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We all have a list of things we want in a partner–ambitious, respectful, caring, funny, smart–but
for many women, their partner’s faith serves as a potential deal breaker. Recently tennis star
Serena Williams sat down with to talk about what she wants in a mate.
“I think it’s important when you marry to be evenly yoked,” Serena told Mmm360
“I’ve been studying to be a Jehovah’s Witness, so I go to Kingdom Hall. I grew up a Witness and
it’s what I know and we teach things that come from the Bible.”
The news marks a change for Serena who previously dated rapper Common for years, and more recently fellow tennis pro Grigor Dimitrov, neither of whom are Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Setena’s religious requirement is certainly nothing new. Although I’ve dated across the faith
spectrum (and continue to), my mother always preached that being “unequally yoked” is a
definite no-no.
Some of the inmates being baptized by Reverend Derek Mereku
Some 55 male Christian inmates have been baptized at the James Camp Prisons in the Nyaho area.
Reverend Derek Mereku of the Church of Pentecost-La branch performed the baptism for 45 inmates of the churchwhile other denominations also took the opportunity to baptize their members.
The remaining denominations included the Methodist Church of Ghana, Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Seventh Day Adventist, and Global Evangelical Ministry.
This was after the Church Of Pentecost commissioned a GH¢4500 baptistery for the inmates.
The church also provided food items, detergents and used clothing valued GH¢1500 to them.
Giving a sermon to prepare the converts for baptism, reverend Derek Mereku urged the inmates not to see prison as a curse.
He said the camp is to be seen as a transformational centre that would change them from their old ways.
“Some of you are here by your own deeds while others were innocent but could not defend yourselves. If you did nothing wrong but you were wrongfully sentenced, do not be disturbed,” he urged the inmates.
Using Joseph in the bible as an example, Reverend Mereku said Jesus Christ knows their worries and would deliver them.
He said no one can see God unless they have a repented heart.
“You are here to be reformed, stay focused and God will accept you,” he observed.
Adding her voice the Deputy Director of Prisons (DDP) in charge of James Camp, Josephine Fredua-Agyemang said the baptism is a first for the camp.
She expressed joy that at least the inmates have received salvation.
“Those here are safe and sound. Some have changed from their old ways and have been reformed.”
She averred that the camp also gives vocational training to the inmates to equip them for the future.
Some of the vocations include carpentry, block molding, farming, piggery and rabbit rearing.
She noted that the only challenge is how to equip the carpentry shop with tools and get funds to purchase the materials for work.
DDP Fredua-Agyemang said their sick bay also needs enough drugs to serve the 354 inmates serving various sentences at the camp.
She urged individuals to help build an Information Telecommunication Technology Centre (ICT) and a library there since most of the inmates like reading.
Hunchback killed for ritual purpose
The Twifo Praso District Police Command is investigating the circumstances that led to the gruesome murder of a 25-year-old hunchback, Yaw Botchway, at Twifo Praso in the Twifo-Hermang-Lower-Denkyira District of the Central Region.
The body of Botchway has been deposited at the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Morgue for autopsy.
The District Police Commander, Nana Ofori, said his outfit received a call on Friday that somebody had been killed around palm plantation, a situation which compelled him to dispatch his men to the scene.
He stated that when they got to the scene, they saw Botchway lying in a pool of blood as his shirt and trouser had been tied around his neck.
The commander revealed that upon inspection, they saw a deep cut at Botchway’s back and they took the body to the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Morgue.
DSP Nana Ofori said after they had taken the body to the morgue, a man stormed the police station claiming Botchway was his son.
The Police Commander suspected the hunch was removed from the back and said a postmortem would be conducted to ascertain the fact.
When DAILY GUIDE visited the area, people were speculating that Botchway might have been killed for rituals.
Senior High School (SHS) girls showing their body
An interesting video that captures female students of a Kumasi-based Senior High School (SHS) exposing their genitals for the cameras is still causing a stir after the video was released last month.
Two of the girls were vividly captured in the video and reports say these two are residents of Madina and Asylum Down in the Greater Accra Region but attend the Kumasi-based SHS.
The school’s uniform is white and green and the students’ track suit is green-coloured with white stripes running from the shoulders, through the sleeves to the wrist.
The video showed the girls dancing on the school compound in front of a dormitory. Some of them were in sexy pants and at a point removed the pants to expose their naked buttocks to the cameras.
