Jatropha Curcas

Jatropha curcas, is a perennial poisonous shrub, Barbados nut or Physic nut with a height of up to 5 meters.
The plant originating in Central America, and it has been spreead to other countries in tropical ang sub-tropical countries as well and is widely grown in Asia and Africa. It is an uncultivated wild species, a non-food plants. In the Philippines it is widely use as a living fence to protect the gardens and any other fields from animals, it is also use believed as a deterent to snakes, it grows in desert and even grow with less water and as such does not compete with food crops, the animals don't like to eat the leaves so they can grow well.

The seeds contains 30% oil that can be process to produced high quality bio-diesel fuel, usable for a standard diesel engine.

We try to plant Jatropha curcas, but the problem is the market. There is no known market yet in the Philippines, so we stop planting Jatropha, in the bakyard of our house Jatropha is a common plant.

Intel Philippines Close

Intel Philippines is closing its manufacturing plant in cavity by year end, Intel announced a billion dollar fab in china tha fave the way of speculation. The reasons vary — from high corporate taxes, to expensive electricity charges and even stealing of microchips. Other's says it’s about the structural integrity of the Cavite plant (that’s why the Laguna TechnoPark was an option). Intel may be really moving most of its Asian operations to China. That’s where cheap labor is abundant. Intel still has assembly test sites in Kulim & Penang, Malaysia, Pudong & Chengdu, China and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Bake Bibingka Supreme

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour 
2 tsp. baking powder 
1 tsp.  salt 
3 eggs 
1 cup sugar
 1 385ml. Evap Milk coco evap.
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup grated cheese
2 salted eggs, sliced 

Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and line bottom of 2  8-inch layer baking pan with banana leaves or wax paper. Set aside.

2. Sft flour, banking powder and salt together. Set aside.

3. Beat eggs until light and creamy. Gradually and sugar, beating well after each addition.

4. Add flour mixture alternately with Carnation coco evap into the egg. Beat to blend thoroughly.

5. Pour mixture in lined pans.  Bake for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven.

6. Spread butter on top then sprinkle with sugar and grated cheese. Decorate with salted egg slices and for 10 to 15 minutes more.

Ponzi Schemes

Ponzi Scheme, named after an Italian immigrant, Carlo "Charles" Ponzi.

Carlo Ponzi came to America from Canada where he spent some time in jail for passing bounced checks. He ended up rather quickly in Federal prison in the U.S. for smuggling illegal aliens into the country.

Here's what He did.
At that time, the post offices of the world issued what were called International Reply Coupons, which in essence were certificates good for postage stamps throughout the world. Ponzi's idea was to purchase these coupons in countries where the inflation rate was high and redeem them in countries where the rate was low. Simply put, this enable him to buy low and sell high.
On the strength of these coupons, Ponzi created the Securities Exchange Company and issued his own "promissory notes."  An investor could purchase one of Ponzi's notes with a face value of say $100 or $150. In just 90 days, the investor could redeem the note for its full value.  In the days when banks were regulated to offer four percent interest, Ponzi's notes promised an extraordinary returns.!

At first, the investors were dubious and risked only a few dollars say $20 .  However, after earning 50 percent interest on their money a couple of times, they felt more secure and soon began to invest thousands. Ponzi also cut the time frame down to 45 days to sweeten the deal for investors. (It works!)
In no time at all, Ponzi's kingdom grew to a staggering proportions. One million bucks would flow into his offices every day!  As his investor got rich and spread the word of mouth, Ponzi got even richer.  He was hailed as a financial genius. He now owned a local bank (the Hanover Trust Company), lived in the posh suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts, and was known far as The Great Ponzi."

The Problem.
Ponzi's "money machine"  operated by robbing  from  Peter to pay Paul.  He took the money investors sent in today to pay the money due tomorrow on previous investor's notes.  It was a merry-go-round of money that seemed to work perfectly.. The International Reply coupons that were supposed to be the source of Ponzi's wealth building investments didn't exist.  Ponzi never purchased more than $100 worth of them.
And one day in 1920, the merry-go-round stopped dead.
A public relations man whom Ponzi had hired to handle the attactks from the Boston press took one look at was actually going on-- and blew the whistle.
Ponzi was convicted of mail fraud and sentenced to nine years in prison. He jumped bail, and move to Florida, sold swamp land in a real estate scam, got caught and was returned to prison. Eventually, he was deported back to Italy .  Ponzi died alone and broke in 1949.

Imagine, over $15 million (in 1920 dollars) was paid out to investors before the merry-go-round business collapsed.
The total amount of money lost during the time of Ponzi will never be known.

What made Ponzi's scam an illegal pyramid scheme was the merry-go-round principle. As long as money was coming in, money would continue to go out. Investors were paid in full , on time, and everyone was happy. However, when the money stopped coming in, the "jig was up." The same thing would happened if the amount of money coming in had begun to slow down.
 Carlo "Charles" Ponzi was the proud father of one of the most incredible inventions of all time--the illegal pyramid scheme.
What Ponzi did was to live on the "float"  you know,  like  writing a check today to pay yesterday's bills based on money that won't be cashed until tomorrow in the hope that the check won't be cashed until some time next week  and so on and on.

The people who invested late in the game lost their money. Some of them lost everything they had.

No God Bus

In London , A christian Driver refused to drive a Bus that displaed an athiest advertisement saying "There's probably no God" on the side of the bus.

