After nine months in jail, Israeli soldier Elor Azaria was released after having his sentence shortened on three occasions.
The killing of of Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in occupied West Bank was caught on video on March 24 2016. It shows Azaria walking up to and shooting al Sharif as he was lying wounded on the ground.
Sharif, alongside Ramzi Aziz al-Tamimi al-Qasrawi, had walked to an Israeli military post where they stabbed and wounded an Israeli solider. The soldiers from the post opened fire and instantly killed al-Qasrawi, while al-Sharif was seriously injured.
Azaria was originally sentenced to 18 months in prison, later reduced by the the army's chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, to 14 months. It is normal protocol for Israeli prisoners, especially soldiers, to have their sentences reduced by one-third for good behavior.
This week Azaria was released earlier then expected to attend his brother's wedding.
Azaria has never expressed remorse for his actions and maintains that he shot al-Sharif because he believed him to have a bomb under his clothing.
Israeli officials such as Minister of Education Naftali Bennet and Minister of Transportation and Intelligence Israel Katz have championed Azaria's release.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also called for Azaria to be pardoned.


So, where did I get up to?
Oh yes, I'd just arrived at King's College Hospital in London.
It was an interesting day to say the least. I was really not looking forward to going to King's. I know it's a good hospital but I think it was the fact that it was a massive hospital and was based in London. You hear all these stories of people being sent to a London hospital such as King's when they've got major injuries or conditions.
I remember the night before I went. I couldn't sleep. I knew the staff at my local hospital. I knew the environment. I knew how close to home I was if mum or Dad was needed.
I burst into tears and spoke to a nurse that night. I couldn't sleep. I was petrified. I did my research on the hospital and looked up the ward I was going to be on. Don't get me wrong, it looked okay but, again, it was a scary time.
Anyway, fast forward to being admitted. So I don't remember much about this time, but I'll try my best to remember what I can.
One of the first things that happened once I had settled, was that we discovered they had my name down wrong. Me and Dad noticed this when my nurse for that day came to see me and introduce herself. Looking back now, it is actually a bit amusing. Back then though, I wasn't that happy if I'm honest – but that's probably because of the stress and anxiety I was feeling from moving hospitals.
Anyway, my nurse wanted to confirm some of my details or something (this event is a bit of a blur to me apart from the next part..) One of these 'confirmations' was of my name. I think she asked something along the lines of "You're Katie-bell aren't you?". Yes you read that right. Katie-bell.
Anyway, after that incident was resolved, I remember seeing many doctors and specialists. There was a lot of introductions! It was mad!
I had my obs done, bloods taken (which is quite the challenge for me – cannula's have always been quite difficult to get into me) and was finally left alone for some time.
Now I can't remember whether it was on this day or one of the following days, but I do remember a crucial moment from this time. It was when I went down to X-Ray.
Now this. This is when I realised. When my dad realised. When the doctors, consultants, nurses etc realised. That there was something quite seriously wrong….


