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Batanes Island

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A number of devastating storms have battered Batanes Island, but this province still stands today. Located on the extreme northern edge of the Philippines, Batanes is the least populated province but it remains one of the most beautiful.
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Calaguas Island, Camarines Norte

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The Calaguas is a group of islands in the province of Camarines Norte that includes 3 major islands and several minor islands. If you are looking to escape the main islands you should head to Calaguas Island, which is one of the lesser-known beaches in the Philippines. Campers and backpackers enjoy the well-maintained powdery white sand beaches found here.
Camarines Norte is equally stunning, albeit more crowded, just like the other main islands–Vinzons and Paracale.
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Close VP race could drag out canvassing

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Leaders of the House of Representatives vowed to ensure the smooth canvassing of votes for president and vice president this week, but also raised the possibility of being hampered by the tight race for the vice presidency.

The Senate and the House are set to convene jointly on Wednesday as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) to tally the votes for president and vice president. 

The two chambers will resume session today and they are expected to adopt a resolution calling for a joint session of Congress to act as NBOC. 

After the approval of the joint resolution, the Senate and the House are expected to pass tomorrow the canvassing rules and appoint members of the canvassing panel from the two chambers.

The canvassing process is scheduled to start on Wednesday with the opening of ballot boxes containing the certificates of canvass (COCs).

The Senate, for its part, has named its representatives to the NBOC.

Apart from Senate President Franklin Drilon, Senators Aquilino Pimentel III, Juan Edgardo Angara, Teofisto Guingona III, Loren Legarda, and Paolo Benigno Aquino were nominated to represent the Senate in the NBOC, which will convene on Tuesday.

Angara said some senators have met and agreed on the composition of the panel.

To ensure impartiality and objectivity, Angara said those who ran for president and vice-president were excluded: Senators Grace Poe, Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Alan Peter Cayetano, Gregorio Honasan, Francis Escudero and Antonio Trillanes IV.

Sen. Nancy Binay, daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay who lost in the presidential race, was also not included.

Pimentel, president of PDP-Laban whose standard bearer was incoming president Rodrigo Duterte, was chosen to replace Cayetano.

Angara said the Senate contingent will be led by the Senate president as counterpart of the Speaker, supported by the majority leaders of both chambers.

Since Cayetano ran with Duterte as vice presidential candidate, he would not be part of the Senate contingent as majority leader, Angara said. Pimentel is the deputy.

“There is no problem with Congressman Gonzales since he did not run for any national elective position,” Angara said,  referring to House Majority Leader Mandaluyong City Rep. Neptali Gonzales II.

Gonzales, for his part, said that while every effort will be made to speed up the canvassing, it is also anticipating some delays owing to the close fight between Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo and Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the vice-presidential race.

“We’re not really sure how intense the battle for vice president will turn out,” Gonzales told dzBB.
“The possible clash will be between those representing presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte, who naturally want it (canvassing) to be faster, and probably those in the vice- presidential race,” he said.

The latest unofficial tally from the transparency servers of the Commission on Elections showed Robredo leading Marcos by over 200,000 votes.

Last week, Robredo’s camp claimed victory, saying even if she will get zero votes from the remaining untallied voting precincts, the Liberal Party bet will win by over 20,000 votes.

Marcos’ camp, however, alleged some form of fraud that allowed Robredo to overtake his lead.
Gonzales pointed out that all of Duterte’s rivals, except Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, have conceded defeat, which should make the canvassing of votes for president go on smoothly.

He said this has a bearing on the canvassing of votes for vice president as votes of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates will be canvassed virtually simultaneously from each COC.

“For example a COC from a province, there will be only one observation (by members of the canvassing panel) on the COC after inspecting it. It can’t be that there are differing observations on the vote for president and vice president because it comes from only one COC,” he said.

Gonzales said the canvassing process would be continuous but there were no specific rules yet.
He recalled the 2010 canvassing where President Aquino was proclaimed on June 10.

The 16th Congress, which began on July 22, 2013, will adjourn sine die its third and last regular session on June 10.






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Social media has changed the landscape of the recently concluded Philippine elections, according to Twitter.

Pratiksha Rao, head for media partnerships in Twitter Southeast Asia, said social media, particularly Twitter, absolutely played a critical role in the general election when over 35 million election tweets were sent since the start of the year, of which over four million tweets came on election day.

