Elfen’s TBT Music Video of the week 1984 Midnight Star Operator
Midnight Star was one of the hottest bands throughout the 1980’s. I was 12 in 1984. And my Mama would not allow me to watch any music videos. But I snuck and watched this one though!
Midnight Star Operator
Elfen’s R&B TBT 1984 Midnight Star Operator
Midnight Star Plantary Invasion release date November 11th 1984
OMG I LOVED THIS SONG BACK IN late 1984 and 85!!! Operator stayed 1# on the R&B top 40 for 5 weeks! Beverly Hills Cop was in theaters and made $15,214,805 that weekend. TV Shows that year was St Elsewhere, Webster, The Cosby Show, Hill Street Blues. 1984 you could hop in your car, take a bus or walk to your local record store and get this album for about $9! I know this album wore the niddle on the record player! Next Thursday I’ll be featuring one of Michael Jackson sisters! See you next week!!
Iowa mom pulled son into path of train in apparent murder-suicide
BELLE PLANE, Iowa – Authorities say a woman and boy whose bodies were found at a railroad crossing in eastern Iowa died in a murder-suicide, according to KCCI.
The incident happened May 4. Teresa Gerleman, 35, and her 8-year-old son, Henry Fields were found by police officers responding to a Belle Plaine crossing around 5 a.m. Friday.
The Iowa Public Safety Department said after speaking with Union Pacific Railroad employees, video footage from the Union Pacific engine and a multitude of interviews, the conclusion is Gerleman committed suicide and pulled her son into the path of the train, thus killing him as well.
“Evidence at the impact site indicates Gerleman waited near the railroad tracks for the Union Pacific train to approach,” Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation officials said in a statement. “Gerleman and her son Henry can be seen on video crossing the tracks and as the train draws near, Gerleman returns to the center of the tracks and at the last moment pulls Henry into the path of the train.”
Ruth Ann Stratto, who lived across the street from Gerleman, said she still gets choked up thinking of the 35-year-old and her 8-year-old. Stratto said Gerleman and her son died just a few blocks north of their neighborhood.
“I heard the train just squeal their brakes,” Stratto said.
Friends of Gerleman created a Facebook page entitled, “In Loving Memory Of Teresa Gerleman & Henry Fields” as a tribute.
According to the Facebook page, Gerleman was dealing with family issues and had just recently moved to Belle Plaine.
“I think it’s very tragic,” Stratto said. “I’ve got grandchildren (and) great grandchildren. My heart goes out to that little boy.”
Just a week before Gerleman and her son died another man threw himself in front of a train on the same crossing.
Friends told KCCI that Gerleman and the man were connected, but authorities could not confirm the claim.
Family members told KCCI that there will be no funeral for Gerleman.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/05/23/iowa-mom-pulled-son-into-path-of-train-police-say/
Man accused of stabbing pregnant girlfriend joked on Facebook, with knife, about ‘murdering’ a birthday cake
THE BRONX — The photos from nine years ago seem eerie, when you consider what 30-year-old Oscar Alvarez is now accused of doing.
The Bronx resident, charged with viciously stabbing his pregnant girlfriend multiple times early Wednesday—resulting in the loss of their unborn baby girl—is seen in Facebook pictures celebrating a family birthday in 2009.
Alvarez is holding a cake knife in one hand and hugging his mother with the other. The caption? “About to murder that cake, lmao.” Other photos show Alvarez about to cut the cake.
The remark seems somewhat prophetic of bad days to come, because Alvarez is now charged with repeatedly stabbing his live-in girlfriend, Liv Abreu, who was 26 weeks pregnant with their daughter.
An argument broke out in the couple’s third floor Bronx apartment on Walton Avenue early Tuesday morning.
Alvarez allegedly stabbed Abreu, a former U.S. paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, in the chest and side multiple times.
Alvarez told police he cleaned up and changed his clothes. He allegedly took Abreu’s cell phone, when he left the apartment, so she couldn’t call for help.
When he finally went out about 30 minutes after the stabbing, a critically wounded Abreu managed to drag herself to a neighbor’s apartment on the second floor to call 911.
Earlier this month, Alvarez had reposted a “selfie” he took on his October birthday in 2013. He’s wearing a nice suit and tie. One of his aunts posted a message, telling him to give a kiss to “Liv.”
Back to the birthday celebration from March 2009. A second photo of Alvarez holding his mother tight is captioned, “My mom and I. She loves me.”
