Update: September 2008 LET Results:
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 17,816 elementary teachers out of 58,471 examinees and 18,801 secondary teachers out of 53,195 examinees successfully passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (L.E.T) given by the Board for Professional Teachers on September 28, 2008 in 24 testing centers all over the Philippines.
The Board for [...]

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On the night of October 31, people will celebrate a very popular holiday, the Halloween. I am not sure if Filipinos really celebrate Halloween. But when I was still in College, I once attended a Halloween Disco held in Tacloban City.
Halloween is actually a shortened name of the festival called, “All Hallows Even” which means [...]

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I was not really an expert in detecting fresh fish that can be cooked and served in every meal that we had. I started going to the market to hunt and buy fresh fish just this July 2008 as my wife and I started to live in one household… that was right after our wedding.
I [...]

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Formaldehyde is the simplest member of aldehyde family but it is very reactive chemical. Formaldehyde is soluble in water and when mix with water the solution is called formalin. In other words, the gaseous form is Formaldehyde and the liquid form is Formalin. However, Formalin is not at all time composed of Formaldehyde and water [...]

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What is SIDS? This is a question sent to me by one of our readers.
SIDS stands for “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” and it is define as the unexpected, sudden, and unexplained death of infants. It is also called the “Crib Death” or “Cot Death”.
The affected infants actually do not have any illness, or in other [...]

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The authorities here in Southern Leyte should be alarmed of the successful operations of the “Akyat Bahay” (housebreaker) group of thieves who are currently operating here in the Province of Southern Leyte.
I heard from the talks of the residents in Malitbog, Southern Leyte that on these recent days, the “Akyat Bahay” thieves successfully broke in [...]

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