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Tom Jones to perform at Bristol County Ground
Global superstar Tom Jones is set to perform at The Brightside Ground on Saturday 13 July 2019 in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of entertainment this summer.
Tickets go on Sale – Friday 25 January 2019 from 9.00am.
Tom Jones' distinctive voice and iconic records have earned him a place as one of the best loved artists ever to emerge from the 1960s with an eclectic musical mix spanning pop, rock, soul, R&B, dance, country and gospel. He is unequivocally a living legend. With a career spanning six decades and more than 100 million record sales under his belt, including hits such as It's Not Unusual, Kiss, Delilah and What's New Pussycat, his popularity as a live performer continues at a pace unrivalled in the industry, with some of the best reviews of his career hailing from his most recent albums Long Lost Suitcase, Spirit In The Room and Praise & Blame.
Tom is also a popular TV figure, currently reprising his role as a coach on ITV's The Voice, having returned after his huge success as the mentor for last year's winner Ruti, previously also mentoring Into the Ark who reached the final in 2017.
With numerous tours the world over under his belt coupled with a legion of fans, his extraordinary career was recognised in 2006 through his knighthood from Her Majesty the Queen and a string of prestigious music awards, including BRIT Awards for Best Male and Outstanding Contribution to Music, a Silver Clef Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Hitmaker Award from the [US] Songwriters Hall of Fame, GQ Man Of The Year, and the prestigious [UK] Music Industry Trust Award.
The concert at The Brightside Ground on Saturday 13 July 2019 will feature a collection of Tom's most popular hits across the decades, including his latest albums. Liz Doogan-Hobbs MBE, CEO of LHG Live, promoter said, "We are delighted to be working with Tom Jones once again. He remains one of the most popular artists in the industry and truly captivates his fans whenever he takes to the stage. Bristol is a vibrant place. and we are certain that the concert is going to be greatly welcomed, promising an evening filled with Tom's most recognisable and popular hits. We are looking forward to seeing all his fans there."
Tickets for Tom Jones at The Brightside Ground on Saturday 13 July 2019 go on General Sale on Friday 25 January at 9.00am.
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Q: What's the best way to compare two files & update the values of the first file from second file in Python? I apologize for the nOOb question. I'm a newbie to Python & I'm using Python 2.6. I have two files and I need to compare both of them & update the value of the 1st file from the 2nd file.
My first file is as below,
SeqNo   City           State

1   Chicago         IL

2   Boston          MA

3   New York    NY

4   Los Angeles CA

5   Seattle         WA

My second file is as below,
SeqNo   City           State   NewSeqNo

5   Seattle     WA  1

1   Chicago         IL  2

4   Los Angeles CA  3

2   Boston          MA  4

3   New York    NY  5

How do I updated the SEQ Number in the first file with the value in the NewSeqNo from the second file?
For example, the output of the first file should be,
NewSeqNo   City           State

2   Chicago         IL

4   Boston          MA

5   New York    NY

3   Los Angeles CA

1   Seattle         WA

I need to achieve this using Python & any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: Open the second file.  Use csv.reader to handle tokenizing each line.
Build up a mapping of oldseq->newseq, using a dict.
import csv

lookup = {}
with open('secondfile') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    for line in reader:
        oldseq, city, state, newseq = line
        lookup[oldseq] = newseq

Now open up your first file.  Use the same strategy, but replace your SeqNo with the value in your mapping dict.
with open('firstfile') as f, open('outfile','w') as w:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    writer = csv.writer(w)
    for line in reader:
        seq, city, state = line
        if seq in lookup:
            seq = lookup[seq]
        writer.writerow([seq, city, state])

That's the gist of it.  You will have to deal with some small things that I didn't address, like skipping the header row(s), and renaming 'outfile' to 'firstfile' (ie overwriting the old file with the temporary file) once you're done with the operation.  It's technically possible to avoid creating a temporary file and directly write into your file as you're iterating over it, but I advise against it for reasons I won't delve into here.

