If you want a cheap and fun way to get around, riding a jeepney is the best option for you.
You just have to remember that since it’s a public vehicle, it can get crowded and sometimes uncomfortable, especially during rush hour.
But with a bit of patience and flexibility, it can be an exciting, unique, and memorable cultural experience, especially if you’re an expat.
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Published February 1, 2023, 8:21 PM
DAVAO CITY — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook parts of Mindanao at 6:46 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Based on information released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the epicenter of the earthquake was noted at 14 kilometers north east of New Bataan, Davao de Oro.
The quake, which was tectonic in origin, had a depth of 11 kilometers.
Intensity III was felt in Davao City.
Varying instrumental intensities were reported in others parts: Intensity V in Nabunturan, Davao de Oro; Intensity III in Kidapawan City, Cotabato; Alabel, Sarangani; Tupi, South Cotabato; Bislig City, Surigao del Sur; Intensity II in Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte, Libona and Malaybalay in Bukidnon, Don Marcelino in Davao Occidental, Abuyog in Leyte, Cagayan de Oro in Misamis Oriental, Malapatan, Glan, and Kiamba in Sarangani, Norala, General Santos City, Koronadal City and Tampakan in South Cotabato, and Tandag, Surigao del Sur; and Intensity I in Alamada in Cotabato, Baybay and Dulag in Leyte, Cagayan de Oro in Misamis Oriental, Maitum in Sarangani, Suralla, Santo Nino, T’Boli, and Tantangan in South Cotabato, and Saint Bernard in Southern Leyte, Columbio in Sultan Kudarat, and Surigao City in Surigao Del Norte.
Aftershocks and damages are expected.
by Manila Bulletin Entertainment
By Carissa Alcantara
Aside from playing notable characters on the screen, celebrities create a huge impact by using their platforms to raise awareness in saving and protecting Mother Earth.
Besides appearing on the red carpet, posing with expensive cars, or holding unending parties, some celebrities also do great things for society. Their immense fame also comes with significant influence, and many use it for a good cause.
While some are great advocates for human rights, gender equality, and proper governance, a good number of them are pursuing the ultimate fight to care for the environment. These celebrities have been doing their part in encouraging others to do the same.
We applaud anyone who uses their celebrity status to promote awareness about climate change and other threats to our environment.
Chai Fonacier
Using her comedy character named “Kurdapya Jones,” Cebuana actress Chai Fonacier collaborated with Sutukil Sauce to create a six-part series on debunking climate change in 2017.
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Iza Calzado
Appointed as one of the female national ambassadors for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) in 2016, actress Iza Calzado has been an active volunteer in spreading environmental education awareness and sustainable living.
Nadine Lustre
As a beach lover, Nadine Lustre showed her support by participating in a beach cleanup with Greenpeace PH’s anti-plastic campaign. Since then, Nadine has been practicing some ways of becoming eco-conscious.
Jasmine Curtis Smith
Jasmine Curtis-Smith was appointed as the Youth Ambassador for Independence Energy in 2019. Jasmine has always been an active advocate when it comes to environmental aspects. She fulfills her duty to influence the government and private sectors to create alternative energy sources that are indigenous and sustainable.
Pia Wurtzbach
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach teamed up with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) for their #speakupfornature campaign. Pia donated P250,000 to support the causes of WWF.
Piolo Pascual
During his stay in Mabini, Batangas, award-winning Piolo Pascual teamed up with Ang Probinsyano Partylist for a coastal and underwater cleanup drive. The community cleanup activity yielded a total of 135 kilograms of waste materials collected by 50 volunteers headed by the local tourism office of Mabini.
Luis Manzano
A long-time diver and certified lover of seas, Luis Manzano, champions the organization’s Marine Conservation Programs, which include initiatives on sustainable fisheries plus food security, community-based ecotourism, and biodiversity conservation.
Richard Gutierrez
Aside from his career as an actor, Richard Gutierrez is also passionate about helping the environment. In 2019, Richard took the initiative of partnering up with Kiehl’s Made Better campaign. As an avid underwater photographer, the actor dedicated the campaign to preserving Anilao beach.
Enzo Pineda
Aside from being an actor and marine reservist, Enzo Pineda also has a passion for the environment. He donated collectibles and fashion items for auction to support families near conservation sites like the Ipo Watershed. The actor is also a plant enthusiast. He advocates for food security and raises awareness of proper urban gardening practices.
