- NASA has confirmed that the Earth will experience 6 days of almost complete darkness and will happen from the dates Tuesday the 16 – Monday the 22 in December. The world will remain, during these three days, without sunlight due to a solar storm, which will cause dust and space debris to become plentiful and thus, block 90% sunlight.
This is the head of NASA Charles Bolden who made the announcement and asked everyone to remain calm. This will be the product of a solar storm, the largest in the last 250 years for a period of 216 hours total. Reporters interviewed a few people to hear what they had to say about the situation with Michael Hearns responding “We gonna be purgin my n*gga, six days of darkness means six days of turnin up fam”.
Despite the six days of darkness soon to come, officials say that the earth will not experience any major problems, since six days of darkness is nowhere near enough to cause major damage to anything. “We will solely rely on artificial light for the six days, which is not a problem at all”, says NASA scientist Earl Godoy. Visit our website daily for more shocking news!
Andele Lara is a student from Boston who earned thousands of dollars last year just because she bears an eerie resemblance to a certain "spicy" singer. She's constantly mistaken for Rihanna and says the only thing the two don't share in common is a beautiful singing voice.
Well, to be fair, Andele, Rihanna also probably made more than $20,000 from being Rihanna last year. Probably a lot more. Now I just have to think about how much money Rihanna made last year and it just upsets me. Thanks, Andele Lara. Thanks a lot.
As BuzzFeed reports, Lara's Instagram, which boasts more than 30,000 followers, is now sadly private (due to a little dust-up with Rihanna's navy over Lara's look-alike status) but she says she would give up everything in order to make a career out of being a Rihanna impostor. It seems she's already well on her way; clothing companies have been paying her lots of money to promote their brands, and with people not being able to tell the two apart, she's probably going to ride the gravy train all the way to 30, 40, or even 50 thousand a year. The sky's the limit, right?
Thousands have flocked to see a baby born with four arms and four legs in India, reported Central European News (CEN).
The baby, dubbed “God Boy” by his parents because they say he looks like an Indian God, was born in Baruipur, a city in India’s eastern West Bengal State.
“When he first came out we couldn’t believe it,” an unnamed relative told local TV. “The nurses said he was badly deformed, but I could see that this was a sign from God.”
“In fact, this is a miracle, it’s God’s baby,” the relative said.
Louis Ortiz once dreamed about having plastic surgery. His ears stuck out, and he wanted to get them fixed.
He’s glad he didn’t.
A former Verizon worker from the Bronx, Ortiz has parlayed an eerie likeness to Barack Obama into a lucrative career traveling around the world as a presidential impersonator.
Ortiz, 43, counts his blessings — although even he admits it’s sometimes just a little too strange.
“I look at myself a lot in the mirror, and I start speaking like Barack,” he says. “It’s like Barack is speaking through me, to me. . . . It’s weird.”
Ortiz, who bills himself as Bronx Obama, works an average of two or three times a week as the President. His bookings, arranged through an agency, include parties and corporate conferences, an occasional television ad overseas — and even appearing as an unannounced guest at weddings.
“Real big Obama fans want me to come and say a surprise speech for the bride and groom,” he explained in an interview with the Daily News, sandwiched between trips to Norway and Poland. “It’s entertainment while everyone’s all liquored up.”
A spike in business may be on the horizon, however.
A documentary on Ortiz, “Bronx Obama,” by filmmaker Ryan Murdock, goes live for sale on iTunes, Vimeo and Amazon on Tuesday, and airs on Showtime at the end of the month.
Born in Manhattan, Ortiz grew up at 172nd St. and Commonwealth Ave. in the Bronx, and has two kids, a daughter, 19, and a son 14.
An Army veteran, Ortiz worked for the phone company for 13 years as a field technician. He was out of work in 2008 when people kept telling him, “You know who you look like?” And so his new life as an Obama Doppelganger was born.
PEARL GABEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSTo make the impersonation more believable, Ortiz covers his face with primer, followed by concealer, foundation, powder, a bit of lipstick to darken his mouth, and a spot of eyeliner to re-create Obama’s mole.
Ortiz relies on more than his standout ears to be an Obama double. Extensive makeup completes the transition.
Ortiz, who’s Puerto Rican by heritage, covers his face with primer, followed by concealer, foundation, powder, a bit of lipstick to darken his mouth, and a spot of eyeliner to re-create Obama’s mole.
He puts on a black suit and a crisp white shirt with American flag cuff links, a dark suit, a preknotted red tie and, yes, a flag lapel pin. He’s able to mimic Obama’s gestures, grin and voice.
