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John Riccitiello steps down as EA CEO
Jeff Grubb@jeffgrubb
Riccitiello is out after expensive mistakes like Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Electronic Arts is announcing that chief executive officer John Riccitiello is stepping down. The company's board immediately appointed Larry Probst to executive chairman to "ensure a smooth transition."
The publisher plans to begin the search for a new chief executive officer with the aid of an executive search firm. EA will consider internal and external candidates.
In a statement, Riccitiello says this is about "accountability" for the company's current financial state. His final day is March 30.
The publisher's stock is trading at $18.71. That's down from a $61.40 in 2007, the year Riccitiello took over as EA CEO. EA will announce the results for fiscal 2013 on May 7.
"EA is an outstanding company with creative and talented employees, and it has been an honor to serve as the Company's CEO," said Riccitiello in a statement. "I am proud of what we have accomplished together, and after six years, I feel it is the right time for me pass the baton and let new leadership take the Company into its next phase of innovation and growth. I remain very optimistic about EA's future — there is a world class team driving the Company's transition to the next generation of game consoles."
Riccitiello oversaw an up-and-down period for the third-party publisher. He introduced a renewed focus on original properties during the early days of his tenure before betting big on the long-delayed and expensive massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare.
"We thank John for his contributions to EA since he was appointed CEO in 2007, especially the passion, dedication and energy he brought to the Company every single day," said Probst. "John has worked hard to lead the Company through challenging transitions in our industry, and was instrumental in driving our very significant growth in digital revenues. We appreciate John's leadership and the many important strategic initiatives he has driven for the Company. We have mutually agreed that this is the right time for a leadership transition."
Riccitiello wrote an open letter addressed to "everyone at EA," and you can read it below:
I am writing with some tough news. I have resigned my position as EA's CEO. I will be around for a couple of weeks, and I hope to have the chance to say goodbye to many of you. Larry Probst will be stepping in as Executive Chairman to help smooth the transition. Larry first hired me at EA in 1997 and he was an incredible leader for the company during the 16 years he served as CEO. While he will continue to be the Chairman of the US Olympic Committee, he will also provide leadership for EA until a permanent CEO is appointed.
My decision to leave EA is really all about my accountability for the shortcomings in our financial results this year. It currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued to the Street, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago. And for that, I am 100 percent accountable.
Personally, I think we've never been in a better position as a company. You have made enormous progress in improving product quality. You are now generating more revenue on fewer titles by making EA's games better and bigger. You've navigated a rapidly transforming industry to create a digital business that is now approximately $1.5 billion and growing fast. The big investments you've made in creating EA's own platform are now showing solid returns. I believe EA is alone in mastering the challenges of building a platform for our games and services – a platform that will provide a more direct relationship with our consumers. You are number one in the fastest growing segment, mobile, with incredible games like The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Real Racing 3, Bejeweled, SCRABBLE and Plants v. Zombies. You have worked to put EA in a position to capture industry leadership on the next generation of consoles; and I believe two of our titles – Battlefield and FIFA – will be among the top few franchises in the entire industry. And the industry's most talented management team – Frank, Rajat, Peter, Gaby, Andrew, Patrick, Blake, Joel and Jeff — are certain to lead the company to a successful future.
I remain an incredible fan of EA and everyone who works in our world – from Stockholm to Seoul, Orlando to Edmonton, Guildford, Geneva, Cologne, Lyon, Bucharest, Montreal, Austin, Salt Lake, L.A., and, of course, EARS. My hope is that my travels and yours allow us the opportunity to talk more in the months and years to come.
In a few weeks, I will be leaving EA physically. But I will never leave emotionally. I am so incredibly proud of all the great things you have done, and it has been my honor to lead this team these past six years. After March, I will be cheering wildly for EA from the sidelines.
In the "business outlook" section of the EA press release announcing Riccitiello's resignation, EA said that it expects revenues and earnings per share to come in at the low-end or below its previous guidance.
The most recent blight on EA's ledger is the release of SimCity.
Riccitiello oversaw the launch of the urban-planning title, which suffered from numerous issues. SimCity's design dictated that players have a constant connection to the online servers, but the EA servers collapsed under player demand. In the two weeks since its release, some intermittent issues still remain.
In the wake of SimCity, customers demanded that EA provide refunds, which the company refused to grant. Earlier today, EA revealed a list of games that SimCity owners can choose from for free as part of an apology for the city-building title's performance.
EA also had a misstep with the reboot of its Medal of Honor series of first-person shooters. The publisher attempted to compete with Call of Duty with Medal of Honor (2010), which brought what was previously a World War II franchise into the modern era (as Activision did with Call of Duty). In 2012, EA released Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Both games failed to reach a wide audience, and the company announced it would put the property on hold.
The Old Republic has since gone from a subscription model to free-to-play.
Not all EA titles have slipped under the watch of Riccitiello. The company's sports franchises are arguably more popular and lucrative than ever before. The FIFA series outpaced competition from Konami and others to overtake the massive worldwide soccer audience.
Meanwhile, Madden is a perennial hit, and all other sports games have introduced microtransactions, which bolster their revenue.
The traditional game company has also found success on mobile platforms. EA currently has two games in the top 10 best-selling paid titles on Google's Play market in Plants vs. Zombies and Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
Probst previously held the position of EA CEO from 1991 to 2007, when Riccitiello replaced him. Probst started as chairman of the United States Olympic Committee in 2008, a position he will still hold while acting as executive chairman of EA.
The stock is up 2 percent in after-hours trading to $19.11.


