This man forgot to die and then went from a homeless heroin addict to a millionaire juice manufacturer

                       

This is the amazing story of Khalil Rafati. He's the multimillionaire owner of the LA health juice empire, SunLife Organics. But would you believe that just 13 years ago, he was a homeless convicted felon, addicted to heroin, covered in ulcers, and weighing 106 pounds (left). He nearly died twice, once from an overdose of heroine. Eventually he became sober and started a health drink business that has now expanded to 6 juice bar locations in LA. Read his story below.

                         

Thirteen years ago, Khalil Rafati was homeless, addicted to heroin and living in Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row. He was emaciated, covered in ulcers, and 106 pounds.
Today he's a millionaire.

Rafati is the owner of SunLife Organics, a juice bar chain that has spread from its birthplace in sunny Malibu to six different locations in Los Angeles.
                              

The juice bar, whose regulars include David Duchovny and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, has become famous for the long lines of people waiting to purchase drinks with names like 'The Elixir of Life' and 'The Happy'.
In just five short years Rafati, now 46, has created a juice empire built on the very drinks that he credits with saving his own life.

When Rafati first arrived in Los Angeles, it seemed everything was going better than he could have possibly planned.
The Toledo, Ohio, native drove nonstop from his hometown to the City of Angels to escape a childhood filled with sexual abuse.
And Rafati found success fast in Hollywood, starting his own business detailing sports cars, according to the New York Times.
His clients included Elizabeth Taylor, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, and Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges.

                                
But Rafati was also dealing marijuana on the side, eventually escalating to selling ecstasy and ketamine.
And then, one night, Rafati tried heroin.
He described the moment in his memoir, I Forgot To Die, as giving him the childhood he had always dreamed of.
Rafati soon spiraled into addiction, nearly dying in 2001 when he intentionally overdosed on IV heroin at a house party in Malibu.
Paramedics saved his life, only for Rafati to almost die the very next year when armed intruders shot at the door he was hiding behind.
He had been in the bathroom at the time, shooting up drugs.

By 2003 Rafati had served a stint in Los Angeles County Jail and reached 'the bottom of all bottoms', he said.
'There was no more digging left to do, all of my shovels were broken,' he said. 'I was done.'
Rafati became dedicated to his health and sobriety, but the real moment his life changed was when a friend introduced him to 'juicing and superfoods'.
'The results were remarkable and instantaneous,' he told Sober Recovery.
                                       

Rafati began making his own juices for patients and staff at the Riviera Recovery Center, a sober living house he opened in Malibu in 2007.
It was there he created a smoothie he dubbed the Wolverine, a date and banana concoction that would eventually become Sun Life's signature drink.

'It was meant to rejuvenate and strengthen the patients,' he told the Times. 'And give them some much-needed strength.
'Lethargy in sobriety is pretty brutal, especially if you're coming off a long run with hard-core drugs.'
But it wasn't just the patients at Riviera that loved Rafati's smoothies. News of his incredible juices started spreading through Malibu.
                                    
'So many outsiders came to Riviera Recovery just to enjoy one of my smoothies,' he said.
'It even became a bit embarrassing since many of these people were not part of the Riviera Recovery program.'
But when it came to the patients, Rafati was witnessing firsthand just how much his creations were helping their health.
                                       

It was then, Rafati said, that he knew he had to open SunLife Organics.
And he did, with the help of $50,000 he had saved away in gold coins in addition to financial support from a professional gambler.
Rafati's mission for his first store was simple. He wanted to 'love, heal and inspire'.
Those three words are now written in jackets and shirts Rafati sells through the SunLife Organics brand, as well as 32 kinds of juices, protein shakes, and smoothies, plus acai bowls, coffee, sundaes and frozen yogurt.

Ingredients in his drinks include the likes of Alkaline Water, Himalayan Pink Salt and Dandelion Greens, chosen specifically for their contribution to the body's health.
And when it comes to hiring his staff, Rafati also selects people who need the kind of help he was desperately searching for 13 years ago.
                                         
'Right from the start he was trying to better my life,' said Cache Coelho, who was addicted to OxyCotin before he moved to Los Angeles.
'He pushes us very hard,' he added. 'In a father-like sense'.
Coelho said that Rafati signed him up to run his first Tough Mudder, and bought him 20 James Perse shirts.
                                        
'He gets very personal with us,' Colho added.
'Especially the ones he believes in.'

Source: UK Daily Mail

A house owner in Nigeria is using Queen Elizabeth Royal Guard costume to guard a house loool

A Twitter user spotted these Nigerian security men manning a house at Gana street Abuja, Nigeria all decked in the Queen's Guard uniform of red tunics and bearskins hats. Nigerians and copy copy sef...lol


           

                    

Watch T-Pain slay Olamide's Shakiti Bobo like a real Bobo of Lagos, Nigeria

It seems like T-Pain has done a lot of choreography to Shakiti Bobo steps, before storming Heineken concert stage in Lagos, Nigeria. He took the dance like real Shakiti Bobo's of Nigeria lol. He danced it perfect lool.. He did a great job..
Watch the short video below.

