tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77491162024-03-05T10:36:19.510-08:00The PolitiCat and the NEWS in the CITYThe news today is history tomorrow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-27180410608870584372012-08-28T13:30:00.000-07:002012-08-28T13:30:07.142-07:00Hurrricane Isaac is now coming<br />
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Isaac is now a hurricane which is expected to landfall on Tuesday night in New Orleans and Louisiana. Here is the <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/28/13521127-its-now-hurricane-isaac-as-new-orleans-hunkers-down?lite">news</a>: </div>
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Isaac finally reached hurricane strength on Tuesday, closing in on New Orleans and the entire Louisiana coast as a slow-moving giant expected to make landfall Tuesday night and then dump up to 20 inches of rain in some spots.</div>
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"It's going to be a long period of really bad weather" for the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts as well as areas inland, National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb told MSNBC. </div>
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said he expects his city "will get the brunt of it."</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-41734387831492047832012-08-28T12:47:00.000-07:002012-08-28T12:47:03.353-07:00Chief Justice Sereno discloses her SALNTo avoid the problem in the future regarding wealth and properties, Chief Sereno disclosed her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth. Here is the <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/08/28/12/sereno-okays-full-disclosure-her-salns">news:</a><br />
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MANILA, Philippines - One of the first official acts of newly appointed Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is to authorize the unconditional disclosure of her Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) to the public. <br /><br />Sereno informed the other 13 justices of her decision for full disclosure of her SALNs during today's en banc session which she presided for the first time as chief magistrate.</div>
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Her move will no longer entail compliance of a June 13 resolution issued by the high court on the manner by which SALNs of justices and judges may be released to the public.</div>
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The resolution identifies the guidelines requesting parties should comply with for the release of the SALNs. The high court says this will ensure that “requests for SALNs must be made under circumstances that must not endanger, diminish or destroy the independence, and objectivity of the members of the Judiciary in the performance of their judicial functions or expose them to revenge for adverse decisions, kidnapping, extortion, blackmail or other untoward incidents.”</div>
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Sereno's decision covers all her SALNs since she was appointed to the high court in 2010.<br /><br />Early this year, Sereno, together with Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, released to the public a summary of their SALNs.<br /><br />Sereno's predecessor, former Chief Justice Renato Corona, was convicted by the Senate Impeachment Court for non-disclosure of all his assets in his SALNs in spite of his insistence that it is not an impeachable offense.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-54706714135746707592012-08-27T12:28:00.003-07:002012-08-27T12:28:58.488-07:00Hundreds of quakes shook San Diego<br />
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"A swarm" of several hundred earthquakes, the strongest measuring a 5.5 magnitude, were centered east of San Diego near California's border with Mexico on Sunday afternoon but caused little damage, seismologists said.</div>
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Sunday's shaking in Southern California's Imperial Valley was the most activity recorded there since the 1970s, according to U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones.</div>
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"We are having a swarm," Jones said. "We expect thousands of events (like this) over several days."</div>
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In Brawley, the town closest to the center of the swarm, a Fire Department dispatcher said there were no reports of injuries so far. Brawley is about 100 miles east of San Diego and about 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles.hundreds of </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-36122578465435890152012-08-27T12:26:00.001-07:002012-08-27T12:26:23.825-07:00Philippines is worried of prortectionsim in other advanced economies<br />
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Should some countriesd implement its protection policies, Philippines business remittances will be affected.</div>
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Here is the <a href="http://business.inquirer.net/78964/protectionism-threatens-ph-remittances">news: </a></div>
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is concerned about the growing protectionism in many advanced economies, particularly on employment in the services sector, describing it as a threat on <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/78964/protectionism-threatens-ph-remittances#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">investments</span></a> in the country’s <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/78964/protectionism-threatens-ph-remittances#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook1w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">business</span></a> process outsourcing sector.</div>
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Such a stance may reduce overseas employment opportunities for Filipinos, and affect the country’s remittances.</div>
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According to BSP Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo, governments of some advanced economies, and a few from the Middle East, have been discouraging employers in their countries from outsourcing jobs or from hiring migrant workers.</div>
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He said the Philippines, as well as other developing economies affected by protectionist policies on the services sector, should speak up against such policies.</div>
