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Many expected the original iPad to be released with the features the iPad 2 finally came out with, though it took Apple nearly a year after to bring that seemingly basic feature –- a camera — to reality. But those critical of Apple for their slow moving product releases need to keep one thing in mind, it's all about the money. Apple, alongside millions of developers single handedly kick started a $2B industry that barely existed before; the tablet computing market.
Apple was successful at this in part by their ability to create a cult-like following. You could say it first started with the advertising campaign of trendy, fashionable silhouettes of extremely animated and excited figures using the iPod music player. This created a "coolness" factor that we had never seen before, especially not from what we were used to: Microsoft.
The popular Apple vs. PC marketing campaign instilled a mindset of superiority amongst those who use Apple products. By boosting the ego of the consumer, Apple had subconsciously triggered the emotion of desire and worthiness. You are better if you use Apple, that simple.
The Experience This all takes me to the Canadian Apple event of Friday March 25. I had experienced Apple's mastermind sales and marketing genius first-hand when they made available to international markets the second-generation iPad tablet; the iPad 2.
The mass hysteria part will always be true with Apple, but I would say the hysteria comes more from Apple the company than it does from the Apple customers. They use effective sales techniques like the excitement factor, which is totally fine, but Apple has taken it to an extreme new level. If you attend one of their launch parties you will know what I mean. The video below will give you a glimpse of what I am speaking of.
The Hardware By now you must be dying to hear what I think about the actual iPad 2. The unit I picked up was the 32GB Wi-Fi Black model. Well, in one word, meh. It's obviously better than the original iPad in some ways, but others, it is not. By the way the employees were acting at the store this thing should be able to cook, clean and roll joints for you.
The hardware, although lighter and slimmer, is a bit harder to hold because it is so slim (which for some reason makes it a bit more slippery). It seems like being the slimmest and thinnest around may not be your best bet Apple.
Processing power is a lot faster than the first iPad. Giving you a "custom" A5 dual-core 1GHz chip. Swiping through iOS couldn't get any quicker. Launching apps and games: amazing. Performance is what you would expect and more from a second-generation unit.
The Cameras Dual cameras are fantastic. I was really excited to do video chat with Skype. Although I haven't used Facetime yet, I'm hoping it will be much better than the 2x exploded iPhone Skype app can deliver.
Having a rear-facing camera on a tablet is a bit of a bad joke. Sure, you can hold it and walk around filming but that's not exactly ideal. And if you plop it in a stand to act as a tripod you will have a hell of a time angling it properly, since the location of the camera is in the top corner and almost all stands tilt the iPad on an angle back and facing down. I put it way up high on a bookshelf, kind of like a surveillance camera and it was able to get the right angle to film our table.
The Apple camera app is very basic, no settings, no nothing. Record, pause and playback. I was surprised to find that you can adjust the aperture by tapping different areas of your screen which will in turn set the exposure for that area.
The HD rear camera has an incredible field of view and is macro capable. In lowlight you can expect very orange and granular video. There are reports of spotty WiFi dropping signal intermittently, I had no issues in my tests.
Sound quality is much better going both ways; the mic picked up audio very well with Skype and in the video recorder app. The external speaker is capable of synthesizing a bit of artificial virtual depth that was definitely lacking in the first-gen.
Video Mirroring I went ahead and shelled out an extra $45 for the Apple Digital AV adapter. The output to our Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD was very crisp and smooth. Mirrored display could be very useful far beyond Angry Birds. The downside: you don't get the entire width of your iPad on screen, just height.
What Went Wrong There is indeed a light bleeding problem on the iPad 2 LCD. In fact, they are allover the place and not just near the home button. It is prominent near the home button, but also all across the top of the LCD and in the dark, you can definitely see an increased brightness on the edges of the inner bezel in many locations. This is unacceptable and shouldn't be happening on any Apple product.
The new form factor has caused for the edges to be beveled so much that all your ports are now on an angle; bit of a nightmare to plug things into. Not so much the headphone jack, but the Apple connector – it's just awkward on an angle and never feels right.
I still think iOS settings are severely lacking. I want more control than Apple will give me. Each day that goes by that I do not jailbreak this thing is another day spent living in the matrix.
The Bottom Line For the price, the iPad 2 offers very good value. You will never find another tablet than an Apple iPad that will give you access to such an immense library of applications and games. The hardware and software, although with some quirks, is not nearly going to give you the headaches a Microsoft tablet could give you. And you can count on Apple to release updates and fixes, that's one good thing about it. I was pleasantly surprised with YouTube performance, it can stream HD without any frame freezing, the interface still sucks and should be just like the website, but it blows away anything Netflix could get you.
But with an LCD bleed like this it should be alot cheaper, like $200 cheaper unless Apple plans to fix it. I'm really looking forward to what Motorola and RIM have to show us.
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It is an expensive toy. But you have to admit it is pretty slick and cool. If you got the money and you want it, go get it. Else buy yourself a practical android gadget that does everything under the sun (excluding the coolness of course).
