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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Signal From Pluto to Earth

LAUREL, Md. — After a long daycelebrating the arrival of NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft at Plutoand wondering about its fatewhile it was out of radio contact,mission controllers finally re-ceived confirmation last Tuesdaynight that the spacecraft had per-formed its scientific tasks.

On schedule, at 8:52:37 p.m.Eastern time, a message from thespacecraft arrived at MissionControl here at the JohnsHopkins Applied Physics Labora-tory.

“We are in lock with carrier,”said Alice Bowman, the missionsoperations manager. “Stand byfor telemetry.”

And a few moments later,when she confirmed that datawas coming down, cheers

erupted for the second time.By design, communications

from New Horizons ended at11:17 p.m. the night before, andas planned, the craft remainedout of contact for almost 22hours as it took pictures and col-lected bountiful other measure-ments of Pluto and its fivemoons. The design of the space-craft did not allow it to performits observations while communi-cating with Earth, and the mis-sion team wanted to squeeze inas much work as possible as NewHorizons flew within 7,800 milesof the former ninth planet.

At a news conference a halfan hour later, Ms. Bowman saidthat everything appeared to havegone smoothly. “We didn’t haveany autonomy rule firings,” she

said, referring to actions thespacecraft takes when some-thing goes wrong. “And whatthat means, in layman terms, isthat the spacecraft was happy.”

The first round of cheerscame last Tuesday morning, asa countdown clock for the clos-est Pluto approach, as calcu-lated by mission scientists,ticked down to zero.

It was like New Year’s Eve.“We’re going to do our 10-

9-8 thing, and you can get yourflags out,” S. Alan Stern, theprincipal investigator forNASA’s New Horizons missionto Pluto, told the people gath-ered for the occasion.

“We’re going to go abso-lutely ape.”

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Families displaced by warin Zamboanga get cash aid

THIS IS PLUTO!Andal Ampatuan Srinatake sa puso!

Jihadists eyed in latest attack

New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountainsrising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. (Photo Credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Over 1,000 families displaced by rebel at-tacks in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines would stand tobenefit from a customized cash transfer launched by ACF Inter-national-Action Against Hunger.

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MANILA – Inatake umano sa kanyang puso si ex-MaguindanaoGov. Andal Ampatuan, Sr., at comatose na ito ngayon sapagamutan na kung saan ito isinugod dahil sa liver cancer.

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A leaked photo of some members of the local jihadists in Lanao province.

MARAWI CITY – Authorities are eyeing jihadist members of theKhilafah Islamiyah Movement or KIM, an Islamic State (IS) in-spired group, as behind the recent ambush on military person-nel in the town of Pantar in Lanao del Norte province that killedone soldier killed and wounded 6 more.

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Sulu Governor Totoh Tan speaks during the Ramadhan seminar. (Photo by Ahl-franzie Salinas)

Hundreds attend Islamic seminars in SuluSULU – Hundreds of Mus-lims attended a recentseminar dubbed as“Ramadhan Al-MubarakSeminar 2015” held at theSulu State College.

Sulu Governor TotohTan was guest speaker atthe seminar sponsored by

the Sabiel Al-MohtadeenFoundation, Inc.

It was the secondseminar on Islam at-tended by Tan, who wasalso invited by the DarulIftah as its speaker be-cause of his inspiring mes-sages.

Tan urged those whoattended both seminars tofollow the teachings of theholy Koran and to live anhonest and productive lifefor the welfare of theirfamily and the communi-ties they live in. (Ahl-franzie Salinas)

ZAMBOANGA CITY – TheZamboanga City HealthOffice have reported asudden surge of denguecases with 71 documentedcases just in the first weekof July.

City Health Officer Dr.Rodelin Agbulos has attrib-uted the sudden spike indengue cases to the recentspate of inclement weatherand heavy rainfalls.

“Just right after therain, we have noticed asudden increase in thenumber of dengue fever,registering 71 cases in justone week,” Agbulos said.

This development hasprompted the CHO to fur-ther intensify it denguemonitoring, surveillance,and prevention advocacieswhich has so far managedto tamp down the numberof dengue cases since 2015began.

Based on CHO data,the number of denguecases for 2015 is consis-tently lower compared tothe figures documented for2014. For the month ofJune, the CHO docu-mented 146 cases, a signifi-cant drop versus the 543cases registered in thesame month last year.

For July 2014, a total of

583 cases were registered.For 2015, the first week ofJuly opened with 71 cases.

“This is not a time forus to sit down and relax,”said Agbulos as he re-quested the local media toinform the public on theprevention and control ofdengue fever, and the localbarangay chairpersons toimplement preventive andanti-dengue measures.

“Our barangay officialsknow what to do. We expectour barangay officials totake the lead in the clearingand the destruction of thebreeding places of mosqui-toes in their areas,” addedAgbulos.

The villages with highdengue cases are Tetuan(55 cases), Calarian (54),Sta. Maria (54), Pasonanca(48), Tumaga (43), SanRoque (33), Santa Catalina(32), Divisoria (31),Tugbungan (30), Putik (28),and Baliwasan (27).

