Discovered this track yesterday.
It’s from the iconic British ska-reggae session band The Cimarons, a band of Jamaicans who moved to England in the mid 1960s during the second major wave of Caribbean immigrants.
Ava DuVernay on Filmmaking
My life is not spectacle. So often when I see African-American performances on screen, it is in the voice of spectacle… There’s beauty in the everyday; there’s beauty in the ordinary. — Ava DuVernay
DuVernay is the director of I Will Follow and Middle of Nowhere.
Notes On Being Busy
“Nowadays, encounters of the spirit must be scheduled long in advance, and even then the endless tide of deferred chores and anticipated engagements never ceases to break on our attention…
“In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that in the future, as technology increased efficiency and production, a fifteen-hour work week would become the norm: ‘Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem—how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.’
“It hasn’t panned out.” — Giles Harvey, New Yorker
Apple vs. Samsung Galaxy III Mini
Apple vs. Samsung Galaxy III Mini
Apparently the III Mini would be unlikely to yield a sales advantage in the US anyway.
Source: The Citizen, South Africa
UN Review: Gender Equality, 2012
UN Review: Gender Equality, 2012
Note the August 2012 decision at the International Criminal Court to issue reparations to children, women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence at the hands of Congolese rebel commander Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Slide 12).