I have been working on paintings for the Tatha Gallery's Spring show as well as thinking ahead to my solo show in 2017 at the Open Eye.
Rooks feeding on a pile of manure. I saw them and simultaneously saw the painting I wanted to make. This is rare for me as ideas tend to need time and a degree of editing.
Studio filling up with work for RSW spring show at the Meffan Institute, Forfar.


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OTI ZEE: Ohanaeze fumes, alleges injustice as Tinubu declares presidential bid
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, says he has informed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of his decision to run for the office of President in 2023.
Tinubu revealed this to State House correspondents on Monday after a private meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
However, the APC leader said he had yet to publicly disclose his ambition as he was still in consultations with various interest groups across the country.
Tinubu's meeting with the President came days after he (Buhari) declared in a televised interview that he would not divulge his favourite for the APC 2023 presidential ticket.
Asked if he had officially informed Buhari about his ambition to run, the APC leader said, "I answer that with a categorical yes. I've informed the President of my intention, but I have not informed Nigerians yet. I'm still consulting. And I have no problem consulting. And I've not set a parameter of limitation to the extent of how many people I will consult.
"You will soon hear; all you want to hear is the categorical declaration. You've got that truth from me that I have informed Mr President of my ambition, and you don't expect more answers than that."
The former Lagos State Governor also revealed that the President did not advise him to drop his ambition
"He is a democrat. He didn't ask me to stop. He didn't ask me not to attempt and pursue my ambition. It is a lifelong ambition. So, why do I expect him to say more than that? You are running a democratic dispensation, and you must adopt the principles and the values and virtues of democracy. That's it," he said.
When asked about his potential race for the APC ticket with the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; for whom many groups have been mobilising support, Tinubu revealed that, as former Governor of Lagos State, he possessed the capacity, confidence and vision to "rule" the country.
"I don't want to discuss individuals now. I must discuss myself. I have the confidence, the vision, the capacity to rule, build on the foundation of Mr President, and turn Nigeria better. I have done that with commitment in Lagos State.
"You've seen that experience and the capacity to turn things around, and that is what we are doing. You know, the confusion and drift of the past in the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) are being corrected. And you can't take away from that. As we are today, go back to the data on how many barrels of oil were we producing when we first came in and what it is today? Even at the time we came in, we did not pay the counterpart funds to start our rail line.
"Today, you enjoy the comfort of having rail from Lagos to Ibadan. You have the Kaduna and the one for Kano State on the aggressive pipeline; you see excellent infrastructure. I just came from Azare, and I have seen good roads. The carnage of dying in vehicles is reducing except for the lack of compliance by many Nigerian drivers. Let us think back. Let us be intellectually inquisitive as to the past and the present and what the future holds for Nigeria," he said.
On the purpose of his visit to the State House, Tinubu said he came to see the President on general issues concerning
Nigeria, the APC, security, the achievements recorded so far under the Buhari regime and the New Year agenda.
The Presidential hopeful, who declined to reveal his plans for the country should he become President, said he also discussed direct primaries, the APC convention and reacted to those advising him to remain a kingmaker rather than gun for the throne.
On December 19, 2021, The PUNCH reported that the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria urged Tinubu to shelve his presidential ambition and instead unit the party and maintain his role as kingmaker.
Okechukwu, a founding member of the APC, advised Tinubu to back a younger candidate from the South-East in line with the zoning convention.
In his reaction, the APC National Leader said, "I have never seen the cap of a kingmaker before. That is the truth. And I've never seen where it is written in the rule book anywhere in any country that a kingmaker cannot be a king unless you commit murder.
"So, whatever you attribute is your own opinion. Me, I want to pursue my ambition without the title of a kingmaker. You can write your literature and your story based upon your own perception."
On the electoral amendment bill which President Buhari recently withheld assent to, Tinubu said, "First of all, the National Assembly and the President must be encouraged to review and review again. Whatever they come up with as electoral amendment is what we must comply with.
"There is no unlimited elasticity in what we face because we have to plan and plan well and be able to manage time effectively. The great roadmap to success is the ability of a leader to do what he must do at the right time that it should be done.
"That to me is the electoral amendment point, we will still look at that collectively. And it is our country. It's our democracy. We have adopted it, and we will push it rigorously."
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What aspects do you frequently find that you return to in your practice?
I am often surprised at the acute relevance that architecture has in my work. It may sound pretty generic, but, thinking about how spatial practices inform culture, personal and even political agency is a pretty significant topic for me. In a nebulous sort of way propositions that have their roots in architecture seem to always echo around in the studio, never becoming 'resolved' per se but always returning and inter-pollinating one another.
What is at the core of your work?
To put it very simply, its thinking of how ideas and objects circulate around in the world, and the conditions that create them. As artworks are as contingent with their surroundings as any other object is, I'm interested in how this relationship can operate both as a materially implicit thing as well as something abstract in a much bigger schematic system. Recently, thinking about how diagrams function has been pretty useful for me and I have begun to think of how work operates as a placeholder for something outside of what is present.
How does your work engage with the history and discipline of painting?
I don't think that I'm interested in engaging specifically with the history of painting in my work. Well, at least not in the Fine Art sense. A lot of my interests in 'painting' is how it exists and is deployed the the world; found material gestures, industrial processes or how paint is used for utilitarian purposes. I like the idea that the application of paint in these instances is relative to a notion of labour, and perhaps its creation is co-opted through verbs such as 'covering', 'filling' and 'surfacing' instead of aestheticising verbs found in the traditional sense of painting.
It's not particularly clear or easy to describe, but perhaps it shouldn't be. Like most practices things develop and you are surprised by outcomes. Ideas and work are both formally constructed and emerge organically, there is no hierarchy between the two. Perhaps something involving intense procrastination, scattered thoughts and a lot of coffee would best describe it.
Everyday I cycle through the city and everyday I see something new.
What's the best exhibition you've seen in the last six months?
I really enjoyed Matias Faldbakken's recent show at Simon Lee, there was something really dumb yet beautiful about it. Also, Steve Bishop at Carlos Ishikawa was great.
What living artist do you most admire?
This is a tough one, and it changes all the time. I'm a fan of Thomas Hirschhorn's work, but he walks a fine line between being critically astute, punk, and Relational Aesthetics. Its a tough gig to pull off.
What is it about being an artist that drives you?
The ability to ask questions without the need for an answer. People always talk about medium specificity, and this is something that I think is incredibly important but even more vital is the plasticity and diversity of vocabulary an artist can have.
If money was no object..?
Do all of the above but get paid for it!


