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Languages on the edge: from private archive to shared library
Mohomodou Houssouba
Within the framework of the IIAS programme Humanities across Borders: Asia and Africa in the World (HaB), Mali is the site of investigation for language and translation practices with a special focus on opening and connecting 'marginal libraries', that is: the often modest collections of print, sound and film records that any individual or institution might possess. In this regard, both the archives of the host institution, Mali's Institute of Humanities (ISH), and personal files come into play.
Rethinking the library
The ISH, a descendant of the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (IFAN), founded in 1936, holds a rich repository of written documents, but also voice and film recordings from the colonial era onwards. The material is strong in history and social anthropology as well as in oral tradition recorded in different linguistic and cultural regions. Of the three research departments at ISH, the Department of Linguistics and Oral Literature was established with the mission to coordinate and harmonize research on local knowledge and the medium in which it is transmitted, preserved, and transformed. Still, the process has been neither systematic nor sustained. Moreover, frequent moves have forced the ISH Direction to stow away a significant part of its documents. The ISH relocated to a permanent site in 2017, and the three departments are only now recovering their archives. With regard to the language archives, though the inventory of the scattered documents started before HaB, its completion and integration into a larger curriculum of training, knowledge production and dissemination has been accelerated through our exchanges around the activities to be undertaken for the language and translation theme of the HaB program.
The next phase in the program is the training of students to digitize priority content and make it accessible to the research community. Part of the planning was done during my visit to the ISH in September 2017. I had brought along samples of private archives, some thirty years old, others quite recent, that I had been sorting out for digitization, transcription and translation. As it turned out, the physical presence of both the material and the portable equipment I had brought stimulated a productive discussion on the best way to move ahead, even if step by step and with limited resources. For that matter, the ISH and similar institutions have recently seen their research budgets drastically reduced or cancelled altogether. The drying up of research funding is officially blamed on increased spending on military and security efforts, but the humanities have in fact always been making do with scarce resources. For the ISH department in charge of revitalizing language research, these sudden cuts have made planning even more difficult, at a crucial juncture. Therefore, HaB has become an even more important platform to share experiences, especially with regard to enabling the co-production of new knowledge and teaching methods. To some extent, the institute's hidden repository, just like my personal notebooks and tapes, belong to the category of private archives, shrouded in the intimacy of the inner circle, waiting to be part of a shared library that could be open up to fresh and potentially critical perspectives on memories and representations of the past.
Floating family trees
Growing up in a farming village, I first experienced the seasons as alternating cycles of seemingly endless activity with short moments of rest. Of the latter, the end of the rice harvest season remains the most memorable, when, at the peak of the flood season, people traveled by pirogue to visit their relatives along the river. During this period, our house would fill up with visitors, who sometimes arrived from far away. I used to listen to my father reciting names after names, sometimes being interrupted with questions about a person or prompted for details about how this one was related to that one. My father also eagerly told us children about these kinship relations, but I did not have the attention span of his adult guests, often distant relatives, who listened closely to his accounts, engrossed in the intricate details of lineage spread over hundreds of kilometers, crisscrossing today's national territory, even spilling across national borders. Nonetheless, I became aware early of the power of being able to retain such knowledge of ancestry: the capacity to memorize so many names of persons and places, to recall historical events associated with individuals, families and communities, the narrative skills needed to pass on the stories in a precise and even entertaining manner.
A need of narrative structure
My own fascination for the art and technique of such storytelling came later though. Indeed, it took me years of living away from my home region and my family to gain a genuine interest in the stories with which I grew up. The first moment came in my third year at the teachers college in Bamako, 1200 km southwest of Gao. After coming across Charles Bird's research on the hunters' musical and narrative traditions in southern Mali, I decided to write my undergraduate thesis on traditional storytelling techniques, focusing on the prosody of Songhay genealogical and historical accounts.
Initially, I recalled a scene I had witnessed ten years before. In 1977, when I spent part of my school holidays with my relatives in the old city of Gao, we used to attend the evening gatherings on the public square in our neighborhood. Amidst the large crowds of people, several storytellers took center stage, taking turn recounting different episodes of the history of the city and the region. The physical scene fascinated me more than the mainstay of Songhay history about which I had already heard or read in fragments at home and school.
For my college project, I decided to find a master storyteller who not only knew the intricacies of the past, but could also recount them in a compelling way. My search led me to a renowned oral historian in the old city of Gao, whom I recorded over one afternoon. I returned home with the tape, which I played before my father. He turned out to be both an engaged and skeptical listener, asking me several times to replay statements, commenting on what he found accurate, dubious, or far-fetched. I realized that in recounting the past the deeds of well-known historical figures were the most subject to discrepancies and controversy. My father's objections to some detail or other had a lot to do with how he identified with a given character in the story. The other's account, at times, either displaced the centrality of our own lineage in the context of local history, or produced portraits that did not correspond to the image my father had of these ancestors. I came to the conclusion that there was no single story to be told and that an important task in my project could be to tease out the elements of empathy and self-identification, and, conversely, aversion and rejection that might drive the storytelling and shape the relationship between the narrator and the topic, object or figure of narration.
This questioning also led me, in the second phase of my project, to record my own father so that I could listen to him in a different context – detached, to some extent, from the immediate moment or familial context. Therefore, I returned to Bamako with the two narratives, one based on a linear account of the shared history that most people knew and shared in different forms and lengths, the other of a more personal and subjective nature as it started with and revolved around the origins of one family.
In the end, I changed my thesis topic altogether, yet I kept the tapes close to me and even brought them along as I attended a summer school in creative writing in the United States in 1987. There was a week-long workshop dedicated to storytelling in Elkins, West Virginia, but aside from discovering different and lively traditions of declamation, especially from the Appalachian region, the course didn't yield any practical use for my tapes. I was bound to carry them along to the different places where I would live between 1987 and 1999. They followed me to Niger for a year and to the American Midwest for ten years. For the most part, they ceased to be present in my consciousness.
Renewed sense of urgency
When I rediscovered them again in full, ten years later, the recording of the oral historian was intact. It struck me then as the performance of a well-trained, routine performer. The speaker came across as a warm conversation partner, who, at times, provoked the listener or replied ironically to a wrong answer to one of his rhetorical questions. In all, he was an agile performer who enjoyed sharing his knowledge and establishing his authority as the master of the word.
On the other hand, my father spoke in a neutral, metallic voice with hardly any interruptions, until the tape started to waver and die altogether after thirty-two minutes. The rest of the tape was hardly audible. It came to an abrupt end, just when he was telling me about the situation in our village near Gao at the onset of the French colonial era. I seemed to have never truly grasped the content of the story, as before I had only focused on the form and style (prosody) of the story. I had been interested in the strategies used to memorize such complex details, to keep a narrative going with hundreds of names, events and places, spanning different centuries and epochs. The brutal interruption in the story, when my father reflected on the fundamental shift that had occurred in local governance and the nature of social bonds, motivated me to make up for the lost recordings. There were other points I had hardly noticed, and one unfulfilled promise still lingers with me. He had asked me to go see an ailing, elderly woman in our extended family in the old city of Gao, and ask her for more precise details about my mother's side of the family, considered to be more deeply rooted in the area and related to key figures of the past.
