#anastasia the hague

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Anastasia - Boardwalk Empire (2010)

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #342:

In total, there have been 11 sets of twins at Eurovision.

The first pair to appear was the Kessler twins, who represented Germany in 1959. The Kesslers finished 8th overall.

Next, Luxembourg was represented by Sophie and Magaly Gilles in 1980. The sisters finished 9th overall.

In 2004, the Turkish entry, Athena, was comprised of twin brothers Hakan and Gökhan Özoğuz. The pair finished 4th in the Grand Final, the best result by any set of twins at Eurovision.

North Macedonia's 2009 entry, rock band Next Time, also consisted of twin brothers. Martin and Stefan Filipovski unfortunately did not make it to the Grand Final, placing 10th in the First Semi-Final.

The following year, the Belarusian group 3+2 brought twin sisters Alena and Ninel Karpovich, the "2" in 3+2, to the Eurovision stage. The group finished 24th in the Grand Final.

2011 saw two sets of twins: John and Edward Grimes representing Ireland as Jedward, and sisters Daniela and Veronika represtned Slovakia as TWiiNS. Jedward finished 8th in the Grand Final, but TWiiNS only placed 13th in the Second Semi-Final.

The following year, Jedward returned to represent Ireland, but only managed to place 19th in the Grand Final.

In 2014 there was once again two sets of twins: France was represented by the group TWIN TWIN, which consisted of Eurovision's first fraternal twins, Lorent and François Ardouvin, and their friend Patrick. The group finished last, 26th, at the Grand Final. On the other hand, Russia was represented by the Tolmachevy Sisters, Anastasia and Maria. The duo also won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. At Copenhagen, they managed to place 7th in the Grand Final.

In 2017, the group OG3NE, representing the Netherlands, consisted of three sisters, two of which were fraternal twins: Amy and Shelley. The two are a year younger than their sister Lisa. The group placed 11th at the Grand Final.

Finally, for this year's contest (2023), Azerbaijan will be represented by TuralTuranX.

[Sources]

Eurovision Twins, MyHeritage.com.

Eurovision Fact #337.

Eurovision Fact #341.

Sets of Twins Who Have Competed At The Eurovision Song Contest, YouTube.com.

Participants of Cannes 1959: Alice and Ellen Kessler, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of The Hague 1980: Sophie and Magaly, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Istanbul 2004: Athena, Eurovision.tv.

Athena (band), Wikipedia.org.

Participants of Moscow 2009: Next Time, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Oslo 2010: 3+2, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: Jedward, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: TWiiNS, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Baku 2012: Jedward, Eurovision.tv.

'Twin Twin Interview: François, Lorent and Patrick are single!,' Wiwibloggs.com.

Participants of Copenhagen 2014: TWIN TWIN, Eurovision.tv.

Copenhagen 2014 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Copenhagen 2014: Tolmachey Sisters, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Kyiv 2017: OG3NE, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Liverpool 2023: TuralTuranX, Eurovision.tv.

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

A Guide to the Anastasia Productions

Hartford - The show’s month long pre-Broadway trial in Hartford, Connecticut from May 13 2016 to June 2016.

Broadway - The show ran on Broadway from March 23 2017 to March 31 2019. Previews ended and shows open to the public on April 24 2017. The show performed at the Broadhurst Theatre. The book, libretto, blocking, and design were all slightly adjusted after the show moved from Hartford to Broadway and all subsequent productions have used the Broadway changes.

Madrid, Spain - The Madrid production ran from October 10 2018 to March 7 2020, when performances were suspended due to covid. The announcement that the show would not reopen was made in September. The show was performed at the Coliseum Theatre in Spanish.

First National Tour - The first North American tour ran from October 12 2018 to March 12 2020, when performances were suspended due to covid. The first version of the tour never reopened.

Stuttgart, Germany - The Stuttgart production ran from November 15 2018 to October 13 2019. It performed at the Stage Palladium Theatre in German.

The Hague, Netherlands - The Dutch production ran from September 22 2019 to March 23 2020, when performances were suspended due to covid. The announcement that the show would not reopen was made in April. It performed at the AFAS Circustheatre and was managed by Stage Entertainment. Because it was located in the Scheveningen district of The Hague, it is sometimes referred to as the Scheveningen production. It was performed in Dutch.

Tokyo, Japan - The Japan production was meant to be a tour, with performances in both Tokyo and Osaka, however the Osaka performances were cancelled due to covid. The production ran in Tokyo from March 9 2020 to March 27 2020, with only 14 performances. The theatre was the Theatre Orb and it was performed in Japanese.

Takarazuka Japanese Tour - The Takarazuke production was a non-replica produced by Takarazuka Revue with an all female cast in Japanese. It performed shows in both Takarazuka and Tokyo. It ran at the Takarazuka Grand Theatre from November 7 2020 to December 14 2020, and at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre from January 8 2021 to February 21 2021.

Second National Tour - The second North American tour began when the first tour reopened on October 15 2021, however because this tour was non-equity with an entirely new cast it is considered an entirely different tour.

Malmö, Sweden - The Swedish production ran from September 2 2022 to November 12 2022 in Swedish. It was a non-replica performed at the Malmö Opera, and so is usually referred to as the Malmö Opera production.

Tampere, Finland: The Finnish production began on September 2 2022. It is a non-replica production that is performing at Tampere Theatre in Finnish.

Linz, Austria: The Austrian production began on September 10 2022. It is a non-replica production that is performing at the Landestheatre in German.

São Paulo, Brazil: The Brazil production began on November 9 2022. It is performed in Portuguese, at the Renault Theatre, and is produced by T4F and Caradiboi.

