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Heart Beat (心跳) is Wang Lee Hom's latest album which was released in December 2008. In this album, Lee Hom continues his rock-style that began from his previous album, Change Me (改變自己). This was shown in his release of his song "What's Up Rock!!" (搖滾怎麼了!!), as debuted on radio in September of 2008. This song shows a fusion of his "chinked-out" style with the genre of rock involved as well. With the release of the song, Lee Hom eventually announced his MUSIC-MAN World Tour, which kicked off in Taipei a few weeks after the debut of "What's Wrong With Rock!!" In his concert, he debuted three new songs: "Dirty Love" (愛得得體) ,"No Reason to Pay Attention to You" (我完全沒有任何理由理你) and "Everything". However, the title track of the album, "Heartbeat" (心跳) was not introduced until December 8th, when the song was released on the radio.

1. 愛得 得體 Dirty Love (3:48)
2. 心跳 Heartbeat (4:23)
3. 春雨裡洗過的太陽 The Sun After Washed by Spring Rain (4:51)
4. Everything (4:59)
5. 我完全沒有任何理由理你 No Reason to Pay Attention to You (3:07)
6. 另一個天堂 Another Heaven (4:26) (featuring Jane Zhang)
7. 玩偶 Puppet (2:57)
8. 腳本 Screenplay (4:12)
9. 競爭對手 Competitor (4:05)
10. 搖滾怎麼了!! What's Wrong With Rock!! (2:35)
    

When I first see it on CD store, I'm really excited so I bought it straight away. Several songs in this Heart Beat album is really great and I like them very much. but there are few songs that I don't really like. But for the credit. Wang Lee Hom wrote all the songs himself, Really is a musical genius. So overall not the best album by Lee Hom, but still a nice album to have.
Here are some reviews of the songs :

1. 愛得 得體 Dirty Love
I’ve got to admit that usually Lee Hom picks better first tracks than this. Its not horrible, its just…not my type of music. I’m more of a ballad and RnB type. But after several times being played, this song is not that bad afterall.

2. 心跳 Heart Beat


This was the first song I heard on the radio from this album. When I first listen to this song, it's just a usual ballad song. But now I think it's such a great song. Lee Hom penned the lyrics, composed it, arranged it, produced it, and personally played all the instruments you can hear in the song. One of my favorite song in this album.

3. 春雨裡洗過的太陽 The Sun After Washed by Spring Rain

This one is also one of my favorite song in this Heart Beat album. The melody is really relaxing. It kinda reminds me of that classic oldie "Rhythm of the rain" The whistling at the beginning gives the song a really nice touch too. Something that you can chill to on a hot summer day with a glass of really cold drink.

4. Everything


This is my favorite song in this album. Kinda like "Forever Love", "Kiss Goodbye", "Wei yi". You know, the typical, awesome Lee Hom sad ballads. The song is so nice, the lyrics are beautiful : "you’re my everything, the one reason that helps me face this world with courage; want to give you everything, doesn’t matter how many days it will take, forever starts now" His voice is so great too in this song. Such a great song.

5. 我完全沒有任何理由理你 No Reason to Pay Attention to You
I Don't really like this song. This song is just weird. The tunes are off and the music is not for my ears too. But that's my personal opinion. The lyric is funny though.

6. 另一個天堂 Another Heaven ft Jane Zhang
This one is another one of my favorite song in this album. Such a beautiful duet. Lee Hom's voice and Jane's voice are a perfect match. I can't help to listen it again and again. Its the type of songs that will grow on you after awhile.

7. 玩偶 Puppet
Very upbeat and jumpy jumpy. Great song for festive seasons. Makes me bop my legs up and down and sing. I also hear traces of Lee Hom’s famous chinked out sounds. A very fun song! It’ll be heaps fun when he performs it at one of his concerts.

8. 腳本 Screenplay
This song is good, the instrumental is nice, but not the song you'll get mad into. Just an "OK" song I think

9. 競爭對手 Competitor
This song kinda gives off an RnB vibe. Not the typical RnB, but its still so much love. Really catchy. a really nice RnB song.