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The Philippines has submitted several papers on protectionist policies in the services sector to international bodies, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Guinigundo said.</div>
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“The wave of protectionism seems to be rising,” Guinigundo told reporters. “This is going to affect countries like the Philippines.”</div>
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If protectionist policies in the services sector intensify, Guinigundo said, this will significantly affect growth of the Philippines and other developing or emerging economies.</div>
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In the case of the Philippines, a significant portion of the estimated $1 billion to $2 billion in foreign direct investments every year is accounted for by investments in the BPO sector.</div>
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Also, remittances from Filipinos based abroad, which amounted to about $20 billion last year, helped fuel consumption of at least 10 percent of households in the country.</div>
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The Philippines is the fourth biggest recipient of remittances in the world, next to China, India and Mexico.</div>
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Guinigundo said protectionist policies would not only harm developing countries, but also employers from those countries that have adopted these policies.</div>
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Some firms in the United States, for instance, are able to withstand its sluggish <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/78964/protectionism-threatens-ph-remittances#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook2w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">economic</span></a> performance because they are able to reduce operation <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/78964/protectionism-threatens-ph-remittances#" id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook3w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">costs</span></a> through outsourcing. Labor costs in the Philippines and other developing countries are much lower than in the advanced economies, he noted.</div>
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The adoption of such policies is not the way to move the global economy forward, he added.</div>
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philippines is worUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-74913659301529222292012-08-26T13:16:00.000-07:002012-08-26T13:16:07.043-07:00Massive Typhoon in Japan<br />
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Here id the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/26/world/asia/typhoon-bolaven/index.html?hpt=hp_t1">news</a> for the destructive typhoon in Japan.</div>
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A massive typhoon crossed over Okinawa on Sunday, bringing winds more ferocious than even the typhoon-weary Japanese island has seen in decades.</div>
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Typhoon Bolaven, with wind gusts that reached as high as 259 kilometers per hour (161 mph), is the strongest to strike the region in nearly 50 years. And with a cloud field of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), it is 20 times larger than Okinawa's length.</div>
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"It's been very, very severe," said storm chaser James Reynolds, who was on the northwestern coast of the island during the worst of the storm.<span style="font-size: 14px;">Tree branches were flying through the air amid torrential rain, he said.</span></div>
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The infrastructure on Okinawa is designed to withstand violent storms. "Everything's made of solid concrete," said Reynolds.</div>
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Later, driving toward the capital, Naha, during the middle of the night, he saw some power outages but no major infrastructure damage.</div>
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"Many other countries could learn a lot from Okinawa," Reynolds said.</div>
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The last storm of this scale was Typhoon Naha in 1956.</div>
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At 3 a.m. Monday local time (2 p.m. ET Sunday), Bolaven had winds of 194 kilometers per hour, with gusts at 240 kilometers per hour, CNN International meteorologist Jennifer Delgado reported.</div>
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Bolaven could make landfall at the Korean peninsula on Tuesday morning, or potentially in South Korea on Monday night, Delgado said.</div>
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The psychological test results of the new Chief Justice of Supreme Court was found to be low. Here is the <a href="http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/08/27/psycho-test-palace-plays-down-serenos-low-score/">news</a>:</div>
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The Palace on Sunday played down reports claiming that newly appointed Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno scored low in a psychological test required by the Judicial and Bar Council, saying the leaked information was unverified.</div>
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“We do not want to comment on the supposed results. The sources of the report have not been verified. It is an unconfirmed report,” said deputy presidential spokeswoman Abigail Valte.</div>
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She said there was no official statement from the council on the subject.</div>
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A daily newspaper (not the <strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manila Standard</strong>) on Friday published alleged leaked information about the psychological tests, which allegedly had Sereno and Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza scoring a 4 on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the lowest.</div>
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The report also said the test results characterized Sereno as “dramatic and emotional.”</div>
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Sereno took her oath before President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday, making her the first female chief magistrate with a potential to serve for the next 18 years before reaching the retirement age of 70.</div>
