Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Xavier Jones - Ball Is Fate, Episode 2: HSM Euro Camp 2012
Minneapolis very own Xavier Jones Highlights from Las Vegas, NV 2012 Euro camp
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Facebook Will Disclose Members' Data to Marketers
It seems that Facebook’s experiment in monetizing data harvesting moved to another level. Now the portal will open up its database to the marketers who are able to use personal data they have accrued, like phone numbers and email addresses, in order to find potential customers.
Facebook’s stipulation is that the marketer must already have some of the personal information on their records. Otherwise, Mark Zuckerberg is enabling marketing departments to hunt down clients, present or former, on the social network. The marketers will then be able to use the information to stalk people across the social network just in a week.
However, there’s one niggling question left. Everyone having a telephone realizes that, even with using opt-out services in order to hide your number from the public record, if one unscrupulous marketer gets their hands on the phone number, it will becomes public domain for both the cold callers and scammers.
The clauses saying that the companies may pass over data to relevant 3rd parties, with your consent, upon joining them, are usually hidden in terms and conditions of numerous email sign-ups and member websites. Indeed, in some cases it’s as easy to do as accidentally leave a box un-ticked on some sign-up form – and you will see the others passing and selling you information without an obvious record. In fact, opting out of such services is not the sender’s responsibility, but rather the receiver’s.
Unsurprisingly, Facebook was heavily criticized, and the company claims that the marketers must receive the permission of their clients to use that information before they can start tracking them.
Facebook’s stipulation is that the marketer must already have some of the personal information on their records. Otherwise, Mark Zuckerberg is enabling marketing departments to hunt down clients, present or former, on the social network. The marketers will then be able to use the information to stalk people across the social network just in a week.
However, there’s one niggling question left. Everyone having a telephone realizes that, even with using opt-out services in order to hide your number from the public record, if one unscrupulous marketer gets their hands on the phone number, it will becomes public domain for both the cold callers and scammers.
The clauses saying that the companies may pass over data to relevant 3rd parties, with your consent, upon joining them, are usually hidden in terms and conditions of numerous email sign-ups and member websites. Indeed, in some cases it’s as easy to do as accidentally leave a box un-ticked on some sign-up form – and you will see the others passing and selling you information without an obvious record. In fact, opting out of such services is not the sender’s responsibility, but rather the receiver’s.
Unsurprisingly, Facebook was heavily criticized, and the company claims that the marketers must receive the permission of their clients to use that information before they can start tracking them.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Chief Keef Denies Involvement In Murder
After basically shrugging off and laughing about the murder of a rival rapper, Chief Keef took to Twitter to send his prayers to Jo Jo's family. Hmmm.. sounds like them Interscope boys put him up to it. That's called damage control after discovering the feds were looking into his tweets for implications.
Aspiring Rapper Tweets YOLO, Then Dies In Drunk Driving Car Accident
Aspiring Rapper Tweets YOLO, Then Dies In Drunk Driving Car Accident
It's something out of a PSA for drunk driving, or a scene out of the Final Destination films. Above all, it's a tragedy that could have possibly been prevented.
Earlier this week, five men in their early 20s were killed in Ontario, California when their 2005 Nissan Sentra ran a red light, lost control and hit a fence, before coming to rest in the backyard of a house, according to the San Bernardino Sun. As news of the tragedy spread around of community, one of the vicitim's Twitter accounts caught the attention of investigator s. Ervin McKinness, 21, died in the car crash, which police say occurred around 1:40AM on Labor Day (Sep. 3), but approximatel y twenty minutes before the deadly accident, the 21-year-old sent out a tweet that could have saved his life if someone had intervened.
"Drunk af going 120 drifting corners #F--kIt YOLO," was posted at 1:19 AM Monday on the McKinness' Twitter account (@ink2flashyy .) "YOLO" is the acronym for "You Only Live Once." The four letters are often used on the social networking site. (Drake popularized the acronym on the track "The Motto." "You only live once, that's the motto, ni--a Yolo / We bout it every day, every day, every day / Like we sitting on the bench, ni--a we don't really play ," the Young Money MC raps on the track.)
Marquell Bogan, 23, Dylan George, 20, Jonathan Watson, 21 and JaJuan Bennett, 23, were also killed in the car accident. McKinness, who sent out the now-cryptic tweet, was not at the wheel, as his tweets suggest. Watson was driving according to police. One final, follow-up tweet from McKinness a minute later read: "Driving tweeting sipping the cup f--k yolo I'm turning it up." The last tweet was eventually removed from his account.
All but one of the victims was pronounced dead on the scene. Bogan was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2AM. The investigatio n is still underway, but McKinness' tweets reveal that alcohol was in play.
Family and friends of the deceased revealed that the group were celebrating the good news that McKinness -- an aspiring rapper that went by the name Jew'elz and Inkky -- had signed a record deal. His track "Dreams" can be streamed below.
ARE YOU READY FOR JIM JONES AND CHRISSY'S REALITY SHOW?
While some may be sad to see the ratchet that was Love & Hip Hop Atlanta go, LHH’s original stars are prepping their own aww-inducing spin-off.
