Yesterday, the tropical storm named "Ondoy" by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), wreaks havoc to all the places that it passed by as it moves through Luzon.

Me and my family personally experienced it's devastating force as it passed by out town, trees are plucked from the ground, part of our roof got blown-off by the force of the wind, and water came in and flooded part of our house. But compared to other places I can say that what we have experienced is still not that bad, and I thank God for that.

According to the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) as of 6 p.m. today, "Ondoy" had caused 73 fatalities.

According to Situation Report No. 7, 44 people died in Region IV-A: one in Calaca, Batangas; one in Calauag, Quezon; 23 in Tanay, Rizal; 10 in Angono, five in Baras; three in Montalban and one in Theresa, all in Rizal province.

Seven People were killed in the National Capital Region - three in Muntinlupa City, two in NIA Road, Quezon City; one in Marikina City, and 1 in Brgy. Bato, San Juan.

Twenty-one died in Region III: nine in Bulacan and 12 in Arayat, Pampanga. In the Cordillera Administrative Region, one was killed in Kabugao, Apayao.

Among the fatalities were a soldier and four volunteers from the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit who took part in the search and rescue efforts for the storm's victims.

The number of affected families across Luzon has swelled to 69,513 (about 337,216 people). The partial total number of evacuees has also reached 11,967 families (about 59,920 people) who are staying in 118 evacuation centers, NDCC data showed.

Twenty-three others were reported missing: 20 in Tanay, Rizal; two in Arayat, Pampanga, and one in Kabayan, Benguet. Four were injured: three in Kabayan, Benguet, and one in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

The NDCC's official tally, however, did not include the 36 fatalities and 100 other missing according to the Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) of San Isidro Church in Barangay Bagong Silangan in Quezon City.

Indeed nobody is excempted in Ondoy's destructive force, even celebrities were not exempted with the disasters caused by the tropical storm. Christine Reyes, Jean Garcia and her daughter Jenica Garcia, Kaye Brosas, Silvia Sanchez and Gladys Reyes are among the local celebrities that got stranded and asked help, when their houses were submerged in the flood caused by the heavy rain brought by Ondoy.

Today efforts are being given by everybody to help in their own way, those who are most affected by the tropical storm "Ondoy". T.V Networks and other organizations are gathering donations to help those in need, even the cyberspace are flooded with call for help. If you are interested in helping or donating here is a list where you may send your donation for those affected by "Ondoy."

Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC)
72-A Times St., West Triangle Homes , QC
9299820, 9299822
looking for donations and volunteers

Relief Operations Center
AGS Annex, #446 EDSA Guadalupe Viejo after PET Tower
contact Ares at 0917.855.4935 or Rachel at 0918.924.1636
accepting donations of used clothing (esp for children),blankets,canned goods,instant noodles,bottled water,rice, etc.

Kabataan Partylist
Drop off donations or volunteer at 118-B Sct. Rallos QC.
09266677163 or kabataanpartylist@gmail.com

Brainbeam Events, Inc.
2/F MB Aguirre Cornerhs Bldg,15 Pres Ave cor Elizalde Sts, BF Homes Pque rt across the old Caltex in BF
will accept relief goods

UP College of Arts and Letters (CAL)
Donation center at CAL/text 0929-6454102
will accept goods and cash

UP Diliman USC
contact TITUS 09178001909, JOSE 09273056607 and TIN 09154906106
is collecting food, clothing and/or cash

Coffee Bean and Teal Leaf (all branches)
accepting canned goods, water, clothes, blankets, towels, medicine, and emergency supplies (no cash)

Erica Paredes
Katipunan Avenue, QC
0917-4741930
donate bread, packed juice, sandwich filling or you can help her team distribute the goods

Junior Chamber International Manila
Baypark Tent, Roxas Blvd.
will accept goods starting Monday

Tulong Bayan
09086579998 (Marilyn), 09393633436 (Jenn) 9137122, 9136254 & 9133306
is looking for donations and volunteers

