Abbie will go to the US soon, to work and apply for a master’s degree soon. She is going to stay in San Francisco and wanted to have an educational travel tour. She has been to San Francisco and up to now, have not really signed up for any tour regarding the city. It was a good thing our niece needs to write about the place so my cousin signed her up for a class in HemisphereTravel.com. They went to all the sites and attractions, restaurants and museum in San Francisco like the Alcatraz Islan, North Beach, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, San Francisco Cable Car Museum and Hard Rock Cafe. What is very much noted is that the tour price is extremely competitive, so much that they have beat any other tour price, without having to sacrifice quality!
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children believes that with the right information and resources at your disposal, you can better protect your children.
Here, their 25 recommendations for keeping your children safe:
- Teach your children their full names, address, and home phone number. Make sure they know your name.
- Make sure your children know how to reach you at work or on your cell phone.
- Teach your children how and when to use 911 or whatever is the equivalent of an emergency line in your area.
- Make sure your children have a trusted adult to call if they’re scared or have an emergency.
- Instruct children to keep the door locked and not open the door to talk to anyone when they are home alone.
- Set rules with your children about having visitors over when you’re not home and how to answer the telephone.
- Choose babysitters with care. Obtain references from family, friends, and neighbors. Once you have chosen the caregiver, drop in unexpectedly to see how your children are doing. Ask children how the experience with the caregiver was and listen carefully to their responses.
- Learn about the Internet. The more you know about how the Web works, the better prepared you are to teach your children about potential risks. Place the family computer in a common area, rather than a child’s bedroom. Also, monitor their time spent online and the websites they’ve visited.
- Use privacy settings on social networking sites to limit contact with unknown users.
- Make sure screen names don’t reveal too much about your children.
- Don’t display your children’s names on clothing, backpacks, lunch boxes, or bicycle license plates. When children’s names are visible, it may put them on a first-name basis with someone who means them harm.
- Remind kids to take a friend whenever they walk or bike to school.
- Walk the route to and from school with your children, pointing out landmarks and safe places to go if they’re being followed or need help. If your children ride a bus, visit the bus stop with them to make sure they know which bus to take.
- Take your children on a walking tour of the neighborhood and tell them whose homes they may visit without you.
- Tell your children to get you if they come across a dangerous object or situation.
- Teach your children to ask permission before leaving home.
- Remind your children not to walk or play alone outside.
- Teach your children not to approach any vehicle, occupied or not, unless they know the owner and are accompanied by a trusted adult.
- Remind your children it’s OK to say NO to anything that makes them feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused.
- Don’t confuse your children with the concept of “strangers.” Children do not have the same understanding of who a stranger is as an adult might. The “stranger-danger” message is not effective, as danger to children is greater from someone you or they know than from a “stranger.” There may also come a time when your child may need help from someone he or she doesn’t know when you aren’t around.
- Set up “what if” situations and ask your children how they would respond. “What if someone asked you to help them find a lost puppy? What would you do?”
- During family outings, establish a central, easy-to-locate spot to meet for check-ins or should you get separated.
- Teach your children to check in with you if there is a change of plans.
- Teach your children how to locate help at theme parks, sports stadiums, shopping malls, and other public places. Also, identify those people who are safe to ask for help, such as law enforcement, security guards and store clerks with nametags.
- Practice safety skills so that they become second nature to your children. While you don’t want to scare your children, it is important to make sure they are aware of potential dangers, so that they can be prepared to avoid them, or confidently deal with them as they happen.
Ever since I got promoted, I have had an increased demand for several office supplies like papers and labels for evaluation reports. It’s actually a good thing all of these materials are provided by the office. I need a lot of binders and business cases for the documents and reports I always need to make, collate and compile! I think they order online through RapidSupplies.com. They are actually an online discount office, printer, computer and school supplies store. What we really save on are the bulk printer papers and avery labels which they offer at a huge discount price. They even offer office furniture and healthcare supplies. If you visit their web site, they have created some well written articles and provide more information on laser printer paper and more.
With the temperature in Manila reaching up to 39-40°C (104-110°F) at noon time, it is very likely for people to get heatstroke.
Heatstroke as defined by e-medicine is a “medical condition is life-threatening. The person’s cooling system, which is controlled by the brain, has stopped working, and the internal temperature has risen to the point where brain damage or damage to other internal organs may result (temperature may reach 105+°F)”.
Signs of Heat Exhaustion:
Often pale with cool, moist skin
Sweating profusely
Feels faint or has collapsed
May be complaining of headache, weakness, thirst, and nausea
Core (rectal) temperature elevated—usually more than 100°F—and the pulse rate increased
Signs of Heat stroke
Unconscious or has a markedly abnormal mental status
Flushed, hot, and dry skin (although it may be moist initially from previous sweating or from attempts to cool the person with water)
May experience dizziness, confusion, or delirium
May have slightly elevated blood pressure at first that falls later
May be hyperventilating
Rectal (core) temperature of 105°F or more
Prevention
The best defense is prevention. Here are some prevention tips:
Drink more fluids (nonalcoholic), regardless of your activity level. Don’t wait until you’re thirsty to drink. Warning: If your doctor generally limits the amount of fluid you drink or has you on water pills, ask him how much you should drink while the weather is hot.
Don’t drink liquids that contain alcohol or large amounts of sugar–these actually cause you to lose more body fluid. Also, avoid very cold drinks, because they can cause stomach cramps.
