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Wabunge wataka kumuondoa madalakani Waziri Mkuu

Muda si mrefu jioni hii mishale ya saa moja na dakika ishirini Mheshimiwa Zitto alitoa hoja Bungeni kupiga kura ya kutokuwa na Imani na Waziri Mkuu na kukawa na kitabu ambacho wabunge iliwataka kusign ili kubaliana na hoja hiyo na mpaka Bunge linahairishwa ilikuwa ni wabunge zaidi ya sitini waliokuwa wametia sahihi zao.
Aidha Spika wa Bunge Mh.Anne Makinda alitupilia mbali hoja hiyo ya Mheshimiwa Zitto kwa kutumia kanuni za Bunge na Katiba ya Nchi kwa kusudio la kumuondoa waziri mkuu kwa kupiga kura ya utokuwa na Imani naye ilipaswa kuandikwa taarifa ya maandishi inayopaswa kufika kwake kabla ya siku 14 ya siku husika.
Aidha baada ya Mh.Mnyika Mbunge wa Ubungo kusoma muongozo wa spika na kutaja Idadi ya walio tia sahihi kwenye kitabu na kumtaka kwa Idadi hiyo ya wabunge,Na kuuliza Je,Ingewezekana kwa Bunge hilo kujadili swala hilo ifikapo Jumatatu ya wiki Ijayo Tarehe 23.
Ambapo Spika wa Bunge Mh. Anne Makinda aliendelea na msimamo wake huo huo na kuongezea kusema kipindi cha Bunge kitaisha Jumatatu ya Tarehe 23 na kwasababu haijafikia siku 14 hilo swala halitajadilika.

Nicki Minaj Enters the $3 Million Celeb Fragrance Game

We already know Nicki Minaj has a rather eccentric taste in clothes and cosmetics, but now we're about to discover where she stands on her sense of smell. The hip hop star has decided to hop on the fragrance bandwagon and is teaming up with Give Back Brands — the company behind Justin Bieber's successful Someday scent — to launch her very own line of perfume.

According to the New York Daily News, Minaj's first fragrance was inspired by her overwhelming fan base and will reach department stores in Fall 2012. The 29-year-old star seems very happy about her latest venture and insists that she has been highly involved in all aspects of the scent, including product development.

"I have always been a huge fan of great fragrances; this is yet another extension of my creative expression and I can't wait to share it with the world," Minaj said in a statement. "I designed this scent and bottle with my Barbz in mind; I know they will love it!”

It sounds like Minaj is hoping to mimic Bieber's success with the company as the debut scent Someday earned $3 million in just three weeks after it launched at Macy's in June 2011, breaking all historical retail records in the celebrity fragrance category.

The actual name and contents of the fragrance still remain unknown, however, it's probably safe to say that, like her wardrobe, it will be bold and slightly overwhelming (bubblegum and cotton candy scents immediately come to mind).

Minaj follows an array of music stars to make their fragrance debut in 2012. Madonna’s Truth or Dare campaign launched at Macy’s last week and Lady Gaga’s signature scent is due to launch soon as well.

Milner: No problem with City team spirit

James Milner has hit back at Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen's suggestion that Manchester City "only have individuals who play for themselves" and lack team spirit.

GettyImagesJames Milner insists he and his Manchester City team-mates are not just out for themselves

• Balotelli dismisses exit talk
Meulensteen claimed last week that City were stuttering in the Premier League title race because they do not have the same togetherness in their squad as United.
However, Milner believes that he and his team-mates have shown plenty of determination this season and rejected the notion that they are just a group of egotistical individuals.
"Look at the season we have had and winning the FA Cup last year," Milner said in The Sun. "That first trophy as a group was great and you can look at games this year when we have been losing and shown character and fight.
"Even in the FA Cup game against United we were a man down and losing heavily at half-time. But we came back and could easily have got a draw out of the game.
"I cannot see a team of individuals doing that. You need that spirit, determination and togetherness to get through the low points of the season and we have done that.
"We are playing good football, had a great performance at the weekend and all season we have fought in all competitions and will do that until the end."
Milner himself has had to swallow his pride a number of times this season, having made just three starts in the past two months and been an unused substitute for City's last two games. But he insists he has no problem with being rotated by Roberto Mancini if the end result is City picking up silverware.
"It's frustrating at times because you want to play every game and it's not going to happen. But that's your will to win and your drive as a footballer," he added. "It's about the team, not the individuals. It's about City winning trophies and the rest doesn't matter.
"You want to play with, and against, the best and become the best player you can be. Playing with the kind of players we have here will improve you. You need competition for places and I knew it would be difficult to play every single game.
"But you have to back your own ability to be a big figure in the dressing room, improve as a player and contribute as much as you can to the success of the team."
By ESPNsoccernet staff

Manchester United top football rich list

Manchester United have fended off Europe's big guns to be named the world's richest club for an eighth year in a row.

PA PhotosManchester United are the most valuable sports team in the world, ahead of baseball's New York Yankees and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

United had a successful year on the pitch, winning a record-breaking 19th English top-flight title last term, and that was mirrored off the pitch as a commercial deal propelled their value, according to Forbes Magazine, to a huge £1.39 billion.
"Manchester United's global fan base of some 330 million also helps makes it the most valuable team in any sport, worth $385 million (£240m) more than both Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League," the Forbes report said.
"During the 2010-11 season Manchester United reaped $192 million (£120m) in broadcasting revenue, 22 percent higher than the previous season.
"The club's run last year to the final of the Champions League, where they lost to Barcelona, commanded an $80 million (£50m) payout from UEFA."
United's huge global fanbase, estimated by Forbes to number 330million, has helped maintain the club's position at the top. However both Real Madrid and Barcelona have higher revenues than United, due in large part to the fact they have negotiated their own individual television rights deals for Spanish football.
Arsenal are fourth on the list, worth $1.29 billion (£800m), behind Real (£1.6 billion) and Barca(£816 million) but just ahead of Bayern Munich (£766 million).
Manchester City are giving chase to United in the league, but they lag way behind in the financial stakes as the Sheikh Mansour-owned club are valued at £276 million - which is only good enough for 13th place.
The Forbes list ranks Chelsea in seventh place, worth £474 million, and Liverpool eighth with a value of £386 million.
By ESPN staff

Review: Lockout

Guy Pearce makes an entertaining action hero in this sci-fi thriller about a convict sent to an outer-space prison to rescue the president's daughter from a gang of psychopathic escapers. It's cheesy, but it revels in it.

