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20:55
A Time To Sell, And To Reflect Too
» For Love and Money A Time To Sell, And To Reflect Too
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14:33
999 say Mungiki Man might have been killed by XYZ
» Diary of a gay Kenyan Some events are as predictable as me getting an erection from watching porn. I notice not many people have come out to publicly moan the murder of Mungiki spokesman Njuguna Gitau, and don’t expect me to either. That would be cynical considering I didn’t know the man nor do I knowingly associate with the Mungiki. Ever since he surfaced last year I often wondered for how long he would continue to freely front a proscribed group whose members have been accused of running extortion rackets whilst carrying out the most despicable of murders.
And yet something about the circumstances of his demise unsettles me: Perhaps because his killing has all the hallmarks of an assassination and elements of tacit endorsement by dark forces. This explanation of infighting within the sect lacks imagination and seems to me like a cop out. You’d have to be spectacularly foolish to carry out a crime of this magnitude in broad daylight, on a busy street that normally has a high presence of armed uniformed and plainclothes police and then casually saunter away.
‘Inconceivable’ doesn’t even come close.
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13:00
Yet Another Financial Typo From Treasury
» You Missed This 
Their creativity is so amazing and they won't stop. After the BUDGET typo now comes CMC's 2003 loan being paid in style via Volkswagen Passat cars.
Competitive bidding must have been a preface in syllabus of yore. Value for theft is only guaranteed via sour be single sourcing. And at KES 3.7m per VW unit, don't ask the difference from KES 1.8m from the truly industrious lot.
You see we have to retrospectively finance the hither phantom 6% growth that was exclusively anchored on deceit. In addition to paying the previous debts, the kitty must be replenished for 2012.
Make no mistake, the fraudsters are not naive. They packaged the fraud so smartly the public was left asking for more. Denouncing fuel guzzlers must have been a superlative PR while the scoundrels scouted for next prey. And the game goes on and on..........Kumekucha
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12:29
Brothers and Sisters Review
» Couch Potato 
This show is as wholesome as christmas pudding. It's about the chemistry behind family. The humor, the gossip, the secrets and everything dysfunctional that comprise of normalcy in any family.
Simple and straight to the point. Family dynamics as honest and accurate as it gets. Sometimes a little too monotonous with their family values...but this is tv after all!
One would argue that maybe these are stories that we have seen before. That it is a recycled version of great shows like ''Picket Fences,'' ''Sisters,'' ''Life Goes On,'' ''Six Feet Under'' and even ''7th Heaven.'' Well those were all shows that centered solely around family and hence the reason for any comparison. But the chemistry within this show in terms of characters and writing is wholesome. This is a feel good show. It tackles all aspects of life with an interesting twist. Yes you have seen infidelity over and over. There is now a cancer angle like we saw on Sisters. But if you have ever loved or liked the above shows then this you will automatically love.
The cast is powerful.
Oscar award winning (and now Emmy winning) Sally Field is the matriach of the family. Enter Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal), Rachel Griffiths (a superb actress from the superb Six Feet Under), Rob Lowe (West Wing), Ron Rifkin (Alias...boy he was a superb villain), Patricia Wettig (Prison Break V.P)... and numerous guest appearances
Coupled with good writing. This is your modern day family drama. Where you need to watch family drama and humor...this is your show! There is something warm about this show. It's a feel good show!
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8:43
East African Publishers Books go live on Google Books
» Kenyanpoet East African Educational Publishers' books are finally live on Google books with upto 20% preview on most of their titles.
They joined the Google Publishers Partnership Program in July in a bid to market their books globally through the Google Books program. They will be making their full catalogue of over 2,500 books available for online preview on the same program.
Late last week saw a total of 713 books go live on the Google Books site complete with previews and buying links to the publisher's online shop as well as other online outlets.
Avid readers of African Literature can now scheme through some of Africa's best sellers reading several random pages as though they were at their favorite bookshop and only click on the buy link once they decide to make a purchase.
EAEP joins Kwani Trust in the online book marketing Venture with Google Books.
