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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 667247 [Title] => Probers rule faulty wiring caused QC fire that killed 6 [Summary] =>A fire that killed all six occupants of a house in Quezon City earlier this week may have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, according to an arson investigator.
[DatePublished] => 2011-03-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1673868 [AuthorName] => Reinir Padua [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 666231 [Title] => QC prober: Fire victims' house a deathtrap [Summary] =>An arson investigator said yesterday a family of four and two helpers who were killed in last Monday’s fire lived in a duplex that was practically a “deathtrap.”
[DatePublished] => 2011-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1673868 [AuthorName] => Reinir Padua [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 665947 [Title] => Fire kills family of 4, 2 maids: Arson probers eye foul play [Summary] =>MANILA, Philippines - Two doctors, their two children and their two maids were killed in a fire that police believe was deliberately started before dawn yesterday at their house in Barangay Central, Quezon City.
[DatePublished] => 2011-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1673868 [AuthorName] => Reinir Padua [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/5034/met1thumb.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206603 [Title] => How Piolo Pascual slept on a bench in wintry Madrid [Summary] =>I have never watched a Piolo Pascual film nor have I seen him on television in one of his many shows or movie re-runs.
Though I must admit I have noticed flyers, banners and billboards announcing his latest movie seriously now, how can one miss them when they are all over town. Piolo Pascual was but a name that I have come across in the columns of Ricky Lo, Boy Abunda and Butch Francisco at the Philippine STAR. For after all, I read the paper, as they say, cover to cover.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133890 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1235016 [AuthorName] => CITIZEN OF THE WORLD By Edu Jarque [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148840 [Title] => Man holds moms, kids hostage [Summary] => Police arrested a drug-crazed man after he took hostage two young mothers and their children, aged three and four, mashing the womens breasts, and trying to burn their house by setting a Bible on fire late Monday afternoon in Malabon City.
Suspect Rex Sta. Maria, 31 jobless, of Barangay Tonsuya, was later detained at the police headquarters pending the filing of charges of illegal detention, multiple physical injuries, sexual assault and arson.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [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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