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Scientific sessions of 18th International Storytelling Festival in Tehran are held in advance of this cultural event since 3 February.
Fourteen sessions and four workshops are held in 18th International Storytelling Festival so that a group of Iranian and international experts share their experiences with storytellers and other enthusiasts.
These sessions and workshops are held since 3 February in Cultural and Artistic Creativity Center and will be running till 18 February.
Storytelling and Book Promotion, Psychological Functions of Story in Modern World, Fairy Tales, Storytelling Tradition in Ancient Persian Literature, New Horizons in Storytelling and the Role of Story in Critical and Creative Thinking and attentive processing, Digital Storytelling Workshop and Storytelling in Schools are some subjects of these sessions and workshops.
Ali Boloukbashi, Zohreh Ghaeini, Mostafa Rahmandoost, Chista Yasrebi, Mohammadhadi Mohammadi, Behrouz Gharibpour, Seyyed Ahmad Vakilian, Hossein Sheykholeslami, Mike Lockett, Ali Asghar Seyyed-Abadi and Beatriz Montero are some of lecturers in these sessions.
18th International Storytelling Festival is held on 16-19 February 2016 in Cultural and Artistic Creativity Center of Institute for the Intellectual Development of children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) and will be running for four days, secretary of the festival Mojtaba Daneshvar said in a press release on Sunday. .
11 foreign storytellers will be attending the 18th edition of the International Storytelling Festival opening in Tehran on February 16.
Plans are for author and storyteller Beatriz Montero from Spain to hold a workshop for teachers of the institute during the festival, Daneshvar said.
In addition, Marion Kenny, a live performer from Scotland, is scheduled to teach storytelling to interested applicants in her workshop.
The storytellers are coming from Spain, Scotland, Germany, India, Lebanon, Australia, Denmark, Chile, Kenya and United States.
"Los martes de Montserrat del Amo", homenaje a la escritora en Madrid
La Biblioteca Regional de Madrid Joaquín Leguina rinde homenaje de agradecimiento a la escritora Montserrat del Amo cercano el primer aniversario de su fallecimiento. Este es el programa de las Jornadas "Los martes de Montserrat"
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|Alan Padilla
|- Vocals & Electric Guitar
|Rick Andersen
|- Drums
|Tom D.
David Rivas
|- Bass
|Angelique Zargari
|- Key Boards
|Wendy Violet
|Robert Conrad
|Kael Sharp
Sunken City combines the sons of San Pedro, Long Beach, Lynwood, and Sahagun Hidalgo to bring you this sound. We as part of the people represent the people and bring to light the struggle and pain of the people. Things that others choose not to see. We love our country for the fact that it was built on "we the people". Slowly our rights are being stripped from us, so we as "the People" Need to speak up. We don't know what we have untill it's gone and the injustice is on our door step. Our Infuence is the struggle of people around the world.
Too consumed in the rat race to notice rising waters,
Complacent till it fills our homes,
swepted away by the mainstream detered from the truth,
drowned by the flood of injustice,
we become a sunken city.
Consumidos en nuestras vidas cotidianas sin notar el aqua suviendo,
Esidia que llena los hogares,
Arrastrados por la corriente del medio comercial lejos de la verdad,
Ahogados por la inundacion de la injusticia,
Nos conbertimos en una ciudad hundida.


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Ottokie takes great care in choosing the stone. His carvings are made of the finest serpentine of varying shades from green to black, then smoothed and polished to best exhibit the lustre of the stone. Serpentine is a rock with composition similar to that of Jade and is found on Baffin Island. It is a very hard stone that requires more artistic virtuosity to carve than the softer soapstone.


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ABOARD USS ENTERPRISE (NNS) -- USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) were the recipients of the 2007 Admiral Flatley Memorial Award.
Capt. Ron Horton, Enterprise's commanding officer, announced to the crew that Big "E" won the award, May 1.
This aviation safety award, given to one aircraft carrier and associated carrier air wing and one amphibious assault ship and associated Marine expeditionary unit annually, covers a one year period. The award is based on a comprehensive evaluation of contributions to aviation safety.
During 2007, Big "E" and CVW-1 successfully completed a strenuous six-month deployment leaving a huge impact in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf while conducting continuous combat operations and Maritime Security Operations.
With 24,297 flight hours, 11,502 catapult launches and 192 days embarked with the air wing, the Enterprise and CVW-1 teams worked as a cohesive team to increase flight deck safety, resulting in less than $100 in damage during the entire deployment.
"The crew and air wing took safety very seriously," said Enterprise Safety Officer, Cmdr. Peter Mehl. "They got the job done. If you look at both the work-ups and cruise, we effectively operated at sea for three-fourths of a year."
Enterprise Air Boss, Capt. Ryman Shoaf noted, "The professionalism between the flight deck crew and the CVW-1 aviators and their support teams was the reason we received this recognition."
Shoaf also praised the crew's consistency and passion day in and day out during nearly six months of combat operations.
"Both organizations made monumental strides to complete all missions; not some of the time, not every other time but each and every time we were called upon to do so," added Shoaf. "Safety was the mission that made all the other missions possible, especially those that flew across the beach in support of those on the ground engaged in combat."
Horton shared those sentiments and said he could not be more proud of the men and women he serves with aboard Big "E" and CVW-1.
"We're honored to be recognized with this award," said Horton. "It is a testament to all the long hours and the hard work the entire Big "E" CVW-1 team put in. Every day they focused on safety while getting the job done, and getting the job done well. The dedication and pride they displayed this past year is unmatched. And I'm proud to be part of this team."
For more news from USS Enterprise, visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn65/.


