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an ancient brotherhood that ever existed and believed to still popular
article exist today although there is no evidence - real evidence of
this fraternity existence until today. Illuminati means popular article
New Enlightenment. Proponents of the Illuminati called Illuminatus which
means Enlightened One. Perfectibilists formerly Illuminati founded by
Adam popular article Weishaupt (1748-1811) a Jewish descendant who was
born and raised in Ingolstadt, have an educational background as a
popular article Jesuit who became a Catholic priest and later organized
House of Rothschild. Illuminatus are people - people who popular
article seek answers to what is called religion as a mystery of God.
According to those with science no popular article longer the mystery
of God, all have the answers. One of his most famous Illuminatus
Galileo Galilei an popular article anthropologist who had to be
sentenced to lifelong house by the church due to make a statement that
popular article the center of the universe is not the earth is the sun.
The statement was deemed offensive to popular article the church
because it implies that God intentionally put the center of life on
other planets. Since then popular article Illuminatus hunted by the
church. They were hunted down and given a stamp cross their chest and
then popular article killed. Illuminati then moves from the underground
as a secret society of the most sought after by the popular article
church. The Illuminatus who fled and then met with other secret group
of expert groups of stone called popular article Freemasonry, or more
commonly referred to as the Masons.
Development of the Illuminati
Since
joining the group of popular article Freemasonry, the Illuminati
became more powerful because it is assisted by a network of Freemasonry
which apparently did popular article not realize had been used as safe
means of transportation by the Illuminati. Illuminati continues to be
hunted popular article by the church. They are labeled as adherents
understand Luciferian Conspiracy, because they, just as Freemasonry,
has a popular article ritual worship of "The Great Architect" / "The
Great Architect", symbolized by their form of "The Wholeseeing-Eye" /
popular article "Eye of God" (taken of the Egyptian legend); which is a
symbol of Lucifer (the name Satan in popular article Christian
tradition). What is in the money 100 dollars follows.
Since
1782 the Illuminati movement spread from Denmark to popular article
Portugal, even further. British people who terilluminasi join the
American people to build Loji Columbia in New York popular article City
that same year. A young Russian nobleman, Alexander Radischev, joined
Leipzieg, and spread the doctrine to his popular article hometown in
St. Petersburg. In Lisbon a poet named Claudio Manuel da Costa became a
member, and moved popular article to Brazil when he founded a branch
with the help of two doctors from Ouro Preto, Domingos Vidal popular
article Barbarosa and Jose Alvares Maciel. In 1788 the trio launched the
first Illuminati uprising, Inconfidencia Mineira, but the popular
article rebellion was crushed when just pistillate by Viceroy Marquis
de Barbacena. Until now, they fight secretly against and popular
article trying to undermine the Roman Catholic church, which is
considered symbolizes the power of Jesus Christ, the enemy popular
article Lucifer.
Illuminati members are mostly well-known
figures, like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill,
etc.. While donor popular article organizations (Bloodline) is a
leading organization, such as the UN, WHO, IMF, World Bank, etc.. It is
said popular article that rumors of this organization was established
by the Illuminati plan.
With a very slippery, the
Illuminati who have popular article been united by Freemasonry keep
moving. They are behind every revolution, war, and major world events.
Almost all popular article of changes in power in several countries of
Europe and America can not be separated from dirty hands popular
article mereka.konspirasi that they are running with full
confidentiality. One by one major countries fall into their clutches.
From popular article mainland Europe, they reach America, and also the
whole world. The history of the world we know today popular article is
the result of their work. However, the official history was never noted
that all of this is popular article the result of their hard work,
because the industry was writing the world are owned by their networks.
Adam Weishaupt
Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Since
joining the group of Freemasonry, the Illuminati became more powerful
because it is assisted by a popular article network of Freemasonry
which apparently did not realize had been used as safe means of
transportation by the popular article Illuminati. Illuminati continues
to be hunted by the church. They are labeled as adherents understand
Luciferian Conspiracy. Lucifer popular article is often associated with
Satan. So the Illuminati are also referred to as group saithan. This
title became popular article origin of the word Satan in the English
language, which means devil. Nevertheless they are not Satanists, it
popular article is just propaganda for the church to the Illuminati they
increasingly believed to be the enemy of society.
Since
popular article 1782 the Illuminati movement spread from Denmark to
Portugal, even further. British people who terilluminasi join the
American popular article people to build Loji Columbia in New York City
that same year. A young Russian nobleman, Alexander Radischev, popular
article joined Leipzieg, and spread the doctrine to his hometown in
St. Petersburg. In Lisbon a poet named Claudio popular article Manuel
da Costa became a member, and moved to Brazil when he founded a branch
with the help popular article of two doctors from Ouro Preto, Domingos
Vidal Barbarosa and Jose Alvares Maciel. In 1788 the trio launched
popular article the first Illuminati uprising, Inconfidencia Mineira,
but the rebellion was crushed when just pistillate by Viceroy Marquis de
popular article Barbacena.
Johann Adam Weishaupt
(Ingolstadt, February 6, 1748 - Gotha, 18 November 1830) was a German,
the founder of popular article the Order of the Illuminati. Although
raised in the environment Jesuit, in the end he deviated from the
popular article teachings of these orders and on May 1, 1776, with the
help of Adolph Freiherr Knigge, he founded popular article a new order
"Order of Perfectibilists" hereinafter known as the Illuminati. This
Order has a mission to eliminate popular article all the reigning
monarch and religion. Adam Weishaupt was the man best-known figure
among the Zionists and freemason. popular article There is no any
revolution in this century unless associated with a name and its
ideals. French Revolution, popular article the Bolshevik Revolution of
Russia; always end up the chain of thought and brilliant strategy of
his thinking.
At popular article first, he was a Catholic
priest who later defected to pioneer the most persistent in opposing
Christianity and popular article other religions. Iluminati secret
movement evolved into a network that "menggurita" due to the support of
the Rothchild popular article family. Meyer Amschel Rothchild
(1743-1812) was a very dominant character of banking in Germany and
called a dynasty, popular article for his descendants held the kingdom
of the world banking network in Europe with ambitions to dominate the
popular article world economy. One of the sayings famous Rothchild are:
"Give me a chance to control popular article the economy of a nation,
and I would not care about who is in power (give me control popular
article over a nations economic, and I do not care WHO writes its
laws)."
