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Richard Cockerill says he had "nothing but praise" for the Leicester Tigers players after kicking off the European Rugby Champions Cup campaign with victory over visitors Ulster on Saturday.
Tigers scored three first-half tries to lead 19-3 before closing out a 25-18 victory in the first round of the new European competition.
"Everyone took a bit of confidence from last week, worked hard this week and have beat a good Ulster side," director of rugby Cockerill said.
"Ulster have good players and we've struggled to get past them in the last couple of years.
"It was a cracking game, a great physical contest.
"Ulster had to chase the game in the second half and, to be fair, they chased it very well.
"The attitude of the players has been awesome, I've got nothing but praise for them. After a couple of poor weeks those guys rallied everybody round, kept everybody pulling in the same direction and, credit to them, they have got us back on track.
"In the end we were probably disappointed not to get the bonus-point score because we had a couple of opportunities to do that, both in the first half and then with the lineouts at the end. But if someone had offered me the score and the performance before the game I think I would have taken it.
"If you lose your first game at home it makes it hard, but it is just one game and now we have to work on backing it up."
A crowd of just under 20,000 shared the occasion, including a large travelling support from Northern Ireland.
"Our support was massive tonight," said Cockerill. "The crowd was really loud and vocal. It was an old-fashioned European night at Welford Road, which was great to see."
Tigers lost Manu Tuilagi to injury after just quarter of an hour, though Cockerill will have been happy to see Anthony Allen and Adam Thompstone warming up with the matchday squad after recent injury issues.
"We lost Manu early on and that meant a bit of disruption," he said. "It is a recurrence of his groin injury. Hopefully it is not too much of an issue, but clearly it is not right."


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England Locating Directories and Telephone Books (National Institute)
The original content for this article was contributed by The National Institute for Genealogical Studies in June 2012. It is an excerpt from their course English: Education,Health and Contemporary Documents by Dr. Penelope Christensen. The Institute offers over 200 comprehensive genealogy courses for a fee ($).
1 Finding Directories
1.1 Archive and Library Holdings
1.2 FamilySearch Catalogue
1.3 Electronic Versions
1.4 Finding Telephone Books
1.5 Tracking Families
Finding Directories[edit | edit source]
Archive and Library Holdings[edit | edit source]
Archives, reference and local history libraries usually carry long runs for their own areas and the bigger repositories have more widespread coverage. They can be contacted by post or email for look-ups. As an example, Bath reference library has an almost continuous line of directories from 1837. In London the Guildhall Library (Harvey), Society of Genealogists (Newington-Irving), and the British Library (catalogue at: The British Library) all have extensive collections. University libraries have eclectic collections depending on the nature of research conducted there and private donations; holdings of 24 major research universities, as well as the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland, are listed at Copac. Your local Family History Society probably has some print editions and possibly some CD collections. Facsimile Editions
The originals being somewhat rare and pricey there has been a good market for facsimile editions of 19th century directories, for example in the 1990s Winton produced many including:
1830 Pigot's Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire
1831 Pigot's Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire
1830 Pigot's Norfolk and Suffolk
1839 Pigot's Essex, Herts and Middlesex
1840 Pigot's Kent, Surrey and Sussex
1841 Pigot's London and Suburbs
FamilySearch Catalogue[edit | edit source]
Much has been filmed or fiched from major collections such as the Guildhall Library and there are sections in the FamilySearch Catalog PLACE SEARCH for
DIRECTORIES – BIBLIOGRAPHY
DIRECTORIES – HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC
DIRECTORIES – INDEXES
DIRECTORIES – INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS
at the country, county and town levels. In many cases several from the same area have been sensibly arranged on one microfilm.
Electronic Versions[edit | edit source]
The University of Leicester is creating a digital library of local and trade directories 1750-1920 for England and Wales at Historical Directories. Hundreds are already online and searches can be done by name, address and occupation. They state:
The main considerations in selecting directories for digitisation were to achieve national coverage and also to integrate material from different institutions as a coherent online collection. National coverage has been provided for three date bands: the 1850s, 1890s, and 1910-1920, with one digitised directory from each period selected for each county and main county town.
This is a phenomenal resource funded by the National Lottery, the site and all searches and document downloads are free. They don't have everything, though, and others can be found at other sites such as:
Sue O'Neill's searchable Trade Directory Index which covers several Pigot's directories for 1830 and Slater's directory of Co Durham for 1854.
Direct Resources has provided surname indexes to trade directories of 40 counties around 1848.
Huge collections are available online, including the Universal Directory 1791.
Finding Telephone Books[edit | edit source]
British Telecom Museum holds an almost complete collection but sadly closed to the public in 1997. Similarly there used to be a Historical Telephone Directory Library in London but this seems to exist no longer. Wouldn't it be nice if they digitized the lot and put them online! Other collections are available at Guildhall Library, London and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Family History Library has a few telephone books from many countries and some have been filmed.
Local history libraries and archives should be consulted for their holdings. David and Charles have reprinted some early Victorian phone directories (1884-5) and these can be found in libraries or at auction (some were found recently at: John Townsend).
Tracking Families[edit | edit source]
Consultation of a long run of directories is preferable as it is then possible to ascertain when a business started, its address and any name changes over the years, removal to another location and its disappearance. When the name of the proprietor is first given then one can follow up with records of his training or freedom of the city, and on disappearance of the name look for emigration or death and probate. When a business changes its name, it is wise to investigate whether this is because a widow remarried, or it has been inherited by a son-in-law.
Searching a series of directories is particularly useful for dating photographs having a studio address, because studios may not have stayed in business very long at any one location.
The study of a series of directories can help us better understand our ancestors' lives as we recognize the urban changes, industrial developments, population movements, appearance and disappearance of congregations and so forth that would have had a profound impact on them (Thomson).
The items shown in the charts below show the value of finding as many as possible of these old directories plus subscription lists, alumni lists etc. in order to follow the family. West's Village Records, dealing with Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire, is a superb affirmation of this principle.
On a related topic, if you have the name of a country house but don't know where it is located try consulting a contemporary gazetteer (your FamilySsearch Center should have at least Lewis 1831, Wilson 1870 and Bartholomew 1952 on fiches) or Webb's Index of English Country Houses.
Chart: Jupp Family in 18th Century London Directories
1766 A List of the Liverymen of London with their Places of Abode, Collected from the last Poll for Chamberlain.
Red Lyon Street, Clerkenwell
JUPP, Richard
Carpenter['s Company]
1789 List of those Members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies who stood as qualified Voters on the Company's Books the 14th April 1789
Mr. Richard JUPP (2 votes) King's Road, Bedford Row
1789 Andrewe's New London Directory []
JUPP, William
No 11 Clements Lane
1789 Lowndes London Directory [Film 0950,412]
6 King's Road, Gray's Inn Lane
Clement's Lane, Lombard Street
1790 List of Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity Schools
Mr. Richard JUPP King's Road
1796 A List of the Livery of London alphabetically arranged with their respective Companies and Places of Abode; taken from Poll-Books of Last Election and from Lists of Different Companies.
Carpenter['s Co]
King's Road, Bedford Row
JUPP, RIchard Webb
New Ormond Street
1800 Browne's General Law List for the Year 1800
[Includes businesses of use to lawyers, such as Company Halls and officials, and coffee houses]
Carpenters Hall, London Wall, 1st Tues.
Clerk Mr. Richard Webb JUPP, Attorney, at the Hall.
Chart: Topping Family in 18th Century London Directories
1707-1712 A List of Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster as they were elected to Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge
Timothy TOPPING
Admitted to St. Peter's, Westminster 1707
Elected to Christ Church, Cambridge 1712
Kent's Directory [of London, Westminster and Southwark]
Topping, Timothy
Seedsman, London Bridge
Topping, Charles
Seedsman, Leadenhall Street
1760 Hitch and Hawes
A Complete Guide to All Persons who have any trade or concern with the City of London and parts adjacent
Timothy, Charles
Leadenhall Street
1765 The Court and City Kalendar or Gentleman's Register
The Common Council of London
Bridge Ward 15
1790 Wakefield's Merchant and Tradesman's General Directory for London, Westminster, Borough of Southwark and Twenty-two Miles Circular from St. Paul's
Wharfinger
Toppings' Wharf,
Tooley St.
Information in this Wiki page is excerpted from the online course English: Education,Health and Contemporary Documents offered by The National Institute for Genealogical Studies. To learn more about this course or other courses available from the Institute, see our website. We can be contacted at wiki@genealogicalstudies.com We welcome updates and additions to this Wiki page.
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A: Ok, so there are a few different steps you start with. Be aware, that if you are not a system administrator, you may be denied access to the machine, or cannot follow al the steps because of user restriction. As you've said "I don't know much about system administration" I'll try to keep the technical jargon to a minimum, but I'm assuming that you know a few basic IT terms and give a few warnings here and there.
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BE AWARE that if you have admin privileges, you can break programs while in this screen. Do not remove or change anything here.
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Q: Azure Datafactory Pipeline query I have an Azure Data Factory requirement. There are 50 csv files and each file is named like Product, Department, Employee, Sales, etc. Each of these files has a unique number of columns. In Azure SQL Database, I have 50 tables like Product, Department, Employee, Sales, etc. The columns of each table match with its corresponding file. Every day, I receive a new set of files in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 folder at 11 PM CST. At 12:05 AM CST, each of these files should be loaded into its respective table.
There should be only one pipeline or there can be 2 pipelines where the parent pipeline collects the metadata of the file and supplies it to the child pipeline which does the data load. It should find the files with the timestamp of the previous day and then  it should loop through these files and load them into its respective target table, one by one. Can someone briefly explain the Activities and Transformations I need to use to fulfil this requirement.
I am new to ADF. I haven't tried anything so far.

