Free Carinderia Makeover with SM Hypermarket Master Chefs

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Do you have a food business? Do you have a Carinderia ? Here’s your chance to give your business a Makeover with SM Hypermarket MASTER CHEFS free CARINDERIA MAKEOVER!

Entrepreneurs who run a carinderia, catering or small restaurant business can own a brand new kitchen and dining area furnished by SM Hypermarket with SM Master Chefs Free Carinderia Makeover – one of the three components of this year’s run.

Aside from the Free Makeover for food business owners, SM Master Chefs 2012 is made more exciting with back-to-back Cooking Demos of notable chefs and a Master Recipe contest for those who love to eat, cook and experiment with their food.

Sustaining food business operations

Food service business is close to the heart of SM Hypermarket. In fact, an entire section of the store is solely dedicated to products and services essential in running a food business. Owners of food businesses can buy their ingredients in big packs or bulk and other essentials for their operations – plates, cups, utensils, tables and chairs, pots and pans and even chef’s uniforms at SM Hypermarket’s Food Service Center. The Center delivers and takes orders via a phone call.

And as a tribute to food service owners, SM Hypermarket is giving away a free makeover of their kitchen and dining area to five lucky and deserving food business operators in order to help them sustain their operations. A minimum P500 worth of groceries inclusive of two sponsor brands or a fully stamped loyalty card give food business owners a chance to win a makeover.

Here's how to join: 

Secure first a registration form at the Customer Service Counters at any SM Hypermarket Branches and submit at least 3 clear printed photos of your carinderia business.

Submit the form and the fully stamped loyalty card or a single receipt purchase worth P500 including at least 2 sponsor items during the following schedules

Draw Date: August 31 (Submission Period: Aug 16 – 26)

Draw Date: September 21 (Submission Period: Aug 27 – Sept 16)

Draw Date: October 5 (Submission Period: Sept 17 – 30)

Draw Date: October 19 (Submission Period: Oct 1 – 14)

Draw Date: November 9 (Submission Period: Oct 15 – 31)

Cooking marathon with the “master chefs”

Last year’s SM Master Chef’s cooking marathon was a big hit to SM Hypermarket shoppers, that’s why it brings it back this year with new recipes prepared by the respective master chefs of the different master brands.

This year’s run is sponsored by master brands Bounty Fresh, CDO, Nestle, Purefoods, Magnolia and Unilever Food Solutions Knorr. Each will have a featured chef who will go around the 34 branches of SM Hypermarket every week in three months for cooking demonstrations and a delectable shopping experience open to all shoppers for free.

Whip up your own master recipe and be hailed as Master Chef!

Quality ingredients at affordable prices make a good recipe and SM Hypermarket brings you these so you and your family may enjoy good food. And when you buy your ingredients at SM Hypermarket and whip up a great tasting, unique and reasonably priced recipe using any of our master brands, you will get the chance to win in SM Master Chefs recipe contest.

Check the following schedule:

Just bring your finished product to any SM Hypermarket store on judging day and you could be hailed one of the thirty three SM Master Chefs 2012.

A Newly Appointed Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno as New Chief Justice

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President Benigno Aquino III has appointed Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno as the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and first woman to hold the highest position in the judiciary.

Sereno will replace Renato Corona, who was impeached and convicted by the Senate last May 29 for betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution because of misdeclared cash assets.

"The President believes that after the assessment and evaluation, Justice Sereno is the candidate who is most able to institute reforms in the judiciary. That is the only consideration that the President had in appointing the next chief justice,” Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda told reporters, adding the President also interviewed other candidates the past two days.

At the Supreme Court, Sereno promised to stay true to her oath "until the end of my term." She also thanked President Aquino for giving her the chance to lead the judiciary in the next 18 years.

"First of all, I give all the Glory to God. To the President, I thank you very much," she said.

She also thanked the media for "partnering with us in the judiciary" as she vows to give more lengthy statements in the next days.

Sereno will serve a term that will span four Presidents including Aquino because she will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 on July 2, 2030.

Barring impeachment, resignation or death, Sereno may go down in Philippine history as the second longest serving Chief Justice next to Cayetano Arellano, the country’s first top magistrate.

Arellano was at the helm for almost 19 years from June 1, 1901 to April 1, 1920.

Before her appointment as associate justice in August 2010, Sereno was executive director of the policy think-tank of the Asian Institute of Management in 2009; professor of law at the University of the Philippines for almost 20 years, and consultant for judicial reform of the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development.

She handled various international trade and investment law disputes in the World Trade Organization in Geneva, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington D.C., and in International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration in Singapore and in Paris, employing bilateral dispute resolution mechanisms.

She was co-counsel for the Philippine government in its cases involving the bidding and construction of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3.

During the public interviews last month, Sereno mentioned God several times as bedrock of her work ethic as she summed up her judicial philosophy in three words: vision, courage, accountability. She said her leadership will be marked by willingness to create generation of judges who will commit themselves to life of uprightness. Sereno, a mother of two, said her life has been fruitful and exciting because of God.

"I rely completely on God. I cry out to him for strength, to be a public servant after God's own heart. It all depends on God whom I see from an eternal perspective," she told the screening body Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) on July 27.

