer even when I was in the womb of my moth-er because I survived the abor-tion. I just swam),” recalled Ernie.

When he was nine years old, the late farmer-business-man Vicente Ferrazzini saw young Ernie in a remote sitio in Buda, Marilog District. He pitied Ernie and talked to his grandfather on the prospects of sending Ernie to a training center for the handicapped in Davao City. The grandfather was prevailed upon to agree on the idea.

The next thing he knew, he was on his way to the city for the first time and brought to his new home at the Our Lady of Victory Training Center in Sasa ran by Maryknoll sisters of St. Dominic. The nuns of the center and the other hand-icapped youth became his fam-ily.

A year after in 2000, Ernie was brought to Samal Island to be the housekeeper of a train-ing center set up by the nuns. While living in the island, Ernie had his first romance with the water.

In his free time, Ernie would go to the beach to take a dip. He fell in love with the water.

“Kung naa ko sa tubig, dili Makita akong kapansanan. Mura kog normal lang (If I am in te water my physical disabil-

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By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVOERNIE’S LOOT. Ernie Gawilan shows off his medals won in the recent Asian Para Games in Korea during the Fast Fridays media forum at SM Lanang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.

Ernie’s mother tried to abort Er-nie to conceal her pregnancy from another man. His father abandoned them when he dis-covered it. Luckily, Ernie survived the attempted abortion but he later lost his mother to chol-era when he was only five months. He barely survived with his grandfa-ther taking care of him.

ity is covered. I look like a nor-mal person),” Ernie said.

He spent more time in the water even if he doesn’t know how to swim. “Magpalutaw lutaw ra ko sa tubig ug mag-salom salom murag iro (I just floated on water and swam like a dog),” he said. One day, Mark Jude Corpuz, a swimming coach, saw Ernie struggling to swim. He probably saw a potential in Ernie that Corpuz came up and asked if he want-ed to learn how to swim prop-erly.

Soon enough, Ernie was swimming like a professional. Corpuz thought Ernie could make it to the PWD (persons with disability) team that he is handling. Corpuz trained Ernie at the Forest Hills resort pool which became his boot camp.

In 2008, Ernie competed for the first time in the Philip-pine Olympic Festival in Cagay-an de Oro City where he was pitted against some members of the national team for special athletes. Ernie was almost dis-qualified after he left his swim-ming trunks in Davao.

He begged to compete in his cargo pants and was lucki-

ly given the green light by the officials. Swimming in heav-ily-pocketed cargoes, Ernie finished a strong second in his first ever competition. He nar-rowly lost to a national athlete from Iligan City who took him to Manila to join the national team.

“Sabi niya isasama daw niya ako sa national team. Di ako makapaniwala,” Ernie said.

Under the watchful eyes of national coaches, Ernie blos-somed as a swimmer. He went on to compete in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, India, Japan, New Zealand and Italy and compiled a total of 15 international medals.

Last month, Ernie went to Incheon, South Korea to com-pete in the 2014 Asian Para Games. He became the most bemedalled athlete of the Phil-ippine delegation with three bronze medals in swimming.

“Ang mga kalaban ni Ernie mga six-footers. Disabled pero matatangkad. Sa umpisa, naii-wan si Ernie pero pagdating sa second lap, doon siya bum-abanat. Para siyang motor-boat (Ernie’s opponents were six-footers. They are disabled

but tall athletes. At the start, Ernie would lag behind but in the second lap, that’s where he catches them up. He is like a motorboat),” said James In-fiesto, president of the Davao City Association for Different-ly-Abled Athletes.

Despite the accomplish-ments of special athletes like Ernie, there is still sadness in his eyes.

For medal winning ath-letes, there seems to be dif-ferent standards in the coun-try between regular athletes and special athletes under RA 9064 or the Sports Incen-tives Act. While normal ath-letes are bound to receive a cash windfall of P1 million for gold, P500,000 for silver and P100,000 for bronze in Asian level competitions, there is no such provision for different-ly-abled athletes.

RA 9064 grants cash and other non-monetary benefits and incentives to national ath-letes and their coaches. How-ever, the 13-year old law has no provision to adjust its scope to cover new sports competi-tions or competitions involv-ing differently-abled athletes.

“I hope the government will realize the inequality has to be remedied. Our different-ly-abled athletes deserve to be equally treated like abled ath-letes,” Infiesto said.

Ernie is bound to receive incentives for his achievement from the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), which is way below the incentives un-der RA 9064.

“Malipay gyud unta kung hatagan nila mi ug pagtagad (We will surely be happy if they give us attention),” Ernie said.

For now, Ernie is putting that aside. He is focused on the future competition and that is the Olympic qualifiers in May 2015 in Canada and the United States for the 2016 Rio Paralympics in Rio de Jaineiro, Brazil.

“Gusto kong mapasali sa Olympics. Pangarap ko yan (I wanted to be in the Olympics. That is my dream),” said Ernie.

Ernie is back at the Our Lady of Victory where has lived in the comforting embrace of a loving “family” for the past 14 years. He also found a home in the warm ripples of Samal Is-land’s waters.

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DEPARTMENT of Bud-get and Management secretary Florencio

“Butch” Abad confirmed that some projects under the first phase of the short term Bangsamoro Develop-ment Plan (BDP) for 2015 to mid-2016 will be imple-mented as early as January next year.

This is contrary to the original schedule that the plan must be implement-ed by the second quarter of 2015 by the Bangsam-oro Transition Commission (BTC) that will be only formed once the proposed

Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is ratified.

“Some of the projects are already included in the 2015 budget. We cannot wait for the BTC to be es-tablished, which is really a consequence of the BBL that may happen in the middle of next year, the ear-liest,” Abad said.

Some of the projects that will be implemented in the first six months of next year are focused on infra-structure development and social services, specifically on healthcare and basic ed-ucation.

Based on the proposed P2.606-trillion General Appropriations Act (GAA) for 2015 which Congress passed on second reading, social protection and wel-fare services, which include the provision of basic edu-cation and universal health care, account for 37.1 per-cent of the proposed expen-diture program or P967.9 billion.

Bangsamoro Develop-ment Authority (BDA) chair Dr. Saffrullah Dipatuan said some of these are the in-frastructure projects that will be implemented by the

DPWH (Department of Pub-lic Works and Highways) “in order for the communi-ty to feel that they are now reaping the dividends of the peace process.”

“So this will be a con-fidence-building mecha-nism para lalung tumibay ang paniniwala ng tao sa komunidad na meron talag-ang at merong ginangawa ang MILF at gobyerno (to strenghten the faith of the people that the MILF and the government are doing something,” Dipatuan said.

Abad said the first se-

THE City of Miyamoto in Japan plans to have a sis-terhood pact with Davao

City for cultural and education-al exchange.

Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte met with the city officials of Mi-yamoto last Friday night at the Pinnacle Hotel to talk about the agreement.

Duterte said aside from cultural and educational ex-change, the officials from Japan also want to import workers from Davao City to fill their own labor needs.

“Akoa silang giingnan na unahon nila ‘tong Japanese de-scendant Filipinos… kay kulang sila’g work force na bata (I told them to prioritize the Filipinos

of Japanese descent because they lack a young work force),” Duterte said.

Davao City has a fairly large number of Japanese de-scendants because many Japa-nese settled here at the begin-ning of the 20th century.

Duterte said the Japanese officials also want to recruit thousands of young Filipinos who will be sent to Japan for agricultural training.

The mayor said the offi-cials asked him to go to Japan to talk about this matter.

“If we will exchange notes or drafts, then if we will agree on it, their mayor will come to Davao for the signing,” he said. ABF

FERNANDO “BOY” S. ONGKINGCO JR., Davao City district en-

gineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), was overwhelm-ingly elected president of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Davao (YM-CA-Davao) during a joint meeting of the association’s old and newly-elected mem-bers of the board of direc-tors last Wednesday after-noon.

For the first time, the election was held like the

collegial election of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, wherein all cardi-nals voting are also deemed candidates. All except one

PHILIPPINE Informa-tion Agency (PIA) 11 regional direc-

tor Efren Elbanbuena has vowed that the incident involving the barring of about 20 reporters from covering a presidential en-gagement last November 6 at the SMX Convention Center at SM Lanang Pre-mier will not happened in the future.

“I assure you that all issues and concerns of Davao-based media will be clarified during the fi-nal coordination meeting,”

Elbanbuena told Edge Davao in a phone inter-view last Saturday.

Elbanbuena said blamed the incident, which happened during the Philippine Develop-ment Forum on Bangsam-oro, on miscommunica-tion.

The media plan was made by the organizers of the Philippine Develop-ment Forum on Bangsam-oro, Office of the President Special Operations Group, the Malacañang Accredi-tation and Relations Office

(MARO), and the Presi-dential Security Group (PSG) during their final coordination meeting.

Elbanbuena said the miscommunication oc-curred because the PSG representative who at-tended the meeting was different from the one who was there during the event itself.

He said the original plan was to close off SM Lanang Premier to Davao City-based media at 9:30 a.m. (the mall opens at 10 a.m.). Journalists who

arrive before the cut-off could then proceed to SMX, which is located that the mall’s third floor, and would be allowed to enter even after 9:30.

As for the Ma-nila-based journalists who were allowed to en-ter even though they were late, Elbanbuena said the MARO had advised the PSG that the gruop would be late because of a delay in their flight.

Elbanbuena said the

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EARLY CHRISTMAS. With more than month before Christmas, A child from Pegalongan, Marilog District receives a gift from Santa Claus during SM City Davao’s Magical Candy Christmas which was launched Friday night. Lean Daval Jr.

