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Malcolm X’s Grandson, Killed in Mexico City

Mr. Shabazz died after being assaulted outside a bar, above, in a tourist area of Mexico City early Thursday morning.

“I know a lot of people,” Mr. Shabazz said, Mr. Stevens recalled.

Mr. Shabazz, who earned notoriety as a 12-year-old when he set a fire that killed his grandmother, Malcolm X’s widow, pulled out his phone and made some calls. Twenty minutes later, Mr. Stevens said, Mr. Shabazz told him he had a plane ticket to Los Angeles for the next day, and an appointment to see a Hollywood producer in Beverly Hills on Mr. Stevens’s behalf.

Mr. Stevens, 34, drove Mr. Shabazz to the airport.

But Mr. Shabazz soon ended up in Mexico City, where he died early Thursday morning in a popular tourist area after being assaulted outside a bar, the authorities said. It was a violent end to a young and tumultuous life.

 

h/t – newyorktimes

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Dozen Injured in New Orleans Mother’s Day Parade Shooting

At least  12 people in New Orleans were injured on Sunday when multiple gunmen opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade, police said.

One of the victims was a 10-year-old girl who was grazed by a bullet and is in good condition, police said. Another person sustained an injury as parade members ran from the gun fire.

None of the injuries are expected to be fatal.

Authorities saw three people running away from the scene after the shooting. At least one suspect was described as a man between ages of 18 and 22.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said there may have been as many as three shooters, and that two different types of weapons were likely used.

The victims were marching in what is known as a second line parade, common in New Orleans: A brass band plays while marching in the streets, while a “second line” of people follows the band, celebrating.

h/t – sfgate

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Brother of 8-Year-Old California Girl Arrested in her Stabbing Death

CNN) — Detectives on Saturday arrested the 12-year-old brother of Leila Fowler on a homicide charge in connection with his 8-year-old sister’s death, Calaveras County, California, Sheriff Gary Kuntz said.

The brother — who Kuntz did not name, but did speak publicly after his sister’s death — was arrested at 5:10 p.m. (8:10 p.m. ET) at a county sheriff’s office substation in his hometown of Valley Springs, according to the sheriff.

“Citizens of Calaveras County can sleep a little better tonight,” Kuntz said.

Leila Fowler and her brother were said to be alone on Saturday, April 27, in their family’s northern California home when she was found dead. The 12-year-old told police that he’d seen an intruder leaving the home, then found his sister suffering from stab wounds.

The 8-year-old died minutes after arriving at a hospital, authorities said.

After the incident, police offered a sketchy description of the suspect as a 6-foot-tall white or Hispanic male with a muscular build.

They also interviewed registered sex offenders in the area, ran down leads and searched in attics, storage sheds and more in the rural, mountainous community located about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento.

Authorities also combed the Fowler’s home and neighborhood looking for evidence.

“We did collect fingerprints during that search,” Calaveras County Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Macedo said days after the attack, “and we did collect what we believe to be DNA.”

Kuntz said law enforcement officers “put over 2000 hours into this investigation to provide Leila Fowler’s family with answers in her death.”

h/t/ – CNN

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Music Videos

Gas pump Prank Turns Couple into Internet Sensation

This video could possibly be one of the most pleasant, and in many ways, funniest video you’ll see this year. It shows a guy at a gas station getting ready to pump his gas. And then the unexpected happens. He gets talked into doing Karaoke. He is later joined by his passenger and a duet ensues.

A great happy moment indeed.

 

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Featured News

Chicago Teen Says Classmates Lit Her Hair on Fire

NBC Chicago – A suburban family was expressing outrage Thursday over how middle school officials were handling a bullying incident that had a seventh grader’s hair set aflame by her classmates.

Tatyana Butler said the bullying began almost immediately when she started Waukegan’s Thomas Jefferson Middle School this year. But the shy, standout student and her mother say the taunting and teasing went too far earlier this week.

It was Tuesday when two eighth grade girls were flicking a lighter behind the 14-year-old as she walked into class.

“I tried to walk faster but then my head got on fire,” the teen recalled. “My friends was like, ‘Tatyana, you hair’s on fire! Your hair’s on fire! and I was like, ‘Are you for real?’ and they just started taking it out.”

Three inch clumps of burned hair began falling out by the handful. Butler asked to go home.

“They was like, ‘You have to wait. Just write down what happened. I waited … and that’s when [a school official] called my mom,” she said.

In turn, Neysha O’Conner asked school officials to file a report with police. They declined, and O’Conner herself went to police earlier Thursday. She said officers told her that school officials should have contacted them immediately after the incident happened on Tuesday.

h/t – grio

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Entertainment Music

Jay-Z is that You? Harlem Man Resembles Hov in 1930s Photo

Harlem, New York (Photo taken by Sid Grossman courtesy of the New York Public Library)

is a proud son of Brooklyn but an old photo featuring some well-dressed men has many wondering if he had a distant relative in another part of New York City.

This week, a black and white photo dating back to Harlem in 1939 surfaced online via the Schomburg Center’s Tumblr page. in honor of its Research in Black Culture exhibit with a caption asking if the man in picture remind you of anyone. The comments on the page were overwhelmingly pro Jay-Z.

While there’s no official connection between Mr. Carter and the unnamed man, it does make for interesting debate.

Jay-Z has worked with the Schomburg Center in the past. He partnered with the New York Public Library to host an online conversation with scholar Cornel West, breaking down his book Decoded in 2010.

h/t – grio

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Cyber-Attackers Stole $45M in Worldwide Fake ATM Card Breach

$45 Million Stolen From ATM’s

Eight defendants have been charged in the largest bank heist of its kind, a $45 million worldwide theft that took just hours using fabricated ATM cards.

Federal prosecutors said the cyber-theft was as intricate as a movie plot.

“This scheme was organized for months and planned down to the minute, reminiscent of the casino heist in ‘Ocean’s Eleven,'” said Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

The scheme, which started overseas, was detailed in an indictment unsealed today. Unknown hackers stole data from banks that was then encoded onto plastic cards sent to crews in two dozen countries, according to the Justice Department. The local operatives went from ATM to ATM, withdrawing millions.

Lynch said she saw photos of one defendant in New York.

“Surveillance photos show his backpack getting heavier and heavier as his efforts go on,” she said.

According to court records, the hackers targeted a credit card processor that handled prepaid debit card transactions for Rakbank in the United Arab Emirates.

 

h/t – ABCNEWS

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Technology

Pebble E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

CUSTOMIZE YOUR PERFECT WATCH. IT’S AS EASY AS DOWNLOADING AN APP.

Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It’s infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watchfaces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into everyday life.

CUSTOMIZE WITH APPS.

Apps bring Pebble to life. We’re building some amazing apps for Pebble. Cyclists can use Pebble as a bike computer, accessing the GPS on your smartphone to display speed, distance and pace data. Runners get a similar set of data displayed on their wrist. Use the music control app to play, pause or skip tracks on your phone with the touch of a button. If you’re a golfer, feel free to bring Pebble onto the course. We’re working withFreecaddie to create a great golf rangefinder app for Pebble that works on over 25,000 courses world-wide. Instead of using your phone, view your current distance to the green right on your wrist. These apps will be the first, with more in the works!

CYCLING

CONTROL YOUR MUSIC

RUNNING

GOLF RANGEFINDER

Pebble can change instantly, thanks to its brilliant, outdoor-readable electronic-paper (e-paper) display. We’ve designed tons of watchfaces already, with more coming every day. Choose your favourite watchfaces using Pebble’s iPhone or Android app. Then as the day progresses, effortlessly switch to the one that matches your mood, activity or outfit

BEAUTIFUL WATCHFACES

CUSTOMIZE WITH NOTIFICATIONS.

If you need to stay on top of things, Pebble can help with vibrating notifications, messages and alerts. Dismiss a notification with a shake of your wrist. Don’t worry, it’s easy to disable all notifications.

  • Incoming Caller ID
  • Email (Gmail or any IMAP email account)
  • SMS on both Android and iPhones
  • iMessage (iOS only)
  • Calendar Alerts
  • Facebook Messages
  • Twitter
  • Weather Alerts
  • Silent vibrating alarm and timer

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Technology

Canon’s PowerShot N: A Compact Camera That Does Instagram One Better

Canon had a number of new cameras on display at CES 2013 this year, but the most noteworthy of all was the PowerShot N, a new ultracompact shooter that’s only about 3 inches by 2 and half, and only 1.2 inches deep. It’s almost square, which makes it resemble the camera depicted in the Instagram icon on the iOS and Android app, and once you use it, you realize the connection probably isn’t entirely accidental.

The PowerShot N is designed entirely around one-handed use, a Canon rep explained, with a touchscreen based interface that generally takes care of most things for you, including even selecting a filter, should you choose. Whereas with Instagram you still have to do some kind of creative input, the Canon rep explained, the Canon PowerShot N on full auto will choose the best filter for your situation. It’ll give you a different one for a sunset landscape vs. an indoor portrait, for example. The camera can also create five different filtered versions of each shot in a new creative mode to let you pick the best.

The PowerShot N still offers a lot of creative control, with shutter and zoom manual ring controls on the lens, which borrows a trick from the PowerShot S100 series of more pro-oriented compacts. It has a 12-megapixel sensor, and improved Wi-Fi connectivity with a new button that allows you to get it connected to the CameraWindow app for iOS and Android with a single click. The camera has a battery good for around 280 shots, with Canon’s new eco-drive, which should add 30 percent more battery by managing power.

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Food And Recipes Health

These Top 10 Truly Healthy Snacks Will Cut Your Hunger

Three square meals a day is all well and good, but we all sometimes need a little something in between, but there is no need to buy all the 100-cal snack pack but full of ingredients we can hardly spell,

here are some real-food-snacks ideas that will boost our energy and without piling on the calories!

1. Sliced tomato with a sprinkle of feta and olive oil

2. Banana and it comes naturally prepackaged goodness you can take anywhere, with the added benefit of cramp-preventing potassium.

3. Protein-packed Edamames (measured shelled).

4. Ants on a log, Spread some peanut butter on celery and add a few raisins.

5. Hummus and Carrot/Celery Sticks, Hummus is best when you make it yourself using chickpeas.

6. Nuts: a protein nutrient filled snack.

7. Cherry Tomatoes: nature’s super-food.

8. Raspberries with 2 Tbsp Plain Yogurt and 1 tsp Honey.

9. Dark Chocolate, containing at least 70 per cent cocoa solids is a good source of antioxidants — particularly flavonoids, which are the type that are found in green tea and red wine.

10. And finally and my favorite one, a homemade smoothie, which contains the pulp of the fruit and not just the juice, and provides you with fiber plus a whole array of vitamins and minerals.

Healthy snacking improves overall health, curbs cravings, fights weight gain, regulates mood, boosts brain power and gives you the energy you need to keep going all day!!

h/t/ – Positivemed

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Technology

Make Free Calls from iPhone With The Official Google Voice App

If you’re a long-time Gmail user, you no doubt know about and/or use Google Voice — a free web-based platform that provides users with an online phone number for making calls online via an Android, BlackBerry, and now the iPhone. If you don’t have a Google Voice number set up, you’re missing out on a very useful contact tool. Check out Ryan Dube’s 5 Cool Things You Can Do With Google Voice for more details.

I’ve been using my Google Voice (GV) number primarily as a second contact number for which family and friends can reach me when I’m a way from my phone and working on my computer. I also post the number on trusted website forums and registrations.
For a few months in 2009, a third-party Google Voice app was available for the iPhone, but Apple decided to remove it along with the official Google Voice app that was released a few months later. But now, the official app is back and available for free in the App Store.

 

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My Racist Experience at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

It’s the little indignities that slowly devastate your soul,” the Huffington Post‘s Seema Jilani writes in a piece about what she says was “white privilege on display.”

… They refused to let me through. For the next half hour, they watched as I frantically called my husband but was unable to reach him.

Then something remarkable happened. I watched as they let countless other women through — all Caucasian — without even asking to see their tickets. I asked why they were allowing them to go freely when they had just told me that I needed a ticket. Their response? “Well, now we are checking tickets.” He rolled his eyes and let another woman through, this time actually checking her ticket. His smug tone, enveloped in condescension, taunted, “See? That’s what a ticket looks like.”

When I asked “Why did you lie to me, sir?” they threatened to have the Secret Service throw me out of the building — me, a 4’11” young woman who weighs 100 pounds soaking wet, who was all prettied up in elegant formal dress, who was simply trying to reach her husband. The only thing on me that could possibly inflict harm were my dainty silver stilettos, and they were too busy inflicting pain on my feet at the moment. My suspicion was confirmed when I saw the men ask a blonde woman for her ticket and she replied, “I lost it.” The snickering tough-guy responded, “I’d be happy to personally escort you down the escalators ma’am.

Like a malignancy, it had crept in when I least expected it — this repugnant, infectious bigotry we have become so accustomed to. “White privilege” was on display, palpable to passersby who consoled me.

h/t – theroot

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