Corporate Network for Disaster Reponse
bank account no. 0031 0654 02 BPI Ayala Paseo Branch
for cash donations

Akbayan
call 4336933/4336831 for details
will accept relief goods and needs volunteers for relief effots

Our Lady of Pentecost Parish
12 F. Dela Rosa corner C. Salvador Sts., Loyola Heights, Quezon City
(+632-4342397, +632-9290665)
will accept relief goods

Kapuso Foundation
2/F GMA Kapuso Center
Samar St. cor. 11th Jamboree St. Diliman, Quezon City
Call 9827777 loc. 9901/9904/9905.
accepts relief goods and cash

METROPOLITAN BANK & TRUST COMPANY (METROBANK)

Peso Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 3-098-51034-7

Dollar Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 2-098-00244-2
Code : MBTC PH MM

UNITED COCONUT PLANTERS BANK (UCPB)

Peso Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 115-184777-2
: 160-111277-7

Dollar Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 01-115-301177-9
: 01-160-300427-6
Code : UCPB PH MM

BANCO DE ORO (BDO)

Peso Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 469-0022189

Dollar Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 469-0072135

Code : BNORPHM

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK (PNB)

Peso Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 121-0032000-17

Dollar Savings
Account Name : GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc.
Account Number : 121-0032000-25
Code : PNB MPH MM

Sagip Kapamilya
ABS-CBN Warehouse
13 Examiner St
will accept donation goods

ABS-CBN Foundation
cash donations
BDO acct # 56300-020111
Account Name: ABSCBN Foundation

Miriam Quiambao
One Orchard Road Bldg, Eastwood City
will accept donations starting Monday

Operation Rainbow
Ayala Alabang Village
4687991
Accepts Canned Goods, Ready-To-Eat Food, Bottled Water, Ready-To-Drink Milk/ Juice, Clothing, Blankets

Monique Villonco
Whitespace 2314 Chino Roces Ave Ext
will accept relief goods in behalf of NoyMar volunteers

Every Nation, FORT
32nd St cor University Pkwy across Market Market
will accept donations for Red Cross esp. purified water, canned goods, and infant formula

CDRC
72-A Times St., West Triangle, QC.
9299820/22
will accept relief goods

Manor Superclub, Eastwood City
will accept goods and other emergency items starting Sunday at 10 am

All Petron branches
will accept relief goods

La Salle Greenhills
Drop off goods at Gate 2

Ateneo
Drop off goods at the MVP Lobby

Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan Task Force Noah
Ateneo Cervini Dorm

Caritas Manila Office, Pandaca, MANILA
accepts relief goods esp. milk, dry clothes, food

Philippine Army Gym
Fort Bonifacio
accepts relief goods

Camp Aguinaldo
CRS Office, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City
0915-1162853
will accept food, medicines, and other relief items

Radio Veritas
Veritas Tower West Ave. Corner EDSA
9257931-40
accepts relief goods

Hillsborough Village chapel in ALABANG
Water, blankets, shoes, and clothes etc. are being accepted at the Hillsborough Village chapel for families whose houses were washed out in the nearby sitios.

LUCA store
Rockwell, Eastwood, Shangri-la
will accept relief goods

Myron’s
Greenbelt
will accept relief goods

Papemelroti Stores
will accept relief goods (canned goods / milk / bottled water / clothes – NO CASH)
91 Roces Ave. / Ali Mall Cubao / SM City North EDSA / SM Fairview / SM Megamall / Glorietta 3 in Makati /… SM Centerpoint / SM Southmall

Aranaz Stores (for Payatas communities)
Rockwell and Greenbelt
will accept donations

MOONSHINE
Powerplant Mall, Rockwell
will accept relief goods

Balay Expo Center across Farmers Market Cubao (NoyMar Volunteers)
will accept relief donations as well as volunteers

Office of Congressman Ruffy Biazon
Ground Flr South Center Tower, Madrigal Business Park Alabang.