PIA 11 chief vows no repeatof presidential coverage fiascoBy CHENEEN R. CAPON and ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR

Bangsamoro projects to start ahead of schedule

Ongkingco electedYMCA-Davao prexy

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Japanese city wants to inksisterhood pact with Davao

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YMCA MEET. Newly-installed officers of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Davao discuss important matters during a meeting just after their election at the YMCA Davao office along Jacinto Extension on Wednesday night. Lean Daval Jr.

TRANSFIXED. Children from Pegalongan, Marilog District focus their atten-tion on the Christmas-inspired performances during SM City Davao’s Magical Candy Christmas launch Friday night. A total of 84 children from the most far-

flung town of the city received gifts from SM City Davao after being chosen as this year’s beneficiaries of the mall’s annual gift giving project. Lean Daval Jr.

TOURISM Secretary Ramon Jimenez is positive that

Davao Region can hit the two-million foreign and domestic tourist arrival target by the end of the year.

Speaking at a media press conference at The Pinnacle Hotel and Suites last Friday, Jimenez said the region has already recorded a 1.8 million tourist arrivals in the first nine months of the year.

“That is a very sig-nificant gain. In relative terms, Davao region is probably on the top five for the growth areas for Philippine Tourism,” he said.

Department of Tour-ism (DOT) Assistant Sec-retary Arturo P. Boncato

Jr. had earlier said the number of visitors for 2013 increased by 24.77 percent as against the 1.075 million tourists re-corded in 2012.

The top foreign mar-kets of the region are the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Aus-tralia, Canada India, Sin-gapore, United Kingdom, and Germany.

Jimenez said the tour-ist destinations in Davao Region are now being shown throughout the world through advertise-ments.

“Right now as we speak there is a television commercial for Davao that is airing all over the world,” he said. TV com-mercials for Davao are

THE death of one eye witness in the mur-der of slain journalist

Nestor Bedolido will not affect the case, the legal counsel of the family said on Saturday.

In an interview, law-yer Caesar Europasaid the case will still continue de-spite the loss of witnesses Ritchie Manapol.

“His testimony is im-portant but it does not re-ally kill the case. The most important testimony will be those of the gunman his brother,” he said.

Europa said they are saddened by the death of Manapol since he was a ma-terial witness for the case.

Manapol was shot dead on on July 31 by three unidentified gunmen at Shrine Hills, Matina while watching a billiards game.

He had broken from the Department of Justice’s Witness Protection Pro-gram (WPP) a week before he was killed.

Last November 5, the new judge handling the case , Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 20 Judge Magnolia Velez, inhibited herself from the case be-cause she is related to Ca-gas’ wife Mercedes by af-finity.

This after RTC Branch 19 judge Carmelita Davin inhibited herself also.

“Since there are only two judges in Digos, the case will be forwarded to the Supreme Court prob-ably through the court administrator (who) will decide where to pass the case,” Europa said.

Cagas, Matanao Mayor Vicente Fernandez, Ali Or-daneza, and Bado Sanchez were tagged as the alleged mastermind in the killing of Bedolido on June 19, 2010.

The ex-governor previ-ously denied all the allega-tions and pointed to poli-tics as the reason behind the re-opening of the case.

Cagas and the three oth-ers were pointed to as the mastermind by self-con-

fessed gunman Voltaire Mirafuentes and his broth-er Henry.

Cagas denied any con-nections with the Mirafuen-tes brothers.

He surrendered to the authorities last October 20 hours after the court issued his warrant of arrest.

The case was initially dismissed by the city pros-ecutor’s office due to lack of probable cause but this was reversed by Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila Delima after the fam-ily petitioned the DOJ for a review.

As of the moment, Orda-neza and Sanchez remain at large.

The Davao City Govern-ment will allocate P20 mil-lion for the construction of the archives building for the city’s records.

City administrator J. Melchor V. Quitain said the city’s records should have a place where they can be kept safe.

Quitain said if the re-cords are not given a specific place for safekeeping, they can vanish quickly in the event of a fire.

He said the proposed structure that will be con-structed should be less vul-

nerable to flood and fire.Quitain said the building

will be separate from City Hall and all the records of the city will be placed in the proposed building.

He said the plan is to build the structure at the site the former office of the Department of Agrarian Re-form (DAR) 11 in front of the Davao City Overland Trans-port Terminal (DCOTT).

Quitain did not say when the project will be imple-mented but added his office has already come up with a budget scheme.

NOW on its seventh year since its launch-ing in 2008, the Re-

gional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-Region 11 joins the Department of Trade and Industry-Region XI in its conduct of the Disk-wento Caravan for the third quarter of 2014.

This is in line with the Board’s commitment to make the non-wage benefit program more accessible to the workers and augment wage increases granted un-der wage issuances.

The event was actively participated in by various companies in Region 11 like NCCC Supermarket, Holiday Foods, Bread Area Inc., Mi-nola, and other firms which put up booths and sold their products at discounted pric-es.

Through the Diskwento Caravan, the government

in partnership with partic-ipating manufacturers and distributors provide the workers a respite from the impact of the rising prices of basic necessities and prime commodities.

The endeavor is also an element of the corporate so-cial responsibility (CSR) of the participating establish-ments.

For the third quarter of 2014, four Diskwento Cara-vans were successfully con-ducted in the region which generated aggregate sales ranging from P270,000 to P557,000 for each activity.

Venues for this quarter’s Diskwento Caravans include Compostela, Lupon, New Bataan, Laak, Dujali, and Davao City.

One of the reasons cit-ed by companies for taking part in this activity is their

Death of witness in journalist’sslay won’t affect case: lawyerBy FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA

City Hall to buildarchives building

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THE short-term imple-mentation of the Bang-samoro Development

Plan (BDP), which requires a total funding of P225.6 billion, is crucial to the suc-cess of the new Bangsamoro region.

“The short-term imple-mentation is crucial because this is where we are manag-ing the high expectations of the people in the communi-ties,” Dr. Saffrullah Dipatu-an, chair of the Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA), told MindaNews at the side-lines of the special Philip-pines Development Forum on Bangsamoro last week.

The BDP implementa-tion requires a total funding of P225.6 billion, of which P116 billion are already funded by the different agencies of the national gov-ernment, including the Au-tonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), he said.

Dipatuan said a financial gap of around P110 billion is still needed to fully fund the BDP, the blueprint for the de-velopment of the Bangsam-oro “into a just, peaceful and prosperous society.”

Based on the BDP’s exec-utive summary, it will be im-plemented in three phases:

Phase 1 (2015 to mid-2016) or the transitional development plan that will jumpstart the “just econo-my” with stabilization and pump-priming programs;

Phase 2 (mid-2016 to 2022) or the medium-term strategic interventions and investments to build a strong foundation for the Bangsam-oro;

And, Phase 3 or the long-term development towards a sustained “just economy.”

Dipatuan said the finan-cial gap of P110 billion need-ed to fully implement the BDP will be funded jointly by the government and donor agencies.

He said that “majority will be funded by the gov-ernment but this will be determined after a pledging session with the donor agen-cies.”

Dipatuan said the BDP was presented to President Benigno S. Aquino III recent-ly by the BDA, the develop-ment arm of the MILF.

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BIGGER PICTURE‘Short-term implementation crucialto success of Bangsamoro blueprint’

BANGSAMORO DEVELOPMENT. Moro Islamic Liberation Front chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim (right) receives a copy of the Bangsamoro Development Plan from Bangsamoro Development (BDA) chair Dr. Saffrullah M. Dipatuan

during a ceremony at Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on November 2, 2014. MindaNews photo by Toto Lozano

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FRUIT LADEN. A public utility vehicle loaded with pomelo from Davao City’s hinderlands travels along McArthur High-way in Matina yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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THE ECONOMY

THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Region 12

will stage next week a grand trade fair that will showcase the region’s emerging prod-ucts.

Ibrahim Guimadel, DTI Region 12 director, said the regional trade fair will main-ly feature indigenous prod-ucts of various micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) within the region’s four provinces and five cit-ies.

Dubbed “Treasures of

Region 12,” he said the event will be held at the atrium of SM City General Santos from November 13-16.

Also known as Soccsksar-gen, Region 12 comprises the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotabato and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong and Cotabato.

“We will not only market our featured products but will also link up our produc-ers to potential investors,” Guiamadel said. (MindaN-ews)

PRELIMINARY data showed that the coun-try’s gross internation-

al reserves (GIR) stood at US$79.3 billion as of end-Oc-tober 2014, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando M. Tetangco, Jr. an-nounced.

This level was lower by US$0.3 billion than the end-September 2014 GIR of US$79.6 billion. Nonethe-less, the GIR level remains ample as it can cover 10.8 months’ worth of imports of goods and payments of services and income. It is also equivalent to 8.2 times the country’s short-term ex-ternal debt based on origi-nal maturity and 6.0 times based on residual maturity.

Tetangco said the de-crease in reserves was due

mainly to revaluation ad-justments in the BSP’s gold holdings and payments for maturing foreign exchange obligations of the National Government (NG). These outflows were partially off-set by the net foreign curren-cy deposits by the Treasurer of the Philippines (TOP), income from the BSP’s in-vestments abroad, and reval-uation adjustments on the BSP’s foreign currency-de-nominated reserves.

Net international re-serves (NIR), which refer to the difference between the BSP’s GIR and total short-term liabilities, also de-creased to US$79.3 billion as of end-October 2014, com-pared to the end-September 2014 NIR of US$79.5 billion. PIA

GLOBE Telecom yester-day affirmed its posi-tion that its internet

speeds could still be further enhanced by institutionaliz-ing IP peering in the Philip-pines.

This is “above and be-yond” the “progressive ad-vances in its infrastructure and network performance which yielded observable improvements by third-par-ty sources,” Globe said in a statement.

The company said in

recent reports of UK-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal, Globe posted “commendable num-bers” in terms of better low-er latency or lag time – an important metric it said in terms of true user expe-rience, especially in using mobile internet.

