Filipino Star July 2010 Edition

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Volume XXVIIi, No. 6 July 2010
www.filipinostar.org
Filipino Montrealers hold Pista sa Nayon
Montreal, July 16, 2010 - The
annual town festival entitled “Pista sa
Nayon” organized by FAMAS will be
held in Mackenzie King Park on
Sunday, July 18, 2010. It is expected
that there will be many people who will
flock to the Park because of the nice
summer weather. All the tents have
already been taken by different
community
organizations
and
businesses.
A complete line up of activities
has been made by the organizing
committee headed by Chairperson
Manny Lagasca and Vice-chairperson,
Dr. Gene Santander. The flag raising
ceremony will be at 11:00 a.m. to kickoff the festival which will surely be
graced by some V.I.P.s from the CDNNDG Borough and the City of Montreal.
A community mass will be held at 2:00
p.m. Games, entertainment, and other
surprise numbers will be included as
part of the day’s celebration.
As usual, the opportunity to
meet and greet all your neighbors,
friends,
and
acquaintances
is
something that one should not miss.
After all, this “Pista sa Nayon” only
comes once a year in the month of July.
FAMAS president Au Osdon and her
One of the photos taken by the North American Filipino Star of a past “Pista sa Nayon” shows people enjoiying themselves while others gather
executive board have been working
under colorful tents where they share potluck food and exchange news. This year’s photos will be published in the next month’s issue.
hard to make this event a success.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino Inaugurated
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
MANILA, Philippines -Benigno
Aquino III, sworn in Wednesday as the
Philippines' 15th president, promised to
prosecute the corrupt and banish
poverty as he urged Filipinos to help
him in a job he likened to a biblical
burden.
The son of two Philippine
democracy
icons,
Aquino,
50,
succeeds Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
whose stormy nine-year rule was
rocked by four failed coup attempts
and allegations of corruption, voterigging and human rights abuses,
which she denied.
Some
500,000
attended
President Benigno Aquino III, center, takes his oath before Supreme Aquino's oath-taking at a seaside park
Court Associated Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as the Philippines' in the capital Manila, police said.
15th President during inaugural ceremony Wednesday June 30, 2010, in
Manila, Philippines. At right holding the Holy Bible is Jesuit priest Father
Catalino Arevalo. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Aquino inaugurated
Contents
Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . 2
Cooperative News . . . . . . . . .
Any Which Way (Op.Ed.) .
To u r i s m
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E a r t h Ta l k
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Ask the Video Guy . . . . . . . . .10
Philippine Cuisine . . . . . . . .
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Showbiz Gossip . . . . . . . . . . 17
Classified Ads....... . . . . . . . 21
Inyo ng mabibili ang pangarap ninyong bahay
sa madaling panahon sa pamamagitan ng
tamang mortgage.
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July 2010
The North American Filipino Star
Letter to the Editor
Montreal, July 12, 2010
Ms. Julie Parado
6241 Trans Island
Montreal, QC H3W 1B7
Dear Ms. Parado:
I have not wanted to waste my time answering a letter from someone
who thinks she is the only one who does something good for the community for
over 40 years but your persistence in tugging at my conscience made me write
this long reply to put to rest your false claims that I owe you gratitude and that I
must be worried about your friends’ opinions about me. Moreover, you need to
understand that you are completely wrong in your assumptions and
interpretations of people’s motivation. There are many of us who are charitable
and do good things but we never make a big deal of what we do. Actually, there
are many unsung heroes in our community but they do not clamor for
recognition like you do. Writing a letter to reproach me does not cause me to
lose my sleep over your allegation that I am ungrateful to you. I am merely
surprised how you have presumed that the few times you volunteered to be a
cashier at the Coop should merit an eternal gratitude. If you are religious and if
you are sincere in rendering service to the community, why are you expecting an
immediate return of this favor from me? Don’t you believe that when you do
good to someone, your reward does not come from the same person but usually,
someone else will do good to you? At least, this is how I have always lived my
life. I do not expect to have something back from the receiver of my kindness. I
believe that there is an Omnipotent Being who knows what is in our heart and
gives us what we deserve even though we may not be asking for it.
In order to put things in proper perspective, I would like to point out to
you that you offered to volunteer when I was not even actively involved with the
Coop. It was in September or October 2006 when you were accepted to
volunteer by Ben Bade and Rhoda Tremocha. However, they were not thrilled to
have you volunteer because they knew your past record of rubbing people the
wrong way. Even Laila Elumbra complained to me because you made her cry.
You reproached her for the help you gave her. Then when I became treasurer of
the Coop in January 2007, you were wondering how I was chosen to be the
treasurer. So you are right, I know who you are but I think you are suffering from
a delusion of grandeur. We were neither friends nor enemies and we never
spoke to one another before even though we might be in the same room. In
particular, when you were working closely with Mrs. Quintos, the former honorary
consul, you appeared to me as someone who was very fond of power and you
always wanted to be the one to tell people what to do. You would understand
later in this letter why I had to mention this. Once in a while, you would talk to
me and I would answer you politely but sometimes you also ignored me and I
would do the same. So there is no love lost between us. I am just surprised that
you are expecting a lot from me. The Coop is for the community, it is not my
personal business, nevertheless, you would have made me believe in your
kindness if you had not shown me your true color when you walked out on me.
I wonder if you can recall what happened not too long ago when you were just
about to resume your volunteer duty at the temporary location of the Coop. No
one was around so you took advantage of me by giving me a “dressing down”
barrage of questions and accusations. You insisted on discussing the issue
about your old, worn out shelves that you offered to the Coop. When I told you
that I could not afford the time to argue with you as I had an appointment, you
literally “flew off the handle.” You uttered many unpleasant words I could not
recall but what remained vividly in my mind was your hateful and spiteful image.
From then on, I was completely convinced that you were not real and that you
had not really intended to help me but to find faults and discourage me.
Just because I am the president does not mean you can put all the
blame on me. If you are a reasonable person, you would recognize that I did not
have any role in your arrangement with Ben Bade who told me that you offered
to sell the shelves for $150 as your friend did not need them anymore. You
changed your mind and invoiced the Coop $500 with taxes included. Do you
have a right to charge taxes when you do not even have a tax number? You even
used your friend’s name to write a registered letter to the Coop to claim the $500
which you now overestimate to be $1000. Where is your sense of balance? As
president, I replied via registered letter, offering to pay you $150 as per original
agreement you made with Ben Bade, but the letter was returned to us. It is
obvious that your friend did not even write this letter but it was you all along who
wanted to make money at the expense of impoverishing the Coop. Don’t you
know that the Coop is practically bankrupt and I am the only one who is
bankrolling it to keep it open? You had also repeatedly mentioned to me that you
recruited six members and that they were claiming to take their money back. I
suppose you are not aware of the law in Quebec. You cannot claim any money
back when there is none left. If the Coop had closed down, no one would have
any hope of collecting anything, including me. I am the biggest loser as I have
invested a lot of my own money in it but I am not giving up because there are
many more positive people in the community than negative ones. I am quite
optimistic that the Coop could recover and pay everyone back, including you,
even though you have always doubted the possibility of making people support
the Coop. You even claimed that people would not give any financial help to the
Coop as they were afraid that I would pay myself first. This really amazes me as
to how you can come up with such a ridiculous statement. I had lent money to
the Coop without any guarantee. Why would I now take this money for myself
when I know that it should be used to improve the Coop’s capitalization?
I hope that I have explained myself clearly to you and that you would
stop thinking badly about me for letting Mr. Sarmiento write his opinions about
you. The battle is between you and him, and nothing to do with me. I also ask
you to stop blaming me for your shelves. Blame Ben if you have to blame
somebody but not me. Vicky Laya intervened and told me that you would pick
up the shelves and the plastic containers. You seemed to have forgotten that
you already picked up most of them, and I seem to recall you were missing only
one or two covers. You used them when you moved. If there are a few pieces
missing, I am sure they do not cost more than $10 or $20 and you are rich
enough not to bother collecting such a meager amount. I have to search the files
to look for your signature on the pick up of the plastic containers but that can
wait as I have more urgent matters to attend to. According to Ben, you were
supposed to pickup the shelves and there was an appointment made but you
were the one who did not show up. So do me a favor, if you have to complain
about your shelves being left in the landlord’s basement, you should call Ben
Bade at his home phone number. Just do not accuse me of passing the buck to
him. I am not guilty of any negligence as you claim. It is not my job to follow up
on your business with Ben even though I am the current president.
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Chief Editor & Publisher
Al Abdon
Jerry Estrada
Columnists
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News & Layout Editor
Mark Flores
Advertising Representative
Bert Abiera
Founder
Hilda T. Veloso
Community News
Mary Joy Lizarondo
Sports News
The opinions expressed by the writers and columnists do no necessarily reflect that of
the management of the North American Filipino Star. and its editors.
July 2010
Cooperative News
Moving the Filipino Coop
for Better Things to Come
The end of July signals the end of
our lease in the duplex basement
apartment on 4151-A Van Horne where the
Filipino Coop is temporarily located. We
are preparing our move to a new and
better area which is the basement space
of the Cuisine de Manille Restaurant on
5710 Victoria Avenue near the corner of
Cote Ste. Catherine Road.
Many people who came to know
about the Coop’s difficulties and future
plans have expressed their agreement
with me that moving to this new location
will make a big difference. Besides saving
on paying a modest rent, increasing
customer traffic into the Coop will most
likely happen. . People usually flock to
this place every weekend for the special
buffet. The restaurant customers can be
the Coop customers and vice-versa. It will
be a win-win situation as we will be
helping one another. The restaurant is also
a big supporter of the Coop as the owners
have already been trying to buy whatever
they can to help. Now that it is being
located right at their doorstep, they will
surely find it even more worthwhile to shop
at a place that is conveniently located and
being able to help the Coop more.
As I contemplate on all kinds of
ideas to make the community become
more aware of the existence of the Filipino
Solidarity Cooperative, I have always been
keen in getting other people to tell me
what they need and if the Coop can
provide it. Not too long ago, a French
Canadian woman came to the store and
asked what she could cook for her Filipino
husband. I suggested a few recipes for
which she bought all the ingredients from
the Coop. This made me realize that
perhaps we could promote the Coop by
offering cooking classes. At that time,
there was no plan yet to move to the
Cuisine de Manille. Now that we are, I
believe we may be able to implement this
idea of conducting cooking classes and
selling the ingredients for the Filipino
recipes. I also have students who have
expressed their need to learn how to cook.
Now that there is an adjacent restaurant
with a kitchen facility, perhaps it is
possible to go into this prospective
venture. Wouldn’t it be great if this idea
clicks? It will not only help people to learn
a skill but also sell groceries for the most
popular Filipino recipes.
Moving again after six months is
not an easy feat. It will be even more
difficult if there are not enough people to
help do the move and if we do not prepare
the new place ahead of time. For this
reason, I am asking volunteers to help us
set up the wall shelves and check the
proper arrangement of the freezers so that
we do not waste any space in the 288
square feet basement which we are going
to occupy. In order to do a good job, we
are in great need of a handy man or
carpenter who can put up the display
cases or shelves. We have passed the
word around in the community that we
need volunteers to help us in this regard
so that we do not have to spend a lot of
money in doing this. I hope someone who
is reading this article knows someone who
has a few hours to spare. We will be able
to afford minimum wage pay, and provide
some lunch for one day’s work. The date
can be a weekend or a weekday, bearing
in mind that we need to move into this new
location on July 30 and 31.
We have rented a tent during the
Pista sa Nayon in Mackenzie King Park.
We will try to dispose of our merchandise
as much as possible in order to reduce the
stuff to be moved. We would also like to
sell some office furniture, air conditioner,
shelves, and a display case that has been
disassembled for easy moving. If we
cannot fit in all the freezers, we may have
to sell the extras.
Once we have settled down in
the new place, we will focus on keeping
stock which can be sold fast. We will
avoid buying merchandise that is not easy
to sell. We also plan to keep the Coop
open at the same time that the restaurant
opens from 12 or 11 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m.
For this purpose, we are calling for
volunteer members to let us know if they
can give even 3 hours a week to serve as
a cashier. Training will be provided to all
volunteers who will work as cashiers. Of
course, we do not expect to use free
services forever. Once the Coop becomes
more profitable and able to pay, we will
offer part time jobs to those who have
been volunteering and who are already
well trained. After all, one of the benefits of
a cooperative is its ability to create jobs for
the community. It is also supposed to
promote entrepreneurship. Unlike a multinational corporation, the cooperative is
run by its own members. Corporations
hire their executives from the outside
world and they usually require M.B.A.
degrees as well as extensive management
experience. In the cooperative, it is an
asset to have a Coop director with
management and business experience
but this is not a pre-requisite.
I can hardly wait to see how the
inactive members of the Coop will
respond to the new location and if they will
now find a way to patronize their own
Cooperative store.
President, The Filipino Solidarity
Cooperative (2008-2011)
The Filipino community triumvirate composed of Messrs. Alberto Baens Santos,
Bernardo “Budz” Sarmiento, and Reuben Santos, visited the Marché Coop branch
located at Gilmore College International on 5450 Cote des Neiges, July 7, 2010.
Shown with them is Zenaida Kharroubi, founder & director of the College and the
current president of the Coop. They all bought some of the Coop’s stock.
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I do not feel upset with whatever you say, telling me that people do not approve
my actions. This is a democratic country where there is freedom of speech. You
and your friends cannot always intimidate others to keep quiet about blatant
transgressions committed by a specific person or group. You claim that my
newspaper is NOT AT PAR with your friend’s Filipino Forum. I do not feel upset
about that as I am quite satisfied with my own newspaper, regardless of whether
or not I have a lot of advertisers. I do not suffer from any inferiority complex at
all as I am confident that no one can fault me about any false claim to any
glorious title. It is okay to be humble and to be unknown. I am not crazy about
being put neither on a pedestal nor to be declared a hero. I have my own faith
and I trust that my conscience is clear. I never cheated anyone, and operated
my businesses honorably and honestly for the past 21 years. I always work hard
and I am willing to sacrifice myself for what I believe in.
If it would make you feel better, I would like to express a simple word of
thanks to you, even though I do not consider it a personal favor as I had
explained above. But perhaps, you would be surprised if you knew how you had
hurt and insulted me when you drove me and my students away from the Palais
de Congres where we were distributing Gilmore College brochures during the
visit of the then President Fidel Ramos. I still remember until now your stern look
at us and how you told us that we should not distribute those brochures. For this
unkind act of yours, I asked my parents not to buy their plane tickets from you
anymore because you treated me like “garbage.” So, why do you think I should
consider you an “Angel of Mercy.? But as I said, I tried to forgive you in my mind
so when Riza Esmeralda suggested your name to be included in the committee;
I agreed as a sign that I wanted to forgive you for the hurt you caused me.
However, people who knew your record also questioned me why I included you
in the committee. They were even more surprised to see your picture with me
on the front page of the North American Filipino Star.
Finally, I must admit it was a mistake to accept your offer of being a Coop
volunteer. I should have listened to my hunch that the only reason you wanted
to volunteer is to spy on me and see what I was doing. I think it is your wish that
I fail in my goal to unite the community. A reliable source reported to me that you
told her to stop helping me and that you expected me to fail. Your exact words
were: “Why are you helping Kharroubi? Huag mo siyang tulungan.. Babagsak
din yan balang araw.” The same idea seems to be reflected in your negative
attitude as you also have told me many times to give up. Needless to say, your
intention is not to help but to see to it that I could not accomplish something that
might turn out to be greater than what you could accomplish. For this reason, I
would do the opposite – I will try again and again to make the Coop work. If I
decide to give up, it will not be you who will decide this for me.
In spite of everything and your bitterness about letting Mr. Sarmiento
write in my paper, I want to point out to you that I take my job seriously as a
responsible publisher. I would offer the same privilege to anyone who wants to
answer Mr. Sarmiento in my newspaper. If you wish to answer him for his
opinions, I welcome you to engage him in a real debate of issues. In fact, I
indicated in this column that anyone is welcomed to write his or her opinions but
of course I would have to use my editorial privilege of seeing to it that the article
meets certain standards of form and mechanics without changing the substance
of the writer’s opinion. For your information, Mr. Sarmiento writes perfectly well
and I do not need to edit anything but everything he writes is his own opinion
and does not necessarily reflect mine.
For old time’s sake, after I had let out my hurt feelings as much as you
had done, I am not going to think about you at all. I wish you well for I believe
strongly that there is God. He is the only One who will decide for all of us who
is right and who is wrong as well as who should be rewarded and who should
be punished.
Editor & Publisher
From Page 1
Aquino inaugurated
Aquino aimed his speech at the many
Filipinos exasperated at the Southeast
Asian country's enduring problems,
that also include decadeslong Islamic
and communist insurgencies.
"This day marks the end of a
leadership that has long been
insensitive to the suffering of the
people ... and this is the beginning of
my own Calvary," Aquino said, referring
to Christ's crucifixion. "But if many of us
bear the cross, we will lift it, no matter
how heavy."
Aquino, called "Noynoy" by his
supporters, was a low-key legislator
until he swept to a landslide win in May
10 elections _ buoyed by his illustrious
family name, his anti-corruption
platform and Filipinos' longing for
moral and political renewal.
"He signifies change and
hope," said businesswoman Marivic
Roy, who joined the crowds at the
inauguration, accompanied by her
husband and two sons. "That's why
people gravitate toward him. We feel
there is hope for this country."
Aquino's parents were revered
for their opposition to the late dictator
Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted by
a 1986 "people power" revolt - a
defining moment in the Philippines'
political history. Marcos, who had ruled
for two decades, was succeeded by
Aquino's popular mother, Corazon
Aquino. She died last year, prompting
a mass outpouring of sympathy that
turned into a groundswell of support
for her son.
