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package com.google.gerrit.server.query.change;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import com.google.gerrit.reviewdb.client.Change;
import com.google.gwtorm.server.OrmException;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class RegexPathPredicateTest {
  @Test
  public void testPrefixOnlyOptimization() throws OrmException {
    RegexPathPredicate p = predicate("^a/b/.*");
    assertTrue(p.match(change("a/b/source.c")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("source.c")));

    assertTrue(p.match(change("a/b/source.c", "a/c/test")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("a/bb/source.c")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testPrefixReducesSearchSpace() throws OrmException {
    RegexPathPredicate p = predicate("^a/b/.*\\.[ch]");
    assertTrue(p.match(change("a/b/source.c")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("a/b/source.res")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("source.res")));

    assertTrue(p.match(change("a/b/a.a", "a/b/a.d", "a/b/a.h")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFileExtension_Constant() throws OrmException {
    RegexPathPredicate p = predicate("^.*\\.res");
    assertTrue(p.match(change("test.res")));
    assertTrue(p.match(change("foo/bar/test.res")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("test.res.bar")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFileExtension_CharacterGroup() throws OrmException {
    RegexPathPredicate p = predicate("^.*\\.[ch]");
    assertTrue(p.match(change("test.c")));
    assertTrue(p.match(change("test.h")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("test.C")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testEndOfString() throws OrmException {
    assertTrue(predicate("^a$").match(change("a")));
    assertFalse(predicate("^a$").match(change("a$")));

    assertFalse(predicate("^a\\$").match(change("a")));
    assertTrue(predicate("^a\\$").match(change("a$")));
  }

  @Test
  public void testExactMatch() throws OrmException {
    RegexPathPredicate p = predicate("^foo.c");
    assertTrue(p.match(change("foo.c")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("foo.cc")));
    assertFalse(p.match(change("bar.c")));
  }

  private static RegexPathPredicate predicate(String pattern) {
    return new RegexPathPredicate(ChangeQueryBuilder.FIELD_PATH, pattern);
  }

  private static ChangeData change(String... files) {
    Arrays.sort(files);
    ChangeData cd = ChangeData.createForTest(new Change.Id(1));
    cd.setCurrentFilePaths(Arrays.asList(files));
    return cd;
  }
}


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Henley on Thames CP/AP
Relationships and changes
Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.
How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.
Social class and socio-economic groups. Concentrations of professionals, and of unskilled labourers.
Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.
Click on the hyperlinks for direct access to key graphs and tables.
Total Population 1801 to 1961: Population grew from 2,948 in 1801 to 9,144 in 1961.
Occupational Structure in 1881:
Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.
Preferred Name:
Date abolished:
Unit ID:
Authorities:
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
Henley on Thames CP/AP, Oxfordshire
The following alternative names exist:
HENLEY ON THAMES Preferred English F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
HENLEY UPON THAMES Alternate English 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
Unit associations
This unit was associated with the following other units:
Nature of association
Other unit involved
was succeeded by HENLEY ON THAMES EP Ecclesiastical Parish F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
Unit history
This unit was part of the following units:
OXFORDSHIRE Ancient County F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
HENLEY PLU/RegD Poor Law Union/Reg. District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
BINFIELD Hundred Ancient District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
HENLEY Registration sub-District 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
HENLEY RSD Sanitary District 1875 1894 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
HENLEY ON THAMES Borough Ancient District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 664.
HENLEY ON THAMES USD Sanitary District 1883 1894 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
HENLEY ON THAMES MB Local Government District 1883 1974 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 399.
Boundary changes
This unit was affected by the following changes:
Type of change
Area transferred
31 Dec 1894 was reduced to create BADGEMORE CP Houses in 1901: 84. 1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 14, 'Changes in the Boundaries of Civil Parishes, effected Local Government Acts of 1899 and 1894, and by Local Acts since 1891 - Inhabited Houses and Population 1901'.; L.G. Act, 1894 (Appointed day), and County Council Naming Order
01 Apr 1932 was enlarged by gaining part of BADGEMORE CP Area: 402 acres. Population in 1931: 164. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 76241. The Oxfordshire Review Order, 1932
01 Apr 1932 was enlarged by gaining part of HARPSDEN CP/AP Area: 1 acres. Population in 1931: 0. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 76241. The Oxfordshire Review Order, 1932
01 Apr 1932 was enlarged by gaining part of ROTHERFIELD GREYS CP/AP Area: 244 acres. Population in 1931: 141. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 76241. The Oxfordshire Review Order, 1932
01 Apr 1932 was enlarged by gaining part of ROTHERFIELD PEPPARD CP/AP Area: 186 acres. Population in 1931: 148. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table B, 'Areas altered between 26th April, 1931 and 30th June, 1934, showing constitution as at the latter date, in terms of constitution as at the former date, together with particulars of acreage and population'.; M. of H. Order No. 76241. The Oxfordshire Review Order, 1932
Lower level units
We know of no units which were contained within this unit.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Henley on Thames CP/AP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10331602

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El  es un equipo de fútbol de Gales que juega en la Welsh Premier League, la primera división nacional.

Historia
Fue fundado en el año 1992 en la ciudad de Pontypridd luego de que el Pontypridd Sports & Social Club se fusionara con el Ynysybwl Athletic AFC, jugando en las divisiones locales hasta que en la temporada 2006/07 logra el ascenso a la Welsh Football League First Division, temporada en la que fue considerado como mata gigantes luego de haber eliminado a dos equipos de segunda división y uno de la Liga Premier en la Copa de Gales. Se mantuvieron en la segunda división por dos temporadas luego de descender en la temporada 2007/08.

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Palmarés
Welsh Football League Division 3 (1): 2015–16

Jugadores

Equipo 2021/22

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Equipos de la Welsh Premier League
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 1992
Equipos de fútbol que se han fusionado y fusiones
Reino Unido en 1992

