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What Transpires During A Panic Attack

From the brain, signals are sent to the nervous system of our body.

It is the nervous system that is responsible in preparing our body to face or to escape the threat.

It is also responsible in returning our body to its original state of equilibrium or tranquility once the threat has gone away or has subsided.

In layman terms, there is this independent region of the nervous system responsible for the rise and fall of our nervous feeling. This rise in feeling is responsible in preparing our body to face or to flee the danger.

The fall in feeling or subsiding feeling works to restore balance and equilibrium, bringing our body back to its normal state.

Let us use our example earlier about graduating top in class. Before the valedictory speech, the rising feel goes to work. After the speech, the subsiding feel is responsible for the bodys equilibrium.

The rising feel is the controversial section of the nervous system which starts the anxiety (or possibly panic attack), while the subsiding feel is the one that brings our body to its original comfortable state.

You might ask: Exactly what part of our body is activated during a panic attack?

In medical terms, just above the kidney are the adrenal glands that release adrenaline (a hormone) when we are in a state of anxiety. The adrenaline is responsible in keeping our anxiety going.

Remember that anxiety within controllable levels is here to protect and not to harm, which is why a continued anxious feeling can be beneficial to the body. Once the excitement is done with, the subsiding feel takes over to return our body to relaxation mode.

What can we do to control anxiety to a tolerable level? We can engage in some coping techniques or strategies to diffuse or control anxiety.

Coping techniques are actually a means of activating the subsiding feel even before the perceived danger is over. Whether we will it or not, this feeling will be called into action at one point or another as the body cannot continue to stay in an ever increasing state of anxiety.

It would be interesting to note that our body is an ingenious work of art.

We need not fear that anxiety will reach an uncontrollable level because our body cells are wise enough to protect themselves from any potential harm.

We may even think negatively and perceive the worst scenario; yet our bodys ingenuity will still prevail and protect us. Even modern science is baffled with the way the human body works, which is why new discoveries develop as time passes by. Whatever situation we find ourselves into, we can be sure of our bodys aim to keep us away from harm.

To sum up what we have discussed so far, anxiety or panic attacks are actually products of our mind; and to a certain extent, they are due to body chemistry.

Entertain yourself by visualizing a caricature of two persons – one representing your mind and the other one, your body. While the mind keeps on doing all sorts of stuff to bring the body to its worst condition (typifying anxiety), the body keeps its ground – confident and barely moving.

Why Do We Need to Control Anger?

It is often difficult to preserve control of your natural impulses while others close to us make us angry. It can be still more difficult with the cost of living raising every year and bringing more pressure into our lives, and as if that is not sufficient the legal and political system is regularly putting more stress on us everyday.

Most of us deal with the stressors in life as they come our way, but a few of us cannot and become out of control. Management is frequently the best answer for treating anger; but then, the individual must be ready to admit their actions are leading to more problems and be prepared to obtain a solution.

If a person react violently, verbally abusive, assaulting others and so on, it not only leads to trouble for the person that is out of control, it also causes difficulties for others. Normally when a person has anger issues he or she will attack other people perhaps physically or mentally or even both. The angry person will often attack in a way that belittles, humiliates, harms, or threatens another. This person truly needs to learn to manage his or her anger, because anybody around him or her is affected to a certain amount.

Anger is mainly the inability to restrain our basic impulses, needs and emotions. If a person is out of contact with his emotions, it frequently creates a chaotic mind. Anger is not necessarily a bad thing, when and if a person is threatened; it is always good to have an amount of anger to protect you, but when a person doesn’t have any control at all then it will lead to problems.

Anger, sadness, joy and happiness are all parts of our emotions, and when we have those emotions in control we can live a productive life. However, when we begin to target or attack others then it is more and more difficult for us to handle our life and anger.

One clearly recognized example is school bullying, for a few children going to school is a nightmare, each day a bully will antagonize this child pushing him beyond his limit of control. The child may hold his feelings in for a period, but eventually he or she is going to loose control, due to the fact that none of us is prepared to continue permitting someone to make our lives miserable.

Sorry to say, when this child gets to his or her limit and returns the attack on the other youngster, he then becomes the culprit and is frequently punished. The bully could quite often get away with his actions, and once the victim takes action he or she is frequently punished. The school personnel will often say why didn’t you tell me what was going on? However, the fact is the child most likely told the personnel and in my experiences, they seldom act. The out come is that now we have two children with anger troubles and more people in trouble. This is merely one of the numerous reasons why a person cultivates anger to the point at which they feel they have to retaliate.

Each time we are angry we feel it in our body and mind. Our body will often tense up if we feel angry. If you feel this tension then it is time to step back and take control. Ask yourself, why am I mad? Why do I feel this way? Asking yourself questions might help you find the answers if you search your mind hard enough.

Generally after a person has developed a level of anger that is out of control, they will frequently strike out at people even if there is no justifiable reason. The person may have just moved something that belonged to that person and they respond by saying something like, you stupid moron, why in the hell did you move my belongings? I cannot believe how stupid you are. Why do you bother breathing? This is completely inappropriate behavior; the angry person may attack physically by kicking, hitting, punching, spitting, or causing other types of harm to the individual. It is vital to get management in play if you have anger problems.

If you cannot control your emotions then one day, someone will control them for you. Anger is great if you have it under control, but when you loose control somebody, someday will pay and that someone in most cases will be you as well as the trail of victims you leave behind you.

Roger Overanout

Wish Upon A Shooting Star

I have always been a dreamer. Even when I was a little kid my thoughts were always full of how my life could be different or of how the world could become a better place. Sometimes, after my mom had tucked me into bed with an instruction to stay in my bed no matter what, I’d sneak over to the large window in my bedroom and stare outside into space. I would find an area of the sky that was filled with the most stars and I would wait. I would whisper a wish (because wishes always had to be said outloud) and wait for a shooting star to fall and make my wish come true.

Sometimes my wishes would be for myself and other times I would make wishes for my friends or my family. I didn’t like it that my knee got all scraped up when I fell down on the playground, and I didn’t like it that other kids got made fun of if they had to wear glasses. So I would make wishes about things like these. I would wait on a shooting star in hopes that my mom would stop crying so much or so that my baby sister wouldn’t be sick all the time. I believed with all my heart that all it took for my dreams to come true was seeing a shooting star fall from the sky. I believed there was something magical about a shooting star, something in it that was the answer to peoples’ problems.

Even now, as an adult, I find myself wondering if wishing on a shooting star doesn’t in some way help solve the problems of the world. It seems like too many of my childhood wishes got answered for there to not be at least a little magic in a shooting star. Of course now my wishes are for bigger things like world peace or the eradication of all of the world’s poverty. I dream about a world without violence and about a world where every child is given a chance to live. And while most of the time these dreams never make it outside the walls of my own mind, every now and then I’ll be outside on a clear night and find myself gazing up to the sky and wishing my dreams outloud, just above a whisper.

I’m not sure if I keep looking for a shooting star because I really believe in it’s magic or if I’m just caught up in a habit from my childhood. Either way, I guess it is good for me to believe in the power of a little dreaming and of wishing upon a shooting star.

Words That Hypnotize – Using Subliminal Language To Get What You Want

Many people wish to gain a greater influence over others in their life. There can be a lot of reasons for this. Business interactions, social situations and even friendships could profit from the proper use of language. Wouldn’t it be great if we could find a way to use language in such a way that it really impacted the listener and “drove” home the idea or concept we were trying to share? Wouldn’t it help if you could properly convey the meaning of what you were saying?

Well there is such an approach and it was first devised, by cunning hypnotists, as a way of speaking directly to the subconscious mind without the subject being aware of it! It is called hypnotic language or hypnotic conversation.

Hypnotists manipulate this clever use of language in order to relax their subject during hypnosis and deepen their trance. It is a very simple technique that has become famous within hypnotic circles and is even starting to be used in the business world. Beware though, its use must be subtle.

It basically involves your tone of voice and how you intone certain words. You put the slightest amount of emphasis on the words in a sentence to change it from a question or proposal to a command. For example “maybe you want to relax completely or maybe you just want to chill out”, seems straight forward enough. However, manipulate the sentence with the use of hypnotic language and it changes from a proposal to the command “you want to relax completely” and “you just want to chill out”.

So how can we do this?

It is really very simple. But before you find out the how’s we must know the why’s.

Non-verbal communications make-up about 80%, at least, of the message that we are trying to convey to people. Regardless of what it is that you are actually saying, your body language, posture, eye movement, blood flow to the face and a myriad of other signals tells a person exactly what you are trying to communicate. For this reason we can often get the sense that someone is lying to us or not telling us the whole story even when they are searing that what they are saying is the truth. Subconsciously we pick up on these non-verbal clues and “read” the situation as being different from how the person speaking is trying to convey it. Those people who can beat lie-detector machines can, either consciously or unconsciously, regulate these non-verbal communications.

Likewise the intonement you use in your everyday speech is a very important factor in all speech. Your tone of voice can convey messages to your subconscious mind that go unnoticed by your conscious, rational mind. It is through the use of your tone and the spacing of your words that you can literally hypnotize the person you are speaking to. You can also use this technique to turn any words you want in a sentence into subliminal commands.

For instance in the above mentioned example the hypnotist would say the sentence in the following way, [slow and melodic] “mayyyyybbbbeeebe” [in a harder authoritative tone “YOU WANT TO RELAX COMPLETELY”, [slow and melodic] “orrrrr mayyyyybbbbeeeee” [again in a harder authoritative tone] “YOU JUST WANT TO CHILL OUT”.

It should be noted that this effect is very subtle and only becomes noticeable when it is pointed out to you. During hypnosis you are consciously aware that the hypnotist is speaking in a rather strange manner but don’t have any clue as to what is going on and think it is just part of the induction process. However, in a real-life situation the subtlety has to be observed even more – for obvious reasons.