Starring: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace and Peter Stormare

Rating: Three stars out of five

The movies have a new action star, one who first made his name playing a transvestite.
With his delicate, almost girlish features, Guy Pearce seemed perfectly cast as a drag queen in the 1994 film, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. It was a role that followed him for years, rather like a half-forgotten feather boa: He seemed too sensitive for tough-guy roles, like the straight-shooter cop in L.A. Confidential, but he had no trouble selling his weak-willed Edward VIII in The King's Speech.
Now, in the entertainingly cheesy sci-fi thriller Lockout, Guy has become, well, a guy. He plays Snow, a pumped-up wise-cracker who has to take on 500 psychopathic futuristic convicts, not to mention the entire American intelligence establishment, and also get the girl. He does it by virtue of big biceps and a ready quip: Priscilla's Felicia Jollygoodfellow has turned into Bruce Willis.
Set in 2079, Lockout begins with a complicated intelligence doublecross that has gone wrong, resulting in Snow being arrested and roughly questioned. He puts a cigarette in his mouth, launches an insouciant insult, gets whacked in the face, and pops back up with a broken cigarette. "I guess that's why they call it a punch line," he says.
Yes, he's one of those; indeed, he's several of them. Lockout is reminiscent of Escape from New York, in which Kurt Russell plays a convict who has to rescue the American president. This time around, the target is a president's daughter, Emilie (Lost's Maggie Grace), who is visiting an outer-space prison colony where the convicts are put into induced comas. She's there to make sure they're not being mistreated -- and in fact, the place looks like the warren of sleeping cells from The Matrix, so they probably are -- but things go wrong, as things tend to do, and suddenly all the prisoners are awake and free and Emilie is among their hostages.
Chief among the dangerous criminals is Hydell (Joseph Gilgun), a skinny, leering Scotsman with one bad eye and half a bad brain: He's in for rape, and when he gets a look at Emilie -- perhaps the sexiest First Daughter ever to occupy the White House -- he smiles most repulsively.
Hydell is kept in check by Alex (Vincent Regan), the toughest of the convicts -- and another Scot; Lockout has a bit of Trainspotting-in-Outer-Space about it -- but Hydell remains a constant threat.
The only thing to do, then, is to dispatch Snow in a space shuttle, vanquish the prisoners, and rescue Emilie with his combination of derring-do and casual self-regard. "Are you just thrilled being you the whole day, or is it a part-time job?" Emilie inquires at first meeting, a sure sign that love is in the air, even if it needs an oxygen mask. For his part, Snow tempers his invincibility with the typical failure of male brashness: "I know exactly what I'm doing," he says, as a door closes to reveal the fact that he's locked them into a high-radiation area.
Lockout is a project of Luc Besson, a sci-fi visionary (The Fifth Element) who makes a habit of discovering young talent. He found Irish directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger on the Internet, through their short, "Prey Alone," and while Lockout features somewhat prosaic special effects, it has a nice galloping pace made up of one-third complicated techno-chases through the space prison and two-thirds wisecracks.
Unfortunately, it all sort of fritters away near the end: The expected final showdown never really comes, and an epilogue that wraps up the doublecross is an anticlimax. But Pearce and Grace make a winning couple in a film that never takes itself too seriously. How could it?

Yaliyojiri kwenye University Exhibition,Diamond Jubilee Hall

                                          Kwa nje kulikuwa na kimvua flani hivi kakizushi

                       University Of Dar Es Salaam ndio ilikuwa na Banda kubwa kuliko yote

                                                   Mzumbe University nao walikuwepo

                                         College yetu ya Mjini nao walikuwepo mjengoni

                                    UDOM nao hawakuwa mbali kuhakikisha nao hawapitwi

                              Shule ya Waandishi wa habari ndio hiyo,usione vinaelea ujue vimeudwa

                                                            SAUT nao walikuwepo

                                                  IFM chuo karibu na Ikulu nao walikuwepo

                                       The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy,Unakifahamu Chuo hiki vizuri??
Zamani kilikuwa kinaitwa Ng'amboni kama sikosei,vile vile ni Chuo kilicho anzishwa na Mwl.Nyerere kwa nia ya kuwa chuo kitakacho fundisha viongozi mbali mbali watakao ongoza nchi yetu moja wa viongozi hao ni Waziri wetu Mkuu Mh.Pinda, ila baadaye kukatokea mkanganyiko flani flani na Chuo hicho kuwa Chuo kikuu huria.
Tanzania kweli tumepiga hatua,vyuo vya sayansi vilikuwa ni vya kutosha tu,Its very Impresing

                                          Huyu ni Panya Buku,angalia vizuri..

                                                    Muhimbili University hao na mambo yao kwa juu

Ardhi University wakiwa na Sample za za Majengo mbali mbali ali maarufu kama frames

Big up sana kwa Serikali na wananchi wapenda maendeleo na kuleta Vyuo vingi na mbalimbali

Banda la TCU lilikuwa limejaa watu wengi na kunifanya nijilize maswali mengi sana,yaani wanafunzi walikuwa wana maswali mengi kweli kwenye banda hili.

Nahisi Loan Board ingetoa semina maalumu kwa wanafunzi na waweze kujua mpango mzima wa kupata mikopo na vigezo gani vinahitajika kwa mtu kupata mkopo na ni wa asilimia ngapi.

RVP doubted ability to lead attack

Arsenal skipper Robin Van Persie has revealed he wasn't convinced of his ability to play as a main striker when originally asked to do so by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, but is now set to breach the 40-goal barrier for club and country this season.

Van Persie, 28, the Premier League's current top scorer, only began spearheading the Arsenal attack almost three years ago after Wenger sold Emmanuel Adebayor to Manchester City and has developed into one of the most feared centre-forwards in Europe.
Before the shift in position, the Dutch international played almost exclusively as a second striker, the kind of role fellow countryman Dennis Bergkamp made his own at the club.
"That was the idea from day one,'' Van Persie told Arsenal Player. "I never really thought that I would end up as a main striker.
"I actually never played there before - I did it a couple of times at youth level but it was nothing really special. We only tried it when Adebayor went.
"The boss didn't buy someone else because he was convinced I could do it. I wasn't even convinced about it. I wasn't so sure, because I didn't really play there so much.
"Then, in pre-season, we had a game against Inter Milan. I scored a good goal, played well and he told me after the game, 'You see? It will work'. That was the first step to being a main striker.
"Sometimes, you just question yourself, if you're good enough at it. Those answers came.
"I have been for a while now convinced that I actually can play as a main striker. I just didn't know, and now I believe. Let's see where it ends. Let's see how far I can push myself, see where my maximum lies.''
Van Persie's exploits have made him the heavy favourite to be crowned PFA Player of the Year on Sunday.

