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Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway premiere "Lives" music video
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on April 23, 2018
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After six years collecting dust on the shelves, System of A Down guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian has decided to revive his Scars On Broadway project with the long-anticipated second album Dictator to be released on July 20th. It's been a decade since the self-titled debut arrived and today (23rd), he revealed the first single with "Lives."
Check out the video below:
Malakian spoke with Rolling Stone about the project as he described the new song:
"For me, it's about how Armenian people have survived the genocide. I've always heard about how we were victims, and we always saw pictures of our ancestors and our great grandparents with their heads chopped off. I wanted to write a song that would be a morale booster, something uplifting and let people know that while there were a lot of people that died and we should respect that, there was also a lot of people who survived. It's a tribute to that and how far we've come. The video complements the song really well."
The guitarist discussed his original plan for the Dictator to be released sometime in 2012:
"I recorded the album and then around that time System started playing live again. So every time we'd play live, there'd be conversations like, "Maybe we'll do an album." So being the guy who wrote the majority of almost all the System songs in the past, I was like, "All right, let me see what's happening with it. Let me hold onto these songs and let me see how this develops." We talked about it and we weren't all on the same page. Not everybody was into the idea. But every time we played live, it kept coming up.
I just got to the point now where a lot of people were asking about the Scars album – I hear it all the time – so I was like, "I'm gonna put this album out." Not knowing what's happening with System has kept me from putting my own stuff out. Too much time has passed, and I'm really excited to finally get some music out finally."
Later he was asked if System of a Down has abandoned the idea of making a new record:
"No, it's not abandoned. But as of right now, not everyone is on the same page. Trust me, man, I'm probably the biggest System of a Down fan in the world. I mean, I named the band [laughs]. So I'd like to see something like that happen.
But we're all friends. We all still go out. We play the songs live. We enjoy it. But doing an album is a totally different thing than playing the songs we already have live. It takes a little bit more togetherness, a little bit more commitment from everybody, and I'm not sure everybody is ready to commit to that right now. And it is what it is, man. I can't force anybody to do anything they don't want to. But with that said, our relationship as friends, and even as a band, is healthy. It's respectful, and we support each other with anything each one of us does on our own. It's not one of those things where there is bad blood and I can't be in the room with that guy. It really comes down to where each person is in his life and not everybody is ready to commit the same way I might be."
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Als Cut wird eine schnittartige Körperverletzung u. a. im Boxkampf bezeichnet.

Beschreibung
Eine Platzwunde, die ein Kampfsportler während eines Kampfes (meistens im Gesicht oder an anderer Stelle des Kopfes) erleidet, wird als Cut (engl. = Schnitt) bezeichnet. Diese Verletzung ähnelt äußerlich einer Schnittverletzung; daher der Name. Hervorgerufen wird ein Cut in der Regel durch einen oder mehrere kräftige Schläge auf die gleiche Stelle des Körpers. Kopfstöße des Gegners, nach den Regeln verboten und als Foul zu werten, können ebenso zu einem Cut führen.

Besonders gefährdet sind Partien, die an der Oberfläche eine stramme Hautspannung und unter der Haut wenig Fleisch aufweisen. Die überwiegende Anzahl von Cuts treten an den Augenpartien auf, meist an den gut mit Blut versorgten Augenbrauen, jedoch auch im Nasen-, Stirn- oder Jochbeinbereich. Ein Kopfschutz beugt solchen Verletzungen im Wettkampf oder Sparring vor und ist im olympischen Boxen (ehemals Amateurboxen) bei Nachwuchssportlern und Frauen verpflichtend. Bei den Männern fiel die Kopfschutzpflicht bei internationalen Wettkämpfen 2013. Im Profiboxen wird im Wettkampf kein Kopfschutz verwendet.

Auswirkungen im Kampf
Der Ringrichter kann jederzeit einen laufenden Kampf unterbrechen, um eine Cutverletzung durch den Ringarzt untersuchen zu lassen. Eine solche Untersuchung kann auch zwischen den Runden, in den sogenannten Rundenpausen erfolgen. Bei einigen nationalen Verbänden, darunter dem Deutschen Boxsport-Verband (DBV), hat auch der Ringarzt das Recht, den Kampf bis zu einer Minute unterbrechen zu lassen, um die Kampffähigkeit eines Sportlers festzustellen oder diesen zu behandeln. Sollte die Wunde im Laufe des Kampfes weiterhin stark bluten oder sich vergrößern, bzw. drohen dem Boxer eine Verschlimmerung der Verletzung oder gar Folgeverletzungen, ist der Ringrichter angehalten, den Kampf abzubrechen. Dies erfolgt in der Regel nach Rücksprache mit dem Ringarzt, welcher bei entsprechender Notwendigkeit den Abbruch empfehlen kann. Bei Kämpfen des DBV hat der Ringrichter der Empfehlung des Ringarztes Folge zu leisten, bei anderen Verbänden, wie z. B. dem österreichischen Faustkämpferverband Austria (FVA), ist das Abbrechen des Kampfes ausschließlich Sache des Ringrichters. Auch die Behandlung eines Kämpfers ist dem Arzt, nach den Regeln des FVA, erst nach Schluss des Kampfes gestattet. Beim für olympisches Boxen zuständigen Österreichischen Boxverband (ÖBV) hat der Ringarzt hingegen die Möglichkeit, den Technischen Delegierten anzuweisen, den Kampf durch Gongschlag unverzüglich zu beenden. Dies kommt einem Kampfabbruch durch den Ringrichter gleich.

Zu Cutverletzungen kommt es häufig durch unbeabsichtigte Zusammenstöße mit den Köpfen. Diese können je nach Verfehlung oder Häufigkeit mit einem Ansprechen des verursachenden Boxers, einer Verwarnung oder mit Punktabzug geahndet werden, bei wiederholten Vorfällen oder gar offensichtlicher Absicht, auch mit Disqualifikation. Bei Kampfabbruch einer durch ein unbeabsichtigtes Foul entstandenen Cutverletzung kann es, je nach Regelwerk, zur Auswertung der Punktezettel und damit einer Technischen Entscheidung (Technical decision), zum Erklären eines Technischen Unentschiedens (Technical draw), eines wertungslosen Ergebnisses (No Contest) oder, sollte die Cutverletzung durch regelkonforme Schlagwirkung entstanden sein, zu einem TKO-Sieg für den verursachenden Boxer kommen. Nicht selten kommt es vor, dass ein Boxer gezielt eine bereits bestehende Cutverletzung seines Gegners attackiert, um einen solchen Kampfabbruch herbeizuführen. Umso wichtiger ist daher die Arbeit des "Cutman" in der Ringecke, welcher mit seiner auf die Dauer der Rundenpause begrenzten Behandlungszeit versuchen muss, die Blutung zu stoppen und damit einen verletzungsbedingten Kampfabbruch zu verhindern.

Bei versorgten Cutverletzungen gilt laut DBV, dass eine Starterlaubnis nur erteilt wird, wenn die Wunde intrakutan oder mit Wundverschlussstreifen (Steristrips) versorgt wurde. Sichtbares Nahtmaterial im Sinne einer Einzelknopfnaht oder ähnlicher extrakutaner Nahttechniken führen zu einem Startverbot.

Vorbeugung und Behandlung
In der Ecke eines jeden Profi-Boxsportlers steht während des Kampfs neben dem Trainer und einem Helfer oder Physiotherapeuten ein so genannter Cutman bereit. Dieser kümmert sich ausschließlich um die Vorbeugung bzw. Versorgung von Cuts, Schwellungen und Nasenbluten. Um die Behandlung von Verletzungen nach einem festgelegten Schema und unter bestimmten hygienischen Gesichtspunkten zu ermöglichen, bzw. eine sach- und fachgerechte Behandlung von Verletzungen zu gewährleisten, wird beispielsweise vom DBV zweimal im Jahr eine Ausbildung zum Cutman organisiert, welche am Olympiastützpunkt Rhein-Neckar stattfindet.

Um den Cut zu schließen bzw. die Blutung zu stoppen, hat ein Cutman verschiedene Möglichkeiten: Die Kühlung erfolgt durch einen Eisbeutel oder ein speziell geformtes, gekühltes Eisen mit Griff (Enswell genannt); die Reinigung mit einem wassergetränkten Schwamm und durch Wattestäbchen. Das weitere Aufplatzen des Cuts wird durch eine fettende Creme verhindert. Früher wurde hierzu ausschließlich Vaseline verwendet, inzwischen kommt daneben eine kühlende und mit Adrenalin angereicherte Salbe in einem vorgeschriebenen Mischungsverhältnis zum Einsatz. Nach dem Kampf wird die Wunde – je nach Größe – mit einem Salbenverband bedeckt, geklammert oder vernäht.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Der Sekundant; Box-Cutman Mancini, Die Zeit vom 12. Juni 2003
 Ein Enswell im Einsatz

Boxen
Kampfsportart
Krankheitsbild in der Chirurgie

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A week yesterday the fine team at RCT were celebrating the centenary of the Park and Dare Theatre in Treorchy. It was very touching to hear the children performing in the theatre. Many parents were very emotional at the sight of their children performing on the stage. This is especially true some of the youngest children, many of whom would be three or four generations away from the miners who contributed to the building of the theatre in 1913. The piece was very well received by the audiences, and I felt a great sense of achievement after the final encores. So congratulations to all involved: the miners of 1913 would be amazingly proud of what you have achieved.
Posted on 22/03/2013, in General and tagged Jack White, Max Boyce, Park and Dare, RCT, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Song Of The Building, Treorchy. Bookmark the permalink.	Leave a comment.