Alvarez is now being held without bail on Rikers Island, charged with the attempted murder of Abreu.
An NYPD source explained to PIX11 that the loss of an unborn fetus is not considered a homicide.
Aaron Hernandez’s Fiancée Shayanna Jenkins Reveals She Is Pregnant 13 Months After His Death
Aaron Hernandez‘s fiancée at the time of his death, Shayanna Jenkins, is expecting a child 13 months after he hanged himself in prison.
The mother of one, who shares daughter Avielle Janelle with the late football player, announced her pregnancy on Instagram with a bump-revealing photo on Tuesday.
Jenkins also revealed the sex of her baby, writing she was expecting a second daughter, although she did not comment on the paternity of the child.
“Many of you have had speculated that I may be expecting another miracle which is very accurate, I wanted to take time and process and post when I was ready to. I wanted to have a moment for myself alone with my daughter … we are beyond excited about the new addition and chapter we will soon begin,” Jenkins, 28, wrote in the caption.
“I couldn’t be a luckier woman to have such a perfect little girl that’s prepared to become the best big sister, and even more blessed to welcome another babygirl [sic] to our home,” she continued.
“BabyG we are very excited to meet you !!! Mommy and sissy will continue to wait patiently for your arrival. I thank everyone for the continued support and appreciate the respect for our privacy that has been shown” she added.
Jenkins and Hernandez welcomed their daughter Avielle, 5, in 2012. In November of that year, the two also became engaged although they never married.
Hernandez, a former tight end for the New England Patriots, was arrested in 2013 for the murder of Odin Lloyd, a man dating Jenkin’s sister. As he awaited trial, he was charged with the fatal drive-by shootings of Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu and Safiro Teixeira Furtado.
Shayanna Jenkins and Aaron Hernandez
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He was given a life sentence for the murder of Lloyd, Hernandez was acquitted of the double homicide in April 2017 and, just days later, he was found dead in his prison cell. The disgraced sportsman had killed himself, he was 27.
“Mr. Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population unit,” a statement from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections read at the time. “[He] hanged himself utilizing a bedsheet that he attached to his cell window. Mr. Hernandez also attempted to block his door from the inside by jamming the door with various items.”
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In May 2017, Jenkins appeared on the Dr. Phil show and said she did not believe the athlete killed himself, despite authorities’ determination otherwise.
“I don’t think this was a suicide,” she told Dr. Phil citing his acquittal and pending appeal on the Odin case. “That would make me doubt that he took his own life. He was very positive, so excited to come home.”
She added that Hernandez had spoken with their daughter after his acquittal and told her, “Daddy’s gonna be home.”
READ MORE——–> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/aaron-hernandez-fianc-e-shayanna-225739843.html
Looks like I’ll be sitting out the NFL again next season and the season after that etc.
It was much easier to boycott the NFL last season than I anticipated. For one, I underestimated how much I’d enjoy having my Sundays back. Also, my NFL fandom belongs to a team with a racist name that also happens to suck more often than not, so boycotting because the NFL blackballed Colin Kaepernick was as much “Why don’t I just enjoy life” as it was actively taking a stance.
But a stance I did take. I specifically didn’t watch NFL games because I think the NFL is remarkably tone-deaf and places the value of a dollar over the rights of persons from affected communities to use their tremendous platform to speak on issues that directly speak to them. And it also kept Kaepernick out on purpose because white people put up a stink. But the league sucks in lots of other areas, too.
When the NFL stops a person from being able to even support breast-cancer awareness in the name of his own mother during months that the NFL doesn’t have a specific interest in doing so, there’s a problem.
Thus, I was right there with my support of all the players who chose to kneel or protest silently against police brutality, following in the activist steps of Kaepernick who wasn’t able to do so on the field. Fuck the NFL.
So, I sat out last season, and haven’t worn any NFL-related ’nalia since longer than I can remember except for that one time I wore my Colin Kaepernick jersey to Jay-Z’s 4:44 concert stop in Washington, D.C…..
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Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop Music Video of the week Wednesday May 23rd 2018
Do you see who I see? Will Smith makes a cameo! Dj Jazzy Jeff and Will are FaceTimin’ Dayne and Rhymefest! Download Dj Jazzy Jeff’s new album M3 on Apple iTunes or Bandcamp
Skaters Paradise by DJ Jazzy Jeff featuring Rhymefest and Dayne Jordan
4-year-old accidentally shoots, kills 2-year-old brother after mistaking gun for toy
LOUISA COUNTY, Va. – A Virginia toddler died Tuesday after his older brother accidentally shot him with a gun the boy thought was a toy, according to the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office.
