EWW!!!! WHAT IS THIS PIG FLU EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT?

There was the Avian flu in 2005 and now the swine flu. Do not panic! Listen to precautions.

OBAMA HONORS TEACHER OF THE YEAR.

PEOPLE SCRAMBLING AS THEY FEAR NEW 911 WHEN PLANE FLIES LOW IN NYC!

I was only 6 months old when 911 happened but this was very scary!!!

R.I.P: BULLYING HAS TO STOP! KIDS....IT'S A FACT!

• 10 year old Aquan Lewis in Chicago
• 11 year old Carl Walker Hoover in Massachusetts
• 11 year old Jaheem Herrera in Atlanta
  

L'IL WAYNE ON "THE VIEW."

This is getting weirder! Weezy will be on Larry King next!!

Super Granny, 83, Still Doing Advanced Yoga Moves.

For most people, doing an advanced yoga pose like the "lotus" is extremely challenging, but for 83-year-old Bette Calman, getting into the position is a cinch. The Australian yoga instructor has more than 40 years of teaching experience under her belt

and is showing no signs of slowing down, London’s Daily Mail reported.

You're never too old,” Calman told the newspaper. “The body is a remarkable instrument. It can stretch and stretch, and get better all the time.”

Calman is the author of three yoga books including one called, “Yoga for Arthritis.”

“I'm proof that if you keep at it, you'll get there,” she told the Mail. “I can do more now than I could 50 years ago.”

And Calman is keeping at it — teaching up to 11 yoga classes a week.

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Woman Gives Birth to Twins on Fifth Avenue in New York City,

NEW YORK — After nearly 40 years as a nurse, Lucille Nassery had no problem identifying the sounds coming in the window from Fifth Avenue. Those were definitely the sounds of childbirth.

"There's a certain kind of sound that comes from women who are about to deliver. It's not just a typical scream. It's a whole-body scream," she said Friday, hours after she ran to peer down at an SUV parked hastily in front of Mount Sinai Medical Center. A distraught man circled the vehicle, looking for help, and a very pregnant woman lay across the front seat, howling. More....

IMAGINE ME GOING TO SCHOOL ONLINE?

Online education continues to gain in popularity, but this trend is not just taking hold among college students. Though some have reservations about the idea, much younger students are now discovering the convenience and low cost of virtual learning.

Seven-year-old Alexandria Jenkins is in the second grade and attends public school at a computer in her family's living room. She's a student at the Georgia Virtual Academy, an online K-8 grade school.

On a recent day, the lesson was about synonyms. Alexandria's teacher, Danyelle Lynch, was 50 miles away, but could be heard over the Jenkins' computer speaker.

Lynch asked, "What did we say synonyms are?"

Speaking into a microphone, Alexandria answered, "Synonyms are same."

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The mom and kid in this story are friends with my mom. The kids uncle is Mr Tre Maxie, mom's friend at the TuPac Foundation.

BOW WOW LEAVES KIDS UPSET AFTER CANCELING SHOW!!

CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING 4-YEAR-OLD GENIUS.

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RAPPER T.I EXPLAINS WHY HE'S NOT ON TWITTER!

For Hip Hop News & Entertainment at DimeWars.Com

I can guess. He's going to jail soon and you can't follow someone in jail.

JAZMINE SULLIVAN SINGING AT 11 YEARS OLD.

Jazmine Sullivan Singing "Home" from The Wiz at 11 yrs old. She came a long way in the looks dept.

VIDEO: BOOM BOOM POW--BLACK EYE PEAS.

Love this video. So futuristic!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR FAMILY FRIEND PLAYBOY MODEL AND BEAUTY LANA TAILOR.

Lana is a very good pal of my mom and she celebrated her birthday today. Here's the birthday video I made for her.

ASHTON KUTCHER WON THE TWITTER RACE AGAINST CNN!

As Ashton Kutcher becomes the first to collect 1 million followers on Twitter and Oprah Winfrey sends out her first tweet, tech observers are debating: Does Friday mark a new peak for the microblogging service? Or the beginning of its demise?

Some bloggers and Twitter users have expressed concern that the once-cultish site is being overwhelmed by celebrities and media hype, while others are excited by Twitter's ever-growing reach.

