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| Searsoliners Batch 46 at Marawi City. (From left to right) Marady Chum, Mary Khine, Emz, Karen, Francis Bacomo, Ms. Ha (wearing yellow), Ms. Shiela de Lima, Philip Htingbu Pan Aung and Fr. Peter Truong Van Phuc. |
Friday, October 15, 2010
Searsoliners batch 46
Monday, June 14, 2010
Unknown pains? It can be TMJ dysfunction says Oro dentist
CAGAYAN DE ORO JOURNAL (Ben Balce / June 9, 2010) – Dr. Benjamin Sia. D.MD, DDM on Wednesday said that many people who suffer from dizziness, earaches, face, head neck, shoulder and back pain, without knowing the cause of pain, but for him, it might be a TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) pain.
He said that many patients seeking medical cures for these types of problems frequently related on this kind of disorders. “Just told it was the patients’ mind, but it’s definitely not.”
TMJ pain disorders according to Dr. Sia is usually occur because of unbalanced activity, spasm, or overuse of the jaw muscles. He elaborated that symptoms tend to be chronic, and treatment is aimed at eliminating the precipitating factors.
However, Dr. Sia said many symptoms may still not appear related to the TMJ itself, but the above types of disorders are likely common symptoms.
“People would go from expert to high-quality physicians seeking a cure. Then after years of unsuccessful treatment and spending much they learned still to live with pain,” said Dr. Sia.
Dr. Sia said it’s now known that condition TMJ pain or the Temporoandibular Joint syndrome accounts for a large number of these previously uncured and painful ailments.
Dr. Sia, who usually made TMJ treatment for long years, is running a dental clinic in Cagayan de Oro City together with her wife Dr. Sandy Tankiko Sia, located at the 2nd Floor, Betty Bldg, 105 Hayes corner Velez Streets.
Sia said that the above types of pains are symptoms of the syndrome and not the problem itself. “Correcting the problem rather than the symptom is at the heart of TMJ treatment.”
“The primary purpose of this kind of treatment is to eliminate the pain,” said Sia.
He also said that on today’s new knowledge and technology, dentists are able to diagnose and treat TMJ problems which previously have been overlooked.
He said that medical profession is becoming more aware of dentistry’s involvement and physicians are referring patients to dentists knowledgeable in TMJ treatment.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Unknown pains? It can be TMJ dysfunction says Oro dentist
CAGAYAN DE ORO JOURNAL (Ben Balce / June 9, 2010) – Dr. Benjamin Sia. D.MD, DDM on Wednesday said that many people who suffer from dizziness, earaches, face, head neck, shoulder and back pain, without knowing the cause of pain, but for him, it might be a TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) pain.
He said that many patients seeking medical cures for these types of problems frequently related on this kind of disorders. “Just told it was the patients’ mind, but it’s definitely not.”
TMJ pain disorders according to Dr. Sia is usually occur because of unbalanced activity, spasm, or overuse of the jaw muscles. He elaborated that symptoms tend to be chronic, and treatment is aimed at eliminating the precipitating factors.
However, Dr. Sia said many symptoms may still not appear related to the TMJ itself, but the above types of disorders are likely common symptoms.
“People would go from expert to high-quality physicians seeking a cure. Then after years of unsuccessful treatment and spending much they learned still to live with pain,” said Dr. Sia.
Dr. Sia said it’s now known that condition TMJ pain or the Temporoandibular Joint syndrome accounts for a large number of these previously uncured and painful ailments.
Dr. Sia, who usually made TMJ treatment for long years, is running a dental clinic in Cagayan de Oro City together with her wife Dr. Sandy Tankiko Sia, located at the 2nd Floor, Betty Bldg, 105 Hayes corner Velez Streets.
Sia said that the above types of pains are symptoms of the syndrome and not the problem itself. “Correcting the problem rather than the symptom is at the heart of TMJ treatment.”
“The primary purpose of this kind of treatment is to eliminate the pain,” said Sia.
He also said that on today’s new knowledge and technology, dentists are able to diagnose and treat TMJ problems which previously have been overlooked.
