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Journey of Soul Check TV
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Soul Check TV, a Christian interview/reality show is premiering a brand new episode Dec. 6th, "The Journey of Soul Check TV Part 1." This episode is very close to host and Executive Producer Sarah Kittle's heart who started the show. "This story is so important to me because its important to share what God has done. The Journey of Soul Check TV is really a story of how 'with God all things are possible.' Soul Check TV began as an idea and God brought a dream into reality. My family and I have watched how God has opened amazing doors and provided everything for the show to happen. He has amazed us."
Soul Check TV first began as an online show, although Sarah's original hopes were for television. The very first interview was with the popular band Kutless, backstage at a large festival. Sarah says, "The night before our interview with Kutless, I sort of woke up in a panic and I thought, 'Who am I to go in there and interview Kutless?'" Sarah continues, "The band was so nice to us. I'm thankful to the guests who were patient with me in my early beginnings as a host."
Guests such as Lecrae, Switchfoot, American Idol's Colton Dixon and Rebecca St. James have all been guests on the show. "When bands and artists say yes to being on the show, I believe that God is the One who is opening the door and granting this opportunity," host Sarah says. The interviews are uplifting and encouraging with guests sharing their faith in God and discussing current issues and projects. The reality part of the show features family interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, giving an inside look at filming the backstage interviews. The series even includes a two part family dog sledding adventure.
Sarah's family works on the show with her. "My family is a big part of Soul Check TV. They are so important to the show and they add a lot. They help me with the interviews, with the set, with filming and they're on the show." Her mom, Lynette Kittle, who also serves as Associate Producer, and her sister Hayley Kittle, are crew who help with backstage interviews. Lynette & Hayley also appear on camera. "Everyone of us has had a part in Soul Check TV," says Lynette. Sarah's Dad, Rev. Dr. Philip Kittle, has also appeared on the show and built the set, located in the basement of their house, where the family films their interviews and more.
Although help is not without some reluctance on Hayley's part. "I don't know if we have a number on how many times I've quit," Hayley says. Sarah shares, "I love having my sister Hayley on the show with me. She has a great sense of humor and adds a lot of good commentary. Its so fun to be able to share the experiences with my family and I'm grateful to God." Part 2 of the show will give a glimpse into the Kittle girls' Christian upbringing and more.
Making a television show is not easy though. Sarah, who also edits the show, admits, "There's a lot of hard work that goes into each episode. I will spend hours and hours and hours editing. There are challenges and difficulties, but God helps us overcome them all. I couldn't do it without God's help and a lot of prayer and support."
Sarah also confesses, "When the show was online, I often wanted to quit and to stop making episodes. When I wanted to give up on the show, my Mom encouraged me to keep going. She saw a future for the show. I decided to give it one more year and see what God would do with it. At the very end of that year, right before New Years Eve, something special happened. God opened the door for Soul Check TV to be on television." The NRB Network picked up the show where it airs weekly. "It's a dream come true from God for Soul Check TV to be on television." God continues to provide and open amazing opportunities.
The Journey of Soul Check TV also shares about Sarah's start in television. "God opened the door for me to work at a Christian television ministry with an incredible group of people. God blessed me with wonderful friends and mentors in television production. There God gave me training that I would need to create and produce a television show. I'm really thankful to God for the wonderful opportunities and experiences He gave me and blessed me with at the Christian ministry. I'm thankful to God for the wonderful people there who invested in my life and took time and took me under their wings and helped me learn how to produce and edit and let me be on camera. It was a great experience working there ad I treasure that experience and I treasure those friendships."
Although Sarah admits her very first television experience from her childhood. "I was the winner of a contest to be a guest on a fishing show which was also an answer to prayer."
"The series shows that families can love and work together. Mothers and daughters and sisters can have good relationships and be best friends. I want people to be encouraged and not give up. To know you can trust God to follow Him. I marvel at God's good plans for us and how He brings all the pieces together. My experience has been that His plans amaze me," Sarah says.
The show is very evangelistic and shares the Gospel. Host Sarah is very bold and outspoken on faith, relevant issues and pro-life. "I want God to touch people through the show. For people to come to Christ." Sarah continues, "The Journey of Soul Check TV is really a story of God's provision and that with God, all things are possible. That when you step out in faith to God's leading and believe, dreams can come true."
The Journey of Soul Check TV Part 1 premieres Dec. 6th and re-airs Dec. 27th.
Soul Check TV airs Saturday nights on the NRB Network DirecTV channel 378 and affiliate stations. The show is also available to watch at soulchecktv.com and nrbnetwork.tv during airtime. You can watch a trailer for the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeLgcHWVfXo
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Soul Check TV is a Christian TV show featuring backstage interviews, family fun, behind-the-scenes, music videos & more! Host, Executive Producer and Editor Sarah Kittle works on the show with her family, including her Mom Lynette Kittle (Associate Producer) & sister Hayley, who are also featured on the show. Interview guests discuss their faith, music and relevant issues.
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Bowmore Gold Reef
Bowmore Gold Reef is a 2014 release, a nas whisky matured on a combination of Bourbon & Sherry casks.
Bowmore is a distillery that produces scotch whisky on the isle of Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The distillery, which lies on the South Eastern shore of Loch Indaal, is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland, said to have been established in 1779 by a local merchant, John P. Simpson, before passing into the ownership of the Mutter family. James Mutter, head of the family, also had farming interests and was Vice Consul representing the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, and Brazil through their Glasgow consulates. There are no records that pinpoint the exact date Mutter acquired the distillery from Simpson. Mutter would introduce a number of innovative processes to the distillery during his tenure and even had a small iron steam ship built to import barley and coal from the mainland and to export the whisky to Glasgow.
The distillery was bought from the Mutter family in 1925 by J.B. Sheriff & Co. and remained under their ownership until being purchased by Inverness-based William Grigor & Son, Ltd. in 1950.
During the World Wars the Bowmore Distillery halted production, and hosted the RAF Coastal Command for much of World War II, Coastal Command operated flying boats from Loch Indaal on Anti-submarine warfare missions.
Stanley P. Morrison and James Howat formed Stanley P. Morrison Ltd. in 1951, and this company formed Morrison's Bowmore Distillery, Ltd. in 1963 in order to take over the Bowmore Distillery. Stanley P. Morrison died in 1971, and control of the companies passed to Brian Morrison. The company name has changed slightly, and, following minor restructuring, the distillery is now owned by Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd., which is ultimately owned by the Japanese distiller Suntory, following their takeover of Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd. during 1994. Suntory had previously been a shareholder in Morrison Bowmore for several years.
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Pilot Lite: "Amelia," "Saw VI," "Law-Abiding Citizen," and "Good Hair"
As barrier-breaking aviatrix Amelia Earhart in director Mira Nair's Amelia, Hilary Swank is stylized yet approachable - exactly the kind of down-to-earth, pre-feminist spitfire that a squarely reverential bio-pic calls for. Her Katharine Hepburn cadences take some getting used to, but Swank charges through her scenes with natural authority and winning gumption, and when she smiles, the whole of Earhart's glorious aerial experiences seems to shine through her toothy grin. It's a lovely, sincere Earhart impression, and might've really been something if the actress wasn't being continually undermined by the direction, the script, the score, and most of her co-stars.
