At the base of it, business success is about people -- making the right connections, understanding motivation, guessing what others will do next, and accurately evaluating those you meet. Which is why knowing some basic psychology can be so valuable for professionals of all stripes.
How do you learn what you need to know about the vast and fascinating
body of science that studies what goes on inside people's heads? You read, of course.
One place to start is the fascinating blog of psychologist and author Susan Weinschenk,
but recently she did those hoping to increase their psychological
understanding one better, offering a list of her favorite psychology
titles for the general reader. Here are a few to get you started.
62-year-old Tanzanian farmer Elizabeth Mukwimba: "I now live in a visible world"
A scheme backed by the Department for International Development is
bringing household solar systems to remote, rural areas of Tanzania.
The scheme, which provides financing to companies that roll out the
solar technology to people living in remote areas, is part of UK aid
funding earmarked to help tackle climate change.
The government says it is hoping to help kick-start start a solar
revolution across Africa, to help bring electricity to the two-thirds of
people in sub-Saharan Africa who are currently without access to power,
without relying on fossil fuels such as coal.
Overall, the UK will have spent £3.87 billion between April 2011 and
March 2016 on climate aid and has pledged a further £5.8 billion from
2016 to 2021.
"I now live in a visible world", said 62-year-old Tanzanian farmer Elizabeth Mukwimba.
"Solar energy has made a great impact on my life. I see everything
compared to before, when I was in darkness. It has really helped me."
The technology has allowed Mukwimba to reduce the amount she spends
on expensive and polluting kerosene which has freed up money to put a
new tin roof on her house.
It has also enabled her grandchildren to do their homework and read at night - improving their performance at school, she said.
The UN wants developed nations to spend $100bn (£66bn) a year derived
from public and private finances on helping poor countries develop
without following the same polluting track as rich nations.
The money will also be used to help them to cope with the inevitable
impacts of climate change and will form a key part of any new deal on
global warming agreed to at the upcoming COP21 talks in Paris.
Christian Aid's senior climate advisor Mohamed Adow said the talks
would need to show rich countries delivering on their promise to provide
finance to help poor countries avoid fossil fuels and develop using
clean technology.
"And for those vulnerable countries already facing the impacts of
climate change, they need to be helped to adapt to a changing climate,
especially considering they have done nothing to cause the problem in
the first place," he said.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg
said on Friday he will take two months of paternity leave after his
daughter's birth, a strong statement from one of the busiest and most
powerful U.S. executives on the importance of family time.
Silicon
Valley technology firms have rushed to extend parental leave allowances
and other benefits in an attempt to recruit and retain talent, but many
workers do not take advantage for fear of falling behind at work or
missing out on promotions.
Facebook, the world’s
biggest online social network, allows its U.S. employees to take up to
four months of paid maternity or paternity leave, which can be used all
at once or throughout the first year of their child's life, a policy
which is generous by U.S. standards. Zuckerberg announced in July that
he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were expecting a baby girl.
A
2015 study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 21
per cent of employers it surveyed offered paid maternity leave, and 17
percent provided paid paternity leave.
“This is a
very personal decision,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page,
along with a picture of a stroller, a yellow baby carrier and his dog,
Beast. “Studies show that when working parents take time to be with
their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families.”
Mr.
Zuckerberg, 31, did not say who would be running the company while he
is out. Facebook did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
It
is likely that chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who oversees
all of Facebook's advertising, will assume leadership. Mr. Zuckerberg
largely oversees products, but will likely rely on chief product officer
Chris Cox while he is out.
Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision
is unusual among high-level tech executives, especially men. Yahoo Inc
CEO Marissa Mayer took two weeks off after her first child's birth in
2012, and when she announced she was pregnant with identical twin girls
in September, she said she would be taking limited maternity leave and
‘working throughout’.
Given that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have proven adept at using social media
to disseminate propaganda and incite fear, it seems obvious that
platforms like Facebook and Twitter would aggressively and mercilessly
delete such content and ban those who post it.
