Mandela wine launched in US

March 3 2013 at 12:50pm
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Nelson Mandela.
A wine company bearing the name of the former president Nelson Mandela has been established in the United States, the Sunday Sun reported.

The “House of Mandela” wine company was started by his daughter Makaziwe Mandela and granddaughter Tukwini Mandela last week.

“The wine movement is growing and more people are experiment(ing) with wine beyond spirit drinks,” Tukwini Mandela told the newspaper.

“There’s a large segment of the black community who are interested in wine.”

The wine can be bought online and is also available in China, Brazil, Europe and Africa.

The company’s website highlights the importance of the wine industry in South Africa, noting that: “Like wine, South Africa is a kaleidoscope of different colours and textures.”

According to the website, the prices of the company’s wines range from R47.95 for “The Thembu Collection Shiraz 2012” to R264.95 for the House of Mandela Cabernet Sauvignon 2008”.

“The Thembu Collection Shiraz 2012” is described as having “a soft and approachable style, drinking well in its youth”.

The “House of Mandela Cabernet Sauvignon 2008” is described as having aromatics of “blackberry, violets and liquorice, which are inter-mingled with vanilla, graphite and nuances of cigar box and sandalwood”. – Sapa

The Science of Kissing
(CNN) — There’s nothing like a romantic kiss. It is the climax of every great love story and an experience that has motivated poets and musicians for thousands of years. It’s also a wonderful example of a behavior that is both nature and nurture. Humans have an instinctive drive to connect through kissing, but the style and expression is shaped by our culture and personal experiences.

Beneath the surface, a kiss serves as the ultimate litmus test for a relationship. It can urge us to pursue a deeper connection with someone special or act as a warning to back off when something just doesn’t feel right. Science is finally beginning to unravel the mystery of how this happens.

While we don’t often think of them in this way, human lips are the body’s most exposed erogenous zone. Packed with sensitive nerve endings, even a light brush sends a cascade of information to our brains helping us to decide whether we want to continue and what might happen next.

Lip contact involves five of our 12 cranial nerves as we engage all of our senses to learn more about a partner. Electric impulses bounce between the brain, lips, tongue and skin, which can lead to the feeling of being on a natural “high” because of a potent cocktail of chemical messengers involved.

A passionate kiss acts like a drug, causing us to crave the other person thanks to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This is the same substance involved in taking illegal substances such as cocaine, which is why the novelty of a new romance can feel so addictive. Dopamine is involved in sensations of reward, making us feel intense desire that can lead to feelings of euphoria, insomnia, and loss of appetite, and it is only one actor in the great chemical ballet happening in our bodies.

And then there are physical changes. A kiss can cause our blood vessels to dilate, our pulse to quicken and cheeks to flush. Our pupils grow wide, which is likely one reason that so many of us are apt to close our eyes. In other words, the body’s response mirrors many of the same symptoms frequently associated with falling in love.

But let’s be honest; not every kiss leaves us wanting more.
Evolutionary psychologists at The State University of New York at Albany recently reported that 59% of men and 66% of women say that they have ended a budding relationship because of a bad kiss. How is it that such a seemingly simple exchange has the power to influence attraction dramatically?

We can readily describe sensations of butterflies in the stomach or feeling weak in the knees when things go well, but we are less aware of the ways that kissing helps us to make a reliable assessment of another person. An often-overlooked organ that’s intimately involved in the experience is the nose.

Beyond obvious mood spoilers such as poor hygiene and bad breath, we each have a distinct natural scent that appears to guide us toward choosing a partner with compatible DNA. Scientists have found that women prefer the scents of men with a complementary set of genes that code for the immune system. The benefit may be that if children come along down the line, they would be well-equipped to ward off disease.

Of course, some people worry about the way that a kiss also puts us in very close proximity to another person’s germs. But in reality, we’re more likely to get sick by shaking hands throughout the day than by kissing.

It’s necessary to include one important caveat: There seems to be a rise in the number of young people biting each other to express affection.

