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Here's a list of some very important information for Filipinos everywhere to take part in the relief efforts for Typhoon Ondoy victims:

From the National Disaster Coordinating Council - http://ndcc.gov.ph/home/

TS Ondoy Donations

TS Ondoy cash donations may be deposited to the NDCC Donated Funds current account (Philippine Currency-Peso) #0-00149-435-3 (with shift code: DBPHPHMM Account #36002016), Development Bank of the Philippines, Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo Branch, Camp Aguinaldo, QUezon City, Philippines.

DONATION DROP OFF-POINTS

Pasay Area

National Resource Operation Center
Chapel Road, Pasay City

Mrs. Francia Fabian
852 8081
918 9302356

Quezon City Area

Disaster Resource Operations Monitoring and Info Center (DROMIC)
DSWD Central Office

Rey Martiga or Imee Rose Castillo
951 7119 / 951 2435
or Assistant Secretary Vilma Cabrera
0918 9345625

Manila Area

DSWD- NCR
San Rafael Corner Legarda St.
Quiapo, Manila

Dir. Thelsa P. Biolena
Dir. Delia Bauan
734 8622 / 734 8642

Ever Gotesco

Distribution Point Center for Relief

NDCC Relief Center

Kalayaan Hall, Malacanang Ground
Luli Arroyo and all female members of PGMA's Family
734 2192 / 734 8642

MMD-DOH Central Office

Engr. Dave Masiado
0917 8163400

NDCC Missing Person Hotline:

Marikina: 0920-9389914
QC: 0921-6555262
Pasig: 0918-9356318
Cainta: 0917-5606241

From the Philippine National Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org.ph/

1. CASH or CHECK

Please send cash or check donations to the PNRC National Headquarters in Manila. Checks should be made payable to The Philippine National Red Cross. We can also arrange for donation pick-up.

2. BANK DEPOSIT

Account Name: The Phil. Nat’l. Red Cross

PNRC PESO ACCOUNT

ALLIED BANK
Intramuros Branch
PESO ACCOUNT : 1941-01347-1
Type of Account : CURRENT
SWIFT CODE : ABC MPH MM

BANCO DE ORO
Port Area Branch
PESO ACCOUNT : 453-0018647
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : BNOR PH MM

BANK OF PHILIPPINE ISLAND
Port Area Branch
PESO ACCOUNT : 4991-0010-99
Type of Account : CURRENT
SWIFT CODE : BOPI PH MM

METRO BANK
Anda Circle Port Area Branch
PESO ACCOUNT : 151-3-04163122-8
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : MBTC PH MM

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK
Sta. Cruz Branch
PESO ACCOUNT : 3623-3680-0011
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : PNB MPH MM

PNRC DOLLAR ACCOUNT

BANCO DE ORO
Port Area Branch
DOLLAR ACCOUNT : 453-0039482
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : BNOR PH MM

BANK OF PHILIPPINE ISLAND
United Nation Branch
DOLLAR ACCOUNT : 8114-0030-94
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : BOPI PH MM

METRO BANK
Anda Circle Port Area Branch
DOLLAR ACCOUNT : 151-2-151002182
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : MBTC PH MM

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK
Sta. Cruz Branch
DOLLAR ACCOUNT : 375-283500026
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : PNB MPH MM

UNION BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES
Sta. Cruz Branch
DOLLAR ACCOUNT : 132-070001012
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : UBPH PH MM

PNRC OTHER ACCOUNT

METRO BANK
Binondo Branch
EURO ACCOUNT : 016-201650005-9
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : MBTC PH MM

METRO BANK
Anda Circle Port Area Branch
YEN ACCOUNT : 151-2-15130001-9
Type of Account : SAVINGS
SWIFT CODE : MBTC PH MM

For your donations to be properly acknowledged, please fax the bank transaction slip at nos. +63.2.527.0575 or +63.2.404.0979 with your name, address and contact number.

Credit Card

Please fax the following info to +632.404.09.79 and +632.527.0575: Name of card member, billing address, contact nos. (phone & mobile), credit card no., expiration date, CCV2/ CVC2 (last three digits at the back of the credit card), billing address, amount to be donated.

