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Jul 162015
By Hannah De Castro-Abinuman action craft paper Have you ever noticed how your gadgets have become an integral part of your daily routine? Whether it’s a phone, a tablet, a laptop or a game console, these gadgets are being used daily by people of all ages, and have become so detrimental to one’s way of life, that it seems rather impossible to even survive without it. Even among children, gadgets have been a staple in playing their games, and sometimes even considered as a status symbol! But whatever happened to using one’s imagination? Whatever happened to being able to interact with your playmates, friends and parents or actually use your hands to create or build something? ActionCraft Paper Toy Workshop for Parents and Children, held at the Glendale Adult Center. Although there is nothing wrong with using technology, James Ronald Lo, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Taktyl Studios LLC, noticed that kids nowadays can be too engaged in gadgets. So he thought of a way to use these digital devices and yet still encourage social interaction, creativity and imagination. Recently launched via a Kickstarter campaign, Taktyl Studios introduces a digital app called, “ActionCraft Toy Box,” which is an arts and crafts digital/mobile application that provides users with tools to design and customize their own paper toy action figure. Users can choose from a variety of templates in order to customize their very own action figure or paper toy. Once the user is satisfied with the look of his character, Read More …
Jul 162015
Specialists are not all on the same page regarding screening mammograms. ©Tyler Olson/shutterstock.com (Relaxnews) – Two studies published simultaneously in the US and Great Britain call into question the efficiency of screening mammograms for breast cancer. These studies now join a debate that has been raging between specialists around the world. The first study, led by Professor Philippe Autier from the Institute of Global Public Health, a joint health research initiative of Strathclyde University and the Lyon-based International Prevention Research Institute (iPRI), and Professor Peter Boyle, Director of the University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at iPRI, was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He and his team used the results from an infamous study conducted in Sweden in the 60s and 70s that has served as a basis for the implementation of screening mammogram procedures for breast cancer in several countries, including England. The study had concluded that early screening could prevent 20-25% of fatalities due to breast cancer. Prevention policies worth revising After analysis, today’s scientists declared that the methodology of the study was wrong and that those figures were much too optimistic. In fact, they believe that any reduction of deaths is probably less than 10% and, according to Professor Richard Sullivan from the Institute of Cancer Policy, King’s College London, “At some point Britain will have to re-review its policy and this will be one of the pieces. My feeling is, give it another two years and Britain may need to Read More …
Jul 162015
The average road trip is 1300 miles.©Dudarev Mikhail/shutterstock.com (Relaxnews) – According to research from Bridgestone Tires and from Harris Poll, almost nine in 10 US adults will be taking a road trip in excess of 50 miles over the summer and 71% are planning on traveling much further. That’s because the average US road trip, whether it be to visit friends, arrive at a specific destination or is in itself the vacation, is some 1,300 miles. And the idea of being stuck in a car, potentially in a traffic jam for hours on end is most appealing to the Millennial generation. In other words those that only a few years previously were sitting in the back of a vehicle asking their parents “are we there, yet?” every ten minutes. Yet, more than three quarters (79%) of young adults said that they are planning at least one road trip this summer compared with 64% of Generation X respondents and 68% of Baby Boomers. But whatever the age of the respondent, those with children at home were the most likely of all polled to be taking to the road – 82% compared with 66% of respondents without dependent kids. As for the idea that vacationing by car is a way of saving money, Bridgestone found that of the 2000 adults it surveyed, those that said they were hitting the road also aim to save up as much as $1000 per person before the trip starts. When asked, respondents ranked the car as Read More …
Jul 162015
Pauleen Luna (MNS Photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) — PAULEEN Luna got praises for approaching Dina Bonnevie (the ex-wife of her current beau, Vic Sotto) when Dina was taping for the show of Ryzza Mae Dizon on GMA7. “We haven’t met so when I learned she was there, ako na ang lumapit at nagpakilala,” she says. “Gusto ko sana, ‘yung kaming dalawa lang para private, kaso imposible kasi ang daming tao sa set. She was very warm when I introduced myself and she even told me na napapanood niya ako sa ‘The Rich Man’s Daughter’. I’m really glad na magkakilala na kami.” Some folks say it’s in preparation for her coming wedding to Vic. “Naku, tigilan na sana ‘yang speculations tungkol sa wedding-wedding. When we went to Hong Kong recently, ang tsismis, magpapakasal kami roon, which is not true. Kung totoong pakakasal kami, we’ll announce it. E, wala pa talaga.” She’s happy to be part of “The Rich Man’s Daughter” playing the role of TJ Trinidad’s wife. “Maganda ‘yung conflict sa story namin kasi arranged marriage lang kami, e. But it turns out may true love siyang teacher, si Charee Pineda.” Since the show is about lesbianism, has she even wooed by a tomboy? “Never. I don’t think type nila ako.” As for Dina, she’s now taping for GMA7’s new primetime soap, “Beautiful Strangers”, with Christopher de Leon. Since Dina’s husband is the current vice governor of Ilocos Sur, DV Savellano, she often goes to Ilocos and have become an expert in Read More …
