Monday, April 6, 2015
Emmanuel Emenike, survives gun attack in Turkey
Honest taxi driver finds £10,000 in his cab - then hands it back to grateful passenger
A grateful passenger has said a taxi driver will be “his friend for life” after he hung on to a bag with £10,000 he left behind in his cab.
Car dealer Adrian Quinn said he never usually carried that amount of cash but had been running late and been unable to get to a bank.
He said: “I was physically sick when I realised what I had done. Losing that money would have meant the end of my business.”
But Mohammed Nisar, 55, was in his car with the bag at his side when Adrian raced back to Walsall station in the West Midlands.
He said: “I told him ‘Do you know what’s in the bag? It’s not sandwiches or a newspaper, but £10,000’.”
Adrian, 46, of Hereford, gave Mohammed a cash reward to thank him in an envelope marked “to my best friend in the world”.
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Aspiring D.C. rapper (Kealo) fatally shot while filming music video
An aspiring D.C. rapper and YouTube video artist was shot and killed while filming a music video in Maryland, sources told ABC7 News.
According to police, 21-year-old Keaway Lafonz Ivy was filming a rap video along with as many 20 people when a gun being used a prop was fired; tragically, Ivy was hit and killed. Authorities are questioning numerous people as they investigated the death to try to determine whether it was an accidental shooting or intentional.
Ivy, who used the rap name Kealo, died of a gunshot wound near 62nd Place and Eastern Avenue in Seat Pleasant on Wednesday night.
Now police are calling the fatal shooting a ‘homicide’ and Prince George’s County Crime Solvers offered a $25,000 reward for information in the case leading to an arrest or indictment
John Legend & Common Face Off On ‘Lip Sync Battle’ With Classic Hits — Watch
What happens when Oscar-winning duo, John Legend and Common, face off against each other on ‘Lip Sync Battle?’ Huge hair, elaborate costumes, epic dance moves and other things you won’t want to miss! Watch the action go down here!
John Legend, 36, and Common, 43, throw it way back on Spike TV’s amazing new show, Lip Sync Battle, while lip syncing to some classic hits. The “Glory” collaborators went head to head for the battle, and though it was a close call, only one winner was determined. While Common channeled Lionel Richie for his rendition of “All Night Long (All Night)”, John did his best at MC Hammer‘s “U Can’t Touch This.” Watch their amazing renditions here!
‘Lip Sync Battle': John Legend & Common Face Off
Common started the night by stepping out as a clone to Lionel — wig and all! His outfit was exactly something of what the iconic musician would wear in the 80s, which definitely added to his performance of “All Night Long (All Night).” He gave a passionate lip syncing performance complete with back up dancers and moves of his own, surprising everyone with his major breakdancing skills! Both John and his supermodel wife Chrissy Teigen, 29, were loving it!
Next, John took the stage and transformed into 90s sensation MC Hammer. Let us say he nailed the outfit — special shout out to THOSE PANTS! Like John, he also had back up dancers, but he completely stole the show with his special dance moves while owning his epic performance — Chrissy couldn’t help herself from bopping around either!
And the winner of that Lip Sync Battle was… Common! The rapper tweeted his victory.
‘Lip Sync Battle': The Rock & Jimmy Fallon Face Off In Premiere
The very first episode of Lip Sync Battle also showed an epic battle between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, 42, and Jimmy Fallon, 40. The Rock did a hilarious take on Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” while Jimmy opted forMadonna’s classic “Like A Prayer.” You can find out who won and watch that hilarious showdown here!
Up next we will see beauties Anna Kendrick and Jennifer Lopez along with Justin Bieber doing his best Ozzy Osbourne. We can’t wait either.
Plies: Rapper Thrown Off Stage By Fan At Concert
So scary! A Plies concert got way out of hand when the ‘Bust It Baby’ rapper was violently thrown off stage by a fan while performing a set. Watch the shocking video here.
What started out as a friendly invitation to come on stage with Plies quickly turned violent after a fan attacked the rapper while he was performing a concert on April 3 in Tallahassee, Fla. Things got heated very fast as the rapper was thrown off stage by the fan within the blink of an eye.
Plies Thrown Off Stage During Concert — See Shocking Video
So shocking! Plies, who likes to interact with his fans during concerts, clearly had no idea what he was in for when inviting a fan to come on stage.
As the fan hovers over him, Plies attempts to make a joke about how he was in his personal space. “We can’t be that close now, we too close,” Plies says.
Apparently, his words set off the fan, who, without any obvious warning, grabs Plies from the waist and flips him over off of the stage. (That seriously had to have hurt.) Other fans in the audience begin to scream, and it’s only a matter of time before the attacker was escorted out by security.
The most shocking thing, however? Plies gets right back on stage and continues to perform, as fights break throughout the crowd. That’s some dedication.
Plies’ Attacker Explains His Side
As seen in the second part of the video, Plies’ attacker uploaded videos as to explain his side of why he attacked the rapper. In his eyes, Plies was the one who started it and he was just fighting back. He also admits that Plies is one of his top 5 artists.
Two FBI agents steal Bitcoins
The Silk Road, the notorious online black market, has been closed for a year and half.
And yet illegal activity linked to the Dark Web’s most infamous site, which did over $200 million in transactions, continues to crawl out: A criminal complaint unsealed Monday charged two federal agents with wire fraud and money laundering, committed while part of a task force assigned to investigate the Silk Road.
According to the complaint, both Carl Mark Force IV of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Shaun Bridges of the Secret Service, “abused their positions as federal agents and engaged in a scheme to defraud a variety of third-parties, the public, and the government, all for their financial enrichment.”
