A 9-year-old Barack Obama, right, with stepfather Lolo Soetoro, mother Ann Dunham and baby half-sister Maya Soetoro, who said her brother was always comfortable with who he was.

Growing up in Indonesia, Maya Soetoro-Ng often felt too American. Although she adored her native land’s traditional gamelan music and shadow puppets, spiced cuisine and Hindu epics, her manner was too loud, too irreverent — hallmarks, she said, of being raised by a strong American mother.

But when she entered the Jakarta International School at age12, the only student of Indonesian ancestry, she felt too Indonesian. She was more reserved than the confident, boisterous Americans she met there and later in Hawaii, she said.
“Wherever I was, I felt somewhat inadequate in terms of the purest expression of culture,” said Soetoro-Ng, a Hawaii-based writer, educator and half sister of President Obama. “I wished I completely belonged somewhere.”

Her older brother Barack never seemed to struggle with his cultural or racial identity in the same way she did, Soetoro-Ng said. Son of the same white mother but a Kenyan father, Obama identifies as African American — choosing to check that box exclusively and not also the one for white on his 2010 U.S. Census form.

“There has never been much ambiguity for him,” said Soetoro-Ng, 39. “He was able to claim his identity as he made his commitment to community organizing, to being a leader and lawyer.”

But Soetoro-Ng’s early struggles over identity, a “mild but persistent discomfort” amid an otherwise happy and carefree childhood, gradually eased over time. Today, she embraces all aspects of herself — and urged people to do the same in an interview and program on multiracial identities Saturday evening at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

“We can do much to help our communities loosen their boundaries and begin to welcome a multitude of ways of being … to make sure that individuals of mixed race, religion or ethnicities don’t feel the need to choose one or the other but see their layers as a gift, something that adds beauty,” she said.

The program was pegged to the museum’s current exhibit, “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids,” which runs through Sept. 26. The photo exhibit of 80 children ages 12 and younger, along with a companion book, was created by Kip Fulbeck, a Santa Barbara photographer, filmmaker, athlete and art professor of Chinese, Irish, Welsh and English descent.

The photos feature children making funny faces and scowling ones, carrying basketballs and guitars, blankets and stuffed bears. They are Filipina, Puerto Rican, Korean, Hawaiian, Irish, Italian, Cambodian — you name it.

Asked who they are, the children don’t necessarily identify themselves by their race. Or if they do, they claim multiple identities in what Fulbeck and Soetoro-Ng say reflects wide-open, flexible minds that adults should learn from.

“I am me. I am an animal lover. I am also a dream but I am real,” wrote Jada, an 8-year-old girl of African American, Puerto Rican, Dominican and Italian ancestry shown in her photo with a guitar and wide grin.

Keyan, a smiling boy of African American, Indian and Irish descent, scrawled on his page: “I am Brown like Barack Obama. One Day I will Be a Pro foot Ball Player and the President.”

Fulbeck said his exhibit was prompted by the birth last year of his own multiracial son, Jack, and a desire to make a better world for him. “I wanted to question the whole idea of race and let kids have their own voice,” Fulbeck said.

Nationwide, 7.3 million Americans identified as mixed race in 2000, the first year the U.S. Census allowed people to check two or more racial categories. The number is expected to rise in the 2010 census.

But Fulbeck told the 200 audience members that race is more of a cultural construct than a biological one because all people are descended from a common ancestor in Africa.

Soetoro-Ng and her husband, Konrad Ng, have two daughters of Malay, Indonesian, Scottish, Irish, Hakka and Cantonese descent. Already, 6-year-old Suhaila has begun to claim multiple identities, both ethnic and religious — embracing both Christ and Buddha with no compulsion to choose, Soetoro-Ng said.

“We do a much better job today making kids feel fine just as they are and welcoming different traits,” she said.

“But I do think we still have a ways to go,” she added. “The fact that my brother was asked during the campaign to be more ‘black’ … and the presence of clear voices of antagonism or fear directed at him are evidence that we still are not free of either prejudice or narrow cultural expectations.”

The early tensions over her Indonesian versus American identities eased after she moved to Hawaii at age 14. She said she enjoyed being seen as an exotic beauty from a mysterious land few Hawaiians knew much about.

When she moved to New York with her mother at age 18, she was perceived as a Latina — Puerto Rican when her hair was curled and Mexican when it was straightened. In turn, she embraced Latin culture as she learned Spanish and became enamored of salsa, merengue and the literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende.

