Expanded: 1-12-15: Profiles of Palawan People Who Make the Difference

©Millennium Media Entertainment

I am interviewing people here in Puerto Princesa that ought to be roll models for others. These people are not One Percenters. but they are the ones who make the wheels turn here, or will someday.

I have set up interviews with people from all walks of life in Puerto, so I can tell their stories through the US Media. This will help Americans know the very real people here.  The goal here is provide Journalistic balance about this 200 mile long island province in the Western Philippines, perhaps the lowest crime rate on Earth.

They are Wholesale/Retailers in the Central Market, business owners, mangers and educators. I plan to tell their stories in the US News Media.  What you’re reading here are what we call Teases or Previews. in the American News Business.

Here’s what I have found:

Edward del Rio, who is a Rice Wholesaler and Retailer. (Pictured here) Highly intelligent and humble man.

When asked about his business, he answered as if he was a Fortune 500 Executive. Ed said, "My business is about providing quality products, good service and maintaining strong relationships with my customers, who trust me.  I think they enjoy me as an entertaining friend, too." More to come about my friend later.

Ed’s business is located in the Old Public Market.

Another discovery is Danny and Lita Gabriel, who are Quality Perfectionists about what they offer Visitors and Locals.

Comeback is where you want to go for  right off the farm, fresh Palawan fruit.  It also has a wonderful selection of Filipino Pastries. 

 

Comeback has a great location, not far from the Provincial Capitol, as you are heading down Rizal toward National Highway.  It’s is in front of a travel company called 3 Colors Ticketing.

 

You really can’t miss it and I hope you can meet Danny and Lita, who are wonderful people.  

 

Their prices are very reasonable and the quality is very high. 

 

I notice Danny and Lita checking the produce daily, to make sure it’s up to their standards. 

 

Everything is Palawan Farm Fresh.

 

(I  shamelessly horned in the picture here)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Their pasty selection is extensive and to die for!

 

You can also get fresh green coconuts, which they will prepare for you. 

 

And, after you drinking your fresh coconut, then you can eat it’s very nutritious meat.  Natural spoon included.

 

Did you know that coconut products are very good for you?  Here, we use coconut vinegar, which is loaded with vitamins.  Coconut oil also has more health benefits than Olive Oil.

I recommended you add Comeback  to your daily routine while in Puerto for a snack or even breakfast.  

I thought I had left quality Pharmacies in the US. I was wrong about that and something else too. This one doesn’t have designer prices!  This is a success story, which I plan to include later  for the US New Media.

I found a very unique one here, that also sells beer and liquor, in addition to snacks, personal items, and light groceries.  I don’t think I know of another pharmacy offering beer and booze, in Puerto.

 

Rite One Pharma is where you should go, if you are staying in this part of the city. 

 

They have about everything you need and even a little patio area, with tables and chairs for customers, in front on their Pharmacy.  Again, something the other Pharmacies here don’t offer customers.

 

You cannot go wrong with this pharmacy,  if you are staying in the airport area.. 

 

Rite One Pharma is walking distance to most of the hotels in the airport area. Also, it is open until midnight.

 

I personally enjoy shopping there because Rite One Pharma’s staff is very friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and after a few visits, they all knew my first name. Now, they are friends of mine.

 

They say there is a story behind every picture.  And in this case, that is true.  I have a a very good friend who is building his wholesale and retail business around coconut oil, coconut vinegar and sugar. 

 

We shall call him Mr. Humble as a working title for this.

 

My friend who says he too shy to allow his picture to be used also sells a wide array of household products.  He has a great story which I am trying to figure how to tell. 

 

The problem is not my Journalism expertise.  It’s him.  He is too humble!  He’s a work in progress and a great example of Filipino Humility.

 

His business however, is across the aisle from Ed de Rio’s.  This  picture is of me standing at Mr. Humble’s store entrance.  Cleary it’s thriving.

 

Below is what I do, if that interests you.

Millennium Media Entertainment is a Television News, Marketing, Programming Development and Content Consulting Firm, continuing to do business in the United States. Millennium is also involved with Television Talent Career and Presentation Development.

President and Chief Executive Officer John Sheehan has over 30 years of Senior Television Management Experience, Consulting Television Station Group Heads, Network Executives, Syndication Presidents, Chief Financial Officers, General Managers, Sales Managers, News Directors and Creative Services Managers about almost every aspect of the Television Business.

