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Huge Champions League rule change could have major impact on Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City
It has passed under most fans' radar
Updated 09:13, 8 NOV 2018
English clubs are enduring mixed fortunes in the Champions League so far this season.
Some may be feeling confident of making it through to the knockout stages, whilst others are probably a little more pesimistic.
However, if any team makes it all the way to the final, they will be subject to a big change that UEFA announced at the end of last season.
The Champions League trophy (Image: Getty)
Whilst most fans focused on the news in March that kick-off times would be changing, some may have missed another announcement that came with it.
From this season, Champions League finalists will be able to name 12 subs for the game, which UEFA say will give "clubs and, in particular, coaches more flexibility regarding substitutes, and facilitate their squad management for the most important fixture of the season."
Manchester United target explains transfer rejection; Liverpool and Barcelona set for blow; Arsenal chief gives transfer update
Meanwhile, in the knockout rounds as a whole, clubs will be able to make a fourth substitution if their tie goes to extra-time - something that has already become commonplace in other competitions.
If a club were to sign a player in January who has already featured in a UEFA competition this season, they will now also be able to play for their new club - which also marks a change from previous years.
Bristol City FCArsenal star's form leads to questions over future after Bristol City interestHe looks set to leave the Emirates Stadium
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Celebrating National Running Day with Jim Ryun
In honor of National Running Day on June 3rd, we're highlighting our collection of one of KU's most talented and famous milers, Jim Ryun. Starting his career at Wichita East High School, where he became the first high school student to run a mile in under four minutes, Ryun continued to break records at the University of Kansas. Not only did he set a new world record while running for KU in 1966 with a 3:51.3 minute mile, but he also won a silver medal at the Mexico City Olympic Games in 1968. To learn more about Ryun's extraordinary life and running career, check out "Ryun's Run" by KU History's Mark D. Hersey.
Ryun running at Wichita East High School, where he became the first high school student to run a mile in under four minutes. University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 66/19 Ryun, Jim Prints: Athletics: Track and Field (Photos). Click image to enlarge.
A portion of an article from KU's Alumni Magazine reporting on Ryun's mile time that broke the world record in 1966. University Archives. Call Number: Biographical/Morgue File Jim Ryun. Click image to enlarge.
This document, created by Jay Simon, the Sports Information Director at KU in 1967, lists Ryun's mile times that were under four minutes. University Archives. Call Number: Biographical/Morgue File Jim Ryun. Click image to enlarge.
Ryun in his KU track uniform with the Campanile in the background, circa 1967. University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 66/19 Ryun, Jim Prints: Athletics: Track and Field (Photos). Click image to enlarge.
Ryun signing autographs at the 1969 Kansas Relays. University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 66/19 Ryun, Jim Prints: Athletics: Track and Field (Photos). Click image to enlarge.
Ryun running in the Kansas Relays in 1987. University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 66/19 Ryun, Jim Prints: Athletics: Track and Field (Photos). Click image to enlarge.
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Starting in 1933, the local Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA), a Jewish boys' fraternity affiliated with B'nai B'rith, sponsored an annual post-Yom Kippur Dance. AZA was one of one of the more than 60 fraternities, sororities, clubs, and Zionist youth groups around which the social lives of Washington's Jewish teenagers revolved for nearly half a century. These organizations provided settings where teens could mingle and forge an American identity. Jewish teens canoed on the Potomac, danced in Glen Echo's pavilion, and organized Purim Balls at the Jewish Community Center.
In 1934, the local AZA hosted more than 500 members from across the country at the 11th annual national convention at the Willard Hotel. Six years later, they welcomed some 300 members from neighboring states to the nation's capital for a conference and party at the Raleigh Hotel (12th & Pennsylvania Ave, NW). The four-day event included oratorical and debate contests and bowling and basketball tournaments, as well as a banquet and dance.
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Biometric technologies identify an individual based on unique physical and behavioral traits, reducing the risk of identity fraud and eliminating the need for password memorization.
A unanimous decision delivered last month showed that even the grizzled justices of the Supreme Court respect the need for cell phone security, with the nation's highest court ruling that law enforcement cannot access a suspect's cell phone absent a search warrant.
No wonder that biometric verifications such as fingerprints, irises and even the owner's ear lobe are becoming more popular than four-digit PINs.
The market of biometrics is addressing these lapses in security.
Biometric technologies identify an individual based on unique physical and behavioral traits. These include facial makeup, voice, gait and pulse — thereby reducing the risk of identity fraud and eliminating the need for password memorization.
"Because manufacturers know users are unlikely to select complex pass codes on their mobile devices, they have driven biometrics to compel users to utilize authentication," said Chris Crowley of SANS Institute, an information security training company in San Francisco.
That includes Android, which first incorporated biometrics into its ICS 4.0 in 2011, providing facial recognition software to 86 percent of deployed Android devices. In September 2013, Apple introduced a fingerprint scanner known as Touch ID into the iPhone 5s, and this past April, Samsung released a fingerprint reader of its own on its Galaxy 5S — selling 11 million units within the month.
In addition, digital companies such as Hoyos Labs in New York are producing applications that offer multimodal biometrics, requiring facial, iris and voice authentication before granting access to a device.
"The best way to ensure protection against spoofing is not to rely on a single biometric modality," said Mr. Savvides.
Smartphone developers are not the only players profiting from biometric technologies.
"Facial recognition has been really useful in helping law enforcement catch the bad guy," explained Mr. Savvides, highlighting the ability of biometrics to help police match a grainy piece of photographic evidence with a member of a criminal database.
In turn, biometrics companies such as BioEnable Technologies in New Delhi and Iris Guard EyeBank in Amman, Jordan, are catering to the international banking industry, providing ATMs to banks in Russia, China, Egypt and Singapore.
These ATMs — accessible only upon voice or iris verification — are particularly useful in avoiding credit card fraud and providing an alternative to residents of rural areas who are not accustomed to carrying credit cards.
Additional biometrics currently available on the market eliminate the need for home locks or car keys, seen in the new fingerprint-driven ignitions of the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class.


A bachelor party, like in the short, are looking for the best night of their lives. When it seems their prayers are answered when they're invited into an underground club, their scepticism trumps their idealism. Especially when groom-to-be has a private show by the titular siren, singing her song and dragging him under. From there, it is about freeing a dangerous demonic succubus and the chase from the Wiccan club owner, coming back for his star attraction.
What seems to be the most prevalent criticism of SiREN is it fails to capitalise on the segment that nailed it. The story is tight, action-packed, characters defined well-enough and so on. All of that describes Amateur Night, not SiREN. The characters are the same from the short but there's inadequate exploration and any attempt at actual character excavation yields disappointing results. These are placeholders that are only there to service the star attraction, of the club and the film.
The return of Hannah Fierman is the best part of the film, nailing her child-like naïveté and cruel animal instincts with apparent ease. The duality of the character is interesting, a little well-worn with tales spanning centuries. Other characters fill space and the antagonist is hokey, its sincerity coming across as hyperactive and cartoonish.