It’s not yet clear how the 4-year-old boy had access to the weapon, which he fired Tuesday morning, striking his 2-year-old brother – identified as Tyler Aponte – in the chest, according to Major Donald A. Lowe.
“It’s of paramount importance to make sure your guns are secured and out of the reach of children and everything,” Major Lowe said. “At least have them unloaded or a safety lock on them, whatever you have to do to keep them from being discharged accidentally.”
The children’s mother was at home when the shooting occurred, authorities said.
“It will be thoroughly investigated,” Major Lowe said. “Our heart breaks for this family… they’re devastated, naturally, so we want to do everything we can to help them.”
Neighbor Linda Eddy told WTVR she’s known the Aponte family for more than a decade.
“There’s no way they would leave a loaded gun out,” she said. “They’re good people, good Christians good people, they take care of their children [and] make sure they have everything they need. I know this is going to be tragic to them.”
Eddy said she was not sure how Tyler’s mother would make it through the tragedy.
“I don’t know how she is going to do it, but she believes in the Lord, so that’s good,” she said.
Woman accuses R. Kelly of sexual battery, giving her herpes
NEW YORK — R. Kelly sexually abused and demeaned a woman, locked her in rooms and vehicles for punishment and infected her with herpes, according to a lawsuit that furthers a string of misconduct accusations against the platinum-selling singer.
Faith Rodgers said in the suit filed Monday in New York that the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer “mentally, sexually and verbally” abused her during a roughly yearlong relationship.
Kelly’s management team declined to comment Tuesday but previously denied claims that Rodgers made in a police report filed in Dallas in April.
Rodgers’ lawsuit includes some of the same allegations and adds to them, painting a portrait of forceful sex, humiliation, unwanted sex tapes and sometimes confinement by one of pop music’s best-selling — and most embattled — artists.
Rodgers, 20, said Tuesday on “CBS This Morning” that Kelly, 51, instructed her to call him “daddy” and told her his goal was to teach her how to have sex like a “mature woman.”
Her suit comes as Kelly faces growing criticism after years of being accused of troubling conduct toward girls and young women.
The Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment and assault took aim at the R&B singer last month. This month, a Chicago concert was canceled after protests. Spotify removed his music from its promoted playlists and algorithms following a #MuteRKelly social media campaign.
Rodgers said she met the three-time Grammy winner after a March 2017 concert in San Antonio. Two months later, she said he flew her to New York to attend a show.
She told “CBS This Morning” that she “submitted” to sex when he came to her hotel room and demanded she take off her clothes. She said she didn’t want to have sex with him but “just froze up.”
“He has this type of, like, intimidation right off the bat. You know? So I was just waiting for it to be over,” she said.
Her lawsuit says Kelly disregarded her when she said she was “not ready to have sex” with him.
“After initiating non-permissive, painful and abusive sex with plaintiff, defendant, R. Kelly, immediately insulted and criticized” Rodgers “concerning her ‘lack of participation’ and physical inadequacies,” the suit says.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they decide to make their names public, which Rodgers has done.
Kelly is a three-time Grammy winner who has sold close to 30 million albums, with hits including “Ignition,” ”I Believe I Can Fly,” and “Bump N’ Grind.”
Kelly has won multiple Grammys, sold close to 30 million albums and has written hits for Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Aaliyah and more. He has crafted pop anthems and love songs, but he is defined by sexually explicit songs such as “Feelin’ on Yo Booty,” ”Your Body’s Calling Me,” ”Sex Me” and even more explicit fare.
He has long been accused of behavior that has ranged from questionable to allegedly criminal.
He wed Aaliyah, then his 15-year-old protege, in 1994. The marriage was later annulled and the two refused to confirm that it happened.
He was later accused of child pornography after a widely circulated videotape appeared to show him having sex with, and urinating on, a teenage girl. He was acquitted of all charges in 2008 and continued to rack up hits and sell out stadiums around the country.
In recent years, a series of women has come forward to accuse him of everything from sexual coercion to physical abuse.
That includes parents who said their daughter was being held by Kelly as part of a sex cult, and a woman who said she was in a long-term abusive relationship with him. Kelly and the girl whose parents came forward denied the allegations against him.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/05/22/woman-accuses-r-kelly-of-sexual-battery-giving-her-herpes/