Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AFP) Thursday 8/6/2015 – Wash-ington will not tolerate any navi-gation restrictions in the South China Sea, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday at a regional security meeting domi-nated by tensions over Beijing’s island building.

“Let me be clear: The United States will not accept restrictions on freedom of navigation and overfl ight, or other lawful uses of the sea. These are intrinsic rights that we all share,” he said accord-ing to a transcript of his remarks.

Kerry made his comments at a security meeting hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lum-pur.

China has sparked alarm by ex-panding tiny reefs and construct-ing military posts, steps viewed by some of its neighbors as violat-ing a regional pledge against pro-vocative actions in the area.

The long simmering dispute has fl ared at the Malaysia meet, attended by members of the 10-nation regional grouping as

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Manila, Philippines | AFP | Saturday 8/8/2015 – Philippine authorities have moved to fi le cor-ruption charges against two top politicians, including an ally of President Benigno Aquino, the justice secretary said Saturday, as part of a massive graft scandal that has embroiled numerous of-fi cials.

The justice department has asked a special anti-corruption body to fi le charges against Joel Villanueva, a former congress-man who is now Aquino’s top

advisor on vocational education, and Senator Gregorio Honasan, an ex-military colonel who plot-ted failed coups against Aquino’s mother, former president Corazon Aquino, according to Justice Sec-retary Leila de Lima.

“DOJ... endorsed to (the) Om-budsman the charges against them,” she said in a text message to AFP.

“The Ombudsman will still determine whether there is suffi -cient basis to subject them to pre-

Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Hernando DCA Iriberri gives the P10-million re-ward to the informant who guided army and police personnel in arresting New Peo-ple’s Army (NPA) leader Benito Tiamzon during the awarding of rewards on Friday (August 7, 2015) in Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City. (MNS photo)

MANILA, Aug 8 (Mabuhay) – Malacañang on Saturday be-lied Vice President Jejomar Bi-nay’s claim that the ruling Lib-eral Party and President Benigno Aquino III are trying to establish a one-party dictatorship using the “Daang Matuwid” advocacy as its front.

On Friday, Binay was quoted as saying that the remark the administration would need 18 to 20 years for Aquino’s programs to bear fruits “reveals their despera-tion to stay in power.”

“Talagang kapit-tuko. Malala-man natin, hahatulan na ng bay-an kung talagang naniniwala sila doon sa tuwid na daan. Kapag 20 years, eh talagang diktador na ta-laga, inaasam-asam ‘yan,” Binay said.

But Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma on Saturday said Aquino’s call to support the “Daang Matuwid” advocacy even after his term has ended is for the “transformation of the Philippine society, which has been built on good governance during [PNoy’s]

administration, may be brought to its full fruition.”

But still the continuation of the the Daang Matuwid advocacy will still depend on the voters, he added.

“Gagawin ng administrasyong Aquino ang lahat ng nararapat upang tiyakin na ang ating mga boss ay makapagpapasya sa isang maayos at malinis na halalan,” he said.

Coloma further refuted Binay’s “dictatorship claim” saying: “Ba-

Palace refutes VP Binay’s claim Aquino, LP want one-party dictatorship

MANILA, Aug 8 (Mabuhay) – Manila Mayor and former Presi-dent Joseph “Erap” Estrada has come to the defense of his god-daughter Senator Grace Poe amid allegations that she is an alco-holic.

Estrada said the accusations against Poe are just part of the supposed black propaganda against the senator, who is lead-ing voter preference surveys on possible presidential candidates for 2016.

“That’s black propaganda. I’ve seen Grace, I know her since [she was] small. Hindi ganun yon. So-cial drinking, what’s wrong with that?” Estrada said.

Poe denied allegations that she drinks to excess and is abusive to-wards household helpers.

Senator Grace Poe inspects a Tabor assault rifl e at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) headquarters after gracing the 13th anniversary of the agency on Tuesday where she was the keynote speaker. Poe said she is working on raising the reward money for informants. (MNS photo)

Erap defends ‘inaanak’ Grace over ‘alcoholic’ allegations

MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – Following the questions raised about her citizenship, Senator Grace Poe is now fending off alle-gations that she drinks to excess and that she is abusive towards household helpers.

“Kulang pa ‘yan. Ako raw ay nagpa-rehab. I don’t know for what,” Poe said, in jest.

“Hindi po ako nambubugbog. Ang konsensya ko po ay malinis. May mga kasama po ako rito. Pwede naman silang kausapin, ‘yung mga dati na... Kung may-

Manila, Philippines | AFP | Friday 8/7/2015 – Chris Brown’s promoter has denied defrauding an infl uential Philippine religious sect in a case that almost derailed his world tour, lawyers for the American hip-hop star’s business partner said Friday.

Brown was left cooling his heels at a hotel room in Manila for three days last month as the immigration bureau stopped him leaving the country over a con-cert row with the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ).

The Canadian promoter, Mi-chael Pio Roda, was arrested. He

denies he and Brown received one million dollars for a December 31 concert hosted by the sect last year in which the US R&B star was a no-show, his lawyers said in a statement to AFP.

“To hold Mr. Pio Roda account-able for the entire one million dol-lars... is not only without legal or factual basis but is a travesty of justice and a continued violation of human rights,” it added.

Iglesia-linked local concert pro-ducers Maligaya Development Corp. have asked the justice de-partment to fi le criminal fraud

By Cecil MorellaSapang Uwak, Philippines | AFP | Friday 8/7/2015 – Philippine

bush man Edward Serrano struck two rocks together and wrapped the faint spark in wood shavings, building a fi re in much the same way Stone Age man must have done two million years ago.

The short, Afro-ed jungle survival instructor is an Aeta, from one of the most unique ethnolinguistic peoples of the Philippines, who are also the archipelago’s fi rst known inhabitants.

But after hunting and gathering for most of the past 40,000 years, their bushcraft is nearly forgotten, many of their languages are all but extinct, and their way of life is swiftly dying out.

Rapid urbanization has turned tiny Aeta forest settlements into virtual islands, their nomadic lifestyle shut down as the deer, warthog and jungle fowl they hunt for food are extirpated.

“We can no longer do many of the things that our ancestors took for granted,” said Serrano, a high-school dropout who teaches sol-diers and police how to make fi re without matches or lighters.

He teaches them where look for water, should they get lost in the jungle, and which leaves, fruits and seeds are safe to eat – skills learnt from his father.

Graft charges against Aquino ally, Sen. Honasan sought

PHL’s Aeta people ‘beggars’ in their own land

Chris Brown promoter denies defrauding Iglesia ni Cristo

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MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – While backing the possible tandem of administration’s pre-sumptive presidential bet Inte-rior Secretary Mar Roxas and Senator Grace Poe, Senate Presi-dent Franklin Drilon expressed confi dence that Roxas could still win in 2016 without the neophyte senator.

“Mar will build up his strength as a presidential candidate,” Dril-on said in an interview Thursday at the Makati Business Club An-nual Meeting.

He also reiterated the Liberal Party’s preference to have Poe as Roxas’ running mate, describing her “an ally of the administra-tion.”

“Grace Poe has been an ally of the administration. She has been

supportive of the administration in the Senate, and yes, we would like Grace Poe to be nominated as running mate of Mar,” Drilon said.

Drilon also said they see in Poe, daughter of the late actor Fernando Poe Jr., somebody who can support the reforms of the ad-ministration.

“This administration wish to continue [those reforms] in the next administration,” he said.

Last Friday, President Be-nigno Aquino III endorsed Rox-as as his successor in 2016. The DILG secretary, on live television Wednesday, asked Poe to join his team.

Poe, meanwhile, has yet to de-cide if she will seek a higher elect-ed post next year. (MNS)

CONTINUING REFORMS FOR 16th CONGRESS: Senate President Franklin Drilon tells businessmen during the annual meeting of the Makati Business Club (MBC) held at the Peninsula Manila in Makati City Thursday, August 6, 2015, that the Senate will continue to work on bills that will improve the economy, create a stable political environment and expand the distribution of social services. “We shall continue in the last regular session of this Congress, and even beyond, the pursuit of good governance and the audacity to implement meaningful reforms, no matter how unpopular they may be,” Drilon said. (MNS photo)

MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – Defeated senatorial candi-date Rizalito David insisted the P50,000 fi ling fee for his com-plaint against Senator Grace Poe did not come from the camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay or the Liberal Party.

David said he does not have a grudge against Poe and merely wants the rule of law to be up-held, insisting that Poe lacked the two-year residency requirement when she ran for senator in 2013.

He also urged members of the Senate Electoral Tribunal to in-hibit from deciding on the issue.

David said if the Senate Elec-toral Tribunal cannot resolve the issue, he will bring his case before the Supreme Court.

“Si Grace Llamanzares ay stateless. It has very little to do with her being a foundling. She is stateless when she lost her Amer-ican citizenship and failed to re-gain her Filipino citizenship... So in limbo siya ngayon,” he said.

But Atty. Katrina Legarda, UP College of Law professor and a consultant on children’s issues, disputed David’s allegation.

Legarda said Poe began living in the country as early as 2005 af-ter her father died and therefore has already fulfi lled the residency requirement.

She also cited a justice depart-ment opinion in 1951 which said that a foundling is assumed a citi-zen of the place where he or she was found. (MNS)

HONG KONG, Aug 7 (Mabu-hay) – Calling it unrealistic, Phil-ippine offi cials have denied the re-quests of Filipino groups in Hong Kong to cut the various govern-ment fees they are paying for the renewal of their passports.

“This call will necessitate more government subsidy to cover the direct and administrative costs incurred by the posts,” Consul General Bernardita Catalla told Filipino groups in a meeting last July 27, reading from a reply from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Aside from the DFA, the Phil-ippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) also thumbed down the Filipino groups’ request.

Filipino workers in Hong Kong pay HK$480 or about P2,800 for the renewal of their passport, more than double of the P950 to P1,200 paid by those who renew their passports in the Philippines.

