Sony Channel Takes Viewers to More Drama in New Season of “Chicago Med” this April

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Emmy Award-winning executive producer Dick Wolf brings more of the emotional drama that unfold at the Gaffney Chicago Medical Center in the hit medical series Chicago Med, which begins its sophomore season in April on Sony Channel.

Saving lives is the only thing they do best when it comes to this spirited team of doctors, nurses, and staff members as they continue to work together to handle day-to-day emergency cases at one of the city’s top trauma centers.

This season, attending physician Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) becomes personal with his new position and thinks familiarity breeds contempt when working with trauma surgery fellow Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell), who chooses a new specialty and has a new mentor. ER nurse April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) copes with a health crisis after her recent diagnosis. Former Navy surgeon Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) is now in charge as the new chief resident as he continues to battle PTSD. Pediatrician Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) comes across as rigid from one of the nurses. Psychiatry department chief Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt) guides new psych intern Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo) as she copes with her newfound career. Meanwhile, hospital administrator Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) deals with an emotional baggage as she tries to move on with her life.

Chicago Med Season 2 premieres on April 24, every Monday at 8:50pm.

Sony Channel is available on SKYCable Channel 35, Destiny Cable Channel 62, Cignal Channel 120, and Cablelink Channel 39.

DOE Moves to Restore Remaining Power Facilities Affected by Temblor

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In light of the most recent earthquake swarm which occurred last Saturday, the Department of Energy (DOE), is hastening to restore remaining power facilities that had been affected in Batangas.

Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi today (10 April) reiterated his directive to energy players, especially power plant operators, to ensure the safe and immediate restoration of their power facilities affected by the earthquake.

Cusi emphasized the need to disaster-proof energy facilities and to apply the build-back-better principle to avert or mitigate any impact of calamities to such assets.

“We are currently on the final crafting of a policy on energy resiliency planning and programs to guide our energy industry participants to strengthen their existing infrastructure facilities, incorporate mitigation improvements into the restoration of damaged infrastructures, and improve operational and maintenance standards and practices,” said Cusi.

As of 10:00 a.m. today, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) reported Red Alert Status of the Luzon Grid from1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. following the loss of 2,905 megawatts (MW) of power supply capacities, in which 1,550 MW are due to the earthquake. The affected power plants are Avion Unit 2 (50MW), San Lorenzo Units 1 and 2 (500MW), Ilijan B (600MW) and San Gabriel (420MW).

To augment power supply, the DOE instructed the operation of Malaya Units 1 and 2 Thermal Power Plant with a combined dependable capacity of 450 MW.

Moreover, as of 10:00 a.m., there are already 135 Interruptible Load Program (ILP) participants which confirmed to run their generator sets with a total capacity of 196 MW as reported by the Manila Electric Co. (MERALCO).

Other power plants that are on outage are the following:

On Planned Outage (on Scheduled Maintenance) with total power capacities of 918 MW: Calaca Unit 1 (300MW); Pagbilao Unit 1 (382MW), Angat Auxiliary Unit 4 (6MW); Avion Unit 1 (50MW) and Magat Unit 3 and 4 (180MW).

On Forced Outage with total power capacities of 437 MW: Makban Unit 5 (55MW) due to high turbine vibration and Pagbilao Unit 2 (382MW) due to boiler tube leak.

The DOE is also closely monitoring the effect of previous events in power sector on the power rates and is coordinating with the Energy Regulatory Commission for its reasonableness.

“We would also like to advise the public to practice safety measures amid these natural calamities and to remain conscious of their use of energy, especially this summer season when energy utilization is higher than usual,” Cusi concluded.

Class Recess: Diversion, You Die in this Version

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Every year new versions of things come around. Gadgets, cars, clothes, even relationships aren’t safe from the inevitable; sooner or later everything upgrades. Good thing though, some upgrades are not total overhauls of the things we know and love. An example of this is a party staple in Los Baños: Class Recess.

For ten incredible parties, the UPLB DeMolay Club and the International Order of DeMolay Mt. Makiling Chapter has quenched the thirst of ‘Elbi’ people for some old school “walwalan” with CLASS RECESS. This year, we will try to up the ante by giving you a new version of the classic party this April 20, 2017 with CLASS RECESS: DIVERSION, You Die in this Version.

By “die” we mean the figurative death you’ll experience from having too much fun (we promise there will be no deaths in this party). And since we are talking about “death” here are 7 ways party-goers can die in this version with CLASS RECESS: DIVERSION.