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4HeadlineGitnang LuzonOCTOBER 11-13, 2013EDITORIALTulong ‘GapoOlongapo City, after being hit by the worstflooding in history, is once again faced bya problem that would test its people andgovernment. This is the outbreak of leptospirosis,which has claimed several livesand placed hundreds in hospital severaldays after the floods receded.As of yesterday, the death toll due to thedisease has climbed to eight while closeto 300 confirmed cases of the infectionhave been reported.Due to the volume of patients taken tohospitals, medical wards no longer havevacant places to accommodate morepeople diagnosed with leptospirosis.Olongapo City Mayor Rolen Paulino hadalready requested assistance from thePhilippine Red Cross, headed by formersenator Richard Gordon, which alreadysent beds, volunteers and ambulances tohelp them in the situation.Paulino, in his Facebook page, appealedto residents that if they suffer any of thesymptoms of the dreaded leptospirosis,they should get in touch with their respectivehealth center or go straight to the hospitalfor proper medication and care.The city health officer is now monitoringthe situation in barangay levels and handingout information materials and medicinein case they diagnose anyone withleptospirosis.This outbreak has pushed back, againstthe wall, the city which was hoping tobounce back from the flooding and landslidesthat also claimed several lives just acouple of weeks ago.The city was not prepared to encountersuch an outbreak--with hundreds beinghospitalized--as it was not prepared toface flooding which, before this one, wasnot in the vocabulary of Olongapo residents.With these incidents, from the flooding tothe outbreak, Olongapo residents and officialsshould include safety plans for possibleannual floods and cleansing of theareas to ward away the disease.Just as how it bounced back after Americanbases pulled out from the country,Olongapo can also bounce back from thisdisaster, but preferably, with the support ofthe national government.HEADLINE Gitnang Luzon is a Daily Regional NewspaperGeneral Manager: Atty. Gerome n. TubigAsst. Manager: atty. rOWENA S. CUNANAN-MUNDOEditor-in-Chief: albert lacanlaleLayout Artist: JP ManalangPhotojournalist: Leo villacarlosReporters: CHARLENE CAYABYAB /MARNA D. DEL ROSARIOAdministrative Staff: sherylin l. riveraMarketing Head: ELAINE MAPILESMarketing/Circulation: Marlo francoAccount Executive: caren m. garcia/JOAN d. montemayorPublisher: I.N.I. NewspaperEmail: headlinegitnangluzon@gmail.comWebsite: www.headlinegl.comDISCLAIMER: Views expressed by columnists are theirown and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position ofHEADLINE Gitnang Luzon or its internet website: www.headlinegl.com. Thepublisher does not knowingly publish false information and may not be heldliable for the views of its columnists exercising their right to free expression.All rights reserved. Subject to the conditions provided for by law, no article orphotograph published by HEADLINE GITNANG LUZON may be reprinted orreproduced, in whole or in part, without its prior consent.Office Address: 2nd Floor, U2 Building, MacArthurHighway, Dolores, City of San Fernando, Pampanga, 2000Tel. Nos. (045) 435-0938“Pambihira itong si kaibigangLydon na pito lang sukat angkandidato sa pagka-kagawad,pero mahigit sa isang dosena angsumama sa kaniyang tiket. ”One for the books. Puwede saGuiness Book of World Records!Iyan si Mabalacat City Mayor Marino“Boking” Morales.Nag-umpisa sa politika si Pareng Bokingbilang hirang na konsehal pagkataposng EDSA revolution noong 1986. Saunang pagtakbo niya bilang mayor, siya’ysinamang palad. Sinubukang muli at kumandidatosa pagka-mayor sa halalannoong 1995 at siya ay nagwagi. At mulanoon, mapa-hanggang ngayon, siya parin ang alkalde. Siya ang huling alkaldeng bayan at unang mayor ng lungsod ngMabalacat.Sa ganang kaniya, bilang first citymayor, mayroon pa siyang dalawang terminoat ito ay kung magkakaroon ng reconfigurationsa teritoryo ng Mabalacat.Madali na niyang hanapan ng paraaniyon, sabi ng mga tong malapit sa kaniya.