Travel as far as you can: A single step for us, a leap for the Earth

**Travel- is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.

When you’re a travel type of journalist, one may wonder if this journalist only travel and travel all the time. No, they’re not. They only want to explore some wonders of the world, but only here in the Philippines. “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” as they say. But can you still manage to say hose phrases if Mother Earth is dying? How would you travel if there are some reasons that cannot keep you travel full of success. How would you travel if the surrounding and environment is seeking for help?

As we can see, there are still many people who loved traveling at the different parts of the world. They are the one who is more likely to explore, like Dora the Explorer. At first, individuals like us are innocent that sometimes every little thing has to be explained broader to dig deeper knowledge. People may love traveling, yes. But you can’t blame yourself being a travel-type person, you didn’t only want to explore but to do your eyes a big pleasure to seek the wonders of nature.

photo of a new tall building that is under construction (near the office of MMDA )

Biking, wall climbing, rapelling, swimming and rafting. You can do all of these activities when you travel. These are the activities that make your body sweat and exercised. But how can you enjoy those if you knew that there are natural and also man-made calamities that are happening everywhere and anytime? How can you enjoy traveling if a tsunami, earthquake, flash flood, landslide and fire come along your way? Some of these calamities happened naturally and some are not. Man is the one that is responsible for it to resolve the problem. We need a change on our environment. And the change should start on each of us individual.

"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day."

~ Anton Chekhov

Last Saturday, 12^th day of the month of October 2013, I’ve done interviewing Mrs. Corazon Jimenez, the General Manager of Flood Control Information Center (FCIC) of Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) with regards to the status of our environment in Manila today, most especially the topic with regards to flooding. I gathered factual information that can help each of us individual to start helping our environment. I ask her on what does she think of our environmental status mostly in Manila today and I also ask to rate it fro, 1-10, ten being the highest. She says that we are at rate number six out of ten. Because there is pollution everywhere.

Researcher's photo with an FCIC officer Mr. Eddie Garcia (inside the FCIC office of MMDA)

Environment today is slightly getting worst if we’ll going to compare it 50 years ago. But Mrs. Jimenez says that their department was having an urban draining that was mandated by our President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III. There are also packets of gardens that they are fixing these recent days. Air pollution nowadays is over acceptable, and its reading is just over. Pollution should take only 50 air quality index, but we are having 110 air quality index. There are river waste disposals and silted garbage. Last October 11, 2013, they go to Marikina to check the project executed on the Marikina River, they target to finish that project within 3 years, April 2016 is the targeted date and river act will going to be studied.

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."- Robert Collier

In her past experiences, and mostly all of us, considered Ondoy, a typhoon that attacked last September 2009, as the worst flood ever happened here in our country. It killed people in just a span of 4 hours. Then after the typhoon, there are 17 Local Government Units (LGUs) that take action plans being written. The MMDA invested on new equipments, they’re checking rivers and improving evacuation centers. It was done with the coordination of other Local Government Units. Easily flooded areas on Manila are Marikina, Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela because there are creeks and retarding ponds there and also because of the informal settlers that tend to live in disaster prone areas.

photo taken when typhoon Ondoy attacked last September 2009 (photo credits to  FCIC office of MMDA)

Aside from having disasters like flash floods, there are still government units who manage to prepare some plans, programs and actions for environmental problems that are happening here in our country. In MMDA, they’re having rehabilitation, declogging, water waste management and there are 8 major river waste identified tending to make 20,000 families to evacuate. In DPWH, there are dredging of river wastes and esteros. In DILG, they’re having their recent campaign “One Day One Bay” according to the manager. It was headed by the former DILG secretary Jesse Robredo. It happens every other Saturdays, people are cleaning their barangays and waterways.

                          interview with the FCIC General Manager Mrs. Corazon Jimenez

 Pollution happens everywhere. There is air pollution, water pollution, land pollution and even noise pollution. But what are the causes why this phenomenon happens? One primary source of pollution in general is improper waste disposal. This reason contributes to air, water and land pollution. Improper throwing of garbage and rubbish, burning various materials and the like contributes to those different kinds of pollution.

