Bulawan Festival Youth Day 2016

Cong. Wes Gatchalian graces Comval youth

Compostela Valley Province---- Party list representative of “ALAY BUHAY” Wes Gatchalian who represents Hon. Win Gatchalian graced the Summer Fun sa Bulawan (Youth Day) during the 9^thBulawan Festival and 18^th Founding Anniversary celebration of Compostela Valley on March 5 at the Capitol Ground.

Governor Arturo T. Uy, gives the welcome message and thanked the young leaders present for their active participation in all of the province's undertakings and urged them to continue being helpful and active.

“When I became governor in 2007 my first priority also is education, alam ko kung gaano kahalaga ang maging edukado at edukada,” said Gov. Uy.

He added that “I am inviting our speaker because he is one of those who responded to us during Typhoon Pablo. We have the same advocacy to prioritize education.” The governor also expressed his deepest thanks for giving him the “opportunity to help and serve you.”

Congressman Gatchallian in his message, shared that he feels happy and excited for it is his first time to be in ComVal. He urged ComVal youth to get involved in activities for sports and community development being the chairman of Youth and Sports in Congress.

“Wag po kayong matatakot na tuparin ang iyong mga pangarap especially on sports dahil kayong mga kabataan ay may malaking halaga sa ating bayan,”  Gatchalian said.

He also stressed out that his brother is the author of the House bill no. 5905 or the “Free Higher Education Act”. “If we can make free for our High School and Elementary, gawin na po nating libre ang ating kolehiyo.”

Meanwhile, Ma. Lourdes Eudela- SSEYAP Facilitator gives inputs on the youth leadership in disaster preparedness and risk reduction through a power point presentation and discussion.

The Summer Fun sa Bulawan (Youth day) is an annual event for youth leaders coming from the different youth organizations in the province to honor them for their active involvement in community development. These are the Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP), Prov'l Youth Development Council (PYDC), Comval Scholarship Program (CVSP)/SPES, and other youth groups. (Rey M. Antibo, PGO-IDS Comval)

 

 

Bulawan fest 2016: drumbeats “Kasikas sa Kapitolyo”  

 

Compostela Valley Province  -  Kiss the sun rays, hear the loud noise of percussions and sway with the rhythm as the 9^thBulawan Festival features “Kasikas sa Kapitolyo” 2016 at the Provincial Capitol, Cabidianan, Compostela Valley on March 6, 2016.

Kasikas sa Kapitolyo is a Drum and Bugle Competition of public and private elementary schools and high schools within Compostela Valley Province.

Prior to the competition, Miss Josie T. Bolofer, Officer-in-Charge, Assistant School Division Superintendent, ComVal shared a quote from Howard Cosell, “The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.” And added, “Let us all remember this, because this competition is not a competition against each other.” This reminds the participants about core value of competition and winning it.

 

There are seven (7) competing entries for both Elementary and High School categories. Among the 7 competitors in Elementary, Mawab Central Elementary School bagged the first place. Cabinuangan Central Elementary School of New Bataan got the second place. And, third place went to Langtud Elementary School of Laak.

 

In addition, this year’s Kasikas sa Kapitolyo adds enthusiasm with special awards. For elementary, Best production design goes to Cabinuangan Central Elementary School; Best Majorettes to New Sibonga Elementary School of Nabunturan; Best in synchronization music & choreography goes to Mawab Central Elementary School, and; Best Band Major to Monkayo Central Elementary School.

         

On the other hand, the fiery red costumes of the Municipality of Nabunturan represented by Manat National High School made their way to earn the first place. Second place is Monkayo National High School and Assumption of Academy of the municipality of Compostela in the 3^rd place.

 

Whereas, in High School category, Manat National High School garnered the Best production design and Best in synchronization, music & choreography. Best Majorettes goes to Assumption Academy of Compostela and Best Band Major to New Bataan National High school.