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Each of these files has a unique number of columns. In Azure SQL Database, I have 50 tables like Product, Department, Employee, Sales, etc. The columns of each table match with its corresponding file.

As you have same columns for both source and target and same names for files and tables. The below process will work for you if you have same schema for both.
First Use Get Meta data activity for the source folder to get the files list.
To get latest uploaded files, use Filter by last modified option in the Get meta data. This option only supports UTC time format and CST equals UTC-6. Give the Start time and End time as per your requirement by cross checking both timezones. Use appropriate Date time functions for it.
For sample I have given like below.

which will give the result array like this.

Give this ChildItems array @activity('Get Metadata1').output.childItems to a ForEach activity. Inside ForEach use a copy activity to copy each file iteration wise.
Create another Source dataset and create a dataset parameter (Here sourcefiename) and give it like below.

Give this to copy activity source and assign @item().name for the parameter value.

In sink, create a Database dataset with two dataset parameters schema and table_name. Use these like below.

from @item().name extract the file name other '.csv' text by using split and give that to the above parameter.
@split(item().name,'.c')[0]

Now, schedule this pipeline as per your time zone using schedule trigger.


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The title of this exhibition of photographs and film, recently presented at the Adam at Victoria University, comes from a book published in 1976 which looked at the work of 31 women artists. Here then are seven of them - selected well known contributors - forty years down the line, as part of a current burgeoning interest in late seventies /early eighties feminism and the various technologies that emerged at that time such as Polaroid, film and (tangentially) video.
Most of these works have a raw, casual aesthetic that avoids slickness or prettiness, often drawing on traces from the mechanical processes of developing film to revel in image or motivational ambiguity, and blocking conventional (perceived as 'patriarchal') narrative interpretation. This is enhanced by strategies such as the use of grainy prints, low illumination, inserted sections of other photographs, scratched-over writing, discontinuity, distortion, and erasure - coupled with reoccurring themes such as domestic claustrophobia, 'wifely' manual labour, and 'hysteria.' These seven very individual artists seem surprisingly cohesive, especially in the Lett space which is much more compact than the more elongated Adam.
The combined contributions - with their anti-narrative and 'anti-expressive' expressiveness - lock in and overlap nicely. The biggest surprise here is Jane Campion's student film, A Girl's Own Story, made at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney in 1984. Set in the mid sixties and exploring themes like teenage pregnancy, pubescent sexual awakening, adult hypocrisy and marital breakdown, its brilliant cast and direction makes it look surprisingly refreshing today. Subtle in what it doesn't state but only suggest (you joining the dots), this short b/w film (click here to see) uses great editing and performances of songs at the beginning and end to emotionally intensify its dysfunctional family content.
Joanna Margaret Paul's 1982 short film, Task, examines the monotony of a wife ironing and folding her husband's trousers, while her photographs (from 1976) of the darkened interior of a house suggest depression and bleak boredom in comparison to the sunlit landscape glimpsed through the windows. It is about interiors, subjugation and interiority together.
Alexis Hunter's photo sequences elaborate on two forms of violence. One violently anti-violent sequence shows a blood splattered wall (as if evidence of a crime - perhaps against a woman) being systematically demolished (with greater ferocity) with an axe, leaving a large gaping hole, with rubble below. The other photo sequence shows Hunter mutilating a pair of strap-on pumps with a blade, after she has removed them from her blistered bleeding feet.
Janet Bayly's blurred self portraits in a mirror and cropped shots of a red summer dress drying on the line, emphasise a dematerialisation of the (often moving) female body, a flimsy ephemerality and corporeal distortion gained from the rapid processing and graininess of the Polaroid, that is enhanced when enlarged. As meditations on the Self they resist clear definition. In another suite of self portraits with torso, Bayly's hair hangs over her face so that the repeated positioning (from a distance) become ambiguous: is she facing the camera or with her back to it? She subverts expectations associated with the subject's frontal gaze, and mocks the fetishisation of hair.
The photographs of Rhondda Bosworth look at subject matter often considered until then unphotographable, such as scraps of paper bearing handwriting, black oblongs of photographic negatives and cut out bits of earlier photographs. Sometimes the room in which she poses is swelling as if it is about to burst, or she is contorting her moving body in strange positions as if at the mercy of powerful forces far beyond the domain of the constructed gendered self.
Minerva Betts' low card table presents an array of photographs partially covered by scribbled text or smeared oil pastel. Images of lamps chairs, pots, wall sections, carpet and lino provide shuffled around backdrops of exuberantly thwarted interpretation. Her framed photograph on the windowed wall nearby shows a desk presenting a curling piece of collage, an enigmatic cross between birthday cake, typewriter and naval cap, a work that defies meaning and embraces unruly sensation and subjectivity instead.
This is a fascinating show because its pre-digital aesthetic (such as the opening and closing credits for Popular Productions' The Story Of) [click here to see] now seems somewhat at odds with current trends of high production finish. Although its promotion talks about these works as precursors of contemporary technology it is actually intriguing for other reasons. In the context of when these works were made, Arte Povera ('poor' or 'impoverished' art) seems like an influence (in materiality and style, not content), and that the artists here can also be seen in terms of a much wider group of (extremely varied) feminist art practices that includes Christine Hellyar, Di Ffrench, Juliet Batten and Vivian Lynn. With its dislike for slickness and smooth finish as part of a deep suspicion of representation, the exhibition has a strong sense of conceptual gesture or sustained mental impulse. An extremely interesting, vibrant and punchy presentation.