Team Manila
Trinoma, Mall of Asia, Jupiter Bel-Air and Rockwell
shall be accepting relief goods for distribution by Veritas

Luzon Relief
Renaissance Fitness Center
2nd Floor, Bramante Building, Renaissance Towers Ortigas, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City
Contact Person: Warren Habaluyas, (0929) 871 3488, luzonrelief@gmail.com
Relief goods will be accepted

TXTPower.org
will forward donations to Red Cross
Paypal
Smart Money – 5577-5144-1866-7103
G-Cash – 0917-9751092

Red Cross
1. CASH or CHECK
Please send cash or check donations to the PNRC National Headquarters in Manila. Checks should be made payable to The Philippine National Red Cross. They can arrange for donation pick-up.

2. BANK DEPOSIT
Account Name: The Phil. Nat’l. Red Cross

METROBANK
Port Area Branch
Peso Acct.: 151-3-041-63122-8
Dollar Acct.: 151-2-151-00218-2
Type of Acct. : SAVINGS
Swift Code: MBTC PH MM

BANK OF THE PHIL. ISLANDS
Port Area Branch
Peso Acct.: 4991-0010-99
Type of Account: CURRENT

BANK OF THE PHIL. ISLANDS
UN Branch
Dollar Acct.: 8114-0030-94
Type of Account: SAVINGS
Swift Code: BOPI PH MM

For your donations to be properly acknowledged, please fax the bank transaction slip at nos. +63.2.527.0575 or +63.2.404.0979 with your name, address and contact number.

Credit Card

Please fax the following info to +632.404.09.79 and +632.527.0575:

Name of card member, billing address, contact nos. (phone & mobile), credit card no., expiration date, CCV2/ CVC2 (last three digits at the back of the credit card), billing address, amount to be donated.

For online donations you may also visit our website at www.redcross.org.ph .

In-Kind Donations

LOCAL
Please send in-kind local donations to The Philippine National Red Cross – National Headquarters in Manila. They could also arrange for donation pick-up.

INTERNATIONAL

1. Send a letter of intent to donate to the PNRC
2. A letter of acceptance from PNRC shall be sent back to the donor
3. Immediately after shipping the goods, please send the (a) original Deed of Donation, (b) copy of packing list and (c) original Airway Bill for air shipments or Bill of Lading for sea shipments to The Philippine National Red Cross–National Headquarters c/o Secretary General Corazon Alma de Leon, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila 2803, Philippines.

SMS and G-CASH

SMS
text REDAMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4483 (Smart)

G-CASH
text DONATEAMOUNT4-digit M-PINREDCROSS to 2882

Most urgent needs

Food items: Rice, noodles, canned goods, sugar, iodized salt, cooking oil, monggo beans and potable water

Medicines: Paracetamol, antibiotics, analgesic, oral rehydration salts, multivitamins and medications to treat diarrheal diseases

Non-food items: Bath soaps, face towels, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, plastic mats, blankets, mosquito nets, jerry cans, water containers, water purification tablets, plastic sheetings, and Laundry soap

Somewhere in Georgia back in the 1800's a poor farmer and his wife were expecting their 5th child. The farmer knew that he and his wife could not provide for this child because crops had been bad that year and he could barely feed his family of six.

When the wife went into labor the farmer called for the doctor. Unknown to the wife, the farmer and the doctor had already made arrangements to get rid of the baby. Their plan was to take the baby from the room immediately after the delivery and tell the wife that the baby died during birth.

When he left the farmhouse that night, the doctor took the baby to a nearby bridge and dropped him over the side. The wife never found out about what the farmer and the doctor had done.

It is said that on a cloudless night during a full moon, if you drive your car to "Baby Bridge" and park it in the center at the bridge's highest point. Get out of your car and sprinkle baby powder in a circle around you. Then get back in your car and turn the engine and the lights off for 10 minutes. You will hear the soft sound of a baby crying. When you get out of your car there will be baby footprints in the circle of powder.

