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Bohol Wakefest 2012, a first of its kind month-long wakeboarding event have been confirmed for May 25-June 25, 2012. The Board Shop, a Singapore based company, which is the premium one-stop wake gear shop in Southeast Asia is proud to present Bohol Wakefest 2012 – an event that brings wakeboarding to the beautiful Pandanon Island, wherein Visayans and tourists alike can expect to experience the thrill and fun brought by wakeboarding.

Through the event, Visayans no longer have to travel to Davao and Luzon to experience the bliss that wakeboarding brings. The best-selling German-engineered two-tower cable park system in the world – Sesitec System 2.0, will be installed in Pandanon island, giving wakeboarders and spectators a blast as beach lifestyle and watersports are combined in a magnificent white sand island. This event would pave the way in making Visayas as one of the top tourist destinations in the Philippines, and would make its name as awakeboarding spot in Asia.

Wakeboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and isalso a medium for tourism, with foreign and local tourists being enticed into enjoying the sunny weather the Philippines offer, giving them a chance to wakeboard the whole-year round. A Wake Jam will be held on June 9, 2012, wherein wakeboarders and wakeskaters from all over Asia and the Philippines will be showing off their skills with a demo. Spectators can expect to be entertained by the fun and exciting demo as wakeboarders and wakeskaters will be doing astonishing tricks to amaze the crowd.

chieve Success in The Human Cloud with Elance
June 09, 2012 (Saturday)
1:00PM – 5:00PM
Across UP College Campus, 3rd Floor, Cebu Init TBI
Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City, Philippines

Elance (www.elance.com), the world’s leading online employment platform, is ramping up its activities and looking for new ways to provide skilled professionals with the opportunity to network and build relationships in The Human Cloud. Through this virtual workplace, you connect online with other professionals and clients around the world, offering contractors the opportunity to work on different projects that span a multitude of job categories. They provide you with the best tools so you can achieve success working online independently.

Elance is sponsoring FREE training sessions in Cebu to discuss the inner workings of its platform.

Learn how to chart a new career path, learn about a different way to work, take control of your work-life balance, and gain access to numerous opportunities that will allow you to showcase your talents and skills-all of which can be done online.

The training sessions sponsored by Elance and hosted by their local Elance representative (Country Representative) will teach you how to stand out of the crowd and create a great profile, submit exceptional proposals, win jobs, and build lasting relationships with clients. Most importantly, their country representative will show and demonstrate to you all of the necessary tools and features you need to be successful as an online professional.

With Elance, you may be working online, but they also want to give you the chance to network and join a community of fellow Elancers outside of the virtual workplace. Elance and its representatives will be hosting local meetups and social gatherings to give you the opportunity to network and share your experiences with other online professionals.

Come and join in one of our meetups to develop and sustain valuable relationship and friendship with other local freelancers here in Cebu City, Philippines.

About the Speaker:
Orville Tadle

Local Country Representative of Elance – https://www.elance.com/p/crp/cebu/orville
Freelancer for over 2 years.
Co-founder of CebuSEO.org, the leading search marketing forum in Cebu.
FREE Registration
(Snacks will be provided)

How to avail the FREE registration?
To qualify for this FREE registration, please email info@allianceconsulting.biz for the complete info. Individuals who are looking for online jobs are highly prioritized.

Centerus, Inc., a software engineering company from Washington State, USA, will be giving a seminar on Design Patterns in Cebu City on June 23, 2012 at the Golden Prince Hotel.

This one-day seminar will be from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and aims to help software design engineers in the Philippines improve their efficiency and productivity in programming at least threefold.

“Object-oriented programming skills are in high demand worldwide, despite the economic downturn,” said Carlos Tapang, Centerus, Inc. president and speaker at the upcoming seminar.

“Programmers in Cebu and the Philippines already possess very good programming skills.  Most of them have learned the rudiments of object-oriented programming in college. However, what you learn in college is never enough, and object-oriented programming presents a steep learning curve to most software developers.

This seminar is designed for developers to internalize a few design patterns in a single day.  I believe Design Pattern skills are crucial to one’s career in programming.”

Design Patterns are pre-determined patterns that have been found to result in more modifiable designs, making them easier to maintain and comply with ever-changing requirements.

“Design Patterns represent a watershed in software engineering,” Tapang explained.  “Until now, even with object-oriented programming, software systems built using traditional design principles are ‘brittle’ - prone to fail if changed.  We will be discussing some of these patterns, how these patterns came about, and how to master them.”

The Design Patterns seminar will cover the following topics:  what design patterns are; the vocabulary of design patterns; differences between good and bad design through specific design examples; useful creational patterns; useful structural patterns; useful behavioral patterns; threading and concurrent patterns.

The seminar is intended for software design engineers and programmers familiar with object-oriented programming, and will equally benefit freelancers and corporate employees.

