Animal Planet Starts the Year with a New Lineup for Animal Lovers

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Animal Planet starts the year with shows that can help pet owners and animal lovers in their goal to make 2016 an even better year for their wonderful creatures.

Follow veterinarian Dee Thornell as she treats everything from sled dogs to alpacas to reindeer. She pilots planes, operates four-wheelers and sometimes drives a horse and buggy to reach her patients. 

Dr. Dee and her staff handle extreme cases and even more extreme clients unique to the Alaskan frontier. And whether it is a family with a pet bear or a gold miner with a pet rat, no client is off limits at Dr. Dee’s Animal House! The new episodes of Dr. Dee: Alaska Vet premieres January 18, airing Mondays at 9PM.

Cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy is back, training cats and their owners. Jackson has seen it all, from spastic cats that break up relationships, to violent felines that put their owners in the hospital. Follow Jackson as he brings his unique understanding of cats to families on the verge of giving up on them on My Cat from Hell, premieres January 27, airing Wednesdays, 10 PM.

Geology Summit 2016: Shaping Your Minds This February

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Raise the environmental awareness around you!

With only less than a month to go, the UP Geology Majors' Society brings you its fourth Geology Summit at the National Institute of Geological Sciences, UP Diliman.

See you there!

Aquino Vetoes Proposed Across-the-Board Increase in SSS Pensions

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Quoting the President’s veto message, Coloma said, ‘the President said “…the P2,000 across-the-board pension increase with a corresponding adjustment of the minimum monthly pension will result in substantial negative income for the SSS. More specifically, the proposed pension increase of P2,000.00 per retiree, multiplied by the present number of more than two million pensioners, will result in a total payout of P56 billion annually. Compared against annual investment income of P30 billion – P40 billion, such total payment for pensioners will yield a deficit of P16 billion – P26 billion annually…’” This is really simple mathematics.

On the other hand, some are saying that the SSS pension increase bill would have forced SSS to work at an acceptable standard, else face bankruptcy in 2029. So does this mean SSS would not exert extra effort to prevent itself from going bankrupt?

He would rather provide for the PDAF allocation of senators & congressmen and the president's own PDAF rather than help more than 2 million SSS pensioners! He would rather continue with the biggest criminal syndicate in the country - Congress - rather than help the SSS pensioners many of whom could no longer cope up with the current cost of living!

He is just proving that he and his economic managers have no brains and can not think of any plan/solution to ensure that SSS will not go bankrupt if the proposed additional pension of P2,000 for all SSS pensioners is implemented! 

If the investment income could not finance the implications of a 2,000-peso across the board increase in pensions, then fire your investment managers who couldn't manage the fund well enough to address the pension gaps. And yes, confiscate the fat bonuses for the executives.

Shame on all of them!