Podcasts about Nadezhda

This is an introduction to Calvary Maiden, a source Tolstoy used to portray the experiences of soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. Tolstoy utilized a variety of such works to craft, more than 50 years after the events depicted in War & Peace, the spirit of that first decade and a half of the 19th century.This source material was an unconventional choice as Calvary Maiden contains the journals of a young woman, Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova, who presented as a man to pursue military ambitions. Her material was first published in 1836, well-after her 9 years of service that commenced in 1806. It was rare but not unprecedented for a woman to so serve. However, journaling her experience made Durova the first known woman in the Czar's army. There are considerable embellishments and falsehoods in Durova's work. Most notably, Durova represents that she ran away from her beloved father's home at about 15 to pursue her military career. However, Durova was likely around 22, and her adventures started after a brief marriage and having a son.  The inaccuracies could be attributable to accommodating government censors, pleasing editors, or for a variety of personal reasons. It does appear that when Durova left home, she initially linked up with a Cossack regiment and later joined a series of calvary regiments, obtaining a position as a junior line officer. Durova has a contemporarily relevant ethnic background. She advertises being born of one of the most beautiful women in Ukraine, which had been something of a free state while under Cossack rule, but was dissolved in 1773-74 and dominated by Czars/Czarinas. Durova's maternal grandfather was a Ukrainian civil servant.  At 16, her mother (also named Nadezhda) became enamored with a Muscovite Hussar who traveled to family's small town near Poltova, an Ukrainian city with historical import.  Her Ukrainian grandfather forbade any such match, as would have been customary. Nevertheless, the two eloped and the young couple was able to pursue their own path as military life initially kept them on the move.  Being around this lifestyle very much fascinated her.Durova was firstborn and describes herself as a monstrously ugly infant and the bane of her mother's existence. However, her father (Andrej Durov) is characterized as industrious, loving and kind. It appears Andrej was descended from a low level of Polish nobility.  This would have allowed his male descendants to gain an officer position, which Durova, in her disguise, was able to merit. Durova sheds light on her escape from roles traditionally associated with females of the time, such as: wife, mother, tutor, mistress and hostess. She participated in some of the grand military events of the day and capably describes life in both war and peacetime. She is one of few authors to focus on the latter, the downtime which often makes up the bulk of a soldier's experience.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music for the Nutcracker, the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, multiple symphonies, several operas, and more. He is among the most popular composers of the 19th century. But as usual he didn't do it alone. He and his friend Nadezhda von Meck had a 13-year correspondence of 1200 letters. They shared (almost) everything with each other, but they never actually … met. Still, Tchaikovsky credited Nadezhda for saving his bank account (many times over), and also his sanity, and even his life. It's safe to say that some of his most gorgeous music would never have been written without Nadezhda. Music for this episode includes licensed music from Pond5 and copyright-free music from Musopen.org. The pieces referenced include: The Nutcracker Suite Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake 4th Symphony 6th Symphony Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures. Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction. Or make a one-time donation on Buy Me a Coffee. Join Into History for a community of ad-free history podcasts plus bonus content. Visit Evergreen Podcasts to listen to more great shows. Follow me on Threads or Instagram as Her Half of History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

fWotD Episode 2671: Nadezhda Stasova Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 27 August 2024 is Nadezhda Stasova.Nadezhda Vasilievna Stasova (Russian: Надежда Васильевна Стасова; June 12, 1822 – September 27, 1895) was a Russian educator, activist, and feminist. Stasova was born into a noble and wealthy family; Tsar Alexander I of Russia was her godfather, and she received extensive private tutoring as a child. After experiencing family tragedy and personal disappointment as a young woman, she dedicated herself to women's education and economic empowerment. Alongside Anna Filosofova and Maria Trubnikova, Stasova was one of the earliest leaders of the Russian women's movement. Together, the three friends and allies were referred to as the "triumvirate". The triumvirate founded and led several organizations designed to promote women's cultural and economic independence, including a publishing cooperative. Subsequently, the triumvirate pushed government officials to allow higher education for women, although continuing opposition meant that their successes were sometimes limited or reversed. Stasova eventually became the lead organizer of the Bestuzhev Courses in 1878, but a decade later was forced to resign under political pressure. In her final years, she continued her support for the cause of women's rights in Russia. Stasova died in 1895.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:33 UTC on Tuesday, 27 August 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Nadezhda Stasova on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Kendra.

After reciting an unflattering poem about Stalin to a small group of friends, Osip Mandelstam was betrayed to the police and endured five years in exile before dying in transit to the gulag. His wife, Nadezhda, spent the rest of her life dodging arrest, advocating for Osip's work and writing what came to be known as Hope against Hope.Hope against Hope is a testimony of life under Stalin, and of the ways in which ordinary people challenge and capitulate to power. It's also a compendium of gossip, an account of psychological torture, a description of the poet's craft and a love story.Pankaj Mishra joins Adam to discuss his final selection for Human Conditions. They explore the qualities that make Hope against Hope so compelling: Nadezhda Mandelstam's uncompromising honesty, perceptiveness and irrepressible humour.Subscribe to Close Readings:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadingsPankaj Mishra is a writer, critic and reporter who regularly contributes to the LRB. His books include Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia and two novels, most recently Run and Hide.Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to the Then and Now podcast with me, Teresa Cherfas. Our guest today is Nadezhda Skochilenko. On November 16, 2023, the Vasileostrovsky court sentenced her daughter, Aleksandra Skochilenko, to seven years in a general regime penal colony. Sasha Skochilenko's ‘crime' was committed about a month after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and consisted in the substitution by Sasha of price labels in a Perekrestok supermarket with short anti-war texts. It was a small subversive act by a witty and talented artist. But the aftermath changed both her own and her mother's lives.My questions include:1. Were you aware that Sasha was going to replace the price labels in the supermarket? Or did you find out about it later?2. Did it surprise you? How did you react?3 I remember seeing pictures of these new price labels by Sasha on Facebook, and being amazed by the subtlety of the idea and its execution – you had to look pretty closely to realize that the labels had completely different texts from the usual ones. The font, the format, the size – everything had been carefully copied but with added facts about the victims of the Special Military Operation. Did she imagine then what consequences it could lead to? And did you realize the danger of what she was doing?4. Tell us about Sasha – what kind of person is she and what was she like as a child? I understand that she's a talented musician and artist. How did you bring her up?5. You now live in France. Had you previously thought of leaving Russia, or was it because of Sasha's arrest?6. Sasha was kept in prison for more than 19 months before her trial. What were conditions like for her and how did she cope? Did it affect her health?7. Seven years in prison for such a ‘crime' – at the time this seemed unimaginably severe.. Was it a surprise to Sasha? And to you?8. What can you do to help her from outside Russia?9. Various organizations, including Rights in Russia, encourage people to write letters to political prisoners in Russia. Does Sasha receive such letters? What do they mean to her?10. Where possible, do you try to disseminate information in the West about other political prisoners in Russia? Do you think the West does enough to support them and intercede on their behalf?11. Does the fact that both Amnesty International and Memorial have recognized Sasha as a prisoner of conscience and a political prisoner, and demand her immediate and unconditional release, have any impact on her fate?12. How do you see the future for Sasha? And for yourself?

In this episode of The xMonks Drive, we have one of the most influential coaches Nadezhda Mihaylova joining us all the way from Bulgaria. Join us and dive into the complexities of motivation as we unravel the myths that shroud this often misunderstood concept. Discover why true alignment lies in inspiration and energy rather than conventional motivational tactics. Explore how work serves as a powerful medium for self-expression, offering a potent source of dopamine, and understand why this addictive nature makes it challenging to disconnect from our professional lives. Challenge the detrimental myth that a leader's role is to make people happy. Instead, learn about the importance of inspiring dreams, allowing room for mistakes, and fostering a culture of learning and action.  Stick till the very end as we delve into these compelling insights, providing a fresh perspective on personal growth, leadership, and the path to genuine fulfillment.Follow us on our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xmonks.ecosystem/Follow me On YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsytOG-7i57hrSwB7fNkcwFollow me On LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravaroragrv/

Framhald af fyrri þætti. Nadezhda Durova fæddist í Rússland laust fyrir 1800. Hún þráði ekkert meira en stunda útreiðar og hernað en móðir hennar var ákveðin í að þvinga hana í hefðbundið mynstur ungra stúlkna með tilheyrandi ófrelsi og kúgun. En þótt það væri freistandi að láta undan urðu kröfur móður hennar að lokum til þess að Nadezhda greip til örþrifaráða eins og hún segir frá í sjálfsævisögu sinni.

