Daily 30: Tue 12.02.2014

3mo
Gabrielle Union

3 Gabrielle Union Late Night

Gabrielle Union explains to Jimmy how someone gets "chosen" to attend a party at Prince's house, and she describes her embarrassing first encounter with The Purple One.
You B*tch You! 3mo

GGN Stevie Williams GGN News

Professional skateboarder/entrepreneur drops by this week and talks about how he got started and a new clothing brand that follows his successful DGK line. Watch Nemo and the original "dirty ghetto kid" chop some real game on this week's GGN u-bitch-u!!!
3mo
Buy Girl Scouts cookies online

17 Buy Girl Scouts cookies online Daily Dot

The Girls Scouts of the U.S.A. are breaking an old-fashioned tradition in the digital age. After banning the sale of Girl Scout cookies online for years, the nonprofit organization is finally allowing its young entrepreneurs to sell the goods straight to the people in the most convenient medium. For those who were unable to buy Girl Scout cookies—or make their own—the news is a morsel almost as sweet as the cookies themselves. In the past, Girl Scouts have expressed in interest in selling cookies online, but their national organization prohibited it. The internal conflict surfaced recently when Alana Thompson tried to sell Girl Scout cookies through her Facebook page and the organization argued that using online methods would give some girls a disadvantage over others when they were competing to sell the most cookies for a prize. Now, however, GSUSA is changing its tune, thanks in part to the girls who drive the sales. “Girls have been telling us that they want to go into this space,” chief digital cookie executive Sarah Angel-Johnson told the AP. “Online is where entrepreneurship is going.” Of course, the push toward digital isn’t intended to replace the traditional methods of selling Girl Scout cookies, like setting up stands in front of grocery stores or going door-to-door. The digital storefront is meant to complement those options, although scouts will only be able to choose one method of selling cookies at a time. GSUSA already makes around $800 million a year in cookie sales. Now that its footsoldiers have the ability to sell their products online, that number will likely increase significantly. Each Girl Scout will get her own personal cookie website, but patrons can only gain access to if they receive an email invitation from her inviting them to purchase cookies. To protect the girls’ identities, they are not allowed to post identifying information publicly, and girl scouts under the age of 13 have to use an anonymous designation. People will be able to buy cookies on scouts' webpages or through a GSUSA mobile app. It’s only available in select regions right now, but it will be available nationally starting in January. Even before Internet sales roll out nationwide, these savvy girls may already be brainstorming ways to circumvent the limitations of their online reach. After all, they're smart cookies.
5mo
The Grand Finale

18 The Grand Finale Steve Harvey

As the old adage goes, “all things must come to an end,” and for comedian Steve Harvey this week marks an end to a fraction of his 27 year comedy career.  The original “King Of Comedy” will headlines his final stand-up show, "Steve Harvey’s Grand Stand-Up Finale," at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
4mo
Live From New York

19 Live From New York Eminem

Eminem is THE global rap superstar. This concert was filmed at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2005 at the culmination of his farewell tour prior to his retirement. It's a spectacular show with multi-level staging, amazing lighting and guest appearances from D12, Obie Trice and Stat Quo.
11mo
The Flying Man

20 The Flying Man The CG Bros.

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Live From The Streets 3mo
"Play The Back" ft. World's Fair & PitchBlak Brass Band

21 "Play The Back" ft. World's Fair & … Noisey Raps

For this episode, I started out with horn samples from the PitchBlak Brass Band. Sam and I went down to the subway in the new Lincoln Center and filmed just enough before the cops came and kicked them out. After that, I met up with the legendary Singing Dragon and recorded a few notes from him.
3mo
Star Wars John Boyega Shuts Down Racists

22 Star Wars John Boyega Shuts Down Racists Complex

For reasons known only to them, a small but vocal group of idiots had a similar response to the first trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens: what’s the deal with the black guy?
Beyond The Headlines! 3mo
December 2, 2014

24 December 2, 2014 Vice News

Today: UN suspends food aid program to Syrian refugees over lack of funding, Hungarian rights groups criticize police-produced video against sexual violence, Moldovan youth organize protest calling for reunification with Romania, and Peruvian government warns of severely declining glaciers as climate conference kicks off in the capital Lima.
Fight the power 3mo
#HandsUpWalkout

