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The Grammy Award for Best Children's Album (from 2020: Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album) is an honor presented since 2012 at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in various categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."

History
The Best Children's Album award is given to recording artists for works containing quality performances aimed at children. The award has had several minor name changes:

From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Recording for Children
In 1961 it was awarded as Best Album Created for Children
From 1962 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Recording for Children
In 1969 no award was given in the Children's Field
From 1970 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Recording for Children
From 1992 to 1993 it was awarded as Best Album for Children
From 1994 to 2011 the award category was split into Best Musical Album for Children and Best Spoken Word Album for Children
From 2012 to 2019 it was known as Best Children's Album, after the Best Musical Album for Children and Best Spoken Word Album for Children categories were merged (basically returning to the situation as it was prior to 1994, although with a small name change).
In 2020, spoken-word children's albums were moved to the Best Spoken Word Album category. The category was renamed Best Children's Music Album.

The 2012 restructuring of these and other categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards. According to the Academy, "[it] passed the proposal that a return to one category for all types of recordings for children, as it was from 1958-1993, would be most appropriate in this new context.".

Recipients

Multiple wins

References

External links
Official site of the Grammy Awards
Neela Vaswani's biography on her own site

Children's Album
Children's albums
Album awards

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July Revolution,
revolt in France in July, 1830, against the government of King Charles XCharles X,
1757–1836, king of France (1824–30); brother of King Louis XVI and of King Louis XVIII, whom he succeeded. As comte d'Artois he headed the reactionary faction at the court of Louis XVI.
..... Click the link for more information. . The attempt of the ultraroyalists under Charles to return to the ancien régime provoked the opposition of the middle classes, who wanted more voice in the government. The banker Jacques LaffitteLaffitte, Jacques
, 1767–1844, French banker and politician. He rose from poverty to become one of the wealthiest and most influential men in France. He was director (1809) and later governor (1814–19) of the Bank of France.
..... Click the link for more information. was typical of the bourgeois who supported liberal journalists, such as Adolphe ThiersThiers, Adolphe
, 1797–1877, French statesman, journalist, and historian.
After studying law at Aix-en-Provence, Thiers went (1821) to Paris and joined the group of writers that attacked the reactionary government of King Charles X.
..... Click the link for more information. , in opposing the government. Liberal opposition reached its peak when Charles called on the reactionary and unpopular Jules Armand de PolignacPolignac, Jules Armand, prince de
, 1780–1847, French statesman. Belonging to one of the oldest families of France, he emigrated with them during the French Revolution. Under Napoleon I he was imprisoned (1804–14) for his part in the conspiracy of Georges Cadoudal.
..... Click the link for more information. to form a new ministry (Aug., 1829). When the chamber of deputies registered its disapproval, Charles dissolved the chamber. New elections (July, 1830) returned an even stronger opposition majority. Charles and Polignac responded with the July Ordinances, which established rigid press control, dissolved the new chamber, and reduced the electorate. Insurrection developed, and street barricades and fighting cleared Paris of royal troops. Charles X was forced to flee and abdicated in favor of his grandson, Henri, conte de ChambordChambord, Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné, comte de
, 1820–83, Bourbon claimant to the French throne, posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry. His original title was duke of Bordeaux.
..... Click the link for more information. . Henri was set aside, and, although there was a movement for a republic, the duc d'Orléans was proclaimed (July 31) king of the French as Louis PhilippeLouis Philippe
, 1773–1850, king of the French (1830–48), known before his accession as Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans. The son of Philippe Égalité (see Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'), he joined the army of the French Revolution,
..... Click the link for more information. . His reign was known as the July Monarchy.
See study by D. H. Pinkney (1972).
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The PS122m glass and polished aluminium building sits on a disused mine, housing hundreds of exhibits from the Louvre, including Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" a painting commemorating the 1830 revolution.
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Feminist admirers subsequently depicted her as a free woman escaping an unhappy marriage, but Rogers pleads for a political reading of Luce's motivations, speculating about exposure to utopian socialist ideas in the wake of the July 1830 Revolution.
A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
The book's basic thesis is that the French invented European socialism in the 1830 revolution, and that it was not the product of 19th century unionism--working people fighting for specific decent labor conditions--but of the 19th century equivalent of hippies, who did not like the idea of having to work at all.
Proletarian nights; the workers' dream in nineteenth-century France, rev ed
The Requiem was composed in 1837 after Adrien de Gasparin, France's Minister of the Interior, asked Berlioz to write a Requiem Mass to remember the soldiers who died in the July 1830 Revolution.
National philharmonic to perform Berlioz's requiem
Daumier's personal role during the 1830 Revolution itself is unclear.
Pages of history: Daumier's political eye: Peter J. Beck describes the work of Honore Daumier, born 200 years ago this month, which provided an early visual documentary newsreel and commentary on the key political and social movements in mid-nineteenth century France
23) At the moment he wrote this letter, Monfalcon was also having to digest another major disappointment: he had been thwarted in his hope to be named editor of the Precurseur, the liberal newspaper whose heroic defiance of Charles X's attempted constitutional coup had made it the symbol of the 1830 Revolution in Lyon.
Worlds turned upside down: bourgeois experience in the 19th-century revolutions
The 1830 Revolution and the rise of republicanism marked the midpoint in the city's universalizing power.
Paris: Capital of the World
Lyons was one of the first Continental European cities to undergo the upheavals associated with urbanization and industrialization, and its cultural field was large enough to support a small community of journalists and a significant number of newspapers between the 1830 revolution and the crackdown on the press of September 1835.
Press, Revolution and Social Identities in France: 1830-1835
Her performance of this role in an effort to reclaim the throne for her son after the July 1830 revolution seems anticlimactic in the author's narrative, but Margadant does provide good evidence that, for legitimists, the duchess embodied a notion of royal motherhood more consonant with the bourgeois ideals of her time.
Burr Margadant, Jo, ed. The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France
In this focus, her work is complementary to Patricia Pilbream's work on the 1830 Revolution (New York, 1991), which studies anticlerical popular protest after 1830, yet differs in that Kroen argues that the struggles between Church and State are to be sought much earlier than hitherto claimed.
Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830
He persuaded the leaders of the 1830 revolution to accept Louis Philippe as their monarch, saying the famous words: " Take him, he will make the best of republics.
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He left Paris during the turmoils of the 1830 revolution and at twenty headed for London.
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They took a census of the floating unemployed on the East Side, which covered the homeless men. In the Municipal Lodging House, in the missions and shelters, in flop-houses and speakeasies where a man can stay all night, sleeping on sawdust, if he buys a drink, they took a census.
The regular salaried census takers had a force of between two and three hundred volunteers, divided up into teams. Each captain had working under him a team of six or more people, flung across the Bowery, down Doyers Street, through Christie Street, on to the waterfront.
They are rounding up the misery of the East Side. Doing it "intensively" as one census taker puts it. This is a queer census. It is a census of misery. It is the count of despair. In New York City for future reference they will tabulate the hopeless and put between covers of books how many men are wandering around shelterless, no prospect of jobs, no place to stay in the daytime, no place to sleep at night. How many are there—the wanderers from Municipal Lodging House to Salvation Army shelter, to flop-house, to speakeasy? How many are there sleeping in the subway or under the bridge at One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Street?
Well, at this writing the figures are being compiled. They are not yet accurate, but it looks as if there are about fifteen thousand homeless men in New York—which would include a couple of hundred homeless women.
The unemployed homeless do not take so kindly to the count. Social workers reported that in the flop-houses and twenty-five-cent-a-bed hotels they were hard to talk to—different from what they had been two years before when a similar count had been taken. Some men did not answer at all. Nor did the social workers wonder at this.