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EDUCATION AND TRAINING / EVENTS
FILTER BY: 2019 2018 2017 2016
2018: Event 03
Hosted by LMU Munich, the second annual GAME meeting was successfully held in Munich, with the participation of Deans and Principle Investigators from member universities. Members gathered to review progresses on collaborative research projects and discuss new initiatives such as the establishment of an Alliance website and exchange programmes.
A ceremony for the conferring of honorary professorships also took place and Prof Hans van Leeuwen, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, was presented with the title of Clinical Professor (honorary) by CUHK.
The CUHK team of the Healthy Start Network project under GAME, led by Prof Ting-fan Leung (paediatrics), visited Sophia Children's Hospital and Erasmus Medical Center (EMC) in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Team members include Prof Wing-hung Tam (obstetrics), Prof Ronald Ma (endocrinology and genomics), Prof Kelvin Tsoi (epidemiology), Prof Arthur Mak (child psychiatry) and Prof Kate Chan (paediatrics).
Prof Vincent Jaddoe, principal investigator of the successful Generation R cohort and project leader of the Healthy Start Network project, hosted a fruitful interactive meeting to discuss areas of possible collaboration between the two teams. CUHK members also visited the clinic suite of the Generation R cohort.
An Erasmus MC delegation comprised of Prof Maikel Peppelenbosch, Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology and Head of the Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Prof Gwenny Fuhler, Associate Professor of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Mr Michiel Mommersteeg and Ms Suk Yee Lam, PhD students, made a return visit to CUHK to discuss possible research collaborations and student exchanges.
Research in microbiota and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been identified as areas of common interest and Prof Jun Yu, Director of Research Laboratory of the Institute of Digestive Disease; Prof Siew Ng and Prof Sunny Wong, Professors of the Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, CUHK, will be the main PIs in the upcoming collaborations.
Maintained by Office of Global Engagement (OGE), CUHK Medicine


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Q: How to filter multiple dataframes at once by the same date range? I am trying to filter multiple dataframes at once by a specific date range (for this example January 2 - January 4).  I know you can filter a dataframe by date using the following code: df = (df['Date'] > 'start-date') & (df['Date'] < 'end-date'); however, when I created a list of dataframes and tried to loop over them, I am returned the original dataframe with the original date range.
Any suggestions? I have provide some example code below:
d1 = {'Date': ['2021-01-01', '2021-01-02', '2021-01-03', '2021-01-04', '2021-01-05'],
   'A': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
   'B': [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
 }
df1 = pd.DataFrame(data=d1)

d2 = {'Date': ['2021-01-01', '2021-01-02', '2021-01-03', '2021-01-04', '2021-01-05'],
       'C': [11, 12, 13, 14, 15],
       'D': [16, 17, 18, 19, 20]
     }
df2 = pd.DataFrame(data=d2)

df_list = [df1, df2]

for df in df_list:
    df = (df['Date'] > '2021-01-01') & (df['Date'] < '2021-01-05')
df1

**Output:**
 Date  A   B
0  2021-01-01  1   6
1  2021-01-02  2   7
2  2021-01-03  3   8
3  2021-01-04  4   9
4  2021-01-05  5  10

I have tried various ways to filter, such as .loc, writing functions, and creating a mask, but still can't get it to work. Another thing to note is that I am doing more formatting as part of this loop, and all the other formats are applied except this one. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

A: The issue here is that you're simply reassigning the variable df in your for loop without actually writing the result back into df_list.
This solves your issue:
df_list = [df1, df2]
output_list = []

for df in df_list:
    df_filter = (df['Date'] > '2021-01-01') & (df['Date'] < '2021-01-05')
    output_list.append(df.loc[df_filter])

output_list now contains the filtered dataframes.

A: As @anky mentioned, you need to specify your 'Date' columns as type of datetime. In addition, in your for loop you get boolean. You need to use it for selection.
[...]
df1['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(df1['Date'])
df2['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(df2['Date'])

df_list_filtered = []
for df in df_list:
    df = df[(df['Date'] > '2021-01-01') & (df['Date'] < '2021-01-05')]
    df_list_filtered.append(df)

[...]

print(df_list_filtered[0])
        Date  A  B
1 2021-01-02  2  7
2 2021-01-03  3  8
3 2021-01-04  4  9


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Home / Collections / Biography and autobiography / Paul McCartney
Philip Norman
The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him. Superbly evoking half a century of popular music and culture, Paul McCartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius. In this masterly biography, history's most successful songwriter, a man of seemingly effortless talent, beauty and charm, is revealed as a complex, insecure workaholic who still feels as great a need to prove himself in his seventies as when he was a teenager. We learn how his boyhood was blighted by the death of his mother, Mary - later the inspiration for 'Let It Be' - but redeemed by his remarkable father, Jim, a Liverpool cotton-salesman who was his only music-teacher and whose influence has permeated his career. We understand as never before the creative symbiosis between John Lennon and himself that unlocked the extraordinary treasury of their songs for the Beatles when they were barely into their twenties, and the fierce rivalry which lasted beyond the band's break-up to the end of John's life - and still haunts and inspires Paul to this day. Here for the first time is the full story of Paul post-Beatles: his trauma after being brutally sidelined by John, George and Ringo over the appointment of their last manager, Allen Klein; his near-breakdown on his remote Scottish farm and dogged determination to build a new band, Wings, into as big a name in the 1970s as the Beatles had been in the 1960s. Here too is the first inside story of his marriage to Linda Eastman, much criticised at the outset but destined to become the longest and strongest in rock until her death from cancer. Here are the traumatic post-Linda years when his charmed life seemed temporarily to crack up: his whirlwind romance with Heather Mills ending after four years' marriage in one of the most expensive and rancorous divorces in British legal history.
Author: Norman, Philip


