by admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, September 14 (PIA)–Gitinguha ang pagdili na sa hingpit sa tanang dapit sa Visayas sa paggamit sa mga liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-refilled butane canister.
Matud pa ni Department of Energy (DOE) Visayas Director Antonio Labios, hingpit gyud nga gidili ang paggamit sa LPG-refilled butane canister tungod kay naghatag kini og kakuyaw sa sunog gumikan kay dili na man masubay ang standard nga gikinahanglan alang sa luwas nga paggamit niini.
Si Labios nitumbok sa kabalaka sa kaluwasan kalabot sa baratong kantidad sa pagpa-refill sa LPG canister taliwala sa pagdagsang sa mga ilegal o backyard refilling sa LPG o butane canisters.
Ang pagpa-refill sa butane canisters nagkantidad lamang gikan P8.50 ngadto sa P12.00 kun itandi sa pagpalit og LPG nga nagkantidad og kapin P200 alang sa 2.5 kilograms ngadto sa P600 alang sa 11 kilograms.
Gibutyag ni Labios nga nidagsang ang LPG-refilled canisters sa Mindanao ug Cebu ug nagsugod na karon og tubo sa Negros Oriental ug Leyte.
Ang DOE-Visayas nakatala na og tulo ka pagbuto tungod sa paggamit sa LPG-refilled butane canisters sa Cebu apan wala hinuo’y natala nga na-angol sa maong pagbuto.
Gipalig-on na karon sa DOE-Visayas ang pag-monitor sa mga ilegal o backyard refilling sa LPG sa tibuok rehiyon apan matud pa ni Labios nga limitado lamang ang ilang aksiyon tungod sa kakulang sa manpower diin may 6 lamang ka inspectors alang sa tibuok rehiyon.
Ubos sa Presidential Decree 1865, ilegal ang pagnegosyo, pagbaligya, pag-distribute o paghakot sa LPG-refilled canisters ug kadtong mapamatud-ang molapas niini pahamtangan og duha hangtud sa lima ka tuig nga pagkabilanggo ug multa nga nagkantidad og P20,000 taman P50,000. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, September 13 (PIA)–Gitataw sa Malakanyang nga walay gihatag nga go signal si Presidente Rodrigo Duterte kang Indonesian President Joko Widodo nga ipadayon na ang firing squad kang Mary Jane Veloso
Kahinumdoman nga si Veloso napahamtangan og silot nga kamatayon sa Indonesia human siya masakpi nga nagpayuhot og 2.6 kilo sa heroin niadtong 2010.
Matud pa ni Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella, walay gihimong pahayag ang presidente sa dihang nipahigayon kini og working visit sa Indonesia niadtong niaging semana.
Pasabot pa ni Abella, miingon lamang si Presidente Duterte kang Widodo nga sundon ang ilang gipatuman nga balaod ug dili siya manghilabot niini.
Sa pagkakaron, gipaabot pa sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ang tubag sa embahada sa Pilipias sa Indonesia kalabot sa gipadala nilang clarification sa kaso ni Veloso.
Kini human nagpadala dayon ang gobyerno og clarification sa Indonesia human migawas ang balita sa Jakarta Post nga gihatagan na ni Presidente Duterte og go signal si Widodo aron bitayon na si Veloso.
Giingong mitawag na ang embahada sa Pilipinas sa ilang counterpart sa Indonesia aron klarohon ang maong statement.
Padayon pa usab nga gipaabot sa gobyerno ang mas daghan ug mas lig-on nga ebidensiya sa kaso ni Veloso aron makumbinsir ang Indonesian government nga hatagan og clemency ang Pinay overseas Filipino Worker (OFW).
Mao nga mahinungdanon ang testimonya ni Veloso batok sa iyang mga recruiter nga sila Maria Kristina Sergio ug Julius Lacanilao aron mapagaan ang iyang kaso. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, September 13 (PIA)–Ang pamilya Garay gikan sa Can-upao, Jagna ning lalawigan sa Bohol ang napiling regional winner sa Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya ning tuig sa Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Human sa pagdaog sa regional search niadtong Hulyo 7, 2016, ang pamilya nilang Vicente ug Marissa Garay, mo-representar sa DSWD-7 alang sa national competition nga nipili lamang sa lima ka pamilya gikan sa 16 ka regional entries.
Ang pamilya Garay makigtigi sa uban pang pamilya gikan sa Rehiyon III, IV-A,V ug VI karong Setyembre 30.
Samtang ang national awarding ipahigayon sa syudad sa Quezon karong Oktubre 1 nga natunong sa culmination sa Family Week celebration nga gisaulog matag katapusan nga semana sa Setyembre.
“Dili g’yud namo maukit sa pulong among kalipay sa pagkadaug sa among pamilya kay ang among nadawat nga ganti nakatabang ug daku sa among pamilya ilabi na nga graduating among anak nga si Ivy ug daghan kaayong galastuhanan,” matud pa ni Marissa.
Si Ivy ang ilang kamagulangan nga gipaabot nga matapos sa electrical engineering karong Oktubre. Sunod niya si Rose Marie nga naa na karon sa 3rd year college nga nikuha sa kursong Bachelor of Education, sunod si Prince nga naa pa sa day care ug ang ilang kamanghuran nga si Vincent Ian nga lima ka bulan pa lamang.