 

Meanwhile, cash prizes for the first place is Php 50,000.00, second prize is Php. 40,000.00 and third is Php. 30,000.00. While, special awards for the Best production design (uniform, props, color, costume) is Php.10,000.00; Best Majorettes is Php. 5,000.00; Best in synchronization, music & choreography (Garnered the maximum total points for the criteria: On quality of music and mastery of piece) is Php. 7,000.00; Best Band Major (pupil) is 3,000.00. All these are given with plaque. Also, other competing entries receive Php. 15,000.00 as consolation prizes.

 

All awards and plaques are given by Bulawan Festival Action Officer Senior Board Member Jayvee Tyron Uy together with OIC-PHO Dr. Mary Cyrel Pasaol and the working committee.(Honeylyn T Sayson, ids comval)

 

 

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Elementary and secondary students vie it out in the “Kasikas sa Kapitolyo” 2016 drum and bugle competition in the continuation of the 9^th Bulawan Festival of Comval on March 6, 2016. (a. dayao/ids comval)

 

 

It’s the Compostela youth who won the Caribbean dance-inspired contest during the Youth day of the 9^th Bulawan festival of ComVal on March 5, 2016. (a. dayao, m. lasaca/ids comval)

 

"TINDOG COMVAL! WALANG IWANAN!"

Young Filipino Designers Show Audacity at London Fashion Showcase 2016

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THIAN Rodriguez’s leather strips with grommets made of bullets

Four young designers were selected by the Philippines’ Center for International Trade Expositions Missions (Citem) to represent the Philippines’ next-generation creative force in the London Fashion Showcase.

The 2016 edition of International Fashion Showcase (IFS) opened Feb. 18 at the British capital’s stately Somerset House.

It challenged all participants to think through the lens of utopia, in the spirit of the London-wide celebration of the 500th anniversary of the book of this title by Sir Thomas More.

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Citem took up the challenge of presenting a fashion exhibition following this brief, by its careful selection of four young designers of noteworthy skill, and putting them under the guidance of veteran curators.

The designers work in footwear, jewelry and clothing.

They are Maco Custodio, whose family owns the footwear concern he is innovating on; second-generation jeweler Micki Olaguer; and self-taught, street-smart clothing designers Jarred Servando and Thian Rodriguez.

Each commands material and process with knowledge beyond their youthful years. And, as a group, they are, in the view of Citem, vital signs of a burgeoning fashion scene addressing young clients with a taste for the audacious statement.

Shoemaker

Challenged to think of the defeats, successes and other U-turns of utopian longing in the Philippines, Custodio thought to work with ideas of refiguring bodies torn asunder. As a footwear designer and manufacturer, after all, Custodio is familiar with leather—that is to say, skin and its reconstruction.

For IFS 2016, he took waste tetrabrick packaging, made them into bands for suturing excellent but waste (off-cuts of) leather, and thus fashioned shoes that elegantly summarize dismemberment and refiguration.

During his experimentation, Custodio extended this idea of reconnecting body parts in shoes by molding a latex nose off a dearly departed dog and incorporating the member in an act of literal re-membering.

That he can throw himself at such edgy projects is, to the exhibit curators, wholly supported by his consummate skill as a bespoke shoemaker.

Abaca

Servando chose to take up the material ubiquitous in his southern Philippine home province: the bast fiber abacá [Musa textilis Neé].

The toughest fiber in the world—used historically for ship cable through centuries of global maritime trade, and culturally for some of the finest ikat-dyed textiles in the world—is the material Servando wholly owns by sheer pluck at hand-wrangling it to conform to his ideas of glamour.

In his hands, the fiber retains its tough look without detracting from wearability and statement-making. Too, the fiber yields to his authority, as Servando yields to its natural tendencies to be stiff and prickly.

In homing in, so to speak, on this material, the beautifully tattooed Servando takes the stiff and prickly bits of homeland history and culture, and wrested wild beauty out of them.

Rodriguez was drawn into discussions during the predesign workshops led by the curators, particularly concerning the transformability of brass from ammunition to music-making gongs.

These kinds of pendulum swings between aggression and seduction captivated him, and directed him to leather design with metal grommets and bullet finials.

His mastery of enwrapping the human body in outlines that cling, served him thoroughly in his IFS-occasioned adventure into utopia/dystopia.

