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1. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ~Willie Nelson   2. No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things. ~Demi Lovato  3. Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard   4. I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. ~Harvey Fierstein  5. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. `Zig Ziglar

1. I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. - Diane Lane  2. A smile is the universal welcome. - Max Eastman 3. Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you. - Anna Lee 4. After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. - William R. Alger 5. A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. - Tom Wilson 6. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine 7. Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. - Paramahansa Yogananda 8. A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. - Denis Waitley 9. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Dille...

Mshambulizi wa Arsenal Olivier Giroud alifunga bao na kuiongoza ''Le Blues'' kuilaza Jamaica mabao 8-0 katika mechi yao ya mwisho ya kujipima nguvu iliyochezwa siku ya Jumapili. Ufaransa ilikuwa ikiongoza kwa mabao 3-0 kufikia muda wa mapumziko, Yohan Cabaye, Blaise Matuidi na Karim Benzema wakimpa kocha Didier Deschamps kila sababu ya kutabasamu kabla ya kudundadunda. Matuidi na Benzema walifunga tena katika kipindi cha pili, huku bao lake Giroud na mengine mawili kutoka kwa Griezmann yakitamatisha ushindi wao. Ufaransa 8-0 Jamaica Ufaransa itakabiliana na Honduras, Uswisi na Equador katika kundi E. Kiungo cha kati wa Real Madrid Benzemaa lionyesha mchezo wa kuridhisha huku Ufaransa ikionyesha kwamba inaweza kujikimu bila Franck Ribery ambaye hatahudhuria michezo ya Kombe la Dunia kutoana na jeraha la mgongo. Hugo Lloris anaychezea Tottenham Hotspurs, Patrice Evra wa Manchester United, Mamadou Sakho wa Liverpool na Moussa Sissoko wa Newcastle walicheza mechi h...

1. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. - John Burroughs 2. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Arnold H. Glasow 3. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison 4. Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. - Heraclitus 5. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. - Julius Caesar 6. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make you...

Wafanyikazi wa usafiri wa mjini Sao Paulo wamepiga kura kuidhinisha mgomo wao uendelee kwa muda usiojulikana licha ya uamuzi wa mahakama ya kazi nchini humo, iliyokuwa imewaamuru wafanyikazi hao kurudi kazini mara moja. Mahakam ilikuwa imesema wakuu katika vyama vya wafanyikazi hao wa usafiri wa mjini Metro, walikuwa wametumia mamlaka yao vibaya kwa kuanzisha mgomo tangu alhamisi iliyopita. Maandamano mengi yamekuwa yakulalamikia hali ngumu ya usafiri lakini sasa wafanyikazi wa treni za mijini ziitwazo Metro ndio waliogoma kutaka nyongeza ya mishahara. Huku nusu ya vituo vya usafiri vikiwa tayari vimefungwa, msongamano wa magari umezidi kuizonga Sao Paulo.  Sasa wasiwasi unaongezeka, wa Je hali ikiendelea hivyo itakuaje hapo alhamisi wakati jiji hilo ndilo linafungua dimba hilo? Wafanyikazi hao wanadai nyongeza ya mshahara ya asilimia 12 ilhali serkali imesema itamudu nyongeza ya takrban asilimia 9.

Cameroon sasa wameenda Brazil baada ya mzozo kuhusu marupurupu yao kutatuliwa. Wachezaji hao, almaarufu 'Indomitable Lions' walikuwa wamesusia kuingia ndegeni hadi marupurupu yao yaongezwe. Akiwemo nyota wao mshambuliaji wa zamani wa Chelsea, Samuel Eto'o, walikuwa wamegoma kuingia ndegeni hapo Jumapili asubuhi hivyo safari ikachelewa kwa zaidi ya saa 12. Wachezaji hao walikuwa wakilalamikia fedha £61,000 ambazo walikuwa wamepangiwa kupewa wakisema hazingetosha. Haijabainika vyema ngapi wameongezewa ndio wakakubali safari. Hata hivyo rais wa shirikisho la soka la Cameroon Bw.Joseph Owona amesema 'baada ya kuweka kila kitu wazi ,mzozo huo umetatuliwa na sasa hamna tatizo'. Tatizo lililopo sasa kwa masimba hao ni kupata mkakati madhubuti wa kukabiliana vilivyo na timu za kundi lao A ambamo wamo miamba ya soka wenyeji Brazil, Croatia na Mexico.

