Footballer Carlos Tevez Arrested!........

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has been arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified, police sources indicated Friday.

Tevez, 29, was arrested on Thursday south of Manchester in Cheshire, the northwest English county where the Argentina forward lives.

He was banned from driving for six months on January 16.

“At 5:13pm yesterday police arrested a 29-year-old man from Alderley Edge on the A538 (main road) in Macclesfield,” said a Cheshire Constabulary spokeswoman.

“The man was arrested on suspicion of driving whilst disqualified and has since been released on police bail.”

Police forces in England do not confirm the identities of people who have been arrested but not charged.

WOW!!!! Oprah Máking Out With Terrence Howard.............

The above picture is from Terrence Howard and Oprah Winfrey's movie titled 'The Butler' which would be released later on this year. Gosh they looked so high, had never imagine Oprah in a love scene and especially looking like this makes me speechless.

 

Even Terrence admitted that she’s very beautiful and to be able to make out with her in the movie was wonderful.

 

Guys have you ever thought of Oprah Winfrey...?

 

 

Undertaker's Manager is DEAD..............

William Moody, better known to pro wrestling fans as Paul Bearer, the pasty-faced and the manager of The Undertaker and Kane, has died. He died on tuesday at 58. The cause of his death was not revealed by his family.  It will be recalled that he battled health and weight problems in the past.

Kim Kardashian Might Lose Her Baby...............

Is too much exercise bad for pregnant women? I ask because pregnant Kim Kardashian was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday night after she felt ill. She thought she was having a miscarriage.

She was discharged a few hours later with her doctor supposedly telling her to slow down with the amount of exercise she’s doing.

Kim is believed to be working out seven days a week and working with two different trainers in a bid to keep the pregnancy weight gain under control.

Chris Brown Smokes Ganja On Stage Asks Ghanaian Crowd To Join Him................

The ' Chris Brown Live in Ghana ' concert took a wild twist in the early hours of Wednesday when the headline artiste, Chris Brown, smoked marijuana during his performance and called on his audience at the Accra Sports Stadium to do same.
The laws of Ghana criminalize the possession or usage of Indian hemp popularly called wee or ganja; and for an American R'n'B singer to boldly smoke the narcotic substance in public and ask his live audience to do same in the presence of law enforcement personnel, raises a controversy that would certainly remain on the showbiz scene for some time.
Barely an hour into his awesome performance, Chris Brown paused and then asked the charged audience: 'How many of y'all smoke weed?'
The question drew a loud response from the crowd, with some pushing clenched fists skywards and yelling to affirm they were wee smokers.
The positive response seemed to have boosted Chris Brown's confidence, as he pulled out a neatly packaged roll of marijuana, lit it up, took a long drag and puffed thick clouds of smoke through his nostrils.
The sight of Chris Brown smoking marijuana on stage during a live music concert sent the crowd into a frenzy, but the American singer had more acts up his sleeves as he added: 'If anybody tripping on ya'll smoking weed, f**k them!'
As if on a long-awaited cue, several persons at the stadium, especially the crowd around the 'popular stand', grabbed their own weed and went into an unrestrained smoking spree.
The never-to-be-forgotten music concert was exclusively sponsored by rlg as part of activities to inaugurate the company's Hope City project.
It was a concert also aimed at adding an entertainment touch to the celebration of Ghana's 56 th Independence Anniversary.
The ' Chris Brown Live in Ghana ' show would go down in history as one of the most successfully organized musical concerts in the country.
Aside the impressive attendance, the performances were outstanding and the stage lighting and sound quality were par excellence.
Pundits expressed skepticism when news initially broke that rlg Communications would bring Chris Brown to Ghana on the eve of the 56 th Independence Anniversary.
Until Chris Brown touched down in Ghana just a few hours before his performance, some news reporters continued to speculate that he would not honor the invite, although his crew had arrived in the country some three days earlier.
Chris Brown has a huge following in Ghana and stories of his rocky love relationship with Barbadian superstar Robyn  Rihanna  Fenty is being closely followed by Ghanaians.
Chris Brown turns 24 this year.  He is a recording artiste, a dancer and an actor with several award winning songs of international fame.
There were speculations that he was paid $1million to perform in Ghana.

BIZARRE: Sheep Gives Birth To Lamb With Human Features (Photo)

Residents were shocked after a sheep belonging to one of the residents bore a lamb with features that closely resembled those of a human being.

Speaking to the media, the sheep owner Rita Nabangala said she was equally shocked after the incident. Rita explained that this was the third time the sheep was giving birth but no such incident has ever been witnessed.

 

It is said that the sheep took a long time to deliver prompting villagers to come to its rescue only to deliver the unique creature contrary to everyone’s expectation.

 

She affiliated the occurrence to bestiality from evil people. It was noted that there had been increased cases of people sleeping with animals, an issue that the residents wanted the area chief to look into.

 

The lamb died after some time and was later buried.

Aliko Dangote moves up from 76th to 43rd richest man in the world................

Nigerian billionaire business mogul, Aliko Dangote has moved up in the latest Forbes world's richest ranking from the 76th position which he maintained in 2012 to the 43rd position. According to the list

which was released on Monday by Forbes, Dangote – President of Dangote Group and Chairman of Globacom, Mike Adenuga were the only Nigerians on the list.

With a net worth of $16.1 Billion as of March 2013, Dangote retained his position as the richest man in Africa. Meanwhile, Adenuga ranked 269 on the list with a net worth of $4.7 Billion.

