What Is Black Soap ?

What Is Black Soap ?

Black soap, or African black soap, also known as Alata Samina or Alata Soap originates fromWest Africa. It has been used for centuries in Ghana. Its methods and secrets have been passed down from generation to generation to keep the soap close to Mother Nature and avoid exploitation and imitation. Many have tried to create their version of Black soap with all kinds of ingredients. Ghana's Alata soap is the best quality black soap, because it is all ORIGIONAL.

For centuries, Ghanaians had used Black Soap to help relieve acne, oily skin, clear blemishes in various other skin uses. African black soap has also been used to achieve beautiful skin. Africans of also use this natural soap for bathing and washing their hair. It's great for removing makeup. Black soap will leave your skin soft, clear and smelling delicious. This soap is not scented.

Alata Samina or Anago Samina is the term used in the local dialect called Twi to refer to black soap or African Black Soap. Alata or Anago is a reference to the people of the northern region of Ghana, mainly the Hausa tribe. Alata Samina is now used all over Ghana.

Glaxo or African black soap comes from plantain skin. It is a natural source of vitamin A and E and iron. Plantain is a popular food in Africa, South Africa and other parts of the world. They can be found in ethnic or international grocery stores such as Latino, Caribbean for African. It looks like banana but much bigger. It does not taste like banana and has to be cooked before eating. The skin of the plantain is gingerly dried to

precise texture under the hot African sun. It is then roasted in a clay oven. The heat must be constant in order to achieve a particular color, texture and fragrance. In some recipes, Cocoa Pod is used instead of Plantain skin. Cocoa pod is the shell of the cocoa fruit. The cocoa beans are used for making chocolate or cocoa butter, among other things.

The next process is very delicate, and if it is not done properly, with the right ingredients, there will be no soap. The roasted plantain skin is mixed with palm oil, palm kernel oil from the soap. The roasting of the plantain skin determines the color of the soap. The longer the plantain skins are roasted, the dark of the soap. African black soap is generations old and has numerous benefits and is not scented. It can be used by anyone who wishes to improve quality of their skin.

BUYERS BEWARE: Fake black soap is hard. It is died black. It does not contain any traditional ingredients. Instead, it is loaded with cheap vegetable oil and stains your wash cloth. This soap is chemically processed.

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WHAT IS OOo

WHAT IS OOo

OOo is an acronym for OpenOffice.org. This is a free-to-use open source office suite
based application distributed by SUN Microsystems. The suite contains OpenOffice.org Writer (word processor), OpenOffice.org Calc (spreadsheet application), OpenOffice.org Impress (presentation software), OpenOffice.org Base (database application), OpenOffice.
org Draw (image editing application) and OpenOffice.org Math. The application is
multilingual and is compatible with other common office software packages, including
the Microsoft Office Suite (97-2003) and the Office 2007 application suite. The latest version to be released is OpenOffice.org 3. It has been released under the LGPL license, which means that you are free to use it for domestic, commercial, educational or
administrative usage. Also there is no problem if you install it on multiple computers
or across a network of workstations.


DOWNLOADING OOo
The latest version of OOo is OpenOffice 3. Like the 2 prior versions, this version is also
available as a free download. The ?  le size is roughly around 127 MB. To download, carry out the following steps:
Visit
[1]  www.OpenOffice.org
[2] Click the "Download" link.
[3] Click on the green patch with the text "Download OpenOffice.org"
[4] Save the "OOo_3.0.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe"file.
[5] Double-click the *.exe file to begin the installation.
Follow the instructions on the windows to complete the installation.

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WHAT DOES EYE WINKING MEAN ?

WHAT DOES EYE WINKING MEAN ?

;-)

It can be flirty.
Friendly.
Sexy.
A signal.
An inside joke.
Or simply a way to say hello with your eyes.
And here’s something you probably don’t know. It’s believed to be a tribute to Gandalf.
Winking, defined by Webster’s as “to shut one eye briefly,”means many things to many people.

Since a wink is a definite message -without the cognizance of others and according to an already understood code - it can also have a highly complex success-versus-failure rate. After all, a wink is a failure if its intended recipient does not see it; or sees it but doesn’t know or forgets the code; or misconstrues it; or disobeys or disbelieves it; or if anyone else spots it.

In other words, winking is risky business. It can have a wrong time, wrong place, and most definitely, a wrong recipient.In the hierarchy of unspoken communication, it is one dicey deed, indeed.

