#elias koenig

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Scenes from STLV 2024 part 1

Part 2

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Slept a little better last night didn’t have a full freak out but did wake up several times bc Elias was cramping my style. And then had a dream about Putney boys coming to my house and I turned around and they had brought Ezra Koenig with them and I was like I’m so sorry Elias but I have to fuck Ezra Koenig right now. Am I 15 again or is this just what sleeping in ur childhood bedroom does to u

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My data below the cut if you want to peak :)

20+

Larry Gelbart- S1-4, Drafted 1 year WWII

Lawrence Marks- S1-3+6, No Data

Jim Fritzell- S3-6, No Data

Everett Greenbaum- S3-6, Navy Pilot WWII

11-19

Alan Alda- S1,2,5-11, ROTC/Reserves

Gene Reynolds- S2+4+5+8, Navy WWII

Ken Levine- S5-8, Yes

David Isaacs- S5-8, Yes

Dennis Koenig- S8-11, No Data/Probably No

Thad Mumford- S8-11, No

Dan Wilcox- S8-11, Probably No

David Pollock- S9-11, No Data/Probably No

Elias Davis- S9-11, No Data/Probably No

6-10

Robert Klane- S1-3, No Data

Simon Munter- S3-4, No Data

Burt Prelutsky- S4-6, No Data

Larry Balmagia- S6,7,11, No Data

Ronny Graham- S6-8, Yes, WWII

John Rappaport- S8-11, No Data/Probably No

Karen Hall- S9-11, No

2-5

Burt Styler- S1, Yes, WWII D-Day

Hal Dresner- S1, No Data

Jerry Mayer- S1,2, No Data

Karl Kleinschmitt- S1,2 No Data

McClean Stevenson- S1,2, Yes, Navy Corpsman 46-7

Sheldon Keller- S1,2, Yes, Signal Corps WWII Pacific

Sid Dorfman- S1-5, No Data

Linda Bloodworty- S2-5, No

Mary Kay Place- S2,3, No

John W Regier- S2-4, No Data

Gary Markowitz- S2,4,5,7, No Data

Bernard Dilbert- S2,7, No Data

Erik Tarloff- S2,7,9, No Data

John D Hess- S3-5, Yes, WWII

Jay Folb- S4,5, No Data

Allan Katz- S5, No Data

Don Reo- S5, No Data

Bill Idolson- S5,6, Yes, Navy Pilot WWII

Mitch Markowitz- S7, No

Tom Reeder- S7, No Data

Sheldon Bull- S7,9, No Data

Burt Metcalfe- S7,9,11, Yes, Navy 56 2 years

Jim Mulligan- S8, No Data

Mike Farell- S8,9,11, Yes, Marines 57-59

Paul Perlove- S10, No Data

I was talking about shift in tone between early and later seasons of MASH and I wondered if it was because of the writers own experiences. So I made a list of every writer who wrote 2 or more episodes of MASH then did my best to find out who had served in the military. The results did not exactly confirm the hypothesis, but I thought they were interesting.

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for: @eliaskoenig​ location: the beach, near the street

“Hey,” Rami tossed the volleyball at Elias as he passed by, “Where’ve you been?” The words were lighthearted as he jogged up to fetch the ball, joining his teammate by his side. Over the beach the sun was beginning to set, and he had his bag of beach essentials draped over one shoulder, gesturing towards the street and sidewalks that lead them back to the hotel. “I feel like I haven’t seen you at all,” he noted, glancing over at the blonde with a wry, twisted expression, followed by a laugh. “Maybe you’ve been busy. You know the boys and I missed you at our last pick-up game.”

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Saints&Reading: Sat., July 24, 2021

July 25 ( old cal.) _July 11 ( new cal.) 

 St OLGA of KIEV,  EQUAL-TO-THE-APOSTLES (969)

Saint Olga, Equal of the Apostles, was the wife of the Kievan Great Prince Igor. The struggle of Christianity with paganism under Igor and Olga, who reigned after Oleg (+ 912), entered into a new phase. The Church of Christ in the years following the reign of Igor (+ 945) became a remarkable spiritual and political force in the Russian realm. The preserved text of a treaty of Igor with the Greeks in the year 944 gives indication of this: it was included by the chronicler in the “Tale of Bygone Years,” under the entry recording the events of the year 6453 (945).

The peace treaty had to be sworn to by both the religious communities of Kiev: “Baptized Rus”, i.e. the Christian, took place in the cathedral church of the holy Prophet of God Elias (July 20); “Unbaptized Rus”, i.e. the pagans, in turn swore their oath on their weapons in the sanctuary of Perun the Thunderer. The fact, that Christians are included in the document in the first place, indicates their significant spiritual influence in the life of Kievan Rus.

Evidently at the moment when the treaty of 944 was being drawn up at Constantinople, there were people in power in Kiev sympathetic to Christianity, who recognized the historical inevitability of involving Rus into the life-creating Christian culture. To this trend possibly belonged even prince Igor himself, whose official position did not permit him personally to go over to the new faith, nor at that time of deciding the issue concerning the Baptism of the whole country with the consequent dispersal throughout it of Orthodox Church hierarchs. The treaty therefore was drawn up in the circumspect manner of expression, which would not hinder the prince to ratify it in either the form of a pagan oath, or in the form of a Christian oath.

But when the Byzantine emissaries arrived in Kiev, conditions along the River Dneipr had essentially changed. A pagan opposition had clearly emerged, at the head of which stood the Varangian voevoda (military-leader) Svenel’d (or Sveinald) and his son Mstislav (Mtsisha) to whom Igor had given holdings in the Drevlyani lands.

Strong also at Kiev was the influence of the Khazar Jews, who could not but be displeased with the thought of the triumph of Orthodoxy in the Russian Land.

Unable to overcome the customary inertia, Igor remained a pagan and he concluded the treaty in the pagan manner, swearing an oath on his sword. He refused the grace of Baptism and was punished for his unbelief. A year later, in 945, rebellious pagans murdered him in the Drevlyanian land, cut down betwixt two trees. But the days of paganism and the lifestyle of the Slavic tribes basic to it were already numbered. The burden of government fell upon the widow of Igor -- the Kiev Great-princess Olga, and her three-year-old son Svyatoslav.

The name of the future enlightener of the Russian Land and of her native region is first to be met with in the “Tale of Bygone Years,” in the phrase where it speaks about the marriage of Igor: “and they brought him a wife from Pskov, by the name of Olga.” She belonged, so specifies the Joakimov Chronicle, to the lineage of the Izborsk princes, -- one of the obscure ancient-Russian princely dynasties, of which in Rus during the 10th-11th Centuries there numbered no less than twenty, but who were all displaced by the Rurikovichi or merged otherwise with them through marriage. Some of them were of local Slavic descent, others -- Varangian new-comers. It is known, that the Scandinavian Viking “koenigs” (kinglets) called to become princes in the Russian cities -- invariably assimilated to the Russian language, and often, they soon became genuinely Russian with Russian names and lifestyle, world-outlook and even physical appearance of attire.

Thus, Igor’s wife also had the Varangian name “Helga,” which in Russian is pronounced Olga. The feminine name Olga corresponds to the masculine name “Oleg” (Helgi), which means “holy” [from Germanic “heilig” for “holy”]. Although the pagan understanding of holiness was quite different from the Christian, it also presupposed within a man a particular frame of reference, of chastity and sobriety of mind, and of insight. The fact that people called Oleg the Wise-Seer (“Veschi”) and Olga the Wise (“Mudra”) shows the spiritual significance of names.

