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GMA Network
2 days ago
- General
- GMA Network
Community pantry organizer kicks off relief ops for flood victims
Patricia "Patreng" Non, a community pantry organizer, has posted that relief operations are underway that are aimed at bringing food to the people affected by the floods in Metro Manila and nearby areas. "Maulang gabi po! Sa ngayon po mayroon po tayong 40+ kitchens. Inaantay lang po natin ang final na listahan sa Pasig, Marikina at iba pang areas," she said. (Rainy night! Right now we have 40+ kitchens. We are just waiting for the final list in Pasig, Marikina and other areas.) "Pwede po tayo magpadala ng tulong dito, maaari din po natin sila i-contact kung gusto po natin mag-volunteer. Hiwalay na din po ang contact para DIRECT na po sa kanila ang help natin. Ingat po sa lahat! Bukod po sa hot meals priority po natin ang safety. Maraming salamat po!," she added. (We can send help here, we can also contact them if we want to volunteer. The contact is also separate so that our help can go DIRECTLY to them. Take care everyone! Aside from hot meals, our priority is safety. Thank you very much!) Patreng Non is known as one of the organizers of the Maguinhawa Community pantry that was set up to provide people with free food during the COVID-19 pandemic and was replicated in many areas. "Lahat ng porma ng tulong ay welcome at welcome ang lahat tumulong! Lahat po ng kitchens natin ay Community Led baka sakaling makatulong din po ito sa ibang gusto magluto for evacuees," she advised. (All forms of help are welcome and everyone is welcome to help! All of our kitchens are Community Led, maybe this will also help others who want to cook for evacuees.) As of 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Non posted a call for donations for the relief operations to set up kitchens. "Tuloy tuloy pa din po ang ulan at madaming areas po ang naka-force evacuation. Naka-ready po ang madaming community organizers natin para mag-kitchen. Best way to help po ay mag-ambagan ng maski tig 10 pesos sa mga areas na ito (link sa baba). Or to start community kitchen para sa areas na malapit po sa inyo. Di po sapat ang budget ng kitchens natin sa dami ng affected families. Kung kaya lang po malaking tulong po ang assistance nyo para makapag hatid ng hot meals. Maraming salamat po!" (The rain is still continuing and many areas are under forced evacuation. Many of our community organizers are ready to set up kitchens. The best way to help is to donate at least 10 pesos to these areas (link below). Or to start a community kitchen for areas near you. Our kitchens' budget is not enough for the number of affected families. If you can, your assistance would be a great help to deliver hot meals. Thank you very much.) A total of 1,637 individuals, or 346 families, have been evacuated as the Marikina River reached the 2nd alarm amid the inclement weather caused by the Southwest Monsoon (Habagat). State weather bureau PAGASA issued a red rainfall warning for Metro Manila and two other areas on Monday evening due to the impacts of the Southwest Monsoon (Habagat). — BAP, GMA Integrated News
Vancouver Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
This Day in History, 1973: Somebody drops LSD into Robert Plant's drink at a Led Zeppelin concert
One of the great rock 'n' roll photos in The Vancouver Sun archives is Vlad Keremidschieff's shot of Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant performing at the Pacific Coliseum on July 18, 1973. It shows Plant in full rock god mode, extending his right arm and ending with a fist, his long flowing locks looking more like a mane than hair, his tiny vest ripped open to reveal his bare chest. An unknown editor has outlined his figure in whiteout, so that the background could be cropped out in the paper. In case the graphic artists who laid the paper out didn't understand, the editor has written three X's in the background. Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. But the serious look on his face is a bit puzzling. Is he brooding? Is he angry? Is he dazed and confused? Probably the latter. Led Zeppelin cut their concert short that night. 'It was explained to an almost surly Coliseum audience that lead singer Robert Plant was being taken to the hospital and would we please leave in an orderly manner,' reported the Sun's reviewer Don Stanley. It wasn't in the papers at the time, but somebody apparently had slipped some LSD into Plant's drink, which had a negative impact on his performance. Not knowing this, Stanley ripped them. 'Their concert was terrible, unbelievably inept for the top draw in contemporary rock,' he wrote. Jeani Read of The Province was kinder, writing Plant 'fronted the group admirably for the better than two-hour set,' but said the concert 'was hardly an unmitigated triumph.' Read noted 'much of their original amazing adrenalin drive' had dissipated into 'long, slowly evolving extended versions of their blockbuster early material.' Stanley was not big on a 20-minute drum solo by John Bonham. 