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Chiwenga's bold and unequivocal declaration left the packed auditorium on its feet with the ruling party's chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri saying it settled the succession question. |
"The two full terms you shall have so that the party continues to draw from your wisdom. We will not wait for 2023 we will start to work for that now to ensure that you win," said Chiwenga as he gave the vote of thanks. |
Muchinguri-Kashiri, who chaired the meeting, said Chiwenga had defeated prophets of doom who are fanning seeds of division in the presidium. |
"What I have discovered is that they are people who are dreaming and they are people who want to cause divisions within the party leadership. We have been told that he is supposed to finish two full terms and that is a message that we should carry home that there are no divisions within Zanu-PF," said Muchinguri-Kashir... |
Chiwenga, who is seen as eying the presidency, also insisted Mngangagwa will be the country's sole candidate for the 2023 elections. |
Meanwhile, Vice President Kembo Mohadi did not attend the party's 17th conference as he is sick, Mnangagwa said. |
"He was not sent anywhere but he is sick. If he gets better he might come for the conference but he is in Harare," Mnangagwa said as he corrected Muchinguri-Kashiri who had said Mohadi had been sent on an assignment. |
A free one-time performance of “Alcances” – “Reaches” in Spanish – composed by Occidental College Professor Bruno Louchouarn and performed by pianist Vicki Ray and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Ahmanson Auditorium, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida St., Pasadena. |
The 40-minute piece was commissioned by the Pasadena Arts Council as part of the 2009 Festival of Arts & Ideas. |
The two weeks of music, drama visual art, story-telling history, science and theater. all with the theme of “Origins,” ends Monday. |
The related “Tools” exhibit at the Art Center of Design’s Williamson Gallery will be open before and after the performance. |
IBROX winger Gregg Wylde is adamant that Rangers won't be resting on their ten point cushion at the top of the SPL table. |
And the 20-year-old insists manager Ally McCoist won't allow any complacency to set in at the quarter stage of the Title race despite his team being made out and out favourites by the bookies to make it four in a row. |
Wylde infact is at pains to stress that while the points gap is welcome no one at the club believes anything is won so early on in the season. |
"It just goes to show that we have gone about our business the right way up until now but it is still really early days and can't take anything for granted. |
"Of course we would rather be in this position than chasing but it's amazing how quickly a lead can disappear and we have all seen that in recent seasons. |
"Right now we are only concerned about ourselves because as long as we are doing what we are supposed to and getting three points every time we go out on the park then we will be happy." |
Wylde, who is one of four Rangers players now with the Scotland under 21 squad preparing for Thursday's clash with Luxembourg, added: " We had to work hard to get the win over Hibs last weekend but we have shown the spirit and determination that you need if tou want to defend a Title. |
"We have to keep showing that same work-rate even if we do have a nice lead. All that gives us at this stage is a cushion and a wee but of breathing space but there is still a lot of football to be played. |
"No one needs to tell us that." |
"He has come in for a bit of stick but has shown in a lot of games when it has really mattered that he has got that bit of quality that can help us out. |
"But it's up to the whole team to chip in and play their part and after missing a couple of chances on Saturday it is something I want to improve on myself." |
WEST PALM BEACH — The Palm Beach County Haitian Heritage Month Celebration Planning Committee has announced the events that will take place in support of the 2012 Heritage Month. |
The board of directors is inviting the public to the May 1 Opening Ceremony and Reception, 6 p.m. at the Lantana Road Branch Library, 4020 Lantana Rd., featuring well-known artist Jean Michel Daudier. |
Admission to all Haitian Heritage Month events is free and open to the public. Visit palmbeach schools.org/pao/creole/MwaEritajAyisyen2012.asp for more details. |
The Haitian Heritage Month commemoration recognizes the valuable contributions made by Haitians to the history of the world and to South Florida. It is a celebration of Haitian history and culture and an opportunity to share this culture with other communities. |
“Our goal is to build up the self-esteem of all Haitians in our community and the whole world,” said retired U.S. Army Maj. Joseph Bernadel, co-founder of Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice and this year’s committee chairman. |
This initial event will be followed by a number of cultural and academic activities at various dates and locations. |
On May 18, Haitian flag-raising ceremonies will take place at Boynton Beach City Hall and Lake Worth City Hall. |
