🚨🔴⚪️ Ezri Konsa has agreed personal terms with Arsenal: he wants the move as negotiations are moving to the final stages.
Konsa’s camp informed Villa about his desire to join #AFC project as clubs are in contact to get the deal done soon.
Top target all summer, now closer — as @David_Ornstein reports.
At work, take your lunch break as late as reasonably possible.
Here’s why:
1. You avoid the lunch-hour rush
At 1:00 p.m., everyone disappears at once. Restaurants, elevators, cafeterias, and common areas are packed.
At 1:50 p.m., you often get your food faster and spend more of your break actually resting.
2. You protect your most productive hours
For many people, late morning and early afternoon are productive periods.
Taking lunch right in the middle can break your momentum.
3. Your afternoon feels shorter
Lunch at 1:00 p.m. can leave another four or five hours of work.
Lunch at 1:45 p.m. means you return with a much shorter stretch before the workday ends.
4. You’re available when everyone else disappears
Between 12:30 and 2:00 p.m., offices can become unusually quiet.
That can be useful time for uninterrupted work, quick decisions, and catching people who are still available.
5. You use lunch as an afternoon reset
An early lunch divides your morning.
A later lunch can act as a genuine reset between the bulk of your work and the final stretch of the day.
6. You get more uninterrupted work time
Fewer messages.
Fewer meetings.
Fewer interruptions.
When everyone else is eating, you may finally get an hour of focused work.
Letter to Fellow Members of Parliament: @Senate_KE@NAssemblyKE
Good evening Colleagues?
Today is one of those days many of you will ask me what the fuck are you smoking, Ledama? But truth be told..
Look at how extreme wealth is manufactured the moment someone is appointed Cabinet Secretary or elected County Governor in Kenya. It is not talent. It is not hard work. It is pure, raw power and we in Parliament have watched it happen for years.
A Cabinet Secretary or a Governor does not simply implement policy. They control the regulations and budgets that decide who eats and who starves in entire sectors and counties. They study the law, locate every loophole, every grey area, every discretionary power we in Parliament carelessly left them and then they quietly position their private companies, proxies, nominees, relatives, lovers and trusted intermediaries to monopolise the opportunities that follow.
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Advertising is one of the most brazen examples. Seasoned operators from the big agencies suddenly resign, register new firms overnight, and within months they are vacuuming multimillion-shilling government and county campaigns. The link is almost never written on paper. It is personal. Boyfriends. Girlfriends. New relatives. Old schoolmates. Trusted bagmen. The public pays. The connected feast.
We passed the Conflict of Interest law with great ceremony. In reality it has been little more than a public-relations exercise designed to impress the IMF and foreign donors. We in Parliament know this. True, organised, industrial scale corruption in Kenya does not live in county assembly corridors or among junior clerks. It lives at the apex of the executive and in county boardrooms where the power to write the rules, award the contracts, and direct the advertising budgets is concentrated and we have failed to shut it down. Now ask yourselves a simple, damning question: how many private helicopters have been registered to Kenyans since 2013? The published lists are dominated by politicians and those closest to power. Some individuals own multiple aircraft. The numbers surge around election cycles. These machines are not bought with official salaries. They are flying monuments to the speed and scale at which public office has been converted into private fortune while ordinary Kenyans are ordered to tighten their belts.
This is not governance. This is extraction. Until we in Parliament close the rules that allow those in the executive and in the counties to legislate and budget themselves rich and enforce them without fear or favour the cycle will continue. A small, protected circle will keep growing obscenely wealthy. The rest of the country will keep paying the price. The time for silence is over. Are we really honourable Members ? Distinguished Senators or a disgrace?
If all Kenyans could acquire such wisdom from patriotic and sound mind individuals, Ruto wouldn't have been misbehaving and mismanaging our financial resources from our coffers!
#RutoMustGo#SisiNdioSifuna
I mowed the lawn today and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer.
The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.
My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing, and I said, "nothing". The reason I said "nothing" instead of saying "just thinking" is because she then would have asked, "About what?" At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.
Finally I pondered an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts? Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?
Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question. Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn't really know, here is the reason for my conclusion. A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "It might be nice to have another child."
On the other hand, you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts."
I rest my case. Time for another beer, and then maybe a nap.