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February 27, 2012 at 1:13 pm #9714
Corona supports .po/.mo translation files. To use them please unzip the po file and open it with Poedit (http://www.poedit.net/download.php). Now translate all text strings. Save the translated text strings under following name "your-language-shortcut.po" . Assuming you come from Sweden save it under: sv_SE.po, if you're from Germany de_DE.po
A list of language shortcodes can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language
At least you must save/upload/copy the generated .mo file in your theme main folder.
Attention: WordPress will only use the translation file if you set the right backend language: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language
Please upload your translated files (by using one click hosters like http://mediafire.com ) and post a link here. It will save other users a lot of time and maybe you'll get some feedback (i.e. suggestions how to improve your translation, etc.).
Default, untouched english po file – use it to translate Corona to your language. You can find them in the "lang" folder (wp-content/themes/corona/lang is the default path).March 8, 2012 at 11:54 am #65660
Hi, I've translated the Corona theme to Norwegian. 55% (most of the front end).
nb_NO.po: http://www.mediafire.com/?avfa75drremt4au
nb_NO.mo: http://www.mediafire.com/?u01kccno5ydh78l
Cheers, ThorMarch 9, 2012 at 6:38 pm #65661
Thanks Thor! I'm sure others will appreciate the work you put in and have shared.October 7, 2012 at 5:01 pm #65662
I've translated Corona theme to french (approx 90%).
fr_FR.po: http://www.mediafire.com/?3zs8k524yjevlyj
fr.FR.mo: http://www.mediafire.com/?1ngj31i87fw3uk8
Regards.October 8, 2012 at 7:39 am #65663
Great – thank you for providing your translated files. I'll ask Kriesi to include them in the next update.
Best regards,
PeterJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:34 am #65664
I've translated Corona theme to Italian.
it_IT.po: http://www.mediafire.com/?62v8bjvre9sn1zc
it_IT.mo: http://www.mediafire.com/?h6htppmetf302lt
MarinaJanuary 9, 2013 at 7:19 pm #65665
Hi Marina,
Thank you for posting them :)
DevinJanuary 14, 2013 at 2:17 pm #65666
I've translated the files to Brazilian Portuguese.
pt_BR.po: http://www.mediafire.com/?dg93183a6gqiha6
pt_BR.mo: http://www.mediafire.com/?80icux670b3bu0n
MarcoJanuary 14, 2013 at 9:14 pm #65667
Thanks Marco :)June 13, 2013 at 8:28 am #65668
I`ve translated 99% of Corona to Russian – http://yadi.sk/d/qIsGhH6k5lcJI
Best regards!June 14, 2013 at 3:08 am #65669
Thanks for posting them Alekx!
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March 14, 2008
Britain's biggest teachers' union has accused the Ministry of Defence of breaking the law over a lesson plan drawn up to teach pupils about the Iraq war. The National Union of Teachers claims it breaches the 1996 Education Act, which aims to ensure all political issues are treated in a balanced way.
Teachers will threaten to boycott military involvement in schools at the union's annual conference next weekend, claiming the lesson plan is a "propaganda" exercise and makes no mention of any civilian casualties as a result of the war.
They believe the instructions, designed for use during classroom discussions in general studies or personal, social and health education (PSE) lessons, are arguably an attempt to rewrite the history of the Iraq invasion just as the world prepares to mark its fifth anniversary.
Steve Sinnott, the general secretary of the NUT, said: "This isn't an attack on the military – nothing of the sort. I know they've done valuable work in establishing peace in some countries. It is an attack on practices that we cannot condone in schools. It is a question of whether you present fair and balanced views or put forward prejudice and propaganda to youngsters."
At the heart of the union's concern is a lesson plan commissioned by an organisation called Kids Connections for the Ministry of Defence aimed at stimulating classroom debate about the Iraq war.
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Al Gore and David Blood, his partner in the multi-billion private equity fund, Generation Investment Management, recently opined on "How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics," on the Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal, an unlikely location for such a conversation – but, just the place it should be happening.
Their narrative is spot on, worthy of reading if only to remind us of the basics that must guide us out of our current economic and environmental mess.
Much of the essence of their plea is focused on the dangers of our obsessive short-term focus – a theme I revisit often on this blog.
Gore and Blood recommend (among other ideas) that we:
- End the default practice of issuing quarterly earnings guidance;
- Align compensation structures with long-term sustainable performance; and
- Incentivize long-term investing with loyalty-driven securities.
All excellent recommendations.
Companies should follow their guidance; however, we have tax, regulatory and securities laws that all push in the opposite direction. Without changing the "system" that financially incentivizes short-term investment, we will not make substantive headway.
So, that's why I would add the following two suggestions:
- Radically alter capital gains taxes. We must discourage traders who hold stocks for a matter of seconds and encourage long-term investors. I would advocate a tax rate of 90% on investments held less than one month, 75% on investments held less than a year, with a tax rate of 0% for investments of 30 years or more.
- Extend the required holding time for stock options that are converted into common shares to qualify for long-term capital gains treatment.
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Thomas Oser visited Stanford, he loved it and he committed.
The North Hollywood (Calif.) Harvard Westlake offensive guard had been high on Stanford for weeks and his official visit went well last weekend so Oser decided to end his recruitment.
The 6-foot-4, 270-pound three-star prospect said he loved his trip, had a great time with the coaches and Oser decided to end things instead of taking other visits or considering any other schools.
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"It was awesome and I committed," Oser said. "It's official.
"The combination of a great team, great academics and just awesome people that I got to meet while I was up there was really what stood out."
Oser, who was also really high on Oregon and Vanderbilt, said his relationship with the coaches was especially important in his decision-making process.
He and coach David Shaw have known each other for months and Oser said it was important to spend time with run-game coordinator and offensive line coach Mike Bloomgren this past weekend.
It all went great and Oser said it was a decision he was happy to make.
"I am very impressed by coach Shaw," Oser said. "He's a great guy and I'm excited to be coached by him for the next few years. I've been able to build a better relationship with him. He was the one who offered me back in June. Since then I've talked to him a couple times.
"Coach Bloomgren has really been the one that's been recruiting me a lot. I've really been able to build a relationship with him and luckily he's going to be my position coach when I get up there. It's a great fit with great coaches who are going to help me hone my skills as an o-lineman and make me be the best player I can be."


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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Toyota has announced one of the largest car recalls in history involving more than six million vehicles across the globe.
Parts affecting several different functions, including steering and seats, may be compromised.
The company says 27 models, including the Corolla, Rav 4 and Highlander are being recalled.
However, there have been no reports of crashes or injuries related to the recall.
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BERLIN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Volkswagen has announced the management line-up at its new trucks group, taking another step towards its goal of becoming a global force in truckmaking.
In May the company revealed plans to realise its long-desired tie-up between its heavy-duty commercial vehicle brands MAN SE and Scania to boost synergies between them.
