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I would agree with Shawn.

We have too Maligators, the youngest of which came from Shawn I think (my wife got him while I was crawling around the wilds of another country). They're great dogs..... Hardworking, fun, playful and VERY protective. Never had a problem with shedding either and don't ever get trick or treaters, carol singers or hawkers.

Observing mode:



Then playful mode:

 

As a follow-up. Saw Dr Calindawagan at Daro. Chalk and cheese. Helpful, attentive and took his time to answer all my questions. Delighted with his service and will return. Highly recommended!

 

Why would you want your own transformer and why is that better?
I'll try and explain.
If you look at the electrical system as a whole. The power is generated at 13.8 Kv then boosted up to 69 Kv and sent to the substations. At the substation the voltage is reduced to 7 Kv and distributed around the city.
Noreco has small transformers all over the city that reduce the 7 Kv down to 220 volts. There may be 20 or 30 homes on each of those transformers.
Picture this: if all of your neighbors turn on their aircons or rice cookers the voltage will drop at your house because of the increased load. The pole mounted transformers typically have a voltage drop of about 10% at full load (more if overloaded). Low voltage really kills motors such as aircons and refs. If one of your neighbors is using something like an arc welder your voltage will be all over the map.
At the power generation station the voltage of the 13.8 Kv/69 Kv/7 Kv systems are regulated to the correct levels. If your home is feed from a transformer connected to the 7 Kv system then your voltage will be fairly stable as the voltage will only be effected by your household load.
Noreco can adjust their power generation based on what happens throughout the island but they can not control what happens in your neighborhood.
If you have expensive electrical/electronics and some spare cash then buy a transformer.

 

A year and a half ago at the start of my coronary nightmare in the SUMC ER I was told that a filipino was rejected from the ER because he could not pay. He died on the sidewalk in front of the hospital, heart attack. I learned a long time ago that if you did not have the ability to pay you were SOL as far is getting medical help here in the PI. Thank goodness my VISA credit card with a large credit limit kept the hospital doors open for me. As far as helping out with pesos. Wife paid for two cataract operations in her family. We also paid a large part of three funerals in wife's family. I also help out people I did know, before some one came asking for help. Just a couple of weeks ago I donated two vials of my "lantus insulin" to a 10 year old type 1 diabetic that is going blind because his family can't afford the medication. When the planes quit flying my shipment of lantus insulin was delayed and I had to buy it in Dumaguete at about 45 USD per vial. I told the the Barangay Council Woman that she and the kid's mother were not to tell anyone where they got the lantus insulin and insulin syringes because I did not want to here a bunch of sad stories that I was going to have to sort out trying to figure out what were real needs and what were cons. I do not do recreational drugs or smoke and I was raised up POOR and hungry so I have a very soft heart when a comes to poorer than me folks need help.
I and wife live from month to month but an awful lot of filipinos live from one meal to the next. About three years ago I gave 3000 pesos for a 5 year old that had Dungy when in fact there was nothing wrong with him. I got coned. But that did not stop me from helping others, it just made my far more cautious with my giving.

My 5 centavos

 

The magic word for parking a motorcycle in a place destined for cars: lack of discipline.............So typical PH behavior.

 

I worked on line here for a few years and I used two ISP's and a dual wan router. (not a load balancer) It allows you to have up to 4 providers and it is set up to pick the best speed out of the providers dynamically. It switches instantaneously, from the slower or offline to the faster of the two or how ever many providers you have. With two providers and a battery backup, I was never offline and always had a speedy connection.

 

i have always been told, and my own belief and experience is, try to resolve any dispute involving the police with the first officer on the scene if possible. my experience is that the police ajudicate those situations they are involved in and the price only goes up the more people become involved. and of course there is the truism that, "the foreigner always pays"

 

@Philpots has covered this, but refrigeration and freezing only serve to slow down the growth of microbes - not kill them (vaccines containing live viruses and bacteria are often stored at low temperatures for that very reason). Often liquid nitrogen is used and that is at minus 196 degrees Celsius.

Refrigeration slows down the growth less and so food can still spoil at that temperature (around 4 to 8oC). The other factor is that bacteria and fungi produce toxins and, although the toxins themselves cannot reproduce, they will still be present after cooling or freezing - so how fresh the food is and how it was stored BEFORE we purchase it is a consideration (in that the amount of pathogens and/or toxins present will already be set).

Then we have to consider enzymes within the food - they are naturally there within a live animal but upon death of the animal they still have a continuing effect upon the food. Cooling/freezing will also slow down their actions but they continue to have an effect on the nature, and so texture and taste, of the food.

Some of this is true for plants - for example, ergot of Rye ( ) can cause gangrene and convulsions! It is even thought that the Bubonic Plague was exacerbated in people affected by ergotism. So RYE has a lot to answer for!