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GDF will feature keynote addresses by The Honorable Ander Crenshaw, U.S. Representative, R-FL; and Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director of the World Bank Group. Breakout panel discussions will foster dialogue on topics including private sector partnerships, capacity building and workforce development, innovative finance, the post-2015 global development agenda, Ebola recovery in West Africa, and the strategic role of development in overall U.S. foreign policy. GDF will feature over 40 speakers, including key stakeholders from U.S. government agencies, leading multilateral and non-governmental organizations, foreign governments, and the private sector.
With a significant reduction in extreme poverty and an increase in private financial flows to the developing world over the past two decades, the face of development is rapidly changing. Meeting today’s challenges calls for innovation and effective partnerships across sectors, with an emphasis on improving governance and leveraging the role of the private sector.
The 2015 Global Development Forum will be held on Thursday, April 23, from 8:00AM – 3:45PM at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ headquarters.
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Birth name : William Christopher Handy
Also known as "The Father of Blues"
Born November 16, 1873, Florence, Alabama
Died March 28, 1958
New York City, New York
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician, often known as the "Father of the Blues". Wrote song St Louis Blues which was a giant hit and recorded my many famous singers and made into a movie about his life.
Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the style of music that is distinctively American, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form not only because he was able to notate his music for publication and hence, posterity, but because of syncopated rhythms, a style unique to his music.
While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a not very well-known regional music style from the Delta to one of the dominant forces in American music.
Handy was an educated musician who used folk material in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from several performers. He loved this folk musical form and brought his own transforming touch to it.
Handy was born in Florence, Alabama to Charles Bernard Handy and Elizabeth Brewer. His father was the pastor of a small church in Guntersville, another small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography Father of the Blues, that he was born in the log cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy, who became an African Methodist Episcopal minister after emancipation. The log cabin of Handy's birth has been saved and preserved in downtown Florence.
Handy was a deeply religious man, whose influences in his musical style were found in the church music he sang and played as a youth, and in the sounds of nature in Florence.
He cited the sounds of nature, such as "whippoorwills, bats and hoot owls and their no he did not he notcooolmhe did nh noises," the sounds of Cypress Creek washing on the fringes of the woodland, and "the music of every songbird and all the symphonies of their unpremeditated art" as inspiration.
Growing up he apprenticed in carpentry, shoemaking and plastering, and bought his first guitar that he had seen in a local shop window and had secretly saved for by picking berries, nuts and making lye soap, without his parents' permission. His father, dismayed at his actions, asked him, "What possessed you to bring a sinful thing like that into our Christian home?" He then ordered him to "Take it back where it came from," and enrolled him in organ lessons. His days as an organ student were short lived, and he moved on to learn the cornet.
Musical and social development
Handy joined a local blues band as a teenager, but he kept this fact a secret from his parents. He purchased a cornet from a fellow band member and spent every free minute practicing it. An exceptional student in school, he placed near the top of his class. In September of 1892, Handy traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to take a teaching exam, which he passed easily. He obtained a teaching job in Birmingham but soon learned that the teaching profession paid poorly. He quit the position and found work at a pipe works plant in nearby Bessemer.
During his off-time, he organized a small string orchestra and taught musicians how to read notes. He formed a quartet called the "Lauzetta Quartet." When the group read about the upcoming World's Fair in Chicago, they decided to attend. The trip to Chicago was long and arduous. To pay their way, group members performed at odd jobs along the way. They finally arrived in Chicago only to learn that the World's Fair had been postponed for a year. The group then headed to St. Louis but working conditions there proved to be very bad. The Lauzetta Quartet disbanded and Handy subsequently left St. Louis for Evansville, Indiana.
In Evansville, Handy's luck changed dramatically. He joined a successful band which performed throughout the neighboring cities and states. While performing at a barbecue in Henderson, Kentucky, he met Elizabeth Price, and they married shortly afterwards (on July 19, 1896).
His musical endeavors were varied, and he sang first tenor in a minstrel show, moved from Alabama and worked as a band director, choral director, cornetist and trumpeter. At age 23, he was band master of Mahara's Colored Minstrels.