To be sure, as I started my seventh year in the Midwest, listening to the distant voices of my father and his contemporary prompted in me a sense of urgency that I had never felt before in relation to the long, fragmented and variegated story of the Songhay-speaking people and their heartland between Djenné and Niamey: the cycles of being a dominating power and a cluster of subjugated dominions; the dramatic end of their empire with the Moroccan invasion in 1591: the collapse of the last major regional state, which marked the irreversible shift of power from the Saharan desert routes to the Atlantic ocean lines; the rise of imperial and colonial Europe; the transatlantic slave trade to settle and exploit the Americas with free African labor, which fed the industrialization of the West and prepared for the colonial era, which the African continent has yet to exit.
In 1997, as I delved into slave narratives for my dissertation on the discourse on the African diaspora, it became clear to me that, one day, the oral fragments I had recorded could help substantiate part of a narrative that could neither be linear not complete. Like American slave narratives, the stories of the West African past are permeated by traces of displacement, bondage, yearning for freedom, and the destruction and reconstruction of a homeland. Nevertheless, they also convey a sense of wholeness and rootedness that is hard to associate with the transatlantic experience of radical disruption. I decided to have my younger brother do a follow-up recording with our father. The 1997 recordings would last 320 minutes. I was not present at these sessions, but this made me all the more the narratee. Distance pulled me into the center of the story as my name was uttered every time my father decided to tell the genealogy from my generation to the most distant ancestor recorded in our lineage on his side and my mother's.
Transcription: listening (more) closely to silence
More recently, transcribing the 1987 and 1997 recordings has enabled me to listen more carefully and make more direct comparisons between the narrative threads and specific details, including the scores of names repeated as the genealogy was recited in a concentric way: from the family to the village, from one village to the next, among related villages, and across whole regions. This way, we learned how, on his father's side over three centuries ago, people left the Massina (Macina), 630 km to the south, migrated in stages northwards and settled in places in today's regions of Mopti and Timbuktu before finally reaching Gao.
Dealing with the recordings has never been an easy task for me. On the one hand, they are intimate, private stories about the interwoven strands that constitute our family heritage. On the other hand, they also represent a shared story, as they retrace the lineage of thousands of people from the Mali-Niger border to the central region of Mali. From east to west, they cover at least 900 km and uncover the multi-ethnic roots of families like mine. For instance, my ancestors who left the Massina were Fulani. They went north and east, mingled with the Songhay, Tuareg and other populations they encountered along the way; yet, I declare my ethnic and linguistic identity today as Songhay. To be sure, even in my childhood, people occasionally referred to us as Fulani, because 'technically', our paternal side can be traced back to a faraway Fulani heartland, although my mother's family is considered to be part of the indigenous Songhay stock of Gao. In fact, for a long time, my own representation of the recordings revolved around the genealogy, the part that connected me to my parents and made me part of a web of kinship, and especially my relation to people who today identify with a specific ethnic group, with its associated language, social culture, and worldview.
However, as I resume working with the recordings, I realize that in my representation of the material, the share of the genealogical part is in fact exaggerated. While it makes up about half of the audible part of the 1987 recording (16 out of 30 minutes), it ends after 25 minutes of the 320 minutes recorded in 1997. Given the overlaps in the rendering of family trees, the genealogical component is just about 30 minutes. The remaining 320 minutes cover other topics; recently, these have become more relevant, motivating my effort to transcribe and translate the material in full.
From genealogy to general history
The genealogist is the guardian of collective memories. Starting with the family unit, he or she weaves together the complex fabric of kinship, made of unions and separations, harmony and discord, old and new identities. In this regard, beyond reciting a lineage, genealogy links persons through time and space. Genealogical knowledge used to be considered an important strategic knowledge base; this is why people travelled from far away to consult the expert, able to disentangle the intricacies of a particular ancestry. This is what brought people to my father. From his parents, he had learned the lesser known history of the Fulani migration from central to northern Mali, which would have a sequel at the end of the 19th century with the last waves leaving Gao for the Sudan between 1898 and World War I, prompted by drought, famine and the bloody suppression of revolts by the French colonial administration. The resulting colonies still populate at least six villages in today's Sudan and largely speak Songhay. However, recent emigrations to the Gulf States are once again shifting the cultural and linguistic identity of these 'enclaves'. By all indications, the youngest generation tends to be more fluent in Arabic and English and again identify as Fulani as there is a more continuous presence of this ethnic group across the Sahel, from Senegal to Cameroon.
Poetics of everyday life
Having transcribed and partially translated the recordings, I am now focusing on the interstices of different narratives, recorded about familial and regional histories over the last three decades. The centrality of the Songhay empire in West African history and its global relevance are well known, thanks to the chronicles and testimonials written by traveling scholars of the Arab-Islamic world as well as local chroniclers in Djenné, Timbuktu, Gao and Essuk, from the late Middle Ages to the colonial era and throughout the 20th century.
More recent narratives help us supplement fragmentary and inaccessible documentation, especially by shedding light on the practice of everyday life, giving insights into material culture, social layers and classes, ethical and moral standards, prejudices and biases, affect or interpersonal proximity and distance. Thus, at the current juncture, I find of more interest the inner dynamics of my father's family and its relation to the larger community: the social status of my grandfather as a single child; the early death of my father's parents and the adoption of my father and his siblings by a childless aunt and her husband; his coming of age under the regime of forced labor imposed by the French colonial power; the cycles of bounty and famine; abundant and erratic rainfall that culminated in the historic drought of 1973-74, which would have an irreversible impact on Gao and the Sahel and shape the landscape of desolation and disorder that nowadays figures at the center of global strategic concerns, including rural emigration, endless wars, displacement, trafficking of all kinds, militant jihadism and nihilistic terrorism. The narration of ordinary life gives us such a direct and lively access to the past, rendered in voices that spoke a language, which, in the meantime, strikes by its intellectual precision and lyric power.
Interestingly, even before joining the HaB platform, research at the Institute of Humanities has increasingly focused on studying social dynamics in highly localized contexts, for example: how gender relations evolved over time in a village or restricted area; how traditional chieftaincy emerged or disappeared in one place when moral or religious authority merged with political power in another; how iron or another metal, as craft or merchandise, fashioned relationships between regions. Such questioning can be extended to all the themes as pertaining to the different HaB sites in West Africa: the memory of interregional migration in the construction of a grassroots West African identity (Ghana); the role of indigo cultivation and dyeing in keeping endogamous communities linguistically unified and economically sustainable from the 17th to 21st century (Burkina Faso); the place of street food in reshaping popular culinary art and municipal policy in steering the production and consumption of foodstuff in modern African cities (Senegal). In all these areas, there is a strong need to interrogate local memories and contexts to get a more accurate picture than the generic representations still predominant in African studies. Moreover, the HaB framework challenges specialists and practitioners to reflect on both African and Asian contexts to tease out both commonalities and particularities.
Mohomodou Houssouba (Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland) is leading the HaB research project in Mali 'Languages on the edge: from private archive to shared library'. He lectures and writes on issues of multilingualism and the presence of African languages in digital technologies and space. Starting with the translation and adaptation of software interfaces in African languages, his work focuses increasingly on the production and dissemination of content. In this regard, the expansion of mobile telephony and internet among the mobile agro-pastoral communities in Africa has implications for the way in which these organize and govern themselves, access information and knowledge, and relate to one another and the rest of the world. https://tinyurl.com/HaBmohomodou


