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Police: 175K attended Cory funeral procession

Despite the rains, around 175,000 Filipinos from all walks of life took to the streets on Wednesday to show their support and love for former President Corazon Aquino as she was laid to rest, police said Thursday.

National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) spokesman Superintendent Rommel Miranda said about 100,000 people filled Intramuros to Quirino Avenue in Manila alone to get a glimpse of the “democracy icon’s” cortege.

Around 30,000 stood by along the stretch of Osmeña Highway from Quirino Avenue in Manila to Buendia Avenue in Makati, while 10,000 more gathered at the Sucat Interchange in Parañaque.

At the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque where Mrs. Aquino was laid to rest beside her husband, former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., at least 35,000 people waited. According to police, 20,000 waited for hours outside the cemetery, while another 15,000 more managed to sneak in despite tight security.

The funeral procession for Mrs. Aquino, which began at the Manila Cathedral at around 11:30 a.m. and ended at 7:20 p.m., took almost eight hours.

The convoy crawled all throughout the procession because of the large number of people who had come to pay their final respects to Mrs. Aquino, but reporters who covered the event noted that the convoy seemed to move slowest around Sucat Road, right before it entered the Manila Memorial Park.

GMANews.TV photo editor Joe Galvez, who covered Ninoy’s funeral procession in 1983 as a photojournalist for the defunct publication Mr. and Ms. Special Edition, noted that unlike in Ninoy’s funeral procession – wherein the procession participants were filled with anger over the senator’s assassination – Cory’s was filled with expressions of deep love and appreciation.

“Ang tao noon galit (The people then were angry),” Galvez recalled the procession for Ninoy, who was gunned down at the Manila International Airport (now Ninoy Aquino International Airport) upon his return to the country on Aug. 21, 1983.

But Galvez noted similarities in the coverage, in that it was raining on both occasions. “Nabasa kami noon, nabasa kami ngayon (We got wet because of the rain then, we got wet now). It’s like deja vu,” he said.

And the thousands of Filipinos who went out to display their support for Mrs. Aquino did not just stand there in the rain.

Like in the 1986 People Power Revolution that propelled Mrs. Aquino to power, those who came out to show support for her on Wednesday sang patriotic songs such as Magkaisa and Bayan Ko. Many of them sported yellow shirts with the pictures of Ninoy and Cory, as well as ribbons and caps; flashed the “Laban (fight)” sign, Mrs. Aquino’s trademark gesture during the tumultuous Marcos era; and chanted “Cory, Cory, Cory” over and over.- Johanna Camille Sisante, with reports from Kimberly Jane Tan, GMANews.TV

HD puts the new Samsung LED edge-lit LCD TV to the test

If you’ve been wondering how the latest LED edge-lit LED TVs from Samsung look, now’s your chance to find out. The crew over at EHD got their hands-on the 46-inch UN46B7000 and spent the time to write all about it. We’d like to warn you that If you don’t click through you’ll be missing out on all the fun, like all the internet connectivity features like DLNA and Yahoo Widgets. But even if you don’t care about all the extras, there is still come great information that’ll help try and figure out how much of a premium a 2.1 inch TV is worth.

ASUS P6X58 Premium motherboard arrives complete with USB 3.0 ports

We’ve seen cables, controllers, drivers and years of promises, and it looks like we now finally have some pictures of the first official USB 3.0 motherboard out in the wild. That milestone comes courtesy of ASUS, which looks to have gone all out (or as far out as motherboards can go) with its new P6X58 Premium model. As you can see above, it packs a pair of easily identifiable USB 3.0 ports and three standard USB 2.0 ports, along with accommodations for a Core i7 processor, six DDR3 memory slots, three PCI-Express 2.0 slots, and plenty of other standard fare. Still no word on a price or release date, unfortunately, and the folks at Xfastest unsurprisingly weren’t able to provide any benchmarks or the like, considering that there isn’t much in the way of actual USB 3.0 gear to test it with just yet.

[Via Everything USB]

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White PSP Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines bundle to sell for $199

Did anyone else think that Sony would have finally killed off the UMD movie for real by now? Guess again, suckers. The company just spilled some more details on that Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines PSP Entertainment Pack, and in addition to that sexy white PSP-3000 and 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, your $199 will get you an as-yet-unnamed feature film on UMD. Yes, even as Sony tip-toes into the future with the PSPgo, it’s still trying to peddle movies on a garbage proprietary format no one ever really wanted and that most studios have stopped supporting. Old habits die hard, we suppose. Video after the break.

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Alienware M17x gaming laptop gets “special edition” Nebula Red color option

Not satisfied with a gaming laptop that can be maxed out with a top-end Core 2 Extreme Quad processor and dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M graphics? Then how about a red gaming laptop that can be maxed out with a top-end Core 2 Extreme Quad processor and dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M graphics? That, as you might have deduced, is the latest option available on the “all powerful” Alienware M17x laptop, which takes the red accents already found on the laptop and runs with ‘em (check the gallery below for a closer look). Of course, “special editions” rarely come free, and this new Nebula Red color option is no exception, with it setting you back an extra $99 on top of the laptop’s $1,799 base price.

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Windows 7 build 7600 arrives in a torrent of RTM speculation

In a powerful wave of anticipatory man-drool, Windows 7 build 7600 has made its way to the file sharing services. What’s interesting here is that the major jump in build revisions from the current 72xx builds suggests, but does not guarantee, that 7600 is the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) build rumored for a July 13th release (yes today) — the same Windows 7 build that will be handed out by Microsoft to it partners in the run-up to Microsoft’s October 22nd consumer launch. If it is the RTM build then we’d expect to hear some kind of announcement with the kickoff of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner conference in New Orleans later today.

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‘White Lady’ appears on cop’s video

By Carla Gomez
Visayas Bureau
First Posted 17:33:00 01/20/2009

Filed Under: Belief (Faith)

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A strange apparition has appeared on a video taken by a member of the police Regional Mobile Group (RMG) using his cellular phone.

But Negros Occidental Board Member Nehemias de la Cruz said no one could explain the image of a woman in white on the video.

On January 15, the RMG personnel were conducting a mapping operation at Spur 21, in the village of Kumaliskis, Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB) when one of them took the video of his companions and the mountainous area at noon, De la Cruz said on Monday.

The RMG personnel was surprised when they returned to their headquarters in the town at about 6 p.m., to see a female in a white flowing gown on the side of a mountain, said De la Cruz, a former mayor of Don Salvador Benedicto.

The RMG men said that when the video was taken, there was no woman in white on the mountain or anywhere near, so her appearance was a mystery, he added.

On Monday, De La Cruz showed the media a copy of the video of the woman in white.

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Video: Life-sized Gundam’s back, looking deadlier than ever

Man, remember that wicked awesome 59 foot tall Gundam they erected in Tokyo? Well, those pictures we saw a month ago were cool, but they’re nothing compared to the splendor of the thing lit-up like a futuristic, killer Christmas tree. So hit the read link for some more kick-ass pics of the thing, but not before you peep the video after the break.

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