@tpain dancing Shakiti Bobo better than the original version @do2dtun @djbign @DjObi on deck #HeinekenExperience

Видео опубликовано HipTv (@officialhiptv) Окт 29 2016 в 5:54 PDT

Video: Paris street has become migrants home after refugees Calais Camp was destroyed

The problem in the world is not religion, the problem in the world is not caused by Islam , it is caused by the greedy and unscrupulous leaders/politicians we have around the world. Everything is about politics and it is because of money and power. Money is the matter that makes people have power and also makes people does evil. I pity the innocent Muslims suffering from the terrorist evil deeds, using Islams as cover up.... Christians ' Orthodox/Catholics' were also like that many many hundreds of years ago... Human habitat /ecology is still very young and still developing, but the earth is getting old. I am sorry for this world.

The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the "Jungle" shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said.

Along the bustling boulevards and a canal in a northeastern corner of Paris, hundreds of tents have been pitched by migrants — mostly Africans who say they are from Sudan — with cardboard on the ground to try and insulate them from the cold.

While the presence of migrants there is not new, it has grown substantially this week, Colombe Brossel, Paris deputy mayor in charge of security issues, told Reuters.

"We have seen a big increase since the start of the week. Last night our teams counted 40 to 50 new tents there in two days," Brossel said, adding that there was now a total of 700 to 750.

This means there are some 2,000-2,500 sleeping in the area, up from around 1,500 a few days before, she said.

"It's not a huge explosion in numbers but there is a clear increase," she said. "Some of them come from Calais, others from other places."

After years as serving as an illegal base camp for migrants trying to get to Britain, the "Jungle" was finally bulldozed this week and the more than 6,000 residents of the ramshackle camp near the English channel were relocated to shelters around France.

France's asylum chief Pascal Brice said the arrivals in Paris did not mean there had been a wholesale movement from the Jungle to the capital.

"There might be some movements at the margins (toward Paris) but what is crucial is that those 6,000 people have been protected," he told Reuters.

French President Francois Hollande said Saturday he had spoken with British Prime Minister Theresa May to convey the message that Britain should take its share of responsibility for minors from the Jungle.

There was tension this week between the two countries over how to take care of the young migrants. Hollande said 5,000 people had been evacuated from Calais and that there were 1,500 unaccompanied minors left, who would be transferred swiftly to other reception centers.

"I talked yesterday with the British prime minister, as (French Interior Minister) Bernard Cazeneuve did with his British counterpart, so that the British can go to those centers with those minors and take their share (of responsibility) to welcome them in Britain," Hollande said.


Authorities in Paris said the newcomers did not come only from Calais. Others did but had arrived before the dismantlement of the camp.

Ama, a 24-year-old Sudanese who is six months pregnant, said she had come to Paris from Calais, but that was months ago.

"I was in Calais before but I did not find the route (to Britain)," she said. "I couldn't stay over there being pregnant, it was too hard."

Deputy Mayor Brossel said it was up to the central government, and not city authorities, to act.

"These people must be sheltered," she said.

The city of Paris has plans to open two migrant centers but they would only have a total capacity of fewer than 1,000 beds.

Graphic photos from twin bomb attacks in Maiduguri this morning - 9 dead

                        
National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of 9 people killed with 24 others injured in twin bomb attacks which happened at the entrance of the Bakassi IDPs and NNPC station in Maiduguri, Borno state this morning. See graphic photos below.

               
               
                



                           

Donald Trump would have been sucking dicks in Jail over sexual assault, if Buhari was the President of the United States

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been caught on tape fantasizing about such acts but still he is eligible to run for the president and still the people that want Cosby prosecuted with no real evidence may be voting for Trump to be the president...that pretty much sums up the definition of racial hypocrisy!!.   Trump is even threatening to sue the team that leaked the tape.

Can you see that.? He was caught red handed and still threatening to sue them.?

He has the confidence to say that he will sue some people.? More than five women stood up to accused Trump of sexual assault with probably an evidence, if given a chance and time to go ahead with the prosecution.

He is such type of person who doesn't want to pay tax. He is tax fraud and wants ordinary middle class and lower class people to pay high tax. This is one of his plan, if he becomes the president. He is just a mafia, a thug.

How I wish Buhari was the president of the United States. Trump would have rots in Jail . Only God knows how many bad he has done in the past.

Even email scandal won't stop Hillary Clinton of becoming the President - Trump should try again in 2020

Look Donald , even email scandals is not going stop Hillary Clinton of becoming the President of the United States. Millions of Americans have made up their minds many many weeks ago to vote for Hillary Clinton. Nothing is going to stop them from voting for her, even if the FBI read these emails to the world from A to Z.... You aren't going become the President of the United States.You can try again in 2020, if given the opportunity.

Many Trump Dumb followers says she is corrupt, she is corrupt. Did you read or know what it contains in those emails before you jumped into conclusion.? None of you knows what it contains in those emails , because it is confidential and U.S. government can never read its confidentiality to the public. Most of those emails was sent when she was Secretary of State. Are you dumb enough to think that U.S. government  would read such emails to the public.? I think that the Republicans should look for another method to stop her, because I am just sick of this email. Many of you will be under investigation, if you opened average persons email. . Email scandals will never stop her. What if there was no technology to hack emails or to even send and receive emails.? Would you go into her office to steal documents? Vote for Trump and expect division, hatred, high tax on the middle class and  the lower class people, build wall against your dearing neighbours. What a fucking Racist.