mercredi 28 avril 2010

sandra bullock adopts black boy



SANDRA BULLOCK has hit the headlines. Everyone on the net has been searching for Sandra Bullock divorce, Sandra Bullock baby, sandra Bullock adopts black boy, people magazine, Louis Bardo Bullock etc.

The latest news is that Sandra Bullock has finally filed for divorce. The Oscar Winning actress had recently adopted a new born baby too. Sandra BUllock adopted baby boy Louis bardo Bullock some time ago, but she had been in the adoption process since the last 4 years. Sandra decided to reveal the adoption to the wrold about the adopted baby she brought home in January.

In an interview to People Magazine, Sandra said, "He's just perfect, I can't even describe him any other way. "It's like he's always been a part of our lives. "

Sandra Bullock's adopted black boy Louis was born in New Orleans and the People Magazine issue has Mother Sandra with her adopted baby Louis on the cover page. Sandra has already announced that she is the proud mother of Louis Bardo Bullock, a three and half month old boy.

Did you check out the issue of People Magazine which has Sandra Bullock and her adopted baby? Did u find the baby cute?


Sandra Bullock adopts black boy – Sandra Bullock is back and she surprises the world with an adopted black baby boy named Louis!

Despite her troubled (and soon to end) marriage, the Academy Award winning actress will not be alone.

From People:

“He’s just perfect, I can’t even describe him any other way,” Bullock reveals exclusively in the new issue of PEOPLE, announcing that she is the proud mother of Louis Bardo Bullock, a 3½-month-old boy, born in New Orleans. “It’s like he’s always been a part of our lives.”

Sandra and Jesse James began the adoption process four years ago and moved Louis into their home January.

t just shows how organized Sandra Bullock is.

For all this time the paparazzis were stalking her since the break-up of Jesse James scandal, they had not even managed a decent snap of her and if that wasn’t enough, news comes out smacking of their total humiliation- Sandra Bullock has been a mom since the January and no one had any wind of the fact.

Yes, People magazine reveals the explosive news in their latest issue, ready to hit the stands this Friday. And they do so because Sandra has saw it fit to disclose the news at this precise time.

The actress reveals that she and Jesse adopted the three and half-month-old boy, born in New Orleans, in January. They started talks concerning the adoption four years ago, but it materialised only this year.

She says that she had initially planned to disclose the happy news in the aftermath of the Oscars but as we all know too well now, her plans were derailed by some nobody of a tattooed model, Michelle “Bombshell” McGee.

Anyways, that chapter over, the proud mom can’t praise the little man more highly.

“He’s just perfect, I can’t even describe him any other way,” Bullock gushed. “It’s like he’s always been a part of our lives.”

Meanwhile, she also informs that she has already filed for divorce and has decided to carry on as a single mother. And she is taking steps to change the adoption status according to that.

“Yes, I have filed for divorce,” she told People. “I am sad and I am scared.”

And it may well be this child who is providing the strength Sandy needs to part ways with her rogue of a hubby, Jesse James.

Watch the mother and the baby boy at http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20364464_20364639,00.html.

Actress Sandra Bullock has confirmed to People weekly, has filed for divorce from her husband, the “biker” Jesse James, whose infidelity multiple media jumped almost simultaneously she won the Oscar with “A Possible Dream / The blind side. ” Simultaneously, the star has announced that it had recently adopted a black boy born three and half months in New Orleans, which he called Bardo Louis Bullock, but the fact remained secret until now.

“I’m sad and I have fear,” says Sandra, but clarifies that he is happy raising a baby, which would not report until the end of all the media attention generated by their winning entries to the Golden Globes and Oscars, and instances of infidelity of her husband. “I’m still in that state of stupefaction with the child and life. When I received it I felt as if it had always been part of my life.”