On Wednesday, VW said a nine-member so-called truck board has been completed and will take up its duties two months after a 12-member supervisory board was set up.
"We will bring the units closer together, intensify the global presence and strengthen our brands," said Andreas Renschler, chief executive of VW's new truck & bus holding company.
Newly-appointed management board members include the chief executives of MAN's Latin America business, its main truck division and Swedish peer Scania, VW said.
Wolfsburg-based VW is currently overhauling its corporate structure to improve its performance in foreign markets and boost profitability.
Meanwhile the automaker has spent billions of euros over the past decade on expanding stakes in MAN and Scania to meet a long-standing goal of competing with truck market leaders Daimler and Volvo.
But VW has yet to reap significant cost savings from the combination. To beef up operations, MAN said in June it would cut 1,800 jobs at its main truck division as part of a broader reshuffle of production in Germany, Austria and Poland. (Reporting by Andreas Cremer; Editing by Greg Mahlich)


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The University of Georgia Foundation continues to work with the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to agree on a memorandum of understanding that meets each of the parties' needs, the foundation's chairwoman said Friday.
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The UGA Foundation has been at odds with the regents in the past, but foundation Chairwoman Lynda Courts said the current discussion is "not at all confrontational."
Instead, she told foundation trustees at an Atlanta meeting Friday, it is simply an ongoing process of negotiating an agreement that reflects the responsibilities of the regents, the foundation and the university fairly.
The regents also are working with the other public colleges and universities, Courts said.
"They want to standardize their relationship with all the colleges and units," she said.
Courts distributed copies of various drafts of the understanding to the trustees, at the request of trustee Otis Brumby. The trustees had not seen any of the drafts before Friday.
Much of the prior disagreement between the regents involved a pay package for UGA President Michael Adams. The foundation had attempted in early 2004 to scale back the amount it would pay Adams, but Chancellor Tom Meredith said that the foundation did not have the authority to change Adams' pay after it had been approved by he and the regents.
The dispute arose after Adams refused former athletics director Vince Dooley's request for a contract extension, setting off a flurry of protest by UGA fans and Dooley supporters.
The regents in May voted to sever ties with the foundation, more than a year after the feud started. In August, the regents lifted that order and asked all nonprofit foundations to shift supplemental pay for university presidents into each university's general fund, instead of paying the money directly to the presidents.
The memorandum of understanding is designed to define the relationship between the regents and the foundation.
The current draft of the memorandum with the regents also addresses the compensation point: "The Board of Regents is responsible for the employment, compensation and evaluation of all Institution employees, including the President of the Institution."
The regents have asked to have all fully executed documents by April 12 for presentation at their April 19 meeting.
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Quick Spinach Pie
1 Pkg Puff Pastry- defrosted
1 Pkg Spinach fresh/ or Frozen
1 onion diced
1 or 2 cloves of garlic
sliced deli swiss or provolone cheese
1 beaten egg mixed with a teaspoon of water
*Please know that I use these ingredients but you can sub any
filling in place of the spinach
Preheat oven
If using froz spinach microwave and when cool squeeze out water.
Heat a skillet with a little oil and saute onion and garlic when it is
translucent, add the spinach for a minute or so till warmed .
Roll out 1 sheet of puff pastry and lay 2 or 3 slices of cheese on the bottom
and add half of spinach mixture. Roll into a log and place on sheet tray.
Do the same with the other puff pastry sheet, work quick with it ..its sticky.
brush beaten egg mixture over both and bake for about 1/2 hour.
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Southern Ohio Medical Center has opened the first hospital-based wound-healing service in the community.
The SOMC Wound Healing Center, located on the Main Campus of SOMC, is accepting patients by physician and self-referral. The facility offers a specialized staff and state-of-the-art equipment for treating wounds that are difficult to heal.
Sonja Lichtenstein, MD, a surgeon on staff at SOMC, is the Administrative Medical Director of the Wound Healing Center. Thomas L. Khoury, MD, a surgeon at SOMC, is the Medical Director of Research and Education for the Wound Healing Center.
Treatment at the center follows clinical pathways established with National Healing, a network of more than 80 wound healing centers nationwide. The treatment approaches have resulted in national rates that include full healing in 16 weeks or less in the majority of cases.
Among treatment approaches at the SOMC Wound Healing Center, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is available with two treatment chambers on-site. Patients relax in the chamber while receiving pure oxygen, which stimulates the healing process in tissues where blood flow and oxygen delivery is poor.
Additionally, the Wound Healing Center provides advanced therapies including bio-engineered skin substitutes, vacuum-assisted closure and platelet technologies. Therapy for ulcers such as those that occur in the feet and legs is available. Treatments can also address conditions of the skin, bone and tissue that do not respond to traditional treatments.
A public open house is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m Sunday, Jan. 21 at the facility as well as for the SOMC Sleep Diagnostic Center opening in the same building, which formerly housed the hospital's cancer services until 2004. Tours and refreshments are planned and visitors are encouraged to take a few minutes to meet the staff and see the facility.
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Geneva, town, Adams county, eastern Indiana, U.S., on the Wabash River, 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Muncie. It was created in 1874 through the incorporation of the towns of Buffalo and Alexander and the Geneva train station (on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad) and presumably was named for the Swiss city. A rural community with many Old Order Amish and Swiss Mennonite families, it lies in the "Limberlost Country," a timber swampland made famous by the naturalist and novelist Gene Stratton Porter in novels such as Freckles (1904) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909). The swampland was drained by the early 1900s, and its biodiversity was lost, but efforts to restore part of the wetland habitat began in 1996. Porter's home near the former swamp is now Limberlost State Historic Site. Pop. (2000) 1,368; (2010) 1,293.
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If Wayne Gretzky is going to coach the Phoenix Coyotes -- and it sure sounds like that will happen -- he will not make it official until after the NHL entry draft next Saturday.
The Great One said as much yesterday at a news conference at Wayne Gretzky's restaurant, where his daughter, Paulina, 16, was introduced as the cover girl for Flare magazine.
"(Today) is the (draft) lottery and next Saturday is the draft and we're going to hold off for eight days until we announce anything," Gretzky, the Coyotes' managing partner, said. "We'll announce (the coaching situation) after the draft."
The Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons reported Sunday that Gretzky is actively looking for assistants to fill out his staff.
"If you can't play, the next best thing is coaching," Gretzky told TSN yesterday.
Gretzky was a happy man for several reasons. This week, his mother, Phyllis, who has been undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung cancer, received a good medical report.
"It has been a fun week for us," Gretzky said. "There was great news with my mother's cancer (Wednesday) and things are going well for her. The NHL is coming back together and we're going to play hockey again, so it has been a great couple of days for everyone."
Gretzky didn't hesitate when asked what the greatest challenge will be for hockey when the NHL resumes play.
"To reunite the players with the fans again," he said. "One of the greatest things about our sport is the players themselves."
That will be more difficult in Arizona than Canada.
