What Is The Proper Way To Tuck In A Shirt?

When it’s time to tuck in your shirt, do it the right way. A good tuck should make the front of your body smooth and flat.

If your waist tapers below your rib cage, that should be visible. There should be no wrinkling and no “muffin-topping” where the shirt blouses out over the trouser waist and makes a ring around your midsection. You should also have a clean “gig line” a military term for the imaginary line straight down the front of your body, from the point of your chin to your crotch. A well-tucked shirt should sit so that the shirt placket (the rectangle of fabric where the front buttons are located) lines up precisely with the fly of your trousers. The belt buckle and trouser button should be centered neatly in that same line.

A clean gig line divides your body cleanly, emphasizing evenness of proportion. It also tells people that you pay attention to detail or it might be more accurate to say that a sloppy gig line tells people you don’t. Either way, you want it crisp and vertical.

Finally, keep in mind that a good shirt fit in the first place will always make tucking the shirt in easier. The less excess fabric you’re dealing with around the waist, the less your tuck has to secure. A well-fitted shirt is also sure to be long enough for an effective tuck, while a short shirt will always be in danger of escaping no matter how well you tuck it.

The Basic Trouser Tuck

This is where most men start and finish their shirt-tucking education shirttails inside the trousers but above the underpants, shoved straight down all the way around the waist. It’s the no-thought way to do it, and it’s the most common as a result.

Here’s the easiest way to do this one, and you’ve probably done it a million times unless your father taught you a different method from a young age: put your underwear on, then put your shirt on and button it up, and then finally pull your pants on, buttoning them closed over the shirttails.

Your shirt ends up pinned beneath your trousers with no effort on your part. It just got there by virtue of the order you did things. And as long as your trousers aren’t too loose, the shirt will probably stay there. Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean this is a bad tuck.

If you don’t want to think too hard, this is the way to go. But be cautioned: it works well with a fitted shirt, and terribly with anything else. If your shirt doesn’t have a close, well-tailored fit, you need a little more technique to deal with the excess fabric.

The Military Tuck

This is how the armed forces are taught to tuck in their uniform shirts. It creates a pair of folded pleats, which are then pinned flat by the trouser waist for a crisp, stiff tuck.

Different services in different countries have variations on this, but the basic principle is the same: you stand straight in your shirt, and if there’s any loose fabric hanging on either side of you, you fold it into a sharp, diagonal crease, sort of like making the nose on a paper airplane. Then you tuck the creases in at the hips, belting your trousers on above them.

Below are the step-by-step instructions. Don’t be discouraged if this one takes you a few tries to get right! It really starts to shine once you’ve practiced it enough for the movements to become routine.

1. Have your pants on, but unbuttoned. You’ll need to close them up quickly over the shirt once you’re done with your folding.
2. Pinch each of the shirt’s side seams between a thumb and forefinger. Pull down to tug all the fabric taut.
3. Fold the seams backward toward your rear end, creating a pleat that folds over any loose fabric in the sides. Use enough pressure to pull the shirtfront smooth and taut across the front of your chest.
4. Button your pants up and belt them to hold the pleats flat against your body. Depending on how much excess fabric the shirt had, the folds should sit somewhere behind your hips, underneath the back of your armpits.

The military tuck can take practice getting the folds straight and flat, and it works best in stiff, smooth fabrics that can hold the crease well. Use it any time you’ve got excess fabric around the waist and sides of the shirt.

The Underwear Tuck

No, I’m not talking about tucking your dress shirt into your underwear.

Although this method is effective, it can backfire when your puppy dog boxers creep up past your waistline.

No, the underwear tuck refers to the need to properly tuck your undershirt into your underwear in order to ensure the dress shirt is between your underwear and trousers (vs. your undershirt and dress shirt sitting between your underwear and trousers).

Believe it or not this small difference has a large impact on how your shirt stays tucked in throughout the day.

Your ideal tuck, if you’re an undershirt wearer, should go in this order, from the body outward: undershirt, waistband of your underwear, regular shirt, waistband of the trousers, and finally your belt.

Oh, and if this doesn’t work well enough, you should look into purchasing a pair of underwear with grip technology that is designed to hold your dress shirt in place. My friend Mike over at RibbedTee just designed the Stuck Boxer Briefs, and makes them right here in the USA!

Shirt Stays — The Ultimate Shirt Tuck

A method with some extra help: small garters tug the bottom of the shirt taut beneath the trousers.