The ex-husband suddenly Bullock, quoted in the same medium, said the final rupture had caused “a great void in my heart” but that would have been “selfish” on his part not to let it go. James, a businessman and character, speaks of a kind of addiction (perhaps to women or gender?) That have deprived the baby’s newly adopted (a process that began four years ago when they both looked happy) and his wife, ” two of the things I love most in life. “

THE biceps are smaller. The tabloid tales of excessive salary demands, followed by those of rural seclusion, have been replaced with a running commentary about her tweets, many of them concerning her activism against human trafficking. Her signature raspy voice and striking green eyes are unchanged, her only concessions to age a single strand of grey and a pair of reading glasses tucked discreetly on a coffee table next to her designer sunglasses.

Time and circumstances have transformed Demi Moore, 47, from a box-office superstar consumed with one-arm push-ups into this small-film actress, sitting in the lotus position.

Her breakout performance was in the 1985 film St Elmo's Fire. Then came the date movies (About Last Night), the steamy provocations (Indecent Proposal, Disclosure) and the blockbusters (Ghost, A Few Good Men), which begot the overexposed flops (Striptease) and, in the final body blow to the once-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, G.I. Jane, released in 1997.

Now Moore – aka Mrs Ashton Kutcher, her biggest role of the past few years – is back on the scene, quietly and no less eclectically, adding a period heist movie (Flawless), an ensemble piece (Bobby), a family angst picture (Happy Tears) and now The Joneses, an indie satire that opened on Friday. In it she plays the matriarch of a fake family, sent to suburbia to hawk face creams and golf clubs and other totems of conspicuous consumption. Her successes and limitations limn that curious piece of geography in Hollywood where the over-40 actress can encounter bounty (Sandra Bullock) or a spectacularly barren landscape (Michelle Pfeiffer).

She's also been cast as Miley Cyrus's mother in the forthcoming LOL, and cites as her proudest achievement her ability to endure fame and come out on the other side the mum and wife in psychic bliss.

"The thing I am most proud of is the relationship I have with my children, with my husband, with my ex-husband, with his wife, with my friends," Moore says during an hour-long chat at a brasserie in West Hollywood. "And within that, with myself, I am most proud of my willingness – well, not my willingness, but the grace in which I have dealt with and continue to deal with my obstacles and challenges, and my continued desire and ability to embrace my failings and to appreciate that which is imperfect."

Moore has been, at various times, less performer than cultural Rorschach test. Did you love her when she bared her naked pregnancy on the cover of Vanity Fair, demanding real Hollywood money and snagging a hot, successful husband 15 years her junior? Or were you more impressed with her for ditching the scene for nearly a decade in favour of car-pooling and grocery shopping in Hailey, Idaho, and for having a highly civilised divorce?

Or have you never forgiven her for her entourage during the early 1990s, hate her for stripping it down, taking it off all together and remaining uncommonly gorgeous in a city where many women sport a face that seems to stay the same for decades, thanks to modern science?

Either way, you know her and her quintessential Hollywood narrative. Born in Roswell, New Mexico, Moore escaped a chaotic and tragic childhood that included her father's abandonment and the suicide of her alcoholic adopted father, who dragged the family from city to city before settling in Los Angeles in 1976, where she attended Fairfax High School.

After quitting school to act, she landed her first big role on the soap opera General Hospital, and her film career was sparked by what could be described as Brat Pack serendipity. Joel Schumacher, the director and co-writer of St Elmo's Fire, a tale of 20-something angst, worked in an office across the hall from John Hughes – the creator of 1980s teenage touchstones like Pretty In Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off – who died last year. Moore had gone to audition for Hughes, Schumacher says, and had got tired of waiting.

He had been trying to cast the role of Jules, the vexed drama queen who botches her own suicide attempt, and had been frustrated in his efforts. Schumacher peered down the hall of his floor one day and spotted the young actress leaving.

"Literally as I walked out my door, I saw this flash of hair," Schumacher says in a telephone interview. "Run after her!" he said to his co-writer, Carl Kurlander. "After five minutes he came back panting and said her name is Demi Moore, and she's on General Hospital. So she came in. She rode a motorcycle those days without a helmet. She was, I think it would be appropriate to call her, a very wild child.