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Fit and FewDonald Davie
Vol. 6 No. 8 · 3 May 1984
Fit and Few
Donald Davie
The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry
by David Trotter.
Macmillan, 272 pp., £20, March 1984, 0 333 30632 5Show More
'Fit audience, though few,' said Milton; and thereupon declared the terms in which the issue of reader-response would be considered by poets from his day to ours. The widely-read author asks: 'How many of these many readers are fit readers?' And the non-selling author asks: 'Are the fit readers so few?' The first predicament is the worse. For the non-selling author can always blame his publisher, or his distributors; whereas the best-selling author, weeping all the way to the bank, has no one to blame but himself. If he is in earnest – and if he isn't we'll not bother with him, any more than David Trotter does – he thought that he was testing his society by moving out to the periphery of that society, speaking for and with the disaffected, the vagabonds, the ill-adjusted. How disconcerting, then, to find that the disaffection he thought he was speaking for had struck a loudly answering chord from the settled centre! That is the predicament of Larkin, of Hughes, of Heaney: each of them initially supposing himself a marginal person speaking up for marginal people, yet forced to recognise – as the royalty statements convey their gratifying yet unnerving message – that the stance he had thought of as special was on the contrary representative. The Making of the Reader doesn't explicitly make this point, but it's one necessary inference from David Trotter's exceptionally strenuous argument.
Like many before him (Leavis, for one), Trotter believes that the common reader as Samuel Johnson conceived of him and relied on him was already disappearing from the scene by the time Johnson died. Trotter strikes out on his own by pondering the significance in this respect of a figure like Wordsworth's 'Old Cumberland Beggar'. He sees Wordsworth's beggar as the first of a series of 'silent monitors' whose situation on the social periphery would be responded to only by fit readers, by those capable of an imaginative pilgrimage to the social margins. The poet, by introducing such figures centrally into his poems (they could be, of course, and usually were, more wilful and mutinous than Wordsworth's vagabonds), had devised a way of recognising among his many readers those few who were 'fit': the fit readers were those few who would understand why old Cumberland beggars were worth bothering about. If this Wordsworth litmus-paper ever worked, it plainly wasn't working for Ted Hughes by the time Hughes wrote of tramps asleep in ditches. But, so Trotter argues powerfully, every earnest and responsible poet from Wordsworth's day to ours has needed some litmus-paper, some test that would distinguish the readers who were capable of responding to his provocations from those others who read him only idly and superficially. And The Making of the Reader surveys the different sorts of litmus-paper that poets have used to this end, particularly in the present century.
As soon as we are alerted to the significance of a poet's preferred dramatis personae – Wordsworth's beggars and village idiots, Matthew Arnold's Carthusian monks and gypsies, the young Auden's 'airman', Lionel Johnson's and T.S. Eliot's vanquished Kings – the investigation is seen to be fascinating and instructive. But already with Wordsworth and consistently thereafter the test that the poet administers to his readers is less thematic than rhetorical. It is not the beggar or the village idiot as such: it is the rhetoric that Wordsworth deploys in presenting them – in particular, the insidious and therefore powerful rhetoric that works through such seemingly unremarkable words as 'this' rather than 'that', 'here' rather than 'there', the definite article instead of the indefinite or the demonstrative. Here David Trotter comes into his own, having learned (I would guess from Christopher Ricks) how such apparently neutral and instrumental parts of speech – including prepositions, 'in' and 'into', 'with' and 'amid' and 'among' – exert, when used by an accomplished writer, far more powerful suasive force than metaphors and other tropes that draw attention to themselves. Apprehending this, we apprehend how talk of 'test' and 'litmus-paper' breaks down, falls misleadingly short. The poet is concerned, not to identify a fit readership already in being, but by rhetorical persuasion to will such a readership into being where before it was not to be found. The enterprise is not the identifying of the fit reader, but the making of him. And he is made, he is brought into being, when he is invited and in fact compelled to collaborate with the writer. In the young Auden that invitation and compulsion are embodied in the definite article:
The old gang to be forgotten in the spring,
The hard bitch and the riding-master,
Stiff underground; deep in clear lake
The lolling bridegroom, beautiful, there.
The reader is badgered into supplying from his own experience the substance that the definite articles declare to be patent though as yet unacknowledged: 'You know the sort of old gang (hard bitch, riding-master) that I mean!' As Trotter says, 'the old gang, which we must identify through our knowledge of hard bitches and riding-masters, will transform itself by shedding its definite articles, "deep in clear lake".' The fit reader is thus identified by Auden, and forced to identify himself. His identity is political: not just 'the Left', but that part of the Left that knows about riding-masters, and therefore is afflicted by rentier-guilt. ('Recurrent as malaria,' John Lehmann wrote in 1955, 'a bout of rentier-guilt laid me low.') Because Auden's ideal or preferred or postulated reader has this socio-political identity, he is particularly easy to recognise; Trotter's ingenuity and sensitivity are more taxed when dealing with authors who conceive their fit reader in les overtly socio-political terms.
And sometimes he is forced to desperate expedients. He makes good use, when writing about Auden and others, of the recorded history of political sentiments in the intelligentsia; and still more rewarding is his framing of his entire argument inside the anthropological analyses of Arnold van Gennep, concerned with 'rites of passage', and of Victor Turner, investigating 'pilgrimage'. But not all his forays outside of literature are so happy. Particularly unfortunate are his not infrequent appeals to Freud: 'The fetishist's quest stops short of the terrible revelation that a woman does not have a penis, and that castration is therefore possible.' It is astonishing that after more than half a century (Freud's paper on fetishism dates from 1927) such unverified and unverifiable pronouncements should still be adduced in all solemnity by writers who in other fields show themselves thoroughly cognisant of the laws of evidence. The sentence comes in what Trotter himself describes as 'a less sophisticated and more localised description of the fetishism of the Cantos than that recently proposed by Alan Durant'. It is less sophisticated because it argues directly from the Freudian scriptures, not via the revisionism of Lacan. But the wholly indeterminate because unverifiable status of the Freudian texts nullifies the one argument, Trotter's, as much as the other, Durant's. The pity is that the entire excursus is unnecessary: Trotter's examination of Pound's Eleven New Cantos (1934-35), in civil dialogue with Stephen Fender, is judicious and breaks new ground without needing at any point to appeal to Pound's alleged 'fetishism'. The reader whom Pound appealed to is significantly different in Canto 41 from what he had been in Canto 31, and Trotter I think is the first to make this important point.
From time to time, however, we are in danger of forgetting altogether about the manipulation and 'making' of the reader. For lying athwart the book that David Trotter has written are tantalising and sizable fragments of another book altogether, at least as fascinating, which would have for title 'Pathos and Anti-Pathos in 20th-century Literature'. This second book is first given its head in Chapter Five, called 'The Spirit of Anti-Pathos', which connects with sparkling audacity Brecht, Gramsci, Wyndham Lewis, and the Wallace Stevens who wrote 'The Comedian as the Letter C'; it reappears in Chapter Nine, entirely concerned with American poetry and comparing Frank O'Hara with Ed Dorn (not the expected names? No, thank heaven); and in Chapter 11, where three English poets who normally trade in pathos are applauded for at one point departing into anti-pathos – Ted Hughes in Crow, Geoffrey Hill in Mercian Hymns and J.H. Prynne in Brass. The reader appealed to, or 'made', by these books is defined only by tautology: he is the reader who prefers comedy, or 'ferocious banter', to elegy, or the celebration of departed glories. Who he or she is, and how he or she came to have these preferences, is nowhere made clear, nor is the question addressed. We are invited to think that the reader who likes Crow won't like the rest of Ted Hughes; that the admirers of most of Geoffrey Hill's poetry will be disconcerted by Mercian Hymns; and that the admirer of T.S. Eliot won't readily respond to Lewis's The Wild Body – which may well be true, and if true it is interesting, but what has it to do with 'the making of the reader'?
And indeed it's with an audible sigh that Trotter returns to this matter, in order to round off his book with some propriety. He honestly admits that the reader-response criticism that served him so well with Eliot and Pound and the young Auden quite signally fails him as soon as in his survey he moves past 1945 or 1950. 'I believe but cannot prove', and 'The only explanation I have been able to advance', are phrases that betray how far from confident he is about his attempt to paper over this awkward historical hiatus. And he is right to lack confidence: for the best he can come up with to explain the changed conditions since 1950 is the notion that in the last thirty years the poet-reader relationship has been institutionalised, the institutions in question being the universities, and in particular their English departments. The point has been made many times before, usually in accents of outrage, resentment and derision. Trotter admirably refuses to gratify these stock-responses to 'the academic'; he notes with cool impartiality how such a seemingly non-academic poet as Ed Dorn in fact relies upon scholarly idioms and readily admits as much. But he must know how few English departments nowadays sail under the colours of Northrop Frye, or concern themselves with 'close reading', with what he calls, in a charmingly old-fashioned Cantabrigian moment, 'practical criticism'. In the 1950s it was just possible for a poet to believe that the English departments would sort out for him the fit readers whom he might then address and manipulate: but no poet with his wits about him can believe that in the 1980s.
Oddly enough, I think it's that other, that submerged book, the one about pathos and anti-pathos, that could supply Trotter with the criteria he needs for distinguishing, in post-1950 writing, those poems that will find many readers from those that will find only few. At the risk of echoing Kingsley Amis (whom Trotter, in general very tolerant, justly pillories at one point), 'a useful rough rule says' that poems of pathos will find readers, poems of anti-pathos won't. Geoffrey Hill's fine 'Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy' is a work of monumental pathos, celebrating a vanished world (Péguy's), and intimating that we are the poorer for its vanishing; by contrast, a poem that similarly recreates a vanished era, but finds in it only 'an age much like our own', is a work of anti-pathos, and will find fewer readers. The point is crucial. For it is the virtue of reader-response criticism, as David Trotter practises it, that it returns us to the common-sense truth that all poets want fame, all want to be loved and admired by as many people as possible. But what such criticism slides over is the no less obvious truth that for fame a price has to be paid, and certain poets at certain times find the price too high. At such times a poet will write an unpopular poem, knowing it to be unpopular but impelled to write it nevertheless. The most striking case of this, among English poets of this century, is Bunting. Intransigently unpopular through most of his life, Bunting is surely conspicuous by his absence when Trotter salutes the masters of anti-pathos. But one sees why. For what did Bunting earn in royalties through the first 65 years of his life? And how can such a self-denying or self-defeating career be accounted for, in a survey that concentrates on how a poet finds, or woos, or fabricates a readership? Presumably Bunting's royalty statements look more rosy since Briggflatts. (And yet not much, perhaps – for Briggflatts is generally esteemed but little read, and hardly ever remembered when we make our historical surveys.) The greatness of that poem – and it is surely the one indisputably great poem written in England since 1950 – is that, given a theme drenched in pathos twice over, both historically and personally nostalgic, the poet has wrung every drop of pathos out of his theme before he begins to put it on the page. A theme of great pathos is treated in the spirit of anti-pathos. Who the reader could be who would respond to that, where such a reader could come from, how he or she could be brought into being – if Bunting was to write the poem at all, these were questions he just couldn't afford to ask.
Trotter's book, too, will find few readers. For most of our commentators on poetry deny his initial postulate. In the New Statesman, in the Salisbury Review, even in the LRB, we are assured that the common reader is alive and well. He is the reader of the journal in question, or of all three of them. If Larkin and Hughes and Heaney are our best-selling poets, this is (so we are assured) because these poets have located and defined the common reader, so as to write of him and for him. Like David Trotter, I have too much respect for each of these poets to believe that they are happy with this account of their popularity, or persuaded by it. The poet of Briggflatts survives, an awesomely chastening exemplar to them and to the rest of us.
Donald Davie is a poet and critic. Three for Water Music, a collection of poetry, and his anthology, The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse, were published last year. A memoir, These the Companions, is due out in July and Dissentient Voice: Enlightenment and Christian Dissent is to be published in June. These will be reviewed in this journal by Christopher Ricks. He now teaches at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.
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Q: Is workspace shared storage utilised by data that is placed by data flow in "Power BI managed data lake"? When we create a data flow inside a power bi workspace, there are 2 options where the data flow data gets stored:

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*Bring your own azure data lake
In the 1st case, is the shared storage of the workspace impacted by the data that the dataflow puts into the power bi managed data lake? If not then what is the limit of the power bi managed data lake storage per workspace?

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The 2010 National Jamboree at Ft. A.P. Hill, VA will celebrate the Centennial of Scouting in America.
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Ladyva (справжнє ім'я — Ванесса Сабріна Гнегі; ) — швейцарська піаністка, співачка і композитор. Віддає перевагу жанрам бугі-вуги, блюзу і джазу.

Біографія
Ванесса, натхненна музикою великих майстрів бугі-вуги, почала грати на фортепіано у 14 років. Через два роки вона з'явилася на сцені разом зі своїм братом Паскалем Сільвою. Потім були виступи на швейцарському та німецькому телебаченні  тощо. Досягнула успіху на своїй другій батьківщині — в Домініканській Республіці .

У 2009 році її перший альбом під сценічним ім'ям Ванесса Джі (). У 2011 році підписала контракт із Universal Music. У 2014 році виступала на кількох фестивалях бугі-вуги у Німеччині .

Восени 2015 року Ladyva брала участь у прощальному турне Великобританією легендарного Джеррі Лі Льюїса, грала на святкуванні його 80-річчя в лондонському театрі Палладіум, де серед знаменитих гостей були вокаліст гурту Led Zeppelin Роберт Плант і барабанщик Beatles торта . Популярний хіт свого кумира " Great Balls of Fire " Ladyva заспівала на фестивалі International Boogie Nights у Швейцарії .

16 жовтня 2015 року вона з'явилася у прямому ефірі знаменитого " Дуже пізнього шоу " на  ) в Ірландії .

У травні 2016 року разом з іншими відомими піаністами бугі-вуги, такими як Аксель Цвінгенбергер та Невілл Діккі, її запросили виступити на шоу Boogie Woogie & Blues Spectacular, яке вів Джулс Холланд . Пізніше відбулися фестивальні концерти в різних країнах Європи із  ) . Їхній перший спільний диск «Beloved Boogie Woogie», записаний у чотири руки, був представлений на Міжнародному фестивалі бугі-вуги в Лугано 22 квітня 2017 . У листопаді 2017 року на концерті Beatles Symphonic в лондонському Колізеї Ladyva виконала Something у супроводі Лондонського філармонічного оркестру .

Ladyva постійно бере участь у престижних джазових та бугі-вугі фестивалях різних країн: Caval'Air Jazz (Франція); Jazzfestival Tingen, The Hamburg Boogie Woogie Connection & The Boogie Woogie Congress Essen (Німеччина); The International Jazzfestival Bansko (Болгарія); Bluesfestival Basel, JazzAscona & Jazzmeile Kreuzlingen (Швейцарія); Boogie & Blues Reunion Terrasssa (Іспанія), London International Festival of Boogie Woogie (Великобританія). Її називають королевою бугі-вуги () .

У 2022 році, проїжджаючи через Лондон, вона з готовністю прийняла пропозицію зіграти на громадському фортепіано на вокзалі Сент-Панкрас. Ініціатором імпровізованого концерту для перехожих став Брендан Кавана, який часто виступає на відкритих майданчиках разом з іншими музикантами. .

Нагороди

 2017 — Найкраща бугі-вугі-піаністка року. Премія «Boisdale Music Awards»
 2022 — Срібна кнопка . Премія для авторів YouTube.
 2022 — Найкраща бугі-вугі-піаністка року. Премія «Boisdale Music Awards»

Дискографія

 2009: Vanessa G — The Boogie Woogie Lady
 2013: Ladyva — 2nd Cut
 2016: The New Orleans Experience — Jazz Ascona Festival Sampler-CD
 2016: Ladyva & Silvan Zingg — Beloved Boogie Woogie
 2017: Ladyva — 8 To The Bar
 2021: Ladyva — Ladyva's Stomp

Примітки

Музиканти, відомі під псевдонімами
Швейцарські музиканти
Блюзмени
Уродженці кантону Берн
Народились 1988
Народились 8 грудня
Співаки та співачки XXI століття
Співаки та співачки Швейцарії
Персоналії за алфавітом
Композитори XXI століття
Музиканти за алфавітом
Піаністи XXI століття
Швейцарські піаністи


2 hr. 8 min. | Rated R16 | Violence, offensive language, sexual references and content that may disturb.
Pierre-Paul Daoust, 36, an intelligent man with a PhD in philosophy is forced to work as a delivery man to afford a decent living.
One day while delivering a parcel, he gets caught in a hold up gone terribly wrong: two dead and millions in money bags laying on the ground. Pierre-Paul is confronted with a dilemma: leave empty handed, or take the money and run?