The phrase “shirt stays” is sometimes used to refer to collar stays (the flat tabs inside the points of some dress shirt collars), but it also refers to a specialized sort of garter. These are used by several militaries around the world, and are also popular among sharp dressers.

Basically, the stays are just a pair of small, elasticized garters with clips at the ends. You put your shirt on first and button it up, clipping one end of the garters to the tips of your shirttails (the stays come in sets of two, one for each shirttail/trouser leg). Then you put your socks on, and attach the lower clips to them, adjusting the buckles until the shirt is held straight but not taut.

Then you put your trousers on and get used to the feeling of elastic bands running vertically up your legs. It takes a few minutes to get used to, but I personally don’t notice it and rather enjoy the compliments a tidy look brings!

Recently there’s been a wave of alternative products that serve the same basic function with different mechanisms. There are high-friction belts worn under the trousers to cinch a shirt into place, underpants with clips that grip the hem of the shirt directly, and even little magnetized catches worn under the trousers to hold the shirt in place.

If you’re willing to add another item to your morning dressing routine, these can work well. Find the one you like and stick with it!

Source: businessinsider.com

Bureau of Customs Philippines Begins Mass Recruitment of 2,000 Employees

MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has opened plantilla positions for additional 2,000 employees.

Those who will be hired will fill in the vacant positions in the agency in accordance with the directive of BOC Commissioner Isidro Lapeña to strengthen the agency's operation. Among the vacant positions are in the Administrative Department and intelligence agents. In an interview on the program 'Get it Straight with Daniel Razon', BOC's Dir. Wilkins Villanueva said many of the workers in the agency are servicing on  a contractual basis. This is why they have begun the regularization of deserving contract employees.

"There are a lot of them. That's among the changes we are implementing now. We open it now. We have published the openings," Villanueva said. "Others have been contractual workers for more than 15 years now," he added. Director Villanueva assured the public that Comm. Lapeña is doing all he can to implement reforms in the system of the BOC.

"All the reforms he wants are all in the pipeline. This is a long process. Let's not be impatient in supporting the BOC. Because the reform system we will implement is institutional... we will ask for nothing but to stop the graft and corruption in the BOC and increase its revenue collection..," Villanueva said.

Source:- Aiko Miguel | UNTV News & Rescue / Yahoo News

OFW's are at Risk Dropping Sperm Counts

We all know that OFW's are tech dependent. In a survey made by NGO, OFW's  are expose to gadgets up to 99% of their time, not to mention with high radiation materials like microwaves, copy machines, monitors and most of all mobile phones.

To survive homesickness Others continuously wearing Bluetooth headsets to listen music, use for video and online calls or watching movies for their personal entertainment while their mobile is in their pocket or near its private area.

So how do technology damage your sperm cells? Smoking, and regular alcohol intake are known to reduce sperm count. But did you know that placing your mobile phone inside your pockets and using your laptop for hours gives you less chances of becoming a father? Mobile phones and laptops release radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation that damages the development and function of sperm cells.

According to studies, the heat emitting from RF-EMR has the ability to raise the scrotum temperature by 2.1 degrees celsius and is equivalent to at least 80% sperm reduction for every four-hour exposure to RF-EMR carrier devices. Researchers explained that men who usually keep their phones in their front pockets are more likely to suffer from sperm infertility. Same thing goes when using a laptop,the heat it generates alone can cause lower sperm count and becomes even more dangerous when connected to a Wifi network. Yes, the simple acts of browsing the web (like what you are doing now) and placing a laptop on your thighs cause sperm degeneration.

Avoiding excessive use of gadgets could be difficult since it is a necessity for personal or professional functions, but that doesn’t mean you can not minimize your vulnerability. Stop putting mobile phones in your front pockets for an hour or place it away. Do the same with your laptop. If Internet connection isn’t necessary, turn off the WiFi while you work on things. Extensive exposure to such gadgets results in lesser probability of fertility or reproduction.

Calculate the hours you spend everyday with the devices, because you might be facing serious reproductive health issues.

References: Compiled from Philcare.com Article and Adams, J. Galloway, T. Mondal, D. Esteves, S. Mathews, F. (2014). Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality

The Struggle of Honda by Soichiro Honda

The Value of life can be measure by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Soichiro Honda was born in a small village in Japan in 1906 a son of a Black Smith who operates a small bicycle repair shop, during his young age Soichiro as a boy started helping his father at work and the bicycle parts had become his favorite toys developing its curiosity and interest in a machine. In his teenage years aging 15 he started to work, abandoning his education and parting his hometown to Tokyo, he got work in a small garage as an assistant during the day and work in other workshop at night were cars are being designed. Few years later he gained experience in garage deciding him to go back home to start his own garage workshop at 22. He started to produce piston rings for small engines by investing all of his time and money including his wife jewelries selling to add on their investments. Sooner Soichiro started his own design and sending to car manufacturer Toyota but it did not succeed. Soichiro did not give up and later doing design and started to create piston rings for Toyota.