His IFS presentation, informed by evocations of pierced skin, plunged him into unfamiliar intellectual territory that he resolved ably with sheer craftsmanship.

Olaguer was led by the workshops into considering the utopian and dystopian stories in which gold and silver mining is embedded.

She detoured into dystopic mining practices that involve nefarious use of labor, and decided to juxtapose mother-of-pearl with silver in her IFS exhibit.

Mother-of-pearl has no known underside, indeed is a material that demands an absolutely pristine marine environment to prosper. Olaguer’s juxtaposition of the evocative mining panning pan shape and silver, with the “calming” mother-of-pearl became her resolution to the contradictions—rich in creative ideas—between utopia and dystopia.

The designers proved unafraid of difficult terrain in design. They were teased out of their youthful comfort zones by curators who for decades have regularly inhabited knife’s edge domains, and these youth learned quickly to walk that knife’s edge and come out on the other side with gritty, well-crafted fashion.

Citem’s choice of curators for IFS London 2016 is hence strategically vital: The choice meant that two generations are brought together in one exhibit. That older generation came out of avant-gardes in conceptual art and critical theory, and the young generation comes out of an emergent Philippine prosperity that nevertheless maintains an intimate knowledge of catastrophe.

Curators of IFS 2016 are the founders of Tao Inc, a museum and exhibition development corporation, this writer (the institutional critic and curator);  and its adjunct curator Judy Freya Sibayan, academic and pioneering performance, installation and conceptual artist.

They worked on this project with the Philippines’ veteran culture and arts manager Glenda Puyat. The exhibit is provided with a Manila soundscape constructed as a score by Tao Inc adjunct curator, the public art coordinator Adrian Jones.

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Festival Extravaganza Tops First Night of Comval Bulawan Fest

Festival extravaganza tops 1^st night of Comval Bulawan fest  

 

Nabunturan, Compostela Valley Province-- For several hours, the viewers are treated in a night of spectacular show of fun and revelry. A blast of exciting sights and sounds permeating Compostela Valley’s provincial capitol grounds as the teachers show off their talents right on the first night of the 9^th Bulawan Festival on March 3, 2016.

 

It was not only the “DepEd goes Festivals of the World” but they brought the audiences to every corner of the world reliving the famous festivals from different countries. Mabini featured the festival of Bahamas, Nabunturan with Hawaii/Tahiti, Pantukan with Venezuela, New Bataan with Thailand, Maragusan’s Mexico festival rendition, Compostela’s Trinidad and Tobago, Maco’s Argentina, and Mawab’s festival of India rendition.

 

Laak teachers won the judges’ overall nod with their performance of Brazil festival with their choreography, execution, showmanship, as well as appearance and style. Their Carnival de Brazil concept and predominantly Samba dance steps made them the grand prize winner of P60,000. The teachers of Montevista comes in second with their Baranquilla festival rendition,Colombia’s most important folklore celebration and is one of the biggest carnival in the world as per Wikipedia. They won P40,000 cash prize.

 

Meanwhile, Monkayo teachers dazzled the crowd with their Chinese festival featuring Lantern and Dragon festivals, among others, and landed 3^rd place bringing home P25,000 cash prize. The rest of the entries won P15,000 as consolation  prizes.

 

Representing DepEd Reg. Dir. Alberto Escobarte, Ms. Jeselyn Dela Cuesta expressed their thanks to the provincial government saying this is the most opportune time that the teachers can showcase their talents aside from the usual work they do in school.