Mexico City, Mexico: A Mexican production is set to open in 2023 at the Teatro Telcel, produced by OCESA Teatro.

There have also been announced an Australian production and a Russian production, though those were both announced before the pandemic so plans may have changed.

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Snippet of Sophie Bos (the Dutch little Anastasia) singing Once Upon a December alongside Tessa-Sunniva van Tol at Koffietijd on 26/12/2019 (credit: @koffietijd.5uurlive on Instagram stories).

[earith]

tessasunnivavantol Home again after an amazing press trip with @anastasiademusical to St. Petersburg 😍😍

And what a journey it has been!💜 Soon more, so stay tuned!!

@musicalsnl #Anastasia #musical #Anya #saintpetersburg #the #rumer #the #legend #the #mistery #persreis #traveling #schiphol #catharinapalace #journeytothepast

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Production stills from The Hague’s production of Anastasia.

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So far I've seen; Scheveningen, the Hague and Netherlands/Dutch for the Dutch Anastasia cast. What am I supposed to use?

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Sun., July 17, 2022

July 17_July 4

THE HOLY ROYAL MARTYRS OF RUSSIA (1918)

Saint Nicholas, the last Russian Tsar, was born in 1868. As a child, he was very religious, guileless and free from malice.

Nicholas II was crowned as Tsar in 1894, following the death of his father Tsar Alexander. He began his reign with lofty hopes for peace, urging other nations to reduce the size of their armies, and to seek the peaceful settlement of international disputes. The Peace Conference at the Hague in 1899 laid the groundwork for the League of Nations and the United Nations.

He married Princess Alice of Hesse, who converted to Orthodoxy and took the name Alexandra. Their children were Olga (1895), Tatiana (1897), Maria (1899), Anastasia (1901), and Alexis (1904).

The glorification of Saint Seraphim of Sarov took place on July 19, 1903, and Tsar Nicholas attended the ceremonies at Sarov with his family. At that time he was given a letter written by Saint Seraphim more than seventy years before, which seemed to disturb him. Although the Sovereign never revealed the letter’s contents, it is believed that it was a prophecy of the bloodshed that would engulf Russia in less than fifteen years.

Saint Nicholas was executed by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg on July 4, 1918 along with his family and servants. The prisoners were awakened late at night and ordered to get dressed for travel. They went down to the cellar of the home in which they were being held, waiting for the word to leave. The Tsar sat on a chair in the middle of the room holding his son Alexis in his lap, while his wife and daughters stood around them.

The executioners entered the room and read out the order for their execution. Saints Nicholas and Alexandra died under the hail of bullets, but the children did not die right away. They were stabbed and clubbed with the butts of rifles. Their bodies were taken to an abandoned mine, cut into pieces, then piled in front of the mine. Sulphur and gasoline were poured on the bloody mound and set on fire. When the fire went out two days later, whatever remained of the bodies was thrown into the mine and grenades were tossed into it. Then the ground was plowed so that no trace of the disposal of the bodies remained.

SAINT ANDREW, ARCHBISHOP OF CRETE

Saint Andrew, Archbishop of Crete, was born in the city of Damascus into a pious Christian family. Up until seven years of age the boy was mute and did not talk. However, after communing the Holy Mysteries of Christ he found the gift of speech and began to speak. And from that time the lad began earnestly to study Holy Scripture and the discipline of theology.

At fourteen years of age he went off to Jerusalem and there he accepted monastic tonsure at the monastery of Saint Savva the Sanctified. Saint Andrew led a strict and chaste life, he was meek and abstinent, such that all were amazed at his virtue and reasoning of mind. As a man of talent and known for his virtuous life, over the passage of time he came to be numbered among the Jerusalem clergy and was appointed a secretary for the Patriarchate -- a writing clerk. In the year 680 the locum tenens of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, Theodore, included archdeacon Andrew among the representatives of the Holy City sent to the Sixth Ecumenical Council, and here the saint contended against heretical teachings, relying upon his profound knowledge of Orthodox doctrine. Shortly after the Council he was summoned back to Constantinople from Jerusalem and he was appointed archdeacon at the church of Hagia Sophia, the Wisdom of God. During the reign of the emperor Justinian II (685-695) Saint Andrew was ordained bishop of the city of Gortineia on the island of Crete. In his new position he shone forth as a true luminary of the Church, a great hierarch -- a theologian, teacher and hymnographer.

Saint Andrew composed many inspired writings, including the Great Canon of Repentance which is sung on Monday through Thursday of the first week of Lent, after the usual beginning of Compline, and following Psalm 69/70. In current Greek practice the Great Canon begins after the Doxology. The Great Canon of Repentance includes 250 troparia within its 9 Odes. Before each Troparion of the Canon, we make the Sign of the Cross and bow and sing "Have mercy upon me, O God, have mercy upon me." On Thursday of the fifth week, the Great Canon is sung continuously in its entirety. After Psalm 90/91 "God is with us," is read plainly and without a melody (outside of Great Lent). During Lent, however, the verses are sung slowly by the choir with the refrain "For God is with us" after each verse.1

Saint Andrew has also composed the Canon for the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, three Odes for Compline of Palm Sunday, and also in the first four days of Passion Week, as well as verses for the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, and many other Church hymns. His hymnographic legacy was continued by other great composers of following ages: Saints John of Damascus (December 4), Cosmas of Maiuma (October 12), Joseph the Hymnographer (April 4), Theophánēs the Branded (October 11), etc.