They did so, according to a federal affidavit signed by IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan, by using their positions on the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force, to seize large quantities of bitcoins — the cryptocurrency that was the primary unit of exchange on the Silk Road — and move them into their personal bank accounts.
According to the affidavit, Force “stole and converted to his own personal use a sizable amount of bitcoins…rather than turning those bitcoin over the government”; meanwhile, Bridges “despite having personally benefitting in the amount of $820,000 from a Mt. Gox account…two days later served as the affiant on a multi-million dollar seize warrant for Mt. Gox and its owner’s bank accounts.”
The FBI took down the Silk Road, which at its peak listed 10,000 products for sale, 70% of which were drugs, in October 2013. And last month, a federal jury in New York convicted Ross Ulbricht on seven drug and conspiracy charges related to its operation.
But today’s complaint, filed in the United States District Court in San Francisco demonstrates that not even the government agents assigned with investigating the Silk Road were immune to the temptations presented by the anonymous black market.
Dozens killed after a ship sinks in Russia
A Russian freezer trawler with an international crew of 132 sank Thursday morning in the Sea of Okhotsk off of the Kamchatka Peninsula and at least 43 crew members were killed, rescue workers said.
The emergency services in Kamchatka, citing the head of the rescue operation, said 63 crew members were rescued and the fate of the remaining 26 from the Dalny Vostok trawler was unknown.
More than 25 fishing boats in the area helped to rescue the crew members, the emergency services said in a statement on their website.
No cause for the sinking was given. The Interfax news agency said drifting ice in the chilly Pacific waters may have played a role.
Besides Russia, Interfax said crew members came from Latvia, Ukraine, Myanmar and Vanuatu
Kenyan attack: Heartbreaking pics of family members as they ID the bodies of their loved ones
A blogger murdered in Bangladesh
Washiqur Rahman, 27, was an atheist known in Bangladeshi social media circles for writing articles denouncing religious extremism.
“He was a progressive free thinker and was against religious fundamentalism,” Imran Sarker, head of Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh, told AFP news agency.
Police have arrested two men in connection to the murder so far.
“He was brutally hacked to death this morning with big knives just 500 yards from his home at Dhaka’s Begunbari area,” local police chief Wahidul Islam told AFP.
In the wake of Roy’s murder, hundreds of protesters took to the streets to demand justice.
Bangladesh is a predominantly Muslim country, but its government describes itself as secular.
Rahman’s murder is the third of its kind in the last two years, and the fourth time a secular writer has been attacked in Bangladesh since 2004
Saturday, April 4, 2015
This 747 private jet is a palace in the sky
Greenpoint Technologies
For most people, private jets such as the $65 million Gulfstream G650 or the Bombardier Global Series are the epitome of luxury air travel, but there are a select few who can afford more than that. They’re converting airliners into private flying palaces. To meet this demand, Airbus and Boeing have begun selling "VIP" versions of their airliners under the Airbus Corporate Jet and Boeing Business Jet brands. While most of these planes are based on smaller Airbus A320 series or Boeing 737 models, one recent VIP conversion took luxury to a new level.
One very lucky, very wealthy, and very confidential client took delivery of a personalized Boeing 747-8, completed by Greenpoint Technologies of Kirkland, Washington. Its incredible 4,786 sq. ft. of space features a stateroom, lounges, an office, and a massive dining room.
The Boeing 747-8 VIP is the longest and second-largest airliner ever built. Powered by a team of four General Electric GEnx engines, the plane can fly 8,000 nautical miles nonstop.
The Boeing has been selected to be the president's new plane and will one day assume the call sign Air Force One.
The asking price for the jumbo jet is $367 million — and that's before the all the luxurious goodies are installed.
As you may have guessed, all of the interior components and cabinets are custom designed and built in house using only the finest materials.
I mean, just look at this lounge! It's spectacular.
Here's the lounge from another angle.
And if you'd like the lounge in another design, no problem!
The 747-8 can be customized any way the client likes.
Want to take a nap? Check out the regal stateroom.
Or you can look out the window as you soar above the world.
Naturally, the stateroom comes with its own lounge
As with any other part of the plane, you can have it any way you like.
This is certainly a far cry from the lesser private jets of the world and …
... even makes the world's luxury hotels somewhat obsolete.
For those looking to do some business, there's a massive office for that and …
... an impressive conference room for larger meetings that ...
... can double as a stately dining room, when necessary.
And what about the big hump on top of the 747-8? There's a lounge up there too!
A guy who ran a revenge porn site has been sentenced to 18 years in prison
A San Diego man who operated a "revenge porn" website and then charged victims to remove nude images and personal information was sentenced Friday to 18 years in state prison, the attorney general's office said.
Kevin Bollaert, 28, was convicted in February of 21 counts of identity theft and six counts of extortion in San Diego Superior Court for running a pair of websites that capitalized on the Internet as a forum for public shaming.
Jilted lovers and hackers could anonymously post nude photos of people without their consent, along with personal information about them, at a website Bollaert created called ugotposted.com. More than 10,000 images, mainly of women, were posted between December 2012 and September 2013.
People who sought to have the explicit images taken down were directed to changemyreputation.com and charged $250 to $350 to remove the racy content.
Victims included teachers, wives and professionals. The compromising photos cost people jobs, damaged relationships and led to one attempted suicide.
Bollaert earned about $900 a month in website ad revenue and collected about $30,000 from victims.
Bollaert's lawyer had claimed at trial that the business was gross and offensive, but he didn't break the law by allowing others to post the explicit material.
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