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Prince William and Kate Middleton now officially married

By Zachary Roth
It's official!
A smiling Prince William and Kate Middleton were declared man and wife at London's Westminster Abbey, in front of a congregation of around 1,900 and a worldwide television audience estimated at as many as 2 billion.
Wearing an ivory and white satin dress designed by Sarah Burton--a closely guarded secret until minutes before the service began--Kate accepted a wedding ring of Welsh gold, given to William by the Queen soon after the couple were engaged. The bride also wore a diamond-studded halo tiara loaned by the Queen, with her gently curled hair down at the back.
In a marriage ceremony led by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Kate promised William that she would "love him, comfort him, honor him, and keep him," and he offered the same pledge. Like William's mother Princess Diana at her own 1981 wedding to Prince Charles, Kate struck a modern note by omitting the traditional vow to "obey" her husband.
[ Photos: Check out a gallery of Kate's wedding dress ]
William, who chose not to wear a ring, donned a bright red tunic, with a crimson and gold sash and gold sword slings, from the Irish National Guards, a British Army regiment of which he is an honorary colonel. The choice was made in part to honor three members of the Guards who were killed in action in Afghanistan.
The bride's ring was created by Wartski, a Palace spokesperson said, a family jeweler that also created the wedding bands for Prince Charles's 2005 marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall.
Kate, 29, the daughter of creators of a successful party-planning business, becomes the first commoner in line to be queen in modern times. She'll now be known officially as Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, Buckingham Palace said in a statement this morning--though the public will know her as Princess Catherine. William becomes the Duke of Cambridge.
The bride's three-and-half minute procession through the abbey was accompanied by a choir singing the soaring English choral "I Was Glad," composed in 1902 by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry. In a tribute to Princess Diana, the congregation began the service by singing "Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer," a Welsh hymn sung at her 1997 funeral. It also sang "Jerusalem," the popular English hymn based on a poem by William Blake.
[ Related: The best hats from the royal wedding ]
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, along with Kate's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, served as witnesses and signed the marriage registers. The bride's mother wore a gray-blue dress designed by Catherine Walker, a fashion designer whose work was championed by Princess Diana. The Duchess of Cornwall opted for a champagne silk dress designed by Anna Valentine, and a Philip Treacey hat.
The hour-long service was conducted by the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall, the dean of Westminster. It also included an address from the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, the bishop of London and a friend of the royal family.
William, 28, spent a low-key last bachelor evening with his father at St. James's Palace, then traveled this morning to the abbey in a uniquely designed Bentley, with his best man, Prince Harry--both brothers smiling and waving through the window to the crowds. Before the service, they greeted members of the congregation, including Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother.

