Daily 30: Wed 12.03.2014

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Meek Mill Has Been Release From Jail

12 Meek Mill Has Been Release From Jail Complex

According to a source at Fox29 Philly, Meek Mill has be released from prison. Meek was originally sentenced to jail time back in July for a parole violation and remained locked up despite various attempts from his legal team to get him released. According to the source, Meek will have to undergo treatment and participate in community service upon his release, and he will also not be able to travel outside of Philadelphia for the foreseeable future.
The Future is now 3mo
Make Your Skin Your Tablet

17 Make Your Skin Your Tablet Cicret

With the Cicret Bracelet, you can make your skin your new touchscreen. Read your mails, play your favorite games, answer your calls, check the weather, find your way…Do whatever you want on your arm.
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Unapologetic

18 Unapologetic D.L. Hughley

From his inner-city roots in L.A., D.L. Hughley has become one of the smartest, most popular stand-up comics working today. This HBO special--his fourth--will show audiences just how far he's come, and how funny he is--with no apologies necessary! Taking the stage in Washington, D.C., Hughley focuses on such topics as the dangers of living in the nation's capital, the qualifications of the 2008 presidential candidates, the current administration, the immigration debate, Cuban refugees, airplane restrictions, the 'n' word, Don Imus and freedom of speech, whites and blacks on cruise ships, Paris Hilton, and much more--including D.L.'s now-famous interaction with hapless audience members in the first row.
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777

19 777 Rihanna

Gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Rihanna's unprecedented globetrotting concert tour that hit seven countries in seven days with seven shows to promote her seventh album.
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2 Hours

20 2 Hours Michael Ballif

A nameless survivor is bitten and infected with the virus, a beautiful gift to the world. With only 2 HOURS to find the missing survivors, he must move quickly before the virus spreads too far.
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LL Cool J talks Def Jam beginnings

21 LL Cool J talks Def Jam beginnings HOT 97

Legendary MC, LL Cool J stopped by the HOT 97 studios to talk about his legacy as an entertainer, how he's remained humble and performing with Run DMC at Christmas in Brooklyn.
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Immortal Technique

24 Immortal Technique Vlad TV

Immortal Technique shared his thoughts about the Mike Brown verdict with VladTV, and said that he's outraged, but keeps in mind the previous cases he's rallied for over the decades.
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Cyber Monday Shatters Record

25 Cyber Monday Shatters Record Huffington Post

NEW YORK (AP) — Online shoppers set a set a single-day spending record on Cyber Monday, despite deals being stretched out this holiday season. Online sales Monday jumped 17 percent from last year, totaling nearly $2.04 billion, research firm comScore Inc. said Tuesday. That represents the heaviest online spending day in history and the first to surpass $2 billion in sales, said the firm, which tracks online sales. Retailers from Target to Amazon have been offering online deals since the beginning of November, and are promising "cyber" deals all week. Some anticipated the extended period would hurt Cyber Monday sales. And the lackluster start to the holiday shopping season in brick-and-mortar stores also lowered expectations. But shoppers appeared to be eager to go online. The weekend after Thanksgiving was popular for online shopping too, with sales up 26 percent compared to the same weekend last year. The two-day period raked in $2.01 billion in online sales, according to comScore. "Any notion that Cyber Monday is declining in importance is really unfounded, as it continues to post new historical highs and reflects the ongoing strength of online this holiday season," comScore Chairman Emeritus Gian Fulgoni said. This may be part of a larger shift toward online buying as mobile phones spur the practice known as "showrooming," Fulgoni said in a statement. The term describes the practice of a consumer going into stores to see an item but then buying it, or a similar product, online. "The data we're seeing suggest it may be more a change in shopping behavior than a lack of consumer demand," Fulgoni said. Other organizations measured a more muted response for the day: IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark reported that online sales rose 8.5 percent this year compared to last on Cyber Monday. That is less stellar growth than last year's, when IBM says online sales jumped more than 20 percent by its measure. "As the holiday shopping season becomes less concentrated on a single day, retailers and marketers took advantage by making it easier for consumers to find the best deals on the go, whenever and wherever they chose to shop," said Jay Henderson, director of IBM Smarter Commerce. Still Cyber Monday is the busiest U.S. online shopping day of the year — a title it has held since 2010. The name Cyber Monday was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation's online arm, called Shop.org, to encourage people to shop online. The name was also a nod to online shopping being done at work where faster connections made it easier to browse. Some retailers painted a rosy picture of the day. Walmart.com said it received the most online orders in its history on Cyber Monday. It added that mobile made up about 70 percent of the traffic to its website between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. But some shoppers were disappointed by the deals. Preston Neill, 28, from Philadelphia, took advantage of early online deals over the weekend like 40 percent off board games from Amazon and clothing that was 40 percent off from Banana Republic. But he said the deals on Cyber Monday seemed similar to what he had already seen earlier. "I haven't seen anything that jumps out at me," he said. "I feel like (Cyber Monday) is the Super Bowl of shopping, there is a lot of hype, then it doesn't quite live up."
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Andre Johnson plays Santa Claus

26 Andre Johnson plays Santa Claus Huffington Post

Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson is known as one of the best offensive players on the field. Off the field, he's known for something else: He's practically the living embodiment of Santa Claus. For the eighth consecutive year, Johnson has treated at-risk children from child protective services to a shopping spree at a local Toys R Us store. Johnson, who wears #80 on his jersey, gives the kids 80 seconds to run through the store and fill a shopping cart.Johnson said his uncle came up with the idea. “He was like, ‘Give ‘em 80 seconds to run through the store and let ‘em just get what they want.’ And I was like, ‘That’s not enough time.’ And he was like, ‘They can grab a lot,’" Johnson told the Houston Chronicle. "So we did it the first year and when the kids came back, I was like, ‘Wow, I didn’t think they could grab that much stuff in that amount of time.’" he said. "So we just rolled with it from there and we just kept doing it every year." In reality, the kids get even more than what they can grab in those 80 seconds as Johnson also gives each child a gaming system and games as well as gifts to give to their siblings. The final bill totaled $16,266.26. It was so high that Johnson's credit card company flagged the first register's bill of more than $5,000 as suspicious. ESPN reports that Johnson had to call and explain it was really him spending all that money on toys. “This is such a wonderful, wonderful blessing,” Georgia Gay told HoustonTexans.com. Her grandson, Benjamin, was one of the children who took part in the event. “Can you put words on this? You can’t put words on this," Gay said. "Especially as parents and grandparents, some of these things we won’t be able to buy at this time. I thank God for this, and I thank Andre Johnson for this.” "I'm in a blessed situation so I'm able to help other people. That's all that matters," Johnson said in a Houston Chronicle video. "I've always said, if I was able to make it I would do stuff like this." "You go through stuff as a kid growing up. You understand certain situations," Johnson told ESPN. "I understand some of the things these kids go through."
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Kill The Messenger

27 Kill The Messenger Focus Features

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
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Fed Up

28 Fed Up Atlas Films

This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.
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Chappie

29 Chappie Sony Pictures

After being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son in a strange and dysfunctional family. Chappie is preternaturally gifted, one of a kind, a prodigy. He also happens to be a robot.
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Top Five

30 Top Five Paramount

A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.