Stodgy, rhythm-less, and worshipful to a fault, Amelia gives you a Greatest Hits account of the famed pilot's life and mysterious disappearance, but none of the personality or excitement that would explain why a movie was being made about her; Nair's film is like a long, protracted episode of A&E's Biography without the drive, the sense of discovery, or the honesty. (It's the sort of movie in which every nuance, such as Earhart's refusal to utter the word "obey" in her wedding vows, feels phony, even if it's true.) While Gabriel Yared's soundtrack works - and works, and works - at building emotion where none exists on-screen, the actors are forced into a series of stiffly directed period tableaux, and talents such as Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Joe Anderson are left dangling. (Poor, pokey Richard Gere, as Earhart's husband/manager George Putnam, fares even worse, with his unidentifiable accent - when he remembers to use one - falling somewhere between upper-class British and a Pepperidge Farm commercial.)
Cherry Jones, thankfully, delivers a burst of spontaneity as Eleanor Roosevelt, and the film at least offers hints of a darker, more complex side, with nods to George's threats against a young rival pilot and Earhart's affair with McGregor's Gene Vidal. (In a moment to make everyone's grandmother gasp, he and Swank share a passionate, adulterous kiss in an elevator.) But Amelia remains dishearteningly formulaic and desperately under-imagined, and the only actual fun I had came from chuckling at its frequently stultifying dialogue. "Flying," opines Swank's Earhart in voice-over, "lets me move in three dimensions." Uh ... don't we always do that?
SAW VI
In what will come as a surprise to absolutely none of you, Saw VI opens pretty much the same way that all of Saw's follow-ups have opened. A woman awakens in a dark, dank cell, not knowing where she is, or who her similarly perplexed cellmate is, or why they're shackled to contraptions that are clearly booby-trapped. She screams, the camera spins, and a nearby television set is turned on, revealing a puppet who speaks in ominous, electronically enhanced tones, and explains that the devices on the prisoners' heads are symbolic of their selfishness and spite and yadda yadda yadda. Yet before I could doze off during this latest uninspired prelude to this ceaselessly dull horror franchise, I caught a detail that perked me up, as both of the suffering, shrieking captives turn out to be ... health-insurance agents! Finally!, I thought. Saw slayings that we can all get behind!
Sadly yet predictably, nothing that happens in director Kevin Greutert's series-extender is as satisfying as its choice of victims. I've seen worse Saw flicks, but none that were quite so confusing - as the sequels multiply, so does the number of incoherent flashbacks to previous installments - or quite so senseless. (How is Tobin Bell's Jigsaw, who perished in Saw III, getting more screen time now than he did when he was alive?) With its gory viscera and ticking red clocks, Saw VI is typically grim and hackneyed, and the killer's initially intriguing methodology becomes more arbitrary as the film progresses. From what I could gather, one character is tortured and executed here for the crime of being a smoker, which just seems pointlessly cruel. It's not like we're not dying already.
LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN
In the first of many assassinations perpetrated by Gerard Butler in Law-Abiding Citizen, a vicious killer is found strapped to a gurney, rendered immobile by a poison that Butler tells him was "isolated from the liver of a Bolivian puffer fish." The way I see it, audiences can respond to this in one of two ways. We can either mutter, "Oh, it's one of those movies," roll our eyes, and bemoan the reels of mind-numbing ridiculousness to come, or we can mutter, "Oh, it's one of those movies," snap to attention, and giggle with eager anticipation at the reels of mind-numbing ridiculousness to come.
For those of you in the latter camp, director F. Gary Gray's revenge thriller might well be bliss, as Butler's good-man-gone-psycho and Jamie Foxx's ethically challenged lawyer square off in a series of cat-and-mouse games that find Butler committing increasingly illogical murders from the confines of his prison cell. (In one scene, executions are carried out with the aid of a weaponized bomb-disposal robot. Seriously.) But for those of us in the former camp, Law-Abiding Citizen might prove just too silly, and too derivative, to be tolerated. Somehow, Butler's ludicrous slayings are even less believable after we're privy to how they're accomplished, and in between the unpleasant blasts of über-violence, we're stuck with scene upon scene of laughable tough-guy talk, witless nods to better films - Butler is frequently imprisoned in one of those maximum-security birdcages familiar from The Silence of the Lambs - and the criminal waste of a powerful supporting cast. (Gray's film features the great Bruce McGill, Colm Meany, Gregory Itzin, Regina Hall, Leslie Bibb, Annie Corley, and Viola Davis, several of whom wind up as shrapnel.) With Foxx slumming and Butler doing that tiresomely self-aware Gerard Butler thing, I found Law-Abiding Citizen to be a terrible slog, and a bizarrely saccharine one to boot, as its central mystery proves to be just slightly less important than the question of whether Foxx's attorney will ever make it to one of his daughter's cello recitals. Yeah, it's one of those movies, too.
GOOD HAIR
Whatever else it is or isn't, director Jeff Stilson's Good Hair has to be the happiest investigative documentary ever made. With narration and interviews conducted by Chris Rock, the film takes a roots-and-all look at the African-American hair-care industry, and if this seems like a slight premise for a 90-minute feature, it is. In its intensely specific way, though, the movie is probing, illuminating, and joyous, with fascinating insight on the economic exploitation behind African-American hair culture, and a cadre of celebrities giddily dishing on the upkeep of their 'dos. (Among the participants are Eve, Raven-Symone, Maya Angelou, Ice-T, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and Salt-N-Pepa's Vanessa Bell Calloway and Sandra Denton, the latter of whom reveal they've spent upwards of $150,000 on hair weaves.) There are a few weak comic detours and an unnecessary framing device involving the Bonner Brothers Hair Competition, but Good Hair is still fresh, funny, and thoughtful, and offers an especially detailed exploration of hair relaxer, known in some circles as "creamy crack." This smooth, engaging movie is like creamy crack, too; less than an hour after seeing it, I was jonesing to see it again.
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As per the decision taken in the meeting held on 27.11.2018 by the Central Government Employees Welfare Co-Ordination Committee (CGEWCC) Chennai Division, the list of closed holidays for the year 2019 for the Central Government Offices in Tamil Naud during the year 2019.
Also decided in the meeting that "If the dates of any of the above mentioned 4 holidays as per para 5.2. of the above list of Holidays are changed by the State Governemnt, it will be deemed date for the holiday suo moto for all the Central Government Offices in Tamil Nadu instead of separately declaring it as holiday." [DoPT O.M. F. No.12/2/2018-JCA-2 Dt. 11.7.2019] 5.2 For offices outside Delhi / New Delhi, the Central Government Employees' Welfare Coordination Committees at the State Capitals are authorised to change the date of holiday, if necessary, based on the decision of the concerned State Governments / Union Territories, in respect of ldu'l Fitr, ldu'l Zuha, Muharram and ld-e-Milad.
In connection with arrangements for the Republic Day/ At Home Function/Beating Retrcat Ceremony, 2019, ii lias been decided that the Government offices located in the buildings indicated in Annexure-A would he closed at 1300 hours on 25.01.2019 till 1300 hours on 26.012019. These buildings would also be closed at 1830 hours on 22.01.2019 till 1300 hours on 23.01.2019 for the full dress rehearsal.
