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Planning for Panagbenga 2017 starts
PostDateIconSaturday, 05 March 2016 07:32 | PostAuthorIconWritten by juliegfianza
BAGUIO CITY – Even before Baguio Flower Festival 2016 ended, plans for Panagbenga 2017 are put into place, in coordination with city officials; with suggestions from visitors and local citizens.
According to Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio (HRAB) officer Anthony de Leon and Chief of Staff Evangeline Payno, the secretariat accepts all feedback for improvements in future flower festival celebrations.
De Leon added the festival is a continuous work in progress, thus suggestions for a longer parade route, and more landscapes at the Botanical garden and Bayan Park, Aurora Hill are looked into. Miracle gardens are planned with a tripartite body; the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation, Inc. (BFFFI), DOT and the local government of Baguio.
Trainings for cultural dancers and landscapers have been done, de Leon said, with a training for float makers and musicians on the planning board. A Baguio Chamber of Music is envisioned, he added.
A collaborative effort for neighboring municipalities' festivals is growing, with La Union and La Trinidad festival events done close to Panagbenga. A bigger budget for drum and lyre competition is also seen, with more invited groups from other places, for "cultural variety."
Domogan envisions a more improved Melvin Jones and Athletic Bowl, both at Burnham Park for the next festival season, fenced-in additional seats for spectators, substantial renovation and matured grass within the running oval. A thorough evaluation however is needed before the improvements are done, he said.
The all-morning local television coverage for the Panagbenga 2017 street dancing parade shall be worked out, he said. Home-bound spectators would once more witness said event, the mayor added.
Department of Tourism (DOT) Regional Director Venus Tan, during the Panagbenga Kapihan at Session road, said the all-year round blooming and regreening project goes on. This is supposed to start along Central Business District's building facades, in support of Panagbenga 2017.
De Leon added that taxes, at least P2.6M were paid to the city coffers and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), from the Session road in Bloom and Baguio Blooms.
All documents including the audited report is submitted to the BIR and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) within August this year, de Leon said.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan, said that all participants, volunteers, supporters including the Baguio City Police Office personnel and other assigned personnel made Panagbenga a "resounding success." Having a festival of this magnitude is not possible without them, he added.
Philippine Information Agency (PIA-CAR) Regional Director Helen Tibaldo said Panagbenga 2016 is a "community pride," where parochial interests were set aside.
The Baguio Flower Festival's accreditation with the International Festival and Events Association (IFEA) was also delved into. A subsidy, promotions abroad, trainings with scholarship, and nominations for the outstanding communication sector, participant and volunteer may be forwarded to IFEA, it was known.
If the streak goes on, Panagbenga lives up to its name of being the "trailblazer" and "benchmark" festival, as earlier mentioned by the DOT.
DOT RD Tan said she is pleased with Panagbenga 2016's success. -juliegfianza
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Ohio State University history Professor Robert Davis describes the White Slave Trade as minimized by most modern historians in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan). Davis estimates that 1 million to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast), 16th- and 17th-century customs statistics suggest that Istanbul's additional slave import from the Black Sea may have totaled around 2.5 million from 1450 to 1700. The markets declined after the loss of the Barbary Wars and finally ended in the 1830s, when the region was conquered by France.
Hundreds of thousands of Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. These slave raids were conducted largely by Arabs and Berbers rather than Ottoman Turks. However, during the height of the Barbary slave trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Barbary states were subject to Ottoman jurisdiction and ruled by Ottoman pashas. Furthermore, many slaves captured by the Barbary corsairs were sold eastward into Ottoman territories before, during, and after Barbary's period of Ottoman rule.
The Barbary Muslim pirates kidnapped Europeans from ships in North Africa’s coastal waters (Barbary Coast). They also attacked and pillaged the Atlantic coastal fishing villages and town in Europe, enslaving the inhabitants. Villages and towns on the coast of Italy, Spain, Portugal and France were the hardest hit. Muslim slave-raiders also seized people as far afield as Britain, Ireland and Iceland.
In 1544, the island of Ischia off Naples was ransacked, taking 4,000 inhabitants prisoners, while some 9,000 inhabitants of Lipari Island off the north coast of Sicily were enslaved.870 Turgut Reis, a Turkish pirate chief, ransacked the coastal settlements of Granada (Spain) in 1663 and carried away 4,000 people as slaves. In 1625, Barbary pirates captured the Lund Island in the Bristol Channel and planted the standard of Islam. From this base, they went ransacking and pillaging surrounding villages and towns, causing a stunning spectacle of mayhem, slaughter and plunder. According to Milton, ‘Day after day, they struck at unarmed fishing communities, seizing the inhabitants, and burning their homes. By the end of the dreadful summer of 1625, the mayor of Plymouth reckoned that 1,000 skiffs had been destroyed and similar number of villagers carried off into slavery.’871 Between 1609 and 1616, the Barbary pirates ‘captured a staggering 466 English trading ships.’
In 1627, Pirates went on a pillaging and enslaving campaign to Iceland. After dropping anchor at Reykjavik, his forces ransacked the town and returned with 400 men, women and children and sold them in Algiers. In 1631, he made a voyage with a brigand of 200 pirates to the coast of Southern Ireland and ransacked and pillaged the village of Baltimore, carrying away 237 men, women and children to Algiers.
The barbaric slave-raiding activities of the Muslim pirates had a telling effect on Europe. France, England, and Spain lost thousands of ships, devastating to their sea-borne trade. Long stretches of the coast in Spain and Italy were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants until the nineteenth century. The finishing industry was virtually devastated.
Paul Baepler’s White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives lists a collection of essays by nine American captives held in North Africa. According to his book, there were more than 20,000 white Christian slaves by 1620 in Algiers alone; their number swelled to more than 30,000 men and 2,000 women by the 1630s. There were a minimum of 25,000 white slaves at any time in Sultan Moulay Ismail’s palace, records Ahmed ez-Zayyani; Algiers maintained a population of 25,000 white slaves between 1550 and 1730, and their numbers could double at certain times. During the same period, Tunis and Tripoli each maintained a white slave population of about 7,500. The Barbary pirates enslaved some 5,000 Europeans annually over a period of nearly three centuries.
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Express yourself! At least feel free to do it online, knowing that the UN Human Rights Council now backs your right to do so. In a new, non-binding resolution, the UN condemns deliberate “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” This condemnation means the UN is against governments shutting down the Internet at any time, and especially during times where information must be urgently disseminated, such as during an election or immediately after a terror attack.
Not only this, but the resolution also focuses on the freedom of expression online, security concerns surrounding this expression, accountability on all human rights violations, and an effort to expand and provide Internet access to those to whom it’s currently unavailable.
Another one of the resolution's explicit goals is to bridge the gender digital divide and make it easier for people with disabilities to access the Internet on top of protecting those that are already online.
This resolution is covers aspects of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which asserts: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
The UN is expanding the scope of this article to the Internet, which builds on a 2012 UN resolution on Internet free speech that affirmed “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online.”
"The same rights that people have offline must also be protected online."
The resolution received pushback from countries like Russia, Cuba, China, and about 14 other countries have their qualms about helping people gain access to and use the internet freely.
This is not too shocking as many of these countries have placed limitations on internet access and its use within their own borders. Recently, China has ramped up its efforts to censor news that comes from social media outlets, according to The New York Times.
Luckily more than 70 countries rejected the revisions made by this minority opposition and adopted the resolution that emphasizes “the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet.” Although the resolution cannot be legally enforced, it is still a powerful move as we move further into the Digital Age.
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