Mtaani254's 11 Movies for 2011

1.Fly Paper

2.Transformers - Dark side of the moon

3.Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows prt2 

4.Immortals

5.Horrible Bosses

6.Attack The Block

7.Mission Impossible 4 -Ghost Protocol

8.The Adventures of Tin Tin

9.Hangover 2

10.Pirates of The Caribbean 4 - On Stranger Tides

11.Rio

KCPE 2011 RESULTS

775,820 Candidates sat for their KCPE examination in 2011.Education minister Sam Ongeri announced the five counties with highest number of candidates as Nairobi, Nakuru, Kiambu, Kakamega, Bungoma. There was a 32% growth in KCPE candidature  since 2003. Near gender parity was also achieved with with a ratio of 51.6pc (boys); 48.4pc (girls). The use  of ''sheng'' (slang) has been blamed for adulterating the quality of English and Swahili in the country making Tanzania and Mauritius rank higher in the region than Kenya in a survey that was conducted on literacy levels.

According to the education minister,Hon.Sam Ongeri, having children repeat classes has also been deemed detrimental  to their performance as research has shown over age pupils perform poorly. The practice of taking children to school too late also contributes to this poor performance.1st and 2nd terms to be longer,16weeks each and 3rd term to be 8weeks to allow for an exam period where all schools will be closed #kcpe2011.

Over 5,806 candidates scored over 400 marks. The top candidate this year scored 442 marks compared to  434 and 438 in 2010 and 2009 respectively. The top female candidate in the 2011 KCPE exams is Kagiri Christine  Muthoni (F) 442 and she shares the top spot with Irungu Martin Waiharo (M) who also scored 442.The list is as follows 

Top Five 2011 KCPE Candidates Nationally 

                                                   Marks

1.Kagiri Christine Muthoni & Irungu Waiharu            442  

2.Karanja Hebert Christine                                        441 

3.Kuol Tito Yak                                                          440

4.Diana Adhiambo                                                    439

Top 5 KCPE 2011 Counties 

1.Kirinyaga

2.Nandi

3.Makueni

       4.Uasin Gishu 

5.Busia

To check for the KCPE 2011 Results use either option 1 or 2 below:

1. SMS Index Number to 5052 to get 2011 KCPE Results on SMS

2. Visit the website for checking the results is http://www.knec-results.ac.ke/ and http://www.knec.ac.ke/

Project Appraisal in Third World Countries by Ruth Thuku

A project is one shot, time limited initiative which is unique i.e.no one project is similar to another that is performed to create change, solve a problem or to improve an existing project. Since a project is carried once in a lifetime never to be repeated again it means a mistake made at the initial stage will carry the error throughout the lifetime of the project, hence the need for project appraisal.
Project appraisal is the process of evaluating the viability of a project before its implementation to avoid failure of the project in the future due to unforeseen risk that could have been planned during appraisal and mitigated.
Project appraisal has four main steps and they include;
1. Idea stage –This is the inception of the project. An idea is initiated in this stage and an analysis for its go ahead to be given. If there is merit to continue it goes to stage two.
2. Preliminary survey- this involves consideration of the projects benefits against cost before a detailed analysis is taken, it includes analysis on finance, market, raw materials availability and quality equipments and availability.
3. Project Appraisal-this is critical analysis of all factors that are included in making the project successful throughout, it is involves planning actual sources of funds and clarification from these institution of their willingness to provide funds, alternative sources of funds, markets of the output, availability of raw materials and their reliability, social, economic, political and environment effect of the project.
4. Implementation stage-this involves procuring equipments on time to avoid delay at the same time avoid storage costs when they bought before completion of the plant construction, plant construction, installation of equipments and commissioning.
This are the procedures required before starting a business to ensure the investor takes a calculated risk but in third world countries projects are determined by;
Political interest-if the ruling party is for the project they force the government into licensing the project appraisal or imposing pressure on appraising officers to approve the project which leads to its failure, also making the government into accepting very expensive projects causing wastage of public funds.
If majority of politicians are against the project due personal interest they cause rejection of very productive projects that could have otherwise been of benefit to the whole country.

