New Moon (Twilight Saga)

‘New Moon’ shines on

LOS ANGELES, Nov 29 (Reuters) – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” rose to the top of movie box office charts for the second straight week on Sunday with a three-day haul of $42.5 million on a record-breaking holiday weekend in North America, according to studio estimates.

Over the five-day U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, the vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner took in $66 million, pushing its two-week total in theaters to $230.7 million in North America, said independent studio Summit Entertainment, which backed the movie.

Internationally, the high-profile sequel to last year’s monster hit “Twilight,” based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer, has taken in $243 million for a worldwide total just under $475 million in two weeks.

Richard Fay, president of domestic distribution for Summit, said the movie continued to do strong repeat business from mostly teenage girls who are fans of the movies and books, and it was able to expand its audiences to include older women.

Total movie ticket sales for the five-day holiday period in North America reached a record $278 million, beating the old figure of $244 million set back in 2000 when “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Unbreakable” were the two top films, according to sales tracker Hollywood.com Box-Office.

Coming in at No. 2, also for the second straight week, was Sandra Bullock football film “The Blind Side” with three-day sales of $40.1 million and a two-week total of $100.5 million. Disaster film “2012″ rounded out the top three with $18 million in three days, boosting its three-week total to $139 million.

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Call of Duty franchise

COD Franchise has the best game of all time!

The launch of Modern Warfare has helped the Franchise reach a new milestone, Call of Duty just passed the $3 billion USD milestone revenue mark,

Overall the six CoD title have sold 55 million units with the Modern Warfare 2 crushing recent entertainment launch records by taking in $550 billion USD in five days of availability. In the first day the game sold 4.7 million units in the US and UK markets,  With the new millstone record CEO Robert Kotick us calling the franchise one of the greatest entertainment franchises of all time.

That last piece which was quoted kinda reminded about the VMA’s when Kayne West’s stupid ass interrupted sweet little Tayler Swifts acceptance speech.

Anyways with all these sale i still do not have a copy of the game due to the whole ban hammer at microsux oh well i will have a new system soon.

The Call Of Duty series has surpassed 55 million unit sales to date worldwide, taking a whopping $3 billion in retail sales in the process.
That’s according to a combination of data from The NPD Group, ChartTrack, GfK and internal Activision estimates, released today by the publisher.

The series has hit the figures after Modern Warfare 2 shattered box office and video game records with a worldwide estimated five-day sale through of approximately $550 million.

“Call Of Duty has become one of the greatest entertainment franchises of all time,” said Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard.

“If you consider the number of hours our audiences are engaged in playing Call of Duty games, it is likely to be one of the most viewed of all entertainment experiences in modern history.”

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Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

American Democrats have nothing better to do then to punish our hero’s of war for doing there job…

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Are you kidding me this what these guys are supposed to do, If these guys get convicted of any crime then we are just going to open a huge mess of crap. Every damn terrorist and there mother is going to sue the military, I say make an example out of the terrorist. Cut his damn throat then he will have a lot more to worry about then a bloody lip, He is a terrorist he deserves what he got he should be lucky with just a bloody lip i would have killed him.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

These guys are hero’s in my mind and thats the way it should be in everyone else’s eyes, They are doing the job that they were supposed to do. Capture a terrorist and that is what they did keep the laws of america out of this and let them do what they are supposed to do. The military as well as these guys are trained to complete there objectives and that is just what they did the package arrived so what it was damaged a little in shipping but it got there.

These guys are praised by me just for the capture of the terrorist scum bag now kill him and catch another, Put me behind a rifle and i will be a one man firing squad. No Remorse for a terrorist would it be different if it was local?

These guys should be Rewarded

Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.

Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.

Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.

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SiteGround Web Hosting

SiteGround bad Idea, Not a good place to use for a hosting service. I will list a few good ones below..

Just recently i was charged over $100 for a service i did not want or need. I did sign up for a service for what i thought was only 1 month but they had automatic renewal set with no option on the checkout form to decline. This scamming company is SiteGround web hosting services. I did not agree to have automatic renewals set at siteground they just assumed that it would be ok.

Siteground customer support is no good either although they play a good game with there sales the billing department is very hard to get in touch with. The service at siteground is less the expected and i had access troubles more then 10 time with my ftp client and with browser. Site ground sent me an email stating that my account was renewed and $107 was charged to my card. When i contacted Siteground they said that there is no refunds and that i should have read the TOS or the Agreement i think they should give the customer the option of automatic renewal which they do but only if you disable it billing it should be on the for on checkout.

I see this as bad web hosting business and do not recommend this company to anyone. As a matter of fact on there server (i had to keep it live just to talk to billing) i will be creating a page that is more then against them but in a good manner. I was talking with sales for awhile before i finally agreed to chat with billing. This charge is still being disputed with my bank as well.

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Ashley Green Maxim

Yeah!!

Ashley Greene is the latest babe and upcoming celebrity to hit the pages of Maxim magazine! And she looks like a winner to me! Ashley hails from Jacksonville, Florida, but at the age of 17 she jumped ship and headed to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career like 85% of young, hot women do. Ashley has had some small roles in Punk’d, Crossing Jordan, and King of California, but Ashley Greene’s big break came last year when she was signed to play Alice Cullen in the movie Twilight, which should be released later this year. Looking forward to seeing more of Ash!

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AMA awards

Jermaine Jackson

Jermaine Jackson

I watched them, I do not generally listen to the type of music that the VMA’s are for but that performance with lady gaga ridiculous her voice is pretty good but.. I will leave it there.

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How hot is Taylor Swift right now? The country star dominated the American Music Awards on Sunday night – and she wasn’t even there.

After sweeping the Country Music Association Awards earlier this month, Swift won a leading three American Music Awards, including Favorite Artist of the Year, all while she was in London.
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Modern Warfare 2

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ is a one-night stand of flying bullets, explosions and cool moments. It pushes you forward with guns blazing, hoping to God you don’t stop to realize how confusing it all is.

Because for all of “Modern Warfare 2′s” awesome action – and it is indeed deserving of whatever superlatives you can throw at it – the game also suffers from a disorienting absence of sense in its storytelling. You do things, but you don’t know why. All you know is that it all looks badass in HD.
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R/C Rock Crawlers

Jake Wright maneuvers his crawler, while his girlfriend, Jess Downing, one of a few women in the club, waits her turn.

Jake Wright maneuvers his crawler, while his girlfriend, Jess Downing, one of a few women in the club, waits her turn.

I like the fact of rock crawlers, I enjoy watching them but in the r/c world i do not see it as fun. It just is not Rock Crawling unless there is that danger that can happen to anyone at any time.

I guess if thats what is fun then do it:
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Modern Warfare 2 tops entertainment industry

Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2

If you think Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has had a major impact on just the video game industry, you may need to adjust your expectations.

According to Activision Blizzard, the game’s publisher, Modern Warfare 2 has set records across the entireentertainment industry.

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Upland man sentenced in torture slaying

sentenced

sentenced

Seems this guy got off pretty easy as he was not sentenced to death just life in prison, In my opinion what is the worst way he could die? Well lets take that and use it against him as well as do the same to him as he did to the person that he killed. That was a bit excessive all the things that he and his buddies did.

I really think that a botched hanging is in order in this case, Forget the hanging rope get one of those that has a bit more elasticity so its slow and painful. Electric chair without the wet sponge so he will fry a little harder but all this after the torture that he inflicted on the victim then if he/ they are still alive let them have the other above stated methods

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