Converse releases its new Fall 2014 collection

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Converse gears up for Fall as releases its new Fall 2014 collection. Gone are the sweltering days where humidity hampers people from wearing sneakers. A preview Converse PH Fall 2014 collection and the latests and novel collection was presented to media and guests during a Converse gathering last Tuesday, August 19. 

As the weeks now traverse to the cooler and wetter weather, “America’s Original Sports Company”™ Converse releases its new Fall 2014 collection which include the All-Star, Cons Sneaker and Apparel, and Jack Purcell Sneaker.

All-Star Collection

Over the years, the classic All-Star roster already stamped a reliable familiarity to the local market – may it be for a casual or ragged get-up. 

With the new designs launched, Converse opted for a monochromatic assemblage with new profiles and elevated detailing which can endure rainy days or mud pits. One should not fret about getting it grubby even in the wildest outdoor music festival there is.

The Chuck Taylor All Star Rubber is water resistant due to its French terry lining with a rubber upper. It is completed with a gusseted tongue and brass eyelets.

Staying true to its vintage theme, this season also highlights distressed washes and contemporary graphic prints.

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star ’70 Woven is leather in style with hand-crafted look and details such as round leather laces and tanned leather toecaps, available in both high and low cut.

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star ’70 boasts new core colors and will also be available in both high and low cut.

Military combat boots will also make a comeback with Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Combat Boot which has a rubberized toe and heel. Solely offered in color black, it is armed with a double overlay eye row, larger opened collar, tongue zipper, and extra-long laces.

To magnify the fall collection, Converse has also brought back its collaboration with legendary rock band, Black Sabbath, and iconic contemporary menswear designer, John Varvatos.

The new prints and fabrications reflect the distinct strong personality of Varvatos. Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Black Sabbath displays iconic photos and album artwork. 

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Black Sabbath 

Description: The Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Black Sabbath celebrates its second collaboration with iconic photos and album artwork. 

Available Colors: Black, Black, Black 

Suggested Retail Price: Php 3,250

For those who would prefer lighter selections and more vintage feel, on the other hand, Converse by John Varvatos All Star Multi-Eyelet has a resin coated textile treatment and washed down print. It also offers a multitude of elastic laces to complement the burnish midsole. 

There is also Converse by John Varvatos One Star which lifted its design from the original One Star silhouette modernized through a vintage artistry.

Cons Sneaker and Apparel Collection

Converse Cons Weapon is mastered anew with the 2014 Converse Cons Sneaker and Apparel Collection.

One of the highpoints of the novel array is the introduction of the Converse CONS Weapon Skate, the newfangled essential CONS skateboarding sneaker. It promises enhanced durability and comfort through its special sockliner, perforated memory foam and gusseted tongue construction.

For the athletic ones, the CONS Weapon combines sports-inspired street wear with tech innovation, varying in classic colors and notable design elements from the original iconic CONS silhouette. Its new features include a sleek, streamlined silhouette, updated construction, a bold logo on the tongue, and signature Y Bar, and an internal Y bar for comfort.

The CONS Weapon Skate comes with elevated skateboarding functional designs. It takes pride with its drop-in Lunarlon sockliners which provide light and plush cushioning and a mesh underlay on hallmark Star Chevron – all increasing breathability. 

It also has the CONS Traction Rubber with perforated memory foam to improve grip and durability and to avoid the ankle from obtaining a snug performance.

Meanwhile, the matte black color blocking of CONS Malden Racer gives way for a subtle statement when one is aiming for a creative appeal. It is waxed canvas and suede in nature – a redefined take on winter style from the classic 80’s era.

CONS Malden Arctic takes it a notch higher with its play on leather and suede, enhanced with a subtle debussed Star Chevron logo. This mid-cut sneaker is outfitted with a bootie construction and lugged outsole, fitting for the cold weather.

A comfortable execution on genuine leather, on the other hand, is what CONS Pro Leather offers. It has a medial underlay vent for breathability and gusseted booty construction for comfort and protection.

Lastlly, Converse Skateboarding Ambassador Kenny Anderson presents CONS KA-II which will capture the heart of everyday skater’s creative spirit and streetwise energy. Through the CONS Flex Cup technology, it provides improved grip and durability and enhanced breathability using the medial underlay vent.

For a grand finishing touch, the Converse CONS apparel collection has a spectacle of sports-inspired outwear with graphic bold prints.