In an in-depth interview, Devin Patrick Hughes speaks with former ITN journalist, ClassicFM host, and biographer John Suchet discusses his transition from journalism to classical music as a career because of his connection to Tchaikovsky's music. He shares his initial love for Tchaikovsky's melodies, developing an understanding of music through learning jazz trombone, and his eventual passion for writing about classical music composers. John touches upon Tchaikovsky's struggle with his identity and homosexuality, and how it influenced his symphonic works. Additionally, he considers the debate about Tchaikovsky's dubious death and the bizarre relationship that Tchaikovsky had with Nadezhda von Meck, his best-known patroness. John believes his approach to understanding music is through the man and not the music, and shares never before heard anecdotes about Tchaikovsky's relationships with other men.  00:00 Introduction and Early Life 00:16 Transition into Classical Music 00:34 Tchaikovsky's Early Musical Journey 01:49 Tchaikovsky's Career in Journalism 02:57 Tchaikovsky's Love for Classical Music 03:43 Tchaikovsky's Writing Career 04:13 Tchaikovsky's Love for Other Composers 05:47 Tchaikovsky's Self Doubt 08:13 Tchaikovsky's Struggles with Homosexuality 10:27 Tchaikovsky's Marriage and its Impact 11:57 Tchaikovsky's Influence and Legacy 28:28 Tchaikovsky's Death and its Controversy 38:47 Conclusion: Tchaikovsky's Enduring Impact As the host of The Classic FM Concert with John Suchet for 12 years, John Suchet is a household voice in classical music and broadcasting. Before his career at Classic FM, John was celebrated as one of the nation's foremost reporters and newscasters. At ITN, he covered pivotal global events such as the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Philippines Revolution. He has earned accolades including Television Reporter of the Year and Television Newscaster of the Year. In 2008, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Television Society, marking his remarkable career spanning nearly four decades in television news. John's lifelong passion for classical music, particularly the works of Beethoven, has been a driving force in his life. He authored seven books focusing on the legendary composer, with his latest publication, a special 250th anniversary edition of "Beethoven — The Man Revealed," released in 2020. His dedication to promoting classical music earned him prestigious honors such as an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music. He has also authored books on Verdi, the Strausses, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, the Man Revealed, which is the subject of today's discussion. Thank you for joining us on One Symphony. Thanks to John Suchet for sharing his wealth of knowledge. You can find more info at JohnSuchet.co.uk  and pick up a copy of Tchaikovsky The Man Reveals, and other books by great composers of John's wherever you get your books. Musical selections on this episode today include Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony by the Berlin Phil, Bruckner's Seventh Symphony by Vienna Phil and Herbert von Karajan,, Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz by the Vienna Phil and Willi Boskovsky, Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Three Suites by Duke Ellington, Tchaikovsky's First String Quartet by the Emerson String Quartet, and the Nutcracker by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. You can always find more info at OneSymphony.org including a virtual tip jar if you'd like to support the show. Please feel free to rate, review, or share the show! Until next time, thank you for being part of the music! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/one-symphony-with-devin-patrick-hughes-_UBbpoivcA3/ https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Symphony-with-Devin-Patrick-Hughes-Podcast/B08K57VY49      

Episode: 2896 In which Nadezhda Popova beats off the Wehrmacht in a crop-duster.  Today, Nadia Popova.

On the show, we hear from Lesley Wood, CEO of New Writing South and director of the festival; from David Sheppeard from festival partner, Marlborough Productions; from Alexa Rusakoff, one of the student curators behind Friday's event; from Okechukwu Nzelu who joins us to talk about his in-conversation event with Max Lobe and the workshop on character he's running. We also speak to author of this month's book Nadezhda in the Dark, Yelena Moskovich, who is coming all the way from Paris to appear on the QUEER UKRAINE panel.  It's a jam-packed lineup and a jam-packed show full of great book recommendations and inspiring conversations about queer literature. You can see the full lineup and get your hands on tickets at coastisqueer.com.

✈️ Scopri la straordinaria storia di Nadezhda Popova, l'eroina aviatrice della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, nel nostro ultimo episodio della serie "I GRANDI GESTI DI CORAGGIO NELLA STORIA"! Unisciti a noi mentre esploriamo il coraggio e la determinazione di questa donna che ha sfidato le convenzioni e combattuto per la libertà. Ascolta ora e lasciati ispirare dalla sua eroica avventura.

This month, we speak to Elizabeth Delo, author of BECOMING LIZ TAYLOR, about why she decided to set part of her debut novel in Brighton and how overhearing a conversation in a queue sparked the idea for the book. We also talk to Brighton based Deborah Price about her memoir THE PEANUT FACTORY about living in London squats in the 80s. We talk to Brighton-based Joseph Zigmond about his novel CONSTANCE – a book that came from two very different ideas; one about teenage relationships and the mistakes we make, and another about when climate breakdown starts coming home. We take a deep dive into this month's book club book, Eliza Clark's wonderful PENANCE. Discussing all things from falling asleep to true crime podcasts, to seeing your work adapted to the stage and to the horrors of teenage female relationships. If you enjoy the Brighton Book Club, and want to help keep us on air, please make a donation at https://www.radioreverb.com/donate/. Just one click and a couple of quid makes all the difference. Make sure you pop Brighton Book Club in the reference! Our next show is dedicated to the UK's biggest and brightest LGBTQ+ festival of Literature THE COAST IS QUEER which runs from 12-15 October. Our book club book is Yelena Moskovich's Nadezhda in the Dark. Yelena will be appearing on a panel on Sunday 15th titled Queer Ukraine which is going to be excellent. 

Nadezhda Chalykh is a trainer, consultant and lecturer working in the field of intercultural communication. Here are some of the topics that we discussed in our conversation about language, culture, and communication:* Nadezhda's language learning journey* When it's time to start actually speaking a new language* Different types of communication styles – influenced by language and culture* Ways to communicate better and to avoid misunderstandings* Cultural norms in terms of communication – what is polite? Which topics are considered too personal?* How learning about language and culture are connected and why they are both important* Ways for those using their first language to be more inclusive in professional situations.Find out more on the show notes page:https://www.englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode214

“This is Fate, the force of destiny, which ever prevents our pursuit of happiness from reaching its goal, which jealously stands watch lest our peace and well-being be full and cloudless, which hangs like the sword of Damocles over our heads and constantly, ceaselessly poisons our souls.” With this description, Tchaikovsky gave his patron Nadezhda von Meck a rare insight into the inspiration behind what he called the “nucleus” of his 4th symphony. Despite the fact that Tchaikovsky's music is famously emotional, he usually did not like describing his programs using words. This is one of the contradiction of Tchaikovsky's music for the modern listener: we have these letters where Tchaikovsky described the programs or stories behind many of his most famous pieces, and yet Tchaikovsky himself would not have necessarily wanted us to know them. Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony is at the center of all of these contradictions. It is a symphony in the grand Romantic tradition of the symphony, with all of the technical trappings that a symphony requires. It is also a piece that reflects the growing trend at that time towards symphonic poems, especially in the massive first movement. It is also a piece that seems to be inspired directly by two events in Tchaikovsky's life, his disastrous marriage, and his unique correspondence with Nadezhda Von Meck, his patron who he corresponded with for 13 years without ever meeting her. This relationship was at its beginning when Tchaikovsky wrote this symphony, and so strong were his feelings of companionship with her that he often wrote that this 4th symphony was not “my symphony” but “our symphony.” So today we're going to go through this symphony on two levels, the technical, explaining all of what makes this symphony so tragic, powerful, exciting, and beloved, and also the historical, going into Tchaikovsky's marriage to Antonina Miliukova, and his relationship with Nadezhda von Meck. We'll also talk about the reception to this symphony, which, well, let's just say it was anything but positive. Join us!

At a young age, H.E. Nadezhda Neynsky was exposed to a world that taught her that it was not enough to be capable, talented, hardworking, and ambitious to have a bright future. You need to be a part of the system, piercing through the structures and changing it from the inside. This led her to enter the world of politics, where she is putting herself forward to be part of the change as a builder of modern Bulgaria. In this episode, she joins Anne Pratt to tell her inspiring journey—taking us across her country's history to inspiring hope in the Balkans. Find out how Nadezhda stood up to the Russian ambassador in times of war. Learn about the night that changed her life. And gain insights about the leadership crisis she is seeing in her region and worldwide. Plus, discover her Harvard initiative to build the leadership capacity and unity in the former Balkan states in Southeastern Europe. Full of hard-earned wisdom and advice, this conversation will definitely provide you with inspiration to stand for truth and fortify your own moral courage. Tune in to not miss out!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://anne-pratt.com

Miroslava Baryshnikova, a young composer from Adelaide, spoke about how she came to music, how often she practices the instrument and whether her mother has to force her to play. Miroslava's mother, Nadezhda, spoke about how to raise a child who loves classical music and what connects their family with the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov. - Мирослава Барышникова, юный композитор из Аделаиды, рассказала о том, как пришла к музыке, как часто занимается на инструменте и приходится ли маме заставлять ее играть. Мама Мирославы, Надежда, поделилась советами как вырастить ребенка, который любит классическую музыку, и что связывает их семью с известным артистом балета и хореографом Михаилом Барышниковым.