As a young man, he played cornet in the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and in 1902 he travelled throughout Mississippi listening to various musical styles played by ordinary Negroes. The instruments most often used in many of those songs were the guitar, banjo and to a much lesser extent, the piano. His remarkable memory served him well, and he was able to recall and transcribe the music he heard in his travels. In particular, he noted in his autobiography a blues guitarist he heard in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
Shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Price in 1896, he was invited to join a minstrel group called "Mahara's Minstrels." In their three year tour, they travelled to Chicago, throughout Texas and Oklahoma, through Tennessee, Georgia and Florida on to Cuba, and Handy was paid a salary of $6 per week. Upon their return from their Cuban engagements, they travelled north through Alabama, and stopped to perform in Huntsville, Alabama. Growing weary from life on the road, it was there he and his wife decided to stay with relatives in his nearby hometown of Florence.
On June 29, 1900 in Florence, Elizabeth gave birth to the first (a daughter, Lucille) of their six children. Around that time, William Hooper Councill, President of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes in Normal, Alabama (a small community just outside Huntsville) approached Handy about teaching music. At the time, AAMC and Tuskegee Institute were the only colleges for Negroes in Alabama. Handy accepted Councill's offer and became a faculty member that September. He taught music there from 1900 to 1902 which is today named Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University.
An important factor in his musical development and in music history, was his enthusiasm for the distinctive style of uniquely American music which was often considered inferior to European classical music. He was soon disheartened to discover that American music was often cast aside by the college and instead emphasized foreign music considered to be "classical". Handy felt he was underpaid and felt he could make more money touring with a minstrel group and after a dispute with AAMC President Councill, he resigned his teaching position to rejoin the Mahara Minstrels to tour the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. In 1903 he was offered the opportunity to direct a black band named the Knights of Pythias, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Handy accepted and remained there six years.
Transition: popularity, fame and business
In 1909 he and his band moved to Memphis, Tennessee and established their presence on Beale Street. At that time, American society and culture were distinctly segregated, and Handy's observations of whites' responses to native black music in conjunction with his own observations of the habits, attitudes and music of his ethnicity served as the foundation for what was later to become the style of music popularized as "the Blues."
The genesis of his "Memphis Blues" was as a campaign tune originally entitled as "Mr. Crump" which he had written for Edward Crump, a successful Memphis, Tennessee mayoral candidate in 1909 (and future "boss"). He later rewrote the tune and changed the name to "Memphis Blues."
The 1912 publication of his "Memphis Blues" sheet music introduced his style of 12-bar blues to many households and was credited as the inspiration for the invention of the foxtrot dance step by Vernon and Irene Castle, a New York–based dance team. Some consider it to be the first blues song. He sold the rights to the song for US$100, and by 1914, when Handy was aged 40, his musical style was asserted, his popularity increased significantly, and he composed prolificly.
Because of the difficulty of getting his works published, he published many of his own works, and in 1917, he and his business moved to New York City. By the end of that year, his most successful songs, "Memphis Blues", "Beale Street Blues", and "St. Louis Blues," had been published. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, a white New Orleans jazz ensemble, had recorded the very first jazz record that year, introducing jazz music to a wide segment of the American public. Handy initially had little fondness for this new "jazz" music, but jazz bands dove into the repertoire of W. C. Handy compositions with enthusiasm, making many of them jazz standards.
Handy's foray into publishing was noteworthy for several reasons. Not only were his works groundbreaking because of his ethnicity, but he was among the first blacks who were successful because of it. The rejection of his manuscripts for publication led him to self-publish his works. In 1912, Handy met Harry H. Pace at the Solvent Savings Bank in Memphis. Pace was valedictorian of his graduating class at Atlanta University and student of W. E. B. DuBois. By the time of their meeting, Pace had already demonstrated a strong understanding of business and earned his business reputation by rebuilding failing businesses. Handy liked him, and he later became manager of Pace and Handy Sheet Music.
In 1920, frustrated at white publishing companies that would buy their music and lyrics and record them using white artists, Pace amicably dissolved his long-standing partnership with Handy, with whom he also collaborated as lyricist, and resolved to start his own record firm, which he later named Black Swan Records. For years, scholars thought Handy was a founder of Black Swan Records. However, Handy wrote: "To add to my woes, my partner withdrew from the business. He disagreed with some of my business methods, but no harsh words were involved. He simply chose this time to sever connection with our firm in order that he might organize Pace Phonograph Company, issuing Black Swan Records and making a serious bid for the Negro market. . . . With Pace went a large number of our employees. . . . Still more confusion and anguish grew out of the fact that people did not generally know that I had no stake in the Black Swan Record Company."
