My, how you've grown: Zoo keeper in tears as he and gorilla are reunited 20 years after he hand-reared him in his bedroom

Reunited: Retired zookeeper Ron Smith gets emotional as he visits Salome, pictured as a baby with Ron, at Bristol Zoo

Visit: Ron Smith pictured next to the gorilla pen at Bristol Zoo, home to Salome for 20 years. Ron had been deputy curator of the ape house at London Zoo when the ape was born

But he still thinks of her as ‘my baby’ and this year, as a Christmas present to himself, the 82-year-old widower travelled 200 miles from his home in Ipswich for a poignant reunion. 

He sobbed as he saw Salome, now a 36-year-old mother of three, emerge from behind a bush with her one-year-old son Kukena clinging to her leg. She stared at Mr Smith for a few seconds before attending to her son.

‘She looks really well,’ said Mr Smith. ‘It’s so nice to see her. I am choked.’ Salome’s story was reported by the Daily Mail in August 1976, when she became the first gorilla born at London Zoo. Her mother, Lomie, struggled from the start to rear her daughter. She was not feeding her properly and became increasingly irritable, with two scars on Salome’s head to prove it.

Now: Mr Smith watched as Salome, pictured at Bristol Zoo this week, played with her own one-year-old son Kukena

Sentimental: Ron hadn't seen the gorilla since she moved to Bristol Zoo in 1992 and became emotional as he watched Salome in her enclosure

So Mr Smith, who was second in command of the Ape House, took Salome back to his flat in Cricklewood every evening for the next year until she grew into a strong and healthy youngster.

He and his wife took turns to wake up in the night and feed her every three hours from a baby’s bottle filled with warm, diluted, evaporated milk. 

John Partridge, senior curator of animals at Bristol, saluted Mr Smith and his wife, who died in 2008, for doing such a good job as foster parents.  

‘Salome is a brilliant mother and that is all down to this guy,’ he said. ‘She has had babies, rears them herself and is a strong member of the family. All that is down to how she was reared.’

Hand-reared: Tiny baby Salome pictured in a cot with a rattle at Ron Smith's house in the 1970s. She used to sleep in the same bedroom as Ron and wife Barbara

Zoo keeper: Ron pictured weighing Salome while working at London Zoo in the 1970s. he would care for the animal at the zoo during the day and take her home at night

Lynsey Bugg, assistant curator of mammals, said: ‘I do not think she necessarily knew who Ron was but there was a definite recognition of familiarity. He’s done such a good job. She’s an amazing animal in terms of teaching other members of the group about mothering. 

‘To see the man who made it all possible is magical. The whole team have loved having Ron here and will continue to keep in touch with him.’

As Mr Smith left dabbing his eyes, he called back to the zoo-keepers: ‘Look after my Sali for me.’

And on the long journey home, he said: ‘This will stay in my memory. I am overwhelmed. It has been a wonderful day – the best. Salome  was a big part of our life. We never had children so she was special.'

Current home: The Gorilla Island enclosure at Bristol Zoo. The zoo is home to seven Western Lowland Gorillas

S*H*O*C*K*I*N*G!!! Mike Tyson Now a Female.

**successful had gender reassignment surgery in the US.
**underwent complete facial feminisation, orbital bone contouring and nasal surgery in an operation lasting over 16 hours.
**I would grow breasts and have a vagina. - before surgery.

Former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) is said to be “feeling fine” after undergoing successful gender reassignment surgery at a clinic near Beverley Hills.

Once known as “The Baddest Man on the Planet”, the boxer said having his first menstrual cycle “would be a dream come true”, and that from now on he would be known as Michelle.

“Some people might think it strange that I’m now a woman,” said Tyson, who underwent complete facial feminisation, orbital bone contouring and nasal surgery in an operation lasting over 16 hours.

‘But even at the height of my career, when pound for pound I was regarded as the best fighter in the world, I never lost touch with my feminine side and knew that one day I would grow breasts and have a vagina.’

