Saturday, March 10, 2018
Universal Harvester, Inc., together with the local government of Banaue offers a new experience to the Filipino and to the world.
The 2018 BANAUE International Music Composition Competition invites composers around the Philippines and all over the world to create Banaue-inspired symphonic works. This is the first time that a competition of this magnitude will be held in the Philippines. With the Grand Prize of 12,000 USD, two Consolation prizes of 6,000 USD each and the week-long immersion in Banaue, this momentous event is set to bring excitement and cultural awakening to the selected participants and the province of Banaue.
20 Selected Composer-Fellows will be part of the Banaue immersion Program. This is where, they will learn and experience local culture and music. With new perspective and inspiration, the Composer-Fellows may revise their entry before the semi-finals.
The Composer-Fellows will rehearse their pieces with an entire orchestra, open for the Banaue audience to enjoy in Banaue.
Only 10 Composer-Fellows will be chosen to be the finalists to perform on the Finals Night, July 25, 2015 at the Cultural Centers of the Philippines.
This competition is in line with the Banaue Rice Terraces Restoration Project of Universal Harvester Incorporated headed by Dr. Milagros O. How and the local government of Banaue led by Mayor Jerry U. Dalipog. With the attention that the event will be getting, may it also create awareness of the current situation of this World Heritage Treasure and encourage people to participate and help.
The 2018 BANAUE International Music Composition Competition invites composers around the Philippines and all over the world to create Banaue-inspired symphonic works. This is the first time that a competition of this magnitude will be held in the Philippines. With the Grand Prize of 12,000 USD, two Consolation prizes of 6,000 USD each and the week-long immersion in Banaue, this momentous event is set to bring excitement and cultural awakening to the selected participants and the province of Banaue.
20 Selected Composer-Fellows will be part of the Banaue immersion Program. This is where, they will learn and experience local culture and music. With new perspective and inspiration, the Composer-Fellows may revise their entry before the semi-finals.
The Composer-Fellows will rehearse their pieces with an entire orchestra, open for the Banaue audience to enjoy in Banaue.
Only 10 Composer-Fellows will be chosen to be the finalists to perform on the Finals Night, July 25, 2015 at the Cultural Centers of the Philippines.
This competition is in line with the Banaue Rice Terraces Restoration Project of Universal Harvester Incorporated headed by Dr. Milagros O. How and the local government of Banaue led by Mayor Jerry U. Dalipog. With the attention that the event will be getting, may it also create awareness of the current situation of this World Heritage Treasure and encourage people to participate and help.
"We want to let the world know that the Philippines is home to great wonders, not just in terms of natural resources, but also in inspiring Talents from all over the world. And with your support, our friends from the Media, we will be able to take this giant leap together,” – Dr. Milagros Ong-HowPresident and CEO, Universal Harvester Incorporated
The local film festival scene is set to witness the third edition of the TOFARM Film Festival (TFF), which shall now include a TOFARM Short Film Competition.
The brainchild of Socio-Entrepreneur Dr. Mila O. How, TFF is the only advocacy-driven film festival in the country today, with entries showcasing the lives, journeys, trials and triumphs of the Filipino farmer.
“We were deeply saddened with the demise of Direk Maryo J. delos Reyes, our first TFF Director,” Dr. How said. “He gave so much of himself for TFF. When he suddenly left us, we found ourselves at a crossroad. Should we go on with the project or not?”
“But after a lot of thinking, I personally thought it’s best to carry on what Direk Maryo started. The festival would be a continuation of his vision for the farmers and for our film industry. This is our tribute to him,” Dr. How added.
“It’s very overwhelming to get support from not one, but three well-respected people from the film and television industry. It motivates us further to come up with more meaningful films that, hopefully, will follow the success of our previous entries,” Dr. How enthused.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
MANILA, Philippines - Good Food Tour, a global campaign of foodpanda that started in the Philippines last 2015, is now on its 8th Edition.The tour still brings the best menu in the town and offers its valued patrons boundless alternatives and food choices in thematic way. Together with the tour’s objective on transforming food passionate and strangers into a new level experience, foodpanda’s Good Food Tour also aims to uncover and get to know the people behind the success each restaurant, even they just started in the industry.
The curtains of the Good Food Tour 8th Leg will be filled with sophistication and vibrant healthy food. These three restaurants that will be introduced are great spots for quick snack and healthy tasty ,meals, and their extensive menus should give all enough options for the next few weeks or so before the real beach season begins.
Restaurants Visited:
Juju Eats: Fresh. Fast. Healthy. Happy.