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Белорусский портрет XII―XVIII веков ― один из основных жанров белорусской живописи и скульптуры. Основа жанра ― мемориальное начало, увековечивание облика конкретного человека. В искусстве белорусские портреты XII―XVIII вв. делятся на живописные и графические; парадные, камерные; в рост, по колени, поясной, голова, анфас, профиль и др. Согласно количеству персонажей подразделяются на индивидуальные, парные, групповые; специфический вид портрета ― автопортрет. С древности известны портретная миниатюра, портреты на медалях и монетах.

Первые белорусские портреты

Первый известный скульптурный портрет, найденный на тогдашней территории Белоруссии в 1935 году, относится к 15―12 тыс. лет до н. э. Это статуэтка из бивня мамонта длиной 15 см. Пропорции фигурки вытянуты за счёт относительно длинного торса, плавно переходящего в массивные, выразительно оформленные пластичные ноги. Ступни ног едва очерчены, не вырезаны руки и голова.

При раскопках городища милоградской и раннего этапа зарубинецкой культур (2-я половина I в. до н. э.) в деревне Богушевичи Сенненского района, в 1965 году найдена статуэтка ― глиняная обожжённая скульптура головы мужчины высотой 3,5 см, шириной 2,8 см. Отчётливо видны глаза, нос, большая борода, зачесанные назад волосы. Предполагается, что это изображение реального человека.

Попытка портретной характеристики видна в росписях Полоцкой Спасо-Ефросиниевской церкви постройки XII века. Здесь явно несколько манер письма. Лицо серафима, головы молодых архидиаконов в апсиде и лицо молодой монашенки-мученицы написаны в классической византийской манере, восходящей к античному искусству. М. С. Кацер предположил, что монахиня и есть Предслава (Ефросинья, по заказу которой построена церковь. В лицах святителей и Авраама виден определённый отход от классических византийских образцов, хотя связь полостью ещё не утрачена. Пластическая основа подаётся в сочетании с линейным контуром. Полная стилизация формы как итог переработки византийских образцов намечается при использовании контрастных широких мазков (голова Давида). На другой стене церкви рельеф лиц изображается с помощью охристых тонов с линейным абрисом. По тематическому и композиционному решению фрески полоцкой церкви отличаются от известных фресок XII века (псковская Спасо-Мирожская церковь и киевская Кирилловская церковь) и более сближаются с росписями новгородской Богородицкой церкви (1125). Учёные предполагают два варианта: а) фрески Спасской церкви принадлежат новгородским ученикам романских фрескистов; б) это творение полоцких мастеров, прошедших тот же путь обучения что и новгородские художники.

В XII―XIII вв. были широко распространены вислые печати, которые привешивались на шнурке к документу, придавая ему юридическую силу. Кроме надписей на печатях, были и изображения святых; владели этими печатями люди, носящие те же имена, что и святые. На одной стороне печатки (диаметр 25 мм), найденной в Волковыске, четырёхлепестковая розетка, на другой ― фигура человека в рост, наверняка ― князя. На голове корона, в правой руке короткое копьё, в левой ― круглый щит. Надпись ― Дімітріос. Принадлежала печатка старшему сыну Ярослава Мудрого Изяславу, имевшему каноническое имя Димитрий. В середине XI в. он княжил в Турове, после смерти отца стал великим князем киевским (1054).

Носят портретный характер росписи, сделанные белорусскими мастерами XIV века в Сандомире (костёльный портрет короля Ягайло работы Якуба Вужа (Венжика), в Люблине (костёл бригиток, в виде всадника с копьём) и Троках (фресковые портреты Витовта XV в.). На основании этих росписей немецкий учёный Альберт Ипель утверждал, что «белорусская школа живописи» существовала, но в истории искусства обойдена вниманием.

В истории сохранилось несколько имён белорусских живописцев: на Брестчине работали Томаш (начало XVI в.), Навоша (1525), на Гродненщине ― Никифор (XVI в.), Опанас Антонович (1539―1540), на Могилёвщине ― Дмитрий Иванович (1578), Семенович (1570―1580), Исаак Иванович, в Минске ― Иероним (1591), в Вильно ― Антоний (40-е гг. XVI в.), Франтишек (1562), Граховский (1578), Андрей Руль, Ян Литвин.

Белорусский портрет XV―XVII веков
К середине XV века портрет перестаёт быть только стенописным. А. П. Сапунов ссылается на Матея Стрыйковского, который упоминает в своих сочинениях семейный портрет великого князя Ольгерда с супругой, находившийся в витебской замковой церкви. Известен живописный портрет великого князя Александа Ягеллончика (ок. 1493).

С середины XVI века и в течение XVII века складывается живописный портрет: одиночный, парный и групповой. Под влиянием западноевропейского Возрождения написаны женские портреты Барбары Радзивилл (1550), Катажины Тенчинской-Слуцкой (1580) и др. Появились портреты духовных лиц (портреты митрополита Иосифа Солтана, кардинала Юрия (Ежи) Радзивилла).

Появились портреты для дворцовых галерей ― портреты Николая Радзивилла Рыжего, Юрия Олельковича, Михаила Борисовича, Софьи Олелько-Радзивилл. Например, портрет Юрия Олельковича в овале три четверти; он в гордой позе, одна рука на поясе, другая ― на рукояти шпаги. Доминирует светлотеневая подача формы лица и фигуры. Интересен парный портрет (1646) виленского художника Иоганна Шретера, где изображены две жены гетмана великого литовского Януша Радзивилла. Особенность портрета в том, что первая жена Катажина Потоцкая к тому времени умерла. Однако, по воле заказчика, художник соединил обеих. Фон портрета торжественен, наряды женщин соответствуют их характеру: красный у Катажины и чёрный у Марии Лупу.

В основном преобладал парадный рыцарский сарматский портрет, далее следовали портреты донаторский, погребальный. Сарматский портрет изображал знатного шляхтича в богатом рыцарском убранстве. Зачастую в картине присутствовало оружие (меч, копьё), палица, распятие, родовой герб. Портрет, как стиль изобразительного натурализма, давал представление не только об облике человека, но и его среде проживания. В художественном плане зарождалось стремление отражения материальности и объёмности лица и фигуры, хотя светотеневая моделировка оставалась ещё плоскостной. Наиаболее яркими представляются портреты Юрия Радзивилла (вторая половина XVI в.), Гризельды Сапеги (1632), Константина Острожского (первая половина XVII в.), Михаила Казимира Паца (вторая половина XVII в.), Кшиштофа Веселовского (1636), Игнацы Завиши (1732). Известны некоторые живописцы сраматского портрета: Иоганн Шретер, Даниэль Шульц, Стефан Цыбульский.

Для картин и портретов Николай Радзивилл Сиротка отвёл целую большую залу несвижского дворца. В этой картинной галерее в 1770 году находились 984 картины. Кроме королевских и великокняжеских, в коллекции были и портреты духовных лиц. Первым по времени в коллекции стал поясной портрет бискупа Мельхиора Гедройца, созданный в 1585 году. В руках у бискупа крест, на пальцах золотые перстни, ― всё это, включая богатое одеяние, должно свидетельствовать о величии католической церкви и её высших служителей. Богата галерея родовыми портретами Радзивиллов. Среди сохранившихся портретов ― изображения великого канцлера литовского Альбрехта Станислава Радзивилла (1595—1659), (1640-е гг.), великого гетмана литовского Януша Радзивилла (1612—1655) (ок. 1652, худ. Даниэль Шульц), великого гетмана литовского Михала Казимира Паца (1642—1682), абатиссы несвижского монастыря бенедектинок Кристины Евфимии Радзивилл (1640-е гг., худ. Иоганн Шретер). Собралась коллекция портретов рода Вишневецких. По заказу вдовы канцлера Кароля Станислава Радзивилла ― Анны Сангушко, написаны исторические портреты предков в лавровых венках. Её сын, виленский воевода Михал Казимир Радзивилл Рыбонька с женой Франциской Урсулой перевезли в Несвиж ряд портретов из Бяла-Подляски и Жолквы. Во второй половине XIX века супруга князя Антония Радзивилла Мария Доротея Радзивилл, обновляя несвижский дворец, восстановила остатки радзивилловских портретов. В 1960-х гг. началось систематическое изучение портретов и реставрация их в Москве и Ленинграде. Белорусское творческое объединение художников «Железный волк», желая воскресить жанр, создало более 20 полотен в духе сарматских портретов XV― XVIII веков.