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Tant sari is a traditional Bengali sari, originating from the Bengal region in the eastern part and usually used by Bengali women. Tant sari are woven from cotton threads and distinguished by its lightness and transparency. It is considered to be the most comfortable sari for the hot and humid climate in the Indian subcontinent.

History
Under the royal guidance the tant (specially jamdani) and muslin became famous in and around Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Murshidabad (now West Bengal, India) in the Mughal era. British government tried to destroy this art to protect the textile industry of Manchester, but the tant culture managed to survive.

With the division of  Bengal province during the partition of 1947, some of the weavers migrated to West Bengal and continued their craftsmanship there. Thus the tant weavers are now seen in both parts of Bengal.

Weaving method

Weaving of tant sari is famous and an age old crafting of Bengal. The craftsmen deftly weave the cotton to thread which is woven to tant sari. Two shuttles are used for this purpose. Traditionally, handlooms were used by the weavers, which have today been largely replaced by power looms to weave these saris.

Themes and motif
The typical Tant sari is characterised by a thick border and a decorative pallav, woven using a variety of floral, paisley and other artistic motifs. Some of the popular traditional motifs are: bhomra (bumble bee), tabij (amulet), rajmahal (royal palace), ardha-chandra (half moon), chandmala (garland of moons), ansh (fish scale), hathi (elephant), nilambari (blue sky), ratan chokh (gem-eyed), benki (spiral), tara (star), kalka (paisley) and phool (flower). Printed, hand-painted and embroidered patterns are also used to get a larger variety of designs.  Different motifs including floral element, solar element and recently even modern art are depicted in this sari. Tant Sari comes with colourful design  and borders are made thicker because it is subjected to tear easily.

The traditional art of weaving jamdani, considered the best variety of tant clothings, has been enlisted by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Along with ordinary Bengali women of Bangladesh and West Bengal, many prominent Bengali female personalities also prefer to wear tant sari as their regular outfit. Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, speaker of Bangladesh parliament Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee are notable among them.

Care
It is recommended that before the first wash, tant saris should be soaked briefly in warm water mixed with rock salt, to prevent the sari from bleeding colour during subsequent washes. Washing with a mild detergent, followed by starching and then hanging them to dry in a shaded area will ensure the longevity of these cotton saris.

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Drama does not walk into your life. You either create it, invite it or associate with it. Barely 2 weeks into IPL season 12, and the drama unfolds to bring the game and the cricketing administration into disrepute. While the resultant attention will no doubt contribute to the eyeballs the unsavory aspects of the controversies can only take away from the game in the long run.
Two particular instances draw attention to, in contrasting ways, the ineptitude of the powers that be. The first, brought the 'spirit of the game' into question, an archaic concept if there ever was one. Heading for an obvious defeat Kings xi Punjab's skipper Ashwin did the 'sacrilegious' thing he cut short the innings of the murderous Butler who was taking the Punjab bowling attack to the cleaners by Mankading him. Out came the knives of our 'fair ' players including the honorable Shane Warne who expressed righteous indignation, under the apparent assumption that he had been the pallbearer of Aussie gamesmanship over the past couple of decades. The reactions just stopped short of pronouncing Ashwin a cheat and asking for a possible ban over the next couple of games (although going by current form and captaincy, it is debatable on who it would have helped).
The second incident outdid the first, an umpiring howler of the first order resulted in Kohli's Royal Challengers forfeiting 2 points and landing at the bottom of the table. A sixer off the last ball is not an exception any longer and Kohli had every right to feel hard done by the appalling oversight of an umpire who failed to notice the no ball. These incidents thoroughly exposed the absolute incompetence of a world sporting body which seemingly drags its feet on the most obvious decisions and worse still decides to put its foot in the mouth.
A game that is fast gaining in pace, with possible impact being measured in nanoseconds, is debating about the spirit of the game while totally disregarding the unfair advantage that such a head start entails.
As if that was not enough an official of the BCCI censured Ashwin for his actions comparing it to backstabbing, almost if Ashwin had a prior arrangement with Butler to allow him to run away with the match. Picture this, an off balance batsman enables Dhoni to catch the batsmen out of the crease in split seconds, reason enough for a rule change one would imagine. But this discussion would probably happen only if matters come to a head and there is a serious controversy featuring the haves and have nots in cricket.
Plans of reformatting the game to suit the modern sensibilities are being discussed regularly and duration is the moot point. Shorn of this luxury the rest of the adornments would necessarily have to be relegated to the annals of history. It would therefore have been in order for the authorities to anticipate these changes and bring in the modifications in the existing rules. With corporates in the fray now the stakes are higher than ever and the revocation of an IPL contract is something that any player could ill afford, and hence the desperation. That the competition is cut-throat now would be an understatement.
The second incident beggars belief. With technology so easily available, employing the devices to monitor crucial decisions appears to be a no brainer, but apparently not so for the BCCI. That an umpire could miss something during the last over speaks for their competence and the BCCI needs to take responsibility for that too. The fact that a country with a fanatical love for the sport is facing a serious shortage of umpiring talent seems incredibly fantastic but evidently true.
The game is changing exponentially and the gentlemen have transitioned into unrelenting professionals but cricket officialdom is still seemingly caught up in antiquarian beliefs. The current situation demands innovation on strategies to arrest the declining interest in the longer forms and ensuring audience footfalls in stadiums but the admin seem to have their own ideas on sustaining spectator interest, namely by queering the pitch for the players and uttering platitudes from the sidelines.