The collection is fueled by street culture and includes cool mixed-media hoodies with camo mixed and vintage heather gray, quilted shirt jackets, and graphic tees. The impressive roster intertwines effortlessly with the rebellious and creative drive of CONS.

Jack Purcell Collection

Style and versatility are the core elements that compose the new Converse Jack Purcell Footwear Collection.

Converse Jack Purcell footwear collection, which brings together effortless style with versatile, everyday pieces for Fall 2014. 

The Fall 2014 Converse Jack Purcell sneaker collection introduces the Converse Jack Purcell Cross Stitch, a wax cotton cross-stitch detail, outfitted in leather, a core texture for seasonal dressing. The footwear is a perfect complement to the apparel, tying together printed details and premium and weatherized fabrics for fall. Its leather and subtle stitching details are also refined and built with all around comfort. 

These winter-ready styles flow effortlessly into a relaxed, inventive style with a touch of modern craftsmanship. 

The Converse Jack Purcell sneaker collection available for suggested retail prices of Php 3,750 - Php 4,790.

Massachusetts-based Converse Inc. has built a reputation, since 1908, in having a rich heritage of producing legendary sneakers under its helm. Converse offers a wide arrangement of footwear for men, women, children, as well as apparel and accessories. 

For more updates , visit Converse on the web at media.converse.com.

#PusoToTheMax Cheer!

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Gilas Pilipinas is the Philippine National Basketball Team under the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) previously called Smart Gilas Pilipinas.

Smart Gilas represents the Philippines at the 17th FIBA tournament. 

The national team's sponsors also believe that Gilas’ trademark “Puso” will take the squad to great heights despite the odds.

One of the sponsors who support Gilas’ cause is Max’s Restaurant. Max's has show their full support for the national team by launching events, activities and promos. Max's launched the campaign to back up Gilas.

Global Filipino brand Max’s Restaurant is counting on the power of social media as it drums up public support for Gilas Pilipinas, which gears up for its historic stint in the FIBA World Cup this August.

Launching the hash tag, “puso to the max” (#pusotothemax), Max’s is exhorting every Filipino from all over the world to express their love and support for the Gilas team set to fly to Spain to compete against the world’s elite.

“Puso to the Max seeks to ignite the spirit of nationalism and solidarity among Filipinos as we support the first Philippine team that has made it to the FIBA World Cup after 35 years. It is more than a hash tag, it is an expression of national pride and support for Gilas, who are our modern-day heroes and champions,” said Mark Gamboa, marketing director for Max’s Group of Companies.

The partnership of Max’s and Team Gilas links two elements that Filipinos are passionate about – basketball and authentic Filipino cuisine.

The “Puso to the Max” hash tag campaign is the celebration of the unyielding spirit of Filipinos and dedication of Team Gilas as they seek to showcase the undeniable caliber of Filipino talent on a global scale.

“Nothing of this magnitude can be achieved without team effort... that’s the story of Gilas. Here’s an entire nation coming together for Philippine basketball’s finest hour. That’s what Laban Pilipinas – puso – is all about,” said coach Chot Reyes of Gilas Pilipinas.

With this Cheer Video, by Max's with the theme #PusoToTheMax featuring Gilas Pilipinas Players by Max’s Restaurant

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVaSnh-4_Ws

Team Gilas Pilipinas showed their true mettle, winning four of their tune up games in Spain.

As they inch closer to their most awaited competition, let us continue to cheer for our players.

Good luck Gilas Pilipinas in the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain and in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.

For more details and updates, visit www.facebook.com/maxsrestaurant.

17th FIBA tournament to be aired on ABS-CBN Sports and ABS-CBN Sports + Action

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The 17th FIBA to the Filipino sports fan’s households and placing the action in their hands as ABS-CBN Sports and ABS-CBN Sports + Action are bringing the Basketball World Cup Spain 2014, 17th FIBA tournament this August 30 until September 15. 

Kapamilyas gear up for the World Cup of the Philippines’ most loved sport.

FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, will be gathering the world’s most renowned athletes to be pitted against each other in matches to be held across six different areas across Spain, namely Madrid, Sevilla, Bilbao, Barcelona, Granada, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

A total of 24 countries are set to go all out in the tournament, divided into four clusters, namely Groups A, B, C, and D.

High anticipation is particularly coming from the NBA superstars that are set to participate in this year’s FIBA that had showcased their talents through NBA matches aired by ABS-CBN Sports over the previous years.

