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Beyoncé Reveals How Miscarriages Changed Her Life
Beyoncé at the European premiere of "The Lion King" on July 14, 2019 (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney)
By Zoe Papadakis | Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:47 PM
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Beyoncé was hit by a series of devastating blows after suffering multiple miscarriages before her first daughter was born in 2012, but rather than let the tragedy defeat her, the 38-year-old chose to learn invaluable life lessons from the experience.
"I began to search for deeper meaning when life began to teach me lessons I didn't know I needed. Success looks different to me now," she said in a new feature article that appears in the latest edition of Elle. "I learned that all pain and loss is in fact a gift. Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else."
Beyoncé first opened up about her miscarriages in the 2013 HBO documentary "Life Is But a Dream," in which she described the experience as "the saddest thing" she had ever been through. Welcoming baby Blue Ivy into the world was a blessing for her and husband Jay-Z. It also gave the iconic singer a new sense of purpose.
In "Life Is But a Dream," Beyoncé said it felt like God was giving her a chance to be part of a miracle. "You're playing a part in a much bigger show," she said at the time, according to the Daily Mail.
Six years later, her tone has not changed.
"I had Blue, and the quest for my purpose became so much deeper," Beyoncé said in the interview published in Elle. "I died and was reborn in my relationship, and the quest for self became even stronger. It's difficult for me to go backwards. Being 'number one' was no longer my priority. My true win is creating art and a legacy that will live far beyond me. That's fulfilling."
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You must be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., unless at a school function.
These are just some rules that country school teachers had to follow in 1915. It was a strict life, but it was a good life that led to successful schools and students. Just ask some of the volunteers that help run the Westport Schoolhouse in Kenue Park in Okoboji.
The schoolhouse is open for tours 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday June 9 through Sept. 4, and many of the volunteers that help out there either taught at a country school or attended one. Their vivid memories and fun stories make tours of the school even more enjoyable.
Westport Rural School was built for about $1,000 in 1895 in Westport Township of Dickinson County, one of 85 country schools in the county. Students attended the school until 1952, and it was then utilized as a community center for the township.
In 1996, a part of Iowa's sesquicentennial celebration was to have each county in the state select a project to emphasize its history. Volunteers worked diligently to raise money to bring Westport Rural School to Kenue Park in Okoboji and to restore it.
Inside the school, visitors will find a large wooden desk at the front of the room where the one teacher --- usually a young, single girl --- would take on the task of educating first- through eighth-grade students. Facing the front of the room are a variety of wooden desks, which were originally in an elementary school in Bloomington, MN, and were then brought to Kenue Park.
Detailed items such as a pot-bellied stove, disciplinary paddle, water pail and dipper and recitation bench add to the ambiance and history of the country-style classroom. Some items are original to the Westport Schoolhouse itself, including the upright piano that still plays wonderful tunes under skilled fingers, a library table and an Edison record player.
The last country school in Iowa closed in 1967, but some country schools remain throughout the state to speak about this importance piece of history. The Westport Schoolhouse is a fountain of information and of fun, so next time you're in Okoboji make sure to stop by and take a step back in time.
For more information on the Westport Schoolhouse or any of Dickinson County Conservation's offerings, visit our website or call 712-336-6352.


He released one of the first ever Monotonik .MOD releases, all the way back in 1997, and over 6 years and several highly acclaimed CDs later, Finnish electronic wiz Lackluster, aka Esa Ruoho, fresh from live sets in Ireland and Russia and his recent 'Showcase' compilation CD on Merck Records, has handed over the keys to his mind and returned to the net.label fold with this sublime 5-track EP.
Right off the bat, 'Cut1' comes out with a tremendously complex blend of Lackluster's signature smooth melodies, with a newer, almost dubby edge, before the languid 'Ambling On' shows off rocksteady beats and a drifting, just gorgeous lead. Up next, 'Cut2' sneaks up with an almost 'CDR#2' or 'Container'-like simplicity of spirit and purity of thought, before 'Tumbling Along' shows up, all perfect drum programming and lolloping breaks. Finally, 'Ender' ends things off subtly with reversed sounding loops and a humming bass, a fitting finish to a simply beautiful EP that Monotonik is proud to be hosting for free.