'Most drum solos are boring,' he wrote, 'this one was wretched.' Led Zeppelin had a long history in Vancouver, dating to the band's first appearance opening for Vanilla Fudge at the Agrodome on Dec. 28, 1968. Reviewer Jim Allan of the Columbian wasn't impressed, writing 'Led Zeppelin went over like a Led balloon.' But Brian McLeod of The Province loved the quartet he mistakenly called 'Mad Zeppelin,' noting guitarist Jimmy Page 'performs like Carlos Montoya in a 10-gallon hat' and Plant 'sings Joan Baez with affliction and affection, using the cry of a thousand banshees to punctuate his feelings.' It may seem odd to link Robert Plant with Joan Baez, but she recorded the Led Zeppelin standard Babe I'm Going to Leave You years before they did. Zeppelin soon exploded in popularity, playing two Vancouver shows in 1969 as well as single dates in 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975. As their audience grew, so did the wildness of their audience. At a March 22, 1970 Coliseum show, the Express (a union paper during a newspaper strike) reported 'about 50 senseless fans' vaulted onto the stage 'during the fever pitch of Whole Lotta Love.' On Aug. 19, 1971, the band sold out the Coliseum (17,141 tickets), leaving 3,000 fans outside. The ticketless fans tried to force their way in, resulting in a battle with police and security that left 35 fans and two police officers injured. Rather than risk a larger riot, the police let the 3,000 fans into the Coliseum. Zeppelin was supposed to play Vancouver again on June 18, 1972. But after Rolling Stones fans rioted when they couldn't get into a Coliseum concert on June 3, 1972, the city cancelled the Zeppelin show. The promoter had already printed up posters for the show, but almost all of them were destroyed before being put up. This has made it something of a Holy Grail among Led Zeppelin collectors: the poster's designer Kerry Waghorn says copies have sold for $17,000. Waghorn was given 150 of the posters by the promoter, but threw them out because he didn't like his illustration. Oddly, Keremidschieff's great 1973 photo of Robert Plant wasn't used with Don Stanley's review — the Sun used another Keremidschieff shot of Plant. The one with whiteout must have been used at another time. There is also a marvellous Keremidschieff print of guitarist Jimmy Page from the 1973 show playing a double neck guitar, but it wasn't used with the review, either. It's included in the online version of this story. jmackie@ Love concerts, but can't make it to the venue? Stream live shows and events from your couch with VEEPS, a music-first streaming service now operating in Canada. Click here for an introductory offer of 30% off. Explore upcoming concerts and the extensive archive of past performances.
Irish Times
28-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
‘People were stunned': Spaniards caught unawares by power outage
It was the moment the lights went out. In a post-match interview, after her straight sets win to reach the last eight of the Madrid Open , American tennis star Coco Gauff was joking about her avocado toast breakfast and bad night's sleep, when suddenly the microphone cut. She looked surprised, while behind her the Led ad boards turned black. It was just after midday and all across the Iberian Peninsula the power was failing, plunging Spain and Portugal into chaos. Buses and trains stopped; cash machines went dark; people were left trapped in unlit metro carriages and lifts, with no certainty about when they would get out. Madrid residents packed into outdoor terraces and gathered around radios trying to figure out what was happening. Cars got stuck in long snaking queues because there were no lights to guide the traffic. Sirens blared constantly as police cars and ambulances tried to make their way through jam-packed streets. One officer said that when the power went out the Madrid metro came to a dead stop and people had to be pulled out of carriages. Carlos Condori, a 19-year-old construction sector worker, was travelling on the metro, but his train managed to crawl up to a platform. 'People were stunned because this had never happened in Spain,' he told AFP. 'There's no [phone] coverage, I can't call my family, my parents, nothing: I can't even go to work.' READ MORE In the Spanish capital, neighbours spilled out of their homes, mingling with workers from offices and stores, trading stories. Most assumed it was a localised power cut that would be restored swiftly. They were wrong. The Spanish and Portuguese governments scrambled to hold crisis meetings. The Spanish parliament closed and play at the Madrid Open was suspended. Clothing company Zara closed its flagship store in Madrid, although other shops allowed customers to browse their wares in the dark. The day had started ordinarily enough. Antonio Loreto, a PhD student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, said the electricity had gone off in his lab at 12.30pm, although he and colleagues soon realised the problem was much bigger. 