“Crowd-sourced data revealed that Globe is the most efficient among local telecommunication provid-ers at 93 milliseconds (ms) for its LTE service, almost

twice or 99% better than its main rival, which was at 185.4 ms at the time of the report,” Globe said.

“Despite its 2-to-1 edge over competition, particu-larly in the aspects of laten-cy and downloading, Globe reiterates its stance to lo-calize internet protocol (IP) peering which is expected to dramatically advance the country’s internet devel-opment and performance, overall affecting speeds,” it added.

Call for IP connectivityOver the past months,

Globe officials have active-ly lobbied for an effective and applicable IP peering agreement to be put in place among major internet service providers (ISPs), echoing the call by industry regulator National Telecom-munications Commission (NTC) itself. They have cit-ed the absence of such as a huge deterrent in further advancing the state of Phil-ippine internet.

THE provincial govern-ment of South Cotabato has intensified its tax

education and collection ef-forts among mining and quar-ry operators in a bid to reach its revenue target of P12 mil-lion this year.

Siegfred Flaviano, South Cotabato Provincial Envi-ronment Management Office (PEMO) chief, said Friday they have dispatched additional personnel to monitor and en-sure the proper collection of the tax dues of local mining and quarry operators.

In the first three quarters of the year, he said their office already collected a total of P8.28 million in mining and quarry taxes.

In September, the total

collections within the prov-ince’s 10 towns and lone city reached P841,727, he said.

He said the provincial government’s share out of the total collection from January to September amounted to P3.65 million.

The provincial imposition under mining and quarry cov-ers sand and gravel tax; min-ing tax; mining permit fee; ore transport fee; occupational mining tax; verification fee; filing fee; permit fee; projec-tion fee; processing fee; fines/penalties/surcharges; and, miscellaneous (delivery re-ceipts).

“When compared to last year, there’s a slight drop in our present collection but we’re still on track in terms of

meeting our target before the end of the year,” Flaviano said.

The official said that based on the trend these past years, they generate record revenues in the final quarter or last three months of the year.

He attributed the drop in their collections these past months to the suspension of individual quarry operations along the Topland and Marbel rivers in Koronadal City.

Flaviano said they instead established a communal quar-ry system to properly regulate quarry operations and pre-vent further scouring at the two rivers.

He said they earlier found heavy scouring in portions of the two rivers, which traverse

Barangays Concepion, Mag-saysay, Namnama and Sto. Nino in Koronadal City.

Lourdes Jumilla, head of PEMO’s mines and geoscience division, said only five quar-ry operators have remained in the area since they imple-mented the communal quarry system.

She said 18 quarry firms originally signed up to oper-ate in the communal quarry area along Topland and Mar-bel rivers.

In terms of small-scale mining, which is mainly con-centrated in Barangays Ke-matu and Desawo in T’boli town, she said the number of active tunnel owners or oper-ators also dwindled these past months. (MindaNews)

SoCot steps up revenue collectionfor mining, quarry operations

Globe maintains IP peering willsignificantly boost data speeds

End-October 2014 GIRlevel reaches US$79.3B

DTI-12 to hold tradefair for new products

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PROPERTY

IF one were to look at Davao’s progress, the de-velopment of various con-

dominium projects around the city indicates that the condo market is indeed the most robust in recent years.

That’s because investors and homeowners alike are realizing that condominium homes are comparatively cheaper and easier to main-tain than single-detached homes, making them a prime property investment that can yield hassle-free income for years to come.

At the frontline of the condominium market in the region is Northpoint, the landmark condo develop-ment of Vista Residences, the vertical marketing arm of the country’s largest home-builder, Vista Land. With its central location and deluxe amenities, this British colo-nial themed condominium property takes the lead as the most desirable condo de-

velopment in the region, put-ting it ahead of the pack as a prime property investment.

When investors scout for real estate investment options, they know choos-ing Northpoint will give them dependable ROI through rental income and value appreciation. Here’s how investors can get ahead in the game with Northpoint, ensuring them consistent and stress-free income year in, year out.

Buy at preselling price. Buying prior to actual con-struction puts investors at a good advantage because prices are still low. Once the building is completed, prices increase an average of ten to 20 percent. Not only will investors save from presell-ing prices, they also gain as much as the value apprecia-tion of the property. Paying in spot cash or the spot down payment will also earn them huge outright discounts, giv-

ing them big savings early on.The profit continues

when the property value goes up as the entire condo devel-opment moves toward com-pletion. Northpoint docked in a phenomenal value appreci-ation of a high 50 to 70 per-cent in its first three years—numbers that are clearly fa-vored by investors.

Its value will appreciate even more when its immedi-ate locale further progresses as business and commerce thrive in this growth area north of the city. In fact, var-ious real estate projects are currently being constructed, with more expected to rise in the near future.

Wise investors know they are not only getting the tan-gible brick and mortar with what they are paying now, but will stand to benefit from capital gain in the future. Just imagine a more progressive and bustling north Davao ten or 20 years from now, and

one can expect land value within the vicinity to have grown. So when investors buy Northpoint condo units now, they are already ahead of the game.

Bank on Northpoint’s high rental income. North-point has a premier address that makes it a very attractive residential location. Cou-

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pled with its deluxe facilities and amenities that make for prime condo living, it easily becomes the most desirable place to live in the city.

That is why it com-mands rental rates that are comparable to those in Ma-nila, fetching P35,000 and P50,000 for a two-bedroom and a three-bedroom unit, re-spectively. Investors that will shell out about P29,000 for a two-bedroom condo unit can easily cover amortization costs with extra profit for the bank.

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agement, rent collection, and reviewing rental rates within the area to ensure the condo units’ rates are at par in the market.

The property manage-ment team also oversees maintenance of common ar-eas such as the clubhouse and its facilities, parking, land-scape and grounds, building exterior, as well as security and overall homeowner af-fairs. All these ensure the con-tinuous upkeep of the condo property and lead to further appreciation of Northpoint’s property value.

Northpoint clearly has a lot more going for it, allowing it to offer the best value for money as a prime property in-vestment. Get more informa-tion on Northpoint by visiting the Camella offices at Delgar Bldg. (fronting Northpoint), JP Laurel Avenue, Bajada, Davao City or call 226-3100.

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Sports Incentives LawEDITORIAL

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REPUBLIC Act 9064 provides for cash incentives to ath-letes and their coaches who win medals in international competitions provided for by law as ‘incentiveable.’ It is

also known as the Sports Incentives Law.The law covers all medal accomplishments in international

events from the highest being the Olympics and World Cham-pionships down to the continental level like the Asian Games and the regional level like the Southeast Asian Games. The law also provides for ‘incentiveable’ sports disciplines as not all sports events with international competition are covered by the law.

However, the law is ripe for a revisit with recent events that demand its expansion of coverage. When archer Gabriel Luis Moreno won a gold medal in the Youth Olympics in archery, there was confusion as to whether Moreno should be given the P5-million incentive for Olympic medalists. As it turned out, the law does not include Youth Olympics in its coverage of events so Moreno did not get the windfall.

In the Olympic spectrum, the Youth Olympics is of the same level as the quadrennial Summer and Winter Games. However, RA 9064 was passed before the Youth Olympics became part

of the Olympic calendar.Another case is that of Dabawenyo special athlete Ernie

Gawilan who recently won three bronze medals in the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon, South Korea. Under the law, a bronze medalist in the Asian Games is worth P100,000. In Gawilan’s case, the Asian Para Games is not included in the definition of Asian Games. Thus, he will not receive anything from the sports incentives law.

Unfair? Yes, definitely. Ernie’s bronzes—three at that—were achieved under the same circumstances—Asian level of competitions, standards and quality of opposition. So why can’t Ernie be given the same amount as another Dabawenya Angeley Pelaez who won a bronze in taekwondo in the 2104 Asian Games for abled athletes?

With these developments, it is deemed ripe to revisit the law and expand its coverage. Perhaps sporting Congressmen Manny Pacquiao and Yeng Guiao could include these in the amendments they are currently studying. And with Davao del Norte Congressman Anthony del Rosario heading the House’s sports committee, amendments to the law to avoid injustice and inequality should be seriously considered.

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THERE’S a group in the barangay – the Katipunan ng Kabataan (KNK) – whichh is supposed to be the largest

association of youths in every community, and therefore in our society. But it is rarely mentioned or heard from.

Every youngster, 15-to-21 years and residing in the barangay for at least six months, is supposed to join this association and be duly listed in the barangay govern-ment’s official roster as required by law (Sec 424, R.A.7160).

But it is not clear whether barangays comply with this provision. They don’t seem to bother calling on their young inhabitants to register and be officially listed.

This is an important point because it is membership in the KNK that entitles a young person to vote or to be voted upon for a position in the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) or youth council – which consists of the less-than-a-dozen officials they elect for their “board of directors.”

*****That the KNK remains an obscure group

after all these years (it was created by the local government code of 1991) says a lot about how remiss both the adults and the youth, official or civilian, are in complying with or in implementing the autonomy law.

This organization in fact presents one of the best arrangements for the youth in their own community, where they can apply their leadership skills and school-learned tech-nologies – in the process, make a difference

in society as well as open opportunities for livelihood or employment.

There’s money allocated for its operat-ing and program requirements. But unfortu-nately, much of it is frittered away in trivial pursuits and corruption.

With good leadership and enterprising sense, KNK members can invest the money on productive programs and projects. They can enhance the quality of life of their fellow youngsters and brighten their neighbor-hoods with their energy and creativity.

*****For instance, do the poor students need

books, uniforms, a pair of shoes? There’s money to capitalize a credit union – for lending or even for grants. Many coopera-tives would love to help them establish it, or help raise funds to augment their capital.