Rothchild's motto is to give strength popular
article and encouragement to all members Iluminati not miss all the
aspects that led them to the economic dictator popular article is able
to master and control the government in the corners of the world. In
fact, one of popular article America's 20th president, the [[James
Abram Garfield]] who are also members of Iluminati said:
"Whoever popular article controls the money or the economy of a
nation, then he will rule the nation (That whomever controls popular
article the money or economies of nation, Would They control the nation
too)."
Adam Weishaupt was also a Jesuit, professor
popular article of law and taught at the University Ingoldstadt,
Bavaria, Germany, until 1770. Disappointment himself against the dogmas
of popular article Catholic Christianity led to his exit from his post
as pastor and began to devote himself to the popular article Zionist
movement to establish one world government (one world government) which
is believed would uphold human dignity by popular article eliminating
religion on earth, except understand Satan (abolition of all religion,
except Satanism).
His position as a Jesuit priest popular
article and left because they feel conflict with the thoughts that are
cosmopolitan and universality. This is the beginning popular article of
the formation of the order Illumination. It was said by Albert G.
Mackey:
"Weishaupt popular article a cosmopolitan view
who knows the teachings of the priests who superstition arbitrary in
the legal field, has popular article set up an opposition party in the
University. This is the initial plan of Illumination or
'enlightenment'. (Weishaupt popular article whose views were the
resource persons and WHO's new cosmopolitan condemned the bigotry and
supertision of the priest, popular article established Opposing party
in the university. This is the beginning of the Order of the Illuminati
or the popular article enlightened). "
After leaving the
Catholic church, the church claims he founded a new conspiracy network
called the Luciferian popular article Conspiracy and the Church of
Satan (The Synagogue of Satan). Added according to him, the devil is
not popular article a vile creature, but a force that represents
honesty, courage, and freedom. Satan as a creature has obtained popular
article as proof of God's forgiveness and redemption devil wants to
save mankind. This teaching is embedded to the popular article members
of Illumination that understand Satanism is a form of evolution of
humanity, a symbol of human liberty, popular article and the network
includes a global pulse of life of the world (Satanism is about the
evolution of popular article humanity and the promotion of freedom on
the individual and global scales). Many consider this is just
propaganda popular article to the illumination of the church
For
five years he composed a book called [[The Novus Ordo Seclorum]] that
popular article contains the concepts, doctrine, and the theory of
global governance. The book was completed on May 1, 1776. popular
article As a tribute to him, dated May 1, serve as the Communist
celebrations around the world. According to popular article Myron Pagan,
strategic steps to realize his ambition was written Weishaupt, among
others, as follows.
l. Illumination must master popular article
high-level officials from several levels of government positions, if
necessary, dirty ways to bribe, both with money and popular article
women. (Monetary and sex bribery was to Used to obtain control of men
already in high places in popular article the Various levels of all
Governments and other fields of Endeavor).
2. Illumination
recruiting of potential student activists, who popular article have the
talent and the superior offspring to be trained as a prospective
anggata Illumination in the future. popular article (The Illuminati WHO
were the resource persons on the faculty of colleges and universities
were the resource persons popular article to cultivate students
exceptional mental processing abilities and WHO belong to well-Bred
Families with international leanings and recommend popular article Them
for special training in internationalism).
3. Those who are
trapped in the network Illumination, including students who have
popular article been trained and given special knowledge about the
international world, and ideals will Illumination Illumination maketh
as agents popular article in several countries and placed as an expert
or specialist staff who assist key government officials. (All
influential popular article people trapped WHO were the resource persons
to come under the control of the Illuminati, plus the students popular
article WHO Had been specially educated and Trained, were the resource
persons to be Used as agents and placed popular article behind the
scenes of all Governments as experts and specialists).
4.
Illumination will control all channels of mass media, popular article
both electronic and print media, own and control the government in such
a way as the only solution popular article so as to shape public
opinion. (They were the resource persons to obtain absolute control of
the press popular article so That all news and information Could be
slanted to convince the Masses That a one word government popular
article is the only solution to our many and Varied problems. They were
the resource persons Also to own popular article and control all the
national radio and TV channels).
Illumination has established seven main principles, namely as follows:
popular article 1. Eliminate all government-oriented nationalism (aboliton of all national government)
2. Eliminate all religion except popular article the teachings of demons (abolition of all Religions except Satanism)
3. Eliminating the values of family popular article life-the individual must comply
4. Abolish private property rights (abolition of private property)
5. popular article Eliminating the tax value is high (abolition of inheritance by high inheritance taxes)
6. Eliminating the popular article patriot-soul (abolition of patriotism)
7. Creating a world government to manipulate the United Nations who
has popular article mastered the Illumination (Creation of the world
government under the United Nations by the Illuminati)
Depth Below the illuminati:
popular
article 1. Red Brotherhood, The initial stage in which one enters
the membership of the Illuminati and popular article has taken his
oath.
2. Black Brotherhood, the middle phase in which someone
likened already a popular article middle-ranking officers when in the
military.
3. The Great White Brotherhood, The final stage (the
general) popular article where someone has been a committee and is
entitled to be present at the meeting - secret meetings.
A team of three JKUAT students has won the 2013 Microsoft Kenya
Imagine Cup. Collins Omwenga, Paul Mutie and Somboriot Kipchillat
presented an application named Protege which seeks to support the
process of giving donations to children’s homes and other charitable
organizations across the world.
The application creates a support mechanism that allows children
homes and rehabilitation centers to receive donations of any kind
through an open accountable system based on Windows Azure cloud
services, Windows 8 and Windows Phone. The app which will be free for
download later in the year on the Microsoft store will allow people to
search for children homes in any region of the world, view their
donation request, send donations and even virtually adopt a child.
The donor will be able to receive automatic updates on the progress
of the projects he or she has donated to through live notifications.
Donations that can be sent via this application range from financial
payments through mobile money transfer platform such as Mpesa to
clothes, food, stationary, building equipment, toiletries and even
volunteer time.
“We were speechless. To have won this year’s Kenya country finals –
and to have the opportunity to represent our country at Worldwide
Imagine Cup along some of the brightest young minds – is an honour,”
said Paul Mutie, a member of the winning team. “And we’re thrilled to
have the opportunity to compete with students from around the globe who,
like us, are passionate about making a difference in the world. Our
application is a foolproof system that tracks donations and creates
accountability to the donors and the recipients.”