"It's a big milestone. This brings Twitter mainstream," said Andrew Cherwenka, a Huffington Post contributor and Web developer at Trapeze.com, referring to Kutcher and Winfrey's Twitter breakthroughs.

"A lot of people are saying this is going to be the death of Twitter, and I don't understand that at all," Cherwenka added. "It's just another stage in Twitter's acceleration."

"The challenge for Twitter -- besides, of course, getting a business model in place to handle the infrastructure required to sustain this kind of growth -- is going to be maintaining the fact that it's the community at large, not the celebrity users, that's at the core of this service," said Caroline McCarthy, who writes a CNET News blog about social media.

"The power of Twitter is about the millions of people using it and how easily it is to filter and aggregate their thoughts and conversations," McCarthy told CNN. "It can't be all about Ashton and Oprah."

In a much-publicized duel, Kutcher's Twitter account crossed the 1 million mark on Twitter about 2:13 a.m. ET Friday, narrowly beating CNN's breaking-news feed, which had 998,239 followers at the time. CNN passed the mark at 2:42 a.m. ET. Even I am on Twitter!!

Watch my Twitter video below.

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TREE GROWING IN MAN'S LUNGS?

Doctors in Russia claim they found a 2-inch fir tree growing in a 28-year-old man's lung.

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics)

Despite becoming a worldwide Internet singing sensation, Susan Boyle insists she's still the same humble girl next door. "It hasn't changed me one little bit," Boyle told CNN in an interview at her home. "I keep my feet firmly planted on the ground." The 47-year-old surprised judges, the audience and Web watchers as she powered through "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables" on "Britain's Got Talent."

Watch the video here! Amazing!

Memorial Service Held for Murdered Calif. Girl Sandra Cantu.

Captured Somali Pirate to Be Tried in New York.

The surviving member of a band of Somali pirates who hijacked the Maersk Alabama and then held its captain hostage is being brought to New York for prosecution, FOX News has learned.

A Department of Justice official said that timing is unknown on when the suspect will be brought to the U.S. District Court in New York, and no announcements are expected tomorrow.

The pirate is "still in the middle of the Indian Ocean somewhere," one official told FOX News.

An official told FOX News that documents have already been filed and are awaiting his arrival in New York.

The suspect, identified as Abduhl Wal-i-Musi, was taken aboard a U.S. Navy ship shortly before Navy SEAL snipers killed the three remaining pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat launched from the Maersk Alabama.

Police: 13-Year-Old Robs Bank With Handgun!

PEORIA, Ill. — A 13-year-old boy used a handgun to rob a Peoria bank before police caught him hiding in a nearby garage after a foot chase.

Police say the teen used the gun to rob South Side Bank on Monday. They say he fled the bank with the weapon and a bag of money wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants and a red bandana on his face.

Police apprehended him 36 minutes after the robbery was reported. They say the money bag contained a red dye package that had exploded. Police say the teen's sweatshirt was covered with red dye.

Authorities found the gun and money near where they arrested the boy.

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5 YEAR OLD KID DITCHES MOM AND TAKES SUBWAY HOME!

A 5-year-old boy slipped away from his mother and rode the length of Manhattan on the subway. WABC reports. Didn't that happen on Desperate housewives when Gabrielle Solis' fat kid (Demi Lovato's sister in real kife) ditched her car game and took the bus?

WHY IS EVERYONE UPSET AT THIS PURPLE GARAGE?

Goat's Head Found Outside Chicago's Wrigley Field.

Photo: billinggoat.com

CHICAGO — As if the rain and cold weather threatening the Chicago Cubs' home opener against the Colorado Rockies weren't enough, there's another goat involved — a dead one this time.

Chicago police say they found the severed head of a goat outside Wrigley Field early Monday morning, about 12 hours before the scheduled game.

Officers said they were treating the incident as a prank, since the same thing happened last year.

Goat and sheep's heads are available at a number of ethnic butcher shops in Chicago.

The goats' heads are presumably a reference to the alleged "goat curse" placed on the Cubs in 1945 by tavern owner William Sianis after authorities would not allow him to bring his pet goat into Wrigley Field for a World Series game.

FERGIE CROAKS OUT THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT THE WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG ROLL.

This was earlier today.

