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Details Published on Wednesday, 04 July 2012 00:00 Written by MARIO E. BAUTISTA

Its her dream to be recognized for her acting.

JACKIE Rice has good reasons to be smiling these days. First, her new soap, Kasalanan Bang Ibigin Ka?, is rating very well and more and more viewers are watching it. Then shes included in the top ten list of FHMs sexiest women as #7, a promotion since she was just #9 last year. Shes also the cover of its July issue that contains the 100 Sexiest Womens list.

Other Kapuso stars in the list are Sam Pinto as #1, Solenn Heussaff as #3, Marian Rivera as #4, Ellen Adarna as #6, Bela Padilla as #8, Jennylyn Mercado as #9 and Lovi Poe as #10. Only Angel Locsin and Cristine Reyes are the Kapamilya stars who made it in the list and, mind you, theyre both former Kapuso stars also. This is Jackies second time to be FHMs cover after January 2010. How different is the new pictorial?

Its much sexier, she says. Siempre, we have to top the first one. Kung parang nagho-hold back pa ako sa una, this time, I think mas malakas na ang loob ko. Tuwang-tuwa nga yung photographer, si Doc Marlon, kasi give na give ako. Originally, nine photos lang ang nasa layout, pero dahil magaganda lumabas ang mga kuha sakin, dinoble nila at naging 18 photos ang nasa July issue.

She wants to further hone her acting. My dream is to win an acting award someday and Im happy na positive naman ang feedback na nakukuha ko for my performance in Kasalanan Bang Ibigin Ka? I should thank my leading men, Michael de Mesa and Geoff Eigenmann, kasi ang huhusay nila so Im inspired and challenged to also give my best when I do scenes with them.

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We had fun at Tacloban Citys fabulous Sangyaw Festival last Friday. It definitely eclipses other parades and dance festivals in the country like Sinulog, Dinagyang, Ati-Atihan and even Panagbenga.

Mayor Alfred Romualdez and wife Cristina Kring Kring Gonzales, who is also the Tourism Council Chair, made sure its a spectacular affair and judging from the huge crowd of people who turned for the affair (the streets really became a sea of people), no doubt its a great success, reminiscent of similar parades with dancing in Rio and Vegas.

We wanted to offer something different from what the usual festival offers kasi pare-pareho na, she says. This time, we made it a Parade of Lights. All the floats were using luminous LED lights. We got Gogoy Avelino as project director. He handled the same kind of parade in Cubao at Christmas.

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COLD COMFORT: Cryonics Institute director Marta Sandberg. Picture: Richard Hatherly Source: PerthNow

DON'T fancy the idea of eternal death?

A group of cryonicists plans to establish a deep-freeze facility in Australia by 2014.

The facility will be able preserve up to 400 corpses to be brought back to life in the future, when medical science is able to restore them to good health.

Stasis Systems Australia, an organisation formed to build and operate Australia's first cryonic storage facility, has yet to choose a site.

But the organisation is being assisted by West Australian Marta Sandberg, 56, whose late husband, Helmer Fredriksson, is already frozen at a Detroit facility.

Ms Sandberg is a director of the US-based Cryonics Institute.

She said it would be easier for Australians to sign up for cryonic suspension with the opening of an Australian facility.

Though it would operate on a not-for-profit basis, chilling out for possibly centuries comes at a cost about $200,000 for full body storage.

Before clients can be revived, Ms Sandberg said cures had to be found for whatever killed them, as well as a cure for ageing.

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Death on ice comes with cool $200k price

COLD COMFORT: Cryonics Institute director Marta Sandberg. Picture: Richard Hatherly Source: PerthNow

DON'T fancy the idea of eternal death?

A group of cryonicists plans to establish a deep-freeze facility in Australia by 2014.

The facility will be able preserve up to 400 corpses to be brought back to life in the future, when medical science is able to restore them to good health.

Stasis Systems Australia, an organisation formed to build and operate Australia's first cryonic storage facility, has yet to choose a site.

But the organisation is being assisted by West Australian Marta Sandberg, 56, whose late husband, Helmer Fredriksson, is already frozen at a Detroit facility.