Champions League semi Bayern vs. Real Madrid laden with yellow cards, baying fans and theatrics

Germany striker Mario Gomez gave Bayern Munich a last-gasp 2-1 win over Real Madrid in a histrionicfilled Champions League semifinal first leg between the swaggering European giants on Tuesday.Referee Howard Webb had a terrible time, showing nine yellow cards, and had to deal with penalty claims, high tackles, flare-ups, baying Bayern fans, theatrics and continual protesting over his decisions.
The only surprise was that nobody was sent off, not even Real substitute Marcelo, who produced a scything tackle on Thomas Mueller in stoppage time.
There also was pulsating football amid the chaos as Franck Ribery fired Bayern ahead in the 17th minute and Mesut Ozil levelled with a soft equalizer in the second half.
Gomez then snatched the winner, his 12th goal of the Champions League and 40th of the season, shortly after having a penalty appeal turned down, to hand Real their first defeat of the Champions League campaign.
"I want to give a great compliment to my team, my players, that they played so well and ran so much and played so well," said Bayern head coach Jupp Heyckes, who led Real to their sixth European Cup title in 1998.
The Bavarians, whose season hinges on them reaching the final in their own Allianz Arena, managed to keep Cristiano Ronaldo under wraps for most of the game, although he laid on Real's goal.
"A draw would have been a fairer result, but this is football, whoever scores wins and the game ends when it ends," said unflustered Real head coach Jose Mourinho.
"It's not a terrible result. It's not as if we need a historic comeback with crazy numbers in the second leg, we need a normal result, 1-0 or 2-0, which we are capable of getting with our supporters behind us."
The two clubs, paired for the 10th time in Europe's top competition, have been European champions 13 times between them and previous meetings have been filled with unsavoury incidents.
This meeting did not plunge those depths but, with Real having made an art form out of gamesmanship under Mourinho's leadership, there was always likely to be trouble, which came when Fabio Coentrao clipped Arjen Robben and 10 players immediately surrounded the referee to remonstrate.
Ribery was jostled by Real players after going down in the penalty area, Robben took a kick at Ronaldo after the ball and the Dutchman was then booked for a high kick on Coentrao.
There were numerous other incidents and Real picked up a series of yellow cards in the second half for late challenges, often producing theatrical reactions from their opponents.
Bayern took the lead when Ribery fired home from near the penalty spot after the La Liga leaders failed to clear a corner, Mourinho later claiming a Real player was offside.
Bayern largely managed to cut off the supply to the prolific Ronaldo.
The Portuguese forward responded with his usual shimmies and stepovers, but his first-half efforts were restricted to two wasted free kicks and a shot over the bar.
He curled his first free kick over the wall, but missed the target and sent his second into the defensive wall, then demanded a penalty for a handball.
Bayern, meanwhile, could easily have had a second.
Real was in trouble at the back, repeatedly exposed down the flanks, and a Bastian Schweinsteiger shot flashed wide of their goal from 25 metres.
In the run-up to halftime, Toni Kroos carried the ball from his own half and slipped it to Gomez, whose left-foot shot was superbly turned away by Iker Casillas. Then Kroos fired a free kick straight into the wall.
Bayern started the second half brightly, with Robben cutting inside and firing over the bar from just outside the area.
But some dreadful defending by the Bavarians allowed Real to equalize.

© Copyright (c) Reuters

Obama, Romney in dead heat

WASHINGTON - Republican challenger Mitt Romney has closed the gap with U.S. President Barack Obama and the two are now neck and neck in the White House race, a poll released Wednesday shows.Romney, the party's presumptive nominee now that his main Republican rival has folded up his campaign, matched Obama 46-46 percent among registered voters who were asked in a CBS News/New York Times poll who they would vote for if the election were today.
Last month, a survey by the same media outlets showed Obama with a 47-44 advantage.
Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, gained a bump in support in the week since religious conservative Rick Santorum dropped out of the Republican race, effectively handing Romney the nomination.
CBS and the Times conducted the poll, whose margin of error is three percentage points, between last Friday and Tuesday, after Santorum ended his campaign.
Republicans - who split their votes between Romney, Santorum, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and congressman Ron Paul in more than two dozen state primary contests this year - are now rallying behind Romney.
According to the poll, 54 percent of Republican primary voters say they want Romney as their nominee in the November election, a dramatic increase from March when just 30 percent said they wanted him.
Two of the most prominent Republicans in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, endorsed Romney on Tuesday, with McConnell saying "I think it's going to be an incredibly close and hard-fought race."

© Copyright (c) AFP

Ovrebo: My errors cost Chelsea in 2009

Ovrebo found himself at the centre of a firestorm at Stamford Bridge at the end of the second leg three years ago, having rejected four reasonable penalty claims from the home side - then managed by Guus Hiddink - during the 90 minutes, as they eventually went out to Andres Iniesta's last-minute strike.
The Norwegian official was confronted by Michael Ballack and Didier Drogba even before the final whistle, and subsequently received death threats from a section of irate Chelsea fans. Ovrebo has now revealed that he still receives threatening messages, and has admitted that he did not enforce the laws correctly during the game at Stamford Bridge.
"I still get a few death threats, but they go straight into the garbage box. I don't take them seriously, although sometimes I wonder about the people who send them," Ovrebo told The Times. "Just yesterday I got an email from a Chelsea fan saying he wanted to kill me and my family.
"Everyone who knows the laws of the game knows I should have done things differently, but that's the life of a referee. In a strange way, I was actually satisfied with the way we all managed to keep calm in a tense situation."
He added: "On the pitch I did my best. I shouldn't have to apologise as mistakes are part of the game."
Drogba was subsequently given a five-game ban by UEFA for his outburst at the final whistle, with team-mate Jose Bosingwa given a three-game suspension. Ovrebo feels no ill-will towards the Ivorian, however, after the pair reconciled their differences at the disciplinary hearing.
"It was a very challenging match and with the angry scenes after the final whistle it became less enjoyable," Ovrebo noted. "Some players got too emotional and behaved badly, but no one got killed. It's important to put it into perspective.
"It helped me as a referee ... if I can cope with Drogba screaming at me, I can cope with anything - although he's a nice guy, really."
The Blues have the chance to gain revenge on the Spanish club, as they face them in the Champions League semi-finals again this season. The first leg takes place at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday

Mario Gomez's late goal leads Bayern

MUNICH -- Mario Gomez scored in the 90th minute on Tuesday to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal.
Gomez's 12th goal of this year's competition boosted Bayern's hopes of becoming the first team to play the Champions League final at its own stadium, and earn its fifth title.
Franck Ribery opened the scoring in the 17th minute for Bayern Munich. Mesut Ozil tied it in the 53rd.

The second leg is next week in Madrid.
The other semifinal begins Wednesday, with Barcelona playing at Chelsea.
Real took its first defeat in the Champions League this season, but the away goal could be decisive for the nine-time champions.
Gomez knocked the ball in after Philipp Lahm broke through on the right and sent in a low cross. Gomez powered through to extend his right leg and push the ball home from close range.
Ribery put in a shot from inside the penalty area after Real had failed to clear a corner kick by Toni Kroos, with Sergio Ramos practically chesting the ball down for the Frenchman to score the first goal.
The equalizer came with Bayern's defense looking uncharacteristically in disarray. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer stopped Cristiano Ronaldo's effort, but could not hold the ball.
Real regained possession, with Ozil passing to Karim Benzema, who found Ronaldo again. The Real star passed across the goal for Ozil to score from 2 yards.