Rest days at Disney World are important when planning your Disney World holiday. Disney parks are huge and there is so much going on that no-one can keep going forever. When we plan our itineraries, such as our 10 day Disney World itinerary, we always plan some rest days into it.
If you're wondering what to do on a rest day at Disney World, these ideas are a great way to enjoy some rest but keeping the Disney magic alive for your holiday.
Disney World have so many amazing resorts, and you can visit them to look around and eat in their restaurants. The only thing you can't do is swim in their pools unless you are staying there. This is a great way to spend a non park Disney day.
Bus to Magic Kingdom, take one of the resort boats to either Grand Floridian and Polynesian Village resort, or the other resort boat to Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness Resort.
Bus to Hollywood Studios and then Friendship boat to Boardwalk, Beach and Yacht Club Resorts.
Bus to Epcot and then walk towards the Boardwalk, Beach and Yacht Club Resorts via the International Gateway.
If we have a resort in mind that we want to visit then we will often take the first park bus that arrives and then change busses to visit that resort. If you have a car, travelling will be quicker as you can go straight to the resorts.
A pool day is a great change to enjoy some rest and relaxation from the parks. If you're staying in a Disney World resort, then you will often find activities are provided around the pool during the day. This is a great way to keep the kids entertained and enjoy some sunshine and relaxation at the same time.
Need to do laundry? A pool day is a great chance to do this, often Disney resorts have their laundry section near the pool, so we will load the machine, enjoy some swimming and sun bathing, all whilst checking on the laundry periodically.
Disney World have two places to visit to play mini golf. The first, Fantasia Gardens which is home to two 18 hole mini golf courses. You can find Fantasia Gardens at Disney Swan Resort in the Epcot area.
The second is Winter Summerland Mini golf at Blizzard Beach. Enjoy some great winter theming in the sunshine whilst you play two different 18 hole adventures.
If you're wondering if Mini Golf is included in your Disney tickets, then I can tell you that if you are from the UK and have the ultimate ticket which gives you access to all four Disney parks and both water parks, then you can play one round of golf before 4pm included in your ticket price at either venue.
Other ticket options include free mini golf so check your tickets before travelling to see if you have it included.
Disney Springs is a great place to visit when enjoying rest days at Disney World. I would avoid going during the weekend as this is the busiest time at Disney Springs. You can enjoy some shopping, plenty of places to eat and enjoy the views of the springs.
Disney Springs changes each time we visit, so there's always something new to see and do. I can't visit Disney Springs without going into World of Disney and the Christmas shop.
Both Disney water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach are great places to visit. They can be as relaxing as you make them. We love to arrive at either water park and spend hours on the lazy river. This is such a great way to spend a few hours floating around the river on an inflatable tube.
If water is your thing, you can rent a variety of different boats from Disney resorts and spend some time out on the water enjoying the views. A 2 guest sea racer will cost in the region of $32 for half an hour, up to a 10 seater sun tracker which costs in the region of $45 per half an hour.
You may also want to enjoy a speciality fireworks cruise. We loved ours when we set sail from the Contemporary resort.