She studied Mughal and Thai dance when she visited India and Thailand with her cultural anthropologist mother. And in her far-flung travels with her grandparents at age 20, the dark-haired, olive-skinned Soetoro-Ng was assumed to be South Asian in London, Turkish in Turkey, Italian in Italy and Egyptian in Egypt.

“Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism,” she wrote in the foreword to Fulbeck’s book.

She dreams in English and politically identifies as American. But she sometimes finds herself with a huge hankering for things Indonesian — the taste of spiced fish wrapped in banana leaves, the sound of gamelan music, the smell of incense. She still connects with Latin culture but also adores the music and dance of Senegal.

“I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things,” she said.

(From: www.latimes.com)

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Velocity is the event in Malaysia that especially presented by Indonesian Students Society of HELP University.

This event will full of many kinds of performance that you will feel “sorry” not to come in. Glenn Fredly would be the guest star of this event. Glenn Fredly is the fabulous singer from Indonesia, that already has a very long foot steps in music world especially Jazz. So, you guys as Jazz lovers or Glenn Fredly fans should come to this event, others than that Velocity also throw you “Rafi and The Beat” a young boy that play drum since he was 5 years old. He also already put his name in the book of record as the youngest Jazz Drummer in Indonesia and now he will do the collaboration in performing his talent in Velocity. Velocity also provide you with the art of Indonesia, such as Gamelan and etc. Velocity will give you another fantasy in the movement of the show…so be there….dont miss it!!! Yeahhh!!! Last but not least Velocity also throwing the “Battle of the Band” with a marvelous prize..that you never imagine as well as door prize that totally will bring you to another part of the country…cool right???so be there..

VELOCITY

VILLAGE OF LOVE, MUSIC AND CREATIVITY

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At the time, I rolled my eyes dramatically, as every self-respecting 19-year-old should, and proceeded to assault my senses with 140 decibels of noise, which I now know is ten decibels above the sound of a jet plane taking off.

The sound levels at the gig were too much for most of the fans; people were leaving in droves, but I stayed on. That night, I left the venue with my ears ringing and it took more than a week for the ringing to diminish.

Phillipa Faulks’s hearing has improved thanks to digital aids, but she has a warning for teenagers listening to music

At the age of 41, my mother’s spurned warning now rings as loud as the tinnitus I suffer from, for I have indeed ruined my hearing and wear two relatively innocuous but still definitely very uncool hearing aids.

My penchant for live bands and clubs has caused irreversible damage to my ears, meaning that the sound vibrations normally heard in everyday life are not being passed through the intricate network of nerves to my brain.

And it seems I’m part of a trend. According to the World Health Organisation, four million Britons risk serious damage to their ears by exposure to loud music - with 75 per cent of under-55s experiencing difficulty with their hearing. Hours spent listening to music on MP3 players and at concerts are to blame. I look at my daughter listening to her iPod and pray she learns from my mistakes.

Problems began in my 20s. I was working in a busy store with background noise from shoppers and music. I found it difficult to hear what customers were saying, and the word ‘pardon’ became my mantra.

It was around this time that my husband began to notice that I was either mishearing or not hearing things. Outwardly I was dismissive; my excuse was that I was tired and not concentrating, but privately I had noticed the hearing loss and that the ringing in my ears was back. It tormented me continually.

By my late 20s, I was becoming irritable and withdrawn - the tinnitus never allowed me a moment’s peace. Finally I went to see my GP, who referred me to my local hospital so that I could have my hearing assessed.

The news was not good. I had hearing loss of 50 per cent - affecting the top range of my hearing, meaning that any highpitched noises, speech, phones and day-to-day sounds were gone.

I couldn’t distinguish between the sounds, ‘th’, ‘f ‘ and ’s’, so I was mishearing words. I also had tinnitus, which was causing the ringing.

They explained that years of listening to loud music had caused the tiny sensory hair cells in the inner ear to become irreversibly flattened - meaning I would never hear fully again. And unless I protected my ears, my hearing would deteriorate even more.

It was crushing. At the age of 28, I was going deaf and I was also being told to avoid noisy environments to prevent further damage.

At the time, hearing aids were not designed for my kind of hearing loss, so I was referred to a hearing therapist who would help me cope with my tinnitus. He suggested a noise generator, which when placed in the ear helps to mask sounds and minimise tinnitus, but I found it more annoying than helpful.