10. 搖滾怎麼了!! What's Wrong With Rock!!
This is not the one I like too from this Heart Beat album. But Lee Hom personally composed this and penned the lyrics, so he deserves some credit.

If you want to know more about Wang Lee Hom, the singer of this Heart Beat album, you can find it here. And you can also find some of the song to be downloaded here. But remember, all the song here is for reviewing purpose only. if you like the song, please buy original CDs and cassettes.

Name : Jason Mraz

Profession : Singer
Birth Details : June 23, 1977
Birth name : Jason Thomas Mraz
Height : 5" 9" (1.75 m)
Spouse : Sheridan Edley Mraz (2001 - ?) (divorced)
Trade mark : Red hat tipped to the right
Frequently ad-libs and improvises lines in his songs when singing them live

Jason Mraz was born June 23, 1977. He is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Jason Mraz's stylistic influences include reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, and hip hop.

Jason Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come in 2002 but it wasn't until the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z that Jason Mraz achieved commercial success. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 200 and sold over one hundred thousand copies in the US. In 2008, Jason Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of many international charts.

Jason Mraz's international breakthrough came with the release of lead single from We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. titled "I'm Yours". The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single. The song was a huge commercial success in the US with it receiving a triple-Platinum certification from the RIAA for sales of over three million. The song was successful internationally and topped the charts in New Zealand and Norway and peaking in the top ten of multiple international charts.

Biography

Jason Mraz is of Czech descent through his grandfather who moved to the United States from what is now the Czech Republic in 1915. His surname is Czech for "frost."

He attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, for a short time, studying musical theater before moving to San Diego.

Mraz also owns an Avocado Farm in San Diego.

Music career

Waiting For My Rocket to Come

In 2002, Mraz released his first major-label debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come. The allbum was a relative commercial success, with the album peaking at number fifty-five on the Billboard Hot 200 and at number two on the Top Heatseekers Chart. The lead single from the album, The Remedy (I Won't Worry) was co-written by music production team The Matrix and it was Mraz's first top twenty single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number fifteen.

Mr. A-Z and tours

In July 2005, Mraz opened for Alanis Morissette during her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour. On July 26, 2005, he released his second major-label album, Mr. A-Z, for Atlantic Records. It entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number 5. In December, the album earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while its producer, the prolific Steve Lillywhite, received a nomination for Producer of the Year. Mraz's friend and former roommate Billy "Bushwalla" Galewood also collaborated on the album, co-writing "Curbside Prophet" and the album's third single, and "I'll Do Anything".

Mraz began his long-running tour in support of Mr. A-Z at the San Diego Music Awards on September 12. The tour featured a variety of opening acts, including Bushwalla and Tristan Prettyman, with whom he had co-written the duet "Shy That Way" in 2002. Mraz and Prettyman dated, ending their relationship in 2006. They also co-wrote the song "All I Want For Christmas is Us". In November 2005, Mraz opened for the Rolling Stones on five dates during their 2005�"2006 world tour. Also in 2005, Mraz was one of many singers featured in the fall advertisement campaign for The Gap entitled "Favorites". The music-themed campaign also featured other singers including Tristan Prettyman, Michelle Branch, Joss Stone, Keith Urban, Alanis Morissette, Brandon Boyd, and Michelle Williams. In December 2005, Mraz released the first part of his ongoing podcast.
Jason Mraz performs at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut on May 17, 2006.

In March 2006, Mraz also performed for the first time at a sold-out performance in Singapore with Toca Rivera as part of the annual Mosaic Music Festival.[citation needed] In May 2006, Mraz toured mostly small venues and music festivals in the U.S., along with a few shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The tour included a May 6, 2006 acoustic show with P.O.D., Better Than Ezra, Live, and The Presidents of the United States of America. Mraz was featured as a headlining guest of St. Louis's annual Fair St. Louis and performed a free concert at the base of the Arch on July 1, 2006.

In December 2006, Selections for Friends, the live, online-only album recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour, was released. Selections for Friends features Jason's favorite songs from the Schubas Tavern and Villa Montalvo shows he played in July 2006. Jason Mraz began 2007 by debuting his new single "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Mraz entitled "Plain Jane" that he rewrote for the ABC TV show Ugly Betty. The song was featured as a part of ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" campaign. He has since released a song in Spanish entitled "La Nueva Belleza (The New Beauty)".

