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Convicted rapist Ched Evans' prospective move to Oldham Athletic has been called off after families of board members and club staff were subjected to death and rape threats.
The Latics have come under increasing pressure from sponsors, supporters and feminist groups regarding their intention to sign the 26-year-old, who was released from prison in October mid-way through his five-year jail term for raping a 19 year old girl in 2011.
Owner Simon Corney said on Wednesday that the deal to bring the Wales international to Boundary Park was "80%" done but a dramatic U-turn sparked by threats to the families of the club's board, staff and sponsors have seen the deal pulled at the 11th hour.
A club statement read: "Proceeding could have placed significant financial pressure on the Club and continued to be a divisive influence. As a consequence the deal could not go ahead.
"As a Club we condemn all crime including rape and irrespective of any appeal procedure it was always the case that we were prepared to withstand the barrage of abuse that is evident within the country and on social media.
"We deplore and condemn the vile and abusive threats, some including death threats, which have been made to our fans, sponsors and staff whilst this process has been in the public domain.
"Finally, we would like to place on record our gratitude to all who have supported the club during this difficult period, including the Club staff, who have retained their focus throughout and in addition to Ched and his team who have acted with professionalism at all times."
Oldham council leader Jim MaMahon added: "I've always believed in rehabilitation but felt that both club and player should have allowed Mr Evans' appeal to run its course before agreeing a contract.
"As it stands Mr Evans has been found guilty in a court of law and has not yet completed his sentence. However, I take no pleasure in this outcome.
"The whole episode has divided the town and public opinion and there are no winners in all this – not least of all the reputation of our club and town.
"In recent days we've seen an horrendous 'trial by social media' with intimidation, abuse and harassment on a scale that has cast a terrible shadow.
"I am urging people on all sides of this debate to please now take stock, show some restraint and calm."
The decision leaves Evans' potential return to football hanging in the balance after being officially turned down by a fourth different club since being released from prison, following his conviction for rape in 2012.
Since reports emerged over the weekend regarding Oldham's interest in signing Evans, the club have been locked in talks with major sponsors and the PFA over the deal to bring the ex-Manchester City forward to the club in time for the weekend fixture against Doncaster Rovers.
With Evans persisting his innocence while awaiting the result of an appeal to the Criminal Cases Review Commission which if successful would see his conviction quashed, the striker has yet to apologise, leading to stinging criticism and compromising the position of the club's sponsors.
Sponsors Verlin Rainwater Solutions, Mecca Bingo and Nando's have all ended their association with Athletic after they were told a deal to sign Evans, who was understood to have agreed a two-and-a-half year contract worth £2,500-a-week, had been agreed.
Principal sponsor Sports Direct have yet to officially comment on the issue, but despite the likely loss in revenue an offer from the father of Evans' girlfriend, businessman Karl Massey - who pledged to subsidise Oldham's loss of earnings - kept the deal alive.
However, Oldham have been forced to cave to increased pressure from outside influences, which have included one board member being subjected to a rape threat against their daughter, leaving Evans' attempts to resume his football career since his release in tatters.


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Genworth Foundation contributed $25,000 (June 2014), Altria $15,000 (December 2014), and Capital One $15,000 (September 2014) to support the development of recommendations on how to better align IT curriculum with the industry demands of our region so that students are gaining the education they need to be workforce ready. To that end, Bridging Richmond is applying these funds to study two high-demand IT occupations, and develop recommendations on how to better align K-12 and higher education curriculum with industry demand.
Virginia Advanced Study Strategies, Inc. (VASS), a contracted partner, conducted two modified DACUM analyses of knowledge, skills, and abilities for two science/technology-related occupations: software developer and network engineer. The findings – a report and job charts – will inform curriculum recommendations and awareness efforts. The curriculum workgroup, which includes faculty or administrators from higher education, K-12, and nonprofits, is currently working on recommendations for curriculum and awareness alignment.

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The news of this great Norman victory greatly alarmed Argyrus, [270] for he realised that neither trickery nor fighting could accomplish what the emperor had ordered him to do, to persuade or force the Franks to leave Italy. The forces he had at his disposal were not large enough to drive them out by force, nor was Argyrus able to persuade them to seek other lands through promises or influence them through bribes. [275] Thinking on this, he left the city of Bari and sailed off to his lord. On the latter's order he recounted how this fierce people had responded and what deeds they had accomplished in the recent battle against the Germans. [280] Constantine now withdrew his favour from Argyrus, who ceased to be, as he had once been, the intimate counsellor of the emperor. He went into exile and for a long time lived in hardship; it is said that he died weighed down by physical suffering.[1]
Victory greatly raised the spirits of the Normans. [285] Now no Apulian city remained in rebellion against them. All submitted and paid tribute. Count Humphrey then took revenge for the murder of his brother. He savagely punished all those who had been involved; he mutilated some, put others to the sword, and hanged many. Remembering Drogo's death, he refused to grant mercy to anyone. [290] The deep and burning grief that had descended upon him with his brother's murder remained strong, to the disadvantage of all. He subdued many cities. The inhabitants of Troia paid tribute to the count; [295] those of Bari, Trani, Venosa, Otranto and the city of Acerenza obeyed him.[2]
He granted Calabria to his brother Robert, for him to conquer. [300] Robert[3] was a young man inured to hard work, prudent and ingenious, ready to turn his hand to anything that needed doing, always seeking advancement and rejoicing in honour and praise. He was just as ready to seek success by stratagem as by force if this was necessary, because a sharp mind can often achieve what violence cannot accomplish. [305] He was distinguished by his eloquence and when consulted he gave a speedy and most pertinent reply. If he was asked for advice he knew how to give it wisely. He rejoiced in the grant of the land of the Calabrians. He had previously recruited for himself a number of knights, [310] plundering where he could far and wide, but especially in those regions that belonged to his brother. He shared what had been captured equally among all his followers, cherishing each of them equally and himself being cherished by all. Humphrey had him arrested while they were dining together. [315] Robert wanted to hurl himself on his brother, sword in hand, but Joscelyn grabbed him and prevented this. He was consigned to the guards, but his brother released him after a little while, granted him the Calabrian region with its cities and castra, and furnished him with a force of knights.[4]
[320] Desiring to conquer this region he showed himself affectionate towards all, no lord had ever shown himself more affable or humble. The name of the Norman people was everywhere renowned. But the Calabrians, who had not experienced their valour before, were terrified by the arrival of such a fierce leader. Supported by no small number of soldiers, [325] Robert ordered them to burn, pillage and ravage all those lands which he had invaded and to do all they could to instil terror in the inhabitants. He allowed his brother's knights [330] to return home and remained with a less numerous but very warlike force which continued to vex the Calabrians.[5]
While he plundered here and their, he was unable to capture any castrum or city, and so he resorted to a stratagem to enter a certain place, which was very difficult of access since there were many inhabitants, and the monastic community which was living there would allow no stranger to enter. [335] The cunning [Robert] thought up an ingenious trick.[6] He told his people to announce that one of their numbers had died. The latter was placed on a bier as though he was dead, [340] and on Robert's order was covered with a silk cloth which concealed his face (as it is the custom of Normans to cover bodies). Swords were hidden on the bier under the 'body's' back. [345] The 'body' was carried to the entrance of the monastery to be buried there, and this pretended death deceived those who could not be taken in by living men. While a simple funeral service was being conducted the man who was about to buried suddenly sprang up; his companions seized their swords and threw themselves on the inhabitants of the place who had been deceived by this ruse. [350] What could those stupid people do? They could neither fight nor flee, and all were captured. Thus, Robert, you placed your first garrison in a fortress! He did not however destroy the monastery, nor did he expel the monastic community from it. [355] Robert gathered a very powerful force in this castrum, and became even more beloved by his men since he was both mighty in war and wise in counsel. He was called the count of this region, [360] and considered as such especially by those who were accompanied by their own following of knights. One of these was called Torsten, another Hareng, and [there was] the warlike Roger[7]. To these he gave towns in the area which had been conceded to him.