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Bradley Angle Names New Executive Director, Bri Condon
Bri Condon Hopes To Change The Narrative for Violence Survivors in 2019
PORTLAND, OR (July 22, 2019) –Bradley Angle is proud to welcome Bri Condon as the organization's new Executive Director. Condon comes to Bradley Angle with over 15 years of program development experience serving traumatized populations across multiple business sectors. Bradley Angle's mission is to serve all people affected by domestic violence, by placing people experiencing—or at risk of—domestic violence at the center of its services and providing them with safety, education, empowerment, healing, and hope.
"Bri's experience leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to problems, and increasing support and resources for organizations will be monumental for Bradley Angle as we step into our 45th year helping survivors of domestic violence ascend," says board chair Kindra Skrydlak.
Condon's new role as Executive Director, was announced at the annual gala fundraiser GlamHer held in May at The Hilton Portland Downtown. Since then, Bri has quickly identified and strategically redesigned ways to gain organizational stability, increase community support, and improve systemic processes.
On May 13th, Condon gave public testimony at the Portland Children's Levy's allocation committee meeting where Bri asked Mayor Wheeler and the committee to consider that the effects of both trauma and intergenerational trauma can be an obstacle to accessing services. "Someone's experience with trauma can create internal barriers that make resources entirely inaccessible."
Condon looks to change the social narrative for survivors by first bringing a greater awareness of how people generally perceive violence. Bri explains, "DV [domestic violence] is a mainstream problem affecting more people than society believes. It is not simply a subsection of outliers, only limited to the fringes." Within growing public awareness, Bri's goal is also to change how domestic violence help-systems may respond to survivors, and not, "…as if they have done something wrong, and must be monitored rather than guided. In actuality, Bri maintains that violence is proof of failures across all systems."
Prior to working at Bradley Angle, Condon co-founded and served as the Executive Director and Field Director for the Catalyst Wilderness Therapy Program, an organization whose mission was to empower the next generation of marginalized people past complex issues of mental health and substance abuse. Condon holds a Bachelor's Degree in Outdoor Education from the University of New Hampshire and a Master's Degree in Adventure Education/Risk Management from Prescott College.
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Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
February 15, 2021 Books, Speculative FictionLeonora Carrington, NYRB ClassicsWesley
1. The Surreal
All this is a digression and I do not wish anyone to think my mind wanders far, it wanders but never further than I want.
The Hearing Trumpet isn't about the hearing trumpet. That is, the trumpet doesn't have a role in the plot; it's just mentioned every so often. This is not Chekhov's hearing trumpet. Still, Leonora Carrington's novel kicks off with 92-year-old Marian Leatherby receiving the thing from her friend Carmella, so it's important. Marian's been given a way to extend her senses—far enough, Carmella suggests, to hear what others say while she's out of the room.
I love Leonora Carrington's stories but you want to read them one at a time. Most are heavily into dream logic and too many at once are too rich. I wondered how her style would work at novel length. But of course she adapted to fit the form: The Hearing Trumpet is a novel of escalating boiled-frog weirdness. It's also both funny—the narrator has a lot of cockeyed opinions and the confidence to state them as fact—and genuinely uncanny. Reading it is like wandering through a slapstick dream.