***Namamayagpag ang mga Morales sapulitika sa Mabalacat. Ang anak na siIn a quick talk with Pampanga GovernorLilia Pineda at the Capitol lastTuesday just after a session with representativesof fishpond owners and operators,she was able to express her desire tosetup a more effective system of accreditingand granting clearancesand endorsementsto cooperatives and nongovernmentorganizationsin the province. She wasapparently reacting to reportsthat farmers’ organizationswere not only usedas fronts for rice smugglingbut were also used,and even faked, in siphoningpork barrel money intothe pockets of the corrupt.Sometime last year, thegovernment seized some200 million pesos worthof undocumented rice imports aboard aVietnamese vessel that arrived in LegazpiPayo ni Nanay BabyDwight ay isang konsehal. Ang anak nasi Atlas ay barangay captain ng Dau,isang oversized barangay. Ang anak niyangbabae na si Marjorie ay kandidatobilang kapitan sa barangay Duquit. ‘Pagnasungkit niya ito, malamang siya angmaihalal na pangulo ngAssociation of BarangayCaptains (ABC), atmagiging kagawad ngkonseho. Maramingtagapagmana sa koronani Pareng Boking.***Ang panawagan niGovernor Lilia “Nanay”Pineda sa mga kandidatosa halalang pam-barangayay ang pagiging maginooat mahinahon sa kanilangpulong at iwasanang paninira at bagkusang mga plataporma ang ilatag. Pakinggansi Nanay. Payo niya ay mabuti.***Isang kaibigan si Luis “Lydon” DeLuna ng Barangay Pampang sa LungsodAngeles. Kandidato siya sa pagkakapitansa nasabing pook, at hindimasasayang ang boto sa kaniya dahilnapaka-ganda at komprehensibo ngkaniyang mga programa.Coopting coops and NGOsgut feelLeny Manalotoda maxMax SangilCity and another larger shipment worth450 million pesos seized at the Subic BayFreeport. In the investigations that followed,names of farmers’ organizationsand cooperatives were implicated. Thegranting of rice import quota to farmers’cooperatives had the good intentionof providing additional incometo rice farmers in situations where“What must be added also is a supportsystem of services that can provide legitimateNGOs with better fighting chanceagainst the bogus ones that are proppedup by well-financed technical staff.”Isa sa magandang advocacy niya ayyaong tamang paggastos ng pera ng barangay,at may patutsada siyang hindi“sukat mapunta sa bulsa ng kanino lamang.”Tunay na serbisyo, tapat at maka-taona paglilingkod, ani kaibigangLydon, na isa mga pinaka- masipagna taong nakilala ko.Kasama sa Lydon Team siDyango, Rey David, Rey Garcia,BM, Dan, Cito, Baka, JR,Gay, Kika, Doro, Boyet, Nengat Dong. Kahit walang apelyidoang mga ilan, sila ay maskilala sa pook nila sa kanilangunang katawagan.***Pambihira itong si kaibigangLydon na pito langsukat ang kandidato sa pagka-kagawad,pero mahigit saisang dosena ang sumama sakaniyang tiket. Nagiging masaya anghalalan pam-barangay, hindi katuladnoong naunang panahon. Malaki narin ang gastusin sa pagkakandidato.At, tulad ng hiling ni Nanay Baby, sanaang lahat ay magiging mahinahon atirespeto ang kapuwa kandidato, napagkatapos ng halalan ay walang nasirangreputasyon sa pamilya at lahatay mananatiling magka-kaibigan parin. •importation was needed to fill thegap in the required rice reserve andto stabilize rice prices.A posted newspaper report said thatonly 12 cooperatives in 2011 were authorizedto import rice which, according toformer NFA Administrator Lito Banayo,still constituted a very manageable numberto monitor. Against Banayo’s advice,the number of cooperatives that weregiven rice quota was increased to 109 inMay 2012 by the NFA Council led by AgricultureSecretary Proceso Alcala andother representatives from the financialsector, including thefinance and tradeand industry departments.Whilethe governmentclaimed huge profitsfrom the resultingrice importationsthe practice inadvertentlyspawnedmore opportunities for smuggling usingfarmers’ cooperatives as fronts. There wasapparent failure in the screening of quotarecipients and lack of efficient monitoringGUT FEEL... Page 8
HeadlineGitnang LuzonOCTOBER 11-13, 20135Last Monday, Benjamin Valbuena,the chairman of theAlliance of Concerned Teachers(ACT), expressed his advice toCommission on Elections (Comelec)Chairman Sixto Brillantes tolook for other personnel to serve inthe upcoming barangayelections this coming October28.***Valbuena expressedthat public school teachersare set to boycott thepolls due to low honorariabeing paid to their rankswho serve the elections.Teachers would refuse tosign their appointmentsfor them to serve in theBoard of Election Tellersthat will be issued by theComelec.***He likewise expressedoptimism that teacherscannot face any sanctionshould they defy doinga state duty as long as they donot sign an appointment from theComelec. Teachers have been renderingelection duties since timeimmemorial, risking lives andlimbs in some areas where election-relatedviolence are prevalent.