DEFINITION
An urban legend, urban myth, or urban tales is a form of modern folklore with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing or horror. It's consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them., the term is often used to mean something akin to an "apocryphal story" involving incidents of the recent past. Like all folklore, urban legends are not necessarily false, but they are often distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized over time.

Despite its name, a typical urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban setting. The term is simply used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in preindustrial times. For this reason, sociologists and folklorists prefer the term "contemporary legend".

Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by e-mail. People frequently allege that such tales happened to a "friend of a friend" -- so often, in fact, that "friend of a friend" has become a commonly used term when recounting this type of story.

Some urban legends have passed through the years with only minor changes to suit regional variations. One example is the story of a woman killed by spiders nesting in her elaborate hairdo. More recent legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed, anesthetized, and walking up minus one kidney, which was surgicaly removed for transplantation (a story which folklorist refer to as "The Kidney Heist".)

PROBLEMS
Problems, everybody has them, no body is exempted from having problems. Whoever you maybe or whatever you do, you would always face problems everyday. It doesn't matter how big your problem is, what matter is how you tackle these problems to come-up with a solution. Problem solving is one of those abilities that allegedly distinguishes human beings from other animals. Though many creatures can solve problems, and some even uses tools, humans are the only creatures that invent new innovations to solve problems. This article would feature tips on how one could face his problems to find solutions to answer this problems.

PROBLEM SOLVING
Problem solving is a mental process and is a part of the larger problem process that includes problem finding and problem shaping.

Considered the most complex of all intellectual functions, problem solving has been defined as higher-order cognitive process that requires the modulation and control of more routine or fundamental skills. Problem solving occurs when an organism or an artificial intelligence system needs to move from a given state to a desired goal state

THINGS TO REMEMBER

• Keep Your Calm. Like in any situation loosing your calm would surely result in disaster. So keep your cool, you need it to see things more clearly.

• Don't Stay Up Late. It has been proven that a good night sleep would help clear your mind and help it to function more efficiently, so if you still can't think of a solution don't stay up late. Have a good night sleep and in the morning your mind would be ready to find a solution.

• One Problem At A Time. When you are facing more than one problem, don't think of a solution for all of it at the same time. Organize your problems and identify which is needed to be prioritized the most and tackle them one problem at a time.

• The More The Merrier. When searching for a solution to your problem you don't need to be alone, consider other people and what they can do to help you with your problem. If you can't see a solution from your point of view, seek advice and opinion from other peoples point of view.
  

• Every Problem Has A Solution. We have to remember that there is no such problem that has no solution. It may be hard to find a solution but still there is a solution, all we need to do is never to give up looking for it.

• Drinking, Drugs and Death is NOT A SOLUTION! Remember that when facing a problem drowning yourself in alcohol, taking drugs and death are not the solution to your problems. You may forget your problems for a while when you are drunk or high with drugs but it will still be there when you are already sober, and no mater how big your problem may be it's not worth taking your own life or the life someone else. These will not solve your problems but would make things worst for you and for everyone around and loves you.
  

STEPS IN PROBLEM SOLVING

Identify Your Problem. Like a soldier going to war, you can't fight in a war and hope to win it, if you lack the information about your enemy. Try to specify what the real problem is and what causes it, so that you can derive the specific solution for your problem. For example, if you want to find something you need in your messy room, you can try and search every square inch of your room for it or you can identify the specific problem, which in this case is that you can't find anything in your room and it is caused by the mess and by the unorganized things in it. By identifying your problem you can immediately realize that the best solution to your problem is not to search the whole room but to clean it up and organize everything in it

Set Your Goals. After identifying your problem the next thing you need to do is set your goals. Your goals should be the possible and achievable given the parameters posed by the problem. The goals set should answer the question, "What do you want to achieve and/or change?"

