David Copperfield (illusionist)

Who is David Copperfield? A musician? Dancer? For your information, David Copperfield is a magician and illusionist best known for his combination of illusions and storytelling. He was born on September 16, 1956. David Copperfield played the character of Ken the magician in the 1980 horror film Terror Train. He also made an appearance in the 1994 film Pret-a-Porter. Copperfield met supermodel Claudia Schiffer in 1993 at a Berlin celebrity gala when he brought her on stage to participate in a mind reading act. They were engaged three months later, but the couple parted ways in the fall of 1999 never having set a wedding date. Forbes Magazine reported that Copperfield earned $57 million in 2003, making him the tenth highest paid celebrity in the world. It also estimated that he made $57 million in 2004 and $57 million in 2005.

Ferrari

Ferrari is one of the expansive car in the world. Everybody dreams to have it one. Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari death in 1988 at the age of 90. For your information, The Ferrari California is the latest model produced by Ferrari Company. Ferrari California is a grand touring sports car that will be launched by Ferrari at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. The California powered by front-mid mounted gasoline direct injection 4.3 L (260 cu in) V8 sending a claimed 338 kW (460 PS/453 hp) to the rear wheels. It has top speed of 310 km/h (193 mph) and it can accelerate from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) under 4 seconds. It has 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual. The price is not announced yet. I am sure it will be above 1 million us dollars.

Richest King In The World

Not many of us know about this information. But people which always reading will know about this. Do you know which King is the richest in the world? The answer is King Bhumibol Adulyadej from Thailand. The 80-year-old king had a $35 billion fortune, with his estimated net worth increasing sevenfold during the past year because of the increased transparency of his holdings. The Sultan of Brunei was one of only two royals to record a surprise fall in wealth, dropping to fourth in the list, despite huge rises in the price of oil and gas. The fortune of Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah is $20 billion. King Bhumibol, 80 years old and the world's longest-reigning monarch after six decades on the throne, is regarded as semi-divine by many Thais. Queen Elizabeth II, 82, has slipped one place down the global rich list of kings and queens. She now sits at 12th, with an estimated net worth of $295 million.

Following is Forbes' ranking of the world's richest royals:

1. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thailand)

2. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan (United Arab Emirates)

3. King Abdullah (Saudi Arabia)

4. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei)

5. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum (Dubai)

6. Prince Hans Adam II (Liechtenstein)

7. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (Qatar)

8. King Mohammed VI (Morocco)

9. Prince Albert II (Monaco)

10. Sultan Qaboos bin Said (Oman)

11. Prince Karim Al Husseini (Agha Khan)

12. Queen Elizabeth (Britain)

13. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (Kuwait)

14. Queen Beatrix (Netherlands)

15. King Mswati III (Swaziland)

Time zone

This world has been divided into many zones. Every zone have it's time zone. For information, time zone is a region of the earth that has adopted a uniform standard time, usually called as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart. Standard time zones can be found by dividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes. The local time in neighboring zones would differerent by one hour. However, political and geographical practicalities can result in irregularly-shaped zones that follow political boundaries. Before used time zones, people used local solar time. The use of local time became increasingly. The increase in worldwide communication has further increased the need for time references to one another.

Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike commonly known as CS is a tactical first-person shooter video game which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe". The game has been expanded into a series since its original release, which currently includes Counter-Strike Condition Zero, Counter-Strike Source, Counter-Strike Anthology and Counter-Strike on Xbox. Counter-Strike pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds. Each round is won by either completing the mission objective or eliminating the opposing force. The latest incarnation of the game, Counter-Strike Source, is based on the Source engine developed for Half-Life 2. The game is almost entirely based on the dynamically streamlined multiplayer experience activated via Steam, and is currently the most played Half-Life modification in terms of players, according to GameSpy. Counter-Strike was developed first as a Half-Life modification. Therefore named "Half-Life Counter-Strike." The original version was a 3rd-party Half-Life modification, but since then it has grown into a commercial mod and later advertised as separate game in itself. It still uses and runs on the Half-Life game engine and is based on its unchanged structure. Try it.

Unidentified Flying Object

I think everyone ever heard about Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). For your information, an Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified. Some definitions, such as the one used by the USAF, define a UFO as an object unable to be identified after scrutiny, while other definitions define an object as being a UFO from the time it is first reported as being unidentified, even though most subsequently become IFOs, Identified Flying Objects. Reports of unidentified aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but modern reports and the first official investigations began during World War II with sightings of so-called foo fighters by Allied airplane crews, and in 1946 with widespread sightings of European "ghost rockets". UFO reports became even more common after the first widely publicized United States UFO sighting, by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in mid 1947. Hundreds of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide. Since its introduction the term has become heavily associated with flying saucers and alien spacecraft, though an object may be classified as a UFO independently of opinion as to its origins. Most military and civilian UFO investigations concluded that the majority of objects can be identified either directly, or by applying Occam's Razor.

