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Feud of the Day
Gabrielle Union and Jada Pinkett Smith Apparently Had a 17-Year Secret Feud, But It's Over Now
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Allow Jada Pinkett Smith to demonstrate the most dignified way to start, maintain, and end a long-term celebrity feud: This week, while promoting her upcoming Facebook Watch talk show, the actress disclosed for the first time that she and Gabrielle Union haven't been on speaking terms for nearly two decades. In the same breath, before fans could fully process this reveal, Pinkett Smith shared that this secret feud had recently been resolved—without it ever making headlines or damaging either actress's reputation in any way. According to the 46-year-old, the resolution came about when the producers of her new show, Red Table Talk, insisted that she bring Union on the program.
"I have a really touching episode with Gabrielle Union. We haven't really been on the best of terms for 17 years, and we have a reconciliation," Pinkett Smith told Extra on Thursday, adding that neither she nor Union could "even remember why" the feud started in the first place. "They were like, 'We wanna do a girlfriends show,' and I was like, 'Well… .' [But] her name just kept coming up. It just couldn't be anything else," Pinkett Smith said of how she somewhat reluctantly agreed to do an episode with Union. "So we brought [the feud] to the table."
Actresses Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Loretta Devine, Tika Sumpter, and Jada Pinkett Smith attend the 47th NAACP Image Awards presented by TV One at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 5, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for NAACP Image Awards)
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Union's episode of the show won't be the only one where Pinkett Smith and her cohosts—mom Adrienne Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith—hash out some drama. Pinkett Smith told Extra that the first episode of the show, airing next Monday (May 7) and honoring Mother's Day, will feature her husband Will Smith's first wife, Sheree Zampino, with whom he shares 25-year-old son Trey. "When we get to the red table, you hear about the stuff that didn't go so well!" Pinkett Smith said. "We talk about our 23 years together in this thing called family."
The Girls Trip star's Facebook Watch show will air on the social media site's video-sharing platform for 10 episodes and feature Pinkett Smith, Banfield-Norris, and 17-year-old Willow engaging in "a series of candid conversations with family and friends," according to the site. "Red Table Talk is about raw truth, love, and deep passion. My mother is old school, Willow is new school, and I find myself right in the middle," Pinkett Smith told People earlier this year. "I've done a lot of sharing and growing on Facebook. Being able to engage with the Facebook Watch community in such a deeply personal way is amazing, and I'm excited to be part of something new."
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Steph Curry, Warriors bothered by timing of Kevin Durant's announcement?
Stephen Curry went out of his way to meet with Kevin Durant after Durant announced on Sunday that he was signing with the Brooklyn Nets, and many were surprised that Curry flew such a long way just to say goodbye. It would make more sense, however, if Curry was flying around the world to convince Durant to re-sign with the Golden State Warriors and never got a chance to give his pitch.
Marcus Thompson of The Athletic reported that Curry flew from China to New York to meet with Durant, but the trip ended up being about "respect" and "thanks" rather than recruiting. Thompson added that Curry wanted to be there "to wish Durant happiness and peace (and) express his support for his decision," but it seems obvious his initial goal was to make one final pitch to KD. According to Bill Simmons, the fact that Durant did not even give Curry that opportunity irritated the Warriors.
Here's some of what Simmons said about the situation on the latest episode of his podcast.
"The Warriors still feel like they have a puncher's chance to get him — enough that Curry is going to fly back from Shanghai to New York and land on Sunday night, right after free agency starts, and he has this determined time with KD to just talk with him and put a bow on everything," Simmons said. "Either, 'Hey man, here's how we feel about you…' and convince him to stay, and if Durant's not gonna stay they'll talk about that."
For whatever reason, Durant didn't wait until Curry arrived to announce his decision. Simmons was told that that surprised the two-time NBA MVP and rubbed the Warriors the wrong way.
"About an hour before the plane lands, all of a sudden it's KD is gonna be announcing on his Instagram that night, all this stuff and Curry's like, 'What's going on?' And then it gets announced he's signing with Brooklyn," Simmons said. "Curry's plane hasn't landed yet. He lands and decides to do the dignified thing and he goes to meet KD anyway, basically to say goodbye to him. But, from what I've heard, the Warriors took that personally."
