“We are delighted to be able to award the Honorary Golden Bear to such a terrific artist and world star. Meryl Streep is a brilliant, versatile performer who moves with ease between dramatic and comedic roels,” said Dieter Kosslick, Berlin Film Festival Director.

Organizers of the Berlin Film Festival proudly share their respect to Meryl Streep for getting a lifetime achievement award from them in February. The organizers are scheduled to screen six of Streep’s films, which include her Oscar winning portrayal in “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Sophie’s Choice” during the film festival next month.

Meryl Streep has a record of 16 Oscar nominations and Berlin Film Festival is proud to do the Honorary Golden Bear on February 14, they said she truly deserves it.

“The virus found in the patient was 90 percent similar to H5N1 viruses previously isolated in ducks in China, which suggested that the man was very likely to have been infected through direct contact with a bird. It is still not transmissible between people,” said the Shenzhen Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in China.

Officials of Disease Prevention and Control in China finally break it silence on issue of virus strain found in a man, who lived in Shenzhen just across the border from Hong Kong. According to the reports, he died from multi-organ failure last Saturday; it was after he was admitted to hospital because of fever. It is said that the virus brought on the disease; it is according to the state media reports.

According to the researchers, the virus is normally found in birds but the possibility of the virus mutation is very much possible, it could mutate into a form that makes the spread easily between humans.

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“With all the swirl out there, the impression is that it must be defocusing. There is little confusion. The other noise out there you are talking about at parties or with your friends, but we feel very good about what we are building, Blake Irving, Yahoo Chief Product Officer.

This is a continuing effort of Yahoo, just like the “Runaway Project”, to provide informative videos, rich images, and text in friendly user presentations in a testing process of popular iPad social magazine application Flipboard.

Yahoo also introduce an IntoNow iPad application that will let tablets view audio short teaser to figure out what television shows people are watching and then a very easy to use platform to be connected with news, Twitter posts and other information.

Irving also said, “Hundreds of millions of people rely on Yahoo! Everyday, yet no two users are alike. By building these products on top of our powerful platforms with beautiful interactive design, we are getting closer to a truly “personal Web” for every Yahoo! Customer.”

Kim Kardashian at the Seventh Annual Hollywood Life Magazine Awards night.

Everyone that knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic! I love with all of my heart and soul. I want a family and babies and a real life so badly that maybe I rushed in to something too soon. I believed in love and the dream of what I wanted so badly. I felt like I was on a fast roller coaster and couldn’t get off when now I know I probably should have,” said Kim Kardashian.

Kim seems to be remembering her experience from her ex-husband, Kris. After series of gossips and hearsay, it is now official, the shocking truth about her divorce. According to her, the best way to survive the torment of their break-up, she decided to work, work and work. However, she looked so tired and unhappy as she posed for the photographers in Australia.

Kim also said, “I got caught up with the hoopla and the filming of the TV show that when I probably should have ended my relationship, I didn’t know how to do and didn’t want to disappoint a lot of people.”

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“If you are reporting a child’s account registered under a false date of birth, and the child’s age is reasonably verifiable as under 13, we will promptly delete the account. If the reported child’s age is not reasonable veriable as under 13, then we may not be able to take action on the account,” said Mozelle Thompson, Facebook Privacy Authority.

According to Facebook privacy czar Mozelle Thompson, Facebook cancelled 20,000 Facebook account on a daily basis, the reason – underage account set up. The recent findings by Consumer Reports states that 7.5 million of Facebook users are identified to be under age and most of their parents allowed them to use the site (Facebook).

The survey includes the following conclusion:

“Although many sites restrict access to children, our data show that many parents knowingly allow their children to lie about their age – in fact, often help them to do so – in order to gain access to age- restricted sites in violation of those site’s Terms of Service. This is especially true for general audience social media sites and communication services such as Facebook, Gmail, and Skype, which allow children to connect with peers, classmates and family members for educational, social, or familiar reasons.”