Let’s take an example. You are in a business meeting and want your proposal to be accepted. You say the following, “perhaps if you give this some thought you may find that this is a good idea and one worth pursing now or maybe even in the future”. Simple enough! Now lets make it a hypnotic subliminal command.

You would say,
“perhaps if you give this some thought you may”
” find”
[shorten the normal pause between the last word and the next]
“that”
[pause for a millisecond longer and change your tone only slightly]
“this is a good idea and one worth pursing now”
[pause for a millisecond longer]
“or2
[shorten the normal pause between the last word and the next]
“maybe”
“even in the future”.

The sentence then becomes a command to the subconscious mind which it will accept because it notices the difference in tone as follows, “perhaps if you give this some thought you may find that THIS IS A GOOD IDEA AND ONE WORTH PURSUING NOW or maybe even in the future”.

You should play with this use of hypnotic language until you can fully comprehend what is actually going on. If it is done in a hasty or unrehearsed manner it is plainly apparent to everyone what you are doing. The people who are experts at this go unnoticed and you would never know they were doing it – until now!

Listen to hypnotists (and others who want to persuade you….you know who they are) speaking and see if you can pick out the hypnotic subliminal commands they are using. This will help you develop your new found skill.

Before ever trying it in a real setting practise it on someone close and ask them did they notice anything different about your language and if so ask them if they can identify the difference and if they knew what yo

You Can Not Hide Or Runaway From Your Fears And Anxieties

Sooner or later, you will have to face your fears and anxieties regardless of how difficult they may be. As a layman and an author of a Managing Fear book, there were times that my fears had the best of me. Through these experiences, there is one thing that I learned. You can’t hide or runaway from your fears. Taking drugs, drinking, or other methods will not take away your problems and fears.

So what do you do to make your problems and fears go away? Well, since you can’t runaway from them, then the best solution is to tackle your fears head on no matter how strong they may be. The key is to be smart in how you try to manage these fears.

Do not tackle all of your fears at once. Deal with them one at a time. The best solution is to break your fears or problems into a series of smaller steps. Completing these smaller tasks one at a time will make the stress more manageable and increases your chances of success. If you still have trouble then seek the services of a professional.

Do not give up. Managing your fears takes practice. If it doesn’t work the first time around then try again. Remember that practice makes perfect.

Learn how to manage your negative thoughts that may be difficult to manage. When experiencing a negative thought, read some positive statements and affirmations that help lift your spirits and make you feel better. A lot of our fears are based on our negative thoughts.

Take it one day at a time. Each day can provide us with different opportunities to learn new things and that includes learning how to deal with your problems. Focus on the present and stop trying to predict what may happen next week. Next week will take care of itself.

Managing your fears and anxieties will take some hard work. Trying to avoid you problems will do nothing in getting rid of your fears and anxieties. Sooner or later, you will have to confront your fears and anxieties. Patience, persistence, education, and being committed in trying to solve your problem will go along way in fixing your problems.

Honey Gain: Earn Passive Income From your Android Phone and Windows

If you’re looking for a money-making app that takes no effort to work, then HoneyGain is for you.

You simply download it on all your devices and computers and let it run, then when you’ve reached the payout limit, claim your money.

It’s that simple.

First a little history, HoneyGain was just released recently in May 2019 and already has over 100,000 Android downloads in 2 months.

Let’s review this easy money-making app.

• Direct Link to HoneyGain

1. What is HoneyGain

HoneyGain is a crowdsourced network company that lets other businesses to gather information, data intelligence and perform market and business research.

It’s available to download on Android and Windows, and soon will be available for iOS devices. The simple function behind Honeygain is you get paid for sharing your unused internet and the more devices you have this app installed on, the more you’ll make.

2. Share your Internet

All you have to do is go to Google Play and download the app, or go to Honeygain.com and sign up for a new account.

Data scientists uses Honeygain’s platform to connect to the internet and Honeygain manages all these connections with strict safeguards to protect all these connections. The data scientists then use your unused data for their market and research purposes.

You’ll know your app is working when you’re using Android, you’ll see a small, green notification in the notification bar, while the one on Windows, you just hover over the little bee icon in your notification tray.

Again, the more devices you have this app on, the more money you’ll make.

You can use up to 5 devices on a single network at the same time, but to have the best revenue potential, you should have 1 device per IP address.

They don’t limit the number of devices connected to your account but they do suggest spreading them across several internet addresses for effectiveness.

3. Ways to Make Money

There are 2 ways to make money on HoneyGain.

The first is by installing the app. Currently, there’s only an Android and a Windows app.

They’re currently working on an iOS one.

For example, if you have an android phone and a Windows laptop like I do, then download it on both of them for twice as many earnings.

The other way to earn money is by referring friends.

You can invite your friends with your own personalized link and 10% of their daily earnings will be added to your account. If your referral reaches $50 a month you earn an extra $5!

You can share your link on Facebook, Twitter, Email, or copying and pasting it anywhere.

