Notes
No goto in Swift
There is no goto statement in Swift. Here's a cumbersome workaround. Sucks if you have old code that you'd like to convert. |
Africans in The Americas
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/ Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking new six-part series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Unfortunately as of Sep 2014 not available for online video streaming) Free Angela and All Political Prisoners is a gripping historic account of the events that catapulted a young University of California philosophy professor into a controversial political icon in the turbulent late 1960s. http://www.scribe.org/events/producersforumfreeangelaandallpoliticalprisoners Sapelo Island, Georgia (CNN) -- It's a culture struggling to survive. Fewer than 50 people -- all descendants of slaves -- fear they may soon be taxed out of the property their families have owned since the days of slavery. http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/26/living/georgia-island-tax-avalanche/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Her Spirit Was For Dancing (2013, 60 mins) a film by Morenike Olabunmi chronicles the death rituals performed for Phyllis Gordon, a 92-year-old Etu member and Yoruba descendant in Jamaica, West Indies. The deceased is honored with a Christian funeral in addition to age-old African celebrations that involve the community. This film is an intimate look into the coexistence of Christian and African traditions. http://scribe.org/events/scribecafeherspiritwasdancing Underground Railroad: The William Still Story http://video.whyy.org/video/2181739273/ http://stillfamily.library.temple.edu/historical-perspective/william-still-significance http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15263/15263-h/15263-h.htm#PStill Henrietta Lacks was only 31 when she died of cervical cancer in 1951 in a Baltimore hospital. Not long before her death, doctors removed some of her tumor cells. They later discovered that the cells could thrive in a lab, a feat no human cells had achieved before http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/science/after-decades-of-research-henrietta-lacks-family-is-asked-for-consent.html?hp&_r=0 Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was a black educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He was also known for being a cricket and baseball player in 19th-century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Catto became a martyr to racism, as he was shot and killed in election-day violence in Philadelphia,  where ethnic Irish attacked black men to prevent their voting. founded the Banneker Literary Institute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_Catto Mestre Bimba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_dos_Reis_Machado http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHnPkKZxcmQ artinharlem.com - noel donaldson http://www.flickr.com/photos/23250874@N04/ "This was the largest slave trading operaion on the continent. It is estimated 40,000 enslaved Africans were sold here." http://alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/historic/info/archaeology/ARSiteReportAlexandriaSlavePenAX75.pdf http://www.eurweb.com/2013/06/venus-vs-ava-duvernay-directs-feature-doc-on-activist-venus-williams/ http://reelblack.com/wordpress/?p=4279 http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2013/06/philadelphia-to-close-23-public-schools-while-building-400-million-prison/ |
The Data Thief
John Akomfrah: "The Last Angel of History" http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/new97/the_last_.html Five-dimensional glass memory can store 360TB per disc, rugged enough to outlive the human race http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160928-five-dimensional-glass-memory-can-store-360tb-per-disc-rugged-enough-to-outlive-the-human-race |