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Toddler Who Smokes Two Packs of Cigarettes Per Day! Ardi Rizal (Original, HD)
Ardi Rizal is two years old and smokes 40 cigarettes a day. Ardi Rizal is Indonesian, and his father claims he gave him his first cigarette at 18 months of age.
“I’m not worried about his health, he looks healthy,” shrugged the boy’s father Mohammad Rizal.
However at 2 years old, the boy is reported to weigh in at about 50 pounds; clearly overweight for a toddler of that age. “He cries and throws tantrums when we don’t let him smoke. He’s addicted,” his father adds.
Ardi’s mother, Diana, says, “He’s totally addicted. If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall.
He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.” See video of two-year old Ardi Rizal smoking a cigarette.
Something is very clearly wrong with these parents! Perhaps there is a lack of education in the part of Indonesia where this family lives, but someone needs to get this little boy away from these neglectful and abusive parents so he has a chance to live to the age of three!
Can you imagine parents allowing a 2-year old child to smoke cigarettes? How sick does viewing this video make you feel?
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How To Prevent Your Car From Getting Stolen or Broken Into
Most people get their cars stolen or broken into for the simplest of reasons. They left the keys inside, or left their bags in plain view, or have valuables on the dashboard. Having a wallet in plain sight loaded with cash is a sure way to attract a burglar.
Keep valuables in the glove box or trunk. It’s best to keep these away from peering eyes. This is a good practice, even if you’re just having your car cleaned. This would be a great idea if ever you need to leave your car for extended periods, such as going on vacations or trips. Just don’t leave your electronic gadgets for extended periods, especially during hot weather, as these will cook to a crisp.
Lock the doors and windows. This should be basic, but some people still forget to lock their car doors when they get into the house, shop or office. You should also keep windows rolled up even in very hot days, because even a small gap makes it very easy for a potential thief to insert a hook and unlock your door.
Never leave your car keys in the ignition. This is also straightforward enough. If you are forgetful, then invest a few cents in a good key chain or carabiner hook, which you can use to keep your keys handy on your belt or hooked to your bag.
Install an alarm. If you have an expensive car, then more likely than not you already have a good alarm installed. New technologies like the On-Star lets authorized third party providers track your car online. Some systems can even transmit a signal that will disable a car’s electrical systems once reported stolen. For newer cars they are offered as options to boost security. For older cars, meanwhile, these can be installed as add-ons. Some examples include the lo-jack system, which are welded onto the frame older cars so they can be tracked if they are reported stolen.
Install a high end alarm for a classic car. It may ruin that classic, especially if everything is stock. But with professional installation, having an alarm system can give you extra peace of mind. Some additional add-ons you can have are glass etching, which permanently etches a serial number or your license plate number onto the glass parts of the car, which makes it unusable for car thieves who sell stolen cars for parts.
Lock your steering wheel. This can sometimes be time consuming, but it’s a simple system that can hinder potential thieves, because even if these can be broken into, it takes some time to break or unlock a steering wheel implement. The extra seconds or minutes might spell the difference between thieves running off with your car or getting caught by authorities.
Call the police in case of theft. If you witness your car being stolen or broken into, avoid attempting to catch the thief yourself, as you might be endangering your own life. Report a stolen vehicle or a break-in immediately. In these cases, time is of the essence. Let the police do their work and stay out of trouble.
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Which cars are stolen the most?
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB®) has compiled a list of the 10 vehicles most frequently reported stolen in the U.S. in 2007.
1. 1995 Honda Civic
2. 1991 Honda Accord
3. 1989 Toyota Camry
4. 1997 Ford F150 Series
5. 1994 Chevrolet C/K 1500 Pickup
6. 1994 Acura Integra
7. 2004 Dodge Ram Pickup
8. 1994 Nissan Sentra
9. 1988 Toyota Pickup
10. 2007 Toyota Corolla
Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau. Hot Wheels: Do You Know Where Your Car Is? (July 9, 2008)
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute, the 2003-05 model Cadillac Escalade EXT and Cadillac Escalade 4dr have theft claim rates seven to eight times the average for all cars.
Highest Theft Claim Frequencies, 2003-05 Model Passenger Vehicles:
* Cadillac Escalade EXT 4dr 4WD
* Cadillac Escalade 4dr
* GMC Savana 1500 cargo
* Dodge Ram 1500 quad
Which newer cars are stolen the least?
Lowest Theft Claim Frequencies, 2003-05 Model Passenger Vehicles:
* Ford Taurus
* Pontiac Vibe 4WD
* Buick LeSabre
* Buick Park Avenue 4dr
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www.Stay-Strapped.com Presents: How Music influences Voilence and Alcoholism……
ED GORDON, host:
From NPR News, this is NEWS AND NOTES. I’m Ed Gordon.
Two recent national studies on alcohol consumption are making headlines. One report sheds light on potential ground breaking treatment for addiction. The other suggests young people who listen to rap are more likely to abuse alcohol.