Rather later traditions regard her a native of a village named Vybuta, several kilometers from Pskov up along the River Velika. They still not so long ago used to point out at the river the Olga Bridge, the ancient fording place, where Olga was met by Igor. The Pskov geographic features have preserved several names connected with this great descendent of Pskov: the village of Ol’zhinets and Ol’gino Pole (Olga Field); the Olga Gateway, one of the branches of the River Velika; Olga Hill and the Olga Cross near Lake Pskov; and the Olga Stone at the village of Vybuta.

The beginning of the independent rule of Princess Olga is connected in the chronicles with the narrative about her terrible revenge on the Drevlyani, who murdered Igor. Having sworn their oaths on their swords and believing “only in their swords”, the pagans were doomed by the judgment of God to also perish by the sword (Mt. 26: 52). Worshipping fire among the other primal elements, they found their own doom in the fire. And the Lord chose Olga to fulfill the fiery chastisement.

The struggle for the unity of Rus, for the subordination to the Kievan center of mutually divisive and hostile tribes and principalities paved the way towards the ultimate victory of Christianity in the Russian Land. For Olga, though still a pagan, the Kiev Christian Church and its Heavenly patron saint the holy Prophet of God Elias [in icons depicted upon a fiery chariot] stood as a flaming faith and prayer of a fire come down from the heavens, and her victory over the Drevlyani—despite the severe harshness of her victory, was a victory of Christian constructive powers in the Russian realm over the powers of a paganism, dark and destructive.

The God-wise Olga entered into history as a great builder of the civil life and culture of Kievan Rus. The chronicles are filled with accounts of her incessant “goings” throughout the Russian land with the aim of the well-being and improvement of the civil and domestic manner of life of her subjects. Having consolidated the inner strengthening of the might of the Kiev great-princely throne, thereby weakening the influence of the hodge-podge of petty local princes in Rus, Olga centralized the whole of state rule with the help of the system of “pogosti” (administrative trade centers). In the year 946 she went with her son and retinue through the Drevlyani land, “imposing tribute and taxes”, noting the villages, inns and hunting places, liable for inclusion in the Kiev great-princely holdings. The next year she went to Novgorod, establishing administrative centers along the Rivers Msta and Luga, everywhere leaving visible traces of her activity. “Her lovischa (hunting preserves) were throughout all the land, the boundary signs, her places and administrative centers, wrote the chronicler, and her sleighs stand at Pskov to this very day, as are her directed places for snaring of birds along the Dneipr and the Desna Rivers; and her village of Ol’zhicha stands to the present day.”

The “pogosti” established by Olga, as financial-administrative and law-court centers, represented sturdy props of great-princely power in these places.

Being first of all, and in the actual sense of the word, centers of trade and exchange (the merchant as “guest”) gathered together and became organized around the settlements (and in place of the “humanly arbitrary” gathering of tribute and taxes, there now existed uniformity and order with the “pogosti” system). Olga’s “pogosti” became an important network of the ethnic and cultural unification of the Russian nation.

Later on, when Olga had become a Christian, they began to erect the first churches at the “pogosti”; from the time of the Baptism of Rus the “pogost” and church (parish) became inseparably associated. (It was only afterwards with the existence of cemeteries alongside churches that there developed the current meaning of the Russian word “pogost” to nowadays signify “parish graveyard”.)

Princess Olga exerted much effort to fortify the defensive might of the land. The cities were built up and strengthened, Vyshgorod (or Detintsa, Kroma) they enclosed with stone and oak walls (battlements), and they bristled them with ramparts and pallisades. Knowing how hostile many were to the idea of strengthening the princely power and the unification of Rus, the princess herself lived constantly “on the hill” over the Dneipr, behind the trusty battlements of Kievan Vyshgorod (“Verkhna-gorod” or “Upper-city”), surrounded by her faithful retainers. Two thirds of the gathered tribute, as the chroniclers testify, she gave over for the use of the Kiev “veche” (city-council), and the remaining one third went “to Olga, for Vyshgorod” -- for the needs of building fortifications. And to the time period of Olga, historians note the establishment of the first state frontiers of Russia -- to the west, with Poland. Heroic outposts to the south guarded the peaceful fields of the Kievans from the peoples of the Wild Plains. Foreigners hastened to Gardarika (“the land of cities”), as they called Rus, with merchandise and craftwares. Swedes, Danes, Germans all eagerly entered as mercenaries into the Russian army. The foreign connections of Kiev spread. This furthered the development of construction with stone in the city, the beginnings of which was initiated under Olga. The first stone edifices of Kiev -- the city palace and Olga’s upper enclosure -- were discovered by archaeologists only but in this century. (The palace, or more properly its foundations and remains of the walls were found in excavations during the years 1971-1972).

But it was not only the strengthening of the civil realm and the improvement of domestic norms of the manner of life for people that attracted the attention of the wise princess. Even more urgent for her was the fundamental transformation of the religious life of Rus, the spiritual transfiguration of the Russian nation. Rus had become a great power. Only two European realms could compare with it during these years in significance and might: in Eastern Europe -- the ancient Byzantine empire, and in the West the kingdom of Saxony.

The experience of both empires, connected with the exaltation in spirit of Christian teaching, with the religious basis of life, showed clearly, that the way to the future greatness of Rus lay not through military means, but first of all and primarily through spiritual conquering and attainment. Having entrusted Kiev to her teenage son Svyatoslav, and seeking grace and truth, Great-princess Olga in the Summer of 954 set off with a great fleet to Constantinople. This was a peaceful “expedition”, combining the tasks of religious pilgrimage and diplomatic mission, but the political considerations demanded that it become simultaneously a display of the military might of Rus on the Black Sea, which would remind the haughty “Romaioi” [Byzantine Greeks] of the victorious campaigns of Askold and Oleg, who in the year 907 advanced in their shields “to the very gates of Constantinople.”

The result was attained. The appearance of the Russian fleet in the Bosphorus created the necessary effect for the developing of Russo-Byzantine dialogue. In turn, the southern capital struck the stern daughter of the north with its variety of beauty and grandeur of architecture, and its jumbled mixture of pagans and peoples from all over the world. But a great impression was produced by the wealth of Christian churches and the holy things preserved in them. Constantinople, “the city of the imperial Caesar,” the Byzantine Empire, strove in everything to be worthy of the Mother of God, to Whom the city was dedicated by Saint Constantine the Great (May 21) in 330 (see May 11). The Russian princess attended services in the finest churches of Constantinople: at Hagia Sophia, at Blachernae, and others.

In her heart the wise Olga found the desire for holy Orthodoxy, and she made the decision to become a Christian. The sacrament of Baptism was made over her by the Constantinople Patriarch Theophylactus (933-956), and her godfather was the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitos (912-959). At Baptism she was given the name Helen in honor of the holy Equal of the Apostles Helen (May 21), the mother of Saint Constantine, and she also had been the discoverer of the Venerable Wood of the Cross of the Lord. In an edifying word spoken at the conclusion of the rite, the Patriarch said: “Blessed are you among Russian women, for you have forsaken the darkness and have loved the Light. The Russian people shall bless you in all the future generations, from your grandson and great-grandson to your furthermost descendants.” He instructed her in the truths of the Faith, the churchly rules and the rule of prayer, he explained the commands about fasting, chastity and charity. “She, however,” says the Monk Nestor, “bowed her head and stood, literally like a sponge absorbing water, listening to the teaching, and bowing down to the Patriarch, she said, “By your prayers, O Master, let me be preserved from the wiles of enemies”.

It is in precisely this way, with a slightly bowed head, that Saint Olga is depicted on one of the frescoes of the Kiev Sophia cathedral, and likewise on a Byzantine miniature contemporary to her, in a manuscript portrait of the Chronicles of John Scilitius in the Madrid National Library. The Greek inscription, accompanying the miniature, terms Olga “Archontissa (i.e. ruler) of Rus,” “a woman, Helga by name, who came to the emperor Constantine and was baptized”. The princess is depicted in special head attire, “as a newly-baptized Christian and venerable deaconess of the Russian Church.” Beside her in the same attire of the newly-baptized -- is Malusha (+ 1001), the future mother of the Equal of the Apostles Saint Vladimir (July 15).