“First-time voters accounted for one-third of the 50 million registered voters, meaning that around 17 million votes were up for grabs and social media is the best way to reach young Filipinos. That’s why we called this the first-ever Twitter Election in the Philippines,” Rao told The STAR.
He said one of the most important contributions of Twitter was that it was used to provide more transparency and fairness for the general election.

“The beauty of Twitter is that Filipinos could see a wide range of political views and comments about the candidates in order to make a more informed voting decision. People come to Twitter for diversity. In addition, people have been reporting voting irregularities via Twitter using the #Sumbongko hashtag and Comelec has been responding in real-time to address their concerns. In fact, one of the most retweeted tweets on election day was a reply tweet from the Comelec spokesman to investigate selfie photos with the ballot,” Rao said.
Twitter also saw the youth voice moved the election.

“For example, many of the most shared tweets on election day came from young Filipinos talking about the early election results. Even though they only have several hundred followers, their tweets were retweeted several thousand times, showing how any Filipino voice can be heard around the world on Twitter, Rao said.

Because so many young people were active on Twitter, the social media giant created special election emojis for the presidential candidates and for voting day to give the first-time voters a fun way to express themselves on Twitter.

“Young people loved the emoji designs, from the faces of the presidential candidates to an inked voting finger, which increased engagement on our platform especially for live conversations around the key moments during the election,” he said.

Last year, Twitter partnered with Comelec to get more Filipinos to participate in the election process and join the election conversation this year. The partnership focused on enabling Filipinos to get live updates on the election, to connect with others for a wide variety of political viewpoints and to express their thoughts and ideas about the candidates and election campaigns.

“There’s no doubt that Twitter contributed to the record voter turnout of over 80 percent on election day with over four million elections-related tweets on that day alone,”Rao said.
Twitter also enabled the live conversations around the elections to give people the pulse of the nation.

“For example, there were over five million tweets combined for the presidential TV debates, showing how Filipinos loved watching TV and tweeting about the candidates at the same time. Many user-generated Twitter trends and hashtags were created during the live TV broadcasts, from the #DuRiam hashtag when Duterte and Santiago hugged each other to the #PilipinasDelate hashtag when the second debate started late.

Even on election day, the Twitter conversation peaked at 5,600 tweets per minute at 7:30 p.m. when the early election results came out and people were discussing in real-time on Twitter.
He said that on election day, Twitter saw that mentions of Binay started strongly on Twitter but faded throughout the day, while mentions of Duterte started slowly on Twitter but peaked at the end of the day.

“Twitter is a reflection of society and the real-time nature of our platform is a leading indicator of what Filipinos think about the candidates during the election campaign and on voting day,” he said.


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China expressed anger on Monday after a group of Filipino protesters landed on a disputed Philippine-held island in the disputed South China Sea.

About 50 protesters, most of them students, reached Thitu island in the Spratly archipelago on Saturday in a stand against what they say is Beijing's creeping invasion of the Philippine exclusive economic zone, said Eugenio Bito-onon, the island's mayor.

China claims almost all the South China Sea, believed to have huge deposits of oil and gas, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

China was "strongly dissatisfied" by what the Filipinos had done, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said, reiterating that China has indisputable sovereignty over the Spratly islands.

"We once again urge the Philippines to withdraw all its personnel and facilities from the islands that it is illegally occupying, refrain from actions that are detrimental to regional peace and stability and not conducive to Sino-Philippines relations," Lu said.

Describing their expedition as a "a patriotic voyage", the protesters, led by an ex-marine captain, plan to camp on the island, which the Philippines calls Pagasa, for three days in a symbolic act of defiance.
Government and military officials had tried to prevent the group from sailing to the disputed waters, citing security and safety reasons after a storm in the South China Sea earlier this month.

The Philippines was also concerned about China's reaction to trip as Manila has been trying to calm tensions heightened by Beijing's rapid expansion in the South China Sea - building seven artificial islands in the disputed waters.

The Philippines has challenged Beijing before the arbitration court in The Hague, a case Beijing has not recognised.


Virtual Families 2 1.5.0.1 Free

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CAUSTIC Unlock Key 1.0.0

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This is the key to unlock CAUSTIC to full version mode. The full version enables song saving as well as exporting to WAV, Ogg and MIDI.



MAKE SURE YOU'VE TRIED CAUSTIC ON YOUR DEVICE BEFORE PURCHASING THIS.

Once installed, simply close the installer and return to CAUSTIC, it will be unlocked.

(If you had already unlocked CAUSTIC v1.x, contact the developer with your order number)

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