На белорусском донаторском портрете изображался донатор (лат. donator) ― фундатор храма, обычно с моделью строения в руке перед Христом, Матерью Божией или святым-покровителем. Первый такой портрет упоминается в книге В. Г. Краснянского о Мстиславле. Это икона преподобного Онуфрия в находящейся близ Мстиславля Онуфриевской обители. Внизу, рядом с Онуфрием изображен отрок-княжич Юрий ― сын мстиславского князя Лугвения. По легенде, святой вывел из леса заблудившегося княжича-отрока. Следующий донаторский портрет известен в Беларуси с XVI века: это икона «Поклонение волхвов» (ок. 1514), в деревне Дрисвяты Браславского района, на ней в результате обновления XVII века помещено изображение фундатора Яна Сапеги. В описи 1552 года говорится о витебской Спасской церкви, где находился портрет князя Ивана Шуйского Губки, который сохранился на более позднем рисунке XVII века в гравюрном собрании короля Станислава Августа. Портрет фундатора витебского костёла иезуитов Александра Корвин-Гонсевского позволяет увидеть внешний вид костёла. По свидетельству А. П. Сапунова ещё в начале XX века портрет находился в витебском музее, теперь он ― в Вильнюсе. В иконе «Матерь Божия с донаторами» (ок. 1680) изображены братья Радзивиллы, они же на иконах свв. Доминика и Игнатия Лойолы.

Характерной формой портрета сарматизма является погребальный (трунный, труменный) портрет ― живописное или скульптурное изображение покойного. Это гробовой портрет (прикрепляемый к гробу), эпитафийный (вешался на стене костёла рядом с декоративным или скульптурным прибавлением), жалобная хоругвь (изображение покойника на ткани, которая укреплялась не древке, как знамя). В XVII―XVIII вв. погребальные портреты в основном писались на листовой меди или по листовому олову. Среди погребальных портретов ― портреты Андрея Завиша (1678), Александра Поцея (вторая половина XVIII в.), эпитафия маршалку стародубскому Болеславу Биспингу И. Прукнера в ружанском Троицком костёле (1789), эпитафия Н. Ф. Радзивиллу из дятловского костёла.

Возникновение графического портрета датируется 1517 годом, когда в книге «Иисус Сирахов» и в 4-й Книге Царств (1518) опубликован портрет Франциска Скорины. Белорусский первопечатник показан в своём рабочем кабинете, в правой руке перо, на столе ― глобус, часы, на полках ― книги. К ранним восточнославянским портретам принадлежит и портрет Василя Тяпинского (1576).

Портреты-гравюры стали появляться в книгах: портреты Боны Сфорца, Сигизмунда I (Decius I.L. De vetustatibus Polonorum liber I. De Jagellonum familia liber II. De Sigismundi regis temporibus liber III. Cracoviae, 1521), в издании А. Гваньини "Gwagnin A. Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio. Spirae, 1581) портреты великих князей Тройдена, Витеня, Миндовга, Ягайло, Гедимина, Витовта, Ольгерда, Свидригайло и короля Польши, великого князя литовского Александра Ягеллончика. В начале второго тома Яна Островского, (секретаря брестского референдария Яна Фредерика Сапеги) «Suada latina» опубликован портрет Сапеги. В прижизненном издании произведения Николая Радзивилла Сиротки «Путешествие в Иерусалим» (1601, Брунсберг) помещён портрет автора ― ксилография Т. Третера. Среди иконографии Иосафата Кунцевича есть портрет-гравюра (1670-е гг.) А. Тарасевича.

В начале XVII века, когда медерит ― гравюра на меди, ― получил в Великом княжестве Литовском достаточное распространение, появляется «Панегирик братьев Скарульских» (1604), и в 1621 году серия эмблематических ксилографий несвижского гравёра Томаша Маковского. Последние были созданы для панегирика Яну Ходкевичу по случаю закладки первого камня в фундамент костёла Вознесения Матери Божией в Крожах на Жмуди. Традиционный пятичастный щит заключён в овальную рамку с гравированным текстом: «Ян Кароль Хадкевич виленский воевода, гетман ВКЛ, Ливонский губернатор, граф на Шклове, Мыши и Быхове». Такие надписи делались обычно на рамках вокруг портрета; у гербов гравировались слева и справа инициалы владельца. На первом дереворите Ходкевич представлен преклонённым перед иконой Богородицы в окружении ангелов-стражников с мечами. На заднем плане костёл и строения, обнесённые стеной. В верхнем левом углу гравюры военный ходкевичский грифон посылает ядра из пушек в турецкий полумесяц. Медерит использовал начинавший свою деятельность в Белоруссии Леонтий Тарасевич: портреты К. С. Радзивилла, подстолия ошмянского Георгия Земли, смоленского епископа Богуслава Корвин-Гонсевского (конец 1690-х). Его брат ― Александр Тарасевич ― в 1685 году создал медеритный портрет слуцкого управляющего Яна Казимира Кшиштофа Клокоцкого.

С середины XVI века виленским монетным двором выпускаются портретные медали. Так, мастера Падаван и Доменик Венетус создали ряд медалей с портретами королевской семьи (1532, 1548). Веронский мастер Ян Караглио создал в 1539 году медальерный портрет виленского каноника Александра Пезенция.

К середине XVI века, с развитием надгробных памятников, появляются скульптурные портреты в Виленском кафедральном соборе, ― канцлера великого литовского Альбрехта Гаштольда (1540), виленского бискупа Павла Гольшанского. В несвижском костёле иезуитов ― надгробные портреты Николая Радзивилла Сиротки с сыновьями. В гольшанском францисканском костёле ― подканцлера литовского Павла Стефана Сапеги и его трёх жён. Сапега изображён «уснувшим рыцарем на готической плите». В костёле деревни Кременица ― каштеляна витебского Николая Вольского с женой Барбарой. В новогрудском фарном костёле ― каштеляна новогрудского Яна Рудамина Дусятского.

Белорусский портрет XVIII века
На развитие живописи Белоруссии XVIII века безусловное влияние оказали придворные художники саксонских курфюрстов (одновременно и королей Речи Посполитой) из Дрездена. Художник середины XVIII Казимир Лютницкий ― автор 166 портретных копий, выполненных для Мирского замка по заказу Михаила Казимира Радзивилла Рыбоньки. Сохранился написанный им портрет Теофилии Вишневецкой, матери супруги Михаила Радзивилла.
Образцом представления семейного родового древа стал инициированный Радзивиллом Рыбонькой альбом портретов-гравюр «Icones familiae ducalis Radivillianae» (1758), начиная с мифического предка и заканчивая представителями династии XVIII в. Его исполнил Г. Лейбович с помощниками.

Стипендиат короля Речи Посполитой Станислава Августа Франциск Смуглевич учился в римской Академии святого Луки. Автор портретов и жанровых сцен, он основал кафедру живописи и рисунка в Главной виленской школе. Групповой портрет «Семья Прозор» написан в 1789 году по заказу обозного литовского Кароля Прозора. Картина предполагалась как апофеоз умершему отцу Кароля ― воеводе витебскому Юзефу Прозору. Семья Прозор, кроме детей, была написана с натуры. В центре композиции ― медальон с портретом Юзефа Прозора. Слева стоит Кароль Прозор и указывает на надпись-посвящение. Справа сидит супруга Кароля ― Людвика. За ней стоят брат Кароля и два его шурина. На первом плане дети. Художник сознательно подчеркнул средства экспрессии традиционного сарматского портрета. Картина Смуглевича ― это пример самостоятельной польско-белорусской портретной традиции в основном течении европейской портретной живописи XVIII века. Групповыми портретами также являются исторические картины Смуглевича «Смерть Якуба Ясинского» и «Присяга Костюшко на Краковском рынке». В последней ― образы участников исторического события. На первом плане генералы Т. Костюшко, А. Мадалинский, Ю. Водзицкий, каноник В. Сераковский, слева ― сам художник. Смуглевичем также написаны портреты Ю. Пешки, Р. Пшездецкого, епископа Жмудского Ю. Гедройца, семьи Тышкевичей. Именно под влиянием Смуглевича развился интерес к исторической и портретной живописи.

Интересен и групповой портрет авторства ученика и преемника Смуглевича по Виленской школе ― Яна Рустема, объединившего на одном полотне образы Марии Мирской, Адама Наполеона Мирского и Барбары Шумской. Первая представлена в виде Терпсихоры, второй в виде Амура, а третья ― музы Полигимнии. Из сохранившихся картин Рустема, эта носит наиболее классический характер, видно влияние французского классицизма. Рустем является автором нескольких автопортретов, поясных портретов.

Учеником Смуглевича был и Юзеф Олешкевич, автор портретов Льва Сапеги, Николая Радзивилла, Адама Чарторыйского, Хенрика Жевуского, Адама Мицкевича, портрета девочки, женского портрета.

Юзеф Пешка первоначальное художественное образование получил у краковского живописца Доминика Эстрейхера, затем учился в Варшаве у известного портретиста Иоганна Лампи и Смуглевича. С 1793 года в Вильно, пишет портреты виленской шляхты и духовенства (портреты советника Вейса, надворного маршалка литовского Станислава Солтана, каштеляна киевского Александра Любомирского, старосты брестского Казимира Сапеги, Теофилы Радзивилл, Игнатия Закржевского, гетмана Шимона Коссаковского. По просьбе магистрата Варшавы Юзеф Пешка написал цикл портретов деятелей Четырёхлетнего сейма (I790-I792). Групповыми семейными портретами являются работы Пешки «Семейство Монюшко», «Адам Казимеж Чарторыйский с супругой». В последнем портрете чувствуется попытка художника объединить правила официальной придворной живописи с традицией польского сарматизма.

