On deeply appreciating God’s blessings
“I KNOW how to live in humble circumstance; I know also how to live with abundance. In every circumstance and in all things I have learned the secret of being…
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The Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev): Ideas worth supporting
FUNDraising is not a game, not a social commentary or a religious revelation. It is not the breeding ground for the trite or shallow. To say “Enough of fundraisings” is…
Herminio ‘Jun’ Fernandez takes a sizzling leap via a new venture
Sometimes, man, even already at the peak of his career, inevitably stumbles on something new that interests him more than what he’s occupied with or just to embark on an…
Wal-mart ends health care coverage for 30,000 part-timers, plans to sell insurance
LOS ANGELES—Retail giant Wal-mart announced on Tuesday, Oct. 7, that it would terminate health insurance coverage for about 30,000 part-time workers in the US. Wal-Mart joins a line of retailers…
Filipino invention Beer Below Zero comes to US
LOS ANGELES – Beer drinkers love their beer ice cold. That’s usually 8 degrees Celsius if taken from a regular refrigerator. But what if they could drink beer at the…
Silent heart attack
Many patients with coronary heart disease have no chest pains or other symptoms indicative of ischemia (diminished blood flow and oxygen to the coronary arteries that supply the muscles of…
The frenzy for awards
It is not just the celebrity allure. It is the public, acclaim, the attention, the limelight. It’s a cut above all. Everytime you turn around, someone’s winning an award for…
History relived at Las Casas Filipinas
“Bataan has fallen,” said Carlos P. Romulo. When these words resounded from the radios in 1942, the Filipinos knew that the last standing peninsula fighting against the Japanese colonizers was…
‘La Traviata, the woman gone astray’
OPERA was born in Italy at the end of the 16th century. Some say that opera is a stepchild of the arts—a sort of mongrel offspring to ballet, music, drama—and…
Overlapping social events in so limited time
The recent weekend enthusiastically set the Filipino-American community in a frenetic mode with a hullabaloo of invites and requests stirring the mid-social stratum in a frenzied whirl. The hustle and…
Teens and birth control: what you need to know
LOS ANGELES — In a new study by the New England Journal of Medicine, long-term birth control is found to work best for preventing pregnancies and abortions in sexually active…
Virgin America to increase seasonal flights to Boston and New York
Virgin America announced that starting January, it will add seasonal flights from Las Vegas to Boston. From Jan. 8 to April 28 of next year, Virgin will fly four times…
Traveling, how much does it cost?
Whenever we travel, we grow. The places we visit offer opportunities and lessons that make us better persons. Their delicacies and cultures allow us to broaden our perspective; and eventually…
One is a lonely number
LAS VEGAS – On this dry, heated day and hour in September, the whole city is breathing and heaving like a tired beast. On the strip that controlled all the luxurious…
Phl Consul General In Los Angeles, Participating Consuls General Support 2014 Multicultural Health Fair Press Conference
30 September 2014 – The Multicultural Health Awareness and Prevention (MHAP) Center at St. Vincent Medical Center held a press conference on September 18, in partnership with the Consulate Generals…
Our collective call and commitment
AS I minister to seminarians, I can’t help but thank God for the generosity of their hearts. They have responded to the call of God to be priests. They’re willing…
Ivy Violan: An evening of her love story
BEING a writer on the frontlines of culture and music, I am faced with the task of writing a piece that will not only tell about a performance, but the…
Tino Aquino Capili reigns in the realm of his ingenuity
Standing tall beyond his actual stature following the recent successful stage production of his latest play, prolific Filipino-American writer-actor-stage director Florentino Aquino Capili couldn’t contain his ecstatic sensitivity by merely…
Dangers of Body Art
What is Body Art? Body Art is a popular fad among adolescents and young adults, which includes tattooing or body part piercing. The tattoos are usually on the chest, arms,…
Rainy season collection
Each season, the fashion collections released by certain brand apparels greatly help people decide on what goes comfortably with the weather. Not in a tropical country like the Philippines, though….
Cancer is not a death sentence
I HAVE no expiration date. And I know more clearly than ever, that each day is a treasure gift to be lived to the fullest—till tomorrow comes. Having cancer invites…
When God’s graces come at different times
HAVE you ever wished that a delightful experience that you had recently should have happened earlier in your life? Well, I had this experience a few days ago. I was…
The passion of teachers
CULVER CITY — There is that saying: “Those who can, do; Those who can’t, teach.” It is insulting. The prestige is still there. Teaching is a very serious pursuit that…
How to reduce cancer risk
The big “C” is arguably the most dreaded of all diseases, with its general reputation as a fast killer. While other serious illnesses are also horrible, including Alzheimer’s dementia, the…
A widow’s lament
FOR such a monumental thing to be accomplished in seconds defies logic. In fact, it was almost insulting, but there it was. It happened in less time than it took…
NCCA Announces Representative to 56th Venice Biennale
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), in partnership with the Office of Senator Loren Legarda, are pleased to announce the…
Radical Christianity
HAVE you ever thought if anyone has found the true cross on which Jesus was nailed and died? History says that in the 4th Century, St. Helena, mother of the…
The gaiety and freedom at San Francisco’s Castro
SAN FRANCISCO – With the Pacific at their shoes, people roam, dream and venture in San Francisco’s dazzling waterfront, winding streets and hills halfway through the skies. They scale the…
Arvin G. Amatorio, PC: A guardian of law forays into the political arena
Meeting low-key law practitioner Arvin Gomez Amatorio for the first time would make one think twice if this guardian of the law is for real. Obviously, aside from being youthful-looking…
Marijuana deaths staggering
Since medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996 (the latest one, Maryland, in 2014), more deaths have been reported from the use of this substance. Early this month, a…