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It'll going to be a long weekend come celebration of All Saints and All Souls Day as Pres. Benigno Noy-Noy Aquino III declared October 31, 2011, Monday as a Special Non-Working Holiday. This is to give more time for the Filipinos to visit the graves of their loved ones who passed away. All Saints and All Souls is one of the many Filipino traditions celebrated annually; to give quality time to those who already rested in peace.

“Monday, 31 October 2011, falling between Sunday and Tuesday, 1 November 2011 (All Saints Day), has been traditionally declared a special (non-working) day throughout the country”

Here's a copy of the Proclamation No. 265 Declaring October 31,2011 as Special Non-Working Holiday.

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 265

DECLARING MONDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2011, AS A SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

WHEREAS, Proclamation No. 84, dated 20 December 2010, declared Tuesday, 1 November 2011, as a special (non-working) day;

WHEREAS, Monday, 31 October 2011, falling between Sunday and Tuesday, 1 November 2011 (All Saints Day), has been traditionally declared a special (non-working) day throughout the country;

WHEREAS, to give full opportunity to our people to properly observe the day with all its religiousfervor which invariably requires them to travel to and from different regions of the country. Monday, 31 October 2011, may be declared as a special (non-working) day without detriment to publicinterest.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare Monday, 31 October 2011, as a special (non-working) day throughout the country.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of thePhilippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 10^th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eleven.

(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III

By the President:

(Sgd.) PAQUITO N. OCHOA JR,

Executive Secretary

Download Copy of the Proclamation here.

I've been receiving lots of spam e-mails this past few days coming from different different people and websites. For unknown reason, I received e-mails about buying viagra (hehe don't know how they get my e-mail address), from paid to click sites, from unknown individual and companies saying that they earned thousands of dollars from joining a certain website (which I know that it's a scam), or they had inherited a business or bank account and they are hiring me as their assistant - just like this spam e-mail i received offering me to be her banker assistant.

The spam e-mail is from a certain Mrs. Victoria Mambebe. I don't remembered having a transaction with this person, so I'm thinking how she'd manage to know my e-mail address. Thanks to Gmail's efficient spam filtering feature for accurately filtering those e-mails having spam content to the reliable ones. Anyways, I would like to share the content of the e-mail to warn others who might become the next victim of this type of modus.

ABS-CBN Davao will have it's first ever fun run for a cause - the 1st Kapamilya Fun Run 11.11.11for the benefit of Bantay Bata 163 and for the rehabilitation of the Matina Pangi River. The said fun is a night fun run and will happen this coming November 11, 2011 (11,11,11).

The fun run will have the following distances and their respective gunstarts:

Registration fee is 300 PHP for kids 8-12 years old and for 4K runners, 500 PHP for 8K, 15K, and 21K runners. Registration is still ongoing in the following establishments.

• ABS-CBN Station, Shrine Hills Matina
• Holiday Gym and Spa, F.Torres St.
• Metrolifestyle, F.Torres St.
• Ark Veterinary Clinic, Jacinto Ext.
• Matina Health Studio, Centerpoint Matina
• RUNCLUB

Register Now!

A couple lost their 25 year old son in a fire at home on June 4th. The son who had graduated with MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison two weeks earlier had come home for a while. He had lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to clean up his hostel room. His father told him to wait, to meet his mother, before he went back for a few days. He decided to take a nap while waiting for his mom to come back home from work. Some time later their neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house. Unfortunately, the 25 years old died in the three year old house. It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the fire. It was determined that the fire was caused by the lap top resting on the bed. When the lap top was on the bed cooling fan did not get the air to cool the computer and that is what caused the fire. He did not even wake up to get out of the bed because he died of breathing in carbon monoxide.

Bedroom stuffs such as mattresses and blankets are soft and can easily catch flame when excessive heat is applied, while laptop normally emits  heat after a couple of hours used especially if there's no cooling fan. There's a greater risk of these bed stuffs to catch fire if this "flat iron-like" laptop is placed on top of your bed.

This risk is real, let's make it a habit not to place your laptop on your bed especially when you are charging it, to avoid such incident of catching fire. Tell your parents, sons, daughters, colleagues, friends, anyone you know that has a laptop not to place their gadgets on top of their bed. If it's inevitable to use laptop on your bed, use something that will prevent your laptop having a direct contact with your blankets or mattresses, like a small table.  

It's very unusual to see the Alaska Aces's bench having a new head-coach taking the helm, but it's the reality - it started tonight. However, not all debuts would end up happy as Alaska Aces's new head coach Joel Banal's debut was spoiled by the crowd favorite Brgy. Ginebra Kings in the 37th PBA Philippine Cup sunday night at the Ynares Center in Antipolo City.