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BRIAN WALSBY/MELVINS T-SHIRTS ARE READY TO ORDER!
Up now at the Bifocal Media site. Two hundred of these. Available in small, medium, large and xtra large. Place your order today!
here again, is the link:
http://www.bifocalmedia.com/index.php
MANCHILD 5 PARTY AT KINGS IN RALEIGH JANUARY 8TH!
Yes, you have heard it first. There will be food, books and bands.
The bands will be THE KICK ASS and (you guessed it) DOUBLE NEGATIVE.
I will have more concrete details in a few days, but did I tell you all that I am a brand new father? Yes I am.
This here is Sean Willow Pierce Walsby. I just call her Willow. She is a week old and boy are we tired.
NEW BRIAN WALSBY/MELVINS T-SHIRT COMING SOON.
STOLEN FROM THE MELVINS FANSITE MESSAGE BOARD COURTESY OF CHARLES:
Not sure if anyone here gives a rat turd or not but everyones favorite rock art dude (Brian Walsby) is doing a series of limited (300 of each) band shirts. They're all legit and the bands all get a chunk of the booty. It may be of no surprise that the first one is for the Melvins. In true Walsby fashion, he's already posted the unfinished design on his blog for the Melvins shirt. It's a parody of Queen's "News of the World" album art and it's pretty bad ass. Make that 299 shirts up for grabs as I'll be grabbing one of them for myself. MANCHILD 5 comes out January 25. More soon.
Yes, this is true. the link will go up soon at the Bifocal Media site. First come, first serve. There will be some other t-shirts in the future too, and you can probably already guess what a few of them are..in the meantime, here is the link to Bifocal Media:
http://www.bifocalmedia.com/
BLACK FLAG CHANGED MY LIFE.
HERE IT IS, THAT PHOTO! TAKEN BY THE INFAMOUS GLEN E. FRIEDMAN.
Black Flag changed my life. And yours too, I bet
From the start of me hearing about punk rock, they seemed to be it. I bought Damaged at the start of 1982 and was so riveted by the first side that I didn't even get to the second side until a week later. The second side was even better. That record seemed to articulate everything I was feeling, and to some extent, it still does. It is a pretty timeless recording by a timeless band.
I grew up a couple of hours away from the epicenter of all of this raging stuff in Ventura County. A few months later that same year there was some sort of write up on Black Flag in the Los Angeles Times, the big paper across all five counties in Southern California. There was this picture of them that I couldn't get out of my mind. All five of the then existing members seemed like distinct and separate individuals, all unique characters thrown together to form a tight five fingered fist that continually smashed your face in with its presence. I didn't know much but I soon figured that theirs was a presence to be reckoned with and twenty five or whatever years later they still are. I reckon that no one has come close. Even to this day.
I admit I was duped momentarily about punk rock. I thought that there were rules. I didn't realize that getting the music was enough, or that enjoying this music that seemed to come from another planet was all you needed to participate. I didn't have a uniform and didn't see the point in having one. I wasn't tough; I was just a dork who didn't fit in. These five men seemed to celebrate not fitting in just by their existence and the strength of their music. They also shattered my illusions of punk rock: You didn't have to fit in, you didn't have to adhere to a uniform, you just had to "get it". Back then, getting it in itself was like going through a portal. Not a lot of people did and those who did go through seemed to be connected to each other somehow. It was all so small. But with time, all legends seem to grow and take on a separate life of their own.
That picture:
The first thing that seemed to stand out to me big time was Dez Cadena. Instead of some dude with a Mohawk or Sid Vicious haircut, here is this dude in a leather jacket that basically looks like Jesus: Long hair and a beard. Was this allowed? I guess it was. In fact, Greg Ginn and Chuck Biscuits also looked pretty..well, normal. Chuck Dukowski was bald. Henry Rollins was sort of off in a corner and looked like someone you didn't really want to mess with at all. It was just five guys but that pic spoke volumes to me.
At this time, the only thing that was ever recorded by the short lived Chuck Biscuits lineup (that was released mind you) was the live track on the first RAT MUSIC FOR RAT PEOPLE record called "Scream". I listened to that song over and over, its slow trudge like screaming two guitar squall paved the way for Henry to more or less howl like an animal in pain throughout. There didn't even seem to be a lyrical idea to get behind, it was just one long (well four minutes) tortured dirge that made most people cringe and you know what, I think it still would. The feeling of the song seemed to be universal: pent up feelings followed by cathartic release. What was there not to love?
Since then, I bought every single thing that this band released. I loved just about all of what was released..even towards the end. I loved the previous three singers, I thought they were all distinct and great. I loved Side Two of "My War" and think that you could almost write a book about the polarizing effect that record had when it came out. I loved the Bill Stevenson/Kira Roessler lineup of the band and the "Slip It In" record. Basically, I seemed to be able to continually "get it" when it came to Black Flag. And then they seemed to lose their grip a bit. So they broke up, and it was almost in time. After they broke up, the legend started and continued to grow and grow.
These days you have people from every walk of life professing their admiration of Black Flag and what these people did and how it continues to affect them. I don't know any of those people involved, and it was much to my naiveté to realize that after having the experience of being a part of this comet, most of the people involved have scattered far and wide. Put in this way, there is no twenty year high school reunion for those who had served. It hardly matters. In their day, Black Flag changed the world. They certainly changed mine.
And yours too, I bet.
THE RECENT FRUITS OF MY LABORS.
There will be an announcement very soon about pre-orders for MANCHILD 5: RABID PACK WITH SIRENS HOWLING. There will also be a pre release show happenening in early January. I will have more details for that soon as well.
In the meantime, here is some recent artwork done as sort of a launchpoint for another project that I will announce as soon as the details are ironed out. It'll be good, though.
the cover of MANCHILD number five.
NEW ARTWORK FOR SOON TO BE CLASSIC FLYER.
A RELEASE DATE...
Here is some actual real news straight from Charles Cardello on his Bifocal Media website:
Manchild 5
Hello Folks! First and foremost I'd like to let you know that Brian Walsby's MANCHILD 5 (book) will be out on Bifocal on January 25, 2011. This one documents the 1980s punk/ hardcore scene in Raleigh, NC. Along with tons of photos and Brian's infamous comic art; this one is also packed with interviews and stories about events that went down in Raleigh from 1982 up to around 1990. If you are/ were into bands like COC, Bad Brains, No Labels, Days of..., Honor Role, etc, then there's a story here for you. This is an amazing documentation of how the underground worked in the 1980s. Think bands, fans, punk houses, traveling, scene drama and DIY mentality at its pure, unadulterated peak. Remember life before the internet? Remember when you discovered punk rock? Remember when the only videos on MTV were from bands like Winger and the Bullet boys? If so, this book may be for you. If you don't, here's your opportunity to immerse yourself in another universe. This was our generation's version of a viable counterculture filled with timeless music and a tireless DIY ethic that lives to this day.
Lumberjack/ Mordam distribution went under in 2009. This cost us and a bunch of other great labels and artists a ton of time, money and grief. We were lucky enough to have been picked up by Redeye Distribution and they've done a wonderful job getting our goods to the people who want them. And the beat goes on...
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G-MART COMICS PODCAST IN CHICAGO!
When I was in Chicago I got a chance to run my mouth about myself in a very nice comic store and I think I rose to the occasion..here is the link:
http://www.g-martcomiccast.com/?p=53
a nice review of daydreamnation.....
heads will swell:
STILL SINGLE
September 13, 2010 Double Negative – Daydreamnation LP (Sorry State)
-/- is a Carolina hardcore supergroup, staffed by Raleigh scene vets from Erectus Monotone, Snakenation, Shiny Beast, Patty Duke Syndrome, Polvo, and a handful of others. While their earlier LP clung too hard to convention, and the follow-up single swung away at abstract aggression almost to a fault, they have hit the proverbial sweet spot some years into a career that's running exactly the way they want it to. Daydreamnation (they have a hard-on for name appropriation) rips so goddamned hard I can barely believe it, the band having grown into a sound that blends Flag, C.O.C., and all manners of loud, heavy music both inside and out of fast-paced punk into the smoothie of death, made of puke, lead paint, celery hearts and Pepto-Bismol. Mechanized wehrmacht, driven by Brian Walsby's double- and triple-time drumming shifts, runs amok all over this new batch of songs, miles away from their beginnings and even their roots, as guitarist Scott Williams smears twisted, reckless riffage all over the place, bassist Justin Gray locks down in between, and vocalist Kevin Collins busts a lung with seriously upset-sounding rage. For once, the confusion within a band such as this actually works to their favor, a blur of sound with so many screws and bolts sticking out of it that it can't help but leave an impression on you, maybe even in you as these thirteen songs detonate all over the place. Easily trumps the methodical HC-for-the-non-HC of Fucked Up as one of thee most important bands of its kind in action today, and since they rarely tour, you pretty much have to go to the mountain to see 'em. Double Neg will be kept a secret for as long as these guys wish to stay down, and it's your loss to ignore. Absolute fury in a beautifully embossed, metallic sleeve. First 286 copies on pink vinyl with numbered obi strip, long gone. Regular press is good enough for you.
(Doug Mosurock)
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DOUBLE NEGATIVE INTERVIEW OVER AT DOUBLE CROSS BLOG!
The freindly folks over at DOUBLE CROSS blogspot have printed the first part of a massive DOUBLE NEGATIVE interview. Here is the link if you want to check it out:
http://doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com/2010/09/double-negative.html
NEW INTERVIEW WITH ME OVER AT STRANGE REACTION.
Read me running my mouth as usual but with some nice different questions for a change.
http://strangereaction.com/2010/09/03/interview-with-brian-walsby/
THE DETECTIVE..AT LAST, IN COMIC FORM.
MELVINS "NEWS OF THE WORLD"
MANCHILD 2, 3 AND 4 NO LONGER BUYABLE FROM ME.
It seems sort of weird to say this but the last three of my books will no longer be buyable through me, as we are almost out of all three of them. You can still write to Bifocal Media and order them but time and supplies are running out.
I still have plenty of the first one, and if you haven't seen it, it is a pretty big book. I will be selling that until they are gone.
Look for the fifth book at the end of the year.
ONLY IN AMERICA.....
The world must be a right place when I can wake up in a hotel room across from New York City, draw cartoon posters of Adolph Hitler and then turn around and sell them at a rock show later that night. And even better is someone will post it on the internet less than twenty four hours later.
..profiting off Hitler. It is like a dream come true!
And if anyone who I have met on this most recent Melvins tour is reading this, I would like to thank each and every one of you for buying something of mine. I appreciate it a lot. No one has to give a shit, and people do so that is great. Thanks!
CUTE BAND ALERT: POLLUTION!
Pollution is a band from New York City that people should check out, as they successfully cross the boundaries and subcultures of loud music that could appeal to the hardcore kids, the metal kids and even the hipster ironic tight pants wearing kids without ever pandering to or even noticing them. The band just plows through their songs and doesn't acknowledge anyone's existence. That is a great stance for any band. There is something so bone simple in a way about how they have re-thought aggressive music, an ever slight tweak to the program but it really works well.
