...The Bank Heist Big Bills After recently watching Kill Bill again, the scene of a million dollars in a suitcase along with a black mamba snake sparked curiosity to figure if this could be done. It is possible to carry around a million in cash? What type of currency would be used and would it technically all fit? The U.S Department of Treasury had several things listed on their site (treasury.gov) with information on currency. Before diving into the hypothesis, learn some history on the larger bills. Dec 18, 1934 the largest denomination of currency was printed, being called the “100,000 series”, with President Wilson gracing the front. This bill was only used for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks, used from 12/18/1934 to 9/09/1935 and was never released to the public. In July of 1969 (treasury.gov) the Federal Board decided to stop printing and distributing $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 dollar bills. They had only been used for bank transfer payments only, and with the improved technology the larger bills were not needed anymore. Some of these bills remain, but through private collectors. Learning this, a person could not just speculate they would receive and carry their million using five or ten-thousand dollar bills. The Heist Itself The dimensions of a standard...
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...Project 1: The Bank Heist 9-4-2014 Is it possible to carry $1,000,000 in cash? My first assumption of the question is it possible to carry $1,000,000 in cash… I say yes. I will outline below with how I support my assumption. I started my research on the internet to compile my answers. I felt in order to explain my thinking, I needed to know what is the largest currency circulated to the public, how much money is in a bundle of bills for the largest bill, and how much equaled $1,000,000.00 of the largest bill printed. So below, I will outline my research and support my result on a graph for further explanation. 1.) The largest currency circulated to the public is the $100.00 bill. (www.treasury.gov) 2.) A bundle equals 100 of $100.00 bills. (www.answers.com) 3.) It takes 10 bundles of $100.00 bills to make $1,000,000.00. 4.) The weight of a single bill is 1 gram. (www.enchantedlearning.com) 5.) The weight of a bundle of 100-$100.00 bills is 100g. 6.) The weight of 10 bundles of $100.00 bills is 10,000g. 7.) Converting 10,000g to lbs.= 22lb (www.convertunits.com) 8.) The weight of $1,000,000.00 is 22lbs in $100.00 bills. If you follow the graph below it shows the weight of $1,000,000.00 if you were to carry it with the highest currency printed of $100.00 which is a total of 22lbs or 10,000 grams. If you would change your currency to the single dollar it would be a weight of 2207.00 lbs. or 1001073 grams, my assumption would change...
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...Emotional appeal is an important tool in many essays whose purpose is to create passion about the subject in its readers. In the “Great Imagination Heist”, Reynolds Price utilizes rhetorical strategies, or diction and detail, to convey to the reader that reading, not watching television, is the correct way for children to develop their imaginations. Through the use of both positive and negative diction and details, he is able to state his position on the matter without ever actually saying it. One example of Price’s use of rhetorical strategies is when he uses negative diction to explain to the reader how television negatively effects a child’s imagination. Price chooses to use words such as “awful”, “controlled”, and “suffered” to influence...
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...In the 1900's authorities faced a lot of issues with finding a lot of stolen artwork and documents. In the story Isabella Stewart Gardner heist:25 years of theories you follow the story of a reporter who works at the Boston herald in that story it talks about he's struggle to want to help the F.B.I but they don’t want he's help. The artwork is worth $500 million dollars so you could see why the F.B.I are struggling so much to try and find it. It was also very hard for authorities back in the day because they didn’t have the technology we have today. In the story the reporter finds paint chips and says they are from the painting but the F.B.I quickly comes out and says they are not from the stolen artwork. However, with new technology they...
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...tell, we will get a whipping. You don’t want that to happen, do you?” Ms. Walker often narrates this way, quoting persons from her past and then adding in her thoughts on them in third person. After this accident, she lost her sight and would not look up like she used to; she didn’t have the same peppy attitude she always had. At 14 her eye was fixed and her spirit returned. She began to see the world as she once did and her life seemed to pick up where it left off at the accident. By her late 20’s and into her 30’s after she had a daughter, she came to see the defect in her eye in a new light, she embraced and loved it. In my opinion, this reinforces the topic of her story as her being a woman with “great spirit.” The Great Imagination Heist If I were to grade Reynolds Price’s essay based on the “Rubric for English 101 Essays” outline he’d get a D-. Three sentences make up his first paragraph, the first of which is very ambiguous and can’t be a thesis. The second saying “Most high-school graduates have spent more time watching television than they’ve spent in school” could be a thesis for a paper, although too broad, but his paper mainly speaks of imagination. This leaves us with his third sentence as a thesis, but only the end of the sentence “-the death of personal...
