Archive for June 2008

Typhoon-hit Iloilo

Monday, June 30, 2008 · Posted in

President Arroyo will visit Iloilo province on Tueday to preside over the joint Cabinet and National Disaster Coordinating Council meeting. The meeting was set to discuss the rehabilitation and relief efforts in the province after typhoon Frank that swept Iloilo and other parts of the Visayas and Luzon last week.

The Office of the Press Secretary said Mrs. Arroyo will also conduct an aerial inspection on the towns of Cabatuan, Sta. Barbara and Pavia, which were severely affected by the typhoon.

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Train runs over man

Sunday, June 29, 2008 · Posted in


A 37-year-old man died after he was ran over by a commuter train of the Philippine National Railway (PNR) Saturday morning in Pandacan, Manila.
The victim was identified as Virgilio Lagrimas, a plastic and bottle scavenger.
Reports said Lagrimas was walking along the train tracks around 9:45 a.m. when the train arrived.
Train operator Leo Luaras said he honked the train’s horn to warn Lagrimas. However, he suspected that the victim had a hearing problem because he stayed on the tracks.

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Corsair Dominator Memory

Saturday, June 28, 2008 · Posted in


A couple months ago Legit Reviews was the first to show the world that Corsair was coming out with PC2-10000 memory kits and today we bring you our full review on one of these killer memory kits now that we've had one in-house for some time. The memory we are looking at today is the 2GB kit of Corsair DDR2 PC2-10000C5D modules, which are rated for operation at 1250MHz . These recently released modules are optimized for the new NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI-base platform and that just happens to be the platform we will be using for testing. By designing a memory kit for Intel Conroe/Kentsfield-based platforms this kit is aimed at giving computer enthusiasts and gamers the most memory bandwidth possible for their applications and games.

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RP stocks

Friday, June 27, 2008 · Posted in

Stocks retreated on Friday as investors, taking their cue from Wall Street's tumble overnight, unloaded their holdings following another spike in world oil prices.

Analysts said investors have been worried about high fuel prices crimping consumer spending, thus, putting dent on companies' earnings.

"The market started weak because of Wall Street's plunge after oil prices hit a record high again yesterday," said Harry Liu, president of Summit Securities.

"The spike triggered concerns about rising inflation. The problem is not just local, but global," he added.

Oil surged above $140 a barrel before settling at $139.64 at New York trading on Thursday.

This, coupled with a downgrade in ratings on US investment banks, sent the Dow Jones industrial average down 360 points to a 21-month low of 11,453.42.

At home, the composite index fell 55.33 points or 2.2 percent to 2,466.28.

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US Supreme Court rejects death

Thursday, June 26, 2008 · Posted in

The US Supreme Court narrowly ruled Wednesday that a man convicted of raping a child cannot be sentenced to death, saying capital punishment must be reserved for murder cases.

By a one-vote majority of 5-4 the justices said the US constitution which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment" bars the imposition of the death penalty "for the rape of a child where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death."

In its written ruling, the court specified that even if a rape was particularly atrocious, it was impossible to set down a list of circumstances under which the death penalty would be justified, without opening the door to arbitrary decisions.

Over the past years many parts of the United States have tightened legislation against child rapists introducing maximum penalties of 25 years in prison.

Five states have also introduced the death penalty for the rape of a child, usually for repeat offenders.

The case before the Supreme Court involved an appeal by lawyers for Patrick Kennedy, 43, who was sentenced to death in Louisiana in 2003 for raping his girlfriend's daughter five years earlier, when she was eight years old.

But in its ruling, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court cited a "national consensus" across most US states that do not have laws allowing capital punishment for the crime of child rape.

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Six bodies

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 · Posted in

The local government of Camarines Sur on Wednesday said six bodies were washed ashore at dawn on the coastlines of Pasacao and Libmanan towns. Officials believe that the victims were passengers of the sunken M/V Princess of the Stars that capsized off Sibuyan Island in Romblon province over the weekend.

The bodies recovered in Pasacao have been identified through their belongings.

Diana Rose Laborte was from Villa Estelita in Bulalacao, Talisay City in Negros Occidental. Orlando Cuevas, 61, meanwhile, is a retired Philippine Air Force officer and was from Dela Serna in Lapu-Lapu City in Cebu province.

Authorities believe the two were passengers of the ill-fated passenger vessel that encountered huge waves on its way to Cebu at the height of typhoon Frank's onslaught on Saturday.

Officials said that the victims' families have been notified of their relatives' fate.

The two other bodies, meanwhile, have yet to be retrieved.

In Libmanan town, authorities said they recovered two more bodies along the coastline of Barangay Tinalmok.

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Blogging

Sunday, June 22, 2008 · Posted in

Well all I can say is that I am so happy in blogging, because it helps me to realize what are the kind of things that I am doing and it helps me to be aware of those what we called drugs right? Yes, because if I have my vacant time I am updating my blog and posting something that interesting and all about my life and what is happening on my life everyday. It also help me to be in correct usage of grammar. Because in blogging there are so many benefits but some people say that what are benefits of blogging in our community and in the people and why does people doing it?, well I am doing it because, beside that you will learn on how to speak clearly in English but you can also earn here in blog. Some says that blogging have a side effect in human or in the people but for me its matter to person if how he manage his/her time in blogging right?