Makubwa yaibuka Bungeni,Wabunge wachachamaa

Baada ya kipindi cha maswali na majibu,
Taarifa ya Mh.Cheo juu ya matumizi mabaya ya fedha za Uma ikiwemo wizara ya Fedha,Halmashauri za serikali na kuleta mjadala mzito.Vile vile Mh.Kabwe Zitto pia alitoa taarifa yake juu ya ukiritimba unaofanyika kwenye sekta hizo. Mh.Mrema pia katika ripoti yake ataka serikali kutoa adhabu ya kinidhamu na kuitaka serikali kutoa maelezo ya kina kukubali ni kwanini ubadhilifu huu upo na unaendelea.Wabunge mbalimbali walichangia mjadala huo kwa uchungu sana na hii ni baadhi tuu ya wabunge waliochangia
Mh.Joshua Nassari(Mbunge Arumeru Chadema) ashangaa kutokuwepo kwa waziri wa wizara ya fedha na waziri mkuu pia wakati wanajadili kuhusu sekta muhimu zinazowahusu,
Aidha Mheshimiwa Halima Mdee Mbunge wa Kawe kwa tiketi ya Chadema ataka wabunge kubadilika na kutanguliza uzalendo na kuondoa tofauti zao za kichama.

Vile vile Mh.Godifrey Wiston Zambi(Mbunge Mbozi CCM) alilwalipua watendaji wabovu na wala pesa za wananchi,amtaka Mheshimiwa Raisi kuwawajibisha watendaji hao wabovu,ataja zaidi ya bilioni 6.7 zimetafunwa na watumisha wa Serikali
Aeleza fedha nyingi za serikali takribani bilioni 6.7 zilitumika vibaya na ati serikali bado inafanya uchunguzi,Aidha atoa tahadhari kwa serikali,aeleza hata shangaa kama 2015 CCM ikishindwa wakishinda wamshukuru Mungu,Matumizi mabaya bilioni 59,ikiwemo wizara ya Uvuvi 320  Mambo ya nje 215m zimetumika bila taarifa,

Mh.Ali Kessy(CCM) alitaka hotuba zote zirekodiwe raisi asikilize vyote na apunguze upole,Takukuru hawana kazi katika nchi hii wanakamata tuu wezi wa kuku wanakula rushwa,TBS wanaingiza mbolea feki,mafuta feki,waziri amtetea mkurugenzi wa TBS na katibu wake wanafaa waondoke,Alieleza
Aliongezea kuhusu kuwepo kwa misafara ya magari mengi ya mawaziri nia ni kumtisha nani?Aliuliza
Aliongezea hii ni zaidi ya kuwaumiza wananchi,mtumishi wa halmashauri amekuwa na pesa kuliko halmashauri yao,aeleza tunaelekea kubaya,apatwa na usingizi baada ya kuona kila wizara inashoti alimueleza Mzee mapesa(Mh.Cheo)
Msamaha wa kodi na kuuziwa mashamba mikataba yote iangaliwe upya,serikali iwaonee huruma wananchi hawana chakula hawana madawa,awatetea vijana,bilioni 23 zapotea aeleza mbaya ni katibu mkuu wizara ya biashara ataka achunguzwe mali zake,awataka mafisadi na wezi wote wanyongwe ataka bunge liwe la kazi na sio kupigiana makofi.Aidha aeleza watumishi hewa wapo kiwila,shirika la ndege,shirika la reli kigoma n.k
Ataka katibu anyongwe hata kesho, vile vile serikali iangalie pia na kudhamini watu wanaodhaminila na kutaka wabunge wawe wakali katika hili.

Mh.Amina abdallah Amour(Viti maalum CUF) sekta ya huduma shughuli za maendeleo,waziri aliahidi kuwashughulikia lakini mpaka leo bado hajafanya kazi hiyo,kiwango cha misamaa ya kodi holela imefikia asilimia kumi nane ya bajeti ya nchi,aitaka serikali ipitie tena,alaani vitendo vinavyofanyika kwenye halmashauri.

MhPeter Selukamba(CCM) ataka wabunge wasilalamike hivyo wabunge wachukue hatua kwa kutumia kanuni inabidi wafukuze mmoja hadi mwingine ndio watafanya kazi,tunalipa madeni na kuacha kufanya miradi,aelezea hii ni EPA zaidi Ya EPA,vile vile aeleza serikali imedharau bunge hilo, asema Mungu ndiye anayejua huko kulivyo,ataka wabunge wa CCM wafanye kikao cha Chama ataka wamsaidie Raisi kuondoa mawaziri wasiofaa.na wabunge wasiwe sehemu ya kupiga kelele tuu,1.3 trilioni zimetumika na waziri wa fedha bila ya kutaarifu Bunge.

Mh.Felista Bula aliongezea sio kalalamika matumizi mabaya huku watu wanakula nchi na ni kwanini wanateuliwa na sio kufanya usahili,wanafanya makosa na wanabaki kuhamishwa tu,ameshangazwa na ripoti ya kamati ya Mh Cheo kuna deni la trilioni 14.4 zaidi ya bajeti iliyopitishwa mwaka jana deni linakuwa kwa asilimia 39.5 huku uchumi unakuwa kwa asilimia 6.5 aeleza waache kuwadanganya wananchi,sheria yataka mwisho wakutoa dhamana ni asilimia 70 na mpaka sasa na zaidi ya asilimia 90,Mashirika yanaotakiwa kutoka gawio kwa serikali imepungua kutoka bilioni 40 mpaka 28.7
Msd dawa zinakaa siku 21 na wananchi wanakosa dawa,kuomba dawa wizara ya ya afya dawa ziharibiwe ni miezi sita,MSD kupata pesa za kuagiza dawa ni miezi sita hadi tisa na pesa zinapeleka Novemba,Je dawa hizo zitafika lini kwa watumiaji wa Tanzania Aliuliza.
Alilaumu wizara ya fedha kukwamisha maendeleo, mpaka mwezi wa tano 2010 wizara ya Nishati ndio ilipelekewa fedha kwa mara ya kwanza.
Alisema serikali inachukiwa kwa sababu ya watumishi
Lukuvi amtetea waziri na waziri mkuu yeye yupo ndani ya bunge na waziri yupo nje ya nchi kikazi Washinton maandalizi ya bajeti bajeti

Zito ataka ufafanuzi kwa Mnadhimu Mkuu Mh.Lukuvi ni kwanini waziri husika hayupo bungeni.Akaongezea hakuna waziri anayeongoza kusafiri kama wizara ya Fedha ambazo kashfa hizo Mh.Lukuvi alizikana na Mh. Zitto aliongezea ni wizara yenye matatizo sababu ni kutokana hayupo Ofisini muda mwingi
Lukuvi,arudia Mh.yupo washington kwenye kikao na kalenda ya IMF na World bank kuwa huu ndio wakati wake na hawataweza kumsubiria amefatana na naibu waziri wa maji kufuatilia maswala ya maji,apingana.
Aidha Naibu wa Spika aliwataka mawaziri wawe wanatoa taarifa kwenye Bunge ili wabunge wasiwe na taswira tafauti tofauti juu ya kutokuwepo kwao.Ilimlazimu Naibu Spika kuhairisha Bunge mida ya saa Moja Kasoro usiku na Bunge hilo kuendelea Kesho.Muswada huo utajadiliwa kwa muda wa siku mbili.

