Dagupan City Philippines - The 19-day Bangus Festival that showcased the city's No. 1 product, bangus, benefited all sectors, including ordinary citizens -- stakeholders of Dagupan's development.
This was the unsolicited comments from various citizens of the city who participated in the just concluded Bangus Festival held from April 16 to May 4, attended by an overflow crowd from the local population and visitors.
Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the 2008 Dagupan Bangus Festival said local businessmen who participated in the festival's Dagupan Great Day Sale admitted that their sales went up despite offering special discount of up to 50 percent on the cost of their goods.
Really a tourist charmer, the Bangus Festival made all hotels and inns in Dagupan fully booked from beginning to end of the festival, Fernandez said.
Ordinary sidewalk vendors, including jeepney drivers, also confessed they were happy because they earned more as compared to their incomes in previous Dagupan Bangus Festivals because of the big crowd that flocked to the city.
"Everybody was saying that the Bangus Festival was very successful and would like to see this same kind in other future festivals in the city," Fernandez said.
She said officials were exulted when people said that the crowd that attended the just-concluded Bangus Festival was thrice bigger than similar festivals held in the city during the previous years," said Vice Mayor Fernandez.
Fernandez said all those they invited to perform, including artists and famous bands from Manila, came to the satisfaction of the crowd that flocked to Dagupan during the Bangus Festival.
Director Martin Valera of the Department of Tourism, said the Bangus Festival is the biggest festival he had seen in northwestern Luzon.
Fernandez thanked his fellow officials led by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., festival's honorary chairperson, for lending their support to the festival and who chaired different events. - Philippine News Agency
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Expose Don't Buy Gas For 1 Day Email Message Chain
We are all victims of misinformation. I am not sure of the email chain below is another misinformation campaign. Filipinos love to forward emails, including scam letters from Nigerian scammers, without knowing they are helping the shenanigans. The email below is circulating the email hemisphere today. I don't really know. I need definite sources and real person to contact to in order to verify information before I believe in anything.
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO P30.00 PER LITER.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gasprices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to
read this please.
Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain "day" campaign that was going around last April or May! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!! !!
I hear we are going to hit close to P60.00 a LITER by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt"ourselves by refusing to buy gas.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at P30 - P35/liter, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace...not sellers.
With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.
The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas.
But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the three biggest companies SHELL, PETRON and CALTEX.
If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of SHELL, PETRON and CALTEX gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) .. and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
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THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO P30.00 PER LITER.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gasprices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to
read this please.
Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain "day" campaign that was going around last April or May! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!! !!
I hear we are going to hit close to P60.00 a LITER by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt"ourselves by refusing to buy gas.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at P30 - P35/liter, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace...not sellers.
With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.
The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas.
But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the three biggest companies SHELL, PETRON and CALTEX.
If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of SHELL, PETRON and CALTEX gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) .. and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Bol-anon Top Notcher in Teachers Board Exam
Bohol Philippines - Topping the 2008 national board exam for teachers was farthest from his mind. He did not even expect to pass.
"But I prayed so hard for Divine help and did the best that I could to pass the exam. So when I was informed that I landed in top 10, I could hardly believe it," Jessie Auxilio said.
Auxilio, a 2006-2007 Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED) graduate of BIT-Talibon landed 6th place in this year's successful board passers.
The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) released the result last Thursday.
Following its publication in national dailies, Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado was the first to extend congratulations to lawyer Dionisio Balite, Chairman of the Board and President-Emeritus of the BIT International College.
A top official of Cebu Normal University (CNU) in Cebu City also congratulated the administration and teaching staff of the Teachers College for the accomplishment.
Aida Dela Serna of CNU told BIT officials that BIT is the only school in Central Visayas that landed in the top 10.
Auxilio, sixth child in a brood of seven, is a consistent honour student since the elementary and high school years.
He took the exam and qualified for the President Carlos P. Garcia Scholarship Program.