Agbulos said the CHO’sDengue Control Team im-mediately responded to re-ported cases, including arecent case in CaminoNuevo, and conductssearch and destroy, and fu-migation.

Agbulos further addedthat the Aedes aegypti mos-

quito, known vector-carri-ers of the dengue fever, arenow more virulent andable to reach far-flung ar-eas.

“Meaning to say, masvirulent le, ya subi yadisuyu power para pwedebula. They are known asday-biting [mosquitoes]but now they are consid-ered as night-time [mos-quitoes]. Maskin denoche,ta morde ya sila,” he ex-plained.

Dengue fever iscaused by one of four dif-ferent, but related virusesand it is spread by the biteof mosquitoes.

Symptoms of denguefever begin with a suddenhigh fever, often as high as105 degrees Fahrenheitand may last up to 7 daysafter the infection. A flat,red rash may appear overmost of the body for 2 to 5days after the fever starts.A second rash, which lookslike measles, appears laterin the disease and infectedpeople may have in-creased skin sensitivity.

Other symptoms in-clude fatigue, headache,muscle and joint pains,nausea and vomiting andswollen lymph nodes.(Jasmine Mohammadsali)

Dengue cases on the rise

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Sulu village fire fighters get new equipmentSULU – Governor Totoh Tanhas donated fire fightingequipment to the AsturiasFire Brigade in the capitaltown of Jolo in the southernPhilippine province of Sulu.

Tan handed over theequipment recently to thefire fighters led by Mashier

Tan, village chieftain ofAsturias, during a simpleceremony held at the Pro-vincial Capitol in Patikultown. Among the donationswere hoses and two sets of15-horsepower waterpumps.

The village chieftain

and his fire fighters, who aremostly civilian volunteers,praised Tan for his supportto the community. Tanurged other village leadersto organize their own firebrigade which can immedi-ately response to emer-gency. (Ahl-franzie Salinas)

Governor Totoh Tan has donated fire fighting equipment to the Asturias Fire Brigade in thecapital town of Jolo in the southern Philippine province of Sulu. (Photo by Ahl-franzie Salinas)

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Kinumpirma ito ngabogado ni Andal na si Sal-vador Panelo at ayon sakanya ay dahil sakomplikasyon sa sakit angdahilan ng atake at pagkaka-comatose ng Ampatuan pa-triarch. Akusado si Andal samassacre ng 58 katao,kabilang ang 32mamamayahag, noonNobyembre 2009 saMaguindanao na kung saanay sumama ang mga biktimasa political caravan niEsmael Mangundadatu nakalaban naman ni Andal sapulitika.

Kasama sa naturangkaso ay sina ZaldyAmpatuan, ang datinggobernador ng AutonomousRegion in MuslimMindanao; at ang kapatidnitong si Junior Andal, at ibapa.

Bantay-sarado pa rin siAndal sa National Kidneyand Transplant Institute saQuezon City na kung saan itoinoobserbahan mataposisugod doon nitong Hunyo5. Nasa pagamutan rin angmga kaanak ni Andal,

maliban lamang sa mganakapiit sa kulungan.

Naunang sinabi ng mgaduktor ni Andal na bilang naumano ang oras nito dahil sacancer at tinaningan na itong mula 3 hanggang 6 nabuwan.

Ngayon ay nais namanni Zaldy na magpa-confineat magpasuri sa puso sa Phil-ippine Heart Center nakatabi lamang ng NKTI athumirit pa itong bibisita saamang may sakit. Hindi panapagde-desisyunan ngkorte ang nasabingkahilingan ni Zaldy nabumisita sa ama.

Nakapiit si Zaldy at Jun-ior Ampatuan at iba pangakusado sa Camp BagongDiwa sa Taguig City na kungsaan ay napa-ulat na mayspecial treatment ang mgaito.

Hindi naman sang-ayon ang marami sa mgakaanak ng mga biktima ngmassacre sa kagustuhannina Zaldy at nanawagan pasa mga awtoridad nahigpitan ang seguridad saNKTI.

Umani rin ng samut-

saring komento sa socialmedia, partikular saFacebook, ukol sa nalalapitna kamatayan ni Andal atkaramihan sa mga ito ayipinapanalangin na matigokna ang matanda dahil samga umano’y kasalanannito, at ang iba naman aynagsasabing humaba pasana ang kanyang buhayupang maghirap at malasapang pait at pighating dinanasng mga pamilya ng mgabiktima ng karumal-dumalna pagpatay sa 58 kataonoon 2009.

May mga naaawa rin sasinapit ni Andal at nagsabingdapat ay humingi na ito ngkapatawaran sa kanyangmga kasalanan.

Nitong Mayo lamang aypinalaya ng korte ang isanganak ni Andal na si Sajid Is-lam matapos itongmagbigay ng piyansa sahalagang P11.6 milyon athalos 5 taon rin itongnakulong. Dinagsa ng mgabisita at supporters anglalawigan upang salubunginat batiin ito sa kanyangpagbabalik. (Mindanao Ex-aminer)

ARMM showcases halal productsin Mindanao Halal Fest

DAVAO CITY – Muslim andnon-Muslim exhibitors allover Mindanao showcasedan array of halal food andhalal-certified products inthe two-day exhibitiondubbed 1st MindanaoHalal Festival from July 15-16 at the Abreeza Ayala Mallin Davao City.