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Da Twin Prince will be performing Live @ the Go Africa Harlem 2018 Street Festival on 7/14/2018
By Dr. Dennie Beach
We welcome Da Twin Price & Bars Over Your Head LLC to Go Africa Street Festival!
The Go Africa Harlem Street Festival will take place on 07/14/2018 from 10am – 6pm on 116th Street btw. 7th & 8th Aves. please register at : https://goafricaharlem2018.eventbrite.com
or email Info@GoAfricaHarlem.org or phone 646-502-9778 Ext. 8001
About Da Twin Prince
@DaTwinPrinceMuzzik
http://www.reverbnation.com/datwinprince
Da Twin Prince
Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York native
Da Twin Prince naturally started on his path with music at the age of 5, whether it was playing on the drum set at church or just pressing notes on his toy piano. At the time music was simply a thing to do, but now it has grown into a crazed passion.
In his music career he has performed at Jay-Zs 40/40 club, Webster Hall, Leftfield, The Delancey, as well as many colleges. On the Bronxnet channel he has been featured for the show 'Open' with host Dr. Bob Lee of WBLS. He is a special requested performer for several fashion shows and club/lounge appearances.
Da Twin Prince is not a one dimensional artist. From writing and producing his own music to creating with multiple genres; hip-hop, R&B, techno, Rap, Reggae, and Neo soul. There isn't much he cannot do. Music is his passion, his identity, his way to speak to the masses, and he does it with no profanity or degradation of women. His unique style is what separates him from the rest. Early 2015 he digitally released his E.P entitled. "Imagination Fame". From that project the single"Stereo Love" has gained the attention of online radio stations and even has been in the top 10 songs regionally on the number one music.com charts for 25 weeks. Snippets of his music is available for download on iTunes, amazon, spotify, google play, napster and rhapsody. He brings a hybrid style that makes him a major member of the Barz Over Your Head team.
History + Vision
Barz Over Your Head was established in 2011 in New York City and became an official LLC in January 2015.
Three young men Brian T Waller Scott, Mark Anthony Burch AKA Macclaim, Kushoun Anthony Burch AKA Loot Royale united through family ties and a strong passion for music shared a common vision to bring a quality that was missing in the music industry. They wanted to fill a void in the industry without compromising the integrity of the art.
The Bars Over Your Head LLC started as an idea formulated in a family basement. The founders created a label that gave artist not only an avenue to distribute their music but an outlet to develop their sound and educate themselves in all aspects of the music industry. They envisioned setting forth a product that didn't make listeners compromise lyrical content and popular sound.
Each artist on the label is given the tools to foster their growth and the knowledge to develop their careers for years to come. Although the music is always a priority BOYH knows that for an artist to have a successful career they need to be involved and educated in all aspects of their career. Bars Over Your Head offers artist management, engineering, production, photography, videography, and marketing. Through out the years they have grown to develop more in-house talent that has decreased their need to out source services. Bars over your head is slogan and a way of life where quality is not compromised.
http://www.barzoveryourhead.com/
African Union Expo 2016, New York City Metro Area News, U.S News, Uncategorized
We are proud to announce the support of The National Urban League for the 2nd African Union Business Expo to be held on 11/15/2016 at MIST Harlem from 10am -7pm.
We are proud to announce the support of The National Urban League for the 2nd African Union Business Expo to be held on 11/15/2016 at MIST Harlem from 10am -7pm. Register to win up to 1,000.00! at
at http://africanunionexpo.org/events/african-union-expo-2016-nyc-harlem-on-11152016-from-10am-7pm/
or email info@africanunionexpo.com or phone 646-502-9778 Ext. 8002 to the attend or to request further information
follow: #AfricanUnionExpo2016
This year will feature 2 new events:
Go Africa Startup Contest (for entrepreneurs, startups and small companies)
10 min presentation of your business with 5 min Q&A from the Audience and Judges:
1,000 cash (First Prize)
250 Gift Card (Second Prize)
150 Gift Card (Third Prize)
Innovation & idea Category
Contestant has an innovation or idea that is in the incubation, development stage
150 Gift Card (First Prize)
75 Gift Card (Third Prize)
Contestant, Individual or Business can only compete and/or win in one of the categories but not both.
Business Review (business plan review and financing, planning assessment) Featuring the following:
Individual planning and assessment with Go Africa Capital LLC and a financial institution for your business or startup.
Individualized scoring and funding proposal created for your business
If the funding proposal is accepted by all parties involved, funding will be provided within 60 – 120 days.
See (business Review Section for more details on the criteria, and other parameters
About the National Urban League:
The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
The National Urban League, which has played so pivotal a role in the 20th-Century Freedom Movement, grew out of that spontaneous grassroots movement for freedom and opportunity that came to be called the Black Migrations. When the U.S. Supreme Court declared its approval of segregation in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the brutal system of economic, social and political oppression the White South quickly adopted rapidly transformed what had been a trickle of African Americans northward into a flood.
Those newcomers to the North soon discovered they had not escaped racial discrimination. Excluded from all but menial jobs in the larger society, victimized by poor housing and education, and inexperienced in the ways of urban living, many lived in terrible social and economic conditions.
Still, in the degree of difference between South and North lay opportunity, and that African Americans clearly understood. But to capitalize on that opportunity, to successfully adapt to urban life and to reduce the pervasive discrimination they faced, they would need help. That was the reason the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was established on September 29, 1910 in New York City. Central to the organization's founding were two remarkable people: Mrs. Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes, who would become the Committee's first executive secretary.
Mrs. Baldwin, the widow of a railroad magnate and a member of one of America's oldest families, had a remarkable social conscience and was a stalwart champion of the poor and disadvantaged. Dr. Haynes, a graduate of Fisk University, Yale University, and Columbia University (he was the first African American to receive a doctorate from that institution), felt a compelling need to use his training as a social worker to serve his people.
A year later, the Committee merged with the Committee for the Improvement of Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York (founded in New York in 1906), and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women (founded in 1905) to form the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. In 1920, the name was later shortened to the National Urban League.
The interracial character of the League's board was set from its first days. Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia University, one of the leaders in progressive social service activities in New York City, served as chairman from 1911 to 1913. Mrs. Baldwin took the post until 1915.
The fledgling organization counseled black migrants from the South, helped train black social workers, and worked in various other ways to bring educational and employment opportunities to blacks. Its research into the problems blacks faced in employment opportunities, recreation, housing, health and sanitation, and education spurred the League's quick growth. By the end of World War I the organization had 81 staff members working in 30 cities.
In 1918, Dr. Haynes was succeeded by Eugene Kinckle Jones who would direct the agency until his retirement in 1941. Under his direction, the League significantly expanded its multifaceted campaign to crack the barriers to black employment, spurred first by the boom years of the 1920s, and then, by the desperate years of the Great Depression. Efforts at reasoned persuasion were buttressed by boycotts against firms that refused to employ blacks, pressures on schools to expand vocational opportunities for young people, constant prodding of Washington officials to include blacks in New Deal recovery programs and a drive to get blacks into previously segregated labor unions.
As World War II loomed, Lester Granger, a seasoned League veteran and crusading newspaper columnist, was appointed Eugene Kinckle Jones successor.
Outspoken in his commitment to advancing opportunity for blacks, Granger pushed tirelessly to integrate the racist trade unions and led the League's effort to support A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement to fight discrimination in defense work and in the armed services. Under Granger, the League, through its own Industrial Relations Laboratory, had notable success in cracking the color bar in numerous defense plants. The nation's demand for civilian labor during the war also helped the organization press ahead with greater urgency its programs to train black youths for meaningful blue-collar employment. After the war those efforts expanded to persuading Fortune 500 companies to hold career conferences on the campuses of Negro colleges and place blacks in upper-echelon jobs.
Of equal importance to the League's own future sources of support, Granger avidly supported the organization of its volunteer auxiliary, the National Urban League Guild, which, under the leadership of Mollie Moon, became an important national force in its own right.
The explosion of the civil rights movement provoked a change for the League, one personified by its new leader, Whitney M. Young, Jr., who became executive director in 1961. A social worker like his predecessors, he substantially expanded the League's fund-raising ability and, most critically, made the League a full partner in the civil rights movement. Although the League's tax-exempt status barred it from protest activities, it hosted at its New York headquarters the planning meetings of A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders for the 1963 March on Washington. Young was also a forceful advocate for greater government and private-sector efforts to eradicate poverty. His call for a domestic Marshall Plan, a ten-point program designed to close the huge social and economic gap between black and white Americans, significantly influenced the discussion of the Johnson Administration's War on Poverty legislation.
