4 The Hampton Roads Messenger Editorial


Volume 11 Number 12


My African American European Vacation


A five-part series exploring Europe’s influence on African Americans’ past, present and future I did, however, catch a bus to a


BY ANGELA JONES


hotel near the airport to have lunch and use their Wi-Fi, but it was too slow to download the apps I needed like Google Maps and Uber. Once I realized my efforts were futile, I went back to the airport to rent a car. In my defense, it was a last-minute decision to take this trip and I had just activated the cell phone I was using the day before and did not have time to download these extremely useful apps.


After picking up my daughter from the train station, I was too physically and emotionally drained to


even eat dinner. The next day


Hampton Roads Messenger Publisher Angela and her daughter, Buckingham Palace


daughter, Angelica, in front of


I traveled to Europe with my Angelica,


recently, and it


was my first time on the continent. My daughter wanted to tour Europe with only a backpack for two weeks and I was brave enough to accept the challenge. I agreed to drop everything and travel with her to abroad because I knew that there lies a great deal of forgotten


African throughout Europe.


American history While there,


we were to visit London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland;


Paris, France;


Rome, Italy; as well as Granada and Marbella, Spain to explore the continent’s influence on African Americans’ past, present and future.


My daughter and I took separate


flights from the United States since she was traveling from Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, California and my flight left from Charlotte, NC. I arrived in London approximately eight


before her WOW Airlines flight and felt somewhat like a mermaid who had magically been given legs. I was not sure what my next move should be.


My daughter is the navigator in


the family. She is a recent graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, who will be attending graduate school at Stanford University in the fall. When she was younger, and we traveled throughout the United States, she always had map duty. She has now perfected her craft as a navigator.


During our European vacation, we


used a Google app to map out driving, walking, train and bus routes and to search for flights between countries. I rented a car in London but having to drive on the “opposite” side of the road, from which I am accustomed, proved quite challenging. London drivers seem to have a need for speed. After clipping a few curbs on the way to the hotel, I was able to white-knuckle my way to the train station to pick up my daughter.


Angelica was able to get details on how to take the train to a stop close to our hotel. Because I did not heed my offspring’s warning to get an international


data package from my


mobile service provider, I was stuck at the airport with no way to connect to digital instructions


or assistance.


The airport Wi-Fi was pretty much state-owned and that option just did not appeal to me.


was a new day and I had my handy dandy navigator, my daughter, by my side as well as the apps I was able to download with the free Wi-Fi at our hotel. The hotel was located in the Victoria district of London.


The Victoria district is


convenient to a train stop, as well as being only a short walk to tourist sites like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and The Banqueting House, Whitehall. Life-size statues of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nine other 20th-century figures who died for their beliefs fill the 10 niches above Westminster Abbey's main entrance. At The Banqueting House, the only surviving building of Whitehall Palace (a famous home of King Henry VIII), we took an entertaining and interactive walking audio tour. On the Lost Palace Tour, we viewed an area just below Queen Mary’s room while walking around the outside of the building. We also walked to the jousting area and participated in a joust.


hours


The tour offered us an opportunity to join in on historical events by listening to them being reenacted and following instructions to play along. The interactive experience


included


auditioning for a Shakespeare play and participating in a 16th-century sword fight. I cannot begin to explain how we were able to feel a king’s heartbeat in our hands; that is something that one has to experience firsthand.


The Banqueting House is


important to English architecture because it was the first building completed in neoclassical style. The building,


where construction began


around 1619 and was completed in 1622, is also the location where King Charles I was beheaded 27 years later on a scaffold in front of it.


During the interactive audio


walking tour, I was able to take a photograph outside of Scotland Yard. We also visited the Gardens near Buckingham Palace and posed for a photo with the Horse Guard. We found a quaint Indian restaurant, after leaving the riverfront, where we enjoyed a delicious vegan meal.


Although it is a bustling city, we found London quite easy to navigate using a combination of Uber, public transportation


and walking. From


London, we took a train to Edinburgh, Scotland where the Fringe Festival, the largest and longest running arts festival in the world, was taking place.


When we arrived at the train station in London, my daughter wanted to take a photo at Platform 9 ¾, which


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is featured in the Harry Potter book series. Against the wall of platform, there stands half a luggage cart filled with items that give the appearance that the other half of the cart has passed through the wall.


Compromised FROM PAGE 1


dle” technique allowed VisualDiscovery to access all of a consumer’s sensitive personal information transmitted over the Internet, including login credentials, Social


Security numbers, medical


information, and financial and payment information.


While VisualDiscovery


collected and transmitted to Superfish’s servers more limited information, such as the websites the user browsed and the consumer’s IP address, Superfish had the ability to collect more information.


To facilitate its display of pop-up ads on encrypted websites (those that include https://


in the web address),


the complaint also alleges that Visu- alDiscovery used an insecure method to replace digital certificates for those websites with its own VisualDiscovery- signed certificates. Digital certificates are used to signal to a user’s browser that


the encrypted


by a consumer are authentic and not imposters. VisualDiscovery, however, did not adequately


verify that the


websites’ digital certificates were valid before replacing them, and used the same, easy-to-crack password on all affected laptops rather than using unique passwords for each laptop.


nerabilities,


Because of these security vul- consumers’


browsers


Anniversary International


FROM PAGE 1 Artist and the 2010


American Smooth Jazz Award for Best Keyboardist. In 2012, he founded the Napa Valley Jazz Getaway, now in its 5th year.


Culbertson is touring a new album, “Funk!” due to be released just before the concert. The new set is a throwback to stanky P-Funk records, combining infectious bass lines, greasy horn licks, sing-a-long hooks and landing hard on “One.” This record is also a follow-up to his widely successful “Bringing Back The Funk” album from 2008,


September 2017


To hear more about our adventures in Europe and the exciting things we saw, did and uncovered in Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Grenada and Marbella, read the next edition of this publication.


could not warn users when they visited


malicious


potentially websites


spoofed with


or invalid


digital certificates. The vulnerabili- ties also enabled potential attackers to intercept


consumers’ electronic


communications with any website, including financial institutions and medical providers, by simply cracking the pre-installed password. The complaint alleges that Lenovo did not discover these security vul- nerabilities because it failed to assess and address security risks created by third-party software it preloaded on its laptops.


As part of the settlement with the


FTC, Lenovo is prohibited from mis- representing any features of software preloaded on laptops that will inject advertising into consumers’ Internet browsing sessions or transmit sensitive consumer information


to websites visited


third parties. The company must also get consumers’ affirmative consent before


pre-installing this type of


software. In addition, the company is required for 20 years to implement a comprehensive software security program for most consumer software preloaded on its laptops. The security program will also be subject to third-party audits.


The Commission vote to issue the administrative complaint and to accept the consent agreement was 2-0.


co-produced by the late Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire.


Fans can rest assured that, with 16 albums and counting, Culbertson always brings his very best – and brings out the best in others – in his broad-ranging musical endeavors.


Tickets for the Anniversaries’


Kick-Off Celebration start at $40 for upper level for Hampton students, $50 upper level general admission, $65 mezzanine level, $75 lower level (no VIP) and $150 floor (VIP reception


access 6pm-7:30pm).


Tickets are available at the Hampton University Convocation Center and Ticketmaster. For more information contact


the Hampton University


Convocation Center box office at (757) 728-6800.


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