In-Kind Donations

LOCAL

Please send in-kind local donations to The Philippine National Red Cross – National Headquarters in Manila. We could also arrange for donation pick-up.

INTERNATIONAL

1. Send a letter of intent to donate to the PNRC
2. A letter of acceptance from PNRC shall be sent back to the donor
3. Immediately after shipping the goods, please send the (a) original Deed of Donation, (b) copy of packing list and (c) original Airway Bill for air shipments or Bill of Lading for sea shipments to The Philippine National Red Cross–National Headquarters c/o Secretary General Gwendolyn Pang, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila 2803, Philippines.

SMS and G-CASH (Globe)

SMS
text REDAMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4483 (Smart)

G-CASH
text DONATEAMOUNT4-digit M-PINREDCROSS to 2882

Most urgent needs:

Food items: Rice, noodles, canned goods, sugar, iodized salt, cooking oil, monggo beans and potable water

Medicines: Paracetamol, antibiotics, analgesic, oral rehydration salts, multivitamins and medications to treat diarrheal diseases

Non-food items: Bath soaps, face towels, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, plastic mats, blankets, mosquito nets, jerry cans, water containers, water purification tablets, plastic sheetings, and Laundry soap

Rehabilitation Programs: Shelter materials for house repair

For OFWs, here are some specific places where you can help:

Ayala Foundation – for online donations (Visa, Mastercard, Diners, GCash, SmartMoney), go to https://www.myayala.com/ondoy/Default.asp

TXTPower (Paypal, SmartMoney, GCash) – http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20090927-227196/Help-Ondoy-victims-via-Paypal

American Red Cross – Tel: 1-800-435-7669

World Food Programme

SINGAPORE

* Embassy of the Philippines in Singapore (20 Nassim Road, Singapore 258395). Donors are discouraged from sending used clothing, which is prohibited for importation into the Philippines under Republic Act No. 4653. Organizations wishing to donate are advised to refer to the Embassy's guidelines for donations to the Philippines, which are available online at: http://www.philippine-embassy.org.sg/index.cfm?GPID=53. Further queries may be directed to Ms. Pearl Camento at php@pacific.net.sg, subject: "Typhoon Ondoy"

* A-Freight Cargo (304 Orchard Road, #03-19 Lucky Plaza, Singapore 238863). Donations/drop-offs accepted, contact Maureen Schepers 6235-1011.

* i-Remit Singapore (304 Orchard Road, #03-69 Lucky Plaza, Singapore 238863). Will be waiving charges for donations to the Philippine Red Cross.

* LBC Singapore (304 Orchard Road, #04-77 Lucky Plaza, Singapore 238863). Will waive remittance charges for donations made to the following organizations: ABS-CBN Foundation, GMA Foundation, Philippine National Red Cross, and the National Disaster Coordinating Center.

* World Vision Singapore

* Singapore Red Cross (15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486). Walk-in cash donations accepted. Send cheques to the Singapore Red Cross Society and indicate your name and return address for receipt purposes.

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Energy Secretary Angelo T. Reyes took direct assault on critics and the lawmakers who have been insistently blocking his confirmation at the bicameral Commission on Appointments.

"I don't try to politicize the issue because energy is very, very important issue. That should not be politicized, and they should stop politicizing it," has been the energy chief's fierce comment to critics.

Reyes further noted that since energy is a commodity that affects everybody; people conveniently ride with the issues to gain mileage for political brownie points.

"Energy is a very, very politicized issue that affects everybody, so people would like to ride on it. But please, we should stop doing it," Reyes said.

He further pointed out that the issue being thrown against him is the Department of Energy's (DOE) supposed passive stance on oil pricing, especially in controlling upward adjustments.

"Well, bad news, I cannot really control oil prices," Reyes said, explaining that external factors have stronger influence on how pump prices are set by market.

"Number one, the law (referring to the Oil Deregulation Law) does not allow me; and number two, the reality is that prices of oil are set in the international market," he explained.

Reyes enthused it was quite unfair that the issues thrown against him by some members of the CA are something that goes beyond his control because these are market fundamentals that even the most powerful leaders in the world cannot hold sway over.