The semestral and monthly stipend that he received from the program provided the means to complete his BEED degree at BIT-Talibon in Talibon town.- The Bohol Chronicle
Attend Forum on Reproductive Health of Mothers
Save the Children through its Advocacy for Improved Maternal & Child Health and Family Planning project is launching two policy briefs: (1) Children Having Children: Protecting Filipino Adolescents from the Dangers of Early Pregnancies" and (2) Health of our Heroes: Ensuring the Reproductive Health of Filipina Overseas Workers in a forum on May 6, 2008 entitled "Mothers, Migrants and Youth: A forum on the Reproductive Health of Mothers."
This afternoon's forum will be held at 1:00PM at the House of Representatives, Batasan Complex, Quezon City, Philippines
Please find attached copies of the program and press releases on the two policy briefs.
If you want to know more about the event and the policy brief, please contact Dr. Stephanie Sison, Adolescent Health Specialist of the Save the Children : 02-8523059 0r 64 loc 204; +6391786550491.
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This afternoon's forum will be held at 1:00PM at the House of Representatives, Batasan Complex, Quezon City, Philippines
Please find attached copies of the program and press releases on the two policy briefs.
If you want to know more about the event and the policy brief, please contact Dr. Stephanie Sison, Adolescent Health Specialist of the Save the Children : 02-8523059 0r 64 loc 204; +6391786550491.
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Deal or No Deal Philippines Shown Abroad
Deal or No Deal, a widely popular show in the Philippines and in many parts of the world, will rock the Philippines as its top host will co-host with a Philippine actress, Kris Aquino. Here's the report of BuddyTV.Com:
At present, there are at least 40 versions of Deal or No Deal that are produced worldwide, and most have variations in their rules, staging and game play. In attempt to come up with new ideas to keep the game show fresh, NBC has decided to visit and play on foreign-based production sets, starting off with the Philippines.
On tonight's episode, host Howie Mandel and contestants from the United States will be playing the game according to the rules of the Philippine version of Deal or No Deal.
The two-hour episode follows Mike Levy of Baltimore, Maryland and Patrick Hook of Roberts, Wisconsin as they try their luck at becoming millionaires with host Mandel and Philippine counterpart Kris Aquino at their side explaining the rules of the game.
At present, there are at least 40 versions of Deal or No Deal that are produced worldwide, and most have variations in their rules, staging and game play. In attempt to come up with new ideas to keep the game show fresh, NBC has decided to visit and play on foreign-based production sets, starting off with the Philippines.
On tonight's episode, host Howie Mandel and contestants from the United States will be playing the game according to the rules of the Philippine version of Deal or No Deal.
The two-hour episode follows Mike Levy of Baltimore, Maryland and Patrick Hook of Roberts, Wisconsin as they try their luck at becoming millionaires with host Mandel and Philippine counterpart Kris Aquino at their side explaining the rules of the game.
Philippines: World's Biggest Rice Consumer?
By Liza Ann Javier
Bloomberg Asia
The Philippines, the world's biggest rice importer, canceled a tender to buy 675,000 metric tons after only one company submitted an offer amid limited global supplies. Grain futures rebounded in Chicago.
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Bloomberg Asia
The Philippines, the world's biggest rice importer, canceled a tender to buy 675,000 metric tons after only one company submitted an offer amid limited global supplies. Grain futures rebounded in Chicago.
Vietnam Southern Food Corp. was the only company to offer the grain, National Food Authority Deputy Administrator Vic Jarina said. The authority will wait until the ``market softens'' before holding another tender, possibly in the second half, he said today.
The Philippines failed to fill a tender last month, helping rice prices rise to a record in Chicago on April 24. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said on May 2 that today's planned purchase was intended to boost stockpiles and the country was prepared to reject offers if it deemed prices were too high.
``Global supply until the end of the year will remain tight,'' Chookiat Ophaswongse, president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association, said in a telephone interview. The Philippines ``will probably need to issue another tender.''
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Bohol's Chocolate Hills Deleted From New 7 Wonders. Why?
The Bohol Standard - Why Bohol's Chocolate Hills was deleted off the list of nominees in the current search for New Seven Wonders of the World, local officials and tourism stakeholders here want to know.
Several Boholanos presumed that it could be a nasty job of a computer hacker.