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Sources of Light: Courtney Jones
In 1962, 14-year-old Sam and her mother move from Pennsylvania to Jackson, Mississippi, a city on the edge of social upheaval as racial tensions come to a head. All Sam wants is to "live her life staying out the way," but she finds that hard to do after her mother, an art professor, teaches a class at the local all-black college and becomes a target of white supremacist groups. Perry, her mother's photographer boyfriend, gives Sam a camera and the courage to record the sit-ins, voter registrations, and the violent rage provoked by peaceful protests. one is demonized in this novel. McMullan, a Mississippi native, makes her characters complex, confused, and sympathetic. Most notably, Sam's love interest, Stone, seems decided in his racism and dangerous in his convictions; but his search for right is just as important as Sam's. In the end, readers will see the humanity of those on the wrong side of history, and may even feel compassion for them, too.
Sources of Light: Publisher's Weekly
Sources of Light: Hilary Writt


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The genius in great package design is to generate a natural attraction.
Attracting customers with packaging is vital at retail. Your brand essence must be conveyed at a glance, and it must be distinguished from the competition, yet have a sense of belonging. Studies show that the majority of consumers who pick up a consumer product package form a bond once they've done so. Most of those packages go into the shopping cart. The validation process takes place in a few moments, and the shopability of your package is key. If the consumer is gaining clarity, key features are being distinguished, and how well you have presented the information versus other products in your line, as well as competitive products, a decision is about to be made.
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SS Peter and Paul (, ) is a Catholic church in Istanbul, important for historical reasons. The church owns an icon of the Virgin of the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea.  The current building is a nineteenth-century (1841 to 1843) reconstruction of the Fossati brothers. An adjacent former commercial facility, Saint Pierre Han, is (as of 2022) set to be renovated into a cultural center.

Location

The church lies in Karaköy (ancient Galata) neighborhood of the district of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey. Its address is Galata Kulesi Sokak 44, Kuledibi.

History
After that in 1475 Sultan Mehmet II had converted the Dominican Church of San Paolo in Galata into a mosque, in 1476 the friars moved two hundred meters East, always below the Galata Tower, in a house with land owned by Venetian noblemen Angelo Zaccaria. In the building was enclosed a small chapel - used by nuns - dedicated to the Saints Peter and Paul. On 20 April 1535, the old Zaccaria ceded the house to the Dominicans against the monthly offer of a candle and the weekly celebration of a mass for the souls of himself and his parents. In 1603-1604 the chapel was rebuilt as a larger church together with a monastery. In 1608, a Firman of Sultan Ahmed III  put the complex under the protection of the King of France, while at the same time the church got also a yearly subsidy from the Republic of Venice.

In 1640, a large icon of the Hodegetria type (originally in Caffa) which belonged to the Dominican Church of S. Maria di Costantinopoli, located inside the walled city of Istanbul and in that year converted into a mosque, was moved here. In 1660 the church and the monastery burned and, since the destruction had been total (except for the icon which could be rescued), according to the law the ground was returned to the Ottoman Government. Despite that, thanks to the intercession of the European Powers, a new church could be built again in 1702. Since 1706, after the Dominicans refused to deliver the Hodegetria Icon to Venice, the Republic quit paying the subsidy to the church. Around those years, the Icon was partially repainted (the mantle of the Virgin appears now embroidered with the Fleurs-de-lis of France), so that only her face and chest are possibly original. The complex burned again during the great fire of Galata in 1731, and was rebuilt with wood. From 1841 to 1843 the Swiss-Italian brothers Gaspare and Giuseppe Fossati erected the present building.

Together with Saint Anthony and Saint Mary Draperis, SS. Peter and Paul was one of the three Levantine parishes in Beyoğlu. The parish jurisdiction extended over the lower part of the Galata neighborhood, a popular area which often became the first residence for European immigrants settling in the city. Due to that, the parish's birth, wedding and death registers represent an invaluable source for the history of the recurring waves of immigration in the 18th and 19th century. The church now serves the local Maltese community, with masses in Italian.

Architecture
The church is built in the form of a basilica, with a four side altar. The cupola over the choir is sky blue, studded with gold stars. The church's rear wall is built into a section of Galata's old Genoese ramparts.  The church possesses several relics: those of Saint Renatus (found in the catacombs of Galata), and others of Saint Thomas, Saint Dominic and the Saints Peter and Paul. The yard East of the church's entrance takes the form of a narrow alleyway enclosed by high walls which are covered with sculptures and inscribed gravestones, most of them in Italian. More graves are contained in the church's crypt.

Saint-Pierre Han

The  is a warehouse and trading venue (or caravanserai, ) that was a commercial dependency of the church erected on its grounds. It was built as a wooden structure in 1732, burned in 1770, and was reconstructed with more durable materials in 1771-1772 on the initiative of French ambassador François-Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest. It housed a number of organizations and enterprises, including the Constantinople Bar Association, the Italian Chamber of Commerce, the Ottoman Bank on its upper floor between 1856 and 1893, a mustard producer, and a denim workshop under the  brand, .

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Saint Pierre Han was a favorite venue for architecture firms, including those of Alexander Vallaury (1850-1921), Hovsep Aznavur (1854-1935),  (1873-1951), as well as Alexandre Neocosmos (also known as Yenidünya), the interior designer of the ornate  building in Istanbul. While working there, Vallaury had a plaque apposed on the building to commemorate the birth on that site of André Chénier in 1762.