Where SiREN really disappoints is that it's not scary. For a segment that thrilled as well as shook up, the extension carries none of that. Found footage lent itself well to the terror, putting us with the characters and in jeopardy with them. The cinematography here is mostly clean, but its cleanliness comes from a camera too crisp for the production design. It highlights the cheapness of it with no standout shots and some poor colourisation that takes away from its professional production by looking like a skipped process.
What SiREN could have been is in Amateur Night. A tight segment that is one of the standouts and kicks off the anthology well. Instead, this lags along, limping itself to the finish line lacklustrely. For all that SiREN could have been, there is the previous incarnation staring you in the face, pointing out its mistakes by failing to follow the same style and quality that should be on display here. Apart from the standout performance by Fierman, there is nothing above average on display here. This horror-thriller will hold your attention, but not your memory.
For all that SiREN could have been, there is the previous incarnation staring you in the face, pointing out its mistakes by failing to follow the same style and quality that should be on display here. Apart from the standout performance by Fierman, there is nothing above average on display here. This horror-thriller will hold your attention, but not your memory.


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Beau Michael Wasmer, 26, of Williamstown, WV, passed away February 28, 2021 at Marietta Memorial Hospital. He was born October 30, 1994 in Marietta, Ohio, a son of Rick and Kimberly Fisher Wasmer of Williamstown. He was a graduate of Williamstown High School where he played football and was a hometown hero. Beau was a self-employed contractor and was a hard worker. His kids were his world and he was the center of theirs. His passion was hunting and the outdoors. He enjoyed big trucks and riding on his side-by-side. In addition to his parents, Beau is survived by his two children, Hunter Michael and Hayden Nicole Wasmer both of Williamstown; his brothers, Nicholas "Nick" Wasmer of Williamstown and Britton Wasmer of Parkersburg; his grandfather, Tom Wasmer of Spencer, WV; Louise and Frank Harris of Boaz, WV who were like grandparents; cousins, Ashton and Emmalyn Wasmer; and several close friends and family. Beau was preceded in death by his grandparents, Charles Fisher, Rodney and Phyllis Newberry and Diana Moore; uncle, Pete Wasmer; great-grandparents, Flossie Newsome and Ed Thomas Wasmer, Sr.; great-aunt, Donna Collins; and great-uncle John Newsome. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, March 6, 2021 at Lambert-Tatman Funeral Home 400 Green St. Parkersburg. Burial will follow at the Riverview Cemetery in Williamstown. Visitation will be 2 – 4 p.m. and 6 – 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. An online guestbook for condolences is available at www.lamberttatman.com.
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The recipient of a mentorship award from the AAN and her mentee discuss how they work together toward building leadership skills.
What makes a leader? Carlayne Jackson, MD, FAAN, asks herself that question a lot these days. A member of the AAN board of directors and a neuromuscular disease expert at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dr. Jackson is involved in several new leadership programs that provide training and mentorship to AAN members.
She said that encouragement was the first word that came to mind when she accepted the opportunity to serve as a mentor a few years ago. And then concern, compassion, listening, and even more listening.
She has brought six mentees through these leadership programs. But Dr. Jackson is the first recipient of the Leading in Excellence Through Mentorship award, which was presented to the Texas neurologist at the AAN Annual Meeting in April.
Dr. Jackson had never received any official training on how to be a mentor. But she has certainly been a leader throughout her own career — and she had not a lot of time to do so.
In the last year of her neurology residency at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Richard Barohn, MD, FAAN, encouraged her interest in muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and recommended that she stay on for a fellowship. Then, he moved to Dallas and she ended up running the Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic there — at age 28.
But, she acknowledged, it was a stressful time on many levels. She was directing the clinic and at the same time was caring for her son who was born with a chromosomal deletion that led to myriad medical appointments. She learned quickly that what was needed for patients and their caregivers was a one-stop place to get all of the care they need. This led to the creation of the South Texas ALS Clinic that has been offering services under one roof since 1996.
The encouragement from her informal mentor had lasting effects. She listened to his words and watched the way he worked with patients and their families. And along the way she picked up her share of leadership skills.
Dr. Jackson has also participated in more formal types of training, including the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program, sponsored by Drexel University College of Medicine. She is an alumnus of the 2013 AAN Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum and has advocated for neurology issues to Congress. And most recently, she has been a mentor in the Emerging Leaders Program, Transforming Leaders Program, and the Diversity Leaders Program at the AAN.
The AAN created the Leadership University to identify potential leaders and help identify their strengths and weaknesses and challenge them to become advocates. It has grown from two courses to 10 courses since 2013.
Her work in the clinic and in the lab has offered her everyday opportunities to practice listening and encouragement. Now, she is giving back to younger neurologists, who are paving their own roads in the field.
"We do not want anyone to feel alone on their journey," she said, of the families she works with. She wants to challenge this new generation to pay close attention to the needs of their patients and continue to strengthen the practice of neurology.
One of her mentees, Hope O'Brien, MD, FAHS, a headache specialist from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, is already soaking up Dr. Jackson's advice and encouragement. They have monthly phone meetings and Dr. O'Brien traveled to Texas recently to spend time with her mentor.
Dr. O'Brien was first paired with Dr. Jackson, and they set up a time to meet at the 2016 AAN Annual Meeting in Vancouver. Dr. Jackson was not what Dr. O'Brien expected as a mentor for the Diversity Leaders Program — she was tall, blonde, and from the South — but it didn't take long to realize how much they had in common. A sharp wit. Husbands that golf. A love of the brain and a passion for helping their patients. Within an hour, Dr. Jackson invited her new mentee to a private AAN reception, where she would meet many of the leaders in academic medicine.
Dr. O'Brien said that Dr. Jackson was enthusiastic from the very first email she received a few days after she was accepted into the program.
"I am honored to serve as your champion," Dr. Jackson wrote. "I knew then that my experience was going to be life-changing," Dr. O'Brien recalled.
Dr. O'Brien's parents had immigrated from Jamaica so that their children would have a good education and better opportunities. She spent her childhood in New York City and then Florida.
The 42-year-old neurologist is putting her ideas into action: She saw that her adult patients were having trouble managing their headache and migraine pain, and she realized that neurologists need to do a better job of taking care of headache in adolescents and young adults.
She called her mentor to talk about how she could start seeing young people even though she trained in adult neurology. "This has been a missing piece of the management of headache," she said. "For many people, headache begins early in life and we need to help people sooner," she added.
Dr. O'Brien said she found a strong voice through the program, and even proposed starting a Mentor of the Year award, adding that Dr. Jackson's name was written all over it.
Her dedication in modeling leadership remains steadfast.
"Being a mentor has taught me more about empathetic listening and having courageous conversations," said Dr. Jackson. She said that her mentee is already showing her natural strengths as a leader in bringing her ideas to the Academy table; Dr. O'Brien is now a mentor in the Diversity Leadership program.
"We wanted younger people to learn how to use their voice in the field and develop their ideas to make life better for their patients," said Dr. Jackson.
Most scholars accepted into the programs have been in academia, but the programs have recently started accepting neurologists in private practice, and the AAN has just started a leadership program designed for women.