During World War 2 Soichiro's Workshop Company has completely destroyed with all of his investments. Again he recreate and start his own factory to manufacturing his own motors but he has no money; he was forced to sell what was left of his company to Toyota. It was deep crisis in his life and in Japan during the War, he cannot even buy his own gasoline to fill for his transport. Because of this he started to use a small motor and attached it to his bicycle. He apply this idea in creating his own factory for small motorbike however he has no funds, to get money he sends letter to 18,000 bike owners in japan asking for funds for his project but only 3,000 bike owners contribute. His sales did not turn out to be a big success but later years he created a perfect motorbike.

During 1948 he founded his very own company the Honda Motor Company, with his journey and dream, failures in his business, he continue to stand up and offer all his efforts to create a perfect motorbike and developing other motor industries and vehicles. Soichiro's hardwork and determination made his company the second largest automobile manufacturer in Japan. "That is why I will keep striving for some type of goal at until I die, One must Keep Chasing his Dreams".

Reference: Soichiro Honda's Dream 1906 - 1991

Philippine Airlines to Build New Terminal

Philippine Airlines President and Chief Operating Officer Jaime Bautista said PAL was finalizing a new proposal to the Manila International Airport  Authority and Department of Transportation to build a new passenger terminal beside its current Airport NAIA Centennial Terminal 2 which was the location of Old Nayong Pilipino Complex.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte earlier threated to close the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 if Philippines Airlines Holdings Inc. the Parent firm of PAL did not settle its unpaid navigational fees to the government. Philippine Airlines Holding Inc. earlier reported a total comprehensive loss of 1.05 Billion Pesos in the January to June period, a turnaround from profit of 4.62 billion year on year.

Philippine Airlines plans to build a 20 Billion Pesos passenger terminal which could handle 12 million to 15 million passenger a year and feature aerobridges capable of serving 12 to 17 wide bodied and single aisle jets.

Philippine Airlines expects to start construction of the new terminal by December 2020 and operate it by July 2021.

Reference: Manila Standard Business News

President Duterte Praises Lance Gokongwei: Bright Na, Ma-Diskarte Pa!

President Rodrigo Duterte used the launch of Cebu Pacific's Cagayan de Oro hub to heap praises on its chief executive, Lance Gokongwei. In his speech, Duterte said a smart leader like Gokongwei is needed to move the country forward. "You need about 10 to 15 years to build really a country, to realize it. But only kung may mga utak ka pareho kay Lance," he said.

Duterte wanted Gokongwei to become Finance Secretary but the tycoon declined. The President said Gokongwei is not only bright academically, but he also possesses the knack for running a successful business. "They have a knack of, you know, looking for money. They understand the whole gamut of how men are gainfully employed and how to run a business little by little," he said. In jest, Duterte joked that he had to ad lib during the event because Gokongwei is worth more than two pages of prepared speech.

"Alam mo, kaibigan ko si Lance. I value his friendship. Kaya kung ito lang dalawang pages o. Mai-insulto 'yung tao. 'We waited for you for several hours,'" he said. Duterte credited the Gokongweis for growing Cebu Pacific into a small airline into a powerhouse player in the aviation industry. "Question of management 'yan eh - and of course, talent and enterprise, which the family Gokongwei has," he said.

Source: bilyonaryo.com.ph

What Your Seat on a Plane Says About You

Window seat fans. Some are born, some become them, some have fandom thrust upon them. And, some psychologists say, there might be a reason for that. People who select window seats are "selfish" and "controlling", and those who prefer aisle seats are more likely to be introverts. More fool you for thinking it was all about legroom.

The psychology of plane seats has been doing the rounds for several years, but, interestingly, experts or, at least, those happy to talk about it  always seem to draw the same conclusions. There might be a reason for that, the seat you choose, psychologist Jonathan Bricker has said in the past, is "a rare opportunity to have some control over your environment when travelling." So what exactly does it mean? Bricker calls the act of choosing an aisle seat "an expression of freedom" you don't have to ask permission to get up, check the overhead locker or go to the toilet, and suggests it's the pick of introverts, who don't want to have to engage with their fellow passengers or feel boxed in. Having said that, it's also the power seat in the row, you get to control whether your seat mates can move around. And the sheer physicality's of the seat mean you're less likely to sleep on the aisle, means that people who need to work are more likely to take it. Aisle = introverted control freak, in other words.

