Negative effects of tattoos

Negative effects of tattoos

Good health is very important. That’s why you should be very careful when deciding to get a tattoo. Visit a range of studios, make sure the studio you choose is up to basic health standards. Make sure the studio you decide to go to has an autoclave or medical sterilization machine (uses very high heat to steam the equipment), and the needles are individual packaged, sealed and dated. Unlicensed artists who complete an apprenticeship do a lot of tattoos you see these days, so be careful which studio you go to. Tattoo inks are made of dyes created from a range of metals, which are mostly toxic. The most common effects of tattoos are hypersensitivity to the red dyes (cinnabar), and photosensitivity to the yellow pigments (cadmium, which is another toxic metal). There has never been a documentation of anyone getting cancer from tattoos, but dark inks can make melanoma, skin cancer, harder to detect. Another well-known infection from tattoos is Hepatitis. In one study, tattooing accounted for 41% of Hepatitis C infections. The only cases known about HIV are of two men who received prison tattoos. Well-known signs of an infection after getting a tattoo are high fever, blood leaking from the wound, and red streaks extending from the tattoo. “Infection that is not properly taken care of can result in serious health consequences and even de



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10 reasons why it floods in Manila


Manila has been flooding for hundreds of years yet we never learn from the past.
Floods do not respect political boundaries and will flow from one city to the next yet we continue to address flooding (as well as all other urban problems) within the confines of individual LGUs. It does not make sense.

It’s raining season once again and we face the yearly problem of flooding in Metro Manila. I keep getting calls from broadcast media asking for interviews about the problem, its historical origins and urban redevelopment solutions. Giving these interviews I feel like a broken record enumerating the reasons for floods in the metropolis, so I figure it would be good just to list them once and for all.

This list may not contain all the reasons but these, in my opinion, are the major ones:

1. It floods because it rains; the rains and the typhoons that bring them have increased in magnitude. Yes, it’s climate change. To deny this is futile. It’s here now and it makes all historical flood levels, well, history. The paths of typhoons have also become unpredictable (not that we have enough weather men to predict them — many of our good ones have left for better-paying jobs overseas). Typhoons now cross parts of the archipelago that did not use to have them regularly and so people are caught unprepared. Despite these changes in patterns, Metro Manila still gets dumped with rain, especially since its total area, and population in this area, is equivalent to or larger than most provinces and many regions in the country.

2. It floods because of population and urbanization. Metro Manila has a population of 12 million and counting. Urbanization, specifically urban sprawl is a manifestation of all these millions living together and needing houses, buildings, roads, parking lots and infrastructure. All these cover ground that used to be open and able to absorb much of the storm water that fell on the metropolis. In our lifetimes we’ve seen fringes of the metropolis gobbled up and transformed from cogon and rice fields to thousands of subdivisions, hundreds of shops and malls, hectares of paved-over parking lots, dozens of business districts. All this hard covering serves to channel all the storm water much faster into an already inadequate drainage system designed when the reality was much more open land and much less rain. The open ground before served to mitigate the volume of rain that flowed into these drains, esteros and our rivers. We also had more plant cover and trees in the metropolis to help sop up all this water.

3. It floods because the rain comes down from denuded uplands. Metro Manila floods come from elevated surrounding regions, all the way up to the Sierra Madres. There, we have lost almost all of our original forest cover from illegal logging. All this forest cover lost makes millions of hectares of upland a bald watershed that flows freely into the metropolis. This situation is repeated around almost all major urban areas in the country. The source is upstream and this is where solutions should start, although it is among the longest-term solutions. We need to recover our forest cover to reduce the amount of rain that floods our low-level metropolis.

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4. Metro Manila is not only low but it is sinking. Ground water extraction due to deep wells is causing major areas of the metropolis to sink. The north section of CAMANAVA and the southern cities from Pasay onwards have sunk from a foot to over a meter and this has made those areas more vulnerable to floods and storm surges. Scientists have pointed to the fact that this flattening has increased the reach of storm surges from the seaside to as much as 20 kilometers inland. So we get it from both ends in a perfect storm — from the mountains and from the sea. The ground is also sinking due to the weight of all that concrete, buildings and infrastructure mentioned in reason no. 2 above.

5. It floods because we have less drainage than before. Reports have it that we have lost almost half of our metropolitan esteros and canals. We used to have over 40 kilometers of them and now we only have about 20. Many have been lost to development, disappearing without a trace (now it regularly floods where they used to be of course).

