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


The rest of the post after the jump
 

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.