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“Everyone can be assured of independence of the chief justice,” Sereno told reporters after the Palace ceremony, addressing concerns that she was beholden to the President who appointed her to the Court in 2010.</div>
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Valte also denied the claims by some groups that Sereno would be a Palace puppet in the high court.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-9282709343123122612012-08-25T16:57:00.001-07:002012-08-25T16:57:54.094-07:00Neil Armstrong, the First Man in the Moon Died<br />
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He was the first man to walk on the moon and now he died at age 82. Here is the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/us/neil-armstrong-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c1">news</a>:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died, his family said Saturday. He was 82.</span></div>
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"We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures," Armstrong's family said in a statement.</div>
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Armstrong underwent heart surgery this month.</div>
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"While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around the world to work hard to make their dreams come true, to be willing to explore and push the limits, and to selflessly serve a cause greater than themselves," his family said.</div>
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Maria Lourdes Sereno was sworn in as the first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines after she was appointed by President Benigno Aquino. Here is the <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/08/25/12/sereno-officially-sworn-chief-justice">news:</a></div>
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MANILA (1st UPDATE) - The new Chief Justice, Maria Lourdes Aranal Sereno, has taken her oath of office before President Aquino in Malacañang a day after the Palace announced her appointment.</div>
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Sereno was accompanied by her husband Mario Jose Sereno and children Maria Sophia and Jose Lorenzo.</div>
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Former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban and other members of Supreme Court attended Sereno's oath-taking, including Associate Justices Martin Villarama, Mariano del Castillo, Bienvenido Reyes, and Estela Perlas-Bernabe.</div>
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Justice Secretary Leila de Lima congratulated Sereno, giving her a buss on the cheek after the oath-taking.</div>
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De Lima said she feels no rancor now even after she was disqualified by the Judicial and Bar Council in the final selection process due to a pending disbarment case against her.</div>
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"I congratulated her and I said that the Supreme Court will now be in good hands," de Lima told reporters.</div>
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"Her youth and brillance would go a long way in ensuring that we can look forward to a judiciary that would be worthy of the people's trust," de Lima added.</div>
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It was also at the Palace where Sereno first took her oath as the President’s first appointee to the Supreme Court in August 2010.</div>
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Today, Sereno becomes the first female chief justice of the country.</div>
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At the age of 52, Sereno will serve a term of 18 years until her age of retirement at 70.</div>
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Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda earlier said that the President Aquino chose Sereno, believing that she can lead the judiciary in carrying out “much-needed reforms.”</div>
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Lacierda added that the judiciary now has a “historic opportunity to restore the people’s confidence in the judicial system.”fem</div>
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The raid and killing of Bin Laden is now in the book. Here is the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/us/navy-seal-book-bin-laden/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">news:</a></div>
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A book company said Wednesday that it will release on September 11 a firsthand account of the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.</div>
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Christine Ball, director of marketing and publicity for Dutton, a subsidiary of Penguin Group USA, said the book was written by a Navy SEAL under a pen name.</div>
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The book is entitled "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden."</div>
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A Department of Defense official said the SEAL is no longer on active duty.</div>
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U.S. Special Operations Command has not reviewed the book or approved it, the official said. Officials only recently became aware the former SEAL was writing a book but were told it encompasses more than just the raid and includes vignettes from training and other missions.</div>
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They would like to see a copy, the official said, to make sure no classified information is released or the book contains any information that might out one of the team members.</div>
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Officials have been told that some of the profits are going to charity.</div>
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About two dozen U.S. Special Operations members and two helicopters were involved in the raid early May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed bin Laden.</div>
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The raid occurred in a span of 38 minutes, after CIA reports of repeated sightings of a tall man doing "prison yard walks" around the yard of the housing compound in Abbottabad, which was under constant surveillance, a official said on condition of anonymity a few days after the raid.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-40192509169265620912012-08-22T15:54:00.001-07:002012-08-22T15:54:06.110-07:00PRince Harry Naked in Vegas<br />