Sheehan was Chief News Consultant for Group W Television, later The CBS Owned and Operated Stations in 12 Major US Markets, from 1991 to 1999, responsible for News Content Development, Station Branding and Talent Development.

Besides News, Sheehan consulted several Nationally Syndicated TV Shows including: Win, Lose or Draw, with Burt Reynolds, A Current Affair, The Gail King Show, and Evening Magazine.

Sheehan started Millennium Media Entertainment as a News Program Syndication and Consulting Company in 1999, after being President of the Clemensen Sheehan Rovitto & Company since 1991.

While with CSR, Sheehan worked closely with the CEOs and managements of Allbritton Communications, Anchor Media, CBS Owned and Operated Television Stations, Group W Television (Westinghouse), New World, 20th TELEVISION, Group W Productions, Granite Broadcasting, and CBS’s EYEMARK ENTERTAINMENT.

Sheehan was President and General Manager of Audience Research & Development, from 1988 to 1991. As president, he directed a staff of nearly 60 highly skilled television professionals, providing broadcast research and consulting services to over 120 stations, broadcast and cable networks and syndication clients.

Prior to that, he managed AR&D’s sales efforts from 1985 to 1988, as Vice President of Client Development. During his time with AR&D, Sheehan increased revenues by over 100%, quadrupling the company’s client base.

Before joining AR&D in 1985, Sheehan was Executive Vice President of SRI Research Center, now The Gallup Organization. He started as Production Manager for SRI in late 1977 and within two years was named Executive Vice President, overseeing all market research and financial operations with a staff of more than 80 people.

Sheehan served in the Peace Corps from 1974 to 1977 in the South Pacific. He spent his first year in the region as Director of the Solomon Islands’ Information and Broadcasting Department overseeing a weekly newspaper and the national radio station. He was responsible for each medium’s content, staff development and sales.

In 1974 he was assigned to Kingdom of Tonga as general manager of Tonga Feeds the country’s only source of livestock feed. Sheehan managed all aspects of the company including accounting, inventory, pricing, importing/exporting products, new product development, a farm, government relations, staff development and negotiating foreign aid packages.

When Sheehan left Tonga Feeds, nearly bankrupt when he arrived, the company was earning a 30% profit and influenced 25% of the Kingdom’s economy. Sheehan was offered senior management positions by both the New Zealand and Kingdom of Tonga Governments. He returned to the US in 1977.

Sheehan earned a BA in Journalism from Creighton University. He fluently speaks Tongan and Melanesian Pidgin. He has a working knowledge of Cebuano.

Sheehan also served in The United States Marine Corps.

Below is a partial list of the stations and companies that Sheehan has had working relationships with, during his 30 plus year career:

American Station Groups and US Production/Programming Companies

Allbritton Communications

Anchor Media

ABC News

Belo

Buena Vista Television

CBS News

CBS Television Stations

Cox Communications

EYEMARK Entertainment

Gannett Television

Group W Productions

Group W Television

Granite Broadcasting

Guy Gannet Broadcasting

Hearst Argyle Television

NBC Universal

New World Television

Storer Television

20th TELEVISION (FOX)

United/Cris-Craft Television

US Television Stations

Waga Atlanta

Wjz Baltimore

Wbz Boston

Wsbk Boston

Wbbm Chicago

Wjw Cleveland

Koaa Colorado Springs

Wdtn Dayton

Whio Dayton

Kdfw Dallas

Kcnc Denver

Kcci Des Moines

Wdiv Detroit

Wjbk Detroit

Wtvx Ft. Pierce

Wlbt Jackson

Kctv Kansas City

Wdaf Kansas City

Kcbs Los Angeles

Kcop Los Angeles

Wfor Miami

Wtvj Miami

Witi Milwaukee

Wcco Minneapolis

Wsmv Nashville

Wcbs New York

Wesh Orlando

Week Peoria

Kyw Philadelphia

Kpho Phoenix

Ksaz Phoenix

Kdka Pittsburgh

WTAE Pittsburgh

Katu Portland, OR

Wgme Portland, MA

Wtvr Richmond

Wset Roanoke

Wrex Rockford

Kovr Sacramento

Kutv Salt Lake City

Ksbw Salinas

King Seattle

Kmol San Antonio

(Woai)

