Friday, 31 July 2015
Execution of Florida man on death row to wait- Supreme Court tells state
The Florida Supreme Court denied the state’s motion to reconsider a stay of execution for Jerry Correll, a death row inmate convicted of killing four people.
My Army fought BOKO HARAM with no equipment–Chief of Defence Staff Badeh
Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.)
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.), has said the Army he headed was one with no equipment.
The former Chief of Defence Staff made the statement while delivering a valedictory speech at a pulling out parade organised in his honour at the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, on Thursday.
He said, “Permit me to also add here that the nation’s militaries are equipped and trained in peace time for the conflicts they expect to confront in the future. Unfortunately, that has not been our experience as a nation.
“Over the years, the military was neglected and under-equipped to ensure the survival of certain regimes, while other regimes, based on advice from some foreign nations, deliberately reduced the size of the military and underfunded it.
“Unfortunately, our past leaders accepted such recommendations without appreciating our peculiarities as a third world military, which does not have the technological advantage that could serve as force multipliers and compensate for reduced strength.
Thursday, 30 July 2015
Optical Illusions
The organizational mechanisms of vision are best demonstrated by illusions. Illusions illustrate that perception in a creative construction that the brain makes in interpreting visual data ....Learning does not prevent us from being taken in by these illusions.
— Eric Kandel
We do not see the world as it really is. What we perceive is a creative construction of the mind. Each of us generates subjective reality. Emotional states have a profound influence on the reality we create. For example, the wisdom of a first lapse is appraised differently before it happens than afterwards. Learning does not spare us from repeating the painful mistake of relapse, because the Psyche is continually taken in by an illusion: The Soul Illusion.
The images below - while limited to the visual modality - illustrate that perception is an active construction of the mind rather than a valid representation of objective reality.
Can you find nine figures embedded in the image?
Monday, 20 July 2015
Friday, 17 July 2015
Fiona Jepleting, Africa's first woman space engineer, dropping out of school?
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A Kenyan, who was the first African woman to attain first class honours in aerospace engineering, may drop out of her masters programme over school fees.
Fiona Jepleting's father said the Nandi government, which sponsored her studies at University of Hertfordshire, accumulated Sh2 million in fee arrears.
"We received an email from the university in UK asking us to pay the fees before July 17 or else Fiona will not be enrolled for the next semester,'' Mark Sang told the Star on phone on Friday.
Saying the government has not responded to his letters on the issue, Sang appealed for help from well-wishers.
Thursday, 16 July 2015
How to Respect Your Husband: 7 Helpful Hints
And let
the wife see that she respects her husband. That’s what Paul wrote in
the second half of Ephesians 5:33. Respect is something that I believe
has diminished throughout the years. So many marriages begin well and end poorly because men and women are not properly trained in how to treat one another. God has specific roles for the husband and the wife and when we stay within those roles we have happy marriages and good family
lives. Respect is something that should be mutual between all members
of the family, but for this article I want to give some helpful hints
for wives on how to respect their husbands. (For a related article read “How to Love Your Wife: 7 Helpful Tips”)
Respect His Leadership
“It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Birdman sues Jay Z's Tidal for $50 million because he claims the music streaming service is illegally using Lil Wayne's songs
Lil Wayne's
adoptive father and former label boss Birdman is suing Jay Z's music
streaming service Tidal for $50 million, according to a new report.
Birdman's
Cash Money Records filed the lawsuit which claims that Tidal is
illegally using Wayne's songs, which it says it has exclusive rights to.
The legal documents, obtained by TMZ, go further, also claiming that Jay Z's company is on the brink of collapse and is using Wayne's music to save itself.
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Embroiled in more drama: Lil Wayne's
adoptive father and former label boss Birdman is suing Jay Z's music
streaming service Tidal for $50 million
Garda anti-terror unit arrest 'Islamic State' suspect in Dublin
Gardai have arrested a suspected IS extremist in Dublin who had been under surveillance after he was deported here from Turkey last week.
The suspect was sent back to Ireland after landing in Istanbul because of “irregularities” noticed on his passport by the authorities. He flew from Dublin to Turkey last Thursday.
Turkey has been used as a transit point to bring thousands of fighters from Europe, including dozens from Ireland, to the civil war in Syria.
Brave Emma Murphy's estranged partner says he 'is not a violent person'
Francis Usanga and Emma Murphy in an older picture on Emma's Facebook account Pic: Facebook
I thought long and hard before posting this video, this is very difficult for me but I have to do what is RIGHT, if you or anyone you know has it is in a similar situation please share this video to inspire other women around the world, violence is NOT the answer!!!!
Young mother Emma Murphy widely praised for 'outing' former partner as attacker in Facebook video
Speaking to the 'Irish Sun', gym owner Usanga, who is due to become a father for the third time this week with another woman, said he pushed Emma but is insistent he did not punch her.
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