Escider Inc., a businessinvestment firm spear-headed the two-day halalfestival that features foods,apparel, fashion accesso-ries, organic products andother services that are halalcertified. The NationalCommission on MuslimFilipinos (NCMF) with theIslamic Chamber of Com-merce, ARMM’s Scienceand Technology depart-ment (DOST-ARMM) andthe Davao City governmentsupported the event.

The 1st MindanaoHalal Festival is aimed at at-tracting more investors andpartners to put up potentialhalal investments inMindanao. The event pro-vides entrepreneurs pro-ducing halal products anopportunity through thetwo-day market exposure. Italso serves as a key focalpoint for education of halalpractices and what it meansto improve business integ-rity through values per-petuated by truly halal rolemodels.

“This will help out en-trepreneurs not only inARMM but all overMindanao and the countryto promote skills and prod-ucts that are halal certified,”said Ester Rulona, one ofthe exhibitors.

DOST-ARMM Secre-tary Myra Mangkabung re-iterated that the two-dayhalal event also offers achance for consumers toexplore the diversity of thehalal food market and itspotential. “MuslimMindanao has great poten-tials to become a mainsource of halal products,which could spur theregion’s economy,” said Sec.Mangkabung.

Among of the high-lights of the festival is thelaunching of the country’sfirst halal ordinance inDavao City and theMindanao-wide Qur’an re-cital competition. For eachnight of the two-day event,the public will able to tastevarious halal foods througha nightly food festival withdishes based onMindanaoan cuisine. Win-ners of the competition willreceive monetary price andan all-expense paid pil-grimage trip to Mecca nextyear.

“We should further de-velop and promote ourhalal food particularly for

export to also make ourtourist destinations in thePhilippines more friendlyto Muslim tourists,” saidNCMF Secretary YasminBusran-Lao. “Halal food isconsumed by even non-Muslim consumers be-cause it has highest stan-dards of food safety,” sheadded.

As of May 31, the halal-certifying bodies accreditedby the NCMF include Mus-lim Mindanao Halal Certi-fication Board Inc.,Mindanao Halal AuthorityInc. and Halal InternationalChamber of Commerce andIndustries of the Philip-pines Inc.

The NCMF is a nationalcommission mandated un-der Article 2 Section 8 of theRepublic Act 9997 to pro-mote and develop the Phil-ippine Halal Industry andaccredit halal-certifyingentities/bodies for the ut-most benefit of Muslim Fili-pinos and in partnership orcooperation with appropri-ate agencies individualsand institutions here andabroad.

In ARMM, the DOSTplans to conduct a halalcongress in October thisyear to help propel theregion’s bid to get a slice ofthe multi-billion globalhalal market. (Bureau ofPublic Information)

Army patrol, niratrat ng NPADAVAO CITY – Isangsundalo ang sugatanmatapos tambangan ngrebeldeng New People’sArmy ang isang army pa-trol sa bayan ng Talaingodsa lalawigan ng Davao delNorte sa silangangMindanao.

Kinumpirma namanito sa Midnanao ExaminerRegional Newspaper niCapt. Alberto Caber, angspokesman ng EasternMindanao Command, at

sinabing miyembro ng 68thInfantry Battalion angbiktima.

“The soldiers of 68th IBhave been providing secu-rity patrols in the area aftercontinuous report from thevillagers on the extortionactivities by the NPA ban-dits,” wika pa ni Caber.

Hindi naman nitoibinigay ang pangalan ngsundalo, subali’t patuloynaman daw ang operasyonng militar kontra NPA.

Nagpapatrulya sa SitioBagang ng BarangayPalma Gil ang mga tropang sila’y paulanan ng bala.

“Pursuit operationsare still on-going as of thisreporting,” ani Caber.

Hindi agad mabatidkung may casualties sapanig ng mga rebelde.Matagal ng nakikibakaang NPA upang maitatagnito ang sariling estado sabansa. (Mindanao Exam-iner)

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Gunmen ambushedmembers of the 42nd Com-pany, of the 4th Mecha-nized Battalion, who weretravelling on a truck alonga highway linking Marawiand Iligan City and theprovinces of Lanao del Surand Lanao del Norte.

Just last month, mem-bers of the jihadist groupalso attacked an army of-ficer in Marawi. Army Col.Gilbert Gapay, com-mander of the 2nd Mecha-nized Infantry Brigade,said they have coordinatedwith the 103rd Infantry Bri-gade to help in the investi-gation into the alleged in-volvement of the group.

Authorities have recov-ered two vehicles that wereallegedly used by KIMmembers. Several car-tridges from AK-47 and

rifle grenades had beenfound inside the vehicles.

Investigators were alsolooking at other possiblemotives of the latest attacksuch as kidnapping, rido orlocal feud or revenge as re-taliation on the recent ar-rest of alleged members ofthe Moro Islamic Libera-tion Front (MILF) inMarawi City.

The KIM, a black flagmovement that hadpledged allegiance to theIS also known as ISIS, is anemerging jihadists move-ment in Southern Philip-pines.