Here's what Forbes had to say about Dangote:

Nigerian Cement tycoon retains his position as Africa's richest man for the third year in a row. The past year has been eventful for Dangote. In October, he sold off a controlling stake in his flour milling company to Tiger Brands of South Africa. He pocketed $190 million in cash. In February, his Dangote Sugar Refineries acquired a 95% stake in Nigerian sugar producer Savannah Sugar in a bid to maintain its dominant position in the Nigerian sugar industry. Dangote stepped up his philanthropy in the past year, giving over $100 million to causes ranging from education to health, flood relief, poverty alleviation and the arts. He also acquired a yacht, which he named after his mother, Amiya. Dangote started building his fortune more than three decades ago when he began trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle. He delved into full production of these items in the early 2000s and went on to build the Dangote Group, West Africa's largest publicly-listed conglomerate, which now owns sugar refineries, salt processing facilities and Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement producer. A fitness buff, Dangote jogs everyday.

Carlos Slim (Mexico) maintains his position as the world's richest man with a net worth of $73 Billion followed by Bill Gates (United States) with a net worth of $67 Billion. Amancio Ortega (Spain) takes the third position with a net worth of $57 Billion, Warren Buffet (United States) ranks fourth with $53.5 Billion while Larry Ellison (United States) ranks fifth with $43 Billion.

Wow: Students admit to bestiality, desires about incest, during séx discussion...............

Yale University students admitted during a sex workshop to indulging in bestiality and fantasizing about incest, according to reports.
Scholars at the prestigious Ivy League university also confessed at the "Sex: Am I Normal" seminar to taking part in sadomasochism and prostitution.
The results, chronicled by the Yale Daily News, detailed how nine percent of attendees had been paid for sex and three percent had engaged in sexual activity with an animal. More than half had participated in "consensual pain" during intercourse, the Connecticut university's publication added.
Sexologist Dr. Jill McDevitt hosted the session where around 55 students used their cellphones to answer questions about sex. The results were then published in real time on a screen. McDevitt, who also owns the Feminique sex store in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said the results showed "you can't have assumptions about people's backgrounds."
Student Giuliana Berry, who hosted the event, told Campus Reform the workshop - part of Yale's Sex Weekend - aimed to increase understanding and compassion for people who indulged in "fringe sexual practices."

Shocker: 8-year-old girl handcuffed on Wrist and Legs and thrown into Police Car............

Misbehaving in school earned one young girl a trip to the station in handcuffs.
Elementary school student Jmyha Rickman, 8, had her wrists and feet cuffed and was taken away in the back of a police car late Tuesday morning after throwing a tantrum, reports St. Louis’ KMOV.
School officials called the Alton, Ill. police to intervene during what was apparently a bad tantrum at Lovejoy Elementary School. Nehemiah Keeton, Rickman’s guardian, said the cops treated the 70-pound girl like a criminal.
“Her eyes were swollen from her crying and her wrists had welts on them,” Keeton told us.
Rickman’s requests to use the bathroom were ignored, Keeton said.
Alton police told KMOV that they were answering a call regarding an out of control child who was tearing up two classrooms. Police also clarified that Rickman was put in a supervised juvenile detention room at the police station. An officer says he thinks the appropriate actions were taken, according to KMOV.
Rickman has a history of throwing tantrums at school, the TV station was told.
Alton school district officials did not immediately return the Daily News’ call for comment.

African lion kills female intern at private American big cat sanctuary...................

A female intern-volunteer was killed Wednesday by a lion at a private wild animal park in Central California, and state and local authorities were trying to determine what might have caused the fatal attack.

Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the exotic animal zoo he has operated since 1993.

The 26-year-old intern was attacked and killed when she entered the lion’s enclosure, Anderson said, but he refused to answer questions or provide more details.

Sheriff’s deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven, in the Sierra Nevada foothills about 45 miles east of Fresno, found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff’s Lt. Bob Miller said.

Another park worker had unsuccessfully tried luring the lion away and into a separate pen, so deputies shot and killed it so they could reach the wounded woman, who died at the scene, Miller said.

Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff’s Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, Collins said.

The male African lion, a 4-year-old male named Couscous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the animal park. Osegueda did not know how the park acquired the cub.

Cat Haven is a 100-acre facility just west of Kings Canyon National Park. Since the property opened in 1993, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Results of the last 13 inspections by the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4, USDA records show.
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Couscous, the 4-year-old African Lion, lived at Cat Haven, where he had been raised since he was a cub. He attacked and fatally injured an intern who got into an enclosure with the lion, Fresno County sheriff's Sgt. Greg Collins said.

Despite state regulations that require annual inspections, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife most recently inspected the facility in January 2011.

“We have to do the best we can with the resources we’re provided,” said department spokeswoman Jordan Traverso.

The inspector’s written comments were “facility in good condition.” The inspector checked gates, enclosures, water supplies, drainage, cleanliness, ventilation and the general health of the animals.

Department spokeswoman Janice Mackey said she was unaware if any state regulations would prohibit an employee from entering an exotic animal’s enclosure.

$20 Billion Dollar Saudi Prince complains he’s not ranked high enough on Forbes’ ‘Billionaires’ list..............

Crotchety Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a Saudi Arabian worth an estimated $20 billion by Forbes, has cut ties with the financial magazine after he came in at 26th on the latest “Billionaires” list. The crabby prince contends he’s worth $29.6 billion and should be in the top 10, the magazine reported.

So upset is Prince Alwaleed by the perceived slight, he wants nothing more to do with Forbes and has asked the magazine to remove him from the list.

"We have worked very openly with the Forbes team over the years and have on multiple occasions pointed out problems with their methodology that need correction," read a statement from the Kingdom Holding Company, which the prince owns. "However, after several years of our efforts to correct mistakes falling on deaf ears, we have decided that Forbes has no intention of improving the accuracy of their valuation of our holdings and we have made the decision to move on."

Forbes claims Alwaleed, 58, has tried for years to affect his fortune with pleading and fudged numbers. In 1988, the magazine says, Alwaleed approached Forbes to ensure he’d be listed in the second-ever “Billionaires” issue.