Also participating in the tournament will be the country’s very own Team Philippines’ Gilas Pilipinas, led by Coach Chot Reyes. The team will be competing in Group B of the tournament alongside Senegal, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Greece, and Croatia.

The tournament’s defending champion, which defeated host country Turkey in the 2010 finals, is team USA, currently ranked 1 st in the FIBA World Rankings. Team USA had won the event four times in the past and has appeared in all 17 previous editions. This year’s team will be coached by Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski, who also coached the USA when it won its last title.

Posing as the biggest threat to the USA this year is no less than the host country. Spain is currently ranked 2 nd in the FIBA Wolrd Rankings and is to be led by brothers Pau and Marc Gasol. Spain last won the FIBA World Championship in 2006, when it defeated Greece in the gold medal game in Japan.

ABS-CBN Sports + Action will be airing all Group B games, which the Philippines belongs to, and all games of host country Spain.

ABS-CBN Sports will be airing all of Team USA’s games on Channel 2.

For updates, visit ABS-CBN Sports and ABS-CBN Sports + Action’s official page at www.sports.abs-cbn.com.

The Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon

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The Ice Bucket Challenge aims to raise awareness and funds to help strike out one of the most popular rare diseases worldwide today - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

An advocacy, the Ice Bucket Challenge, with hashtag ‪#‎IceBucketChallenge‬ is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on someone's head to promote awareness of the disease and encourage donations to research. It went viral on social media. The challenge dares nominated participants to be filmed having a bucket of ice water poured on their heads and challenging others to do the same. A common stipulation is that nominated people have 24 hours to comply or forfeit by way of a charitable financial donation.

What is ALS? 

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common degenerative disease of the motor neuron system.

Amyotrophic means that the muscles have lost their nourishment. When this happens, they become smaller and weaker.

Lateral means that the disease affects the sides of the spinal cord, where the nerves that nourish the muscles are located; and

Slerosis means that the diseased part of the spinal cord develops hardened or scarred tissue in place of healthy nerves.

Although ALS is incurable and fatal, with median survival of 3 years, treatment can extend the length and meaningful quality of life for patients.

ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after Lou Gehrig, a hall-of-fame baseball player for the New York Yankees who was diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s. People in England and Australia call ALS motor neurone disease (MND). The French refer to it as maladie de Charcot, after the French doctor Jean-Martin Charcot, who first wrote about ALS in 1869.

Researchers are examining many possible causes for ALS, such as the autoimmune response (in which the body attacks it own cells) and environmental causes, such as exposure to toxic or infectious substances. Scientists have found that people with ALS have higher levels of the chemical glutamate in their bodies, so research is looking at the connection between glutamate and ALS. In addition, scientists are looking for some biochemical abnormality that all people with ALS share, so that tests to detect and diagnose the disorder can be developed. (Source: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Fact Sheet.)

Being a phenomenon, the Ice Bucket Challenge increased media attention. And with numerous celebrities, politicians, athletes, media and bloggers, and everyday people US and here in the Philippines posting videos of themselves online and on TV participating in the event.

I have read one sharing about his accepting, did the challenge, and video of Senator Sonny Angara. 

Aside from taking on the ice bucket challenge and donating to a local rare diseases support group, Senator Sonny Angara has filed Rare Diseases Bill (Senate Bill No. 2383) which aims to provide patients with rare diseases and their families better access to adequate medical care, health information, and healthcare products needed to treat their condition.

And more, aside from accepting the challenge and filing the bill, Sen.Sonny Angara will also donate US$100 a month for the next year to PSOD.

Here: 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=704254102997475&set=vb.156752721080952&type=2&theater

and due to consistent demand, Sen. Angara did a second round, this one with more ice. http://youtu.be/kRo9MCrK7E4

ANGARA ACCEPTS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE, FILES RARE DISEASES BILL

Aside from taking on the ice bucket challenge on Thursday and donating to a local rare diseases support group, Senator Sonny Angara has filed Rare Diseases Bill which aims to provide patients with rare diseases and their families better access to adequate medical care, health information, and healthcare products needed to treat their condition.

A rare disease, also known as orphan disorder, is any health condition resulting from genetic defects that rarely affect the general population. Rare diseases are often chronic, progressive, degenerative, and life-threatening.