Rapper Jim Jones and Chrissy Lampkin will continue to weave through the ups and downs of their relationship and the music industry in their new show Chrissy & Mr. Jones. The eight-episod e docu-series will explore the status of Jim and Chrissy’s “engagement” as well as friendships with appearances from Emily Bustamante and Talia Coles. Things wouldn’t be the same without Nancy “Mama” Jones either.
Peep the promo flicks from the show HERE, then be sure to catch the season premiere on Monday, Sept. 24 at 9:30 p.m. on VH1.
Rihanna's New Tattoo
Rihanna just got a new tattoo—and it's pretty big!
In honor of her departed "Gran Gran Dolly" (who passed away earlier this year), Rih got a tattoo of the Goddess Isis that covers the entire area under her breasts.
She tweeted out the picture of her fresh ink, seen above, followed by this comment: "Goddess Isis- Complete Woman - Model for future generations- #GRANGRANDOL LY - always in and on my heart #1love." It looks like she's had it since her show-stoppin g VMA performance on Thursday, as seen from another pic tweeted out.
What do you guys think? Is it a nice tribute or a bit extreme?
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
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WGBTV NEWS: Griselda Blanco Dead
Griselda Blanco rose to the top of the world of drugs because she was the baddest of the bad. She was a drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s. US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Bob Palombo said of her “I don’t think the fact that she was a female trying to prove something had anything to do with her violent behavior; I just think it was inherent to Griselda Blanco. This goes back to her life, the way she was brought up. She was just a violent person.” Her upbringing was violent, neglectful and depraved. This became her future kingdom. Her philosophy about death was “if you’re going to be a killer be the best.” She was. Watch Griselda Blanco
Blanco was born on 15 February 1943 on the north coast of Colombia, and moved to Medellín when she was three years old. Griselda at age 11 kidnapped, tried to ransom and eventually shot a child from the upscale neighborhood near her hillside slum. By her preteens, she was a pickpocket and at the age of 14 she ran away from her physically abusive mother and resorted to prostitution. She met Carlos Trujillo, a hustler who imported illegals into the States. They married but by the late 1960s, Blanco divorced Trujillo then killed him over a business dispute. Soon after, she met and married another hustler, Alberto Bravo. In the mid-1970s, Blanco and Alberto emigrated to the States and established a cocaine business. Griselda was involved in much of the drug-related violence known as the Cocaine Cowboy Wars that plagued Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her network brought in US$80 million per month. She masterminded 200 murders. If you purchased drugs from Blanco and failed to pay her back promptly, Blanco would kill you. If she bought drugs from you and didn’t feel like paying, she would kill you. On 20 February 1985 she was arrested in her home. Blanco was sentenced to more than a decade in jail. By pressuring one of her lieutenants, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office obtained sufficient evidence to indict her for three murders. The case collapsed largely due to technicalities and Blanco was released from prison and deported to Colombia. Watch Cocaine Cowboys II: first 11 minutes
In 1975, when her Learjet touched down at the Bogotá airport a convoy of long black limousines whisked the 32-year-old over dusty roads toward the Colombian capital. Blanco was back in her native country to meet with Alberto. At five feet tall and weighing 165 pounds Blanco was no drug lord’s fantasy chica. Millions in profits were missing, and Blanco blamed her husband. They fired guns at each other. Blanco was struck in the stomach but recovered, her husband was not so lucky. She liked to be at war. Every day she’d say, ‘We’ve got to get so-and-so,’ ‘we’ve got to get so-and-so.’ Most dangerously, Alberto’s nephew Jaime learned she was responsible for his uncle’s murder. Watch cocaine cowboys part 2 of 2
Charles Cosby, a hustler in his late teens was awestruck by a “Cocaine Queen” who moved hundreds of kilos into the U.S. Cosby reflected, “Griselda was the connection of all connections. My eyes were on the prize.” Cosby visited her in prison. “How much money do you need,” Blanco asked, “for you and your family to be comfortable?” Cosby threw out a sum of 50 keys. A Latino woman visited his house bearing two packages of 50 kilos of cocaine the next day. Cosby became a millionaire. Watch Cocaine Cowboys II: hustlin with the godmother “I’m going to move against Kennedy,” Blanco told him. Cosby was confused. “The president’s son!” Blanco shouted. “Is that descriptive enough for you, Charles?” A plot against JFK Jr. was madness. Cosby backed away from Blanco. Unbeknownst to the Godmother prosecutors from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office subpoenaed Cosby. By 1998 the case against Blanco collapsed and by June 2004 the Godmother was released from prison and deported back to Colombia, where she is currently living a quiet life in Bogota. Watch Griselda Blanco.
**update** Griselda Blanco was shot to death by two gunmen on a motorcycle as she walked out of a butcher shop in her hometown, Medellin, on September 3, 2012. One hit-man fired two bullets into her head, executing her in the type of “motorcycle assassination” she is “credited” with inventing. She became living (dying) proof that her own motorcycle assassination “invention” is quite effective.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
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