Tsunami Alert in NZ

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake has shaken New Zealand, setting off a tsunami alarm for parts of the Pacific Ocean... (read more at BBC)

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Ancient Whale Were Land Dwellers?

Could whales have been land dwellers once? Some scientists think so.. 

Feb. 4, 2009 -- A rare fossil of an ancient whale with a fetus still inside reveals that its species -- an ancestor to modern whales -- gave birth on land 47.5 million years ago, according to a paper published in the online journal PLoS.

The discovery, along with prior fossil finds, suggests the first whale ancestors were full-time land dwellers that might have been related to the early relatives of hoofed animals, such as sheep and cattle.

Link: Discovery News

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Cry aloud, Spare Not! Let the Whole World Know what we have Found

I find this blog post simply touching, and wish to share it here...

"I was so timid when I was young. I was born a Catholic and always followed what my auntie said who always told me what to do, as if she owned me. She would often cut my hair and dressed me up on her style. I then looked boyish and skinny. She would always want me to be in the church and participate in all of the activities being performed there. So, I grew up with her and was greatly influenced by her thoughts acquired from the doctrines of the Catholic Church..."

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Link: keytothelockedbook.wordpress.com

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Filipino Worker Loses Job For Not Using Toilet "The Australian Way"

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This juicy bit is a rip-off from the The Huffington Post. Could we call this toilet discrimination!?

A Filipino contract worker Amador Bernabe, 43, lost his job Friday January 23 for not using the toilet "the Australian way".

Bernabe works as a machine operator for Townsville Engineering Industries. He said that on Thursday, his foreman followed him into the bathroom questioning his toilet hygiene after seeing him (Bernabe) carrying a bottled water inside the toilet.

Despite Bernabe's protests, he claims the foreman followed him into the toilet saying "you can't bring water in there".

"I said it's my personal hygiene. I didn't break any law, I didn't break any rules of the company, why can't I do this, and he said he would report me to the manager.", Bernabe said.

Bernabe was summoned to the manager's office the next day where he was admonished to use the toilet the "Australian way" or he would be immediately fired. Bernabe, seeing nothing wrong with his toilet habits, replied "sir, then you better terminate me"

Link: The Huffington Post

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250,000 Filipinos to lose jobs in next 6 months

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About 250,000 Filipino workers may lose their jobs in the next six months...

Philippine labor officials said more than 30,000 workers were laid-off since last December and the figure could double by the end of January 2009.

If the trend continues, the figure could reach 250,000 displacements in six months.

Most displaced workers came from small- and medium-enterprises and companies in Southern Tagalog and Central Visayas, particularly in the central city of Cebu.

Link: Xinhuanet.com

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8 Babies in 5 Minutes

A California woman gave birth to eight babies in a span of five minutes on Monday. This is considered only the second time in history that live octuplets have been born The mother, as you've might have guessed, gave birth by cesarean section.

Six boys and two girls weighing between 1.8 pounds and 3.4 pounds. The doctors were expecting seven live births only so their obsession for methodical precision was upset with the delivery of the 8th baby. Better luck next time, I guess.

"It's a surprise," said Dr. Karen Maples.

The first live-born octuplets were born in Houston in December 1998. They were three months premature and their weights ranged from 11 ounces to 1 pound, 11 ounces. The tiniest infant died of heart and lung failure a week after being born. The surviving siblings turned 10 in December.

Link: Birth of Octuplets

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Twins study suggests that sociability, shyness might be hidden in DNA

Is it possible that traits such as shyness and sociability are dictated by our genes? To think that such traits could determine a person's attitude and material success says a lot about what we inherit from our parents. Another intriguing implication of the research is the feasibility that an individual's genetic makeup can influence the behavior of others.

MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) --...A new study comparing the two types of twins shows that genetics might affect social behavior, and the scientists who made the discovery say they are closing in on some of those "personality" genes...

Link: Search for Popularity Gene

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BLOG UPDATE: SOME POSTS MISSING

One horrible night I dreamed that I rebooted this blog.. and when I turned it on again my personal posts were all gone!

I was gasping when I woke up.. hurried up to the damn computer only to realize it's true!

Then it dawned on me.. slowly at first. It was I who did the ghastly crime..!?

What the f..! No, not that word. What the fluke did I do!?

In panic I got myself a freshly brewed Barako coffee.. ahh! ...the best in all possible worlds!

Having calmed down a bit, memories of the previous night came pouring in.. it happened that I opened up a personal blog and migrated all my personal posts to it.

Taking inspiration from my favorite book in the Bible (Ecclesiastes), I named the blog Time and Chance. Just so I can be properly guided I tried to reread the entire book. Then, in the dead of night.. I forgot what happened next. ('must have dozed off again and telepathically transported myself to bed.)

Mystery solved, feel free to visit Time and Chance if you have the time. Or chance. Either way is fine by me.

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Site Updates

Weeks ago, I've decided that this blog deserves some serious hacking... Today it remains under a state of hack but I'm happy to report that the overall look became a little better. Just my opinion though...

My profound apologies to people I've dragged here to critique the changes I've implemented. I hope to recompense your annoyance someday, somehow... but I was in dire need of inputs you see and it's hard to see with my own eyes blinded by hours of hunting for dangling html To those who took the time off to click and critique, my sincerest thanxx!

The hardest part of blogging, of course, is the writing. Believe you me, template tweaking is one irrational compulsion you can't afford tolerating. It always feels like a perfectly valid excuse to delay writing but it's not...

Anyways, it does take a while, a long while in my case, to find your own voice in a world wide web filled by celebrity bloggers... I believe finding that voice is a journey in itself, one I'm only beginning to traverse.

THE SEARCH FOR LIFE'S MEANING
Okay, I guess I'll stick by this moniker, if I can help it. This is what I've been doing all my life any way, in between movies, mall breaks and fastfood expeditions, yes I was on a perpetual search mode for the meaning of life. Did I find it? Well, I'll get to that after a word from our sponsors, but let me say this much here, I'm glad I've did search for it because along the way I've met a multitude of other journeyists like me, from all walks of life, with the same prayer in their heart of hearts... so much to tell but I do hope they drop by and tell their own stories...

So beginning today, I hope to be really begin writing again... If, I could only, I mean perhaps just get myself to first fix that annoying little code I put there a while back... hmmmm... let me see...

Earn money online. This is what I will write about in other blog. Earn cash in your spare time, if I can do it so can you. Blog for cash, it's really true. Write now and get paid big, and I mean really big. Money, money, money. Earn big and live the life you've always wanted. Write and get paid big bucks! Why not start your own blog? How to blog? Let me show you how. Just click here.

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ATTACK OF THE SUPER TUBERCULOSIS

Russia is on the verge of a super tuberculosis outbreak.

Pravda Online says experts have discovered a new deadly culture of tuberculosis, which cannot be treated with existing medications;

“high death-rate among people with tuberculoses from the former Soviet Union has to do with people’s weak immune systems. Also, we noticed that such widespread of tuberculosis coincides with the overall rise of AIDS, which has already turned into a real epidemic in Russia.”

They explain the correlation this way: once an organism's immune system has already been weakened by AIDS, "it becomes susceptible to tuberculosis in general and to the new culture in particular".

[Read more in JOURNEYIST]

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