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Deciding on our own Typhoon Signals with Typhoon Basyang

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So Typhoon Basyang finally made it’s run through the streets of Metro Manila, dead on target.  Initially it was headed for Isabela, but changed course from West North West to just West.  Straight towards Quezon Province and into Rizal Province, into Metro Manila.  My wife and I decided on our own if we were sending children to school, or if we were evacuating Marikina for higher ground.  Now that we have the internet and with the PagAsa website updated every 1 hour, we could now make our own decisions.  This is how it happened…

Tuesday 5am I woke up and surfed to www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph and looked at where the storm was.  I saw that the storm had changed course and was now headed straight for Metro Manila.  My wife and I checked the online local newspapers and ABS-CBN News but they were still reporting the 11pm forecast.  Even the PagAsa website still had the 2am forecast.  By 6 am another updated satellite picture and by 7am another updated sattelite picture.  My wife and I decided it was time to take action.

We decided on not sending the children to school.  By 6am in the PagAsa website it showed signal #1  in the Province of Rizal and Bulacan, that is the area where the new Manila Waldorf in Timberland is located.  So this automatically means school is out.  No need to wait for the department of education, they are just getting up from bed.

We decided we were going to evacuate Marikina for higher ground.  We were going to sleep at the Condominium in The Fort with the in-laws on the 8th floor.  This was the very first time the drainage system will be tested in Marikina after the Ondoy flood last year.  We waited until my wife’s car was safe from the number coding scheme and at 10am, we left for higher ground.

I went to my office and did my office work.  Kids stayed indoors in the condominium.

How did Typhoon Basyang perform?  There was a good amount of rain in Quezon City around the area of Quezon Avenue and EDSA around 6pm.  I woke up around 1am to howling winds.  Seemed like we were near the eye of the storm. My 2nd boy also woke up and was watching and observing and listening to the howling wind, put his hand outside the window curious.  Until his mom called him back to sleep.  By 3am the howling had died down and I went back to sleep.

The following morning I asked our driver who stayed in Marikina how the storm went.  He said the water level in the streets covered the side walk and into the first step of our gate.  That would mean 7 to 8 inches of water on the street in front of our house with just this minuscule storm.

It is apparent that the drainage system needs to be re-bored or improved somehow to handle the big typhoons, those typhoons that bring rains 3 days to 2 weeks straight.  This means we have to evacuate with each and every storm that comes.  We will get better at it.

Now in the media they are finger pointing who is to blame as to why the prediction was wrong about the path of the typhoon.  Most people were calm about the typhoon hitting north.  They did not see it on the news on radio or television that the typhoon was coming our way directly in Metro Manila.

I know why.  I observed that the satellite images are automatically updated every hour. But the commentary pages are updated only periodically manually by whoever is in charge.  For example the 2am forecast path remained that way until maybe 8am.  We noticed that.  We did not depend on that.  When we saw the disparity between the 2am forecast and 5 and 6am satellite pictures, we made our own conclusion.  Actually PagAsa updates the storm signals per province every hour, it was the commentary with sketch that is periodically updated… this is the “official word” the media outlets were looking to parrot.

Some suggestions for PagAsa:

1. When there is a storm, have the commentary updates updated every 1 hour.

2. Host the website of PagAsa mirrored out of the Philippines to a remote web server with automatic fail over.  I can do that for you for a fee.  By 2am the Pag Asa website was down in the middle of the storm.  There was a Luzon wide blackout.  My sun broadband was down but my globe broadband was still useful.  If there was a remote server, then people in need of news would still have seen a live pag-asa website.

3. Of course higher pag-asa website capacity, I can provide that too.

Until the next typhoon.  Best wishes to all.

Secondhand Chemotherapy Causing Cancers in Patients and Pharmacists?

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Mke Adams of Naturalnews blew the whistle on Secondhand Chemotherapy causing additional cancers to the patients and causing cancer to the pharmacists. “The Seattle Times now reports the story of Sue Crump, a veteran pharmacist of two decades who spent much of her time dispensing chemotherapy drugs. Sue died last September of pancreatic cancer, and one of her dying wishes was that the truth would be told about how her on-the-job exposure to chemotherapy chemicals contributed to her own cancer.”

Secondhand chemo

The Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA), it turns out, does not regulate workplace exposure to toxic, cancer-causing chemotherapy chemicals. At first glance, that seems surprising, since OSHA regulates workplace exposure to far less harmful chemicals. Why not chemo?

The answer is because the toxicity of chemotherapy has long been ignored by virtually everyone in medicine and the federal government. It has always been assumed harmless or even “safe” just because it’s used as a kind of far-fetched “medicine” to treat cancer. This, despite the fact that chemotherapy is a derivative of the mustard gas used against enemy soldiers in World War I. Truthfully, chemotherapy has more in common with chemicals weapons than any legitimate medicine.