Ms Sandberg is a director of the US-based Cryonics Institute.

She said it would be easier for Australians to sign up for cryonic suspension with the opening of an Australian facility.

Though it would operate on a not-for-profit basis, chilling out for possibly centuries comes at a cost about $200,000 for full body storage.

Before clients can be revived, Ms Sandberg said cures had to be found for whatever killed them, as well as a cure for ageing.

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Death on ice at a price

ZAIJAN JARANILLA and Carmina Villaroel

Its an unusual love-team that will be featured in ABS-CBNs newest primetime offering Lorenzos Time, which starts airing tomorrow, July 2. This first of its kind Primetime Bida drama series is topbilled by child wonder Zaijan Jaranilla and seasoned actress and TV host Carmina Villaroel.

The story is very interesting and the unique storyline excited us.

The press release goes: Lorenzos Time is a touching journey of a young boy named Lorenzo (Enzo) who was diagnosed with progeria, an extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age. In order to preserve his young body, he was subjected to cryonics until his parents find a cure for it.

After 30 years, Enzo will wake up to face the world with missed precious moments of his life including his family and the only girl he loves (with Carmina Villaroel playing the grown-up girl).

What also makes the teleserye exciting is its formidable cast. In addition to Zaijan and Carmina, Lorenzos Time also features Ms. Gina Pareo (as Enzos yaya Bel), Joel Torre (as Badong, private investigator), Alfred Vargas (Enzos childhood friend Carlo whos now a doctor), James Blanco, Rommel Blanco, and Ms. Amy Austria-Ventura (as Mildred, Enzos aunt who wants the family company to herself).

Lorenzos Time is directed by Jerome Chavez Pobocan and Tors Mariscal Sanchez.

Uniqlos Pre-OpeningParty Japanese Style

The recent pre-opening party for Uniqlos store in SM Mall of Asia was done Japanese style, and aptly so because the owner Tadashi Yanai, president and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. is Japanese.

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Unusual Love Team Featured In ‘Lorenzo’s Time’

Academic history the kind backed up by piles of primary-source research and hedged with cautionary remarks is often useful, but rarely fascinating. Most of it, however, isnt about a subject as perennially engaging as Faramerz Dabhoiwalas. The Oxford historians new book, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, describes how sex became modern in 18th-century England, a transformation that explains the profound chasm between our present attitudes to sex and those that prevailed for most of western history. We tend to think of sex as something primal and unchanging, but as Dabhoiwala tells it, nothing could be further from the truth.

The Origin of Sex begins with an anecdote from 1612. An unmarried couple accused of fornication and bastardy (producing an illegitimate child) were dragged before the magistrates. They were convicted, then sentenced to be stripped naked to the waist, whipped from the Gatehouse in Westminster unto Temple Bar before the jeering public and then banished from the city severed from their families, former friends, and previous occupations. Publicly shamed and condemned, their lives as they knew them were over.

As extreme as such penalties sound, Dabhoiwala argues, they were generally approved by the populace. Even members of the gentry and aristocracy would be punished for adultery and other sexual crimes, and that was fine by their neighbors, who saw the stern policing of sexual behavior as a communal as well as a church responsibility. By contrast, a little over a hundred years later, Londoners would be founding hospitals to rescue and reform fallen women and gobbling up printed accounts of the exploits of famous courtesans. It was a huge change: from a culture of what Dabhoiwala calls sexual discipline to one where many viewed sexual pleasure as natural, something you couldnt really expect people to forgo at least, as long as those people were heterosexual men of the higher classes.

The causes of this change are numerous and complex, and its particularly difficult to explain because most contemporary people assume that everyone in the past saw sex much as we do now albeit, with a greater degree of repression and a longer list of forbidden activities. Dabhoiwalas trickiest task is presenting a clear enough picture of pre-Enlightenment conceptions of sex that you can appreciate how profound the 18th-century revolution was.

You may have heard, for example, that in the Middle Ages women were regarded as the more erotically insatiable and adulterous gender. Thats true. However, this was not because the medievals thought women felt more lust than men; everyone was assumed to be subject to more or less the same amount of sinful desire. Women, however, were supposed to be weaker than men morally, less able to control and subdue their unchaste urges. The medieval concept of manliness owed much to the classical model, with its celebration of self-mastery, but with an added Christian suspicion of sex as fundamentally and problematically worldly, even within matrimony. As St. Paul put it, It is better to marry than to burn but better yet to do neither.

