Gaza empty out?

News has surfaced that Portmore Empire young guns, Jahvinci and Black Rhyno have made plans to move on and are perhaps even now doing their exit interview with the Gaza President, Vybz Kartel.


This follows hard on the heels of the departure of Gaza Princesses Lisa Hype and Kim, reducing the number of princesses to two.


Despite denials, the rumours of beatings on the Gaza have persisted and these beatings are not just confined to the females in the group the males also have reportedly been routinely disciplend physically. In the case of Kim, it was documented that she was kicked and boxed by clownies allegedly associated to Kartel.


Of course, the stories have been denied by Gaza sources who say the stories are pure fabrication by persons who are hellbent on mashing up the Gaza and the Portmore Empire, and feel that the departure of Rhyno and Jahvinci would definitely do that.


Black Rhyno, who is most known for his track Bike Back on Russians Strip Club Riddim, and Jahvinci, who is currently experiencing good on-air rotation with the track, Babygirl Im Alone, are said to be the Empires biggest money makers, outside of Kartel himself, and the rumours have indicated that the decision to part ways is rooted in financial disagreements.

CARLA is 37 years old and lives in rural Jamaica. She was diagnosed with HIV 10 years ago and had her daughter less than two years ago. The rambunctious child had her final tests done at 18 months and she is HIV-negative.

"I am in a relationship with a man who is negative and continues to be negative now," said Clara. "I know a lot about the PMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission) programme and so I knew it was possible to have a child and not pass on the virus. My partner was the first one to broach the subject and we discussed it, but I wasn't convinced I wanted to go that route because I was concerned that he could get it.

"I remember returning from Barbados one day and he told me he had gone to my doctor and discussed the possibility of having a child and he has now made up his mind and he wants to have the child. I told him the risks involved and that at the end of the day he might become positive. We basically planned and timed it so he would be at the least risk. After that, I came off the medication I was on as I knew I should not take them if I was pregnant. I worked with my doctor, got the medication changed and also moved from the treatment site to a high-risk clinic.

"From the outset, I did all the research needed to protect my baby. I told the doctor he should schedule a C-section for me as the risk seems to be lower, based on the research I read. I was admitted two weeks before my due date and one day before the surgery the head of gynaecology told me I did not need to have the surgery. I told him I was scheduled for the surgery and that I was entitled to having the procedure done if that is what I wanted.

"I think due to the fact that I stood up to him I was made to wait a very long time before they would take me to the theatre. That's when some people, all of a sudden, got cuts on their finger and were unable to do the surgery. Then they found out that I worked in the sector and ,all of a sudden I was able to get it done.

"A lot of people asked me why I got pregnant, and I guess, apart from the fact that I wanted to have a child, I also just wanted to prove to persons that as women living with HIV, we have the right to have children.

"My experience was good. The nurses and doctors were generally OK, but I know others do not have similar experience. I remember being in the hospital and there was this young girl who was being coerced by the doctor to sign a consent form for a tubal ligation. I had a session right there in the hospital and explained to her what HIV was and what her rights were as a woman living with HIV.

"I think once you are positive you have to learn about the disease and how it affects you. You have to know your rights or you will be treated as outcasts. I have heard nurses asking women why they are positive and pregnant. As a woman living with HIV, you must demand information about your sexual and reproductive health and rights and then you choose if you want to have children.

"One of the major issues that the hospitals need to address is the nurses aids who come around and insist that you breast feed the baby. They should be taught that the breast is not always best.

"A lot of the problems experienced by our women are that they don't have basic knowledge of HIV and so are not able to stand up for their own rights. There are people who feel that because you are HIV-positive you are no longer human. That is why it is important to get as much information as you can so persons won't deny you your rights."

GERMANY, Europe's largest economy, has blacklisted 11 dancehall albums between 2008 and January 2010 this year because of their homophobic and violent content.

Albums by Sizzla, Elephant Man, Bounty Killer, Capleton, TOK and Baby Cham are on this list, or "index", compiled by the German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (BPjM) Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien in German.

Stakeholders counter that up to 35 dancehall albums or songs had been blacklisted since the BPjM's conception including Legalise It by reggae icon Peter Tosh, which was later removed.

The BPjM told the Sunday Observer that it is illegal to advertise these albums or to sell them to minors in Germany, with additional restrictions placed on their sale and distribution. "Breach of ...[the] indexing is punishable by a fine or imprisonment," stated Corinna Bochmann, BPjM spokesperson, in response to Sunday Observer queries.

Ten of the 11 albums were not only considered "harmful to young people" but also contained violent lyrics, according to the BPjM, with lyrics that incite hatred and propagate to kill homosexuals. The BPjM indexed these albums following complaints by certain groups such as the German gay lobby. "The BPjM can only act on the request of other administrative institutions, not by itself. Once an official request has been filed, the BPjM is obliged to act," stated Bochmann.

Ellen Köhlings, editor of German reggae magazine Riddim told the Sunday Observer that dancehall is ironically filliping the gay lobby's agenda. "These lyrics violate German laws which gives the lobbyists legal grounds to successfully censor music and gain media exposure," Köhlings said.

"The gay lobby is looking for cheap forwards just like some artistes look for a cheap forward," she stated.

Köhlings added that artistes could compromise by maintaining their anti-gay stance but avoid the use of violence. "At the end of the day there are much more urgent things to talk about than homophobia, and artistes should leave out, in my mind, the violent bashing of gays."

Riddim magazine has at times assumed the role of dancehall mediator, as the industry has no lobby in Germany: "We have been doing everything we can to restore the image of Jamaica, but we can do only so much. In the long run Jamaica needs to take action," Köhlings noted.

Violent anti-gay lyrics have been a feature of dancehall music for over 15 years with the Buju Banton classic Boom Bye Bye credited as its progenitor. The international gay lobby, in response, has petitioned the German government to ban shows and the sale of records by these artistes. Last year, Banton and Beenie Man were yanked from shows due to the lobby in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Local gay organisation J-Flag told the Sunday Observer that Jamaican deejays are not being unfairly attacked by the international gay community.

"Their music promotes violence, hate and hardship for members of a community that at no time has threatened or hurt them in any way. This is an unwarranted and unprovoked assault on a set of people who have a right to exist," stated Jason McFarlane, J-Flag programmes manager. He added that dancehall artistes who continue to perform "hate-filled music" must be held accountable. "The influence of music on any society must not be under-estimated. What must be understood is that artistes have a right to express what they feel but also must be held responsible for the possible impact they can have on people. Music, in particular Reggae and Dancehall, is universal and so we must be aware of the wide reach of the possible influence of any one artiste."

A baby hit by a falling lamppost in west London is fighting for his life. 