Andrew Gentle, 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, was born at Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, and lived in Londonderry for sixteen years before enlisting at Glasgow.
He was killed in action on October 13, 1914, aged 23. He resided at 117, Foyle Road, Londonderry, and was the son of Neil and Christina Gentle, and nephew of Elizabeth Culley, 13, Westland Avenue, Londonderry.
He was a member of Second Derry (Strand Road) Presbyterian Church, and his name is recorded on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. His name is also commemorated on the Diamond War Memorial.
The 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers was stationed in Dublin at the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914.
The previous month the Borderers opened fire on a group of people on the day of the Howth Gun Running, July 26.
The gun running involved the delivery of rifles to the Irish Volunteers at Howth harbour.
The unloading of guns during daylight hours attracted a crowd and the authorities ordered military intervention. The Volunteers evaded the military. As the Borderers returned to barracks, they were accosted by a hostile crowd at Bachelor's Walk, who threw stones and shouted insults. The soldiers shot into the crowd and bayoneted one man, resulting in the death of four civilians and the wounding of 38 others.
The Battalion joined the 13th Brigade of the 5th Division and proceeded to France with the British Expeditionary Force, landing at Le Havre on August 15, 1914.
In the battle of Mons the Borderers lay along the Conde canal. It was there when the army got the order to retreat, and with the other regiments of the division the Borderers fell back some miles on the morning of Monday, August 24.
In the retreat it suffered badly. Of the six brigades in General Smith-Dorrien's II Corps, the 13th was in the rear, and felt the force of the German attack. At Fromieres on the Monday, and again at Le Cateau on the Wednesday, it was in the thick of the fighting, and on those days the battalion was almost destroyed.
Altogether, the Borderers lost 15 officers – or just about half their total – during the first days of the retreat.
The Borderers soon recovered, and at the Aisne were again placed in danger. They were ordered to cross the river opposite Missy, and all through Sunday, September 13, struggled on, but the ground over which they had to move was quite open, and when night came they were still on the wrong side of the Aisne.
Their efforts, however, had assisted the other brigades of the 5th Division to cross, who, in their turn, helped the Borderers and their comrades in the Thirteenth, who crossed on September 14.
The following month, the Borderers were in the region of Guinchy, where the Second Corps was fighting hard to drive the Germans from Lille.
On Tuesday, October 13 – the day Andrew Gentle lost his life – the 5th Division struck against the small industrial town of La Bassee, lying on a line of canals some sixteen miles south-west of Lille.
The canals formed a system of moats in front of the German trenches, and to the south of the town there was some high ground on which the defending artillery was placed. The German guns swept all the flat country around for miles, and there was no site from which the British artillery could effectively operate in response.
Tribute was paid to Lance Corporal Gentle at the Second Derry Boys' Brigade Annual Display, held on Thursday, April 1, 1915, by the then Mayor of Londonderry, Robert Newton Anderson, who remarked that twenty-five of the old boys of the company were at present serving their King and country, while one, Andrew Gentle, had died on the battlefield.
Benjamin Cotrell, 4th Battalion Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), was born at Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England, enlisted at Stratford, Essex, and was killed in action on October 14, 1914.
He was a member of Second Derry (Strand Road) Presbyterian Church, and resided at 8, Northland Terrace, Londonderry. He worked in the Rock Mills prior to the Great War, and his name is recorded on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. His name is also commemorated on the Diamond War Memorial.
In the First World War, the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) formed a total of 49 battalions (mainly due to a surplus of volunteers seeking to enlist). The Regiment received a total of 81 battle honours, 5 Victoria Crosses, and lost approximately 12,270 casualties during the course of the war.
The 4th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was based in Devenport with 8th Brigade, 3rd Division, when war broke out in August 1914. They proceeded to France on August 14, landing at Boulogne. They saw action in 1914 at the battles of Mons and the rearguard action at Solesmes, Le Cateau, Marne, Aisne, La Bassee, Messines and the First Battle of Ypres.
Benjamin Cotrell almost certainly died at the Battle of La Bassee. On the same day as his death, Major-General Hubert Hamilton, who commanded the 3rd Division, was struck down. According to one account, this happened whilst he was riding along the front. According to another, he was standing in a covered place when he was hit by a shrapnel bullet, all those around him escaping unhurt.
Benjamin Cotrell's name was read aloud during a special memorial service held in First Derry Presbyterian Church, on Friday, August 4, 1916, to pay tribute to the Presbyterian soldiers of the city of Londonderry, who had died during the first two years of the Great War.
The 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers arrived at Hazebrouck (a town of France, situated on the canalised river Bourre, 32 miles west-north-west of Lille) by the morning of October 13, 1914.
They moved forward east along the Hazebrouck-Meteren Road, and came into contact with the Germans early that afternoon, having the Royal Lancaster Regiment on their right. During the night the village of Meteren was seized by the combined force, and in the morning the 2nd Inniskillings moved on to the French town of Bailleul (situated near the Belgian frontier, 46 miles south east of Calais).
The following evening, October 15, the 2nd Inniskillings, with the remainder of the 12th Infantry Brigade, continued to advance, not being disturbed by the Germans, and camped for the night on the main road leading from the Belgian town of Ypres (36 miles south west of Bruges) to the French town of Armentieres (on the river Lys, 20 miles north of Lens), and the next morning crossed the Belgian frontier and marched to Ploegsteert (eight miles south of Ypres and three miles north of Armentieres), which was then occupied by the Allied cavalry.
On October 17, they advanced toward Le Gheer, and took up a position east of that village, supporting the following day a successful assault made by the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers. On this day also they were able to provide material assistance to B Squadron of the 9th Lancers, who had been held up by machine-gun fire in an attack they had made from Ploegsteert Wood. The Lancers were in a position from which they could neither advance nor withdraw. The 2nd Inniskillings, who were resting as a reserve in the wood, went to their aid, and under their covering fire the Lancers were extricated.
Among the 2nd Battalion Inniskilling fatalities, on October 18, was Private Dennis Dillon, son of Catherine Dillon, 5, Herbert Street, Waterside, and Patrick (who possibly died on October 29, 1920, and was interred at Ardmore Burying Ground). He was also husband of Mrs Elizabeth Dillon, 84, Fountain Hill, Waterside.
Dennis Dillon's name is recorded on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.
The Memorial commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave.
Most of those commemorated by the memorial did not die in major offensives, such as those that took place around Ypres to the north, or Loos to the south.
Most were killed in the course of the day-to-day trench warfare which characterised this part of the line, or in small scale engagements, usually carried out in support of the major attacks taking place elsewhere.
Dennis Dillon's name is also on the Diamond War Memorial. His brother, Private Thomas Dillon, 2658, 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, was killed in action in Flanders on February 19, 1917, and a cousin, Private John Dillon, 4527, 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed in action on November 8, 1916.


Join me at Dexcon 17 for the 2014 Dexcon Battle Merchants tournament!
This is a registered and approved Dexcon 17 event. The exact table of the event will be posted in the Big Board area of the convention, next to the registration area.
Each Qualifier event will be two simultaneous games, so that's four qualification games in all. The winner of each qualification game will advance to the Final. The final will be a 4-player game.
Each qualifier is a standard Dexcon event. You can register for a Qualifier before Dexcon by emailing the convention organizers with the event codes for the qualifiers you want to play in (either B0743 or B0891). You can also register at the convention by writing in your badge number on the Big Board for the event's sheet.
Note that these events tend to fill up quickly, so be sure to sign up early! If the event is full, then put your name as an alternate; it's entirely possible one of the people who signed up will not be able to make the event.
In case of a tie for first place in a qualification game, standard Battle Merchants tiebreaker rules apply (surviving Standard Weapons get $2, surviving Vorpal Weapons get $3, highest tiebreaker amount wins). Any remaining ties will be resolved randomly.
If any qualifier winners are not present at the final at 8:00 pm on July 5, or if at least one qualification game doesn't run because of a lack of players, then an alternate will play instead. If multiple alternates are present, then the alternate whose final score was closest to his/her respective first-place player (above tiebreaker rules apply) will play.
The tournament winner will receive a Dexcon "Battle Merchants 2014 National Champion" trophy. All entrants will receive a "Battle Merchant" stackable badge ribbon, and the four finalists will each receive a "Finalist" stackable badge ribbon.


