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May 30, 2021 Share “COMPUTERS ARE USELESS. They can only give you answers,” said Picasso in 1968, the year in which Intel was founded and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was released. Picasso didn’t change his mind. Over the last half century computers have become immensely better at providing answers, but not so good at asking questions. A good book asks questions. A better one raises questions you never knew existed. The key to a lockdown can lie in a book. Who knew th...

and sunset will be at 8:10 pm. Today we will have 14 hours and 7 minutes of daylight. The solar transit will be at 1:06 pm. The first low tide was at 5:04 am The first high tide will be at 11:30 am The next low tide at 4:40 pm. and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be at 10:44 pm. The Moon is 1.6%

Today: Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 71. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 58. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light in the evening. Highs are expected to gradually remain in the 70s over the course of the week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1730 Birth of George Ross, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 1773 To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the America...

daily dose of trivia for all the history buffs out there. So sit back and take a ride to all the fascinating things that happened today! People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 27th of April”. 1667 Blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sells the copyright of “Paradise Lost” for £10 - Advertisement - On this day in History, poet J...

NUMBER TO KNOW 1: The maximum time a high jumper has remained airborne is 1 second. An average humans hang time is about 0.53 seconds. Michael Jordans longest hang time record is 0.92 seconds. THIS DAY IN HISTORY April 27, 1773: The British Parliament passes the unpopular Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade. FAMOUS B...

Agriculture CS says the State will ensure tea farmers get their fair share of the crop and do away with middlemen who have infiltrated the sector.

FARMKENYA INITIATIVE The much anticipated elections under the Tea Act, 2020, take place this Saturday at  Chinga Tea Factory. Reformists championing the Tea Act, 2020, believe the elections at the factory will mark a turning point in the journey to revolutionise the sub-sector. Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) chairman Peter Kanyago has been a director at Chinga Tea Factory where he has been representing Mumbu-ini West since the late 1990s. READ MORE In the 2,000 transition elections, he ...

Firms freeze jobs growth plans on Covid slowdown Summary A majority of Kenyan firms do not expect to increase their number of employees this year, citing ongoing economic hardship due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey found that 32 per cent of the polled non-bank private sector firms were either expecting an increase or strong increase in employment levels this year compared to 2019, while 46 per cent forecast employment levels to remain the same. Wednesday April 07 2021 By CHARLES MWANIKI S...

THE STANDARD FINANCIAL STANDARD Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, July 5, 2019. [REUTERS/Amit Dave] RELATED VIDEOS Share this story More money should go to education and health The last 12 months have truly been miserable, thanks to Covid-19. No one foresaw the kind of damage this disease would cause. Virus showed State neglect of special needs schools Disabled children were left out of online lessons which lacked the special aspects that make learni...

THE STANDARD FINANCIAL STANDARD Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, July 5, 2019. [REUTERS/Amit Dave] RELATED VIDEOS Share this story More money should go to education and health The last 12 months have truly been miserable, thanks to Covid-19. No one foresaw the kind of damage this disease would cause. Virus showed State neglect of special needs schools Disabled children were left out of online lessons which lacked the special aspects that make learni...