To compound the problem, not only is Bohol's Chocolate Hills off the list of nominees, it also could not be re-nominated either.
A hacker intentionally gains access to a secure internet website, navigates and controls any information therein as he taps into the system website.
Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera steered the SP to make a formal communication to the Department of Tourism to ask for enlightenment on the matter, reports said.
Provincial Tourism Council chairman Peter Dejaresco tapped all lines in calling the Tourism Department (DOT) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization to ask why the de-listing of the wondrous hills from the nominees to the new seven world wonders list happened.
Wanting answers, Bohol Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) Tourism Committee Chair and Board Member Ester Corazon Galbreath prodded the provincial lawmakers to launch an appeal to the search organizers. She said the organizers should explain how Bohol's marvelous Chocolate Hills and Mayon Volcano were deleted from the list.
Bohol First District Representative and House Tourism Committee Chair Edgar Chatto, upon knowing about the incident said in interviews that he would personally lead a Congressional inquiry as to why it also happened.
The Chocolate Hills was just recently nominated and saw a dramatic climb from nowhere to number 6th last week.
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No More Rice Going Outside Bohol, Philippines
Despite the scathing call of Albay Governor Joey Salceda for the lifting of an order regulating the transport of palay and milled rice outside Bohol, the Governor stood firm on the measure, stirred but not disturbed.
Albay which used to be a major rice producing province is now experiencing an acute shortage of rice supply, caused by natural calamities like typhoons hitting the province lately.
"What if other provinces like Isabela and Nueva Ecija would follow suit of the Bohol Governor's restriction to export rice from rice-producing provinces? To restrict movement of rice supply would only worsen the already precarious national situation," Salceda said in press releases sent out to media outlets.
Aumentado in response to Salceda said there is no restriction but simply regulation. The Executive order he issued was only to prevent smuggling or hoarding of supply of rice outside the province.
The order was issued April 4, 2008 following reports that some unscrupulous traders from other neighboring provinces were in a buying spree of palay in Bohol, negotiating directly with farmers, at a very attractive price of P19 per kilo, higher than the usual price of only P15/kilo and bringing it outside the island.
The Bohol Governor said he had to take the measure to prevent a looming rice shortage particularly in the coming lean months of June to October.
The Albay Governor went on to the extent of reminding Aumentado that his province Albay and the whole country is also sharing part of the repayment of the massive debt load from Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) which financed the huge infra projects implemented here. - The Bohol Standard
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Top 42 Bisaya-Cebuano Words Translated Into English
English to Bisaya-Cebuano Translation. Read this funny translation. I don't know who started this. It just spread out in the Internet universe.
1) Contemplate - gamay ra ang plato
2) Punctuation - para bayad sa skuylahan
3) Ice Buko - nindot akong buhok?
4) Tenacious - sapatos pang tennis
5) Calculator - tawagan taka unya
6) Devastation - terminal sa bus
7) Protestant - tindahan ug prutas
8) Statue - ikaw ba na?
9) Tissue - ikaw gyud diay!
10) Predicate - buhi-e ang iring
11) Dedicate - patya ang iring
12) Aspect - para dugmok sa ice
13) Deduct - ang itik
14) Defeat - ang tiil (sa itik)
15) Detail - ang ikog (sa itik)
16) Deposit - ang gripo (Call DIPLOMA if
DEPOSIT is leaking)
17) City - sunod sa 6
18) Cattle - pina-akan sa lamok
19) Persuading - pinaka una nga kasal
20) Depress - ang nag misa sa kasal
22) Defense - gamit para pirma sa kontrata sa PERSUADING
23) It depends - kaona ang koral
24) Shampoo - sunod sa 9 before sa 11 (klaro ana!)
25) Profit - pakita og ibidensya!
26) Balance Sheet - what comes out after eating a balanced diet
27) Backlog - bacon og itlog
28) Beehive - pag puyo!
29) CD-ROM - tan-awa ang kwarto
30) Debug - ang mananap
31) Defrag - ang baki
32) Defense - ang koral
33) Defer - ang balhibo
34) Deflate - ang plato
35) Detest - ang eksamin
36) Devalue - ang sunod sa leter V
37) Devote - ang boto
38) Dilemma - ngit-ngita oi!