Diplomats from more than 80
countries and two former Philippine
presidents _ Fidel Ramos and Joseph
Estrada _ attended Wednesday's
ceremonies. East Timor President Jose
Ramos Horta, a longtime supporter of
the Aquino family, was among the
foreign dignitaries.
The nationally televised event
resembled a grand concert with
celebrity singers and an orchestra
belting out patriotic music and folk
songs. Yellow confetti _ the signature
color of Corazon Aquino in the people
power uprising _ rained from two
helicopters. Vice President Jejomar
Binay was sworn in before Aquino took
his oath.
July 2010
Secretary Leila de Lima to deliver "true
and complete justice for all."
In his first order as president,
Aquino dismissed officials who are
non-career officers to stop the practice
of using presidential appointments as
rewards. It was not clear how many
officials would be affected.
U.S. Trade Representative
Ronald Kirk, who headed the American
delegation sent by President Barack
Obama to the inauguration, said
Washington was looking forward "to
building on what is the strongest
strategic relationships" between the
two allies.
"We like what we heard from
President Aquino in terms of his
focusing on his rebuilding the
Outgoing president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (right) shakes hands with the incoming
president Benigno Aquino III (on the left) before leaving the Malacanang Presidential
Palace on June 30, 2010, Manila, Philippines.
In his speech, Aquino gave economy, bringing about more
lofty pledges to provide jobs, health transparency to government, more rule
care, schools and more infrastructure of law," he said. "All of that would
to help farmers and businessmen. He greatly entice even more U.S.
also touched on common problems investments to the Philippines."
that highlight the divide between elite
In a brief but awkward
families and the third of the 90 million moment, Aquino and Arroyo shared a
population who live on a dollar a day.
traditional limousine ride from the
Aquino drew wide applause presidential palace to his oath-taking.
when he said he has also suffered like Arroyo was given military honors then
ordinary Filipinos stuck in heavy traffic left to take her oath as a
as siren-blaring convoys carrying congresswoman representing her
powerful people breezed by. "No more northern Pampanga home province _ a
wang-wang," he said, using the local seat she won in the May general
term for blaring sirens.
elections.
He
promised
to
fight
Many in the crowd loudly
corruption,
particularly
in
the booed Arroyo as she drove away, some
notoriously graft-ridden bureaus of chanting "Go home!"
customs and internal revenues, and
Adding to the shopping list of
pledged a new era of good promises for his presidency, Aquino
governance,
reforms
and
a has vowed to restore the credibility of
bureaucracy sensitive to the needs of the judiciary and Congress, which he
ordinary citizens.
says have been seriously eroded under
His new Cabinet unveiled Arroyo's rule.
Tuesday has mostly Aquino allies and
Aquino has also expressed
defectors from Arroyo's government. alarm at the ballooning national budget
Aquino said he would immediately form deficit, which he said could surpass
an independent "Truth Commission" to $8.7 billion (400 billion pesos) this year.
investigate corruption allegations He plans to improve tax collection by
against Arroyo and other scandals cracking down on smuggling _
during her presidency.
comparing the government's revenue
"I can forgive those who did me collection agencies to a pail of water
wrong, but I have no right to forgive shot through with holes.
those who abused our people," said Associated Press writers Oliver Teves
Aquino, who with his mother had and Jim Gomez contributed to this
previously joined street protests calling report.
on Arroyo to resign.
Aquino ordered new Justice
July 2010
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Any Which Way ...
Bernardo “Budz” Sarmiento
(Editor’s Note: The North American Filipino Star welcomes Mr. Bernardo “Budz”
Sarmiento as a regular contributor. He will be tackling a variety of subjects and issues
which we hope will be interesting to our readers. Needless to say, all his opinions in this
column are entirely his own and do not necessarily reflect that of the management of
Filcan Publications, Inc. nor that of the North American Filipino Star’s editors.
Mr. Sarmiento has been living in Montreal since 1976 and currently works as an
orderly or P.A.B. (preposé aux bénéficiaires) at the Jewish General Hospital.).
Fred C. Magallanes’ Proclivity to
Lying is Legendary
Fred Magallanes’ yet another
belligerent reaction to my article (Goliath
never learns his lessons, Page 5, May 2010
Edition, The North American Filipino Star)
is characteristic of someone who is
suffering from Narcissistic Personality
Disorder (NPD). I am not saying definitively
that Flintstone, the sobriquet by which I am
delirious with joy to call Fred Magallanes, is
afflicted with that malady (although I
personally believe that he is), only that he
reacted in a way that someone who was
actually suffering from it would.However,
the best argument that Flintstone – along
with his second banana Julita Parado – is
indeed afflicted with NPD is the incessant
need to dump his negative attributes and
defects onto me and other people, such as
James de la Paz, Au Osdon, Flor Rillo, San
Tino, Albert Floresca, Benny Parial,
Reuben Santos and Bert Santos, to name
only the more frequent victims. He always
accuses me of doing to him exactly what
he has been doing to me. For example, he
wrote in his article titled “Deceit,
grandstanding, all part of BS’ vitriol against
Filipino Forum” and subtitled “BS is idiotic
for praising de la Paz” (Pages 12 and 14,
June 2010 Edition, Filipino Forum), “... It is
his hysterical response to the mildest
criticism that makes me wary.” This came
from a man who inordinately used up the
aggregate of one whole page of his
newspaper (May 2010 Edition) just to
berate me hysterically – yes, hysterically –
for the opinion that I expressed as part of
the article I posted on FAMAS website. In
that particular posting (April 10, 2010, via
Guestbook, FAMAS.ca) I wrote, in
reference to Julita Parado’s being a
writer/columnist
for
Flintstone’s
newspaper, that the Filipino Forum was “...
An irresponsible, one-sided, self-serving,
unfair and unprofessional publication.”
That criticism cannot possibly be any less
mild than what he considered the “mildest
criticism” yet he vilified me in his usual
narcissistic rage – his typical reaction to
the narcissistic injury that he felt he
sustained when he was degraded by
another person, in this case, me.
Meanwhile, he took me to task
and implied that I was stupid for praising
James de la Paz, Flor Rillo, San Tino and
Aurora Osdon and for considering them
innocent of the allegations or accusations
levelled against them. Granting, without
conceding, that they were accused of
certain misdemeanours, they were still
innocent until proven guilty. As far as I
know, there were no cases filed, let alone
guilty verdicts handed down, involving
those people. Flintstone conveniently
forgot that important constitutional legal
principle of “Innocent until proven guilty.”
That San Tino was handcuffed and taken
to jail for allegedly hitting his girlfriend in
the face doesn’t necessarily mean that he
actually did what he was accused of doing.
It is standard procedure for police to put
handcuffs on anyone whom they have
reason to believe had committed a crime.
Yes, it’s an embarrassing experience for
anyone to have to go through, but hardly a
proof that San Tino was guilty of the
misdeed attributed to him.
I agree with Bert Santos and
Reuben Santos when they say that the
publisher/editor-in-chief of the Filipino
Forum is one-sided. In fact, Flintstone is
not only one-sided but also irresponsible,
unfair, self-serving and unprofessional. He
was found guilty by the Conseil de presse
du Quebec at least twice for violating the
Code of Journalistic Ethics, particularly
when he confounded news reports with his
opinions.
Flintstone
is
not
only
irresponsible, unfair, and unprofessional,
but also moronic and unprincipled for not
making the necessary distinctions between
a news report and an opinion piece and
then publish opinions and comments in
news report. It only reinforces my
argument that Flintstone is unprofessional
for not knowing that confounding those
two journalistic styles constitutes a major
breach of the responsibility of the press to
deliver impartial news in keeping with facts
and events. The Conseil de presse du
Quebec in January 2005 found Flintstone
guilty of that.
Flintstone
is
not
only
irresponsible, unfair and unprofessional,
knowing that media organizations and
journalists must not only avoid conflicts of
interest, but also any situation that risks to
so appear, or that seems to be linked in
some way with any political, financial, or
other power. The Conseil de presse du
Quebec in January 2005 found Flintstone
guilty of that.
Flintstone
is
not
only
knowing that it is a breach of journalistic
ethics to use the media for personal ends,
and that the media are violating their role in
society when they report news in a biased
fashion and when they place themselves in
a conflict of interest. The Conseil de
presse du Quebec in January 2005 found
Flintstone guilty of that.
Finally, Flintstone is not only
but also moronic and unprincipled for
having committed the same violations over
and over again thereby gaining the ire of
the Conseil de presse du Quebec for
ignoring their advice and for showing a
lack of respect for the standard rules of
journalistic ethics so often reiterated by the
Council.
The fact that Flintstone continues
to ignore the admonition of the Conseil de
presse du Quebec despite having been
reprimanded and found guilty more than
once speaks volume of his mental health
and probable sadomasochistic tendency.
He mentioned in the May 2010 edition of
his Filipino Forum that there was
something wrong with my makeup. Now I
know that he was just dumping onto me
what he was, still is and will be for a long
time, maybe forever. Flintstone should
seek professional help.
Flintstone tried to destroy my
solid argument that his Filipino Forum was
a misnomer and that he wouldn’t publish
articles written by people outside of his
immediate family and small circle of
friends. He argued that in 2007 he allowed
the article written by Manding Villapando,
the publisher of the Asian Leader, to be
published in the Filipino Forum. It might be
true, but allowing just one article written by
one “outsider” for one time only doesn’t a
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Beyond its potential human health effects,
EarthTalk®
From the Editors of E/The Environmental
Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: I heard about a supposed
dangerous chemical called “triclosan” that
is in many personal care and other
consumer products. Can you enlighten?
-- Carl Stoneman, Richland, WA
Triclosan is a synthetic chemical
compound added to many personal and
household care products to inhibit illness
by preventing bacterial infection. It works
by breaking down the biochemical
pathways that bacteria use to keep their
cell walls intact, and as such kills
potentially harmful germs if used in strong
enough formulations. First developed as a
surgical scrub back in 1972, triclosan is
now used in upwards of 700 different
consumer-oriented products, many of
which people use more than once a day.
They include hand soaps, deodorants,
toothpastes, kids’ toys, yoga mats and, of
course, hand sanitizers.
Whether triclosan is actually as effective as
advertised, especially in the small doses
found in consumer products, is a topic of
much debate. Manufacturers insist that the
product helps reduce infections. But
researchers from the University of
Michigan’s School of Public Health found,
after surveying 27 different studies
conducted between 1980 and 2006 on the
effectiveness of antibacterial soaps, that
washing hands with products containing
triclosan was no more effective in
preventing infectious illness—and did not
remove any more bacteria—than plain
soaps.
The
analysis,
“Consumer
Antibacterial Soaps: Effective or Just
Risky?” was published in 2007 in the peerreviewed journal, Clinical Infectious
Diseases. According to lead researcher
Allison Aiello, triclosan—because of the
way it reacts in living cells—may cause
some bacteria exposed to it to become
resistant to amoxicillin and other commonly
used antibacterial drugs, but she adds that
more research is needed to bear out this
hypothesis.
triclosan can also harm the environment.
According to Beyond Pesticides, some 96
percent of the triclosan from consumer
products is washed down drains where it
flows into wastewater treatment plants
often ill-equipped to deal with it. Inevitably
some of the triclosan escapes treatment
and is released into local waterways,
where exposure to sunlight can convert it
into dioxins, a highly toxic group of
chemicals responsible for contaminating
waterways and wreaking havoc on wildlife.
While the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration is finally taking a fresh look
at triclosan after years of controversy,
consumers can do their part by asking the
places they shop to stop selling products
containing the controversial chemical
additive. The Beyond Pesticides website
offers a customizable sample letter
designed to help consumers convince
local retailers to forego stocking items with
triclosan.
CONTACTS: Clinical Infectious Diseases,
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cid/curren
t;
Beyond
Pesticides,
www.beyondpesticides.org; U.S. Food &
Drug Administration, www.fda.gov.
Dear EarthTalk: I am a bartender in
Sacramento and I would love to be able to
use some sort of locally made or
sustainable version of sugar. What’s out
there?
-- Ryan Seng, via e-mail
It sure would be nice if we could obtain all
of our food and drink items from local
sources, but sugar provides an excellent
example of why such a desire may remain
a pipe dream in the United States for a
long time to come. The sugar we consume
that is produced domestically comes from
sugar cane grown in Hawaii and the
Southeast and sugar beet from the Upper
Midwest, Pacific Northwest, California and
elsewhere. However, it is likely milled and
refined hundreds if not thousands of miles
from where it is harvested, and then
shipped all over the country—causing
untold greenhouse gas emissions—in
various sized packages for our
consumption in our coffee, on our cereal
and, for some of us, in our cocktails.
Massive government subsidies and land
giveaways to the sugar industry in the
American Southeast beginning in the early
18th century established a market for
American-grown sugar despite the fact that
the region’s climate was not tropical
enough to grow cane efficiently. To add
insult to injury, the rerouting of south
Anti-bacterial soaps and other products Florida’s fragile water table to irrigate
utilizing triclosan may in fact be doing thirsty sugar plantations contributed to the
more harm than good for the people decimation of the Everglades, one of the
who use it regularly. According to the nation’s most unique and diverse
non-profit Beyond Pesticides, triclosan ecosystems—and now the subject of a
has been linked to various human multi-billion dollar restoration effort.
health problems. “It is associated with
skin irritation, has been shown to
interfere with the body’s hormones,
and has been linked to an increased
risk of developing respiratory illness, or
asthma, and cancer, as well as subtle
effects on learning ability,” reports the
group, adding that 75 percent of
Americans are walking around today
with trace levels of triclosan in their
bloodstreams. Tests using lab animals
have verified that exposure to large
doses of triclosan can cause
irreparable health damage, but
industry representatives say that the
levels found in consumer products are
much too small to do so.
While you might be hard pressed to find
commercially available local sugar
anywhere in the U.S., you could make your
own. “Years ago, when sugar was an
expensive commodity, many people of
lesser means made their own sugar from
sugar beets,” reports writer Kat Yares on
the eHow.com website. “Every farm and
every home garden had a spot reserved
for beets, and a day was set aside to cook
the beets down into sugar.” While very few
of us grow our own food these days,
growing sugar beets and making sugar
from scratch can be a fun, educational and
tasty project for parents and kids or for
foodies intent on local sourced,
preservative-free
ingredients.
Yares
explains the whole process in her “How to
Make Sugar from Beets” article on
eHow.com.
If that all sounds like too much work,
perhaps you can settle for store-bought
organic sugar, which may not be local but
which is at least produced without
chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Florida
Crystals, Hain, C&H, Domino and others
each offer organic sugar varieties in many
traditional grocery stores coast-to-coast.
There are even more choices at natural
foods specialty stores (like Whole Foods).
Believe it or not, there are even vegan
sugars out there—that is, sugars not
processed with animal-derived bone char
in the refinement process.
July 2010
those of albacore; these products are
sometimes but not always labeled as
“gourmet”
or
“tonno”—and
their
consumption should be limited, even by
adults.
Mercury, a known “neurotoxin” (a poison
that affects the nervous system), is
particularly insidious because it is
widespread in our oceans, primarily due to
emissions from coal-burning power plants.
These smokestacks deposit mercury into
waterways, which carry it to the ocean
where
bacteria
convert
it
into
methylmercury. Fish then ingest it with
their food and from water passing over
their gills.
While sugar itself may be a staple item for
many
cocktails,
some
interesting
alternative natural sweeteners, some of
which may be locally sourced in your
region, do exist. Agave nectar, honey or
even maple syrup are some options that
might just give that Tom Collins the extra
kick it needs to make it stand out from the
other bartender’s drinks down the street—
or in your breakfast cereal, for that matter.
Generally speaking, bigger, older and
large predatory fish (such as sharks,
swordfish, tilefish, king mackerel and some
tuna) near the top of marine food chains
are more likely to have high levels of
mercury than fish lower in the marine food
chain. People exposed to high levels or
frequent doses of mercury can suffer
nervous system disorders, impaired
mental development and other health
problems.
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An April 2003 study, published in
Environmental Health Perspectives, found
that 89 percent of study subjects, chosen
because they ate a significant amount of
fish, had blood mercury levels above the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
(EPA’s) safety threshold of five micrograms
per liter. Even though there are health
benefits to eating fish (including the intake
of healthy omega-3 fatty acids), the EPA
advises that young children, pregnant
women, nursing mothers and women of
childbearing age limit their intake of highmercury fish to one serving per week at
most, while limiting their overall intake of
any fish or shellfish to no more than two to
three servings, or 12 ounces total, per
week.
Dear EarthTalk: I always thought eating fish
was healthy, but now I’m concerned about
mercury in tuna and other fish. Are there
any fish that are still safe to eat?
-- Brit
Brundage, Fairfield, CT
You should be concerned about
contaminants in certain fish, including
some kinds of tuna. The non-profit
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
recommends minimizing consumption of
albacore (white) tuna, a large fish that
accumulates moderate amounts of
mercury in its fatty tissue. But other kinds
of (smaller) tuna, such as skipjack (usually
canned as “light”), which accumulates a
third the amount of mercury as albacore,
are OK to eat in moderation, though
consumption by those under age seven
should be limited.
Mercury isn’t the only harsh pollutant
lurking in the ocean. Industrial chemicals
like PCBs and pesticides like DDT are
awash in marine food chains around the
world. According to EDF, it can take five
years or more for women of childbearing
age to rid their bodies of PCBs, and 12-18
months to appreciably reduce their
mercury levels. EDF adds that moms who
eat toxic fish before becoming pregnant
may have children who are slower to
develop and learn because fetuses are
"Manufacturers that use triclosan in their products insist that the synthetic chemical helps
reduce infections. But numerous studies have shown that washing hands with products
containing triclosan was no more effective in preventing infectious illness than plain
soaps. Other research even links triclosan to various human health and environmental
problems."Jack Black's Stunt Double, courtesy Flickr
To further complicate the issue, some
canned light tuna may contain yellowfin
tuna, which has mercury levels similar to
exposed to stored toxins through the
placenta.
