Monday, August 24, 2009

miss universe 2009 top 15

miss universe 2009 top 15




LIST! Here are your winners for the Top 15 Round of the Miss Universe 2009. The Miss Universe 2009 Top 15 is the first round of elimination for tonight’s award show.

Miss Universe started moments ago at The Islands in the Bahamas with hosts Billy Bush and Claudia Jordan. 83 contestants were reduced to 15. It’s 83 not 84 because Jewel Selver from Turks & Caicos withdrew on August 22, 2009 citing dehydration.

Miss Universe Top 15 Winners
1. Puerto Rico
2. Iceland
3. Albania
4. Czech Republic
5. Belgium
6. Dominican Republic
7. Sweden
8. Kosovo
9. Australia
10. France
11. Switzerland
12. South Africa
13. USA
14. Croatia
15. Venezuela

From 15, we go to 10, then 4, to 1. Stay with LALATE with live results all night long.




Monday, August 17, 2009

jennifer jones

jennifer jones



Hope that every one is familiar with the famous n one of the most charming lady of her times jennifer jones, al all time favourate actross.
Turner Classic Movies' Summer Under the Stars spends 24 hours with Jennifer Jones beginning at 6 am Monday, August 17. The complete schedule of Jennifer Jones movies airing today is included below and then beneath that you'll find a slideshow featuring vintage collectible images of many of today's Jennifer Jones co-stars.

One of our classic stars who we're lucky to still have with us, Jennifer Jones turned 90 earlier this year but today TCM takes us back to her hey day with all the movies they're airing having been released between 1944 and 1955. A short span compared to some of the other stars being featured on TCM this month, but one in which she managed the bulk of the work leading to her 5 Oscar nominations, including 4 for Best Actress, 1 for Best Supporting Actress. Her single victory came as Best Actress for the title role in "The Song of Bernadette" (1943). While neither that picture nor "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" (1955), for which Jones received her final nomination, air today, the other three pictures she was nominated for do: "Love Letters" (1945), "Duel in the Sun" (1946) and "Since You Went Away" (1944). The last of those was the one for which she received her Supporting nomination.

While Jones previously appeared in a few movies billed under variations of her birth given name, Phylis Isley, her career was certainly boosted by her relationship with David O. Selznick, who would first give Jones her screen name and later become her husband (the second of 3 including ill-fated actor Robert Walker, who was first). The actress and producer married in 1949 and would remain so until his death in 1965. Despite her peak being relatively short to give you an idea of the impact of Jones' 5 Oscar nominations, including 1 win, it's the same talley racked up by both Susan Hayward and Audrey Hepburn...pretty good company!


Here's today entire 24 hour Jennifer Jones Summer Under the Stars Schedule on TCM:

6:00 am "Madame Bovary" (1949) starring Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, James Mason, D: Vincente Minnelli

8:00 am "We Were Strangers" (1949) starring Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz, D: John Huston

10:00 am "Ruby Gentry" (1952) starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, D: King Vidor

11:30 am "Indiscretion of an American Wife" (1954) starring Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Richard Beymer, D: Vittorio de Sica

1:00 pm "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1957) starring Jennifer Jones, Bill Travers, John Gielgud, D: Sidney Franklin

3:00 pm "Since You Went Away" (1944) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, D: John Cromwell

6:00 pm "Love Letters" (1945) starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gladys Cooper, D: William Dieterle

8:00 pm "Portrait of Jennie" (1948) starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, D: William Dieterle

9:30 pm "Carrie" (1952) starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Eddie Albert, D: William Wyler

11:45 pm "Beat the Devil" (1954) starring Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, D: John Huston

1:30 am "Good Morning, Miss Dove" (1955) starring Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Marshall Thompson, D: Henry Koster

3:30 am "Duel in the Sun" (1946) starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, D: King Vidor

Tomorrow: John Wayne

Following is a slideshow of vintage movie cards and collectibles, each featuring one of Jennifer Jones' co-stars in today's movies.

google is

google is


Well hope everyone here is aware with the famous site facebook which has brought everyone so close that u can hardly imagine.

Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million.

