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Science
Waikato Times - Those who witter on (to chatter or babble on pointlessly or at unnecessary length) about emissions of green-house gasses, usually come from the left side of the political spectrum. |
Technology
Herald Sun - STANFORD University is preparing for the arrival of Silicon Valley nobility invited to pay tribute revered Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. |
MarketWatch - Sprint customers got their first chance ever to buy the wildly popular smartphones and gave the company its best ever day of sales for a device family across retail, web and telesales channels. |
New Zealand Herald - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak demonstrates Siri voice recognition after picking up his iPhone 4S. Photo / AP Steve Wozniak stepped triumphantly from his local Apple store caressing a new iPhone 4S and promptly told the gadget's robotic assistant to ... |
Philippine Star - From left: Adam Smith, director, YouTube; Mark Lopez, group information officer, ABS-CBN; Debbie Gaite, general manager, FILSCAP; Howie Severino, VP for multimedia journalism, GMA Network Inc., and editor-in-chief, GMANews. |
Hindustan Times - Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page on Thursday said that its online social networking challenge to Facebook is growing fast and has topped 40 million users. |
Multichannel News - Mediacom and LIN Media have finalized a retransmission consent agreement, ending a blackout for nine LIN stations for Mediacom subscribers that began Aug. 31. |
GMANews.TV - Cybercriminals are at work on micro-blogging site Twitter again, unleashing a new phishing attack that poses as a reputation alert. |
Stuff.co.nz - Google is getting ready to press the mute button on Buzz, an online social networking service that turned into a massive faux pas. |
Wall Street Journal - Apple Inc. is negotiating with Hollywood studios for deals that would let people who buy movies from the iTunes Store watch streaming versions of those movies on Apple devices such as iPads or iPhones without manually transferring them, ... |
Inquirer.net - The world is poorer for the death of Steve Jobs. His absence will exacerbate the downward spiral of values in a global village where leaders have the sickest notions of how to do right by their constituents. |
Computerworld - Computerworld - Researchers in Singapore say they've found a way to use common table salt to increase by 5.3 times the density at which bits of data can be stored on a hard disk drive platter. |
Gadling - While you can basically download an app for anything you could possibly need to do on your smartphone, there are many times when traveling where you may find yourself unable to get Wi-Fi. |
Reuters - LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. |
Daily Monitor - By Monitor reporter (email the author) Airtel Uganda on Friday said it would offer its BlackBerry customers a service waiver following a global outage attributed to the service provider Research in Motion (RIM). |
Times of India - AMSTERDAM: A Dutch court turned down Samsung Electronics' request for an injunction against all of Apple's mobile products that use 3G telecommunications technology, denying it revenge over a similar move by Apple. |
iTWire - Despite some remaining regulatory issues in certain countries, Microsoft has closed its acquisition of Skype. Microsoft agreed to acquire Skype back in May, but regulatory issues mean such deals cannot be completed overnight. |
Good E-Reader (blog) - After living with the iPad 2 for quite sometime now, naturally its about time the iPad 3 start making its presence felt in a more definitive manner. |
Mobile Burn - Motorola is now offering customers its XOOM tablet in a new flavor, the Family Edition. Similar to the original XOOM, the device sports Wi-Fi, a colorful and bright 10.1-inch touchscreen display screen, a dual-core 1GHz processor, and a 5MP camera that ... |
Online Social Media - We had a little hands-on time with Uncharted 3 when we visited EuroGamer in London a couple of weeks ago, and it was easy to see that this game was one of the best at the show, in terms of graphics. |