Church historians are not of the same opinion as to the date of death of the saint. One suggests the year 712, while others -- the year 726. He died on the island of Mytilene, while returning to Crete from Constantinople, where he had been on churchly business. His relics were transferred to Constantinople. In the year 1350 the pious Russian pilgrim Stephen Novgorodets saw the relics at the Constantinople monastery named for Saint Andrew of Crete.

Source: All texts orthodox Church in America

JOHN 15:17-16:2

17 These things I command you, that you love one another.18 If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.' 26 But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

1 These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

HEBREWS 8:3-6 

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."6But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

[anastasiamusicalfan]

The ballet

1- Hartford, USA

2 & 3- Broadway, USA

4- Madrid, Spain

5- US Tour

6- Stuttgart, Germany

7- The Hague, the Netherlands

8- Tokyo, Japan

9- Tokyo & Takarazuka, Japan

Pictures: Takarazuka Revue, Anastasia the Musical & Anastasia das Musical Facebooks. Aaron Rhyne & Claire Rathbun websites. Momoka Kubota & Javier Naval Stage Photo instagrams. My photo (8) from Japan brochure.

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2020 Olympics R.O.C. Roster

Archery

Galsan Bazarzhzapov (Moscow)

Elena Osipova (Moscow)

Svetlana Gomboeva (Moscow)

Ksenia Perova (Lesnoy)

Athletics

Sergey Shubenkov (Barnaul)

Vasiliy Mizinov (Magnitogorsk)

Mikhail Akimenko (Prokhladny)

Ilya Ivanyuk (Krasny)

Valeriy Pronkin (Nizhny Novgorod)

Ilya Shkurenyov (Linyovo)

Elvira Khasanova (Ufa)

Darya Klishina (Tver)

Mariya Lasitskene (Prokhladny)

Anzhelika Sidorova (Moscow)

Badminton

Sergey Sirant (Vladivostok)

Vladimir Ivanov (Kusa)

Ivan Sozonov (Yekaterinburg)

Evgeniya Kosetskaya (Kazan)

Boxing

Gabil Mamedov (Orenburg)

Imam Khataev (Grozny)

Ivan Veriasov (St. Petersburg)

Albert Batyrgaziev (Babayurt)

Andrey Zamkovoy (Svobodny)

Gleb Bakshi (Simferopol)

Muslim Gadzhimagomedov (Nitilsukh)

Svetlana Solouianova (Dmitrovgrad)

Liudmila Vorontsova (Petropavlovka)

Saadat Dalgatova (Khunzakhsky)

Zemfira Magomedalieva (Tlyarata)

Cycling

Pavel Sivakov (Soueich, France)

Aleksandr Vlasov (Vyborg)

Ilnur Zakarin (Naberezhnye Chelny)

Tamara Dronova (Moscow)

Diving

Evgeny Kuznetsov (Stavropol)

Nikita Shleikher (Stavropol)

Oleksandr Bondar (Moscow)

Viktor Minibaev (Moscow)

Maria Poliakova (Moscow)

Anna Konanykhina (St. Petersburg)

Yulia Timoshinina (Moscow)

Equestrian

Aleksandr Markov (Ryazan)

Andrey Mitin (Moscow)

Maria Shuvalovna (Moscow)

Aleksandra Maksakova (The Hague, The Netherlands)

Tatyana Kosterina (Nizhny Novgorod)

Inessa Merkulova (Rostov-Na-Donu)

Fencing

Nikita Glazkov (Moscow)

Anton Borodachev (Moscow)

Kirill Borodachev (Moscow)

Vladislav Mylnikov (Moscow)

Konstantin Lokhanov (Moscow)

Dmitriy Danilenko (Moscow)

Sergey Bida (Moscow)

Sergey Khodos (Oskemen, Kazakhstan)

Pavel Sukhov (Samara)

Timur Safin (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

Kamil Ibragimov (Moscow)

Veniamin Reshetnikov (Novosibirsk)

Yulia Lichagina (Kazan)

Aizanat Murtazaeva (Moscow)

Marta Martyanova (Kazan)

Violetta Vlasov (Dzerzhinsk)

Violetta Khrapina (Moscow)

Inna Deriglazova (Kurchatov)

Larisa Korobeynikova (Kurgan)

Adelina Zagidullina (Ufa)

Olga Nikitina (Moscow)

Sofia Pozdniakova (Novosibirsk)

Sofya Mishin (Moscow)

Svetlana Sheveleva (Moscow)

Gymnastics

David Belyavskiy (Yekaterinburg)

Artur Dalaloyan (Moscow)

Aleksandr Kartsev (Vladimir)

Nikita Nagornyy (Rostov-Na-Dan)

Dmitry Ushakov (Krasnodar)

Andrey Yudin (Tolyatti)

Susana Kochesok (Tliustenkhabl)

Yana Lebedeva (Moscow)

Viktoria Listunova (Moscow)

Angelina Melnikova (Voronezh)

Vladi Urazova (Rostov-Na-Dan)

Elena Gerasimova (Cheboksary)

Ari Averina (Zavolzhye)

Dina Averina (Zavolzhye)

Anastasia Bliznyuk (Penza)

Anastasia Maksimova (Nizhny Novgorod)

Angelina Shkatova (Khimki, Ukraine)

Anastasia Tatareva (Moscow)

Alisa Tishchenko (Krasnodar)

Handball

Natalia Reshetnikova (Yekaterinburg)

Ekaterina Zelenkova (Yaroslavl)

Veronika Nikitina (Tolyatti)

Anna Sedoykina (Volgograd)

Polina Kuznetsova (Astrakhanochka)

Anna Sen (Krasnodar)

