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Richard Parker
A wealth of info seasoned with a dash of absolute horsesht..
Worthwhile reading and lots of it...
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LEGACY TAKES A CRAP & WESTERN UNION DAPA WENT BELLY UP!!!
Go to the Wester Union office in Dapa and you will be told that they "are no more", "out of business", "bankrupt",..... Yikes! Is this indicative of the organization as a whole? I can find nothing online while searching the news, so it is probably a localized thing, with Dapa being an individually owned office or something.
Legacy, an "investment company" many local expats have been dumping cash into, has collapsed in typical "Ponzi scheme" pyramid form.
If you have money involved you'd better check it out, as it's said your account now contains like nada!! And a bunch of rural banks are going tits up over it as well.
When To Build In Siargao
Our wettest months, here in Siargao, are the 5 months of Sept. thru January according to regional average rainfall. Nov., Dec., Jan. are the standout wettest with April thru Aug. being the average dryest period. (Making them the optimum productive construction months as well.)
From my own experience I've found that fair weather projects can save 50 to 100% over foul in labor costs and materials suffer less loss as well.
Add to those the delivery and handeling hassel increase, higher propensity for accident and jobsite injury, not to mention extra tool /equipment wear and tear and you're pretty certain to find yourself in best form to be doing about anything but building in the wet season..
But myself.......I'm not doing Jack in the way of work I can't do inside, until Feb.
CEBU PACIFIC 2x Week Mon & Fri Siargao/Cebu P1088 (Man/Bangkok $65, Man/HK $55)
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Make Firefox look like IE
The main complaint is the font size causing text to run over images or other text. The short term fix is to decrease Mozilla's text size by zooming out text only. The long term fix simply involves going to the top of your Firefox browser and clicking Tools > Options > Content, and changing the font size to correspond to that in IE (which in 99% of all websites will be the chosen "look".)
If Firefox shows the default font size as 20 try changing it to 14 and I'll bet your problem is solved, allowing for the more consistant CSS functionality and higher security of Firefox without the wierd text issues screwing up the page's look.
Cantilan Bank Inc. Brings ATM to Siargao
The lack of opportunity for tourists to replentish cash supplies has long been detrimental to local tourism, in that wasting a day going to Surigao City and back is rarely figured into anyones travel plans.
The range of acceptable cards are as follows; 1) Megalink 2) BancNet 3) ExpressNet and 4) Local MasterCards... leaving a considerable number of international cards unavailable, but much much better than nada.
They also do GCash, several remittance services such as Philippine National Bank, Asia United Bank, Dollar American Exchange, Czarina Remittance Co. Ltd, Reliable Peso Remit, Inc., and Kabayan Remittance. (Though XOOM is glaringly absent, lets hope they are also included soon....though with a transfer to PNB it could be worked out easily enough.)
Fund transfers available between MetroBank, BPI, BDO, PNB, RCBC, and LBP are also available.
Construction Calculators For Layout of Roofs, Stairs, Concrete, Block and Much More...Free Blocklayers.com
1" of sea level rise = an average of 50" of lost beach.
WALL STREET VOODOO
by Paul Krugman
To explain the issue, let me describe the position of a hypothetical bank that I'll call Gothamgroup, or Gotham for short.
On paper, Gotham has $2 trillion in assets and $1.9 trillion in liabilities, so that it has a net worth of $100 billion. But a substantial fraction of its assets - say, $400 billion worth - are mortgage-backed securities and other toxic waste. If the bank tried to sell these assets, it would get no more than $200 billion.
So Gotham is a zombie bank: it's still operating, but the reality is that it has already gone bust. Its stock isn't totally worthless - it still has a market capitalization of $20 billion - but that value is entirely based on the hope that shareholders will be rescued by a government bailout.
Why would the government bail Gotham out? Because it plays a central role in the financial system. When Lehman was allowed to fail, financial markets froze, and for a few weeks the world economy teetered on the edge of collapse. Since we don't want a repeat performance, Gotham has to be kept functioning. But how can that be done?
Well, the government could simply give Gotham a couple of hundred billion dollars, enough to make it solvent again. But this would, of course, be a huge gift to Gotham's current shareholders - and it would also encourage excessive risk-taking in the future. Still, the possibility of such a gift is what's now supporting Gotham's stock price.
A better approach would be to do what the government did with zombie savings and loans at the end of the 1980s: It seized the defunct banks, cleaning out the shareholders. Then it transferred their bad assets to a special institution, Resolution Trust Corp.; paid off enough of the banks' debts to make them solvent; and sold the fixed-up banks to new owners.
In the past, the Surigao City troupe of Bonok-bonok Maradjaw Karadjaw used to lord it over the competition. This year, Surigaonons were represented colorfully by Surigao del Norte’s Tikyabang Festival of General Luna, Siargao Island, also known as the surfing capital of the Philippines. Vibrant and different, the contingent had a small army of boys wearing crab costumes. Too bad they did not land a spot.
Have You Had The Squirts for Over a Week?
There are several posible causes, ranging from a change in diet to intestinal nasties, and effects ranging from dirtying your boardshorts, to death. (Holy crap eh? :~p )
If you're new to the area, some things you may want to avoid include: Kinilaw (raw FRESHWATER fish soaked in vinegar, peppers etc....apparently saltwater varieties are cool), roadside BBQ left unrefridgerated and open to flies and handeling, bad well water (BOIL or buy bottled) Basically eat someplace CLEAN that uses soap and hot water to wash dishes, and employees who aren't standing around with there thumbs up their asses....there's ALWAYS cleaning to do ( in semi open air establishments in particular)
Anyway the Center for Disease Control has an article out which includes medication info. Click below....