By this point I was becoming depressed. Social situations were difficult; I couldn’t hear what was being said clearly if there was any background noise, so I would spend the evenings in bars and restaurants staring at the wall. My husband said I seemed uncommunicative and that people would think I was rude.

I made some howling mishearing mistakes; on one occasion I had no idea what the person was saying, but was pretending to - they were telling me their dog had died, but I was nodding and smiling, unaware of how callous I seemed until someone whispered loudly in my ear.

So I was continually apologising for not being able to hear, which was the very thing my hearing therapist had told me not to do.

He tried to drum into me that being partially deaf was not something I was doing to annoy people and that they should be more understanding of a physical problem. Unfortunately, in general, people are not understanding of deafness; they assume you are stupid or rude.

In my mid-30s, I went to my doctor again. My hearing was getting worse and I was getting withdrawn. He told me about the new digital hearing aids that could help with my form of hearing loss.

I was so relieved something could be done that I happily reported back to my husband who, to my surprise, was mortified. He couldn’t believe I was happy to be given a hearing aid; I was amazed that he couldn’t understand why I was.

He was shocked that my hearing was so bad I needed them, and said it conjured up images of hearing aids of the past with a box strapped to my front.

However, soon I was presented with an aid for my right ear that had been attuned to deal with the issues of my hearing loss, and I went home to ‘practise’ with it.

I was disappointed; it merely amplified the top range of noises and because it was a full earpiece (it blocked my entire ear opening and canal) it blocked out the lower sounds - I was continually in danger of being hit by a car that rumbled along at a low tone.

Last year, out of exasperation, I started to look on the internet. It was amazing; there were so many gadgets out there. I booked a hearing test, had a hearing assessment and then talked through my options with the audiologist.

In contrast with NHS aids, there were hearing aids that were tiny and discrete, nestling just over the top of the ear and with a bud-like piece to go deep inside.

The ones suitable for me were called Phonak micro extra. I took a deep breath and asked the price - at £2,500 it wasn’t cheap, but then I realised it was a small price to pay to be able to hear again.

Having the hearing aids in for the first time was an almost alien experience. I was told to walk around the shopping centre for 20 minutes to see how I got on. They had been finely tuned to my requirements and although I would never have perfect hearing, I was assured they would make a huge difference.

Suddenly the world came alive again; I could hear the conversation of people in the next aisle, and I could make out the different notes in the ear-piercing scream of a toddler.

I made my purchase and went home to try them out. My life changed. I could hear the phone ring, conversations made sense once more and I could watch films without the subtitles.

Four million Britons risk serious damage to their ears due to loud music

My teenage daughter deals with my hearing problems well, making sure she speaks to me face to face, and tries to be patient when I ask her to repeat something for the tenth time. We have regularly discussed keeping her iPod at a safe sound level.

There are so many things that can be done to protect our hearing and although it is often a case of ‘it’ll never happen to me’ or thinking that ‘only old people go deaf’, in our modern life, where most people spend half their time plugged into a music device, it is likely that it may happen to you.

And if your mother ever says ‘One day you’ll ruin your hearing’, it is well worth listening to her.

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SHANGHAI — Wang Weijia and her husband grew up surrounded by propaganda posters lecturing them that “Mother Earth is too tired to sustain more children” and “One more baby means one more tomb.”
They learned the lesson so well that when Shanghai government officials, alarmed by their city’s low birthrate and aging population, abruptly changed course this summer and began encouraging young couples to have more than one child, their reaction was instant and firm: No way.
“We have already given all our time and energy for just one child. We have none left for a second,” said Wang, 31, a human resources administrator with an 8-month-old son.
More than 30 years after China’s one-child policy was introduced, creating two generations of notoriously chubby, spoiled only children affectionately nicknamed “little emperors,” a population crisis is looming in the country.
The average birthrate has plummeted to 1.8 children per couple as compared with six when the policy went into effect, according to the U.N. Population Division, while the number of residents 60 and older is predicted to explode from 16.7 percent of the population in 2020 to 31.1 percent by 2050.
That is far above the global average of about 20 percent.
The imbalance is worse in wealthy coastal cities with highly educated populations, such as Shanghai.
Last year, people 60 and older accounted for almost 22 percent of Shanghai’s registered residents, while the birthrate was less than one child per couple.
Xie Lingli, director of the Shanghai Municipal Population and Family Planning Commission, has said that fertile couples need to have babies to “help reduce the proportion of the aging population and alleviate a workforce shortage in the future.”
Shanghai is about to be “as old — not as rich, though — as developed countries such as Japan and Sweden,” she said.

