MANILA -- "Flordeliza" stars Marvin Agustin and Jolina Magdangal had their first joint interview on Wednesday since signing up as returning talents of ABS-CBN, which launched them as a love team in the '90s.
The onscreen couple spoke with ABS-CBN News' Mario Dumaual on the sidelines of the promotional shoot of "Flordeliza," which will also star Desiree del Valle, and child actors Rhed Bautista and Ashley Sarmiento.
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The new series is under the direction of Wenn Deramas, who was also behind Magdangal and Agustin's last film together as ABS-CBN stars, "Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip," in 2002.
Magdangal transferred to GMA-7 that year. Agustin followed suit in 2006.
According to the actor, talks for "Flordeliza" only spanned days before he and Magdangal got confirmation that they would be paired in the project. Until now, Agustin said, he is still in disbelief over the reunion.
Even before the series was officially announced, fans of the love team already expressed their excitement as rumors of the negotiations made their way online.
"Sobrang happy ako na hindi pa man na-a-announce 'yung project, ang dami nang nag-e-expect at happy sila," Magdangal said. "Sobrang thankful ako and grateful sa lahat ng mga sumu-support."
"Nananahimik, biglang nabuhay silang lahat ngayon. Maraming, maraming salamat. Mula noon, hanggang ngayon, nandiyan kayo," she added.
From wholesome to daring?
Days after it was confirmed that Magdangal would return as a Kapamilya, ABS-CBN aired "Labs Kita, Okey Ka Lang?", arguably the tandem's most popular movie. In it, Magdangal delivered her famous lines about a girl falling in love with her best friend.
In her joint interview with Agustin, the actress gamely re-enacted the scene where Budjoy confronts Ned about her real feelings.
Whereas in the '90s, the two were identified with wholesome and often comedic roles, Agustin teased that he and Magdangal will finally have a "love scene" in their new series.
Without giving details about her role, Magdangal earlier said she has never done a similar character in her career. She added, in jest, that whatever limitations she had as a younger actress, Deramas will completely disregard in this new project.
"Flordeliza" is set to premiere on ABS-CBN this November.
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CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – The chief of police of Masantol town and four of his men were removed from their posts after the owner and employees of a local bar filed charges against them.
Chief Inspector Jowen dela Cruz and his men – Police Officers 3 Rogelio Carpio and Eduardo Capily, Police Officer 2 Jay dela Cruz and Police Officer 1 Mark Louie Alapriz – were ordered relieved on Monday.
The relief of the officers stemmed from complaints filed by Angelica Magtalas-Pineda, her husband Andres, Alvin Magtalas, Wilmar Venci Mercado, Mary Jane Cortez, Estelita Magtalas, Edel Santos, Genelyn Miranda and a seven-year-old boy, all residents of Barangay San Nicolas.
The complainants filed charges of arbitrary detention, grave threats, coercion, child abuse and slight physical injuries against the police officers last Friday before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in San Fernando City.
Senior Inspector Efren David replaced Dela Cruz as officer-in-charge of the town police, said Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Recomono.
In her complaint, Angelica, owner of the New Resto Bar, alleged that on the night of Oct. 8, the police officers asked the bar's floor manager, to show them the women workers.
The police officers allegedly wanted to take some of the girls out but Andres denied the request, which reportedly angered the police chief.
The complainants said an argument broke out between Andres and Dela Cruz, who reportedly uttered invectives.
The report said Angelica was able to take a video of the incident.
Police said Magtalas’ seven-year-old son stated in his affidavit that he saw his father arguing with a police officer.
Police Regional Office 3 director Chief Superintendent Raul Petrasanta said the Pampanga police office is investigating the incident.
MANILA - Primetime star Kim Chiu is getting laughs online for her dramatic videos chronicling her first-ever experience of snowfall.
Chiu is currently in Canada for an ABS-CBN tour with other stars of the network, as well as for a personal vacation after recently finishing work on "Ikaw Lamang."