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The naked pictures of Prince Harry in Vegas ere conffirmed by the Palace that it is him. Here is the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/showbiz/prince-harry-photos/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">news:</a> </div>
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas -- unless you're Prince Harry and TMZ publishes pictures of you cavorting naked during a game of strip billiards.</div>
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The tabloid website posted the photos online Tuesday night. It said the romp featuring the royal, who is third in line to the throne, took place four days earlier at a "high rollers hotel suite" on the Las Vegas strip.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">One photo shows Harry, stark naked but for a wristwatch and a necklace. His hands cup his genitals. His face is turned toward the television set in the suite. And his body partially shields that of another person, also naked.</span></div>
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A second picture shows him hugging a woman from behind next to a pool table. Both are naked.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-36034308202762444242012-08-22T15:48:00.000-07:002012-08-22T15:48:05.213-07:00Commission on Appointments to confirm DILG Secretary RobredoAfter five times of refusing to confirm the appointment of the late DILG Secretary Robredo, Commission on Appointments is doing it posthumously. Here is the <a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=840875&publicationSubCategoryId=63">news:</a><br />
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With or without a confirmation of his appointment by the Commission on Appointments (CA), the late Jesse Robredo will still be in the official roster of interior and local government secretaries.</div>
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Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, chairman of the CA, made this clear yesterday even as he bared that the late DILG chief was set for confirmation this month.</div>
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“He had a valid appointment as secretary. He will be a secretary of the interior and local government in the political history of this country, confirmation or no confirmation. It has no bearing. Every signature that he made before his death are all valid,” Enrile said.</div>
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The CA bypassed Robredo five times.</div>
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“There were questions about him from some members of the commission and that’s why there was a delay on his confirmation. That problem was settled earlier and his confirmation was scheduled for this month,” Enrile said.</div>
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But CA members are in a quandary over what to do with Malacañang’s nomination of the late DILG chief.</div>
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“We are facing a dilemma. Do we still confirm him or do we send his nomination to the archives?” a member of the House panel in the commission told The STAR yesterday.</div>
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He said he did not want to be quoted by name for fear of being labeled a kontrabida (villain). The lawmaker also said he doubted whether the CA could confirm Robredo posthumously.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-64078012323405553242012-08-21T15:21:00.000-07:002012-08-21T15:21:43.905-07:00National Days of Mourning for DILG Jesse Robredo<br />
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In honor of the late DILG Secretary Robredo, the Philippines is going to observe days of mourning. Here is the <a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=840526&publicationSubCategoryId=63">news:</a></div>
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MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino signed last night Proclamation No. 460, declaring National Days of Mourning for Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo starting yesterday until the day of his interment.</div>
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Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said Aquino signed the proclamation upon arriving from Naga City where he escorted the body of Robredo back to his family from Masbate City, site of the plane crash that killed the secretary and two pilots.</div>
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As provided for by law, the proclamation said the national flag “shall be lowered to half mast from sunrise to sunset in all government buildings and installations in the Philippines and in our posts abroad, for a period of six days.”</div>
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From yesterday until the date of internment, the national flag shall be lowered to half mast in Malacañang, the City of Naga, and in all offices and installations of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Bureau of Fire Protection, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Local Government Academy, National Police Commission, Philippine National Police and Philippine Public Safety College.</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-40966008899263797072012-08-21T08:55:00.002-07:002012-08-21T08:55:38.771-07:00Rosie O' Donnel suffered a heart attack<br />
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Rosie O' Donnel experience the symptoms of a heart attack. Here is the <a href="http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/20/rosie-odonnell-happy-to-be-alive-after-heart-attack/?hpt=hp_bn9">news</a>:</h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rosie O'Donnell is "happy to be alive" after suffering a heart attack last week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I am lucky to be here,” she wrote on her blog Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a Google search suggested she was having a heart attack, O'Donnell said she took Bayer Aspirin, but did not call 911.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next day, O'Donnell recalled, her doctor sent her to a hospital where a stent was put in, and she was also informed her that her “LAD was 99 percent blocked.”</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-87239790964098014382012-08-20T15:40:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:40:08.512-07:00Prince Philip discharged from hospital<br />