This may be due, in part, to vampires in Hollywood making the exchange look extremely good on the big screen. However, biting your loved ones is the least appropriate way to show you care because injecting potentially dangerous viruses and bacteria directly into someone’s blood stream can be deadly.

Blood-sucking aside, kissing allows us to cross normal social boundaries and get close enough for a reliable sample of scent, taste and possibly pheromones providing insight into long-term compatibility. In other words, there’s more to a kiss than meets the lips.

We may not be actively aware of all of the significant ways our bodies respond, but kisses are powerful clues to evaluate when to pursue a relationship and when to move on. Fortunately, understanding the real chemistry involved doesn’t take any of the magic out of the moment, but it might boost the odds of leaving a lasting impression.

Editor’s note: Sheril Kirshenbaum is the author of “The Science of Kissing” and a research scientist at The University of Texas at Austin. She spoke last year at the TED Global conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Title: She’s a Whore.

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Women have endured so much since the beginning of time. Why are men so Quick to call a woman a whore especially when it was his fault? She loved him and tried to make it work but he cheated,What other option does a woman have than to try again move on to the next…then the next doesn’t workout she has to pickup the pieces and move on again..is This woman really a Whore?

Then their is the Woman that grew up without a father…The little girl looking for daddy,resenting men, might have been molested when she was younger and there was no daddy there to help her so she might have turned alittle promiscuous…Is she just a Whore?

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Another ‘banged up abroad’ story has taken place in Istanbul (Turkey) when a 66-year-old Nigerian woman was caught O in her wig. The police operation was recorded on cameras, and the moments were released in a footage…

The 66-year-old Jose O. of Nigeria was detected to be a drug courier by the police, and she was monitored before being caught in a hotel in Istanbul’s Laleli neighbourhood of Fatih district. An amount of 1 kg and 40 gram cocaine was found in her ‘wig’, and the police operation was recorded by a camera.

The old woman appeared in Istanbul Courthouse before she was arrested and sent to Bakirkoy Prison for Woman and Juveniles. –

A despondent palm wine tapper, identified as Nwandu (Surname withheld) operating in Ugbolu community near Asaba, yesterday, allegedly committed suicide following his inability to make love to his wife in the last few weeks.

Reports said that the palm wine tapper, a native of Ogbaru in Anambra state, has been married to his wife for over seven years before his séx organ began to disappoint him.

Sources said that the man has been having problem with his genitals since the beginning of the month of February this year.

The resultant failure on his part to satisfy his wife séxually, gave rise to repeated quarrels especially as blamed malaria for his dereliction of duty.

LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the situation persisted until last Thursday night when he allegedly made another failed attempt.

Police authorities in the state confirmed that the body of the palm wine tapper has been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre Mortuary for autopsy and added that investigation was ongoing.

LEADERSHIP checks revealed that the palm wine tapper in the early hours of that fateful day had complained of stomach discomfort to his wife who unsuspectingly gave him tissue paper for toilet.

But the near hopeless dashed into the bush path where he allegedly hung himself on a tree.

At the time of death he had three children.

If the police had only responded…
Mom of girls slain by dad say cops failed to heed her distress calls
BY HORACE HINES Sunday Observer staff reporter [email protected]
Sunday, March 03, 2013

