Duterte's Tutuban-Malolos Railway Project to be constructed by Japan this year

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will start the major railway project of President Rodrigo Duterte by the fourth quarter of 2017. 

The Tutuban-Malolos railway project is part of the P8-Trillion plan to modernize the country's infrastructure network that was denied by the previous administrations.

DOTr spokesperson Cherie Mercado said that JICA had completed the study of the project. The funds of the railway project will be funded through Official Development Assistance (ODA) by JICA.

November 2015, the administration of President Noynoy Aquino signed an agreement to provide the Philippines a loan up to 241.991 Billion yen for the North-South Commuter Railway Project (Malolos-Tutuban). The project was allegedly tainted by corruptions.

Meanwhile, President Duterte, in August 11, 2016 met with Japan Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida at the Presidential Guesthouse in Panacan, Davao City and discussed the project.

Aside from the project Tutuban-Malolos, the Japanese government is also helping in the feasibility study of a 55-kilometer railway line from Malolos, Bulacan to Clark.

Japan also offered to build the first 100 kilometers of the 2,000 kilometers Mindanao Railway system.

According to DOTr and JICA, "Special Terms for Economic Partnership (STEP) will be used and applied to Tutuban-Malolos Railway project.

It is expected that high technology from Japan such as construction techniques for elevated railways, efficient signal systems and rolling stock will be utilized.

source [Abs-Cbn / JICA / DOTr]

A Ritual Where Their Deads are Raised From Their Graves- Indonesia

Most of us,when our love ones die, they are laid to rest forever.But in Indonesia the dead gets many chances to see their families again

Ma'nene-its a ritual where the corpses get cleaned-families raises their dead relatives from their graves,dress them in new clothes,fix their hair and repair their coffins. They they walk the dead around the province so they can observe the living.Reports say that the Ma'nene ritual is more important than marriage and birth in Toraja culture.

Deceased loved ones are walked in straight lines around the region.

Maybe for us we find this practice so disrespectful and even unsanitary. But there’s something solemnly beautiful about families that continue to care for those they love even after their deaths.

A man brushes the hair of a dead relative, perhaps his mother or grandmother.

What you guys can say something about this?

source [Ryot]

Leaked Samsung Galaxy S8

Samsung may just have leaked the Samsung Galaxy S8, so the latest leak comes in all of a video and this video is from the Korean Youtube channel SAMSUNG DISPLAY showing off the latest display technologies of Samsung and we did see a mysterious device which has a super large display with minimal bezels.

source:CNET

Now base on this leak looks like we will be getting a very large display, larger and no longer gonna have a physical home button, this could mean that the fingerprint sensor is embedded within the display which is absolutely great other leaks do suggest that the device might have a 4K Display so this would be super high resolution.

We still may see a standard flat display as well as curved display like we've seen in previous years, we may also lose the headphone jack but not yet confirmed release date is rumored to be around April 18 this year

What do you think of these leaks?

What it Feels Like to Have a Granny Girlfriend???

Forget Harold and Maude. How about Kyle and Marjorie?

Kyle Jones from Pittsburgh is a 31-year-old man with an nontraditional romantic leaning towards older women -- much older women.

In 2009, Jones met 91-year-old Marjorie McCool at the book store where she worked. The two have engaged in a romantic, physical relationship ever since, and are happily dating as each brings something unique to the relationship.

At three times Jones' age, McCool is already a great grandmother, but Jones finds her lines, wrinkles, platinum hair and natural hanging neck skin attractive. Jones says he offers older women a different kind of experience than they're used to with adventure and fun things to do.

Likewise, McCool says dating somebody younger makes her feel alive again. "The physical side of the relationship is wonderful. I amaze myself and he amazes me, and I like it," says McCool in the video above.

Jones first noticed his attraction towards older women at a young age and though it took his mother, Ceceila Jones, some getting used to, she ultimately accepts her son's lifestyle. McCool is also a mother and says she sometimes feels like Jones is just another one of her children.

"I sometimes feel like he's another son, until we hop in bed. Then I feel different."

The two lovebirds are not monogamous, and Jones is also engaged in a relationship with 68-year-old Anna Ronald, who he met on a dating site.

They like to smooch, loudly.

Jones has encountered criticism, but defends his choices. "The most common [criticism] is that I'm a vulture," says Jones. "You're after money, you're after inheritance. I hear that all the time, but it's not true at all. I do this because I like it and they like it too."

To each his own.

source [The Huffington Post]

Man Killed His Wife in Front Of 7 Children in Fight Over Video Game

Photo credits: worldwidenews

A woman in Arizona, was viciously injured to death by her husband infront of their kids. 

37-year-old John Leo Davis Jr. injured his better half a minimum of thirteen times, infront of their seven kids. 