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...Jewelry Store Job This is a first big heist in the game. This mission is unlocked after completing a friend request. You play as Michael and Franklin too of the main characters in the game both of them have different stories. Grand Theft Auto V is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. The game is set in Los Santos which is fake Last Angeles. Michael is guy who is playing off his own death in intend which happens ten years ago after robbing a bank in North Yankton. Michael faked his own death so he can spend time with his wife Amanda and his two of his kids Tracey and Jimmy. Now Michael is trying to get back in the game by doing this heist. Franklin on the other hand is trying to get out of the hood. He is trying to change his life which was being a gangbanger doing drugs and going to prison. Franklin lives with his aunt Denise after his mother died from addiction to crack cocaine which led to her death. Now Franklin gets the change that he needs to get out of the hood went he meets Michael. At started of the mission Michael calls his old friend Lester who is computer guy and he is who set up the all the heists missions in the game. Lester asks Michael to meet him at his place he asks Michael to do a mission for him which is a friend request mission. After doing this mission for Lester he agrees to setup the heist. Lester calls you again saying that he had set up the heist and tells you to meet him at his office...
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...thief and con artist as soon as the movie begins. The movie is all about the team and their goal to score the largest heist in history. The teams goal is to rob all of the casinos owned by Terry Benedict, played by Andy Garcia, whom is also dating Oceans ex wife. Knowing the task at hand, the team works through their strategies, relying on one another for knowledge, skills, and their individual abilities. As the movie starts, Ocean is released from prison in New Jersey, and has already planned the heist. Ocean quickly pieces together his team of criminals, from card magicians, to hackers, to pocket pickers, each and every teammate has their place on the team. Once the team is assembled, they all have their own tasks, but the team also has a set of important rules. These rules are; no blood, rob only those who deserve it, and do it as if you had nothing to lose. Once the settings are perfect, the team works together to get their job done, and in the end, they succeed. Evaluation of the Group and Characters: Danny Ocean gets out of prison in New Jersey, on parole. During the parole meeting, it is mentioned that he has been involved in over a dozen confidence schemes and frauds that he was never charged for. He says that he was caught because his wife left him, and he went on a self destructive pattern. Instantly, it is clear that Danny is driven to perform a heist to rebuild his self identity, self-esteem, after the loss of his wife, just before being sent to prison.Now out of...
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...OceansCharlie Schwab Economics October 20,2013 Ocean’s Eleven Ocean’s Eleven is the classic casino heist movie on which all other robbery movies are put up against. It stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and many other well-known actors. At the beginning of the movie Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is released from prison and starts to plan the big job. With the help of Rusty (Brad Pitt), he and Danny assemble a team of nine more people making the famous eleven. They spend most of the movie preparing for the robbery and coming across small problems leading up to the night of the heist. You find out that Danny is robbing the man who is now dating his ex-wife, Tess (Julia Roberts). During the robbery they use multiple different cons to make there way to the vault. They pull a final trick on the security and prerecord the vault robbery and play it so they can escape safely. Finally, Danny gets Tess back to fulfill the Hollywood version of the movie. I chose this movie because is magnifies many of the economic terms that we have been talking about like opportunity cost and unemployment. It is also one of my favorite because it is the original heist movie, while Ocean’s twelve and thirteen aren’t up to par as the first it is still an amazing trilogy. This movie also has one of my favorite actors, Brad Pitt. I mainly liked him Troy but he still did a great. This is also one of the first movies Matt Damon was in, Matt didn’t have one of the major roles of the film but...
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...uniform entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA and handcuffed the two guards removing them from the desk where they could alert the police. The pair stole 13 artworks worth 500 million US Dollars in just 81 minutes. Evidence shows that this heist may have been an inside job by the guards working at the museum. Richard E. Abath who was on duty that night has broken museum protocol 2 times before and let in unauthorised people in the museum which may suggest this heist was committed by him however there are some evidence suggesting against it. Another theory is that the heist was committed by the Merlino Crew. Evidence tells that George Reissfelder, Leonard...
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...the strokes of a keyboard. Fearless thugs were replaced by highly accomplished computer hackers whose knowledge and expertise allowed for the infiltration to occur without alerting the authorities. Once the hackers had secured root access to the targeted systems, valid debit card numbers were stolen and distributed to a global network of criminal accomplices. Using these seemingly legitimate cards the thieves went to work targeting ATMs to withdraw cash on an enormous scale. What is truly remarkable about this “heist” was how relatively simple and straight forward the methods employed by the hackers were. This attack has come to be known as an “Unlimited Operation”. How it happened It is extremely difficulty to answer how the hackers managed to steal such an enormous sum of cash with any degree of certainty. Given the very nature of how it was stolen, to publicly reveal specifics on how the heist was accomplished could possibly leave the institutions at the mercy of further attacks. However, the overwhelming online consensus points to SQL Injection as the method most suitable for this form of cyber-attack. [2] Structured Query Language (SQL) is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS). Databases form the backbone of all financial institutions as they are responsible for recording all customer information, transactions and...