“Of the 1,426 billionaires on our list, not one — not even the vainglorious Donald Trump — goes to greater measure to try to affect his or her ranking,” the magazine wrote recently in an article for which Alwaleed declined comment.

The article goes on to report that ex-employees say “various thresholds — a top 20 or top 10 position — are stated goals in the palace.”

Number one this year is Carlos Slim Helu, a Mexican telecom mogul who holds down the first spot for the fourth year in a row with an estimated net worth of $73 billion. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg came in at 13th with a net worth of about $27 billion.

The cranky prince, who made his fortune off bigtime investments, can’t be happy about this year’s ranking. He’s 26th, whether he likes it or not.

Marijuana chewing gum now available for purchase in the U.S...........

Soon you will be able to get high just by chewing gum.

Drug laced chewing gum will reach marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, California, Arizona and Washington, DC.

This deployment will follow the footsteps of an amazing array of homemade sweets laced with marijuana, bakery products, syrups, and elixirs, most of which occur in local areas where cannabis stores conduct business. The gum, called ‘Can Chew’, is a collaboration of San Diego, Inc. Medical Marijuana, and Can Chew Technologies, San Diego chewing gum technology company based in the Netherlands.

Can Chew has developed a gum containing THC cannabis or dronabinol, for persons suffering from Alzheimer, loss of appetite, nausea and multiple sclerosis.

Through technology, which are capable of producing a gum which when chewed, release fine particles of THC in oral mucosa, the mucosa of the mouth, that allows rapid absorption of the compound of cannabis.

According to the company, this allows rapid relief of pain, nausea, stress and loss of appetite. According to Dr. Philip Van Damme of Can Chew, those who suffer from chronic pain, patients with early and late stage cancer and even anorexics may experience relief with the gum.

Boy killed on his way to 16 year old birthday party after popping his head out from bus........

A teen on his way to a sweet 16 party was killed, after he popped out his head from a bus and hitting an overpass on the highway.

Daniel Fernandez, of Sayreville, New Jersey, was one of 65 teenagers on the bus Friday night while crossing the George Washington Bridge in New York, said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police. The 16-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The accident occurred on the Fletcher Avenue Bridge on Interstate 95 at 6:30 pm. Alex Franco, a security guard on the bus, told the news media that he had warned the teenagers to leave the hatch alone.

"I told them not to open the hatch, about three or four times, but the are kids, they do not understand," he said. Franco said he went downstairs to tell the driver that it was getting too hot.

"It was very hot. Everyone was dancing. For about five minutes I was on the lower level," he said. "Then I heard two guys screaming, 'Oh my God, oh my God.'"

Designer Transportation, which operates the bus, expressed their "deepest condolences" to the family of the child. It says it plans to conduct an internal investigation. Police said that no charges are likely to be filed in this case.

Ketu, Lagos: Two Missing Kids Suffocated Inside a Vehicle.............

Ketu area of Lagos State was thrown into confusion after the shocking discovery of the corpses of two toddlers, Toheeb Adedokun and Tajudeen Falilu, who disappeared in January.

The missing children were suspected to have been kidnapped when all efforts to locate them proved abortive.

However, the corpses of the children were found in an abandoned vehicle, two houses away from their parents' home on Taike Street.

According to reliable sources, the vehicle was a Honda Pilot Sports Utility Vehicle which the owner had used as collateral and thus abandoned it.

The source said after the children wandered off, they went into the vehicle and were trapped inside - this led to suffocation.

He said, "We had searched all over for the children to no avail and assumed they were kidnapped. Even the police thought it was kidnap. Only if we had known that the children were trapped in a vehicle in the next compound, we would have saved them."

The spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the discovery.

The 10 Weirdest Fish In The Ocean.............

Weird, strange, bizarre and unknown fish and sea creatures:

1. The common fangtooth, or Anoplogaster cornuta, is a small, deep-sea fish with some of the largest teeth in the ocean, proportional to its size.

 

2. The aptly-named blobfish is now in danger of being wiped out. The bloated bottom dweller, which can grow up to 12 inches, lives at depths of up to 900m making it rarely seen by humans. But thanks to increasing fishing of the seas Down Under, the fish is being dragged up with other catches. Despite being inedible, the blobfish unluckily lives at the same depths as other more appetizing ocean organisms, including crab and lobster.

3. The obese dragonfish is a deep-water-dwelling fish with bioluminescent capabilities. Photophores, or light producing organs, cover the fish in rows and below both eyes.

4. A male jawfish is seen with eggs in his mouth in the Philippines. After mating, the female jawfish gives the eggs to the male. The fish are known as mouthbreeders.

5. The tassled scorpionfish in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific is a venomous, carnivorous fish.

6. Frogfish, seen here in Bali, Indonesia, are found in tropical and subtropical oceans and are a type of anglerfish. They use mimicry and camouflage to either hide from predators or look like a potential meal for their prey. They are scaleless and usually have unusual shapes and textures.

7. A young box fish is seen off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. The fish are shaped like a box and are brighter when younger. As they age, they turn blue-gray in color.

8. Coffinfish are deep-sea fish with a short bioluminescent lure on their first dorsal fin that dangles forward over the mouth.

9. A recently discovered fish named 'psychedelica,' which bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball, is shown in the waters off Ambon Island, Indonesia. The frogfish – which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail – was initially discovered by scuba diving instructors working for a tour operator in shallow waters. The fish, like other frogfish, has fins on both sides of its body that have evolved to be leglike.

10. Alligator Gar. This prehistoric-looking fish is a popular target for anglers, especially in south central U.S. They can grow over eight feet in length and weigh over 300 pounds, and put up an excellent fight, whether by rod-and-reel or by bowfishing. The alligator gar is so named because of their mouth, which resemble the elongated snout and teeth of the large reptile. Not only are they a worthy foe for anglers and bowfishers, they are a tough fish in general, as they can survive outside of water for upwards of two hours. Their flesh is considered a delicacy in the U.S.