This is a really, really terrible article. Not only is the writing bland and repetitive, with numerous errors, it's also just a poorly-thought set of statements.
Why are you upset at Apple due to their use of advertising? And why compare them to "what we were used to: Microsoft"? Apple has existed as long as Microsoft has, and millions of people have used their products that entire time. In fact, your entire issue with Apple is based on an inaccurate premise, which is that no one buys their products were it not for their "fantastic" marketing. This is so DEMONSTRABLY not the case that you shouldn't be able to get away with writing it.
It seems your "dislikes" with the iPad 2 are, for the most part, overwhelmingly petty and mostly unrelated to the actual product. They seem based on some kind of dislike of Apple's marketing, or about the way their employees are excited about the products.
You express an opinion that you feel its smaller size makes it difficult to hold properly (something no one else has remarked on in the many reviews I've read) and that this means "being slimmest may not be your best bet Apple". Why not? Virtually everyone complained about the original iPad's weight, and to a lesser extent, its thickness. Apple continually produces thinner products. This is just what they are known to do. What's wrong with that?
You then go on to say that, in your opinion, the LCD bleed seen on the first generation of a brand-new screen technology engineered inside the thinnest manufactured device of its kind ever created means it should cost $200 less (putting it at $300, or roughly the cost of a hard-drive based iPod and $100 less than the price-dropped iPad 1). Have you even thought about the complete absurdity of such a statement?…
A brand-new product launches at the same price as the old model, a price that has been UNMATCHED by any company, of any size, for almost a year… and you want it to be cheaper because of a cosmetic problem on your specific unit? What?
Your third major complaint is that the connectors are at a slight angle due to the extreme thinness of the device. What, exactly, is your issue with this? Do you find it difficult to align the plug? Since there was no other option given the size, what exactly do you recommend the designers should do instead? They've already designed a case that won't cover or interfere with the port in any way. What would you like them to do next?
I just can't help but feel like this entire review was dashed through in a few minutes, wasn't proofread by anyone, and wasn't screened for any kind of editorial integrity or insight. I haven't visited this site before, but after this, I won't be back…
I don't understand… You say the popularity of Apple products is due to their advertising which, in your words, creates "brain washing tactics", "mass hysteria," "cult-like following", "coolness," "mindset of superiority", "boosts… the ego of the consumer", "subconsciously triggers… the emotion of desire and worthiness" and "subconsciously triggers the emotion of desire and worthiness"
Well why then don't other companies use their advertising budgets to make their products just as popular?
Reading all your psycho lingo I can come to only two conclusions. Either you missed your calling and should be writing for Psychology Today. Or, more likely, you have succumbed to the common failing of the terminally jealous, name calling. Ask yourself honestly, do you really go on such psychobabble rants about people to buy a car or a refrigerator different than yours? Thought not!
Now just calm down and do objective reviews in the future.
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Are you from Psychology Today? :] I don't know what there is to be jealous of, I applaud Apple for their ingenuity and obviously appreciate their efforts for bringing new technology to the table. But their events are outright brilliant in marketing, and i'm sure if any other companies who have a cult-like following like Apple does they would do or are doing similar things to launch products.
As for being jealous about people who buy different, I own the iPad 2 myself personally and these are my experiences with Apple the company, Apple marketing, and Apple products. This is not a comparative review of any sort. Thanks for your comment.
You start off your article confessing you cant stand apple and thr people who like apple. Then you reluctantly agree again and again that the ipad 2 is nothing short of briliant. I dont love apple for their ads.. Stop saying that we do.. Us fans. We like apple because it is way way better than everyone else and you know it.. They may not always be so great and i like all things that a good, beyond apple. But for now, they seriously rule my world.. And yours too.. Get over it.
@bomabee"You start off your article confessing you cant stand apple and thr people who like apple." I never said anything remotely of that nature. What i'm saying is Apple can go and release poorly built products and people will still buy it because their marketing is so good. Although the iPad 2 is not entirely crap, it's not as good as it should have been this late in the game.
Interesting video, I was at a launch event too and it unfolded nearly identically to this video. From time to time you would hear cheering and shouting coming from the blacked out store. Emotions are evoked to create a sensation for the target subject, you and I, which creates chemical reactions in our brains that makes us want things, need things, and ultimately feel better when having them. Burying these thoughts and feelings deep within our sub-conscious mind. This is what happened when you first ran in the door as you see in the end of the video the Apple employees lined up on both sides. The staff were instructed to shout "HOW DO YOU FEEL?" to us as we ran in. This will not be on tape because Apple does not allow media inside but is a form of mind manipulation.