Everyone said the missions were the easiest places in which to take the unemployed census. Take the mission in Doyers Street. It is where the Chinese Theatre used to be. You come into a large irregular room. They hold the mission service where the Chinese actors used to play their interminable plays. Go down a flight of stairs. Here is an underground place. Toward one end, a counter, men in aprons behind it. This is where the men get their food. After that, after they have praised God with hymns, after the prayers, the beds stacked up high against bricked-in arches will be spread down in his space, which holds perhaps three hundred.
The line, before the men are fed, shuffles patiently in front of the census takers. One is a young girl in a raccoon coat, with a clear-cut profile. Her eyes are open with surprise. She has never seen anything like this before. She is embarrassed asking questions—name, age, where born, what trade? They file along, the men in the mission, a long shuffling line. A patient line. Weary feet, broken shoes, worn clothes, unshaven faces.
Very few young men in the missions now. The young men don't go in so much for religion. Many of them over forty, comparatively few under thirty. They crawl along, glad enough to answer the questions and get on. They shuffle along like men already accustomed to waiting, easing themselves on one foot, then on the other. After a couple of hours they get their handout.
A queer census. What happened to John Bentley, 29, house painter, born in Kansas of American parents, union member? Well, there was this depression in the building trades, and he heard of a job farther east. He had a job for a short time. Now here he is in the line. His face is clear-cut, English, with a long upper lip. The type of man who should be upstanding and brisk. His shoulders sag, his shoes are broken. Defeat and bitterness are in his expression. The slight defiance in his answers is of the man who dares you to ask him how he happened to come on a breadline. There are hundreds more with his story.
The beds are being spread out. The girl in the raccoon coat cries out, "My God, they're lying on the floor!" There are not beds enough for everyone. Enough handouts, enough free food of a kind "that don't stand by you," all the drifters will tell you. But not enough flops.
The people from the sightseeing bus peer at the men rolling themselves in blankets. They peer at the bricked-in archways behind which in the old days "plutocrats and society women" supposedly came for an opium debauch. Then they go on.
The census is over. No one else will be allowed in tonight. They are taking care of all they can.
The groups of census takers go on from the mission to the speakeasies. In some of these there is a free lunch. Here, if you buy a drink, they let you stay and sleep on the sawdust or on a chair. In some of them there is a drink of free whiskey all around at midnight.
It is not hard to understand why a man would rather sleep in the filthy sawdust than at a mission or in that place of massed misery, the Municipal Lodging House—where there is a somewhat ghastly moment after a man has given up his clothes to be sterilized. After his shower, he stands naked, with all his other naked and miserable comrades, waiting for a nightshirt: The speakeasy, after all, has a touch of home about it, a place where a man can keep his personality, what there is of it.
It is a school for bums—crawling breadlines—81,000 free meals daily. No certain place to sleep, no organized shelter.
young fellows on the breadline who have been in town long enough to have become experienced in misery. Say a man in this town goes to the Municipal Lodging House for his first night. Until lately, he would have been routed out at five in the morning. Now he can stay until six. He is given breakfast, then he must leave, blizzard or rain. He can go next to a Salvation Army shelter for a handout, and get down to the City Free Employment Bureau before it opens. Or he can find shelter in subways and mark the Want Ads in a morning paper.
If he decides on the Employment Bureau, he is wise to arrive there before the doors open. He will find himself in the midst of a huge company which augments all the time until the opening of the doors. He may have spent two hours there—from nine to eleven. After that, he will not have eaten since his handout at seven at the Salvation Army, and he will have walked quite a lot. The next thing to do will be to put himself on some other breadline. It will take him one and a half or two hours to get his noonday meal.
In the afternoon there isn't very much use hunting jobs; yet there may be a chance at something; at some of the agencies, or perhaps by looking through the scanty Want Ads in the afternoon papers. There is a question then as to how and where to spend the rest of the time. If he has good enough clothes he can kill some time in the library. With discretion, hours can be spent in the terminals of stations. He can go to a museum. If he has a nickel, he can "ride the subways." But if he can panhandle some money, he can at least stay indoors in a speakeasy or Bowery hotel.
It will take him an hour and a half or two hours for his evening meal, and if he is going to the Municipal Lodging House again, he had best be early on the line.
Until recently the Municipal Lodging House was open only one night a month to non-residents and five nights to residents of New York. This restriction has now been removed. There are 3,300 people sleeping at the Municipal Lodging House, of which one hundred are women. The beds are full, and they are sleeping on benches, on the floor.
In the life of this drifting worker there is never any security. He is never sure where he is going to sleep. It is easy to learn to panhandle twenty-five or fifty cents for a night's flop. Between the agencies who help homeless men—the Salvation Army, Municipal lodging houses, the Y. M. C. A. and missions—there are not enough beds. Make a count of all the agencies, even including the new pier, which furnishes shelter for seven hundred more, and the Salvation Army boat that gives lodging to six hundred seamen, besides its other shelters. There is still a slack of thousands for whom there is no free accommodation at present in the city.
The present situation is indeed a school for bums. A thing to sap moral and physical strength. A situation which in a few weeks would make most employable men unemployable, and which puts a premium upon panhandling. It is the deadly frustration of each unsuccessful day of job hunting when, tired and footsore, a man again stands in the long gray queue of the breadline only to seek an uncertain shelter. It is astonishing how soon a newcomer learns the ropes, how quickly it spreads from mouth to mouth where food is better, where flops are to be had.
Usually when times are hard and people are out of work, Fifth Avenue and Broadway know nothing about it. This is the first time these streets have lost their glittering shine. The shabby, shifting, ebbing men out of work have taken it from them.
On a street corner near Fiftieth Street was a store which had been turned into a free restaurant for the unemployed. Well dressed young ladies were cutting sandwiches for all who wanted to come in and get one. In the middle of each table stood a pot of mustard. There were men with well brushed clothes, men who looked like old bums, young white-collar men, all engulfing enormous sandwiches, cheese spread with mustard—three sandwiches to a person and coffee.
There were men whose faces made a spot of yellow, famine color. They had been starving. The men eating behind the plate-glass windows of the corner store were being gaped at by a crowd. Outside two men discussed them.
"That's to keep 'em from riotin'; it's to keep 'em quiet that they're feedin' 'em," said a man who talked like a play by Upton Sinclair.
What if they should march, one wonders—all of them. What if having had their census taken and their misery compiled, they should give an exhibition of their numbers? What then? Tear gas and clubs and arrests, no doubt.
There are other sides to the avalanche of despair. As a part of the widespread slump, the people who thought themselves secure have been thrown into it. The people who have been able to have a college education suddenly find themselves out of a job. No one can take the census of this misery. It doesn't walk the street. It sits and shivers in cold houses. It hides itself.
They hunt in vain for jobs. Or, if they have homes to go to, they return, defeated, to be dependent. Or perhaps, having no home to go to, these people, too, may slip gradually downhill where they must apply for charity.
And what about such people as a friend of mine told me of recently? She was working in one of the emergency employment bureaus on the East Side where daily men came to get the Prosser jobs which are now nonexistent. Daily the little crowd of people gathers outside and waits in vain.
I watched this flood of people who had been once well-to-do, judging by their clothing. People used to steady work, coming in vain with their stories of five children, no work, savings gone.
"It's not nearly as hard as the employment agency I used to work with in Queens," my friend told me. The first day she worked there, she went to nine houses, which had in each case been lost by the young people who were in the process of buying them. Here was a little suburban community where young people, many of them with college educations, had come to found homes, to live where their children could be brought up healthfully.
Of the number of people losing their all, because they cannot raise a few dollars, there is no record as yet. Maybe there will never be. One can only generalize and say that the white-collar class is suffering today with the mechanic. The man who has spent thousands upon his education is no more secure than a laborer. The misery, doubt and defeat piles up, an incalculable mountain. There is no census yet of these.
Source: Vorse, Mary Heaton, "School for Bums," The New Republic (April 29, 1931), http://newdeal.feri.org/voices/voce02.htm. New Deal Network, http://newdeal.feri.org (April 14, 2014).


