GAY PRIDE PARADE IN SAN DIEGO

 This July 16, 2011 file photo shows members of the military marching in the Gay Pride Parade in San Diego. The Defense Department on Thursday, July 19, 2012 announced it is allowing service members to march in uniform in a gay pride parade for the first time in U.S. history. The department said it was making the exception for Saturday's Gay Pride Parade in San Diego because organizers had encouraged military personnel to march in their uniform and the event was getting national attention. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

 A sailor waves a flag during the gay pride parade Saturday, July 21, 2012, in San Diego. 

 Sailors march in uniform

 two women, both active duty sailors in the Navy who gave their names as Nikki, left, and Lisa, kiss as they march in the Gay Pride Parade in San Diego.

   A Marine in uniform hands out flags in front of a group of sailors as they march in the gay pride parade Saturday, July 21, 2012, in San Diego.

 Navy Senior Chief Dwayne Beebe, center, embraces Jonathan Franqui, right, after proposing to him during the gay pride parade Saturday, July 21, 2012, in San Diego

Betty Ayala salutes a group of veterans as she holds a sign showing her son during the gay pride parade 

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KEEP FIT NOT SLIM

If you want to live longer, keeping fit is more important than keeping slim. An 11-year study of 14,000 men by the American Heart Association revealed an increased fitness reduces the chance of dying over the next six years by 19 per cent

Kenyan domestic workers want more

Friday July 20^TH 2012 –The Kenya union of Domestic Workers put up an aggressive protest yesterday demanding that parliament ratifies the International Labour Organisation Workers Convention No.189.

“We appeal to the members of parliament to ratify this important convention that seeks to push for recognition of domestic workers as other respected workers,’’ they said through their General Secretary Albert Njeru.

The Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers union called for MPs to support the ratification and adoption of the convention.  

The convention demands that domestic workers around the world who care for families and households, must have the same basic labour rights as those available to other workers: reasonable hours of work, weekly rest of at least 24 consecutive hours, a limit on in-kind payment, clear information on terms and conditions of employment, as well as respect for fundamental principles and rights at work including freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.

They marched to parliament and presented a petition to Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi saying that the convention will improve the working and living conditions of domestic workers including an upward-review of their monthly wages.

They have been demanding not less than 7,900 per month in salary and to be given weekend offs for time with their families. However a section of employers have showed concerns about the domestic workers’ move claiming that they are not professionals to make such demands.

The Kenyan DAILY POST

WORLD’S FIRST LEGAL MAN TO GIVE BIRTH TO A CHILD

Thomas Beatie - The first ever documented pregnant transgender man...

Thomas Beatie is an American female-to-male transsexual. His mother committed suicide when he was 12 and his father was never close to him. Thomas was born as a girl named Tracy LaGondino ,but being a child he always acted as a mischievous boy. At the age of 20 the young man decided that he was trapped inside awoman's body and when he was 24 he started to take male hormones. That was the first step to the sex change. Then he began transitioning in the late 1990’s by undergoing hormone therapy and surgery. He opted for a gender reassignment procedure that allowed him to keep his original reproductive organs. In 2002 he was legally recognized as a man, and in 2003 he married his wife, Nancy.

(Thomas beatie before transition - Tracy LaGondino )

Thomas and Nancy wanted to start a family, but it was the man who needed the sperm donor since Nancy was no longer able to bear children. So, in 2008, Thomas garnered worldwide attention by becoming pregnant through artificial insemination, thereby expanding the human experience of pregnancy to men. Today, he is renowned as the pop-culture icon, the world’s first Pregnant Man (The first person to give birth fully documented as male and legally married to a woman), and according to Guinness World Records, the World’s First Married Man to Give Birth. 

News of Thomas' pregnancy sparked a worldwide media frenzy across multiple platforms. He appeared ininterviews with top echelon media moguls Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters, and Larry King, and has appeared regularly on popular venues like Good Morning America, The View, and most recently The Doctors.

Already by 2008, Thomas first pregnancy had become the largest and furthest reaching transgender newsstory in history, and kick-started a media cascade of growing world-wide transgender awareness and reporting that has still not seen its crest. The exclusive documentary, “Pregnant Man,” released in November of 2008, was wildly successful and continues to air today throughout the world, documenting the final weeks of his pregnancy and the landmark birth of Susan.

Shortly after Susan was born, Thomas authored his first book, " Labor of Love: The Story of One Man’s Extraordinary Pregnancy " . Now Thomas Beatie is considered as a beacon of hope for people struggling with the stigma that transgender people can't or shouldn't start a family. He sees a need to help today’s transgender youth by embracing the ideas of self-love and acceptance. He is embarking on a renewed effort to educate transgender people and their friends and families about the resources available to them—including the importance of maintaining one’s reproductive options and health. 

Thomas Beatie now has three children, Susan (first), Austin (second) and Jansen (third). He gave birth to all three children naturally within 3 years of time.