A 62-year-old woman was also seriously injured when the lamppost toppled over in Sutton Court, Chiswick, on Tuesday.

The one-year-old baby was taken by air ambulance to the Royal London Hospital in east London. The woman injured her back and was taken to Charing Cross Hospital in west London.

Scotland Yard said the baby boy and woman are not related and she had not been pushing his pram at the time the lamppost fell. A police spokesman said the baby was with a carer who was not injured.

A spokeswoman for the London Borough of Hounslow said: "Following a report regarding a fallen lamp column in Sutton Court Road, council engineers are currently on-site and liaising with the police. This is an awful tragedy and our heartfelt sympathies go out to the injured and all their families. The council is co-operating fully with the police and Health and Safety Executive investigations."

Shada

'Jamaica-born pharmacist has cure for AIDS?' asked the His Story headline of Monday, April 14, 2008, and the email responses came in torrents. The following week, it was "Florida man says 'Ambush' cured him of AIDS". Yes, the avalanche continued.

Now, almost two years after, the enquiries are still coming in, and so are the claims about the healing properties of Ambush.

But first, let's backtrack to 2008, to how Apostle Shada Mishe (née Vernon Palmer) said he had learnt of the "cure".

According to Shada Mishe, the palm is the source of this much-needed elixir. "I did not come up with this cure ... but, I was given it by the Angel Gabriel, who appeared to me in 2002, and said, 'I am going to give you the cure for AIDS.' So I replied, "There is no cure for AIDS!" Gabriel asked, 'Do you believe I am an angel?' Now, looking straight and stern at me, standing about seven feet away. So, I said, "Yes, what is it?" He showed me a species of the palm plant. I asked him how to get it out, which he showed me, and said that the dose should be 60ml three times daily for 21 days and the person will be cured of AIDS.

"Ambush is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the palm plant of which there are more than 3,000 species. When ingested, Ambush causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individual for consumption ... Ambush is a herbal preparation in this form, but it contains an active ingredient, which is a new crystalline substance," the College of Arts, Science and Technology (now UTech) graduate says.

The Lord God, he said, had given him seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature, and has a carbon-uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure.

The active ingredient, he's contending, kills the virus by causing its protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white *lo** cells. He says Ambush is able to kill the virus that is hiding in the lymph system by its natural radioactive properties. This process allows the body to return to normal health.

Another man who is claiming that Ambush did just that to his body is David Peters, a 29-year-old American graduate student. He describes himself as a typical young male who works, goes to the gym, and hangs out with friends. He says he's also Christian.

"I look very well now. I am very healthy and I feel great! I have never been on medication," he declares. Here now is his story, in his own words.

"I first discovered that I was HIV-positive in June of 2009. Three weeks earlier, I had gone to a local health centre for testing and I was negative. The following week I applied for life insurance and was denied because my test results came back positive. When I received my results, for some reason I was calm. Instead of searching for treatments, I immediately went online to search for the cure - that's when I ran across the youtube.com presentation of Apostle Shada Mishe.

Basic information

"I immediately emailed him and he asked me some very basic information: my name, viral load, and age. When I emailed him this information, he invited me to come to his home in Toronto to get some Ambush. Ambush was the cure that the Apostle was presenting on youtube.com. The Apostle said that Ambush kills HIV/AIDS completely in 21 days. I didn't have a passport at the time, and I live in the US, so the apostle gave me an open invitation and told me to contact him when I was ready to come.

"I travelled to see the apostle on the fourth of July ... I arrived at the apostle's home very early in the morning, in fact, he was still asleep. Nevertheless, when he answered the door, he greeted me with a big hug and said, "Hello my son". He explained to me that he needed a little more time to finish making the Ambush, so I sat. He then brought in a pan of water and a towel and asked me to take off my socks, and then he washed my feet. He then anointed me from head to feet in oil, as he prayed with me.

"We sat for hours and talked about almost everything ... Once the Ambush was ready, the apostle brought some to me in a small glass. He took a sip first, then told me to drink it. Surprisingly, it had a pleasant taste - like tea with ginger. He told me to drink it three times daily for the next three weeks. He packaged it in a bottle and gave it to me. Before I left his home, he told me to put my hands on this huge slab of marble. He put his hands on it too, and then he prayed for me. I immediately felt a spirit of peace.

"For the next three weeks, I took the recommended dosage of Ambush. The apostle also told me to take a daily vitamin supplement with it. In the first week, I felt no change. In the second week, I felt very sluggish, nauseated, and I noticed that my hair was thinning rapidly. I felt like I was going through chemotherapy.

"This was a direct contrast to how the apostle told me I would feel. He said that I would have more energy, my skin would look better, and I would feel healthier than I had in a long time. I never stopped taking the Ambush, but I communicated my concerns to the Apostle through email. Each time I emailed him, he immediately responded, answering all of my questions and coddling my fears.

"I went and got *lo** work after I completed taking the Ambush. It took a few months for me to go back because I was scared. I knew what I had prayed for, and what the apostle had told me, but if this didn't work, I would have to face the fact that I would die from AIDS.

'There is a cure!'

"In early October, I got my test results back. My doctor informed me that he was expecting my viral load to be in the double digit thousands because I had recently contracted the virus, but it came back at 69! This was outstanding. I called the Apostle and we talked over the phone and rejoiced. He told me to come back to see him before I got tested again. I did. He gave me another three week supply of Ambush. On December 21, 2009, I was diagnosed as undetectable. That was the best Christmas present that I could have received.

"I am telling my story because there are millions of people infected with HIV/AIDS. There is a cure! I paid nothing for Ambush and no one has paid me to write this story. This information is pure fact. My hope is that someone with the power to manufacture this cure will read this story, so that thousands of people will stop suffering and dying needlessly of this disease each year. There is hope and I have found it in Ambush and Apostle Shada Mishe."

TOP Taliban commander Abdul Kabir, who ran operations in eastern Afghanistan, has been captured in Pakistan.

The captain ordered passengers to disembark as the two female crew members got into a spat before the flight from Rochester, New York to Atlanta.

Steve Mazur, a passenger, said: "Apparently they got into a fistfight on the plane. The pilot decided to kick everyone off the plane."

Corey Minot, another passenger, said: "They told us we had to get off the plane because stewardesses were fighting."

A spokesman for Pinnacle Airlines, which operated the flight, said the argument broke out as the plane was returning to its gate after a passenger fell ill.

He said there was no physical contact between the two women and it was a "verbal disagreement."

The stewardesses have been removed from duty pending an airline investigation and the flight was cancelled. Alternative travel plans were made for passengers.

"The acts described are not acceptable," the spokesman said.

 

Video After The Jump

Two teenage thieves in Florida were caught breaking into cars after inadvertently calling 911 on themselves.

