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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 719951 [Title] => AJ is Poster Boy for Eye Bank [Summary] =>Did you know that barely two hours before AJ Perez died in a car accident in Paniqui, Tarlac, in the early morning of April 17 on his way back to Manila from Dagupan after a show, his mother Marivic Perez was at home watching the radio/TV show of Fr. Jerry Orbos and Fatima Soriano (the vision-challenged singer)?
[DatePublished] => 2011-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/9938/ent1thumbi.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 493867 [Title] => Four generations and a funeral [Summary] =>We are in Makati. Her condition is getting worse. According to Dr. Alex Ayco, “Maybe tonight.” Tonight became Saturday before sunrise.
[DatePublished] => 2009-08-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133330 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1773484 [AuthorName] => Tingting Cojuangco [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9044/lif1thumbp.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276634 [Title] => The doctor is in [Summary] =>Im full of love," Dr. Minguita Padilla, founder of the Eye Bank, says with a laugh. "Im never motivated by anything but love. It cant be by hate; hate makes me feel sick. Some people, when they hate someone, they get motivated but not me. It has to be love."
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1761978 [AuthorName] => Tanya T. Lara [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 85844 [Title] => Dr. Minguita Padilla and Dr. Victor Lopez: A triumph of love and fate [Summary] =>What matters is not how much love there was at the beginning, but how much love you can build and thus make it last. –Anonymous
It was, to those who witnessed this exceptional union, a triumph of fate and unwavering love.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1633869 [AuthorName] => OH YES, IT’S JOHNNY! [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 113880 [Title] => Eyes wide open [Summary] => "What can you see from the depths of the eye, doctor?" a worried mother once asked ophthalmologist Dominga "Minguita" Padilla, founder and president of the Eyebank Foundation of the Philippines. The mother had brought her daughter to Padilla’s clinic and was surprised that by just looking a patient in the eye with an ophthalmoscope, a doctor could see more than just eye diseases.
"You could see if a patient has a brain tumor, diabetes. You can also see sincerity, deceit, fear …" Padilla answered her calmly. "The eyes are truly your windows."
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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MANILA, Philippines — Alas Pilipinas team captain Jia de Guzman has tempered expectations on their chances against a heavily favored Vietnam and in the FIVB Challenger Cup that came off the wraps at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium yesterday.
But deep inside the soft-spoken and courageous skipper and the rest of Nationals, they all dream of the same big dream – a ticket straight to the Women’s Volleyball Nations League main group next year.
And their quest begins tonight when they square off with the Vietnamese at 6:30 p.m.
The home bet is the underdog versus the Vietnamese side that swept and dominated last month’s AVC Challenge Cup at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The Filipinas snatched a historic bronze there.
“Well, alam naman po namin na mas malakas ang kalaban and we know our team is young. All we can ask the girls is to do its best while not putting pressure on the team that much,” said the charismatic Alas team leader.
The team lost power spiker Eya Laure and libero Jen Nierva and were replaced by Creamline’s Jema Galanza and National University’s Bella Belen.
Belen’s teammate, Alyssa Solomon, and Galanza’s fellow Creamline star, Tots Carlos, were enlisted into the pool but will not be able to join due to undisclosed reasons.
“It’s great to have new reinforcements in the pool. Experience-wise, marami ang mako-contribute nila sa team,” said De Guzman of Galanza and Belen.
Intriguingly, Nierva’s last-minute withdrawal left the squad with one legitimate libero in Dawn Catindig.
Cherry Nunag was listed as the team’s second libero although she’s known as a natural middle blocker.
The other members of the team are Faith Nisperos, Fifi Sharma, Vannie Gandler, Julia Coronel, Angel Canino, Dell Palomata, Arah Panique, Thea Gagate and Sisi Rondina.
The trek to that VNL dream is long and arduous though as Alas Pilipinas would need to win all its games against Vietnam, the semis and eventually the finals, assuming it could make it that far, to realize it.
In the opener of the meet, Puerto Rico turned back a feisty Kenya 25-20, 25-19, 27-25, to advance to the semis.
Teenage sensation Grace Mar Lopez Villanueva went on attack mode and fired 19 points including 18 on kills while Diana Reyes scattered 10 hits.
Pamella Adhiambo Owino tried to put up a fight for the Kenyans by unloading a match-best 22 points. most of which came in the third set when they tried
to put up a fight and steal the set before eventually falling short in the end.
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