P. Diddy wealthiest rapper alive

P. Diddy has been crowned the wealthiest artist in hip-hop for the second year in a row.
The "Hello Good Morning" rapper - who has an estimated fortune of $546 million - once again beat Jay-Z ($455 million) to claim the top spot in a list compiled by Forbes magazine.
The music mogul's wealth is fuelled by his Sean John clothing brand, Bad Boy Worldwide record label, vodka brand Ciroc - a joint venture with drinks brand Diageo, Enyce clothing and Blue Flame marketing.
Jay-Z - who welcomed his first child Blue Ivy with wife Beyonce Knowles in January - also has a range of lucrative financial interests, including a deal with Live Nation, his "Watch the Throne" tour with Kanye West, his 40/40 club chain and a stake in the New Jersey Nets basketball team.
Dr. Dre retained the third place spot he took last year while fourth and fifth places on the list were filled by Bryan 'Birdman' Williams and 50 Cent respectively.
Cash Money Records founder Birdman insists he will soon become a billionaire but remained coy on whether his company will continue to work with partner Universal.
He told Forbes: "One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire. We're going to keep working hard until we get our brand to be as big as possible. That's the goal in life, that's what I live for.
"Right now we are with Universal and we're just trying to do the best music possible. I'm loyal to my team, and to success. Whoever gives the most benefit to my team, which is first, and to its success, that's where we'll end up at."

Forbes Magazine's five wealthiest artists:
1. P. Diddy
2. Jay-Z
3. Dr. Dre
4. Bryan 'Birdman' Williams
5. 50 Cent

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Michael Jackson's former British bodyguard has launched a legal bid to prove he's the biological father of the late singer's youngest son.
Martial arts master Matt Fiddes - who provided protection for the "Thriller" hitmaker when he was in the UK - is heading to America to lodge court papers and demand the right to see 10-year-old Blanket, whose birth name is Prince Michael Jackson II.
He claims to have given Jackson - who also had two other children, Prince Michael, 15, and 14-year-old Paris - a sperm donation in a London hotel a year before Blanket was born in 2002.
He said: "I am going to lodge my DNA and formally ask the Jacksons for access. I want visitation rights.
"Michael is their father and I do not want that to change, but I want the children back in my life. The only way that's going to happen is through legal action. I think Blanket is mine but I want final proof."
Fiddes, who has vowed to provide officials with a DNA sample so they can confirm his claims that he is the youngster's true biological dad, alleges Jackson's family have refused to speak to him or answer his letters since his death in 2009.
He added Jackson even told him he was Blanket's real father in November 2002, after he infamously dangled the then nine-month-old child over a hotel balcony.
"I sat there and asked the question, 'Is Blanket my child?' He said, 'He's my child, Matt, but I used your sperm to produce him,'" Fiddes recalls.
But Fiddes claims Jackson's mother Katherine, 81, has done her best to block his desperate pleas to see Blanket believing he is after money.
Jackson died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 at the age of 50.

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Lamar Odom Rejects Khloe Kardashian — Marriage In Trouble

Khloe can’t catch a break! Lamar completely blew her off when she tried to distract him from watching his two former NBA teams play each other on April 15, an insider tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.

Lamar Odom had one of his roughest days yet since getting cut from the NBA, and couldn’t stop watching the Los Angeles Lakers play the Dallas Mavericks, even though it made him very depressed, a source close to his wife Khloe Kardashian tells us.

Khloe tried to comfort him and tried to have him do other things, but it was impossible to take him away as he watched the entire game and moped around all day.
She eventually gave up her efforts and ended up talking to family and friends on the phone to keep her occupied while Lamar watched the game and sulked.
Khloe is begging Lamar to go to couples’ therapy to help them through this difficult time in their marriage. We hope Lamar will take her up on it, for both of their sakes!
(By Russ Weakland)

Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Takeoff

Space shuttle Discovery atop a 747 carrier jet departs the Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery is being transported to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. (AP Photo/John Raoux) WASHINGTON -- The space shuttle Discovery soared over the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol in a high-flying salute to the nation's capital Tuesday.
The world's most traveled spaceship, hitching a ride on top a Boeing 747 jet, took a couple of leisurely spins at an easy-to-spot 1,500 feet around Washington after a flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Thousands packed the National Mall to watch the pair swoop by.
"Look at that – that thing is mammoth," said Terri Jacobsen of Bethesda, Md. She brought her 12-year-old home-schooled son to the mall to watch the flyover
The shuttle-jet combo was set to land at Dulles International Airport. On Thursday, it will be towed to its permanent installation at the Smithsonian's annex in northern Virginia.
Discovery departed Florida's Kennedy Space Center at daybreak. Nearly 2,000 people – former shuttle workers, VIPs, tourists and journalists – gathered along the old shuttle landing strip to see Discovery off. A cheer went up as the plane taxied down the runway and soared into a clear sky.
The plane and shuttle headed south and made one last flight over the beaches of Cape Canaveral – thousands jammed the shore for a glimpse of Discovery – then returned to the space center in a final salute. Cheers erupted once more as the pair came in low over the runway it had left 20 minutes earlier and finally turned toward the north.
Discovery – the fleet leader with 39 orbital missions – is the first of the three retired space shuttles to head to a museum. It will go on display at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, taking the place of the shuttle prototype Enterprise. The Enterprise will go to New York City.

Endeavour will head to Los Angeles this fall. Atlantis will remain at Kennedy.
NASA ended the shuttle program last summer after a 30-year run to focus on destinations beyond low-Earth orbit. Private U.S. companies hope to pick up the slack, beginning with space station cargo and then, hopefully, astronauts. The first commercial cargo run, by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is set to take place in just another few weeks.
For at least the next three to five years – until commercial passenger craft are available in the United States – NASA astronauts will have to hitch multimillion-dollar rides on Russian Soyuz capsules to get to the International Space Station.

Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter among companies using 'dirty' cloud technology: Greenpeace

Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter are among the social media giants using "dirty" cloud technology that relies on coal and nuclear power, Greenpeace says in a report released Tuesday.

Christy Ferguson, Greenpeace Canada's climate and energy unit head, told Postmedia News that Canada has the highest rate of Internet usage per capita in the world and that we are increasingly reliant upon cloud technology.

