WEEKEND WRAP UP, PIRATEAS STEALS ITS WAY TO NUMBER ONE, SHAQ CAN'T SLEEP THE WORLD DIDN'T END AFTER ALL, NFL PLAYER GOPES TO THE EIGHT GRADE PROM

Of course the pirate movie it was just a matter of how much it would make and it did not disappoint making over $90 million dollars the largest weekend gross this year. Here are the rest of the totals.


Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
May 20 - 22 weekend


1 - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides N/A $90,100,000 TOTAL: $90,100,000
2 2 Bridesmaids Universal Pictures $21,058,290 TOTAL: $57,517,530
3 1 Thor Paramount Pictures $15,500,000 TOTAL: $145,406,000
4 3 Fast Five N/A $10,630,570 TOTAL: $186,219,155
5 5 Rio 20th Century Fox Distribution $4,650,000 TOTAL: $131,646,651
6 4 Priest Sony Pictures Releasing $4,600,000 TOTAL: $23,683,000
7 6 Jumping the Broom Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group $3,700,000 TOTAL: $31,300,000
8 7 Something Borrowed Warner Bros. Pictures $3,425,000 TOTAL: $31,428,000
9 8 Water for Elephants Fox 2000 $2,150,000 TOTAL: $52,427,574
10 9 Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family Lionsgate, The Tyler Perry Company $990,000 TOTAL: $51,756,990
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The consequences of sleep apnea, as described by the litany of doctors early in this video, is pretty frightening. So take it from Shaq and get checked out.

It's hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping's recent admission that he's "flabbergasted" the world didn't end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful.

"It has been a really tough weekend," Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home for the first time to talk to a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm looking for answers ... But now I have nothing else to say," he said, adding that he would make a full statement. I mean really would anyone take this guy seriously?

Thomas(notes) was drafted in the sixth round by the Chicago Bears, but the lockout leaves him without much to do right now. The athletic, hard-hitting linebacker out of West Virginia University is still in Morgantown, keeping in shape and spending time with his family.

Every day, Thomas helps his 7-year-old brother Jared get home from school. Riding the same bus as Jared is an eighth-grade girl named Joslyn Levell, who happened to grow up in Chicago as a Bears fan and now lives in Morgantown. Joslyn has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair.
With assists from the bus driver and J.T.'s stepmother, Thomas got on the bus one day to say hello to Joslyn. They hit it off immediately. From NFL.com:
As J.T. met a Bears fan in his hometown, Joslyn explained to him that she'd had a rough week because all of the boys she asked to the dance declined. Thomas melted.
"I hugged her and signed a few things and we talked for awhile and she cried a bit," Thomas recounted. "I gave her a hug and told her everything would work itself out."
It did. J.T. asked her to the dance himself.
"I was nervous that by the time I reached out, she might have had a date and would have to turn me down," he said.
Joslyn gladly accepted the invitation. And another fell good storyu for the week.

WEEKEND WRAP UP: I NEED TO WRITE A DIARY,JAY Z SUPRISES TEAM, TONI BRAXTON JOINS REALITY, THIS PREACHER DOES NOT HOLD BACK

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 scored big at the box office coming in at number one. Hey I guess it's time for me to write my diary and make a lot of money. Here are the rest of the totals:




Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
Mar 25 - 27 weekend

1 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules 20th Century Fox Distribution $24,400,000 TOTAL: $24,400,000
2 - Sucker Punch Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $19,015,000 TOTAL: $19,015,000
3 1 Limitless Relativity Media $15,225,000 TOTAL: $41,280,982
4 4 The Lincoln Lawyer Lionsgate $11,000,000 TOTAL: $28,967,183
5 2 Rango Paramount Pictures $9,800,000 TOTAL: $106,363,000
6 3 Battle: Los Angeles Sony Pictures Releasing $7,600,000 TOTAL:  $72,580,000
7 5 Paul Universal Pictures $7,506,050 TOTAL: $24,610,220
8 6 Red Riding Hood Warner Bros Pictures $4,390,000 TOTAL: $32,453,000
9 7 The Adjustment Bureau Universal Pictures $4,244,520 TOTAL: $54,870,590
10 8 Mars Needs Moms Walt Disney Studios Distribution $2,186,000 TOTAL: $19,152,000


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Jay Z dropped by the Kentucky basket-ballers after they defeated North Carolina on Sunday to make it to the final four of the NCAA tournament. Needless to say they were pretty excited.

