Way back College!

While browsing the net, I found this web site who sells gadgets for medical equipment and home health care supplies. I remembered way back college days where I took up nursing as my course. That was the time I got the chance to handle Wound Care, assist operations and many more. At that time I find it difficult to find the right medical equipment required for us to pass our course. I still remember the time I roam around the city just to find my requirements. However, today when I don’t need to find that stuff anymore, I find it in the net. I want to hate myself for not browsing the net that time. Well that was the past, but I learn one very good lesson and that is, if I want to find the best medical equipments I want I don’t have to roam around just sit in front of my computer and log on to allegromedical.com and surely I’ll find everything I need.

Are Trans-Fats harmful?

It is a fact that when trans-fats were made for the first time, they were seen as the solution against artery clogging animal fats. Trans-fats or trans-fatty acids are made by solidifying oily fats by hydrogenization. Margarine was the best solution for replacing the harmful butter and lard. But now, after researches showed that trans-fats clog arteries just like the animal products, they also have been found to boost the risk of breast cancer, as signaled by a study carried out by a team led by Veronique Chajes of the French national scientific research centre at the University of Paris-South European, and published the in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Women with the highest levels of trans-fats in the blood had a doubled risk of developing breast cancer, as compared with women displaying the lowest levels.

New York and California have already banned trans-fats in restaurant foods. In Canada and Britain, many food companies have renounced to their use. Trans-fats are common cooking fats in many countries, employed for making baked goods, snacks and prepared foods.

The subjects were part in a large European cancer trial. The team analyzed blood samples collected between 1995 and 1998 from 25 000 women, who also completed questionnaires about their eating and lifestyle habits. The subjects were followed up for years for the development of cancer. 363 of them got breast cancer. The higher levels of trans-fatty acids increased the probability of having cancer. Women with higher amounts of omega-3 fatty acids (abundant in fatty fish (like salmon), walnuts and leafy green vegetables), supposedly beneficial for the health, had the same risk of developing breast cancer. Obese women were the category most exposed to breast cancer, and high-fat diets also boosted this risk.

Lindsay’s maybe-Lesbian Pal?

The famous actress Lindsay Lohan could hardly be called “sober” these days, despite the fact that the thrice-rehabbed actress has repeatedly claimed she managed to get her drug and alcohol abuse under control. There is no shortage of “Lindsay Lohan drunken photos” depicting LiLo usually accompanied by a friend making her way out of various clubs in the small hours of the morning bravely putting on her best “sober” face. But never fear – there’s someone out there who’s got Lindsay’s best interest at heart and is not afraid of sticking up for the actress. It has been reported that one of LiLo’s closest friends, coke-loving DJ Samantha Ronson, has nearly moved in with her long-suffering friend in order to prevent her from staying off the drugs and booze.

Of course, Samantha Ronson is a bastion of sobriety, and never got herself into any kind of trouble for alcohol or substance abuse… no. It’s like that little story about the pot calling the kettle black – and it’s pretty much obvious that whatever reasons Samantha Ronson has for moving in with her maybe-lesbian lover friend LiLo, they have absolutely nothing to do with sobriety. If we were to judge by the most recent sightings, these two ladies have in fact been spending a lot of time together recently, almost as much as they used to before Lindsay went in for her rehab stint number three. Let’s not forget, however, that during Lindsay’s famous hit and run DUI, the actress was clubbing in Samantha’s company, and she was with the DJ in the car when those Memorial Day Weekend drunken photographs of Lindsay were originally shot.

Wordless Wednesday!

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~hello guys, here is my entry for this week wordless wednesday! Isn’t that lovely scenery? I proudly took that picture hehehe lolz :D

~that’s it guys, hope you like it and enjoy the rest of the days!

