This Woman Claims That She Is The World’s Hottest Grandma

I didn’t ever think that anyone out there would ever be proud about winning a title like ‘world’s hottest Grandma’ but apparently people want to be labelled in this way now and that’s what 36 year old mother of two Carrie Hilton is spending her time bragging abou

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Hilton’s 17 year old daughter Clarice gave birth earlier this year and Carrie went straight to MailOnline to explain to everyone that she was now the hottest grandma in the world:

I was dubbed ‘Britain’s most glamorous granny’ in January and then the ‘world’s hottest granny’ by various media outlets around the world shortly after [eldest daughter Clarice gave birth].
When shop assistants and people at the gym hear Clarice saying ‘Mum’ they ask her to repeat herself. Then I tell them I’m a nanny and they go ‘No way!’,” Carrie told The Sun earlier this year.

I’ve always been fit and active. I don’t go out much, all I do is work and train, so I haven’t used the fact I’m a grandma to fend off any young men.
I’ve had lots of messages from admirers. Most of them asking for dates or sex. I’ve even had some people asking to marry me.

Oooh look at her eh? In fairness, Carrie doesn’t sound like a complete vacuous loser like most of these reality stars that brag about titles like ‘world’s hottest grandma’ as it doesn’t sound like she parties that much and she’s a six time silver medallist in internatiaonl kickboxing. That said though she has also had breast enlargement surgery, Botox, teeth whitening and hair extensions, spending £13,000 on surgery. I suppose you don’t get to be the world’s hottest grandma if you don’t put the work in though – this ain’t some kind of imaginary title that anyone can be awarded you know, it’s the real deal.

 

Taraba: Monarch, 7 villagers killed in savage herdsmen attack

Taraba: Monarch, 7 villagers killed in savage herdsmen attack

Sylvanus Viashima, Jalingo

 at least eight persons are confirmed dead and several others severely injured by savage herdsmen who attacked villages around Danacha in Gasol local government area of Taraba state on Monday.

One of the deceased, Chief Hembaor Baki, who was the chief of Angwan Hembaor, was killed alongside his wife and two children on their farm, while four others were killed in the neighbouring Dinya village, also on their farm.
An eyewitness, Mr Benjamin Orakaa, who spoke to Daily Sun from Danacha, said that the tension in the area was too much for the people to move in to ascertain the actual number of deaths. kaki Hembaor was with his wife and two children on the farm this morning when they were attacked and killed, and four other persons were killed on another rice farm in Dinya where they were also farming. Several persons have been rushed to Danacha with severe injuries,” the witness said.
“For now, the herdsmen are still there shooting everywhere and people have deserted their homes and everything to run for their dear lives; so we can not even go back there to know how many persons are dead. We have only recovered these four bodies so far,” he said
Orakaa said that so far security operatives manning checkpoints in the area remain on their duty posts and other security vehicles have been seen on the highway, yet shooting in the villages have continued unabated.
Chairman of Gassol local Government Council Hon. Yahuza Yaya’u confirmed the attack in the area but said no life was lost.
“Nine people, mostly women, were badly injured and we are making efforts to take them to the hospital,” he said.the problem started in Dongon Ruwa and six women and three men were badly cut at the point of death, but no life was lost.
However, another eyewitness, Mr Terkimbi Tahav, who said he escaped death by the whiskers, told Daily Sun on the phone that he and others were in the farm at Dinya village in Gassol local government when nine armed Fulani men riding on three motorcycles came and forced them out of the farm.
“One of them told us that the land we were farming on was sold to them by the village head of Kwararafa (Dekechin Kwararafa), Alh. Ibrahim Isah,” Tahav said, recalling the incident.
“We were shocked and tried to resist their attempt to chase us out of our farm, but they started attacking us with cutlasses and we ran for our dear lives. it
was when we were running for safety that we discovered four of our relations dead on their farm. They had killed them earlier before proceeding to attack us.
“It’s only God that some of us are alive to tell our story,” said the witness.
The state Police Public Relations Officer ASP David Misal said he was yet to be briefed on the attack.
Herdsmen had only last week attacked a minor seminary in Jalingo, where they shot a priest, as part of a sustained attack on mostly farming communities across the state and region.