Kristian Amezquita, 13, and Stefanie Vargas, 19 can be heard talking to each other on the call, with Vargas giving instructions like.

Bring that back and check the glove compartment. If there is nothing there, leave it. Trust me, God always works in mysterious ways. If you be greedy, thats when you get caught up, all right.

Daytona Beach police soon found the two idiots in the parking lot of a strip club where Kristian's sister who is also Vargas' girlfriend was inside dancing. The pair tried to run, but were soon caught and arrested.

Kristian's mom dragged him in front of Fox tv cameras to explain why he did it. Check the video below.

http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/thieves-accidentally-call-911

EEEEK!!! PAPARAZZI SNAP A VERY UNFLATTERING PIC OF SINGER WHITNEY HOUSTON . . . ALL THOSE YEARS OF CRACK ABUSE HAVE REALLY GOT HER LOOKING BAD!!!

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was a winning night for "Precious" at the 41st NAACP Image Awards. The heart-wrenching tale of an illiterate and abused teen who finds hope in a Harlem classroom was named outstanding motion picture and outstanding independent film at Friday's ceremony. Stars Mo'Nique and Gabourey Sidibe, screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and director Lee Daniels also won. Daniels excitedly accepted the best-picture prize, surrounded by his cast and fellow producers. "No one in Hollywood told me they wanted to see a movie about a 350-pound black woman with HIV," he said. Sidibe objected, and Daniels corrected himself: "She's not 350 pounds. This was before you were hired." The director twice told the orchestra to stop playing him off, but Daniels was ultimately cut off as gospel duo Mary Mary took the stage and the show came to a close. Presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Image Awards honor diversity in the arts and outstanding achievements in film, television, music and literature. Sidibe cried as she accepted the award for outstanding actress in a motion picture for her starring turn as Precious, the overweight, twice-pregnant teen who discovers her self-worth through reading and writing.

The pianist, who turns 70 on April 12, will be joined by comedian Bill Cosby, saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Hanc**k's bandmate in Miles Davis' famed 1960s quintet, with more guests to be announced. The June 24 concert, "Herbie Hanc**k, Seven Decades: The Birthday Celebration," will benefit The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

"That will be a very exciting night perhaps one of the unique nights in the history of the festival with a lot of people coming just to salute Herbie," the festival's producer, George Wein, said Friday.

The concert will be followed by a festival first an old-time midnight jam session paying tribute to Hanc**k at the City Winery nightclub.

After lining up new sponsorship from medical technology company, CareFusion Corp., Wein has resurrected New York's flagship summer jazz festival, which he first launched in 1972. The festival was canceled last year after Japanese electronics firm JVC withdrew its sponsorship.

Alcohol use lower among blacks

African Americans have lower drinking rates than other racial groups, according to a new survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It found that blacks ages 18 and older use alcohol at a rate of 44.3% compared with the national average of 55.2%

Moreover, blacks ages 18 to 25 are much less likely than other young adults to engage in binge drinking -- 25.3% compared with 41.6% in the general population.

The survey is part of a series conducted by SAMHSA to learn how to target alcohol and drug abuse treatment and prevention efforts to various age, gender and ethnic groups. The survey also found that the rate of illegal drug use among black adults is higher than the national average -- 9.5% compared with 7.9%. And among black males ages 26 to 49, illegal drug use is 14.7% compared with  11.2% in the general population for that age group. Binge drinking is also much higher in pregnant black women than among pregnant women in other age groups.

Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected people is higher than in certain parts of Africa:

More than 1 in 30 adults in Washington, D.C., are HIV-infecteda prevalence higher than that reported in Ethiopia, Nigeria, or Rwanda. Certain U.S. subpopulations are particularly hard hit. In New York City, 1 in 40 blacks, 1 in 10 men who have sex with men, and 1 in 8 injection-drug users are HIV-infected, as are 1 in 16 black men in Washington, D.C. In several U.S. urban areas, the HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men is as high as 30%as compared with a general-population prevalence of 7.8% in Kenya and 16.9% in South Africa.

Whats interesting is that the research shows that a persons sexual network, more than just his or her lifestyle choices, defines the risk of getting HIV in America. So, black and Hispanic women are at increased risk due to the instability of their sexual relationships which is attributed to the high rate of incarceration of men in their networksand their vulnerable or dependent economic situation, which may cause them to be fearful of suggesting safer-sex options to their companions. And black men who have sex with men are at high risk because of the likelihood of their choosing to engage in sexual activity with someone who is racially similar, and because of the prevalence of HIV within their sexual networks.

Marie Osmond's son Michael Blosil took his own life Friday night after leaping to his death from his Los Angeles apartment, E! News confirms.

The 18-year-old reportedly suffered from severe depression in recent years, leaving behind a note which detailed his plans to commit suicide. In it, Blosil explained his loneliness, stating that he felt as if he had no friends and simply did not fit in.

Osmond expressed her grief over the tragedy in a statement released Saturday evening: "My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time."

An autopsy will likely be done Sunday.

Back in 2007, Blosil, then age 16, entered a rehab facility for undisclosed treatment. At the time, Osmond released a statement saying "Michael is an amazing young man, shown through his courage in facing his issues. As his mother, I couldn't be more proud of him."

Blosil is one of Osmond and her music producing ex-husband Brian Blosil's seven children, five of whom, including Michael, are adopted.

Prior to any public knowledge of Blosil's emotional issues, Marie fought back against National Enquirer claims that she herself had attempted suicide in 2006, and had been hospitalized in Utah.

Osmond and brother Donny have indefinitely canceled their Las Vegas show at the Flamingo Hotel.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on Saturday, Donny simply said, "Please pray for my sister and her family."

Man must pay for injury caused in suicide bid

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt.

Oddly Enough

The 7-year-old girl was in hospital for months after the man fell on her when he jumped from a ninth-storey apartment during an argument with his ex-wife, a court in the Siberian city of Omsk heard, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.

Baby 'starved to death' because he did not say Amen

For more than a week, Ria Ramkissoon watched passively as her one-year-old son wasted away, denied food and water because the older woman she lived with said it was God's will.

Javon Thompson was possessed by an evil spirit, Ramkissoon was told, because he didn't say "Amen" during a mealtime prayer. Javon didn't talk much, given his age, but he had said "Amen" before, Ramkissoon testified in a US court in Baltimore.

On the day Javon died, Ramkissoon was told to "nurture him back to life". She mashed up some carrots and tried to feed the boy, but he was no longer able to swallow. Ramkissoon put her hands on his chest to confirm that his heart had stopped beating.

Ramkissoon and several other people knelt down and prayed that he would rise from the dead. For weeks afterward, Ramkissoon spent much of her time in a room with her son's emaciated body talking to him, dancing, even giving him water. She thought she could bring him back.