25 #HandsUpWalkout Huffington Post

At 12:01 p.m. EST on Monday, scores of demonstrators walked out of their schools, homes and office buildings to participate in a nationwide demonstration honoring Michael Brown and standing in solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri. More than 80 cities, 30 states and 40 college campuses around the country were expected to participate. Students, parents, teachers and workers gathered at various locations at the specified time, which signified the time Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. The day also marked exactly one week since a grand jury announced their decision to not indict Wilson in the shooting death of Brown -- which immediately sparked a series of protests around the nation. Coverage of Monday's national protests was identified on social media by #Handsupwalkout and posts quickly populated under the hashtag showing images of large crowds protesting through city streets while chanting “No justice, no peace.” During the demonstrations, some protesters held signs that read “Ferguson is everywhere. Police brutality and murder must stop" while others read “Jail killer cops.” In New York City, protesters walked along streets and through Union Square as they chanted “NYPD, KKK, how many kids have you killed today?” Meanwhile, across the country, demonstrators gathered outside an LAPD station in South Central Los Angeles. This was near the location where Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man, was fatally shot by police officers the same night a grand jury announced its decision in the case of Wilson. “This isn’t about #EzellFord or #Ferguson this is an epidemic across the nation,” one protester claimed. In Illinois, protesters met on various college campuses throughout the state as well as in Hyde Park, which is located in the south side of Chicago. In Washington D.C., many gathered outside of the Department of Justice building and staged a “die-in” for four and a half minutes, which symbolized the four and half hours Brown’s body lay in the Ferguson street. One crowd leader also created a “safe space” where the crowd gathered in a circle to pray together and discuss solutions to ongoing issues between the cops and the community. From the East coast to the West, here are photos of walkouts that took place around the nation:
Great News 3mo
$75 million on Body Cameras

26 $75 million on Body Cameras Huffington Post

The White House announced Monday that President Barack Obama will sign an executive order meant to improve training for local law enforcement agencies that receive equipment through federal grant programs. Among the proposed initiatives is a 3-year, $263 million investment package, of which $75 million would go toward covering half the cost of 50,000 officer-mounted cameras -- a technology that has been widely cited as a necessary police reform following the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot and killed by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in August. Monday's announcement was greeted by some as a victory for transparency in law enforcement. Yet with almost 630,000 police officers working nationwide, it's not clear how much of an effect even 50,000 cameras would have. Body cameras have long been a popular proposal among police reform advocates, who say that documenting interactions between officers and civilians can help to eliminate bias and uncertainty regarding alleged misconduct by either party. One frequently cited pilot program in Rialto, California, found that between 2012 and 2013, in the first year of the city using police cameras, the number of complaints filed against officers fell by 88 percent and use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent. Despite resistance from some police officials and union members who have called the cameras an unnecessary distraction for officers, departments in major cities like Chicago, New York, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., as well as smaller cities like Ferguson, have started using cameras, or have at least announced plans to do so. Obama's $75 million program, which still requires congressional approval, would seek to ease the financial burden of outfitting police officers with cameras by providing a 50 percent funding match to states and localities that decide to participate. (Individual cameras cost between $300 and $400, on top of which are the costs associated with storing and maintaining the data recorded by the devices.) But with no ability to compel local police departments to get behind this move, the administration must simply hope that enough law enforcement volunteers are willing to join the program. In addition -- as the Police Executive Research Forum presented to the Department of Justice in a 2014 report -- there are still plenty of concerns from both the law enforcement and civil rights communities about how, exactly, a large-scale police camera program would be implemented. Which interactions, for example, would be recorded? How would the review process work? Such questions are further complicated by state laws that differ on when and where people may be recorded, as well as how such recordings may be stored and accessed by the public. Monday also saw the release of a White House review on the programs that provide military equipment to local police departments -- a project first undertaken in August in response to criticism over militarized police behavior in Ferguson. It's difficult to ignore the sheer difference in scale between Obama's proposed police camera program and the sum of all federal grant programs to local law enforcement. In the past five years, grants from five different federal agencies have totaled about $18 billion -- money that has gone toward everything from office supplies to mine-resistant armored vehicles, or MRAPs, fit for the battlefield. A recent review of a handful of MRAPs given to local law enforcement agencies found that the federal government had spent $5.7 million on these types of vehicles in New York state alone. The administration's report documented a total of 617 MRAPs and 616 aircraft among the 460,000 total pieces of controlled property currently maintained by local police forces. In its announcement Monday, the White House noted a "lack of consistency" in how these federal grants have been implemented. Yet at the same time, the White House review claims the programs have been useful, and provides no suggestions for repealing or significantly restructuring them. Instead, the administration plans to focus more generally on improving "training" and accountability, as well as signing an additional executive order to create a Task Force on 21st Century Policing. This group will examine "how to promote effective crime reduction while building public trust," and will organize its findings in a report for the president within 90 days.
Powerful! 4mo

Selma Paramount

Martin Luther King, Lyndon Baines Johnson and the civil rights marches that changed America.
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Annie

28 Annie Columbia Pictures

Wealthy businessman Benjamin Stacks comes to the aid of a young girl living in an orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan.
4mo
The Houses October Built

29 The Houses October Built Image Entertainment

Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them.
7mo
Wer

30 Wer Universal Pictures

Witness the rebirth of a legend in this spine-tingling descent into true terror. When a vacationing family is brutally murdered, an intrepid attorney, Kate Moore (A.J. Cook), is assigned to defend Talan (Brian Scott O’Connor), the main suspect and mysterious loner with a strange medical condition. As she delves into his shadowy past and runs scientific tests to prove his innocence, Talan’s darker instincts soon surface with unparalled violence. As Talan slashes and shreds his way to freedom, Kate must stop the atrocity she’s unleashed before the city is torn apart limb by bloody limb.