Microsoft logo at Microsoft's Redmond campus

“At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time,” said Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s Spokesperson.

New strategy like “Windows Everywhere” mark as the Courier’s end, it let us glimpsed into Microsoft’s Darwinian approach to new product launches and development, however, it refuses to recognize the protection of its old product franchises. According to reports, Microsoft finally decided to cancel Courier because it didn’t clearly alight with the company’s Windows and Office franchises and it can be expected within a few weeks.

The team of the Courier had estimated 130 Microsoft employees working shoulder to shoulder and dedicated to non stop contribution to it. A member of the Courier team also said, “There was extensive work done on the business, the technology and the experience. It was very complete, not a whim.”

U.S. President Barack Obama Official photographic portrait

“Congress has been trying since February to do something about this. It has not yet been able to get it done. It is the belief of this administration that… we can’t wait. I still urge Congress to move forward and build on this executive order,” said U.S. President Barack Obama.

Obama took initial initiative to take actions to assist in the reduction of prescription-drug shortages. He signed an executive order giving instructions to the FDA or the Food and Drug Administrations to take necessary actions in assisting reduction of life-saving medicine shortage. According to FDA reports, there have been more than 200 prescription-drug shortages this year alone, more particularly shortages on cancer drugs and anesthetics.

However, the signed executive order does not give the FDA new authority, but it increases magnitude of the agency’s existing authority by requiring drug manufacturers to submit information that is essential to eventual case of drug shortages. FDA is planning to add more staff to monitor the new responsibility.

Japanese flag

“I didn’t speak Japanese. As a kid, I’d gone to Japanese school on Saturday. I ran a foul of the teacher because I would not bow to a picture of the emperor of Japan. I said, “I’m all American. He is not my emperor. I ran into a couple of people who said “Get the hell out of here, you Jap”, my parents told us after that we have to be very careful,” said George Okamoto, Japanese-American veteran who served in the 100^th Infantry Battalion and Military Intelligence Service.

George Okamoto is scheduled to receive the highest civilian award given by the U.S. government. He remembered being wounded severely in both legs during a combat mission in Italy, Okamoto spent the last two years of his military service in hospitals for soldiers, 1945 is the day when he is finally discharged from the service, he then returned to Chicago where he met his wife and finally settled with his family.

Okamoto also added, “They didn’t care where you moved inland, as long as you didn’t go to the West Coast, then I found a job as an Illustrator in Chicago.”

Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusets Official Photographic portrait

There’s some in my party who have their own versions of the status quo. You will find out pretty quickly I’m not much of a status quo person. The establishment is not real fond of me,” said Ricky Perry, Texas Governor, during a visit in Des Moine.

Perry has defined a clear-cut statement opposing economic proposal put forward by the former Massachusetts governor. He said Romney’s plan was executed in a wrong discretion analysis on preserving much of the current tax system. Perry also made mention on ethanol- a corn-based energy that has become famous in a state with a large agricultural base.

Perry also added, “Some think we can fix Washington with a pair of tweezers. I happen to think we need to take a sledgehammer to it. The federal government needs to be completely out of the energy business, picking winners and losers. This president of the United States is at war with the coal industry.”

Southern California Edison Plant

“Some vital areas in the turbine building became inaccessible because of the gas leak, so they declared the alert. No one has been evacuated from the site, nobody’s been injured and nobody off the site should be affected,” said Victor Dricks, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

According to reports, an estimated one gallon every ten minutes was leaking, leading tot he evacuation of employees at the turbine building. It is said that the leak was first detected about 3 p.m.  And point out a location in a water purification system for one of the two nuclear reactors. Dricks said the leak could be converted into gas on contact with air, prompting to an alert of evacuation procedure; however, there were no reported injuries to the incident.

Apparently, the leak was in the non-nuclear section of the building, which is operated by Southern California. The good news about the incident is that no radioactive material was released and no reported hazardous materials that could inflict harm to the public