It may seem equally obvious that those companies would move quickly
to do just that when presidential candidates appear to call for them to help out
and as US Representative Joe Barton asks the Federal Communications
Commission, “Isn’t there something we can do under existing law to shut those Internet sites down?”
But it’s not that simple, and social media platforms have grappled with
the issue in some ways since at least the days when Al Qaeda affiliates
started uploading videos to YouTube.
The problem lies in the global nature of social media, the reliance
upon self-policing by users to identify objectionable content, and the
fact that many of those banned simply open a new account and continue
posting their hatred. A blanket policy of banning anything that might be
seen as inciting violence also could lead to questions of censorship,
because one person’s hateful propaganda could be another’s free speech.
That’s not to say companies like Facebook and Twitter aren’t taking this
seriously and trying to draw a distinction between the two. But it’s
not as simple as you might think.
‘No Place for Terrorists’
Facebook says any profile, page, or group related to a terrorist
organization is shut down and any content celebrating terrorism is
removed. “There is no place for terrorists on Facebook,” says Facebook
spokesman Andrew Souvall. “We work aggressively to ensure that we do not
have terrorists or terror groups using the site, and we also remove any
content that praises or supports terrorism.”
It seems to broadly work. Facebook has deleted posts and blocked
accounts in such a way that ISIS-related newsletters, videos, and photos
don’t seem to crop up as much as elsewhere on the web, says Steve
Stalinsky, executive director of Middle East Media Research. “Of all the
companies, they’re the leader and the best at removing content,” he
says.
In the past few years, the use of Twitter, on the other hand, has
grown. ISIS supporters embraced the platform in the latter part of the
last decade, Stalinsky says, when old-school web forums regulated by
moderators remained popular among Al Qaeda members. According to research from the Brookings Institute,
ISIS supporters used some 46,000 Twitter accounts between September and
December 2014, though not all were active at the same time.
Until last fall, Twitter had largely taken a more detached stance on ISIS-related content. It began taking a more aggressive approach
after videos and images of journalist James Foley’s beheading spread on
social media. Brookings Institute researcher J.M. Berger says the
increase in suspensions of Twitter accounts seen in recent months has
had a measurable effect. While an active social network typically grows
over time, Berger says that the suspensions on Twitter have helped to
keep the size of the network “roughly flat.” Moreover, users whose
accounts are repeatedly suspended come back with new accounts with fewer
followers.
“The good news is that this limits the reach of their propaganda and
recruiting, and makes it harder for ISIS to accomplish its goals
online,” Berger says.
But Twitter’s efforts don’t satisfy all critics, who say it is a
primary tool for ISIS to spread its message and can even be used to
recruit new members. “It’s not that Twitter isn’t removing accounts,”
Stalinsky says. The company does suspend high profile ones, but the
people who run shut down accounts quickly crop back up with new ones, he
says. “If they were serious, they’d use the proper technology to get
them to not come back.”
Twitter declined to respond to specific questions from WIRED about how it handles ISIS propaganda, but the company told The Washington Post
earlier this year that “Twitter continues to strongly support freedom
of expression and diverse perspectives… but it also has clear rules
governing what is permissible.” The company did tell WIRED that its publicly stated policies
prohibit certain content: “Users may not make threats of violence or
promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism.”
Propaganda or Political Speech
But the challenge for sites like Facebook and Twitter goes beyond
tracking down content that promotes terrorism. It also requires defining
“promoting terrorism.” In a sense, the two platforms are global
communities, each engaged in a constant process of determining community
norms as the use of the platforms evolves.
Facebook has long been a “place” where users could expect to have
content that didn’t fit in with certain community standards removed.
Porn and nudity, for instance, are strictly prohibited. Twitter, on the
other hand, has long sought to remain more open, although it has its own
guidelines for when content on the platform goes too far as well.
