Monica Lewinsky turns 40 years old today! Happy Birthday Monica!

Weekend Box Office: July 19-21, 2013

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July 22, 2013

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Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)

The Conjuring $41 m
Despicable Me 2 $25 m
Turbo $21.5 m
Grown Ups 2 $20 m
Red 2 $18.5 m
Pacific Rim $15.9 m
R.I.P.D. #12.7 m
The Heat $9.3 m
World War Z $5.2 m
Monsters University $5 m

SMACK/ URL PRESENTS UFF: ILL WILL vs DANJA ZONE

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July 21, 2013

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SMACK/ URL The leaders of MC Battle culture link up with BET’s 106 & Park to create Ultimate Freestyle Friday(UFF) The UFF is a 7 week elimination tournament between some of URL’s finest MC’s.

Illustration of $1 Billion Dollars

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July 19, 2013

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“F*ck it I want a Billion” –JAY Z #PicassoBaby

#Detroit Files Largest Bankrupt Case in US History

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July 18, 2013

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Detroit—The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation’s iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.

The 16-page petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.

Detroit is 18.5 billion dollars in debt.

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/14/2013

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July 17, 2013

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#1. Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 527,000 (527,000)

#2. Ciara – Ciara – 58,000 (58,000)

#3. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 39,000 (478,000)

#6. Kanye West – Yeezus – 29,000 (459,000)

#7. Wale – The Gifted – 28,000 (237,000)

#10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 22,000 (913,000)

#24. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 10,000 (148,000)

#40. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 7,400 (966,000)

#50. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 6,200 (517,000)

#164. Tony Touch – The Piece Maker 3 (Return Of The 50 MC’s) – 2,400 (2,400)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

The Fifth Estate [trailer]

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July 17, 2013

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A dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.

How To Survive in America on Minimum Wage [infographic]

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July 17, 2013

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McDonald’s has partnered with Visa to make a website dedicated to showing its employees how to properly budget their peasant salaries. However, what it actually does is illustrate the fact that it is nearly impossible to get by on minimum wage in America as shown in this “example” budget chart:

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Mobile Payments to Top $1 Billion in 2013

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July 11, 2013

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Mobile-payments

An eMarketer report predicts that mobile payments in the United States will break the $1 billion barrier this year and then hit $58 billion by 2017.

The eMarketer study defines such payments as “transactions for goods or services made by scanning, tapping, swiping or checking in with a mobile phone at the point of sale.” They differ from mobile commerce, which is defined as purchasing items on a mobile device. The researcher predicts mobile commerce sales will hit $38.4 billion this year.

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 7/7/2013

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July 10, 2013

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#1. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 58,000 (439,000)

#2. Wale – The Gifted – 50,000 (208,000)

#3. Kanye West – Yeezus – 39,000 (431,000)

#8. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 24,000 (890,000)

#23. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 13,000 (138,000)

#24. Pretty Lights – Color Map Of The Sun – 13,000 (13,000)

#32. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 10,000 (959,000)

#42. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 7,600 (511,000)

#107. Starlito – Cold Turkey – 3,800 (3,800)

#193. Jay-Z – The Black Album – 2,500 (3,516,000)

^{* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.}

Report: Average NYC Rent Passes $3000

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July 10, 2013

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The average rent for an apartment in New York City (excluding Staten Island) is $3,017 a month. This is the first time the average rent has exceeded $3,000.
“The average New York rent was more than 50 percent higher than second-place San Francisco, where rent grew 1.1 percent from the first quarter to $1,998.82,” reports Reuters. “Oklahoma City was the cheapest market, at an average of $571.03 a month, up 0.6 percent

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