Nadezhda Kuznetsova is a director of the Andrey Pavlenko School of Practical Oncology, Head of educational and non-profit projects. For more than 10 years, she has been managing non-profit projects, mainly in the field of helping cancer patients. Since 2010, she has directed the World Children's Games of Winners: Sports Competition for Children with Cancer Survivors, in which more than 5,000 children from 20 countries took part. Since 2020, she has been the director of the Andrey Pavlenko School of Practical Oncology, which trains specialized surgical oncologists. Acts as an equal patient. She supervised training in large companies and worked for more than 9 years at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. Specializes in talent management, certified business coach, Hogan Assessment consultant, and ICF coach. Author of Forbes, Finparty, Skolkovo Be in Trend, Novaya Gazeta, Tatler magazine, etc. Nadezhda was a participant in the Evening Urgant, a Russian late-night talk show. She graduated with honors from the philological faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is raising two sons Makar and Gregory. FIND NADEZHDA ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook | Telegram ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.develman/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2023 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

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Increased use of organophosphate chemicals in industry, agriculture and warfare has led to a rising threat of exposure to these neurotoxins in civilian and military populations. Though their danger has been recognised and efforts made to decrease concentrations used, even at low doses these chemicals can still pose significant risks to exposed individuals. Finding effective treatments to counteract the impact of exposure is becoming increasingly important and is the focus of research by Professor Nadezhda Sabeva and Professor Peter Ferchmin at the Universidad Central del Caribe, Puerto Rico.

Episode 2044: Our featured article of the day is Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

Nadezhda Bobrysheva has been engaged in humor since adolescence, participated in various television projects, and worked on radio with her own specifics (censorship is lower on comedy radio). Last year, her mother died of cancer and her grandmother died of from covid, almost simultaneously - this prompted, among other things, a sudden move to Moscow. Born in Rostov and grew up in Kuban, every summer she worked in Anapa as a barker on the banana boat ride. She has a mortgage, is not married, has no children, and had debts of 3 million rubles, but she coped with this abyss in a relatively short time. FIND NADEZHDA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram | VKontakte | YouTube ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

SPaMCAST 728 features a discussion with Anjali Leon and Nadezhda Belousova. We discussed their new model, Product Leadership Stances. One of my takeaways was how powerful the model was in helping to develop an understanding of product leadership and then highlighting gaps in how the role is practiced in organizations.  Anjali and Nadezhda's Bios! Anjali Leon is an Agility, Product, and Professional Coach, Collaboration Facilitator, and Trusted Strategic Advisor.  Through her boutique coaching and consulting practice, PPL Coach, She brings her years of experience in technology, leadership, and Agile to help her clients adapt, innovate, and thrive in the new-normal business environment - where the meaning of ‘winning' is quickly being redefined as integrating better business outcomes and our collective well-being. You can experience Anjali's authentic head, hearts and hands approach to product, people, and personal leadership through one of her unique value-driven and values-based coaching programs, workshops, and training. Anjali is an accredited trainer through ICAgile and ProKanban, is a trained co-active coach and is a committed lifelong learner. She is recognized as an inspiring speaker, conference organizer, and community leader. She is co-creator of Product Leadership Stances™, co-founder of HitRefresh – a resilience-building practice, founder of Empowering South Florida Women in Agile, and member of the advisory board for ProKanban.org. Anjali's Profile linkedin.com/in/anjali-leon Website  ppl-coach.com (Company) Twitter thepplcoach4U awakencoach AnjaliLeon Nadezhda Belousova is an Integral Master Coach™ and an independent Enterprise Business Agility Strategist who deeply cares about high-performing scalable businesses with human-centric approach and sustainability at heart. She brings a combination of psychology, multiple professional coaching approaches (ORSC, Solution-Focused coaching, Clean Language, etc.), years of extensive hands-on consulting experience in various industries, and a can-do-all mindset. Nadezhda sees organizations holistically as living systems and enables them to unleash their potential – to evolve, to re-invent themselves, to thrive. She runs a boutique organizational coaching and management consulting practice serving her clients worldwide from Berlin, Germany. Nadezhda is a mentor, speaker and a passionate contributor to a number of professional communities (European Organizational Design Forum, Agile Alliance, Business Agility Institute, etc.). LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadezhdabelousova Product Leadership Website: https://www.productleadershipstances.com/ Re-read Saturday News This week  we re-read Chapter 1 of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond (Amazon Associate Link). Chapter 1, Introduction to Badassery in Agile Coaching, is an overview of the book including thoughts on how to read it and a whole lot more. This Week: Week 2: Introduction to Badassery in Agile Coaching  - https://bit.ly/3hcEPMs  Previous Weeks: Week 1: Logistics and Forewords - https://bit.ly/3zoAYlx  A quick advertisement: Controlling work entry requires preparation and knowledge building to establish a path to control work entry (magic wands are normally not available), which is why Jeremy Willets and I have developed a work entry workshop. Interested? Please email us at tcagley@tomcagley.com or willetsjm@gmail.com Next SPaMCAST  In the SPaMCAST 729 let's go back to basics and discuss why it is a rotten idea to have a functional product owner and a technical product owner.  Tony Timbol will also bring his “To Tell A Story” column to the podcast.   

Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina, the most famous defector of the cold war, was born in luxury, in the Kremlin and led an extraordinary, tumultuous life. She died destitute at a care home in Wisconsin.In this episode we tell the incredible story of Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, born Stalina and later known as Lana Peters. If you like our content, please become a patron to receive our two exclusive premium episodes each month, as well as our public episodes ad-free. Born on February 28, 1926, in Moscow, Svetlana was Stalin's favorite child and The Princess in The Kremlin. Her mother Nadezhda was a secretary for Lenin and played an important role in Stalin's rise to power. She committed suicide when Svetlana was just 6 years old. Her brother Vasily was 11 and her half brother Yakov was 25. Artyom, her adopted brother and the only one of her siblings who reached old age, was already a young man. Svetlana had a lonely childhood, very few friends and was interested in literature and poetry. She was the only one that could influence Joseph Stalin. During the Great Purge, she managed to save the lives of many people just by pleading with her father to commute their sentences. She was 10 years old at the time. As a 16 yo teenager, she fell in love with filmmaker Aleksei Kapler, who was 20 years older. Stalin sends him to the Gulag because he was Jewish. Joseph Stalin himself married Nadezhda when she was just 16 years old and he was 39. Svetlana rebelled and married another Jewish man, but their union was short lived. Her first son Josef was born. Her second marriage disintegrates just as fast, but now Svetlana had a daughter too, Yekaterina. During WW2, Her brother Yakov was captured by the Nazis and Stalin refused to exchange him for Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus. Yakov commits suicide by throwing himself on an electrified fence. Vasili dies of alcoholism induced cirrhosis at just 41. After Stalin's death, Svetlana, now a single mother of two, fell in love with Indian translator Kunwar Brajesh Singh. When he dies, she traveled to Delhi to pour his ashes in the Ganges. In Delhi, Svetlana walked into the US Embassy and defected, bringing her first manuscript– 20 Letters to A Friend – to America. She publishes it and earns almost $1M. Most of her money was spent by William Wesley Peters, the world famous architect and vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation after their marriage and years living together at the Taliesin Fellowship. Her marriage to Peters ended, but they had a daughter together, Olga. She now goes by the name of  Chrese Evans and lives in Portland Oregon. 1 In 1978, Svetlana, now Lana Peters became a US citizen. 2 Her older daughter, Yekaterina, is a volcanologist in Kamchatka Penninsula in Siberia. Her firstborn son Iosef, a cardiologist, died in Russia in 2008. She was never able to see them again after she fled from Russia. On November 22, 2011, Svetlana died of colon cancer, at the Richland center, a care home in Wisconsin. 3 Episode #Dubimeter: 20 1. Nicholas Thompson. My Friend, Stalin's Daughter. The New Yorker. March 2014. ⇤2. Steven V. Roberts. Stalin's Dauhter Confirms Marriaje to Architect. The New York Times. April 1970. ⇤3. Get.factual youtube channel. Stalin's Daughter - Escaping the Shadow. Youtube. July 2022. ⇤

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In the seventh episode of season 4, Janina Neumann chats to Nadezhda Chalykh, founder of Cultureyes Consultants. This episode will give insight intoExperiences of moving from Russia to France to the UK to ItalyThe impact of culture on personality Overcoming cultural challenges in the workplaceIf you enjoyed this episode, please don't forget to review, subscribe and share with others :).www.thebiculturalpodcast.com