The groups, led by the Unif-ted Filipinos (Unifi l) in Hong Kong and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), noted that Indonesian passports cost only HK$280 for 48 pages, and HK$124

for 24 pages in Hong Kong.According to Bayan leader

Eman Villanueva, this shows that the reduction of passport fees is possible if the “subsis-tence” of overseas posts would not rely on consular fees collected from overseas Filipinos. Catalla, meanwhile, said aside from the operational expense of sending the passport from Manila to the issuing posts, Philippine pass-ports have also been upgraded with security features such as mi-crochips. On the other hand, then PhilHealth chief Alexander Pa-dilla said the reduction in premi-ums paid by OFWs from P2,400 to P900 — the fi gure requested by the groups — is not possible ow-ing to the increase in “healthcare services.”

He noted that the premium paid by OFWs is “already the low-est rate being paid by members.”

Catalla said the Manila Inter-national Airport Authority has yet to send its formal response to the demand by Unifi l to drop the automatic inclusion of P550 terminal fee to plane tickets of OFWs. (MNS)

MANILA, Aug 8 (Mabuhay) – Rear Admiral Caesar Taccad has been named as the new chief of the Philippine Navy, according to Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin.

In a text message to media, Gazmin confi rmed that Taccad, Philippine Navy’s current vice commander, will assume his post on Monday to replace Vice Admiral Jesus Millan, who will then reach the mandatory retirement age of 56.

Gazmin said President Benigno Aquino III, the military’s com-mander-in-chief, signed Taccad’s appointment papers last Thurs-day.

A turnover ceremony to be presided by Aquino will be held at the Navy headquarters in Manila on Monday.

Taccad is a member of the Philippine Military Academy class of ‘82, along with Millan, Air Force chief Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Delgado, AFP vice chief Lt. Gen. John Bonafos and Eastern Mindanao Com-mand chief Lt. Gen. Aurelio Baladad.

Taccad, who is also the chair of the Navy’s Modernization Board, previously served at the Chief Naval Staff and commander of the Naval Forces Northern Luzon.

Also reportedly considered for the Navy chief post were AFP Western Command chief Vice Adm. Alexander Lopez (of PMA class 1982) and Chief Naval Staff Rear Adm. Ronald Joseph Mercado.(MNS)

In evaluating chemical prod-ucts and services and hazard-ous substances, DLSU-D shall choose the option with minimal environmental impact and least hazardous to human health and other living organisms. “DLSU-D is indeed way ahead of the pack in terms of promoting sustainable practices,” observed Dizon.

In 2011, DLSU-D banned the entry and use of plastic bags in campus to reduce the production of non-biodegradable waste. The following year, it banned plastic drinking straws.

In recognition of its work to promote sustainability, the DL-SU-D in 2013 received the ECO-SWITCH Planet Award for Waste Minimization from the Green Philippines Islands of Sustain-ability (GPIoS) project, funded by the European Union’s SWITCH-Asia program. (MNS)

MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – sSecurity procedures are in place to prevent another ticket pilfer-age at the Light Rail Transit while rolling out a new ticketing scheme, according to the train system’s operator.

The LRT Authority will stop selling magnetic tickets at the light rail network’s Roosevelt-to-Baclaran line and issue color-coded coupons instead starting August 8 while installing new gates for the contactless ticketing system on the northbound tracks.

“Itong ticket coupon na ito, may mga security features ang mga ito para maiwasan ang pil-ferage o duplication o paggawa ng mga peke,” LRTA spokesperson Hernando Cabrera told reporters on Friday.

The LRTA previously issued uncoded tickets along with cou-pons while facilitating the transi-tion toward the unifi ed fare collec-tion system (AFCS) that involves the installation of new gates and replacement of magnetic tickets with the tap-and-go beep cards.

The use of uncoded tickets had paved the way for some employ-ees and security guards to alleg-edly issue or even sell such tick-ets without the administration’s knowledge and permit, said Ca-brera.

The LRTA could have incurred up to P77 million in losses because of ticket pilferage resulting from the delays in the implementa-tion of the new ticketing system, according to Bagong Alyansang

Makabayan (Bayan), an alliance of mass organizations.

“We implemented several mea-sures para hindi na maulit ito. One of them ay tumigil na kami sa paggamit ng tinatatawag na uncoded tickets dahil doon nag-umpisa ang issue,” Cabrera said.

But the temporary ticketing scheme remains vulnerable to pil-ferage as private concessionaire AF Payments Inc. continues to incur delays in the rollout of the new ticketing system, Bayan sec-retary general Renato Reyes Jr. told GMA News Online.

“We understand that it is part of the transition to the already de-layed and privatised AFCS. How-ever, in light of reports of losses due to pilferage and the LRTA’s failure to disclose the results of its investigation, including the actual losses, we cannot help but worry about the paper coupons being used in the interim system,” he said.

Public trial for the new ticket-ing system started on July 20 at the Legarda station. The LRTA and AF Payments have since of-fered beep cards in other stations at the LRT Line 2, with the latest trial beginning at the Cubao sta-tion on Friday.

“We are pleased with what we see so far. We’ve been going since July 20. We had about 70,000 people purchase the card. They’ve used their cards almost half a mil-lion tines to tap in and tap out of the system,” said AF Payments CEO Peter Maher.(MNS)

MANILA, Aug 8 (Mabuhay) – The EcoWaste Coalition, a zero waste advocacy group promoting safe chemicals policies and prac-tices, commended De La Salle University-Dasmariñas (DLSU-D) for its newest effort to further “green” the school environment.

DLSU-D through its Environ-mental Resources Management Center (ERMaC) has crafted a university-wide policy for manag-ing the purchase and use of chem-ical products and services, and other hazardous substances.

The policy, among other things, provides for the non-procurement of products containing mercury, and the purchase of lead-safe cer-tifi ed paints. Lead and mercury are among the top “10 chemicals of major public health concern,” according to the World Health Or-

ganization.ERMaC Director Marlon Pare-

ja explained that “this policy stems from the Lasallian com-munity’s commitment to promote environmental consciousness and action by integrating sustainable practices into our operations, in-cluding toxics use reduction.”

“We laud DLSU-D’s latest bid to curb potential sources of toxic pollution within its campus by disallowing the purchase of lead-containing paints and mercury-containing products,” stated Thony Dizon, coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition’s Project Pro-tect.

Such policy is consistent with the “Lead and Mercury Safe Schools for Bright and Healthy Children” statement signed by Environment Secretary Ramon

J.P. Paje and other offi cials in June 2014, the EcoWaste Coali-tion said.

“We agree to promote and up-hold ‘Lead and Mercury Safe Schools,’ particularly by using lead-safe paints and reducing lead paint hazards to contain and minimize hazardous dust, and by switching to mercury-free alter-natives towards a toxics-free, zero waste educational system,” the statement said. DLSU-D’s policy covers chemical products used in, but not limited to, housekeeping, painting, insect and pest control, and other activities that would re-quire use of chemicals and other hazardous substances.

However, chemicals used in the laboratories are not covered since these are sanctioned by other gov-ernment policies.

Drilon: Roxas can win sans Poe

David: I didn’t receive funds from Binay, LP

Govt thumbs down OFWs’ request for reduced passport renewal fee

EcoWaste lauds university action vs toxic lead, mercury

Measures in place to avoid ticket pilferage – LRT

Rear Admiral Caesar Taccad is new Navy chief

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OPINIONMANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – President Benigno Aquino III

on Friday told his critics not to use national issue to cause dis-cord in the country.

In a speech during the Philippine National Police’s 114th po-lice service anniversary event, Aquino said he will not let his detractors capitalize on past controversies to promote their own interests.

“Hindi nga po natin hahayaang gamitin at pagsamantalahan ng iba ang mga isyung hinaharap ng bansa; silang mas pipiling yurakan at sirain ang ating pagkakaisa para muling maghari-harian sa poder,” the President said.

Aquino issued this statement days after Vice President Jejo-mar Binay delivered his so-called “true state of the nation ad-dress” (TSONA) criticizing the administration’s supposed fail-ures.

Binay said Aquino failed to address poverty, hunger and un-employment in his fi ve years as president.

The Vice President also recalled past controversies faced by the Aquino government—including the deadly Manila hostage crisis and the botched Jan. 25 Mamasapano operation—to illus-trate the administration’s supposed insensitivity to the plight of Filipinos.

‘PNP won’t be used during polls’In the same speech, Aquino also expressed confi dence that

the PNP will not be used for partisan purposes during the 2016 polls.

“Alam kong patuloy lang ninyong tutuparin ang inyong traba-ho; na wala kayong kikilingang partido o ilang panig na inuuna ang agendang pansarili, kaysa kapakanan ng nakakarami,” the President told police offi cers during the event.

“Alam kong patuloy ninyong tatahakin ang landas na makatwiran at makakabuti sa ating mga Boss,” he added.

Aquino also once again challenged the police force to ensure the peaceful conduct of elections next year.

“Ang hamon at atas ko sa inyo: Siguraduhin na patas, payapa at makatarungan ang magiging pagpili ng susunod na pinuno ng ating mga Boss,” he said.

He also told the PNP to go after private armed groups as the 2016 elections draw near. (MNS)

MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) -- A week after endorsing Interior Secretary Mar Roxas as his presidential bet for 2016, President Beningo Aquino III on Friday continued heaping praises on the Cabinet offi cial, this time for his role in reforming the police force.

In a speech during the 114th Police Service anniversary rites at Camp Crame, Aquino said Roxas provided “exemplary lead-ership” to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

“Nagpapasalamat tayo sa huwarang liderato ni Roxas sa DILG. Kayo na ang sasang-ayon sa mahusay niyang patitimon sa PNP [Philippine National Police],” Aquino said.

The President commended Roxas for taking on the DILG post even on short notice, after former Interior Secretary Jesse Ro-bredo died in a plane crash in 2012.

“Pero malinaw naman: Ipinagpatuloy ni Secretary Mar ang mabubuting inisyatiba ni Jesse, at talagang nagsilbi siyang tu-lay para maipatupad ang mga reporma sa inyong hanay,” Aqui-no said.