White Rabbit Candy Test Positive For Melamine

Last month, our country have been shocked by dangerous item in milk that we imported from China. Fruits and vegetables from China also infected. The latest one is White Rabbit Candy. Tests on Ego White Rabbit Creamy Candy samples showed that the content of melamine was 135 parts per million (ppm) compared with 2.5ppm, the level permitted by the Health Ministry. Heath Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai has ordered outlets to remove the candy from their shelves and destroy all stocks. Those found disobeying the directive can be prosecuted under the Food Act. Its is important to everybody to alert about this thing before bad thing happen.

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. For your information, its Maiden flight was on April 12, 1981. All Space Shuttle missions are launched from Kennedy Space Center (KSC). In 2003, Columbia broke apart during re-entry. The loss of Columbia was a result of damage sustained during launch when a piece of foam insulation the size of a small briefcase broke off the Space Shuttle external tank under the aerodynamic forces of launch. This is the worst Space Shuttle disaster. Six shuttles have been built the first is Enterprise, was not built for space flight because it used only for testing purposes. The other five are Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after launch in 1986, and Endeavour was built as a replacement. The shuttle will not be launched under conditions where it could be struck by lightning. Its is important to make sure this 1.7 billion transport and the people in it far from the risk and danger.

Handphone

Today, hand phone or mobile phone is something that needed in our daily. I am sure that people can not live without it today. It is because hand phone is very important to communicate with each other.Hand phone is a short-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialised base stations known as cell sites.In addition to the standard voice function of a mobile phone, current mobile phones may support many additional services and accessories such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. We also can see small children today have their own hand phone. So, it shows that everybody can buy hand phone.Using hand phone have many advantages but also have it's disadvantages.So, use it wisely and follow the rule.

SWAT

Do you know what is mean by word SWAT? I think some people know and some not. For your information, SWAT is a Special Weapons And Tactics. SWAT is an elite special operations tactical unit in American police departments, similar to the Taiwan Thunder Squad, Australia's Police tactical Groups like South Australian STAR Force (Special Tasks and Rescue), and London's C019. It is trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular patrol officers, including serving high-risk arrest warrants, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and engaging heavily-armed criminals. SWAT teams are often equipped with specialized firearms including assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, carbines, riot control agents, stun grenades, and high-powered rifles for snipers. They have specialized equipment including heavy body armor, entry tools, armored vehicles, advanced night vision optics, and motion detectors. In malaysia, the special team like SWAT is Unit Tindakan Khas (UTK).

Pilot

I am sure everybody like flaying is it? Flying is a challenge and it is a fun. To fly an aircraft ably and safely is a huge achievement. Flying is a fast, safe and
cost-effective way to travel. Whether you want to fly a small aircraft during the weekends, or a Boeing 737 for an airline, you will follow much the same
process. It is not easy to be a pilot. You will learn about yourself, the aircraft, the weather, the flying environment, and the rules pilots use to
keep their flying safe. How much you must learn depends on
what kind of pilot you want to be. With a Private Pilot License
(PPL) you can fly throughout Malaysia and carry passengers.
But you are not allowed to charge for your services. With a
Commercial Pilot License (CPL) you can work as a pilot. With
an Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) you can fly as a
captain on large aircraft and receive good salary. Pilot is a very good job although it is risky.

Very Dangerous Virus

I am sure that every people known about the virus. But do you alert about the new and dangerous virus. A dangerous Trojan spying on your computer while connecting to a remote attacker is a threat big enough, in itself. What if the same malice has peer-to-peer creeping ability too? Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that ‘Trojan.Win32.Inject.t’ or ‘W32/Inject-H’ is a new peer-to peer worm with IRC backdoor Trojan capacities. ‘Inject.t’ can run in the background of a computer by working as a Server that allows a hacker to control the system via IRC channels. Exploiting Windows vulnerabilities, this worm will proliferate in networks. First it copies itself into a shared folder on the local machine. From there, the P2P network takes over to contact other computers in the network and helps them download and execute the infected file.

Nokia

Everybody have mobile phone. Some people have more than one mobile phone. If we ask people, what brand that they use. Most of them are using Nokia. Nokia is one of the famous mobile phone brand in earth. Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki. Nokia is focused on wireless and wired telecommunications, with 112,262 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of 51.1 billion euros and operating profit of 8.0 billion as of 2007. It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones. What is known today as Nokia was established in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam. The name Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning a dark, furry animal that was locally known as the nokia, or sable, or later pine marten. Nokia had been producing commercial and military mobile radio communications technology since the 1960s. The Mobira Talkman, launched in 1984, was one of the world's first transportable phones. Now today, many new model have been introduced by nokia. One of the latest is, N series. Many people prefer to use Nokia mobile phone because it is a user friendly and it price is affordable.