Anastasia Lagina (Yaroslavl)

Anna Vyakhireva (Volgograd)

Marina Sudakova (Volgograd)

Galina Gabisova (Rostov-Na-Dan)

Vladlena Bobrovnikova (Krasnodar)

Daria Samokhina (Tolyatti)

Kseniya Makeyeva (Ufa)

Olga Fomina (Samara)

Yana Zhilinskayte (Uray)

Ekaterina Ilina (Tolyatti)

Elizaveta Malashenko (Tolyatti)

Yulia Managorova (Rostov-Na-Don)

Diana Golub (Krasnodar)

Antonina Skorobogatchenko (Volgograd)

Mariia Dudina (St. Petersburg)

Anastasiia Illarionova (Istra)

Olga Sherbak (Sevastopol, Ukraine)

Victoriya Kalinina (Maykop)

Polina Kaplina (Irkutsk)

Polina Gorshkova (Tolyatti)

Valeriia Kirdiasheva (Buzuluk)

Milana Tazhenova (Astrakhan)

Judo

Robert Mshvidobadze (Gori, Georgia)

Yakub Shamilov (Argun)

Musa Mogushkov (Nazran)

Alan Khubetsov (Vladikavkaz)

Mikhail Igolnikov (Tuapse)

Niyaz Ilyasov (Bataysk)

Tamerlan Bashaev (Kazan)

Irina Dolgova (Bratsk)

Natalia Kuziutina (Bryansk)

Daria Mezhetskaia (Perm)

Daria Davydova (Naberezhnye Chelny)

Madina Taimazova (Kazan)

Aleksandra Babintseva (Kirov)

Karate

Anna Chernysheva (Moscow)

Pentathlon

Alexander Lifanov (Simferopol)

Adelina Ibatullina (Ufa)

Gulnaz Gubaydullina (Novy Urengoy)

Rugby

Anna Baranchuk (Moscow)

Anna Gavrilyuk (Moscow)

Anna Minislamova (Moscow)

Arina Bystrova (Uzhhorod, Ukraine)

Bayzat Khamidova (Moscow)

Darya Bobkova (Nizhny Novgorod)

Darya Lushina (Moscow)

Darya Noritsina (Moscow)

Ekaterina Bankerova (St. Petersburg)

Ekaterina Kazakova (Moscow)

Elena Zdrokovna (Moscow)

Kristina Seredina (Altai Krai)

Lyudmila Artamonova (St. Petersburg)

Marina Kukina (Moscow)

Marina Petrova (Moscow)

Maria Perestyak (Krasnoyarsk)

Maria Shemchuk (Moscow)

Nadezhna Kudinova (Belovo)

Nikolina Ryashina (Moscow)

Yulia Guzeva (Moscow)

Yulia Ledovskaya (Moscow)

Alena Tiron (Novosibirisk)

Climbing

Alexey Rubtsov (Moscow)

Yulia Kaplina (Tyumen)

Viktoria Meshkova (Yekaterinburg)

Swimming

Aleksandr Kudashev (Samara)

Kirill Martynychev (St. Petersburg)

Max Stupin (Moscow)

Aleksandr Yegorov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Alexander Shchegolev (Moscow)

Ilya Borodin (Bryansk)

Anton Chupkov (Moscow)

Ilya Druzhinin (Volgograd)

Ivan Girev (Gavrilov-Yam)

Kliment Kolesnikov (Moscow)

Martin Malyutin (Omsk)

Andrey Minakov (St. Petersburg)

Vladimir Morozov (Novosibirsk)

Kirill Prigoda (St. Petersburg)

Evgeny Rylov (Novotroitsk)

Grigory Tarasevich (Omsk)

Mikhail Vekovischev (Obninsk)

Andrey Zhilkin (Moscow)

Vladislav Grinev (Moscow)

Aleksandr Krasnykh (Bugulma)

Kirill Abrosimov (Moscow)

Evgenia Chikunova (Moscow)

Elizaveta Klevanovich (Tyumen)

Daria S. Ustinova (Kamensk-Uralsky)

Svetlana Chimrova (Moscow)

Anna Egorova (Kaliningrad)

Nastasia Fesikov (Penza)

Maria Kameneva (Orenburg)

Anastasiya Kirpichnikova (Yekaterinburg)

Arina Surkova (Novokuznetsk)

Maria Temnikova (Yekaterinburg)

Daria Ustinova (Kaminsk-Uralsky)

Yuliya Yefimova (Volgodonsk)

Veronika Andrusenko (Volgograd)

Valeriya Salamantina (Moscow)

Table Tennis

Kirill Skachkov (Novokuznetsk)

Polina Mikhaylova (St. Petersburg)

Yana Noskova (Moscow)

Taekwondo

Mikhail Artamonov (St. Petersburg)

Maksim Khramtsov (Nizhnevartovsk)

Vladislav Larin (Kotkozero)

Tatiana Kudashova (Chelyabinsk)

Tennis

Aslan Karatsev (Moscow)

K.A. Khachanov (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Daniil Medvedev (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Andrey Rublev; Jr. (Moscow)

Ekaterina Alexandrova (Prague, Czech Republic)

Daria Kasatkina (Barcelona, Spain)

Veronika Kudermetova (Moscow)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Moscow)

Vera Zvonereva (Moscow)

Elena Vesnina (Sochi)

Volleyball

Viacheslav Krasilnikov (Krasnodar)

Oleg Stoyanovskiy (Moscow)

Konstantin Semenov (Tokmak)

Ilya Leshukov (Yekaterinburg)

Ivan Iakovlev (St. Petersburg)