The premier student competition which centers on the use of
imagination, creativity and technology to help solve some of the world’s
toughest problems, was launched in 2003 globally and in 2008 in East
Africa. For the first time since its inception, East Africa will be
represented by 2 teams from Kenya and Uganda at the global finals which
will be held at St Petersburg in Russia in July this year.
“Each team that competed in Kenya’s country finals is deserving of
the highest recognition for the creativity and imagination applied to
some of the world’s biggest challenges. We’re proud to honour these
young students who we believe truly exemplify the spirit of the Imagine
Cup competition, and we’ll be cheering on team PI Crafts from Jomo
Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology as they compete on
the world stage in St Petersburg,” said Louis Otieno, Microsoft Director
for Legal and Corporate Affairs, Africa Initiatives
This year’s event was sponsored by Microsoft, the African Development Bank (AFDB) and Nokia.
Team PI Crafts will join the brightest young minds to compete on the
world stage in July at St. Petersburg Russia. The 2013 competitors will
gain real life experience, make new friends, and harness the power of
technology to take on the world’s toughest problems.
Imagine Cup is more than a competition. As part of Microsoft’s YouthSpark
initiative, it is a way for young entrepreneurs, innovators and
developers to have the opportunity to develop an idea, create a product,
set a clear business plan and event take their product to market. All
Imagine Cup Worldwide Finalist teams are eligible to apply for Imagine Cup Grants, a three year USD3-million investment by Microsoft to help students turn their ideas into reality. Microsoft BizSpark, another YouthSpark initiative, enables Imagine Cup participants to launch startup businesses in their communities and across the web.
Today marks Day 3 (of 8) of Exam Week at JKUAT. Eeek! I wish everyone the best
of luck with exams regardless of where you are in your education! It can
definitely be more of a high-stress time, but find comfort in the fact
that you’ve technically been preparing for these exams for months on
months!!
With one more academic semester coming to a close, nothing on campus
is normal this time of year. I’m blogging right
now in a the most peaceful mindset that I’ve had in almost a week.
The good thing is that I was in for attachment and I'm not having exams!
Western Kenya is an area of great geographic, cultural and natural
diversity, offering tourists just as much, if not more, than many of
Kenya’s better known tourist areas.
Most travelers dream of finding a new and unknown destination, somewhere
far from the beaten tourist path, where the thrill of real discovery
and exploration reward the visitor with new and unexpected experiences,
sights and sounds.
Kenya’s western region offers this and more.
Kakamega Forest Reserve
The equatorial rainforest of Kakamega is a living museum of unique and
rare species. This wonderful place is a treasure trove where the massive
trees and thick wet undergrowth are the habitat of a world of diverse
wildlife.
The sheer abundance of birdlife here is overwhelming. The forest has
resident populations of primates, including the rare red tailed monkey,
butterflies, chameleons and stunning birdlife, such as the giant Blue
Turaco
At night the forest is a different world, the air filled with bats and
ringing with the sounds of frogs, night birds and the booming call of
the giant forest squirrel.
Despite its easy accessibility, Kakamega is a quiet haven for nature lovers, the perfect place to relax for a few days.
The forest has many walking trails, and there are plenty of very good
guides available ready to enlighten on the great ecological significance
of the reserve.
Kit Mikaye
Set among a field of boulders, Kit Mikaye is a large upright stone,
bolstered by smaller supporting boulders. Myths and legends regarding
the stone abound among the local Luo community.
It was once believed to be a living entity that roamed this area at
night, visiting nearby Lake Victoria to drink. Sacrifices were made to
the stone in return for divine favour and blessings.
Even today, some believe that a visit to Kit Mikaye bestows good fortune upon the visitor.
Rusinga Island
Rusinga Island is an excellent base for exploring the Lake Victoria, the
great heart and lifeblood of the west, by boat. A real highlight of any
exploration of Lake Victoria is a trip to Mbasa and Mholo Islands, not
far from Mbita Point.
These two islands form a very important breeding colony for several
species of waterfowl. Visiting these islands at the end of the day is an
incredible experience.
Thousands of birds fill the air, literally carpeting both islands in
life as they descend to roost among the rocks and trees. With the last
rays of the sun turning the waters of the Lake to gold, this is one of
Kenya’s greatest natural spectacles.
Ruma National Park
Ruma National Park comprises 120 square kms of savannah and gently rolling hills.
This is the last refuge of the Roan antelope, with the world’s last
remaining wild population found within the boundaries of the park. The
Roan are easy to see on the wide open grasslands, grazing freely among
stands of whistling thorn acacia.
Ruma is also home to several other rare species, chiefly the Rothschild
Giraffe, Jackson’s Hartebeest and the tiny Oribi antelope.
Western Highlands - Kisii
Tabaka near Kisii is home to Kenya’s finest stone carvers. The Kisii /
Gusii community are renowned for their artistic skill with the local
soapstone.
They have a long tradition of carving ornate decorative art and jewelry,
together with functional items such as plates and bowls. Soapstone is
found in a series of large open quarries throughout the Gucha area,
which have also proved equally rich in uncovered fossil evidence and
prehistoric artifacts.
Cooperative workshops have been formed to produce work for the international market.
Just recently, Twentieth Century Fox designated the Tabaka soapstone
carvings as official Simpson’s merchandise. The Tabaka Classic Carvers
were licensed to produce 12 models of the show's characters bound for
sale in the US, the United Kingdom and Italy.
Kisii stone is sold worldwide, and several works by Tabaka artists have
found a place in major international art collections. Tabaka soapstone
graces the UN HQ in New York, and the UNESCO HQ in Paris, in the form of
a massive 7- tonne “bird of peace” or Enyamuchera.
The success of this industry shows in the town of Tabaka, where every
household seems to be busily engaged in carving, polishing, washing and
packaging stoneware.
This very success has meant the preservation of a very important cultural tradition.
A visit here is an excellent opportunity to experience this rich culture
and to purchase some beautiful handcrafted works of art.
Kericho – World’s finest quality tea
This small town was brought to life by the Kenyan tea industry. The lush
green carpet of tea bushes that cover these high cool hills are quite
literally fields of gold.
This region produces one of the world’s finest quality teas.
Agri-tourism is becoming increasingly popular, and the small hill town
of Kericho is the perfect base to visit the local plantations, producing
both tea and fresh cut flowers.
Tea plantations also play an important role in local ecology, and are
used as a buffer zone to protect tracts of indigenous forest.