The nine-month training program culminates with the presentation of a group project. Dr. O'Brien's team identified ways to transform diversity problems in the profession. One of the ideas they proposed is to create mentorship programs between neurologists and minority students in high schools, including a clinical shadowing experience, to bring more diversity into the field. The group also suggested regional programs, summer prep programs for medical students, and research training programs to support diversity in neurology.
Dr. O'Brien graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2005 and remained there for a neurology residency. She was interested in adult headache and soon realized that understanding headache in adolescence might help in managing the condition throughout adulthood. She said now that she is trying to improve management of migraine over the life of the patient. She also has hopes of increasing the number of neurologists specializing in headache medicine.
Dr. Jackson helped her to build self-confidence presenting within the academic community, she said. And since the program, she has signed on to do public speaking for a pharmaceutical company targeting migraine treatment. "I would never have done this before the program," she said.
Her mentor has also taught her how to welcome opportunities. The younger neurologist is following in her mentor's footsteps. She recently completed the 2017 Palatucci Leadership program.
•. AAN Leadership University: http://bit.ly/AAN-leadershipU.
•. AAN Leadership Programs: http://bit.ly/AAN-LeadershipPrograms.
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Would you like to meet a very beautiful kind of swan? If you go on a trip, you're sure to find it in the end: it's the Whooper Swan, and we could say it's the real swan in the cygnus genus.
It receives the scientific name of cygnus cygnus and is a species of anseriform bird of the anatidae family, typical of Europe and Asia. Its range is in the islands north of the Atlantic Ocean, Europe and Asia.
In autumn and winter, it usually moves to warmer places, such as the northern Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Pacific coast of China.
It is a large bird, which can reach up to 1.65 meters. The average weight of a male is between 10.8 -12 kg. In the case of the female, this is a little smaller and her average weight is 8.1 kg. It does not have sexual dimorphism in its plumage, since the male and female have white feathers all over their bodies.
A characteristic he shares with the rest of his family members is the yellow color of its beak. The base of this at the top is yellow and turns black as it approaches the tip. The bottom part is completely black.
Reproduction of this species begins in the northern hemisphere spring. According to recent studies, it is a species that could be monogamous, so they spend their entire lives with the same partner. Usually, couples form more than a year before they reach sexual maturity.
Nests are built as a mound on dry coasts or in shallow waters, using reeds, aquatic plants and moss. After mating, the female will lay four to six eggs, which she will incubate for one month, although it can last up to forty days.
Shortly after hatching, the chicks begin to follow their mother. However, they will not learn to fly until they are 75-100 days old. They will take time to leave the nest, as they take a couple of months to reach maturity.
This species almost disappeared in Finland in 1950. However, thanks to various protection campaigns carried out by ecologists, the current population has grown to between 5000 and 7000 pairs.
Their diet consists mainly of aquatic plants. To obtain them, first of all, nothing on them by moving the legs very quickly, which helps to make the roots less and less attached to the soil. Then he puts his head in and grabs them with his strong beak. Contrary to what has happened with the Bewick's swan, it has not been seen to have adapted to eating grains or maize as an alternative food source.


I am an award-winning multimedia journalist and filmmaker based between Nairobi, Kenya, and London. I cover security and development issues across Africa, as well as business and economics, and travel and culture.
I have contributed to outlets including the Guardian, BBC, CNN, Channel 4, the New York Times, Sky News, CBS 60 Minutes, National Geographic, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Times (UK), the Independent (UK), Al Jazeera English, the FT's This is Africa, the New Statesman, Monocle, the Christian Science Monitor, IRIN News, Deutsche Welle, RTÉ and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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I previously worked for the International Crisis Group at their Brussels headquarters and for the humanitarian news service IRIN.


Prominent Palestinian and Israeli opposition politicians are gearing up to sign a Middle East peace effort dubbed the Geneva Initiative, despite powerful opposition to their attempt.
The initiative is being formally unveiled on Monday in Geneva. It contains a detailed blueprint aimed at resolving some of the most contentious issues in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Washington's top envoy William Burns, meanwhile, met senior Israeli officials on Sunday.
He is in the region meeting leaders in an effort to kickstart the "road map".
In another development, Hamas said on Monday it would participate in talks with other Palestinian factions in Egypt. It accused Israel of blocking representatives from the occupied Palestinian territories from flying to the Egyptian capital for talks scheduled on Tuesday.
The delegation will be headed by Musa Abu Marzuk, deputy president of the Hamas politburo.
Egypt is hosting 12 Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad which are spearheading the Intifada, to encourage them to halt resistance attacks on Israel.
The chief driving forces behind the Geneva plan are former Palestinian information minister Yasir Abd Rabbu and former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government has sharply criticised the initiative for bypassing official channels, claiming it will harm the US-backed "road map" aimed at ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
But the "road map" is floundering as Israel has defiantly vowed to continue constructing its apartheid wall slicing off some of the most fertile parts of the occupied West Bank and separating Palestinian farmers from their land.
Israel has warned the international community not to throw its support behind the initiative, which has no official backing. However, it has already drawn European support and encouragement from Washington.
Palestinian factions have also voiced their opposition to the plan since it renounces the automatic right of return to 3.8 million Palestinian refugees.
The plan calls for the creation of a Palestinian state on 97.5% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with shared sovereignty over Jerusalem.
About 700 guests, including intellectuals from both sides and former US President Jimmy Carter who helped broker the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, will be attending the Geneva launch.
Palestinian President Yasir Arafat's national security adviser Jibril al-Rajub will lead the official Palestinian delegation to the signing ceremony. But several prominent Palestinian officials due to attend the launch cancelled their trips amid continuing in-fighting over the plan.
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A 200-strong delegation flew out of Israel to take part in the ceremony.
Right-wing protesters, including National Union party MP Uri Stern, gathered at Ben Gurion International Airport to denounce the Geneva plan supporters. They carried banners reading, "You are going to sell Israel".
Switzerland, which financed and helped out the secret talks over two years, will oversee the signing ceremony.


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Kronstadt Izvestiia #6
Kronstadt Izvestiia #6, issued on International Womens Day, March 8 1921.
Sixth issue of "Izvestiia of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sailors, Soldiers and Workers of the town of Kronstadt". Includes list of names of those killed in the fighting. Translated by Scott Zenkatsu Parker and edited by Mary Huey. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/
TROTSKY'S FIRST SHOT IS A COMMUNIST SOS
FROM THE PROV. REV. COM.
At 6:45 P.M., the Communist batteries in Sestroretsk and Lisy Nos opened fire first on the Kronstadt forts.
The forts accepted the challenge, and quickly forced the batteries to become silent. Following this, Krasnaya Gorka opened fire, receiving worthy answer from the battleship Sevastopol.
Occasional artillery duelling continues.
Two of our soldiers were wounded, and taken to the hospital.
There is no damage anywhere.
THE FIRST SHOT
They began the bombardment of Kronstadt. Well, so be it; we're ready. We will measure our strengths.