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On the 1905 Revolution
Peter Kropotkin
[Extracted from "Revolution in Russia: Bloody Sunday and the Constitution" in The Great Events by Famous Historians, vol. 20 (n.p.: The National Alumni, 1914), pp. 122-137]
Events in Russia are following one another with that rapidity which is characteristic of revolutionary periods. On the 10th of August, 1904, the ornnipotent Minister of the Interior, Von Plehve, was killed by the revolutionary Socialist, Sazonoff. Plehve had undertaken to maintain autocracy for another ten years, provided that he and his police were invested with unlimited powers; and having received these powers, he had used them so as to make of the police the most demoralized and dangerous body in the State. In order to crush all opposition, he had not recoiled from deporting at least 30,000 persons to remote comers of the Empire by mere administrative orders. He was spending immense sums of money for his own protection, and when he drove in the streets, surrounded by crowds of policemen and detective bicyclists and automobilists, he was the best-guarded man in Russiabetter guarded than even the Czar. But all that proved to be of no avail. The system of police rule was defeated, and nobody in the Czar's surroundings would attempt to continue it. For six weeks the post of Minister of the Interior remained vacant, and then Nicholas the Second reluctantly agreed to accept Sviatopolk Mirsky, with the understanding that he would allow the little local assemblies, or zemstvos, to work out some transitional form between autocracy pure and simple and autocracy mitigated by some sort of national representation. This was done by the zemstvos at their congress in November of last year, when they dared to demand " the guaranty of the individual and the inviolability of the private dwelling," "the local autonomy of self-administration," and 4 4 a close intercourse between the Government and the nation,". by means of a specially elected body of representatives of the nation who would "participate in the legislative power, the establishment of the budget, and the control of the Administration."
Modest though this declaration was, it became the signal for a general agitation. True, the press was forbidden to discuss it, but all the papers, as well as the municipal councils, the scientific societies, and all sorts of private groups discussed it nevertheless. Then, in December last, the "intellectuals" organized themselves into vast unions of engineers, lawyers, chemists, teachers, and so on-all federated in a general Union of Unions. And amid this agitation, the timid resolutions of the zemstvos were soon outdistanced. A constituent assembly, elected by universal, direct, and secret suffrage, became the watchword of all the constitutional meetings.
The students were the first to carry these resolutions in the street, and they organized imposing manifestations in support of these demands at St. Petersburg, Moscow, and in all the university towns. At Moscow the Grand Duke Sergius ordered the troops to fire at the absolutely peaceful demonstration. Many were killed, and from that day he became a doomed man.
Things would have probably dragged if the St. Petersburg working men had not at this moment lent their powerful support to the young movement-entirely changing by their move the very face of events. To prevent by any means the "intellectuals" from carrying on their propaganda amid the working men and the peasants had been the constant preoccupation of the Russian Government; while, on the other side, to join hands with the workers and the peasants and to spread among them the ideas of Freedom and Socialism had always been the goal of the revolutionary youth for the last forty years-since 1861. Life itself worked on their side. The labor movement played so prominent a part in the life of Europe during the last half- century, and it so much occupied the attention of all the European press, that the infiltration of its ideas into Russia could not be prevented by repression. The great strikes of 1896-1900 at St. Petersburg and in central Russia, the growth of the labor organizations in Poland, and the admirable success of the Jewish labor organization, the Bund, in western and southwestern Russia, proved, indeed, that the Russian working men had joined hands in their aspirations with their Western brothers.
Father Gapon succeeded in grouping in a few months a considerable mass of the St. Petersburg workers round all sorts of lecturing institutes, tea restaurants, cooperative societies, and the like; and he, with a few working-men friends, organized within that mass and linked together several thousands of men inspired by higher purposes. They succeeded so well in their underground work that when they suggested to the working men that they should go en masse to the Czar, and unroll before him a petition asking for constitutional guaranties as well as for some economical changes, nearly 70,000 men took in two days the oath to join the demonstration, although it had become nearly certain that the demonstration would be repulsed by force of arms. They more than kept their word, as they came out in still greater numbers-about 200,000 -- and persisted in approaching the Winter Palace notwithstanding the firing of the troops.
This led to the tragedy of "Red Sunday," or Vladimir Sunday. It is now known how the Emperor himself, concealed at Tsarskoe Selo, gave orders to receive the demonstrators with volley-firing; how the capital was divided for that purpose into military districts, each one having at a given spot its staff, its field telephones, its ambulances. The troops fired at the dense crowds at a range of a few dozen yards, and no fewer than from 2,000 to 3,000 men, women, and children fell the victims of the Czar's fears and obstinacy.
The feeling of horror with which eye-witnesses, Russian and English, speak of this massacre surpasses description. Even time will not erase these horrible scenes from the memories of those who saw them, just as the horrors of a shipwreck remain engraved forever in the memory of a rescued passenger.What Gapon said immediately after the massacre about "the viper's brood" of the whole dynasty was echoed all over Russia, and went as far as the valleys of Manchuria. The whole character of the movement was changed at once by this massacre. All illusions were dissipated. As the autocrat and his supporters had not shrunk from that wanton, fiendish, and cowardly slaughtering, it was evident that they would stop at no violence and no treachery. From that day the name of the Romanoff dynasty began to become odious among the working men in Russia. The illusion of a benevolent autocrat who was going to listen paternally to the demands of his subjects was gone forever.
Distrust of everything that might come from the Romanoffs took its place; and the idea of a democratic republic, which formerly was adopted by a few Socialists only, now found its way even into the relatively moderate programs. To let the people think that they might be received by the Czar, to lure them to the Winter Palace, and there to mow them down by volleys of rifle-fire -- such crimes are never pardoned in history.
If the intention of Nicholas the Second and his advisers had been to terrorize the working classes, the effect of the January slaughter was entirely in the opposite direction. It gave a new force to the labor movement all over Russia. Five days after the terrible "Vladimir" Sunday, a mass-strike broke out at Warsaw, and was followed by mass-strikes at Lodz and in all the industrial and mining centers of Poland. in a day or two the Warsaw strike was joined by 100,000 operatives and became general. All factories were closed, no tramways were running, no papers were published. The students joined the movement, and were followed by the pupils of the secondary schools. The shop assistants, the clerks in the banks and in all public and private commercial establishments, the waiters in the restaurants-all gradually came out to support the strikers. Lodz joined Warsaw, and two days later the strike spread over the mining district of Dombrowo. An eight-hour day, increased wages, political liberties, and Home Rule, with a Polish Diet sitting at Warsaw, were the demands of all the strikers. We thus find in these Polish strikes all the characteristics which, later on, made of the general strikes of October last so powerful a weapon against the crumbling autocratic system.