Saudi judge refuses to CANCEL 8-year-old's marriage.

A Saudi judge has refused for a second time to annul a marriage between an and a 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man, a relative of the girl told CNN.

The most recent ruling, in which the judge upheld his original verdict, was handed down Saturday in the Saudi city of Onaiza, where late last year the same judge rejected a petition from the girl's mother, who was seeking a divorce for her daughter.

The relative said the judge, Sheikh Habib Al-Habib, "stuck by his earlier verdict and insisted that the girl could petition the court for a divorce once she reached puberty." The family member, who requested anonymity, added that the mother will continue to pursue a divorce for her daughter.

The case, which has drawn criticism from local and international rights groups, came to light in December when al-Habib declined to annul the marriage on a legal technicality. The judge ruled the girl's mother -- who is separated from the girl's father -- was not the girl's legal guardian and therefore could not represent her in court, according to Abdullah al-Jutaili, the mother's lawyer.

The girl's father, according to the attorney, arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is "a close friend" of his. At the time of the initial verdict, the judge required the girl's husband to sign a pledge that he would not have sex with her until she reaches puberty, al-Jutaili told CNN. The judge ruled that when the girl reaches puberty, she will have the right to request a divorce by filing a petition with the court, the lawyer said. OMG! Read the rest.

This is ridiculous!

GET A LOAD OF MY EASTER SUIT AND PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SUIT.

Get a load of me and Barack Obama with the same suit, mom should have gotten the black one, we are both left handed and both have lapel pins and I wanna be like him. Check out my CTV video below.

SOME PARENTS UPSET ABOUT TODAY'S EASTER EGG ROLL AT THE WHITE HOUSE!

100 tickets to Washington area school kids
100 to gay and lesbian families
The rest military families.

What are your thoughts? leave me a comment.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL MY FANS AND VISITORS.

The kiddie sermon

Hope you had a great Easter Sunday. I went to two services. Ours and a friends. Here is my Canadian church pal Nicholas and I. You are looking at the Prime Minister of Canada in 2048 and the President of the United States in 2048. We told you already, so better download the picture now.

A far cry from those silly bunny days when I was a baby in Atlanta, Georgia! LOL!

HERE'S A PREVIEW OF MONDAY'S EASTER EGG HUNT AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

Not going to the White House this year?

I wanted to attend the Easter egg hunt. Maybe next year. Click to read the end of the article.

Maybe next year at the White House. I shall personally write Mrs Obama.

The White House annual Easter Egg roll is Monday. For the first time, tickets were distributed on the Internet so more people from outside the city could make plans to attend. Here's a preview from the Washington Times Christina Bellantoni, on Sunday pool duty.

From the pool report....

Egg roll color:

Our gather time was around 10:20 and we walked to the south lawn
driveway where the motorcade was waiting.

Before getting in the van we caught an early glimpse of the egg roll
preparation for tomorrow.

Oversized cutouts in the shape of tulips framed the fountain on the
south lawn, where several makeshift fences, tents and a large stage have
been erected. Various stereo equipment and speakers have been set up in
spots on the lawn.

There's an "egg roll enter here" sign and oversized bunnies and other
signs sprinkled on the lawn.

As we waited for POTUS in the van, about a dozen young looking, barefoot
people were spotted on a colorful fabric mats on the lawn right in front
of the residence. They were stretching and doing both handstands and
headstands.

One of the agents in our van said they were doing yoga practice in
preparation for a fitness demonstration at tomorrow's egg roll. The
agent said there also will be soccer and basketball.

When we returned back, we saw more yoga demonstrating and someone was
singing on the stage for a sound check. A young woman, sorry no news on
who it was.

Christina Bellantoni
White House correspondent
The Washington Times

The White House Easter Egg Roll

It is an annual family event to hunt for and race Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn while enjoying storytelling and a visit with the Easter Bunny. The holiday tradition has a long history dating back to 1878 when President Rutherford B. Hayes officially opened the White House grounds to local children for egg rolling on Easter Monday. Successive Presidents have continued the tradition of inviting children to the White House Lawn for egg rolling and other activities and entertainment.

