Saturday, July 21, 2012

Local news

Another day, another storm:Heavy rains in northern Luzon (signal one)from a tropical depression...right now it's cloudy and it rained hard last night.


presumably we're okay unless the heavy rains decide to flood our dams downstream.

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Ramadan has started.
more here
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28 million Pinoys are on Facebook
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One sign that the civil war in Syria is getting dangerous: the government here is evacuating 8000 of our OFW's...

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a local boy had the same virus that is killing hundreds of children in China and Cambodia but has recovered.
I hope we don't end up with a similar epidemic.
Health Secretary Enrique Ona said the boy was the only confirmed case among eight suspected in the Philippines to have the form of hand, foot and mouth disease known as enterovirus 71 strain, or EV-71.
The Hand-foot-mouth disease we usually see in the US is from the milder Coxsackie virus, but this type is bad and can spread to the lungs, hence the large number of deaths.
and no, it has no relation to the foot and mouth disease in Animals...

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TeaAtTrianon remembers her mom and her Philippine roots...with photos.

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the good news is that the economy here is getting better...I suspect that this is due to PNoy, who is going against corruption is one reason, another is that China is running out of skilled workers so some businesses are looking to start up here, even though wages are higher here than in China...

Now, if only the weather gods will refrain from sending us floods and typhoons at harvest time later this year... -------------------------

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