The secret behind MJ's famous anti-gravity shoes...

Anti-gravity lean

"Smooth Criminal" music video. Shows an anti-gravity lean performed by Jackson.

An image of U.S. Patent No. 5,255,452 filed by Jackson describing the anti-gravity lean.

The effect in the video when Jackson and the dancers lean forward a seemingly impossible distance was achieved using special harnesses with wires and magnets. It was desired to replicate this effect for Jackson's stage show, but it would have been more obvious and cumbersome to use wire harnesses in a live performance. Jackson and his team devised an alternative way to achieve the effect on stage. The props needed for their technique were patented in the United States by Jackson in 1993,^[7] and consist of pegs that rise from the stage at the appropriate moment, and special shoes with ankle supports and cutouts in the heels which can slide over the pegs and be thereby attached to the stage temporarily. These allow the performers to lean without needing to keep their centers of gravity directly over their feet. This patent expired on December 20th, 2005 due to failure to pay its maintenance fee.^[8]

(from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia)

♥HPV Vaccine: Help Protect Yourself♥

Cervical cancer is caused by a virus. This common and highly infectious virus is the human papillomavirus (HPV) more commonly known as skin warts, or for us Filipinos we call it kulugo.

By Bernadette Young

Skin warts are usually found on our hands and feet and can be cleared by the body’s immune system. Women can get genital warts through sexual contact (through direct genital contact, hand-genital contact, oral-genital contact).

Doctors can easily diagnose genital warts which are soft and moist, flesh-colored, in clusters, smooth and flat, or raised with a rough texture. Genital warts appear within weeks or three months after infection. When these genital warts are not cleared by the body’s immune system it can develop into cervical cancer.

Those who are sexually active, have many partners, or have a partner who had several partners are at risk for HPV. Luckily there is a vaccine for HPV.

HPV vaccines are believed to stimulate the body’s immune system to produce neutralizing antibodies that help protect against HPV in the skin cells of the genital area.

There are two types of vaccines available�a bivalent vaccine that prevents two types of HPV and a quadrivalent vaccine that prevents four types of HPV. Of course, the quadrivalent vaccine costs a bit more. Both vaccines are administered within a six month period by a doctor.

A lot of women have asked if they will feel weak or ill after getting an HPV shot just like when they get a flu shot. A doctor will tell you that it’s not supposed to happen, although some have said their arm hurt or they couldn’t raise their arm in the days following the shot.

HPV vaccines are not intended to treat existing cervical cancer and other HPV-caused diseases. Getting vaccinated will help prevent cervical cancer, but it can not treat cervical cancer, so it is still recommended for women to have their yearly Pap Smear test.

Ultimately, shelling out a couple of thousand pesos to prevent HPV and cervical cancer is still a small amount when compared to the cost of having and treating cancer-not to mention the emotional impact on you, your family, and friends. So go out there and help protect yourself. It might just be your best investment to date.

♥Smart Cooking with the Induction Stove ♥

Computers have revolutionized everything-cooking included. Induction cooking is fast becoming popular nowadays, because of its practicality and ease of use. It is also, perhaps, the safest way of cooking. Before I bought mine, I did some research online and this is what I found out:

- Induction cookers are computer-controlled. If you peek into the bottom part of it, you’ll even see the circuit board and the exhaust fan similar to those found in your computer’s CPU.
- Heat is generated by electromagnets, precisely controlled by the circuit board according to your desired heat level.
- Heat is then transferred to the cooking pot, which in turn heats up. That’s why salesmen demonstrating induction cookers in the mall would even show you they’re touching the surface of the cooker right after cooking. This is because the cooker itself does not heat up.
- Induction cookers will only work with metal-based pots, except aluminum. Ceramic or glass materials are useless as well. Basically anything that a magnet attaches to will work with an induction cooker.
- Most of the induction cookers I’ve seen in malls have a built-in LCD screen to tell you the temperature, or an error message it if there is one.
- Two words: environment-friendly. Induction cookers use just a fraction of electricity compared to most electric stoves. It also does not use fossil fuels like LPG and charcoal.