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During the course of restructuring our client was confronted with a task, how to give access to KPI's and key facts and figures to his senior management team, and how to assist during the implementation and improving the process in general. A high acceptancy rate and support by the employees was based on the particularly high importance and significance of the restructuring measures taken. The client roughly sketched out what he had in mind and asked us to evaluate and scrutinize the possible implementation variations listed. The concept of the client was based on using Tableau for data extraction and visualization using the dashboard, empowering internal users to access all the information.
After studying the initial concept we started a dialogue with the decision makers and potential users of the dashboard. We collected valuable feedback from each business partner and information regarding additional features and further requirements crucial for the model. It quickly became apparent in our discussions that aside from the initial concept numerous additional requirements were needed, which only became clear while conducting the conversations and asking specific questions: Should external users from other institutions gain access to the dashboard?
Can the data be automatically updated, or do we need to setup an admin group to handle? How much flexibility should we allow for the customization of data and graphs?
The Tableau Desktop and Tableau Public products are used to connect data with a graphical user interface per drag and drop. Data analysis can be compiled and interlinked using the dashboard. The browser based Tableau server with data warehouse integration capabilities ensures the support of large volume data and exchange of data and results.
Based on the feedback from the discussions, it quickly became apparent that a lot of the requirements could only be partially achieved or with considerable effort using Tableau. For example, it was necessary to ensure that users only had permission to access their own data. Using Tableau the implementation would have involved the setup of each dashboard per user group. This and other restrictions would have led to high operational and maintenance running costs for the Tableau Dashboard.
Other solution approaches such as the development of a desktop application or an off-the-shelf solution were disregarded based on the limitations and requirements documented.
Due to the numerous restrictions and client requests and focus of the client on user acceptancy and a user-friendly solution, we pushed for the implementation of a customized web-based application. Thereby fulfilling every feature and requirement specified, at the same time keeping the maintenance to a minimum and offering a solution that could be extended or upgraded at any given time. The main advantage for our client, it provided users with an extremely user-friendly platform that could be accessed by any user from any computer worldwide.
In further client discussions our recommended web-based model was presented using design mockups with relevant user stories, which after evaluation the client authorized the implementation. Having built the design mockups we were able to use these during our discussions and work together with the client to document client requests and design requirements which resulted in the starting point of creating our specification for designing the front-end.
After our discussions the implementation of the web-based application was handed over to the managetopia development team. In order to use the most agile solution for development possible and initially reduce the workload for the specifications, we selected JIRA and created a scrum board and workflow. This enabled access for the project owner, in-house QA team, development team but also the client that profited by accessing the board, so they could view the real-time status and progress of the development of the application at any given time. Additionally, they were able to post their own feedback on the board. In addition, a test environment was set up for the client that made it possible to provide the customer with regular updates and collect feedback on the overall development status. Based on the processes and short official channels within managetopia, we were able to identify and prevent any potentially problems quickly.
After completing the functional implementation and subsequent quality check, a web server was set up and the website uploaded in collaboration with the client's IT department. Initially, restrictions were imposed for selected user groups that represented a subset of the user groups. On the User Group admin page on the website, these users were assigned a role and respective permissions and the access data for the website was subsequently forwarded automatically to the user by e-mail. After several days of intense testing, we asked users for their feedback and comments which we consolidated and added to the overall specification.
User acceptancy was the key criteria for the development approach which exceeded all expectations. Many users saw the potential of the website performing as a single inventory platform, helping users to search for information and offering assistance. As a result lots of ideas sprung to mind, how we could make the website accessible to an even wider audience. In follow-up discussions with the project managers this and other topics were taken on board and extending the website was signed off. One of the new functionalities approved was the realization of a responsive design ensuring the website was compatible with a multitude of devices, such as iPhone, iPad and Android, ensuring an optimal display of all data and images on all devices (all fully customizable by the user). Finally, as part of the new brief, the integration of an Arabic version of the website was included.
By choosing the right technology and introducing an agile development approach we were in the position to implement modifications and extensions in a timely manner without encountering insurmountable hurdles or susceptible to costly workarounds.
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Het Nederlands kampioenschap dammen van 1939 telde 12 deelnemers. Doordat Reinier Cornelis Keller en Johan Vos beide de lijst aanvoerde met vijftien punten werd er een tweekamp georganiseerd om te bepalen wie zich Nederlands kampioen mocht noemen. De eerst tweekamp van drie partijen eindigde onbeslist. Hierdoor was er een tweede tweekamp nodig. Deze werd gewonnen door Keller met een score van 4-2, waardoor hij voor de zesde maal de nationale titel veroverde.