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The husband of Queen Elizabeth was discharged from the hospital last Monday. Here is the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/world/europe/uk-prince-philip-hospital/index.html?hpt=hp_t2">news</a>:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Queen Elizabeth II's husband</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Prince Philip</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">was released from a hospital in Scotland on Monday after being treated for a bladder infection.</span></div>
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Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was admitted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland on Wednesday.</div>
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The 91-year-old, who first suffered the problem in June, fell ill again as he was staying at the royal residence in Balmoral, Scotland, where the queen traditionally spends part of the summer.</div>
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Buckingham Palace said Wednesday he had been taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure and was likely to be kept in for several days.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-19406470382620155692012-08-20T15:29:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:29:31.740-07:00Phyllis Diller died with a smile i her face<br />
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She was a comedian and she died in her sleep. Whst a way to go. Here is the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/showbiz/phyllis-diller-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c1">news:</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Comedian Phyllis Diller, known for her self-deprecating humor, died "peacefully in her sleep" at her Los Angeles home Monday morning, her manager told CNN. Diller was 95.</span></div>
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Her son, Perry, "found her with a smile on her face," manager Milt Suchin said.</div>
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Diller's career as a stand-up comic, which she started at age 37, skyrocketed in the 1960s, partly because of her many appearances with Bob Hope on his television specials, USO tours and three movies.</div>
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She became a pop culture icon for her disparaging jokes about her looks, her cooking and her fictitious husband "Fang." She wore a blonde fright wig, held a long cigarette holder as a prop and laughed with a loud cackle.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-62198378510100053562012-08-20T15:25:00.000-07:002012-08-20T15:25:03.233-07:00Debtis of the plane that crashed found<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) - Navy and civilian divers have found on the seabed parts of what could be the aircraft carrying Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and three other people that crashed Saturday off Masbate, Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas said Monday night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Roxas said one member of a 3-person foreign diving team who is helping in search and rescue operations found a debris field around 180-210 feet underwater and roughly 2.5 kilometers from the shore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Pic of debris found roughly 200 ft 2.5 km frm shore," Roxas said on Twitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He said a 4-man team of Navy technical divers confirmed the debris field is same area found by a civilian diver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"[They found] glass pieces of cockpit. They marked it," Roxas said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a press briefing, Roxas said it is still too early to conclude that the debris is indeed from the ill-fated Piper Seneca plane, which carried Robredo, pilots Jessup Bahinting and Kshitiz Chand, and the interior secretary's aide Jun Abrazado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Only Abrazado so far survived the crash.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-30636650927140311522012-08-19T13:14:00.002-07:002012-08-19T13:14:41.501-07:00Political Battle over MEDICARE<br />
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Both Obama and his political opponent Romney are battling over MEDICARE.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> – The political battle over Medicare, brewing since Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan as his running mate, showed no signs of easing Sunday, with operatives from each campaign claiming their side had an advantage with senior citizens concerned about their government-funded health benefits.</div>
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Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," said his campaign wasn't worried that seniors would be turned off by Ryan's House budget plan, which proposes allowing private insurers to compete with traditional Medicare on an exchange.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-78141134902780957972012-08-19T13:08:00.002-07:002012-08-19T13:08:28.503-07:00Robredo and the pilots are still missingThere were already more than three hundred in search and rescue operation for the DILG Secretary Robredo but they have not found them yet.<br />
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President Benigno Aquino on Sunday took the lead in the search for Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, a day after a light plane carrying the local government chief and three others crashed in waters off Masbate.</div>
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Mr. Aquino flew to Masbate early Sunday morning to oversee the search for the wreckage of the four-seat Piper Seneca that crashed into the sea while attempting an emergency landing about 5 p.m. on Saturday.</div>
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More than 300 rescuers were scouring the area about 500 meters from the shore of Masbate City for Robredo, who was missing along with the plane’s two pilots.</div>
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Robredo’s bodyguard, Chief Insp. Jun Abrasado, made a dramatic escape from the doomed plane and was rescued by fishermen. Abrasado was helping in the search, officials said.</div>
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Transportation Secretary Manuel Roxas, who accompanied Mr. Aquino and was designated as official spokesperson for the search, said special sonar equipment had been flown to Masbate to help in the search operation after some debris, including one wing of the missing plane, was recovered.</div>