Health
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - The number of Filipino nurses seeking jobs in the United States dropped in the third quarter of the year, a lawmaker said yesterday. |
Stabroek News - By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | Local | Sunday, October 16, 2011 Global Hand washing day is celebrated on October 15 since its inception in 2008 when the year was designated as International Year of Sanitation by the UN General Assembly. |
Huffington Post - Research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that a third of survivors of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma still experience PTSD symptoms long after they were first diagnosed with the disease. |
Malaya - EATING fish has always been championed as one of the ways to achieve optimum health. But apparently, fishes contain a more potent, health-giving benefit and that is fish oil, which contains omega-3 fatty acids, a type of polyunsaturated 'good' fat that ... |
Daily Dispatch Online - AN CATARACT patient who was given the gift of sight yesterday could not wait to see her family for the first time in years. Lorna Moni , whose left eye is totally blind from diabetes, had only partial vision in her right eye after developing a cataract ... |
Khaleej Times - DUBAI - Global Handwashing Day was marked by officials from Dubai Municipality and the staff of Emirates Flight Catering on Saturday, to raise awareness on hand cleanliness and its importance while dealing with food. |
Philippine Information Agency - KORONADAL CITY, Oct 16 (PIA) -- The recent tour of Department of Health's Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan (LBK) to South Cotabato directly benefited at least 3182 elderlies, parents and children in T'boli town, an official of the provincial ... |
Boing Boing - Bloomberg News has published a two-part, first-person investigative piece by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, on the lives of Filipina sex workers in ... |
Inquirer.net - VANCOUVER—Federal health authorities in Canada have met with practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine as a first step towards modifying regulations covering the sale of imported Chinese herbal remedies. |
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - By Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger Thousands of breast cancer survivors and their families, friends and co-workers participate in the annual fundraiser to benefit Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. |
Boston Globe - Once again ADHD is in the news. At the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition this weekend in Boston, the new guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of ADHD were unveiled with much fanfare. |
Entertainment
Cebu Daily News - “The blood of painting” is how the ancient Chinese painters regarded water, whether it emerges on silk or paper as streams, ponds, waterfalls, or rivers. |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - A family drama film directed by Filipino filmmaker Loy Arcenas won the Best Picture award at the recent Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). |
Philippine Star - LOS ANGELES, California - You don't have to ask Ben Chan why he tapped Michael Trevino as new endorser of Bench Underwear, coming on the heels of the Philippine Volcanoes whose bigger-than-life billboards were ordered removed by city officials who ... |
Reuters Canada - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The boxing robots of "Real Steel" had better footwork at the ticket window than the kids in the remake of the 1980s dance classic "Footloose" and held on to the domestic box-office title for a second straight ... |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Filipinos took part in a worldwide initiative in a bid to set a Guinness World Record for the “Largest Fuel Efficiency Lesson. |
Inquirer.net - ANXIOUS AND HOPEFUL FACES all in a long long gray line outside the Amoranto Stadium in Quezon City. They have all descended upon what they hope to be their launch pad for the big time and the big bucks. |