In 2011, the Bahçeşehir Uğur Education Foundation (), sponsor of Bahçeşehir University, started renting the property with plans to install a conservatory. It later developed plans to renovate it jointly with Istanbul Municipality, and repurpose it as a cultural center.

References

Sources

External links
 Sen Piyer Kilisesi (official website)
 Saint Pierre ve Saint Paul Kilisesi (İstanbul)
 Church of SS Peter and Paul

Roman Catholic churches in Istanbul
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1843
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Beyoğlu
1843 establishments in the Ottoman Empire

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329 (CCCXXIX) var ett normalår som började en onsdag i den julianska kalendern.

Händelser

Okänt datum
 I Romarriket införs regler, som begränsar möjligheterna att göra karriär inom kyrkan.
 Det kinesiska Han Zhaoriket går under.

Födda
 Gregorios av Nazianzos, grekisk teolog, biskop, kyrkofader och helgon

Avlidna
 Flavia Julia Helena, augusta i Romarriket och mor till kejsar Konstantin den store (omkring detta år)

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Q: How to find HCF of 2 numbers in compile time using template? I want to calculate HCF of 2 numbers using value of enum with template recursion:
#include <stdio.h>
template<int x,int y,int r>
struct s{
    enum{e=x%r==0 && y%r==0?r:s<x,y,r-1>::e};
};

int main(){
    printf("%d\n",s<3,5,MIN(3,5)>::e);
    return 0;
};

which x and y are the 2 numbers,r is the value to test, the principle is that find a number to divide x and y, start from min of x and y, then decrease by 1 until a value of r can divide both x and y. But this code cannot compile because of following errors:
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -252>'     requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -251>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -250>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -249>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -248>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: (skipping 246 contexts in backtrace; use -ftemplate-backtrace-limit=0 to see all)
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -1>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, 0>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, 1>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, 2>' requested here
xxx.cpp:8:19: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, 3>' requested here
printf("%d\n",s<3,5,3>::e);
              ^
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: use -ftemplate-depth=N to increase recursive template instantiation depth
enum{e=x%r==0 && y%r==0?r:s<x,y,r-1>::e};
                          ^
1 error generated.

What is the problem?

A: @moonshadow's comment is the core answer, but let me expand it into a full answer.
The compiler output luckily shows the relevant instantiations:
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, -1>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, 0>' requested here
xxx.cpp:4:31: note: in instantiation of template class 's<3, 5, 1>' requested here

Let's look at the actual instantiation
template<int x = 3, int y = 5, int r = 0>
struct s{
    enum{e = 3%0==0 && 5%0==0 ? 0 : s<5,3,-1>::e};
};

Obviously, two things are wrong:

*

*3 % 0 is a division by zero

*The instantiation of s<5,3,-1> is unnecessary.

This is easily fixed with constexpr, but let's stick with a templated solution. Recursion needs an special case for the end, and HCF(x,y)=1 is that special case for co-primes.
template <int x, int y>
struct s<x,y,1> { enum e = 1 };

That said, you really should use Euclid's algorithm as this brute-force search won't work for something as easy as s<300,300,300>.

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The house is situated in a carfree surrounding. The garage and parking is 100 meters away, but possible to drive close to house when needed.
The house is built in the mid 70´s and has two newly renovated bathrooms, both with a shower, the downstairs also with a bath. Three bedrooms upstairs and a small sittingroom at the top of stairs. Downstairs has a open plan large livingroom and newly renovated kitchen. A bedroom and bathroom. A small room for laundry etc.
In this house you are only meters from a beautiful lake with good fishing, walking and fantastic bicycling opprtunities. You can ride a long distance on just cyclingroads without cars. We have two bicycles for grown ups and three för children 5-10 years. Our car is a Ford Focus 2008.
Växjö is a small and very nice city in the middle of Småland. Växjö has a beautiful cathedral, some good museums, nice shopping, sporting possibilities and wonderful surroundings of woods, meadows and lakes.


In an unprecedented move, the Central Board of Secondary Education announced today that it will hold the examination for class XII Economics and class X Mathematics papers again. As per the CBSE press release, the dates for the fresh examinations and other details shall be announced within a week.
The official reason announced by the board, for the re-examination, is that, "the board has taken cognizance of certain happenings in the conduct of certain examinations as are being reported. With the view to uphold the sanctity of the Board examinations and in the interest of the fairness to the students, the Board has decided to reconduct the examinations."
Earlier there were reports that papers were leaked for the class XII Economics exam held on Tuesday, and the class X Math exam held today. In view of these reports, the board announced the re-examination for both papers.


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List of articles in category Secondary Schools
St Ann's High School, Bolar (1870)
St Agnes High School, Mangaluru (1914)
Ladyhill Victoria Girls' High School, Urwa (1885)
St Cecily's High School, Udupi (1933)
St Joseph's High School, Kundapura (1946)
St Mary's High School, Falnir (1948)
Carmel Girls' High School, Modankap, Bantwal (1963)
Holy Rosary High School, Moodbidri (1964)
Stella Maris High School, Gangolli (1966)
Carmel High School, Kemmannu (1971)
Vidya Jyothi High School, Jyothinagar (2008)


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Tremacebus harringtoni — викопний вид широконосих мавп родини Коатові (Atelidae). Скам'янілості знайдені у провінції Чубут у Патагонії на півдні Аргентини. Датуються раннім міоценом, 20 млн років.

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Мавпа була завдовжки до 1 метра та вагою приблизно 2 кг. Була схожа на сучасних представників родини Aotidae, з якими вона напевне була тісно пов'язана, проте мала менші очі. Аналіз черепа показав, що у неї були зменшені нюхові цибулини, отже мала поганий нюх. Малі очі та поганий нюх вказують на денний спосіб життя.

