A 21-year-old woman who thought she was dead for over a year during high school revealed morbid details of her ordeal in a Reddit AMA this week. “I thought I had been killed by one of my hallucinations, and literally thought I was a ghost,” the woman writing under the username “fishglubber” said in her Reddit post. The woman says her doctors diagnosed her with schizoaffective disorder, which is characterized by hallucinations, delusions and other symptoms including mania or depression, according to The National Alliance on Mental Illness. …
Smartphones have become inseparable for us these day; we just cannot think of parting with them even if that’s for a minute. The constant need for staying updated with everything has made us so dependent on our phones that we fair to realise the risks associated with excessive use of mobile phones. Several reputed doctors and researchers from all over the world have mentioned that mobile phones are way more dangerous and harmful to our health that we can ever imagine. The primary cause of why cell phones are detrimental to us is attributed t…
P25 B for defense in 2016 – Gov’t proposes The national government is proposing to spend a record P25 billion next year to purchase frigates, surveillance planes and radars to improve surveillance and detection in the disputed West Philippine Sea, officials said yesterday. The funds to modernize the military are part of President Aquino’s P3-trillion budget bill in 2016, his last year in office. The budget proposal is 15.1 percent more than the current appropriation of P2.606 trillion, according to Budget Secret…
A silvery-gray eel had already gone limp as the fishermen found it on their trawler. But the thing is the eel has a length 7 feet (2.1 meters) according to the company that caught the huge eel. Fisher man accidentally snagged the blue-eyed eel on may 14. 2015 at around 8 am off the southwestern coast of the United Kingdom. At the time, they trawling the area on an inshore trawler na HOPE. The huge eel got stuck in th nets, and was already dead by the time the crew hauled in aboard. And by the time it was pulled out, the fishermen was amaze…
China under fire in US Congress WASHINGTON – If China tries to prevent the re-supply of the grounded Philippine naval vessel BRP Sierra Madre at Ayungin Shoal, then the United States might not only offer to re-supply it, but may consider deploying a few Marines on rotation as part of training, said Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Center for a New American Security. He said this is one of the actions the US can take to counter potential regional instability. Testifying on America’s security role i…
Over P82 B poured in for upgrade of AFP; P50 B released under Noy The government has released more than P82 billion to upgrade the capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) since 1996. However, it is still considered one of the weakest in the region, a condition that has been blamed on limited resources, changing priorities of administrations and stalled implementation of the modernization program. The law gave the AFP the opportunity to modernize in 15 years with a budget of P331.62 billion, of which only P63.39 billion was…
The Kardashians, explained The Kardashians are one of the most famous — and most hated — families in the world. Knowledge of them transcends age, class, and race. They’re on television, they’re in music videos, they’re in fashion campaigns — everything the light touches, so do the Kardashians. I’d wager that more people would be able to name any single Kardashian (Kim, Kourtney, Khloé, Rob) than could name the UN Secretary General (Ban Ki-moon). Yet their significance remains a mystery to many. The Kardashians are a riches-to-ev…
These 8 woman comedians paved the way for all of the funny girls you know and love today. 1. Fanny Brice Brice left school to become a burlesque dancer and became a member of the Ziegfeld Follies. She later starred on Broadway and is known as “America’s first female comedy superstar.” 2. Lucille Ball Lucille Ball is known around the world for starring in I Love Lucy which ran from 1951 to 1957. It was the first TV sitcom to shoot with a three camera setup with a live audience. 3. Phyllis Diller Diller was a wild comedian who mad…
Over the span of history there have been innumerable surprising minutes, alongside staggering individuals that got them going by method for their activities and the way they experienced their lives. The world we live in today is so jumbled, soaked, and frantic, its hard for us to be awed or wowed by much any longer. With these photos, provoke yourself to nonchalance present day – don’t anticipate that or trust will be wowed. Just welcome the minutes they caught. 1. Two bullets that collided mid-air at Gallipoli During World War 1. 2. M…
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