First Laguna Blogging Summit (#1LaBS) - September 27-28

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The 1st and the biggest Laguna Blogging Summit, 1LaBS (has been re-scheduled and) will be on September 27-28, 2012 at the Provincial Cultural Center at Santa Cruz, Laguna from 8:00am to 5:00pm and supported by the Laguna Provincial Government under Governor Jeorge "ER" Ejercito, Commission on Election (COMELEC), ALAM (Alab ng mamamahayag) and Philippine Information Agency 4-A(PIA) with Kliping Times, Creative Voices, Phil IT and When In Manila as media partners.

#1LaBS is a free event and will present famous speakers from the Philippines and abroad with different topics for 20 minutes speaking slot for each. Topics will highlights the importance of Social Media on what they do whether it's about Finance, Environment, Search Engine Optimization, Advocacy, Tourism, Marketing, Public Relations and Education.

Speakers:

1. Noemi Lardizabal Dado

2. Dean Jorge Bocobo

3. Tony Ahn

4. Sonnie Santos

5. Chuckie Dreyfus

6. Randell Tiongson

7. Atty. Toto Causing

8. Elizabeth Angsioco

9. Jayvee Fernandez

10. Jinkee Umali

11. Noel De Guia

12. Enzo Luna

13. Senator Richard Gordon

14. Jonel Uy

15. Azrael Colladilla

16. Janette Toral

17. James Jimenez

18. Wenchie Flores Sabban

19. Alvin Cloyd Dakis

20. Fitz Villafuerte

21. Jaypee David

22. Acee Vitangcol

23. Lloyd Luna

24. Pocholo De Leon Gonzales

25. Juned Sonido

For the past years, events like this has become a highly-anticipated interaction venue where famous and upcoming Pinoy bloggers give informative talks. More than 300 bloggers from all over the country make time to attend events like this and with 25 municipalities and 5 cities from the province of LAGUNA, we're expecting more.

According to COMELEC Spokesman James Jimenez "A historical event." The organizers seeks to promote Laguna in this event and for the different communities to understand the advantages of Social Media.

Pinoy Bloggers, see you all in Laguna on September 27 and 28, 2012! 

LookBook, A Fashion Preview of the Season's Trending Style at SM Fairview August 24

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Each year, SM City Fairview holds a fashion show that aims to promote mall’s fashion retail stores and to brand SM City Fairview as a fashion haven of the North East Metro in the long term.  For this year, SM City Fairview will be taking it a notch higher by staging again a major fashion show to be dubbed as “Lookbook” on August 24, 2012, 6pm at the Annex Atrium, SM City Fairview. 

The “Lookbook” Fashion Event will revolve around fashion trends of the season in diverse styles, statements and inspirations. The over-all concept is hinged towards digital and new media such as Facebook, Instagram, Wordpress, Twitter, etc. which are all meant to be shared.   

Why Look Book?

In these times when a day is not complete without checking on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and  Instagram, communication is everything. And everything is about SHARING.

Thus, even the fashion world has embraced this contemporary platform to connect to a wider and younger market - a new accessory for one’s BFF is bought after seeing a stylista’s fashion blog, a pair of shoes is ordered online after being inspired from a model’s tweet.

So a fashion trend is not complete when it does not exist in the realm of social media.  A simple outfit becomes a fashion ensemble when one shares it online and gains positive comments.

A personal style can be transformed into an online fashion diary and when it creates hype, it becomes a FASHION STATEMENT.

LOOKBOOK; or the online fashion diary is inherently meant to be shared. And the brands featured in one’s Lookbook are the brands that one has chosen to embrace. And by sharing, we let others understand and eventually embrace our brand.  

The Biggest Fashion Event Yet

With the help of the finest production crew, stylists and the top models of the country today, it aims to be the biggest fashion event of SM City Fairview to date.

The show will feature SM City Fairview’s mix of foreign and local brands and their newest collections such as Celine (CLN), Charlie, Elle Girl, Folded & Hung, Mags, Oxygen, Penshoppe, Plains and Prints, Regatta, Sanuk, Scoop Project, Sketchers, Tomato, Una Rosa, SM Accessories, SM Men’s Fashion – Just Delivered Jeans.

With this good line-up, the event will be sliced into different segments that will echo fun, young and vibrant tones.  These are  FashionablyChic, PrepForSchool, NationalPartyDay and Casual Craze.

To jazz-up each of the collection, Philippine Fashion Week Designer and stylist of the stars- Jot Losa will take part in the fashion show as he is tasked to do the styling.

SM City Fairview just keeps in getting better and bigger with a wide array of fashion brands making it a perfect spot for the North Metro’s fashionable people.

'Lawless'

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Acclaimed director John Hillcoat (“The Road”) delivers a thrillingly vivid slice of American outlaw history in The Weinstein Company's critically-applauded epic gangster tale, “Lawless.”

An official competition entry in last May's Cannes Film Festival, “Lawless” is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: three bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. Based on author Matt Bondurant’s fictionalized account of his family, 

The Wettest County in the World, the film gathers an ensemble of gifted, dynamic new-generation stars – Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Mia Wasikowska, Dane DeHaan – alongside two of the finest actors of their generations, Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman.