FYI™ coming to Asia in Fall 2014

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FYI stands for ‘For Your Innovation, For Your Inspiration, and For Your Imagination’. FYI is all about inspired, improvised, creative living and we believe that every individual is entitled to living their life by design, shows and series that ‘inspire, not instruct’ today’s audience.

FYI will come to Asia this fall and is set to launch in the Philippines on October 6, 2014.

On October 6, BIO™ Channel will rebrand to FYI™, a contemporary lifestyle network reflecting how people live their lives today, across Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Pacific Islands, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. The announcement was made today by Alan Hodges, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, A+E Networks.

A+E Networks Asia rebrands BIO Channel to FYI in Southeast Asia, Hongkong and Taiwan.  BIO was also rebranded to FYI in the US on July 8th. 

FYI’s shows cover the main lifestyle pillars namely Fashion and Style (For Your Style), Travel (For Your Journey), Food (For Your Taste), and Home and Decoration (For Your Space).

For your inspiration, for your imagination or for your innovation, FYI will be a personalized experience for each viewer. The network embraces the way audiences really live their lives – proudly-hyphenated and not constrained by one passion or interest. Never an instruction manual and always an inspiration engine, FYI offers viewers a more adventurous, personalized and non-prescriptive approach to programming with a range of stories that reflect how people actually live their lives today, not defined by just one passion or interest. 

“FYI’s mission is to inspire personal creativity that emphasizes improvised living, while reflecting our authentic slate of programming,” says Michele Schofield, Senior VP, Programming & Marketing at A+E Networks Asia. “And with its rich mix of inspirational content, the new channel’s Asian premiere is sure to bring its viewers a season of quality entertainment.”

FYI will feature over 300 hours of original content each year across four programming genres - taste, space, look, and journey. FYI will include locally-commissioned productions and local acquisitions. 

FYI’s primetime premiere line-up in Asia includes: 

In Tiny House Nation, renovation experts and hosts, John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin, travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and the inventive people who live in them. They also help families design, construct and prepare to downsize into their own mini-dream homes no larger than 300 square feet!

Rowhouse Showdown featuring renovation expert, Carter Oosterhouse as he leads three teams who battle it out to transform dilapidated homes. The team that increases the appeal of their home the most, wins the grand prize of $50,000. 

Destination Flavour: Japan: From the frozen ponds of Hokkaido in the north to the southern multicultural island of Okinawa, we savour the cuisine from local legends and master chefs while watching Adam Liaw immerse himself in a vibrant food culture that embraces innovation and cherishes tradition. 

Destination Flavour: Down Under: Host Adam Liaw continues to unearth hidden flavours, this time those nestled in the Australian and New Zealand landscapes.

Travels with the Bondi Vet features Dr. Chris Brown, a charismatic vet who leaves his practice in Sydney to begin his exploration of the world’s most beautiful and bizarre places, cultures and animals!

About A+E Networks Asia

A+E Networks™ Asia is owned by the award-winning, global media content company, A+E Networks™, which is dedicated to offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television networks to websites, to home videos/DVDs to gaming and educational software. A+E Networks Asia is comprised of Lifetime®, HISTORY®, FYI™ (formerly bio.®), H2™ and Crime & Investigation™. A+E Networks Asia operates and distributes its portfolio in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Fiji, Macau, Taiwan, Korea, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. Globally, A+E Networks’ channels and branded programming reach more than 330 million households in over 160 countries.

Global Academy's highest gold for the High Tea

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Global Academy took home the only gold for the High Tea Category at the Philippine Culinary Cup, earning the medalists an opportunity to attend the Hong Kong International Culinary Classic (HKICC) at the 15th International Exhibition of Food & Drink, Hotel, Restaurant & Foodservice Equipment, Supplies & Services (HOFEX) in 2015.

“We competed in the same category last year and ended up with a bronze. There were a lot of details that we missed out and, jokingly, we promised to be back with vengeance,” said Global Academy’s homegrown talent and junior instructor, Chef Anjo dela Cruz, who graduated with a Grand Diploma in Professional Culinary and Pastry Arts in 2012.

Dela Cruz led the team for the High Tea category while Global Academy student, Michael Madrid took the role of the assistant.