Jul 162015
Senator Bong Revilla (right) visits his father, former senator Ramon Revilla, Sr., at the St. Luke’s Hospital in Taguig City on Tuesday. Senator Revilla was given a furlough to visit his 88-year old father who was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia and dehydration since Saturday.(MNS Photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – The Sandiganbayan First Division has allowed Sen. Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. to leave his detention facility for five hours to visit his ailing father, actor and former Senator Ramon Revilla Sr., who remains confined in the hospital. “The court resolves to grant the accused’s motion,” First Division chairman Associate Justice Efren De la Cruz said in open court in a short hearing Tuesday morning. In a minute resolution issued a few hours after the hearing, the First Division gave Revilla’s camp an option to go to St/ Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City either on Tuesday (July 14) or Wednesday (July 15). The court said Revilla must be transported from Camp Crame to SLMC not earlier than one hour before 3 p.m., which is considered as the starting time of his visit. The court said the senator must leave the hospital not later than 8 p.m. of the same day and must be “brought back immediately to his detention cell at Camp Crame.” The First Division directed PNP officer-in-charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina to coordinate with the Sandiganbayan Sheriff and Security Services Division in providing Revilla adequate “personal escorts” and security measures during his visit in hospital. The First Read More …
Jul 162015
Vice President Jejomar Binay walks among his supporters at the Makati City hall on Monday. People gathered at the city hall grounds to show their support for the older Binay and his son, Makati Mayor Junjun Binay, who was earlier served another suspension by the Ombudsman. (MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – Any plan to impeach Vice President Jejomar Binay has little chance of succeeding even if the House of Representatives is packed with administration allies, the chairman of the House Committee on Justice said on Tuesday. Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr. said there’s only a slim probability that Binay will be impeached with only 10 months left before the May 2016 national elections. “While we cannot prevent anyone from filing an impeachment complaint, as chair of the justice committee and an experienced member of the house in impeachment, I don’t see an impeachment complaint [against Binay] succeeding,” Tupas told reporters. “It’s very very remote because we’re only a few months away from elections and I think the mood is not really to impeach but let the cases proceed against the Vice President,” he said. Tupas, a Liberal party stalwart, headed the prosecution team during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2012. He was already the committee chair when the three impeachment complaints filed against President Benigno Aquino III were junked last year for lack of substance. Binay’s political party, the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), earlier claimed that the complaint affidavit prepared by the Ombudsman’s Field Investigation Office Read More …
Jul 162015
Senator Chiz Escudero, chair of the Joint Oversight Committee on Public Expenditures, conducts a hearing today on the report of the Development Budget Coordinating Committee on the status and direction of the economic, fiscal and monetary policies of the government. Also in photo is Davao City Representative Isidro Ungab.(MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero is urging the government to further streamline state agencies and offices whose functions are “teeming with duplication” to improve the budgeting process and public service delivery. He said the national government should go beyond allocating funds and work harder to plug the loopholes in the budget process that prevent it from delivering basic services to the public in a timely manner. “An audit and analysis of the process of planning and budgeting will reveal the overlapping of functions of some government agencies. The government needs to close the gaps and fix the bottlenecks,” Escudero, chairman of the Senate committee on finance, said in a statement on Tuesday. Some issues within government agencies, such as reporting of field data and jurisdictional conflicts among different offices under one department, he said, impede the swift delivery of basic services. “In the end, project implementation suffers and Filipinos don’t get the services they need and deserve,” said the senator. Escudero also shared the observation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the Philippines needs to improve its unusually complex budgeting system and address the weaknesses in the quality and integrity of the country’s fiscal data, partly reflecting Read More …