March 2008
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03.08.08Scholarship Information
If you are a student looking for funds so you can go to college or university, a good site to visit would be scholarships.com as it provides plenty of information on scholarships, student loans, federal financial aid, et cetera. Aside from that, the site also offers plenty of tips that could prove crucial in your scholarship search.
For instance, you should check out this section which lists some red flags that you should watch out for in order to avoid scholarship scams. Among others, it advises you to avoid scholarship schemes that demand inordinate fees, scholarship websites that charge you when you register, and scholarship awards that you supposedly “won” even though you never applied for it. Those are all very good advice, I must say.
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03.08.08The Healing Guv
Here’s our next fake magazine cover featuring Cordillera officials. Kalinga Governor Floydelia Diasen is also a nurse by profession (and a college professor to boot) so we are calling her “The Healing Guv”. Who knows, maybe the skills she learned in the health care profession will prove to be useful in healing the political wounds inflicted during the past elections.
Canada based readers, it might interest you to know that Governor Diasen worked as a nurse in Saskatchewan from 1976 to 1978. You can read more professional info on the governor here. And in case you missed our post about her first 100 days in office, you can find it here.
PHOTO CREDIT: kalinga.gov.ph. RELATED POSTS: Governor Diasen’s First 100 Days; Covering Our Officials.
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03.07.08A Table For Two
If you are shopping for furniture particularly tables and chairs, you might want to check out Contract Furniture Company. Although the company specializes on selling furniture for restaurants and the food service industry, it actually offers a wide furniture collection which includes banquet tables, bar height tables, dining armchairs, rocking chairs, lounge seats, and many others. In fact, it has wrought iron furniture should you happen to be looking for one.
Contract Furniture has showrooms in California and New York which you can visit after setting an appointment with them. For those outside of those two states, you can view the company’s product line and place your order through the company website.
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03.07.08Blog Quick Links
* Is there racism in the call center industry? Yup. What about in English language teaching jobs? Yup. In Philippine society? Yup. [Call of Nature]
* It’s the year of the rat but sometimes we should scare the rats away especially if they are destroying our rice plants and our rice terraces. Join the “Tagtag id Asipulo” scheduled this coming April. [sitmo via bessmaat]
* Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya law students join their nationwide peers in calling for GMA to resign. [Nueva Vizcaya and Beyond]
* Hannah Sue Eming of Apayao State University is crowned as the “Miss Solid North 2008″ besting 13 other candidates from the “solid north”. Unfortunately, we don’t have any picture of her. [Pangasinan Star]
* Hey internet addicts, you should go check out this new Benguet website. [Benguet Online]
* Merrychery is a young doctor who is serving our kailiyans in the Ilocos-Cordillera boundary. You can read her posts here, here and here. Because her term will be ending in seven months, let’s give her some blog traffic as our way of saying thanks. Mag comment na rin tayo sa blog niya :-)
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03.07.08Cover Your Window
If you are looking for something to keep out the sun during summer or to block the prying eyes of your nosy neighbors, then check out Blind Central Online a company that sells window blinds. In particular, check out the discount blind it offers as this could save you money.
The blinds come in different dimensions and colors so you have lots of choices to pick from. With the different choices available, there’s a good chance that you will find the right blind that suits your needs.
The styles of the blinds are interesting too. Ever heard of a woven wood window shade? Or pleated window shades? Yup, they’re available at Blind Central Online.
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03.07.08Rescue Me
We got to give props to Baguio Senior Fire Officer John Ullibac who wore his bahag and played the role of a disaster victim during this disaster consciousness training held last year. We give props too to Paeng Valencia who is “rescuing” Officer Ullibac because he looks much smaller than the “victim” and yet he was able to do his job. By the way, the officer must be the happiest “victim” ever. But then again, you should be happy when you are rescued from a burning building. :-)
You can find more photos of this event at Baguiogallery.com. Photo courtesy of Art Tibaldo.
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03.07.08Web Hosting Reviews
Hey, are you looking for a web host but don’t know where to start? Or you do know where to start but would like to first get some feedback on the different web hosts out there? Then check out webhostingbluebook.net, a site that provides useful information on web hosting.
How useful is the information? Very useful, my friend. For instance, if you are wondering about how different web hosts rank against each other, their reputation, the pricing, and the support they provide to their customers then Web Hosting Bluebook is the site to visit as it has these information.
But what if you are a beginner who is clueless about the web hosting lingo. You don’t know, for instance, what POP3 is supposed to be or what nameservers are, or what image hosting is all about. Well, my friend, then check out this section which has articles which will give you the answers.