Примітки

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Ссавці олігоцену
Вимерлі тварини, описані 1933
Викопні ссавці


The bath club is located in the city center, near piazza D'Azeglio, the square where there is the bus station. The beach club is within walking distance from the train station (10 minutes) or accessible by public transport. Colombo Guido is about 200 meters from the harbor of Viareggio, which is a fabulous place for a romantic walk during the sunset.
To be at "Colombo Guido" means being part of a big family and meeting old friends again.


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Cambodia versus Hollywood
27. März 2012 27. März 2012 Michael ScholtenFilmwissen, Kolumnen & Blogs
Actress Daliah Lavi recalls the making of "Lord Jim" in 1964
Daliah Lavi in 1964
When Daliah Lavi invited Hollywood star Kirk Douglas to her 10th birthday party, the little girl had no idea that this would eventually lead to an unforgettable adventure in Cambodia. Jewish-American Douglas ("Spartacus") was filming "The Juggler" in a kibbutz near Haifa in Israel in 1952, where Daliah lived with her German/Russian immigrant parents. The actor saw the pretty kid with the olive skin and the dark eyes, wanted to adopt her and take her to California. The parents refused. Instead Douglas left a generous donation that enabled Daliah to study ballet in Sweden until the age of 15. A life in Paris, an acting career in Rome and the female lead in the movie "Lord Jim", mainly shot in the temples and jungles of Angkor in 1964, followed.
"Cambodia was a real adventure for me as a young girl", the actress and singer, now aged 69, said in an interview. "Looking back, however, I must confess that the creation was more of an adventure than the film itself."
Screenwriter and director Richard Brooks bought the rights for Joseph Conrad's novel "Lord Jim" for just 6500 dollars in 1958. He was obsessed by the idea of turning the story of a British merchant sailor, who is discredited as a coward and wants to redeem himself, into an epic film. Brooks wrote the screenplay for three years, got a nine million dollar budget from Columbia Pictures, persuaded "Lawrence of Arabia"-actor Peter O'Toole to star in the movie and travelled through Asia to find exotic locations.
However, an exotic actress for the significant part of "The Girl" was missing until October 1963. "Richard Brooks found me during his stopover in Rome", Daliah Lavi said. "Someone told him to see the movie Il Demonio. I played a girl who was possessed by evil spirits. Richard Brooks saw the film in a private screening and said: 'That's my girl! Who is she?' He called my agent and sent me straight to Asia without even testing me. My mother came with me, since I was so young."
Daliah Lavi and her mother Ruth flew via London, Cairo and Kuwait to Hongkong, where filming began in the former British colony. In early 1964 the 110 American and British filmmakers flew to Phnom Penh and continued their trip with smaller airplanes to the final destination Siem Reap. With Angkor Wat as a magnificent background, the set designers and an army of local craftsmen had erected the houses, pagodas and schools for the fictional village of mythical Patusan.
The western invaders stayed at the Auberge Royale des Temples, a quiet hotel that faced Angkor Wat and is nothing but a parking lot for busses and tuk-tuks today. Built in 1909 for the very first Angkor-tourists from Europe and the US, the former hotel had a more interesting younger history: "Richard Brooks and Prince Sihanouk had a special deal", Daliah Lavi said. "Cambodia would allow us to come and film, if the production company built an additional modern wing to the small hotel and hand it over to the Cambodian people afterwards." Indeed, Brooks spent more than half a million dollars on 45 new double rooms with air conditioning, showers and western toilets.
With unfamiliar outside temperatures of 40 degrees celsius, a zoological mix of snakes, lizards, bats and mosquitos and no bars or nice restaurants in Siem Reap, the hotel became the most popular spot for the actors. "Everybody was sitting together in the dining room", Daliah Lavi said. "Only James Mason was a lonely wolf and not very communicative, but Peter O'Toole was good to me and protective like a brother. And there was the cute little Khmer boy who played in the movie. He was in heaven, since he could stay in the hotel with us. The company ran into him in the streets of Siem Reap, when he was riding a funny bicycle. As a reward for his work they gave him a beautiful new bike, and of course money to his family."
In addition to Angkor Wat, Richard Brooks chose Preah Khan as a main location and fortress for the movie villains, among them British actor James Mason ("Lolita") and the German Curd Jürgens ("The Spy Who Loved Me"). Director of cinematography, Freddie Young ("Lawrence of Arabia") also shot scenes in Bayon temple, at the South Gate of Angkor Thom and in the surrounding jungles and rivers.
Daliah Lavi considered Richard Brooks "a very disciplined and tough director, not physically, but he gave clear orders". Just a few members of the crew knew about their director's sad secret: "When we started filming, his mother died and he could not go home. He was very sad and felt extremely guilty. He was Jewish, and I am Jewish. I knew how hard it was for him not to go to the synagogue and say farewell to his beloved Mom. Later Richard Brooks' wife came to Cambodia, and that was very helpful for him."
Since the original schedule announced filming in Cambodia for twelve long weeks, the actors had a lot of spare time in the beginning. "My mother was interested in the temples and made me go with her", Daliah Lavi said. "It was amazing to visit all these places. Angkor Wat was surrounded by water, and many elephants and their babies were having a bath in it. We didn't see many tourists, but many locals. And the women! I saw them bathing in the rivers or working in the rice fields with bare breasts. I think that was the first time for me to see women in public with no top! And the temples were full of monks in their orange ropes. They took care of the temples, while we were shooting. They also acted in front of the camera. All monks in the movie are real monks."
Not everything was as nice and romantic as the sightseeing. In particular Peter O'Toole was upset about the simple living conditions, the bad food and the less beautiful aspects of wild nature. Daliah Lavi went along with her partner: "It was very hard to work in the humid weather conditions. And there were mosquitos, bugs and snakes everywhere. One of the American crew members even died on that movie, because she was bitten by a cobra. She died very quickly and nobody could help her. After this incident we gotlessons how to defend ourselves against the snakes. In our hotel we were safe. On location, they brought our own bathrooms and toilets. We lived in tents and had to stay there, until somebody came to pick us up. We were not allowed to wander around in the night, because snakes were hanging from the trees. It was very weird."
Daliah Lavi was not bitten by a snake, but knocked out by bacteria: "I got seriously sick and had to fly to Phnom Penh. I spent a few nights at a hospital, that was very different from our western clinics. People were lying on the corridors, including myself, but the doctors saved my life and gave me all kinds of antibiotics. In the meanwhile, Richard Brooks shot other scenes without me, until I returned to Siem Reap. I had lost a lot of weight, and since the movie was not filmed chronologically, you can certainly see that I am skinnier in some scenes than in the others."
While the actress was in the hospital in Phnom Penh, just a stone's throw away Prince Sihanouk's attitude towards American visitors in his country got worse from day to day. Less than three months before, His Royal Highness had delivered a tirade against the United States, complaining that the CIA has been supporting anti-Sihanouk radio broadcasts from the bordering Vietnam jungles. In retaliation, the so far neutral Prince Sihanouk announced, he would strengthen the business relations to Red China and stop the insulting practice of all kinds of foreign aid from the capitalistic Americans. When the US withdrew their aid voluntarily, the anti-Americanism in Cambodia suddenly threatened to turn into violence.