If the rulers of Russia had had the slightest comprehension of what was going on, they would have perceived at once that a new factor of such potency had made its appearance in the movement, in the shape of a strike in which all classes of the population joined hands, that nothing remained but to yield to their demands; otherwise the whole fabric of the State would be shattered down to its deepest foundations. But they remained as deaf to the teachings of modern European life as they had been to the lessons of history; and when the strikers appeared in the streets, organizing imposing manifestations, they knew of no better expedient than to send the order: "Shoot them!" In a couple of days more than 300 men and women were shot in Warsaw, 100 at Lodz, fortythree at Sosnowice, forty-two at Ostrowiec, and so on, all over Poland!
The result of these new massacres was that all classes of society drew closer together in order to face the common enemy, and swore to fight till victory should be gained. Since that time governors of provinces, officers of the police, gendarmes, spies, and the like have been killed in all parts of Poland. In very few cases were the assailants arrested. As a rule they disappeared-the whole population evidently helping to conceal them.
In the meantime the peasant uprisings, which had already begun a couple of years before, were continuing all over Russia, showing, as is usually the case with peasant uprisings, a recrudescence at the beginning of the winter and a falling off at the time when the crops have to be taken in. They now took serious proportions in the Baltic provinces, in Poland and Lithuania, in the central provinces of Tchernigov, Orel, Kursk, and Tula, on the middle Volga, and especially in western Transcaucasia. There were weeks when the Russian papers would record every day from ten to twenty cases of peasant uprisings. In all these uprisings the peasants display a most wonderful unity of action, a striking calmness, and remarkable organizing capacities. In most cases their demands are even very moderate. They begin by holding a solemn assembly of the mir (village community); then they ask the priest to sing a Te Deum for the success of the enterprise; they elect as their delegates the wealthiest men of the village; and they proceed with their carts to the landlord's grain stores. There they take exactly what they need for keeping alive till the next crop, or they take the necessary fuel from the landlord's wood, and if no resistance has been offered they take nothing else, and return to their houses in the same orderly way; or else they come to the landlord, and signify to him that unless he agrees to rent all his land to the village community at such a price-usually a fair price -- nobody will be allowed to rent his land or work for him as a hired laborer, and that the best he can do is therefore to leave the village. In other places, if the landlord has been a good neighbor, they offer to buy all his land on the responsibility of the commune, for the price which land, sold in a lump, can fetch in that neighborhood; or alternatively they offer such a yearly rent; or, if he intends to cultivate the land himself, they are ready to work at a fair price, slightly above the now current prices. But rack-renting, renting to middlemen, or renting to other villages in order to force his nearest neighbors to work at lower wages-all this must be given up forever.
As to the Caucasus, the peasants of Guria (western portion of Georgia) proceeded even in a more radical way. They refused to work for the landlords, sent away all the authorities, and, nominating their own judges, they organized such independent village communities, embodying a whole territory, as the old cantons of Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden represented for several centuries in succession.
All these facts point in one direction. Rural Russia will not be pacified so long as some substantial move has not been made in the sense of land nationalization. The theoricians of the mercantile school of economists may discuss this question with no end of argument, coming to no solution at all; but the peasants are evidently decided not to wait any more. They see that the landlords not only do not introduce improved systems of culture on the lands which they own, but simply take advantage of the small size of the peasant allotments and the heavy taxes which the peasants have to pay, for imposing rack-rents, and very often the additional burden of a middleman, who sublets the land. And they seem to have made up their minds all over Russia in this way: "Let the Government pay the landlords, if it be necessary, but we must have the land. We shall get out of it, under improved culture, much more than is obtained now by absentee landlords, whose main income is derived from the civil and military service."
The peasant uprisings alone, spreading over wide territories, rolling as waves which flood to-day one part of the country and to-morrow another, would have been sufficient to entirely upset the usual course of affairs in Russia. But when the peasant insurrection is combined with a general awakening of the working men in towns, who refuse to remain in the old servile conditions; when all the educated classes enter into an open revolt against the old system; and when important portions of the Empire, such as Finland, Poland, and the Caucasus, strive for complete Home Rule, while other portions, such as Siberia, the Baltic provinces, and Little Russia, and, in fact, every province, claim autonomy and want to be freed from the St. Petersburg bureaucrats-then it becomes evident that the time has come for a deep, complete revision of all the institutions. Every reasoning observer, every one who has learned something in his life about the psychology of nations, would conclude that if any concessions are to be made to the new spirit of the time, they must be made with an open mind, in a straightforward way, with a deep sense of responsibility for what is done-not as a concession enforced by the conditions of a given moment, but as a quite conscious reasoned move , dictated by a comprehension of the historical phase which the country is going through.
Unfortunately, nothing of that consciousness and sense of responsibility is seen among those who have been the rulers of Russia during the last twelve months. I have told in my memoirs how certain moderate concessions, if they had been granted toward the end of the reign of Alexander the Second or at the advent of his son, would have been hailed with enthusiasm, and would have paved the way for the gradual and slow passage from absolutism to representative government. Even in 1895, when Nicholas the Second had become Emperor, it was not too late for such concessions. But it was also evident to every one who was not blinded by that artificial atmosphere of bureaucracy created in all capitals that ten years later such half-hearted concessions as a "Consultative Assembly" were already out of question. The January massacres widened that chasm still more. Therefore only an open recognition of the right of the nation to frame its own constitution, and a complete, honest amnesty, granted as a pledge of good faith, could have spared to Russia all the bloodshed of the recent years. Every intelligent statesman would have understood it. But the cynical courtier, Boulyghin, whom Nicholas the Second and his mother considered a statesman, and to whom they had pinned their faith, was not the man to do so. His only policy was to win time, in the hope that something might turn the scales in favor of his masters.