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Donald Trump and His Failure to See His Own Success Trap Unfold
Joe Duncan 2020-11-22
Proof That The Donald's Business Savvy is Nonexistent
All of the perceived success in Donald Trump's life is a lie. He inherited his fortunes and doesn't know the first thing about running a successful business, let alone a country. Not only is this evinced by his complete and total failure to mount an adequate response to the coronavirus pandemic but also in his complete inability to apply the very business savvy he claims that he has to running a solid campaign in the year 2020.
The first mistake has cost us 220,000 American lives at the time of this writing, with anywhere from 130,000 to 210,000 being preventable had we rolled out a decent strategy at the outset.
The second mistake is what cost him the election.
In the lead-up to the election, as the second presidential debate transpired, we saw a more mundane Trump, almost as if he'd been medicated with the kind of psych meds he's needed all along, and the candidates were on more of an even keel of coherence and ability to clearly formulate ideas.
Trump was still much more aggressive than Biden, but at least this time he was able to form complete sentences without being totally immersed in attempts to interrupt Biden at every turn, playing the bully that his base has always loved him for.
But there's just one problem…he was still pandering to his base…
…he fell into a success trap…
What's a success trap? A success trap is a trap that businesses often fall into where they rely on the conditions of past success to try to succeed into the future in a changing world that brings about changing environments, necessitating changing responsibilities and evolving paradigms.
As John Spacey says for Simplicable:
A success trap occurs when early successes lead a society or organization to develop structures, processes, infrastructure, technologies and culture that become a liability when things change.
Imagine for a second you built your entire office infrastructure on landline phones, investing heavily in those landline phones in the mid-2000s. You spent vast amounts of cash training your employees to use and operate those phones, only to discover a few years down the road that your business needs had all switched over to an app-based structure and the evolution of the technology pushed you out of your own market.
Kodak didn't anticipate the transition from analog to digital photography and they paid the price. Blockbuster didn't anticipate the transition from video stores to online streaming services and where are they now? Big box retailers like CompUSA and Circuit City didn't see the looming retail apocalypse that was posed by giants like Amazon coming up at much lower costs and they doubled down on their original business models instead of adapting.
That's a success trap. It's doubly so when you double down on the things that worked the first time around instead of listening to the external cues of the world and adapting accordingly.
As the famed biologist Charles Darwin said perfectly, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."
Success traps also come in the form of company culture or, in this case, campaign culture. And Donald Trump's campaign now finds itself in a success trap. He doubled down on his angry 2016 rhetoric that we're all tired of, he was pushing dangerous conspiracy theory narratives that only his base understands, he was not engaging undecided voters or trying to win over new people, he was basically trying to perform the same exact tricks that worked once as if they'll work again.
But 2020 is a very different year from 2016. The electorate has changed, voters' attitudes have changed, and the apathy of those who don't support him has been riled up to awaken the fury within us — we were ready to stop him and vote him out at all costs and that's exactly what happened.
Trump's failure was that he only has one style, one message, and he couldn't embrace anything new and augment it into his campaign model.
It's like a one-hit-wonder, something the eighties that I grew up in was full of, people who came up with a musical formula that worked one time, only to find that they weren't keeping pace with the evolution of the music world as a whole, forever being known for that one big hit they had and nothing more.
Does anyone remember who sang that song Tainted Love? I know a couple of music nerds, maybe some DJs, and a few Goths jumped up to tell me, "Of course I do! It's Soft Cell!" But the vast majority of the public has no idea who Soft Cell is, even if they sang a very popular song they all know and love. They just know that song as the one that plays at the bowling alley or the mall. And Trump, like Soft Cell, was quickly on his way to becoming a one-hit-wonder.
Trump is a one-trick-pony, and he hadn't been doing the work to bring in new people, to evolve to a political landscape that's changing, and to learn new strategies to defend his presidency. That's why he lost. He was the incumbent and he just tried the same "drain the swamp" rhetoric that got him elected not realizing that he is the swamp.
You can't run on the message that the government's bad and out to get you when you yourself are in charge of the government. That's like pointing the finger back at yourself. All you're showing is that you're either evil and the one out to get people; or that you're impotent and you can't control the very thing you've been elected to be in charge of. And then he had the audacity to ask for a second term?
Now, Trump's days living in the White House are numbered. On January 20th, 2020, President Biden will be sworn in to take his place.
How someone with the supposed business savvy that Trump claims to have could miss the fact that he's clearly falling into a success trap, I have no idea, unless, of course, he doesn't have the business acumen he claims he does and is little more than a showman and a fraud.
As the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus once said, "All is in flux," and Donald failed to realize that, which brings me to my last question: are you paying attention to the "flux" in your life?
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Black to move, who wins?
If you're interested, this position is in fact a famous endgame study known as the Saavedra Position, named after the Spanish priest Rev. Fernando Saavedra (1849–1922), who spotted a win for Black in this position, which was previously thought to have been a draw.
Now some of you may be thinking: "But Black can obviously win over here, what's going on?". If that is the case, then well done for remembering what you have learned in Part 2! But now, the position of Black's king and pawn allows White to try an interesting drawing trick, which Black must know how to sidestep.
Similar to our previous position in Part 2, White must resort to repeated checks to prevent promotion.
I hope you remember that 2... Kf4? doesn't work because of 3. Re8! threatening a skewer on the f-file should Black promote his pawn!
And behind the screen I can already hear some of you shouting "OMG!". The threat here is that after 6... f1=Q? White forces a stalemate after 7. Rf5+! Rxf5. A truly ingenious move!
And now 7. Rf5+ Rxf5 leads to nothing for White, and the unfortunate position of White's king gives a checkmate threat on h1!
And White must lose his rook or face checkmate on f8.
In our final part for Rook vs Lone Pawn endgames, we will take a look at how conventions may change when the pawn in question becomes a rook pawn.


