Churchill Downs, Last night’s episode of the hit CBS reality series “Undercover Boss” was highly enjoyed by the viewers as it showcased the Chief Operating Officer of Churchill Downs Incorporated, Bill Carstanjen getting into the shoes of a worker in his own corporation and for the first time in his life experiencing what his employees go through every day. The latest episode of the reality series gave revealing insights into the experiences of Churchill Downs COO as he embarks on a journey to get a taste of the reality of the workers who are part of his organization.

ast night’s episode of the hit CBS reality series “Undercover Boss” was highly enjoyed by the viewers as it showcased the Chief Operating Officer of Churchill Downs Incorporated, Bill Carstanjen getting into the shoes of a worker in his own corporation and for the first time in his life experiencing what his employees go through every day. The latest episode of the reality series gave revealing insights into the experiences of Churchill Downs COO as he embarks on a journey to get a taste of the reality of the workers who are part of his organization.
Bill Carstanjen’s odyssey commences at the Calder Race Course in Miami where he works with a trainer, Gillian and learns how to take proper care of the animals. However, the Churchill Downs COO initially seems to have a difficult time dealing with the moody animals which got accentuated given his fear of horses. Moreover, while working as just another regular employee of the corporation, Bill Carstanjen also gets to witness the sheer hard work and dedication with which the employees work every single day despite certain financial crunches that they have to face.
Next, the Churchill Downs COO was seen going Arlington Park Racetrack situated in Illinois, where he takes an attempt at bugling but success seems to elude him here. For the rest of the time, Bill Carstanjen gives a helping hand to Denise to clean the luxury suites at the racetrack. At the same time, last night’s episode of “Undercover Boss” also showcases few emotional moments for the Churchill Downs COO when he takes a closer look at the lives of his workers.

Another Earthquake in Haiti, Less than an hour ago, another earthquake measuring 6.1 hit Haiti only a week after the big 7.2 quake!!

Again the easiest and quickest way to do your bit and donate to the victims through Unicef or many other organization using google’s crisis response page -

Google crisis response

I really hope we hear about more donations from our country (donated $1mil), something closer to our $500 million donation to hurricane Katrina, which is nothing compared to this crisis!!

Let’s not think politics or PR or religion on this …. Just think about these poor human beings who are losing everything in their lives!

GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes against targets in Gaza killed three men early Friday in a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border.
The Israeli strikes came in retaliation for a rocket and mortar barrage launched into Israel on Thursday.

The bodies of two men killed when missiles hit a tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border have reached the morgue at nearby Rafah Hospital, according to Dr. Salam Abu Salem. A news cameraman saw a third body being removed later Friday from the same tunnel.

Dozens of Palestinians have died in collapses and strikes against the tunnels, which are used to bring everything from cigarettes and chocolate to livestock and weapons into the blockaded territory. Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade to weaken Gaza’s rulers, the Islamic movement of Hamas, who seized power there in 2007.

Israel’s military said that in addition to the smuggling tunnels its aircraft also targeted an alleged weapons manufacturing facility and another tunnel meant to allow militants to sneak into Israel for an attack.

In a statement, the military said Israel “will not tolerate the firing of rockets by terrorist organizations at Israel and will continue to respond against any attempt to disrupt the calm in Israel’s southern communities.”

Israel has developed an anti-rocket system, dubbed Iron Dome, which is slated to be deployed along the Gaza border later this year and could neutralize the crude rockets that have become the Gaza militants’ most effective weapon. Egypt has also begun building an anti-tunnel barrier along its border with Gaza, potentially ending Hamas’ supply of cash and weapons.

Together, the two moves by Gaza’s neighbors could soon change the strategic equation in and around the territory.

Violence in Gaza has dropped but not ceased since Israel’s devastating offensive in the territory a year ago, aimed at halting years of rocket fire at Israeli towns and cities nearby.

On Thursday, the U.N. said Israel had agreed in principle to pay the organization around $10 million for damage caused to U.N. buildings by Israeli forces during the fighting. An Israeli official said an agreement on such a payment was close but had not been finalized.

Vinny Cerrato Resigns Breaking news :- Vinny Cerrato resigns as Redskins executive vice-president.

Vinny Cerrato, the much-maligned Washington Redskins executive vice-president of football operations, resigned this morning, nearly two years after becoming the organization’s de facto general manager.

The timing of the resignation is strange, but what else would you expect from the Redskins front office? It likely means that Snyder has a beat on Mike Holmgren or Bill Cowher and Mike Shanahan and wants to strike now while he still can. Dragging his feet is only going to lead to getting a guy he doesn’t really want, sort of like what happened two years ago when he was forced to hire Jim Zorn against his will.