The buildings indicated in Annexure-B would be closed on 26.01.2019 till 1930 hours for 'At Home Function'. The buildings indicated in Annexure-C would be closed at 1200 noon on 29.01.2019 till 1930 hours on 29.01.2019. The buildings indicated in Annexure-D would be closed on 28.01.2019 from 1600 hours till 1930 hours for the full dress rehearsal for Beating Retreat Ceremony.
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Escaping the city
Summer is coming. Short of moving to the Southern Hemisphere, there's little I can do to avoid it. I'm not a hot weather person. There's a limit to the clothes I can take off, but there's no limit to what I can put on. Give me subzero temperatures over 40 degrees any day.
The occasional hot day we've had so far has attuned my delicate sense of smell to the onslaught of odours to come. I have already packed my perfumed cotton handkerchief in its sealed plastic bag in preparation for the day I get trapped on the tram under a malodorous armpit. It will come. It always comes. Like death and taxes, it is unavoidable.
But this year, I have a Plan B. I'm quite taken with the idea that a lot of families living in Budapest have a holiday cottage somewhere outside. I, too, plan on escaping the city on its hottest days and taking myself off to the countryside. I've written before about the calming delights of the forest in Gödöllő and expect to visit regularly this summer. I'm also keen to go back to Ráckeve and perhaps explore a little more of Csepel Island. And then, of course, there's Szentendre.
Ask almost any tourist who has been to Budapest what they did while they were in the city, and chances are you'll get the triad: walked the Castle district, went to the baths, and did the ruin pubs on Kazinczy utca. Those who were here a little longer than a two-day weekend might also add that they managed to fit in a day-trip to the riverside town of Szentendre. And while it's lovely in its own way, I can't say that it's ever really done much for me. But Szentendre Island? Now, that's a completely different story.
This 56 km2 island in the middle of the Danube, not far from Budapest, is an oasis of lush foliage and green fields, banked by clear, flowing water. Connected to the mainland by a single bridge, it is also accessible using the ferry service from Tahitótfalu, Vác, or Dunakeszi.
The island's history can be traced as far back as 896 AD. It seems to always have been an agricultural area, supplying the nearby cities of Buda and Pest with produce. As we drove around, I was reminded of the green fields of Ireland and had little trouble imagining rural village life, Magyar-style.
From north to south lie the villages of Kisoroszi, Tahitótfalu, Pócsmegyer, Surány, Horány, and Szigetmonostor. Pócsmegyer is home to the Berczelly Mansion, a one-storey Baroque style mansion built by the Esterházy family in the late seventeen hundreds. The springs of Szigetmonostor supply a lot of Budapest's potable water. But it was Surány we wanted to see, and in particular, the beach.
The tiny village of Surány, with its gorgeous little church and outdoor pews doesn't boast much in the way of city-style entertainment. There's a pub one side and a büfé on the other. Because the pub doesn't do food, they don't mind you bringing in a takeaway. How civilised is that?
It does have a couple of beaches, lovely sandy stretches that run alongside the Danube. The water looked cool, clean, and inviting, so different to the same river that runs through Budapest. Some old-style employee summer complexes stand witness to the days of yore and indeed many of the houses are still original … from the small, two-roomed stone cottages to the more palatial riverside family homes. And, of course, if things ever get too quiet, there's always Szentendre.
By car is simplest, but it's doable by public transport, too, making it a perfect bolthole for those hot summer days when the air in Budapest stands still and the madding crowd gets too much to handle.
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by María Carrión
Editor's Note: This is an expanded edition to the piece that appears in the July issue of The Progressive.
On June 15, the opening day of the Confederations Cup in Brazil -- a warmup to the World Cup -- thousands protested across the country against the amount of money being spent to host these mega-events. With signs that said "We don't need the World Cup" and "We need money for hospitals and education", protesters were sprayed with tear gas and dispersed with rubber bullets before the opening match in Brasilia. At least 39 were injured and 30 were arrested. Inside the stadium, president Dilma Roussef was booed as she inaugurated the Brazil-Japan match. Today, June 17, there are protests going on all over the country. Why are soccer-crazy Brazilians so upset?
On a warm evening this past February, about 100 residents of the Bairro da Paz, a favela located on the periphery of the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador da Bahia, gathered in a community center to hear a presentation by Ney Campello, Bahia's secretary of state for the World Cup. Perched on a hill not far from the city's airport, Bairro da Paz is one of Salvador's most politically active slums, and the crowd that evening included schoolteachers, health care workers, and youth activists anxious to hear firsthand how the 2014 World Cup would affect their community.
Campello seemed keenly aware of the tension that clung to the evening air as he cracked a few jokes before launching into a peppy speech on the multiple benefits of hosting soccer's greatest tournament. Residents patiently listened as he described plans that included creating thousands of construction and service jobs, recruiting volunteers, erecting canopies with giant TV screens for the matches, and providing free English lessons under a program called Olá turista ("Hello, tourist").
As Campello concluded his talk, several residents jumped from their seats for a turn at the microphone. "What about the evictions?" asked a young man.
"Can you tell us about plans to build a road through our neighborhood?" asked a woman.
"We need health care and education, not mega-events," said an older man to applause.
Nearby, local journalist Paulo Almeida broadcast the event live on Bairro da Paz's community radio station.
As a parade of residents made their claims, Campello seemed overwhelmed. "I have to get back to you with that," he kept repeating.
"We are not interested in waving Brazilian flags or volunteering for the World Cup," said longtime Bairro da Paz resident and community activist Rafael Lima after Campello had left. "We need jobs. We need education. We need land titles. We need health care.
And we need to know where this road they are planning to build is going, and who will be affected."
Bairro da Paz is just one of many poor communities in Brazil facing evictions due to construction projects related to the 2014 World Cup, which will be held in twelve cities throughout the country, and the 2016 Summer Olympics, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro. As the Confederations Cup, a warm-up to the World Cup, kicked off this past June 15 in Brasilia, thousands of people in Brazil have already been expelled from their homes, many in the middle of the night, as bulldozers waited nearby to make room for roads, stadiums, and other infrastructure. Citizens have responded by creating a network of organizations to monitor and report abuses.
Raquel Rolnik, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, warned in 2011 about large-scale human rights abuses committed across Brazil in the name of World Cup and Olympics construction. "I am particularly worried," she said, "about what seems to be a pattern of lack of transparency, consultation, dialogue, fair negotiation, and participation of the affected communities in processes concerning evictions undertaken or planned in connection with the World Cup and Olympics."
With legendary players like Pelé and a national soccer team revered for its graceful, inimitable style, Brazil is considered the world capital of soccer. In 2007, when the country was awarded the hosting of the 2014 World Cup, Brazilians celebrated enthusiastically. Then-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the Workers Party, which has done much to eradicate extreme poverty, pledged that the Cup would help Brazil upgrade its faltering infrastructure, create thousands of jobs, and promote the country internationally as a modern, dynamic and diverse place worth visiting and investing in. In 2009, Lula's impassioned speech before the International Olympic Committee also won Brazil the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Soccer fever still abounds in Brazil, but I found little enthusiasm for the World Cup during my visit to Salvador in February. Instead, reality has set in. As my taxi driver, a fervent soccer fan, told me on my first day, "I wish Argentina was hosting the World Cup instead, and that's coming from Argentina's eternal rival, a Brazilian."
