Lucky Few – Personal Jesus (Cover) – Video
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Advanced SystemCare 5.1 Pro Serial Key 2012 (Full Version) – Video
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Maroon 5 – 54th Grammy Awards Performance (HD) – Video
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Up-Close and Personal with Grace Lee in ‘Patrol ng Pilipino’
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Up-Close and Personal with Grace Lee in ‘Patrol ng Pilipino’
Filipino-Korean DJ, TV host, and interpreter Grace Lee has hit recent news headlines for dating the country’s most eligible bachelor, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III whose love life has been a media circus for the past year.
Tomorrow, February 14, in “Patrol ng Pilipino,” showbiz reporter Marie Lozano dishes out fascinating information about the woman of the hour and the newest apple of PNoy’s eyes. Know how she met PNoy and how her life has changed since the president confirmed they are dating.
Will the meticulous public approve of her and PNoy’s potential romantic relationship despite their 23-year age gap?
Meanwhile, join Jorge Cariño as he goes to Dumaguete City, which was recently ravaged by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake along with other towns in Negros Oriental. Watch the account of the experts from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on how the earthquake led to the landslide that generated aftershocks and tsunami alerts that sent victims into pandemonium.
“This tragedy has strengthened my goal to deliver news and information to citizens, to help them prevent harm and get their lives back on track,” Jorge said.
Know the stories behind the news tomorrow, February 14, in “Patrol ng Pilipino” after “Bandila” on ABS-CBN or watch it earlier on DZMM TeleRadyo (SkyCable Channel 26), 9:15 p.m.
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Frustration continues over PPSR
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Beverley Head
Monday, 13 February 2012 18:17
IT Policy - Government Tech Policy
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A fortnight after the $33 million Personal Property Security Register was launched, the system performance is slowly improving – but there remains frustration at the lack of firm commitments regarding system upgrades.
The PPSR was built by Fujitsu for the Attorney General’s department and has endured a fraught first fortnight, described as “exceptionally challenging” by Moses Samaha, head of commercial risk for Veda . Mr Samaha said that the performance of the system today is much better than it was a fortnight ago, when it first launched, but there remain issues, particularly regarding the data migrated from ASIC databases which was missing Australian Company Numbers.
The PPSR website is still featuring a warning about system performance, and thanking users for their patience.
Mr Samaha said that such was the poor performance of the system when first launched, Veda felt obliged to waive its clients’ PPSR usage fees for the first few days, although it has since reinstated charges.
He said that the system performance was improving, but that there remained some limitations. “The Attorney General’s (department) is working through that but there are no commitments about time which is a little frustrating,” said Mr Samaha.
Veda’s clients access the PPSR system via Veda’s front end systems, and Mr Samaha said that that continued delays “put us in a bit of a predicament as we don’t want people to think it’s us” causing the delays.
Nevertheless he said that the PPSR search facility was getting a little better and more consistent. He said that in the first days of the Register’s operation the search function was stalling, prompting users to start searches again which led to a backlog of searches quickly developing.
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Green Acre Radio: Will Duwamish cleanup success be undercut?
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After years of study, one of the region’s toxic hot spots just got a major make over. It didn’t come cheap. The total cost was a cool $8 million. But the clean up demonstrated that an urban waterway can be home to both industry and nature.
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The barge, DB Anchorage, navigates a bend in the river. A 75 ton crane it carries has dredged three and half acres of contaminated mud from Slip 4, a pier on the Lower Duwamish River. The toxic hot spot which for more than a century was a berthing area for Boeing and other companies, is now a lot closer to being a river that nurtures salmon and bull trout. It’s taken a long time.
“But we couldn’t really start clean up until the ongoing sources of pollution, especially PCB into this area, were controlled.” BJ Cummings with the Duwamish River Clean Up Coalition. PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls, found in coolants, lubricants, and plasticizers, were banned in the U.S. in 1979 but are extraordinarily persistent. “It turned out there was PCB in the caulking at Boeing Field that was then seeping into the soil and getting into the storm water pipes and then flowing out right here into Slip 4.”
The river was designated a Superfund site in 2001. The EPA worked with Boeing, the city, county, and port for years on a clean up plan. Finally in 2007 a plan to clean up this particular bend in the river was in place. But the project was delayed. The Department of Ecology determined storm water discharges from North Boeing Field would likely re-contaminate the river unless they were controlled. The Environmental Protection Agency waited for Boeing to take action. “After about five years I was tired of waiting,” Karen Keeley is Superfund Project Manager for EPA Region 10.
She and the Department of Ecology worked with Boeing to install a state-of-the-art storm water treatment system. “It wasn’t the process of how to do the clean up; it really was just ensuring that we had controlled sources of contamination in the slip enough that we could move forward and not have re-contamination down the road.”
The heavy lifting began last fall. Seattle Public Utilities and local contractor, General Construction Company, had a short window — October through February when salmon don’t migrate. By all accounts the Slip 4 clean up has been a success — on time, on budget, with a local company and local employees.