Ramkissoon told the tale of her son's excruciating death from the witness stand on Wednesday, at the trial of the woman she says told her not to feed the boy. Queen Antoinette was the leader of a small religious cult, according to police and prosecutors, and she faces murder charges alongside her daughter, Trevia Williams, and another follower, Marcus A. Cobbs.

The three are acting as their own attorneys.

Javon died in either December 2006 or January 2007; Ramkissoon isn't sure of the exact date. His body was hidden in a suitcase for more than a year and has since been buried. But even now, she maintains her faith in his resurrection.

"I still believe that my son is coming back," Ramkissoon said. "I have no problem saying what really happened because I believe he's coming back.

"Queen said God told her he would come back. I believe it. I choose to believe it," she said. "Even now, despite everything, I choose to believe it for my reasons."

Later, she acknowledged that her faith makes her sound crazy. "I don't have a problem sounding crazy in court," she said.

Ramkissoon, 23, was born in Trinidad and moved to Baltimore at age seven. She stands 5 feet (1.52 metres) tall and weighs about 100 pounds (45.4 kilograms).

She wore a white sweater and blue jeans and was calm throughout her testimony, speaking in a clear and even voice. She appeared mildly agitated at certain questions but otherwise showed little emotion, even as she described how her starving son lost weight, became lethargic and lost his voice.

She was led to the courtroom in handcuffs. She pleaded guilty last year to child abuse resulting in death, agreeing to the deal only under the condition that if Javon is resurrected, the plea will be vacated. Prosecutors and a judge accepted that extraordinary condition, specifying that only a "Jesus-like resurrection" would suffice.

Because Antoinette is representing herself, she was able to cross-examine the young woman who lived with her for two years, much of that time after her son's death.

Antoinette asked whether her statement about not feeding Javon was an order or a "suggestion".

Ramkissoon said she has consistently told prosecutors and her attorney that she was not forced to starve her son, but she made clear the idea was Antoinette's.

"When I was about to feed him," Ramkissoon said to Antoinette, "you said, 'You shouldn't feed him anything', and then you told me why. ... I believed you."

Williams and Cobbs also lived in the home, along with Antoinette's three other children and a childhood friend of Ramkissoon's. No one challenged Antoinette's statement that the boy should not be fed, Ramkissoon said.

Ramkissoon detailed how the group relocated to Philadelphia and brought Javon's body in a suitcase. She described how Javon was packed with sheets and blankets and how she sprayed his body with disinfectant and stuffed the suitcase with fabric softener sheets to mask the odour.

The suitcase was hidden in a shed in Philadelphia for more than a year before it was discovered by police, according to testimony.

Members of Antoinette's household were told to wear only white, blue and khaki. They left the home only in pairs, and they avoided doctors or hospitals. They destroyed identification cards and had little contact with their families.

Ramkissoon said she often questioned Antoinette's rules and orders but never disobeyed her because she believed her to be "a godly woman".

"Looking back now," Ramkissoon told Antoinette, "I won't say that everything you thought was right, was right.

I'm downloading Made In Jamaica... anyone here ever watch this film? I've heard it is supposed to be  a pretty good documentary...

At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.

The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.

Apple also has factories working for it in Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the Czech Republic and the United States.

Apple said the child workers are now no longer being used, or are no longer underage. "In each of the three facilities, we required a review of all employment records for the year as well as a complete analysis of the hiring process to clarify how underage people had been able to gain employment," Apple said, in an annual report on its suppliers.

Apple has been repeatedly criticised for using factories that abuse workers and where conditions are poor. Last week, it emerged that 62 workers at a factory that manufactures products for Apple and Nokia had been poisoned by n-hexane, a toxic chemical that can cause muscular degeneration and blur eyesight. Apple has not commented on the problems at the plant, which is run by Wintek, in the Chinese city of Suzhou.

A spokesman for Wintek said that "almost all" of the affected workers were back at work, but that some remained in hospital. Wintek said n-hexane was commonly used in the technology industry, and that problems had arisen because some areas of the factory were not ventilated properly.

Last year, an employee at Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that is one of Apple's biggest suppliers, committed suicide after being accused of stealing a prototype for the iPhone.

Sun Danyong, 25, was a university graduate working in the logistics department when the prototype went missing. An investigation revealed that the factory's security staff had beaten him, and he subsequently jumped to his death from the 12th floor of his apartment building.

Foxconn runs a number of super-factories in the south of China, some of which employ as many as 300,000 workers and form self-contained cities, complete with banks, post offices and basketball courts.

It has been accused, however, of treating its employees extremely harshly. China Labor Watch, a New York-based NGO, accused Foxconn of having an "inhumane and militant" management, which neglects basic human rights. Foxconn's management were not available for comment.

In its report, Apple revealed the sweatshop conditions inside the factories it uses. Apple admitted that at least 55 of the 102 factories that produce its goods were ignoring Apple's rule that staff cannot work more than 60 hours a week.

The technology company's own guidelines are already in breach of China's widely-ignored labour law, which sets out a maximum 49-hour week for workers.

Apple also said that one of its factories had repeatedly falsified its records in order to conceal the fact that it was using child labour and working its staff endlessly.

"When we investigated, we uncovered records and conducted worker interviews that revealed excessive working hours and seven days of continuous work," Apple said, adding that it had terminated all contracts with the factory.

Only 65 per cent of the factories were paying their staff the correct wages and benefits, and Apple found 24 factories where workers had not even been paid China's minimum wage of around 800 yuan (Pounds76) a month.

Meanwhile, only 61 per cent of Apple's suppliers were following regulations to prevent injuries in the workplace and a mere 57 per cent had the correct environmental permits to operate.

The high environmental cost of Apple's products was revealed when three factories were discovered to be shipping hazardous waste to unqualified disposal companies.

Apple said it had required the factories to "perform immediate inspections of their wastewater discharge systems" and hire an independent environmental consultant to prevent future violations.

However, Apple has not stopped using the factories.

In 2008, Apple found that a total of 25 child workers had been employed to build iPods, iPhones and its range of computers.

Krista Henry, Staff Reporter

Mavado

Deejay David 'Mavado' Brooks is calling for the end of the Gully/Gaza war by inviting musical rival Adidja 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer to make peace at his birthday bash on Saturday, December 5.

Mavado's manager, Julian Jones-Griffith, yesterday said he wanted to publicly invite Kartel to make peace once and for all. "Basically we want to invite him to the show at Temple Hall Estate as a show of unity for the nation," Jones-Griffith said.

Jones-Griffith and Mavado have been in discussions with Bishop Herro Blair and other prominent figures to come up with a solution for the Gully/Gaza issue, which people have insisted is dividing Jamaica. Vybz Kartel is supposed to be appearing on Bolt's SuperParty in St Ann on the same night as Mavado's bash.