He further enjoined the PNP to continue the reforms started by Roxas, who is set to vacate the DILG post soon.

“Ngayon ngang bababa na sa puwesto si Secretary Mar— upang hindi mahaluan ng politika ang pagpapakitang-gilas ng DILG at ng ating PNP—tiwala tayong malalim na ang ugat ng ipinunla niyang mga reporma, na tiyak na yayabong tungo sa higit na pagpapalakas ng ating kapulisan,” Aquino said.

Last week, Aquino named Roxas, his close friend and fellow member of the ruling Liberal Party (LP), as his preferred suc-cessor.

After receiving Aquino’s endorsement, Roxas tendered his resignation as DILG chief, but the President asked him to stay longer to fi nish some projects, particularly the PNP equipment upgrade.

LP secretary general Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento, whose name is being fl oated as Roxas’ possible replacement in the DILG, was present during the PNP event. (MNS)

By Nicolas ReviseKuala Lumpur, Malaysia | AFP | Thursday

8/6/2015 - 06:57 GMT | 554 wordsLand reclamation in the South China Sea has

“increased tensions” in the region, Southeast Asian foreign ministers said Thursday at the close of talks dominated by Beijing’s island-building.

The declaration, contained in a fi nal communi-qué, followed a warning by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Washington would not tolerate any restrictions on freedom of navigation in the strategi-cally important waters.

The Southeast Asian ministers’ joint fi nal state-ment noted “the serious concerns expressed by some ministers on the land reclamations in the South China Sea”.

It said the land works “have eroded trust and confi dence, increased tensions and may undermine peace, security and stability in the South China Sea,” without specifi cally singling out Beijing.

The communique was hashed out after two days of wrangling over how hard to pressure China on its controversial drive to expand tiny reefs and build military posts in the disputed waters.

The issue took centre stage at the series of diplo-matic meetings this week in Kuala Lumpur, hosted by the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions (ASEAN).

They also included envoys from two dozen other nations such as China and the United States.

Beijing claims control over nearly the entire South China Sea, a key shipping route thought to hold rich oil and gas reserves.

Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei – all ASEAN members – also have various claims, as does Taiwan, many of which overlap.

Even before the land reclamations, China had sparked rising unease over the years with actions in-terpreted as seeking to shore up its disputed claims, in violation of a pledge not to upset the status quo.

Behind-the-scenes wrangling A day after voicing concern to his Chinese coun-

terpart Wang Yi over the potential “militarisation” of the South China Sea, Kerry said freedom of navi-gation must be maintained.

“Let me be clear: The United States will not accept restrictions on freedom of navigation and overfl ight, or other lawful uses of the sea,” he told reporters.

Diplomatic sources told AFP the Philippines and Vietnam – which have been in the most direct con-frontation with China – had called for strong lan-guage.

But they said there had been pushback from Bei-jing’s traditional allies among the association. Cam-bodia, Laos and Myanmar traditionally side with China within ASEAN.

The tug-of-war raised the spectre of a bitter 2012 ASEAN meeting hosted by Cambodia, when the bloc was unable for the fi rst time in its four-decade his-tory to issue a joint statement.

Cambodia was accused of precipitating the deba-cle by refusing to allow criticism of China over ter-ritorial issues. bA Malaysian foreign ministry source told AFP there were some “ASEAN members who said that we don’t want a repeat of 2012”.

The United States and Southeast Asian nations have called for a halt to further island-expansion and construction by China.

Wang, however, said Wednesday that land recla-mation had “already stopped” – a claim some diplo-mats said was met with skepticism at the gathering.

Kerry told reporters after the close of the talks: “The Chinese have indicated that they have stopped. I hope it is true. I don’t know yet.”

ASEAN has expressed increasing impatience with China’s actions over the years.

Analysts, however, say Beijing maintains im-mense diplomatic and economic leverage in the re-gion and that a concerted and sustained effort by ASEAN to resist China’s assertions was unlikely.

By Laurent BarthelemyWashington, United States | AFP | Monday

8/10/2015 – Long dead but little forgotten, US sol-diers who disappeared across the globe during World War II are being reunited with their loved ones in a dogged push to fi nd and bring home their bodies.

From the forests of Germany to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, US experts employed by the De-fense POW/MIA Accounting Agency – among them historians, archeologists and forensic experts—are the main sleuths.

When recovery of a body is possible, the Pentagon specialists turn the remains over to an ultra-modern lab in Hawaii for identifi cation and then wait for the ultimate reward: bringing the bereaved back togeth-er with their long-lost relatives.

Stephen Johnson, a historian-investigator, re-called how a delighted woman, whose father had been found in a German forest, exclaimed: “You gave me back my daddy.”

“I think of her when I work on a case,” Johnson said.

The woman, now a mother and grandmother, “had come to peace” after fi nding out the exact fate of her father, who died when she was 18 months old, Johnson said.

Sandi Jones, who lives in Montana, said she felt immense joy when the agency called her in June 2014 to say that her uncle had been found 70 years after his plane went down in the jungles of Papua New Guinea.

“I was fl abbergasted,” the 60-year-old said.The uncle, whose photo Jones kept even though

her grandparents refused to speak of him, was bur-ied near the family ranch with honors in the pres-ence of US Air Force offi cials.

The agency also gave the family his Masonic ring, which was discovered among the crew and deduced to be his since he was the only member of a Masonic Lodge.

‘Tied’ allegiances

Johnson said the willingness to return a soldier at any cost dates back to the nation’s birth.

President George Washington, the fi rst head of the US military, thought that “the allegiance of the Army to the nation was directly tied to the allegiance of the nation to the Army,” he said.

“You don’t stop being a member of the US mili-tary because you die,” he added.

It is this logic that has driven the POW/MIA agen-cy to take on a project to exhume 388 sailors and Marines who were killed aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

At the time, remains of most of the crew could not be identifi ed after spending weeks in the water, and the bodies were interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacifi c in Honolulu.

Now the agency hopes to identify remains through dental and DNA analysis—a daunting task considering that the bones are mixed together, Johnson said.

The agency, which uncovers around 70 bodies a year, has fallen short of Congress’ goal of 200 bodies annually.

Meanwhile, private associations are aiding in the effort.

History Flight, whose multi-disciplinary team in-cludes historians, archeologists and soil specialists, is searching for the remains of several dozen Ma-rines on the Tarawa Atoll in Kiribati, from the war’s Pacifi c theater.

The quest began in 2007 and has cost nearly $1.5 million, according to History Flight president Mark Noah, who decided to search for the missing planes after becoming interested in lost fl ights.

“For us, it’s a humanitarian issue” said Noah, an airline pilot for 50 years, explaining that many of the children and relatives of the disappeared are still alive.

Just over 73,000 US World War II soldiers are still missing or unidentifi ed according to offi cial fi g-ures, with nearly 40,00 likely never to be found.

By Michael MathesWashington, United States | AFP | Friday

8/7/2015 – Move over, gentlemen. Republican hopeful Carly Fiorina may have just

catapulted herself into the presidential campaign’s top tier with a commanding performance in the de-but debate of the 2016 race.

Fiorina is the only Republican woman in the race, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard whose lacks national name recognition but who insists she would be the best counterweight to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

She got a dramatic bump in exposure after a star turn in a debate Thursday in Cleveland, where cam-paign experts agreed she exhibited masterful poise and command of the issues, spoke articulately and aggressively against Clinton, and essentially stole the show.

She fi red a stunning rebuke at frontrunner Don-ald Trump, noting that unlike the brash billionaire: “I didn’t get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race.”

She demanded stronger leadership in the White House, “which sometimes requires a tough call in a tough time,” and explained how she would stand up to hardliners in Iran.

And she conveyed her personal story of how she “started as a secretary” and ultimately became boss of the largest technology fi rm on the planet.

Crisply dressed in a dusky rose skirt-suit, Fiorina “owned the stage,” Republican strategist Karl Rove gushed on Fox News.

The broadcaster, which carries infl uence with conservative Americans, aired both a heated prime-time debate of the top 10 candidates as well as a “Happy-hour” event featuring seven lower-polling candidates. The Washington Post declared Fiorina and Senator Marco Rubio – who was on the main stage – the night’s big winners.

“Next time she will belong in the top tier,” one-time Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan

wrote in The Wall Street Journal, describing Fiorina as “reliably on-point” and “gutsy.”

Fiorina said the 2016 race will boil down to “a fi ght between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of this na-tion.

“We need a nominee who is going to throw every punch, not pull punches, and someone who can not stumble before he even gets into the ring.”

Fiorina was the top searched name among those in the early debate, according to Google Trends.

‘Big opportunity for me’ A Google survey showed that of the candidates on

the undercard, Fiorina was by far the one viewers wanted to see on the main stage, more than doubling her nearest rival, former Texas governor Rick Perry.

“Last night was a big opportunity for me,” Fiorina acknowledged to CNN early Friday.

“It’s fair to say this morning a lot more people know who I am and that I’m running for president.”

Fiorina, who is 60 and a breast cancer survivor, is a former advisor to defeated 2008 Republican nomi-nee John McCain.

She may have hurdles to overcome. She helmed HP for six years until 2005, when she was forced to resign after the company’s share price plummeted. Democratic offi cials have accused her of outsourcing US jobs abroad.

And in 2010, Fiorina ran an unsuccessful bid to unseat California’s long-serving Senator Barbara Boxer. Fiorina is now aiming to do battle against a more powerful adversary in Clinton. On Thursday she attacked the Democratic frontrunner, saying she “lies about Benghazi, she lies about emails,” referring to two scandals Clinton has been unable to shake. Perry revealed his own Carly crush in the midst of the debate, when asked how he would han-dle Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

“I would a whole lot rather have had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry,” he said of Obama’s secretary of state.