Kate, meanwhile, stayed the night with her family--including her maid of honor, younger sister Philippa--at London's Goring Hotel, and came to the abbey alongside her father in a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI owned by the queen.
After the service, the newlyweds are set to ride to Buckingham Palace in a horse-drawn open-top carriage--originally built in 1902 for William's great-great-great grandfather, King Edward VII. They'll pass Parliament Square, Whitehall, and the Mall along a processional route, lined since yesterday--despite the chilly and overcast weather--with crowds cheering and waving the Union Jack, having heard the service over loudspeakers.
At the palace, the Queen will host a lunchtime reception for a select 650 members of the congregation, during which William and Kate will appear on the balcony--weather permitting--for what's expected to be their first public kiss as newlyweds. Later, they'll head to a roughly 300-person dinner and dance party given by Prince Charles, also at Buckingham Palace. The Queen, who wore an Angela Kelly primrose dress and matching coat, will skip that event, the Palace has said, to allow the younger crowd to properly let their hair down.
Elsewhere, millions of Britons took advantage of the national holiday--declared months ago by Prime Minister David Cameron--by gathering in pubs, private homes, and public viewing areas to celebrate the event, which for months has dominated the country's news coverage. Estimates for the hit to Britain's economy, thanks to the day off work, have ranged from $10 billion to $50 billion.
[ Photos: See images of the royal wedding party ]
Cameron, who famously camped out on the Mall for Charles and Diana's wedding, called the day "a chance to celebrate."
"We're quite a reserved lot, the British," the prime minister told the BBC this morning. "But then when we go for it, we really go for it."
The wedding congregation mixed personal friends of the bride and groom, royalty from around the world, dignitaries from numerous former British colonies, foreign officials and diplomats, and celebrities including Elton John and David and Victoria Beckham.
Representatives of all governments with whom Britain has normal diplomatic relations had originally received invitations. But the Syrian ambassador was informed yesterday that he was no longer welcome, amid a violent ongoing crackdown against pro-democracy protesters carried out by the regime of President Bashar Assad. The presence of the Bahraini ambassador, who previously ran a government agency accused of using electric shocks and beatings, has also provoked controversy.
[ Related: All of the details on Kate's dress ]
Adding to the rancor over the guest list, two former Labour Party prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, were not invited, even as two former Conservative PMs, Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major, were included--an arrangement that was criticized by several Labour members of parliament (Thatcher was too unwell to attend). St. James's Palace said that Thatcher and Major received invitations because they're both Knights of the Garter, unlike Blair and Brown. Major also was appointed a guardian to William and Harry after Diana's death.
The wedding caps a nearly decade-long relationship for William and Kate, who met in 2001 as students at the University of St Andrew's in Scotland, and began dating a year or so later. Aside from a brief reported split in 2007, they appear to have been an item ever since. William proposed during a vacation in Africa last October.
The pair's lengthy buildup contrasts with that of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who were estimated to have spent just 21 hours together before marrying. That famously troubled union ended in divorce in 1996, after a long estrangement. Diana died in a car accident in Paris the following year.
The wedding comes at a pivotal time for the House of Windsor. Though she appears to remain in good health, the 85-year-old Queen reportedly has begun planning for her funeral. Charles, the heir to the throne, is seen by much of the public as stiff and out of touch, prompting concern that his accession could undermine the monarchy's standing with the public. Polls indicate that upon the Queen's death, most Britons would like to see the throne skip straight to William, though that currently appears unlikely.
In addition to being given the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the couple will also become the Earl and Countess of Strathearn, as well as Baron and Baroness Carrickfergus.