They rush to act, and yes, they are forced to hurry. The laborers of Russia, despite all the Communist lies, understand what a great endeavor of liberation from three years' slavery is being created in Revolutionary Kronstadt. The butchers are unnerved. The victim of their shameless bestiality, Soviet Russia, is slipping from their torture chamber, and with her, dominion over the laboring people is slipping finally from their criminal hands.
The Communist government will send an SOS. The weeklong existence of Free Kronstadt is proof of their powerlessness. One moment more and the worthy answer of our glorious revolutionary ships and forts will sink the ships of the Soviet pirates. They are forced into battle with Revolutionary Kronstadt, which has raised the banner, "Power to Soviets, and not Parties."
WE AND THEY
Not knowing how to retain the power which is falling from their hands, the Communists are resorting to the most putrid, provocative methods. Their base newspapers have mobilized all forces to set fire to the people's masses, and to paint the Kronstadt as a White Guard movement. Now the gang of "patented" scoundrels has thrown out the slogan, "Kronstadt has sold out to Finland." Their shameless press is already spattering poisonous spit, and now that there has been no success in convincing the proletariat that White Guards were working in Kronstadt, they are attempting to play on national feelings.
All the world already knows from our broadcasts what the Kronstadt garrison and workers are fighting for, but the Communists attempt to twist the meanings of events before the Peter brothers. The Communist oprichnina has surrounded the people of Peter with a tight ring of cadet bayonets and the party "guard," and Maliuta Skuratov *(Trotsky) does not allow delegates from the non-party workers and soldiers to enter Kronstadt. He fears the danger that they will learn the entire truth, and that that truth in one instant will sweep the Communists away. He fears that the laboring people, with newly restored sight, will take power in their own work-hardened hands.
That is why the Petrosoviet did not answer our radiotelegram requesting the dispatch to Kronstadt of actual non-party comrades. Fearing for their skins, the Communist leaders hide the truth. They let out rumors that White Guards are at work in Kronstadt, that the Kronstadt proletariat has sold out to Finland and to French spies, and that the Finns have already organized an army, in order, together with the Kronstadt mutineers, to occupy Petrograd, and so on.
To all this we can answer only one way: all power to the Soviets! Away from that power, hands stained with the blood of those perished for the cause of freedom, for the battle with White Guardism, landed gentry and the bourgeoisie! Peasant, calmly work your land; worker, to your bench!
LIBERATED KRONSTADT, TO THE WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD
(A Broadcast)
Today is a worldwide holiday, the Day of Working Women. We the people of Kronstadt, under the thunder of cannons, under the explosions of shells sent at us by the enemies of the laboring people, the Communists, send our fraternal greetings to you, the working women of the world. We send greetings from Red Kronstadt, from the Kingdom of Liberty. Let our enemies try to destroy us. We are strong; we are undefeatable.
We wish you fortune, to all the sooner win freedom from all oppression and coercion.
Long live the Free Revolutionary Working Woman.
Long live the Worldwide Social Revolution.
THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE OF KRONSTADT
MAY ALL THE WORLD KNOW
And so, the first shot has rung out. Bloody Fieldmarshal Trotsky, standing to his waist in the fraternal blood of laborers, opened first fire on Revolutionary Kronstadt, risen against the Communist government for the establishment of true Soviet power. Without a single shot, without a drop of blood, we, soldiers, seamen and workers of Kronstadt, threw down the Communist dominion, and even spared their lives. They desire to once again, under threat of bombardment, tie their authority to us.
Not wanting bloodshed, we proposed that non-party delegates be sent from the Petrograd proletariat, that they might learn that there is a struggle for power in Kronstadt. But the Communists hid this from the Petrograd workers, and opened fire, the usual answer of the sham worker-peasant government to the demands of the laboring people.
May all the world of workers know that we, protectors of Soviet power, stand guard over the victories of the Social Revolution. We will be victorious, or die under the ruins of Kronstadt, struggling for the bloody cause of the laboring people. The workers of all the world will judge. The blood of innocents is on the heads of the Communist beasts, who are drunk with power.
Long live Soviet power!
THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE OF KRONSTADT.
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR **
Carrying out the October Revolution, the working class hoped to achieve its emancipation. The result, however, was the creation of a still greater enslavement of the human personality.
The power of police-gendarme monarchism passed into the hands of usurpers, the Communists, who brought to the laborers, instead of freedom, the fear every minute of falling into the torture chamber of the Cheka. With their horrors, they have many times exceeded the gendarme government of the tsarist regime.
Bayonets, bullets and the harsh cries of the oprichniks from the Cheka, there is what the toiler in Soviet Russia gained after many battles and sufferings. The Communist authorities have replaced the hammer and sickle, glorious arms of the laboring state, in fact with the bayonet and prison bars. They have done this for the sake of preserving a calm, unsaddened life for the new bureaucracy of Communist commissars and bureaucrats.
But what is most putrid and criminal of all is the creation by the Communists of a moral cabal. They have laid hand even on the laborers' internal world, forcing them to think in their way alone.
With the aid of the bureaucratic trade unions, they have tied the workers to their benches, having made labor not a joy, but a new serfdom. To protests by peasants, expressed in spontaneous uprisings, and by workers, forced into strikes by the very condition of life, they answer with mass executions, and with such bloodthirstiness that they don't have to borrow any from the tsarist generals.
Laboring Russia, first to raise the red banner of labor's liberation, is soaked through with the blood of those tortured for the glory of the Communist dominion. In this sea of the blood, the Communists drown all the great and light voices and slogans of the laboring revolution.
It has become ever more sharply visible, and now is completely apparent, that the R.C.P is not defender of the laborers, as it has presented itself. Rather, the interests of the laboring mass are foreign to it. Having achieved power, it fears only to lose it, and for this end all means are allowable: slander, violence, fraud, murder, and revenge on the families of rebels.
The long patience of the laborers has come to an end.
The country, in battle with oppression and violence, is lit here and there with the glow of uprisings. Worker stoppages have flared up, but the Bolshevist okhranniks*** have not slept, and have taken all measures to avoid and repress the unavoidable 3rd Revolution.
But it has arrived all the same, and is being carried out by the hands of laborers. The Communist generals see clearly that this is the people, convinced of those generals' betrayal of the ideas of socialism, who have arisen. They shake in their skins, knowing that there is no place for them to hide from the toilers' anger. All the same, they try, with the help of their oprichniks, to frighten the rebels with prisons, executions and other bestialities. But life itself under the yoke of the Communist dictatorship has become more terrible than death.
The rebellious laboring mass has come to understand that in battle with the Communists, and with the renewed serfdom they have given, there can be no middle ground. It is necessary to carry through to the end. They pretend to make concessions: in Petrograd Province they remove the anti-profiteer roadblock detachments, 10 million in gold is assigned for purchase of produce abroad. But it is necessary to point out that behind this bait is hidden the iron hand of the master. This is the hand of a dictator who desires, having waited out the unrests, to compensate his concessions a hundred-fold.
No, there can be no middle ground. Victory or Death!
This is exemplified by Red Kronstadt, terror of counterrevolutionaries of right and left.