So today, while workers are protected from secondhand smoke in offices across the country, pharmacists are still being exposed every single day to toxic, cancer-causing chemicals that OSHA seems to just ignore. The agency has only issued one citation in the last decade to a hospital for inadequate safety handling of toxic chemotherapy drugs.

As the Seattle Times reports, “A just-completed study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) — 10 years in the making and the largest to date — confirms that chemo continues to contaminate the work spaces where it’s used and in some cases is still being found in the urine of those who handle it…”

That same article goes on to report more pharmacists, veterinarians and nurses who are dead or dying from chemotherapy exposure:

• Bruce Harrison of St. Louis (cancer in his 50’s, now dead)
• Karen Lewis of Baltimore (cancer in her 50’s, still living)
• Brett Cordes of Scottsdale, Arizona (cancer at age 35, still living)
• Sally Giles of Vancouver, B.C. (cancer in her 40’s, now dead)

From http://www.naturalnews.com/029191_secondhand_chemotherapy_cancer.html

For my opinion or real cancer cure theory and practice, see Cancer Cure on Curemanual.com

Currently Evacuating Marikina for Higher Ground Due to Typhoon Basyang

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First Typhoon to hit Marikina after last year’s Ondoy.  It is signal #1 in Rizal Province of which Marikina is part of and the new school Manila Waldorf in San Mateo Rizal is also under signal #1.  So that means no school.  And this is our cue to evacuate Marikina for higher ground.

I woke up around 5 am and checked www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph and saw that typhoon Basyang has changed course from what was expected to go up to Isabela, went down and will be directly hitting us in Rizal.

PAGASA-DOST MTSAT-EIR Satellite Image for 7 a.m., 13 Jul 2010

So we have packed up our important stuff. My wife’s harps in the car, my home computer server brought up to the 2nd floor, and we and the children have packed up some clothes and food to go to my my in laws’ condo in Makati.

Hopefully just overnight. Just not taking any bad chances. Better safe than sorry.

For those of you who don’t remember, we were ground zero last year with typhoon Ondoy.

Dengue Fever Outbreak in the Visayas – stop eating MSG and do not take Paracetamol

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Dengue Fever is a hot item in the mainstream media these days.  Large outbreaks of dengue fever reported around the Philippines, thousands.  Lots of deaths reported, up to a hundred total this year.  Don’t be a victim.  Listen up, this is what you need to do so you or your children will not hemorrhage and die from dengue fever.

First of all, do not eat MSG.  My healer friend Vander Gaditano blames the MSG madness and ubiquity for the hemorrhaging effects of dengue.  Dengue is supposed to be a weak illness, but add MSG to the mix and you have disaster.  So do not eat add MSG in your cooking, no flavor mixes either, and when you buy food from your local turo turo, tell them not to use MSG or you are not buying in the future.

Second, never take paracetamol for a fever – ever.  You are just trained by advertising.  Your body is doing its job by raising a fever, it is fighting what ails you.  Usually something undigested or poisonous within you is being terminated by your body, this is your body at work.  So suppressing your body’s work with paracetamol is counter productive.  Combine counter productive paracetamol with dengue fever and there you have the medically accepted fact that this combination causes hemorrhaging.  So you need to throw out every tablet of paracetamol in your medicine cabinet… Don’t look at me, we DO NOT have a medicine cabinet.

Third, do not feed a sick patient who says he is not hungry.  Stop being a naive parent thinking a sick child needs to be pumped with food to get well. That is the complete opposite of what you should do, you need to follow body wisdom, and when body wisdom says I do not want to eat, then do not feed the sick.

Fourth, you do know the Tawa Tawa weeds for Dengue by now.  But if you are panicking and not thinking straight and cannot find any Tawa Tawa in your side walk, there is an easy substitute.  Talbos ng Kamote / Kamote Tops – you can’t make a mistake there now can you?  Go to your nearest garden or talipapa and get 2 bunches of kamote tops.  Pound it to access the juice and add 1 tall glass of water.  Drink this leaf juice concoction every 2 hours and see the patient get well.

For a more comprehensive discussion about Dengue Fever, visit the Dengue Cure Website at http://www.denguecure.com

Senior Citizen Law of 20% Discounts Benefiting the Senior Drug Addict Victims

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So the DSWD finally published the IRR of the new Senior Citizen’s Law giving 20% straight discounts to seniors and at the same time cancelling any VAT. Wow. I asked a senior couple how this benefits them. They said it is applicable to restaurants, local air travel and the BEST they said is for their monthly PRESCRIPTION DRUGS!!! For the husband alone he spends xx,000 pesos a month just on prescription drugs!!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… hooeeyyy… this guy bought the farm and the kitchen sink and all the baloney his drug pusher pushed on him. All the while the drug pushers are taking their international vacations, he’s popping those pills supporting the drug pusher and his cohorts’ lifestyle. Talk about being the chump. The patsy. The sucker sucked out of his hard earned pension funds. And those drugs don’t make him healthy. Not one bit. But don’t tell this to him straight in the face. He’s liable to be angry at you for telling the truth. You won’t be friends no more.

