Wednesday, September 28, 2011

PART II: TYPHOON PEDRING AFTERMATH


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Credit goes to the respectful owners.



Roxas Blvd Manila

Roxas Blvd Manila

Roxas Blvd Manila

Somewhere in Malabon

Roxas Blvd Manila

Sofitel Hotel Parking Lot

Sofitel Hotel

Roxas Blvd Manila

Mall of Asia















Sofitel Hotel Parking Lot



Somewhere in Manila

The Panpacific Manila



PART I: TYPHOON PEDRING AFTERMATH


History:
  • Typhoon Milenyo on September 28, 2007
  • Typhoon Ondoy on September 26, 2009
  • Typhoon Pedring (international name: Nesat) on September 27, 2011



Manila Bay

Somewhere in Manila

Roxas Blvd Manila





Roxas Blvd Manila




BILLBOARD COLLAPSED
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PEDRING ALONG ROXAS BLVD
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PEDRING ALONG ROXAS BLVD
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PEDRING IN TAGUIG CITY
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PEDRING IN QUEZON CITY
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PEDRING HEADS FOR NORTH LUZON


By Kristine L. Alave
1:39 am | Monday, September 26th, 2011




Tropical Storm “Pedring” swept toward Luzon Sunday, prompting officials to warn residents of massive flooding and landslides and order the evacuation of thousands in danger zones.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Pedring (international name: Nesat) was likely to pack more wallop before it strikes either Isabela or Aurora Monday night.

Nathaniel Servando, Pagasa administrator, said the storm had picked up speed of up to 28 kilometers per hour from 22 kph recorded on Sunday morning and was blanketing an area within a radius of 300 km.It was packing center winds of 105 kph, gusting up to 135 kph.

He said the howler would barrel northward across Luzon before moving out via the Ilocos corridor on Wednesday.

As of Sunday afternoon, Pedring was still consolidating in the Pacific, where it was spotted 460 km east of Virac, Catanduanes, according to a 5 p.m. Pagasa bulletin.

Robert Sawi, Pagasa’s chief forecaster, said that while Metro Manila was not on the path of the storm, it could feel its effects as it grows stronger and expands in the next days.

Pedring was anticipated to be reclassified into a typhoon, an intense tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed exceeding 118 kph, late Sunday night or early Monday, Sawi said.

The Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the United States categorized Pedring as a Category 4 hurricane.

Storm warnings up

As Pedring approached land, Pagasa warned communities in the east coast to evacuate to avoid storm surges, floods, and landslides.

It raised Storm Signal No. 2 in Catanduanes Sunday afternoon.

Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Albay including Burias Island, Sorsogon, Quezon including Polillo Island and Aurora were on Signal No. 1.

Servando said the arrival of Pedring was almost similar to the onslaught of Tropical Storm “Ondoy,” which struck the country on Sept. 26, 2009, dumped a record rainfall in six hours and left nearly 500 people dead.

Servando said Metro Manila, southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao would start to feel the effects of Pedring on Monday with heavy rains expected.

Evacuation ordered

According to Pagasa’s bulletin, Pedring would be at 190 km east of Baler, Aurora, by Monday afternoon and at 140 km west-northwest of Sinait, Ilocos Sur, by Tuesday afternoon. By Wednesday afternoon, it will be at 510 km northwest of Sinait or at 540 km west of Basco, Batanes.

Albay Governor Joey Salceda ordered the preemptive evacuation of more than 100,000 people belonging to 20,000 families living in areas threatened by flooding and landslides in the towns of Polangui, Oas, Libon and Malinao.

The governor likewise ordered the suspension of classes in elementary and high school levels across the province today.

He banned sailing from all ports of Albay and advised fishermen to refrain from going out to the sea.

In a meeting with the Albay Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, Salceda directed authorities in 15 towns and three cities in the province to update disaster plans.

He instructed the Army’s 901st Infantry Brigade and the Philippine Navy to get their trucks ready for immediate deployment to low-lying towns. He also requested the National Food Authority for empty sacks to be used as sandbags. With reports from Mar S. Arguelles and Rey M. Nasol, Inquirer Southern Luzon




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Sunday, September 25, 2011

COMPUTER GENDER




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Curious to know your computer gender. Below are simple steps to follow:
  • Open Notepad
  • Type the following line in notepad: CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak"I love you"
  • Save file as computer_gender.vbs
  • Open the file. If you hear a male voice, your pc is a boy. If you hear a female voice, your pc is a girl.



Computer Gender

Is your computer male or female? As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female (e.g.,"Steady as she goes", or "She's listing to starboard, Captain!").