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"Ideas emerge from plays—not the other way around."
Sam Shepard, born November 5, 1943
The above quote is from the introduction by Ross Wetzsteon to the paperback edition of "Sam Shepard: Fool For Love and Other Plays," published in 1984 by Bantam Books. In the essay, Wetzsteon sets up the Shepard line above by first quoting thus: "I would have . . . a picture, and just start from there." This impulse to visualize, Shepard went on, "is mistakenly called an idea by those who have never experienced it . . . . I can't even count how many times I've heard the line, 'where did the idea for the play come from?' I never can answer it because it seems totally ass backwards." Then Wetzsteon goes on to expand the idea by using more comments from Shepard and others. He begins with the playwright himself. ". . . once it goes off into the so-called meaning of it, then it's lost, it's gone away." Asked to "explain" one of his plays, he says simply, "I think explanation destroys it and makes it less than it is." Or, in the words of Jacques Levy, who directed several of Shepard's early plays: "Sam is more interested in doing something to audiences than in saying something to them."
Next Wetzsteon asks what is this "something" he's trying to "do"? He again quotes Levy who describes what Shepard is not trying to do: he says it, "has no relationship to the purging of emotions through identification or total involvement"; he then calls metaphor to the rescue: " . . . it is more like the way changing a room's temperature does something to the people in it." Others say that Shepard's genius lies not so much in helping us understand what we don't know as it is in making us feel what we know all too well. "Symptoms," Shepard has said, are "things that show on the outside what the inside might be up to. "It's probably more to the point to say that he provides us not with the symptoms but with the disease itself, not with the outside but with the inside, not with ideas but with the feelings that are their source.
According to Wetzsteon, there's a quality in Shepard's work that can only be conveyed by referring to dreams, the feeling that we have entered a world at once beyond rational comprehension and yet utterly familiar. "I feel something here that's going on that's deeply mysterious," Shepard has said of the way he approaches a play. I know that it's true, but I can't put my finger on it." "The fantastic thing about theater," he has said elsewhere, "is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theater is—that you can be watching the thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension."
This "something"—this added dimension—is what Sam Shepard gives me in his early plays like Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, and especially his one-act play, Action. The following blurb is from the October, 2004, University of Maryland at Baltimore County production of Action as staged by the UBMC Theatre Department (as are the two production photographs). "Action takes the audience right into the living room of a post-apocalyptic holiday. Liza, Lupe, Jeep and Shooter are trapped in a cold, isolated cabin after a mysterious "crisis." Time has passed since the days of mass-media and indoor plumbing and they are struggling to pull off a holiday meal. Limited food, an uncertain future and overwhelming boredom begin to take their toll with disturbing and absurd results. In this hilarious marriage between the realistic and bizarre, Shepard offers a stirring look at the unplugged American mind."
Action, which is included in this collection of Shepard plays by Ross Welzsteon, sure did something to me when I first saw it 25 or 30 years ago. It is a perfect example of his approach to play writing as stated in his introductory quotes. Back then, I attended a local production of the play and was powerfully moved by the experience. But I came away with no idea what it was that triggered my strong emotional reaction. I couldn't even figure out what the play was about, and certainly had no idea how he had pulled those feelings out of me. That intrigued me and I spent many days after the performance thinking about the play and talking to people about it. Even to this day, when I find someone willing to listen, I do that. At some point along the way, though, I finally realized that what the play is "about" isn't important, aside from the fact that it exists to somehow involve me in the playwright's creative process, which is manifest in how, after all these years, the work continues to intrigue and mystify me—as do the best so-called "classic" plays such as Death of a Salesman and Our Town which have the same effect on me, albeit in less intensive doses.
What I take away from this is that it's a huge mistake to try to figure out what Shepard's best work is "about." Try to dissect a Shepard play and you drain away its life force—you kill the power of it, in the same way you destroy the effect of a perfect joke if you have to explain the punchline.
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Very few books on dating have stood the test of time like Passion and Purity. Its much-needed message remains strong and hopeful in an age when doing whatever feels right is common practice. Using her own life as an example, Elisabeth Elliot guides singles of both genders and of any…
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OUR WITCH WOMAN
OUR witch woman was rather a remarkable old person. When she was, I suppose, considerably over sixty, her favourite granddaughter died.
Old Bootha was in a terrible state of grief, and chopped herself in a most merciless manner at the burial, especially about the head. She would speak to no one, used to spend her time about the grave, round which she fixed upright posts which she painted white, red, and black. All round the grave she used to sweep continually.
More and more she isolated herself, and at last discarded all her clothes and roamed the bush à la Eve before the Fall, as she had probably done as a young girl.
She dug herself an underground camp, roofed it over, and painted enormous posts which she erected in front of her 'Muddy wine,' as she called her camp. She never came near the house, though we had been great friends before.
She used to prowl round the outhouses and pick up all sorts of things, rubbish for the most part, but often good utensils too; all used to be secreted in the underground camp. She never talked to any one, but used to mutter continually to herself and her dogs in an unknown tongue which only her dogs seemed to understand.
We thought she was quite mad.
One day, while we were playing tennis, she suddenly, muttering her strange language and dancing new corroboree steps, clad only in her black skin, came up. Matah told her to go away, but she only corroboreed round him and said she wanted to see me. I have the most morbid horror of lunacy in any form. I was once induced to go over a lunatic asylum--the horror of it haunts me still. However, I thought it would never do to show the coward I was, so though I felt as if I had been scooped out and filled up with ice, I went to her. She danced round me for a little time, then sidled up to me and said:
'Wahl you frightened, wahl me hurt you. I only womba--mad--all yowee--spirits--in me tell me gubbah--good-I lib 'long a youee; bimeby I come back big feller wirreenun; wahl you frightened? I not hurt you.'
And after crooning an accompaniment to her steps off she went, a strange enough figure, dancing and crooning as she went towards her camp; and not until the spirits gave up possession of her did she come near the house again.
One day she gave us a start. We were schooling a new team of four horses. The off-side leader had only been in once before, and was a brumby (horse run in from a wild mob). We had to pass Bootha's camp. I looked about as we neared it but saw nothing of her. Suddenly from the ground, as it seemed, out dashed the weird old figure, arms full of things, jabbering away at a great rate. Whiz came a tin plate past the leaders' heads; the offside horse reared and plunged and took some holding. Whiz came an old bill; then, one after another, a regular fusilade of various utensils.
It did not take us long to get past, but for as long as we could see the attack was kept up. Coming back we saw nothing of Bootha, and all the utensils had been picked up.
I used to tell the other blacks to see that Bootha had plenty of food. They said she was all right, the spirits were looking after her. Lunatics, from their point of view, are only persons spirit-possessed.
Gradually old Bootha, clothed as usual, came back about the place.
Strange stories came through the house blacks to me of old Bootha. She was very ill for a long time, then suddenly she recovered; not only recovered but seemed rejuvenated. We heard of wonderful cures she made; how she always consulted the spirits about any illness; how there were said to be spirits in some of her dogs; how she was now a rainmaker and, in fact, a fully fledged witch.
I was curious to see some of these wonders, so used to get the old woman to come up when any one was ill, consult her, and generally make much of her. There is no doubt she could diagnose a case well enough. Matah suffered a good deal with a constant pain in one knee, he was quite lame from it. He showed it to Bootha one day. She sang a song to her spirits, then said:
'Too muchee water there; you steam him, put him on hot rag; you drink plenty cold water, all lite dat go.'
As it happened a medical man was passing a few days afterwards with an insurance agent. Matah consulted him.
'Hum! Yes, yes. Hot fomentations to the place affected, poultices, a cooling draught. There's a stoppage of fluid at the knee-joint which must be dispersed.'
I thought Bootha ought to have been called in consultation.
A girl I had staying with me was taken suddenly and, to us, unaccountably ill. She was just able to get out of her room into the drawing-room, where she would lie back on the cushions of a lounge looking dreadfully limp and utterly washed out. Hearing of her illness old Bootha came up. I thought it might amuse Adelaide to see an old witch; she agreed, so I brought her in.
Bootha went straight up to the sick girl, expressed a few sympathetic sentences, then she said she would ask the spirits what had made Adelaide ill and what would cure her.
She moved my furniture until she left the centre of the room clear; she squatted down, and hanging her head began muttering in an unintelligible dialect. Presently her voice ceased and we heard from beside her a most peculiar whistling sort of voice, to which she responded, evidently interrogating. Again the whistling voice from further away. Bootha then told me she had asked a dead black fellow, Big Joe, to tell her what she wanted to know; but he could not, so now she was going to ask her dead granddaughter. Again she said a sort of incantation, and again, after a while, came the whistling voice reply-this time from another direction, not quite so loud. The same sort of thing was gone through with the same result.
Then Bootha said she would ask Guadgee, a black girl who had been one of my first favourites in the camp, and who had died a few years previously.
The whistling voice came from a third direction, though all the time I could see Bootha's lips moving.
Guadgee answered all she was asked. She said Adelaide was made ill because she had offended the spirits by bathing in the creek under the shade of a Minggah, or spirit-tree, a place tabooed to all but wirreenuns, or such as hold communion with spirits.
Of course, according to the blacks, to disturb a shadow is to hurt the original.
In this Minggah, Guadgee. said, were swarms of bees invisible to all but wirreenuns, and they are ready always to resent any insult to the Minggah or its shadow. These spirit-bees had entered Adelaide and secreted some wax on her liver; their bites, Guadgee said, were on her back.
Well, that can't be it, I said, I for you never did bathe in the shade of a Minggah; for, going as you always do with the house-girls, you are bound to be kept from such sacrilege; they would never dare such desecration.'
'Which is their Minggah? Is it a big Coolabah between the Bend and the garden?'
'Yes.'
'Then I did bathe there the last time I went down. I was up too late to go with the Black-but-Comelys, and as the sun was hot I went further round the point and bathed in the shade. And the bee-bites must be those horribly irritating pimples I have across my back.'
The cause of illness settled to her satisfaction, Bootha asked how to cure it. The patient was to drink nothing hot nor heating but as much cold water as she liked, especially a long drink before going to bed. Guadgee said she would come in the night when the patient was asleep and take the wax from her liver; she would sleep well and wake better in the morning.
Bootha got up then, came over to the patient, took her hand, rubbed it round the wrist several times, muttering an incantation; then saying she would see her again next day, off she went, taking, she told us, all the spirits away inside her, whence at desire they could be returned to such Minggah in their own Noorunbah, or hereditary hunting-grounds, as wirreenuns had placed them in, or to roam at their pleasure when not required by those in authority over spirits. Our old spiritualist denies us freedom even in the after-life she promises us.
Adelaide slept that night, looked a better colour the next morning, and rapidly recovered.
We think old Bootha must be a good physician and a ventriloquist, only I believe it is said ventriloquists cannot live long, and Bootha is now over eighty.
Others besides wirreenuns see spirits sometimes, but rarely, though wirreenuns are said to have the power to conjure them up in a form visible to ordinary eyes.
Babies are said to see spirits when they are smiling or crowing as if to themselves; it's to some spirit visible to them but to no one else.
When a baby opens his hands and shuts them again quickly, smiling all the while, that baby is with the spirits catching crabs!
Dogs see spirits; when they bark and howl suddenly and you see nothing about, it is because they have seen a spirit.
One person may embody many spirits, but such an one must be careful not to drink anything hot or heating, such would drive out the spirits at once. The spirits would never enter a person defiled by the white man's 'grog.'
Old Bootha had an interview with a very powerful spirit after she was ill, who told her that the spirit of her father was now in Bahloo, the moon; and that it was this spirit which had cured her, and if she kept his commands she would live for ever. The commands were never to drink 'grog,' never to wear red, never to eat fish. This was told her fifteen years ago, never once has she transgressed; her vigour for an old woman considerably over eighty is marvellous.
She was going away for a trip. Before going she said, as she would not be able to know when I wanted rain for my garden, she would put two posts in it which had in them the spirits of Kurreahs, or crocodiles. As these spirits required water I might be certain my tanks would never go dry while they were on guard. She asked one of my Black-but-Comelys, a very stalwart young woman, to help her lift one of these posts into the garden where she wanted to erect it. The girl took hold of one end, but in a little while dropped it, said it was too heavy. Old Bootha got furious.
'I get the spirits to help me,' she said, and started a little sing-song, then shouldered the post herself and carried it in. These posts are painted red, black, and white, with a snaky pattern, the Kurreah sign, on them. She also planted in my garden two other witch-poles, one painted red and having a cross-bar about midway down it from which raddled strings were attached to the top; this was to keep away the Euloowayi, black fellows possessed of devils, who came from behind the sunset.
The other was a plain red-painted, tapering pine-pole which she said, when it fell to the ground, would tell of the death of some one related to an inmate of the house. Should it lean towards the house it foretold misfortune; or if she were any time away, when she was returning she would send her Mullee Mullee to sit on the top and bend it just to let us know. This pole would also keep away the spirits of the dead from the house during her absence. While she was away there would be no one to come and clear the place of evil by smoking the Budtha twigs all round it, as she always did if I were alone and, she thought, in need of protection.
Old Bootha has what she calls a wi-mouyan, clever-stick. It is about six feet long, great lumps of beefwood gum making knobs on it at intervals; between each knob it is painted. Armed with this stick, a piece of crystal, some green twigs, and sometimes a stick with a bunch of feathers on top, and a large flat stone, she goes out to make rain. The crystal and stone she puts under the water in the creek, the feathered stick she erects on the edge of the water, then goes in and splashes about with green twigs, singing all the time.
After a while she gets out and parades the bank with the wi-mouyan, singing a rain-song which charms some of the water out of the creek into the clouds, whence it falls where she directs it. Once my garden of roses looked very wilted. I asked Bootha to make rain, but just then she was very offended with Matah. One of her dogs had been poisoned, she would make no rain on his country. However, at last she said she would make some for me. I bound her down to a certain day. The day came; a heavy storm fell just over my garden, filling the ground tank, which was almost empty. About two inches fell. Within half a mile of each side of the garden the dust was barely laid.
Old Bootha's luck stuck to her that time, and I had to give her a new dress and some 'bacca.' But during the last drought she failed signally. Her excuse for failing was that a great wirreenun up the creek was so angry with the white people who were driving away all emu, kangaroo, and opossums, the black fellow's food, and yet made a fuss if their dogs killed a sheep for them sometimes, that he put his rain-stone in a fire, and while he did that no rain would fall. He said if all the sheep died the white fellows would go away again, and then, as long ago, the black fellows' country would have plenty of emu and kangaroo.
We saw a curious coincidence in connection with one of Bootha's witch-poles in my garden, the pole whose falling foretold death of some relative of some one in the house.
One afternoon there had been drizzling rain and a grey mist overshadowing things. Matah went out to look at the chances of a continuance of rain, the usual drought being on. He called to me to come and see a curious sky. Looking towards the west I saw a golden ball of a sun piercing the grey clouds which seemed like a spangled veil over its face; shooting from the sun was a perfect halo of golden light, from which three shafts spread into roadways up past the grey clouds into the vault of heaven. The effect was very striking indeed, against the grey clouds shaded from silver to almost black.
As we stood waiting for the sun to sink and the afterglow to paint these clouds, as it did, from shrimp pink and heliotrope to vivid crimson, we saw Bootha's pole fall. The air was quite still.
'The damp has loosened its setting,' said Matah, 'but we had better leave it alone and let the old girl fix it up again herself; it may be taboo to ordinary mortals like us.'
We left it.
That evening a messenger arrived from the sheep station to say my cook's mother had died just before sunset. The camp were firm believers in Bootha's witch-stick after that.
It was just as well we did not touch that stick; had we done so, Bootha says we should have broken out in sores all over our bodies.
They say that long ago the wirreenuns always used to have a sort of totem wizard-stick guarding the front of their camps.
Next: Chapter VII. Birth--Betrothal--An Aboriginal Girl From Infancy To Womanhood