Aquino to critics: Don’t use national issues to promote discord

PNoy: Mar provided ‘exemplary leadership’ to DILG

ASEAN warns of ‘increased tensions’ over S. China Sea

Pentagon still searching for its lost WWII veterans

Carly crush: Fiorina shines in fi rst Republican debate

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BY JOEY QUINTOTORRANCE, California

– Land grabbing, a widespread problem which has been in exis-tence for many generations in the Philippines, will be discussed dur-ing the Open Field Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) to be held by the Subcom-mittee on Asia and the Pacifi c in the Ursa Major Suite at Cal Poly Pomona University (3801 West Temple Ave., Pomona, California 91768) on Friday, August 21, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

The subject of the hearing is Property Rights and Development in Southeast Asia. And since the Property Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Human Rights of land grabbing victims are continuously being violated by abusive individ-uals and the inaction of some of-fi cials and employees of the Phil-ippine government, land grabbing will be cited.

US Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of HFAC, is a long-time champion of property rights and has been fi ghting against land grabbing throughout the world, particularly in the Philippines. He has spearheaded specifi c ac-tions pertaining to land grabbing that could help strengthen the Rule of Law and protect the Prop-erty Rights in the Philippines. Like Royce, US Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), Chairman, Subcommit-tee on Asia and the Pacifi c House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been focusing on enforcing Prop-erty Rights.

AREAS OF CONCERNl The Philippines’ ability to bor-

row and to attract foreign inves-tors is adversely being affected by

current corruption in the govern-ment that includes land grabbing.

l Is the Philippine government following the US foreign funding guidelines on the Rule of Law and Property Rights? Is it a wasteful spending of the American taxpay-ers?

Foreign funding to the Phil-ippines is a crucial issue. US has given nearly $500 million of grants to the Philippines that come from the American taxpay-ers so it is necessary that funding is being used for what it is intend-ed for.

The US Foreign funding to the Philippines has guidelines: to help the Philippines in infrastructure for better commerce, and what the US could do with regards to the Rule of Law and Respect of Property Rights, among others.

It is imperative then for the Philippine government to take the Rule of Law and Respect of Property Rights seriously since they are part of the guidelines of the foreign funding to the Philip-pines.

l What is the Philippine gov-ernment’s loss of opportunity be-cause of land grabbing?

If the victims were able to de-velop their lands, they could have paid more taxes which could have led to higher income for the Phil-ippines.

Hernando De Soto, a Peruvian economist and expert on prop-erty rights, reported to Chairman Royce that if land grabbing would be eliminated in the Philippines, it would have more potential on economic growth and more jobs could be created.

l Does the Philippines imple-

ment its existing laws to protect the victims of land grabbing?

President Benigno S. Aquino III’s Daang Matuwid (straight path), Anti-Corruption Initiative, is a great way to show the world that the Philippines is no longer the ‘Sick Man of Asia’. But, it is not completely being adhered to nor totally being implemented by some national and local govern-ment agencies, e.g., the Philip-pine Republic Act (RA) No. 6713 requires all public offi cials and employees, within fi fteen (15) working days from receipt there-of, respond to letters, telegrams or other means of communications sent by the public. The reply must contain the action taken on the request. But, several government agencies have been disregarding RA 6713. Evidently, something needs to be done to enforce the Rule of Law.

With the leadership of Chair-man Royce, together with the as-sistance of the members of HFAC, USAID, and the U.S. Department of State, Filipinos could now be optimistic that the Rule of Law, transparency, good governance, and government accountability could possibly be enforced. Once they are totally implemented, we could hope that the land grabbing victims will not need to wait for several months to get answers from government employees. More importantly, land grabbing in the Philippines could be mini-mized, if not completely halted.

(For questions or if you plan to attend the Open Field Hearing, please email atstoplandgrabbing@yahoo.com no later than Monday, August 17, 2015.)

A total of 320 infants and toddlers are breastfed by their mothers during a simultane-ous latch-on in Mandaluyong on Saturday. “Hakab Na! 2015” aims to raise awareness on the health and economic benefi ts of breastfeeding in celebration of Breastfeeding Month this August. (MNS photo)

SACRAMENTO – California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Health Offi cer Dr. Karen Smith today reminds us that breastfeed-ing is the fi rst step to a healthy life and forms a lasting bond be-tween mother and child. The 2015 Na onal Breas eeding Month theme “Let’s Make It Work” sets the goal of empowering all women, no ma er where they work, to successfully com-bine work with breas eeding.

“As National Breastfeeding Month kicks off in August, Cali-fornia should be proud of its ef-forts to lead the nation in progres-sive laws that protect a mother’s right to breastfeed her baby,” said Dr. Smith. “Through public poli-cy, California has committed to ensuring that women who want to breastfeed are given the best chance at being successful.”

Not all working mothers in California have access to work-place support for breastfeeding, according to data from the Ma-ternal and Infant Health Assess-ment (MIHA), an annual survey of new mothers. CDPH reports that only half of California moth-ers returning to work have a place

and time to pump breast milk and low-income women are less likely to have access to these accommo-dations.

Women with workplace sup-port for breastfeeding are twice as likely to report exclusive breastfeeding at three months postpartum than women with-out accommodations. California law requires employers to pro-vide breastfeeding women with time and private space to express breast milk.

Breastfeeding reduces the risks of acute and chronic health condi-tions for both mothers and babies. Six months of exclusive breast-feeding and continued breastfeed-ing for one year or longer, as long as it is mutually desired by moth-er and infant, is recommended.

Ongoing efforts have resulted in California meeting all of the Healthy People 2020 objectives for breastfeeding initiation, dura-tion and exclusivity. However, ad-ditional efforts are still needed to ensure that all women have equal access to lactation accommoda-tions in the workplace and qual-ity maternity care that supports breastfeeding.

Washington, United States (AFP) Tuesday 8/4/2015 – Repub-lican 2016 presidential hopeful Jeb Bush stepped into a heated debate Tuesday about funding for women’s health and abortion, offering a critique that earned a swift rebuke by Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Controversy has simmered in recent weeks fol-lowing the release of undercover videos that showed offi cials from women’s health provider Planned Parenthood cavalierly discussing the use of fetal tissue for research.

The footage appalled conserva-tives and prompted renewed calls to end all federal funding for the

SACRAMENTO – California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Health Offi cer Dr. Karen Smith today warned parents about the continued dangers of pertussis (whoop-ing cough). The disease has already caused one infant death and at least 126 infant hospitalizations in California this year.

“Vaccinated mothers pass protective antibodies to their infants during pregnancy,” said Dr. Smith. “Right now, it’s estimated that fewer than half of all pregnant women in California are vaccinated against whooping cough. We need to increase that number to help improve the health of our children and of our communities.”

CDPH urges expecting mothers to receive a pertussis vaccine (called Tdap because it covers tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis). Prenatal vaccination will help protect newborn children until they are old enough to receive their own vaccination against pertussis. Because immunity decreases over time, women should receive the pertussis vaccine in the last trimester of each pregnancy.

Pertussis continues to spread at above-normal levels in Cali-fornia following a major epidemic in 2014, when reported disease rates were the highest seen since the 1950’s. Disease rates and risks of hospitalization and death are highest for infants under the age of one.

Pertussis can cause a severe, persistent cough. Historically, un-vaccinated children with pertussis would cough hard enough to cause vomiting or a “whooping” breath after a coughing spell.

Symptoms of pertussis vary widely by age and vaccination his-tory.

Land grabbing to be discussed in an open fi eld hearing of HFAC

Jeb Bush wades into women’s health funding spatorganization, which last year re-ceived about 40 percent of its $1.3 billion funding – more than $500 million – from taxpayer money.

Bush told the Southern Bap-tist Forum during an onstage in-terview that the next president should defund Planned Parent-hood, but then he implied that the money might be better used for other purposes.

“You could take dollar for dollar – although I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues – but if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fi ne community health organizations that exist to

provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues,” Bush said. Clinton, the Demo-cratic frontrunner, quickly tweet-ed a retort: “@JebBush: You are absolutely, unequivocally wrong.” Bush issued a statement saying “I misspoke, as there are count-less community health centers, rural clinics, and other women’s health organizations that need to be fully funded.” “I was refer-ring to the hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood – an organization that was callously participating in the unthinkable practice of selling fetal organs.”

CDPH celebrates National Breastfeeding Awareness Month

Public Health urges prenatal immunization to combat pertussis risk

SACRAMENTO – Governor Jerry Brown today signed legis-lation authored by Senator Mark Leno that would allow the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to increase its use of renewable energy. Senate Bill 502 allows the regional passenger rail system to purchase wholesale electricity directly from renewable energy sources, enabling BART to reduce the carbon footprint of hundreds of thousands of Bay

Area commuters. “BART is a vi-tal regional transit system that is working to increase its use of clean energy, but current state law un-necessarily limits the agency from further decreasing its carbon foot-print,” said Senator Leno, D-San Francisco. “This bill supports state goals to combat climate change and enables BART to continue provid-ing cost-effective transportation for the Bay Area while increasing the agency’s use of renewable en-

ergy.” SB 502 amends state law to allow BART to purchase electricity directly from generation facilities that qualify as renewable under California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS). The RPS law re-quires electric utilities to procure 33% of their electricity from clean energy sources by 2020. Current-ly, BART is only able to purchase electricity from a short list of ap-proved suppliers that are not spe-cifi cally renewable.

Brown signs bill allowing BART to increase use of renewable energy

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well as more than a dozen others including China, Japan, South Korea and the US.

The US and Southeast Asian nations have called for Beijing to halt both reclamation in the South China Sea and construc-tion on reefs, something Beijing has staunchly resisted.

“I have urged all claimants to make a joint commitment to halt further land reclamation and con-struction of new facilities or mili-tarization on disputed features,” Kerry told delegates, arguing such a step would “lower tensions.”

Land reclamation in the South China Sea has “increased ten-sions” in the region, Southeast Asian foreign ministers said Thursday at the close of talks dominated by Beijing’s island-building.

The declaration, contained in a fi nal communique, followed a warning by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Washington would not tolerate any restric-tions on freedom of navigation in the strategically important wa-ters.

The Southeast Asian ministers’ joint fi nal statement noted “the serious concerns expressed by some ministers on the land recla-mations in the South China Sea”.

It said the land works “have eroded trust and confi dence, in-creased tensions and may under-mine peace, security and stability

in the South China Sea,” without specifi cally singling out Beijing.

