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Friday, March 24, 2017

Matajiri Wajenga Mahandaki Kujiandaa na Mwisho wa Dunia..!!!







UKITAMKA “handaki la kujificha kwa ajili ya mwisho wa dunia” watu wengi watadhani kuwa ni chumba kilichojengwa kwa uimara wa hali ya juu kikiwa kimesheheni vyakula vilivyosindikwa na vitu vingine ili kuwezesha watu kuishi kwa muda mrefu.

Tishio la kuangamia kwa dunia kwa sasa ni kubwa kama ilivyokuwa wakati wa Vita Baridi, lakini mahandaki haya ya leo ni tofauti kabisa na zile za karne ya 20.

Kampuni nyingi duniani kote zimekuwa zikishughulikia kuongezeka kwa mahitaji ya majengo yenye uwezo wa kuwalinda watu dhidi ya hatari ya aina yoyote, iwe ni magonjwa hatari ya kuambukiza, dunia kugongana na sayari au kitu chochote kutoka anga za juu, Vita ya Tatu ya Dunia – lakini wakati huo huo jengo hilo liwe ni sehemu yenye starehe.

“Mahandaki wakati wa baba au babu yako hayakuwa yanakalika,” anasema Robert Vicino, mfanyabiashara wa majengo na Afisa Mtendaji Mkuu wa Vivos, kampuni ambayo hujenga na kusimamia majumba ya kifahari duniani kote.

“Hayakuwa yanavutia. Yalikuwa yanajengwa kwa chuma, kama ilivyo meli au kifaa cha kijeshi. Na ukweli ni kwamba, binadamu hawezi kuishi kwa muda mrefu katika mazingira ya namna hiyo.

Mahitaji ya mwisho wa dunia

Matajiri wengi duniani, wakiwemo mameneja wa mifuko ya fedha, nyota wakubwa wa michezo mbalimbali na matajiri katika nyanja ya teknolojia (kuna uvumi kuwa Bill Gates amejenga handaki kwenye kila sehemu ambapo ana mali isiyohamishika kama ardhi) wamechagua kubuni makazi yao ya siri kwa ajili ya familia na wafanyakazi wao.

Gary Lynch, meneja mkuu wa kampuni ya Rising S Company ya huko Texas nchini Marekani, anasema kuwa mauzo kwa ajili ya majengo ya chini ya ardhi yameongezeka kwa asilimia 700 mwaka 2016, ukilinganisha yalivyokuwa mwaka 2015, wakati kwa ujumla mauzo hayo yameongezeka kwa asilimia 300 tangu uchaguzi mkuu wa Marekani Novemba mwaka jana.

Majengo ya chuma ya kampuni hiyo, ambayo yamebuniwa kwa ajili ya kudumu kwa vizazi kadhaa, yanaweza kuchukua chakula cha kutosha matumizi ya mwaka mzima kwa kila mkazi wa majengo hayo na pia yana uwezo wa kuhimili matetemeko makubwa ya ardhi.

Lakini wakati wengine wanataka kukaa kwenye majengo hayo peke yao, wengine wanataka kukaa huko na jamii zao ili kuwa na mfano wa maisha yanayofanana na yalivyo sasa.

Wabunifu wa majengo maalumu kwa ajili ya jamii mara nyingi hununua mahandaki ambayo hapo awali yalikuwa yakitumiwa kijeshi au mahandaki maalumu ambayo yalijengwa na serikali ya Marekani kwa ajili ya kuficha silaha kali – maeneo ambayo yanaweza kugharimu mamilioni ya dola kwa ajili ya kuyajenga leo hii.

Majengo hayo ambayo yameimarishwa, yamebuniwa kuweza kuhimili shambulio la kinyuklia na yamewekewa mifumo maalumu ya umeme, mifumo ya kusafisha maji, mifumo kwa ajili ya kuhimili matetemeko makubwa ya ardhi, na pia kuhimili mashambulizi ya silaha za kibiolojia na kikemikali. Lakini pia, majengo hayo yana mifumo kwa ajili ya kusafisha hewa.

Majengo hayo yanaweza kuchukua kiasi cha chakula cha kuweza kukaa kwa mwaka mzima au zaidi, na mengi ya majengo hayo yana bustani maalumu ambazo zinaweza kutumiwa kupanda mimea kwa kutumia madini fulani ambayo huwekwa kwenye maji, hivyo kuondoa umuhimu wa kutumia udongo, na hivyo kuweza kuwapatia wakazi wa majengo hayo virutubisho maalumu ambavyo vinapatikana kwenye mimea.