Wild Blue Yonder Band will return to Union County with two dates to perform their Appalachian traditional music. The public is invited to hear their free performance at Lil' Jo's in Maynardville on this Friday night, January 12, from 7:00 to 9:00. Members and guests of the Union County Historical society will benefit from Wild Blue Yonder's entertainment on Sunday, January 21, at 2:30 at the Union County Museum.
After headlining the Union County Heritage Festival last October, the Wild Blue Yonder scaled down for the winter to the main three members. Melissa Wade, lead vocalist, plays the guitar and writes much of the original material. Phil Coward, a multi talented musician who plays banjo, mandolin, and backs up Melissa on guitar, adds his voice and original note to several arrangements. Cindy Wallace contributes her talents on the fiddle to complete the trio.
So grab a BBQ sandwich or sip a coke and enjoy some ole time mountain music this Friday at Lil' Jo's.
Author's note: Maybe I will start calling the articles concerning these about town gatherings "Toppins's Tidbits" or "Around Town". Hmmmm?


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Oloyede replies ASUU with rebuttal, threatens legal action over character assassination
Posted on January 1, 2017 by Editor in Education, General News, News
JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Professor Is-haq Oloyede: Hits back at ASUU over petition.
*Describes petitioners against him as "49 Liars"
*Former VC defends self, clears successor of misdoing over pension deductions
*Wants EFCC to take appropriate actions after thorough investigations
*I have never taken bribe in my life – Oloyede boldly declares
*Challenges his accusers among ASUU officials, their sponsors to integrity test
By Kemi Kasumu
Registrar and Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, has rebutted the claims of over N2 billion fraud against his tenure as Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin in a petition to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Backing up his reply with quotation from the Holy Qur'an, the Professor said authors of such petition had nothing in their mouths but falsehood.
Oloyede served as vice chancellor of the University of Ilorin between 2008 and 2012 before he was appointed JAMB Registrar in August 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari alongside 16 other heads of parastatals and agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education.
The union in the petition jointly signed by the Ibadan Zonal Chairmen Ade Adejumo and Deji Omole of the University of Ibadan last Thursday to the EFCC accused Oloyede of what it called fraud during his tenure as vice chancellor. Other signatories to the petition include Biodun Olaniran of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Dauda Adeshina of Kwara State University and Kayode Afolayan of the University of Ilorin.
The petitioners alleged that Oloyede and his successor, the incumbent Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, were involved in fraud totaling more than N2 billion among other illegalities.
But in a statement personally signed by him, titled, "The 49 Liars: A Rebuttal", the JAMB boss quoting from the Qur'an said, "They have no knowledge of such a thing, nor their fathers. Grievous is the word that comes forth from their mouth. What they say is nothing but falsehood." (Q.18:5)
"The subsequent introduction of IPSS made deductions by the university unnecessary. Government was making the deductions from the source and crediting the PFAs and these ignorant characters believe that my successor should also be nailed on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Finance. If what was being deducted at the University of Ilorin had been abnormal, IPSS would have corrected the abnormality, common sense dictates. When grey areas arose, clarifications were made with the PFAs. For my own pension deductions, I also had to approach my PFA to be on the same page with them regarding my contributory pension…As Vice-Chancellor, I started the practice of publishing the financial transactions of the University every Monday in a publication circulated far and wide by hand and online. This has happily been sustained by my successor to-date. Those who have skeletons in their cupboards don't choose to publish their financial details. I am aware many universities don't do so till today and the charlatans who make frivolous allegations against me should mention their mentors who do so."
Refusing to be provoked into repudiating the petitioners of what he called verbiage circulated against him using the traditional and new media for two consecutive days as "deranged, reckless, mischievous and psychopathic nincompoops," Oloyede went religious by choosing to be guided by recorded approach of Prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) to the wicked people of Taif of old, who persecuted him unjustly and yet the Prophet refused to allow destruction come upon them but mercy of Allah, saying, "God forgive them perhaps something good will come from their future generations."
Oloyede gave three reasons for his response to the media reports of the petition, "In spite of the allusion to Prophet Muhammad's approach, I would not have condescended to dignifying the defamatory statements issued against my person with a response on three counts. The first count is that one would not bite a dog simply because a dog has bitten one. The second is that the issue was claimed to have been reported to the EFCC, which has the means to take the right course of action after establishing the prima facie of the case brought before it. The third is the need to thwart the Satanic objective of distracting me from the national assignment which they protested against but failed.
"Nevertheless, given the avalanche of text messages, mail and phone calls I have received from all over the world, I realise that if I do not set the records straight, at least for those who believe in me and what I represent, like Dr. Mahfouz Adedimeji of the University of Ilorin, whose appreciated intervention was on point, I might not be fair to them. Secondly, the assassins did widely circulate and celebrate the "destruction" of the "victims" beyond the EFCC and across nations. I therefore deserve to be heard through the same routes.
"In a period when common sense is no longer common, it would not be surprising that some people would not take effusions that are bereft of an iota of sense with a pinch of salt. So, the vituperations that "the 49 liars" and their mentors directed at me, more than four years after I left office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin are explained thus:
"The Pension Act of 2004 provided that 7.5 per cent of emoluments should be deducted from staff salaries and remitted into their pension accounts with Pension Funds Administrators (PFAs). Most universities, including the University of Ilorin, based the calculation of 7.5 per cent on basic salary and transport allowance. This was the case between July 2004 and December 2006 before I became Vice-Chancellor. I know no PFA and if salaries were deducted and saved in employees' accounts, I would not be the beneficiary.
"Then, from January 2007, the Government that is matching the employees' contribution with another 7.5 per cent directed that the deduction should be based on Consolidated Pay. Some universities were compelled by the fake and fraudulent campus hyenas not to comply with the directive of 2007. About two years into my tenure, my attention was drawn to the new decision which was of course advantageous to workers whose higher sum was being equally matched by the Government. I convened a meeting of stakeholders including the Unions on the Government directive and all parties agreed not only to commence the higher savings (which Government doubles rather than double lower contributions) but also to double the difference for a certain number of months to ensure full compliance with effect from the stipulated January 2007.
