Jam for a Cause with Tao Aves and Ukulele Manila

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Make your Friday night count - join the Coffee AID Jam presented by Cordillera Coffee and Coffee AID - a night of homegrown music and homegrown coffee, featuring independent musician Tao Aves with special performances by ambassadors from Ukulele Manila.

Learn more about Coffee AID’s fair trade advocacy and how you can help support local coffee growers. The event is also the perfect time to sign up as a volunteer for their outreach activities like coffee tree-planting, harvest and processing, as well as community workshops.

The event is free, but proceeds of the day's sales will go to the Coffee AID workshop fund for the children of coffee farmers, so everyone is encouraged to try as many coffee concoctions possible. Proudly a homegrown cafe, they only serve 100% fair trade, organically-grown coffee direct from the farmers in Benguet.

P 26.59-B Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 Groundbreaking To Be Held Tomorrow

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The groundbreaking ceremony for a major infrastructure project which is expected to significantly ease traffic in Metro Manila will be held by the Citra Central Expressway Corporation (CCEC) tomorrow, 22 January 2014, along with representatives from the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB).

The CCEC will implement the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 (MMS) Project, while the DOTC and the TRB will act as regulator in its implementation and operation.

“This is part of the DOTC’s ongoing program to upgrade our transportation infrastructure. It is expected to provide motorists with considerable relief from the traffic situation in Metro Manila,” said DOTC Spokesperson Michael Arthur Sagcal.

Sa Ngalan Ng Ama Ina At Mga Anak Features the Padilla Clan

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Star Cinema and RCP Productions proudly presents "Sa Ngalan ng Ama Ina at mga Anak". It is a film directed by Jon Villarin and starring Robin Padilla, Mariel Rodriguez Padilla, Kylie Padilla, Daniel Padilla, Matt Padilla, RJ Padilla, Bela Padilla....and probably a few more Padillas lurking around the movie if you look closely...Na! Just kidding!.
The story revolves around the family of Ongkoy (played by Robin Padilla) and the gang known as the Kuratong Baleleng.

Kuratong Baleleng in Mindanao is a kind of instrument called darling bells - See more at: http://philnews.ph/2012/11/01/robin-and-daniel-padillas-movie-kuratong-baleleng-postponed/#sthash.VLMug1bl.dpuf

The Kuratong Baleleng began as an anti-communist vigilante group but has become a diversified kidnapping, smuggling, and extortion syndicate with close links to officials in Northwestern Mindanao and elsewhere. The group was originally established by the Philippine military in 1986 to guard against the spread of communist guerrillas in Misamis Occidental, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur provinces.

The first leader, chosen directly by the military, was Ongkoy Parojinog, who allegedly used the group both for its expressed purpose as well as to conduct illegal activities. Parojinog was later killed by Philippine soldiers. When the group was officially disbanded in 1988, they continued to operate as an organized crime syndicate.

“Sa Ngalan ng Ama, Ina, at mga Anak,”hit cinemas on January 29.