Curry is a classy guy, but flying 16 hours from China to New York just to hang out with Durant and support his decision seems like a grand gesture even for him. It's not hard to believe he still felt he had a chance to persuade Durant, and maybe Durant gave him the impression he'd hear him out.
The relationship between Curry and Durant sounds like it was a bit complicated, so perhaps Durant didn't want anyone else trying to change his mind. We'll probably never know.
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In December 2018, AUDA–NEPAD engaged the services of a consultant for Africa's Integrated High Speed Railway Network Project. The first experts' meeting to review the outputs of consultancy was held from the 10 -12 April 2019. The objective of the experts meeting was to review and agree to on the results and outcomes of the Project Preparation Framework analysis, to be piloted during the first 10-Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063.
Mr Adama Deen, AUDA-NEPAD Senior Advisor on Strategic Infrastructure stressed that the Africa Integrated High Speed Railway Network one of the flagship projects of Agenda 2063, the blue print for continental development.
Following the engagement of the consultant for the project, the inception report and the prioritisation framework have since been developed. Therefore, it is at this meeting that experts interrogated the prioritisation framework and the multi criteria analysis to be used.
"We must invest in infrastructure but do so diligently and ensure there is value for money in every infrastructure investment we undertake,'' Hon Raila Odinga, African Union's High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa informed the meeting participants.
Hon Odinga gave a presentation on what railways can do to the growth of countries and economies. He gave an example of the Kenya-Uganda railway, which cost £5m and was described as the Lunar Express. This railway was a major success to the economies of Kenya and Uganda, illustrating that in Africa, social and economic transformation cannot be attained without the development of railways.
Hon Odinga called on African leaders to make the hard decisions to develop and build its High Speed Rail for the benefit of the African people.
Mr Louis Napo Gnagbe, Project Advisor at AUDA-NEPAD welcomed all the initiatives related to promoting this major continental project.For intraregional trade to take place, Africa needs infrastructure such as railways to connect countries, projects such as the Trans-African beltway will open up the interior.
The meeting was attended by over 20 experts from around the continent. Its outcomes will be submitted to the forthcoming AU Specialised Technical Committee on Transcontinental Transport Infrastructure connectivity Experts Meeting and Ministerial Conference, slated between 14 and 18 April 2019 in Cairo, Egypt, for endorsement and adoption.
Both on and off the continent itself, Africa's infrastructure gaps are seen as a huge investment opportunity. The AUDA-NEPAD session on 'Scaling Risk Mitigation to enable Greater Pension Fund Investment in Africa's Infrastructure: The African Infrastructure Guarantee Mechanism' was organised as part of the 3rd African Pension Funds and Alternatives Investment Conference.
It was well attended by an audience mostly composed of industry players – private pension fund administrators, trustees, asset managers, government pension funds and development finance institutions. This grouping clearly demonstrates the interest to develop such initiatives to scale up greater investments in the African infrastructure space.
The session was moderated by Dr Morgan Pillay Senior Infrastructure Finance Expert from GIZ, who presented the objectives of the AUDA-NEPAD session. To objectives were; to gauge the appetite of institutional investors (pension funds) for the implementation of the African Infrastructure Guarantee Mechanism and discuss its financial potential; and to make use of the Pension Fund conference platform to consult on what can make the concept a reality. This includes possible implementation strategies and concrete action steps towards scaling risk mitigation and an African Guarantee Scheme to enable the mobilisation of African pension fund investment for African infrastructure.
The session panel, with representatives from the AUDA-NEPAD, the African Development Bank; the Development Bank of Southern Africa and the Trade and Development Bank gave its interpretation of the African Infrastructure Guarantee Mechanism as instrument of risk mitigation. Industry players were requested to give their thoughts on how the development of such initiative could bring value in facilitating alternative investments in the African Infrastructure space.
Deliberations included working with development partners in the development of similar initiatives such as the African Development Bank and its co-guarantee platform with an emphasis on the infrastructure window for which component the African Infrastructure Guarantee Mechanism strategy could be leading the mechanism. Maintaining dialogue with the pension funds on what type of transactions that can be structured using this mechanism was also highlighted as key.