Jones-Griffith said: "We just want to put it out there, Mavado has been coming under pressure for this Gully/Gaza thing and I'm sure he wants a better Jamaica. I'm sure Vybz Kartel, as a Jamaican, wants the same thing. For the sake of the Jamaican youths we're inviting him to come on stage to show the people it's all about the music and dat we can live good. We want him to come and participate, its something that needs to be done and we need a big stage to do it."

According to Jones-Griffith, Kartel or his representatives can contact them before the show, through the media or simply come to the show on the night. He says Mavado is 100 per cent behind the initiative. Efforts to speak to Kartel were futile up to press time.

This will not be the first time that the two have tried to make peace. In March 2007, the deejays met with DCP Mark Shields to call for an end to the feud, however, weeks later the two were at it again. Jones-Griffith says that will not be happening again: "We've been down dis road before and we don't feel good it ended up going back to the feuding. This is not a publicity stunt, we want to explore how we can do this - reach out to di youths in schools and make it permanent. The war is in no way beneficial to anybody's career and it's bringing a lot of negative energy to the country."

The two have been feuding since 2006 and last year faced off at Sting. Since then they have come under increasing pressure garnering nationwide attention due to the negative effects of the feud.

NEW YORK Gigi Jordan quit a high-powered job as a pharmaceutical company executive and abandoned her social life to devote all her time to her severely autistic son.

For most of his tortured life, Jude Michael Mirra repeatedly banged his head on the floor, screaming and unable to speak, writhing in pain. His mother, trained as a nurse, went to exhaustive lengths to help the 8-year-old, desperate for a cure.

But nothing worked. Her only child is dead now by her own hands, according to police.

After years of struggling with his autism and her inability to help him Gigi Jordan gave up. To those who knew her, she was a loving, overprotective single mother who snapped under incredible strain. To prosecutors, she was a killer.

Jordan, 49, twice-divorced and living in New York, brought her only child to the Peninsula Hotel on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Feb. 3. She paid cash for two nights in a $2,300-a-night suite. After posting a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, she double-locked it and jammed it with a chair.

Inside, prosecutors say she fed Jude a fatal overdose of various prescription drugs and took pills herself. Two days later, police alerted by a concerned relative burst in and found her semiconscious on the floor, "babbling incoherently," with a faint pulse. Her son lay dead in his pajamas, face up on the bed.

Hundreds of prescription pills were strewn around the bedroom, police said.

In what was meant to be a suicide note, Jordan suggested she was driven by mercy: Jude was "in constant pain," she wrote. "I hope Jude is in a better place." A person familiar with the investigation who wasn't authorized to release the note publicly spoke of it to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

As an ambulance rushed her to an emergency room, she asked for an attorney.

From the jail ward of a Queens hospital, Jordan was arraigned via video link on Feb. 16 on charges of second-degree murder. She pleaded not guilty.

Her attorney, Gerald Shargel, told the court there was a "very viable psychiatric defense" for Jordan, saying she shouldn't be held criminally responsible for her son's death because of her mental state. He declined to elaborate.

"This is one of the saddest cases I've ever seen," Shargel said outside the courthouse.

Assistant District Attorney Kerry O'Connell argued that Jude's death "was completely premeditated." She cited Jordan's "articulate" written explanation for what she did, a document which "took her obviously a long time."

A dermatologist and longtime friend, Dr. Marcus Conant, said Jordan confided in him as she tried desperately to fight Jude's autism.

Her life became "an obsession with her inability to help the child she loved. It literally drove her crazy," said Conant, who couldn't imagine her ever harming the child. She was "brilliant," Conant said, going to "incredible ends," studying the latest medical literature and consulting with leading experts.

That obsession with finding a cure even drove her to Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where Jude underwent a rare umbilical cord *lo** stem-cell transplant on April 30, 2007. It didn't work. Jude's pain and screams persisted.

About one in 110 U.S. children have autism, a spectrum of neurological disorders that affect communication and social interaction. While there are no medications that can cure autism, studies show that early identification and intervention can improve long-term outcomes.

With her wealth, Jordan could have hired expert care for the boy but "we had no nannies," Jude's father, Emil Tzekov, told the New York Daily News. "She could afford them, but she wanted to do everything herself. She made sure all his food was perfect, that he was sleeping so many hours. Everything."

At one point, she considered sending him to a school for autistic children in California.

Instead, Jordan moved, Conant said.

"Perhaps she was overprotective," he added, not fully entrusting her son to anyone.

"She was looking for a cure, for a miracle," said Conant.

Jordan was convinced two years ago that members of a devil-worshipping cult were violently abusing the boy. She sought out a Wyoming sex-crimes investigator she saw on television, Flint Waters, and brought the child to see him even though Wyoming authorities had discouraged her visit.

Cheyenne police detective Tom Hood said authorities placed her in emergency detention there for a psychiatric evaluation "to make sure she was not a danger to her son, herself or other people." When she was determined to be no threat, Hood said, she was reunited with her son.

Autistic children often "cannot express pain or discomfort through speech," says Dr. Timothy Buie, an autism expert at Harvard Medical School who works at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. Many suffer a sensory processing disorder, Buie said, so that even an earache or an upset stomach "is profoundly magnified." They communicate distress by screaming, head-banging, even harming themselves, he said.

"Some people can't stand a child who cries for an hour," said Conant. "Can you imagine living with a child who's been screaming for eight years?"

Some parents of autistic children who try everything and still fail to improve their child's condition reach a breaking point, said Cammie McGovern, an Amherst, Mass., author with a 13-year-old autistic son. Some take their distress to the extreme, she said, ending their child's life and taking their own.

That was Jordan's goal, police said.

"It's so lonely to love a child who is unable to express that back," said McGovern, whose novel "Eye Contact" examines the relationship between a mother and an autistic son.

"You are driven to the loneliest place on earth, facing what feels like a failure with a child you haven't saved and you've believed with all your heart that if you worked hard enough you could," said McGovern.

Conant, who said he never thought Jordan could hurt Jude, believes her obsession was "a control issue, the feeling that she would be the one to save that child, almost a salvation quest."

He said he met Jordan 15 years ago through pharmaceutical industry mogul Raymond A. Mirra Jr., managing member of the RAM Capital Group and other health care ventures. Jordan and Mirra, whom she married in 1998, amassed a fortune running their companies.

While still married to Mirra, Jordan became pregnant by Tzekov, a Bulgarian-born yoga instructor in Santa Barbara, Calif. Mirra adopted the baby, promising him financial security and in return, Tzekov signed away custody rights.

Jordan divorced Mirra in November 2001, according to public records in Nevada.