Although Handy's partnership with Pace was dissolved, he continued to operate the publishing company as a family-owned business, and published works of other black composers as well as his own, which included more than 150 sacred compositions and folk song arrangements and about sixty blues compositions.
In the 1920s, he founded the Handy Record Company in New York City.
Bessie Smith's January 14, 1925, Columbia Records recording of "St. Louis Blues" with Louis Armstrong is considered by many to be one of the finest recordings of the 1920s.
In 1926 he authored and edited a work entitled Blues: An Anthology—Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs, which is probably the first work of its type which attempted to record, analyze and describe the blues as an integral part of the U.S. South and the history of the United States.
So successful was Handy's "St. Louis Blues" that in 1929, he and director Kenneth W. Adams collaborated on a RCA motion picture project of the same name, which was to be shown before the main attraction. Handy suggested blues singer Bessie Smith be placed in the starring role, since she had gained widespread popularity with that tune. The picture was shot in June and was shown in movie houses throughout the United States from 1929 to 1932.
The genre of the blues was a hallmark of American society and culture in the 1920s and 1930s. So great was its influence, and so much was it recognized as Handy's hallmark, that author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his novel The Great Gatsby that "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor."
Later life
Following publication of his autobiography, Handy published a subsequent book on African American musicians entitled Unsung Americans Sung, which was published in 1944. He wrote a total of five books:
1. Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs
2. Book of Negro Spirituals
3. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
4. Unsung Americans Sing
5. Negro Authors and Composers of the United States
In this time period, he lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem. An accidental fall from a subway platform in 1943 resulted in his blindness. Following the death of his first wife, he remarried in 1954 at age 80 to his secretary Irma Louise Logan, who he frequently said had become his eyes.
In 1955 he suffered a stroke and became confined to a wheelchair. Over 800 people attended his 84th birthday party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
On March 28, 1958, W. C. Handy succumbed to acute bronchial pneumonia and died. Over 25,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Over 150,000 people gathered in the streets near the church to pay their respects.
He is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.
Development Impact and the PhD scholarship - Road Map training, December 2013
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
History Reduta Theatre
Reduta Theatre - the oldest theater building in Central Europe
The Reduta building today is the result of a complex construction development, which, with numerous alterations and extension was carried out continuously for several centuries. Its foundation was the corner house of Liechtenstein, which in 1600 was bought out the town and set up in it the new tavern, later called the Great, representation object specified rare visits to the city. In 1634 the house was bought side, the reconstruction and integration with the existing facility was a closed storey Reduta complex that today has an adequate range. Occasional theatrical production took place in the town tavern, probably since the 60th of the 17th century until 1733, it was in the east wing of the complex where was built their own theater-type bottom with deep perspective stage. During 1785 and 1786, succumbed object devastating fires and during the Napoleonic wars and the fourth Franco-Austrian war was devastated when it served as a military hospital and improvised dormitory. On the reconstruction that followed participated a number of important contemporary architects and artists, among them members of the famous family of Italian painters, decorators and set designers Lorenzo, Vincenzo and Antonio Sacchettiové.
With the era of theater in the east wing of the Reduta is associated and included the name of Emanuel Schikaneder, librettist of Mozart's Magic Flute and theater director from 1807 to 1809, or the events of 176, when the Reduta played the first show in Brno, Czech Love Watchman, and rehearsed in English by Baden theater company, and here is where with his sister Nanerl performed eleven year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In commemoration of this important event was in 2008 before Reduta Mozart monument unveiled by Kurt Gebauer. After a fire in 1870, the theater has been restored in the 20th century took over the theater hall ballroom in the western part of the building. Contemporary architectural design is the work of Brno Reduta studio DRNH, vos - The authors of Antonín Novák, Petr Valenta , Radovan Smejkal and Edward Endive, co-authors of the proposal were Klára Michálková and Karel Spáčil a collaborator in the implementation stage of Miroslav Melena. Reconstruction, which was implemented in 2002-05, gently combine the modern with the original elements preserved architecture, theater again placed in the east wing and the whole building back its social and representative function. The culmination of reconstruction was an art wall decoration Mozart hall vaults cafes and artistic treatise terrazzo in the atrium, which made Escaping .