WOW: Check Out Will.i.am's 141 Million Naira Car (LOOK)...............

Back in February it was revealed that Will.i.am had dropped $900,000 to turn a 1958 VW Beetle into a car that simultaneously looks retro and futuristic -- today we got our first good look at Will's phunked up auto!

The car's re-crafting began in 2009 when Will brought the Beetle to Austin Weiss at The Garage in Stuart, FL. "Will originally wanted a twin turbo Porsche flat six in the back," Weiss told Jalopnik. Six week into his ride pimping, Will decided he would rather have something "crazy futuristic," so Weiss tore up a supercharged LS3 from Extreme Performance and put that chassis in the front of the bug.

Weiss goes on to document the countless changes the car and Will's mind endured before he took the car to West Coast Customs, which proceeded to tinker on the auto for another two years. Which brings us to today, when Will took his pumped up ride for a spin in Los Angeles.

Looking like a cross between a car from Dick Tracy and a something you'd President Snow gliding around in, the end result is exactly Will.i.am's style: completely over the top, totally impractical yet visually hypnotic, guaranteeing you won't stop thinking about it for hours.

Snake Wine: A Different Kind Of Beverage (PHOTOS)...............

Snake wine and Scorpion wine are asian beverages that can be found in some Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, but also in Korea, and Japan.

To prepare this incredible beverage a cobra snake or some scorpions are put into a bottle fulfilled with transparent rice wine liquor and some herbs are added before the drink is left to ferment for months. The venomous cobra snake used to make Snake wine is preserved to have the snake poison dissolved in the rice wine, but because snake venoms are protein-based they are inactivated by the denaturing effects of ethanol, and no more dangerous, but this makes a healthy liquor with many health benefits.

Many types of snake drinks can be found all across Asia, but the most famous one and the only original one is the one found in Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, the famous Snake wine that you can only find online.

Southeast Asia’s cuisine has a drink made with a twist: an entire venomous snake. 

The consumption of snake wine was originally for medicinal purposes and many still drink it for those reasons. The beliefs of snakes’ healing abilities are derived from snake characteristics like agility, skin shedding, and speed. The flexibility of snakes is believed to be a good treatment for stiffness and arthritis. Their ability to shed their skin translates into a regenerative quality for skin ailments, such as acne or itching skin.

Another healing property snakes are know for is their speed. Its speed represents how quickly the healing occurs and moves fast throughout the body. Some versions of this wine is made with the actual blood and bile of the snake. Snake wine is so gross and hardcore at the same time.

A family from Edo State, Nigeria is England's smartest family of all time..............

Every parent thinks their children is 'special' but this very intelligent family think it's normal 'once you identify the talent of a child'

Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education.

The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the youngest students to ever enter high school They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.

Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their tender age. “We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.”

To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said he and his wife have been through this before: they have other super-gifted, overachieving children.

Peter and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing, when she was just 13. She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in the United States, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.

Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British university at the tender age of 11.

And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6, something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.

Chris Imafidon migrated to London from Nigeria in West Africa over 30 years ago. And despite his children’s jaw-dropping, history-making academic achievements, he denies there is some “genius gene” in his family. Instead, he credits his children’s success to the Excellence in Education program for disadvantaged inner-city children.

“Every child is a genius,” he told British reporters. “Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] — they were nurtured. You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them excel in anything they do.”

Mother Offered $10,000 To Abort Baby.............

Crystal Kelley ran through the calendar once again in her head. It was August, and if she got pregnant soon, she could avoid carrying during the hot summer months, she'd done that before and didn't want to do it again.

There was no time to lose. But there was one problem: She had no one to get her pregnant. Kelley picked up the phone and called a familiar number. What about the nice single man who'd inquired before -- would he be interested? No, the woman told her. She hadn't heard from him in weeks. Disappointed, Kelley asked if there was anyone else who would hire her.

She'd had two miscarriages herself and wanted to help someone else with fertility problems. Plus, she really needed the $22,000 fee. Surrogate mom offered $10K to abort baby Hold on, the woman said, let me see. Yes, she said, there was a couple who wanted to meet her. Was she ready to take down their e-mail address? Absolutely, Kelley answered.

A playground meeting Most surrogacies have happy endings, and this one should have too -- with a couple welcoming a new baby into their home and Kelley enjoying her fee, plus the satisfaction that she'd helped another family. Instead, it ended with legal actions, a secretive flight to another state, and a frenzied rush to find parents for a fragile baby.

After speaking with the surrogacy agency, Kelley, then 29, arranged to meet the couple at a playground near her home in Vernon, Connecticut, a suburb of Hartford. When she arrived, she liked what she saw. The couple was caring and attentive with their three children, who were sweet and well-mannered and played nicely with her own two daughters. The couple desperately wanted a fourth child, but the mother couldn't have any more babies. Yes, Kelley told them right then and there.

Yes, I will have a child for you. CNN made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the couple by phone and e-mail. The couple had conceived their children through in-vitro fertilization and had two frozen embryos left over. Doctors thawed them out and on October 8, 2011, put them in Kelley's uterus. About 10 days later, a blood test showed she was pregnant -- one of the embryos had taken.

Kelley and the parents were thrilled, and over the next few weeks, the mother was attentive and caring. When Kelley had morning sickness the mother called every day to see how she was feeling. She gave Kelley and Kelley's daughters Christmas presents. When Kelley couldn't make rent, the mother made sure she got her monthly surrogate fee a few days early. "She said, 'I want you to come to us with anything because you're going to be part of our lives forever,' " Kelley remembers.