Wajenzi wa majengo hao pia wanafanya kazi ili kuhakikisha kuwa jumuiya ambazo zitakuwa zinaishi kwenye majengo wanakuwa na vipaji mbalimbali ili kuhakikisha kwamba watu wataweza kuishi katika majengo hayo kwa muda mrefu, kuanzia madaktari hadi walimu.

Vicino anasema Vivos imepokea maombi mengi kwa ajili ya majengo yake wakati wa uchaguzi nchini Marekani mwaka jana.

Safina ya mbunifu

Moja ya makazi hayo, Vivos xPoint, yapo karibu na Black Hills huko South Dakota nchini Marekani, na lina jumla ya mahandaki 75 ya kijeshi ambalo zamani lilikuwa ni sehemu maalumu kwa ajili ya kuhifadhi silaha za jeshi hadi mwaka 1967.

Sehemu hiyo sasa inabadilishwa ili kuwa ni sehemu yenye uwezo wa kuchukua jumla ya watu 5,000. Marekebisho ndani ya mahandaki hayo yanafanywa kwa gharama ya kazi ya dola 25,000 hadi 200,000 kwa kila moja. Bei ya handaki hutegemea ukubwa wake.

Jengo lenyewe litawekwa starehe zote ambazo hupatikana kwenye mji mdogo, zikiwemo ukumbi wa burudani, madarasa, bustani maalumu, kliniki na sehemu ya kufanya mazoezi ya mwili.

Kwa wateja ambao wanatafuta vitu adimu na vya starehe zaidi, kampuni hiyo inauza Vivos Europa One, ambayo imepewa jina la “safina ya kisasa ya Nuhu” katika ghala za zamani za kuhifadhi silaha wakati wa vita baridi nchini Ujerumani.

Jengo hilo, ambalo limejengwa kwenye jabali, lina makazi 34 binafsi, kila moja likiwa na ukubwa wa futi za mraba 2,500, na likiwa na uwezekano wa kuongeza ghorofa hivyo kufikia ukubwa wa futi za mraba 5,000.

Nyumba zilizoimarishwa kuhimili nyuklia

Majumba kwa ajili ya matajiri yaliyojengwa na Larry Hall zinazofahamika kama Survival Condo huko Texas nchini Marekani zinatumia maeneo mawili yaliyokuwa yanatumiwa kuhifadhi makombora ya masafa marefu, ambayo yalijengwa na mainjinia wa Jeshi la Marekani ili kuhifadhi vichwa vya mabomu ya nyuklia wakati wa miaka ya 1960.

“Wateja wetu wanapewa faida ya kuwa na nyumba ya kifahari na ambayo inakuwa imeimarishwa kuhimili shambulizi la kinyuklia,” anasema Hall, ambaye tayari amesjaanza kazi ya ujenzi wa nyumba nyingine ya aina hiyo sehemu nyingine.

Monday, February 27, 2017

Seeing the need to give upcoming musical artistes a chance to be heard on the internet, NaijaVibes has decided to create a new section on our website called ‘NaijaVibes Underground‘.

The NaijaVibes Underground Section would be a platform where artistes who have not made a name in the industry can have their songs promoted at no cost.

REQUIREMENTS TO GET FEATURED

Because we pay premium to host and maintain NaijaVibes, our office and staff, we cannot just publish every song that is sent to us. Artiste are expected to meet the following requirements before their song is uploaded:

1. Artiste Must be an up-and-coming artiste (not signed to a record label) and have a recorded song mixed and mastered.

2. Must send a press-kit which must include: mp3 file, song artwork (fully designed), artiste bio, details about the song and featured artistes where necessary.

3. Artiste MUST include his/her social media handles and MUST be following @NaijaVibes on Twitter, @NaijaVibes on Instagram and @NaijaVibescom on Facebook.

4. Artiste MUST NOT send content in a mass mail.

5. Artiste MUST include ‘NaijaVibes Underground’ in mail subject.

6. Mails should be sent to underground(@)naijavibes.com

Any mail that does not meet the above requirements will not be attended to.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

What the new Star Trek Beyond trailer tells us

A new poster has been revealed of the film.
The new full length trailer for Star Trek Beyond has dropped overnight.
It's the second trailer to be released after the teaser in December which split Trekkies but this time fans seem to be much happier.
Newsbeat spoke to film critic Joe Michalczuk who gave us his verdict.
"Simon Pegg (who wrote the film) and Director Justin Lin, who made his name on the Fast and Furious films, have excelled themselves here."

It's all about the characters

"Yes it's Star Trek boldly going fast and furiously where it's never been before - but as well as the incredible action sequences, including the destruction of the Enterprise, this trailer is far more character-centric than the first." Joe says.

