The confirmation was made by the MMDA authority stating that the existing billboards have violated the National Building Code (NBC). MMDA said that the building and billboard owners don’t have any permits to show coming from local governments.

“These 424 billboards can now be dismantled because they cannot show the necessary permits from the LGUs,” MMDA  Chairman Francis Tolentino said during the MMDA budget for 2012 deliberation in the Senate yesterday.

He added that the billboard owners don’t have building permits, certificate of use and location clearance which is a clear violation of the National Building Code.

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Stocks had their worst day since the credit crisis after the S&P downgraded the US credit rating to AA+. That's going to put pressure on the Fed as it meets on Tuesday.

Stocks had their worst day since the credit crisis after the S&P downgraded the US credit rating to AA+. That's going to put pressure on the Fed as it meets on Tuesday.

Since 2008, the Fed has assured the public that it wouldn't raise short-term interest rates for an "extended period," that is, at least several more months. It has been vague about plans for its vast portfolio of

WASHINGTON — Along with central banks in Europe and Asia, the Federal Reserve had signaled over the weekend that it would intervene behind the scenes in currency markets if events warranted, following last week's decline

(08-08) 22:14 PDT OAKLAND — BART service, which was disupted disrupted for several hours Monday night, was restored at 10:02 p.m. The problem began at 7:32 p.m.

The official video for “BART Train” by East Bay duo Malki Means King and Juey Starberry dropped on YouTube last week. The song features catchy lyrics like "We on the BART train/Shake that ass girl/[indecipherable] cookies", auto-tune, a pounding beat

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Bart Scott tweeted this photo of two of his teammates catching some Z's on the locker room floor.

A brand new CD gathering expelled generally for Tisha B'Av brings together normal lamentations by North African Jews. by Elad Benari In credentials for a honest day of Tisha B'Av, that starts Monday night,

Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the month of Av in the Jewish calendar is an annual day of remembrance that leads Jews from grief to hope.

For former Minister Yossi Sarid, Tisha B'Av is a day of demagogy; for Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, it's a memorial candle. Eight public figures discuss meaning of day of mourning in their eyes For me, Tisha B'Av symbolizes the terrible riots the people of

The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel sent Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai a letter on Sunday, asking him to prevent the "festivals of Rothschild Boulevard's tent city from taking place on Tisha B'Av." The Forum asked Huldai to subject "tent city" dwellers

Now there's even more evidence that movie viewers are turning to a rental, rather than a purchase, model for their home entertainment needs. Subscription services like Netflix and kiosk rentals from Redbox were bright

Options for movie-watching at home range from streaming on iTunes, Amazon on Demand, Hulu, vudu or Time Warner Cable On Demand, to renting discs from Blockbuster, Netflix or Redbox. Starting next month, many of Netflix's 23 million US subscribers will

By SAM SCHECHNER Viacom Inc. reported a 37% profit increase for the quarter ended June 30, driven by growing ad sales at its cable-TV networks and a big payoff from expanded Web-streaming deals with companies including Netflix Inc. The New York-based

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One of the most unique aspects of a Lollapalooza main-stage performance is the sight of American Sign Language interpreters at the front of the stage, signing the lyrics live with much rock 'n' roll attitude.

By The Times-Picayune A Sign, Baby, Sign! sign language for babies overview will be presented by Alice Barattini, parent educator and speech/language pathologist at the Slidell Memorial Hospital Parenting Center. Matt Rose / The Times-Picayune archiveA

Using sign language may be a way to help autistic kids develop communication skills and improve social interaction with others.

Using sign language may be a way to help autistic kids develop communication skills and improve social interaction with others.

The digest of Tisha B'Av laws in The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot specifically mentions that one may apply deodorant to oneself on Tisha B'Av (p. 787 par.

Tisha B'Av (the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebrew calendar) has, historically, not been a great day for the Jewish people. It's been observed that almost everything bad that has happened, collectively,

The leadership of the Masorti movement and of the Rabbinical Assembly in Israel has designated Tisha B'Av as a day of solidarity with the “tent protest” movement. On the evening of the fast, and for the duration of the day, we will hold events

The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel sent Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai a letter on Sunday, asking him to prevent the "festivals of Rothschild Boulevard's tent city from taking place on Tisha B'Av." The Forum asked Huldai to subject "tent city" dwellers

CNN anchor Don Lemon is doing an AMA (ask me anything) Q&A segment on Reddit today. He's touching on quite a number of subjects, including working at CNN and his recent coming out. Check it all out here. On the segment Jon Stewart ran on him.

Netflix has made a hire that could help put an end to some of its recent outages: Former Reddit Chief Architect Jeremy Edberg announced via Twitter that he has joined the streaming company as its Lead Cloud Reliability Engineer.

Today is my 2nd Reddit birthday. I should be happy, but I'm not. There's something that has been bugging me for a while and realizing that I've been here.

Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure experienced a brief network outage this evening that knocked off line popular sites such as Netflix, Quora, Reddit, and Foursquare. The network connectivity issues struck Amazon's Elastic Compute

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