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“We just want to do everything we can to save him [Robredo],” Roxas said in a message on Twitter.</div>
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“We remain hopeful that Secretary Robredo was just carried by the current … and that he will be found,” Roxas said, adding that Mr. Aquino was “very emotionally attached” to Robredo and was doing everything he could to help find him.</div>
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Four people were on the private plane that was heading for Naga City in Camarines Sur province from Cebu City when it malfunctioned and crashed in waters between Masbate and Ticao Islands.</div>
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Missing, aside from Robredo, were Capt. Jessup Bahinting, the pilot and CEO of Aviatour Air that owned the aircraft, and Kshitiz Chand, the Nepalese copilot.</div>
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At about 3 p.m. Sunday, Masbate Bantay Dagat reported to City Mayor Socrates Tuason that a large object had been detected on the seafloor.</div>
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The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) also reported that a Navy vessel’s sonar had detected “something metallic” on the sea floor.</div>
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“The sonar showed it was something metallic. But it’s not definite yet if that was really part of the airplane,” NDRRMC Executive Director Benito Ramos said by phone.</div>
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Romney attacked the MEDICARE program of Obama. Here's the<a href="http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/18/13347755-romney-slams-obama-over-medicare-pledges-more-help-for-poor-and-sick?lite"> news:</a></div>
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tt Romney attacked President Barack Obama Saturday over the future of Medicare in his first weekly podcast ahead of the November election.</div>
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<a href="http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/08/audio-remarks-president-obamas-cuts-medicare" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #336699; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">In the address posted on his website</a>, the GOP's presidential candidate said Obama’s healthcare law had taken $716 billion from the fund to finance “his takeover of the healthcare system.”</div>
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"Now if that wasn’t bad enough, his healthcare law also put in place a board of 15 unelected bureaucrats and gave them the power to make additional cuts to Medicare without even having to get approval from Congress,” he said.</div>
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“This means they could deny elderly Americans the care they’ve worked for their entire lives -- all because President Obama trusts bureaucrats more than he trusts seniors and their doctors,” he said.</div>
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“And here’s one more troubling aspect of all this: According to independent, non-partisan scorekeepers, these cuts the President’s people will take to Medicare won’t prevent it from going bankrupt: Experts estimate that Medicare’s trust funds will be exhausted just twelve short years from now,” Romney added.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-72736152044475701142012-08-18T04:50:00.002-07:002012-08-18T04:50:58.972-07:00Plane Crash<br />
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Search and rescue operation is going on in the planes crash site of Interior Secretary's plane hours ago,</div>
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Here's the <b><a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/08/18/12/robredos-plane-crashes-masbate">news: </a></b></div>
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A Cessna aircraft carrying Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo crashed in the sea off Masbate City Saturday afternoon, according to a Masbate official.</div>
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Masbate Vice Governor Vince Revil said the plane carrying Robredo and several others crashed 150 meters away from the Masbate airport.</div>
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“Nag-emergency call that they are going to have an emergency landing sa Masbate City Airport pero nag-crash ang plane about 150 meters away from the airport , nag-crash sa dagat,” Revil told “TV Patrol: Weekend.”</div>
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Revil said Robredo’s aide, identified as Capt. Jun Abrazado, has been rescued from the crash site. Revil said Abrazado was the one who pinpointed the location of the crash site.</div>
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Search and rescue operations are ongoing for Robredo and the two pilots.</div>
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Communications Secretary Ricky Carandang, meanwhile, confirmed that search and rescue operations are currently ongoing.</div>
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“The aircraft was off the coast of Masbate when contact was lost earlier today. We will be updating the public as details are confirmed: speculation is not useful at this point,” Carandang said in a statement.</div>
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According to Revil, Robredo’s plane came from Cebu and was headed to Naga City.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-56328367406482075762012-08-17T17:54:00.000-07:002012-08-17T17:54:58.500-07:00Philip Morris Employee Suspended <br />
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Carabuena, a Philip Morris employee beat an MMDA traffic enforcer. His action was videotaped and became viral.</div>
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The company is pressured to take action on the employee although, it is already his personal time that he is using.</div>
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Here is the <a href="http://business.inquirer.net/77147/philip-morris-suspends-exec-who-beat-traffic-enforcer">news about his suspension. </a></div>
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MANILA, Philippines—Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp. has suspended Robert Blair Carabuena, who was videoed slapping a traffic enforcer of Metro Manila Development Authority during an altercation on August 11.</div>