It starts as (just barely) a realist novel. Marian lives with her son Galahad in Mexico. She keeps to herself and keeps busy. She sweeps out her room, has hilarious conversations with Carmella, saves cat hair to knit into a sweater, and dreams of traveling through Lapland by dogsled. Her self-assurance is vast. Is she growing a beard? Marian thinks it looks gallant, so what the hell. With age she's stopped minding other people's eccentricities or caring what they think of her own. In the afterward to the New York Review Books Classics edition, Olga Tokarczuk argues that old age is Marian's license to be eccentric, fully herself, and frames The Hearing Trumpet as an argument for the revolutionary power of eccentricity, which she defines as a point of view "both provincial and marginal—pushed aside, to the fringes—and at the same time revelatory and revolutionary."[1]
Marian narrates The Hearing Trumpet in the first person. She's practical, and calm—absolutely unshakable. Never frightened; always amused, open, and curious. She grants all these qualities to the novel. So much of the feel of a novel hinges on the narrator's personality. (And every novel has a narrator, even if it's pretending not to!) Look at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's packed with events that would be grim in the straightforward, serious world of an Iain M. Banks novel. But Adams' voice tells us not to panic. The Hearing Trumpet is a reassuring, optimistic book. But if Marian were anxious and unsettled, this would be an anxious, unsettling novel. It is, after all, a book about a woman committed to an institution where she's subjected to a bizarre, overbearing treatment scheme.[2] The novel changes the emotional tenor of its plot by looking at it from an unexpected point of view.
2. The Surrealer
That's the first thing Marian hears with her trumpet: Galahad and his family are putting her in a home. "People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats," says Carmella. (Could Marian make Galahad into a sweater? I don't think so.) The Institution of Dr. and Mrs. Gambit is a liminal place, the border between the real and the impossible. It could exist—within the laws of nature, I mean—but who'd build it? The elderly women warehoused there inhabit a bizarre jumble of novelty cottages: a shoe, a toadstool, a mummy case. Marian gets a miniature lighthouse she calls the Lookout. Again, she's extending her senses. "Houses are really bodies," says Marian, and during this out-of-body experience she'll see and hear past the surface of the world.
The Gambits indoctrinate their charges in Inner Christianity, a vague regimen involving Movements, Self Remembering, and lots of Significant Capital Letters. Marian has free time to snoop, but can't entirely escape the regimen—Dr. Gambit is intrusively audible even sans trumpet. Marian's a vegetarian, used to directing her own diet. The Gambits let her stick to it but won't give her a second helping of vegetables to make up for the lack of meat. The Institution isn't adequately nourishing her. Still, she amuses herself by staring at a painting of a Winking Nun hanging opposite her chair. Somehow she intuits this person's name was Doña Rosalinda Alvarez Cruz della Cueva. The painting has a hidden meaning. The castle housing the Institution holds secrets Dr. Gambit is unaware of, brought over from Spain by a refugee during their Civil War. Something lives in its tower.
Sometimes talking about the genre of a book in broad terms (like Science Fiction or Horror) is less interesting than treating a specific thing the work is doing as its own subgenre, and finding other, sometimes unexpected works that relate to it as a result. The Hearing Trumpet reminds me of Twin Peaks and Philip K. Dick's VALIS that way, though in other ways they don't resemble each other at all. They're all metaphysical investigations: characters peel back layer after layer of their apparently ordinary world to discover unexpectedly idiosyncratic metaphysics. These stories often use existing mythology as a springboard. The Hearing Trumpet brings in the Holy Grail, as well as a lot of Gnostic ideas I'm not informed enough to comment on. But these are only starting points for more personal mythologies.
The mythology of The Hearing Trumpet centers around the Grail, really a pre-Christian artifact coopted by the Church: the cup of the goddess Venus, meant to hold Pneuma, or life-essence. It also takes in bees, werewolves, Taliesin, the Pole Star, soup, and the life of the Abbess Doña Rosalinda Alvarez Cruz della Cueva, who attempted to rescue the Grail from the Knights Templar. This is a book within a book—dozens of pages narrated by a medieval chronicler—provided by Christabel, a mysteriously busy resident who claims to be twice as old as Marian and guards the Abbess' legacy.
