By the lake, there is a building with a perfect triangular roof.? Bright red strips of wood with carvings of simple forms of creatures installed on the walls adorn the building.? I look closely at the carvings and notice that they have unique characteristics which are Maori symbols depicting spirituality.? One of the common symbols decorates the place, spirals, a symbol meaning a new beginning, growth, and harmony, which certainly fits the moment when we wake up every morning and are ready for a new day of adventures that allows our minds to grow.? A strange looking creature known as Hei Tiki, a symbol simply meaning good luck, covers the walls of the Maori spiritual place.

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Inside the building, a Maori family stands and their smiles hit the spot.? They were presenting their spiritual place.? They’re just people who happen to have different rituals and are indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.? They’re just like the Native Americans who only wear costumes during ritual events.

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No wonder DaimlerChrysler designs mostly gas-guzzlers, eh? Makes me wonder what percentage of all the large car companies is owned by Arabic Oil nations?

The emirate of Dubai has bought $1bn of DaimlerChrysler stock and is now the company’s third biggest shareholder.

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One of the biggest factors undermining a commons-based society during the 20th Century was the automobile. Untold billions of dollars of public money was spent to enshrine the private car as essential to modern life, first in the U.S. and then throughout the world.

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Problems caused by a transportation system dominated by automobiles have been apparent for decades, but little happened to change the situation. It was considered an impossible dream that we would embrace any other way of travel.

But there are growing signs that people now understand —even in auto-dominated America—that we must broaden our transportation system by giving significant funding to bikes, transit, trains and walking. The fate or our environment, economy and communities depend upon it.
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Sa larangan ng kalusugan, malaking balita ang pag-aprub noong Huwebes ng US Food and Drug Administration ng Gardasil, ang vaccine na makaharang ng cervical cancer.

Ang Gardasil ay produkto ng Merck&Co at maraming taon na rin nila itong pinag-aralan. Kapag aprub na ng FDA, ibig sabihin noon, maari nang maibenta sa mga botika.

Dahil sa daming research na ginigugol para sa pag-aaral ng cancer, marami na ring mga gamot ang nadiskubre at ang cancer ngayon ay hindi na naituturing na hatol ng kamatayan.

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Ang cervical cancer ay pangalawa sa pinakamaraming biktima sa sakit na cancer. Ang number one yata ay breast cancer. Taon-taon, mga 290,000 na kababaihan ang namamatay sa cervical cancer.

Napag-alaman sa mga research na ang cervical cancer ay nanggaling sa isang virus na kinilalang human papillomavirus (HPV) na nakukuha sa sexual contact. Ang HPV ay nagdudulot ng pamamaga at pagkasugat sa mga ari ng mga babae. Maraming mga babae at kahit mga lalake na nai-infect ng HPV ngunit ang iba ay nawawala na lang. Ang iba naman natutuloy sa cancer.

Dahil sa vaccine na ito, sinabi ng Merck & Co na maaaring mabawasan na ng 30 porsiyento ang mamatay sa cervical cancer. Libo-libong buhay rin yan na maliligtas.

Ang tanong: magkano naman kaya ang halaga nitong Gardasil?

Sa website ng Merck &,Chanel Handbags; Co, ang manufacturer ng Gardasil, nakalagay doon na $120 isang dose. Pagdating dito sa Pilipinas, hindi natin alam kung magkano ang patong. Tatlong injection ang kailangan sa anim na buwan kaya hindi bababa siguro sa P20,000.

Halos lahat naman na gamot sa cancer ay mahal. Ako nga noong nagke-chemo ako dahil sa aking ovarian cancer, isang vial ng Taxol ay P42,000. Anim na beses ako nag-chemo. At hindi lang naman yan ang ang aking gamot

Dahil sa mga bagong gamot na nadi-diskubre, marami na sa mga may cancer ang nabubuhay. Nag-aabante na ang research at ngayon ay vaccine na. Haharangin na ang cancer.

May mga nag-alala na baka lalo raw magiging sexually active ang mga kabataan dahil sa Gardasil. Kasi daw iisipin ng iba na kapag nabakunahan na sila ng Gardasil, hindi na sila kakapitan ng cervical cancer kaya hindi na sila masyadong maging maingat sa kanilang pakikipa-talik sa iba’t-ibang lalaki.

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