"Sometimes people are tempted to say something that is very, very popular even if it's not exactly true. That's not right," he stressed.

While at the department, Reyes said he will just keep on doing what is being expected of him based on the mandates of the policies governing the energy sector.

Sometimes, he said, leaders must keep working beyond the political noise, especially if the agenda of the others are just anchored on selfish political intensions.

He bared that the other lawmakers' dislike of him are actually deeper than oil pricing issues; but on concerns that can be traced back when he was still at the helm of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

By MYRNA VELASCO, Manila Bulletin

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Efren "Bata" Reyes rose back from the losers' bracket to beat American Shannon Daulton twice in the finals and win the Galveston Classic One Pocket tournament on Friday at the Moody Gardens Hotel and Convention Center in Galveston City, Texas.

It was Reyes' third consecutive title in less than a month after he ruled The Manny Villar Cup Kadayawan Leg in Davao City and the 2009 World Cup of Pool with partner Francisco "Django" Bustamante in Quezon City.

The 55-year-old Reyes, a member of the Billiards Managers and Players Association of the Philippines and Senator Manny Villar's Team Villards, was sent into the losers' bracket late in the elimination round but bounced back by beating Cliff Joyner to earn the second finals slot against the erstwhile undefeated Daulton.

Reyes, who is one of the best One Pocket players in the world, had a tall task of beating the American twice and he did that by winning the first match, 3-1, and then scored a pulsating 3-2 squeaker to rule the inaugural edition of this tournament and pocket the $25,000 top prize.

Reyes is set to take on fellow Asian pool legend Chao Fong-pang in Face Off Series 3 - The Grandmasters slated on Oct. 28-29 at the posh Club Capo Exclusive in Tomas Morato, Quezon City.

Manila Bulletin

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Note: The trio sang at the 1986 EDSA Revolution the Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' In The Wind"

BOSTON - Mary Travers, of the folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, that used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam antiwar movement, racial discrimination and more, died after a yearslong battle with leukemia. She was 72.

The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.

Bandmate Peter Yarrow said that in her final months, Travers handled her declining health with bravery and generosity, showing her love to friends and family "with great dignity and without restraint."

"It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic," he said. "That's the way she sang, too — honestly and with complete authenticity."

Noel "Paul" Stookey, the trio's other member, praised Travers for her inspiring activism, "especially in her defense of the defenseless."

"I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers and honored beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career," he said.

Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov. 9, 1936, in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of journalists who moved the family to Manhattan's bohemian Greenwich Village. She quickly became enamored with folk performers like the Weavers and was soon performing with Pete Seeger, a founding member of the Weavers who lived in the same building as the Travers family.

With a group called the Song Swappers, Travers backed Seeger on one album and two shows at Carnegie Hall. She also appeared (as one of a group of folk singers) in a short-lived 1958 Broadway show called "The Next President," starring comedian Mort Sahl.

It wasn't until she met up with Yarrow and Stookey that Travers would taste success on her own. Yarrow was managed by Albert B. Grossman, who later worked in the same capacity for Bob Dylan.

In the book "Positively 4th Street" by David Hajdu, Travers recalled that Grossman's strategy was to "find a nobody that he could nurture and make famous."

The budding trio, boosted by the arrangements of Milt Okun, spent seven months rehearsing in her Greenwich Village apartment before their 1961 public debut at the Bitter End.

Their beatnik look — a tall blonde flanked by a pair of goateed guitarists — was a part of their initial appeal. As The New York Times critic Robert Shelton put it not long afterward, "Sex appeal as a keystone for a folk-song group was the idea of the group's manager ... who searched for months for `the girl' until he decided on Miss Travers."

The trio mingled their music with liberal politics, both onstage and off. Their version of "If I Had a Hammer" became an anthem for racial equality. Other hits included "Lemon Tree," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff (The Magic Dragon.)"

They were early champions of Dylan and performed his "Blowin' in the Wind" at the March on Washington in August 1963.

And they were vehement in their opposition to the Vietnam War, managing to stay true to their liberal beliefs while creating music that resonated in the American mainstream.

The group collected five Grammy Awards for their three-part harmony on enduring songs like "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and "Blowin' in the Wind."