Brainstorming. Now that your goal is set, it's now time to flex your mental muscles and think of all the possible ways in achieving your goal. Try to remember successful ways of solving a problem or achieving your goals that you have done in the past. Be creative, think of ideas out of the box and don't restrict yourself in any way. Consider all solutions even those that you might think to be nonsense or unusual solutions. It would help if you write everything that you would think about down on a piece of paper.

Considering The Consequences. After listing down the possible solutions in achieving your goals, it's now time to consider the the positive or negative consequences of all the solutions on your list. When doing so, you need to answer questions like, "What are the advantages and the disadvantages?" It is better to look at the advantages first before looking at the disadvantages, for if you look at the disadvantage first you might get so disillusioned that you cannot think of any advantages. Another question needed to be put in consideration is, "What are the risks, what caution is needed and what problems can occur?" Giving a solution to a problem can cause other problem so you need to put in consideration the risk of the solution causing another problem, the problem that could occur and the caution needed to be taken so it would not cause another problem. For example the invention of the automobile to replace horses, yes cars can take you to one place to another faster than a horse, but it caused problems with air pollution.

Pick The Best One. After taking things into consideration and deliberating on every possible solution, it's now time to pick the best solution among the list that you have created.

Execute It. After picking the best solution, all there is to do is to execute it and see what happens. If you are dealing with an issue such that conditions change upon execution, don't be afraid to reevaluate your strategy. Remember, changes in parameters of the issue do not necessarily mean the steps you've taken failed. It is sometimes necessary to execute your original plan fully to gain more insight into the problem. Unless this is a one shot deal, trial-and-error is often an excellent approach.

Evaluate The Results. Finally upon executing the solution, it is now time to evaluate the results. When evaluating the results you need to see if the results that you expect was achieved. If not see if there was an error in planning or execution? Did new parameters present themselves? Reevaluate in light of these discoveries and approach the problem again. Sometimes you can repeat your original plan if the error was in the execution. However, if the parameters have changed then a new strategy is often necessary.

Solving a problem is easy, all you need is the know-how on dealing with it.

FEAR
Fear is an emotional response to a threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. Some Psychologists John B Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that fear is one of a small set of bsic or innate emotions. This set also includes such emotions as joy, sadness, and anger. Fear should be distinguished from the related emotional state of anxiety, which typically occurs without any external threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is the result of threats which are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable. Worth nothing is that fear always relates to future events, such as worsening of a situation, or continuation of a situation that is unacceptable.

Fear is also an important protective instinct. At any hint of danger, the hormone noradrenalin is released into the blood, and prepares the body for action: skin goes pale as blood is diverted to the muscles; sweating increases to cool the muscles; faster breathing provides more oxygen for the muscles; fast heartbeats push more blood to the muscles; gut and bladder relax as blood is diverted from them to the muscles.

BURYING OSTRICH'S HEAD
A popular belief about ostriches is that they bury their heads in the sand when they are afraid, in the hope that their enemies will not notice them. Ostriches may well listen intently for sound with their heads close to the ground, and sometimes they even lower their heads to rest their neck muscles.

Some believe that the rumor that ostriches bury their heads in the sand comes from the fact that ostriches ingest sand and pebbles, which help them swallow their food; people may have noticed them picking up pebbles in their mouths and believed that the ostriches were burying their heads instead.

Another possible reason for this belief could be the scientific fact that, when threathened, the ostrich will fall forward in the sand and lay its head to the ground, so that its body will resemble a bush to passing predators. This action is especially common when the ostrich is attempting to protect its eggs. Because their head and neck are the same color as the sand, to an observer, it may look as though the ostriches bury their heads in the sand.

Even if the reason of this rumor is still uncertain, it is certain that they never bury their heads in the sand. If they did, they would probably suffocate.

GREED
Greed is defined in the dictionary as an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.