"She took that role, and she made it her own. And it was at that point that she really started disciplining herself to not be the wild child."

As Moore's career exploded, she became known throughout Hollywood as one of its most disciplined, if demanding, performers. Her zeal for trappings like the private jet and the bevy of weird outfits, and for demanding box-office gender parity, brought her the moniker Gimme Moore and unflattering press coverage even as she churned out hits.

"There was a real misperception," Moore says. "Part of it was the times we were living in. They were very excessive times." In trying to make the money she thought she deserved and to keep her family around her, she says, "you have to be willing to take the brunt of some judgment and criticism if you are seeking to create an opportunity of change that will not just affect you".

She takes a sip from her Starbucks cup, which no one in the restaurant seems to mind. She's a regular. "At the same time, I have to step back – and not in a way that is in any way a victim – and say: 'OK, what was it that I was doing? What was it that I was putting out that also created that?' And take responsibility."

Her day of reckoning was nigh. In 1998, following the box-office flop of G.I. Jane, Moore made her shift from box-office star to small-town mum. Her mother died, her marriage with Bruce Willis hit the skids. She sat on the set of Passion Of Mind in Paris and felt things coming apart.

"While I was there, I realised that my children weren't getting the best of me, the film wasn't getting the best of me, and I didn't even know where I was in the mix," she says. "As a product of divorced parents I realised I needed to just be in one place and allow my children to regain their equilibrium, to ground and find another centre, and I didn't feel that was something that I could do while being off on location and running around."

It was not that she retired, as was widely reported, she says; she was just resting. Her three children became "my entire focus," she says, "and without a time frame that I could say, 'All right, in a year or two years.' It was all just an instinct of knowing that it would be revealed." So there were several years of volunteering in classrooms, and going on field trips.

And then, she says, her kids had had enough. Enter Kutcher, whom she met at a dinner party in New York in 2003. "My kids really got to a point after living in a small town," she says, "when they really felt they needed something bigger, something with more diversity. They really pushed me to come back here. Then I met my husband and had my own motivations."

Back in Los Angeles, where she and Kutcher married in a 2005 kabbalah ceremony – she has practised that movement of Judaism for eight years – she seems to spend as much time on Twitter dispensing paediatric recommendations to strangers ("dr jay Gordon was my Pediatrician for all 3 of my girls and he was truly one of the best Hope he can help") and lobbying senators on behalf of her foundation to end sex slavery as she does reading scripts.

Moore's re-emergence in Hollywood came in 2003, as the spectacularly in-shape villain of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. But the big-budget mainstream entertainments are mostly gone.

Moore – who wears tiny-checked trousers, jazz shoes and a black sweater to our interview – is looking for roles that are "creatively satisfying," she says. "There are limited opportunities just because not as many films are being made, and so you combine that with the fact that women have always spoken out about the struggle for good quality roles, and then you add into it that we are a very youth-driven society, and that brings other challenges. And I feel in a certain way I didn't really fit in a box they could navigate."

Moore's situation is both odd and typical, Schumacher says. "Middle-aged women can have huge careers on television but not as much in movies. It's like they celebrate you when you're the pretty young thing, then there is a dead zone until menopause, when they rediscover you and give you an Academy Award."

Her latest film, The Joneses, co-starring David Duchovny, explores the notion of hyperconsumption, which Moore says fascinates her. "I love the message that ultimately while stuff is great and there's nothing wrong with wanting a nice bag or a nice car or a nice house or nice clothes it ultimately is not the answer to our happiness or fulfilment, that it's our human connection with one another, that without that none of the other stuff matters anyway."

Derrick Borte, the writer and director of The Joneses, says: "She has this hard shell, a professional, driven exterior that she shows so well on camera, but she shows cracks in such a brilliant way."