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Q: CSRF check failing due to missing "state" parameter in redirect after authorisation of login dialogue I'm using the Facebook login dialogue for login to my website (with the PHP SDK), but it always fails the first time a new user authorises the app and succeeds the second time they try.
I'm finding that the state parameter isn't being passed back to me in the redirect url after a user authorises my app, which causes the CSRF check to fail in my app (in getCode() in the SDK).  For what it's worth, the code parameter is included.
However, if they follow the dialogue link a second time, it works as expected - no further authorisation click is required, and the redirect url is correct, with both state and code parameters.
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How can I find out what is causing the state to be missing from the redirect after authorisation?
For reference, my dialogue link looks like this:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=MY_CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysite.com%2Fconnect&state=4f246904818d682a742c59cbbced829c&scope=email%2Cuser_likes

A: As Igy said, it was a bug on Facebook's side, fixed now: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/587975411230466

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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (2004)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Video game released 30 November 2004
A proud yet innocent prince is being chased by The Dahaka (Guardian of Time) as a consequence of his actions. He seeks aid from The Empress of Time to escape from the notion that he cannot change his fate.
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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Video Game 2005)
Action | Adventure | Drama
The Prince of Persia makes his way home to Babylon, bearing with him Kaileena, the enigmatic Empress of Time, and unspeakable scars from the Island of Time.
Director: Kun Chang
Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Rick Miller, Sarah Carlsen
Prince of Persia (Video Game 2008)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
After meeting Elika, a princess, in the desert, the Prince is tasked with cleansing a corrupted land with the help of his new companion, all the while unraveling the power of dark lord Ahriman.
Director: Andrew S. Walsh
Stars: Tam Evans, Nolan North, Kari Wahlgren
Prototype (Video Game 2009)
Action | Adventure | Horror
You are Alex Mercer, a shapeshifter with amazing powers of combat, destruction, and deception. Stalk the streets of New York City, searching for the life you lead before. Take the form of anyone in your path out to capture or kill you.
Directors: Keith Arem, Ali Donovan, and 1 more credit »
Stars: Barry Pepper, Lake Bell, Jeffrey Pierce
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Video Game 2005)
A young Dante is opening up his Merc Agency when he receives a challenge from his twin brother Vergil. The following events exponentially shape his future and make for one hell of a party.
Director: Hideaki Itsuno
Stars: Adam D. Clark, Reuben Langdon, Larry M. Leong
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Video Game 2003)
The brooding cop has left the DEA and returned to the NYPD. When his latest case ends up involving the thought-dead femme fatale Mona Sax, he finds that his journey through the night is far from over.
Stars: James McCaffrey, Wendy Hoopes, Jonathan Davis
Prototype 2 (Video Game 2012)
Sgt James Heller, a soldier and grieving husband, must take down everyone responsible for the murder of his family, and have his revenge.
Directors: Scott Morgan, Ian Fenton, and 2 more credits »
Stars: Alistair Abell, Michael Adamthwaite, Lindsay Ames
Devil May Cry 4 (Video Game 2008)
A young knight named Nero comes to grips with his newly found power as his beliefs and allegiance are tested when he witnesses Sparda's legendary son Dante slaughter his fellow warriors.
Stars: Johnny Yong Bosch, Reuben Langdon, Laura Napoli
Crysis (Video Game 2007)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Sent in to investigate an alien meteor crash, Nomad must fight through the North Korean Army which has also arrived, only to discover North Korea is the least of their worries.
Director: Cevat Yerli
Stars: Claudia Black, André Sogliuzzo, Kristy Swanson
God of War II (Video Game 2007)
After being betrayed by the gods of Olympus and annulled of his divine powers, Kratos must embark on a journey to meet the Sisters of Fate and take his revenge on Olympus.
Director: Cory Barlog
Stars: Linda Hunt, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Michael Clarke Duncan
Assassin's Creed (Video Game 2007)
A man enters a machine called the Animus that lets him relive the memories of his ancestor, a 12th century assassin named Altair.