 

Civil War: Why Army was soft on Biafrans – President Buhari

Civil War: Why Army was soft on Biafrans – President Buhari

president Muhammadu Buhari on Monday spoke on why the Nigerian Army was soft on Biafrans during the Civil War.

   

According to the President, they had strict and formal instructions to exercise restraint against Biafrans during the three-year conflict between 1967 and 1970.
He recalled that every military commander was issued instructions in dispatches handed to them from then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, that Biafrans were not enemies but brothers and sisters to other Nigerians.
The President spoke at the Aso Rock Villa during his investiture as Grand Patron of the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS), where he promised to assist the organisation secure permanent office accommodations in Abuja.
Buhari praised Gowon for the clement gesture he described, and also the role of the Red Cross in bringing succour to victims of the war, even in dangerous circumstances, noting that the pathetic pictures of war-ravaged Biafrans were always heartrending.
“Earlier in my profession, during the Civil War, I know how much sacrifice members of the Nigerian Red Cross and their international counterparts did, both in the real front of operations and at the rear, on both sides. I think it is a lot of sacrifices, because anything can happen to you in the operational areas,” the President said.
“The risks they faced were real and I admire their courage and commitment to helping people who were in distress and were virtually in millions. Those photographs of people from the Biafra enclave spoke a lot.
“I remember with nostalgia the performance of the Commander-in-Chief, General Gowon. Every commander was given a copy of the Commander-in-Chief’s instructions that we were not fighting enemies, but that we were fighting our brothers. And thus, people were constrained to show a lot of restraint.
“The international observer teams were allowed to go as far as possible within and outside the front, and I think this was generous and very considerate of General Gowon. He is a highly committed Nigerian.”
On his promise to assist the organisation secure permanent office accommodations in Abuja, Buhari said, “I have taken note of your logistics, especially your request for office here i,
assure you that the government will do its best when you decide to build such facilities in terms of securing an area here within the Federal Capital Territory, and we hope you will not do the Nigerian ways of doing things.
“To use the words of a famous Nigerian Minister: ‘I hope you will not build an elephantine headquarters’ [but one] which is going to be functional because we have seen your activities throughout the country,” he said.
In his remarks, the head of delegation and National President of the NRCS, Chief Bolaji Anani, said the organization has over 800,000 trained volunteers based in communities across the 774 local government areas of the federation.
He petitioned the President to assent to the bill amending the Red Cross Act of 1960, whenever the National Assembly, which is debating it, eventually gives its approval. The Act has not been reviewed since it was passed in 1960. a review is long overdue. We note with pleasure that the current National Assembly is in the process of doing that. In fact, the revision has already undergone public hearing.
“We hope when the revised bill is passed by the National Assembly it will be graciously assented to by Mr. President,” Anani said.
He further appealed to President Buhari to restore federal government grants, subventions and programme support to the society to enable it discharge its mandate diligently.
Among other petitions Anani requested were operational vehicles for ease of the work, restoration of annual grants from the federal government, and special government recognition and awards to Red Cross officials and volunteers who have exceeded in service or even paid the ultimate price in service to the fatherland and humanity, in a bid to motivate more humanitarian gestures.
Anani lamented that the Nigerian Red Cross has been operating from rented premises since it moved its headquarters from Lagos to Abuja, with inadequate space to store relief materials and equipment.
NCRS is the Nigerian arm of the global humanitarian Red Cross and and Red Crescent Movement present in over 193 countries, and played a major role in providing relief materials to beleaguered and starving Biafrans during the Nigerian Civil War when Nigeria’s Southeast and South-South sought independence from the rest of the country.

 

I remember the day... I confronted Boko Haram

A former captain in the Nigerian army remembers the day he faced Boko Haram - and found that his weapons were defective.