Source: Yahoo News

NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers

By CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press – Sun Apr 24, 3:35 pm ET
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.
That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.
"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."
"No, I didn't," he insisted. "Somebody else could have but I didn't do anything like that."
"You're a creep ... just admit it," they said.
Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale. Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.
Plenty of others would agree. The Sarasota, Fla. man, for example, who got a similar visit from the FBI last year after someone on a boat docked in a marina outside his building used a potato chip can as an antenna to boost his wireless signal and download an astounding 10 million images of child porn, or the North Syracuse, N.Y., man who in December 2009 opened his door to police who'd been following an electronic trail of illegal videos and images. The man's neighbor pleaded guilty April 12.
For two hours that March morning in Buffalo, agents tapped away at the homeowner's desktop computer, eventually taking it with them, along with his and his wife's iPads and iPhones.
Within three days, investigators determined the homeowner had been telling the truth: If someone was downloading child pornography through his wireless signal, it wasn't him. About a week later, agents arrested a 25-year-old neighbor and charged him with distribution of child pornography. The case is pending in federal court.
It's unknown how often unsecured routers have brought legal trouble for subscribers. Besides the criminal investigations, the Internet is full of anecdotal accounts of people who've had to fight accusations of illegally downloading music or movies.
Whether you're guilty or not, "you look like the suspect," said Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School, who said that's just one of many reasons to secure home routers.
Experts say the more savvy hackers can go beyond just connecting to the Internet on the host's dime and monitor Internet activity and steal passwords or other sensitive information.
A study released in February provides a sense of how often computer users rely on the generosity — or technological shortcomings — of their neighbors to gain Internet access.
The poll conducted for the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that promotes wireless technology standards, found that among 1,054 Americans age 18 and older, 32 percent acknowledged trying to access a Wi-Fi network that wasn't theirs. An estimated 201 million households worldwide use Wi-Fi networks, according to the alliance.
The same study, conducted by Wakefield Research, found that 40 percent said they would be more likely to trust someone with their house key than with their Wi-Fi network password.
For some, though, leaving their wireless router open to outside use is a philosophical decision, a way of returning the favor for the times they've hopped on to someone else's network to check e-mail or download directions while away from home .
"I think it's convenient and polite to have an open Wi-Fi network," said Rebecca Jeschke, whose home signal is accessible to anyone within range.
"Public Wi-Fi is for the common good and I'm happy to participate in that — and lots of people are," said Jeschke, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that takes on cyberspace civil liberties issues.
Experts say wireless routers come with encryption software, but setting it up means a trip to the manual.
The government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team recommends home users make their networks invisible to others by disabling the identifier broadcasting function that allows wireless access points to announce their presence. It also advises users to replace any default network names or passwords, since those are widely known, and to keep an eye on the manufacturer's website for security patches or updates.
People who keep an open wireless router won't necessarily know when someone else is piggybacking on the signal, which usually reaches 300-400 feet, though a slower connection may be a clue.
For the Buffalo homeowner, who didn't want to be identified, the tip-off wasn't nearly as subtle.
It was 6:20 a.m. March 7 when he and his wife were awakened by the sound of someone breaking down their rear door. He threw a robe on and walked to the top of the stairs, looking down to see seven armed people with jackets bearing the initials I-C-E, which he didn't immediately know stood for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"They are screaming at him, 'Get down! Get down on the ground!' He's saying, 'Who are you? Who are you?'" Covert said.
"One of the agents runs up and basically throws him down the stairs, and he's got the cuts and bruises to show for it," said Covert, who said the homeowner plans no lawsuit. When he was allowed to get up, agents escorted him and watched as he used the bathroom and dressed.
The homeowner later got an apology from U.S. Attorney William Hochul and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge Lev Kubiak.
But this wasn't a case of officers rushing into the wrong house. Court filings show exactly what led them there and why.
On Feb. 11, an investigator with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees cybersecurity enforcement, signed in to a peer-to-peer file sharing program from his office. After connecting with someone by the name of "Doldrum," the agent browsed through his shared files for videos and images and found images and videos depicting children engaged in sexual acts.
The agent identified the IP address, or unique identification number, of the router, then got the service provider to identify the subscriber.
Investigators could have taken an extra step before going inside the house and used a laptop or other device outside the home to see whether there was an unsecured signal. That alone wouldn't have exonerated the homeowner, but it would have raised the possibility that someone else was responsible for the downloads.
After a search of his devices proved the homeowner's innocence, investigators went back to the peer-to-peer software and looked at logs that showed what other IP addresses Doldrum had connected from. Two were associated with the State University of New York at Buffalo and accessed using a secure token that UB said was assigned to a student living in an apartment adjacent to the homeowner. Agents arrested John Luchetti March 17. He has pleaded not guilty to distribution of child pornography.
Luchetti is not charged with using his neighbor's Wi-Fi without permission. Whether it was illegal is up for debate.
"The question," said Kerr, "is whether it's unauthorized access and so you have to say, 'Is an open wireless point implicitly authorizing users or not?'
"We don't know," Kerr said. "The law prohibits unauthorized access and it's just not clear what's authorized with an open unsecured wireless."
In Germany, the country's top criminal court ruled last year that Internet users must secure their wireless connections to prevent others from illegally downloading data. The court said Internet users could be fined up to $126 if a third party takes advantage of their unprotected line, though it stopped short of holding the users responsible for illegal content downloaded by the third party.
The ruling came after a musician sued an Internet user whose wireless connection was used to download a song, which was then offered on an online file sharing network. The user was on vacation when the song was downloaded.

Source: news.yahoo.com

Willie Revillame voices out tirade against his critics on the Jan-Jan incident

Willie Revillame voices out tirade against his critics on the Jan-Jan incident: "Kasi masyadong mabigat yung hinuhusgahan n'yo kaagad ako. Pinatay n'yo na ako."