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Review of Carl Grimes, Gas Mask walker - Walking Dead figures
Overall Average Rating: 3.75 out of 4
The Walking Dead remains one of the very best dramas on television, with another strong week in the rear view mirror. A lot of the characters have grown this season, but no more than Carl. He's becoming a man, getting his emotions and moral center under control, thanks to some intelligent parenting on his father's part. He's growing up in an awful world, but he's finding his way, and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed by the acting of the young Chandler Riggs. Most kids his age are simply bad actors -they are past the cute stage and haven't reached the point where they have enough life experience to successfully 'act'. He's coming into his own on the show, and he's been a welcome character this season.
I bring him up because his figure, along with one of the new SWAT walkers, is the focus of tonight's review. These shipped with the Governor and Andrea figures I reviewed earlier, and there's a second SWAT walker in the series as well, taking the wave count to five.
These are available now at Toys R Us stores, as well as various online retailers, for around $18 each.
Click on the image below for a Life Size version
I like the size of the packages - there's no waste, and they look good on the peg. There's too damn many twisties, but the overall appearance is really growing on me.
Sculpting - Walker ****; Carl ***1/2
The first wave or so of the McFarlane Walking Dead figures was weak - there's no other way to put it. That's no longer the case.
I'm not going to say Carl is as good as the exceptional Merle, or even Michonne. But I was shocked by how good the likeness was on this portrait.
He doesn't have one of those easy to sculpt faces, because there's nothing super distinctive about it. And yet, they've captured it - you really see Chandler Riggs as Carl. I will say that not wearing the hat the likeness isn't quite as strong, but in the hat he's a dead ringer.
I'll go in greater detail on the three layer face on the SWAT walker in the Accessories section, but suffice to say that the sculpting on all three layers is fantastic. I really love the look of the walker without any face, gruesome as it is. Unlike Carl, it's not really necessary for this to be an exact duplicate of an actual person, but the detailing and sharpness of the lines makes it a terrific looking walker to add to the mix.
The walker is about 5 1/4 inches tall, while Carl comes in at a scale appropriate 4 inches. Both stand fine on their own, once you find the sweet spot.
Paint - ***1/2
The paint can still get better - there's a little gloppiness on the skin tones, and some areas are thicker than I'd like.
But overall it has improved, especially when you consider the scale. The work on Carl's face is clean, and doesn't detract from the excellent likeness. There's a nice amount of blood and gore on both characters, although the walker has a bit more...as you'd hope.
I do wish his teeth were a little less dirty, and by that I mean less actual dirt in the paint. The teeth have a surface roughness that doesn't seem consistent with the general damage and rot. On the flip side, the work on the rotting eyeballs is great, and I love the detail of the splatter inside the mask.
I wanted to mention that Carl is able to hold his accessories, unlike the Governor and Andrea figures I reviewed earlier. The hand sculpts are much better suited to work with his extras.
Overall I'm quite happy with the paint quality, and the level of detail work.
Articulation - Walker ****; Carl ***
Both figures have good articulation, another area that's improved over the course of several waves. Dropping the silly action features also helped here, since they often got in the way of decent mobility.
Both have ball jointed necks, ball jointed shoulders and a rocker waist (although Carl's is pretty restricted). Carl has pin elbows and pin wrists, while the walker has ball elbows and cut wrists.
Both have those ball hips that lack the mobility that you really need, but the ball knees and ankles help make up for it a bit. Carl has a slightly harder time taking good stances because of the restriction on the ankle caused by the pant sculpt, but you can still get him to stay standing.
Be careful with the wrists on both of them, as they were painted tight on mine.
Accessories - ****
Both figures come with cool extras, appropriate to the characters.
Carl has his dad's hat, and it really looks great. This is one of those rare times where the figure looks better with the hat than without, and the slightly over sized nature is appropriate.
He also has a small knife that fits nicely in a sheath on his belt, as well as a duffel bag and a set of keys. These all make sense in the context of earlier episodes, but I do wish he also has his gun with the homemade silencer.
At first glance, the walker doesn't seem to have any accessories. But his face mask is not one extra but two - and it's one of the coolest, well executed ideas I've seen in awhile.
The full mask fits nicely over the face, and stays in place. The interior of the mask appears to be splattered with snot, or something even worse. You can pop off this plastic piece, exposing the walker face underneath. This face has sagging, rotting skin. You can then pull of the entire mask, and the skin is gone, exposing the raw, red muscle and flesh underneath.
This works and looks great - it is one of those very cool ideas that was perfectly executed.
With good articulation and accessories, and a perfect conflict story for role play, these make excellent action figures. They are a little fragile, but not so much that kids couldn't have a good time battling the monsters. With walkers, you don't have to be a fan of the show to have some fun.
And how much fun is the removable face on the SWAT walker? That's just too damn cool.
Value - **
I have a tough time convincing myself that these are worth almost twenty bucks each, considering the kind of work we're seeing from DST and NECA for the same or less money. While these have improved, the price point is still a killer.
I snapped the wrist on Carl with a slight touch. It was painted tight, and very brittle. Take care with the joints, especially the wrists.
Overall - Walker ****; Carl ***1/2
Both of these figures are right up there with the best of the line overall, and I gave the walker the edge just because I really, really, really love the layered face. It works perfectly, which is so rare these days.
I'm also happy with this series overall, because the quality has gone up across the board. The sculpts are much improved, the articulation has improved, and they even dropped the ridiculous action features that hurt some of the previous releases.
I haven't picked up any of the comic book figures since the first wave, but I'll be a completist on the show based line, something I didn't expect back when they released the awful first series. I wish every company paid attention and corrected issues this way!
- Entertainment Earth has the singles for $15, or the set of 5 for just $70.
- also has the singles at $15, and the full set of five at $70.
- also has them at $18 each.
- has the set of five regular figures for $70.
I just covered the Governor and Andrea, also from this series. I've also covered Merle and Michonne, the RV and Well walkers, Shane and the Bicycle Girl, Walking Dead figures series 1, the two humans in series 2, as well as the first series of comic based figures. And don't forget that Gentle Giant is doing busts, including Michonne, Rick and the Well Walker so far. And if you like the RV walker, Mcfarlane also did a cool blu-ray case using his head, as well as the third season blu-ray case.
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Network validation measuring method with reporting for the reliable delivery of new installations (available starting from software version 1.1).
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If you are looking to manually factory reset your ASUS Chromebox 3 you can use the tutorial listed below to learn how to do it easily.
If your Chromebox 3 device by ASUS has started to run worse than before, then you should try and factory reset it. In case you're not so eager to remove all the data from your device, then you should try and disable all the installed extensions.
Also, note that in case you have installed similar extensions that are doing basically the same thing, then this might make your Chromebox performance sluggish, as your browse will constantly try to run all the same extensions at the same time.
If you wish to factory reset your Chromebox 3, then you first should create backups for all the important files. Note that you can backup files to your Google Drive account, or you can move them to an external storage in case you can't connect to the internet.
Log your of your Chromebox profile.
Click the Restart option from the screen that pops up.
A new box will appear, click Powerwash and click Continue.
Now your ASUS Chromebox 3 will take care of the rest of the process automatically. Note that the first profile you enter will become the Owner account.
Sign in to your device.
Click the account profile photo on the taskbar.
Scroll down and find the Advanced options.
Find the "reset settings" section.
Click the Powerwash option. After that click Restart.
A new screen loads, click again Powerwash.
Click Continue to confirm the process.
These were all the steps that you had to take in order to complete the ASUS Chromebox 3 powerwash process. In case you need any more help completing this guide, then you can use the comments field.