He said that medical profession is becoming more aware of dentistry’s involvement and physicians are referring patients to dentists knowledgeable in TMJ treatment.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Justice to mining disaster victims in the Philippines
The disaster resulted in the release of over 1.6 million cubic meters of tailings along 27 km of the river and the coastal areas. The impact on the river and the people who depend on it for their livelihoods was massive. The rush of tailings displaced river water which inundated low-lying areas, destroying crops and vegetable gardens and clogging irrigation channels to rice fields. The release left the The Marcopper Mining Corporation Officially started its mining operations on Marinduque Island Mt. Tapian Mt. Tapian San Antonio Mt. Tapian Mt. Tapian Calancan Bay
It is estimated that a total of no less than 84 million metric tons of mine tailings were discharged into this shallow bay between 1975 and 1988. Due to constant complaints by local residents against the continued dumping of mine tailings into Calancan Bay, it was agreed that the old Mt. Tapian open-cut mine site would be used to receive mine tailings from the San Antonio operations on a temporary basis. In spite of the unconventional use of the Tapian Pit as a containment system, no environmental risk assessment and management was carried out by Marcopper.
The incident involved the Marcopper which has been carrying out open-pit copper mining since the 1970s. When the company finished one of its operations in Marinduque, it plugged up the old pit with a concrete fixture to allow the pit to act as a disposal lake for mining waste. In August 1995, a significant leak was discovered in the pit's drainage tunnel. This subsequently fractured. The accident discharged tailings into the Makulapnit-Boac (Boac) river system. The effects of the incident were so devastating that a UN assessment mission declared the accident to be a major environmental disaster. The Tapian pit contained around 23 million metric tons of mine waste. Officials of the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) claim that they did not know of the presence of the drainage tunnel measuring 2.6 kilometers long and 1 meter wide which was found underneath, which leads to the Makulapnit and Boac river system.
The toxic spills immediately caused flash floods which isolated five villages, with a population of 4,400 people, along the far side of the Boac river. One village, Barangay Hinapulan, was buried under six feet of muddy floodwater and 400 families had to flee to higher grounds. Their sources of drinking water were contaminated while fish, freshwater shrimp and pigs were killed. Helicopters had to fly in food, water and medical supplies to the isolated villages. Residents of 20 villages out of the 60 villages in the whole province were advised to evacuate their communities.
The government estimates that this toxic tailings waste killed P1.8 million worth of mature freshwater and marine life and P5 million bangus fry. The 27-kilometre Boac river, which is the main source of livelihood for those who are not part of the 1,000-strong workforce of Marcopper, has been declared dead by government officials.
On 17 April 1996 , the Department of Health (DOH) came up with a report which said that residents could already be harbouring in their bodies amounts of zinc and copper which are beyond tolerable limits. Despite these findings, Marcopper held on to the claim that the tailings were non-toxic.
The drinking water residents relied on was contaminated. Fish, shrimp and other food sources, which are the main livelihood for those who do not work for Marcopper, were immediately killed. After the disaster, Marcopper and Placer Dome closed down all their mines. The government attempted to cover up the fact they did not enforce environmental laws throughout the years. The local residents in Marinduque have also claimed they knew about the tunnel for almost 20 years. Evidence came to light that Marcopper knew of the leak in the drainage tunnel well in advance of the accident, as there had been a long history of On October 4, 2005 , the provincial government of Marinduque sued Marcopper's parent company, Placer Dome, for $100 million in damages. Placer Dome was purchased in 2006 by Barrick Gold, who has now been joined in the lawsuit.
Marcopper and Placerdome left tons of hazardous wastes together with the unpaid millions of pesos of taxes due to the local government. They left an impoverished economy and a devastated environment that the people are now trying to rehabilitate by themselves. They find the present policy of the national government of aggressively promoting mining throughout the country a great insult, as if what happened to the island province of Marinduque Marinduque Island Philippines
The impact brought by mining in the lives of the people is not an isolated case for Marinduque, the growing resistance of the community all over the Philippines
The LRC-KsK, the Alternative Law Groups (ALG) and Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) are filing cases of mining affected communities in the Philippines on March 24 to give justice to the people devastated their lives by Mining.