Young's tragic death in 1971 in a drowning incident off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria brought another change in leadership. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., formerly Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund, took over as the League's fifth Executive Director in 1972 (the title of the office was changed to President in 1977). For the next decade, until his resignation in December 1981, Jordan skillfully guided the League to new heights of achievement. He oversaw a major expansion of its social service efforts, as the League became a significant conduit for the federal government to establish programs and deliver services to aid urban communities, and brokered fresh initiatives in such League programs as housing, health, education and minority business development. Jordan also instituted a citizenship education program that helped increase the black vote and brought new programs to such areas as energy, the environment, and non-traditional jobs for women of color-and he developed The State of Black America report.
In 1982, John E. Jacob, a former chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C. and San Diego affiliates who had served as Executive Vice President, took the reins of leadership, solidifying the League's internal structure and expanding its outreach even further.
Jacob established the Permanent Development Fund in order to increase the organization's financial stamina. In honor of Whitney Young, he established several programs to aid the development of those who work for and with the League: The Whitney M. Young, Jr. Training Center, to provide training and leadership development opportunities for both staff and volunteers; the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Race Relations Program, which recognizes affiliates doing exemplary work in race relations; and the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Commemoration Ceremony, which honors and pays tribute to long term staff and volunteers who have made extraordinary contributions to the Urban League Movement.
Jacob established the League's NULITES youth development program and spurred the League to put new emphasis on programs to reduce teenage pregnancy, help single female heads of households, combat crime in black communities, and increase voter registration.
Hugh B. Price, appointed to the League's top office in July 1994, took over the reins at a critical moment for the League, for black America, and for the nation as a whole. In the early 90's, the fierce market-driven dynamic of "globalization," was sweeping the world, fundamentally altering the economic relations among and within countries and reshaping the link between the nation's citizenry and its economy, fostering enormous uncertainty among individuals and tensions among ethnic and cultural groups.
This economic change and the efforts of some to rollback the gains African Americans fashioned since the 1960s made the League's efforts all the more necessary. Price, a lawyer with extensive experience in community development and public policy issues, intensified the organization's work in three broad areas: in education and youth development, individual and community-wide economic empowerment, affirmative action and the promotion of inclusion as a critical foundation for securing America's future as a multi-ethnic democracy.
Among Price's most notable achievements was establishing the League's Institute of Opportunity and Equality in Washington, DC, which conducted research and public policy analysis of urban issues and the Campaign for African American Achievement, a community mobilization and advocacy initiative created to raise awareness and promote the importance of achievement through the formation of the National Achievers Society, "Doing the Right Thing" recognition in local communities and the National Urban League's Scholarship Program.
On May 15, 2003 the Board of Trustees of the National Urban League voted overwhelmingly to appoint former New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial as the League's eighth President and Chief Executive Officer. As New Orleans Chief Executive, he was one of the most popular and effective mayors in the city's history, leaving office with 70% approval rating. After being elected as one of the youngest mayors in the city's history, crime plummeted by 60% a corrupt Police Department was reformed, new programs for youth were started and stagnant economy was reignited.
Since his appointment to the National Urban League, Morial has worked to reenergize the movement's diverse constituencies by building on the strengths of the NUL's 95 year old legacy and increasing the organization's profile both locally and nationally.
In his first year, Morial worked to streamline the organization's headquarters, secured over $10 million dollars in new funding to support affiliate programs, created the first Legislative Policy Conference "NUL on the Hill', revamped the State of Black America report, created profitability for the annual conference, and secured a $127.5 million equity fund for minority businesses through the new markets tax credit program. He introduced and developed a stronger strategic direction of the organization with a "five point empowerment agenda' that focuses on closing the equality gaps which exist for African Americans and other emerging ethnic communities in education, economic empowerment, health and quality of life, civic engagement, and civil rights and racial justice.
Health, Health news, Politics, Uncategorized
Italy's 'Fertility Day' Call to Make Babies Arouses Anger, Not Ardor
By Dr. Samuel Jones
follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork ,@DocSamuelJones
"The government encourages us to have babies and then the main welfare system in Italy is still the grandparents," said Vittoria Iacovella, a journalist and mother of two girls. Credit Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times.
"The government encourages us to have babies and then the main welfare system in Italy is still the grandparents," said Vittoria Iacovella, a journalist and mother of two girls.
We would like to welcome the Tanima Dancers to the Artist stage at the Go Africa Harlem Street Festival on 7/16/2016
Visit www.GoAfricaHarlem.org for more information. the Go Africa Harlem Street Festival will take place on 7/16/2016 from 10am – 7pm on 116th Street btw. 7th & 8th Aves. please register at http://goafricaharlem.org/events/general-attendee-sign-up-for-go-africa-harlem-2016-street-festival-on-july-16th-2016/ or email Info@GoAfricaHarlem.org or phone 646-502-9778 Ext. 8001
Tanima Productions Organization, based in the Bronx, New York. The organization has been in establishment for over 30 plus years in teaching the youth and teens a positive venture in the community. As a performing arts organization, our Tanima instructors are trained and educated in various styles of dance such as salsa on 2, ballet, modeling, street jazz, cultural dance and more. Since 1982, the mission of Tanima Organization is to maintain the youth in our community engaged in cultural activities and too occupy their time by staying off the streets. The Executive Director of Tanima, Ms. Nereida Medina, catapulted different artists careers such as Marc Anthony, Romeo Santos and La India, just to name a few. In continuing the strive for Tanima, the outcome is to create a successful future for the next generation and groom young ladies and men to exceptional adults.
Sincerely;
Nereida Medina
www.tanimainc.com
http://www.facebook.com/TanimaProduction
www.instagram.com/tanimaprodinc
We are pleased to welcome IDNYC to the Go Africa Harlem 2016 Street Festival on 7/16/2016!
IDNYC will be driving Awareness for the IDNYC program during the Street Festival more details of the IDNYC program are below. if you are Interested in IDNYC right now or have questions go to http://www1.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/benefits/benefits.page or contact:
Jorge Muñiz
Digital Communications & Neighborhood Organizer
NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
C: (347) 620-5372 | nyc.gov/immigrants
on Facebook at: @iamIDNYC
New York City residents are now able to sign up for IDNYC – a government-issued identification card that is available to all City residents age 14 and older. Immigration status does not matter. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this initiative in his State of the City address in January 2014 and less than one year later proudly launched the largest municipal identification card program in the nation.
GETTING YOUR IDNYC CARD:
All New York City residents age 14 and older can get an IDNYC card. Applicants must complete an application and submit it at an IDNYC Enrollment Center. Applicants are also required to present proof of identity and residency in New York City. Many types of documents are accepted, all of which are listed here. You must submit your application and proof of identity and residency in person at an IDNYC Enrollment Center or an IDNYC Pop-Up Enrollment Center, which travels to neighborhoods across the City. After you apply for the card, it will be sent to you in the mail.
The IDNYC card is free for all New Yorkers who apply during the first year of the program – until December 31, 2016. Cards are valid for five years from the date the application is approved. The application process is accessible to people with limited English proficiency and people with disabilities.
USING YOUR IDNYC CARD:
The IDNYC card is an accessible and secure document that enables residents to access City services and grant admission to City buildings, such as schools. In addition, the card can be presented as proof of identification for interacting with the police and is an accepted form of identification for opening a banking account at select financial institutions.
You are able to use your IDNYC card at any public library in New York. The card can be integrated with your account at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Library Systems. This is the first time a single card can be utilized across all three systems. To use your IDNYC card at a library, ask a librarian or a library clerk at your local branch to connect your IDNYC card with your library account or sign up for a new library account and use your IDNYC card as your library card.
Furthermore, a number of additional benefits are available to IDNYC cardholders including the opportunity to sign up for free one-year memberships at 40 of the city's leading museums, zoos, concert halls, and botanical gardens. The IDNYC card offers a full package of exciting benefits that includes discounts on movie tickets, sporting events, prescription drugs, fitness and health centers, supermarkets, and New York City attractions. The card is also accepted at a number of banks and credit unions in the city to open a bank account.
For information about the benefits of the IDNYC Veteran Designation, click here.
CARD AVAILABILITY:
The IDNYC card is now available at Enrollment Centers across all five boroughs. You can also use our map to get directions to your nearest Enrollment Center.
PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY:
The City will protect the confidentiality of all Municipal ID Card applicants to the maximum extent allowable by applicable federal and state law, and in accordance with Local Law 35.
In addition, the City will not ask applicants for information about their immigration status for purposes of obtaining the card in accordance with Executive Orders 34 and 41.
You can learn more about how your information will be protected by the City here.
LANGUAGE AND DISABILITY ACCESS:
The IDNYC program's goal is to ensure that neither language nor disability is a barrier to accessing services, regardless of the level of English proficiency or disability. Click here to read the IDNYC Language and Disability Access Plan.
Your IDNYC card is a broadly accepted, official form of identification. IDNYC is accepted:
By City agencies to access many services and programs;
By NYPD for the purposes of issuing summons or desk appearance tickets instead of arrest;
For entry into public buildings, like schools;
For taking the high school equivalency exam in New York City.
Your IDNYC also card offers a wide variety of exciting benefits that make it more than just an ID card. Your card can help you experience everything New York has to offer.
Museums and Cultural Institutions
With your IDNYC Card you may be eligible for a one-year free membership package at 40 of the City's leading cultural institutions, including world class museums, performing arts centers, concert halls, botanical gardens, and zoos in all five boroughs. These membership packages are comparable to each institution's standard one-year membership package and will give IDNYC card holders a range of benefits including free or discounted admission, access to special events, and discounts to museum shops and neighborhood businesses. For more information on membership eligibility, click here.
Park Avenue Armory's new summer benefit for IDNYC cardholders
Free access to the summer art installation, The Back Door, available June 8 – August 7, 2016.
You will be able to use your IDNYC card at any public library in New York. The card can be integrated with your account at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Library Systems. For more information, including links to help you find a library branch near you, click here.
Banks and Credit Unions
With your new IDNYC Card, you will be able to open a bank or credit account at more than a dozen financial institutions across New York City. Click here to find more information about the banks that accept the IDNYC card for proof of identity when opening an account.
Entertainment Discounts
The IDNYC card offers you exclusive discounts on movie tickets, Broadway shows, sporting events, theme parks, and New York City landmarks and attractions. For more information, click here.
Prescription Drug Discounts
BigAppleRx is the City of New York's official prescription drug discount card, and you can now you get these discounts with your IDNYC card. Click herefind out how.
Fitness and Health Centers
These benefits will help you lead an active and healthy lifestyle.
New York City Parks Department – Adults age 25-61 receive a 10% discount off annual and six-month NYC Parks Recreation Center memberships at any of Parks' 35 neighborhood recreation centers.
YMCA – With your IDNYC card, you will receive access to Y Roads young adult centers and New Americans Welcome Centers, which offer adult literacy programs. You will also receive 20% off of family and adult memberships at all 22 YMCA centers citywide. This discount is not available to IDNYC cardholders who have had a YMCA of Greater New York membership within the last twelve months.
Citi Bike – With your IDNYC card you will save 15% on your annual Citi Bike membership during your first year as a new Citi Bike member.
Supermarket Discounts at Food Bazaar
You will receive a 5% discount off all purchases at Food Bazaar supermarkets in New York City on weekdays, Monday through Friday, from 7:00am to 7:00pm. Some exclusions apply. For more information, click here.
Veteran Designation Benefits
In addition to the robust and exciting benefits package that comes with being an IDNYC cardholder, Veterans receive additional exclusive benefits with the Veterans Designation, including free one-year membership at theIntrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum; easy access to veteran-specific job placement and entrepreneurship services at the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), including Workforce 1 and the Veteran's Entrepreneurship Program; discounted membership in Veterans Advantage, which offers military discounts from national retailers and travel providers, including Amtrak, United, JetBlue, Greyhound, CVS, Office Depot, Foot Locker, and more; and discounts at businesses affiliated with the Queens Chamber of Commerce's Queens VETS Program. To learn more about the IDNYC Veteran Designation, click here.
Animal Care Centers of New York
IDNYC cardholders will receive $25 off adoption fees for Cats, Dogs and Rabbits. These fees normally range from $50-$100. ACC adoptions include vaccinations, a microchip, spay/neuter, a free office visit at a participating veterinarian and a free identification tag. Animals available for adoption can be viewed here, or on ACC's free mobile app (available on Google Play and iTunes).
applications can found on IDNYC's website at http://www1.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/card/how-to-apply.page
and are attached below
Cardholder_Benefits_Guide_2016 English_Application_06.16 french_app IDNYC_Financial_Brochure
We are proud to Welcome the Red Cross to the Go Africa Harlem 2016 Street Festival on 7/16/2016
We are proud to welcome the American Red Cross to the Go Africa Harlem 2016 street to be held on 7/16/2016 on 116th street btw. 7th & 8Th avenues from 10am – 7pm.
Visit GoAfricaHarlem.org or or email Info@GoAfricaHarlem.org or phone 646-502-9778 Ext. 8001 for more information.
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(Raw Story) Andrea Mitchell rips Trump's foreign policy scam: 'He's uneducated about any part of the world'
By Madina Toure
27 MAR 2016 AT 15:14 ET
Andrea Mitchell appears on Meet the Press (Screen Grab, Raw Story)
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell warned on Sunday GOP front-runner Donald Trump was hiding the fact that he was "completely uneducated about any part of the world."
"It is remarkable," Mitchell told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. "And when he doesn't know something, he just changes the subject, and makes it all about himself."
"On national security, it's very noticeable, especially to your ears and mine," Todd agreed.
"Absolutely. And this was a week where he could have gone after President Obama, arguably," Mitchell noted. "There's a lot happening, and the president has some vulnerabilities, so does Hillary Clinton. But instead, he's all over the lot."
As Mitchell pointed out, Trump indicated in a recent New York Times interview that he would cancel defense treaties with Japan and South Korea, and that he would allow the countries to obtain nuclear weapons.
"American policy for decades since World War II has been trying to keep nukes out of that arena," she observed. "He would stop importing oil from Saudi Arabia if they don't pay more for their defense."
"We need oil. We are not energy independent. We rely on oil still for our daily needs," Mitchell continued. "He is completely all over the lot. On Iran, he complains that Iran isn't buying our planes. It had to be pointed out to him that Iran is still under sanctions and cannot buy American planes. He thinks North Korea and Iran are the biggest trading partners, when North Korea's biggest trading partner is China."
"He is completely uneducated about any part of the world," the MSNBC host lamented.
Watch the video below from NBC's Meet the Press, broadcast March 27, 2016.
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(News24) Young SA nuclear physicist hopes to bring new mobile charging technology to SA
18 November, 01:13 PM
We speak to young South African entrepreneur Shalton Mothwa about his project, the AEON Power Bag. Watch.
Mothwa took part in the Red Bull Amaphiko Academy, a workshop that hoped to inspire young South African entrepreneurs to collaborate, be creative and share their ideas for a bright South African future.
Mothwa's AEON Power Bag is a laptop bag that will be able to charge mobile devices using WiFi and telecommunication signals. He says, "It's about convenience and freedom. You'll be able to do your thing on mobile devices without having to power your stuff."
The 28-year-old nuclear physicist is from the North West Province. He tells us he is one month away from finalising the prototype but will still need R900,000 in funding before we see this product on the shelves.
The article was published on News 24.
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(NY Daily News) CARIBBEAT: Longwood Arts Project celebrates Africa, puts culture on display in monthlong Bronx exhibition
Sunday, January 24, 2016, 4:00 AM
"Bronx: Africa," a multi-disciplinary art exhibition celebrating the expressions and impact of African cultures, is being presented next month in Bronx by the Longwood Arts Project.
The influences of the borough's sizable African population and Bronxites of African descent are also recognized in the show of in-gallery and online presentations starting with an opening reception on Feb. 3, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibition, curated by LeRonn Brooks, is on display through May 4.
The "BRONX: AFRICA," art exhibition will open on Feb. 3 and includes works such as "Ascension or Dude Ascending Staircase, 2011" (above) by Eto Otitigbe. The exhibition, curated by LeRonn Brooks, is on display through May 4 at the Longwood Arts Project Gallery at Hostos Community College.
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Artists on display the gallery include Seyi Adebanjo, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Howard Cash, Elvira Clayton, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Lisa DuBois, Nicky Enright, Janet Goldner, Ijeoma Iheanacho, Imo Imeh, Hakim Inniss, Natasha Johnson, Ahmed Tijay Mohammed, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Ibou Ndoye, Eric Orr, Eto Otitigbe, Thurston Randall, Ibrahima Thiam, Osaretin Ugiagbe, Misra Walker and Tammy Wofsey. Online artists in the exhibition are Olaniyi Akindiya, Kenneth Anderson and Ray Felix.
"BRONX: AFRICA celebrates the influence of contemporary African cultures that strengthens and connects us with the many peoples of African descent, the diaspora, mixed heritage and migration-dispersion that call the Bronx home," say organizers.
The gallery is on the campus of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th St.) For information, call (718) 518-6728 and send mail to longwood@bronxarts.org. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m.
The article was published in the New York Daily News.
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(Yahoo) Zuma's office admits Africa isn't biggest continent
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma speaks during his visit to the Lodewyk P. Spies Old Age Home in Eersterust, Pretoria, December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa's presidency issued an embarrassing correction on Monday to rectify an erroneous reference last month by President Jacob Zuma to Africa being the "largest continent".
Speaking at a business dinner on Dec. 9, Zuma, who has no formal education, also described Africa as so big that "all continents put together will fit into Africa".
The comments were seized upon by Zuma's opponents, who argue that his lack of schooling makes him unfit to lead a sophisticated emerging economy.
It was unclear why the presidency decided to issue the correction after a delay of nearly six weeks.
"Africa is in fact the second biggest continent in terms of population size, and the biggest continent in this regard is Asia. The President regrets the error," the statement said.
Zuma's comments about Africa's size came hours before he fired respected finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in favor a relative unknown, triggering financial turmoil that sent the rand, bonds and stocks plummeting.
(Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)