Google is officially rolling out its security certification standard for Android devices and apps in India. The certification which goes by the name "Play Protect" was initially launched in May this year. The certification is provided as a seal of guarantee to manufacturers and developers on box sets and mobile apps. For this, the company claims to work with various manufacturers globally, and run "hundreds of compatibility tests" to ensure devices comply with Android security and permissions architecture.
Note that Google's feature is being rolled out in India at a time when privacy issue has taken centre stage in India. The Indian government said that it will soon introduce standalone security standards for mobile phones and related services. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) also directed more than 20 handset makers to submit details about security architecture and standards that they follow for storing customer data. TRAI also has an ongoing public consultation on data protection, while the Supreme Court recently upheld privacy as a fundamental right. The ruling has some effect on device manufacturers and developers. We have explained it here.
Speaking to MediaNama, a Google India spokesperson said that Play Protect is not a new service and was not launched in India because of any standing instructions from the Indian government. "This (Play Protect) is being rolled out in many regions alongside India and neighbouring countries like Indonesia. This has been happening since the last month in fact, and was launched in India just last week," the spokesperson added. Several Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), handset companies and telecom operators globally have received the "Play Protect" seal. A list of this is here. Micromax, Yureka (YU), Jio-owned LYF, XOLO, Telenor and Vodafone were the Indian brands to receive the certification, according to Google's website.
Authenticity of preloaded apps: Compatibility tests verify that the Google apps pre-installed on devices (like smartphones, tablets, etc.) are authentic, and that apps downloaded from the Play Store work as intended. For e.g. smartphone makers who choose Android OS have the option to pre-load different Google apps like Gmail, YouTube, Duo, Allo, etc. onto their models by default. But the device itself needs to be leak-proof at a hardware level and other vulnerabilities need to be singled out. So Google claims that its "Android team" ensures this via compatibility tests.
Protection against data leaks malwares and theft: Android permissions and other security architecture receive timely updates from Google. Play Protect certified devices are screened to weed out "pre-installed malware" and include Google Play Protect—a suite of security features like automatic virus scanning and Find My Device. If a user misplaces or loses his/her phone, then using Play Protect users can lock the phone remotely or display a message on the lock screen, and even erase all data remotely.
Helps identify intrusive/fake apps and sites: From Google's side, Play Protect claims to scan billions of apps on Play Store to looks for fake apps and suspend apps that violate user privacy. A certified app will have the 'Play Protect' seal under the description of the app on Play Store. Additionally, while using Google Chrome on mobile, websites that aren't secure (with HTTPS, etc.) will be flagged to the user while browsing in real-time.