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<?php

namespace frontend\controllers;

use Yii;
use frontend\models\Produse;
use frontend\models\Produse_Search;
use frontend\models\Amanetare;
use frontend\models\Amanetare_Search;
use yii\web\Controller;
use yii\web\NotFoundHttpException;
use yii\filters\VerbFilter;
use frontend\controllers\AmanetareController;
use frontend\models\Raport;
use yii\db\Query;
use yii\helpers\Json;
use mPDF;
use frontend\models\Tranzactie;

class RaportController extends Controller
{

	 public function behaviors()
    {
        return [
            'verbs' => [
                'class' => VerbFilter::className(),
                'actions' => [
                    'delete' => ['post'],
                ],
            ],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Lists all VanzareCumparare models.
     * @return mixed
     */

    /**
     * Displays a single VanzareCumparare model.
     * @param integer $id
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function actionView($id)
    {
        return $this->render('view', [
            'model' => $this->findModel($id),
        ]);
    }

    public function actionRaportClienti() {
        $searchModel = new Amanetare_Search();
        $dataProvider = $searchModel->search(Yii::$app->request->queryParams);
            return $this->render('raport-clienti.php', [
            'searchModel' => $searchModel,
            'dataProvider' => $dataProvider
        ]);

    }

    public function actionRaportAmanet()
    {
        return $this->render('raport-total.php');
    }

    public function actionGetRaport() {

        $startDate = $_POST['begin-date'];
        $endDate = $_POST['end-date'];

        $query = new Query();

        $query

            ->select(['amanetare.cod_contract', 'amanetare.suma_acordata', 'amanetare.suma_datorata', 'amanetare.data_incheierii','tranzactie.tip_tranzactie', 'SUM(tranzactie.suma) as suma_primita'])
            ->from('amanetare')

            // ->asArray()
            ->join('JOIN', 'tranzactie', 'amanetare.cod_contract = tranzactie.cod_contract_amanetare')
            ->where('amanetare.data_incheierii between "'.$startDate.' 00:00:00" and "'.$endDate.' 23:59:59"')
            ->groupBy("amanetare.cod_contract");

        $command = $query->createCommand();
        $data = $command->queryAll();

        return Json::encode($data);

    }

    public function actionGetSuma() {
        $startDate = $_POST['begin-date'];
        $endDate = $_POST['end-date'];

        $query = new Query();

        $query
            ->select(['suma_acordata', 'suma_datorata'])
            ->from('amanetare')
            ->where('data_incheierii between "'.$startDate.' 00:00:00" and "'.$endDate.' 23:59:59"');

        $command = $query->createCommand();
        $data = $command->queryAll();

        return Json::encode($data);
    }

    public function actionGetVanzari() {
        $startDate = $_POST['begin-date2'];
        $endDate = $_POST['end-date2'];

        $query = new Query();

        $query
            ->select(['suma_contractata', 'tip_tranzactie'])
            ->from('vanzare_cumparare')
            ->where('data_inchieierii between "'.$startDate.' 00:00:00" and "'.$endDate.' 23:59:59"');

        $command = $query->createCommand();
        $data = $command->queryAll();

        return Json::encode($data);
    }

    public function actionGetProduse()
    {

        $query = new Query();

        $query
        ->select(['*'])
        ->from('produse');

        $command = $query->createCommand();
        $data = $command->queryAll();

       return Json::encode($data);

    }

=======
    // public function actionMpdfdemo() {
    //     $pdf = new Pdf([
    //         'mode' => Pdf::MODE_CORE, // leaner size using standard fonts
    //         'content' => $this->renderPartial('raport-pdf'),
    //         'options' => [
    //             'title' => 'Privacy Policy - Krajee.com',
    //             'subject' => 'Generating PDF files via yii2-mpdf extension has never been easy'
    //         ],
    //         'methods' => [
    //             'SetHeader' => ['Generated By: Krajee Pdf Component||Generated On: ' . date("r")],
    //             'SetFooter' => ['|Page {PAGENO}|'],
    //         ]
    //     ]);
    //     return $pdf->render();
    // }

    public function actionCreatepdf(){
        $mpdf=new mPDF('utf-8', 'A4-L');
        ob_start();
        $this->renderPDF();
        $mpdf->WriteHTML(ob_get_clean());
        $mpdf->Output();

        exit;

=======
        exit;
        //return $this->renderPartial('mpdf');

    }

    private function renderPDF() {

        $raport = array();

        $contracte = Amanetare::find()->all();

        foreach ($contracte as $key => $value) {
            $model = new Amanetare();

            $data = array();

            $data['client'] = $model->getClientNume($value->id_client);
=======
            $data['client'] = $model->getClient($value->id_client);

            $data['angajat'] = $model->getAngajat($value->cod_angajat);

            $tranzactii = Tranzactie::find()->where(['cod_contract_amanetare' => $value->cod_contract])->all();

            $suma = 0;
            foreach ($tranzactii as $key => $tranzactie) {
                $suma += $tranzactie->suma;
            }

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            $data['suma_primita'] = $suma;

            $data['rest_de_plata'] = $data['suma_datorata'] - $data['suma_primita'];

            $data['data'] = $value->data_incheierii;

            $data['cod_contract']=$value->cod_contract;
=======

            array_push($raport, $data);

        }

        echo $this->renderPartial('raport-pdf', ['raport' => $raport]);
    }

}

?>


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Why I Do Not Say, "God Did Not Cause the Calamity, But He Can Use It for Good."
Many Christians are speaking this way about the murderous destruction of the World Trade Towers on September 11, 2001. God did not cause it, but he can use it for good. There are two reasons I do not say this. One is that it goes beyond, and is contrary to, what the Bible teaches. The other is that it undermines the very hope it wants to offer.
First, this statement goes beyond and against the Bible. For some, all they want to say, in denying that God "caused" the calamity, is that God is not a sinner and that God does not remove human accountability and that God is compassionate. That is true—and precious beyond words. But for others, and for most people who hear this slogan, something far more is implied. Namely, God, by his very nature, cannot or would not act to bring about such a calamity. This view of God is what contradicts the Bible and undercuts hope.
How God governs all events in the universe without sinning, and without removing responsibility from man, and with compassionate outcomes is mysterious indeed! But that is what the Bible teaches. God "works all things after the counsel of his will" (Ephesians 1:11).
This "all things" includes the fall of sparrows (Matthew 10:29), the rolling of dice (Proverbs 16:33), the slaughter of his people (Psalm 44:11), the decisions of kings (Proverbs 21:1), the failing of sight (Exodus 4:11), the sickness of children (2 Samuel 12:15), the loss and gain of money (1 Samuel 2:7), the suffering of saints (1 Peter 4:19), the completion of travel plans (James 4:15), the persecution of Christians (Hebrews 12:4-7), the repentance of souls (2 Timothy 2:25), the gift of faith (Philippians 1:29), the pursuit of holiness (Philippians 3:12-13), the growth of believers (Hebrews 6:3), the giving of life and the taking in death (1 Samuel 2:6), and the crucifixion of his Son (Acts 4:27-28).
From the smallest thing to the greatest thing, good and evil, happy and sad, pagan and Christian, pain and pleasure—God governs them all for his wise and just and good purposes (Isaiah 46:10). Lest we miss the point, the Bible speaks most clearly to this in the most painful situations. Amos asks, in time of disaster, "If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it?" (Amos 3:6). After losing all ten of his children in the collapse of his son's house, Job says, "The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD" (Job 1:21). After being covered with boils he says, "Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" (Job 2:10).
Oh, yes, Satan is real and active and involved in this world of woe! In fact Job 2:7 says, "Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head." Satan struck him. But Job did not get comfort from looking at secondary causes. He got comfort from looking at the ultimate cause. "Shall we not accept adversity from God?" And the author of the book agrees with Job when he says that Job's brothers and sisters "consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the LORD had brought on him" (Job 42:11). Then James underlines God's purposeful goodness in Job's misery: "You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful" (James 5:11). Job himself concludes in prayer: "I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted" (Job 42:2). Yes, Satan is real, and he is terrible—and he is on a leash.
The other reason I don't say, "God did not cause the calamity, but he can use it for good," is that it undercuts the very hope it wants to create. I ask those who say this: "If you deny that God could have 'used' a million prior events to save 5,000 people from this great evil, what hope then do you have that God could now 'use' this terrible event to save you in the hour of trial?" We say we believe he can use these events for good, but we deny that he could use the events of the past to hold back the evil of September 11. But the Bible teaches he could have restrained this evil (Genesis 20:6). "The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples" (Psalm 33:10). But it was not in his plan to do it. Let us beware. We spare God the burden of his sovereignty and lose our only hope.
All of us are sinners. We deserve to perish. Every breath we take is an undeserved gift. We have one great hope: that Jesus Christ died to obtain pardon and righteousness for us (Ephesians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 5:21), and that God will employ his all-conquering, sovereign grace to preserve us for our inheritance (Jeremiah 32:40). We surrender this hope if we sacrifice this sovereignty.