One particular student, a light-skinned beautiful teenager was so excited about the video recording that she removed her pants and showed her vagina to the cameras. It was bushy.
While the girls were dancing for the camera, some other students were perching on the corridors of the dormitory from where they cheered the dancing girls and kept calling their names: Richlove, Linda, Muni and Mommie.
It is not immediately clear the reason for which the young girls shot the sexually explicit video but it was recorded with a camera phone by a colleague student who directed the girls on what to do.
The one recording the video made sure her face was not captured.
This is not the first time such a video recording that captures the nakedness ofstudents is reaching the media and it is apparently becoming a trend for Ghanaian youth to capture their nakedness and sometimes sexual intercourse on videos.
A nephew of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was one of 13 men shot – two fatally – during a violent six-hour stretch in Chicago, another indication that violence is on the rise in the nation’s third-largest city.
Wade learned of the situation with his nephew after Miami defeated Dallas on Thursday night. On Friday, Wade said he played “with a heavy heart” when the Heat visited Toronto. Wade scored 30 points in Miami’s 113-101 victory, and afterward said he expected his nephew to recover.
“I played for him and with him in mind,” Wade said. “I was 9 years old when he was born. I was an uncle at 9 years old. A lot of thoughts go through your mind. … My prayers go out to all the families involved, especially the one family who lost a child. My prayers go out to them. It’s tough.”
Wade’s nephew was one of six males shot at a store on Chicago’s South Side about 6 p.m. Thursday by hooded men who police said fled the scene in an SUV. One man was dead at the scene and four others – ranging in age from 16 to 24 – were hospitalized in critical condition. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the slain man as Shawndell Harris, 22.
The Wade family has not released their injured relative’s name, nor has Chicago police. The eight-time NBA All-Star said his Wade’s World Foundation has made curbing violence, particularly gun violence, a top priority for several years.
For Wade, a Chicago native, that made the news of these shootings even more troubling.
“It’s very concerning,” Wade said. “A lot of work that I do in the community in Chicago is about (gun violence) and to have a family member, my nephew, be involved in it, it’s sad. It hurts your heart to think about not only your family but other families going through it. I’m just glad that he’s fine and hopefully he recovers. … You never expect to get a call like that.”
The news of the shooting involving Wade’s nephew comes one week after Heat players including Wade and LeBron James spoke out about last month’s shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. A neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot the 17-year-old in the Orlando suburb of Sanford, Fla. No arrest has been made; the volunteer has claimed self-defense.
Of the Martin shooting, Wade said that, “as a father, this hits home.”
With regard to his nephew, Wade indicated surgery had taken place. Wade was still collecting details.
“My family tried to keep me out of it while I was playing the game,” Wade said. “So now that the game is over hopefully I can call and get a chance to talk to them.”
Police in Chicago said there were three other shootings during Thursday’s stretch of violence.
- Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, David Gully, 31, was fatally shot in the head across the street from his South Side home. Suspects have been questioned and several weapons have been recovered, police said.
- About 10:30 p.m. Thursday, four people standing in a parking lot on Chicago’s West Side were wounded when a gunman fired at them from a moving vehicle, police said.
- Two other men were wounded in separate shootings on the South Side – one in the leg and one in the buttocks.
The shootings are part of a larger uptick in violence across the city this year. From Jan. 1 to March 29 of this year, there were 474 shootings, 101 of them fatal, according to the Chicago Police Department. During the same time period last year, there were 346 shootings, 55 fatal.
Tio Hardiman, director of the anti-violence group CeaseFire, said he believes clashes are increasing because the city is dealing with violence as a crime problem and not as a public health epidemic.
“You cannot arrest your way out of this problem,” Hardiman said. “You have to meet people where they are and change the way they think.”
Brown will play the daughter of one of the stylists at a salon in the show, which premieres this July. Though she has never professionally acted before, Bobbi Kristina fancied herself a singer like her mother, uploading a video of herself covering Adele’s “Someone Like You” in September 2011.
This news comes after reports emerged that Brown got engaged to Nicholas Gordon, her adopted brother, and was wearing her late mother’s $250,000 ring as an engagement ring.
(CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded following a pair of explosions Saturday in the southern Thai city of Yala, Thai media reported.
The two blasts were the result of bombs stashed in stolen trucks, Police Lt. Gen. Paitoon Chuchaiya told CNN affiliate MCOT.
