British soul singer, Laura Mvula has debuted her new single titled “Green Garden.” The single is part of her upcoming album, “Sing To The Moon,” which will be available on March 4 2013.
The artist has been tipped as a rising star with the Brit Awards’ Critics’ Choice prize. The Award will be taking place on February 20 2013.
The artist has been nominated for the BRIT Critics’ Choice Award. The Critics Award is for new British acts tipped by critics for mainstream success in the forthcoming year. Previous winners of the award are (2008), Florence and the Machine (2009), Ellie Goulding (2010), Jessie J (2011) and Emili Sande (2012).
Laura’ new Single – Green Garden
In the video below, Laura talks about her it feels to be nomination for the BRITS 2013 award, her enduring love of music from an incredibly early age and arguing with her Dad about Miles Davis.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]oday, we live in a digital age with rapidly growing technologies to enhance and express our freedom of communication. From social network platforms to ecommerce, virtual collaborations between people from very distant and different geographical locations, online shopping or creating and sharing content, setting up businesses with little or no capital, providing services to the world from your home, the possibilities are endless.
The Internet has changed our lives by defining our day-to-day lives in ways that could not have been imagined in a decade ago. Its simplicity and its ease to use mean almost anyone can participate.
While we are doing all these, it is important to be aware that, every time we log on to the World Wide Web and carry out our activities, we leave behind digital footprints. And these footprints can be traced back to us.
The amount of information that can be found on these prints can be very little to very huge that it can lead to serious violation of people’s rights. So, what does this mean for the average citizen and their right to privacy, should they be worried?
Earlier last year (2012), Google was in the news because it changed its policies in a way that would allow the corporation store all the private information of its users and then sell it to businesses.
Google is not the only one that has been discovered to carry out these practices. Companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and a host of other online business that offer free products are involved in gathering and selling consumer data for profit.
According to Jeff Chester, from the Centre for Digital Democracy, “Our privacy as citizens and users throughout the world is threatened by this powerful pervasive commercial surveillance system that is being created without our awareness and without our consent and that has nothing really to do with paying for online services.”
“Increasingly a system has been created that tracks us wherever we go, whatever we do, and sells us to the highest bidder,” he added.
The video below give more insight to how people can get into trouble for sharing some stuffs on the internet.
Hello buddy fashionistas, check out these casual but classy lookbook showcasing Denis Gagnon Spring Summer collection 2013 and tell us what you think by leaving a comment below. The collection features a colour combination of grey, white and black.
While the designs and fabrics look like your regular jogging pants and casual outfits, there’s a contrast to the way they were designed making these outfits look very classy and something that you can also wear for a formal outing and look fabulously trendy and chic.
What do you think about this Denis Gagnon Spring Summer collection lookbook? Is there something here that you think you can rock as a casual outfit or as a formal attire? Share your views.
Ahmed Dogan, a Turkish-Bulgarian politician and leader of Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms Party, escaped an attempted murder by a man who pointed a gun at his head during a speech in a conference in Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria.
Ahmed was on the stage giving a speech at the National Palace of Culture (NDK) when the 25 year-old suspect, identified as Oktai Enimehmedov pointed a gun at his head in front of the camera on January 19, 2013.
The 25 year old attempted murderer’s weapon misfired and Mr Dogan, 58, escaped unharmed. Security guards and delegates then wrestle Oktai (attempted murderer) to the ground and began beating and kicking him before he was led away by the police.
How the man gained entrance into the conference and with a weapon is still unknown.
In this interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jennifer Lopez speaks about her stripping naked in the film, Parker. The 43 year old mum also talked about motherhood and her children’s reaction to part in the film.
Interview Part One
Interview Part Two
To see photos of Jennifer Lopez’s nude dress for this interview, click on this link.
Looking Dazzling, sexy and ageless in a nude coloured mini dress, 43 year-old Jennifer Lopez has a body many in women in their teens and twenties can only dream of.
The mother and multitalented artist who sings, dances and acts, wore the nude dress during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live where she revealed she felt ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘nerve racking’ stripping off for her role in her latest film titled, Parker.
More Photos Below
To watch Jennifer Lopez’s interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, click on this link.
At least two people are reportedly dead after a helicopter crashed into a crane in Vauxhall Central London and forming thick balls of flames as it plummet into the ground at a very busy hour.
According to reports from eye witnesses, they saw a “massive ball of flames” and heard a deafening “explosion” the minute the helicopter crashed into the ground scattering its remains all over the place.
The police has stated that the accident resulted to the death of two people as well as the pilot. All three deaths took place at the scene of the disaster. About nine other people are said to be suffering casualties from the incident. While 8 of them are suffering from minor injuries, one of them is siad to be in a critically ill condition.
According to a London Ambulance spokesman, “We have now taken four patients to hospital – two to St Thomas’ and 2 to King’s College Hospital. A further four other patients are being treated at the scene for shock.”