6. It floods because many of those esteros, canals and waterways of our metropolis we have left are chock-full of informal settlers. Because there are no alternatives for low-income mass housing, desperate people settle in desperate areas. These settlements have little by way of solid waste management and sewers. All these go to the waterways, filling many of them so solid that dogs can cross over them. And we wonder why it floods. Many of these drainage ways and easements were identified in the several master plans made for Manila and Quezon City. Planners had allocated as much as 50 meters of space on either side of these but greed set in and these easements disappeared and what little was left are now our favelas teeming with millions.

7. It floods because the main flood control system started in the ’70s was never completed. The Manggahan floodway was only one half of the picture. It was meant to channel floodwater into Laguna Bay. The lake was meant only as a holding area and the excess water was to have been flushed from there to Manila Bay via the Parañaque spillway. That spillway was never built. To build it now would cause trillions and urban sprawl has seen its path covered with more millions of people and thousands of structures.

8. It floods because what little left of our drains and flood control infrastructure is ill-maintained. Reaching many of them is a problem because of informal settlements. Overlapping jurisdictions of local and national agencies conspire to dissipate responsibility and funding for this vital task of ensuring our drains are unclogged and free. It’s just like homeowners not cleaning their gutters of debris before a rainy season. When the typhoons come, the gutters overflow.

9. It floods because urban development is unplanned and unfettered. Mega-developments that see clusters of 30 to 40-storey towers on retail podiums surrounded by hectares of parking cause havoc in districts planned with drainage infrastructure meant for low-density development. Because there is a lack of planning context (actually a lack of any planning at all), all drainage, road and traffic infrastructure is useless to carry the additional load — that’s why most flooded areas are also traffic-clogged.

10. The final reason it floods in this short list (and there are many other reasons) is politics. Metro Manila is made up of 16 cities and one town (Pateros). Floods do not respect political boundaries and will flow from one city to the next yet we continue to address flooding (as well as all other urban problems) within the confines of individual LGUs. It does not make sense. Politics also conspires to keep informal settlers where they are because they represent votes.

The overlapping jurisdictions is also exacerbated by another layer — that of national government and yet a third layer, that of the MMDA. The ultimate fourth layer of discord is the fact that the source of floods is beyond the political jurisdiction of Metro Manila and in the hands of the provinces around it. Any sustainable solution to flooding must be at this regional context and the assumption that, within the metropolis, governance is rationalized to address this one big problem as one effort, not the effort of 17 government units, the MMDA and national agencies. Politics has divided and conquered us… and it is also drowning us in yearly and constant floods.

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Feedback is welcome. Please e-mail the writer at paulo.alcazaren@gmail.com.

Eat more, exercise less and still get your dream body


Don’t max out on pain: “‘No pain, no gain’ is the type of belief that can really go against your goal,” says sports science specialist and Sexy Solutions fitness consultant Edward Mendez. Photos by fernan nebres
MANILA, Philippines - We have always been warned that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But this one, however unbelievable it may seem, is backed up by actual science –– you can eat more, exercise less and still get the body that you’ve always wanted. Whatever it is that you wish you had or didn’t have, you can get or get rid of it by simply understanding and giving exactly what your body needs to create it.

“Don’t get obsessed with the diet and workout. Get obsessed with the science,” says sports science specialist and Sexy Solutions fitness consultant Edward Mendez. If he were an app, he’d be the Instamotivator, because throughout our chat he just kept churning out gems like this –– words that deserve to be plastered on top of a good photo and regrammed 1,000 times for the fitness-, exercise- and diet-obsessed to see.

Edward is also a model and an actor, but his passion is nutrition and fitness. He has worked with various celebrities in achieving their fitness goals, including Vicki Belo and Cristalle Henares, Atom Henares, Lui Villaruz, Lorenzo Mara, Tim Yap and Raymond Gutierrez. What makes him a good motivator is that he is as passionate about talking about fitness as he is living it. You can ask him anything about diet and exercise and he will have a perfectly quotable response that he would always, later on, back up with science. It’s a gift that he makes good use of through his Twitter account, where he posts tips and trivia on fitness, as well as in his upcoming book, Your Dream Body Come True, which will be out later this year. His experience in training athletes and helping them recover from injuries while he was still in the States, as well as working with his father, has given him all the material he needs. Here, he works with patients undergoing treatment at Sexy Solutions and helps them achieve their goals through proper nutrition and exercise, on top of writing and taping his launching movie, which will also be out by the end of the year.