Six days later, she married Tzekov. A photo from that time shows a happy threesome, with a curly-haired, smiling Jude sitting between his smiling mother and beaming, handsome father.

But in 2006, Jordan and Tzekov divorced, and by 2007, she forbade him from seeing Jude.

Tzekov's next contact with his son was in a Manhattan morgue.

When he heard about his death, Tzekov was stunned.

"I cannot understand," he told the News, his eyes welling with tears. "Gigi was a loving mother. She was not a killer."

	50 CENT'S SELF DESTRUCTING!!! DUTCH CONCERT PROMOTERS FORCED TO CANCEL CONCERT . . . BECAUSE PEOPLE IN HOLLAND AREN'T INTERESTED IN SEEING HIM PERFORM!!!

MediaTakeOut.com just caught wind that Dutch promoters were forced to cancel 50 Cents March 15 concert in Holland. According to reports, the promoters are claiming it's because of low ticket sales.

50's gonna have to do something to revive his career . . . cause it's going down FAST!!!

NUH UHHHHHHHHH!!! NOW WE HAVE SEEN IT ALL . . . THEY GOT SKRIPPERS NOW WITH BIONIC LEGS!!! (WARNING - PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED)

WOOOOOW!!! VH1 HAS REALLY GONE TOO FAR . . . THEY USED A LOOK ALIKE TO RE-ENACT MICHAEL JACKSON'S DEATH SCENE . . . AND HIS AUTOPSY!! (PICS INSIDE)

MediaTakeOut.com learned that VH1 aired a very TASTELESS program about Michael Jackson. The show called, VH1's Famous Crime Scene contained an actual re-enactment of Michael's death.

It also contained a re-enactment of Michael laying on the autopsy table.

At first we weren't going to put up the pics. But these folks need to be PUT ON BLAST for their inappropriateness.



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WHOOPS!!! MO'NIQUE ACCIDENTALLY KISSES PRECIOUS . . . ON THE LIPS!!!

Queens, NY: A Jamaican man appears to have shot and killed his wife and two daughters and then turned the gun on himself in the Rosedale section of Queens yesterday. Police sources think this may be an apparent murder-suicide. A note was left behind apologising for the gruesome crime, sources reported.


Cops discovered the four bodies at 145-20 230th Place in Springfield Gardens after the father, Mark Bailey, a bus driver in Nassau County, shot his family in their bedrooms, police said.


Bailey was found in chair in the main room. All four had gunshot wounds to the head with a 9mm pistol. A note was also found in the kitchen, where Baily wrote, I am sorry. Love, Mark, according to police sources.


His wife, Dionne, 42, was an assistant principal at Philip Randolph High School.


One daughter, 19-year-old Yonique, was a student at Stony Brook University and the other, 14-year-old Yolon, was a student at Cardozo High School. The family moved to this country from Jamaica nearly 20 years ago.


Jamaican political activist in the 31st congressional district in Queens, Michael Duncan expressed his condolences on the incident. This is a very horrible and very sad tragedy, Duncan said, but he also cautioned residents in the area to await the outcome of the investigations.


This incident comes on the heels of another Caribbean-related tragedy when a Grenadian woman lost her baby when the childs father threw the baby in a New Jersey river last week

Lil Wayne Shows His Bottom Teeth After Dental Surgey + Goes Off On An Online Chatter For Telling Weezy "Please Go To Jail" + Beatboxing With Lil Twist + Kid Asking For Shanelle Is Back Again! "Nucca Ill Knock Yo F*ckin Head Off"

It is now clear that alot of zone dudes do not have the slightest clue about football, football superstars and playing positions.

firstly, there are two types of defenders, full backs/wing backs and Center backs..
secondly, midfield players vary, ATTACKING MID, CENTRAL MID, DEFENCIVE MID..
and finally... Wingers are classed as forwards.. ronaldo is a winger/striker... messi is a Winger/Striker.. but then certain players are out and out wingers, NANI, Joaqin, Perrotti and so on.

ZONE football lovers if u need to kno something about football u can GOOGLE it... need to kno about a certain player, GOOGLE him...need player stats?.. GOOGLE IT and stop acting like asses...


Now if i were to select a best 11... it would be a 4,4,2 system with the following players..

Petr Cech

Evra, John Terry, Gerard Pique, Dani Alves

Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aveiro, Xavi Hernandes, Steven Gerrard, Andres Iniesta

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, David Villa.

No messi, NAAAH.. dat nuh worry mi... no Rooney.. naah dat nuh worry mi either.. no torres.. hmmmm.. no essien, ..nuff big names get left out.. lol.. but mi side woulda still hot.

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BOGOTA, Colombia A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctors said Wednesday.

Noelia Serna, 45, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Cali, where she was in critical condition in an intensive care unit Wednesday, said hospital director Luis Fernando Rendon.

"Her chances of survival are slim," Rendon said.

Serna, who has multiple sclerosis, was admitted to the same Cali University Hospital on Monday after a heart attack, Rendon said. She survived for about 10 hours on life support, but then seemingly didn't respond to resuscitation efforts following a second attack. She was declared dead early Tuesday.

About two hours later, funeral home employee Jaime Aullon was just about to inject embalming fluid into Serna's left leg when he saw her move.

"She was moving her right arm," he said. "I stopped the procedure and brought her back to the hospital to be treated."

On rare occasions, a person's heart rate and breathing can drop to undetectable levels, leading doctors to erroneously declare a patient dead, said neurosurgeon Juan Mendoza Vega, a member of the Colombian National Medical Ethics Board.

"It can happen," he said. "But it's not a matter of coming back to life because the person was never dead."

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/noelia-serna-dead-colombi_n_466349.html

Gatorade drops sponsorship of Tiger Woods

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- PepsiCo's Gatorade said Friday that it has ended its business relationship with Tiger Woods.

"We no longer see a role for Tiger in our marketing efforts," a Gatorade spokesman said. He added the company's partnership with the Tiger Woods Foundation will continue.

PepsiCo's (PEP, Fortune 500) Gatorade is the third major brand to drop its sponsorship of Woods.

The announcement comes after months of allegations of extramarital scandal, which has played out in the public eye. On Nov. 25, The National Enquirer reported that golf pro Woods had been dating New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel. Woods is married to Elin Nordegren, and the couple has two children.

Two days after the Enquirer story was published, Woods pulled out of his driveway in Windermere, Fla., hitting a fire hydrant and a tree, according to an incident report.

Media speculation swirled around the event and a few weeks later a slew of other women began to come forward, claiming to be Woods' mistresses. On his Web site, Woods responded to the allegations by admitting to "personal failings."