Denis Bogdan (Grodno)

Iaroslav Podlesnykh (Pyatigorsk)

Igor Kobzar (Surgut)

Pavel Pankov (Moscow)

Maxim Mikhaylov (Kuzmolovsky)

Viktor Poletaev (Chelyabinsk)

Ilyas Kurkaev (Biysk)

Artem Volvich (Nizhnevartovsk)

Egor Kliuka (Kobryn, Belarus)

Dmitry Volkov (Novokuybyshevsk)

Valentin Golubev (Zavety Ilyicha)

Nadezda Makroguzova (Krasnodar)

Svetlana Kholomina (Obninsk)

Ksenia Smirnova (Nizhny Novgorod)

Ekaterina Enina (Chelyabinsk)

Anna Podkopaevna (Ulyanovsk)

Polina Matveeva (Odintsovo)

Daria Pilipenko (Nizhny Novgorod)

Arina Fedorovtseva (Kazan)

Natalia Goncharova (Skole, Ukraine)

Irina Koroleva (Novosibirsk)

Yevgeniya Startseva (Chelyabinsk)

Irina Fetisov (St. Petersburg)

Irina Voronkov (Moscow)

Anna Lazareva (Moscow)

Water Polo

Maria Beresneva (Moscow)

Anna Ustiukhina (Moscow)

Ekaterina Prokofyeva (Volgodonsk)

Elvina Karimova (Chelyabinsk)

Maria Borisova (Moscow)

Olga Gorgunova (Chelyabinsk)

Alena Serzhantova (Moscow)

Anastasia Simanovich (St. Petersburg)

Anna Timofeeva (Nizhny Novgorod)

Yevgeniya Soboleva-Khokhriakova (Kirishi)

Evgeniya Ivanova (Nizhny Novgorod)

Anastasia Fedotova (Moscow)

Anna Karnaukh (St. Petersburg)

Weightlifting

Timur Naniev (Vladikavkaz)

Kristina Sobol (Salsk)

Wrestling

Zaur Uguev (Khasavyurt)

Gadzhimurad Rashidov (Gubden)

Zaurbek Sidakov (Beslan)

Artur Naifonov (Nizhnevartovsk)

Abdulrashid Sadulaev (Tsurib)

Sergey Kozyrev (Moscow)

Sergey Emelin (Ruzayevka)

Artem Surkov (Saransk)

Aleksandr Chekhirkin (Rostov-Na-Dan)

Musa Evloev (Ingushetia)

Sergey Semenov (Tula)

Stalvira Orshush (Ulan-Ude)

Olga Khoroshavtseva (Khrasnoyarsk)

Valeria Koblova (Yegoryevsk)

Lyubov Ovcharova (Belorechensk)

Khanum Valieva (Khrasnoyarsk)

Natalia Norobieva (Tulun)

[newstfionline]

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Difficult Times for Flight Attendants (NYT) One flight attendant needed medical attention for a crippling migraine brought on by confronting a passenger who refused to wear a mask. Aviation safety officials have received dozens of confidential complaints in the past year from attendants trying to enforce mask safety rules. The reports, filed in the Aviation Safety Reporting System database, at times describe a chaotic, unhinged workplace where passengers regularly abuse airline employees. The coronavirus pandemic and political divisions of the past year have caused fear, economic pain, and social and family rifts around the country, but for airline workers, and flight attendants in particular, the unease and tension have often converged in a tiny cabin space. The tension is at a level flight attendants have not seen before, said Paul Hartshorn Jr., a veteran attendant and a spokesman for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants union. “I think we’re pretty well trained on how to handle a disruptive passenger,” said Mr. Hartshorn, 46. “What we’re not trained to do and what we shouldn’t be dealing with is large groups of passengers inciting a riot with another group of passengers [over political differences].” “It’s insane,” he added.

Fight The Man: What GameStop’s surge says about online mobs (AP) It’s a fable for our times: Small-time investors band together to take down greedy Wall Street hedge funds using the stock of a troubled video-game store. But the revolt of online stock-traders suggests much more. The internet is shifting society’s balance of power in unanticipated ways. In the world of pseudonymous internet message boards, pranks-gone-wild and logic turned upside down amid a global pandemic, revolts come in all shapes, sizes and aims. Last week they gave us the Great GameStop Stock Uprising. Who knows what this week will bring. “The internet can democratize access, upsetting power dynamics between the people and traditional institutions,” tweeted Tiffany C. Li, a law professor and tech attorney focusing on privacy and technology platform governance. With GameStop, she added in an interview Friday, the goal was to upset the interests of a few large hedge funds. “But in other places the goal can be more nefarious. Online spaces are being used to radicalize people toward extremism, to plan hate crimes and attacks,” she said. “The internet isn’t really the villain or the hero.”

Pandemic Pushes More Parents to Go All-In for Home Schooling (WSJ) As parents grow increasingly frustrated with remote learning during the pandemic, some are deciding to pull their children out of school and try teaching on their own. In North Carolina, the state’s home-school monitoring website crashed on the first day of enrollment, and more than 18,800 families filed to operate a home-school from July 1 to Jan. 22—more than double the school-year before, according to the state Division of Non-Public Education. In Connecticut, the number of students who left public schools to be home-schooled jumped fivefold this school year, to 3,500. In Nebraska, the number of home-schooled students jumped 56%, to 13,426, according to state education officials. “The vast majority [of parents] are saying, ‘We’ve been really trying to do what the schools are asking us to do, but we just can’t do this anymore,’ “ said J. Allen Weston, executive director of the National Home School Association, which has been fielding inquiries on the topic. Vanderbilt University’s Joseph Murphy, who studies home schooling, said “We are in a major shift from how we thought about teaching children and running schools for 100 years. Parents have shifted to the place where they feel they need more direct involvement and greater responsibility for what happens with their children.”