World’s finest Athletes
Kenya’s Western Highlands are the home to some of the world’s finest sportsmen.
The secret of this success lies in these highlands. The average altitude
in this area is well over 2000m, and these rarified conditions are
ideal training conditions for runners.
Two local schools, St. Patrick’s at Iten and Sing’ore Girls near Eldoret
have produced most of Kenya’s Olympic Superstars. Altitude training can
assist with development of both endurance levels and technique.
Five separate highly specialized training camps for athletes have been
established in the Iten and Kabarnet area, for both local and
International athletes. These are ideal for athletes looking to gain a
high altitude advantage.
Kerio Valley
The highlands and escarpment of the North Rift Valley provide some of
the country's most awe-inspiring views, across the broad and beautiful
Kerio Valley.
The scenic vistas around the Elgeyo escarpment are truly stunning,
especially from the 'World's End' viewpoint at Nyaru. Waterfalls flow
down the face of these escarpments, and at Chebloch, on the valley floor
water runs through a deep and narrow gorge with sheer rock walls
towards the plains of little explored Rimoi reserve, an important area
for elephant migration.
Tugen Hills at Kipsaraman is home to one of Kenya’s first community
museums. The museum houses exhibits on biodiversity and conservation, as
well as important local human fossil finds and a fascinating exhibit on
the possible prehistoric origins of a local mythological creature, the
Chemosit, or Nandi Bear.
Even more impressive than the museum itself is its location. Perched on a
the edge of a precipitous drop, the view from Kipsaraman is an
incredible panoramic vista of the Rift valley and distant Lake Baringo
that quite literally takes the breath away.
Kenya invites you to come and experience the wild, wonderful and welcoming West…
The social media fight, which erupted between Nigerians and Kenyans 14th March on Twitter is not yet over, in Facebook Kenyans to continue to slam Nigerians.
An epic Twitter war broke out between
Nigerians and Kenyans on last Thursday over the alleged mistreatment of the
Harambee Stars of Kenya in Lagos.
Soon after pictures of Harambee Stars
and their officials, who were in the country for the 2014 World Cup
Qualifier, showed them training on a dusty pitch in Ajao Estate Primary
School, Oshodi, Lagos, circulated on social networks, there were
thousands of bitter and hot exchanges of words on Twitter.
Here are some of the pictures speaking a thousand words;
Harambee Stars mistreatment in Lagos, Nigeria after arriving to face theSuper Eagles in a World Cup qualifier.
Kenyans seem not to be tired of the
brouhaha as the two major Facebook fan pages they created on Thursday
and Friday had churned out more abuses on Nigerians up till Sunday
evening.
The first fan page, Someone tell
Nigeria, created on February 22, has 31,685 fans; while the second
Someone Tell Nigeria (the only difference is in the capital ‘T’ in
‘Tell’), created on February 21, has 31,224 fans as at the time of
filing this report.
One of the post on the fan page read,
“It is only in Nigeria where females have more hair on their chest
than the males while another post stated, “Someone, tell Nigeria to
come with an extra cargo plane because after the return leg they will
carry back all their movies, songs.”(Actually this is one of the best post according to me)
This is the story behind the tag: #SomeoneTellNigeria....
Kenyans started the social media ‘war’
on Twitter with a view to expressing their displeasure at the alleged
mistreatment and employed the use of the hashtag, #SomeoneTellNigeria
to criticise anything Nigerian. Concerned Nigerians, on noticing this,
reacted swiftly and started the hashtag, #SomeoneTellKenya.
It was the first recorded ‘war’ between
Nigeria and Kenya, in which not even the United
Nations Security Council could mediate, as #SomeoneTellNigeria and
#SomeoneTellKenyan set worldwide trends on Thursday and Friday.
The tweet believed to have led to the
Twitter fight was from Madre, who uses the handle @kmaore, tweeting
from Nairobi, Kenya. He tweeted, “Kenyans should start #Someonetell
Nigeria due to the way they are treating our stars!”
An angry Kenyan, Sewe Matthew, on his
handle @Sewe450, tweeted, “#SomeoneTellNigeria we can throw stones from
Kenya and break the African Cup of Nations Trophy.
Kenyans on the social network threatened
that Nigerians should be prepared for the worst when they travel down
to Nairobi on June 7, for the second leg of the World Cup qualifier.
Mothamaki Wa Sparta, using the handle @Kisenyajesse, was one of the first Kenyans who vented his anger on the social network.
He tweeted, “#SomeoneTellNigeria we are
disappointed with the way they are treating Harambee Stars. Next time
they (Eagles) come here, they should come with their own airport to
land.”
@obkerry replied #SomeoneTellNigeria:
They (Super Eagles) will train in Mandera (1,100km away from Nairobi)
before taking a pick-up/truck to Nairobi.”
Responding to the tweets, A Nigerian,
Muffy, using the handle, @StarCashKiki, asked, “Who taught Kenyans
English? That person should be blamed for this misbehaviour.”
No sooner had Muffy asked the question
than the war of words soon became dirty as Kenyans attacked various
phenomena that are Nigerian.
In what seems like an attack on the
Nigerian movie industry, a Kenyan, Jim, with the handle, @JMOxQ,
tweeted, “Only in their movies (Nigerian) will a woman put poison in her
husband’s food and then tastes it to know if it’s enough – without
dying.”
Another Kenyan, @Tego_Wolasa, stated,
“#SomeoneTellNigeria that we export Presidents to America, they
(Nigeria) export thieves and con artistes.” Corroborating this,
@ricco_oki said, “While Nigeria has Usofia in London, we have Obama in
London.”
@carribeanq said “#SomeoneTellNigeria to name their artiste well – not mathematical squares and brackets.”
But Nigerians soon came out en masse on Twitter platform to fight the battle.
Leading the pack is Nigerian comedian,
Gordons, whose @GordonComedian, stated, “Ghanaians should rejoice,
Kenyans are now the SI unit of darkness! Darkness is now measured in
Kenyans!”
Another Nigerian, @ugwubiggz tweeted,
“#SomeoneTellKenya, the only reason they win all those races is because
they are promised food at the finish line” while @unstoppable55 stated,
“#SomeoneTellKenyans that tourists come to Nigeria and go to the zoo,
but they go to Kenya and stay on the streets and look at Kenyans.”
But while the Kenyans hurled abuses and
denigrated anything Nigerian, they took time to pay their last respect
to the widely-acclaimed “Father of African Literature”, Chinua Achebe,
when the news of his demise broke on Friday.