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7:25
NPCA Leagues Final Points Tables for 2009
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Become a fan of Kenya Cricket.com on facebook: [www.facebook.com]POINTS TABLE - LEAGUE 2009 - 50 OVERS. FINAL - STANDINGS
SUPER
TEAM
PLAYED
WIN(WON)
DRAW
BAT
BOWL
BONUS
PENALTY
TOTAL
Swamibapa 'A'
14
144(12)
6
22
49
8
-1
228
Kanbis 'A'
14
132(11)
0
30
52
2
0
216
Telca
14
120(10)
0
15
42
18
0
205
Stray Lions 'A'
14
96(8)
12
17
43
8
-2
174
Kanbis 'B'
14
72(6)
6
12
40
16
0
146
SCLYL 'A'
14
36(3)
0
14
40
2
0
92
Sir Ali 'A'
14
24(2)
12
15
19
0
-8
62
Simba Union A
14
12(1)
0
8
31
2
0
53
DIV I
PLAYED
WIN(WON)
DRAW
BAT
BOWL
BONUS
PENALTY
TOTAL
Nbi,Nookers 'A'
14
156(13)
0
21
43
18
-1
237
Swamibapa 'B'
14
144(12)
0
23
53
10
-1
229
Premier
14
84(7)
6
19
43
6
-1
157
Kongonis Dev
14
84(7)
6
27
42
0
-3
156
Ruaraka 'A'
14
60(5)
0
18
34
10
-1
121
Ngara
14
60(5)
0
3
38
16
-5
112
Nbi.Jafferys
14
48(4)
12
8
30
4
-3
99
Nbi.Gymkhana
14
12(1)
0
10
35
0
0
57
DIV II
PLAYED
WIN(WON)
DRAW
BAT
BOWL
BONUS
PENALTY
TOTAL
Stray Lions 'B'
14
144(12)
6
11
51
16
0
228
Goan Inst A
14
108(9)
6
23
43
8
0
188
Golden XI
14
108(9)
0
14
41
18
0
181
Aga Khan
14
96(8)
12
17
37
6
0
164
Sir Ali 'B'
14
72(6)
0
11
39
12
-8
125
SCLYL 'B'
14
60(5)
0
14
36
8
0
118
Simba Union B
14
36(3)
0
13
33
8
-7
83
Qutbis
14
24(2)
0
18
23
0
-2
63
DIV III
PLAYED
WIN(WON)
DRAW
BAT
BOWL
BONUS
PENALTY
TOTAL
Parklands
12
120(10)
6
14
44
8
-4
188
Aaryans
12
96(8)
6
20
34
12
-1
167
Oshwal XI
12
72(6)
0
5
41
10
0
128
Nbi Nookers 'B'
12
72(6)
0
6
37
14
-1
128
Goan Inst'B'
12
60(5)
0
5
29
23
-1
116
Ruaraka 'B'
12
60(5)
0
3
25
12
-1
99
Women XI
12
12(1)
0
1
31
2
-1
45
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NPCA 50 Overs League Results Final Week
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8th.November 2009
Super
SCLYL 'A'
Kanbis 'A'
Pindolia
Kanbis 'A' won by 49 Runs
238 All Out
287 All Out
Ravji Varsani - 104
Rakep Patel - 102
Naran Jagani - 67
Rikesh Hirani - 48
Rikesh Hirani - 3/61
Suraj V - 3/43
Rohit V - 2/35
Mahendra B - 3/69
Super
Kanbis 'B'
Simba Union 'A'
Eastleigh
No show by Simba Union 'A'
Walk-over
No Show
Game awarded to Kanbis 'B'
Super
Sir Ali 'A'
Telca
Sir Ali
Telca won by 124 Runs
136 All Out
260 All Out
Alex Obanda - 98
Super
Swamibapa 'A'
Stray Lions 'A'
Premier
Swamibapa 'B' won by
214 All Out
108 All Out
106 Runs
Tony Suji - 39
Hiren V - 22
Francis Otieno - 34
Collins O - 21
Jimmy K - 3/49
James Otieno - 4/9
Hiren V - 2/25
Nehemiah O - 3/30
One
Kongonis Dev
Premier
Nbi Club
Kongonis Dev won by 108 Runs
310 / 5 Wkts
202 / 5 Wkts
One
Nbi Jafferys
Swamibapa 'B'
Jafferys
Swamibapa 'B won by 7 Wkts
157 All Out
158 / 3 Wkts
One
Ngara
Nbi Gymkhana
Ngara
Game awarded to Ngara
Walk Over
No Show
Nairobi Gymkhana no show
One
Ruaraka 'A'
Nbi Nookers 'A'
Ruaraka
Nbi Nookers 'A' won by 3 wkts
234 / 7 Wkts
237 / 7
Amit S - 45*
Amit - 82*
David M - 45
Gerald - 57*
Two
Qutbis
Aga Khan
Seifee
Qutbis won by 50 Runs
294 / 6 Wkts
244 All Out
Two
Stray Lions 'B'
SCLYL 'B'
Peponi
Stray Lions 'B' won by 8 wkts
103 / 2 Wkts
102 All Out
Bharat - 33
Anand - 34
Nitin - 32
Tanveer - 32*
John - 5/34
Jigar - 1/19
Tanzeel - 2/15
Chandrakant - 1/27
Two
Goan Institute 'A'
Golden XI
Nbi. Gym
Goan Institute 'A' won by
189 / 4 Wkts
185 All out
6 wkts
Jigar Mehta - 64
Viral - 47
Quersh B - 48
Kamlesh - 40
Ankil - 2/19
Quersh - 4/33
Varghese - 1/15
Rajesh K - 2/38
Two
Simba Union 'B'
Sir Ali 'B'
Simba
Simba Union 'B' won by
307 / 9 Wkts
123 All Out
174 Runs
Hitesh Purohit - 128*
Mohammed - 21
Avtar Kundi - 40
Sagar Patel - 17
Jibran - 5/51
Gagandeep - 3/17
Saqib - 2/20
Manpreet - 2/24
Three
Oshwal XI
Goan Institute 'B'
Highridge
Oshwal XI won by 61 Runs
120 All Out
59 All Out
Josephat - 30
Savan - 15
Ketur - 20
Raj Savla - 4/7
Betaab - 5/44
Josephat - 3/5
Sahil - 2/16
Three
Women's XI
Nbi Nookers 'B'
Nbi.Sch
Nbi Nookers 'B' won by 50