Nagpahayag ng sampung minutong tirada si Willie Revillame laban sa kanyang mga kritiko sa live episode ng Willing Willie kagabi, March 29.
Bagamat mahinahon ang boses ng kontrobersiyal na TV host, bakas sa kanyang mga salita ang matinding emosyon matapos malagay sa kontrobersiya ang March 12 episode ng kanyang variety and game show sa TV5.
Sa kanyang tirada ay pinatutsadahan ni Willie ang mga ahensiya ng pamahalaan at mga artista na bumabatikos sa kanya. Nagbigay rin siya ng isang mensahe na tila magsisilbing panakot sa mga advertiser na balak i-boycott ang kanyang programa.
Natunghayan sa March 12 episode ang six-year-old na si Jan-Jan, na sumasayaw na tila "macho dancer" sa talent portion ng isang palaro. Natuwa si Willie sa talent ng bata, at limang beses pang pinaulit sa bata ang pagsayaw na ito.
In-upload sa YouTube ang segment na ito, at dito na nagsimula ang pagbuhos ng galit dahil umano sa "pag-abuso" ni Willie sa bata.
Ayon sa mga kritiko, hindi dapat pinaulit-ulit ni Willie ang "macho dancing" ni Jan-Jan, dahil hindi raw natuwa ang bata sa kanyang ginagawa. Umiiyak pa nga raw ito sa ipinakitang video. (CLICK HERE to read related story.)
Ilang ahensiya na ng pamahalaan ang nagbigay ng reaksiyon sa naganap na insidente. Dalawa rito—ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) at ang Commission on Human Rights (CHR)—ang agad na nagkondena sa tinawag nilang "child abuse." (CLICK HERE to read related story.)
Pinili naman ng Movie and Television Classification Board (MTRCB), sa pamumuna ng Chairperson nitong si Mary Grace Poe, na mag-imbestiga muna bago magbigay ng sariling konklusyon.
May ilan namang mga artista at celebrity na nagbigay ng kanilang reaksiyon, kasama na sina Lea Salonga, Jim Paredes, Kat de Castro, Bianca Gonzalez, at Monique Wilson.
Pumanig sila sa DSWD at CHR sa pagkokondena ng Willing Willie dahil sa "child abuse." Ayon pa sa ilan, hindi dapat palampasin ang paggamit umano ni Willie sa mga mahihirap para sa kanyang sariling kapakanan.
Ilan sa mga hakbang na minungkahi ng mga nagprotesta ay ang pag-boycott sa Willing Willie, at ang pagsulat sa mga advertisers na huwag nang suportahan ang palabas.
Dahil sa pagiging host ng Wowowee at ng Willing Willie—na tinatangkilik ng mahihirap at masang manonood—isa si Willie sa pinakamayamang tao sa Pilipinas. Bilang simbulo ng kanyang kayamanan, nagmamay-ari si Willie ng ilang malalaking mga bahay, isang yate, at isang koleksyon ng luxury cars.
Isa rin si Willie sa mga top taxpayers ng bansa sa 2008, ayon sa report ng Bureau of Internal Revenue noong April 2010. (CLICK HERE to read related story.)
WILLIE'S TIRADES. Dahil sa sunod-sunod na batikos ay pinili na ni Willie na maghayag ng kanyang depensa sa live episode ng Willing Willie kagabi, March 29.
Hindi na bago kay Willie ang paghayag ng saloobin sa kanyang mga live programs. Ginawa na rin niya ito noong siya pa ang host ng Wowowee sa ABS-CBN, bilang reaksiyon sa batikos sa kanya sa pagpapatigil niya ng live feed ng libing ng dating Pangulong Cory Aquino noong August 3, 2009. (CLICK HERE to read related story.)
Ang outburst naman niya sa Wowowee noong May 4, 2010 ang nagsimula ng alitan niya sa mga executives ng ABS-CBN. Sa naturang episode ay hayagan niyang hinamon ang executives na magre-resign siya sa noontime show kung hindi patalsikin sa network ang showbiz commentator na si Jobert Sucaldito. (CLICK HERE to read related story.)
Matatandaang live ding nagpahayag si Willie ng kanyang pagkadismaya sa pag-host ng mga kaibigang sina John Estrada at Randy Santiago sa noontime show ng ABS-CBN na Happy Yipee Yehey. Binatikos ni Willie ang desisyon ito sa January 26, 2011 episode ng Willing Willie. (CLICK HERE to read related story.)
Ang pagsasaere ni Willie ng kanyang mga saloobin sa kanyang mga programa ang dahilan ng pagdami ng mga taong galit at nayayabangan sa kanya. Nagbunsod din ang mga ito ng ilang kampanya para mawala si Willie sa telebisyon.
WILLIE'S DEFENSE. Tumagal ng sampung minuto ang tirada ni Willie kagabi laban sa mga bumabatikos sa kanya. Ang pahayag ni Willie ang nagbukas ng kanyang programa.
Halata namang suportado ng staff at mga manonood ng show ang mga pahayag ni Willie dahil tuloy-tuloy ang pagpalakpak nila sa bawat salita ng TV host.
Sa kanyang pahayag, sinabi ni Willie na nasaktan siya sa mga dumating na batikos dahil sa pagsayaw ni Jan-Jan sa kanyang programa. Aniya, tila pinatay na siya ng kanyang mga kritiko, kahit wala umano siyang kasalanan sa nangyari.
"Kasi masyadong mabigat yung hinuhusgahan n'yo kaagad ako. Pinatay n'yo na ako. Cancer pa lang sakit ko, patay na ako. Grabe ho yung mga nakasulat kanina, binabasa ko ho. Pero hindi ako, wala akong feeling na guilty. Wala ako. Hindi ako guilty kasi. Wala ho," saad niya.
Tila raw nabura kasi ng isang insidente ang magaganda umanong gawain sa Willing Willie.
"Yung sampung nagawa naming kabutihan, [dahil sa] isang mali na hindi naman pagkakamali, binabalewala n'yo yun. E, bakit ba init na init kayo sa akin? Guwapong-guwapo ba kayo sa akin? Ganun ba? E, parang ganun lang, e. Ito lahat, e, biro lang, pero, hindi ba? Nagtataka lang."
Paliwanag ni Willie, ang mga magulang ni Jan-Jan ang may kinalaman sa insidente. Dagdag niya, nagbigay-malasakit pa nga raw ang staff ng kanyang show.
Saad niya, "Una sa lahat, yung nangyari sa batang si Jan-Jan, bago pa ho mag-audition yun, yun na ang gusto ng magulang niya na isayaw. Actually nga ho, mabait pa ang staff namin.
"Kasi ang dala nilang CD dun para sa bata, ang gustong patugtugin, 'Careless Whisper.' E, alam n'yo naman ho kung saan nanggaling ang 'Careless Whisper' na 'yan. Sobrang ano ho 'yan, naging eskandalo ho 'yan, sa video."
Ang tinutukoy ni Willie na eskandalo sa kantang "Careless Whisper" ni George Michael ay ang pagkasama nito sa mga lumabas na sex videos nina Hayden Kho at Katrina Halili noong 2009.
Patuloy ng TV host, "So, nagprotekta pa rin ho kami dun sa bata, which is, hindi ko alam 'yan, a. Nalaman ko lang 'yan kahapon [March 28] nung nakausap ko yung magulang. Yung staff namin, gumawa pa rin ng paraan. Sensitive pa rin doon, sa part na yun na, bakit natin pasasayawin ng ganun, at yun ang tugtog. So, medyo malisyoso ho yun, kasi alam natin."
Imbes na "Careless Whisper" ay ang kantang "The Next Episode" na lang nina Dr. Dre at Snoop Dogg ang pinatugtog.
Pagpapatuloy ni Willie, "Ang problema ho dito, yung magulang po ni Jan-Jan ang may gustong yun ang sayawin nung bata! Hindi ko...ni hindi ko nga nakikita ang mga 'yan, e. Hindi ba? Dito ko lang ho nakita 'yan. 'O, kumusta ka na? O, ano ang talent mo?' Biglang sumayaw yung bata."
Hindi rin daw totoo na umiiyak si Jan-Jan dahil sa pinapasayaw siya, at hindi raw ngumingiti ang bata dahil wala raw itong ngipin.
"Bakit umiiyak yung si Jan-Jan? Natakot kay Balingit! Isa po yun! Tinanong ko nang personal, e. Hindi po ako magsisinulangaling...
"Kaya siya umiiyak, na ano, dahil kay Balingit, at wala daw siyang ngipin. Ayaw daw niyang ngumiti. Dapat maintindihan."
Ang tinutukoy naman dito ni Willie ay ang dating PBA player na si Bonel Balingit, na lumabas din sa March 12 episode ng Willing Willie.
Dagdag niya, may ebidensiya raw silang kahit four years old pa lang si Jan-Jan ay "macho dancing" na ang alam nitong sayaw.
"Alam n'yo, meron siyang video...sa school niya, four years old pa lang siya, yun na ang sayaw niya, saka ganun na ang reaction niya. Yun na, papakita yata sa MTRCB 'yan, papakita yata sa ano. So, para lang maliwanagan n'yo," sabi ni Willie.
Ang dahilan naman ni Willie sa paulit-ulit niyang pagpasayaw sa bata ay dahil sa nagkakatuwaan umano sila.
"Sabi ho nila inabuso ko dahil ilang beses kong pinasaya, pinasayaw. Dahil ho masaya, nagkakasayahan po dito," sabi ni Willie.