A gradual easing
Written into the country’s constitution in 1978, China’s one-child policy is arguably the most controversial mandate introduced by the ruling Communist Party to date.
Couples who violate the policy face enormous fines — up to three times their annual salary in some areas — and discrimination at work.
Chinese officials have credited the policy with helping the country avoid critical strain on its natural resources, while human rights advocates have denounced abuses in the enforcement of the policy.
In rural areas, some officials have forced women pregnant with a second child to undergo abortions. In addition, many couples have had sex-selective abortions, leading to an unnaturally high male-to-female ratio.
In recent years, population officials have gradually softened their stance on the one-child policy. In 2004, they allowed for more exceptions to the rule including urban residents, members of ethnic minorities and cases in which both husband and wife are only children and in 2007, they toned down many of their hard-line slogans.
Qiao Xiaochun, a professor at the Institute of Population Research at Peking University, said central government officials have recently been debating even more radical changes, such as allowing couples to have two children if one partner is an only child.
In July, Shanghai became the first Chinese city to launch an aggressive campaign to encourage more births.
Almost overnight, posters directing families to have only one child were replaced by copies of regulations detailing who would be eligible to have a second child and how to apply for a permit. The city government dispatched family planning officials and volunteers to meet with couples in their homes and slip leaflets under doors.
It has also pledged to provide emotional and financial counseling to those electing to have more than one child.
The response has been underwhelming, family planning officials say.

Disappointing response
Although officials in one rural town on the outskirts of Shanghai say they saw an uptick in applications from couples wanting a second child after the campaign was launched, the more urban districts report no change.
Huinan township, with a population of 115,000, for instance, is still receiving just four to five applications a month.
Disappointed Shanghai officials say that, despite the campaign, the number of births in the city in 2010 is still expected to be only about 165,000 — slightly higher than in 2009 but lower than in 2008.
Feng Juying, head of the family planning committee in Shanghai’s Caolu township, said financial considerations are probably the main reason many people don’t want more children. “They want to give the best to their first,” she said.
Yang Jiawei, 27, and his wife, Liu Juanjuan, 26, said they would love to have two children and are legally allowed to do so. But like many Chinese, they have only the scant medical and life insurance provided by the government.
Without a social safety net, they say, the choice would be irresponsible.
“People in the West wrongly see the one-child policy as a rights issue,” said Yang, a construction engineer whose wife is seven months pregnant with the couple’s first child.
“Yes, we are being robbed of the chance to have more than one child. But the problem is not just some policy. It is money.”
Other couples cite psychological reasons for hesitating.
Wang, the human resources administrator, said she wants an only child because she was one herself: “We were at the center of our families and used to everyone taking care of us. We are not used to taking care of and don’t really want to take care of others.”
Chen Zijian, a 42-year-old who owns a translation company, put it more bluntly.
For the dual-career, middle-class parents who are bringing the birthrate down, he said, it’s about being successful enough to be selfish.
Today’s 20- and 30-somethings grew up seeing their parents struggle during the early days of China’s experiment with capitalism and don’t want that kind of life for themselves, he said.
Even one child makes huge demands on parents’ time, he said.
“A mother has to give up at least two years of her social life.” Then there are the space issues “You have to remodel your apartment” and the strategizing “You have to have a résumé ready by the time the child is 9 months old for the best preschools.”
Most of his friends are willing to deal with this once, Chen said, but not twice.
“Ours is the first generation with higher living standards,” he said. “We do not want to make too many sacrifices.”
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But those holding back the years haven’t just been blessed in the looks department.

Scientists have shown that looking younger than you are also means you will enjoy a longer life.

Not only do the wrinkles remain at bay, but the Grim Reaper takes longer to call, according to researchers.

Fresh faced: Cliff Richard has managed to hold on to his youthful appearance

They suggest patients could give their GPs a photo of themselves for their medical records as this would be as good a guide to their longevity as complicated testing.

Professor Kaare Christensen, from the University of Southern Denmark, set out to test the belief that a person’s perceived age gives a general indication of his health.

His team looked at twins to see whether perceived age - basically how old others think you are - is linked with survival, as well as important age-related traits such as physical functioning and brainpower.

The researchers also examined evidence relating to chromosomes and DNA and their effect on longevity.