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They also revealed details about the day of the attack, most notably what stabbing victim Payton Leutner said.
"On the day of the incident, Payton stated that she thought Morgan was her friend," Ms Weier said. "I pray every day that Payton finds true friendship."
The interview comes as filmmakers prepare to release the documentary Beware the Slenderman, based on the attack.
Fictional character Slenderman.
The documentary airs January 23.
The documentary goes into detail about what happened on May 31, 2014, when the two girls, then 12, allegedly lured Payton into the woods near Waukesha, Wisconsin and stabbed her over and over again.
The film includes audio from a 911 call and police footage from inside the interview room as Anissa reveals why she did what she did.
"I was really scared knowing that Slenderman could easily kill my whole family in three seconds," she tells an officer.
Despite their age, the two girls are being tried as adults. During Monday's interview, Mr Weier said that decision should be reversed.
"The laws in the state of Wisconsin are outdated," he said. "If you look at the way the laws are now, the law has not advanced with ... what we know about juvenile brain development."
Mr Weier said he and his wife struggle every day coming to terms with what happened.
"It was really surreal from the time I got the phone call to the time I realised there were more things going on than we were originally led to believe," he said.
Morgan Geyser.
Anissa Weier.
"You struggle with processing what you're finding out about what your child is being suspected of ... If (the victims' parents) were here face-to-face I would tell them I'm sorry.
"I'd tell them I'm thankful that Payton survived and that for as much as they are struggling, we are struggling equally with trying to process not only what happened to their daughter but to our daughter."
The two accused pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness. If found guilty, they could face as many as 65 years in prison.
Payton continues to recover from the wounds, both physical and mental. She returned to school one year after the attack and is carrying on her life as normal.
Her parents were approached by HBO to be a part of the documentary. Family spokesman Stephen Lyons told news.com.au he met with a producer ahead of the filming and declined to be involved.
Beware the Slenderman premiered in the US on January 23.
A 57-year-old disabled man has shared his amazing survival story after swimming for 27 hours to safety following the Tongan tsunami.
A drug addict has shared how his drug habit has affected his life and left him to support himself by stealing in a revealing documentary.
Angry scenes have confronted the man accused of murdering a young school teacher who was allegedly strangled to death while out on a run.


Something thats fun for me when doing senior portraits is to think about everything they will be used for. Yearbook, a 5x7 for grandparents, wallets to pass out at school, a larger print for above the mantel, and fun shots that the senior will be able to look back on and say "look how young I looked!" It's exciting to get creative and try to get photos that will fit all of those needs!
I'm loving these senior photo shoots! Thanks for contacting me Kara. Good luck in your senior year. I just know you're going to do great things in your future.
Kara is beautiful!! Great job Ashley!!!


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Alexander Theo Linnet (born 4 April 1988 in Copenhagen, Denmark), performing under his mononym Xander, is a Danish pop singer and songwriter. Xander is the son of singer Anne Linnet and Mads Buhl Nielsen. He is signed to the ArtPeople record label.

He debuted with the hit single "Det burde ikk være sådan her" (meaning "It should not be like this" in Danish) in September 2010, making to the top of the Danish charts selling over 30,000 copies. Xander released his debut album, Over skyer, under vand (meaning "Above clouds, under water" in Danish) on 28 February 2011.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Featured singles

References

External links
Facebook

1988 births
Living people
Musicians from Copenhagen
21st-century Danish  male singers


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Q: Hide element on all click events even when clicking on an element which has stopPropagation I have an element which I need to hide when clicking anywhere on the page, even on elements which have e.stopPropagation().
I've tried
$(document).on("click",function(){
    $("#mydiv").hide();
});

Which works but doesn't work on an element which has the following:
$(document).on("click","#someDiv",function(e){
    e.stopPropagation();
});

How can I make my element hide even on #someDiv without removing the stopPropagation. The reason I need this to be flexible is that I'm writing a plugin which anyone can use and will not know anything about the click events or element ids on the page.
Is there a way I can bind my hiding of an element to all clicks? Happy with a JS or jQuery solution.
I know it must be possible as I've seen other plugins do this.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

A: Probably the quickest and most compatible solution with your existing code is to swap out the #mydiv hiding listener to use the vanilla JS addEventListener leveraging the useCapture optional third argument to grab the event before any inner elements have had a chance for their own listeners to fire.  See it in action in the snippet below:

document.addEventListener("click",function(){
    $("#mydiv").hide();
}, true);

$("#someDiv").on("click",function(e){
    console.log('some div clicked!');
    e.stopPropagation();
});
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  height: 100vh;
  width: 100vw;
  background-color: pink;
}

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Hide me!

I'll stop propagation!

A: you could do something like adding an additional EventListener to all elements on your page by using
$('*').each( () => {
 $(this).on("click", () => {
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};

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Your last blog post highlights your top 12 days on the water from 2015. What have been 5 of your best days for 2016?
I've had some excellent days on the water this year, including many firsts on the fly -- first albie, first shad, first saltwater white perch, first keeper stripers (4 to date from 28' to 31"), first pike, first snapper blue (a small bluefish). I'm blessed to have the time and locations close to home. Also having a guide for a son in the Adirondacks makes for great opportunities to chase tail. I couldn't keep it to 5 days so below are highlights of the 7 best days on the water in 2016 in chronological order.
May Day – The striped "schoolie" bass show in New England waters starting in April and stay around sometimes as late as December. We were chasing them in April, but only a friend caught one. On May 1, I met my striper mentor, Mark, in southern Massachusetts predawn and brought my first 2016 schoolie to hand before sunrise. The day turned out to be very productive with over 10 caught throughout the day first with Mark, then later in the afternoon with Jeff, another fishing buddy from the fly fishing New England board flyfishingnewengland.net. I even caught a my first white perch, large for that species at 14" in a tidal river.
Mother's Day in the Adirondacks – Matt, my son, Val, my wife and I fished the West Branch of the Ausable River in the Adirondacks on Mother's Day this year. We watched Val get into several 12+ trout which was very special as she does not fish as much as Matt and I and when she gets to catch we always feel good. Spending a day on the water with the family is always fun and even better when we are all catching fish.
Cheeky Day – Cheeky Fly Fishing is a New England based fly fishing company making fly and spin reels. For the last 5 years in late May, they host the "Cheeky Schoolie Tourney" on Cape Cod. This is a catch and release striped bass tournament where the largest 4 fish of the day wins. I've fished the tourney the last three years and this past year was the best in terms of numbers of fish caught. My partner, Jeff, & I caught dozens of "micro" schoolies sized from 8" to 13". My first catch of the day was a shad, another first on the fly. We didn't place high, but did record the smallest schoolie at 8" which won new Simms waders, boots and a sling pack. My son, Matt, drove down to fish for his first striper after the tourney. After 3 years of trying, Jeff & I got Matt into his first stripers that weekend. A couple that night and a few more the next day.
Adirondacks 4th of July – I spent the long holiday weekend with Matt in the Adirondacks. We fished for trout and pike and I was able to get into several of my first pike on the fly with Matt guiding me to his favorite spots. Summer in the Adirondacks is always enjoyable and even more when we are catching fish.
First Keeper – A legal sized striped bass for recreational anglers is 28" or larger in Massachusetts. We call them keepers, but usually release them. I've been chasing stripers for 5 years, caught my first schoolie 3 years ago and landed a 27" last year, but had yet to catch a keeper. I met Jeff at a spot near Chatham, MA to fish the outgoing tide at first light in mid-July. We were fishing a nice rip and had caught a few fish in the 20" range. A long cast landed my fly in the center of the rip and it was clobbered with a surface take. The fish ripped line out running with the current and into my backing, a first time seeing backing. I recovered most of the line and the fish took another run into the backing. We finally landed and taped it a 28" – my first keeper.
Local Pond Day – We have several local ponds that are great places to fish for bass, gills and crappie. Val & I took the canoe out mid-summer to one of the ponds and she actually out fished me – a rare event. I did get my first crappie that day.
Boat Day on the Cape – Mark, my striper mentor, owns a 17' Boston Whaler that he invites me out to chase stripers occasionally when the seas cooperate. Mark, Nate, another fishing friend, and I headed out to the Monomoy Rips off of Chatham, MA mid-August. We launch about 4:30 AM and make a 40 minute run to rips to be there at first light. It was calm as the eastern sky warmed and we saw lots of surface activity with fish busting on bait. I was throwing a large articulated squid fly that Mark had tied and hooked up with what was the biggest fish of the day at 31". I landed two more keepers that day, Mark got his first keeper of the year and Nate hooked into some good fish but did not land them. A great day fly fishing from the boat with many nice fish caught with friends.
First Albie – A friend met through the Fly Fishing New England board invited me to join him in mid-September to a southern New England jetty to chase False Albacore. The albies show up in southern New England for September and October and many anglers take vacations to chase these powerful little tuna from shore. I watched my friend land 3 and was able to get my first late in the afternoon before leaving. Blind casting into current along the jetty for 6 hours and suddenly the line went tight and all the excess line cleared the stripping basket in seconds. Two strong runs and the second into my backing was exhilarating. I will be haunted by the albie for the rest of my days.
What percentage of time do you fish saltwater versus freshwater? What do you love about fly fishing?
This year, I'm fly fishing about 60% saltwater and 40% freshwater. I chase striped bass, false albacore, bluefish, shad, flounder and whatever I find on the end of the fly line in the salt. Trout, largemouth & smallmouth bass, bluegills, crappie, landlocked salmon, perch, carp and pike are some of the many species we find in the freshwater here in the northeast. I will fish for most any fish that's willing to take a fly.
I also am very fortunate to have a son (@troutdoors) and wife (@valwormell) that like to fly fish. My son, Matt, got both myself and Val, my wife, into fly fishing over 10 years ago, so times we all get to fish together are very special. Matt currently guides for Wiley's Flies (@wileysflies) in the Adirondacks so our trips to visit Matt and fish the ADK are also one of the things I love about fly fishing.
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He had a fix, then BOL updated this morning. Now, we mus wait for the new update.
Yeah, BOL updated again this morning. Good news is I believe this fix will make the card catcher less susceptible to future BOL changes/updates.
And the other thing is the way it's catching hands now, your PT special character issue shouldn't be a problem anymore.
Thank you very much! Works great.
After the update I can enter in my Username for Hero now, but it still hasn't fixed my issue with PokerTracker 4. I still have lifetime stats showing up for my HUD so the cardcatcher still isn't recognizing who the HERO is.
I opened up a six max table and it selected "treat as 6 max" and something weird happened, my HUD for myself disappeared, but all the other players HUD stayed in their aligned spots I saved as layout the other day.
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The catcher is going to use whatever your Chico network screename is now by default. Before it was HERO first, and then whatever you entered into the config settings as your username. Now if you're observing it will default to HERO, but grab your username while you're playing.
Regarding your issue w/ lifetime or session stats, the catcher is just writing a HH. It's writing your name w/ your cards, so it's up to PT4 to recognize that as hero. There's nothing on our side we do about this. But my assumption is some setting is off for you, because I've not had anyone in this thread have that problem, and I used to use it w/ PT4 as well for my own play and never had this issue.
If you want to send support your PT config, I can have someone take a look at it to let you know what might be off, but we're not experts in their software. My guys know it pretty well though, but like I said, we're just writing the hand. PT4 is setting all of the other info up.
Well, PT4 support says it isn't there issue, so if your support could take a quick look that would be appreciated. PM me who to send it to or what config/how you need please. Thanks so much!
IT seems what is happening is PT4 is getting HH from your Card catcher, but not recognizing my screen name as being "dealt whole cards" How do you have your PT4 setup if it works for you then? All I did was edit player list to include my username, then deleted "Hero" from the player list, so the only name in my player list is my screen name.
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Yeah, they are going to say because you're using a 3rd party product.
I'll have a developer check it out and let you know what setting is off.
Ok thanks, I sent the file.
Got it, and looking into it. Thanks.
I think it's just a preference thing. Both will auto launch the HUDs now, so if you're unsure, just try both of them and see which one you like better.
So, today I cannot get the CC to run without BOL crashing. I updated to the most recent version (which I hadn't done yet), but BOL continues to crash if I start the CC. Anyone else encountering this?
Same thing here. Hopefully this can be resolved swiftly. Literally started my vacation today and was hoping too get some hands in before I was gone for the weekend.
It's telling me serial number can not be used once I updated using your links freakdaddy. What do I do?
Yes, ty. It looks like the new BOL update today is crashing the client. We're looking into it.
Game client does not work with the card catcher running.
Any update on this? Current no functionality with the card catcher.
Finishing some testing. It was just a bad timing thing. The developer who normally works on this went him early on the day this update broke the catcher.


