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Tabuk City Coop Office CAR’s bet to Gawad Award

>> Thursday, October 26, 2017

CITY OF TABUK, Kalinga – The Tabuk City Cooperative Office will represent the Cordillera region in the 2017 National Gawad Parangal Award.
Elenita Latugat of Tabuk CCO said the office was cited for its Cooperative Assistance for Rural Enhancement (CARE) Program wherein the city government, in partnership with the Tabuk City Cooperative Development Council contributed in the growth and development of grassroot cooperatives here.
Under the CARE program, the city-LGU sponsors capability enhancement trainings and workshops and provides financial assistance for capital build-up. This year, the city government had released P2 million in soft loans (no interest) as capital support to starting cooperatives.
At present, there are at least 87 people’s cooperatives in the city being assisted by the CCO.
The CCO earlier bagged National Gawad Parangal Award in 2015.  It was also given recognition as ‘Best Performing Cooperative Office’ in the recent National Cooperative Tripartite Conference in Iloilo City.
Meanwhile, Mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban vowed to consider the cooperative movement as priority program of his administration seeing how people’s lives are changed through the benefits and services of cooperatives.

In Tabuk, we see the cooperatives as effective partner of government in bringing economic reforms down to the grassroots, Tubban said.  -- PIA  Kalinga

PDEA busts 3 notorious Pangasinan drug suspects

CAMP DIEGO SILANG, La Union – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Ilocos regional office based here arrested three high-value drug targets during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Lucao, Dagupan, Pangasinan Monday afternoon.
Arrested and charged with violation of the Comprehensive on Dangerous Drugs Act were James M. Manaoat, 24; Maja Demah Bajunaid, 27, and Jone Alexan Villamor, 28.
According to Bismark Bengwayan, PDEA information officer, there were reports that the arrested suspects were supplying illegal drugs to students, especially foreigners, in various colleges and universities in Dagupan City
Seized from the trio were one wrapped elongated bundle of dried marijuana leaves and stalks estimated at 750 grams with a street value of P90,000 and 33 sealed transparent sachets containing dried marijuana leaves weighing 280.5 grams worth an estimated P33,660.
Likewise recovered from the suspects were a P1,000 bill placed used during the operation,
a black Mitsubishi Mirage (ABO-3148), one blue travel bag and one brown-white coin pouch.
One of the suspects said they sourced out the dried marijuana leaves from Baguio City. – Erwin Beleo

SSS sets higher benefits from coverable income adjustment

STATE-RUN  Social Security System (SSS) said Wednesday the estimated monthly pension of a member with at least 30 paying years will increase to P20,300 from the current maximum pension of P10,900 by 2026, if the coverable income increases to P30,000 in five years as part of its proposed reform agenda.
Similarly, benefits such as maternity, sickness, and funeral, which are also computed based on the monthly salary credit (MSC), will also increase once the reform agenda is implemented.
SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel F. Dooc said the success of the proposed SS Reform Act of 2017, which is currently being deliberated at the committee level in the Senate, will improve the benefits for members and pensioners.
“The estimated pension could increase to as much as P20,300 by 2026. As we have proposed earlier, the adjustment in MSC should increase gradually every year to P20,000 next year, to P25,000 in 2020, and P30,000 in 2021.                   As we increase the coverable income or MSC, the benefits also increase because this is the basis for computation of SSS benefits,” Dooc said.
He explained that benefits are computed based on the member's MSC and credited years of service (CYS) or the number of years he paid SSS contributions.
Under the current maximum MSC of P16,000 and monthly contribution rate of 11 percent (shared by employer and employee for employed members), the maximum basic monthly pension is only P10,900 for a member who retires with at least 30 CYS.
 With the contribution rate increase and MSC ceiling adjustment to P30,000, sickness benefit per day of P480 based on the current maximum average daily salary credit of P533 will increase to P900.
Likewise, maternity benefits for caesarian delivery will increase from P41,600 to P78,000 while those who will undergo normal birth will get P60,000 from the current P32,000 under the proposed P30,000 maximum MSC.
 Moreover, funeral benefit due from a member's account with at least 120 contributions at P30,000 MSC, six months before death will increase to P38,000 from the current P29,600.
Dooc earlier expressed his hopes that the contribution increase will be implemented by January 2018, after the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) bill and the passage of the SS Reform Act of 2017.
“We are really hoping for the passage of this bill, which according to Sen. Gordon is a landmark bill. This will not only ensure the viability of the pension fund for the current and future members but it will also improve the benefits being enjoyed by our contributing-members. For a minimal increase in their monthly contribution, a potful will be added to their benefits and pension,” Dooc said.
              He said the economic managers in the Cabinet maintained that additional contributions are necessary to

Stabber of Mt Prov mayor being traced

PARACELIS, Mountain Province – The assailant of the mayor of this town who was stabbed repeatedly afternoon of Oct. 10 in Santiago City has not yet been found.
Avelino Amangyen was resting in his car parked near a bank in the city when the unidentified man opened the door and stabbed him several times.
Amangyen who was taken to a hospital in critical condition for treatment is still recuperating.
Police said they were still trying to know motive of the attack was robbery, politics or business deals and have launched a manhunt for the perpetrator.

Concerned citizens of Paracelis have urged police to make a speedy and exhaustive investigation so it would be known if the mayor’s assailant was acting on his own or was ordered by a mastermind to carry out the crime.

Jeep driver commits suicide after wife wants separation

BAGUIO CITY – The wife of a jeepney driver told her husband she wanted to separate from him making the latter allegedly commit suicide.
The husband, identified as Pedro Dulay Jr. Runas, 51 was found dead hanging by his neck here around 10 a.m. Tuesday at the 2nd floor basement at No.145-B, Central Fairview.
Police said Dulay’s body was seen hanging earlier around 9:30 a.m. by his neighbor Ulysses Gumpad Mendoza under a concrete beam tied with electrical wires.
 Mendoza told his sister Michelle, 17 about the incident who in turn conveyed the information to Kay Valerie Abarientos Runas, the victim’s daughter.
Valerie then called his boyfriend, John Flor Sison Rojo who brought down the victim.
Valerie said around 4 a.m., she noticed his father going out from their house.
When she woke-up around 5 a.m., she looked for her father to ferry his grand child to school.
She noticed that the main door of their house was padlocked and the door keys missing.
She tried to call her father through cell phone but he could not be contacted.
She opened the main door of the house using duplicate keys and went down to the 2nd floor basement to locate her father but the gate was locked while the car of her father was inside their house.
She said her parents had a problem with their relationship and their mother wanted to separate from her husband because of his vices but the latter refused.

Police said there was no sign of struggle. The victim’s body was brought to St. Peter Funeral Homes for autopsy.

6 shot dead by bike- riding men in Luzon

By Raymund Catindig and Ric Sapnu

UNFAZED by Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa’s warning to rid the country of motorcycle-riding assailants, six persons, including two drug suspects, were shot dead by bike-riding gunmen in Luzon in the past two days.
Tricycle driver Romel Jaramilla had just dropped off a passenger in Barangay Poblacion Norte, Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur at around 2 p.m. on Wednesday when he was shot.
Witnesses said Jaramilla managed to run, but the assailants chased and finished him off near a rice field.
Police said the victim surrendered under Oplan Tokhang last year.
Reynaldo Mojica, 47, was walking on his way home when he was shot in Barangay Alagao, San Ildefonso, Bulacan.
Mojica was on the drug watchlist and a robbery suspect.
In Cagayan, former Solana municipal engineer Antonio Malenab, 53, was in his Toyota Hilux (PQB-212) when a motorcycle rider opened fire in Barangay Annafunan, Tuguegarao also on Wednesday.
Senior Insp. Renz Baloran, Solana police chief, said the victim was neither on the drug watchlist nor involved in any criminal activity.
Farmer Jackson Batan, 55, was shot while driving his motorcycle in Barangay Alba, Baggao also in Cagayan.
Former policeman Engracio Evangelista, 57, and former fireman Benjamin Dumaual Jr., 58, were having a drinking spree at a store in Barangay District 1, Cauayan, Isabela  when they were shot also on Wednesday.
Dela Rosa has vowed to hunt down motorcycle-riding assailants, saying they are tarnishing the image of the PNP.
He said the PNP is also verifying information that so-called ninja cops or police officers involved in illegal drugs are financing motorcycle-riding killers.

The PNP was removed from the government’s war on drugs amid criticisms over the killings.