But it’s the visual likeness that’s the most stunning, which was made clear when Ortiz — in his Obama suit and makeup — walked with a Daily News reporter and Murdock in lower Manhattan one day last week.
Immediately, a tourist’s eyes strayed from a map and opened wide. Car windows slid down. A young woman reported on her cell phone, “I just saw a pseudo-Barack Obama!”
“It’s amazing. . . . Every gesture — the way he moves, the way his hair’s cut, his ears, the smile,” Herby Aristide, 33, a bus-tour guide from Brooklyn, said as he snapped photos for his Facebook page. “Guy looks like Obama. Wow!”
Outside the Bowling Green subway station, so many people crowded around for pictures, Murdock implored them to form a line — and they did. Visitors from China and Italy rushed over. People brought their children.
He’s a hit. And it’s obvious Ortiz enjoys it, too.
Yes, Ortiz does mess with people on occasion — a favorite trick is to stroll into a restaurant, glance around and walk out, leaving customers boggled. And it does get scary sometimes — he once was accosted by a homeless guy who “recognized” him in Toronto.
That’s why even though Obama can see retirement in 2017, Ortiz thinks he will still be handing out his business cards, which feature him posing as the President on the front and say, “HIRE ME NOW” on the back.
“He’s the first African-American President. He’s going to be around for a long time. He’s history,” Ortiz said confidently. “Hence, I’m going to be around for a long time.
A brace
of Land Rover and Jeep inspired off-roaders have been launched by Beijing Auto
Works (BAW) at the Beijing motor show.
BAW is an offshoot of BAIC, which was in the running to buy Saab
from GM last year. Eventually, it bought for the previous generation Saab 9-5
platform, the pre-2006 Saab 9-3 platform, a third mystery platform, two engines
and two transmissions.
The BAW B90 is part Range Rover, part Jeep Grand Cherokee. The
BAW B40 is more Jeep Wrangler in styling. In addition, the company is launching
the C30 Electric Concept.
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority
(IPOA) released its report on a recent police operation concentrated mainly in
Eastleigh area of Nairobi. Dubbed "Usalama Watch," its objection was
inter alia; to flush out Al–Shabaab operatives and adherents besides searching
for various kinds of weapons including improvsed electronic devices (IEDs). In
sum, it was to disrupt, detect and probably forestall terrorist attacks. Noble
as those intentions may be, the operation was marred by numerous claims of
irregularity and even outright criminality. IPOA is a creation of the
Independent Policing Oversight Authority Act no 35 of 2011. Primarily, the
authority is to make the National Police Service accountable to the public in
the performance of their duties. Such bodies and many others brought forth by
the new order springing from the letter and spirit of Constitution of Kenya
(2010). At the core of our constitution is the Bill of Rights. In this case,
Chapter 4 is the essence of our constitution. The other chapters provide the
infrastructure via which the Bill of Rights is to be actualised. Unknown to
some public servants, the ground shifted from exercise of power to the service
of the citizen. IPOA is concerned that the police officer is someone to be
feared and avoided as opposed to being expected and welcome. During Usalama
Watch, people of Somali ethnic group saw police as people to run away from.
Lack of a clear command structure also meant that multiple home and property
searches would be done by various arms of the police service. Each arm; General Service Unit (GSU),
Administration Police (AP), Regular Police would operate as separate entities
hence piling to the agony of their "victims."
The report tasks the
Inspector General to come up with clear structures of command and operation so
as make for efficient execution of duties. Unless the police are properly
educated on the theoretical foundation and philosophical rational of their
mandate, little much is expected from them. Considering that the body politic
remains more or less stuck in the neo-colonial rut, the only salvation is
constant vigilance and strict application of the law. Kenya teems with
well meaning people who not only yearn for a new order but are also willing to
pay the price for that said new order. This group of people continue to work
hard not because of but in spite of a retrogressive socio-political
environment. Bodies like IPOA, Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC),
Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) and many more and our gallant sons and
daughters who sit in them need our encouragement, nurture and support. In spite
of funding and facilitation, mechanisms to reform the police like the Internal
Affairs Unit, reform remains largely cosmetic due to lack of goodwill and the
failure and inability of police to "police" themselves. There is
nothing, so far, to indicate that the impunity-riddled police force operates
knowing that big brother is watching. The IPOA Act makes it an offence to
disregard its recommendations. You defy IPOA on the pain of Sh500,000 fine or a
3-year period doing time at some Kamiti or Naivasha facility. Few policemen
would court such an eventually. The ball is then with IPOA to bite the bullet
and call the bluff of our rigid police force.
