They're out there with the backhoe again

The age old problem of hosting your website in some far off forgotten land, and then someone decides they're going to put a backhoe through the fiberoptics of your webhosting company. It's a real pain.

While earthquakes and backhoes are different, sames same in this scenario of the trunks running between Taiwan, Singapore and Korea breaking in the quake's wake.

Used as a social justification for doing it the wrong way, the trunks have been put on top of the ocean floor and not dug deeply in due to the lessened use of phones and increased use of internet services like Skype. This, they say, is decreasing the amount of spending on actual infrastructure. Sounds like a like of mallarky.

But you should find out for yourself, review the balance sheets of telecom companies in Taiwan etc. and see if they're full of it, or if they're presenting a accurate scene.

Lack of people

With the amount of people displaced by the typhoon... as a quick aside to keep everyone on the same page:

typhoon
tropical storm: a violent tropical storm in the western Pacific and Indian oceans
hurricane
1. severe storm: a severe tropical storm with torrential rain and extremely strong winds. Hurricanes originate in areas of low pressure in equatorial regions of the Atlantic or Caribbean, and then strengthen, traveling northwest, north, or northeast.
2. high wind: a wind of above 119 km (74 mi) per hour, classified as force 12 or above on the Beaufort scale
monsoon
1. rainy season: a period of heavy rainfall, especially during the summer over South and Southeast Asia
2. heavy rain: a very heavy fall of rain ( informal )
cyclone
1. meteorology large-scale storm system: a large-scale storm system with heavy rain and winds that rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere around and toward a low-pressure center.
2. meteorology violent storm: a violent rotating windstorm or tornado

Now that we have that out of the way. With the amount of people displace in typhoon Durrian and the other 4 in the Philippines over the last few months, why are there only that many people there helping?

There needs to be more people. There needs to be more help. The successes and wins are miracles time and time again. There is a minimum of 40,000 displaced and that's only from the last 2 typhoons.

See what you can do to help, contact the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Coordinator here.

Don't let your heart fall to pieces

This shows you the true wonders of understanding your body. While you or I may just feel the pain and there you go, it hurts. He can tell it hurts by coordinate position in his body and tell you why with considerable accuracy.

Lesson learned here, avoid it hurting, but know, if it does, why it does.

Man faces poverty

This man is a bit strikinig in the intention and accomplishment. His name is Muhammad Yunus and he stated bluntly on poverty when accepting a Nobel Peace prize:

"Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum."

He has reduced poverty throughout the land of Bangladesh. With his banks, self-funded, he has spent the last 30 years granting small loans to the poor. Many the loans given were for starting businesses of their own, and has, with loans of this and other types, loaned 6 billion dollars with the average loan being $130. These loans were aslo breaking the mold with models of trust, not of making contractual security, just that of trusting those taking loans would be repaying them.