According to estimates by the University of São Paolo, the World Cup and the Olympics will together cost Brazil about $33 billion. This includes the massive overhaul of national transportation infrastructure such as airports, highways, train and metro lines, and urban public transport, and the construction of stadiums and other sporting facilities. The government has promised that these investments will benefit all Brazilians not just through improved infrastructure but also through long-term indirect benefits from tourism and foreign investment.
But many Brazilians are questioning the government's projections. They point to South Africa and the United Kingdom as countries that ended up with massive debt and little return on their investments.
The Brazilian government's promises that construction projects would attract private financing have largely failed to materialize, so taxpayers are picking up most of the tab. Of twelve stadiums built or revamped whose costs have almost tripled their projected budgets, ten are publicly financed and between four and eight will probably become "white elephants" similar to those that now dot the landscape in places like Athens and Johannesburg.
Salvador, Brazil's third largest city, will host the World Cup for one week. The city has made commitments to FIFA, the soccer governing body, to upgrade its crumbling infrastructure, by building two access roads to the airport, completing a subway line whose construction has languished for twelve years while its original $500 million budget vanished, and building a $300 million state-of-the-art stadium, the Fonte Nova, which was inaugurated in April.
One criticism echoed by many residents is the city's decision to raze its old stadium, which offered public sporting facilities, including athletic fields, basketball courts, and the state's only public Olympic-size swimming pool, where Bahia's professional swimmers have trained. There are no plans to rebuild these installations.
The new stadium was built by a private-public consortium that includes the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, also involved in reconstruction efforts in Iraq and New Orleans, diamond mining in Angola, and oil production in Venezuela. Odebrecht, which is building many of the other stadiums for the Cup, has advanced the money along with another company, OAS, owned in part by the uncle of Salvador Mayor A.M.C. Neto. The government pledged to reimburse the full amount while allowing the companies to exploit the venue for the next thirty-five years -- a sweet deal by all accounts.
"We came to this arrangement because the state does not have the cash right now to build the stadium," explains José Sergio Gabrielli, secretary of state for planning, whose office is responsible for seeking resources and planning for many of these projects.
Gabrielli, of the Workers' Party, also acknowledged to me that except for the stadium and a pedestrian bridge linking it to the historic center, none of the other promised infrastructure designed to improve transportation will be ready for 2014. Instead, the city will declare World Cup week a holiday and create special transportation corridors.
With 3.5 million residents, Salvador da Bahia was Brazil's first capital city and the point of entry for millions of African slaves brought by the Portuguese to toil in the sugar fields. Tourists are attracted by its unique Afro-Brazilian culture and a carnival that rivals that of Rio de Janeiro. But Salvador is also a deeply divided city. The gap between the very wealthy and the very poor remains dismal, public health and education face shortages of every kind, and the city suffers from high rates of violent crime.
Salvador's population is overwhelmingly black, yet the city has never elected a black mayor. Its political and economic power structures are controlled by whites and remain practically out of reach for black Brazilians.
Its increasingly segregated carnival is dominated financially by wealthy white carnival groups, who get the best slots on the parade route. Director Spike Lee, who was in Salvador this February during carnival filming for his upcoming documentary "Go Brazil Go", expressed dismay at the lack of black political and economic power in Salvador. "If we compare the evolution of African-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, we are 20 years ahead," he told the local media.
The upcoming World Cup has brought these inequalities to the surface. On the one hand, Afro-Brazilian culture is used by the city and by FIFA to attract visitors, but on the other, most black Brazilians are excluded from participation. The choice of Ivete Sangalo, a popular white singer, to perform Brazil's national anthem during the inauguration of Salvador's stadium has offended many Afro-Brazilians, who take pride in Salvador's rich, African-influenced musical tradition. As renowned black activist Silvio Humberto, co-founder of the Steve Biko Cultural Institute, who was recently elected to Salvador's city council, told me: "We are not invited to this party."
Humberto's words echoed throughout my stay in Salvador as I interviewed ordinary Brazilians about the World Cup. Perhaps the most publicized example of this exclusion is the ban imposed by FIFA against Salvador's food street vendors, including the emblematic Bahianas da Acarajé, black women in lace dresses who sell traditional food rooted in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as candomblé. The ban, designed to benefit official sponsors such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's, will apply not just inside the stadium but also within a two-kilometer perimeter.
The soccer organization "has shown a total lack of respect for our local culture and for what we represent," says Rita dos Santos, president of the Association of Bahiana Sellers of Acarajé, who has circulated a petition on Change.org. "Ten Bahianas worked in the old stadium and now we are told they cannot return because of the ban and because they did not design any space for them. So now people will eat hamburgers instead?"
The FIFA-imposed ban will also affect the livelihood of hundreds of other vendors who work the streets of the city center, within the exclusion zone. The city is already trying to regulate street vending for the Cup by corralling sellers in officially designated areas. "They will put me in a corner, hidden from view, so how can I make a living?" says Vera Luzia Mesias dos Santos, who braids hair in the central Plaça da Sé.
One of the more controversial construction projects is a pedestrian bridge linking the stadium to Pelourinho, Salvador's historic neighborhood, a UNESCO World Heritage site and Salvador's main tourist attraction.
With its rows of bright pastel colonial houses interspersed with Renaissance churches, Pelourinho's cobblestoned streets are lined with souvenir stores and restaurants, and many of its buildings house Afro-Brazilian cultural and social centers. Its streets abound with vendors, capoeira groups, and musicians. Its prettiest square, Largo do Pelourinho, was the site of the first slave market in the Americas.
But Afro-Brazilians describe the place as an empty shell, a "shopping center for tourists," and they hardly visit the neighborhood. In the 1990s, as the city began to restore the crumbling buildings, it expelled its black residents to peripheral favelas with no infrastructure or social services.
Jecilda Melo is one of the survivors. In 2002, she founded the Association of Residents and Friends of Pelourinho, and she and other families fought to remain in their homes. "We were a group of women who said: 'No, we are not leaving,'" Melo says as she sits in the association's small headquarters. Taking their case to the local authorities, they finally obtained the permanent right to remain in the homes, although the land still belongs to the government. "They do not want poor people living here; we are an embarrassment to them," she tells me. "And during the World Cup, they will want us out of sight."
The projected pedestrian bridge, with a conveyor belt, air conditioning, and a $100 million price tag, would ferry fans from the matches to the center of Pelourinho, bypassing poor areas below. "Meanwhile, the mortals underneath will receive the empty cans and the banana peels," says Melo, wondering how the cash-strapped city will maintain such a costly bridge.
Up the street, Maura Cristina da Silva, a housing rights activist, ponders the fate of her community as she sips coffee in her home on the ground floor of a restored colonial building she and another six families occupied several years ago. "Mostly we are black women with kids who have been expelled or priced out of the housing market," she says. "We are fighting for the right to remain."