Kirk is still affected by his dad

"We discover that Kirk is still haunted by the ghost of his father," Joe explains, "and the original bromance of Kirk, Spock and McCoy looks to be at the heart of the movie."

Mates matter

"That's what makes Star Trek great - yes it has the thrills of space - but it's ultimately about of a group of mates finding their way in the universe." Joe says.

This is going to be a fun film

"In the 50th anniversary year of the franchise, Star Trek Beyond looks like it captures the fun and adventure of the original series - so successfully re-imagined in JJ Abrams' reboot in 2009."
And Trekkies on Twitter seem pretty happy too.

The teenagers who poison themselves

The number of teenagers in the UK who self-harm by poisoning themselves is on the rise. Girls and young women are particularly at risk, according to a study published this week. What drives them to do it?
"It's like my brain has two bits: the happy bit and the bad bit," says 18-year-old Jasmine. "The bad bit keeps pushing until it takes over. You feel like you're losing control of yourself a little bit more and a little bit more. And then it happens.
"There's something in my brain telling me to do it. It's sort of like having a toddler who's demanding things of you constantly. Eventually you just get so tired and the toddler is annoying you so much that you just give in."
Jasmine is one of thousands of teenagers and young women who self-poison - using substances such as alcohol, painkillers and illegal drugs to make themselves sick. Sometimes they have calculated how much they need to feel badly ill without passing out and having to be taken to hospital.
"You would think exams are the worst time," she says, "but self-poisoning doesn't really work like that. I find it's more the normal stress of my everyday life. It happens every few months on average, but more often than that, if there's a particularly difficult time that I'm going through."Jasmine, who is going to university to study English this autumn, was diagnosed with depression when she was 15 and started self-poisoning when she was 16. She has had a difficult relationship with her mother since she was about 10 and was bullied when she started secondary school.
The charity Life Signs describes self-injury as "deliberate, non-suicidal behaviour that inflicts physical harm on your body and is aimed at relieving emotional distress". It says people can be driven to doing it because they think the physical symptoms of self-poisoning and other types of self-injury, such as cutting themselves, will be easier to cope with than their emotional pain.
But charities say self harm doesn't actually alleviate suffering, and although self-poisoners don't want to kill themselves, they put themselves at risk of serious injury and death.

Ashton, who is 20 years old, says she gets the urge to self-injure three or four times a week. Usually this takes the form of wanting to cut herself, but about once a month she may resort to self-poisoning.
"It started when I was 16," she says. "At the time I had anorexia. The first time I self-poisoned I overdosed and my mum found me." After that, Ashton continued to self-poison using smaller quantities of substances.
"It's hard to explain," she says. "I self-poison because I actually want to feel something physical rather than just mental. It's a lot easier to describe your symptoms when you feel physically sick - you don't have to explain them to people in the same way as feeling bad emotionally. It's something that takes you away from what you're worrying about. You just feel horrible and sick - physical symptoms."
Ashton has started college and then dropped out "three or four times", she says.
"I don't have a very good relationship with my mum and I'm not in education or at work at the moment, but I'm top of the list for a housing programme, which means I should get a bit more space soon.""I've got a strong sense of what I've missed out on, especially when my friends have gone off to university. I think that's some of what motivates my self-poisoning now.
Researchers at the University of Nottingham say there was a 27% increase in known UK cases of teenage self-harm between 1992 and 2012, with 17,862 incidents reported during that 20-year period. Those most at-risk were girls and women from poor backgrounds.
The figures used in the study record cases where people required medical attention. People who self-poisoned but did not end up in hospital would not show up in the statistics.
The government says it is putting £1.4bn ($2bn) into "transforming" mental health support for young people, but Ashton and Jasmine say that in their experience hospital staff struggle to understand self-poisoning.
"You end up having to explain what happened," says Ashton. "Often they see the problem only in physical terms - what the poison's doing to your liver. But you don't think about that side of things when you're self-poisoning."
Jasmine
Jasmine says after a visit to a hospital accident and emergency department she was referred to a psychotherapist "who wasn't very sympathetic".
"She spoke to me like she was telling me off, rather than trying to understand," she says. "These days I've got much better support, but even if you've got a wide support network it can still be a problem that people don't get it."
Jasmine has developed her own ways of coping when she feels the need to self-injure. She keeps sharp objects out of her bedroom and stays away from painkillers.
"I try to protect myself. It doesn't necessarily help but it's something I try to do anyway. A lot of it's trying to be aware that I need to take care of myself. I've got better at controlling myself and making myself aware that the next time I self-poison could be the last time if I go too far."
Sarah
Overcoming the urge to self-poison can take years. One person who has managed it is 27-year-old Sarah, who is now an NHS doctor. She started self-harming as a teenager, taking an overdose in the toilet at her school and three more times while at university. She continued to self-poison at a lower level afterwards.
"My mum was an alcoholic and she was often violent towards me," she says. "I also come from a working-class background and I grew up on a council estate, so I often felt that at university I didn't belong."
But Sarah sought help and was given treatment including art psychotherapy. "It was really hard," she says. "Sometimes I came out of the sessions feeling worse because of the stuff we were discussing, but it got better. I began to realise that learning to love myself again was really important."
Sarah, who has scars from cutting herself and suffered some liver damage from self-poisoning, also took up yoga. "I needed to learn to love my body, as well as my mind and yoga helped me with that," she says. "Aspects like learning how to breathe better helped me to relax."
In February Sarah celebrated a full year without self-poisoning. She continues to practise yoga and hopes, in the future, to speak to teenagers about how they can also overcome it. "It's not easy," she says, "but it can be done.