Rumor had it, that a series of spontaneous anti-American demonstrations was being planned in Phnom Penh. The first was scheduled for the second week of March 1964. Richard Brooks took this danger seriously, and doubled the work schedule to escape from Cambodia one month earlier than originally planned. "I did not worry about me", Brooks admitted in an interview one year later, "I was worried about my film". Suddenly the director understood, why he was not allowed to hire local farmers as movie extras, but had to employ 300 Cambodian soldiers. They were watching Brooks and every step of his crew. "There was a sense of excitement in the air," Daliah Lavi said. The worst case scenario was, that the film crew could be surrounded by those 300 Khmer soldiers, when the anti-American demonstrations started in Phnom Penh. Richard Brooks gave a clear order: "Hurry up and get the hell out of here!" The crew worked in two shifts, 18 hours per day, Brooks directing at daylight and technicians mounting the night scenes.
On the 3rd of March 1964 all 110 film people left Cambodia and travelled to London, where the interiors and special effects were filmed at Shepperton Studios. Richard Brooks listened to the news carefully and learned, that in far-off Phnom Penh 10.000 people were marching in the streets, shouting "Yankee, Go Home!" and attacking the British and US embassies. In a radio broadcast Prince Sihanouk denounced the film company as "western imperialist invaders".
Later a speaker of His Royal Highness gave the worst review that "Lord Jim" and its producers ever received: "For a film producer (even one of real talent) what is Cambodia? The ruins of Angkor… and that is all. So, a run-of-the-mill script is hurriedly written, one or two flashy stars are hired, one adds a mixture of eroticism and violence, advance promotion dwells on the same hold hackneyed themes (…scorpions lurking in boots… the poverty of the people… etc.) and the whole plot is put in motion."
"Lord Jim" was released in US cinemas on 25th of February 1965 and was a total box office bomb. Peter O'Toole had to accept a failure in his filmography and added Cambodia to his red list immediately: "If I live a thousand years," O'Toole said in an interview with Time magazine, "I want nothing like Cambodia again. It was a bloody nightmare. I really hated it there." In contrast, Daliah Lavi does not look back in anger: "Filming in Cambodia, was a great experience. Something of this size does not happen to you every day. I was too young to fully understand the big opportunity we had in those days. This came later. But my mother was phenomenal, she took all her photos back to Israel and told the people of our village about the unique temples. When she did her presentation, the room was packed with visitors."
"Lord Jim" was the first big Hollywood feature film in Cambodia – and the last one for almost four decades. Bombed by the US during the Vietnam war, destroyed by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, taken over by Vietnamese troops in the 1980s and caught by a civil war in the early 1990s, Cambodia and its temples were a no-go-area for film crews. Even Roland Joffe's "The Killing Fields" about the life and survival of Dith Pran (who, by the way, was a Khmer-English-interpreter on the set of "Lord Jim") had to be filmed in neighboring Thailand in 1983.
When the UN peace corps arrived ten years later, the backpacker tourists followed soon and finally the filmmakers, too. "We will bring Cambodia back on the map", director Simon West promised in the year 2000 and sent Angelina Jolie to Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, Bayon and Phnom Bakheng for filming "Tomb Raider – Lara Croft". The film incarnation of the computer game heroine started a renaissance of tourism in Angkor and swamped the temples with tourists from all over the world. Daliah Lavi never returned to Cambodia: "My husband and I went on a boat cruise to Vietnam. We were not far from the Cambodian border, but we did not go. It was very stupid not do the short trip and see all the changes after such a long time. I would love to see it again. If there is any opportunity, it would be fun to return to Cambodia after almost 50 years."
By Michael Scholten
Actress and singer Daliah Lavi was born on the 12th of October, 1942, in Shavei Zion near Haifa, Israel. Fluent in seven different languages, she appeared in European and US movies, among them Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town"(1962), Mario Bava's "The Whip and the Body" (1963) and the very first unofficial James-Bond-movie "Casino Royale" (1967) with David Niven as 007 and Orson Welles as Le Chiffre. In the 1970s Lavi began a successful singing career in Germany that is lasting until today. She and her family live in the mountains of North Carolina, USA.
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Aqualitas Inc., the Brooklyn-based cannabis producer, hit a major benchmark March 29 when Health Canada awarded the startup its medical marijuana sales licence.
That same licence also allows the firm to enter the recreational marketplace and begin supplying the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) with cannabis products in early May.
"This is a monumental milestone for our company, and one that we have been working toward for more than four years," Aqualitas CEO, Myrna Gillis, said in a news release.
Aqualitas will soon register a limited number of medical clients and ensure its e-commerce platform and fulfillment processes are running smoothly before opening registrations up more broadly.
The company's recreational product will be branded as "Reef," something a beleaguered NSLC will surely welcome given the corporation's problems with ensuring a steady supply of commercial grass to customers.
The NSLC has struggled to maintain a supply of cannabis ever since the drug was first legalized on October 17, 2018. The liquor corporation is not unique in that respect; other vendors nationally have experienced shortages as well.
Originally, the NSLC said that it issued an expression of interest to secure product from 14 cannabis suppliers, and previously said it initially expected to offer some 300 products representing 78 strains. But when the market launched the corporation was only able to offer less than 40 per cent of what it originally projected, which ended up being 97 products representing 52 strains.
"We're pleased that our initial recreational roll-out will be to Nova Scotians. We have been so well-supported by this province and so proud to make our home on the beautiful south shore. We're excited that Nova Scotians will be the first to try our certified organically grown Reef products," Gillis said.
Under CEO Gillis, the company is carefully cultivating its brand, declaring itself as a "woman-led licenced cannabis producer that is Clean Green Certified," and asserting its product is "safe, affordable [and] organically grown."
The latter point might seem trite, but Moncton's Organigram Inc. is facing a class action lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia over pot that was alleged to have contained pesticides. The company voluntarily recalled affected product in December 2016 and January 2017, and argues that only "trace elements" were found in its cannabis.
Aqualitas has stated that it aims to to put 70,000 square feet of cannabis into production at its plant in Queens County, and that, that amount could yield "literally thousands and thousands of plants."
Once the company has its sales licence, it "will be able to enter the medical and recreational markets and export internationally," Gillis previously said..
Aqualitas expects their selling price would fall well within the current market range of $7 to $15 per gram for medical cannabis.
Shortly after the announcement was made, Kim Masland, the Conservative MLA for Queens-Shelburne, posted: "Congratulations to Myrna and her team at Aqualitis Inc."
For Masland, it's good news, the first sign of a positive resurgence in the troubled county of Queens since Bowater shut down its lumber mill in 2012, taking hundreds of jobs with it and leaving the area floundering.
Given the current trend for cannabis producers to launch their product and then take their companies public through initial public offerings, a move that can instantly turn early staff along with executives into multi-millionaires, Queens could conceivably look quite different in the not-too-different future.