A kenyan, The Shinski,@hersimohammed,
tweeted, “#SomeoneTellNigeria We cry and mourn the legend with you. We,
too, loved Chinua Achebe.”
Another Kenyan, Nancy Kachin, with the
handle, @1africa1love, tweeted, “ Thank you #Nigeria for giving us
#ChinuaAchebe. He is resting in peace, we continue the struggle.
#someonetellnigeria.”
The excitement of the rumour mill, the titillation of every leaked photo led to higher than ever levels of expectation over the iPhone 5
features, and while the announcement was greeted with some derision at
the lack of perceived headline improvements, the record sales tell an
entirely different story.
Given the underwhelming changes to the iPhone 4S,
the iPhone 5 launch really needs to re-energise customers to prove
Apple can repeat the game-changing trick it managed with the iPhone 4.
The iPhone 5 price is predictably high, so consumers will need to bear that in mind too when looking for their next smartphone.
So is the Apple iPhone 5 the greatest smartphone ever, and did it finally see Apple ascend to the top spot in our 20 best mobile phones chart? Or was it a case of too little, too late... and what about those darned Maps, eh?
We'll
begin in the traditional manner: how the thing actually feels in the
hand. With the iPhone 5 there will be many types of prospective buyer:
the upgrader from the 4 (or more-money-than-sense iPhone 4S upgraders),
those tired of their Android handset and those taking their first steps
in the smartphone market and want to get one of them iThingies their
friend/child has.
Well,
all of those picking up the iPhone 5 will have the same reaction: this
thing is amazingly light. You've probably heard the numbers by now (20
per cent lighter than the predecessor, as well as beating most of the
opposition too at 112g.)
It's an odd
sensation, but it actually detracts from the experience when you first
pick it up. We've praised the weighty feel of the iPhone in the past,
lending it a premium feel in the face of toy-like phones, and it's
almost disappointing that Apple decided to join that clan.
However,
through extended use this problem quickly disappears, as the overall
effect of the phone is still a chassis designed for strength, it just
sits more anonymously in the pocket.
You'll
obviously see the change in height too – the iPhone 5 stands 123.8mm
tall to allow for the larger 4-inch screen. In truth, those not familiar
with the iPhone 4S probably wouldn't notice the difference, which is
why it's a good move from Apple to include the larger screen if it's not
going put people off that hate larger phones.
The
decision to stick at 4-inches is Apple's admission that while it
recognises people are all over the idea of having more screen real
estate to play with it doesn't want to move away from the thumb-friendly
nature of the device.
Through a
mixture of moving the centre of gravity slightly as well as
repositioning the screen within the bezel, it's still possible to scroll
your thumb mostly around the whole display one-handed, which Apple is
clearly keen to keep hold of.
However,
we're not convinced of that argument any more, and the power button was
still a little out of reach when using the phone normally, as was
anything in the top left-hand corner of the screen.
This
was no issue in reality, as scooting the phone down a touch in the palm
is a natural action. But if that's the case, then why not offer a
4.3-inch screen at least?
There's more
to a phone than a screen these days (although increasingly less and
less) and the general construction of the iPhone 5 is excellent to say
the least.
We've
tested both the ceramic white version and the anodised black, and the
two tone effect on the back of the phone is stunning, both visually and
under the finger.
It doesn't beat the sheer beauty of the HTC One S, with its micro-arc oxidised back and rounded lines, but it's well-set in second place.
The
two sections of pigmented glass at the top and the bottom of the phone
add a pleasant effect, and the sapphire glass is meant to be thoroughly
durable, to complement the Gorilla Glass on the front.
Apple
knows consumers get furious when they drop and iPhone, and is clearly
seeking to stop the smashes before they happen with a tougher exterior -
although it seems the anodised black version is pretty prone to
scratching, with a number of users mentioning chipping on the darker
hue.
Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice
President of Marketing, reportedly replied to an email from a user
pointing out that aluminium will scratch and chip in natural use - and
we're also hearing that white iPhone 5 models are being returned through
flaking as well.
We kept our black iPhone 5
in a soft pocket in a bag for much of its life, yet saw the following
chip with minimal key / coin contact in under a fortnight:
For
a device of this premium quality, users will expect it to survive the
pocket test, and especially do so for the first two weeks of life. It's a
big fail for Apple to expect users to accept that a product can be
damaged so easily.
The same industrial
band around the outside is in effect again as on the iPhone 4 and 4S,
with small sections removed where the antenna joins.
Apple
has gone for a more advanced form of antenna here, meaning the days of
lost signal are gone, and generally increasing the power of your call
connection and GPS lock on too.
There
are other big design changes here too: the headphone jack has moved to
the bottom of the phone, and the iconic 30-pin connector has been
retired in favour of the new Lightning port, giving a headache to all
those that have invested in chargers, docks and other accessories over
their iPhone lives.
You can buy an
adaptor, but it's pricey at £25. And unless you want to keep it
permanently attached to the bottom of the iPhone 5 you'll need to buy a
few, which is far from ideal.
However,
let's not harangue Apple too much for this: a smaller connector is not
only easier to use (you can plug the smaller cable in either way round,
and the connection feels more solid), but you're rewarded with a thinner
and more compact phone to boot.
There's also a small chink of light on the top right hand side of the iPhone 5
- when the screen is illuminated, you can see it under the band if you
really, really look for it. It's been seen by a number of users, but is
hard to actually replicate unless you mask the screen and hold it at the
right angle.
It's again a sign of slightly under-par machining from Apple, but in day to day use it's almost completely invisible.
The
decision to move the 3.5mm headphone jack to the bottom is an odd one,
as while it allows you to slip the phone into the pocket head-first when
listening to music, which is a more natural action, it's a real pain in
the posterior for some apps that will only work in landscape a certain
way up.
Using it this way means your headphones experience will be one of having to jiggle the jack around two fingers.
It's
not the most comfortable way to hold a phone, and even when using the
phone in portrait mode, the jack gets in the way somewhat. Plus it's
miles away from the volume keys, which makes it hard to change the audio
level in the pocket if you don't use the dedicated headphones.
There
are other smaller design changes to the iPhone 5 too, such as the
iSight front-facing camera moving to the middle and the home button
being noticeably more robust to help reduce instances of a broken portal
to your home screen.