Iron Mike was given the all-clear for gender reassignment surgery following a successful course in hormone replacement therapy which, in his autobiography, the boxer blamed for his 1996 defeat at the hands of Evander Holyfield.

Although at the time Tyson insisted he was fit enough to carry on with the fight, referee Mitch Halpern stopped the bout in the 11th round saying Tyson looked flushed, was sweating profusely and appeared to be lactating heavily from his left breast.

Tyson, said he hoped being female would finally convince the American people that his “bad-boy” days were over and he had turned over a new leaf

Tiwa Savage denies romance with manager, Tee Billz

People in the entertainment industry swear Tiwa Savage and her manager cum business partner (they own 323 Imprint), Tunji Balogun popularly known as Tee Billz, are madly in love. In fact there were rumours a while back that they were engaged and planning to wed soon. Tiwa Savage recently put the rumours to rest when an Encomium magazine reporter asked her if she was engaged to Tee Billz.

"I am not engaged and I am not dating Tee Billz. If I am, you would have seen a ring on my finger indicating that I am engaged. It's just a rumour

When asked to describe her kind of man; she said

"I will like my man to be tall, dark, handsome and must be fit. He must have a good heart, work hard and must care a lot about me.

Tee Billz is tall, dark and handsome. So there you go

Hitman shoots and kills aspiring rapper in broad day light in NYC

Not just in broad day light, buy in a crowded street in Manhattan. The New York Police Department have released shocking CCTV footage which showed Brandon Lincoln Woodard, 31, from Los Angeles, walking and texting on his phone last Sunday as his killer walked almost beside him on a busy Manhattan Street. The unidentified gunman pulled a gun out of his pocket (pictured above), and shot Brandon in the head at close range. Police believe it was a targeted hit.

The cold-blooded killer was said to have followed Brandon for about ten minutes before killing him. After shooting Brandon, he simply turned and walked away, then got into a waiting Lincoln MKZ sedan and fled. He is still at large. Police are hunting for the suspect and detectives are gathering information at the scene.

Brandon Woodard was said to have been trying to turn around a life of crime after being arrested on a number of charges and was studying law

INVITATION TO LIONS CLUB CHARTER PRESENTATION, AWARD AND FUND RAISING

The International Association  of Lions Club is an International Service Club with over 1.4m members and present in over 140 countries across the world; the association is reputed to be the world largest service club organization and a development partner of the United Nations. It was founded in 1917 in the USA by Melvin Jones of blessed memory and has been involved in service to humanity ever since.

Ondo Royal Lions Club is a newly Chartered member of the Association in Nigeria, based in Ondo Town whose formation was hinged on the challenges posed by His Royal Majesty, Dr Victor Adesinmbo Kiladejo. Jilo III. The Osamawe of Ondo Kingdom. Who has always wanted the internationally recognized humanitarian services of Lions club extended to Ondo Kingdom. The club will be involved in humanitarian projects in Ondo State, such as sponsoring indigent patients’ medical bills, sponsoring free eye test and surgery, visitation and donation of items to the less privileged and school pupils, sponsoring legal services to indigent inmates among others.

To celebrate the 2011 – 2013 Lionistic year and the investiture of the Chartered  President, Lion (Barr.) Hon Afolabi Akinsiku (Send Me), the Ondo Royal Lions Club is highly  honored to invite you as a “SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR.”

The event will also include the Launching of the Clubs’ N35million fully equipped comprehensive eye centre on December 22^nd, 2012 by 11 noon at ADOC EVENT CENTRE, Ondo-Ife road, Ondo.

You are cordially invited…

December 21: End of Mayan calendar or end of the world

 

CANCUN, MEXICO: Gonzalo Alvarez, who had just arrived in Cancun for two weeks of revelry linked to a major milestone in the Mayan calendar, seemed reasonably cheerful for a man about to swallowed up by the Apocalypse. “We came to party and to get ready for the beginning of a new era,” said the 39-year old architect, as he gathered his luggage from a baggage carousel at Cancun’s airport.