Effects of Globalization - the change in the way of doing things by Ruth Thuku

Since 19th century technology has rapidly changed. Technology started with the discovery of fire by the early man. Since then man has been improving his way of doing things example fire helped man keep away wild animals, keep himself warm during the night and later as means of communication.
Later man discovered precious metal like bronze that initiated trade by being used as a means of trade and as store of value it was also used for making weapons for hunting and also initiated war between human beings due to resources that began to be scarce as the population increased. This made it easier for man to acquire the items he didn’t have, man could exchange ideas and improved relationship between different inhabitants in different regions.
However, discovery of computer and its improvement throughout the period from mainframes to micro-computers has accelerated changes in technology hence improving globalization and bringing people closer to one another. Technology has improved communication from messages, smoke horn blowing, use of landlines, mobile phones and the latest is internet.
Internet has enabled e-learning which has made it easier to access higher learning from abroad without traveling outside one’s own country, this has reduced the cost traveling, maintenance and convenient since class attendance are part-time hence giving students to do other jobs as they go on with their education.
It has enabled communication throughout the world. People can now communicate with other people within the same country or in other parts of the world. This has been manifested with the interaction on facebook, twitter, 2go and other interaction channels. Also people get news about situations in the world example is the leakage of Japan’s bombs causing tsunami in the ocean and the killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S.A troops immediately become known by the whole world within less than twelve hours.
It has led to increased competition in production of goods and services. This is because globalization has opened new markets, easy access to this markets and access of quality raw materials and cheap labor. This become an advantage to consumer as competition has led to improved quality of products and cheap prices since producers are always strive to get a wider market, increase sales and retain these customers.
Through globalization infrastructure has been improved as poor countries can now access cheap quality products to improve their infrastructure like machines and other materials to make roads. They have also helped in improved knowledge on how to make quality roads and maintain them by natives who charge lower prizes. Improved infrastructure helps a country to improve its competition due to low cost of production and ease of transport of products to the market.
Though globalization has great benefits to all people in the world it has also side effects on the world.
Through increased competition it has led to failure of small businesses which couldn’t keep up with the technology rendering many employees jobless and increasing dependency ratio, disintegration of culture and loss of values leading to increased immorality like theft, pornography, homosexuality, rape and other vices. It has also led to pollution of environment by carbon products released to the air damaging ozone layer, land degradation and water pollution that has led to chronic diseases like skin cancer.
Though there are negative effects we can conclude that the benefits out way the cost as there is improved health care increasing child survival, improved communication and manual work, making the world a global village.

Small Business Enterprises in Kenya by Ruth Thuku

 

Small business enterprises are businesses owned by one person, with one to ten employees who are controlled by the owner. These businesses have less output compared with medium sized business due to small number of employees and inadequate collateral to borrow more funds for expansion.

• • Kenya is among the best countries that have promoted and invested largely in small business enterprises in the world.
    Many Kenyans have invested in small business due to many factors that have been evidenced by issues arising in the day to day behaviors of people as discussed below.
    Due to increase in spread of HIV/AIDs pandemic many Kenyans are either infected or affected thus raising the zeal to invest and earn extra money to support family members that are infected or to pay for the antiretroviral drugs that have become very expensive to afford for many people.
    Nowadays the education system in Kenya is trying to change the mind set in many Kenyans by advocating for investment by students in small businesses to reduce dependency on white color jobs which have become adverse because of rise in the number of educated persons in Kenya. In the recent past Kenya has started free education program that has resulted to, many people accessing education. Also Kenya has introduced entrepreneurship and related course e.g. marketing in many institutions like KASNEB and in universities they are included as units example is Kimathi University.
    The cost of living in Kenya is rapidly increasing making the rational Kenyans to prepare for their future by starting their own small businesses to earn extra income to support their families, improve their living standard and safeguard against total starvation in the future.
    The government of Kenya has been at the fore front in promoting venturing in small business. Apart from providing free primary education and subsidized secondary education, it has set aside a certain amount of funds from its budget as youth fund, this fund allowed youths to form groups and borrow funds from the ministry of youth with less collateral required and easy to get i.e. less bureaucracy.
    There is also support from the world by non-government organizations and other institutions. Recently the World Bank donated to the youth kitty through the “Kazi kwa vijana” initiative.
    However, with all this support there has been set backs that has made Kenya lag behind and still listed as a third world country, this include;
    The World Bank has revealed misappropriation of the funds that it had donated to help the youth, claim that made the officials responsible to refund the unused funds to the World Bank.
    High cost of living that has been revealed by recent loss of value by Kenya shilling making imports expensive and export cheap hence more difference in balance of payments and increase in price of consumer goods. All this has increased consumption reducing the incentive to invest, it has made in closure of many businesses. It has made many youths to lose hope of ever becoming successful in life thus indulging in alcohol of which are mostly illegal brews example is “yokozuna” in maina village that killed about five young people instantly in Nyahururu and others in kiambu and Nairobi that led to a few losing their lives and others losing eyesight and drug abuse.
    This and others have set back the effort to make Kenya join first world countries. However, with all this problems Kenyans have not lost their hope in the achievement of vision 2030 by coming up with business incubators that nurture young talents to help improve our technology.

UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Draw

Round of 16 draw

2011-2012 SEASON

Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)       vs     APOEL FC (CYP)

SSC Napoli (ITA)                     vs     Chelsea FC (ENG)

AC Milan (ITA)                         vs     Arsenal FC (ENG)

FC Basel 1893 (SUI)                vs     FC Bayern München (GER)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER)       vs     FC Barcelona (ESP, holders)

PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)       vs    Real Madrid CF (ESP

FC Zenit St Petersburg (RUS)     vs     SL Benfica (POR)

Olympique de Marseille (FRA)    vs     FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)