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In a statement, the <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/77147/philip-morris-suspends-exec-who-beat-traffic-enforcer#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">company</span></a> confirmed that Carabuena was an employee and was being investigated.</div>
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“PMFTC has suspended Mr. Carabuena pending the outcome of the investigation,” the statement said. “PMFTC reiterates that it does not condone inappropriate conduct by any of our employees.”</div>
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The company also stressed that when Carabuena argued with the MMDA traffic enforcer, he was on his personal time and not on duty for the company.</div>
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MMDA has announced that it would file charges against Carabuena.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-70378598421352315172012-08-17T17:43:00.000-07:002012-08-17T17:43:02.090-07:00Another Ponzi Scheme<br />
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People don't learn their lesson . This is another scam that would deprive many people of the money they saved and enrich people who operate she operation. Here is t<b><a href="http://business.inquirer.net/77582/us-officials-allege-600m-ponzi-scheme">he news:</a></b></div>
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RALEIGH, North Carolina— Federal <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/77582/us-officials-allege-600m-ponzi-scheme#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">securities</span></a>regulators have filed fraud charges and an emergency order to freeze the <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/77582/us-officials-allege-600m-ponzi-scheme#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook1w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">assets</span></a> of a North Carolina company officials say operated a $600-million Ponzi scheme that is on the verge of collapse.</div>
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The action by the Securities and Exchange<a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://business.inquirer.net/77582/us-officials-allege-600m-ponzi-scheme#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook2w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Commission</span></a> Friday is intended to help investors recoup money and avoid devastating losses.</div>
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Online marketer Paul Burks is accused of raising money from more than 1 million customers through ZeekRewards.com, a website in operation less than 2 years.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-33640093725224859882012-08-16T09:51:00.000-07:002012-08-16T09:51:11.758-07:00Rolito Go back to prison, Chief and guards sacked <br />
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Rolito Go claimed that he and his nephew were kidnapped for a ransom of Php 1 million. No ransom was paid. Here is the <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/251418/heads-roll-over-rolito-go-caper">news</a> about Rolito Go's disappearance from the Bilibid Prison, </div>
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Convicted murderer Rolito Go is back in the stockade, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief has gone on leave and five jail guards have been sacked as President Benigno Aquino ordered a probe into how a high-profile inmate disappeared from prison for at least 24 hours.</div>
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Police on Thursday said their investigation showed that Go and a nephew who was with him were “forcibly taken” from a minimum security compound at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, but Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said this was being looked into.</div>
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Go disappeared from prison on Tuesday evening. Police were able to get him back on Wednesday at about 11 p.m.</div>
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De Lima said Mr. Aquino was dismayed by what happened, given that measures had been adopted following reports that prominent inmates had been allowed to “live out” in the past.</div>
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“He is disappointed because, you know, this kind of incident keeps happening,” De Lima told reporters.</div>
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“He (the President) said, ‘he thought all the safeguards and all the reform initiatives have been put in place to avoid similar incidents.’ He’s really disappointed and that’s why he immediately ordered an investigation,” she said.</div>
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De Lima said Mr. Aquino’s reaction was “How can it happen again, if it’s true that it’s abduction or kidnapping for ransom right within the NBP?”</div>
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Malacañang praised the Philippine National Police for recapturing Go. “It is good that while one agency was apparently remiss in its duties, another agency stepped up,” said presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda.</div>
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Lacierda added: “To emphasize the principle of command responsibility and help the investigation, Bureau of Corrections Director Gaudencio Pangilinan has offered to go on leave, and the President has accepted it.”</div>
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Lacierda said the NBP would be under the direct supervision of De Lima “pending the appointment of an officer in charge.”</div>
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De Lima said Pangilinan went on leave “for the sake of an impartial and thorough investigation.”</div>
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“Let’s not preempt him,” De Lima said when asked if Pangilinan was expected to resign.</div>
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“Maybe he’s thinking about it, maybe he’s not yet thinking about it, maybe he has a good explanation, maybe he can explain the level of responsibility and the level of efficiency and competence that was expected of him as the overall administrator of the facility,” the justice secretary added.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749116.post-42178588833752406982012-08-16T09:45:00.000-07:002012-08-16T09:45:33.443-07:00Toilet of the Future<br />