A brutal loud quartet, Pollution is the brainchild of former longtime Raleigh resident Sean Livingstone. Double Negative's Scott Williams and myself had played with Sean in one of our previous bands, Daddy. They were both the guitar players in that band and both wrote the riffs. You could almost see some of the roots in both Pollution and Double Negative stemming from Daddy when you look back on it, sort of tweaked and fucked up loud music that once in awhile was fast.
Sean eventually re-located to New York City where over a period of time he had tried to put something together, which I think was sort of tough. Eventually, he met each of his Pollution bandmates one by one by hanging out at shows. Sean is the only one in Pollution that isn't in another band. They are all super cool people that I would personally hang out with all of the time if they lived in Raleigh, and the band is pretty fucking great. They seemed to have a little bit of a buzz behind them when they recently played down here due to the tapes and album that have trickled out into the universe. For once, it is deserved. Go see this band and support them. Look for a new record coming soon and get in touch with them to find out what it is all about.
It is just a tweak, a slight tweak in the program that Pollution offers, but it is a tweak that will make you scratch your head and go "man..why didn't I think of that?"
You could have dude..but you didn't!
Here is a recent article about Pollution that some guy from the Village Voice wrote about the band awhile ago:
No, Pollution Are Not on Twitter
Gleefully foul Brooklyn metalheads revel in the toxic stew you ignore
By Adam Ganderson
Greenpoint is home to various unnatural disturbances: the Death Star sewage plant, the unpleasantly visible air, the underground oil spill. Most residents, too occupied with frantic Twittering, etc., are indifferent. But local rockers Pollution are four men aligned against the mass delusion of thousands, in revolt against the digital toys that keep the public entranced. They're also adherents to the belief that humans are past the point of return—that, in addition to a poisonous dispersion of refuse, technological advances are only distractions from the neurotic toxins breeding inside each of us. They are purveyors of a reality that destroys—as stated on their recent release, the oddly titled n.s.DRUGS—the "glamorous poisoning process." Through the sound of a world drowning in industrial poison, they set fire to hippie communes and embrace Brooklyn's filth viscerally—not just with instruments but, if need be, with strong drink and drugs.
Though they're now flourishing amid our beloved industrial decay, Pollution's roots actually stretch deep into Raleigh, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia. The former is the hometown of mastermind/lead guitarist Light (a/k/a Sean Livingston); in the '80s, Raleigh gave birth to both the pummeling distortion of Corrosion of Conformity and the more technically mutated rhythms of Confessor, bands that would come to play a role in both Pollution's drum sound and guitar work. Meanwhile, Richmond established itself as a vital incubator for hardcore. "I saw Confessor a lot and was always blown away by their song structures," says Light. "But it was Pen Rollings [guitarist for Richmond bands Honor Role, Butterglove, and Breadwinner] who was a big influence. That guy was the guitar giant from '86 to '89."
Rollings's innovative work is often cited as a touchstone of what would come to be called math-rock, a throwaway rock-critic term that, when used more accurately, is actually a clever way of describing a dissonant, off-kilter, ominously infected sound that Rollings dispenses in its purest form. Regardless, it's a sticky label that Livingston quickly puts aside: "I don't think the math-rock was an influence, but rather unconventional songwriting," he says, adding that such unconventional fare was, of course, not specific to the East Coast. "Later-era Black Flag are so fucking gross-sounding. I'm still trying to make something that sounds that gross and actually ties into Butterglove, who are the grossest-sounding band ever."
With Pollution, that unhinged fuse is lit by what Livingston describes as "a colossal amount of reference points coupled with very different approaches to playing." Raspy howls from vocalist/bassist Radioactive are grounded by drummer Invasive Species, who approaches his kit the way a hurricane approaches a coastal village. The rhythmic work of Atmospheric Dispersion strikes like a hammer drill in an abandoned building, whereas, on the floor above, Light focuses on feedback strains, often fitting them between notes, where they slowly emerge as electrical apparitions. "I love using feedback for a guitar 'lead' or even a main riff," he explains. "But I try to not overdo it. There is an entire slew of bands lately that are so saturated with feedback that it loses its impact completely."
Each member of Pollution contributes, in addition to pills and booze, his particular strain to the band's sonic poison. "Those guys kill it!" Light raves of his cohorts. "They've been writing a lot of the new riffs. But our greatest commonality is calling bullshit on the same exact crap out there."
For more information, contact Pollution at:
www.myspace.com/pollutionpollutionpollution
photo taken by Corey Kittrell
HEY...I GET IT.
I have recently had sort of an ephinany about being in a band right now and being allowed to still play music in this day and age. It sort of also ties in with like..life and stuff.
I am very lucky to be able to keep doing this thing that I should treasure at all times because you know it is a gift, or a privilege, and it won't be here forever, like anything else. I can remember looking back at the first year of this band I play in now and how I fought it, looking at it as this thing that was supposedly a pain in my ass but in reality was always this really good special thing to do. Especially with people that you have known and been friends with for over twenty years. That means something. You know, it isn't everyday that you can re-connect with a handful of people from that long ago in this manner. It has been over four years now that we have been a band, and nothing has seemed to stop it, not ourselves, not our everyday lives, not our problems, not our ages, nothing. So that is pretty cool. Doing a band now seems to mean something FAR MORE NOW then it did when we were children. Back then, life was easier. You thought that you had all of the time in the world, so no big deal. Well, it is different now. You don't have all of the time in the world, time is running out. I have found that being an adult with adult problems and concerns and responsibilities makes the outlet of having the outlet of playing fucked up crazy music seem more sacrosanct. It is way more of a release and makes me think that more oldsters should do it if they want to. Punk rock: originally designed for children, secretly made for adults. Who knew?
I will let you in on a little not so secret: I have more than occasionally had a love/hate relationship with the idea of being in a band and playing music. Being in so many bands over the years, it is easy to get that way. And as a lot of you know, being in a band is a lot like being in a relationship with three or four people at the same time, like being married to them or something. It can be tough at times. In this band, we finally learned how to yell at each other if need be and not make it a big deal. It took me YEARS to realize this. And then things were fine afterwards. It would have been nice to realize all of this earlier because it would have saved me a lot of unnecessary petty bullshit but that is okay…better late than never.
I am going to now talk very highly and somewhat lovingly about the concept of being in the band I am in now. This is not something I usually do, talking about how great something I am doing is, but here goes: A neat thing about this band is that in a way we are defying what is expected of anyone at our advanced ages; people at this point of the game just don't usually play in bands, much less a band like this. We are not re-living old glories with an old band of ours, we are doing something new. We are not re-inventing the wheel or are on some holy crusade or anything; we are just weirdos doing what feels good. And I think that we have sidestepped all of the things that people who play music are supposed to care about. We are all years past wondering or hoping if we will be popular or famous, years past thinking that we are going to spend a month in a van on tour in hopes of some kind of career, years past impressing all of the right people or being cool or caring about that. Just playing is enough. And to have people at your shows is even better, especially when they are into it. To have kids come to your shows that wear homemade t-shirts with your band's logo on it… I used to do that when I was a kid.
That is great. I can't think of a better endorsement than that. I remember meeting creepy older people in bands when I was a dorky kid and how much it meant to me to find out that you could go up and talk to them, that they were actually people instead of heroes and you knew that it was okay. To become one of those creepy older guys with instruments in their hands that play scary music, to help send some people on the same path that we were all sent on years and years ago is really cool. It is like getting the torch, passing the torch, and then having it handed back.
An old band mate of mine told me years ago that if you weren't going to be excited about what you were doing, than what is the point of creating it? took me awhile but I have actually relearned a few things just by being in this band, mainly, if it makes you happy, gives you purpose and it makes you feel good, than keep doing it. Don't let anyone tell you not to do it, don't talk yourself into thinking you shouldn't do it because of your age or how you look or if it is good enough, just fucking do it.
HONOR ROLE LIVE AT THE CATS CRADLE, 1989.
I have prattled on alot over the years about Honor Role, a band from Richmond Virginia that existed in the eighties, and I still think they made some of the most timeless and personal music I have ever heard. Here is a live song, "Observation" taken from thier last ever real show (the band reformed for a few shows in the nineties, but that has been it) ever at the old Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill. I am in this video funnily enough. Weird to think about how long ago this was! Enjoy.
KEVIN COLLINS IN YOUR FUCKING FACE.
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KIRBY Releases New Song 'Black Leaves'
It's theme song for ABC's "Women of the Movement."
Rising singer-songwriter KIRBY has released a new track titled "Black Leaves." The powerful tune also serves as the theme song for ABC's limited series Women of the Movement, which is based on the true story of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley.
"Black leaves on the Mississippi land / And we've got God and cotton / We've got sons and daughters / We've got grit and glory / We've got Mama's stories / We've got strength like towers / We've got hope and power," KIRBY sings on the soulful number.
KIRBY went to Instagram to share her gratitude for being able to contribute to Women of the Movement.
She wrote, "I'm not proud of the history of my state but as a black woman from Mississippi I am humbled & proud to sing of the courage, resilience and strength of Emmet Till's mother Mamie Till for @womenofthemovementabc Thank you Ty Ty, Tommy, Marissa and the entire WOTM team for making this possible."
In October 2021, KIRBY released her album, Sis. He Wasn't the One, which was the sequel to her 2020 project Sis. Ahead of her album release, she joined John Legend on his Bigger Love Tour.
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Sis. He Wasn't the One was among Rated R&B's 30 Best R&B Albums of 2021.
Women of the Movement airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.
Listen to KIRBY's new song "Black Leaves" below.
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KIRBY Releases New Album 'Sis. He Wasn't the One'
KIRBY warned of a new album with several singles released this year. The extraordinarily textured singer finally sounds the alarm...
KIRBY Releases New Song 'Can We Be Friends?'
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KIRBY has to have unlimited minutes. The rising singer is stuck in the house on her new song, dialing her...


