UN to continue aid efforts despite Taliban threats
August 27, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nation assured to continue aid efforts in flood-hit areas despite a US official warned that the Tehrik-e-Taliban in Pakistan is planning to attack foreign aid workers participating in flood relief.
“We will not be deterred from doing what we believe we need to do, which is to help the people of Pakistan,” John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, told a news conference at the world body’s headquarters.
“Of course, security issues are there, but we’ll continue to help a very large number affected by the unprecedented floods” Holmes, who is leaving his post, told a news briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.
Holmes said that the United Nations would take “appropriate precautions.”
Replying to a question, Holmes said he had not talked to the Pakistan government about beefing up security for the UN aid workers, but the
conan obrien
April 12, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Conan O’Brien is heading to TBS, where he’ll launch a late-night show in November.
O’Brien’s decision to go to TBS ends a long dance with the Fox Network, which had been in extensive negotiations with the late-night funnyman.
Once the new show gets off the ground, O’Brien will be paired with George Lopez’s late-night effort, which currently airs in the 11 p.m. slot, but will move to midnight when O’Brien’s show gets off the ground.
The network began talking with O’Brien last week, after Lopez called him to come aboard, according to the announcement.
“I can’t think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in,” Lopez said in a statement. “It’s the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy.”
Said O’Brien in a statement: “In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.”
The TBS deal is yet another chapter in a wacky world of late-night TV that began last spring when NBC replaced Jay Leno on the “Tonight Show” with O’Brien.
Leno was then given a 10 p.m. show on weeknights.
However, earlier this year, when each show struggled in the Nielsen department, NBC officials wanted to move Leno to 11:35 p.m., followed by O’Brien at 12:05 a.m.
O’Brien balked and decided to walk, taking with him a $45 million payout for himself and his staff.
O’Brien had been promised the “Tonight” gig five years earlier and vowed that moving the time period would be a destruction of the franchise.
Common wisdom was that he would head to Fox, which for years has tried to launch a late-night effort. However, to get that moving, Fox had to convince affiliates to give up lucrative syndicated fare in that time period to air O’Brien.
“Conan has been the comedic voice for a generation. TBS already has a huge audience of young comedy lovers, and Conan’s show will give these fans even more reasons to watch our network,” Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks said in a statement.
masters payout 2010
April 12, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
The total masters 2010 prize purse/money stands at $7 500 000, with the winner getting $1 350 000. But you may ask where does the rest of the 2010 masters golf prize money go.
The 2010 Masters Golf Tournament ends now. And the winner is Phil Mickelson. Congratulations! How about Tiger Woods? He only placed fourth. Perhaps it is effect of crisis in his marriage.
Many a Golfers do wait for an event like the Master Cup to fill up their respective pockets with a lot of cash.
As per to the very news of the Masters payout, the total prize money on stake at this very prestigious golfing event is seven million dollars, which will eventually be shared amongst the Golf players that are actually competing in the Masters Cup 2010.
The total Masters Payout is so much that the top nineteen positions are expected to get prize money in six figures. The second position holder is getting $810,000 the third position holder $510,000. Unfortunately Tiger Woods couldn’t make to even the third position. He stood fourth. But considering the Masters Payout, he also must have won a handsome amount.
Phil Mickelson received big prize for 2010 Masters Golf Tournament. In accordance with Augusta National Golf Club, Phil Mickelson will be get $1.35 million from $7.5 million in total prize money.
We hope he use the money to help his mother and wife with their medications.
Here is Top 10 Masters Winners List in 2010 Masters Golf Tournament.
Phil Mickelson 1 – $1,350,000.00
Lee Westwood (England) 2 – $810,000.00
Anthony Kim 3 – $510,000.00
K. J. Choi (Korea) T4 – $330,000.00
Tiger Woods T4 – $330,000.00
Fred Couples 6 – $270,000.00
Nick Watney 7 – $251,250.00
Hunter Mahan T8 – $225,000.00
Y. E. Yang (Korea) T8 – $225,000.00
Ricky Barnes T10 – $195,000.00
Ian Poulter (England) T10 – $195,000.00
george lopez
April 12, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Late-night mainstay Conan O’Brien is headed to TBS to resume his comedic duties with a talk show expected to debut in November, the network said Monday.
The program will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. Eastern, shifting TBS’ “Lopez Tonight,” starring George Lopez, to midnight.
O’Brien quickly fired out a celebratory tweet.
“The good news: I will be doing a show on TBS starting in November! The bad news: I’ll be playing Rudy on the all new Cosby Show,” he posted Monday on Twitter.
The surprise announcement hit the same day O’Brien starts a two-month, nationwide comedy tour in Eugene, Ore., amid persistent reports that he was likely to claim Fox as his new late-night home.
Barring Fox, syndication was widely considered O’Brien’s most likely option. Few if anyone mentioned TBS as a plausible destination.
O’Brien began serious talks with TBS just last week, the network said.
“In three months, I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable,” O’Brien said in a tongue-in-cheek-toned statement. “My plan is working perfectly.”
O’Brien left NBC in January after hosting “The Tonight Show” for just eight months, as his ratings plunged from those of his longtime “Tonight” predecessor, Jay Leno, who reclaimed the hour. Until last June, O’Brien had followed Leno as host of “Late Night” since 1993.
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After giving O’Brien “Tonight,” NBC sought to keep Leno on board with a prime-time show that quickly flopped. An attempt to move O’Brien to a post-midnight slot drew O’Brien’s ire, and he walked away with a $32 million settlement package.
Although that put him in play for other networks, the deal barred him from appearing on TV until September
Amy Holmes
Amy Holmes, Amy M. Holmes (born in 1973 in Lusaka, Zambia) is a conservative political contributor for She has also appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher several times. Holmes graduated from Princeton University with a BA in economics in 1994. She is an independent conservative.
Holmes was born to a Zambian father and a Caucasian American mother. She was raised in her mother’s native Seattle, Washington after her parents divorced when she was three. She has co-hosted The View and co-hosted CNN’s Glenn Beck while Beck was on the road with his “Unelectable” show. Holmes wrote Senate floor statements for Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and the Republican Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007. She is currently an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by the Washington Times newspaper called “America’s Morning News”. Holmes is skeptical that global warming is caused by human activity.
TJ Holmes Married
TJ Holmes Married, If you don’t want TJ Holmes, the winner of the Ed Bradley Award for Journalistic Hotness, to take you away, Fefe Dobson-style, from your daily drudgery to Atlanta to be his “Georgia Peach” 4-eva, you probably should stop reading now. But if you are unhealthily obsessed with all that deliciousness, stop going through his garbage and read this post. You know he already has that restraining order out on you!
Avatar Box office gross
December 28, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
“Avatar” earned $23.5 million on Friday :- British director Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” set a Christmas Day sales record at the box office in North America, taking a narrow lead over last weekend’s champ, “Avatar,” according to early estimates.
“Sherlock Holmes,” earned $24.9 million during its first day of release while “Avatar” earned $23.5 million on Friday. The record for a Christmas Day opening was set last year when “Marley and Me” launched with $14.4 million.
Avatar Box office gross was first posted on December 28, 2009 at 3:30 pm.