Greed is the excessive or rapacious desire and persuit of money, wealth, power. It is generally considered a vice, and is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholicism.

Buddhist believe greed is based on incorrectly- connecting material wealth with happiness. This is caused by a view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an object; that is, acquiring material objects has less impact than we imagine on our feelings of happiness. This view has been corroborated by studies in the field of happiness. This view has been corroborated by studies in the field of happiness economics, which confirm that beyond the provision of a basic level of material comfort, more wealth does not increase happiness.

Greed is a form of idolatry, according to the Bible (Colossians 3:5). The most common explanation is that the greedy person values money or possessions more than God. This may also be connected with worship of the golden calf.

WHAT MAKES A PERSON GREEDY?
In my point of view people the reason why people become greedy could be associated with a lot of things.

Envy, a person's envious nature could make one greedy, no matter how a person is brought up by his parents, he still find things that he envy with other people. The urge to acquire the things we envy about other people and the desire to make others envy us of what we have could make us greedy.

Power, in a world where money makes it round, wealth is seen as equivalent to power. People striving for more power would strive more wealth and thus become more and more greedy.

Sadness, as defined above greed can be considered as the incorrect-connecting of material things to happiness. A lonely person desperately seeking happiness may get the idea that acquiring material thing could make him happy. A person would try to acquire more and more material things for he thinks it make him feel happy, not realizing that these things doesn't really makes him happy.

GREED IS IT GOOD?
The answer to this question is a big "No", greed would never be good for a person and for everybody around him. A person who is greedy would only listen to his greed, he would never be satisfied no matter how much he acquire in life.

A greedy politician would never think of helping his constituents for he is more focused increasing his wealth more than the problem of his homeland. Just like here in the Philippines, even if people are dying of hunger and the country is filled with problems, some if not all government officials keep stealing from the public funds and putting it into their own pockets.

I mean how much do these pigs need to get by their daily lives? Isn't it enough that they have several mansions when their constituents live on the streets? Isn't it enough that they have billions in their bank accounts, when the less fortunate doesn't even have a peso in their pocket? Isn't it enough that they eat more than five times daily and could afford a million peso dinner, when their fellowmen can't even afford to eat two decent meals in a day? I can't understand how their conscience, if they still have one, could take all of these things and still tell everybody that they are good politicians.

Yes, they may die a wealthy person but could they take their wealth to the afterlife? Yes, they may be entombed in a golden casket when they die, but would the gates of heaven open for their soul? Or would their greediness pull them down to hell?

SLOGAN ORIGIN
A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish and Irish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, sluagh meaning "army", "host" and gairm meaning "cry". The battle cry of the Old Highland clans were said to be the name of the clan or the leader of the clan, repeated again and again by the soldiers in unison as they moved against the enemy. Slogans vary from te written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. Often their simple rhetorical nature leaves little room for detail, and as such they serve perhaps more as a social expression of unified purpose, rather than a projection for an intended audience.

EMBLEMS
Slogans are used in emblems, specifically in Scottish heraldry, in the same way as a motto is used. While mottoes may have several different origins, slogans are considered to originate as, or represent, war cries or battle cries. They usually appear above the crest on a coat of arms.

DO YOU KNOW THAT...

• The run-up to World War II saw growing American resentment against products labeled "Made in Japan." The ever ingenious Japanese thought of overcoming this by renaming one of their industrial centers "USA." The center's exports were thus marked "Made in USA."

• The American Dollar may travel over the world, but the American advertising slogan needs an extra bit of laundering. General Motors is aware of this, for it's Chevy Nova had some trouble in Puerto Rico because "No va" means "It doesn't go" in Spanish. The Pepsi company had a similar problem when it opened shop in China. Its slogan "Come alive with Pepsi" was rendered into the Chinese "Pepsi brings your ancestor back from the grave."

FAMOUS SLOGANS
Here is a list of the very famous commercial slogans by different companies around the world...