4. Protect My Internet

Now you may be concerned about your internet safely or personal data.

First, HoneyGain ensures that all of your personal data is safe.

They do not keep any data from any of their clients. The only data they’ll have is what will be necessary for the service. This includes your email address, your IP address, how much traffic you make per month and your chosen payout method.

Secondly, HoneyGain has options in place where you can limit how much of your data plan the app can use. You can turn off the mobile data usage in your Honeygain app settings menu.

Or if on Windows – right-click the HoneyGain bee icon and select “quit” to turn off the app.

You can expect usage of up to 2GB per day, although depending on your network speed, the app can reach a maximum of 15GB per day.

If you’re using the Android version, HoneyGain recommends that you use the Android data usage notifications.

You shouldn’t feel any difference with our app running in the background.

HoneyGain states they never use more than 10% of your available network bandwidth.

5. How Much can you Earn?

The amount you can make depends on how many devices you have the app installed on and how much unused data you have.

You earn credits for every KB of data you bring in, and after collecting enough credits, you can convert them to cash.

Honeygain has an online calculator to estimate your earnings. They estimate your approximate earnings based on the hours you have Honeygain up and running and the longer you have it on, the more you earn.

They state that if you run Honeygain for 24 hours a day, which is 720 hours a month, you can make $50 a month.

This is a fair monthly income just for letting an app run in the background.

6. How Do you get Paid?

As mentioned earlier, you earn credits for every KB of data. The conversion math is 10 credits equals 1¢ USD. The minimum payout is $20 USD.

Currently, Honeygain only pays through PayPal. But are working on adding bank deposits and gift card options as well.

The payout waiting period will depend on the payment type you choose. Right now PayPal payments are usually paid in 24 hours.

Your credits don’t expire as long as you run the app. If you turn off the app and become inactive then your credits expire 6 months after inactivity.

7. Real Data

Now to show you some data from my own Android and Windows experience so you can see how feasible this can be for you.

Android:

I’m a very minimal Android user, I don’t use my phone much at all some parts of the month. I downloaded Honeygain on July 8, 2019, and chose not to “share mobile data” and this is how it went:

• July 8 – 131.84 MB gathered
• July 9 – 246.96 MB gathered
• July 10 to July 12 – 0 MB gathered (I was not using the phone at all)
• July 13 – 103.74 MB gathered.

Windows:

I installed the Windows version of HoneyGain on July 13, 2019, which is the same day of this writing. In just a few hours I’ve already gathered 37.65 MB.

Referrals:

I’ve only shared my link once on my Facebook page and currently only have one friend that signed up. So that’s $5 I will be receiving.

According to HoneyGain that’s 52.87 MB gathered which is 5¢ for just 3 days of gathering. Plus the $5 friend referral.

I made $5.05 in 3 days!

7. Pros & Cons of HoneyGain

Let’s look at the pros and cons of installing HoneyGain.

Pros:

• Easy to use – Download on all your devices and run
• Simple Dashboard – Clear and easy to understand member dashboard
• Easy to Contact – Customer support is easy to reach with their contact form
• Safe – Strict protocols are in place and no personal information is used.

Cons:

• Eats your Plan – If you’re on a limited data plan, HoneyGain can eat up that data and cost you.
• Battery life – Based on age of your device the app uses about 5%-8% of battery life per day.
• Requires Activity – If you don’t use your phone or internet much, you’ll earn less (as you saw from the 3 days of my phone inactivity).

Final  Thoughts

My personal review on HoneyGain is to go ahead and try it. I lazily made $5.05 in three days. So, imagine how much that’ll be in a month, or if you’re a very active phone user.

Work Life Balance And The Power of Positive Thinking

It’s important to get a handle on mood swings or energy shifts if you want to maintain your work life balance and be successful in business. According to psychologist and researcher Martin Seligman, some folks appear to be hardwired to respond optimistically and hopefully to work life balance upset and life’s ups and downs. Others are wired for opposite responses. Fortunately, you do not have to settle for the wiring you were born with. With practice you can improve your resilience and your hopefulness by acquiring solid positive thinking skills.

I like to think of the process of building hopefulness, resilience and positive thinking skills as an analogue to building physical fitness: it takes attention, concentration, commitment, and repetition. If you approach a workout program with those qualities, you can almost always improve your fitness.

The first hurdle to get over is the belief that you already need to be different in order to succeed. You don’t. You are the way you are and you can start from here, overwhelmed, worried, anxious, whatever. Don’t fall into your story about how you feel, but take a stand for what you intend to accomplish to restore your work life balance and where you plan to go. You do not need to feel better before you try these practices — do them now. Another caveat: Do not interpret your progress in the short term — measuring increase in strength and endurance after a single workout would be silly.

Seligman points out that people with an optimistic approach to life habitually accept positive thoughts and dispute negative thoughts. Those of us who are wired to be more pessimistic tend to dispute the positive and accept the negative. Optimists tend to assume that their life balance will be restored, good events will happen again and that bad events are an exception; pessimists assume the reverse. I am oversimplifying his rigorously considered arguments, and I encourage you to read the book if the science of this is important to you.