What this means for Zorn is anyone’s guess. Cerrato hired him so you’d figure this would be it for him, but if Holmgren comes to D.C., could he play Parcells to Zorn’s Tony Sparano?

Those are all questions for later though. For now, all Redskins fans need to care about is the fact that Vinny Cerrato is finally gone.

WASHINGTON: US Health Care Bill Clears key Senate Test, President Barack Obama’s top domestic goal, remaking US health care, cleared a key Senate hurdle Monday with no room to spare and seemed all but sure to pass by his self-imposed Christmas deadline.

After hours of bitter debate, all 58 Democrats and their two independent allies closed ranks in a vote after 1:00 am (0600 GMT) to get exactly the 60 senators needed to end debate on a landmark compromise bill.

“What’s really killing more and more Americans every day is complications from our health care system,” Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in the final speech before the ballot.

All 40 Republicans voted against the measure, acknowledging that for the moment they lacked the power to kill the sweeping proposal but warning Democrats would pay a price in the November 2010 mid-term elections.

“It’s not too late. All it takes is one. Just one. All it takes is one. One can stop it — or every one will own it,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a vain last-ditch appeal for a Democratic defector.

Senators were scheduled to hold two more procedural votes a day apart and then a final ballot on Thursday — Christmas Eve — on passing what would be the most sweeping overhaul of its kind in four decades.

Passage would set up tough negotiations for the Senate and the House of Representatives — which approved its version of the bill on November 7 — to craft a compromise version they could send to Obama to sign into law.

Democratic leaders hope to do so before his State of the Union speech in late January or early February.

Intra-party Democratic feuds were expected over tough new restrictions on federal monies going to subsidize abortions and the Senate’s decision to strip out a government-backed “public option” to compete with private insurers.

The highly unusual overnight vote came after a day of often bitter debate inside the Capitol as Washington dug out from under the worst winter storm in years, which dumped a thick layer of snow and iced-over some roads.

“What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray,” said Republican Senator Tom Coburn, a medical doctor.

That drew a sharp rebuke from Senator Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat, who said he did not “think it’s appropriate to be invoking prayer to wish misfortune on a colleague.

“We are becoming more coarse and more divided here,” he scolded. “I don’t wish misfortune on any of my colleagues.”

The underlying legislation would extend coverage to 31 million of the 36 million Americans who currently lack insurance.

It would require most Americans to buy insurance and offer subsidies for low-income families to do so, while forbidding insurers from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.

Democrats said the bill met Obama’s goals of costing less than 900 billion dollars and not add to the deficit, citing findings from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that it will cost 871 billion over the next 10 years and cut the deficit by about 132 billion dollars.

Several Democrats invoked the name of late senator Ted Kennedy, who had made fixing US health care a main cause of his life, and his widow Vicki Kennedy was in the visitors gallery as the vote took place.

The United States is the world’s richest nation but the only industrialized democracy that does not provide health care coverage to all of its citizens.

Washington spends more than double what Britain, France and Germany do per person on health care, but lags behind other countries in life expectancy and infant mortality, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

LOS ANGELES : Michael Jackson to Get Lifetime Achievement Grammy, Singer Michael Jackson next month will receive a posthumous Grammy for lifetime achievement, along with six other artists, organizers of the music industry’s top awards said.

The others honored with the annual award are Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, blues musician David “Honeyboy” Edwards, country star Loretta Lynn, pianist Andre Previn, fluegelhorn player Clark Terry and the late singer Bobby Darin.

Over the years, Jackson won 13 Grammys and scored 17 No. 1 singles in the United States, and his 1982 “Thriller” is the highest-selling album of all time.

The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys, will honor the lifetime achievement winners at an invitation-only event on Jan. 30, the day before the Grammy Awards are handed out in Los Angeles.

Past winners of the lifetime achievement award include Frank Sinatra, Smokey Robinson, B.B. King and Bob Dylan.

Jackson died at age 50 in June, from an overdose of powerful medications. His death is still the subject of a criminal investigation.

Separately, the Recording Academy said on Friday that “The Climb,” by 17 year-old Disney star Miley Cyrus, has been withdrawn from the Grammy category of Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media.

The academy said Walt Disney Records informed them that “The Climb,” written by Jessi Alexander and Jon Mabe, was not written specifically for Cyrus’ star vehicle “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” as the academy had previously thought.