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Q: C++ Class returning old values? I can't seem to figure out why this code,
class test{
    public:
    int number;
    test(int pass){
      number = pass;
    }
};

int main(){
   test x(3);
   test y(2);
   test z[2]={x,y};
   y.number = 1;
   cout << "z[0].number: " << z[0].number << endl;
   cout << "z[1].number: " << z[1].number << endl;
   cout << "x.number: " << x.number << endl;
   cout << "y.number: " << y.number << endl;
   return 0;
}

Comes up with this output,
z[0].number: 3
z[1].number: 2
x.number: 3
y.number: 1

Instead of this one,
z[0].number: 3
z[1].number: 1
x.number: 3
y.number: 1

How can I make the second output possible? I've searched for this for three days, and still no luck :(

A: I initially wrote "You can make z be an array of references to test objects."
test &z[2] = {x,y};  // Wrong, wrong, wrong!

...but as I now realize - it's not as simple as that, as C++ does not allow arrays of references directly.
As @chris comments, in C++11 using std::reference_wrapper gets around this limitation.
std::reference_wrapper<test> z[2] = {x,y};

A: When you say:
test z[2] = {x, y};

z holds two copy-constructed instances of test. Since you didn't put in a copy constructor, it uses the default, which copies all data members. Thus, z contains a copy of x and a copy of y. That's why changing y doesn't change what's in z. It's not like Java where everything is a reference.

A: When you create your array z with test z[2]={x,y}; you're actually making a copy of the values of x and y at the time you create the array. They are then two independent sets of values from then on, and even when you modify one, the other is still unchanged.
What you can do is create an array of pointers to the elements (since arrays of references aren't possible):
test* z[2] = {&x,&y};
cout << "z[0]->number: " << z[0]->number << endl;
cout << "z[1]->number: " << z[1]->number << endl;

But are you OK initializing the array and then taking references to it instead?
test z[2]={3, 2};
test& x(test[0]);
test& y(test[1]);

A: z[1] and y are not the same objects. What you've done is copy-initialized z[1] from the current value of y.
If you want the behavior, you'll have to do explicitly use pointer types (c++ does not allow arrays of references) like this:
class test{
    public:
    int number;
    test(int pass){
      number = pass;
    }
};

int main(){
   test x(3);
   test y(2);
   test *z[2]={&x,&y};
   y.number = 1;
   cout << "z[0]->number: " << z[0]->number << endl;
   cout << "z[1]->number: " << z[1]->number << endl;
   cout << "x.number: " << x.number << endl;
   cout << "y.number: " << y.number << endl;
   return 0;
}

A: C++ doesn't allow an array of references, but that's where std::reference_wrapper comes in handy:
#include <vector>
#include <functional>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    test x(1), y(2);

    std::vector<std::reference_wrapper<test>> z{ std::ref(x), std::ref(y) };

    x.number = 5;
    y.number = 3;

    std::cout << z[0].get().number << std::endl; // 5
    std::cout << z[1].get().number << std::endl; // 3
}

Live Demo
This example also uses std::vector, which is recommended in place of your C-style arrays.

A: Variable z[1] is a copy of y, not a reference to y. So after initializing array z any modification on x or y does not affects the value of z[0] or z[1].

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Synchronous responses of the primary auditory fibers to the onset of tone burst and their relation to compound action potentials
Özcan Özdamar, Peter Dallos
Özdamar, Ö., & Dallos, P. (1978). Synchronous responses of the primary auditory fibers to the onset of tone burst and their relation to compound action potentials. Brain Research, 155(1), 169-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(78)90320-7
Synchronous responses of the primary auditory fibers to the onset of tone burst and their relation to compound action potentials. / Özdamar, Özcan; Dallos, Peter.
In: Brain Research, Vol. 155, No. 1, 20.10.1978, p. 169-175.
Özdamar, Ö & Dallos, P 1978, 'Synchronous responses of the primary auditory fibers to the onset of tone burst and their relation to compound action potentials', Brain Research, vol. 155, no. 1, pp. 169-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(78)90320-7
Özdamar Ö, Dallos P. Synchronous responses of the primary auditory fibers to the onset of tone burst and their relation to compound action potentials. Brain Research. 1978 Oct 20;155(1):169-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(78)90320-7
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Q: Get like count of a facebook post then save it to another places I'm developing a WP 8 app by using Facebook C# SDK, and for now, I want to get "like count" of a post.
Here is my code, everything works well but the return value, it's always "null" because like_count.like_count is never assigned to. I don't know how to assign it in my code.
The line
like_count.like_count = like_info["total_count"].ToString();

has value "200" but the line
return like_count.like_count;

returns null!
private string GetLikes(string id)
    {
        like_comment like_count = new like_comment();
        FacebookClient fb = new FacebookClient(App.AccessToken);
        fb.GetCompleted += (o, e) =>
        {
            if (e.Error != null)
            {
                Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(()
                    =>
                    MessageBox.Show(e.Error.Message)
                    );
                return;
            }

            var result = (IDictionary<string, object>)e.GetResultData();
            var like_info = (JsonObject)result["summary"];
            Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(()
                =>
                {
                    like_count.like_count = like_info["total_count"].ToString();
                }
                );
        };
        fb.GetTaskAsync("/"+id+"/likes?summary=1");
        return like_count.like_count;
    }

Hope someone can help me :(

A: The following doesn't work?
private string GetLikes(string id)
{
    FacebookClient fb = new FacebookClient(App.AccessToken);
    fb.GetCompleted += (o, e) =>
    {
        if (e.Error != null)
        {
            Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(()
                =>
                MessageBox.Show(e.Error.Message)
                );
            return;
        }

        var result = (IDictionary<string, object>)e.GetResultData();
        var like_info = (JsonObject)result["summary"];
        Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(()
            =>
            {
                return like_info["total_count"].ToString();
            }
            );
    };
    fb.GetTaskAsync("/"+id+"/likes?summary=1");
}


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The French National Institute of Public Service [Institut national du service public - INSP], created on January 1, 2022, is the new public benchmark dedicated to the recruitment, initial training, and continuing training of French top executives and managers.

Its creation is part of the top management reforms introduced by French President Emmanuel Macron, in order to achieve a more efficient, inclusive and attractive top administration.

The Institute is responsible for providing senior state executives with initial and continuing training based on new foundations. It oversees a common core program for public service schools that train senior executives from all three sectors of the public service and the administration of justice, to ensure common references, improve public action and then better serve French citizens.

It especially provides continuing training that focuses on helping senior civil servants access government management positions.

The Institute's mission, as a prestigious training centre for top executives and managers, is to build top-quality academic partnerships (in France and abroad) and to develop France's international influence, which includes taking foreign students and welcoming foreign auditors.

The INSP is seated in Strasbourg and has offices in Paris.

Its structure and activities are set out in Decree no. 2021-1556 of December 1, 2021.

Objectives of the INSP
The Institute's main objectives are to:

 Organize preparation courses for the entrance exams to the senior civil service and European organizations;
 Organize the Institute's entrance exams;
 Ensure the initial training of civil servant students who have passed the entrance exams, in conjunction with other public service schools or ministries' training departments;
 Oversee and coordinate courses which aim to develop a common culture in public action and to open up the administration. These courses will be designed in conjunction with other public service schools, ministries' training departments or organizations in charge of continuing education;
 Implement a range of continuing professional and top-quality training - often resulting in a diploma or certification - intended for people working or likely to work as government executives or for those wishing to access management positions;
 Carry out and fund research activities related to public services;
 Enhance the influence of the French administration's research, training, and expertise in Europe and worldwide.