Consequently, vague promises were made in December, 1904, and next in March, 1905, but in the meantime the most reckless repression was resorted to-not openly, but under cover, according to the methods of Von Plehve's policy. Death sentences were distributed by the dozen during the summer. The worst forms of police autocracy, which characterized the rule of Plehve, were revived in a form even more exasperating than before, because governors-general assumed now the rights which formerly were vested in the Minister of the Interior. Thus, to give one instance, the GovernorGeneral of Odessa exiled men by the dozen by his own will, including the old ex-Dean of the Odessa University, Professor Yaroshenko, whom he ordered to be transported to Vologda! And this went on at a time when all Russia began to take fire, and lived through such a series of events as the uprising of the Mussulmans and the massacres at Baku and Nakhichevan; the uprising at Odessa, during which all the buildings in the port were burned; the mutiny on the ironclad Knyaz Potemkin; the second series of strikes in Poland, again followed by massacres at Lodz, Warsaw, and all other chief industrial centers; a series of uprisings at Riga, culminating in the great street battles of the 28th of July-to say nothing of a regular, uninterrupted succession of minor agrarian revolts. All Russia had thus to be set into open revolt, blood had to run freely in the streets of all the large cities, simply because the Czar did not want to pronounce the word which would put an end to his sham autocracy and to the autocracy of his camarilla. Only toward the end of the summer could he be induced to make some concessions which at last took the shape of a convocation of a State's Duma, announced in the manifesto of the 19th of August.
General stupefaction and disdain are the only words to express the impression produced by this manifesto. To begin with, it was evident to any one who knew something of human psychology that no assembly elected to represent the people could be maintained as a merely consultative body, with no legislative powers. To impose such a limitation was to create the very conditions for producing the bitterest conflicts between the Crown and the nation. To imagine that the Duma, if it ever could come into existence in the form under which it was conceived by the advisers of Nicholas the Second, would limit itself to the functions of a merely consulting board, that it would express its wishes in the form of mere advices, but not in the form of laws, and that it would not defend these laws as such, was absurd on the very face of it. Therefore the concession was considered as a mere desire to bluff, to win time. It was received as a new proof of the insincerity of Nicholas the Second.
But in proportion as the real sense of the Boulyghin " Constitution" was discovered, it became more and more evident that such a Duma would never come together; never would the Russians be induced to perform the farce of the Duma elections under the Boulyghin system. It appeared that under this system the city of St. Petersburg, with its population of nearly 1,500,000 and its immense wealth, would have only about 7,000 electors, and that large cities having from 200,000 to 700,000 inhabitants would have an electoral body composed of but a couple of thousand, or even a few hundred electors; while the 90,000,000 peasants would be boiled down, after several successive elections, to a few thousand men electing a few deputies. As to the nearly 4,000,000 of Russian working men, they were totally excluded from any participation in the political life of the country. It was evident that only fanatics of electioneering could be induced to find interest in so senseless a waste of time as an electoral campaign under such conditions. Moreover, as the press continued to be gagged, the state of siege was maintained, and the governors of the different provinces continued to rule as absolute satraps, exiling whom they disliked, public opinion in Russia gradually came to the idea that, whatever some moderate zemstvoists might say in favor of a compromise, the Duma would never come together.
Then it was that the working men again threw the weight of their will into the contest and gave quite a new turn to the movement. A strike of bakers broke out at Moscow in October, and they were joined in their strike by the printers. This was not the work of any revolutionary organization. It was entirely a working men's affair, but suddenly what was meant to be a simple manifestation of economical discontent grew up, invaded all trades, spread to St. Petersburg, then all over Russia, and took the character of such an imposing revolutionary manifestation that autocracy had to capitulate before it.
When the strike of the bakers began, troops were, as a matter of course, called out to suppress it. But this time the Moscow working men had had enough of massacres. They offered an armed resistance to the Cossacks. Some three hundred men barricaded themselves in a garret, and a regular fight between the besieged working men and the besieging Cossacks followed. The latter took, of course, the upper hand, and butchered the besieged, but then all the Moscow working men joined hands with the strikers. A general strike was declared. "Nonsense! A general strike is impossible! " the wiseacres said, even then. But the working men set earnestly to stop all work in the great city, and fully succeeded. In a few days the strike became general. What the working men must have suffered during these two or three weeks, when all work was suspended and provisions became extremely scarce, one can easily imagine; but they held out. Moscow had no bread, no meat coming in, no light in the streets. All traffic on the railways had been stopped, and the mountains of provisions which, in the usual course of life, reach the great city every day were lying rotting along the railway lines. No newspapers, except the proclamation of the strike committees, appeared. Thousands upon thousands of passengers who had come to that great railway center which Moscow is could not move any farther, and were camping at the railway stations. Tons and tons of letters accumulated at the post-offices, and had to be stored in special storehouses. But the strike, far from abating, was spreading all over Russia. Once the heart of Russia, Moscow, had struck, all the other towns followed. St. Petersburg soon joined the strike, and the working men displayed the most admirable organizing capacities. Then, gradually, the enthusiasm and devotion of the poorest class of society won over the other classes. The shop assistants, the clerks, the teachers, the employees at the banks, the actors, the lawyers, the chemists, nay, even the judges, gradually joined the strikers. A whole country had struck against its Government; all but the troops; but even from the troops separate officers and soldiers came to take part in the strike meetings, and one saw uniforms in the crowds of peaceful demonstrators who managed to display a wonderful skill in avoiding all conflict with the army.
In a few days the strike had spread over all the main cities of the Empire, including Poland and Finland. Moscow had no water, Warsaw no fuel; provisions ran short everywhere; the cities, great and small, remained plunged in complete darkness. No smoking factories, no railways running, no tramways, no Stock Exchange, no banking, no theaters, no law courts, no schools. In many places the restaurants, too, were closed, the waiters having left, or else the workers compelled the owners to extinguish all lights after seven o'clock. In Finland, even the house servants were not allowed to work before seven in the morning or after seven in the evening. All life in the towns had come to a standstill. And what exasperated the rulers most was that the workers offered no opportunity for shooting at them and reestablishing "order" by massacres. A new weapon, more terrible than street warfare, had thus been tested and proved to work admirably.