July 2010
Inaugural Speech of President
Benigno Aquino
June 30, 2010, Quirino Grandstand
His Excellency Jose Ramos
Horta, Former President Fidel V. Ramos,
Former President Joseph Estrada, Senate
President Juan Ponce Enrile
and
members of the Senate, House Speaker
Prospero Nograles and members of the
House, justices of the Supreme Court,
members of the foreign delegations,Your
Excellencies of the diplomatic corps, fellow
colleagues in government, aking mga
kababayan.
Ang pagtayo ko dito ngayon ay
patunay na kayo ang aking tunay na lakas.
Hindi ko inakala na darating tayo sa
puntong ito, na ako’y manunumpa sa
harap ninyo bilang inyong Pangulo. Hindi
ko pinangarap maging tagapagtaguyod ng
pag-asa at tagapagmana ng mga suliranin
ng ating bayan.
Ang layunin ko sa buhay ay
simple lang: maging tapat sa aking mga
magulang at sa bayan bilang isang
marangal na anak, mabait na kuya, at
mabuting mamamayan.
Nilabanan ng aking ama ang diktaturya
at ibinuwis niya ang kanyang buhay para
tubusin ang ating demokrasya. Inalay ng
aking ina ang kanyang buhay upang
pangalagaan ang demokrasyang ito.
Ilalaan ko ang aking buhay para
siguraduhin na ang ating demokrasya ay
kapaki-pakinabang
sa
bawat
isa.
Namuhunan na kami ng dugo at handang
gawin itong muli kung kinakailangan.
Tanyag man ang aking mga
magulang at ang kanilang mga nagawa,
alam ko rin ang problema ng ordinaryong
mamamayan. Alam nating lahat ang
pakiramdam
na
magkaroon
ng
pamahalaang bulag at bingi. Alam natin
ang pakiramdam na mapagkaitan ng
hustisya, na mabalewala ng mga taong
pinagkatiwalaan at inatasan nating maging
ating tagapagtanggol.
Kayo ba ay minsan ring nalimutan
ng pamahalaang inyong iniluklok sa
puwesto? Ako rin. Kayo ba ay nagtiis na
sa trapiko para lamang masingitan ng
isang naghahari-hariang de-wangwang sa
kalsada? Ako rin. Kayo ba ay sawangsawa na sa pamahalaang sa halip na
magsilbi sa taumbayan ay kailangan pa
nila itong pagpasensiyahan at tiisin? Ako
rin.
Katulad ninyo ako. Marami na sa
atin ang bumoto gamit ang kanilang paa –
nilisan na nila ang ating bansa sa kanilang
paghahanap
ng
pagbabago
at
katahimikan. Tiniis nila ang hirap, sinugod
ang panganib sa ibang bansa dahil doon
may pag-asa kahit kaunti na dito sa atin ay
hindi nila nakikita. Sa iilang sandali na
sarili ko lang ang aking inaalala, pati ako
ay napag-isip din – talaga bang hindi na
mababago ang pamamahala natin dito?
Hindi kaya nasa ibang bansa ang
katahimikang hinahanap ko? Saan ba
nakasulat na kailangang puro pagtitiis ang
tadhana ng Pilipino?
Ngayon, sa araw na ito - dito
magwawakas ang pamumunong manhid
sa mga daing ng taumbayan. Hindi si
Noynoy ang gumawa ng paraan, kayo ang
7
dahilan kung bakit ngayon, magtatapos na
ang pagtitiis ng sambayanan. Ito naman
ang umpisa ng kalbaryo ko, ngunit kung
marami tayong magpapasan ng krus ay
kakayanin natin ito, gaano man kabigat.
Sa
tulong
ng
wastong
pamamahala sa mga darating na taon,
maiibsan din ang marami nating problema.
Ang tadhana ng Pilipino ay babalik sa
tamang kalagayan, na sa bawat taon
pabawas ng pabawas ang problema ng
Pinoy na nagsusumikap at may
kasiguruhan sila na magiging tuloy-tuloy
na ang pagbuti ng kanilang sitwasyon
Kami ay narito para magsilbi at
hindi para maghari. Ang mandato ninyo sa
amin ay pagbabago – isang malinaw na
utos para ayusin ang gobyerno at lipunan
mula sa pamahalaang iilan lamang ang
nakikinabang
tungo
sa
isang
pamahalaang kabutihan ng mamamayan
ang pinangangalagaan.
Ang mandatong ito ay isa kung
saan kayo at ang inyong pangulo ay
nagkasundo para sa pagbabago – isang
paninindigan na ipinangako ko noong
kampanya at tinanggap ninyo noong araw
ng halalan.
Sigaw natin noong kampanya:
“Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap.”
Hindi lamang ito pang slogan o pang
poster – ito ang mga prinsipyong
tinatayuan at nagsisilbing batayan ng ating
administrasyon.
Ang ating pangunahing tungkulin
ay ang magsikap na maiangat ang bansa
mula sa kahirapan, sa pamamagitan ng
pagpapairal ng katapatan at mabuting
pamamalakad sa pamahalaan.
Ang unang hakbang ay ang
pagkakaroon ng tuwid at tapat na hanay
ng mga pinuno. Magsisimula ito sa akin.
Sisikapin kong maging isang mabuting
ehemplo. Hinding hindi ko sasayangin
ang tiwalang ipinagkaloob ninyo sa akin.
Sisiguraduhin ko na ganito rin ang
adhikain ng aking Gabinete at ng mga
magiging kasama sa ating pamahalaan.
Naniniwala akong hindi lahat ng
nagsisilbi sa gobyerno ay corrupt. Sa
katunayan, mas marami sa kanila ay tapat.
Pinili nilang maglingkod sa gobyerno
upang gumawa ng kabutihan. Ngayon,
magkakaroon na sila ng pagkakataong
magpakitang-gilas. Inaasahan natin sila sa
pagsupil ng korapsyon sa loob mismo ng
burukrasya.
Sa mga itinalaga sa paraang
labag sa batas, ito ang aking babala:
sisimulan natin ang pagbabalik ng tiwala
sa pamamagitan ng pag-usisa sa mga
“midnight appointments.”
Sana ay
magsilbi itong babala sa mga nag-iisip na
ipagpatuloy ang baluktot na kalakarang
nakasanayan na ng marami.
Sa mga kapuspalad nating mga
kababayan, ngayon, ang pamahalaan ang
inyong kampeon.
Hindi natin ipagpapaliban ang
mga pangangailangan ng ating mga
estudyante, kaya’t sisikapin nating punan
ang kakulangan sa ating mga silid-aralan.
Unti-unti din nating babawasan
ang mga kakulangan sa imprastraktura
para sa transportasyon, turismo at
pangangalakal. Mula ngayon, hindi na
puwede ang “puwede na” pagdating sa
mga kalye, tulay at gusali dahil magiging
responsibilidad ng mga kontratista ang
panatilihing nasa mabuting kalagayan ang
mga proyekto nila.
Bubuhayin natin ang programang
“emergency employment” ng dating
pangulong Corazon Aquino sa pagtatayo
ng mga bagong imprastraktura na ito. Ito
ay magbibigay ng trabaho sa mga local na
komunidad
at
makakatulong
sa
pagpapalago ng kanila at ng ating
ekonomiya.
Hindi kami magiging sanhi ng inyong
pasakit at perwisyo. Palalakasin natin ang
koleksyon at pupuksain natin ang
korapsyon sa Kawanihan ng Rentas
Internas at Bureau of Customs para
mapondohan natin ang ating mga
hinahangad para sa lahat, tulad ng:
dekalidad na edukasyon, kabilang ang
edukasyong
bokasyonal
para
makapaghanap ng marangal na trabaho
ang hindi makapag-kolehiyo; serbisyong
pangkalusugan, tulad ng Philhealth para
sa lahat sa loob ng tatlong taon; tirahan sa
loob ng mga ligtas na komunidad.
Palalakasin at palalaguin natin
ang bilang ng ating kasundaluhan at
kapulisan, hindi para tugunan ang interes
ng mga naghahari-harian, ngunit para
proteksyunan ang mamamayan. Itinataya
nila ang kanilang buhay para mayroong
pagkakataon
sa
katahimikan
at
kapayapaan sa sambayanan. Dumoble na
ang populasyong kanilang binabantayan,
nanatili naman sila sa bilang. Hindi tama
na ang nagmamalasakit ay kinakawawa.
Kung dati ay may fertilizer scam,
ngayon ay may kalinga na tunay para sa
mga magsasaka. Tutulungan natin sila sa
irigasyon, extension services, at sa
pagbenta ng kanilang produkto sa
pinakamataas na presyong maaari.
Inaatasan natin si papasok na
Kalihim Alcala na magtayo ng mga trading
centers kung saan diretso na ang
magsasaka sa mamimili - lalaktawan natin
ang gitna, kasama na ang kotong cop. Sa
ganitong paraan, ang dating napupunta
sa gitna ay maari nang paghatian ng
magsasaka at mamimili.
Gagawin nating kaaya-aya sa
negosyante ang ating bansa. We will cut
red tape dramatically and implement
stable economic policies. We will level the
playing field for investors and make
government an enabler, not a hindrance,
to business. Sa ganitong paraan lamang
natin mapupunan ang kakulangan ng
trabaho para sa ating mga mamamayan.
Layunin nating paramihin ang
trabaho dito sa ating bansa upang hindi
na kailanganin ang mangibang-bansa
para makahanap ng trabaho. Ngunit
habang ito ay hindi pa natin naaabot,
inaatasan ko ang mga kawani ng DFA,
POEA, OWWA at iba pang mga
kinauukulang ahensiya na mas lalo pang
paigtingin ang pagtugon sa mga hinaing
at pangangailangan ng ating mga
overseas Filipino workers.
Papaigtingin namin ang proseso
ng konsultasyon at pag-uulat sa
taumbayan.
Sisikapin
naming
isakatuparan ang nakasaad sa ating
See Page 10
Inaugural Speech
July 2010
8
COMMUNITY NEWS
IN MEMORIAM
FNAQ Family Day Potluck Picnic
MONTREAL, Quebec – The
annual Family Day Potluck Picnic of the
Filipino Nurses Association of Quebec,
Inc. (FNAQ) took place on July 10,
2010 at Beaver Lake in Montreal. What
started out as a small picnic among
friends and fellow nurses a few years
urban surroundings.
The FNAQ picnic was graced
by the presence of Ms. Aurora Osdon,
the president of the Filipino
Association of Montreal and Suburbs
(FAMAS), and Dr. Gene Santander, a
long time leader of the community, a
FNAQ potluck picnic at the Mount Royal Park, July 12, 2010
ago has grown into one of the larger
outdoor social events in Greater
Montreal. It was a highly organized
effort led by its current president, Gene
F. Magalit who was ably assisted by
Myrna M. Francisco, Vice-President;
Sophie R. Toledo, Public Relations
Officer; Connie A. Fernandez,
Business Manager; and Christian B.
Plaza, Chairman – Finance and
Fundraising Committee.
As the name implies, each
member brought whatever food and
delicacies he or she prepared. The
courses were aplenty that that part of
sprawling Beaver Lake turned into a
virtual buffet restaurant. A fairly good
size of two roasted pigs that Filipinos
call lechon highlighted the long picnic
table full of scrumptious food that
attendees were treated to and feasted
on.
And thanks to the cooperative
sunshiny weather, there were also funfilled activities such as playing video
games, card games, board games and
parlour games participated in by
young and old alike. There was a lot of
picture-taking, too. It was a welcome
change for many to be taking photos at
a park instead of the concrete jungles
typically associated with Montreal’s
current FAMAS director and member of
the FNAQ Advisory Board.
Among those in attendance
were two of the old and prominent
hands in local nursing, Ms. Alice
Loyola-Bustamante and Ms. Maggie
Belleza Calcetas accompanied by their
respective husbands, Pete Bustamante
and Benjie Calcetas.
The other members who were
present include Malou P. Dee,
recording
secretary;
Dolly
S.
Belendres, corresponding secretary;
Ader R. Garcia, assistant secretary;
Thelma M. Untalan, auditor; Elvira C.
Maximo, membership director; Nilda P.
Hufana, membership director; Shirley
D. Carrera, constitution and bylaws
director; Gay G. Emboscado, ethics
and nursing standards director;
Shirlyne
G.
Chin,
arts/graphics/logistics director; and
Hermie C. Arguelles, ex-officio. Also
present were members of the FNAQ
Advisory Board Amy A. Manon-og,
Atty. Louis L. Schiff, Hal C. Sotero and
Alicia V. Pugh.
They were all accompanied by
their respective families. (Contributed
by Budz Sarmiento)
Prime Minister Harper Statement on the
retirement of Lloyd Robertson
Dr. Jesus Peduche Pelausa, MD., FACA,
CPSPQ (Anesthesiology), Ret.
October 17, 1920 - July 1, 2010
professionalism. For millions, Lloyd
brought news of some of the most
important occasions in the life our
nation. His was a voice of truth, trust
and, at times, compassion.
way to Ottawa and in 1976 joined CTV
where he co-anchored CTV National
News until 1984 when he took over as
anchor.
“A Member of the Order of Canada,
Lloyd was also the first journalist to
be inducted into Canada's Walk of
Fame in 2007.
“Lloyd can look back upon a long a
successful career with immense pride
and satisfaction. Laureen and I
extend to him and his wife Nancy our
very best wishes.
Lisa LaFlamme
“Lloyd’s career began in 1952 at a
radio station in his hometown of
Stratford, Ontario before moving to a
station in nearby Guelph. He made
the jump to television in 1954 to work
for the CBC in Winnipeg, made his
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today
issued the following statement saluting
broadcaster Lloyd Robertson on the
announcement of his retirement in
2011 as anchor of CTV National News:
“Lloyd Robertson’s final signature
sign-off, ‘that’s the kind of day it’s
been,’ will come in 2011, ending 35
years as anchor of Canada’s most
watched nightly national newscast.
“Along with all Canadians, I
congratulate Lloyd for a long career
marked by fairness, objectivity and
“I offer Lisa LaFlamme sincere
congratulations on her promotion to
the anchor’s chair. It is a great
honour, reflecting the esteem in
which she is held as a veteran
broadcaster.”
July 2010
EarthTalk®
From the Editors of E/The
Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: I heard about a
supposed dangerous chemical called
“triclosan” that is in many personal care
and other consumer products. Can you
enlighten? -- Carl Stoneman, Richland,
WA
Triclosan is a synthetic chemical
compound added to many personal and
household care products to inhibit illness
by preventing bacterial infection. It works
by breaking down the biochemical
pathways that bacteria use to keep their
cell walls intact, and as such kills
potentially harmful germs if used in strong
enough formulations. First developed as a
surgical scrub back in 1972, triclosan is
now used in upwards of 700 different
consumer-oriented products, many of
which people use more than once a day.
They include hand soaps, deodorants,
toothpastes, kids’ toys, yoga mats and, of
course, hand sanitizers.
Whether triclosan is actually as
effective as advertised, especially in the
small doses found in consumer products,
is a topic of much debate. Manufacturers
insist that the product helps reduce
infections. But researchers from the
University of Michigan’s School of Public
Health found, after surveying 27 different
studies conducted between 1980 and 2006
on the effectiveness of antibacterial soaps,
that washing hands with products
containing triclosan was no more effective
in preventing infectious illness—and did
not remove any more bacteria—than plain
soaps.
The
analysis,
“Consumer
Antibacterial Soaps: Effective or Just
Risky?” was published in 2007 in the peerreviewed journal, Clinical Infectious
Diseases. According to lead researcher
Allison Aiello, triclosan—because of the
way it reacts in living cells—may cause
some bacteria exposed to it to become
resistant to amoxicillin and other commonly
used antibacterial drugs, but she adds that
more research is needed to bear out this
hypothesis.
Anti-bacterial soaps and other
products utilizing triclosan may in fact be
doing more harm than good for the people
who use it regularly. According to the nonprofit Beyond Pesticides, triclosan has
been linked to various human health
problems. “It is associated with skin
irritation, has been shown to interfere with
the body’s hormones, and has been linked
to an increased risk of developing
respiratory illness, or asthma, and cancer,
as well as subtle effects on learning ability,”
reports the group, adding that 75 percent
of Americans are walking around today
with trace levels of triclosan in their
bloodstreams. Tests using lab animals
have verified that exposure to large doses
of triclosan can cause irreparable health
damage, but industry representatives say
that the levels found in consumer products
are much too small to do so.
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our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean,
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Beyond its potential human health
effects, triclosan can also harm the
environment. According to Beyond
Pesticides, some 96 percent of the triclosan
from consumer products is washed down
drains where it flows into wastewater
treatment plants often ill-equipped to deal
with it. Inevitably some of the triclosan
escapes treatment and is released into
local waterways, where exposure to
sunlight can convert it into dioxins, a highly
toxic group of chemicals responsible for
contaminating waterways and wreaking
havoc on wildlife.
While the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration is finally taking a fresh look
at triclosan after years of controversy,
consumers can do their part by asking the
places they shop to stop selling products
containing the controversial chemical
additive. The Beyond Pesticides website
offers a customizable sample letter
designed to help consumers convince local
retailers to forego stocking items with
triclosan.
CONTACTS: Clinical Infectious Diseases,
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cid/current
;
Beyond
Pesticides,
www.beyondpesticides.org; U.S. Food &
Drug Administration, www.fda.gov.
Dear EarthTalk: I am a bartender
in Sacramento and I would love to be able
to use some sort of locally made or
sustainable version of sugar. What’s out
there? -- Ryan Seng, via e-mail
It sure would be nice if we could
obtain all of our food and drink items from
local sources, but sugar provides an
excellent example of why such a desire
may remain a pipe dream in the United
States for a long time to come. The sugar
we consume that is produced domestically
comes from sugar cane grown in Hawaii
and the Southeast and sugar beet from the
Upper Midwest, Pacific Northwest,
California and elsewhere. However, it is
likely milled and refined hundreds if not
thousands of miles from where it is
harvested, and then shipped all over the
country—causing untold greenhouse gas
emissions—in various sized packages for
our consumption in our coffee, on our
cereal and, for some of us, in our cocktails.