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Christie's is closing Haunch of Venison, the gallery that it acquired somewhat controversially in 2007. The auction house has confirmed that it will retain only the gallery's secondary market business (which it will combine with its own private sales stream), meaning that it will no longer represent the 40 artists currently in Haunch of Venison's stable. These include Ged Quinn, Jitish Kallat and Joana Vasconcelos, who will be representing Portugal at this year's Venice Biennale. Matthew Paton, a spokesman for Christie's, says that helping to find galleries for the artists is paramount. Some already have representation elsewhere (Quinn is with Stephen Friedman gallery in London; Kallat with the Berlin-based Arndt gallery; Vasconcelos with Nathalie Obadia in Paris and Brussels).
Haunch of Venison's website lists 14 staff members in London and 7 in its New York space. The plan is for the New York gallery, which opened in Chelsea in 2011, to close in March, while the process for the London gallery is still officially in a consultation period, in accordance with UK employment law. Paton says that Christie's is also working towards finding "suitable" work for the Haunch of Venison staff, including within the auction house, although he would not comment on specific employees. The London gallery's final show is of work by the Cuban-American artist José Parlá, which opens this Thursday (7 February-28 March; Parlá, is also represented by Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris and the Ohwow gallery in Los Angeles). Haunch of Venison will no longer be exhibiting at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, as originally planned. In a statement released today, the gallery thanked "all the incredible artists, staff, colleagues and friends with whom we have worked in the primary market". The Haunch of Venison gallery was founded by Harry Blain and Graham Southern in 2002 and was bought by Christie's five years later. Dealers reacted negatively at the time, as many believed the purchase muddied the distinction between auctioneers and dealers. It was difficult for the gallery to compete on a level-playing field in the primary market as it was excluded from certain art fairs (including those in the Art Basel franchise). Further, in 2010, Blain and Southern left to open their own gallery in London, taking some big name artists with them (Bill Viola, Rachel Howard and Mat Collishaw). Meanwhile, in the secondary market, the auction houses have been growing their private sales business steadily over the past few years so they have little need for a separate outpost (Christie's made £631.3m in this business in 2012, including sales from Haunch of Venison, a year-on-year growth of 26%). Christie's plan, for now, is to keep the gallery's recently revamped space on New Bond Street for exhibitions. Meanwhile, just round the corner in Mayfair's Albemarle Street, the owners of Agnew's gallery—which was founded in 1817 and has specialised in Old Masters since the late 19th-century—are shutting up shop. Chairman Julian Agnew says he will continue operating at his own pace, privately: "I'm 70 this year. I plan to do as much or as little as I like!" He says he welcomes the opportunity to be free from the "business of running an expensive art gallery". "You have to sit down and realise that for most dealers who are not in the contemporary art world, you don't need a gallery any more," he says, citing the internet and e-mail as important game-changers. Seven generations of Agnews have run the gallery and, he says, the family name will continue "in a certain way" as his daughter Gina Agnew opened an eponymous contemporary art gallery last year.
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Anyone walking into the E2 Café on 107th Avenue, across from Florida International University, hoping to get in a little e-mailing is likely to be surprised. The room behind the smoked-glass windows is not a typical Internet café, with a couple of terminals and a two-head espresso machine. This café, built to accommodate burgeoning legions of Internet gamers -- young people, mostly male, generally interested in getting juiced on high-octane caffeine drinks and playing body-splattering war games -- houses about 80 high-end terminals; the matte-black machines emit an electric hum and a dim phosphorescence -- a cyber flight deck? A Radiohead recording session? An electric predawn troop muster for computer world war? Anyway, the equipment sits gloomily stylized at long tables, side-by-side-by-side.
On this particular day, E2 is holding a Counter-Strike tournament and the place is packed with about 200 kids, teens to twenties. They dart around like water bugs, watching the first-rounders setting up on the terminals, getting ready to face off in teams of five. They wear baggy shorts, backward baseball caps. Most look like healthy, happy suburban boys, though some have the wispy facial hair and basement pallor of the homebound computer geek. They speak in rapid-fire acronyms and amped-up MTV Ebonics and -- for some reason -- call each other "fag."
Luis Cromeyer sits cross-legged on the floor at E2, watching the big-screen TV, sizing up the competition. The burly 23-year-old, almost never without a rolled knit cap crowning an earnest baby face, is at the high end of the age range for tournament players and E2 habitués generally, but he's not embarrassed. "Call me a computer geek, I don't give a shit," he says amiably. "That doesn't even mean much anymore. Everybody's a computer geek."
Cromeyer found Counter-Strike four years ago, after messing up his knee trying out for the Florida Barracudas arena football team. "I destroyed it completely," he says of his ruined knee. "The doctor said we could try to do a total reconstruction but I was probably too young for that. I'm not a violent guy, but I really like competition, and after my second surgery I couldn't walk for two months. A friend of mine had started playing Counter-Strike and he showed it to me."
Today Cromeyer is scanning the room, sizing up other clans. (Counter-Strike devotees, like many other subcultures, fetishize language: Teams are "clans"; inexperienced players are "newbies" or just "newbs"; a Desert Eagle .50-caliber handgun is a "D-eagle," and so on.) Everyone is already talking shit.