Here’s a practice he recommends for shifting from hopelessness to hopefulness. I successfully use it with my clients to help them restore their work life balance. He calls it ABCDE for:

Adversity — Beliefs — Consequences — Disputation — Energization.

A – Adversity
Start by spelling out the nature of the situation. Notice that you can experience hopelessness in response to ostensibly positive situations as well as to negative ones. For example, getting a new client or being accepted into a final round of interviews can upset your balance and send you into a whirlwind of anxiety and fear that produces just as much hopelessness and overwhelm as not getting the job or not making the cut.

B — Beliefs
This is your opportunity to spell out the thoughts and beliefs that are fueling the negative response.

C — Consequences
Look at the consequences of your beliefs — what happened as a result? How do you behave? What happened then?

D — Disputation
Actively dispute the beliefs that break your life balance and send you into the downward spiral. This is where you practice arguing with yourself in a productive way.

E — Energization
When you have been effective in disputing the problem beliefs, you feel an influx of energy, a sense of renewed hope, or at least of peacefulness.

So, here’s an example from my life:

Adversity:
I was excited about moving forward on two projects when I fell on my bike and cracked my ribs. I was okay and working hard with this for almost three days, then depression and anxiety set in and my usual positive thinking ability left me. Instead of feeling like moving forward I felt like bursting into tears.

Beliefs:
How will I ever restore my work life balance and get things done if I can’t stop these mood swings? Maybe I am just not meant to lead these projects. I don’t know enough and I can’t seem to get started — I probably should have said no in the first place. It would be better to bow out now, as embarrassing as that will be, than to keep going and have a bigger train wreck later when I just can’t make the grade.

Consequences:
These beliefs leave me feeling very sad and small, like a six year old, and then I wonder how a six year old can possibly be a leader. I find it hard to concentrate and I just want to hide.

Disputation:
Constant low-grade pain can take it out of anyone. The world is not going to come to an end if you delay things because you’ve been injured. And who says you have to do it alone anyway? Some of the problem is that you don’t have enough information to go forward. That calls for making requests of others, not for blaming yourself. And when you’re not leaning on yourself so hard, your positive thinking ability starts coming back and your mood lightens — so maybe it would be smart to cut yourself some slack this week after letting folks know what is going on. You don’t have to crawl under a rock — you can reach out instead to restore your work life balance. And even if some work projects end up being passed on to others, there will always be other opportunities.

Energization:
I called and emailed colleagues to regroup. Not only did these conversations relieve my anxiety, they made simple next steps quite clear. In one case, my summary of a conversation ended up being exactly what our group needed to move forward. Who knew? I had been worried about making things happen on my own when all along my strength was in articulating and clarifying complex input from many sources.

See how this works? I do strongly recommend the book as there are many more practices in it that address different aspects of overwhelm and ways to restore your work life balance. But if you struggle with hopelessness and challenge yourself to work through this one exercise on a regular basis (and if that means five or ten times a day, so be it), your positive thinking skills will grow and you WILL get relief. Remember — don’t measure change before it can happen — keep doing the practices long enough for significant positive shifts to take root and grow.

Ibalon (an epic from bicol)

Si Baltog ay isang batang lalaki na malakas, mabait at matipuno. Siya ay anak ni Handiong, ang pinuno ng kanilang pamayanan. Isang araw, ikinuwento ng kanyang ama ang kaawa-awa nilang kalagayan sa lupain ng Samar. Napakarami nilang kaaway na laging dumarating upang sirain ang kanilang pananim at patayin ang kanilang mga alagang hayop. Namamatay ang mga tao sa gutom dahil sa kawalan ng pagkain. Ang natitira sa kanila ay hindi sapat upang umabot sa susunod na pag-aani.

Pagod nang lumaban ang mga tao anak, sabi ng kanyang ama. Gusto nila ng payapang buhay na walang gutom na gumagala sa paligid. Ang ating mga hayop ay kumokonti ng kumokonti araw-araw. Kapag nagpatuloy ang ganitong sitwasyon ay mamamatay tayong lahat sa gutom.

Ano ang gusto mong ipagawa sa akin, ama? tanong ni Baltog. Tumingin ng diretso sa kanyang mata ang kanyang ama. At hinawakan nito ang kanyang balikat.

Humanap ka ng lugar kung saan makakapamuhay tayong panatag at payapa.

Iginala ni Baltog ang mga mata. Nakita niya ang mga tao sa kanilang kaawa-awang kalagayan. Nakita niya ang gutom at sa mukha ng bawat bata. Nakita niya ang panghihina sa bawat mukha ng ama't-ina. Siya din ay nalungkot.

Masyado na akong matanda kaya inaatang ko na ito sa iyong mga balikat. Bata ka pa, malakas at matapang. Alam kong magagawa mo ito. Para sa akin at sa ating mga mamamayan.