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The Father of Modern India: Raja Ram Mohan Roy's Reforms and Impact- Wiki Bio.
January 11, 2023 May 21, 2022 by Nitish
Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian reformer, who brought remarkable reforms in the 18th and 19th centuries in India. Sometimes, he is called the father of modern India.
The abolition of the brutal and inhuman Sati Pratha is one of the most prominent efforts among his works. The eradication of the purdah system and child marriage is also a result of his hard efforts.
The Mughal emperor Akbar II bestowed the title of Raja upon him. In 1828, he formed the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent.
His influence was apparent in the fields of education, politics, religion, and public administration. In 1833, while living in Bristol, England, he died of meningitis.
Childhood Early Life and Education
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born at Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency, on August 14, 1774. Ramakanta Roy, his father, was a wealthy Brahmin and a devout follower of religious duties.
At the early age of 14, Ram Mohan developed a desire to become a monk, but his mother, Tarini Devi strongly opposed the idea.
Ram Mohan got married when he was just 9 years old but his first wife died soon after the marriage. At the age of ten, he married for the second time and had two kids. After his second wife died in 1826, he married again.
Although Ram Mohan's father was orthodox (strict religious beliefs) but wanted his son to pursue higher education. He studied Sanskrit and Bengali language from the village School.
Later, he went to Patna to study Persian and Arabic in a Madrasa. At that time Persian and Arabic languages were in high demand because it was still the Mughal Emperors' court language.
Post completing his studies in Patna, he went to Benares (Kashi) to master the Sanskrit language. In no time, he mastered the language and started studying scriptures, including the Vedas and Upanishads.
He also learned the English language and read the works of philosophers like Euclid and Aristotle which influenced his spiritual and religious beliefs.
Ram Mohan supported himself by lending money and managing his small estates. After completing his studies, he started working for the East India Company as a clerk.
He worked in the Collectorate of Rangpur, under Mr. John Digby. Later, he was promoted to the post of Dewan (a native officer in charge of revenue collection).
During the late 18th century, the society in Bengal was burdened with a host of evil customs and regulations. Extensive rituals and strict moral codes were imposed, many of which were largely modified, and ancient traditions were misinterpreted. Women in society were affected by the practices like child marriage (Gouridaan), polygamy, and Sati.
Among these rituals, the Sati Pratha was the cruelest and most brutal. The custom involved the self-immolation of widows at their husband's funeral pyre.
The custom in its original form had to give choice to the women to do so but gradually it became a mandatory thing, especially for Brahmin and higher caste families.
Young girls were married to much older men in exchange for a dowry so that the men might reap the karmic benefits of their wives' sacrifice as Sati. Women were frequently compelled or even drugged to comply with such abuse because they did not volunteer for it.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was frustrated with this cruel and brutal ritual, so he raised his voice against it. His calm perseverance and passionate argument eventually reached Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. Lord Bentinck sympathized with Roy's feelings and intentions.
The Bengal Sati Regulation or Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code was passed, despite widespread opposition from the orthodox religious community. The act made it illegal to practice Sati Daha in Bengal Province, and anyone caught doing so would be prosecuted.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy's name is thus etched forever as a true benefactor of women, not only for helping to abolish the Sati Pratha but also for speaking out against child marriage and polygamy and seeking equal inheritance rights for women. He was also a fierce critic of the traditional caste barriers of his time.
Educational Reforms
Raja Ram Mohan Roy completed his Primary education in Sanskrit and the Persian language. He learned English much later in life in order to get better job opportunities with the British. He was an avid reader who devoured English literature and journals, extracting as much knowledge as he could.
Roy realized that while traditional texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, and Quran, provided him with much reverence for Philosophy, his knowledge of Science and logic was lacking.
He argued for the establishment of an English Education System in the country, which would teach scientific subjects like physics, mathematics, chemistry, and even botany.
In 1817, Mohan Roy established a Hindu college along with David Hare to revolutionize the Indian education system. Later, Hindu college was one of the top educational institutions in India.
In 1822, he founded the Anglo-Vedic School, followed by the Vedanta College in 1826, in order to combine traditional theological doctrines with modern rational lessons.
Religious Contributions
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a staunch opponent of unnecessary ceremonialism and the idolatry advocated by priests.
He had studied so many religious scriptures from different religions and advocated the fact that Hindu Scriptures like the Upanishads upheld the concept of monotheism. This sparked his ambition for a religious revolution that would bring the old Vedic books' beliefs to their original form.
In 1928, he formed the Atmiya Sabha, and the inaugural assembly of this newfound religion took place on August 20 of that year. The Atmiya Sabha reorganized itself into the Brahma Sabha, a precursor organization of the Brahmo Samaj. Monotheism, independence from the scriptures, and rejection of the caste system were the main facets of this new movement.
Hindu ceremonialism was taken from Brahmo's religious activities and was replaced with Christian or Islamic prayer traditions. With time, the Brahma Samaj grew into a powerful progressive force in Bengal, pushing for social reforms, particularly in women's education.
Journalistic Contributions
Ram Mohan Roy was a firm believer in freedom of speech and expression. He fought for the rights of the vernacular press. He also published the Persian newspaper 'Miratul- Akhbar' (the Mirror of News) and the Bengali monthly 'Sambad Kaumudi' (the Moon of Intelligence).
Back then, News and articles had to be approved by the government before being published. Ram Mohan said that publications should be free and that the truth should not be censored merely because the government did not like it.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Death?
In 1830, Ram Mohan traveled to England to ask the Imperial Government to raise the Mughal Emperor's sovereignty and to ensure that Lord Bentick's Sati Act would not be revoked.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy died of meningitis in Stapleton in Bristol on September 27, 1833, while on a visit to the United Kingdom.
He was buried at the Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol. In honour of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the British government recently named a roadway in Bristol 'Raja Rammohan Way.'
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Юрий Иванович Дю́жев (15 мая 1937 — 9 июня 2021) — советский и российский литературовед, писатель, заслуженный деятель науки Карельской АССР (1990), заслуженный работник культуры Российской Федерации (1998).

Биография
Родился в семье учителей. Отец работал заведующим Петрозаводского городского отдела народного образования, погиб на фронте под Медвежьегорском в первые месяцы Великой Отечественной войны. Мать — учительница начальных классов.

В 1955 году окончил среднюю школу в Петрозаводске. После окончания в 1960 году Петрозаводского государственного университета работал редактором на Карельском радио.

С 1966 года работал в Институте языка, литературы и истории Карельского научного центра РАН. В 1986—1988 годах — заместитель директора института, в 1989—2007 годах — заведующий сектором литературы института, с 2007 года — старший научный сотрудник института.

В 1970 году стал лауреатом Всесоюзного конкурса молодых учёных в области общественных наук. В 2002 году удостоен звания «Лауреат премии Республики Карелия в области культуры». В 2009 году удостоен премии «Сампо» за создание монографии «История русской прозы Европейского Севера второй половины XX века» и особый вклад в развитие культуры Республики Карелия.

Член Союза писателей России с 1977 года.

В 1980-е годы в помощь молодым литераторам, желающим писать для детей, при Карельском отделении Союза писателей СССР была создана секция детской литературы. Секцией руководил старший научный сотрудник Карельского филиала АН СССР Юрий Иванович Дюжев. Молодые писатели собирались почти каждый месяц в Доме карельских писателей на улице «Правды».

Библиография
Является автором более 160 научных трудов, в том числе 10 монографий.
 Дмитрий Гусаров: Очерк творчества. — Петрозаводск, 1984. — 120 с.
 Фёдор Трофимов: Очерк творчества. — Петрозаводск, 1985. — 127 с.
 Писатели Карелии: Биобиблиографический словарь. — Петрозаводск, 1985. — 294 с.
 История русской поэзии и драматургии Европейского Севера первой половины XX века. — Петрозаводск: ПетрГУ, 2002. — 224 с.
 История русской прозы Европейского Севера первой половины XX века. — Петрозаводск: КарНЦ РАН, 2002. — 242 с.
 Письма с карельского фронта. 1941—1942./Сост. Ю. И. Дюжев. — Петрозаводск: КарНЦ РАН, 2005. — 157 с.
 Шуя, июнь 1929: Быт севернорусской деревни./Сост. Ю. И. Дюжев — Петрозаводск: КарНЦ РАН, 2006. — 154 с.
 История русской прозы Европейского Севера второй половины XX века. В 2-х т. Т.1 — 364 с., Т.2 — 391 с. — Петрозаводск: КарНЦ РАН, 2008.
 Народный писатель Карелии Ортьё Степанов. — Петрозаводск: Северное сияние, 2010. — 280 с.
 Народный писатель Карелии Яакко Ругоев: очерк жизни и творчества. — Петрозаводск: Северное сияние, 2012. — 455 с.
 Народный писатель Карелии Антти Тимонен: очерк жизни и творчества. — Петрозаводск: Северное сияние, 2014. — 544 с.

Примечания

Литература
 Дюжев Юрий Иванович // Писатели Карелии: Биобиблиографический словарь. — Петрозаводск, 2006. — С. 19—21.

 Учёные Карельского научного центра РАН: Биографический словарь / Отв. ред. И. М. Нестеренко, А. И. Слабунов. — Петрозаводск, 1999.

Ссылки
 Дюжев В. И.