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Albay launches pre-emptive evacuation

Saturday, June 21, 2008 · Posted in

Albay provincial officials on Friday called on residents living near Mayon Volcano or in mountain slopes as well as in coastal areas to evacuate due to Typhoon Frank (international codename Fengshen).

The province has already been placed under Storm Signal Number 3 by the country’s weather bureau, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGASA). The powerful typhoon is expected to hit the province early Saturday morning.

The pre-emptive evacuation, ordered by Albay Gov. Joey Salceda, have already resulted in 23,086 families or 117,963 persons going to evacuation centers across the province.

"We are doing pre-emptive evacuation of 176,802 persons due to risk of lahar, landslide and floods" earlier said Albay Gov. Joey Salceda.

He said that local government units of the province are leading the operations with support from the military – Army, Air Force and Navy – as well as from the Department of Public Works and Highways.

Provincial officials said there is still sufficient food supply for the evacuees.

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Tsunami

Friday, June 20, 2008 · Posted in


It is the kind of calamity that known as the Tsunami. It is really a big kinds of waves that can almost occupied a country or a one place and could made to kill or lose ones life. Just like as we thought that tsunami is cause by an earthquake. Yes it is cause by an earthquake, when there is a huge earthquake on your country or in your near by town or country expect that there is a what we called tsunami. But not all the times that there is a earthquake there is also a tsunami, because it depends upon the magnitude of the earthquake. But for me it is not only a ordinary earthquake for me it means that it is a kind of calamity that came from God and he wanted to kill those people that are not doing good things.

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Car bomb kills 51 in Baghdad

Thursday, June 19, 2008 · Posted in

BAGHDAD - A car bomb at a bus stop in north Baghdad killed at least 51 people and wounded 75 others on Tuesday, security officials told AFP.

The attack, the biggest in past eight weeks, took place in the mainly Shiite Al-Hurriyah neighborhood at around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT), they said.

Security officials said the victims were taken to several hospitals in the Iraqi capital.

The car bombing came hours after a bomb hidden on a motorcycle exploded at a checkpoint in north Baghdad, killing four fighters of a group battling Al-Qaeda militants.

That attack took place at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT) at a checkpoint run by the fighters in the Al-Sulek neighborhood, security officials said. Four other members of the group were wounded, along with two civilians.

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Rising Flood Waters

Saturday, June 14, 2008 · Posted in

CEDAR RAPIDS - Rising flood waters swamped the river city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Friday, forcing residents to flee their homes, and officials to abandon city hall amid a crisis that has left 15 people dead.

Nothing could stop the water. Not sandbags. Not levees. Not prayers.

"We've been in a major flood fight for about 10 days now," said Bret Voorhees, spokesman for the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

"Nine of our major rivers are at record or new record levels," he told AFP.

"We're designating it a 500-year flood."

The disaster began when a major tornado struck on May 25. Then the rain started. And didn't stop. On Wednesday another tornado struck, killing four Boy Scouts. And more thunderstorms are predicted for Saturday.

A total of 15 lives have been lost and thousands were left homeless, Voorhees said.

Ten counties were under mandatory evacuation orders and 83 counties had been declared federal disaster areas.

"We're trapped with nowhere to go," said Gloria Hines, who lives about a dozen blocks from where the river spilled over in Cedar Rapids.

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Oil posts record

Thursday, June 05, 2008

NEW YORK - Oil surged $6 to over $128 a barrel on Thursday in the largest outright gain on record as signals the European Central Bank may raise interest rates this year pushed down the US dollar.

US crude traded up $6.08 to $128.38 a barrel after settling up $5.49 earlier at 127.79, erasing two days of sharp losses that had been triggered by worries high prices were starting to eat into global demand.

London Brent crude futures settled $5.44 higher at $127.54 a barrel, before trading up to $127.83 in post-settlement activity.

Oil prices have doubled in a year on growing Asian demand and as investors rushed into commodities as a hedge against the weak dollar and inflation, helping drive crude to a record $135 a barrel in May.

"The dollar had a reversal and that helped to support crude," said Tom Bentz, BNP Paribas Commodity Futures Inc.

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RP sets more rice auctions

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

MANILA - The Philippines' state grain agency said on Monday it would hold auctions for private traders to import up to 200,000 tons of rice on June 11, 20 and 27.

Conrad Ibañez, assistant administrator of the National Food Authority (NFA), said any volume out of the 200,000 tons that was not taken up in the June 11 auction would be offered in succeeding auction dates.

The Philippine private sector has largely shunned previous opportunities to import the national staple duty-free due to record-high international prices and difficulty competing locally with government-subsidized supplies of the grain.

But with overseas prices dropping from peaks ahead of an expected increase in world supply and the government holding off importing after a buying spree earlier this year, some market observers said demand would pick-up among the private sector.

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Earthquake

Monday, June 02, 2008

Former Batanes congressman Florencio “Butch” Abad described the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that jolted the province Sunday as “frightening" but not so surprising considering the history of the province.

“It also lasted a bit long. It was frightening but it's nothing new for this province because a month doesn’t pass by without earthquakes shaking the island. In fact, last month we had five in a day but this one was particularly strong. I understand there was no serious damage as a result of the earthquake,” Abad told ANC.

Abad believes that casualties and property damage would be unlikely from such a quake, noting that houses in the province are built to withstand not only typhoons but earthquakes as well.

He said so far the residents have not felt any aftershocks.

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