"Absolutely, no question," Gretzky said. "(But) Phoenix is a great sports city. We've been a horrible team the past couple of years and (fans) have the right not to be intrigued by our team and our organization.
"But we feel the new collective bargaining agreement is positive for our organization."


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Fast food is notoriously about as good for you as getting hit in the head with a 2'x4′. That said, fast food companies are now offering previously unthinkable healthy options such as — salads (gasp!); fresh fruit (oh, the humanity!); and nuts (I think Mayor McCheese just rolled over in his grave).
So, with the push to actually offering items that might not give you a coronary, are fast food company stocks looking finger lickin' good to investors? Let's take a look at three companies that could cause many of us to spend the rest of our lives on cholesterol reducing medicine.
McDonald's (MCD)
Snapshot: Operates approximately 31,000 restaurants in 100 countries making it the largest restaurant chain in the world.
Recent Price: $41.10
- McDonald's has seen its stock rise bigger than the supersized value meals they used to offer. Since July, shares are up nearly 35% and that is certainly not any kind of small fries, er, potatoes either.
- The company's strategic alliance with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. has enabled it to open Drive-Thru restaurants in China. Wonder what number that billions and billions served will grow to after this very wise strategic move?
- McDonald's recently divested its Chipotle Mexican Grill holdings. While the subsidiary was a source of future growth, McDonald's is once again flush with cash, which can mean good news for shareholders already enjoying a $1 per share dividend. Meanwhile, the company maintains its ownership interest in the expanding Boston Market chain.
- McDonald's has received some less than stellar ratings from customers on its drive thru service and accuracy. With nearly two-thirds of Mickey D's revenues coming from what you order from your car, the Golden Arches needs to make sure their customers keep coming back often. According to the trade magazine, QSR some franchises have taken matters into their greasy hands by hiring call centers to handle drive-thru orders.
- While the stock has had an incredible run of late you've got to figure the shares deserve a break today and will take a short-term breather before making another run. But long-term shareholders won't, um, Grimace at that prospect too much.
- O.K., I am reaching here, but McDonald's does carry $9.5 billion in debt and only $3.6 billion in cash. That said, I do not believe Ronald McDonald will be filing for bankruptcy anytime soon.
Burger King Holdings, Inc. (BKC)
Snapshot: Franchises and operates Burger King fast food restaurants. It operates 11,000 restaurants in 65 countries.
Recent Price: $18.10
- Approximately $435 million in debt has been retired at the "BK Lounge" since the company went public in May. Lower debt means increased cash flow, which can lead to expansion and investment.
- Burger King and Microsoft are joining hands to offer Xbox 360 products at the fast food king's palace. This move could be a homerun or it could be a bust. Either way, you've got to respect companies that are nimble enough to partner with other behemoths and invest in bold initiatives that could spur additional growth.
- Analysts are forecasting 16 percent growth in earnings in fiscal year 2007 and 22 percent earnings expansion in fiscal 2008. If this holds true, then special stock orders for these shares will not upset its investors.
- Burger King's IPO has not allowed investors to have it their way so far, as shares fell below their May offering price and have just recently recovered to flat-line territory.
- I don't know about you, but that King guy in their commercials really freaks me out. Years from now, we'll probably find out that he served time along with the Hamburglar. As for a real concern, Burger King rakes in more than
$3 billion a year, but only earns $27 million in profits. Doesn't seem like the most streamlined bottom-line management in the world to me.
- Bad news: The stock is trading at nearly 71 times earnings for the past 12 months – which doesn't bode well if the market ever turns south.
Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM)
Snapshot: Develops, operates, franchises, and licenses quick-service restaurants under the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver, and A&W All-American Food Restaurants brands. The company operates 34,000 restaurants in 100 countries and territories.
Recent Price: $62.13
- Yum! Brands has been well, yummy, for investors – rising 162 percent in the past three years.
- Apparently, Kentucky Fried Chicken is very popular in the land of sweet and sour chicken, as Yum! Brands sales in China sparked a 6 percent jump in international sales and a 28 percent boost in revenues across the board.
- Third-quarter profits jumped a hefty 20 percent year-over-year to
83 cents per share – a full 10 cents per share better than analysts' projections. That's a lot of people (and Chihuahuas) saying, "Yo quiero Taco Bell!"
- Several analysts have just downgraded the stock, citing valuations and accelerated price-appreciation lately. They certainly have a point after running up 31 percent in just two months to all-time record highs, but savvy investors may see any kind of significant sell off as a buying opportunity.
- While China has certainly spurred the significant revenue and profit growth, U.S. sales have been flat as a tortilla shell, with both Pizza Hut and Taco Bell reporting negative same-store growth during the third quarter.
- O.K., I am scrambling here again, but long-term debt jumped by 21 percent year-over-year to $1.9 billion. Meanwhile, free cash flow only grew by 9 percent. But let's face facts, fast food chains must incur debt to expand and build restaurants, as well as acquire the land they sit upon.
Michael Abramowitz is a freelance writer based in Florida. To avoid a conflict of interest, he does not currently own any of the stocks mentioned above.
* Price quotes are from November 15, 2006.
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Efforts to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty in the U.S. Senate received a boost Friday. Two more opposition Republican Senators say they will vote for the treaty, and the White House is expressing new confidence that it will pass this year.
Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have announced their support for the treaty, which would shrink the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
In a written statement, Snowe said she is confident that New START will add predictability to the U.S. relationship with Russia.
The Senate's top Republican negotiator, Jon Kyl, has said there is not enough time in this year's session to ratify the agreement.
But fellow Arizona Republican John McCain said Friday he hopes the Senate will be able to consider the treaty in the coming week.
McCain spoke Friday at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies in Washington.
"My colleague, Senator Jon Kyl, is doing a tremendous job working with the administration to resolve the issues associated with nuclear modernization," he said. "I have been focusing my efforts on addressing the key concerns related to missile defense. I think, we are very close to agreements."
However, McCain also questioned the wisdom of President Barack Obama's efforts to "reset" relations with Russia, and urged leaders to take a wider look at the relationship between the two countries.
At the White House, the president's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters Friday Congress will not end its session before the Senate ratifies New START, and that Mr. Obama will not leave for vacation until it does. The president is scheduled to depart Washington for his home state of Hawaii on December 18.
One day earlier, Gibbs predicted the treaty would pass the Senate before the end of the year with more than the 67 votes needed.
"When was the last thing we proposed that the last six Republican secretaries of state thought was a good idea, that did not have the vast support of the American people like START does? It is the right thing to do for our relationship with Russia and our relationships in the world," said Gibbs. "It is the right thing to do to cut our deployed nuclear stockpiles. I think it will get done because of that."
All the Senate's Republicans signed a letter last week, saying the tax cut issue must be resolved before they would consider any other legislation.
If the treaty is not ratified this year, the process will start again from the beginning in 2011, with a larger group of minority Republicans in the Senate.