Director: Patrice Désilets
Stars: Kristen Bell, Philip Shahbaz, Nolan North
Max Payne (Video Game 2001)
A troubled NYPD cop is framed for murder and finds himself being hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
Stars: James McCaffrey, Haviland Morris, Chris Phillips
God of War (Video Game 2005)
After 10 years of endless nightmares and servitude to the gods of Olympus, Kratos is assigned with a final task, to kill Ares, the God of War.
Directors: David Jaffe, Greg Tiernan
Stars: Linda Hunt, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Carole Ruggier
Monica Bellucci ... Kaileena (voice)
Claudia Besso ... Bladedancer (voice)
Thor Bishopric ... (voice)
Mark Camacho ... Sand Warriors (voice)
Robin Atkin Downes ... Prince (voice)
Richard M Dumont ... The Dahaka (voice) (as Richard M. Dumont)
Hubert Fielden ... The Old Man (voice)
Susan Glover ... Sand Warriors (voice)
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You are marked for death, yet you are unshaken. The impossible challenge you face has ignited a fire within your soul. Confident in your deadly fighting skills, thirsting for brutal battle, you are a warrior awakened. You will use every weapon, command every power, and summon every last shred of rage to defy fate. You will defend what no enemy shall take away - your life. You are hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution. As 'the Prince' you will embark upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy your preordained death. This journey leads to the infernal core of a cursed island stronghold harboring mankinds greatest fears. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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Despite favorable reviews, much criticism of the game was directed at its dark tone, highly sexualized characters and graphic violence, as well as the Prince's new appearance and disposition. Fans complained that it all seemed far removed from the 'Arabian Nights' inspired look from its predecessor, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003). 'Sands of Time' co-creator Jordan Mechner also voiced his disapproval of the artistic changes made by the design team. No doubt this criticism led to a return to the more cheery and lighthearted atmosphere seen in its successor, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (2005) See more »
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This game came to me by accident. About two years ago a friend of mine was trying to install it on his computer, but luckily to me his computer was not running very well so he asked me if he could give it a try on mine. I had very little idea about the game, a couple of years before I watched the Two Thrones announce but still it didn't appeal to me.
When I got to play this since it worked very well on my computer I got instantly dragged into the world of Prince of Persia again (I used to play the first installment of this series a long time before). I think this is an excellent game. It has everything in the Adventure/Action genre. You are able to perform incredible acrobatics in order to avoid the classic traps from the original game (Blades, those sharp thing that come out of the floor, etc.) You have tons of deadly combos to use in the different minions, but above that all is the use of time. The features to control time are for example going back for a few seconds (to avoid a fall for example) slow motion for everyone and everything except for you, increase your speed, etc. with incredible results.
Even if the adventure takes place in a castle (and a bit in your ship), it's still a really big castle where you can get lost(I don't like games that show you every step to win them, therefore you never get lost and always know what to do without doing some exploring, like God of War, which was the only title that I liked despite the characteristic mentioned above). So you can be sure there's a lot of adventure in Prince of Persia.
Many people don't like this new aggressive, darker prince, but I think it works better this way. The prince is a bit soft for my taste in "The Sands of Time" and in "The Two Thrones", and I said a bit because he is a terrific main character. But I prefer the non-typical hero, and this darker prince fits that role very well. The other two titles intended to be little funny while this one didn't. An example would be some conversations between Farah and the prince in "The Sands of Time" and another would be a conversation between the prince and the dark prince in "The Two Thrones". Now about the soundtrack, there's no doubt that the other two surpassed this one. That is the only negative aspect I found in this title.
Overall this game is really great and might be enjoyable for everyone. It is for me the best game in the sands trilogy. It kept me wanting more.


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Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William "Bill" Redington Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP is the world's leading PC manufacturer and has been since 2007, fending off a challenge by Chinese manufacture Lenovo, according to Gartner. It specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise, and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers, and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also has strong services and consulting business around its products and partner products. It is the world's largest PC vendor by 2012 unit sales.
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Abandoning Ukraine
Over the last few days, a disheartening consensus has emerged among self-styled Western progressives, which says that there is little or nothing in the current Ukrainian revolution that merits solidarity. This mixture of wariness and indifference was already evident in the build-up to the bloody crackdown in Kyiv on February 18, but it has been stoked and heightened considerably since then by the clear and central role played in unfolding events by the Ukrainian extreme right, particularly by members of the so-called Right Sector and by the somewhat less extremist group Svoboda.