Massive government subsidies
and land giveaways to the sugar industry
in the American Southeast beginning in the
early 18th century established a market for
American-grown sugar despite the fact that
the region’s climate was not tropical
enough to grow cane efficiently. To add
insult to injury, the rerouting of south
Florida’s fragile water table to irrigate
thirsty sugar plantations contributed to the
decimation of the Everglades, one of the
nation’s most unique and diverse
ecosystems—and now the subject of a
multi-billion dollar restoration effort.
While you might be hard pressed
to find commercially available local sugar
anywhere in the U.S., you could make your
own. “Years ago, when sugar was an
expensive commodity, many people of
lesser means made their own sugar from
sugar beets,” reports writer Kat Yares on
the eHow.com website. “Every farm and
every home garden had a spot reserved for
beets, and a day was set aside to cook the
beets down into sugar.” While very few of
us grow our own food these days, growing
sugar beets and making sugar from
scratch can be a fun, educational and tasty
project for parents and kids or for foodies
intent on local sourced, preservative-free
ingredients. Yares explains the whole
process in her “How to Make Sugar from
Beets” article on eHow.com.
If that all sounds like too much
work, perhaps you can settle for storebought organic sugar, which may not be
local but which is at least produced
without chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
Florida Crystals, Hain, C&H, Domino and
others each offer organic sugar varieties
in many traditional grocery stores coastto-coast. There are even more choices at
natural foods specialty stores (like Whole
Foods). Believe it or not, there are even
vegan sugars out there—that is, sugars
not processed with animal-derived bone
char in the refinement process.
While sugar itself may be a
staple item for many cocktails, some
interesting alternative natural sweeteners,
some of which may be locally sourced in
your region, do exist. Agave nectar, honey
or even maple syrup are some options
that might just give that Tom Collins the
extra kick it needs to make it stand out
from the other bartender’s drinks down
the street—or in your breakfast cereal, for
that matter.
CONTACTS: eHow, www.ehow.com;
Florida Crystals, floridacrystals.com; Hain,
www.hainpurefoods.com; C&H,
www.chsugar.com; Domino,
www.dominosugar.com.
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Ask the
Video Guy
Al Abdon
Making Amazing Slide
Shows
Slide show presentation is the most
popular communication tool for business
and family events. The term “slide show”
originates when decades ago we used
slides to project our pictures to the wall or
screen using a Kodak Carousel slide
projector. I remember how tedious it was
to sort out slides and place them in a tray
and each slide slips through the fissure
and take the next slide automatically or
manually.
Well, today the best method for
presentations is the use with computers.
There are several methods of making
presentations with computers. The first
method is using software called
PowerPoint. This is the most popular
method in business and school
applications. It is easy and it includes
sound, videos and even effects to make
your presentation interesting. The other
method is using independent software
such as Photodex Slide Shows, 3D
Creations, DVD Slides Shows and most of
these can be downloaded for free.
What ever you use there is only one way
to make you presentation stand out
among others. Here are some tips:
1.
Plan your presentation. What is
my objective in giving this presentation?
Is it to inform or to entertain? Is it a tribute
to someone who passed away or a
birthday celebration? These are the
questions you have to answer to make
your
presentation
concise
and
informative. If you have the time, use a
storyboard and write and draw some of
the pictures you want to include.
2.
Select well-exposed photos. I
have seen presentation using pictures
you cannot even recognize as an object
or a person.
3.
Make your presentation brief.
This is important because if it is too long,
you will lose the audience’s attention.
Unless you are on a meeting or in a class
July 2010
where technical terms and ideas are
emphasized, a 10-minute presentation is
the maximum. If you are using music
background only, it is advisable to use 2
or 3 music only.
4.
Do not overuse special effects.
Too much effect on a presentation is
annoying at times. It also shows that the
user just got a new toy and plays around
with transitions that are not appropriate to
your show.
5.
Use music appropriate for the
occasion. If you are presenting a tribute,
use mellow, classical or slow-pace music.
If it is a children’s event, use Disney’s
soundtrack or any cartoon background
effects.
6.
Test your equipment. There is
nothing more embarrassing than when
you start playing your presentation .
nothing comes out of the projector in front
of an eager audience. Make sure that
cables are working properly and bring
extension cords. Check your computers
battery if they are charged. Better yet, use
an AC adaptor as insurance. A rule of
thumb is to bring extra of everything
needed for the event.
7.
Check your audio. If your audio
source is from the computer, make sure
you have a cable that will connect to a
speaker. If you will connect your audio
source to a sound mixer, check the size of
the input plug because audio cables
come in many sizes. If you are using a
DVD player to play your presentation, a
long RCA cable is better and an audio 1/8
cable.
Well, there you go. I hope everybody can
now make a slide show presentation with
ease and effectiveness. Start making slide
shows with your family, then with friends.
Entertain them with gusto and let your
creativity in you to come out.
Happy summer, what is let of it,
Al Abdon
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Inaugural Speech
Konstitusyon na kinikilala ang karapatan
ng mamamayan na magkaroon ng
kaalaman ukol sa mga pampublikong
alintana.
Binuhay natin ang diwa ng people
power noong kampanya. Ipagpatuloy natin
ito tungo sa tuwid at tapat na pamamahala.
Ang naniniwala sa people power ay
nakatuon sa kapwa at hindi sa sarili.
Sa mga nang-api sa akin, kaya
ko kayong patawarin, at pinapatawad ko
na kayo. Sa mga nang-api sa
sambayanan, wala akong karapatan na
limutin ang inyong mga kasalanan.
To those who are talking about
reconciliation, if they mean that they would
like us to simply forget about the wrongs
that they have committed in the past, we
have this to say: there can be no
reconciliation without justice. Sa paglimot
ng pagkakasala, sinisigurado mong
mauulit muli ang mga pagkakasalang ito.
Secretary de Lima, you have your
marching orders. Begin the process of
providing true and complete justice for all.
Ikinagagalak din naming ibahagi sa inyo
ang pagtanggap ni dating Chief Justice
Hilario Davide sa hamon ng pagtatatag at
pamumuno sa isang Truth Commission na
magbibigay
linaw
sa
maraming
kahinahinalang isyu na hanggang ngayon
ay walang kasagutan at resolusyon.
Ang sinumang nagkamali ay kailangang
humarap sa hustisya. Hindi maaaring
patuloy ang kalakaran ng walang
pananagutan at tuloy na pang-aapi.
My government will be sincere in dealing
with all the peoples of Mindanao. We are
committed to a peaceful and just
settlement of conflicts, inclusive of the
interests of all – may they be Lumads,
Bangsamoro or Christian.
We shalI defeat the enemy by wielding
the tools of justice, social reform, and
equitable governance leading to a better
life. Sa tamang pamamahala gaganda ang
buhay ng lahat, at sa buhay na maganda,
sino pa ang gugustuhing bumalik sa
panahon ng pang-aapi?
Kung
kasama
ko
kayo,
maitataguyod natin ang isang bayan kung
saan pantay-pantay ang pagkakataon,
dahil pantay-pantay nating ginagampanan
ang ating mga pananagutan.
Kamakailan lamang, ang bawat
isa sa atin ay nanindigan sa presinto.
Bumoto tayo ayon sa ating karapatan at
konsensiya. Hindi tayo umatras sa
tungkulin nating ipaglaban ang karapatang
ito.
Pagkatapos
ng
bilangan,
pinatunayan ninyo na ang tao ang tunay
na lakas ng bayan.
Ito ang kahalagahan ng ating
demokrasya. Ito ang pundasyon ng ating
pagkakaisa. Nangampanya tayo para sa
pagbabago. Dahil dito taas-noo muli ang
Pilipino. Tayong lahat ay kabilang sa isang
bansa kung saan maaari nang mangarap
muli.
To our friends and neighbors
around the world, we are ready to take our
place as a reliable member of the
community of nations, a nation serious
about its commitments and which
harmonizes its national interests with its
international responsibilities.
We will be a predictable and
consistent place for investment, a nation
where everyone will say, “it all works.”
Inaanyayahan ko kayo ngayon na
manumpa sa ating mga sarili, sa
sambayanan, WALANG MAIIWAN.
Walang pangingibang-bayan at
gastusan na walang wastong dahilan.
Walang pagtatalikod sa mga salitang
binitawan noong kampanya, ngayon at
hanggang sa mga susunod pang
pagsubok na pagdadaanan sa loob ng
anim na taon.
Walang
lamangan,
walang
padrino at walang pagnanakaw. Walang
wang-wang, walang counterflow, walang
tong. Panahon na upang tayo ay muling
magkawang-gawa.
Nandito tayo ngayon dahil sama.See Page 15
Inaugural Speech
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Narcissism and Narcissistic
Personality Disorder
Compiled by Bernardo “Budz” Sarmiento
Is your partner a narcissist? You
may not know how to tell, but even
worse, you may be thinking that you are
the crazy one. Narcissists work hard to
distort our reality to make their reality feel
safer.
So what is a narcissist?
Someone who preens in front of the
mirror all day in admiration? NOT! Ask
yourself this: is your partner or friend
intensely angered by anything that
seems to suggest that he or she might
have a flaw? Narcissists will do anything,
including brutalizing their own family, to
maintain their own feeling that others see
them as without any flaws. And,
narcissists have extreme and illogical
sensitivities, sometimes connecting the
most minute observations with their
intense fears of being seen as flawed.
Narcissists will strain every muscle to
meet their own "flawless" image, and
demean or destroy anyone or anything
who casts any doubt on this image. If
you see this dynamic in your partner,
family member, co-worker, or friend, you
are very probably dealing with a
narcissist.
Narcissism is a mental disorder
characterized
by
extreme
selfabsorption, an exaggerated sense of
self-importance, and a need for attention
and admiration from others. First
identified by Havelock Ellis in 1898, the
disorder is named for the mythological
Narcissus, who fell in love with his own
reflection. In addition to an inflated selfimage and addiction to fantasy,
narcissism is characterized by an
unusual coolness and composure,
which is shaken only when the
narcissistic confidence is threatened,
and by the tendency to take others for
granted or to exploit them. (Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia)
According to Sigmund Freud, a
giant in psychology and psychoanalysis,
narcissism is an essential part of all of us
from birth, but becomes more
pronounced after puberty. Andrew P.
Morrison, another expert on the same
subject, claims that, in adults, a
reasonable
amount
of
healthy
narcissism allows the individual's
perception of his needs to be balanced
in relation to others.
It is when narcissism has
reached unhealthy level that it becomes
a problem. Experts call it Narcissistic
Personality Disorder or NPD, for short.
The essential feature of NPD is a
pervasive pattern of grandiosity (either in
fantasy or actual Behaviour), need for
admiration, and lack of empathy that
begins by early adulthood and is present
in a variety of situations and
environments.
People
who
are
overly
narcissistic commonly feel rejected,
humiliated and threatened when
criticized. To protect themselves from
these dangers, they often react with
disdain, rage, and/or defiance to any
slight criticism, real or imagined. To
avoid such situations, some narcissistic
people withdraw socially and may feign
modesty or humility. In the case of
feeling the lack of admiration, adulation,
attention and affirmation the person can
also manifest wishes to be feared and to
11
be notorious (narcissistic supply).
Though individuals with NPD
are often ambitious and capable, the
inability
to
tolerate
setbacks,
disagreements or criticism, along with
lack of empathy, make it difficult for such
individuals to work cooperatively with
others or to maintain long-term
professional
achievements.
With
narcissistic personality disorder, the
person's perceived fantastic grandiosity,
often coupled with a hypomanic mood,
is typically not commensurate with his or
her real accomplishments.
The exploitative, sense of
entitlement, lack of empathy, disregard
for others, and constant need for
attention inherent in NPD adversely
affect interpersonal relationships.
Sandy Hotchkiss, the author of
Why Is It Always About You?: The Seven
Deadly Sins of Narcissism, identified
what she called the seven deadly sins of
narcissism:
Shamelessness – Shame is the
feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy
narcissism and the inability to process
shame in healthy ways.
According to Linda MartinezLewi, Ph.D., narcissists often escalate
their brazen behaviors. After all, the high
functioning narcissist is treated with
extreme adulation and praise. He is
encircled by a loyal group of admirers
who provide him with a continuous
cascade of compliments and special
treatment. .
As they glide through life, many
narcissists become more heartless as
they grab for more. They are never
satisfied with what they have. The
hunger begins anew and they reach for
a higher mountain of material largess
and self-aggrandizement. As their
outrageous cruelties multiply, narcissists
become even more shameless. Their
raw hubris and feelings of godlike power
cannot be overstated.
Magical thinking – Narcissists
see themselves as perfect using
distortion and illusion known as magical
thinking. They also use projection to
dump shame onto others.
Arrogance – A narcissist who is
feeling deflated may re-inflate by
diminishing, debasing, or degrading
somebody else.
Envy – A narcissist may secure
a sense of superiority in the face of
another person's ability by using
contempt to minimize the other person.
Entitlement – Narcissists hold
unreasonable
expectations
of
particularly favorable treatment and
automatic compliance because they
consider themselves special. Any failure
to comply will be considered an attack
on their superiority and the perpetrator is
considered to be an "awkward" or
"difficult" person. Defiance of their will is
a narcissistic injury that can trigger
narcissistic rage.
Exploitation – can take many
forms but always involves the
exploitation of others without regard for
their feelings or interests. Often the other
is in a subservient position where
resistance would be difficult or even
impossible.
Sometimes
the
subservience is not so much real as
assumed.
Bad Boundaries – narcissists do
not recognize that they have boundaries
and that others are separate and are not
extensions of themselves. Others either
exist to meet their needs or may as well
not exist at all. Those who provide
narcissistic supply to the narcissist will
be treated as if they are part of the
narcissist and be expected to live up to
those expectations. In the mind of a
narcissist, there is no boundary between
self and others.
In order for a person to be
diagnosed with narcissistic personality
disorder (NPD) they must meet five or
more of the following symptoms:
1. Has a grandiose sense of selfimportance
(e.g.,
exaggerates
achievements and talents, expects to be
recognized
as
superior
without
commensurate achievements)
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies
of unlimited success, power, brilliance,
beauty, or ideal love
3. Believes that he or she is
"special" and unique and can only be
understood by, or should associate with,
other special or high-status people (or
institutions)
4.
Requires
excessive
admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement,
i.e., unreasonable expectations of
especially favourable treatment or
automatic compliance with his or her
expectations
6. Is interpersonally exploitative,
i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve
his or her own ends
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to
recognize or identify with the feelings
and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or
believes that others are envious of him or
her
9. Shows arrogant, haughty
behaviours or attitudes.
Although some features of narcissistic
personality disorder may seem like
having confidence or strong self-esteem,
it's not the same. Narcissistic personality
disorder crosses the border of healthy
confidence and self-esteem into thinking
so highly of yourself that you put yourself
on a pedestal. In contrast, people who
have healthy confidence and self-esteem
don't value themselves more than they
value others.
But
underneath
all
this
behaviour often lies a fragile self-esteem.
You have trouble handling anything that
may be perceived as criticism. You may
have a sense of secret shame and
humiliation. And in order to make
yourself feel better, you may react with
rage or contempt and efforts to belittle
the other person to make yourself appear
better.
CAUSES
It's not known what causes
narcissistic personality disorder. As with
other mental disorders, the cause is
likely complex. Some evidence links the
cause to a dysfunctional childhood, such
as excessive pampering, extremely high
expectations, abuse or neglect. Other
pieces of evidence point to genetics or
psychobiology – the connection between
the brain and behaviour and thinking.
WHEN TO SEE A DOCTOR
When you have narcissistic
personality disorder, you may not want to
think that anything could be wrong —
doing so wouldn't fit with your self-image
of power and perfection. But by
definition,
narcissistic
personality
disorder causes problems in many areas
of your life, such as relationships, work,
school or your financial affairs. You may
be generally unhappy and confused by a
mix of seemingly contradictory emotions.
Others may not enjoy being around you,
and you may find your relationships
unfulfilling.
If you notice any of these
problems in your life, consider reaching
out to a trusted health care provider or
mental health provider. Getting the right
treatment can help make your life more
rewarding and enjoyable. (WITH FILES
FROM WIKIPEDIA.ORG AND OTHER
SOURCES)
From Page 5
See Page 14
Magallanes
forum make. He has not since allowed
anyone else’s articles in his newspaper.
Obviously, Villapando’s case is just an
isolated one and not necessarily a result of
a long standing policy since he didn't have
- still doesn't have - such policy in the first
place. Nice try, Flint!
Flintstone reconfirmed his narrowmindedness, cowardice and moronity
when he implied that I was promoting
vigilante justice when I mentioned that in
Cavite conflicts between or among feuding
parties were solved or settled extrajudicially. He tacitly said that Abraham
Lincoln was wrong and stupid when the
latter advocated extrajudicial settlement
rather than fight it out in the court. Lincoln,
one of the greatest presidents the United
States of America has ever had and one of
the best leaders in modern history, said,
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your
neighbours to compromise whenever you
can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has
superior opportunity of being a good man.
There will still be business enough.”
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ab
raham_Lincoln) Flintstone added, “BS
seems remarkably quick to scream death
threats and promise destruction for a law
student from Lyceum.” Not only is
Flintstone narrow-minded, narcissistic and
moronic, he’s alarmingly paranoid, as well.
Who said about death threats and
destruction? Did I mention death threats
and destruction when I suggested that
conflicts were better solved out of court?