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'Famous Dave' Anderson: Alcohol, drug abuse on reservations is preventable tragedy
WAGNER -- Dave Anderson condemned alcohol and drug use on American Indian reservations following a motivational speech Wednesday to students at the Wagner Community School.
The school has a significant population of Indian students from the Yankton Sioux Tribe.
The Daily Republic interviewed Anderson, an Indian himself and the founder of Famous Dave's barbecue restaurants, after he concluded his address to students gathered from Wagner, Lake Andes, Mitchell Technical Institute and the University of South Dakota.
He believes all Indians need to be alcohol- and drug-free.
"What's happening in our communities is a tragedy that is absolutely preventable," he said. "We need parents to care enough about the future of our people to commit to living sober lives."
He also believes there should be stiffer penalties for tribal members who deal drugs on reservations.
"I'm a believer that if you're dealing drugs, you should be banned and your membership should be taken away," he said. "There's nothing more tragic than to have young people die because of drug abuse."
Drug abuse and violence has hit the Wagner area hard recently. Monday night, a man was shot and killed near the tribal community of Marty, in an incident that allegedly involved alcohol. In July, Reilee Lovell, a 2-year-old girl, died in Wagner while under the care of an Indian couple who were reported to be under the influence of methamphetamines. Lovell's death sparked awareness of the meth problem in the area and motivated increased enforcement efforts by police.
The Wagner school and community are dealing with the issues well, according to Susan Smit, superintendent of the Wagner Community School.
"Every community has concerns," she said. "There is a collaborative effort organized by the hospital that has brought people from the community -- native and non-native -- together to work on issues facing us."
In the wake of the two recent deaths, Smit said she doesn't believe any students at her school have had their emotional needs neglected. The relationships between students and staff are "phenomenal," she said.
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She said the school's goal in dealing with adversity facing students is to provide the best possible education, a clean and healthy environment, safe transportation and healthy food.
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Karyn Crisis is as intensely spiritual as she is musical. For thirteen years was the dynamic and ferocious frontwoman for the experimental metal band Crisis. In early interviews she was often asked who was the woman who performed "duets" on Crisis' early albums; her death metal vocals were often mistaken for a male singer's performance. More recently, she has become involved with Ephel Duath, an Italian avant-garde metal band founded by guitarist and songwriter Davide Tiso in 1998 (Davide is also Karyn's husband). Ephel Duath's latest EP, On Death and Cosmos, will be released by Agonia Records on August 14th 2012 in North America. Karyn is also working on a solo record. You can listen to a new track here. Karyn is also an accomplished shaman and healer, with an intense connection to the spiritual world. I'm honoured to have her interview as part of the Girls Don't Like Metal series.
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What was your gateway into heavy metal and aggressive music? How did it enter your life, and eventually become an obsession and an important part of your career?
I stumbled into metal, not because I was a fan who had a knowledge of the genre, but because I was more like pure innocence forced into a brutal world that wounded me and turned me into a wild animal. The music was my way of transforming my suffering into empowerment, into an unbreakability, by travelling within to the darkest places and finding the light.
I grew up just outside Chicago, which had seriously wild college radio stations and phenomenal live venues and record shops, so I was exposed to noise bands and imports during my middle school and into my high school years. I had a Korg synthesizer and a hollow body Gibson copy I bought at a thrift shop, and I began writing music with them. As I was finding a way to express my pent-up emotions, I was listening to z'ev, and bands from Japan and Germany who were doing out-there organic industrial music which could be categorized as "experimental" I suppose. Most influential on my singing style was hearing Einstuerzende Neubauten. Simultaneously, I was listening to Cocteau Twins and Sugarcubes, so those female singers also influenced the melodic side of my vocals.
I didn't have a knowledge of heavy music when I was buying vinyl in Chicago and other Indiana suburbs. I bought albums based on artwork, and they ended up being the types of bands I listed above. I began writing my own music, and since I only had a guitar and synth, I built other percussive instruments to add to the mix. Music was an obsession, but I didn't understand where this obsession came from, and I didn't particularly like the music I was creating. I just knew I was compelled to write it, and I accepted that this must be the way I was supposed to write. I was not able to control my process, but would find myself in it, and listen to the results much as an outsider.
My expressive needs, over time, increased in emotional capacity. The quieter, brooding and mysterious music I was creating wasn't enough, I needed a more explosive outlet. The noise music I listened to wasn't enough either. Naturally, I was seeking out metal, but I didn't know where to look. So, interestingly enough, the metal found me! In the early '90s, I was renting a room from a NYC photographer, and I was making music on my 4-track in my room. Occasionally I'd ask to borrow his knives to use as instruments. He then introduced me to someone in Crisis when they were looking for a female singer, and they asked me to audition. The rest is history.
I wouldn't say metal became an obsession because I'm a terrible fan. I'm not the kind of person who collects music or researches it and even listens to much music at all. Heavy music was a survival tool for me, a way to both journey inside myself in a raw, exposed way that also had to be shared with an audience.
I suppose my style was more about the magic of the emotion, and emotion is fluid and ever-changing. It taught me that one can't be "angry" all the time, that is merely denial of other emotions. Above all I am driven by the internal integrity to be true and real.
What is your particular approach to heavy metal vocals and to singing in general? Do you think there is a difference between someone who is a singer and someone who is a frontwoman/band leader?
My approach to music and art is similar: I visualize then I channel. Writing lyrics has always been a peculiar ritual for me and is about following a trail of breadcrumb hints rather than a deciding to write about a particular subject matter.
Sometimes I bring a concept about something to the center of my thoughts, but more often than not I just open my intent to write. Then, a word will often pop into my mind, and then I'll flip through a very old thesaurus and follow its trail there, which often leads me to other words and synonyms and phrases, which all open up into lyrics. I can't really get more specific than that, because the lyrics do really write themselves, and I am just the channel. But the process always takes me on a journey down a path where I can't see the next step ahead though I am walking through the experience. It reveals itself to me, and I just have to trust and keep my pen on the paper and when it's finished, the trail and breadcrumbs stop.
Writing vocals: I read the words, and observe as the vocals organize themselves against the music in my mind. Often, they choose notes that I haven't reached before, or low tones that I haven't tried. It's always a challenge, and I never know if I'll be able to sing them aloud! My voice has been my best teacher. So many times I've been asked how I developed my vocal style, and the truth is my voice developed me! Both, as a singer and as a person, my voice has always told me what to do.
In fifth grade, the school was preparing to put on a huge, end-of-the-year play. I was extremely reclusive and antisocial, but for some reason my inner voice told me to try out for the male lead role! I showed up in the audition room, practicing a Mr. T-like growly voice. The boys were teasing me about in the coatroom, until I auditioned and got the part! Everyone wondered how I got that voice to come out of a petite little girl.