 

Boko Haram has killed at least 15,000 people and displaced 1.5 million since 2009 [Riccardo Raffa/Al Jazeera]

Jefferson (not his real name) jumped off the truck and flung his bulky frame onto the sand and shrubs beneath him. He raised his head and scoured the terrain. The 30 soldiers who had just arrived alongside him were taking fighting positions - some diving, others crouching.
They were in Mongonu, a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno State, to provide reinforcements for a military convoy that had, earlier that morning, been ambushed by Boko Haram.
Many of the town's 20,000 inhabitants had fled; others had been incorporated into the Boko Haram frontline - terrified human shields protecting the 200 or so members of the group who were now attacking, determination etched onto their faces, sophisticated weaponry in their hands.
But as Jefferson caught his first glimpse of the fighters, it was surprise, not fear that he felt.
"They were not what I expected," he recalls now, describing how many of the men had the kind of light skin, curly hair and fine facial features normally associated with indigenes of Chad or Niger or other countries along Nigeria's northern border.
And the ease with which they fired their Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) made it immediately clear that, far from being the mob of ragamuffins he had envisioned, these fighters were well-trained and highly efficient.
Just a few weeks earlier, in June 2013, Jefferson, a captain in the Nigerian army, had assumed duty as the commander of a 'garrison quick response force' in Borno. It was his first posting to the troubled northeastern region, which, at that point, had already endured more than four years of Boko Haram attacks.
And this was to be his first encounter with the infamous fighters.
The captain quickly overcame his surprise and prepared to attack.
But things did not go according to plan.
"The first shock I got was finding out that the firing pin of my rocket propelled grenade was damaged," he says.
Then, when he and his soldiers discharged their mortars, all they got for their efforts was a hollow kpoi sound. Their weapons had expired and were, effectively, useless.
They quickly discovered that some of their raw ammunition had no links and the charges for their equipment were broken. Wrapping them in the masking tape he always carried around in his kit proved ineffective.
A training session had been taking place in their barracks when the news of the Boko Haram ambush had reached them. They had grabbed as much ammunition from their stores as they could before heading out to battle - never imagining that it would be defective.
But now, here they were, being attacked with weapons intended for use against aircraft with nothing but small arms with which to defend themselves.
Jefferson recalls how one veteran soldier, a grey-haired, wrinkled man under his command, threw away his gun and broke down in tears, declaring: "Oh God! Oga, what is this?"

Analysts say Nigeria's military is underfunded and poorly equipped in its battle against Boko Haram [Riccardo Raffa/Al Jazeera]

'The worst thing that can happen to a soldier'
Jefferson was 19 years old when he joined the Nigerian army in 1986.
He had the necessary academic credits and the desire to go to university, but his father, a farmer, had three wives and 12 living children, and Jefferson knew that his family could not afford to pay for his education.
The army appeared to be his best option.
Over the next few decades of military service, he participated in peacekeeping missions in Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan; sustaining severe injuries during combat and while training; and once returning home from an assignment abroad to find that his wife had run off with her lover, taking their only child with her.
But, for Jefferson, all of these misfortunes paled in comparison to the events of that day in Mongonu.
"Discovering on the battlefield that your ammunition is expired or faulty," he says, tailing off.
"That is the worst thing that can ever happen to a soldier."
In such circumstances, a soldier with no plans to die anytime soon is typically faced with little option but to flee the battlefield. And there have been plenty of news stories about Nigerian soldiers doing just that over the past year.
Such reports have embarrassed the government and perplexed the country's citizens, sometimes pointing to the Nigerian army's inability to match the firepower of Boko Haram; at other times blaming low morale among the soldiers, a by-product of pot-bellied senior officers in comfortable Abuja offices swallowing the allowances of junior officers on the Borno battlefields.

"But we didn't run away," says Jefferson proudly.
After six to seven hours of battle - during which three Nigerian army soldiers were killed and dozens wounded - Jefferson's unit succeeded, with assistance from subsequent reinforcements, in repelling the Boko Haram fighters.
He credits "the grace of God" for the series of fortunate events that led to the victory.
Particularly providential was the training session that had been taking place in the barracks. Among the trainers were seasoned soldiers like Jefferson and other "special force instructors".
"There are not many well-trained soldiers in the Nigerian army today," Jefferson explains. And under other circumstances, such soldiers would not have been around to assist his unit.
He describes the stringent recruitment process he endured before being admitted into the army in 1986; the tough physical and mental training; the trainees who, unable to cope, fell by the wayside; the extra effort required to prove that he was better than others from the same part of the country because the army could only retain a certain number from each state in the federation.