Philippine Star - From left: Adam Smith, director, YouTube; Mark Lopez, group information officer, ABS-CBN; Debbie Gaite, general manager, FILSCAP; Howie Severino, VP for multimedia journalism, GMA Network Inc., and editor-in-chief, GMANews. |
Multichannel News - Mediacom and LIN Media have finalized a retransmission consent agreement, ending a blackout for nine LIN stations for Mediacom subscribers that began Aug. 31. |
Philippine Star - I read about this a long time ago. The Von Trapp Family escaped Nazi-occupied Austria not by crossing the Alps on foot but by simply taking a train to Italy. |
Film News - Justin Timberlake says working with Olivia Wilde in their recent movie was “much easier” than being slapped “over and over” in their previous film. |
Philippine Star - Peter Pan (Sam Concepcion) and Captain Hook (Michael Williams) hold a classic standoff on the bow of Hook's ship. MANILA, Philippines - Who would ever think that witnessing ... |
Al-Arabiya - Kim Kardashian is making a big splash during her visit to the UAE. (Photo by Reuters) By Al Arabiya During her first visit to the Middle East, reality star Kim Kardashian told Al Arabiya morning show that the beauty of Arab women is “unique and exotic ... |
TheChronicleHerald.ca - NEW YORK (AP) - Top models Alessandra Ambrosio, Miranda Kerr and Doutzen Kroes will strut in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to live musical performances by Kanye West and Maroon 5. The catwalk event, which also will include VS models Erin ... |
The Nation - Last month's King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament involved a lot of tottering fun atop tuskers, but its charity dinner at the Anantara Hua Hin also raised Bt3.1 million to help both domesticated and wild elephants in Thailand. |
Kansas City Star - 1."Jacqueline Kennedy," by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion: $60) A series of recorded interviews after JFK's death reveal a shocking side of the former first lady. |
Modern Ghana - By kennedyadarkwa@sbcglobal.net There was once a boxer who was being badly beaten in the ring by his opponent. Blow after blow by his opponent left him with bloody nose, swollen eyes, and enormous amount of pain. |
BusinessWeek - By Bloomberg Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Stella Rimington has stared down KGB operatives and outwitted IRA militants. As the former director general of MI5 -- where she was both the first female boss and the first to be publicly named -- she's no stranger ... |
The Tennessean - Taylor Swift wants children in the Pennsylvania city of Reading to hit the books - and she has made that easier by giving 6000 volumes to the local library. |
Contactmusic.com - Madonna reunited with Antonio Banderas on Thursday (13Oct11) when she made a surprise appearance at the premiere party for his new movie The Skin I Live In. |
Inquirer.net - “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” With this simple statement, Jesus foils the attempt of the religious authorities to trap him. |
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Philippine Stock Exchange | PHILIPPINE MUTUAL FUNDS | |||||
Company Name | NAV per share (PhP) | One Year Return (%) | Three Year Return (%) | Four Year Return (%) | Year-to-date Return (%) |
| ATR KimEng Equity Opportunity Fund | 2.7142 | -2.38% | 21.51% | 9.82% | -2.67% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Equity Fund, Inc. | 3.5907 | 6.95% | 33.76% | 17.81% | 2.94% |
| Philam Strategic Growth Fund, Inc. | 368.94 | -1.37% | 25.83% | 13.73% | -2.45% |
| Philequity Fund, Inc. | 20.2379 | 1.59% | 30.16% | 15.21% | 0.19% |
| Philequity PSE Index Fund Inc. | 2.7894 | 3.26% | 24.52% | 17.68% | 3.12% |
| Philippine Stock Index Fund Corp. * | 451.79 | -1.36% | 22.11% | 10.11% | -1.47% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Phil. Equity Fund, Inc. * | 2.5879 | -0.52% | 20.58% | 11.27% | -0.91% |
| United Fund, Inc. | 2.6735 | -4.64% | 11.02% | 8.27% | -6.49% |
| ATR KimEng Asia Plus Recovery Fund, Inc. ** | $0.9274 | -16.25% | n.a. | n.a. | -17.84% |
| ALFM Growth Fund, Inc * | 177.44 | -4.59% | n.a. | n.a. | -5.46% |