But
enough about what the phone looks like - the killer question is how the
thing feels in hand. And we'll sum it up by saying: smooth. It's a
little slippery, and we were always worried we would drop the darned
thing.
But that's the only negative
thing about the design (apart from the low weight initially and
scratching aluminium) as it sits in the palm nicely and allows you to do
it all with one hand, including hitting the top-mounted power/lock
button with ease.
That lock button is
actually still loose, as it was on the iPhone 4S, meaning when you shake
the phone around you can hear it clicking away, which undoes a lot of
the premium feel Apple is going for.
Make no mistake, the iPhone 5
is one of the most beautifully crafted phones out there - but when
you're paying £529 up front for the thing, we'd hope this would be the
very minimum Apple would be doing.
And
while it looks nice, from the front it doesn't really add much to the
design of the iPhone - it's certainly not the same as the jaw-dropping
design of the iPhone 4 compared to the 3GS... it's another evolution in
the iLine. It's not bad, but for those that hoped the iPhone 5
would be another step change there's a good chance they'll be
disappointed about the look... until they feel the lovely back on offer.
There
was a real chance here for Apple: remove the bezel and give the front
of the screen a look that's similar to the OLED TVs from the likes of
Samsung or LG… but instead we're treated to the same lines as before.
You
always get the feeling that Apple saves what it can for the next
iteration of the iPhone, and while there's nothing wrong with the
current construction we can see the edge-to-edge screen becoming
something amazing on the iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S.
Seventeen minutes of gameplay footage has given fans a taste of Battlefield 4, with the graphical goalposts being shifted again.
A PC or next-gen console may be needed to show off the graphical glitz
Battlefield fans have been given an extended preview of the next game in the first-person shooter franchise.
Publisher Electronic Arts unveiled 17 minutes of gameplay footage from Battlefield 4 at an event coinciding with the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
It also released still images from the game. The vehicle's sinking and one man's trapped - what to do next?
The footage, called Fishing In Baku, began with a squad of four US
soldiers trapped underwater in a sinking vehicle, with one infantryman
offering to sacrifice himself to save his comrades.
The gameplay then flashed back to their firefight with Russian
militants in the wind-swept city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The game world is decidedly more open this time round
Their mission began in an abandoned school and ended in a crumbling construction site.
The graphics on display - which were running on PC - were even more
photorealistic than previous games in the popular military shooter
series. Man down - but surely he won't be left behind?
"It really represents what's possible with a next-generation experience," said EA Labels president Frank Gibeau.
For the title's single-player campaign, Swedish developer Dice appears
to have focused more on open environments, allowing players tactical
freedom and giving them more ways to command their squadmates. A seaborne extraction is a great way to escape from your enemies
These elements were a part of the multiplayer experience found in 2011's Battlefield 3.
"Integrating multiplayer features into the single-player experience was
a big step for us," said Battlefield 4 executive producer Patrick Bach. The Battlefield games always feature a variety of vehicles
"We looked at how and why you play multiplayer, what's important to you
and your friends, and weave that into single player with that tight
squad feeling, and also have that be part of the narrative."
The game will be available later this year for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is unclear whether this woman is a US soldier
It may also be released for Sony and Microsoft's respective
eighth-generation consoles, but that was not confirmed by Electronic
Arts.
EA was equally coy about whether Battlefield 4 had been influenced by
the Pentagon's decision earlier this year to lift its long-standing ban
on women serving in combat roles.
At the end of the gameplay video, a teaser trailer briefly showed what
appeared to be a female soldier interacting with the protagonist.
"We like to look at what's happening topically and in culture," said Gibeau. "It inspires us, and we add it to our story."
(Editing by Papi)
Brazil Doctor 'May Have Killed 300 Patients'
Prosecutors claim the medic, who is charged with killing seven patients, felt "all powerful" running an intensive care unit.
Doctor Virginia Soares de Souza pictured after she was arrested
A Brazilian doctor charged
with killing seven patients at a hospital could be responsible for up to
300 deaths, an investigator has said.
Virginia Helena Soares de Souza and her medical team gave muscle
relaxing drugs to patients and reduced their oxygen supply, causing them
to die of asphyxiation, claim prosecutors.
The doctor and her seven assistants were suspected of injecting
patients with "drug cocktails" and of tampering with their respirators, a
health ministry official said.
If prosecutors prove De Souza was responsible for 300 deaths, it could
be one of the world's worst serial killings, rivalling the case of
British GP Harold Shipman who killed at least 215 patients.
Prosecutors said De Souza's taped phone conversations revealed her
motive was to free up beds for other patients at an intensive care unit,
which she headed up.
"I want to clear the intensive care unit. It's making me itch," she
allegedly said in one recording released to Brazilian media.
Deaths are being investigated at the Evangelical Hospital in Curitiba
"Unfortunately, our mission is to be go-betweens on the springboard to
the next life," she reportedly added in the same phone call.
Prosecutors said De Souza felt "all powerful" running the unit, to the
point where she "had the power to decree the moment when a victim would
die".
In some cases, she was absent from the hospital and gave instructions
to end the life of a patient by phone to members of her medical team, it
was alleged.
The 56-year-old widow was arrested last month and charged with seven
counts of aggravated first degree murder. She was released on bail a
week ago pending the outcome of the investigation.
Three other doctors, three nurses and a physiotherapist who worked for her have also been charged with murder.
GP Harold Shipman killed at least 215 patients
More cases are expected to emerge as investigators look through 1,700
medical records of patients who died in the last seven years at the
Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of Curitiba.
"We already have more than 20 cases established, and there are nearly
300 more that we are looking into," the chief investigator assigned by
Brazil's health ministry, Dr Mario Lobato, told Globo TV.
He said the deaths he reviewed happened under similar circumstances: a
muscle relaxant such as Pancuronium was administered, increasing the
patients' dependence on artificial respiration; then the oxygen supply
was reduced, causing death by asphyxiation.
Some of the patients were conscious moments before they died, he said.
De Souza's lawyer, Elias Mattar Assad, said investigators had
misunderstood how an intensive care unit works and she would prove her
innocence.
(Reuters) - A Brazilian
doctor who was charged with killing seven patients to free up beds at a
hospital intensive care unit may have been responsible for as many as
300 deaths, according to a Health Ministry investigator.
Prosecutors said Dr. Virginia
Soares de Souza and her medical team administered muscle relaxing drugs
to patients, then reduced their oxygen supply, causing them to die of
asphyxia at the Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of Curitiba.