History
Emmanuel Macron decided to suppress definitely the École nationale d'administration despite the opposition of his Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and of his Private secretary Benoît Ribadeau-Dumas (who both, like Emmanuel Macron, went to ENA)

Upon his announcement, this decision was critiqued by many French "Hauts fonctionnaires" ('senior civil servant'), many of whom attended the ÉNA themselves.

Recruitment
Students are selected after a bachelor's degree with different competitions depending on the candidate's profile.

References

Grandes écoles
French public administration schools
Educational institutions established in 2021
2021 establishments in France
Emmanuel Macron
Education in Strasbourg
Education in Paris

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Hellmouth #5
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Hellmouth
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR ENDS HERE! Angel and Buffy finally confront the enemy in the heart of the Hellmouth, but the journey has already taken its tolls. Beaten in body and spirit, they might not have enough power between them to save the world. With more allies than they know, Buffy and Angel will make their final stand… and not everyone will make it out alive.
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THE FIRST EVENT OF THE ALL-NEW BUFFY UNIVERSE STARTS HERE! Buffy Summers, the Slayer, has one job—keep the forces of hell from coming to Earth through, uh, Hellmouth. Here's the bad news—she might have failed. The Mistress Drusilla and her ally, Spike, have found a weapon to open the Hellmouth and unleash unspeakable evil across the town and the world. With time running out, Buffy must team up
Angel walks the line between two worlds; a vampire cursed with a soul, he's spent centuries battling back the forces that would destroy humanity, in an attempt to redeem himself for the crimes committed by the monster he was when he was first turned. But now, when the trail of the most recent demonic uprising takes him to Sunnydale, he realizes that the redemption he seeks can only come with a pri
The reimagining of Joss Whedon's groundbreaking series continues as Drusilla, the self-proclaimed Mistress and her pet, Spike, make their debut with their sights set on Buffy! Meanwhile, Giles is determined to teach Buffy about her destiny, responsibility, blah blah...can someone tell him to chill? How bad can it get?
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After everything -- and everyone -- she lost to the Hellmouth, Willow is leaving Sunnydale on a world-spanning road trip in search of her true self. She stumbles on a community of people like her: lost witches looking for answers... but there's a darkness at the heart of it, one that reminds Willow of something she's felt before, something that she fears inside herself. Now, truly alone for the fi
From Joss Whedon (the visionary creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), buried histories and secret identities are revealed, along with all the heist-takin', authority-dodgin', death-defyin' space-cowboyin' you've been missing from your life, as this ragtag crew of mercenaries, outlaws, and fugitives travel the stars in search of their next adventure in these sequels to the hit Firefly television se


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I bought it the day before yesterday.
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The car is unrestored. It looks like a barnfind, but with no rust at all.
It is complete, and not modified, except the engine.
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This is a katzbalger, the chosen side arm of Landsknechts. It is a short sword great for close up fights and for looking cool. Pretty much every picture of Landsknechts will have at least one soldier strutting his stuff wearing one of these. Apparently the name 'Katzbalger' means cat fight and so these short swords are well suited to close up melee type fights and perfect for an ale house brawl.
The blade is in spring steel with a two short and two slightly longer fullers each side and a ricasso. At the ricasso the blade is 6mm thick and tapers down steadily from there. The blade itself is lenticular in section and has been left quite stiff, so although short, it strikes with intent.
The guard has been formed and filed as long straight sections which are then bent around into a 'S' shape and terminated with brass finials and a brass addition to the quillon block.
The organic grip section is made from stacks of bone and horn and the grip is finished in dramatic fish tail in steel. The use of a few different materials in the grip is quite normal as is the long pommel and short 'grip' and I love the striking appearance of the bone and horn.
The scabbard is made from poplar and covered with veg tan leather with a pocket for an eating set. The scabbard itself is nearly as iconic as the sword and is worn near horizontally with the belt threaded through a woven leather binding and the whole is finished with a bronze chape.
The Germans/Swiss seemed to particularly love having eating sets on their swords and this comes with one too. The pommels are made to emulate the fishtail of the sword and have steel furniture and horn grips.
I hope you like it and any comments or thoughts are very welcome.
Stats will follow in the next day or two.
As the Landsknechts no doubt used to say, Bitchin. Absolutely bitchin.
The Bright red scabbard really takes it to the top. Just a great contrast. Love how the eating set pommels echo the fishtail pommel, that's such a great idea. Awesome filing on the quillons. The belt buckle and tab look really nice. Every element is just expertly done and chosen!
I second the bitchin' statement. Tasteful, bold, flamboyant and detailed, it's just the sort of thing a stylish landsknecht would wear about the town or the battlefield. I love the lenticular cross section; I think I've seen mostly lenticular blades in museum photos or woodcuts, but mostly flattened diamond sections on repos. Love the grip and the byknife and the whole lot.
Another stellar piece out of your shop, Tod. I was sent photos of this a couple days ago by the new owner and the piece floors me. I'm happy for him, of course, but also really super envious. Great work.
Tod, very attractive design, the file work is fantastic. The contrast in colours and textures really work well with the flow of the very sculptural pommel.
Your work always impressive seems to get better all the time.
Beautiful piece Tod. What are the dimensions?
Very nice work, as always and I like the idea of repeating the pommel shape on the set of by-knives! Could you post a shot of the back of the scabbard, please?
This is wonderful, very clean.
Katzbalger my favorite, I often watch in the museum.
Thank you for showing Tod.
Thanks so much for all your kind words and it is interesting to see how taken people are with the eating set.
I will try and get some stats to gather.
The addition of the eating set is one of those details that makes the piece for a lot of us. The sword itself is outstanding, but an added detail like that takes it to another level. Trey bitchin'.
I have to agree with Patrick about the reason the eating set is drawing so much attention. It compliments what is already a work of art in the form of the sword and scabbard and brings it to the next level. The grip really grabs my attention. THe guard, just blows me away.
Truly envious of whomever the lucky owner of this is.
I think you have just set a new standard for German mercenary bling.
Now if you will excuse me, I will just be over here crying quietly.
Thank you once again - very kind.
I'm late to this party. My god, Tod, this one goes to 11. The utensils. The scabbard. Just gobsmacking wow. Your customer must be ecstatic.