Café managers Henry Liu and Kelvin Ching call for quiet and get the first set of teams ready to play. Teammates gear up for the all-day affair, plugging in mice -- they prefer more expensive custom jobs to the standard equipment attached to the café's computers -- and rigging up headphone/microphone sets to communicate during combat. There are too many players even for E2's arsenal of tech, so more than 100 kids will have to wait until this round ends for their first combat of the day.
They're a small portion of the hundreds of thousands of Counter-Strike devotees worldwide, cyberwarriors who play the game at cafés with friends or, more likely, online, where all you need is an Internet connection, a headphone/microphone setup, and the address of a Counter-Strike Website to log on to one of the Internet's most popular games.
Unlike other computer games in this age of sophisticated tech, Counter-Strike's appeal is almost entirely visceral; there is no back story, just two five-person teams facing off in a digital wasteland. "It's like playing football or basketball," Cromeyer says. "You get with some other guys and play the game. It's complicated to learn about the different weapons and stuff, but basically it's simple: You run around and shoot the other guys."
Actually there's a little more than that. Avid players wrap themselves in the game's aesthetic, the language of weaponry and technology, the end-of-the-world landscapes -- deserted fortresses, industrial parks, railyards -- that provide the combat backdrop, the names of their digital alter egos. "It's almost like your identity," Cromeyer muses. "It took me a long time to decide [to call myself] nyquil. It was kind of a big deal."
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A charity has called for more security for tenants, as a survey suggests that the cost of renting rose to a record high in August.
The average cost rose to £734 a month on average in England and Wales, up 2.9% on a year earlier, LSL Property Services said.
August was the fifth month in a row that rents had risen for "frustrated buyers", it said.
Charity Shelter said that landlords should offer long-term contracts.
It said that five-year tenancies should be used to reassure families and allow them to turn "rented houses into homes".
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"You are stuck in a situation where you are trapped because you can't save for a mortgage because you pay rent and bills," Mr Kilmartin said.
He would like to see some regulation of private rent, where properties are inspected for their rental value, as well as a more continental culture about renting.
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"The Stable Rental Contract offers renters the stability of a five-year tenancy and gives landlords more confidence in a steady income, all within the existing legal framework."
He added that the contracts should still allow landlords to evict bad tenants, or to sell up, and offer tenants the chance to leave if they gave two months' notice.
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I have heard a lot about Japanese hair straightening and since I have a head full of curls, I've been thinking about getting it done. We always want the opposite of what we have!
Does anyone know if this is damaging to hair? Could it fall out, the way African hair can fall out due to the harshness of some hair straightening products?
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EmpowHER is a site for people of 14 years of age and older. Check with your Mom about this and make sure you and she do ALL your homework about this procedure before proceeding.
Hey im 14, and i have kinda long hair but its past my shoulders though. I want to do the japenese treatment but my mom suggest i dont do it cuz she love my nautural loose curls. My question is will my hair go back to normal after using the japense hair treatment?
December 26, 2010 - 10:09pmHi,
Japanese hair straightening is permanent.
If you want something temporary, you can use an at-home ceramic hair straightener.
Please read the previous posts, as all the information is there about the long-term effects of hair straightening!
December 26, 2010 - 10:21pm@The girl who cried about the hair straightening not being as good as she thought it was going to be ... o.O; you guys pay way too much money for these straightenings. In the past, I've gotten my hair done for about 100-200 dollars tops. Never past 200 bucks or anything and the results have been beautiful *A* I love Japanese-hair straightenings. I recommend you guys go to either a REAL Japanese salon or a beauty school. When I had my hair done at a beauty salon (connections because of a friend :'D) she only charged me 100 dollars. A HUNDRED. And my hair was really nice. C: It was done by students! So, I think you guys should look into prices, perhaps, it might be just as nice as any other salon who does it for 300-500 bucks (ripoff artists)
Not so sure about it being safe for the hair. All I know is that you have to wait another half a year or a year to get another straightening because it might damage the hair too much if you keep doing it AFTER your 6 month treatment oAo All I know is that with my hair, it got healthy again and was available to be treated again after so many months when I went for the 2nd time. (I've had it done for 4 times now)
I'm going back to a Japanese hair salon that I thought was great when I have the money ^^ 180 bucks there o:
December 9, 2010 - 5:50pmI had the japanese straightening method done by a Salon in Sydney (Saba Hair) 6 years ago. I have curly hair and wanted to get my hair straightened desperately. However, since I had the straightening done my hair is permanently damaged. My hair no longer grows, is extremely fine, lacks shine, fullness and bounce. Also since chemically straightening my hair, my hair is balding on the crown area of my head. I am seeing several tricologists to restore my original hair. I am on tablets and using stimulant products as internal damage has prevented balding and I am extremely angry and frustrated and embarrassed to leave my hair out. I am hesitant to blow dry or colour my hair at a salon. I would not recommend anyone doing further damage to their hair whether it relaxes etc as chemically straightening damages hair no matter what people say or think. Be happy with what you have otherwise you will be looking at your past and regreting what you have ended up doing in the future - DAMAGE and HAIR LOSS.