“Twitter stands for freedom of expression,” founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey said earlier this year,
“and we will not rest until that is recognized as a global fundamental
human right.” But how does that fundamental right square with propaganda
so closely tied to horrific violence? Some critics believe the stakes
are too high not to err on the side of aggressive removal.
“We’re seeing a weaponization of these platforms by terrorists,”
says Mark Wallace, the chief executive officer of the Counter Extremism
Project and former United States Ambassador to the UN under President
George W. Bush. He likens graphic ISIS videos or photographs to child
pornography, which he says “would be removed expeditiously.”
But free speech activists worry that if government officials
encourage policing certain kinds of speech that veers uncomfortably
close to censorship. “I think we have to ask if that’s the appropriate
response in a democracy,” says Jillian York, the director of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation’s International Freedom of Expression.
“While it’s true that companies legally can restrict speech as they
see fit, it doesn’t mean that it’s good for society to have the
companies that host most of our everyday speech taking on that kind of
power.”
Paris:
The Anonymous hacking network declared war on the Islamic State in a
YouTube video on Monday, sparking a combative response from the jihadist
group's affiliates, a security expert said.
The "hacktivist" collective vowed vengeance for attacks
in Paris on Friday, claimed by IS, that left 129 dead and hundreds
injured, some of them critically.
French cybersecurity expert Olivier Laurelli warned the Anonymous
action against the jihadist organisation could interfere with police
efforts to identify and track its members.
"Anonymous everywhere in the world is going to hunt you down," a
hooded figure in black, wearing the group's signature Guy Fawkes mask
said in French.
It was not possible to verify its authenticity, but the statement and
video had the hallmarks of the network, known for mounting cyberattacks
against government and corporate websites.
"Our country, France, was hit in Paris on November 13 around 2200
(2100 GMT) by multiple terrorist attacks claimed by you, the Islamic
State," the figure said in a gravelly, computer-altered voice.
"We are going to launch the biggest operation every mounted against
you -- get ready for a multitude of cyberattacks. War has been
declared."
The video, posted the day after the attacks, had more than 1.3 million views by Monday afternoon.
In an apparent riposte, a message posted on the Twitter address of
the messaging service Telegram calls on Islamic State affiliates to
secure their Internet communications.
"The #Anonymous hackers threatened... that they will carry out a
major hack operation on the Islamic state (idiots)," the message said.
"So U should follow the instructions below to avoid being hacked," it
continued, advising followers to avoid opening unknown links and to
frequently change computers and phones.
Charlie Winter, a researcher in transnational jihadism at UK-based
think tank Quilliam, affirmed the message's authenticity in a tweet.
"@GroupAnon, IS didn't like your declaration of war," he wrote, referring to one of Anonymous' Twitter addresses.
"Here's what they're saying on @telegram. Use it against them."
French cybersecurity expert Olivier Laurelli warned the Anonymous
action against the jihadist organisation could interfere with police
efforts to identify and track its members.
"It's counterproductive," he told AFP. Actions that force Islamic
State operatives "to close accounts just renders police investigators
blind and dead for certain things."
It is helpful, for example, to know that certain accounts are based in France, Syria or Iraq, he said.
Being able to identify connections and communications between
individuals is also critical. But if Anonymous forces accounts to shut
down, investigators are left with dead ends.
Besides, the impact is only temporary, he added. "An account closed here, is just another one opened over there," he said.
The nearly three-minute Anonymous clip opens with thundering
orchestral music, displaying the Anonymous logo of a suited figure with a
question mark for a head.
The speaker, seated like a news presenter, is flanked by the logo on
one side and black-and-white news footage of the aftermath of the
attacks, on the other.
France led a minute's silence observed around the world on Monday in
memory of the victims of the worst-ever terror attacks on French soil.
President Francois Hollande and his cabinet, all dressed in black,
bowed their heads at the Sorbonne University in Paris, surrounded by
scores of students.