Mount Everest in the distance, at sunsetImage copyrightREUTERS Image caption The peak has lured climbers for generations About 30 climbers have suffered frostbite or become ill on Mount Everest, after two more died from apparent altitude sickness. Two Indian climbers have also been reported missing in the mountain's so-called "death zone" near the summit. Despite the danger, the mountain's most successful female climber reached the summit for the seventh time on Friday. This climbing season is the first since an earthquake in Nepal last year that killed at least 18 people on Everest. Nearly 400 climbers have reached the summit from the mountain's Nepalese side since 11 May, thanks to good weather. Rescuers carry a Sherpa injured by an avalanche that hit Everest Base Camp in Nepal's earthquake, in a picture taken on 25 April 2015Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image caption Last year's earthquake killed at least 18 people in the Nepal-side Base Camp, and thousands more across the country There have been successful ascents from the Chinese side too, including Lhakpa Sherpa, a Nepalese woman now living permanently in the US and working in a convenience store in Connecticut, who reached the peak from Tibet on Friday - breaking her own record for the most Everest climbs by a woman. But the weekend's dead and missing have highlighted the dangers of the world's highest mountain. Dutch climber Eric Ary Arnold died on Friday, after reaching the summit, while on Saturday, 34-year-old Australian woman Maria Strydom also died while descending from the peak. They are the first fatalities of the season. Indian climbers Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh also went missing on Saturday, Wangchu Sherpa from the Trekking Camp Nepal agency in Kathmandu told the Associated Press. Speaking to the BBC, Gyanendra Shrestha, a Nepalese official at Everest Base Camp, said snow blindness, altitude sickness and fatigue are very common health issues at high altitudes, although most people recover once they descend the mountain. However, it is not unusual for there to be a few deaths from these conditions every season, in addition to deaths from accidents and other reasons, he said.

Mount Everest in the distance, at sunsetImage copyrightREUTERS
Image captionThe peak has lured climbers for generations
About 30 climbers have suffered frostbite or become ill on Mount Everest, after two more died from apparent altitude sickness.
Two Indian climbers have also been reported missing in the mountain's so-called "death zone" near the summit.
Despite the danger, the mountain's most successful female climber reached the summit for the seventh time on Friday.
This climbing season is the first since an earthquake in Nepal last year that killed at least 18 people on Everest.
Nearly 400 climbers have reached the summit from the mountain's Nepalese side since 11 May, thanks to good weather.
Rescuers carry a Sherpa injured by an avalanche that hit Everest Base Camp in Nepal's earthquake, in a picture taken on 25 April 2015Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionLast year's earthquake killed at least 18 people in the Nepal-side Base Camp, and thousands more across the country
There have been successful ascents from the Chinese side too, including Lhakpa Sherpa, a Nepalese woman now living permanently in the US and working in a convenience store in Connecticut, who reached the peak from Tibet on Friday - breaking her own record for the most Everest climbs by a woman.
But the weekend's dead and missing have highlighted the dangers of the world's highest mountain.
Dutch climber Eric Ary Arnold died on Friday, after reaching the summit, while on Saturday, 34-year-old Australian woman Maria Strydom also died while descending from the peak. They are the first fatalities of the season.
Indian climbers Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh also went missing on Saturday, Wangchu Sherpa from the Trekking Camp Nepal agency in Kathmandu told the Associated Press.
Speaking to the BBC, Gyanendra Shrestha, a Nepalese official at Everest Base Camp, said snow blindness, altitude sickness and fatigue are very common health issues at high altitudes, although most people recover once they descend the mountain.
However, it is not unusual for there to be a few deaths from these conditions every season, in addition to deaths from accidents and other reasons, he said.