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#include <functional>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

namespace GUI {
/// A window where a hymn can be selected.
class SelectHymnWindow {
  public:
    /// Constructor.
    SelectHymnWindow();

    /// Scan the save directory for hymns.
    void Scan();

    /// Show the window and let the user select a hymn.
    void Show();

    /// Set function to call when closed.
    /**
     * @param callback Function to call when window is closed.
     */
    void SetClosedCallback(const std::function<void(const std::string&)>& callback);

    /// Get whether the window is visible.
    /**
     * @return Whether the window is visible.
     */
    bool IsVisible() const;

    /// Set whether the window should be visible.
    /**
     * @param visible Whether the window should be visible.
     */
    void SetVisible(bool visible);

    /// Set window title.
    /**
     * @param title Window title.
     */
    void SetTitle(const char* title);

    /// Set the name of the open button.
    /**
     * @param openButtonName The name of the open button.
     */
    void SetOpenButtonName(const char* openButtonName);

  private:
    // Interaction
    bool hasClosedCallback = false;
    std::function<void(const std::string&)> closedCallback;

    std::vector<std::string> files;
    char name[128];

    bool visible = false;

    const char* title;
    const char* openButtonName;
};
} // namespace GUI

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Blackish & The Carmichael Show: Why The Carmichael Show is Better
By LeagoMkhondo
ABC's Blackish (2014 – present) started off promising as the quintessential family show which addresses and sheds light on relevant issues in which race, gender and sex relations take place. The series, about an upper class black family who try to unravel their cultural and social identity in White America, has received critical acclaim and gone on to win multiple awards.
Blackish was the first of its kind to be deliberate in its social and political commentary, such as Black Lives Matter, Homophobia, President Trump etc. One of the reasons Blackish was so important was due to it being on Network Television – in South African terms that would translate to our free-to-air channels SABC and ETV. Network Television (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox etc.), unlike Cable Television (HBO, Showtime, FX) is known for limited content creation/creativity and cancelling pilots before they even air. So, for a "black show" to be this aggressive is very rare
The show naturally took time to find its feet, but once it did with season two, it was brilliant. It had found a home at ABC and acquired a loyal fan base with every kind of demographic. However, as the series progressed, I noticed a pattern with the show that I didn't resonate with – everything was done and said through the perspective of Andre "Dre" Johnson (Anthony Anderson)
Created and executive produced by Kenya Barris, Larry Wilmore and Anthony Anderson – the show is originally centered around the real life of Kenya Barris and his family. Given that it is written by a black man, I was unable to unknow certain naunces and storylines that focused on the black man narrative in all topics and shun anything that was relatable to me – a black woman. And although there were centralized themes about Dr. Rainbow "Bow" Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross) – Dre's wife, who is evidently more rational and smart, it always reverts back to being about him. And as much as much as the show tried to be inclusive of our issues, it failed for many reasons I could speculate, but none other than no one can write stories for and about us BUT us
Many a people have gone on to compare Blackish to NBC's short-lived series The Carmichael Show, which conveys the same vision but the latter has proven to be the better show off of one main reason – The Carmichael Show tells the story from the perspective of everyone.
The cast, which includes young black man (Jerrod Carmichael) and his biracial feminist girlfriend (Amber Stevens West), Jerrod's parents (Loretta Devine and David Alan Grier), some 60+ year old's who have lived through the Civil Rights Movement and might not have an understanding of modern conventions, and divorced but "still living together" dysfunctional pair (Tiffany Haddish and Lil Rel Howery) who essentially represent the ignorant everyman American (think highly of themselves but have low self-awareness)
Filmed in front of a live studio audience, the NBC situational comedy is very confrontational and conversational. It details people of different backgrounds, upbringings, values and thoughts in the same room sounding off difficult conversations together. The art is in realizing that these people are here for our convenience, because as much as we think that these discussions happen, they are rarely done head on
What made The Carmichael Show better than Blackish is the emphasis of importance of each character. With every arising issue, a character is equally central as another because the difference in opinion and perspective help bring the conversation in full. I also love how it shows that there need not be an answer or solution to every thing. The idea is to open up the dialogue for people to have these conversations amongst themselves and not necessarily look to the show for answers. Its aim is for everyone to see a part of themselves in the (some) of the characters – their behavioral patterns, responses, reactions and so forth
The structure of it being a situational comedy (sitcom) as opposed to a standardized comedy show is one of the reasons it works best. A situational comedy forces the cast to be together on one set at all times, whereas when Blackish attempts to have people in the room together, it does not look as natural. The characters on The Carmichael Show are never without each other or separated from an episode's plotline. For instance, Dre and Bow could have a main storyline and their children have their own subplot and the stories don't connect in the end