The panic in the Czar's entourage had reached a high pitch, He himself, in the meantime, was consulting in turn the Conservatives (Ignatieff, Goremykin, Stürmer, Stishinsky), who advised him to concede nothing, and Witte, who represented the Liberal opinion; and it is said that if he yielded to the advice of the latter, it was only when he saw that the Conservatives refused to risk their reputations, and maybe their lives, in order to save autocracy. He finally signed, on October 30th, a manifesto, in which he declared that his
"inflexible will was:
" (1) To grant the population the immutable foundations of civic liberty based on real inviolability of the person and freedom of conscience, speech, union, and association,
" (2) Without deferring the elections to the State Duma already ordered, to call to participation in the Duma, as far as is possible in view of the shortness of the time before the Duma is to assemble, those classes of the population now completely deprived of electoral rights, leaving the ultimate development of the principle of the electoral right in general to the newly established legislative order of things.
" (3) To establish it as an immutable rule that no law can come into force without the approval of the State Duma, and that it shall be possible for the elected of the people to exercise a real participation in the supervision of the legality of the acts of the authorities appointed by us."
On the same day Count Witte was nominated the head of a Ministry, which he himself had to form, and the Czar approved by his signature a memorandum of the MinisterPresident in which it was said that "straightforwardness and sincerity in the confirmation of civil liberty," "a tendency toward the abolition of exclusive laws," and " the avoidance of repressive measures in respect to proceedings which do not openly menace society and the State" must be binding for the guidance of the Ministry. The Government was also " to abstain from any interference in the elections to the Duma," and "not resist its decisions as long as they are not inconsistent with the historic greatness of Russia."
This first victory of the Russian nation over autocracy was met with the wildest enthusiasm and jubilations. Crowds, composed of hundreds of thousands of men and women of all classes, all mixed together, and carrying countless red flags, moved about in the streets of the capitals, and the same enthusiasm rapidly spread to the provinces, down to the smallest towns. True that it was not jubilation only; the crowd expressed also three definite demands. For three days after the publication of the manifesto in which autocracy had abdicated its powers, no amnesty manifesto had yet appeared, and on the 3d of November, at St. Petersburg, a crowd 100,000 men strong, was going to storm the House of Detention, when, at ten in the evening, one of the Workmen's Council of Delegates addressed them, declaring that Witte had just given his word of honor that a general amnesty would be granted that same night. The delegate therefore said: "Spare your blood for graver occasions. At eleven we shall have Witte's reply, and if it is not satisfactory, then to-morrow at six you will all be informed as to how and where to meet in the streets for further action." And the immense crowd -- I hold these details from an eye-witness -- slowly broke up and dispersed in silence, thus recognizing the new power-the Labor Delegates -which was born during the strike.
Two other important points, besides amnesty, had also to be cleared up. During the last few months the Cossacks had proved to be the most abominable instrument of reaction, always ready to whip, shoot, or bayonet unarmed crowds, for the mere fun of the sport and with a view to subsequent pillage. Besides, there was no guaranty whatever that at any moment the demonstrators would not be attacked and slaughtered by the troops. The people in the streets demanded, therefore, the withdrawal of the troops, and especially of the Cossacks, the abolition of the state of siege, and the creation of popular militia which would be placed under the management of the municipalities.
It is known how, at Odessa first, and then all over Russia, the jubilant crowds began to be attacked by bands, composed chiefly of butcher assistants, and partly of the poorest slumdwellers, sometimes armed, and very often under the leadership of policemen and police officials in plain clothes; how every attempt on behalf of the Radical demonstrators to resist such attacks by means of revolver-shots immediately provoked volleys of rifle fire from the Cossacks; how peaceful demonstrators were slaughtered by the soldiers, after some isolated pistol-shot -- maybe a police signal -- was fired from the crowd; and how, finally, at Odessa an organized pillage and the slaughter of men, women, and children in some of the poorest Jewish suburbs took place, while the troops fired at the improvised militia of students who tried to prevent the massacres, or to put an end to them. At Moscow, the editor of the Moscow Gazette, Gringinuth, and part of the clergy, stimulated by a pastoral letter of Bishop Nikon, openly preached "to put down the intellectuals by force," and improvised orators spoke from the platform in front of the Iberia Virgin, preaching the killing of the students. The result was that the University was besieged by crowds of the "defenders of order," the students were fired at by the Cossacks, and for several nights in succession isolated students were assailed in the dark by the Moscow Gazette men, so that in one single night twenty-one were killed or mortally wounded.
An organizing hand is seen in these outbreaks, and there is no doubt that this is the hand of the Monarchist party. It sent a deputation to Peterhof, headed by Prince Scherbatoff and Count Sheremetieff, and after the deputation had been most sympathetically received by Nicholas the Second, they openly came forward in the Moscow Gazette and in the appeals of the bishops Nikon and Nikander, calling upon their sympathizers to declare an open war on the Radicals.
Of course it would be unwise to imagine that autocracy, and the autocratic habits which made a little Czar of every police official in his own sphere, would die out without showing resistance by all means, including murder. The Russian revolution will certainly have its Feuillants and its Muscadins. And this struggle will necessarily be complicated in Russia by race-hatred. It has always been the policy of the Russian Czardom to stir national hatred, setting the Finns and the Karelian peasants against the Swedes in Finland, the Letts against the Germans in the Baltic provinces, the Polish peasants (partly Ukrainian) against the Polish landlords, the Orthodox Russians against the Jews, the Mussulmans against the Armenians, and so on. Then, for the last twenty years it has been a notable feature of the policy of Ignatieff, and later on of Plehve, to provoke race-wars with a view of checking Socialist propaganda. And the police in Russia have always taken advantage of all such outbreaks for pilfering and plundering. . . . Consequently, a few hints from above were enough-and several reactionary papers and two bishops went so far as to openly give such hints-to provoke the terrible massacres at Odessa, and the smaller outbreaks elsewhere.