But in the end, it seems, the best method of research was simply a long hard look in the mirror.

‘It’s probably easy to explain because people who’ve had a tougher life are more likely to die early - and their life is reflected in their face,’ Professor Christensen said.

The research started back in spring 2001, when 1,826 Danish twins aged 70 years and over underwent physical and cognitive tests and had their faces photographed.

Three groups of assessors rated the perceived age of the twins from the photographs.

The assessors did not know the age range of the twins, and each twin of a pair had their age assessed on different days.

Death records were then used to track the survival of the twins over a seven-year period, say findings published on the British Medical Journal website bmj.com.

Perceived age was significantly associated with survival, even after adjusting for chronological age, sex, and the environment in which each pair of twins grew up.

The bigger the difference in perceived age within a twin pair, the more likely it was that the olderlooking twin died first.

Professor Christensen also investigated whether longevity was linked to the length of telomeres, which are tiny ‘caps’ on the ends of chromosomes that protect the strands of DNA from inflammation and other ageing processes.

Longer telomeres are a sign of being biologically younger and also of being healthier.

He dismissed the telomere tests as complicated and only helping establish a weak link with longevity.

Far better, he said, to simply look at a person’s face.

And what if that face has a been tweaked a little by the cosmetic surgeon?

Professor Christensen said such surgery was uncommon in the part of Denmark where the study was carried out, so was not a major factor.

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THE SITTING ROOM

“In each of my homes I have a leopard room,” says Trump, 60, relaxing with her Yorkshire Terrier, Tiger, in the sitting room of her Upper East Side townhouse. “I don’t know why, but I do. It’s like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.” The cheetah painting above her was bought while on safari in Africa.

THE MASTER BEDROOM

“I have a fireplace in every room,” says Trump – including this gold-embossed fireplace in the master bedroom. When the Czech-born socialite bought the home 15 years ago, the Chinese-style murals on the walls were damaged. She has since had them meticulously restored by artists recommended by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

THE DINING ROOM

While Ivana welcomes daughter Ivanka, 27, into her dining room (which features a chandelier from Italy), allowing her into the kitchen is another matter. “Ivanka wants to impress me with her cooking,” says Ivana with a laugh. “I didn’t take that offer on yet! It’s a scary prospect. I will let her practice a little bit with her boyfriend [first].”

THE GYM

No, Trump doesn’t normally work out in gowns! She just didn’t want to change again during the PEOPLE photo shoot. Her gym was formerly three bedrooms on the townhouse’s top floor, which is accessible by elevator. “I walk the stairs. My maid takes the elevator,” she says.

HER MINI-ME DOLL

A gift from Trump’s hair-and-makeup team, this doll wears tiny clothes fashioned after pieces from Ivana’s own clothing line – and makeup to match its owner.

THE SITTING ROOM

The flip side of Trump’s “leopard room” shows another ornate fireplace and the Empire desk where she makes early-morning calls to Europe. “It’s my relaxation space,” says Ivana, who prepares there for her commute to the office – two flights down.

FAMILY PHOTOS

“I love my family,” says Trump, who keeps framed photos of her children – Donald Jr., 31; Ivanka; and Eric, 25 – as well as grandkids Kai, 2, and 4-month old Donald III, all over her home. Married but separated from Italian actor-model Rossano Rubicondi, she still displays a framed photo of herself with ex Donald.

THE MASTER BEDROOM

“We are very close. We are like sisters,” says Ivana (lounging in the master bedroom) of her relationship with daughter Ivanka – who has her own New York City apartment and her own jewelry line. “We understand each other very well, and we relate to each other. Of course she has her life now, and I have my life, but we are together as much as we can.”

THE STAIRCASE

Most of the 1924 townhouse was gutted when she moved in, but the original curved stairs remain. “We had to redo the railing,” says Trump. “And the mural behind [Ivanka] was done by artists that flew in from Italy.” The railing behind Ivanka is part of the painting too. “It’s painted on so it looks like it’s a balcony, looking into French-Roman gardens,” explains Trump.

(From People)

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Trump, 27, married Jared Kushner, 28, in a private Jewish ceremony at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in front of 500 of their friends and family members. Among the star-studded guests were: Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Barbara Walters, Regis Philbin, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the current New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

The bride, the co-host of Celebrity Apprentice and a vice president at her father’s real estate company, and her new husband, who is the publisher of the New York Observer and an executive at the Kushner Companies, released few photos and kept most of the details of their wedding private. Donald Trump told PEOPLE he offered a simple toast to the couple: “Be happy and enjoy your life.”