At this time Humphrey, Prince of Apulia, fell ill and ordered his brother to come quickly to him. Robert hastened there. [365] When he saw his brother ill, he cried with compassion. For the sick man the arrival of his brother was a great consolation. He asked him to be the ruler of his territories after his death, and to be the protector of his young son who was not yet of an age to rule. [370] His anxious brother promised faithfully to execute all his wishes.[8] The sick man could not recover the health of his limbs. Humphrey died. All Apulia cried, lamenting the death of a father, [375] He, the father of his country, had ruled peacefully and benignly; honesty had graced his life. He had never sought to oppress his people under a cruel tyranny. Loving justice he had preferred to spare many guilty men rather than inflict punishment. He was buried next to those of his brothers who had died [380] before him at the monastery of Venosa.
After celebrating his funeral ceremonies Robert returned to Calabria.[9] He immediately besieged the city of Cariati, that by its capture he might terrify the other cities.[10] Then he learnt of the arrival of Pope Nicholas II[11]; [385] he abandoned the siege [himself] along with only a small escort, leaving there the greater part of his cavalry. He went to Melfi[12], and there the pope was received with great honour. He had come to this region to deal with ecclesiastical affairs. [390]For the priests, levites and all the clergy of this area were openly joining themselves in marriage. The pope celebrated a council there, and with the assent of a hundred prelates, whom he had called to that synod, he exhorted priests and ministers of the altar to arm themselves with chastity; [395] he told them and [indeed] ordered them to be the husbands of the church, since it is unlawful for priests to be addicted to indulgence. He thus drove away from those parts all the wives of priests, threatening those who disobeyed with anathema. [400] At the end of the synod and on the request of many, Pope Nicholas gave to Robert the ducal honour. Alone among the counts he received the ducal title. He swore an oath to be faithful to the pope. [405] Thus Calabria and all Apulia were conceded to him, and rule over the people of his native land in Italy.[13]
The pope went back to Rome, the duke, with a large force of cavalry, returned to the siege of Cariati, where the bulk of his horsemen who had been left before it had faithfully remained. The people of Cariati, discouraged by the return of the duke, [410] were unable to resist, and surrendered themselves and their city to him. These people were the first to call him duke and to salute him with the ducal title in Calabria. Then he went on to other places. Mighty Rossano, warlike Cosenza and then wealthy Gerace surrendered to him, and so nearly [415] the whole of Calabria was made subject to him.
[1] In 1054, the emperor Constantine imprisoned the wife and son of Argyrus because of the part that he believed Argyrus had in the schism. The patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius was a personal enemy of Arhyrus and undoubtedly played a significant part in the emperor's decision. However, there is no evidence that he returned to Constantinople immediately after the battle and it is likely that this did not occur until some time between 1055 and 1058. His death occurred during the 1060s, though there is no evidence to support Carabellese that this took place in 1068.
[2] The Normans easily imposed their authority over much of southern Italy. An early success was the capture of Conversano, twenty miles south-east of Bari in 1054 though generally the Normans were content to exact tribute from the more strongly defended Apulian towns like Bari, Trani, Otranto and Acerenza. After Leo's death Humphrey occupied Benevento in the north but, though he besieged the city he was unable to capture it. Capua, concerned by Norman attacks on Benevento restored Pandulf III in January 1056. William of Apulia conflated events at this point: Troia was taken by Humphrey in 1046, Otranto in 1055 (though it was retaken by the Greeks in 1060, then retaken by Georffrey of Traneto in 1064 and finally by Guiscard in 1068); Acerenza was taken in 1061 according to the Annales of Lupus Protospatharius.
[3] Taviani-Carozzi, Huguette, La terreur du monde, Paris, 1996 is the most accessible biography of Robert Guiscard.
[4] This is an early indication of tensions within the Hauteville family and rebellion within the family and by other Normans against Guiscard forms an important theme in the remainder of the poem. Guiscard is best seen as a warlord at this time but, as his power and authority increased after Humphrey died in 1057, he never fully made the transition from warlord into legitimate ruler. His position always relied on brute force rather than effective government.
[5] The most spectacular advances were made by Robert Guiscard in the south, finally conquering Calabria with the taking of Reggio in 1060. By 1056, he had taken several of the more important places in northern Calabria: Bisignano, Martirano and Cosenza though he probably only held the region north of the Val di Crati. After Humphrey's death in early 1057, Guiscard succeeded him as overall leader of the Apulian Normans and this further enhanced his military strength. He also had the help of his youngest brother Roger who had arrived in Italy at about this time. In the late spring or early summer of 1057, Robert and probably Roger advanced as far as Squillace, half-way down Calabria where the peninsula is at its narrowest and then across to Reggio, the capital of Byzantine Calabria at its extreme tip. On his return from ths essentially reconnaissance expedition, Nicastro and Maida, town on the south-west edge of the Sila Mountains submitted to him. At this point, Robert had to return to Apulia to deal with a challenge from his old rival County Peter son of Amicus. In his absence, Roger forced the inhabitants of the Val di Saline in central Calabria into submission and fortified a base near Nicefora. Robert returned in the autumn of 1057 (though the chronology is far from certain) and launched a more serious attack on Reggio.but poor planning forced a retreat. However, his determination to bring Calabria under his control is clear in his remaining at Maida over the winter of 1057-1058. Hervé-Commereuc, Catherine, 'Les Normands en Calabre', ibid, Les Normands en Méditerraneé, pp. 77-88 is invaluable on what can be seen as the 'forgotten' conquest.
[6] Here William of Apulia is inspired by the Norman tradition of the taking of Luna by the Viking Hastings contained in Dudo of St Quentin around 1015 and William of Jumieges in the early 1070s.
[7] The Roger refered to here is probably Guiscard's brother who helped him with the conquest of Calabria.
[8] Humphrey died in 1057 and Guiscard was then elected count of Apulia.
[9] In addition, the spring of 1058 saw a serious famine in parts of Calabria caused partly by the Norman attacks and partly by a prolonged drought. Malattera's account is graphic and not exaggerated. Guiscard's problems in Apulia, his dispute with Roger and his marriage to Sichelgaita of Salerno in the second half of 1058, prevented further advance in Calabria. Given these circumstance, it is not surprising that Robert gave way in his dispute with Roger and promised to give him half of Calabria (the southern half that was as yet unconquered). He did give Roger the base at Mileta and from here Roger advanced aggressively south in early 1059 crushing a counter-attack by the governor of Gerace and the bishop of Cassano. In late 1059, or more probably early 1060 Guiscard brought substantial reinforcements and the two brothers besieged and captured Reggio and Squillace. Calabria was now more or less under Norman control.