Toni Braxton and her sisters get a new reality show. I guess after two bankrupcies and no shows you got to get a check some kind of way.

I didn't know Cee Lo was preaching this Sunday. Paster says fuck you in church sermon.

BATTLE LA BEAT THE COMPETITION, JAPAN GETS HIT HARD BY EARTHQUAKE, CASH MAY BE KING AGAIN, IS THIS A CHUCH OR A CLUB

Battle LA beat out the competition this weekenfd making over $30 million. I a shocked cause I thought sure the animated movie would do numbers. wrong on that one. Here are the totals


Box Office Charts

Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
Mar 11 - 13 weekend


1 - Battle: Los Angeles Sony Pictures Releasing $36,000,000 TOTAL: $36,000,000
2 1 Rango Paramount Pictures $23,050,000 TOTAL:$68,653,000
3 - Red Riding Hood Warner Bros Pictures $14,135,000 TOTAL: $14,135,000
4 2 The Adjustment Bureau Universal Pictures $11,459,175 TOTAL:  $38,451,435
5 - Mars Needs Moms Walt Disney Studios Distribution $6,800,000 TOTAL:  $6,800,000
6 4 Hall Pass N/A $5,105,000 TOTAL: $34,936,000
7 3 Beastly CBS Films $5,090,000 TOTAL: $16,980,401 
8 7 Just Go With It Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group $4,000,000 TOTAL: $93,982,000
9 8 The King's Speech The Weinstein Company $3,625,163 TOTAL: $129,062,000 
10 5 Gnomeo & Juliet Touchstone Pictures $3,546,000 TOTAL: $89,031,000


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Japan's NHK television network shows video of the tsunami swallowing towns and farmland along coastal Japan. This is unbelieveable

Your debit card may soon be denied for purchases greater than $100 -- or even as little as $50.


JPMorgan Chase, one of the nation's largest banks, is considering capping debit card transactions at either $50 or $100, according to a source with knowledge of the proposal. And the cap would apply even if you run your debit card as credit.
Why? Because of a tricky thing called interchange fees.


Right now, every time you swipe your debit card your bank charges the retailer an average fee of 44 cents, which it shares with its partners. Those little fees, however, add up to about $16 billion per year, according to 2009 data from the Federal Reserve.
But as part of the Wall Street reform legislation that was passed last year, these fees are being slashed. The Fed is currently proposing rules that would go into effect in July and would cap interchange fees at 12 cents.
That's a big enough cut to cost Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) more than $1 billion a year. And Chase may not be alone. Other major issuers are also projecting huge losses from the interchange fee cap.
Joe Price, president of consumer banking for Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), said in an e-mailed statement that the lower fee wouldn't fairly compensate the bank for the infrastructure and services it provides to retailers.
And consumers would end up feeling the pain when Bank of America is forced to recoup costs "by increasing the cost of their everyday debit card transactions, limiting their payment choices, and impacting industry innovation," according to the email.
yet another way the big banks try to steal all the money out of your account. That's why I got ride of my Chase account.

A Missouri pastor turns a nightclub into a kind of religious sanctuary for troubled teens. KSHB reports.
sop you can jam and praise the Lord in one shot.

LOOKING FOR A MIRACLE JUST CALL THIS DOG

CNN's Kyra Phillips talks to disabled veteran Steven Boyd who's praying dog has become an internet sensation. IO think he's about to start a church.

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