***This month’s election will beconducted with manual voting andcounting thus, it will be a tediousactivity for our teachers who willgo to polling places very early, prepareelection paraphernalia andKayo ba ay nagpaplano parasa pagbuo ng pamilya? Higitba sa dalawa ang bilangng inyong mga anak? Alam niyoba na may kahalagahan rin angpagkakasunod o ang birth orderng inyong mga anak kaugnay saemosyon at personalidad ng mgabata?Sa larangan ng medisina, maynapapagusapannakakaibangestado nat i n a t a w a gna “MiddleChildSyndrome,”kung saanipinapaliwanagkung paano nakaka-apektoang birth order sa aspeto ng buhayng isang bata. Marahil parasa mga magulang na may gitnanganak, napapansin nila ang ilangmga kakaibang pag-uugali ng kanilangmga anak.Iba-iba ang kaso at mga karanasanng mga gitnang anak ngunitmaraming bilang rin sa mga itoang kadalasang nakararamdam ngparang napapabayaan o kulang sapansin at tila pakiramdam nila ayhindi sila nabibigyan ng atensyonkumpara sa panganay o sa bunso.Kung minsan, mas napupurihanng magulang ang mga achievementsng panganay at mga firstaccomplishments ng bunso. Maymga pag-aaral na ang mga middlechildren daw ay may mataasna posibilidad na magkaroon ngA reason to declineiWritetomas m. garciawon’t go home until the countingand proclamation of winners havebeen done.***ACT has asked the Comelec topay each teachers serving the electionsat least P4,000, equal to thepay they receivedduring the nationalelections last May ofthis year. The electionthen was conductedwith the use of machinesand didn’t requiremuch physicaleffort for the teachers.“No doubt thattheir profession ismore of a vocationrather thana mere source ofmeager income. ”***We cannot blameour public schoolteachers should theyrefuse to do a stateduty since they arecompensated waybelow to what theyshould be. Accordingto Valbuena, they arenot asking too muchbut only to what iscommensurate to theefforts teachers exert including therisks they have to take for someareas considered as “areas of concern”.***Valbuena, meanwhile, earnedthe support of Teachers PartyListRep. Antonio Tinio in his call tothe national poll body. Rep. Tiniorecognized the problems and concernsof teachers serving in thepolls like some teachers who getimplicated in legal tussles. Somecandidates who lost in electionsresort to court actions.Sa loob ng isipan ng gitnang anakdepresyon kumpara sa mga nakakatandangkapatid. Madalas nabinabanggit ng mga batang maymiddle child syndrome na angpanganay ang nakakakuha ng attentionat ang bunso naman angnakakatanggapng pag-aaruga ngmagulang. Kayaang ibang middle“Siguraduhin na ang family photoalbum ay naglalaman ng mgaphotos kung saan nailalarawanang pagmamahal sa mga anakkabilang ang middle child. ”children’shealthMichelle M.Pelayo, M.D.child, nagigingrebelde at nagiging mas independentsa mga magkakapatid.Sa kabila nito, may mga kontingexceptions sa epekto ng pagigingmiddle child. Una rito angkasarian ng anak. Kung ang gitnanganak ay iba ang kasariansa panganay o bunsong kapatid,hindi masyadong nakaka-apektoang middle child syndrome. Maypagkakaiba kasi ang aktibidad,karakter at kagustuhan ng magkaibangkasarian sa magkakapatid.Isa pang exception sa epektong middle child syndrome ay kungmay kapansanan ang gitnanganak dahil binibigyan ito ng ibangklasing pagtrato at atensyon.Sa buhay ng isang gitnang anak,karaniwan ang may kuya o ate naresponsable, maabilidad ngunit***Speaking of Rep. Tinio, he earlierfiled a bill that seeks to increasethe salaries of teachers. This mightbe long overdue as teachers are oneof the overworked but undercompensatedwork forces in our country.No doubt that their professionis more of a vocation rather than amere source of meager income.***In a related development onthe upcoming elections, posters,streamers and tarpaulin materialsare mushrooming these days despitethe fact that the official campaignperiod is yet to commenceon October 18.***Election season is also tarpaulinseason. Environmentalist groupsappeal to politicians that they beresponsible enough in postingtheir various campaign materials.They are not only eyesores but alsocontribute a lot to the trash in oursurroundings.***Some tarpaulin posters are quitefunny. Politicians use their creativeminds in wooing the attention ofthe electorates. They are like commoditiesbeing presented to theconsuming public as necessities.***For other opinions, comments,suggestions or adverse reactions,you may reach iWrite at 0919-5107665. ●bossy. Dahil dito, naghahanapsiya ng pamamaraan kung paanomaging bida sa pamilya.Ano ang maaring gawin ngmagulang na may gitnang anakupang maiwasan ang epekto ngmiddle child syndrome?