Vaccine skepticism lurks in town famous for syphilis study (AP) Lucenia Dunn spent the early days of the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from each other in Tuskegee, a mostly Black city where the government once used unsuspecting African American men as guinea pigs in a study of a sexually transmitted disease. Now, the onetime mayor of the town immortalized as the home of the infamous “Tuskegee syphilis study” is wary of getting inoculated against COVID-19. Among other things, she’s suspicious of the government promoting a vaccine that was developed in record time when it can’t seem to conduct adequate virus testing or consistently provide quality rural health care. “I’m not doing this vaccine right now. That doesn’t mean I’m never going to do it. But I know enough to withhold getting it until we see all that is involved,” said Dunn, who is Black. The coronavirus immunization campaign is off to a shaky start in Tuskegee and other parts of Macon County. Area leaders point to a resistance among residents spurred by a distrust of government promises and decades of failed health programs. Tuskegee is not a complete outlier. A recent survey conducted by the communications firm Edelman revealed that as of November, only 59% of people in the U.S. were willing to get vaccinated within a year with just 33% happy to do so as soon as possible. Health experts have stressed both the vaccines’ safety and efficacy.

As Biden prays for healing, Catholics clash over president’s faith (GMA) On his quest to heal a divided America, Joe Biden may first have to confront bitter division over his presidency from within his own church. Since his inauguration two weeks ago as the nation’s second Catholic president, Biden’s devout Christian faith has become a new flashpoint within the church. While millions of Catholics have celebrated the ascension of one of their own to the White House, some have been publicly questioning whether Biden should be considered a model of their faith. Many Catholic clergy and faithful are passionately fixated on Biden’s support for abortion rights, which the church staunchly opposes and considers an issue of “preeminent” importance. Biden opposes abortion as a personal matter, but wrote in his 2007 memoir that he doesn’t “have a right to impose my view on the rest of society.” One in five Americans identifies as Roman Catholic, the largest Christian denomination in the U.S., according to Pew Research Center. While the faithful have long been divided in matters of theology and politics, Catholic values aren’t exclusively red or blue.

Russia Protesters Defy Vast Police Operation as Signs of Kremlin Anxiety Mount (NYT) The Kremlin mounted Russia’s most fearsome nationwide police operation in recent memory on Sunday, seeking to overwhelm a protest movement backing the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny that swept across the country for a second weekend in a row. But the show of force—including closed subway stations, thousands of arrests and often brutal tactics—failed to smother the unrest. By late Sunday evening in Moscow, more than 5,000 people had been detained in at least 85 cities across Russia, an activist group reported, though many were later released. Previously unseen numbers of riot police officers in black helmets, camouflage and body armor essentially locked down the center of the metropolis of 13 million people, stopping passers-by miles from the protest to check their documents and ask what they were doing outside. “I don’t understand what they’re afraid of,” a protester named Anastasia Kuzmina, a 25-year-old account manager at an advertising agency, said of the police. Referring to the peak year of Stalin’s mass repression, she added, “It’s like we’re slipping into 1937.” The large-scale police response signaled anxiety in the Kremlin over Mr. Navalny’s ability to unite Russia’s disparate critics of President Vladimir V. Putin, from nationalists to liberals to many with no particular ideology at all.

In Myanmar coup, Suu Kyi’s ouster heralds return to military rule (Washington Post) Aung San Suu Kyi defended Myanmar’s generals against genocide charges at The Hague. She praised soldiers as they unleashed artillery against ethnic minority settlements. She took only modest steps toward democratic changes that would chip away at the army’s political power. It wasn’t enough. On Monday, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, detaining Suu Kyi, elected ministers from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party and others in a predawn raid. Though condemned internationally for defending the military and its campaign against the Rohingya minority, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent 15 years under house arrest until 2010 now finds herself again at the generals’ mercy. The coup underscored the fragility of Myanmar’s decade-old, quasi-democratic transition that many assumed, despite imperfections, would continue with Suu Kyi as head of the civilian government and still-entrenched powers for the military, led by Min Aung Hlaing. But the military was never comfortable with its enduring unpopularity and Suu Kyi’s godlike status among ordinary Burmese, analysts said, despite its role in engineering the country’s opening after half a century of isolationist rule.

Survivors of Beirut’s explosion endure psychological scars (AP) Joana Dagher lay unconscious and hemorrhaging under a pile of rubble in her apartment after the massive Beirut port blast in August, on the brink of death. She survived because of the courage of her husband who got her out, the kindness of a stranger who transported her in his damaged car and the help of her sisters during the chaos at the overwhelmed hospital. But Dagher doesn’t remember any of that: The 33-year-old mother of two lost her memory for two full months from the trauma she suffered in the explosion, including a cerebral contusion and brain lesions. “I lost my life on August 4,” Dagher said. “I lost my house, I lost my memory, I lost two friends,” she added, referring to neighbors killed in the explosion. “I lost my mental health, and so I lost everything.”       The Beirut explosion, which killed more than 200 people and injured more than 6,000, caused wounds on an even wider scale on the mental health of those who lived through it. Even in a country that has seen many wars and bombings, never had so many people—tens of thousands—directly experienced the same traumatizing event at the same time. It came on top of the stress that Lebanese were already feeling from multiple crises, including an unprecedented economic meltdown, the coronavirus pandemic and a feeling of helplessness after nationwide protests against corruption that failed to achieve their goals. “There are very high levels of anxiety and worry across the population,” said Mia Atwi, psychologist and president of Embrace, an organization working on mental health awareness and support. “There is a low mood bordering on clinical depression for the majority of the population.”

