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Monday, November 19, 2012

Manila Hotel Brings You a Healthy Feast at the Mabuhay Palace



After thousands of years, the Chinese way of dining still thrives and continues to inspire people to have a healthy lifestyle. Keeping this is mind, the Mabuhay Palace of Manila Hotel launches a revitalized vegetarian menu that reflects the Chinese view on food as nourishment and improves one’s health.

Using the freshest and best vegetable produce, these new veggie dishes are excellent sources of fiber, vitamins, and minerals. 

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Laced Up by Adidas and HeavyBoogie



"LACED UP" on Thursday, November 22nd at Time, 7840 Makati Avenue, Makati City, Philippines.

Three (3) legendary Hip Hop DJs will be here to perform and entertain the local audience.

- Tony Touch aka Tony Toca (Anthony Hernandez) is hip hop icon. A certified Brooklyn NYC mixtape king, producer (1 million records sold worldwide), radio host, artists and a member of the legendary Rock Steady Crew, he is recognized as one of the most dynamic club rockers on the planet.


Learn to Launch WarmUp Event on November 23


Accenture Manila Delivery Center is holding a warmup event in support of the DevCon Code Challenge Cup (C-Cup) [http://e.devcon.ph/c-cup] on Nov 30.  Titled "LEARN to LAUNCH", the event aims to allow the participants to deploy a social media app in 4 hours using the Eden PHP Library  (http://eden.openovate.com/) developed by Openovate Labs.

Easy to learn and Speedy to deploy will be the motto of the attendees after getting their hands dirty with Eden.  Rapid prototyping will never be the same again.

November 23, 2012; 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Accenture Ideas Exchange
7th Floor Robinsons Cybergate Center Tower 1
Pioneer Street, Mandaluyong City
Registration and dinner: 6:00 PM.
Program begins at 7:00 PM.

* FREE EVENT for professionals only

About the Speaker: Christian Blanquera is the Co-Founder and Technology Head of Openovate Labs.  http://www.galleon.ph/, http://www.kosmos.com.ph/ and http://taghuddle.com/ are some of the site created using Eden. Christian also created another site (http://www.workinspire.com/) using Eden which recently qualified for the Launch Garage (http://launchgarage.com/) accelerator program of
Globe's Kickstart.ph and Proudcloud.

Ref:
http://www.accenture.com/Microsites/technology-sessions/Pages/register-form2.aspx
or
http://www.xvr.in/Jyb

Monday, November 12, 2012

Winners of the Bigas (Big Ass) Hackathon


Congratulations to the PhilRobotics A Team with their App named Envilog for winning the Most Innovative App award. The team is composed of Franklin Binos II, Richard Myrick Arelaga, Johnaray Dimaunahan, and Wayne Dell Manuel.

Envilog is a stand-alone temperature and humidity sensor with real-time GSM-based data sending and offline data collection and web-based visualization.





IRRI will host this team for another week so they can create the actual app!

From the YouTube video uploads of the event:

"During a 2-day event (10-11 November 2012), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) and wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart; http://www1.smart.com.ph/about/meet/corporate-profile) called on all mobile developers to create and pitch Web and/or mobile applications that could be the next big tech push for rice farming.

In celebration of National Rice Awareness Month, IRRI and Smart through its developer community program Smart Developer Network (Smart DevNet; http://smartdevnet.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/and-the-winners-of-the-first-ever...) staged the "BIGAS Hackathon", which was a developer event that aimed to churn out apps that can further enhance the impact of rice production technologies."



Best Research Data Collection App was won by team Love Team with their the IsWater app. It features automatic data gathering of a soil's water level using sensors and then notifies farmers/researchers a via mobile app. This team was developed by Arvin Orubia, Michelle Aldave, Drexie de Leon, and Cherryl Opon.



The Best Game App was won by team composed of Bryan Bibat and Alvin Edward Chan. They call it Araro (plow or plowing the rice fields) This text-based simulation game based and streamlined on RiceGrow can be found at http://araro.karaniwan.org.





The Best Farmer Info Technology App goes to Team Libra composed of Joan Antonette Bautista, Jason-Bourne Escolano Manzala, John Louis Perez, and Raymond Balingit. Binhi is a Rice Variety Picker app that aims to aid farmers in choosing the most suitable variety on factors like season, irrigation, type, etc.



The hackathon event was actually held at the IRRI library where they had to "rearrange" the area previously occupied as a library containing books and other literature.However, the organizers introduction, team presentations, and awarding ceremonies were held at the IRRI Museum and Learning Center auditorium.

App development or "hacking" started at 2 pm of November 10, 2012 until 2 pm the next day, November 11, 2012. However, the participants were requested to transfer to a hotel venue (Boy Scouts of the Philippines new 3-month old hotel located at the Jamboree road) from 1 am to 7 pm, and continued at the IRRI library from 7 am until 10 am.