Effects of pollution vary but leads to one word, Destruction. Pollution is a destructive phenomenon. It destroys our land, water and the air we breathe. It simply destroys our habitat. Respiratory diseases are so imminent because of high concentrations of particulate matter on the air. Rain water becomes acidic because of air pollution. Organic material from farm runs off the river, resulting to fish kills.

According to General Manager Corazon Jimenez of Flood Control Information Center of MMDA, the number one advice that she can give to us people is discipline, and discipline starts on ourselves and discipline by throwing our garbage into the proper trash bin. Second is by joining, being a part and cooperating on environmental advocacies like clean-up drive, anti-littering, anti-smoking and other advocacy campaign.

Nature has its own healing if we must help our mother Earth to cope up with the changes and to restore the equilibrium state of the Earth. Many cities approved to ban plastics and styrofoams to lessen the pollution and also to save our nation. Change should start on ourselves. We must act as one and make a single step for the Earth.

 

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Commission on Audit Releases Special Report on Status of State

 It takes time to find out how money is going through different hands. Many people are asking themselves, where does our money go? A simple question but it takes a slightly long time to find out the answer. Government has a vital role. It is to secure and protect the people and at the same time, the nation. Its primary goal is to protect them not only physically but mentally and not only mentally, but emotionally and financially. It is their duty to hear how the nation is screaming loudly about their needs.

 As what I have said, the government, as well as its branches and departments has the role to report what is happening to the nation as well as the whole country. And we, people have the right to listen and be observant on what's happening to their surroundings. Commission on Audit ave released its report about the PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund) that aims to help barangays and other areas that needs social help. From the term itself, the word Audit, means that they are the one who are responsible to create a computations and findings about what's happening to all the money given to senators. They reported properly the results on the pork barrel including tables.

 Those tables are stating about the means of a "soft project" and "hard project" that was made by the local government units or LGUs. Soft projects are those who cover small and non-infrastructure projects. Non-infrastructure project involves scholarship, purchase of IT equipment, medical equipment and medical assistance for valued patient on the barangays. Small project involves water system, irrigation facilities, barangay electrification and construction repair of jails and fire stations. On the other hand, there are also called "hard projects" which involves public work projects such as roads, bridges, flood control, school buildings, hospital, health facilities and public market.

All of those are somewhat can be called as the primary needs of the people. But sad to say, some of the project, even soft or hard project that has been scheduled to do and to finish remains pending most of the time. Not because there's no enough funds provided to raise the said project, but it is more on ignoring the fund as a tool for making project and spending it for their own sake. There are times that a leader of a barangay is not being considerate in terms of leadership, they're always making themselves as their first priority and does not prioritize the people inside the community. I can't hardly imagine that, most of the people pay their taxes. Big or even small value added tax is always there, but where does the money of an individual tax payer go? Many people were thinking that, "I pay the right tax, so I must received a good in return". It should be worth it because they pay for it.

 Moreover, people tend to imagine why do higher ranking officials are taking advantages to the community that they're serving? Not only as a leader, but as an individual they should try to put their feet on others shoes. Try to stand on other people's situation. Maybe we are all different on our appearance, having different class and being rich or poor, but we are all the same because we are human and we are individuals. We should treat each other equally and not being biased to other people on our surroundings. Try not only to prioritize ourselves but also the need of the people. Offices and officials of Commission on Audit (COA) did the right thing. They're good on evaluating the needs and the emotion on how's the senator and how they cope up on handling reports about financial status as well as the economy of the state. They did report on the things that are not commonly known by all and they serve the people right.

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When the sheep goes black: World of a rebelling teen

          Teen rebellion is a problem that has been around ever since an individual is reaching its puberty stage. Almost every teen goes through some rebellious stage in or after certain years of puberty. Sometimes they are the one who are doing mistakes without thinking many times and they don’t know exactly what they’re doing. Being dishonest, going late because of a party, going anywhere just to have a cutting class, being with someone, girlfriend or boyfriend just to have a one night stand with them, turning to teenage pregnancy and being a teenage mother and being disrespectful to his/her parents are some of the major signs of a teen having a rebellious act.