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Sir Roger Beauchamp of Bletsoe was the son and heir presumptive of his father Sir Roger, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe who was one of Edward III's leading courtiers and had been summoned to Parliament as Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe.

The younger Sir Roger died vita patris (c. 1373), perhaps while fighting in France as a retainer of John of Gaunt. His father took personal charge of his young son, also Roger (b. 1362), who later became de jure 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Bletso.

Through his descendant and great granddaughter, Margaret Beauchamp, he was an ancestor of Henry VII.

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As there is continued silence from guy, I feel I would be a fool to think he still likes me after almost a week of full silence but I can't help but want to give him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't lying when he said "[Rebekah M], when I'm busy and can't text, you have to believe me when I say I would tell you if I'm not interested in you anymore and just be okay with the silences." However, I feel more than ever God is just saying "take some time now to just grow in the things I have been revealing to you about your soul lately." I feel that he won't break the silence but that God has given me a way to do that which will give me dignity and grace in saying goodbye. I need to say I'm sorry for the times I tried to lead the relationship and to thank him for being the catalyst that brought to light the fact I hadn't forgiven myself for my past mistakes in relationships. That God used him to open my eyes to the flood of grace and mercy He has been trying to work in my life for almost two years now.
God is calling me to a future where I will be working side-by-side with a man of God who is also just so desperately seeking to further His kingdom and show everyone His love. I want a home that is open to the weary. I want a man who will not sigh in frustration when we share many of our hard earned meals with the hungry. I want a man who will gladly give away our extra coats to the cold. — all for His kingdom, knowing that we are the light of this world and may be the only time they will see Christ in their life (for we will be His mirror). One who will drop everything he's doing just to join with me in prayer over a lost soul or broken heart- not for the time spent with ME, but for Jesus. I have given my future children up to God already- I have prayed more than once that if He would grant me with children, may they love and serve God starting from an early age- and I need a man who desires that just as strongly.
So Lord, here I am, in the midst of the buffering and praise You. Earlier tonight as I was sobbing on my way home I did not ask You to stop this trial. I cried to You saying "This hurts Lord but I know it is for my own good." I saw the change that had happened in my heart through those words. I so often want to run or fight these times of "buffering" or just suffer through without trusting You. This time, however, I see it for what it is worth: a time to grow. I will NEVER be ready to handle the kind of relationship You want for my future if I hold on to these insecurities but if I just allow You to move in this time, I will SHINE.
Dear reader, if you are going through a time of being polished, just know He is doing a work in you to make your inherent beauty shine forth. You are BEAUTIFUL (or handsome 🙂 )! You are an amazing, beautiful gift that God has given this world! Let Him flood your life with the same grace and mercy that He has on me this past week! As He has been showing me, let your past be your PAST- walk in Him into your future! Let Him wipe away your tears as He wipes away your stains. Let Him hold you, lift you up, and show the world the prize that He has created you to be. May you show forth His love to all that you meet – especially those caught in sin, despair, and the chains of this world.
There is nothing more beautiful than a surrendered heart. He truly does beautify the meek with salvation…even the daily saving us from ourselves.
Things have changed since you emailed me last, but I know you are growing into exactly who you should be when "he" comes along. Proud of you sweetie!!