In 1919 benefited Brno Reduta German theater, from that year on the playing regularly alternated with the Czech National Theatre. The Czech audience that Reduta before had was too accustomed to attend, it has become popular until after the Second World War, when it (until its closure in disrepair in 1993) then set anchor operas . In the modern history Reduta first began performance after the first reconstruction in October 2005 a joint project of drama, opera and ballet NDB: Night and Day Vitus Zouhar The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky. Currently, the building appears with his productions all NDB files and with the overall concept of its own production Reduta is creating and implementing its own artistic section .
Jitka Novakova
The book describing the software development life cycle and models. Also discusses the requirement analysis and outlines different analysis approaches, structures analysis and the object oriented approach, entity relationship modeling, data flow modeling and state transition modeling, including emphasis on Unified Modeling Language notations and Diagrams.
This book designed for an undergraduate software engineering curriculum, this book shows a pragmatic picture of software engineering research and practices examples speak a student’s limited experience but illustrate clearly how large software development project progresses from need to idea to reality.
Authors: Girdhari Singh, Shallni Puri.
Symbolic run organized during the International Day on Sport for Development and Peace, Arena Park. Friday 4 April 2014. Photo by Violaine Martin
For decades, developing and emerging economies have relied on traditional financing solutions intermediated by commercial banks with limited capital market activity. A vital challenge for these countries is how to mobilise more finance to help accelerate their development and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This event comes at a critical juncture as developed economies begin to tighten their monetary policies and geopolitical tensions increase dramatically, raising new questions on how sustainable capital market ambitions could be achieved going forward.
The current turbulent environment in Europe has also highlighted the importance of energy security and the pressing need to fast-track decarbonisation efforts. This panel explored how emerging economies can achieve significant breakthroughs by mobilising cross-border finance focused on sustainable and inclusive solutions. In particular discussing the growth of blended finance and impact investment flows and their role in building up the stock of assets in emerging market economies with the aim of achieving sustainable development impact.
At the heart of the EBRD’s mandate lies a focus on environmentally sound investment and sustainable development, and the Bank is determined to promote Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) through a unique combination of policy dialogue, investments, and private sector focus. The panel also explored how various parties -- the emerging countries’ authorities, advanced economies’ governments interested in supporting sustainable development, impact investors and IFIs - could work together to support the much-needed quantum leap in finance.
Featuring:
Andre Kuusvek
President & CEO
Nordic Investment Bank
Alex Pivovarsky - Speaker
Director, Capital Markets Development
EBRD
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, delivers his remarks at the Leadership Development Programme (LDP), Pillar 2: People and Organization Management - Opening Event held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 27 June 2023
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Mr Maikel Wilms, Partner and Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Netherlands (Kingdom of the) at the Partner2Connect Digital Development Roundtable, 7 - 9 June 2022 Kigali, Rwanda
©ITU/ Y. Simbi
at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Abuja, Nigeria 2014. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
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On December 4 2010, in connection to the COP 16 in Cancùn, Mexico, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners organised a one-day event with the objective to identify policies and practical solutions to reduce agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen global food security and rural development. The event featured keynote speeches, roundtable discussions, a marketplace of ideas and exhibits. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Please credit appropriately
In the picture: Tim Groser, Minister for International Climate Change Negotiations, Government of New Zealand.
Find out more about this event by reading our related blog story A small step for agriculture in the climate change negotiations... and now the real work begins
This painting is a mix media on a Taktee (a wooden panel) depicting the hypocrisy of divide of human civilization in the name of politics of nihilism, sadly it is in the possession of Mr.Saleem Asmi (Ex. Editor DAWN) who allegedly bought it, with the connivance of the main organizers of the convention of PIPFPD, held here in Karachi in December 2003 at a local hotel, with out my consent as the work was on display only and not for sale.
THIS PAINTING WAS RETURNED BY MR.SALEEM ASMI TO DR.HAROON TO BE DELIVERED TO ME ( THE RIGHTFUL OWNER OF THE PAINTING THE ARTIST ) on 25th FEB. 2012.....Thank you Asmi Sb .
For Core Studio project. We were assigned a mythical character from which we had to distill an inherent dichotomy and create a visual profile around it.
My character was Budai and the dichotomy was Excess and Contentment.
The logo is for a voting-system that would be implemented into ATMs.
Working out the kinks and order of things, you can project images behind you and a few other effects, adding rain, lighting, and sunshine beams today.