Welcome to Episode #47 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Nadezhda Kadenova onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Kazakhstan. My conversation with Nadezhda Kadenova, a yoga teacher from Kazakhstan, was so lovely as we discussed how yoga is an intimate inner experience, and how it's not a fantasy— it's a discipline. Yoga is where you learn about yourself and have to actually “overcome yourself” to show up for your practice every day. If you're looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about yoga how yoga is not a magic pill, it is a constant self-development practice, then this is the conversation for you. Tell me more about Nadezhda Kadenova Nadezhda has been teaching Hatha yoga, pilates, and prenatal yoga in a local yoga studio in Almaty, Kazakhstan since 2019. She has been practicing yoga on regular basis since she her completed my first yoga teacher training in 2013, in Rishikesh, India. She has also studied yoga at Yoga Vidya Gurukul in Nasik, India in 2018 and is currently just traveled to India in April 2022 to do a Prabodh yoga training at Yoga Vidya Gurukul. She has completed fly-yoga training and helps manage a yoga studio in Kazakhstan. What to expect in the Yoga In Kazakhstan episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Here mother was practicing yoga at home, and first learned yoga at University although they didn't call it by the name yoga. It was referred to more as gymnastics or exercise, so when Nadia started to become interested in yoga books at a young age it wasn't a surprise. Starting when she was nine years old, Nadia found books about yoga at the library. First came to know yoga from books in the library, and as she grew older she got more and more interested in yoga and continued to read copious amounts of books on the path of yoga. She went to Rishikesh to receive her first yoga teacher training. She has returned to India many times ever since. She manages a yoga studio in Kazakhstan and loves how the yoga studio community is like a true family, which is something she feels is part of yoga itself. Nadia defines yoga as a lifestyle, and as unity and peace inside yourself. It's an intimate an inner experience. I loved how Nadia says that yoga is not a fantasy, it's a discipline. It's something you don't always want to do. You need to “overcome yourself” to show up on the mat— yoga is developing strong willpower. You work on your habits and on your perception of the world, and on your negative perception of the world. You become more aware of your own reactions, and you realize that you are responsible for everything that happens within you. What you do now is your choice. Yoga is a constant self development practice. For the skimmers - What's in the yoga in Kazakhstan episode? Avidly reading yoga books ever since she was 9 years old What it's like to manage a yoga studio in Kazakhstan? Yoga is constant self-development practice A yoga teacher is not a doctor, and yoga is not a magic pill “Overcome yourself” to show up on the mat Connect with Nadezhda Kadenova https://instagram.com/yoga_na_zhubanova https://instagram.com/nadi_kadenova Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ Questions? Comments? Let's get social! https://www.instagram.com/wildyogatribe/ Everything you need is just one click away! Check out all the resources here: https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wildyogatribe/message

In 1888, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony was premiered. It was enthusiastically received by the audience, and by Tchaikovsky's friends. But Tchaikovsky's nemesis, the critics, were not so happy with the piece.   One utterly tore apart the symphony, writing after a performance in Boston: "Of the Fifth Tchaikovsky Symphony one hardly knows what to say ... The furious peroration sounds like nothing so much as a horde of demons struggling in a torrent of brandy, the music growing drunker and drunker. Pandemonium, delirium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded!” Another wrote: “Tchaikovsky appears to be a victim of the epidemic of the Music of the Future, that in its hydrophobia, scorns logic, wallows in torpor, and time and again, collapses in dissonant convulsions. Of basic inspiration in these people, who present interest at most as pathological cases, there is very little indeed.”  Usually this is the moment where I quote Sibelius' brilliant: “no one ever built a statue to a critic” line, but for once, Tchaikovsky somewhat agreed with his critics. He wrote to his legendary patron Nadezhda von Meck: “I am convinced that this symphony is not a success. There is something so repellent about such excess, insincerity and artificiality.” Though he later changed his mind, the last movement of the symphony was always problematic for Tchaikovsky, and its been problematic for many performers and audience members to this day. Is the ending a profound expression of triumph over fate? Or is it hackneyed, over the top, and as Tchaikovsky said, excessive? Perhaps it's the controversy over its ending, or perhaps something else, but ever since its premiere, Tchaikovsky's 5th has been one of the most dependable audience favourites around the world. Today I'm going to take you through the genesis and the composition of this wonderful and polarising symphony. Join us!

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En el cuarto capítulo de la temporada proseguimos con el serial sobre el compositor ruso Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky adentrándonos en los años centrales de su vida y en su relación con Nadezhda von Meck. Además, hablaremos del Chevalier de St. George y la música antillana y del compositor letón Janis Ivanovs.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 165, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Lenin Closet 1: When Russian Marxism split into 2 factions, Lenin led this "majority" group. the Bolsheviks. 2: Lenin got a degree in this in 1891, then went on to court a lot of trouble. law. 3: Lenin met his wife Nadezhda while exiled here. Siberia. 4: Lenin spent WWI in this country, but he was far from neutral on the subject. Switzerland. 5: When Lenin returned to Russia in 1917, he did it in a "sealed" one of these. railway car. Round 2. Category: County Seats 1: Hilo, I love you, you're the seat of this county that's also a "Big Island". Hawaii. 2: Paris (population 8,730) is the seat of Bourbon County in this state. Kentucky. 3: This Iowa city, the seat of Black Hawk County, has a name Wellington would remember. Waterloo. 4: Quincy, Illinois is the seat of a county with this presidential name. Adams. 5: As I walked out in the streets of this city, I was in the seat of Webb County, Texas. Laredo. Round 3. Category: Idioms 1: In Spain it comes down in "jugs"; in Italy, "basins"; in France, "ropes"; and in the U.S., "cats and dogs". rain. 2: You can "keep a straight one" or "fall flat on" it. your face. 3: An Italian may "lead the life of Michelaccio", rather than this Irishman. Riley. 4: To reverse positions and seize the advantage is "to turn" these on someone. the tables. 5: As Francois Truffaut could have told you, in France "to sow one's wild oats" is "to strike" this many "blows". 400. Round 4. Category: Phrases That Sell 1: "Obey your thirst" and drink this. Sprite. 2: "Be all that you can be" in this military branch. the Army. 3: This network says it's "The most trusted name in news". CNN. 4: This shipping company asks, "What can Brown do for you?". UPS. 5: It's the popular query in Verizon's TV ads. Can you hear me now?. Round 5. Category: Eating In America 1: It's said this SW. feast comes from French "from snout to tail," the way meat is put on a spit. barbecue. 2: Though known for pickles and "slow" ketchup, this company's 1st product was horseradish. Heinz. 3: Since overeating was a status symbol, early rulers of what's now this state often weighed over 400 lbs.. Hawaii. 4: In 1879, Chase and Sanborn became 1st U.S. company to pack this in sealed cans. coffee. 5: Due to contamination of crops from N.W. states, growers of this small fruit had a bad Nov. in 1959. cranberries. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

How do you deal with the lack of cultural awareness when it comes to your business' expansion in a land that is foreign from yours? Putting in efforts and sacrificing things as you spend time marketing your company indeed bring disappointment and apathy once everything fails to work. There's this sadness of missing an opportunity that could have brought you to wonderful heights, but have you ever given it a try to consult the right professional for an effective marketing style? In today's time, we're surrounded by a never-ending cycle of continuously modernizing tactics. It's a must that you keep yours updated, but that's a piece of cake now as Nadia is here to give you a treat! Nadezhda Bukina is a marketing professional from Kazakhstan who came to China 3 years ago. Fast forward to today, she is a CEO of social media and marketing agency in Hangzhou, the 'Silicon Valley' of China. In this episode, Nadia talks about the power of social media with regards to bringing your business into successful heights. Here, she mentions the mistakes that hinder you from achieving your goals in the corporate world, and also shares ways on how you can overcome the discouraging effects of your downfalls.   What you will learn from this episode: Know how cultural gaps affect your performance and emotions towards your business Discover why it's a mistake to try and solve everything by yourself without asking for a professional's advice first Find out how powerful social media is with regards to boosting and expanding your business' growth both in China and the world   “Constantly audit the accounts that you have and efforts that you make and see if they bring the necessary return on investment. Sometimes, we just get too caught up into investors; business-wise, it's not the best decision.” – Nadezhda Bukina   Topics Covered: 01:41 – Nadia describes her ideal clients. 02:17 – Problem she solves for her clients: The cultural gap of not having the cultural perception and heritage of the locality where they want to expand a business. 03:27 – The typical symptoms: The discouragement and apathy towards having the efforts wasted into a missed opportunity. 04:29 – The mistakes: Not asking advice from professionals, not researching, and rushing into decisions without a strategy. 05:13 – Nadia's Valuable Free Action: “Constantly audit the accounts that you have and efforts that you make and see if they bring the necessary return on investment.” 05:52 – Nadia's Valuable Free Resource: Traditional Excel, Power BI, and any analytical tool that keeps you updated with your company. 06:30 – Book Alert: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 07:23 – Question: “Does somebody, as a business, absolutely need social media?” 07:51 – The Answer: “When is an essential time to bring in social media?”   Key Takeaways: “Nowadays, there are so many consulting companies and consulting professionals that can give you advice for just any price and sometimes even voluntarily. Not asking this advice, not researching by yourself, and rushing into decisions, not having a strategy – I would say these are the biggest symptoms.” – Nadezhda Bukina “Anything that helps you keep updated with what's happening in your company and in your marketing department is a good choice.” – Nadezhda Bukina “B2C social media is a must. B2B social media is desirable.” – Nadezhda Bukina “In regards to B2B, if you're a professional, LinkedIn is the best social media for you.” – Nadezhda Bukina   People / Resources Mentioned: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari   Ways to Connect with Nadezhda Bukina: Website: https://www.sanq-marketing.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadezhda-bukina/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadezhjda/   Ways to Connect with Howard Whiteson: Website: https://www.wealthwithoutborders.net Podcast: https://www.wealthwithoutborders.net/podcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardwhiteson

“Kære Mor. Jeg savner dig. Jeg har fået et barn, og hun minder om dig - hun minder om os. Jeg ville ønske, at du kunne møde hende og holde hende. Jeg tror, det ville gøre dig lykkelig - og jeg tror, du ville være stolt af mig. Det mangler jeg”. Nadezhda bliver mor som 24-årig, og selvom alting er planlagt, bliver intet, som hun havde tænkt det. I den tid mangler hun allermest et stort kram - og sin egen mor at spejle sig i. Reporter: Liva Manghezi

Our first Agent of the Month episode of Support Heroes by Kaizo featured Nadezhda (Hope) Zubova from Miro. During the episode, Hope explores what motivates her as an agent. Showing how supporting agents personally and operationally improves their well-being and therefore deparemental performance. Happy listening!