Many members of thegroup were reportedlytrained by Malaysian andIndonesian terrorists oper-ating in the region. Severalof them had been killed inthe past and among themwere young Muslims

tagged in 2013 Lim Ket KaiMall bombing and the kill-ing of an American na-tional Michael Alan Turnerin Cagayan de Oro City.

The group is headedby Najid, a Jema’ahIslamiyah affiliate, and aclose associate of interna-tional terrorist Marwanwho was killed by policecommandos. It startedwith less than 20 mem-bers, but emerged withuncountable numbers ofrecruits who were influ-enced by ISIS propa-ganda. The group is fight-ing for the establishmentof Islamic caliphate in thecountry. Its members hadpledged allegiance to theleadership of ISIS, an ac-ronym of Islamic State ofIraq and Syria, also knownas Daesh. (Mindanao Ex-aminer)

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International technical co-ordinator, said they havestepped up the program tobetter respond to the needsof vulnerable people af-fected by the conflict in2013.

He said the ACF Inter-national launched the cus-tomized cash transfer pro-gram here with the generoussupport from the SpanishAgency for InternationalDevelopment Cooperation(AECID), Foreign AffairsTrade and DevelopmentCanada (DFATD) and Euro-pean Commission Humani-

tarian Aid (ECHO).The cash-based inter-

vention currently providesupport to over 1035 fami-lies staying at different tran-sitory sites for displacedfamilies affected by the con-flict, according toMurugesu.

With funds from DFATDthe project covers 550 ben-eficiaries, ECHO with 375,and AECID with 110 benefi-ciaries from among house-holds who have pregnantand lactating mother, singleparent, with malnourishedchildren, or with disabledand older persons andchronic illnesses were con-

sciously prioritized.Murugesu said the pro-

gram has facilitated re-sponses covering basicneeds through conditionalvouchers or grants. ACF In-ternational has also beenconscious the program'simpacts on men andwomen by assessing the ef-fect of cash transfer inter-vention on gender powerrelations.

"Cash transfer pro-gramming forms a signifi-cant part of ACF's work infighting under nutrition,and is an emerging responsemechanism in food securityand livelihoods, nutrition

and health, water, sanitationand hygiene sectors. Capac-ity building support was pro-vided to ensure appropriateskills needed to sustain theirlivelihoods. Partner benefi-ciaries were encouraged tolead income generating ac-tivities to meet their basicneeds," Murugesu said.

Since the 1990's, cashtransfer programs have be-come an essential core ele-ment of ACF’s integrated ap-proach in fighting hungerand malnutrition, mostly fa-cilitating food security andlivelihoods, and water andsanitation activities for andwith the community andparticipating households,with increased coverage andscale since 2003 globally.

In its range of support toZamboanga, ACF is closelyworking with the City Gov-ernment of Zamboanga, thePhilippines Health Insur-ance, JABU-JABU, Ateneo deZamboanga University, De-partment of Trade and In-dustry, Department of SocialWelfare and Developmentfor its educational social andeconomic services designedfor displaced families whobenefited from the cashtransfer program.

The local governmentsaid it would close down theJoaquin F. Enriquez Memo-rial Sports Complex which isbeing used as temporary

shelters for war victims inZamboanga City. Some 400families inside the sportscomplex would have to berelocated to Masepla inMampang village, site of ahousing facility for refugees.

The government willclose the sports complex topave way for its renovation.

Many war victims havebeen relocated to othertransitory sites in differentareas in Zamboanga, butmany were also opposingthis, saying, it would be verydifficult for them to con-tinue with their livelihoods.

Most of the refugeeswere native Badjao who relyon fishing for their daily sus-tenance. They also com-plained that there is no elec-tricity and water supply inthe transitory sites. The lo-cal government earlier saidit would clear the sportcomplex before the end ofJune, but extended this toallow the transfer of all refu-gees to Masepla and inBuggoc in Kasanyangan vil-lage.

“We told them that util-ity services like water andelectricity can only be con-nected to the temporaryshelters (at Masepla inMampang) once there arealready occupants. Other-wise, the materials will againbe stolen as in the past,”Elmeir Apolinario, the City

Administrator, said.Rebel forces from

Basilan and Sulu provincesunder the command ofHabier Malik, an aide ofMoro National LiberationFront chieftain Nur Misuari,stormed Zamboanga onSeptember 9, 2013 and tookover 200 people hostage andused them as shield againstgovernment soldiers and po-licemen. More than 400people were killed andwounded in the fighting thatlasted three weeks. The battledisplaced over 120,000 resi-dents.

Misuari, who signed apeace accord with Manila in1996, accused the Aquinogovernment of reneging onthe peal deal and launcheda new rebellion, the secondin more than a decade. In2001, loyal forces of Misuarialso attacked military basesin Zamboanga City and Jolotown in Sulu province andthe clashes killed over 100people.

Misuari, who fled to Ma-laysia after the siege failed,was arrested and jailed, buteventually released by thenPresident Gloria Arroyo afterhe pledged loyalty and sup-port to the politician. He isnow at large and hiding inSulu, one of five provincesunder the Muslim autono-mous region in Mindanao.(Mindanao Examiner)

Families displaced by war in Zamboanga get cash aid

Mindanao Examiner dealers inPagadian City. (Photo by Ferdinand Libor Jr.)