"I summoned the Ilorin representatives of all the PFAs to reiterate the date of compliance from when higher matching additions from Government should also be credited to each contributor's account. Any averagely educated person would understand who the beneficiaries of the compliance are, who for their tomorrow sacrifice a part of today's comfort rather than the unreasonable agitators who insist on consuming tomorrow. Some universities under the spell of some club crawlers do not comply to the eventual disadvantage of their unfortunate retirees and perhaps to the advantage of clever PFAs.
"Information Technology is good to determine the quality of the hirelings assembled to assassinate my character. The only one I faintly know among them led his pastor and his father-in-law, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, to me in order to mount pressure on me to offer his wife, the Vice-Chancellor's daughter, a temporary appointment as an Assistant Lecturer. I bulged to pressure out of deference to the father-in-law (because the Department could do without an additional lecturer) and the man of God. But soon thereafter, this character became a strong advocate of withdrawal of the power of temporary appointment of the Vice-Chancellor! I do not claim perfection as it is the exclusive preserve of the Almighty Allah but I dare say I stand on a higher moral pedestal than "the 49 liars" and their masters. God will continue to keep them busy and they shall continue to lament their failure at the University of Ilorin and in life precipitated by their own inner insolvency. The barking of dogs does not affect the flight of a plane."
Ph.D holders and simple logic
"If those who parade doctoral degrees cannot understand this simple logic, may God save Nigeria from the anarchists. I, as Vice-Chancellor, complied and I believe few other universities did. How that would benefit me personally baffles me."
Oloyede explained further that, "The subsequent introduction of IPSS made deductions by the university unnecessary. Government was making the deductions from the source and crediting the PFAs and these ignorant characters believe that my successor should also be nailed on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Finance. If what was being deducted at the University of Ilorin had been abnormal, IPSS would have corrected the abnormality, common sense dictates. When grey areas arose, clarifications were made with the PFAs. For my own pension deductions, I also had to approach my PFA to be on the same page with them regarding my contributory pension."
He said those who compared the contributions of two Professors based on different interpretations of deduction suffer from selective amnesia more so, according to him, when Professors are of different levels, adding that it even did occur that some senior lecturers earned higher basic pay than some Professors based on the number of years they had spent on their ranks.
He therefore wondered why authors of the petition circulated in the traditional land new media chose to hide the fact that was obvious as a possible factor for disparity in intra-university or inter-university disparity.
The Professor, in the statement, was apparently worried that teachers of research methods drawn from some Nigerian universities would fail to know how to go about making their findings about issues unclear to them but would rather choose to jump at conclusion thus wittingly or unwittingly embarrassing innocent persons.
"Why would supposed academics who teach research methods not start from PENCOM for authentic information before unilaterally declaring UNILORIN guilty and celebrating insubordination?
Away from bribery
"I am extremely selective in accepting gifts from even personal friends. My needs are limited and my legitimate income is sufficient to spend on my volunteer work. I have never in my life collected bribe, inflated contracts, extorted anyone nor accepted gifts beyond "Thank You greeting cards" from any contractor, dead or alive.
"As Vice-Chancellor, I started the practice of publishing the financial transactions of the University every Monday in a publication circulated far and wide by hand and online. This has happily been sustained by my successor to-date. Those who have skeletons in their cupboards don't choose to publish their financial details. I am aware many universities don't do so till today and the charlatans who make frivolous allegations against me should mention their mentors who do so.
"Information Technology is good to determine the quality of the hirelings assembled to assassinate my character. The only one I faintly know among them led his pastor and his father-in-law, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, to me in order to mount pressure on me to offer his wife, the Vice-Chancellor's daughter, a temporary appointment as an Assistant Lecturer. I bulged to pressure out of deference to the father-in-law (because the Department could do without an additional lecturer) and the man of God. But soon thereafter, this character became a strong advocate of withdrawal of the power of temporary appointment of the Vice-Chancellor!
"I do not claim perfection as it is the exclusive preserve of the Almighty Allah but I dare say I stand on a higher moral pedestal than "the 49 liars" and their masters. God will continue to keep them busy and they shall continue to lament their failure at the University of Ilorin and in life precipitated by their own inner insolvency. The barking of dogs does not affect the flight of a plane.
"This statement is just to re-assure my admirers that the allegations against me are like pure wind with no solidity. I remain who I have ever been by the special grace of Allah, the Almighty. Lastly, my explanation does not foreclose the possibility of legal action against the authors of the campaign of calumny against me and their willing collaborators. For the latter, I hope they will have the shame of publishing my rebuttal and if they don't, I still believe it will reach all the right audience, anyway. I rest my case for now and season's greetings to you all," Professor Is-haq Oloyede gave account of his tenure and defended his successor.
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Lessons from the Mama: Watch The Register!
One thing I have learned to do over the years is to always watch when the cashier is ringing up my items – as much as possible. This is especially important when the item is on sale.
A while back, I was in a store…..we shall call it "Bulls eye." I purchased some Pepperidge Farms crackers that had a sign in front of them that said Special Promotion – $2.50. Plus, I had a coupon for $0.75/1, so I thought that was a great deal, since my children consume mounds of these as if they are going out of style.
I was in a hurry, didn't feel well and just wanted to get home. Well, I should have paid more attention! They ended up ringing up at the standard price of $3.68. So, I had to go back to the store and show them my receipt and that I was overcharged. They of course took care of me without any problems, but the point was that I had to go back to get it taken care of.
While there is not any way you can remember the sale price of everything you toss into your shopping cart, you will want to pay careful attention so that you are not overcharged. Had I been "on my game" that day, I would have noticed it right away and it would have been taken care of immediately.
What is great is that some stores now even offer a scanned price guarantee. This means that if the item does not scan at the correct price, you will get it for free! A couple of stores that I know do this are Hy-Vee and Dillons. Do you know of others that do this too?
So, try to watch those prices when they are scanned so you don't get overcharged. The difference could of course be only pennies – but they are YOUR pennies and you deserve to keep them!


