KAHATA CONFIRMS PURSUIT FROM TANZANIAN GIANTS FOLLOWING GOR MAHIA EXIT

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After four years at Gor Mahia, Kenyan international Francis Kahata has confirmed he has decamped from the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants and a new experience beckons.

The midfielder, who is currently with the Kenya national team, Harambee Stars in Egypt ahead of the 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON), said among the teams hot in the chase for his signature is Tanzanian giants Simba SC.

Having made it to the Harambee Stars final squad, it is time for the midfielder to show what he can do at the big stage and he knows just how good this opportunity is. His deal with Gor Mahia came to an end at the close of the 2018/19 season and Kahata reveals that even before that, he had received numerous requests from Simba.

It’s never too late for an exercise

A lot of studies show that doing exercise pays healthy dividends, even if you start  later in life. Researchers found that when older adults increased their leisure time activity even if they were not active as teenagers their risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and some other causes declined as compared to older adults who were not regularly active.

According to the study it tried to look at exercise people do outside of work duties or even the usual everyday tasks. For example, walking from the parking garage to your office doesn’t count as a leisure time activity but taking a walk around the building does.

The research found out that those who maintained the highest amount of leisure time physical activity in every age group were at a lower risk of dying of cancer, heart disease and any cause compared with the least active people. Those who were less active throughout their adult life but who increased leisure time physical activity during the age bracket of 40 to 60 also had a lower risk of dying of cancer.

The research concludes that adults who are active should try to stay active and those who are not should try to become more active, no matter how old they are.

Examples of moderate intensity activities include dancing, yoga, brisk walking, golfing, leisurely bicycling and garden maintenance. Vigorous intensity activities include jogging, running, swimming, aerobic dance and soccer.

At Faraja Cancer Care experts offer and recommend several types of exercise for younger and older adults.

§  Endurance exercises such as dancing which improves the health of your heart, lungs and circulatory system, in which by doing this exercise can make it easier for the patients to do things like climb stairs and mow the lawn.

§  Balance exercises which helps to make you more stable and prevent falls

§  Stretching or flexibility exercises such as yoga poses can give the patients more freedom of movement for bending to tie their shoes or looking over their shoulders as they back out of the driveway.

§  Mindful exercises which involve bringing attention to the present moment through connecting with the breath, body and physical surroundings in order to still the mind learn to enjoy the present moment and reduce stress and increase happiness.

Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's iconic fashion designer dies at the age of 85

After all, he was one of the world's most iconic fashion designers, at the heart of not one, not two, but three fashion houses.

The man who steered Chanel for more than 30 years combined artistic flair with business acumen which would see the Parisian label's sales reach $10bn (£7.7bn) in 2017.

But Lagerfeld's brand reached beyond his business ventures and into every aspect of his life.

He was instantly recognisable, thanks to his powdered white ponytail, dark glasses and high-collared white shirts. But then, what else would you expect of a man who once noted "anyone who wears jogging pants has lost control of their life".

"I'm a walking label," he told CNN in 2011. "My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld."

Karl Lagerfeld's exact date of birth has been a contentious issue for some time. According to his eponymous website, he was born in 1938. However, others have settled on September 1933 as a more likely date of birth

Either way, he was born in Hamburg to a German mother and Swedish father, Otto, who imported condensed milk. Within a few years, they had moved to the town of Bad Bremstedt, where he would spend the war years.

However, it seems a young Lagerfeld had no intention of staying in the country of his birth, having already got a taste for fashion - and a sense he might be destined for big things.

"As a child, a very young person, I had the feeling: 'It doesn't matter what you do - you're compelling!' I thought I was sacrosanct - wasted on dismal post-war Germany," Lagerfeld told German media.

In 1952 - having seen a Dior fashion show in Hamburg - the teenage Lagerfeld moved to Paris.

His big break came in 1954, when he won first prize for a sketch of a coat which was then made by Pierre Balmain. The designer, impressed, offered him a job as his assistant.

Just three years later, he was named Jean Patou's art director.

Then, in 1965, after a short stint with Chloe, he would begin a collaboration that was to last to the end of his life, with Italian fashion house Fendi.

His pace of work did not slow up either, so when he missed a Chanel show in January - the first time he had ever done so - speculation began to mount over his health.

Lagerfeld's death was met with an outpouring of grief from the fashion world he had presided over for so many years. Many paid tribute to his genius and the legacy he was leaving behind.

But, it seems, Lagerfeld was less impressed with his legacy than those paying tribute. Two months before his death, the octogenarian dismissed rumours he was writing his memoirs.

"I have nothing to say," he said. "I'm actually trying to make sure that I won't be remembered."