[10] Why did Calabria fall under Norman control so quickly in the late 1050s? This can be attributed to a number of factors. The defenders lacked outside support. There were still contacts between Byzantine Calabria and Constantinople in the 1050s but the internal problems in the empire and attacks from the Pechenegs and the Turks meant there was only minimal military support available for Italy. There were few attempts to fight the Normans in the open and the one attempt in 1059 ended disastrously. Norman tactics, made essential by the limited number of troops available to them before 1060 secured the surrender of towns and strongpoints by destroying the crops of the inhabitants. These were especially effective given the mountainous nature of Calabria where cultivatable land was in short supply. The Normans also allowed remarkable lenient terms for surrender. In central Calabria, the local Greek patriciate was left in place. Garrisons were introduced into key locations from the start but in less sensitive areas the process was slower: Cosenza, for example, did not have a Norman garrison until 1091. Tribute in return for peace was a price worth paying for many Calabrians.
[11] The most useful material on Nicholas II is to be found in Clavel, Le Pape Nicolas II, Lyons, 1906; Delarc, O., 'Le Pontificat de Nicoles II' in Revue des Questions Historiques, vol, xl, (1886), pp. 341-402 and Mann, H. R., The Lives of the Popes in the Middle Ages, vol. vi, St. Louis, 1910, pp. 226-260.
[12] The authority of the German emperors had never been welcomed in Mezzogiorno. Robert sought help from the papacy, thinking that despite Civitate in 1053, the time was right for a compromise. Fortunately political circumstances were favourable at this time. Pope Victor II (1055-1057) and Stephen IX (1057-1958) were not well disposed towards the Normans since both had been closely associated with Leo IX's project in 1053. However, on Stephen's death in March 1058, the Romans chose one pope (Benedict X) and the reformers another (Nicholas II). Nicholas was quickly established in Rome but he needed support to maintain his position. In the spring of 1059, Richard of Capua was persuaded to send 300 knights to support Nicholas and captured his rival to the papal throne. The project was actively supported by the diplomacy of the abbot of Montecassino, Desiderius, who became Pope Victor III, in 1086. At the synod of Melfi, in 1059, Pope Nicholas II invested Guiscard with the title of duke as well as confirming his right to his possessions in Apulia and Calabria. Furthermore, Sicily under the domination of the Muslims was promised to the Normans, who were assigned to seize it and retain it under the authority of the Holy See. Richard of Aversa was recognised as prince of Capua by the Pope. This was a decisive turning point for Norman authority in southern Italy from now on their legitimacy could not be questioned.
[13] Robert Guiscard's position was considerably strengthened by the Melfi agreement. He decided to intensify the conquest of the whole of Mezzogiorno while controlling potential rebellion by other Norman barons (for example, Robert of Montescaglioso, Geoffrey of Conversano and Peter of Trani). In 1060, he captured Troia, the only town of any size in the Capitanata that was already paying tribute to the Normans. It became the centre of ducal authority. A year later, he captured Acerenza though it is unclear from whom. The ways in which Guiscard's authority in Apulia developed during the 1060s is not covered particularly well in the chronicle. William of Apulia's poem ignores events in Apulia between the synod of Melfi and the beginnings of the siege of Bari (1059-1068) and Amatus of Montecassino has only a little to say about Apulia but is more than usually disorganised. Historians have to rely on the annalistic sources and they are especially cryptic for this decade.


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"I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later."
I want to understand why people do things. I think that's why I was drawn to the arts. Through film or writing, I can explore the thoughts of people that I have never met that live on another continent and sometimes they aren't even real.
I think the central conflict that every person faces is the fact that one day we will die and there is nothing we can do to stop it. We spend life trying to cope with that reality in different ways. Death stands in the corner of our eye each passing second and we either ignore it or accept it.
Up until relatively recently I was obsessed with death. Rather than standing in the corner of my eye, Death stood in the center blocking the view of everything else. I spent every moment of the day terrified, and every dream was a nightmare. There were so many things I wanted to do before I died.
It occurred to me, after much thought and study, that I had to live. If you spend each second ruminating on death, then you are already dead.
I have found that the most courageous thing you can do as a human being is to live, not simply being alive. You need to experience everything you can. The world is as beautiful as it is ugly. To live you need to seek out new adventures.
A fun exercise is to take something familiar and create something new out of it. There are endless possibilities and you should try to explore as many as you can.
If you were to die right now, would you be satisfied with what you would leave behind?
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After some fights, I finally managed to make Mitter look nice. Now I just need to add some menus, an update status window and port it to Hildon.
Edit 1: And the project page, if you are interested in the code of it. No formal release yet (I really need to created a distutil file for it before releasing.)
Multigenics (two tables): Multi-vitamin
Ultra Muscleze (one teaspoon): Magnesium, for anxiety
Natural E (two tables): Vitamin E
CoQ10 (one capsule) : Improves cardiovascular functions (and makes things easier when I'm doing exercises)
Ginseng & Zizyphus (eight pills): Anti-depressant.
All this, every morning.
One of the things that pisses me off is when someone uses open source and don't give the credit to the authors.
This happens a lot with web applications.
Several times I looked at some site and thought "hey, that's a nice engine those guys got there", only to find, in some weird way, that it is just a theme for WordPress. Honestly, that's probably the least credited open source project ever (well, maybe after Apache and PHP, anyway). Several themes around remove the "powered by WordPress" completely.
Come on! It is not that hard to add a simple "powered by" in the bottom of the page…
Yup, my first Australian concert happened last night. And, honestly, I can't say I regret it. I mean, I chose a band which I only knew one song and bought CDs a few weeks before the concert. But, in the end, I had a lot of fun.
The show started with an Irish band called "The Walls". They are not bad, but I don't think they are good either. They played about 5 songs and left the stage for "Augie March". It seems they are somewhat famous around, even if I never heard about them, as some people really cheered when they entered the stage. I can't really say if they are good or bad, as the sound was too loud to get most of it. And the lightning sucked. The guys may be good, but their crew is really sloppy and ruined the show.
Then, Crowded House. Yes, they are actually good. I mean, REALLY GOOD! Either that or they were on playback all the time (but I guess every band gets good after playing a long time.) Sometimes, they would stop between songs and do jokes and play around, do jokes between them and so on. It was the kind of show that the band was having fun in the stage and decided to bring the audience to it. It was fun for people in the audience and for the band.
And here is the setlist (thanks to Cameron, as I couldn't identify most of songs):
I took some pictures, but my camera sucks on dark environments. The ones that didn't suck too much I uploaded to Flickr. You can check them here. All those and the ones that sucked will be uploaded to my picture site later.


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Netscape Acquires NewHoo! Community Directory Project for $40.05 Billion
HASTA LA VISTA, CA /DenounceNewswire/ -- November 18, 1998 -- Netscape Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: NSCP - news) today announced it acquired the NewHoo! Community Directory Project as a part of its continued, desperate effort to catch up to Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, AOL, and other Internet port-holes. Netscape will immediately mess up the NewHoo! service with crass commercialism in an attempt to mimic the look and feel of other Internet port-holes. The new commercial service, called ``Netscape Open Directory,'' will be the first Internet port-hole to harness the knowledge and creativity of over 4,500 Internet ``volunteer editors'' to empower consumers to find the information they want quickly and easily.
