A Sense of Ease Uniqlo U 2023 Spring/Summer Collection Launches February 17

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Global apparel retailer UNIQLO announces the launch of the Uniqlo U 2023 Spring/Summer collection starting February 17. Designed by Artistic Director Christophe Lemaire and his UNIQLO R&D team in Paris, the new collection themed A Sense of Ease offers a modern, timeless modular wardrobe centered on clothes that make life easier.

Layering pieces in soft, matte cotton and refreshing AIRism cotton meet airy utilitarian outerwear to create a complete range of versatile basics with often unexpected, always thoughtfully considered proportions. A playful yet elegant color palette combines understated neutrals and rich blues and beiges with bright pops of green, orange, yellow, purple, and pink.

Womenswear

Womenswear offers versatility; refined, seamless activewear is interchangeable between exercise and everyday life. Tailoring is soft and easy. A sheer shirt with patch pockets in matte-finish cotton is a fresh staple. The new jeans are slightly curved with a fitted leg to create a fresh silhouette.

Menswear

A complete range of versatile basics for a modern yet timeless look. Seersucker striped shirts and cotton shorts are cut wide for an easy summer silhouette. An oversized utility jacket is a new proportion for outerwear. The crew neck 3/4 sleeve T-shirt has been further perfected with a boxy fit. Parachute pants are utilitarian and effortless with adjustable drawstrings at the hem.

Accessories

BLOCKTECH hats and jet caps, and a new bucket bag in two sizes marry form and function, while the beloved drawstring shoulder bag returns for another season.

Stylings

Collection

The lineup includes 27 items for women, 23 items for men, and 7 items for accessories.

Lineup and Pricing

Items	Prices	Items	Prices
Outerwear	Php 3,490 – Php 6,990	Knits	Php 1,490 – Php 2,490
Pants & Skirts	Php 1,990 – Php 2,490	Dresses	Php 1,490 – Php 2,490
Shirts	Php 1,990	Accessories	Php 1,490 – 1,990
Cut & Sewn items	Php 590 – Php 1,490

 

Note: The above prices are provisional and subject to change

Special Website: https://www.uniqlo.com/ph/en/contents/collaboration/uniqlo-u/23ss/  

UNIQLO R&D Centers

Uniqlo U is a collection of “Future LifeWear Essentials.” The world-class designers and patternmakers in the Paris design team reimagine everyday clothing using innovative materials and new, contemporary silhouettes. Each season is designed with the highest precision and in pursuit of a simplified, modern wardrobe.

UNIQLO R&D Centers are places for experimentation, spaces to try new ideas, innovate and create. The Paris R&D Center complements other UNIQLO R&D Centers in Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, and Los Angeles.

Christophe Lemaire

Christophe Lemaire has been designing his namesake collection since 1991. He has also served as Artistic Director of Lacoste and Artistic Director of women’s ready-to-wear at Hermès. In 2015, he partnered with UNIQLO, resulting in the UNIQLO AND LEMAIRE collaboration collections for Fall/Winter 2015 and Spring/Summer 2016. Christophe Lemaire was appointed Artistic Director of the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center in 2016, where he and his handpicked team of designers create the Uniqlo U collection.

 

Bayad and PitakaMo Relaunches Partnership, Strengthening Its One Stop Shop Bills Payment Solution

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CIS Bayad Center Inc. (Bayad), the largest multi-channel payment platform in the Philippines relaunches partnership with PitakaMo IT Solutions and Marketing Corporation (PitakaMo), a digital payment service provider of its franchisor brand AllEn One Grocery and Payment Center (AllEn One).

In photo (L-R): Lawrence Y. Ferrer – Bayad President and CEO, Dennis S. Gatuslao – Bayad Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer, Alexander Charles Mascenon – PitakaMo IT Solutions and Marketing Corporation VP for Operations, and Alexander Benedict Mascenon – PitakaMo IT Solutions and Marketing Corporation President and CEO

Gaining foothold in the retail industry, AllEn One has already established over 47 store branches nationwide in just a span of 2 years. As the company thrives through expansion, it continues to offer value added services including a one stop shop bills payment solution, enabled by Bayad’s upgraded system integration with PitakaMo.

Today, AllEn One customers can expect seamless payment transactions with various billers covering services like electric and water utility, cable & internet, government contributions, loan payments, school tuition fees, online shopping, insurance, and many others.