This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll theme, ‘Let’s go play’, encourages America’s youth to lead healthy and active lives. The White House will open the South Lawn to children age ten and under, along with their families, to enjoy sports, cooking classes, live musical performances, storytelling and the traditional Easter egg roll.

Date: April 13, 2009, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: White House,1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC (202) 456-7041. All guests will enter the event from the Ellipse and will go through a security screening process.

White House Easter Egg Roll Tickets

Tickets are no longer available for the 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll. For the first time, tickets were distributed online. Please note: THERE WILL BE NO TICKET DISTRIBUTION ON THE ELLIPSE THE WEEKEND BEFORE THE EVENT. The tickets are timed for entrance and exit to the South Lawn and will be emailed to each confirmed guest. Tickets are required for every attendee, including small children and infants.

Note to Ticket Holders: Each ticket is valid for a specific two hour time period only. You should arrive one hour before your scheduled time. All attendees will be required to go through a security screening process. No food or beverages are allowed on the grounds. Duffel Bags, suitcases and backpacks are not allowed. Strollers, diaper bags, baby formula, and baby bottles are permitted.

MEET BALTIMORE'S DUMBEST CRIMINALS: I'M FROM BALTIMORE! OMG!

They came, they worked, they stole. Then, they did something stupid. WBFF's Kathleen Cairns reports.

CAT GOES ON A CRIME SPREE STEALING CLOTHES!

A one-year-old cat named Jack is stealing clothes from unsuspecting neighbors. KXLY's Annie Bishop reports.

CHOCOLATE EASTER EGG COSTS $1400!

A chocolate Easter egg decorated with a gold coin worth more than a thousand dollars is on display in London, UK. Whoa!!

Hostage captain rescued, 3 pirates killed.

U.S. forces killed three pirates Sunday and rescued cargo ship Capt. Richard Phillips, held hostage in a lifeboat since Wednesday, after seeing him in "imminent danger," a senior defense official told CNN.

The official contradicted earlier reports that the captain jumped into the water off Somalia on Sunday.

Three of the pirates on the lifeboat with Phillips were shot and killed, the official said. A fourth pirate was aboard the nearby USS Bainbridge negotiating Phillips' fate when the shootings occurred, he said.

Phillips was uninjured and in good condition after his rescue at 7:19 p.m. (12:19 p.m. ET), according to a senior U.S. official.

Phillips has contacted his family and received a routine medical exam, the U.S. Navy Central Command said in a statement.

Alison McCall, a spokeswoman for Maersk, owner of the Alabama, read a statement from Phillips' family to reporters:

"The Phillips family wants to thank you all for your support and prayers. They have felt the caring and concern extended by the nation," McCall said. "This is truly a very happy Easter for the Phillips family." The 4th pirate is just 16 years old!!

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Michigan Man Who Fathered 14 Kids With Different Women Owes $530G in Child Support.

FLINT, Mich. — Authorities in Michigan say a man fathered 14 children with different women and owes more than $530,000 in unpaid child support.

The Flint Journal reports 42-year-old Thomas Frazier was jailed Thursday. Court records say he owes six years of support payments.

The newspaper says the unemployed man could be held for 90 days if he doesn't pay $27,900.

Frazier says he thinks he fathered only three of the children and that it's unrealistic for authorities to expect him to pay child support that was $3,000 a month at one point.

Frazier remains held at the Genesee County Jail. It wasn't immediately clear if he had a lawyer who could speak for him.

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MISSING GIRL: VICTORIA STAFFORD MAY BE IN THIS VIDEO WITH A STRANGER. DO YOU KNOW ANYONE IN THIS VIDEO?

6-year-old sentenced to traffic school!

Even though mom got the ticket a Los Lunas magistrate judge isn't letting her child off the hook for refusing to buckle up.

The child's mother, who was ticketed for failing to restrain her child, asked Judge John "Buddy" Sanchez if he could help discipline her 6-year-old.

The boy always took his seat belt off despite her pleas, the mother said.

"He took off his seat belt, I pulled over again and put it on and he took it off right in front of the cop," said Jessica who did not want to release her full name.

In January Jessica was stopped and ticketed. She landed in front of Judge Sanchez last month and asked him to talk to her son.

"She didn't want to plead guilty to it because it was her son that was actually not obeying her," Sanchez said.