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Q: SQL Server: joins in one table I'm trying to extract data from SQL to an excel file, Here is sample data from the table.
The data exists in only one table and i cannot control the way data are inserted in it so cannot use joins between more one table.
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 |  ID  |              URL               |                TITLE                 |              LINKS_TO              |
 +------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+
 | 1    | http://www.loc.gov/            | Library                              | http://www.loc.gov/library         |
 | 2    | http://www.loc.gov/library     | Catalog                              | NULL                               |
 | 3    | http://www.nasa.gov/           | NASA                                 | http://www.nasa.gov/images         |
 | 4    | http://www.nasa.gov/images     | National Institutes of Health (NIH)  | NULL                               |

I need to extract the ORIGINAL_URL and the TITLE of it's outlink(LINKS_TO) as in the output i put below. I tried joining the table to itself but the it got too complex for me. Here's the wanted output.
 +------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
 |          ORIGIN_URL          |                 TITLE                 |
 +------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
 | http://www.loc.gov/          | Catalog                               |
 | http://www.nasa.gov/         | National Institutes of Health (NIH)   |

Any help please?

A: You can LEFT OUTER JOIN this table with itself:
SELECT U.URL AS ORIGIN_URL,
       Linked.TITLE
FROM dbo.URLs U
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.URLs Linked
   ON U.LINKS_TO = Linked.URL

Or use INNER JOIN if you only want those which are linked:
SELECT U.URL AS ORIGIN_URL,
       Linked.TITLE
FROM dbo.URLs U
INNER JOIN dbo.URLs Linked
   ON U.LINKS_TO = Linked.URL


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Authorities in Sri Lanka have denied Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt a visa to enter the country, prompting him to recall Sweden's highest ranking diplomat from the country.
The surprise move scuttled Bildt's plans to join his British and French counterparts for talks with the Sri Lankan government about a possible ceasefire.
"Now those in Colombo have finally informed me that they don't intend to accept me for the joint trip which [Britain's] David Miliband, [France's] Bernard Kouchner, and I have planned and announced," Bildt wrote on his blog on Tuesday.
As retribution for the diplomatic snub, Bildt added that he plans to recall Sweden's chargé d' affaires in Sri Lanka, Borje Mattsson, for consultations.
On his blog, Bildt said the recall was meant to send "a strong diplomatic signal" to the government in Colombo.
In Luxembourg attending a meeting of the EU foreign ministers, Bildt told reporters he didn't believe the rejection was permanent.
"I am not persona non grata because they say I am welcome at another time, but I am not intending to take up that invitation," he said.
A top Sri Lankan foreign ministry official said the government did not want Bildt to take part in a mission by his British and French counterparts.
"We invited the French foreign minister and then the British Foreign minister wanted to join him. We said OK. Then the Swedish minister also wanted to jump in on that bandwagon and we said no," the official said.
He said, however, that the visit by Miliband and Kouchner will go ahead as planned on Wednesday.
The trip was designed as a way support efforts by the United Nations (UN) by putting pressure on the government in Colombo to agree to a ceasefire which would allow civilians to leave the conflict area.
The United Nations estimates that up to 50,000 civilians remain the conflict zone, while the Sri Lankan government claims number is less than 20,000.
The government on Sunday rejected a ceasefire offer by Tamil Tiger rebels, prompting the three European foreign ministers to travel to Sri Lanka on short notice.
On Monday, government forces agreed, however, to stop using heavy artillery or air strikes in fighting the rebels.
Despite being denied a visa to travel to Sri Lanka, Bildt said he thought it best that Miliband and Kouchner make the trip without him, citing the "serious humanitarian and political situation" there.
Bildt said he plans instead to travel to Tromsö, Norway for a meeting of the Arctic Council – a meeting he had originally planned to attend before the Sri Lanka mission had been announced.


So I've talked recently (a lot) about all the amazing activities you can do while visiting Sri Lanka, and of course I used the opportunity to shamelessly plug our upcoming retreat in April 2018............Oh you didn't know? Well, if you're asking, of course I can tell you more.............We're running an awesome retreat that's going to be jam packed with once in a life time activities, as well as our usual high energy workouts at our beautiful beach front villa where guests will have delicious food prepared for them by our talented in house chefs. You can read tons more about it HERE, and i'll just shut up and get back to my Blog.............Right, where was I?
What I haven't talked much about is what the "Fitness Scene" is like in Sri Lanka and how we found it staying on track while we travelled this interesting country.
One gym owner surprised us by pulling out his professional camera for a photo shoot with us!
Our second challenge came in the form of Women's facilities (or lack thereof). Most of these gyms had never even had a woman set foot inside them, let alone a woman that could probably lift more than most of the men in there! Though the wide eyes following Ina around the gym may not have exactly made her feel as much at home as if she were training at her local Virgin Active, she wasn't phased at all by it. The challenge was the fact that there generally was no toilet or changing facilities for women in any of the gyms we visited. One of the gym owners was very kind and offered Ina to use his bathroom upstairs in his apartment, but she passed and opted for a quick workout and a dash back to our hotel.
Challenge number 3 was the level of improvisation required in most gyms to have a good session. Again, most of the guys that frequent Sri Lankan gyms (or the one's we visited in the South) weren't exactly big lifters, and although there's absolutely nothing wrong with that at all, it did mean that in order to have a good session I had one of two options: Steal every single plate in the gym so nobody else could use them, or go for a volume session and just use what I had at my disposal. I generally opted for a mixture of both - Starting my session with one main exercise for strength, then giving the guys all their weights back and completing my session as a volume workout. It did the trick though, and at least kept my body in some sort of condition during our travels.
When you find pancakes and egg whites in Sri Lanka, hold on to them!
One healthy food you can be sure to find plenty of is fruit!
All in all, the main obstacle for us keeping our (usual) fitness regime up during our time in Sri Lanka was actually just our daily schedule. Our priority was creating an amazing retreat for our guests next year, and that meant that we were constantly on the move and never quite sure of where the next gym would crop up. That didn't stop us from training every day though, and whether it was the daily surf sessions (which require a crazy amount of energy), testing out the SUP yoga, or the times we did manage to find a gym, there was always some sort of a workout in our day, and that's the point of our retreats. Guests won't even step foot inside a gym during their week with us. We'll have people sweating, aching, and most importantly smiling like a Cheshire cat through a ton of different activities every single day. We will challenge people's perceptions of what "Fitness" should look like, and show guests that staying (or getting) in shape does not have to be done in the traditional sense.
We did the dirty work so guests don't have to, and i'm so excited to show you what we've put together. We've got an absolutely epic week of Sun, Fun & Fitness just waiting for you in Sri Lanka, so if you want to be part of something truly special, GET BOOKING NOW!
The smile of a man who has battled the waves for 2hrs straight. A serious workout!