Reasons to believe computers are female:

  1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
  2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
  3. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you".
  4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
  5. Picky, picky, picky.
  6. They hear what you say, but not what you mean.
  7. Beauty is only shell deep.
  8. When you ask what's wrong, they say "nothing"
  9. Can produce incorrect results with alarming speed.
  10. Always turning simple statements into big productions.
  11. Smalltalk is important.
  12. You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong.
  13. They make you take the garbage out.
  14. Miss a period and they go wild!!!
  15. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male. Their reasons follow:

Reasons to believe computers are male:

  1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
  2. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.
  3. A better model is always just around the corner.
  4. They look nice and shiny until you bring them home.
  5. It is always necessary to have a backup.
  6. As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.
  7. The best part of having either one is the games you can play.
  8. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
  9. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night.
  10. They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons.
  11. Size does matter!

THE GLORIES OF MARY: A WICKED WOMAN



               
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In Mexico there was a WICKED WOMAN, who, having fallen sick, repented, and made a vow to Mary, that if she recovered, she would make her the offering of her HAIR...

She got well, and made the promised offering to a statue of the Blessed Virgin. 

She, however, relapsed into sin; again fell ill, and died IMPENITENT... 

One day after this had occurred, Mary SPOKE FROM THE STATUE to the Jesuit father John Mary Salvaterra, in the PRESENCE of a GREAT CONCOURSE of people, and said:

"Take this hair from my head, for it belongs to an IMPURE SOUL, who is already DAMNED; it does not, therefore, become the head of the Mother of PURITY."

The father obeyed, and without delay threw it into the FIRE...





Excerpt from: THE GLORIES OF MARY
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
(with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur)

Thursday, September 15, 2011

USAPANG PUSO SA PUSO (PART XII): PFIZER SULIT CARD




My cardiologist from St. Luke's Medical Center gave me this card yesterday. I'm currently taking generic medicine only as prescribed by our company doctor. It's been a year that I am taking maintenance and I had already changed it thrice as per prescription by our company physician.

My cardio said that I must have been immune to the maintenance drug. So, he gave me a new prescription; Amlodipine Norvasc and Atenolol Velorin.


Sulit Card Discount
  • Enjoy 30% discount on NORVASC 5mg and 10mh tablets.
  • Maximum of 32 tablets per month.
  • Accepted at major drugstore nationwide.
  • Prescription should be presented upon purchase.
  • The Sulit Card is pre-activated and has no expiry date provided the Membership Form has been completely filled up and submitted to Pfizer within 4 months from 1st purchase.

USAPANG PUSO SA PUSO (PART XI)



Fifth Blood Chemistry Result
St. Luke's Medical Center
September 14, 21011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

USAPANG PUSO SA PUSO (PART X)



My fifth blood test (lipid profile, blood chem, FBS) 
at St. Luke's Medical Center


History:
First: September 14, 2010
Second: November 15, 2010
Third: January 08, 2011
Fourth: July 16, 2011
Fifth: September 14, 2011

JUST WATCHED 'PATAYIN SA SHOKOT SI REMINGTON'



Ella and I watched yesterday at Mega Mall



Sunday, September 11, 2011

TEACHER SCAVENGER


Nadiskubre ng dalawang estudyante na teacher pala ang isang lalaking namumulot ng basura sa Taft Avenue. Ang kuwento ni Mang Alfredo sa pagpa-Patrol ni Apples Jalandoni. TV Patrol, Setyembre 10, 2011



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Saturday, September 10, 2011

FOOD TRIP: JOLLIANT



Jolliant Grill and Resto at Shaw Boulevard
(These people here were not us)



This is their "lechon kawali ". 
I did not enjoy this food dahil super dry at halos wala kang makaing meat. 
It was like buto-buto lang. 



 This is their "pancit bihon".
I super liked it. Though it was dry but the taste was good.
I loved the vegetables on it.
And their "pancit canton" was very good but I would suggest,
don't make it too salty. Medyo napaalat ata yung sinerve sa'min.
But other than the salty taste, it was awesome for me.



This is their "sisig".
I can't comment kasi hindi ako kumain that time.
It's not healthy for me.



They also have this "sinigang na maya-maya".
I did not enjoy this dish. 
I just liked the sabaw para hindi dry yung kinakain ko and the vegetables. 
They served to us the big head of the fish "maya-maya" which I said like a dinosaur.
Aside from that, napakatigas nito considering it was a fish. Maybe, masyadong frozen yung fish.

