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Saturday 31 March 2018

Reasons Why Most Women Don’t Find A True Gentleman

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Women complain a lot that chivalry is dead and that there are no true gentlemen left in the world. But, chivalry is a concept from the medieval period that dictated the behavior between two warriors. The code of chivalry only relates to women in that women were a man’s property (either daughter or wife) and what a warrior needed to do so as not to offend his host or liege lord by not taking liberties with the women of the house.

Russia strikes back at US, expels diplomats and shuts consulate

FRIDAY MARCH 30 2018   
 
 

Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia is also mulling tit-for-tat responses to the other countries that have expelled its diplomats. PHOTO | POOL | YURI KADOBNOV | AFP 
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MOSCOW,
Russia on Thursday announced a mass expulsion of US diplomats and the closure of the US consulate in Saint Petersburg in retaliation to coordinated moves by Western countries to isolate Moscow in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would expel 60 US diplomats and close Washington's consulate in Saint Petersburg in a tit-for-tat response to the expulsion of its envoys across three continents.

Tuesday 20 March 2018

Get used to trade imbalance and public debt, China tells Kenyans


TUESDAY MARCH 20 2018

Standard gauge railway
Kenya's SGR project financed by Chinese loans. Beijing is also the largest creditor to Kenya, having financed major infrastructure projects like the Thika Road and the standard gauge railway. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP 
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The Chinese government has asked Kenyans to get used to trade imbalance and public debt in order to get industrialised.
Visiting top Chinese envoy for Sino-African relations Zhou Yuxiao said on Monday that critics of China’s trade with Africa had forgotten that Beijing was in similar circumstances years ago.
“In this world, striking an absolute balance is not possible. In Kenya, you are at the first stage of industrialisation, so there are certain things you need (to buy). Initially, this imbalance is unavoidable but later, we can try to rebalance,” Mr Zhou said in a statement, yesterday.

Cambridge Analytica says it worked for Uhuru Kenyatta




IN SUMMARY
  • In the investigation, the company’s bosses, including chief executive Alexander Nix, are secretly filmed saying they secretly campaign in elections across the world through a web of shadowy front companies or by using sub-contractors.
  • The executives boast that Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), has worked in more than 200 elections across the world, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India and Argentina.
  • Cambridge Analytica executives say they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers.
    An undercover investigation has blown the lid off the workings of Cambridge Analytica, the British data company that was suspected and now boasts of influencing Kenya’s 2017 presidential election.

Monday 19 March 2018

John Nottingham: Briton who sought justice for Mau Mau fighters

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 2018

John Nottingham
John Nottingham, a former Colonial District Officer in Kenya, poses for photographers outside the High Court in central London on April 7, 2011, where he went to seek justice for Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising by the British army. PHOTO | CARL COURT | AFP 
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When the story of the search for justice for Mau Mau freedom fighters is finally written, former colonial district officer John Cato Nottingham — who was buried on Friday — will always feature.
No other Briton has dedicated his life, albeit silently, to searching for justice for Mau Mau than Mr Nottingham — the man whose evidence in British courts led to partial compensation of 5,228 victims. 
In 2013, the Mau Mau victims received payments totalling £19.9m (Sh2.8bn) following a controversial out-of-court settlement.
Mr Nottingham was a star witness in the case. Thousands of other victims said they were left out.

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Wednesday 14 March 2018

Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76


(CNN)Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76. 
Considered by many to be the world's greatest living scientist, Hawking was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark "A Brief History of Time," which has sold more than 10 million copies.
With fellow physicist Roger Penrose, Hawking merged Einstein's theory of relativity with quantum theory to suggest that space and time would begin with the Big Bang and end in black holes. Hawking also discovered that black holes were not completely black but emit radiation and would likely eventually evaporat and disappear
    "A star just went out in the cosmos," Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, wrote on Twitter. "We have lost an amazing human being." 
    Hawking suffered from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a neurodegenerative disease commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which is usually fatal within a few years. He was diagnosed in 1963, when he was 21, and doctors initially only gave him a few years to live.
    The disease left Hawking wheelchair-bound and paralyzed. He was able to move only a few fingers on one hand and was completely dependent on others or on technology for virtually everything -- bathing, dressing, eating, even speech.
    Hawking used a speech synthesizer that allowed him to speak in a computerized voice with an American accent.
    "I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many," he wrote on his website.
    "I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope."
    Cosmologist Stephen Hawking on October 10, 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey.
    Hawking was married twice. He and his first wife, Jane Wilde, wed when he was still a grad student and remained together for 30 years before divorcing in 1995. Hawking was later married for 11 years to Elaine Mason, one of his former nurses.
    Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on what turned out to be an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 -- the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
    In an exclusive interview with CNN in October 2008, Hawking said that if humans can survive the next 200 years and learn to live in space, then our future will be bright.
    "I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space," Hawking told CNN's Becky Anderson.
    "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next 100 years, let alone next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
    At Cambridge, he held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics -- the prestigious post held from 1669 to 1702 by Sir Isaac Newton, widely considered one of the greatest scientists in modern history.
    Yet Hawking once said if he had the chance to meet Newton or Marilyn Monroe, he would opt for the movie star.
    Hawking became a hero to math and science geeks and pop culture figure, guest-starring as himself on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "The Simpsons." His life was dramatized in the 2014 movie, "The Theory of Everything."
    He had at least 12 honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. A CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, is considered a major honor for a British citizen and is one rank below knighthood.
    Despite being a British citizen he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US's highest civilian honor, in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
    In September 2016 Hawking joined 375 "concerned" scientists in penning an open letter criticizing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, citing the threat of climate change and blasting his push for the US to leave the Paris Accord.
    Fellow scientists hailed Hawking for his work and influence in the field. 
    "His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake," tweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson. "But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure."
    Hawking leaves behind three children and three grandchildren. "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today," Hawking's children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement. "He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world."
    "He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever."