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Friday, December 28, 2012

Millen (Happiness )Magese Host Music Meets Runnaway show in Nigeria


 


Millen makes us proud in so many ways.I Heart her so badly, she looks gorg and Howt in all those six dresses which she changed in one night, the simple issue with me is why she wear the same shoes with six different dresses? # JustAkingMyself

Thursday, December 27, 2012

SPOTTED!! RIRI AND CHRIS BROWN! GAME ON !!



 The pair were spotted cuddling and flirting at the Staples Centre while watching the LA Lakers take on the New York Knicks.






Rihanna was all dressed up for the occasion, wearing a black midriff-baring outfit, heels, gold choker necklace and red lipstick.
She sipped beer from a plastic cup and seemed in good spirits as the pair kept close during the game.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Never-before-seen photo shows President Obama

President Barack Obama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man's web as he greets the son of a White House staffer in the Outer Oval Office in October

This is President Obama as we have never seen him before - caught unaware as he walks out of the Oval Office by none other than Spider-Man - or at least a very mini version of Spider-Man.
The intimate photograph taken by White House photographer Pete Souza shows the President joking around with one of this staffer's children, who - dressed up as the super hero - pretends to shoot a spider web at Obama - who in turn reacts by pretending he is caught up in the imaginary trap.
It is just one of the many behind-the-scenes pictures Mr Souza takes every year which show a more down-to-earth and touching side of the man who has just been named as TIME's Person of the Year for 2012. It is the second time he has had the honor in four years.


Other pictures released by Souza, some of which have been seen before, show the President enjoying touching moments with his family - a loving father hugging his daughters Malia and Sasha at this year's DNC, an affectionate husband pulling his First Lady Michelle tight as they watch a sunset over Chicago city skyline at Lake Michigan and as a big kid running around a swimming pool with a large water gun while daughter Sasha squirts water at him.
We also see a happy but exhausted Obama as he pulls off his bow tie in the mirror of the elevator to the Private Residence of the White House after a long day which included being sworn in as President in January 2009, followed by ten inaugural balls.
The sports-loving President is also seen practicing his golf swing with Vice President Joe Biden on the White House putting green, standing in as coach for his daughter Sasha's basketball team and clutching one of his favorite American footballs as he listens intently during a White House briefing.


President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance together during the Governors Ball in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 21, 2010


TIME magazine cited the president's historic re-election last month as symbolic of the nation's changing demographics amid the backdrop of high unemployment and other challenges.
'He's basically the beneficiary and the author of a kind of new America - a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of,' TIME editor Rick Stengel said as he announced the choice on the Today show on Wednesday.

The president was walking through a locker room at the University of Texas when White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson stopped to weigh himself on a scale. Unbeknownst to him, Obama was stepping on the back of the scale

'He won re-election despite a higher unemployment rate than anybody's had to face in basically 70 years. He's the first Democrat to actually win two consecutive terms with over 50 per cent of the vote. That's something we haven't seen since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.'
The 'Person of the Year' accolade is given to the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and news throughout the year for good or for ill.

President Obama talks with his daughter Malia on the swing set outside the Oval Office


In its latest edition and cover story, TIME explained its decision to name Obama as the winner.
'We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes, and Barack Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America,' the editors wrote.
'In 2012, he found and forged a new majority, turned weakness into opportunity and sought, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union.'
In a cover story for the edition, TIME's White House correspondent Michael Scherer explained the 'Obama effect'.

The president stretches during a meeting with senior advisers in the Rose Garden

'It could be measured - in wars stopped and started; industries saved, restructured or re-regulated; tax cuts extended; debt levels inflated; terrorists killed; the health-insurance system reimagined; and gay service members who could walk in uniform with their partners,' he wrote.
Scherer added that after this year's election, Obama started working on a '40,000-foot' list of issues to tackle in his second term in the White House.
The list included climate change, the soaring cost of college, electoral reform and prison reform. 
Scherer also spoke about his personal attributes - and how Republicans struggled to be negative against him.
'There was almost nothing that would stick to this guy, because they just liked him personally,' Romney deputy campaign manager Katie Packer Gage told the magazine.

President Obama tries to block a layup shot by his former personal aide, Reggie Love, at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.

Sasha spies on her father in the Oval Office

The president waits to board Marine One at the Westchester County Airport in New York

The two coaches for Sasha Obama's basketball team couldn't make it to one of her games, so the President and his then personal aide, Reggie Love, filled in as coaches in February

President Obama joins in a water gun fight with daughter Sasha during her 10th birthday celebration at Camp David in Maryland

The President and First Lady look out at the city skyline and Lake Michigan after arriving at the Burnham Park landing zone in Chicago

President Obama and Vice President Biden share a laugh before an event at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on September 7

President Obama greets daughters Sasha and Malia at the Time Warner Cable Arena before delivering remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte


Obama high-fives an adorable kid on the links at Andrews Air Force Base during a golf outing

Early in the morning on January 21, President Barack Obama rides the elevator to the Private Residence of the White House after attending ten inaugural balls and a long day which included being sworn in as President


President Obama lifts up a baby on April 4, 2009, during the U.S. Embassy greeting at a Prague hotel


President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses while watching a TV commercial during Super Bowl 43, Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, in the family theater of the White House

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden practice their putting on the White House putting green April 24, 2009