Other highlights include cultural and educational events at various county library branches, a traditional student essay contest sponsored by Gaskov Clergé Foundation, a Haitian Heritage Book Festival, a photo exhibit featuring prominent Haitian figures in Palm Beach County, a brunch at the Transportation Department of... |
The school district partners with the Palm Beach County Library System and Toussaint L’Ouverture High School to coordinate the events. Haitian and Haitian-American students represent the largest ethnic minority group from a single country in the school district with more than 14,000 students. Palm Beach County is estim... |
Democratic Haitian American Caucus Honoring Women In a related event, the Democratic Haitian American Caucus of Florida will host its third Haitian Heritage Banquet honoring the contributions of women to Haitian Heritage, 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, May 20 at the Casa Chanpet Restaurant, 220 N. University Drive (northwest corn... |
For more information contact Evelyn T. Garcia, dhacf@yahoo.com or 561-693-8041. |
Meet talented youngster Robert Lambert, the new kid on the block in one of Britain's most dangerous and exhilarating sports, where speeds of 60 miles per hour are reached in three seconds and the bikes have no brakes. |
The 16-year-old will ride alongside some of the world's best talent for Kings Lynn Stars this season - and wants to become the best speedway rider of them all. |
BBC Look East sports correspondent Phil Daley reports. |
If you are interested in getting involved in speedway, explore our for more information. |
Cybersecurity companies are outlining additional details about the sophisticated Regin spyware malware, but no one has a complete picture just yet. |
Cyberattacks aren't just for breaching companies and stealing customer payment data, as cyberespionage remains a significant threat to governments and critical infrastructure. The latest high-profile discovery of malware announced in recent weeks was Regin, a nasty piece of malware designed for a rather complex and sin... |
Computer security specialist Symantec publicly disclosed details about Regin, a highly-sophisticated malware designed to spy on compromised networks. Specifically, Regin can compromise usernames and passwords, take screenshots, retrieve and copy deleted files, and go as far as hijacking a PC's mouse and keyboard. |
The malware was most likely used to target governments, telecom operators, research organizations, financial institutions, political groups and mathematical and cryptography researchers. |
Symantec, which was the first company to disclose details about Regin, described it as "groundbreaking" and "almost peerless" in the way it operates. |
Regin has been so professionally created that it likely took creators many months before being able to legitimately deploy it against select targets. Contaminated computers breached by Regin began to appear since at least 2008, but cybersecurity companies were unable to immediately piece together its level of sophistic... |
Trying to determine which nation is behind Regin is proving difficult, but it's likely the United States and British governments played a role in its development. It's possible that Israel may have had a hand in being a junior partner in its development, such was the case when Stuxnet was discovered in 2010, targeting ... |
No security companies have a complete picture of how Regin is coded and what its full capabilities are, but they are continually learning more about the threat. It will take additional time before cybersecurity firms are able to pull it apart and learn more. |
"Because of the substantial scope of the platform that Regin represents it took a substantially longer period of time to quantify and classify," said Andrew Shea, Vice President of security solutions company Conventus, in a recent conversation with TweakTown. In order to execute the necessary forensic and analytical ac... |
The Regin malware targeted a variety of targets, including the following nations: Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Fiji, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Kirbati, Malaysia, Syria, Russia and Pakistan, cybersecurity experts reported. It would appear most of the machines were targeted in Ru... |
Coincidentally, Regin spared the United States, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand; all five are English speaking countries and political allies. |
There is great benefit for Regin's operators in breaching critical infrastructure, giving the operators valuable insight into technology development, ways to modernize their own systems, and to find weaknesses in foreign systems. |
"Regin is frightening in its breadth, sophistication and maturity. As we noted earlier, Regin is an intelligence collection platform. It combines the sophistication of all that entails with the modularity/multi-stage planning that demonstrates strategic thinking and actuation. This maturity of thought process is more s... |
However, Regin is a type of malware that has been designed to serve as a code toolkit that can be modified based on the needs of the organizations running it. Regin has the ability to cloak itself to look like Microsoft software, making it even easier to circumvent next-generation security software. |