Facebook's purchase of FriendFeed, an obscure social-media platform, is potentially momentous. To understand why, we must understand FriendFeed, a start-up that is ubiquitous among techies and unknown to everybody else. It's a sleek application that acts as a clearinghouse for all of your social-media activities. Post something to Flickr? That will show up on your FriendFeed page. Digg something? FriendFeed will know. Post to Twitter from your phone? FriendFeed will syndicate your tweets. Once you initially tell it where to look, it will collect everything and tell it to the world.

The goal is to make automatic that which is all too annoying to do manually. If I like an article enough to Digg it, why should I then have to tell all my friends via Facebook or Twitter, as well? The social-media landscape has become disparate enough -- so many start-ups controlling so many different pieces of our lives -- that we need a central place that will organize all of our actions for us. That place is FriendFeed.

Facebook has recently shown that it, too, wants to be that place. For all of its genius in harnessing the collective procrastination of an entire planet, Facebook has usually asked you to come to it. For example, want to post photos on Flickr but not Facebook? Good luck telling your Facebook friends about it. In the past, while Facebook was building an audience, this walled garden helped it build its audience. If all your friends were on Facebook, then why not post your pictures there? After all, the point of digital photography in 2009 is to relive memories with the very group of people that lived through them in the first place. That group is most likely found on Facebook.

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But now Facebook's user base is big enough for it to start looking out. There's a Twitter application that synchronizes your tweets with your Facebook status message. And then there's Facebook Connect, the company's convoluted and potentially brilliant attempt to make Facebook the official login for the rest of the Internet. Sites that support Facebook Connect -- about 15,000 and growing -- let users log in using their Facebook credentials in order to do things such as leave comments on articles and blog posts. That activity is then pumped back into the author's Facebook profile, which then promotes the site where the comment was left. Everybody wins -- especially Facebook, which gets more content and more of an off-site footprint.

So here's a theory: FriendFeed is going to become the companion to Facebook Connect; Facebook Connect pipes Facebook out to other sites, while FriendFeed's technology pipes other sites in.

How do I deduce this? It's reasonable to assume that Facebook won't somehow combine FriendFeed's user database with Facebook's. It's likely all FriendFeeders are Facebookers, and the two networks aren't set up to be compatible. And unlike much of the tech press, I don't believe this acquisition is about real-time search or a competition with Twitter.

Instead, I think this is about social aggregation. Facebook bought FriendFeed so it could become the Huffington Post of your social life.

Right now the majority of your news feed is filled with updates that your friends have (for the most part) made within Facebook. Status updates, engagements, zombie bites -- it all shows up in your news feed. But those are all internal to Facebook; everybody spends plenty of time outside Facebook, as well. And in order for you to track your friends' activities you either have to subscribe to all of their different feeds or hope that they tell you when they add content to one of their other profiles. That's a hassle.

What you need is an aggregator -- a place to come that gives you a news feed not just of what's happening inside your walled garden, but also what's going on elsewhere, too. A Facebook/FriendFeed mash-up -- FaceFeed, we (and many others) will call it -- would be exactly that.

To understand the allure of this kind of aggregator, one only has to look to successful news aggregators. Take the devilishly popular Huffington Post, for example. For better or worse, the site's mash-up of news from disparate sources has struck a cord among its 7 million monthly visitors. Its home page is a mix of links to blog posts from Huffington Post contributors and links to outside stories from the news media. Rather than hunt and peck through all these other sites, people go to the Huffington Post to be delivered a smattering of links. Aggregators work because they do all the hard work for you.

So now imagine a social aggregator with the size and sway of Facebook. Users would love it, because it would make their lives simpler and more streamlined. The other social-media sites stand to gain as well, since Facebook would be pointing more users to content off-site. News sites will get more traffic, because people will be clicking through on more links. Facebook, of course, would be the biggest victor: It would be able to get people to check in more often and stay longer. Ad rates can then go up, which helps the company's bottom line.

If this happens, Facebook will be the one portal to rule them all. Other than Google, that is. Google long ago took over much of our Internet usage: Gmail, Google Docs, Google search, etc. Facebook and Twitter, for now, are the two holdouts, bastions of independence in an increasingly consolidated Internet. (To be more precise: the user-generated Internet.) And Twitter may already be too integrated to count because of the way Facebook pipes it in.

That leaves two mega-conglomerates that will compete to be the portal of everything we do on the Internet. Google has long tried to get into the social game, and Facebook surely wouldn't mind expanding into some of Google's territory. (Real-time search is the likely entry point.) It's as classic an American struggle as Pepsi vs. Coke. Two companies, one market. Regardless of which side you choose, I'm sure Facebook will be happy to air your thoughts on the matter. Even if you write them on Blogspot, Google's blogging network. After all, that's why Facebook bought FriendFeed. So it could own you.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

kristin chenoweth

kristin chenoweth




Gold Derby Columnist Tom O'Neil will host Tony Award winning stage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth in a live webchat today, Thursday, August 13th at 3pm (PDT) - 6pm (EDT).

O'Neil will speak with the recent Emmy Award nominee and you're invited to participate at the chatroom here. Cheoweth will appear via webcam and respond to your questions and comments typed in the chat area.

Kristin Chenoweth effortlessly transitions between television, stage and film. She starred in the ABC series "Pushing Daisies," where she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Television fans know her as Annabeth Schott on "The West Wing," and she was seen in the season finale of ABC's hit comedy "Ugly Betty." She portrayed Marian, the librarian, in ABC's movie version of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man;" Lily St. Regis in the television adaptation of "Annie"; and Mrs. Noodle on "Sesame Street." Ms. Chenoweth also starred in her own series "Kristin" for NBC.

Many remember her Tony Award-winning Broadway performance in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" and her triumphant star turn when she originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in "Wicked," which earned her a leading actress Tony Award nomination. She also performed in the Broadway comedy "Epic Proportions" and in the Kander and Ebb musical "Steel Pier," for which she won a Theatre World Award. Ms. Chenoweth also performed in an Off-Broadway production of Moliere's "Scapin" for the Roundabout Theatre Company. Ms. Chenoweth starred in "Stairway to Paradise," an original Encores! production celebrating the great Broadway revue, and in the highly lauded limited engagement of "The Apple Tree" at Roundabout Theatre Company's Studio 54.

Moviegoers have seen her in "Deck the Halls" with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick, "RV" with Robin Williams, "Bewitched" with Nicole Kidman, "Running with Scissors" with Annette Bening, and "The Pink Panther" with Steve Martin. Her film credits also include a cameo in "Stranger Than Fiction" with Emma Thompson. Ms. Chenoweth is currently developing a feature film based on The Life of Dusty Springfield.

A veteran of the concert scene, Ms. Chenoweth took the stage in solo sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House, and continues to tour the country. She performed her solo concert at Sam Mendes's acclaimed Donmar Warehouse as part of the "Divas at Donmar" series. She has had numerous collaborations with various symphonies, including The New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. One of her proudest accomplishments was having the privilege to perform Bernstein's "Candide" at Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic. Other performances include her sold-out Los Angeles solo debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, an evening at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Washington National Opera's 50th Anniversary Gala with Placido Domingo. In addition to her recent Christmas album, "A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas," she has released two previous albums entitled, "Let Yourself Go" and "As I Am."

Earlier this year, Chenoweth led the cast of Kern and Hammerstein's Music In the Air, the second Encores! production of New York City Center's 2008-09 season, which ran February 5-8th, 2009.

After its first week of sales, Chenoweth's new autobiography, "A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love and Faith in Stages," debuted in the 12th spot on the famed New York Times' Bestseller List.

chicago air and water show


chicago air and water show



Chicago Air and Water Show media preview flights by the Lima Lima flight team, Red Bull Helicopter, T-6 Texans and more have been buzzing across our urban landscape. More unfolds tomorrow, Friday, when practice takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Below are a few additional notes from today

Saturday, August 15, 2009

rory mcilroy girlfriend


Rory mcilroy girlfriend


Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington stamped their authority on world golf at Hazeltine National yesterday and, side-by-side, they marched straight to the top of the early leaderboard at the US PGA.

Woods gave a truly masterful display as he broke 70 in the opening round of a Major Championship for the first time since the 2007 British Open at Carnoustie.

