I know you are a smart guy but you have no evidence that the very short-term gain of vaccination (a gain needing boosting after only 6 months) is greater than any long-term effects. We have to hope there are no serious long-term effects but we currently have no evidence.

Anti-vaxxers are usually regarded as those who refuse all vaccines - in the case of Covid there are many people who have had a host of vaccines in their lifetime but are refusing Covid due to the speed with which vaccines were produced and the absence of long term evidence. They should be termed anti-Covid-vaxxers or perhaps 'cautious' and only in years to come will we know if they made the right or wrong choice.

 

Driving from dumaguete on the right hand side just past freedom park and before Gangs small shop repairs fans and does good work

 

Lending money over here means give.

 

We saw some mountain bikers about 6 of them also saw some trail bikers about 8 of them making a lot of noise. Not sure how far we got but had to hike the rest of the journey.

 

I've just done my 9A visa in the UK and the visa application form needs to be signed by a notary public (Cost £100 +). All documentation has to be sent to the Philippine Embassy as they're not accepting appointments in person. The good news is that I sent mine on the Monday and had it back on the Friday. Sent by Royal Mail special post along with a return envelope addressed and stamped special post. All this is simple to do at the post office - cost about £7 each way. You will also need to send proof of employment (if employed) and pension or income. I got a 1 year multi-entry and I think it cost about £82 (The fee is on the back of the Form 2A)

The link below gives all the details

http://londonpe.dfa.gov.ph/consular-matters/visa

For arrival in the Philippines there's a whole rigmarole but it just needs co-ordinating from the Philippine end. I'll give you more details if you require in a separate post.

Hope this helps

 

I think you misunderstand the situation.

The Bar Association is going to encourage the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to hold an investigation, and possibly press charges.

I believe, under Filipino Law anyone can press these type of charges. So the Bar Association could press charges if they wanted to.

Although by law they can press charges in this case, the Bar Association has decided that they would not initiate the filing of charges against the APOR.

The Bar Association is encouraging the IATF to press charges because the IATF is responsible for the law that was broken.

 

I am hesitant to react to this, for obvious reasons.
I'm legally a guest in this country, and commenting on politics / alleged machinations in public is not up to a guest.
"Their country, their problems to solve".

 

Rye, I understand that you are pushing this back to being an offline conversation between the Moderator and Member, but it does raise a valid point and one that I have also been at the sharp end of. Unlike NMRN I chose to remain quiet for the sake of peace, even though I felt similarly confused and slighted.

As individual members we sometimes get a bit heated with each other and things are written that, maybe with a bit of hindsight and thought, should be said differently. I'm as guilty of that as anyone else. When there is a Moderator involved in the midst of that discussion it can become personal to him/her. It's at that point that we are seeing members being taken to task, with whatever measures the Moderator feels like unleashing at the time. You have said above that what another Moderator does may not be what you do - how do we know which course of moderation is the right one and how we can avoid it if there is no consistency? How can we know when we are discussing with the Moderator and when with the Member? If this course of action continues then it leaves open for Moderators to say whatever they like about members, with no recourse. That cannot be correct.

You mention this road has been travelled many times. That suggests that it's a recurring issue and one that does need thinking about.

Not trying to ruffle any feathers here. We all know and appreciate the job that's done in keeping the Forum going and being a place that many of us look forward to visiting, but this does seem to be something that's taking the shine off it a bit for some.

 

In Zamboanga city, aka, Ciudad Latina de Asia, some people still do speak Spanish.