The communique was hashed out after two days of wrangling over how hard to pressure China on its controversial drive to ex-pand tiny reefs and build military posts in the disputed waters.

The issue took centre stage at the series of diplomatic meet-ings this week in Kuala Lumpur, hosted by the 10-nation Associa-tion of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

They also included envoys from two dozen other nations such as China and the United States.

Beijing claims control over nearly the entire South China Sea, a key shipping route thought to hold rich oil and gas reserves.

Vietnam, the Philippines, Ma-laysia and Brunei—all ASEAN members—also have various claims, as does Taiwan, many of which overlap.

Even before the land reclama-tions, China had sparked rising unease over the years with ac-tions interpreted as seeking to shore up its disputed claims, in violation of a pledge not to upset the status quo.

Behind-the-scenes wrangling - A day after voicing concern to

his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi over the potential “militarization” of the South China Sea, Kerry said freedom of navigation must be maintained.

tid ng lahat na ang matuwid na daan ay batay sa mga prinsipyo ng EDSA People Power revolution na nagbigay-daan sa pagbabalik ng demokrasya sa ating bansa mula sa diktadurya at Martial Law.” (MNS)

liminary investigation and later, to fi le cases.”

The DOJ recommendation is the fi rst step before the fi ling of criminal charges and the possible arrest of the offi cials, she said.

The offi ce of the country’s Om-budsman separately said it would start a preliminary investigation against Villanueva and other of-fi cials.

Aside from Villanueva and Ho-nasan, the justice department’s investigating arm is also seeking to fi le charges against three other legislators, four former lawmak-ers and their aides.

Villanueva is the most senior Aquino ally to be entangled in the scandal involving businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, who allegedly paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Philippine politicians and offi cials from 2004-2012.

In return, she apparently re-ceived $200 million from congres-sional funds which were supposed to help poor Filipinos.

Napoles, who is already in jail in the Philippines for kidnap-

ping her cousin in 2014 in an al-leged cover-up attempt, has been charged along with family mem-bers in the corruption case.

Honasan, Villanueva, 7 others face graft raps over ‘pork’ scam

MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – After several delays, the Na-tional Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Friday formally fi led the graft complaints against the third batch of incumbent and former government offi cials allegedly involved in the multibillion-peso pork barrel scam.

In separate complaints fi led with the Offi ce of the Ombuds-man, the NBI said Senator Gre-gorio “Gringo” Honasan III, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Director General Joel Villanue-va, Cagayan De Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, Manila Rep. Amado Bagatsing, La Union Rep. Victor Ortega and Abono party-list Rep. Conrado Estrella III, have all vio-lated Section 3 (e) of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Cor-rupt Practices Act.

“Hindi po ako nambubugbog. Ang konsensya ko po ay malinis. May mga kasama po ako rito. Pwede naman silang kausapin, yung mga dati na... Kung may-roon man silang ilalabas, hindi ko talaga mainitindihan kung bakit nagkaroon ng issue na ganyan, pati sa pag-inom, pati sa pag-re-hab,” she said.

According to Poe, who is also facing questions about her citi-zenship and residency and eligi-bility to run for higher offi ce, she feels she is already being bullied.

Meanwhile, Estrada has yet to decide whom to support in the 2016 elections, saying he will wait for the platform of governance of all presidential candidates before he will decide whom to endorse.

Sapang Uwak, which means Crow Creek, his sun-baked vil-lage in the foothills of the Pinatu-bo volcano about two hours’ drive from Manila, showcases both the old way of life – and the disruption of the new. Languid water buffa-loes pull carts fi lled with bananas and taro along dirt roads, parched river beds and forests that the community of 1,700 people claim as their ancestral domain. But to leave their village to take their produce to market or fi nd work as farmhands or construction work-ers, they have to pass through a giant private entertainment park.

A 1997 law recognized the rights of some 15 million eth-nic minorities to their ancestral lands, and Sapang Uwak and nearby Aeta settlements have fi led claims on a combined 17,000

hectares (42,000 acres).However, the government has

yet to defi ne the boundaries of many areas, fuelling fears of en-croachment by private develop-ers, said Roman King, leader of an association of Aeta communi-ties. “We were the fi rst peoples of the Philippines, but now we are aliens in our own country,” said King, a retired policeman from the nearby settlement of Inararo.

“If we lose our lands we have nowhere else to go... You’ll see more of us begging in the streets,” he said. Most of the Philippines’ estimated seven million Aetas live in tiny, isolated communities, engaged in slash-and-burn farm-ing – clearing forests for fi elds – moving with the seasons and with limited contact with the outside world.

roon man silang ilalabas, hindi ko talaga mainitindiha kung bakit nagkaroon ng issue na ganyan, pati sa pag-inom, pati sa pag-re-hab,” she added.

Poe said she is dismayed by the accusations, adding that she does not know who started the rumors. “Minsan, feeling ko talagang binu-bully na ako.

Alam natin, ang lalalakas ng makinarya nila, kung sino-sinong kilala nila. Ilalabas nila ‘yung mga istoryang ‘yan.

Nambu-bully na sila para ba mag-negotiate ako at a position of disadvantage,” she said. Poe

is currently leading pre-election surveys as the candidate most likely to win the 2016 presidential election. The senator, however, remains undecided in running for higher offi ce by 2016.

Recently, losing 2013 senato-rial candidate Rizalito David fi led a quo warranto case against Poe before the Senate Electoral Tribu-nal, stating that the latter lacked the necessary residency require-ment for senator. David has said Poe lost her US citizenship in the last quarter of 2012.

In response, Poe insisted that she is a true Filipino “by birth, by

abode, and choice” and said she can prove her residency in the Philippines in the last 10 years.

“Ako po ay nagsasabi ng totoo dito po sa mga dokumentong ha-wak namin na magpapatunay na hindi ko po kaya nililinlang.

Ako po ay may basehan talaga para masabing ako ay Pilipino at ako ay residente ng ating bansa nang humigit-kumulang, lagpas 10 taon since 2005,” Poe asserted.

At the same time, Poe also cried foul over the David’s claim that foundlings like her could be considered stateless and thus may not run for offi ce. “Yung sina-sabi niyang ganoon, parang masy-ado namang mapang-api iyon.... ‘Yung mga bata na naabandona, hindi kilala ang mga magulang, para bang ibig sabihin mas menos na kami. Sapagkat hindi naman namin kasalanan ito pero hindi matukoy kung sino yung mga blood parents namin,” the senator said.

She also cited the internation-al convention that ensures the rights of individuals with unclear parentage as citizens of the coun-try where they were found.

charges against Brown and Roda for failing to show up at the con-cert even though they had been advanced their million-dollar fee.

Philippine prosecutors are studying the fraud complaint to determine if criminal charges will be fi led in court. Brown did not attend the show due to a lost passport. The tattooed and gold-toothed star performed at another concert in Manila last month, but was stranded in his hotel due to

the fraud complaint.He lit up the Internet dur-

ing his forced stay in Manila, posting bizarre videos where he break-danced and got down on his knees, begging the authorities to allow him to leave and resume his world tour.

Despite eventually being al-lowed to leave the country, the fraud complaint hearings against the hitmaker will proceed, au-thorities said.

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To put those fi gures into some kind of context, the new Audi S8 plus is faster off the mark and has a higher top speed than a current-generation Porsche 911 Carrera.

But those numbers also mean that despite is huge size – the car’s over 5 meters long and just under 2 meters wide – its 597bhp 4-liter 8V engine makes it the fastest S-designated Audi in the company’s current range.

Yet, even with those supercar-baiting levels of performance, the car shouldn’t leave owners shaken and stirred. It has perma-nent Quattro four-wheel drive for assured grip whatever the con-ditions and clever adaptive air suspension that responds to how the car’s being steered in order to optimize handling and comfort. It also gets carbon ceramic brakes as standard and sits on special

21-inch alloy wheels that will help distinguish the S8 plus from the ‘standard’ S8 and the A8 models.

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Sunday August 9 2015 (Las Vegas-AFP) – Hackers swarmed a Tesla sedan in a ‘hacking village’ at the infamous Def Con confer-ence on Saturday as the high-tech electric car maker recruited talent to protect against cyber attacks.

It was the second year in a row the California-based company was at the world’s largest gather-ing of hackers in Las Vegas, and came on the heels of a massive re-call of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles vehicles to patch a fl aw that could let them be remotely comman-deered. “Hackers are a crowd that is really important to us,” Tesla’s Khobi Brooklyn told AFP while Def Con attendees took turns in-side a black Model S sedan parked inside a casino convention area.

“It is a community that we want to be part of, and collaborate with, as well as recruit from.”

Tesla recruiters were on hand, along with members of the Cali-fornia-based company’s security team. Tesla cars are highly com-puterized. New features as well as software updates are pushed out to vehicles over wireless In-ternet connections.

“They are not messing with our software,” Brooklyn said with only a hint of hesitation.

She knew of no cyber attacks aimed at Tesla cars, at Def Con or anywhere else.

Tesla has worked with Look-out Mobile Security to fi nd and patch software vulnerabilities in sedans, according to Brooklyn.

Lookout co-founder and chief technology offi cer Kevin Mahaffey and Marc Rogers of CloudFlare online security fi rm took part in a Def Con presentation on Tesla software defense fl aws that were discovered and then shared with the company.

They referred to Tesla sedans as data centers on wheels, and urged great care when trying to hack vehicles that could be racing along at 100 mph (160 km) or so.

“As cars become more connect-ed, we need to think about them a lot more like smartphones where you are constantly testing and im-proving products to make they as secure as you can,” Brooklyn said.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is-sued a safety recall for 1.4 million US cars and trucks last month after hackers demonstrated that they could remotely control their systems while they are in opera-tion. The recall came after cyber-security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely com-mandeered a Jeep Cherokee, made by Chrysler, to demonstrate the vulnerability of the vehicles’ electronic systems.

Miller and Valasek presented details of the hack at a Def Con session on Saturday.