#3 Biography of Thomas Edison

Early Life
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. When Edison was seven his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison lived here until he struck out on his own at the age of sixteen. Edison had very little formal education as a child, attending school only for a few months. He was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his mother, but was always a very curious child and taught himself much by reading on his own. This belief in self-improvement remained throughout his life.

Work as a Telegrapher

Edison began working at an early age, as most boys did at the time. At thirteen he took a job as a newsboy, selling newspapers and candy on the local railroad that ran through Port Huron to Detroit. He seems to have spent much of his free time reading scientific, and technical books, and also had the opportunity at this time to learn how to operate a telegraph. By the time he was sixteen, Edison was proficient enough to work as a telegrapher full time.

First Patent

The development of the telegraph was the first step in the communication revolution, and the telegraph industry expanded rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. This rapid growth gave Edison and others like him a chance to travel, see the country, and gain experience. Edison worked in a number of cities throughout the United States before arriving in Boston in 1868. Here Edison began to change his profession from telegrapher to inventor. He received his first patent on an electric vote recorder, a device intended for use by elected bodies such as Congress to speed the voting process. This invention was a commercial failure. Edison resolved that in the future he would only invent things that he was certain the public would want.

Marriage to Mary Stilwell

Edison moved to New York City in 1869. He continued to work on inventions related to the telegraph, and developed his first successful invention, an improved stock ticker called the "Universal Stock Printer". For this and some related inventions Edison was paid $40,000. This gave Edison the money he needed to set up his first small laboratory and manufacturing facility in Newark, New Jersey in 1871. During the next five years, Edison worked in Newark inventing and manufacturing devices that greatly improved the speed and efficiency of the telegraph. He also found to time to get married to Mary Stilwell and start a family.

Move to Menlo Park

In 1876 Edison sold all his Newark manufacturing concerns and moved his family and staff of assistants to the small village of Menlo Park, twenty-five miles southwest of New York City. Edison established a new facility containing all the equipment necessary to work on any invention. This research and development laboratory was the first of its kind anywhere; the model for later, modern facilities such as Bell Laboratories, this is sometimes considered to be Edison's greatest invention. Here Edison began to change the world.

The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. The first machine that could record and reproduce sound created a sensation and brought Edison international fame. Edison toured the country with the tin foil phonograph, and was invited to the White House to demonstrate it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in April 1878.

Thomas Edison's Work with Electricity

Edison next undertook his greatest challenge, the development of a practical incandescent, electric light. The idea of electric lighting was not new, and a number of people had worked on, and even developed forms of electric lighting. But up to that time, nothing had been developed that was remotely practical for home use. Edison's eventual achievement was inventing not just an incandescent electric light, but also an electric lighting system that contained all the elements necessary to make the incandescent light practical, safe, and economical.

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#2 Thomas Alva Edison

The famous person that I have chosen for my presentation is Thomas Alva Edison. I think every people around the world know about him and his contribution to the world. Like Ben Franklin, Thomas Alva Edison was both a scientist and an inventor. Thomas was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Do you know what is the largest contribution that he made to the world? It was light. When Edison was born, society still thought of electricity as a novelty, a fad. By the time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher, the Reverend Engle, was overheard calling him "addled". He ends his school in three months. His mother then home schooled him. Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union. Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. At time, he was sixteen. In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park". The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent light bulb. . Besides the light bulb, he also developed the phonograph and the "kinetoscope," a small box for viewing moving films. He also improved upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.

#1 The Best And Worst Presenter

In my opinion, Ed Tate is the best presenter. He presents his speech professionally and can attract the audience. The presentation that he presents very systematic and well organised with the perfect timing skill. Body language can help the audience more understanding the information that he transfer. Ed Tate speaks confidently and fluently. He can speak loudly and clearly, so the audience can understand his speech well. His speak also not too fast and not too slow. Smile, proves that he is confident with his speech. He also make some jokes in his presentation to make the audience feel the interesting. So, the audience do not sleep while he presents.

If we can see the best presenter, we also can see the worst presenter between five of them. I would say that, the microsoft dude is the worst presenter.He did not have confident while present his presentation. He did not even moved from where he stood. Besides that, he also do not have eyes contact with the audience. Eyes contact is important in the presentation because from that it shows that you are confident with your speech. His speech was not clear and it seems like he's murmuring to himself and sometimes he stutter while presenting. He also keep repeating the same words, it will make the audience boring and sleepy.