Because Blackish is a centralized comedy like Modern Family which shows enamored growth, the stories are often left open ended and, the growth hinders the sphere of the initial narrative. How is it possible that 4 seasons in Andre Johnson still has similar reactions and feelings to the same issue he had in season 1? Unlike sitcoms, when growth happens, the characters still remain the same because the environment stays the same. You don't have the need for them to be the person that you had envisioned them to be because they already told you who they are and them unraveling, only unravels more of who they are
In short, The Carmichael Show is what Blackish should've been and it's unfortunate that it had to be cancelled.
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The multiplier effect is seeing a proliferation of 'totally local' markets themselves, which are in turn supporting an expanding catchment of regional grower and producer supply chains.
As Australia follows Europe into an era of small government, the conditions are ripe for a paradigm shift in the spheres of urban planning, place-making and locally-based economic development. 'Community empowerment' (replacing community consultation) is the new black in this arena. The nourishment and empowerment of local communities has been a key platform of the UK government's Big Society thesis, now impacting increasingly on Australian public sector policy. Big Society policies have however been criticised for transferring public wealth to corporate-like non-government entities, while disempowering small business, community organisations and the public sector. Ongoing austerity measures in the UK and elsewhere are on the other hand spawning a host of interesting DIY initiatives at the local level. Grass roots movements like the fast-spreading Totally Locally campaigns are raising awareness and building pride in regional towns, and impacting on local economies in refreshingly simple ways. Totally Locally is an award-winning social enterprise and 'shop local' movement which supports independent retailers with a free branding and marketing campaign for their town. Teams of volunteers use the campaign and branding tool kit to promote the value of local shopping, celebrate their main street, create community events, and ultimately to lift the local economy. The concept operates on a positive celebratory platform rather than pushing the more negative 'use it or lose it' ethos of less successful campaigns. In a deliberate attempt to cultivate 'people power' over political power, the Totally Locally tool kits are supplied free, directly to punters. Government bodies, local authorities and even business associations are not supposed to use the resources or run the campaigns. There must be no formal membership, no committees, and no hierarchy so that anyone can join in at anytime. (And nobody is told what to do.) The brainchild of brand consultant Chris Sands, the movement is having significant economic and social impact on the 30-something towns involved to date. The concept grew from an initiative in Chris's hometown in Calderdale, in the foothills of the Pennines in West Yorkshire, where the first shop local 'fiver' campaign was tested. In Adelaide recently to conduct workshops in the Barossa and the city, Chris explained where his idea came from: "On holiday in the North Portuguese town of Viana Do Castelo, I came to wondering how a small town, miles from anywhere else, seemed to thrive as it did. I sat in the square and noticed that the cafe owner would walk over to the bakery for bread, the baker would walk over to the accountants with her books, the accountant went to the stationers, the stationers went to the cafe and the circle started again. It was then I realised that when everyone uses each other, the money in the town circulates round and round, each person supporting the other." Rather than try to get people to give up their supermarket shopping habits in one hit, the 'fiver' campaign simply suggests that punters allocate five pounds a week to shopping locally. According to Sands, if all residents participate, that fiver can amount to millions of pounds circulated locally over time. Similarly, Totally Locally's Tale of a Tenner film demonstrates how a 10 pound note has a multiplied effect in the local economy, amounting to 50 pounds of turnover in a single day, as it shifts from tourist to bike shop, to barista, to butcher, to printer and back to bike shop. Research by British-based independent think tank the New Economics Foundation backs the five-fold multiplier effect thesis. They have created a rating tool to follow the money trail in local economies by measuring the first three rounds of spending by local government, community organisations and local businesses. Pilot studies involving 10 communities in five sectors across the UK quickly demonstrated that local procurement has far-reaching impacts on local economies. That result will come as no surprise to those observing the multiplier effect of farmers' markets here in South Australia. Zannie Flanagan, founder of the Willunga Farmers' Market, has often described the market as 'Viagra' for the town, which was struggling to lease out commercial space when the market was established just over 10 years ago. Willunga is now a happening little township and key tourism destination on the Fleurieu, with numerous coffee shops, restaurants and retail outlets selling local wares. "I always know that a market has made the grade when the real estate advertisements start including it in their location descriptions," says Flanagan, who also set up the Adelaide Showground Farmers' Market in Goodwood. The multiplier effect is seeing a proliferation of 'totally local' markets themselves, which are in turn supporting an expanding catchment of regional grower and producer supply chains. The Adelaide Showground Farmers' Market recently opened up a Thursday evening sub-branch in Prospect and a brand new Sunday morning local organic produce market officially opens at the Market Shed on Holland in the CBD, as this article goes to press.


