Well done Mayunga

I personally congratulate Mayunga Jumanne to get an opportunity of being a tutorial  at AMUCTA University!!
 Respect Mayunga!!

The magic of tomato pulp and lemon juice

Tomato pulp and lemon juice has antibacterial properties and can reduce acne. It is a good source of antioxidant, aids in digestion, improves vision, protects heart, prevent gallstones, and prevent urinary tract infections. It also counters bad effect of cigarette. Drink it more to improve your health!!  

Accept changes for the real progress

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything in their lives. Let you change and bring new way of thinking to uproot your knowledge for the progress development.

Fathers’ day

All fathers in the world today rejoice their special day to encourage them to be closer and aware with their families. As heads of families they are needed to understand and make the completion of their duties and responsibilities to fulfil basically the family needs and wants in their homes!!    

Let us continue to support them!!

We always get sad and pain all because of the national team, Taifa stars. The national team players play badly and perform poor in every tournament they compete. But this is not a cause for them to be unsupported. Let us continue to support them.

The pain we feel today will be the strengths we feel tomorrow!! 

South Carolina church shooting: police hunt gunman after 'hate crime' attack

At least nine people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in what police have described as a “hate crime”.

The expectations are going to be done!

Tomorrow all 3^rd year students of SAUT Tabora starting their final and last exams to complete and accomplish their University journey started since 2012. The journey was so tough with full of obstacles and challenges but we succeeded to face them. We lost our fellows and others failed to reach the end together with us in this journey from unconditional circumstances, but still we are together!!

Might God wishing us the best!!

Welcome our guest “Fasting”

Kindly, you are welcomed for both hands. Tomorrow, Muslims of Tanzania and others all over the world are entering in fasting period to accomplish their 4^th pillar of Islam. This period is the time for Muslims to pray extensively in order God to be able forgive them from their sinful. Muslims should do graceful things to be closer with their God. 

I am wishing them for good fasting with much blessing.

UN Criticises Israel in Children's Rights Blacklist

In September last year, Palestinian children play near the ruins of their houses destroyed during the seven-week Israeli offensive in the devastated area of the east of Gaza City. The United Nations on Monday left Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas off its blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children's rights during conflicts, but criticized Israel over its 2014 military operations.

ORPHAN DRUGS AND RARE DISEASES

Several thousand different types of rare diseases and disorders exist, with more being discovered each day. In recent years, the interest for rare diseases has grown throughout the entire medical community. However, the road to an approved orphan drug is a long and costly one with many challenges on the way including regulatory, financial, sustainability and pricing and reimbursement issues.

Returning for its 4th year and following on from the major success of previous events, SMi is proud to announce that registration is now live for the 4th Annual Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases Conference taking place on 19th–20th October 2015 in London, UK.

Through a series of interactive presentations and panel discussions, attendees will learn how payers, pharmaceutical, biotech, patient organizations and academia are structuring to participate in and leverage the growing orphan drugs and rare diseases market.

Islamic State plans to issue its own currency

Islamic state leaders have paraded their own flag, formed courts and ministries, issued passports and even license plates. Now, the leaders of the Islamic State, the violent jihadist group that has seized parts of Syria and Iraq, have created their own currency, part of a grandiose plan to restore the caliphate era that dominated the Middle East more than 1,300 years ago.

In an announcement on Thursday heralding, liberation from the "satanic usury-based global economic system," the Islamic State said it would begin minting gold, silver and copper coins, in likenesses similar to the days of the seventh-century caliphs. The coins will have standardized weights and values, the announcement said, and they will be the legal tender of the lands controlled by the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

Source of information, E-News

Shrewd your future career for better successful

Understanding yourself is a critical aspect of career and educational exploration and planning. The more you know about your career related interests, values, skills, personality type and preferences, the better equipped you will be to identify the career fields, major areas of study and training programs, and education pathways that are compatible with your personal attributes. It is a good idea to plan your career based on the innovation to impart your life plan. 