For one who had originally so disliked the Russians as did the emperor Constantine Porphyrigenitos, it was no trivial matter for him to become the godfather to the “Archontissa of Rus”. In the Russian chronicles are preserved narratives about this, how resolutely and on an equal footing Olga conversed with the emperor, amazing the Greeks by her spiritual depth and wisdom of governance, and displaying that the Russian nation was quite capable of accepting and assimilating the highest attainments of the Greek religious genius, the finest fruition of Byzantine spirituality and culture. And thus by a peaceful path Saint Olga succeeded in “taking Constantinople”, something which no other military leader before her had ever been able to do. According to the witness of the chronicles, the emperor himself had to admit, that Olga “had given him the slip” (had outwitted him), and the popular mind, jumbling together into one the traditions about Oleg the Wise and Olga the Wise, sealed in its memory this spiritual victory in the bylina or folk-legend entitled “Concerning the Taking of Constantinople by Princess Olga”.

In his work “About the Ceremonies of the Byzantine Court,” which has survived to the present day in just one copy, Constantine Porphyrigenitos has left us a detailed description of the ceremony surrounding the stay of Saint Olga at Constantinople. He describes a triumphant reception in the famed Magnaura palace, beneath the singing of bronze birds and the roars of copper lions, where Olga appeared with an impressive retinue of 108 men (not counting the men of Svyatoslav’s company). And there took place negotiations in the narrower confines of the chambers of the empress, and then a state dinner in the hall of Justinian. And here during the course of events, there providentially met together at one table the four “majestic ladies”: the grandmother and the mother of holy Equal of the Apostles Saint Vladimir (Saint Olga and her companion Malusha), and the grandmother and the mother of Saint Vladimir’s future spouse Anna (the empress Helen and her daughter-in-law Theophano). Slightly more than half a century would pass, and at the Desyatin church of the Most Holy Theotokos at Kiev would stand aside each other the marble tombs of Saint Olga, Saint Vladimir and “Blessed Anna”.

During the time of one of these receptions, as Constantine Porphyrogenitos relates, the Russian princess was presented a golden plate inset with jewels. Saint Olga offered it to the vestry of the Sophia cathedral, where at the beginning of the thirteenth century it was seen and described by the Russian diplomat Dobrynya Yadeikovich (who afterwards was to become the Novgorod archbishop Anthony): “The large golden official plate of Olga of Russia, when she took it as tribute, having come to Constantinople; upon the plate be precious stones, and upon it is written in these stones the name Christ”.

Moreover, the wily emperor, after reporting such details as would underscore how “Olga had given him the slip”, also presents a difficult riddle for historians of the Russian Church. This is it: Saint Nestor the Chronicler relates in the “Tale of Bygone Years” that the Baptism of Olga took place in the Biblical year 6463 (955 or 954), and this corresponds to the account of the Byzantine chronicles of Kedrinos. Another Russian Church writer of the eleventh century, Yakov Mnikh, in his work “Eulogy and Laudation to Vladimir... and how Vladimir’s Grandmother Olga was Baptized”, speaks about the death of the holy princess (+ 969) and he notes that she lived as a Christian for fifteen years, and he places the actual date of Baptism as the year 954, which corresponds within several months to the date indicated by Nestor. In contrast to this, describing for us the stay of Olga at Constantinople and providing the precise dates of the receptions given in her honor, Constantine Porphyrogenitos has us to understand in no uncertain terms that all this occurred in the year 957.

To reconcile the cited chronicles, on the one hand, with the testimony of Constantine on the other hand, Russian Church historians are led to suppose one of two things: either Saint Olga made a second journey to Constantinople in the year 957 to continue negotiations with the emperor, or she was not baptized at Constantinople, having previously been baptized at Kiev in 954, and that she was merely making a pilgrimage to Byzantium, since she was already a Christian. The first supposition is the more credible.

As for the immediate diplomatic outcome of the negotiations, there were basic matters for Saint Olga that had been left unsettled. She had gained success on questions concerning Russian trade within the territories of the Byzantine Empire, and also the reconfirmation of the peace accord with Byzantium, concluded by Igor in the year 944. But she had not been able to sway the emperor on two issues of importance to Rus: the dynastic marriage of Svyatoslav with a Byzantine princess, and the conditions for restoring an Orthodox metropolitan to Kiev as had existed at the time of Askold. The evidently inadequate outcome of her mission is detected in her answer, when she had already returned home, which was given to emissaries sent out by the emperor. To the emperor’s inquiry about promised military aid, Saint Olga curtly replied through the emissaries: “If you had spent time with me at Pochaina, as I did at the Court, then I would send the soldiers to help you.”

Amidst all this, in spite of her failed attempts at establishing the Church hierarchy within Rus, Saint Olga, after becoming a Christian, zealously devoted herself to efforts of Christian evangelization among the pagans, and also church construction: “demanding the distressing of demons and the beginning of life for Christ Jesus”. She built churches: of Saint Nicholas and the church of the Holy Wisdom at Kiev, of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos at Vytebsk, and of the Holy Life-Creating Trinity at Pskov. Pskov from that period has been called in the chronicles the Domicile of the Holy Trinity. The church, built by Olga at the River Velika at a spot pointed out to her from on high, according to the chronicler, by a “light-beam of the Thrice-Radiant Divinity”, stood for more than one and an half centuries. In the year 1137 holy Prince Vsevolod-Gabriel (February 11) replaced this wooden temple with one made of stone, which in turn in 1363 was rebuilt and replaced finally with the presently existing Trinity cathedral.

Another very important monument of Russian “Monument Theology”, as Church architecture frequently is termed, connected with the name of Saint Olga, is the temple of the Wisdom of God at Kiev, which was started soon after her return from Constantinople, and consecrated on May 11, 960. This day was afterwards observed in the Russian Church as a special Church feastday.

In the Mesyatseslov (calendar supplement)of a parchment Epistle-book from 1307, under May 11 is written: “On this day the consecration of Saint Sophia took place at Kiev in the year 6460.” The date is indicated in the so-called “Antiochian” rather than generally-accepted Constantinople chronology, and it corresponds to the year 960 from the Birth of Christ.

It was no mere coincidence that Saint Olga received in Baptism the name of Saint Helen, who found the Venerable Wood of the Cross at Jerusalem (March 6). The foremost sacred item in the newly built Kiev Sophia temple was a piece of the Holy Cross, brought by this new Helen from Constantinople, and received by her in blessing from the Constantinople Patriarch. The Cross, by tradition, was hewn out from an entire piece of the Life-Creating Wood of the Lord. Upon the Cross-Wood was inscribed: “The Holy Cross for the Regeneration of the Russian Land, Received by Noble Princess Olga.”

Saint Olga did much to memorialize the first Russian confessors of the Name of Christ: over the grave of Askold the Saint Nicholas church was built, where according to certain accounts, she herself was afterwards interred. Over the grave of Dir was built the afore-mentioned Sophia cathedral, which stood for half a century and burned in the year 1017. On this spot Yaroslav the Wise later on built a church of Saint Irene in 1050, but the sacred items of Olga’s Sophia temple were transferred into a stone church of the same name now standing as the Kiev Sophia, started in 1017 and consecrated about the year 1030. In the Prologue of the thirteenth century, it says about the Olga Cross: “for It is now at Kiev in Saint Sophia in the altar on the right side.” The plundering of Kiev’s holy things, which after the Mongols was continued by the Lithuanians who captured the city in 1341, did not spare even this. Under Jagiello in the period of the Liublin Unia, which in 1384 united Poland and Lithuania into one state, the Olga Cross was snatched from the Sophia cathedral and carried off by the Catholics to Lublin. Its further fate is unknown.

