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Earthquakes don’t kill. Unsafe structures do. That’s one lesson Filipinos can draw from the recent magnitude-7 quake that devastated Haiti.

A recent study at Columbia University found that the Philippines has the biggest number of schoolchildren at risk from earthquakes.

According to the study, the Philippines has 15.6 million school-age children in earthquake zones, the highest exposure it cited. I doubt the Department of Education is even aware of this.

MANILA, Philippinesâ€"The prospect of having a “Saint Cory” is not an impossible dream, said a Jesuit priest Sunday on the eve of Aquino’s 77th birth anniversary.
Corazon Aquino’s name may be brought up for consideration for sainthood within five yearsâ€"or lessâ€"if the Vatican pushes it, said Rev. Fr. Catalino Arevalo, SJ.
“The decision is up to God,” the priest said in his homily during the Mass celebrated in Aquino’s honor at the EDSA Shrine chapel Sunday.
In his homily, Arevalo said the push for an Aquino sainthood was not surprising, considering how the late President had led her life and how she was able to marry her faith with her brand of governance.

“In centuries past, we had canonized kings. We had canonized leaders. Is it possible to [do] this again?” he said.

Arevalo said that in the recent past, very few political leaders had risen to sainthood, and that he believed the possibility of Aquino getting beatified was not far-fetched at all.

A child is put up for adoption. A woman who says she is the mother tells authorities that because of dire poverty, she cannot afford to give her child a good future. The woman is dressed in shabby clothes to prove her point. Ultimately, new parents from another country are found for the child. The minor is whisked off to a foreign country, the woman gets a windfall... except that the child is not really her own to begin with. The child’s real family has reported a kidnap case.

Today the average lifespan is 25,550 days. That's how long you will live if you are typical. Don't you think it would be a wise use of time to set aside 40 of those days to figure out what God wants you to do with the rest of them?
The bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

According to Dr. Jovita Ayson, regional director of BFAR Regional Office in Cagayan Valley, Nueva Viscaya,s topography and climate - similar to the country's summer capital, is not a hindrance for the large-scale production of fish.
This innovative fish culture project entails use of recycled metal drums open and welded on end to form a chamber where fish can be cultured. It will stocked with 3,000 African hito fingerlings, which, can produce appoximately 1,000 kilos of fish after 6 months culture period.Project net income is 50,000 at farm gate price of 110.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6heaIJaFo


Little learners become great leaders......

This school year 2008-2009, all elementary schools in Digos City Division opens preschool education supported by the DepEd and City government. The needs of the young learners in educatrion are now giving much attention because of the threatened issue of arising slow learners, and preparedness for formal education.

Hoping that preschool education should be part of the DepEd.