Baguio driver nabbed for P38-M bank heist

BAGUIO CITY – A driver was arrested by police from Libmanan, Camarines and Baguio and Benguet cops here Monday around 1:30 p.m. after it was found out the van he owned was used in a bank robbery in Libmanan wherein P38 million was carted away.
Romel Bacoco Pis-ew, 32, married, resident here of No. 504 San Vicente, Baguio City was reportedly subject of pursuit by Libmanan police led by Chief Insp.Chito Oyardo.
A police report said Pis-ew was traced to be the owner of a white Toyota Grandia van with conduction sticker YW 2546 which was allegedly used as getaway vehicle in the bank robbery that took place at the UCPB in Barangay Libod-1, Libmanan on Oct. 8 around 8-9 p.m..
Pis-ew was positively identified by a witness. Police said the bank and the place where the suspects rented were located in one building.
The suspects dug a hole under the ground around seven meters long until they reached the floor around two feet away from the bolt of the bank and utilized it as their point of entry.
Libmanan has not yet identified his alleged companions during the heist.

Man jumps to death from Cagayan building

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — A man reportedly jumped from the fourth floor of a building in this city on Wednesday.
Chief Supt. Edward Guzman, city police chief, said Christopher Teodoro, 29, a resident of Barangay Centro 10, was accosted six times by personnel of the city government’s Mall of the Valley building after he was seen suspiciously loitering near the terrace.
Guzman said Teodoro managed to sneak past building personnel and jumped from the building at around 10 a.m.
Teodoro’s mother said her son was suffering from mental illness. He died while being treated at the Cagayan Valley Medical Center.

Besao miner found dead in Itogon mine

ITOGON, Benguet – The miner who was found inside a mine tunnel here Tuesday around 6 a.m. at Luneta, Loacan did not die of gas poisoning but due to injuries when he slipped on a deep shaft.
The victim was named as Rene Bontiyek Degma, 27, married, of Besao
Proper, Mt. Province and resident of Camp 7, Baguio City.
The body was discovered by Robert Venus Bobiles inside their tunnel when he went to switch the blower.
The body was retrieved by miners, barangay tanods and local folks.
A police report said the victim fell down the 5-meter deep hole.
The victim had swollen neck and right arm, abrasions on right foot and left hand.
The body of the victim was brought to Benguet General Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Bauko awarded for best tourism festival

BAUKO, Mountain Province -- The Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines (ATOP) and the Dept. of Tourism (DOT), awarded a citation for Bauko as 3rd runner up in the search for best practices on municipal festivals.
The citation was in recognition of exceptional practices, projects and innovations Bauko folks and officials to community development and the tourism industry.
               Begnas di Bauko was shortlisted from the first screening based on published criteria by panels of jurors convened by ATOP.
The documents went into final review with the finalist submitting themselves to an en banc interview with the members of the national panel of Jurors who declared the winners.
Begnas di Bauko is a culture of thanksgiving celebrated into festival through Municipal Ordinance number 030-A every 2nd Thursday of March.
The winners were awarded during the ATOP 18thNational convention and 13th Pearl Award at Iloilo Convention Center, Iloilo City last Oct. 6.
               The municipality of Bauko was represented by Councilor Ricky Samidan, sangguniang bayan chair of committee on tourism and Tourism Operation Officer Arsenia Addon who received the awards.

Miss Thailand chosen Ms. Earth-Hannah in Pagudpud

By Freddie G. Lazaro

PAGUDPUD, Ilocos Norte – Miss Earth 2017 candidate Paweensuda Drouin of Thailand bagged the crown for the “Ms. Earth-Hannah’s 2017” title in a mini-pageant held at the Hannah’s Beach Resort and Convention Center here in Barangay Balaoi on Oct. 14.
Drouin bested the nine other Miss Earth 2017 candidates with her beautiful gown and fluent English response in the question and answer portion of the mini-pageant sponsored by retired Col. Ricardo L. Nolasco Jr., the proprietor of the Hannah’s Beach Resort.
The other winners of the Miss Earth-Hannah’s 2017 were Miss Ninoska Vasquez of Venezuela-1st runner-up and Miss Lessie Giler Sanchez of Ecuador-2nd runner up.
The 10 Miss Earth 2017 candidates, who visited Hannah’s beach resort are Miss Austria- Bianca Kronsteiner; Miss Czech Republic – Iva Uchytilova; Miss Ecuador Lessie Giler Sanchez; Miss Venzuela – Ninoska Vasquez; Miss Thailand – Paweensuda Drouin; Miss Korea – Hanna Lee; Miss Guatemala – Maria Jose Castaneda; Miss Israel – Elian Qupti; Miss Sweden – Camilia Fogestedt; and Miss Uganda – Mutesi Josephine Nabirye.
Drouin’s main advocacy to protect the environment is to “think mother earth as extension of one’s house.”
She said the awareness program in protecting the environment should start in the family’s house.
“The parents should teach their children at home on the proper ways to protect the mother earth through practicing the 6 Rs in effective waste management, which means re-use, reduce, re-use, recycle, repair and recover,” she said.

Baguio hosts 1st North Philippines career fair

BAGUIO CITY – Thousands of students and hospitality industry stakeholders will be flocking to the city to grab the rare opportunity of being exposed to the realities of their chosen profession for the upcoming 1st North Philippines Tourism Forum and Career Fair at the CAP Trade and Cultural Center on Nov. 16-18.
                Maria Venus Q. Tan, regional director of the Cordillera office of the Department of Tourism , said the event will help unveil the many tourism career opportunities not only in the country but also in other parts of the world to accommodate the increasing number of young professionals taking up courses related to the hospitality and tourism industry.
              “The fair will highlight the rise of the Cordillera as meetings, incentive travel, conventions and exhibitions career hub for tourism,” Tan stressed.
 The 3-day event will include lectures and for a on topics related to tourism career opportunities and practices as it brings the academe to the realities to the needs of the industry.
The DOT-CAR official revealed the speakers, who are the icons of practically all the tourism sectors, will present their personal and professional experiences in their respective career paths and provide tips on how to spot and seize opportunities for industry growth and advancement thereby resulting in jobs and livelihood generation.
According to her, as industry leaders, the chosen experts will talk about the realities in their respective sectors such as the culinary and restaurants, hotels and resorts, cruise, airlines and aviation and travel and tours as well as meetings, conventions incentives and travel exhibitions among others.
              Tan disclosed among those that will be featured in the event are the new breeds of tourism entrepreneurs who do business online using various mobile applications and other enabling digital mechanisms, including the income potentials that these can generate.
The attendees to the event will be given a free seminar on basic productivity and quality concepts; communicating service quality; understanding, satisfying and managing customer expectations; and the art of effective listening and communication.
She said trainers from the labor department will also teach future employees to conduct themselves during employment interviews, while at the workplace, when subjected to sexual harassment, and how to deal with the reality of HIV in the community among others.
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority will  present its training programs, courses, and assistance to graduates in searching and qualifying for jobs.
Tan said another interesting session of the event is grooming where experts will provide the formula in picking the right clothes, hair style and make up for various occasions and situations and the session will include discussions on the effective verbal and non-verbal communications during interviews and other forms of human interactions.
Tan said a special matching session at the career exhibition will also help job seekers find employment that apply and suits their education, skills, personality and interests.
The event is organized and managed by the Philippine Exhibits and Theme Parks Corporation with Victory Liner, Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) and NLEX Corporation. -- Dexter A. See

Streetlights along scenic Kennon Road. to be restored

The street lights that used to greet  passengers to Baguio through the scenic Kennon Rd. will be restored by the Benguet Electric Cooperative which wrote-off the power arrears and pay the incoming energy consumption through the cooperative social responsibility fund of director Robert Valentin of Tuba and Sablan towns.
In a letter, Valentin informed Benguet Rep. Ronald Cosalan, provincial governor Crescenco Pacalso, Tuba mayor Ignacio Rivera  and Punong barangy Ciupriano Balinag of Camp 1, Tuba that the Beneco board condoned power bills totaling P40,272.75, with future payments estimated at P4,500 a month charged to his corporate social responsibility fund.
The illumination of the approach to Tuba and Baguio was earlier sponsored by Benguet Rep. Ronald Cosalan but was discontinued in November, 2010.
“We are likewise pleased  inform you,” Valentin said, “that our Beneco Honorable Board favorably approved the condonation of the P40,272.25 unbilled power of the said streetlights. Moreover, our cooperative will shoulder the necessary rehabilitation of he streetlights as well as extension of secondary lines with an estimated cost of P23,086.10.”
“We hope that our modest contribution will improve the image of the Cordilleras as one of the premier tourist destinations in the country,” Valentin added.
Aside from illuminating the approach to Baguio, the streetlights at Camp 1 give commuters traveling
at night  the signal that they are already ascending to the city proper and to other parts of Benguet. – Ramon Dacawi.