Do they need intellectual challenge? Burning issues of the day or other ideas can be discussed or debated in the community – dealing with actual problems that concern them, finding solutions or testing theories in the social laboratory that is the commu-nity.

Do they need access to technology? That can be arranged. They can even set up an internet café of their own, right in the com-munity, and with their own capital! Are poor

pupils malnourished, their learning ability impaired? A feeding program (breakfast or lunch perhaps?) would do wonders for their handicap. No such programs are being pro-posed by them.

*****But none of these is happening. And it’s

due to the ignorance not only of the youth but of their elders about the corporate na-ture of the barangay government, of which the Katipunan ng Kabataan is an integral part.

They also don’t seem to understand that as the basic economy of our society (having land, labor, and capital) there’s potential to develop its assets and make them work for everyone by expanding the Gross Barangay Product.

The KNK is for every youngster in the barangay. It is their individual and collective task to identify, define, or decide what to do about issues and problems that affect them. Unless they do, no one else will because the task is specifically meant for them to per-form.

It’s a pity that this youth association is neglected. All the attention is on their pol-itics—which centers on who controls the Sangguniang Kabataan and the funds that are coursed through it. Even civil society and the churches seem remiss; so there’s no one to motivate the KNK or SK but the tradi-tional politicians (trapos) which are usually the least creative or imaginative.

*****

As for the school-going youth, they ought not to be overly fixated on campus activities. Their detachment from barangay affairs puts them – especially the ones with leadership potential – out of touch with community affairs and out of their depth when dealing with real-life situations.

Their intense preoccupation with cam-pus activities lets their badly motivated counterparts corner, monopolize, or con-trol community affairs under the guidance of trapos. It is why brilliant or outstanding campus leaders lose badly when they test the political waters after graduation.

It’s not enough to study or simulate re-ality, solving theoretical problems, while at school. It gives the advantage of empirical knowledge and experience to others, giving them a head-start in their trapo-guided ca-reers.

For intellectual and emotional develop-ment, formal education should be laced with strong doses of reality and honed by actual challenges and problem-solving in commu-nity life – which the KNK can provide.

(Manny is former UNESCO regional di-rector for Asia-Pacific; secretary-general, Southeast Asia Publishers Association; di-rector, Development Academy of Philippines; member, Philippine Mission to the UN; vice chair, Local Government Academy; member, Cory Government’s Peace Panel; awardee, PPI-UNICEF outstanding columnist. He is president/national convenor, Gising Baran-gay Movement Inc. valdehuesa@gmail.com)

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THINK ON THESE!

Youth can enhance their own quality of lifeVANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO

Sweat of your brow“THERE is a perennial nobleness, and

even sacredness, in work,” wrote Thomas Carlyle. “Blessed is he

who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness; he has a life purpose. Labor is life.”

Whether you like it or not, you have to work. God said so: “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground” (Genesis 3:19). Adam, the first man, was given the job to take care of the Garden of Eden. All throughout the Bi-ble, God has commanded man to work. In the Ten Commandments, He said, “Six days you shall labor and do all your work.”

Voltaire said that work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. With that in mind, we can look at the bene-fits and understand that “you don’t ‘pay the price’ – you enjoy the benefits.”

If you don’t work, you get nothing. I was reminded of a story told by Aesop. It goes this way: An old gardener was dying and sent for his two sons. He told them, “For years, our orchard has given the best of fruit – golden delicious fruit. Look at my calloused hands, worn by the spade. But you two have never done a day’s work in your lives. I’ll tell you what I had been doing: I have hidden a treasure in my orchard for you to find. It is not near the tree trunks; it is midway be-tween the trees. It is yours for the trouble of digging, that’s all.”

So, the father sent his two sons away and not long afterwards he died. The orchard

became the property of the sons. So with-out delay, they set to work to dig the treasure that had been promised them.

They dug and dug, day after day, week after week. They dug up all the stones and picked out all the weeds. Rainy season passed and summer came and the trees were loaded with blos-soms and perfume. After months came har-vest time, but the brothers had not yet found the hidden treasure.

A businessman came to buy the fruit crop and he was astounded, “This is the finest crop I have ever seen,” he told them. “I’ll give you twenty bags of money for this crop.”

That was more money than the two boys had ever seen in their life. They struck a bar-gain with the business man, took the bags of money, while the latter began to gather the fruit. He told them, “I’ll be glad to buy your crop next year again. You must have worked with your spades to produce such a crop.”

When the business man went, the two boys sat looking at each other over the bags of money. Then they look down at their rough hands and smiled as one said, “You

know, I think this is the treasure we’ve been digging for all year.”

Henry Ward Beecher expounds it this way: “When God wanted sponges and oys-ters, He made them and put one on a rock and the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, ‘Go work.’”

But why do some people are happy with the work they have while others are not? The answer is: they are in the wrong job.

For twenty years, a man worked in the “trenches” in hospital emergency rooms, only to find himself overwhelmed with a bad case of “burnout.” He describes his work this way: “It was years of screaming, dying, drunks, drug overdose, terminal cancer, and exhaustion.” It was at that time that Dr. Lance Gentile enrolled in the University of Southern California’s film school.

While continuing to save lives on hospi-tal late shifts, he tried his hand at writing a screenplay. State of Emergency was turned into an HBO movie. Then, the offer to be part of the successful popular television show, ER, came. He did not act in the series but part of his job was to monitor storylines to ensure no harm was done to make-believe patients or the show’s credibility. He made sure ac-tors use correct terminology, hold instru-ments correctly, and have their X-rays right side up.

Here’s a reminder from H.L. Neri on how

you should treat your work: “If you don’t love your work, you’ll need three times the en-ergy: to force yourself to work, to resist the force, and finally to work.”

On the contrary, if you love your work, you don’t need that kind of energy. Neri puts it this way: “If you love your work, your de-sire to do it will be like a wind to propel your ship with much less fuel.”

Not only that. “If you like your work, you work no more – for work, when you like it, is work no longer, but sheer enjoyment. If you enjoy your work, you’ll work and work with-out counting the hours. And you’ll reap and enjoy more earnings as well.” It’s like basket-ball player who is being paid while playing.

A lot of people became rich and million-aire because they work – hard. They don’t believe in luck. The Laggard’s Excuse con-firms the principle that the man who is born the luckiest is the man who doesn’t believe in luck – but in work! “He worked by day and toiled by night,” the poem states. “He gave up play and some delight. Dry books he read, new things to learn and forged ahead, suc-cess to earn. He plodded on with faith and pluck. And when he won, men called it luck.”

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Work, on the other hand, with keen eyes and strong will, turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of an unexpected inheritance. Work springs out of bed in the morning and lays the foundation for success with competence.

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“The President made sure that we discussed with the National Economic and Development Authority, the Department of Budget and Management and other gov-ernment agencies to make sure the financial gap for the BDP will be adequately fund-ed,” Dipatuan said.

“The Philippine govern-ment assured us that this plan will not remain a plan but will be implemented, es-pecially for the short-term,” he added.

Dipatuan stressed there is a need for a sustained sup-port from the government for the long-term.

“Alam nila pag hindi nasustain, wala din (They know that if it won’t be sus-tained, nothing will hap-pen),” he said.

Gone too quicklyAquino graced the PDF

for less than 20 minutes. No copy of the BDP was turned over to him for donor agen-cies to see.

But the President thanked those who helped make the government-MILF peace process successful.

Both sides signed the Com-prehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), their final peace agreement after 17 years of negotiations, last March, brokered by Malay-sia.

The creation of the Bang-samoro region, which will replace the Autonomous Re-gion in Muslim Mindanao, is the key feature of the CAB.

The PDF forum provid-ed the venue for discussion among the government, de-velopment partners and the private sector on the recently completed BDP, which was handed in to the MILF central committee last Sunday.

“The value of lasting peace for a region like Min-danao ‘is beyond measure.’ For years, our countrymen in areas affected by conflict had been shackled by violence, injustice, and impunity; they were deprived of opportuni-ties to succeed; and prosper-ity was seemingly reserved only for a few,” Aquino said.

“Now, however, as Mind-anao is becoming an increas-ingly stable environment, we can see that the region is on the cusp of a profound trans-

formation: from being a Land of Promise to being a Land of Promises fulfilled,” he added.

Aquino called on foreign development partners to help the government in the rehabilitation and recovery of Mindanao.

MILF chair Al Haj Murad and other senior leaders of the MILF attended the forum, as well as representatives from the World Bank, the Japan International Cooper-ation Agency, United Nations Development Programme, United States Agency for In-ternational Development, the European Union and other donor agencies.

Japanese Prime Minis-ter Shinzo Abe, in a message read by Deputy Chief of Mis-sion Tetsuro Amano, lauded the convening of the special PDF on Bangsamoro.

“I am deeply impressed that the Comprehensive Agreement [on the Bang-samoro] and today’s forum resulted from the dialogue and trust that was cultivated at the one-on-one meeting between President Aquino and MILF chairman Murad in Narita (Japan) back in August

of 2011,” Abe said.Abe expressed hopes that

Mindanawons and the rest of the people in the Philippines will enjoy “the dividends of peace.”

The Japanese govern-ment vowed to continue their support to the growth of the Bangsamoro region and Min-danao as a whole.

Presidential Peace Ad-viser Teresita Quintos-Deles appeared bullish with the completion of the BDP.

“We are proud of the Bangsamoro Development Plan, not only because it is born of our common em-brace of peace, but because it will eventually bring joy to every corner of our land, to every family that seeks to be liberated from fear and want, and to every child who dreams of a brighter and more vibrant future,” she said.

Deles said the BDP “shall ensure that the wealth of the region, reinforced by the wealth of the entire nation, is deployed to serve the com-mon good and welfare, and the true ends of social jus-tice.”

PSG personnel should have allowed Davao media to enter since they had ac-creditation from the orga-nizers.