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Eric Whitacre has made a fortune and become a classical music brand by peering at life's ethereal side. Choral pieces such as Her Sacred Spirit Soars, Lux Aurumque and Sleep My Child are must-have tracks on every choral singer's personal playlist, and ensembles around the globe strive to master the floating, mystical harmonies that make up his signature sound.
A longtime Californian now based in London, Whitacre is nearly synonymous with American choral music, his work sung by choirs from Indonesia to Eastern Europe, Minnesota to Japan. His series of online "Virtual Choirs" have been a runaway smash on YouTube and are considered seminal within the short history of crowdsourcing. An extremely relaxed communicator, at any time he may expertly churn out Facebook updates, give a TED Talk on open-source media, or speak to business leaders in Davos, Switzerland (all of which he's done this year).
And he may be the only classical composer with a "merch" section on his website, selling T-shirts, mugs and hats.
Whitacre has taken some inevitable knocks for his success, especially when it comes to his rock-starish appearance (complete with mane of blond hair). A modeling deal has brought him little street cred in diehard contemporary-music circles. But while his extreme business savvy can seem at odds with the beatific quietude of much of his music, numerous choral directors speak with a kind of awed reverence when asked about Whitacre and his impact on choral singing.
The ecstatic aura heard by many in Whitacre's music seems to owe as much to Barber'sAdagio for Strings or Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis as it does to any choral tradition. Its wide appeal rests at least partly on its incorporation of sound and spirituality but not overt religiosity. In that sense, Whitacrebears some similarity to mystically inclined composers such as John Tavener and Arvo Pärt. The American has composed instrumental pieces — mainly for concert bands, a small number for orchestra — but a cappella work feels closest to his heart.
That fan contact takes many forms. In March, Whitacre travels to the U.S. for the first time with the Eric Whitacre Singers, a vocal ensemble he assembled in 2010 specifically to perform his music. Following in the path of the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Dale Warland Singers — both named after high-profile conductors — Whitacre built the choir with a particular sound in mind.
Whitacre constantly recalibrates the group's lineup, which ranges from sixteen to forty members, but he insists that its real specialness is its communal character. "Getting people to form a community is something I truly love doing," he says.
The social nature of choral singing is not to be underestimated when understanding Whitacre's appeal. Many choral singers have come to embrace their underdog status, having long been dismissed by conductors in rehearsals as mere "singers," unlike the orchestra players, who are the "musicians." Choral workshops and online networks double as support systems.
In 2010 Whitacre unveiled the very first Virtual Choir performance, of his piece Lux Aurumque, assembled from YouTube clips of singers around the world. The idea, he says, started with a teenager from Long Island who sent him a video clip of her singing one of his pieces. "I thought, 'Boy, it would be amazing if we could get a hundred people to do this and cut it all together and make a virtual choir,' " he explains. Whitacre went into a studio and filmed himself conducting Lux Arumque in silence. The video and parts were uploaded to his website, and a call went out to singers. For the first edition, one hundred eighty-five vocalists from twelve countries participated.
Two more iterations followed, in 2011 and 2012, with membership roughly doubling each time. In 2012 an online performance of Water Night contained nearly four thousand videos from seventy-three countries. "With the last one, Virtual Choir Three, we actually tried to slow the growth, because it's hugely expensive, and each time it gets bigger it gets more expensive," says Whitacre. For the planned Virtual Choir Four this year, the composer turned to the fundraising site Kickstarter. After a measured launch in January, the campaign surpassed its ambitious goal of a hundred thousand dollars, with over one thousand nine hundred donors covering the production costs.
In an early-January Facebook post, Whitacre wrote, "Behind the scenes we are doing all we can to find 'big donors': corporations, wealthy individuals, etc. What we need from you, dear reader, is a small contribution. $5, $10, $25 doesn't seem like much until 10,000 people do it, and then it becomes a very powerful force." Indeed, more than half of the Kickstarter campaign's donors gave less than fifty dollars.
Whitacre has more than one hundred ten thousand Facebook followers — a figure growing by roughly five percent a month — with the largest subset consisting of fans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. All one hundred ten thousand (as well as Whitacre's thirty-five thousand Twitter followers) receive almost-daily updates from the composer on his various projects (in December alone, twenty-four Facebook posts touted the Kickstarter campaign). While Whitacre says he enjoys the fan interaction ("Composing can be a solitary profession"), a dedicated social-media strategist helps him manage his many online properties, including his Pinterest, Tumblr and Google+accounts.
Decca, with which Whitacre signed in 2010, adds reinforcement. The unveiling of Virtual Choir Three, featuring Water Night, coincided with the release of the album Water Night. There is no word yet on whether Virtual Choir Four, featuring Whitacre'sBliss, will be tied to an album release, although the video is to be featured in July at Buckingham Palace as part of a festival celebrating British culture and the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
Whitacre speaks about the phenomenon as if it's a big, benevolent monster he's created, observing that his fan base is evolving offline. "If I post things on Facebook and Twitter, that's a way to engage with some of them," he says. "But oddly, they're starting to meet in public. And more and more [the group's] getting bigger and bigger, and forty or fifty of these singers will come and meet and sing together, and I can imagine that growing bigger and bigger." HD movie-theater screenings of his performances, which would give fans an opportunity to gather and sing along, are a future goal.
Marian Dolan is a choral director in Naples, Florida, who for many years organized international choral conferences around the world. She believes that because Whitacre was the first to seriously use social media in choral music, he has caught on in many far-flung places. "Whenever I asked colleagues from Bulgaria, Estonia, or Argentina, 'What American music do you know?,' the response was always the same: 'Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen and Moses Hogan' — not Aaron Copland or Virgil Thomson. I was always quite drop-jawed.
Whitacre began his advanced music studies with noted Ukrainian composer Virko Baley at the University of Nevada, in his home state. He went on to study at Juilliard with composers John Corigliano and David Diamond. By the 1990s his choral works were drawing attention: His 1992 Cloudburst and 1995 Water Night were rapidly gaining currency; the latter is, to date, his most popular composition.
Though recordings of his work began to appear in the late 1990s, 2006 saw Whitacre's breakthrough: a collection of choral music on Hyperion performed by the choir Polyphony and directed by Stephen Layton, which featured the hit Cloudburst and elicited glowing reviews.
But it was one of a handful of band works that had a pivotal role in determining Whitacre's future business dealings. As the composer tells the story, a major publishing house offered to publish his orchestra work Equus, but told him first that his fee structure, at a hundred fifty dollars for score and parts, was three times the going industry rate. The publisher also told him that a composer only receives ten percent of net royalties. "I remember sitting in a Jack in the Box [restaurant] with a paper and pen and doing the math and saying, 'This can't be right,' " says Whitacre, in what appears to be a vague blend of naïveté and instinctive savvy.
Whitacre determined that by self-publishing, he could continue to charge three times the going rate and retain his copyright, which also allows him to keep seventy-five percent of the proceeds. In recent times, he has struck self-publishing deals with Hal Leonard, Chester Music and G. Schirmer, who handle matters like printing and distribution but allow him to control his copyright. As he sees it, he gets greater creative and financial control, and he doesn't need to pay a publisher to manage the promotion of his work.
Still, collaborations with pop and rock musicians could play a larger part in Whitacre's future. He cites a number of artists with whom he'd like to work on choral versions of their music, including Peter Gabriel, Sting, Björk and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. The hope would be to write covers "with real depth or actually write something with them" for a Decca release. And while he has collaborated with film composer Hans Zimmer on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, he'd like to work more in Hollywood.