YMCA academic olympics Oct. 21-22

BAGUIO CITY – Students from various elementary, high schools and colleges in the city  showcased their scholarly prowess in the 2017 Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Academic Olympics which started yesterday (Oct. 21) until today at the YMCA Baguio.
YMCA Baguio president Jerome Gawidan said the olympics which has run for decades now  feature various competitions including quiz bee, Bible quiz bee, essay writing, on-the-spot drawing, oration, extemporaneous speaking and tula (poem) delivery.
Contests in the performing arts include particularly dance and singing (vocal solo and duet).
This year’s olympics with the theme, “A Call for Servant Leadership” is part of the activities lined up for the YMCA Baguio’s 76th anniversary celebration on Dec. 1.
The winners will represent the city in the regional leg slated on Nov. 18-19.
The next activity in the YMCA Baguio anniversary calendar will be the inter-school debate to feature competitors from the various high schools on Oct. 28-29.
On Nov. 4, a Fun Run will fire off.  Registration is on-going for P150 with medal, certificate and t-shirt.
The year-round basketball tournament is also ongoing with match-ups now among corporate groups following the conclusion of the high school league recently.
On Nov. 29, the choral competition will unravel featuring choirs from the various elementary, high schools and colleges. – Aileen P. Refuerzo

Bontoc girl needs fistula to survive

BAGUIO CITY -- Maintaining dialysis three times a week for a lifetime is a common problem among dialysis patients being squeezed continuously of their meager finances.
Double the fund stress and you have Julla Sabling,a 21-year old from Bontoc, Mt. Province whose family has been trying to cope with her need to undergo thrice-a-week blood-cleansing sessions in order to survive.
That’s why she has been here in Baguio since she was diagnosed for kidney failure in June last year, to be closer to the life-saving dialysis machines at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center.
Beside the need to pay P2,200 per dialysis session, Julla is threatened by the successive failure of her arteriovenus grafts (AVFs) created to allow treatment.
She has undergone several AVF creations which eventually failed, with doctors advising her to undergo AVF grat at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City.
The graft would cost some P45,000 which the family cannot raise. Her father Juan is an electrician while her mother Chernlyn is a government employee earning P30,000 a month.
Julla has two brothers – Jovanne, 14 and at Grade 7, and Juan,   17 and at Grade 11.
Those who can help raise Julla’s fund for a graft or would like to sponsor a session or two of dialysis may contact her at the dialysis center at the Baguio General Hospital. -- Ramon Dacawi

No texting for Central Luzon cops on duty

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – Central Luzon police officers are no longer allowed to send text messages while on duty, based on an order issued by the regional police director Chief Supt. Amador V. Corpuz.
Corpuz said the “no text policy” is effective immediately in the entire region.
Corpuz said a number of police officers are often preoccupied with sending text messages or fiddling with their mobile phones while on duty.
“The no text policy is my marching orders and the alibi that they are making report in texting is already an old alibi,” Corpuz said.
He said the public feels safer if there are police officers on duty who are alert and not preoccupied with texting.
“There will be greater challenges ahead and we need to build a stronger community; you are old enough to do what is right,” Corpuz told his men. -- Mar T. Supnad

Wi-fi connections eyed for 2,300 buses

At least 2,300 provincial buses and their riders will benefit from the free, high-speed wi-fi connections and other services  that will be provided by communications giant PLDT Inc. to  members of the Provincial Bus Operators Association of the Philippines (PBOAP).
The PLDT said over the weekend that the partnership, forged through its corporate business unit PLDT Enterprise, would involve providing PBOAP members with wi-fi connectivity, closed-circuit television monitoring and vehicle tracking through the SmartBus suite of services from the Smart Biz LTE bundle.
“Giving the commuting public easy and fast access to the internet through our Smart Biz LTE can take their mind away from the daily grind. It will also  enable them to perform  tasks online while in transit,” the PLDT said.
“Our partner bus operators said the Smart Bus suite gives them the assurance that their buses, personnel and the riding public are secured,” Jovy Hernandez, senior vice president and head of PLDT Enterprise, said.
PLDT’s SmartBus product enables bus operators to comply with the government’s plan to modernize the country’s public transport system.

Kalinga 4Ps get rice aid

TABUK CITY, Kalinga – More than11, 000 Pantawid Pamilya program beneficiaries in the province started receiving rice subsidy from the program.
Under the Duterte Administration, Pantawid beneficiaries are extended additional P600 monthly rice aid.
Lorna Lumiwan, 4Ps Provincial Link, disclosed the Dept. of Social Welfare and Development released the rice assistance for January because the period was covered under the “suspension of evaluation on compliance” due to super typhoon ‘Lawin’.
But starting February until end of the year, release of rice aid will be back as compliance-based, Lumiwan said.
Under the 4Ps program, indigent beneficiaries receive monthly cash benefits provided they comply with conditions set on health, education and attendance to family development sessions.
Pantawid families are required to have regular health monitoring at rural health units, qualified children should be in school and undergo regular family development sessions.  -- PIA Kalinga

Central Luzon OFWs to be hired as teachers

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – The Dept. of Education in Central Luzon announced that it will be hiring 43 returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to teach in different schools in the region.
Michelle Catap-Lacson, DepEd3 Project Development Officer II said the 43 returning OFWs will be given permanent teaching positions in public schools near their residences in the provinces of Aurora, Bulacan, Bataan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and Tarlac.
“They will be automatically given permanent teacher items, and be assigned to schools with shortages,” she said, adding that 25 teachers will be assigned in the elementary level while 18 will be assigned in the Junior High School level.
She added that the Schools Division Offices have been instructed to conduct thorough interview and demonstration teaching and address noted gaps through the conduct of teacher trainings and other apt interventions.
The hiring of OFW-teachers is under the “Sa ‘Pinas Ikaw ang Mam at Sir” (SPIMS) Program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in partnership with DepEd, which was launched in 2014 to assist OFWs who are passers of the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) working abroad as professional teachers or household service workers to be employed as teachers when they return to the country.
-- Franco G. Regala

Tabuk City ups drive against minor drivers

TABUK CITY, Kalinga --  The City Public Order and Safety Office has intensified its campaign against  minor drivers amid reports of high violations.
POSO Dionisio P. Falgui III reported their office had recorded 1,911 traffic violators in the city from January-June, mostly minor drivers and driving without license.
This explains why road accident is the top cause in cases of physical injuries in the city police report, Falgui said.
In line with the campaign, mobile check points along the city’s main thoroughfares has  been intensified. Because of strict traffic regulation enforcement, the POSO had collected P574,350 in penalty fees for the period.
But Falgui said collection of penalty fees is just secondary to their mandate of assuring public order and safety.
We impose penalty because we want drivers to follow proper traffic rules to avoid accidents, he said.
He appealed to parents to cooperate with the authorities by preventing their minor-children from just going on fun-driving  without the assistance of licensed drivers.  -- PIA Kalinga

 Kalinga farmers learn ratooning technology

CITY OF TABUK, Kalinga --  The Provincial Agriculturist Office educates farmers on the ratooning technology to increase rice production.
Joe Casibang, Kalinga rice program coordinator, said ratooning could add at least 40 percent of the average yield per hectare to farmers.
Under the technology, farmers are taught to apply some interventions to palay plants left out during harvest and could still get additional yield. Farmers just apply additional two bags of urea per hectare compared to the usual 8-10 bags of fertilizer per hectare in the regular cropping.
Casibang said the ratooning period runs for about 60 days, which is actually the regular cropping interval, before the ratooned palay is ready for harvest.
The technology is applicable to both hybrid and inbred rice. Rice farmers get an average of 120 bags of palay per hectare.
A 50-hectare demo-farm is being used for the technology in this City, the province's major rice producing area.  -- PIA Kalinga

DSWD sets 30,000 family food packs for rainy months

BAGUIO CITY – Dept. of Social Welfare and Development in the Cordillera Administrative Region has set family food packs for disaster augmentation this rainy season particularly for  landslide-prone areas in the region.
 DSWD-CAR regional director Janet Armas said 30,000 food packs have already been brought to provinces for distribution in case of disasters.
She said 6,200 food packs are in Mountain Province; 5,000 in Ifugao; 2,642 in Abra; 1,500 in Apayao; and 15,601 at their warehouse in Puguis, La Trinidad town in Benguet.
A food pack contains 6 kilograms of rice, half dozen 3-in-1 instant coffee, 8 canned goods, brown rice bar (energy bar) and infant dry-cereals.
Armas said the goods will augment food supplies in cases of disasters in Cordillera as landslides frequently occur due to the terrain.
DSWD-CAR, she said, spent about P13 million for the family packs. About P21 million was also spent for non-food items like blankets and tents.
Cordillera the past days has been experiencing strong rains and thunderstorms brought by the southwest monsoon. A number of roads were closed to vehicular traffic due to landslides. -- PNA

