1. Recently, #ALSIceBucketChallenge is very trending in social networking sites. Then there is another advocacy that
you can be part of, a version of it in our country. It's called the #RiceBucketChallengePH. Thankfully, it doesn't
involve pouring a bucket of rice over your head.
Just like the ice bucket challenge, this is also for a good cause. Instead of focusing to a rare disease, the amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS), which the challenge gave light, the new challenge is somehow giving attention to one of the
biggest problem our country endures now: hunger and poverty.
Dr. Henry Lim, Rice developer, producer, and distributor and #RiceBucketChallengePH pioneer, explained that the
idea must based from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge but it too more bigger inspiration from India's Rice Bucket
Challenge that also went viral online recently.
All you have to do is give a bucket of uncooked rice to those people who need it the most in your community. Take a
photo of the deed. Post it in any social networking sites. Tag as many friends as you like. Simple, isn't it?
To start-off the challenge, Dr. Henry Lim handed over an initial of 100 buckets of brown rice to selected and well -
deserved families in marginalized communities in the metro Friday lunch time. He also explained to the recipients the
benefits of this kind of rice. A bucket of rice is about five kilos, according to Lim.
Why brown rice? He could have donated ordinary rice for the challenge but he return s the spotlight to a nutritious
kind.
Lim said that his effort of giving away rice buckets is hopefully the first wave of "ocean of good works" to help ease
hunger and poverty in the country. He also admit the efforts of the different government agencies, saying that he can
never compete with their programs. Rather, he is just doing a small part to help the community, as a private
individual.
As we grow older, we'll experience something which is somehow unpleasant. Because of that, we must conform to
these changes that we will encounter. One of these is the most common among teenagers: acne.
Acne may not seem like a serious problem to some people. After all, it's not life-threatening. It's more of an
inconvenience than a health problem, right? Wrong.
While almost everyone gets acne at one time or another, in some people, it can become both persistent and severe.
For these people, it can affect their ability to socialize, damage their self-esteem and, in some cases, even jeopardize
their careers.
So how can these be treated? Support your body so it can heal itself.
Our bones, muscles, skin and organs are all made of the foods that we have eaten. When our bodies have access to
the optimum building blocks of high-quality, natural nutrition, they can do this job properly.
Fear, anxiety, panic, despair and worry.
Thos e are what you can feel when a volcanic eruption is about to occur es pecially when you’re near a volcano.
Worried about your properties. Worried about your life. Worried about your love ones. And the memories. Memories
who cannot be replaced.
Hearing the word “Volcano” is not always about death. But it can als o be the s olution on how to s olve one of the
biggest problem suffered all over the world.
Fear, anxiety, panic, despair and worry.
Those are what you can feel when a volcanic eruption is about to occur es pecially when you’re near a volcano.
Worried about your properties. Worried about your life. Worried about your love ones. And the memories. Memories
who cannot be replaced.
Hearing the word “Volcano” is not always about death. But it can als o be the s olution on how to s olve one of the
biggest problem suffered all over the world, global warming.

2. Small volcanic eruptions could be slowing global warming by spewing sulfur aerosols that reach the upper
atmosphere and reflect sunlight away from the Earth, US scientists said Tuesday.
Researchers have long known that volcanoes can protect against global warming, but they did not think that minor
eruptions did much to the atmosphere.