For now, it seems, Moore is comfortable with her cracks – both real and fictionalised – for the big screen. She has a husband who she is "absolutely" confident will be at her side when she is 70. She is dedicated to her foundation. Movies are now the icing, not the cake.






roger federer




Nationality: SUI (Switzerland)

Birthdate: August 08, 1981
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Residence: Bottmingen, Switzerland
Turned Pro: 1998
Plays: Right-handed
2009 Ranking: 1

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Strengths: Does everything well; big forehand; great footwork; fast
Weaknesses: Trouble hitting high backhands; 5-set record

With a superb performance, Federer matched the open-era record of winning four Australian Opens by winning against Andy Murray. It was also a time of firsts - first as a father, first of the new decade. Congrats Roger! In retrospective, Fed was just two points away from holding all four slams at the same, a non-calendar slam.

July 05: Federer has done it - by winning his 6th Wimbledon in a heart-wrenching final against Andy Roddick, Federer staked his claim on the history books by surpassing Pete Sampras' record. Tennis history is too tangled and intertwined by various events as Rod Laver says, "You know, it's hard for anyone to come out and say who's the best ever." And here's a salute to greats of the game. Federer is all set to enjoy the game for the rest of his career. Enjoy a look-back at Roger's career so far (courtesy of ATP Tour)

June 07: It's destiny at its finest hour. Admist the support of French crowd along with slight drizzle, Federer cracked his own Holy Grail - winning the French Open at his 10th attempt and his first win in four finals. Astonishing as it is, Federer has now equaled the Open Era record of 14 Grand slam titles. And fittingly, some inspiring words straight from Kipling - read by Federer and Nadal.

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting..."

Oct 13: Federer stuck with his winning formula this year and reaped dividends as he won his fifth straight US Open title. Only three men in the history of the game has more US Open titles - Sears, Larned and the great Tilden. Here's a highlights video. Champions always have known to come back when the odds are small, lights are dim and the stage left behind..

Aug 17: Roger Federer has finally achieved his long-time dream of being an Olympic champion by winning an Olympics Gold with his good friend, Stan Wawrinka at the doubles. What a glorious day!

July 31: This devastating month of July will be viewed by fans and historians as a key turning point in Roger's career. From a heart-wrenching loss in the Wimbledon final to his twolosses in the hard court master series, the four years at the top has taken its toll. It's likely that is his Number One streak of 234 consecutive weeks will come to a screeching halt. "It's a pity", as Roger would say..

June 22: Against the green background of grass courts, Roger won Halle for the fifth time. The timing was impeccable to erase the disappointing memory of losing the final at Roland Garros the last three years.

Apr 25: Roger is back with a bang as he won a sensational match at Monte Carlo against his famous nemesis, David Nalbandian. Signs are here that Roger is finally fighting off the flu, lack of conditioning and match fitness. Now he plays Djokovic, to whom he lost at the Australian Open.

Mar 1: At Australian Open, after the stomach sickness, a tough 5-setter with Tipsarevic and loss in semi-finals against Djokovic, Federer gave a great, exhaustive interview as he starts Dubai Open this week. And he won the fourth straight Laureus and first to do so. Congrats Roger!

Dec 15: A nice video to wrap up the year. Great shots of Federer from 2007. Happy Holidays!

Oct 19: Here's a cool painting by Stephen Holland.

Sep 09: After a great summer on hard courts, winning at Cincy and finals at Montreal, Federer won his fourth consecutive US Open against wind, great fight from Djokovic and bomb serves from Isner and Roddick. Truly a great classy effort for his 12th Grand slam. Check out this great article. "Surely, watching Federer is the closest any of us will get to paradise on earth in a sports arena." claims this awesome article.

July 15: Federer did it with panache to a 5-peat at Wimbledon, as this commentary exclaims, "What Federer also did, and really only he could, was in one match pay homage to an entire history of tennis. He saluted Bill Tilden’s generation with his attire, honoured Laver’s grand Australians with his manners, Connors with his spirit, McEnroe with his art, Borg with five Wimbledon wins, and when he twice was 15.40 in the fifth, and used serves to extricate himself from distress, one word flew across the mind: Sampras." Can't say much better, can we?