Alvarez had traveled to Mexico from Florida to witness firsthand the beginning of a new Mayan era on December 21, 2012, which will be marked with celebrations throughout southern Mexico and Central America.

Mexico is one of five countries preparing to observe the date, which marks the end of a more than 5,000-year era, according to the Mayan “Long Count” calendar, which began in 3114 BC.
For many people in this region, December 21 will be a date for celebration.

The start of the new Mayan calendar also is big business in this region, with tourism offices in no fewer than five countries aggressively promoting the date.

Millions of tourists are expected to flood into the region for celebrations that will include fireworks, concerts and other spectacles held at more than three dozen archaeological sites.

In addition to Mexico, celebrations will be held in Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras, and at least two heads of state — President Otto Perez of Guatemala and President Porfirio Lobo of Honduras — have confirmed that they will take part in festivities in their respective countries.
But while some prepare for the end of the Mayan calendar, others fear with trepidation the date will usher in the end of the world.

Some New Age spiritualists are convinced of a December 21 “doomsday” foretold by Mayan hieroglyphs — at least according to some interpretations.

The prophesy they refer to is found in an ancient Mayan monument in Tortuguero, Mexico, and is believed to have been left by a Mayan ruler.

The Mayan leader, fresh from defeat on the battlefield, declared that the military setback was but one event in a larger cycle of time that would end in 2012.

Many scholars say the prophesy was misinterpreted, however, and was not meant to suggest the end of all time, but simply the end of the old Mayan calendar and the beginning of a new one.

Indigenous experts scoff at the faulty and sensational misreadings of the Mayan calendars.
“The Mayans had a cyclical concept of time, not one that ever focused on the end of the world,” Mexican archaeologist Jose Romero said.

Romero based his conclusions on his studies of the carved stone known as the Tortuguero Monument, which now is broken into six pieces divided between Mexico and the United States, including one piece which is housed in a museum in New York.

Nevertheless, the current doomsday panic has spread far beyond Meso-America.
The trend has been fueled in part by movies like “2012″ by Roland Emmerich and books like the novel “The Mayan Testament” by Steve Alten that have cashed in on the fad.

Romero blames Hollywood for a rather fantastical interpretation of the hieroglyphs “without much knowledge of the facts” of Mayan history and culture.
Meanwhile, the belief that the world will end on December 21 has traveled to the far reaches of the globe.
In the Russian city of Tomsk, for example, a company is selling an “Apocalypse kit” that includes food and medicine with a bottle of vodka — or tequila if the customer prefers.
In the French Pyrenees, authorities have temporarily closed access to a mountain in the southwest of the country to avoid throngs of people fleeing from apocalypse.

Indigenous leaders in Mexico, critical of the way the date is being commercialized, have convened a Mayan Peoples Council to focus more on the cultural significance of the new era.

“Like native cultures throughout the world, we want to maintain our cultural identity and preserve our ways of speaking, thinking and seeing the cosmos,” said Mary Coba, a tribal council representative.

“Above all, we want to realize the possibility that, wherever we live, we are respected, and live free of discrimination, violence and poverty.”

She said native people have prepared dignified observances for the new Mayan era, and that ceremonies marking the date would be simple but profound.

“There are no real requirements,” she said. “We just ask that people arrive before five in the morning wearing white clothing and carrying a white candle.”

THREE SISTERS WITH HAIR ALL OVER THEIR BODY LIKE A MONKEY.

THREE sisters suffering from Werewolf Syndrome fear they will never find husbands because of their uncontrollable hair growth. The condition affecting just one in a billion people means their bodies are covered in extra hair — giving them extremely bushy eyebrows and beards.

And Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and 16-year-old Savitri fear the ...Hypertrichosis Universalis will leave as life-long spinsters. Sad Savita said: "Marriage is not an option for us. Who is going to marry us when hair keeps growing on our faces?" In their small Indian village of Sangli, unmarried women have few prospects.