The recall involves a broad range of Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Chrysler cars and trucks produced between 2013 and 2015 that have radios vulnerable to hacking.

Saturday August 8 2015 (Las Vegas-AFP) – A software glitch that allows hackers to comman-deer a Jeep Cherokee while on the move is just a glimpse of dangers on the road ahead for the Internet of Things.

The ability to seize data from and take control of once-dumb devices that are now deemed “smart” with wireless Internet connections was a hot topic at the premier Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas Wednes-day.

Researchers described how they remotely took control of a moving car or re-aimed high-tech sniper rifl es, and many at the gathering warned the ramifi ca-tions could be far more serious and wide-reaching.

For starters, many companies don’t even have teams tasked with making sure their smart de-vices are secure.

“Almost none of the Internet of Things device-makers have any real security teams, it is sort of a gold rush to market,” Black Hat founder Jeff Moss told AFP.

He expects the problem to grow, with skilled hackers eager to push the boundaries.

“The Jeep hack is the begin-ning,” said Moss, who also found-ed the annual Def Con hacking

conference that takes place later this week in Sin City.

“Criminals are geniuses at fi guring out how to misuse this stuff.”

He theorized a scenario in which a connected home appli-ance, a toaster for example, is hacked and becomes an entry point for an attack that hops wirelessly to other online devices, such as entertainment systems. A hacker could then jump next door via wireless Internet to take over a neighbor’s home devices.

The possibilities for hackers are numerous—and chilling.

Data from smart appliances or other devices can be used to learn about people’s lifestyles or daily routines. Cameras in smart gad-gets could be activated to spy on intimate moments people would prefer to keep private.

Adding to the problem is the fact that smart appliances, such as ovens or washing machines, are designed to last but do not typically get software updates. With time, hackers fi nd vulner-abilities, and companies do not protect devices against attacks with new security software.

“You can see us racing toward a future where everything is con-nected, nothing is updatable, and it is going to last 10 years,” Moss

said.“Then, it is a numbers game. A

million of anything is trouble, a hundred million is a disaster.”

Massive car recall Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is-

sued a safety recall for 1.4 mil-lion US cars and trucks in July after hackers demonstrated that they could remotely control their systems while the vehicles are in operation.

The recall came after cyberse-curity experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely comman-deered a Jeep Cherokee, made by Chrysler, to demonstrate the vulnerability of the vehicles’ elec-tronic systems. Working from lap-top computers at home, the two men were able to enter the Jeep’s electronics via its online enter-tainment system, changing its speed and braking capability and manipulating the radio and wind-shield wipers.

The pair said it was a fairly easy job. “We might be good at what we do, but this was a week-end project,” Miller said.

“What if we did this full time, or got paid to do it?”

Miller is a security researcher at Twitter and Valasek works at cybersecurity fi rm IOActive.

Miller and Valasek said they dug into automobile security be-

cause they wanted to make a point.

“Car companies spend millions of dollars on safety, and now this is a part of safety, whether they like it or not,” Valasek said.

After the report, Chrysler of-fered a free software patch for vulnerable vehicles, but said it had no fi rst-hand knowledge of hacking incidents.

The recall involves a broad range of Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Chrysler automobiles produced between 2013 and 2015 that have radios vulnerable to hacking.

The hack involved Harman hardware and the Sprint mobile network, but fi xes have been put in place to block the tactic, accord-ing to Miller and Valasek.

Moss said the potential for hacking Internet-connected power meters was especially troubling. Hackers could not only target in-dividual homes but could cause trouble on city grids, perhaps by toying with electric power in en-tire neighborhoods.

The Internet of Things prom-ises to thrust into the spotlight an issue of liability that software makers have managed to avoid, according to Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Center of Internet and Society at Stanford University law school.

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Saturday August 8 2015 (Re-laxnews) – How often do you check the label when shopping for beauty products? According to a new study, 59 percent of US women now scan their cosmetics for pontentially harmful ingredi-ents before heading to the check-out.

The “Green Beauty Barome-ter” survey has revealed that the majority of shoppers read beauty product ingredient labels prior to purchase, while nearly 40 percent intend to increase their spending on all-natural beauty products. Sulfates were the top ingredi-ent to look out for, with 29 per-cent of participants seeking to avoid them, according to the poll carried out by natural beauty

brand Kari Gran. These were fol-lowed by parabens (22 percent), synthetic fragrances (18 percent), PEG compounds (15 percent) and mineral oil (11 percent). Women aged 35-54 are most like-ly to check the labels, with 65 per-cent scanning the ingredients list of products. Sixty-three percent of 18-34-year-olds do the same, as to 59 percent of those aged to 45-54. The age group least likely to read the label was the 55-64s. Natural beauty is becoming more of a priority for many women, with 39 percent of participants claiming they will buy more all-natural beauty products in the next two years than they cur-rently do.

Millennials aged 18-34 are

the most likely to spend more on all-natural beauty prod-ucts in the next two years, with half of them claiming they will. A recent “Natural Personal Care Global Series” survey by market research company Kline found that the natural cosmetics mar-ket grew by 10.6 percent between 2013 and 2014. Earlier this year a Nielsen English-language survey found that 46 percent of participants would be willing to pay more for a beauty product that claimed to be “all natural.”The “Green Beauty Barometer” survey was conducted online within the United States by Har-ris Poll on behalf of Kari Gran from June 1-3, 2015 among 1,104 women ages 18 and older.

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Saturday August 8 2015 (Re-laxnews) – Being drunk or hun-gover isn’t usually regarded as a great beauty look, but all that is changing thanks to a new Asian trend.

“Hangover makeup” is the lat-est look to hit social media, with girls in Japan and Korea upload-ing photos of themselves on Ins-tagram, intentionally looking like they’ve just come home from a big night out.

Eye bags are traditionally seen as something to try to hide, cover up or zap in the West, but puffy peepers form an integral part of this hot new look, with some women going so far as to contour their under eye area to make it appear bigger.

This is proving particularly popular in Korea, where puffi ness is seen as pretty, and you can eas-ily pick up products such as this double-ended eye pen by Etude House ($13) to help you get “cute eyes.”

Blush applied directly under the eyes to give the impression of being tired is also a key part of the trend, especially in Japan. Instagram users like @matilda_xy have been demonstrating how a thick sweep of blush above the cheekbones results in the sort of tired, slightly feverish aesthetic that only a hangover can bring about. Instagrammer @mavis__guo shows how the look can be paired with pale skin and a slight-ly shiny eye for that ‘just woke up’ vibe.

Hangover makeup is the lat-est in a series of offbeat beauty trends to surface on Instagram. Recent headline grabbers have included “Bubble nails,” an ex-treme, 3D manicure in which acrylic is heaped onto the nail in a dome shape, and “Clown con-touring,” which took off earlier in the summer and saw hundreds of women using highlighting and contouring techniques inspired by clown masks.

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Friday August 7 2015 (Re-laxnews) – Eating highly refi ned carbohydrates after menopause is associated with increased risk for depression in women, ac-cording to a new study.

It’s part of an increasing body of evidence pointing to a close relationship between diet and mental health.

Refi ned foods including soda, sweets and white rice ultimately reduce blood sugar levels, which could lead to mood changes and fatigue, say the researchers.

Carbohydrates’ effect on blood sugar levels is highly variable, and a measure called glycemic index (GI) is used to distin-guish foods from one another on these terms. The GI measures how much sugar remains in the blood after eating.

It ranges from zero to 100, and the highly refi ned carbohy-drates tend to have a higher GI.

Glycemic load (GL) is a mea-sure used to estimate how much an individual’s blood glucose level will spike after eating a particular food.

GL is based on the GI and is determined by multiplying the grams of carbohydrates in the food times the GI.

Working with data from over 70,000 postmenopausal women, the research team from Colum-bia University Medical Cen-ter assessed their diets for GI and GL, taking into account

the types of carbohydrates con-sumed.

Weighing nutrition data against incidence of depression within their participant group, the researchers uncovered an association between a progres-sively higher GI and increasing odds of depression.

What’s more, they found that consuming lactose, fi ber, natu-ral fruits and vegetables was strongly associated with a re-duced risk of depression.

Researchers note that further investigation is required in the area but the fi ndings could even-tually have key implications for emerging evidence suggesting that dietary interventions could help treat and prevent depres-sion.

Last year, a UK team found that eating fi ve servings of fruits and vegetables per day was associated with better men-tal well-being.

Working with over 14,000 participants the research-ers concluded that 33.5 percent of those with high mental well-being reported getting their fi ve-a-day.

The same team found in 2012 that mental well-being peaked at seven portions per day of fruits and vegetables.

The study on refi ned carbo-hydrates was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Sunday August 9 2015 (Re-laxnews) – Brazil is nothing short of a beauty mecca. As home to the famous bikini wax, the famous blow dry and some of the world’s most gorgeous supermodels in-cluding Gisele and Adriana Lima, how could it be anything else?

If you’re heading to the shores of Rio this summer then there are a few makeup and wellbeing tricks that will help you look the part.

Brazilian women take skin-care very seriously, and in a land

so replete with nutritious fruits and berries there’s no excuse for neglecting yours. The benefi ts of açai, found in the country’s rain-forests, are well-documented, so stock up on Kiehl’s Açai Damage Repairing Serum before jetting off to get prepared. Brazil might be a nation of sun worshippers but there is also a high emphasis on skin protection so be sure to throw in a high factor sunscreen too.

Humidity can wreak havoc with your hair, which goes some way to explaining how the Brazil-

ian blow dry was born. Pack a hair mask such as the new Agave Re-storative Hydrating Mask ($38) or some leave-in conditioner like Original Moxie Everyday Leave-In Detangling Conditioner ($18) to ward off the frizz.