Happily enough, there is a more hopeful side to the Russian revolution. The two forces which hitherto have played the leading part in the revolution-namely, the working men in the towns fraternizing with the younger "intellectuals," and the peasants in the country-have displayed such a wonderful Unanimity of action, even where it was not concerted beforehand, and such a reluctance from useless bloodshed, that we may be sure of their ultimate victory. The troops have already been deeply impressed by the unanimity, the selfsacrifice, and the consciousness of their rights displayed by the workmen in their strikes; and now that the St. Petersburg workmen have begun to approach in a spirit of straightforward propaganda those who were enrolled in the "Black Gangs," that other support of autocracy will probably soon be dissolved as well. The main danger lies now in that the statesmen, enamored of "order" and instigated by timorous landlords, might resort to massacres for repressing the peasant rebellions, in which case retaliation would follow to an extent and with consequences which nobody could foretell.
The first year of the Russian revolution proved that there is in the Russian people that unity of thought without which no serious change in the political organization of the country would have been possible, and that capacity for United action which is the necessary condition of success. One may already be sure that the present movement will be victorious. The years of disturbance will pass, and Russia will come out of them a new nation; a nation owning an unfathomed wealth of natural resources, and capable of utilizing them; ready to seek the ways for utilizing them in the best interest of all; a nation averse to bloodshed, averse to war, and ready to match toward the higher goals of progress. One of her worst inheritances from a dark past, autocracy, lies already mortally wounded, and will not revive; and other victories will follow.


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"reality" craze by creating "Tough Enough". This amalgam of
"the Real World" and "American Idol" is in its fourth season
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essentially taking a spot away from someone who's been wrestling their entire
life in hopes of hitting the big time, especially taking into consideration what
became of past Tough Enough winners. As of this writing, only two of the
previous six winners (Maven
& John Hennigan) are still in the ring. Jackie Gayda, makes an occasional
appearance on SmackDown! - but as a valet. Matt Capotelli is training in OVW,
while Nidia and Linda Miles no longer have contracts.
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Activities - A collection of the group's
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The Minor in Technology, Arts and Media will typically take four semesters (excluding summer session). However, we cannot guarantee an ATLS course will not have a time conflict with a course required for your major, which could delay your completion nor that seats will be available for all desired courses and sections. Additionally, if you miss the Registration Open House, your completion could be delayed. TAM is a very popular program, thus our courses are in high demand. Being pro-active with advising and registration instead of re-active, and attending the Registration Open House will go far in completing the Minor in four semesters. We also find that many students like to take additional TAM courses beyond the initial requirements. Therefore we suggest that students start the program in the Sophomore year to get the most from the Minor Program.
What do I need to do to be sure that the Minor in Technology, Arts and Media is noted on my record?
Students must include the Minor Completion Form (MCF) in their college graduation packet. Minor students must schedule a 5-minute meeting with the TAM Advisor to review the MCF, then sign and date. We will also contact you with details about the ATLAS Graduation Commencement, held in fall and spring of each year. At this occasion, you will receive the Minor in Technology, Arts & Media.
What constitutes a Minor in Technology, Arts & Media with honors?
All students who satisfy MTAM curriculum requirements receive a Minor in Technology, Arts & Media at the ATLAS Graduation Commencement, held each semester, and completion of the Minor is noted on their permanent transcripts. The G.P.A. for TAM is calculated as the average of grades in the seven courses taken for the basic completion of the Minor. If you have taken more than one course in any elective category, we will count the higher grade for that category (as long as it is not a second course from the same department). All TAM students with a G.P.A. of 3.5 or higher in all TAM courses will graduate with Honors. Honors designations for Minor Programs will not appear on your official CU-Boulder transcript.
How do I gain access to the ATLAS Labs (ATLS 104, ATLS 105, ATLS 113, ATLS 231)?
The ATLAS Labs are private lab spaces that exist for declared TAM students whose course fees fund the equipment and software. Anyone who is using this lab has the same rights and privileges as you do, and the same obligation to protect the equipment and to maintain a clean and safe environment for all of us. Due to the extensive outside-class time that TAM courses require, only the students who are currently enrolled in an ATLAS course will have lab access for the given semester. At the beginning of the semester, your instructor will distribute the ATLAS Card Access Contract to enrolled students, which will give you lab access via your BuffOne Card. As a TAM student, you are eligible for additional access to building spaces. The ATLAS Card Access Contract also gives you access to the Curriculum Suite (ATLS 231) and Group Design rooms. TAM Students also have access to
free equipment rentals
What are the ATLAS Lab's rules?
Check the
home page
for current building and lab hours. Course schedules for each semester will be posted on the lab door and in the ATLAS Student Lounge (ATLS 231: Curriculum Suite). If you are a qualified student, and would like to work while another class is meeting, be sure to ask the instructor's permission before the course lecture begins. See our lab
page for more details
I will be studying abroad for a semester. How will this affect my TAM progress?
To be sure that you are kept "in the loop" while abroad, contact the TAM Program Advisor before your departure to touch base and provide the best way to contact you in the foreign country. At the present time, we do not accept credits for courses you take at overseas universities, but if you feel a specific course should qualify as elective credit, you may submit a petition that the TAM Faculty will consider. We also recommend that you keep in touch with the TAM Program advisor concerning your plans to ensure that there is no break in your progress upon your return. For instance, it is possible to be placed on course sign-ups or waiting lists while you are still studying abroad.
Are TAM courses open for Continuing Education credit?
Currently, the TAM program is open only to enrolled undergraduate students at CU-Boulder. Note: Summer TAM Courses may have seats available to Continuing Education Students.
Can Graduate students earn credit for taking TAM Courses?
Graduate students who are interested in the TAM Program should check with his/her program advisor to see if any TAM courses are applicable to his/her specific graduate degree requirements. Some graduate degrees will count a certain number of upper-division undergraduate courses as elective credit.
What is the ATLAS Institute, and how does it relate to the TAM Program?
