NEWS: Street decors, lights, tallest Xmas tree, crackers, fireworks display in Tagum this Christmas,“For the children”- CO

nov 6

TAGUM – The city mayor here doesn’t hide his feelings and he says he would be fluttering a lot of Christmas colorful decors and lights in the streets this Yuletide Season- for the children to be happy.

Feared for his tough stance against criminals, City Mayor Rey Chiong Uy is laudably kindest for the children while he visibly wants to give a season’s best cheer to every Tagumenyo in the forthcoming days towards Christmas and New Year.

In yesterday’s phone interview with anchors of Sonshine Radio of the known Appointed Son God Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy, the mayor bared that aside from the decors, lights and the city’s feature of lighting a still tallest Christmas tree in Mindanao, the firecrackers that are banned in Davao City would continue exploding in his city in the Filipino’s traditional way of feeling the Christmas spirit and celebrating the Nativity.

And come December 31 at exactly 12:00 midnight the City Hall is enjoining everyone to meet the New Year just like last year with a wonderful fireworks display in the night sky which would be based at Briz highway, Uy said.

He told radio listeners that fireworks would still be sold at designated place at Rotary Park grounds.

When Tagum City was first dubbed in 2006 as Palm Tree City of the Philippines, by Christmas that year Uy in his first term after a comeback erected a stunning 153-feet Christmas tree with over 200,000 light bulbs.

As it became one gigantic attraction and spectacle in the city especially at night time, the City Hall held an unofficial record for having the tallest Christmas tree in the country. It was even claimed to be the highest in Southeast Asia. This year however the city’s Christmas tree is lower, equal to Puerto Princesa City’s 100 feet-tall Christmas tree in 2006.

Asked on the report that his son Councilor Di Karlo “Oyo” would be the next mayor in Tagum, he said that he has still one more term to serve in his political career.

As to his style of management, he said he doesn’t like sitting always in his office and prefers to go to the field. “Halos once or twice in a week, naa ko sa palengke nagsuroy-suroy,” he said.
He also said that while his city is experiencing unprecedented developments at present under his administration “nagkadaghan pod ang mga buloy… labad sa ulo.”

And as to Barack Obama, who was still leading in the US elections during the radio interview morning yesterday, he jokingly said that if America would have its first black President, then in that case the country has already “a Mandaya sitting in the White House.” (By 1 P.M. yesterday, the blacks, whites and browns were already jumping for joy over BBC and CNN for the historic victory of the 47-year old Obama as the 44th US President).(Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: Only P9 under flexi fare ordinance for tricycles

At P50 gas price

oct 8

TAGUM CITY- Under the newly proposed flexible fare ordinance, the motorcycle fare at the current gasoline prices above P50 per liter would only be P9 and not the present P10, which was effected just two weeks ago.

City legal officer Roland Tumanda said that under the proposed flexi fare ordinance the P9 fare would be effected if gasoline prices would range P50 to P59 per liter.

He said that the proposed flexi fare ordinance was come up and initiated by Mayor Rey Uy, whom he said has heard and felt of the widespread complaints of the riding public in the city after the delayed implementation of the latest fare increase ordinance.

Atty. Tumanda also said that under the proposed measure it will be already the City Tricycle Franchising and Regulatory Board (CTFRB) which he currently chairs which would adjust the tricycle fare from time to time depending on the current prices of gasoline, and thus tricycle fare adjustment would no longer need the lengthy cycle of  legislative process that reaches up the provincial level including public hearings.

On Monday session of the City Council, the new measure passed the first reading and was referred to the committees of laws and of public facilities.

Vice Mayor Allan Rellon said that today the committees will meet to tackle the executive-initiated measure.

Under the proposed ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Imposing the Regulation of Fare Rates of Motorized Tricycles for Hire (MTH) of the City of Tagum” fare rates would vary based on the set schedule.

If gasoline prices per liter (gpl) range P20 to 29.99 it will have P6 for regular fare and P4 for student or senior citizen; P30 to P39.99 gpl- P7 regular fare, P5 student/senior citizen; P40 to 49.99 gpl- P8 regular fare, P6 student/senior citizen; P50 to P59.99 gpl- P9 regular fare, P7 student/senior citizen; P60 to P69.99 gpl- P10 regular fare, P8 student/senior citizen; P70 to P79.99 gpl- P11 regular fare, P9 student/senior citizen; P80 to P89.99 gpl- P12 regular fare, P10 student/senior citizen; P90 to P99.99 gpl- P13 regular fare, P11 student/senior citizen; and P100 and above gpl- P14 regular fare, P12 student/senior citizen.

