A documentary 13 years in the making, American Promise follows the journeys of two African-American boys and their families from kindergarten to high school graduation and provides a powerful narrative about the lives of african-american boys and their families, as well as the factors that contribute to the achievement gap in education for black males.
Opens in New York October 18. See here for cities & showtimes: http://on.fb.me/17lBHAZ
“The Sirens of the Lambs,” Banksy’s latest installation features dozens of wailing stuffed animals aboard a slaughterhouse delivery truck that has been driving the streets of New York’s Meatpacking District.
indie Rock band Rusty Maples performs an acoustic version of “Pockets” during their coast tour.
filmed by Anoshastar
source: Entrepreneur
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid top dollar — more than $30 million in total — for the four residential properties located next door and behind his Palo Alto home.
Zuckerberg is one of several prominent tech CEOs who own homes on Palo Alto’s tree-lined streets. Yahoo’s (YHOO) Marissa Mayer and Google’s (GOOG) Larry Page live there, as did the late Apple (AAPL) chief Steve Jobs.
Zuckerberg, who rented for many years, reportedly paid $7 million two years ago for the 5,000-square-foot home in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park neighborhood where he lives with his wife, physician Priscilla Chan. Zuckerberg, whose personal fortune is estimated at $19 billion, also owns a home in San Francisco.
source: Gawker
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent last step after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and the city of Detroit.
Kilpatrick, who served as mayor from 2002 until fall 2008, fattened his bank account by tens of thousands of dollars, traveled the country in private planes and even strong-armed his campaign fundraiser for stacks of cash hidden in her bra, according to evidence at trial.
Kwame’s friend and businessman Bobby Ferguson was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Ross Ulbricht, known as Dread Pirate Roberts to users of the SilkRoad website, was arrested last week, the FBI seized 26,000 Bitcoins belonging to Silk Road customers. But it also attempted, unsuccessfully, to claim the nearly 600,000 – thought to be worth around $80m – which Ulbricht himself is thought to be holding.
Silk Road is a notorious black market website which helped dealers to sell drugs under the cloak of anonymity.
Bitcoin is a digital currency based on a methods of cryptography similar to those used to protect confidential emails. Due to its decentralised nature – the currency does not rely on any centralised agency to process payments, instead relying on work done by users’ computers – it is popular for a number of fringe-legal and illegal uses. One of those uses was Silk Road, where Bitcoin was required for all transactions. 1 Bitcoin is equivalent to $138 usd.
According to the FBI’s complaint, the arrest led to the seizure of $3.6 million in bitcoins—the virtual currency Silk Road users employed to buy and sell illegal drugs online.
Though the FBI’s seizure was the second most valuable act of bitcoin confiscation ever, the Feds were actually unable to appropriate the vast majority of bitcoins associated with the Silk Road enterprise, Ulbricht’s personal stash. Roughly $80 million worth of bitcoins—the personal fortune Ulbricht amassed by running Silk Road—remains untouched by the government
So why can’t the FBI get its hands on the money? The reason has to do with the design of bitcoins themselves. A bitcoin cannot be transferred from one user to another without the first users “private key,” or password to verify the transaction. Unless Ulbricht hands over his password, the FBI will be unable take possession of the money.
source: Forbes
#1. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience, 2 of 2 – 350,000 (350,000)
#2. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – 148,000 (806,000)
#3. Lorde – Pure Heroine – 129,000 (129,000)
#11. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience – 18,000 (2,310,000)
#14. Nelly – M.O. – 15,000 (15,000)
#26. Jay Z – Magna Carta…Holy Grail – 12,000 (1,015,000)
#28. 2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime – 12,000 (126,000)
#40. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 8,000 (1,096,000)
#41. Deltron 3030 – Event 2 – 8,000 (8,000)
#44. MMG – MMG Presents: Self Made Vol. 3 – 8,000 (74,000)
#57. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 6,000 (1,052,000)
#62. Juicy J – Stay Trippy – 6,000 (120,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousand for units above 10,000, nearest hundred for units below 10,000.
Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)
The new $100 bill goes into circulation today (Tuesday)
Banksy does it again!
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