President Barack Obama listens during a briefing with advisers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House May 4, 2009

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tortured by her Afghan husband, and she is not scared to look in the mirror


A young woman who was brutally tortured in Afghanistan by her husband after she tried to escape their abusive forced marriage is on the road to recovery as doctors continue to rebuild her face.
Aesha Mohammadzai, who believes she is 21 or 22, moved to the US two years ago after fleeing the war-torn country and is now six months into her surgery at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
Brave Aesha - who has never attended school or celebrated her birthday - insisted yesterday that she is no longer scared to look at herself in the mirror, as her treatment reaches the halfway stage.
'I don't care,’ she told CNN. ‘Everybody has some kind of problem. At the beginning, I was very scared. I was scared to look at my face in the mirror.
‘I was scared to think what will happen in the future to me. But now I'm not scared anymore. Now I know the meaning of life, how to live. There, I couldn't understand how to live.'

Aesha’s story was first told in August 2010 by Time magazine, who published a harrowing cover photo of her - horrifying people around the world and symbolising the oppression of Afghan women.
When she was 12, her father promised her in marriage to a Taliban fighter to pay a debt. She was handed over to his family who abused her and forced her to sleep in the stable with the animals.
But when Aesha attempted to flee, she was caught and her nose and ears were hacked off by her husband as punishment. Left for dead in the mountains, she crawled to her grandfather's house.

She managed to get to a US medical facility, where medics cared for her for 10 weeks, and then was taken to a secret shelter in Kabul before she was flown to the U.S. by a charity to stay with a family.
Nowadays Aesha still prefers watching Bollywood films rather than American TV. She arrived in Maryland 16 months after she came to the US and had spent time in California and New York.
Aesha is being treated at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, which was arranged for her by the office of outgoing U.S. Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland.
Couple Mati and Jamila Arsala have been caring for Aesha in Maryland, and they have a 15-year-old daughter in Miena Ahmadzai, who has become good friends with her adopted older sister.

But Aesha will look far worse before she stars to look better, and her forehand already has major swelling, while darkened and drooping flesh is currently where her nose once was, reported CNN.
She was given a prosthetic nose at first, but full plastic surgery had to be delayed because it was thought she was still not emotionally stable to cope with the painful and lengthy surgery required.
Aesha was said to have displayed volatile mood swings in the past - oscillating between violent tantrums and displaying deep affection to people around her - so the surgery is a huge milestone.
‘What happened, it's part of me, part of my life and it's all the time in my mind and with me,’ she told CNN. ‘But I have to live, and I have to love.’


Sunday, December 9, 2012

twins who are too young to walk or talk. . . but can swim the length of a 25-metre pool



Tiny twins William and Ellenita Trykush surprised everyone at the pool by swimming so far
 Mother Charlotte Trykush, a former swimming coach, said the distance is 'astonishing' for their age
 Father Victor already has one eye on the Olympics and hopes they compete in 2028






They are too young to walk and talk but tiny twins William and Ellenita Trykush can swim a length of a 25-metre pool at just nine months old.
The water babies love gliding up and down on their backs, kicking their legs to propel themselves along.
 



Their achievements are even more astonishing given that they were born by emergency caesarean six weeks early.
The twins’ extraordinary talent emerged during a family holiday to Cyprus in October when they began to swim underwater, unaided and without armbands.

On their return to Cirencester, Gloucestershire, their mother Charlotte, 35, took them to local baby pool at the Cotsworld Leisure Centre where they both suddenly set off on their backs.
‘It was astonishing. First they did five metres, then a width at seven metres, and then a length of 12 metres,’ said French-born Mrs Trykush, a former swimming coach.
‘There was hardly anyone in the adult pool, so I suggested to their teacher that we try the big pool.
‘They were loving it so much, they set off and did an entire length with me swimming underneath them on my back to make sure they were alright and to steer if they went off in the wrong direction.
‘Ellie was first - she always is - and William seemed to be copying his big sister.



 They were born by emergency Caesarean on 7 February, Ellenita first at five pounds (2.24kg) and then William at four-and-half pounds (2.07kg).
William had swallowed a large amount of blood, which had to be sucked out his stomach, and was severely jaundiced.
‘It was a very traumatic birth and William nearly died,’ said Mrs Trykush. ‘They were in incubators for three weeks but I was just so relieved they were going to be OK.
‘They were so premature and small that although I’d intended to take them swimming as soon as possible, I was worried they would get too cold in the water.
‘So we waited until they’d had their inoculations and until they were big enough to regulate their temperature better.’
Now aged ten months, the twins go swimming twice a week - to their Duckling lesson with teacher Amy Stanley, and a practice session on the weekend.
Miss Stanley, 27, said: ‘They are the youngest children I’ve ever seen swim.
‘Normally children can swim at age three or four at the earliest.
‘A lot of babies can hang in the water, but Ellie and William can swim on top of the water and breathe independently.
‘It’s remarkable how they can do it, but they haven’t learnt, it just comes naturally.
‘They are so relaxed because Vic and Charly are so relaxed in the water and love swimming. It rubs off on them.’
Mr Trykush now has half an eye on the Olympics, having taken the twins to London this summer.
‘We won’t push them but it would be amazing to see them at the 2028 Games.
‘If they continue like this, who knows.'