The fare rates are good for the first three kilometers of the Central District from where the passenger originated, and would have an additional of P1 for every kilometer or every fraction thereof. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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What about the keylogger?

BLOGISTA
By Cha Monforte

The keylogger is another application that cracks, captures or unlocks passwords of internet café users. A lot of online gamers among the youths already knew this cheat, which is another secret kept by unscrupulous internet café owners, technicians and assistants. Sources said that a lot of trial versions of various keyloggers can be downloaded from many websites.

Some keyloggers are not even visible in the program folders. They’re so perfectly made to hide it from the other users except the one who installed it or the administrator. So with various remote access applications that have cracked wide open the private fetish activities of the pitiful UM-Tagum coed.

As of now, we are still waiting to hear of the veracity of the report that Baby has tried or committed suicide. Wag lang sana. But we’re hoping Mayor Rey Uy, who is now investigating which among the internet cafés in the city has condemned the life and future of Baby, can catch and pin down the culprit.

Whoever had recorded the Tagum sex video scandal must be pursued. He can run but he can never hide. As they say, way makumkom nga aso. If not this immediate, later he or she would be uncovered and captured by the long arms of the law. Only the truth can set us free.

The other news is that the Internet Café Advisory Board (ICAB), an interagency advisory body created by the enactment of the city’s ordinance regulating operations of internet café owners met the other day upon the directive the mayor, and the co-chair Vice Mayor Allan Rellon relayed to us their recommendation of requiring internet café watchers or attendants to undergo an ICAB seminar and secure occupational permit from the City Hall.Certainly, the measure is good as it now documents who are the internet attendants who could have a bad egg who stain their lot. Pity on them- they are mostly working students and informal workers receiving below the standard wages. But unscrupulous IC owners too are also suspects to this sorry affair.

The city’s IT people may have failed to advise the ICAB based on their expertise on the deeper issues on remote access espying made from an owner’s server computer to the ones used by the paying chatters, gamers and users. Forget first now the issue on semi-closed cubicles inside internet cafes and the one about the adjoining or neighboring internet café and girlie videoke bars in the city.

In Davao City, the webcams are placed fixed atop the monitor or CPU. It’s bawal to place it near or so that it could be focused to sensitive parts of the body. That the semi-enclosed cubicle fixture- although it gives privacy- is also being used a little hiding place among the horny money-makers like the Western Union girls who do sudden bra-flipping for money. When we abolish that fixture we are giving meat and not the flesh to the campaign on No to Pornography!

The use of keylogger and remote access applications is a violation to the provision against hacking. Baby was evidently hacked, although webwhoring is also a violation. But I still don’t condemn Baby’s act. All of the horny foreigner chatters, I repeat the horny ones, are online manipulators, deceivers and cheats wanting to pull a fast one from among our chatting women for pleasure. Maybe Baby was just cajoled, sweet-talked by her foreigner chat boyfriend with promise of sending her so much money. Look, the usual horny foreigners are playing around again with our vulnerability out from our usual poverty. And now the irresponsible brown techies – those who know about the high-tech nitty-gritty operations and programs of the computer- are also horseying around their skills by hacking Baby’s various acts.

There are more IT-innocent Babys in our midst. We pray there would be no more Babys from Tagum City and elsewhere who would be victimized by the unscrupulous techies inside the internet cafes.

The best lesson learned from this Tagum sex video scandal is to never bare at all.

But to the stoppable chatting ladies around wanting to have a new lease of their poor, battered lives by chatting in search for foreigner husbands, they better get a Smartbro (sorry I’m no Smart rep) and chat all the way inside their closed private rooms.

The infidel wives might have already killed their still living husbands, or declared they’ve been separated for so many times while the truth is it is not. But if they don’t want a Smartbro inside their master bedrooms for fear of being caught by their husbands, and they may chat outside, but for heaven’s sake they should not bare inside internet cafes as they might end up as hot mamas involved in another sex scandal. Forgive the sexist pun though as it has been really real these Internet days.(For online edition, visit my blog at: http://cha4t.wordpress.com

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