June 23: The grass is always greener as Wimbledon is this Sunday! Roger fans unite and give him a big wish as he aims to match history in the next two weeks.

June 10: With a heart-breaker final against Nadal on the red clay, Federer skipped Halle to rest his minor injury. He has made the finals of 8 consecutive grand slam finals. Never done before!!

May 23: After breaking with his coach, Roger was on fire (crazy rally, reaction) against Nadal at Hamburg masters. With his fourth clay masters, Roger is on perfect timing for Roland Garros. Good luck Roger on the looming French Open test.



Roger Federer of Switzerland has won more Grand Slam tennis titles than any player in the history of men's tennis. He defeated Andy Roddick at Wimbledon in July 2009 for his 15th major victory, eclipsing the previous mark of 14 by Pete Sampras, the retired American champion. By breaking the record, Federer has positioned himself for consideration as the finest player ever.

His Wimbledon victory was epic. The fifth set stretched to 30 games before Federer finally broke Roddick's serve and prevailed 16-14. It was, in number of games, the longest fifth set ever played in a Grand Slam final. With the victory, he also reclaimed the world number one ranking from rival Raphael Nadal.

Federer won the French Open a month earlier - the one Grand Slam singles trophy he was lacking, and the only one of the game's four most prestigious tournaments to be played on clay.

Federer became the sixth man to win the singles title at all of the Grand Slam tournaments: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the United States Open. The others to have managed it are Don Budge, Fred Perry, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Andre Agassi.

Federer has still not won the Grand Slam, which requires winning all four major titles in the same calendar year. (The only men to do that are Budge and Laver. Laver managed it in 1962 as an amateur and in 1969 as a professional.) But Federer's achievement at all four majors is without equivalent. He has won three titles and reached four finals in Australia. He has reached the final four times in Paris, and won once. He has won six titles and reached seven finals at Wimbledon. And he has taken five titles at the United States Open. All of this was achieved by the time he was 27, in a seven-year span.

Federer's victory at the French Open came after a year of disappointment. He had been ranked as the No. 1-seeded men's player in the world for more than four years - a record 237 consecutive weeks, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008. In 2008, in the midst of that run, Rafael Nadal - who had won the last three French Opens - embarrassed him, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, in the French Open final.

It was a harbinger of bigger disappointments. Nadal ended Federer's five-year run at Wimbledon, won the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles and took over the No. 1 ranking. Although Federer recovered to win his fifth straight United States Open title in September 2008, he lost again to Nadal in 2009's first Grand slam tournament, the Australian Open.

Federer was born August 8, 1981 in Basel, in northwest Switzerland, bordering Germany and France. According to his biography at tennis-x.com, an informational tennis Web site, he began playing tennis at age 8. His mother, Lynette, is South African and his father, Robert, is Swiss; they met on a business trip. His idol was Boris Becker and his favorite was Pete Sampras.

Federer became the No. 1 junior tennis player in the world in 1998 and won the junior singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon that year. His first Grand Slam tournament was the French Open in 1999, where he lost in the first round to Patrick Rafter. He won his first Grand Slam singles title in 2003 at Wimbledon. He has established the Roger Federer Foundation to support projects that help children learn worldwide and that promote sports.

With his victory at Wimbledon, Federer has won 60 singles titles and more than $49 million dollars in prize money.

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The history of the American Ranger is a long and colorful saga of courage, daring, and outstanding leadership. It is a story of men whose skills in the art of fighting have seldom been surpassed. Rangers are capable of conducting squad through regimental size operations using a variety of infiltration techniques including airborne, air assault and ground platforms. The purpose of the United States Army Ranger Association (USARA) is to promote and preserve the heritage, spirit, image and service of U.S. Army Rangers.



PHILADELPHIA — In the end, the Rangers’ late-season dream run came down to a single moment, Olli Jokinen bearing down on Flyers goalie Brian Boucher, the fans on their feet, a trip to the playoffs on the line for both teams.
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Boucher made the save. The Wachovia Center exploded with joy. The Rangers filed dejectedly from their bench to their dressing room, their season ended in the cruelest way imaginable.