The attacks -- at six locations in and near Paris -- came less than
11 months after jihadists struck satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a
Jewish supermarket, killing 17.
At least six sites were attacked in Paris beginning at 9:20 p.m. local time, officials have said.
There are conflicting reports about the number of dead. The Paris
prosecutor reported that as many as 120 have died in total. One hundred
have been reported dead at Bataclan concert hall alone , and dozens of people were killed at two restaurants, according to officials.
Many dozens were injured throughout the city, according to officials.
Four attackers died at the theater, a U.S. law enforcement official
said. The Paris prosecutor told reporters that eight extremists are dead
in all, and seven of them died in suicide bombings. Police said they
believe all of the attackers involved are dead.
Along with the dead at the concert hall, an unknown number of hostages were held during a siege.
The Southern California band Eagles of Death Metal was playing inside the theater when the attack began. All of the band members are reported safe .
Two explosions were heard outside the Stade de France stadium north of
Paris. The number of injured or killed there is unknown.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
President Obama spoke with French President Francois Hollande on Friday evening, the White House said.
Earlier in the day, Obama said he had chosen not to call the French
leader because "my expectation is that he is very busy at the moment."
According to a readout of the call, Obama offered
Hollande condolences on behalf of the American people and "reiterated
the United States' steadfast, unwavering support" for France.
Obama repeated his offer of "any necessary support" in the
investigation, and both leaders "pledged to work together, and with
nations around the world, to defeat the scourge of terrorism," the White
House said.
The two leaders had spoken earlier in the
day, before the attacks, in preparation for the G-20 summit starting
Sunday in Turkey. Shortly after the attacks, Hollande announced he was
canceling his trip to Turkey.
The boy with bad breath who became the world's most wanted man:
Incredible footage emerges of Jihadi John at school as it is revealed he
was a shy and insecure student who was bullied for having halitosis.
Footage of ISIS executioner Jihadi John, real name Mohammed Emwazi,
shows
him as a teenager mingling with his classmates at Quintin Kynaston
Academy, in Queen's Park, north London. The footage shows a
teenage Emwazi sat among his classmates on computers during an apparent
IT lesson as one student asks him: 'Mohammed, what subject are you
revising today?' (centre).
Another clip shows him bounding around the
playground while latching on to a big group of his peers, while another
shows him with his arm covering his mouth due to his apparent fear of
his bad breath (top right). The footage has emerged just hours after the
27-year-old was reportedly killed in a missile strike in the centre of
Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
Video footage shows Emwazi messing around in the playground of the north London school with his peers
Another piece of footage shows him bounding around the playground while latching on to a group of his peers
Emwazi, pictured as a schoolboy,
was said to have wanted to become a Premier League star, scoring goals
for Manchester United by the age of 30. He moved to the UK from Kuwait,
aged six, and lived in north London
Emwazi, a university graduate
from Queen's Park, London, was able to flee to Syria despite being on an
MI5 watchlist and quickly became known as 'Jihadi John' for his
appearance in a string of horrific killings (right)
— Bataclan concert hall, Boulevard Voltaire, 11th arrondissement
— La Belle Equipe cafe, Rue de Charonne, 11th arrondissement
— Le Carillon restaurant, Rue Alibert, 10th arrondissement
— Le Petit Cambodge restaurant, Rue Alibert, 10th arrondissement
— Stade de France stadium, Saint-Denis (at least two explosions nearby)
U2 guitarist the Edge, left, and lead singer Bono at the Forum.
U2 has decided to cancel a Saturday concert in Paris that was set to be broadcast by HBO.
"We watched in disbelief and shock at the unfolding events in Paris
and our hearts go out to all the victims and their families across the
city tonight," the band said in a statement.
Many of
those killed on Friday were victims of an attack at an Eagles of Death
Metal concert at the Bataclan theater. None of the band members were
injured, relatives told several media outlets.