 Ibinigay ni Handiong ang basbas kay Baltog. Naglayag si Baltog kinagabihan sakay ng isang maliit na bangka na magdadala sa kanya sa isang lugar ha tinatawag na Kabikulan. Marami na siya ring narinig tungkol sa lugar at naisip niya na maganda kung makakahanap siya ng lugar kung saan sila maninirahan habang-buhay. Sa malawak na dagat, nasagupa ni Baltog ang malakas na hangin at malalaking alon na sumira sa kanyang bangka. Kinailangan niyang lumangoy at muntikan na siyang malunod bago niya ligtas na narating ang dalampasigan ng baybaying bayan ng Kabikulan.

Nagsimula niyang galugarin ang Kabikulan, hanggang umabot siya sa lupain ng Aslon at Inalon na sumasakop sa kapatagan na nakaligid sa bundok ng Asog, Masaragam, Isarog at Lignion. Natagpuan niya ang Ibalon, isang magandang lugar para sa kanya at sa mga mamamayan. Ang lupa ay mataba at magandang pagtamnan ng mga halamang ugat, palay at mga gulay. Ito rin ay maganda para sa kanilang mga hayop. Para itong lupain ng gatas at pulot.

Nais ko ang lupaing ito para sa akin at sa aking mga mamamayan, sabi ni Baltog sa sarili.

Ngunit nagsalita siya ng maaga. Dahil naninirahan sa paligid ng Ibalon ang ilang buwaya na may pakpak na nakakalipad, mga baboy ramong kasinglaki ng elepante at isang sawa na may ulo ng isang babae. Ngunit desidido si Baltog na makuha ang Ibalon para matirhan kaya nilabanan niya ang mga buwaya at mga baboy ramo ng buo niyang lakas. Dahil sa kanyang galing sa mano-manong pakikipaglaban natalo niya lahat ng buwaya at baboy ramo, pinatay niya ito at pinagpira-piraso. Ngunit, ang sawa na may ulo ng babae ay nakatakas at humanap ng ibang matitirahan.

Bumalik siya at ibinalita sa ama ang tungkol sa lupain na nakita niya para sa kanila. Hindi na sila nagsayang ng oras, si Baltog at ang kanyang ama at ang lahat ng mga mamamayan ay nilisan ang Samar papuntang Ibalon, ang kanilang bagong tahanan. Tinuruan nina Handiong at Baltog ang mga mamamayan ng ilang paraan upang magkaroon ng kabuhayan. At hindi nagtagal ay gumanda ang kanilang pamumuhay. Pinuno nila ang lupain at nagkaroon sila ng masaganang ani. Sa lupaing iyon ang gutom ay naging alaala na lamang ng nakaraan.

