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LEGAZPI CITY, Oct. 27  - The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) is closely monitoring Mt. Mayon after a lava dome was seen developing at the volcano's crater on Tuesday.

Phivolcs scientists said magmatic materials might be intruding at the volcano's crater vent that led to the building of a lava dome at Mt. Mayon's crater rim.

The development of a lava dome is a sign that magma is pushing its way to the volcano's summit and might lead to a major eruption.

NAGA CITY (26 October) -Liberal Party (LP) presidentiable Sen. Noynoy Aquino recently made consultations with multi-sectoral groups and old Liberal party members in Naga City, Calabanga, San Fernando towns in Camarines Sur and Albay province during the weekend.

LEGAZPI CITY, Oct. 27  - The provincial government of Albay is now working for a massive build-up on disaster response capability to secure the zero casualty goal.

"We have acquired 13 new rubber boats amounting to P5.5 million, nine units of ambulances worth P3.4 million and 1,000 public address systems, (P6 million at P6,000 each) to boost our disaster response," the governor said.

After winning the much coveted title as MR. STEP 2009 , Patrick Allan V. Peralta is now all set to represent not just the University of Northeastern Philippines (UNEP) in the upcoming National STEP Competition, but all his fellow Bikolanos as well as he competes for the national title comes January 2010.

The accreditation of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting or PPCRV by the COMELEC as its national 's arm in the imminent May 2010 elections is especially auspicious this time.

It is autumn in Germany, the leaves have long started to turn into all shades of red and yellow and are now thrown.  Walking the place has yet again become a special experience, as on cold, misty and sunless days one moves through these warm colors, causing a gentle noise of rustling leaves with every step one takes.

We plunder gardens to get flowers and we again gather around graves to light candles. We paint the crosses that mark the tombstones of our loved ones and we pinch the cheeks of the solitary angels by painting their faces as they hover over the final destiny of those who have gone ahead of us.

It is the day for and of the Dead and we who are alive are running about to remember ourselves remember them.

Following the EDSA Revolution of 1986, one of the innovations the writers of the 1987 Constitution introduced was the "free and open party system" or multi-party system. Simply put, this is a multiple choice selection for voters based on allowing as many political parties people would want to organize.

I learned about a new mechanism that ensures substantial and sustained involvement of civil society in addressing human rights issues in our country. In a Training Conference on Human Rights of Women in Southeast Asia sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency, a representative from the United Nations Human Rights Council introduced this mechanism called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

MANILA - He has been hinting it ever since he made himself visible again by embarking on provincial sorties. Thus, when former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada announced, at the end of a 30-minute speech, that he would run for president again, nobody was surprised. Every one was expecting it even if the majority opinion is that his running for reelection violates the 1987 Constitution.

THE PROPONENTS of the Libmanan -Cabusao Dam Project (now Cabusao-Sipocot-Lupi-Libmanan or Casilli Dam Project) must have learned out of the tragedies plaguing the northern parts of the country today. Pangasinan is still deep in flood waters. Residents of Botolan, Zambales had seen their cemetery demolished by raging waters that disinterred coffins and corpses.