Paris
officials said all city facilities, schools, museums, libraries, gyms,
pools and food markets will be closed on Saturday.
At least 120 people have been killed and several people injured in terror
attacks in 4 different locations in Paris tonight. Many people were
killed in shootings in a restaurant in the 10th & 11th
Arrondissement, a very busy nightlife neighbourhood in Paris. Explosions
were also heard. There was another attack at the French national
stadium where French President Francois Hollande was watching a match.
He was immediately removed from the stadium by his security operatives.
The gunmen, who used Kalashnikovs, are still at large. The environ of
one of the shooting is close to where Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred
in January. 60 individuals are reportedly being held captive in a
concert hall. More details later...
Terrorists wielding AK-47s and throwing explosives executed at least 118
people inside a Paris concert hall at the Bataclan late Friday night,
in a massacre that followed coordinated attacks that killed at least 40
more people, rocking the French capital, prompting President Francois
Hollande to close the entire nation's borders and declare a state of
emergency.
Eyewitnesses said the terrorists all looked young, they walked into the
theater and started shooting at people like they were birds. He said
they stood at the back of the theatre in black clothing without covering
their faces with any mask. They kept shooting and reloading for about
10 to 15 minutes.
The victims had gathered to see the American rock band Eagles of Death
Metal, and a handful managed to escape through the roof and wherever
they could.
They said the killers shouted "This is for Syria!" and "Alahu Akhbar!"
as they cut down patrons from a balcony before the band took the stage.
The band members are said to be safe.
People said when the police arrived, and the terrorists knew they were
cornered, they all blew themselves up with suicide vests. 4 of the
terrorists killed themselves at the Bataclan, 3 were killed at the
stadium while 1 was killed at a café.
Another eye witness said:
“It looked like a battlefield, there was blood everywhere, there were
bodies everywhere," Coupris said. "I was at the far side of the hall
when shooting began. There seemed to be at least two gunmen. They shot
from the balcony.
“I saw my final hour unfurl before me, I thought this was the end. I thought, 'I’m finished, I’m finished,'" he said.
The terrorists reportedly used AK-47s, grenades and suicide vests to carry out this horrible event.
French authorities said all five attackers were "neutralized, one
arrested and more could be at large in the combined attacks. Now they
are trying to identify people who may have helped the terrorists.
As many as six other attacks occurred, involving shootings and at least
two suicide bombers, including one who detonated near the city's Stade
de France soccer stadium where the French and German national teams were
playing in a match attended by Hollande. The French President was at
the stadium to watch the match and was securely removed without any
incident.
The death toll from all of the attacks is expected to rise.
“There are lots of dead people," said a witness believed to have been at
the bar of a restaurant that was the scene of one attack. "It’s pretty
horrific to be honest. I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see
anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table
over our heads to protect us."
The French President has given authority to the French Police to knock
on doors of Parisians and interrogate whoever they think might be a
suspect.
Update:
The Police shot 1 of the attackers in the Bataclan theater and he blew
up when he fell to the ground, 3 others blew themselves up in the
theater.
3 blew themselves up at the stadium and 1 blew himself up at a café.
The death toll has risen to 200 while 80 people are reported injured.
The recent presidential election in Tanzania saw John Pombe Magufuli
emerge victorious. His running mate was Samia Suluhu Hassan. The
ticket’s victory gave the country its first ever female vice president.
It is a rarity in Africa and the history making win did not go
unnoticed.
Chama Cha Mapinduzi (loosely translated from Swahili as party of the
revolution); Magufuli and Hassan’s party faced the strongest competition
it has ever faced in its long reign as the party that has been in power
the longest in the entire African continent.
The election outcome in Zanzibar still unresolved after the Zanzibar
Electoral Commission nullified the election for what it termed as
irregularities. The official explanation by the ZEC is that the vote was
not valid “because it did not meet the threshold for a free and fair
election.” The word on the street however is that CCM lost that election
and CUF winning will threaten the union. CUF favors greater autonomy
from the mainland. The fear is that a CUF victory might lead to the
breakup of the union.