And finally, does he really believe that
extrajudicial settlement is only about killing
people? He’s idiotic and lunatic for
believing that it is! Anyway, his morbid take
on my statement regarding extrajudicial
settlement may be an indication that he’s
beginning to feel nervous and scared for
having offended so many innocent people
that he now views any harmless statement
coming from them as a threat to his life and
limbs. Anxiety seems to be gradually
creeping into his nervous system that I
won’t be the least surprised if I hear that
he’s in a solitary confinement at the
Douglas Mental Hospital. Before too long,
and if he isn’t already, he would start seeing
things where there are none and hearing
voices when nobody is talking.
Hey, Flintstone, are you a
graduate of the University of the Philippines
College of Law or not? I ask because you
didn’t categorically say in your latest article
(June 2010 Edition, Filipino Forum) that
you actually finished a law degree in that
premier school. You merely said “For the
information of BS and Bert Abiera, Senator
Miriam Defensor-Santiago and I entered the
College of Law of the University of the
Philippines at the same time. But she was
in the morning class while I was in the
afternoon class.” He even bluffed us by
Magallanes
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July 2010
The North American
Filipino Star Photo Gallery
FAMAS presented several awards of appreciation to its partner organizations, July 3, 2010
Governor-General Designate David Johnston shakes hand with her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Students and instructors of the Academy of Martial Arts are shown here after their successful
show in front of the parents and their guests, Saturday, June 26, 2010
Posing for souvenir with Chris Bautista (2nd from left, back row) are some students of the
Academy of Martial Arts, including Annabelle Alloso (3rd from right) with her friend Joyce.
Balancing two balances, without separating them, is not as easy it looks. Competing with
each other are Christian Masangcay vs. Romy Valenzuela while others wait for their turn
during the Laging Handa Scouts activity on Saturday, July 3, 2010 at FAMAS.
FAMAS President Au Osdon is flanked by Dr. Gene Santander, Zenaida Kharroubi, Amy Manon-og and Gildo Manon-og
during the celebration of the the 112th Philippine Independence Day at the Hellenic Center, July 3, 2010.
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July 2010
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Magallanes
citing Sen. Franklin Drillon as a reference.
At any rate, Flintstone only said “entered.”
He didn’t say “graduated.” One has to be a
moron not to know the difference between
those two terms. C’mon, Flintstone, why
can’t you just admit that you were kicked
out for failing to meet the minimum grade
requirement? Save us from calling Sen.
Drillon. Show us that you’re a principled
man, after all.
I have an idea! Why don’t you just
give me an authorization, say power of
attorney, so that the Office of the University
Registrar at UP will let me see your file and
have some photocopies of the same for
publication either in your own newspaper
or the North American Filipino Star?
Everything will be at my expense. It could
be an expensive proposition, but investing
in the truth, not to mention my personal
satisfaction, is worth its weight in gold.
Now, do we have a deal? Or you will call
me stupid again?
Moving on to Flintstone’s eviction
from his apartment, he didn’t categorically
say that it was not true, either. He merely
lamely skirted the issue by asking me
where my evidence was and that my nose
was longer than Pinocchio’s for
mentioning that shameful chapter of his
life. Worse still, he implied that I was stupid
for claiming that he was evicted from his
apartment. In debate, that kind of
argument is called ad hominem attack,
which simply means attacking the person
making the argument rather than the
argument itself. It is the last resort of
someone losing the debate when their
arguments have been systematically
annihilated. When your opponent starts
spouting crap like that, you know that
you’ve won.
Flintstone even has the chutzpah
to call me unprincipled. Coming from one
of the most unprincipled Filipinos in the
entire province of Quebec, such a brazen
assertion would have been pathetic and
hypocritical if it was not preposterous. It
should have occurred to Flintstone that it
was my principle that drove me to go headto-head with him and his evil twin Julita
Parado. It was my principle that pushed me
to defy the advice of my caring family and
well-meaning friends not to dignify those
evil twins with a reply. It was because of my
principle that I hired my own lawyer to let
my detractors know that I was not a person
to be taken for granted and messed
around with.
If Flintstone were principled, he
wouldn’t have published without evidence
that Alex Robles, the Filipino independent
candidate during the most recent election
in the CDN/NDG Borough riding, was paid
a huge amount of money just to run. If
Flintstone were principled, he would have
made outright retraction regarding his false
accusation that a certain Ms. Marlene
Valderama, a candidate in a beauty
pageant, was a thief, and not just treated it
as an erratum. How can a person accuse
another of theft in his newspaper and then
claim it as a printing error? That’s what
“erratum” is, a printing error. On the other
hand, “retraction” is withdrawing of
something thought or made appear to be
true, but later discovered to be untrue.
Well, it isn’t hard to believe that Flintstone,
a pseudo-journalist,
didn’t know the
difference.
Furthermore, my principle that the
husband should support his wife and his
children rather than the wife supporting
them was the compelling reason I
accepted the orderly’s job in July 1976, a
month after arriving in Canada as a
permanent resident, because it was the
only decent and secure job available to me
at the time. As a principled man, I didn’t
want to be a burden to my wife if I could
help it. As a principled man, I always made
sure that my family’s expenses, particularly
the monthly rent, were all paid up on time.
For a principled man, to be evicted from his
apartment for non-payment of rent is
embarrassing, painful, traumatic and
undignified. And as a principled man, I
would not have denied it if I were evicted
from my apartment. As a principled man, I
would have owned up to it.
I’ve gathered that Flintstone is
exactly my opposite in the principle
department. People who know him very
well unanimously say that he’s bereft of
any principle, much less morally bankrupt.
Only the likes of Julita Parado, the Filipino
Community’s counterpart of the Iraqi
Information Minister Muhammed Saeed alSahaf (M.S.S.), will say otherwise. That
makes it even harder to understand and
truly ironic that he, who doesn’t have any
moral ascendancy to do so, would be the
one to tell me that I am unprincipled. A
case of narcissistic dumping? If Flintstone
did it, what else could it be?
One of these days, he would get
sick and may have to be hospitalized. I
wonder which hospital he would rather be
taken to. Would it be Montreal General,
Royal Victoria, Lakeshore, Jewish General,
St. Mary’s or Douglas? A sizeable number
of Filipino PAB's (orderlies and nursing
aides) are working in those hospitals. I'm
sure they all felt offended by Flintstone
when he belittled the job of an orderly. He
should be very nice to them whichever
hospital he may end up in. Better yet, he
must apologize to all orderlies for
degrading the honest job that they do.
He has publicly declared that he is not
scared of me (I don’t know why he felt the
need to say that since I never threatened
him of any harm.) so he may consider JGH
despite me and our enmity. If that happens
and he's eventually taken to our unit, he
can rest assured that he will receive the
best care that a humble orderly is capable
of giving. Perhaps he would have a much
better grasp of an orderly's job and why I
chose to remain as an orderly rather than
become a bank teller or any other whitecollar employee that I could have been if I
only opted for it. And perhaps having been
taken care of by an orderly, particularly this
orderly, would be his epiphany.
When I made a couple of errors in
my news report that I posted on the
FAMAS website, Flintstone immediately
seized the opportunity to point out my
mistakes and amplified my carelessness.
Frigging Flintstone was quick to call it
ineptitude. Despite the wrong date and
wrong address, the main core of my news
report is still valid and factual because the
date and address are not really crucial to
what actually happened in that particular
public hearing. The fact that Flintstone
made noise only about the date and
address and silent on the remaining details
can only mean that my news item is indeed
factual. Otherwise, we would not have
heard the end of it. If I reported an accident
or an incident of rape or murder or robbery
and then I wrote the wrong time, date and
address, then maybe I deserve to be
crucified for my carelessness because
correct time and place are indeed of the
essence when it comes to those incidents.
Flintstone has made much more serious
blunders than I have. Who can forget the
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Philippine Cuisine
Pancit Malabon
INGREDIENTS
1 kilo fresh rice noodles (soaked for 10
minutes in water and drained)
For sauce
6 tbsp atchuete oil
6 cups shrimp juice
2 tbsp garlic, minced
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup of water
salt and pepper to taste
For toppings
1 cup kintsay, sliced
1 cup pechay Baguio, sliced
1 cup chicharon, crushed
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1 cup smoked tinapa, flaked
1 cup oysters, cooked
1 1/2 cup shrimps, cooked and peeled
1/2 kilo squid, sauteed in oil and garlic
1 cup pork, cooked and cubed
4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
1/2 cup spring onions, chopped finely
4 tbsp fried garlic
4-6 pcs calamansi, sliced
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may pag-asa.
The people who are behind us
dared to dream. Today, the dream starts to
become a reality. Sa inyong mga nag-iisip
pa kung tutulong kayo sa pagpasan ng
ating krus, isa lang ang aking tanong –
kung kailan tayo nanalo, saka pa ba kayo
susuko?
Kayo ang boss ko, kaya’t hindi
maaaring hindi ako makinig sa mga utos
ninyo. We will design and implement an
interaction and feedback mechanism that
can effectively respond to the people’s
needs and aspirations.
Kayo ang nagdala sa akin sa
puntong ito – ang ating mga volunteers –
PANCIT MALABON PROCEDURES
1. Dissolve 1 cup of flour in 1 cup of
water. Set aside.
2. To make sauce: Heat atchuete oil in a
pan. Sautèe garlic, then add shrimp juice.
Allow to boil. Pour in water with dissolved
flour. Add salt and pepper to taste. Set
aside.
3. Boil water in a wok or large saucepan.
Fill a luglugan or bamboo strainer with
noodles, pechay Baguio and kintsay.
4. Dip into the boiling water and drain. Put
in a large bowl.
5. Add sauce, crushed chicharon, and
tinapa flakes. Toss, then transfer to a
plate.
6. Top with oysters, shrimps, squid, pork,
egg slices, spring onions, and fried
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In a mixing bowl, marinate
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1 cup soy sauce
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1/2 cup of 7up, sprite or beer
(optional
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
3 tablespoons of brown or white
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1/2 cup of banana or tomato
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Magallanes
blunder he made when he published the
news that Ms. Shinette Khoury was
appointed honorary consul when nobody
was appointed yet at the time? In fact, no
honorary consul is appointed even up to
now. Ambassador Brillantes called a
meeting at the Famas Center to explain
that the appointment of honorary consul
was still being studied in Manila, and this
meeting was attended by Magallanes, and
the whole community leadership. Jumping
the gun without regard to the truth seems
to be Magallanes' style. He wanted to
promote Shinette Khoury to be appointed
honorary consul and he wrote the news
before it could materialize.
I don’t know what he is saying
now about my being an opinion
editor/writer for The North American
Filipino Star. I hope that he will not unload
his frustration on, and use his proverbial
poison pen against, Mrs. Zenaida F.
Kharroubi, the kindly and smart
publisher/editor-in-chief of the TNAFS, for
virtually disproving his statement “... he
couldn’t make the grade at the Gazette or
any other local newspaper...” (May 2010
Edition, Filipino Forum) by asking me to be
a columnist in her newspaper.
Flintstone always denies that he is
irresponsible, unfair, one-sided and
unprofessional despite the fact that all the
evidence supporting my assertion is all
right there in his newspaper and even
though the Conseil de presse du Quebec
has said so in more than one occasion. He
publishes in every issue of his newspaper
only the misdeeds, even if they are just
mere rumours, of people outside his camp,
but not of those inside it. He always makes
loud noise via his newspaper about the
wrongdoings that James de la Paz, Flor
Rillo, Santiago Tino, and Aurora Osdon
allegedly committed, but very quiet about
the reported unlawful acts involving large
amount of money that his friends Julita
Parado, Jesusa Nicolas, Elizabeth Raquel,
Svetlana Suarez, Lina Flores and someone
very close to him were accused of.
There was never in the Filipino
Forum an account on why Jesusa ‘Jojo’
Nicolas was impeached and eventually
ousted as president of the Filipino Nurses
Association of Quebec; there was never an
article in the same newspaper about the
allegation that Lina Flores, Elizabeth
Raquel, Svetlana Suarez and an in-law of
Angie Ogerio’s were somehow involved in
embezzlement of funds of their respective
organizations. Neither was there an item
mentioning that a certain relative of the
publisher/editor-in-chief of the same
newspaper was fired from his job in a
nursing home reportedly for having a
kleptomaniac tendency. Allegations that
Julita Parado was herself complicit in some
suspicious
and
illegal
business
transactions were swept under the Filipino
Forum rug, as well. If Flintstone would be
objective enough to publish the alleged
wrongdoings of people relatively close to
him and not only about the reported
misdeeds of people he isn’t too fond of, he
might get the much-coveted National
Newspaper
Award,
the
Canadian
equivalent to the prestigious Pulitzer Prize,
for balanced reporting.
Furthermore, why doesn’t the
publisher/editor-in-chief of the Forum
publish in his newspaper full accounts of
all his impressive exploits from the day he
was helping anti-Marcos Filipinos in
toppling Pres. Ferdinand Marcos in the
early ‘80s to the day he attended,
reportedly on invitation from the new
president, himself, the inauguration of
President Noynoy Aquino last June? Why
doesn’t he accept Reuben Santos’ fair and
reasonable challenge that they both
display their respective credentials in the
Reception Room of the FAMAS Community
Center in order for everyone to appreciate
their authenticity? Doesn’t Flintstone
realize that accepting Reuben Santos’
challenge is a much more effective way in
dispelling doubts regarding his many
claims of grandeur? Why can’t he simply
give Bert Santos a space in the Forum to
air the latter’s concern when so doing
would give him and his newspaper the
credibility that they sorely need? WHY? It’s
elementary, Mr. Watson, because all his
stories are nothing but the product of his
prolific and overactive imagination that he
has been telling people over the years.
They never took place, except in his fertile
narcissistic mind. To him, lying is
instinctive, a second nature.
It’s funny that Flintstone should
ask “What can we learn from his articles?”
C’mon, Flintstone, how moronic can you
be not to notice? There’s an enormous
amount of information readers can learn
from my articles. They have most probably
already learned that there’s such a word as
“unscrupulous,” that there shouldn’t be
any “d” at the end of “insecure” because
it’s an adjective and not a verb, that there’s
a lawyer who doesn’t already know the
difference between “slanderous” and
“libellous,” that Parado is not genuine
gold, but merely bronze plated in gold, that
Parado won’t give to charity if it isn’t
publicized, that only the Filipino Forum
would award Julita Parado a Woman of the
Year title, that Julita Parado is like the wolf
disguised as the grandmother in the Little
Red Riding Hood tale, that the
publisher/editor-in-chief of the Filipino
Forum is the most stupid and unprincipled
Filipino in Quebec, that he isn’t a graduate
of the University of the Philippines College
of Law as he insists he is, that he uses the
ad hominem attack when cornered in a
debate and couldn’t come up with a better
argument than calling me stupid, and
many, many more pieces of information so
numerous that a whole ream of printer
paper won’t be enough to print them all.
If Great Britain has King Lear, the
Filipino Community has King Liar. Poor,
Frederico! He has to disrespect himself to
gain self-respect, but ended up held in
derision by so many Filipinos. If I were him
I would move out of Montreal and join his
son in Vancouver. But then again, his own
son might not want the Filipinos in
Vancouver to know how “hambog” his
father is.
As a parting shot, let me do a
Frank Sinatra, "... And now the end is near
...."
P.S. Read the article on Narcissism and
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and judge
for yourself how many symptoms Fred C.
Magallanes and Julita Parado satisfy.
Rotten Egg of Pinoy Community vs.
Bad Apple OF FCBL By Bernardo “Budz” Sarmiento
Julita Parado calls her column
“The Eye Opener.” Not a bad name for a
column. It’s ironic, though, that while the
good columnist aims to open the eyes of
her readers with her thoughts, she refuses
to open hers.
According to Dictionary.com, “eye
opener” is a drink of liquor taken early in
the day and intended to wake a person up
fully.” Apparently, septuagenarian Julita
Parado always has too much to drink as
evidenced by the quality, or the lack of it, of
her grammatically-challenged articles. So
instead of being fully awake, she becomes
half-asleep, or worse yet, half-drunk. Of
course, “eye opener” has a better
meaning, but it was not the sense she had
in mind when she decided to call her
column by that name. Parado is never for
the better; she’s always for the worse. That
explains why she’s the only one among
cancer victims I have met over the years
who gets meaner, less kind, haughtier,
more condescending, less charitable, less
forgiving, more vindictive, more arrogant,
more malicious, stupider, less humble and
more ridiculous – to say the least and not
necessarily in that order.
From my point of view, her
column in the Filipino Forum and her
postings on the FAMAS website are
noticeably different. The former is relatively
less grammatically-challenged compared
with the latter where she did not know the
difference between “scrupulous” and
“unscrupulous” until I called her attention
to it. She even misspelled it as
“unscrupolous.” Moreover, she wrote
“insecured” when it should be “insecure”
probably thinking that it was a verb rather
than an adjective. Could they be mere
typographical errors as she is now
claiming them to be or she just did not
know any better? I tried to give her the
benefit of the doubt, but my original
suspicion keeps on creeping back in and
insists that her column is ghostwritten by
her editor-in-chief, and the postings are all
hers judging from the glaring errors that
she is prone to commit on a regular basis.
Parado is unreasonably adamant that if a
Filipino living in Montreal or any one of its
suburbs is not a member of FAMAS or any
of the other community organizations, he
or she is not really involved in the
community or does not know what’s going
on in it. That’s a specious argument. It is as
specious as saying that if a person did not
go to school, he or she is dumb or ignorant
of many things. The late Jose W. Diokno,
one of the most brilliant senators the
Philippines has ever had, did not go to law
school yet he topped the Bar exam in 1944
and passed a number of economic reform
laws with the Filipino masses in mind, on
top
of
many
other
outstanding
accomplishments.
I’m friends with a lot of Filipinos.