But the family is too poor to afford paying £4,500 for each girl to have laser surgery that would rid them of the extra hair. The sisters are now using hair removal cream but the hair returns too quickly to maintain. Savita added: "When I used to go to school the boys and girls would shout 'hairy face', 'horrible looking', and 'don't sit next to her'." Their mum Anita Sambhaji Raut, 40, has six daughters, but only the three of them have Werewolf Syndrome.

The condition was passed down by the girls' father with whom Anita was forced into an arranged marriage by her uncle and aunt when she was 12. She said: "It was only on the day of my marriage that I discovered what my husband was, hairy on his face, ears and body. He scared the hell out of me when he arrived at the altar." She added: "When I used to take Savita out as a child, they used to shout 'here comes the beast, the witch'.

"They keep her at work now for ten to 15 days, and then ask her to leave as soon as the hair starts showing. "If a good proposal comes in, I'll get her married. "If nothing comes in she'll have to work and survive. "As long as I am living I have to keep trying."

New "Skinny" Yvonne Nelson (hot or not?)

Man Reports Prostitute To Police, Says She Still Owes Him 10 Minutes

Police in Maine say a man called them to complain a prostitute hadn't given him his money's worth – so they arrested him.

Police say New Hampshire resident Scott Pipher was arrested this week. The 34-year-old is charged with engaging a prostitute.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine, police say Pipher called them March 25 to complain a woman he'd hired "shorted him by 10 minutes."

Police say their investigation also led to the arrests of two women believed to be prostitutes contacted by Pipher through a website.

Pipher is scheduled to be arraigned in Maine District Court in Biddeford next week. Telephone calls to numbers listed for him in Portsmouth, N.H., have gone unanswered.

Picture: Masturbation contest held in China

It was actually held to celebrate safe sex on World AIDS day on December 1st, nevertheless, it's disgusting! Ewwww! lol. 

The organizers said the contest was to celebrate HIV risk-free sexual freedom and and it was sponsored by sex toy manufacturer, Aihuirun.

10 male participants wore masks to hide their identities and hid their genitals with buckets where they would eventually ejaculate into.

"My Evil Boyfriend Rapéd Me In My Sleep For Two Years"

A terrified woman has revealed her disgust at discovering her boyfriend of two years had repeatedly rapéd her while she slept.

Naomi Hampson, 27, only found out she had regularly fallen victim to sick Robert Fryer when police raided the couple's home.

Her perverted boyfriend would sedate her and often paint her nails and dress her in jewellery before taking photographs of his revolting acts and saving them on his computer.

Miss Hampson said: 'I'm disgusted when I think about what he did. It makes me feel dirty and completely violated. Not remembering anything makes it worse.

'It is so sinister all that time I was living with someone capable of that. He has no emotion. He is evil. And if the police hadn't found out I could have still been living with him. It's terrifying.'

Nottingham Crown Court heard in August that Fryer, a policeman's son, has the rare condition somnophillia - dubbed 'sleeping princess syndrome'.

He admitted raping Miss Hampson three times between 2008 and 2011. He also pleaded guilty to a separate charge of séxual activity without consent and was jailed for eight years.

The couple moved in together in Nottingham, having met on a night out in 2008, and Fryer was soon taking advantage of Miss Hampson , who struggled emotionally after her father John, 77, being was diagnosed with cancer.

Miss Hampson was drinking more than usual but would wake up on the sofa or in bed without any knickers on and sometimes wearing nail polish or jewellery - but had no memory of falling sleep.

Fryer was arrested after he told a friend about his despicable attacks, with officers later showing the pictures to Miss Hampson and explaining that they believed he had sedated her.

Miss Hampson, who has waived her right to anonymity to speak out, said Fryer had made out she was drinking too much. She described him as a psychopath and believes he got a thrill from the confused.

Miss Hampson told the Sunday People: 'My entire life has been shattered into thousands of tiny pieces and my soul feel broken. I hate him for what he did to me.'

DailyMail

Son beats father to death and mother to coma

THE dream of any worthy parent is to grow old and die peacefully in the hands of a worthy son.