In 2007, American Idol contestant Chris Richardson performed "Geek in the Pink", which subsequently garnered the song mass recognition and increased downloads at the American iTunes Store. It was also performed later that year by Canadian Idol contestant Greg Neufeld. "Geek in the Pink" peaked at #22 on the U.S. iTunes Store on March 10, 2007, but it was ineligible for the site's Hot 100. The tape-recording of bootlegs during Mraz's shows is explicitly supported by him and his management.

We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.

Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. on May 13, 2008. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 200 giving Mraz his highest charting album was Mraz's international breakthrough. Following the success of lead single, I'm Yours, the album broke into the top ten of many international music charts and charted in the top three in Australia and the US

The first single "I'm Yours" reached #1 on AAA radio charts in the US. The single was a B-side to Mr A-Z, and was made famous by recordings from his live shows. In September 2008, the song became Mraz's first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking so far at #6. As of October 14, 2008, the album has been certified Gold by the RIAA, selling in excess of 500,000 copies in the US. The song was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of multiple European charts and topping the charts in New Zealand for six weeks.

Mraz and his song "I'm Yours" was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2009 51st Grammy Awards. The album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 2009. On January 31, 2009, Mraz was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, performing "I'm Yours" and "Lucky", the latter with Colbie Caillat. "Lucky" has peaked on the Hot 100 at 66.

Discography

* Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002)
* Mr. A�"Z (2005)
* We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (2008)

You can find some of Jason Mraz's songs to be downloaded here. Remember, all songs here is for reviewing purpose only. Buy original Cd's and cassettes if you like the song.

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Chinese Name : 王力宏
English Name : Lee Hom Wang
Christian Name : Alexander
Japanese Name : Ou Riki Hiroshi
Birthday : May 17, 1976
Ethnicity : Taiwanese
Nationality : American
Astrological Sign : Taurus
Zodiac : Dragon
Height : 6'2"
Weight : 150lb
Birthplace : Rochester, New York
Blood Type : O
Family : Parents, Older Brother Leo (+3 yrs), Younger Brother Lee Kai (-9 yrs)
Elementary School : Pittsford Elementary School – Pittsford, New York
High School : Sutherland High School – Pittsford, New York
Undergraduate : Williams College – Williamstown, Massachusetts
Graduate School : Berklee School of Music – Boston, Massachusetts
Languages : English, Manderin, Cantonese, French
Instruments : Violin, piano, guitar, drums, vibraphone, accordion
Favourite Colour : Blue
Favourite Foods : Peking duck, pizza, Japanese cuisine, grapefruit juice
Favourite Artists : Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Prince, George Michael, Sting
Favourite Sport : Baseball
Favourite Subject : Jazz piano
Favourite Pet : Dog
Favourite Attire : T-shirt and jeans
Email : wangleehom.com@gmail.com
Mailing Address : P.O. Box 20083, Rochester, NY 14602, USA

Early Life
Alexander Lee-Hom Wang was born in Rochester, New York, the second among 3 sons. At the age of six, Wang began to take violin lessons. He attended Jefferson Road Elementary School, Pittsford Middle School, then Pittsford Sutherland High School in the town of Pittsford. Wang graduated from Pittsford Sutherland with high honors.

Wang chose to attend Williams College, where he graduated with honors, double majoring in music and Asian Studies.W hile in college he sang with the Springstreeters, an all-male a cappella group. He continued his studies by attending Berklee College of Music's Professional Music program, with voice as his principal instrument.

Music Career
In 1995, he was signed to a professional recording contract while visiting his grandparents in Taiwan. Since then, Wang has become one of the new songwriters and musicians revolutionizing the Chinese-language music industry. He is active in all areas of music production, from composing to producing, to music arrangement, to lyric writing, to directing his own music videos.