In short clips on Instagram, which have gone viral, the 24-year-old actress showed her excitement over experiencing snow in Edmonton early this week.
One video showed Chiu exclaiming "Oh my god!" repeatedly as snow fell on her head. Another showed her celebrating and drawing her name with her finger on a car's window.
In one clip that drew amused comments, Chiu is seen running in slow motion at what appears to be an outdoor parking lot, with the Disney hit "Let It Go" playing in the background.
Chiu was no less thrilled by the weather in Alberta, where she took a selfie video atop a viewing deck overlooking a snow-covered mountain range.
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Save the Earth by killing it? Sure. But only a little part of it. So goes the philosophy of young superstar Brazilian biologist Marcela Uliano da Silva, who wants to eradicate a foreign species encroaching on the Amazon River’s shores: the golden mussel.
It’s controversial.
But before she can stamp out the mussel, she’s decided to arm herself with the nerdiest of all weapons … sequencing the invasive species’ genome. The golden mussel began its life in the Americas as a stowaway on Chinese ships in the 1990s; within about a decade, it looks set to fully invade Amazonian waters. And it’s already vastly altered its new environment, killing some existing inhabitants. Which means bad news if the hardy bivalves reach the Amazon River — home to the most numerous freshwater fish species in the world.
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Invasive species are migrants, a product of globalization — and the golden mussel is just one example of the many foreign bodies that could threaten native environments in the coming years.
“The Amazon River is very precious,” said Uliano da Silva, a Ph.D. student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
And its treasure isn’t just theoretical — it’s got some dollar signs attached to it: Golden mussels have already begun clogging power plant pipes, incurring losses of $20,000 a day.
But while the idea of attacking an invader species isn’t new, Uliano da Silva’s high-tech approach is significant, especially because it comes from a youngster in the science research world: a 27-year-old with Hollywood-blond hair and no Ph.D. … yet. Instead of introducing predators to the environment that then take over, or spraying chlorine and other chemicals — think chemotherapy for the environment — she wants to use a laser focus — think surgery — to target the genes that underlie the mussel’s MO. One strategy? To inject mussels in the lab with molecules called silencing RNAs that recognize and turn off only golden mussel survival genes. These modified mussels would then be released into the wild to breed so that future generations won’t express these genes, either.
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Uliano da Silva’s work is a helluva lot more interesting than what ecologists typically rely on to eradicate invasive species; mostly, her colleagues depend on educational outreach and fighting for policy measures (like federal laws requiring ships to empty their ballasts — where golden mussels often hitch a ride — before they sail into the Amazon). Only in the past five years has DNA sequencing become cheap and user-friendly enough to wield against invasive species.
So far, other researchers are developing a “lampricide ” that silences genes crucial for embryonic development in lampreys invading the upper Great Lakes. Biotech startup Cotyledon Consulting is devising a similar strategy against invasive plants in Victoria, Canada . What Uliano da Silva is working on could be the face of a smart new way to think about ecology.
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But plenty of sequencing’s possibility is still theoretical, said Dan Simberloff, a professor of ecology at the University of Tennessee. “A number of ideas have been floated … but there’s been very little in the way of development.”
Others warn that altered genes could undergo further changes when introduced to the wild — with unexpected, and possibly undesirable, consequences. “We know that evolution does not stop,” said James Collins, a professor of evolutionary biology at Arizona State University. How can scientists be certain that Mother Nature won’t tamper with their handiwork?
The daughter of a salesman and housewife, Uliano da Silva led a frugal childhood in the small metropolis of Criciúma (population less than 200,000) so she could afford to attend private school — “the only way” to ensure admission to a top university in Brazil, she said. Her dad worked constantly, and her family spent holidays close to home. She started tuning in to the Discovery Channel — mainly because of her best friend, a biology geek. Which soon evolved into a bonafide passion, and she went on to study molecular and cell biology on scholarship at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
She met her Ph.D. advisor, Mauro Rebelo, as an undergraduate, when she presented her research at a local university — an opportunity open only to Ph.D. students. Undaunted, she had applied to be a presenter and was accepted anyway. That’s a ballsy move in the science research world, whose unspoken hierarchy relegates inexperienced undergrads to the bottom of the totem pole. Rarely are they expected to conduct, much less present, their own research.
