A Prisoner Impregnates Four Prison Guards

This is utterly awkward but it is real. 

Tavon White a gang leader and a notorious criminal in Maryland U.S.A has impregnated for guards who are meant to be watching him. 

White is accused of running a scheme to smuggle contraband into prison by persuading 13 female prison guards while behind bars. But for the four women,that persuasion included getting... and eventually getting pregnant.

A federal indictment reads Tavon has been charged with a plot to smuggle drugs,cellphones and contraband stuff into jail, together with prison guards, six fellow inmates and five gang ties who operated outside the jails.

The indictment adds the ring involved sex between the inmates and the guards,that led to four of the officers being impregnated by White.

Tavon is being accused of "corrupting"the female officers through personal and sexual relationships and other bribes. Eventually he convinced them to join his ring. 

The gang members and the officers have been charged with conspiracy ,drug possession and distribution and money laundering. 

So a criminal with no money,no freedom and arguably no looks now has four children on the way and their mothers are prison guards? This guy is a hell of a persuader

China Bans Ramadan Activities

Chinese authorities in the region of Xinjiang have banned Muslim students and civil servants from taking part in all “religious activities” during the holy month of Ramadan.

A series of notices have been issued by schools and government departments that have strictly forbidden Muslim faithfuls from taking part in fasting,and some have even been banned from performing their daily prayers in mosques.

Notices said the bans were designed to prevent the use of schools and government offices to “promote religion”, while local political organisations have been reminded of the ruling party’s officially atheist stance.

But the decision to ban Ramadan is particularly controversial for Xinjiang, coming amid an extensive security crackdown on the minority Uighur Muslim population.

Uighur has been blamed for a string of recent terror attacks on civilian crowds and government institutions, but the group denies involvement and activists have accused Beijing of exaggerating the threat as an excuse to impose restrictions.

A statement to the schools read ,"No teacher can participate in religious activities, instill religious thoughts in students or coerce students into religious activities". 

It went on: “Students shall not participate in religious activities; they shall not study scripts or read poems at script and choir classes; they shall not wear any religious emblems; and no parent or others can force students to have religious beliefs or partake in religious activities.”

The government has run a series of articles through state controlled news channels saying fasting is detrimental to the physical well-being of young students, who should eat regularly

The ruling party says religion and education should be kept separate and students should not be subject to religious influences. That rule is rarely enforced for children of Han Chinese, who, if they have a religion, are mostly Buddhist, Daoist or Christian.

MTN Leads in Social Responsibility

MTN,Africa's biggest telecommunication provider has forged its strides towards achieving corporate social responsibility.
The telecommunication giant has built a state-of-the-art senior high school at the tune of
GH¢437,000 (about $136 563 or KSh.10 million) in Ghana.
The newly-inaugurated Owerriman Senior High School, located in the Ashanti Region,was overrun by old age and lack of maintenance. But now, it is a modern two-storey building with 16 rooms for the boys’ dormitory, thanks to MTN
The MTN Foundation has spent more than $2.7 million on educational and health projects and support economic empowerment projects.
Many organisations in Africa are parasites that siphon from their clientele,treat them unprofessionally because they enjoy monopoly.    
Kudos to MTN for giving back to the community,such a noble course. 

Last Night Worldcup matches summed Up In One Picture

Obama Watches U.S Lose As Tim Howard Made Super Saves

Photo of the day

President Barack Obama and staff watch the U.S. soccer team vs Belgium in World Cup action in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building South Court Auditorium, July 1, 2014.
U.S lost  2-1. What to reckon about that game is U.S goalkeeper Tim Howard who made 16 saves,. Football fanatics and loyalists are suggesting that Obama appoints Howard  as the U.S Defense Secretary.

How Facebook Manipulated Your News Feed Without Your Consent

 You may not have noticed it but in one week of January 2012,Facebook skewed your News Feeds to either make you  happier or sadder than normal. 

The number of positive and negative comments that users saw on their feeds of articles and photos was altered. People shown fewer positive words were found to write more negative posts, while the reverse happened with those exposed to fewer negative terms, according to the trial of random Facebook users. 

Researchers analyzed the words used in posts to automatically decide whether they were likely to be positive or negative, and shifted them up or down according to which group users fell into.

Since there are an average of 1,500 possible stories that could show up on a user's News Feed at one time, Facebook uses an algorithm that it says analyses users’ behavior on the site to determine which of those stories to show

It found that emotions spread across the network, and that friends tended to respond more to negative posts. Users who were exposed to more emotional posts of either type tended to withdraw from posting themselves.

The experiment was carried out on almost than 700,000 Facebook users. Anyone who used the English version of Facebook automatically qualified for the experiment.

The data showed that online messages influence readers’ “experience of emotions,” which may affect offline behavior, the researchers said. Some Facebook users turned to Twitter to express outrage over the research as a breach of their privacy. 

The research has drawn criticism in that Facebook could use the research to encourage the users to post more and by government agencies to manipulate the feelings of users in some countries.

There have been also criticism also on the legality of this experiment. However Facebook Data Use Policy(part of Terms of Service that you agree to when signing up),reserves the right for Facebook to use information “for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.”

According to the researchers this constituted the informed consent to conduct the research hence legal'

Facebook's Response to Critisism Over Secret Manipulation of Users

Facebook has defended itself against a sharp criticism over an psychological experiment  it conducted to manipulate user moods by altering amount of positive or negative content appearing of News Feed. Their defense was that the experiment was meant to "“improve our service and to make the content people see on Facebook as relevant and engaging as possible.”
However technologists and lawyers have expressed fear that the same method could be used to manipulate users for political gain ,academicians on their part have criticized Facebook for failing to acquire the consent necessary   for subjects of human experiment.
A Facebook Spokesperson  said relieved that research was conducted for a single week in 2012 but none of the data used was associated with a specific person's Facebook account.
" We carefully consider what research we do and have a strong internal review process. There is no unnecessary collection of people’s data in connection with these research initiatives and all data is stored securely.”   he added.
Some 689,000 users were drafted into the experiment which manipulated a "small percentage" of content. The study concluded that: "Emotions expressed by friends, via online social networks, influence our own moods, constituting, to our knowledge, the first experimental evidence for massive-scale emotional contagion via social networks."
Fears have been raised of Social Networks manipulating people emotions on political and other areas using material from their personal lives.
This experiment is particularly  disturbing following the revelations of Edward Snowden that the US plot to create a Cuba Twitter to causes unrest in Cuba