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Monday, March 18, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
SAMSUNG UNVEILS THE GALAXY S4
Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy S smartphone Thursday, the Samsung S4. The newest Smartphone from Samsung has a 5 inch full HD screen. It is lighter, slimmer, and more solid than the Galaxy S III. The feature packed smartphone includes multi-lingual voice recognition, hand waving gesture controls and eye tracking video pause. The main camera is 13 megapixels with built 16GB of storage with options for 32 GB or 64 GB. It also includes a micro-SD slot for up to an extra 64 GB. It comes with a removable battery.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
PYRO OLYMPICS 2013 - MALL OF ASIA
The 4th Philippine International PyroMusical Competition, or Pyro Olympics 2013, continues at the SM Mall of Asia tonight, March 16, 2013. Scheduled to showcase their awe-inspiring pyrotechnic display are China and Australia.
The World Pyro Olympics is an annual competition of fireworks manufacturers held in the Philippines, usually runs for five days. The Philippines, which has been hosting the Pyro Olympics since 2005, does not participate in the competition but performs a fireworks display on the last night, which this year is scheduled on March 23, 2013. Canada is likewise scheduled to compete on said date.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
ARGENTINA'S BERGOGLIO SELECTED AS NEW POPE
White smoke billowed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Wednesday indicating the cardinals have selected a new pope after two days of voting. This came after the resignation of Benedict XVI, a first in in 600 years. Selected was Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who is the first non-Eurpean pontiff in nearly 1,300 years. He has chosen the name Pope Francis I.
Pope Francis reportedly got the second most number of votes in the papal election of 2005 after Joseph Ratzinger. Francis is known to be reserved and humble. He is also known for his social outreach visiting slums of Argentina. The Latin America has the largest share of the world's catholics.
'TEAM TATAY': ALLEGATIONS THAT NEGROS PRIESTS FATHERED CHILDREN
In what seems to be a retaliatory attack to Negros priests for their Team Buhay and Team Patay tarpaulin, a nasty campaign has been circulating via text messages alleging that a number of Negros priests have actually fathered children. The 'Team Tatay' campaign is in reference to members of the Bacolod clergy who have allegedly sired children which include an archbishop, 3 bishops, one retired bishop, and one priest. The text message also warned that more names will be added to the list of 'Team Tatay'.
According to Bishop Navarra, this is part of a smut campaign versus the clergy for their position on the Reproductive Health Law and the 'Team Buhay' and 'Team Patay' campaign of the the Diocese of Bacolod.
According to Bishop Navarra, this is part of a smut campaign versus the clergy for their position on the Reproductive Health Law and the 'Team Buhay' and 'Team Patay' campaign of the the Diocese of Bacolod.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
SUPREME COURT RULED SAQUILAYAN AS RIGHTFUL MAYOR OF IMUS CAVITE
It was Homer Saquilayan and not Manny Maliksi as the duly elected Mayor of Imus, Cavite as ruled by the Supreme Court in a tight vote of 8-7 on Tuesday, March 12 . Maliksi got 40,092 votes while Saquilayan got 48,521 votes last elections.
The TRO issued by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno in October 2012 was likewise lifted by the SC. Concurring justices were Castillo, Abad, Martin, Villarama, Perez, Perlas-Bernabe, and Leonen, while dissenting justices were Bersamin, Velasco, Brion, Peralta, Mendoza, and Reyes.
CJ Sereno voted with the majority.
The decision is said to be immediately executory considering there are only less than 5 months left in Saquilayan's term. Maliksi and Saquilayan will face each other again in the upcoming elections with the former running under the Liberal Party and the latter under the Nacionalista Party.
The TRO issued by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno in October 2012 was likewise lifted by the SC. Concurring justices were Castillo, Abad, Martin, Villarama, Perez, Perlas-Bernabe, and Leonen, while dissenting justices were Bersamin, Velasco, Brion, Peralta, Mendoza, and Reyes.
CJ Sereno voted with the majority.
The decision is said to be immediately executory considering there are only less than 5 months left in Saquilayan's term. Maliksi and Saquilayan will face each other again in the upcoming elections with the former running under the Liberal Party and the latter under the Nacionalista Party.
DC SHOOTING LEFT 13 PEOPLE INJURED
Gunmen in two cars opened fire on a large crowd gathered outside Tyler House, a low-income facility in Northwest Washington, DC. Most of the victims suffered gunshot wounds to the legs, hands, extremities, and some graze wounds. All are expected to survive.