Выпускники ПетрГУ
Литературоведы СССР
Литературоведы России
Писатели Карелии
Учёные Карельского научного центра РАН
Заслуженные деятели науки Карельской АССР
Лауреаты премии «Сампо»
Лауреаты премии Республики Карелия в области культуры, искусства и литературы

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Jim Parsons On Playing Henry Wilson In Netflix's Hollywood: "It Changed Me In Some Way"
He also revealed that he wants to thank Ryan Murphy for the role because it was "one of the most fun, creative, fulfilling jobs I've gotten to do in a long time"
Jim Parsons On Playing Henry Wilson In Netflix's Hollywood; " It Changed Me In Some Way."
Who doesn't know Jim Parsons? The popular actor has won several hearts from the portrayal of his character Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. We just saw him in the Netflix series Hollywood.
Jim was seen playing the role of the predatory agent in the show. Parsons has been nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance as Henry Wilson.
Jim feels his portrayal of Henry Wilson, a real-life figure who was one of Hollywood's most prominent agents in the 1940s but also a closeted gay man has changed him as a person. Read on to know what made him feel this way.
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After Jim Parsons was offered this show, he spoke to Deadline. He revealed his conversation with Ryan Murphy when he offered The Bing Bang Theory actor the show Hollywood. The actor said, "What was funny is he goes, 'It's a great character. Something you haven't played before, blah, blah, blah,' and I was like, 'OK.' He goes, 'I'm going to give you the first couple of episodes to read. We're still polishing.' So, he didn't send them immediately, but I remember going home and talking to my husband about it."
Parsons read the scripts for Hollywood having never heard of Wilson before, but he was immediately excited by the prospect of playing a real person. His interpretation was based on Robert Hofler's book, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson, which he described as his Bible.
Talking about the intimate scenes, Jim Parsons said, "I haven't played a lot of sex scenes in my career, so it's not something I was used to. I don't even know if you would get used to it, so much. But it was funny the way the shoot went on long enough, and I had enough scenes with him, and like I say, I had a really good relationship with him, so that by the time we got to doing the stuff where we were in bed together after I was dancing for him and draping myself over him, it was so nice, the way that turned into a really fun thing to explore."
Parsons said the scenes had a "ridiculous aspect" to them, but he felt like he had an acting partner with whom they weren't too "horrifying and uncomfortable". They were also like two actors, in a playground, seeing what happened when you explored this kind of human transaction.
Jim also revealed that he wants to thank Ryan Murphy for the role because it was "one of the most fun, creative, fulfilling jobs I've gotten to do in a long time".
The role was a "gift" which changed his own internal trajectory as an actor and where he was heading. He said of the role and Hollywood itself: "Without being too dramatic about it. I felt at the time, and I still feel now that [they] changed me in some way."
Have you seen Hollywood yet? Did you enjoy Jim Parsons character?
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Turkish singer Haluk Levent, who is renowned for his charitable works, has been invited to perform in New Zealand after he donated the proceeds from a recent concert to the victims of the Christchurch terrorist attack, which left 51 Muslim worshipers dead.
Winston Peters was speaking at an emergency session of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation's executive committee in Istanbul where he denounced last Friday's attacks as "an attack on all of us" in his country of "religious tolerance".
Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, was arrested and charged with murder.
"This person will face the full force of New Zealand law, and will spend the rest of his life in isolation in a New Zealand prison", Peters said, adding later that "misinterpretations" in the days following the shooting had been cleared up following his meeting with Erdogan and the OIC.
Erdogan has angered New Zealand by showing excerpts of the footage at campaign rallies for local elections this month.
Erdogan told supporters: "If New Zealand fails to hold the attacker accountable, one way or another we will hold him to account".
Winston Peters spoke publicly in Istanbul, calling on for an end to Islamophobia and assuring Muslim leaders New Zealanders are a peaceful people. The OIC groups together Muslim countries to protect the interest of the Muslim world.
"We were coming here to ensure that the record was correctly understood, that with precision and exactitude they knew what had happened in New Zealand and what our response was..."
Not long after news of the shooting broke, Erdogan said, in what seemed to be a message aimed at New Zealanders and Westerners: "Your grandparents came, some of them returned in coffins".
The New Zealand Embassy in Ankara also said Peters had raised the issue with a Turkish delegation in New Zealand.
The Muslim call to prayer rang out across New Zealand on Friday followed by two minutes of silence nationwide to mark a week since the attack.
Erdoğan then referred to the Anzac conflict in World War I and said: "We will see you off like your ancestors".


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Q: When and how the phrase "beyond the call of duty" used? I have seen this phrase used many times
But couldn't find its original use or reference.

A: This is call in its original sense of speaking out. Duty is personified, so its call are the demands that duty makes on you. Children should heed their parents, citizens should heed the police, the police should protect the citizens selflessly. People aren't always perfect and most relations (as in family) are supposed to be more about love than duty anyway.
So "the call of duty" is most commonly employed for police officers, firemen, soldiers, &c. who have sworn themselves to serve others and have no ties to them apart from that duty. There are minimum expectations of their behavior, but there are upper bounds too. Everyone understands the cop who waits for backup or the soldier who waits for air cover.
Going beyond that is when such people show extraordinary bravery, usually because of some emergency where they opt to help another or others at great risk to themselves, rather than wait for help or claim incapacity.

A: The phrase, if not coined, appears to have been popularised by the American armed forces during World War I. According to this article, following discontent at the ease with which the Medal of Honour was awarded (emphasis mine in all quotes):

in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a law requiring the War Department to set up a commission of distinguished generals and admirals to review all previous medal awards.
At the same time, the services created a series of lesser medals to honor acts of courage.  The Medal of Honor would only be awarded for actions "above and beyond the call of duty" and in actual combat.

Then, from 1919 onwards an identical sentence―"for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, in action with the enemy" somewhere in France―appears repeatedly.  Here's the earliest example I could find, from The Story of the 91st Division, 91st Division Publication Committee, 1919:

MILLER, OSCAR F., MAJOR, 361ST INFANTRY. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, in action with the enemy near Gesne, France, September 28, 1918. [p. 92.]
KATZ, PHILLIP C., SARGEANT, CO. C, 363RD INFANTRY. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, in action with the enemy near Eclisfontaine, France, September 26, 1918. [p. 93.]

