I found this good news from Hezron Mariano’s blog while blog hopping through Pinoy Entrecards.
Remember Pandora? A friend of mind recommended it to me and I got to listen to some songs before it was restricted to US residents only. Pandora radio is the personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites under the Music Genome Project.
Well, here’s the good alternative to all non-US residents. The box is open! You can now listen to your favorite songs through GlobalPandora.
Note: After about 30 minutes of free music listening, you are still required to open your account and sadly it’s still exclusive for US residents.
But here’s what I did to make a free account:
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Ever since I could remember, the price of pandesal, a staple bread for Filipinos, remains at Php 1.00. Good news! The price will still remain as is. The local flour millers, bakers and importers who’ve had a meeting with the Department of Trade and Industry promised that the price will not rise despite the increasing price of flour and all other commercial products.
Well, this should serve as good news to families who rely on pieces of pandesal for breakfast. We just hope also that the size of the pandesal stays as is. But as I could remember, prior to the continuing price increase lately, one pandesal was already sufficient for one person, nowadays, you need to buy for two more.
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Jhay posted about the current pestilence of mobile world, spam text messages. I’ve been receiving promotional text messages and “free” inspiring quotes, feng shui tips, etc. from Smart every time I load up. I usually reload my cell phone thrice a week and it is how frequent I get those messages. Although they are helpful tips to some extent, they get annoying sometimes especially if you are in a middle of some more important things than opening your cellphone and seeing it’s just a spam text message. What’s frustrating even more is you don’t have an option to block these messages, unlike in inbox spam messages which can be opted to be stored at the bulk mail folder or blocked using anti-spams.
Many subscribers have been complaining about the issue which has been their dilemma for quite a time now. It seems that their complaints were heeded since the two major telecommunications company providers, Smart Communications, Inc. and Globe Telecom, along with other communication companies, were penalized by the National Telecommunications Commission due to spam text messages. Smart were penalized a total of P20,800 and Globe of P12,200 for unwanted messages.
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A newly invented gas stove by 2 Filipino engineers will make Philippines LPG-free someday that is, we will be free of the hazards of LPG. Further, the new innovation will also cut off the demand for firewoods; our remaining forests can be saved.
This new product utilizes agricultural wastes like rice hull or ipa as fuel, thus, this could resolve or lessen our problem with agricultural wastes. The stove is environment-friendly, smokeless, economical and efficient. It costs about P500 (if made of GI sheet) and P1,000 (stainless material). This would mean again that it will save the environment from the overgrowing pollution and Filipino households from wasting a lot of money from refilling LPG tanks. Currently, 1 LPG tank (11 kg) costs about P500 and you need to refill it after 3 months depending on the frequency of use. In contrast to the high-priced LPG, the fuel is for free, all one has to do is go to the field and scoop mounds of rice hull left in the open or just burned by farmers. Well, not unless farmers see this as an income opportunity and sell rice hull instead of burning it! But even so, a sack of rice hull may not cost as much as a tank of LPG.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday asked for $46 million to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating typhoons in the Philippines.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the assistance would be used to help meet urgent needs in areas whose homes, medical facilities and government offices were wrecked by typhoons Durian and Utor.
UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, said the lives of half a million students in the Philippines were disrupted by the storms, which destroyed up to nine out of 10 schools in some areas. Textbooks, computers and other supplies were heavily damaged.
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Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said an executive order allocating the annual cash gift to some 1.1 million state employees will be issued today.
Andaya said the cash gift will not be lower than P5,000, the annual bonus given to employees at the end of the year based on the government savings.
He noted that only 10 minor government agencies submitted their reports on cash balances to the DBM to facilitate the release of the cash gifts to their employees.
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