'When people noticed it was in the whole university everyone got nervous. Then someone said it was the whole of Catalonia, then all Spain. We realised no one had cell phone reception. People started to panic. Some said it could be the start of world war three, and without internet or mobile phone people started to get a bit paranoid.' With uncertainty about the causes of an unprecedented blackout running high, misinformation and rumours flew. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen , was wrongly reported to have described the incident as an attack on the European energy grid. She had said no such thing. A few hours later von der Leyen tweeted that she had been in touch with Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, reaffirming a previous statement that EU authorities were 'monitoring the situation' with national authorities and the EU's electricity co-ordination group. The EU energy commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, reported at 2.28pm that 'power is already back in some regions'. But chaos was still reigning in large parts of the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of people were stranded on the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed railway line. One train heading for Barcelona stopped at 12.50pm, according to an El País report. Within minutes the lights went out and air conditioning stopped. Passengers could not even get into the train toilets, which were connected to the electricity system, and had to use some bushes by the track. 'Get off two by two and come back immediately after relieving yourself,' the paper reported one attendant saying. The crew tried to provide information but admitted that they didn't really know what was going on. Hospitals in Barcelona, Galicia and Portugal turned to backup generators, local media reported. Prescriptions were once again being written by hand; X-rays and medical test results could not be viewed. Meanwhile, hundreds of petrol stations closed across Spain and Portugal, because pumps were inoperable and card systems had failed. While Spain's airports turned to generators and some flights were delayed, travellers in Lisbon were left waiting for news about their flights. Spanish media reported from Barcelona that radios, batteries, candles and torches were 'flying off the shelves' at the bazaars on Calle del Mar. People scrabbled for cash to buy their lunch, as ATMs didn't work. In some restaurants diners ate by candlelight. Back in Madrid, Pilar Lopez, a 53-year-old administrator, suggested the chaos provided a useful lesson. 'I can't even pay because my mobile isn't working. Sometimes you have to be a bit more analogue: this proves it,' she told AFP. She added: 'We've suffered a pandemic, I don't think this is worse.' − Guardian
New York Times
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Pack of April Fools
Image Aretha Franklin, who was not known to suffer fools. Credit... Richard Perry/The New York Times Happy April Fools' Day, when you can't believe anything you read on the internet! Trust that this playlist is a prank-free space, though: We're just gathering up some of the many fools who have been immortalized in song over the years, by soul singers (Aretha Franklin), blues legends (Bobby 'Blue' Bland) and new wavers (Bow Wow Wow). Country and classic rock are in the mix, too — there's a little something for everyone who's ever fooled around and fell in love. So hit play, give those dubious corporate social media posts a miss and we'll try to ride this out together. Everybody plays the fool sometime, Dave Dionne Warwick sang this Burt Bacharach-Hal David theme song for a 1969 romantic comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve before Aretha Franklin covered it on her 'Young, Gifted and Black' LP three years later. The intro to the Queen of Soul's arrangement is giving 'Jingle Bells,' but it quickly settles into a soulful boogie with a soaring chorus where new love is trailed by doubt: 'Are we just April fools / who can't see all the danger around?' ▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube What a chorus on this one: Michael McDonald's blue-eyed soul swoops upward into a falsetto that's almost Bee Gees-level. Does it matter that absolutely no one can tell what they're singing on the high part? It does not. (For the record, it's 'No wise man has the power to reason away.') ▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube My interest in Led Zeppelin has waxed and waned; I needed an extended post-high school detox after years of hearing the St. Louis classic rock station 'get the Led out' every afternoon at quitting time. But listening with fresh ears — and digging deeper than what you'd find in a Cadillac commercial — it's undeniable that Led Zep has dozens of slappers, like this cut from 'In Through the Out Door' (1979). Maybe I need to catch that 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' movie after all. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