Although he did not begin learning Mandarin until he was 18, Wang is now fluent in the language (including reading and writing) and has written most of the lyrics for his songs. Wang plays over 10 musical instruments. In his albums and live concerts, Wang can be heard playing piano, drums, guitar, bass, violin, vibraphone, erhu, xun, and more.
A classically trained music background enables Wang to pull from a variety of musical styles and continuously reinvent his own sound that is distinctly Chinese and western at the same time. For example, his 2005 release, Shangri-La drew heavily from R&B, dance pop, and the musics of Chinese ethnic minorities from Tibet, Mongolia, and Yunnan.
Having established himself as one of the most important, influential, and prolific artists in Chinese music, never repeating himself, Wang continued to invent and experiment with new sounds and voices.

His ninth album, Unbelievable marked a milestone in his career. Not only did the album heavily stress mainstream R&B and Hip Hop, it also sold more than 1.3 million copies in Asia and won him Best Producer of the Year again for the 15th Golden Melody Awards in 2004. The lead single of the album, "You're Not Here" (Chinese: 你不在; pinyin: nǐ bù zài) was ranked #1 in several music charts and stayed there for well over 10 weeks. Before the release of Unbelievable, Wang began his first world concert tour titled "Unbelievable". The concert tour received rave reviews from fans and critiques in all regions in Asia.

In his tenth album Shangri-La, released on the last day of 2004, Wang incorporated the often unheard music of Chinese aboriginal music into mainstream hip hop and coined this style "chinked-out". He experimented with the tribal sounds of China, Tibet, and Mongolia, traveled to remote villages, carrying 15 kg of equipment while fighting bouts of altitude and food sickness. Despite the derogatory nature of the term "chink," Wang had wanted to repossess the term and "make it cool." Within ten days of its release, Shangri-La sold past an outstanding 40,000 copies, an excellent start as the first album to be sold in Taiwan of 2005. Within a month, the album sold over 300,000 copies.

Continuing the "chinked-out spirit" by infusing elements of Beijing opera and Kunqu into the songs, Heroes of Earth was released on December 30, 2005. Heroes of Earth was his eleventh album. He collaborated with American rapper Jin and Korean artists Rain and Lim Jeong Hee and again won himself Best Male Vocalist in the 17th Golden Melody Awards in 2006. Heroes of Earth impressively broke the record of selling more than 1 million copies ten days after its release. The album stayed at first place in the G-Music Charts for 6 weeks. Ultimately, the album stayed in the charts for a total of 23 weeks and became third for the most sold album in Taiwan of 2006.

2007: Change Me
In the summer of 2007, Wang released his much anticipated 12th album, Change Me. The album was released on Friday, July 13, disregarding the superstition generally attached to Friday the 13th. Through this album, Leehom promotes the issue of global warming and social awareness. The packaging of the CD uses recycled paper and contains no plastic. Wang believes that little changes in each person can affect the world. The CD also came with a pair of reusable metal chopsticks in a pouch. This is also to promote environmental awareness.

Wang's first promotional single album for the new album, "Falling Leaf Returns to Roots" (traditional Chinese: 落葉歸根; pinyin: luòyè guī gēn) gave its world premiere at Hito Radio on June 20, 2007. The music style is very different from Wang's previous singles. Wang had said that the inspiration behind the song was due to the influence of his portrayal of Kuang Yumin in the film Lust, Caution.The song accompanies melodic violin and piano solos. In addition, Leehom collaborated with Selina Ren, a member of the famous Taiwan girl group S.H.E in "You're a song in my heart" (Chinese: 你是我心内的一首歌; pinyin: nǐ shì wǒ xīn nèi de yī shǒu gē). For this song, Wang sings a few lines in Taiwanese, which was a bit of a challenge for him because of he is not fluent in Taiwanese. Wang learned some Taiwanese in order to help deal with this challenge

In August 2008, Wang sought US$320,000 in damages for plagiarism by Pritam, an Indian composer. The lead song for the movie Race, composed by Pritam, was allegedly copied from "Deep Within the Bamboo Grove" (traditional Chinese: 竹林深處; pinyin: zhú lín shēnchù).
Wang was announced as conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra's 2008 annual grand finale for four concerts over three days. He was the first Asian pop musician ever to conduct the orchestra.