When it comes to your makeup look, your trump card will be a sunkissed glow, which can eas-ily be achieved with a light pow-der such as Chanel’s new limited edition Lumière d’Eté compact ($65). As well as making you look healthier, a bronzed base will really make your makeup pop – which is important here because it’s all about tropical, exotic colors. For a stylish daytime vibe, place the emphasis on your pout, with a bold color such as the new Es-tée Lauder Pure Color Envy Liq-uid Lip Potion, a high-intensity liquid lipstick hybrid that comes in a range of daring hues ($30). When darkness falls you can re-ally go to town on your eyes for a sultry look – try Tarte’s Rainfor-est After Dark Colored Clay Eye & Cheek Palette ($38), which is infused with Brazilian clay that naturally color-corrects to adjust to oil production on your skin and features jeweled tones inspired by the orchid hues of the rainfor-est at dusk. Alternatively test out Aveda’s Uruku Color Gloss ($17), made using Annatto oil drawn from the Brazilian Urukum tree and known locally for its beauty benefi ts. Add a pop of Clinique’s A Different Nail Enamel ($12.50) in “Really Rio” and you’re ready to go!

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Thursday August 6 2015 (Re-laxnews) – Sleeping on your side rather than your back or stom-ach might play a role in helping reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer’s and other neurologi-cal diseases, according to a new study.

Side sleeping opens a passage in the brain called the glymphatic pathway that dispels waste and other chemicals, say the research-ers from Stony Brook University in the US.

“It is interesting that the lat-eral sleep position is already the most popular in human and most animals – even in the wild – and it appears that we have adapted the lateral sleep position to most effi ciently clear our brain of the metabolic waste products that built up while we are awake,” says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester.

The team’s research began years ago when they used mag-

netic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to observe the glym-phatic pathway in rodents.

They learned that the waste-clearing process – bathing the brain with cleansing cerebrospi-nal fl uids and interstitial fl uid – is most effi cient during sleep.

What gets fl ushed out the glym-phatic pathway are amyloid β and tau proteins that are unhealthy in the brain if they build up.

In the study, lead author Dr. Helene Benveniste and her team used MRI technology and ki-netic modeling to measure the exchange rates of the fl uids CSF and ISF in rodents who had been given anesthesia as they slept on their sides, backs and stomachs.

Sure enough, technologies called fl uorescence microscopy and radioactive tracing that gave the team a view of the glymphatic pathway revealed increased effi -ciency when the rodents slept on their sides.

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It’s fi nally happening! The re-union movie of Aga Muhlach and Lea Salonga will push through in 2016.

This was announced by Star Cinema managing director Malou Santos during the “Chat with the Chairman” event at ABS-CBN on Tuesday, as reported by Star Cin-ema in its website.

Salonga earlier said that she will be very busy in the remaining months of 2015 and won’t be able to do a movie this year.

“I have ‘The Voice’ and then I have a Broadway show. As in the day after the grand fi nals, I leave for New York. Our fi nals will be on August 29 and August 30, Au-gust 31, I’m on a plane out. So no movie this year,” she had said.

Salonga will be part of the mu-sical “Allegiance” with Japanese-

American actor George Takei, which is scheduled to start pre-views October 6 at the Longacre Theater in New York prior to its offi cial opening on November 8.

Last month, Salonga and Muhlach attended the premiere of the digitally restored version of “Sana Maulit Muli” held at the Cine Adarna at University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City.

Salonga hinted that the warm reception at the premiere could help railroad the reunion movie that has been in limbo.

“Maraming oras na ang nakali-pas since we did a movie and then to receive that kind of reception doon sa screening, talagang hindi ako makapaniwala na ganun ang naging pagtanggap ng very, very young audience,” she said.

“I think microcosm siya of a possibly bigger market na siguro tatangkilikin din nila ‘yung peli-kula namin kung sakaling guma-wa kami ng isa pa,” she added.

Aside from “Sana Maulit Muli,” Muhlach and Salonga starred in an earlier movie, “Bakit Labis Ki-tang Mahal.”

Salonga had said that she only wants to be paired with Muhlach because she is already comfort-able working with the actor.

“Minsan lang kasi ako gumawa ng pelikula. As in once every 17 years. I don’t do movies very often so I want to be with people that I’m already comfortable with. There are certain risks that I’d like take when I perform live. But when I do a fi lm, I’d like to stay with a team na nakasanayan ko na,” she explained. (MNS)

“Maybe it’s time to let it go.”These were the words of for-

mer actress Jackie Forster when asked if she is willing to wait for Andre and Kobe Paras, her chil-dren with basketball star Benjie Paras, to welcome her back into their life.

“At this point, I’ve asked for forgiveness for whatever it is,” she said. “If there’s something else bothering them, I’m willing to talk about it.”

“But it seems like the doors are closed. Ang dami nang nangyari. Nagkasakit na ‘yung kapatid nila, hindi pa rin lumambot ‘yung puso nila. I feel like tama na,” she con-tinued. Forster revealed early last year that Caleigh, one of her three children with her second husband, was diagnosed with leukemia.

“Hanggang saan ako magma-makaawa na pagbigyan nila ako,” Forster said of Andre and Kobe.

“Parang mas dapat pagtuu-

nan ko na lang talaga ng pansin ‘yung pamilya ko, yung mga nagmamahal sa akin. ‘Yung mga nag-papakita na kailangan at gusto nila ako sa buhay nila.”

Forster said that the two have been raised to think that she “just turned their back and abandoned them” – a claim that she hopes to set straight.

“It’s not true...Kahit anong gawin nilang pani-nira sa akin, wala na eh. Tapos na iyon. Pinagda-anan ko na, pinagdusa-han ko na kung ano man ‘yung bintang nila sa akin,” she shared.

“I just feel like this is the time that I want them to get to know me and show them that I’m here. If you want to see who I am, just come and try to reach out,” she

added.Forster concluded that she will

never stop loving Andre and Kobe, and will continue to respect their decision to ask for space.

“I will never stop loving them,” she said. (MNS)

Lea-Aga reunion movie set for 2016

Jackie Forster ‘tired’ of waiting for Andre, Kobe

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MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) -- Singer Angeline Quinto admitted that her mother Sylvia “Mama Bob” Quinto is the reason she’s not yet ready to take her relation-ship with co-singer Erik Santos to the next level.

“Kasi every time na makakapa-nood ang mama ko ng interview namin ni Erik, pag-uwi ko ng bahay yun ang salubong niya sa akin.

Siyempre sinasabi ko hindi pa po. Ayaw ko kasi na maging kami ni Erik tapos ganoon pa din ang sasabihin ko kay Mama Bob,” Quinto explained.

“Kasi nga feeling ko magse-sel-os kasi matanda na nga, eh kam-ing dalawa lang ang magkasama. So feeling ko ang iisipin niya once na magkaroon ako ng boyfriend ay baka sumama na ako,” Quinto said of her mother who is now 73 years old.

Quinto also admitted that she

isn’t fully convinced that Santos is serious.

“Napapansin ko before pa na every Sunday na magkasama kami sa ‘ASAP,’ lagi siyang pumu-punta sa dressing room ko. Doon ako nagka-idea na baka totoo din po ‘yung sinasabi niya. Pero hindi ko kasi maramdaman na seryoso. ‘Yun lang po talaga,” Quinto said.

For his part, Santos said he is willing to wait for Quinto’s deci-sion.

“Ngayon ganoon pa din walang label kasi hinihintay ko si Ange-line. Nire-respeto ko ‘yung sina-sabi niya na daratig ‘yung right time.

Pero nasa estado kami na so-bra kaming click na magtinginan lang kami alam na namin ‘yung ibig sabihin nung isat-isa. Sobra kaming kumportable na may na-gagawa kaming bagay na nagu-gulat na lang kami na grabe ga-noon na tayo ka close,” he said.

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FAMILY FEATURESAlthough brisket is generally regarded as a cool weather dish, you may be sur-

prised how this ultimate comfort food works in delicious recipes that help you hang on to the fading days of summer.

A traditional Barbecued Beef Brisket prepared low and slow over a charcoal grill is sure to be a crowd pleaser for a backyard tailgate or a casual gathering with friends. Leftovers can help warm up a cool morning with a decadent serv-ing of Barbecue Benedict, and you can look forward to a Grilled Greek Salad Pita with Beef Brisket for a tasty midday meal.

As any grill master knows, achieving grilling greatness begins with a charcoal fi re. These recipes, created by world champion pitmaster Chris Lilly, showcase how Kingsford® Charcoal can help you achieve an authentic smoky fl avor that will delight the taste buds of your family and friends. Each briquet contains natural ingredients and real wood for a delicious cookout every time.

Find more recipes featuring your favorite grilled meats at www.kingsford.com.Barbecue Benedict

Makes: 6 servingsPrep time: 45 minutesCook time: 7 minutes1 white onion cut into

1/2-inchthickstripsOnion MarinadeBarbecue Benedict Sauce3 English muffi ns cut in half1 pound leftover beef brisket6 poached eggsOnion Marinade:9 tablespoons soy sauce3 tablespoons lemon juice6 tablespoons extra virgin olive

oil6 tablespoons water6 teaspoons dark brown sugar3/4 teaspoon garlic powder3/4 teaspoon black pepperBarbecue Benedict Sauce:3 egg yolks1 teaspoon vinegar1 teaspoon water

Grilled Greek Salad PitaBeef Brisket

Makes: 8 stuffed pitasPrep time: 15 minutesCook time: 6 minutesGreek Dressing:2 tablespoons olive oil1 1/2 tablespoons Kalamata ol-

ives,minced4 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice1/2 teaspoon dried oregano1/8 teaspoon black pepper4 pita bread rounds, cut in halfforming 8 pockets1 cucumber, cut into 1/2-inch

slices1 tomato1/2 red onion, cut into 1/2-inch

slices2 cups romaine lettuce, cut into1-inch pieces1/4 cup feta cheese1 pound leftover beef brisketIn small bowl combine all Greek

dressing ingredients. Set aside. Build charcoal fi re for direct grill-ing. Place pita bread directly over hot coals (approximately 450°F) and cook for 1 minute on each side or until grill marks are visible. Place cucumbers, whole tomato and onion directly over hot coals (approximately 450°F) and cook, turning once, for 4 minutes or un-til they brown and start to soften.

Remove vegetables from grill and dice.