“I’m just so empty, I don’t know what to say,” goalie Henrik Lundqvist said after the Rangers were outscored in the shootout, 2-1, after a 1-1 tie through regulation and overtime.

They are out of the postseason for the first time in five seasons despite ending the schedule with a 7-1-2 run, a surprising display of skill and confidence after a mostly miserable season. It left them wondering, what if?

“It’s frustrating because for the first time all year, we figured out what it meant to play as a team and to play for each other,” Brandon Dubinsky said of the last two and a half weeks of the season. “The frustrating part is that it happened too late.”

Lundqvist was brilliant in stopping 46 Philadelphia shots before being beaten in the shootout by Danny Briere’s well-stickhandled forehander and Claude Giroux’s blast between his legs.

Until Sunday, the Rangers’ comeback had enabled them to make up 10 points on the slumping Flyers in three weeks, the last 2 by beating them, 4-3, on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

That made Sunday’s game a winner take all, and it came down to Jokinen after Erik Christensen was stopped by Boucher and P. A. Parenteau scored. Jokinen tried to slip the puck between Boucher’s legs, but Boucher made the stop that put the Flyers, not the Rangers, into the postseason.

Coach John Tortorella would not say why he did not use Marian Gaborik, the Rangers’ 42-goal scorer, in the shootout. But Gaborik said afterward that Tortorella had picked him to go fourth.

“I was going to go for it,” Gaborik said, but he never got the chance.

Jokinen’s career shootout success rate is 38.9 percent. Gaborik’s is 11.1 percent.

For a long time it looked as if the Rangers would win the game in regulation. Jody Shelley tipped Michal Rozsival’s shot past Boucher just 3 minutes 27 seconds into the game. It was a lovely tip from Shelley, whose back was to the net, giving him his second goal of the season — the previous one coming Friday night.

The Rangers did not register a shot after the 6:55 mark of the period and ended up being outshot, 18-4. They survived an anxious sequence when a shot from defenseman Matt Carle hit the crossbar, rebounded against Lundqvist’s back and dropped behind him. Rather than rolling into the net, the puck rolled just wide of the post.

The Rangers carried that narrow lead into the third period, the Flyers dominating territorially but too inept around the net to make the Rangers pay. Most of the Rangers’ few bright spots offensively were provided by the line of Shelley, Artem Anisimov and Brandon Prust.

The Rangers’ lead lasted until 13:06 remained in the game, when Anisimov, killing a penalty, tried too soft a breakaway pass in the neutral zone. It was intercepted by Jeff Carter, who started a break the other way. The pinballing puck wound up loose in front, and Carle shoveled it past a wrong-footed Lundqvist.

The score stayed tied the rest of regulation and through four-on-four overtime, which the Rangers survived by parking the team bus in front of Lundqvist, a necessary step in light of their 1-7 record in overtime this season.

In 65 minutes of play, the Flyers outshot the Rangers, 47-25. Then it was on to the shootout, and bitter disappointment.

“If we’d had some consistency throughout the year, we wouldn’t be in this spot,” said Chris Drury, the Rangers’ captain. “We feel really bad for Henrik; it was one of the best games I’ve ever seen him play. We don’t get much in the way of offense for him, and it comes down to a tough shootout loss.”

Dubinsky said: “We had an opportunity, and it hurts not to have found a way. It should never get to this point, a shootout this late in the season.”

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Kerry Fraser was honored before the game for working his 1,904th and final regular-season game as an N.H.L. referee, the most in league history, and just about closing the book on a 30-season career that has included 12 Stanley Cup finals and selection in a recent Sports Illustrated poll of players as the N.H.L.’s top ref. Fraser, 57, is famous for his lush, never-out-of-place coiffure, which he did not cover with a helmet until 2006. But he is also known as a strong union man who has sometimes run afoul of league management and who testified in support of Dean Warren, an officials union activist seeking reinstatement as a referee after being fired by the league in 2008.

