Congrats, Madam Auring! By Gonzalo Duque CONGRATULATIONS! We felicitate the Dagupan City Schools Division headed by Supt. Dr. Aurora Domingo for placing First among the 13 school divisions in the recent National Career Assessment Test (NCAT) in the whole Ilocos Region. I used to annoy them for not scoring well…
Exploitation unlimited By Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Exploitation is a reality that leaves a foul taste in the mouth, a shameful thought in one’s sound value system. It generally connotes appropriating something while giving nothing back in due return. In more plain language, exploitation forwards the shameful phenomenon of…
Drying with rice hull-fed furnace eliminates kerosene cost By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Farmers, cooperatives and rice millers using recirculating batch dryer for grain drying may now replace the kerosene burner with a rice hull-fed furnace as source of heat and be spared from the spiraling cost of non-renewable petroleum-based fuel….
Reform the tax law By Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The injunction for both Houses of Congress to “Reform the tax law” seems to have been officially given on the occasion of the last glorious and glorified State of the Nation Address (SONA). In the event that such is really…
Decongesting Dagupan By Gerry Garcia SHOPPING in this city’s business center, especially for car-riding commuters from outside Dagupan, has become a chore next to the impossible of being achieved. Why? First of all, because our streets in the downtown area narrow and filled to the brim with passenger jeepneys and…
Waterless folk By Jun Velasco A VERY powerful, hair-raising (?) campaign against formula milk which is being valiantly fought by Pingkoy Duque’s DoH shows a puppy suckling from a mother dog, a piglet from a mother pig and, here’s the punchline, human babies suckling from animal cows! Shocking? Read on….
A proactive PACU By Gonzalo Duque THE barangay and Kabataang Barangay elections are only two months away. We advise those who are training their eyes on becoming officials to avoid being controversial these days. The President has his “listening centers” all over the country and won’t hesitate to apply the…
Strength By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. In general, strength is an asset—a potential for doing well, a capacity for doing good. This is true for physical, intellectual or emotional strength. The same is true for economic and/or political strength. It is especially true of moral strength which is the…
Embryo transfer in goats successful at CLSU-SRC By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Researchers of the CLSU Small Ruminant Center (SRC) and the Philippine Carabao Center have successfully shown that embryo transfer could be done in goats. Despite a minimal budget of PhP350,000 for four years since September 2005, the SRC embryo…
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