“I heard a big crash and I looked up. “There was a massive ball of flames. It is chaos. I just saw the helicopter hit the floor,” Aaron Cane, an eyewitness told BBC Radio Five Live.
Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian graduate who is suffering from kidney failure is at risk of being deported from the UK to her home country. The woman moved to the UK to follow a master program in 2004 and was diagnosed of kidney failure a few months later.
In 2009, Roseline underwent a kidney transplant which turned out to be successful. However, her claim to remain in the UK has been rejected by the UK border Agency. If she is deported to Nigeria, Roseline believes it will be difficult for her to afford the cost of immunosuppressant drugs and her constant visit to the hospital for check-ups.
Akhalu won her appeal for the right to remain in the UK as the presiding judge determined her case was “unusual” and deporting her will go against article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which provides her with the right to private and family life.
Contented with the judgement, Akhalu expressed her joy with the following statement, “I am very pleased and relieved by the judgment. I would like to say I am immensely grateful to all who have helped me in this struggle to get Indefinite Leave to Remain.”
“We are delighted by this ruling. Roseline is a respected and very popular member of her community and is an asset to this country. The Home Secretary’s decision that Roseline should be deported to Nigeria where she would die within four weeks was unlawful and inhumane and has rightly been overturned,” said, Tess Gregory, the solicitor to Roseline Akhalu.
Roseline’s campaign for the right to remain in the UK was supported local politicians in Leeds, church leaders as well as Colin Firth, the British acting legend.
Unfortunately for her, the UK Border is unsatisfied with the court decision and according to one of their spokesperson, “We are extremely disappointed with the court’s decision. We are reviewing the case in light of the decision.”
The Nigerian is now facing a fresh challenge as the UK border agency on January 4, 2013 appealed the decision of the court to allow Roseline to stay in the UK. She now has to go through another lengthy legal hurdles to determine if she would be allowed to stay in UK.
Nine year old Quvenzhané Wallis is the youngest actress to be nominated for an Oscar Award. The young actress is the star of the independent film ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild.’ In this video interview, Quvenzhané speaks with CNN about the film.
This article was culled from the UK Guardian and it talks about the lack of black Journalist in the British media. It was written by Anne Alexander.
The debate about the lack of female reporters is welcome, but few ask why ethnic minorities are largely absent in the media.
Not long after I started working as a political reporter at parliament, an adviser to a senior politician whom I knew relatively well entered the office I shared with five male colleagues. She started introducing a new staff member she had in tow. “That’s Frank from AFP, there’s Ian from the Manchester Evening News, Bill from the Lancashire Evening Post, and this is Anne, their PA.”
Having been initially stunned into silence by what she had said, I recovered quickly enough to inform her of her mistake, to which she stammered, clearly embarrassed, “But I thought, er, because, er …”
I never really found out what she thought, but have often wondered whether her assumption was based on my race (African-Caribbean origin), gender or my class (council estate, parents factory workers).
Most likely it was a combination of all three.
And if you look at the general makeup of the parliamentary press gallery – a privileged group of about 300 journalists given special access to report on parliament – and within that the smaller group of lobby journalists, you can sort of understand why she assumed I was there to provide administrative support to my male colleagues.
I was reminded of all this following a particularly oestrogen-light press conference at Downing Street this week where all of the questioners, and indeed most of the attendees, were male. Channel 4’s Cathy Newman asked in an article for the Telegraph “Where have the women of the lobby gone?”, which sparked another flurry of debate.
That the women appear to have disappeared implies they were more noticeably well-represented at some point in the recent past.
In fact, women still make up around a quarter of all lobby reporters, with a handful of the most senior roles on political teams. Of course, I fully support fair representation for women, but at the same time I have to ask, what about the groups who have still barely even made it to the table?
When I had been appointed the Express and Star’s political correspondent in 2002 about six months before, I’d become the only (and possibly the first ever) black female lobby journalist.
Eleven years later, there has been a 100% improvement; there are now two of us. Indeed I can count the ethnic minority lobby members on one hand.
More widely in journalism, research by the New Statesman last year concluded that ethnic minorities remain “largely absent” from opinion pages, senior executive roles and staff jobs within the British media.
This when the non-white population stands at around 14%, according to the ONS Ethnicity and National Identity in England Wales report 2011.
And then there’s the issue of class. Journalism as a whole is similar to many other areas of the media, such as publishing, in being largely, though not exclusively, the preserve of the middle class.
The difficulties getting work experience and toiling for nothing or next to nothing just to get that first foot on the ladder can be eased by a parent with industry contacts and/or the means to provide financial support – help which is largely absent for working-class people.
Yes, let’s see and hear more women in the lobby, in journalism more widely and beyond, but let’s also not forget there are other barriers to progress for a significant minority.