'There's something wrong with the baby' "Congratulations! You made it half through!" the mother emailed Kelley on February 6. It was one of the last friendly e-mails between Kelley and the woman who'd hired her. A few days later, Kelley, five months pregnant, had a routine ultrasound to make sure the baby was developing properly. The ultrasound technician struggled to see the baby's tiny heart and asked her to come back the next week when the baby would be more developed.

At that next ultrasound, the technician said it was still hard to see the heart and asked Kelley to go to Hartford Hospital, where they could do a higher-level ultrasound. Apparently, there was more to it than that. As Kelley was driving home, her cell phone rang. It was the baby's mother. "She kept saying, 'There's something wrong with the baby. There's something wrong with the baby. What are we going to do?' " Kelley remembers. "She was frantic. She was panicking."

Then the midwife called. She told Kelley the ultrasound showed the baby had a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in her brain and serious heart defects. They couldn't see a stomach or a spleen. The next ultrasound was three days away, and Kelley grew increasingly anxious with each passing day. By the time she walked into Hartford Hospital on February 16, 2012, she was 21 weeks pregnant and "absolutely terrified" of what the ultrasound would show and what the parents' reaction would be. An emotional standoff With the parents standing behind her, the ultrasound technician at the hospital put the wand on Kelley's stomach.

The test confirmed her worst fears: It showed the baby did have a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in the brain, and a complex heart abnormality. The doctors explained the baby would need several heart surgeries after she was born. She would likely survive the pregnancy, but had only about a 25% chance of having a "normal life," Kelley remembers the doctors saying.

In a letter to Kelley's midwife, Dr. Elisa Gianferrari, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Hartford Hospital, and Leslie Ciarleglio, a genetic counselor, described what happened next. "Given the ultrasound findings, (the parents) feel that the interventions required to manage (the baby's medical problems) are overwhelming for an infant, and that it is a more humane option to consider pregnancy termination," they wrote. Kelley disagreed. "Ms. Kelley feels that all efforts should be made to 'give the baby a chance' and seems adamantly opposed to termination," they wrote. The letter describes how the parents tried to convince Kelley to change her mind.

Their three children were born prematurely, and two of them had to spend months in the hospital and still had medical problems. They wanted something better for this child. "The (parents) feel strongly that they pursued surrogacy in order to minimize the risk of pain and suffering for their baby," Gianferrari and Ciarleglio wrote.

They "explained their feelings in detail to Ms. Kelley in hopes of coming to an agreement." The two sides were at a standoff. The doctor and the genetic counselor offered an amniocentesis in the hope that by analyzing the baby's genes, they could learn more about her condition. Kelley was amenable, they noted, but the parents "feel that the information gained from this testing would not influence their decision to consider pregnancy termination." The atmosphere in the room became very tense, Kelley remembers. The parents were brought into the geneticist's office to give everyone some privacy. After a while, Kelley was reunited with the parents.

"They were both visibly upset. The mother was crying," she remembers. "They said they didn't want to bring a baby into the world only for that child to suffer. ... They said I should try to be God-like and have mercy on the child and let her go." "I told them that they had chosen me to carry and protect this child, and that was exactly what I was going to do," Kelley said. "I told them it wasn't their decision to play God." Then she walked out of the room. "I couldn't look at them anymore," she said.

$10,000 to have an abortion The next day, according to medical records, the mother called Hartford Hospital to ask about different types of abortion. It was explained to her that they could induce birth (the baby wouldn't survive) or they could do a dilation and evacuation, in which case the pregnancy would be vacuumed out of the womb. The mother, after asking about whether the fetus would feel any pain, said she thought the second option was best. She asked if the procedure had been scheduled.

No, she was told. Only Kelley could do that. The mother noted that the surrogacy agency was getting in touch with Kelley, and a few days later, Kelley received an e-mail from Rita Kron at Surrogacy International telling her that if she chose to have the baby, the couple wouldn't agree to be the baby's legal parents. "You will be the only person who will be making decision (sic) about the child, should the child is born," Kron wrote. CNN contacted Surrogacy International, and a woman who said her name was Rita answered the phone. "You have to understand something -- there is a privacy that exists and that's the end of the story," she said and then hung up.

Kron did not return CNN's e-mails. Kelley didn't want to be the baby's mother -- she'd gotten pregnant to help another family, not to have a child of her own. Kron gave her an option: the parents would pay her $10,000 to have an abortion. The offer tested Kelley's convictions. She'd always been against abortion for religious and moral reasons, but she really needed the money. Just before getting pregnant, she'd lost her job as a nanny, and the only income she had coming in was child support from her daughters' father and her monthly surrogacy fee of $2,222, which was about to end because of the dispute with the parents. Her resolve began to falter.

Then it nearly crumbled. Kron took Kelley to lunch. "She painted a picture of a life of a person who had a child with special needs. She told me how it would be painful, it would be taxing, it would be strenuous and stressful. She told me it would financially drain me, that my children would suffer because of it," Kelley remembers. Kelley had a counter offer. "In a weak moment I asked her to tell them that for $15,000 I would consider going forward with the termination," she said.

But as soon as she got in the car to go home, she regretted it, Kelley said. Kron let Kelley know the parents had refused to pay $15,000. By that point, it didn't matter to Kelley -- she'd decided against abortion no matter what. Kron sent her an e-mail asking if she'd scheduled the appointment for the abortion. Kelley wrote back a one-word answer: no. 'TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE' On February 22, 2012, six days after the fateful ultrasound, Kelley received a letter. The parents had hired a lawyer.

"You are obligated to terminate this pregnancy immediately," wrote Douglas Fishman, an attorney in West Hartford, Connecticut. "You have squandered precious time." On March 5, Kelley would be 24 weeks pregnant, and after that, she couldn't legally abort the pregnancy, he said. "TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE," he wrote. Fishman reminded Kelley that she'd signed a contract, agreeing to "abortion in case of severe fetus abnormality." The contract did not define what constituted such an abnormality.

