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“A spokesman for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels says the stunt-flying team will be down one jet the rest of its season after removing two members from duty for having an inappropriate relationship. Capt. Tyson Dunkelberger, a spokesman for the team based at Naval Air Station Pensacola, said Thursday the squadron will finish its last three air shows next month with five jets.” [Link]
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“‘Tinker Bell,’ the first of four direct-to-DVD movies set for release over the next four years, managed higher-than-expected sales in its debut in stores on Monday. Consumers in North America bought 668,000 copies of the computer-animated film on its first day of release, about 22 percent above projections, according to the company. Sales at many Target stores were double the forecast and the movie easily moved one million copies by Wednesday.” [Link]
“Kay Hagan filed a lawsuit against Elizabeth Dole and the Elizabeth Dole Committee, Inc., after Dole declined to remove her new television ad, described by North Carolina newspapers as ‘indecent,’ a ‘gross misrepresentation,’ ‘dishonest,’ and ‘beyond the bounds of acceptable political disagreement.’ ‘Like her time in the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Dole has made her choices here, and that’s her decision,’ said Hagan Campaign Communications Director Colleen Flanagan said. ‘But it’s equally our decision not to allow someone to slander Kay Hagan, impugn her character, her convictions and her faith, without any consequences. Elizabeth Dole would love nothing more than to distract from the issues and her record for the last 5 days of the campaign.”" [Link]
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“Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters. Within a week he has gathered more than 1000 signatures through. ‘I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world,’ he wrote. ‘However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?’” [Link]
“USA Today obtained an internal U.S. Olympic Committee e-mail in which a Chinese official expressed concern that members of the U.S. team might stage some sort of demonstration. The list was given to the USOC during a meeting July 8 with Shu Xiao, minister counselor for cultural affairs at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, the e-mail said. The athletes included softball players Jennie Finch, Jessica Mendoza, Natasha Watley, Amanda Freed, and softball assistant coach Karen Johns; soccer player Abby Wambach; cyclist Jonathan Page; paralympic basketball player Jen Howitt; paralympic wheelchair racer Cheri Blauwet; and golfer Laura Goodwin.” [Link]
“A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.” [Link]
“The Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. and MTV have scheduled a press teleconference Thursday at 10:00 a.m. ET to announce ‘an exclusive agreement to develop a global music project.’ Although the announcement does not offer details on the agreement, representatives for the Beatles have been talking to MTV’s ‘Rock Band’ team for months.” [Link]
“Brad Lidge and the Phillies finished off the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in a three-inning sprint Wednesday night to win a suspended Game 5 nearly 50 hours after it started. Left in limbo by a two-day rainstorm, the Phillies seesawed to their first championship since 1980. ” [Link]
“Republican John McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by two points (46 percent to 44 percent) in Arizona, a margin that makes the race too close to call, according to a new Cronkite/Eight Poll. The poll of 1,019 registered voters in Arizona was conducted Oct. 23-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.” [Link]
“JellyCloud, a Redwood City, Calif.-based targeted ad network, closed its doors this month after raising $11.5 million in venture-capital funding earlier this year. Adzilla, a similar network in San Francisco, also ceased operations. San Francisco-based AdBrite, which was founded in 2002 by Internet entrepreneurs Philip Kaplan and Gidon Wise and has raised a total of $35 million in funding, recently cut 40% of its work force to make itself profitable.” [Link]
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“FRIDAY THE 13TH is produced by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes with THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE’s Marcus Nispel directing. The script comes from Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who happen to be the duo that penned FREDDY VS. JASON. It stars Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Tavis Van Winkle, Derek Mears, Aaron Yoo, and Willa Ford ” [Link]
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“The HP Mini 1000 comes in three versions, with starting prices ranging from $379 to $699, and will be available at retailers worldwide starting Wednesday. HP first dipped its toe into the mini-notebook market back in April with the Mini-Note 2133, which it claimed was strictly for K through 12 students and some business travelers. At the time, HP was adamant that this was not meant to play in the same arena as the consumer-oriented Netbook from Asus, the Eee PC. Though it won’t break out the numbers, HP now says the sales of the 2133 ‘exceeded all expectations.’ ” [Link]
“The actress and her professional partner, Corky Ballas, were eliminated Tuesday from ABC’s popular dancing competition. The pair received the judges’ lowest score — 15 out of 30 — for their cha-cha routine Monday. Viewer votes and the judges’ scores were combined, sending the outspoken performer out of the ballroom.” [Link]
“Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that regular PC users will be able to test out a “beta” version of Windows early next year. Windows 7, the forthcoming operating system, will let users choose to see fewer alerts and warnings from their computers.” [Link]
“A widely watched survey by the private Conference Board, which dates back decades, plunged to its lowest point on record in October as Americans complained about fewer jobs and smaller incomes and ratcheted back plans for major purchases like cars and appliances. Americans also say they believe the economy will worsen before it improves — a sign of deep pessimism that reflects a year of painful declines in stocks, jobs and home values. ” [Link]
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Kim Kardashian celebrates her birthday at LAX Nightclub in Luxor Las Vegas
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Jenna Haze tries to lick it off…
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Katharine McPhee appears at the 30th Caravan of Hope in Beverly Hills.
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Tinker Bell on DVD
Tinker Bell on Blu-Ray
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