Less-known facts about Manny Paquiao

Now that Manny Paquiao is now being referred to by many as "the greatest fighter" that has ever lived, I am sure people around the world would like to know more about him. Here is a list of some less-known facts about Manny.

(1) His real name is Emmanuel Dapidran Paquiao. He became known in the Philippines as Manny Paquiao. It was only in the US where he earned the monicker "Pacman" obviously due to their initial difficulty in pronouncing his last name.

(2) His real "hometown" is General Santos City, not Sarangani Province. Although he was born in the province of Bukidnon (translates to mountainous in English), he really grew up in General Santos City, known as the tuna capital of the Philippines. He has transferred his residence to Sarangani to run as congressman (member of the Philippine House of Representatives) for the province's lone legislative district.

(3) Paquiao's record is not spotless. Early in his career, he lost to fellow-Filipino, Rustico Torrecampo, via a third round knockout.  Later, he also lost to a Thai, Medgoen Singsurat, also known as Medgoen 3K Battery, after struggling to make weight. Finally, he lost to Erik Morales via unanimous decision in the first match of what later became a trilogy.

(4) Like majority of males in the Philippines, Manny loves basketball. As was shown in the Paquiao vs Hatton HBO 24/7 reality show, he actually plays with neighbors on an outdoor cement court near his mansion in General Santos City. He also owns a basketball team known as MP Warriors of Gensan which plays in the Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association league. (Added on May 6, 2009)

(5) Paquiao is the only Filipino who was voted among Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world for 2009. He ranked no. 22 ahead of Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and the Dalai Lama. He is one of the few athletes on the list, together with Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal and Alex Rodriguez. (Added on May 6, 2009)

Know more about our Pambansang Kamao? Please tell us by posting it on the comments section or any where else for that matter. Congratulations to Manny. You really make us proud.

Lahing Pinoy: The Manny Paquiao Fight Song

Lahing Pinoy

By Manny Paquiao

Music by Lito Camo

Lagi kong itataas bandila ng Pilipinas

Saan mang sulok ng mundo iwagayway ko ito

Kahit saan, kahit kailan basta’t kung para sa bayan

Buhay ko’y ilalaan para sa lupa kong  inilangan.

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Sumigaw ang Pinoy (Hoy), ang lahat ng Pinoy

Ang lahi ng Pinoy sa mundo.

Lagi kong isisigaw mabuhay ang Pilipinas

Ang bayan na pinagmulan, kaya ako ay malakas

Dugong bayani ay taglay, ang syang nalalaytay

Sa nag-aalab kong kamay, pag sumuntok todo bigay.

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Sumigaw ang Pinoy (Hoy), ang lahat ng Pinoy

Ang lahi ng Pinoy sa mundo.

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Sumigaw ang Pinoy (Hoy), ang lahat ng Pinoy

Ang lahi ng Pinoy sa mundo.

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ang lahi ko

Pilipino, Pilipino, Pilipino ako.

Negoskwela Schedule for May 2009

Here is a complete list of seminars that Negoskwela will be offering this month of May 2009.

