Michael being laid to rest next to his younger brother, Vincent. Off camera, a Marine Officer reads a summation of Michael’s commendation and awards him the Purple Heart.
At St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Poway, California.
Marine Honor Guards perform a gun salute in honor of a comrade.
Are you hungry? According to Gloria, if you are in the Cordilleras (except Benguet) then you are. So she came up with this Accelerated Hunger Mitigating Program (AHMP) to feed those hungry people from the boondocks. Now they are giving smelly NFA rice to students in school. But truth be told, those rice are now being used as “megmeg” or chicken feed by some families we know.
Anyway the “feed the hungry” program of Gloria, the Patroness of Hungry People, does not seem to be sitting well with Cordillera officials. [Or maybe it’s not the program itself that is upsetting them but the fact that the Cordilleras is being branded as a hungry region.] Here’s what some of our officials said according to Sunstar Baguio:
Continue reading Those Hungry Hungry People
“This means that Kaelco (Kalinga-Apayao Electric Cooperative) lost 249,350.55 kilowatt/hour (kwh) to pilferers or roughly P1.9 million. The monthly subsidy should have been used to maintain power lines and electrify off-grid barangays.” — Kaelco Member Service Division Chief Cliford Alunday
Read the story at Sunstar Baguio.
So as we mentioned here, we will continue talking about key words that brought some visitors to this blog. This time however, instead of just two-three words, we have complete questions typed in by search engine users. We hope to answer these questions particularly those which we haven’t touched on in previous posts. Except for capitalizing the first letters and putting question marks at the end, we’re leaving the questions unedited.
1. “What does iddem dem malida mean?” Honestly, we also don’t know. We speculated here that maybe it is like “ay ay salidummay” which does not have a translation. Hopefully our Tingguian readers can help us if the words do have a meaning and can be translated to other languages. For those who missed our post about this, Iddemdem Malida is a Tingguian victory song. You can read the post and a video of the UP chorale group singing the song here.
The tragedy occurs when limited natural resources get depleted because individuals use them for their private interests and without regard for the common good. More about “tragedy of the commons” here.
The above image shows the situation of the Busol watershed. According to Art Tibaldo who sent us the photo, “If you are to count the pine and other trees in the map, I’m quite certain that their number is not more than the houses in Aurora Hill, Bayan Park, Marcoville and Trancoville combined.”
Continue reading Baguio-La Trinidad’s Tragedy of the Commons