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INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines — A bill proposing that students of state universities and colleges (SUCs) wear academic regalia made of local textiles for graduation has been approved by the House of Representatives on second reading. House Bill (HB) No. 7620, the substitute bill to HB No. 4127, was deliberated on by the Committee on Higher and Technical Education last Oct. 22. It was approved via viva voce voting. Under the bill, a Philippine Academic Regalia Council would be created to formulate a National Academic Regalia Policy. The council would be made up of representatives from the following agencies: National Commission for Culture and the Arts National Commission on Indigenous Peoples Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges University of the Philippines System Association of Local Colleges and Universities Department of Trade and Industry The council will also be in charge of ensuring the sustainability, availability, and … [Read more...] about Bill on using neo-ethnic textiles for graduation passes 2nd reading

It’s the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, but it has no police powers. So how can the LTFRB enforce franchise-related laws? During the second Usapan AAP media forum held by the Automobile Association Philippines last October 24, LTFRB board member Al A. Parreno, representing LTFRB chair Jaime Jacob who had to attend a conference called by newly appointed Transportation Secretary Joseph Abaya, admitted that the LTFRB’s biggest problem is enforcement. (The LTFRB has only three board members with Jacob as chair.) Lawyer Parreno said that the LTFRB has only one mobile and sometimes it isn’t even working, so they coordinate with the Philippine National Police to spot and apprehend out-of-line or “colorum” PUVs (buses, jeepneys and taxicabs), provincial buses illegally plying city routes and private vehicles operating as PUVs without a valid franchise. Colorum PUVs clog Edsa and other roads in the National Capital Region, creating traffic jams, polluting the air to … [Read more...] about The LTFRB faces a population of runaway ‘colorum’ vehicles

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Power of Words “Our experts believe, and the data shows, that most of the price increases we’ve seen are temporary.” – President Biden (2021) “We have in recent months seen some inflation ... I personally believe that this represents transitory factors.” – Janet Yellen (2021) “Inflation is likely to be transitory.” – Lael Brainard (2021) “Economists continue to believe that higher inflation is transitory.” – Reuters (2021) “Transitory has different meanings to different people.” – Jerome Powell “Fed officials have worked to clarify that their meaning behind “transitory” inflation is quite different from the public’s.” – Washington Post (2021) “Powell admits the Fed got it wrong on inflation, and says they should stop calling it ‘transitory’.” – Fox Business News (2021) “Democrats are in a tricky position [having] made a tactical error. Their initial messaging strategy labeled inflation as … [Read more...] about What Is Transitory Inflation? (2) The Politics

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin What do you do when you are suddenly tasked with taking over the family farm? Locals know it as the farm with the little grass shack next to Pearlridge. Sumida Farm , a 95-year-old watercress farm on Oʻahu, that most locals toured in elementary school, is bordered by the retail stores, restaurants and parking lots of Pearlridge Center on three sides and a partially finished Honolulu Rail Transit Project, that hovers above busy Kamehameha highway on elevated tracks, on the fourth. The contrast between bright green rows of watercress against a backdrop of a shuttered Sears building with trains shooting through the sky for intermittent testing looks like something straight out of Blade Runner. How has a farm in the center of a shopping mall sustained four generations? Emi and Kyle Suzuki, who took over in March 2020, are figuring that out now, because with each generation a new iteration of the farm is born. … [Read more...] about Envisioning The Future And Sustaining A Legend At Sumida Farm