Computer/IT/Electronics Courses

• Computer Basic
  
• Computer Repair and Networking
  
• Desktop Publishing
  
• Macromedia Flash
  
• Access Programming
  
• TV and Monitor Servicing
  
• Web Publishing
  
• Cellphone Repair
  

Regular Courses

• Thai Massage
  
• Lutuing Pinoy
  
• Bag Making with Sewing
  
• Scented and Decorative Candle Making
  
• Basic Fiber Glass Making
  
• Project Feasibility Study
  
• Hair Cutting for Men and Women
  
• Basic Mandarin Language
  
• Animal Feed Production and Formulation
  
• Bangus Culture
  
• Pares-pares Toppings with Rice
  
• Pedicure, Manicure and Foot and Hand Spa Massage
  
• Rugs and Doormat Making
  
• Silkscreen Printing
  
• Massage and Aromatherapy
  
• Laundry Operation Business
  
• Basic Beadworks
  
• Catsup, Toyo and Vinegar Making
  
• Basic Balloon Arrangement
  
• Accounting and Bookkeeping
  
• Herbal and Transparent Soap Making
  
• Tilapia Hatchery and Nursery
  
• Polyester Resin
  
• Goat Raising
  
• Special Pancit and Mami
  
• Spreads and Jams
  
• Fruit Juice and Concentrates
  
• Chicken Layer Production with Fieldtrip
  
• Basic Baking for Cakes
  
• Basic Dress Making
  
• Flavored and Fortified Juice
  
• Shawarma Making and other Mediterranean Dishes
  
• Laundry Detergent, Dishwashing Soap and Fabric Softener
  
• Money Changer Business
  
• Franchising for Filipino Entrepreneur
  
• Reflexology and Acupressure
  
• Commercial Hydroponics
  
• Perfume and Cologne Making
  
• Pastillas Making
  
• Franchising Food Cart Business
  
• Chocolate Molding
  
• Setting-uUp Water Refilling Station
  
• Sizzling Dishes
  
• Shiatsu Massage
  
• Waitering and Bartending
  
• Bookbinding
  
• Intensive Tilapia in Tank
  
• Setting-up and Operating a Travel Agency Business
  
• Export-Import for Small Scale Business
  
• Duck Raising
  
• Setting-up Computer Ink Refilling Business
  
• Jewelry Appraisal and Pawnshop Management
  
• Wedding Planning and Coordination
  
• Pizza Variation and Pasta Sauce Making
  
• Basic Fresh Flower Arrangement
  
• Starting and Managing your Own Business
  
• Fish Processing
  
• Rice in a Box
  
• Passporting and Visa Processing
  
• Cakes and Pastries
  
• Starting and Operating Pre-School Day Care Center
  
• Paper Recycling and Novelty Items
  
• Managerial and Supervisory Skills Development
  
• Social and Business Events Planning.
  
• Micro Lending Business
  
• Dehydrated Fruits and Vegetables
  

Comprehensive Courses

• Commercial Breadmaking and Bakery Management
  
• Commercial Sorbetes and Classic Icecream
  
• Setting-up T-shirt Production
  
• Meat Shop Operation and Meat Processing
  
• Catering, Restaurant, Carinderia and Fast-food Business
  
• Masteral Cake Decorating
  
• Bedcover, Comforters, Pillow Case Curtains and Quilts Making
  
• Native Kakanin
  
• Touch Therapy
  
• Comprehensive Beadworks
  
• Chinese Cuisine, Siopao and other Dimsum
  
• Setting-up Party Needs Busines and with Complete Lesson in Balloon Art
  
• Starting and Organizing your Own Beauty Parlor.
  

With our rising unemployment rate, these courses really provide us with alternatives. For more info, check out Negoskwela's schedule for May 2009.

Free business lectures and videos

There is really so much you can learn from the net. Take this one website for example. Smallbizbee.com lists 105 business lectures and videos available for free online which, according to them, saves you thousands of dollars in business education.

The lectures and videos include those on general business - getting started, startup, entrepreneurship, strategy, business tips, marketing/advertising, small business accounting, financing, business plans and business planning, leadership, social media for business, branding, business profiles and interviews.

In learning online, your investment in the form of time and focus takes the place of the expensive fees that you have to pay if you attend similar lectures physically. Like Smallbizbee.com, I have no doubt that you can learn as much online than in the real world.

Also posted at www.libre-libro.blogspot.com.

Pandemic vs. Epidemic

What is a pandemic? How is it different from epidemic? With all the news about a possible swine flu pandemic, I am sure all of you want to know. Martin F. Downs of WebMD explains.

According to the feature, pandemic is the sixth most frequently looked-up word at Merriam-Webster's online dictionary this year. It is defined there as "occuring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population".

Is it the same with an epidemic? It is not. It seems an epidemic is determined by a certain percentage of deaths above what is considered normal for a period. That percentage is called the "epidemic threshold".

