MP3 player helps in rescuing missing skiers

SAVOGNIN, Switzerland – Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.

The Swiss air rescue association Rega says it received a distress call from the French tourists late Friday but the skiers' phone battery went dead before they could be reached.

Rega spokesman Gery Baumann says the two men were eventually found after midnight in steep, wooded terrain by a helicopter crew that spotted the light from their digital music player.

Baumann said Saturday that the two 22-year-olds suffered only mild hypothermia despite enduring temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius).

The incident happened near the town of Savognin in southeastern Switzerland.

6 Chinese go on trial for selling melamine

Six Chinese suspects went on trial Friday accuse of making and selling the industrial chemical at the center of the tainted milk scandal blamed for killing six children and sickening nearly 300,000 others.

Among those in court Friday was the owner of a workshop that was allegedly the country's largest source of melamine, the substance responsible for the health crisis that also saw Chinese food products pulled from stores worldwide, state media said.

Police say Zhang Yujun, 40, ran a workshop on the outskirts of Jinan in eastern Shandong province that manufactured and sold a "protein powder" compose mainly of melamine and malt dextrin, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The powder was added to watered-down milk to make it appear higher in protein content.

Prosecutors in the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court accused Zhang of producing 776 tons of the additive powder from October 2007 through August 2008, making it the largest source of melamine in the country. He allegdly sold more that 600 tons with a total value of $1 million, the court heard.

In the same case, a second man, Zhang Yanzhang, 24, was accuse of buying and reselling 230 tons of powder to others.

State televition showed both men in court in hand cuffs with their heads bowed while being questioned by three judges. It was noy immediately clear what penalties they face.

An official at the publicity office of Hebei Supreme Courts across Hebei province for adding the chemical to raw milk and then selling it to Sanlu Group Co., the main company in the scandal, according to Xinhua.

Melamine can artificially inflate protein levels and was apparently added to watered-down milk to fool quality inspectors while boosting profits.

Zhang Heshe and Zhang Taizhen were accused of adding 35 kilograms of the "protein powder" to 70 tons of raw milk and then selling it to Sanlu. Yang Jingmin ang Gu Guoping were also charged with adding 24 kilograms and 16.7 kilograms of melamine, respectively.

The verdicts will be announced at an unspecified date, Xinhua reported.

No breakfast, earlier sex

In japan a study came from 3,000 people those who did not eat breakfast regularly in their early teens said they lost their virginity at an average of 17.5, versus an average of 19 for all Japanese. The Japanese researchers have came up with this new finding that many theories linking between food and sex, young people who skip breakfast tend to lose their virginity earlear.

For those who had breakfast when they were younger, the average age of having sexual experience was at age 19.4.

If children don't feel comfortable in their family environment, those unhappy with their parents, may tend to go out and find ways to release their frustration by having sex. Young people who start having sex early tend to miss breakfast because they return late at night.

The survey also found that nearly 40% of Japanese married couples had not had sex in more than a month.

Respondents said they were too tire in their work to have time for sex..

Batanes coffee shop ransacked

IVANA, Batanes -- The world-reknown Honest Coffee Shop here that boasts of probably being the only store in the whole world without anyone tending it was ransacked and emptied of items and valuables recently.

While Elena Gabilo and her husband attended the early dawn Mass on December 24., a few meters away from their house, the coffee shop was forcibly opened.

Among the valuables taken by the robbers were, bottles of Ginebra San Miguel gin, and dried fish.

The owner of the coffee shop not reported the incident to the local police. "Of what use will it be to report it to the police?," "They only make it appear that they are helpless in all that is happening in town, if only to show that our town has a 'zero' crime rate," Gabilo said.

Additionally, the Treasurer's office was also ransacked early morning of Dec. 24.
The first ransacked on Sept. 22 about P82,000, during the height of typhoon.

Police have not conducted any serious investigation, and no suspect ever been invited, it was only entered as a minor incident.

Then wednesday , while everyone tending dawn Mass, the treasurer's Office was again emptied, at least P30,000 was lost to still unknown robbers..

Officials, Police of the local government maintained tight - lip and not conducted any investigation , maybe they don't want the people of the outside world to know that crime exist in this small town.. No safe place in this country anymore.

I remember Julia Campbell, who was murdered in the Cordillera Administrative Region, one of the peaceful town there was shocke by the report that Campbell was murdered, that later the murderer was Dontogan.

Wal-Mart / Apple's iPhone

Wal-Mart will start selling Apple's popular iPhone , the chain said, confirming earlier reports by employees.

Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second independent retail chain after Best Buy Inc. to sell the iPhone. It is also sold at Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. stores.