Kiongozi wa Kanisa Katoliki Papa Francis I amewakaribisha Rais wa Israel, Shimon Peres, na mwenzake kutoka Palestina, Mahmoud Abbas, katika maombi ya aina ya kipekee katika makao makuu ya Kanisa Katoliki la Vatican. Viongozi hao wawili walikutana na Papa nje ya makazi yake kabla ya kuandamana naye, wakiandamana na kiongozi wa Kanisa la Orthodox, Partriarch Artholomew kwa hafla maalumu katika Medani ya Vatican. Akiongea katika hafla hiyo Papa alisema ujasiri na nguvu vinahitjika katika juhudi za kuleta amani. "Kuleta amani kunahitji ujasiri mkubwa kuliko vita. Kunahitaji ujasiri wa kusema ndio kwa mkutano na La kwa vita; ndio kwa mashauriano na La kwa makabiliano; ndio kwa kuheshimu mikataba na La kwa uchokozi; Ndio kwa ukweli na La kwa Uongo; kwa haya yote tunahitaji ujasiri na nguvu moyoni," Papa alisema Na katika hotuba yake Bwana Peres alisema alitakia vizazi vyote vijavyo amani ya kudumu: "Rafiki wapenzi, Nilikuwa mchanga, na sasa nimezeeka. Nilishuhudia vita, Nili...

Mambo hadharani! Uhusiano wa staa wa sinema za Kibongo, Elizabeth Michael ‘Lulu’ na mshiriki wa Shindano la Big Brother Africa 2013, Amir Nando umewekwa kweupe. Kabla ya wawili hao kufunguka, kulikuwa na madai mazito kuwa Lulu na Nando ‘wanachepuka’ mara tu baada ya Nando kutolewa BBA kwa ukosefu wa nidhamu. Kuna habari kuwa Nando ndiye aliyevujisha ishu hiyo, jambo ambalo Lulu hakupendezwa nalo hivyo kumpiga chini. Baada ya kunyetishiwa ishu hiyo, gazeti hili lilimtafuta Nando ambaye mwanzoni alifanya kama utani akidai Lulu ni mwanamke anayefaa kuolewa (wife material) lakini alipoulizwa kwa msisitizo, alikana kuwa na uhusiano na mrembo huyo. “Lulu ni mkali, niko tayari kumuoa lakini sijamwambia, akikubali freshi nitamuoa. Kwa sasa ni mshikaji wangu tu na napenda kazi zake. Huwa ni mtu ambaye napenda kufuatilia ishu zake,” alisema Nando. Kwa upande wake Lulu alishtuka na kudai kuwa aulizwe huyohuyo Nando na si yeye kwani haoni sababu ya yeye kuulizwa. Alifunguka: “Hebu muulizeni Nando ...