             Not all teenagers are doing those said signs or rather possess those signs. There are some teens that are good and being respectful to their parents. They are also a follower not only to their parents but also a follower of God. They are the one who follows the rules and the right path. They didn’t know how to disobey their parents in all the aspects of their life since they were a kid. Often, they are also called a child of Christ or a good child of his/her parents not only because they are kind, but they possess the right attitude at the same time, making their parents proud to them. In addition to that, a good teen like them has the ability of being sweet to their parents, so it turns out that they gain more money for their allowance even if they’re not expecting it.

             There are good influences that a good teen has the power to give. Teenager that follows or obeys the rules and going straight to the right path has the right to be loved, in terms of school they may excel and perform well on the class, they gain a lot of friends, get a good grades and most especially they are more loved and cherished by their parents. Opposite of that, a teenager who does not follow the right path may lead to the occurrences of their wrong doings and habits that a teenager should not possess. They are often called “black sheep” of the family. Because they possess a kind of attitude that was also different from their other siblings. Mostly, having a “lack of attention” that is given to them is one of the cause on why do they rebel against their parents.

             Teenager rebels not only because of having lack of attention given to them by their parents but also because they are always hurt physically, mentally and emotionally. These factors may also be a cause on why a teen is having a low self-esteem or self-confidence.  A lot of our self-image is based on interactions we have with other people and our life experiences. They are more often scolded by their parents and some people around them like their professors on the university because of some reasons. They are also bullied by their classmates on school maybe because of their appearance and because of their behaviour outside their home. Teenagers who possess those signs stated must be treated equally and normally like the other teens and like his/her other siblings that they have. They should also be more loves and more given importance because they may be the one who’ll pursue the dreams of their family.

             Being a teen when we reach our puberty and adolescence is not so easy. Adolescence is the period between puberty and adulthood. It can be characterized by two main trends. There are times that we’ll experience different and a lot of things that happened to our body physically, because we are experiencing monthly period for women, mentally and emotionally because as a teen we learn how to love the people on the opposite sex. Being a teen is also being the hope of the nation, we have our role in building our nation, not only building our big dreams but also building ourselves, our buddies, family and our friends. Teenage rebellion is not the solution to fix our problem. It only wastes the time of our lives when we do rebel to people around us. So let’s just start improving ourselves, let’s start the change on ourselves and let a teen be an inspiration not only to their teen mates but also to other people. There’s no such real thing as black sheep. But there are individuals who make themselves black, being different to others.

Real Life Enthusiast

          “In school, we must learn the lesson first before taking the test. But in life, we must take the test first then learn the lesson.” That’s right. Because we cannot survive and pass the exam if we did not listen to the teacher’s lesson. And we cannot survive life if we did not take the test. We should learn how to make each and every day of us great, because every day is full of tasks and every day is a surprise. We do not know what situation will going to happen next. Yet we must fall down and learn how to survive. This was the personal profile of one of my good classmates. She is a leader-type of person I really knew. She’s a great leader. But even if she says that if she’s given a task then she cannot meet the standards of those tasks, I actually do not believe that she can’t, because I believe she can do those tasks if she kept on doing and trying. It’s quite difficult to understand but I believe she would. Actually, she’s the former president of our good class. She’s great in terms of leadership. So, guess who is she?

          She was a 4^th year high school student when she rode on Star City ride, which was her first time. The Starflyer and Surf Dance, which I also considered as quite wild and “nakakahilo” to ride on. She said that, “It was scary pero challenging”. As what I’ve seen, she overcomes that scariest part of her life. She’s not that scared too much, when the time comes that she would want to ride on Starflyer and Surf Dance.

          The silliest moment of her life happened when she was still a high school student. She was also a 4^th year student that time when she has done this silliest part. It was her and her classmates who bullied their CAT adviser because it was being biased to them. They removed the muffler (or “tambutso” in tagalog term) of the motor vehicle of their adviser. As a result, they have the consequence of detention for a period of time because of what they’ve done. She had many silly moments but she chose this one to share on me.