  PVET teaches farmers organic feed formulation

HUNGDUAN, Ifugao --The Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) here recently conducted skills training on organic swine and poultry raising and feed formulation to 83 farmer- recipients of native pig raising project of the provincial government.
The training was to enable pig raisers gain more profit in their backyard livestock endeavor by formulating their own organic feeds using ingredients and materials that are abundant and indigenous in their places rather than relying on commercial feeds which are very expensive, said PVET training coordinator Ferdinand Dunuan.
By adopting organic farming  that  includes feed formulation to reduce feed cost,  they can produce not only animal meat products which are safe and fit for human consumption but also earn more profit because organically produced farm products nowadays are in great demand.
Dunuan   lectured to participants on animal husbandry, issues on bio-organic inputs and good agricultural practices.
Gilbert Caclini, also of PVET, demonstrated the preparation of the feeds using the indigenous materials with the hands on participation of the farmers  so that they can learn and experience on the spot organic feed formulation.
The ingredients and materials used during the actual preparation of  50 kilograms (kgs) of organic feed include 20 kilos rice bran, 5 corn grits, 5 corn bran, 3 chopped banana stalk, 3 chopped camote trunk and leaves, 3 ofipil leaves, 10 ofazola, a kilo of brown sugar, another kilo of indigenous micro-organism (for fermentation) and two liters of rice wash.
The farmers said were happy with what they learned and promised that they will immediately start preparing their own feed supply. -- Daniel B. Codamon

Planning and simulating

Ike Señeres

As the saying goes, “it is better late than never”. To extend the wisdom of that expression, we could perhaps say that it is better to have a plan than not to have a plan at all. Having said that however, what is the use of having a plan if it is no good at all? To add to the saying that “there is only one way to find out”, there is another saying that “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. All that said, I would say now that the only way to find out whether a plan is good or not is to test it. Better than that, we should be simulating a plan instead of just testing it, and the better the simulation would be to the real life scenarios, the better it would be.
Maybe it’s just a play of words, but to some extent it could be said that testing, practising, exercising and simulating are all just synonymous words. In that connection, I heard that SWAT units in some countries would simulate and practice every day with actual scenarios, as if the real life situations are already happening. I that that is a good idea, but what is even better than that is to supplement the actual simulations with virtual versions. For sure, these two options are not in conflict with each other and at best, they would even complement each other. One good thing about virtual simulations is that the actual data could be gathered and could eventually be analyzed.
I think that it will still take a long time before “Internet of Things” (IOT) will be mainstreamed into local governance, but it is a good time to start doing it now, rather than never ever doing it. Not unless we start doing it, it could take forever and sad to say, that forever might even translate into never. However, I want to make it clear that IOT is not an island by itself, because it is actually an archipelago of solutions that should work seamlessly with each other, as i fit is a naturally formed ecosystem. As I see it, it should be IOT that should gather the data that should go into Big Data. The latter would however be useless not unless it is analyzed, and that is where data analytics. In the end, the data should be processed into information that should go into a dashboard, being all part of business intelligence.
The Local Government Code (LGC) requires all Local Government Units (LGUs) to prepare and submit a Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) that shall be initiated by its Local Development Council (LDC) and approved by its Sanggunian. Towards that goal, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has issued guidelines as to how that should be done. According to the guidelines, the CDP and the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) are distinct and separate, even if these two are intimately related. The guidelines say that in the CDP, “comprehensive” should mean that it covers all sectors, while in the CLUP; it should mean that it should cover all the land areas in the municipality. Be that as it may, I think that the common denominator between these two plans is the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
For some reason, the DILG has not prescribed the use of GIS software in the preparation of the CDP.
Similarly, the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) has made the use of GIS optional, meaning that LGUs can use it if they want to. As a result, some LGUs are just using paper mache to make relief maps that are not really very accurate, except that it presents a visual picture of how the terrain looks like. Some other LGUs have made flat maps on paper that are visually informative, but are not really clearly accurate too. More often than not, the LGUs that are using analog means would say that they could not afford the digital solutions provided by GIS, but that is not really true because there are open source versions that are available.
Maybe it is too complicated to explain it, but the same GIS software that is use for hazard mapping can also be used for tax mapping and so on and so forth, including of course traffic mapping. In reality, all of these mapping requirements are really just data sets that are just layers of one system. In other words, there is really no need to fund one GIS project after another. By the way, GIS software is great for simulations too. Perhaps the best use to justify the use of GIS in CDP is that all sectors could have their own layers in the overall system. That way, we will all know what goes where and why, and we could simulate the effects of addition or subtraction in each layer.
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March L. Fianza

BAGUIO CITY -- Decades ago when colleagues in the world of newspapering and I caught deadlines with typewriters, landlines and facsimile machines; I can recall wishing to high heavens that my name appeared on the byline or be at the end of the story as tagline.
Although the correspondent or news contributor was not told, it was understood that reading his or her name on the story revealed the thoughts of the editors that he or she deserved the byline because the article was accurately written.
Today, the internet has changed the mode of communicating to the public with the use of bogus names or anonymous sites. And because of this, articles may be written irresponsibly; and any author can just write fake news and libelous statements because he feels secured under the blanket of fake identity.
Compared to using a true name as in traditional newspaper writing, what the anonymous writer in the internet wants is to espouse fake news and defamatory views, wants freedom of expression and freedom to destroy the character of individuals, but at the same time wants freedom from responsibility. They can’t be identified, so you can’t sue them.
Another way by which fake news gets published is when the source or the person interviewed by a reporter does not tell the truth like one mayor I know. Naturally, what comes out in news print and broadcast media are lies and a lot of hot air which many will consider now as fake news.
It’s trending. First, we had fake Levis jeans, then fake Johnny Walker Double Black. Now we have fake news, fake newspapers, fake writers, fake news sources, fake internet bloggers, manufactured videos of politicians, you name it – we have it in the Philippines.
Not to be outdone, even judges render decisions out of fake theft court cases. Take the case of Roger Sinot, the genuine and duly selected indigenous peoples’ mandatory representative (IPMR) to the city council of Baguio. Honestly, he admitted being jailed for three months for a crime he did not do.
This writer is privy to that because I personally know what transpired in that fake theft case. More than a decade ago, barangay officials of Baan, Kayapa, Nueva Viscaya delivered loads of sand and gravel right inside the titled property of Roger Sinot, allegedly for the construction of a barangay hall.
After so many arguments and since the sand and gravel which they themselves delivered was inside Sinot’s property, they charged him for theft.
By the way, while the case was being heard, Kayapa and Aritao were already tangled in a long drawn boundary conflict case, particularly in Barangay Baan where Sinot’s property is located. In fact, there are two sets of barangay officials in Barangay Baan – one set for Kayapa, the other for Aritao.
In an actual inspection of the site, the judge told the barangay officials that Sinot was willing to pay more than double for the aggregates intentionally left by them. They did not want payment. Obviously, the theft case was a smokescreen because what they wanted was to occupy the land.
Several court proceedings were heard but sometime later, Sinot’s lawyer failed to appear in court and did not even notify him about the scheduled hearing. The judge technically sentenced Sinot to serve a short jail term for the crime of theft which he did not do.
Since the jail term was only three months, Sinot chose to take the “short vacation” from August 4 to November 4 in 2013. The case is not over. To finally settle things, Sinot filed for “Quieting of Title” over the land he inherited from his parents.
On Nov. 4, 2016, exactly three years after his jail term, he was selected IPMR to the city council after having acquired the minimum requirements of a nominee listed in the guidelines ratified by the assembly which are: a descendant of an original or early Ibaloy tribe in Baguio, a resident and registered voter in the city and an ancestral land claimant. Roger Dalisdis Sinot was all of that.
But before the NCIP could issue a certificate of affirmation, an obscure group of personalities who claimed to be representatives of other IP tribes complained that they were excluded from the selection process.
In the first place, the petitioners against the affirmation of Sinot were fake personalities since the guidelines clearly stated that complainants should be any of the losing nominees.
Instead of throwing out the fake petition filed by the fake personalities, the NCIP acting director Roland Calde entertained it for reasons known only to him. This is why almost a year now after Sinot’s selection on November 4, 2016, the IPs are deprived of a representative in the city council. Calde not only violated the guidelines, he sinned against the IPs.
Up to now, the guidelines have not been questioned in any court which could have enlightened all parties, but knowing the opposite side, they would not do something that would definitely make them lose their case.
To make matters worse, the fake opposition in coordination with an anonymous politician in City Hall capitalized on Sinot’s fake theft case, saying it was a violation against the guidelines provision on Moral Turpitude.
Again, the guidelines provision that can be understood by any high school graduate cleared Sinot. Imprisonment based on the prohibition provision should at least be ONE YEAR that has been served within the PAST TWO YEARS prior to the IPMR selection. Sinot admitted that he took his unwanted vacation in jail for only THREE MONTHS in 2013, and THREE YEARS prior to his selection.
Another violation that the fake petitioners accused him of was his Comelec registration in Nueva Vizcaya. This was also cleared when Sinot came back to register in Baguio. In fact, the Comelec issued a certification in favor of Sinot, saying that there was no need to register again since he was still a registered voter in Baguio.
From fake news, comes now the fake assembly where participants are convinced to attend by telling them that the issues to be discussed are about their land claims and solutions to their problems on their mining activities.
When the NCIP-sponsored assembly last October 7 failed because participants found out that the issues being discussed were not the same issues that were vowed to be settled, the NCIP acting director came out with an interview saying that the participants who supported Sinot walked out because they did not succeed in questioning the assembly proceedings.
That was fake information that was fed to the NCIP acting director that he in turn paraphrased in a news interview. The truth was that in the notice of assembly that the participants read, it was stated that lunch would be served.
But the participants noticed that while the NCIP acting director admitted that the assembly was an activity sponsored by NCIP, lunch was being served only to those who had meal tickets – not to all participants.
Since they did not have meal tickets and were not served lunch, they had no choice but to look for food somewhere.
They also noticed that the other participants who had meal tickets went home after partaking of the food. Nobody walked out as stated by acting director Calde in his news interview.
By the way, during the discussions, a participant claimed they were instructed by NCIP acting director Calde to reiterate their complaint against Sinot so that he will have basis to hold the issuance of the certificate of affirmation.
What does that make of him as the head of the office that is tasked to unite and protect the IPs? Fake news and fake assemblies? Now, do we have a director who divides and makes IPs wrangle against each other? PDu30 should be told about this.