“The book is going to be released a month after my movie is released, hopefully this coming December. It’s my launching movie so might as well come out with a launching book. I had to get in shape for that movie, too. I found out last January that we had to start filming –– right after the holidays! Ninety-percent of the movie I don’t have a shirt on, so I had to do my own mini-transformation. I had only a month to prepare,” said Edward. “But I already have the understanding of the science, and the muscle memory that I had created from my past transformations made it very easy. The great thing is this can apply to everyone,” he added.

Fitness has been Edward’s passion since he was 14, when he first picked up the dumbbells. “My shallow motivation then was to impress the girls, I was being bullied because I was very skinny, I was always the weakest one in the gym. But when I discovered that it was really what I loved to do, I decided to take it more seriously,” he said. “When I was younger, I thought it was more about putting a lot of hours in the gym and eating less –– I didn’t have the knowledge. I had to unlearn everyone I’ve absorbed from magazines and I did have a lot of failures.” It is through these failures, a continuous process of trial and error, that he gained enough practical knowledge and experience to write Your Dream Body Come True. He said his first transformation was when he saw his abs for the first time: “I thought I would never see them, ever!” Since then fitness has been both a passion and obsession for Edward. Here he shares some of the myths, facts and tips that he’s encountered in his journey to his ideal physique –– some of them are explained in detail in his upcoming book. For now, he dishes out some food for thought –– non-fattening and easy-to-digest, just for you.

FACT: “No pain, no gain” is the type of belief that can really go against your goal.

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Exercise is a form of stress and when you put your body under a lot of stress, you produce a lot of hormones called cortisol. When you put too much stress on your body by working out in the gym for hours, you don’t really improve, you actually destroy your body. The improvement of your body comes after going to the gym –– when it repairs with sleep and nutrition. My philosophy is that it should be 30 percent training, 70 percent nutrition.

I go to the gym for 30 to 40 minutes. I spend more time in the kitchen preparing my own food, though I’m already at that point when I can afford to eat whatever I want because I already built the foundation for my body. When you go through my diet for a 90-day period, it becomes a fat-burning machine. It just instinctively understands that even bad foods can be good at certain times –– you can eat “bad foods” depending on the time of the day because your body behaves differently in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night. So in my book, I explain how you can eat what you normally would avoid.

MYTH: Lifting weights will make you look like a bodybuilder.

Men and women are biologically different. The common myth for women is that when you lift weights, you get muscular and bulky. This is almost impossible because women produce 90 percent estrogen and only a minor percentage of testosterone –– it’s the other way around for men. Testosterone is responsible for giving us the bulky, muscular look over time when men lift heavy weights. Women do not get the same result –– they will only get a tight, fit body.

The reason many women are finding it difficult to lose weight or getting back in shape is because, over time, they start losing muscle. A pound of muscle can burn 70 calories even when you’re doing nothing. The more muscles you have, the more fat you burn. Resistance training is the only way to go.

FACT: You can get away with eating sugary foods at a specific time during the day.

Sugary foods, burgers –– you can eat them, pretty much anything that you enjoy. I also recommend people who follow my program to have a cheat day, which I prefer to call a “reward day.” On this day, your body will not store any fat at all because you’ve upgraded your body into a fat burning machine and you have all these muscles to handle this cheat day.

Even on non-cheat days, you can still eat sugary foods, because you can use sugar to burn fat. After workout, your body is depleted of lycogen, which is a fuel that comes from carbohydrates, you have a one-hour window to eat sugary foods, combined with protein and other nutrients, and that sugar will cause a spike of insulin. Normally, when you eat sugary food at other times of a day, insulin levels can shoot up so high that it just transports all these carbohydrates into your fat cells and this is the main cause of fat gain: sugar, not fat. After a workout, the body will prioritize refueling your muscles regardless of how sugary the food is.

MYTH: You cannot overeat and then try to make up for it by overexercising.

You can’t compensate for overeating by not eating for the rest of the day or the next day, and then going on a three- or four-hour marathon on the treadmill. That does not work, because when the damage is done, it’s done. You can’t undo it. Just move on and eat healthy the next day.

FACT: Stop counting calories –– start choosing your calories.

