Mvua kubwa zilizoendelea kunyesha katika kipindi cha kabla, wakati na baada ya sikukuu ya Krismasi zimesababisha maafa katika maeneo mbalimbali na kuwaacha baadi ya watu bila ya makazi maalum katika jamii nchini Kenya na Tanzania kama inavyoonekana katika picha.

Picha zote za maafa nchini Kenya ni mali ya gazeti tando la The East African.

Picha za maafa ya mvua nchini Tanzania unaweza kuziona kupitia blogu  ya kaka Issa Michuzi kwa kubofya HAPA (Kilosa - Morogoro) na HAPA (Hedaru - Kilimanjaro).

A few months ago, I said I was taking off the rest of 2009. The reason for that, although I didn't say it at the time, was so I could spend my mother's final days at her side. I am so glad I did.  It made all the difference in the world to me.  Thank you for all of your condolences.  As you know, my mother was the apple of my eye, so this has been difficult to say the least. I'll say more about her as I am able.  It's just to soon to talk publicly about it. It is still very raw. All I'll say is this, take care of your mothers…you only get one. I've got to stop talking about this, sorry.

You have no idea how much I need to go to work right now, for no other reason than to just to be busy. January 4th can't get here soon enough. If you think I've been working at a crazy pace before, you ain't seen nothing yet!…SMILE. I'm telling you, if I walk these dogs one more time, I think they're going to cuss me out!....LOL. Y'all know I can't sit still.

Anyway, I am so glad I have decided to go out on tour.  You can't image how much I need to be in front of the people right now. To get that give-and-take, I am so looking forward to it.  Can you believe it's been 5 years since I've toured? So I'm coming to make you hurt yourself in a good way...LOL.  MADEA's BIG HAPPY FAMILY is my new play. Trust me when I tell you, I need to laugh and make you laugh even harder.  All I want to say is that if you have not seen "MADEA" live on stage you haven't seen Madea at all.  In the movies, I'm limited but on stage....FREEEEDDOMMMM!!! LOL.

This is truly my BIGGEST and BEST PLAY EVER! I've done some things in this show that have never been seen in a play before.  The show is hilarious! I mean, it's so funny that we can't get through rehearsals. We're trying to get it all out now.  And the music! The music is off the chain. So come on out, I'd love to see you there. It's bigger and better than anything I've ever done. I'm excited about it, I really am. Can you tell?

Here are the tour dates for the first leg.

Jan 4th, 2010...El Paso, TX....Don Haskins Center
Jan 5th, 2010...Phoenix, AZ....Dodge Theatre
Jan 6th, 2010...San Diego, CA....San Diego Sports Arena
Jan 9th, 2010....Seattle, WA....Key Arena
Jan 10th, 2010....Portland, OR....Memorial Coliseum

Click the link below to view all scheduled dates.  Oh yeah, if you don't see your city, just remember this is only the first leg...more cities will be added http://tylerperry.com/newplay

God Bless and thank you again.

I almost forgot, on Christmas Eve, I misdialed a number and started talking to a lady who I didn't know.  Her name is Irene Toliver.  She didn't believe it was me so here's your proof ...SMILE.  You and your husband seem like very nice people.  I hope you got your cooking finished in time. Didn't mean to take up your time, but you reminded me of my mother. God bless you.

Tyler Perry

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Xinhua News Reports that

Positive A/H1N1 flue cases in Tanzania have reached 737 since the first case was reported in early July this year, Tanzanian senior medical official said. Out of the above cases, 45 are fresh and quarantined at a special camp in Mwanza Region in northwest Tanzania, the Tanzanian Sunday News quoted Chief Medical Officer Deogratius Mtasiwa as saying.

Mtasiwa said the fresh patients are all inmates at Butimba Prison, who are under close monitoring and medical care.

The latest development has come hardly a month after the disease broke out in Kwimba District also in Mwanza last month where 40 patients were quarantined, following the reports in which142 people were suspected of being infected.

Following the dangerous situation in the area, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has taken several measures to contain the situation, including the closure of Ilula Primary School in Kwimba District where some students and teachers got infected, the chief medical officer said.

He added that the situation is back to normal in Kwimba and that the inmates at Butimba prison are not at risk of further infections following the quarantining of the positive cases.

"All is well now in Kwimba and in Butimba. We have managed to place other inmates out of harm's way. All other parts of the country are, at the moment, free from the epidemic," he said.

Sufficient stocks of medicine have been distributed by the Tanzanian government to health centers to prevent further spread of the disease, according to Mtasiwa.  

If you watch long videos on Megavideo.com you are going to be restricted to only 72 minutes, and  you will have to wait until a certain time elapse so that you can continue to watch the rest of the video.

Well, probably not more waiting, here comes the website www.megastreaming.org

With MegaStreaming you can easy easily bypass the time limit of megavideo, taking advantage of two different players you can have (31+72+31) 134 minutes of unlimited streaming, also on HD (Hight Definition Full HD) but it depends on the type of video.

Probably this TEDs talk is the most touching 2009 story that left me with a thousands plus questions unaswered. I saw myself thinking beyond what the photo and narration said. I have seen videos and heard stories, but nothing touched me like this one.

Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi's underappreciated firefighters.

To watch this video, Recorded at TEDIndia, November 2009, Mysore, India. Duration: 11:21, please CLICK HERE.

I was glad to see an elephant and all the beautiful scenery from Tanzania covered in today's National Geographic Photo of the day.  To make this photo your wallpaper, click here in order to choose a size that fits your computer screen.

What an honor! Thank you Chris Johns and thank you National Geographic for covering Tanzania!

From the upcoming National Geographic book The Image Collection, due fall 2009. Shop for other photography books from National Geographic. Click here to Buy a print of this photo.

Website:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/african-elephant-pod-best09.html

For those of you who have a twitter account and a blog, a website or even a business page or just a contact page, it may be useful to display a TwitterFollowBadge in order to attract and keep friends closer.  It calls visitors to start following your twitter account. You can create one by customizing it a bit on the site and take the code which can easily be installed on almost any site template right before the "BODY" end tag (</body>).

If you run a blog with Blogger/Blogspot, you can easily use the Twitter Static Badge Generator from Allblogtools.com. Instructions on what to do and how to add it to your blog is explained thoroughly and it is pretty easy to implement just like adding add any other HTML widget in your blog.

Websites: TwitterFollowBadge.com and Allblogtools.com

Website: wetransfer.com

If you search so many things in google and would not want to open more tabs or windows and neither close your previous search, you would better try out: www.googlegooglegooglegoogle.com

You may think this is a joke, but it's not. That's 4x google mini browser search at a go. Now I hope you will not open googlegooglegooglegoogle.com and in each mini browser, search again googlegooglegooglegoogle.com that would be mini 16 browsers! imagine having to duplicate that... LOL.

Very useful tool if you ever wanted to compare search results.
Google gets better!