If you've read Tim Powers this might sound like the kind of thing he gets up to—setting up a mythological shadow world behind ordinary reality. But there's a difference that points to why The Hearing Trumpet, or VALIS, or David Lynch feel specifically surreal as opposed to fantastic. Powers' novels are about specific worldbuilding. The fun is in watching the characters figure out exactly how their world works and how they can work within it. But surreal metaphysics are never completely known. They're not logically worked out jigsaw-puzzle worldbuilding, but a line into another person's subconscious. Some of the resonances of their symbols are only fully understood by the author, or the narrator—assuming they fully understand it themselves. Not all questions will be answered, no matter how deep the protagonist digs. The world never loses its mystery.[3] Its systems remain open—you can interpret and reinterpret them forever. These stories aren't bothered about whether the audience understands everything they're getting at. They're not bothered if you understand something else—some meaning from the margins, personal to you.
3. The Surrealiest
Back in the present, two women who are really into Inner Christianity and aligned with the Gambits poison a fellow inmate.[4] This drives the other women to band together and declare a hunger strike until the poisoners are expelled. They feed themselves only from their own resources (for now, mostly a store of chocolate biscuits). As the Gambits lose control, the weather turns mysteriously cold. The world has turned on its side and the poles have migrated to the equator. The margins have replaced the center.
When the world tips over the cause-and-effect narrative (Marian embarrasses her family, therefore they put her in a home) tips over into full surrealism. Now things are happening just because it feels right for them to happen in that moment. The women's revolution coincides with a revolution of the earth. Christabel emerges as a leader, challenging Marian with riddles and introducing the women to the local bee-goddess. Marian's friends start turning up: Carmella digs a tunnel to the Institution to bust Marian out, hits uranium instead, and gets rich enough to supply the women with whatever they need. A European friend brings a tribe of werewolves in an atomic ark. The elderly women build an anarchic society of their own in the ruins of the Institution.
"It is impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call themselves 'Government!' The word, I expect, frightens people. It is a form of planetary hypnosis, and very unhealthy."
"It has been going on for years," I said. "And it only occurred to relatively few to disobey and make what they call revolutions. If they won their revolutions, which they occasionally did, they made more governments, sometimes more cruel and stupid than the last."
"Men are very difficult to understand," said Carmella. "Let's hope they all freeze to death."
This is, I must admit, one of those stories where the protagonist is empowered by an apocalypse. This isn't a plot I care for when handled realistically. But this is an openly metaphorical apocalypse. Marian's inner journey is manifesting itself in the world; her inner world and outer world grow more numinous in tandem. Finally Marian descends beneath the tower and meets herself making soup in a cauldron. She jumps into the pot and the Marians converge, at once being the soup and eating it. Food in this novel is a stand-in for everything that feeds Marian's mind and soul. She's self-fueling, feeding her soul from her own resources.
At this point the women retrieve the grail in a full-scale assault on its captors—but it's an epilogue. It happens very fast and, as it were, offstage. Which isn't how a typical book would work: isn't this the exciting part? But once Marian's gone through her evolution, in a sense she has the Grail already; getting the literal plot-Grail is just confirmation. Again, by this point in the book plot logic has slipped out the back door and run halfway to Canada; things are happening because they feel right.