When I was in my teen years, writing songs alone with my 4-track, I'd spend time doing what I called stretching my voice: singing along to (melodic) male and female fronted bands of different types. Usually these singers had abilities far outside my own range, but my voice told me to practice this way.
Following my inner voice carried over into my singing style as well. When I listen to my voice, it tells me exactly what to do.
You have contributed guest appearances on a wide variety of projects, from Giant Squid to Voivod. What draws you to specific projects?
I push myself to extremes in all I do. I test my limits; I want to know my capabilities and boundaries, and constantly challenge myself to exceed what I've done before. This is my nature, it's not something I deliberately work towards. I go where I feel is right, I work with what feels right for me, and that passion to know and to experience takes me many diverse places, dark and light. I have no idea how that comes across, but for me the important thing is to experience as much as I can on this planet, in accord with my inner desires.
Like many people who have made heavy music a central part of their lives, your partner, Davide Tiso, is also a metal musician and founder of
Ephel Duath. Was is a mutual love for heavy metal that initially drew you together?
It was something much larger and more mystical that brought Davide and me together under the guise of music. When we tell the story to others it sounds like a fairy tale, or something unbelievable.
After a long break from music, I decided I wanted to work on a solo album, and a friend overseas had offered to help. In addition, he invited Davide (whom I didn't know at the time) into the project to add guitars. Davide reached out to me via email, and from our first exchange, I intuitively felt there was something unusual about our connection. Because of the time difference between the U.S. and Italy, he'd often send his emails to me at 2 am my time. I'd immediately wake from sleeping and open my inbox and see that one minute earlier he'd sent his email. After months of organizing, an arrangement was made for me to fly to Tuscany and stay three months to work on the album.
While the project in that form fell apart due to musical differences, Davide and I remained in a little guest house amongst Tuscan grape vineyards protected by a witch spirit we met there. She taught me daily in the mornings, where I'd channel her information while in a particular room of the house, then Davide and I would travel around Italy. She protected us and cleared a path for us to go back to the U.S. and remain together in response to our wanting to be together. We returned to the U.S. after one month with the plan to record my solo album, but instead we got married and began our life together.
Is it challenging or freeing to work in a band with your partner? How do you negotiate the way that your creative and intimate lives intertwine?
Davide and I are like the pieces of a two-piece puzzle. Each of us are a complete world unto ourselves, and we're also different scenes of the same picture. We're fueled by our creative pursuits individually, but we happen to be deeply in love with each other and in deep respect of one another. Our relationship isn't based on need, it's more like within the company of each other we feel home. We understand that each of us has an intuitive way of creating, and for each of us our intuition is right and correct and special, so we don't try to get in the middle of that relationship with our intuition.
So working together is a wonderful and easy, but challenging at the right times, in the right ways which help us grow.
Perhaps most importantly, Davide is a consummate professional. He's always striving for excellence within himself, and at the same time loves to support the creativity and potential he sees in others. In that way he is very nurturing, and expresses trust in the best others have to offer. Because of that I feel supported and valued as a member of Ephel Duath. He trusts my way of doing things, but can also sense when I am being too hard on myself.
Also, he offers a refreshing attitude towards his music: that it deserves to be done right regardless of obstacles in the way. If the songs need huge production, they will have it one way or another. If the album needs a certain level of musicianship, he will cold-email his favorite bass player in the entire music scene, for example. While he's quiet, polite, and unassuming around others, he also believes in his own music enough to not do what most of us do: feel defeated if the public doesn't love us, nor feel small if he doesn't know the right people to help him. He just trusts. I got used to just settling for time crunches and financial difficulties, and he just allows himself to dream big and not get bogged down by possible obstacles in the way. That is deeply inspiring for me.
On offering each other objective direction, for example, I felt he was resisting working on a new Ephel Duath album (before On Death and Cosmos). I instinctively knew that he needed to get back to writing that material and that it would bring us together musically. So I did what I could to encourage, to help him separate the negative feelings he had for the music business and inevitable member troubles from his own music writing process, because he really was born to make music and is unhappy when not writing and playing.
Once started writing for Ephel Duath again, the songs just began to flow through him, almost faster than he could keep up! I'm happy to help create an environment of support around him and, if needed, feedback, because it makes me feel a sense of peace when he's working with his immense talent.
On my side of things, I was worried about doing his songs justice vocally. Ephel Duath has a history and a singer that fans knew, and Davide was used to writing lyrics and vocal parts. I didn't want to change his process nor the relationship between the vocals and music. So I asked him to write the vocals parts, and I gave certain input there helping to get things to their highest level. He encouraged me to appreciate my voice for once in my life! As a result, I was able to growl my way to new, more refined places in a way that were at the same time more raw. And I found a new love for my voice.
On the whole, our music/art/lyrics writing is a part of who we are, so it is also a daily part of our lives. It's wonderfully freeing to be in a relationship with someone who feels a sense of creative purpose and drive, a need to create, and to know we don't need permission from the other to take time out from part of the day to create. There's also constant creativity/exploration/seeking in our environment which makes things actively interesting and never lacking in passion.
Tell us about your forthcoming solo album. What is the inspiration and the drive behind this project? What can we expect?
The album is entitled Salem's Wounds, and in many ways is a tribute to my Spirit Witch Guide whom I met in Tuscany and who still teaches me today. Musically, I'd say it is a continuation of the music I first made on my own. I don't consider myself anything but a clumsy musician, but am compelled to write these songs. I have a more awakened understanding of myself now than I did in my musical past, when I was burdened by cyclical rage and despair. While musically and lyrically I would create empowering expressions that transformed my inner pain, in regular, waking life I was dysfunctional. Because of all the changes I've put myself through, I still see darkness, but I am not touched by it in the same way. While Ephel Duath offers one side of my vocal abilities, my solo songs will offer quite another.
Your spiritual life is clearly very important to you, as you are very open about the fact that you practice witchcraft and shamanism. How do you think these spiritual paths entwine with heavy metal?
This is a great question! Spirit can work through people in all sorts of lifestyles. Being born a natural medium and psychically open, I found life on earth to be confusing. While I intuitively trusted my connection with Spirit, specifically through my art and music and dreams and goals, I found it difficult to connect with people. On one hand I was trusting, and on the other, insecure and depressed because sharing my experiences was met with criticism. I began to hide part of myself under pressure from family and other adults like teachers who told me to "try and fit in," that I was weird, wrong, strange.
As a young adult, music came into my life and offered me a way to speak about my truth, my wounds, and have an audience willing to listen. That audience was full of other sensitive, outcast people, and many of them were inspiring to me because they built a lifestyle around their supposedly weird, strange interests and ideas rather than hiding those interests. Exposing my deepest, darkest secrets was inspiring to them, empowering to me, and gave me the opportunity, over time, to reconcile my inner self with the outer world.