39) Effort - asa mo landing ang airplane
40) Forums - upat ka kwarto
41) July - namakak ka?
42) Thesis - kani ay!
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1) Contemplate - gamay ra ang plato
2) Punctuation - para bayad sa skuylahan
3) Ice Buko - nindot akong buhok?
4) Tenacious - sapatos pang tennis
5) Calculator - tawagan taka unya
6) Devastation - terminal sa bus
7) Protestant - tindahan ug prutas
8) Statue - ikaw ba na?
9) Tissue - ikaw gyud diay!
10) Predicate - buhi-e ang iring
11) Dedicate - patya ang iring
12) Aspect - para dugmok sa ice
13) Deduct - ang itik
14) Defeat - ang tiil (sa itik)
15) Detail - ang ikog (sa itik)
16) Deposit - ang gripo (Call DIPLOMA if
DEPOSIT is leaking)
17) City - sunod sa 6
18) Cattle - pina-akan sa lamok
19) Persuading - pinaka una nga kasal
20) Depress - ang nag misa sa kasal
22) Defense - gamit para pirma sa kontrata sa PERSUADING
23) It depends - kaona ang koral
24) Shampoo - sunod sa 9 before sa 11 (klaro ana!)
25) Profit - pakita og ibidensya!
26) Balance Sheet - what comes out after eating a balanced diet
27) Backlog - bacon og itlog
28) Beehive - pag puyo!
29) CD-ROM - tan-awa ang kwarto
30) Debug - ang mananap
31) Defrag - ang baki
32) Defense - ang koral
33) Defer - ang balhibo
34) Deflate - ang plato
35) Detest - ang eksamin
36) Devalue - ang sunod sa leter V
37) Devote - ang boto
38) Dilemma - ngit-ngita oi!
39) Effort - asa mo landing ang airplane
40) Forums - upat ka kwarto
41) July - namakak ka?
42) Thesis - kani ay!
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Palawan, Philippines Underground River Vies for 7 Wonders
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines - The inclusion of Palawan's majestic Puerto Princesa River National Park, reputed to be the world's longest navigable underground river, in the worldwide search for "New Seven Wonders of Nature" is a great boost to the ecotourism industry in the city.
Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn said the city's "Underground River", currently number 35th in the live ranking, will bring more arrivals of domestic and foreign tourists in the city.
The development of tourism in the area has provided income and livelihood opportunities to the local people, he added.
Declared as World Heritage Site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) in 1999, Hagedorn said the "Underground River" is still the primary tourist attraction in the province.
He said thousands of tourists visit the national park due to its amazing limestone cliffs, a healthy ecosystem which protects some of the most significant forests in Asia.
The 8.2 kilometer underground river runs through a dome of stalactites complemented by stalagmites running the entire length of the cave.
Hagedorn described the Underground River as the jewel of Puerto Princesa because of its "outstanding universal value" that represents the highest artistic and cultural achievements of mankind or natural sites of intense beauty and ecological significance.
The area covered was increased from 3,901 hectares to 22,202 hectares to include the tributaries of the underground river. - source: Philippine News Agency - Manila
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Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn said the city's "Underground River", currently number 35th in the live ranking, will bring more arrivals of domestic and foreign tourists in the city.
The development of tourism in the area has provided income and livelihood opportunities to the local people, he added.
Declared as World Heritage Site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) in 1999, Hagedorn said the "Underground River" is still the primary tourist attraction in the province.
He said thousands of tourists visit the national park due to its amazing limestone cliffs, a healthy ecosystem which protects some of the most significant forests in Asia.
The 8.2 kilometer underground river runs through a dome of stalactites complemented by stalagmites running the entire length of the cave.
Hagedorn described the Underground River as the jewel of Puerto Princesa because of its "outstanding universal value" that represents the highest artistic and cultural achievements of mankind or natural sites of intense beauty and ecological significance.
The area covered was increased from 3,901 hectares to 22,202 hectares to include the tributaries of the underground river. - source: Philippine News Agency - Manila
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