The driver from Southampton in Hampshire reacted with "shock" and "horror" last Sunday when he saw the slogan and walked out of his shift in protest. He was just about to board the bus when he saw the ads staring in his face, he was shock horror, the driver Ron Heather . The drive did better go home because of the ads..

The protest comes amid a growing campaign by atheists that started in Britain earlier this month and has spread to Spain, with a similar initiative planned in at least one city in predominantly Catholic Italy.
The slogans have been plastered on 800 buses across Britain and in London's subway system in a move backed by the British Humanist Association (BHA).
The advertisements have been condemned by clergy in Italy and Spain, while angry Christians have protested to Britain's advertising watchdog -- asking for proof that the slogans are telling the truth.
The ads in Britain were the brainchild of comedy writer Ariane Sherine and were financed by more than 140,000 pounds in public donations.
Sherine has said she objected to Christian adverts on some London buses that carried an Internet address warning that people who rejected God would spend eternity in "torment in hell."
Sherine, 28, sought five-pound donations towards a "reassuring" counter-advertisement and won support from the BHA and atheist campaigner Professor Richard Dawkins.
Heather's employer First Bus said it would do everything it could to ensure that he did not have to drive the offending buses. After meetings with First Bus managers on Monday, Heather has agreed to return to work.

Poached Egg in Buns

Ingredients:
1/4 kg. bacon
3 pieces hamburger buns, halved, buttered & toasted
3 tbsp. flour
1 cup Evap Milk.
1 cup cheese, grated
2 cups water
1 tbsp. vinegar salt to taste
6 pcs.

Preparation:
1.  Cook bacon in a skillet until golden brown; drain. Arrange bacon in buns. Set aside.

2. In the same skillet, stir in flour, evap milk and cheese. Cook stirring constantly until thickened. Set aside.

3. Boil 2 cups water and vinegar with salt. Break eggs, one at a time, into a cup. Slide eggs gently into a boiling water. Cook until egg white is set. Make sure egg yolk doesn't break.

4. Place cooked egg on top of bacon in bun. Top with white sauce.

How Birds Can Down an Airplane

Early reports suggest that a bird strike caused a jet plane to crash in the Hudson River near Manhattan today, leaving questions about how a little flying animal could down a big airliner.
More than 200 people have been killed worldwide as a result of wildlife strikes with aircraft since 1988, according to Bird Strike Committee USA, and more than 5,000 bird strikes were reported by the U.S. Air Force in 2007. Bird strikes, or the collision of an aircraft with an airborne bird, tend to happen when aircraft are close to the ground, which means just before landing or after take-off, when jet engines are turning at top speeds.
The incidents are serious particularly when the birds, usually gulls, raptors and geese, are sucked into a jet engine and strike an engine fan blades. That impact displaces the blade such that it strikes another blade and a cascade can occur, resulting in engine failure. Geese or another large bird would be much more hazardous than a little black bird. If the birds get close to the engine's intake, the birds get sucked in, its like a vacuum. The jet engine are made up of a lot of compressor blades it can easily damaged, even if only one breaks off, then the one blade will go through the rest of the engine as the engines turning faster its like a sharpnels inside the engine.
A 12-pound goose striking an aircraft going 150 mph at lift-off generates the force of a 1,000-pound weight dropped from a height of 10 feet, according to Bird Strike Committee USA. Birds can be very dangerous to aircraft, particularly in the first several thousand feet after take-off, where the birds are flying. 
Large aircraft are certified to be able to keep flying after impacting a 4-pound bird, however if there are more that one 4-pound birds, even smaller birds, can cause engine failure.
The greater the difference in the speed of the plane and the bird, the greater the force of the impact on the aircraft. The weight of the bird is also a factor, but the speed difference is a much bigger factor.
The speed at which the two are moving causes the bird to get ingested into the engine. And the engine is very delicate to withstanding a major impact and shut the engine down.
Flocks of birds are even more dangerous as they can result in multiple strikes.
Delicate birds, delicate aircraft

Take several precautions to keep Airplane safe from birds. Don't plant trees in the nearby, these are their nesting place. no lagoon lakes or small body of water in the nearby because these are playgrounds of water birds like geese.

A cannon is also a must, it fire during and after landing to make a noise as a deterent for birds to clear the runway from birds. Also a deterent birds is a help they can keep the birds from nearby.

Bird and any other wildlife strikes to aircraft result in million dollar in damage a year, according to Bird Strike Committee USA. Five jet airliners have had major accidents involving bird strikes since 1975, the committee says. In one case, about three dozen people died.

NASA also worries about bird strikes, too.
During the July 2005 launch of Discovery on mission STS-114, a vulture soaring around the launch pad impacted the shuttle's external tank just after liftoff. With a vulture's average weight of 3 to 5 pounds, it strike on a critical point on the shuttle - like the nose or wing leading thermal protection panels damage - could cause catastrophic damage to the vehicle.
NASA put safety measures into place in 2005 to reduce the chances of bird strikes with the shuttle. The NASA wants to avoid bird strikes to the shuttle's fuel tank that could damage the heat shield during launch and landing.
For instance, NASA has a special during launch countdown where they can stop to wait for birds to pass. And during landing, NASA has a sound cannon that they fire to make sure the runway is clear from birds to make sure shuttle isn't damaged during landing.