MaribuBot, my smart robot news aggregator, on her own, gathered these stories for you:
ξ Netizen voters prefer bets with disaster management plans. “Cebu City — Local and national candidates who have concrete programs on disaster risk reduction and proactive plans on mitigating effects of calamities like typhoons, flooding, and earthquake are more likely to get the netizens’ votes this coming May 2013 elections.” Sun Star.
Φ Battery backups offered as solution to massive Mindanao brownouts. An IT expert said, “Critical back-up power or uninterrupted power supply (UPS) for a company’s IT infrastructure is a must to ensure continuity of operations and prevent data loss.” Manila Bulletin thru Yahoo Philippines
♠ “Boy, 2 soldiers killed in Compostela encounter” “Davao City — Two soldiers were killed while six others were wounded in separate encounters between government troops and the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Mabini, Compostela Valley on Wednesday. xxx A nine-year-old boy was also killed in one of the encounters after getting caught in the crossfire.” Sun Star
Χ “Missing boy found decapitated, disemboweled”. abs-cbn
♠ “PH concerned over N. Korea threats, evacuation measures” Kyodo news thru abs-cbn
ς “Angels and demons of Philippine foreign policy”. commentary by Lauro Baja inVERA Files thru Yahoo Philippines
◊ “13 Things an IRS Agent Won’t Tell You About Tax Planning. April 15, easy: Follow these tax advisors’ insider tips for income tax help and stress-free filing.” article from Readers Digest.
Then MabibuBot published these eye-popping health news:
Ω “Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer’s is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.” by “Online” thru Tempo.
Ω “The practice of yoga encourages us to free ourselves from the burden of over-identifying with the physical body. Moreover, yoga asks us to consider that we are not only solely the physical body, we are also not only the thoughts and emotions we experience on a daily basis, but a composite of the finite and the infinite, woven into the fabric of many layers of being. The yogis called these layers koshas… One of these layers is called the prana body. It’s the part of you that is innately intelligent. Prana is the force responsible for the energetic processes that precede physical processes. Let me give you an example: Every night, without you thinking or planning, you go to sleep, and something keeps your blood steadily pumping, your pH levels stable, and the breath flowing in and out. There are literally millions of chemical processes taking place all the time in your being, and all of them occur without you trying. The force responsible for this miracle is prana, an operating intelligence, like an electrical impulse (or a divine messenger!) that keeps things flowing smoothly. ” Yoga Journal. (blog admin’s note: i think physicists would call this “energy” and medical doctors would probably say neurons and synapses, and biologists would not say “miracle” but say these are body processes resulting from millions of years of evolution, etc. Anyway, it’s Friday, read on!)
Ω“Overcoming common running obstacles” “”Hormonal and neurological shifts occur in our body, which can impact how we feel about exercise and how we feel while exercising,” says exercise physiologist Julia Moffitt, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at Des Moines University. Luckily, you can outsmart these internal power struggles and reduce the temptation of hitting snooze, working through lunch, or cutting a workout short. Here’s how to clear the roadblocks in your running day.” runnersworld. com
Ω “Danger! How Grapefruit and Medications Don’t Mix … 43 different drugs can interact dangerously with grapefruit; here’s what you need to know.” Readers Digest
Ω Plus videos from Chi Running: Uphill running. (blog admin’s note:This video shows running on a ten-degree slope…that’s uphill?…
(muscle-aches from uphill running probably gives a fool the right to whine: Uphill running is like…. pushing your chest against a ton of cement… and making it inch forward. whine, whine)
“Davao City (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 22, 2012) – More than 200 corpses were buried in a mass grave on Saturday in Compostela Valley province in the southern Philippines, as the search for those still missing from the deadly typhoon Bopha still continues.
“The bodies were already decomposing and needed to be buried to prevent the spread of diseases in the town of New Bataan, one of the hardest hit by the typhoon that ravaged Mindanao on December 4. xxx”
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From Agence France Presse
“300,000 still homeless after Typhoon Bopha: IFRC
“Some 300,000 people remain homeless in the Philippines following a deadly typhoon earlier this month, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Friday.
“The IFRC said urgent humanitarian assistance was needed to help around 200,000 of those affected by Typhoon Bopha — the deadliest storm to have struck the Philippines this year, killing more than 1,000 across the archipelago.xxx”
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From sunstar.com.ph
“Integrated approach pushed to rebuild Pablo-hit areas
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“It (Minda)recorded a total value loss in production of P25.8 billion due to damages that cover total or partial destruction of physical assets existing in the affected area. Its monetary value is expressed in terms of replacement costs according to prices prevailing just before the event.
“Minda also noted the expected value losses of P9.6 billion for 2013, which cover employment (direct and indirect), businessmen’s income, losses from rental of lands and other related services.
“ “It bears to point out that the hard hit areas of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental are among the top producing agricultural provinces of the country, especially banana, coconut and other high value commodities,” according to Minda.
“It added that the next two to three years of rehabilitation and reconstruction will certainly need to have a strong focus on reviving the agri-industry strength of these areas to provide greater employment opportunities and catch-up growth.”