Here a great new revolutionary step has been taken. Here has been raised the banner of a rebellion for liberation from the three year violence and oppression of Communist dominion, which has eclipsed the three-hundred year yoke of monarchism. Here in Kronstadt has been laid the first stone of the Third Revolution, which is breaking the last fetters from the laboring masses, and opening a wide new path for socialist creativity. This new revolution stirs the laboring masses of both East and West, being an example of the new socialist construction, opposed to the bureaucratic Communist "creativity." It convinces the laboring masses abroad, by the testimony of their own eyes, that everything created here until now by the will of workers and peasants was not socialism.
Without a single shot, without a drop of blood, the first step has been completed. The laborers do not need blood. They spill it only in moments of self defense. We have enough restraint, despite all the disgraceful acts of the Communists, to not be limited by their isolation from the life of society. We do this in order that they would not obstruct the revolutionary work with false and spiteful agitation.
The workers and peasants advance unstoppably, leaving behind themselves both the Uchredilka with its bourgeois structure, and the Communist Party dictatorship with its Cheka and state capitalism, a deadly noose which has snared the neck of the laboring masses, and threatens to strangle them absolutely.
The present Revolution gives the laborers the possibility of having, finally, their own freely elected Soviets, working without any and all violent party pressure, and to reform the bureaucratic trade unions into free organizations of workers, peasants and the laboring intelligentsia. At last, the police stick of the Communist autocracy is broken.
REMEMBER THAT WE ARE THE SHOCK TROOPS OF THE REVOLUTION!
Workers are shock troops! Kronstadt is enduring a serious moment of struggle for the liberation of Soviet Russia from the Communist yoke.
We the people of Kronstadt, recognizing this, must all show unflagging fortitude, and show that in the struggle, no sacrifices are too terrible for us. We have become each other's family, unified by a single striving for victory or death. We will share with each other the last tiny morsel. So that the populace would not hunger, the garrison shares its own allowances. All must be even, and not some hungry and some full.
Would that it were not so, but we will not leave our work. On the contrary, we will take after it all the more firmly. Our revolution is the Revolution of Labor, and its name, all to the benches, all to the hammer! All for free labor! You are shock troops at work. Be also thus the shock troops of the Revolution. Forge the Revolution, supporting the free Socialist economy. Remember that on you first is laid the shock work of saving Soviet Russia from the Communist yoke.
SOVIET POWER WILL FREE THE LABORING PEASANTRY
FROM THE COMMUNIST YOKE
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN PETROGRAD?
The Helsingfors newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, in No 60, reports the following news from Petrograd.
--The Petrograd workers are on strike, and are demonstratively leaving the factories. With red banners they are demanding a change of government and the overthrow of the Communists.
Sailors are joining the demonstrators.
The garrison shares the feelings of the masses, but for now is remaining passive.
--Red units from the Korelian [Karelian] Isthmus have been rushed across to Petrograd. As it was clarified, the cadets have been recalled.
--At the Laferme tobacco factory, the Secretary of the R.C.P. called for order among the workers, but was whistled down and driven off.
--At the Putilovsky Factory, several persons, Communist members of the factory committee, have been killed.
APPEAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WORKER-PEASANT INSPECTION
Due to the present moment, the purposes of the department of Worker-Peasant Inspection being what they are, since control is always a necessity in the interests of all citizens, independent of the situation which has formed, and since the majority of the workers in the Inspection were Communists, a number of whom are currently isolated, and the remaining Communists may also be isolated, the work of control may stop.
Now, as earlier, an unconscious element may carry out various thefts of the people's property in a period without control. Therefore, the Revolutionary Troika of the Worker-Peasant Inspection appeals to all employees formerly working in control to come help temporarily, until the new elections. In this way, you may preserve the necessary and normal order in all Soviet organizations.
A. GALKIN, President
THE TRAGEDY OF FORT KRASNOARMEISKII
(One of the Communist methods of party propaganda.)
The editors are swamped with declarations by soldiers, sailors and workers of departure from the R.C.P. Therefore, we are printing only the family names of those leaving the party, and the most characteristic declarations. Today we are given the opportunity to impart a historic document, testifying how this criminal party enlisted members.
In mid-July, 1919 began the attack by Rodzianko on Petrograd. In connection with this, unrest began in the Red Army. This unrest spread to Krasnaya Gorka and Kronstadt. Trotsky gave the order to liquidate it, whatever that might require. The Communists mobilized their butchers, and a bloody reprisal began.
On July 13th, a steamship came to fort Krasnoarmeiskii, carrying a Communist detachment, with Commissars Razin, Medvedev and Sotnikov in command. Razin ordered the bugler to play assembly. The crew of the fort left their barracks, and were ordered to form up in a single line. Razin came forward and addressed the men of the fort with the following words. "Comrades! I have brought you reinforcements, and replacements for the tired. It is, of course, impossibile to free everyone, but a fifth part may go on leave."
After this, Razin began to count out every fifth man, who was then led away to the left flank. In all, 55 people were counted out. "Play retreat," Razin commanded, and ordered the remaining soldiers to go up into the fort tower, and to form up in one rank facing the newly arrived detachment.
Following that, Razin took the 55 people who had been counted out to a given location at the south shore, and formed them up in one rank, opposite which the newly arrived unit arranged itself.
When all these preparations were completed, Razin read them a death sentence. Three volleys rang out, and the 55 soldiers, before the eyes of their comrades standing in the fort tower, fell as victims to the unquenchable bloodthirst of the insane Communists.
Three comrades remained alive (one of them was wounded), and the butcher Razin spared them.
The second act of the tragedy began. By order of the butchers, a pit was dug, the not yet cold corpses dumped in and covered with carbolic acid***, the earth was evened, and the fraternal grave was covered with cement.
Finally, Razin ordered the remaining crew to enroll in the party, and for those not wishing to do so to go out to the fence, forewarning them that the fate of those just executed awaited them.
What was there left to do?
Thus did they recruit these new Communists.
Somewhat later, the commander of a machine gun crew arrived at the fort. The commissars suspected that he had come to Kronstadt for propaganda and... yet another innocent victim washed the fort's assembly ground with his blood.
And the next day was issued a calm order "on removal from rations."
We print it in full on the next page.
The soldiers named below, of the 5th, 6th and 7th Batteries, and the 11th Squad of the Machine Gun Crew, killed by the authority of the Provisional Revolutionary Court of Baltflot, are to be removed from the divisional, battery and crew rosters, and from all types of rations and allowances, as of June 20th of this year.