• Information Driven - Oracle
• Welcome to the Human Network - Cisco Systems
  
• Do you... Yahoo!? - Yahoo
• Where do you want to go today? - Microsoft
• High Performance, Delivered - Accenture
• Intel Inside - Intel
• The World's Online Market Place - eBay
• Buy it, Sell it, Love it - eBay
• Let's make things better - Philips
• Sense and Simplicity - Philips
• Life's Good -LG
• Like.no.other - Sony
• It's a Sony -Sony
• Imagination at Work - General Electric (GE)
• Everything we do is driven by you - Ford
• The car in front is a Toyota - Toyota
• Moving you forward - Toyota
• Connecting people - Nokia
• Hello Moto - Motorola
• I am what I am -Reebok
• Just Do it - Nike, Inc
• Imposible is Nothing - Adidas
• Because you are worth it - L'Oreal Cosmetics
• A diamond is forever - De Beers
• Keep Walking - Johny Walker
• The King of Good Times - United Breweries
• Coffee at its Best - Nescafe

HUMAN HEAD
In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification, with Sharpey;s fibres permiting some flexibility.

HISTORY IN A SKULL
Like the face of a living individual, a human skull and teeth can also tell, to a certain degree, the life history and origin of its owner. Forensic scientists and archaeologists use metric and non-metric traits to estimate what the owner of the skull looked like. When a significant amount of bones are found, osteologists can use traits, such as proportions of length, height, width, to know the relationships of population of the study, with living or extinct populations.

MALE AND FEMALE SKULLS
In general, male skulls tend to be larger and more robust than female skulls, which are more slender. Male skulls typically have more prominent supraorbital ridges (situated above the eye socket.), a more prominent glabella (The most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline of the supraorbital ridges. Also called mesophryon.), and more prominent temporal lines. Male skulls on average have larger, broader palates, squarer orbits, larger mastoid processes (a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.), larger sinuses, and larger occipital condyles than those of females. Male mandibles typically have squarer chins and thicker, rougher muscle attachments than female mandibles.

All of these features vary considerably within human populations, making it difficult to identify the sex of a skull without knowledge of the population from which it came.

SHRUNKEN HEADS
A shrunken head is a human head that has been prepared for ritual use or trade.

Most known shrunken heads were manufactured either by indigenous peoples in Malanesia and Amazon Basin, or by European or Euro-Americans attempting to recreate the practice. In Amazon, the onlu people known to have shrunk human heads are the Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa and Aguaruna, collectively classified as the Jivaroan peoples of Ecuador and Peru. Among the Shuar, a shrunken head is known as a tsantsa, also transliterated tzantza.

HOW ARE SHRUNKEN HEADS ARE BEING MADE?
The skull was removed from the head; the maker would make an incision on the back of the neck and proceed to remove all the skin and flesh from the cranium. Afterwards, they place red seeds underneath the eyelids and sewed them shut. The mouth was held together with three palm pins. Fat from the flesh of the head was removed. The flesh was then boiled in water which a number of herbs containing tannins were steeped, then dried with hot rocks and sand, while being molded by the preparer to retain its human feature. The skin was then rubbed down with charcoal ash, with the belief that this would keep the musiak, or avenging soul, from seeping out. The lips were sewn shut and various decorative beads were added to the head.

WHY ARE SHRUNKEN HEADS MADE?
The practice of preparing shrunken heads originally had religious significance; shrinking the head of an enemy was believed to harness the spirit of the enemy and compel him to serve the shrinker. It was said to prevent the soul from avenging his death.

HEADHUNTER
A headhunter or head hunter is someone who engages in the cultural practice of headhunting.

DID YOU KNOW THAT...
Among the headhunting Ilongots of Nueva Viscaya in the Philippines of old times, an upcoming father-in-law was expected to give his future daughter-in-law with a stock of knives and spears as a pre-wedding gift. While for the husband-to-be, the best present he could possibly offer to his bride was a freshly cut human head.