Healers can be good allies in campaign to protect albinos against

This is not the first time that the Tanzanian government has taken action against witchdoctors and traditional healers. Still the practice of albino murders and witch killing continues. So what is wrong with state intervention in this matter? What is missing in the response so far to the problem? First, we need to ask: How will the mass arrest of ‘traditional healers’ lead to the eradication of this murderous behaviour? If state action has not been effective in the past, why would it yield positive and lasting results this time? Traditional medicine men have been linked to this harmful practice in the past. They ask people to bring the body parts of albinos for rituals.

According to the report, the ‘witchdoctors’ were arrested because they were not licensed ‘healers and soothsayers’. Is the government saying that ‘unlicensed healers’ are responsible for albino murders and if the country gets rid of them then the killings would stop? What does it mean to be a ‘licensed soothsayer’ in Tanzania? Do the so called licensed soothsayers or healers not use some of the materials found in the possession of arrested witchdoctors? If the licensed witchdoctors do not use these materials for their work, what do they use?

The government should focus on getting Tanzanians to understand that this belief has no basis in reason or in reality; it is a misconception based on fear and ignorance. The government of Tanzania should put in place programmes to dispel and debunk this irrational claim. Until the people of Tanzania abandon this superstitious belief, the savage act of killing albinos will not stop even if the state authorities arrest all licensed and unlicensed traditional healers and soothsayers in the country.

The arrests have made a statement but officials need to be unequivocal that the belief in the magical power of albino skin is nonsensical, baseless, and should not be entertained by any thinking human being. Otherwise, the government runs a risk of simply driving this traditional practice underground where it will continue to occur.

Redefining Political Time and Space: New Venues for Contesting Power

Contemporary social movements simultaneously occupy local, national, transnational, and global space as a result of innovations in, and applications of, technologies … which produce instantaneous communication across traditional frontiers…The Gramscian framework of resistance thus must be stretched to encompass new actors and spaces from which counter hegemonic consciousness is expressed (Mittleman 2000, p. 169)

Informational technology has turn to be a potential arena where politicians air their views, ask for support and even displaying their potentials. This has come as a result of development in science and technology more specifically the Information Technology. This is sometimes called cyber politics it is a growing kind of politics that impacts politics today. Physical contact by the audience is now losing momentum. The mushrooming of social networks has resulted to online political discussions that in one way or the other influences the community either to vote for or against a political candidates. To me this is a liberalization to people and therefore politicians have to mind on what they are doing but also familiarizing themselves with digital devices is a must and not a request.  

 

Be against with Disappointment

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? Is the question you will need to ask? You will feel miserable, you will want to quit. But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it’s life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential and that ’where you want to be?”

Disappointment causes frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck, sometimes things take so long that you don’t know if you chose the right goal. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. In life to avoid disappointment never expect anything to anyone be you as you.

Social Effects of Virtual Humans

Researchers have investigated how people respond to computers and virtual humans. Nass and Moon have shown that people react to and attribute very human characteristics to computers, such as the computer’s helpfulness, expertise, and friendliness. Using a virtual human interface minimizes the need for training users, since they already know how to interact with other people. Zanbaka et al., found that people respond to virtual humans similarly to the way they respond to real humans. The authors were able to elicit social inhibition from female participants in response to a virtual human observer.

Mel Slater’s group at UCL has conducted studies of the social ramifications of having avatars in virtual environments. They were able to elicit emotions such as embarrassment, irritation, and self-awareness in virtual meetings. They found that the presence of avatars was important for social interaction, task performance, and presence. Raij et. al. examined perceived similarities and differences in experiencing an interpersonal scenario with a real and virtual patient. They found lower ratings on participants’ rapport and conversational flow with the virtual patient was attributed to the limited expressiveness of the virtual patient. Level of immersion and natural interaction also facilitated the participants’ ability to perform a training task with a virtual patient as effectively as with a real patient

It’s my time now

After struggling indeed for three years in AMUCTA and succeeded to pursue my first Degree of Public Relations and Marketing (BAPRM) now is my time for me  to come back in the street  to decide upon  whatever I want to do with full of my profession as marketing manager.