It’s not about the number of calories you consume in a day; it’s about what makes up these calories. If you’re consuming 1,000 calories per day, you’re creating a deficit, however, if that 1,000 calories is composed mainly of fat and carbs and low protein, you will still gain fats. If you’re consuming 2,000 calories, but it’s balanced –– they come from whole wheat bread, brown rice, lean protein like chicken and beef, omega-3, omega-6, then you have a greater chance of losing fat easily. It’s about quality over quantity.

FACT: A workout is not a marathon.

It’s common practice to go to the gym for hours and just focus on one area. I used to do this too, when I didn’t know any better. When you work out the same muscle area every day, you destroy your tissues every day. You’re not giving it time to recuperate. You’re wounding yourself and then it gets a scab and then you keep picking that scab. It is a waste of time. In the gym, it’s all about damage. Do as much damage as you can in the shortest amount of time and then grow, repair and improve outside –– with sleep, with the proper nutrition, protein, vitamin A, minerals and so on.

I work the whole upper body one day, and the lower body another day, alternately. This is called periodization. I just do 40 to 45 minutes per session and then on other days, I do cardio –– 30 minutes max of very intense cardio. I never pace myself because pacing yourself for two to three hours on the treadmill doesn’t work. It’s not about the duration, it’s about the intensity.

FACT: Choose your activities wisely and align them with your fitness goals.

Here’s an example: There are two different types of runners, the long-distance runner and the sprinter. Depending on your goals for your body, you have to be very picky about what type of exercise or what type of running you’ll be doing. If you like to run for 10k, 20k for fun, that’s great. But if you want to not burn muscles and build a tight physique, you have to limit your running.

FACT: Building leg muscles will help you burn more fat.

Henry Cavill, Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth look great because of their symmetry –– the evenness of their muscles. Some people are so big but they have small legs. It’s all about symmetry. Most guys like to work out their upper body, but don’t work out their legs. But the thing is, even for women, leg workouts can actually burn fat the fastest and the most. For guys, if they want to gain muscle, they have to work out their legs because the legs increase the growth hormone in testosterone. The leg muscle group is the largest combined muscle group. The larger the muscle group you work out, the greater the increase in the growth hormones in testosterone. For women, when that growth hormone is increased, they burn fat really fast.

FACT: Yoga is recreation, not exercise.

Yoga, pilates and all those other activities are not really exercises. They’re more like recreation. Yoga is a complementary recreation to going to the gym, but it’s not something that you should rely on to shape your body.

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At the core of Edward’s fitness philosophy are common sense and science. “You may be a little chubby or a little too skinny, but you can still renovate your body, reprogram your body, using nutrition and proper training, and having self-belief and having the intelligence. Intelligence comes first, discipline comes second when it comes to fitness. A lot of people have the discipline to diet but they lack the common sense,” he said. Through his book, he hopes to equip readers with the right knowledge to help them achieve their fitness goals as well as set the facts straight on diet and exercise. He adds, “Not only will you physically change, but your mental healthy will also propel to another level. That’s my goal –– not just to help people get in shape but to also somewhat change their lives. The transformation is life-changing, and it’s a good story to tell.”

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Sexy Solutions has branches in Medical Plaza, Makati, High Street Central at The Fort, and II Terrazo in Tomas Morato. For more information, call 810-SEXY(7399) or visit sexysolutions.com.ph.



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Investing in Boutiques in 5 Steps

Boutiques can be stationary or they can be mobile, but they are all specialty retail stores that offer a variety of clothing, jewelry, accessories, and related services. They cater to customer interest in vintage and latest fashions, handbags, shoes, and a plethora of special interests. For the avid or even the sporadic shopper, it is great when they discover these little gems throughout their metropolitan area. On one hand, for these retail shoppers, it helps them invest in their own personal style as shipments come in week after week and month and month. Meanwhile, boutiques are also a great business opportunity for financial investors who know or are willing to learn the ins, outs, ups, and downs of this industry and the segment they intend to concentrate on and cater to with this venture.

These retail stores can be a stand-alone or chain store where there are many throughout their city, country and around the world. The stand alone store in any metropolitan area is typically located along the same street as other boutiques, in an isolated strip mall along a street with great pedestrian and vehicular traffic, or within a mall building structure apart from department stores, typically with specialized competing merchandise. These options are important to keep in mind when approaching purchasing a venue from a business perspective.