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ameapishwa kuwa rais mpya wa Misri katika seherehe iliyofanywa kwenye mahakama makuu ya katiba mjini Cairo. Baada ya kaapishwa, Rais Sisi alikwenda ikulu kwa ajili ya sherehe iliyohudhuriwa na viongozi kutoka nchi kadha. Kiongozi wa muda, Adly Mansour na Bwana al-Sisi walitia saini waraka wa kukabidhi madaraka kwake rais mpya - kwa mara ya kwanza katika historia ya Misri. Rais mpya alisema hilo ni tukio la kihistoria. Mkuu huyo wa zamani wa jeshi alishinda katika uchaguzi wa mwezi uliopita kwa asili-mia-97, ingawa upinzani ulisusia uchaguzi huo. Wafuasi wa Rais al-Sisi walisherehekea katika medani ya Tahrir mjini Cairo. Mfuasi mmoja wa al-Sisi, Fakhri Gamel Abdul Khaleq, alisema anatumai sherehe za leo ndio zitamaliza matatizo yaliyopita: "nampongeza Bwana rais anapoapishwa leo. Mungu ajaalie uwe mwaka wa furaha kwetu na kwa Wamisri wote. Na tunaomba Mungu atunusuru na yale yaliyotokea kabla, na tutakuwa watu wema. Mungu akipenda, kama alivosema rais, tutakuwa...

1. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali 2. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus 3.Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller 4. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison 6. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 7. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey 8. Let us be grateful to people who make us ha...

Usalama umeimarishwa katika mji mkuu wa Misri ,Cairo kabla ya kufanyika kwa sherehe ya kumuapisha rasmi rais mpya wa taifa hilo Abdel Fatah el Sisi. Rais huyo mteule atakula kiapo chake cha kuchukua mamlaka katika mahakama kuu ya kikatiba mjini Cairo. Alishinda uchaguzi wa urais wa mwezi uliopita kwa wingi wa kura ijapokuwa idadi ya waliojitokeza kushiriki katika shughuli hiyo ilikuwa chini ya asilimia 50. Uchaguzi huo unajiri miezi michache tu baada ya kiongozi huyo kumpindua madarakani aliyekuwa rais wa taifa hilo Mohammed Morsi. Mkuu huyo wa jeshi wa zamani ameanzisha msako dhidi ya wanaompinga mbali na kukipiga marufuku chama cha Morsi cha Muslim Brotherhood. Chanzo: BBC

Muigizaji mkongwe hapa nchini, Said Ngamba maarufu kwa jina la Mzee Small amefariki dunia usiku wa leo katika hospitali ya Taifa Muhimbili alikokuwa amelazwa akipatiwa matibabu. Akithibitisha taarifa ya kifo cha Mzee Small, mwanae aitwae Mahmoud amesema mzee wake amefikwa na mauti hayo majira ya saa nne usiku wakati akiwa hospitalini hapo akiendelea kupatiwa matibabu. Mipango inafanyika nyumbani kwao Tabata na kadri taarifa zitakavyokuwa zikitufikia tutaendelea kujulishana. Ni pigo lingine tena kwenye tasnia ya sanaa baada ya kuondokewa na wasanii na kadhaa majuma yaliyopita. CHANZO: KAJUNASON BLOG

1. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. - Lana Turner 2. Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. - Hedy Lamarr 3. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. - Margaret Mead 4. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein 5. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. - Jim Carrey 6. My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg 7. A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often. - Oliver Herford 8. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard 9. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. - Lily Tomlin 10. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: ...

Maafisa wa polisi nchini Brazil wametumia gesi ya kutoa machozi ili kuwatawanya waandamanaji katika siku ya pili ya mgomo wa wafanyikazi wa sekta ya uchukuzi ambao umesababisha uhaba mkubwa wa usafiri wa uma katika mji wa Sao Paulo.  Takriban nusu ya vituo vya treni vilifungwa na kusababisha msongamano mkubwa wa watu katika barabara za mji huo mkubwa ambao unatarajiwa kuandaa michuano ya kombe la dunia kuanzia alhamisi ijayo. Wafanyakazi hao wa treni wanataka mishahara yao kuongezwa kwa asilimia kumi. Awamu nyingine ya majadiliano imefeli na wafanyikazi hao wanasema kuwa mgomo huo utaendelea kwa mda usiojulikana.

1. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. - Confucius 2. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein 3. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson 4. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. - John C. Maxwell 5. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela 6. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates 7. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley 8. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius 9. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn 10. For beautiful eyes, loo...