Da Silva forecasts a "major social cleansing effort in the historic district" by the city before the World Cup and worries about a possible wave of evictions in Pelourinho.
"They will try to get rid of the street people, the meninos da rua, and anyone else who does not fit into their postcard image," she says. "The message is: Poor and black, out of sight."
In the sky-blue building next door, the indigenous painter known as Sol Brasil, whose naive, revolutionary art has toured the world, has resisted eviction for 30 years. "In 1989 we suffered a violent eviction but managed to return, " he recalls from his studio, where paintings of indigenous resistance to Portuguese colonists hang next to souvenir art. "They will probably try again with the World Cup, but we will resist and we will win."
Bairro da Paz, where many of Pelourinho's evicted ended up, is particularly vulnerable to forced removals because more than 95 percent of its residents do not have titles to their homes or the land they are built on, which means that they would receive little or nothing in compensation. Much of that land is privately owned, and a 2010 city plan showed a large section targeted for eviction.
"Even the building we are in right now has no title and could be expropriated," explains Marinalva Souza Santos, president of Bairro da Paz's neighborhood association, as we sit in the association's community center.
"There is a revolving door between politics and real estate, and the World Cup is the perfect excuse to go ahead with development plans that had little chance a few years ago due to local opposition," says housing rights lawyer Manoel Nascimento.
These plans are in plain sight as I approach Bairro da Paz on a hot summer morning. The view from my bus window as we veer off the main highway and dip into Bairro da Paz shows a landscape of inequality. In the forefront, tiny compact brick and wood houses cling to steep hills connected by almost vertical staircases carved into the dirt. Sewage flows down potholed streets, and small children play in the dirt. Just a few hundred yards away, dozens of high-rise luxury condominiums, some still under construction, encircle the favela: The impossibly wealthy elites, barricaded behind electrified fences and protected by private armed guards, loom over the poor underneath.
"Unfortunately for the residents, they are sitting on prime property," explains Nascimento, who works with CEAS, a nonprofit founded by liberation theologists during Brazil's dictatorship. "This area is highly valuable: It is close to the airport and to the beaches.
The sales offices for these high-rises airbrushed Bairro da Paz from their promotional photos and replaced it with a green area. That definitely gave away their real intentions."
Nascimento describes his surprise when he saw the buildings begin to go up in 2010 because the only way in and out of them is through nearby favelas.
"Soon afterward, the local government unveiled its World Cup development plans and it all became clear: They had designed a road to service these closed-gated communities," he says. "This is the road that would split Bairro da Paz in two and displace hundreds of families."
As in Rio de Janeiro, local authorities in Salvador are also implementing a controversial community police project known as Pacification Police Units or UPP's in some of the most violent neighborhoods, including Bairro da Paz. While the idea of community policing is welcomed by residents, community leaders and experts on violence point out that many of these units are used to contain violence within certain neighborhoods in preparation for the World Cup and the Olympics, and that so far they have failed to address problems and needs of these communities. In Rio, favelas selected for UPP's happen to be the closest to tourist areas and valuable real estate.
"Existing UPPs are located in places where middle and upper class people live close by, " says John Gledhill, an anthropology professor at the University of Manchester who has written extensively on poverty, violence and policing in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro. "So it seems that it is their sense of security rather than the security of the residents of the favelas that is the real priority. "
Gledhill says that "the danger of this approach is that it marks out particular communities as the source of all crime and violence throughout the city, transforming their social problems of poverty, lack of clear titles to land and property, and substandard infrastructure and living conditions, into problems that threaten the security of all the city's residents".
Gledhill and other experts point out the difference between the idea of community policing, where relationships between residents and police should be protective and supportive, and reality on the ground, which still emphasizes repressive policing.
As part of the state of Bahia's Pact for Life, which includes UPP's, the head of the state's public security issued a pack of cards known as Deck of Crime, similar to the deck issued by the Bush administration of Sadam Hussein and his government officials to get citizens to turn them in, only with the faces of Bahia's most-wanted criminals.
In Bairro da Paz, the military police incursion that preceded the community police base drove out the neighborhood's main drug trafficker, known as Flor (the deck's Ace of Diamonds), who nonetheless still retains control over local drug dealing from a nearby neighborhood. Residents point out that the violence is merely being displaced to less coveted areas and report frequent abuses by some of the unit's seventy officers.
Bairro da Paz's UPP base commander, Lt. Henrique Alves, attends some community meetings in an effort at dialogue with residents. At a recent encounter, local leaders complained of frequent episodes of abuse and deliberate humiliation by the officers against youths and protested the unit's policy of breaking up cultural street events in the name of crowd control. Alves responded that his officers were there "to protect public security. "
"They do not distinguish between law-abiding citizens and criminals because they are not from the community and have not been trained in peaceful interaction, so they profile all young black males, stop them on the street and use any excuse to beat them," explains Tom Nascimento, a local musician from the militant hip-hop group Clã periferico that organizes cultural activities for local youth. "They don't understand that these cultural events steer young people away from the drug gangs.
Instead of supporting them, they send everyone home."
Outside the community center, local kids kick up a cloud of dust as they play a game of pickup soccer with a punctured ball.
María Carrión, former senior producer for Democracy Now!, freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Madrid, was recently named Executive Director of the Western Sahara Film Festival.
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Padmarajan is one of the most acclaimed Malayalam filmmaker touted to be the pioneer of starting the parallel cinema in the Malayalam film industry. When the industry was filled with artificial characters and stories, Padmarajan came up with the stories of next door men and women. He handled varied subjects with finesse. He took upon the subjects which many shied upon to take.
Padmarajan has made several movies that's worth spotlighting but I am going to share a special one here. The movie to be spotlighted is Njan Gandharvan. The movie is about Bhama who accidentally stumbles upon a Gandharva and the Gandharva falls for her. Gandharvas should fall in love with humans and by doing so he faces the wrath of the Lords. What happens forms the story. I chose this movie because this movie was a personal triumph for the director. He faced many struggles while filming the movie. He considered this close to his heart, it took a lot out of his life yet he made the movie. What's more to it is the negative reception at the release of the movie. But fate has its own way to play, the movie attained a cult status later. Sadly Padmarajan was not present to taste the people's enjoyment.
Other classic movies of Padmarajan not to be missed are moonam pakkam(my personal favourite), Thoovanathumbikal, Koodevide and Desatanakkili Karayarilla.
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Well, February might be the heart month.
although most look like the cute comical type.
This month... It's my honey's heart.
He has been through the ringer and today was no exception.
Last month, we spent nine days in the hospital after it seeming like he had a stomach flu after 5 days of violent throwing up and weight gain of about 25 pounds. He was brought into the ER from his doctors with a heart rate of 240. It stayed in that range for 6 days while they fought off a horrible liver infection. Not related in anyway to the heart issue. But we had to treat it before going on and dealing with his heart. So 6 days later... after the infection was gone, they found that he had an Atrial Flutter and gave him a procedure called an Ablation. It helped almost instantly. Released after that and down nearly 40 pounds.... we went home. That made my heart happy!