[anastasiamusicalupdates]

Every principle Anya in replica productions of Anastasia the Musical.

Christy Altomare; Hartford and Broadway

Jana Goméz; Madrid, Spain

Judith Caspari; Stuttgart, Germany

Lila Coogan; First National Tour

Tessa Sunniva van Tol; The Hague, Netherlands

Wakana Aoi; Japanese Tour

Haruka Kinoshita; Japanese Tour

Kyla Stone; Second National Tour

Veronica Stern; Second National Tour

Giovanna Rangel; São Paulo, Brazil

[earith]

Anastasia   Tessa Sunniva van Tol   - Sommernacht des Musicals 2019

[middaydolomite]

Day 10 of Fifty Shades of May. It's a badly-kept secret that virtually every commercial screenplay follows the same structure of turning points where the stakes increase throughout the film. Have a look at the website of the script consultant Michael Hague. The same structure works just as well in a novel. But for impact, the author needs to strike a balance between foreshadowing what will happen and revealing too much ahead of time, while maintaining conflict between the characters. It almost works when Grey introduces his playroom to Anastasia. The author foreshadows this by showing how he enjoys buckling her tightly into a helicopter seat. Yet the conflict isn't there except in her own head, so when he finally shows her all his ropes and cuffs, it doesn't feel like the big reveal it could have been. And after that, when Anastasia reveals she's a virgin, Grey is surprised but the reader is not. Had the author previously kept this point under wraps, it would probably have taken me by surprise as well. If I were to restructure this part of the book, I'd make the virginity the earlier of the turning points. This would likely make Grey more wary about showing his playroom, thus delaying that revelation until later in the novel and making it a bigger deal. https://www.instagram.com/p/B___nXgj-WT/?igshid=15jso7ub7zb6f

[christinealtomare]

anastasiademusical: Deze schitterende kostuums waren afgelopen zaterdag te bewonderen tijdens onze ANASTASIA tentoonstelling in het @amrathkurhaus! 👑 Heb je het gemist of kon je er niet bij zijn? Je kunt ze natuurlijk ook live bewonderen tijdens de voorstelling! 💜✨ Weet jij van wie deze prachtige kostuums zijn die je hier ziet? #anastasianl#museumnachtdenhaag

[judocritics]

GSL Abu Dhabi: verdienstelijke Van Tichelt geeft zichzelf wat zelfvertrouwen.

(24/26-Oct-2019)  

6 Belgen, netjes verdeeld over 3 vrouwen en 3 mannen, iets minder verdeeld over 4 Walen en 2 Vlamingen :-). >> 2019 GSL Abu Dhabi (live results)    >> VJF verslag (christian pierre)   

Van Tichelt (°84; /-73kg; 62° WRL): 5° (4 ovwn)

Na serieus te zijn teruggevallen op de WRL, wordt het stilaan de periode van de waarheid voor de Bronzen Beer van Brecht.  Een gunstige loting is altijd mooi meegenomen natuurlijk en Dirk mag niet klagen. Opent tegen Michal Bartusik (°93; Pol; 104° WRL); zijn beste ooit was brons op een WCup (Tallinn’16, toen nog /-66kg).  >> video (1/32-fin) Bartusik - Van Tichelt   een gelijkopgaande wedstrijd eigenlijk tot 1′18″min voor tijd, Dirk met een geslaagde drop seoi-nage ippon scoorde; (de wedstrijd bleek zo interessant voor de commentatoren dat ze 2 minuten zaten te praten over de voorgaande kamp, en daarna maar besloten om naar een andere tatami over te schakelen !)  Enfin, Dirk naar de 1/16-finale tegen Oscar Pertelson (°94; Est; 72° WRL);  >> video (1/16-fin) Pertelson - Van Tichelt   na 1′15″min stonden ze beiden al met 2 shido’s achter hun naam voor negatief vechten; halfweg scoorde Dirk dan wel mooi waza-ari; en zowat 30″sec later was het afgelopen toen Pertelson zijn 3de shido kreeg voor een valse offerworp;   Zijn 3de kamp werd een eerste serieuze test voor Dirk, nl. tegen Akil Gjakova (°96; Kos; 10° WRL); vorig jaar 2° op deze GSL, daarna Europees kampioen u23, en ook al goed voor GP medailles daarna (The Hague; Budapest) en GSL final blocks;  >> video (1/8-fin) Gjakova - Van Tichelt   o-uchi-gari van Gjakova, gecountered door Dirk met ashi-barai: ippon, gebalde vuist en voorzeker een grote opsteker voor Van Tichelt !  Tweede serieuze test in 1/4-finale tegen Bilal Ciloglu (°98; Tur; 24° WRL); vorig jaar wereldkampioen u21/-73kg; 7° op het WK’19 & 3° GP Tashkent;   >> video (1/4-fin) Van Tichelt - Bilal Ciloglu   o-uchi-gari van de Turk vóór halfweg (w-a); Dirk daarna een shido voor passiviteit, en met nog 1′41″min op de klok sumi-gaeshi van Ciloglu, goed voor een 2de waza-ari; Dirk dus naar de herkansingen;  >> video (repechage) Frigyes Szabo - Van Tichelt    3° op de eigen GP Budapest’18 was het beste resultaat van Szabo (°94; Hun; 56° WRL) tot dusver; Dirk doorlopend meester in de wedstrijd, maar scoren lukt niet; na zijn 2de shido wordt Szabo dan wel wat agressiever, maar in GS krijgen ze beiden na 1′23″min toch een shido voor passiviteit; taktisch goed van Dirk; einde gevecht;  >> video (voor brons) Van Tichelt - Turaev   wedstrijd voor het podium tegen Khikmatillokh Turaev (°95; Uzb; 14° WRL); mister GP Tashkent en huidig wereldkampioen bij de militairen; dit jaar ook 3° GP Marrakech & Budapest; vochten nog nooit tegen mekaar;  leuke match over de volle 4 minuten; een mooie kata-guruma van Turaev besliste echter over brons voor de Uzbeek; 