          “Never get discouraged when things go beyond your expectations. Always remember that the greatest glory in life is never falling...but rising every time you fall.” If there was an assigned task to do, she feels down most especially when the said task is quite difficult. There are times that she cannot meet the standards that people around was expecting her to do. This situation happened during her college days, in their organization which is CMAS. Every time that she could not comply with the standards, she feels disappointed to herself and at the same time she feels like having a low self-esteem. Although she feels discouraged sometimes, she still managed to stand every time she falls.

          “When one door of happiness closes, another door opens...but often we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us." Year 2008, when her 47-year old mother was diagnosed having a breast cancer. Particularly, she and their whole family felt sad when they knew the news. It was some kind of a heartbreaking news when you knew that your loved one especially your mother, is suffering a disease that may cause to have a short life to live. Her mother undergoes chemotherapy after they knew that it has a cancer. But as the saying stated above goes, another door opens for her and their whole family. After years that have been passed when her mom was diagnosed. For the following time, they found out that her mother survived its disease. Recently, her mom is still surviving cancer for five years. It only needs to have a check-up for its maintenance. In addition to, her high school friends/barkada also fulfilled her happiness. Another one is that, she is an athlete for table tennis of their school then they won most of the championship games during different competition. They were all proud on each other and at the same time they are proud to themselves because they gave each other’s best to play the game.

          “There’s no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” To reach our goals is a relief, that we did our best by not engaging with wrong doings and keeping ourselves on the right path. As a student, her goal is to finish her studies and to graduate at the right time. In five years, She dreamed to have a job that will establish her skills and mostly on what she learned during her school days. After that, she also aspires to go on other country, not for the sake of having a great job there, but for pleasure. Other than that, she wants to go Korea, Japan and Europe including their family and her mom. She also wants to join in an organization for advocacy against any issues like violence against women and animal cruelty. That’s all for her goal in five years. I can see that there’s no harm on dreaming, as long as you’re not just sitting on a chair, waiting for your dreams to come true.

          Let’s encourage one another as we seek to stay in track. If we keep our goals before us, we will not be looking back. In life, there are five balls to juggle—Family, Friends, Health, Work and Spiritual Life. Only Work is made of rubber, the rest are made of glass. So, don’t drop them. Life is not a matter of extent but it’s a matter of content.

          This was a feature story of our good classmate, Ria Elizabeth Langi. She is an 18 year old woman, studying Communication Research at Polytechnic University of the Philippines and an aspiring person to reach her goals in life.

Leaves among the rest

Why do leaves change color? It's one of those questions. Like, why is the emotion of a person change? And like the question, why is the sky blue? So let's answer the question. Every human has an emotion of happiness, madness, guilt, doubt, sadness, etc. Ask yourself now if you possess those kind of emotion. If not, then you’re not a normal human being. Think of it, “No man is an island”, he need a person to lean on. He’s afraid of being alone on the corner, thinking of what would be the next situation that will going to happen.

Articles may not only be intended literally, but also emotionally. We knew that every person has their own strengths and weaknessess, some are jolly, some are shy. Some are always happy, others are sad. Some are good thinkers, while others are not. But somehow do we think of the reason why the negative side occur? Maybe because the people was hurt by someone, some times its because they need more attention. And sometimes, they need more love, care and affection. Those are some of the reasons why people change, like the color of the leaves. It changes when the time comes that they’re tired of making themselves attached to the branch, so it become dry and will fell down out of the tree, and when they fell we see it on a brownish color. Like some person that changes when they are tired physically, emotionally and socially.

However, in a real literal type, trees survive the rainy season, deciduous trees need to store nutrients in their roots, which means they must absorb the nutrients in their leaves which serves as the human to their world. The changes in the color that we see on the leaves are triggered as the trees absorb essential nutrients. “Plant growth can have a considerable effect on the climate,” there are several ways in which plants can alter the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. They use energy from the sun to draw down carbon dioxide using it to create the carbohydrates they need to grow. Those are the real changes that happens on a person and its environment. Considering that if there’s no emotion, there’s also no individual. And having no leaves, is also having no trees.