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Dundee residents show concern over recent asbestos discovery
Residents in the Charleston area of Dundee have called for asbestos checks to be carried out in local water tanks after the deadly substance was discovered in one recently.
Contractors working on a major project to replace roofing on council homes in Gourdie Road and Balgarthno Road in the west of the city uncovered the asbestos at the end of April. With the story hitting the media soon after, suggestions that there could be more in other tanks nearby quickly spread.
"Since the initial article went in the [Evening Telegraph] about the asbestos, people in the area have been speaking about it a lot," said Stella Carrington, who is head of the Charleston Tenants and Residents Association.
"A number of locals have been asking whether the council is planning to check all the water tanks in the area as asbestos is very dangerous and they want to know they are safe."
Despite the local concern, Dundee City Council has said there are no plans to conduct any more checks in the area, with Councillor John Alexander moving to reassure residents of their safety.
It remains to be seen whether the local authority will stick with its decision, but the incident serves as another example of how the presence of asbestos can cause serious concern. It also has the power to damage property owner's reputation if not dealt with properly. If you are concerned about the presence of asbestos on a site or property you manage, organise an asbestos survey today.


Good fashion never goes out of style but you already know that. You appreciate a classic and these vintage throwbacks won't disappoint. The soft leather and suede material offer ultimate comfort while the high abrasion rubber outsole gives you grit and grip.


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Casino Heroes is a unique online casino that you really have to give a try at least once. And they offer a good selection of games from different software providers and regular promotions.


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Bengal Tigers, Leopards, Langur Monkeys and Wildlife of India in Ranthambhore National Park in India
Bengal Tiger and Leopard photographs from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve in Northeast India. This 400 square mile reserve was cleared of all people and villages in 1986 and now has very restricted entry based on a lottery each day. It is patrolled by armed guards. Guides say 34 tigers currently inhabit the reserve, including 14 cubs. There are large populations of Spotted Deer, Sambur Deer, and Nil Antelopes so the tigers have plenty to hunt and seem to stay on the Reserve. Tigers are very territorial, and at 120 degrees F in May, move to water after feeding to stay cool.
We spent 4 days here taking a very early morning and then late afternoon drive in an open jeep with an experienced guide to our assigned zone. The Reserve is divided into 5 zones and the number of vehicles for each zone is restricted to eight. No one is allowed out of the vehicles—for obvious reasons. The tigers have grown up with the vehicles and largely ignored us except for one large male who bared his fangs and growled as he walked by. They walked within a couple of feet of our jeep on occasion—a magical moment.
At the end of the first day we were very lucky to stumble on a Leopard drinking in a man-made pond right at the gate. Indian Leopards have amazing ice-blue eyes.
Photos of Langur Monkeys, some with babies, from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India
Photos of Langur Monkeys, some with babies, in the National Park and Tiger Reserve at Ranthambhore, India
The National Park and Tiger Reserve at Ranthambhore, India
Images from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India
Rare Leopard encounter at the National Park and Tiger Reserve at Ranthambhore, India
Photos of a rare Leopard encounter from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India
Peacock at the National Park and Tiger Reserve at Ranthambhore, India
Photos of Peacocks, some males in full display, from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India.
Bengal Tiger photographs from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India. Second morning at 6AM, a female after a fresh kill heading to a pond to stay cool and digest. In some views you can see her bulging stomache.
Bengal Tiger photographs from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India. Our guide spotted this big male sleeping in a favorite cave on one of our afternoon safaris and we waited for about 90 minutes until he woke and headed for water to cool off. As he passed our jeep he expressed his displeasure with a loud growl. We followed at a distance as he meandered about a quarter mile to the closest pond. On this day it was 51 degrees C--123.8 degrees F!
Bengal Tiger photographs from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, India. She was just laying under a tree in the open late one afternoon as we raced to leave the Reserve before the 7PM time limit for people in the Reserve. She got up and walked 2 feet away from the jeep and over to a small pond where she backed in (they all seem to back into the water) and lay down.
Images from the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Reserve, Sambur Deer.