| Bahay Pari Solidaritas Fund, Inc.* | 1.3971 | 3.37% | n.a. | n.a. | -1.4% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Balanced Fund Inc. | 2.0053 | 5.29% | 31.06% | n.a. | 0.85% |
| GSIS Mutual Fund, Inc. | 2.8005 | -2.92% | 21.3% | 13.44% | -4.21% |
| MFCP Kabuhayan Fund | 1.5654 | -2.44% | 15.49% | 8.1% | -2.47% |
| NCM Mutual Funds of the Phils., Inc. | 1.4123 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -1.38% |
| Optima Balanced Fund, Inc. | 1.2449 | 3.39% | 14.3% | 5.57% | 2.77% |
| Philam Fund, Inc. | 12.38 | -1.03% | 22.16% | 12.64% | -2.19% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Balanced Fund, Inc. * | 2.6023 | -1.3% | 13.76% | 8.94% | -1.07% |
| Cocolife Dollar Fund Builder, Inc. | $0.028743 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -1.57% |
| PAMI Asia Balanced Fund, Inc. | $0.9321 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -7.82% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Advantage Fund * | $2.6386 | -4.63% | 4.72% | 2.07% | -1.83% |
| ALFM Peso Bond Fund, Inc. * | 274.01 | 5.53% | 6.21% | 6.11% | 3.32% |
| Cocolife Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | 2.0124 | 12.95% | 11.13% | 9.2% | 6.14% |
| Ekklesia Mutual Fund Inc. * | 1.6545 | 7.61% | 5.65% | 5.03% | 5.6% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Fixed Income Fund | 1.5552 | 9.63% | 7.76% | 6.49% | 5.32% |
| Grepalife Bond Fund Corp. | 1.1753 | 2.4% | n.a. | n.a. | 3.04% |
| Philam Bond Fund, Inc. | 3.2614 | 5.26% | 6.14% | 5.66% | 3.9% |
| Philequity Peso Bond Fund Inc. | 2.7023 | 6.08% | 7.16% | 8.59% | 4.34% |
| Prudentialife Fixed Income Fund Inc. | 1.6016 | 2.75% | 3.29% | 4.3% | 1.22% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Bond Fund, Inc. * | 2.3087 | 5.21% | 6.39% | 5.05% | 4.08% |
| Sun Life Prosperity GS Fund, Inc. * | 1.3464 | 4.53% | 8.37% | 5.85% | 2.05% |
| ALFM Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. * | $357.07 | 2.13% | 4.6% | 4.6% | 2.45% |
| ALFM Euro Bond Fund, Inc. * | €177.48 | -0.74% | 3.45% | 2.62% | -0.75% |
| ATR KimEng Total Return Bond Fund, Inc. ** | $1.0281 | 1.94% | n.a. | n.a. | 2.27% |
| Grepalife Dollar Bond Fund Corp. | $1.4016 | 0.61% | 11.2% | 5.69% | 1.82% |
| Grepalife Fixed Income Fund Corp. | P1.4601 | 4.06% | 8.09% | 5.04% | 4.19% |
| MAA Privilege Dollar Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | $1.34212 | -1.04% | 4.03% | 2.78% | 4.37% |
| MAA Privilege Euro Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | €0.02796 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -3.92% |
| PAMI Global Bond Fund, Inc. | $1.226 | -0.5% | 5.83% | n.a. | 3.58% |
| Philam Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. | $1.8494 | -0.67% | 10.43% | 5.93% | 2% |
| Philequity Dollar Income Fund Inc. | $0.0470384 | 0.94% | 7.39% | 7.35% | 2.26% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Abundance Fund * | $2.633 | 0.23% | 9.92% | 5.13% | 4.12% |
| ALFM Money Market Fund, Inc. * | 105.43 | 3.46% | n.a. | n.a. | 2.34% |
| ATR KimEng Money Market Fund, Inc. | 1.1085 | 0.98% | 0.96% | -0.93% | 0.59% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Money Market Fund | 1.0408 | 1.99% | n.a. | n.a. | 1.22% |
| Philam Managed Income Fund, Inc. | 1.111 | 0.88% | 1.48% | 1.68% | 0.5% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Money Market Fund, Inc. * | 1.1256 | 0.36% | 0.97% | 1.45% | 0.25% |
* - NAVPS as of the previous banking day ** - NAVPS as of 2 banking days ago Source: Investment Company Association of the Philippines (ICAP); | |||||
| Lotto Game | Combinations | Draw Date | Jackpot | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superlotto 6/49 | 17-49-32-29-02-24 | 10/16/2011 | 16,000,000.00 | 0 |
| Swertres Lotto 11AM | 7-2-1 | 10/16/2011 | 4,500.00 | 621 |
| Swertres Lotto 4PM | 0-0-3 | 10/16/2011 | 4,500.00 | 156 |
| Swertres Lotto 9PM | 4-3-8 | 10/16/2011 | 4,500.00 | 598 |
| EZ2 Lotto Luzon 9PM | 20-17 | 10/16/2011 | 4,000.00 | 103 |
| EZ2 Lotto Vismin 9PM | 20-17 | 10/16/2011 | 4,000.00 | 2 |
| EZ2 Lotto 11AM | 20-18 | 10/16/2011 | 4,000.00 | 44 |
| EZ2 Lotto 4PM | 26-24 | 10/16/2011 | 4,000.00 | 30 |
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