2009 August | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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What’s the status of Mindanao ‘super region’?

There was no mention of the super regions, including the “Mindanao agribusiness” super region, in President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s 2009 State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 27 but recent updates show that this year, Mindanao got the biggest chunk in infrastructure releases. The updates were given during the 13th Agribusiness Mindanao ...

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Perlas Tayong Lahat!

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go shoot

Photos from the shoot of my first full length narrative film The Obscured Histories and Silent Longings of Daguluan's Children. Photos by Jun Macarambon ...

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EO 765: Good for bakers, bad for corn farmers

First published in MindaNews.com. President Arroyo signed Executive Order 765 in December 2008  claiming that  ”reduction on tariff on food wheat would help stabilize the price of bread and other baked food products.” Unfortunately, former agriculture secretary Leonardo Montemayor said in a report that the order did not only include the lifting ...

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Impact

An asteroid, say, about 5 miles in diameter impacts with the Earth at say, the modest speed of 20 miles per second. Let’s say it hits in the middle of the ocean (Atlantic or Pacific, take your pick). If I remember right, 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere is contained within 10 miles ...

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Impact

An asteroid, say, about 5 miles in diameter impacts with the Earth at say, the modest speed of 20 miles per second. Let’s say it hits in the middle of the ocean (Atlantic or Pacific, take your pick). If I remember right, 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere is contained within 10 miles ...

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UFOs, Myths and Reality

Of all the controversial subjects that engage the attention of people, none is more popular than the UFO phenomenon. In the following, I will be using the term UFO, not in its literal meaning as unidentified flying object. Instead, when I use the term I will mean an object that is intelligently ...