Video from the scene showed damage to buildings, cars and motorcycles on the street.
The blasts set fires to nearby vehicles, including a van, which itself exploded, leading to initial reports of a third bomb, Chuchaiya said.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she has been informed of the Yala bombings and has instructed national police chief Gen. Prewpan Dhamapong to investigate the crime scene immediately, according to MCOT. Police investigators believe suspected insurgents are behind the attacks, MCOT said.
Last month, a series of bombs detonated in Bangkok. No one was killed in those blasts, and an Iranian suspect was arrested in connection with the incident.
(CNN) -- Engineers are battling to restore power to a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 people after it was left adrift off Indonesia by an engine fire, cruise company Azamara Club Cruises said.
All of the nearly 600 passengers on board the Azamara Quest are safe but five crew members suffered smoke inhalation during the fire, the company said in an online statement.
One of the injured crew needs urgent medical care and will be taken to a hospital as soon as the ship reaches shore, it said.
The cruise liner is expected to head straight to Sandakan in Malaysia once propulsion is restored, the company said.
"The damage caused by the fire will require us to cancel the rest of Azamara Quest's voyage once the ship arrives in Sandakan," it said.
As of Saturday morning local time, the ship was located 200 miles off the port city of Balikpapan, on the Indonesian island of Borneo, in calm seas, the company said.
The fire broke out at about 8:20 p.m. local time in one of the ship's engine rooms, where it was contained and quickly extinguished, the company said.
Power was restored to one of the engines late Friday, allowing the ship to restart its air conditioning, running water, plumbing and refrigeration, Azamara Club Cruises said.
The fire broke out after the Azamara Quest had set sail from Manila, in the Philippines, Officer Francis Wong, chief of communications for the Philippines Navy, told CNN.
The ship's captain reported the fire to the Philippine naval authorities, who sent a Cessna aircraft and two patrol gun boats to the cruise ship in response, he said.
As of noon Friday Philippine time the fire was under control, he said.
Wong said he did not know where the ship was headed next.
"When we left the ship was safe and close to Palawan," he said, referring to an island province in the Philippines.
The Azamara Quest was on a 17-night sailing voyage that departed Hong Kong, China, on March 26, and was due to include port calls in the Philippines, Borneo and Indonesia before concluding in Singapore on April 12.
Azamara Club Cruises, which operates two cruise liners, is part of the giant Royal Caribbean Cruises group.
The Daily Mail quotes her telling MTV News, “I feel like throwing up when I hear it. No, I shouldn’t say that. No, actually, I do feel like throwing up…I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll.”
Before all the Titanic and Celine Dion fans go and get all offended, I’m sure Kate’s disgust with the song comes from having to listen to it probably a buhjillion times. Stars often get sick of their own films, songs that played during it, certain characters, etc. For example, Zac Efron once made some comment about how if he had to sing another High School Musical song, he was going to throw himself off a cliff or something.
Lol.
No worries, Kate. We still love you even though “My Heart Will Go On” makes you totes nauseous. xoxo
Fans worried that the Step Upfilms reached the pinnacle of their ambitions with 3D were reassured that the series still has plenty of life left in it when Summit Entertainment premiered the trailer Friday forStep Up Revolution. Summit, taking over the franchise from previous distributor Buena Vista Pictures, offered a full-length clip showcasing a new location (Miami) and a focus on group routines – from “performance art” to “protest
Step Up 2 The Streets and Step Up 3D helmer Jon M. Chuvacates the director’s chair for the latest installment, instead serving as executive producer while he puts the finishing touches on a different sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Scott Speer, who worked with Chu on the web series The LXD, directs the film, which focuses on dancers whose routines resemble “flash mobs” – coordinated efforts involving large groups of people hijacking public locations.
The story revolves around a young woman named Emily (Kathryn McCormick) who moves to Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. After she gets involved with Sean (Ryan Guzman), the leader of a local dance crew, they band together to stop a greedy developer who threatens to buy up the Miami strip and turn it into high-rise condominiums. Consequently, the dancers jump into action, using their routines to raise awareness of the area’s history, save their homes, and of course, provide some exciting dance numbers for viewers.
Although it’s disappointing that the filmmakers chose not to go with the much better – if much more obvious – title Step Up 4 Eva, the footage promises plenty of exciting dancefloor action. Step Up Revolution arrives in theaters nationwide on July 27, 2012.