But even in Olga’s time there were at Kiev among the nobles and retainers no few people who, in the words of Solomon, “hated Wisdom”, and also Saint Olga, for having built Wisdom’s temple. Zealots of the old paganism became all the more emboldened, viewing with hope the coming of age of Svyatoslav, who decidedly spurned the urgings of his mother to accept Christianity, and even becoming angry with her over this. It was necessary to hurry with the intended matter of the Baptism of Rus. The deceit of Byzantium, at the time not wanting to promote Christianity in Rus, played into the hands of the pagans. In search of a solution, Saint Olga looked to the west. No contradiction here yet existed. Saint Olga (+ 969) belonged still to the undivided Church (i.e. before the Great Schism of 1054), and she had scant possibility to study the theological points involved between the Greek and Latin Creeds. The opposition of West and East presented itself to her first of all as a political rivalry, of secondary importance in comparison with her task, the establishment of the Russian Church and the Christian enlightenment of Rus.

Under the year 959, the German chronicler named “the Continuant of Reginon,” records: “to the king came emissaries of Helen, queen of the Russes, who was baptized in Constantinople, and who sought for their nation to have bishop and priests” King Otto, the future founder of the German Empire, willingly acceded to Olga’s request, but he urged that the matter not be decided in haste. It was only on Nativity of the following year 960, that there was established a Russian bishop Libutius, from the monastery brethren of Anatolius Alban am Mainz. But he soon died (March 15, 961). In his place was ordained Adalbert of Trier, whom Otto “generously furnishing all needs” finally sent to Russia. It is difficult to say what would have happened, had the king not delayed for so long a while, but when in 962 when Adalbert showed up at Kiev, he “did not succeed in the matter for which he had been sent, and did consider his efforts to be in vain.” Furthermore, on the return journey “certain of his companions were murdered, and the bishop himself did not escape mortal danger.”

It turned out that after the passage of years, as Olga indeed had foreseen, matters at Kiev had twisted ultimately in favor of paganism, and Rus having become neither Orthodox nor Catholic, had second thoughts about accepting Christianity. The pagan reaction thus produced was so strong, that not only did the German missionaries suffer, but also some of the Kiev Christians who had been baptized with Olga at Constantinople. By order of Svyatoslav, Saint Olga’s nephew Gleb was killed and some of the churches built by her were destroyed. It seems reasonable, that this transpired not without Byzantium’s secret diplomacy: given the possibility of a strengthened Rus in alliance with Otto, the Greeks would have preferred to support the pagans, with the consequent intrigues against Olga and various disorders.

The collapse of the mission of Adalbert had providential significance for the future Russian Orthodox Church, escaping papal dominion. Saint Olga was obliged to accede to the humiliation and to withdraw fully into matters of personal piety, handing over the reigns of governance to her pagan-son Svyatoslav. Because of her former role, all the difficult matters were referred over to her in her wisdom of governance. When Svyatoslav absented himself from Kiev on military campaigns and wars, the governance of the realm was again entrusted to his mother. But the question about the Baptism of Rus was for a while taken off the agenda, and this was ultimately bitter for Saint Olga, who regarded the good news of the Gospel of Christ as the chief matter in her life.

She meekly endured the sorrow and grief, attempting to help her son in civil and military affairs, and to guide matters with heroic intent. The victories of the Russian army were a consolation for her, particularly the destruction of an old enemy of the Russian state—the Khazar kaganate. Twice, in the years 965 and 969, the armies of Svyatoslav went through the lands of “the foolish Khazars,” forever shattering the might of the Jewish rulers of Priazovia and lower Povolzhia. A subsequent powerful blow was struck at the Mahometan Volga Bulgars, and then in turn came the Danube Bulgars. Eighteen years were spent on the Danube with the Kiev military forces. Olga was alone and in worry: it was as though, absorbed by military matters in the Balkans, Svyatoslav had forgotten about Kiev.

In the Spring of 969 the Pechenegs besieged Kiev: “and it was impossible to lead out the horses to water, for the Pechenegs stood at the Lybeda.” The Russian army was far away, at the Danube. Having sent off messengers to her son, Saint Olga herself headed the defense of the capital. When he received the news, Svyatoslav rode quickly to Kiev, and “he hugged his mother and his children and was distressed, with what had happened with them from the Pechenegs.” But after routing the nomads, the warrior prince began anew to say to his mother: “It does not please me to sit at Kiev, for I wish to live at Pereslavl’ on the Dunaj (Danube) since that is the center of my lands.”

Svyatoslav dreamed of creating a vast Russian holding from the Danube to the Volga, which would unite all Rus, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Near Black Sea region and Priazovia (Azov region), and extend his borders to those of Constantinople itself. Olga the Wise understood however, that all the bravery and daring of the Russian companies could not compare against the ancient Byzantine Empire, and that the venture of Svyatoslav would fail. But the son would not heed the admonitions of his mother. Saint Olga thereupon said, “You see that I am ill. Why do you want to forsake me? After you bury me, then go wherever you wish.”

Her days were numbered, and her burdens and sorrows sapped her strength. On July 11, 969 Saint Olga died: “and with great lament they mourned her, her son and grandsons and all the people.” In her final years, amidst the triumph of paganism, she had to have a priest by her secretly, so she would not evoke new outbursts of pagan fanaticism. But before death, having found anew her former firmness and resolve, she forbade them to make over her the pagan celebration of the dead, and she gave final instructions to bury her openly in accord with Orthodox ritual. Presbyter Gregory, who was with her at Constantinople in 957, fulfilled her request.

Saint Olga lived, died, and was buried as a Christian. “And thus having lived and well having glorified God in Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, having worshipped in the blessed faith, she ended her life in the peace of Christ Jesus, our Lord.” As her prophetic testament to succeeding generations, with deep Christian humility she confessed her faith concerning her nation: “God’s will be done! If it pleases God to have mercy upon my native Russian Land, then they shall turn their hearts to God, just as I have received this gift.”

God glorified the holy toiler of Orthodoxy, the “initiator of faith” in the Russian Land, by means of miracles and incorrupt relics. Yakov Mnikh (+ 1072), a hundred years after her death, wrote in his work “Memory and Laudation to Vladimir”: “God has glorified the body of His servant Olga, and her venerable body remains incorrupt to this day.”

Saint Olga glorified God with good deeds in all things, and God glorified her. Under holy Prince Vladimir, ascribed by some as occurring in the year 1007, the relics of Saint Olga were transferred into the Desyatin church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and placed within a special sarcophagus, such as was customary to enclose the relics of saints in the Orthodox East. “And hear ye concerning a certain miracle about her: the grave of stone is small in the church of the Holy Mother of God, this church built by the blessed Prince Vladimir, and in the grave is the blessed Olga. And an opening was made in the tomb to behold Olga’s body lying there whole.” But not everyone was given to see this miracle of the incorrupt relics of the saint: “For whoever came with faith, the aperture opened up, and there the venerable body could be seen lying intact, and one would marvel at such a miracle -- the body lying there for so many years without decay. Worthy of all praise is this venerable body: resting in the grave whole, as though sleeping. But for those who did not approach in faith, the grave aperture would not open up, and they would not see this venerable body, but only the grave.”

Thus even after death Saint Olga espoused life eternal and resurrection, filling believers with joy and confounding non-believers. She was, in the words of Saint Nestor the Chronicler, “a precursor in the Christian land, like the dawn before sunrise or the twilight before the light.”