Many of them are members of FAMAS and
other community organizations, such as
the Novo Ecijano Association, the
Pangasinan Association, the Bicol
Association and the Filipino Nurses
Association of Quebec (FNAQ), to mention
just a few. It is by having casual
conversations with members of those
organizations that I get to learn what’s
going on in our community. When a
The Filipino Solidarity Cooperative is holding a
particular member from any of those
Moving Out Sale on
organizations needs my help, I make
myself available, and vice-versa. So it isn’t
Saturday, July 24, 2010
true that I’m not in some ways involved in
2 to 5 p.m.
their respective affairs. It isn’t true, either,
and Sunday, July 25, 2010
that just because Parado and her ilk do not
usually see me hobnobbing with Filipinos
3 to 6 p.m.
like they do, I do not have many friends. It
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isn’t true that just because she does not
see in the local Filipino community
newspapers any pictures of me helping the
downtrodden, I have not done my part. The
truth is, I have, I just don’t make a big deal
out of it. I’m unlike Parado who does not
pass up any photo op and every chance
she gets to flaunt what charitable deeds
she has done. She’s not keen on doing
things without fanfare and publicity. She
craves for attention for everything she does
in the name of charity. The truth is, her
main concern in doing charity works is
publicity, that people may benefit from it is
only coincidental. St. Matthew said, "When
you give alms, do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing, so that
your almsgiving may be secret. And your
Father who sees in secret will repay you"
[Mt 6:3-4]. She doesn’t agree with what St
Matthew advised. That’s why when her
supporters insist that her efforts are
altruistic, I always want to throw up.
Parado has assumed that because I
haven’t been around and she hasn’t heard
much
about
me,
I
have
no
accomplishment to pride myself on. That’s
another fallacious argument. It seems that
her only basis for a Filipino who has
achieved much for the benefit of the
Filipino Community is his visibility or
popularity.
Well, what sensible thought can
anyone expect from a woman so out of
touch with reality that Parado seems to
come across as? She even thinks that
correcting the letter of Vincent Basile (her
lawyer) and then posting it on the FAMAS
website is “ridiculous and a very clear
display of arrogance.” Coming right from a
quintessentially ridiculous and arrogant
person, that kind of broadside is indeed
very hollow and funny. Besides, a person
who is notorious for being ridiculous and
arrogant doesn’t have any moral authority
to tell me that I’m ridiculous and arrogant.
Does she? No, she doesn’t!
Parado claims that I am more of a
liability to the FCBL Committee than I am
an asset. She would never have said that if
she had only eye-witnessed our
deliberations instead of relying on
hearsays that might have been fed to her
by a disgruntled person who had an axe to
grind with me. Her source is deliberately
giving her factoids merely to undermine
my effort at improving the FAMAS
Constitution and Bylaws or simply out of
envy.
Parado would have known
firsthand that this “bad apple,” together
with the members (Why can’t Parado be
brave enough to say that they are Ms. Alice
Loyola-Bustamante and Ms. Maggie B.
Calcetas?) whom she spitefully alluded to
with regard to Jojo Nicolas, is one of the
most productive among the 12 committee
members. I’m not making this up; it’s all
there in the minutes. It isn’t a
Magallanesque tall tale. If it isn’t enough for
her, Parado may also verify it with our
chairman, Leandro Tolentino, who, if he is
the decent, honest and objective person
that I regard him to be, will corroborate
what I’m saying.
This “bad apple” may have been
ruffling some feathers with his passion and
unorthodox ways, but that’s hardly a
reason to be more of a liability than an
asset. On the other hand, there are times
when a certain fellow member’s wilful
stupidity makes me absolutely livid. In any
case, Parado ought to tell those invented
“diehard FAMAS members” whom she
claimed to have suggested that I should
resign from the FCBL Committee lest I
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Rotten Egg
July 2010
FILIPINO STAR
SHOWBIZ GOSSIP
Breakout roles propel GMA
talents to stardom
plays Rigo Hilario III on the show.
Consistency best describes
young screen love team Barbie
Forteza and Joshua Dionisio. Their
KC-Piolo: Just not meant to
be?
Piolo Pascual & KC Concepcion
Did you know that Piolo
Pascual almost courted KC
Concepcion?
Then KC was only 18. And
Piolo was among the young actors
invited to her debut.
Someone thinks that perhaps,
before Piolo could make a move,
KC left for Paris for her studies.
Many things happened after. A
beautiful relationship reportedly
bloomed between KC and Rico
17
Blanco. And then, the news that
she and director Lino Cayetano
were singing beautiful music came
out.
When KC finally decided it was
showbiz for her – after finishing a
college course from a university in
Paris – she worked in two films,
"For the First Time" and "When I
Met You," with Richard Gutierrez as
her leading man.
KC and Piolo finally teamed up
in the series, "Lovers in Paris."
Funny, but when they were
working together, there was never
any talk that something more than
friendship was happening between
them.
Now, there are even reports
that KC is irritated at the story that
she visited Piolo on the set of
"Noah," his series with child actor
Zaijian Jaranilla.
The source of the talk turned
out to be eight-year-old Zaijian
himself, who later claimed that he
just heard the rumor himself. a
GMA Artist Chariz Solomon is
prominently seen in GMA programs like
Startalk and Bitoy's Funniest Videos
Sometimes, it takes just one big
performance to change everything in
one’s showbiz career. Some talents
from the GMA Artist Center have
reached the turning point in their
careers by landing choice in big
projects that have made them
household names.
Mark
Herras,
who
has
established himself as a danceractor, gets good notices for his
portrayal in the ongoing series
“Langit Sa Piling Mo” which he
topbills with Heart Evangelista. He
Nadine Samonte
tandem has been a hit since they
worked together in “Stairway to
Heaven” which starred Rhian Ramos
and Dingdong Dantes. They proved
they’re sweeter the second time
around in “First Time.” As expected,
a threepeat success is in the offing in
“Pilyang Kerubin,” with Barbie
playing dual roles as Charity Santos
and Angelika Ignacio and Joshua as
Michael Alvarez.
continued on p.18 ‘Breakout Roles’
Salceda confirms Leo DiCaprio’s Bicol sojourn
Albay Governor Joey Salceda
validated earlier reports concerning
the upcoming visit to Bicol of
Hollywood
actor
Leonardo
DiCaprio, as reported on “TV Patrol”
on July 13.
During
a
recent
press
conference, Salceda confirmed that
DiCaprio is indeed scheduled to
visit and would stay for at least a
week in the province. It was earlier
reported that DiCaprio’s planned
visit was purportedly to spearhead
an
environmental
awareness
project.
DiCaprio is said to be arriving in
Albay on the first week of August via
private jet, although no reports have
been given as to why the actor
picked Bicol in particular. Salceda
expressed appreciation for the
gesture and promised to extend
hospitality to the actor.
“We are excited that what he
wants to do in Albay is to promote
environmental protection. So we
are
preparing
environmental
options for his one-week stay here,”
Salceda told the media.
Salceda said he would suggest
places for DiCaprio to visit, part of
which includes a visit to the famed
Mayon Volcano and the white sand
beaches of Misibis in Bacacay
town.
“It would give the province the
opportunity to be placed in the
world tourism map,” Salceda
explained.
But then, if an environmental
group would have its way, they
rather that DiCaprio visit other
places, putting emphasis on ecocritical areas.
"We are not asking him to forgo
the tourist spots of Albay, but he
[DiCaprio] should see the real
situation of the environment in the
province first, without the packaged
tour," Professor Joel Batanes,
president of the board of trustees of
Pangataman-Bikol, said in a
statement released last week.
Batanes cited places such as
Rapu-Rapu island, Palanog in the
municipality of Camalig, and the
town of Tiwi, among places that the
actor should visit.
According to Batanes, creeks in
Rapu-Rapu have been damaged by
mining while Palanog’s local habitat
is being devastated by a cement
factory. A dubious solid waste
injection project" is currently being
done in Tiwi.
"We hope that DiCaprio's visit
here will be very fruitful and serve to
internationally
highlight
the
environmental damage being done
to the province by big foreign
companies. We hope that this will
also entail other nationalities to help
in our struggle to combat climate
change," Batanes said.
The group is also hoping that
DiCaprio would be able to talk to
the people, "so that he can
effectively convey their message
and suffering."
Salceda’s
recent
pronouncements
concerning
DiCaprio’s itinerary seemingly
downplayed these concerns, even
as he suggested that he will try to
convince the actor to join a treeplanting activity in Legazpi and visit
a relocation site in Daraga.
Seemingly, incongruously, he
also announced that he wouldn’t
allow special privileges for the actor.
“He will be treated like an
ordinary tourist,” Salceda affirmed.
As an example, Salceda cited
that DiCaprio would not be allowed
to climb the Mayon volcano or go
near the lava front, just like
everyone else.
The Philippine Institute of
Volcanology
and
Seismology
(PHILVOLCS) said the area is
unsafe for any human activity,
following fears of an imminent
eruption late last year.
DiCaprio, was said to have been
turned environmentalist after filming
the movie “The Beach” in Thailand
several years ago.
The film’s production was
criticized for causing ecological
damage in that country.a
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Showbiz Gossip
July 2010
A movie for Christian Bautista
Juday’s advice to Sarah: Use in Indonesia
November ang shoot. Ang shoot ay
your hurt to advantage
one month and half," said he in a
Continued from p.17
you haven’t been hurt yet, but let the
pain that you’ll feel help you become a
better actress,” Juday said in Filipino.
“Ako, pinagkakakwartahan ko na lang
ang mga pain na ito,” she laughed.
“Hating Kapatid” director Wenn
Deramas expressed amazement that in
the many years he has known Judy
Ann, the actress’ effortless ability to cry
on cue has not diminished at all.
Perhaps, this is what the actress
means when she said she uses her
pains to beef up her acting.
“Ganito yun. Masaya kaming
nagkukwentuhan sa set, tapos take na.
Pagsalang niya sa kamera, buhos
agad ang luha niya. May sariling
Nawasa ang babaing ito,” Deramas
said.
Actors who hurt
Judy Ann Santos and Sarah Geronimo
are loving sisters in ‘Hating Kapatid.’
Sisterly
advice:
Six-month
pregnant Judy Ann Santos now finds
herself as the older, wiser sister in a
newly forged relationship with Sarah
Geronimo, her co-star in the dramacomedy “Hating Kapatid.”
The last time she formed a close
sisterhood with another actress, it was
with Sharon Cuneta, who to this day,
has remained her Ate.
Expressing hope and confidence
that her friendship with Sarah goes on
forever, Juday is not beyond offering
pieces of advice to the younger singeractress on matters concerning career,
relationships, and boyfriends, in and
out of showbiz. She advised Sarah to
enjoy her youth even as she has to be
careful of guys in showbiz who may be
out to use her, or take her for a ride.
She admitted she had been through
similar circumstances during her
younger years.
“You will get hurt along the way, if
Continued From
Roles’
P.17
Without naming names, Juday
admitted she had cried over an actor
or two, who had hurt her deeply. She
said she had once given up on the
idea that there was going to be a man
from her field, show business, whom
she could end up with.
“Nawalan na ako ng pag-asa na
may mabuting tao sa showbiz na
magmamahal nang tunay sa akin,
meron pala,” she said, referring, of
course, to her husband, TV host and
sometime-actor Ryan Agoncillo.
Juday also advised Sarah to take it
easy on some days, don’t work too
hard, take a rest. She didn’t rule
against falling in love, a natural stage
for someone of Sarah’s age, early 20s.
Christian Bautista
Newly-elect Organisasyon ng
Pilipinong Mang-Aawit (OPM) vice
president for special projects,
Christian Bautista, is currently busy
learning “Bahasa,” the official
language of Indonesia.
According to the singer-modelactor, this is in preparation for an
Indonesian movie set to be shot
later this year.
"Siguro mga 60% to 70% sure
na siya pero hindi pa din talaga sure
until makita ko ang final contract.
Kung mag-OK ang contract,
workshop starts October, and
Lea Salonga to non-singers:
“Don’t release an album”
It helped that Sarah’s often
omnipresent mother, Divine, was not
at the hall as Juday went on with her
words of wisdom. As she said at the
start of her short but sweet “lecture,”
she was once in that same situation
as Sarah’s and could empathize
completely with her. a
‘Breakout
“Emir” star Frencheska Farr is
getting more projects after her big
break in the first big-screen Filipino
musical. She endorses Bench.
Meanwhile, new Kapuso shows
(“Enless Love,” “Trudis Liit,” “Love
Bug Presents” and “X-Life”) serve as
good breakout venues for young
screen faces Kris Bernal, Chariz
Solomon, Nadine Samonte, Bella
Padilla, Mike Tan, Steph Henares,
Gino Dela Peña and the “Starstruck
Five” winners. a
Lea Salonga
Party Pilipinas host Kris Bernal
recent press conference for the
perfume brand, Blackwater.
Bautista said the film is
supposed to be “inspirational.”
"Basically ang synopsis ay
music teacher ako dito sa
Philippines
na
pupunta
ng
Indonesia at doon na magkakaroon
ng istorya," He divulged.
But Bautista is doing more than
learning Bahasa to further prepare
for the role.
"I'm doing different kind of
workshops. Getting ready for
acting," Bautista enthused proudly.
Early this year, Bautista
announced that he would be doing
a TV series in the same country.
It was cancelled eventually, with
Bautista
citing
“scheduling
conflicts” among the major
setbacks.
"Kasi
three
months
na
mawawala, masyadong matagal. I
have to take care of my career here
in the Philippines,” he explained. a
Cats” star Lea Salonga thinks
not everyone has the right to release
an album.
In an interview with Paparazzi,
July 11, on the segment “Answer
Mo,” Salonga didn’t name names
but shot down celebrities who can’t
sing a note yet insist on releasing
albums.
“Let’s call a spade a spade. If
you can’t sing don’t release an
album. It’s that simple,” said she.
“I don’t care kung gaano ka
kaguwapo, kung gaano ka kaganda
o kung gaano ka ka-popular. Kung
hindi ka marunong kumanta, wala
kang karapatang kumanta, ‘wag ka
na lang mag-release ng album.”
But it doesn’t stop there. “Kung
hindi ka marunong kumanta, kahit
karaoke ‘wag na lang,” she
maintained.
Ironically, Salonga was once in a
"love team" with Aga Muhlach—a
popular actor known for releasing a
few less-than-superb vocal outings.
Meanwhile, Salonga asserted
that fellow singers should continue
the pursuit of “excellence.”
“'Puwede na' can never be
'puwede na'. It has to be excellent. It
doesn’t have to be perfect but it
does have to be excellent.”
Salonga is best known for her
role in the popular musical “Miss
Saigon,” for which she won the
Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer
Critics and Theatre World Awards,
on her way to being the first to win
various international awards for a
single role.
She was the first Asian to play
Eponine as well as the first Asian to
play Fantine in the musical “Les
Misérables” on Broadway. Her
excellent singing voice was also
featured in a couple of Disney
animated movies.
Beginning July 24, Lea will have
her much-awaited appearance as
Grizabella in the limited Manila run of
“Cats,” the second longest-running
musical in Broadway history, at the
Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Lea
appears
alongside
an
international cast from Australia and
the UK. a
July 2010
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Lucy Torres-Gomez unperturbed Kris opts for nullification of
by disqualification charge
marriage
Lucy Torres-Gomez
Representative Lucy TorresGomez is unfazed by the two
disqualification cases filed against her
recently.
In an interview, the TV-host, who
won a seat in the 15th Congress as a
last-minute
substitute
for
her
disqualified actor-husband, Richard
Gomez, said, she “respects” the move
to oust her from representing Leyte’s
4th district.
Not that she finds herself culpable
of any wrongdoing.
According to Torres-Gomez, she is
simply acquiescing to the process;
inherent as it is to a “democracy.”
Though there are two cases filed
against her—case number 10009 filed
by Eufrocino C. Codilla, Jr. and 10031,
filed by Silverio Tagolino—TorresGomez only addressed one of the
dissenters in a statement to the media.
“It is his [Codilla] right to file a
protest. I do know for a fact that I won
cleanly and clearly over him by a very
wide margin,” said she via "24 Oras,"
July 15.
Codilla belongs to an influential
Leyte political clan. He ran for the seat
vacated by his father, Eufrocino
Codilla Sr., but was crushed by TorresGomez.
Tagolino also ran and lost against
Torres-Gomez in the recent elections.
Torres-Gomez is only 1 of 56
members of the 15th Congress who
are facing electoral protests before the
House of Representatives Electoral
Tirbunal (HRET).
Predictably, most of the cases
were filed by losing candidates not to
eager to accept the victory notched by
their rivals for one reason or another.
Pundits expect the number of
electoral protests to increase once the
remaining party-list representatives
are named and allowed to take office.
The
law
gives
defeated
candidates10 days from proclamation
day to file electoral protests against
their winning rivals.
Upon filing, candidates have to file
a P10,000 filing fee and a minimum
cash deposit of P150,000 to defray
costs of recalling ballot boxes.
Petitioners have 10 days to pay
the deposit in full; otherwise the case
is automatically dismissed, which has
happened to some 6 cases already. a
Kris Aquino
Many were surprised when Kris
Aquino’s legal counsels filed for
declaration of nullity of marriage
petition instead of legal separation
or annulment.
In the July 15 episode of
“Showbiz News Ngayon,” one of
Kris’ lawyers, Anna Liza Logan, said,
"We will have the court decide na
‘yung marriage was void from the
beginning."
Aquino's other lawyer, Anne
Sharlyne Goboy-Lapuz, added, “We
are just ironing out some details in
our petition because these are
based on facts that Ms. Kris has to
confer with us.”
The TV host’s lawyers have
already prepared the draft of the
petition and are just waiting for
Aquino’s arrival from her short
vacation in the US so she could read
the document.
Logan refused to explain the
basis of her client's case. “That part
we do not want to disclose as of
now dahil, like I said, Ms. Kris has to
review our draft.”