No. in order - First and Family Names
1 Georgii Neiberg.
2 Mikhail Babkin.
3 Aleksandr Geroev.
4 Nikita Ivanichkov.
5 Prokopii Liakishev.
6 Petr Ulianov.
6TH BATTERY
7 Sergei Veselov.
8 Nikolai Tsabatov.
9 Grigorii Lazarev.
10 Ivan Chaikin.
11 Moisei Ivanchik.
12 Ivan Shatov.
13 Ignatii Zhukov.
14 Aleksei Kruchkov.
15 Ivan Zhikorev.
16 Ivan Mikhailin.
17 Petr Kuibanov.
18 Ivan Karpin.
19 Matvei Gagarin.
20 Vasilii Gagarin.
21 Maksim Rodin.
22 Vasilii Levin.
23 Vasilii Talalaev.
24 Grigorii Danilov.
25 Petr Simanov.
26 Ivan Kuznetsov
27 Aleksei Kokorin.
7H BATTERY
28 Ivan Gryzunov.
29 Mikhail Sharapov.
30 Semen Anisimov.
31 Vasilii Shvagurtsev.
32 Ivan Vorobiev.
33 Vasilii Golubev.
34 Aleksei Klepin.
35 Vasilii Shapnev.
36 Nikolai Manuilov.
37 Aleksandr Fedotov.
38 Petr Larionov.
39 Ivan Derbyshev.
40 Ivan Filatov.
41 Mikhail Dunaev.
42 Nikolai Kolotushkin.
43 Vasilii Turkich, 6th battery.
44 Gerogii Vershinin, 5th battery.
45 Gennadii Feoktistov, 5th battery.
46 Pavel Potapov, 5th battery.
II SQU. MACH. GUN CREW
47 Vladimir Ivashkevich.
48 Pavel Sokka.
49 Vasilii Nazarov.
50 Fiodor Nagovitsyn.
51 Aleksei Ivanov.
SOURCE: report of the Commander of fort OBRUCHEV, No 624, of June 2nd, 1919.
truly signed: KARPOV, Commander of the 2nd Division
NEVEROVSKY, Commissar
attested: MAKSIMENKO, clerk of the construction unit
No explanations are necessary.
Comrade Soldiers! There is the kind of freedom which the Communists have given you. There is the kind of authority against which we arose, and the people against whom the Provisional Revolutionary Committee gives the call to arms. Yesterday, a handfull of witnesses to this execution, being in service until this time at fort Krasnoarmeiskii, passed the following resolution at their meeting.
We, Communists of fort Krasnoarmeiskii, 6th Battery, give our support to the worker-peasant power. We swear before representatives of our troika who are carrying on joint work with the Prov. Rev. Com. of the Town of Kronstadt, that we will stand to the last at our posts, and achieve true liberation for workers and peasants. We swear that we will not walk the path of lies by which the Communists' bureaucrat representatives drove us into the R.C.P. with falsehood, violence and the threat of execution.
A. Polunichev, A. Remin, D. Bukanov, G. Ivanov, I. Moshnikov, P. Pavlov, N. Yulin, M. Tretiakov, V. Poliakov, I. Ivanov, F. Mikhailov, M. Aksenov, M. Balabanov, N. Ivanov, A. Kondratiev, V. Tsvetoshin, Bogdanov, O. Potapov, Novozhilov.
We all, workers and peasants, are striving to achieve a free and unoppressed life, and therefore request that we not be considered members of the R.C.P., but as non-party comrades.
KRONSTADT IS CALM
Yesterday, March 7th, the laborers' enemies, Communists, opened fire on Kronstadt. The populace met the bombardment with spirit. Workers expressed a comradely desire to take up arms. It is clearly seen that the laboring populace of Kronstadt lives with exactly the same interests and aspirations as the Provisional Revolutionary Committee elected by it.
Despite the opening of military action, the Provisional Revolutionary Committee did not even find it necessary to declare a state of siege. Who need it fear? Not its own soldiers, sailors, workers and laboring intelligentsia.
It is a different matter in Petrograd. There, due to the emergency situation which has been declared, movement about the city is only allowed until 7 P.M. Tyrants, of course, must fear their own laboring populace.
Passed by the general meeting of the united crews and garrison of fort Konstantin, March 7th, 1921
We the seamen and soldiers of the united military crews and garrison of fort Konstantin, having heard the report of Comrade Nikolaev on the current moment, find: that all the actions and measures of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee are completely fair. We further find that these actions fully express the opinions of the honest laboring proletariat and laboring peasantry, which is presently striving with all its strength to liberate itself from the damned Communist yoke. There has been enough of the Communists riding on the people's neck without accountability or responsibility. May the murderer Trotsky know that all his proclamations thrown out over Kronstadt represent nothing to us, revolutionary seamen, soldiers and workers, except the free provision of besieged Kronstadt with paper. Their pogrom calls and threats are not worrisome to us, and neither is their stinking slander. For we well know that behind us will come the entire honest laboring masses of our dear free Motherland, terribly tortured and robbed by traitorous Communism. We have all sworn as one to carry through to the end with our holy cause of liberating the laboring masses, which we have begun. May all those Communal [sic] scarecrows know that only by crossing over our corpses will they be able to take control of free Kronstadt. We have decided one thing, either to die, or to exit honorably as victors.
Long live the Revolutionary Committee of Kronstadt!
Long live the revolutionary seamen, soldiers and workers of free Kronstadt!
Down with the bankrupt commune!
Down with bloodthirsty Trotsky and his cohorts!
(signature), President of the meeting
(signature), Secretary
FROM GORPRODKOM
Today, bread is issued for March 3rd: by cards of letter A, half a pound for bread coupon No 27.
By cards of letter B, in place of bread, four pounds of oats is issued for four days, March 8th, 9th and 11th, for bread coupon No 27.
By cards of series A, for produce coupon No 4, a one pound can of preserved milk, is issued from stores No 5 and 14.
By children's cards of series B and C, in place of bread, two pounds of wheat is issued for four days, through March 11th; by series B for bread coupon No 4, and C for bread coupon No 27.
Counted toward the bread norm for the four days through March 11th, two cans of preserved meat are issued to all categories from all stores; by cards of letter A and B and series C for bread coupon No 26, of series A for produce coupon No 5 and of series C for bread coupon No 5.
Issue of all produce noted is limited to the amount delivered to the stores.
LEVAKOV, for the President of Gorprodkom
* Maliuta Skuratov, also known as G. L. Skuratov-Belsky, was a leader of the Oprichnina under Ivan IV, "The Terrible" (see Wieczysnki ed., vol. 21, p. 55).
** Okhranniks were agents of the tsarist secret police, which was popularly called the Okhrana or Okhranka (Akhmanova et. al., p. 400).
*** Carbolic acid (phenol) was put in graves to avoid the spread of typhus and other diseases. (trans.)
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In my American Literature course this semester, I worked to weave Joseph Campbell's vision of the purpose of mythology throughout the pieces we read, to get students to consider the role that literature, in its many mediums, plays in providing the bedrock on which we live our lives and derive meaning. In a world in which religion no longer dominates our culture and for many people no longer lives and breathes, providing the answers for all life's mysteries and meanings, the stories we listen to, watch, or read often become the essential framework on which we hang our own life narratives. Even when we maintain a religious belief structure, it is often not the dominant feature of our lives, and the stories we enjoy are often much more immediate and relevant.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a scattering thing, one that further fragments our society as we rarely have the same tastes and experiences any more, but it is also a left-hand pathway of being, in which we are all free to find our own ways to be, our own meanings, and our own band of merry travelers to move along with.