WOODGROVE, Trelawny — Twenty-four-year-old Kelly-Ann Smith insists that had the police reacted to her distress calls, her two daughters — Kimocoya, four, and K-alee, two — would not have been butchered by their father, 33-year-old farmer Kenville Mullings, last week in this rural district.
“If they had come when I called them we would go down there and he wouldn’t get the chance to kill them,” a stoic Smith told the Jamaica Observer.
Trelawny farmer Kenville Mullings with his two daughters and their mother Kelly-Ann Smith in an undated family photograph. On Tuesday morning this week Mullings killed his two little girls then took his own life. (Photo: Kenroy Pringle)
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She reflected that having ended a seven-year relationship with Mullings two Thursdays ago, she left their Trelawny home and took their two daughters to live with her mother in Coleyville, Manchester.
However, on Monday, Mullings journeyed across the border to his ex-girlfriend’s mother’s place where he managed to snatch the two little girls from the care of their mother and sped back to his Woodgrove home in a motor car he borrowed from one of his friends.
“I did not want to leave the kids with him when he came for them. I told him not to go away with them, but he ran off the hill. He said as long as he had them he would have me. I told him he is not going to [use] the girls to catch me. So me nah come with him,” Smith recalled.
Mullings, however, returned minutes after 1:00 Tuesday morning and called Smith, informing her that he had returned with the two infants.
It was reported that when she went to lift her daughters from the vehicle, Mullings attacked her and held a machete to her throat.
Smith managed to escape the firm grasp of her enraged, estranged spouse, after her mother hurled stones at him, one of which smashed the car’s windscreen.
But he managed to drive away with the two babies.
The distraught mother said she then alerted the Wait-a-Bit police, who are situated less than a mile from Mullings’ Woodgrove home, but she said they informed her that they could not respond as Manchester was outside their jurisdiction.
Neither did she get any assistance from the Christiana police, who she said told her they were unable to take a report over the phone. She was, however, unable to access transportation to the police station during the wee hours.
About 1:30 am, Mullings’ body was found hanging from the roof of his house, while the older girl was found inside lying prostrate in a pool of blood with her throat slashed. During a search of the premises, the body of the younger child was discovered in the yard, covered with a jacket just outside a building which was used as a bathroom.
“The police never come when mi call them. Mi call Wait-a-Bit and mi call Christiana. Mi call Wait-a-Bit, they said it was not their region. So mi call Christiana, and when mi call Christiana, the man say mi can’t make a statement over the phone mi have to come to Christiana. I told him that this time of the night (early morning) where I am to get vehicle from? The man replied to me, ‘you don’t live that bad, you must can get a ride’,” she told the Sunday Observer.
The Wait-a-Bit Police Station is about a mile and a half away from Woodgrove, while the Christiana Police Station is about twice that distance away from Coleyville.
Last week, in an obvious reference to that and other recent incidents, Police Commissioner Owen Ellington issued a release informing his subordinates that “there is one police jurisdiction and that jurisdiction is Jamaica”.
“Recently, there have been many reports of citizens being turned away by police personnel and being told to visit or call other stations, or other police offices because these reports are being made at the ‘wrong’ station.
“This practice is incorrect, and every effort will be made through training and sensitisation to educate members of the JCF and its auxiliaries as to the proper and correct procedures to follow when dealing with reports from citizens,” Ellington stated.
“I want to re-emphasise that no citizen making a crime report, a report of any offence, or a request for any kind of police service at a police station or by telephone should be re-directed to another police station or office,” the commissioner added.
In the meantime, even in the midst of her distress, Smith found time to joke about how the relationship between herself and Mullings started.
She told the Sunday Observer that one day, about midday when she went to visit her aunt, who was working in a grocery shop in Woodgrove, she opened and sat in the rear passenger seat of a station wagon parked near to the shop, without permission.
The driver turned out to be Mullings, who arrived on the scene, opened the car door and planted a kiss firmly on her lips, to her chagrin.
“Mi open the car door and started to curse him. Mi say, ‘You dog, John Crow! I don’t know where you come from come, come kiss me!’ And mi curse him for two weeks straight. Then mi just start to fall for him, and we started to talk. Oh God,” she laughed.
She said after they fell in love she moved in with the farmer and became pregnant the same year with twins, which she eventually lost.
Two years after, she again became pregnant and gave birth to Kimocoya. But during that same year problems began to surface in the relationship after she discovered that her spouse was having a relationship with another woman in the community.
“Anyway, me play along with him same way,” Smith explained.
But she noted that the rocky relationship reached boiling point in the early part of December last year and they ended up fighting over his persistent accusations that she was cheating on him with one of his cousins.
“About the second week in December last year we started to argue, because he accused me of having man — but nothing was like that. I did not like it, so mi start to avoid him and tell him to avoid me,” she said.
She also spoke of the love Mullings displayed toward his two girls, the same ones he is believed to have murdered so violently last week.
In the aftermath of his gruesome act, Smith said that she still cannot fathom how the man she once loved was able to commit such a horrendous act.

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