kenya elections

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rhino in Kenya

Kenyans

Millions of Kenyans poured into polling stations on Monday to cast their ballots in a important anxiously awaited presidential election and as the voting proceeded relatively smoothly a real chance emerged that a candidate charged with crimes against humanity could win the race.With about a quarter of the votes counted Uhuru Kenyatta the scion of a political family who has been accused by the International Criminal Court of financing death squads held a commanding lead of 55 percent to 41 percent over the second place candidate Raila Odinga Kenyas prime minister.Election observers cautioned that the preliminary results might not be representative of the countrywide vote but Mr. Kenyattas lead remained strong from the moment the first allies came in.Voter turnout on Monday was tremendous election officials said starting hours before dawn with lines of voters stretching nearly a mile long.


Lakers give moving tribute to Dr.Buss

Kobe, D-Fish, Buss

From left to right (Nash,Metta World Peace,Kobe,Dwight,Pau)

Jerry Buss

After a moving tribute to Dr. Jerry Buss at Staples Center Wednesday night before the Lakers first game since his death the Lakers went out and thrashed the team Buss disliked most  the Boston Celtics.Thursday at a memorial service held across the street from Staples at the Nokia Theatre the emotion continued to pour out as great Lakers past and present including coaches Phil Jackson and Pat Riley player executive Jerry West Showtime era Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson and champions of a later era Shaquille ONeal and Kobe Bryant talked about their relationships and experiences with Buss.They talked of his friendly touch with common folks his love of blue jeans his penchant for staying out late or all night his uncommon vision his sharp intellect and his surprising humility.They talked of how Buss would like nothing more than for the Lakers to continue to win at the astounding level they did under his ownership.Buss often said he wanted Los Angeles to by synonymous with the Lakers, and the Lakers known for winning.And so it was to an large degree. In his nearly 34 years as owner the Lakers had the best record in the league by far went to the NBA Finals 16 times and won 10 titles.Buss died Monday at age 80 amid one of the Lakers most troubling seasons a season that was expected to get the team of Bryant Pau Gasol Dwight Howard and Steve Nash into another Lakers championship.

Investigator in Pistorius case facing murder charges also

The prosecution case against the Olympic and Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been in serious trouble after South African police admitted a series of mishaps in their murder investigation  and the chief investigator turned out to be on attempted murder charges himself.

Pistorius and Reeva Steemkamp

Pistorius

Hilton Botha the detective leading the investigation had fell apart under defences cross examination on Wednesday after he wrongly claimed to have found boxes of  testosterone in Pistoriuss bedroom and admitted that police had no evidence saying its true the athletes version of events.On Thursday further pressure was piled on South African police as they admitted Botha is himself charged with attempted murder.Police Brigadier Neville Malila told the Associated Press that the detective is scheduled to appear in court in May. Malila said Botha faced seven counts of attempted murder over what news reports called a drunken incident in which he and two other police officers were accused of firing shots from a state owned vehicle while trying to stop a minivan like idiots.

Hilton Botha

chinese hackers

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Chinese military

Chinese hackers have hit nearly every Washington institution according to unnamed intelligence officials.The dark secret is there is no such thing as a secure unclassified network one said in a Newser report. Law firms think tanks  newspapers. If theres something of interest you should assume you’ve been penetrated.One FBI official had this to say  according to Newser.com Ive yet to come across a network that hasnt been breached.A recent report from a Virginia firm found that a special unit of  CHina military holed in a small wierd office is to blame for cybersecurity breaches at 141 different targets around the world. Hackers are particularly targeting Washingtons power base Newser.com said China continues to deny its involvement in cybersecurity warfare.US hoped that China gets so much information the hackers cant process it.

Chinese Military hackers

Python hunts in Florida

Snake hunt snake

Yellow python

There was a python hunt because there was so many of them in florida and there not supposed to be there.The longest was 14 feet and three inches, netting the hunter who brought it in a $1,000 prize. The Floridas Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission also announced winners of two $1,500 prizes for the hunters who killed the most Burmese pythons an threat to florida.The total  was 68 Burmese pythons said Nick Wiley the FWCs executive director. In our view that number was an unprecedented number of samples that would help us answer questions about pythons and make us more effective on removing them from the system he said.

Brown python in grass

Popes resignation oppurtinity for africas cardinals

The names of African cardinals are coming up as possible contenders to succeed Pope Benedict as head of the Roman Catholic Church when he steps down at the end of the month.
The Mary Mother of good council school is one of a number of respected Roman Catholic schools overseen by the arch of Accra, the capital of the West African nation of Ghana. The Metropolitan archbishop of Accra, Charles Palmer Buckle who trained as a priest at pontifical universities in Rome is upbeat about the continents contribution to the Catholic Church.

Pope

Anthony Obanla

African Cardinal

The pope himself said that he considered Africa the spiritual lungs of humanity Palmer Buckle said which means that the pope has a lot of expectation that Africa has something to offer humanity to give humanity a good breath of life.

meteor

Meteor in the sky

Damage from the meteor

Meteor

The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material scientists said making it the largest such object to hit the Earth in more than a century.Large pieces of it have yet to be found. However, a team from Ural Federal University which is based in Yekaterinburg, collected 53 fragments, the largest of which was 7 millimeters, according to Viktor Grokhovsky, a scientist at the university.Data from a global network of sensors indicated that the meteor's fiery disintegration as it neared earth near Chelyabinsk, Russia, unleashed nearly 500 kilotons of energy more than 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.It is the largest reported meteor since the one that hit Tunguska Siberia in 1908 according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The U.Sagencys new estimate of the meteors size was a marked increase from its initial one.