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The 12-year-old company provides over 150 varieties of fresh cut flowers to millions of satisfied customers throughout the United States.
We are excited to be a part of this city and to be a part of its business community,” said John Kuehn, senior vice president of supply chain operations, ProFlowers.

Barb Jespersen and Lane Holbert of Cassidy Turley and David Sours and Kevin Kelly of CB Richard Ellis in Dallas represented the Logistics Pointe (Westmount Realty Capital).
Progress Software, leverancier van enterprise software die ondernemingen in staat stelt om direct te reageren op veranderende omstandigheden, introduceert de nieuwste versie van de Progress® Sonic® Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 8.0. Deze versie combineert de voordelen van open standaarden met de vele functies waarover Progress Sonic-producten beschikken. Sonic ESB 8.0 ondersteunt de open ontwikkelingsstandaarden, verbetert de constante beschikbaarheid van de architectuur en is beter geschikt voor kleine implementaties en multi-site omgevingen waarin een groot aantal transacties plaatsvindt.

Een belangrijke eigenschap van Sonic ESB 8.0 is de ondersteuning van RESTful (Representation State Transfer) architecturen.
De gepatenteerde Continuous Availability Architecture die geïntegreerd is in het Sonic ESB-platform is uitgebreid in de nieuwe Sonic 8.0 versie. Deze nieuwe versie verlegt de grenzen op het gebied van SOA en bedrijfsintegratie. Dit door de kracht en flexibiliteit van een open model te koppelen aan de uitgebreide multi-site operations-beheermogelijkheden en uitrolmogelijkheden. Deze functionaliteit wordt ondersteund door de Continuous Availability Architecture van Progress, wat zorgt voor optimale effectiviteit en betrouwbaarheid van de messaging infrastructuur.”

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people magazine



"It has nothing to do with the way she looks. It has everything to do with who she is."

And Roberts isn't the only A-list star to dip her toes in the beauty arena.

Longtime contract virgin Jennifer Aniston, who's also one of this years "Most Beautiful," finally took the leap with the announcement that she'll be launching her own fragrance, Lolavie -- which will debut in the UK's Harrods this summer before making the journey to US shores in the fall.
No stranger to the beauty world, Jennifer Lopez is back from a brief career hiatus tending to two-year old twins Emme and Max -- and the always-glowing star just landed on the cover of makeup artist and long time best friend Scott Barnes' book, About Face: Amazing Transformations Using The Secrets Of The Top Celebrity Makeup Artist. The 25 year-old tells People magazine that her two must-have beauty staples are, "red lipstick and sandwiches."


The people of America have spoken! This year's People magazine's most beautiful list is out and we’re going to tell you who's hot (just to let you know that we are officially jealous of all the celebs who appear on this list…we want their genes dammit)!

We all know that the calibre of beautiful ladies in Hollywood is amazing, do we have to remind people of how much we drool over what they wear or how they can make a potato sack look haute couture?

So it comes to no surprise that the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift have their name on the list.

Kim Kardashian is in good company as she was recently honored in People magazine as one of the Most Beautiful People of 2010. Kim joins stars like Robert Pattinson, Bradley Cooper, and Justin Bieber on the list.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star seemed genuinely thrilled to be included in this star-studded group of actors, singers, and models.

People magazine named Julia Roberts, 42, the most beautiful woman for their People's Most Beautiful People issue. The actress's new film "Eat, Pray, Love," based on a novel with the same title, puts her smiled back in the limelight.

The article raves over Roberts' and her minimalist approach to wearing coverup. "It has everything to do with who she is."

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Tito's attorney Chip Matthews said that Jenna's been battling addiction to the painkiller for more than a year now, and that Tito and family members have been protecting her.
He claims that Jenna had a relapse and that Tito confronted her about the drugs he claims to have found.

Matthews claimed Jenna has been to rehab, and that her addiction has led to multiple suicide calls to 911.