If too many books worked like this it might get old, but occasionally it makes a nice change. The culture of the 21st century is dominated by TV and film, which in the U.S. means mostly Hollywood. They account for most of what most people consume and their conventions filter out into other media. And our stories are so… let's say, engineered. Our culture prefers a narrow range of structures and story-types. It's not like there aren't good reasons for that; three-act structures and heavily codified writing advice can serve as useful guard rails. It's easy for weirdly structured or unstructured stories to just not work. But an artistic ecosystem needs mutants. Stories that are weird, baffling, ambiguous, mulishly stubborn, frustrating the audience's expectations. Works that carve out new ecological niches, off to the sides, expand the range of possibilities for everyone else. This is where surrealism can come in handy.
Marian narrates the beginning of the novel, where she describes life with her son, and the end of the novel, where she describes life in the new world, in the present tense, but the story in between is in past tense. Marian starts out in a pleasant state of present-tense equilibrium and seems to enter into history as her problems begin. Now she's emerged again into a new open-ended present. By the end of the novel she's ready to ride through the newly snowy landscape on a sledge pulled by wooly dogs. She's creating her dreams where she is.
I recommend reading Tokarczuk's afterword, reprinted at that link; honestly, it's a better reading of the novel than mine could be. She talks about the value of "openness" and "wild metaphysics" in fiction, and when I read that I thought: yes, that's what I'm looking for these days. ↩
For a more serious though still brave version of this story, see Carrington's memoir Down Below. ↩
The Jamesian ghost story is a close relative, although its key emotion is fear instead of wonder. It has the investigation, the openness/incompleteness, the hints of more to the workings of the world. ↩
It might be relevant for some readers that The Hearing Trumpet features a depiction of a transgender woman that seems well intentioned for the mid–1970s but might feel dated. First, she's also the only character who dies. Second, the characters don't seem entirely clear on whether she's trans or living in disguise to stay near a lover, or aware there's a distinction. But the novel makes it clear she belongs with the other women—at one point she has a dream that indicates she's being invited into the same mysteries as Marian. ↩
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Chengdu IFS Wins Event Marketing Awards 2019
The winners of the Event Marketing Awards (EMA) 2019 were announced in Hong Kong on March 19. The Chengdu IFS won the gold award of the Best Brand Experience – B2C for its Chengdu Parcours Art Festival held last year.
The EMA, co-hosted by CEI and Campaign, both magazines published by Haymarket Media Group, a well-known media company headquartered in London, is aimed to recognize and celebrate companies applying best practice to the creation, planning, production and management of innovative and successful events in Asia-Pacific.
Opened in early 2014 by Wharf (Holdings) Limited, the Chengdu IFS is a landmark shopping complex in the city. It has gained a reputation both at home and abroad, for its architecture, brand portfolio and operations management.
The Chengdu IFS held last September the Chengdu Parcours Art Festival here in the city, as part of its international partnership with the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Committee in Paris. With the theme "Chengdu Impressions: Two Cities Tied by Art", the event presented an art feast to the public.
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Brighten the season with tales from the master of Christmastime fiction.
Most famous in the realm of holiday literature for his 1843 publication, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens was in fact a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the holiday itself. In the year following the release of A Christmas Carol, Dickens released The Chimes: A Christmas Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. This story combined his usual sympathy for the poor with the notion that we must always strive to live in nobler ways. In 1845 came The Cricket on the Hearth, a novella that, in its time, surpassed even A Christmas Carol in popularity for stage productions. The years 1846 and 1848 respectively saw published The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Given this wealth of Christmas-themed works, it is no wonder that Dickens is sometime referred to as "the man who invented Christmas."
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