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This Episode is going to be #feminist and controversial, not for sensitive, conformative ears... The Brasilian Edition that I am talking about is: "A Moça do Internato“, published by "Editora Zouk" in 2017 This American Edition and very rare is the ISBN13: 9780810117440 For more chats and readings @sofareader

This devotional was written by Nadezhda Troshina.Receive Daily Devotionals to your email by clicking on this link: https://bit.ly/2C1B1sH and filling out your info!Comments or Questions? Please email us at mail@3abn.org or call 618-627-4651 during our regular business hours (MON-THURS 8:00 AM-5:30 PM).Donate: https://3abn.org/donate-quick.html

Nadezhda is originally from Kazakhstan, studied in London and has moved to Hangzhou three years ago. After obtaining her Chinese master's degree, she has decided to start her own marketing agency in China, called "SanQ". Now she uses her extensive work experience from her time at the world's leading cosmetics brand to create the best social media and branding solutions for businesses in China. In this episode she shares how she has decided to take the brave step to start her own business in the midst of the current pandemic and how this career path might suit you, too. This is what you'll learn: Deciding between a corporate job and entrepreneurship What it takes to succeed in marketing in China Why starting a business during a pandemic is not as hard as you think Proper networking through community building and volunteering How to obtain a residence permit that allows you to start a business Connect with Nadezhda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadezhda-bukina/

In this week's episode we explore the amazing life of revolutionary writer Nadezhda Mandelstam and her time under Stalin's rule.Insta: @papergirlFB: The A-Z of Marvellous Women/Papergirl PodcastEnquiries: papergirlpodcast@gmail.comSources: https://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/hope-against-hope.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicebroster/2020/05/28/period-poverty-is-getting-worse-during-coronavirus-warns-charity/?sh=6eff2b343f73https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/europe/scotland-free-period-products.html 

Il 13 gennaio 1894 muore Nadezhda von Meck. Guido Zaccagnini lo racconta a WikiMusic

Entrevista con Carlos Cantero, entrenador de Durán Maquinaria Ensino. Tras formarse como preparador físico, jugador, entrenador, scout o incluso de periodista deportivo, a Carlos se le apareció la oportunidad de dirigir el baloncesto femenino en Lugo de la noche a la mañana. Una oportunidad merecida, pues el joven técnico ya había pasado por grandes proyectos como Nadezhda o Sopron. Charlamos con él sobre su experiencia fuera de España, su tiempo en Lugo y la plantilla del próximo año.

This week our podcast is devoted to the journalist Yury Shchekochikhin, who was born on June 9, 1950. He would have turned 70 this year. Our guests are the executive director of the Moscow PEN Centre, Nadezhda Azhgikhina, director of the Media Rights Protection Center Galina Arapova and chair of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov. Our podcast consists of two parts. In the first part we will talk about Yury Shchekochikhin as a journalist in the context of his time - above all, as a journalist during the era of Gorbachev's perestroika. In the second half we will consider the profession of journalist. What does it mean to be a journalist in today's world, in today's Russia? Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: The conversation that Simon Cosgrove and I had last Sunday was dedicated to the memory of Yury Shchekochikhin. On 9th June he would have turned 70. Yury Petrovich has not been with us now for 17 years. His was a strange death, that many suspect was a murder. It deprived us of the pleasure of admiring the talent of this brilliant journalist. Yesterday's meeting on the Internet brought together the most interesting interlocutors: Nadezhda Azhgikhina, herself a wonderful journalist and widow of Yury Petrovich; Galina Arapova, director of the Mass Media Rights Centre, and Nikolay Rybakov, chair of the Yabloko party. I admit, I myself listened to our interlocutors with the greatest interest as memories of Yury Shchekochikhin melded smoothly into a discussion about the nature of journalism today. We remembered this wonderful man, an extraordinarily courageous journalist and politician. We talked about the current generation of journalists, about students, about the fate of journalism in our country – at both federal and regional levels. The hour flew by quickly, but we managed to talk about a great many things.This podcast is in the Russian language. You can also hear these podcasts on SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes. The music is from Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Viola, played here by Karolina Errera.

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Nadezhda Azhgikhina (pictured left), executive director of the Moscow PEN Centre. Nadezhda Azhgikina previously served two terms as vice-president of the European Federation of Journalists, and before that was a secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia. Nadezhda Azhgikina's career as a journalist began at Komsomolskaya pravda, where she worked during the 1980s – the years of perestroika and glasnost – before moving to Ogonek and later to Nezavisimaya gazeta. This podcast is in the Russian language. You can also hear these podcasts SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes. If this podcast does not play immediately on the podcast.com website, please download by clicking on the three dots to the right.A summary of some of the week's events in Russia relevant to human rights can be found on our website here.

"In moments of greatest difficulty and danger, when many stronger comrades lost heart and succumbed to doubt, Nadezhda Krupskaya remained always the same, totally convinced of the rightness of the cause and of its certain victory. She radiated unshakable faith, and this staunchness of spirit, concealed behind a rare modesty, always had a cheering effect upon all who came into contact with the companion of the great leader of the October Revolution." In this episode we discuss 'How Lenin Studied Marx' by Nadezhda Kruspkaya. In this vital work Krupskaya uses her unique insight into Lenin's life to illustrate how he 'consulted' Marx as well as his method and the true depth of his understanding of the great thinker. Often dismissed merely as 'the wife of Lenin', Krupskaya shows here her profound understanding of Marxism and we talk about why she was such an important figure in the development of the USSR. This episode is part of our series on Marxist feminists. As Mao and Thomas Sankara said, “Women hold up the other half of the sky.” Red Book Club recognizes that including the voices of nonmen in our studies is not a niche activity, but is in fact an essential step in gaining the most comprehensive view of the material conditions of the past and present as we possibly can; so we’ve planned this series to amplify the ideas that nonmen have been bringing to the conversation for centuries. From Federici’s analysis of women as a means of primitive accumulation to Luxemburg’s essay of the benefits of revolution vs the impossibility of reform, each of these works confronts history and the movement for social change through the lens of the experiences of nonmen in society. Follow us on Twitter at @RBCpod and feel free to message us if you need links to companion resources or have any questions. You can also find us on our new site at www.rbcpod.wordpress.com where you can find ebook copies of the works that we're covering and more. If you'd like to join the book club, you can join our podcast's discord server Red Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/redbookclub including access to our Red Book Club server and more. Thanks to @NunezKeenan for the intro theme; you can find more of their work here: http://tiny.cc/keenan Thanks to the Craig bot for helping us to record via Discord! Outro music: Надежда - Анна Герман - [Nadezhda - Anna German]

Nadezhda Kutepova was born in Soviet Russia, in a city that didn’t have a name. She grew up believing that her father made sweet wrappers at a local factory. But years after his death from cancer, she learned the truth: he had worked at a secret nuclear plant that the city was built to support. Years of lax safety regulations and a significant accident in 1957 had exposed both the plant’s workers and citizens in the surrounding areas to dangerous levels of radiation, resulting in devastating health problems, even sometimes for multiple generations. In 1999 Nadezhda decided to defy the culture of secrecy, and formed a charity, Planet of Hopes, to fight for those affected by the plant. She won some notable victories in court, but faced backlash from the Russian state and media, as well as from some inside her own community. In 2015 she felt forced to flee to Paris. She spoke to Jo Fidgen. Photo: Nadezhda Kutepova Credit: Courtesy of Nadezhda Kutepova

Dear Listeners,  We bring you today a tale of pen-pals. But it was so much more than that! Listen to learn about money, friendship, and music. Yours Truly, The CoffeeHouse Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.1%2C_Op.11_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Seasons%2C_Op.37a_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Changing Values and Identities in the Post-Communist World Editors: Lebedeva, Nadezhda, Dimitrova, Radosveta, Berry, John (Eds.) Publisher: Springer International Publishing Copyright: 2018 Site: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319726151

The Fourth Symphony was a product of the most turbulent time of Tchaikovsky's life - 1877, when he met two women (Nadezhda von Meck, a music-loving widow of a wealthy Russian railroad baron, and Antonina Miliukov, an unnoticed student in one of his large lecture classes at the Moscow Conservatory), who forced him to evaluate himself as he never had before.