The Zanzibar vote notwithstanding, the election of Samia Suluhu
Hassan is historic. The two were sworn in on November 5 and have been in
office for a week now.
The last time the East Africa region had a female vice-president was
across the border from Tanzania in Uganda over a decade ago. Specioza
Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe was Uganda’s vice president from 1994 to 2003,
stepping down in 2003 after it became difficult for her to perform her
duties due to what was then a very messy divorce from her then husband.
So after a long 12 years, East Africa has another female vice president it can celebrate. So who is Samia Suluhu Hassan?
Hers has been a slow and methodical rise to the top.
She graduated from Mzumbe University in 1986 with an Advanced Diploma
in Public Administration. She continued on to the University of
Manchester where she received a postgraduate diploma in Economics in
1994.
She has demonstrated a proclivity for continual learning. This year
with all the political temperature building up as the election neared,
she received a received an Masters in Science in Community Economic
Development through a joint-program between the Open University of
Tanzania and the Southern New Hampshire University.
In her native Zanzibar, she was the only high ranking female in president Amani Abeid Karume’s cabinet.
Her entry into national electoral politics came relatively late by
African standards. In 2010 she vied for a parliamentary seat in
Makunduchi constituency winning handily (80%). Upon her win, just
departed president Jakaya Kikwete appointed her Minister of State in the
Vice-President’s Office (Union Affairs).
She is married to Hafidh Ameir, tying the knot in 1978, a union that
has been blessed by one daughter and three sons. Mr. Ameir is a retired
agriculture officer and is currently a consultant. Their offspring are
in careers ranging from business to information technology. The daughter
is the only one to have followed in the mother’s footsteps. The
daughter, Mwanu Hafidh Ameir, is a member of the Zanzibar House of
Representatives.
Many in the region are hoping that Samia Suluhu Hassan’s election is a
sign of things to come. Will a woman rise to the presidency in any of
the Eastern Africa countries? Only time will tell.
The last time a woman ran a country in East Africa was in 1994, when
Agathe Uwilingiyimanain served as Prime Minister of Rwanda (specifically
from July 18 1993 until her death on April 7 1994).
Hassan is used to doubters and she will inevitably meet some as she
goes about fulfilling her new mandate as vice-president of Tanzania. She
told a reporter last year that when president Karume appointed her to
the cabinet in her Zanzibar, she was the only woman and the male
colleagues looked down on her, however, “I stood my ground and
eventually they appreciated my contributions.” Her competence at that
first cabinet appointment in Zanzibar saw the number of female cabinet
members rise to four, a development she describes with pride.
“I have risen to this position as a result of my competence and not through favors,” she told the same reporter.
Given the manner her boss has gone about his duties since being sworn
in last week, pushing for accountability and efficient service delivery
from the civil service for example , the election and presence of Samia
Suluhu Hassan might turn out to be a critical turning point not just
for Tanzania but for the entire East Africa region.
The Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB)
yesterday issued loans to 28,554 students out of 50,830 applicants for
academic year 2015/2016.
The total number of students who have received loans has now reached 40,836.
The loans amounting to 155.2bn followed new development reports
that 82 per cent of the applicants for the 2015/2016 academic year had
missed the loans.
Last Friday President Dr John Magufuli directed the Finance
ministry to fast-track the disbursement of higher learning students’
loans.
The HESLB Executive Director, George Nyatega, said in a statement
availed to ‘The Guardian’ yesterday that the public should ignore
reports circulated through the social media that the Board will not
provide loans to new applicants for the 2015/2016 academic year.
He said that until yesterday the HESLB has allocated loans to a total of 40,836 qualified applicants for first year students.
“At first the Board released loans to 12, 282 applicants and the
second batch of loans beneficiaries has been released yesterday whereby
28,554 applicants have been given loans,” Nyatega said.