This is also something that I think is a great strength about many metal fans. Whether or not they are into psychic abilities, they follow their heart, and the music offers a positive release through facing one's darkness. Conversely, I've met many people involved in many types of healing and psychic modalities, and they often greet me with judgment about my appearance and my musical lifestyle. They can be similar to Christians who often have an "us verses them" mentality. In Mediumship, part of the technique of connecting with Spirit who has a higher vibration that we do on earth involves raising our vibration. Listening to music, thinking of someone you love and concentrating on these things raise your vibration. For me, some of the most evidential readings I did for others was after listening to Cattle Decapitation! Their new album makes me happy, and therefore raises my vibration, though a teacher I had cautioned against listening to "angry music." There's bullshit everywhere, and being spiritual doesn't mean wearing white robes and sitting around an acoustic guitar in denial.
Do you ever draw upon out-of-body experiences or clairvoyance in your performance or writing?
On stage, I often experience being out of my body. Thankfully, I shared my space with Spirit who had my highest good in mind. Being out of body can be a dangerous affair, however. As one of my favorite mediums said, "If you're not in your body, then who is?" It's a common experience for sensitive people to hold the emotions of others in their bodies, which can feel overwhelming and confusing. Many people think that they need to be out in space to have a spiritual or supernatural experience, but that couldn't be farther from the truth.
What is it about heavy metal that you think often has it pigeonholed as a distinctly masculine genre?
I think people should get over the battle of men vs. women in metal. What drew me to metal was its brevity, boldness, fearlessness, big loud sounds, triumphant feelings, and dealing with anger/rage/sadness/frustration in a creative and productive way. It allows other people to feel a release and relief from their own problems through the universal language of music. Masculine often means: outward, exploration, conquering, engaging in battle. I haven't felt that from female-generated metal.
In my opinion, women haven't, on a whole, found their own authenticity in metal in the way that riot grrls have, for example. I think women are finding their own collective voice in electronic music for sure, but in metal, not so much. Beautiful, opera-like vocals and flowing gowns just don't make sense in metal to me. While corsets are cool and I own several, it's not possible to sing properly, let alone powerfully, wearing one. And I think that's fine for those who like it! The metal scene allowed me a landscape of music to find my true voice and express my saving grace in this life: my primal scream. Being a wounded person and raging against the world, metal helped me feel it's ok to express my deepest darkest wounds and somehow build a bridge between me and men, whom I didn't trust, and in turn, empower myself.
You bring incredible strength, as well as a great deal of positive feminine energy to your writing and performances. Are you attempting to create a new image of the powerful feminine in the metal scene? Is this a conscious choice?
I feel confident in saying that people who know me probably think of me as a person, rather than as a woman.
In every aspect of my life, I rarely look outside myself for inspiration or comparisons. I am intensely driven to follow my own path, and am keenly aware that I am one of those people meant to discover and learn alone. I am the guy who goes on a vision quest for days at the top of a mountain until he is revealed some truth or system. I have always had an unstoppable desire to know, to learn, to discover through experience, to transform, to shed my skin repeatedly to reveal a stronger, better me.
I've always looked to my music and art as intelligent entities that knew what they were doing with me, and it was an agreement: I'd call to them for release from this painful life and I chose to trust their intelligence above all else, feeling they were a part of the power of the universe. When I first joined a band, Crisis, I didn't realize it would create a dialog, I didn't realize it would inspire others. I was just trying to be my own hero and carry on, serving my creative work, and daring to go where it was taking me. I think about my gender only when I am confronted with it by others.
Do you ever find the metal scene a challenging place to operate in, as a woman?
It has absolutely been a challenge, also because at the start I was a shy, introverted person, and the music business is tough. It used to be much more tough because it operated in real life, in real time and not online. I had to carve out my own way and let people know they must treat me with respect. This meant that if people didn't want to treat me respectfully, which they didn't at first sight, I had to give them reason to.
I can tell you that in 1993, when Crisis was the only female-fronted metal band touring out there, rarely was a woman at a show, so I was a strange sight for some men. I was truly breaking new ground out there, and on a very street level. The scenes across the U.S. were much more violent and raw, and I had to be ready to fight just like the guys. I didn't have a manager to protect me or put any distance between me and fans or other bands in hostile situations. Guys didn't know what to think of me, especially in the early '90s when I wore dresses and combat boots.
But once I was onstage, they got it. They could see we were of similar emotions. They'd start headbanging and knew there was a connection. But there were also times where guys would grab my ass or microphone, or yell, "Show us your tits!" and in those cases I had to break a few noses in the crowd or yell back from the stage with more profanity than they ever heard and managed to put them all in their places. I knew I had entered the boys club and had to play by those rules. In the early days, guys in metal and hardcore crowds didn't believe in chivalry for me, and I certainly had to fight knuckles-to-flesh at times. There were even times when the club's security wouldn't let me in for my own sound check because they didn't believe I was in a band, or you'd find me in a face-to-face screaming match with some fat promoter who didn't want to pay the band. There were plenty of male fans of other bands we toured with who'd find me alone at the merch table and tell me they were going to beat me up.
What advice would you share with someone who wants to make a career our of performing heavy metal and thriving within that community?
I'm not one to ask about thriving within a community, being a solitary person. But, whatever your passion, trust yourself and your instincts. Don't be too defensive defensive way, because that can actively keep out intuitive information that can help guide you in the right direction for you, but really trust yourself instead of relying on the opinions of others. This agreement of trusting yourself will help you know whom else to trust, and help you stand strong in the face on inevitable competition and negative feedback. To thrive, follow your passion, be true to who you are, and tell your story!


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The logistic-normal distribution arises by assuming that the logit (or logistic transformation) of a proportion has a normal distribution, with an obvious extension to a vector of proportions through taking a logistic transformation of a multivariate normal distribution, see Aitchison and Shen (1980). In the univariate case, this provides a family of distributions on (0, 1) that is distinct from the beta distribution, while the multivariate version is an alternative to the Dirichlet distribution. Note that in the multivariate case there is no unique way to define the set of logits for the multinomial proportions (just as in multinomial logit models, see Agresti 2002) and different formulations may be appropriate in particular applications (Aitchison 1982). The univariate distribution has been used, often implicitly, in random effects models for binary data and the multivariate version was pioneered by Aitchison for statistical diagnosis/discrimination (Aitchison and Begg 1976), the Bay ...
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The speakers produce fairly good sound quality, however I have certainly had better in the same price range. Also, the speakers do look and feel a little tacky. I also found it a little strange that the power of the subwoofer seems to be far greater than can be coped with by the speakers. However, you can easily plug in your own speakers to the system.
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The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) provides a number of unique protections to military personnel and their families when dealing with creditors in lending or foreclosure issues. Many lenders and their counsel may be unaware of the extent of their obligations toward service member customers under the SCRA, potentially exposing creditors to liability. The Economic Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently conducted hearings on several proposed SCRA amendments. The ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP) has assembled a diverse faculty for this webinar to provide a range of perspectives on the interplay between the SCRA and the lending industry.