John Leo Davis referred to as police and cried as he told dispatchers concerning the bloody incident that occurred within the house he shared along with his better half, Michele Davis, and their eight kids.

John Leo Davis of discoverer, UN agency was inactive on charges of first-degree murder, had a history of force. 

According to the couple’s kids, the fight between them began once John Leo Davis hit one in all his sons within the face for enjoying games. 

His 35-year-old better half confronted him shortly at 6:00 p.m. John Leo Davis became angry at his partner. He grabbed a knife, began chasing her round the room and injured her.

7 of the couple’s eight kids were home and witnessed the stabbing. Michele Davis ran to the outside door in a shot to induce far from her husband. However, she folded and died. 

John Leo Davis Jr. was inactive and is being command within the Maricopa County Jail on $2 million bail. 

The couple's 14-year-old girl additionally referred to as police, expression that she witnessed the stabbing and watched her father clean the knife within the room.

According to court records, Davis has been inactive four times on suspicion of force against a former significant other and his currently deceased wife

source [Worldwide Weird News]

Scientists Discover Reset Button For The Body's Clock

Jetting half way across the world, shift work and those crazy all-nighters are all things that can upset our body’s daily cycle, or circadian rhythm. Over the years, scientists have slowly been piecing together the components of our “biological clocks” that drive these rhythms, and we now have a pretty good understanding of how they are coordinated. Now, scientists have discovered what is effectively a “reset button” in mice, which could eventually help researchers develop novel treatments that correct mismatches between the environment and our internal body clocks.

Circadian rhythms are physiological, mental and behavioral changes that follow an approximately 24-hour cycle, which are primarily dictated by changes in light in the environment. These oscillations are driven by groups of interacting molecules in the body which are collectively known as biological clocks, and it is the job of a master pacemaker located in the brain to coordinate and regulate these clocks to make sure the body is in sync.

It’s been known for some time that this “master clock” is a bundle of neurons in a region called the suprachaismatic nucleus (SCN); however, scientists didn’t know whether altering the way that these cells fire could change how it operates. Now, researchers from Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that it is indeed possible to control the clock by selectively switching on and off this population of cells, which effectively mimics their daytime and nighttime activity.

In order to manipulate the activity of these neurons, the researchers used a sophisticated technique known as optogenetics. This involves inserting genes that code for light-sensitive proteins into distinct populations of cells, creating a bundle of neurons that now respond to light in a certain way. Then, after implanting an optical fiber into the brain, scientists can use lasers to either stimulate (switch on) or inhibit (switch off) these cells.

As described in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers found that by artificially stimulating the SCN neurons, they were able to manipulate the mouse’s sleep/wake rhythms, effectively resetting the master clock. This was particularly interesting because previous work suggested that the firing activity of these cells was only an output of the clock’s activity.

“Of course, this exact approach isn’t ready for human use yet,” said study author Michael Tackenberg. “But others are making progress toward eventually using optogenetics as therapy.” Tackenberg is now taking the work forward by examining whether mice suffering from seasonal affective disorder—a type of depression that has a seasonal pattern—respond to the stimulation.

source [IFLScience]

Nun stabs 7-year-old boy while teaching students about the suffering of Jesus

A nun was fired from her job as a teacher after stabbing a boy during a lesson about the suffering of Jesus. 

Sister Ludovita, 30, of Kysucke Nove Mesto in northern Slovakia, was teaching religious education classes when she stabbed a boy on the hand with a needle to show how Jesus suffered

Slovakia asked the unsuspecting student, who was identified as 7-year-old Adam Celko, to come to the front of the class.

She then took a needle out of her bag and to the horror of the student and his classmates, she rammed it into the child's hand, saying that this was how Jesus suffered and he would too if he misbehaved.

When Adam Celko got home, his mother, Helena, 30, saw the wound on his hand and asked how it happened. The boy told his mother that the nun stabbed him. 

“I was completely in shock. I mean, what was she thinking,” the mother said. 

A school spokesperson said: “We strongly disapprove of this kind of teaching method.”

The nun defended her action and said that the class had been learning about Jesus Christ and personal sin.

She added that the children had been invited to voluntarily experience mild pain so they could empathize with the theme.

She claimed that the students pricked themselves by choice and were not forced.

“Either way, it is inappropriate behavior and will not be tolerated in this school,” the school spokesperson said.

    

source [Worldwide Weird News]

China's Gateway to Hell Opens up, Horrifies villagers

Could this be the entrance to hell in Urumqi?

A spectacular, fiery volcanic crater has been discovered in the western hills of Urumqi, in western China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, CCTV's Sina Weibo reported.

Burning away at a sizzling 792 degrees Celsius, steam rises from the incandescent, 150cm-wide crater, which has no visible bottom.