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This is good <a href="http://technology.inquirer.net/15433/bill-gates-commits-370m-to-invent-toilet-of-future">news:</a></div>
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SEATTLE, Washington—These aren’t your typical toilets. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal.</div>
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They are part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.5 billion people around the world who don’t have access to modern sanitation systems for handling the basic and vital need in disposing of bodily waste.</div>
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Scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge, and the foundation announced some projects on Tuesday that would be getting more money to take their ideas from the lab to the cities. There, local entrepreneurs are expected to use the new<a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://technology.inquirer.net/15433/bill-gates-commits-370m-to-invent-toilet-of-future#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">technology</span></a> to turn pollution into <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://technology.inquirer.net/15433/bill-gates-commits-370m-to-invent-toilet-of-future#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook1w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">cash</span></a>.</div>
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“Toilets are extremely important for public health and, when you think of it, even human dignity,” Gates, the Microsoft cofounder turned global philanthropist, said in a statement launching the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair” in Seattle.</div>
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“The flush toilets we use in the wealthy world are irrelevant, impractical and impossible for 40 percent of the global population, because they often don’t have access to water, and sewers, electricity, and sewage treatment systems,” he added.</div>
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The toilet fair was described as a swirl of about 200 inventors, designers, investors, partners and others passionate about creating safe, effective, and <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://technology.inquirer.net/15433/bill-gates-commits-370m-to-invent-toilet-of-future#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static !important; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook2w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-style: none none solid; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">inexpensive</span></a> waste management systems.</div>
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“We couldn’t be happier with the response that we’ve gotten,” Bill Gates said.</div>
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/15/us/immigration-deferred-deportation/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">began accepting requests Wednesday for consideration of deferred action</a>for young undocumented immigrants who arrived in America as children.</div>
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Here are five things you should know about the bold change announced by President Barack Obama in June:</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. What is it?</strong></div>
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The policy is a "temporary" measure that allows eligible immigrants <a href="http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">to apply for work permits and deportation deferral for a two-year period</a>. Supporters stress it does not grant immunity or a provide a shortcut to citizenship but affords undocumented immigrant children a chance to be productive workers -- with a promise they won't be deported for two years. Opponents see the policy as granting backdoor amnesty to people who came to America illegally and tightening an already poor job market for young Americans.</div>
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<b>2. Who is eligible</b>?</div>
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As many as 1.7 million youths may qualify for the program, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. To be eligible to apply, you must have arrived in America when you were 16 or younger and must be under 30 now. You must also have lived continuously in the United States for five years and must be currently in school or already graduated from high school or have served in the military. You cannot apply if you have been convicted of a felony or major misdemeanor.</div>
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/15/opinion/noorani-young-immigrants/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Opinion: Let young immigrants stay</a></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. What does it cost?</strong></div>
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The application fee is $465, which funds the administrative costs of the program, including a biometric check and the issuance of a secure work-authorization document.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Is there a risk?</strong></div>
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Homeland Security officials have assured people that information in applications will be confidential and will not be used to round up other undocumented people. Immigration lawyers are advising applicants to inform themselves before making a decision. The measure requires a renewal in two years, but there is no guarantee the policy will still be around then. It's an executive order, not law, and if Mitt Romney wins the presidential election, he will have the power to revoke it.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Is it political?</strong></div>
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The deferred deportation policy addresses a great concern of the Latino community and includes some of the provisions of a Democratic proposal called the DREAM Act that failed to win enough Republican support to become law. In this year's presidential election, Latino votes are critical in several battleground states, including Florida and Nevada.</div>
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<a href="http://cnnradio.cnn.com/2012/06/18/undocumented-students-in-their-own-words/" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.888888359069824px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Undocumented students in their own words</a></div>
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