Leonard DiCaprio
Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998 to help “restore balance to threatened ecosystems, ensuring the long-term health and well-being of all Earth’s inhabitants.” Leonardo has been named the United Nations climate change representative and donated millions of dollars to environmental activist groups.
Ellen DeGeneres & Portia De Rossi
Actress Portia De Rossi gifted her wife television host Ellen De Generes the Ellen Fund, which partly works to save mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
BTS
In 2019, the seven members of the hit band BTS became Formula E ambassadors, promoting the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the only race in the world that uses solely electric cars. One year later, they became the faces of Hyundai’s IONIQ electric car, and to celebrate the partnership, they released a video full of beautiful earthy imagery.
Jane Fonda
Before COVID-19 hit, Jane Fonda was just getting started with her “Fire Drill Fridays,” bringing famous friends, scientists, and civilians together in Washington, D.C., to rally for climate change. The Grace and Frankie star even wrote a book about climate change entitled “What Can I Do?”
Mark Ruffalo
Aside from starring in various Marvel films, Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo is a climate activist who has helped to launch The Solutions Project, which aims to switch Americans to renewable energy. It has so far found over 100 projects and desires for everyone to have 100 percent clean air.
Jaden Smith
At 12, Jaden Smith learned that the ocean is alive but dying due to pollution and rising temperatures. So in 2015, he created JUST Water, a company that strives to make an alternative to petroleum-based products that require plastic and emit CO2 in production.
Shailene Woodley
Known for her role in the film “The Fault in our Stars, Shailene Woodley has always been open about her best practices for saving the Earth: foraging for food, sourcing her Water, and making her cheese and soaps, for starters. In 2016, she put her activism to work publicly by joining rallies that have an advocate for clean Water for the indigenous people in North Dakota.
Gisele Bündchen
Becoming a Goodwill Ambassador, Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen began advocating for clean Water in her native country in 2004 and has since become a fierce supporter of several of the UN’s environmental initiatives.
Cate Blanchett
Australian actress Cate Blanchett became an ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation to help campaign for environmental justice and encourage people to share their real-life concerns about climate change. Cate also took part in putting up a solar-powered roof for Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company and has assisted organizations like I Speak Earth and SolarAid throughout her career.
Ben Affleck
An actor and Philanthropist, Ben Affleck is a lifelong environmental activist who fights for critical environmental issues and raises awareness to combat Climate Change. He was the recipient of the Environment Media Award in 2013. He has always been very vocal about climate change impacts and pollution in nature.
Prince Harry
The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry is one of the great environment campaigners like his father and grandfather. The royal family has always served their significant commitment to advocate for environmental causes and their preservation. He has always shown his passion for nature and urged others to initiate climate actions to save the planet.
Enchong Dee
Aside from becoming an actor and professional swimmer, Enchong Dee has been vocal about his passion for a greener and cleaner Philippines. The actor has been part of cleanup drives and has spoken about how to strengthen environmental protection since 2015.
Bea Binene
Award-winning actress Bea Binene took her environmental advocacy into her own hands. In 2017, Bea self-produced an indie film entitled “Fading Paradise,” which follows a story about a lush island in Bohol that becomes poisoned by commercialization.
Janine Gutierrez
Outside her work as an actress and TV host, Janine Gutierrez promotes proper waste management in order to protect wildlife and their habitats. She has visited project sites in Donsol, Sorsogon as a youth ambassador, working closely with WWF-Philippines’ National Youth Council, where young students were taught about relevant species—like the local whale sharks!
Robi Domingo
TV host Robi Domingo grew up in an environmentally conscious household that led him to practice sustainability and have a love and passion for the outdoors. Becoming an active ambassador of WWF-Philippines, Robi hosted a nine-part web series called Sustainably Yours, Robi, to invite enthusiasm and active participation from young people through everyday eco-friendly activities.
Published February 2, 2023, 12:02 AM
One hundred twenty three years — more than a century of delivering news, shaping minds, and fully informing the nation.