December 1, 2010 - 1:08amOh my goodness, Anon, I really feel for you, I'm sorry your hair was so damaged. Did you inform the salon?
I have also thought about this kind of straightening (my hair in my pic has been blown-out) but I think I'll stick to getting it blown-out for special occasions and otherwise keep my curls.
Please do inform the salon of what happened and I hope your current treatments work to restore your hair again.
To anyone who's reading this, I'm sixteen years old and have a few large waves in my hair... I mean, really large, especially at the back. It looks horrible and the only way I can get rid of it is to use a ceramic straightener every morning. I was wondering what Japanese hair straightening can do for me that using a straightener every morning can't. Will it be better for my hair, since I wouldn't constantly be heating it?
And how do I tell my parents that I want to get it done? My mother has a very strong opinion on hair straightening without an iron: that it's far worse for your hair.
September 5, 2010 - 8:36pmAnon - It would be helpful to go back to the start of this thread to read the many comments on the impact of various chemical hair straightening treatments. You should also do additional research. If you still want to undergo a chemical process this after doing your research, and still want to get your mom's approval, then it will help if you can provide information on the safety aspects and how you plan to make sure that any process or salon that you use is legitimate and will not be harmful. Your mom has valid reasons to be concerned, and you're not too young to learn how to research information and advocate for yourself. Good luck! Pat
September 6, 2010 - 11:52amI went back to my hairdresser and she admitted the process did not turn out the way it was supposed to. This happens in some cases, but to protect yourself, discuss it in advance and ask the hairdresser what to expect. If it doesn't turn out that way, will you get your money back.
My hair is dull and coarse and feel dry. I'm afraid to get my roots done and she said she would do this with a semi-permanent colour. I won't let her touch it but am working my way through a number of salons to see who can suggest what.
I'm really afraid of the growth period and if I had the balls, I'd cut it off and start again. I will eventually have to do that I think.
Waste of money and time. takes more effort than having frizzy hair. Never again for me.
In future, talk t
July 30, 2010 - 10:18amI have been getting the Japanese straightening for more than five years. Over the years my hair is not damaged as much as you would think. I have noticed that my hair grows slower than it originally did before I began the straightening. I love the it though because my hair is always very straight for the next four or so months. Also since I have so much hair it usually takes 10+ hours to complete the straightening. I have super thick kinky curly hair and the straightening really does well. The only issue is, is that I wish I had never started straightening in the first place. The reason is because I have never been able to get back to my natural hair and I can not stand the growth period. This is when I have curly roots and the rest of your hair is straight. I HATE THIS. I am now trying the doing the Brazilian Boost Straightening, I would do that instead. There are no chemicals in this and it is not damaging.
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Book Review: Eyes Wide Open
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Book Review: Boy in the Moon
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- Live it up Freestyle
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Ace B is a new upcoming artist that originates from Inglewood, California. Ace B has made an impression on the music industry early by catching the attention of record label G.E.D.'s CEO Gata. From there Ace B succeeded in creating music with the same G.E.D. network that both YMCMB's Tyga and School Boy Q used to help launch their careers. Following G.E.D. Ace B has built a name for himself throughout live performances, local radio and various social networks such as Twitter, Instagram and many more by networking and creating music with some of the music industries more successful artist. Some of these talented individuals include but are not limited to; Reem Riches and members of YG's label Pusha Ink, Ray J's artist Payso, the New Boyz artist Ben J, Ben J's label 100 records, Lil Wayne's Personal/ Tour Drummer, and several producers who have collaborated and produced music with Soulja Boy, Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chains, Chief Keef, YG, Roscoe Dash, Young Joc and many more. Ace B is currently an Independent artist with a career that is rapidly outgrowing his local area. He is very talented, versatile, professional and creative but he holds his idea of true and real music close to his heart in every studio session.


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LIVESTRONG Day in India
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Viji Venkatesh represents The Max Foundation in Mumbai, India. In her capacity as lead "MaxStation" she works closely with the local patient association known as Friends of Max which has 14 chapters in cities throughout India.
By Viji Venkatesh, The Max Foundation; Mumbai, India
Head MaxStation India & MaxStation Coordinator Asia Pacific Region
As all the Friends of Max from the four corners of this vast land gathered together to celebrate their lives in all its glory, their joy and spirits were testimony to the philosophy propounded by none other than Gandhi ji himself whose birth anniversary also falls on October 2nd. "Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy" is what he once said and Living Strong and with Joy and Hope in our lives the Friends of Max support group was proud to be part of LIVESTRONG Day today.