The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) became one of the most popular rare diseases worldwide today, thanks to the ice bucket challenge that aims to raise awareness and funds to help strike out ALS.

World Health Organization (WHO) data shows that there are 7,000 known rare diseases. 50 to 70 percent of which affect children while 30 percent of patients die before they reach the age of five.

According to the Philippine Society for Orphan Disorders (PSOD), the prevalence of rare diseases in the country is 1:20,000, with 227 patient families in the PSOD registry representing 48 rare disorders as of 2014.

Among the most common rare diseases in the Philippines are the maple syrup urine disease with 126 patients listed in PSOD, and the mucopolysaccharidoses II with 49 patients.

Since these diseases afflict only a small number of people, there is a lack of health practitioners who are experts in the field, and only a handful of companies manufacture medicines for rare diseases in the country.

There is also little government support for patients and research centers for orphan drug development in the Philippines.

"Such a situation makes treatment, often life-long, costly and far beyond the reach of most Filipino patients," Angara said.

"It should be national policy that the state endeavors toward universal healthcare, even for rare diseases," stressed the lawmaker, who is one of the authors of the Universal Healthcare Act of 2013.

Angara's Senate Bill No. 2383 aims to ensure that every patient diagnosed to have a rare disease has access to comprehensive medical care, including drugs and healthcare products, as well as timely health information to help them cope with their condition.

It also seeks to create and maintain a Rare Disease Registry that will contain data on rare diseases in the Philippines, patients afflicted with rare diseases, and orphan drugs and products.

"This data will be utilized in formulating policies, identifying program interventions and designing researches that will eventually address the needs of patients with rare disease," Angara explained.

The proposed measure further seeks to mandate the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to include the cost of treatment of rare diseases in the benefit package, and to direct provisions from the sin taxes collection to cover the cost of care for patients with rare diseases.

Senators Pia Cayetano, who lost her youngest son to complications from a rare congenital disease, and Cynthia Villar have also filed similar bills.

"Definitely, this ice bucket challenge craze would eventually die down. Looking forward, there is a need to integrate public educational and informational campaigns in the current programs of the Health Department to identify persons afflicted with rare disease and help the public understand the special needs of such persons," Angara said.

Aside from accepting the challenge and filing the bill, the senator will also donate US$100 a month for the next year to PSOD.

Angara was earlier nominated by Cebu Rep. Luigi Quisumbing, and in turn, he nominated Sen. Cayetano and Pilipinas Smart Gilas Basketball Coach Chot Reyes to do the challenge.

Some Ice Bucket Challenge videos will be posted here in the coming days. 

Can’t live without apps? Enjoy living the life App-rovingly!

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Here's for easier and up-to-the-minute deals. It's an enjoying living the life App-rovingly! 

Talk about living the life in the millennial generation – everything you need is right there at the palm of your hands. Being part of the world has never been easier due to the digitization of age. With both the physical and online markets spurting new products that make life more convenient, who are we to say no?

Living in the digital age makes us veer away from the traditional and manual pen-and-paper systems. The information-hungry generation is continuously being satisfied by the sudden uproar of computers, gadgets, mobile apps and other online portals that feed us with all the information we need, pronto. 

Don’t know where to eat? Surf for reviews. Need a ride? Book a cab. Feel like watching a movie? Get an e-ticket. Want a playlist for every mood? Download a music streaming app.  You can basically get anything you need in just a few clicks with these time-saving and efficient mobile applications. 

Here’s why spoiling yourself with the latest trends has become a way of living in the now

You’ve got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty, you’ve got whose-its and what’s-its galore!

The development doesn’t stop here. Hopping on the bandwagon of instant services is a new application for restaurant reservation in the Philippines- Eat Out Manila, an online restaurant booking system, also available as a smartphone app, which makes reserving for a table in your favorite restaurants a cinch.

You can now reserve a table in your desired restaurant- anytime and anywhere around the Metro.

Dining is about to get easier through their web-based interface that integrates into any restaurant’s reservation system, providing guests a real-time experience that could lock in a table at the time and place they want. Aside from convenient table reservations, exclusive deals are also up in store – so you can save up on discounts or get freebies from your favorite establishments.

For easier and up-to-the-minute deals, you know the drill: download all the apps you’ll need from social, transit, dining, music, news, and entertainment. 

Living life app-rovingly is at your app-raisal. 

With millions of mobile apps to choose from, life can really get as simple as it seems.