Crowning Glorifier

Have you ever wonder why the thing that we called “tanzan” is called crown cap in english? You may not be, because it was just a little thing found on beer or soft drink bottles. Maybe because the shape of tanzan is circular then it has a pointed edges like a crown of a queen or king. Have you also ever think of who owns that real kind of crown? He gives us glory and wisdom not only every time we need it but always, without asking His permission. It was God, He has all the right to give us what we should deserve to have.

He has plans for all of us, and those plans are really alloted for us to have if we learn to wait. Maybe some of us have asked Him on why some certain situation happen to us? Which we are not expecting that it would happen. We should not asked those kind of question to God because there’s no such reason to blame Him and put all the burdens on Him. “Everything happens for a reason”, believe it or not, every situation has its own time, place where it would happen. So, there’s a meaning why God given us the time place and a person in each situation. It will never happen for no reason at all.

Literally speaking, some inventions appears small at the first glance, such in the case of crown cap. God is the real King to all of us and He has the right to wear the crown. If we put a closer look, it proves that a simple device can have a revolutionary impact. It was God who has a big impact to all of us people. He is the crown that glorifies us on every situation we have, and we will be having Him on our entire life.

Stick with it: Meat, Banana, Camote and others

Sticking stick. Like Barbecue stick, Banana and Camote. All of those are foods that we eat on merienda or dinner. But why would it be so radical to use wood — and nothing else — for barbecue? We all knew that Barbecue is a real meat, and people say it’s always possible to smoke the real way in the city. “It’s not impossible. There is a lot of regulations, but you can do it.”

Unlike those other sticks that were used to make barbecue, wood is the best tool to use. Wood is often on making barbecue products. Those behind so many contemporary barbecue restaurants, particulary in big cities like Manila, they use charcoal putted on a grilling pan. It taste like an imported meat in an old city. It’s like a province when we smell a grilled meat. It smells not fishy but it smells great that makes us crave for another one and encourages us to eat more meat.

Eating more meat and food on stick is not too bad. It is also not dirty to use wood on making barbecue, banana cue and camote cue. So we should not act like a sosy person because there’s no need, especially if the food is cooked clean and right. We should be observant on what food we’ll going to eat. Be wise and make sure that those foods are healthy and make us energized when we ate that. In grilling barbecues, we should maintain the cleanliness of the grilling pan and enhanced ovens for better cooking. And to turn out a good product, we should reach the depth of flavor of wood-only cooking strategy.

Small but terrible: A great citrus fruit to know and grow

Have you ever experience drinking the different flavors of juice? The apple juice, orange juice, mango juice, avocado juice, guyabano juice and some other flavor of juices. Mostly, there are many types and flavors of juices nowadays, some juices and also shake comes to an exotic flavor like amplaya, durian and many other exotic flavors. Sometimes it’s from the unexpected, where the juices came from. On the other hand, have you ever drink a juice that comes from a bearing fruit that was small but terrible? It’s called Calamansi juice.

I know you have try it not less than three times on your entire life. Calamansi is as sour as some of the life of Calamansi juice drinkers. At first, Calamansi is green in color and most of us people starts the day on a good mood and also starts their day with a smile and colorful as the color of the Calamansi when it grew. Growers see the Calamansi as a tiny decorative oranges, and mostly it’s a kind of fruit that is ornamental. There was a trivia that when you plant a tree of Calamansi, these trees are problem free and so easy to plant and cultivate both the indoors and outdoors. Literally they thrive inside the house in containers, as well as planted in the ground in tropical areas and zones with occasional mild frosts.