So what's Jenna's side of this? During the news conference the former porn star was packing up to leave for Las Vegas.

We're told Jenna's dad is taking care of Tito and Jenna's twin sons.


The focus of the Ortiz research program is on structural or load-bearing biological materials, in particular musculoskeletal (internal to the body) and exoskeletal (external to the body) tissues. The Ortiz research group studies these fascinating materials using expertise in the field of “nanomechanics” including; the measurement and prediction of extremely small forces and displacements, the quantification of nanoscale spatially-varying mechanical properties, the identification of local constitutive laws, the formulation of molecular-level structure-property relationships, and the investigation of new mechanical phenomena existing at small length scales. Novel experimental and theoretical methods are employed (see Table below) involving increasing levels of complexity from individual molecules to biomimetic molecular assemblies to single cells to the nanoscale properties of the in-tact tissue. The result, and ultimate objective of the Ortiz research program, is a fundamental, mechanistic-based understanding of tissue function, quality, and pathology. The scientific foundation being formed has relevance to both the medical and engineering fields. In addition, the discovery of new nanoscale design principles and energy-dissipating mechanisms will enable the production of improved and increasingly advanced biologically-inspired structural engineering materials and protective defense technologies that exhibit "mechanical property amplification" - that is, dramatic improvements in mechanical properties (e.g. increases in strength and toughness) for a material relative to its constituents.

Assemblyman Ortiz, Chairman of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Task Force, commends his fellow colleagues for their hard work to make the weekend a memorable time and the Latino and Hispanic community for such wonderful attendance.
The contemporary work which parallels the art of indigenous ceramists to the north, the Hopi, Zuni, Acoma Indians and others, has come to be known as Mata Ortiz Pottery.

MataOrtizPottery.com specializes in the sale of authentic Mata Ortiz pottery. In addition, we have produced a documentary about the artists and written the award-winning children's book, "The Pot That Juan Built."

oil spill in gulf of mexico


oil spill in gulf of mexico


The oil slick has grown to 48 miles by 39 miles wide. The explosion and fire of the oil rig on April 20th, 2010 burned over 24 hours (see video here) and leaked 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the Gulf of Mexico. It was originally expected to add an additional 300,000 barrels of oil per day from the leak into the water. This image showing the leaking oil was provided by the US Coast Guard. BP quoted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experts as saying the spill is "very thin" and on the surface of the ocean.


An ROV arm attempts to activate the blowout preventer at the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.
(Credit: deepwaterhorizonresponse.com)

The agencies have deployed four remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to the wellhead about 5,000 feet below the ocean surface. While ROVs have been used by the oil and gas industry for more than 30 years, this particular mission is highly complex due to the great depth of the wellhead, as well as the first of its kind. Another idea is to install funnel-shaped covers at the site to capture the oil.

The Coast Guard believes the well is leaking about 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the ocean. Eleven workers went missing last week when the rig exploded and sank to the seabed.

Some are speculating that the accident is the worst U.S. offshore oil rig spill in decades. "As time passes, however, the probability of success in locating the 11 missing persons decreases."

Transocean, based in Zug, Switzerland and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor, said some of the missing may not have been able to escape the rig.

U.S. lawmakers called for the Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service to investigate the incident.

It was unclear whether the rig sank to the bottom in about 5,000 feet of water, or how much oil still flowed or had spilled from the well, officials said.

A remotely operated unmanned submarine, commonly used in the industry, was deployed to determine the exact location and condition of the rig and the situation of the well, which extends 5,000 feet through water and 13,000 feet beneath the seabed.

"We continue to assist Transocean in the effort to halt the flow of oil from the well through the use of a remotely operated vehicle to activate the subsea blowout preventer," said David Rainey, vice president of Gulf of Mexico Exploration for BP, a leading oil and gas operator in the Gulf.

The well in Tuesday's accident was the first of a series to be drilled and was in the process of being temporarily plugged pending production.

"The well had been cased off.