Roger Federer is winner: Australian Open Men’s Final 2010

Posted by Jammes 1/31/2010 0 comments
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When British tennis player Andy Murray headed into today’s men’s singles final of the 2010 Australian Open, he had hoped that he would not only defeat the world’s number 1 Roger Federer, but win his first Grand Slam title as well. But according to theglobalherald.com, it unfortunately didn’t happen for him, after Federer beat Murray by three sets to love, 6-3 6-4 7-6 (13-11), giving top seeded Federer his fourth Australian Open men’s singles title.

The Swiss player of course brought his usual excellent game to the court at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, hitting 46 winners in three sets compared to Murray’s 29. Murray did appear to be playing more defensively though.

After the match was over, an emotional Andy Murray said that Roger Federer was a lot better than him in the match. He then went on to say that one day, he hopes that he can go back there and win and said that he was sorry it wasn’t then.

Booking Disney Dining

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There's planning your reservations, working your dining schedule into your vacation and actually trying to get the time, place and date of the reservation you want. It may not be an easy task, but there are some things you can do when booking to make the process go smoother.

Haiti: Another earthquake

Posted by admin 1/20/2010 0 comments
The United States is promising more aid. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he signed orders to send more U.S. ships to the region. These ships will carry cranes and other equipment to help move debris.

Another earthquake, this time 5.9 on the Richter scale, shook the Island of Hispaniola Wednesday morning. Originally the news reports pegged the quake at 6.1 in magnitude, but the U.S. Geological Survey has since downgraded it.

The earthquake, which struck at 6:03 am local time, was located 35 miles (60 km) west-southwest of Port-au-Prince. The quake was centered at 18.385°N, 72.870°W at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km).

That January 12th earthquake, which turned many of the buildings into rubble, may have killed 200,000 people, according to Haiti-News.net. There were no initial reports of injury or damage from today’s tumbler, but most Haitians were already moved to the streets and open areas since the last major 7.0 earthquake hit eight days ago.

“People camping in the streets of Port au Prince ran away from the already damaged buildings when the low vibration of the earthquake was first heard,” the Haiti News report stated.

The Ting Tings

Posted by admin 1/17/2010 0 comments
The Ting Tings are a Grammy-nominated English indie pop duo comprised of Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, vocals, piano) and Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, and cow bells). Originally from Hackney, London, they formed in December 2007 while based at Islington Mill Artist Studios in Salford. They have released four singles on their current label Columbia Records UK, including the single "That's Not My Name", which charted straight at number one in the UK Singles Chart on 18 May 2008.The album We Started Nothing was released on 19 May 2008 and charted at number one in the United Kingdom.

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Critics Choice Awards 2010 winners

Posted by admin 1/16/2010 0 comments
There was a Best Actress tie, Sandra Bullock kissed Meryl Streep to celebrate their joint win. Who else took home a Critics Choice Award? Look this post....

BEST PICTURE
Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Nine, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart, George Clooney - Up In The Air, Colin Firth - A Single Man, Morgan Freeman - Invictus, Viggo Mortensen - The Road, Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS (tie)
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria, Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side, Carey Mulligan - An Education, Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones, Gabourey Sidibe - Precious, Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon - Invictus, Woody Harrelson - The Messenger, Christian McKay - Me And Orson Welles, Alfred Molina - An Education, Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones, Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard - Nine, Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air, Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air, Mo'Nique - Precious, Julianne Moore - A Single Man, Samantha Morton - The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jae Head - The Blind Side, Bailee Madison - Brothers, Max Records - Where The Wild Things Are, Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones, Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Inglourious Basterds, Nine, Precious, Star Trek, Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker, James Cameron - Avatar, Lee Daniels - Precious, Clint Eastwood - Invictus, Jason Reitman - Up In The Air, Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber - (500) Days Of Summer, Bob Peterson, Peter Docter - Up, Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox, Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell - District 9, Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious, Tom Ford, David Scearce - A Single Man, Nick Hornby - An Education, Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up In The Air

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Princess And The Frog, Up

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek

BEST COMEDY
(500) Days Of Summer, The Hangover, It's Complicated, The Proposal, Zombieland

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Gifted Hands, Grey Gardens, Into The Storm, Taking Chance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces, Coco Before Chanel, Red Cliff, Sin Nombre, The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Anvil, Capitalism: A Love Story, The Cove, Food, Inc., Michael Jackson's This Is It

BEST SONG
"All Is Love" - Karen O, Nick Zinner - Where The Wild Things Are, "Almost There" - Randy Newman - The Princess And The Frog, "Cinema Italiano" - Maury Yeston - Nine, "(I Want To) Come Home" - Paul McCartney - Everybody's Fine, "The Weary Kind" - T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham - Crazy Heart

BEST SCORE
Michael Giacchino - Up, Marvin Hamlisch - The Informant!, Randy Newman - The Princess and the Frog, Karen O, Carter Burwell - Where The Wild Things Are, Hans Zimmer - Sherlock Holmes

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker, Dion Beebe - Nine, Mauro Fiore - Avatar, Andrew Lesnie - The Lovely Bones, Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ART DIRECTION
Dan Bishop - A Single Man, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg - Avatar, John Myhre, Gordon Sim - Nine, Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. - The Lovely Bones, David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco - Inglourious Basterds

BEST EDITING
Dana E. Glauberman - Up In The Air, Sally Menke - Inglourious Basterds, Bob Murawski,, Chris Innis - The Hurt Locker, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron - Avatar, Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith - Nine

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Colleen Atwood - Nine, Janet Patterson - Bright Star, Sandy Powell - The Young Victoria, Anna Sheppard - Inglourious Basterds, Casey Storm - Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP
Avatar, District 9, Nine, The Road, Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar, District 9, The Lovely Bones, Star Trek, 2012

BEST SOUND
Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Nine, Star Trek

Ban Ki-moon in Haiti Sunday, the UN wants to raise 562 million dollars

Posted by admin 1/15/2010 0 comments

Haiti: The United Nations announced Friday that its chief Ban Ki-moon would go to Haiti on Sunday to assess humanitarian needs and appealed to the international community to raise $ 562 million intended to help the Haitians.

Mr. Ban will travel to Haiti during a visit of 24 hours to show "solidarity with the Haitian people and UN personnel" on site, very affected by the earthquake.

On Friday, the organization brought the balance of the earthquake in Haiti among its staff to 37 confirmed deaths and 330 missing.

In contrast, death in the rubble of the hotel Christopher Head of the peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), the Tunisian Hedi Annabi, had still not confirmed Friday. "There are hundreds of missing persons in the hotel, and research is ongoing," said the spokesman of the UN, Martin Nesirky.

The organization estimates that 3 million the number of Haitians who need assistance.

The appeal for donations has been formally launched at the organization's headquarters in New York by the director of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, John Holmes.

These funds will be made available to provide emergency food, medical supplies, water and tents, "said Holmes.

A score of countries, institutions and companies have already committed themselves to the tune of 268.5 million, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

A Haitian minister said Friday that more than 50,000 people were killed, 250,000 injured and 1.5 million left homeless in Haiti following the devastating earthquake last Tuesday. More than 15,000 bodies have already been collected and buried, said Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

Half of the money collected will go to food aid, of which two million people need urgent, "said Holmes.

"According to our estimates, 3 million people are severely affected by the consequences of the earthquake, about 9 million people in the country," he added. "30% of buildings in Port-au-Prince have suffered, and in some areas half the buildings are either destroyed or uninhabitable and loose," said John Holmes had a little earlier during a press briefing.

"We must rapidly establish refugee camps with points of water and food," he said.

Water is a major concern, and trucks of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) began to bring in supplies of disinfectant tablets.

The United Nations also plans to set up schools in camps.

The main warehouse of the World Food Program (WFP) in Port-au-Prince, containing 6,000 tons of food aid, has been damaged by the earthquake, but not robbed as initially feared the agency, said John Holmes.

WFP is preparing to send supplies tailored to the situation, including millions of kits to eat without cooking. If the priority is "the search and rescue of survivors" still caught under the rubble, Mr. Holmes acknowledged that there was very little hope.

The International Red Cross estimated between 40 and 50,000 deaths.

Google Nexus One Be a Threat to the iPhone Market

Posted by admin 1/10/2010 0 comments
The consumers and businesses can largely benefit by buying the phone directly from Google. This avoids any contractual obligation for service. The arrival of Nexus One will have a significant impact on the Smartphone market dominated by Apple and Nokia. The open source approach is the greatest strength for Google. While, the iPhone users have to come out of the singular vision strategy to survive in today's market.

Google Nexus Review

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Google Nexus One has gone ahead of Apple iPhone and Motion's BlackBerry in terms of the touch sensitivity, features and applications. The Google phone is arguably the best Android mobile phone available in the market today.

This Android smart phone by Google looks beautiful and sleek. Google has decided to offer this new mobile phone in a unique manner. The mobile phone is available to the customers on the web directly and unlocked. The company has also invited numerous carriers to compete with their plans and hardware's subsidized versions in different parts of the world. In the United Kingdom, Vodafone has won the race as it has been selected as the carrier of the mobile phone. There are numerous followers of Vodafone services and they will be very happy to get the best handset of present times with their favorite carrier.

The display feature of Nexus One is its biggest highlight. The mobile phone has incorporated huge 3.7 inches wide screen, which is a WVGA AMOLED touch screen. The display resolution of the touch screen is 800 x 480 pixels, and it offers 100,000:1 typical contrast ratio. There are four major keys at the bottom of the display screen to control search, home, menu and back functionalities. There is a trackball at the bottom center position of Nexus 1, which will enable you to enjoy smooth navigation of the features and application. The device is available in the market in gorgeous brown colour with Teflon coating and its live wallpapers give an awesome experience.

Apart from bringing in immaculate touch screen display and slim design with 119 x 59.8 x 11.5 mm dimensions, the Nexus One incorporates the high-end camera features as well. This Google phone comes loaded with a 5 mega pixel camera that includes LED flash and auto focus along with geo tagging and smile detections features. The resolution of the clicked images is 2560Ñ…1920 pixels. There is no secondary camera and the video recording is done at D1 (720x480 pixels) @min. 20 fps. Google Nexus One is definitely the best of them all!

Nutritional Supplements For Weight Loss

Posted by admin 1/04/2010 0 comments
The New Year is here and one of the biggest resolutions for people is to lose weight. A lot of times just trying to eat better and exercising is not enough. This is when people turn to nutritional supplements for weight loss. There are many on the market and we will discuss a few of them that are effective as well as safe for you to use. As with anything make sure you do your homework before purchasing anything.