It is not an easy feat for any media institution to survive the challenges of our times, which included two World Wars, changes in political administrations, tumultuous elections, record-breaking natural disasters, a global health pandemic, etc. Amid these pivotal events, the Manila Bulletin stood not only as a curious observer, but as a veritable witness and opinion shaper to Filipinos who deserve fast, accurate, and reliable news and information. With the changing times and modernizing landscape, dominated with the flow of technological advancements, the newspaper embraced “transformation” and planned for the future, alongside the introduction of the desktop computer, arrival of high-tech printing machines, connection to the internet, ascent of social media, to the emergence of A.I.
The resilience of the Manila Bulletin can be traced back to its strong foundation and storied history. The first issue came out on Feb. 2, 1900. Originally a shipping journal, its purpose was to give “the public accurate and reliable shipping and commercial information.” It was set up by Carson C. Taylor, a teacher from Illinois, who had served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War. Taylor and H. G. Farris, editor, constituted the entire staff of the paper.
“It was a four-page newspaper with pages sized 10″ by 12″. It was distributed free… (and) was printed by El Progreso at 10 Carriedo, Manila up to 1901 when it set up its own plant,” according to historical records. “In 1912, it came out in a six-column tabloid format. Six years later, it switched to the standard size with eight columns.”
“In the next century — except for the four years that it was closed by the Japanese during the occupation — the Manila Bulletin came out every day.” A minor interruption happened during the declaration of Martial Law in 1972. Even with constraints during that time, the paper was able to thrive and stay true to the tenets of journalism.
Indeed, no challenge or tribulation was too gargantuan for the management, editors, reporters, and the staff in different departments for the Manila Bulletin to halt its printing and forget its commitment to the people.
After the People Power Revolution, the paper flourished, retaining its preeminent position as the “exponent of Philippine progress” and “the Philippines’ leading national newspaper.” This was the time, around 1989, when Bulletin Today was renamed the Manila Bulletin.
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Under the guidance of philanthropist-businessman Dr. Emilio T. Yap, the Manila Bulletin became a public corporation traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange. It began a series of changes, including acquisition of the country’s biggest printing equipment — a five-story press that occupies its own building beside the Manila Bulletin’s main office in Intramuros.
After Dr. Yap’s passing in 2014, his son Basilio C. Yap took over as Chairman of the Board, with Dr. Emil C. Yap III as President and Vice Chairman of the Board. They have initiated transformation in the company that allowed the Manila Bulletin to stay relevant in the digital era, gathering a new generation of readers and followers.
Amid all changes, the Manila Bulletin continues to ride on the waves of history, carefully navigating the ocean of information with its brand of responsible, accurate, and fully researched reportage. There’s no doubt that 123 years young is just the beginning of more exciting things as for the Manila Bulletin, the best is yet to come!
Auf einem Strandabschnitt in Norderney hat das Sturmtief Schäden angerichtet
Quelle: dpa/Volker Bartels
Das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt hat für die deutsche Nordseeküste eine Warnung herausgegeben. Auf Norderney wurde frisch aufgeschütteter Sand durch den Sturm erneut weggespült. Retter mussten auch einem Frachter mit Maschinenschaden helfen.
Für die deutsche Nordseeküste besteht am Mittwoch eine Gefahrenlage, auch eine Sturmflut könnte drohen. Wie das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) mitteilte, werde das Hochwasser am Vormittag und Mittag an der ostfriesischen Küste und im Wesergebiet dreiviertel bis einen Meter höher auflaufen als normal. An der Nordseeküste spricht das BSH von einer Sturmflut, wenn das Hochwasser mindestens 1,5 Meter höher als normal aufläuft. Von einer schweren oder sehr schweren Sturmflut wird erst ab Werten von 2,5 beziehungsweise 3,5 Meter gesprochen.
Der Höhepunkt des Sturms werde am Mittwochnachmittag und in den Abendstunden erwartet, sagte Meteorologe Andreas Tschapek vom Deutschen Wetterdienst (DWD) in Hamburg. Vor allem im Zusammenhang mit Schauern und Gewittern, die von der Nordsee kommend aufziehen, seien auch schwere Sturmböen mit Windgeschwindigkeiten um 95 Kilometer pro Stunde möglich.
Neben der Küste und im Harz ist es auch im Binnenland stürmisch: Dort erwartet der Wetterdienst Windböen der Stärke 7 um 55 Kilometer pro Stunde oder stürmische Böen der Stärke 8. „Ab der zweiten Nachthälfte wird sich der Wind wieder abschwächen“, sagte Tschapek.