Today... he woke up feeling like he had a skin tab on his shoulder. Weird. I looked at it and Holy crap if it wasn't a TICK! Are you kidding me? After all he's been through. Must have picked it up off the dog, or the wood pile or really anywhere in our forest. That's the last thing he needed. I pulled it off and kept it in a baggie. He had a stress test this afternoon at the heart doc's. The nurse there helped me package it ( Mr. Tick ) up to send to the lab. Phew. Dodged a bullet there.... we hope. Results will be in, in 5 days. However... the heart doc is married to a dermatologist. Go figure. He took a pic and sent it to his wife.... no worries, she says. Can you say " what next"? We are DONE! No more. We cannot take it.
Stress test went great. Back to work in a few weeks! Only one more test to make sure the liver was not damaged from all of this. Man oh man... I am beat. He is beat. We are ready for some good news to come through.... please oh please. So.... while we celebrate the month with healthy heart foods, a new exercise program and lots of hearts... we begin to live the new normal.
and taking care of your heart!
So So Soooooo GLAD that things are looking BETTER for your FAVORITE Beating Heart!!!
We will be here....take some Time for YOURSELF!!!
One day at a time and this to shall pass is what they used to tell me when my husband fell ill. There are days and weeks that we wish the sun would rise and this was all a dream...but the reality is we just need someone to hold our hand and say ...we can do this together. You are that hand to Superman...and I know your trials will some day help another. Chin up girlie and you got this!
Hugging you across the cyber miles and lifting you up in prayer, sweet friend.
In my words... don't worry about anything. Family will ALWAYS come first in my book. You are doing the right thing! Take care of your honey and family, keep your Faith and have trust in the Good Lord. Count your Blessings… Art, Crafts, Blog, etc., etc., etc. can come later. Take a deep breath… take some time to relax and get to a 'norm' and don't think about the rest yet. Otherwise… you'll be in the hospital from all the stress and worry. I think its time for some "YOU" (or in this care and as we say in Texas… some "Y'ALL" ) time.
Does that mean they ruled out Lyme Disease? Hang in there and take care of yourself too.
So sorry your hubby has been going through so much, but hope he continues to improve.
Wow, Lindsay, enough is enough is right! So, sorry your sweetie is going through all of this but he definitely has the right woman by his side! May the new Lunar Year bring you a happy start! Thoughts and prayers always!


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Africa | Insecurity
No Truce In Sight
It appears there's still a long way to go before rival factions in Libya agree on uniting the country.
What's the latest there?
In a statement that suggested that both sides have not reached an agreement on the way forward, the leader of the Libyan National Army, which controls the country's east, Khalifa Haftar declared Saturday "a final opportunity" to draw up a plan for elections in Libya. The statement came on the 71st anniversary of Libya's independence, as General Khalifa Haftar spoke to Libyans in Benghazi, the country's second-largest city and the base of his forces. The rival factions had previously agreed on a date for the election, but the agreement fell apart.
Why did it fall apart?
The country has been divided since the 2011 assassination of long-term leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as rival groups battle to take control of the government. It has been one year since the opposing factions agreed to hold elections. Following a 2020 ceasefire, the warring eastern and western sides installed a new unity government and agreed to hold elections on December 24, 2021. However, the process failed, and the national institutions remained divided.
Following the country's breakup in 2014, Haftar launched an effort to seize Tripoli that lasted 14 months but was repelled by the internationally recognized government in the country's west. As its political impasse worsens, Libya runs the possibility of re-entering civil war as politicians obstruct election-related efforts and military officials threaten to use force.
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Kenya: anxiety over presidential poll results
Share via: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Kenyans have been urged to exercise calm as they await the official announcement of results in last week's presidential election. Haven't the results been announced? Only about half of the results have been announced. Of the announced results, which cover about 50% of the country's constituencies, longtime aspirant Raila…
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Equatorial Guinea's monarchical presidency
Share via: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Ruling for as long as a lifetime is a phenomenon mostly associated with monarchs. Some leaders have, however, succeeded in turning their country's supposed democratic system into a monarchy lookalike, as they hold on to power for decades. What's the news? Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo has been…
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Threat of attack: police reassures Lagos residents
Share via: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The Lagos state command of the Nigeria Police Force has urged residents to be calm and not panic over alleged planned attacks on the state. In a statement by the command's spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the police assured residents that efforts are being made to stop the potential attackers….
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Drought: US calls for support for East Africa
Share via: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has called on the international community to step in and help bring succor to millions of people suffering from severe food shortages amidst a worsening drought. The USAID's administrator, Samantha Power, while promising continued support from the United States, noted that…
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Q: How to configure gemfire as message store for aggregator module in spring cloud data flow Link - https://github.com/spring-cloud-stream-app-starters/aggregator/tree/master/spring-cloud-starter-stream-processor-aggregator does not list property for gemfire message store

A: The GemfireMessageStore is configured like this:
@ConditionalOnClass(GemfireMessageStore.class)
@ConditionalOnProperty(prefix = AggregatorProperties.PREFIX,
        name = "message-store-type",
        havingValue = AggregatorProperties.MessageStoreType.GEMFIRE)
@Import(ClientCacheAutoConfiguration.class)
static class Gemfire {

    @Bean
    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
    public ClientRegionFactoryBean<?, ?> gemfireRegion(GemFireCache cache, AggregatorProperties properties) {
        ClientRegionFactoryBean<?, ?> clientRegionFactoryBean = new ClientRegionFactoryBean<>();
        clientRegionFactoryBean.setCache(cache);
        clientRegionFactoryBean.setName(properties.getMessageStoreEntity());
        return clientRegionFactoryBean;
    }

    @Bean
    public MessageGroupStore messageStore(Region<Object, Object> region) {
        return new GemfireMessageStore(region);
    }

}

The point is that you always can override that ClientRegionFactoryBean with your own.
Or you can take into account that ClientCacheAutoConfiguration is based on the @ClientCacheApplication, which, in turn, allows you to have a ClientCacheConfigurer bean and provide whatever is sufficient for your client cache configuration. Including config and pool. That's right: it is not on the app starter configuration level and you have to right some custom code to be included as a dependency into the final uber jar for target binder-specific application.
More info how to build them is here in Docs: https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-stream-app-starters/docs/Einstein.RC1/reference/htmlsingle/#_patching_pre_built_applications

A: A variety of backend storage options exist through Spring Integration. You can read more about it in spring-cloud-starter-stream-processor-aggregator/README.
Spring Integration docs on this matter are included as a link, and the Gemfire section could be useful.
It'd be also useful to review MessageGroupStore implementation, since it is the foundation for the storage option in aggregator.

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Franchise Development
The Dwyer Group Recognizes Scorpion as Vendor of the Year
Franchise, Scorpion News
Corey Quinn Chief Marketing Officer
At this year's 2017 Dwyer Group Reunion held in Orlando, Florida, Scorpion was absolutely thrilled to receive 6 awards recognizing our vendor-client partnership. We were recognized as Vendor of the Year for The Dwyer Group across all of their brands, and Vendor of the Year for the following 5 franchises:
Five Star Painting
Mr. Rooter Plumbing
AireServ
Glass Doctor
"These awards are amazing to receive and a testament to the mutual respect we've felt for Dwyer and the franchises within," said Eric Tanner, Scorpion's VP of Franchise Marketing. "We're very proud of the relationship we've been able to develop with them over the years, and they genuinely feel like family to us."