(Soundbite of music)
BUSTA RHYMES: (Rapping) What you gonna say? Tell that brother, pass the Courvoisier. You’re going to tell that brother, pass the Courvoisier. Everybody singing now, pass the Courvoisier.
GORDON: A recent study concludes that popular songs like Pass the Courvoisier by rap artist Busta Rhymes are strongly linked to alcohol addiction, drug use, and violence among young people. The report comes from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluations Prevention Research Center in Berkley, California. It was released days after the rapper Proof was gunned down in a Detroit nightclub last month, reportedly after shooting to death another man.
Proof’s blood alcohol level was said to be four times the legal limit. There’s no question rap music is a powerful influence. Marketers have shown a correlation to the release of these tunes and increased sales of alcohol beverages mentioned in these songs.
Researchers maintain alcohol marketing, particularly targeted to young black people, has become even more prominent. Earlier I discussed these issues with David Jernigan of Georgetown University and Denise Herd of the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. DAVID JERNIGAN, (Executive Director, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, Georgetown University): Well, it’s an interesting picture for African American youth in that they consistently drink less than youth in general. And yet our studies of their exposure to alcohol advertising have shown, over and over, again, that they’re getting exposed to considerably more than youth in general. In fact, when we looked at magazines in 2002, we found that African Americans youth ages 12 to 20 were exposed to 66 percent more advertising for beer and ale, and 81 percent more advertising for distilled spirits. And the heaviest overexposure that they get is for the cognacs and the brandies, which have been very tied in with the hip hop and rap culture.
GORDON: Denise Herd, let me bring you in. We’ll be talking about rap and hip hop and your extensive study of all of that. But before I get to that if we take the numbers that David Jernigan just gave us, I can hear the conspiracy theorists talk about idea of black youth drinking less but being targeted more. As you’ve looked at this, what does your findings saying?
Ms. DENISE HERD (Associate Professor, University California School of Public Health): Some recent studies have begun to show that some segments of that youth group may be starting to drink more. And I would look to alcohol advertising as one of the factors that may be influencing the change in trend.
GORDON: Now, I know you’ve done extensive study in terms of hip hop music and the tie to alcohol related references within the music and whether or not that bolsters the idea of young people drinking. We can get go chapter and verse with songs about that or ties in the marketing between a rapper and particular ale or distilled drink. But talk to me about what you’re findings showed in terms of the strange marriage between hip hop, alcohol, and today’s youth?
Ms. HERD: Well, I think what this song shows that there’s been a very strong increase in the amount of alcohol in hip hop music. And if you talk about a chicken and egg argument, early hip hop did not have much alcohol in it. Early rap music was not an alcohol-soaked music. Early rap music practically had no alcohol references.
The music wasn’t exhibiting alcohol in it from the inception. Rather, over time, the number of alcohol references has grown tremendously. And I think we have to look at the role of rappers and as in advertising malt liquors, and look a role of the exposure, as David mentioned.
The rapper’s a very powerful role model. They are also people that were trying to get a head and trying to get underwriting for their music, and alcohol advertisers provided some of that–some of those resources. So that almost every major rapper had some kind of a relationship with an alcohol company.
GORDON: David Jernigan, we saw the idea some years ago of looking at attempting to deglamourize, if you will, smoking with Hollywood and those efforts, and it really gave a hit to the tobacco industry. We are not seeing that with alcohol on the other end today. It is being not only glamorized, but it is quite often the personification of cool for many young people.
Mr. JERNIGAN: In fact, we have an absolutely tiny public service announcement to campaign on alcohol and young people’s drinking happening funded by the federal government at the level about $800,000 a year. Compare that to more than a $100 million a years that we’re spending on illegal drugs, and roughly that amount that amount we’re spending on tobacco. So you’re right, there’s very little out there to counter this glamorization.
And we just find, over and over, again, that kids–and African American kids, in particular–are exposed to a lot of that glamorization. Denise Herd talked about the rap music, and you know, one of the main vehicles for that is radio. When we looked at African American youth’s exposure to alcohol ads on radio compared to youth in general, African American youth are hearing 56 percent more ads for distilled spirits on the radio than youth in general.
And when we compared youth in general to adult exposure on the radio, youth are overexposed. That is youth in general hear more of this kind of advertising— under-aged youth, hear more of this kind of advertising–than adults. So you have African American youth hearing even more than adults.
GORDON: How do you justify to a young person that this is something that they need to look at when they look across the table and see the older generation stumbling the same way?
Ms. HERD: I think the youth are right, it is a societal problem, and that in part, hip hop in reflecting society is picking up on norms across the country. And I think that when we look at hip hop and that relationship to black youth–I mean, my concern is that African American youth are more vulnerable, due to social status; due to not having the political opportunities in expression; the educational opportunities. So this is a more vulnerable population.
And I also think that, in contrast to the way the people often think about it, this community has had strengths in protecting their youth from over indulgence in alcoholic beverages. So that protective factor, I believe, is being torn away by the increasing targeting of the community in the advertising and so forth.