This dream was a mirage not in the case of Alhaji Abubakar Magaji, who was beaten mercilessly with a fire-wood to the point of death by his own biological son, Hassaini Magagi.

The cruel son, Hassaini Magagi, 23, did not also spare his mother, Hajia Hajara Magagi that night. He also brutalised her to until she went into a coma.

The mother was reportedly responding to treatment in a medical centre in the community.

The calamity in Magagi family had gone through the entire Santolo Village in Dawakin Kudu Local Council, which is about 50 kilometres from Kano metropolis. Hajia Hajara cry for help woke everyone in the community, who eventually rescued her from the “killer son,” only for the Good Samaritans to discover that Hassaini had already killed his own father. He has since been arrested by the police.

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in Kano ASP Musa Magaji Majiya said the suspect would soon be transferred to criminal department for interrogation and subsequently charge to court.

The Police also confirmed that Hassaini had admitted responsible for the murder of his father and beaten of the mother but could not give reasons he embarked on the gruesome mission.

The Guardian learnt that “Hassaini Magaji is a drug addict even though he has not been found committing any violence in the community.’

THE Guardian

I Love My Sister, We've Had Sex & We Wish Like Getting Married To Each Other

Dear readers,

I have a sister who i so much love.We stay together, we play together, we sleep together.

One day we kissed each other coincidentally and since then we have been having sex, but before then i was a virgin and she too was but we lost our virginity to each other.

And now she said she can't stop it and i wish like getting married to her and she wishes so too.
Yesterday she called me from school and told me that she want us to do it again that i should come over and i'm confused on what to do because if i impregnate her, it is an abomination.

If my parents find out i'm FINISHED, please what do i do to save myself, can i get married?.

B*R*E*A*K*I*N*G News! Boko Haram Commander on Wanted list Killed in Maiduguri.

**Abdulkareem Ibrahim and 2 of his sub Commanders were killed.
**he was responsible for the recent spates of assassinations and bomb attacks in Maiduguri.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State said its men have killed one of the Boko Haram commanders on its wanted list and gave his name as Abdulkareem Ibrahim.
Spokesman of the JTF, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa who stated this in an emailed statement sent to newsmen said a special raid operation was carried out along Damboa – Biu road by the JTF, members of the Department of State Security and the Nigeria Police Force Dog Section.

“During the operations and in the ensuring fire fight, Abdulkareem Ibrahim and two of his sub Commanders were killed and an AK47 rifle with other arms and ammunition were recovered.

“Abdulkareem was a notorious terrorist commander who has been responsible for the recent spates of assassinations and bomb attacks in Maiduguri. He is one of the top “Amirs” (commander) recently declared in the Bounty list released by the JTF to members of the public,” the statement said.

Sagir said the raid was a follow up operations to the one conducted at Bulabulin area of Maiduguri on 29 November 2012, where the JTF lost a personnel with one other injured.

Mark Zuckerberg made $3.5 billion in November

Yes, you heard right. N3.5 billion in just one month. Facebook's stock shot up from $21.08 a share on the first day of trading in November to $28 a share at the end of the day Friday, its highest price since July. Zuckerberg, who owns about 504 million shares of Facebook stock, gained about $3.48 billion as a result...

When Facebook first went public at $38 a share in May, Zuckerberg’s shares were worth $19.1 billion. In the following months, the stock dropped to less than half that IPO price to $17.55 in late August, pushing Zuckerberg’s net worth down to $8.84 billion.

Since then, Facebook’s stock has recovered in fits and starts and so has Zuckerberg’s wealth. November proved to be by far the most robust growth month for the stock to date, thanks to two big factors. First, the company had a strong earnings report in late October, which showed that Facebook was making progress in monetizing mobile. Secondly, the second and largest lockup period for stocks held by employees finally expired in the middle of November, which was something investors had been dreading for months and arguably held down the stock price.

As of last Friday, Zuckerberg’s net worth was $14.1 billion and will likely only continue to grow in December.