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Shakespeare At 400 - Cambridge Scholars Publishing 30 March 2016
On April 23rd, people around the world will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. This anniversary, a moment of international cultural significance, will be marked by a plethora of tributes to Shakespeare and his work from institutions not just in the UK but around the world, with 850 events taking place over the course of 2016 in Chicago alone.
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and to celebrate his life and work, we are offering our readers a 50% discount on 3 of our best-selling Shakespearean titles. To find out more about each title, click on the image.
William Shakespeare explores political survival as a question of interaction at court in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Through a discussion of authority as an element that is distinct from power, Royal Power and Authority in Shakespeare's Late Tragedies offers a new perspective on the importance of acts of persuasion and the contribution the late tragedies make to Shakespeare's portrayal of monarchy. It argues that the most productive uses of the material power to judge or reward are those that reinforce royal authority and establish the monarch at the centre of the web of noble relationships. In the late tragedies, rulership is exercised at court. It acquires a nature of its own as the interaction of powerful and potentially powerful individuals among the nobility. The persuasive exercise of authority complements the tangible power that is founded on the monarch's material resources, so that consent to the monarch's supremacy is obtained through various discourses of justification and the performance of the monarch's social role.
Shakespeare's Verbal Art is a profoundly important study of the newly rediscovered anagrams that lie hidden below the surface of all Shakespearean texts. It explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, demonstrating the revelatory function of anagram by reference to the close analysis of a wide range of examples. Special attention is given to Shakespeare's use of these sub-textual devices to clarify meaning and intention. The focus is first on Shakespeare's Sonnets of 1609, and secondly on Hamlet, Othello and Twelfth Night, all of which are found to be composed around the concealed anagrams that render these works self-interpreting. A new kind of language use is revealed, in terms of which pre-Enlightenment text is envisaged as existing in two distinct dimensions – the overt and the covert – both of which must be read if any particular poem or play is to be fully understood. In effect, a wholly new set of Shakespearean texts is made available to the reader, who will find Shakespeare's Verbal Art an essential guide to the new discoveries.
The Shakespeare Project and Ensuing Essays consists of three parts: the seminar essay-syllabi; a collection of close readings of Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Timon, and The Sonnets; and a series of footnotes intended as mini-master essays on minutiae. The Shakespeare Project is grounded on the originary definition of scholarship as studying in school, and offers a revisionary reading of three "minor" characters in Shakespeare's tragedies (Emilia, Albany, Siward), in the process of contending for a sensible coalescence of 'old-fashioned' character criticism with New Critical and Poststructural perspectives. The text also formulates criteria for responsible reading via triple vision – perceiving the work as at once reality, poem, and play – a method forwarded through addressing ethical matters in the works: faith in Hamlet; conscience in Henry VIII; stewardship in Timon of Athens. The Shakespeare Project models reinfusing Shakespeare as terrain for critical thinking that affects everyday life.
To redeem your discount, please enter the promotional code SHAKESPEARE16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 1st May 2016.
Book of the Month - April 2016 30 March 2016
Our April Book of the Month is Building Stronger Communities with Children and Families, edited by Karl Brettig.
This book captures the essence of how communities that better support healthy child development can be built. It includes a look at key elements of the Australian Communities for Children initiative, using a collaborative approach that takes into account community, government and family. How can the voices of children be heard in decision-making processes that impact their futures? How can the avalanche of electronic games, the information superhighway, and social media be negotiated to support, educate and protect children living in an online world? What does it mean to use a whole of community approach to supporting families? This kind of holistic viewpoint is necessary if we are to redesign inadequate, siloed approaches and build family friendly urban villages that deliver improved outcomes for children. Services need to consider how they can work with individuals and community groups to develop the kind of social environment that enables families to flourish. This is not an easy task, and, drawing on research and practical experience, this book looks at some of the key ingredients needed by those individuals and organisations who dare to attempt it.
We are offering all of our readers a generous 60% discount on this best-selling title. To redeem your discount, please enter the promotional code BOMAPR16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 1st May 2016.
"Building Stronger Communities with Children and Families clearly highlights the need for a collective response in the development of lasting social change given the complexities of modern life. This publication provides us with an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the efficacy of whole of community, coordinated and collective approaches to build family friendly communities. I commend the authors of this book in the documenting of the practice journeys of a number of organisations and services in the early intervention/prevention arena as a valuable tool which shares learnings, practice wisdom and evidence to support the critical importance of "working together" to improve outcomes for communities and the families and children who reside in them."
—Jenny Chaves, Program Manager, Mission Australia Communities for Children Inala to Ipswich and Circles of Care
"Over many years as a licensed family therapist, I have become increasingly concerned about the breakdown of family and community, and am convinced that this is the source of many personal and social problems. I have read this publication with interest and excitement. I see in this book a real working blueprint to build healthier families and communities. I especially like the emphasis of diverse groups within the community working together as a team. This can make things happen by using the 'power of we'. Our children need this!"
—Dr David J. Ludwig, Professor of Psychology, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Never Mind About the Bourgeoisie: Australian Book Review Book of the Year 2015 30 March 2016
Cambridge Scholars are delighted to announce that Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995 has been named as one of the Australian Book Review's Books of the Year for 2015.
The Australian Book Review (ABR) is one of Australia's leading cultural magazines, which publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and new creative writing. It aims to foster high critical standards, to provide an outlet for fine new writing and to contribute to the preservation of literary values and a full appreciation of Australia's literary heritage.
42 major authors and critics nominated their favourite titles for the ABR's Books of the Year for 2015, and Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie was selected by Brian Matthews, who said of the book:
"Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 5/14) is a fascinating, endearing meeting of two brilliant, maverick minds. Medlin's wit and Furphy-like evocations of the Australian bush and Murdoch's loving encounter with Australian vernacular ('Dearest Brian, dear mate') mixed with her philosophical digressions are a sublime, offbeat treat."
The book was originally reviewed in the ABR by Jane Sullivan, who said of the volume:
"I began reading these letters without any strong interest in Medlin; I wanted to rediscover my delight in Murdoch's writing, and was confident I would find much to illuminate my memories. [...] I finished the book feeling sad but privileged, and grateful that the editors had done such a diligent job (there is a helpful introduction, and for the first time the full text of a review that Murdoch wrote of Medlin's monograph Human Nature, Human Survival [1992] published in a shorter form in The Age in 1993.) 'Australia needs you to tell about her,' Murdoch wrote to her friend; and she was right. We do."
To celebrate this award, we are offering our readers a 50% discount on Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995. To redeem your discount, simply enter the promotional code AWARD16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 1st May 2016.
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Editorial Advisory Board's 'Recommended Read' - April 2016 30 March 2016
This April, our Editorial Advisory Board member Margaret Exley CBE has chosen her 'Recommended Read': one of our best-selling titles, noteworthy for the contribution it makes to its field. Margaret is well known as an expert on change management and business growth and is frequently retained as an advisor to UK boards and government departments. She is currently chairman of SCT Consultants and Associate Director and founder of Stonecourt.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing is offering all of our readers a 50% discount on Margaret's pick. To redeem your discount, please enter the promotional code EABAPR16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 1st May 2016.
Margaret Exley's 'Recommended Read':
Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Global Perspective
Editors: Demetris Vrontis, Georgia Sakka and Monaliz Amirkhanpour.
This book consists of various chapters which focus on the wider contexts of management innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource management practices. Furthermore, the contributions are authored by scholars from all over the world, allowing the book to adopt a truly global perspective.
"This is a fascinating book which works across a huge canvas. The editors have pulled together a very interesting set of research papers on various aspects of innovation and organisation which together add some really interesting perspectives for senior leaders and academics in the field. The book consists of a series of chapters which are very wide ranging, including a chapter for example on how to manage innovation in retailing, others on Sicilian wineries and their websites, one on competitive intelligence and how to organise it, and a paper on marketing universities. What they have in common is that they are evidence based, analytical and seek to go beyond current understanding to add real value to the field. This is a helpful book of readings for anyone interested in innovation and new developments in the organisational aspects, with particularly interesting case studies on the wine industry and retail."
For further information on Margaret Exley CBE, please click here.
Meet our Authors: Dimitrios Kassis – March 2016 14 March 2016
Dimitrios Kassis holds a PhD from the Faculty of English Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his Master's degree in Education Studies (with Distinction) from Roehampton University in London, and he also obtained a Master's degree in Translation Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests concern fields such as nineteenth-century travel literature, translation and education. He is currently working as a primary school teacher.
With Cambridge Scholars, Dimitrios has published his PhD thesis as Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature. Efterpi Mitsi, Professor of English at the University of Athens, has acclaimed this publication as "a valuable contribution to the areas of travel criticism, as well as Victorian Studies".
Dimitrios describes the experience of publishing with Cambridge Scholars, and explains why he has chosen to return and publish a second title with us:
"So far, my experience of publishing with Cambridge Scholars has been an extremely positive one! I am delighted to have managed to publish my doctoral dissertation after years of research. Moreover, I should stress that I felt actively involved in the publication process thanks to my constant communication with the staff. I strongly recommend Cambridge Scholars to young scholars who aspire to have their work published! After having published my first monograph, 'Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature', I have chosen Cambridge Scholars once again for my second book, 'Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature'. This proves how satisfied I have been with the overall outcome."
As part of the Meet our Authors campaign, we are offering our readers a 50% discount on Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature. To redeem your discount, please enter the promotional code MOAMAR16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 15th April 2016.
Meet our Authors: William Mallinson – March 2016 14 March 2016
William Mallinson, Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions at Università Guglielmo Marconi, is a former Member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service who left to study for, and was awarded, his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Following a period working in business as European Public Affairs Manager at ITT's European headquarters in Brussels, he turned his attention to the academic world, playing a pivotal role in introducing Britain's first Honours degree in Public Relations.
Since 1994, when he was awarded a Greek Government scholarship, he has been perusing British Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence, Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet archives, under the general rubric of Anglo-Greek relations during the Cold War, including Cyprus. He has also published several articles in the press, and spoken at numerous conferences. He is an occasional lecturer at the Greek National Defence School, particularly on Britain and Russia/USSR. He speaks, reads and writes French, German, Italian, Dutch, and Greek.
William has authored Behind the Words: The FCO, Hegemonolingualism and the End of Britain's Freedom with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, which, in the opinion of Professor Alan Sked of the LSE, offers a "quite unique" take on the decline of English within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the concomitant decline of Britain's influence. In addition, he has also just released Thrice a Stranger: Penelope's Eastern Mediterranean Odyssey and has previously written another eight books, two of which have been published in Greek.
A returning author, William explains his reasons for publishing with Cambridge Scholars:
"I was being treated in a slightly sloppy and procrastinatingly frustrating fashion by a traditional publisher about a book that I was writing when, thankfully, a friend recommended Cambridge Scholars, having found them courteous, fast and effective. I checked their site, and found it refreshingly clear and instructive. They acted efficiently from day one, answering queries with alacrity. In particular, I appreciated their almost embarrassingly tough insistence on quality, especially during the proofreading process, as I did their flexibility in considering paperback as well as hardback editions. I also found their royalties well above the norm. My book 'Behind the Words: the FCO, Hegemonolingualism and the End of Britain's Freedom' was nicely produced, which is why I submitted to them my next book, 'Thrice a Stranger: Penelope's Eastern Mediterranean Odyssey'. I have therefore recommended Cambridge Scholars to two friends, whose collections of essays have since been accepted. Carpe diem!"
As part of the Meet our Authors campaign, we are offering our readers a 50% discount on both the paperback and hardback editions of Behind the Words: The FCO, Hegemonolingualism and the End of Britain's Freedom. To redeem your discount, please enter the promotional code MOAMAR16 during checkout. Please note that this is a time-limited offer that will expire on 15th April 2016.


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Tragedy outside Moscow – Airliner crashes in field killing all 71 aboard
Two bodies and one of the "black box" data recorders have been recovered as of Sunday afternoon
by Seraphim Hanisch February 12, 2018 120 Views
A Saratov Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Moscow's Domodedevo Airport en route to Orsk, Russia on Sunday, killing all 71 passengers onboard. The plane, an Antonov An-148, appears to have been on fire, according to reports by people who saw it, and the videos of the wreckage show it to be in small pieces scattered over a wide area. It appears that the plane disintegrated in flight. Right now most information is scanty and the investigation and recovery efforts are slowed due to cold weather and an unusually heavy snowcover after the major snowstorms in the region last week. Initial reports suggesting the plane collided with a helicopter, or that the pilot requested an emergency landing at Zhukovsky airport nearby have both been confirmed as false.
Debris field of the Saratov Airlines An-148 crash
What is known is that the plane, flight 6W703, was at around 6,500 feet (1,800 meters) of altitude in its initial climbout from Domodedevo. It then abruptly descended by over 900 feet, then regained its altitude briefly before simply dropping off radar. This is consistent with some sort of catastrophic engine failure.
Later Sunday, the Emergencies Ministry published the full list of all 71 people killed in the crash. Among them were three foreigners and three children. The captain was Valery Gubanov, who had 5,000 accumulated flight hours of experience.
Investigation will continue until the causes are known and the recovery of victims is complete. Our thoughts and prayers go with the victims of this horrible tragedy, and also for their families and loved ones. We will bring updates as they are made available.
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Reaching the hearts of children and families with the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
The Hope Restored Project is a community-based event that focuses on helping families with school-age children to have a comforting place to call home which in turn creates a more conducive learning environment.
The community of Creswell has come together each year on the third weekend of May to refurbish the houses of two or three families. These houses are chosen with the recommendation of the administration and teachers at Creslane Elementary School. Hope Restored began as the members of one church, but quickly grew to include many of the people from the community of Creswell. The high school sends many students to help. Contractors, tradesmen, artisans, craftsmen, designers and community members with the primary talent of energy and passion come together to work on the houses. The work begins early on Friday morning and is completed by 5:00 Sunday afternoon. Through this project, hope is offered to these families. The greatest blessing is for all of the hundreds of volunteers to work as one. It is truly a magnificent event.
This year will be our fourth year doing Hope Restored! The dates for Hope Restored 2019 are May 17 - 19.