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Editions / AED 62/2004 / Linguistic Deculturation and the Importance of Popular Education among the Gonds in India
Aditya Raj / Papia Raj
The squeezing out of ethnic languages, which are an important part of people's identity, is a worldwide problem. India, being a large multilingual state, is particularly seriously affected. As a result of this linguistic deculturation, other values of the cultures concerned are also being lost. Taking the example of the Gonds, the most numerous Scheduled Tribe in India, the authors examine the causes and effects of this loss of language and suggest new ways forward. Aditya Raj and Papia Raj are Commonwealth Fellows from India pursuing doctoral research at McGill University, Canada. They have been involved in adult education in their research through awareness campaigns for human rights and the promotion of literacy with communities at the grassroots level in India.
Linguistic Deculturation and the Importance of Popular Education among the Gonds in India
Language is an important component of ethnic identity. In the age of resurgent urbanization and globalization retaining ethnic language is a difficult task. The process of fading among the less prevalent languages is accelerating and more than half of all the world's languages will die out over the next century. Multilingual India is not an exception to these worldwide phenomena. The Indian Constitution recognizes several languages but many tribal languages are fading away and if this process continues many of these languages will die out soon. This process of losing, through continuous contact, a feature of one's culture is called deculturation. Linguistic deculturation can be understood as a process of language shift, which occurs due to switching over from the ethnic language to some other language(s). Since Gonds are numerically the largest tribe in India, we analyze language deculturation among them along with the probable causes responsible for this situation. We also suggest certain remedial measures through popular education. The present study is conducted for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, where Gondi ranks among the first ten languages recorded in order of strength. In this paper we have analyzed only those districts having more than one percent of gond population to the total scheduled tribe population.
Gondi is a part of the Dravidian language family and is recorded as a non-scheduled language in the Census of India. According to the 1991 Census, in order of strength Gondi ranks third among the non-scheduled languages, 0.25% of the total population (2,124,852 people) speaks Gondi, only next to Bhil (0.66%) and Santali (0.62%). On analyzing the number of people returning Gondi as their mother tongue, it is observed that though the numbers of Gondi speakers have increased, the numbers of Gonds returning Gondi as their mothertongue have decreased over the years. An analysis at a micro level reveals the tremendous amount of language shift among the Gonds, irrespective of their population percentage to the total scheduled tribe in the area. Therefore, in the next sub-section we look at the typology and direction of their linguistic deculturation.
Graph 1: Growth of Gondi Language, India 1961–1991
Typology and Direction of Language Shift
On the whole only 10 percent of the districts studied show a language shift of less than 50 percent, while in 32 percent of the districts there is 100 percent language shift, though there exist regional variations. A major shift is noticed in Andhra Pradesh, where the volume of shift is more than 80 percent in the districts of Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Khammam. An exception is noticed in Warangal, where maintenance is 100 percent. In Maharashtra also the districts show a great amount of language shift. The districts of Bid, Satara and Sindhudurg show a complete shift of language. However, Nanded (11%) and Garhchiroli (88%), marking the differences in the proportions of the Gond population, record a language shift of less than 40 percent, respectively.
Madhya Pradesh presents a mixed scenario where the situation varies between a complete shift and complete maintenance. Here the proportion of districts with complete shift is more than that with complete maintenance. In Betul district, where 72 percent of the scheduled tribe population is composed of Gonds, it shows only 7 percent language shift. However, it should not be concluded that the dominance of the tribe is the sole factor in the maintenance of their mother tongue. The districts of Narsimhapur (90%), Damoh (86%), and Raisen (77%) in spite of a preponderance of Gonds, record 100 percent language shift. Another extreme case is noticed in the district of Morena, where the language shift recorded is only 47 percent though in this district Gonds comprise only 5 percent of the total scheduled tribe population. Hence the numerical strength of Gonds does not exert a great influence on their language shift.
Graph 2: Typology of language shift among Gonds,1991
Thus language shift is noticed among the Gonds throughout their territory though in varying magnitude. Apart from understanding the typology of change it is more important to identify the direction of language shift, i.e., to which language the shift is taking place. Among the Indian tribal communities broadly two directions of shift might be identified. Either the shift is to other tribal languages or to the regional languages. The examination of the Census data reveals that the shift is mainly to the regional language of the area.
In Andhra Pradesh, Telegu is the dominant language as 84.8% of the population here speak it. In this state, the major shift is towards Telegu followed by Marathi. The districts located at the border of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh record a shift towards Marathi, Adilabad being an example of this. In Maharashtra, except for Greater Bombay and Sindhudurg, where maximum shift is recorded to Hindi, in the other districts the major direction of shift is towards the regional language, Marathi. The dominant language in Maharashtra is also Marathi as 73.3% of the population speak it. The more cosmopolitan nature of Greater Bombay, owing to its close proximity to the state capital of Mumbai, is one of the plausible causes leading to this pattern of language shift in this district. Some districts show a shift to Telegu as they are located on the border of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
Madhya Pradesh presents a picture where almost complete shift has occurred to Hindi, the regional as well as the dominant language (85.6% of the population speak Hindi). It is interesting enough to note that in the districts of Morena and Bastar, apart from Hindi a considerable shift has taken place towards other tribal languages, Parji (Morena) and Halabi (Bastar) respectively. On the other hand, Betul, where language shift is the minimum, shows a shift to Marathi, the non-regional non-tribal language. The location of Betul in the border of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra explains this situation.
Thus, it might be concluded that the geographical location of the district plays an important role in influencing the direction of language shift. On the whole, there is not much difference noticed in the direction of language shift between the rural and urban areas.
Causes of Language Shift
The change of language is a reflection of cultural change that is promoted by change in a number of factors. Some of these factors can be broadly classified as socio-economic and political. Historically the tribal areas have remained isolated. Later, with the money economy, they came in contact with a number of itinerant traders from the plains. The British Government extended its administrative jurisdiction into tribal areas in the latter half of the nineteenth century. All this led to the development of a market-place language, which in the long run helped in the process of language shift.
Moreover, the areas inhabited by Gonds are rich in mineral resources and provided attractive locations for the setting up of various mineral-based industries. This in turn was responsible for causing a change in occupational structure among Gonds along with the development of various urban industrial centres and an improved transport network. These urban centres have provided opportunities for socio-economic interaction of tribal groups with the non-tribal component. The change in occupational structure has brought changes in social relations, customs, habits, the value system and language.
Among the social factors influencing language shift the role of education seems to be most important. The spread of literacy through the medium of the regional language, which invariably happens to be of non-tribal origin, has accelerated the process of linguistic deculturation. Conversion to Christianity has played a major role in the spread of literacy and also in language deculturation. When these tribes were/ are converted to Christianity, starting from the gospel to the pedagogical process, the language in most cases in not indigenous. However, in the case of the Gonds religion is not a very important factor.
Participation in the political sphere and dealing with administration also calls for languages other than Gondi. But the most important factor has been the spatial location of the tribes. The tribes living in the core of the tribal region have shown least inclination to change their traditional language. On the other hand, tribal groups living on the peripheries of the Gondi heartland have shown a tendency of adaptability to communicate in more than one language. This tendency towards bilingualism in due course of time has led to the language change, especially among people belonging to new generations who find their traditional language less functional compared to the language of non-tribal communities. The learning of the non-tribal language becomes an asset for them to enter the new social order and this flexibility/ compulsion is the key reason behind this process.
Under all circumstances, it is important to understand how the power of the dominant socio-economic and political structures and institutions plays a subversive role. It leaves no option for the tribals like Gonds but to change and survive. The structural impediment indirectly forces changes in the cultural milieu.
Role of Popular Education
If a language dies, aspects of culture including a pool of diverse ideas die with it. Language is also an integral part of the tribal values and identity and loss of identity cannot lead to empowerment of the tribals. Therefore, there is need of adult literacy and what Freire would call 'critical consciousness as a motor of cultural emancipation'. NGOs working for tribal advance and the policy makers should recognize this and take steps to address the issue. Attempts at resistance are generally co-opted by the coercive state and the only way out seems to be through consciousness building among the tribals. This process must start from below with community building and popular education in the Gondi language. Adult popular education is a way to stem the tide.
Adult popular education should help the tribals to recognize their role as subjects and agents who can constructively resist oppression. The Gonds must engage in dialogue to unveil the motor of cultural emancipation. What is definitely needed is 're-engaging with the adults' and youth. Gonds need not just the three R's but also livelihood skills so that they do not fall into the trap of the dominant socio-economic structure. However, this does not mean that one has to fall in line with the nationally or internationally funded coercive grassroot organizations, as most of their activities are co-opted.
The education policy of the Indian government has failed to address this kind of issue in totality. The government policy seems concerned only with literacy and not with livelihood skills and consciousness building. Community effort through tribal networking and organization building should help build the requisite social capital to resist assimilation. The emergent social capital will be the product of this new consciousness that can start with popular education amoung/for the Gonds.
Census of India. 1991. Special Tables for Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes. Government of India.
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Q: Minimum steps to transform an array I have an array of integers (both positive and negative). I need to make all the elements of the array zero, by doing the following operation repeatedly. Increasing one element by 1 and decreasing the others by 1 . I need to do this in minimum number of steps (if it is possible to do so). My approach is to sort the integers and then increase the smallest element and decrease all others and keep on doing this until all become zero. But I am not sure, can anyone tell me if there is a seperate correct approach ?