 

Last year’s Bulawan festival featured teachers performing Musical Broadway shows. (fe maestre/ids comval)

 

 

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It is a night of spectacular show of fun and revelry as the teachers show off their talents right on the first night of Comval’s 9^th Bulawan Festival on March 3, 2016 with the “DepEd goes Festivals of the World.” (m. lasaca/ids comval)

Duterte-Cayetano Excites Vigan and Vows to end Disorder by Addressing High Price Wages

PRESS RELEASE 3 March 2016 Duterte-Cayetano excites Vigan, Vows to end disorder by addressing high prices and low wages   The tandem of presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte and his running mate, Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano, today went to Vigan City, Ilocos Sur as part of their"Ronda Serye" listening tour.    The duo talked to ordinary citizens, particularly food vendors in Plaza Burgos, Vigan. The vendors cited high prices and the lack of meaningful livelihood programs as some of the issues that add to the disorder and misery in their daily lives. As a response, Duterte and Cayetano pushed for the creation of a Department of Culture and National Heritage, which will be responsible for the promotion and preservation of historical and heritage sites. The tandem explained that the department will help spur region-specific tourism in different provinces and create employment and other livelihood opportunities for ordinary people. "This is in line with our call for federalism. Through this, we will hit two birds with one stone. We will promote our tourism industry in the regions and end the country's disorder by addressing the livelihood needs of the people," Cayetano said. Cayetano explained that food vendors can double as tourist/history guides. He said that this will add to their daily earnings and improve their purchasing power amid the fluctuating prices of goods and services. The senator also cited his Presyo, Trabaho, Kita (PTK) program as another measure, which can give citizens ample opportunities to address problems on high prices of goods, lack of jobs, and low income. In Ilocos, 2,155 people from different sectors have benefitted from Cayetano's PTK program by providing easy access to capital with a flexible system of loan payment. "People need leaders with a clear vision, political will and strength of character to provide bold solutions to the people's daily woes like high prices and low wages. This is what Mayor Duterte and I offer in this election," he concluded. #

Henry Sy Still Philippines' Richest

By Iris Gonzales (The Philippine Star) 

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Mall and real estate magnate Henry Sy Sr., with a net worth of $12.9 billion, ranked 71st on the list while another taipan, 88-year-old John Gokongwei, was second richest in the Philippines, ranking 270th with a net worth of $5 billion. Philstar.com/File

MANILA, Philippines – Mall and real estate magnate Henry Sy Sr. is still the country’s richest man, leading 11 other Filipinos who made it to Forbes magazine’s 2016 annual billionaires list.

The list covered 1,810 billionaires around the world, down from a record 1,826 the previous year.

The 91-year-old Sy, with a net worth of $12.9 billion, ranked 71st on the list while another taipan, 88-year-old John Gokongwei, was second richest in the Philippines, ranking 270th with a net worth of $5 billion.

Airline and tobacco magnate Lucio Tan, 81, has a net worth of $4 billion. He came in third among the 11 Filipino billionaires and No. 380 on the annual Forbes list.

George Ty, 83, ranked 4th among Filipino billionaires and 421st on the list.

Three Filipinos, meanwhile, were tied at 569th place: 94-year-old construction mogul David Consunji, 63-year-old mall and property magnate Andrew Tan and 63-year-old fast food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. founder Tony Tan Caktiong, all with a net worth of $3 billion.

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Other Filipinos on the list are ports tycoon Enrique Razon Jr., 55, with a net worth of $2.4 billion and 722nd on the global list; retailer Lucio Co, 61, with a net worth of $1. 6 billion; and Robert Coyiuto Jr., 63, with a net worth of $1.6 billion. Co and Coyiuto share the 1,121st slot.

Mass housing tycoon and former senator Manuel Villar, 66, landed in the 1,367th spot, with a net worth of $1.3 billion.

The Filipino billionaires have a combined fortune of $42.75 billion or P2,021.65 trillion.

Worldwide, Microsoft-founder Bill Gates has remained the world’s richest person on Forbes 30th annual ranking of the world’s billionaires.

His net worth of $75 billion was lower than the $79.2 billion in 2015. He has consistently topped the list for 17 of the last 22 years.

Zara global fashion brand owner Amancio Ortega, meanwhile, emerged as the second richest person on the planet, moving up two notches as his net worth increased $2.5 billion for a total of $67 billion.

Tindog COMVAL! Walang Iwanan!