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Katarzyna, imię świeckie Jewgienija Borisowna Jefimowska (ur. 28 sierpnia 1850 w Smoleńsku, zm. 15 października 1925 w monasterze Novo Hopovo na Fruškiej gorze) – rosyjska mniszka prawosławna, autorka koncepcji żeńskiego monasteru czynnego (ros. деятельный монастырь) w Rosyjskim Kościele Prawosławnym, twórczyni monasteru Narodzenia Matki Bożej w Leśnej.

Pochodziła z głęboko religijnej rodziny arystokratycznej. Uzyskała wykształcenie uniwersyteckie w zakresie języka i literatury rosyjskiej, pracowała jako nauczycielka w modelowej prawosławnej szkole Siergieja Raczinskiego. Pod wpływem idei słowianofilskich i własnych obserwacji życia na rosyjskiej wsi postanowiła zostać prawosławną mniszką, łącząc ascetyczne życie ze służbą ubogim poprzez działalność społeczną. Ta koncepcja zyskała poparcie arcybiskupa chełmsko-warszawskiego Leoncjusza, który zaproponował jej utworzenie czynnego monasteru w Leśnej Podlaskiej. W zamyśle Leoncjusza prowadzące działalność społeczną mniszki mogłyby przekonać miejscową ludność katolicką oraz byłych unitów do prawosławia i w konsekwencji sprzyjać postępom rusyfikacji w regionie.

Jewgienija Jefimowska złożyła wieczyste śluby mnisze w 1889, przyjmując imię zakonne Katarzyna, w tym samym roku otrzymała godność ihumeni. Kierowany przez nią monaster Narodzenia Matki Bożej w Leśnej stał się w ciągu kolejnych dwudziestu lat jednym z największych klasztorów żeńskich w Rosji, znaczącym centrum pielgrzymkowym, lokalnym ośrodkiem gospodarczym i oświatowym. Mniszki prowadziły seminarium nauczycielskie, szkoły rolnicze, szkołę gramoty, jak również szpital i ambulatorium. Ihumenia Katarzyna pozostawała przełożoną do 1908, następnie ze względów zdrowotnych formalnie przekazała kierowanie wspólnotą mniszce Ninie, faktycznie jednak współzarządzała wspólnotą do końca życia. W 1915 została ewakuowana razem z całym monasterem z Leśnej do Piotrogrodu, następnie emigrowała razem z grupą mniszek do Besarabii, a stamtąd do Królestwa SHS, na zaproszenie króla Aleksandra I sprzyjającego białej emigracji rosyjskiej. Przyczyniła się do odnowienia i restytucji monasteru Novo Hopovo na Fruškiej gorze, jak również do odnowy monastycyzmu żeńskiego w Serbskim Kościele Prawosławnym, gdzie starała się upowszechniać model czynnego życia zakonnego. Novo Hopovo było również jednym z ważniejszych ośrodków religijnych emigracji rosyjskiej.

Nieformalny kult Katarzyny jako świętej funkcjonuje w Rosyjskim Kościele Prawosławnym poza granicami Rosji; w 2010 kanonizował ją niekanoniczny Rosyjski Kościół Prawdziwie Prawosławny.

Autorka studiów teologicznych, z których najważniejsze poświęcone jest posłudze diakonis we wczesnym chrześcijaństwie. Bezskutecznie zabiegała o przywrócenie takiej posługi w Rosyjskim Kościele Prawosławnym. Na początku XX w. brała udział w zainicjowanej przez metropolitę petersburskiego Antoniego dyskusji o roli i stanie monastycyzmu rosyjskiego.

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Młodość
Była córką hrabiego Borisa Andriejewicza Jefimowskiego, marszałka szlachty w ujeździe gżackim guberni smoleńskiej, i jego żony, pochodzącej z rodu książąt Chiłkowów. Miała brata i młodszą siostrę. Wychowywała się w rodzinnym domu w Moskwie oraz w majątku Klemientjewo pod Smoleńskiem. Ojciec przyszłej mniszki był człowiekiem głęboko religijnym, żywo interesował się prawosławną liturgiką i sytuacją Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego. Z okazji wielkich świąt prawosławnych zapraszał do swojego domu w Moskwie wielu duchownych.

Jewgienija Jefimowska odebrała wykształcenie domowe. Początkowo kształciła się pod kierunkiem prywatnej angielskiej nauczycielki, następnie ojciec zaczął zapraszać do domu profesorów Uniwersytetu Moskiewskiego. W 1869 Jefimowska zdała egzaminy uniwersyteckie pozwalające jej na uzyskanie dyplomu w zakresie języka i literatury rosyjskiej. Interesowała się literaturą, filozofią i teologią.

Kilka lat później Boris Jefimowski ciężko zachorował. Jego małżonka, dotąd przebywająca z dziećmi w Moskwie, wyjechała do niego do guberni smoleńskiej. Jewgienija Jefimowska podjęła wówczas pracę nauczycielki języka francuskiego w Instytucie Nikołajewskim. W 1874 ojciec przyszłej ihumeni zmarł. Młoda kobieta otworzyła wówczas własną pensję, jednak już po trzech latach musiała ją zlikwidować, gdyż ciężki wypadek (oparzenie nogi) zmusił ją do zaprzestania pracy. Leczenie Jefimowska odbywała na wsi. Była wstrząśnięta warunkami życia rosyjskich chłopów i tym, jak wiele dzieliło ich od znanych jej środowisk inteligenckich.

Po wyzdrowieniu Jewgienija Jefimowska wyjechała do Francji, gdzie spotkała się z Iwanem Turgieniewem, a następnie do Anglii. Do Rosji wróciła już w latach 80. XIX wieku. Podjęła początkowo pracę w Instytucie Jekatierińskim w Petersburgu. Następnie została kierowniczką przytułku założonego przez Annę Aksakową. Sympatyzowała z ideami słowianofilskimi i obracała się w kręgach ich zwolenników. Korespondowała m.in. z Władimirem Sołowjowem.

Nauczycielka
Problem wychowywania dzieci w wierze prawosławnej już wcześniej był przedmiotem jej refleksji i zainteresowań, toteż przyjęła pracę nauczycielki w szkole parafialnej założonej przez Siergieja Raczinskiego w Tatiewie (gubernia smoleńska). W zamyśle Raczinskiego, pedagoga i działacza społecznego, miała być to modelowa placówka kształcąca na poziomie podstawowym w duchu prawosławnym. Pracując w szkole, Jewgienija Jefimowska postanowiła zostać prawosławną mniszką i założyć klasztor żeński funkcjonujący odmiennie, niż istniejące już monastery Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego. Wspólnota monastyczna, zachowując surowe życie ascetyczne, miałaby równocześnie prowadzić szeroko zakrojoną pracę społeczną, organizując szpital, szkołę i przytułek. Wizję Jewgieniji Jefimowskiej i jej postanowienie, by poświęcić życie służbie ubogim, historyk Cerkwi Pawieł Zyrjanow porównał do "pójścia w lud" zamożnych i dobrze urodzonych działaczy Narodnej Woli w poprzednich dekadach.