He agreed that it was Jessica's son who needed to learn a lesson so he ordered ther to take her young son to traffic school.

"But there was nothing because of his age," said Jessica.

That's when the judge reached out to a Los Lunas driver's education instructor Avilio Chavez.

"I thought he was kidding," Chavez said. "He wanted to send him to defensive-driving class or driver-improvement class."

After some discussion Chavez and Sanchez agreed on a simpler solution to teach the young lawbreaker a lesson.

"Full seat-belt school," Sanchez said.

Jessica agreed to take her son to a seat-belt safety class, which is expected to start in a month. They'll attend together and also learn other traffic safety measures.

"Having somebody that young is an interesting concept," said Chavez who added that the youngest student he's ever had in his class was 15.

"We just want to make sure everyone's safe," Sanchez said.

But it looks like the lesson has already been learned.

"I think it's a very good idea," said Jessica. "He did it all the time until Judge Buddy Sanchez talked to him."

Sanchez said anyone who goes through his court for failure to restrain a child could now have to take the class along with their child.

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SOMALIAN WOMEN FLOCKING TO PORT TO MARRY PIRATES!

I guess some ladies want a guy with lots of money or treasure! Pirates are holding a U.S. captain hostage at sea. The Navy is watching everything that happens. So what is supposed to happen next? And what is driving this problem? We talked to someone who knows a thing or two about the pirates and has experience covering them in Somalia. Kaj Larsen, former U.S. Navy SEAL, spoke to T.J. Holmes on CNN’s American Morning Thursday.

T.J. Holmes: We know that piracy pays. What is it that’s going to break this cycle if every time they take a ship, they get paid. Why stop it?

Kaj Larsen: That’s the 50 or $100 million question, which is about the money that the pirates took in last year in ransom. The solution unfortunately is not going to be a military-centric one. Ultimately, you to have to find some way to govern this ungoverned space, this lawless sanctuary that the pirates have in Somalia. That’s really the only long-term solution you’re going to see to this problem.

Holmes: Let’s start with the military solution. Why not send a message?

Larsen: Certainly there would be some deterrent effect. I think in this case, the incentives are so large. The money that they’re making is so extraordinary, especially by Somalia standards, that it would be difficult. However, in this particular situation, the goal is to solve it as quickly and as safely as possible without putting the hostage in jeopardy.

Holmes: There are hopeless, deplorable conditions in Somalia. A life of piracy looks pretty good for some of these young men compared to the conditions in Somalia.

Larsen: You couldn’t have said it better, T.J. I’ve been on the ground in Somalia. One of the interesting demographic things that’s happening right now is that single Somali women are flocking to the port town Bosaso where these pirates come out of in the hopes of marrying a pirate. So you can see that it really is — the root conditions of poverty, lawlessness and civil war on the ground in Somalia are really what are breeding this problem.

Holmes: Is it worth the risk for these companies to continue to go through the Gulf of Aden? Does it cost much to take another route? Is it worth it to take the chance, pay the ransom, and keep moving?

Larsen: So far, that’s been the model. As these attacks increase, we’ve seen six in the last week alone, the cost of doing business in that area is just going to be too high. The insurance companies are going to jack up the rates of insurance. And at some point, they’re not going to be able to continue without taking much more serious security measures or without finding an alternative route.

Holmes: Do you think this situation will begin to draw more attention to what’s happening there off the Horn of Africa and maybe more action will begin to be taken by countries all over the world?

Larsen: I think this is a clarion call to the international community that Somalia is and continues to be a failed state. And that if we don’t continue to pay attention to it, if we don’t start changing the conditions on the ground there, if we don’t start governing that ungoverned space that it’s going to be a breeding ground for piracy and possibly international terrorism. So yes, I would hope that this situation, that the silver lining in the cloud is that people would start paying attention to this horrific situation in the country there.

Source: CNN American Morning

MY INTERVIEW WITH #1 CANADIAN RAPPER CLASSIFIED.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH A SOMALI PIRATE.

"How do you approach a gang of pirates, terrorising shipping on the high seas? With extreme caution and a posse of armed guards, for a start." OMG! This is just bad!

BAD ROLE MODEL: MISS MARYLAND USA BUSTED FOR DRUGS!! I AM FROM BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

THIS JAPANESE WINE FACTORY IS STAFFED AND RUN BY AUTISTIC WORKERS.