Eager to bounce back from their opening day loss to Rain Or Shine ElastoPainters, the Kings showed great determination and energy from the opening tip until the final buzzer sounded, notching their first win of the season by beating Alaska Aces 83-72. 

It was a balance attack for the Kings, led by 17 points and 7 rebounds by KG Cañaleta in what was dubbed as his best game in Ginebra uniform. Mark Caguioa finished with 16 points, Mike Cortez with 12 points and JJ Helterbrand scored all of his 7 points in the early minutes of the final quarter, thus increasing their lead to 17 points; from 61-51 to 68-51. 

The Aces seems to be a bit confused on the system, managed to trim down the lead 70-63 with more than 5 minutes to play, but Caguioa ignited an 11-3 blast to put the nail in the coffin. 

Surprisingly, the Aces was led by their rookie Mac Baracael with 20 points while Sonny Thoss finished with 16. Missing in action were L.A Tenorio and Cyrus Baguio whose combined output was only 15 points. 

Rain Or Shine showed composure down the stretch by playing excellent defense, escaping Powerade Tigers 96-93, notching their second win and a share at the first spot (with Petron) at the PBA Philippine Cup. 

For the 2nd time in as many games, the ElastoPainters was in another closely fought games, but they have shown composure on both games; one against Brgy. Ginebra Kings and doing the same thing tonight versus Powerade.

Rookie Paul Lee once again showed another explosive game despite having 3 early fouls in the first half, scoring 19 points, grabbing 5 rebounds and dishing off 3 assists, but it was the defensive efforts of Jeff Chan that ensured the Painters the win, preventing the Tigers from sending the game into overtime.

Gary David got the loose ball after the intentional miss of his teammate Celino Cruz, but his attempt from the right corner to tie the game was spoiled by Jeff Chan. He managed to recover the ball, but he's shot didn't even hit the rim. Chan also finished the game with 19 points.

Doug Kramer led Powerade Tigers with 16 points while Gary David only managed to score 14 points, after scoring 31 points in their opening games vs. Shopinas.

The scores:

Rain or Shine 96 - Lee 19, Chan 19, Norwood 11, Arana 10, Quinahan 9, Rodriguez 8, Belga 7, Buenafe
6, Ibanes 3, Cruz 2, Matias 2.

Powerade 93 - Kramer 16, David 14, Anthony 13, Lingganay 12, Lassiter 12, Calimag 11, Cruz 7,
Martinez 3, Adducul 3, Crisano 2, Allera 0, Antonio 0.

Quarterscores: 21-21, 40-39, 68-65, 96-93.

The 37th Season PBA Philippine Cup is now on its 2nd week of its playing date, as four teams will slug it out to improve their standings as season opener winner Rain Or Shine will player against Powerade Tigers who also won its debut game against Shopinas, in the first game. The second game will be the crowd favorite Brgy. Ginebra Kings, looking to bounce back from their loss against the ElastoPainters 1 week ago, versus the post-tim cone Alaska Aces in the second game.

Game starts at 4:15 p.m at the Ynares Center Antipolo City, telecast live on AKTV-IBC 13. 

While the world is mourning for the death of the man behind the most famous name of gadget in the world, a tribute logo for the company that Steve Jobs founded has become a web hit - an evidence of how influential Steve Jobs and his company Apple Inc. over the past 50 years.

This Apple Tribute Logo (image in the left) has become viral and has become the mostly shared image in social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as in various blogs where this logo that shows the original logo of Apple Inc., except that the bitten portion of the Apple was replaced by the face of Steve Jobs. The logo was created by a 19-year old student Jonathan Mark Long, as a tribute for Steve Jobs. 

As a person who idolized Steve Job's significant contribution in the field of Information Technology by creating IPhone, IPod, IPad and Macintosh that have become the yardstick of every company that follow the footsteps of Apple Inc, this Apple Tribute logo deserves a spot in my blog. 

I firmly believe that technological age would never been this wonderful and interesting without the products created by Apple Inc. 

Rest in Peace Steve Jobs, your contribution to the world of Information Technology will always be remembered. You'll always be the inspiration for each and everyone who aspires to become like you.

• Make a Call
• Access to Internet and Network Settings
• Disable Key Lock
• Wake the Device
• Control Vibrate Alert
• Read, Write, Receive and Send SMS messages
• Restart Applications
• Read Low-Level log file
• Read and Write Contacts