He said that the Board is determined to ensure that all 50,830 first year applicants are given the loans.
Nyatega however directed the applicants to visit the Board’s
website olas.heslb.go.tz and www.heslb.go.tz for further information
including checking if their applications have been approved by the
board.
He however noted that the lists of names have been sent to the respective universities for registration procedures.
On Sunday Chadema’s Youth Wing (Bavicha) called on the government
to review the loans criteria so as toaccommodate students who have been
left out, as hardly two days after President John Magufuli demanded
thatloans for universities be issued faster.
According to Bavicha, 82 per cent of the applicants for the 2015/2016 academic year had missed the loans.
Bavicha blamed the government through its Higher Education
Students' Loans Board (HESLB) for delays in approving loans to students.
Addressing journalists at the party’s headquarters in Dar es
Salaam, Bavicha Secretary General Julius Mwita threatened to mobilise
all students who missed the loans to take action over the delays.
He said the government should release the loans immediately to 82
percent of the students who qualify for the loans but have been kept out
of brackets.
“We are going to mobilise all students who have missed loans to
take action against the government so that it works on their demands,”
he said.
He said the government has been misusing funds on other things instead of prioritising on education.
Mwita accused the government of using more funds for elections,
claiming that what is currently happening to students is the consequence
of spending a lot of money in the election campaigns.
In August this year, the HESLB said that a total of 7,788 out of
68,445 loan applications for the year 2015/2016 were found to be missing
vital information.
HESLB Executive Director George Nyatega, said many of the loan
applications were missing information such as applicants’ signatures,
photos and birth certificates.
Others are guarantors’ signatures and unsigned applications by local authorities and magistrates.
He said the board found the errors after it embarked on
verification and analysis of the application following closure of the
loan application cycle for the 2015/2016 academic year.
“In the process, a total of 7,788 loan applications have been found to be missing vital information,” he said.
The Executive Director had called upon the loan applicants for the
academic year 2015/2016 whose applications were found to have errors to
go in person to HESLB offices for correction of their loan applications
before September 11 this year.
Tanzania's President elect Magufuli addresses members of the
ruling CCM at the party's sub-head office on Lumumba road in Dar es
Salaam.
DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania's new president sacked the head of the
main state hospital after finding patients sleeping on the floor during a
surprise visit to the facility, his office said.
President John
Magufuli also broke up the governing board at Muhimbili National
Hospital after discovering the main scanning and diagnostic machines
were not working and seeing other poor conditions on Monday, the
presidency added.
"The president is trying to send a message that times have
changed ... It’s not business as usual ... It's all about delivery - the
government has to deliver for the people," the chief secretary at the
president's office, Ombeni Sefue, said.
Magufuli took over last
week from former president Jakaya Kikwete, who stepped down after two
terms in office. Magufuli's ruling CCM party, in power since the end of
colonial rule in 1961, has been under increasing pressure to tackle
rampant corruption and ensure economic growth trickles down to the poor.
He
made an unannounced visit to the finance ministry on Friday, a day
after he was sworn in as Tanzania's fifth president. Other visits to
other state institutions were planned, said Sefue, who also heads the
civil service.
The new president has already ordered restrictions
on foreign travel by government officials and cuts in tax exemptions,
signaling the start of fiscal belt-tightening measures.
Magufuli,
whose supporters call him "the bulldozer" for building desperately
needed roads across the large nation in his previous post as a cabinet
minister, has pledged to introduce a raft of measures to end government
excesses and boost revenue collection.
He has also promised to
create a special court to oversee all cases relating to corruption -
which investors have said is one of the main obstacles to business in
the East African country.
Magufuli sacked the Dar es Salaam
hospital's acting managing director, Hussein L. Kidanto, who was
transferred to the health ministry, the presidency said.
"The
president was dismayed and saddened by the state of medical service
delivery, particularly for patients sleeping on the floor," it added in a
statement.