To top it off, most of these billers offer real-time payment posting allowing customers to pay their bills instantaneously, without delay, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Bayad President and CEO, Lawrence Y. Ferrer shared, “We and PitakaMo share the same goal of providing convenient financial services. Together, we’ve enhanced a one stop shop bills payment solution as we respond to the various needs of the customers that we both serve, especially those who are always on the go. Ultimately, we stand with PitakaMo in shaping the future of fintech as we help make payment transactions frictionless, secured, and more accessible to Filipinos.”

PitakaMo President and CEO, Alexander Benedict Mascenon added “Our partnership with Bayad Center is vital in providing essential services through our AllEn One Grocery, Pharmacy & Payment Centers nationwide.”

For financial institutions and businesses like PitakaMo that are interested to be part of Bayad’s extensive channel network, you may send an email to partnerships@bayad.com. Bayad enables partners to attain nationwide presence and provides end-to-end support services for efficient payment and collection processing.

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About Bayad

Bayad is the pioneer and trusted brand in the outsourced payment collection service in the Philippines, aggregating a multitude of billers into a robust system that is now being used by more than 100,000 physical touchpoints and leading digital and mobile platforms across the country. Formerly known as Bayad Center, it continues trailblaze the industry as it evolves from an over-the-counter payment center into a full-service fintech service company, offering a whole suite of financial products & services available to both consumers and businesses.

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About PitakaMo

PitakaMo IT Solutions and Marketing Corp offers AllEn One Grocery, Pharmacy & Payment Center. It is an affordable “all-en-one” franchised business that uses technology and innovations to better serve the needs of its community and expand its customer reach. Perfect for first-time entrepreneurs. It is a branded convenience store, with pharmaceuticals, money transfer, bills payment, e-loads, insurance, travel & tours, and ATM services. It comes with an ALLEN ONE Retailer App for the wholesale part of your business.

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED - A stylish, powerful productivity laptop

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Enjoying zen life with ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED

Working and having fun with a computer, especially now, with the ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED make my everyday life more enjoyable. We love anything digital and progressive to facilitate lifelong learning, mobility and flexibility in all areas of life. Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Enjoying travelling and working with this new laptop, ASUS, Zenbook 14 OLED, a modern technology has changed our lives in countless ways – revolutionizing how we work and live. Technology has made the biggest impact is in the realm of communication, conversing with people outside of our immediate vicinity.

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED in the smallest and thinnest laptop that's beautiful inside and out, and great performance make it an excellent choice for general-purpose users.

The powerful and compact Zenbook 14 OLED is just 16.9 mm slim and 1.39 kg light, with a breathtaking new design that’s timelessly elegant yet totally modern.

Incredibly well-built and powerful with a standout display, and its vibrant design, The ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED features a keyboard with an ASUS ErgoSense and NumberPad 2.0 design.

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED is great choice for media consumption - mobility and versatility. Especially if you’re looking for a portable device to bring out and about, the extra hours of freedom from an outlet, ASUS ZenBook 14 OLED deliver superb performance, and there’s a long-lasting 75 Wh battery - 75WHrs 4-cell Li-Ion battery with 65W adapter, Harman Kardon speakers, and a couple of ports.

Zenbook 14 OLED is packed with relevant input and output ports. There are two (2) reversible USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports, supporting up to 10Gbps of data transfers. There’s also your regular HDMI port and even a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port for your connectivity needs.

You can lay it flat with its 180-degree ErgoLift hinge

ASUS ZenBook 14 OLED (UX3402), incorporates ASUS’ new monogram logo on the lid, along with a redesigned ErgoLift hinge, also flaunts a 14-inch OLED NanoEdge screen with 2.8K resolution, a 90Hz refresh rate, and 600 nits peak brightness.

Stylish, thin and light, The ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED with a solid military-grade build quality, a great design, and display, and is supremely portable.

Ready to keep you connected whenever, wherever. There’s a long-lasting 75 Wh battery.

Main Features

OLED: Outstanding Visual Experience

The 2.8K resolution display features a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 0.2ms response time, and 90Hz refresh rate. It has been certified by VESA DisplayHDR™ 500 True Black to support up to 550-nit of peak brightness and 0.0005 nits of deep black brightness, providing creators with a brighter and more detailed viewing experience. A 16:10 aspect ratio and 90% screen-to-body ratio improve the sense of immersion.

Latest generation CPU with AIPT

The laptop features the 12th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processors, which support ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology (AIPT), contributing to boosting the CPU performance.