Cloud technology enables users to communicate, watch movies or TV, listen to music, work and share photos without saving information onto their hard drive or local network.

Instead, users access cloud data over the Internet via a provider, such as data centres that allow access to the cloud and its data servers around the world. These centres are located in countries such as Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and several U.S. states, the report said.

Greenpeace alleges these data centres are powered by the "dirtiest sources of electricity, supplied by some of the dirtiest utilities on the planet" such as gas, coal and nuclear power.

While Amazon contests the numbers used in the report, Google says, through renewable energy purchases and investments, carbon offsets and on-site green initiatives, the Internet giant has been "carbon neutral since 2007."

Still, Ferguson said Canadians should take note.

"When we're not using the Internet on our computer, we're very (much) relying upon Apple products, so it's particularly important for (Canadian) users that iPods can be powered not by dirty coal but by clean energy," said Ferguson.

Ferguson said about 83 per cent of Internet usage in Canada that's not happening on computers is happening on Apple devices, with 33.5 per cent of usage on iPad, 34.6 per cent on iPhone and 14.9 per cent on iPod Touch.

The report How Clean is Your Cloud? suggests that three of the largest Internet technology companies — Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are "rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on dirty energy to power their clouds."

Ferguson said if a cloud were a country, it would rank fifth in the world in electricity demand, with some data centres using as much electricity as about 85,000 Canadian homes.

According to Greenpeace, this demand could triple by 2020.

The report said Amazon's cloud technology has relied upon coal (33.9 per cent) and nuclear power (29.9 per cent). It gave the company a grade of "F" for energy transparency, renewable energy and green advocacy.

However, Amazon's Tera Randall said the company "believes that cloud computing is inherently more environmentally friendly than traditional computing."

In an emailed statement, Randall — who called the report's data and assumptions about Amazon "inaccurate" — said, because the company combines hundreds of thousands of Amazon partners into a handful of data centres in the company's cloud, it makes for "a combined smaller carbon footprint that significantly reduces overall consumption."

This technique, she said, "eliminates the waste that occurs when datacenters don't operate near their capacity."

The report suggested that Apple relied upon coal (55.1 per cent) and nuclear power (27.8 per cent) and therefore received "D" grades in energy transparency, energy efficiency, renewable energy and advocacy.

As for Microsoft, Greenpeace said it used 39.3 per cent coal and 26 per cent nuclear power for its cloud technology, earning "C" grades for energy transparency and energy efficiency.

Microsoft declined to comment on the report.

Twitter used about 35.6 per cent of coal technology and 12.8 per cent of nuclear energy to power its cloud, the report suggested, grading the company an "F" in energy transparency and energy efficiency.

Carolyn Penner, a spokeswoman for Twitter, said the report "raises important considerations around energy efficiency."

"We continue to strive for greater energy efficiency as we build out our infrastructure," Penner said in an emailed statement.

In a statement on its website, Google said it uses a very small portion of global electricity.

"In an independent report, Stanford consulting professor Jonathan Koomey estimates that data centers use between 1.1% and 1.5% of global electricity," the company said.

Greenpeace said there is a "growing split" within the high-tech industry between companies taking steps to power their clouds with clean energy, such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo, and companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon "who lag behind by choosing to build their growing fleets of data centres using coal and nuclear energy."

Meanwhile, the report pointed to efforts by Yahoo and Google as leaders in "prioritizing" access to renewable energy in their expansion of cloud technology and lauded Facebook for constructing its latest data centre, in Sweden, that can be fully powered by renewable energy.

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World Bank picks health expert Kim as president

WASHINGTON - The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip on the job and leaving developing countries questioning the selection process.

Kim, 52, won the job over Nigeria's widely respected finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, with the support of Washington's allies in Western Europe, Japan and Canada.

Unlike previous World Bank elections, the decision among the 25-member board was not unanimous. Among emerging economies, Brazil and South Africa backed Okonjo-Iweala, while three sources said China and India supported Kim.

Kim, president of Dartmouth College, will assume his new post on July 1 after the Bank's current president, Robert Zoellick, steps down.

"I will seek a new alignment of the World Bank Group with a rapidly changing world," Kim said in a statement from Peru, his last stop on a global tour that began after President Barack Obama nominated him for the job in March.

"Together, with partners old and new, we will foster an institution that responds effectively to the needs of its diverse clients and donors; delivers more powerful results to support sustained growth; prioritizes evidence-based solutions over ideology; amplifies the voices of developing countries; and draws on the expertise and experience of the people we serve," Kim added.

Okonjo-Iweala congratulated Kim and said the competition had led to "important victories" for the world's developing nations, who have increasingly pushed for more influence in global financial institutions.

She said more effort was needed to end the "long-standing and unfair tradition".

"It is clear to me that we need to make it more open, transparent and merit-based," Okonjo-Iweala said. "We need to make sure that we do not contribute to a democratic deficit in global governance."

The United States has held the presidency since the World Bank's founding after World War Two, while a European has always led its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund.

The World Bank competition coincides with an aggressive push by emerging economies for greater voting power at the International Monetary Fund.

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Monday his country would not give additional money to the IMF to tackle the effects of the European debt crisis until the institution showed firm commitment to voting reforms.

Singer Robin Gibb of Bee Gees fame in coma

(Reuters) - Singer Robin Gibb, a founding member of the disco-era hit machine the Bee Gees, is in a coma after contracting pneumonia, his official website said on Saturday.

A spokesman for the 62-year-old, who has been battling cancer, was not immediately available to comment on reports in the British media that Gibb had been surrounded by close family in a London hospital and may have only days to live.

"Sadly the reports are true that Robin has contracted pneumonia and is in a coma," a statement on www.robingibb.com said.

"We are all hoping and praying that he will pull through."

The website has been closed down temporarily.

An unnamed family friend told the Sun newspaper: "He has kept so positive and always believed he could beat this. Sadly, it looks like he has developed pneumonia, which is very bad in his situation."

The tabloid said that Gibb's wife Dwina, sons Spencer and Robin-John, daughter Melissa and brother Barry were keeping a bedside vigil.

In February, Gibb announced he had made a "spectacular" recovery from cancer, but in late March he underwent further surgery on his intestines.

He was forced to cancel all engagements, including the world premiere earlier this month of his first classical work, co-written with Robin-John, called The Titanic Requiem.

According to the Sun, Gibb had emergency surgery in 2010 to treat a blocked bowel and further surgery for a twisted bowel - the condition that killed his twin brother Maurice in 2003 at the age of 53.

He was diagnosed with colon cancer, which later spread to his liver.

Gibb was born in the Isle of Man between England and Ireland in 1949 with twin brother and fellow Bee Gees founder Maurice.

His family moved to Manchester in northern England and then Australia, where the twins, along with older brother Barry, began performing together.