Once he made it, he was sent to the Airborne Training School in Jaji for further training. A few weeks later, he emerged a bona fide private with a sense of "utmost patriotism" and a resolve to die for his country.
"I was taught that anything that would bring about the failure of the system was an enemy," he says.
The hajia list
But, for Jefferson, things began to change during the military regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha in the 1990s. He noticed how a number of failed military coups had infused the top ranks of the Nigerian army with fear and distrust for one another.
Senior government officers started sending trucks to their home villages to gather unemployed young men, who they then signed on as soldiers.

Boko Haram has carried out deadly ambushes across Nigeria's borders [Riccardo Raffa/Al Jazeera]

Jefferson watched as many of these new recruits were unleashed on the army, with barely a few weeks of basic training under their belts. Those who had connections in high places were often exempted from tough physical training on the parade ground. And this soon led to what was known among Jefferson's cadre of soldiers as the 'hajia list' of recruits.
"They didn't know basic regimentation," Jefferson explains. "They didn't know the parts of a rifle or even how to cork a gun."
However, they were experts at polishing the shoes and ironing the clothes of their employers and superiors, to whom they considered themselves devoted. Hence, the term 'hajia', a common way of addressing Muslim women in Nigeria.
It soon struck Jefferson that these soldiers were being groomed to be completely loyal to their bosses. Those at the top were steadily building an army of soldiers who would serve them, not necessarily the country.
The nepotism became so ingrained that Jefferson noticed some of his colleagues from different ethnic groups changing their names to give the impression that they were from the ethnic or religious group they felt would win them the most favour at any point in time.
Allegations of government officials and 'emirs', local Muslim leaders, sending lists of soldiers they wanted commissioned became rife.
Today, Jefferson attributes his slow rise from private to captain to the fact that he had no connections; no one to influence the trajectory of his career and follow up on his postings.
Still, seven years after joining the army, he finally fulfilled his dream of going to university. The army sent him to study a social science course at one of Nigeria's most prestigious universities. A few years later, he returned to the same institution to study for a masters' degree. And then, for a PhD, which was truncated by the call of duty two years into the programme.
In addition to his qualifications, Jefferson was sent to different military training programmes around the world, and received a number of awards for excellence.
But these distinctions only frustrated him further.
"No matter how well I performed," he says, "those with lower scores and less qualifications were constantly promoted over me."
They may have discriminated against him when it came to promotions, but Jefferson's bosses were well aware of his merits and often singled him out for responsibilities that would normally have been given to someone of a higher rank. He says he always obliged, embracing the extra responsibilities without complaint.

For example, just a few months after that day in Mongonu, he was selected to be part of the patrol team that escorted some of the military's newly acquired equipment from Abuja and Bauchi.
At the airport, Jefferson posed beside some of the shining new guns and missiles, his 165cm frame neatly tucked into a brown and green camouflage uniform the same colour and design as the aeroplanes in the background. Throughout the journey to Maiduguri, he relished the thought that a new phase was beginning in the war against Boko Haram. He dreamed of finishing the battle soon and returning to his new wife, who had grown anxious since his transfer to Borno.
But the battle against Boko Haram was far from over. Jefferson observed that, even after weeks of training by the defence attaches of the countries that had supplied the new weapons, many Nigerian soldiers were unable to operate the hi-tech ammunition.
With amusement in his voice, he describes how their attempts to handle the hi-tech guns resembled somebody trying to master a Rubik's Cube.
But his amusement is tinged with anger.
"Further training then fell on commanders like me," he says, "training men who were impervious to learning."
It grew difficult for Jefferson to contain his ire each time he saw a soldier at a checkpoint chomping on mangoes or chatting on his mobile phone as his gun lay on the floor beside him.
And such indiscipline wasn't just evident among the junior ranks. Once, a brigadier-general mocked Jefferson for always being in full kit, teasing him about dressing "like an American soldier".
"I soon got tired of being the odd man out," he explains. "The commander who insists that soldiers must wear their fragment jackets, their caps - being accused of being too fussy."
So Jefferson resigned from the army in mid-2014. He now works for the security department of an international organisation in Abuja. A number of his colleagues who also left the army have similarly well-paid jobs as, with the rising threat posed by Boko Haram, international organisations in Nigeria now consider it imperative to have security departments staffed with counterinsurgency experts.
"The insurgency has created jobs for us," Jefferson says.
But despite the relative comfort of his new life, Jefferson still looks back at his almost 28 years in the army with nostalgia. The near tragedy of the day when he came face to face with Boko Haram is something he now considers just another day in the life of a soldier devoted to serving his country we need your comment