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The day climaxed a de-cade and a half of dreamsand effort. Launched in 2006,New Horizons had travelednine and a half years andthree billion miles for a closeencounter that was largelycompleted within hours.And yet that quick recon-naissance of Pluto has trans-formed what had been afuzzy dot since it was discov-ered 85 years ago into a richlytextured world, providing in-sight into the beginnings ofthe solar system and raw ma-terial for new mysteries thatastronomers will ponder foryears.

At 7:50 a.m., the crowd,which included the childrenof Clyde Tombaugh, the as-tronomer who discoveredPluto in 1930, cheered — al-beit 72 seconds late.

New Horizons had al-

ready begun speeding awayfrom Pluto at 31,000 milesper hour. The latest calcula-tions by the spacecraft navi-gators indicated that NewHorizons would arrive at theclosest approach 72 secondsahead of schedule.

But the path of New Ho-rizons was within the mar-gins that the mission teamhad aimed for, and to avoidthe risk of causing a problemwith unnecessary tinkering,no updated commands totweak the timing had beensent to the spacecraft.

We were close enough,”said Christopher B.Hersman, the mission’s sys-tems engineer.

As everyone cheered, noone knew how the space-craft, in the midst of 22 hoursof automated science opera-tions, was faring. And therewas a chance, howeversmall, that it was not faringwell: A wayward piece of de-bris, for instance, could de-stroy the craft.

So scientists were left towait and wonder.

“We always talk aboutthe spacecraft as being achild, maybe a teenager,” Ms.Bowman said during a newsconference after the flyby.“There was absolutely noth-ing anybody on the opera-tions team could do, just totrust that we had prepared itwell to set off on its journeyon its own.”

NASA released the new-est color image of Pluto,which was sent down lastMonday and offers theclearest view yet of an icyworld with a Mars-like red-dish tint.

“You can see regions ofvarious kinds of brightness,”Dr. Stern said during thenews conference. “Very darkregions near the Equator,very bright regions just to thenorth of that, broad interme-diate zones over the pole.What we know is on the sur-face we see a history of im-pacts. We see a history of sur-face activity.”

He said there appearedto be about five regions ofdistinct terrain, and even aprominent bright feature inthe shape of a heart appearedto show clear differences.

In a version of the pic-ture in which colors hadbeen exaggerated to showvarious features, Plutolooked as if a preschoolerhad smeared finger paints allover it. “This is just a very psy-chedelic image,” saidCatherine Olkin, the deputyproject scientist.

From telescope obser-vations on Earth, astrono-mers have known for de-cades of a bright spot on thisside of Pluto, and the NewHorizons trajectory was cho-sen in part so it would see the

spot in sunlight.As the spacecraft ap-

proached, the bright spot re-solved into that heart shape.

In the image with the ex-aggerated colors, the rightside of the heart is distinctlybluer than the pale yellowishleft side, with a sharp bound-ary between the two.

Annette Tombaugh,Clyde Tombaugh’s daughter,talked about what her father,who died in 1997, wouldhave thought of the probe’sPluto revelations.

“He would have said,‘That’s a pretty neat heart,’ ”Ms. Tombaugh said. “If hewere here, he would be onthe team learning along witheverybody else.”

The scientists also had acloser look at the darksplotches that circle Pluto’sEquator.

Additional data fromother instruments to identifysome of the chemicalmakeup of the surface andmap the range of tempera-tures will help the research-ers figure out the nature ofsuch features.

A large splotch that re-sembles a whale was namedCthulu, a deity from a H. P.Lovecraft story. Othersplotch names includedMeng-Po, the goddess of for-getfulness in Chinese my-thology; Balrog, a creature inJ. R. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of theRings” books; and VucubCame and Hun Came, deathgods of Mayan mythology.

“We got tired of calling itthe dark spot on the left andthe dark spot on the right,”said Jeffrey M. Moore, theleader of the geology, geo-physics and imaging team.

The spacecraft will bemostly finished with thedata-collecting phase of themission and will begin send-ing back a trove of data forscientists to ponder. In themorning, the first batch ofdata will arrive on Earth, in-cluding sharper images ofPluto — 10 times the resolu-tion of the image released lastTuesday.

At the end of Tuesdaynight’s news conference,John Grunsfeld, the associateadministrator for NASA’s sci-ence directorate, pointed toa Twitter posting by Presi-dent Obama on his phone:“Pluto just had its first visitor!Thanks @NASA — it’s a greatday for discovery and Ameri-can leadership.”

Dr. Grunsfeld thenturned to Dr. Stern, Ms. Bow-man and Glen Fountain, theproject manager. “Get somewell-deserved rest,” Dr.Grunsfeld said, “until 5o’clock tomorrow morning.”

The room erupted withlaughter and applause. (ByKenneth Chang, The NewYork Times)

When We Attack Serena Williams’ Body,It’s Really About Her Blackness – The Huffington Post

A New York Times articleabout body image in com-petitive tennis became thecatalyst for a debate thisweek about the harmfulways in which the mediadiscusses Serena Williams’body. But just so we’re clear,this isn’t just about how Wil-liams’ muscular physiquesets her apart from herwhite counterparts. It’sabout the way blackwomen — world-class ath-letes or otherwise — findthemselves continuouslyothered and compared towhite women, no matterwhat they do or how theylook.