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The Four Roerichs
Each of them left a unique trace in the Planet cultural space and could not be substituted, was unique and highly talented, strikes and arouses admiration. Here are only outlines of their impetuous, fearless, heroic life, passed in unchangeable devotion to the ideas of the Common Benefit. Their hearts were filled with dedicated labour in the name of spiritual and cultural evolution of mankind.
Nicholas Roerich
Helena Roerich
George Roerich
Svetoslav Roerich
The Artist, Scientist (Archaeologist, Historian), Philosopher, Humanist, Traveler, Public Figure, Writer. N.Roerich was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on October 9, 1874. His creative heritage is enormous – more than 7.000 paintings scattered all over the world, countless literary works – books, essays, articles.
His deep love for world culture has materialized in the unfurling of the Roerich International Banner of Peace – The Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace. Its main task was to guard and protect the lofty monuments of artistic and scientific institutions and collections of the creative spirit of human genius from the havoc of war and acts of barbarity. The Pact was signed in 1935, April 15 in Washington by 21 countries in the presence of F.Roosevelt.
Under N.Roerich leadership, several institutions and organizations have been founded around the world, with the avowed purpose of promoting art and culture.
After returning from their famous Central Asiatic Expedition, N.Roerich with his family settled in India, Naggar, Kullu Valey, The Himalayas Research Institute. There he spent almost 20 years and on December 13, 1947, he passed away. In place of the funeral fire, a big rectangular stone was installed on which the following inscription was carved:
«Here, on December 15, 1947, the body of Maharishi Nicholas Roerich – a great Russian friend of India – was committed to fire. Let there be peace».
Apostle of Beauty. Messenger of Culture, mighty Warrior of the Spirit, Master of Himalayas – thus was Nicholas Roerich called by some of his eminent contemporaries.
Nicholas Roerich called Helena «inspirer» and «friendess». She was the first to whom he showed each new painting, and he highly appreciated her artistic intuition and subtle taste. Behind each Nicholas Roerich creative act, behind his verses and fairy-tales, behind his paintings and trips – there would always be Helena.
Helena Roerich (Shaposhnikova) was born on February 12, 1879, in St.Petersburg, Russia. From her early age, she could read and write in three languages, took serious interest in literature and philosophy. After finishing the Mariinsky Gymnasium and receiving musical education, she had a brilliant pianist career ahead, but life decided differently.
Destiny brought the two pure souls of Nicholas Roerich and Helena Shaposhnikova together, they got married in 1901.
Helena Roerich laboured quietly and invisibly, always being behind her illustrious husband. And he painted «She Who Leads» - thus creating an incomparable monument to his wife – his companion, advisor and guiding star on all his paths and endeavors.
A deep thinker, Helena Roerich wrote two books on Eastern philosophy, «Foundations of Buddhism» and «On Eastern Crossroads». She undertook a giant work of translating into Russian «The Sacred Doctrine» of H.P.Blavatsky.
Under spiritual guidance of her Indian Master between 1920 and 1940, she created a glorious series of The Living Ethics, or The Agni Yoga which deals with the problems of the cosmic evolution of humanity. It is a synthesis of the spiritual, philosophical and scientific teachings – the quintessence of timeless ancient wisdom. And also, a practical guide for those who wish to broaden their consciousness, and labour selflessly for the Common Benefit of Mankind.
The books of the Living Ethics were translated into more than 12 languages and have thousands of followers all over the world. Helena Roerich had a great number of disciples around the globe and carried out incessant correspondence with them on the Teachings and purpose of life. It embraces nine volumes of her letters.
One of the most renowned orientalists of the 20th century.
George Roerich, the elder son of Nicholas and Yelena Roerich, was born on August 16, 1902, in Okulovka, Novgorod region of Russia.
With his younger brother Svetoslav, he accompanied their parents in their expeditions around Russia. At the age of 21 he started his independent research work and at 23 published his first book, «Tibetan Paintings».
On July 24, 1928, the Roerichs initiated the Himalayan Research Institute in India, called «Urusvati», which means «Light of the Morning Star». George Roerich became the Director of the Institute and the main Editor of its Journal.
The Himalayan Institute blazed new trails. There were carried on investigations in the fields of biology, botany, bio-chemistry, pharmacology, astrophysics etc. and local expeditions. George Roerich established cultural relations with more than 200 universities and institutions around the world.
Dr. George Roerich returned to Russia (USSR) in 1957, to continue his scientific work in the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, and within three years founded a new direction of Tibetology, Indian Philology.
It was the Man with more than 20 languages, highest erudition and first-hand experience of the East, dedicated to the ideals of his parents.
These are just a few features of George Roerich.
«Some appraised Svetoslav in Art, some appreciated him in life, some admired him in Art and Life», wrote the Indian press about Svetoslav Roerich at the end of 1940`s.
Svetoslav Roerich, the younger son of Nicholas and Helena Roerich, was born on October 23, 1904, in St.Petersburg. He was a great Artist who brought to mankind an inspiring message of Beauty through his wondrous paintings. He was a profound and original philosopher who gave a fine synthesis of the Eastern and Western thought and realized in his own life all the moral maxims he preached.
An earnest explorer who was closely connected with many scientific institutions, an educator-humanist who was closely connected with numerous cultural organizations and concerned about the future of mankind, about a more perfect generation.
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Now Samsung Allows Ad-Blocking Extensions On New Mobile Web Browser
Now the Samsung's Android mobiles will support ad-blocker extensions. Samsung has updates the latest version of default web browser which is going to support ad-blocker extensions also.
Apple has recently released an update for safari browser in September that allows ad-blockers to be installed as extensions in iPhone default browser, seems like this was reflected the Samsung to release a version which support ad-blockers.
Ad Blockers extensions on Samsung phones will have to be added to the browser it will not come as standard.
Developers are working on new browser for Android Lollipop version or higher versions.
Popular ad-blockers, Ad block Fast and Crystal, have already been made available for Samsung phones.
Along with creating web pages less messy, ad-blockers frequently increase performance of the browsers' – and decrease the level in batteries and data plans.
"Users who use ad-blockers will probably use other browsers than the default browser," said marketing industry analyst Daniel Knapp at IHS.
"It's even so important for Samsung to work on the ad-blocking extensions."
"The main intension of the Samsung is to show commuters that it is a best brand that supports them like Apple."
Mr Knapp said that there had been a "seismic change" in the ad trade, in which advertising funds were increasingly moving from traditional methods of marketing.
Advertisers, young and affluent users, were more likely to use ad-blockers in the first place. He added.
"It is an expression of huge disappointment of consumer with the way the ad industry employs," he said.
Ad-blockers remove scripts in web page code and stops to get content from ad networks' servers.
"If such kinds of technologies continue to increase, in mobile platforms, our future financial results may be damaged," it said.
Then Mr Knapp said ads could still be delivered via their third-party apps, and then firms like Facebook were less probably affected than other content publishers by mobile web ad-blockers.
"Think of ad-blockers being admitted to iOS 9," he said.
"They were all exclusively focused on the in-browser environment – not for third-party apps like Facebook.
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Michelle G. Helps Build Loving & Lasting Relationships Through Comprehensive Online Dating Services & Coaching
Amber Brooks Posted: 7/06/17
The Short Version: Michelle Galarza uses a personalized, hands-on approach to help people find love and form fulfilling, long-term relationships. Her company was founded in 2013 as a passion project, but it's quickly become a place where singles receive advice on meeting their soulmates online, and where couples receive counseling to help strengthen their bonds. With matchmaking services that focus on self-assurance, happiness and effective dating coaching for men and women, Michelle and her team are realizing their mission is to redefine intimacy and encourage more honest, open, and loving relationships.
The road to success always has a few surprising twists and turns, and Michelle Galarza, Founder of a unique and effective matchmaking company, provides a prime example of how life's journey can land us on unexpected paths.
As a young girl, Michelle wanted to be President of the United States and spent what seemed like countless hours decoding the best way to achieve this goal. After high school, she joined the Marine Corps, thinking the military would serve as a stepping stone to the Oval Office.
During her tenure as a U.S. Marine, Michelle collected and analyzed intelligence, assisted in conflict resolution, and managed critical relationships to maintain US security. She had an important job — one that required her to help solve communication breakdowns between governments. But, after she married her first love, she was shocked to find her professional skills didn't translate to her marriage.
"The divorce was a big wake-up call," Michelle said. "I couldn't figure out why I could be so successful in helping people communicate and solve problems but couldn't effectively communicate with my husband."
Michelle Galarza told us how her company was built to help people form lasting relationships.
This sparked a passion in Michelle that had her looking for answers. To understand what makes relationships tick, she went back to school after leaving the Marine Corps and earned a degree in social psychology. Michelle then launched her first business with a focus on relationship coaching and soon realized her name was becoming very popular.
"At the time, online dating was on the rise, and couples started referring me to their single friends," Michelle said. "I was helping them with heartbreak because I had been through that experience."
Michelle found many of the people she was counseling were ready to get back in the dating game after receiving her help. So she added matchmaking to her already successful coaching services. Thus, Michelle G was born.
The Philosophy: A Healthy Partnership Starts with You
After her first marriage failed, Michelle came to the realization that any healthy relationship has to begin with the individual. She told us the most important part of healing and changing trajectories is deep self-reflection.
"I realized I didn't have a great relationship with myself, and I was looking for someone to make me happy and fill in these gaps," Michelle said. "Through my journey, I discovered that you have to have a healthy relationship with yourself before you can find love with another."
Michelle's best-selling book and web resources help people focus on their happiness.
While it sounds simple, this belief is the foundation of Michelle G's recipe for success. One of Michelle's clients named Jodi found this to be a substantial shift she needed to be successful in all areas of her life.
"Prior to working with Michelle, my focus was often on making others happy and neglecting myself," Jodi said. "As a result, I lost sight of who I was and what I wanted. By working with Michelle, I became more aware of who I am as a person and am able to confidently move forward and recognize my own gifts and talents."
Since the site's inception, Michelle G has helped numerous clients, like Jodi, discover their true selves so they can move forward to find the partners they deserve.
Online Matchmaking That Zeroes in on Long-Term Happiness
Every person is unique and needs something a little different. Michelle G understands that and offers extensive services to help people put their best foot forward to find that special someone.
From beginners to veteran online daters, Michelle G's customizable approach can meet every need. All of the site's packages keep one end goal in mind — securing a genuine, long-term, happy relationship for clients.
The Starter Package is for someone dipping their toe in the online dating pool for the first time and are somewhat apprehensive about it. Michelle G provides this service so they don't have to go it alone.
Michelle believes dating should be an enjoyable experience that leads to strong bonds.
This also benefits veteran online daters who've used other sites that haven't worked for them. Michelle G gives clients advice on how to succeed.
"You have six seconds to make an impression once you open your mouth, but you have less than one when people see you," Michelle said. "What we do is help people pick the right photos, rewrite their profiles, and then help them select the right sites to find a match."
The Starter Package also includes an initial Love Strategy phone call with Michelle G staff and insider fashion tips to help daters always feel confident and attractive.
The Be Noticed Package is designed for someone who needs a little more hand-holding. This is for people who don't want to outsource their online dating life but need help to filter prospective matches or identify red flags. The package also includes an image makeover, a photo shoot, and email and text coaching, in addition to all the features from the Starter Package.
For those who do wish to outsource their entire online dating life to the professionals, Michelle G's Total Dating Concierge Package might be the right fit. All the previous features are included, but clients also have a personal call with Michelle to identify potential obstacles and work through them. This package comes complete with first date management and message introductions.
Focused Dating Coaching: Bring More Love & Joy Into Your Life
Just like Olympic athletes need coaching to take their skills to new heights, singles and couples need a bit of outside help to evolve to their next phase in life. For this, Michelle G offers multiple types of coaching depending on the unique needs of her clients.
Ignite Your Life is private coaching designed to help clients resolve an old heartbreak or identify the relationship patterns that rob clients of the life and love they want. Singles or couples can work with Michelle G to root out pending matters that continue to show up in personal relationships. Michelle G then helps them take steps to make a significant shift in how to solve the problems.
Michelle G offers a number of coaching services to help people lead more fulfilling lives.
The Ladies Room is group coaching just for ladies. Women can meet up with other powerful feminine forces for some real talk about relationships. It's an ideal venue to find a network of women to share genuine concerns and strategies while you become more confident and in control of your love life.
Reignite Love is for the couples who feel they may be falling out of love. Couples can build the skills necessary for a healthy, long-term union while infusing their lives with more joy and happiness. Participants of the program should expect to work through all of their issues, including everything from money troubles or disagreements to rekindling their spark in the bedroom.
Michelle G also offers several audio programs to increase your confidence and master the art of dating. Check out her Dress to Impress course to help you make the best first impression. If you're crunched for time, Dating Accelerator: 21 Days to Winning the Game of Attraction will give you the keys to reading body language, attract the right men, and flirt with confidence. Michelle G also provides insight into the seven secrets to creating an irresistible profile.
Michelle's Mission: Redefine Intimacy & Encourage More Honesty
While she didn't become President of the United States (yet), Michelle's job may be just as important. Helping people build bonds and form lasting relationships is a vital service to society.
Always ambitious, Michelle G has a big goal for the future of her business and relationships in general. She aims to redefine the transactional nature of intimacy into one of vulnerability and honesty through media events and coaching.
A big push for the upcoming year to help accomplish this is to start putting together experiential events to bring people together.
"I want to impact and give the formula to more people," Michelle said. "I love speaking, meeting people, and being in front of people. I think you can never replace human connection when it's in person."
Michelle G is certain to continue to change the scene for singles and couples with her positive foundation of loving oneself and using proven scientific and psychological methods to help people find their perfect match.
Amber Brooks
Amber Brooks is a Contributing Editor at DatingAdvice.com. When she was growing up, her family teased her for being "boy crazy," but she preferred to think of herself as a budding dating expert. As an English major in college, Amber honed her communication skills to write clearly, knowledgeably, and passionately about topics that interest her. Now with a background in writing, Amber brings her tireless wit and relatable experiences to DatingAdvice.com.
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International Trade Center at SIUE Works with Trade and Investment Council to Promote Region
Council Looks To participate in International Trade Shows & Investment Missions
10 February 2016, 8:20 AM
The Illinois International Trade Center (ITC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville continues to advocate for international trade and foreign investment in the region. The ITC has further emphasized that mission by joining the newly formed Southwestern Illinois Trade and Investment Council.
At the council's first 2016 meeting at MidAmerica Airport near Belleville, members collaborated to formalize the structure of the new council, according to Frank Miles, administrator of community and economic development for Madison County.
"In order to operate effectively and accomplish its objectives, it is important that the Trade and Investment Council adopts bylaws, elects officers and identifies working committees," Miles stated. "In order for the council to succeed, to improve international trade and foreign investments in our area, we have to have a cohesive team working together to implement an integrated plan."
The members of the Trade and Investment Council also expressed the need for the council to demonstrate a sense of urgency in its efforts.
"It is important that as we progress with the council's structure, we quickly identify and participate in trade and investment shows and missions where we can promote the economic opportunities available in Southwestern Illinois," said Silvia Torres Bowman, director of the ITC.
"We must also be realistic in our identification of projects," she continued. "We need to identify solid opportunities to showcase our area and what we have to offer, and then work to ensure those opportunities are developed into success stories."
Following the meeting, Tim Cantwell, executive director of MidAmerica Airport, led council members on a tour of the North Bay Produce distribution center, located within the airport's extensive complex. North Bay Produce is a national and international distributor of fresh produce.
The International Trade Center at SIUE serves entrepreneurs and small businesses in southern Illinois by providing individualized, export consultation; identification of foreign buyers, agents and/or distributors through trade leads, international market analysis and more. The ITC is funded through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and SIUE as a service to the region's entrepreneurial and business community. As a key member of the Illinois SBDC Network, the International Trade Center delivers these important services to its clients while supporting the goals and objectives of both the SIUE School of Business and the University at large.
For more information on why your company should consider doing business globally, or how to increase your international sales, contact the ITC at International-Trade-Center@siue.edu or (618) 650-3851.
Photo: View of the council meeting held at MidAmerica Airport.