The newlyweds, who are planning to honeymoon in Africa, did spend most of the night dancing. “It was a great wedding,” said the father-of-the-bride. “I’m very happy. They’re really a beautiful, smart couple. I think you’ll hear a lot of great things from them in the years to come.”

And what’s a great wedding without an “absolutely superb” cake? “The cake was amazing and just beautiful. It was 70 inches on the table with about 13 layers,” described the cake-maker Sylvia Weinstock. “Each layer was ringed with flowers. We had lisianthus, roses, peonies, Lilies of the Valley, baby’s breath – all in the coloring of whites, creams, pinks ivory and flush tones.”

As varied as the sugar decor was the flavor of the cake. “They had several flavors. They had chocolate, carrot, almond and yellow cake all in the multiple layered cake,” said Weinstock. “They had some 500 people so they wanted a variety.”

Something new, something old, something borrowed, something blue…no word on what all of Ivanka Trump’s bridal must-haves were, but we do know what the something sparkling was — thousands of dollars of diamonds from her own jewelry collection! At her Sunday wedding to Jared Kushner at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., she wore a platinum-diamond hairpiece to accent the veil (worth $45,000), platinum mixed-cut clustered diamond earrings (worth $130,000), and an Art Deco link platinum-diamond bracelet (worth $90,000), all in addition to her lace Vera Wang gown. Her bridesmaids were suitably encrusted as well, with assorted pieces from the Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry collection to set off their Carolina Herrera gowns. While the groom did not wear share in the bling, he was suitably stylish in a Brioni tuxedo

How beautiful….

(from People)

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What happens when Dell’s Adamo and XPS laptops get set up on a date, have a few too many drinks and end up rocking the bed? The 9.99mm-thin Dell Adamo XPS, about half as thin thick as the MacBook Air.

Here’s the math: 9.99 mm is about 0.39 inches. The original Adamo was .65 inches thin, and the MacBook Air is 0.76 inches at its thickest point, making the Adamo XPS concept nearly half as thin. But God only knows what they managed to cram inside, since they aren’t telling us yet.

from gizmodo

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So Nokia’s got a 10-incher with built-in 3G and A-GPS (Ovi Maps) in the works. Interesting, but will it be just-another-netbook? I’d love to see a Nokia touch-screen interface on top of Windows. What about easy tethering with cell phones?

Having some sort of tie-in with Nokia handsets (while not excluding everyone else) isn’t a must, but it’d be nice, right? We’ll have to wait and see.

Here’s what we do know: It’ll be “HD ready” and have an Atom processor—hopefully that means Nvidia Ion-based. It will also have Wi-Fi, HDMI, and an SD Card reader. With a 12 hour battery and weight of 2.75 pounds, there’s some massive potential here, if only on paper.

Problem is we won’t know more about its flavor of Windows-or any other specs and pricing-until Nokia World on September 2. Stay tuned.

from gizmodo

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Facebook has been created to connect all the people all over the world with a same interest and many things more..

However, there are so many users of Facebook that operating their acccount in a wrong way..or maybe can be said misused the purpose of the system works.

Facebook Impacts:

1. Naked Privacy

For this impact, actually it depends on how the users using it, but according to the data mostly all users putting their private information, message and others stuff..that make people know their situation indirectly.

2. Sex Channels

Having the groups for the people who having the same interest, is the purpose of Facebook itself. However, having or joining the groups for the sex channels, it is wrong. This is what I saw on facebook myself, we need to keep Facebook as it should be.

3. Wrong Grouping Purpose

Making a group to make it joke another groups is the worst thing ever, because this activities will lead you to a bigger problem. Just like what I see in the channels between 2 countries, they cursing each others, uploading bad pictures, TAG ing wrong way and insulting each others.

4. Create “stupid” Poll

Just like what I heard recently, have one Poll and Questionaire in Facebook that asking or agreed to be the fans of one condition. The condition is “………should be killed??” Actually that person is the important person for people, but feel so happy when I heard the secret agent already been asked to find and search who did that kind of things. Hope, you will find it…supporting you….

So I just putting my opinion that just let Facebook as it should be…don’t PIMP your own Facebook..and becoming a bad reputation. If you have your own ideas to kill someone, make it joke and porn…there are so many others link..that are ready to approve you..

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