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Le Mans Special feature
Le Mans 2021: The team-by-team guide
Gary Watkins
After a two-month delay due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours is set to get underway with the start of the Hypercar era at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
The latest Le Mans 24 Hours format for the Test Day, practice and Hyperpole qualifying has all been condensed into the last week, providing little time for respite before the main event.
Here is our guide to the full 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours field and our predictions on how each entry will fare at the 89th edition of this iconic endurance race.
Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 32nd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 75 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Autoweek, Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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Team WRT has been at the forefront of GT racing for years and made a successful move to prototypes for 2021, capped by an LMP2 win on its Le Mans debut. It could've been even better had the race been one lap shorter, when its cars ran 1-2, but the stranger-than-fiction reality has spurred the team to reach greater heights.
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Lobera happy I'm playing for India in his chosen position: Mandar
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Mandar Rao Desai is one of many footballers who have earned maiden call-ups to the national squad since Croatian Igor Stimac took over as India's coach in May this year.
Mandar has played as a left full back — a position that he started playing in only in the preceding Indian Super League season and one which seems to have taken his professional career to the next level.
He had previously played in the more advanced position of left winger. It was FC Goa coach Sergio Lobera's idea to make him play in the left back position and Mandar took to it like duck to water.
He was an integral part of the squad as FC Goa dominated the league stage last season and had played a major role in keeping out the mighty Qatar as India held them to a draw in their own backyard in their 2020 FIFA World Cup qualifier match in September.
Mandar told IANS that Lobera was pretty happy with the way he had played in that match when he joined FC Goa for the pre-season camp earlier this month.
"When I joined the team, he was really happy. I played as a left back which is a position that he put me in first. When I came back for the camp, he was really happy that I was able to contribute to the national team from that position," he said.
He may have been playing as a left back only for the past year-and-a-half in a professional career that started in 2013, but Mandar is comfortable as both Stimac and Lobera seem to be happy with what he has been doing there. The 27-year-old said that both the coaches share a similar philosophy.
"The style of play that the national coach wants is the same as in Goa. He wants us to keep the ball and build up from the back… He wants us to wait for the right moment to attack, instead of trying to do that all the time. Obviously, if I get a chance to go ahead and cross the ball or dribble, I can do it, depending on the situation of the game," he said.
"Stimac wants me to do the same things that I do while playing for FC Goa. Basically, he wants me to help the team in the build up," he added.
Helping with the build-up is something he was tasked with even as a winger. Full backs may help a lot upfront, but they are considered part of the defensive line-up and that has been the main difference for Mandar.
"I have always played upfront as a winger, so my job was to help the team with the attack. But now I have to help with the defence first and then help with the attack," he said.
Mandar is expected to be a part of the India team which will take on Bangladesh in their next World Cup qualifier to be held at the colossal Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata on October 15. After the result against Qatar, India are in a good space and can expect considerable help from the crowd in Kolkata.
Mandar feels the two matches which India have played so far against superior opponents like Oman and Qatar are all part of the learning curve that the team has to inevitably go through if they are to start competing at a higher level.
"Playing against big teams like Qatar and Oman helps us improve. All the players should learn from these games," he said.
After the Bangladesh match, India's next World Cup qualifier will be against Afghanistan on November 14, by which time FC Goa would have played four matches in the 2019/20 season of the ISL.
Mandar feels the players will be in a better position to play those matches than against Oman and Qatar as they will have a few games under their belt by then.
Centre back Sandesh Jhingan had said before the match against Oman that lack of game time before big games reduced India's chances.
"All the players would have played some games in ISL and so they would be in a better shape in November. Back then (before the match aginst Oman), we did not have any games when we played in the national team but now we will be better prepared," he said.
2018/19 was a bittersweet season for FC Goa. They were dominant for much of the group stages but were beaten to the top spot by Bengaluru FC. They then reached the final and were beaten to the trophy by Bengaluru FC again.
It was a brilliant season for Mandar on a personal level though. Apart from playing in a position that finally got him a national call-up, he also captained the team last season.
"We reached the final and it involved a lot of hard work from everyone. Our main aim was to maintain our style of play and play good football throughout the season. So I will certainly say that last season was the best one for me," he said.
Mandar said that FC Goa will look to remain at the top of the table as long as possible throughout the group stages of the upcoming ISL, despite the fact that the real challenge comes only after that.
"Remaining at the top of the table is better because when you start winning games early on, it is always a good start and one can continue with that momentum," he said.
FC Goa's first match in ISL will be against two-time champions Chennaiyin FC on October 24 at home.
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Home » Sections » Environment & resources » Environment
Fighting climate change
The UN Climate Change conference in Poznán, Poland in December ended with a mixed scorecard. There was agreement to move to the next level of negotiations, and some clarification on outstanding issues, but little substantial forward movement.
Critics may wonder if all countries are serious about the urgency of tackling climate change. Still, a number of countries and regions laid on the table their own plans to reduce emissions, and despite the slow progress in international discussions, a consensus appears to be building towards at least a basic framework for a new global agreement at the next UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009.
No-one can predict how Copenhagen will go, but we do know that the tools to tackle climate change are available or within reach. It is a matter of finding the international commitment and leadership to put them in place. Some of these tools are outlined in a booklet which the OECD produced for Poznán and which is available online.
The context has become more complicated, with the current global economic turmoil. But while attention and resources are directed at the financial crisis and restoring growth, every day of inaction on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is steadily carrying the planet towards a catastrophe of an immeasurably greater scale.
The good news is, there is time to act. As Climate Change Mitigation–What Do We Do? argues, although some climate change is already locked-in, measures taken now would help mitigate the worst dangers, and avoid an irreversible build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Importantly, if measures identified by the OECD are introduced now as part of a policy mix, they can be cost-effective and relatively painless to the economy during the initial phase of application. What is needed initially is a clear and long-term policy signal, even if much of the initial action may be low-cost. As was repeated in Poznán and by experts and conferences over the past few years, to delay is to court disaster, and will certainly involve far greater expense.
Certainly waiting for a solution to emerge, such as a sustained rise in energy prices to trigger behavioural changes which curb emissions, would not work, as recent oil price declines have testified. Also, coal remains a very important energy source in countries like the US, Germany and China, and non-conventional oils, such as tar sands in Canada, are also being developed. As these are carbon-intensive fuels, any reduction in carbon emissions elsewhere, for example in motor transport, are likely to be simply cancelled out by expanding fossil fuel power generation.
The only hope of meeting the challenge is an ambitious, comprehensive and radical international approach to reducing emissions. A growing worldwide consensus on the need to cut GHG emissions provides hope that an international framework for action could be agreed at Copenhagen. But agreeing to radical measures will need political vision and courage: most long-term models for stabilising GHG concentrations to a level that threatens only a moderate, rather than severe, impact on climate require reaching, over time, worldwide GHG emissions of between one quarter and one third of those in 2005. That will demand a significant effort to transform how our economies produce and consume energy and emit gases.
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Such a transformation is economically rational, and the current economic downturn is no justification for delaying the process, the report says. On the contrary, significantly reducing emissions can help to put countries onto a more sustainable growth path over the long term, including by reducing the significant economic and social risks associated with climate change impacts.
An economically rational strategy begins by reducing emissions using the current abundance of cheap options, followed by the gradual introduction of more radical, costly changes. For example, underutilised technology is available to sharply reduce methane emissions from landfill. There are also many low or even no-cost options for increasing energy efficiency, but information or other market barriers are hampering their uptake. Importantly, this graduated approach would also offer an economic breathing space over the period of the next 10 to 15 years. But a long-term strategy that allows meeting initial targets through such "softer" means is achievable only if it is introduced now. By first implementing the readily-available, cheaper options, there would be no need to scrap, at significant expense, carbon-intensive facilities such as power generators, well before the end of their life-span. Their replacement later allows for planning investment, and the development of new climate-friendlier technologies.
An effective programme must be comprehensive, both in the number of GHG sources it targets and the geographical spread of countries that adhere to it. As the report states, the costs of incomplete country coverage would be very high, not least because two thirds of GHG emissions worldwide are produced by developing countries outside the OECD, and this output is rising. That is why it is essential that major emitting countries from the developing world also participate in post-2012 climate action if ambitious emissions reductions are to be achieved. Some of the cheaper options for reducing emissions also fall in developing countries, and to keep the overall costs of action low, these opportunities need to be realised. This does not necessarily mean that these countries should pay for the emissions reduction–in many cases, a "decoupling" may be needed between who takes action, and who pays for it.
At present, worldwide GHG emissions, after doubling since the early 1970s, are set to grow by more than 70% between 2008 and 2050. The OECD maps time paths of scenarios with and without GHG reduction strategies, with projections reaching to the end of the century.
The mid-range estimate of global warming by 2100, in the absence of a new reductions policy, is close to 4° Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels. This is likely to produce destructive climatic events and, even if GHG concentrations were subsequently stabilised, global warming would continue during the next century.
One of the emissions mitigation scenarios examined by the OECD sees GHG concentrations on a pathway to stabilise eventually, at a level of about 550 parts per million in the atmosphere. This represents a fairly ambitious reduction strategy, although it is not as ambitious as some of the targets currently being discussed or proposed. The economic model used calculates the likely cost in reducing these emissions.
The scenario shows that, because of the resources that would be transferred from goods and services to GHG mitigation efforts, annual growth of the world economy between 2008 and 2050 would slow by 0.13 percentage points on average. The impact on GDP growth would be small in the early years, increasing significantly as of 2025. So, while under a no-new-policy baseline world GDP would be expected to grow by 300% from 2005 to 2050, under this emission reduction scenario it would instead grow by about 295%. But, the OECD insists, while an ambitious GHG abatement strategy is not cheap, it is economically rational, and would lead to more secure longer term growth.
This abatement strategy is driven by an implicit price of GHG emissions that equalises costs across all emission sources at each point in time. The cost of each successive phase of abatement options would gradually rise. Setting a price on emissions is most obviously found by using either a GHG tax, or a system of cap-and-trade. There are pros and cons in both; taxes provide an immediately clear price for polluters, but governments would be unable to commit to future tax rates. Cap-and-trade provides greater certainty as to resulting emissions, but the permit price can fluctuate through variations in supply and demand.
A successful strategy requires that its cost be equitable, to accommodate the gulf between poor and rich countries, with separately inequitable potential consequences for both. The OECD report outlines options to bridge these problems, although the way ahead remains partially clouded by both the obstacles and the choices.
The report raises more food for thought too. Take carbon leakage, which many people say would happen as one country's efforts to reduce emissions are thwarted by a lack of action in another. However, Climate Change Mitigation – What Do We Do? argues that as more countries take action, leakage rates would rapidly fall to low levels. If just a very small coalition of countries took action, for instance the EU, the authors find that about 20% of the emission reductions in the EU would be offset by emission increases in other countries for a simulation of a 50% reduction in emissions by 2050. However, once the group of participating countries is expanded to include so-called Annex 1 countries to the UN climate change convention–essentially, other OECD countries, Russia and transition countries–this leakage rate falls to 9% of emissions.
The report also serves up a word of warning to those banking on R&D solutions through renewable energy and efficiency. The report agrees these must be part of the solution, but insists R&D alone would not be enough. R&D policies would not be able to stabilise long-run GHG concentrations in the absence of carbon pricing, the authors show, even with very large spending increases and optimistic assumptions about future technologies. This is because cheap abatement opportunities that already exist, such as energy efficiency improvements, would be missed out. Long- run emissions would still exceed the absorptive capacity of our planet. Also, it is unlikely that new technologies, such as carbon capture and storage, would be deployed aggressively enough without a carbon price.
So, can a global reductions strategy work? The OECD believes it can, but sees several conditions to be met. First, it must be credible enough to elicit the necessary behavioural responses for its application, and flexible enough to be able to meet mid-term corrections imposed by unexpected economic and/or environmental factors. The strategy must allow for a degree of decoupling between where abatement occurs and who pays for it, so as to ensure reductions are achieved where they are cheapest–the low-hanging fruit. But it must still target all GHGs across every sector and among most countries. Above all, it must be implemented now, or the opportunity to act at a price we can still afford will vanish into the haze. GT/RJC
Climate Change Mitigation: What do we do? is available at www.oecd.org/env/cc and at www.oecd.org/economics
OECD (2008), The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation, Paris
See also www.oecdobserver.org/climatechange
©OECD Observer No 270/271 December 2008-January 2009
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Working closely with key Community Living Australia staff, we developed a new logo and identity system for the brand, as well as a staged communication strategy for delivery of the new organisation to all stakeholders. Since this time, we have rolled out the brand across a range of communication touch points, both traditional and digital.


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