“Every day, I’m anxious,” Uliano da Silva said. “But you have to be able to live in agony. Otherwise, you’re not going to do great things… . You cannot be safe. You need to take risks.”
Rebelo describes Uliano da Silva as “idealistic … curious and determined.” But as with most people, “her strongest points … can also be her greatest weaknesses.” Her idealism can sometimes cloud her “real view of the world,” he says. Which is exactly what critics might say about her hopes that the intellectually rigorous exercise of DNA sequencing can have real impact — that these hopes are not anchored in convincing, concrete evidence. But if she’s right, then this is one big idea. And that steel-jawed resolve might make her just the person to halt the golden mussel’s relentless spread.
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So far, Uliano da Silva has sequenced the golden mussel DNA regions that encode genes, or the transcriptome , outlining her findings in the journal PLOS ONE last month. She identified genes that enable the mussels to cling to boat hulls and other surfaces, resist disease even in crowded conditions, and thrive anywhere — from power plants to fishes’ digestive tracts.
Next up? She wants to engineer reproductive genes to generate and release sterile mussels, causing the population to perish over time — similar to the “designer mosquitoes ” released in Brazil and other countries. And she’s successfully crowdfunded her $20,000 sequencing project — a less common but emerging approach, as researchers struggle with limited government funding .
For Uliano da Silva, protecting the Amazon River reflects a deeper philosophy about our role on the planet. “That’s one thing I really like about molecular biology,” she said. “Science is saying to us, ‘We are all related, from bacteria to humans, because we share the same genetic code.’”
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Americans may continue to see individual cases of Ebola in the United States until the outbreak in West Africa is contained.
Obama said it was essential the United States and other countries work to stop the Ebola outbreak at its source in Africa.
Until the outbreak is stopped, he said, "we may still continue to see individual cases in America in the weeks and months ahead."
"We can't hermetically seal ourselves off," he said at the White House.
He said the U.S. healthcare system is proving to be well capable of handling those Americans who have contracted Ebola. — Reuters
The Bureau of Immigration has issued a deportation order against Marc Sueselbeck, fiancé of slain transgender woman Jeffrey "Jennifer" Laude, allowing the German national to finally leave the Philippines and return to Germany.
But the Immigration order stated that Sueselbeck is barred from re-entering the Philippines, after a complaint was filed against him following an incident where he scaled a fence in Camp Aguinaldo and pushed aside a military personnel in an attempt to confront US Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton.
Pemberton is facing a murder complaint in connection with the October 11 killing of Laude inside a motel in Olongapo City.
The BI issued the order after granting in a meeting of the Board of Commissioners on Thursday morning the German's request to be voluntarily deported.
The deportation order said that in filing a motion for voluntary deportation, Sueselbeck is “deemed to admit the charges against him, agrees to have his name placed on the black list and be barred from re-entering the country, and undertakes to secure his outbound ticket," the bureau said in a statement.
The BI added that Sueselbeck would be able to leave the country as a deportee subject to presentation of outbound ticket and a clearance from the National Bureau of Investigation.
Confirming the issuance of the deportation order, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said: "The Armed Forces of the Philippines will no longer be initiating any criminal complaint, there exists no legal impediment for his immediate deportation."
Earlier, the Philippine military said it would no longer puruse its case against Sueselbeck to allow him to finally leave the country, but stressed that it would still want the German national be held accountable for what he has done.
On Sunday, the BI prevented Sueselbeck from leaving the country due to a deportation case filed against him as a result of his climbing the perimeter fence of a facility inside Camp Aguinaldo on October 22. — RSJ, GMA News
Hail mary full of grace the lord is with you blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus christ. Holy mary mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the our of our death amen. Mother of God Have Mercy and pray for my family.
Mother of God Have Mercy and Pray for my family. Amen
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