Netscape announced that the purchase, valued at $40.05 billion, will be accounted for as a one-time charge on its fiscal fourth-quarter 1998 books. This valuation represents the highest price ever paid in the history of the world for a company founded less than one year ago.
The founders of NewHoo, which includes Rich Skrenta, Bob Truel, Chris Tolles, Jeremy Wenokur and Bryn Dole, each stand to gain approximately $8 billion from the transaction. Mr. Skrenta, also known as the co-author of the widely-used "tin" newsreader program, was unavailable for comment, as he had fainted. Messrs. Truel, Tolles, Wenokur, and Dole were also unavailable for comment, as they too had fainted or were in the process of fainting.
Each of the 4500 "volunteer editors" will be paid a $50 honorarium as part of the transaction. Asked if that was a little on the cheap side, a NewHoo representative replied, "well, they're only volunteers, I mean, after all."
Netscape, which according to nationally-recognized legal experts is currently kicking major butt in the federal litigation against Microsoft Corporation, is seeking to expand its grasp of Internet mindshare with the acquisition of the NewHoo directory. Oddly, in an exhaustive, frantic 36-hour survey of 1.8 million randomly-selected individuals in cities across the world, only 0.1 of the people questioned had ever even heard of NewHoo, and only 0.000178 percent of those polled indicated they had ever used NewHoo. Asked why Netscape placed so much value on the company, Jim Barksdale, official executive chief of the company, replied that the survey also revealed that 88.2% of those polled replied with "NewHoo? You mean, Yahoo?" when originally asked about NewHoo. "88.2 percent of anything is a good number, and that impressed us a great deal," he said.
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In 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, 22 area churches and a group of local businessmen came together to help relieve Seattle's destitute population, and Seattle's Union Gospel Mission was born. Seventy-six years later, I got to join this legacy of Christ's hope and His ability to change lives by going to a volunteer orientation meeting. If you ever find yourself tempted to believe the popular and pernicious lie that Christians are just a group of self-righteous, judgmental pricks with no heart for ministering to people in pain in this world, then you need to go to the Union Gospel Mission in your town and meet the Christians on staff who have given their life's work to doing just that.
It is not glamorous work. I can only imagine that the pay is not great. But the retirement plan cannot be beat.
So, I went to the orientation at the Women and Children's Shelter in Seattle's International District. I spent the entire meeting trying to wipe the tears surreptitiously from my eyes, because I didn't want to seem like a total weenie. But, everything there seemed to freshen the flow. My eyes drank in -- through a watery veil -- scenes that were foreign to my pampered, suburban sensibilities, but left me richer by their witness:
The woman who gave her testimony about how she had come in as a heroin addict -- fresh from jail -- eight years before and was now clean and sober and working at the Mission to help other women learn the same lesson of Christ's peace that had changed her life.
The clean, but shabby, halls and rooms which came to be for countless women and children in their hour of trouble not only a refuge, but a small glimpse of what's in store in their Father's house.
The room of cast-off, unfashionable clothing donated to the Mission, that yet represented the first step in a new start for women at the end of their human strength.
It was the people who affected me the most. The orientation leader was a woman of warmth and gentleness who still seemed in awe of the Mission for which she worked. The big-eyed, smiling children scampered down the hallways, their laughter echoing in the rafters of the ancient building. The few program women we saw had eyes that held a mixture of pain and relief, but also a quiet dignity that whispered promises of their renewal. And the volunteers . . .
Our packed orientation room held a group that was cheerful, eager, compassionate and strong. I was mesmerized by the people of goodwill and servant hearts surrounding me. Then, it kind of dawned on me: Hey! I'm here, too. I get to be a part of this holy work. I get to join in with this wonderful organization and learn better how to be Christ's hands and feet in a hurting world. I felt so undeserving of this opportunity that I was shaking and longed to fall to my knees in gratitude. But, that would have been disruptive.
So, I just started crying some more.
I can hardly wait to get out into the mission field. It's right in my backyard.


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Read This is one of the easiest ways to gain information. Look. You're doing it right now. Depending on what your goals and objectives are regarding the utilization of online social media, check for blogs in order to see what your best course of action would be. If you need help getting started with finding the best blog resources, try a blog search engine like Technorati or Alltop to see where some of the most popular and useful content is coming from for any given category.Once you start finding the blogs that are useful to you, subscribe to their feeds and use a feed manager to be able to keep up with blogs' new content. Google Reader or NewsGator are great places to start. Google Reader will even recommend other blogs you may be interested in based on the feeds you add. Even these feed readers can be rather social, as you can email an article to a friend directly from most feed readers, share them with others that are using the same feed reader service, or republish the URL for the article to a variety of social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.2. Become Friends With The ExpertsThere are plenty of folks that have already been through the social media trenches. Learn from them. Many of these existing experts have already taken it upon themselves to create blogs in order to inform others like yourself of the things you need to do to become a social media expert yourself. Others merely lead by example. Become friends with all of these people, and you'll be able to pick up on things you may not have noticed or figured out on your own otherwise.For instance, privacy settings on Facebook are commonly overlooked during the registration process, and many users that have been on Facebook for several months are still unaware of all the options available to them with their privacy settings. Befriending an avid Facebook user in this case would give you direct access to someone knowledgeable and helpful.If you already have friends that have become social media experts, reach out to them as well. I have several friends from high school and college that call or email me with questions about getting started on Facebook and Twitter. They know me personally and can contact me anytime through any of my social media channels to get tips, hints and tricks for mastering their particular social media realm.3. Check Out What the Early Adopters Are DoingThe early adopters are usually ahead of the curve when it comes to social media. If you want to stay on top of current trends, fight out what they are doing. The largest demographic of early adopters is the youth. Right now younger demographics are heavily using mobile, and cross-network and cross-device platforms are making this more and more possible every day.As some of the earliest adopters of social media and new consumer technology in general, younger demographics tend to be more comfortable with burgeoning social networking concepts. Once the value of a given concept is realized, it's spread over a wide array of media outlets and can be readily implemented, marketed and monetized.One thing to keep in mind as a social media expert, however, it to make sure that you're not dismissive of trends set forth by the younger demographics. Even if you feel like being dismissive, keep it to yourself. Unless you don't mind sounding like an old fogie. If something social media-related becomes widespread enough to become a trend, then someone has found value in it. So being dismissive without first trying it on for size or speaking with those that do use a particular social media product first will lead to your dismissal as a social media expert.4. Join All the Major Social Media SitesAfter reading about social media and making friends, you have to begin having your own experiences. There's nothing like first-hand occurrences to make you an expert in any field. So pick the social media sites that will be of most benefit to you, and dive right in. If you need help getting started, services like KnowEm allow you to search popular social media sites for your desired username, as well as registering that username across the board.Sometimes it's best to start with some of the more popular social media sites, because they're heavily populated and you'll be able to get an immediate stream of activity going once you start interacting with users. As a social media expert, you'll also need to know about these popular sites for points of reference. Many smaller social media sites and other startups take cues from the major players. Sometimes, the major players take cues from the more innovative startups.The more involved you can become in a given social media site, the more you'll be able to dismiss it as a useless product, or appreciate it for its intrinsic value. If a site is useful to you and you're able to take advantage of its feature set, any new updates to that service will be of keen interest to you and you'll be able to immediately recognize their potential or points of weakness. This is just one step towards establishing yourself as a resourceful social media expert.5. Pay Attention to Relationships Amongst Social Media Sites Understanding the trend-setting initiatives the large social media sites push forward will give you a better understanding