As the business owner of a retail store or multiple boutiques, one has to stay in the know on all aspects of creating, opening, running and growing one's clientele for a successful business. There are many pieces of advice out there and the following will be just five things to consider. Before gathering investors, it is important to constantly stay informed about the industry you intend to enter with your business. The following is five ways to start one of your area boutiques.

1. It is important to know what you intend to sell. Your retail store should identify and represent its niche in the giant market of clothing or accessories but not necessarily so narrow as an entire store for belt buckles.

2. It is important to know who you are selling your product to by completing thorough market research. This includes demographics, shopping patterns, shopping traffic and even public financial records to follow the pattern of spending in your industry and area.

3. It is important to know the business you are entering. Researching the other businesses that are also selling high-end clothing/shoes, top designer clothing/shoes, children/baby clothing, shoes and accessories, or even their own designs to compare and see what you should be thinking about doing too. It is helpful to see similar businesses across the nation, worldwide but especially in your area.

4. It is important to know how all the above research can help you create a realistic financial plan of action for the establishment in the form of a business plan. From there it is highly advised that you let an accountant help you to fine tune the language and numbers before approaching investors for backing for the venue, inventory, employees and marketing.

5. Last but not least, know how to start and maintain healthy professional relationships. Those relationships include effective communication and cost effective transactions with investors, customers and suppliers throughout the life of the venture.

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The contraption was created to satisfy the demand of adventurous billionaires who want a truly unique boat, according to Austrian industrial design studio motion code: blue.

With a 26-foot pool, cinema room, helipad, library, gym, laundry room, and private lounges, Migaloo would be perfectly equipped for the discerning billionaire.

Plans call for it to be constructed with special pressure-proof glass and underwater lights to offer spectacular views when the submarine dives.

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Address: Hagadan, Brgy. Yapak,Boracay Malay, Aklan
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Emcor Kalibo Contact Number

Ro Emcor Kalibo hay makita sa sentro it Kalibo sa Martelino St., Kalibo, Aklan. Ro raya nga establisyemento hay nagumpisa ko Disyembre 6, 1984 nga may sobra daywang dekada it operasyon. Emcor sa Kalibo hay nahadumaea it mayad nga nakaeampuwas sa mga kasari-sari nga hamon it negosyo. Ro Kalibo Store hay nagaserbisyo sa kasari-sari nga banwa kaparihas ko Numancia, Malinao, Makato, Lezo, Madalag, Tangalan, Banga, Libacao, Balete, Alatavas, New Washington, ag Batan. Ro empleyado it Kalibo hay 38, ro mga eaki hay 31 ag ro mga baye hay 7 nga naga bueoligan sa pagserbisyo sa mga Aklanon. Sambilog sa mga ginaadtunan nga mayad-ayad nga aeagtunang lugar it torista hay ro pinakabantog nga baybay sa kalibutan ro Isla it Boracay. Nga kon siin hay nakabulig sa pagugwad it ekonomiya, pagasenso it sosyodad. Ro Lokal nga Gobyerno hay padayon sa pagpamayad-ayad it natural nga manggad nga nagaingganyo sa mga torista. Pareho ko mga; bakhawan eco-park, presko nga tuburan, pagpreserba it kasari-sari nga kasapatan ag iba pa. Eowas karon, ro Kalibo Ati-Atihan piesta nga kung siin ginaselebrar kadadag-on nga ginadayo it mga torista nga kung siin nakabulig sa pag-uswag ko banwang Kalibo. 