James Yap has yet to reach out
to them regarding the petition
they’re filing in court.
“Actually wala pa although sa
pagkakaalam ko, alam na ni Mr.
James Yap ‘yung number ko. If he
wants to call to discuss anything,
puwede na niyang gawin ‘yun. Pero
he has not done that,” Logan said.
Meanwhile, James still refuses
to comment on his separation with
Kris.
“Pagdating sa personal ko na
buhay, no comment muna ako.
Nadito ako, focus muna ako sa
game,” James said when asked to
comment on his marriage.
He admits, though, that “miss ko
na sila.”
As for custody Aquino and Yap's
son, Baby James, Logan shared
that Yap has not taken any action to
gain custody of the child.
“Wala pa pero under the Family
Code since the child is below seven
years old, automatic the custody will
be with the mother.” a
Charice on talent fee issue: ‘Sobra naman ‘yung 100,000 dollars’!
Charice
Although Charice is clueless
about how much talent fee she is
getting, she deems that the rumored
four million-peso-plus talent fee per
show--roughly the equivalent of
$US100,000--is too much.
“I think you should answer this,”
Charice said shyly, turning to her US
manager Marc Johnston, during the
press conference for her Manila album
tour on July 15.
“Sobra naman ‘yung 100,000
dollars. Nagsisimula pa lang naman
ako. Hindi ko naman sinasabing
sobrang sikat na ko sa States para
maging ganon ‘yung talent fee ko and
ibang
usapan
siyempre
‘pag
performance sa Philippines,” she
maintained.
In
an
article
on
abscbnNEWS.com published recently,
concert promoter Anna Puno is said to
have revealed that Charice is an
expensive act to get, amounting to 4.6
million pesos at that. Puno is said to
have learned so from the young
singer’s Philippine manager, Grace
Mendoza.
Raquel Pempengco, Charice’s
mother, had clarified the matter on the
same piece, saying that Mendoza
does not know Puno and that there is
no truth to the allegation.
In a separate interview with some
members of the media after Charice’s
press con, Mommy Raquel said:
“Pagdating sa labas ng Philippines,
hindi na siya (Mendoza) puwedeng
makialam don dahil sakop na ni Marc
‘yun. Pero dito, I’ll make sure na canafford naman ng mga Pilipino ‘yung
talent fee ni Charice.”
Rumors aside, Charice admitted
that she feels excited yet pressured
about her stint on the second season
of “Glee,” what with all the mixed
reactions and expectations of the
followers of the hit US TV series, as
well as her own fans.
“Iniisip ko lahat ng mga Pilipino
not only sa Asia kundi sa buong
mundo talagang naka-dipende sa’kin
na talagang kailangan ipakita ko ‘yung
talent ng Pinoy. Sobrang pressure po
sa’kin but of course, iniisip ko na
parang ‘yun ‘yung strength ko na mas
lalo ko pang gagalingan para
maipakita ko sa ibang lahi na
nanonood ng ‘Glee’ na meron din
kami sa Asia, meron din kaming
puwedeng ipakita sa kanila,” the 18year old related.
In the series, she will play a
Filipino foreign exchange student who
will be Rachel Berry’s (Lea Michelle)
ultimate rival. Mommy Raquel
revealed later on that she will do 10
episodes.
With all the success she’s reaping
at such a young age, Charice
confessed that it comes with a
challenge, the greatest of which are
the people who are trying to put her
down.
“’Yun ang pinakamahirap, ‘yung
tipong ang saya-saya mo sa mga naaachieve mo, [tapos] may mga nakikita
kang mga negative na talagang
painful. Pero ‘yun ‘yung magiging
strength mo eh, kung may nakikita
silang negative sa’yo, dapat ipakita
mo na mas positive ka,” she said.
And even if she’s now a big star,
Charice still gets awe-struck with her
favorite celebrities like a true-blue fan
girl. Aside from gracing Korean TV
show “Star King” last July 12 (for the
taping) for the second time, she also
appeared on the late night music
program “Chocolate” which is hosted
by Kim Jung Eun a.k.a. Vivian of the
hit Koreanovela, “Lovers in Paris.”
“Nanigas talaga ako [nung makita
ko siya]. Hindi ako makagalaw!
Talagang sinabi ko, ‘Oh my God I’m a
big fan, can I take a picture with you?’
Talagang sobrang na-star struck ako,”
she happily recalled.
On the flipside of her early
success, Charice said she won’t be an
entertainer forever. She revealed that
in the future, she wants to become an
entertainment lawyer.
“I love singing, ipagpapatuloy ko
pa rin po ‘yun, pero sa personal life ko
po siyempre, priority ko pa rin po
‘yung studies ko, gusto ko pa rin po
na may marating na… ‘yung masasabi
nila na… ‘yung ibang posisyon—
lawyer. Ang taas ng pangarap ko!
Kahit na matagal po ‘yun, magsisikap
po talaga ako,” she said.
The “Pyramid” singer kicked off
the first leg of her Manila tour on July
15 at the Newport Plaza, Resorts
World Manila. She will have two more
shows in Venice Piazza in McKinley
Hill, Fort Bonifacio and Eastwood Mall
Open Park on July 16 and 17,
respectively.
After the Philippines, Charice will
hit the road again, heading to Japan,
Thailand, and lastly, Malaysia, before
going back to the US to begin
shooting for “Glee.” a
July 2010
20
THE POWER OF
COOPERATION
Start it right
by Jerry Estrada
Now that the Filipino Cooperative
is planning again to move from its Van
Horne location to Victoria Avenue,
maybe it’s good to start it right. Let us
not kill the idea. Instead, we should
think of anything that would help it
grow, either our idea is extremely small
in size or big, it doesn’t matter. There is
a famous Filipino adage that says
“Kung Sama-sama, Kayang Kaya” (in
unity there is strength).
What shall we do and where do
we start? What were the lessons
learned from the past? This time we
should be more extra careful though
laborious and painstaking, our concern
now is to check every detail of the
coop’s operations. The members own
the coop so it means either you are a
coop officer or just a common member,
all of us are obligated to safeguard and
help the coop if we really want it to
survive and make it thrive.
First and foremost, the coop could
not go forward without people –
dedicated
people.
Because
cooperatives are organizations of
people helping people, we need
people who think not only for
themselves but for other people’s
benefits as well. We need diversity of
manpower to man the cooperative. We
need expert people either in
accounting,
marketing,
finance,
computer, management and other
aspects of the coop’s activities.
Volunteers are manning majority of
successful cooperatives all over the
world during their infancy stages.
When the time comes that the coop
could afford to pay its manpower, they
start giving financial allowances to
volunteers up to giving the minimum
wage mandated by the government.
Based on coop’s experiences,
volunteers are temporary manpower
only and don’t last long, that’s why it’s
imperative to push the coop up and
make it profitable.
Second, we should strengthen the
organizational structure. We should
again select our officers (board of
directors) carefully. We need officers
that make plans for the coop both short
and
long-term.
The
Filipino
cooperative is really ill and needs
immediate medication. It also needs
creative and persistent officers.
Moreover, it should have youth
members because they are the next
hope of the coop. There should be at
least one seat for the youth in the
board of diretors.
Third, Transparency. The presence
of monthly financial report is a must!
Even if the cooperative is losing or
making money, transparency of
records is very important in order to
get the attention of every coop
member. People won’t take any
chance to go into any business venture
or endeavor if they don’t even know the
status of the business. Most of the
Samahang Nayons
(People’s
organizations, Philippines) during
President Ferdinand Marcos’ time
failed because of mismanagement and
lack of transparency.
Fourth, Coop Education and
Meetings. Seminars that discuss about
cooperatives should be continuous so
that every member knows every detail
of the coop. Brainstorming is
absolutely
necessary.
Alphonse
Desjardins (founder of Caisse
Populaire Desjardins, Canada) spent
sleepless nights and backbreaking
meetings with the priests and
politicians at Levis, Quebec, before
they became really successful.
THE REAL ENEMY
In every organization, whether big
or small, partnership, corporations,
associations,
federations,
or
cooperatives, problems are always
present. We always differ in opinions,
ideas, and beliefs. Sometimes,
misunderstandings within the officers’
circle are unavoidable.
I remember what my mentor told
me before that when times like these
come, always remember that “the
higher you are, the lower you bend.”
Debates, arguments, and minor
disagreements or even disputes are
part of the game if we want to serve the
community.
My mentor added that if possible
we should avoid degrading other
people even though he or she may be
the most unlovable person on earth.
To cause somebody humiliation or
loss of reputation would hurt the
person’s self-esteem. It will not give
any good effect on the community nor
promote well-being.
Actually, if analyzed deeply, the
real enemy is not the man or woman
with whom we have disagreements.
Our enemy is not the person who
doesn’t follow our ideas. It’s good to
remember that our real enemy is
POVERTY. That’s the reason why
cooperatives have always been built
around the globe.
From Page 16
Inaugural Speech
ang aking mga magulang, at kayong mga
nagdala sa akin sa yugto ng buhay kong
ito, kung hindi ko maisasakatuparan ang
aking mga binitawang salita sa araw na
ito.
My parents sought nothing less
and died for nothing less than democracy,
peace and prosperity. I am blessed by
this legacy. I shall carry the torch forward.
Layunin ko na sa pagbaba ko sa
katungkulan, masasabi ng lahat na
malayo na ang narating natin sa pagtahak
ng tuwid na landas at mas maganda na
ang kinabukasang ipapamana natin sa
susunod na henerasyon. Samahan ninyo
ako sa pagtatapos ng laban na ito. Tayo
na sa tuwid na landas
Maraming salamat po at
mabuhay ang sambayanang Pilipino!
Official English translation of
The Inaugural Address of Benigno S.
Aquino III
His Excellency Jose Ramos Horta,
Former President Fidel V. Ramos, Former
President Joseph Estrada, Senate
President Juan Ponce Enrile
and
members of the Senate, House Speaker
Prospero Nograles and members of the
House, justices of the Supreme Court,
members of the foreign delegations,Your
Excellencies of the diplomatic corps,
fellow colleagues in government, aking
mga kababayan.
My presence here today is proof
that you are my true strength. I never
expected that I will be here taking my oath
of office before you, as your president. I
never imagined that I would be tasked
with continuing the mission of my parents.
I never entertained the ambition to be the
symbol of hope, and to inherit the
problems of our nation.
I had a simple goal in life: to be
true to my parents and our country as an
honorable son, a caring brother, and a
good citizen.
My father offered his life so our
democracy could live. My mother devoted
her life to nurturing that democracy. I will
dedicate my life to making our democracy
reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring
equality for all. My family has sacrificed
much and I am willing to do this again if
necessary.
Although I was born to famous
parents, I know and feel the problems of
ordinary citizens. We all know what it is
like to have a government that plays deaf
and dumb. We know what it is like to be
denied justice, to be ignored by those in
whom we placed our trust and tasked to
become our advocates.
Have you ever been ignored by
the very government you helped put in
power? I have. Have you had to endure
being rudely shoved aside by the sirenblaring escorts of those who love to
display their position and power over you?
I have, too. Have you experienced
exasperation and anger at a government
that instead of serving you, needs to be
endured by you? So have I.
I am like you. Many of our
countrymen have already voted with their
feet - migrating to other countries in
search of change or tranquility. They have
endured hardship, risked their lives
because they believe that compared to
their current state here, there is more hope
for them in another country, no matter how
bleak it may be. In moments when I
thought of only my own welfare, I also
wondered - is it possible that I can find the
peace and quiet that I crave in another
country? Is our government beyond
redemption? Has it been written that the
Filipino’s lot is merely to suffer?
Today marks the end of a regime
indifferent to the appeals of the people. It
is not Noynoy who found a way. You are
the reason why the silent suffering of the
nation is about to end. This is the
beginning of my burden, but if many of us
will bear the cross we will lift it, no matter
how heavy it is.
Through good governance in the
coming years, we will lessen our
problems. The destiny of the Filipino will
return to its rightful place, and as each
year passes, the Filipino’s problems will
continue to lessen with the assurance of
progress in their lives.
We are here to serve
and not to lord over you. The mandate
given to me was one of change. I accept
your marching orders to transform our
government from one that is self-serving
to one that works for the welfare of the
nation.
This mandate is the social
contract that we agreed upon. It is the
promise I made during the campaign,
which you accepted on election day.
During the campaign we said, “If
no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.”
That is no mere slogan for posters -- it is
the defining principle that will serve as the
foundation of our administration.
Our foremost duty is to lift the
nation from poverty through honest and
effective governance.
The first step is to have leaders
who are ethical, honest, and true public
servants. I will set the example. I will strive
to be a good model. I will not break the
trust you have placed in me. I will ensure
that this, too, will be the advocacy of my
Cabinet and those who will join our
government.
I do not believe that all of those
who serve in our government are corrupt.
In truth, the majority of them are honest.
They joined government to serve and do
good. Starting today, they will have the
opportunity to show that they have what it
takes. I am counting on them to help fight
corruption within the bureaucracy.
To those who have been put in
positions by unlawful means, this is my
warning: we will begin earning back the
trust of our people by reviewing midnight
appointments. Let this serve as a warning
to those who intend to continue the
crooked ways that have become the norm
for too long.
To
our
impoverished
countrymen,
starting
today,
your
government will be your champion.
We will not disregard the needs
of our students. We will begin by
addressing the glaring shortage in
classrooms and educational facilities.
Gradually, we will lessen the lack
of infrastructures for transportation,
tourism and trade. From now on,
mediocre work will not be good enough
when it comes to roads, bridges, and
buildings because we will hold contractors
responsible for maintaining their projects
in good condition.
We will revive the emergency
employment program established by
former President Corazon Aquino. This
will provide jobs for local communities and
will help in the development of their and
our economy.
We will not be the cause of your
suffering or hardship. We will strengthen
collections by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue and we will fight corruption in the
Bureau of Customs in order to fund our
objectives for the public welfare, such as
Quality education, including vocational
education, so that those who choose not
to attend college or those who cannot
afford it can find dignified livelihood;
Improved public health services
such as PhilHealth for all within three
FSee Page 22
Inaugural Speech
July 2010
From Page 16
21
Rotten Egg
would hurt the committee’s credibility that
I, in fact, have brought back some
credibility not only to said committee but
also to FAMAS by legislating or helping to
legislate far-reaching bylaws that can
withstand the rigour of analysis, not to
mention the test of time. Hence, Parado
should stop pestering me and the rest of
the FCBL Committee with her lies about
my performance as a member of said
committee. That has gone on for far too
long already that she should give my being
a part of it a rest. That utter resignation
nonsense is now too passé and stale to
even dignify it with a reply. Parado should
just keep her big mouth shut and devote
whatever is left of her time to her
chemotherapy and possible radiation
treatment later. The widely acknowledged
rotten egg of the whole Filipino Community
should leave the relative “bad apple” of the
FCBL Committee alone. Is she not tired
doing it?
She has the impudence to say
that I am harassing and intimidating her
when she was the one who started
harassing and intimidating me when she,
in response to my FAMAS logo posting,
resorted to ad hominem attack with her
trademark “Who do you think you are?”
angry outburst. Not too long afterwards,
she unleashed her Three Stooges to vilify
me for how I got back at her. That poorly
thought of strategy backfired and her trio
of mouthpieces has since been muted and
set sail into the sunset. Then shortly after
that, she tried to intimidate me by
instructing her lawyer Vincent Basile to
send me a registered mail threatening me
that if I didn’t stop saying malicious things
about her, he would be forced to file a case
against me in her behalf. The letter was so
inadequately written that I found it hard to
believe that it was written by a lawyer. He
couldn’t even tell slander from libel so I felt
obliged to educate him by editing his
pathetic letter myself and posted it on the
FAMAS website’s Message Board.
Predictably, I got the “Julita Parado
Ridiculous and Arrogant Award” for my
effort. Sadly, though, the citation was so
rife with grammatical errors that I had to
feed it into my shredder so that nobody
else could read it. I have decided that
readers must not know that an Englishlanguage columnist doesn’t have a good
command of the English language. But if
you need a private tutor in English, choose
the beast and forget the rest!
Admittedly, I enjoyed the exercise
of editing a lawyer’s letter (especially if it
was written by the lawyer of the opposing
side). Readers and subscribers of said
Message Board enjoyed it, too. Not
satisfied, I called their bluff by hiring my
own lawyer to let them know that I was
ready for whatever sinister plan they were
mapping out against me. They have been
very quiet ever since. However, I shouldn’t
be complacent because they could all rise
up from the dead anytime and wreak
havoc again.
Parado also said that it wouldn’t
be me if I didn’t say something unpleasant
about a person. She was referring to my
description of Jojo Nicolas as the
impeached and ousted president of FNAQ.
I believe there’s nothing wrong with that
because I was only telling the truth. It’s not
my fault that her being impeached and
ousted as president of the FNAQ has
become her “scarlet letter.” Besides, if
professional journalists always describe
Richard Nixon as the impeached president
of the United States of America and
Ferdinand Marcos as the ousted president
of the Philippines in their articles, why can’t
I similarly describe Jojo Nicolas in mine?
More importantly, other Filipino leaders
should be constantly reminded that they
would be similarly tagged for the rest of
their lives if they commit the same or
similar misdemeanour or other fraudulent
acts.
Parado, in her usual Achille’s heel
fallacy, tried to poke holes in my news
report by citing my mistakes regarding the
date and place of the June-7-2010 public
hearing chaired by CDN/NDG Borough
Mayor Michael Applebaum. When Parado
found my errors, she didn’t waste any
minute pointing them out in her veiled
attempt to invalidate my entire news report
presumably because it was quite
unflattering to them.