Revamped Design ID

The new Zenbook 14 OLED series chassis is made of aluminum alloy and features ASUS' new monogram design on the lid with a 2-color option.

Rich Connectivity

Two Thunderbolt™ 4 ports with up to 40 Gbps bandwidth, a standard HDMI 2.0 port, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a microSD card reader.

It also features a built-in dual-band WiFi 6E (802.11ax) wireless network card with ASUS WiFi Master Premium technology.

ErgoSense keyboard

The ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED features a keyboard with an ASUS ErgoSense design, providing users with a comfortable typing experience. The keyboard's 19.05 mm pitch, 0.2 mm dish-shaped indentation, and 1.4mm key travel improve the overall typing accuracy and experience.

Amazing Audio

The ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED series has a stereo dual-speaker sound system certified by Harman Kardon and Dolby Atmos for unrivaled audio quality. The volume-enhancing, distortion-suppressing smart amplifier is equipped with a powerful DSP chip that can drive the twin speakers at the maximum volume possible. All while preventing long-term damage to the sensitive speaker voice coils.

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3402) Specifications

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CPU	12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1260P processor 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1240P processor
Display options	14.0-inch, 2.8K (2880 x 1800) OLED 16:10 aspect ratio, 0.2ms response time, 90Hz refresh rate, 400nits, 600nits peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 1,000,000:1, VESA CERTIFIED Display HDR True Black 600, 1.07 billion colors, PANTONE Validated, Glossy display, 70% less harmful blue light, SGS Eye Care Display, Screen-to-body ratio: 90 ％
Operating system	Windows 11 Home
Graphics	Intel® Iris® Xe graphics
Main memory	8/16 GB 4800 MHz LPDDR5 onboard
Storage	512 GB / 1 TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD
Connectivity	Dual-band WiFi 6E (802.11ax) + Bluetooth® 5.2
Camera	1080p FHD camera
I/O ports	2 x ThunderboltTM 4 USB-C® with full range (5~20V) of charging 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A 1 x standard HDMI® 2.0 1 x MicroSD Reader 1 x Audio combo jack
Touchpad	ASUS NumberPad 2.0 / ASUS ErgoSense touchpad
Audio	Harman Kardon-certified Dolby Atmos sound system with 2 built-in speakers Built-in array microphone with Cortana and Alexa voice-recognition support
Battery	75 Wh lithium-polymer battery
AC adapter	65W Type-C power adapter (Output: 20 V DC, 100 W, Input: 100-240 V AC, 50/60 Hz universal)
Dimensions	313.62 x 220.63 x 16.9 mm
Weight	1.39 kg

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Perfect visuals from the expansive 16:10 2.8K OLED HDR NanoEdge touchscreen2,3,4, a color-accurate up to 550-nit screen that’s PANTONE® Validated and has a cinema-grade 100% DCI-P3 gamut. The 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 Processor, Intel Iris® Xe graphics, 16 GB RAM and 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD deliver superb performance.

Excellent for watching Netflix, NBA games and other streaming sites. The 2.8K OLED display is gorgeous, plus the speakers (tuned by Harman-Kardon) deliver good audio that’s loud enough to fill a room.

An inevitable in our daily endeavors, a laptop, recommended ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED, is pretty much suit for everyone. 

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Fil-Am beauty R’Bonney Gabriel wins Miss Universe crown

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MISS USA's R'Bonney Gabriel won the Miss Universe crown at the 71st Miss Universe Competition held at New Orleans Morial Convention Center on January 14, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 
Miss Venezuela Amanda Dudamel and Miss Dominican Republic Andreína Martínez were the first and second runners-up, respectively.

Over eighty candidates representing their country competed for the Miss Universe crown during the 71st annual pageant Miss Universe 2023.

Find below which beauty pageant made it to the top and who became our new Miss Universe 2022-2023.

