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                    [ArticleID] => 950504
                    [Title] => Keep flu away with a healthy grape smoothie
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A well-blended smoothie is always welcome any time of the day for those in need of a quick thirst quencher. Add a dose of good health to this well-loved beverage by blending Welch’s grape juice with local bananas.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 749067 [Title] => 'ASEAN to act in unison in global matters' [Summary] =>

The ASEAN leaders adopted the Bali Declaration on ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations, or the Bali Concord III here on Thursday, which, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty M. Natalegawa said, would help ASEAN to act in unison in global matters.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-17 23:00:34 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103933 [Title] => Conflicting signals [Summary] =>

What's the status of the latest Charter change initiative, called Constitutional Correction for Development? In just the first six weeks of the year, the government has changed its position several times on this controversial issue. In his report to the nation at the start of the year, President Estrada announced that he had junked Concord. As his popula-rity rating recovered slightly, he changed his mind and again made a pitch for Charter change. When criticisms once again mounted, it was announced that Concord had been frozen. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1193631 [AuthorName] => by Editorial [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 93606 [Title] => Lakas fears use of actors for Concord drive [Summary] =>

ANGELES CITY -- Will showbusiness personalities be used in the Estrada administration's final bid to sway public support for Charter change?

The opposition party Lakas certainly hopes not.

Lakas secretary general Rep. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86794 [Title] => Improving ratings revive Concord [Summary] =>

Apparently buoyed by his improving poll ratings, President Estrada said yesterday he would pursue his Constitutional Correction for Development (Concord).

The President earlier announced he was deferring Concord, a move perceived as an attempt to boost his slipping popularity.

However, his net satisfaction rating has reportedly gone up to 28 percent in the latest poll of Pulse Asia, an independent research outfit.

Mr. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86743 [Title] => Concord information campaign to continue [Summary] =>

Contrary to some sectors' perception, President Estrada has not dropped his proposed Constitutional Correction for Development (Concord) but has merely deferred it

This developed as Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, the President's number one critic, hailed him for his decision to set aside his plans to amend the Charter.

"We have to disseminate information (on Concord) but I have not dropped it," Mr. Estrada told reporters during the 53rd anniversary of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) in Makati yesterday. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097645 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103699 [Title] => Vox populi [Summary] =>

Actually, the most significant portion of President Estrada's Ulat sa Bayan was his decision to abort - at least, for the moment, he said - the flight of the Concord. At last, he realized that the issue of Charter-change was one of the principal reasons behind the steep drop in his popularity ratings. Now, President Erap can refocus his attention on more immediate, more urgent concerns. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103702 [Title] => Concord in hibernation - My Viewpoint [Summary] =>

President Estrada is applying the brakes on his administration's efforts to procure amendments to the economic provisions of the Constitution. He remains convinced of the rightness of his cause, but he now realizes that the national debate has been debilitating, distracting and divisive. Ironically, those foreign investors he is hotly pursuing have shifted their attentions, and their affections, elsewhere, particularly to those Asian countries which have single-mindedly focused their energies on recovery and development. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1202601 [AuthorName] => by Ricardo V. Puno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 86737 [Title] => Concord relaunch depends on groundswell of support [Summary] =>

The Constitutional Correction for Development (Concord), which President Estrada grounded the other day, will take off again once Malacañang feels it has mustered a "groundswell of support" from the people.

This developed as opposition Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri of Bukidnon urged the President to drop Concord altogether, not just defer it.

On the other hand, former President Corazon Aquino expressed satisfaction over Mr. Estrada's decision to suspend his Concord. "I am happy with the President's deferment of Concord. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103695 [Title] => No retreat from economic reforms [Summary] =>

He may never admit it, but public opinion -- expressed in protest rallies and, more recently, in a series of surveys -- forced President Estrada to retreat from his drive to amend the Constitution. In the traditional Ulat sa Bayan or Report to the Nation at the start of the year, the President said he was shifting his priorities to "more urgent" and more feasible concerns that can yield results within a short period "at less cost" to national unity. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1193631 [AuthorName] => by Editorial [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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