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UCLA Senior Director of Diversity Programs Patricia Nguyen (left) and UCLA Pilipino Alumni Scholarship Director Bobby T. Rimas point towards the Pilipino Alumni Association’s name on the newly dedicated Alumni Scholarship Endowments wall at UCLA. On Sunday, October 19th at the festive UCLA Scholarship Fall Reception, UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association’s name was dedicated onto the new UCLA Alumni Scholarship Endowments wall at the UCLA James West Alumni Center.  “This is a great day for the UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association to have their name on this newly dedicated wall that promotes the university and the endowments that assist deserving students with obtaining a world-class education at UCLA, including UCLA Pilipino Alumni’s Endowment.  The UCLA PAA Endowment is a key component that is utilized to continually award UCLA Pilipino Alumni scholarships” said Bobby T. Rimas, UCLA Pilipino Alumni’s Scholarship Director.  Scholarship Director Rimas oversees the UCLA Pilipino Alumni Scholarship Committee who is responsible for developing the selection criteria, coordinating the logistics of scholarship awards, collecting scholarship donations, and selecting award recipients. The UCLA Scholarship Fall Reception included speeches that reflect the importance of scholarships, a great violin performance, and UCLA cheerleaders leading the UCLA 8-clap.  Scholarship Director Rimas also indicated that “It is quite fitting that there is also a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin on the newly dedicated UCLA Alumni Scholarship Endowments wall that sums up some of the importance of scholarship giving, ‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.’  I wholeheartedly agree.” Cheerleaders pose before performing the UCLA 8-clap Read More …

Yeng Constantino and Victor “Yan” Asuncion (MNS Photo) Pop-rock singer Yeng Constantino shared some details about her upcoming wedding. Constantino said she will tie the knot with Victor “Yan” Asuncion in Tagaytay City on Valentine’s Day next year. “Sa Tagaytay po… Valentine’s Day,” she said. Constantino said they will go to Maldives for their honeymoon. “Yes, sa Maldives. Personally, kasi gusto ko siya. Tapos may nag-gift sa amin. Pinapili kami either Switzerland o Maldives, so we chose Maldives. Yes, ninang namin sa kasal [ang nagregalo],” the singer said. Asuncion and Constatino are each other’s first official relationship. The two got engaged in March this year after eight months of being a couple. Constantino, who got her big break when she won ABS-CBN’s “Pinoy Dream Academy” in 2006, met Asuncion last year through a common friend. A former band member, Asuncion is currently a worship director at a Christian church.  (MNS)

President Benigno S. Aquino III meets with his Cabinet Secretaries at the President’s Hall of Malacanang Monday (October 13) concerning the status of the MRT 3 maintenance. The President is concerned about negative reports he has been receiving regarding Metro Rail operations. (MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – The Department of Transportation and Communications’ (DOTC) plan to buy out the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT 3) for almost P54 billion is unprogrammed and is not reflected in the 2015 General Appropriations Act (GAA), Senator Chiz Escudero said. Escudero, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, said the P54 billion which the DOTC has set aside for the takeover of the MRT 3 will be sourced from a loan, and not from the national treasury. “That amount which was authorized by DOF (Department of Finance) Secretary Cesar Purisima to effect the MRT 3 buyout is actually a loan. Thus, although it is unprogrammed once the loan has been signed, it will reflect in the GAA and the DOTC is apparently to push through with the buyout,” Escudero said. He, however, said he is most likely to slash the amount from the GAA or realign it to more essential services for the general public like the much needed infrastructure to ease traffic congestion and disaster preparedness programs. “While it is true that we need to improve our mass transport system, I have not been convinced by the DOTC that a takeover with a very high price tag is what we need at this Read More …

Piloted driving from motorway to raceway. ©Audi Audi is planning to race a driverless car around the Hockenheim circuit as part of the DTM German Touring Car Championship. However, the car that takes to the 4.57km track and negotiates its 17 turns won’t be some souped-up, track-focused race car. It will be the company’s flagship sportsback sedan, the RS7. As well as for making an entertaining spectacle, the idea behind the demonstration, which will see the car hit speeds of up to 149 mph (240 km/h), is to show how much ground Audi has already covered in the race towards making autonomous driving a reality. The car will be using an array of sensors to navigate the circuit and to help it to drive on the limit but without surpassing it. Audi expects the RS7 to be capable of lapping Hockenhiem in under two minutes and the attempt will be broadcast live on the internet via Audi’s MediaTV channel. The fun will start at 12:45 CET on October 19. The company is by no means the only carmaker to have taken to the track to demonstrate its self-driving tech capabilities. Both BMW and Volkswagen also have ‘track training’ cars in their research and development departments and BMW was even brave enough to let UK TV show “Top Gear” take its modified 3-Series out on the track back in 2011.

©Sergey Nivens/shutterstock.com (Relaxnews) – October continues with a conference focused on the connections of tomorrow and on how the internet of things will be built. Gigaom Structure Connect 2014 October 21-22 San Francisco, California, USA Focusing on the framework, opportunities and challenges of connecting homes and businesses to the internet and how greater levels of connectivity and larger numbers of connected devices, from appliances to automobiles, are going to impact on consumer and business life. http://events.gigaom.com/structureconnect-2014/ Inside 3D Printing  October 21-23 Santa Clara, California, USA Now in its second year it is a conference and expo aimed at everyone from architects and artists to engineers and venture capitalists who could be left behind if they don’t get on board with the third industrial revolution that many believe 3D printing will usher in. http://www.inside3dprinting.com/santa-clara/?c=3dcawtp CES Unveiled PARIS 2014  October 22 Paris, France A press conference and expo promoting the upcoming International CES 2015 and showcasing the best of French tech talent. http://www.cesweb.org/Events-Awards/CES-Unveiled/CES-Unveiled-PARIS.aspx Twitter Flight October 22 San Francisco, California, USA The microblogging and social media platform is going to give annual conferences another try with the launch of Flight, an event aimed at developers that Twitter hopes will become an annual conference.  https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twitter-flight-our-first-mobile-developer-conference WSJ.D Where the Digital World Connects October 27-29 Laguna Beach, California, USA The first tech event by the publication since the closure of its All Things D blog, it promises to pull out all of the stops to make it one of the most important on the tech Read More …