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nyingi huwezi kukutana na jiko lililo karibu kabisa na choo, kwa sababu
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choo kwenye chumba kimoja je?
Kwenye
vitu ambavyo vimenishtua leo na hii imo, yani watu wa Moscow Urusi
wameona haja ya kuweka mambo tofauti… bango tu linalotangaza biashara
limeandikwa Crazy Toilet Cafe, mgahawa ambao usishangae ukaagiza supu na
ikaletwa ndani ya bakuli linalofanana na sinki la choo.. kuanzia kiti
cha kukalia kina umbile hilo, mpaka mabakuli ya chakula na vyombo
vingine viko hivyo !!
Usishtuke mtu wangu, hapo ni kiti cha mgahawa pamoja na mto wa kuegamia, alafu mambo mengine ya huduma yanaendelea. Mgahawa
wa aina hii ni wa kwanza kwa nchi za Ulaya, lakini unaambiwa hata
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Kila
mtu anakaribishwa kwa huduma poa za msosi, na bei ni ya kawaida kabisa
kwa hiyo sio mahali pa kupaogopa… mfano ukafunguliwa mgahawa wa hivi
Bongo utatamani kwenda na mtu wako mkaenjoy lunch?
Some women know they’re pregnant right away, and some take a little bit longer.
Judy Brown, 47, went to Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts
this Wednesday, complaining of severe abdominal pain. She thought she
had a gallstone. Upon examination, doctors revealed to Brown that her
gallstone was, in fact, a baby. Just one hour later, Brown gave birth to
a healthy baby girl.
Brown told ABC News that, even though she experienced symptoms, she couldn’t believe she was pregnant.
“After being married for 22 years, it wasn’t really coming up being
pregnant,” Brown told the station. “It was not really there in my mind.”
Gesci, a pediatrician at the hospital, said it’s extremely rare for women not to know they’re pregnant — but entirely plausible.
“People don’t know sometimes or they’re in denial about it and denial can be pretty strong,” Gesci said.
Brown’s baby, named Carolyn Rose, came out a healthy 8 pounds, 2 ounces.
There’s never any way to be fully prepared when you have a baby, but
24 hours isn’t a lot of time. Brown had to borrow a bassinet and a car
seat just to leave the hospital.
This was her first child.
Behold! The emojis of the future. Emojipedia, a comprehensive online resource about emojis, on Tuesday released new mock-ups
for expressions, gestures and objects that could be coming to your
phone next year. Among them: a glass of whiskey, a leafy salad and a
sneezing face.
There's also this hilariously specific "Modern Pentathlon" emoji, an
assemblage of triumphant athletes who seem to epitomize the sentiment
behind "squad goals":
Emojipedia
Jeremy Burge,
founder of Emojipedia, explained to The Huffington Post that the
mock-ups are styled after Apple's emojis and based on approved ideas for
Unicode 9.0, an update that's expected in mid-2016.
Unicode is essentially the standardizing force that allows special
characters like emojis to display accurately across platforms -- it's
why "💩" is a poop whether you're on a computer, an iPhone or an Android
device.
"We created the images in the Apple style, as people tend to think
of this as the canonical version of an emoji," Burge explained.
Of course, just because Unicode approves new emojis doesn't mean
that companies like Apple (or Samsung, or Microsoft) will implement
them. For example, Microsoft brought the middle-finger emoji to
its platform several months before Apple. And companies can also
implement their own characters without traditional Unicode approval:
Apple's platform recently got its own anti-bullying emoji you won't see elsewhere.
Emojipedia has been tracking the new list of approved emojis and creating mock-ups since August -- you can see a full collection here.
For what it's worth, we're most excited about an emoji way to order a Jim Beam on the rocks 🎉:
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but recently she did those hoping to increase their psychological
understanding one better, offering a list of her favorite psychology
titles for the general reader. Here are a few to get you started.