Window seats, he continues, are "nesters" who like to seal themselves off from the rest of the cabin. Harley Street psychologist Becky Spelman goes one further, telling the Telegraph that the "nesting" tendency equates to wanting to "exist in their own bubble", and adding that window seat fans "like to be in control, tend to take an 'every man for themselves' attitude towards life, and are often more easily irritable." Behavioral psychologist Jo Hemmings adds that window seat fans are usually "more selfish". Although not everyone buys this, one psychologist interviewed declined to comment, saying, "It's not something I've ever even thought about." So is there any truth to this idea? "It's true that everyone has a preference," Jack Sheldon of Jack's Flight Club told , adding that although he was skeptical of the sweeping character assassinations, "I'm sure there is some truth to it, and if someone did a study on it, they'd find something not too far from what we'd assume." But a member of cabin crew for a major European airline, and perhaps the ultimate expert on passenger behavior mentions that the idea of seat personalities doesn't ring true.

"I would honestly say, I have never in my 20 years of being a trolley dolly noticed this," she said. "I have served many people in the window or aisle seat and they have been extrovert, shy, demanding, quiet, unassuming and so on. I have never been able to pinpoint a certain type of passenger."

There's no word on the psychological tendencies of those who prefer the middle seat. Possibly because they don't exist - or perhaps, as Sheldon says, they're "usually a sign of poor planning and a disorganized person." Ouch.

Source: Julia Buckley

List of 27 Additional DFA Consular Offices in the Philippines 2017

The following are the 27 List of  Additional Department of Foreign Affairs Consular Offices in the Philippines.

The additional DFA Consular offices are announce early this month to improve its service supporting the Filipinos Nationwide including the OFW's for their easy passport renewals. In addition to this, all DFA offices has OFW express lane for their quick Passport Renewal and quick release of  New Passport with 10 years Validity. The list of Offices also supports New Passport Applications, Document Authentications and other DFA concerned transactions:

1. DFA CO NCR - East at Mandaluyong City
2. DFA CO NCR - Central at Pasig City
3. DFA CO NCR - West at Manila
4. DFA CO NCR - South at Muntinlupa City
5. DFA CO NCR - North East at Quezon City
6. DFA CO NCR - North at Novaliches
7. DFA CO Angeles at Angeles City
8. DFA CO Western Visayas, Bacolod City
9. DFA CO Baguio, Baguio City
10. DFA CO Butuan at Butuan City
11. DFA CO Cagayan de Oro at Cagayan De Oro City
12. DFA CO Calasiao at Calasiao, Pangasinan
13. DFA CO Mandaue, at Mandaue City, Cebu
14. DFA CO Cotabato at Cotabato C
15. DFA CO Davao at Davao City
16. DFA CO Dumaguete at Dumaguete City
17. DFA CO Southern Central Mindanao, Davao City
18. DFA CO SOCCSARGEN, North Cotabato
19. DFA CO Western Visayas Provincial Region VI, Ilo-Ilo City
20. DFA CO La Union at San Fernando City, La Union
21. DFA CO Legazpi at Legazpi City, Albay
22. DFA CO Lipa at Lipa City, Batangas
23. DFA Pampanga at San Fernando City, Pampanga
24. DFA CO Puerto Prinsesa at Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
25. DFA CO Tacloban at Tacloban City
26. DFA CO Tuguegarao at Tuguegarao City
27. DFA CO Zamboanga at Zamboanga City

Reference: DFA Press Announcement and DFA Website

5 Low Stress Jobs with 6 Figure Salary

5 Overlooked Low Stress Jobs With a 6 Figure Salary 

We know the job search can be overwhelming and a little scary. When looking for a new career path, there are certain jobs that stand out because of their popularity. However, if you do a bit of research you'll realize that there are plenty of underrated jobs with high paying results. When it comes to making changes in your career or starting your post graduate life it is important to understand there is more out there than you might have thought. Here are top low stress jobs that will pay you big in the long run:

Data Scientist (Median salary: $128,240) If your mind is fixated on finding patterns, this might be the right path for you. A data scientist Interprets trends from data in different industries. While this job has very low stakes, it comes with a high salary! Companies that are looking to grow and expand are always looking for people to help research and provide the type of information that will help them out.