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The Aftermath of Annexation: Russia and Ukraine Adopt Conflicting Rules for Changing Citizenship of Crimean Residents (updated)
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With Russia's annexation of Crimea and Ukraine's non-recognition of the annexation, the question of citizenship status of local residents looms large. According to article 4 of the Russian law from 23 March 2014 "On the Acceptance of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation and the Creation of New Federal Subjects – the Republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Significance Sevastopol," citizens of Ukraine and stateless persons who were permanently residing in Crimea as of March 18 (the date of Crimea's incorporation into Russia) are recognized as citizens of Russia, unless they declare within one month (so by April 18) their desire to maintain another citizenship or to remain stateless. The same article of this law also states that after one month Russian legislation that limits holders of other citizenship from occupying government and municipal jobs comes in effect in Crimea.
The explanations of the Ukrainian authorities on the citizenship status of Crimean residents, the process of acquisition of Russian citizenship and the situation of those who do not want to acquire Russian citizenship and want to maintain their Ukrainian citizenship reveal several problematic issues for Crimean residents. The situation, including regulations and practices affecting citizenship matters, is also changing rapidly and conflicting commentaries and explanations come even from government officials.
The Crimean crisis challenged Ukraine's long-standing policy of non-recognition of multiple citizenship, and the available information shows that the Ukrainian government is treating Crimea as a special case. Ukrainian legislation does not recognize multiple citizenships and voluntary acquisition of foreign citizenship is one of the grounds for initiating of a procedure of terminating Ukrainian citizenship. However, Ukrainian officials stated that Ukraine will continue considering Crimean residents, including those who will apply and will be issued Russian passports, as citizens of Ukraine and will guarantee them political and economic rights. Acknowledging that this "to a certain extent" goes against Ukrainian legislation, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers official explained that the case of illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory and "forceful issuance" of passports by Russia are circumstances that warrant an exception. The Ukrainian State Migration Service explained that Ukrainian citizenship can be terminated only after a person who permanently lives abroad (to become such a person under the Ukrainian law is a complex and lengthy procedure) acquires another citizenship and then applies to have his or her Ukrainian citizenship terminated. Citizenship termination comes into effect once the President of Ukraine signs a decree on this matter, so no action by the Russian state can terminate Ukrainian citizenship in the eyes of the Ukrainian state. While this is correct, Ukrainian citizenship law also contains a provision that allows Ukrainian authorities to initiate citizenship termination procedure in cases when citizen of Ukraine voluntarily acquired a foreign citizenship, but it appears that Ukraine will not be applying this clause to residents of Crimea.
The Ukrainian government already instructed migration service offices throughout mainland Ukraine to accept and process applications from Crimea residents on all passport-related matters, such as applying for a passport for foreign travel, changing the name in the passport, etc under simplified rules. Under Ukrainian law, citizens apply for passport-related formalities to the migration service office at their place of residence, but Crimean residents are now allowed to apply anywhere in mainland Ukraine. The government is also instituting procedures that would allow Crimean residents to vote in Ukrainian presidential elections on 25 May in the Ukrainian regions bordering Crimea. A new law "On upholding rights and freedoms of citizens on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine" was just adopted by the Ukrainian parliament, which states that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has to establish a procedure for paying pensions to Ukrainian citizens in Crimea who do not receive pension payments from Russia. The Ukrainian passport would be also required for Crimeans to obtain Schengen visas. The European Council decided that the EU visa will be issued to residents of Crimea only in embassies/consulates located on the territory of Ukraine and only into Ukrainian passports as the EU does not recognize the annexation of Crimea.
The final version of the law contains a special amendment pertaining to citizenship which was added to the government proposal by the members of the Parliament. According to the stenographic record of the parliamentary debate, MP Volodymyr Ariev from Batkivshchyna party reminded the chamber that Russia set 18 April as the deadline for Ukrainian citizens who are registered as residing in Crimea to submit applications that they do not wish to become Ukrainian citizens, and that after this date Russia will consider all those who did not submit applications as Russian citizens. Ariev argued that this essentially will make many Ukrainian citizens "criminals", presumably because Ukraine does not recognize multiple citizenship and acquisition of foreign citizenship by a Ukrainian citizen is a ground for the Ukrainian authorities to initiate a procedure to terminate the person's Ukrainian citizenship. He also stated that he knows of disabled people in his electoral district who are registered as Crimean residents but who cannot travel there to apply to refuse Russian citizenship by the deadline. He therefore tabled an amendment that "Ukraine does not recognize forceful enlistment of its citizens into citizenship of a foreign country." The amendment was approved on second attempt with 234 votes in favor, together with the amendment that citizens of Ukraine are free to travel to Crimea without obtaining special permission from State Migration Service. The original draft stipulated that citizens of Ukraine, except for those who are registered as residing in Crimea, will need to obtain special permission to travel to the peninsula.
Russia does not require Ukrainian citizens who apply for Russian citizenship to surrender their Ukrainian passports or to formally relinquish their Ukrainain citizenship although, as the Crimean Prime Minister indicated on 11 April, civil servants and law enforcement officials who wish to keep their jobs will be required to formally relinquish their Ukrainian passports. This conformswith the Russian law since, as noted above, holders of more than one citizenship cannot occupy government jobs in Russia. But under Ukrainian law these people will not be able to relinquish their Ukrainian citizenship even if they wanted since one has to permanently reside abroad before one can apply to have Ukrainian citizenship terminated.
Even though from the point of view of the Ukrainian state Ukrainian citizenship of Crimean residents will not be affected by the annexation of Crimea or subsequent actions of the Russian government, including issuance of Russian passports to Crimean residents, Russia will consider as Russian citizens all residents of Crimea who have not formally applied by 18 April not to become Russian citizens. This means, for example, that they will be subject to military service requirements. Ukraine has ended conscription service this year, while in Russia conscription remains in force. Article 3 of the 23 March Russian law on the acceptance of Crimea into Russia states that residents of Crimea conscripted into the Russian armed forces will serve on the territory of Crimea until the end of 2016. After this date conscripted soldiers can be sent to serve anywhere in Russia, including the turbulent region of North Caucasus, and this prospect is hardly appealing to many parents of Crimean boys. For some Crimeans, especially those who identify with Ukraine, the question thus arises whether they want to formally refuse Russian citizenship.
Many reports by local residents and activists from Crimea that have appeared in the Ukrainian media and on social networks since Russia annexed the peninsula indicate that Russia is making it difficult to refuse Russian citizenship. In particular, refusal of Russian citizenship is affected by the limited number of places in Crimea where one can formally register such a refusal. The Russian law of 23 March 23 did not specify to what authority the application to maintain current citizenship and not to be attributed Russian citizenship was to be submitted. Local passport offices affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior that in the post-Soviet region traditionally deal with the issuance of passports and residency registration are accepting applications for Russian passports throughout Crimea. According to a Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) official, as of 8 April, some 80,000 Russian passports were issued to Crimean residents, at a rate of 13,000 a day, and 150,000 applications for Russian passports have been received. One can apply for a Russian passport in about 160 such offices in Crimea, and those who have Crimean registration but are presently outside Crimea can apply for Russian citizenship at a branch of the Russian FMS anywhere in the world, according to the FMS. At the same time, until 11 April, the FMS accepted applications from those who do not wish to become Russian citizens only in four offices in Crimea, three of which are located in and around the regional capital Simferopol and one more in Sevastopol. This means that people living elsewhere in Crimea had to travel potentially over long distances to submit applications, while those who live outside Crimea were not able to apply at all.There is conflicting information on whether Russian embassies and consulates are accepting such applications. On 11 April, FMS in Crimea reported on its Facebook page that it will be immediately opening five more offices in other towns in Crimea, where one can apply to refuse Russian citizenship. At the same time, according to a local blogger and activist, FMS stopped accepting applications sent by registered mail that it was reported to have accepted previously. The mail-in route was actively discussed on social media as it affects those who are formally registered as living in Crimea who in fact have been living, working, or studying elsewhere – in mainland Ukraine or abroad. The registered mail route was considered risky since there are no guarantees that the application will be duly registered or even delivered since the rapid takeover of Crimea by Russia and Ukraine's non-recognition of the annexation also affected mail service and FMS officials also discouraged it.
According to the data provided by the FMS, as of April 7 only 16 people in Crimea submitted applications to refuse Russian citizenship, but other sources indicate that the number are much higher, and furthermore that not all those wishing to apply may be able to do so by the deadline. This report, for example, contains a video filmed inside one of the four offices where applications can be submitted. A person in the video says that she is number 186 in line, and that this is not the first day she has been coming and the line is too long for her to get in. Long lines beyond daily capacity of each of the four offices are confirmed by other local residents and the media. The maximum capacity of each of the four offices which is estimated to be around 70, possibly up to 100, people a day, according to local activists who have gone through the process themselves and are now helping guide others. Given that lines are extending to several days, it's possible that not all those who wish to refuse Russian citizenship will be able to do so by April 18 deadline. If five more offices indeed open from April 11 it would meet more of the demand, but it remains to be seen if all of the demand will be met during the one remaining week.
On social networks people speculate that Russia may have purposefully limited the number of offices to ensure that, given the daily capacity of each office, the number of people who will be able to refuse Russian citizenship in the course of four weeks will not exceed 3% of the Crimean residents, thus approximating official referendum results (according to the official results, 96.77% of Crimean residents voted in March 16 referendum for Crimea to join Russia; the population of Crimea is 2.35 million). On April 9 Ukrainian Justice Minister stated that Ukrainian government also believes that Russia is purposefully creating obstacles for Crimeans who do not wish to become Russian citizens, and that Ukraine is collecting facts to this effect and will add them as evidence for prospective claims against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights.
Decision not to become citizen of Russia in the annexed Crimea is costly – literally and figuratively. According to one FMS official, Russian passports are issued for free until 1 January 2015, and afterwards the price will be 200 rubles (later FMS stated that Russian passports will continue to be free indefinitely), while those who apply not to become Russian citizens will have to apply for Russian permanent residency permits (vid na zhitelstvo) and pay 2,000 ruble fee for it. There is conflicting information as to whether permanent residency permits will be issued automatically to all those who permanently resided in Crimea as of March 18, or whether people will need to undergo a procedure foreigners undergo in Russia before they can acquire permanent residency permit, which involves first getting temporary residency permit and after living with it for half a year applying for permanent residency permit. According to one FMS official, no documents beyond personal application and 2,000 rubles fee will be required from Ukrainian citizens who permanently resided in Crimea as of March 18 to receive Russian permanent residency permit. Another FMS official, however, indicated that Crimeans will first have to acquire temporary residency permit, and then in half a year apply for permanent residency permit and wait another half a year before they can receive it. Yet another FMS official stated that those who refuse Russian citizenship will lose legal status and right to legally be in Crimea on April 19, and therefore will need to leave the territory of the peninsula, then re-enter Russia legally as foreign citizens, register at their place of residence, and only then apply for temporary residency permit. The procedure for applying for temporary residency permits established by the Russian law is complex and requires in documents confirming that the applicant was not convicted by a court before, does not have drug addiction, dangerous infectious diseases, or HIV-AIDS. Most disturbing and most recent information posted on April 11 by a local blogger and citing FMS office in Simferopol as the source is that Crimeans who refuse Russian citizenship need not only to leave and re-enter Crimea for their presence in Crimea to be considered legal after April 19, but that upon re-entry they will be subject to the rule Russia introduced on 1 January 2014 for countries with which it has visa-free travel. This rule is that one cannot stay on the territory of Russia for more than 90 days out of any 180 days. In other words, in order to apply for even temporary residency permit, Crimeans may need to leave Crimean territory twice and spend some time living outside Crimea.
Uncertainty associated with the requirements for registering legal stay in Crimea and the possible loss of rights – potentially even the right to stay in Crimea without leaving and re-entering – if one refuses Russian citizenship, as well as substantial costs associated with getting residency permit as opposed to free Russian citizenship, is likely deterring many Crimeans from refusing Russian citizenship. At the same time, hostile climate towards those with pro-Ukrainian views and forthcoming restrictions on civil and political liberties such as the right of assembly and the ability to criticize the government that are coming to Crimea with the Russian legislation are driving some Crimeans towards leaving the peninsula all together. According to Ukrainian authorities, by the end of March more than 3,500 people fled Crimea for mainland Ukraine, many of them Crimean Tatars, a Sunni Muslim group that considers Crimea its homeland and that traditionally has been pro-Ukrainian and opposed Russian annexation of Crimea. Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk stated that Ukraine is ready to welcome and accommodate as many as 23,000 escapees from Crimea.
Read more on the key provisions of the law and on the debate in the parliament in Pravda.
While the final version of the law would not be available before the official promulgation, read the drafts and the opinions of the legal department and relevant committees on the website of the parliament (in Ukrainian).
Read our earlier news on citizenship in Crimea here, here and here.


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Red Sox honor troops with new initiative
Seats for Soldiers lets fans, players donate tickets to soldiers
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The Sox will provide season-ticket holders with an opportunity to donate their tickets to members of the armed forces for the July 9 game against the Twins. Members of the organization -- including players Josh Beckett and Tim Wakefield, among others -- will also be donating tickets for the contest.
Red Sox shortstop Julio Lugo said while it's only a small offering for the significant duty soldiers are providing our country, it's a way to show them the team's appreciation.
"For them to be going over there to war, there's no way to repay them," Lugo said. "They go over there, risk their life. The least we can do is that. We should bring all of them over here, watch the games by themselves -- feed them whatever they want."
Team principal owner John Henry said the organization is "humbled and inspired" by the work the U.S. servicemen and women are doing across the world.
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