De
Souza, a 56-year-old widow, was arrested last month and charged with
seven counts of aggravated first degree murder. Three other doctors,
three nurses and a physiotherapist who worked under De Souza have also
been charged with murder.
Prosecutors
for the state of Parana said wiretaps of De Souza's phone conversations
revealed that her motive was to free up hospital beds for other
patients.
"I want to clear the
intensive care unit. It's making me itch," she said in one recording
released to Brazilian media. "Unfortunately, our mission is to be
go-betweens on the springboard to the next life," she added in the same
phone call.
De Souza's lawyer,
Elias Mattar Assad, said investigators had misunderstood how an
intensive care unit works and she would prove her innocence.
More
cases are expected to emerge as investigators comb through 1,700
medical records of patients who died in the last seven years at the
hospital, where De Souza headed the intensive care unit.
"We
already have more than 20 cases established, and there are nearly 300
more that we are looking into," the chief investigator assigned by
Brazil's Health Ministry, Dr. Mario Lobato, said on Globo TV's
Fantastico program on Sunday.
If
prosecutors prove that De Souza killed 300 patients, this could be one
of the world's worst serial killings, rivaling the notorious case of
Harold Shipman, the English doctor who was found to have killed at least
215 patients.
Lobato said the
deaths he reviewed occurred under similar circumstances: a muscle
relaxant such as Pancuronium (trademark Pavulon) was administered,
increasing the patients' dependence on artificial respiration; then the
oxygen supply was reduced, causing death by asphyxia.
Some of the patients were conscious moments before they died, he said.
Prosecutors
said De Souza felt "all powerful" running the intensive care unit
homicide, to the point where she "had the power to decree the moment
when a victim would die."
In some
cases, De Souza was absent from the hospital and gave instructions to
end the life of a patient by telephone to members of her medical team,
according to documents detailing the charges.
Last
week, a Curitiba judge ordered the release of De Souza and her medical
team. Prosecutors sought on Monday to have her returned to custody
because she was the leader of the team and witnesses had reported being
intimidated.
Parana state
prosecutors asked police on Wednesday to investigate whether more
hospital employees, including former managers, were involved in the
case.
President Dilma Rousseff's
government will announce steps on Thursday to reorganize the hospital, a
spokesman for the Health Ministry said.
(Editing by Papi)
Snooki Gives Delivery Glamor Advice to Kim Kardashian
Posted Thursday March 28, 2013 5:58 PM GMT
From one reality star to another, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi offered some friendly advice to mommy-to-be Kim Kardashian.
In an interview with MTV, the "Jersey Shore" star tells the E!
network mainstay, "Kim, first impressions are everything, so when you
meet your baby for the first time, you have to look flawless. "If your
face isn't already made up when your water breaks, you have plenty of
time to do it in the hospital when you're waiting to dilate. I waited
27 hours and the whole time I was just putting on makeup and watched
cartoons."
Stressing the importance of glamor, even while giving birth, she
suggests, "Keep an extra pair of eyelashes in your purse just in case
your water breaks when you're not at home. Or just do what I did and
bring a whole box."
Obviously suggesting that she bring her own wardrobe, the pint-sized
celeb advises, "Bring your own hospital gown because hospital gowns at
the hospital are ugly. For me, I brought my own leopard print satin and
it just made me feel beautiful while I was in labor. So Kim I feel you
would be more in a couture designer like a Dolce & Gabbana gown."
After, the helpful Ms. Polizzi advised a scarf because of the inevitable
bloating and resulting double chins.
Ending on a practical note, Snooks concluded, "Make sure your mascara
is water proof because you're going to cry from the pain of a baby
coming through your vagina, and also when you meet your baby for the
first time. Tell Kanye I said hi. Love you."
One of Yahoo’s newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too.
That student, Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born
when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to
the company on Monday for a sum said to be in the tens of millions of
dollars. Yahoo said it would incorporate his algorithmic invention,
which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using
smartphones, in its own mobile apps, with Mr. D’Aloisio’s help.
“I’ve still got a year and a half left at my high school,” he said in a
telephone interview on Monday. But he will make arrangements to test out
of his classes and work from the Yahoo office in London, partly to
abide by the company’s new and much-debated policy that prohibits
working from home.
Mr. D’Aloisio, who declined to comment on the price paid by Yahoo (the technology news site AllThingsD pegged the purchase price at about $30 million), was Summly’s largest shareholder.
Summly’s other investors, improbably enough, included Wendi Murdoch,
Ashton Kutcher and Yoko Ono.
The most important one was Li Ka-shing, the
Hong Kong billionaire, whose investment fund supported Mr. D’Aloisio’s
idea early on, before it was even called Summly.
“They took a gamble on me when I was a 15-year-old,” Mr. D’Aloisio said,
by providing seed financing that let him hire employees and lease
office space.
The fund read about Mr. D’Aloisio’s early-stage app on TechCrunch, the
Silicon Valley blog of record, found his e-mail address and startled him
with a message expressing interest.
The others signed up later. “Because it was my first time around, people just wanted to help,” he said.
For teenagers who fancy themselves entrepreneurs — and their parents,
too — the news of the sale conjured up some feelings of inadequacy, but
also awe. For Brian Wong, the 21-year-old founder of Kiip, a mobile
rewards company, the reaction was downright laughable: “I feel old!”
A few years ago, Mr. Wong was described in the news media as the
youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding. But a couple of
younger founders came along — “and then Nick broke all of our records,”
Mr. Wong said on Monday.
Among the attributes that helped Mr. D’Aloisio, he said, was a
preternatural ability to articulate exactly what he wanted Summly to be.
“There were no umms, no uhhs, no hesitations, no insecurities,” Mr.
Wong said.
Mr. D’Aloisio, for his part, sounded somewhat uninterested in answering
questions about his age on Monday. He acknowledged that it was an
advantage in some pitch meetings, and certainly in the news media, “but
so was the strength of the idea.” He was more eager to talk about his
new employer, Yahoo, which is trying to reinvent itself as a
mobile-first technology company (having dropped the digital media
tagline it used before Marissa Mayer became chief executive last year).
“People are kind of underestimating how powerful it’s going to become and how much opportunity is there,” he said.
For a company that badly wants to be labeled innovative, those words are worth a lot.