Comval Gov. Arturo Uy and COA Assistant Commissioner Arcadio B. Cuenco Jr. lead the Ceremonial Ground Breaking of the Commission on Audit office building located at the Comval capitol compound on February 23. (A.dayao, ids comval)

 

(Bulawan Festival)

Preparations for Bulawan festival. The provincial government of Compostela Valley is now all set for the celebration of its 18^thFounding Anniversary and 9^th Bulawan Festival on March 3 until March 8 of 2016. (r.renoblas/ids comval)

 

 

Duterte Camp Denies Hand in "Barring" Poe Rally in Davao City

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By: Nico Alconaba

Presidential candidates Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares chat during a break in the Presidential Debates 2016 held in Capitol University in Cagayan de Oro City.
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DAVAO CITY – For the camp of presidential aspirant and city mayor Rodrigo Duterte, political rival Grace Poe and her running mate Chiz Escudero have nothing to blame but their organizers for failing to secure a rally permit here.

Peter Laviña said the allegation that the senators’ camp was barred from conducting a rally in Davao City was “simply baseless if not ridiculous.”

“Their organizers are lazy. They did not do their job. That’s not our fault or the city government of Davao’s fault,” Laviña said in a statement.

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He said groups conducting rallies in Davao City’s public parks are required to pay only P150 for use of electricity. They are also required to coordinate with the Traffic Management Center and the Central 911 for standby emergency unit. The processing of permits is usually completed within a day.

“We learned that there was an application, but this application was not pursued. Hindi na bumalik ang nag-file. Tamad, napagod siguro o naghahanap ng rason. Kaninong kasalanan yan?” Laviña pointed out.

(We learned that there was an application, but this application was not pursued. The one who filed the application did not come back for it. Lazy, perhaps they got tired and looked for reasons [not to return]. Whose fault was that?)

He said it is not the nature and character of Duterte–or of Davao City for that matter–to curtail the freedom of groups and people to use public spaces.

“Davao City is known for its respect and tolerance to groups and people who want to exercise their freedom and use public spaces to protest and express grievances or political views or religious beliefs peacefully,” he said.

“It is unfortunate that the senator’s camp is twisting the facts, making it appear like a permit was not granted because of politics,” Laviña added. CDG

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Free from fault or stain?

SAT, FEBRUARY 27, 2016 BY THE MINDANAO DAILY MIRROR LEAVE A COMMENT

IN MY OPINION
Klaus Doring
At a younger age, one of my nieces here in the Philip-pines, when-ever she felt she was wronged, she cried out, “It isn’t fair!” Fair has many meanings, such as light-colored, not cloudy, hopeful, plausible, middling …. How about “fairly”? Justly, tolerably, wholly …

My niece’s father, whose patience was always exhausted responded grimly, “LIFE is NOT fair!” In my opinion, that is not really a satisfying answer.

Even adults often have troubles with the idea of fairness. The government body tasked to ensure fair competition, is investigating power firms as well as scrutinizing telecommunication services in a bid to protect consumers against monopolies, cartels and unfair trade practices. We all can very well experience the monopolies of electricity or telecommunication services…!

How about our work-place surroundings? How do we deal with our business partners?

Yes, even adults have troubles with fairness. The laborers in the vineyard certainly did. They received exactly what they had bargained for, yet they complained when others got the same pay for less work. If this parable were a story about earned wages, the grumblers would have been quite right to complain. But this story is about the way God deals with us, and how can we say that God is not fair?

Fairness requires people to be put into categories. Anyone who fulfills certain requirements will receive a certain reward – regardless of any differences in the situation. God knows that categories only outline the sort of people we are. He knows that each of us is unique. He gives each of us according to our individual needs.

In our everyday life, do we practice the idea of fairness in our work or in our dealings with others? How? Analyze yourself. You are the only one with our dear Lord above, who knows the right answer. May we learn what it means to be fair to one another.

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Duterte and Cayetano in Cebu City

Lapu-Lapu, Cebu (February 25) - Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano discuss their platform of government as workers at the Mactan Export Processing Zone Authority (MEPZA) listen intently. The tandem has been conducting their "Ronda-Serye" listening tour to present their bold solutions to restore order in people's lives, which include better working conditions, regular jobs, and living wages for ordinary workers.