Alles bij mekaar een leuke opsteker voor Van Tichelt denk ik, vooral wetende dat hij een top-10 judoka klopte. 

Over de andere judoka’s moeten we helaas kort blijven. 

Anne-Sophie Jura (°92; /-48kg; 35° WRL): out (0 ovwn)

vecht haar enige kamp tegen de beste  >> video (ronde-1) AS Jura - Chen-Hao Lin (°97; Tpe; 55° WRL); de Taiwanese werd dit jaar 5° op de APAC kampioenschappen en 3° WCup Taipei; Anne-Sophie begint goed met een osoto-gari, maar na de herneming loopt ze tegen een voetveeg gevolgd door juji; klem & afgelopen; ze had zichtbaar meer verwacht van die eerste kamp. Lin verliest daarna van de Portugese Catarina Costa (2nd seeded), die uiteindelijk brons pakt;  

Jorre Verstraeten (°97; /-60kg; 19° WRL): out (1 ovwn)  

leuke opwarmer als 1ste kamp tegen Omar Althufairi (°99; Kuw; 113° WRL); weinig geweten over deze judoka; alleen dat ge met één overwinning op een WK bijna in de top-100 v/d WRL kan staan;  ongewone wedstrijd ook met maar liefst 1′15″min doorlopend grondwerk (van de 1′34″min totale kamptijd); een eerste houdgreep levert w-a op; even later een 2de; door naar ronde-2;  >> video (ronde-1) Jorre Verstraeten - Omar Althufairi   Veel ernstiger dan tegen de goedgekende Tornike Tsjakadoa (°96; Ned; 13° WRL); staat dus op een voor mij verbluffende 13de plaats v/d WRL, dankzij schitterende resultaten dit jaar: 1° GP Cancun (Oct’18); 2° GP Tel Aviv; 5° GSL Paris; 3° GSL Düsseldorf; 3° GSL Ekaterinburg; 3° GP Budapest ! >> video (1/16-fin) Tjakadoea - Jorre   exact halfweg scoort Tornike nipt waza-ari met een morote seoi-nage; en tegen Tsjakadoea in verdediging weet je dat het daarna zéér moeilijk scoren wordt; helaas, ook voor Jorre eindigt het hier;

Charline Van Snick (°90; /-52kg; 6° WRL): out (0 ovwn)

2nd seeded, na Majlinda Kelmendi, maar veel plezier heeft ze daar niet aan overgehouden; integendeel, ze wordt in haar eerste kamp geklopt door Anastasia Polikarpova (°92; Rus; 248° WRL), een Russische met overall wel 7 Russische titels (jeugd + sen), maar internationaal nooit echt doorgebroken (3° EK’14 u23/-52kg); >> video (ronde-2) Van Snick - Polikarpova   Charline duidelijk de betere en dominant; helaas, haar duidelijke overname van Polikarpova’s ko-uchi-gari, wordt een waza-ari voor de Russische (even voor halfweg); en dan volgt een zware verdediging van de grotere Polikarpova en tijdrekken met ne-waza, en Van Snick is er aan voor de moeite; de Russische zal nog één kamp winnen en wordt 7de, genoeg voor een sprong van 160 plaatsen op de WRL (88°);  

Sami Chouchi (°93; /-81kg; 24° WRL): out (0 ovwn)  

ontmoet in ronde-1 (1/32-fin) Kamoliddin Rasulov (°92; Uzb; 42° WRL): weinig over geweten; komt pas in de picture op 23-jarige leeftijd op de Universiade (7°) en verschijnt daarna pas dit jaar meer uitdrukkelijk naar voren internationaal (2° GP Tashkent); nu op een moment dat hij meteen zijn meerdere moet erkennen in jongere landgenoot Sharofiddin Boltaboev (°95; Uzb;19° WRL), dit jaar 5° GP Marrakech; 2° APAC championships; 7° WK en 1° GP Tashkent (waar hij de finale dus wint tegen Rasulov); >> video Rasulov - Sami Chouchi    Sami nooit echt in gevaar, maar de Uzbeek oogt telkens net iets aanvallender en dat kost Sami (onterecht naar mijn mening) 3 shido’s, nog binnen de reguliere 4′min; daar sta je dan na 1 wedstrijd (met 10p voor je deelname)...

Roxane Taeymans (°91; /-70kg; 36° WRL): out (0 ovwn)   

brute pech natuurlijk want moet openen tegen leeftijdsgenote Kim Polling (°91; Ned; 25° WRL) waar ze nooit van kan winnen, zelfs niet met een Hollandse coach die Polling wel zéér goed zal kennen; halfweg is de klus geklaard met 2x waza-ari; Kim Polling wint overigens dit tornooi ! >> video Kim Polling - Roxane Taeymans  

Nice:

ne-waza moment van het tornooi: >> video Anriquelis Barrios - Hee Ju Han