“All the baking methods and techniques that I learned from the pastry program of Global Academy came in handy during the competition. Even our training on proper food handling, safety and sanitation played a huge part in our success,” shared Madrid. “The coaching that I got from my chef instructor, Anjo dela Cruz, played a great role to our victory. Most of the ideas came from her and she taught me methods and techniques on how to properly execute them.”

“The judges appreciated the idea that all the items in our menu were tied together by a theme. There was also a good balance of flavor and texture—rich, creamy, sweet, tart, floral, fruity, soft, crunchy, spongy, smooth, and sandy,” explained Chef Anjo of their advantage.

Their winning dishes consisted of:

“Adzuki and Genmaicha”, sweet scones flavored with adzuki beans and milk infused with genmaicha (brown rice tea), accompanied with jasmine and green tea Jelly

“Salmon and Nori”, a savory roulade of nori (seaweed) sponge filled with salmon, cream cheese and tobiko (flying fish roe), spiced with a bit of togarashi (chili pepper) and garnished with katsuobushi (dried, fermented, and smoked skipjack tuna) and black ebiko (capelin fish roe); 

“Black Sesame, Hojicha, and Miso”, a layered cake of black sesame pain de genes, piped with hojicha (green tea roasted in a porcelain pot over charcoal) ganache, swirled with caramel miso butter cream, then topped with chocolate feuilletine; 

“Strawberry and Plum”, a boat of pâte sucrée (sweet shortcrust pastry) filled with goat’s cheese mousse, topped with fresh strawberries and plums macerated in umeshu (Japanese liqueur made from steeping ume fruits in alcohol and sugar), garnished with white chocolate sticks and candied shiso; 

“Yuzu and Matcha”, a burst of citrus flavors in a glass, mandarin orange segments, mandarin orange gelée, and yuzu curd, topped with matcha streusel, lemon meringue, and edible flowers. 

“There were also some components in our dishes that were out of the ordinary. The Caramel Miso Buttercream, for example, was our take of the Salted Caramel Buttercream with an infusion of a Japanese flavor,” Dela Cruz added. “Although the taste did not appeal to the palate of some of the chef judges, they commended us for serving something new.” 

According to Dela Cruz, every bit of what she knew was from Global Academy. “I’m lucky to have been mentored by dedicated chef instructors. They have been excellent role models of the values that Global Academy represents—Passion, Reliability, Integrity, Commitment and Excellence. Now that I am a junior instructor, I hope to spark the same passion for excellence in my students.” 

Articles of Disagreements exhibition at Lopez Museum

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Arts, the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

The Lopez Museum and Library opens its second major exhibition for 2014, Articles of Disagreements, starts September 19, and will run until 20 December 2014.

Guest curated by Lian Ladia and Sidd Perez of Planting Rice, this exhibition features works by guest contemporary artists Tito and Tita (Film Collective), Nilo Ilarde, Buen Calubayan, and Maria Cruz.

Articles of Disagreement is a generative exhibition on art languages that will unearth different forms of art writing/ anecdotes of criticism in Philippine art history, our own historiography, the local art education infrastructure, and how we position ourselves in western critical languages. Though Articles of Disagreements was born out of a specific pool of articles and association towards critical inquiry in the local context, reflexive practices of contemporary artists are also put into focus, as diverse occupations in the Arts and other strategies an archive could take are explored to unburden itself from established institutional forms.

The Articles of Disagreements exhibition focuses on art forms that will unearth the different forms of art writing and anecdotes of criticism in Philippine art history.

 Articles of Disagreements was born out of a specific pool of major texts found in the Lopez Library archives and focuses on the reflexive practices of contemporary artists, as diverse occupations in the Arts are explored to unburden itself from established institutional forms.

Featured artists include the collective of young filmmakers Tito and Tita, conceptual artist-curator Nilo Ilarde, Germany-based artist Maria Cruz, and 2013 Ateneo Art Awardee Buen Calubayan. The exhibition will revolve around the archives of the library, along with the museum’s collection of works by Raymundo Albano, Fernando Zobel, Nena Saguil, Roberto Chabet and more; including the ever present masters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo.