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Active preview: First look


Introduction
Add together the brawn of the Xcover and the brains of a Galaxy S4 and you get the S4 Active. The actual flagship can handle any digital task you throw at it, but the Active version can cope with the grittier side of life. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Active is IP67-certified for water and dust protection.
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Up to a meter of water for up to 30 minutes - that's the same level of water resistance as the Sony Xperia Z, a phone that often got mentioned for being in the unique position of combining premium features and rugged design. Now it has to share the limelight though.
Before we dive into the specs, we should mention that the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active has almost the exact same specs as the regular model, unlike the various Galaxy S minis and such that share in the flagship name to only offer midrange specs.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active at a glance:
General: Quad-band 2G/quad-band 3G/LTE connectivity
Form factor: Water resistant touchscreen bar phone, I657 certification
Dimensions: 139.7 x 71.3 x 9.1 mm, 151 g
Display: 5" 16M-color TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (441ppi); Glove touch
Chipset: Snapdragon 600
CPU: 1.9GHz Krait 300
GPU: Adreno 320
RAM: 2GB
OS: Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Memory: 16GB storage, microSD card slot
Still camera: 8 megapixel auto-focus camera, face detection, touch focus and image stabilization, Cinema Photo; 2MP front facing camera, video-calls
Video camera: Full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps
Connectivity: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, standard microUSB port with MHL features (TV Out, USB host), GPS receiver with A-GPS and GLONASS, 3.5mm audio jack, NFC, Infrared port
Battery: Removable 2600mAh
Misc: TouchWiz UI, Impressively rich video/audio codec support, built-in accelerometer, Smart stay and Smart rotation eye-tracking, Smart pause, Smart scroll, S Health, Air Gestures
The two downgrades here are the screen (LCD instead of Super AMOLED) and the main camera (down to 8MP from 13MP). The rest is in place though - the blazing fast chipset, the removable battery and expandable storage (two things often sacrificed in the name of water tightness), even things like Air Gestures and the IR remote control functionality are intact.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Active in our office
So, how is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active better than a regular S4 in a rugged case? It's not that different, though the phone is more compact than a third-party add-on can ever be and we actually quite like the different styling (Samsung's lineup is getting a little stale design-wise).
You're welcome to put on your hiking boots, and hop on for a quick walkthrough of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active hardware.




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Samsung Series 5 NP-540U3C-A01PH 13.3" Touch Screen Laptop (Silver)


Intel Core i5-3317U processor 1.7GHz
4GB DDR3; 500GB HDD
Windows 8
13.3" SuperBright 300nit HD LED Display with Touch Screen Panel
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
Intel HD Graphics 4000
1.3 megapixel HD Webcam

SPECIFICATIONS OF SAMSUNG SERIES 5 NP-540U3C-A01PH 13.3" TOUCH SCREEN LAPTOP

OPERATING SYSTEM
Operating System: Windows 8 (64-bit)

CPU/ PROCESSOR
CPU/ Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3317U Processor
CPU Clock Speed: (Max.)1.7 GHz
Turbo Boost:2.6 GHz
CPU Cache:3 MB L3

DISPLAY
Screen Size:13.3"
Type:LED HD
Resolution:1366 x 768
Brightness:300 nits SuperBright™ Technology

MEMORY
Standard System Memory:4GB
Memory Type:DDR3 (1600MHz)
Max. System Memory: 4GB

STORAGE
Hard Drive Capacity: 500GB with 24GB ExpressCache™ Technology
RPM:5400 RPM
SATA:SATA2

GRAPHICS
Graphics Chip:Intel® HD Graphics 4000
External or Integrated: Integrated
Maximum Graphics Memory:Shared

MULTIMEDIA
Speakers:4W Stereo Speaker (2W x 2)
Sound Technology:Dolby Home Theater® v4
Internal Mic:Yes
Web Camera:1.3MP HD

CONNECTIVITY
Wireless: LAN802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth:Bluetooth 4.0
WiDi:Yes
Wired Ethernet LAN:Gigabit LAN

I/O PORTS
VGA:Mini VGA (Mini VGA to VGA dongle sold separately) HDMI:Yes
USB Ports:1 x USB 3.0 + 2 x USB 2.0
Sleep-n-Charge:Yes
Headphone Out:Yes (Headphone/MIC combo)
Microphone In:Yes
Multi Card Slot:3- in-1 (SD/SDHC/SDXC)
RJ45 (LAN):Yes

INPUT DEVICES
Keyboard: 80 Keys
Touch Pad: Touch Pad (Scroll Scope, Flat Type, Gesture UI)

POWER
AC Adapter: 40 W
Number of Cells / Cell Type: 4 cell / Li-Po
Watt Hours: 52Whr

DESIGN
Color:Silver
Material:Aluminum

DIMENSIONS
Dimensions (W x D x H):12.4" x 8.6" x 0.66"-0.78"

WEIGHT
Weight:3.83 lbs.

