[All Africa] MORE than 770 pregnant women tested positive for syphilis between January and June this year in the Midlands province, an official in the ministry of health has revealed.
Provincial monitoring and evaluation officer in the ministry of health and child care, Tuso Tanda, said some 22,200 pregnant women were tested for syphilis with 776 testing positive.
He said out of those who tested positive, 529 women were treated for the sexually transmitted disease.
"We had 22,206 pregnant women tested for syphilis between January and June this year and out of this number 776 tested positive," Tanda said at the third quarter of the National Aids Council stakeholders meeting in Gweru last week.
Gokwe South and North had the highest and lowest positivity rate at 7,2% and 0,5% respectively.
"Positivity rate for syphilis among pregnant women was at 3.5% in the second quarter of 2016 with positivity rate being highest in Gokwe South (7.2%) followed by Kwekwe (6.3%)," he said.
Health experts say about 50 percent of pregnant women with untreated early syphilis end up with a baby who is infected.
According to World Health Organisation, over a million pregnant women are infected with syphilis worldwide.
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Haven't several Americans been infected with Zika?
More worrisome - I killed a small, blackish mosquito in my bathroom a few days ago. It had already feasted on somebody's blood. But there's more West Nile in north Texas than Zika.
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All major opposition political parties yesterday vowed to defy President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... 's threats against demonstrations, saying they are prepared to die on the streets for their freedom.
Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party, Joice Mujuru's People First, the Welshman Ncube-led MDC, People's Democratic Party led by Tendai Biti and other members of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) representing all of Zim-bob-we's opposition parties said yesterday that following Mugabe's deadly threats against opposition leaders, they had met and resolved to resume the demonstrations on an even higher note.
Addressing the Zanu PF central committee meeting on Friday, Mugabe warned the opposition, in particular MDC-T leader, Tsvangirai that he would unleash his full wrath on them if they continued with street protests against his rule. He said his patience was running out and that no one should blame him for whatever would befall the opposition leaders.
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, however, said in view of Mugabe's threats and police brutality, opposition parties had met on Friday and agreed to turn up the heat on the 92-year-old Zanu PF leader.
"We will up our game against Mugabe. We are not afraid of him or his police. He must know that we are not about to negotiate with him for our constitutional rights and as Nera, we have resolved to continue with demonstrations," he said.
Mwonzora accused Mugabe of being delusional and forgetting that he was the one who signed the 2013 constitution into law, that he now wanted to violate.
The MDC-T said it would stand in defiance and let the police decide whether or not to harm demonstrators in the wake of statements by Mugabe, which seemed to give the police a free reign.
"It's the choice of the police whether or not they should shed blood of innocent protestors. That there are murderers in the system will not stop us from sending a message and taking action which will benefit the future of Zim-bob-we," said Mwonzora.
Tsvangirai's spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka said Mugabe was caught up in an "embarrassing time warp," as he was failing to understand that demonstrations were permissible in the new constitution.
"He is living out of his time; an analogue politician in a digital age, a Remington typewriter in an internet cafe. President Tsvangirai is not moved at all by these threats from an old man shocked to the core by the resurgence of people power," Tamborinyoka said.
He accused Mugabe of always blaming Tsvangirai for whatever problem he faced including family issues.
"He is haunted by the ghost of the man who has taught him electoral defeat to the extent that even where the people speak he sees not them but the ghost of his political master, the only man who makes him quiver like reeds in a howling storm," Tamborinyoka said.
Zim-bob-we People First (ZimPF) said following years of experience working with Mugabe, their leader and former Vice President, Joice Mujuru, was well aware that the Zanu PF leader was not a person to negotiate with.
"The people who have been in Zanu PF and are now with ZimPF know from experience that you cannot negotiate with Mugabe. The only language he understands is the demonstrations, so we are not going to attempt to negotiate with him," ZimPF spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire said.
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I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the metal object that hit the ground while they were trying to stuff Hillary into her ambulance campaign van was some piece of medical hardware, possibly a catheter tube retainer of some sort.
Remember these images of Hillary Clinton with those strange lumps on her back under her roomy, loose-fitting coat-jacket, which are suggestive of a defibrillator vest?
Now a photo has cropped up, showing what appears to be a catheter beneath her pant leg.
The photo of Hillary at a campaign rally on August 10, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa, was taken by Steve Pope of Getty Images.
Look at Hillary's right thigh.
I cropped and enlarged her to get a better view of that right thigh. See that strange tube-shaped line running from her crotch, diagonally across her right thigh to above her right knee?
Sure looks like a Foley catheter:
A Foley catheter would explain why Hillary was late getting back to the Democratic presidential debate on December 19, 2015, in Manchester, NH. After the ABC telecast returned from a commercial break, only two of the three participants were onstage -- Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley. Missing was Hillary Clinton, who strolled in moments after the action resumed, repositioned her microphone and said "Sorry," but did not explain her absence.