Some reporters blamed the problem on the issuance of generic media passes instead of the standard identifica-tion cards that show the names and pictures of the reporters.

Elbanbuena said it had been the practice for PIA to accredit Davao-based media who will cover any presidential engagement and give them proper ID cards.

“The organizers, who don’t even know who are the legitimate Davao-based media, insisted that they will do the accredi-tation and issuance of ge-neric IDs,” he said.

“I will insists in the future that PIA should do the media accreditation in next presidential engage-ments,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Na-tional Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemned the incident, saying it was “disrespect-ful” for the Office of the President to invite jour-nalists to cover an import-

ant event “and later shame them by disallowing entry to the forum where the President himself was to deliver a speech on the government’s efforts to ensure the progress of the Bangsamoro and the peo-ple of Mindanao.”

The NUJP said it was a form of harassment of the members of the Fourth State “whose only inten-tion was to cover the fo-rum.”

“It was, as the same time, a classic act of clip-ping media freedom by a government that suppos-edly banners transparen-cy and accountability,” it added.

The NUJP also scored Malacañang for not allow-ing Davao Today photo-journalist Ace Morandan-te at the entrance after letting the other Davao journalists in.

“We also demand an explanation from the Of-fice of the President why it singled out Morandan-te despite the proper ac-creditation and endorse-ment given to him from the Philippine Informa-tion Office, the state’s in-formation arm,” the NUJP said.

A LITTLE HELP. A kind-hearted bystander helps a physically impaired person park his customized vehicle along City Hall Drive in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

mester of 2015 is a “pecu-liar six-month period be-cause ARMM (Autonomous Region of Muslim Mind-anao) government is be-ing strengthened but also starting to be transitioned to BTC.”

He said the nation-al government, the BTC which will replace ARMM, and the Office of the Pres-idential Advisors on the Peace Process (OPAPP) have to do a lot in the first six months.

“As early as now, the government is doing a lot to be able to convince the combatants who have been fighting for decades, their families, and communities they operate. The govern-ment is serious because we are waiting for what we all get in this peace process and they want immediate

response to their needs for education, health and live-lihood,” he added.

The BDP is a “blue-print of the development of Bangsamopro into a just, peaceful and prosperous society”. It uprooted from the Comprehensive Agree-ment for Bangsamoro signed by GPH and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) last March.

It is designed to ad-dress the poverty, under-employment, and under-employment in the pro-posed Bangsamoro.

The point of the BDP is “to ensure a smooth transi-tion so that when the new Bangsamoro government is formed, it can start de-livering for the Bangsam-oro people and be a work-ing government from day one.” CRC

vote cast their votes in favor of Ongkingco, who is the in-cumbent second vice pres-ident of the association, in the first balloting.

The unique election was presided over by law-yer Leoncio “Nonoy” P. Vil-la-Abrille, two-term pres-ident of the association, who opted not to run for re-election but continues to be active in the association’s various ongoing projects.

Others elected were Jose “Joe” B. Custodio, first vice president; Pacienco “Jun” M. Rosalem Jr., second vice president; Welehito “Lito” N. Pepito, corporate secretary; Jekris-Shalom D. Mendoza, assistant secretary (also youth director); Ricardo “Dick” V. Villegas, treasurer; Henry B. Braceros, assistant treasurer; Jose “Joeval” N.

Valenzuela Jr., auditor; and Antonio M. Ajero, public re-lations officer.

Directors are Vicente “Vic” R. Banes Jr., Mariano “Marnie” R. Alquiza, Reynal-do “Rey” B. Sazon, Manuel “Manny” S. Tagud, Isagan-i“Gani” Javier, and Melody Ann V. Rico (youth).

The present board is composed of a lawyer (Vil-legas), four engineers (On-gkingco,Alquiza, Javier, and Valenzuela), a certified pub-lic accountant (Rosalem), a painter-artist (Pepito), five businessmen (Custodio, Braceros, Banes, Sazon and Tagud), a journalist (Ajero) and two college students (Mendoza and Rico).

The group has set Janu-ary 10 as the tentative date for the induction of officers at The Marco Polo, Davao.

desire to help low-income workers by offering them high discount rates from ten percent (10 percent) up to fifty percent (50 percent) off the regular price of the product.

Sol Imperial, sales co-ordinator of Holiday Foods in Davao City, said they are happy to be of great help to ordinary workers and to be able to promote their prod-ucts at the same time.

“This is our third time to join Diskwento Caravan and some of the benefits we derive for joining this activ-ity is, of course, to advertise our new store branch and to generate revenue,” Jeane Rose delos Santos, opera-

tion supervisor for NCCC OroDerm Branch, said.

Many consumers in the region expressed their de-light for this opportune oc-casion to avail of the big dis-counts for commodities like rice, milk, bread, canned goods, shampoo, toothpaste and other products.

As indicated in DOLE Administrative Order No. 351, Series of 2014, infla-tion rates slightly rose for this quarter due to tightness of domestic supply of some food items like rice, thereby affecting prices, after con-sultation with Bangko Sen-tral ng Pilipinas and other government agencies. Roni R. Ceriales

aired on CNN and BBC, among others, he said.

He also said Davao Re-gion has its own booth at the London Travel Mar-ket which concluded last week. Boncato was there supervising the selling,” he said.

Jimenez said Mindan-

ao as a whole is always in-cluded in the tourism plan and programs of DOT.

In fact, the tourism budget for Mindanao is about 32 percent of the Communication and Mar-keting Budget, which is roughly P1.5 billion. CRC

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESREGIONAL TRIAL COURT

11TH JUDICIAL REGIONOFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT-SHERIFF

DAVAO CITY BALIKATAN PROPERTY HOLDINGS, INC. Mortgagee/Assignee, -versus- EJF-REM CASE NO. 14570-14

ELMER V. HAOMortgagor/s.

x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for foreclosure and sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by Balikatan Property Holdings, Inc. with postal address at the 24th Floor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City against ELMER V. HAO, with postal addresses at Lot 7, Blk. 6, Emerald St. Marieta Village Brgy. Tibungco , DAVAO CITY, Davao del Sur, and Lot 7 , Block 6 , Emerald St.,MARIETA VILLAGE. BRGY. TIBUNGCO, DAVAO CITY, DAVAO DEL SUR, the mortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of October 15,2014 amounts to Two Hundred Seventy Seven Thousand Three Hundred Twelve Pesos and 50/100 (277,312.50) ,Philippine Currency, exclusive of interest, penalties and charges, plus attorney’s fees equivalent to 25% of the total indebtedness plus other legal expenses incident of foreclosure and sale;the undersigned will sell at public auction on November 21, 2014 at 10:00 A.M.., or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland,Davao City to the highest bidder for Cash or MANAGER’S CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following real property together with all the improvements thereon, to wit:

Transfer Certificate/s of Title No. T-224911“ A parcel of land (lot 7 Blk. 6 Psd-11-013698, being a portion of lot

A-2, Psd-11007077)situated in the Barangay of Tibungco , City of Davao, Island of Mindanao. Xxx containing an area of ONE EIGHTY EIGHTY (180) SQUARE METERS, more or less”

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date,it shall be held on December 19, 2014 without further notice.

Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles herein described real property/ies and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be.

Davao City, Philippines,October 15, 2014.

FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF: (SGD.) REYNALDO O. GIRADO Sheriff IVNoted by:ATTY. EDIPOLDO P. SARABIA JR. Clerk of CourtVI & Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff Edge 11/3,10,17

WHAT makes the Philippines truly unique as a country

is not just its people, its des-tinations, and food. It is even more captivating because of its mode of transportation.

In the beginning, there was “kalesa” (also known as “caritela” or “karitela”), sort of an inclined cart and drawn by a single horse. It was introduced in the 18th cen-tury by Spanish colonizers. Initially, it was reserved for nobles and high-ranking civ-ic officials. During the Amer-ican Occupation, Manila was teeming with “kalesas,” but these declined in popularity after the devastation of the Second World War.

Today, “kalesas” are rare-ly used in the streets. But you can still find them in Vi-gan and Laoag. “Kalesas” can also be found in Intramuros and Binondo, where they cater to tourists. In Iligan, decorated “kalesas” can be taken for a ride along a spe-cific street. In Tuguegarao, the carriages are a part of the traffic along with private

cars, motorcycles, tricycles, jeepneys, trucks, and bicy-cles.

Speaking of jeepneys, they are the most popular means of public transpor-tation in the country. They are known for their crowd-ed seating and kitsch deco-rations. As a matter of fact, jeepneys have become a ubiquitous symbol of Philip-pine culture and art.

Actually, jeepneys were originally made from U.S. military jeeps left over from Second World War. Wiki-pedia says: “When Ameri-can troops began to leave the Philippines at the end of World War II, hundreds of surplus jeeps were sold or given to the Filipinos. The jeeps were stripped down and altered locally: metal roofs were added for shade; and the vehicles dec-orated in vibrant colors with chrome-plated ornaments on the sides and hood. The back saloon was reconfig-ured with two long parallel benches with passengers facing each other to accom-

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modate more passengers. The size, length and passen-ger capacity has increased as it evolved through the years.”

The word jeepney is a portmanteau word; some sources consider it a combi-nation of “jeep” and “jitney,” while other sources say it ac-tually came from “jeep” and “knee,” because the passen-gers sit in very close proxim-ity to each other.

Meanwhile, there’s a growing number of people who can afford a nice mo-torcycle just for the daily trip between their offices and homes. There are also motorcycles which are used for serving as a kind of taxi. Most known names for these means for transportation: tricycles and motor-taxis. Both can be seen in many different forms and length.

Tricycle is actually a motorcycle with a sidecar (passenger cabin). You can find tricycles everywhere, especially on smaller roads for short distances, often on roads where jeepneys or busses are not supposed to operate.