During the reunion, more than 2,500 global Dwyer franchise locations had the ability to nominate one vendor of their choice for what they viewed as an effective partnership and outcome to their business' success over the past year.
To be recognized by not one, but five of their brands is an absolute honor! This past year has been met with unbelievable results for not only each brand as a whole, but in their locations around the world, too. At Scorpion, we love that we get to partner with people who are so passionate and dedicated to their businesses.
The Dwyer Group's Chief Information Officer, Shayne Mehringer, shared, "The award is called Vendor of the Year—but Scorpion's not a vendor. They're a partner. The foundation of a great partnership is common values and common goals, and that's what makes Scorpion a great partner."
Collaborating is Key
Scorpion works with our franchise clients including Five Star Painting, Mr. Appliance, Mr. Rooter Plumbing, AireServ, and Glass Doctor to get them better jobs from the Internet. Each brand receives a custom, responsive website that serves to showcase each of their locations as leaders in their service areas. We also provide other digital marketing services including paid advertising, video production, social media marketing, content development, online review monitoring, call tracking, live chat, and more. Our Scorpion team works to ensure our franchise clients' customers are not only confident they're making the right choice, but looking forward to receiving the outcomes a first-rate business - a Dwyer Group business - provides.
Pam Harper, Executive VP of Strategic Marketing at Scorpion, offered her sentiments regarding the big win.
"It's been an absolute pleasure to be the person at Dwyer who said 'yes' to the Scorpion partnership! Who knew at that time I'd now be a Scorpion standing beside a support team who cares so much about all of our Dwyer franchisees," Pam said. "The Dwyer brands are exceptional forces in their industries, and what makes them stand apart from their competitors is a determination to be more than just leaders. They truly care about their people, their customers, and their partners. Collaborating with them is simply a bonus!"
Rustin Kretz, Scorpion's CEO, explained how much the Overall Vendor of the Year Award means to Scorpion—and the motivation to continue to exceed Dwyer's expectations.
"Four years ago, Jamie [Adams] and I went to Waco, Texas to consult the team at The Dwyer Group about what we needed to do for them to see substantial growth from the Internet," Rustin said.
Last year, we set records for all of the brands we were managing, and at a meeting with Dwyer's executive team, Jamie, Dan [Bedell], and I committed to win Overall Vendor of the Year this year. Last week, our goal was accomplished, and we stood onstage to accept the award after setting even more records of success.
Jamie has personally been working with Dwyer for over 8 years, and this has been nearly a decade-long dream of his. I thought it was only appropriate that he accept the award and give the speech. Shayne Mehringer, CIO of Dwyer, said that we are not vendors; we are partners. I felt a huge sense of pride coming from the Scorpion team sitting in Orlando at that moment. What an awesome guy, and what an inspiring thing to say. We committed to their corporate leaders that once again, we're going to do whatever it takes to do this again next year."
When you hire Scorpion, you get a team of marketers who dedicate themselves to the success of your business and work hard to exceed your expectations. Whatever your goals are, we work with you to reach, achieve, and celebrate them.
Talk one-on-one with Scorpion and find out what we can do for your franchise!
Corey Quinn is the Chief Marketing Officer at Scorpion. He works to ensure that the company is effectively connecting with law firms and educating them about how they can grow their practices. Prior to joining Scorpion, he worked in various marketing leadership and business development roles at emerging businesses. Corey was drawn to Scorpion because the company shared his passion for working hard, reaching for the highest standard of performance, and always going above and beyond for the client. Corey has an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where he graduated on the Dean's list for academic achievement. When is not working, he enjoys spending time at the beach, traveling, reading, and being with his family and friends.
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Q: Google Geocoding API region parameter In the google geocoding API, what are the regions that are supported by google? region is a parameter passed in the URL which takes a ccTLD value.

A: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding#GeocodingRegionCodes

This parameter takes a region code, specified as a IANA language region subtag. In most cases, these tags map directly to familiar ccTLD ("top-level domain") two-character values such as "uk" in "co.uk" for example. In some cases, the region tag also supports ISO-3166-1 codes, which sometimes differ from ccTLD values ("GB" for "Great Britain" for example).

http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry


A device that connects wireless devices together to form a network. Usually connects to a wired network and relays data between wireless devices and wired devices. Several APs can link together to form a larger network.
A mechanism for remotely shutting down a laptop that has been reported stolen when the laptop connects to the Internet.
In order to use your laptop for the first time (or after a "reflash" of the operating system), it must be unlocked by an activation key.
Key that unlocks an XO laptop.
A view used by the current Activity that is running on the laptop.
A version of the operating system, designated by category and number; for example, Ship.2-656; Update.1-698; Joyride-1792.
The action of positioning the pointer over an object such as a menu item or icon and then pressing and releasing a "mouse" button. To "left click", you click with the left-hand mouse button. To "right click", you click with the right-hand mouse button.
The books, music, movies, photographs, drawings, and other objects that are created on the laptop or downloaded to the laptop. Stored in an .xol file.
Component that manages the access to the data displayed in the Journal; these data are stored in individual files; an index that contains the metadata and speeds up searches.
Click two times in rapid succession. In many graphical user interfaces, double click is used as a different gesture than two separate single clicks. Sugar does not use double clicks.
The combination of dragging an object and then dropping onto a region of the screen. To drag an object: (1) position the pointer over the object; (2) press and hold the mouse button; and (3) move the pointer without releasing the mouse button. To drop an object, release the mouse button. In Sugar, drag and drop is used to copy items from the clipboard into an Activity.
A collection of email addresses—an efficient way to send email to a group of people who share an interest.
The wireless firmware is software that controls the operation of the wireless radio. It is downloaded into the wireless radio by the operating system.
The system firmware is made up of two parts: The EC and OFW. The first part is the software that runs the embedded controller (EC). The EC handles the processing of the keyboard, touchpad, game buttons, power button, and charging the battery. The second part is OpenFirmware (OFW). OFW is responsible for initializing the hardware and booting the operating system. OFW also handles boot security so that it will only load "official" OLPC operating systems.
The Frame, which can appear in any view, holds system status (battery, speaker, network), a clipboard, the list of open Activities, navigation controls, and list of "buddies" (collaborators).
A view of your friends with whom you are working on shared projects.
View of installed Activities from which you launch them—the Home view is the starting view on the laptop.
To move the pointer over something on the screen (such as an icon) and leave it there for a moment. Often, hovering over an object's icon activates a menu of options for that object.
Network connectivity through a WiFi access point, for example, 802.11b.
IRC/chat is real-time text chat used by the development and technical support communities (and hopefully the learning community as well).
A protocol that the laptop uses for collaboration.
Activity where you can see your previous work. You can also resume the work done at those Activities.
A small, external storage device that plugs into one of the USB ports on a computer. They can store between 16MB (enough to hold several music files) up to 4GB (enough to hold several high quality full-length movie files) and a wide range in between. Jump drives are easily purchased at any electronics store starting as low as $5 to $10.
Process of generating both activation and developer keys.
When a laptop is activated, the activation has an expiration date. The period between activation and expiration is the lease period. The lease period is determined during the key-generation process; the laptop can be reactivated after the lease has expired.