The exhibition is curated by Sidd Perez and Lian Ladia of the alternative contemporary art platform ‘Planting Rice’.

An interesting feature of the exhibition is the reading laboratory cum coffee shop, named 'Café of Letters,' which aims to elicit discussion and written contributions that will zoom in on the generation of narratives that make up the body of texts of Philippine art history, art criticism, and broad art writing.

Artist and 2013 Ateneo Art Awardee Buen Calubayan is "moving in." Planting Rice's ARTICLES OF DISAGREEMENTS is presenting his self-archiving project Biography Work. — Articles of Disagreements co-curator Sidd Perez.

Don Eugenio Lopez, Sr, who founded and built the Lopez Museum and Library in order to provide scholars and students access to his personal collection of rare Filipiniana books, manuscripts, maps, archeological artifacts, and fine art.

The museum’s collection includes paintings by 19th century Filipino masters, Juan Luna y Novicio and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. Luna and Hidalgo garnered honors for their country when the paintings they submitted to the 1884 Esposicion National de Bellas Artes in Madrid won the Filipino some international recognition in the field of fine arts. Luna’s Spoliarium received one of the three gold medals awarded. Hidalgo’s entry, Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho, was awarded the first silver out of a total of fifteen that were given out.

If Luna’s canvasses depict drama and a certain bravura, Hidalgo’s portray a delicate sensibility, which a critic has described as “more pure, more serene in feeling”.

You will enjoy The Articles of Disagreements exhibition. Registration fee is P120 (P100 for students and members of the museum’s membership program) and comes with a free admission to the current exhibition.

The Lopez Museum and Library is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Museum days and hours are Mondays to Saturdays, except holidays, 8am to 5pm. For inquiries, call Tina Modrigo at 631-2417.

Featured Artists

Tito & Tita (Manila) is a collective of young artists working mainly with film and photography based in the Philippines. As individual filmmakers, their works have been featured in various film festivals and art fairs in the past years, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2013), the Museum of the Moving Image, New York (2012), and Documenta in Kassel (2012). As a collective, they have presented their works at the Ishmael Bernal Gallery, U.P. Film Center (2012) and at Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila (2013), Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago (2013), Blanc gallery, Manila (2014), Silverlens, Singapore (2014), Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles (2014), redefining independent cinema and photography in Manila via an enthralling transformation of images and disarming practicality, amidst all the symbolism, surrealism, and a variation of experimental techniques.

Buen Calubayan (b.1980) devises his art projects to understand and organize his life in relation to the context of a larger community. He uses painting, installation, performance, research and documentation as he navigates through mainstream, museum-based and non-traditional modes of art validation. He is an artist/curator with a BFA degree and Masteral units in Cultural Heritage Studies; a five-year teaching experience at the College of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Santo Tomas and has been a Museum worker from 2002-2013 at the UST Museum and National Museum of the Philippines. He was a Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) 13 Artist Awardee in 2009. Recently he finished a residency and exhibition at the Visual Art Centre of La Trobe University in Australia, a grant he was selected for after winning the Ateneo Art Awards (AAA) in 2013. This year, he was again shortlisted for the same award.

Maria Cruz (b. 1957) avoids being bound to a single identity, having lived in Manila, Sydney and Berlin. Educated in all three cities, Cruz presents a composite of sources and outputs in her art practice, moving between figuration and abstraction seamlessly, adopting and rejecting traditions where it suits and retaining others.

Nilo Ilarde (b. 1960) is a curator and conceptual artist who maneuvers material, site, content, and context and constructs found objects as fallen monuments to modernity. He has served in various capacities in organizing, exhibiting and mounting conceptual contemporary works and practices in Manila and the region. Ilarde has exhibited at Osage (Hong Kong) Taksu (Singapore) Richard Koh Gallery (Singapore), Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, West Gallery, Mo_. Space, Finale Art File, Mag:net, The Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila) among others.

Curators

Planting Rice is comprised of curators Lian Ladia and Sidd Perez. Aside from curatorial projects offering a resource of current discussions and collaborations involving an international context, Planting Rice is also aimed to nurture the local growth which is a strong thrust in their curatorial platform.