A bogey-free 67 put Tiger just one ahead of Harrington in the clubhouse. The Dubliner opened his defence of the Wanamaker Trophy with a satisfying 68 which helped him leave the dismal first eight months of this season even further behind.

What a difference four days makes. After the intensity of their final round battle at Firestone last Sunday, when Woods and Harrington played in stoic silence, they and 2002 champion Rich Beem chatted away yesterday like old cronies out for a friendly Sunday morning threeball.

Not everyone was willing to let Harrington forget his treble-bogey debacle on Firestone's 16th hole. When the Dubliner played a deft little chip from tangled greenside rough to three feet for par at the long 11th hole, his second, one wag in the crowd blurted: “that's what ya needed last Sunday, Padraig.”

Harrington didn't hear. He was too busy chuckling after a monster second shot from Alvaro Quiros had landed on the front of the green at this 606 yard par five as they were putting out.

Into the wind yesterday, even Woods took three strokes to reach the putting surface. However, the young Spaniard is a monster hitter and propelled his ball 290-plus yards off the deck with his driver to that green.

Much to his embarrassment, it must be said. Quiros immediately made a detour to the 12th tee to apologise to the distinguished trio in front.

“Alvaro, I mean seriously,” said Woods, laughing. “I told him he had nothing to apologise for. That was a hell of a shot. It was just stupid line. I remember when I was that long but now I just plot my way around to 67.

“I honestly thought there couldn’t be anyone in the game today who could hit it up there in two,” said Harrington.

“It was absolutely astonishing. We were talking about it among ourselves on the green and joking that we'd obviously kept some distance in our golf bags.”

A capacity crowd of 50,000 flocked to Hazeltine National yesterday, underlining Minnesota's reputation as one of America's greatest hotbeds and the atmosphere was electric at the 10th tee yesterday as Woods, then Harrington and, finally, Beem reported for duty in the feature group.

Harrington had the honour and received quite a rousing cheer but if golf tournaments were decided on the ‘Clapometer', the roar which greeted Tiger would have lifted him straight to the top of the leaderboard.

The Irishman signalled his intent right from the off.

After driving into the heart of the fairway, his downhill approach from the crest of the hill drew in towards the pin on the left of this picturesque lakeside green and precariously close to the bull rushes.

Yet risk did not receive its due reward and Harrington two-putted from 12 feet to match Tiger's safe par, while Beem took three from the front apron for bogey.

Harrington didn't play 11 particularly well, knocking his second into rough to the left of the fairway and missing the green right before that tidy up-and-down but he and Tiger would underscore their status as leading contenders this week with gilt-edged birdies at the gruelling par four 12th.

The tee was moved up 17 yards yesterday in deference to the wind but 12 still played 501 yards and offered a fascinating insight into how the longest course in Major Championship history demands different strokes from different folks.

Not one of the longer players in professional golf, Beem hit driver followed by a careful shot with a three-wood and still came up just short of the green. He got up and down for par.

Meanwhile, Woods and Harrington, who both hit three-irons onto the short grass, both holed out for birdie, Tiger from 20-plus feet and the Dubliner from eight feet.

Woods picked up his second birdie of the day at the long 15th, where Harrington made par after knocking his escape from a greenside bunker close to the back fringe. Yet he'd draw level with Tiger at the picture-postcard 16th hole after hitting a superlative eight-iron to eight feet.

Beem suddenly shook himself alive by the lakeshore, reviving memories of his meteoric PGA Championship in at Hazeltine with the first of an impressive hat-trick of birdies to the turn.

Harrington dropped his only shot of the day out of another greenside trap at the first hole and, after picking up three more birdies on his way to the finish, the Dubliner headed straight for the short game area to practice on his bunker play.

Delighted to be within one stroke of Woods in the clubhouse after a relatively laid-back day on the golf course, Harrington said: “I was able to watch a few of Tiger's shots and swings today and his game has changed.

“Obviously, years ago he had more flair in his game and a lot more flamboyance but it's very solid now. I think he's put a little more conservatism in there and it's nice. He's very much in control of his game.

“Last Sunday was so intense, I never once looked at him, I was so immersed in my own game but this is only Thursday. Sunday's business day but this is a totally different atmosphere. It's all about getting into the tournament, though you'd still not want to let him get too far away.