Początkowo kobieta ubiegała się o możliwość realizacji tych planów w Monasterze Wielko-Budziskim w eparchii połtawskiej, gdzie zatrudniła się jako nauczycielka szkoły parafialnej, jednak jej koncepcja została oceniona negatywnie. Koncepcją Jewgieniji Jefimowskiej zainteresował się natomiast arcybiskup chełmsko-warszawski Leoncjusz. Zaprosił on nauczycielkę do utworzenia żeńskiego monasteru w Leśnej, w budynkach zamkniętego po powstaniu styczniowym klasztoru paulinów. W zamyśle Leoncjusza żeński klasztor prowadzący działalność społeczną miał przekonać do prawosławia miejscową ludność, katolików lub byłych unitów niechętnych narzuconej im w 1875 zmianie wyznania, a w konsekwencji sprzyjać rusyfikacji regionu.

Przed wyjazdem do Leśnej kobieta spotkała się ze starcem Ambrożym z Pustelni Optyńskiej, który pobłogosławił jej plany. Mnich Ambroży opracował również zestaw modlitw, które każda mniszka nowo tworzonej wspólnoty powinna codziennie odczytywać w celi. Wsparcie powstającemu monasterowi okazał również Jan Kronsztadzki, modląc się w intencji sióstr i przekazując im fundusze z otrzymywanych darów pieniężnych. Duchowny przekonał również jedną ze swoich duchowych córek, Piełagiję Porszniewą z Petersburga, do podarowania monasterowi ziemi w stolicy Rosji, by mogła tam powstać placówka filialna klasztoru. Równocześnie przedstawiona przez Jefimowską wizja "czynnego monasteru" (ros. деятельный монастырь), odmienna od tradycyjnych wzorców życia zakonnego kobiet w Rosji, nadal spotykała się z negatywną opinią wielu rosyjskich biskupów. Ich zdaniem kobiety mogły prowadzić działalność dobroczynną i oświatową, niecelowe było natomiast zakładanie do tego celu monasteru i składanie ślubów mniszych.

Życie monastyczne

Przełożona monasteru w Leśnej

Jewgienija Jefimowska przybyła do Leśnej 19 października 1885 razem z pięcioma kobietami zdecydowanymi wstąpić do kierowanego przez nią monasteru oraz z dwiema osieroconymi dziewczynkami, pierwszymi mieszkankami monasterskiego przytułku. Dzień później uroczystym nabożeństwem rozpoczęła się działalność wspólnoty żeńskiej, początkowo bez statusu klasztoru. Został on nadany przez Świątobliwy Synod Rządzący 26 sierpnia 1889. W tym samym roku Jewgienija Jefimowska złożyła wieczyste śluby mnisze, przyjmując imię zakonne Katarzyna, a następnie została podniesiona do godności ihumeni. Monaster w Leśnej od początku był klasztorem I klasy. W momencie nadania wspólnocie statusu monasteru przebywało w niej 37 kobiet. W 1892 ihumenia Katarzyna została odznaczona napierśnym krzyżem synodalnym.

Ihumenia Katarzyna w pierwszych latach jego istnienia osobiście pracowała fizycznie przy urządzaniu monasteru i jego cerkwi (w dawnym kościele paulińskim). Śpiewała również w klasztornym chórze i spełniała zadania kanonarchy. Przy monasterze otworzyła szkołę dla 300 dziewcząt, oferując im naukę różnych prac ręcznych i prawosławnej katechezy oraz męską szkołę rolniczą i żeńskie seminarium nauczycielskie, którego głównym zadaniem było kształcenie przyszłych nauczycielek, mających podjąć pracę w wiejskich parafialnych szkołach dwuklasowych. W 1904 ihumenia Katarzyna otworzyła również szkołę gospodarstwa wiejskiego dla dziewcząt. Łącznie w monasterskich szkołach na pocz. XX wieku uczyło się nawet tysiąc osób, przy czym pierwszeństwo w przyjęciu do szkół miały dzieci z rodzin chłopskich lub mieszczańskich. Wyznanie prawosławne nie było warunkiem koniecznym. W szkołach uczyło się wielu katolików. Mniszki nie zmuszały ich do zmiany wyznania, jednak każda konwersja była odnotowywana w sprawozdaniach z działalności klasztoru.

Również z inicjatywy ihumeni w Leśnej otwarty został szpital i ambulatorium z możliwością bezpłatnego otrzymywania leków, a także ogród botaniczny ukierunkowany na uprawę ziół o dobroczynnych właściwościach. Następnie ihumenia Katarzyna zorganizowała przy monasterze młyn parowy, zakład produkujący świece cerkiewne i doprowadziła do otwarcia w miejscowości stacji kolejowej, dzięki której do klasztoru mogli łatwiej docierać pielgrzymi.

Ihumenia Katarzyna była aktywną uczestniczką dyskusji o życiu monastycznym w Rosji, jego stanie, relacjach ze społeczeństwem (zwłaszcza z warstwą inteligencką) i zadaniach, jaką prowadzono w Rosyjskim Kościele Prawosławnym po rewolucji 1905, zainicjowaną przez metropolitę petersburskiego Antoniego. Stale korespondowała na tematy teologiczne z biskupami Michałem (Gribanowskim), Ambrożym (Kluczariowem), Antonim (Wadkowskim) i Antonim (Chrapowickim). W 1899 podejmowała w monasterze w Leśnej Jana Kronsztadzkiego. Wysoko cenił pracę ihumeni biskup lubelski, a następnie chełmski Eulogiusz.

Pod kierunkiem ihumeni klasztor w Leśnej stał się jednym z najważniejszych w Rosji ośrodków żeńskiego życia monastycznego. W 1909 przebywało w nim ponad 700 mniszek i posłusznic, a w najważniejsze święta monasterskie przybywało do niego nawet 25 tys. pielgrzymów. W monasterze regularnie odprawiali nabożeństwa biskupi. W 1914 w klasztorze żyło 20 mniszek i 300 posłusznic riasofornych. Ihumenia Katarzyna stawiała bowiem wysokie wymagania duchowe kandydatkom do postrzyżyn mniszych, przez co w licznych wypadkach okres między wstąpieniem do monasteru a dopuszczeniem do ślubów wieczystych wydłużał się do wielu lat.

Oprócz placówki filialnej w Petersburgu monaster posiadał również analogiczne placówki w Chełmie, Warszawie i Jałcie.

Działalność ihumeni Katarzyny była wysoko ceniona przez cara Mikołaja II, który w 1900 nagrodził ją krzyżem z ozdobami. Protektorką monasteru w Leśnej była również jego małżonka Aleksandra Fiodorowna. Przy jej poparciu mniszki z Leśnej, które formację duchową odebrały u ihumeni Katarzyny – Atanazja (Gromieko), Anna (Potto) i Helena (Konowałowa) – założyły kolejne monastery o podobnej regule: monaster Chrystusa Zbawiciela w Wirowie, monaster św. Antoniego w Radecznicy, monaster Narodzenia Matki Bożej w Krasnymstoku oraz monaster Przemienienia Pańskiego w Teolinie. Para carska dwukrotnie pielgrzymowała do Leśnej, a drugi jej przyjazd, w 1900, ihumenia upamiętniła budową kaplicy w Białej Podlaskiej. Autorytet duchowy Katarzyny oraz jej arystokratyczne pochodzenie uczyniły ją osobą wpływową na dworze ostatniego cara Rosji. W 1898 Katarzyna wykorzystała swoją pozycję, by doprowadzić do usunięcia z eparchii chełmsko-warszawskiej jej biskupa pomocniczego, Tichona. Duchowny dokonał wcześniej wizytacji kanonicznej w monasterze w Leśnej i wydał negatywną opinię o działalności ihumeni, zarzucając jej niegospodarność (monaster był stale zadłużony). W rezultacie biskup Tichon został skierowany do pracy w Ameryce Północnej (eparchia Aleutów i Alaski), natomiast arcybiskupa chełmsko-warszawskiego Flawiana, jego protektora, przeniesiono na urząd egzarchy Gruzji. Ihumenia wielokrotnie podróżowała do Petersburga, by ubiegać się o dodatkowe środki finansowe dla monasteru, i zwykle uzyskiwała wsparcie państwa lub prywatnych darczyńców.

