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He was once a contestant in various art contests and won them. Now it’s his turn to put up a contest to find brilliant and artistic minds clash against each other.

Kristofferson Paunil a.k.a. ‘Paok’, winner of various art contest including the Toyota Art Edge Digital Art Contest winning 2^nd place, shares the limelight to young Cebuano artists to impart their ideas in a never-done-before pattern contest.

The challenge is to design an art that is repeatable hence, making a pattern. As Paok would put it, the criteria should be THOUGHTS = PATTERN, meaning the definition of the artist’s thoughts should be seen through the pattern design he/she is making.

There should be one entry per entrant, works should be printed in poster size landscape, and should be submitted in Handuraw Pizza in Lahug unfolded. There would be a two-week exhibit of all the entries in Handuraw from October 4 to October 17.

The contest’s aim is to be able to inspire and influence the graphics community to be creative and be involved in the local art community and, of course, have a blast of fun and entertainment.

The awarding of winners would be on the night of the 17th, still, at Handuraw Lahug at 7PM onwards. Aside from the contest, there would also be live doodle and graffiti, open bazaar, tattoo sessions, and food with live performances from Russ Ligtas, Hastang, Zarah Smith, Mary Peril and Uno.

Philippine Offshore Design and Development Corporation is in one with the event's goal in taking Cebuano art a step further. As sponsors of the event, PODD Corp believes that there is much talent in the pool of artists in Cebu and events like this would encourage each of them to participate and support local art.

Aisde from PODD Corp, other companies are also sponsoring the event like: RCTV 36, MetroGrafix, Tri-J Marketing Inc., Art Cebu, Bliss, Jordan Tattoo, Indiesign Creative Group, Philippines Islands, Sun Cellular, Killer Bee 92.3, Handuraw Pizza, Crols Tatoo, Foundry Publishing, Electrolux, and M Lhuillier.

This event is for the benefit of Tsinelas Association Inc.

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In the recently concluded Tholons Globalization Service, Cebu ranked 1^st among 50 emerging cities in the Global Outsourcing Industry. Cebu City is the only city from list maintaining its ranking from the previous year. Coming at 2^nd and 3^rd are China’s biggest cities, Shanghai and Beijing, while Krakow, Poland, and Ho Chi Minh Vietnam ranked 4^th and 5^th respectively. The top 50 list is dominated by mostly South American and East European cities.

Other Philippine cities also excelled in the outsourcing industry according to Tholons. One of which is Manila ranking 4^th in the Top 8 Global Outsourcing Cities - a list which is dominated by 6 cities from Dubai and Dublin Ireland. Also, Iloilo ranked 3^rd in Top 10 Aspiring cities in the outsourcing industry.

Scale and quality of workforce, business catalyst, cost, infrastructure, risk profile and quality of life were the six categories that the different outsourcing cities were evaluated upon.

Cebu’s vast workforce makes the province highly recommended for outsourcing. With different skilled individuals trained in prestigious schools with excellent English language proficiency, Cebu is filled with talented resources willing to render services to foreign clients.

And since resources are very much well-rounded, the city can offer different types of service to clients: outbound and inbound call centers, customer service, graphic and web design, software and applications development, SEO and online marketing, and lots more.

All the factors that Tholons Globalization Service have in their categories for qualification makes Cebu globally competitive. Indeed, it shouldn’t be questioned that Cebu got the top spot in outsourcing and offshore services.