WILLIE REACTS. Pagbubulgar ni Willie, may mga tao umanong nais siraan ang kanyang pagkatao at ang kanyang programa, kaya tuloy-tuloy ang nangyayaring pagbatikos.
May pumupunta raw kasi sa bahay ni Jan-Jan at nagbubuyo umano sa pamilya nito para siraan ang TV host.
Kuwento ni Willie "Ngayon eto, nakausap ko ang tatay ni Jan-Jan, para maliwanagan yun. Kanina tumawag siya sa akin. Sabi niya, 'Kuya.' Sabi ko, 'Sino to?' 'Ako po yung tatay ni Jan-Jan. Kinuha ko yung number n'yo ho. Gusto ko lang malaman n'yo na may nagpunta ditong direktor, at may isang babae, at sabi ho sa akin, siraan daw kayo.'
"Siya na ang magsasabi. 'At gusto siyang kunin, at gustong scholarship ng bata. Hindi ko po ginawa yun. Sabi namin, walang kasalanan dito si Kuya Willie, kami ang nagsabi doon sa anak namin na yun ang sayawin.'
"May nagpupunta, tumatawag, siraan ako, wasakin yung show, at ang sabi... Ito, nakikita n'yo nang nangyayari, o. Isipin n'yo. And then, pumunta ang DSWD doon, kinausap sila, tinanong kung inutusan ko ang batang yun ang sayawin. Ako ho ang pinupuntirya."
Pinuri naman ni Willie ang MTRCB dahil hindi umano ito naglabas ng "mapanghusgang" pahayag, hindi katulad ng iba.
"In fairness sa MTRCB, kay Chairman Poe, kay Ms. Mary Grace. Ako, I salute you ma'am. Kasi ang sabi niya, iimbestigahan muna namin bago kami magdesisyon. I think that's the way to do it. Wag muna kayong maghuhusga.
"Hindi ba? Kanina po nasa Inquirer ako, nasa Philippine Star. Winasak na ang pagkatao ko. Wala naman akong ginawa. Inabuso ko daw, talagang ganito ang ginagawa ko sa ano...
"At eto pa ho ang masakit... Ginagamit ko raw ho ang mahihirap, ha, para sa programa. Ano ba ang nagawa n'yo sa mahihirap? Ano ba ang binibigay niyo sa mahihirap araw-araw? Kami ang nagbibigay sa mahihirap, nakakatulong pa kami sa gobyerno. "
WILLIE'S THREATS. Nagbigay naman si Willie ng paghamon sa mga artista na bumabatikos sa kanya. Aniya, dapat tumulong na lang ang mga nasabing artista sa mga mahihirap imbes na magbigay-puna.
Ilan sa mga artistang nagbigay ng kanilang reaksiyon sa pamamagitan ng Twitter ay sina Lea Salonga, Jim Paredes, Kat de Castro, Bianca Gonzalez, at Monique Wilson.
Banta ni Willie, maraming magagalit sa mga artistang ito kapag inisa-isa niya ang kanilang mga pangalan.
"At dun sa mga artistang nagti-tweet sa akin, tumulong na lang kayo sa inyong mga kababayan. Wag na kayong magsasalita sa tweet n'yo. Hindi ko na ipapakita yang mga pangalan niyo.
"Kasi pag binaggit ko sa inyo, maraming magagalit sa inyo. Maniwala kayo sa akin. Maraming magagalit sa inyo kapag binanggit ko ang pangalan niyo. Wag na kayong mag-tweet; pare-pareho tayong nasa industriya."
Binantaan niya rin ang isang singer na hindi niya pinangalanan.
"Mag-concert ka, kung sino ka man, nang libre, at yung perang kikitain mo, ibigay mo. Okay? Yun ang dapat mong gawin. Wag kang magtutu-tweet.
"Sa ibang artista, magkakasama tayo rito. Ha? Saka alamin n'yo muna yung ginagawa ng programa. Hindi namin kailangang ipakita on-air o off-air lang. Marami kaming ginagawan kabutihan sa ating mga kababayan."
Bukod pa rito, nagbigay rin si Willie ng banta sa mga advertisers na balak i-boycott ang kanyang programa.
"Tapos yung iba, sumulat na sa mga sponsors namin, sa advertisers. Ang gusto nila, mag-boycott ang advertisers. Napakasakit na po ng ano, e, umaabot na ho sa ganun, na bino-boycott yung problema...
"Alam n'yo ho, pag binoycott kami ng advertisers, yung mga nagmamahal naman sa amin, hindi nila bibilhin ang produktong 'yan. Pag sina... Di ba? Hindi ho, e. Hindi naman ganun ang labanan dito."
Agad na pinalakpakan ng studio audience ang pahayag na ito.
Sa bandang huli, nagbigay si Willie ng konkretong hamon sa kanyang mga tagapagbatikos.
"Ngayon, kung tatanggalin n'yo ang programa, pinipilit n'yo kaming mawala sa mundo, sana kayo ang sumagot sa mga pangangailangan ng mga taong mahihirap na mga ito. Di ba?" saad niya.

Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com

Fright likely killed thousands of birds in Arkansas

CHICAGO (AFP) - – Fright likely killed thousands of birds which dropped onto a small town in Arkansas, officials said Monday.

As many as 5,000 birds began falling over the small town of Beebe shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve.

"We right now are pretty confident that the trauma is what caused the die-off," said state veterinarian George Badley.

A local resident reported hearing about 20 loud booms Saturday night -- which could have been fireworks or a cannon to get rid of nuisance birds -- and saw a huge flock of frantic birds when he went outside.

"He could hear the blackbirds fluttering around -- he could hear their wings and he could hear them hitting into things," Badley told AFP.

Blackbirds have poor night vision and they were likely killed because they banged into houses, trees and each other in their fright.

However, the state is conducting further tests to make sure the birds were not poisoned or diseased, Badley said.

It was not a good weekend for wildlife in Arkansas.

About 80,000 to 100,000 dead fish were found floating in the Arkansas River about 100 miles away from Beebe a day before the birds were killed.

Officials believe they were killed by disease because only one species -- drum fish -- was affected.

"We did something wrong, didn't we," joked Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission.

Stephens said it's possible that a tornado which whipped through Arkansas and killed three people Friday morning may have had something to do with the bird deaths.

Scientists discover monster star

By Moni Basu, CNN

(CNN) -- Imagine a star so luminous that it would burn the Earth up if it were anywhere near, a star that outshines the sun as much as the sun outshines the moon. A monster even in the abyss of space.

The star is not some scientist's celestial dream. Astronomers used a Very Large Telescope -- the instrument's official name -- to detect the most massive star discovered to date. In scientific lingo, it's a "hypergiant."

Led by Paul Crowther, professor of astrophysics at England's University of Sheffield, the team of astronomers studied two young clusters of stars, NGC 3603 and RMC 136a.

R136a1, found in the RMC 136a cluster, is 10 million times brighter than the sun and is the heaviest star ever found, Crowther said Wednesday, with a mass that is roughly 265 times more than the sun. It was born even heavier, with a solar mass of 320. Astronomers previously thought 150 to be the upper limit.

Several of the stars studied had surface temperatures of 40,000 degrees, more than seven times hotter than the sun.

R136a1 is rare and resides in another galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its home is more than 165,000 light years away from Earth's Milky Way galaxy. As such, said Crowther, it is not visible to the naked eye, nor with a rooftop telescope.

"Owing to the rarity of these monsters, I think it is unlikely that this new record will be broken any time soon," Crowther said.

Crowther's team used the sophisticated infrared equipment on the Very Large Telescope in a European Southern Observatory facility in Chile as well as data collected from the Hubble Space Telescope to detect the colossal star. The telescope is considered the world's "biggest eye on the sky" and is 8 meters (26 feet) in diameter.

