Farming Facebook Style
Facebook did not just reconnect millions of friends and made new ones from total strangers. It has also reconnected millions to their primal roots, when man began to abandon wandering and settle for farming.
Growing Radish
Q:What’s related to cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower but doesn’t taste anything like them?
A:Radish.
Most Filipinos are familiar with white radish, and haven’t seen the more reddish and smaller varieties. The Filipino word for radish, labanos, comes from the Spanish word rabanos;l suggesting that the vegetable became popular in the Filipino diet during the colonial period.
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Growing Tomatoes
Tomatoes are one of the easiest plants to grow.
Any amateur farmer can pick up tomato seeds discarded before cooking, and thumb them in fertile ground. After time and some watering, the plants eventually give off fruit.
Unfortunately, the farmer notices that his home grown tomatoes do not look or taste as good as their parents. So he abandons his tomato growing hobby and is now content on buying tomatoes from the supermarket.
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Swine Flu Vaccine Available
In the race to produce a vaccine against (A) H1N1, Novartis AG has just won first place. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO)’s upgrade of the swine flu outbreak status into a pandemic, the company announced that it produced the first batch of vaccines against the virus.
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DON’T PANIC: Swine Flu is now a Pandemic!
June 11, 2009 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared the AH1/N1 outbreak as a pandemic, meaning that the outbreak is now beyond epidemic proportions.
The AH1/N1 virus, more commonly known as swine flu is responsible for 141 deaths and 27,737 confirmed infections in 74 countries. Yet despite those figures, WHO and the Department of Health (DOH) are one in saying, “DO NOT PANIC.”
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Pacquiao Wins! Hatton Loses, duhh.
In what must be a bittersweet day for Pay Per View customers, Pacquiao knocks out Hatton during the second round of the anticipated East vs. West battle.
The quick fight caused many a subscriber to gulp as they remember the money they invested for an anticipated exciting fight…
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Swine Flu: Don’t Blame the Pigs!
A/H1N1, otherwise know as the “swine flu”, has caught the world holding its breath for fear of it breathing a lungful of contaminated air.
With a current casualty rating of 151 deaths, thousands of sick and infected persons, and stopping an entire metropolis in its tracks, A/H1N1 can no longer be ignored by the international community. Not to downplay the effects of this virus; which can cause dizziness, coughing, sneezing, and basically everything associated with other flu viruses; but its name has branded a certain population of the planet: pigs.
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Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo Wedding
Congratulations to the newlyweds Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo.
After years of being in a relationship with each other, the two have finally tied the knot on April 28, 2009.
For such a high profile couple, the wedding was surprising in that the details were kept secret. Most of the 80 to 100 guests were even informed only about 2 days before the event. With the couple’s invitation kit containing half a pair of slippers, a map, and a note with instructions; they went early in the morning to witness the event at the San Juan Nepomuceno Church in San Juan, Batangas.
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Rules on Bargaining in Times of Crisis
With no end still in sight for the current financial crisis, the average consumer is faced with the problem of buying goods at increasing prices with his income at a fixed rate. In order to survive, he must learn some bargaining skills in order to extract the best possible deal with the lowest possible resources. Nevertheless, with the advent of standardized pricing as seen in shopping malls the practice of the art of haggling has declined especially among the younger generations. Fortunately, there are still shops that can still play the old bargaining game. Here are a few rules* for the soon-to-be-savvy consumer to guide him in his quest for more savings.
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No, I Don’t Want that Filariasis in Me!
Filariasis, specifically lymphatic filariasis, causes the dreaded illness called elephantiasis. Due to the SAFE FOR WORK nature of this blog, no images of elephantiasis would be shown on this site. For the curious and the masochistic among my readers, I suggest you google for pics.
Suffice it to say that I’ve just been given the standard treatment for the prevention of elephantiasis: 5 tablets of diethylcarbamazine (DEC) and 1 tablet of Albendazole. I have yet to actually drink the stuff, but they’re now in my possession.
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