74 All Out
124 All Out
Runs
Three
Parklands
Bye
Bye
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4:20 THE GENIUS OF THE ORACLE OF OMAHA
» Kenyantykoon's Blog I am a personal finance blogger and there is no secret that i love Warren Buffett. I have linked to most articles that i have ever read of him, the most recent being “invest like the richest” I like the investing style that he crusades that is so different that what i hear from most financial [...]
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3:42
Mo Faya in Nairobi
» Kenyan Pundit A Kenyan musical written and composed by Eric Wainaina and directed by John Sibi-Okumu.
Starring: Eric Wainaina, Valerie Kimani, Atemi Oyungu and Mũmbi Kaigwa
Location: The GoDown Arts Centre – Dunga Rd, off Lusaka Rd Tickets available at Silverbird Cinemas (Village Market, Junction and Westgate) and selected Uchumi outlets
Contact Info: Mo Faya 0720 492540 [www.mofayathemusical.com]
Dates: November 11th to December 20th: Wednesdays (1 ticket for 2) – 7.30pm – Sh300 adults, Sh300 students (13-18yrs) Thursdays and Fridays – 7.30pm – Sh600 adults, Sh400 students (13-18yrs) Saturdays – 2.30pm & 7.30pm – Sh800 adults, Sh400 students (13-18yrs) Sundays – 2.30pm – Sh800 adults, Sh400 students (13-18yrs)
DJ Lwanda’s voice rings out daily on local radio, leading and inspiring the Nairobi community of Kwa Maji. But Anna Mali, an avaricious real estate diva, craves the land beneath their slum. She seduces the fiery young DJ away with a job at a top nationwide station, and organizes a violent campaign to terrorize the people of Kwa Maji. When the government and media turn a blind eye to the decapitated bodies in the streets, DJ Lwanda must return home to expose the truth. But at what cost?
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2:45
Out Goes Virgin Air, In Come Kenya Airways
» SportsKenya With rugby slowly trying to upstage athletics as the more lucrative sport in terms of sponsorship, the weekend was another milestone especially for the 7s. Kenya Rugby Football Union (KRFU) penned a deal with Kenya Airways to be their official shirt sponsors to the tune of KSh. 15 million for 2 years.
Logo courtesy of Kenya Airways
Out with the old and in comes the new. After seeing the mileage Virgin Atlantic gained by having the Kenyan boys wear the shirts, it was only natural that once Virgin's deal was over, a major Kenyan firm would take over. The package includes flying the team across the different cities (where possible). Good thing going thus far !
My concern though is the fact that we had to wait and see what Virgin would do (and gain) then we reacted to that. Why does it take foreign companies to realise that we can do more to sport than we currently are? There is just enough to spend on sport that would go a long way in changing the course for most these and the participants.
I also hope the boys keep their feet on the ground and grace us with some outstanding performances this time gunning for the top 4 finish in the IRB circuit (and hopefully a series win or two!).Ayimba kazi kwako !
Let's see more proactive corporates come forward. 2010's bound to be an interesting year for sport !
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2:33
Solution for Nairobi Blackouts
» AfriGadget It’s no secret that Kenya’s rivers are running dry as a result of forest destruction and environmental degradation which has led to a season of blackouts in the capital city Nairobi.
Typical of the ingenious people of Nairobi one street vendor has cashed in on the crisis with this wonderful gadget which he markets as
“Perfect for Nairobi black out”
As you can see I could actually read by the light of this lamp which is made from a used tin can, some pieces of wire to make the connections
And the battery compartment is ingeniously crafted from a circle cut from a retired flip flop.