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Commitment to implement all recommendations
The University of Sydney today received a report from Elizabeth Broderick on cultural renewal at its residential colleges and announced it will be accepting all of the report's recommendations.
The report was commissioned by the University and five of its residential colleges – Sancta Sophia College, St Andrew's College, St John's College, Wesley College and Women's College. It follows extensive consultation with students, staff and alumni in all colleges over the past 18 months. Today Ms Broderick formally handed over an overarching report to the University and five individual reports, one to each participating college.
Ms Broderick's project team conducted discussion groups and interviews with 632 students and alumni during late 2016 and 2017, and a total of 1001 students completed an online survey administered to all students over the age of 18 years across the five colleges between 18 May and 9 June 2017. The project team also met regularly with senior staff across each of the colleges and the University of Sydney.
All participating colleges have agreed to make their own individual reports public (on their websites today) and also to work towards implementing all of the recommendations in their own reports.
University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor and Principal Dr Michael Spence welcomed the Broderick Cultural Renewal report and said the process represented meaningful and substantial leadership on the part of the colleges and their communities.
"We share a commitment to ensuring all of our students are safe and look forward to working with the colleges to make sure all students feel comfortable on campus and college grounds at all times," said Dr Spence.
The report found that the overwhelming majority of students feel supported by the college community and believe deeply in college culture and its contribution to their studies. However it also found that for some students there were challenges. Therefore, we must do more.
Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor and Principal
"In addition, the report has highlighted a number of areas the University can improve on and it is determined to make practical reforms as recommended in the report."
Dr Spence said the University recognises that previous systems for reporting sexual misconduct on campus needed improvement and confirmed that work had begun.
Actions taken so far by the University include:
establishing a single point of contact helpline to support survivors and bystanders when an incident occurs. 1800 SYD HLP makes it easier for students to access various levels of assistance in the event of an incident; including campus security, support services, reporting channels and external 24-hour help and an anonymous call back service
comprehensive first responder and bystander training for students and staff including student Resident Advisors in University-owned accommodation, counsellors, helpline staff and a wide range of student-facing professional staff and academic leaders
close collaboration with the NSW Rape Crisis Centre to assist with training staff, including formal training for the Student Affairs Unit and Campus Security, and to establish the Centre as a key contact point for assistance with out-of-hours access
an online module, successfully used by other Australian universities, to help students and staff learn or refresh their knowledge about consent, respect, good communication and positive intervention. The module will be compulsory for all commencing students from first semester of 2018
made refinements to reporting and escalation protocols at all University-owned accommodation
creating a publication, Specialist advice and support for students, to increase awareness of, and referral to, resources. It accompanies improved training for staff to increase awareness of mandatory reporting obligations and how to balance student confidentiality with these obligations
establishing a new complaints handling and investigation systems to be more prompt and far more transparent with those making complaints about the process, how long it might take, key milestones, and what to expect. We have also completely revised related web content and record-keeping to reflect those changes.
The University of Sydney is committed to eliminating intimidating, abusive, disrespectful or threatening behaviour from our campuses and the communities we serve. The safety and wellbeing of our students is at the forefront of our concerns.
"While sexual misconduct is covered by existing policies, the University has, in line with the recommendations of the Broderick report, already begun developing a standalone sexual misconduct policy in order to provide better access and support to students when they require it. This is an area the report identified we needed to improve. Sexual misconduct, harassment and assault is not, and will not, be tolerated on campus," Dr Spence said.
Dr Spence thanked Ms Broderick and her team for the significant effort they had made in engaging with the college communities and preparing the reports. He also thanked the many students, staff and alumni who contributed to the cultural renewal project.
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2009 was a wretched year. On a personal level, it was full of injury, emotional rollercoasters of human interaction, far too much time spent on academics, and the deaths of some very special people to me.
It was the year of the inevitable collapse of credit-capitalism and the gutting of working Americans' pockets and wages to rebuild the tottering slum known as the US economy. Obama, far from re-working the bailouts to the benefit of average Americans, continued to hand over billions of dollars from US citizens to the wealthiest and most powerful segments of American industry in what has been called the single largest act of class warfare in contemporary American history.
Here at home, 2009 saw Canadian policy take a radical swing to the racist right, beyond what any "Tory/Liberal-All-The-Same" naysayers like myself could ever have imagined. Our government declared all-out war not only on public services and government social programs, but also on Canada's nebulously "neutral" position in the Huntingtonian self-fulfilling prophecy of civilizational clash. Oh yes, and there were the two complete seizures of government power by the executive wing of our government against the one elected portion of our government, the legislature.
Here in Montreal, we saw the re-election of our profoundly corrupt municipal regime whose win makes Ahmadinejad's election look clean and straightforward – though of course we polite North Americans won't be pouring into the streets to protest. We also lost one of the greatest defenders of the poor, lawyer Natacha Binsse-Masse, to lung cancer at far too young an age. Binsse-Masse spent most of her career fighting police and state abuse of the marginalized and we citizens of Montreal are far worse off without her.
And finally, here at McGill, we saw the administration's attack on student life and the campus community reach new heights. At the same time, our administration declared its commitment to sustainability while our principal was one of a handful of delegates advising the prime minister during his shameful and tragic performance at the Copenhagen conference, where Canada outperformed even the United States in the West's race to the bottom rung of action on climate change.
But there is small sliver of hope for humanity that emerged in 2009. While not immediately impressive, I'll take whatever I can get at this point.
That sliver was the release of a brilliant year of television shows the likes of which we haven't experienced since the heyday of Seinfeld and the Simpsons. Of course, the world of pop culture was brought down by the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson, Brittany Murphy, Patrick Swayze, and Farah Fawcett. And the world is far worse off without the class and elegance of the one and only Bea Arthur.
But my internet TV watching – for better or for worse – hit an all-time high in 2009 with the release of groundbreaking shows like The United States of Tara and Modern Family. Beyond the new series, on-the-rise shows like True Blood and the Canadian-produced Flashpoint hit new levels of genius in 2009. Hell, there was even a new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that reversed the downward trend of the past few years.
Now, the release of some great new shows does not make up for the tragic state of the world. It arguably compounds the brutal inequality that underlines global military and economic relations. But, in the spirit of the New Year and to avoid the calls of "cynic!" that follow me in life, I'll take what I can get. So bring it on, 2010. With my arsenal of sitcoms, I'll take what you can throw at me.