Kelley was in breach of contract, he wrote, and if she did not abort, the parents would sue her to get back the fees they'd already paid her -- around $8,000 -- plus all of the medical expenses and legal fees. Fishman did not return phone calls and e-mails from CNN. Kelley decided it was time to get her own attorney. Michael DePrimo, an attorney in Hamden, Connecticut, took the case for free. He explained that no matter what the contract said, she couldn't be forced to have an abortion.

DePrimo sent an e-mail to Fishman, the parents' lawyer, stating that Kelley was not going to have an abortion. "Ms. Kelley was more than willing to abort this fetus if the dollars were right," Fishman shot back. "The not-so-subtle insinuation that Ms. Kelley attempted to extort money from your clients is unfounded and reprehensible," DePrimo responded. "If you wish to propose a solution to this unspeakable tragedy, I will listen and apprize (sic)my client accordingly."

"However, as I mentioned in my previous correspondence, abortion is off the table and will not be considered under any circumstance," he said. A secret flight In an affidavit filed in Connecticut Superior Court, DePrimo described what happened next. DePrimo received a phone call from Fishman telling him the parents had changed their minds. They now planned to exercise their legal right to take custody of their child -- and then immediately after birth surrender her to the state of Connecticut. She would become a ward of the state. DePrimo explained to Kelley that this was no empty threat. Under state law, they were the parents, not her, and under Connecticut's Safe Haven Act for Newborns, parents can voluntarily give up custody of a baby less than a month old without being arrested for child abandonment.

Kelley couldn't stand the thought of the baby in foster care. She'd heard the nightmare stories. She felt like her back was up against the wall. Her lawyer explained she could go to court and fight to get custody of the baby, or fight to appoint a guardian for the baby, but Connecticut law is very clear that the genetic parents are the legal parents, so she'd likely lose in court. There was one more option, DePrimo told her. She could go to a place where she, not the genetic parents, would be considered the baby's legal mother.

That place was 700 miles away. Over the years, states have developed different laws about surrogacy. Some, like Connecticut, say the genetic parents -- the ones who supplied the sperm and the egg -- are the baby's legal parents. Other states don't recognize surrogacy contracts, and so the baby legally belongs to the woman who's carrying the baby. On April 11, in her seventh month of pregnancy, Kelley and her daughters left for one of those states -- Michigan.

While she was gassing up her car to leave, her lawyer informed the parents' lawyer about her plans. "Once I realized that I was going to be the only person really fighting for her, that Mama bear instinct kicked in, and there was no way I was giving up without a fight," Kelley said. Kelley chose Michigan because of its laws, but also its medicine: she'd been doing research on the baby's condition, and concluded C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan had one of the best pediatric heart programs in the country. When she arrived, she found an inexpensive summer sublet from a University of Michigan student and applied for Michigan Medicaid.

She made appointments with a high-risk pregnancy specialist and a pediatric cardiologist and settled into life in Ann Arbor with her girls. There was one thing left to do: She had to decide if she would keep the baby. She was a single mother with no job and no permanent place to live, but she'd grown emotionally attached to the life inside her, and some days she wanted to keep her. Kelley struggled, and finally decided she wasn't the right person to raise the child. But she knew who was: in her online research, she'd met other mothers of children with special needs.

One of them had been particularly helpful, putting her in touch with support groups and sharing stories and photos of her own children -- both biological and adopted -- with medical problems. The woman and her husband helped Kelley pack up to move to Michigan, and gave her emotional support as well. "While it is true that (the baby) will face some life-long challenges, it is also true that it is also more than possible for her to have a wonderful life and to thrive," the mother wrote to Kelley in an e-mail.

"I am sorry that (her) biological parents have abandoned their daughter and left you navigating this new, unexpected journey as the sole person bearing responsibility for (her) well-being and care." Kelley asked the couple to adopt the baby. They said yes. The baby now had a home, and it would be undisputed. Or so Kelley thought. An unexpected challenge Kelley hadn't heard from the biological parents in months when in May, about one month before the baby's due date, the parents filed in Connecticut Superior Court for parental rights.

They wanted to be the legal parents. They wanted their names on the birth certificate. The legal papers included a stunning admission: the wife was not the baby's genetic mother -- they'd used an anonymous egg donor. The case had now become very complicated. The lawyers were still negotiating about who would be the legal parents when the baby was born June 25. She was full-term and six pounds nine ounces, but she wasn't breathing. Her body was limp and blue. Her heart rate was dangerously low.

The pediatricians pumped oxygen into her tiny lungs, and in about 20 seconds her heart rate went up to normal. She breathed on her own. Her color normalized. "Infant appears to be moving all extremities and crying appropriately," the medical record stated. Kelley's name went on the birth certificate. Kelley said she left the space for the father's name blank. Three weeks later, the two sides struck a deal: The father agreed to give up his paternal rights as long as he and his wife could keep in touch with the adoptive family about the baby's health. Since then, the couple has visited the baby. The father has held her. "They do care about her well-being. They do care about how she's doing," the adoptive mother said. A long list of med problems -- and an infectious smile The baby's medical problems turned out to be much more extensive than the ultrasound at Hartford Hospital had revealed.

She has a birth defect called holoprosencephaly, where the brain fails to completely divide into distinct hemispheres. She has heterotaxy, which means many of her internal organs, such as her liver and stomach, are in the wrong places. She has at least two spleens, neither of which works properly. Her head is very small, her right ear is misshapen, she has a cleft lip and a cleft palate, and a long list of complex heart defects, among other problems. Baby S. -- her adoptive parents are comfortable using her first initial -- has a long road in front of her. She's already had one open-heart surgery and surgery on her intestines, and in the next year she'll need one or two more cardiac surgeries in addition to procedures to repair her cleft lip and palate.