Julita Parado is hypocrisy
personified. For many years, Parado has
been professing to despise anyone who is
malicious and arrogant yet she is terribly
malicious and arrogant herself. She
promotes humility yet she’s noted for
openly seeking publicity and flaunting her
acts of charity every chance she gets. She
always calls for unity in the Filipino
community but she’s among the first ones
to refuse to unite with a rival group so that
a permit could be issued to celebrate an
event that is especially meaningful to
Filipinos. She advocates forgiveness and
charity, but she’s one of the most vindictive
persons I have ever known and has no
qualm in hailing two elderly Filipino women
to court for no justifiable reason. She’s also
an Indian giver. When she gives
something, she expects something in
return, but if the beneficiary of her
generosity fails to reciprocate in kind, she
will enumerate all the favour she has given
to you. She is like the wolf in the Little Red
Riding Hood story who disguised as the
grandmother. She claims that she’s an
honest person, but she shares with Fred
Magallanes the alleged reputation of being
a fraud. She also tried to pull a fast one
when she attempted to represent two
organizations at the same time.
In the latest edition of her column, she
resorted to melodrama and feigned being
a victim of character assassination rather
than admit that she was the aggressor. She
even histrionically thanked her supposed
sympathizers and well-wishers, trying very
hard to impress readers that she had many
friends who cared for her. The truth is, a lot
more Filipinos – from Kim Hour to FAMAS
Center to Plaza Cote-des-Neiges to Tim
Horton’s at Van Horne to Bahay Kubo
Restaurant and to Kim Phat – deride
Parado privately than those who are willing
and ready to praise her publicly. I wonder
if she can sleep tight at night. I wouldn’t be
surprised if she’s taking Valium or Ativan
so she can get some rest and a little peace
of mind. She thought that I should get an
Oscar for my performance. Well, I might
get it all right, but as long as she’s not in
the running. If she is, she will be the
runaway winner, what with her outstanding
performance as a victim when, in fact,
she’s the real aggressor. Good that her
audience can see through her act.
Fred “Flintstone” Magallanes, one of
Parado’s few staunch allies and fellow
narcissists, said this of Parado: “She could
have easily retired to her family’s house in
Dingras, Ilocos Norte. But she stayed here
to do the thankless task of working for the
community.” Oh, really? That isn’t what
one of her fellow Ilocanos whispered to me
about the real reason she wouldn’t want to
repatriate to her native province.
Flintstone’s claim is nothing but a smoke
screen. On condition of anonymity, the
person has told me that Parado is worried
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22
Rotten Egg
sick to go back home for good because
many of her close relatives there loathe her
for the same reason that many Filipinos
here loath her. Crows will always be black
wherever they go.
Parado will go down in history of
the Filipino Community in the province of
Quebec as the biggest joke among its
more than 30,000 members (source:
http://www.provincequebec.com/culturalcommunities/filippino-community). That’s
yet another dubious distinction that she
may add to her Woman of the Year in her
next advertisement in the Filipino Colorum
... oops ... Forum! Remember, choose the
beast and forget the rest.
Anyway, I've always believed that
there's God, but I believe in Him even more
so when Julita Parado said on the FAMAS
website that she would take a leave of
some kind and stay away from me for a
much longer time. I can now breathe easily
since there wouldn't be any more flatulent
skunky stench that I have to endure.
Furthermore, I don't have to correct her
numerous grammatical errors for a long
while! But I have to admit that it won't be
the same without her. Just imagine a nonwriter/orderly correcting the grammatical
errors of a writer/columnist or someone
who insists she is (also former president of
FAMAS, the first and last Filipino ForumFrederico C. Magallanes Wo-man of the
Year awardee, a multi-award travel agent
[who has allegedly ripped off some clients,
many of them her friends], a member of
long standing of the Board of (dis)Trustees,
the president of the Federation of
Compassionate People of Montreal and
Suburbs (FCPMS), president of the
Filipinos for Unity, Charity and Kindness
(also known by its acronym as ... ah, never
mind!), the Executive Director of the
Institute of Psychological Projection, and
chairman emeritus of the Association of
Altruistic Filipinos of Quebec (AAFQ),
among many other enviable positions).
Regarding Reuben Santos, he is his own
writer. I have never ghostwritten for him, or
anyone else, for that matter. His writings
are all his. I'm sure he can manage on his
own. The truth is, he may even be a better
writer than a bogus one like Parado or Pat
Magallanes, who I think plagiarizes other
people’s articles published on the Internet.
So it isn't fair to Reuben to ascribe his
writings to me.
When I challenged her to a writing
contest, she ducked my dare by brazenly
giving me the address of what turned out
to be Douglas Hospital, but when I
returned the favour by giving her the
address of a funeral parlour, she cried foul
and childishly asked me which one of us
was meaner. She simply didn’t want the
reading public to know that she was a
fraud and not really as good a writer as she
always passed herself up to be. I don't
know what inference she would come up
with this time, but she can label me
anything she wants. I already understand
that degrading other person is one of the
things an NPD sufferer does best.
Parado suggested that I was
aspiring to be like Fred Magallanes.
EXCUSE ME! The last thing I want is to be
like him. Telling tall tales is not really my
cup of tea. I don’t have the penchant for
namedropping and claiming that I am
related to this or that celebrity, high-ranking
political figure and other notable individual.
I don’t have the knack for writing the kind
of articles that may invite the ire of the
Conseil de presse du Quebec. I don’t write
tendentious accounts of people and
events. I never claimed that I was once the
governor of my home province. I never
claimed that I played a major role in
toppling Ferdinand Marcos with the Filipino
Forum. I never claimed that I stayed for a
week in the most expensive luxury hotel in
Palawan. I never claimed that I was a
speechwriter for a Philippine ambassador
to Canada. I never claimed that the former
First Lady Imelda Marcos wanted me to
write her biography. I never claimed that I
came from a very wealthy family in the
Philippines. I never claimed that I was a
graduate of the University of the
Philippines College of Law. I never claimed
that I was personally invited by Pres.
Noynoy Aquino to his inauguration last
June. Finally, I’m not moronic and
shameless to tell people all those lies
whose veracity could be easily checked.
Ngayon, kung papangarapin ko na
matulad ako sa iyong editor-in-chief, aba,
eh, baka nga totoo ang sabi mo na dapat
akong pumunta sa Douglas Hospital!
Flintstone seems to have a very long
history of pathological lying starting with
the Tony Siddayao story in 1976. Now
you're telling me I want to be like him?
Wow, that takes the cake! I'm sure you,
yourself, don’t wish to be like him, either.
But, of course, you wouldn't dare admit it in
public, would you? I know, you have to be
caninely devoted to your friends, no matter
what. You have to stick with him like a
piece of human waste has to stick with a
bedpan. Besides, there's this "Birds of the
same feather flock together" phenomenon.
Moreover, the two of you supply each
other's narcissistic needs. Flintstone and
you direly need each other. You know
about symbiotic relationship, don’t you?
Ah, you probably don’t!
She’s also making a big issue out of my
habit of going back and forth to my already
grammatically correct postings on the
FAMAS website to edit them even further.
According to her, it’s a bad practice. This I
ask of her: Is making grammatical blunders
on a regular basis and then claim that they
are just typographical errors a good
practice?
Based on the last paragraph of
Parado’s June 21, 2010 posting on the
FAMAS website, she seemed to be inviting
me to do a good deed together to benefit
our community. In principle, I can't possibly
disagree with her on that. I'm sure that
many Filipinos would welcome it. However,
I'm not as naive as maybe she thinks I am.
So to make sure that I’m not dealing with a
wolf in sheep’s clothing, I will only agree to
work with her on the following conditions:
(1) She has to show me more compassion
and more concrete details, in writing, than
mere motherhood statement because
platitude is always empty; (2) She has to
disprove with unassailable evidence all my
allegations of wrongdoings that she is
complicit in; (3) She has to seek
professional help for possible narcissistic
personality disorder and (4) She has to
stop calling me malicious, stupid and other
nasty terms before I will be ready, able and
willing to sit with her to discuss beneficial
undertakings that we could do in a
cooperative effort.
In fairness to Parado, I promise to
publicly retract all the negative things I
have said about her and not say to her
anything insulting ever again. Let me
reiterate: It will be a retraction, not just
erratum like what Magallanes did when he
was involved in a problem with a certain
Ms. Marlene Valderama.
I can hardly wait for her answer in
her next The Eye Opener.
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years;
A home for every family, within
safe communities.
We will strengthen the armed
forces and the police, not to serve the
interests of those who want to wield power
with impunity, but to give added protection
for ordinary folk. The armed forces and the
police risk their lives daily so that the nation
can live in peace and security. The
population has doubled and yet their
numbers remain unchanged. It is not right
that those who make sacrifices are treated
pitifully.
If there was a fertilizer scam in the
past, today there will be security for
farmers. We will help them with irrigation,
extension services, and marketing their
products at the best possible prices.
We are directing Secretary Alcala
to set up trading centers that will directly
link farmers and consumers thereby
eliminating middlemen and opportunities
for corruption. In this way, funds can be
shared by farmers and consumers. We will
make our country attractive to investors.
We will cut red tape dramatically and
implement stable economic policies. We
will level the playing field for investors and
make government an enabler, not a
hindrance to business. This is the only
means by which we can provide jobs for
our people.
Our goal is to create jobs at home
so that there will be no need to look for
employment abroad. However, as we work
towards that end, I am ordering the DFA,
POEA, OWWA, and other relevant
agencies to be even more responsive to
the needs and welfare of our overseas
Filipino workers.
We will strengthen the process of
consultation and feedback. We will strive to
uphold the constitutional right of citizens to
information on matters of public concern.
We relived the spirit of people power
during the campaign. Let it take us to good
and effective governance. Those who
believe in people power put the welfare of
others before their own.
I can forgive those who did me
wrong but I have no right to forgive those
who abused our people.To those who talk
about reconciliation, if they mean that they
would like us to simply forget about the
wrongs that they have committed in the
past, we have this to say: there can be no
reconciliation without justice. When we
allow crimes to go unpunished, we give
consent to their occurring over and over
again. Secretary de Lima, you have your
marching orders. Begin the process of
providing true and complete justice for all.
We are also happy to inform you
the acceptance of Chief Justice Hilario
Davide of the challenge of strengthening
and heading a Truth Commission that will
shed light on many unanswered issues
that continue to haunt our country.
My government will be sincere in
dealing with all the peoples of Mindanao.
We are committed to a peaceful and just
settlement of conflict, inclusive of the
interests of all -- may they be Lumads,
Bangsamoro or Christian.
We shalI defeat the enemy by
wielding the tools of justice, social reform,
and equitable governance leading to a
better life. With proper governance life will
improve for all. When we are all living well,
who will want to go back to living under
oppression?
If I have all of you by my side, we
will be able to build a nation in which there
will be equality of opportunity, because
each of us fulfilled our duties and
responsibilities equally.
After the elections, you proved
that it is the people who wield power in this
country.
This is what democracy means. It
is the foundation of our unity. We
campaigned for change. Because of this,
the Filipino stands tall once more. We are
all part of a nation that can begin to dream
again.
To our friends and neighbors
around the world, we are ready to take our
place as a reliable member of the
community of nations, a nation serious
about its commitments and which
harmonizes its national interests with its
international responsibilities.
We will be a predictable and
consistent place for investment, a nation
where everyone will say, “it all
works.”Today, I am inviting you to pledge
to yourselves and to our people. No one
shall be left behind.
No more junkets, no more
senseless spending. No more turning back
on pledges made during the campaign,
whether today or in the coming challenges
that will confront us over the next six years.
No more influence-peddling, no more
patronage politics, no more stealing. No
more sirens, no more short cuts, no more
bribes. It is time for us to work together
once more.
We are here today because we
stood together and believed in hope. We
had no resources to campaign other than
our common faith in the inherent goodness
of the Filipino.
The people who are behind us
dared to dream. Today, the dream starts to
become a reality. To those among you who
are still undecided about sharing the
common burden I have only one question:
Are you going to quit now that we have
won?
You are the boss so I cannot
ignore your orders. We will design and
implement an interaction.
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PRIME
MINISTER
ANNOUNCES
THE
QUEEN’S APPROVAL
OF
THE
NEXT
GOVERNOR GENERAL
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen
Harper announced today that, on his
recommendation, Her Majesty The
Queen has been pleased to approve
the appointment of David L. Johnston
as the next Governor General of
Canada. Mr. Johnston will serve in
succession to the Right Honourable
Michaëlle Jean.
The installation of Mr. Johnston will
occur on October 1, 2010, in the
Senate Chamber.
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Backgrounder
David L. Johnston, C.C.
David
Johnston
began
his
professional career as an Assistant
Professor in the Faculty of Law at
Queen’s University in 1966, moving to
the Law Faculty at the University of
Toronto in 1968. He became Dean of
the Faculty of Law at the University of
Western Ontario in 1974. In 1979 he
was named Principal and ViceChancellor of McGill University; and in
July 1994, he returned to the McGill
currently enrolled in a creative writing
program at Humber College and
writing a historical fiction novel. She
has previously published scientific
articles on respiratory mechanics and
has contributed an autobiographical
essay to a collection on notable
women in Montreal.
Dr. Johnston was born and raised in
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She and
David Johnston have five daughters.
Statement
Date: July 9, 2010
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global leader in research; Next Einstein
Initiative to help best young minds in
Africa
WATERLOO, ONTARIO – Prime
Minister Stephen Harper today
announced the establishment of the
Government of Canada’s Banting
Postdoctoral Fellowships, a prestigious
new program to attract and develop
the world’s best and brightest
postdoctoral researchers in Canada.
The Prime Minister also announced
support for the Next Einstein Initiative
to encourage and develop the best
young minds in Africa.
Faculty of Law as a full-time professor.
In June 1999, he became the fifth
President of the University of
Waterloo.
STATEMENT
BY
THE “To remain at the forefront of the global
PRIME
MINISTER
OF economy, we must invest in the people
and ideas that will produce tomorrow’s
CANADA
Professor Johnston has served on
many provincial and federal task
forces and committees, and on the
board of a number of companies,
including Arise, CGI, Fairfax, and
Masco currently. He was President of
the Association of Universities and
Colleges of Canada and of the
Conférence des recteurs et des
principaux des universités du
Québec. He was the founding chair of
the National Round Table on the
Environment and the Economy,
chaired the federal government’s
Information Highway Advisory Council
and served as the first non-American
chair of the Board of Overseers at
Harvard University. He is the author or
co-author of two dozen books, holds
honorary doctorates from over a
dozen universities, and has been
awarded the Order of Canada
(Companion).
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today
welcomed a statement by the United
Nations Security Council condemning
the attack on the South Korean naval
vessel Cheonan, which took place on
March 26, 2010, and claimed 46 lives:
Canada shares the deep concern
expressed by Security Council
members regarding the findings of the
Joint Civilian-Military Investigation
Group led by South Korea, which
concluded that the North Korean
regime was responsible for the sinking
of the Cheonan.
“Canada, at the invitation of South
Korea, sent three naval experts to
participate in the multinational team
that investigated the attack on the
Cheonan, and which subsequently
found that the ship was sunk by a
North Korean torpedo.
Mr. Johnston holds an LL.B. from
Queen’s University, Canada (1966),
an LL.B. from Cambridge, United
Kingdom (1965), and an A.B. from
Harvard (1963). While at Harvard he
was twice elected to the All-American
Hockey Team and is a member of
Harvard’s Athletic Hall of Fame. His
academic specializations include
securities regulation, corporation and
information technology and law.
Canada, along with other G-8 leaders
in Muskoka last month, condemned
the attack by the North Korean regime
as a challenge to peace and security in
the region. We remain committed to
cooperating
closely
with
all
international parties in seeking
accountability for this brutal attack, and
call for appropriate measures to be
taken against those responsible for the
attack in accordance with the United
Nations Charter and all other relevant
Mr. Johnston was born in Sudbury, provisions of international law.
Ontario, and is married to Dr. Sharon
Johnston. They have five daughters. “We also welcome the restraint shown
by South Korea and concur with
Backgrounder
Security Council members on the
importance of maintaining peace and
Dr. Sharon Johnston
stability on the Korean Peninsula and
in northeast Asia as a whole.”
Dr. Johnston began her career
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1966 in Physical and Occupational http://pm.gc.ca
Therapy. Later, she completed a
Bachelor of Science at the University Date: July 6, 2010
of Western Ontario, a Master’s of
Science at McGill University and
obtained her PhD in 1996 in PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER
Rehabilitation Science at McGill ANNOUNCES
University.
BANTING
POSTDOCTORAL
Dr. Johnston is an avid horse riding FELLOWSHIPS, SUPPORT FOR
enthusiast and runs a horse training NEXT EINSTEIN INITIATIVE
centre from their home, Chatterbox
Farm, in Ontario. Dr. Johnston is Fellowships will establish Canada as a
breakthroughs," said Prime Minister
Harper. “The Banting Postdoctoral
Fellowships will give scholars in
research institutions across the country
the support they need to explore and
develop their ideas to their fullest
potential.”
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
are the latest initiative under the
Government
of
Canada’s
comprehensive, long-term National
Science and Technology Strategy. The
new program will establish Canada as
a global leader in higher learning,
research and science and technology
development. Under the program, 70
new fellowships will be awarded each
year, with funding provided through the
Canadian
Institutes
of
Health
Research, the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council, and the
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council.
The Prime Minister also announced the
Government’s support for the Next
Einstein Initiative, which will create a
network of 15 centres of academic
excellence across Africa in fields
related to science and technology.
“Canada will make a substantial
contribution
to
scientific
and
technological development in Africa by
supporting the unique public-private
partnership known as the Next Einstein
Initiative,” the Prime Minister said.
“This is a revolutionary approach to
development. It aims to nurture the
brightest minds in Africa so they can
take a leading role in solving the
complex challenges the continent
faces in areas such as agriculture,
health and finance.”
Canada’s contribution to the Next
Einstein Initiative will help build longterm capacity in research in Africa, and
encourage talented students to reach
and fulfill their potential in math,
science and technology.
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