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The extensive number of the ´real´ chord samples makes your guitar tracks very convincing.
Guitar chord sound which is emulated using single note samples does not sound real. SC Electric Guitar includes the huge number of ´real´ recorded (in other words, ´pre-recorded´ or ´pre-played´) chord samples. Each chord instrument can be used as a SPM instrument and you can instantly access the various types of guitar chords.
Prominy´s guitar libraries are the only ones which inlude such a huge number of the ´real´ chord samples.
This is a technique which is frequently used in recording guitar tracks. It gives the guitar track a nice, wide-spread stereo images and thickness. With SC Electric Guitar, you can reproduce it very easily just by loading ´SPM double-tracking instruments´. No identical samples are played simultaneously in both channels. You don´t need a stereo delay or tweaking your midi data to emulate the double-tracking.
Realtime Legato Slide feature using ´real´ legato samples is available in single note, 5th-dayd chord, 4th-dyad-chord, and octave-dyad, and power chord instruments. With SC´s Realtime Legato Slide feature, you are able to get perfectly real expressions of the human finger´s legato slide which can not be reproduced with slide emulation by changing pitch.
Use V-Metal and SC Electric for composition and production testing. Both excellent products that provide just the kind of sound I like, along with my amps/effect packages - works very well with Overloud and Scuffham among others.
I just bought SC guitar from Prominy, it is wonderful, takes me to Fripp land with it's awesome range of playing styles and Sound Quality, only drawback is that whilst it is a NI Kontakt instrument it is not friendly with my NI Kontrol Keyboard, come on Prominy, the price is quite high so one would expect a fully featured vsti.
Ich verwende SC Electric Guitar für diverse Produktionen. Die Vielzahl an Spielmöglichkeiten ist gigangtisch und optimal für alle Nicht-Gitarristen. Beim Sampling wurde sehr viel auf Details geachtet. Als bisheriger Nutzer anderer Anbieter in diesem Bereich, bin ich von SC Electric Guitar einfach nur begeistert.


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Q: PlantUML Usecase for Actor as member Type I have a use case where a member would have different roles. How could this be expressed in a PlantUml UseCase. I have the following syntax:
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  actor Member

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  memberTypeB --|> Member
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Is this correct? IF not how can I define a role?

A: It seems good but the only reason for modellin several user is to have each of them associated to a different UseCase as depicted below.

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Cheryl provides family law advice to married and de facto couples in relation to financial and parenting disputes and assists them to achieve settlement through negotiations.
Cheryl also advises clients on using alternative dispute resolutions to resolve their differences and attends conciliation conferences and mediations with clients.
Where parties are unable to reach an agreement through negotiation, Cheryl is also experienced in litigation in the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia. She is involved in the pre-trial preparation, court attendance at procedural hearings and instructing counsel at final hearing.


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Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Email: ablaypalmer@wlu.ca
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Assistant Professor, Communication, Carleton University
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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Food Studies, Environmental Center on Hillcrest
Middlebury College, Vermont
Jill Clark
Assistant Professor, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, Ohio, United States
Damien Conaré
Secretaire général Chaire UNESCO "alimentations du monde" Institut des régions chaudes, Montpellier Sup Agro, France
Jonathan Crush
Balsillie School of International Affairs, CIGI Chair in Global Migration and Development; Director, African Food Security Network
Undine Giseke
Professor, Technical University, Berlin, Germany; Principal Investigator, Urban Agriculture as an Integrative Factor for Climate-Optimised Urban Development, Casablanca, Morocco (UAC 2005-2013)
Laura Gómez Tovar
Professor-Researcher in the Department of Agroecology at Mexico's University of Chapingo; member of Chapingo's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research for Integrated Rural Development (CIIDRI)
Terry Marsden
Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute (SPRI), Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Cardiff University, Wales
Rich Pirog
Director, Michigan State University Centre for Rgional Food Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Samina Raja
Principal Investigator of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Henk Renting
Programme Officer RUAF-Foundation (International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security), the Netherlands
Food policy analyst and writer, Toronto Food Policy Council Manager, Ontario, Canada (2000-2010)
Makiko Taguchi
Co-Secretary, For for Cities, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Director, Social Protection, WIEGO; Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
Jane Battersby-Lennard
African Centre for Cities and African Food Security Urban Network, Cape Town, South Africa
Cornelia Flora
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, USA
Co-Founder of Stroudco Food Hub & Stroud Community Agriculture UK; Open Food Network UK
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Researcher in Geography, Institute National pour la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Département Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement (SAD), France