At first, Woods' sponsors said they would stick by their star athlete. But in December, Accenture and AT&T (T, Fortune 500) announced they were dropping sponsorship. Woods had signed a multi-year agreement with the telecom giant in February 2009, but terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Procter & Gamble's (PG, Fortune 500) Gillette said it would stop airing commercials that feature Woods for a while, though the company stopped short of saying it would end the relationship. Other major sponsors, including Nike (NKE, Fortune 500), have stuck by Woods.

Earlier this month, Woods admitted in a televised speech that he had been unfaithful to his wife and had been in therapy to deal with his issues. He said he plans to return to professional golf at some point.

Robert Pattinson covers the tenth anniversary issue of Details with his head nestled next to a vagina, even though inside he tells the magazine he hates them. He also poses with some naked ladies and says that his only relationship of relevance is with his dog. An excerpt:

"I really hate vaginas. I'm allergic to vagina. But I can't say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five or six hours. But I wasn't exactly prepared. I had no idea what to say to these girls. Thank God I was hungover."

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SEX addiction is big news after Tiger Woods and Ashley Cole both blamed it for the womanising that destroyed their marriages. Here, two self-confessed sex addicts tell how their obsession has ruined relationships and driven them to despair, and a leading psychotherapist gives his view on the condition.

Shannon Flynn, 26

WHEN Shannon Flynn hears her boyfriend's key in the front door at the end of a working day there is only one thing on her mind - SEX.

Even though they would have had a steamy session in the morning, Shannon's insatiable appetite means she has been thinking about nothing else for most of the day.

Shannon, 26, a beautician from Edinburgh, demands sex at least four times a day and can become moody and even violent if she is not satisfied. She has spoken to numerous counsellors about her problem but so far no one has been able to cure her addiction.

She says: "It may sound like a fun, exciting addiction but it is actually a serious problem, and often debilitating to live with.

"Hardly anyone can understand what I am going through on a daily basis. Every hour of every day, all I can think about is sex." Shannon, who has been in a relationship with banker Jamie Thexton, 25, for over a year, has slept with more than 70 men over the past ten years, including several one-night stands and casual affairs.

Control

She says: "I am not proud of being with so many men, but the addiction takes control of my life. I will do anything to get my fix."

Despite now being in a long-term relationship, Shannon still constantly thinks about sex when Jamie is not around.

She says: "Jamie works long hours during the day so when I have time off alone I have to pleasure myself until he gets home.

"I can get lost in my own sexual fantasies for hours and I often totally lose track of time.

"In the past I have been in trouble with my work because I am often late. I don't feel I can leave the house until I'm sexually satisfied."

Like with any addiction, if Shannon does not get what she wants she will feel moody and even become aggressive.

She explains: "If I can't satisfy my sexual desires the withdrawal symptoms are horrendous.

"I can't think about anything else until I get a sex fix and my mood swings become out of control. I've been to see my doctor several times about becoming violent when I'm not allowed sex, and also paid to speak to four different therapists. None have been able to help.

"It's a real problem and I am ashamed of my behaviour."

Although many men think they have struck gold when they discover Shannon has an addiction to sex, they quickly discover that it is not every man's fantasy.

She says: "One guy I was seeing for a couple of months found out how bad my addiction was when he refused me sex before going to meet his mates.

"My need was particularly bad that day and I desperately wanted him to stay in and give me what I needed. When he said no I lost it and threw my mobile phone at him.

Seething

"The phone smashed on the wall by his head and he left immediately.

"I was seething with anger for hours, not because I'd broken my phone but because he refused to have sex with me. I am not usually violent but my desire for sex takes over all my senses."

Shannon thinks her obsession started when she went to sex education lessons at school.

 

She says: "I immediately became unusually interested in the idea of sex, much more than my peers were.

"There was a science book called The Body Book that I read regularly in my early teens. I was fascinated by it and I felt it opened the gates to my sex addiction."

After losing her virginity aged 16 to her first boyfriend, Alex, Shannon already knew that sex with him was not going to fulfil her needs.

She says: "He was lovely, kind and good looking but I quickly realised that the sex we had was not enough. He couldn't keep up with my sex drive.

"Even when he did want sex, he wasn't that experienced and couldn't keep going long enough.

"I wasn't satisfied and started looking elsewhere. Within months of meeting Alex I was cheating on him with anyone who seemed interested in me.

"When we broke up after six months I looked anywhere for sex.

"My addiction led to me having sex with guys in nightclub toilets, alleyways, parks and in cars.

"When I was 17 I picked up a guy in a bar and went to his car for sex.

"He wasn't good looking and I didn't even fancy him - it was purely the sex I was interested in.

"It was pretty uncomfortable and there were a few people walking past but I didn't care.

"Once it was over I got out and went back to meet my friends.

"I got what I wanted and he obviously enjoyed himself, so at the time I didn't realise what a big deal it was.

"Now I can see that I put myself in so much danger. I was a slave to my sex drive. Thankfully I have always been sensible about protection, and insisted on using a condom and having regular sexual health check-ups."

Now happily with Jamie, Shannon is desperate for her addiction not to ruin this relationship.

Respect

She says: "I don't want our relationship to turn out like Tiger Woods's. Jamie is a wonderful boyfriend and I really want to treat him with the respect he deserves, which means not cheating on him.

"But I do still want sex at least four times a day and I worry that he will not be able to fulfil my needs.

"Obviously I don't want to cheat on him but my addiction often takes control. It's difficult for most people to understand and I'm sure many will simply think I'm a slut.

"But I do not enjoy having this problem and I would do anything to change it. This is why I respect celebrities who speak out about their addiction. They are making sex addiction an acceptable illness in society.

"Hopefully this means there will be more help for people like me."

Boyfriend Jamie says: "Having a gorgeous girlfriend who is always into sex is not all bad. But when I've had a long day at work or if I'm feeling unwell, it's a bit too much.

"In the past I have worried that she would be tempted to cheat on me but Shannon reassures me she wouldn't do anything to hurt me.

"I hope that some day soon we can put all this behind us, get married and settle down."

Danny James, 27

GRIPPED by fear and self-loathing, Danny James walked into an NHS sexual health clinic and begged for help.

The tattoo artist, 27, had slept with more than 500 women and was hooked on the highs his sexual adventures delivered.

But staff took one look at him, asked his age, then quickly turned him away.

They mistook him for a young lad "messing about".

Similar pleas to his GP fell on deaf ears.

Danny had hit rock bottom and, with nowhere to turn, tried to kill himself.

He cut his throat and, on a separate occasion, took a drugs overdose.

Danny, who lives in Liverpool, says: "Many people hearing what I have to say may think that I'm a lad who just likes having a lot of sex - but it really wasn't like that.

"My dad left home when I was a baby and it was a big issue with me.

"I always felt that maybe I'd been part of the problem. I hated myself.