1,200 cancer survivors and caregivers came together in Hyderabad, India, the energy, friendship, love of life and passion, perfectly matched the values of LIVESTRONG Day. With the motto of 'Together We Share and Learn', members of the Friends of Max India Trust, the India patient support arm of The Max Foundation, spent the day sharing testimonials, learning about their disease, improving their advocacy skills, and encouraging each other. Members of Friends of Max are chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) survivors, most of them in their 20s and 30s, some living with cancer for up to 10 years. Volunteers wore their yellow bands with pride, instantly joining the LIVESTRONG movement.
Guests began lining up at 7 AM to participate in the event. Some came by train crossing the vast India countryside for up to 24 hours, some brought their families, and yet some, who lost a loved one to the un-relentless disease, came to be with the people who understand them and know them best. In a country where stigma is likely to affect everything from your job status to your marriage possibilities, the Friends of Max gatherings provide a setting where survivors are able to open up without fear of discrimination.
The LIVESTRONG Day gathering was the launching board of a series of Celebrations of Life events to take place throughout the month of October, as Friends of Max– with 14,500 members in total joins patient organizations in more than 20 countries for the "Kids can Rise Above Cancer too" campaign, directly benefiting thousands of children with cancer around the world.
For more information on Friends of Max visit their website at www.friendsofmax.info. To learn more about the "Kids can rise above cancer too" Campaign go to www.themaxfoundation.org.


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Katy, TX — After a veteran's car is badly vandalized a viewer steps in to make things right, Courtney Zavala reports.
Nick Tajian, Owner, Mason Road Collision Auto Center, "We'll make this baby look beautiful for you again."
Nick Tajian is the owner of Mason Road Collision Auto Center in Katy. He was over come with emotion when he saw Hector's story on Local 2, "What this young man has done for us that's the least I can do for him. I go to sleep at night knowing a young man like him fights for our freedom."
Hector Cortez is a retired LCPL with the Marine Corp, he served two tours in Iraq. He suffers from PTSD he saved up enough money to buy this used car for $1,000 a few months ago only to have it defaced by vandals.
Within minutes of his story airing dozens of people wanted to help him.
Hector Cortez, "The cry for help has been heard."
Nick takes a walk around the car and decides he's not stopping at repainting, "Brand new stripes on black out the mirrors fix the front make it look beautiful for him."
Cortez is a tough guy he fought on the front lines as an infantry machine gunner, but he was overcome with emotion.
Courtney Zavala, "It's a good day right?"
Hector Cortez, "It's a great day. I'm sorry excuse me I'm not used to people helping me. There's no real way for me how to explain how I feel I'm happy I'm blessed at the same time I'm humbled."
The work is going to take about 10 days and the owner of Mason Road Collision Auto Center also set Hector up with a loaner car so he can still get around while his car is being fixed.


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FSM, meaning Fuck Starrs Mill, is a term to describe the hatred felt by the students of Mcintosh High School to the students of their rival team, Starrs Mill High School, both in Peachtree City, Ga. The Starrs Mill Panthers are entirely inferior in every way to the Mcintosh Chiefs.
Chief: That buzzer beater at the basketball game was amazing! FSM!
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Stands for Flying Spaghetti Mosnter. The Flying Spaghetti and Meatball monster is believed to be the one who created the world, by Pastafarianists. Initially Pastafarianism was created to protest the Kansas State School Board's decision to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools, one man invented a parody religion, Pastafarianism. Pastafarianists believe the FSM created the world. The FSM and concept of Pastafarianism eventually became an actual religion, one with a bible and church. Unlike what some people may believe, the FSM was not created by atheists to mock the concept of religion.
Pastafarianists believe in the FSM.
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August 22, 2010
The god of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which is not a conspiracy to create a holocaust of religious people, unlike what some definitions would like you to think.
His noodly appendage having shown me the one true faith... Well, besides Buddhism, Islam, Obamaism, and even Christianity, and FSM. Oh, I said that already.
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November 16, 2010
Female Seeking Male(ex:for dating)
Used in personal ads. I am a Female Seeking a Male. I am a FSM.
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February 22, 2007
Fangirl soul mate. Someone you've met (most of the time online) who seems to fangirl over the EXACT same things you do, almost like you're the same person!
I was talking about Fringe last night with a girl who had the exact same opinions on the show as me - we're fangirl soul mates!
My FSM and I spend all last night freaking out over the Rizzoli & Isles season finale
My FSM and I spend all last night freaking out over the Rizzoli & Isles season finale
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January 13, 2012
noun;acronym for being in "FUCKING SCIENTIST MODE"; often induced by alcohol or by intellectual beat downs bestowed upon a grad student by their adviser.
Sorry bro, no time to talk, I'm in FSM after I drank a pitcher of margaritas at La Fiesta tonight. I might actually have a shot at getting out of this hell hole if I can get some of these protocols approved.
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4.0A few weeks ago I received an email from Cafe Perrin announcing a new chef and sharing their new brunch menu, which looked pretty darn good. Having been here before for brunch I knew their bloody was great and the old menu was solid, so why not check out their advancements?
And I was glad we did! They didn't mess with greatness and their bloody was a great house blend with deep notes of Worcestershire and horseradish with a sprinkling of celery salt.