Williams has beenbreaking records (and bar-riers) in the tennis worldsince she first entered it asa teen, winning her 21stGrand Slam on Saturday.And yet, despite her athleticprowess, she has been thetarget of racist and sexist at-tacks for the better part of adecade. Over the years, Wil-liams has been describedby online commenters andjournalists alike as a “go-rilla,” as “manly” and as“savage.”

The disrespect hurledat Williams, much of it fo-cused on her body, hasbeen rampant — evenamong her peers. In 2012,tennis player CarolineWozniacki stuffed her bra

and shorts to imitate Will-iams during an exhibitionmatch against MariaSharapova. The crowd andcommentators at the matchlaughed, while outlets likeYahoo! Sports described theincident as “hilarious.”(Andy Roddick and NovakDjokovic have also imitatedWilliams’ physique in thepast.)

On the surface, it maylook like playful athletic rib-bing, but these kind of inci-dents, coupled with the lan-guage so often used to de-scribe Serena as an athlete,speak to a kind of dehu-manization specific toblack women. As Ms. Maga-zine writer Corinne Gastonputs it, the policing of Will-iams’ body “comes gift-wrapped in a triad fromhell: misogyny, racism andtransphobia.”

So while it’s certainlyimportant, it’s not enoughto point out that Serena isn’tin fact “built like a man,”using photos of her inshapely, curve-huggingdresses to illustrate thepoint. This isn’t about thefact that Williams isn’t tall,slim and a size two. It’sabout the fact that she isn’twhite. We can certainlyhave a conversation abouthow the sports world ex-pects physically powerfulwomen to look like dainty

supermodels, but the factremains that muscular ten-nis stars like MartinaNavratilova, Justine Henin,Victoria Azarenka, andSamantha Tosur aren’t sub-ject to the same disdain andbody-focused critiques thatWilliams is.

Rather than focusingon the body dysmorphicbeauty standards of tennis,and the inherent sexismthat drives it — a piece I’dlove to read — the New YorkTimes instead focused onthe otherness of Serena Wil-liams’ body. Female tennisplayers were asked to dis-cuss their own bodies incontrast to Williams’, as ifshe were the epitome of ev-erything they strive not tobe: muscular, yes, but alsoblack.

Williams is simulta-neously sexualized andcaricaturized, othered andexoticized. Her body is a rep-resentation of her athleticskill. But rather than beingcelebrated, it’s been scruti-nized mercilessly, turnedinto a kind of spectacle forwhite amusement, withpainful parallels toSaartjie“Sarah” Baartman.

The intersection of sex-ism and racism is somethingblack women grapple withon a daily basis.

This goes beyond Will-iams’ body. Not only is her

womanhood consistentlydenied, her character isdeemed as dominant, ag-gressive and arrogant. Ev-erything from her hairstylesto her celebratory danceshave been regarded as“ghetto” or uncouth. Nomatter her success, her in-telligence or her gracious-

ness, her humanity is con-sistently denied.

The racism inherent inthe way people talk aboutSerena Williams’ body is animportant conversation tobe had, but hopefully thiswill give way to a larger con-versation about the broaderracism that she faces as a

black woman. Williams hasbeaten Maria Sharapova 17times in a row, spanningover a decade. She stillmakes half of whatSharapova makes off thecourt.

Why aren’t we talkingabout that? (By Zeba Blay,Culture Writer, Voices)

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1. Bukol sa suso – Lahat ngbabae edad 20 pataas aykailangang matutokumapa ng kanilang suso.Gawin ito buwan-buwanbago at pagkataposmagka-regla. Humarap sasalamin at tingnan angsuso. May pagkakaiba baang kanan at kaliwangsuso? Habang nakatayo,salatin ang suso mula sautong (nipple). Gamitinang dulo ng dalawangdaliri at kapain ng paikut-ikot ang suso. Mag-umpisa sa nipple athanggang sa papalabas.Pagkatapos ay humiganaman sa kama at ulitinang pagkapa ng suso.Bago matapos, kapain dinang kili-kili paramaghanap ng kulani(lymph nodes). Kung maybukol kayong nasasalat,magpatingin sa inyongsurgeon o OB-gynecolo-gist.2. Ulcer o pangangasimng sikmura – Huwagmagpakagutom. Kumainnang madalas sa isangaraw pero kaunti lang.Small, frequent meals.Mag-almusal, meryenda,tanghalian, meryenda athapunan. Ang pag-inomng tubig ng pakonti-konti

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iyan. Ang problema rito ayang pagbaba ng carbondioxide sa katawan dahilsa sobrang bilis ngpaghinga. Ang solusyondiyan ay ang paggamit ng“brown bag technique.”Kumuha ng isang maliit nabag na gawa sa papel.(Huwag ang plastic bag.)Itakip sa bibig at ilong atdito huminga ng dahan-dahan. Gawin ito ng 15-30minutes. Ang gusto natinmangyari ay malanghapmo ulit ang hangin (car-bon dioxide) na iyonginilalabas. Sa ganitongparaan, mawawala angiyong nararamdaman.4. Masakit ang puson omenstrual cramps — Angsolusyon sa menstrualcramps ay pagpapahinga.Itulog mo ang sakit.Umiwas muna sa mgastress, trabaho at meet-ings. Maligo ngmaligamgam na tubigpara ma-relax ang iyongpuson. Patungan ngmedyo mainit na bote angiyong puson. Sabi ng iba,ang sex daw aynakatutulong din sa men-strual cramps. At kapagmasakit talaga, uminomng paracetamol tablets 2-3 times a day.