When it comes to our emotions, we are the Calamansi type of person because we are able to cope up to sour moments of our life after we finish the sweetest part of it. We are still able to survive any challenges and obstacles we encounter on our life even if it is on a good situation nor bad situation. Although the feeling is bad because you are hurt or you are feeling down or whatever painful situation you have, always remember that drinking Calamansi juice can cast away your problem, emotionally and physically. These fruit has several medicinal uses. It can be a good source of cure physically, treatment to itchy scalp, to heal insect bites, remove freckles, clear up acne and pimples and deodorize underarms. It is also a popular home remedy for cough. In addition to these, maids and mothers are awed by its power to remove heavy stains on fabrics as a substitute on bleach that we often bought on stores.

Happy, Healthy and Long-live

“I hate green leafy vegetables mom”, that was the phrase that children used to say, rather the younger age used to say when they will be having lunch or dinner including vegetables on their plate. It is not considered as a good stuff there. I think that kids nowadays should eat more fruits and vegetables instead of eating too much junk foods. Our grandmother used to cook “Tinolang Manok” since we’re just a kid and up to the present. I want it to have more “Malunggay leaves”. The good thing is that it was a source of some added vitamins and energy that we need to do our daily tasks wisely. But still it was just like nothing happens when we eat malunggay because it has no taste. Before, we considered it just as green leafy veggie.

We all knew that eating the right kind of food like fruits and vegetables makes our body healthy, most especially our digestive system. Malunggay is also considered as “body sweepers” because they contain a lot of fibers which taken into our system that makes our body clean. Even though these kind of leaf is considered healthy, on the first place, kids do not really like to eat a lot of it, they think that eating too much veggie could kill them. However, some kids and most likely toddlers have their taste on eating these kind of vegetable, because at those age, they have the ability to eat soft food particles that was easily dissolved into substance although they have no complete teeth to chew the food well. Some children are amazing because in terms of food, they are not choosy on what they want to eat.

Malunggay, known as Moringa Oleifera, is a popular plant known for nutritional value as well as a herbal medicine. Malunggay is commonly and widely used as vegetable ingredient in cooking, as herbal medicine for a number of illness and other practical uses and mostly our grandmother helps us to cure illness when it comes to their grandchild because the want to protect us. The Malunggay plant can grow to as high as 9 meters with erect white trunks as I see through our owned malunggay tree outside our house. It also has white fragrant flowers that produces long pods with 3-angled winged seeds. It has been used as herbal medicine in many cultures for hundreds of years, Malunggay is known as a very nutritious plant where it is used to avoid malnutrition in third world countries like our country Philipines, especially for infants and nursing mothers.

Abante Tonite’s Real Time Story, Spotted on a Blogspot

          We all knew that every newspaper and the online website of those newspaper gives us a reliable and trusted news all the time we are needing it. Newspaper provides the news that can catch our attention and they’re having a variety of sections that entertains us. But have you already ask yourselves, readers, on what is their own story? How about their origin? Their history? I know you haven’t. So I’ll provide you a brief story about Abante Tonite. Not too long and not too short. But its an article where we could get some few information. Hope you’ll get few data’s on this one. So, here it is.

          First, what is a tabloid? A tabloid is a newspaper that is about half the page size of an ordinary newspaper and that contains news in condensed form and much photographic matter. Abante Tonite starts from a tabloid newspaper which is Abante before they go online. Second, what is Abante news in terms of tabloid? Abante is a daily Filipino tabloid publication in the Philippines. Its office is in Manila. Its editor-in-chief is Allen A. Macasaet and he is also the current president of the Abante Tonite. Abante started publish on May 1988, the newspaper was famous by its adult column entitled Xerex Xaviera, which also appeared on its sister paper Abante Tonite. During the State of Emergency in 2006, operatives from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group tried to raid Abante's office but withdrew when they saw that there are television crew in the area. Currenty this is the one of the leading Tagalog-language tabloid paper along with Pilipino Star Ngayon and Bulgar. Abante Tonite is the online version of Abante on tabloid.