Tesla owner says Autopilot saved him from a near-miss crash with a semi-truck caught on video

 

Accidents involving Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist system are often making the news, but it’s rare that the near-miss incidents where Autopilot potentially made the difference get much attention.
But now a Tesla owner says Autopilot saved him from a near-miss crash with a semi truck caught on video.

The Tesla Autopilot system powers a suite of active safety features, like Automatic Emergency Braking and Side Collision Avoidance, that are enabled even when Autopilot is not active.
But in this case, Jeremy Visnesky, who drives a Tesla Model X with Autopilot 2.0, was using the driver assist system on the highway when the incident happened.
While driving with his Model X in the right lane, a semi-truck trying to pass him in the left lane started swerving into his lane and almost crashing into his electric SUV, but the Autopilot quickly swerved on the right to avoid the truck before Visnesky could react.

In the description of his Youtube video, Visnesky says that he believes Autopilot saved him from the potential crash:

“I-95 south driving through NC and a semi decided to nod off or play with his phone or something. Had Autopilot not have bolted to the side I’m pretty sure he would have hit me. This is in my Ap2 Tesla Model X.”

Along with side collision warnings, Tesla’s Autopilot has been known to safely move to the side in order to avoid an accident if it detects that it’s safe on the other side of the road.
In most occasions, the Autopilot collision warning system acts first – allowing the driver to take action, like when Tesla Autopilot’s radar technology predicted an accident with a car ahead of the Tesla that was caught on dashcam a second later.
But when there’s no other option, Autopilot will sometimes take evasive measurse to avoid an accident or reduce the severity of an impact, like with the Automatic Emergency Braking feature.
We saw a similar example caught on dashcam with the first version of Autopilot back in 2016.
PSA: while stories like those are impressive and happen more often than we think, it doesn’t mean that Autopilot can save the day every time and nothing is safer than the driver paying attention at all time and being ready to take control.

Tesla’s VP of Autopilot and chip guru Jim Keller is leaving, another former Apple chip designer is tapped

Legendary chip architect Jim Keller has seen an increasingly important role at Tesla since he joined the company in 2015.
He most recently took over the responsibilities of the Autopilot program after Chris Lattner left and Tesla went in another direction by hiring AI expert Andrej Karpathy to oversee computer vision and AI.
Now we learn that today was Keller’s last day at Tesla as the Autopilot team sees yet another leadership change.

We first exclusively reported on Tesla quietly hiring Keller from AMD back in 2016 and we were fairly excited by the implications of Tesla hiring such an important chip architect.

At the time, we speculated that Tesla could be looking into making its own silicon at some point – speculation that was further reinforced after Keller’s hiring was followed by a team of chip architects and executives from AMD also joining Tesla.
Finally, our suspicions were confirmed two years later when Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is working on its own new AI chip.
Keller was leading the program, along with several other hardware responsibilities at the automaker.
We learned today that he was leaving to go back to solely developing microprocessors at a chipmaker – Intel, which has its own autonomous driving business after picking up MobileEye. .
Tesla confirmed the news and a spokesperson commented:

“Today is Jim Keller’s last day at Tesla, where he has overseen low-voltage hardware, Autopilot software and infotainment. Prior to joining Tesla, Jim’s core passion was microprocessor engineering and he’s now joining a company where he’ll be able to once again focus on this exclusively. We appreciate his contributions to Tesla and wish him the best.”