"The ash could be seen rising from the volcanic crater all the time since I came here three years ago," said a worker at a nearby construction site.

The strange sight has been dubbed the 'Gateway to Hell' by local netizens.

It is in fact caused by the combustion of an underground coal bed, according to the report.

A warning sign has been placed around the crater to alert people to keep away.

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Duterte to Implement P1000 Hike for SSS Pensioners

President Rodrigo Duterte has endorsed a P1,000 increment in the pension of resigned Social Security System (SSS) individuals this month. 

Presidential representative Ernesto Abella affirmed the news in a Palace preparation on Tuesday. 

"With respect to SSS benefits increment, the President has affirmed a P1,000 annuity increment this month," Abella said. 

He said the President needed to "satisfy a social contract with the Filipino individuals." 

"He tries to satisfy a social contract with the Filipino individuals, particularly the elderly and poor people, to give them their best lives in administration," Abella said. 

"While practicing monetary obligation, to guarantee the financial supportability and secure the individuals who put resources into the country's future," he included. 

Be that as it may, the Palace official said individuals would have "a relating 1.5 percent commitment rate climb in May 2017 and increment in month to month pay credit to P20,000 based from P16,000." 

"To guarantee supportability, SSS is setting set up, one: legitimate activity arrangements to diminish commitment misconduct. For instance, escalate legitimate gathering and alluded reprobate and resistant bosses," he said. 

Duterte affirmed the climb in the midst of calls for him to sign the proposition for a P2,000 increment in the annuity of SSS retirees. 

P2,000 climb by 2022 

SSS seat Amado Valdez said the principal P1,000 increment would produce results this January while the second P1,000 increment would be in 2022 or considerably prior "subject to conditionalities." 

Valdez expressed gratitude toward the President for his "feeling of tending to our retired people." 

"We need to thank lavishly our President for his feeling of tending to our retired people. We likewise need to thank the financial chiefs for their reasonability in reminding us we need to guarantee the maintainability of the store. In doing as such, the life expectancy of the reserve will even pass the edge of 2042 and maybe past," he said. 

SSS President Emmanuel Dooc, in the interim, said the organization has enough finances to bolster the benefits climb this month. 

"This will produce results this month, in case I'm not mixed up, but rather perhaps because of some framework necessity since we require a recomputation, we have to set up a table, there might be a slight postponement," Dooc said. 

The SSS President said the SSS commitment climb would now be at 12. 5 percent beginning May, from the present 11 percent. 

"We will expand it by 12.5% as proposed by the commission. We need to actualize it by May this year," he said. JE/rga

source [Inquirer]

Nokia 6 - Nokia's First Android Smartphone Finally Revealed

HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the licensing rights of Nokia’s brand on mobile phones has just unveiled the Nokia 6 — the company’s first Android-powered smartphone which runs on Google’s latest Android 7.0 Nougat.

It features a 5.5-inch full HD display with Gorilla Glass protection . Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 430 chipset powers the handset, paired with the Adreno 505 GPU. Under the hood, it packs 4GB of RAM with 64GB internal storage. There’s also the 16MP rear-facing camera with an f/2.0 aperture and an 8MP front-facing camera sporting the same aperture. Watch the official first look of the handset below.

For now, the Nokia 6 is targeted for Chinese users with a price of 1,699 yuan or ~Php12,100 when converted to peso. International and local availability is yet to be announced so stay tuned! Nokia 6 specs: 5.5-inch Full HD IPS LCD display 2.5D contoured glass with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 octa-core CPU Adreno 505 GPU 4GB RAM 64GB internal storage up to 128GB via microSD 16MP rear camera w/ Laser AF, PDAF, Dual-tone flash 8MP front-facing camera 4G LTE Fingerprint scanner USB OTG 3000mAh battery with fast charging Android 7.0 Nougat 154 x 75.8 x 7.85 mm Author’s note: “Nokia’s first Android smartphone officially revealed”, was edited to clarify that the Nokia 6 is the first Nokia Android smartphone under HMD Global.

For now, the Nokia 6 is targeted for Chinese users with a price of 1,699 yuan or ~Php12,100 when converted to peso. International and local availability is yet to be announced so stay tuned!

Nokia 6 specs:

5.5-inch Full HD IPS LCD display

2.5D contoured glass with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection

64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 octa-core CPU

Adreno 505 GPU

4GB RAM

64GB internal storage

up to 128GB via microSD

16MP rear camera w/ Laser AF, PDAF, Dual-tone flash

8MP front-facing camera

4G LTE

Fingerprint scanner

USB OTG

3000mAh battery with fast charging

Android 7.0 Nougat

154 x 75.8 x 7.85 mm

Author’s note: “Nokia’s first Android smartphone officially revealed”, was edited to clarify that the Nokia 6 is the first Nokia Android smartphone under HMD Global.





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