Later in childhood she'll need surgeries on her jaw and ear and more heart surgeries. Her adoptive parents, who asked to remain anonymous to protect their family's privacy, know Baby S. might not be with them for long. The cardiac procedures she needs are risky, and her heterotaxy and holoprosencephaly, though mild, carry a risk of early death, according to doctors. If Baby S. does survive, there's a 50% chance she won't be able to walk, talk or use her hands normally. In some ways, Baby S. looks different from other 8-month-olds babies. In addition to the facial abnormalities, she's very small, weighing only 11 pounds and she gets food through a tube directly into her stomach so she'll grow faster. Her adoptive parents know some people look at her and see a baby born to suffer -- a baby who's suffering could have been prevented with an abortion. But that's not the way they see it.

They see a little girl who's defied the odds, who constantly surprises her doctors with what she's able to do -- make eye contact, giggle at her siblings, grab toys, eye strangers warily. "S. wakes up every single morning with an infectious smile. She greets her world with a constant sense of enthusiasm," her mother said in an e-mail to CNN. "Ultimately, we hold onto a faith that in providing S. with love, opportunity, encouragement, she will be the one to show us what is possible for her life and what she is capable of achieving." Savior or Satan? Just as there are two ways to look at Baby S., there are two ways to look at Crystal Kelley, the woman who carried her. In one view, she's a saint who fought at great personal sacrifice for an unborn child whose own parents did not want her to live.

In another view, she recklessly absconded with someone else's child and brought into the world a baby who faces serious medical challenges when that wasn't her decision to make. Kelley knows some people hate her. She's blogged about Baby S., and many readers, especially other surrogates, have attacked her. "I can't tell you how many people told me that I was bad, that I was wrong, that I should go have an abortion, that I would be damned to hell," she said. In the end, she feels like she did the right thing. "No one else was feeling this pregnancy the way that I was.

No one else could feel her kicking and moving around inside," she said. "I knew from the beginning that this little girl had an amazing fighting spirit, and whatever challenges were thrown at her, she would go at them with every ounce of spirit that she could possibly have." "No matter what anybody told me, I became her mother."

College Student Returns $1800 ATM Mistakenly Dispenses...............

When University of Delaware senior, Devon Gluck, visited a campus PNC Bank ATM to withdraw some cash, he noticed the machine was making strange noises.

The students that had been using the machine before him, seemed to have been taking a long time with their transaction. So, the finance major hesitated before inserting his debit card, and as he waited for a minute, the ATM mistakenly dispensed 18-$100 bills.

Gluck said, “My eyes just opened really wide, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is $1,800 right here.’” After a few seconds of looking at the money, the student grabbed the bills and decided he’d figure out what to do with the cash later. Gluck discussed the situation with his best friend and his father and finally decided to return the money four days later.

The student who hopes to go into banking and finance said, “I mean, it was just eating at me at the time because it isn’t mine and I didn’t even know what to do with it.” PNC spokeswoman Marcey Zwiebel said that while she could not comment on the details of the incident, the money had been mistakenly withdrawn from another student’s account and was refunded.

Zweibel said, ““Honesty is always the best policy when talking about money, and keeping money that you’re not authorized to have for any amount of time is unlawful.” Gluck was not reprimanded and the PNC bank branch manager thanked the honest student for doing the right thing.

Suspects defraud Total Cooperative of N107m.............

Three suspects have been arrested by the police Special Fraud Unit for obtaining N107m from Total Staff Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society by false pretences.

The suspects, Linus Shegman of Twidco El-Gado Nigeria Limited and Mr. Kingsley Nwoko of unknown office address allegedly obtained the money under the pretence of using it to import fish into Nigeria.

According the Commissioner of Police in-charge of SFU, Tunde Ogunsakin, Shegman and Nwoko were introduced to the Cooperative Society by its former secretary, Mrs. Nkechi Nwoko, who was also arrested.

 He said, “This introduction was made in 2009 by Nkechi who was a business partner to Shegman. On March 4 2009, Shegman received N28m from Total Cooperative by a First Bank Draft. The second bank draft came a week later on March 13 2009 with another N28m.

“Over the years, the interest accrued from the money which was borrowed from Zenith bank is N49m, making a total of N107m.”

PUNCH Metro gathered that when Shegman was first arrested last year, he pleaded for an extension of time to offset the debt. He was subsequently released on an administrative bail.

Ogunsakin said, “Surprisingly, after Shegman was released, he went to Abuja Federal High Court and sued the Inspector-General of Police, joining me and the investigative police team CSP Saadat and others in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/824/2012 filed on December 17, 2012.

“However, Police Counsel, Barrister E. A. Frank raised the fundamental issue of jurisdiction on 4th February, 2013 that the Federal High Court of Abuja lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the applicant’s motion as cause of action took place in Lagos.”

 He said Justice Adetokunbo Ademola of Court 6, in his ruling on the February 21, 2013, struck out the suit, which made it possible for the police to arrest the suspects.

In Search of a Better Condom.............

It may be possible to create a dissolvable cloth that releases HIV-prevention and pregnancy-prevention drugs. It's hard to believe, but the condom is still the only way to protect against pregnancy and HIV at the same time.

But researchers say they believe they can develop a kind of 21st-century contraceptive that offers superior protection against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and that people will like enough to use consistently. A paper describing early work on the project was published earlier this month in the journal PLoS One.

The research team, led by Kim Woodrow at the University of Washington, received a grant of nearly $1 million last month from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue the research. The product is an electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers that can dissolve to release drugs, such as medications that prevent pregnancy and HIV infection. The drug-eluting fibers represent "multipurpose prevention technology," a method that simultaneously prevents sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy through a combined physical and chemical barrier.