2008: Heart Beat
In December 2008, Wang released the album Heart Beat (traditional Chinese: 心．跳; pinyin: xīn tìao). This album includes a track with Jane Zhang, a Mandarin artist who is high on the list of collaboration partners for male artists. He demonstrates a new style with the album's main focus going on the electric guitar, as he uses it for the majority of his tracks, and the album in general focuses more on the rock genre than his previous albums.

Filmography

• 2007 Lust, Caution (Chinese: 色，戒; pinyin: Sè, Jiè)
• 2005 Starlit High Noon (真昼ノ星空)
• 2003 Moon Child (月光游俠)
• 2001 The Avenging Fist (拳神)
• 2000 Ashes to Ashes: Against Smoking (煙飛煙滅)
• 2000 China Strike Force (雷霆戰警)
• 1999 The Iron Giant (鐵巨人)

Discography

April Fools' Day or also known as All Fools' Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on a fool's errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible (weird tradition isn't it ?)Traditionally, in some countries, the jokes only last until noon: like UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool". Elsewhere, such as in Ireland, France, and the USA, the jokes last all day.

Any how the quest of origin and the date from which the day is being celebrated is still haunting to many today. The origin of April Fools' Day is obscure. One likely theory is that the modern holiday was first celebrated soon after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar; the term referred to someone still adhering to the Julian Calendar which it replaced. In many pre-Christian cultures May Day (May 1) was celebrated as the first day of summer, and signalled the start of the spring planting season. An April Fool was someone who did this prematurely.

April Fool’s Day has all the characteristics of a renewal festival. For one day forms of behavior that are normally not allowed (lying, deception, and playing pranks) become acceptable, and yet the disorder is bounded within a strict timeframe. Traditionally, no pranks are supposed to be played after 12 o’clock noon of the first. Social hierarchies and tensions are exposed, but hostility is defused with laughter.

For as long as people have been speculating about April Fool’s Day, they have noticed the similarities between it and other springtime “renewal” festivals. Many historians have theorized that April Fool’s Day evolved directly out of some such festival practiced in ancient times. A direct connection between April Fool’s Day and any of the Roman-era festivals seems unlikely, though it is quite possible that the tradition evolved out of a medieval festival held around the time of the Vernal equinox (such as the New Year’s festivals at the end of March, as discussed above). Nevertheless, there is no agreement about which festival the tradition of April Foolery developed out of. Below is a list of some of the festivals that have most frequently been suggested as its forerunners.

The most popular theory about the origin of April fool’s Day involves the French calendar reform of the sixteenth century. The theory goes like this :

• French calendar reform
  In 1564 France reformed its calendar, moving the start of the year from the end of March to January 1. Those who failed to keep up with the change, who stubbornly clung to the old calendar system and continued to celebrate the New Year during the week that fell between March 25th and April 1st, had jokes played on them. Pranksters would surreptitiously stick paper fish to their backs. The victims of this prank were thus called Poisson d’Avril, or April Fish—which, to this day, remains the French term for April Fools—and so the tradition was born.
  The calendar-change hypothesis seems, on the surface, like a logical explanation for the origin of April Fools. However, the hypothesis becomes less plausible if we examine the history of calendar reform in more detail.
• The Julian calendar
  The Julian Calendar, established by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, made January 1 the first day of the year. But as Christianity spread throughout Europe, efforts were made to christianize the calendar by moving New Year’s Day to dates of greater theological significance, such as Christmas or Easter. Some countries continued to use January 1, justifying this as the date of Christ’s circumcision. As a consequence, by the 1500s the European calendar system was a mess. Not only had errors in the Julian calendar caused the solar year to diverge from the calendar year, but also countries were beginning the year on different dates.
  Moreover, the French used Easter as the start of the year primarily for legal and administrative purposes. January 1, following the Roman custom, was widely regarded as the traditional start of the year, and it was the day when people exchanged gifts.
• Sixteenth-Century Reform
  The practice of starting the year on Easter Day caused enormous practical inconvenience, so around 1500 many people in France began to use January 1 as the start of the calendar year. For instance, in early sixteenth-century French books, it is common to see both forms of dating listed side-by-side (for titles published in January, February, or March). By the mid-sixteenth century, a calendar system beginning on January 1 was in wide use in France. In 1563 King Charles IX decreed January 1 to be the first day of the year, thus aligning legal convention with what had become the popular practice. His edict was passed into law by the French Parliament on Dec. 22, 1564.
  Eighteen years later, in 1582, Pope Gregory issued a papal bull decreeing sweeping calendar reform. The Gregorian reform included moving the start of the year to January 1, as well as creating a leap-year system and eliminating ten days from the month of October 1582 in order to correct the drift of the calendar. The Pope had no formal power to make governments accept this reform, but he urged Christian nations to do so. France immediately accepted the reform, although it had already changed the start of the year in 1564. (Many histories of April Fool’s Day mistakenly suggest that France only moved the start of the year in 1582 when it accepted the Gregorian calendar reform in its entirety.)

