MIAMI, Fla. — The ultimate underdogs, they ain’t. Not anymore. The Saints are Super Bowl champions now. Who Dat? Try Drew Brees, Sean Payton and a team that has reversed its embarrassing past, carrying an entire city to the top with it. Put away those paper bags forever. (Read the rest here via Huffington Post)
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A man talks on a mobile phone after the evening prayer inside a mosque at the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi.
Children eat during a visit of Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director, at the Notre Dame orphanage in Port-au-Prince February 4, 2010. More than 200,000 people were killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake that hit Haiti, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said on Wednesday. Bellerive said 300,000 people were injured in the disaster, including 4,000 amputees.
Pilgrims pray at the Imam al-Abbas shrine during the religious ceremony of Arbain, that falls 40 days after the Shi’ite holy day of Ashura, in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad.
A man cries as he prays at the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi.
A vendor eats noodles at her stall while selling chickens in Xiangfan, Hubei Province.
This morning, from Beverly Hills, California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their much coveted Academy Awards nominations for 2009. Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway joined Academy President Tom Sherak to announce this years nominees and there were very few surprises within the major categories. Although they have expanded the Best Picture category to include ten nominees, with the hopes of creating a more broad-based appeal to the televised show, which has begun bleeding in the TV ratings for a while.
Among the most anticipated nominees for Best Picture was of course James Cameron’s Avatar, and with five additional slots they were able to include some audience favorites like The Blind Side, the critically acclaimed, The Hurt Locker, which only grossed $16 million, Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Lee Daniels tearjerker, Precious, the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man, District 9, An Education, and surprise dark horse, the animated film Up (which was fantastic), and of course, George Clooney’s Up in the Air.
Everyone’s favorite categories, Best Actor/Actress, Best Supporting Actor/Actress held few surprises. Best Actor Nominees: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart, George Clooney – Up in the Air, Colin Firth – A Single Man, Morgan Freeman – Invictus, Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker. Best Supporting Actor nominees: Matt Damon – Invictus, Woody Harrelson – The Messenger, Christopher Plummer – The Last Station, Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones, Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds. Best Actress nominees: Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side, Helen Mirren – The Last Station, Carey Mulligan – An Education, Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia, Gabourey Sidibe, Precious. Best Supporting Actress nominees: Penelope Cruz – Nine, Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air, Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart, Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air, Monique in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.
For a full list of the Academy Awards Nominees, please visit the the Oscars’ official site. The show will air Sunday, March 7th on ABC at 8pm ET/5pm PT.
via Technorati
The massive recall and production shutdown launched by Toyota Motor Corp. (TM-N79.00-0.94-1.18%) is expected to cost the embattled auto maker hundreds of millions of dollars and hit global sales. While a Toyota official in Japan said today it was too early to peg the cost of the recall, which involves millions of popular models, UBS auto analyst Tasuo Yoshida told The Associated Press it will probably be about $900-million (U.S.), with lost sales adding a further $155-million a week. Toyota today also releases January sales numbers for Canada and the United States that are expected to show a hefty impact. In Canada, the auto maker is expected to report that sales in January fell 13 per cent year over year. “The sales forecast is something that we’re extremely worried about,” Toyota’s executive vice-president, Shinichi Sasaki, told reporters. via Michael Babad, Globe and Mail Update
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