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Holiday Risks: Are You Prepared?
The end of the year is a time for fun and festive holiday celebrations – often a time for bringing individuals together from all over to your organization for different events, parties, and activities. While your organization's existing monitoring plans are likely effective for everyday activities, your typical day-to-day procedures might not be sufficient to ensure the safety of the youth/consumers in your programs during this high-traffic time of year.
Remind employees and volunteers of your program's monitoring plans and revise plans where necessary based on new activities.
Block off all unused locations so that there are no areas where program participants can find privacy with one another or where one adult could find privacy with a program participant.
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Do not allow unmonitored access into the building through the back or side doors. Have a formalized procedure for checking visitors in and out of your facility.
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Baird's CMC worked with Aeras, a public-private vaccine partnership, to look at the communications and policy drivers and barriers to adoption of a partially-effective new TB vaccine. The study focused on Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Mozambique, Romania, Russia and South Africa. We conducted a perceptions study across the eight countries, conducting depth interviews with 86 key stakeholders and opinion leaders to identify the most likely scenario in each country for the adoption of a new TB vaccine.
Baird's CMC presented respondents with different adoption scenarios, and asked "If this were the scenario, how likely would your country be to adopt it within three years of the first license anywhere?" Baird's CMC then collated, analysed and synthesised the data: the respondents' reactions to each scenario, the pros and cons of each scenario, views on costing, perceived health priorities, factors affecting the decisions, and key learnings.
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Margaret Ferrier MP COVID-19 Parliament Trip Described As 'Indefensible'
by John Johnson
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Scotland's first Minster has said that the reckless actions of a Scottish National Party MP who travelled from Scotland to London by train despite experiencing COVID-19 symptoms are "utterly indefensible".
Margaret Ferrier MP told reporters that she made the journey because she was feeling "much better" and added that she returned home via public transport after getting a positive test result.
It is not known as to whether or not the MP was wearing a face covering as she travelled by public transport.
Nicola Sturgeon tweeted to say that she thought that Ms Ferrier should be suspended.
"This is utterly indefensible.
"It's hard to express just how angry I feel on behalf of people across the country, making hard sacrifices every day to help beat COVID.
"The rules apply to everyone and they're in place to keep people safe. @Ianblackford_MP is right to suspend the whip."
Ms Ferrier said she took a coronavirus test on Saturday after experiencing "mild symptoms". She added that she travelled to London on Monday as she had 'felt better'.
The MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West spoke in the coronavirus debate in the House of Commons on Monday and said she received her positive test result that evening.
She then took a train back to Scotland on Tuesday.
It is not known whether or not the MP has downloaded the NHS COVID-19 track and trace app that would allow individuals who had been near the MP as she travelled on the train, know that they had been close to someone who has tested positive for COVID.
The NHS COVID-19 App allows users to input a positive test result which will then automatically alert anyone who had been within two metres of the COVID positive MP for around 15 minutes.
The app uses anonymous Bluetooth technology to act as a 'proximity warning' when someone has been close to another individual who later tests positive for COVID.
The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he had spoken to Ms Ferrier, who accepted that what she had done was wrong.
He said: "Margaret will be referring herself to the parliamentary standards commissioner as well as the police. I am tonight suspending the whip from Margaret."
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UNFIX Festival — Unfix the Situation
Artistic director and performer Paul Michael Henry, who has devised successive UNFIX festivals, discusses his motivation and ambitions for these international gatherings and explorations, ahead of UNFIX 2019 next month. UNFIX: a command form, a verb, an activity.
UNFIX is a multi-art form festival based in Glasgow, New York and Tokyo. It starts from the proposition that the Anthropocene is happening inside your body, RIGHT NOW. The 2019 Edition is scheduled for 29th-31st March at CCA Glasgow.
I started UNFIX in 2015, looking to 'Climate Change' like a lightning rod for the vague and specific discomforts about this society that have plagued me all my life. People keep mis-labelling it 'Unfixed' or 'The Unfix' but it's UNFIX: a command form. A verb and activity.
A loosening, disburdening, freeing-up. Anti-fatalistic, with the assumption that it doesn't have to be like this. I experience climate change as a terrible affirmation: we cannot treat each other, ourselves and our surroundings this way. We can't walk around with these egos functioning the way they do, and live.
UNFIX 2019
Image: Henrik Knudsen © 2019
Situation crisis
When the 'Banking Crisis' hit in 2008 it occurred to me (and others I'm sure) that it could just as well be called the Banking Opportunity. With the cracks briefly showing, it could be a moment of vulnerability for finance and late capitalism, a gap in the concrete where something new could spring up. The fact that it wasn't speaks simply to the aggregate level of human consciousness at that time. We were not awake enough.
I'm a Glaswegian artist whose work tends to focus on the body — specifically, the body as an ecological reality traumatised by, and intimately connected to, wider currents of politics, patriarchy, capitalism and climate change. I'm also interested in the body's ability to soften these by love, connection and embodied understanding. I'm uninterested in finger-pointing, and am probably some kind of mystic at heart.
Actually part of that is a lie. I'd love to finger point, and sometimes I do. Jump up and down and rail at the capitalists and the patriarchs and the selfish and the sleeping, righteously righteously. Weep publicly, perhaps on TV, cradling plastic smothered turtles in my too late saviour's arms. But climate change really isn't about me and a wiser part of me knows that. It swallows me and I need to reckon with it, I live inside it and it shames me and prompts me to act.
When I don't live in alignment with my values (which is often), a rat gnaws my stomach. The rat is tamed when I take actions with my whole being, like starting a festival for misfit artists to say what's burning in our gizzards and draw what attention we can to The Situation.
Shrimp Dance, Paul Michael Henry. Platform, Glasgow October 2017.
Image: Brian Hartley © 2017
Situation opportunity
The first UNFIX happened because a wonderful venue (the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow) was foolish enough to give me the keys to the building for a weekend. I was living in a camper van at the time, completely skint and dreaming. We teamed up, dozens of artists and activists, nobody getting paid, and we staged performances and film screenings and debates and ate together at another great venue (the Project Cafe) who made us all food from ingredients foraged in Kelvingrove Park. It felt a bit explosive. People still tell me how it affected them, boosted their resilience. I dunno. I'd like to think so.
But I mean: it's art. The Situation persists. I throw my tiny actions and those of the artists involved in UNFIX on the pile, to be added to the older generations who saw this coming (the Joanna Macys, the Alastair McIntoshes) and the younger just now exploding in beauty (the school-age climate strikers). Outcomes are unknowable so I align myself, not sure, opting — as Alastair is fond of saying — to "Dig where I stand."
So what about the Climate Opportunity? I don't think shouting at Trump is going to be enough, though it is surely a part of it. But when I project all my climate rage outwards I'm being dishonest. I think that all of us raising our levels of awareness, radically –individually, in small groups, in large groups, in continental blocks, in cross currents and collaborations, and in the owning of our own shadows — CHANGING OURSELVES from the inside out, might make a difference.
I don't know what our chances of survival as something resembling the human species are, and I'm agnostic about whether we deserve it. I'm to blame and you're to blame and everyone is confused and the most ignorant and ego-driven have the most power and will kill us all if we let them. OK OK. The Situation. Perhaps we should just get to work?
Minako Seki
Image: Ulrich Heemann © 2019
This year's UNFIX Festival has some (a little) money behind it. For the first time I have a budget and producers and paperwork, and people to account to afterwards. And I can pay the artists taking part, more or less. All of which makes me nervous because it dilutes my standing as someone powerless and shouting on the sidelines (my strongest suit). It's not much power, mind.
If I were king, I would outlaw the term Consumers. Swap in the word Organism, or System, or ConsumerDigesterExcreter. I would have mandatory shit cannons primed for every time someone says 'Economic Growth'. All would bow down before my solutions. Righteously Righteously.
I am not king, thankfully, signing on instead each day as an average-extraordinary worker bee in the Anthropocene: of unique gifts and no special importance, grief-stricken and hopeful and sometimes sick and faltering and giving up and starting again.
Who looks out through your eyes when you think about climate change?
Paul Michael Henry makes performances that, most of the time, end up on a stage, but he also makes recorded music and films and collaborates on other artists' projects. He is artistic director of UNFIX Festival and teaches dance workshops called The Dreaming Body. His themes are political, social and spiritual, dealing with love, neglect of the body, destruction of the environment and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society.
UNFIX 2019 is scheduled for 29th-31st March at CCA Glasgow. It will feature contributions from local and international artists and organisations including Minako Seki, Alberta Whittle, Chistiana Bissett, The Workroom, Extinction Rebellion, Creative Carbon Scotland, Niya B, Ruaridh Law, Verónica Mota/Urban Arts Berlin, VID art|science, Yulia Kovanova, NIGHTPARADE, Katrine Turner, VIDIV, Adam Fish, Paul Michael Henry and The Dark Mountain Project. You can discover more at www.unfixfestival.com. Tickets are on a sliding scale and can be purchased from the CCA website.
Paul Michael Henry
A performance maker whose dance, music, ritual and writing deal with love, neglect of body, destruction of environment and atrophy of soul in consumerist society.
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We got the chance to go hands-on with HP's first "Always Connected PC," the Envy x2. Here's a look.
A year after Windows 10 on ARM was first revealed, Microsoft and Qualcomm have finally taken the wraps off of the first two "Always Connected PCs." Neither is available just yet, but we were recently able to get some hands-on time with HP's offering, the HP Envy x2.
The HP Envy x2 is a Surface-like tablet PC running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 processor. That allows HP to achieve instant-on capabilities, in addition to claims of up to 20 hours of battery life and LTE connectivity. Support for Windows Hello facial recognition and active pen inking are also on board, and the whole experience comes out of the box powered by Windows 10 S.
There's no pricing available just yet, but HP says it plans to release the Envy x2 sometime in spring 2018. The Envy x2 will also be joined by the ASUS NovaGo, another "Always Connected PC" with which we also recently had a chance to go hands-on.