Scientists believe most human societies exhibit all the same facial expressions - happy, sad, surprised, angry. In one study, for instance, scientists showed photographs depicting facial expressions to a remote tribe with no contact to the outside world and, astonishingly, members of the tribe read every facial expression correctly. Was there a “Smile for me, sweetheart” in there somewhere?
You’ll have to wait for the sequel on that one.
Wink, wink. ;-)

Winking Model Molly Sims

Model Molly Sims arrives at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall 

August 29, 2002 in New York City. (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images)

Winking Music Television (MTV) personality Maria Menounos

Music Television (MTV) personality Maria Menounos arrives for the Victoria's Secret 

Fashion Show November 14, 2002 in New York City. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier/Getty Images)

Winking Singer Blu Cantrell

Singer Blu Cantrell attends the first annual Wayuu Taya benefit at Butter June 23, 2003 in New York City. The Wayuu Taya Foundation takes it's name from the Wayuu indians of  Venezuela. (Photo by Matthew Peyton/Getty Images)

Winking Actor Jack Warner

Actor Jack Warner as PC Dixon from the television series “Dixon of Dock Green”. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1958

Winking MTV Veejay Malaika

MTV Veejay Malaika enters during the Inaugural MTV IMMIES at the Goregaon Sports Club December 12, 2003 in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

Winking girl

A girl sticking her tongue out with the effort of winking mischievously. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images). 21st October 1954

Winking British racing driver Graham Hil

British racing driver Graham Hill (1929–1975) in his vehicle at Silverstone. (Photo by Ronald Dumont /Express/Getty Images). 14th May 1965

Winking Actress Vivica A. Fox

Actress Vivica A. Fox of the film “The Salon” poses for portraits during the 2005 Sundance Film Festival January 25, 2005 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Getty Images)

Winking Glamour model Jordan (Katie Price)

Glamour model Jordan (Katie Price) arrives at the 25th Anniversary BRIT Awards 2005 at Earl's Court February 9, 2005 in London. (Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images)

Winking Singer Christina Aguilera

Singer Christina Aguilera (showing off her new engagement ring) arrives at the opening of Roberto Cavalli's new Rodeo Drive boutique on February 15, 2005 in Beverly Hills,  California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)

Winking Singer Madonna

Singer Madonna and husband director Guy Ritchie arrive on the red carpet for the TIFF gala screening of the film “Revolver” on September 11, 2005 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Donald Weber/Getty Images)

Winking Actress Roselyn Sanchez

Actress Roselyn Sanchez attends Conde Nast Media Group's Third Annual Fashion Rocks Concert at Radio City Music Hall September 7, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by PeterKramer/Getty Images)

Winking Young man making the O.K. sign 

Young man making the O.K. sign. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images). Circa 1950s

Winking Kerstin Linnartz

Kerstin Linnartz attends The Pursuit of Happyness German Premiere on January 9, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Winking Kate Winslet

Actors David Kross, Kate Winslet, director Stephen Daldry and actor Ralph Fiennes attend the photocall for “The Reader” as part of the 59th Berlin Film Festival at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 6, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Winking Dwain Chambers

Dwain Chambers of Great Britain smiles after winning his heat in the Mens 100m during day one of the 20th European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images)

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What is Android?

What is Android?

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Features

* Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
* Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
* Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
* Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
* SQLite for structured data storage
* Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
* GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
* Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
* Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
* Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

Android Architecture

The following diagram shows the major components of the Android operating system. Each section is described in more detail below.

1. Applications

Android will ship with a set of core applications including an email client, SMS program, calendar, maps, browser, contacts, and others. All applications are written using the Java programming language.
Application Framework

By providing an open development platform, Android offers developers the ability to build extremely rich and innovative applications. Developers are free to take advantage of the device hardware, access location information, run background services, set alarms, add notifications to the status bar, and much, much more.

Developers have full access to the same framework APIs used by the core applications.

The application architecture is designed to simplify the reuse of components; any application can publish its capabilities and any other application may then make use of those capabilities (subject to security constraints enforced by the framework). This same mechanism allows components to be replaced by the user.Underlying all applications is a set of services and systems, including:

* A rich and extensible set of Views that can be used to build an application, including lists, grids, text boxes, buttons, and even an embeddable web browser
* Content Providers that enable applications to access data from other applications (such as Contacts), or to share their own data
* A Resource Manager, providing access to non-code resources such as localized strings, graphics, and layout files
* A Notification Manager that enables all applications to display custom alerts in the status bar
* An Activity Manager that manages the lifecycle of applications and provides a common navigation backstack

2. Libraries

Android includes a set of C/C++ libraries used by various components of the Android system. These capabilities are exposed to developers through the Android application framework. Some of the core libraries are listed below:

* System C library - a BSD-derived implementation of the standard C system library (libc), tuned for embedded Linux-based devices
* Media Libraries - based on PacketVideo's OpenCORE; the libraries support playback and recording of many popular audio and video formats, as well as static image files, including MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, and PNG
* Surface Manager - manages access to the display subsystem and seamlessly composites 2D and 3D graphic layers from multiple applications
* LibWebCore - a modern web browser engine which powers both the Android browser and an embeddable web view
* SGL - the underlying 2D graphics engine
* 3D libraries - an implementation based on OpenGL ES 1.0 APIs; the libraries use either hardware 3D acceleration (where available) or the included, highly optimized 3D software rasterizer
* FreeType - bitmap and vector font rendering
* SQLite - a powerful and lightweight relational database engine available to all applications

3. Android Runtime

Android includes a set of core libraries that provides most of the functionality available in the core libraries of the Java programming language.

Every Android application runs in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a device can run multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik VM executes files in the Dalvik Executable (.dex) format which is optimized for minimal memory footprint. The VM is register-based, and runs classes compiled by a Java language compiler that have been transformed into the .dex format by the included "dx" tool.

The Dalvik VM relies on the Linux kernel for underlying functionality such as threading and low-level memory management.
4. Linux Kernel

Android on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack.

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WHAT IS HINDUISM?

WHAT IS HINDUISM?

THIS IS WHAT THE RAMAYANA , MAHABHARATA , VEDAS AND UPANISHAD SAYS.

H stands for Harmony
Hinduism respects all religions and thus aspires for mutual tolerance and respect.
Hinduism does not encourage hate or distrust.
Hinduism is intolerant of intolerance.
It does not actively seek converts.
It emphasizes conduct and not creed.
It has the capacity to assimilate all the Faiths and the Philosophies.

I for Incarnation (Avataara)
God descends to Earth in any form and under any sky as may be needed to uphold DHARMA (righteousness). There is no space, time, form or numerical limitation to Avataaras.

N for Non-Violence (Ahimsa)
Hinduism recognizes that life supports life. One should avoid causing unnecessary injury (in thoughts, words or deeds) to one-self or other fellow beings including other life forms. Vegetarianism is glorified by some Hindu sects, but never a prerequisite to be a Hindu.

D for Dharma (Righteousness)
We should always protect Dharma (support what is right). This is regarded as a necessity, because Dharma is the basis of harmonious life. If we don't support Dharma, it will be as if chopping the very branches of the tree (of life) we are resting on.

U for Unity of existence
Everything and all beings are inter connected or inter related and are essentially the manifestation or extension of the one Supreme Being. The world is one big family.

I for Inherent Value
The God is Omnipresent & Omnipotent. Both the manifest & the un-manifest are a projection of God. They are supported, directed & controlled by God as well. The God can be worshipped in any 'Form' or 'No Form'. Just as the Flag is a symbol of a Nation, an Idol for the Hindu is symbolic of the God. A Hindu worships the God enshrined in the Idol, not the idol itself.

S for Supreme Reality (Brahman)
Supreme Reality is both formless and with form, impersonal and personal, transcendent and immanent. The Supreme Reality is known by many names.

M for Moksha & Mantra
Dharma (Virtue), Artha (Material prosperity), Kama (pleasures) & Moksha (liberation from cycles of birth & death, harmonious union with God) are the goals of life.
The secondary objectives (Artha & Kama) are sandwiched between the primary objectives of

(Dharma & Moksha).Adherence to one's own inherent talents (attitudes & aptitudes) in achieving these goals is suggested.
Moksha is the ultimate goal of Hindu life.
There are numerous paths and innumerable opportunities.
It can happen by one way or the other and in one life or the other.

The various paths for Moksha include:
Karma Yoga - Selfless good deeds
Gnaana Yoga - Knowledge of Brahman
Bhakti Yoga - Faith or Devotion
Prapatti (sharNaagati) Yoga - Total Surrender
Raaja Yoga - Control of body, mind and intellect
Mantra Yoga - Union with God through repetition of a Mantra, etc.

Mantra is a sacred word or a verse used for prayer. Some examples below:

The most sacred Mantra of Hinduism is AUM/OM. AUM represents our beginning (Spring), being
(Summer), passing away (Fall) and immortality (Winter). The A, U and M are followed by silence.

OM iti Brahma, OM iteedam Sarvam (Shiksha Valli, Taittireeya Upanishad )
OM is Brahman, All this is OM (OM is The One - OM is The Many)
(OM is the WOMb of everything)

sarve bhavantu sukhinah sarve santu niraamayaah.
May all be happy, may all be healthy.

sarve bhadraani pashyantu ma-kashchit dhuhkha-bhaag bhavet.
May all be prosperous, may none suffer.

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