OF FAILURES ...

" If you've never failed, you've never lived."

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert Hubbard

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." ~S.I. Hayakawa

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

INSPIRING

ONE BILLION TREES FOR CEBU

One billion trees for Cebu to avoid an “Ondoy” flood catastrophe.

That was the challenge posed by environmental groups who said the floods caused by the tropical storm should spur Cebuanos to intensify tree-planting efforts in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.

Cebu City officials said urban and coastal barangays are unprepared to deal with floods of the same magnitude that struck Manila and the National Capital Region (NCR) as a result of tropical storm “Ondoy.”

The Cebu City's Coastline Management Board and River Management Commission came out with this assessment amid reports that a second tropical storm entered the country at 4 p.m yesterday.

The Mactan office of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said tropical storm “Pepeng” will arrive in Eastern Visayas by Friday with speed of 22 kilometers per hour and strong winds of 120 to 140 kilometers per hour.

Scattered rainshowers are expected as Pagasa warned residents living near rivers on the possible rise in water level. Small boats are also advised not to sail due to rough waters.

Various environmental groups like Permaculture initiatives and Global Legal Action on Climate or GLACC, said tree planting could help prevent the floods that swept Manila and the National Capital Region (NCR).

Dave Deppner of the nongovernment organization Trees For the Future said Cebu needs one billion trees to prevent soil erosion.

He said a five-year-old tree can hold up to five gallons of water.

Deppner said climate change should not be seen as a problem that cannot be resolved but an opportunity to reduce carbon gas emissions and help restore the world's forest covers.

Organized in 1989, Trees for the Future helps communities around the world plant trees through seed distribution, agroforestry training, and empower rural groups to restore tree cover.

Malou Largo of Philippine Business for Social Progress' environment committee said her group is implementing environment management and protection projects.

The PBSP, a corporate-led, non-profit social development foundation, mobilizes member-companies and stakeholders to participate in tree planting activities with a tree survival rate between 85 percent to 90 percent.

“Last year, we were able to plant 2,000 trees,” said Largo who suggested planting indigenous or native species and involve members of the immediate community at the tree planting site.

Protecting watersheds will also ensure a sustainable water supply for Cebu province, she said.

“We have enough water according to a study but by 2030 we will run out of water,” she said.

Environmental lawyer and GLACC member Gloria Estenzo-Ramos said barangay councils should mobilize residents to encourage and promote tree-planting.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view/20091001-227817/1B-trees-to-avoid-Ondoy-tragedy

TREE PLANTING IN MANDAUE ECO-PARK

NOVEMBER 27 and 28 : HOLIDAYS!

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo has declared Nov. 27 and 28 as national holidays for the celebration of the Islamic religious festival of Eid’l Adha.

While Eid’l Adha is already celebrated as a regional holiday in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the President decided to make this a national holiday just like the Christian feasts of Christmas, Easter Sunday and All Saints Day.

“To guide our search for peace, one principle is that our society is a multi-ethnic one which should be founded on social justice for all and the institutionalized accommodation of ethnic traditions,” the President said in Proclamation No. 1808.

“Christian and Muslim are but a few names to which the Filipino responds in a wondrous testimony to our rich and varied heritage as a nation,” she added.

Eid’l Adha or the festival of sacrifice commemorates the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael to God as a sign of his loyalty.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=479318

DIANNE SALEM'S SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY

BUDOY WEARS PINK for PINK OCTOBER

Budoy or Errol Marabiles in real life, is a popular Cebuano musician in his generation. He is the lead vocalist of the reggae group Jr. Kilat. Their most popular song is “Ako si M-16.” Here, he poses with CESDEV-Nursing volunteers after the Cancer Chat in Ayala Activity Center.

CESDEV-NURSING JOINS THE 6TH MOONWALK: A WALK AGAINST BREAST CANCER

CEBU, Philippines - Thousands of women and student nurses in Cebu joined the 6th “Moonwalk: A Walk Against Breast Cancer” organized by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc.-Eduardo J. Aboitiz Cancer Center in support of the women suffering from breast cancer in the country.

Ronald de los Reyes, program coordinator of the EJACC, said that the event will raise awareness among women in the country on breast cancer and incidence that continues to add up.

“According to the 1998-2002 Metro Cebu Population-based Cancer Registry, one of RAFI-EJACC’s major projects in its research component, breast cancer is the cancer found to affect most Cebuanas as well as the cancer with highest mortality rate.

The trend also shows that it remains to be the number one in cancer incidence and mortality among the women in Cebu today.

The cancer registry is the third internationally accredited population-based registry in the Philippines and the only one in the Visayas, and connected with the International Agency for Research and Center.

The best way to stop this alarming break in breast cancer is through prevention. Awareness of this cancer at its early stage has been found to have led to survival, if not cure.

The walk aims to “make Cebuanos be aware of the leading cancer afflicting most of the women in Cebu today — breast cancer, and hopes to bring every Cebuana into the fight against this ailment via early detection.”

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=511352&publicationSubCategoryId=107

CANCER CHAT IN AYALA

FOCUS: ICANSERVE FOUNDATION

ICanServe Foundation, Inc., formerly Information on Breast Cancer and Other Services [1], is a non-stock, non-profit organization that advocates early breast cancer detection through breast self-examination. Based in Manila, Philippines, and founded in 1999 by journalist Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, a breast cancer survivor, the advocacy group empowers women with breast cancer and women cancer-related information so they can have a voice in their own health care. Its mission is to arm women with breast care health and breast cancer information so they can make informed decisions about their health. It also provides access to special services that will help the breast cancer survivor recover and heal more effectively.

ICanServe is not a support group. [1] Although ICanServe provides services to elevate the capabilities of and networks with support groups all over the Philippines, it does not itself conduct regular support group meetings nor does it provide services often expected from support groups such as private talks/seminars and medical/dental clinical missions. Volunteering and/or membership in ICanServe does not prevent volunteers/members from volunteering and/or membership in other organizations, associations, networks and support groups whose mandates or goals do not contradict ICanServe's mission of spreading information and hope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICanServe_Foundation