Wiosną 1905 ihumenia Katarzyna razem z biskupem lubelskim Eulogiuszem podróżowała do Petersburga, by zdać oberprokuratorowi Świętego Synodu Konstantinowi Pobiedonoscewowi, ministrowi spraw wewnętrznych Aleksandrowi Bułyginowi oraz carowi relację z niekorzystnych dla prawosławia skutków ukazu tolerancyjnego (korzystając z jego zapisów, ok. 180 tys. byłych unitów chełmskich przeszło na katolicyzm obrządku łacińskiego) i prosić o pomoc dla struktur cerkiewnych na ziemi chełmskiej. Jej wpływy na dworze pozwoliły delegacji na uzyskanie kilkukrotnego posłuchania u Mikołaja II, który pod wrażeniem argumentów Eulogiusza uznał utworzenie samodzielnej eparchii chełmskiej za nieodzowne.

"Druga ihumenia". Emigracja
W 1907 ihumenia Katarzyna poddała się amputacji nogi, na której odnowiły się rany po dawnym oparzeniu. W związku z tym zamierzała odejść w stan spoczynku i pozostać w Leśnej jako schimniszka. Kierowanie monasterem powierzyła swojej bliskiej współpracownicy, ekonomce monasteru mniszce Ninie. Ostatecznie jednak do końca życia kierowała klasztorem wspólnie z nią, nazywana "drugą ihumenią". Do 1915 monaster w Leśnej był znaczącym lokalnym ośrodkiem gospodarczym i oświatowym.

31 lipca 1915 razem z całą wspólnotą monasteru została ewakuowana z Leśnej (bieżeństwo). Zabudowania klasztorne przejęło wojsko rosyjskie. Część mniszek, razem z wychowankami klasztornego sierocińca, udała się do monasteru św. Serafina w Ponietajewce w guberni niżnonowogrodzkiej. Ihumenia Katarzyna, ihumenia Nina i ok. 140 sióstr i posłusznic, postanowiły zamieszkać w Piotrogrodzie w placówce filialnej swojego monasteru, w Monasterze Nowodziewiczym oraz w monasterze św. Jana Rylskiego. W połowie sierpnia 1917 arcybiskup kiszyniowski, wcześniej ordynariusz eparchii chełmskiej, Anastazy, zaprosił mniszki z Leśnej do swojej eparchii. Ihumenie Katarzyna i Nina oraz 70 kobiet przybyły do monasteru Japca nad Dniestrem. Po przyłączeniu Besarabii do Rumunii, a w konsekwencji po włączeniu eparchii kiszyniowskiej do Rumuńskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego, mniszkom nakazano przyjęcie rumuńskiego obywatelstwa i wprowadzenie do nabożeństw w monasterze języka rumuńskiego. Nie zgadzając się na takie rozwiązanie i obawiając się, że Cerkiew Rumuńska przejdzie na nowy styl (kalendarz nowojuliański), ihumenia Katarzyna oraz ihumenia Nina postanowiły przyjąć zaproszenie króla Aleksandra i osiedlić się w Królestwie SHS. Część mniszek zdecydowała się jednak na pozostanie w monasterze Japca.

W 1920 ihumenia Katarzyna razem z 62 mniszkami i posłusznicami przybyła na opłaconej przez króla Aleksandra barce po Dunaju do Belgradu. Biskup niski Dosyteusz udostępnił im do zamieszkania monaster Kuveždin na Fruškiej gorze. Już po kilku miesiącach mniszki przeniosły się do innego klasztoru w zespole Fruškiej gory – reaktywowały nieczynny męski monaster Novo Hopovo. Klasztor stał się jednym z ośrodków życia religijnego rosyjskiej białej emigracji w Jugosławii. Równocześnie do grona posłusznic przyjmowane były, obok Rosjanek, także Serbki. Działalność społeczna monasteru, z powodu ograniczonych środków finansowych, nie mogła być jednak prowadzona na dotychczasową skalę, o co starały się obydwie ihumenie. Najważniejszym dziełem dobroczynnym mniszek stał się przytułek, w którym żyły przede wszystkim porzucone lub osierocone dzieci rosyjskich emigrantów. Mniszki z Novego Hopova przyczyniły się również do renesansu monastycyzmu żeńskiego w Serbskim Kościele Prawosławnym, upowszechniając model "monasteru czynnego" i otwierając nowe wspólnoty. W takich okolicznościach powstała pierwsza od czasów średniowiecza serbska żeńska wspólnota żeńska, która zajęła budynek monasteru Kuveždin. Jej przełożoną została ihumenia Melania (Krivokućin), która odebrała formację duchową w Novym Hopovie.

W 1923 ihumenia Katarzyna podejmowała w monasterze króla Aleksandra I, we wrześniu 1925 zaś w klasztorze odbył się III zjazd Rosyjskiego Chrześcijańskiego Ruchu Studenckiego, któremu honorowo przewodniczył Pierwszy Hierarcha Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego poza granicami Rosji metropolita Antoni. Ihumenia Katarzyna brała w zjeździe aktywny udział. Krótko po jego zakończeniu zmarła. Jej pogrzeb poprowadził 1 listopada tegoż roku biskup sremski Maksymilian w asyście grupy kapłanów serbskich i jedynego Rosjanina – ks. Aleksija Nielubowa. Została pochowana na cmentarzu monasterskim.

Jej pierwotny nagrobek uległ zniszczeniu w czasie II wojny światowej, kiedy spalono, a następnie porzucono cały monaster. Miejsce pochówku odnaleziono w latach 80. XX wieku z inicjatywy przełożonego monasteru Grgeteg, archimandryty Dosyteusza. W 1985 arcybiskup genewski i zachodnioeuropejski (w jurysdykcji Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego poza granicami Rosji) Antoni ufundował marmurową płytę nagrobną na miejscu pochówku ihumeni Katarzyny.

Twórczość pisarska i studia teologiczne
Jeszcze będąc osobą świecką, Jewgienija Jefimowska pisała wiersze i opowiadania, które następnie wysyłała do publikacji w czasopismach literackich. Z czasem zaczęła zajmować się przede wszystkim teologią; samodzielne studia w tym kierunku kontynuowała, będąc przełożoną monasteru w Leśnej. Opracowywała również własne artykuły teologiczne. Najbardziej znane stało się studium o posłudze diakonis w pierwszych wiekach chrześcijaństwa, które publikowała w piśmie "Christianin" w latach 1908 i 1909. Opublikowała również pracę Monastyr' i christianskij asketizm. Opowiadała się za wprowadzeniem do Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego posługi diakonis na wzór wczesnochrześcijański, co w jej ocenie mogłoby zachęcić wykształcone kobiety do aktywnego działania na rzecz Cerkwi. Jej sugestie w tej kwestii były przedmiotem dyskusji na spotkaniu przed planowanym Soborem Lokalnym w 1906 (ostatecznie nigdy nie został on zwołany z powodu sprzeciwu cara Mikołaja II).

