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Day: January 10, 2012

BATANG MINDANAW: Stories True Heroes Tell Themselves

I live mine in make believe – daydreaming has always been my hobby of choice. I would always take every chance to shift my attention to somewhere out-of-this-word.

How I tell myself stories is rather childish to the point of cute. As with the egocentrism of a toddler, I would always be the protagonist. I would play a certain, sometimes-unconventional role. Doctor, fireman, soldier. Magician, jeepney driver, hermit, snake-charmer. More recently, as a psychologist (about time I did). The possibilities are always asymptotic to infinite.

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GPH names 2 new peace panel members

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 January) – The government peace panel has named two of its consultants in the negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as regular members. Dr. Hamid Barra, who has been consultant since 2010, replaces Upi Mayor

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Gold processing

Nonoy Osiba, 46, separates gold dusts from soil and dirt at a “ball mill” plant in Sitio Haguimit, Panganason, Pantukan in Compostela Valley on January 7, 2011. Osiba fears that they will loose their source of income once operations will

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Concerned miners help in retrieval operations by flushing barrels of water to remove dirt at a landslide that hit Barangay Napnapan, Pantukan in Compostela Valley morning of January 5 killing at least 36 people. MindaNews Photo by Toto Lozano

Landslides ‘normal,’ miners used to it

PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/9 January) – Everything seems to be normal in the gold rush communities near the landslide site in Sitio Diat 1 in Barangay Napnapan as ball mill plants continue to operate and miners continue to haul ores

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2-year tuna ban in the Pacific extended

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/9 Jan) – The two-year ban on purse seine tuna fishing in the Pacific Ocean has been extended for another three months following the deferment until March of last month’s scheduled annual meeting of the Western and

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COMMENT: After the Arrest, Big Posers

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/9 January) – The arrest of Jimmy Ato, alleged killer of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME in early morning of December 29, 2011 generated positive reactions. However, after the arrest followed big posers in the wake of conflicting and downplayed implicating and complicating circumstances and incidents.

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COMMENTARY: A Country Deprived of the Ecosystem Services of the Forests

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/9 January) – Having crossed the sustainable limit of deforestation in the late 1940s, Filipinos gradually felt the deprivation of the original “ecosystem services” of the forests they used to enjoy. Indeed, due to severe deforestation, the present ecological state of the Philippine environment is helplessly vulnerable to various forms of natural disasters. We suffer from the bad ecological effects of deforestation. We are beginning to realize that the forest is a “focal ecosystem” whose destruction would necessarily affect all other ecosystems.

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TINGOG SA SUBA: Rap it up! (NY resolution)

Tungod karon bag-ong tuig dili na ko mag- alig-alig sobrang kaon sa minantikaang chicken and pig minos-minosan pud ang softdrinks ug chicheria instead mag-fasting ug mag-yoga Kalisod ‘ning kahimtanga pero kung wala ka’y disiplina sa kaulahian ikaw mag-antos sakit sa

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