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Court of Appeal Seqoko v Mapota (CIV/A/3/82) [1983] LSCA 57 (20 June 1983); [1983] LSCA 57 20 Jun 1983 Court of Appeal Case number: CIV/A/3/82 Case name: Seqoko v Mapota Judgment Date: 20 June 1983...
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India News - Woman shot in face after she stops dancing at wedding
International Friday 06th December 2019 05:51 PM REPORT
Thank you for reading the news about Woman shot in face after she stops dancing at wedding and now with the details
Aden - Yasmine El Tohamy - The woman is admitted to a hospital in a critical condition.
In a shocking incident, a case of a woman being shot in the face after she stopped dancing at a wedding has come to light.
The bizarre incident, which took place in Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, has been caught on a video where the young woman, who was part of a dancing group, is seen on the stage with a co-performer.
In the one-minute long clip, a man in an inebriated condition is heard saying, "Goli chal jayegi (shots will be fired)," as soon as the woman stops dancing.
"Sudhir bhaiya, aap goli chala hi do (Brother, you should fire the gun)," another man is heard saying and the woman is suddenly shot from behind, which takes everybody by surprise. The bullet hits her face.
The woman is admitted to a hospital in Kanpur in a critical condition.
According to reports, the video was shot on December 1 during a performance at the wedding of village head Sudhir Singh Patel's daughter.
One of the village head's family members had reportedly shot at the woman.
The groom's maternal uncles, Mithilesh and Akhilesh, who were on the stage, were also injured in the firing, according to the police.
The groom's paternal uncle Ram Pratap filed a first information report against an unknown man.
We are trying to arrest the accused. We are making all the efforts to bring the culprit to justice," senior police officer Ankit Mittal said.
It may be recalled that in a similar incident in 2016, a 25-year-old dancer was killed in celebratory firing during a wedding in Bathinda in Punjab.
Kulwinder Kaur, who was pregnant, was shot in the stomach while performing on stage. She had died on the spot.
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