FOR a person to grow, he should not stop learning. A differently-abled student relied on this saying to give him strength whenever he came across people who have doubts about his capability to learn. Ricky Labrador Jr., 18, a deaf-mute, graduated valedictorian of his high school class at the Mandaue City Central Integrated Special Education School.
He was among the 200 valedictorians who met with Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday as they attended a three-day leadership training organized by the Provincial Government. He does not consider his condition as a hindrance to attaining his goals. Labrador was sick with fever when he was a baby and became deaf-mute. Despite his condition, he excelled in his class and even got elected as president of the supreme student council of his school.
His father is a security guard and his mother is a staff member of the University of the Visayas in Mandaue City. Labrador thanked the governor for the opportunity to fulfill his dreams.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2011/04/27/deaf-mute-tops-hs-class-152242
Attention, Friendster users: You have until May 31 to save your account contents including photos, testimonials, and blogs —or else you'll lose them in the social network's upcoming major reformat. Friendster, a pioneer social networking site launched in 2002, issued the warning as it prepares a "new and improved version" in the coming weeks.
"Your Friendster account will not be deleted. You will still have the same email login and password in the new Friendster. Also, your list of friends will be preserved, along with your basic profile information. However, all the photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shoutouts, blogs, forums and groups that you may have now will no longer be part of your account by May 31, 2011," it said in its help forum. To be preserved are the user's list of friends, along with basic profile information, wallet, and games.
But to help the user save his or her account content, Friendster offered an application to help download or export photos and blogs securely to third party sites, such as Flickr or Multiply. Dubbed the Friendster Exporter, the app will be rolled out gradually and is now available for users in Singapore. Users in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia can expect the app to be available in a few days after April 14, it added. It said that the app will be available to all Friendster users before the end of April 2011.
While Facebook is a site where people can communicate with and find out what their real-life friends are doing, Friendster will be the place where people can meet new friends and play games and enjoy music with them. The pioneering social network will continue to innovate and be at the forefront of the social networking scene, he said in an article on ZDNet Asia.
Friendster said that its "new and improved" version will be focused on entertainment and fun, and will have new features to better enable users to connect with friends or engage new friends with similar interests.
"Our improved site is designed to create new profiles that allow you to connect differently with people and do things differently than other networking sites. Basically, the new site will complement your existing online presence in other social networking sites," the company said.
A July 15, 2010 article in the Global Post said that, while Friendster lost users in the United States to MySpace and Facebook in the mid-2000s, the social network exploded in the Philippines, where nearly half of its userbase is located. It said that Friendster later spread to Malaysia and Indonesia. Now, roughly 80 percent of Friendster’s 116 million users live in Southeast Asia, the report said.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/friendster-delete-users-content-may-31-125607688.html
"Your Friendster account will not be deleted. You will still have the same email login and password in the new Friendster. Also, your list of friends will be preserved, along with your basic profile information. However, all the photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shoutouts, blogs, forums and groups that you may have now will no longer be part of your account by May 31, 2011," it said in its help forum. To be preserved are the user's list of friends, along with basic profile information, wallet, and games.
But to help the user save his or her account content, Friendster offered an application to help download or export photos and blogs securely to third party sites, such as Flickr or Multiply. Dubbed the Friendster Exporter, the app will be rolled out gradually and is now available for users in Singapore. Users in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia can expect the app to be available in a few days after April 14, it added. It said that the app will be available to all Friendster users before the end of April 2011.
While Facebook is a site where people can communicate with and find out what their real-life friends are doing, Friendster will be the place where people can meet new friends and play games and enjoy music with them. The pioneering social network will continue to innovate and be at the forefront of the social networking scene, he said in an article on ZDNet Asia.
Friendster said that its "new and improved" version will be focused on entertainment and fun, and will have new features to better enable users to connect with friends or engage new friends with similar interests.
"Our improved site is designed to create new profiles that allow you to connect differently with people and do things differently than other networking sites. Basically, the new site will complement your existing online presence in other social networking sites," the company said.
A July 15, 2010 article in the Global Post said that, while Friendster lost users in the United States to MySpace and Facebook in the mid-2000s, the social network exploded in the Philippines, where nearly half of its userbase is located. It said that Friendster later spread to Malaysia and Indonesia. Now, roughly 80 percent of Friendster’s 116 million users live in Southeast Asia, the report said.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/friendster-delete-users-content-may-31-125607688.html
Barangay Ermita tops among the 80 barangays of Cebu City with a high prevalence malnutrition rate of 13.30 percent in 2010 among preschoolers aged zero to seventy one (71) months. City Health Department (CHD)-7 North Area Nurse Supervisor and Nutrition Coordinator Emma Gaviola said in an interview with the Philippine Information Agency that the other four barangays in Cebu in the top five spot with the highest prevalence malnutrition rate in 2010 are Alaska with 11.79 percent, Duljo with 9.60 percent, fourth placer Sapangdaku with 9.37 percent and fifth placer Buot Taup with 8.92 percent.