Acer AO756-877BCkk 11.6" Laptop (Black)


Intel 877 2 MB L3 Cache, 1.40 GHz
2GB DDR3; 320GB HDD
Linux

Specifications of Acer AO756-877BCkk 11.6" Laptop (Black)
GENERAL
Processor: Intel 877 (2 MB L3 Cache, 1.40 GHz, DDR3 1333 MHz, 17 W) supporting Intel 64 Architecture, Intel Smart Cache
Chipset: Mobile Intel HM70 Express Chipset
Display Screen: 11.6" HD 1366 x 768 resolution, high-brightness (200-nit) Acer Cinezcrystal LED-backlit TFT LCD
Video Type: Intel HD Graphics with 128MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Microsoft DirectX 10.1
Audio:
High-definition audio support
Two Built-in Speaker
MS-Sound compatible
Built-in digital microphone
Optical Drive: N/A
Chipset Model: HM70 Express
Battery Type: 37 Wh 2500 mAh 4-cell Li-ion battery pack
SIZE AND WEIGHT
Dimension: 285 (W) x 202 (D) x 20.95/27.35 (H) mm (11.22 x 7.95 x 0.82/1.09 inches)
Weight: 1.3kg
INTERFACE AND CONNECTION
Network Interface LAN: Fast Ethernet
Bluetooth: Bluetooth® 4.0+HS
Wireless: LAN Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
Card Reader: 2-in-1 card reader
Camera: Built-in webcam
Standard I/O Ports:
2-in-1 card reader
(3) 2.0 USB ports
HDMI Port with HDCP support
External Display (VGA) port
Headphone/Speaker jack
Ethernet (RJ-45) port
DC-in jack for AC adapter
Other features:
Special Keys Multi-gesture touchpad, supporting two-finger scroll, pinch, flip, rotate
Carrying Case Acer Sleeve Case
Warranty 1 yr Limited Local Warranty (Parts and Labor)
STORAGE
Memory: 2GB DDR3
Hard Disk: 320GB



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Acer V5-431-10072G50Mass 14"" Laptop (Silver)


Intel Celeron 1007U 1.50 GHz
2GB DDR3; 500GB HDD
Linux OS
14" HD 1366x768 Pixel Resolution, Acer CineCrystal LED-backlit TFT LCD
Intel HD Graphics with 128MB of dedicated system memory
8x DVD Super Multi Double-Layer Drive


Specifications of Acer V5-431-10072G50Mass 14"" Laptop (Silver)
SKU
AC593EL57ZPAANPH-64768
Size (L x W x H cm) 34.2 x 24.5 x 2/2.3
Weight (kg) 2.1
Color Silver
Product warranty 1 year Limited Local Warranty (Parts and Labor)









OLÉ Boracay Restaurant Spanish Tapas & Paella

OLÉ Boracay Restaurant
Spanish Tapas & Paella

The proprietors of OLÉ Spanish Tapas Bar & Restaurant in Boracay, Steve Zafir & Ana Sagarino are not from Spain nor can they speak Spanish. Their great love, however for Tapas & Paella, traditional Spanish foods, and Sangria, the Spanish drink, led them to open OLÉ on Boracay in August 2005.
The Steaks, Seafood, and Vegetarian delights in addition to the Spanish, Mexican and Cuban Specialties should tantalize your epicurean desires.
Steve Zafir & Ana and the entire OLÉ staff take great care and pride in ensuring that your experience at OLÉ in Boracay is most satisfying and enjoyable and hope that you will visit OLÉ, again and again.
Thanks,
Steve & Ana
OLÉ (which means GOOD JOB or BRAVO)


OLÉ Spanish Tapas Bar & Restaurant
D'Mall, Boracay Island Philippines
Phone - +63-36-288-5940
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Cargo King, Hagdan, Yapak Branch - Hagdan, Yapak, Boracay, Malay, Aklan

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7 Fast-Food Holiday Drinks to Avoid

Everyone knows that the holiday season is a several months-long minefield of temptation and indulgence. The great bird and its many, oftentimes eclipsing, accompaniments. Roasts and hams and homemade pies galore. Bowls of punch, nog, and oh so many bottles of wine, sparkling and otherwise. (There is a reason why so many people pledge to go on diets at the start of the new year, after all.)

Contributing to this glorious season of gluttony are the many fast-food restaurants and coffee chains serving up limited-time-only holiday-inspired drinks.

In the summer, there were cool, calorie-laden smoothies, lemonades, and milkshakes threatening our beach bods. This time of year, you'll find menus specially decorated with everything from peppermint hot chocolates and mocha lattes to eggnog and pumpkin pie shakes. And just as with all the other treats you're buying this time of year, it's going to cost you — except in this case, the price you pay is in the calorie department.

Click here for the 7 Fast-Food Holiday Drinks to Avoid Slideshow.