The holy Equal of the Apostles Great Prince Vladimir, himself giving thanks to God on the day of the Baptism of Rus, witnessed before his countrymen concerning Saint Olga with the remarkable words: “The sons of Rus bless you, and also the generations of your descendants.”

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36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner." 40 And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." So he said, "Teacher, say it."41There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.42And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?43 Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have rightly judged." 44 Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.45 You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. 46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. 47 Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.48 Then He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." 49And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" 50 Then He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

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1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3 We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. 4 But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; 6 by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, 7 by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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Snowden's future up in the air after retracted tweet Story highlights Venezuela’s foreign minister says Snowden hasn’t accepted asylum WikiLeaks also says Snowden hasn’t agreed to go to Venezuela — yet Reports circulated Tuesday that Snowden had accepted the offer A Russian lawmaker who announced it says he got the news from the media (CNN) —   U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is grounded in Moscow’s airport, but his future is up in the air. A tweet by a Russian lawmaker Tuesday announced that Snowden had accepted Venezuela’s offer of asylum, giving the impression that the American had evaded U.S. authorities again. But the lawmaker who sent the tweet, Russian parliamentary spokesman Alexei Pushkov, deleted the message and followed up by saying he got the news from a media report. WikiLeaks, which has been assisting Snowden in his asylum bid, denied that report in a Twitter post and said that Snowden hasn’t formally accepted asylum in Venezuela – yet. “The Russian lawmaker concerned has deleted the tweet,” the organization said. “The states concerned will make the announcement if and when the appropriate time comes. The announcement will then be confirmed by us.” Interactive: Snowden’s options Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Tuesday that Snowden still hadn’t accepted his country’s asylum offer, CNN affiliate Globovision reported. And if he does, Jaua said, “we have to wait and see the security conditions in which Snowden can exercise territorial asylum.” If Snowden accepts the Venezuelan offer, it resolves one issue in the Snowden saga, but sets the stage for the next chapter: How will he get from Moscow to Caracas? Venezuela extended an offer of asylum to Snowden last week, and on Monday President Nicolas Maduro received a formal asylum request from Snowden. The Venezuelan government had been waiting to hear back from Snowden on the president’s offer to finalize the deal. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who faces espionage charges in the United States, is slammed as a traitor by critics and hailed as a hero by his supporters. He remains in limbo more than two weeks after arriving at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport from Hong Kong. Venezuelan option? Several nations have rejected Snowden’s appeals for asylum, but a trio of left-leaning Latin American nations, to varying degrees, have said they’d welcome Snowden. Bolivia has offered asylum and Nicaragua has said it would consider it. Speculation centers on Venezuela, which was the first to offer asylum. With both sides having expressed interest, it appeared to be a matter of time before it is confirmed. But finding a way for Snowden to travel from Russia to Venezuela may require some creative maneuvering. Already, several European countries denied airspace to the Bolivian president’s plane, allegedly because of rumors that Snowden was aboard. The presidential plane made an unscheduled stop in Vienna, which became a sore spot for Bolivian President Evo Morales and sparked outrage throughout Latin America. On Tuesday, members of the Organization of American States passed a resolution condemning the incident, calling for France, Italy, Portugal, Spain to formally apologize. The United States and Canada dissented. Snowden would be wise to take a chartered jet on a route that goes over water the entire time, former CIA analyst Allen Thompson told Foreign Policy. “Leave Moscow,” he told the Foreign Policy. “Fly north to the Barents Sea, thence over to and through the Denmark Strait. Continue south, steering clear of Newfoundland until getting to the east of the Windward Islands. Fly through some convenient gap between islands and continue on to Caracas.” Kirk Koenig, president of Expert Aviation Consulting, told CNN that such a route would probably work, as it avoids the airspace of any U.S.-friendly countries who may try to ground the plane. “That would probably be his only choice,” he said. Such a flight would not come cheap – about $200,000 – Koenig said. “Where it gets more interesting is if they try to put him on an Aeroflot Russian Airlines flight nonstop to Havana, Cuba,” he said. “The smart move would be to put him there as a passenger and hope nobody notices.” Would other countries make a commercial passenger jet land if they believe Snowden is on board? Given what happened to the Bolivian president, it’s possible, Koenig said. Warnings from U.S. lawmakers American politicians from both parties warned nations to consider what’s at stake should they grant Snowden asylum. “It’s very clear that any of these countries that accept Snowden and offer him political asylum is taking a step against the United States. It’s making a very clear statement. I’m not surprised by the countries that are offering him asylum; they like sticking it to the United States,” Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested serious trade and policy implications await countries that accept Snowden. CNN’s Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report. Source link Orbem News #Air #Future #retracted #Snowdens #Tweet

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okay so i'm reading one of your wolfstar fics (bless you and bless my lucky stars for finding your fic) and i just REALLY need to know who your dreamcast for the marauders would be. ben barnes, for me, is sirius. as for the rest, i still don't know.

hi anon!!! this is such an amazing question and maybe a difficult one to answer in a way that isn’t totally weird because this entire generation is such a nebulous amalgamation of things for me rather than specific people that i worry i’m gonna give you a very indistinct picture. it’s one of those times i wish i could let other people in my head through a pinhole crack or something because i know exactly what they look and feel like in my own brain, even if each permutation is different, i SWEAR it makes sense, but explaining it is probably going to look strange and incoherent, which is maybe not far off from anything else i do, so.

i’ve seen a handful of people say luke pasqualino works for sirius, which i like; sometimes i can see it for him and sometimes i can’t… but i love this in particular, it is v much The Vibe for me, definitely as much as any individual person i’ve ever seen. also look @ pavement-era stephen malkmus (the one in the front of both). for me it’s more in the vein of attitude/aura/look rather than exact likeness, like, sexy but uncertain/weird about it (weird about everything tbh), irreverent, magnetic. slanted and enchanted is in my top five sirius albums, just literally everything about it from start to finish–i always think of him when i listen to it. post- and even pre-azkaban, during the first war, i see him with a very season in hell vibe (he’d have loved rimbaud), or like, the breathless hallucinatory quality of an ashbery poem or basically anything vonnegut (“everything about life is a joke. don’t you know that?”). the weirdo pseudo-ritualistic sexiness of laughing stock is v sirius to me; also kinda george emerson, maybe slightly, in terms of having enormous and holy and overwhelming feelings he maybe does not examine very closely–he just lets himself feel.

remus is someone i 300% cannot see as a super conventionally attractive guy, or even one who knows how to live in his own body sometimes (i also see sirius that way to a very slight extent at times during the first war, but more so post-azkaban); like there’s this disconnect between his mind and his body and how he inhabits both that makes him dearly interesting to write. SO, not to be a bitch but remus is not andrew garfield or luke newberry and i’ll never ever buy it even a little lol!!! i love this ryan mcginley photo that gen reblogged a while ago, which is as screamingly close to remus for me as anything i’ve ever seen or likely ever will. often i see him with a dash of 70s tom verlaine too (def more in the vibe/look than exact likeness), including television’s music, and also as some kind of physical embodiment of this ymg song; think of a man kind of cobbled together by the years like a sort of patchwork thrift-store connoisseur (maybe not those pants w/ that jacket but you get me).

also! not in terms of appearance at all but both sirius and remus fit the general vibe of these gifs ft. elias ronnenfelt (the one on the right) lol

i feel kind of weird about doing this because it’s so eye-rollingly predictable of me but james is moses archuleta. like, he is james potter to me, he is as close to the image of james i have in my head as a single living person can probably ever get. strangely though i can’t think of a dh song that screams JAMES POTTER? they’re more sirius and remus and sirius-and-remus to me… he looks like he’s probably into king crimson and stayed up all night reading the electric kool-aid acid test in fifth year. thinks he’s lennon; is definitely more mccartney. every time i look at ezra koenig’s twitter i think of james.

peter is admittedly the one i’ve thought about the least, which is unfair maybe but predictable… not to keep yelling about pavement, but mark ibold sorta fits, as does thomas turgoose, though i don’t think they’re perfect (ibold comes closer for me, but again, not any one person etc). looks like the kind of guy who loved but wildly misinterpreted taxi driver.

