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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.  ~John Lancaster Spalding

In the family, she is the light, a best friend or even the breadwinner—our mother. To many countries it is often celebrated during the 9^th of May, but to some they even celebrates this special day earlier.  This occasion started when Julia Ward Howe proclaimed the advocacy for the need of official celebration for Mother’s Day on 1870 at Boston. She wants to recognize a holiday for mothers. In her historic proclamation she stated:  “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

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Sandra Bullock

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The Oscar Winner and Miss Congeniality star, Sandra Bullock has recently filed a divorce to her marriage with Jesse James. Also, just recently some news on twitter has been circulating that Sandra Bullock has adopted a cute black baby boy named Louis Bardo or now would be Louis Bardo Bullock.

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Last Tuesday, Atlanta Hawks Jamal Crawford was rewarded for being unselfish and accepting a back-up role for the first time in his NBA career and for that he was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year.
Crawford won the said award with a total vote of 580 from a possible 610 points,which include 110 out of the 122 first-placed votes. Dallas Mavericks back-up guard and last year’s sixth man of the Year awardees’ Jason Terry finishes second with a total points of 220 and Cleaveland Cavaliers’ Anderson Varejao finishes third with a total of 126 votes.
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Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels has been diagnosed with another medical malady.
Already ailing rock star Bret Michaels has been lately diagnosed with another medical malady. After Michaels suffered a brain hemorrhage last week, the 47-year-old glam-rock reality TV personality has developed a side effect which causes seizures, according to a statement which posted last Tuesday on the former Poison band’s front man website.
The condition which called Hyponatremia, stems from lack of sodium in the body. The stamen that posted on the Michaels’ website does not indicate if Bret Michaels had actually suffered any seizures in his body.
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This reality television show aims to find new solo singing talents that keep on blowing your mind. Those who already made it to the top have proven themselves that they can be called an American Idol. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between 2001 and 2003. Debuting June 11, 2002, as American Idol: The Search for a Superstar on the Fox network, the show has since become one of the most popular in the history of American television. It is currently the #1 program in the Nielsen ratings and is one of only three that have been #1 for five consecutive seasons.

During the first few seasons, contestants had to make it through two initial sets of cuts. The first was a brief audition with three other contestants in front of one or two of the show’s producers. Contestants then were either sent to the next round of producers or were literally kicked out. Out of the thousands of people who would show up to audition, roughly 100–200 contestants in the selected city made it past this round of preliminary auditions. However, in the more recent years, for the good of the viewers watching on television, contestants were to skip this point and go directly through to audition in front of the four American Idol judges. Those who make it are brought to Hollywood. Only about 10–40 contestants in each place make it to the city of stars, Hollywood. Not all auditions are televised because of time constraints. Only ten cities are being visited for auditions every season. They don’t visit the same city three seasons in a row.

Once in Hollywood, the contestants perform on different days, with eliminations by the judges. During the first six seasons, contestants select a song from a list to sing for the first round. For the next round, the contestants split themselves up into small groups and performed a song together. In the final round, the contestants performed a song of their choice a cappella.

The winner receives a one million dollar (US) record deal with a major label, and is managed by American Idol-affiliated 19 Management. In some cases, other finalists have also been signed by the show’s management company (which has first option to sign contestants) and received record deals with its major label partner.

The ninth season of this show premiered on January 12, 2010, on Fox. Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson have all returned as judges, and Ellen DeGeneres has permanently took over Paula Abdul as the fourth judge. Idol Gives Back also returned this season and was held on April 21, 2010, during the top seven results show. The top 24 semi-finals format used before also returned this season. This will be Simon Cowell’s last season judging on American Idol.

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Everyone knows of this social networking site that literally took over our lives leaving behind myspace, bebo, friendster and other social networking sites.

Considering the success of the company, it would be interesting to know how everything started. Facebook began as the pet project for a group of Harvard students, today it calls Palo Alto,Calif., home (facebook also owns an office in New York). It exceeds 350 employees, and the benefits package sounds pretty sweet. It includes:

- An IBM Thinkpad or Apple MacBook Pro — employee’s choice

- Medical, dental and vision health plans with no premiums

- Four weeks vacation and eight company holidays

- Free catered breakfast, lunch and dinner every day

- Dry cleaning and laundry services

With the increasing popularity facebook continues to grow day by day. The company claims that it has more than 57 million active members — users who have logged onto Facebook over the last 30 day period — on the site. Since January 2007, the average number of new registrations per day is 250,000. The company says that the number of users doubles every six months. Members from the United States account for most of Facebook’s population, followed by members in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Since June 2007, when Facebook first allowed third-party developers to create applications, developers have debuted more than 7,000 programs on the Facebook platform. Every day, new developers introduce around 100 applications to the site. Facebook revealed that more than 80 percent of all members have made use of at least one third-party application.

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Mark Zuckerburg, founder of Facebook, explains the concept of Facebook’s social network. The site has grown from Zuckerburg’s vision of connecting the Harvard campus to connecting users across the Internet.

Because it is so popular and heavily trafficked, Facebook requires massive amounts of storage space, both in a digital and physical sense. According to one Facebook employee, the company relies on around 200 memcached servers for production (day-to-day operation of the site) and a few more for developmental purposes. “Memcached” stands for memory caching, a method of temporarily storing data. A memcached server temporarily stores information in the server’s memory, reducing the need to search a database for information. This decreases the amount of time it takes between a request for information and the delivery of that data.

Facebook also made use of custom servers for back-end operations and a monitoring system to keep track of all the servers. Servers take up space, so Facebook leases facilities from vendors for server storage. In 2007, Facebook signed an agreement with DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) to lease 10,000 square feet of space in an Ashburn, Va., storage center.

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So how does Facebook make enough money to cover its expenses? It generates part of its revenue by selling web advertising space, but the most of its funding comes from private investors. According to Facebook, it has received at least $40 million in funds since it started in 2004.

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