“I don't think I'd like to be giving him a three stroke lead going into Sunday.”

Ulster aces Graeme McDowell (70) and Rory McIlroy (71) were both delighted to leave recent poor form behind them yesterday and click straight into top gear on yesterday's return to the Major Championship stage.

After several days intensive work over the last fortnight to try and clear up an annoying swing glitch, McDowell suddenly felt it all fall into place on the range yesterday morning and the result was a bogey free round in which he hit 16 of 18 greens and landed two birdies.

McIlroy, meanwhile, had been so frustrated with his game in a practice round on Tuesday, he worked until late on the range and played only nine holes on the eve of the tournament before heading for the nearby Mall of America and a laid-back afternoon with girlfriend Holly.

“The rest seemed to help me get my rhythm again,” confirmed McIlroy, who ripped into action with three birdies in his opening six holes (on the back nine here), before driving into the hazard at 16 and three-putting the first for his two bogeys.

“I gave myself a lot of chances and if 71 probably was the worst I could have scored, I still feel very good about the way I played.”

tropical storm ana

tropical storm ana

MIAMI — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Ana has formed over the Atlantic and could strengthen as it heads toward the Leeward Islands.

The National Hurricane Center says Ana could trigger a tropical storm watch for parts of the Leeward Islands later Saturday. It could be approaching the islands by Monday.

Ana, the first named storm of the Atlantic season, could slowly strengthen in the next couple of days as it moves to the west at 16 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Guillermo was swirling in the Pacific as a Category 3 storm. Winds were near 115 mph as the hurricane moved to the west-northwest at 16 mph. It was about 1,385 miles west of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula early Saturday morning.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

MIAMI Forecasters say Hurricane Guillermo has quickly strengthened into a Category 3 storm far off Mexico's Pacific coast.

The National Hurricane Center says Guillermo's maximum sustained winds are near 115 mph. The hurricane rapidly intensified early Saturday morning, but it is expected to weaken later in the day as it moves over cooler water.

Guillermo was centered about 1,385 miles west of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

It is moving west-northwest at 16 mph.

Meanwhile, forecasters say a tropical depression has regenerated over the Atlantic Ocean. The depression could become a tropical storm this weekend.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

sarah palin divorce

sarah palin divorce

Sarah palain is one of those much talked about figure which rose during the last predential elections, i feel the most popular personality among the all presidential canditates.
Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska last week, leaving many to speculate as to what will be next for the GOP 'superstar'.

To anyone who was excited about the idea of Sarah Palin being suddenly single: Sorry.

The former Alaska governor has no plans to divorce, insists a Palin spokeswoman, flatly denying Internet reports that the former Republican vice presidential candidate and her husband, Todd, are splitting up.

"Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story. There is no truth to the recent 'story' (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that the Palins are divorcing," spokeswoman Meg Stapleton posted on Palin's Facebook page Saturday.

"The Palins remain married [and] committed to each other and their family," she said.

Palin has left friends and foes alike wondering what her next step will be, having kept a low profile since she stepped down as governor of the 49th state a week ago.

An appearance at the Reagan Library this week never materialized, and even Palin's usually busy Twitter feed, with nearly 129,000 followers, has been tweet-free since last Sunday.

"Last state twitter. Thank you Alaska!" Palin wrote then. "I love you. God bless Alaska. God bless the U.S.A."


cash for clunkers requirements

cash for clunkers requirements

The latest CARS info

As the government awaits the Senate vote next week, the House passed the initial bill to shovel another $2 billion into the CARS (aka Cash for Clunkers).

What is CARS?

The program that started earlier this week has already dished out its allotted $1 billion to qualifying clunker owners.

The Cars Allowance Rebate System gives $3,500 or $4,500 toward a new car when you trade-in a select clunker. The idea is to get the old, inefficient gas guzzlers off the road, and with incentives this large, it is working.

More Cash for clunker information

To see the latest from the White House as of yesterday, see my story here.

To see the basics of the CARS information, check out this story, and to see the cash for clunker requirements, check here.

Now may be the best time to trade in that old clunker and step into a new car that fits the needs of a growing family.