The data was taken from the City Summary Report on ‘Operation Timbang’ (OPT) 2010 where said age group of children are weighed regularly in the barangay health centers to check their nutrition status. More than 136T preschoolers were weighed from January to March last year where OPT results showed that there were 2,955 children out of the total figure were underweight (UW) and 826 are severely underweight (SUW) or a 4.37 percent malnutrition prevalence rate, based on the summary report of CHD.
According to Gaviola, Barangay Opra has recorded the lowest malnutrition prevalence rate of .38 percent among the 80 barangays in Cebu City. Gaviola also said the malnutrition prevalence rate in 2009 was 5.60 percent and it went down to 4.23 percent in 2010. Gaviola stressed that the mother has the crucial role in ensuring that their children are well-fed right from the day they are conceive as nutrition starts from the womb.
Mothers should visit the barangay health centers often and to be healthy always, Gaviola said. As long as, mother and child eat balanced diet and nutritious foods with more on vegetables and fruits, carbohydrates (rice) and protein (animal meat) then there is no reason that malnutrition among children will persist, she added.
Infants until six months old should be breastfeed and beyond six months, complementary foods should be introduced but breast milk must be continued even after two years, Gaviola said. Gaviola put emphasis on having the children vaccinated right after they are born and completes the vaccination until the child reaches 15 months. (PIA-Cebu/JSM)
http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=27908
The data was taken from the City Summary Report on ‘Operation Timbang’ (OPT) 2010 where said age group of children are weighed regularly in the barangay health centers to check their nutrition status. More than 136T preschoolers were weighed from January to March last year where OPT results showed that there were 2,955 children out of the total figure were underweight (UW) and 826 are severely underweight (SUW) or a 4.37 percent malnutrition prevalence rate, based on the summary report of CHD.
According to Gaviola, Barangay Opra has recorded the lowest malnutrition prevalence rate of .38 percent among the 80 barangays in Cebu City. Gaviola also said the malnutrition prevalence rate in 2009 was 5.60 percent and it went down to 4.23 percent in 2010. Gaviola stressed that the mother has the crucial role in ensuring that their children are well-fed right from the day they are conceive as nutrition starts from the womb.
Mothers should visit the barangay health centers often and to be healthy always, Gaviola said. As long as, mother and child eat balanced diet and nutritious foods with more on vegetables and fruits, carbohydrates (rice) and protein (animal meat) then there is no reason that malnutrition among children will persist, she added.
Infants until six months old should be breastfeed and beyond six months, complementary foods should be introduced but breast milk must be continued even after two years, Gaviola said. Gaviola put emphasis on having the children vaccinated right after they are born and completes the vaccination until the child reaches 15 months. (PIA-Cebu/JSM)
http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=27908
"We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the foundation of life. Many of the things we need can wait but the child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer "Tomorrow". His name is "Today"."
- Gabriela Mistral, 1948
Each time you get behind the wheel of a vehicle, you must perform a series of complicated, split-second tasks. You must coordinate the actions of your hands, feet, eyes, ears, and body movements. At the same time, you must decide how to react to what you see, hear, and feel from other cars and drivers, traffic signs and signals, road conditions and your own vehicle's performance.
These decisions are usually made at high speed and in close proximity to other vehicles also traveling at high speed, and they must be converted into the correct action - brake, steer, accelerate, or a combination of the three - to maintain or adjust your position in traffic. And these decisions must be made constantly, over and over. About 20 major decisions are needed for each mile driven; drivers must frequently act in less than one-half second to avoid a collision with another vehicle or a pedestrian.
When you think of it that way, you may never want to get in a car again. But relax, follow the safe driving tips, use your common sense and best judgment, and you'll be one of the safest drivers on the road.
These decisions are usually made at high speed and in close proximity to other vehicles also traveling at high speed, and they must be converted into the correct action - brake, steer, accelerate, or a combination of the three - to maintain or adjust your position in traffic. And these decisions must be made constantly, over and over. About 20 major decisions are needed for each mile driven; drivers must frequently act in less than one-half second to avoid a collision with another vehicle or a pedestrian.
When you think of it that way, you may never want to get in a car again. But relax, follow the safe driving tips, use your common sense and best judgment, and you'll be one of the safest drivers on the road.
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