But there’s more to mo-torcycles than just the tricy-cle.

Most people who come to Compostela Valley (more popularly known as Comval) are awed, if not shocked, to see its mode of transporta-tion – the skylab. Not known in most parts of the country, it is the king of the rugged roads in most of province’s mountain villages.

If you don’t know what a skylab is, it’s “a single mo-torcycle with added con-traptions that looks like the wings of an airplane.” Some skylabs have “a roof above to protect the passenger from the drops of rain or the scorching heat of the sun.”

Another form of a sky-lab has “two rows of elevat-

ed cubicles balancing both at the motorcycle’s sides to enclose passengers’ feet that are always left hanging while on the road in the usual de-signs.”

And believe it or not, a skylab can carry up to ten passengers.

“This isn’t for Ripley’s,” wrote local journalist Charlie V. Monforte. “True enough, the Japan-made single mo-torcycle built supposedly for a single or two passengers has undergone serious evo-lution here for the past two decades out of local ingenui-ty and road’s necessities.”

“Skylab is just like riding a flying seesaw where pas-sengers are treated to an ex-hilarating ride as the motor-cycle careens up and down rocky roads and climbs slopes, allowing you to view of the chasm below and the vista beyond,” said Christine T. Dompor, the provincial tourism officer.

Skylab is not for the faint-hearted though. Ac-cording to some locals, at first they were afraid to ride the vehicle, especially when it scales about 45-degree ascending road. But since

there is no other mode of transportation, they have no choice but to ride on a sky-lab.

Skylab vehicles can be seen in other parts of the province but it is most com-mon in Montevista. For al-most three decades now, it is the town’s prime mode of transport and in fact it is now embraced by the people as their own.

The vehicle got its name from a space station launched and operated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was the United States’ first space station. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and in-cluded a workshop, a solar

observatory, and other sys-tems.

Although the Skylab crashed into the Indian Ocean, it generated a wide-spread panic among the people that its debris might fall on them. As a result, the word “skylab” stuck into their minds.

Comval’s skylabs are not for the uninitiated. In fact, they are considered danger-ous both to pedestrians and passengers that the Land Transportation Office has banned them on most na-tional highways.

But due to the vehicle’s necessity, “skylabs are here to stay,” said Dompor, who provided us the photos used in this feature.

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TALK N’ TEXT (TNT), the budget brand of wireless ser-vices leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), recent-ly joined thousands in celebrating Sam-buokan Festival, a colorful event high-lighting the harmony among the people of Mati, the capital city of Davao Oriental. Coming from the native Mandaya word ‘sambuok,’ which means  “unity” or “coming into together-ness,” the annual Sambuo-kan Festival gathers the people of Mati in one big celebration of their rich and untainted cultural heritage through street dancing and talent compe-titions, food fest,  exhibits, concerts, trade fairs and other events, including a prestigious skimboarding competition. With the theme, “Mati: Soaring high… Celebrat-ing our heritage,” this year’s festival levels up the celebrations to promote Mati City as a leading tourist destination, owing to its abundant natural re-sources, clear waters and most of all,  warm people. TNT ‘Panalo Ka, Pilipi-nas’ tour This year, TNT added excitement to Sambuo-kan Festival by bringing its trademark “Panalo Ka, Pilipinas” fiesta tour to the city’s Baywalk Area, featuring game booths, contests and a host of ex-

citing activities that gave subscribers a chance to take home TNT premium items. TNT also backed this year’s “Indak Sayaw sa Sambuokan,” a much-anticipated street dancing competition among pub-lic schools in the city. The adrenaline-charged rou-

tine of Rabat Rukamura Mati Central 1 Elementary School earned them first place in the elementary Category, while the Dawan High School was bagged the championship in the high school category for their all-out performance.

Fun-filled foam partyTo highlight Mati’s sce-nic Dahican beach, which is considered by many as the “next Boracay” for its fine white sand, TNT also hosted a foam party for thousands of festivalgo-ers, who had the time of their life playing games and dancing to the latest party music dished out by Davao’s homegrown DJs. The fun-filled foam party, which lasted until the wee

hours of the morning, also served as a fitting finale in this year’s Sambuokan Fes-tival. Throughout the festival, TNT, through Smart, fur-ther boosted its wireless signal and connectivity in the city so participants could instantly tweet, post and share their fun mo-ments with Filipinos all over the world with the most affordable load pro-mos and services, like Unlitext2All Plus 15 (Unli text to all networks and 15 mins of calls to TNT/Smart/SUN valid for 2 days), which come with free 30 MB of mobile In-ternet and unlimited Face-book. Prior to the Sambuo-kan Festival, TNT also joined other local festivi-ties and cultural celebra-tions in Mindanao, such as Hermosa Festival in Zamboanga and Kama-hardikaan Festival in Tawi Tawi, bringing lots of ‘pan-alo moments’ to loyal sub-scribers in the region. For more information on the latest TNT events, promos and services, visit  www.talkntext.com.ph and follow TNT’s offi-cial accounts on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TalkNText) and Twit-ter (@TalkNText).

‘TIS the season to shop and dine! Holidays are fast approaching and everyone’s up and about to complete their Christmas gift list. Just in time with holiday rush, Park Inn by Radisson Davao launches a special promotion for all shoppers, in partnership with select stores in SM Lanang Premier. “Shopaholics and food enthusiasts, unite! We’re offering you a great deal to satisfy your cravings all season long, to keep you go-ing throughout the shopping frenzy,” says Mr. Pavan Kakar, Gen-eral Manager of Park Inn by Radisson Davao. The holiday special, dubbed as “Shop and Dine,” entitles every mall shopper to a Php150 dining discount at RBG, for a minimum of Php1,000.00 single receipt purchase from participating stores in SM Lanang Premier such as the SM Store, SM Supermarket, Kul-tura and Toy Kingdom. “ G u e s t s should present the Shop and Dine voucher at RBG and order a mini-mum worth of Php1,0 0 0.0 0 (taxes exclud-ed) to avail of the said discount. This may be used on regular food offers and holiday specials,” explains Mr. Kakar. “If your total amount of food order at RBG is more than ₱2,000, you will be entitled to an additional Php150 discount. Value increases with every Php1,000 worth of food order.” RBG (Restaurant, Bar & Grill) is Park Inn by Radisson Davao’s hip all-day dining outlet which serves charcoal-grilled meat and sea-food items, locally inspired dishes and classic dishes. Aside from a la carte dishes, they also offer set meals catering to both individu-als and families. Quickfire is the daily set lunch priced at ₱375.00 net. Supersize is a weekend family meal good for 5 persons, which offers generous servings from appetizer to dessert and priced at only Php1,699.00 net. Mr. Kakar expounds more on what’s covered by the dining dis-count. “We invite everyone to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year with us. We got an exciting lineup of dining specials at affordable prices. And, yes, you can still use the Php150 voucher from Shop and Dine for any of this season’s highlights.” For Thanksgiving, RBG modifies the classic American feast into a generous set meal packaged with two glasses of wine. Priced at only Php750 net per person, you get to choose from their se-lection from starter to dessert. Options for entrée include French Beans with Corn Kernels and Carrot Allumette, Full Leg Turkey with Orange Spiked Cranberry Sauce, Smoked Grilled Turkey served with cranberry sauce with a twist of orange liqueur, and Oven-Roasted Pork Loin with mango-cilantro salsa. The buffet spread on Christmas Eve has all-time holiday favor-ites such as the Smoked Ham, Beef Shank Asado, Pork Loin Adobo, plus a variety of salad mixes and delectable desserts. Regular rate is at Php750 net inclusive of bottomless juice. Buffet premium packaged with open bar for beers and spirits is priced at Php1,350 net per person. Welcome the New Year with colors and music as RBG dresses up the entire place as a carnival. Indulge in a feast with Crispy Boneless Lechon De Leche, Drunken Seafood, Pulled Pork Ragout and Greek Chicken. Regular rate is Php950 net per person inclu-sive of bottomless juice. You can also toast until midnight with the special buffet offer packaged with open bar for beers and spirits at only Php1,450 net per person. RBG also offers Christmas and New Year’s Day breakfast and brunch. Buffet opens at 6am, starting with breakfast priced at Php550 net and brunch from 10am to 2pm for only Php650 net. “We got everything covered from regular weekday and week-ends all the way to holiday celebrations,” shares Mr. Kakar. “You get to enjoy any of these feasts at a lesser price simply by shop-ping in our partner stores. Guests may also opt to use the Shop and Dine voucher to get 10% discount on best available room rates. They may check out the rates online via www.parkinn.com/hotel-davao.” The Shop and Dine voucher is good for one time use only. Dis-count cannot be combined with other existing discounts and special offers. Promo and redemption period is from November 1, 2014 to January 15, 2015. Per DTI-DCFO Permit No. 403, Series of 2014. For reservations and inquiries, call +63-82-272-7600 or email reser-vations.davao@parkinn.com. Follow @parkinndavao on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more details on upcoming promotions.

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Talk ‘N Text backed Sambuokan Festival’s “Indak Sayaw sa Sambuokan,” a much-anticipated street dancing competition among public schools in Mati City, Davao Oriental.