Globe launches GoSakto App, first prepaid mobile app

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Allows subscribers to create their own call, text and mobile internet promo 

Globe Telecom’s digital brand for the youth launches the country’s first and most innovative prepaid mobile application – GoSakto App which allows prepaid customers to create their own call, text and mobile internet promo without the need for Wi-Fi. 

Another market innovation, GoSakto App can be downloaded for free from Play Store for Android and App Store for iOs.

Aside from this, Globe Prepaid is also enhancing its most popular promo as it introduces the New GoUnli25 to its emerging prepaid market. With the New GoUnli25, Globe Prepaid customers may now enjoy their favorite unlimited call and text to Globe/TM with free access to Facebook plus another social site of their choice still for P25 valid for 1 day. 

“We understand that most of today’s youth consider their social networks as an extension of their life, this is the reason why it is important for them to stay connected online. Globe Prepaid reinforces this need to express their truest selves by giving them the New GoUnli25.

This year, we are also introducing the GoSakto App which they can use to create their own promo and be able to bundle their favorite online sites and mobile apps with their calls and texts, exactly the way they need it, the way they want it, that is within their budget without the need for Wi-Fi,” says Issa Cabreira, Vice President for Globe Prepaid Business.

Subscribers can choose from any of six top social and search sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Google, Yahoo, Viber or Foursquare to boost their new GoUNLI25 promo bundle, allowing them to tweet, post photos, search the Web, send stickers and emoticons, and check-in with no Wi-Fi or additional data charges needed. 

To register to the new GoUNLI25, subscribers can dial *143#, select GoSakto, select New GoUnli25, choose Select your free site, and then select Subscribe Now. Prepaid subscribers can also register to the new GoUNLI25 using the GoSAKTO app now available in iOS and Android-powered devices, giving users a digital experience on mobile.

Today’s fun and hyperactive youth enjoy sharing their most dynamic lifestyle to their social circle. They are fond of expressing themselves to the rest of the world through their most favorite social networking sites. Globe Prepaid continues its commitment of providing a wonderful digital world for the youth via a sakto promo that is just right for their budget and needs. 

To know more about the new GoUnli25, visit www.globe.com.ph/gounli25.

One Direction's Brand New Single 'Steal My Girl' premiered on radio worldwide on September 29

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‘Steal My Girl’ as the first single from their eagerly anticipated new album ‘FOUR’ of the famous pop band One Direction. ‘Steal My Girl’ is premiered on radio and released globally on September 29th, excluding the UK and Ireland where it is released on 12th October.

Over cascading stadium piano chords, ‘Steal My Girl’ shows the band continuing to expand their influences and song-writing ability while retaining their widescreen pop sound. ‘Steal My Girl’ is written by Louis and Liam with Ed Drewett, Wayne Hector, Julian Bunetta and John Ryan – the collaborative team behind last year’s massive ‘Best Song Ever’ – and is produced by Bunetta, Ryan and Paro Westerlund.

‘FOUR’ was announced earlier this month and fans have already had a taster of it with ‘Fireproof’, which became the most downloaded free track ever in the 24 hours it was available. ‘FOUR’ then debuted at number one in the iTunes album charts in 65 countries in its first 24 hours of being made available for pre-order – comfortably beating third album ‘Midnight Memories’, which debuted at the top in 39 countries and went on to become the top selling album of 2013 worldwide.

With a staggering 94 number ones and over 46 million records sold, in just four short years One Direction have gone from energetic pop upstarts to international superstars. As the band's song writing becomes more personal with each record, ‘FOUR’ is set to be their most stunning yet. The album follows the global success of their huge sell out ‘Where We Are’ stadium tour, which will be shown in cinemas globally for one weekend only on 11th and 12th October and released to DVD from 29th November (international release dates vary). Add all this to their 3 billion YouTube views, 110 million combined Twitter followers and 34 million Facebook fans and it’s clear that Liam, Harry, Louis, Niall and Zayn genuinely are a worldwide phenomenon.

'FOUR' released globally on November 17th 2014 and fans (excluding UK and Ireland) can receive ‘Steal My Girl’ instantly from September 29th if they pre-order the deluxe album on iTunes.

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