          It was year 2003 when Regal Films release its film based on Xerex story. But in mid-2004 Xerex stopped publishing columns to give way to a shifting to all-family paper. With its vision and mission: "To be the leading and trend setting tabloid in the newspaper industry, ran by highly and technologically creative and innovative Filipino workers, committed and dedicated to serve readers by providing credible and accurate news reports and stories." Abante Tonite gives way to other news sites and you can be able to see the result of creative minds of the staffs in serving readers through providing the right information. You can see a lot of sections which will be compatible on what you are looking for. Today, TONITE receives the biggest circulations that have not yet reached by any kind of tabloid newspaper site here in the Philippines. It is a kind of online site written in Filipino and English. Published by Monica Publishing Corporation (MPC), located at #167 Liberty Bldg. Roberto S. Oca St., Port Area, Manila. Abante Tonite can be seen seven days a week through online. Abante Tonite gave birth in the year 1988 and at a short period of time, it established its own readers on its merchandise on afternoon newspapers.

          The MPC, is only owned by the family of Amado P. Macasaet, whose also publishing the 16-page of the Abante in tabloid. Together with its current president is Allen A. Macasaet. It was considered as one of the trusted newspaper in its merchandise on the morning newspaper. The news they had given are the news for the part of Manila and also for the entire part of the Philippines. The aim of Abante Tonite is to serve the Filipino people n the Philippines, on the other part of the world in terms of creating, finding and disseminating information and leisures on the paper. But now through the use of an internet. Now, they are hoping that the information that they provided will bring the readers the worth to read it. That was one of the advantage of the newspaper at home and online. Considering the pass paced time, newspaper is considered as the traditional print journalism. But having this online site is not the way to make traditional way to decline.

          Abante-tonite.com is 14 Years, 9 Months, 9 Days old. It has a Google page rank of 4 out of 10 and ranks #67,263 on the world of the internet among 30 million domains based on Alexa traffic ranking. For traffic rank, lower is better. The lower the rank means there are more visitors that site gets. So this rank shows the Abante-Tonite site’s popularity. The website of TONITE is estimated to get 3,630 unique visitors per day. These unique visitors make 15,609 pageviews. They have estimated that the site was earning at least $56 USD per day with advertising revenues so it can be valued at least $58 166 USD and has similar value to 60abc.com, Pirillo.com, Bullzip.com, Craigclassifiedads.com, Cloudberrylab.com. It has 40 366 backward links from 649 domains, 20 backward links from .edu domains and 8 links from .gov domains. It was also detected that the average page load time of this website is 0.18 seconds.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abante

http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/aug2613/about_us.htm

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/aug2613/about_us.htm

http://digsitesvalue.net/s/abante-tonite.com

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Mother was declared dead on arrival, after suffering a third degree burn

     Early Friday morning, blazing of house was found in a shanty community located in the Love Road, Delta Compound near a city park. Deputy Fire Marshal Jose Waling of the Bureau of Fire Protection said that there's no electricity in the area due to power shortage.

     It's 1:16 am, when the firefighters were called by the neighbors to rescue immediately, but firefighters are on the scene at exactly 1:25 am. It concluded that the fire started in a house of a family with three kids. The father of the family left a lit candle unattended before going to his night work, leaving three kids and the mother.

     All victims were brought to the La Loma Hospital, Deputy adds that the estimated damage to property is worth P5,000,000.00 because the strong winds causes the fire to spread out, burning houses that are made of light materials.

     The spokeswoman of the hospital said that there are 2 girls and 1 boy who suffered the first to third degree burn, then a mother with the age of 42 was declared dead on arrival. When the father have been arrived home, he cries while confirming the names of his wife and his children.

     It took fighters to distinguish the fire about 4 hours and 20 minutes which alerts to level task force Bravo. The fire razed at 70 houses, affecting at least 70 families.

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I have my 18 years of experience to live in this big Milky Way Galaxy, in a round world called Earth, inside the continent Asia, and most specifically in the country Philippines. I’m studying Communication Research at Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Being with God, our family and my friends, I’ve done experiencing a lot of tasks, challenges and obstacles in life since I have opened my eyes after my mom gave birth to me. I do encountered that living life is not always easy. So I would say that life is mysterious. Many challenges, and I knew that this was only my first step taking the lead. Hoping for a good future that counts.

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