One band of travelers I choose to be on this journey with is other special needs families. There is a commonality of experience that often, especially if you segment yourself even further into a particular faction, provides instant bonding and acceptance. It also provides an already established framework to build one's narrative upon.
In the online autism world, the most obvious division is between the neurodiversity advocates and the curebies (for whom I am subsuming the biomed, anti-vaccine, alternative medicine advocates). This dichotomy provides a wonderful framework for whichever side one chooses. Both cast themselves as the white hats with the other side as the black hats. It's a heady, winning cocktail: instant conflict and the chance to consider oneself as the white knight fighting against impossible odds in the name of one's child or one's self, whichever way it goes. It's an interesting cultural experience to watch play out, to say the least, and an even more interesting one to be a part of, to be both observer and participant. Very rarely do folks cross party lines, and true friendships between folks across the divides, especially on the extreme sides, are rare. Look at the advantages, though: instant membership, rules, support, and an enemy to fight. It's not at all a surprise, I think, to see these divides occur, especially in a population that already tends towards dichotomous thinking.
Not all families online participate in this division, and there is a large (although perhaps less visible) contingent that is focused on supporting others without requiring allegiance and in helping their children and themselves function to their best ability. It's a lovely community to be a part of, and it encompasses autistic individuals and families both. In this community, when there's a difference of opinion on causation or treatment, there's less acrimony because that position isn't the dominating factor. Folks are focused on different things. They have a different mythology, so to speak.
The tapestry we weave for our lives' journeys is dependent on the stories we choose to listen to, make ourselves open to. The literature we read, the movies we watch, the music we listen to weave together to provide a foundation upon which to judge our own experiences and the appropriate reactions. Priscilla Gilman in her luminous The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy provides a compelling and emotionally riveting narrative of her journey into the world of being a special needs parent.
Gilman begins with her foundation; she takes us through her childhood and the importance of literature, of creativity, of the written and spoken word, in her life as a child. She moves us through her college education and the complete undergirding of her life with Wordsworth as bedrock upon which to base herself. She shares her courtship with her now ex-husband, and how his differences from others drew her to him, how his shared love of literature became their bedrock. Wordsworth, in his immortal poetry, provides guidance for each step of her personal life, and even when (perhaps especially when) his idealism of marriage, motherhood and childhood are far from her reality, Gilman finds solace and purpose in relating his poems to where she is in her life.
One cannot live by Wordsworth alone, though, and the music that provides comfort and energy also permeates her memoir; her tremendous love for music and literature are things she works assiduously to share with her oldest son who shows himself to be different, precocious, hypersensitive, and uniquely himself, all while hearkening back to traits he shares in common with his parents. Readers who've been on this journey to discovering that their wonderful, unique children are so different from the norm, need so much help as to render them "disordered" and "disabled" and in need of a label, may recognize themselves and some of their own journey here. My husband and I, parents to three children who are on very different places on the spectrum, can see where our issues and distinctive traits manifest in our children, and even more so, where they are magnified and create problems that require more effort and innovation.
While much of her son's life relayed in this story is more from the perspective of how her husband and she navigated how to best help him, the last part of the book turns to her son and the strides and progress he makes; it becomes less about her journey and more about their journey together, as it should be for all parents and children. As our children grow, they become more active participants in our relationships with them, and reading about the blooming of her oldest son, his relationship with his brother, parents, and the community they help him build for himself, is truly a joy to read.
My copy of Gilman's book is dog-eared; there are so many places where she wrote something that really touched me, either with its timeless truth or the beauty of its prose so that I had to mark it (and force myself not to scribble in the margins). She weaves the poetry of Wordsworth and other greats throughout the book, making it not just a memoir about her finding her path and helping her son with his, but an ode to the muses, as well, a clarion call for other parents to make their own bedrock upon which to stand. We could all use a more defined mythology to build our lives on, one that lives and breathes and moves within us, coursing through our veins and beating in tandem to our hearts. Upon such bedrock, we cannot despair and will never be lost.


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On today's episode, Jared speaks with Michael Kepko, vocalist of Civil Youth! Jared and Mike talk about the band's direction and their new album, Conversation, which comes out this Friday!
For more information on Civil Youth and their music, visit www.civilyouth.com, like them on Facebook (Facebook.com/civilyouthband), and follow them on Twitter (@civilyouthband).


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We were recently invited to check out the jewels at Château Euphorie, a classically French boutique that designs its pieces around Louis XV's rhinoceros Clara.
We were recently invited to try yet another cooking class in the city and this time it was at Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse. Here you can recreate dishes found at Alain Ducasse restaurants around the world taught by French chefs.
Originally created during the Prohibition era in the States, speakeasies have lasted much longer than expected since their emergence in the 1920s. Now their trendy vintage decor and hidden doorways have made their way to European cosmopolitans like Paris. These mysterious yet glamorous bars are the perfect way to avoid crowded tourist hubs and also are the best excuse to put on your glitziest outfit. Here are our top five speakeasies for grabbing a chic drink in secret.
At Sacrebleu Paris, we pride ourselves in offering some of the most exclusive hidden gem experiences in the city. That includes visiting local designers, chefs, and experts who are creating some of the most memorable brands. We not only want to take you to luxurious landmarks, but also want to introduce you to real Parisian brands and the creators behind them.


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[…] If man were to invest in whistling everything he normally entrusts to words, and if the blackbirdwere to modulate into his whistling all the unspoken truth of his natural condition, then the first step would be taken toward bridging the gap between … between what and what? Nature and culture? Silence and speech? Mr. Palomar always hopes that silence contains something more than language can say. But what if language were really the goal toward which everything in existence tends? Or what if everything that exists were language, and has been since the beginning of time? He is again Mr. Palomar gripped by anguish.
After having listen carrefully to the whistle of the blackbird, he tries to repeat it, as faithfully as he can. A puzzled silence follows, as if his message required careful examination; then an identical whistle re-echoes. Mr. Palomar does not know if this is a reply to his or the proof that his whistle is so different that the blackbirds are not the least disturbed by it and resume their dialogue as his nothing had happened.
They go on whistling, questioning in their puzzlement, he and the blackbirds.


Last weekend in London and in front of around 200 La Jolie Ronde teachers I was so very proud to receive my 25 years of service award. Yes, it does make me feel depressingly old………., but the pride I have more than makes up for that!
Over the last quarter of a century thousands of young learners have sung, danced and clapped their way through our lessons, learning French and Spanish in a fun and inspiring way.
Our aim is always to give the children a positive feeling and memory of language learning which they will take with them through life, and in this global age of ours I believe that it's more important than ever that our children are seen as citizens of the world.
Here is a photo of me taken at the event, alongside La Jolie Ronde creator and founder, Mme Colette Hallam.
"Joy is the consummate professional in everything she says and does and is a true ambassador for La Jolie Ronde in every sense of the word. I feel very privileged to have worked alongside Joy. I am also extremely proud to know that so many thousands of children have personally benefited from Joy's classes over the years using the La Jolie Ronde method. Joy is an absolute pleasure to work with. She wears her passion for languages on her sleeve".