My brother is autistic and he works very high functioning.

Kids Told to Shout Obscenities in 'Swearing Lesson'

A British school was blasted Friday after kids as young as 11 were told to shout obscenities during a lesson in swearing.

Expletives like the f-word and c-word were written on a blackboard before a teacher explained their meaning to 30 seventh graders.

S.t Laurence School in Bradford on Avon, Wilts, claims it was part of a sex and relationship education program to "dispel" the myths of swear words.

But parents say they were not consulted by head James Colquhoun about the class and say kids were left "deeply upset."

One parent said: "This is a total disgrace. Our children go to school to gain an education, not qualifications in swear words. Most kids had no idea what the words meant and were forced to grow up faster than their parents want. Heads should roll for this."

Some pupils claim the teacher told them not to tell parents about the lesson.

Deputy head Richard Clutterbuck said Friday night: "This lesson should not have focused on the slang terms. I must apologize for any distress caused."

Wilts County Council said it is the governors’ responsibility to decide specifics of sex education lessons.

In February The Sun reported on 10-year-olds at a church primary school who were told to write the crudest words they knew to "analyze bullying insults."

Kids, that is not a good thing to do!!

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Did mother victimize child?

A mother is accused of getting her teen daughter drunk so she could be impregnated. WPXI's Kimberly Easton reports.

Boy, 10, Leads Police on High-Speed Car Chase.

AURORA, Indiana — Police say a 10-year-old Indiana boy led officers on a high-speed chase before crashing his parents' minivan.

Aurora Police say the boy was treated for minor injuries at a hospital after the Thursday morning three-mile chase and then taken to a juvenile detention center in Lawrenceburg.

The van hit several vehicles before police set out "stop sticks" to try to stop it. The boy swerved around the spikes but struck a utility pole and then stopped.

Police Chief Dana Cotton says the boy could face felony charges of auto theft and evading police.

Aurora is in southeast Indiana.

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Girl, 16, Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Illegal Immigrants Into U.S.

SAN DIEGO — A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 12 illegal immigrants while posing as a construction worker on the border fence in San Diego.

The Border Patrol says the girl, wearing a yellow hard hat and safety vest, was apprehended early Thursday.

She was driving a pickup truck marked as belonging to Kiewit Corp. of Omaha, Neb., which is building about three miles of border fencing.

The Border Patrol says a Mexican passenger also wore a hard had and vest.

There were eight men and three women in a modified compartment below the pickup truck bed.

The girl is a U.S. citizen. Her name has not been released.

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FBI wants to know who leaked 'Wolverine'

Someone stole an "incomplete and early version" of the next installment in the blockbuster "X-Men" movie series and posted it on the Internet this week, according to the studio that owns the billion-dollar film franchise. Authorities are investigating.

Twentieth Century Fox said the FBI was investigating who leaked "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which is set for release in U.S. theaters May 1.

The digital file quickly spread across the Internet and was available for free, but illegal, downloading from hundreds of easily found Web sites.

"The source of the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; the courts have handed down significant criminal sentences for such acts in the past," the studio's statement said. More here...

Michael Vick to work construction after prison, lawyer says.

Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick will go to work for a construction company in Newport News, Virginia, after he leaves federal prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation, his lawyer said Thursday at a bankruptcy hearing. The lawyer, Michael Blumenthal, also said that Vick, 28, will tell the court Friday how he intends to turn over a new leaf -- and hopes to return to pro football. More here

Hope he does not abuse dogs anymore.

Girl, 9, watched as dad robbed store, police say

A 9-year-old girl who stood by as a man identified as her father pulled a gun and robbed an Ellensburg, Washington, convenience store has been found in California, police said Thursday.

Police said the girl was unharmed and was being returned to Washington state in protective custody.

Authorities said the suspect, identified as Robert Daniel Webb of Everett, Washington, is being sought.

Authorities said the robber took about $200 from the store.

Surveillance video from the AM/PM Mini Mart in Ellensburg caught the Tuesday morning robbery on tape and showed a man pointing a gun directly at the store clerk as the child stood nearby.