Mr. D’Aloisio’s father, who works at Morgan Stanley, and his mother, a
lawyer, had no special knowledge of technology. But they nurtured their
son’s fascination with it and he started coding at age 12. Eventually he
decided to develop an app with what he calls an “automatic
summarization algorithm,” one that “can take pre-existing long-form
content and summarize it.” In other words, it tries to solve a problem
that is often summed up with the abbreviation tl;dr: “too long; didn’t
read.”
Summly officially came online last November. By December, Mr. D’Aloisio was talking to Yahoo and other suitors.
Yahoo said in a statement that while the Summly app would be shut down,
“we will acquire the technology and you’ll see it come to life
throughout Yahoo’s mobile experiences soon.”
Other news-reading apps have attracted corporate attention as of late,
reflecting the scramble by media companies to adapt to skyrocketing
traffic from mobile devices. The social network LinkedIn was said to be
pursuing an app called Pulse earlier this month. Still, the eight-figure
payday for a teenage entrepreneur on Monday struck some as outlandish
and set off speculation that Yahoo was willing to pay almost any price
for “cool.”
Mr. D’Aloisio, though, will have plenty of time to prove his and his
algorithm’s worth. As for the sizable paycheck from Yahoo, he said he
did not have any specific plans for the sudden windfall. “It’s going to
be put into a trust fund and my parents will help manage it,” he said.
He did say, however, that “angel investing could be really fun.” When
not working at Yahoo, he will keep up with his hobbies — cricket in
particular — and set his sights on attending college at Oxford. His
intended major is philosophy.
Uhuru’s 22 year old speech writer speaks about politics, life and love
Her demeanor betrays that she is a country-wide sensation,
interviewed by major dailies and stations including BBC Africa. Under
the cool and calm exterior lies a sharp mind that has seen her rise
above challenges and opportunities that have come her way.
Julie Wangombe hit the headlines after she played an integral role in
writing President elect Uhuru Kenyatta’s acceptance speech. At a
relatively tender age of 22, she is probably the youngest person in the
world to write a presidential acceptance speech, well, at least younger
than the then 27 year old Jon Favreau who wrote Obama’s acceptance
speech in 2009.
Inspite of the accolades Julie is getting, she has taken it in her
stride and appears unfazed being in the spotlight. She has however
taken her dizzying success in her stride and appears unruffled by the
attention.
“I am not yet overwhelmed by the attention. Of course the idea of
being a role model to anyone is daunting but I guess it encourages me to
ensure that I strive to make the right decisions and say the right
things. I think about my tweets a whole lot more before I tweet them.
It’s encouraging to have received so much positive feedback,” says the
bubbly Julie.
Some comments she has received have however not been too flattering.
This was especially after it emerged that her father is a personality
high up in the society ladder. Critics were quick to attribute her
success to this fact. The first year International Relations student at
the United States International University (USIU) laughs off the
allegations.
“I appreciate and cannot, in good conscience, apologise for every
opportuntity that God has given me, especially the opportunity to access
quality education and a plethora of learning resources. I think those
are the most important opportunities you can give any human being.”
“My parents have been extremely supportive. My mother, given her
background in literature and the time she has spent as a teacher and
lecturer, has been extremely critical to my growth as a writer. I think I
got my love of words from her. My father has been incredibly
supportive. He has always instilled in us the value of education and
hardwork. He’s more of a math, economics and business person so their
combination has made me a little balanced. I think that’s reflected in
my choice of a major in International Relations.”
“No person can truly take credit for their success. If we succeed it
is always, inevitably, the result of other people investing in us.
There’s been a lot of people like that in my life, including my parents,
who worked hard to secure access to education for me – my sister, who
forced me to apply for TED’s international
talent search and who untiringly supports me. By the way, if I ever run
for public office, she is gonna be my campaign mananger. Many of my
high-school teachers and Sakaja Johnson who probably had the biggest
hand in this current flood of attention by virtue of the fact that he
hired me for the President Elect’s campaign team. I also have learned so
much about life and politics from the people I met in that campaign
team. They’ve helped me in more ways than I care to count. I’m still
learning, and I hope that all the help I’ve recieved translates into me
helping others.” Political ambitions?
Having rubbed shoulders and mingled with politicians of high standing perhaps Julie caught the political bug?
“The thought of venturing into politics has crossed my mind. I don’t
know what life has in store for me, but I can say that whatever it is –
my interest remains helping; teaching; equipping and inspiring people to
be whatever it is they should be! Which means I first have to learn and
get inspired myself. So that’s where I’m at,” states a confident Julie.
There are a few things that people do not know about her and after a bit of prodding she opened up.
“I have never particularly enjoyed reading poetry. I was good at
analysing it in high-school and what not but its not something I’ve ever
gone out of my way to do. When I encountered Spoken word I loved
because it was more of a performance and you could hear the passion in
the poetry.”
There was no more need for prodding. She was now revealing her other side unbridled.
“I love musicals. Secretly (and not so secretly now) I think I’d like
to act in one some day. That would be fun. I’m also a positive realist.
I’m eternally optimistic and I think I’m a romantic!”
The current tribalism being propagated via social media irks her. She
reckons that it is unfortunate that the major culprits of it are people
who are well read and informed.
“It is unfortunate that people have become very tribal on social media,” says an agitated Julie.
“It is easy to hide behind groups when spreading hate and being
malicious but it is extremely difficult to take personal responsibility
for the destruction it causes.”
“Let’s not be double minded as Kenyans on social media. If, fo
instance, Kenyans on twitter have an issue with western media portraying
us as ethnically motivated, war-minded, uncouth and uncivilized, then
let’s not give them fodder. Don’t on one hand criticize CNN and on the
other spew garbage about your fellow citizens.
“If you are not part of the negatively tribal conversation then we
have a responsibility to call out our peers and those around us who are
perpetuating negative statements. Engage them, seek to understand their
perspective and be prepared to give a reason for your different
position!”
This current trend is made worse for her because she is a born again
Christian and subscribes to virtues that allow people to live in
harmony.
“I am born again and this has had an influence in whatever I do. I
believe the idea behind Christianity is that it should positively
influence all spheres of your life. I am not perfect but I do my best.”
Her parting words to her fellow young people is that they should not
waste their time on activities that will not help them develop.
“Stop wasting your time. Pick up a book and read. Explore and dare to
venture into the unknown. Immerse yourself in things that will spur
growth.”
Given her scintillating beauty, it is natural that men approach her
in droves. It would perhaps be refreshing to men who are not intimidated
by a mix of brains and beauty to know that she is not spoken for.