of social media as a whole. The relationships between the social networks themselves as well as the people behind them can give you a great deal of insight towards forming your own opinions about certain trends, acquisitions, mergers and partnerships. The more you know about social media as a whole, the more of an expert you'll become.To do so, read the news about social media companies you're interested in. Many of them have blogs that are maintained by a core team member, and can offer a great deal of value regarding the relationships surrounding that individual as well as the company they represent. Read the news, as well as other specialized publications such as AllFacebook that are able to provide a dedicated line of sight for relationship-related announcements. You can even check the social media sites themselves to see what social media executives are friends with which other social media executives. In some communities such as Twitter, you're often able to see public streams of conversations that occur between some of these executives. Good, bad or ugly, this can give you useful information.In connecting the dots of all the variables that take place around social media, the opinions you do form will be increasingly valuable and sought after. This is all an exercise on expanding your perspective, which enables you to better recognize trends, make sound predictions and become a reliable resource. This can take a lot of work, but consistency is key when looking to relationships amongst social media sites for information that's hidden between the lines.6. Stop Paying Attention to Mainstream Media I don't necessarily mean this in the literal sense, but much of mainstream media is slightly behind the curve when it comes to online social media. If you hear about a Twitter trend on CNN, then you're too late in the game. The best way to keep up with actual social media trends for the purpose of becoming an expert, is to be involved with those social media sites.Granted, there are some exceptions to this rule. Oftentimes you'll hear of news regarding a new executive being brought on board for a major social media site such as MySpace. The mainstream news sources often receive the news at the same time as bloggers, and find it relevant enough to cover at the same time as bloggers. This is usually because the major networks are controlled by or are heavily tied to a mainstream media company. MySpace is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox and a myriad of other mainstream media companies. High profile stories related to such social media sites are more likely to receive mainstream coverage.7. Ask Questions Once you become a social media expert, you may be hesitant to ask questions (even though you shouldn't be). But until you become a social media expert, don't be shy! There's nothing wrong with not knowing the answer to something. A great way to become an expert is to ask lots of questions. And ask lots of questions of lots of people.There are lots of people out there that can answer a question for you, even if you think the question might be dumb. This is when experienced friends come in handy. If anyone is going to laugh at you for asking a dumb question, your experienced friends are the least likely to do so.Twitter is also a great place to ask questions. Post a question via a Twitter update and watch the responses roll in. Too scared to post a question through your own Twitter account? Use a secondary Twitter account, ask a friend to post the question for you (make sure your friend has enough followers to make it worth your while), use a Twitter polling service, or rephrase the question so it appears to be a poll.8. Go to EventsAttending meetups and events is not only a great way to meet people in the social media industry, but your appearance will eventually go hand in hand with your status as a social media expert. Check your localized event websites for events in the area. Meetup.com, Upcoming.org and Twitter are great places to start. For most of these websites, you're able to extract additional value from befriending other users on that site, and turning to them as a resource for future events and other topics related to social media.The key to attending the right event is to follow the right people on these sites (especially Twitter). These are also people you can research prior to meting them in person, thanks to the nature of social networks and event-specific websites. In turn, you can use these sites to establish yourself as a valuable go-to person, whom other people will follow. This is yet another step towards your becoming a social media expert.Be sure to leverage all your social media accounts for spreading the word after the event is over. Take photos at the event, and post them on Flickr and Facebook. Get people's Twitter names and follow them directly from your mobile while you're still at the event. Ensure that the physical realm of social networking carries over to the virtual realm of online social media so you can keep those contacts going. They'll be helpful towards your goal of becoming a social media expert.9. Don't Give UpEven when joining a social media site, the majority of users never return to actually use its service. So as a social media expert, you'll need to make sure you're being consistent in your behavior towards various social media sites and giving them a chance. This will give you the perspective you need to formulate opinions and offer sound advice to others. Even the bad social media experiences are ones you can learn from.So after frustrating moments of lost and reset passwords, dropped Internet signals, site downtime, certain startups dead-pooling and incompatible mobile applications, just remember to stay calm and keep the faith. Becoming an expert at anything takes time, if only a week, based on this cheat sheet. So dedicating yourself towards becoming a social media expert will only pay off in the end.10. Teach Someone ElseNow that you're a social media expert, it's time to teach the masses. Spread the wealth of your knowledge by establishing yourself as a destination resource online. Set up a blog, share pertinent observations and make sure to put your perspective into everything you do.Redistribute your blog so people will more readily stumble across your content and in turn know exactly where to find you on the web. Make yourself accessible across multiple social media sites, from Facebook to FriendFeed, so people will feel comfortable approaching you with their "dumb" questions.There's nothing that helps you hone your new-found expertise more than having to find a way to explain it to someone else, so put yourself out there as a helping hand. Even if you make a few missteps along the way, remember that even experts never stop learning. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2jGHy0p copy Adweek Adweek


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IVOR CALLELY claimed a €140 "overnight" allowance on hundreds of occasions when attending the Seanad — even though he stayed in his Dublin home on the nights in question.
But the senator insisted he had done nothing wrong as he testified under oath at a Seanad investigation into his expenses yesterday.
The Seanad Committee on Members' Interests is investigating whether Mr Callely misrepresented his normal place of residence to claim travel allowances.
Mr Callely's family home is in Clontarf in Dublin, but following his appointment to the Seanad in 2007, he registered his holiday home in Kilcrohane, West Cork, as his primary residence. This allowed him claim substantially more in expenses.
Mr Callely confirmed yesterday that, in addition to travel allowances to cover his journeys from West Cork, he also claimed overnight allowances worth €139.67 a night in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
He admitted under questioning from Green senator Dan Boyle that when he travelled from West Cork, he stayed in his family home in Clontarf.
But Mr Callely said nothing in the regulations suggested the allowance had to be used to pay for accommodation: "I think it's called subsistence. So it's not necessarily that you have a hotel."
He also told the visibly stunned seven-member committee that because he considered Kilcrohane his principal residence, he had paid the so-called "second home tax" on the family home in Dublin, even though the latter is listed as his home on the electoral register.
Mr Callely said the loss of his Dáil seat in May 2007 had an "an immediate and devastating effect on my social, domestic and personal life".
The committee will meet Wednesday to hear evidence from an Oireachtas official.
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The Eagles have stayed close to several teams, including the Fort
Stockton Panthers, until they get into the low 40s, then seem to run out
of gas, allowing the other team to pull away in the final period.
But on Tuesday night, the Eagles were the team getting to the balls in
the closing minutes, and they closed out the home portion of their
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Jason Abila stole the ball twice in the final 2½ minutes and turned
them into lay-ups, and defected another pass to Fabien Adame, as the
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Pecos had led Fort Stockton for most of the first half in their earlier
meeting, only to see the Panthers take over in the second half and post
a 73-58 victory. This time, Fort Stockton went out to a 39-30 lead late
in the third period, but the Eagles responded with 11 straight points to
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"When it got to 41, I was worried, but I'm proud of the kids for
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Abila had struggled in recent weeks, but had six of the Eagles' final
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Abila was fouled by Perales, but missed from the foul line, and Garcia
was then fouled by Eric Abila on his basket at the 2:16 mark. But he
also bounced his free throw off the rim, and Omar Hinojos put Pecos
ahead for good with a lay-up at the 1:54 mark.