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What to watch on Netflix Canada in August 2018

NOW critics pick the best movies and TV shows joining the streaming service’s library this month

Matt Groening’s first new animated comedy in almost 20 years is a medieval fantasy adventure thing with the voices of Abbi Jacobson, Nat Faxon and Eric Andre as (respectively) Princess Bean, her elf pal Elfo and “personal demon” Luci. Everybody drinks. We can’t wait. August 17

Follow This

An insider’s look at the Buzzfeed newsroom, this weekly, short-form documentary series follows the culture site’s reporters as they explore everything from quirky internet crazes to safe injection sites. In the first of 20 15-minute long episodes, senior culture writer Scaachi Koul – the Toronto-based essayist who released One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter in 2017 – reflects on how “a lot of times the internet takes me to some pretty weird places” as she covers the world of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos, an internet phenomenon that many describe as having a “head orgasm.”  August 23

Marching Orders

Only a handful of depictions of Black college marching bands have made it into the mainstream, from the 2002 classic Drumline to Beyoncé’s landmark Coachella performance, but when we do get to see them they’re always electric. Expect the same spine-tingliness from this behind-the-scenes look at Bethune-Cookman University’s Marching Wildcats. The reality series follows an incoming class of marching band and majorette hopefuls as they try to survive the rigours of practice and performance all while balancing school and their social lives. August 3

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

Based on Jenny Han’s bestselling YA novel of the same name, this Netflix film tells the story of Lara Jean (newcomer Lana Condor), a shy high schooler who keeps a stash of love letters she’s written to all the boys she’s had major crushes on. One day, those letters go missing and Lara realizes her worst nightmare has come true. While trying to figure out what her crushes know and how to fix the situation, she inadvertently falls in love for real. August 17

Demetri Martin: The Overthinker

After writing, directing and starring in his debut 2016 feature film, Dean, deadpan comic Demetri Martin returns to form with his latest Netflix stand-up special. Expect plenty of one-liners and jokes articulated via his signature cartoon drawings, as well as meditations on everyday minutia like doughnut holes (or as we say up here, timbits,) sports bars and the most aggressive letters in the alphabet.  August 10

Universal Pictures

Andy Samberg goes full douche in the underrated music industry satire Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer’s goofy comedy about the rise and fall of entitled, oblivious music star Conner4Real (Samberg, going full douche) failed to set the box office on fire, but two years later it looks like one of the funniest comedies of the decade, with a soundtrack that should have topped the charts. Style Boyz for life, y’all. August 1

Adventures In Public School

Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein’s whip-smart comedy – which played TIFF last year under the title Public Schooled – stars Daniel Doheny as a home-schooled genius who enrols in public school so he can chase his dream girl (Siobhan Williams), much to the consternation of his overprotective mother (Judy Greer). Keep an eye out for Battlestar Galactica’s Grace Park and Kim’s Convenience’s Andrea Bang as a mother-daughter pairing even weirder than the leads. August 15

Don’t Breathe

Fede Alvarez’s follow-up to his Evil Dead remake is about three friends who break into the home of a blind man after they get a tip that he’s sitting on $300,000. However, the mysterious man is an Iraq War vet and no pushover. The cast suggests a lot with minimal dialogue, while Alvarez and his co-writer, Rodo Sayagues have a blast with the skeevy premise, letting our feelings about the trio and the vet (known in the credits as The Blind Man) change with each narrative jolt. August 15

8 Mile

It’s been 16 years since 8 Mile hit theatres, but we bet you still try to rap along every time the song comes on the radio (something-something-mom’s spaghetti, right?). The musical drama stars Eminem as Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith, a blue-collar worker who dreams of making it as a hip-hop star. Trouble is, he’s white in a genre dominated by African Americans. Also, B-Rabbit’s stuck living in his mom’s trailer at 8 Mile Road in Detroit. It’s all fodder for a big rap battle, and at least we know, it all worked out in the end for Eminem. August 1

Touch Of Evil

The story goes that Orson Welles joined Universal’s pulpy Charlton Heston-and-Janet Leigh thriller as an actor, and only an actor – until Heston demanded the studio let him direct it. As a result, what might have been a forgettable B-picture became a weird, impressionistic fever dream of motel jazz parties, heroin freaks, lady bikers and mad bombers. Yes, Charlton Heston wears brownface for the whole thing to play a Mexican cop. It’s unfortunate. The movie’s still amazing. August 1

A Hologram For The King

You almost certainly missed this Tom Hanks midlife-crisis dramedy – adapted by Run Lola Run’s Tom Tykwer from a novel by Dave Eggers – the first time around, and that’s okay it’s kind of a mess, to be honest. But it’s the kind of mess that plays a lot better on a smaller screen, where Hanks’s performance somehow registers more clearly. August 9

Julie & Julia

Young New Yorker Julie (Amy Adams) is dissatisfied with her job, so she decides to do something for herself – by cooking every recipe in Mastering The Art Of French Cooking by Julia Child (Meryl Streep). Writer-director Nora Ephron’s final film looks at the challenges both women faced and, perhaps more importantly, the comfort they found in cooking for themselves. August 1

The Commuter

No, the latest collaboration between Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra does not reach the dizzy heights of their finest two hours, Non-Stop. But it’s still pretty good, with a solid premise – ex-cop Neeson is offered a huge payday to find a person on his train out of Manhattan, only to realize he’s being set up for something nefarious – and a supporting cast filled with ringers like Vera Farmiga, Jonathan Banks and Lady Macbeth’s Florence Pugh. August 10

Full list of new titles available in August, by date:

August 1

August 2

The 100 (season five)

August 3

Cocaine Coast

Dinotrux Supercharged (season 3)

Marching Orders

August 4

On Children

August 10

72 Dangerous Animals: Asia

All About The Washingtons

La casa de las flores

Million Pound Menu

Outlander (season three)

The Ponysitters Club

Voltron: Legendary Defender (season seven)

August 13

Splash And Bubbles (season two)

August 15

Homeland (season six)

August 17

Magic For Humans

Pinky Malinky

Spirit Riding Free (season six)

Stay Here

August 19

The Investigator: A British Crime Story (season two)

August 21

The Sinner

August 22

How To Get Away With Murder (season four)

Marlon (season two)

August 23

Follow This

August 24

Ask The StoryBots (season two)

The Innocents

Trolls: The Beat Goes On! (season three)

August 27

The Blacklist (season five)

August 31

The Comedy Lineup (part two)

Inside The Criminal Mind

Ozark (season two)

Paradise PD

Ultimate Beastmaster: Survival Of The Fittest

August 1

8 Mile

Along Came Polly

The Huntsman: Winter’s War

Julie & Julia

Justice League Dark

House Of Deadly Secrets

The Land Before Time

Michael Jackson’s This Is It

The Perfect Man

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Public Enemies

Rise Of The Guardians

Safe House

‘Til Death Do Us Part

Touch of Evil

August 2

Wild Oats

August 3

Brij Mohan Amar Rahe

Like Father

August 4

Flavors Of Youth: International Version

August 6

I Kill Giants

Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back

August 9

A Hologram For The King

August 10

The Commuter

Demetri Martin: The Overthinker

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society

The Package

August 15

Adventures In Public School

Don’t Breathe

Hurricane Bianca: From Russia With Hate

August 16

Made Of Honor

August 17

Den Of Thieves

The Motive

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

August 20

Death At A Funeral

August 23

In Darkness

August 24

The After Party

Bert Kreischer: Secret Time

August 27

The Accountant

When The Bough Breaks

August 31

The Laws Of Thermodynamics

Air date TBD

Meteor Garden

Last Call

TV series and movies leaving Netflix this month.