Place vegetables into medium bowl and stir in dressing. Let mix-ture stand for 5 minutes before adding romaine lettuce and feta cheese.

Fill each pita pocket with left-over beef brisket and grilled Greek salad.Barbecue Beef Brisket

Makes: 8-10 servingsPrep time: 30 minutesCook time: 5-6 hours1 beef brisket fl at (5-6 pounds)1 tablespoon beef bouillon baseDry Rub1 cup beef brothDry Rub:1/2 tablespoon salt

1 cup butter, melted1/4 teaspoon saltPinch of cayenne pepper3 tablespoons of your favorite

KCMasterpiece barbecue sauceIn small bowl, mix onion mari-

nade ingredients. Pour marinade into resealable plastic bag and add onion strips. Let marinate for 30 minutes.

For sauce, place egg yolks, vin-egar and water into stainless steel bowl and vigorously whip until mixture is thickened and doubled in volume.

Place bowl over sauce pan con taining barely simmering water (just below boil), making sure bot-tom of bowl does not touch wa-ter. Whisk continuously, making sure eggs don’t get too hot or they will scramble. Very slowly drizzle melted butter into mixture while whisking rapidly until mixture thickens and doubles in volume. Remove from heat and stir in re-maining sauce ingredients.

Build charcoal fi re for direct grilling.

Place onion strips in grill bas-ket and cook directly over hot coals (approximately 450°F), stir-ring often for 5 minutes or until onions brown and start to soften.

Remove onions from grill and

set aside. Place English muffi n halves directly over hot coals for minutes or until toasted. Remove each from grill and top with left-over beef brisket, grilled onions

1/2 tablespoon paprika1/2 tablespoon black pepper1/2 tablespoon sugar3/4 teaspoon garlic powder1/2 teaspoon onion powder1/4 teaspoon oregano1/8 teaspoon ground corianderBuild a charcoal fi re with

Kingsford charcoal for indirect cooking by situ - ating coals on only one side of grill, leaving oth-er side void.

Cover entire brisket with beef bouillon base. In small bowl, mix dry rub ingredients and coat bris-ket with rub. When cooker reach-

es 225°F, place brisket on void side of grill and close lid. Cook for 4 hours, until internal tempera-ture reaches 160- 170°F.

Remove brisket from grill and place in shallow baking dish or disposable aluminum pan. Pour beef broth over brisket and cover pan with aluminum foil. Place baking dish in cooker for an ad-ditional 1-2 hours, until internal temperature reaches 185°F.

Remove baking dish from grill and let meat rest undisturbed for 20-30 minutes. Slice brisket across grain and serve

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By Abner GalinoIf you live in the US, can you really say

that you are proud to be Pinoy? You should be because Filipinos are outstanding immi-grants. Well, it may not be something that you can say everyday, but you could say it loud through the most part of the year.

By the way, we are not tooting our own horn here. The affi rmation about Pinoys being outstanding US immigrants was re-cently disclosed in an exhaustive report by the Migration Information Source (MIS), the online journal of the Migration Policy Institute. The report was written by Keith Mcnamara and Jeanne Batalova.

The report was accompanied by tables and a graph that showed how we have been moving along here in the so-called “land of opportunities.” Interestingly, folklore character Juan Tamad (Lazy John), which has been used by foreign and local rulers to explain away the root of poverty in the Philippines, was nowhere near the descrip-tion of Filipinos in the US.

The MIS noted that Pinoys participated in the labor force at “slightly higher rates than both the overall immigrant and US-

born populations.” In 2013, said the report, about 69 percent of Pinoys 16 and above were working in the civilian labor force. This is two percent higher than all immi-grants which was determined at 67 per-cent, posting even higher than the employ-ment rates among native born Americans which was pegged at 63 percent.

Filipinos were likely to be employed in management, business, sciences and arts occupations. And of course, almost without a need to mention, is our prevalence in the health care industry in the professions that range from doctors, dentists, nurses, physi-cal therapists, caregivers and almost any job that there is in this fi eld.

In California alone, 20 percent of regis-tered nurses are Filipinos.

These facts bear enough weight to bury the myth of Juan Tamad six feet under. A Filipino will work if there is work. Laziness is not a Filipino character. And because we work hard, only seven percent of Pinoys in our community here live in poverty, as against 19 percent of all the immigrants and 15 percent of native-born population.

So, most Pinoys in the US are middle-

Colombo, Sri Lanka | AFP | Sunday 8/9/2015 – The Maldives joined a regional search for wreckage from missing fl ight MH370 following reports that islanders in the Indian ocean atoll nation had spotted unidentifi ed debris, police said Sunday.

Maldivian police are responding to sev-eral sightings of debris washed up along the northern atolls of the archipelago, some of which occurred about a month ago, a police spokesman said.

Authorities were alerted to the sight-ings yesterday.

“There is new attention to these sight-ings after the discovery at Reunion,” the spokesman said referring to a wing part found in late July on the French territo-ry located 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) south-west of the Maldives.

After that discovery, the Malaysian au-thorities alerted nearby Madagascar and the South African coast as possible loca-tions for debris to wash up. The Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius has also joined the search.

Mohamed Shareef, a minister at the Maldivian President’s offi ce, said offi cials were working closely with the Malaysian aviation authorities in seeking to identify any possible debris from the missing air-craft.

“We are collecting any unidentifi ed de-

bris and storing them in a warehouse so that the Malaysians can carry out tests and determine if it is from their plane or not,” Shareef told AFP by telephone.

“We ourselves are not doing any testing, but we have sent photographs of what we found and await their response.”

Local media reports said the biggest piece of debris, an eight by two feet long panel, had washed up a few days earlier and it appeared to be material used in re-sort construction.

However, the authorities were preserv-ing it to be examined by foreign experts.

Shareef said the Maldives had shared de-fence radar and surveillance data with Ma-laysia following reports last year that an unidentifi ed airliner had been seen fl ying low over some of the islets shortly after the MH370 went missing.

“We checked radar data and other infor-mation from that day and the answer was negative. There was no big jet liner over that area and we shared that information with the Malaysian authorities,” Shareef said.

The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8 last year, sparking the largest multina-tional search operation in history, now fo-cused on the southern Indian Ocean based on satellite data hinting at the plane’s path.

Tokyo, Japan | AFP | Friday 8/7/2015 – China has won the right to host the 2019 basketball World Cup, beating the Philippines in Friday’s vote in Tokyo.

The sport’s international ruling body FIBA chose basketball-mad China following a presentation by the country’s delegation, helped by former NBA giant Yao Ming.

“I’m very excited to bring the 2019 World Cup to China,” said the one-time Houston Rockets great, who represented China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“I’m sure millions of Chinese fans share the same joy. I know the feeling to play in your home country and I’m sure that same feeling will encourage many young ath-letes to play basketball.

“We have to make sure we deliver on the promises we’ve made,” added Yao, argu-ably his country’s biggest sporting celebrity.

“We have to develop the level of basketball in China, in the national team, in the professional league, in high school and college.”

The Philippines lost out, meanwhile, despite the support of boxing superstar Man-ny Pacquiao, himself an avid basketball fan, who was on hand in Tokyo to press his country’s case.

Pinoys in US are outstanding immigrantsclass people...sort of. (Well, please don’t tell me that this where all the kayabangan is coming from.)

The MIS also says households headed by Pinoys earn a median income of $82,370, as against $48,000 for all immigrants and $53,000 for U.S-born households.

This is unsubstantiated, but in my mind I got this hint on why this is so: nurses.

But this fact from the source explains this better: “Filipino immigrants (age 25 and older) have much higher education rate compared to both the native and the foreign-born populations.”

In 2013, says MIS, 48 percent of Filipino immigrants reported achieving at least a Bachelor’s Degree, which was 30 percent only for native born and 28 percent for all other immigrant groups. There is almost no argument here: Higher education equals good-paying job. Because we are mostly in-volved in health care and mostly employed in good-paying jobs, it is not surprising that Pinoys are more likely to be insured through private health insurance. Seventy-three percent of Pinoys have health insur-ance as against 67 percent for native born

and 50 percent for all immigrant popula-tions.

I bet you all felt good already. But I got some more numbers here from the MIS.

There are 1,844,000 Filipino immi-grants, or 4.5 percent of the total immi-grant population in the US which stands at 41.3 million. The US is a little over 320 mil-lion. “Since 1990, the Philippines has been consistently among the top fi ve countries of origin, and was the fourth largest in 2013.”

If we limit the numbers to immigrants of Asian origins, we’ll be the third largest immigrant group behind China and India, which are both very huge countries.

Without a doubt, the Filipino immigrant community in the US is both remarkable in terms of quantity and quality.

Now, are we even aware of our strengths as an immigrant community? Or, are we still trapped in the mistaken notion that we are just an insignifi cant minority? When are we going to harness these strengths wisely and forcefully for the benefi t of com-patriots and the homeland? The old adage says there is strength in numbers, but only if they are one voice.

Maldives join hunt for MH370 after debris sighting claims

PHL loses to China to host 2019 Basketball World Cup

MANILA, Aug 7 (Mabuhay) – sSecurity procedures are in place to prevent another ticket pilferage at the Light Rail Transit while rolling out a new ticketing scheme, according to the train system’s operator.

The LRT Authority will stop selling magnetic tickets at the light rail net-work’s Roosevelt-to-Baclaran line and is-sue color-coded coupons instead starting August 8 while installing new gates for the contactless ticketing system on the northbound tracks.

“Itong ticket coupon na ito, may mga security features ang mga ito para mai-wasan ang pilferage o duplication o pag-

gawa ng mga peke,” LRTA spokesperson Hernando Cabrera told reporters on Fri-day.

The LRTA previously issued uncoded tickets along with coupons while facilitat-ing the transition toward the unifi ed fare collection system (AFCS) that involves the installation of new gates and replace-ment of magnetic tickets with the tap-and-go beep cards.

The use of uncoded tickets had paved the way for some employees and securi-ty guards to allegedly issue or even sell such tickets without the administration’s knowledge and permit, said Cabrera.

Measures in place to avoid ticket pilferage – LRT