Kult
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Ukraine at D+210: A Sandworm sighting as Russia faces the UN.
Russia's partial mobilization draws international criticism at the United Nations. Domestically, it's proving unpopular with those who face either conscription or recall to active service, and hardliners snort that it's another half-measure. In cyberspace, the GRU's Sandworm appears to have undertaken a new campaign against Ukrainian targets.
Ukraine makes its case at the UN.
President Zelenskyy addressed the United Nations by video conference yesterday, the AP reports, and a number of other world leaders in attendance seconded the Ukrainian president's remarks about a shift in battlefield fortunes in Ukraine's favor and Russia's responsibility for the war.
Russia's partial mobilization is running into difficulties.
The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) this morning took stock of Russia's partial mobilization, a large call-up of reservists. "On 21 September 2022, Russia's Putin announced a 'partial mobilisation' to support operations in Ukraine. Russian Defence Minister Shoigu later confirmed this would involve the mobilisation of 300,000 reservist troops." Pulling together and organizing so many reservists presents logistical and managerial challenges that are likely to stress the Russian army. As the MoD puts it, "Russia is likely to struggle with the logistical and administrative challenges of even mustering the 300,000 personnel. It will probably attempt to stand up new formations with many of these troops, which are unlikely to be combat effective for months." International reaction to the mobilization (and to the nuclear threats that accompanied them) was, the New York Times reports, strongly adverse.
There are also issues of popular morale. The MoD says, "Even this limited mobilisation is likely to be highly unpopular with parts of the Russian population. Putin is accepting considerable political risk in the hope of generating much needed combat power." This prediction seems already to have been borne out. The Washington Post reports protests and arrests, and the Moscow Times says that there's "panic and fear" as thousands of young men seek to either leave the country or find some other way of avoiding a call-up. The AP reports a run on flights leaving Russia as some citizens seek to get out of the country before they can be called up. Belgrade, Istanbul, and Dubai were the most popular destinations until tickets sold out. The Baltic States are not permitting Russians fleeing military service to cross theii borders. Reuters quotes an email the news service received from Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu that explained, "A refusal to fulfil one's civic duty in Russia or a desire to do so does not constitute sufficient grounds for being granted asylum in another country." The MoD concludes with an observation: "The move is effectively an admission that Russia has exhausted its supply of willing volunteers to fight in Ukraine."
Dissatisfied Russian nationalists, arguably more Putinist than Mr. Putin himself.
Bellingcat's Christo Grozev has been following the Wagner Group and the more extreme Russian nationalist circles. He thinks Wagner Group boss Prigozhin is posturing as a war leader, possibly laying pipe for a bid to succeed Putin, should the Russian President face ouster. "Prigozhin continues leaking videos of him[self] in commander-in-chief role (on this one, doing that 3 am meeting your commanders thing. Wagnerites tell me they'd vote for him over Putin any time, and it seems to me he smells blood." The tweet attracted some derisive outrage from pro-Kremlin trolls who follow Grozev, but Russian modes of succession are sufficiently unstable and ad hoc to make the possibility worth thinking about.
A recent prisoner exchange involving Azov Battalion troops and some foreign fighters has attracted outrage from Mr. Putin's hardline supporters. Grozev tweeted, "Russia's ultranationalist and mercenaries, who had briefly been appeased by Putin's mobilization announcement,are getting a heart attack now hearing that he also exchanged all Azov commanders and dozens more for Medvechuk - whom they despise. Instability in paradise." Among those protesting is Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, formerly known as Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, formerly the self-proclaimed minister of defense in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, now under indictment for his role in the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). Mr. Strelkov regards Mr. Putin's policies as fatally soft, and has for some time argued for full mobilization.
Some observers have regarded increased expressions on Russian television of dissatisfaction with the progress of the special military operation as an additional sign that President Putin's nationalist supporters are growing dissatisfied with their leader. That may be so (and see this New York Times op-ed for a clear presentation of this reading of Russian opinion) but it's equally possible that the harder line being taken by the commentariat is being put out by the government in an effort to provide astroturfed support for escalation of the war.
A GRU campaign masquerades as Ukrainian telecommunications providers.
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports that the GRU has established new infrastructure for cyberespionage against Ukrainian targets. The threat actor UAC-0113 (which CERT-UA thinks is probably associated with the GRU's Sandworm operation) is using dynamic DNS domains as it masquerades as telecommunications providers. It uses HTML smuggling to distribute Colibri Loader and the Warzone remote access Trojan (RAT). The objectives of the campaign remain unclear, but Recorded Future thinks it's a Russian combat support effort. The tools deployed in the attacks aren't bespoke tools developed in-house by the intelligence services, but are rather commodity malware publicly available in the criminal-to-criminal market.
Russian telecommunications outfits have indeed established services in territories occupied by the Russian army, but these are overt operations intended to replace Ukrainian providers with Russian ones. WIRED reports that, as Russia's battlefield fortunes have experienced reversals, the telcos have retreated with the troops. The point of setting up Russian services to replace Ukrainian ones is at least twofold. It helps normalize the Russian occupation, acclimating the population to accepting it as an accomplished, permanent state of affairs. Equally importantly, it increases the Russian ability to control what Ukrainians say, show, see, and hear.


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Q: Unexpected case sensitivty I am a noob running elastic search 1.5.9. I want to pull out all of the documents that have the field "PERSON" set to "Johnson." (Note the mixed casing). If I manually look at elastic search head, I can see a document with exactly those attributes.
The docs explain that I should construct a filter query to pull out this document. But when I do so, I get some unexpected behavior.
This works. It returns exactly one document w/ Person = "Johnson", as expected
query = {"filter": {"term" : { "PERSON" : "johnson" }}}

But this does not work
query = {"filter": {"term" : { "PERSON" : "Johnson" }}}

If you look closely, you'll see that the good query is lowercase but the bad query is mixed case -- even though the PERSON field is set to "Johnson".
Adding to the weirdness, I am lower casing everything that goes into the full_text field: "_source": { "full_text": "all lower case" So the full text includes johnson -- which I would think would be totally independent from the PERSON field.
What's going on? How do I do a mixed case search on the PERSON field?

A: Term query wont analyze your search text.
This means you need to analyzed and provide the query in token format for term query to actually work.
Use match query instead , things will work like magic.
So when a string like below goes to Elasticsearch , its tokenized ( or rather analyzed) and stored
"Green Apple" -> ( "green" , "apple")

This is the default behavior of analysis.
Now when you search using term query , the analysis wont happen.
Which means for the word Apple , it searches for the token Apple with case preserved. And hence fails.
For match query , it does do the analysis. Which means if you search with Apple , it converts it to apple and then does the search. Which give good matches.
You can learn more on analysis here.