"Then, when I was 18, I entered a relationship that lasted years, on and off.

"The fact that it didn't work out knocked my confidence and I blamed myself.

"I closed myself off emotionally. The act of sex was my only release.

"I worked in a tattoo parlour in Blackpool. The town is full of bars and every week hen parties arrive, full of women looking for a good time. The ladies knew that we'd just have sex and that was that.

"I'd get an incredible rush and temporarily feel at peace. If I didn't have sex I felt like I wanted to kill myself.

"I spent a fortune on hotels and drinks and landed myself with huge debt. I didn't want to get close to anyone.

"I thought I'd end up wrecking their mind and damaging them too."

Danny thinks a counsellor recommended by a friend saved his life.

He adds: "I'm speaking out in case there is one man or woman out there with a similar problem who is on the brink of suicide because they've got the same trouble and don't know where to turn.

"There needs to be access to help, especially in places such as STI clinics.

"The addictive cycle is with me for life but I'm stabilised. Now, for the first time, I feel ready for a normal relationship."

SANTIAGO, Chile - One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chileans near the epicenter of the massive 8.8-magnitude quake were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and the head of the emergency agency said authorities believed at least 300 people were dead. Newly built apartment buildings slumped and fell. Flames devoured a prison. Millions of people fled into streets darkened by the failure of power lines. The collapse of bridges tossed and crushed cars and trucks "It came in waves and lasted so long. Three minutes is an eternity. We kept worrying that it was getting stronger, like a terrifying Hollywood movie," said Santiago resident Dolores Cuevas. "Unfortunately, Chile is a country of catastrophes," President-elect Sebastian Pinera said, adding the quake heavily damaged many of the country's roads, airports and ports. President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile. Officials said about 1.5 million homes were damaged across the Andean nation. Hours after the quake, smaller-than-expected tsunami waves hit Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific Coast. There were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami warning for Hawaii was soon lifted. Japan issued a warning on Sunday for a tsunami of 10 feet or higher and warned coastal residents to evacuate to higher ground. At least 214 people were killed and 15 were missing as of Saturday evening, Bachelet said in a national address on television. While that remained the official estimate, Carmen Fernandez, head of the National Emergency Agency, said later: We think the real figure tops 300. And we believe this will continue to grow.

Two wanna-be players looking to impress Juelz Santana in a celebrity-studded at M2 night club wound up behind bars after they rang up a $28,500 tab on expensive champagne and tried to pay for it all with a bogus credit card,

Robsson Depeine, 23, Jeff Sylvain, 24, and five of their friends had reserved a table Monday night in the VIP section of M2 Ultra Lounge. Juelz Santana was throwing himself a birthday party with guests that included Hip Hop superstars Lil Kim and Snoop Dogg.

Depeine and Sylvain ordered ten bottles of Moet Nectar Rose at $400 a pop, totaling $4,000, Devlin said. Depeine allegedly presented a valid ID and an AMEX card that initially checked out.

Later that night, the pair ordered thirty more bottles of Moet Nectar Rose, bringing the bill to $16,000, Devlin said.

In an effort to impress Juelz Santana and his entourage, the two Long Island men started sending some of the pricey bubbly over to Juelz and Skullgang.

Depeine then allegedly ordered a nine liter bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne for $3,500. Then he tried to order another nine liter bottle and a $5,500 twelve liter bottle.

"Thats when one of our managers became suspicious. The purchase was ridiculous and Sylvain introduced a second card with his ID and I knew thats when there was a problem," Devlin said.

According to a criminal court complaint, Sylvains New York State ID was an obvious forgery made out of flimsy material and different coloring. His American Express gift card was doctored using numbers associated with a genuine AMEX credit card.

The clubs staff quickly started taking back the champagne bottles from their table as well as Santanas, sparking a fight.

When told that the jig was up, Sylvain and Depeine allegedly said, "You got to be kidding me. Are you kidding me?" The two allegedly tried to ditch their buddies and flee the hot spot, but security guards roped them up.

They are being held on $20,000 bail on charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Joseph Coluccio, the duo's lawyer, denies they even put down a credit card and claims it was the club's fault, saying the crime was pinned on the pair when they couldn't find the real culprits.

"My Clients were invited to a birthday party. There were several people putting down credit cards and ordering pricey bottles of champagne. There was chaos at the end of the night and the bartender realized that there had been fraudulent transactions. The club couldn't find the real person who gave them the credit card, so my clients were wrongfully identified. It's a joke."

Earlier that night, a man sporting a dapper tuxedo coat was busted for a similar crime at M2 after buying a $400 bottle of Moet Nectar Rose and trying to purchase three more.

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Whos leaving the Portmore Empire? In dancehall circles, this has been the question of the week. The Clovis cartoon below, which was featured in yesterdays Chat magazine, shows Portmore Empire boss Vybz Kartel (depicted sitting on his Gaza Empire throne) begging Blak Ryno and Jah Vinci not to leave. Unconfirmed reports indicate however, that Jah Vinci is saying Gaza/Empire for life and is not going anywhere, but Blak Ryno is heading for the exit due to a falling out of some sort between himself and Kartel. More soon.

Arsenal have reacted angrily after midfielder Aaron Ramsey suffered a serious injury that echoed the broken leg sustained by team-mate Eduardo da Silva in 2008.

The Welshman appeared to have his lower leg broken in a tackle with Stoke City defender Ryan Shawcross, who was shown a red card by referee Peter Walton.

Shawcross left the field in tears, while players from both sides were visibly traumatised as medics administered emergency treatment and gave Ramsey oxygen.

The game was stopped for several minutes before Ramsey was stretchered into an ambulance and driven away from the Britannia Stadium.

Sky television decided not to show replays of the challenge because they considered the footage to be too upsetting.

Manager Arsene Wenger said the injury was a consequence of the excessively physical approach teams take against his side.

"I am not very happy with the tackle," he said.

"We have lost three players - (Abou) Diaby, Eduardo and Ramsey - for nine months or a year on horrendous tackles.

"I don't believe in coincidence when it happens as often as this."

Arsenal went on to win the game 3-1 with goals from Nicklas Bendtner, Cesc Fabregas and Thomas Vermaelen after Danny Pugh opened the scoring for Stoke.

Speaking after the game, Fabregas called for referees to stamp out on dangerous challenges, saying: "You could say we are not protected enough. I think so."

Croatian striker Eduardo missed nearly a year with a compound leg fracture following a tackle by Birmingham City's Martin Taylor in 2008. Diaby was injured after a challenge by Sunderland's Dan Smith two years earlier.

Former Bad Boy Records artist Shyne is reportedly planning out his return to the rap game by hitting the studio to make some new music.

TOKYO -- Wide swaths of the south Pacific, Asia and Australia braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday.

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