Sulu has new police chiefGOVERNOR Totoh Tan hasrenewed his support to theprovincial police authori-ties following the assump-tion of Senior Superinten-dent Mario Buyuccan asthe new Sulu police chief.

Buyuccan, who previ-

ously served as the Basilanprovincial police chief, re-placed Senior Superinten-dent Abraham Orbita.

Tan, a strong sup-porter of the police,pledged his all-out supportto the continuation of vari-

ous police programs inSulu.

Buyuccan personallythanked Tan for his contin-ued support during a cour-tesy call recently at thegovernor’s office in Patikultown. (Ahl-franzie Salinas)

Sulu Governor Totoh Tan and Senior Superintendent Mario Bayuccan. (Photo by Ahl-franzieSalinas)

Over 100 students benefit from 1stCavalry Squadron project in Zambo Sur

More than 100 students from Grades 5 and 6 benefited from a humanitarian mission conductedby the 1st Cavalry Squadron of the Philippine Army’s Mechanized Infantry Division inZamboanga del Sur province on July 16, 2015. Lt. Col. Charlemagne Batayola, Jr., the squadroncommander, led the distribution of hygiene kit at the Margareto Lagare Elementary School inthe village of Navalan in Tukuran town. (Photo by Ferdinand Libor Jr)PAGADIAN CITY – Morethan 100 students fromGrades 5 and 6 benefitedfrom a humanitarianmission conducted bythe 1st Cavalry Squadron

of the Philippine Army’sMechanized Infantry Di-vision in Zamboanga delSur province.

Lt. Col. CharlemagneBatayola, Jr., the squad-

ron commander, led thedistribution of hygienekit at the MargaretoLagare ElementarySchool in the village ofNavalan in Tukurantown.

“We hope to replicatethis project in other ar-eas, especially those inthe far-flung places, topromote good hygieneand healthy practiseamong the students,”Batayola told the re-gional newspaperMindanao Examiner.

He said the projectwas in partnership withPagadian City MayorRomeo Pulmones, FAPawnshop and FrederickYap, of Paint Trade; andparticipated by teachersand village officials.(Ferdinand Libor, Jr)

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Kampanya batok sa ilegal ngadroga, gipatutokan ni Aquino

ITAHASAN niP r e s i d e n t eBenigno Aquinoang PhilippineG

Drug Enforcement Agency(PDEA) nga hingosgan ugtutokan ang kampanyabatok sa illegal drug traffick-ing sa nasud.

Sa pulong ngagipahigayon saMalakanyang ning bag-olang nga gitambungan samga pangulo sa nagkalain-laing concerned govern-ment agencies, hugot nga gi-mando ni PNoy nga angaymotutok ang tanangahensiya sa pagpugong sapagkatap sa ilegal nga drogasa nasud dungan sa

pagsumpo sa smuggling ugmanufacturing activitiesniini.

Gipahayag pa ni Aquinonga angay i-prioritize sa mgalaw enforcement agenciesang mga komunidad base salebel sa hulga sa ilegal ngadroga aron masigurong ma-protektahan ang katawhanilabi na ang mga kabataan.

Matud pa ni Communi-cations Secretary HerminioColoma nga ang mando saPresidente naka-ankla sa 5Pillars of Action ubos sa Na-tional Drug Program of Ac-tion 2015 to 2020 - Drug Sup-ply Reduction; Drug DemandReduction; Alternative Devel-opment; Civic Awareness and

Response; ug Regional/In-ternational Cooperation.

Gikumpirmar ni PDEADirector General ArturoCacdac nga sukad tuig 2010hangtud 2014, nikabat na sa13,792 indibidwal angnaaresto tungod sa ilegalnga droga.

Kalabot niini,gipahayag usab ni KalihimJanette Garin sa Depart-ment of Health ngamagpahigayon sila og re-pair, facilities improvementug expansion sa mga drugtreatment ug rehabilitationcenters sa tibuok nasud diinadunay nakagahing pondonga P393 milyon. (Elvira C.Bongosia)

Maj. Gen. Eduardo Año,bag-ong Army chief

APILI si MajorG e n e r a lEduardo Añoisip ika-57 ngaN

commanding general saPhilippine Army.

Gihulipan ni Año si Lt.Gen. Hernando Iriberri ngagibutang usab niPresidente Benigno‘Noynoy’ Aquino III isipbag-ong mamuno sa

Armed Forces of the Philip-pines.