Wal-Mart will sell the phones for $2 less than the regular price with a two-year contract: $197 for the 8-gigabyte model, or $297 for the 16-gigabyte model. Best Buy is discounting the phone by $9.

Reports that Wal-Mart would sell the phone, but not the exact launch date or the terms, surfaced early this month through store employees who had been briefed.

Have you experience the iPhone? Is it nice to browse?

I never experience using iPhone yet.

Google Chrome

I download a Google Chrome web browser, because my IE browser can not be dependable. IE has a hole for the password hacker while the Microsoft trying to fix its browser it is recommended to use other browser. I always use Mozilla Firefox, but since I'm doing PTC there is a site which are not optimize for firefox its for IE browser only, so since the IE is not safe for browsing I try Google Chrome, so far I like it, its fast..

If you have no option, try Google Chrome..

Try to click here for download:
http://www.google.com/chrome


 screen shot of google chrome..

try it...

SWEET ELENA

Sweet Elena as the best carabao mango strain for commercialization. It weigh an average of 365-700 grams a fruit and a sugar content of almost 19 percent brix.

Brix scale, measure of sugar in solution: a hydrometer scale use for measuring the sugar content of a solution at a particular temperatur.

Thes outsatandin Carabao mangoes could be propagated or multiplied for planting in different parts of the country. Through grafting, any variety of mangoes could be used as rootstock and scion coming from outstanding varieties approved by NSIC. Always plant double rootstock because they are more resistant to typhoon, fast growing and early fruiting.

NSIC, National Seed Industry Council

The advantages of multi rootstock;

1. Growth and development is accelerated or double in comparison with single rootstock. Just as a man could travel faster with two feet that one foot, a plant could grow faster with double rootstock systems.

2. The tree becomes more prolific since it overcomes the biennial (alternate) fruiting habit. The plants produces heavy fruiting only after every other years and if forced to bear fruits by using or applying potassium nitrate KNO3, the tree will have a short life span as proven by what happen in mango producing provinces like in Cebu, Zambales, Nueva Ecija, and pangasinan.

a succesful propagator of sweet elena was Bernie Dizon , His nursery at Ninoy Aquino Wild Parks at North Ave. Q.C.

 

 

CHRISTMAS

Feast celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, generally observe on December 25. The actual date of Christ's birth is unknown and Christians did not have a Nativity feast until the 4rth century. At first January 6, the Epiphany, was observe as the feast of Christ' Baptism, with a secondary emphasis on His birth. The Armenian church still keeps Christmas on that day. The earliest mention of December 25 as Christ's birthday occurs in the Philocalian calendar (354), and that date seems to have become general throughout the West by the 5th century.
December 25 was already a major festival in the pagan Roman world, the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun," falling within the week-long celebration of the Saturnalia, a feast honoring the renewal of the sun at the winter solstice. Pagan celebrations on December 25 had included feasting, dancing, lighting bonfires, decorating homes with greens, and giving gifts. So when this became a Christian festival, the costums continued, but with a Christian meaning imparted to them.
Throughout the Middle Ages, Christmas was a richly varied religious holiday. However during the Common wealth, the English Puritans, repelled by both the pagan practices and the religious ceremonies, forbade any religious or secular celebration of Christmas. The English celebration returned with the restoration or the Stuarts, but Christmas observances were still outlawed in Puritan New England for many years; and not until the 19th century did Christmas becomes a legal holiday in America.
Christmas customs vary widely around the world, but the retelling of the Chistmas story (Luke 1-2:20; Matt. 1:18-2:12) forms an important part of the celebration everywhere. Church services begin on Christmas eve and continue through the great midnight Masses of the Catholic churches to the day itself. In many European countries, especially France ang Italy, the center of the celebration, both in church and home, is the creche or crib, a model of the manger scene. St. Francis of Assisi introduced this into Italy in the 13th century, in an effort to bring the real meaning of Christmas to the people. In Austria and Belgium nativity plays are an important feature of Christmas. Christmas carols arose in the 13th century and are apart of the Christmas celebration in every country. Singers go from house to house, and are welcomed with food and gifts, especially in England and Scandinavia.
The exchange of gifts symbolizes God's gift of His Son to men, gifts the Wise Men brought to the Christ's Child, and the bond of Christian love in the family and with friends. Santa Claus, a secularized version of St. Nichols, the patron saint of children, is known also as Father Christmas or Kris Kringle. St. Nichols' feast, December 6, is the day of gift-giving in the Low Countries, where December 25 is a quite, purely religious festival.

Source Encyclopedia International.