August 1

Apollo 13

The Fault In Our Stars

Finding Dory

How To Be Single

In Good Company

The Time Traveler’s Wife

August 3

The Truman Show

August 11

August 15

Gangs Of New York

August 17

Minority Report

August 23

American Hustle

August 24

School Of Rock

Sixteen Candles

August 26

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice

August 27

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

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Why are some numbers in black and some in red?
Can you explain why the red 6 is in that particular square?
Why is there a 45 in the bottom right-hand corner?

You will notice that the numbers 2 to 9 are used to generate the matrix and only one of these numbers is used twice (the 2).

Can you fill in the matrix (table square) below?

The numbers 2 to 12 were used to generate it with, again, just one number used twice.

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Truth or Dairy

These days you hear a lot of conflicting advice about whether to eat dairy, so here are some dairy facts to help you decide how much to consume.

Reasons to LOVE dairy:

  1. Dairy products are good sources of calcium, potassium, protein and, in the case of yogurt, beneficial probiotics.

  2. Dairy is often a super-convenient snack, like yogurt, string cheese, cottage cheese, etc.

  3. A recent study found that people who consume more calcium excrete more fat. That means they didn’t absorb it.

  4. Another study found that low-fat milk is the best exercise recovery drink. It beat out fancy protein shakes (soy-based or whey-based) for building muscle and burning fat in heavy exercisers.

Reasons to AVOID dairy:

  1. You may be lactose-intolerant, in which case you don’t digest it. You just become puffy, fluffy or stuffy (inflamed and gassy.) A full 70% of the world lacks the enzymes to fully digest dairy. People of Northern European descent are most likely to have the right enzymes and people of Asian and African descent are least likely. Of course, you can still do Lactose-free dairy.

  2. Unless it is organic, many dairy products contain hormones, antibiotics and chemicals used on the farm. These have been blamed for acne and early puberty.

  3. Regular (full-fat) dairy is loaded with saturated fat, which is thought to raise cholesterol, contribute to obesity and to not trigger leptin, the hormone that helps you feel full and satisfied. Fat-free dairy doesn’t have this problem.

My advice is to eat organic non-fat dairy if you can digest it well. If you can’t eat dairy, you can get your calcium from many other sources, like green veggies, tofu or calcium supplements. And if you don’t eat yogurt frequently, you might consider taking another source of probiotics.

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Cop Block Founder Ademo Freeman Jail Photo After Ohio Cannabis Arrest Sentencing

The following post was originally posted at by “Chuck U Farley.” Some minor edits have been made for spelling and grammar, as well as formatting differences between the sites.

Ademo Freeman, CopBlock Co-Founder, Sentenced To Prison For Nine Months

CopBlock Co-Founder Ademo Freeman was sentenced to nine months in the Warren County Correctional Facility on April 10th. He is due out in seven months, having been credited for time already served. The judge in his case, Judge Robert S. Fischer, agreed with Freeman that he should be allowed to put whatever substance in his body he chooses And yet he still sentenced him to prison.

Note: If you have videos, stories, upcoming events/protests, or personal interactions with the police (and/or “justice” system) that you would like to share, send them to us and we will do everything we can to bring it to the attention of the world. In addition, you can visit the Nevada Cop Block resources section for information and links to the rights of citizens when dealing with police, during which you should always be filming.

In the “Land of the Free,” this is not freedom. Freeman has a medical prescription from Colorado and Ohio is supposedly a medical marijuana state, as well. In addition, Ohio will have full legalization on this year’s ballot. Unfortunately though, it will not pass in time to afford my friend any clemency.

Isn’t it unfortunate that we live in a world where a person has a medical prescription for cannabis, he is in a medically legal state, and even the sad excuse we call a president is saying to legalize marijuana, yet people are still be locked up for it? A world where police still make a big PR propaganda spectacle of marijuana arrests like they are stopping crime in some way by arresting peaceful people for engaging in freedom.

Ademo Freeman Ohio Cannabis Arrest Evidence PhotoWell, on the right is an evidence photo they didn’t have the sack to tout on their Facebook page. (Where they post almost all marijuana busts with the evidence on the hood of their cars surrounded by all their gear.)

The sad joke that is Ohio’s medical marijuana law doesn’t even recognize prescriptions from Colorado’s doctors. There is no reciprocity built into it like there are with, gun laws, driving laws, and just about any other laws that span several states. Who enacted this stupid version of a medical law?

Governor John Kasich that’s who! All by himself with no input from Ohio voters, he just said one day after Issue 3 failed (which would’ve effectively legalized marijuana in Ohio if it weren’t for a smear campaign against it,) “This is what you got now, tough shit if you don’t like it!” Did I mention the Ohio government agencies charged with rolling out this program have until September 2018 to get it done? Well, September is only a couple of months away, and they are talking about it like it wont be done in time. Guess who’s gonna suffer if it doesn’t roll out in time? Adult users and medical patients alike! Do you think there will be any consequences for the agencies responsible? Of course not!

When do we lose the hypocrisy and just legalize it across the board? Why are we waiting for so-called lawmakers and leaders to get their cut before we just take our freedom back? They got billions of dollars already. They chose to spend it on law enforcement so in my opinion they shouldn’t get shit! Don’t they work for us? Isn’t weed acceptable to like 80% of the constituents they work for? Why are we letting them drag their asses to quibble over what we obviously want!? Which is legal weed now!

Meanwhile, my friend sits in prison with murderers and rapists until this state and country comes to its senses on this issue. Meanwhile, hundreds of medical cannabis users face jail every time they have to pick up their medicine. Meanwhile, millions of motorists are accosted by Ohio State Patrol and other blue line thugs and forced into non consensual searches all because some asshole in a hat says he smells marijuana.

The drug war is a failure! WHEN DOES IT END!?

If you wish to send correspondence to Ademo (subject to location change) or the jail he currently sits in, you can write or call:

Warren Correctional Institution
5787 State Route 63
Lebanon, Ohio 45036
Phone No: (513)-932-3388

Inmate Mailing Address:

Adam Mueller, Inmate ID Number (pending)
Warren Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 120
Lebanon, Ohio 45036

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A Finished Tula Pink Jelly Roll Rug!

Hi everyone,

In my post yesterday, I talked about making my first jelly roll rug using the HomeMade fabric line by Tula Pink.

I finished the rug over the weekend, and we had a little bit of sunshine yesterday so I could get some outdoor pictures at lunch.

I absolutely love how this rug turned out! I didn’t experience any waviness or warping that can happen with this rug. I think it may be because my Bernina sits in a cabinet so I have a large, flat surface to support the weight of the rug as I stitch the rope coil rows together. I stitched slowly and carefully, using my widest zigzag stitch with Aurifil 50 weight thread.

I didn’t do any regular pressing, except for pressing each of the beginning tight corners. Those early tight corners were the hardest part for me! I did get a slight bit of puckering, but the pattern did indicate to expect that to happen.

Here’s a look at the finished rug!

My completed Tula Pink jelly roll rug!

Of course, as I was taking this picture, my quilt inspector, Cow, came sauntering out from under a bush where he had been napping. He gave the rug a thorough cat scan!

Cow gives the jelly roll rug a cat scan!

I brought the rug back inside where my best girl, Pepper, sat on it. She is a 65-pound mixed shepherd breed dog for scale.

Pepper likes the rug!

I now have the rug in my quilting room. I need to clean up some of my sewing chaos before taking a picture!

I hope that you all have a great day!

Happy quilting,

Making a Jelly Roll Rug for my Quilt Room

Hi everyone,

This weekend, I made my first ever Jelly Roll Rug using the pattern by RJ Designs. What is a jelly roll rug? It’s a rug that you make using 2.5-inch strips of fabric and batting. This rug is similar to the braided or crocheted types of rugs that quilters and sewists have made for a long time, but updated to use modern materials.

You might notice that not all fabric manufacturers label their 2.5-inch pre-cut fabric strips as jelly rolls. Moda Fabrics uses the term “jelly rolls,” but other manufacturers might call a similar product design rolls, strip sets, or other names.

If you don’t want to purchase 2.5-inch pre-cut rolls, you can always make your own strip sets from yardage.

The batting strips are similar. You can buy pre-cut 2.5″ batting strips by Bosal called Katahdin On-A-Roll in either 25 yard or 50 yard rolls or you can cut your own from batting leftovers.

I used HomeMade Design Roll for my rug. This is an adorable new line of fabric using bright colors and features items that quilters use every day. I thought it would be the perfect collection to use to make a rug for my quilting room. I had purchased 2 rolls of Katahdin back in 2018, but I was waiting for the just the right fabric collection to come along and Tula really delivered!