On the other hand, a pandemic is characterized by a new strain that has not infected people before, it is on a global scale, and it is unusually deadly. Apparently, this is now a very real possibility with swine flu.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a system of identifying where we stand with regards to pandemic flu. The system has six phases:

• Phase 1 -- No new influenza virus has been found in people or animals.
• Phase 2 -- New virus has appeared in animals, but no human cases.
• Phase 3 -- A new strain of animal influenza virus infects humans, but there have not been human-to-human infections.
• Phase 4 -- The new virus passes from person to person, but transmission is limited and confined to a certain location.
• Phase 5 -- There is frequent transmission of the virus between people in a particular place, but it hasn't spread to the rest of the world.
• Phase 6 -- Pandemic. The virus is widespread worldwide.

As of this posting, it has been reported that we are now at Phase 4.

Swine Flu medication

More on this swine flu thing. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, past flu vaccines will not work against swine flu. Fortunately, there are anti-viral medication which work against it.

One is called Oseltamivir, also known as Tamiflu, and the other Zanamivir, also known as Relenza. Out of curiousity, I checked the Mercury Drug website for these drugs and am happy to report that Tamiflu capsules seems to be available.

For more info, listen to this podcast by the US CDC. 

What is Swine Influenza or Flu

I know this is off-topic but I cannot help but blog about this here. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention:

Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza among pigs. Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of swine flu viruses has been documented. See General Information about Swine Flu.

From December 2005 through February 2009, a total of 12 human infections with swine influenza were reported from 10 states in the United States. Since March 2009, a number of confirmed human cases of a new strain of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in the U.S. and internationally have been identified. An investigation into these cases is ongoing. For more information see Human Swine Flu Investigation.

What alarms me is that the CNN has just reported that 81 deaths in Mexico have been linked to swine flu and that the United States has declared a public health emergency after 20 cases of swine flu have been identified. The CNN report reads in part:

The United States government declared a public health emergency Sunday as the number of identified cases of swine flu in the nation rose to 20.

The declaration is part of a "standard operating procedure" that will make available additional government resources to combat the virus, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at the White House.

Additional cases of swine flu are expected to be reported in the coming days, added Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

No one has died in the U.S. from swine flu, officials said Sunday.

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said eight students at St. Francis Prepatory School in Queens have tested positive for swine flu. More than 100 students at the school were absent with flu-like symptoms last week, he said.

State public health officials in Ohio confirmed one case of swine flu on Sunday. There have been seven confirmed cases in California, two in Kansas, and two in Texas, Besser said.

The World Health Organization advised all countries to be on the lookout for "unusual" outbreaks of flu, after an emergency meeting Saturday as the seriousness of the outbreak became clear.

By Sunday, 81 deaths in Mexico had been deemed "likely linked" to swine flu. Viral testing has confirmed 20 cases, said Dr. Jose A. Cordova Villalobos, Mexico's health secretary.

How to install multi-user Quickbooks

I have been busy lately attending to a client who engaged me assist them in the installation of Quickbooks Pro 2009 3-User Edition.

The software is designed to be installed on a local area network where multiple users are able to access the same company file simultaneously. Installing it will actually require some basic knowledge in networking.

I learned a lot during this engagement. One thing I learned is that installing Quickbooks is quite straight-forward, especially if you took time in reading the installation guides available.

Incidentally, I prepared a list of all the steps in installing Quickbooks and would like to share it with you. It is a work in progress but I believe it will help anyone doing the installation feel his or her way.

Click here to read my Quickbooks step-by-step installation guide. You may also check out the link provided there to a very useful Quickbooks screenshot guide. For more information about the services I offer, check out my website at www.lumantao.com.

Building a Wireless Hotspot Workshop

If you are like me, you probably have attempted several times to share your DSL internet connection via wireless router but failed. For the likes of us, ACE I.T. Learning Solutions will conduct a very useful workshop on "buidling a wireless hotspot" on May 3, 2009.

The workshop will cover the following:

• Wireless Equipment: Adapters, Routers, Access Point, and High Gain Antenna
  
• Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2, and AD-Hoc Setup
  
• Configuration: Ad-Hoc Setup, Enterprise Setup, Wireless Router, Access Point and Router Chain

For further details, you may call 7267672, 6924612 or 0915-9916911, or visit this page.

Paquiao vs. Hatton HBO 24/7 Episode 1

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