"If I had to choose someone to travel with me again, through all the ups and downs of life with La Jolie Ronde ….I would choose you".
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The big three American labels are holding up Spotify's India launch over the streaming service starting to license music directly from artists, Music Business Worldwide and the Financial Times reported. The labels, Warner, Sony and Universal, account for the vast majority of popular music in the US and much of the Western world. They are exercising that clout by not giving Spotify the licenses to their music for India, the reports say. Music licenses are sold by territory, so Spotify can't launch in India until the labels give the streaming service their blessing.
Spotify's direct licensing arrangements were first reported last month by Billboard. The deals are non-exclusive, meaning other streaming services are free to approach those artists for the same content. Still, Spotify is reportedly paying artists hundreds of thousands of dollars, and labels are worried. Since direct licensing cuts out the labels from the process, labels see this as a threat to their business in the long term.
Spotify has an office in India and has hired an undisclosed number of employees there. Music Business Worldwide reported that the service planned to have a 'soft launch' over the summer this year. That timeline might be delayed given this development. Spotify India is headed by ex-OLX India CEO Amarjit Singh Batra, and head of market operations Akshat Harbola. The company faces stiff competition from over five other established services like Saavn, Gaana, Airtel's Wynk, Hungama Music, Apple Music, and others. Per an industry estimate quoted by FT, fewer than a million Indians pay for streaming music, which pegs the average number of paying subscribers per service to less than 200,000.


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Media, Information and Publicity Minister throws weight behind Zim Hip Hop
byGodwin Mungwadzi - June 10, 2013
Looking to highlight some of the specific aesthetics and advances of the Zim hip hop genre, Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu has thrown his weight behind the formation of Zimbabwe Hip-Hop Movement meant to promote the genre.
The brainchild of hip-hop group called SOD, the movement will serve as a platform to assist hip-hop artistes countrywide. Already SOD approached a number of music promoters to come on board with the aim of promoting hip-hop. SOD co-founder Gerald "Jellz" Themba (@jellzfbaby) has urged interested youths to join the movement.
"Hip-hop is a culture, it is a way of life and a business. The general belief is that hip-hop is a culture that can be diluted with African tradition to come up with a hybrid that relates to the youths of today.
"The movement's mandate is to ensure that youths stay in school and universities.
"Those pursuing music as a career should be given that platform to explore and showcase what they know best.
"We approached Honourable Shamu, who is also the Patron of Zimbabwe Union of Musicians. He agreed with the idea and we are ready to start our journey," said Jellz.
The movement comes at a time when hip-hop music is on a steady rise. This also follows a number of successful shows and gigs that featured regional hip-hop artistes. Jellz said the movement was luring regional and international hip-hop artistes to collaborate with Zimbabweans.
Recently, South African's trio of Dj Zihle, A.K.A and Young Nucho visited Harare courtesy of some of aspiring Zimbabwean hip-hop promoters.
SOD was also part and parcel of the show that saw local hip-hop gurus sharing the stage with South Africa's crème de la crème. The movement will host hip-hop artistes at some of the Harare's entertainment spots such as The Lounge, Red Bar and Circus Nightclub.


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10 Icelandic Natural Wonders You Can See for Free
by Katie Hammel
Like many Nordic countries, Iceland is pricey. But there's one major draw for budget travelers: Many of the country's most spectacular natural attractions are free. Here are 10 awe-inspiring sights in Iceland that you won't spend a single króna to enjoy.
Known by its (easier to pronounce) nickname of "the waterfall you can walk behind," Seljalandsfoss sits on Iceland's southern coast, where it plunges 200 feet over a cliff. Visitors can walk around the curtain of water to a shallow cave, where they'll get a one-of-a-kind view through the falls. While there, don't miss the adjacent Gljúfurárfoss, a tall waterfall hidden in a slot canyon.
One of Iceland's most famous watery attractions, the wide and thundering Gullfoss waterfall is located on Iceland's well-trodden Golden Circle route. One hundred feet tall and stretching nearly the length of a football field across the Hvítá glacial river, it can be viewed from above, where the river begins its plunge, or below, as the churning water rushes through the bottom of the deep canyon.
One of Iceland's most famous watery attractions, the wide, thundering Gullfoss waterfall is located on Iceland's well-trodden Golden Circle route. One hundred feet tall and stretching nearly the length of a football field across the Hvítá glacial river, it can be viewed from above, where the river begins its plunge, or below, as the churning water rushes through the bottom of the deep canyon.
At 300 feet wide, Dettifoss earns the title of Europe's most powerful waterfall. It dumps enough water to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool every five seconds. While it's hard to appreciate its scale from the top of the falls, its deafening roar and colossal splash—which soaks anyone who stands near the edge—will give you a sense of its might.
Dynjandi
Located in the remote Westfjords of northwest Iceland, Dynjandi is a series of six waterfalls that connect to form a thin veil of water, cascading down a tiered mountainside. Since only about 6 percent of all tourists to Iceland venture to this region, you might even find yourself the only one admiring this spectacular set of falls.
Goðafoss
Northern Iceland's Goðafoss, or "the waterfall of the gods," is named because legend has it that, in 1000 AD, a lawmaker named Þorgeir threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall, renouncing his pagan religion and embracing Christianity. The 40-foot-tall waterfall spans 100 feet across and is so powerful you can see its mist rising into the air like smoke from a mile away.
The Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon is the result of melted water and ice from the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier as it recedes from the edge of the Atlantic. It's been growing steadily for decades, increasing its size by 400 percent since the 1970s. While you have to pay for a boat ride through the lagoon, you can admire the icebergs bobbing in its waters from the shore for free.
Reynisfjara
Located on Iceland's southern coast, close to the town of Vík, Reynisfjara is a wild and windy black-sand beach ringed by basalt columns and 200-foot-tall rock formations found in the waters just offshore. This is no swimming beach; it's one of the more dangerous places in Iceland, as tourists who get too close to the water's edge have been soaked—or swept out to sea—by powerful rogue waves.
Lake Mývatn
Near Akureyri in the north of Iceland, the 2000-year-old Lake Mývatn offers something for everyone: craters, wetlands, 100 species of birds, a crystal-clear lake, lava formations, and steaming hot springs. The landscape is so stunning and otherworldly that the Apollo 11 crew chose this spot to train for their moonwalks, because it was the place on Earth with conditions most similar to those on the moon.
Ásbyrgi
Norse mythology attributes the creation of Ásbyrgi, a 100-foot deep, mile-wide, horseshoe-shaped canyon, to Sleipnir, the god Óðinn's eight-legged horse. When the horse's hoof touched earth, legend says, it created the canyon, which is now a popular spot for camping, hiking, or taking in the sprawling view.
Don't let the agencies selling Northern Lights tours fool you; you don't need to pay to see the Aurora Borealis. What you do need is a dark night, clear skies, solar activity, and luck. Visible from September to March, they are best viewed away from light pollution, but you don't have to venture far from Reykjavik to see them; when they're particularly strong, they can even be seen in the city.
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