"I think his shin was still bothering him," Sadler said of a leg injury
that forced Abila out of Pecos' district-opener on Jan. 9 against
Andrews. "He's such a tough kid, he's not going to give in, but I think
it slowed him down."
After Adame pulled in Abila's deflection with 1:40 remaining, the
Eagles went into a delay, stalling for about a minute until Garcia was
able to trap Jason Abila in the corner and knock the ball off his leg
with 39.5 seconds to play. Fort Stockton then set up for a go-ahead
shot, but again, Abila stepped in front of a pass and went the other
way, scoring a drawing a foul from Stewart Robbins at the 16.1 second
That brought a storm of protest from Panthers' coach Dave Davalos, who
claimed that too many seconds had run off the clock. A photo of the play
appeared to back the first-year Panther coach up, as it shows 23.8
seconds on the clock when Abila took the shot. But the officials ruled
against Davalos, though Abila's miss gave the Panthers a shot at sending
the game to overtime...
...or two shots at sending it there, as it turned out. Fort Stockton
worked the ball into the corner, but Chavez missed on a shot challenged
by Abila. However, the rebound bounced out to a wide-open Perales near
the top of the key. But with an open shot to tie, Perales missed, and
Adame pulled in the rebound as time expired.
Adame had been hampered by fouls in the first half, but Hinojos took up
the slack. The junior bounced back from a rough night against Big Spring
to score a game-high 21 points, including a 7-for-9 night from the foul
line, after a 1-for-7 effort on Friday.
He had a trio of lay-ups in the first period, while Jacob Chavez and
Eric Abila hit from the 3-point line, as the Eagles built an 18-13 lead.
Pecos carried the momentum into the second period and had several
chances to score, but saw their shots bounce out, while the Panthers
began getting baskets off backside offensive rebounds.
Eric Lopez had three of those, including one in the third period, as
the Panthers built a 35-26 lead. They would get it back to nine, later
in the quarter, after the Eagles cut the gap to five, but after a time
out by Sadler, two Hinojos baskets closed the third period, and he then
opened the fourth quarter with another, cutting the margin to three. He
then drew a charge on Aaron Cabello, and after a turn-around jumper by
Adame cut the lead to one, Chavez' 3-point basket gave the Eagles the
lead, and put them at that problem 41-point mark.
After handing Sweetwater its first district loss a week earlier (on a
basket the Mustangs complained had come after time had run out), the
Panthers have now lost two straight, and are 4-5 in district, 20-8 on
the season. But they still control their own fate, provided they win
their final regular season game on Friday at home against Big Spring.
The Steers clinched a playoff spot with a 71-66 victory at Lake View,
while Andrews is also still in the playoff race, despite their 96-76
loss to Sweetwater.
The Eagles will be in Sweetwater on Friday to close out their 1996-97
season. "If we had won one of those other games, we'd still be in the
playoff race," Sadler said. "Now we just have to go over there and do a
good job Friday night and set things up for next year."
Fort Stockton's freshman survived a last-second 3-point try by Kenneth
Terry to win their game Tuesday, 45-43, while the Panthers' junior
varsity defeated the Eagles, 65-28. Terry and Jomar Gallego led the
ninth graders with 12 points, while Orlando Matta and Frank Perea topped
the JV with seven apiece.
Velasquez 0 0-0 0; Perales 3 0-1 7; Leyva 1 0-0 2; Lopez 4 2-2 10;
Fabela 2 0-0 4; Garcia 2 0-1 5; Herrera 1 0-0 2; Robbins 4 0-0 8; Hamlin
0 0-0 0; Cabello 5 0-0 10. Totals 23 2-4 50.
E. Abila 2 1-2 7; J. Abila 5 0-2 10; Martinez 0 0-0 0; Hinojos 7 7-9 21;
Garcia 0 0-0 0; Adame 2 0-0 4; Marquez 0 0-0 0; Navarrete 1 0-0 2;
Chavez 3 0-0 9. Totals 20 8-13 53
Fort Stockton 13 16 10 11 -50
Pecos 18 8 8 19 -53
Three-point goals: Fort Stockton 2 (Perales, Garcia), Pecos 5 (Chavez 3,
E. Abila 2). Fouled out: None. Total fouls: Fort Stockton 15, Pecos 12.
Playing at home, the boys jumped out to a 25-12 lead after one period
and held a comfortable margin the rest of the way, as they defeated the
Cowboys, 69-55. Earlier, the girls stayed close to Grandfalls for three
period, but the Cowgirls were able to hold the Bears to just five points
in the final period and won, 56-39.
The ninth win in a row for the boys came behind a 22 point effort from
Scott Clark and 13 points apiece by Kevin Castillo and Zane Rhyne. The
Bears upped their 13 point margin after one period to 19 at the half, at
43-24, before the Cowboys cut it back to 55-38 after three periods and
to 14 points at the finish.
"Sometimes you don't get a chance to get your subs in, so I was able to
give them some playing time," said Bears' coach Michael Barrandey, whose
team improved to 16-2 on the season.
The second straight district title for the Bears will match them up
against the runner-up team from District 30-A, either Garden City or
Irion County, who play on Friday. But Balmorhea's bi-district match-up
isn't scheduled until the weekend of Feb. 21, so Barrandey said he'll be
looking to schedule a playoff practice game before then.
"I'll call around and see if we can get a game," said the Bears' coach,
who might not know until next week who his bi-district opponent is, if
Irion County wins on Friday. Garden City won the first half of District
30-A play, and a Irion County victory would force a one-game playoff for
the district title.
Corey Moore led all scorers with 33 points for Grandfalls, which ended
district play in third place, with a 2-4 record. Buena Vista won second
in District 29-A and defeated Marathon on Tuesday. They'll face the 30-A
runner up in two weeks.
Balmorhea's girls had a shot at tying Grandfalls for third in the final
standings, and stayed close for a while. They trailed by five after one
period, and were down just 20-19 at the half. The Cowgirls got the lead
back up to five after three periods, then broke things open with a 17-5
final period.
"In the last quarter the girls started turning the ball over and making
some mistakes," Barrandey said. "But they're still a young team."
Cherry Garcia had 16 points for the Bears, who finished at 0-6 in
district, 5-13 overall. Laura Porras had 23 to lead Grandfalls, which
wound up 2-4 in district play.
The West of the Pecos 3-On-3 Men's Tournament will begin at 8:30 a.m.
on Feb. 15 in the new Pecos High School gym, and will be divided into
18-30 and 30-and-over age groups, according to Eagles' basketball coach
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I can't believe the last time I wrote on this blog was a year ago...for this exact type of post (insert ashamed emoticon). That shows you how crazy 2015 was! And it tells me I need to set a goal this year to get my butt in gear and be more diligent about writing on my blog.
As some of you die-hard followers may know, 2015 was a different kind of year here at Lindsay Daniels Photography. It was full of international travel, long-term documentary projects, and somewhat of a shift in the photography I am used to focusing on. Most of you know me as a landscape and adventure photographer, but sometimes projects come your way that affect you down to the core, enough to even change your vision as a photographer. That's what happened to me this year.
