MOTHER’S DAY 2010, May 9 (Sunday)

Mother's Day

Mother’s Day is nearly coming. How you will  prepare and surprise your mother who loves you the most? Not by traditional presents, such as a bunch of flowers or clothes of famous brands, I believe there’re some other choices for your MOTHER.

In a United State Websites (Askmen.com), it provides 10 Extraordinary gifts’ for our beloved Mom on Mother’s Day. I chose the top 5 from the list such as:

Extraordinary Gift Number 1 – Digital camera
Why she’ll love it: Contrary to popular belief, women like gadgets too. Give your mom a use-friendly digital camera and let her record the life of her own or her growing grandchildren. It will make a lot of fun for her daily life.

Giant Hamburger: For Guinness World Record

Giant Hamburger

Barbecue chef Ted Reader who completed the giant hamburger in Toronto, May 7, 2010. He is a Barbecue chef and his assistants made a hamburger with a weight of 590 pounds (267.6 kilograms).

That would make mincemeat of the previous Guinness World Record of 84 kilograms.

However, Reader says they still have to wait for Guinness to give them the official nod that they’ve claimed the biggest burger crown.

The award-winning chef used a specially designed grill with a built-in forklift mechanism designed to flip the oversized culinary creation.

Privacy Concerns: Facebook Bug Exposes Personal Chats

Facebook

According to media reports that the Facebook users discovered last Wednesday a glitch that gave them access to view their friends’ chat sessions and pending friends request on the site. This bug prompted the social networking site to briefly take its chat function offline.

Facebook says the company moved to close the security hole quickly the same day and the vulnerability existed “for a limited amount of time.” But the incident still arouses privacy concerns among users who feel hard to trust the service to protect their personal information.

Just recently Facebook introduced changes that essentially forced users to choose between making information about their interests available to anyone or removing it altogether.

Prediction For Possibility Of Time Travel: Professor Stephen Hawking

Professor Stephen Hawking

Humans might one day be able to construct spaceships capable of such speeds that time on board would slow down. Such a craft could travel thousands of years into the future, reaching distant star systems within the lifetime of its crew, according to Professor Stephen Hawking. He says that “Time travel was once considered scientific heresy and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a crank, but these days I’m not so cautious,” in his ongoing series being broadcast on the Discovery channel.

Stephen Hawking advises humanity could build a giant “relativistic” spaceship, so called because it would exploit the science set out by Albert Einstein in his theories of relativity.

Nigerian President Yar’ Adua Dies In Abuja

Nigerian President Yar' Adua

Presidential Spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi announced that the Ailing Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua died on Wednesday in Abuja, following a protracted illness.

Adeniyi says that the Ailing Nigerian President was died at about 9 p.m. local time (2000 GMT) in his official residence where he was recuperating from his illness.

Yar’adua’s aides have briefed Acting President” Goodluck Jonathan on the former ruler’s transition.

The President Yar’Adua death is due to a serious kidney complaint in year 2000, and tried to dismiss rumors of continued ill health in 2007 by challenging his critics to a game of squash.

Goes on Public the Patient Undergone Spanish Face-Transplant

Doctors and the Patient of Face Transplant

According to the local media in Spain, the second person receive a face transplant left hospital last Tuesday. The patient spent 14 weeks in the Hospital “Universitario Virgin de Rocio” in the Spanish city of Seville. He identified with his first name as Rafael who undergone face transplant on January 26.

Rafael operations took and lasted for 30 hours, was carried out after a year of practice and preparation which involved testing on donated corpses and three-dimensional simulations.

He suffered from benign tumors which had covered up to two thirds of his face, became the second person in Spain to undergo a face transplant. Spain carried out its first surgery of this kind in 2009.

An Update for Google’s Search Interface

Google New Search Interface

Google announced last  Wednesday to start to roll out a new interface for its search site globally, which it claimed will make online search easier.

You may notice on the re-designed left window of the panel that has quick access to a number of search options and tools. Users can switch between different categories, such as news, images or books, to get search results more relevant to what they are looking for.

In the new interface on the left-hand window, it is powered by search technologies launched earlier by Google in the past three years, Marissa Mayer, the company’s vice president of search products and user experience, said in a blog post.

Philippines Election 2010: Who Will Be The Next Philippines President?

It will be held on May 10 The 2010 General Elections of the Philippines, in which a new president, vice president, 12 senators, 287 members of the House of Representatives as well as some 17,000 local officials will be elected by some 50 million voters.

As the upcoming elections will bring major changes to official posts throughout this southeast Asian country, the 2010 General Elections are attracting attention from both inside the Philippines and the international community.

Philippines Presidential Candidates

The Philippines practises direct voting in general elections, and the candidate who secured the biggest amount of votes wins.

Several surveys showed that Aquino III was in the lead, followed by Villar and Estrada, with the latter two candidates having similar support rates.

As reported and survey of conducted nationwide by Pulse Asia from April 23 to 25, Aquino III enjoyed a support rate of 39 percent, while Villar and Estrada were respectively supported by 20 percent of the respondents, and the fourth candidate, former Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr. from Lakas Kampi CMD, the ruling party, got 7 percent. None of the other candidates got a support rate higher than 3 percent.

Tony Award Nominees List 2010: Tony Nominations 2010

Tony Nominations 2010

It was announced last Tuesday, May 4th The Tony Nominations 2010 edition.

The Tony awards which is short for Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, recognizes top performances, productions and work involved with Broadway shows. The Tony Awards will be televised on CBS from Radio City Music Hall. Here’s a look at some of the top 2010 Tony nominees and awards list for the 64th edition of the Tony awards. These nominees are from 2009-10, with an eligibility cut off date of April 29, 2010.

Tony Awards 2010 Ceremony, as same those in past years, it was presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. The event will be coverage by CBS and the show will be aired live on Sunday, June 13, 2010.

Phillies Fan Tasered By Security

Phillies Fan Tasered By Security

Fan felt on the field last Monday Night in Philadelphia not because the voltage but the amperes.

With the eighth (8th) inning of a Phillies-Cardinals game, a 17-year-old male hopped a fence at Citizens Bank Park. He fled security for a few seconds until a Philadelphia police officer fired a Taser gun at the boy from about 15-feet away, dropping him on the spot in left-center field.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter who spoke to this young fan man’s dad last Tuesday morning that the kid is actually called his father to ask for permission before running on the field. The dad told him it wasn’t the best of ideas — you think? — but the future Penn State student went ahead and did it anyway. He’s being charged as a juvenile for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and defiant trespass.