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Thousands of fans lined up for hours this past Tuesday to get a first glimpse of New Moon, help a worthwhile charity, and to see stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. After an hour passed many rumors were tossed around from a Robert Pattison airport sighting (he was taping with Ellen Degeneres at the time) to trouble with delayed flights and even wardrobe malfunctions.
The real reason that fans had to wait for nearly an hour and a half on a school or work night?
According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Kristen Stewart was unhappy with the two dresses that were sent, so she sent her assistants back to her private plane to get another dress.
I think people would have been just as happy to see her in blue jeans as from my count 8 out of 10 were there to see Taylor anyway.
We were fortunate to get to see a premiere of New Moon in Knoxville. Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart were there to help raise money for Regal cinemas Variety children's charity. I'm proud to say that it was a great success as over $400,000 was given by Twilight fans.
Taylor and Kristen both seemed nice and spoke about how much they enjoyed making this film and that they were glad to be a part of such a great charity. Neither had been to Tennessee before and Kristen added that she thought it was a beautiful state.
Now for the movie! I would imagine that most fans of the series would have two questions? Did the movie follow the book and how many minutes of the film included Robert Pattinson? As most readers will know, its impossible to get all of a 500 page book into a two hour film. I think that the Twilight and New Moon movies have done a much better job of following the books than did the Harry Potter films. Robert is in at least half the film which is more than I would have thought from reading the book. There is a lot more action in this film and it sets up well for the release of Eclipse next year. The film has already set records for advance ticket sales at Fandango and with two more films remaining The Twilight Saga could well become the best selling series of all time.
I'll post more pictures later.
The U.S Preventative Services Task Force has come out with a recommadation that women do not need mammograms until the age of fifty, reversing an long held opinion to start at age forty. Who makes up this task force? Government health experts or in other words government bureaucrats. Not one of the sixteen members is an oncologist. Is this the beginning of the dreaded health care rationing that we see in other countries and has been rumored with universal health care? If a one payer system is implemented then the government will be making all of the health decisions because they will control the payments to doctors and you will have no alternative but to accept it.
A new study has concluded that American taxpayers are paying over 10,700 for each car sold by GM and Chrysler. The scary thing is after all of the billions in bailouts and incentives is that they are still losing money. Why are American cars inferior to foreign made vehicles? Because of the outrageous union contracts (some workers get paid to sit and read papers all day long) it costs much more per vehicle to produce American cars. Why didn't the congress and the Obama adminstration simply let the auto companies file bankruptcy? Its simple, they have to protect the unions it is a large portion of their contributions. How is that hope and change working out for you?
Want to see the left in full panty wad meltdown? Check out the leftist blogs today like DailyKOS, Media Matters, and The Huffington Post. You can smell the hate coming through the computer for Sarah Palin.
Why do they hate her so much? Because she is a woman who doesn't believe in government as Big Brother like they do
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There is no doubt that Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox and Sky news, is a great business man. What else is obvious is that he does not like to give news away for free and really hates competitors like the BBC and ABC Australia stealing his content.
Murdoch has set a June 2010 deadline for his sites to start charging for online news. If anyone could pull it off, I think Murdoch can but many others have tried and failed. The New York Times has tried unsuccessfully on more than one occasion to charge and Howard Stern's big gamble to leave terrestrial radio for Sirius has at best had luke warm success
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I travel in my line of work almost daily. Unfortunately I have a habit of getting lost and refuse to ask for directions. I have asked Santa for a top of the line GPS for Christmas, but until then I depend heavily on my printed directions. For me there has never been a choice before as my company requires me to submit a Mapquest printout to get reimbursed for my mileage. I can use whatever service I like, but for simplicity have always went with Mapquest. Recently though, I have been reading a lot about how many more bells and whistles Google offers (like street views to help with turn by turn directions) While I really like the satellite imagery, I've found that Google's maps are at the least confusing and in many instances wrong. The biggest error that I have found with Google's map is that they will have you looking for a turn that never materializes. (eg. turn right to stay on hwy 1 when you don't have to ever turn) If you want to try both directions without printing out two separate directions, check out www.mapvsmap.com Its a neat site that shows Google and Mapquest side by side.
Bottom line: I'll stick with Mapquest for now. All the bells and whistles won't matter if your directions get you lost
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We used to do some of these in my pyschology classes in college and I generally sucked at them. Apparently 97% of people see an old man and woman in this picture but 3% of us see something else. What do you see?
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