My friends could not wait to try to marquee brunch appetizer; a trio of pork belly doughnuts. This dish was pretty outstanding. Chunks of crispy and flavorful pork sandwiched between a light and fluffy doughnut "bun" which was lightly dusted with sugar. A house made apple jam was served on the side. And all these flavors harmonized into a beautiful little taste party in your mouth. The rich and savory pork was a great balance to the sweet and fresh doughnut. And the apple jam provided the perfect bridge between the two!
My entree was the Garbage Pile Sandwich which was clearly enough food for two; people or meals. A fluffy, large croissant was literally piled high with Berkshire ham, farm fresh eggs, white cheddar, a divine house made hash and all of it was topped with a light, flavorful hollandaise. Each element of this sandwich was perfectly executed and well thought out to blend into a great sandwich!
One friend I was with had the Smoked Salmon Benedict, which was classically created but also very well executed.
But the dish I eyeballed from across the table that will propel my return was the Deep Fried Portabellos. Two very generous caps are coated in a seasoned, light cornmeal and flash fried. They are topped with scrambled eggs and fresh mozzarella and served with a side of griddled mashed potatoes. Two of my friends were fortunate enough to order this dish and both were very glad they did.
The new menu pulled me in and the great food and service will certainly keep me coming back!
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4.0Lovely little corner cafe with good food with amazing deserts and pastries. My friend had corn beef sandwich. She said it was good and the fries that it came with were pretty tasty.
I loved this dish! I wish it was on their permanent menu, but alas it was just the dinner daily special.
Oh my! Not too sweet and oh so good.
These dishes from the Cafe Perrin menu are contributed by Menuism users directly, as part of a restaurant review, or as part of an image upload.


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(KMOV) – Police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old Franklin County boy who died after collapsing on the school bus Monday afternoon.
Deputies say Bradley Voss, a student at Strain Japan School, collapsed when the bus was traveling on Strothkamp Lane outside Sullivan around 3:45 p.m.
The bus driver performed CPR on Voss until EMS personnel arrived. The boy was then taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to deputies, Voss reported a headache to his mother before leaving for school in the morning and he was given Tylenol or aspirin.
School officials told authorities there were no indications of illness throughout the day before he collapsed.
An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday morning to determine the boy's cause of death. No foul play is suspected.


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PITTSBURGH – The Penn State Extension invites residents to get a jump on this year's garden shopping at the Garden Marketplace on Saturday, April 14th. Held annually for one day only, this year's event takes place inside the ice rink at Shady Side Academy Senior School in Fox Chapel. The event is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free to the public.
The Garden Marketplace features perennials, both the newest cultivars and old cottage favorites, as well as hard-to-find varieties like the much-sought-after double-blooming bloodroot or the collector's choice, variegated bugbane. With over 20 vendors, plant selections will include shrubs, trees, dwarf conifers, Japanese maples, heirloom tomatoes, specialty vegetables, lettuce bowls, water garden plants, along with many varieties of native plants, shade-loving hosta, hellebores, culinary and medicinal herbs, bonsai, cacti, succulents and terrarium plants.
At this one-stop shopping adventure you'll find wearable garden art (fun to wear and inspired by nature), whimsical handcrafted copper sculptures, colorful photography of floral compositions, prints of botanical illustrations, greeting cards, unusual pottery and plant stands, one-of-a-kind garden ornaments, garden trugs, scissors, and gloves.
And if you can spare ten minutes or so while browsing, consult the Ten-Minute Tips schedule (available on line at www.landscapesymposium.org). Informative garden talks will be given on topics ranging from trees to tools, heirloom tomatoes, pruning techniques, growing potatoes, increasing curb appeal, rain gardens,and more.
If you're a gardener or you know a gardener, then this is the place to be. Parking is also free, plentiful and convenient to shopping, all on one level, indoors. Visit the Garden Marketplace April 14th for a must-see-to-believe garden shopping experience.
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Once you've finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read what feels like as many blog posts reacting to the documents and the reports based upon them, assessments of what's there (are these, as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange suggests, the Afghan war's Pentagon Papers?) and what it all means (here, we'll look specifically at discussion of what it means for the media).
A quick blog round-up:
Former Washington Post military reporter Tom Ricks is among those "Underwhelmed by Wikileaks' Leak." Writes Ricks at foreignpolicy.com:
A huge leak of U.S. reports and this is all they get? I know of more stuff leaked at one good dinner on background. I mean, when Mother Jones yawns, that's an indication that you might not have the Pentagon Papers on your hands. If anything, the thousands of documents remind me of what it is like to be a reporter: Lots of different people telling you different things. It takes awhile to learn how to distinguish the junk from the gold.
You know how Robert DeNiro used to shout once in every film, "You got nothin' on me, nothin'"? (I think it was in his contract.) This data dump reminded me of that.