In addition to dredging the river’s contaminated muddy bottom, shoreline has been restored. Jennie Goldberg with Seattle Public Utilities: “We cut back the banks to create a more natural flow so that we could create another acre of inter-tidal riparian habitat for the Chinook salmon and the bull trout that are the protected species that cruise through here in the waterway.” An otter has even been sighted. Those who know the river well say otters were already in residence, but at least the work didn’t scare them away.
So is that the end of the story for this toxic hot spot on the Duwamish waterway? With an $8 million tab, 67 percent paid by Boeing and 33 percent by the City of Seattle, one might think so. But urban storm drains don’t just carry legacy contaminants like PCBs. They also carry a toxic stew of petroleum and copper from vehicles, phthalates, pet waste, and flame retardants.
There are thousands of storm drains and outfalls in King County alone, many which empty into the Duwamish. Storm water permits determine how cities and industries will curb this pollution and are issued by the Department of Ecology every five years. New permits are expected this summer. But the current draft, says Heather Trim with People for Puget Sound, is full of loopholes. “We don’t want to spend all this money to do the clean-up and then turn around and have contamination continuing to come in and re-contaminate the whole river."
The draft permit fails to recognize the power of low-impact development and green infrastructure to curb pollution spread by storm water, says Trim. “The term feasibility was used way too much in the whole permit.”
Cities and urban enclaves including Seattle, Bremerton, and the Port of Tacoma, have been proactive with green infrastructure such as porous pavement to absorb pollution. Storm water permits throughout the state need to be held to the same bar, says Trim. Legislation has been proposed to delay implementation on new runoff controls. “And we argue that it’s way more cost effective to do those techniques and it’s important to clean up the Sound. We can’t delay this.”
The EPA’s proposal for cleaning up the rest of the Duwamish waterway Superfund site is scheduled for public review in August.
Green Acre Radio is supported by the Human Links Foundation. Engineering by CJ Lazenby. Produced through the Jack Straw Foundation and KBCS.
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Success Story: Patti Radcliff
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It took a neighbor to get Patti Radcliff into the gym, but it took a personal trainer to get her into her ideal dress size.
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Kettle bells have been a key part of Patti Radcliff's regimen with personal trainer Tommy Gerber. She has lost 70 pounds and dropped five dress sizes.
"My neighbor approached me to start walking," said Radcliff, 40, who works for International Paper. "The two of us had decided our weight was out of control."
"I joined the gym and started taking classes and working out, but I wasn't seeing results."
Following several friends' recommendations, Radcliff contacted personal trainer Tommy Gerber and began meeting with him three days a week.
"Several different people told me about him independently of each other, plus a friend of mine had made a phenomenal change. You could hardly recognize her," Radcliff said.
Since last February, Radcliff has lost 70 pounds and dropped five dress sizes.
"I'm addicted now," she said.
Gerber first helped Radcliff with her diet, giving her guidelines to follow that offered versatility for any situation.
"It made sense and was easy to do, and it was easy to eat out and do," she said.
She met with Gerber at Forever Fitness in the Clark Tower three days a week for weight training that included weight machines, free weights and kettlebells -- lots of kettlebells.
"He incorporated them into every workout," she said. "In addition to the muscles you're supposed to be working out, like the shoulders or back or arms, you're incorporating balance and core strengthening."
In the year she has been working with Gerber, Radcliff has experienced many different types of workouts.
"Just when it seems to plateau, he changes the routine," she said. "Just when I get to the point where it wasn't hard anymore, that's when he changes it."
Radcliff also worked out her cardiovascular system three or four days a week, putting in 10 minutes on the treadmill, 10 on the Stairmaster, 10 on the Elliptical and 10 on the stationary bike, for a total of 40 minutes.
Although she has met her goal -- and then some -- Radcliff completed her first half-marathon in October and is training for another one in March. She continues to meet with Gerber, now twice a week, and get in her 40-minute cardio sessions three or four days a week.
"I just want to keep working out," she said.
More important than her weight, Radcliff has seen changes in the numbers for something else.
"I'm no longer on cholesterol medication," she said.
Have you lost weight and kept it off, adopted better eating habits, started exercising or had success living a more healthful lifestyle? E-mail your story to sunyata00@gmail.com.
Patti Radcliff
Age: 40.
Hometown: Bartlett.
What she did: Radcliff began meeting with personal trainer Tommy Gerber three days a week for weight training and working out her cardiovascular system for 40 minutes three or four days a week. She lost 70 pounds and dropped five dress sizes.
Personal trainer: Tommy Gerber, tgfitness.net, (901) 438-6115.
Gym info: Forever Fit Health Club in the Clark Tower, 5100 Poplar, 7th floor, (901) 763-1140.
Advice: "It's really hard to do it by yourself. Either have a buddy to work out with you, or find a trainer, and find a trainer who works for you."
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