Designers were careful to verify Regin would be able to conceal itself and avoid detection while collecting data on compromised computers. It could have victimized computers and networks for years before security teams were alerted to its presence, if ever. |
End users don't need to be overly concerned about Regin, as it's not malware designed to snoop on them - and essentially is impossible to detect and prevent. |
"Home users don't need to be overly concerned about this threat as their ability to identify an attack by it is very close to zero. However, it is even more important to take note - and respond accordingly - to any communications from their ISP indicating they have been compromised." |
Cyberattacks continue to gain significant media attention - mainly because of large data breaches suffered by US retailers - and is helping educate Internet users about potential threats. However, there is always more work that can be done, with companies looking to find new methods to secure their networks, while cons... |
"This past weekend 60 Minutes aired a piece on cybersecurity and one of the statistics was that 97 percent of today's organizations have been breached. When you take that fact and couple it with the reality that the Regin platform is well architected and precisely delivered intelligence platform, it exponentially incre... |
For corporations, it amplifies that absolute necessity for having resources focused on external threat analysis so that any IOCs that platforms like Regin do have can be identified." |
This type of cleverly-coded malware isn't new, but is evolving as more nations try to spy on political rivals and steal information from foreign companies. It's important for companies to encrypt sensitive data and communications, so only authorized workers have access to data. Unfortunately, Regin could have spread by... |
As for end users, Regin isn't something that will be mimicked and duplicated by cybercriminals, as there are easier, more lucrative ways to launch malware attacks to compromise point-of-sale (POS) machines, PCs, laptops, and mobile products. |
Collier County Treatment Courts (Drug, Mental Health and Veterans) have a tireless leader, Janeice Martin, who also has a full county court caseload. |
It remains one of Collier County’s most persistent problems. Mental health issues and substance abuse affect thousands (the number swollen by the opioid crisis), leads to homelessness and fills our already crowded jails. |
Treatment facilities are limited, and halfway houses for those treated and released are woefully inadequate. Qualified caregivers to help with postdischarge medications are dispersed and in short supply. |
There’s not much outside help. Federal funding is all but nonexistent and Florida’s per capita spending for mental health is 50th among states. That means, by default, the issue is a local one. It has to be dealt with here or not at all. |
And it is being dealt with. Collier County Commissioner Andy Solis has assembled a task force of key stakeholders — David Lawrence Center, Sheriff’s Office, the hospitals, the courts, EMS and others — to coordinate efforts and, more importantly, to craft a strategy to deal with the problem, to go beyond just talking ab... |
Central to that effort are the Collier County Treatment Courts — drug, mental health and veterans — and their tireless leader, Janeice Martin, who runs all three courts in addition to carrying a full caseload as a county court judge. |
The judge’s success rate in dealing with mental health issues has been remarkable. Over a recent three-year period, 251 participated in the courts’ rigorous treatment program. Of those, 65 percent “graduated,” successfully completing the program. Recidivism among the graduates was less than 30 percent; weighted over th... |
But it doesn’t end there. Recognizing a need to deal with misdemeanor defendants whose mental illness was so severe that the traditional justice system offered little hope, Martin founded a “rapid-response team” — a group of officials from David Lawrence, the jail and the courts that uses all legal tools available to c... |
For this pioneering work, Martin was chosen to receive the Murray Hendel Civic Achievement Award for 2018. The award will be presented at a ceremony in December. |
Named for Hendel, a Naples icon and co-founder of the Collier Citizens Council, the award honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the community. |
Martin has done that and more. |
A graduate of Duke University, she received a law degree from the University of Florida and initially practiced criminal law, both as a prosecutor and private defense attorney. She was elected to the bench in 2009 and is serving her second six-year term in county court. |
She began doubling up in 2010, taking over the Mental Health Court. In 2011, she added the Drug Court to her responsibilities, and in 2012 she founded the Veterans Court. |
A past president of the Collier County Bar Association, Martin serves on the Florida Supreme Court Task Force for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues. In addition, she works with state Sen. Kathleen Passidomo to draft mental health legislation, always an uphill battle in Tallahassee. |
We agree. The Collier Citizens Council is privileged to honor her pioneering work. |
Trecker is president of the Collier Citizens Council. |