(The Alliance for Technology, Learning & Society) Institute is an organizational unit that explores the impact of technology on the University and the world. The ATLAS Institute is unique in that it is a degree granting institute, whereas most academic institutes focus on research. The Technology, Arts & Media Program is one of the degree granting programs that is housed within the ATLAS Institute.


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ACC Championship Preview: #6 Virginia vs. #7 DukePosted by Brad Jenkins & Matt Patton on March 16th, 2014
It's the game that we all expected when the ACC Tournament brackets came out last weekend. Duke vs. Virginia. Let's preview the ACC Championship game by answering the key questions headed into this one in Greensboro.
1. Can Virginia's balanced scoring offset the star power of Duke's Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood?
Yes and no. The Cavaliers can't get in a shootout, but I don't think they'll try. Virginia is an experienced team that plays to its strengths. I'll be very surprised if Duke can push them out of their comfort zone. That said, if Hood and Parker are both firing on all cylinders, I'm not sure how Virginia will put up enough points to win. Look for them to try to make Parker into a jump shooter or to force things against multiple defenders since he's struggled passing out of double teams when he gets head full of steam. Hood is a little more difficult to contain (since he's really a second option), but I expect to see a lot of Justin Anderson hounding him. Neither of these teams will quite be at 100 percent, playing their third game in three days, but I think that favors the more balanced team.
2. Duke hasn't been hitting as many threes lately. Who do you expect to help keep the offense going if shots aren't falling?
If the outside jumpers aren't falling — and by playing the third straight grueling game in as many days, there's a good chance they don't — then Duke will have to rely on its two future NBA forwards to make plays. Jabari Parker makes plays that are almost unstoppable, even by great defenses like Virginia's, so he figures to be the best candidate. Rodney Hood's conditioning will be tested after chasing T.J. Warren all over the court yesterday. Rasheed Sulaimon has had success in the tournament with his penetration, so he may also try to create scoring chances that way.
3. This is Virginia's first ACC Championship game in 20 years. How will they handle the magnitude of the moment against a school in Duke that regularly plays in these situations?
This is a really good question and one many people will ask about the Cavaliers until Virginia's season is over. I think it will help that there's such a strong UVA showing in Greensboro this weekend. That should keep the team somewhat comfortable. There's a lot of experience on Tony Bennett's roster, but very little postseason work. Still, remember, only three (OK, four if you count Todd Zafirovski) Duke players have played in an ACC Championship, and the team's two best players haven't had any postseason experience at all prior to this weekend. Long story short, I think it's a wash, but you never know how players will deal with super-high expectations, so it may turn out to be a factor.
4. In long stretches against NC State and Clemson, Duke couldn't come up with a stop. Do you expect that to be an issue against Virginia?
Sometimes Duke gets caught in "Let me score… I'll let you score" games, as in the first game with Syracuse and the first half of yesterday's game with N.C. State. This won't be that type of game, so Duke better not let Virginia go on any one of those runs that have plagued the Blue Devils on so many occasions this season. That will be tough to match against the Cavaliers, a team that makes opponents work hard on each and every possession. Virginia is also deeper and more mature physically so if Duke's defense falters it may be because they are worn down.
5. Duke has an elite offense that was really clicking on Saturday. Can the Cavaliers' pack-line defense rise to the challenge?
Definitely! With one disclaimer. If Duke is hot from three, Virginia (and every other team in the country) is in serious trouble. Tired legs usually don't help jump shots, however, so I think the pack-line will fare just fine today. One place Virginia should excel is keeping Duke off of the offensive boards. The Blue Devils have pieced together remarkably good offensive efficiencies at times despite occasional poor shooting because of its offensive rebounding. Virginia was the best team in the ACC at keeping opponents off the offensive boards, but people also forget that Tony Bennett's team had the second best offensive efficiency in ACC play, so it's not some David-Goliath battle on both ends of the floor.
6. Neither of these teams really put away their opponents Saturday. Which team do you trust more with a lead?
I would have to say Virginia because they were playing a tougher Pittsburgh team that's playing really well. Duke struggled to hit free throws yesterday and Mike Krzyzewski blamed fatigue. If that's true, then I can't count on them making those shots at the end of a slug-it-out game with the Cavaliers. Another reason to doubt Duke is the fact that we've seen them blow second half leads in multiple games already this season.
- Duke wins if: Parker and Hood play at such a high level that Virginia just can't match them offensively. Even then, that may not be enough to overcome the deep and versatile Cavaliers, so Quinn Cook and Rasheed Sulaimon must at least break even with Virginia's excellent backcourt. Finally, Virginia will probably win the points-in-the-paint battle, but Duke can't afford to be overwhelmingly dominated in that area.
- Virginia wins if: the Cavaliers continue playing at a high level and avoid offensive droughts. An Achilles heel for this team is that they sometimes go long stretches without a basket. That's less likely against a poor defense like Duke, but incredibly dangerous against such a potent offense. If Virginia sticks to its game plan and takes high percentage shots, they have a great shot to win. It wouldn't hurt for Joe Harris and Malcolm Brogdon to knock down a couple of tough shots either.


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The Rainbow Fish
Visual Narrative
This was a project for my Visual Culture class at IADE, Lisbon. The goal of this project was to create a visual narrative in an urban environment. I chose one of my favourite childrens' books "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister. The story takes place in the district of Santos, and is shown in the form of graffitis on the famous Azulejos – the tiles in Lisbon.
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Do you do Advent Calendars for your kiddos at Christmas time?? I love advent calendars, we do something each year! I think advent calendars for kids is an awesome way to help get through the month of December! There are so many choices out there, see below at some Lego options, Thomas the Train, and Monster High!
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About the Hymnal
In the decades that have passed since the Second Vatican Council there has been much experimentation in liturgical music, as well as the advancement of various political and ideological agendas. The St. Michael Hymnal aspires first and foremost to be faithful to that original vision of sacred music presented by the Second Vatican Council.
Originally, in the early 1990's, St. Boniface Parish in Lafayette, Indiana, in response to a gradual politicization of traditional hymn texts, searched for a hymnal or missalette that preserved the original language, but could find none; and so the parish began working to produce for its own use a simple supplement with traditional hymns. However, this idea soon took on a life of its own and came to be seen as a tremendous opportunity for a much larger project.