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GMA News and Public Af-fairs makes a bold move in an effort to fortify its stance as the most trusted news organization in the country by unifying the brand of its nationwide and regional newscasts as one ‘24 Oras’ beginning Monday, November 10. The localized news-casts spoken in the re-gional dialects, produced and aired by the Net-work’s regional stations in Davao, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Iloilo, Dagupan, Ilocos, and Bicol, adopt the title of the national newscast ‘24 Oras’ plus the name of the area of coverage as distinguish-ing element. This major re-branding is part of 24 Oras’ re-launch on the same day, with veteran broadcast-ers Mike Enriquez and Mel Tiangco welcoming

reputable journalist Vicky Morales as their newest co-anchor. Come Monday, Davao’s leading newscast ‘Testigo’ will be re-launched as ‘24 Oras Southern Mindanao,’ headlined by news an-chor Tek Ocampo. Meanwhile, Cebu’s ‘Balitang Bisdak’ will be known as ‘24 Oras Central Visayas;’ Cagayan de Oro’s ‘Testigo Northern Mind-anao’ as ‘24 Oras Northern Mindanao;’ Iloilo’s ‘Rat-sada’ as ‘24 Oras Western Visayas;’ Dagupan’s ‘Bali-tang Amianan’ as ‘24 Oras North Central Luzon;’ Ilocos’ ‘Balitang Ilokano’ as ‘24 Oras Ilokano;’ and Bicol’s ‘Baretang Bikol’ as ‘24 Oras Bikol.’ 24 Oras Southern Min-danao and all of GMA’s regional newscasts will continue to deliver the same topnotch quality of

broadcasting, the most relevant and latest news where it happens, as it happens known to 24 Oras—credible, unbiased, fair, critical—matched with a new color scheme and logo, improved graphics, and a refur-bished set design. “We are re-introducing our regional newscasts not only to give our audi-

ence an improved visual experience but more im-portantly to also make a clear statement that GMA’s regional news-casts and the nationwide ‘24 Oras’ share the same identity and mission which is to deliver bal-anced, unbiased news and without vested in-terest whatsoever. As we say it in Filipino, ‘walang kinikilingan, walang pino-protektahan, Serbisyong Totoo lamang’,” says Cel Amores, Assistant Vice-President and Head for GMA Regional News and Public Affairs. Catch the all new 24 Oras regional newscasts from 5:05 to 5:50PM, air-ing Monday to Friday, over seven GMA regional stations in Davao, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Iloilo, Dagupan, Ilocos, and Bi-col.

IN celebration of its sec-ond anniversary, Jeepney TV, dubbed as the home of throwback Philippine television shows, will hold a concert in tribute to the iconic musical program of the ‘80s: Ryan Ryan Musi-kahan at Rockwell Tent in Makati. Ryan Ryan Musikahan was a popular musical show of the award-win-ning composer, Ryan Cay-abyab which showcased a variety of musical genre to the Filipino household. The show premiered in

1988 after ABS-CBN’s re-launch following the EDSA People Power Rev-olution and has garnered critical success. With the show’s re-airing on Jeepney TV in 2012, Ryan Ryan Musi-kahan has appealed to a new generation of view-ers and has recaptured the hearts of its loyal fans. To give emphasis to the show’s unique legacy in Philippine entertain-ment, Jeepney TV revives Ryan Ryan Musikahan with a Christmas special

entitled, Ryan Ryan Musi-kahan: Home For Christ-mas. Among the artists who will perform in the con-cert are singer-songwriter Aiza Seguerra, The Voice of the Philippines Coach Bamboo, First Lady of Philippine Musical The-atre Menchu Laucheng-co-Yulo, and Mr. Pure Energy Gary Valenciano. Musical director Gerard Salonga will be partici-pating in the concert as well together with mem-bers of the OFY (Orches-

tra of the Filipino Youth). Ryan Ryan Musikahan: Home For Christmas will air on December 14, 8PM through Jeepney TV. Meanwhile, watch memorable episodes of Ryan Ryan Musikahan every Monday at 7:00AM only on Jeepney TV. Jeepney TV is available on SkyCable channel 9 and other leading cable systems nationwide. For more updates and pro-gramming schedules, like www.facebook.com/JeepneyTV.

ABS-CBN stars surprised and gave emotional and heartfelt messages of thanks to important people in their lives and people who have served as inspiration to many via the #KapamilyaThankYou videos currently viewable online at www.kapamily-athankyou.com. John Lloyd Cruz thanked his discoverer in showbiz, Regie Picayo. While doing the interview, Regie was surprised by John Lloyd, who thanked his friend whom he has

not seen in a long time. Multimedia star Toni Gonzaga, on the other hand, thanked her sister Alex Gonzaga. In a rare moment, Toni person-ally shared with Alex how thankful she is for having her in her life. If John Lloyd and Toni showed gratitude to people close to their hearts, Julia Montes, Mat-teo Guidicelli, Gary Valen-ciano, and Noli De Castro honored people who tru-ly deserve to be thanked for for being selfless and

being good examples to many. Julia, whose mom is deaf and mute, thanked Ricky Bautista, a devoted teacher to the deaf and

mute. Together with his students, Julia pulled off a surprise for him. Matteo honored fellow Cebuano Iris Melodia who returned P800,000 in cash

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while doing her job as a janitress in a mall. OFW’s from San Fran-cisco aboard a plane back to the Philippines were serenaded by no less than Mr Pure Energy him-self, Gary V, as the latter thanked them for being modern day heroes. Kabayan Noli De Cas-tro went all the way up the mountains of Orien-tal Mindoro to thank the hardworking teachers of Lantuyang Elementary School by giving them school and teaching sup-plies.

Meanwhile, popstar Sarah Geronimo took some time off her busy schedule to visit and per-sonally show her love for her fan who has progeria, a genetic condition that causes a child’s body to get old and show signs of aging. Get to see the full vid-eo of these heartwarm-ing moments at www.kapamilyathankyou.com. Watch out for more #Ka-pamilyaThankYou videos featuring your favorite Ka-pamilya personalities on the site.

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IT is not everyday that high fashion is mo-bilized and brought to your mall-step, but the Ayala Malls has pulled off just that mas-terfully with its Cary Santiago traveling exhibit, which is ongoing until December 19. Different Ayala lifestyle destinations all over the country will play host to 15 signa-ture Cary Santiago masterpieces and it was Abreeza Mall’s turn last November 5.

The stylish assemblage was unveiled to a select group of guests that after-noon and shortly opened to the public soon after-ward. The revered de-signer hailing from Cebu was on hand to personally welcome everyone to the exhibit, his presence and designs leaving everyone awestruck and thrilled

beyond words. The gowns shown in the exhibit were visibly a fitting culmination of the distinct artistry and extraordinary craftsman-ship that Cary Santiago has honed for 25 years in the fashion industry. The intricate faces of the Bud-dha faces that seemed to have been molded onto the dresses themselves were a result of the deep impact that a trip to Hanoi had on the fashion power-house prior to producing this collection. The temple steps and chinoiserie of the country ignited his usual passion for history, arts and culture and this translated into creating patterns that strongly re-sembles carvings onto sil-houettes typical to French couture. Shortly recounting his beginnings in the fash-ion industry when his penchant for drawing dress patterns dawned at

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dustry and he instantly be-came the talk of the town. To date, he is heralded as the Master of Philippine Couture and is the favorite designer of many powerful women. The Cary Santiago trav-elling exhibit at Abreeza Mall will be on display un-til November 12. For inquiries and up-dates on Abreeza Mall news and events, contact (082) 321-9332. Stay updat-ed by liking www.facebook.com/AbreezaMall and fol-lowing @iloveabreezamall on Instagram.

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MOVING UPEVEN without injured

stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook,

Oklahoma City made the lat-est chapter of its rivalry with Memphis look like many of the previous ones.

Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka missed what would have been a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer, and Memphis held on for a 91-89 win Friday night to remain unbeaten.

The Thunder won last season’s first-round playoff series 4-3, and four of the games went to overtime. The Grizzlies expected the same kind of game, even with the Thunder short-handed.

“It’s just the OKC-Mem-phis rivalry,” said Mike Conley, who led the Grizzlies with 20 points. “It’s always going to be close, no matter who’s out there.”

Conley’s 3-pointer with 38.3 seconds left gave Mem-phis the lead for good.

“It was a good look,” he said. “We moved the ball well that possession. It seemed like me and Courtney (Lee) were playing buddy ball there, try-ing to figure out who’s going to take the shot. We got a good look, and we just happened to stick to it and make it.”

Oklahoma City had a

chance to take the lead with 5.9 seconds remaining, but the Thunder were called for a five-second violation. Oklaho-ma City then fouled Lee, who made one of two free throws. That gave the Thunder the ball, down two, with 2.4 sec-onds to go.

Ibaka’s shot from beyond the top of the key just missed.

“Serge put it up,” team-mate Reggie Jackson said. “From where I was it looked like it had a good chance. Un-fortunately, it didn’t go in.”

Lee scored 17 points and Zach Randolph added 16 for the Grizzlies (6-0).

Jackson had 22 points, eight assists and seven re-bounds. Jeremy Lamb scored 17 points, Ibaka scored 16 and Steven Adams added 13 points and 11 rebounds for the Thunder (1-5).

Memphis led 49-40 at halftime, then scored the first four points of the second half before the Thunder called a timeout.

Oklahoma City charged back when Ibaka and Jack-son hit back-to-back 3s to cut Memphis’ lead to two and get the crowd back into the game. Memphis took a 66-62 lead into the fourth quarter.

The Grizzlies began the final period on an 8-3 run

to pull ahead 74-65, but a two-handed jam by Ibaka cut it to 78-76 with just more than 5 minutes to play. Lamb hit a 3-pointer that tied it with just over 4 minutes remaining.

That’s when Memphis’ experience kicked in.

“Fortunately, we’re a team that doesn’t win by a lot of points,” Conley said. “Big wins are 10, 11 points for us. So we’re used to playing in late-game situations — being down two, being down one, going down to the last min-ute.”__

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mitted only three turnovers in the first half. ... Leading scorer Marc Gasol was held to two points on 1-for-5 shoot-ing in the first half. He fin-ished with eight. ... Memphis made 14 of 17 free throws, while Oklahoma City hit just 3 of 11.

Thunder: Lamb played for the first time this season after missing the first five games with a lower back strain. ... The Thunder an-nounced earlier in the day that they signed G Ish Smith. He entered with 4:14 left in the second quarter and played 5 minutes. ... Lance Thomas, a training camp in-vitee, got his second start.