Is Greece a Case of Failed Socialism? |
Greece is currently in a bad way. After years of forced austerity measures imposed by the Troika (made up of the EU, International Monetary Fund, and European Central Bank), the Greek economy continues to sink, and is facing potential catastrophe if a cash-for-reform debt deal cannot be struck between the left-wing coa... |
The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has stood firmly to his ideals in the negotiations, and recently said that “further cuts to pensions after five years of looting under the bailouts can only be viewed as serving political expediency. We will patiently wait until creditors turn to realism. We have no right to bu... |
Now, it is quite clear that the further budget cuts that the Troika is currently demanding will only deepen this humanitarian crisis; but at the same time, a default would be similarly catastrophic in the short term (and probably the long). Greece is in an extremely precarious and dangerous situation, as is the eurozon... |
So, is Greece a case of failed socialism, as the right wing consensus believes? Not even close. |
First things first, Greece is not a socialistic country — though it did recently elect the left-wing Syriza party to office, which explains the current standoff between Greece and the neoliberal Troika. The reality is, compared to other European countries, its social expenditure-to-GDP level does not even make in the t... |
High social expenditure, or what O’Reilly calls “socialistic policies,” cannot be blamed for what is happening in Greece, because countries with more comprehensive welfare programs and higher social expenditure, like in Scandinavia, are fiscally healthy. |
This unfortunate culture of distrust and dishonesty in Greece has greatly contributed to the current catastrophe. According to surveys, 80 percent of Greeks believe it is okay to claim government benefits which they are not entitled to, while only 20 percent do not. This is almost completely opposite the European avera... |
Beyond this culture of corruption, significant blame for the current crisis in Greece also rests on the shoulders of creditor nations; the largest being Germany. As Martin Wolf once put it, “Since the world cannot trade with Mars, creditors are joined at the hip to the debtors. The former must accumulate claims on the ... |
Finally, another major factor is the single currency of the eurozone, which, as the euro crisis has clearly shown us, empowers certain countries, while holding others captive. In the United States, when a recession comes, our government and central bank can create more money through expansionary policies such as loweri... |
Within the same segment of the earlier quoted O’Reilly factor, the host says, “[Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Italy are] big entitlement societies. In the freer societies, like Germany…the unemployment rates 4.7…Denmark 6.2. So it seems to me, that the more socialistic you are, Greece being the best example, the weaker ... |
Greece is currently in a bad situation, everyone agrees there. But it is clearly not because of some kind of failure of socialistic policies that the right wing claims. Unfortunately, it is very complex, and is easily sold to many Americans without any knowledge of the situation as a case of failed socialism; but this ... |
Conor Lynch is a writer and journalist living in New York City. His work has appeared at Salon, The Hill, Alternet, and openDemocracy. Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dilgentbureauct. |
Conor Lynch is a writer and journalist living in New York City. His work has appeared on Salon, Alternet, The Hill, and CounterPunch. |
A Wigan woman has been hailed a hero for saving a baby’s life. |
Suzanne Sheldon, who works as a bank auxiliary nurse for Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, leapt into action to revive one-year-old Oliver Jayne, who had suffered a febrile convulsion, stopped breathing and was rapidly turning blue. |
The Goose Green 36-year-old said: “My youngest daughter and I were going to the stables where I keep horses and decided to get off the bus stop a stop early when I saw Laura run out of her house holding Oliver. |
“My daughter also suffered from febrile convulsions so I recognised what was happening and quickly grabbed him from Laura and held him across my knee. |
As Oliver came round, mum-of-two, Suzanne, who works at the trust’s Thomas Linacre Centre three days a week, stayed with them and kept him awake, and comforted Laura, while they waited for the ambulance. |
The youngster, who was taken ill at stables in Aspull, has now made a full recovery. |
Laura Jayne, 27, from Aspull, said: “We were celebrating Oliver’s first birthday that same day but he had been quite poorly and not himself. |
“When he started having a fit and choking, I just picked him up and ran outside screaming for someone to help which is when Suzanne ran over. |
Care worker Laura said: “I’m used to seeing people choke and have fits because of my job but it’s completely different when it’s your child, I just panicked. |
“He’s absolutely brilliant now; you wouldn’t know anything had happened. |
....of people that should be boiled in oil. |
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