This is the thing for all you younger sets who have not bought into the drug cartel’s brainwashing yet. Don’t fall for it. Don’t let their scare tactics fool you. There are far better ways of living than be drug zombies. Your health and brain do not have to go down the drain due to drug pushers. There are FAR BETTER WAYS.

Did you know that by merely adjusting your diet and living habits you can rid yourself of any symptoms of old age discomfort? That you can and will look and perform 20 years younger than your senior peer drug zombies? Did you know that a good number of thousands of people already know how to live drug free for the rest of their lives? Are you missing the boat about the real story of health?

Let me tell you right now. Maintenance drugs are NOT in my future, they never will be.  Because I know MUCH BETTER.  I found the fountain of youth. And so have thousands of others around the world, no exaggeration. We have no health complaints. All systems working 100%.

The secret is:

  • Human Diet / Paleo Diet / Raw Paleo Diet
  • Detoxing when needed
  • Pollution Avoidance
  • Nurturing

I am not exaggerating, this is just the way it really is.  I will give you an example. Watch and listen to this couple in their late 50s, they will tell you about reverse aging.

Read the write up of the video at Reverse Aging – Healthy Aging with the Raw Primal Diet of Aajonus Vonderplanitz

Nutiva Virgin Coconut Oil

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Some of my foreign readers are asking for a recommendation of virgin coconut oil. The brand we buy, Carica is a local brand. I’ve been to their main office and there does not seem to be any organized effort from the company to seriously market the same brand abroad. I believe it is important the the virgin coconut oil come from countries where coconuts are grown organic by default. Then the process is truly unheated, which makes the coconut oil truly virgin.

Click Above to Get Nutiva Virgin Coconut Oil at Amazon.com

This brand, Nutiva Virgin Coconut Oil seems to have good reviews when it comes to taste:

nutiva virgin coconut oil

Nutiva Virgin Coconut Oil

CheeryToes says: “Delicious – I’ve tried two of the major coconut oil brands that I order via the internet. I’ve been using the oil in food and on my skin for about 5 years. I ordered this just to see how it tasted because the price was so good, if it didn’t taste right, I’d just use it on my skin. It is the BEST tasting oil I’ve tried. Tropical Traditions, Coconut Oil Supreme pale in comparison. This is truly a coconut oil you could eat right out of the jar. If you want to try a coconut oil that tastes as good as it smells, this is it. And the price is fabulous. Yea, Nutiva and Amazon!”

H. Hill says: “I love this coconut oil! It has a delicate coconut aroma and flavor. I have only just started using it but have found it to be delicious when making pancakes in lieu of using butter. I have also used it as a substitute for butter when making grilled cheese sandwiches and baked sweet potatoes. It will do wonders for your hair and skin too. I especially like using it as a hot oil treatment for my hair. I mix the coconut oil with a few drops of lemon essential oil and rub it into my hair. It smells like dessert and good for my hair and scalp. Try it with your favorite essential oils!

Warning: It melts at 76F. Be careful when opening a jar that’s been sitting in a warm cupboard.”

Oh, I see, virgin coconut oil seems to harden in cold climates. VCO never hardens in my country, the Philippines, it does not get cold enough here. My family uses VCO as a cooking oil, for massages, as a deodorant, for insect bites, for dry skin, for dandruff as hot oil in the scalp… and for those doing detoxing, we use VCO for the very powerful VCO Detox!

Nutiva Virgin Coconut Oil product description: “we press our coconuts within 2 hours of chopping. No refrigeration required. Solid at room temperature and melts at 76 degrees. Any coconut husk fibers at the bottom of the jar are indigenous to the processing and harmless. Coconut oil contains medium-chain good fats with 50-55% lauric acid – a healthful nutrient that supports the metabolism. Certified organic by QAI. Product of the Philippines.”

Alright… Product of the Philippines, our country’s gift to the world.

We usually order a big case of 500ml bottles in the Philippines. But I think my relatives in the USA use gallon sizes.

Bungee Jumping for Children at SM Marikina

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Last week the children went bungee jumping with grandma at SM Marikina. This Saturday, they wanted more so they badgered me until I gave in. My eldest son did not want to bungee jump this time, he said his badoodles were caught in the straps. Smart boy, can’t have that. Must protect my future grand children.

My 2 younger kids wanted more bungee jumping. Technically, it’s not the bungee jumping like over a bridge with a single cord. This is indoors in a mall with several lines on your left and right. There is an operator who pushes buttons regulating how high you “jump”. Around 120 pesos for 3 minutes of jumping fun. Mostly children are in on it. 2 year olds and above.

It was my girl that “jumped” highest this time. I had a video but found I forgot the cf-card in my camera so I erased the video to make space to take pics of my second boy. Enjoy the pics.