A source says that the chipmaker in question is Intel. Keller previously worked at AMD and Apple’s PA Semi.
Tesla confirmed that Pete Bannon, a former colleague of Keller at Apple’s PA Semi who was among many chip architects that Tesla hired after Keller, is taking over the Autopilot hardware team. He was responsible for later Apple processors ranging from A5-A9.
Meanwhile Karpathy’s responsibilities will extend to include all Autopilot software.
A spokesperson elaborated:

“Pete Bannon, who has been at Tesla for over two years, will now lead Autopilot hardware. Pete has been building processors since 1984, co-led the development of Apple’s A5 chip and then continued development through to the A9 chip. Prior to Apple, Pete was the VP of architecture and verification at PA Semi. Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s Director of AI and Autopilot Vision, will now have overall responsibility for all Autopilot software.”

It’s the third major leadership shakeup with the Autopilot team in just over a year since before Lattner being replaced by Keller and Karpathy, Autopilot Program Director Sterling Anderson left to form his own self-driving car company.
While Keller is leaving, Tesla is reiterating its commitment to developing its own chips with the team that Keller helped put together.
A Tesla spokesperson added:

“Tesla is deeply committed to developing the most advanced silicon in the world and we plan to dramatically increase our investment in that area while building on the world-class leadership team we have in place.”

We previously reported on the team back in 2016 and Tesla has been adding engineers from other companies, like Nvidia, since then.
Electrek’s Take
That’s definitely a big loss for Tesla since Keller is one of the most respected chip architects in the business today.
But with this said, he probably laid some good foundations for the development of Tesla’s own AI chip and he also helped build a strong team of chip architects and other microprocessors experts to do the work.
Case in point: Pete Bannon, who also has some incredible credentials in the world of chip architectures and he is now taking over at Tesla.
And if you were excited about to possibility of silicon designed by Keller eventually powering your future self-driving car, it still might be a possibility considering Intel has been making some major investments to be to go to chipmaker for self-driving technology.

 

 

Tesla owner caught on video leaving the driver’s seat while on Autopilot receives 18-month suspension

 

                        

Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist features can make driving safer as long as the driver stay attentive and is ready to take control, but you need a driver in order to do that.
A Tesla owner in the UK was caught on video leaving the driver’s seat and getting into the passenger seat while on Autopilot. He received an 18-month license suspension for what has been deemed “dangerous driving.”

 According to a Telegraph report, Bhavesh Patel, aged 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, was caught on video in the passenger seat of his Tesla (pictured above – keep in mind the UK is a right-hand drive market) with his hands behind his head while the vehicle was in motion on the M1, between junctions 8 and 9 near Hemel Hempstead.

The incident happened on May 21, 2017 and after images of it were shared on social media, the police got a hold of them and decided to arrest Patel, who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court on Friday, April 20.
Investigating officer PC Kirk Caldicutt from the Road Policing Unit, said:

“What Patel did was grossly irresponsible and could have easily ended in tragedy. He not only endangered his own life but the lives of other innocent people using the motorway on that day.

“This case should serve as an example to all drivers who have access to autopilot controls and have thought about attempting something similar. I want to stress that they are in no way a substitute for a competent motorist in the driving seat who can react appropriately to the road ahead.

“I hope Patel uses his disqualification period to reflect on why he chose to make such a reckless decision on that day.”

Patel received an 18-month “disqualification period” for his driving license. On top of it, Patel was given 100 hours unpaid work, ordered to carry out 10 days rehabilitation and pay £1,800 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Electrek’s Take
The UK doesn’t mess around with “dangerous driving” and that’s probably a good thing. It serves as a good reminder that drivers on Autopilot are still responsible for the vehicle and should always pay attention and be ready to take control.
What Patel did was way more irresponsible than the many incidents of drivers not paying attention on Autopilot that we have heard of over the years, but I would consider not paying attention on Autopilot, even on the driver’s seat, as dangerous driving under the current status of Autopilot.
I’m also particularly interested as to how he managed to keep Autopilot engaged while he was in the passenger’s seat.
He could have easily got over the “hands on the steering wheel” alerts by simply touching the wheel every once in a while, but I was under the impression that Autopilot would disengage if the driver removes his seatbelt or the vehicle’s sensors doesn’t detect anyone in the driver’s seat.