All ages have their sexual renegades and bawdy humor, but looking at these doesnt always give you a sense of how most people lived and thought. Dabhoiwala uses the rate of illegitimate births as a rough guide to just how much adulterous sex was going on at any given time. He also examined court records of trials for adultery, bastardy and other sexual transgressions. The medieval model of sexual discipline, it turns out, was quite effective, and the Adultery Act, passed by the Puritan-dominated Parliament in 1650 and making adultery a capital crime, was even more so. In 1650, only one percent of all babies were born to unmarried women. By 1800, it was 24 percent, and furthermore, 40 percent of women getting married were already pregnant.

What happened between 1650 and 1800? According to Dabhoiwala, the 1700s saw a momentous ideological upheaval when it came to the notion of sexual liberty. The Reformation permanently undermined the authority of religious leaders; if the Catholic Church was wrong about this or that point of faith, then couldnt any church also be wrong in its prohibitions against a particular activity or feeling? It was a shift, ultimately, from the belief that outside agencies ought to impose morality on citizens in order to protect the community as a whole from dangerously immoral behavior, to the idea that public authorities had no business meddling in peoples personal consciences, and that this extended to their moral choices.

These Enlightenment ideals infused the American Revolution and still animate our discussions of such issues as gay rights. But if they were embraced by many 18th-century intellectuals and wealthy men, they were problematic when it came to women, whom those men preferred to go on treating like property. At the same time, the blossoming of print media from newspapers to broadsheets and pamphlets to books gave women writers an unprecedented access to the conversation. They pointed out that women suffered the consequences of mens sexual liberty, be it in the form of venereal disease, pregnancy or disgrace. From these and other contradiction sprang the relatively new notion that women naturally experience much less sexual desire than men and that an imbalance in the erotic economy is the intractable result of rapacious male lust and female sexual passivity.

Its no surprise, then, that the same period saw a boom in prostitution, or that prostitutes and their fates became a widespread preoccupation. Once viewed as simply wicked, they were now commonly seen as the pitiable (if still sinful) victims of male seducers. A particularly valuable aspect of The Origins of Sex is its treatment of the element of class in this equation. Feeling entitled to sexual pleasure when they could get it, high-status men often considered servants and other working-class women as their rightful prey, whether the women were willing or not. The motif of female virtue under assault by a male libertine became the predominant theme of the first English novels; Samuel Richardsons Pamela, for instance, depicts a virginal maids heroic resistance to the overtures of her employer.

Meanwhile, the emergence of the first real mass media made celebrities out of fashionable courtesans like Kitty Fisher, whose doings, outfits and witty remarks were avidly covered by the press. When Fisher fell off her horse and was aided by a gallant in a London park, the incident was recounted in engravings and humorous verse. The term pornography, or the writings of prostitutes, emerged at this time because many of these women wrote and published their own accounts of their lives and loves. (And sometimes they made a little on the side by taking bribes from customers who wanted their names left out.)

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MANILA, Philippines -- ABS-CBN's newest drama series, "Lorenzo's Time," with child actor Zaijan Jaranilla, is set to air on July 2 on the network's primetime block.

Lorenzos Time tells of a young boy who was diagnosed with progeria, an extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age. In order to preserve his young body, he was subjected to cryonics until his parents find a cure for it.

After 30 years, Enzo wakes up to face the world with missed precious moments of his life - including his family and the only girl he loves, played as an adult by actress and host Carmina Villaroel.

On Monday, ABS-CBN released the music video of the teleserye's theme song, Paul Anka's "Times of Your Life," sung by Martin Nievera.

Also starring in the new series are Gina Pareo, Joel Torre, Alfred Vargas, James Blanco, Rommel Padilla and Amy Austria-Ventura.

It is under the direction of Jerome Chavez Pobocan and Tots Mariscal Sanchez.

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'Lorenzo's Time' to start airing on July 2