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Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach
Edited by Mark A. Peters and Reginald L. Sanders - Foreword by Robin A. Leaver - Contributions by Wye J. Allanbrook; Gregory Butler; Eric Chafe; Jason B. Grant; Mary Greer; Tanya Kevorkian; Robin A. Leaver; Kayoung Lee; Robert L. Marshall; Mark A. Peters; Martin Petzoldt; Markus Rathey; Reginald L. Sanders; Steven Saunders; William H. Scheide; Hans-Joachim Schulze; Ruth Tatlow and Yo Tomita
Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach's own compositional choices or (in Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created, through the reception of Bach's vocal works. And the authors do not consider such compositional choices in a vacuum, but rather discuss Bach's artistic intentions within the framework of broader cultural trends—social, historical, theological, musical, etc.
Such questions of compositional choice and meaning frame the four primary approaches to Bach's vocal music taken by the authors in this volume, as seen across the book's four parts: Part I: How might the study of historical theology inform our understanding of Bach's compositional choices in his music for the church (cantatas, Passions, masses)? Part II: How can we apply traditional analytical tools to understand better how Bach's compositions were created and how they might have been heard by his contemporaries? Part III: What we can understand anew through the study of Bach's self-borrowing (i.e., parody), which always changed the earlier meaning of a composition through changes in textual content, compositional characteristics, the work's context within a larger composition, and often the performance context (from court to church, for example)? Part IV: What can the study of reception teach us about a work's meaning(s) in Bach's time, during the time of his immediate successors, and at various points since then (including our present)?
The chapters in this volume thus reflect the breadth of current Bach research in its attention not only to source study and analysis, but also to meanings and contexts for understanding Bach's compositions.
978-1-4985-5495-4 • Hardback • June 2018 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
Series: Contextual Bach Studies
Subjects: Music / Individual Composer & Musician, Music / Genres & Styles / Classical, Music / History & Criticism
Mark A. Peters is professor of music at Trinity Christian College.
Reginald L. Sanders is professor of music at Kenyon College.
Series Editor Foreword
Robin A. Leaver
Mark A. Peters and Reginald L. Sanders
Paragram for Professor Dr. Don O. Franklin
Ruth Tatlow
Part I: Bach's Vocal Music in Theological Context
1. In Honor of God and the City: Strategies of Theological and Symbolic Communication in Bach's Cantata Gott ist mein König (BWV 71)
Markus Rathey
2. Two "Johannine" Cantatas: Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (BWV 40) and Sehet, welch eine Liebe (BWV 64)
Eric Chafe
3. Death to Life, Sorrow to Joy: Martin Luther's Theology of the Cross and J. S. Bach's Eastertide Cantata Ihr werdet weinen und heulen (BWV 103)
Mark A. Peters
4. Toward an Understanding of J. S. Bach's Use of Red Ink in the Autograph Score of the Matthew Passion
Mary Greer
5. The Theological in Bach Research (2007)
Martin Petzoldt
Part II: Analytical Perspectives
6. Formal and Motivic Design in the Opening Chorus of J. S. Bach's Magnificat
Reginald L. Sanders
7. The Tonally Open Ritornello in J. S. Bach's Church Cantatas
Kayoung Lee
8. The Christian Believer and the Sleep of Jesus: "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein" from J. S. Bach's Matthew Passion
Wye J. Allanbrook
Part III: Bach's Self-Modeling: Parody as Compositional Impetus
9. Parody and Text Quality in the Vocal Works of J. S. Bach
Hans-Joachim Schulze
10. J. S. Bach's Parodies of Vocal Music: Conservation or Intensification?
11. J. S. Bach's Dresden Trip and His Earliest Serenatas for Köthen
Gregory Butler
12. Bach's Second Thoughts on the Christmas Oratorio: The Compositional Revisions to "Bereite dich, Zion," BWV 248/4
Steven Saunders
13. The Passions as a Source of Inspiration? A Hypothesis on the Origin and Musical Aim of Well-Tempered Clavier II
Yo Tomita
Part IV: The Reception of Bach's Vocal Works
14. The Leipzig Audiences of J. S. Bach's Matthew Passion to 1750
Tanya Kevorkian
15. The Vocal Music of the Bach Family in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works
Jason B. Grant
16. The Need for a New Music: J. S. Bach in Contemporary Context (1946)
William H. Scheide
17. Bach at the Boundaries of Music History: Preliminary Thoughts on the B-minor Mass and the Late Style Paradigm
Robert L. Marshall
Don Franklin is a preeminent Bach scholar, and this volume of enlightening case studies on meaning in Bach's vocal music by his colleagues and former students is a marvelous tribute that does both Franklin and Bach a signal honor.
— Michael Marissen, author of Bach & God
An admirable set of essays about an important body of music. Taken together, this collection significantly advances scholarly discourse about the vocal works of J. S. Bach.
— Stephen Crist, Emory University


The Materials Girls are hosting a fun and fab design board contest. The big news is that Swank Lighting is supplying some of their incredible lamps as prizes.
How fantastic are these "Hard Candy" lamps? And these are the third prize!
Deadline is November 1st. Click here for more information. And good luck!


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In honour of the commemoration of the Armenian genocide, the Boghossian Foundation welcomes an afternoon of conferences organised the Comité des Arméniens de Belgique (Committee of Armenians in Belgium) in collaboration with the Armenian General Benevolent Union and the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif (Laic Jewish Community Centre).
Speakers Bernard Coulie, Laure Marchand and Vicken Cheterian will focus on the manner in which the Armenian genocide of 1915, long regarded as a distant and isolated event, has contributed to shape history and continues to do so to this day. The conferences will be followed by a debate.
Laure Marchand, journalist and expert on Turkey, co-author of the book Le Fantôme arménien (The Armenian Ghost).
Vicken Cheterian, historian and political analyst, professor at Webster University and the University of Geneva, author of the book Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
You can register by submitting this online registration form.


The population of the City of Melton is expected to triple in the next 25 years, as this rapidly-growing municipality captures a growing share of Melbourne's expansion.
Located between 20km and 50km north-west of the Melbourne CBD, suburbs in the city of Melton are rapidly becoming absorbed into the urban sprawl of Greater Melbourne.
New suburbs are being formed to accommodate extensive population growth, attracting young families because of housing affordability and the ease of commuting to major jobs nodes.
A $518 million upgrade to the Ballarat train line - which includes line duplication, passing loops, stabling yards, a new train station at Toolern and upgrades to other stations - will reduce travel times to Melbourne via Melton. A train station was opened in 2017 at Caroline Springs, a suburb of the Melton LGA.
The area has large tracts of undeveloped land and by 2041, the LGA population is projected to reach more than 380,000. Included in the plans for the evolving communities are commercial centres and schools which are expected to generate around 52,000 jobs.
With this level of planning and activity, there are opportunities for both investors and home buyers - especially first-home owners.
This report covers Brookfield, Burnside Heights, Caroline Springs, Hillside, Kurranjang, Melton, Melton South, Melton West, Plumpton and Taylors Hill.


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package nl.rug.wacc2015.chargingpole.util;

import javax.ws.rs.ProcessingException;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
import javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Invocation.Builder;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class WebClient {

	private Logger l;

	private WebTarget resource;

	public WebClient(String server) {
		l = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WebClient.class);
		Client c = ClientBuilder.newClient();
		resource = c.target(server);
	}

	public boolean sendSession(String URI, String data) {
		l.debug("Sending status");
		WebTarget t = resource.path(URI);
		l.debug(t.getUri().toString());
		try {
			Builder req = t.request();
			req.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
			req.acceptEncoding("utf-8");
			Response res = req.put(Entity.entity(data, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
			switch (res.getStatus()) {
			case 200:
				// Do nothing
				break;
			case 404:
				l.warn("API not found");
				return false;
			default:
				l.warn("Server error: {}", res.getStatus());
				l.debug("{}", res.readEntity(String.class));
				return false;
			}
			String resdata = res.readEntity(String.class);
			try {
				JSONObject o = new JSONObject(resdata);
				if (o.has("success") && o.getBoolean("success")) {
					return true;
				} else {
					l.warn("Server error: {}", o.getString("errormsg"));
				}
			} catch (JSONException e) {
				l.warn("Malformed response: {}", resdata);
			}

		} catch (ProcessingException ex) {
			l.warn("Server not reachable");
		}
		return false;
	}

}

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