We are excited to announce the finalists for our April Flash Fiction Contest.  Below you will find all four stories.  Check them out and then vote on our Facebook poll and on Twitter.  The winner will receive the $50.00 cash prize.  April's topic was "The Global Weirding", and we were all truly impressed with the quality of work submitted.  If you did not make the finals this month feel free to submit next month as we will announce the flash fiction topic on May 1st for the May Flash on the Horizon contest.     Finalist #1 TEETH by Laura Ryan   We were on week three of the quarantine when the man arrived. Ioni noticed him first and ran excitedly into the living room where mother was removing the last of papa’s teeth. “Hold still,” she hollered as she twisted and yanked inside his mouth. She held the pliers in one hand and a bloody kitchen towel in the other. Ioni yelled excitedly but she was hard to understand. Her teeth were removed a week ago and she still had trouble speaking clearly. The rest of us had already learned how to use our tongues in a way to make speech comprehensible. Mother stopped what she was doing, mid yank, when she finally understood what Ioni was saying. I was in the corner sharpening the knives and stopped suddenly, feeling a sudden tightening in my chest. Mother’s panic was contagious. “Get in the basement. NOW!” I jumped up and grabbed Ioni and hollered for the others as we headed for the cellar. We practiced this drill countless times since the quarantine began. Sometimes mother and papa woke us up in the middle of the night, startling us with shouts and loud noises, so that we were automatically programmed to run to safety. Huddled on the old couch in the basement we listened to the voices above us. We heard mother and papa and then a stranger, the man, talking in words that were unintelligible. But we understood the tones —- harsh, guttural, pleading. Silence. Then the man’s voice became louder. We understood that he was now inside the house. I looked over at my brothers and sisters, wide eyed. We had not seen another person outside of the family for months, even before the quarantine. Our farm, miles away from the nearest neighbors, afforded us unique protection. We were prepared with food and supplies, and our generator kept our batteries charged. We knew about the virus, the chaos, the danger of others. We also knew about the danger of ourselves. Once the virus infected the central nervous system, it destroyed the prefrontal cortex of the brain. No more rational thought, no more mind controlling the brain. The brain operated solely via the amygdala, which became a hot locus of rage under the virus’ command. Rabies was the old name, a lyssavirus that was transmitted from the saliva of animals, now mutated to spread between humans. This mutation appeared out of nowhere, and with the rampant destruction of civilized society, its origin was impossible to determine. Those with the infection were attacking others, in a blind rage, spreading the virus through bites. Death was rapid, hastened by injuries, and inevitable due to hydrophobia, a virally mediated fear of water. I silently crept to the base of the stairs, straining to hear anything from above. Silence. I slowly climbed the steps despite the wild gesturing of my siblings. No one made a sound but their terror was palpable. I continued to the door and pressed my ear against it. Silence. I pushed the door open a crack and peered through. I could see mother’s body on the floor, blood pooling around head. Despite my fear I pressed on, needing to know what lay around the corner. I pressed my back tightly against the wall and continued to edge further from the basement door. I saw him then, crouched in the corner of the living room, examining the knives I had been sharpening just minutes before. He turned to look at me, wild, disheveled, a layer of grime coating his face. His eyes were black, but his teeth. His teeth were a grotesque, dazzling white. Finalist #2 The Monolith by Ross T Byers Today, God crushed Svetlana under His stone heel, mashing her meat and marrow deep into the soil.  God, like the wind over the steppes, never ceases when one is in the way.  Or, perhaps it is more accurate to say that the wind is like God, never pausing to notice us.  The steppes are littered with cragged, sharp, broken stones, the bones and bodies of God’s brothers, whom He slew.  He broke them apart, divine fratricide, and scattered the pieces.  The grass is low and yellow, the sky is always gray, and the wind never rests.  It is best to get close to God at night, for his body blocks the wind, but those too near are crushed to death when He rolls over in his sleep.  It is safer to sleep near the bones of His long-dead brothers, though the wind always finds its way around to us.  In the morning, we scrub the bird excrement off God.  We must do it in the early light, before He wakens and rises.  Those who plummet from His towering stone shoulders, or who are crushed under His massive granite feet are left in the mud, their blood nourishing the yellow grass.  We must always follow God.  He is our protector.  He is our life, our purpose, our joy.   II. Once, Nadezhda failed to climb down from scrubbing God before He awoke.  She clung to the fissures in God’s torso, wedging her finger-tips into the crevices as God stood.  God looked down at Nadezhda, gravel flaking from His neck, His wind-worn face no more than an outline, a suggestion, its expression fixed.  He cupped Nadezhda in His left hand.  We wept at the sight.  We knelt in awe.  God had never acknowledged or touched one of us before.  Nadezhda lay prostrate in God’s palm, senseless with bliss.  Then God braced the middle finger of His right hand against His thumb, and flicked Nadezhda off His palm.  For a moment, a misty red cloud hung in the sky, suspended above God’s palm as the pieces of Nadezhda scattered to the horizon.   III. The wind always wins.  Many people tire of its ceaseless howling, the endless struggle, how it always blows in our faces no matter in which direction God is leading us.  He is our only shelter.  He walks forward, into the wind, never blinking or halting.  We avoid His footprints, which are deep and wide, and sometimes fill with groundwater.  Only when there is a flooded footprint can we slake our thirst.  His footprints are long and wide enough for ten families to kneel and drink.  It takes us one hundred steps to match one of His.  Though his stride is long, it is slow, which allows us to keep pace at a respectful distance behind Him.  Stones fall from God as he walks.  We keep those that are small enough to carry.   Those of us who carry a piece of God are blessed.  The wind whips our hair and tugs at our flesh.  Those who tire of the wind run ahead of God, in order to stand under His falling stone foot.   Finalist #3 The Cry of the Demon Elk by Bryan Dyke   “You’re perfect,” the woman says to me as she sits up in the bed.   Her body is a work of art; smooth lines merge with the soft sheets as the gentle, morning winds caress her. The succubus eyes flash as her dark lashes flutter and her jet hair parts.   I can feel the ground shake softly. Something is wrong.   My smile breaks and I look away from her, through the bedroom and French doors, past the balcony to the tops of the buildings. There is the sprawl of New Orleans beyond those doors; the ramshackle glory of a ruined city sprawls in the morning sun. The shape of rickety sheds atop run-down buildings are crisscrossed with slouching cables and a web of over-loaded clotheslines. The city smells of burning tires, rotten milk spread across pavement, and, of course, stale bourbon. The heat is already swelling in punishing waves. There is a playful sound from the street, a haphazard jangle of horns and laughter, the subtle shouts of both pain and pleasure, the barks and growls of nearby dogs fighting for food.   I look back to the bed and watch her once more; white sheets and white walls, the light is blinding. There is a drink by the pillows that sparkles clear as crystal. She waits for me there.   “Come back to bed,” she purrs prowling.   For the first time in as long as I can remember, my head doesn’t hurt and feel wrong. I ignore the humid waves of air as they swoon from the street. I take the glass and drink, but the water tastes like my own mouth, hot, a broiled nothingness of spit and blood, the thirst unquenched, the craving unappeased. Before I can touch her, however, there is a knock at the door.   Now the stale pause hangs sure. Lust is gone, leaving horror and heat… leaving wrong.   “Who could that be?” she asks.   I know the answer. My hand finds the pistol under the mattress. I get up and the ground shakes harder now. I’m nearly lifted off my feet.   “What was that?” she demands. The passion and desire are gone from her eyes, surrendered to fear. I know the look well.   The door knocks with even more anger. Relentless. Pounding. I rack the bolt to the Glock and listen for them through the door.   “Get under the bed,” I order.   More tremors rumble outside. Now the balcony is covered in sooty clouds. The haze is a choking smoke covering the city. The heat has come alive.   Again, the ground shakes. I can feel the world shimmy as if I’m on a boat riding the waves. Thunder sounds, louder than anything I’ve heard before. Louder than even the bombs as they dropped over San Francisco and broke the world.   The knocking hammers. Wood splinters. I hear voices in German outside my door. Boots. They’re here. The bastards finally found me.   I fill the door with two rounds…maybe three…my ears scream in protest.   “Where’s my rifle?” I bark at the woman on the bed. For a frantic moment, I’m lost in the confusion. Then I see it. The carbine is leaning against a chestnut dresser ready. Yet before I can reach it, glass shatters and I’m shoved by an unseen force out on the balcony.   Flashbangs erupt within the apartment. My head slams the wrought iron gates and blood trickles down. My ears are on fire.   The armed soldiers flow into the room- an orderly stack of helmets and grey bodies clad in bullet-proof vests with submachine guns. The point man barks commands in German, all muffled through his gas mask.   “Police, freeze!” someone else shouts. His accent is thick. My eyes are burning with oleoresin capsicum and the sensation wakes me out of my sweaty stupor. Not a dream.   I raise my pistol and blast the lead man in the neck. Red blood spits outward. The next man freezes in the door, unable to get past his fallen comrade. I plug him as well, but his thick vest takes the round and merely knocks him flat. I fire four more shots, two blindly into the drywall next to the door.   I need my rifle, I think, but it’s nowhere to be found.   I can feel the woman tug at my arm to lift me up, her nails sinking into my flesh. She is screaming but now I can’t hear her voice. I lift my hand to my ears and feel them coated in blood.   Now I look back again to the French doors and outside. Oven doors. Dusted plaster is everywhere, the city is a pocket of hell. This is not another nuclear bomb. The heat is rising, unbearable.   The sky ripples with crackling booms. I cannot take my eyes off the smoke outside, off the clouds and sky. Distant, there is the call of an elk, an ungodly animal-like cry, and my whole body quakes.   “Sich...” the German voice calls from the breach, but I interrupt him with two more rounds toward the door and wall.   The hall outside goes silent. The world has stopped. Just then, I notice I’ve been shot as well. The red blood drips from my shoulder, but all I feel is burning heat and listen to a silence interrupted by the sizzling of my blood as it taps upon the wrought iron.   The city goes dark, I look out across the clotheslines, and rooftops, to see the maw of hell itself open. A black spire of awful storm churns. The ground boils. Madness. The clouds part and the form of the colossal knee-cap and elephantine shin lumbers through the sliver of sunlight. A shin. The shadow above it is huge, a giant humanoid mountain, a monster beyond anything I could imagine. A shadow….a shadow that burns.   I drop my pistol. This is the way the world was broken. The distant sound of an elk cries. Blood and tears boil away.   Finalist #4 Clean Slates by Eleanor Sciolistein Aside from the event that changed the world forever, May 11th was a typical Tuesday. People got up and had breakfast. They sent each other emails and commuted to their jobs. They talked, and fought, ate and made love. They laughed and cried, were born and died. Just like any Tuesday. Some, living in the parts of the world where the sun rose first, had already said goodnight to Tuesday by the time the blackout came. They’d set their alarms for Wednesday, and blindly fallen asleep, confident that the next day would be pretty much the same. Only, it wasn’t. The blackout came at 5.15pm GMT. It lasted exactly 7.4 seconds. 7.4 seconds in which everyone, the whole world, went to sleep. When they awoke, in their new reality, every person’s soul, was visible. For most, to experience even a seven second blackout, was terrifying. There were of course circumstances where those seven seconds made a big difference. There were hundreds of thousands of accidents globally. Some people died as a result of the blackout. For those who remained, it took a while to realise that it wasn’t just you.  Everyone had felt it. One minute you were going about your day, then suddenly, it was like someone had hit the pause button. When you came to, you knew time had passed. Only a tiny sliver, but, you knew. Then of course, there were the nodes. By 5.16pm GMT on Tuesday 11th May,  every human being on the planet had grown a node. It sat between the eyebrows, around the size of an aubergine and looked as if it were made of delicately blown glass. Inside, a thick white liquid swirled and eddied. Within days doctors had proclaimed to the world’s frantic media, that the nodes were connected via tissue and nerves to the human brain at a point between the eyebrows, where some cultures believed the so called ‘third eye’ was located. How the entire globe had suddenly sprouted a new, visible, organ in the centre of their foreheads was a matter of much discussion. Some said it was a form of evolutionary process that we were unaware of. Others, a spontaneous mutation brought about by some massive cosmic event. The consensus only really formed when the nodes started to change. For the first week or so, everyone’s node was the same. Early in the second week however, some people’s nodes started to alter. The effect was like seeing a droplet of indian ink fall into a bowl of milk. A small black spot would appear and slowly begin to bleed out, leaking into the pearlescent whiteness of the liquid. Then, more black spots would appear, like cavities in a tooth, spreading with a sense of creeping decay. It was in the third week that people began to agree on what the nodes were. Somehow and in some way, the transparent bulb in the centre of each person’s forehead, was the physical, visible, content of their soul. It was noted that children had bright white nodes that would remain virtually unblemished ‘till adolescence. Newborns, still innocent, had nodes so white they almost seemed to glow. In prisons across the globe, violent offenders attempted to shield the fact that their nodes were blackened, like something burnt. Experiments were done to track the effects. Evil deeds made it blacken, selfless deeds made it whiten, though some stains were hard to remove. Who the arbiter of the nodes was, remained a mystery. As did their origin and purpose. What was no longer a mystery however, was a person’s character. Highly respected individuals were revealed to be venomously wicked people with soot black souls, their protestations of innocence falling upon deaf ears. Some politicians had their nodes tattooed to conceal their blemished souls. Secretive wrongdoers suffered. Their evil exposed. Their souls, like rorschach tests, splattered and stained by their deeds.   The first year of visible souls was beautiful. There was peace, harmony, a species of love. Knowing that their every action was visible and held a consequence made people behave differently. They became gentle, considerate, more thoughtful toward each other. The world was almost, for a moment, loving. It was not, however, truthful or free and the cracks began to show. It was early in the second year that dissenting voices were heard. They talked about freedom, human nature, survival of the fittest. They said that whiter than white, was unachievable, unnatural. They said that a life being ‘good’ for fear of punishment was a life wearing chains of your own making. They said the human soul was meant to have dark spots, that evil didn’t exist, but that violence was natural. Violence drove survival, our evolution. Within weeks the phrase ‘Free Will’ was plastered on every surface. Overpopulation was still a problem that needed to be fixed.  As pressure increased, thoughts of now and of me, became more important. People became less forgiving, less tolerant, less pathetic. Soon enough, the colour of the soul, helped the strong pick out the weak.   Something snapped and a necessary change occurred. The whitest souls were labelled as freaks, burdens and parasites. First they were rounded up, then many were eliminated. In the fight for resources, being kind doesn’t help. The stained were the strong, they said. The unblemished  were the weak. Only the stained are really free they said, only the stained are truly human. Noone wants to be unblemished now. Sin is survival. You learn to be a predator or end up as the prey. Last year we crowned a leader. His node is black as ebony and this, they say, is right. Now the stained rule, the unblemished live as slaves. I can’t help but wonder, if whoever gave us souls, would despair to see what we have all become,  or if,  instead, they’d rejoice at what they’d helped us to achieve. The true realisation, of who we were really are.