Carl Cesar C. Rebuta
Cagayan de Oro Regional Office
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-
Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth-Philippines (LRC-KsK)
Justice to mining disaster victims in the Philippines
The disaster resulted in the release of over 1.6 million cubic meters of tailings along 27 km of the river and the coastal areas. The impact on the river and the people who depend on it for their livelihoods was massive. The rush of tailings displaced river water which inundated low-lying areas, destroying crops and vegetable gardens and clogging irrigation channels to rice fields. The release left the The Marcopper Mining Corporation Officially started its mining operations on Marinduque Island Mt. Tapian Mt. Tapian San Antonio Mt. Tapian Mt. Tapian Calancan Bay
It is estimated that a total of no less than 84 million metric tons of mine tailings were discharged into this shallow bay between 1975 and 1988. Due to constant complaints by local residents against the continued dumping of mine tailings into Calancan Bay, it was agreed that the old Mt. Tapian open-cut mine site would be used to receive mine tailings from the San Antonio operations on a temporary basis. In spite of the unconventional use of the Tapian Pit as a containment system, no environmental risk assessment and management was carried out by Marcopper.
The incident involved the Marcopper which has been carrying out open-pit copper mining since the 1970s. When the company finished one of its operations in Marinduque, it plugged up the old pit with a concrete fixture to allow the pit to act as a disposal lake for mining waste. In August 1995, a significant leak was discovered in the pit's drainage tunnel. This subsequently fractured. The accident discharged tailings into the Makulapnit-Boac (Boac) river system. The effects of the incident were so devastating that a UN assessment mission declared the accident to be a major environmental disaster. The Tapian pit contained around 23 million metric tons of mine waste. Officials of the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) claim that they did not know of the presence of the drainage tunnel measuring 2.6 kilometers long and 1 meter wide which was found underneath, which leads to the Makulapnit and Boac river system.
The toxic spills immediately caused flash floods which isolated five villages, with a population of 4,400 people, along the far side of the Boac river. One village, Barangay Hinapulan, was buried under six feet of muddy floodwater and 400 families had to flee to higher grounds. Their sources of drinking water were contaminated while fish, freshwater shrimp and pigs were killed. Helicopters had to fly in food, water and medical supplies to the isolated villages. Residents of 20 villages out of the 60 villages in the whole province were advised to evacuate their communities.
The government estimates that this toxic tailings waste killed P1.8 million worth of mature freshwater and marine life and P5 million bangus fry. The 27-kilometre Boac river, which is the main source of livelihood for those who are not part of the 1,000-strong workforce of Marcopper, has been declared dead by government officials.
On 17 April 1996 , the Department of Health (DOH) came up with a report which said that residents could already be harbouring in their bodies amounts of zinc and copper which are beyond tolerable limits. Despite these findings, Marcopper held on to the claim that the tailings were non-toxic.
The drinking water residents relied on was contaminated. Fish, shrimp and other food sources, which are the main livelihood for those who do not work for Marcopper, were immediately killed. After the disaster, Marcopper and Placer Dome closed down all their mines. The government attempted to cover up the fact they did not enforce environmental laws throughout the years. The local residents in Marinduque have also claimed they knew about the tunnel for almost 20 years. Evidence came to light that Marcopper knew of the leak in the drainage tunnel well in advance of the accident, as there had been a long history of On October 4, 2005 , the provincial government of Marinduque sued Marcopper's parent company, Placer Dome, for $100 million in damages. Placer Dome was purchased in 2006 by Barrick Gold, who has now been joined in the lawsuit.
Marcopper and Placerdome left tons of hazardous wastes together with the unpaid millions of pesos of taxes due to the local government. They left an impoverished economy and a devastated environment that the people are now trying to rehabilitate by themselves. They find the present policy of the national government of aggressively promoting mining throughout the country a great insult, as if what happened to the island province of Marinduque Marinduque Island Philippines
The impact brought by mining in the lives of the people is not an isolated case for Marinduque, the growing resistance of the community all over the Philippines
The LRC-KsK, the Alternative Law Groups (ALG) and Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) are filing cases of mining affected communities in the Philippines on March 24 to give justice to the people devastated their lives by Mining.
Carl Cesar C. Rebuta
Cagayan de Oro Regional Office
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-
Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth-Philippines (LRC-KsK)
Ben balce's channel/YouTube
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