Friday, September 9, 2011

WHY MOST MEN'S RING FINGERS ARE SO LONG



X-ray image of human hands, one wearing a ring (file picture).
Photograph by Nick Veasey, Getty Images


Christine Dell'Amore
Published September 7, 2011


Is your ring finger longer or shorter than your index finger? The reason for the difference is in our hormones, a new study in mice shows for the first time.

Before birth, the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone control genes that in turn dictate finger length, the study found. Like us, mice naturally have both hormones in their bodies. (Get a genetics overview.)

As a result, most men have ring fingers that are longer than their index fingers, and the reverse is true in women.

Differences in finger length have been repeatedly linked to a range of human traits, from aggression to musical ability to sexual orientation. There are also connections to health problems such as autism, depression, heart attacks, and cancer.


"It's difficult to look at an adult or a newborn child and determine what was happening during their embryonic development," said study leader Zhengui Zheng, a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Florida.

"But the discovery that digit proportions reflect the prenatal hormonal environment helps us to explain all those correlational studies," said Zheng, who works in the laboratory of study co-author Martin Cohn.

First Proof That Hormones Affect Finger Length

Scientists had already suspected that sex hormones played a part in finger length, but "causality had never been demonstrated—no one had ever tested the hypothesis that these hormones directly cause the digits to grow differently in males and females," Cohn said.

Zheng and Cohn took two general approaches for their experiments, which are detailed this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

First, they used genetic tools to deactivate cell receptors—molecules that send and receive signals to and from other cells—for testosterone and estrogen in the developing limb buds of mouse embryos. Second, the scientists boosted the hormone levels of pregnant female mice.

The results proved consistent: Male mice that lacked testosterone receptors in the womb were born with shorter, typically feminine digit proportions, or had index digits longer than their ring digits. Male mice without estrogen receptors had longer ring digits.

Female mice that lacked an estrogen receptor were born with longer digits, and those that did not have testosterone had shorter, superfeminine digits.

The team also found that hormones controlled the rate of cell division in a mouse's developing digits.
In the ring digit, testosterone stimulates cell division, building up cartilage and bone to make the digit longer. Estrogen, on the other hand, slows down cell division, leading to a shorter digit.

But what really surprised the researchers was that it wasn't the absolute level of hormones—say, the total amount of estrogen—that influenced digit length, but rather the balance of hormonal activity in the mouse's limb buds, Cohn noted.

Mouse-Digit Experiment "Elegant"

Scott Simpson, an anatomist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, said the study used a "very elegant and well-designed experiment."

That's because the team traced every step in how hormones change mouse bodies, from the gene level to maturity—a still little-understood progression, said Simpson, who was not involved in the research.


"We all know we are the product of our genes, what are all the steps from gene to us?"
What's more, the study is valuable in finding that hormones begin affecting us much earlier than thought—as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Many scientists have believed that hormones are more active after birth.

"This isn't just an interesting curiosity that's focused on the hand—it really says something about the behavioral and development biology of adults," he noted.

Finger Length a Snapshot From the Womb?

Overall, the results suggest that our finger length can be almost a "readout" of a person's hormonal balance during a very narrow window of development in the womb, Cohn said.

For instance, if a man has a longer index finger than ring finger, he may have had an elevated dose of estrogen at some point during his development—which is not necessarily a bad thing.

But, in some cases, such irregularities can lead to medical conditions in adulthood. Exposure in the womb to synthetic chemicals that mimic or block hormones, for example, has been linked to health problems in children and adults.


Previously, it was difficult to know if a mother had been exposed to a chemical during pregnancy that disrupted hormone activity in her child.

Now, "our findings suggest such an event might leave a signature," Cohn said. That "might be a useful tool" for figuring out the cause of a disease, malformation, or even a behavioral trait.




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Thursday, September 8, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA MARY



HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA MARY

Hail Mary full of grace










Taken last year September 08, 2011
St. Francis Church of Mandaluyong

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

BOY DIES AFTER MASTURBATING 42 TIMES










A 16-year-old boy died after masturbating 42 times without stopping in Rubiato town, in Goiás region, Brazil.


His mother told a local newspaper that she already knew about his son’s addiction and that she planned to see the doctor, but the decision came too late.

The young man began to masturbate at midnight and spent the whole night to compulsively touch himself.

At school, his classmates commented on the boy’s problem and some said he asked them to connect to the webcam for being observed.

They further said that his attraction to women was extreme; he was attracted to all kind of women, regardless of texture physics, color and age.

In his room a great amount of pornography was found, including photographs and videos of nude women that were saved on his PC.


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