According to The Boston Globe, Hillary had gone to the ladies' room during the commercial break. She even had a campaign employee on bathroom duty to make sure she could quickly get in and out of the restroom to return to the stage. But when the staffer let in O'Malley spokeswoman Lis Smith, instead of sharing the restroom with Smith, Hillary waited outside, which led to the delay returning to the debate.
Breitbart asks "Why would Clinton not share a bathroom with Smith?"
The answer: Because Hillary didn't want Smith to see she was wearing a Foley catheter.
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secret service guy #1:"Doesn't Hillary look taller after she came back out?"
SSG#2:"Naw, ran out of catheter catch bags and had to use some air lifts off a F-150; must have still had some air in them."
[RightScoop] OK, so we posted the video of Hillary when the hot temperature apparently done her in. But now there’s a question about a weird object that seems to fall out of her pant leg in that same video.
h/t Instapundit
The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar--famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--has dominated linguistics for almost half a century. Recently, though, cognitive scientists and linguists have abandoned Chomsky’s "universal grammar" theory in droves because of new research examining many different languages--and the way young children learn to understand and speak the tongues of their communities. That work fails to support Chomsky’s assertions.
The research suggests a radically different view, in which learning of a child’s first language does not rely on an innate grammar module. Instead the new research shows that young children use various types of thinking that may not be specific to language at all--such as the ability to classify the world into categories (people or objects, for instance) and to understand the relations among things. These capabilities, coupled with a unique human ability to grasp what others intend to communicate, allow language to happen. The new findings indicate that if researchers truly want to understand how children, and others, learn languages, they need to look outside of Chomsky’s theory for guidance. Bye, bye Noam (pleasant).
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Not exactly--it sounded reasonable, and if it had panned out it would have been a legitimate claim to fame. It wouldn't have excused his vitriolic dishonesty in other fields, of course.
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Numb Chimpsky is more of a BS artist and hypnotist than he is a language theorist. I assume now that whenever the Chimpster speaks, he is engaging in another cunning plan.
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Then again, I think a lot of people thought Das Kapital sounded reasonable. I read that book three fucking times and finally decided it was bullshit. It took me long enough...
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It seems to me his work was useful to those developing computer languages, which must be some sort of comfort as his place in the pantheon crumbles to dust.
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The thing isn't that his theory is wrong that has been well established for over 30 years (despite what the article says). It is that he constantly twisted his theory to try and fit the contrary evidence. Much like his political theories.
[GMA] President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said the United States Special Forces based in Mindanao should leave.
"Kaya iyong mga Special Forces, they have to go. They have to go. In Mindanao, maraming mga puti roon, they have to go. I-review ko iyang foreign policy. Hindi ko lang masalita noon out of respect or I do not want a rift with America. But they have to go," Duterte said in a speech delivered before his new appointees at the Heroes Hall in Malacañang.
Duterte said this after showing photos of the atrocities committed by American troops against the Muslims during the Bud Dajo massacre in 1906.
"Mas lalong iinit. Makakita ng Amerikano 'yan, patayin talaga iyan. Kukunan ng ransom iyan, patayin. Even if you're a black or a white American, basta Amerikano ka," Duterte said referring to Abu Sayyaf.
Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella in a statement said that Duterte's recent pronouncement on the presence of US troops was a step in pursuing an independent foreign policy.
"The statement reflects PRRD's new direction towards coursing an independent foreign policy; he has made reference to the unrecognized, unrepented and un-atoned for massacre at Bud Dajo in Sulu by the Americans, hence our continued connection with West is the real reason for the "Islamic" threat in Mindanao," he said in a statement.
Abella said Duterte wanted the United States to correct the injustices they committed against the Filipinos, especially against the Muslims in Mindanao.
"The American silence on the matter lacks congruence with its "moral" position, in the light of actions taken in the past by the Germans who confessed and made atonement for the Holocaust, and Japan which made reparations for the atrocities it perpetrated among the peoples they conquered," Abella said.
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Abella said Duterte wanted the United States to correct the injustices they committed against the Filipinos, especially against the Muslims in Mindanao.
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Guess I wont be going to the PI any time soon. But the reality is we force them to a standard of integrity and compliance when it comes to the Islamic extremists on Mindanao. Without the US SOF on the ground he will be free to deal with them like he has dealt with the drug dealers. In essence we will be there to protect the muzzies.
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No worries Pan. There's always Lewis or Smoke Bomb. You'll never be without work.
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Without the US SOF on the ground he will be free to deal with them like he has dealt with the drug dealers.
And THAT, is a good thing. It is what has been missing for a long time. Go into their enclaves and put the b!tch slap on them. Stack them like cord wood.
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[GMA] President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said the United States Special Forces based in Mindanao should leave.