AND, because i can’t leave out lily:  think viv albertine (complete with this, probably has slits lyrics tattooed somewhere on her body) or christina billotte.

i’m sorry for how long this got–i probably ought to make specific tags for this, haha. THANK YOU for asking me; i’d love to hear from you, anyone, everyone–tell me about your vision of these guys!! if there’s anything i’m about, it’s obsessing over this weird doomed fictional friend group

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i dont remember much from that weekend but i do remember being in the car driving home with elias and putting on contra and run playing and just being like Wow this was my favorite song for so long and it really doesn’t make me feel quite the same way as it used to but also realizing how weird and trippy it is it was just such a weird time like i grew into them but out of them at the same time. anyway i would still marry ezra koenig if he asked me

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Once-Famous Stars Who Completely Disappeared

Once-Famous Stars Who Completely Disappeared

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Coco Celebrity Release Date New Hollywood Celebrity Latest Story Celebrities by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when Lucas began production of the film Star Wars. It is also the original founder company of the animation studio Pixar.

What Hollywood Celebrity has both parents alive?

Mulan, Sleeping beauty, Lady and the Tramp, The Incredibles,One Hundred and One Dalmatians,Peter Pan, Brave, The Lion King 2 and Frozen, but their parents die.

What is Mulan’s last name?

Although Mulan is set in north China, where the dominant language is Mandarin, the Hollywood film uses the Cantonese pronunciation, “Fa”, of her family name. In Mandarin her name is pronounced “Hua”.

Who is the president of Hollywoodland?

With Meg’s transition complete, George A. Kalogridis is named president of the Walt Hollywood World Resort, and Michael Colglazier is named president of the Hollywoodland Resort.

It’s hard to imagine a celebrity disappearing without a trace, but it happens. Which stars have vanished? How were they found? We’ve got the unsettling details on these stories of famous people who mysteriously disappeared.

In May 2012, TMZ confirmed that actor Nick Stahl had gone missing amid rumors that he’d been seen hanging around Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Shortly after word got out that the troubled actor’s whereabouts were unknown, Stahl made contact with his friends, claiming he was planning to go to rehab. TMZ confirmed that he did turn up at a rehabilitation center.

But sadly, Stahl went missing again that June after reportedly checking out of rehab against his doctors’ advice. Making matters more heartbreaking, his wife, Rose Stahl, told the tabloid she would not actively search for her husband again. She said,

“I’m backing off. He knows exactly where home is. It’s the loving thing to do for him, myself and our daughter.”

Nick eventually reappeared and reconciled with his family in July. Sources for TMZ claimed at the time that he had begun attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

But things took a turn for the worse in 2013. In June of that year, the Terminator 3 star was reportedly placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold for unknown reasons. That same month, he was arrested by police who found him and three other people allegedly using meth in a motel.

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Spring Gallery Guide: Brooklyn – The New York Times

Like so much else in Brooklyn these days, the art scene there seems to be in flux. Galleries that were familiar presences have closed; others have changed names and moved to Manhattan. Neighborhoods that previously served as linchpins now have fewer dedicated art spaces; rents are high, and other parts of the city promise greater foot traffic.

Yet in a way, transition has always been central to a geographically scattered scene that’s uneven in its offerings and anchored by a handful of larger nonprofits alongside a rotating cast of small spaces run as labors of love. Even commercial operations seem to work differently here: Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s outpost aims to build a relationship with the surrounding community (and its coming show “Free to Be,” featuring Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan, should be worth a visit). Part of the thrill of seeing art in Brooklyn is that you don’t quite know what you’re going to get.

This list is just a sample of what Brooklyn has to offer. It will take you from Bushwick down to Park Slope and focuses on exhibitions that are, quite loosely, about identity. These artists are exploring how cultural, national, social and other factors shape us, even as they take very different approaches. It’s a fitting theme for a borough that, despite becoming a brand, is still a haven for those looking to make a creative life in New York City.

1. The Chimney, ‘Sara Mejia Kriendler: Sangre y Sol’

Industrial art spaces aren’t as au courant as they used to be, but Brooklyn and Queens still have their fair share. The Chimney rightly embraces the roughness of its home by commissioning artists to create work for its brick walls and concrete floor. Sara Mejia Kriendler has even extended her solo show onto the ceiling, covering it with mounds of gold-tinted foil. Down below, broken terra-cotta hands are piled in a huge circle on the ground, like the remnants of an ancient society or mysterious ritual. Inspired by her Colombian roots, Ms. Kriendler uses simplicity and scale to turn the gallery into a space that feels simultaneously sacred and profane. Through May 5 at 200 Morgan Avenue, Bushwick; thechimneynyc.com.

2. Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, ‘baseball show’

The seven galleries in this building have had consistently strong programs. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is one of the smaller spaces but regularly swings for the fences, focusing on solo presentations for underrepresented artists and group exhibitions with unusual themes, like the current “baseball show.” Organized by Andrew Prayzner, the show brings together an array of astute work, including Elias Necol Melad’s clever paintings of baseball cards without their figures (and thus their value) and Christopher Gideon’s incriminating scans that show dipping tobacco tins in players’ pockets. The nine artists treat the sport not simply as a beloved pastime but as a cultural phenomenon worth examining. Through May 5 at 1329 Willoughby Avenue, No. 2A, Bushwick; 347-746-8041, tigerstrikesasteroid.com.

3. Recess, ‘Lex Brown: The Inside Room’ and ‘American Artist: blue are the feelings that live inside me’

The nonprofit Recess does something different than most other art spaces: It gives artists the gallery and roughly two months to realize their projects on-site. So the work happens before the public’s eyes, and it’s best to visit multiple times to follow the progress. Right now, Lex Brown is building a studio for the production of an experimental TV show that will disregard the typical conventions of the medium — scenes and story lines will be improvised, multiple people will play a single character — to focus on human interaction. Hanging in the front room are disquieting photographs by American Artist of books from the Blue Lives Matter movement — an extension of their recent, powerful show at Brooklyn gallery Koenig & Clinton. Through June 8 and May 11 at 46 Washington Avenue, Clinton Hill; 646-863-3765, recessart.org.

4. Open Source, ‘Ronny Quevedo: Field of play’

Located in a renovated carriage house near the Prospect Expressway, Open Source is something of an outlier in a neighborhood without many art galleries. That hasn’t stopped it from mounting ambitious exhibitions. Ronny Quevedo’s current solo show continues his investigation of games and their relationship to the migration of people. On the floor, he’s placed gold and silver tiles that turn the space into a kind of board. Some of them hold concrete sculptures of misshapen sports balls, while prints on the walls turn the shapes associated with various games into evocative abstractions. With the whole gallery as a “Field of play,” as the exhibition is titled, it falls to the viewer to invent the rules for navigating it. Through May 11 at 306 17th Street, Park Slope; open-source-gallery.org.

5. Theodore:Art, ‘Peter Krashes: Contact!’

Once upon a time, 56 Bogart was the place to see art in Bushwick; today it’s no longer the neighborhood’s artistic nerve center. The galleries that remain are a mix of newcomers and longtime holdouts, of which Theodore:Art, at almost a decade old, is one. Peter Krashes’s current exhibition is a poignant reflection of the changes being felt throughout Brooklyn. The artist is a longtime community organizer, and in his gouache-on-paper paintings he captures street festivals, encounters with the New York Police Department and celebrity sightings near Barclays Center. Krashes paints with smooth, confident strokes but leaves blank specks throughout, suggesting the gaps of memory that make even the best representations of reality imperfect. Through May 18 at 56 Bogart Street, Bushwick; 212-966-4324, theodoreart.com.