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AJALI

Mtu unapata ajali kama hii afu unakimbia tena mfanyakazi…hapo boss aamini nini sasa?Ulikuwa umelewa?Uzembe?Makusudi au bahati mbaya? Hii ilitokea weekend bara bara ya Sumbawanga

LEO INATIMIA MIAKA MITATU TOKEA BIBI YETU MPENDWA MZAA BABA AFARIKI

Tarehe 22 mwezi wa 7 huwa ni tarehe ambayo twakumbuka siku ya kufariki bibi mzaa baba, kwa upande wa mama na baba huyu ndo bibi alikuwa kabakia na akawa ametufungia jalada la kuwa na bibi na babu. Huyu bibi alikuwa so close na mimi, shule ya msingi nimesoma nikiwa kwake na amenilea hasa...mama huwa ananiambia nilipofikisha mwaka mmoja alinipeleka kwa bibi huyu na nilikaa sana naye sikuwa msumbufu kabisa, wakati nimeanza secondary kila mwaka likizo moja nilikuwa lazima niende, hii ni picha nilipiga naye mwaka 2008 tulikuwa tumeenda kikazi sumbawanga nikapita kijijini kuwasalimia nikiwa na mama mdogo mtoto wake/mdogo wangu

 

 Hapa alikuwa anaumwa na tulipata nafasi ya kwenda kumuona ilikuwa miezi miwili kabla hajafariki

Padre alikuja kumtembelea pia na kupata sala

Na hapa ndo alipolala

Mwaka aliofariki mwaka huo huo mwezi wa 11 tulienda kijijini  familia zote kujenga makaburi ya bibi zetu wawili na babu zetu wawili upande wa mama na baba na tukafanya misa

Maakuli yalikuwepo

Mama na Vero

Mitambo kanisani ya wanakwaya

Wanakwaya wakiimba

Tulichagua nguo nyeupe kuwakumbuka akina bibi na babu, waumini kanisani

Nikiwa na baba shangazi/mumu wa shangazi yangu mwenye t-shirt nyeupe pia ni mwalimu wangu, na hao wengine ni wanafunzi wenzangu nilisoma nao darasa moja shule ya msingi

Mwenye nyeusi ni mwalimu wangu shule ya msingi, hadi leo huwa tunapigiana simu na kusalimiana, nikienda kijijini lazima nikamsalimie kwake

Kaburi la baba mzaa mama...yeye alifariki akiwa na miaka 106, nilikuwa darasa la sita ilikuwa ni siku ya ijumaa kuu...mama kwao ni mtoto wa mwisho

Kaburi la babu mzaa baba...alifariki nikiwa darasa la nne

RIP bibi.......am so connected na bibi huyu, ndo amenilea utoto wangu hadi darasa la 7, na alikuwa ananipenda mnoooo....i miss her mno

Wanachama wenzake wakitoa heshima zao kaburini kwake

Hapa yalikuwa ni maandalizi ya kujenga makaburi hayo manne

Ujenzi on process

Kaburi la bibi mzaa mama...yeye hatukwahi kumfahamu kabisaa maana alifariki wakati hata mama yetu hajaolewa

Kijijini hapo nilipata bonge la uyogaaaaaaaaa

Miaka yote hapa ndo twachota maji yanatoka milimani ni ya chem chem, tukitoa hapa ni kuyaweka mtungini yanakuwa ya baridiiii...hakuna kuchemsha wala nini

Idara nyeti

Ni hayo machache tu yaliyojiri miaka mitatu iliyopita

Upumzike kwa amani  Bibi Regina Namitita Matandiko.......Mungu alikupenda zaidi

FUNDISHO SIKU YA JUMAPILI YA LEO

Padri mmoja mzee alistaafu na wanaparokia walimfanyia sherehe kubwa. Katika sherehe hiyo, mbunge wa eneo hilo alipangwa kutoa hotuba ya shukurani ya kumuaga padri huyo kwa niaba ya wanaparokia wote. Bahati mbaya, mbunge alichelewa kufika .

Mc akamwomba padri aseme machache wakati wanamsubiri mheshimiwa mbunge.

Padri hakujipanga kusema kitu lakini kwa kujitahidi, aliongea.


"Wapendwa, naikumbuka sana siku nilipofika katika kanisa hili kwa mara ya
kwanza, ila nilipata mshangao siku nilipoanza kuungamisha. Mtu wa kwanza
kabisa kumuungamisha alinishangaza sana. kwani alisema amemwibia bosi wake TV, amemwibia ndugu yake pesa za urithi, amezini na jirani yake, na pia
katembea na house girl wake. Nikapata picha kuwa kumbe watu wa kanisa hili
ndivyo walivyo, nikasikitika sana. Kumbe nilifikiria tofauti. Kwani baadaye
nikakuta kumbe watu wa hapa ni wazuri sana na hawatendi dhambi mara kwa mara na ni wastaarabu sana".

Mara mheshimiwa mbunge akawasili, padri akakatisha maongezi na mbunge
akaanza kuhutubia. "Ndugu wapendwa, naomba mniwie radhi kwa kuchelewa kwani nilikuwa na majukumu makubwa ya kiserikali. Pia ninayo furaha kubwa kwa kunipa nafasi hii kuhutubia kwa niaba yenu. Mimi nina bahati sana kwani
padri huyu alipokuja hapa, mimi nilikuwa mtu wa kwanza kwenda na kuungama
kwake...

Fundisho-tuwe tunawahi

USHER'S 11-YEAR-OLD STEPSON KYLE GLOVER 'DIES AFTER BEING TAKEN OFF LIFE SUPPORT FOLLOWING SEVERE JET SKI ACCIDENT'

Tragic: Usher's 11-year-old stepson Kyle Glover, pictured here with the R&B star and his former wife Tameka Foster, has died today following a severe jet ski accident earlier this month

Usher's 11-year-old stepson has died today.

Kyle Glover, whose name is sometimes spelled Kile, passed away this morning according to TMZ, from the injuries he obtained in a tragic jet ski accident in Georgia earlier this month.

The young boy was reportedly taken off life support by doctors, who determined that he would not recover from his injuries.

The website reports that Glover's mother and Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster is said to have grappled with the difficult decision to disconnect the life support, and is said to be understandably 'devastated.'

Hospital: Usher's son passed away at the Egelston Children's Hospital in Atlanta this morning

Kyle was struck in the head during a jet ski collision while riding an inner tube on Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this month.