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Griselda Blanco (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Blanco was killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle as she walked out of a butcher shop in her hometown, Medellin on Sept 3, 2012.

Griselda was featured in Billy Corben’s Cocaine Cowboys documentary series.

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Actor Michael Clarke Duncan has died at 54, two months after suffering a heart attack. Duncan was 6-foot-5, 300 pounds and starred in “Green Mile,” “Armageddon,” “Planet of the Apes” and “Kung Fu Panda.”

Detroit’s Danny Brown gets animated in new collab with House Shoes.

Happy Labor Day!
If your working one of these jobs below, you may want to put in your 2 week notice if you wanna get that GWOP in America!
Most of the jobs lost during the recession paid middle-income wages, while three-fifths of the jobs gained in the recovery are low-wage, according to a recent report from the National Employment Law Project. And some sectors with the fastest job growth, like retail and food services, are also some of the worst paying.
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Supercar owners living in an exclusive high-rise apartment block can now park their beloved motors from their – LIVING ROOMS. Hamilton Parks in Singapore is a brand-new 30-storey development where flats cost between £6 and £15 MILLION. But with parking in the city limited, the skyscraper designer came up with an innovative way of parking some of the planets fastest cars. Residents simply drive their 200mph motors into a biometrically-controlled lift at the base of Hamilton Parks on the city’s swanky Orchard Road.

directed by Mr. Boomtown

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The 44-year-old father of two and self-described “hillbilly” from Lapeer, Mich., claimed his prize Friday – the third largest in the game’s history – in a lump-sum, $224.6 million payment that works out to $158.7 million, after taxes.

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Facebook stock, which traded at $38 during its May IPO, has plummeted to an all-time low of $18.28.
For Facebook employees who have shares locked up, November can’t get here fast enough. That’s when they’ll be able to sell off their Facebook stock, although who knows what their shares will be worth by then. BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon is predicting that shares will have dropped to a flimsy $15 by November.