• Tratuhin ang lahat ng mgaanak ng pantay-pantay. Maymga magulang at ekspertoang nagsasabing hindi totooang middle child syndromeat ito’y resulta lamang dahilsa kakulangan ng magulang.Kung totoo man ito o hindi,mainam pa rin na i-divideang attention at pagmamahalng pantay-pantay sa mgaanak. Mayroong unique nacharacter ang bawat anak athindi pare-pareho ang kagustuhanat importanteng malamanito ng magulang.• Tiyakin na involve ang sarili sabuhay ng inyong mga anak lalo nasa middle child. Maaaring hindimaintindihan ang passion sa buhayng anak kaya gumawa ng effortupang “ma-gets” ang mgakabataan. Mahalaga para sa mgagitnang anak ang makaranas ngacceptance mula sa magulang.Kung nagkamali o nagkasala anggitnang anak, kailangang maemphasizena siya ay napagalitanhindi dahil sa mga kapatid kundisa paraan ng pagkakamali at hindinakatuon sa mismong pagkatao.• Magbigay ng espesyal na oraspara sa kanila. May mga middlechildren na kung minsan ay gina-CHILDREN’S HEALTH... Page 9Finding spiritualityin suffering(First of two parts)Idecided to write about this subject because I wantedto read about it myself. Hindi ko ito kapritso lamang.Iti metung yang masampat a nasa cu.***Everybody suffers in life. We all know what it’s likeeither to be depressingly sick ourselves or to have someonewe love die or to lose everything we’ve worked forovernight (the Pampangueños most especially are verymuch affiliated to this feeling).We all know periods of realstress. But though everyonesuffers, not everyone has a lifeof suffering. Juan dela Cruzdid…and still does.***We humans do not adjust tosuffering automatically, likewe adjust to breathing. Thereis a process involved in sufferingthat leads to liberation, andsometimes the process could betedious and trying.Suffering is simply one morestage of life that depends moreon how we handle it than it doeson the circumstances themselves.Suffering is what we nameit. Suffering is what we are calledto transform into a new life…intoa new people. Suffering leads usto be another part of ourselves,but only if we know how to handlesuffering.Towardsthe LightABEL SOTO“We humansdo not adjustto sufferingautomatically,like we adjust tobreathing.”***Baquet atyu ya ing Dios quing casaquitan? Pauli napin ning dimut ngan mu ing nanu pa mang atyu carinquing panaun ning caquitan. Malanyong pamaquirameing babie da ring caluguran, e na ca tamusicasu ning sistema, ring miyayaliuang grupu susulungla mu cabud a alang direcsiun ampon e la man interesaducaring mangalati tamung casaquitan. Bucudmung quing Dios carin tamu macalapit ban aquit tayaing mas maleparan a paglalaue, ing uagas nang layunning casaquitan. Ing casaquitan lulubasa’na ca tamuangga quing quecatamung calalaman ampon caringqeucatamung pamag-compiansa, ampon gagabaca’noring mangatbud a lambat a panaligan tamu—amponlalacua’na ca tamung lubas.Atin yang parating tuturu quecatamu ing casaquitan.At iti ya pin ing pamanamin tamu a atin tamungdapat abalu careting casaquitan ban e tamu tutucnangdaragul anting tau.***Ang problema sa pagdurusa at mga paghihirapay inilulugmok tayo ng mga ito sa kaibuturan ng atingmga sarili. At isa itong madilim at malungkot napaglalakbay. Hinihingi sa atin ng ating mga paghihirapat mga pagdurusa sa buhay na bitawan ang lahat nasinandigan natin bilang ating mga proteksyon mula sakagaspangan ng buhay. Inaalis nito ang mga tinatawagnating mga “security blankets” at itinatapon ulit tayo saating mga kani-kaniyang mga kayamanan, na madalasnating hindi napalalago, o ni hindi man natin alamna mayroon tayo ng mga ito bago pa dumating angmga panahon ng ating mga pagdurusa at mga paghihirap.Kung kaya’t labis ang ating nagiging pagtangis.Nalulugmok tayo sa kumunoy ng pagka-awa sa atingmga sarili. Pumapalag tayo at tinutulan nating ang mgamga pagkatuto na iniaalok ng pagkakataon. Ginagawanatin halos ang lahat upang iwasan ang mga hindi maiiwasan.Ngunit kung may sapat na pananampalatayalamang tayo para sa paglalakbay, masusumpong pa rintayo sa mga sangkap ng ating mga hilaw na sarili. Ito ayisang paglalakbay na bawat isa sa atin ay sinusuong namag-isa. Maging anoman ang taliwas o kaibang inasahannatin na masumpungan.***Indeed, suffering exposes us to ourselves…as individuals,as a community, as a nation.We must learn to listen to, hold, and support othersfor their empowerment and ours. This is what our Presidentshould learn to plant in his heart.But we Filipinos are always deep into transition fromTOWARDS THE LIGHT... Page 9
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