Juju Eats offer delightful variety of nutritionally dense, healthy and fresh food. This healthy restaurant has a simple goal and that is to aim all the needs if their costumers also to satisfy them. Juju eats is more passionate to refuel, rebuild and heal oneself to maintain a beach body this Summer by their own menu.
Down To Earth: Real Food. Real Farmers.
Down to earth, a farm to table restaurant and shop is a place where everything is organic or natural food. The standard of down to earth for them to ensure the quality, integrity, and sustainability is to give fresh and wholesome ingredients, care and craft handling their commitment in sustaining the way to produced by farmers, in Bukidnon, Down to Earth can assure you a fresh and real food that will give you a much healthier lifestyle.
Juicesable: All Vegan Cafe + Cold Pressure Juice
Juicesabel is one the Vegan Restaurant in the Metro Manila – that also gives you another way of being healthy with a different variety if their menu like burger patches that has a strong flavor that is filled with vegetable that gives you a different taste. Gives you the old look but with a twist of the taste and ingredients. Juicesabel can change your favorites and give you a healthier tummy.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Judges Artie Lopez (Co-founder & Startup Coach, BrainSpark Philippines), Diane Eustaquio (Executive Director, IdeaSpace Foundation), and Arnie Locsin (CSE Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Philippines) award Team Onyx winners of Imagine Cup 2018 PH Finals
The Imagine Cup is a global competition that empowers the next generation of computer science students to team up and use their creativity, passion, and knowledge of technology to create applications that shape how we live, work and play. And for the past 16 years, the Imagine Cup has been the world's premier student technology competition. Every year, tens of thousands of students from across the globe compete for cash, travel and prizes and for the honor of taking home the Imagine Cup.
The Philippines National Finals showcased the best teams from the country as they pitched and demoed their ideas to experts to vie for a coveted spot at the Imagine Cup World Finals where they will compete with the best and brightest teams from across the globe for the title of World Champion, up to $100,000 cash prize and the chance to take home the Imagine Cup.
Philippines Finals
In the Imagine Cup PH Finals held in Makati last March 5, five teams competed for the title of national winner, P50,000, and the chance to represent the Philippines in the Imagine Cup Regional Finals in Kuala Lumpur.
The national final was won by Team Onyx, composed of Computer Engineering students from Technological Institute of the Philippines. All team members share a passion for technology. Daniel Soriano, 18, is an active student leader for their program and is an active member of the Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines Student Edition - T.I.P. Quezon City Chapter. Romie Santiago, 20, is currently taking Embedded Systems track, and is adapting knowledge of hardware and software integration projects. Kyle Regino, 19, like Romie Santiago is also pursuing Embedded Systems track. She is interested in studying how things work, and use that to create new things that could help others.
Collectively, Team Onyx channeled their passion for technology and desire to help others to innovate the use of mobile applications in the field of medicine. The result is Bionyx -- a mobile app that scans and analyzes fingernails and helps individuals easily identify diseases related to the liver, heart, lungs, and the blood.
Bionyx was built on the idea that our fingernails serve as a visual advertisement to our health. In fact, our fingernails could reveal diseases related to the liver, heart, lungs, and blood. Bionyx seeks to be a catalyst for early diagnosis for much bigger health problems we may have. Captured images are analyzed on Microsoft Azure across multiple data sets for accurate and timely analysis.
Asia-Pacific, and then the World
Romie Santiago, Daniel Soriano, and Kyle Regino of Team Onyx are going to Malaysia!
Team Onyx will travel to Malaysia to compete at the Asia Pacific Finals. Winners from all Asia Pacific countries will join this stage. Asia Pacific Finals will be held on 2-5 April 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Next after is the world stage of the Imagine Cup which, in 2010, Philippine's By Implication dominated and won. The World Finals will be held in the end of July 2018 in the United States of America.
For Team Onyx, this is the goal -- to make the World Finals and compete with the best and brightest teams from across the globe for the title of World Champion, up to $100,000 cash prize and the chance to take home the Imagine Cup.
How Does Imagine Cup Work?
Students are asked to create an original technology project from start to finish – from ideation and planning, to building the project and making it an actual product. In previous years, the teams compete in the Games, Innovation or World Citizenship categories; however, for 2017, all categories have been removed from the competition, allowing any big idea to be a qualified entry, with the only requirement being that the teams must integrate Microsoft Azure, Azure is Microsoft’s open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform, into their solutions.
Students advance through various rounds of the competition either online or through in-person National Final events organized by Microsoft subsidiaries across the globe. This year, 11 countries will be sending their National Champions to the Asia-Pacific Finals, where the World Finalists teams are determined. Winners in this round will then travel to the Imagine Cup World Finals, where they compete for cash prizes, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Since 2003, the Imagine Cup has successfully served as an incubator for young innovators who create solutions to help their communities. The competition allows students from across all disciplines to team up with each other and use technology to build applications, games, and various solutions that can impact the world.