At one point in 1963, three of their albums were in the top six Billboard best-selling LPs as they became the biggest stars of the folk revival movement.

It was heady stuff for a trio that had formed in the early 1960s in Greenwich Village, running through simple tunes like "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Their debut album came out in 1962, and immediately scored a pair of hits with their versions of "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree." The former won them Grammys for best folk recording and best performance by a vocal group.

"Moving" was the follow-up, including the hit tale of innocence lost, "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" — which reached No. 2 on the charts, and generated since-discounted reports that it was an ode to marijuana.

Album No. 3, "In the Wind," featured three songs by the then-22-year-old Dylan. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and "Blowin' in the Wind" both reached the top 10, bringing Dylan's material to a massive audience; the latter shipped 300,000 copies during one two-week period.

"Blowin' In the Wind" became another civil rights anthem, and Peter, Paul and Mary fully embraced the cause. They marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and performed with him in Washington.

In a 1966 Times interview, Travers said the three worked well together because they respected one another. "There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together," she said. "I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another."

With the advent of the Beatles and Dylan's switch to electric guitar, the folk boom disappeared. Travers expressed disdain for folk-rock, telling the Chicago Daily News in 1966 that "it's so badly written. ... When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers."

But the trio continued their success, scoring with the tongue-in-cheek single "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," a gentle parody of the Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 and the John Denver-penned "Leaving on a Jet Plane" two years later.

They also continued as boosters for young songwriters, recording numbers written by then-little-known Gordon Lightfoot and Laura Nyro.

In 1969, the group earned their final Grammy for "Peter, Paul and Mommy," which won for best children's album. They disbanded in 1971, launching solo careers — Travers released five albums — that never achieved the heights of their collaborations.

Over the years they enjoyed several reunions, including a performance at a 1978 anti-nuclear benefit organized by Yarrow and a 35th anniversary album, "Lifelines," with fellow folkies Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Dave Van Ronk and Seeger. A boxed set of their music was released in 2004.

They remained politically active as well, performing in 1995 on the anniversary of the Kent State shootings and performing for California strawberry pickers.

Travers had undergone a successful bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia and was able to return to performing after that.

"It was like a miracle," Travers told The Associated Press in 2006. "I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital." She also said she told the marrow donor "how incredibly grateful I was."

But by mid-2009, Yarrow told WTOP radio in Washington that her condition had worsened again and he thought she would no longer be able to perform.

Travers lived for many years in Redding, Connecticut She is survived by her husband, Ethan Robbins, and daughters, Alicia and Erika.

By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press Writer

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Efren "Bata" Reyes and Francisco "Django" Bustamante didn't disappoint, rallying back from two racks down to nip Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann of Germany, 11-9, and regained the PartyCasino.net World Cup of Pool title before a jampacked crowd at the SM North Edsa Mall Sunday night.

The two pool legends survived two grueling matches in a nine-hour span to win back the championship of the meet they first dominated during its inaugural staging in Wales in 2006.

None was more important than their come-from-behind win over the deadly German pair in a game that saw the Filipinos bounce back from a 7-9 deficit.

Efren 'Bata' Reyes whoops it up after he and partner Francisco 'Django' Bustamante beat German pair Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann to win the World Cup of Pool crown Sunday in Quezon City. "We started out strong, but slowed down a bit in the middle of the championship match. Good thing we're able to get back our rhythm and win this one," said Bustamante.

Reyes, a former world champion and regarded as the best pool artist ever to play the game, sank the winning 9-ball to the delight of the Filipino crowd.

"Nakaka-nerbyos pa rin," he said after making the winning shot and then capping it by dancing to the cheers of the hometown fans. The celebrated Filipino pair won the $60,000 top prize from the total cash pot of $250,000 in the prestigious tourney.

Souquet and Hohmann settled for the runner up prize of $30,000. Reyes and Bustamante earlier beat out China's Fu Jian-bo and Li He-wen in a classic hill-hill battle of the first semifinal match, 9-8. But Souquet and Hohmann denied an all-Filipino title showdown when they frustrated the other Filipino pair of Dennis Orcollo and Ronnie Alcano in the other semifinal pairing, 9-6.

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