Homes that offer quality living spaces bode well with buyers. If you're considering selling your home in the next few years, it may be time to start thinking about investing in certain upgrades. But how do you know what home buyers are looking for? And how do you know if the upgrades will be worth your time and effort? To make this process a little easier, we've compiled a list of our recommended renovations and why they make the most sense to invest in.
First impressions matter, so impress prospective buyers the second they enter the home. Keep your front yard manicured, invest in a high-quality front door, and dress up your entryway with some well-placed plants. It may not seem like much, but the first few seconds are crucial to a buyer's decision. By making sure your entryway is visually appealing and free of clutter, you create an atmosphere that is both welcoming and desirable.
Whether or not you decide to update the master bathroom can have a huge effect when it comes to sellingyour home. Luckily, a bathroom remodel can be simple, as long as the issues are mostly cosmetic. We recommend replacing your cabinetry with something brand new, to add a bit of luxury to your home.
The kitchen is a central hub of activity in a home, so it makes sense to keep it up-to-date. Potential buyers will be on the lookout for any problems, and because it's such a heavily used part of the house, they won't want to make any major improvements upon moving in. To appeal to a wide base of home buyers, opt for more timeless additions to your kitchen, rather than something trendy. Stone countertops and stainless steel appliances are appreciated by most home buyers, while also being both functional and tasteful.
Windows are often overlooked when it comes to renovations, but quality windows can be a huge money saver over a long period of time. High quality windows provide insulation, ensuring that your home's interior is unaffected by harsh outdoor weather. This means a lower utility bill all year, which adds up to a lot of extra money. Windows can also create the illusion of large, open spaces, bringing the outdoors into your home and increasing the amount of natural light you let in. All of these benefits often result in an increase in the overall value of your home.
Whatever renovations you choose to make, be sure it will help your home sell with a high return on investment. This means improvements should have practical uses and be timelessly trendy. If you have any questions, contact us here.


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Four of the world's top 10 will attempt to avoid being upstaged by their celebrity partners in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this week.
Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed are all contesting the £5.7million event, which sees the professionals paired with amateurs in a pro-am competition.
Each team plays one round at Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Monterrey Peninsular Country Club over the first three days, with the leading 25 pro-am teams and top 60 professionals and ties returning for the final round at Pebble Beach on Sunday.
Phil Mickelson took a two-shot lead into the final round 12 months ago in pursuit of a fifth victory in the event, but a closing 72 meant he had to settle for second place behind shock winner Vaughn Taylor.
Mickelson has not tasted victory since the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield, although he comes into the week on the back of three top-25 finishes this season after undergoing hernia surgery over the winter.
Another former Open champion, South Africa's Ernie Els, has been ruled out of the event due to a neck injury.
Els, who has slumped to 367th in the world after just one top-10 finish in the last two seasons, wrote on his website: " Obviously it's really disappointing because it's always such a joy to play that tournament and I love the golf courses, especially Pebble Beach.
"I'm sorry also to have to let down my playing partner for the week, Kelly Slater, who is a phenomenal surfer, a great guy and a seriously talented golfer.
"But, as any professional athlete will confirm, you have to be mindful of what your body is telling you and at times such as this basically do the right thing.