Apps: Stumblr (Tumblr Image Viewer) - Not even a month old, Stumblr is a new Android app that allows you to skim through the images of any Tumblr blog on your phone, including your own, by just typing in a Tumblr name. Nothing unique about that (there are several websites that do the same thing), but where this app shines is the additional highlights, namely allowing you to ‘stumble’ upon new blogs and their content based on similarities of blogs you search for. You can like/reblog images, share them to social media, save images, bookmark images so that you can view them later, login to Tumblr and view your dashboard, and you can also follow the new blogs that you discover through the app.
I can tell you personally that I’ve been messing with it for a week, and it definitely has made me like Tumblr more than I have recently. With the millions of blogs out there, this gives you a new way of discovering new ones. Give it a try. Also, tablet users can try Stumblr Tablet.
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Nap Time
I think nap time is God’s way of allowing new parents to catch a breath, compose themselves and put on a smiling face and good attitude for the next round till bedtime….
FAFA, Festival for Fashion and Arts, organises Fashion for Peace which is focused on bringing together established and emerging African fashion magnates from across the continent.
The anticipated 4th edition will be held in Nairobi in May 2012. Fashion is the ultimate expression of all that is beautiful, creative and glamorous and FAFA is a great opportunity for Africa’s promising fashion brands to connect with key contibutors of the global fashion industry.
Hoping to find this on Netflix…..
If you are in the UK you may well have viewed series 1. Well it’s back
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa starts its second season.
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa which aired on BBC 4 in January 2010 became one of the channel’s highest rated programs ever. So now a second series, further continuing on the subject, will begin on Monday January 30th on BBC4.
The program hosted by Gus Casely-Hayford, is who a curator and cultural historian and a Research Associate at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies will begin with “an exploration of the Asante Kingdom (located in modern day Ghana) and its unlikely beginnings in dense tropical forest to become one of Africa’s complex and sophisticated civilisations.
From there Casely-Hayford will explores South Africa’s Zulu Kingdom focusing on its 17th century leader King Shaka and brutal encounters he and his people would have with the Boers and the British.
Next, he turns his spotlight on Berber Kingdom of Morocco, which over centuries would cover an area from Spain to West Africa. It was rulers would commission fabulous architecture and promote sophisticated ideas.
Finally ending with a look at Uganda’s two great kingdoms - Bunyoro and Buganda. The show from then continues in the search of reasons behind there dramatic reversal of fortunes, and how one kingdom used the arrival of Europeans to its own advantage.”
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We really are one people….
World’s languages traced back to single African mother tongue: scientists.
New Zealand researchers have traced every human language — from English to Mandarin — back to an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.
Scientists say they have traced the world’s 6,000 modern languages — from English to Mandarin — back to a single “mother tongue,” an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.
New research, published in the journal Science, suggests this single ancient language resulted in human civilization — a Diaspora — as well as advances in art and hunting tool technology, and laid the groundwork for all the world’s cultures.
The research, by Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, also found that speech evolved far earlier than previously thought. And the findings implied, though did not prove, that modern language originated only once, an issue of controversy among linguists, according to the New York Times.
Before Atkinson came up with the evidence for a single African origin of language, some scientists had argued that language evolved independently in different parts of the world.
Atkinson found that the first populations migrating from Africa laid the groundwork for all the world’s cultures by taking their single language with them. “It was the catalyst that spurred the human expansion that we all are a product of,” Atkinson said, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Atkinson traced the number distinct sounds, or phonemes — consonants, vowels and tones — in 504 world languages, finding compelling evidence that they can be traced back to a long-forgotten dialect spoken by our Stone Age ancestors, according to the Daily Mail.
Atkinson also hypothesized that languages with the most sounds would be the oldest, while those spoken by smaller breakaway groups would utilize fewer sounds as variation and complexity diminished.
The study found that some of the click-using languages of Africa have more than 100 phonemes, or sounds, whereas Hawaiian, toward the far end of the human migration route out of Africa, has only 13, the Times reported. English has about 45 phonemes.
The phoneme pattern mirrors the pattern of human genetic diversity as humans spread across the globe from sub-Saharan Africa around 70,000 years ago.
Source: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/science/110415/language-science-linguistics-mother-tongue-english-chinese-mandarin-africa
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“Tough Love” in the mirror….
Today my “tough love” mom learned a valuable lesson about communication. She has taught at inner city schools for years and has the love and respect of her students bc of her tough love approach. Unfortunately, its hard for her to turn it off sometimes, which is annoying to me, but probably seems interesting to my 2 year old. Today my mom called me at work both upset and astonished that my 2 year old, who’s very verbal, had the following conversation with her:
Grandmom: Well, I have to go home now.
Sweetpea: Don’t go grandmomma.
Grandmom: I have to go.
Sweetpea: Well, don’t come back. I’m never going back to your house, and i never want to see you again, and you can never come play with me, etc.. etc….I don’t want to ever talk to you,” and walks away pouting with arms folded.
I think that my mom thought Sweetpea somehow picked that up from us, when, in fact, she’d heard grandma make similar threats to her to try to coax her to eat her food or if Sweetpea was not friendly with her. Of course my mom never meant any of it, but Sweetpea would quickly comply upon hearing such idle threats.
When I told my mom that she was imitating her, voice inflections and all, she was stunned and vowed to be more careful about what she said. Who knew that a 2 year old could cause her to have such a positive personality change…the proof will be in the pudding…its hard for an old leopard to change her spots.