The clerk, Eric Owens, said the gunman told him he had lost his job and his daughter needed medical care. In the surveillance footage, the suspect can be heard saying the "economy sucks."

The clerk told CNN affiliate KING that he has experienced economic hardship himself -- he and his son were homeless at one point.

"I know what hard is, but resorting to crime is not the solution," Owens told KING.

Police in Ellensburg, about 100 miles southeast of Seattle, later said a Washington woman confirmed that it was her daughter in the video, and that the man was the girl's father.

Owens said he was concerned about the child's safety during the robbery, and that he feared that if another customer had walked in, the situation might have escalated.

"What's he going to do? Grab the kid and use her as a hostage?" Owens said.

Police in the northern California town of Fortuna said they located the girl Wednesday night after receiving information about a possible kidnapping.

They found a man and girl, ran a check on the man's identification and came up with a Washington state warrant for armed robbery, and some apparently unrelated warrants from California.

When police tried to take the man into custody, he eluded them, got back into his vehicle and sped away -- without the girl, Fortuna authorities said.

Source: CNN

WE CELEBRATE WORLD AUTISM DAY TODAY.

THE OBAMA'S MEET THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

WRAP UP OF MY R-WORD DAY ACTIVITIES: I WENT TO PICKET MY R-WORD SIGN YESTERDAY AT THE MALL.

Forgiving people that use the "R" word

I was working my sign at the Sheridan mall in Toronto yesterday and everyone kept asking me about the R-Word day. They thought it was a great initiative!! I had fun. Don't forget to visit the site at http://www.r-word.org/ and leave your pledge. THANKS YOU FOR EVERYONE THAT SUPPORTED ME!!!

Dr Tim Shrivers FULL KJ R- word interview Spec Olympics Chairman.mp3 - KJ interviews Dr Shriver

Earlier during the day, I interviewed Dr Timothy Shriver the Chairman of the Special Olympics. He called me a HERO!!

Dr Timothy P. Shriver is the Chairman of Special Olympics. In his 11 years at the helm of Special Olympics, Shriver launched the organization’s most ambitious growth agenda, leading to the recruitment of over 1.5 million new athletes around the world. He has worked with the leaders of China to initiate a thriving Special Olympics Program in their country and supported their efforts to bring the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games to Shanghai. He has also worked with world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Bertie Ahern, Rafiq Hariri, Thabo Mbeki, Julius Nyerere, Hosni Mubarak and Shimon Peres to advance the growth of the Special Olympics mission and vision while challenging nations to adopt more supportive and just policies. He has spearheaded programs in developing or war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina and Iraq.
Read more at the Special Olympics website source.....

After my interview, my mom cut a smaller version of the interview into a PSA for the R-Word website. That is a Public Service announcement. Hear it below.

Dr Tim Shriver Spec Olympics KJ the Hero.mp3 - KJ Taiwo and Dr Tim Shriver


Meanwhile 680 News Radio in Toronto also interviewed me. Thanks to News Anchor Eva Fragiskatos, News Director Scott Metcalf and GM John Hinnen for getting my message out.

KJ R word story 680News Toronto .mp3 - KJ intv 680 News

Jeni shouted me out on Flow 93.5FM. One of the two Top 40 stations (Flow 93.5FM) in Toronto, Canada shouted out KJ the Kid Reporter.

KJ Flow 93.5FM shoutout JJ McKenzie.mp3 - Jeni at flow shouts out KJ


Chris Evans of Z103.5FM another top 40 station also shouted me out for my good work. KJ the Kid reporter gets a shout out from Toronto's #1 Top 40 station Z103.5FM on the noon lunchtime hour show 3/30/09

Z103.5FM shout out to KJ Taiwo for good activism - Chris Evans Z103.5FM Toronto


My mom even heard from Kate Dickson, the Publicist for Teletoon Canada. Our own Cartoon network here. Ms Dickson knows that I am so active in the community and my fave show is Total Drama Island.

"Good Morning Kemi, Great to hear from you and very exciting to hear all that KJ has been up to."

Even Mr Wayne Williams of Flow 93.5FM congratulated me and my mom. He is the Program Director.

"Congrats Kemi and KJ!"
Wayne Williams
Program Director
The New FLOW 93.5 FM
wwilliams@flow935.com
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