“We are also inviting software engineers and programmers to send us their design problems in advance.  We plan to tackle some of their actual problems during the seminar, so that everyone can relate to the concepts being discussed,” Tapang continued.

Seminar fee starts at P2,950.00 and can go as low as P2,400.00 for group registrations.  Rates already include seminar materials, buffet lunch, morning and afternoon snacks.

Centerus, Inc. is a Washington State corporation that also works with Filipino software engineers for its offshore outsourcing projects.

Carlos Tapang, the resource speaker for this seminar, is the president of Centerus, Inc.  He has gained both depth and breadth of experience in software design engineering. He has worked for large companies in the USA (namely Intel and Microsoft), and has done extensive consulting work for startup companies.

The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) Kool Adventure Camp (KAC) offers a kayak program that aims to develop and enhance leadership skills. The program is open to both corporate professionals and youth groups.

“This is not just a recreation program. This is a leadership development program using kayak as a tool. With all the beautiful and rich marine biodiversity and potential islets in Cebu, there is no reason for us not to have this kind of water activity,” Anthony Terence Ocampo, KAC deputy director for Professional Programs, said.

A kayak program will last for three to four days, wherein participants will be navigating and paddling to the sites covered by the route, like the islands of Olango, Pandanon, Caohagan, Banakon, and other islands between Cebu and Bohol.

The program will test the endurance, patience, teamwork, and communication and planning skills of the participants, as well as how they respond to changes in the environment.


The 52 tandem kayaks donated by Outward Bound Singapore will be utilized in the kayak program, which is preferably conducted during the second or third quarter of the year to avoid bad weather conditions such as typhoons and monsoons.
The head facilitators of the kayak program are Ocampo and Sheerene Abrea, KAC Professional Development Programs facilitator, who are both certified with Kayak Coach Level 1 by the Singapore Canoe Federation.

To ensure the safety of the participants, the KAC facilitators conduct Risk Assessment and Management System (RAMS) before every expedition. They follow operating procedures and standards from medical to rescue and program design, which are internationally benchmarked.

The program’s pilot group is RAFI’s Micro-finance team, who kayaked from Om Shanti, Cordova to Shalala Beach, Pangan-an and Caohagan Island last July 14-17, 2011.

“The program helped strengthen our teamwork as we cooperate with each other and focus to reaching our destination. I felt secure with several colleagues who know how to handle the kayak and the KAC team boat that followed us along the way,” Nineveh Mascariñas, finance supervisor of RAFI Micro-finance, said.
KAC is one of the programs under RAFI’s Leadership & Citizenship focus area, where future leaders are nurtured to prepare them to take an active role in affecting change. RAFI’s other focus areas are Integrated Development, Micro-finance & Entrepreneurship, Culture & Heritage, and Education.

KAC is currently building the Philippines’ first outdoor experiential center at Barangay Cansomoroy, Balamban Cebu, which is set to open in 2013.

Globe Telecom, Inc. recently signed an agreement with the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp. (PDEx) to list its P4.5 billion five-year and P5.5 billion seven-year fixed rate bonds due 2017 and 2019, respectively. The retail bonds will be listed on June 1, 2012 and will immediately thereafter begin trading in the corporate securities market of PDEx.

“We look forward to listing our latest retail bond issue with the PDEx. This will allow our investors to enjoy increased liquidity and transparency as they are able to see the best market prices,” said Alberto M. De Larrazabal, Globe’s Chief Financial Officer.

Taking advantage of the favorable interest rate environment, Globe is issuing the bonds to help fund the Company’s ongoing network modernization and IT transformation program, as well as finance other capital expenditure requirements for the year. Globe’s retail bond issue obtained a rating of PRS Aaa from Philippine Rating Services Corporation (PhilRatings), representing the highest rating available with the smallest degree of investment risk. The five-year bond, which has a term of five years and three months from issue date, and the seven-year bond have coupon rates of 5.75% and 6.00%, respectively.

Globe ended the first quarter of 2012 with conservative gearing ratios with gross debt-to-equity ratio at 1.09:1 and gross debt-to-EBITDA ratio at 1.48:1, well within its debt covenants of 2:1 and 3:1, respectively. Consolidated service revenues for the period surged to an all-time high of P20.2 billion with broad-based growth, while core net income stood at P2.7 billion.

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DENR Assistant Secretary Marlo D. Mendoza (right) talks about the importance of the government’s National Greening Program during the contract signing between Globe and FPE.  Main signatories to the MoA are Globe CSR Head Rob I. Nazal (2nd from left) and FPE CEO Atty. Danny Valenzuela (2ndfrom right). ASEC Mendoza and Globe Corporate Communications Head Yoly C. Crisanto (left) witnessed the signing.

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