From that Mother Jones "yawn" (it's ex-defense contractor and now copy editor Adam Weinstein's take on the documents and, specifically, what they are):
Here's a cliche for you: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. And here's a fact: A little knowledge is precisely what Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks cohorts have given us in the "Afghan War Diary." The intimation by Assange (and the media outlets he cherry-picked to preview the data) is that these are the Pentagon Papers of the Afghan war. Certainly there are a few eyebrow-raising details in the bunch, as Mark Mazzetti, Chris Chivers & Co. at the New York Times point out. But in truth, there's not much there there. I know, because I've seen many of these reports before—at least, thousands of similar ones from Iraq, when I was a contractor there last year.
…[M]ost of what you see on WikiLeaks are military SIGACTS (significant activity reports). These are theoretically accessible by anyone in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Tampa, Florida-based US Central Command—soldiers and contractors—who have access to the military's most basic intranet for sensitive data, the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). Literally thousands of people in hundreds of locations could read them, and any one of them could be the source for WikiLeaks' data. I regularly went through the daily SIGACT reports in Iraq, not because my job required it, but because my colleagues and I were curious.…So, each morning when I entered my office on Camp Victory, I fired up my SIPR terminal and checked the SIGACTS for interesting stuff.
The first time I did it, my pupils dilated. A vein in my throat warmed. The reporter in me did backflips. I was about to breathe pure oxygen.
By day three or four, I was bored to tears…
Andrew Exum, blogging at Center for a New American Security, is also blasé about what's there, posting:
Here are the things I have learned thus far from the documents released via Wikileaks:
1. Elements within Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) support the Taliban.
2. The United States integrates direct action special operations into its counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan, targeting insurgent leaders through capture/kill missions.
3. Civilians have died in Afghanistan, often as the result of coalition combat operations.
Among the things Exum expected he could learn if he read more of the documents rather than going to bed? "'Afghanistan' has four syllables," and "LeBron is going to the Heat."
Spencer Ackerman, in his initial post on the matter at wired.com's Danger Room, is less dismissive both of what's there and of what it means. Per Ackerman:
WikiLeaks just published a trove of over 90,000 mostly-classified U.S. military documents that details a strengthening Afghan insurgency with deep ties to Pakistani intelligence. WikiLeaks' release of a 2007 Apache gunship video sparked worldwide outrage, but little change in U.S. policy. This massive storehouse taken, it would appear, from U.S. Central Command's CIDNE data warehouse — has the potential to be strategically significant, raising questions about how and why America and her allies are conducting the war.
Not only does it recount 144 incidents in which coalition forces killed civilians over six years. But it shows just how deeply elements within the United States' supposed ally, Pakistan, have nurtured the Afghan insurgency. In its granular, behind-the-scene details about the war, this has the potential to be Afghanistan's answer to the Pentagon Papers. Except in 2010, it comes as a database you can open in Excel, brought to you by the now-reopened-for-business WikiLeaks.


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Smalley back as Spireites end away run
Deane Smalley returns from suspension as Chesterfield complete a run of four successive away league games with a trip to Bradford.Smalley was absent as the league leaders halted a five-match winless run with victory over Lincoln on Saturday.But he comes back into the reckoning to partner leading scorer Craig Davies in attack.Simon Ford is a doubt after he was forced off with a knock at Sincil Bank. Danny Whitaker replaced him against the Imps and the midfielder could fill in at centre-half, as he has several times this season, if Ford is unavailable.Boss John Sheridan hopes to have on-loan defender Javan Vidal (virus) and midfielders Mark Allott (ankle) and Dwayne Mattis (calf) available after they missed out at the weekend.
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- OR - Select an option belowCasa Vieja is a spacious community gathering spot for Kendall's sizeable Colombian population -- politicians have campaigned there, many a large family birthday party has been celebrated in the space, and local cumbia acts have partied the night away on the large stage. The interior is designed to look like, well, a casa vieja. The outside serves as the portal (Spanish-style porch), with shaded tables enclosed, and the interior features large faux colonial balconies lining the upper part of the walls. Nondescript booths and tables are scattered throughout, with a large circular bar anchoring the front of the house. Strangely enough, booths in the back part of the restaurant sit against a glass wall that overlooks an ice arena next door. Watching kiddie hockey players while eating an asado campesino (churrasco steak, $10.99) and listening to vallenatos crooned by karaoke participants? Sure, why not? As for the food, it is massive, greasy-plate, mediocre renditions of traditional dishes with some universal pedestrian favorites thrown in (fettuccine Alfredo, fajitas, buffalo wings). A huge $5.99 lunch special served Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. includes a special of the day served with several sides. Dinner options include pollo a la criolla ($9.99), chicken breast served in a lightly spicy creole sauce, and pargo al ajillo ($16.99), red snapper sautéed in a garlic sauce. Most dishes are accompanied by an iceberg lettuce and tomato salad, tostones, and rice. The place is open late, with live music and karaoke on weekends, and a daily happy hour from 4 to 8 p.m.