The Climb” was replaced with “All is Love,” a song from this year’s movie “Where the Wild Things Are” that was written by Karen O and Nick Zinner of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend of the past four years, Italian property developer Raffaelo Follieri, was caught trying to pass a bad check for $250,000 to a public relations firm.

Last year, he supposedly squandered $1.3 million in business funds on cars, clothes, and other luxe goods.

Anne has gushed about how Raffaelo had helped her out of a rut. “Before I met him, I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic and smelled bad. He’s protective without being possessive, passionate without needing to show his temper.”

Health Care Bill, Health Care Vote Result, US House approves sweeping health care overhaul:-

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century, handing President Barack Obama a major victory on his top domestic priority.

Obama hailed the “historic vote” and said he was sure of signing the ambitious overhaul in 2009.

“Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people,” Obama said in a statement savoring the political triumph.

“The United States Senate must follow suit and pass its version of the legislation. I am absolutely confident it will, and I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year,” he said.

After hours of bitter debate and an appeal from Obama to “answer the call of history,” lawmakers voted late Saturday 220-215 for a 10-year, trillion-dollar plan to extend health coverage to some 36 million Americans who lack it now.Facts: Health bill

The chamber’s Democrats erupted in loud cheers and triumphant applause the moment the bill had the 218 votes needed for passage, about 11:07 pm (0407 GMT), a happy din that grew deafening when a gavel made it official.

The president had paid a rare visit to Congress to lobby for unity among his Democratic allies and reinforced it with a public speech, but 39 still joined 176 of the chamber’s Republicans in opposition to the proposal.

One Republican broke ranks, nominally fulfilling, in the barest terms, Obama’s vow to secure bipartisan support.

“This is our moment to deliver. I urge members of congress to rise to this moment, answer the call of history and vote yes for health insurance reform for America,” Obama said in the White House’s Rose Garden hours before the vote.

The fight to remake health care in the world’s richest country shifted to the US Senate, where its fate remained unclear amid a intra-party dispute among Democrats anchored on what role the US government should play.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, struggling to pull together the 60 votes needed to ensure passage, has hinted that the chamber may not act until next year.

That would put the issue front-and-center in the 2010 mid-term elections, when one third of the Senate, the entire House of Representatives, and many US governorships are up for grabs.

If, as expected, the two chambers pass rival versions of health care legislation, they will need to thrash out a compromise version and approve it in order to send it to Obama to sign into law.

Final House passage came after a flurry of votes, including a 240-194 vote to sharply tighten restrictions on government monies paying for abortions, seen as critical to cementing support from a group of anti-abortion Democrats.

The House then voted 176-258 to defeat the Republican alternative to the overall plan — with one lone Republican, Representative Timothy Johnson of Illinois, joining the Democrats in opposition.

The United States is the only industrialized democracy that does not ensure that all of its citizens have health care coverage, with an estimated 36 million Americans uninsured.

And Washington spends vastly more on health care — both per person and as a share of national income as measured by Gross Domestic Product — than other industrialized democracies, but with no meaningful edge in quality of care, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The bill would create a government-backed insurance plan, popularly known as a “public option,” to compete with private firms and would end denial of coverage based on preexisting medical problems.

Under the White House-backed bill, Americans would have to buy insurance and most employers would have to offer coverage to their workers — though some small businesses would be exempt and the government would offer subsidies.

Daul Kim found dead,South Korean model Daul Kim was found dead in her apartment in Paris, She had only 20 years.

According to reports it is apparent suicide, but the cause of death is not yet confirmed. Her Seoul agency, Esteem, said her family and agency officials were heading to Paris.

Daul Kim had a blog where on Oct. 30 she wrote: “mad depressed and overworked, the more i gain the more lonely it is … i know i’m like a ghost” and her last entry was on Nov. 18 and was titled “say hi to forever” and had attached a video of the song “I Go Deep” by British singer Jim Rivers.

Ms Kim has made appearances at fashion weeks around the world, modelling for leading designers, including Chanel and Alexander McQueen.

South Korea has the highest rate of suicide among the 30 nations belonging to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.

There have been a string of high-profile suicides in the country during the past year, including that of former President Roh Moo-hyun in May over a corruption scandal.

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New Moon box office sales updates, Twilight sequel New Moon breaks record for advance box office salesTwilight sequel New Moon breaks record for advance box office sales.

Earlier projections predict vampire-themed romance The Twilight Saga: New Moon could take a nearly $100 million bite from the box office when it debuts this weekend, scoring one of the biggest openings ever for a non-summer film.