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Sri Lanka Cricket to dedicate the first Test against Australia to the memory of Shane Warne
The Australian legend played in Galle Stadium, where he has become the first bowler in test cricket history to achieve 500 wickets.
By Tharun Thomas George On June 27, 2022 23:48 IST
As Srilanka get ready to take on Australia, the host nation are gearing up to give a fitting tribute to the late legend Shane Warne. Both the Test matches between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played in Galle, the ground where Warne had accomplished the milestone of 500 Test wickets at the same location in 2004, which also happened to be his final visit of the island nation in whites.
Warne passed away unexpectedly at the age of 53 following a heart attack on March 4 this year while on vacation in Thailand. Sri Lanka Cricket's effort to devote the first test to his memory will undoubtedly be a very melancholy event.
"The Sri Lankan cricket establishment's gesture is one of recognising Warne as a true friend of Sri Lanka who came to the country's aid during the 2004 Tsunami devastation by personally flying over and visiting affected areas and making generous donations, especially to homeless cricketer families. This writer had the privilege of having a word with the legend on that occasion when he visited the Moratuwa Cricket Stadium where several teenage cricketers were lined up in a guard of honour. He did voice that he was concerned about the welfare of Sri Lankans affected and as much saddened by the devastation of the Galle Stadium," SLC in a statement said.
Also, Shane Warne's family has been invited to join the ceremony that would begin just before the commencement of the first Test.
On addition to having an impressive track record with the ball in the island country, Warne also had an influence through his humanitarian work. The former leg-spinner made a huge contribution to the nation's recovery by personally visiting the nation in the wake of the devastating tsunami in 2004.
The Galle International Cricket Stadium will host the opening match of the two-match Test series between Sri Lanka and Australia, which is a part of the ICC World Test Championship 2021–23 cycle. The second Test match will take place there from July 8–12 as well. The previous ODI series had been won by Sri Lanka 4-1, making it their first ever home series victory against Australia.
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Q: Execute a Program with arguments I want to build a PowerShell script for invoking Python3. Now in shell this would be pretty simple but I cannot seem to get the following converted to PS:
../py/python3 myscript.py $@

I am lost somewhere in the maze of Start-Process, get-item, path building, ...
Is there any EASY way of doing that in PowerShell?

A: PowerShell is a shell, so for the most part, running programs is what it does well. I'm guessing you're converting a Unix shell script which is where $@ comes from. The equivalent in PowerShell for that would probably be $args or @args:
../py/python3 myscript.py $args

Within a script, $args contains the arguments to that script. However, within a script block or function it will contain the arguments to that script block or function, so careful when abstracting things in your script.

A: invoke-expression -command "../py/python3 myscript.py" $@


When you hear 'Rolex watch' you think of words such as success and style. It is also often the case that – even though a Rolex makes the perfect, ultimate gift for a loved one – many people buy Rolex watches for themselves; to celebrate a life event, such as getting a promotion at work or getting married to their soul mate. Of course, there doesn't have to be a reason; with watches as effortlessly classic as these, you don't have to wait around to have something to celebrate before you invest in a timeless Rolex.
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Here at Armour-Winston Ltd, we provide all the original paperwork with your Rolex watch and many of our models are available with Rolex's own international warranty. This means that you can buy iconic Rolex models such as the Daytona, Submariner, Explorer, GMT-Master, Sea-Dweller and Datejust without any worries or concerns regarding the originality or durability of these famous watches.
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Why Major League Baseball Got Into…the Wine Business?
Hint: Because someone would be very, very unhappy if the MLB made its own beer.
The Philadelphia Phillies Reserve 2012 Central Coast Proprietary Red wine "balances power and finesse, much like the Phillies lineup, while going long on the flavor fans demand." The Chicago Cubs 2012 Central Coast red "is a mix of players, combined to make a bold, fruit-forward blend whose whole–like the Cubs–is greater than the sum of its parts." And the New York Yankees 2011 Cabernet has the "richness, depth, and character following Yankees tradition." With muscular descriptions like these, one half expects the bottles to jump out of the crate, suit up, and start belting homers.
The tasting notes come from Major League Baseball, which sees team wine as a new, blossoming seven-figure business. But the product is also a creative solution to a market challenge: Fans will pony up for team-branded bottles of alcohol, but the MLB can't violate its very lucrative, exclusive beer deal with Budweiser.
"Chances are there are a lot of wine enthusiasts that are baseball fans," says Michael Napolitano, MLB's Vice President of Consumer Products, Hard Goods. (There is also a VP of Soft Goods, hence the clarification.) And that's why, last Wednesday, the league was pouring from its new collection at the Fan Cave, its event space in downtown Manhattan. This was a chance for fans and media to try the wine, but also, quite likely, to just get used to the sight of people kicking back and watching baseball while gently holding wine glass stems.
League execs are so far thrilled by the response. The initial order across all seven teams was 11,000 cases. High demand led to a recent second order of 14,000 more cases. (The Yankees accounted for 6,000 total cases and the Giants requested 4,000.) The bottles are sold online, in local wine shops, and will soon be available in larger national chains, including Whole Foods and Costco. At the current price points, the retail value of the operation is just under $10 million.
MLB realizes that there might have been more buzz around, say, an Angels Ale or Pirates Pilsner. But those would be complicated beers to make. The league has a longstanding partnership with Budweiser as its exclusive national sponsor for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic malt beverages. (The terms of Budweiser's current six-year deal aren't disclosed, but industry estimates peg it at $40/million a year.) Individual teams have wiggle room; they can sign their own local beer sponsorship deals, which can include uses like in-stadium pours and local television. But national distribution of a team-specific beer would be a no-no, and any marketing related to those beers can't have the MLB logo.
That's why wine is a simple, creative solution, and fits in with the league's embrace of boundary-pushing licensing deals. The league has about 300 licensees–including Hello Kitty and the handbag company Dooney & Bourke. "Being a mature brand, we are always looking to expand by doing cross-licensing agreements," says Napolitano.
The MLB agreement is designed to create legit wine: Through Wine By Design, teams can select from different, well-respected vineyards and wine varieties. Mumm Napa made the Giants' sparking wine. Anthony Road Winery in upstate New York made the Yankees wine. And the Mariners' wine is made by Maryhill Winery, which the San Francisco International Wine Competition just named the top winery of the year. "We can manage the category so you can have more wines that resonate with the teams, market, and fan base," Karle says. Wine By Design shares the revenue with Major League Baseball and the teams according to the league's licensing fee structure.


"Macha's themes are victory, success, protection, fertility and fire. Her symbols are red items, the acorn and the crow. Macha means 'mighty one.' Macha used Her potency to clear the land for wheat, giving Her associations with fertility. She also used Her might to protect the Celts' lands agains invaders, thereby becoming a war Goddess and guardian. Art shows Her dressed in red (color abhorrent to evil) and with blazing red hair, forever chasing off any malevolence that threatens Her children's success.
A mother after my own heart.
So my grandmother starts lecturing me on the fact that I cannot save the world. And, because she's 80 years old, I let her lecture me. She's earned the right at her age to lecture pretty much anyone on just about anything. But I still told her, that while I might not be able to save the world, I can save as many people in it as I can… and if that means occasionally throwing money at a problem that is immediate and necessary, well, then that is what I will do as long as I have it. I don't always have it, but I have it frequently… so I do what I can. My mother needs a functional car, my grandmother needs to be able to see, people need food to survive.
Why I feel driven right now to save the world, I cannot tell. Most of the time I just throw my figurative hands up in disgust and lament the lack of humanity in the world. I ignore the news and bury my facebook feed in silly memes and funny ecards. Right now though, I just feel like I need to do something to make myself feel better about this world I live in that is so far from the world I want to live in.