Police are looking into the possibility that the shooting may have stemmed from an altercation earlier at a nearby club.
Police are looking into the possibility that the shooting may have stemmed from an altercation earlier at a nearby club.
PAPAL ELECTION
They will begin with a mass on Tuesday to ask for divine guidance. Cardinals from Italy, Brazil, Canada, Austria, Hungary, Mexico, South Africa, United States, and the Philippines are among the top candidates.
Monday, March 11, 2013
PAPAL CONTENDER: CARDINAL LUIS ANTONIO TAGLE
A new pope is expected to be elected this week following the resignation of Benedict XVI. Fifteen Cardinals are considered to be papabile or top papal contenders.
RENALDO BALKMAN, BANNED FOR LIFE IN THE PBA
Commissioner Angelico Salud of the PBA has released the decision banning Petron import Renaldo Balkman from playing in the PBA for life after the latter's meltdown against the Alaska Aces.
Commissioner Chito Salud said that the import's track record as a player was taken into consideration including a head butting incident during the FIBA-Americas game and an altercation during a pre-season game in Cebu also against the Alaska Aces.
Balkman was likewise fined P250,000 apart from the ban. The import had his worst game of the tournament when he apparently lost it and choked teammate Arwind Santos.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Ramon Ang sparks two-way race for new Manila airport
From www.interaksyon.com
The proposal of PAL president Ramon Ang for Philippine Airlines to build its own airport only "15 minutes away from Edsa-Ayala" has sparked a bold counter-proposal from his neighboring contractor-developer in the reclaimed stretch of land along Roxas Boulevard.
A plan for a two-runway airport parallel to the Sangley airport in Cavite, to rise on reclaimed land on the peninsula facing Corregidor island, has been resurrected by Delfin Wenceslao Jr., chairman of the construction firm DM Wenceslao and Associates.
DM Wenceslao is part of the international R-1 Consortium that reclaimed the 204-hectare Aseana Business Park between the Redemptorist Channel, parallel to the Mall of Asia, and the Uniwide mall.
The main advantages of the Sangley location, according to Wenceslao, is that not only would it protect the existing marshland and bird sanctuary along the Coastal Road, it could be connected to Makati through the skyway and/or light rail transit via a 14-kilometer coastway.
The coastway-and-light rail combine, he added, is a lot cheaper than building a high-speed train link between Manila and Clark, the planned main gateway to replace Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
More important for developers like Ayala, SM, Robinsons, Federal Land and Vista Land, according to Wenceslao, the Sangley location would free up the height restrictions now imposed along The Fort, Ortigas, parts of Makati and around the Mall of Asia.
The technical proposal for the Sangley site has been with the Philippine Reclamation Authority for over two years, solicited by the past PRA board.
Wenceslao said he was unaware where Ang wanted to locate the PAL airport, even though he sits on the boards of listed companies Philweb and Alphaland along with Ang. The speculation is that Ang is looking to revive the 750-hectare Cyber Bay reclamation project, past the Uniwide mall.
Ang happens to also be the chairman of the listed Cyber Bay real estate company. Moreover, Cyber Bay's president, lawyer Peter Suchianco, is the proponent of a Paranaque-Las Pinas-Bacoor reclamation project that is being opposed by former Las Pinas Representative Cynthia Villar, in alliance with left-wing and environmental groups.
As to Sangley, it was incidentally the same site picked by infrastructure magnate Gordon Wu of Hong Kong's Hopewell Holdings during the Cory Aquino presidency.
But Wu's proposal only called for lengthening the Sangley runway, and then connecting the airport from the Cavite City peninsula across the bay to Roxas Boulevard via an underwater tunnel.
Unfortunately, the present Sangley size of 138 hectares -- a former US Navy facility whose 2,400-meter runway was extensively used during the Vietnam War -- has grown too small for an international terminal, which needs at least 500 hectares for a single-runway airport.
Depending on the size of the terminal and related aviation buildings, the proposed two-runway Sangley airport could be built on 1,000 to 1,200 hectares of reclaimed land, Wenceslao said.
And with the combined light rail-coastway link, owners of general aviation aircraft could no longer use road traffic congestion to object to their transfer to Sangley from the Ninoy Aquino airport, he added.
The main drawback for this proposal? The cost of the reclamation. The Hong Kong airport, built on two islands and reclaimed land, cost $20 billion in 1998.
"The question now is, will Sangley be financially viable? That is what we are trying to find out,' Wenceslao said.
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