Auch eine Fähre verzögerte sich
An der Küste überspülte das Wasser vereinzelt bereits am Mittwochmorgen Hafenflächen und Strände. Auf Spiekeroog war etwa die Hafenfläche überflutet, so dass sich eine Fährabfahrt verzögerte, wie die Nordseebad Spiekeroog GmbH mitteilte. Auch auf der Nachbarinsel Wangerooge sorgen hohe Wasserstände laut der Deutschen Bahn, die den Schiffsverkehr betreibt, für Abweichungen im Fahrplan. Von und zu anderen Inseln lief der Fährverkehr weitgehend nach Plan.
Auf Norderney tosten die Wellen am Strandabschnitt „Weiße Düne“ um ein Holzgerüst, auf dem in den Sommermonaten Umkleidekabinen und die Badeaufsicht untergebracht sind. Dann ist das Gerüst am Strand mit Sand zugeschüttet. Vergangene Sturmfluten haben den erst im letzten Jahr neu aufgeschütteten Sand bereits wieder fortgespült.
In Hannover blieben der Große Garten und die Freiflächen des Berggartens in den Herrenhäuser Gärten am Mittwoch wegen des Sturms geschlossen. Die Stadtverwaltung warnte vor dem Betreten von Wäldern und Parkanlagen.
Bei Sturm und vier Meter hohen Wellen sorgte bereits am Dienstagabend ein mit Maschinenausfall treibender Stückgutfrachter auf der Nordsee westlich von Helgoland für einen Einsatz des Havariekommandos. Der Notschlepper „Nordic“ lief zu dem Havaristen aus und stellte eine Notschleppverbindung her. Ein Hubschrauber der Bundespolizei setzte zudem zwei Spezialisten auf dem Frachter ab. Nach einigen Stunden konnte die Maschine des Frachters wieder zum Laufen gebracht werden.
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By Fr. Roy Cimagala *
“A PROPHET is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” (Mk 6,4) Famous words of Christ that tell us that we should be wary of our tendency to take the things of God for granted, especially nowadays when we can feel we can depend on God less and less because we happen to know more, do more and achieve more.
This is a very common danger to all of us, and is at bottom a result of letting ourselves be simply guided by our senses, or feelings and our other ways of human estimation, without the guidance of our faith that should lead us to develop the appropriate piety.
We have to be more aware of this danger of over-familiarity and install the necessary defenses against it. More than that, we have to aggressively cultivate the art of always being amazed at God and at all his works. That should be the proper state for us to be in.
Yes, we should cultivate the attitude and habit of always being amazed at everything since everything in the end comes from God and is meant to lead us to God and to glorify him.
We always tend to believe that we can manage to live our life and to handle all kinds of situations just by relying on our own powers, practically denying the fact that our powers come from God and are supposed to be a participation of God’s powers. This is especially so since we now appear to be gaining more power through our inventions and creations.
We obviously have to do our part. In fact, we have to make full use of everything we have to resolve whatever problems, difficulties, issues, etc., we have in this life. Yes, we have to be very realistic and practical about everything. But we should not forget that we always need God.
Even in our small, usual and very manageable concerns, we should go and be with God first before we attempt to tackle them. We have to remember that everything depends on God, and also in a certain sense, everything also depends on us. It’s a 100%-100% proposition.
This does not mean that we are getting too dependent on him. Truth is, we actually depend on him for everything even if we also should fully use whatever capabilities we have. Yes, we enjoy a freedom that enables us to have a certain autonomy but never a total independence or separation from God.
We have to remember that being God’s creatures who have been created in his image and likeness, we are meant to live our whole life with him. Our relationship with him is not that of a parasite to a host, but rather that of a child to his father. That is our undeniable and inalienable lineage. God and us are meant to be together always. We are meant to share the same life and nature, since God made us his image and likeness.
We have to understand, though, that this abiding state of amazement that we should try to develop is simply not a matter of sensations. Of course, it would be good if we can always feel amazed and in awe. But given the limitations of our bodily organisms, we cannot expect that to happen all the time.
The ideal abiding state of amazement is more a matter of conviction, of something spiritual, moral and supernatural. It should be the result of grace that is corresponded to generously and heroically by us.
*Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE), Talamban, Cebu City
Email: roycimagala@gmail.com