Si Año ni-alagad isippangulo sa 10th InfantryDivision sa Philippine Armynga maoy responsable sapagkapatay sa commandersa New People’s Army nga siLeoncio Pitao alyas‘Kumander Parago’.

Nahitabo angengkwentro niadtong

Hunyo 28 sa BarangayPanalong sa PaquibatoDistrict sa Davao City.

Si Año usab ang hepesa Intelligence Service saArmed Forces sa dihangma-aresto sa hinugpongnga pwersa sa militar ugpolis silang Benito ug Wil-liam Tiamson sa Commu-nist Party of the Philip-pines. (Elvira C. Bongosia)

Director Ricardo Marquez,bag-ong PNP Chief

AT U D L O N Gbag-ong hepesa PhilippineNational Po-N

lice (PNP) si DirectorRicardo Marquez, hepesa Directorate for Op-erations.

Mismong si InteriorSecretary Mar Roxasang ni-anunsyo sa ap-pointment ni Marquez,usa ka two-star generalug miyembro sa Philip-pine Military AcademyClass of 1982 ug mi-alagad isip Regional Di-rector sa Region 1 oIlocos Region.

Nahimo usab nga

dako ang papel niMarquez sa paghikyad saseguridad sa pagbisita niPope Francis sa nasudniadtong Enero.

Pulihan ni Marquezsi PNP officer in chargeDeputy Director GeneralLeonardo Espina.Nikabat sa pito ka bulannga walay permanentengPNP chief humanmasuspinde ug padayonnang natangtang saserbisyo si kanhi PNPchief Alan Purisima.

Lima ang gi-pilianisip PNP chief - apil samga kaubang gi-konsiderar isip PNP

chief silang Deputy Di-rector General DaniloConstantino, chief direc-torial staff; Deputy Di-rector General MarceloGarbo, Deputy Chief forOperations; ang gisibaksa serbisyo nga si ChiefSuperintendent RaulPetrasanta; Police Direc-tor Benjamin Magalong,Criminal InvestigationDetection Group chief;ug Police DirectorJuanito Vaño, Director-ate for Logistics head.

Gitakdang moretirosi Marquez sa Agosto 26,2016. (Elvira C.Bongosia)

Mag-amping sa dengue, leptospirosisA pagsulod sapanahon sa ting-ulan, nipasidaanang Department ofS

Health (DOH) batok sa mgawater-borne diseases ilabina sa dengue ug leptospiro-sis apil na ang diarrhea.

Matud pa ni Dr. LyndonLee Suy, tigpamaba sa DOH,nga human masinati angmga pagbaha, angayhinluan dayon sa publikoang gibahang kabalayan.

Giingong angayseguradohon nga limpyo

ang mga kaga-mitan, ilabayna ang mga pagkaon ngagibaha tungod kaykontamina-do na kini ogmikrobyo ug tan-awon angpalibot alang sa mgaposibleng breeding site samga lamok nga may dalangdengue.

Gi-angkon sa DOH ngadaghang lugar angkanunay bahaon ugadunay pipila nga dilimalikayan nga mosuong satubig-baha mao ngatambag sa ahensya nga

gahinan ang pagbaton ogbotas aron makalikay saleptospirosis.

Giingong kunmosuong sa tubig-baha,angay siguradohong mag-limpyo og maayo sa lawas.Hugot usab nga gidili samga adunay samad sa tiilsa pagsuong sa bahatungod kay giingongsiguradong makakuha ogleptospirosis diin sasamad sa tawo mosulodang mikrobyo. (Elvira C.Bongosia)

Disaster alert sa mga telcos, ipatuman naI T A K D A N Gipatuman nakarong bulansa Hulyo angG

Free Mobile Alert Act oRA 10639 nga nag-mando sa mga tele-communication com-panies nga magpadalaog l ibreng aler to sailang subscribers kunadunay kalamidad.

Kini ang gisegurosa National Telecom-munications Commis-sion (NTC) sa pulong saKamara ning bag-olang. Giingongnahuman na angimplementing rulesand regulaton (IRR) samaong balaod humansa usa ka tuig gikangilagdaan kini ni

Presidente BenignoAquino III ngamahimong balaodniadtong Mayo 2014.

Matud pa sa NTC ngakinahanglan na lamanglagdaan sa mga opisyalsa mga ahensiya sagobyerno ang maongIRR apil na ang NationalDisaster Risk Reductionand Management Coun-cil ug Department ofTransportation andCommunication.

Gipasabot sa NTCnga nalangay kinitungod kay gusto sa mgatelcos nga mag-ilis paunta og mga SIM cardsdiin didto si lamagpadala og l ibrengalerto, butang ngagisupak sa mga nilagda

niini tungod kaynangahulogan lamangkini og duganggalastohon.

Sa katapusan,nauyonan nga sa mgakasamtangang regularSIM card sa mga telcossa ilang mga subscribersipadala ang l ibrengalerto kun adunaykalamidad. Ubos niiningbalaod, maggikan sahingtungdang ahensiyasa gobyerno ang mgaimpormasyong ipadalasa mga telcos sa ilangsubscribers.

Aduna kinigitakdang silot sa mgatelcos nga dili mosunodo magpadala og sayopnga alerto sa publiko.(Elvira C. Bongosia)

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