Stay indoors and, if at all possible, stay in an air-conditioned place. If your home does not have air conditioning, go to the shopping mall or public library–even a few hours spent in air conditioning can help your body stay cooler when you go back into the heat. Call your local health department to see if there are any heat-relief shelters in your area.
Electric fans may provide comfort, but when the temperature is in the high 90s, fans will not prevent heat-related illness. Taking a cool shower or bath, or moving to an air-conditioned place is a much better way to cool off.
Wear lightweight, light-colored, loose-fitting clothing.
NEVER leave anyone in a closed, parked vehicle.
Although any one at any time can suffer from heat-related illness, some people are at greater risk than others. Check regularly on:
Infants and young children
People aged 65 or older
People who have a mental illness
Those who are physically ill, especially with heart disease or high blood pressure
Visit adults at risk at least twice a day and closely watch them for signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Infants and young children, of course, need much more frequent watching.
If you must be out in the heat:
Limit your outdoor activity to morning and evening hours.
Cut down on exercise. If you must exercise, drink two to four glasses of cool, nonalcoholic fluids each hour. A sports beverage can replace the salt and minerals you lose in sweat. Warning: If you are on a low-salt diet, talk with your doctor before drinking a sports beverage. Remember the warning in the first “tip” (above), too.
Try to rest often in shady areas.
Protect yourself from the sun by wearing a wide-brimmed hat (also keeps you cooler) and sunglasses and by putting on sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher (the most effective products say “broad spectrum” or “UVA/UVB protection” on their labels).
My parents left two boxes worth of stuff in the US and decided to have it shipped to the Philippines by air cargo. It will be worth it because the company they hired dont have weight restrictions unlike the airline companies. What is good about Logistics Group International Inc. is that they ship cargo door to door, regardless of method! They have competitive prices and have a vast network of carries and international agents. They do specialize in heavy haul shipping though. They do air cargo and freight shipping. My uncle uses them to transport auto parts he buys abroad for his automobile business here.
Remember back in gradeschool when you would hold up bond papers against a light to see that “secret writing?”
That secret writing is called watermark. “The watermark on Southworth paper is a sign of quality. It assures the user that the paper is a fine paper. The watermark generally will identify the manufacturer, the brand name and the amount of cotton fiber, if any, in the sheet. Through the use of a special roller called a “dandy roll”, the watermark is impressed inside the paper early in the manufacturing process. All of Southworth Company’s cotton fiber papers are watermarked signifying their fine quality and distinction.” - Southworth’s Website
There is also such thing as digital watermark, i.e. a photographer/studio name in a digital image, or a copyright, or other notices, that hide underneath texts or graphics.
Today, a co-worker was working on a legal document and wanted to know how to place a huge “DRAFT” imprint diagonally across and underneath the text on each page of her document. I showed her how to do it: and for those of you who are curious how to make it, here are the steps.
To place Watermark:
The watermark commands are available only in normal, print layout, and outline views.
On the Format menu, point to Background, and then click Printed Watermark.
To insert a text watermark, click Text Watermark, and then select or enter the text that you want.
Select any additional options that you want, and then click Apply.
To view a watermark as it will appear on the printed page, use print layout view (print layout view: A view of a document or other object as it will appear when you print it. For example, items such as headers, footnotes, columns, and text boxes appear in their actual positions.)
To Remove Watermark:
On the Format menu, point to Background, and then click Printed Watermark.
Click No watermark.
Hope that’s another pointer you can keep in your “that’s nifty” box of knowledge.
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Payatas was the largest solid waste dumpsite for refuse collected from the entire Metro Manila. It was otherwise known as the second smoky mountain (first one being in Tondo, Manila) — where mountains of mangled plastics, bottles, rotting waste and other forms of rubbish are constantly smouldering and smelling. This is where thousands even tens of thousands of “scavengers” both young and old, men, women and children, live amongst the garbage, in shanties, collecting whatever could be of value to sell to make a living.
That was until year 2000 when the Payatas Tragedy happened. Nearly 2000 people were burried alive during a typhoon that forced an avalance of smoldering garbage, burning over 500 shanties in its path.
Then there was a flicker hope when Gawad Kalinga, its sponsors and volunteers build a community of colorful houses, public school/nursery. St. Vincentian Fathers also owned and operated a feeding center, where kids can receive a nourishing and vitamin enriched meal and even a recreation area with a small swimming pool. These gave the Payatas residents the second chance to live again and be happy. Most especially the children.
Last night a fire broke out in Payatas - a Task Force Bravo Alarm, which is the second in the seven-high fire alert status.
Once again, my heart goes out to its residents and once again I fear for then, as I say a little prayer for their safety.
Frank Warren, the guy who’ve started PostSecret have now published three books that are available in are available at your local independent book store, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Chapters and Amazon’s website.
PostSecret is described in their website as: “…an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.”
I highly recommend that you go visit and read this.
Some are downright funny, some shocking, while some can tug heartstrings and bring a tear or two.
We all know the impact the entertainment industry has to the public. Many an artist has successfully filed for public office and ran away with the most votes. Such is the importance of media and the effect of artists to people. That is why there is more demand for celebrity speakers in speaking events. There is an International Speakers Bureau (ISB) where you can request free speaker advise and know the fresh new speakers available. In 2006, ISB booked sports heroes, media personalities, beauty queens and financial experts. While ISB excels at matching specialized speakers with the right events, don’t forget that ISB can book anyone you want.