Mt. Apo Map and Info

Mt. Apo Topographic Map

Selected Mount Apo Waypoints along the Northwestern Route
(From Kidapawan Market, passing through PNOC and Lake Venado)
Horizontal datum: World Geodetic System
Caution: Positions were obtained using a Global Positioning System with Selective Availability (±100m accuracy in 95% of the measurements). Use at your own risk.

waypt

Alto’s comments

(Oct 1999)

latitude

(deg min)

longitude

(deg min)

0

Kidapawan Market (near J.Davao St. and National Highway)

N07° 00.6818′

E125° 05.4305′

1

Ginatilan town (jeepney-accessible from Kidapawan)

N07° 02.7537′

E125° 10.5453′

2

Military Checkpoint (end of public jeepney route)
START of hike to Mt Apo trailhead

N07° 02.0430′

E125° 11.3786′

3

Sayaban town (by foot or private PNOC vehicle)

N07° 01.7572′

E125° 12.5718′

4

Lake Agko entrance point

N07° 01.3600′

E125° 13.3687′

5

PNOC Checkpoint (Mt Apo hike permit required)

N07° 00.9683′

E125° 13.4376′

6

PNOC Site B.
START of Trailhead to Mt Apo. Difficult to locate if hiking alone
Note: Start of descent to Marbel River.

N07° 00.7424′

E125° 13.8534′

7

first of several Marbel River crossings

N07° 00.5393′

E125° 14.0861′

8

a little further is water source (without sulfur); located on the left bank of Marbel River

N07° 00.3584′

E125° 14.3015′

9

Mainit Hot Springs. Small campground is located on upper right of trail. Marbel River is to the right of the campground. Crossing the Marbel River will lead to poorly marked trail used by Rescue Squads and into the PNOC compound Site C.

N07° 00.1781′

E125° 14.7295′

9B

PNOC compound Site C (no trespassers). Special trailhead for Mt Apo Rescue Squad.

N06° 59.9197′

E125° 14.5519′

10

trail not clearly marked; river sound nearly inaudible

N07° 00.2232′

E125° 15.3115′

11

poorly maintained trail. Slight descent. One of two parallel trails. Looking backwards, PNOC Site C is at times visible.

N07° 00.2216′

E125° 15.7135′

12

junction to Lake Venado. start of swampy trail.

N07° 00.1923′

E125° 15.8931′

13

Lake Venado and Campsite (near southeast end of lake).

N07° 00.1772′

E125° 16.1155′

14

tree-planting;
Final Trailhead to Mt Apo

N07° 00.0697′

E125° 16.1477′

15

bifurcation. Keep left when descending FROM Mt Apo.

N06° 59.8962′

E125° 16.1641′

16

near end of trailhead FROM Lake Venado. Caution: Several trailheads exist from various routes.

N06° 59.4726′

E125° 16.1783′

17

western (minor) peak of Mt Apo overlooking the towns below

N06° 59.2547′

E125° 16.1664′

18

Mt Apo peak

N06° 59.2759′

E125° 16.2542′

Photo Hunter: twist(ed)

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~Hello guys!!! I’m late for this week photohunt, but better than late than never, right? So, here is my entry for this week theme: twist(ed)! How’s this twisted telephone wire?


~that’s it guys! Hope you like it and Enjoy your Weekend… :)

Latest Buzz: Cameron Diaz!

Cameron Diaz – sometimes dubbed “the gorgeous goof”, sometimes berated and sometimes deemed incredibly annoying – is apparently ready to come out of hibernation and start acting on a regular basis again. Even if high-profile movie projects featuring Cameron have been somewhat thin on the ground lately, have no fear: Cameron is done with soul-searching and has apparently figured her out enough to take to the big stage again and put in talk-show and glossy magazine appearances. Last week, she rocked! With a smoldering hot bikini spread, while this week she’s on the cover of magazine, talking about moving to New York and her secret childhood wishes.

“I’m done with L.A. Those paparazzi! You can’t get away from them. You have no options because everybody’s in a car,” she said. “In Manhattan, I can walk down the street like everybody else. Not everybody is there to be rich and famous or attach themselves to rich and famous people. People want nothing from you. They just want to say, like, ‘Hey, how’s it going, Cameron?’ I like that interaction. I like to be in a place where I can be open to people and not worry about the consequences,” she added. However, that’s probably not a very accurate depiction of life in New York City, but rather an idealized vision based on watching a healthy dose of “Friends” every night before going to bed.But if it works for Cameron, it’s probably as healthy as any other human fantasy.