It's an ALL-NEW Ladies Takeover!  This time, Desiree is joined by Alexis to discuss the intergalactic Captain Marvel.  Special thanks to both the ladies and additionally, our wonderful intro by Nadezhda the Pop Culture Vulture.  You can find her on YouTube and Instagram @pop.culture.vulture   As always, you can find us on Instagram and Twitter @VTRTmovies See what Wes thinks about all sorts of movies by following @moviehippo over on the Letterboxd app

Veckans andakter tar avstamp i Globala veckan och kyrkornas roll för en hållbar värld för alla. Idag: Misha Jaksic, ortodox präst och ortodox samordnare på Sveriges kristna råd. Globala veckan är ett initiativ från Sveriges Kristna Råd. Kyrkornas globala vecka 2018 vill lyfta fram vilken betydelse demokrati och civilsamhälle har för att vi ska nå en hållbar värld för alla samt den viktiga roll kyrkorna har i det arbetet.   Yekaterina, Maria, Nadezhda och de övriga i Pussy Riot kunde ha varit mina barn. Och vore de det, vore jag stolt över dem. Jag skulle påminna dem om den judiske rabbin från Nazareth, som för redan ca tvåtusen år sedan stod upp mot sin tids orättfärdiga religiösa etablissemang: han som upprättade de fallna, gav en röst åt de tystade, friade de dömda, för att själv bli förnedrad, dömd, avrättad; men som genom sin uppståndelse visade på sanningens, godhetens och skönhetens beständighet. Misha Jaksic     Text 1 Kor 1:27-29 Musik Brusa högre lilla å - Björn Json Lind Sholom aleykhem - Itzhak Perlman   Producent Marianne Greip Sveriges Radio Kronoberg liv@sverigesradio.se

#SpreadTheCult! Tell two friends about this podcast and help us take over the world! ALSO be sure to submit your questions for our Q & A episode next week! CHECK OUT POP CULTURE VULTURE►https://goo.gl/tN6PT3 DONATE TO OUR PATREON ► https://Patreon.com/CultPopture DO OUR SURVEY ► https://goo.gl/forms/Fa2pcLMCVWLZ8fvP2 CHECK OUT OUR MERCH► https://teespring.com/stores/cult-popture Joined once again by Nadezhda from Pop Culture Vulture, AJ and Richard discuss the two "300" films, from the Zack Snyder classic to it's poorly timed sequel which no one remembers. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK ► goo.gl/9EFEIa FOLLOW US ON TWITTER ► goo.gl/tuixnW SUBSCRIBE TO US ON YOUTUBE ► goo.gl/ITdEhK EMAIL US AT ► cultpopturemedia@gmail.com FOLLOW US ON SOUNDCLOUD ► goo.gl/s6egEh FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM ► goo.gl/1rrpH7 VISIT THE WEBSITE ► www.cultpopture.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