6. Art in General, ‘Chim↑Pom: Threat of Peace (Hiroshima!!!!!!)’ and ‘Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center’

This storied nonprofit is best known for presenting conceptual shows that contain an ambitious site-specific element. The current centerpiece is the Japanese artist collective Chim↑Pom’s affecting, tunnel-like installation made of paper cranes that people from around the world have sent to Hiroshima as a gesture of peace. The city keeps the cranes — millions of them — in a special warehouse, where the collective also filmed a new video. On view concurrently is a “non-visitor center” for “Don’t Follow the Wind,” an exhibition created inside the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone by Chim↑Pom, other artists and the curator Jason Waite (who organized both shows at Art in General). Visitors can glimpse the restricted area via a 360-degree video and contemplate the sobering past and present of our nuclear reality. Through July 13 at 145 Plymouth Street, Dumbo; artingeneral.org.

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Celebrity Sighting

Last week from an outsiders perspective it would look like, based on our excitement, we had ourselves two celebrity sightings in one day. In normal peoples lives, celebrity tends to be a term used to describe some Instagram famous model à la Kardashian. However, having the lives of urban planning and architecture interns changes the meaning of the word. We had the chance to sit down with two very inspirational, impressive, successful experts in their field. These people define what it means to put your work first, be successful, and strive to work for the people to make the world a better place. Our amazing boss, who’s more like a sister at this point lets be real, @Maya Tapiero where ya at, has so many amazing connections to people she is able to put us in touch with to meet to help determine and learn in what path life can take us, how we can direct it and why or where we should be focused in order to achieve what we want in this lifetime.

Go on #ImListening....

First we met Dana Gazi. At the age of 41, Dana has recently opened a private firm with a small handful of partners. Dana is possibly one of the busiest people in Jersualem, and we managed to track her down and get a quick run through of her journey from Kabbalah to the Gay Pride parade. We met in her office, an intimate and inspiring environment, beautifully decorated with style and work in mind. While Dana is currently in the process of getting her masters in Urban Planning, she received a bachelors in Jewish studies, specifically focused on Kabbalah (mysticism), then continued to study Social Work. When looking for a job, she turned to the municipality who said, “we need an urban planner, heres your job”. With no prior knowledge or background in the field, Dana was was completely thrown into the situation. Despite this she always put 200% of herself into her work. She worked as a Community Planner in Kiryat Yovel and Givat Ram for 5 years, always quick to learn on her feet. She described herself as someone who, while over the years has calmed a little, is always ready to fight her way to get her message across. She is the perfect Community Planner in that way, as she sees a need for the people and has the ability to give them a voice. Through her work there she found a need to focus on public participation. She saw that the only way to help the people was to hear the people and make them feel heard. She explained that the BEST outcome happens if you can hold many conflicting ideas and messages that you’ve heard from the people within your mind, and form them into something great. 

---Our faces when we try to get on her level and do just that---

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Her final project before moving to the private sector came from seeing an ignored need. The city had been planning to double the amount of residential buildings in the already over populated area. She and her now partner, (forget his name woops) came to the committee with concerns. They saw that this would ruin not only the environment but the quality of life in the area. The committee, in turn, essentially said “if you think its so bad, you find a way to do it.” The two had three months to come up with an entirely new plan. So, they hit the ground running. With that focus on public participation in mind, they spent a month and a half interviewing anyone and everyone. They then used all this information to not only come up with a new plan, but include documents and regulations that would need to be applied. In the end, 90% of their plan was used. After this success, Dana and her partner saw not only their own potential, but the potential of the people. They opened their firm which works with companies and governments alike to work with the people for the people...

Some of her firms most recent projects include organizing programming for Pride Month in Tel Aviv, tapping into her instinct for connecting with people and focusing on public participation to make it one of the most successful Pride Months the city has ever seen. Her team is also working on a new green and sustainable street on General Pierre Koenig street in the neighborhood of Baq’a in Jerusalem with benches, greenery, and pops of color to make it beautiful and fun! One of the issues she raised that’s close to her heart, is that many immigrants want to move to Jerusalem and in order to do that area needs to be rebuilt and in effect becomes much more densely populated. But, there are already so many housing projects and residential areas that need to be improved, that don’t get a steady supply of water or are in desperate need of a basic sanitation upgrade, that neglecting to help those people is wrong. She is continuously and tirelessly working this angle with hopes to have a better future for everyone.

After being blown away by our meeting with Dana, we were lucky to meet with an equally impressive Greek architect by the name of Elias Mesinass. A master of all trades, I think the simplest thing to say about him is that he studied architecture and sustainability in Israel and at the Yale University in Connecticut. While originally from Greece, Elias is constantly involved in different projects. The edited list he ran through included everything from working as a Urban/Community Planner for the German Colony in Jerusalem, to traveling back to Greece to help in synagogue restorations and architecture, programming and organizing Eco-week in Jerusalem, teaching in Holon and Sde Boker and, in collaboration with a landscape designer, helping to redesign the outdoor garden of the Nature Museum next to the municipality in the German Colony, where his official office is. While technically he is working part time for the municipality, it is truly a full time job. Its fascinating that he is willing to extend himself this much and take all this on because he is so devoted to doing what he does and making the world a better place through architecture and design.

Does putting mirrors on all the facades count as making the world a better place? .. it is very conducive to taking better pics... but people inside can definitely see every pose we strike... #awks

A crucial point he made is that design and architecture are so much more than the magazines. A lot of professionals will design in order to get their work into a pretty magazine. But truly caring about what the world and the people need is not about making it into a magazine. Whether your project is big or small, Architecture, Urban Planning, Sustainability and Design are all fields in which at the end of the day you feel accomplished having made even a small difference wherever you are, its not about fame or recognition at the core. He learned a lot of his theories from an Egyptian architect, Rass Al Hatri, that he met once in his youth on a class trip. He said at the time he didn’t understand the architects words and that they only made sense years and years later. To Elias’s understanding now what the architect said meant to go around and look at the communities, talk to the people, see the areas that need improvement, find out why, research how, and start there. This is one of the pieces of advice he left with us. 

While doing research for this internship, we came across something called the “Creative Class”. The creative class is a term that basically categorizes a group of professionals working in the field of the arts or design and separates them from another category of professionals working more in the realm of business, administration and health care. Richard Florida, the man who created this term and used it within his vernacular states that “along with problem solving their (Creative Class) work may entail problem finding”. This idea ties in very well with the concepts Rass All Hatri told Elias Messiness. This statement is at the very core of what is corrupting the professional world of architecture, urban planning, and design. If the main focus is to create new problems, who will focus on the ones that already exist? It is similar to what Rass and Dana both said. There are people, communities and areas in the world that need improvement, that are living below what is considered a healthy standard of living. So when professionals look to design for the sake of getting featured in that magazine its usually very possible that they will neglect to focus on the real issues at hand. Thankfully more and more often contemporary architects and planners see the importance of public participation. They enrage the communities to help themselves, and they do everything they can (ideally) to help those communities. They do this by considering the inhabitants and people using the spaces when they design and to do their research to learn from previous mistakes of others planners. Unfortunately, this practice was only been brought to the spotlight in the late 20th century. If any of you have ever read Jane Jacobs book of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, you will see that this wasn’t always the case. 