The research was published in the current issue of the British scientific journal The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

"Unlike people, these kind of stars are massive when they are babies," Crowther told CNN. "They lose weight as they get older."

At over a million years old, the star is already middle-aged, Crowther said, and could easily be a poster child for WeightWatchers, having shed a fifth of its initial mass over time because of powerful winds.

In another million years -- a brief life span compared to the sun's 5 billion years of existence -- the giant star will probably explode as a supernova. It won't be noticeable on Earth because it's so far away.

Crowther, excited about the new find, had to find simple terminology to describe it to his 6-year-old son Billy. Billy, in turn, wanted dad to name the monster star after him.

That might have sounded a whole lot better than R136a1, but nonetheless, a star is born.

Source: CNN.com

Without rain, Angat may have only 40-days supply of water

If the rains do not come yet, the Angat Dam reservoir, which provides 97 percent of the water needs of the national capital region, may not have enough water to supply Metro Manila and other provinces after 40 days, the National Power Corporation said Wednesday.

Angat Dam is a multi-purpose facility that supplies potable drinking water to Metro Manila and nearby provinces. It also irrigates farmlands in nearby provinces and augments power supply for the Luzon Grid.

Napocor president Froilan Tampinco said the water at the dam will not last for 40 days if the rains will not yet come and the water level remains at 158.2 meters above sea level (MASL), way below the critical level of 180 MASL.

“Kung walang ulan, remember we are releasing through the low level outlet, kung bumaba yun doon, kahit gusto natin maglabas ng tubig, walang lalabas (If there is no rain, remember that we are releasing through the low level outlet, even if we want to release water, nothing will come out)," Tampinco said.

“We need more rainfall but not the kind that would cause destruction. We just need heavy rainfall," he said. The rainfall should be at least 50 milliliters per day for one month to reach the 180 MASL level.

Tampinco said the Angat dam water level is expected to reach 180 MASL by September, noting that the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and the water concessionaires rely on the data from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).

He said the decrease of water from the dam is not due to evaporation but more on the lack of inflow.

“Hindi nadadagdagan, nagbababawas lang tayo ng tubig (There's no new supply; we are just decreasing the current supply of water)," Tampinco said.

Tampinco also clarified that the water shortage is largely due to lack of rainfall and not because of the alleged overspilling from the dam from December 1 to 15 last year.

“What we are realizing now as a situation is to our analysis, largely due the weather, which was caused by the lack of proper inflow of water into the dam. It is not because of the releases that we have made," he said.

“It is best for the agencies concerned to sit down and talk things over and look for solutions. I don’t think it will be productive for us to pinpoint and blame anybody," Tampinco said.

Tampinco said cloud seeding can help increase the water level but it also carries risks.

“What we can cite is what experienced recently, and we had an increase of about 0.6 meters. The water level in Angat actually increased, because of the rains that we have been experiencing. Of course, it’s not enough but still significant, and if this trend goes on, we may be able to reach a level when things are comfortable and normal," he said.

Napocor said in a separate statement that the agency tried to implement measures to ensure that Angat dam will have enough water, in anticipation of an El Nino period as forecast by the PAGASA, the state weather forecasting agency.

Expecting an extended summer as predicted by PAGASA, Napocor maintained the water in the dam above the normal operational level by more than two meters to 212 MASL from 210 MASL as of December 2009.

"Our total outflows were only almost 93 million cubic meters (MCM) from December 1 to 15, 2009; which is even lower than the more than 108 MCM – the requirement of both the National Irrigation Administration and MWSS for the same period," Napocor said.

It added that all the water releases during that period were within dam operation protocols and regulatory requirements.

“There are no releases made for that period that are outside the allocations given by the National Water Resources Board (NWRB). There were no extra releases, contrary to the allegations," Napocor said.

"However, dam water release is not an exact science. There will always be discrepancies, because of the nature of water itself. Its not like you can measure the volume as it flows down exactly to the last drop. What is important is that we were able to maintain the level of water released, on the average, as required by the NWRB," Napocor said. –VVP/JV, GMANews.TV

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Today: October 02, 2009

It’s been weeks now since the contest started. And my entry is not on top 10. I’m wondering if I can still reach those on top. I don’t know if I have to worry now, but instead of worrying I will do what I can to reach those guys on top.

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