Top 16 Miss Universe Finalists

Puerto Rico: Ashley Cariño

Haiti: Mideline Phelizor

Australia: Monique Riley

Dominican Republic: Andreína Martínez

Laos: Payengxa Lor

South Africa: Ndavi Nokeri

Portugal: Telma Madeira

Canada: Amelia Tu

Peru: Alessia Rovegno

Trinidad and Tobago: Tya Jané Ramey

Curacao: Gabriëla Dos Santos

India: Divira Rai

Venezuela: Amanda Dudamel

Spain: Alicia Faubel

United States: R’Bonney Gabriel

Colombia: María Fernanda Aristizábal

The Leadership Award : 

Thailand: Anna Sueangam-Iam

Top 5 Miss Universe Finalists:

Venezuela: Amanda Dudamel

United States: R’Bonney Gabriel

Puerto Rico: Ashley Cariño

Curacao: Gabriëla Dos Santos

Dominican Republic: Andreína Martínez

Top 3 Miss Universe Finalists:

Dominican Republic: Andreína Martínez

United States: R’Bonney Gabriel

Venezuela: Amanda Dudamel

Winner : Miss Universe 2022-2023 United States: R’Bonney Gabriel

FIRST RUNNER-UP: Venezuela: Amanda Dudamel

SECOND PLACE: Dominican Republic: Andreína Martínez

Miss USA R'Bonney

winning answer

Question:

If you win Miss Universe, how would you work to demonstrate this is an empowering and progressive organization?

Miss USA :

"I would use it to be a transformational  leader. As a very passionate designer, been sewing for 13 years. I use fashion as a force for good. I'm cutting down on pollution through recycled materials when I make my clothing. I teach sewing classes to a women that have survived from human trafficking and domestic violence and I say that because it is so important to invest in other, invest in our community and use your unique talent to make a deference. We all have something special and when we plant those seeds to other people in our life, we transform them and we use that as vehicle for change."

R' Bonney Gabriel is born to Remigio Bonzon and Dana Walker in Houston, Texas. Her father is from Phillipines and her Mother is an American. She was born in year 1994 on 20th March and then completed her Higher Education from University of North Texas. She has won many titles such as Miss Kemah USA 2020, Miss Texas USA 2022, Miss USA 2022 and then finally Miss Universe 2022.

R' Bonney Gabriel took home the new "Force for Good" crown made by Lebanon's Mouawad, the official jeweler for Miss Universe. The crown is estimated to be worth $5.5 million and comes embedded with 110 carats of blue sapphire and 48 carats of white diamonds.

Reminder to qualified UMID applicants: Upgrade to UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card today

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SSS members with pending UMID ID releases may avail of free upgrade online

Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is reminding members of the Social Security System (SSS) who are qualified for a free upgrade to the UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card to avail of the offer now so they can enjoy an easy and convenient way to receive their SSS proceeds.

Announced a few months ago, the UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card is a government-issued ID card and fully functional ATM card that is linked to a UnionBank savings account, where SSS members can receive the proceeds of their benefits, loans, and refunds. The savings account doesn't require maintaining balance.

SSS members who are registered on My.SSS and have applied for the standard UMID card but have not received it yet may avail of the UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card upgrade for free. To let them know about the upgrade option, SSS also sent invitations to qualified members via email, so they may want to check their email. The upgrade will be available to all SSS members applying for the UMID card eventually.

Qualified members may upgrade their card by logging in to their My.SSS account, or register if they haven’t yet. They will then need to go to the "E-Services" tab, access the "Data Sharing Consent for UMID Pay Card" option, and give their consent to share their information with UnionBank.

Next, they must download the UnionBank Online app, which is available on the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and Huawei AppGallery. They can also visit https://www.unionbankph.com/unionbankonline and or scan the download QR code.

On the app, they need to select the "Open an Account" option, choose "Government ID," click "SSS UMID Pay Card Account," and then click “Agree to the Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Consent” to continue. After making sure that their SSS information is updated and correct, they will need to complete the form to open their savings account. More details are available at https://www.unionbankph.com/sss-umid.

Upgrading to the UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card comes with a few perks. Once the free upgrade is completed, funding the account with a minimum of PHP1,000 entitles the owner to a free Jollibee eGC worth P200 and a chance to win a brand-new Mitsubishi Xpander GLS sponsored by UnionBank. Account holders must fund their account on or before Feb 28, 2023 to enjoy these perks.

Because the card is linked to a UnionBank account, users will be able to enjoy fully-featured ATM transactions, as well as digital banking services and advanced features like financial goal setting and payment requests via the UnionBank Online app.

UnionBank has been a long-time partner of the government in the issuance of two-in-one ID and pay cards that have benefited countless Filipinos over the years, and the new UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card is just one of the many innovative offers that have come from its partnerships with government agencies like the SSS and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), to name a few.

To learn more about the UnionBank SSS UMID ATM Pay Card, visit https://www.unionbankph.com/sss-umid.