When I was asked to be the lead cinematographer for a documentary called Stolen Innocence, I'm not sure I realized how big of an impact it would have on me and my career. It was a dream come true, and something I had always wanted to do. I got to work with some incredible people; from the amazing film crew, to the NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) directors and founders, to the many girls and women who were willing to tell their stories of being trafficked into the sex trade. I'm a big believer in visual media making a difference in this world. I believe a photo can end a war. I believe a documentary can create policy change. I believe honest news can cause people to get involved. I wouldn't do what I do if I didn't believe this with all my heart. I've got a long road of learning and progress ahead of me, but the hope of doing good in this world has made a huge impact on me this year.
I can't really write about this year without mentioning the amazing people who were behind it:
To Casey Allred and Chris Davis, for giving me the chance to prove myself and learn so much along the way.
To my family, for all your prayers and your continuous support in everything I do.
To my fiancé, for believing in me and loving me for who I am.
To Urmi Basu, Smarita Sengupta and Rishi Kant (and all of those working with New Light, Destiny Foundation, and Shakti Vahini), for being the shining stars in the many lives affected by sex trafficking. You are true heroes.
To the Nepal Rises crew in Kathmandu, for answering the call when the people of Nepal needed it most.
And finally, to all of you. Especially to those of you who have started to spread the word about sex trafficking, and to those who donated to effect.org to help those affected by the earthquake in Nepal. You saved lives.
As I sit at my desk writing this I can't help but get emotional. I really can't thank you all enough. I am extremely humbled by your love and commitment to others. Keep striving for a better world. Happy New Year.
My Top 10 photos of 2015:
(in no particular order)
A man splattered in dyed water from the Holi Color Festival celebrations in Kolkata, India, March 5, 2015.
Hajra waits for her next client in Mumbai's oldest brothel, Kamathipura, April 17, 2015. During the day, Hajra volunteers with a local NGO to help prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS by handing out condoms and educating women who work in the brothels.
Family members of a missing girl are shown a photo to prove she is alive and well. Many had to see the photo over and over again to actually believe it. October 10, 2015.
A Muslim man stops in front of the Taj Mahal at sunset. Agra, India. May 13, 2015.
Clean up and recovery crews realize the daunting task ahead after the 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal. Kathmandu, Nepal. April 26, 2015.
Series of photos of a Nepali woman seeing the main part of her city in ruin, Bhaktapur, Nepal, April 27, 2015. Bhaktapur was one of the hardest hit cities in Nepal after the earthquake.
Rescue and recovery efforts continued through rain and aftershocks in the days after the first earthquake hit Nepal. Bhaktapur, Nepal. April 27, 2015.
Wildflower season in the Wasatch Mountains was one of the best I've seen. It's always good to come back to my hometown and enjoy these quiet moments in the mountains. July 18, 2015.
Bryan Jackman, my fiancé, overlooking our home in Salt Lake City, Utah from the base of Mount Olympus. September 8, 2015.
I was able to spend the end of this amazing year in beautiful Thailand with the one I love. This was not only one of my favorite spots in Thailand, but it is where Bryan asked me to marry him. Phuket, Thailand. December 16, 2015.
I can say 2015 was eventful, if nothing else. It was filled with extreme highs and depressing lows, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Cheers to a beautiful new year!
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Lindsay Jackman--first time I've said it and I like it!
Great year in pics! You're amazing--XO
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One Sunday when I arrived from school, I was so interested to have our house look tidy and new. I asked the kids to help me. My plan was just to arrange the books in our TV rack but after arranging some stuffs, I thought to transfer the TV rack to other side.
From the day we moved in here, our TV was always on the right side near the door. It has been like almost three years that we are here and yet, I did not re arrange some stuffs, it stays the way it is ever since.
Right after it is done, I took a picture of it and I felt so accomplished. Mj and Mariel were there to help me dragging the couch, the table and all that stuff. My home looks so neat and so squeaky clean after all. Although Mj and Mariel told me to buy another TV rack, I am looking forward to it but I need to settle my car yet. The leaking is still there, and it requires lots of money to repair the leak because it is situated in the injection pump. So I have to go now, for the meantime what I can only offer is this picture. Thank God, after being hiatus again I am here agonizing to update my blog and update my house. LOL


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Svetoslav Roerich and Devika Rani Roerich Memorial
in Svetoslav Roerich's Summer Studio
Svetoslav Roerich's summer studio is a small one-room house with a hipped roof, which you can find on a hillside just below the Roerichs' two-storied house. The stone-paved path starts at the Nicholas and Svetoslav Roerich Art Gallery, goes down the hill offering a stunning view of the Kullu valley, and then turns right at the fork ending in a welcoming open door of Svetoslav Roerich's summer studio surrounded by boxwood and persimmon trees. In the past, the studio windows overlooked the snow-capped peaks of Mountain Gepang now hidden by overgrown trees. Here, another door went on the northern slope; now it is closed. The central part of the roof was glazed and the studio had a lot of sunlight.
The summer studio display was opened after an overhaul repair in 2004, the year of Svetoslav Roerich's 100th anniversary. In 2013, a renewed display prepared in collaboration with the International Centre of the Roerichs, Moscow, was opened.
The studio display contains archive photos, reproductions of paintings and memorial items and mainly covers the period of Svetoslav Roerich's life in Kullu where he first came to his family in 1931.
The artist's stay in Kullu was filled with different kinds of creative activities: work on the paintings, engagement in the Urusvati Institute activities, study of local and Tibetan medicine, research in phytobiology. One of the showcases displays several preserved tubes of tempera paints, a copy of Svetoslav Roerich's drawing of a fisherman with a fishing rod, bottles with medicinal herbs from the Urusvati Institute collection. Here, in the studio, one can see the painter's memorial easel and an elegant ceramic tiled stove of a warm golden-brown hue. It might have been used for heating in a cold weather and during monsoon or might have served for making paints.
Svetoslav Roerich's diverse interests are also reflected in the photos. The photo of 1931 shows the young artist with his father on the religious Dussehra festival in Kullu. The photo of 1942 tells us about the visit of Jawaharlal Nehru, the future Prime Minister of India, to the estate, with whom Svetoslav Roerich enjoyed a long-standing friendship. In the picture of 1934 the artist is captured in front of the easel with his painting "Karma Dorje." Lama Karma Dorje was a friend of the Roerich family, he often visited them and taught George, the Roerichs' eldest son, Tibetan language and Buddhism. The display has a reproduction of the Lama's portrait where he is depicted against magnificent mountain peaks.
The reproductions of his parents' portraits created by Svetoslav Roerich when staying in Kullu reveal him as a brilliant portraitist. In the studio there are two portraits of Nicholas Roerich: Nicholas Roerich in Tibetan Clothes (1933), and Professor Nicholas Roerich (1934) and an inspired portrait of Helena Roerich (1937). Photos and small sketches represented here and created by the painter while working on portraits offer us a "peep" into his creative laboratory.
The studio display also presents a reproduction of the portrait of Svetoslav Roerich's wife, Devika Rani, painted in 1946, the year after their wedding. "She is a wonderful person of European education, moreover, she is a grandniece of Tagore, and the high innate culture of this family is vividly pronounced in all her life," Helena Roerich wrote in one of her letters. "We got to love her strongly, together with her husband she would spend summers and falls here with us. N[icholas] K[onstantinovich] really appreciated her sensitivity and amazingly smooth character." Devika is depicted in a sunny yellow sari in the background of soft pink flowers of Indian lilac. Her appearance oozes feminine charm and spiritual refinement.