"Condoms and vaginal rings and IUDs have been around for a very long time," Cameron Ball, a co-author of the paper and graduate student in bioengineering, told TakePart. "People would like more options. No one option will be the silver bullet. The idea is to have multiple options that people can choose for their lifestyle." Improved methods to protect against STDs and pregnancy are needed in both developing and developed countries.

The spermacide nonoxynol-9 is highly effective at pregnancy prevention but promotes vaginal inflammation, which then increases the risk of STD transmission. "What we're hoping to provide is a method of drug delivery that could be used with a variety of drug compounds," Ball says. "There are multiple products in the development pipeline to address this need. These are largely vaginal rings, but vaginal rings are limited in what they are able to deliver.

They deliver compounds that are less water soluble. Using fibers allows you to work with multiple drugs with different properties. You can have combinations of pharmaceutical agents that you couldn't necessarily have with a vaginal ring or with a condom." During electrospinning, an electric field is used to launch a charged fluid jet through the air to create extremely delicate nanometer-scale fibers that stick to a collection plate.

(One nanometer is about one 25-millionth of an inch.) The stretchy fibers are the platform for delivering medications in the same way that drugs are delivered through pills or gels. The fibers can also carry larger molecules, such as proteins and antibodies, that are hard to deliver through other methods. So far, the team has created a fabric that serves as a physical barrier to block sperm or to release drugs, such as contraceptives and antiviral medications.

The fabric dissolves within minutes, which is considered a benefit because it offers immediate and discreet protection. But the approach also allows for controlled release of multiple compounds, Ball says. Last year, a study aimed at preventing heterosexual HIV transmission using a gel with the drug tenofovir failed—the likely result of the drug's strength fading by the time of sex. "If you can have a longer-lasting gel with nanoparticles, that would be beneficial," Ball says.

"We're trying to fill a niche in terms of product lifespan." The cloth could be inserted directly into the body or used as a coating on vaginal rings or other products, Ball says. While the primary goal of the research is for products that can be used in places like Africa, where HIV transmission is especially high, the technology could appeal to a wide range of societies and cultures.

"You could have fibers that stay in place for longer or be shaped in the shape of a diaphragm," he says. "You could include herpes medication. Herpes prevention is somewhat controversial—it's not clear whether taking herpes medications prophylactically will help prevent the spread of the virus. That is another application, potentially."

School Student Suspended For Wrestling Gun Away From Shooter................

A 16-year-old Cypress Lake High School student, who wrestled a loaded revolver away from a teen threatening to shoot, is being punished.
The student grappled the gun away from the 15-year-old suspect on the bus ride home Tuesday after witnesses say he aimed the weapon point blank at another student and threatened to shoot him.
The student, who Fox 4 has agreed not to identify and distort his voice because he fears for his safety, says there’s “no doubt” he saved a life by disarming the gunman. And for that he was suspended for three days.
“I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there,” the student said. “Not taking no pity.”
The student says he wrestled the .22 caliber RG-14 Revolver away from the suspect, a football player, who witnesses say threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.
“No doubt,” the student said, “he was going to shoot him point blank.”

What kind of lesson is THIS teaching kids who have been taught to “stop snitchin’” by their favorite rapper?

According to the referral, he was suspended for being part of an “incident” where a weapon was present and given an “emergency suspension.”
“If they wouldn’t've did what they had to do on that bus,” the teen’s mother said, “I think there would have been a lot of fatalities.”
The mother agreed to talk with us in disguise. She can’t understand why her son, who disarmed the gunman, was suspended.
“Those kids had to fight for their lives,” she said. “All the kids that was involved in this they should have a pat on their backs because they did the right thing to save someone from burying their child.”
According to the mother, the school suspended her son because he refused to cooperate in the investigation. She says he was scared.
Fox 4 asked the Lee County School District about the suspension.
“We cannot discuss specifics involving students,” said district spokesman Alberto Rodriguez in a statement. “Florida law allows the principal to suspend a student immediately pending a hearing.”
The district confirmed three students were suspended in all but wouldn’t provide additional information citing privacy concerns.

Man Wanted for Infecting 240 People With HIV............

“I met Stephawn when I was 19 years old,” explains Joshua Johnson on his blog.

He continues:

“At 19, I was still trying to figure out my sèxual orientation. I was still a virgin, because I was raised with traditional values. I was attracted to females, but I was also attracted to men. In fact, my attraction to men was stronger. I desperately tried to fight my attraction to the same sèx, because I knew if I gave in that would mean a lifetime as an outcast in my family.


Johnson goes on to explain in great detail how he fell victim to a sèxually promiscuous fugitive who is wanted for allegedly infecting at least 240 people with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.


Ladies, as you read Joshua’s story, keep in mind that black women are the fastest growing HIV demographic in the U.S. due to bisèxual men who in relationships with women because they are confused about their sèxuality.

Gay and bisèxual men, regardless of race, are more sèxually promiscuous than their heterosèxual counterparts, according to Seekingarrangement.com.

Authorities in New York City are offering up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of 31-year-old Isaac Don Burks, aka Stephawn Burks, Stefan Levine, Isaac Levine, Stefan Burks, and Walter Brooks.

Burks is described as an African-American male, medium brown skin, six feet two inches tall, weighing 185 pounds.

According to New York City Health Department spokesperson Kate Caraway, this is the first time a HIV infected individual has spread HIV to so many victims.

“We want to make sure that anyone who may have injected drugs with, who may have had sèx with him, does come forward and get tested,” she Caraway. “We want to make sure that they’re not spreading the virus to anyone else.”

Anyone with information regarding Burks’ whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-CRIMESC (888-274-6372). Your call will remain anonymous.