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SLAM. Tony Allen of the Memphis Grizzlies slams one in against Oklahoma Thunder.

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BECOMING a father has not affected Novak Djokovic’s drive and

motivation.The top-ranked Serb won

his 20th Masters title in Par-is last week in his first tour-nament since the birth of his baby boy, Stefan. Childcare duties have not lessened his desire to finish the year as the world’s top-ranked play-er for the third time.

Djokovic is also trying to become the first player to win three straight ATP Finals since Ivan Lendl in 1985-87 when the action starts on Sunday in London.

“Of course certain things change, psychologically, but when you are playing for someone, someone who is your son, of course it’s an extra motivation, Djokovic said.

“My wife and I had the blessing of becoming par-ents recently and this is the most beautiful thing you can experience. The first tour-nament after that happened was in Paris, and I won without dropping a set. We should be making more kids I guess.”

Unbeaten in 27 matches on indoor courts, Djokovic took a big step toward fin-ishing the year at the top by extending his lead over Rog-er Federer to 1,310 points in Paris.

A potential 1,500 points are on offer in London and Federer, who will also have the opportunity to earn some extra points in Switzer-land’s Davis Cup final against France later this month, still has an outside chance of pip-ping the Serb.

But the Djokovic has been playing superbly re-cently and has every reason to believe he will withstand Federer’s late charge.

“Obviously, there are some matches I wish I played better this year,” the Wimbledon champion said. “But now I’m in a good posi-tion fighting for No. 1. I won this tournament two years in a row, I believe I can do well again this year.”

Djokovic said he will make some adjustments to his schedule next season to juggle his professional cal-endar with his new family obligations.

Djokovoc eyes third straight title

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3 FORE TREE. Organizers from Green Tee.Org (l-r) Jerico Bajo, Wendell Adlao, Alejandro So and Bryan Davila announce the 3 Fore Tree golf tournament during the Fast Fridays media forum at the Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.

THE second edition of the 3 Fore Tree golf tournament will tee

off on November 14-15 at the Rancho Palos Verdes Golf and Country Club.

Wendell Adlao of the or-ganizing Green Tee.Org an-nounced the staging of the unique tournament during the Fast Fridays media fo-rum at Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier on Friday.

According to Adlao, the tournament is both an indi-vidual and team format with the individual competition held on November 14 and the Team competition on November 15. Registration Fee is P12,000 for a team of three for the two-day golfing event.

Adlao, who was joined in the forum by fellow organiz-ers Jerico Bajo, Alejandro So and Brian Davila, also said that part of the proceeds of the tournament will go to their tree-planting project

for the Davao watershed. At the moment, the group has already planted an area of 5,000 hectares. The aim is to plant one million trees.

The individual play will be a Modified Stableford scoring format with two mulligans spread on front and back nines.

The team competition will be a Modified Scramble format with three players suiting up for a team with the best ball counting as the team’s score on every hole.

Each player shall have a mandatory six tee shots for the round spread over the front and back nines (three each). The player who makes the tee shot cannot hit the ball thereafter and only the remaining two teammates can hit alternately until they hole out.

Prizes for the hole-in-one includes a brand new Toyota Wigo car, Honda mo-torcycles and a Mizuno golf set. (NJB)

3Fore Tree golfest at RPV Nov. 14-15

CITY Mayor’s Office banked on the splen-did first half perfor-

mance of leading scorer Christopher “Bong” Go to carve out a 90 – 62 easy win at the expense of Bureau of Jail Management of Penology in the Mayor Rody Duterte and Vice Mayor Pulong Dute-rte – 12th AFP-PNP Basket-

ball Tournament on Thurs-day night at the Davao City Recreation Center.

Go racked up 19 of his team-high 29 points in the opening half as the CMO rode on the sizzling start to notch its second win in as many games.

The sweet-shooting ex-ecutive assistant of Mayor

Rody Duterte capped his early explosion with a cor-ner trey to end the first two period with CMO leading by 13, 45 – 32.

Emanuel Montalban chipped in 11 and three oth-er players – Dindo Pastor, Deogracias Campo and Ricky Barsalote – provided size-able contribution for CMO

which was never threatened in the entire second half.

The Jailmen failed to re-deem themselves after the morale-deflating first half to absorb their first loss in two starts.

Aside from Abraham Campomanes who had 12 points, No other Jailmen scored in double digit.

THE Philippines’ Liv-ing Boxing Legend Manny “Pac-Man”

Pacquiao will defend his WBO Welterweight Cham-pionship title against Huntington New York’s undefeated WBO Light Welterweight Champion, Chris Algieri, on November 23, Sunday, at the Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena, airing at 8am (Philippine Stan-dard Time).

Opinions about the Pac-quiao vs. Algieri match is as diverse as the fighters in this card, featuring boxers from different countries. At one end, boxing afficiona-dos feel that Algieri has no chance against Pac-Man, given the Filipino Legend’s experience, fighting style, and elite status. Some say Pacquiao may have a diffi-cult time winning because his athletic energies are spread thin since his recent debut as basketball team owner-player. But whatev-er the final outcome, we’re sure to see a great fight be-tween a boxing legend and a rising star.

The Pacquiao vs. Al-gieri fight is the main event of Hunger for Glory which also features numerous international boxing stars in its undercard. Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko will have his first WBO feather-weight title defense against Thailand’s Chonlatarn Piri-yapinyo. Las Vegas’ Jes-sie Vargas will defend his WBA super lightweight title against Mexico’s An-tonio De Marco. And in a 12-round elimination bout for the WBO flyweight world title, Guizhou Chi-na’s Zou Shiming will face Thailand’s Kwanpichit Onesongchaigym.

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TOUGH DEFENSE. Beau Belga of Rain Or Shine is heavily guarded byBarako Bull’s Dave Marcelo in their PBA Philippine Cup match won by Rain Or Shine. Nuki Sabio

Pacquiao-Algieri on SKY pay-per-view Contrasting results for CMO, BFP

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SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES

PBA organizers bare 85 percent of tickets already sold

THOSE planning to watch the PBA out of town game in Davao

City will have to grapple for the remaining 15% available tickets left.

This was bared yesterday by Architect Hector Magno of the organizing Arki Quest during the Fast Fridays me-dia forum at the Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta in SM Lanang Premier.

Magno said the tickets were selling fast since they started selling late October for the game between Rain Or Shine Elasto Painters and the Meralco Bolts on No-vember 15 at the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) Gym in Obrero.

“Halos paubos na ang tickets. Kaya yung gusting manood mas mabuti na bu-mili na kayo ng ticket ngay-on,” said Magno.

The ROS-Meralco match is a regular season game in the PBA Philippine Cup cal-endar and will be beamed live by TV5. Game starts at 4:30 p.m.

Bannering the Elasto Painters are Gilas Pilipinas standouts Gabe Norwood, Paul Lee, Jeff Chan and Beau Belga while the Bolts will also have Gilas shooting for-ward Gary David on their roster.

“It’s an interesting game dahil maraming Gilas play-ers ditto,” Magno said.

The PBA tickets are priced from P1,800 for the best seats at ringside, P1,500

for courtside seats, P1000 for lower box, P800 for up-per box and P600 for general admission.

Architect Josephine Lo said that anticipating last year’s turnout when the PBA game filled the venue for the simultaneous season open-ing, this year’s game will have numbered seats for or-derly crowd control. A capac-ity crowd of 6,000 is expect-ed to watch the much-antici-pated PBA match.

Part of the proceeds of the PBA game will go to the completion of a kin-dergarten school building for Matigsalog children in Salumay.

The PBA entourage will arrive beginning November 13 with the Meralco Bolts expected to arrive at 10:30 a.m. from Manila. They will hold a practice at the USEP Gym at 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on November 13 and 14 and a shootaround in the morning of November 15.

The Elasto Painters will arrive November 14 at 10:30 a.m. and will plunge into practice at 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. They will also hold a shooting practice in the morning of November 15.

“There will also be mall visits so people can catch a glimpse of the PBA stars,” said Magno. The two teams are expected to make ap-pearances at the SM City Davao, Gaisano Mall, Abree-za Mall and SM Lanang Pre-mier.

A slam dunk contest and a three-point shootout will serve as the appe-

tizer for the PBA out of town game in Davao City on No-vember 15 at the USEP Gym.

The twin competition will feature not PBA stars but local collegiate stand-outs who could well be fu-ture PBA players themselves.

Organizer Hector Magno

of Arki Quest said during the Fast Fridays media forum at Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier that the contest, which will start at 1:30 p.m., is aimed at providing exposure for local basketball talents aside from the entertainment side prior to the game between Rain Or Shine and Meralco Bolts at 4:30 p.m.

“Marami tayong magag-aling na players pero konti lang ang napupunta sa PBA. Sana sa pamamagitan nito madiscover din ang mga players natin,” Magno said.

Serving as judges in the contest are PBA coaches Norman Black of Meralco and Yeng Guiao of Rain Or Shine.

Magno said the contes-

tants are handpicked from University of Mindanao, Ateneo de Davao University, Jose Maria College, John Paul College and Holy Cross of Davao College.

“These collegiate play-ers will be competing for the slam dunk and three-point shooting contests while we are filling the venue,” said Magno.

Slamfest, shootout as appetizersPBA IN DAVAO. Architects Hector Magno and Josephine Lu announce the staging of the PBA out of town game on November 15 during the Fast Fridays media forum at the Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.

njb@edgedavao.net

By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO

BATTLE ROYALE. The Meralco Bolts will rely on Gilas stalwarts Jarred Dillinger, Gary David and Dabawenyo center John Ferriols while Rain Or Shine will bank on Gilas members Paul Lee and Jeff Chan.