For updates on Imagine Cup’s international events, visit www.imaginecup.com.
Jollibee Classic Burger Steak campaign featuring Anne Curtis leaps from “viral” to “award-winning”
The country’s #1 fast-food chain—and 2017’s digital engagement leader across quick-service restaurants—Jollibee adds to its collection of entertaining, imaginative and shareable online videos with its latest Burger Steak ad featuring the multi-faceted, fun-loving Anne Curtis.
The previous video, released late last year, gave viewers a glimpse of how a creative team brainstorms for a potentially viral ad, bringing together Anne Curtis’ wacky self, local pop-culture references and the 1970’s song hit “Loving You” to humorously promote the product.
Watch the side-splitting clip here:
The video highlights Jollibee Classic Burger Steak as a winning ulam, offering beefy-saucy linamnam goodness with its 100% beefy patty and flavourful mushroom gravy. Visit your nearest Jollibee branch and enjoy a delicious Burger Steak with steamed white rice for only P50.00*, available for dine-in, take-out, delivery and drive-thru transactions. For more information on your Jolly favorites, like Jollibee Philippines’ Facebook page and follow @Jollibee on Twitter and Instagram.
*Prices may vary across different locations.
Colors have an incredible power beyond the ability to beautify our surroundings, colors have the power to trigger memories and stir emotions. Color inspire our creativity and our expressions. Color communicate personal and universal meanings and represent a spectrum of personalities and identities.
Sm City North Edsa and Davies present a world where you not only see but also experience the power of color in new, exciting ways. Open yourself to a new dimension and discover universe of color like you’ve never seen before.
The features of ColorGram:
Shades of Gram
From colored walls, floors, art blocks, patterned corners and 4 uniquely beautiful rooms, this is Instagram paradise for your social media accounts.
Ball of color
They have three brand new giant ball pits and they have sure that these will just make your feed explode. Check them at the Annex, 4th floor.
Color Craze
Follow the QR codes and find out more about ColorGram or get a chance to win prizes!
You can also find four mood rooms at the event area.
What color are you?
What does your favorite color say about you? There are so many colors in the world as there are personalities – sitting in a spectrum of hot and cold, relaxed and intense, joyful and calm. In this room, we explore how the worlds of color and psychology intersect. Within this room. let the colors speak to you.
Use the QR codes to know more about the psychology of color and how you can apply them in your home with Davies Megacryl Semi-glass.
Larger Than Life
Inspired by music video of OK Go. Davies presents a colorful world that’s larger than life. Step in. A world of pastel fun awaits. Pastel colors are desaturated, mellow colors that play very well with other colors – giving us a soothing, friendly impression. The pastel trend in 1980’s when individually and experimentation was at its prime. Today, pastels are coming back to trend, as a way for young people to express their personalities through fashion.
In home and interior design, pastel colors remain a staple for creating comforting, welcoming spaces with just the right amount of character. Let your fun side shine with the pastel colors of Davies Megacryl.
Space Warp
How does color help form our perception of the physical world we live in? Explore and learn space perception in this room. Open the world of illusion and try not to trip. Watch your step! What you will see are simply three different color tones, set as faces of an isometric cube sequence – a simple device, and yet when used to full effect could trick the eyes, and therefore the mind. We perceive spaces around us using visual cues, enabling us to create an awareness of where our body is in relation to our surroundings. Each color tone used in this room corresponds to height, width, and depth cues – creating an illusion of 3D space in our mind.
Expand and transform your home and work spaces without worry with Davies Biofresh+ premium interior paint.
It’s A Material World
Enter a world inspired by contemporary installation art and open yourself to the challenge of finding your own create voice in this industrialized world. In this industrialized age, art is the synthesis of creativity and modernity. Contemporary art is no longer limited to paintings and sculptures or defined by style, but by an attitude that challenges norms and accepted traditions. Contemporary artist provoke thought and explore concepts through transformative use of materials – chalenging our ideas of form and functions, creating new spaces, experiences, and worldviews.
Balance functionality and imagination in your home with the vibrant colors of Davies Roofshield and Davies Sun and Rain.
Check out the colorful world of Davies at Sm North Edsa on these dates:
Shades of Gram - March 5 - 22 at The Block AtriumBalls of Color - March 5 - 31 at Annex Cyberzone L4
Color Qrza - March 5 - 31 at Color Gram Areas
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