for e.g. if the array is {1,1,3} then according to my approach {2,0,2}
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Crowe doesn't do 'charity work' for studios
Actor Russell Crowe said Monday he quit an epic movie about the Australian outback co-starring Nicole Kidman because he doesn't do 'charity work' for major studios.
Sept. 25, 2006, 11:31 PM UTC / Source: Reuters
Actor Russell Crowe said Monday he quit an epic movie about the Australian outback co-starring Nicole Kidman because he doesn't do "charity work" for major studios.
The New Zealand-born Australian actor had been scheduled to star in the as-yet untitled film directed by Baz Luhrmann, but dropped out and was replaced by another Australian actor, Hugh Jackman, in June. At the time, no reason for the cast change was announced.
"I just didn't want to work on that movie in the type of environment that was being created because of the needs of the budget," Crowe told reporters while promoting his new movie, director Ridley Scott's "A Good Year," in New York.
"I do charity work, but I don't do charity work for major studios."
The Luhrmann movie was due to begin production this month, but has been pushed back to February because of scheduling conflicts and budget debates with 20th Century Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A spokesman for 20th Century Fox had no immediate comment.
Media reports have put the budget for the ambitious film at between $150 million and $175 million.
Luhrmann, director of the hit musical "Moulin Rouge," has described the film to Australian newspapers as a sweeping romance in the same vein as "Gone with the Wind" and on the scale of David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia."
He said the film would be set in Australia from the mid-1930s leading up to the Japanese bombing of the tropical northern city of Darwin in World War Two.
Crowe and Kidman were scheduled to have starred together in another Australian movie, based on the novel "Eucalyptus," but the project collapsed last year because of difficulties with the script.
"It will come around when it's supposed to come around," Crowe said of filming a movie in Australia.
"The unfortunate thing about the way the media works these days, before the idea is even really solidified in people's heads it's already front page news. The film business is very complicated."