DONATE TO OUR PATREON ► https://Patreon.com/CultPopture This podcast contains SPOILERS for CHILDREN OF MEN, THE ISLAND, 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER, EX MACHINA and WALL-E. This week on the show, AJ and Josh discuss Movie-Based TV Shows, like FARGO or ASH vs. EVIL DEAD, before pitching some of their own ideas as well as discussing some other pitches sent in by our fans/other podcasters! Thanks to: Johnathan from X Meets Y (xmeetsy.libsyn.com)who pitched the ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU show (at 13:03) Craig who pitched the TAXI DRIVER show (at 16:51) Jack from Men Who Stare at Movies(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRRkcyAqL8Yt2L8Ic0F5c-_WBe-SZJm99) who pitched the CHILDREN OF MEN show (at 26:01) Tyler who pitched the GANGS OF NEW YORK SHOW (at 32:00) Colin and Austin from The Bootleg Shanty Podcast (https://soundcloud.com/user-450540654) who pitched the 28 WEEKS LATER show (at 40:43) David from Piecing it Together Podcast (https://www.piecingpod.com) who pitched the EX MACHINA show (at 47:29) Nadezhda from Pop Culture Vulture (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLm163p5QICtp4c_M4bIqA) who pitched the SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD show (at 54:41) Taylor from Jovial Entertainment (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTnNfev4VOWeXDRJ7HZBMfg) who pitched the DARK TOWER show and the SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD show (at 55:48) Scott who pitched the BRAZIL show (at 01:06:50) Jeremy who pitched the WALL-E show (at 01:14:14) CHECK OUT OUR MERCH► https://teespring.com/stores/cult-popture LIKE US ON FACEBOOK ► goo.gl/9EFEIa FOLLOW US ON TWITTER ► goo.gl/tuixnW SUBSCRIBE TO US ON YOUTUBE ► goo.gl/ITdEhK EMAIL US AT ► cultpopturemedia@gmail.com FOLLOW US ON SOUNDCLOUD ► goo.gl/s6egEh FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM ► goo.gl/1rrpH7 VISIT THE WEBSITE ► www.cultpopture.com Music: Robobozo Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

While staying in Helsinki, Finland, Katie and I met Jari and Nadezhda. They used to live in Beijing, so we had a lot in common. We swapped many China stories, and I found out that they had taken the Trans-Siberian train from Vladivostok to Helsinki. Katie and I are at the beginning of our own Trans-Siberian experience. Currently we are in St. Petersburg and plan to head east to Lake Baikal, then south to Mongolia. On this podcast, Jari and Nadezhda gave me some great tips on riding this famous train across Russia

Astrophiz 22 is out now on Soundcloud or subscribe in iTunes Part II: The Parkes ‘Dish’ interrogates pulsars to expose gravity waves. We interview Operations Scientist John Sarkissian at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. He explains how the ‘Spider Dipoles’ that make up the Murchison Widefield Array in remote Western Australia contribute to SKA, how Parkes chase down gravity waves and has detected most of the world’s FRBs (fast radio bursts of unknown origin), after being distracted by ‘perytons’ and microwave ovens. And yes, ‘The Dish’ is searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the international SETI ‘Breakthrough Listen’ project. We’re not saying they’re searching for Aliens ….. but Aliens! Dr Nadezhda in Part I of Stellar Evolution explains how the mass of a star determines its evolutionary path, and next week we will look at the Hetsprung-Russell Diagram “What”s Up in the Sky this Week” for Northern Hemisphere observers and astrophotographers, and for Southern Hemisphere Listeners, December is the best time to see the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. We also expose Procyon and curse the moon for demolishing the Geminids Meteor Shower In the News: 1. The Spiderweb galaxy 
2. Imaging a Black Hole Event Horizon 
3. ICRAR tells us the Universe is slowly becoming less energetic (Well, who isn’t ;)

Astrophiz Podcast 16 is out now for Space lovers on iTunes and Soundcloud. At the Australian Space Science Conference we talk with Ian Whitechurch, CEO of Neumann Space, which has just secured a contract to test their solid state ion space drive on the International Space Station. Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov is back from her dacha and talks from Russia to tell us about Synchrotron Radiation. Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave in 'What's Up Doc?' tells us what to look for up in the sky this week, the ‘blue’ new moon, earthshine, trans-neptunian object Sedna, Planet 9, how to use Heavens-above and Calsky to get email alerts for overhead satellites, Iridium flares, the ISS, comets and novas as they become visible over your own house. In the news: 1. Schiaparelli Lander wrap up 2. Eta Carinae imaged in incredible detail 3. Proxima Centauri’s 7 year ’starspot’ cycle discovered Next Week: We talk with John Sarkissian, who is the Operations Scientist at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. It’s a sensational interview.

In two weeks: We talk about the accelerating universe controversy with the Mt Stromlo Research Fellow, Cosmologist and Type Ia Supernovae researcher Dr Brad Tucker.

This week’s feature is from Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov, where she tells us about Blackbody Radiation. Dr Ian Musgrave in’What’s Up Doc?’ tells us what to look for in the sky this week, and the gunpowder smell of moondust and its inherent dangers. In the news this week: 1. A team at the Large Hadron Collider reports a new particle dubbed the Madala boson. 2. The Gaia mission is mapping the nature and movements of a billion stars in the Milky Way. 3. For our aurora watchers the European Space Agency has solved a problem that was preventing us from closely observing the sun’s corona. 4. Watch the Milky Way's birth in a lovely Caltech simulation at tinyurl.com(ForwardSlash)astrophizgalaxy 5. Australian OzGRav teams to embrace the new era of gravitational wave astronomy in $31.3M project
 6. 16th Australian Space Research Conference in Melbourne 26-30 September, 7. The venerated Dish at Parkes serves up the answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries with the discovery of the most complex chiral molecules found in space.

Dr Karen Lee-Waddell tells us about her research with CSIRO on tidal dwarf galaxies. Ian tells us more about the Perseid Meteor Shower, the 'Dance of the Planets' and what's up in the sky this week. Dr Nadezhda tells us about the discovery or radio waves from Jupiter. In the news: Help find black holes by joining a citizen science project at radio.galaxyzoo.org and we explain how the colours of auroras happen.

Dr Nadezhda tells us about pioneering Australian astrophysicist and ardent women's rights advocate Ruby Payne-Scott, and I explain EM waves and the many colours of light. Ian tells us about the 'dance of the planets' and what's up in the sky this week. In the news: Jupiter's Red Hot Spot, New type of Binary Star. MWA eavesdrops on old supernova. Juno drops a donut. Brightest object in our universe (so far). How to listen to the Perseids on your FM Radio. And yes, last week said the word 'universe' instead of 'galaxy' ... her bad

Interview: Professor Sarah Maddison - Dust and Protoplanetary Disks History & Theory of radio astronomy: Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov from Tver tells us about Grote Reber. "What's up in the sky this week": Ian Musgrave tells us what, when & where The News Roundup: Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometry, WIMPS and Kepler Reborn.

Interview: Dave 'the grave ' Hunter - Magnetometers and interpreting heliophysical satellite data. History & Theory of radio astronomy: Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov from Tver tells us about Karl Jansky. Dr Ian Musgrave tells us "What's up in the sky this week" - The News Roundup: MeerKat and Dark Matter, and astronomy news snippets.

Each week, the news, guest astrophysicist interviews, history and theory of radio astronomy and 'what's in the sky this week'. This week's episode features Professor Nadezhda Cherbakov from Tver talking about the RATAN-600 radio telescope Tom Browder, particle physicist and spokesperson for the Belle II Project. We talk about how particle physics enhances our knowledge and understanding of matter and anti-matter in the early universe.

Astrophiz Podcast 1 is here for your listening pleasure. Astrophiz 101, interview with Robert Arrowsmith, History & Theory from Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov: James Clerk Maxwell. News about The Australian Compact Array and Murchison Widefield Array and what's in the night sky via Dr Ian Musgrave's Astroblog site, and reference to Adelaide Radio Astronomy Group. Thanks to Michael Roberts for the opening theme backing track

In the week leading up to our celebration of International Women's Day, a series of essays celebrating five women who have been unacknowledged movers and shakers in the world of classical music down the ages. Each of these women overcame societal expectations or personal adversity to have real influence on the music of their day, and subsequently ours.Nadezhda von Meck was 46 and had recently lost her husband when she first wrote to Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, who was in his mid-thirties, asking the rising star for some pieces to be played at her country house. Money followed in a registered envelope - an amount so big that it slightly embarrassed - but also dazzled - him. And that payment was only the start. For the 13 years that followed, Madame von Meck kept the composer in grand style.But the money came, and kept coming, on one condition: that the composer and his benefactor should never meet.Author and journalist Vanora Bennett, the eldest daughter of the flute player William Bennett and the cellist Rhuna Martin, tells the fascinating story of one woman's single-minded dedication to a cause she passionately believed in. Produced by Simon RichardsonTo find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday.

James Naughtie's first guest on Bookclub for 2015 is Marina Lewycka. Marina was born in Kiel, Germany, after the war, and moved to England with her family when she was about a year old. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005. Nadezhda and her sister Vera are dismayed when their eighty-four year old father falls in love with a thirty-six year old Ukrainian divorcee. Their campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets going back fifty years into some of Europe's darkest history, and the two sisters must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their father. James Naughtie presents and a group of readers - including some from the Ukrainian community in London - join in the discussion. Presenter : James Naughtie Interviewed guest : Marina Lewycka Producer: Dymphna Flynn February's Bookclub choice : When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.

E.F., H.W., S.G., L.F., & E.B. discuss Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky, and the role of patronage in the history of western classical music.