Knsd San Diego

Kpix San Francisco

Wggb Springfield

Wtvt Tampa

Wtsp St. Petersburg

Clients (Non-Television)

Anheuser Busch

Brinker International

Cargill

Norwest Banking

Omaha World Herald

Over 75 free Circulation Newspapers

Pulitzer Publishing

Village Inn

Wendys International

Contact:

John Sheehan

Millennium Media Entertainment

johntsheehanmme@gmail.com

http://johnsheehan17.blogspot.com/

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I have a background in research and Intel from my younger days.  You simply look for patterns or what doesn’t belong.  Pretty simple to be able to see what is coming or why something has occurred.  Just watch for patterns or what doesn't belong.

The last several months as I have been covering China and Southeast Asia, I have been pretty much right about what really has been and is going on.

 

Anyhow, I was on record months ago saying that the newly installed Party Standing Committee Members (Princelings) in China were not the reformists as hoped and pined about in the mainstream press.
  

 
For those who don’t know what this Committee does, it is simple.  Nothing moves in China, without there knowledge and consent.  Nothing is implemented that the Princelings didn’t conceive or approve of. 

 

They absolutely control anything their media does or says.  And, they closely control what news content the Chinese people hear from overseas.  This is one of the pillars of control over their people. 

And, their processors are not out to pasture or sitting on the beach in tropical Hainan. 

They still wield tremendous power and influence.  It is important to note that at the end of each day, this is how China is run. 

 

All versions of government departments or ministries report to these Princelings or Taishito. (In Chinese). 

 

I read  that an MIT Professor said no one should be too alarmed yet about China’s announcement about boarding ships in the South China Sea, beginning January 1, 2013.  The good professor says the new legislation “wasn’t passed down from Beijing, as far as I can tell.” 

 

Two things come to mind.  This would be expert isn’t one.  If he was, he would know that the new Chinese policy is straight from the Standing Committee of Princelings and endorsed by the previous Committee leaders.  There is absolutely no way on earth the Hainan provincial government made such a major move by themselves.  None.

 

Next, I read recently that some one in the US State department was wondering if the Chinese weren’t simply testing international reactions.  They are not.  Nor were they insincere about their bogus territorial claims (Maps) on Chinese Passports. 

 

Once the Chinese do these things, they can’t take them back.  No. There is no huffing or puffing about the new passports or boarding other countries’ ships, possibly arresting crews and impounding ships and cargo.

 

China has hit the point of no return on their claimed possession of the third largest sea on earth and where just over half of the world’s cargo passes through.  Backing down now would make the Chinese leadership appear as cowards or blowhards to their people.  

What will come next is their taxing shipping in the South China Sea, assuming their grand scheme is successful.  They need money.  It won't be.

The best indicator for knowing when they themselves see problems with their economy is when they ignite the fires of nationalism in the Chinese people, to distract them. 

 

China’s leaders did this last September when they enraged their people against Japan over World War II history and their claims to Japan’s Senkaku Islands. 

 

There were riots against Japanese companies and personnel in China.  Upside was that the Standing Committee distracted their people for a month.  However there was a down side. 

 

The Japanese companies have reduced their output in China due to record low sales, meaning thousands of Chinese workers have been laid off. Whoops.

 

Japan is China’s second largest trading partner, after the US.  At risk is $345 billion in annual turn over in China, by Japan companies.  A recent Reuters survey indicated that 37% of Japanese companies in China may relocate to Southeast Asia.  Japan’s investments in SE Asia are now nearly $ 2 Billion doubling last year’s. 

 

Also, SE Asia is the fourth largest importer of US exports in the world, not to mention some the region’s countries are US Allies of America’s.  I personally believe that the US is letting China hang itself, for now.  Don’t forget either that Obama is betting heavily on SE Asia for future trade.

 

That is cutting your nose off to spite your face.  And, if China had two noses, they would both be gone now.

 

China's Claims. Hainan is at the top.

That is why they moved on to even more aggressiveness in the South China Sea. 

 

They needed to rile their people up again.  But, boarding other nations’ ships in international waters, over a preposterous claim, sounds like an act of piracy.