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A few years ago I was invited me to hear Jeanne Beker interviewed live at a local Jewish Book Fair. It took a lot of persuading to get me there as I assumed she would just be talking about her just released Tween book on entering the fashion world. Wrong! I sat there entranced as she openly shared her life story as well as that of her parents. All night I kicked myself for not bringing my recorder as it was just the kind of interview I loved the most. Because I don't have proper notes from the evening, it is too risky to share what I remember of her family's journey. Memory is never totally accurate. I do, however, want to share some highlights that were significant to me.
The first noticeable thing about Beker is her daring. She doesn't seem to have the same amout of self-doubt that many of us experience - something that keeps us from grabbing that ring and running with it. From landing a role at her first audition with no prior acting experience, to sharing openly with the largely Jewish audience how she approaches her faith in practice, she makes no apologies for who she is. She doesn't attempt to convince others to feel the same way or try to justify her choices, she just lays them out as facts. This is a lesson I am still trying to absorb and a hard one for me to incorporate into my life on a daily basis.
Another nugget of wisdom I have shared many times was something she said to a fan. When this person ran up to her in excitement and blurted out, "I want your job," her response was, "Get your own." Harsh one would think. Then she went on to explain what she meant and it all came together for me as an editor. Fashion TV has been running for over 20 years. What she wanted was for this person to dig deep and bring something new to the table - don't take my job and repeat what was done before, create something new and better. I have passed this on to many people who ask about starting a magazine and also keep this in the back of my mind as my partner and I make choices regarding our fashion magazine. Despite industry pressures to go with something already proven, each of us will make our mark in the long run by offering something new and creative.
Last to come up was how she felt about the current fashion industry. Beker expressed surprise that with technology advancing so quickly, it hasn't had more of effect on the fashion world. One of the few examples of someone experimenting with innovation is Hussein Chalaya. While his transforming garments were groundbreaking, in general the fashion world is seriously lagging behind. Fabrics, drafting models and construction techniques should be moving forward at a pace in keeping with what is happening in the rest of the world.
There was so much more she shared, but these are the highlights that rise to the top when I think back to that interview. She is on my mind today as she is in town launching her clothing line. I hopefully will get the chance to hear her speak again, although I doubt it will have the depth of the amazing interview I was fortunate to hear last time.
For those who want to know more personal information, you can visit the Fashion TV bio. It only lacks her family's history which is pretty amazing in itself.
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The Port of the Future: The Market Is on the Search for a Drier Port Wine
Port wines of the past were too sweet to serve with savory dishes, but as tastes move to drier wines, Port is following suit. Photo Credit: Flickr CC user Ernesto Andrade
Over the past 50 years, Port wine has amassed a reputation as an old-fashioned drink traditionally drunk with dessert. However, a Nielsen study found that more than 21 percent of Port drinkers are under the age of 44, a higher percentage of young drinkers than any other fortified wine, including Sherry. This is partly due to a revived cocktail culture, and partly to the discovery of drier Port wines by wine collectors and bartenders alike. As the wine world moves away from sweet wines in favor of dry varietals, and as a revived cocktail takes hold, dry Ports increase in market value.
Taking Port Off the Dessert Menu
As we have seen with the increased worth of dry Riesling in the past decade, more wineries and chefs are seeking out drier vintages of traditionally sweet varietals to serve to customers. Joao Roseira from Quinta do Infantado is known for pairing his Port wine with savory foods he picks directly from the estate's grounds, forgoing a dessert pairing entirely. He is not alone in this savory preference; famous Port producer Dow's has revised its harvest techniques to cater specifically to these tastes. Earlier harvesting and higher acidity are producing wine that is easier to pair with a wide range of foods, rather than just chocolate-rich desserts.
Port producers of the past would harvest late, which contributed to low acidity and the overall sweetness of the grape juice. Dow's recent harvests, such as the 2011 vintage, have a higher acidity than other Port wines on the market, which not only gives its wines a drier feel overall, but allows its new vintages to age longer in the cellar.
However, bright acidity in some of the finest Port vintages is not an entirely new phenomenon. Taylor's 1963 vintage has distinctly acidic notes. Robert Parker has said that Taylor's Ports need more time than any other producer to fully develop in flavor, which is why its 1960s vintages continue to be drinkable today. Premium Vintage Port wines age for up to 40 years, even when they are high in residual sugars, but slightly more acidic Port has been known to age for 50 years or more.
Sales Spike in Douro Valley
Port sales have been traditionally low, averaging out to about 500,000 cases in 1996. For the first time in decades, the wine world has witnessed a rise in Port sales, reaching about 759,000 cases in 2011. This 50 percent increase in value is partly the result of a new sense of terroir in Portugal's famous Douro Valley, which is considered to be the world's finest Port terrain, home to producers such as Graham's.
Douro Valley is the perfect terroir for a dry Port renaissance, as it has the steepest landscape in the country. The hills in this region reach up to a 30 percent incline on some estates, forcing producers to dig into the soil and even out the terrain. When winemakers flatten the landscape, they add rocks to the soil, providing better drainage for the roots. When water drains freely in the soil itself, winemakers are able to control, to some extent, how much water their vines receive, improving the flavors of the grapes.
Douro producers like Dow's have used more separate fermentations on their Port blends than they have in the past, with some vintages resulting from 50 or more fermentations. This gives them full control over the sweetness of the final wine, allowing residual sugars to ferment in some batches, but removing the grapes early from fermentation for other batches. When these ferments are combined, the Port gains sweetness from the high-sugar ferments, but has enough acidity from the less-fermented grapes to retain a bright flavor.
Mixology's Love of Fortified Wine
Cocktail trends rarely have an impact on the wine market, but Port wine is the exception. Modern upscale cocktail establishments are hiring bartenders who have gone through extensive mixology courses, where they learn how to craft cocktails according to centuries-old traditions. Young spirit drinkers are drawn to traditional cocktails that fell out of style before the 1970s, especially those made with fortified wine.
Port was a staple in many famous cocktail bars of the past, when cocktails like the Bin 27 Martini were popularized by the Rat Pack and other famous celebrities. The wine was a main ingredient in a cocktail crafted specifically for the Sir Francis Drake Hotel: the Bar Drake Manhattan. Both of these drinks are making a comeback in American bars, causing a revival of interest in Port.
The Port wine in these drinks adds sweetness, but seasoned bartenders are primarily interested in using drier-style Port. The slight acidity of the wine cuts through the other flavors of the spirits, allowing the Port to shine through in the mix. Wines that are too sweet tend to overpower other sweet spirits, such as bourbon, which is why drier Port is considered a better alternative in these pairings.
Collecting Port Vintages
As Douro producers use less residual sugars and more acidity in their wines, the wine market will likely continue to embrace the increased popularity of Port in the modern world. Look to producers such as Dow's to get a sense of this new Port era, as they are currently leading the way in modernized techniques. They have proven with their most recent vintages that Port is no longer just a holiday dessert drink, and that its complex flavors deserve more time on collectors' shelves.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Arrives: "The Force is Calling to You…Just Let It In."
by Sanket VijayOctober 20, 2015
We can barely control the giddiness that has just erupted over the third and potentially final trailer of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The excitement has never been more real. The internet is literally breaking over the latest trailer, and there are plenty of reasons for it. The new footage premiered during halftime on ESPN's Monday Night Football.
If you're still reading and haven't already jumped to the end and hit play, the new trailer has some huge moments – both in action and scenery. The trailer sheds more light on new characters like Finn (John Boyega) and Rey (Daisy Ridley), and new antagonist, Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) – who seems to be carrying forward Darth Vader's legacy. You can clearly see Kylo Ren talking to the salvaged helmet of Darth Vader, saying, "I will finish what you started". The third trailer still has no signs of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), though we did hear him speak in the previous trailer. This time, we get to see Han Solo (Harrison Ford) speak a few new lines, and oh, how we love each and every word of it: "The Dark Side, the Jedi, they're real." And that really is all a fan needs to hear.
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Clocking in at two and a half minutes, this trailer is perhaps the best look at what you can expect from the movie. We see Rey with her BB-8 droid on the planet Jakku. Her character is still a mystery and the trailers so far haven't revealed much, but that hasn't stopped fans everywhere coming up with possible theories as to who she might be. One of the more popular opinions suggest that Rey belongs to the Skywalker family. Whether she is the daughter of Han and Leia (Carrie Fisher) or if she's Luke Skywalker's own is still uncertain.
You also see the Millennium Falcon show off some new moves that will bring tears and nostalgia in buckets. And when the Millennium Falcon jumps to lightspeed, the goosebumps begin. We can go on and dissect every scene of the trailer, but instead we'll stop here and let you go ahead and watch the trailer cause,"the Force is calling to you…just let it in."
J. J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens will hit theaters December 18th.
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