ISAAA Inc., as part of the Know The Science: Strengthening Biotech Links project with the Philippine Department of Agriculture Biotechnology Program Office, launches Double Helix, the first and only magazine supplement on agricultural biotechnology (agbiotech) for senior high school students taking the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) strand in the country.
High school students are always curious about new concepts and ideas. They actively explore their world and discover new things. New developments in agbiotech could be an interesting subject for them, but these should be presented in a format that suits young audiences. Magazines are wonderful supplements to classroom instruction as they provide students with a variety of information on different topics, as well as activities that allow them to apply the concepts to real-life situations. An agbiotech supplemental magazine would provide senior high school students in the Philippines with a variety of topics on biotechnology and its benefits to farmers planting biotech corn and activities that are widely available from ISAAA Inc. materials including Pocket Ks, sQuizBox, 50 Biotech Bites, and the most popular and retweeted articles in the Crop Biotech Update.
The world is facing major challenges to food production as the global population increases and climate change severely affects agriculture and food production. Agbiotech, a field of science that uses modern tools and techniques to improve crops and livestock, helps address the challenges of feeding and clothing the global population of 9.8 billion by 2050.
Double Helix was developed for senior high school students to help introduce them to agbiotech. The eight-page magazine is filled with illustrated stories, infographics, and activities to engage the young mind. The maiden issue of the Double Helix presents the process of developing a biotech crop, the countries where biotech crops are grown, biotech crops in the Philippines, Filipino biotech corn farmers, news briefs, and some cool and fun science activities and exercises for senior high school students and their teachers to enjoy. The magazine was developed by ISAAA Inc.'s Global Knowledge Center on Biotechnology team who hopes to impart how biotech crops are developed and the immense benefits that consumers, farmers, their families, and communities enjoy from planting such crops.
Science Speaks is ISAAA Inc.'s official blog. Weekly blog articles, authored by ISAAA writers, partners, and invited contributors, aim to help share, disseminate, and promote scientific knowledge and its vital role in achieving global agricultural sustainability and development. Your support to Science Speaks will help us achieve this goal. You can help us by donating as little as $10.
Let's work together to see more people have access to the Biotech Updates Newsletter and other ISAAA materials. Your donation will ensure that information remains available for free to people from the developing world who need it most.
The Philippines Graphic website was hacked by unidentified parties on Saturday, April 18. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemn the digital attack and call on authorities to investigate the hacking.
The website for the magazine, The Philippines Graphic postedon its Facebook page on April 18 that their website was hacked and directing readers to pornographic sites. The newsroom asked readers to refrain from using the website. The website was restored by April 20.
The hacking of the website occurred a day after Pasig City mayor, Vico Sotto said the Twitter account of their Public Information Office was hacked, in a similar incident involving pornographic material.
It was quiet. The afternoon breeze. The creaking sound of rope pulling as I crossed the footbridge. Outside thatched homes, women slapped wet clothes in their wash buckets. One elderly woman pounded rice. Her arms were covered in sleeves of tattoos and her ears drooped from the weight of brass rings. She handed me a heavy wooden pestle, and laughed as I attempted to dehull rice in the mortar. She went about her business. There was no conversation, just quiet observation of this seemingly peaceful agricultural community in the mountains.
I continued onward. In Sagada, hanging-coffins nailed into rock walls lined a trail that lead me to a cave stacked with centuries-old coffins and mummified bodies. Disturbing? Yes. But it was really only the quiet and my anticipation that made me anxious.
Along the bumpy mountain road I saw the most beautiful rice terraces in the world. They appeared like reflecting pools lining the contours of the peaks that cascaded down into the valley. Perfectly carved. Perfectly still.
Night fell quickly. I remembered there had been a curfew in place, so I quickened my pace. As I began walking back down the steep narrow path toward the village, I could see the whites of her eyes spying me. Unnerved, I stopped.
Adam Waxman is an award winning travel journalist focusing on food, wine and well being. As well as an actor in film, television and formerly, the Stratford Festival, he is the Publisher of DINE and Destinations magazine.
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Summit Publishing Co., Inc., trading as Summit Media, is a Filipino digital lifestyle network in the Philippines. It has 15 media brands attracting around 20 million monthly unique visitors and approximately 33 million social media followers. [citation needed]It began as a consumer magazine publisher in June 1995, with Preview as its first magazine title.[1] It turned into a publication conglomerate which published several lifestyle magazines titles, including Candy for young Filipino girls and Yes!, a Philippine entertainment magazine.
The company is privately owned by Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, the daughter of Filipino businessman John Gokongwei. It has expanded to publishing specialized magazines for companies and occasions in the Philippines, and also started publishing short books designed for Filipino readers.
On April 11, 2018, Summit Media announced the impending closure of the last six printed magazines namely, Cosmopolitan, FHM, Preview, Top Gear, Town and Country (all relegated to their online portals) and Yes! (relegated to Philippine Entertainment Portal), as part of the fully completed digitalization of the company, marking the end of the 23-year run of printing industry.[5]
NEW YORK, August 28, 2007 - For the past 160 years, Town & Country has been promoting all the things that last: good manners, good sense and good fun. As the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in America, Town & Country is the only title that has taken a holistic approach to luxury, giving its readers the highest level of quality, style, experience and integrity.
This September, Hearst Magazines International will partner with Summit Media to bring the venerable luxury magazine to Philippine shores with Town & Country Philippines, the first foreign edition of Town & Country.
"The Philippines has enough of an affluent population to make the magazine a success," says George Green, president/CEO of Hearst Magazines International. "Hearst also has a great partner in Summit Media, and we trust them to put out a magazine that would represent the Town & Country brand the right way."
Summit Media is responsible for bringing in the local editions of Hearst Publications' Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping. It has also brought a local flavor to international titles FHM, Top Gear, Marie Claire, and Men's Health.
Town & Country Philippines promises to be a magazine dedicated to featuring not only the best that money can buy, but also more importantly, the best that human beings can achieve. The Philippine edition of Town & Country is spearheaded by Monique Villonco as editor and Mia Borromeo as editor-at-large.
Hearst Magazines International publishes 147 editions of 14 titles in 58 countries in 36 languages for distribution in more than 100 countries. Major titles include powerful brand equities like Cosmopolitan, CosmoGIRL!, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, Redbook and Seventeen. Hearst Magazines, a division of Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com), is one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines with a total of 19 U.S. titles. In Great Britain, a wholly owned subsidiary, The National Magazine Company Limited, publishes 20 magazines.
Summit Media is the largest magazine publishing company in the Philippines, with 22 titles under its belt to cater to individuals with different lifestyles, attitudes, and passions: FHM, Cosmopolitan, YES!, Good Housekeeping, Men's Health, Preview, Marie Claire, Candy, Seventeen, K-Zone, W.I.T.C.H., Entrepreneur, T3, Top Gear, OK!, HI!, Real Living, Smart Parenting, Yummy, Total Girl, Disney's Princess and Disney & Me. In the 2006 TNS-Trends Newsstand Survey, Summit titles led in all their respective categories, making Summit Media the leading consumer magazine publisher in the Philippines not just in terms of number of titles and advertising sales, but in circulation per category as well. By creating magazines that are relevant, affordable, and of world-class standards, Summit Media has changed the way Filipinos read.
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