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Kelsey Berreth Murder Case: Tests Will Be Performed On Fragment Of Tooth
Filed Under:Kelsey Berreth, Patrick Frazee
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (CBS4/CNN) – A potential tooth fragment will be tested for DNA evidence in the case of Patrick Frazee, a Florrisant man accused of beating to death the mother of his child with a baseball bat, a prosecutor said Friday. Frazee, 33, faces murder and other charges in connection with the disappearance of his fiancée, Kelsey Berreth of Woodland Park.
Patrick Frazee (credit: Teller County)
She went missing last Thanksgiving Day near her home. Authorities have said they believe Frazee killed the 29-year-old but her body has not been found.
A state court judge ruled Friday that the "possible tooth fragment," which was "located in the search of the defendant's property," will undergo a consumptive DNA test, prosecutor Jennifer Viehman told reporters outside the court house in Cripple Creek.
Consumptive testing relates to evidence that would be consumed or destroyed in the testing process, Viehman said.
Kelsey Berreth (credit: Woodland Park Police)
The judge agreed with the prosecution that the testing can move forward according to the policies of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation lab without changes that had been proposed by defense attorneys. An expert for the defense will observe the testing.
Defense lawyers declined comment after the hearing.
Frazee, who has pleaded not guilty, faces two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, two counts of a crime of violence and charges of tampering with a body. His trial has been set for Oct. 28.
Frazee has been in custody since his arrest in December.
Frazee's girlfriend, Idaho nurse Krystal Lee Kenney, told investigators he killed Berreth by wrapping a sweater around her head and bashing her with a baseball bat, according to Gregg Slater, a CBI agent.
Authorities spent nearly two months searching for Berreth's body in a landfill in Fountain. Kenney had told police that Frazee disposed of Berreth's remains either at a dump or in a river.
Police suspended the search in April after they did not find any remains or evidence linked to Berreth's death.
(© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. CNN contributed to this report.)


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I was able to base parts of my webinar on my knowledge of Participatory Action Research (PAR) gained through my Ph.D. work, delve deeper into PAR as a method and approach to research, and learn about how PAR fits with AGE-WELL as a whole. Ultimately, this was a great opportunity to grasp and disseminate the importance of the work we do in OA-INVOLVE. To me, one of PAR's greatest strengths is that it aims to prioritize participant/advisor/co-researcher perspectives (in this case, older adults), by co-creating parts (or all) of the research.
Since then, I've really experienced our improvement as a group in increasing our Older Adult Research Partner Group's (OARPG) involvement. Being able to be at the AGE-WELL conference in Winnipeg and watch the OARPG's conference presentation was a really wonderful experience for us, as well as others in attendance. We were able to learn from the OARPG, as they discussed their experiences and insights, and we were also able to increase the participatory nature of our work, as we began to include older adults as co-researchers in OA-INVOLVE. Since then, we continue to gain insights from the OARPG and understand how we can improve the participatory nature of our work. The OARPG is definitely key to our success as OA-INVOLVE.


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Quotes (3). The kind of Unitarian Who having by elimination got From many gods to Three, and Three to One, Thinks why not taper off to none at all. Robert Frost (1874-1963), .
Quotes (3). They must have seen ahead what now appears: They would bring empires down about our ears And by the example of our Declaration Make everybody want to be a nation.
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Robert Frost wrote some stunning and thought provoking poems. Robert Frost has the most beautiful poetry! My dad used to read to me from this book every night before bed and it has been a fovorite ever since.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 . To celebrate his first publication, Frost had a book of six poems privately printed; two copies of Twilight were made-one for himself and one for his fiancee.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father's death. The move was actually a return, for Frost's ancestors were originally New Englanders, and Frost became famous for his poetry's engagement with New England locales, identities, and themes. Over the next eight years, however, he succeeded in having only 13 more poems published.
The Poetry of Robert Fros. has been added to your Cart. I have always liked the Robert Frost poetry but never had my own book. Now I do and both my husband and I are delighted to have it for a reference. Audible Audiobook, Unabridged. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Browse all poems and texts published on Robert Frost.
Роберт Фрост/ Robert Frost, (26 марта 1874 - 29 января 1963) - великий американский поэт. He halted in the wind, and - what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
Роберт Фрост/ Robert Frost, (26 марта 1874 - 29 января 1963) - великий американский поэт. He halted in the wind, and - what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to believe the most. Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom," I said; And truly it was fair enough for flowers had we but in us to assume in march Such white luxuriance of May for ours.
Электронная книга "Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost", Robert Frost. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost" для чтения в офлайн-режиме.
Robert Frost is one of the most widely cele-brated of American poets. During his lifetime he received four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry, and his works are still widely anthologized in collections of American poetry and school literature textbooks. In the afterword to this volume, the poet Peter Davison says that for some time Americans tended to regard Frost as the other bookend to match Norman Rockwel. hose work could be counted on to convey the values of traditional American country life (p. 147)
This volume holds more than 350 poems, extensive bigraphical information about Front's nearly three- quarters of a century.
I wonder how long it will be before Frost's literary stock is devalued as much as it deserves to be. These are trite and banal poems that do not ring true or sincere. Frost seems distant from both his poems and the reader. What he has to say is obvious and unoriginal. How he says it is on the level of a hallmark greeting card at its best; at its worst, it is no better than a limerick. Posthumous revelations about his horrific cruelty to others and his shrewd creation/manipulation of his celebrity image as the New England farmer-poet only confirm that there was something seriously wrong with this man and his poems that an earlier generation missed. How earlier generations could find genius in such obvious observations is astounding.
Bad poetry from a twisted man.
Felolak
Robert Frost was and is America's greatest poet. Excepting, perhaps, W. B. Yeats, he may be the greatest poet to write English in the twentieth century. (To me, it's a toss-up.) To read this volume systematically or desultorily is to become convinced of that. But Frost is, above all, accessible, so the casual reader may not appreciate the difficulty of what he does. Like much of the greatest art his looks easy, even inevitable.
All of Frost's poems are here, plus his two dramatic Masques. When this book first appeared (in 1969) it caused a furor: the editor, it was angrily asserted, presumed too much. He dared to clarify - inserting a hyphen here, excising a comma there. That furor has since died down, as people realize that he did not do away with the sacred texts (any emendation was noted), but simply performed his job as editor. He regularized spelling and the use of single and double quotes (though not Capitalization, which can legitimately be thought of as integral to the poet's expression (think of e.e. cummings!)), and corrected other obvious errors. The notes give the published variants for each poem, so if you wish you may make your own call on some of these finicky issues.
I cannot emphasize enough: BUY THE HARDCOVER! After all, you will be reading this book for the rest of your life. It is a beautifully-built volume, of an easy size and heft for use, with understated appealing typefaces and an exemplary design. Put out by Frost's long-time publisher, this is one of the few essential books of American literature.
Dianaghma
My mom always love reading the poems from Robert Frost. But my mom just recently pass away and I wanted a copy of this book for myself. She had a total of seven children and her book could not have been split up so the other six siblings purchase their own. I did't think I could find the book so I put my trust in Amazon.com to find it and they did. I love the ease of shopping on-line and that is the way I usually do my shopping. Great for Birthday, Christmas, and ect. I do most of my Christmas shopping for my grandchildren with Amazon.com I am disabled and it is hard going out shopping so this is a great way to do my shopping. Thanks Amazon.com
Naturally Robert Frost because he's my favorite American poet, especially his masterpiece, The Road Not Taken, also Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Mending Wall. This book now 'lives' on the living room side shelf.
Doukree
He averaged only 10 pages of poetry per year, but he stayed at it for 70 years, which is a truly remarkable achievement. And he won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. There is something for everyone.
Anyshoun
I first owned this volume of poetry in 1978. That book simply fell apart after more than 20 years of reading and handling (sometimes roughly by my children). I replace this book with a new one just last year.
The old favorites are all here; Fireflies in the Garden, The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and a hundred more. In my opinion this is the definitive volume on Frost.
I have always been awed by the number of poems Frost wrote about the stars. A Star on a Stoneboat, The Star Spitter, Stars, Canis Major and many others. Truly Robert Frost is the astronomers poet.
Also in this volume is perhaps my favorite Frost poem, Brown's Descent.
If you love reading Frost on a crispy fall evening, then you'll love reading him when the crickets chirp. You'll need to own this book.
Avarm
I was definitely impressed by one of the greatest writers of poetry. Modern poets should read this and take not of somebody who had talent.
The best collection of Robert Frost poems that I have found.
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