This pattern takes a ton of bobbin thread! I pre-wound 5 bobbins, but I needed about 7 total. For me, it took the longest to create the fabric “rope,” which is the 2.5-inch fabric and batting strips folded and stitched together. I’d guess that this step took almost 4 hours.

Here’s a look at my jelly roll rug coil. Doesn’t it look fun?

Once I had my jelly roll rug coil finished, I started sewing it to form the rug on my Bernina. I used my widest zigzag stitch, and started going round-and-round.

Look at my rug growing under my needle!

My jelly roll rug is growing!

It took another 2 hours or so to stitch my rug together. I’m planning on taking some pictures of it today in the afternoon sunshine. Come back tomorrow where I will reveal my completed jelly roll rug!

You can purchase all the supplies to make a rug from your local quilt shop or from the Fat Quarter Shop. I get a small percentage of sales from this link to help me with the costs of this blog.

Happy sewing!


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Tim Tebow Allegedly Has Secret Girlfriend

Quarterback Tim Tebow #15 of the New York Jets participates in Organized Team Activities on May 24, 2012 in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Tim Tebow is not dating the world’s other famous virgin athlete, Lolo Jones. Photo: Al Pereira/New York Jets/Getty Images

Tim and his secret girlfriend, sitting in a tree

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Weatherly, James (1843–1914)

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James Weatherly, n.d.

James Weatherly, n.d.

from Pastoral Review, 16 January 1915

The news of the sudden death of Mr. James Weatherly, of Wallaloo Park, Wallaloo, and of Hilgay Station, Coleraine, reported in The Argus of Wcdnesday, was received with widespread regret throughout the Wimmera and Western districts, where Mr. Weatherly resided for many years, and was held in much regard for his charitable disposition. Mr. Weatherly was particularly prominent in Anglican Church life, and interested himself greatly in parish, diocesan, and missionary work in the diocese of Ballarat. A few years ago he built, practically at his own expense, a beautiful church at Wallaloo, and subsequently erected and furnished a suitable house for the clergyman of the district. Mr. Weatherly leaves a widow—daughter of Mr. Stafford Bird, of Tasmania—and a family of grown-up daughters by a previous marriage.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton met behind closed doors this past weekend with Minister Avigdor Lieberman, among other Israeli officials, at the behest of Brookings’ Saban Center —so JTA reports. Lieberman is a racist. He has supported the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the execution of Arab members of the Knesset. He ought to be PNG, as the Brits say: persona non grata. He should not be welcome in our borders, he should be denounced, as various European fascists, and ideologues of Islamic terrorism, have been, amid waves of outrage. Was there a peep outside the left? I haven’t heard it.

No: this is an important definition of the Establishment today: religious extremists can find respectable company so long as they are on “our” side. So much for Muslim hearts and minds.

P.S. Michael Brown of Interfaith Peace Builders reports that
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him a racist several times to his face. I then said
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event. Friday several State Department/Saban guests
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The Montreal Biennial Is a MasterClass in How to Ask Big Questions With Art

Contemporary art meets Old World philosophy in the North

Angst 3, Anne Imhof, 18. and 19. October 2016, 19h–23h, Musée d’art contemporain Montreal.

Angst 3, Anne Imhof, 18. and 19. October 2016, 19h–23h, Musée d’art contemporain Montreal. Photo by Jonas Leihener, Courtesy La Biennale de Montréal

Bienvenue à Montreal: North America’s seat of “Francophone culture.” La Biennale de Montréal curator Philippe Pirotte pointedly reminded journalists at the exhibition preview last week that Montreal remains the cultural crossroads for two major colonial forces, the French and the British. Perhaps it’s fitting that the heart of a province which almost seceded from the rest of Canada just a few decades ago, has managed to beat out Toronto, Vancouver and even the capital city of Ottawa as the home of the country’s only biennial exhibition for contemporary art.

During his opening remarks, the Belgian-born Pirotte addressed attendees only in French—a legal obligation—that left him with the daunting (but fairly standard) task of repeating himself again later in English, and provided a less than clear entry point for those of us whose French is spotty into a show laden with literary references. And while contemporary Quebec has undoubtedly evolved into an offspring completely unique from its European parents (poutine is just a Montreal thing it turns out), artworks in the show make steady use of the Socratic method, such that it’s nearly impossible to forget you’re in a place with French roots.

A singular theme, it turns out, is nowhere to be found in ‘Le Grand Balcon’ intentionally.

Just as some prefer not to read wall text before viewing artwork, an in depth explanation of the Biennale’s loose inspiration from Jean Genet’s famous play Le Grand Balcon (The Balcony) is unnecessary. A singular theme, it turns out, is nowhere to be found in the exhibition intentionally, according to director Sylvie Fortin. Rather, Biennale organizers seek to spark conversation around a constellation of timely topics and arresting visuals from works by 55 participating artists and collectives, letting one image lead viewers to the next through a web of connecting threads and heady discourse. Disassembled pages from Lima-born, Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob’s scrapbook album of pictures cut from magazines and books, simply titled Album XII (on view at the Galerie de l’UQUAM) captures organizers’ intentions most literally: an image of natural rock formations might appear next to sculptured organic forms, while a picture of gloved hands holding a black-and-white photo of a crowd all staring up toward the sky is placed directly above a still from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, featuring Shelley Duvall staring down in horror at the gibberish Jack Nicholson has been typing on his typewriter. Themes and visual tropes flow and morph into closely related topics from one page of Jacob’s book to the next. But while his clippings weave a seamless narrative arc, the exhaustive image bank as a whole doesn’t provide firm answers for any of the visual relationships he’s underscored.

Initially, Pirotte said, he wanted to create an exhibition about hedonism, but decided against it when he concluded that the selfish urge for pleasure lacked an “ongoing philosophy.” Nonetheless, hedonism (in many forms) has crept into the halls of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Galerie de l’UQAM, and 19 other venues where the Biennale will take place through January 15, 2017, along with other themes such as violence, politics, identity and sexuality.

Lucas Cranach the Elder's Portrait of a Lady.

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Portrait of a Lady. Montreal Biennial

If viewers begin where Pirotte did in his research for the show, they’d do well to start with the oldest work on view: a mysterious portrait painting by German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, which dates to 1540. Just what is an Old Master portrait doing in a gallery alongside works by Nicole Eisenman, Hassan Khan, Luc Tuymans and Moyra Davey, you might ask?

“We live in an art world that’s so good at self-censorship,” said Pirotte, pointing out that sections of the female figure’s hands have been visibly altered to obscure what some believe to be the head of Holofernes or John the Baptist. Most likely, he said, the fair woman depicted by Cranach was Sidonia of Saxony, and even more likely is that she was meant as a stand-in for the allegorical character Judith or Salome. But despite efforts by conservators in the 1930s to hide her identity by adding flowers in place of a head, “she imposes herself on the overpainting,” he said—a more poetic way of saying that conservators did a terrible job at suppressing Sidonia’s confident femininity.

This push and pull between seemingly oppositional forces is among those few themes borrowed from Genet’s original source material, as is the hazy veil that exists between reality and illusion, which took literal form in German artist Anne Imhof’s marathon four-hour-long performance, Angst 3, at the MAC on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. The third in a series of self-proclaimed operas—absent of any scripted singing or dialogue—Imhof filled the MAC’s performance hall with thick smoke, droning music, cases of Diet Pepsi, shaving cream and razors, live falcons, bongs, e-cigarettes, sleeping bags, smartphones, drones and seven dancers (or models, it was hard to tell) dressed in tattered athleisure brands such as Adidas and graphic heavy metal-themed sweatshirts. Performers lazed around and smoked while reclining on colorful rugs, surrounded by paraphernalia and the blindfolded falcons on pedestals. At times they stood, apathetically flipped-off the audience while rolling on the floor, lifted and tossed each other about, kissed, scribbled on the walls, picked up the birds, stomped back and forth, and stared at their phone screens.

Imhof creates something of a living tableau here, ripped from one of Delacroix’s painted harem scenes, except her IRL version exoticizes the millennial and places the vapidness of consumerism and digital culture on a pedestal. If there’s a higher meaning (beyond nodding to the meta-theater of Le Grand Balcon) in inviting audiences to endure four hours choked by smoke, while worrying about the safety of birds and getting the finger from really emo dancers, it remains elusive, but it’s still enticing enough to inspire continued thought well after the performers have abandoned the stage.

Thirteen Black Cats, Corpse Cleaner.