Given these, here’s my review of my own induction cooker:



The Look: 5 of 5 stars
- Most induction cookers are really sleek looking, with clean, smooth surfaces and a glossy finish. This makes it easy to clean after all the messy cooking.
- The single cookers are really easy to move around with its light weight material.
- The double cookers or multiple cookers can be seamlessly installed as a cook top. Plus, the piano black glossy material will definitely blend well with your granite kitchen top.

Usability: 5 of 5 stars
- The controls are idiot-proof and are beautifully integrated with the over-all design. You need not worry about the food getting stuck in the buttons.
- Turning it on is really easy: with just a push of a button it will detect automatically if there’s a pot on the cooker. If there’s one, it will turn on and continue heating the pot. If the cooker detects something incompatible, like a glass pot or you hand, it will just show an error message on the screen and won’t heat up.
- If for some reason it slips your mind that you’re cooking something, it has an automatic shut off feature that will activate after some time, preventing you from burning your food.
- It also has preset timers for most cooking styles like frying, hot pot, etc.
- Heat levels are controlled by a “plus" and “minus" button. Even your first grade daughter will know what those two signs will do.
- Anytime you feel like abruptly stopping what you’re cooking, just push the “off" button, and that’s it.

Price and Availability: 4 of 5 stars
- Most single cookers are really, really cheap. Price ranges from a little over a thousand Pesos to just P5,000.
- I don’t get how they price the double cookers or multiple cookers, however. I think the cheapest I’ve seen is about P18,000, reaching to about P90,000+. I’m thinking it’s mainly because you can install it as a cook top in your kitchen, creating a seamless design.
- You can find an induction cooker in cooking sections in almost every mall in the metro.

Over-all Verdict: 5 of 5 stars
- It’s the best thing they’ve ever invented in the cooking world.

- WMN.ph

♥SuRpRiSeS♥

I'm so happy to be back in blogging... after many months... at least with blogging, I can express what I feel about the world and tell people what I think about.

After watching so many episodes of QTube on QTV Ch. 11, I get more inspired and thrilled in blogging! I also learn more about new and famous gadgets around the world and through my blogs I get to comment or share my opinions with any kind of stuff like FOOD! haha...

Like how I felt when Wacko-Jacko died and actress Farrah Fawcett... I was really shocked to know and hear from the news that my idol, Michael Jackson has died... at the age of 50! My mom's older than him but he died early because of cardiac arrest... how sad for the family and kids he left...

Also, the "Swine Flu or the A H1N1" is really a headliner here in the Philippines... though the DOH told the media that reporting about the flu will be done once a week. Everyday we hear lots of people getting affected by this disease whether local or international. All we have to do is to be careful and have more faith in God.

These days, I notice that more and more are getting affected of the continuous calamities and destructions made by mankind or of nature. This means that God is showing us His greater Power or reminding us that we are starting to be very forgetful in our prayer and spiritual life. We should dedicate more of our time in reading the Bible or praying than doing such unnecessary or worldly things... for it is said in the Bible that God's son, Jesus Christ will be back on Earth and the day of judgement will come. Before this happens, we should have faith in God and truly believe in Him, alone.

Our Very First Meeting

Hehe... Kala ko kanina na-late na ako... thank God at hindi naman... grabe! Ang init ng panahon... di ko nga alam kung ano na ang temperature sa Metro Manila, eh... Anyway... the purpose naman of my blog is about our Music Society, not the weather... hehehe...=))

Nagkita muli kame nila Ate Hannah de Veyra, Hannah Foliente at Ate Abshee Dominguez...

Night at the Museum 2

Hehe... Gandang-ganda ako sa Night at the Museum 2...

Case of Trinidad Etong & Ted Failon

Wow... ang tagal din ng kasong ito... well, ano nga ba naman ang masasabi ng isang 14 year old na tulad ko sa mga balita natin ngayon... ang masasabi ko lang ay, masaya ako para kay Mr. Failon at natapos na ang kaso nila... nakakaawa naman kasi itong si Mr. Failon, sya ang pinabibingtangan sa pagkamatay ni Trina Etong...=(

Masaya ako para sa mga anak nila na nagkaron na ng solution sa kaso... nawa ay tulungan ng