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		<title>Nature can take care of itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past century, specially the latter half of it, showed humanity’s growing concern the destruction that it has wrought upon the environment. Habitat loss, ecosystem destruction, species extinction and endangerment, and pollution are among the many concerns raised by environmentalists and like-minded people. At the start, those who espoused these concerns were voices in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=680&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Shit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A previous piece on shit has produced some feedback, making this writer rather elated, as it is an indication that this space is being read after all. Other topics discussed in this space did not warrant any response from readers, so I presumed that nobody reads my pieces, or, even if somebody does, my spirited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=679&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solar home systems: threshold to unforeseeable change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benguet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up and down rocky paths Five men were walking up the rocky path up a mountain. The lead man, the guide, was understandably the fastest of them, setting a pace that would enable the group to reach the top of the pass before the April sun would climb higher on the horizon. Already, even as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=643&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Injun Joe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in the 1960s and the 1970s that our grandfather, Angel Agpad, was recognized as an indigenous healer. His prowess as a healer was perhaps better appreciated in villages other than his home village in Sagada, Mountain Province, though even then many of the local folk would approach him for remedies to whatever ailments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=628&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glasses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some among us whose problems with their vision become apparent very early in their lives. Fortunately, they are but a small percentage of the population. Nevertheless, those whose conditions were diagnosed and who had the means had glasses fashioned so that they could go about their lives normally. Most of those who wear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=613&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the nth time, peeved over fuel prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines is continually in a fuel crisis. The recent social and political disturbances in Northern Africa and around the Arabian Gulf has only made things worse. The situation has deteriorated not because there is a shortage of supply, or an increase in demand, as &#8220;economists&#8221; would sure to allude to. Prices have skyrocketed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=612&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquakes, again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanity is again humbled by Nature. The recent earthquake in Japan, the earlier ones in Chile and in Haiti have again shown how natural phenomena could be catastrophic to man. Earthquakes have been a staple part of this planet since its birth billions of years past. Without earthquakes, the earth as we know it now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=594&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Panagbenga</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baguio City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Undoubtedly, Baguio city’s Panagbenga is one of the best attended in the country’s many festivals. Every year, during the month of February, thousands of visitors flock to the city to witness the many different activities of the ‘flower festival.’ Visitors are mostly Filipinos from the rest of the country, though it is not uncommon to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=585&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are the Bago a tribe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a researcher from the University of Asia and the Pacific contacted this keyboard puncher through the Internet to get his views on various issues about indigenous peoples. She got wind of my spirited musings when she came across the Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (ADSDPP)of the indigenous peoples of Bakun, Benguet. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=584&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In defense of “extravagant” ritual feasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baguio City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The indigenous peoples of the Cordilleras invariably perform several rituals in the life cycle of an individual, from pregnancy until death, and most of the time even after death. These rituals for the most part involve the slaughter of sacrificial animals, or what may be more appropriately called ritual animals. The type and number of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritedthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14873599&amp;post=583&amp;subd=spiritedthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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