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I like Valencia alot. Easy to get to Dumaguete or to Bacong or going North if you want to go to Tanjay etc. The air is cooler and traffic is not an issue. I have traveled around Cebu, CDO,Iligan city, Makati, Manila,bohol and another dozen places or so and none of the places were for me on a permanent basis. The biggest problem for me is the lack of Bisaya I have and my lack of patience. I think once I learn the language better and i can gear down to Phil speed...i should be fairly happy living in Valencia. I will miss alot about the USA but overall my main reason for the USA is work related only. Good luck finding your home.

 

Good news. I got flagged down by the police I talked to at the police station while walking by them in front of Robinsons. They said they ended up figuring out where the guy lived and they dropped him off at his apartment.

 

Nasty stuff. Seems like it's not so good for the person using it either.

https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+1434

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS/ Dry /calcium/ carbide in contact with skin may cause dermatitis. Contact with moist skin & mucous membranes leads to ulceration & scarring. A peculiar type of melanoderma with strong hyperpigmentation and numerous telangiectases is often observed. Persons exposed to calcium carbide frequently suffer from cheilitis characterized by dryness, swelling and hyperemia of the lips, intense desquamation, and deep radial fissures; erosive lesions with a tendency to suppuration can be observed in the mouth angles. Workers with a long professional history often suffer from nail lesions ... eye lesions with pronounced hyperemia of the lids and conjunctiva, often accompanied by mucopurulent secretions, are also observed. In heavy cases the sensitivity of the conjunctiva and cornea is strongly reduced. While the keratitis and keratoconjunctivitis evolve first without symptoms, they may later degenerate into corneal opacities.
[International Labour Office. Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety. 4th edition, Volumes 1-4 1998. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 1998., p. 104.58] **PEER REVIEWED**

CASE REPORTS/ The fast ripening of fruits means they may contain various harmful properties. A commonly used agent in the ripening process is calcium carbide, a material most commonly used for welding purposes. Calcium carbide treatment of food is extremely hazardous because it contains traces of arsenic and phosphorous. Once dissolved in water, the carbide produces acetylene gas. Acetylene gas may affect the neurological system by inducing prolonged hypoxia. The findings are headache, dizziness, mood disturbances, sleepiness, mental confusion, memory loss, cerebral edema and seizures. We report the case of a previously healthy 5 year-old girl with no chronic disease history who was transferred to our Emergency Department with an 8-h history of coma and delirium. A careful history from her father revealed that the patient ate unripe dates treated with calcium carbide.
[Per H et al; J Emerg Med 32 (2): 179-80 (2007)] **PEER REVIEWED** PubMed Abstract Full text: PMC2289291

/CASE REPORTS/ Calcium carbide used in fruit ripening industry as a cheap alternative to natural plant hormone ethylene produces highly inflammable acetylene gas. Inadvertent ignition of this gas can cause severe ocular burn injury with unilateral or bilateral blindness. To determine the characteristics and visual outcome of ocular burn injuries from calcium carbide during mango ripening season of West Bengal, eastern India. A prospective study of all cases of calcium carbide related ocular burn injury attending a tertiary care hospital during mango ripening season was carried out. The demographic features, characteristics of the injury, management and outcomes were recorded. Fifty five eyes of 33 patients were studied. Males were more commonly affected (20 patients, 60.6%) than females. The injury was bilateral in 22 patients (66.66%). Seventeen patients (51.51%) were below 20 years of age. Ten eyes had open globe injuries and 45 eyes had closed globe injuries. One eye of a patient had to be enucleated (3%). Children below 14 years of age were mainly injured while playing with indigenous fireworks of shooting carbide. Middle aged women were affected particularly during ignition of evening lamps. Carbide lamp was another source of injury. Males are more commonly affected by calcium carbide related ocular injuries. Children and young adults are the common victims. Such injuries can involve both the eyes and cause a permanent visual disability.
[Bandyopadhyay S et al; Nepal J Ophthalmol 5 (10): 242-5 (2013)] **PEER REVIEWED** PubMed Abstract

 

The spillway going to BIR is still accessible, if the car is a bit higher on wheels. A more sporty car with a low front spoiler cannot make it unless you take the damage for what it is. Motorbikes also seems not to have many problems to cross.

 

I am not interested in seeing pictures, but I would like to know the circumstances surrounding his death....was it natural causes, or was he murdered? If he was murdered do they have suspects in custody or are they at large? These are the important things we need to know, the information the news sources should actually include, rather than graphic images.

 

I realize the dangers of generalizations, but my experience does lead me to consider that maybe Filipinos are missing the queue forming gene. Whether at the market, or especially on the road, there seems to be an overwhelming need to "bypass the queue and get to the front of the line at all costs" with disregard for civility and etiquette. For awhile this bothered me, but now that I accept that it is a thing, I find that letting it be entertaining to sit back and observe the manifestation is a more adaptive response. Of course, I'm only being partially serious and mostly hyperbolic.