Buod ng Ibong Adarna

Ang Ibong Adarna ay isang korido na isinulat noong panahon ng Kastila na ngayon ay bahagi na ng Panitikan at Mitolohiyang Pilipino ^[1]. Noong panahon ng pananakop ng mga Kastila sa Pilipinas, kilala ito sa pamagat na Corrido at Buhay na Pinagdaanan nang Tatlong Principeng Magcacapatid na Anac nang Haring Fernando at nang Reina Valeriana sa Cahariang Berbania ^[2]. May mala-epikong istilo ng pagkakasalaysay ang Ibong Adarna na tumatalakay sa kabayanihan, pag-ibig at kababalaghan. Nakasentro ang kwento sa Adarna, isang ibon na nagtataglay ng mahiwagang kapangyarihan na nakapagpapagaling ng anumang karamdaman sa sandaling umawit at marinig ang tinig nito. Umiikot din ang kwento sa pakikipagsapalaran ni Don Juan, isang prinsipe ng Kahariang Berbanya sa kanyang paghahanap sa Ibong Adarna, paglalagalag sa iba't ibang lupain at pakikipag-ibigan kina Donya Maria Blanca at Donya Leonora ^[3]. May ilang mga kritiko^[sino?] ang nagsasabing maaaring ang sumulat ng Ibong Adarna ay si Jose dela Cruz o kilala sa tawag na Huseng Sisiw.^{[kailangan ng sanggunian]}
May isang kaharian pangalan ay berbanya na pinamumunuan ni Haring Fernando. May asawa siyang nagngangalang Reyna Valeriana at mga anak na sina Don Pedro, Don Diego at Don Juan na pawang nakalinya na susunod na hari ng Berbanya. Nang nagkaroon nd di malamang karamdaman ang hari, hinanap ni Don Pedro ang Ibong Adarna na ang awit lamang ang makapagpapagaling sa sakit ng hari. Narating niya ang puno ng Piedras Platas subalit hindi niya nakita ang ibon dahil siya ay naging bato. Sumonod naman ay si Don Diego, nakita niya ang Adarna subalit nakatulog sa ganda ng awit ng Adarna kaya naging bato. Maluwalhati namang nakarating si Don Juan sa tuktok ng bundok Tabor at doon ay may nakita siyang ermitanyo. Binigyan siya nito ng pagkain at ilang impormasyon tungkol sa ibong adarna pati na rin 7 dayap at isang labaha upang hindi makatulog. Nang marating niya ang puno, ginamit niya ang mga dayap at labaha. Nang mahuli niya ang adarna, tinalian niya ang paa at saka dinala sa ermitanyo at nilagay sa loob ng isang hawla. Pinabuhusan ng tubig ang dalawang kapatid at naglakad sila patungo sa Berbanya. Pinagtulungan ng dalawa si Don Juan upang masolo ang pagiging hari. Ang adarna ay malungkot ganoon din si Haring Fernando nang makitang hindi kasama ng dalawa si Don Juan. Ginamot ng isang uugod-ugod na matanda si Don Juan at umuwi na sa Berbanya. Nakita ng adarna si Don Juan at ito ay umawit at nagamot si haring Fernando. Iminungkahi ng adarna na gawing hari si Don Juan. Iniutos ng hari na ipatapon ang dalawa, ngunit dahil humiling si Don Juan na huwag na lang, ito ay ipinatigil. Pinabantay ng hari ang adarna sa tatlong magkakapatid, ngunit pinuyat ng dalawa si Don Juan kaya nakatakas ang Adarna. Pinahanap ng hari ang maysala. Nagkita-kita ang magkakapatid sa kaharian ng Armenya at hinikayat nila si Don Juan na doon na lang manirahan. May nakita silang tae sa balon at tinangka nilang marating ang ilalim nito ngunit tanging si Don Juan lang ang nagtagumpay. Namangha si Don Juan sa ganda ng ilalim ng balon at kagandahan ni Juana. Nag-ibigan ang dalawa. Napatay ni Don Juan ang higante. Paalis na sana sila nang ipasundo ni Juana kay Don Juan ang bunso niyang kapatid na si Donya Leonora. Umibig din si Don Juan kay prinsesa Leonora. Sa huli, ay napaibig din niya si Leonora. Hindi matalo ni Don Juan ang serpiyente kaya,Binigyan ni Leonora si Don Juan ng balsamo at napatay niya ang serpiyente. Sila ay umalis ng balon kasama si Juana. Naalala ni Leonora ang kanyang singsing,kaya naki usap sya kay don juan na balikan ito,ngunit nang babalikan na ito ni don juan,pinatid nang kayang dalawang kapatid ang tali.inaya na nang dalawang magkapatid si juana at leonora na sumama na sila sa kaharian ng berbanya.Nag alala si leonora kay don juan kaya pinasundan niya si Don Juan sa kanyang kaibigang lobo. Nanaginip si Haring Fernando tungkol kay Don Juan. Nalungkot ang hari nang di Makita si Don Juan. Hiniling ni Don Pedro na ipakasal na sila ni Leonora ngunit hindi pumayag si Leonora,sinabi nitong sya ay may panata na hindi muna magpapakasal saloob ng 7 taon.Sa halip, sina Don Diego't Juana ang ipinakasal. Lumakas si Don Juan nang mapahidan ng tubig mula sa ilog-hordan sa tulong ng lobo.hinanap ni don juan ang ibong adarna at natagpuan nya ito at sinabi sa kanyang kalimutan na si leonora atsa halip siya'y maglakbay patungo sa Reyno de los Cristal upang makita si Maria Blanka.Nahirapan si don juan bago marating ang kaharian ng de los Cristal.may mga tumulong sa kanya na magkakapatid na ermitanyo na may mga balbas.Hinintay ni Don Pedro si Leonora subalit si Don Juan lang ang nasa puso ng prinsesa. Sumakay si Don Juan sa isang agila ng ermitanyo patungong de los Cristal.Narinig ni don juan na may mga dalagang naghahagikhikan,hinanap niya ito.ang mga dalagang ito ay tatlong mag kakapatid,naliligo sila sa ibat ibang ilog.Ang pinaka nagustuhan ni don juan sa tatlong magkakapatid ay si princesa maria blanca.Ninakaw ni Don Juan ang kasuotan ni princesa Maria habang ito'y naliligo. Humingi ng patawad si Don Juan kay princesa Maria at di nagtagal umibig na rin si Maria ka Don Juan.Pinatuloy ni haring Salermo si Don Juan.Gusto niyang pakasalan si maria kaya ibinigay na agad ng hari ang kanyang unang pagsubok kay Don Juan. Ginamit ni princesa Maria ang kanyang mahika upang maisagawa ang pagsubok,dahil dito nagtagumpay si don juan sa unang pagsubok,palihim na natuwa si Haring Salermo kay Don Juan. Inilahad na ng hari ang kanyang ikalawang pagsubok kay Don Juan; ang pangongolekta muli ng 12 na negrito at si Maria nanaman ang gumawa nito. Pagkatapos, ibinigay na ng hari ang kanyang ikatlong pagsubok; ang paglipat ng bundok sa tapat ng bintana ng kwarto ng hari. Malamang, nagulat ang hari sa pagiging matagumpay ni Don Juan. Tinawanan lamang ni Donya Maria ang ika-apat na pagsubok. Hinayaan lamang Maria na matulog si Don Juan habang ginagawa niya ang pagsubok. Nawala ang singsing ng hari sa pagkakatalsik nito sa dagat nang siya ay nasa muog na ipinatayo niya kay Don Juan. Hiniling naman ng hari na ibalik ang bundok sa dating puwesto at patagin bilang ika-limang pagsubok na nagawa naman ni Donya Maria ng maayos. Kinailangan namang tadtarin pa ni Don Juan si Maria upang mahanap ang nawawalang singsing ng hari na naging dahilan ng pagkaputol ng kanyang daliri na nakapaloob sa ika-anim na pagsubok ng hari. Hiniling ng hari kay Don Juan na paamuhin ang mailap at ubod ng samang kabayo ng hari bilang huling pagsubok. Napaamo naman ni Don Juan ang kabayo sa tulong ng mga tagubilin ni Donya Maria. Nang mapili ni Don Juan si Maria,hindi pa rin pumayag si haring salermo na ipakasal si don juan sa kanyang anak kaya nagtanan ang dalawang magkasintahan. Sa sobrang pagkalungkot ng hari ito ay namatay. Bumalik si Don Juan sa kaharian ng Berbanya at nagsaya ang buong kaharian.Hiniling niya sa hari na magpaksal sila ni leonora. Nagpunta si Maria sa Berbanya ngunit hindi siya nakilala ni Don Juan. Nagsagawa ng pagtatanghal si Maria patungkol sa mga pangyayari at pagsubok nilang dalawa ni Don Juan,at naalala na niya na ang mahal nya ay si maria blanca.Nagpakasal sina Maria blanca at Don Juan bumalik sila sa Reyno de los Cristal at namuno.Si Leon naman at si Don Pedro ang nagkatuluyan. Nakapahilis na panitik'''Nakapahilis na panitik''