The Bee Gees released their first record in 1963, but it was only in the 1970s that the brothers rose to worldwide fame, producing a string of disco favorites including "Jive Talkin'", "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever".

The Bee Gees never matched that success in subsequent decades, although Barry in particular produced a string of hits for other artists including Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.

The band's distinctive tight harmonies and falsetto voices helped it sell an estimated 200 million albums worldwide, making it one of the most successful pop acts in history.

Our weekly Poem..

TAKE YOUR WAY.

Being laughed and discouraged posed a meaning,

A meaning to stand alone.

To become what she dreamed day and night,

She closed her eyes; a wish was blown to Almighty

A wish and dream that everyone lives in.

A laugh was made at her carrier, as secret was hidden

Farming and teaching was not seen.

Her life full of dreams and wishes was strengthened,

Being true to what she believed made her alive

alive with her dream that everyone lives in.

She loves what she does, you love you do

To them was an illusion, all eyes posed on her

Their blue and brown vision gave her lots of energy

She trusts her dreams, caring for the mother earth.

The mother earth that we live in.

Never laugh at anyone’s dream

Is yours worthier than hers?

However stupid you may call it, always acknowledge and appreciate.

Mingled dreams bear a little heaven, a heaven for all

Dare not to fail ones dream.

Dreams truly come true, try if you haven’t,

Martin Luther King Junior who knows not?

“I haaaave a dreaaam”who knows not?

What has the dream forth brought? Yes,

I have a dreaaaaaaaaaaaaam too.

A good life is a dream for all, deny the struggles?

All struggle and hustle daily a good life the summon.

Awkward and coward are they stopping the tall

Trust in your dream and plan for others calling  for yours fall.

You only can cultivate a make a world in your dreams.

Some joins your dreamland, others call for darkness,

Her fate she trusts gifted she addresses.

Becoming successful she believes so she becomes,

A good life despite the obstacles, equipped is her arms.

Let’s dream and work on our plans.

By Edith Benedict

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are Getting Married!

LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, one of the world’s best known couples, are engaged to marry, ending a fevered, seven-year celebrity media dance over whether they will ever say “I do.”
A spokeswoman for Pitt on Friday confirmed the pair had agreed to wed after Jolie was photographed in Los Angeles wearing a large diamond ring, designed by Pitt, on her engagement finger.
“Yes, it’s confirmed. It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy. There’s no date set at this time,” said Pitt’s spokeswoman Cynthia Pett-Dante.
Pitt, 48 and Jolie, 36 - dubbed Brangelina by celebrity media - are raising six children together, including three adopted kids, all under the age of 11.
Rumors of an impending marriage have made the front pages of celebrity magazines for years, and sent the world’s media scurrying to venues as far afield as Italy, India, southern Africa and France to stake out imminent “secret” ceremonies.
The “Moneyball” star said earlier this year that pressure from their kids finally was forcing them to consider tying the knot after previously dismissing marriage as unnecessary or saying they were waiting until gays and lesbians could legally wed.
“It (marriage) seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren’t going to do it ‘til everyone can. But I don’t think we’ll be able to hold out,” Pitt told The Hollywood Reporter in a January interview.
Jewelry maker Robert Procop said on Friday he had fashioned Jolie’s engagement ring in collaboration with Pitt and had been working on it for a year.
“The full creative journey - from conception to completion - took a year, with Brad Pitt waiting until the perfect moment to unveil this special jewel to Angelina Jolie,” Procop’s spokeswoman said.

Kanye West changes Kim Kardashian song title

Jay-Z (right) seen here at recent concert in Vancouver with Kanye West has just released a musical ode to his new daughter. The rapper and wife Beyonce welcomed a baby girl on Saturday.Photograph by: Stuart Davis - PNG , The Province

Kanye West has changed the title of the song on which he raps he "fell in love" with Kim Kardashian.
The hip-hop star sparked excitement earlier this month when he released new track "Theraflu" online and revealed his feelings for the stunning socialite.
Now he has made a "creative decision" to switch the title to "Way Too Cold"
In a post on his twitter page, he wrote: "I changed the name of the song THERAFLU to WAY TOO COLD and you can buy it now at KANYEWEST.COM (sic)"
The link takes fans to a painting of a headless woman's naked breasts, adorned with a fur coat and a stream of the track.
On 'Way Too Cold' - which Kanye recorded with DJ Khaled - the 34-year-old rapper reveals he developed feelings for Kim, 31, while he was still in a relationship with Amber Rose.
He also takes a swipe at her ex-husband Kris Humphries, who plays basketball for the New Jersey Jets which is part owned by Kanye's friend and collaborator Jay-Z.
In the second verse, Kanye raps: "I admit I fell in love with Kim / Around the same time she fell in love with him / Well that's cool baby girl / Do your thing / Lucky I ain't had Jay drop him from the team."
In another couplet he addresses his ex-girlfriend model Amber, who is now engaged to rapper Wiz Khalifa.
Kanye rhymes: "The whole industry wanna f**k ya old chick/ Only n***a I got respect for is Wiz."
Kanye and Kim are now reportedly dating after deciding to take their long-standing friendship to the next level.
However, Kim and her famous family have remained tight-lipped on whether the pair are an item, with sister Khloe recently saying she didn't know what the status of their relationship was.

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Review: StreetDance 2

The British purveyors of StreetDance 2 brought you its successful predecessor, StreetDance 3D, in 2010. Just as dance is built on formulas and repeated steps, the sequel follows a familiar format and storyline: The protagonist wants to win a dance competition. Cue dancing. He falls in love. Cue dancing. He can't make it to the finals. In the end, he triumphs. Cue awesome dancing. If you're a dance fan, suspend judgment and go for a whirl. Otherwise, I'd sit it out.