Why is that any different then what the Somali pirates have been doing?

I am weary of the mainline press’ ongoing consultation about China woven into their content, which says we have to understand the Princelings and let these reformists have enough room to be effective.  Just at what?  Makes me wonder just how tied Time Warner and Bloomberg are to China?

 

Neither has been critical of China. Bloomberg gushed for paragraphs about how the new Chinese carrier was named, as it was a puppy and not a weapon.  Instead they pointed their yellow journalism guns at Philippines.  

Time has questioned if there were two dynasties vying for control of the Philippines, as if it was some Latin American banana republic. A fair election was held. No dynastic quarrel.

 

The previous President, whose term was over and many of her political appointments have been charged with graft and corruption. So have many other corrupt politicians and civil servants. That’s all there is to it.

Time Magazine published an article by some grad students at the University of California, Berkley which claimed the Filipino people where divided over America’s military protection. 

 

I doubt the grad students were ever in the Philippines and why would Time publish something that lame by some kids? 

Maybe some of them were relatives of Princelings.  I'm half serious about that. Regardless, it was very far from being remotely true.

 

One of the little know benefits of China’s Princelings are their relatives, many of whom have Ivy League educations.  Hire them and you are wired into major China deals, which can be lucrative, if you are an American financial institution.  

It was reported today that the Security Exchange Commission is investigating Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd., Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP, KPMG Huazhen and Pricewaterhouse Coopers Zhong Tian CPAs Limited for refusing to cooperate on accounting fraud by nine Chinese companies listed on New York exchanges.

 

These Big Four American Auditors say they don’t have to cooperate, since Chinese law doesn’t oblige them to.  Forgive me, but this isn’t about Chinese law.  These companies must comply with American Laws or be delisted. This is another example of misguided arrogance by the Chinese. 

They demand to be on the Wall Street Exchanges and unregulated, plus own the South China Sea, board ships at will, blackmail Japan and menace the smaller SE Asian nations. 

 

How far do they think all of this will get them?  China has damaged itself in Asia and the US, for some time. 

India announced today that it is sending a fleet to protect their interests in the South China Sea.  The Philippines believes that just about anything to do with China and the South China Sea is illegal and Japan was been softly saying it may have to beef up its defense force.

America has stepped up its military presence.  None of this good.

One of Two US Fleets Operating in Asia

US Marine Harriers

Conventional Wisdom tell us that abused children grow into abusive adults.  I don’t think that anyone could argue that the Chinese have been until recently, the most abused people in contemporary history.  

They were abused terribly by the Europeans and their own warlords for over 100 years, then beyond belief by the Japanese during World War Two.

 

They had it very rough under Mao & Company, until about 30 years ago when they go a punk ticket to the world’s economy, which they have abused over and over.  But, their latest shenanigans are too much and very dangerous.

The world is running out of patience with unfair business practices and intellectual property theft, as well.  Maybe this is why China was not invited to participate in the International Space Station, with the rest of the world community?

 

They have created levels of economic elites, who are a minority of population.  These people are increasingly outraged at being left out and the wholesale government corruption existing in their country. 

 

Unless you are born right, you won’t be on the Standing Committee, own Mercedes or go to Harvard.  

There must be a shelf life for all the crises the Chinese government can contrive to distract the masses away from the glaring internal problems, China needs to address. 

 

Sooner or later, these Princelings will have to face the music of the common man and the world.

 

 

About Millennium Entertainment  

John Sheehan

President

President and Chief Executive Officer John Sheehan has over 30 years of Senior Television Management Experience, Consulting Television Station Group Heads, Network Executives, Syndication Presidents, Chief Financial Officers, General Managers, Sales Managers, News Directors and Creative Services Managers about almost every aspect of the Television Business.  

  

Sheehan was Chief News Consultant for Group W Television, later The CBS Owned and Operated Stations in 12 Major US Markets, from 1991 to 1999, responsible for News Content Development, Station Branding and Talent Development.

 

Besides News, Sheehan consulted several Nationally Syndicated TV Shows including: Win, Lose or Draw, with Burt Reynolds, A Current Affair, The Gail King Show, and Evening Magazine.

 

Sheehan started Millennium Media Entertainment as a News Program Syndication and Consulting Company in 1999, after being President of the Clemensen Sheehan Rovitto & Company since 1991. 