Content that is created on the laptop is accessed through the Journal; preloaded content is stored in a library and is accessed through the Browse Activity.
Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. Linux is relatively robust in light of malware and Rainbow provides additional protections above and beyond the standard Linux defaults.
The laptops use three channels for communication: 1, 6, and 11; in simple mesh mode, the laptops can only see other laptops on the same channel; in a School Server mesh, laptops on all channels are visible.
Network connectivity through a mesh network, for example, 802.11.
A mesh node that serves as a gateway (portal) to a network external to the mesh.
Originally referring to a button on a computer mouse, the term is now used to refer to a button on any pointing device, such as a touchpad or pointing stick.
Internal storage in some laptops, including the OLPC XO.
A view of who is on the network with you and what Activities and content are being shared.
(OS) - The low-level system that manages the various files, processes, etc. needed to operate the laptop; the OS used by the XO laptop is the RedHat Fedora distribution of Linux.
A black box that appears when the mouse hovers over an object; a palette can contain the name of the control, some details about it or some related actions.
Currently unsupported, this is a mechanism that uses the lease mechanism to require laptops to periodically ask for a renewed activation. Without the renewal, the lease will expire and the laptop will be locked.
A file containing the instance of translated strings for a single language based upon a POT file.
A server that is used to store and manage translation templates and files.
The master translation template for a project.
Each laptop comes with a power adapter to allow it to be plugged into a power socket.
A discovery service for finding other laptops on the network.
Rainbow implements the isolation shell implicitly described in the Bitfrost security specification. This means that it isolates Activities (and eventually system services) that it is asked to run from one another and the rest of the system.
The process by which a fresh build is installed in the laptop; reflashing overwrites all files, including files in the Journal and /home/olpc. And so, it should be done with caution.
Web site: http://rt.laptop.org/ This is a Support ticket tracking system. Read: http://bestpractical.com/rt/ for more information.
To return to a normal state of operation after suspending.
A mesh network that is mediated by a School Server.
Secure Digital (SD) is a flash (non-volatile) memory card format used in portable devices, including digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs, and mobile phones. SD card capacities range from 8 MB to 32 GB.
OLPC produces both "signed" and "unsigned" builds of the operating system. Signed builds are release builds that have undergone QA testing. Unsigned builds are development builds, which are used for testing new features and bug fixes. You cannot run an unsigned build in your laptop unless you have either a developer key or security has been turned off (as in the case of the G1G1 laptops).
A mesh network that is running between laptops without a School Server.
Click one time. In many graphical user interfaces, multiple clicks are used as a different gesture than single clicks. Sugar does not use multiple clicks.
The Sugar user interface. It consists of four views, the Frame, and the Journal.
To cause a computer go into a standby state in order to save power.
A user-interface element that can contain several buttons, text entry fields, drop-down menus, and other elements, that is usually contained in a toolbox; common examples of toolbars include: Activity, View, and Edit.
A user-interface element that appears in the top part of most Activities and contains one or more toolbars.
A protocol for passing data between computers.
The process by which incremental changes to system software are installed.
Instead of a desktop, Sugar maintains four views: Neighborhood, Group (Buddy), Home, and Activity.
A computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user, a type of malware.
A collaborative website that allows for community contributions and editing, for example, http://wiki.laptop.org and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org.
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An XS or school server extends the amount of storage available to children. It also serves as a local library and a mesh portal to the Internet.


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Buhari News POLITICS US
IPOB plans to storm White House as Buhari visits Trump
—Buhari woos private investors
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
WASHINTON – THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has planned to storm the White House as President Muhammadu Buhari visits President Donald Trump of the United States of America, USA, at the White House, Washington DC.
IPOB cartoon
President Trump had recently invited the Nigerian leader which appears to be the first invitation from the United States President to any President in the continent of African.
Vanguard that visited the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC, reports that every arrangement has been made by the Nigerian community in America to welcome the President.
Vanguard also reliably gathered that the Nigerian embassy was doing everything possible to ensure that the activities of the IPOB members did not embarrass the President when he meets with his American counterpart tomorrow.
From intelligence reports, members of the IPOB had planned to protest during President Buhari's meeting with President Trump and had already gotten clearance from the American security operatives for the protest.
The IPOB members it was further gathered had stormed Comfort Inn Hotel at 4050 Powder Mill Road, Belts Ville, Merryland last week's Friday where the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu had held a town hall meeting, but the governor was said to have ignored their presence.
At the town hall meeting, the IPOB members had entered the venue well dressed with their Biafran flags inside their suites only for them to bring out the flags as the meeting progressed.
According to sources, the embassy found it difficult to stop any protests from any group because the IPOB had been given permit by the police and going by the American policy, the protesters will be given police protection within the period of their protest as efforts towards stopping them could infuriate the members of the group that has been outlawed in Nigeria.
A source revealed had claimed that there were attempts by some of the embassy members to see whether they could identify the people behind the planned protest in order to see the possibility of using their family members to persuade them not to do anything that could embarrass the Nigerian President as well as the entire Nigerian community in the United States.
Meanwhile, some members of the President's entourage arrived Washington early hours of Saturday. Among them include, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Gabriel Olanisakin, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, DG-NIA, Ahmed Abubakar Rufai, the Attorney General of the Federation AGF and Minister of Justice, Malam Abubakar Malami, and Malam Mamman Daura who is said to be organizing the private investors.
Also to be part of the delegation from the private sector are the Chairman and Chief Executive of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Tope Shonubi, the governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun and his counterpart from Plateau, Simon Lalong, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, Chairman Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Nnena Elendu Ukeje, Chairperson, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr.Okechukwu Enelamah.
President Buhari who left Nigeria yesterday, will have audience with the Chief Executive Officers of United States in Blair House tomorrow after meeting with President Trump, in his bid to attract more foreign investors to Nigeria.
At the official visit, he will have bilateral meeting with President Trump and a working lunch tomorrow.
The meeting according to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina is expected to discuss ways to enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries and to advance shared priorities, such as: promoting economic growth, fighting terrorism and other threats to peace and security.
The meeting will further deepen the US-Nigeria relationship as the United States considers Nigeria's economic growth, security and leadership in Africa to be critical aspects of their strategic partnership.
In the area of aviation, the Nigerian officials will be meeting with Boeing, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, on the National Carrier Project.
On agriculture, they will meet with large equipment manufacturers with focus on harvesting and post harvesting equipment.
In the area of transportation, the officials will meet with the GE-led consortium for the implementation of the interim phase of the narrow gauge rail concession.
In the interim phase, a substantive concession agreement will be negotiated and finalized to provide the consortium the opportunity to invest an estimated $2bn, to modernize the rail line from Lagos to Kano (Western Line) and from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri (Eastern Line). During the meeting, the concession framework and the interim phase framework agreements are expected to be signed.
The Nigerian officials will also meet with US-EXIM Bank and the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation to explore competitive financing arrangements.
Recall that that in 2017, Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and the United States Department of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote and encourage commercial and investment ties between Nigeria and the United States, with initial focus on infrastructure, agriculture, digital economy, investment and regulatory reforms.
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