Spain

"WASHINGTON (AFP) – Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed Tuesday.
Residents of sub-Saharan African countries were the most likely to want to move abroad permanently, the polls conducted in 135 countries between 2007 and this year by Gallup showed.
On average, 38 percent of the adult population in sub-Saharan Africa, or around 165 million people, said they would up stakes and head for another country if they had the chance.
The most popular destination was the United States, where nearly a quarter of the 700 million -- around 165 million people -- said they would like to settle.

Top 20 countries on the Human Development Index:

1. Norway

2. Australia

3. Iceland

4. Canada

5. Ireland

6. Netherlands

7. Sweden

8. France

9. Switzerland

10. Japan

11. Luxembourg

12. Finland

13. United States

14. Austria

15. Spain

16. Denmark

17. Belgium

18. Italy

19. Liechtenstein

20. New Zealand

Source: UN Human Development Report 2009

(A special report from a DSWD volunteer)

PAKIFORWARD, SANA MAKARATING SA TV NEWS
DIYOS ko patawarin mo po………………

Dear all,

medyo mahaba lang but please do read…ito na nga ba ang ayaw natin mangyari kaya we really took pains to be able to distribute our (AIC) donations directly to the victims kahit karampot lang yong satin. I don’t know what we can do right now, but spreading the word might help. - Alpha

Important info from a volunteer's blog

REPOSTING FROM: http://jenniepperso n.com

According to Blog Ni Ella, these goods have not been distributed to the typhoon survivors. WHY?
Ella wrote on her (now blocked) blog: (her blog was ellaganda.com and it is now blocked)

Top 10 billionaires

*William Henry Gates III - $40.0 billion ▼ USA
*Warren Buffett - $37.0 billion ▼ - USA
*Carlos Slim Helú - $35.0 billion ▼ - Mexico
*Lawrence Ellison - $22.5 billion ▼ - USA
*Ingvar Kamprad and family - $22.0 billion ▼ - Switzerland
*Karl Albrecht - $21.5 billion ▼ - Germany
*Mukesh Ambani - $19.5 billion ▼ - India
*Lakshmi Mittal - $19.3 billion ▼ - UK
*Theo Albrecht - $18.8 billion ▼ - Germany
*Amancio Ortega - $18.3 billion ▼ - Spain

At the centre of time

Without it international travel would be in turmoil and calling friends in faraway places at the right time impossible. Exactly 125 years after the Greenwich Meridian line was drawn, how and why did Britain become the centre of time?

At longitude 0° 0' 00", the arbitrary stroke on our maps that passes from pole to pole and bisects the UK, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana divides the Earth into east and west, just as the Equator splits it into north and south.

This imaginary line now known as the Greenwich Prime Meridian not only allows us to navigate the globe but also keeps the world ticking to the same symbolic 24-hour clock.

But it has not always been so.

Oct.12,2009

Tragic Boyzone star Stephen Gately choked to death on his vomit, sources close to the police investigation said last night.

Stephen, 33, was found dead in his pyjamas by partner Andy Cowles at their £1million Majorcan holiday home. A post mortem will be held tomorrow and a Spanish judge will begin an investigation but insiders unofficially confirmed the cause of the tragedy.

Stephen was discovered kneeling against a sofa with his face buried in a pillow. A friend of the Gately family said: "They have been told the most likely scenario is Stephen had a bit too much to drink, vomited in his sleep and choked. It was a terrible accident."