Awarding at the IRRI Museum and Learning Center auditorium ended sometime at around 3 pm.Participants, guests, judges and organizers were then shuttled back in Makati.













Breaking My Diet with Around The World In Small Plates

 

Lifestyle Network launched a charity dinner event titled “Around the World in Small Plates” to benefit the “I Can Serve Foundation”. It was the first of its kind in the Philippines as a friend of mine, who also attended the event, experienced a similar but bigger event in Hawaii with the same concept "tasting delicacies from several different countries" (21 to be specific), but in Hawaii, they had 200 dishes!

Wow! and we thought we had more than what we can chew and swallow for the entire night. 21 dishes was already too much for us, we never got to finish all the dishes, eventhough if it was served in "small plates"


Friday, November 9, 2012

Around the World in Small Plates


Lifestyle Network’s AROUND THE WORLD IN SMALL PLATES, a unique charity tasting event for the benefit of the ICanServe Foundation.

“Around the World in Small Plates” takes guests on a tour around the world through off-the-menu specials from the country’s top chefs. The channel intends to create a mouthwatering menu showcasing the different cuisines of the world while highlighting our own.

The dinner event will be held at the Rockwell Tent on November 9, 2012 at 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

For a list of participating chefs, visit: http://www.icanservefoundation.org/
 

Asia Society Photo Challenge Awarding Ceremony

  

The Asia Society Philippine Foundation Inc. held the awarding ceremony for the asia Society Photo Challenge last Wednesday, November 7 at the Atrium of the Shangri-La Plaza Mall, EDSA.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Mega Fashion Crew 2 Takes it to the Extreme




ONE MEGA GROUP brings back MEGA FASHION CREW, the reality show that shows you what it takes to be in fashion. The reality TV show counterpart of Mega, Philippines’ best fashion magazine, takes it to the extreme this season—the stakes are higher and the challenges are tougher. The search for the best photographer, fashion stylist, make-up artist, hair stylist and model continues as MEGA FASHION CREW 2, Extreme Edition begins this November. Every episode takes each of the contestants to the limit.

Catch its premiere on November 12, 2012 at 7PM only on ETC.


Original episodes air every Monday at 7pm and replays every Sunday at 10am—only on ETC.


For the latest updates, visit www.megastyle.ph. Like MEGA on Facebook at <www.facebook.com/megamagazine> and follow MEGA on Twitter at <www.twitter.com/mega_magazine>.

WWF-BPI Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate Change Impacts Study


World Wide Fund (WWF) and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Foundation embarked on a partnership to undertake a Business Risk Assessment and the management of Climate Change Impacts study to determine the climate change impacts on selected key cities in the country. Given the climate volatility and our lack of capacity to accurately track its sequence, the ability to be able to adapt to these changes is an essential asset. This study will also help the government institutions, businesses, schools, NGOs, and other sectors of the society to craft long term climate-appropriate initiatives ranging from skills, infrastructure and technology that will be able to meet the needs of to the present and future generations.

The study was first conducted in 2011 which focused on the cities of Baguio, Cebu, Davao and Iloilo. This year, the study taps on the cities of Cagayan De Oro, Dagupan,Laoag and Zamboanga.

On November 8, Thursday, at the Aurelio Montinola, BPI Foundation President and CEO, Randy Maranan, BPI Foundation Executive Director, Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, WWF Philippines CEO and Vice Chairman LGU Representatives (CDO, Dagupan, Laoag and Zamboanga) will present the WWF-BPI Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate Change Impacts Study.

SMART DevNet and DevCon present Eden Hackathon Benilde


Calling all developers! You can now register for the Eden Hackathon Benilde here !

Eden Hackathon Benilde takes place on November 16 at the De La Salle-Collage of St. Benilde. This is a one-day hackathon presented by SMART DevNet (SMART Developer Network), SMART Communications Inc.’s developer community for its technology platform, DevCon (Developer Connect) and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde in cooperation with its Information Systems Department, Project Management (PRJ-MGT) Section TO0B and the Association of Information Management (AIM).

Eden Hackathon Benilde focuses on the Eden PHP library created by OpenOvate ( http://eden.openovate.com ) which allows developers to do rapid prototyping in PHP for Internet Platforms and APIs for popular services like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google Drive, Google+, PayPal and Amazon. We’re inviting PHP developers to experience the power of the Eden PHP Library and show off the what they can do!

Eden Hacakthon Benilde is open to all developers: students, teachers and professionals. This is a FREE event, no charge for admission, but registration is required. For further details, check out the hackathon’s EventBrite page.

Eden PHP Library http://eden.openovate.com/
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