Respect to all intellectuals who made and show me the way of being creative, innovative, competitive, and high conscious with contested knowledge as my weapons to succeed in my life. It is my time now to go back home for profits

challenges on managing international marketing mix

The marketing mix is a business tool used in marketing and by marketers. The marketing mix is often crucial when determining a product or brand's offer, and is often associated with the four P's: price, product, promotion, and place. In service marketing, however, the four P's are expanded to the seven P's or Seven P's to address the different nature of services.the following are the challenges -Different forms of operation in different market -Shortage of resources -Product decisions

Common defenses to libel and slander defamation; a message to all PROs

Public Relations as a management functions that creates and maintains the image of the organization find it necessary to equip itself with how defamation may turn to be a threat to the image of the organization. Defamation is an act of injuring somebody's reputation. As PROs in one way or the other defamation may be something not to escape but the following are the defenses that can set the convicted free  

• That the alleged wrong-doer was not the publisher of the statement;
• That the statement did not refer to the alleged victim;
• That the statement's meaning was not defamatory;
• That the statement was true;
• That the statement was for comment on a matter of public interest;
• In an action for slander under English law, that the statement caused no loss to the alleged victim; or
• In a defamation action under Scots law, that the statement was made in the heat of an argument.

New Education Policy and the issue of free education;

It is impressive to have a free education to all students but the education effect may result on free education which is free of knowledge since we have witnessed that, the policy being introduced in primary schools and considered as good one resulting to high enrollment of students in primary schools, yet I still wonder why the quality of education is dropping each year. This depict that public schools are free of knowledge and centers of education for the poor who cannot afford the cost of education in private schools since those who endorse these policies never dare take their children to public schools, let education service be free but not free of knowledge.

Let us wake up now and liberate ourselves from the chains of social classes which divide the society in the right to education; Nelson Mandela, First Democratically Elected President of South Africa once said;  

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."

On the same token from which perspective do we consider education being free? Parents and households still incur other unnecessary costs when sending their children to public schools. The Educational Sector Analysis (ESA), (2011) points out that, the volume of household contributions to education varies according to whether the child attends a government or non-governmental institution. However, even for government schooling, households contribute to costs such as uniforms, school fees, school materials and transportation. Estimates based on the Household budget surveys of 2007 (HBS, 2007) reveal that in FY 2008/09, the amount estimated to have been invested in education by households amounted to Tsh. 205.1 billion, equivalent to 0.76 percent of GDP.

Take a look in Finland. Finnish comprehensive school is a formal and fully publicly financed system and ‘a matter of pedagogical (educational) philosophy and practice’ (Välijärvi et al., 2002, p. 29) as cited from (Sahlberg, 2007). This philosophy is based on the principle of equity, on which Finnish education policy has been largely premised since the early 1970s. Well-equipped schools are typically small, with class sizes ranging from 20 to 30 students. Primary schools (grades 1 to 6) typically have fewer than 300 pupils. In 2004, more than one third of Finnish comprehensive schools had fewer than 50 pupils; just 4% of all schools had 500 or more pupils (Sahlberg, 2007).

Many primary schools therefore have become learning and caring communities rather than merely instructional institutions that prepare pupils for the next level of schooling. The fact that all children enroll in identical comprehensive schools regardless of their socioeconomic background or personal abilities and characteristics has resulted in a system where schools and classrooms are heterogeneous in terms of pupil profiles and diverse in terms of educational needs and expectations (Välijärvi & Malin, 2003). Comprehensiveness, the leading idea in implementing the basic values of equity in education, also means that all students receive a free two-course warm meal daily, free health care, transportation, learning materials, and counseling in their own schools (Sahlberg, 2007). 

The question is; are we prepared to offer free education to all in primary and secondary schools? (The basic education), are we economically stable to bear the cost of running public schools? Is this real not a political agenda?