Pharmacist (Median salary: $121,170) If you're willing to do the schooling, a pharmacist makes a high salary while the day to day of their actual job is not too demanding. Dispensing prescription medications to patients is usually the type of work they get into.

Mathematician (Median salary: $104,285) If math has always been your specialty, you might have overlooked the idea of becoming an actual mathematician. We know you have to really dedicate a lot of your time to the subject, but if conducting research and creating mathematical principles is your thing, you might want to look into this as a full time career.

Human Resources Manager (Median salary: $103,307) If you're a people person and think of yourself as a highly organized person, you might consider a career as a human resources manager. With their daily tasks including planning, and coordinating admin work for an office environment, it can be the just the right fit for someone who enjoys being social.  After gaining experience, some companies pay a high salary for this type of career.

Optometrist (Median salary: $101,360) An often overlooked practice in terms of high paying salaries is that of an eye doctor. With no need to go to medical school, just a specialized optometry school, an optometrist examines and treats a patient's eye and the surrounding visual system. An often low-stress job, if you love helping people and want to go into the medical field, this might be just the underrated job you're looking for.

Source: Blueboom.com

The Invisible Creme

Dumb Robbers Caught Nude When “Invisibility Cream” Fails! 

ATHENS, Greece a gang of dimwitted thieves conceived the perfect crime when they coated themselves with an invisibility cream sold to them by an elderly Chinese herbalist, then waltzed into a jewelry store naked, certain that they couldn’t be seen.

But the brazen daylight heist turned into a humiliating fiasco because the magic cream was bogus! The five crooks who had doffed their duds so their clothes wouldn’t be seen were busted by police less than 30 seconds after they exited the store in the historic The Plaka district. “The gang leader Aristotle Panagakos has a reputation in this city as something of a criminal mastermind,” said police spokesman Sgt. Demitri Stathopolos. “The failure of this particular caper exposed his shortcomings.”

The three men and two women have been charged with robbery. Panagakos, interviewed in jail, told a reporter that all seemed well when he and his four cohorts entered the Megalos Jewelry Store off Adrianou Street. The sales people did not react to us and we were certain we were invisible to them, he recalled. Only when we walked out and I saw policewomen gawking at my privates and giggling, did I realize that something had gone awry.

Cops from a special police task force, who’d been tipped that a robbery might be going down at one of the many jewelry stores in The Plaka, had instructed employees in the area to remain calm and press a silent alarm if they saw any sign of trouble.

“It was a little difficult keeping a straight face when those people came in, naked as the day they were born, and started poking about in the displays,” explained store manager Callidora Deiphobus. “But I did as the authorities instructed us and triggered the alarm. By the time the thieves left with armfuls of diamond necklaces and gold rings, the police were outside.”

Superstition is common among Greek criminals, who often purchase amulets to ward off police from Gypsies, experts say. According to a statement given to the police by ring leader Panagakos, the robbers bought the “invisibility cream” from a Chinese herbalist named Chin Ho who purportedly sold magic potions.“His nephew, a cat burglar I met at a bar, assured me that he had used the cream successfully many times,” Panagokos told cops. “I paid him a handsome sum, 7,700 Euros (about $10,00 U.S.). Now, of course, I realize the whole thing was a rip-off.”

BUNS-BARING BANDIT: Phoena Zervas, one of the alleged “invisible” jewel thieves, was angered to learn her gang had been duped. 24-year-old Phoena Zervas, the youngest member of the ring, was quickly covered in a coat by arresting officers a few yards from the store. She is furious at Chin Ho, whom she now regards as an “a liar and an evil charlatan. The morning of the robbery, the little old China man came to our hideout with jars of the magic cream, the bosomy brunette said in a jailhouse interview with a Greek TV station. Chin Ho, if that’s his real name explained that people wearing the cream could see each other, but no one else could.

He offered to apply the cream to my body so that I wouldn’t miss a spot. I took him up on the polite offer because he assured me that because he wasn’t wearing the cream he couldn’t see me nude. Now I know that not only could he see every inch of me, I let that old pervert rub his slimy hands over me from head to toe. I feel like a fool. The crafty con artist remains at large.

He is doubtless pulling his scam on other gullible criminals,” said Sgt. Stathopolos. “We’re not optimistic about finding him. And even if we do, we’re not sure what crime we could charge him with. All he did was sell some idiots goo that we have discovered to be 90 percent petroleum jelly. 

UNLIKE the dimwitted jewel thieves in this weird crime story, Fantastic Four superhero Susan Storm (Jessica Alba) really can turn invisible.

By C. Michael Forsyth