Great for running into that perfect image spot in a new sim. No need to rez tools. This light & effects system is all wear on the avatar.
Two types of projection lighting
ability to move lighting and effect prims. This HUD is a 2 part wear system, a body prim that ejects lighting and effect tools. When off, they retract to a core root ball, so there are no invisible prims around you when not in use. I'm not too fond of invisible prim builds that cover me, limiting my ability to mod other objects I have on my avatar.
Tarmac (this road over the hill used to be a dust track in 2014), electricity (green building in background providing town centre - just not today though) and water (pipes are being digged into ground as I'm watching). All on one corner in Kigoma. People want development, maendeleo, a word commonly used when I ask - broadly - what people want politics to lead to.
I'm also reminded though that development takes time. Like today where I consulted the personal assistant to the MP of Kigoma Urban in his office. I need his help to identify municipality members (councillors) for me to interview. (This part is in fact lovely easy and non-bureaucratic. The research permit I was nervous of not getting, the one I paid 350$ for out of my own pocket, no one cares to see it.)
As we go through the list, mentioning the councillors elected via elections, reaching to special seats, it's all men. I haven't spoken to one woman yet (in terms of my field study), and I just felt a dash of panic. I'm exhausted listening to (men's) explanations of why there's so few women in the political public sphere. I have to pull myself together, try not to get irritated.
Till someone (a man) reminds me that there actually was a female presidential candidate (Anna Mghwira) running during 2015 elections. 'Have i considered the potential impact of that?!'
I am now.
LINK:
Anna Mghwira:
'"It's like people don't believe that a woman can take politics seriously despite the fact that in Tanzania we have had a lot of women who have held high positions such as ministers, RCs and other areas of leadership including the private sector and women in business. That is leadership where you deal with people and commodities at the same time.
With all these female leaders we still ask why a woman? '
Medium Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MAUAS) Division, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/WII)
Leadership Development Programme (LDP), Pillar 2: People and Organization Management - Opening Event held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 27 June 2023
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Generously hosted by Greenwich Co-operative Development Agency, Paul Rhodes of the eponymous artisan bakery and his head baker Yann Legallais kindly gave up their day to pass bread making skills on to thirteen would-be bakers from public sector kitchens. Tracey Simmons from Pabulum Catering then spoke about the practicalities of Real Bread in a public sector catering situation.
Padang Earthquake Relief: 6th of October 2009:
Aid relief organistaion Caritas Internationalis, begins an immediate disaster response in small outlying villages including Palak Juha which has been completley devostated by last weeks' earthquake. A local womanuses a tapaulin donated by Caritas on her damaged home as partof the relief plan. Photograph by James Alcock/Caritas Internationalis (c) 2009.
GOAL 10: REDUCED INEQUALITIES
Reducing inequalities involves improving the regulation and monitoring of financial markets and institutions, and encouraging development assistance and foreign direct investment for regions where the need is greatest. Facilitating the safe migration and mobility of people is also key to bridging the widening divide.
The ‘De-Risking and Scaling-Up Investment in Energy Efficient Building Retrofits – Armenia’ project will build the market for energy-efficient building retrofits in Armenia, leading to sizeable energy savings and Green House Gas emission reductions (up to 5.8 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide in direct and indirect emission savings over the 20-year equipment lifetimes). It will also lead to green job creation and reductions in energy poverty.
Photo: UNDP Armenia
The Royal Ontario Museum opened in 1914, in close association with the neighbouring University of Toronto (who managed it until 1968). That first phase accommodated five distinct museums of geology, mineralogy, palaeontology, archaeology and zoology, but subsequent developments have made the ROM into the largest and most-visited museum in Canada, also covering art, world culture and natural history. As Canada's largest field-research institution, it has global impact.
In 1933 the eastern wing was added and this figure sits above the Museum's then-new main entrance, from Queen's Park to the Rotunda.
Designed by Alfred H. Chapman and James Oxley, this wing adopted a neo-Byzantine style as a conscious evolution from the Roman-inspired Italianate original wing. However, the exterior evidently has considerable Neo-Gothic detailing, apparently a common characteristic of North American neo-Byzantine architecture.
From 2002, a massive renovation and expansion project added an ultramodern entrance and new galleries on the Bloor Street side of the building, with Canada's largest ever heritage project restoring the 1914 and 1933 wings, reopening blocked windows and re-emphasising the original architecture, though this is no longer a main entrance.