2016-17 NBA Season Tips Off Oct. 26

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) will tip off its 71^st season on Wednesday, Oct. 26 with three games on opening night.   The NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers will host the New York Knicks at 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by the second game, the Portland Trail Blazers will host the Utah Jazz at 10 p.m. ET.  For the third game, the San Antonio Spurs will visit the Golden State Warriors at 10:30 p.m. ET for a matchup of the teams with the league’s best records last season.  

Here is a preview of the opening night matchups:

New York at Cleveland: The Cavaliers will receive their championship rings before facing the new-look Knicks, who added former Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose and former Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year Joakim Noah in the offseason.  Jeff Hornacek will make his head-coaching debut with New York.  Cleveland’s Tyronn Lue will coach his first regular-season opener after taking over as head coach last January and leading the Cavaliers to their first NBA title in franchise history.  Four-time Kia NBA MVP LeBron James of Cleveland opens the season needing 114 points to pass Hakeem Olajuwon for 10th place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.

Utah at Portland: The Trail Blazers, who have won an NBA-record 15 consecutive regular-season home openers, feature one of the NBA’s best backcourts in two-time All-Star Damian Lillard and 2015-16 Kia NBA Most Improved Player CJ McCollum.  The two guards led Portland to its third consecutive playoff appearance last season.  The Jazz, looking to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2012, added veterans Boris Diaw, George Hill and Joe Johnson in the offseason to complement a promising young core.  Utah’s Gordon Hayward, who averaged a team-high 19.7 points last season, will miss the game with a finger injury.   

San Antonio at Golden State: Kevin Durant will make his debut with the Warriors, who signed the four-time scoring champion and 2013-14 Kia NBA MVP after a league-record 73-9 season and a loss to Cleveland in The Finals 2016.  Durant joins two-time reigning Kia NBA MVP Stephen Curry and fellow All-Stars Draymond Green and Klay Thompson to give the Golden State a potent offense.  The Spurs will have a new look with six-time All-Star Pau Gasol at center in place of NBA legend Tim Duncan, who retired after 19 seasons with San Antonio. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has a 17-2 record in regular-season openers.

 

Below please find the NBA broadcast schedule in the Philippines on Oct. 26

·         New York Knicks at Cleveland Cavaliers, Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 a.m. on NBA Premium TV

·         Utah Jazz at Portland Trail Blazers, Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. on Basketball TV

·         San Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors, Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 10:30 a.m. on ABS-CBN S+A and NBA Premium TV

Miss Earth 2016 Candidates at the Oakwood Premier Joy~Nostalg Center Manila

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Voted as the 2016 World Travel Awards Winner for Philippines' Leading Serviced Apartments, the Oakwood Premier Joy~Nostalg Center Manila, is also a proud venue and home for the Miss Earth 2016 candidates for several activities including a Meet & Greet with the press, and the long gown competition.

The management of the hotel gave a few words to formally welcome the beauty queens coming from the different countries.

Aside from the comfortable beds in the stately and fully-furnished suites, the Miss Earth 2016 candidates enjoyed the many amenities of the hotel including invigorating dips in their eco-friendly indoor pool and the adjacent Jacuzzi. They were able to swim in the chemical-free salt water lap pool with soothing underwater music for their ears. 

The Nostalgia Dining Lounge's breakfast buffet has surely serve as a great start for the beauty queens' day! But the girls enjoyed the complete gym equipment at the Fitness Center by Oakwood to remain fit, flexible and fab.

Above is just one of the many videos we took from the Meet & Greet with the Miss Earth candidates. You may check them out at the official YouTube channel at http://www.YouTube.com/user/wazzuppilipinas

Below are just some of the photos of the Miss Earth candidates that we took during the Meet & Greet event held on October 10, 2016.

More photos are available at the official Facebook fan page of Wazzup Pilipinas at http://www.Facebook.com/wazzuppilipinas

Solo photos of Miss Earth 2016 candidates courtesy of our partner photographer Collin Sarthou Yap

Synergy 2016 to Focus on the Development of Smart Communities

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This four-day academic convention has always been a venue of sharing ideas for those in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering to explore related career paths to help them build and develop the nation. On its fifth year, Synergy encourages the students to develop and promote technological innovations for safer and smarter communities.

This November 8-11 2016, Synergy would be having its five main events; TECHNO TALK, a discussion including topics on security and information and INGENIOUS IDEAS, a problem-solving competition involving the participants and panel, REVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS, a competition with autonomous robots, DYNAMIC DISCOURSE, an immersive company tour, and CORPORATE CONNECTION, the culminating event of SYNERGY. The first two events would occur in the first day (November 8) and the following days (November 9-11) would have the aforementioned events respectively.

University of the Philippines Engineering Radio Guild has always aimed to bring together the EEE student body for the betterment of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering industry. Synergy is one of the mediums which the organization uses to achieve this goal. Synergy will potentially increase the quality of Engineers and Developed technologies. Synergy would act as a basin for EEE students to output their accumulated knowledge and skill for the improvement of the country’s tomorrow.

The organization began when Electrical Engineers and some radio enthusiasts led by Solon Matthew Dakis pushed towards acquiring a license to put up a radio station. UP ERG found both a name and home in the UP Campus in the year 1935.

To learn more, visit up-erg.org, or e-mail us at execom@up-erg.org