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The capital of the Netherlands leaves no one indifferent, a modern and open-minded city. There are many rulers who have desired to govern it, and some artists have given it a great cultural legacy to be very proud of. Dare to know a little more about Amsterdam.
There is much to discover in this modern European city, its cultural heritage is very interesting and the architecture of the city has made tourists to fall in love with it. Another claims of Amsterdam are its various and varied museums as well as the ability to go through almost the entire city taking a leisurely bike ride, to finish enjoying a colourful and spectacular sunset sipping a beer on the banks of the Amstel river.
This exciting city had a very humble beginning, a simple boat fishermen who settled on the banks of the river Amstel in the thirteenth century. But this small fishing town began to bloom very quickly thanks to maritime trade with other nearby cities, which put Amsterdam in the sights of the powerful.
Thus the wars of Flanders began under the order of the Spanish King Philip II. They lasted 80 years and ended with the independence of the Netherlands. After this violent stage, Amsterdam experienced a period of peace which turned the city into a cradle of tolerance, there arrived sephardic Jews persecuted in the Iberian Peninsula in search of exile, Huguenots escaped from France and even Protestant traders from Antwerp. A real melting pot.
It couldn't be otherwise, the environment of intercultural coexistence led to a phenomenal economic growth throughout the seventeenth century, considered the "Golden Age".
Amsterdam is currently one of the most advanced cities in Europe, both for the projection of its streets (where 80% of the land is built over the sea), and the way of life of its inhabitants. As a curiosity we can mention that out of the 750,000 inhabitants of this city, nearly 700,000 often use bicycles as a means of transportation! It is undoubtedly the most popular vehicle in Amsterdam.
And of course if you are travelling to Amsterdam we recommend visiting some of its most important museums, including the Rikjsmuseum (National Museum), which has the world's largest collection of Dutch paintings in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. You will also want to visit the Van Gogh's Museum which has over 600 works of the great artist. And do not forget that Amsterdam will be eternally linked to Rembrandt, so you must also visit the Rembrandt House Museum, where more than 260 drawings of this great painter are exposed.
We do not know what those sailors had in mind when they first arrived at the banks of the river Amstel, certainly they would have never imagined this modest settlement would become one of the most important cities of the European continent.


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Berlin To Tour Europe In Support of Forthcoming Album "Transcendance"
Berlin - Transcendance
40th Anniversary tour with B-52's sells out in the US, Europe next!
LONDON, UK, July 3, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The original multi-platinum selling band Berlin, return with a bold new album of superb, highly danceable, and powerful new music titled "Transcendance" on August 2, 2019! Vocalist Terri Nunn rejoins co-founders John Crawford and David Diamond for what promises to be one of the most talked about releases of the year!
Billboard.com has already premiered one of the tracks and announced the album as well as the 8-week 40th Anniversary US Tour that starts in July!
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8510681/berlin-terri-nunn-reunion-new-album
Read the new article about Berlin in People Magazine:
https://people.com/music/berlins-terri-nunn-talks-new-music-getting-the-band-back-together-and-top-gun-2/
In support of the album release, Berlin will tour Europe in November and December of this year!
22 London Islington Academy - https://www.seetickets.com/tour/berlin
24 Milton Keynes Crauford Arms - www.craufordarms.com
26 Newcastle Riverside - http://bit.ly/BERLIN-RIV
27 Chester Live Rooms - https://www.seetickets.com/event/berlin/the-live-rooms/1403243
28 Southampton 1865 - http://www.the1865.com
30 UK Bognor Regis Electric Dreams - https://www.bigweekends.com/electric-dreams-weekender-bognor-regis-291119
1 Leeds Brudenell Social Club - https://www.seetickets.com/event/berlin/brudenell-social-club/1402817
2 Wolverhampton Robin 2 - http://www.therobin.co.uk/whats_on/giginfo.asp?gigid=5670
4 Brighton The Haunt - https://www.seetickets.com/tour/berlin
5 Holland Amsterdam Q Factory - https://www.ticketmaster.nl/event/244199?brand=nl_qfactory
9 Germany Munich Backstage - https://www.eventim.de/?evid=12110449&fun=page&pagename=event
11 Germany Siegburg Kubana - http://www.kubana.de/live-club/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=131
12 Belgium Oostende Casino Kursaal - https://www.kursaaloostende.be/nl
Additional December Dates to Be Announced Soon!
BERLIN - ONE OF THE GREATEST SYNTH ELECTRO-POP BANDS OF ALL TIME!
This Los Angeles-based synth pop group, founded by bassist John Crawford, singer Terri Nunn, and keyboard player David Diamond, made its first national impression with the provocative single "Sex (I'm A...)" from the gold-selling debut EP "Pleasure Victim" in 1982. The group was filled out by guitarist Rick Olsen, keyboard player Matt Reid, and drummer Rob Brill. Berlin's first full-length LP was the gold "Love Life" in 1984. In 1985, the group was pared down to a trio of Crawford, Nunn, and Brill. Berlin topped the charts in 1986 with the single "Take My Breath Away," the love theme from the Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun."
Nunn left for a solo career in 1987, and Crawford and Brill teamed up in the Big F. In 1999, the band reunited to record some new studio material and also performed a concert, which, along with the new songs, was released as 2000's "Berlin Live: Sacred and Profane." This was followed a year later by a flurry of recording sessions that included co-writing tracks with Billy Corgan, among others. The end result, "Voyeur," was their first full-length studio release in over 15 years.
And now Berlin will be releasing their new album "Transcendance" on August 2, 2019!
"Transcendance" Track list
1. I Want You
2. Show Me Tonight
3. Transcendance
4. Lust
5. On My Knees
6. Sex (I'm A...)
7. No One Left Alive
8. All For Love
9. In My Heart
10. Majesty
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The dance and music performance "In-Finity" is Pop&Roll's latest project. It demonstrates one-of-a kind collaboration between street dance and contemporary dance. The dancers live with the idea that when it comes to nature, the universe and the soul, time is both everything and nothing. For this reason, the performance is presented through movement, dance and unique visual and musical elements which show how great "In-Finity" is. "In-Finity" was part of the official selection of ONE DANCE WEEK's program of 2014.
"7D" is presented in seven scenes inspired by seven key words: energy, knowledge, inspiration, faith, battle, love and freedom. These are the values in which the dancers from Pop&Roll and their partner musicians, Djs and BeatBoxers believe and share with the audience. The dance performance "7D" was made possible with the kind assistance of the Cultural Department at Sofia municipality.
Sleepwalking Society has organized dosens of independent events, such as: dance contests, parties, concerts, exhibitions, workshops, screenings and other.