I love my juakali lamp and everyone that I know in Nairobi needs one of these lamps. Everything about it is so true to the juakali spirit – hand crafted using colourful recycled tins, and designed for a real purpose with a handle so you can move it around from room to room or hang it up. The vendor tried to sell it to me for Ksh 350 but we settled on Ksh 200 (about $2.50) though I’m sure he would have gone cheaper but the traffic was moving and I had to go.
If you want one visit the Nyayo stadium roundabout. They stood out amongst the chinese junk that vendors are selling you could practically kit out your house from the junk on sale there. Here’s a short list of what I saw during my 30 minute traffic hold up:
Pens, hats, footballs, blow up spiderman (who needs one of these?), peanuts wrapped in newspaper cones,
smelly car things, driveres licence holding cases, scarves, giant maps, Kenya flags, apples, kits (spiderman kites),
Nike shorts, cowboy hats, socks, oanges, backpacks, cheap watches, key chains knives, olympic medals (yes I wanted one of those!),
knee length shorts for guys who sag, hazard ttriangles, cables to cack your car, name tags for meetings, torches, window wipers (!),
car mats, pears, plumbs, tiny folding chairs for children (or Chinese people?), vehicle number plates, fire extinguishers, stickers,
Enormous framed pictures of furry cats and snow leopards (I can just see one of these this in my house), bananas and bandanas, plastic lunch boxes, pillows and cussions, a huge variety of stuffed toys,
posters with Jesus’ sayings, polo shirts, stearing wheel covers, spanners, screw drivers and of course my favourite – juakali lamps.
Nairobi never fails to impress. I love it. What else have you seen on sale in the Nairobi streets?
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1:44
WHY THEY CALL THEM JUNK BONDS
» Kenyantykoon's Blog This is a type of corporate bond that is has a high risk of default and thus offers high yields. A salient feature of bonds is that their risk of default depends on among other things, the credit worthiness of the issuing company. If the company has low credit worthiness, there is a higher risk that [...]
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0:30
Opinion Editorials
» Storymoja I am going to begin this week’s reading by sending you all to an article that I thought was quite interesting. Please read it and keep the information you gather in mind as you submit your artistic pieces in future. Also feel free to share any such material that you find and feel would be [...]
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0:28
Tags, Time and Location
» White African On Friday I had a long conversation with Noam Cohen from the New York Times about Ushahidi and Twitter. He was doing some homework for an article he was writing on the increased value that geolocation data can add to the massive streams of data coming out of tools like Twitter, called “Refining the Twitter Explosion with GPS“.
A lot of our discussion was centered around location, especially since he was thinking of the Ft. Hood shootings and the value of location in determining useful information from the Twitter stream during that crisis. This is what we’ve built Ushahidi around of course, the idea that location and even small bits of information give us a better understanding of an unfolding crisis. This is just as true of mundane information, or trending topics in a locale, which is why Twitter is building a new geo infrastructure. It couldn’t be in better hands either, with both Ryan Sarver and Schuyler Erle on the team, what Twitter puts out will be top notch.
What was more interesting than just geographical references for information was the combination of two other big ways to parse this data: Time an Tags. We’ve started to see a lot more apps mixing time and location in the past year or two, and we’ll see more as the visualizations for it improve. Categorizing information, pictures and video by keywords (tags) have been around even longer.
We need to see more combinations of tags, time and location in visualizations and platforms. I can’t think of anyone who does all three really well (if you can, please leave the link), though there are a number who do two of them incredibly well – including Flickr’s geocoding of images (tag + location), TwitterThoughts (tag + time) and TwitterVision (time + location), etc.
We have a widening stream of information. The lowered barriers for entry globally, and the encouragement by social tools, means we’re seeing exponential growth rates. Twitter alone saw an increase from 2.4 to 26 million tweets per day in just the last 8 months. We need some way to make sense of this information. Our ability to create information has far surpassed our ability to understand it in a timely manner.
Chris Blow outlined this best with a visual for Swift River for use in a presentation I did at TED this year:
It’s a serious problem and one that only gets deeper with every month that passes. In most areas, it’s not a big deal, but when a crisis, emergency or disaster hits the misinformation and lack of understanding has very real consequences.
I’d love to see more work being done with all three: Time, Tags and Location.
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0:27
Weekend wrap-up
» Media Madness On sato I was on my way to Kiambu and I was listening to Hot96! Let me just say the music mix was BRILLIANT…I can’t remember the name of the show but it’s hosted by Shiko Kaitanny who was on Kameme/K24 a while back. Good to hear her voice on Hot96. Coming back to town [...]
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0:10
Post-independence land-grabbing in Kenyan uncovered
» Kenya Imagine Business Daily publishes a must-read report on land grabbing and settlement schemes (not the noun) in post colonial Kenya. Alcohol and greed feature prominently. -
I am a little irritated right now
» Kenya Imagine