 

While with CSR, Sheehan worked closely with the CEOs and managements of Allbritton Communications, Anchor Media, CBS Owned and Operated Television Stations, Group W Television (Westinghouse), New World, 20th TELEVISION, Group W Productions, Granite Broadcasting, and CBS’s EYEMARK ENTERTAINMENT.

 

Sheehan was President and General Manager of Audience Research & Development, from 1988 to 1991.  As president, he directed a staff of nearly 60 highly skilled television professionals, providing broadcast research and consulting services to over 120 stations, broadcast and cable networks and syndication clients. 

 

Prior to that, he managed AR&D’s sales and marketing from 1985 to 1988, as Vice President of Client Development.  During his time with AR&D, Sheehan increased revenues by over 100%, quadrupling the company’s client base.

 

Before joining AR&D in 1985, Sheehan was Executive Vice President of SRI Research Center, now The Gallup Organization.  He started as Production Manager for SRI in 1978 and within two years, was named Executive Vice President, overseeing all market research and financial operations with a staff of more than 80 people. 

 

Prior to SRI, Sheehan served in the Peace Corps from 1974 to 1978 in the South Pacific.  He spent his first year in the region as Director of the Solomon Islands’ Information and Broadcasting Department overseeing a weekly newspaper and the national radio station.  He was responsible for each medium’s content, staff development and sales.

 

In 1974 he was assigned to Kingdom of Tonga as general manager of Tonga Feeds the country’s only source of livestock feed.  Sheehan managed all aspects of the company including accounting, inventory, pricing, importing/exporting products, new product development, a farm, government relations, staff development and negotiating foreign aid packages. 

 

When Sheehan left Tonga Feeds, nearly bankrupt when he arrived, the company was earning a 30% profit and influenced 25% of the Kingdom’s economy.  Sheehan was offered senior management positions by both the New Zealand and Kingdom of Tonga Governments.  He returned to the US in 1978.

 

Sheehan earned a BA in Journalism from Creighton University. 

 

Sheehan  spent many years in Asia and the Pacific. He is fluent in two languages, plus understands two others. MME Asia has a foot in both worlds, understanding the SE Asian (Particularly the Philippines) Cultures and also how things are done in the US.

 

Contact Information is below, as well as information about Millennium Media Entertainment.

 

Station Groups, Production,

and Programming Syndication Companies

Allbritton Communications

Anchor Media

ABC News

Belo

Buena Vista Television

CBS News

CBS Television Stations

Cox Communications

EYEMARK Entertainment

Gannett Television

GroupW Productions

Group W Television

Granite Broadcasting

Hearst Argyle Television

NBC Universal

New World Television

Storer Television

          20^th TELEVISION (FOX)

United/Cris-Craft Television

Television Stations

Waga  Atlanta

Wjz      Baltimore

Wbz     Boston

Wsbk   Boston

Wbbm  Chicago

Wjw     Cleveland

Koaa    Colorado Springs

Wdtn  Dayton

Whio   Dayton

Kdfw   Dallas

Kcnc    Denver

Kcci     Des Moines

Wdiv   Detroit

Wjbk   Detroit

Wtvx  Ft. Pierce

Wlbt  Jackson

Kctv   Kansas City

Wdaf  Kansas City

Kcbs    Los Angeles

Kcop   Los Angeles

Wfor  Miami

Wtvj   Miami

Witi    Milwaukee

Wcco  Minneapolis

Wsmv Nashville

Wcbs  New York

Wesh  Orlando

Week  Peoria

Kyw    Philadelphia

Kpho  Phoenix

Ksaz   Phoenix

Kdka  Pittsburgh

WTAE Pittsburgh

Katv  Portland, OR

Wgme Portland, MA

Wtvr  Richmond

Wset   Roanoke

Wrex  Rockford

Kovr  Sacramento

Kutv  Salt Lake City

Ksbw  Salinas

King  Seattle

Kmol San Antonio

(Woai)

Knsd  San Diego

Kpix   San Francisco

Wggb Springfield

Wtvt Tampa

Wtsp Tampa

 

Contact information is below.

John Sheehan
Millennium Media Entertainment
johntsheehanmme@gmail.com
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