While telling us exactly what path to take, what to study and where to learn, is something neither one of these people could explicitly tell us, hearing how they ended up where they are and what drove them there was eye opening. As you can see, one of them was thrown into a new situation and made the best of it and is now a mover and shaker in her field. The other went down the path he was interested in but is constantly evolving and taking on new projects that stretch into a plethora of different disciplines that, contrary to popular belief, are all very important aspects of this field of work. This world is huge and if you make the right connections and are passionate about what you want to do then you will get there and whatever it is you end up with will be meaningful. The best advice we can give to you as well as ourselves is to learn as much as you can. Pay attention to every conversation, because everyone has something to teach you. Take in every sight, ask every question and meet everyone you can. The most influential and successful people are the ones that are able to find their passions in seamlessly tying together many different disciplines in harmony. 

Someone call TMZ because suffice to say, this was probably some of the most meaningful and interesting celebrity sightings to date.

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Les Expo Photo Aves,

C’est un Festival Photos Nature qui rayonne au delà du Benelux …

La qualité et le nombre croissant des expositions font de ce festival photo le plus grand du Benelux!

Ce grand week-end de la photo nature est l’occasion pour les visiteurs namurois, belges mais également de toute l’Europe de venir admirer les plus belles photos de nature du moment, des oeuvres venant des quatre coins du monde d’une qualité exceptionnelle.

Chaque année, nous mettons un point d’honneur à présenter aux visiteurs des photographes de renommée internationale tels que Vincent Munier (France), Jim Brandenburg (USA), Sergeï Gorchkov (Russie), Klaus Nigge (Allemagne), Sandra Bartocha (Allemagne), Markus Varesvuo (Finlande)…

Sont également présents de nombreux photographes français très connus comme Fabrice Cahez, Laurent Geslin, Remy Marion, Stéphane Hette, Louis-Marie Préau, Sébastien de Danieli, Geoffrey Gracel… et bien sûr nos artistes belges comme Franck Renard, Philippe Moes, Jonathan Lhoir, André Buzin, Jean-Marie Winants… ainsi que des artistes talentueux, mais moins connus, à qui nous avons le plaisir d’offrir l’occasion de montrer leur travail au côté des plus grands: par exemple jeune Michel d’Oultremont, récemment primé lors du prestigieux concours photo anglais du Natural History Museum de Londres.

Les photos du désormais célèbre concours « Emotion’Ailes » organisé par Aves-Natagora sont exposées galerie du Beffroi. La remise des prix récompensant les meilleures photos a également lieu lors de ce week-end. Les photos primées lors du concours du GDT (concours allemand de renommée mondiale) sont également présentées. Il s’agit d’une quarantaine de magnifiques photos faites par les meilleurs photographes du moment.

Les clefs du succès!

Les expos photos sont présentées au cœur du Vieux Namur, dans les plus beaux bâtiments du patrimoine architectural et historique de la ville.

Un soin particulier est apporté à chacune d’entre elles afin d’optimiser la présentation des photos et le plaisir du visiteur: éclairage, espace, décoration… La subtile harmonie des plus belles photos nature et de l’éclairage, alliée au superbe patrimoine architectural et historique de Namur, confère aux Expos Photos Aves un caractère unique et exceptionnel!

Un accueil convivial et chaleureux des artistes et des visiteurs grâce à une collaboration sans faille entre les organisateurs et les nombreux bénévoles. C’est l’occasion des retrouvailles de la grande famille des photographes et artistes animaliers et du partage avec les visiteurs avec toute la convivialité de nos sites d’exposition. Des espaces rencontre offrent aux spectateurs et aux artistes de se retrouver et d’échanger leurs expériences dans une ambiance amicale, autour de l’une ou l’autre bière d’abbaye.

Chaque soirée du festival est conçue pour se détendre et se rencontrer dans un cadre chaleureux et festif.

Les 21, 22 et 23 septembre dans le vieux Namur… Pour cette nouvelle édition Un nouveau site vient s’ajouter aux lieux de caractère que nous avons déjà investis, l’Hôtel de Groesbeeck-de Croix – Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Un lieu incontournable, à ne surtout pas rater. Et bonne nouvelle cette année, nous occuperons à nouveau l’église Notre-Dame, laquelle était en travaux l’an dernier.

Nous avons l’immense plaisir de pouvoir à nouveau déployer nos expositions dans la superbe « Galerie du Cap Nord » du Service Public de Wallonie (SPW) ; ce site alliant espace (près de 2000 m²…) et luminosité nous permettra d’y installer une grande partie de nos expositions.

Vous pourrez retrouver également une exposition extérieur ET intérieur au Musée provincial des Arts Anciens, site ouvert pour la seconde fois dans le cadre des Expos Aves.

Les invités 2017 Antarctica Vincent Munier – Laurent Ballesta (FR) Le secret des mers Alex Mustard (UK) Eliott et les loups Fabien Brugman (FR) Moana, un océan de vie Vincent Truchet (FR) Robert Hainard (CH), Michel et Vincent Munier (FR) Fauna Garriga Jonathan Lhoir (B) Jardin à plumes Philippe Moës (B) La nature en soie Benoit Koenig (FR) Photographies de paysages oniriques Alexandre Deschaumes (FR) Au clair de l’Eau Noire Jean-Pierre Frippiat (B) Yellowstone National Park, la puissance sauvage Greg Odemer (FR) Art Océan Jean-Christophe Grignard (B) Herpétofolie en région Centre Sylvain Larzillière & Célie Péry (FR) Une aventure collembolesque Bruno Schultz (FR) Bulle d’obscurité Carole Reboul (FR) Poésie Mycologique Elias Debruyn (B) Mvua Eric Isselée (B) Sur les traces du Grand Fourmilion…François Remy (B) Sentinelle Guillaume François (FR) Phoques d’Opale Kevin Wimez (FR) Ombres et couleurs Laurent Fiol (FR) Gaïa Nicolas Orillard-Demaire (FR) Eléphants du Laos Philippe Coste (FR) Namur sauvage Thomas Meunier (B) Weird Creatures – créatures bizarres…. Martin Gérard (B) Noir et Roux près de chez nous Xavier Desclée & Daniel Steenhaut (B) Terre Massaï Vincent Gesser & Henry Brousmiche (B) Une vie de Migrants Nicolas Leboulanger (FR) La Nature dans tous ses états Patricia Franquinet (B) Attitudes Philippe & Claudine Thimister (B) He ao o te kaponga (A world of ferns) Nils Bouillard (B) La nature reprend ses droits Yves Meelbergs (B) Le grand Paradis Remi Pozzi (FR) La Grande Forêt de Saint Hubert (B) BVNF Natuurfotografie (BE) European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 GDT (D)

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Dates :  Du vendredi 22 au dimanche 24 septembre 2017 de 10h à 18h. Nocturne le jeudi 21 septembre de 18h à 22h à l’église Notre-Dame et au Musée des arts décoratifs. Lieu : Dans les églises et sites prestigieux du Vieux Namur (Église Notre Dame, Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais des Congrès, Galerie du Beffroi…).

Le Pass Expo donne accès à tous les sites d’exposition, au conférences, et à la remise des prix du Concours Emotion’Ailes, du 21 au 24 septembre. Les bracelets seront en vente durant toute la durée du Festival à la Galerie Cap Nord (SPW – Boulevard du Nord), au Musée provincial des arts anciens du namurois, au Palais des Congrès et au Parlement de Wallonie.

Tarifs Pass individuel : 10€ (8€ pour les membres de Natagora) Pass familial : 15€ (12€ pour les membres de Natagora)

Et aussi : un pavillon nature dédié au volontariat organisé par Natagora sur la place d’Armes. Accessible les samedi 23 et dimanche 24 septembre de 10h à 18h. Nombreuses animations tout public : stands, dégustations, jeux, démonstrations, films, départ de balades guidées etc.

Plus d’infos : www.exposaves.be

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