Understanding Spyware

Spyware is a “malware” or malicious software that is placed on your computer without your knowledge. This can happen when you visit online web sites offering free downloads of games, when you download videos or music, or any share files, such as when you download that comic e mail from your friend. Spyware programs are piggybacked into your machine at the same time you download a file. Spyware is infecting millions of home computers today.

Spyware tracks your on line computer habits. It knows each site you visit and what you have looked up on that site. Some spyware even tracks each keystroke you make, including every bit of information you fill out on a form, such as name and address, and credit card information when you make a purchase. This has some in the online world worried that this can lead to identity theft and stealing of credit card numbers. Your computer surfing habits and personal information is then sold to businesses. The spyware business is a billion dollar industry, with lots of people getting rich selling your information without your knowledge.

Another problem with spyware is that unless you run anti spyware software often, you don’t know that spyware been installed until your computer starts to slow down. By the time your computer slows down due to spyware you could have as many as six or seven different spyware programs running in the background.

You can get rid of spyware by running any of the number of anti-spyware programs available on the market today. Run these programs often. Some suggest that after you run an anti spyware program that you re-boot your computer and run the software again to make sure there are no “ticklers”. Ticklers are designed to reinstall spyware.

The best way to avoid spyware is to stay away from downloading freebies. Don’t open unsolicited e-mail, delete it before you open it. When downloading any software, even legitimate software programs from the internet read the end users agreement thoroughly. Some of these agreements will state that they are installing spyware type software, and by you downloading their program you are agreeing to let them put spyware on your computer. If you know this then you have the ability to say yes, or no and protect your personal information.

Understanding Telemetry

Will telemetry work for your industry? This is an amazing way of measuring. You will find that it is used commonly as a means of measuring things at a distance. Normally, it is used by scientists and engineers who need to measure things that are nowhere near them. The uses of telemetry are varied and many. But, you can see its use everyday.

For example, many scientists use it to measure the weather conditions. By sending weather balloons high into the air, they can measure things like what the air temperature is up there as well as the pressure and even humidity of that air. These temperatures are significantly different than those that are closer to the air’s surface and yet there seems to be no way to accurately measure them. Telemetry is used because of its accuracy and simplicity to use.

But, how does telemetry work? It works by being equipped with the right instruments for the job. In this example, the telemetry instruments would be such things as an accurate temperature measuring tool such as a thermometer, a transmitter that will send back the information to the ground and on the ground you will find the receiving station to gather and track the information.

Telemetry works in many fields and in many cases where travel to the locations is much too difficult, costly or too dangerous. Another example of telemetry is space. On various shuttles and spacecraft, there are telemetry instruments traveling as well. These you will find doing all sorts of things from measuring the physical conditions of the astronauts as well as conditions in space that are needed to be monitored. For example, telemetry is used to monitor the blood pressure of humans as they travel into space. This can be quite remarkable that all the way home we can know what is happening in a world away. Telemetry is a helpful tool in making that happen.