Devika Rani, an Indian movie star, actress and film director was a loyal wife and friend of Svetoslav Roerich. Being a well-educated and talented person, she was a member of many cultural Indian organizations, but she considered helping her husband with everything her principle mission. In one of the showcases you can see Devika Rani's typewriter, a few stationery items, jewellery, and a small-size edition of the Bible presented to Devika by her mother.
Devika Rani invariably accompanied her husband in his trips to Russia. "A living particle of India" – that is how Svetoslav Roerich presented her at exhibitions. He spoke about his wife, "She has enriched and keeps enriching my life a lot. She is that closest contact I have with India and perhaps one of the main reasons why I love India so much."
Russia and India were indivisible in the heart and life of the artist, in his work and endeavours. In 1989, on the initiative of Svetoslav Roerich, the Soviet Roerichs Foundation was established in Moscow (renamed into the International Centre of the Roerichs). In 1992, Svetoslav Roerich founded the International Roerich Memorial Trust in India. Founding those organizations aimed to preserve the Roerichs' heritage, actively promote their ideas and creativity, and thus open new ways for mankind's advancement towards peaceful and bright future, was Svetoslav Roerich's greatest contribution to the work of integrating Russia and India.
The bright colours of the Russian and Indian national flags crown the Svetoslav Rorich's studio display symbolizing the cultural and spiritual affinity of our two great countries.


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Shia for the 5?
What is it about Shia LaBeouf I love so much? He's been a dumbass behind the wheel, and those curious oedipal remarks, and he's obviously an emotional brat, and still there's something. Shia is an intense, compelling actor, even when she's acting in sh-t. He's watchable. That's It, I guess.
This new interview with GQ isn't helping my crush. He's just so f-cking cute. And demonstrably little. Which is usually a problem for me. It speaks to his indescribable appeal. And I know I share this quiver with many of you who, without fail, always email whenever he's the subject of a post. Try to control yourselves today. There is work to do.
I like the way Shia photographs. Even in his action shots, when you know he's just posing, I actually almost believe he's not really posing. I also like that Shia isn't pretty. Rather, he's unusual looking. And expressive. His is not a face that will die with a fad. If he can hold himself together, Shia has a long career. And it should be a varied one. He does however need to get over himself.
Some of these GQ answers illustrate the pretension that Sam Worthington protested against in my earlier post.
"He is a doctor of human manipulation," Shia says of Oliver Stone. He means it as a compliment. "One of the first things you do with Oliver is you start talking about your personal life. You give it all to him at the beginning, and then he has these strings with which he can f-ck with you. He regurgitates this stuff at inopportune moments. He will just come up and whisper a phrase in your ear, sing a song, mention something about your dad, and—pow!—it puts you in a different world. We'd be on the street, and Oliver would just say, 'Go to that bar, get f-cked-up, and come back.' I'd walk over, get smashed, and go back to work. He would really f-ck with me when I was smashed. I get aggressive when I'm smashed, and he'd film that. He would just open you up completely, make you f-cking naked-and then call, 'Action.'"
This is why actors shouldn't play poker. Or they should if we want to take their money. Please. It would be so easy. Because they are so f-cking sensitive. At least the young ones are. Speaking of gambling... I do worry about his little trading habit now. I know a gambler when I see one. Because I am one. And was, at one point in university, caught up in some deep debt sh-t. And being young with money, well, it can lead to so much f-ckery:
"I trade in my boxers now. I'm up early for the markets. I'm real-time all day long." He loves the game and the thrill and the nerves of the market; and the market, it seems, loves him right back. As of the morning of our lunch, Shia says his online Schwab Active Trading account had grown to close to $450,000.
Perhaps Carey will hold him in check. And this is the very best part of the interview. He doesn't want to give it away, but he doesn't shut it down completely. In fact he handled it perfectly:
"I never really had anything in my life that was off-limits," he says, visibly trying to control his natural inclination to share, to think out loud, to let his voice run free. "But with this, just out of respect, I just don't want to f-ck around. She's an unbelievably thought-provoking actress, the most talented actress I've ever met in my life, by leaps and bounds. Neither one of us are fame whores. It works out. It's not like we're the premiere couple; we're not the red-carpet king and queen."
RIGHT? You love him loving her, right? I do.
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Jared and Ron,
As Jared mentioned, dbv can incorrectly report corrupt blocks on an open datafile, although this is likely to happen only if there is heavy write activity to the datafile and dbv scans a block as it is being written. In which case scanning the file when the db is closed or copying the datafile before scanning it should work.
The "pages" listed by dbv are eqivalent to the blocks in the datafile, so if dbv reports page 12345 is corrupt, then that's the same as block 12345.
Dbv scans *all* blocks in the datafile, not just those belonging to objects. Versions 8.1.6+ will report "Found block already marked corrupted" if the block doesn't belong to an existing object. These blocks will also not be counted in the stats for the file. These corruptions can be safely ignored as the corrupt block will be reformatted when it is allocated to an extent.
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If only the DBA is given then, as someone else mentioned, used note: 113005.1 to convert the DBA to a file and block #.
I always recommend running dbv and ATVSC (analyze table validate structure cascade) multiple times as flaky hardware will often manifest itself as intermittent block corruptions (i.e. if a block is truly corrupt it should be reported as corrupt every time it is checked).
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City Council President Jim Graham confidently assured Warren residents that their water is safe from high atop his majestic perch in Council chambers this past Wednesday, and this morning the Tribune echoed that point-of-view on the front page.
I can't know for sure, but most likely neither were lying. I suspect they just took the word of someone they thought should know the truth and passed it on without asking any (or at least the right) questions.
We're lucky that Vindicator reporter Ed Runyan did what real reporters do, he did ask the tough questions, and when he got the stalling and stonewalling that one usually gets from the Warren city government, he found other sources. So read this, not that.
If you have any concerns about the safety of your drinking water, or just an interest in the issue, I strongly urge you to skip the Tribune's coverage and go straight to today's Vindy article which demonstrates, with facts and data, that in some cases Warren's water has had lead levels up to four times the allowed level.
[Added 1/31/16: Here is a PDF file the Vindy posted on their site with raw data from their reporting including reports from the Ohio EPA: Warren_Water_Files]
I don't want to be an alarmist; I live in Warren and I don't plan on running out to get my water tested tomorrow. Of course I don't have young children living with me; if I did I might have a greater sense of urgency.
To me the real story here is how the Warren city government's first rule for every piece of information is to keep it secret; treat it like the formula for Coca-Cola. Their first instinct isn't to worry about what is best for you, it's to worry about covering their own behinds.
I urge you to read Runyon's article and listen to the rationale from those involved in testing and evaluating the importance of the test results. They don't want to tell you the full truth because it might upset you, and in their view the data isn't significant.
But what about the public's right to know? Isn't it up to you to decide what's significant to you?
If you lived next door to someone whose water tested unsafe, wouldn't you want to know? And how would you feel if you found out that the high lead level reading was taken at the home of a Warren Water Department employee? A little angry, perhaps?
Well, take a deep breath and wait for an apology or any kind of plan to deal with the situation from Graham, Enzo or Doug (GED).


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