Thirteen Black Cats, Corpse Cleaner. Courtesy of the artists

That spectre effect of imagery and idea is a powerful force successfully executed by several of the Biennale’s artists, all of whom explored an impressive variety of themes. At the Galerie de l’UQAM, a film by collective Thirteen Black Cats (Vic Brooks, Lucy Raven and Evan Calder Williams) took viewers on a slow-rolling tracking shot through a props warehouse in Queens, filled floor-to-ceiling with Hollywood’s leftovers, while a voiceover dictates the correspondence of WWII air force pilot Claude Eatherly (who was involved in the bombing of Hiroshima) and German philosopher Günther Anders (he worked as a Hollywood studio janitor during the war). In Corpse Cleaner, the juxtaposition of fake swords and chariots with Anders’ concerns over the destruction of real treasures in Europe is disturbing, especially today in a new era of cultural destruction lead by ISIS in the Middle East.

The juxtaposition of fake swords and chariots with Günther Anders’ concerns over the destruction of real treasures in Europe is disturbing, especially today in a new era of cultural destruction lead by ISIS in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, in the MAC’s lobby gallery, Belgian artist David Gheron Tretiakoff’s 20-minute film A God Passing documents the 2007 transport of a colossal statue of Ramses from the Cairo train station to the Giza Museum. The statue slowly moves through the city streets atop a massive truck, while swarms of people cheer and watch in awe as the physical manifestation of Egypt’s mythic cultural history lumbers forward above power lines and rooftops. Only a few short years later, in 2011, protests forced Hosni Mubarak to resign and the Egypt that exists in Tretiakoff’s film has been completely transformed.

Still from David Gheron Tretiakof’s film A God Passing.

Still from David Gheron Tretiakof’s film A God Passing. Courtesy of the artist

“Art is never on time, art is always too late,” Pirotte said, of the difficulty that exists within contemporary art to tackle current events. His statement certainly rings true in both the aforementioned films, where the haunting power of images of the past allow the viewer to draw conclusions on the present, only because time has elapsed and the event’s influence has run its course.

Everywhere in the works of the Biennale, philosophical discourse is the name of the game. But what’s the point of asking such weighted questions if not to find some answers? A biennial is not a philosophy class after all, and talking too much theory runs the risk of alienating audiences.

Thankfully, organizers have provided some entry points close to home: Canadian artists are well represented (18 total), and smartly so considering a spokesperson from the MAC told me that turnout for openings by local artists typically draw larger crowds than those by foreigners. And while several of the more well-known Canadian artists, such as Moyra Davey and Janice Kerbel, now call other nations home, their participation is still a noteworthy homecoming for the country’s small but tight-knit art scene.

Moyra Davey, Hemlock Forest.

Moyra Davey, Hemlock Forest. Montreal Biennale

Davey’s newest video work, Hemlock Forest, is an intimate portrait of the artist and her family framed within scenes borrowed from Belgian artist Chantal Akerman’s film News from Home. “We all sample, we all do covers, it’s a way of showing love,” Davey says in the narration. The film jumps between a view from her Washington Heights window, glimpses of her talking to the camera while pacing her apartment, photos taken by her son hanging on the wall, and re-stagings of Akerman scenes painstakingly shot in the New York City subway or half-nude in her own bed. Davey discloses details about a death in the family, grappling with chronic illness and empty-nest syndrome, which all serve to bring the viewer in closer though she skillfully holds her audience at an arm’s distance.

Moyra Davey’s work, as well as drawings and watercolors by Brian Jungen and light box sculptures by American art star Kerry James Marshall, help ground the philosophical discourse of the Biennale in substantive, timely and personal conversations.

Davey’s work, as well as drawings and watercolors by Brian Jungen and light box sculptures by American art star Kerry James Marshall, help ground the philosophical discourse of the Biennale in substantive, timely and personal conversations. While Davey draws on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft and Akerman to make sense of her own life, Marshall seeks to redraw the figures left out of canonical history, specifically black bodies. Jungen, who is one of three artists of First Nations descent included in the show, directly addresses Canada’s unresolved relationship with its indigenous population in his imagery. In his simple watercolor depicting two directional signs, one reading “FIRST NATION” points one way while the other, “SECOND NATURE,” points the opposite. Pirotte addressed the choice to include work on First Nations issues (which are more widely discussed in Canada than in the U.S.) as a double-edged sword which felt both exploitative and necessary.

Brian Jungen.

Untitled watercolor by Brian Jungen. Alanna Martinez

A talk between Marshall and Tuymans, moderated by Pirotte, perhaps best sums up the myriad opposing forces at play in Montreal’s sprawling biennial. “Reality is something that informs you. You can’t make art from art,” Tuymans told the audience, while discussing how his paintings are largely based on photographs and existing imagery. In contrast, Marshall had this to say about painting: “The reality of my work is only in the picture.”

If the ambitious Montreal Biennial suffers from anything, it’s an overabundance of content—some real, some entirely fictional, and a good lot of it appropriated. I can’t say that I left Montreal with any firm conclusions about the state of the world, or contemporary art, but the show reaffirmed my belief that artists are the shrewd pundits this world so badly needs. Pirotte phrased the burden of the artist eloquently: “Art is a vessel to transfer knowledge.” Let artists ask the big questions, it’s up to the rest of us to find answers.

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One of my favourite Monty Python bits is the deadliest joke sketch—about a joke so funny that it killed whoever read or heard it.   My vote for the hardest question that you can ask yourself is this: Do I do what I say I am going to do? Most everyone hates this question. It's a beast. Asking yourself this question is more difficult than if someone else asks it. You could evade, bullshit, weave a … [Read more...]

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In my twenties, I was in my Mordecai Richler novel phase. Geez, that guy loved to trot out some $10,000 words. I'd have to look some of them up. Words such as corpulent (obese), capacious (roomy) and perfidiousness (betrayal, lack of trust). After I'd look up the word, it seemed as though I would then trip over it every few days. I went from having never seen the word to seeing it all the time. Since delivering a series of workshops and … [Read more...]

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Yes, a hard question to start: Do you hold yourself accountable? Do you follow through and do the things that you say you are going to do? (Squirming yet?) Or, do you think about, say, going to the gym, but find that over and over again, that you don’t go? Do things seem to get in the way—like a bad night’s sleep, an argument with your partner, an obligation—and you talk yourself out of going? Similarly, how often do you formulate a … [Read more...]


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Red Bull Air Race – Rock of Cashel, July 24th

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i just got an email to say i was unsuccessful in winning tickets for the airshow…but since you’ve now won tickets, any cheance of cupla..mas e do thoil e(i tried the exaggerated please thing in irish but it just doesn’t look right!)

I would soooo love 4 tickets to The Rock Of Cashel Red Bull Air show on the 24th July….We all drink Red Bull and it would be great to go to the show and drink some Red Bull and fly with the planes! After all Red Bull does give you wings! Thankyou!

Sure, no problem TADHG. I have a magic hat I keep all my tickets in. Abracadabra! You should have your tickets in your hand right now! Oh, you weren’t watching the screen. Concentrate on this full stop for 5 minutes and you’ll be sent all the tickets you want for free!

I’d really love to bring my son to see the air show, pleeeeeeeeeese could you send two tickets. Thanks

Id be really greatfull if u could send me 4 tickets to the air show because it is my sons birthday 2 days and i want this to be his best birthday ever

PLEASE give me tickets cause i live in Cappawhite near Cashel and ive never seen an air show in my life

We are 4 Hungarians from Dublin and we would love to support the Hungarian champion Bessenyei in Tipperary.
We are dying for four tickets!

Please can I have 4 tickets. One of my best friends lives in cashel and it would be great to see my friend and surprise him with tickets.

please can I have 4 ticketts,for my brother,his wife and 11 year old son over from holland for the first time. They would realy enjoy this

Does anybody have information about the area around Rock of Cashel… I was wondering if I turn up on the day without a ticket could I just watch from a nearby field or something?? Anyone with a ajoining field could make a few notes, cos I certainly would pay to see some planes racing!!!!

hey guys… seriously does any1 know, if myself and boyfriend headed out to cashel on sunday,would it be pointless without tickets??? im mean they cant exactly corden off the sky and its a prity high rock that can be seen from miles around… were bound to see sumthing… arnt we?? huh?? any1 from cashel and the surrounding are, please can i get ur view and advise on this,would be sooo greatful!! thanks alot u guys!x

please please can i have four tickets for me my boyyfriend and his 2 sisters!!cum on give us sumthin fun to do for the weekend..

Would love some tickets for the show. Please,Please. Hope i didn’t leave it too late. was never at something like this, would love to see it. Please, Thank you!!!!

I would love to have four ticket. I only just found out that i have to get ticket through internet. its great if i got it. Hope i am not to late

4 tickets going for the red bull air race – rock of cashel.sunday 24 july 2005. Tickets in Dublin – Contact for tickets. First come, first served.

is it only for people in ireland could someone tell me if its possible to get them when living in ireland

Yes, now it seems to work. I guess I had some network problems then. 🙂 I like the photos. I can imagine how hard it is to get a good frame. The planes are very fast.

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