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October 24, 2012
The Youngtown Edition Page 5
iPhone 5 proves popular among CCM students LISA PALACIO Staff writer
Apple retail stores began selling the iPhone 5 on Sept. 21. Customers worldwide lined up hours before store openings, proving the beginning for a successful sale. “I called Sprint to pre-order the iPhone 5 but was put on the waiting list,” said Johan Escobar, a County College of Morris criminal justice major. “Thankfully, I was able to receive my iPhone on the release date.” Escobar said he likes many of the updates that were added to the new version of the iPhone. “Siri is now more sport smart, and the phone is also faster,” Escobar said. “I also like the camera because it has the panorama feature. The Panorama mode on the iPhone 5’s iSight camera allows owners to take stunning 240-degree panoramic photos. The feature allows users to capture a fuller and wider image. The iPhone 5 is also faster and has 24/7 Wi-Fi availability. “I believe the iPhone 5 is a trend because everyone wants to own one,” Escobar said. “The iPhone 5 is probably the most popular phone out there.” According to BusinessWeek, more than 5 million iPhones were
sold in the first three days after the release. Kevin Londono, a graphic design major and iPhone 4 owner, said he is looking forward to upgrading to the new iPhone 5. “Everyone talks about it and its awesome features,” said Londono. “All of my friends have upgraded, and I’m lagging behind. Londono mentioned that having an iPhone 5 could help him with college in many ways. “I will be able to have faster access to emails from teachers,” he said. “I could also be able to access media quicker and find design ideas online.” According to Apple, the new iPhone’s height is 4.87 inches in comparison to the 4.5 inch 4S version. The iPhone 5 is also 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than the past model. “It might be a little taller than past versions,” Londono said. “But since its thinner, it could fit more comfortably in my pocket than my current phone.” Londono tried going to the Apple store on the iPhone 5’s release date, but his plot to upgrade did not go as planned. “The Apple store was packed,” Londono said. “The stores are still packed. I’m waiting until the demand goes down so I can go back to upgrade.”
Johan Escobar shows off his iPhone 5.
LISA PALACIO
CREATIVE CORNER: Get the clown NICK SANGIACOMO Copy editor
Get the Clown has got to get funny. And so do you, too. So sit down clowns, and I’ll tell you how. “Woe is me”, says our friend the Clown, “I am the stalest of all the clowns, butt of all the jokes, and cast-off of all the women! Clown, my friend, fret not now, for your friend the writer is here to instruct you in the art of laughter. Tell me your problems now, and please be complete, for a clown that is boring is a failure indeed. “Writer, my friend”, says our friend the clown, “I am out of ideas! I have eaten all of my pies, but not a man, woman, or child lets loose a gasp of surprise!”
Clown, my friend, do use your head! Pies are meant for eating, and it is quite serious business. If you show people what their lives are like, they will not laugh at you! For the most part, life is quite dull and laughter is to be avoided. Things happen one way, and often they happen that way day after day until eventually you graduate, get married or die. The key is to show us things as they are not. This is the source of comedy. We all eat pies! Rather than eating that pie, find a well-regarded member of the community and throw it in his face! By throwing the pie, you break our expectations of the functions of both pies and well-regarded members of the community. This breaking of expectation provides a brief relief from the vanilla conveyor belt
that we call our lives. Expectations are like watermelons. We must ruthlessly hunt them down and throw them off of roofs if we are to ever experience joy and laughter as we once did. Take children. At one point or another, we’ve all laughed at the antics of a child who acted in a way that proved their total inexperience in life. They have no built-up expectations about life because they don’t yet know what will happen in life. This is why so many of the things that children say are funny. Contrast that child with an old, particularly crusty, lawyer. Older people aren’t as funny because they’ve built up many years of expectation. Just go to your local retirement home and ask which one of them just graduated high school. See? No
sense of humor. Now, that, you clowns, was a joke. Do not actually go to a senior center and ask about high school graduations. But, as we have just shown Get the Clown, that was a good example of a joke, because it broke our expectation of what goes on at a senior center. So now clowns, you are ready! Go, Get the Clown, go and make the people laugh! Go find a professor and tell them what’s really on your mind! Break the watermelon expectations weighing the Funny Lobe of your brain down! Just keep it clean, please. Submit to Creative Corner at youngtownedition @ gmail.com
ORGINAL COMIC BY NICK SANGIACOMO AND JACK SIBERINE