Samtang ang ubang anak nila nga sila Aria Venice, Lee Mark ug Vic Jun mga children-beneficiaries sa Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program nga nagtungha sa Bohol Institute of Technology-Jagna ug Jagna Central Elementary School.
Si Vicente usa ka active religious leader ug usa ka mangingisda samtang si Marissa usa ka katabang sa panimalay nga mokita og P3, 000 matag bulan. Benepisyaryo sila sa Pantawid Pamilya program sukad 2012.
Ang Pantawid Pamilya mao ang conditional cash transfer sa gobyerno nga namuhunan sa edukasyon ug panglawas sa kabos nga mga pamilya nga adunay mga anak nga may edad 0 hangtud 18 ka bulan.
Ang Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya usa ka tinuig nga pagpangita sa DSWD og mga pamilyang adunay lig-on ug hugot nga relasyon, nagpakita og maayong pamatasan ug may positibong impak sa komunidad diin sila nagpuyo. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Sep 10, 2016 | Tech Talk
With the recently improved internet services it is now an option to produce new and exciting tech from places once considered backwaters. Examples of this in action are the nascent mobile game development scenes outside the cities. There 2.4 billion Android and iOS devices worldwide and local developers now have the chance to reach them.
‘Crashy Asia’ is a newly released mobile game made in Bohol by a team of two; a fine arts student and a programmer going by the name of Two Reelers.
The 3D game lets you, a cute Panda character, tour around South East Asian countries. You can see the national monuments and get a taste of each country.
However there is danger in the form of dangerous drivers. As many overseas workers will comment, the traffic in places like Ho Chi Minh City would scare even the most hardened Manila jeepney driver.
The game attempts to be humorous through satirical fake news stories and local flavour, for instance President Duterte and a Popemobile can be spotted when you visit the Philippines.
It began its life when the author noticed that his 8 year old found it hilarious to watch cartoon cars colliding, flipping and doing donuts. That, in combination with the regional pastime of complaining about traffic was enough to get started.
To download the Game for free go to play.google.com and search ‘Crashy Asia’.
The local story of indie game creation does not end there for Bohol. Here are two other companies actively releasing new titles:
Samotech recently released ‘Stephen Curry vs Lebron James’. It offers the chance to avenge Curry by shooting hoops against Lebron James.
Amivarius Games is offering ‘Veggy Smash 3’, billed as the healthiest match 3 casual game.
The opportunity exists to break into the competitive game industry, even when based in a small town. It may be a long wait for success due to the need for a big hit in order to make reasonable income. Nevertheless the next famous indie title like Monument Valley or Crossy Road may come from the Central Visayas.
by admin | Sep 10, 2016 | Opinion
By: Jerome Auza
President Rodrigo Duterte’s trip to the ASEAN Summit in Laos had Philippine and international media buzzing with controversial reports. The president held a press conference just before leaving for Laos and uttered inappropriate words that were interpreted as directed towards US President Barack Obama. While the cursing really happened, the interpretations as to whom it was directed to seemed to be deliberately reported in a way that will pin down President Duterte.
The good thing nowadays is that we can easily verify news reports online by looking at unedited video footage released by the presidential communications office and other sources. There are really glaring inaccuracies with many reports in the past several weeks when I have been following various topics in the news.
Just during the week of the ASEAN summit, we saw the following headlines:
From ABS-CBN: “Duterte calls Obama a ‘son of a w****'”. But if you review the video, the Tagalog cursing context was not interpreted correctly, even if the writers were obviously Filipinos. It was a theoretical scenario because the question is what if he is lectured about extra judicial killings. This could be a long winded argument between supporters of Duterte and his detractors. At any rate, saying curse words is inappropriate. But writing a headline to turn a hypothetical scenario into a fact is misleading. The headline should have been “Duterte threatens to curse Obama if lectured on EJK”, because that was his statement was “mumurahin kita diyan sa forum” which was a threat but it hasn’t occured yet. But the writers took the curse word (PI) before that phrase as the actual curse and made it appear as a fact.
As the ASEAN summit was on-going, another obviously incorrect headline by Inquirer “Metro Manila traffic just a ‘state of mind'” was attributed to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade. However, if you read the content of the news, what he said was “the prevailing Filipino psyche of using traffic as an excuse must be changed. That kind of state of mind that automatically uses traffic as an excuse, unnecessarily adds to the problem of traffic.”
My recent favorite is this headline from ABS-CBN: ‘No Duterte-Obama handshake at East Asia Summit’. The headlines from Reuters said “Duterte, Obama shake hands and chat after rift over insult”. The Washinton Post also said “Obama: ‘I did shake hands with President Duterte'” with a video showing Obama really saying that statement. What’s going on here?
Add to this situation the proliferation of satirical and false news websites and you get a confused and often misled readers.
How can we rely on media to be the source of truth with this habit of inaccuracies? Are these deliberate efforts to bring down some people? Honest mistakes? Plain incompetence? Or are these just techniques to entice people to click on the headlines to read the articles and gain advertising mileage?
Fortunately, social media can provide some verification and it is actually easy to spot inaccurate news by reading multiple sources about that topic. However, if you have to read multiple sources about a news report to get an accurate picture, that wastes a lot of your time. Currently, I keep a skeptic attitude about any news, especially on the national level. Maybe you should too.