A strong recommendation to have a comprehensive early stage guarantee that could cover development and construction risk was also made, as well as the need to understand what the challenges are, and strengthen existing mechanisms through African Union continental coverage. The need to work on building countries' own institutional investors that are best suited to take up currency risks as opposed to relying solely on foreign investors was also brought to the fore.
Participants were also informed of the AUDA-NEPAD Institutional Investors Forum that will be taking place in Dakar, Senegal, later this year, at which a roadmap on implementing the concept will be tabled.
"Africa: The continent of the digital future for rail" was the theme of the first African Digital Rail Summit, organised in Cape Town, South Africa, from 25 to 27 February, convened by AUDA-NEPAD and the International Union of Railways (IUC).
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This high-level meeting summit made it possible to develop the African vision of digital rail, as part of the vision of rail in Africa by 2040, defined in 2014 in Malabo.
The continent's 90,000 km of railway lines are mainly inherited from colonisation. This network, which is too fragmented and focused on transporting raw materials to ports, still needs to be extended and interconnected in order to accelerate Africa's economic integration. Its modernisation involves in particular the use of new digital technologies.
Transport ministers from South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Niger are present in Cape Town, as well as the Director of the National Railways Office of Morocco. Also present are industrialists, economists, representatives of African sub-regional organisations, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Africa, as well as experts in digital ecosystems.
A roadmap will be drawn up, major projects identified and a strategy developed for the revitalisation of the African Union of Railways.
Following the signing of the High Speed Rail Detailed Scoping Study contract in December 2018 and the submission of the final Inception Report to AUDA-NEPAD, CPCS Consultants held a meeting with the AUDA-NEPAD team, to discuss the status of the high speed railway network consultancy project. During the meeting, the key milestones and way forward were mapped out.
A key objective of the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network is the connectivity of Africa's capital cities and megacities, including but not limited to, commercial hubs/economic zones and tourist destinations, among others.
This initiative is aimed at interconnecting African capitals with one another across the continent, using appropriate high speed rail technology and other complementary power, transboundary water, and information and communications technology broadband infrastructure and services.
The African Integrated High Speed Railway Network will complement the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa and enable the realisation of the African-wide frameworks such as: Boosting of Intra-African Trade; the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Accelerated Industrial Development for Africa, among others.
An initiative of the continent's Agenda 2063, the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network will be developed with a phased approach, with the first phase (from 2013 to 2023) setting out an implementation plan got two regional high speed rail projects.


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Q: How to access all movieclips (and movieclips inside a movieclips,...) at a sametime with as3? I am using Adobe Animate (or Adobe Flash Professional) and I often navigate timeline with as3.
I want to reset all movieclips (and movieclips inside a moviclip) when the stage reach to an exact frame.
like:
 if (this.currentFrame == 120)
    {
        allMovieClips.gotoAndPlay(1);
    }

I am thinking about taking access to all movieclips in library but I don't know how.
Is there any way to do that?

A: You cannot access things in Library as the Library is a design-time concept. If you want to reset all the MovieClip instances presently attached to the Stage, you do the following:
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.MovieClip;

// Start resetting them from the topmost timeline.
reset(root as Sprite);

function reset(target:Sprite):void
{
    // First, browse all the children of the target.
    for (var i:int = 0; i < target.numChildren; i++)
    {
        var aChild:Sprite = target.getChildAt(i) as Sprite;

        // If a child is a container then go recursive on it.
        if (aChild) reset(aChild);
    }

    // Second, if the target is not only the container
    // of other things but a MovieClip itself then rewind it.
    if  (target is MovieClip)
        (target as MovieClip).gotoAndPlay(1);
}

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