GORDON: The idea though, that as we see a continuing growth of violence if young people across the board–not just African American youth, but youth in America–the mix of violence and alcoholism is deadly, as we know. How do you get America to look at this and say, if nothing else, if you see drinking as a non-issue because we kind of wink and nod at alcoholism in this country, how do we convince them that violence and alcoholism is a toxic mix for youth?
Mr. JERNIGAN: Partly, we have an educational mission that we basically abandoned around alcohol, that we are not getting the word out about what we know about what the consequences of alcohol are going to be. And it’s particularly important with young people, that we have, again, more and more research that shows that the younger a person starts to drink, the greater the consequences. Young people who start drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to become alcohol dependent than those who wait until they’re 21; seven times more likely to be in an alcohol rated motor vehicle; 11 times more likely to suffer from violence, to be involved in a fight after drinking.
So we want to delay kids drinking as long as possible. That’s sort of the health and safety issue here. And then when we talk about African American young people, I think Denise Herd is right, what we find is that although African Americans drink less, they suffer the consequences more.
GORDON: All right. I think you both.
Mr. JERNIGAN: Thank you.
Ms. HERD: Thank you very much.
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www.Stay-Strapped.com Present: How to use Martial Arts in a Streetfight!!! pt 3
Amazing video!! by a few martial arts master friends of mine. They show different styles of martial arts and different ways to protect yourself when facing a weapon and danger. Shows attacks from head-on and from behind. Great entertainment!
Enjoy!
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www.Stay-Strapped.com Present: How to use Martial Arts in a Streetfight!!! pt 2
Amazing video!! by a few martial arts master friends of mine. They show different styles of martial arts and different ways to protect yourself when facing a weapon and danger. Shows attacks from head-on and from behind. Great entertainment!
Enjoy!
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www.Stay-Strapped.com Present: How to use Martial Arts in a Streetfight!!! pt 1
Amazing video!! by a few martial arts master friends of mine. They show different styles of martial arts and different ways to protect yourself when facing a weapon and danger. Shows attacks from head-on and from behind. Great entertainment!
Enjoy!
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www.Stay-Strapped.com Presents: Gilbert Arenas, suspended after updating his TWITTER! Speaks on camera first time since suspension **EXCLUSIVE VIDEO**
Did the Twitter ramblings of Washington Wizards’ star point guard Gilbert Arenas cause him to be suspended indefinitely by the NBA?
It’s certainly starting to look that way and now the hoop star may regret using the social networking tool to speak his mind about the recent off-court incident that has him in hot water.
Arenas is currently being investigated after he admitted Monday to bringing hand guns into the team locker room in Washington, D.C., last month, although he continues to deny reports he and another teammate brandished guns at each other during a locker room argument about gambling debts.
In a statement Wednesday announcing Arenas’ suspension, NBA Commissioner David Stern said that while he was inclined to let the criminal investigation into the incident go forward before taking action, it was clear to him that Arenas’ behavior made him “not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game.”
Stern cited “ongoing conduct” as the reason for the punishment. A league source told ABC News that several things certainly factored into the commissioner’s decision: Arenas’ prolific tweeting about the incident, his statements to the media and a photo of the point guard waving his index fingers like pistols before a game in Philadelphia Tuesday night.
On Monday, Arenas tweeted an apology for the offensive photo. But the stream of Twitter messages, ramblings and rants may have shined a self-inflicted spotlight on the gifted player that was too much for Stern to ignore. Arenas has been known for his erratic behavior over the years.
After the suspension was announced, Arenas sent an apology, not via a tweet, but through an old school statement released by his lawyer. “I feel very badly that my actions have caused the NBA to suspend me, but I understand why the league took this action,” Arenas said. “I put the NBA in a negative light and let down my teammates and our fans. I am very sorry for doing that.”
Arenas also said he had called Stern to apologize. “While I never intended any harm or disrespect to the NBA or anyone else, my gun possession at the Verizon Center and my attempts at humor showed terrible judgment,” he said. “I take full responsibility for my conduct.”
Will it be too little too late? Over the last several days, Arenas repeatedly used his Twitter account to explain the incident and defend himself against what he said were false reports.
“i wake up this morning and seen i was the new JOHN WAYNE..lmao media is too funny,” Arenas tweeted Jan. 1 after the story broke.
Arenas even went after the reporter who wrote the original story about the gun brandishing incident in the New York Post.
“As for the reporter who broke the story – NY post should eject Peter V FROM WRITNG EVERY AGAIN,” Arenas said of sportswriter Peter Vecsey.
Read full story here:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/gilbert-arenas-suspended-washington-wizards-twittering/story?id=9496124
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www.Stay-Strapped.com Presents: Inside look at T.I.’s Gun Collection!!
“Never was a thug, just infatuated with guns” – Slim Shady
T.I.’s arsenal, which he reportedly stored in a lifesize safe in his bedroom closet, include: Mac-10s, AK-47, M-16, Magnum, Heckler & Koch, and some sh*t I’ve never even heard of before. Unfortunately, no Remington 870.
Take a look at Tip’s gun collection below
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