How else do you explain a situation where police
vehicles, some emblazoned with the OCPD acronym go around collecting bribes in
greater Eastlands day and night in the full know of the NIS, CID and of course
the police themselves. These things have been aired on national television, but
no action has been taken.
The constitution set out to "nurture and protect
the well-being of the individual, family, communities and the nation," in
that order. You cannot purport to subvert the rights of an individual, let
alone whole neighbourhoods and communities, in the name of safeguarding the
nation.
Lest we throw the baby with the bathwater, it is not as if policemen
were responsible for the tiny cells at the detention centres. They are not even
to blame for the rise of Al-Shabaab. They only failed at an operational, not
socio – policy level.
The IPOA report is long on recommendations. It is not a
malicious report by a body out to score cheap political points. We all need
functional security. True, the media survives on crisis, blood, and boiling
politics. But there are enough hotspots around the world to cater for that. A
people centered police force has worked in other societies. It best serves to
spur police – community cooperation, the ultimate weapon in curbing crime.
As
a man you must have bumped on a lady, your heart skipped two stairs down, and
you blamed yourself for not having tried to even say hi.
Funny
thing, sometimes it is a question of meeting a woman in the lift. But something
still tells you, “George, what man are you? You couldn’t even take her number?”
So
it was that sometime in early 2008, in the company of my frenemie Wilberforce Akidiva, I met Esther Arunga at The Stanley.
Arunga
on screen and in person is as comely as they come. Soft spoken, crisp, sweet.
For our part, we wanted to meet her for the sake of it.
Don’t call that perversion.Just
understand us.
That
was then. After which all hell broke loose. There was marriage, a fringe
church, a husband, political ambitions, press conferences, psychiatric care,
law suits or threats thereof; the works.
As
Maurice Mashiwa insists, it all boils down to choice. Choice to chart our
destiny, choice to live as we please, choice to be free from family and
societal ambitions. Yes, the ability to be a freeborn and live as such.
Upon
achieving majority age, the liberal juggernaut is supposed to reign supreme. At
the heart of civil liberties lies the sacrosance of the individual.
But
does it work? Is man happiest when they listen to their own melody?
The
Good Book ordains that we respect our parents and that this is the first
commandment with a promise.
Indeed
we are told to“respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long
time. Exodus 20:12.”
Theologians
may argue about the meaning of the word respect in this context when weighed
against the edict that “a man shall
leave his father and mother and be united with his wife.”Genesis 2:24.
This
same notion was repeated by Jesus at Mathew 19:15. But “leaving”, a stepping
out, a moving out of the immediate purvey; this cannot confused for a casting
away, a disowning a rebellion. No, don’t eat the orange and throw the peel away.
Man
is a social animal.He does not do very well in isolation, he does not thrive as
a free radical.
The
heady feeling that comes with carving our own fiefdom, a nirvana within which
nobody should interfere, is fleeting, momentary, transient.
Once
the magic has fizzled away, we sober up, take a panoramic view, then feel like
John Rubadiri’s drunkard waking up in a prostitutes apartment somewhere near
Nakulabye.
The
Bill of Rights comes with freedom of association and the right to make
unfeterred choices. But choices have consequences. This statement, though
popularized in Kenyan parlance as if it was discovered yesterday has always
existed since the Garden of Aden.
Arunga
was quoted in the local press as saying that she entered marriage with very
little idea about the institution. She blamed her mother for not having taught
her abit more
I
don’t know whether this is the same mother who had been slapped with a suit at
the height of the controversy surrounding Arunga.
I
don’t know about the details. I even don’t knowEsther Arunga apart from our fleeting encounter in early 2008. Actually
the post – election violence was still full throttle. So the conversation was a clipped as could be.
But alas!
Yours
truly walked away happy that I had met a shaken hands with our “princess
Miranda.”
I
only use her experience (s) to show how it would be good to have a close knit
family. How people should breathe in hard before making the most important
decisions in our lives.
How
we could do well if we looked at our parents in the eye and told them asante
for the years they have put into raising us.I don’t know what lies ahead for
Arunga Downunder. Australia, at least part of it has the same clime as Gem
Yala.
So
that while the terrain may be familiar, their current circumstances are rather unenviable.
I look forward to a time they can pick up a phone and have a healthy
conversation with their families and friends back home.I hope they will do that
soon. Out of Jail of course.
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