• The 1946 April Fools' Day tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii. The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people in Hawaii and Alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre), established in 1949 for Pacific Ocean countries. The tsunami in question is known in Hawaii as the "April Fools' Day Tsunami" due to people drowning because of the assumptions that the warnings were an April Fools' prank.
• The death of King George II of Greece on April 1, 1947.
• The AMC Gremlin was first introduced on April 1, 1970.
• On April 1, 1984, singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father. Originally, people assumed that it was a fake news story, especially considering the bizarre aspect of the father being the murderer.
• On April 1, 1993, NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion Alan Kulwicki was killed in a plane crash involving Hooters of America executives in Blountville, Tennessee near the Tri-Cities Airport. The party was traveling to the Food City 500 qualifying scheduled for the next day.
• The merger of Square and its rival company, Enix, took place on April 1, 2003, and was originally thought to be a joke.
• Leslie Cheung, one of Hong Kong's well-known singer and actor, committed suicide in 2003 due to severe depression.
• Gmail's April 2004 launch was widely believed to be a prank, as Google traditionally perpetrates April Fools' Day hoaxes each April 1 (see Google's hoaxes.) Another Google-related event that turned out not to be a hoax occurred on April 1, 2007, when employees at Google's New York City office were alerted that a ball python kept in an engineer's cubicle had escaped and was on the loose. An internal e-mail acknowledged that "the timing…could not be more awkward" but that the snake's escape was in fact an actual occurrence and not a prank.
• The 2005 death of comedian Mitch Hedberg was originally dismissed as an April Fools' joke. The comedian's March 29, 2005 death was announced on March 31, but many newspapers didn't carry the story until April 1, 2005.
• On April 1, 2008, it was reported that UEFA would require the Swedish fast food chain Max to close their restaurant at the Borås Arena during the European Under-21 Football Championship due to a conflict with official sponsor McDonalds and a requirement that only official sponsors may operate around the arena. The arena was later replaced as a tournament site.
• On April 1, 2008, Christian Persch announced that the GNOME desktop web browser Epiphany would be switched from Mozilla's Gecko engine to the WebKit engine used by Safari and KDE's equivalent application Konqueror
• On 1 April 2009, Alan Shearer becomes caretaker manager of Newcastle United.
  Also on April 1st, 2009, CBS announced the cancelation of the daytime drama Guiding Light after 57 years with the final episode scheduled to air September 18, 2009.

1. The first thing you can do is give someone a fake scratch off lotto ticket. Regardless if the person plays the lotto or not, this will be the perfect prank. To pull it off, all you need is a fake lotto ticket. Make up an excuse as to why you're giving it to them.
   After they scratch off the lotto ticket, it'll reveal that they've won $25,000. The expression on their face will be priceless.
2. Another one of the best April Fools day pranks you can pull is to use a fart spray. You can use this at work, in a class, or anywhere. Or if you really want to get someone on April Fools day, you can spray their clothing with it. They'll stink all day long.
3. The third prank you can do is to give away some trick candy. There are a lot of candies that you can use. Some will make someone's breath smell like fart or garlic. Or it'll turn their mouth blue or red. There are lots of things trick candies can do.