The St. Michael Hymnal was the result of this initial desire to promote the musical treasures of the Church's tradition and to maintain unadulterated language in traditional hymns. The hymnal is unique among most contemporary hymnals precisely because of its concern for authentic texts and its particular promotion of Gregorian chant.
At the same time, the hymnal stands out among the smaller collection of more traditional hymnals because of its realistic assessment of the present state of liturgical music and its prudential judgment of how to address this situation. Fundamentally, the St. Michael Hymnal is predicated on the belief that what is most useful at the present time is a hymnal which provides for taking a decisive step forward, rather than one which prematurely tries to achieve the final goal.
The third edition of the St. Michael Hymnal proved to be very successful in providing hundreds of parishes throughout the country with a middle ground between the political ideologies of contemporary hymnals and the unhelpful extremism of some of the more traditional hymnals. For over a decade now, pastors and musicians alike have rejoiced in the unique collection of "old and new" offered by the St. Michael Hymnal. This hymnal has indeed made it possible for many parishes to gradually move forward and embrace more deeply the Church's vision of the sacred liturgy.
After the decisive direction set by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, along with the implementation of a new translation of the Roman Missal, the St. Michael Hymnal happily moved forward in producing a new fourth edition of an already well-loved hymnal.
The fourth edition of the hymnal contains more Latin Gregorian chant mass settings, many new and beautiful settings of the Mass in English, as well as an even better selection of the classic, traditional hymnody that is treasured by parishes across the country. In addition to hymnody, the new edition contains a complete collection of Entrance Antiphons for Sunday Mass.
We are very excited about all that the fourth edition of the St. Michael Hymnal has to offer and we are convinced that it represents a real contribution to the renewal of the sacred liturgy in this country. In the end, our only hope is that the music offered in this hymnal will adorn the Church's liturgy with grace and beauty and will move hearts and minds to the praise and worship of Almighty God.


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Welcome to Tiki Beat by Marcus ThornThis website is a showcase of art works including wood carved tikis, sculptures, designs, and paintings by the artist, Marcus Thorn. If you like to have one for your house, garden or office, please contact us.
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Berry Burst Sorbet
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- In a large measuring cup, dissolve Splenda in water.
- In a food processor or blender, puree berries until smooth, adding sweetened water gradually. Pour in cream, and pulse until blended.
- Pour mixture into ice cream machine and let freeze until mixture is very thick. Eat some right away! Then freeze the rest.
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- As with most homemade frozen desserts, this one freezes very solid. Using the microwave to defrost it some will do the trick.
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Per Serving: 100 calories; 5.8 12.5 0.9 20 6 Full nutrition
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Here is one way to test for sweetness: "Egg Test for Sorbet. The best sorbets are made not by exact measurements, but rather by balancing the sweetness of a particular batch of fruit to assure...
This recipe is *very* sweet; unless you have an incredible sweet tooth, cut the Splenda down to about 3/4 cup, or add a couple tablespoons of lemon juice.
Here is one way to test for sweetness: "Egg Test for Sorbet. The best sorbets are made not by exact measurements, but rather by balancing the sweetness of a particular batch of fruit to assure...
Refreshing and tasty! I made a simple syrup with a half cup water, half cup sugar, heating until dissolved, and opted for a true sorbet by omitting the cream - although it would make a very nice...
This is so good! I used 3/4 cup regular white sugar with the 1 cup water and a bag of frozen mixed fruit with the heavy cream and it was so good. It froze perfectly in the freezer after I took ...
Excellent! I changed this a little -- I used strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries, sugar instead of Splenda, and half & half. It turned out great. Next time, I will probably cut the sug...
Maybe SPLENDA isn't the best idea for sorbets!
This is a very good combination of flavors. Being a Splenda user, I believed the 1 cup quantity was too much so I cut it back to 1/2 cup. For my taste, that seemed about right. The second time I...
I made this sorbet with all blackberries since I had so many left over from baking a pie. I used organic sugar instead of Splenda and it came out awesome! I will use this recipe again. Thank you!
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This recipe is great! The texture and the taste was wonderful. I LOVE rasberry sorbet so instead of blackberries and blueberries, I only used raspberries. Also I used regular white sugar. I also...


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PEN SA Reiterates Its Support for the Poet Dareen Tatour
03 May 2017
The trial of the Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is currently under way. At present, according to the blog, Arabic Literature, Tatour is under house arrest, confined to a Tel Aviv apartment without access to the internet. In 2016, on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN International highlighted Dareen Tatour's case, appealing to the Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked to drop all charges against her.
PEN South Africa joined the call and sent a letter to the Israeli Minister of Justice.
With her trial underway, PEN SA wants to reiterate its support for Tatour. Below is her poem "Qawem Ya Shaabi Qawemahum" ("Resist my people, resist them"), the poem she is being persecuted for. Tatour first published the poem on Youtube and Facebook. It has been translated into English by the poet Tariq al Haydar. You can also watch Tatour talk about her house arrest here.
Resist, My People, Resist Them
Resist, my people, resist them.
In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows
And carried the soul in my palm
For an Arab Palestine.
I will not succumb to the "peaceful solution,"
Never lower my flags
Until I evict them from my land.
I cast them aside for a coming time.
Resist, my people, resist them.
Resist the settler's robbery
And follow the caravan of martyrs.
Shred the disgraceful constitution
Which imposed degradation and humiliation
And deterred us from restoring justice.
They burned blameless children;
As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,
Killed her in broad daylight.
Resist, my people, resist them.
Resist the colonialist's onslaught.
Pay no mind to his agents among us
Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.
Do not fear doubtful tongues;
The truth in your heart is stronger,
As long as you resist in a land
That has lived through raids and victory.
So Ali called from his grave:
Resist, my rebellious people.
Write me as prose on the agarwood;
My remains have you as a response.
Resist, my people, resist them.
Resist, my people, resist them.