Starring: George Sampson, Sofia Boutella and Falk Hentschel

Rating: One and a half stars out of five

You've seen these moves before.
The British purveyors of StreetDance 2 brought you its successful predecessor, StreetDance 3D, in 2010. Just as dance is built on formulas and repeated steps, the sequel follows a familiar format and storyline: The protagonist wants to win a dance competition. Cue dancing. He falls in love. Cue dancing. He can't make it to the finals. In the end, he triumphs. Cue awesome dancing.
The protagonist in this case is Ash, played by American Falk Hentschel, who recently grappled with Tom Cruise on a train in Knight and Day and tried to escape to Mexico with Justin Bieber on an episode of CSI.
Ash falls on his face trying to out-do the reigning dance crew, Invincible (any group with that kind of name is just asking to be tested). So to redeem himself, he and his manager Eddie (Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson, reprising his role from the first film) criss-cross Europe, curating the streets for talent. They apparently have ample travel funds but limited time: eight weeks -- or 90 minutes -- to put together a crew to take on Invincible in the film's big finale.
Within 10 minutes, Ash and Eddie have convinced about a dozen b-boys and b-girls to converge in Paris. While their names flash onscreen, you subsequently forget them, because they're not actually characters (characters have personalities and backstories), they're dancers. They pop and lock and pose. For example, when Ash introduces his multicultural crew, they've lined up against a bar in perfect symmetry with pursed lips, crossed arms and crooked fedoras. This is what their album cover would look like.
The one dancer that audiences won't forget, because she is the best thing going for this movie, is Eva. Algeria-born, Paris-raised Sofia Boutella plays the fiery salsa dancer that Ash hopes will give his crew the winning edge. Boutella, a hip-hop dancer, performed with Madonna and is a Nike spokeswoman. Her presence requires no 3-D.
Next to Eva, Ash is about as hot-blooded as sea bass, which makes their love affair unconvincing. (Eva has more chemistry with veteran screen and stage actor Tom Conti, who appears as her uncle.) Salsa and street dance, however, is a natural mash-up, since salsa originated in the streets and Eva's underground Latin club is as urban and gritty as any abandoned warehouse or parking lot.
The first film combined ballet dancers with hip-hoppers, which created a fun and gimmicky contrast. But when trying to one-up another dancer, nothing is showier than a salsa dancer wearing a girl around his waist like she's a human hula hoop.
The talent of the dancers is undeniable, and the Latin routines by Cuban choreographer Maykel Fonts and the hip-hop sequences by Rich and Tone Talauega are remarkably entertaining. The Talauega brothers, whose clients include Madonna, Chris Brown and Jennifer Lopez, recently worked on Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour.
If you're a dance fan, suspend judgment and go for a whirl. Otherwise, I'd sit it out.

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Harry Potter encyclopedia in the works

LONDON - Author J.K. Rowling is working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and will donate the royalties to charity, she has said on her website.
Four years ago the British writer took an independent U.S. publisher to court to stop its plans for a reference book on the world of the fictional boy wizard, saying it constituted a “rip off” of her work.
On her re-vamped website, Rowling addressed the question of a Harry Potter encyclopedia in a “frequently asked questions and rumours” link.
“For a long time I have been promising an encyclopedia of Harry’s world, and I have started work on this now,” said the 46-year-old, whose announcements related to Harry Potter are closely followed by millions of fans.
“Some of it forms the new content in Pottermore.”
Pottermore, a free website allowing visitors to navigate the stories and discover new content not in the original books, is one of several Potter spin-offs following the completion of the seven-novel series.
The novels have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and spawned a hit eight-movie film franchise that have helped turn Rowling into the world’s most successful author.
“It is likely to be a time-consuming job, but when finished I shall donate all royalties to charity,” Rowling added.
She again addressed the most burning question for die-hard followers of Potter and his pals at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- would there ever be another Harry Potter story?
“I have always refused to say ‘never’ to this question, because I think it would be foolish to rule out something I might want to do in a few years’ time,” she wrote.
“However, I have no immediate plans to write another Harry Potter novel, and I do think that I have rounded off Harry’s story in the seven published books.”
Earlier this month, Rowling announced the title of her first book for adults would be “The Casual Vacancy”. It goes on sale on Sept. 27.

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Chelsea earns FA final berth

Chelsea sealed a meeting with Liverpool in the FA Cup final after thrashing London rival Tottenham 5-1 at Wembley Stadium on Sunday thanks to some ruthless finishing and a controversial goal that will reignite the debate over goal-line technology.The decision to award a 49th-minute goal to Juan Mata, putting Chelsea ahead 2-0, appeared to be wrong after video replays suggested the ball hadn't crossed the line when it was cleared away by Tottenham defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto.

Mata's disputed goal added to Didier Drogba's superb opener just before halftime and although Gareth Bale pulled a goal back in the 56th, Chelsea sealed the victory through classy strikes by Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda in the final 13 minutes.
"That second goal was a disaster," Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp said. "It was an honest mistake but when you look at it, it was nowhere near over the line."
Despite eventually losing by a four-goal margin, Redknapp said referee Martin Atkinson's awarding of the second goal proved crucial as it forced him to go on the attack in the final 20 minutes, leaving his defense open.
"We need goal-line technology, surely. You can't have situations like that," said Redknapp, who revealed that Atkinson had acknowledged his mistake when the pair spoke after the match. "I'm not going to sit here and say we would have won. But if you aren't behind, you don't go and open up as we did."
Atkinson made the decision, not his linesman, even though there was a mass of bodies on the line after a number of players fell in a heap after competing for a high ball in a melee in the six-yard box.
"I find it hard to believe he could see it from where he was," Spurs defender Ledley King said.
When asked if Mata's goal proved to be the turning point in the match, Chelsea manager Roberto di Matteo said: "I'm not sure. We had scored one by then and scored more afterwards.
"Sometimes you get a decision, sometimes you don't. But I can understand their frustration."

Chadema,Ccm kuungana..

Nafasi zinazotakiwa za uwakilishi wa Bunge la Afrika Mashariki ni Tisa na CCm imechukua nafasi nane na kuacha nafasi moja kwa vyama pinzani.Asilimia kubwa ya wabunnge Jamuhuri ya Muungano la Tanzania,imekubaliana na hoja ya Chadema kuhairishwa kwa uchaguzi wa wawakilishi wa bunge la Afrika Mashariki.
Chadema ilimuandikia barua Dkt.Thomas Kashililah msimamizi wa Uchaguzi wa wawakilishi wa Bunge la Afrika Mashariki kuhairisha zoezi hilo litakalofanyika kesho.
Nia ni kupitia upya utaratibu wa kuwachagua wabunge watakao enda kuwakilisha Bunge la Afrika Mashariki.
Aidha Bwn. George Simbachawene(CCM) alieleza kuwa haoni haja ya kukataa kuwa kunahitaji mabadiliko,kuna haja ya kuangalia upya kanuni hizo kutokana na kuongezeka kwa idadi ya wabunge wa chama pinzani ukifananisha wa wakati uliopita.
Aidha kada mwengine wa CCM alieleza mfumo wa sasa hauupi nafasi wabunge waliochaguliwa na wanachi wa Tanzania kushiriki katika maamuzi ya uchaguzi huo.Aliongezea pia kama wao wabunge wachache waliochaguliwa na wananchi waliowengi kuwawakilisha,kwanini wawakilishi hao walio wachache wasiwawakilishe wananchi hao kwenye uchaguzi wa Ubunge wa Afrika Mashariki
Aidha Mwanasheria Mkuu mstaafu  Andrew Chenge alikatalia mbali hoja hiyo ya Chadema kutaka kuhairishwa kwa Uchaguzi wa wawakilishi wa Bunge la Afrika Mashariki akileleza kwamba haelewi ni kwanini watu wanataka kuongezeka kwa wawakilishi upande wa upinzani,ni haswa haswa kwa mantiki gani aliuliza.Wanataka idadi iongeezeke mpaka ngapi na kwasababu gani aliongezea,aliyasema hayo kwenye mahojianao na Citizen