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..."Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History" by Ben Mezrich tells the true story of a young man named Thad Roberts who masterminded the first crime ever to take place in NASA. Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA's headquarters—past security checkpoints, an electronically-locked door with cipher security codes and camera-lined hallways—and help him steal the most precious objects in the world:the moon rocks. Mezrich has pored over thousands of pages of court records, FBI transcripts, and NASA documents, and has interviewed most of the participants in the crime to reconstruct the madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity all centered around an Ocean’s Eleven style heist that reads like a Hollywood thrill-ride. Mezrich uses his trademark narrative non-fiction style to tell the story, which basically means it reads like fiction. While his stories are extensively researched and are factual (though perhaps biased in some cases), the books are written in such a way that they are very engaging and easy to read. Sex on the Moon went by much more quickly than an average work of non-fiction; it was fascinating and the pages flew by. Thad Roberts is portrayed as a lost and wandering soul who finally found...
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...to get the criminals. In a specific episode, which is from season one, episode ten called “Heihei (Race)” is about a group of athletes who have been conducting robberies in different states during the Triathlons. To start off the episode Five-0 hears about a heist on an armored car, not stealing the money they dumped the car into the ocean off the dock. One lead on the case was a group of people in white jumpsuits sitting near the location of the heist were caught on camera. The the excellent equipment that they have at the Five-0 headquarters they use facial recognition to identify that one of the men was an ex-con on parole. They found that someone had posted an ad for people to be doing a painting job. The team finds out that the ad was posted from a chiropractors office. Where they found blood bags in the trash. Using DNA they determined that there was a women who they suspect is part of the heist who becomes a person of interest. Without evidence that conduct surveillance from the house next door to them, which happens to be Danny’s ex-wife's house. Danny breaks into the house after the group leaves and they find a flash drive that brings the team to probable cause that they are the group that will be pulling the heist. As well as one of the women in the group worked at the first bank that was robbed during another triathlon. While the triathlon in Hawaii starts they follow the team with the GPS trackers that everyone in the triathlon received to monitor the time that they...
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...this is not always the case. The quickest way to stop the rumors is to address the event that occurred for the person to leave. This is an easier task for Target unfortunately in light of the recent credit card data heist which was noticed on a global scale there wasn’t a whole lot of light to shed. Something really bad had happened and they looked into it and found and corrected the error and the CEO while not directly responsible for the data heist felt responsible and stepped down. Confirming this would end the need for rumors and then also allow a platform to announce the company’s standpoint moving forward and their plan to replace the CEO. Plan for Replacing the CEO When there is a plan in place for replacing the CEO this may not be all employees need to know but upper management would need to know that there has been forward motion on this topic and how to respond to employees should they ask a question about what’s happening next or where the company is what with selection, granted this is not typical. A general announcement should be given to show that the company is looking for a new CEO and what they are looking for in the next CEO and where they plan for this CEO to take the company. In the case of Target is the road to recovery from the Data Heist and putting Target back on the map again with customers and at the same time freshen up their look and product they sell. This is a great example of tying in what needs to be...
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...Name: William Durham Student Number: 10045343 Professor: Chris Bongie Course Code: ENG 293-001 Producing the Authentic: Oppositional Semiotics and Macklemore Introduction Macklemore and his producer Ryan Lewis have enjoyed widespread success. Their success has been both critical – 2012 album The Heist has received “generally favorable reviews” from both fans and critics (Metacritic, 2014) – and commercial – their hit single with singer Wanz, “Thrift Shop”, has been proclaimed the most popular rap song since the inception of the Hot 100 Rap Songs chart (Billboard Staff & Ramirez, 2014, March 6). Additionally, in January 2014 the duo won in the categories Best Rap Song, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance, and Best New Artist at the 56th Grammy...
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...It has been about 8 weeks since the Bangladesh Bank was hit by $101 million heist — $101 million in stolen funds, taken from a secure account, disappeared into a murky world of casinos and money laundering. The caper involves at least four countries, a central bank and a pillar of the U.S. financial system. Last February 1, when banks were closed for the weekend in Bangladesh, criminals executed five transfers from the central bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The requests looked real: They appeared to come from a Bangladesh server, and the thieves supplied the correct bank codes to authenticate the transfers. Most of the stolen funds ended up in accounts located in the Philippines, while roughly $20 million, which has since been recovered, went to Sri Lanka. The robbers tried to steal $850 million more, but the requests were denied by the New York Fed. The stolen funds that ended up in the Philippines were discovered last March 9, after Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) said that a bulk of the laundered money was deposited in its Jupiter branch in Makati City. It was approximately $81 million, which is suspected to have come from the same source, managed to enter the local banking system but was released to local RCBC clients with an alleged help of the bank’s Jupiter branch manager. A number of big names are said to be involved who are mainly from 3 camps: Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), PhilRem Service Corporation, and the...
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