It is undeniable that the far right has taken a leading role in the shaping of post-Yanukovych Ukraine. But what international observers have entirely failed to grasp is that the choice between either supporting fascism or disowning the revolution is an entirely false dichotomy. Progressives worthy of the name could instead have taken the role of the far right as yet another challenge within a political situation that presented a complex cluster of challenges, including, most importantly, the removal of an utterly corrupt lackey of a neighboring dictator. The far right has come to own this revolution in part because of the prissiness of the left, the inability to accept that the situation might be intrinsically complex, and might impose common interests on groups that are otherwise entirely at odds.
The one place where the left seems to get this basic fact is in Russia. Now by 'Russian left' I don't mean people who watch Alex Jones or whomever on RT and who meet every criticism of Putin with the subject-changing remark, 'Well, it's no worse than what the US does'. By 'Russian left' I mean the Russians who want to see Putin go the same way as Yanukovych, so that they can really start building a free and egalitarian society.
It was pointed out to me in Moscow a week ago that there is a direct, graphable correlation, over the past 10 years, between unrest in Kyiv and repression in Moscow. That is, the louder the demands for freedom in Ukraine, the more firmly Putin clamps down on the expression of dissident views at home. Putin fears nothing more than a contagion effect, the spread of disorder from Ukraine into Russia. And Russian progressives brace themselves for another cycle of repression, while inwardly rejoicing when Ukraine rises up, because it gives them hope that the same thing could happen next in Russia.
This is a slim hope, of course, and no one I know has any illusions. Putin could count on the army to repress any Maidan-style movement in Moscow, while Yanukovych knew all along that he could not be certain of the loyalty of the Ukrainian armed forces. His great error was to suppose that it would be enough to clear the square with police repression, and to fail to recognize the high degree of military organization on the part of the demonstrators. Police snipers are intimidating, but insufficient to bring down the sotni: hundred-strong legions of soldiers, first attested as centuriae in ancient Rome (for linguists this is a lovely instance of the famous centum/satem split), but incarnated much more recently by communist brigades in the Spanish civil war.
The tweets I am reading from the sotni are nationalist and ultranationalist in character. There is near constant invocation of the call-and-repeat formula: Слава Україні — Героям Слава! [Glory to Ukraine -- Glory to the heroes!]. This phrase goes back to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a hard nationalist and anticommunist group during World War II that also fought for Ukrainian independence against the Nazi occupation. The pair of phrases continues to be used today as a slogan for all supporters of Ukrainian independence. I chanted them myself at the demonstration in front of the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères in Paris on February 19 (there were some prickly fascists lurking around, to be sure, but there were also Odessa Jews, orange-bedecked Kyiv democrats, and assorted other good people singing the national anthem together). They have been consciously and carefully taken up by left supporters of Maidan in Russia and Ukraine. Thus for example Aleksandr Pivtorak, writing in Russian from Kyiv for the Ukrainian online news source Hvylya, concludes his article on Maidan and 'the crisis of left mobility' with the sign-off Слава Україні! He knows where the phrase comes from. He also knows what it means right now.
I recently read a comment from someone whose Jewish communist grandparents used to like to say that the only argument for Stalin was that he could keep the Ukrainian fascists in check. To me this comment said more than it intended: it drove home to me the fundamentally neo-Stalinist character of much of the vocal left in the West. In their own way, too, by turning their backs on the Ukrainian revolution for fear of its ugly fascists, the Western left is sticking with Stalin. The current incarnation of Stalin does not even pretend to represent a hope for a radiant future for the oppressed of the world. He is a pragmatist and a realist, but, like the dictator who represented both the apex of Soviet power and the beginning of its decline, Putin's own power rests on convincing enough minds, at home and abroad, that the people he governs need this sort of government, that they are historically or genetically (the distinction is always blurry here) incapable of enlightened self-rule, and therefore must be ruled with an iron fist.
This is nothing more than an ugly prejudice, and it is clear that Western Ukraine isn't buying it anymore. Putin had sought to keep Ukraine within Russia's tighter sphere of influence through corruption, poison attacks, and, most recently, through a major, $15-billion-dollar loan to the Yanukovych government. It was implicit as a condition of this loan that the Ukrainian president would not go along with any movement for a reorientation toward the EU, and therefore that he would not tolerate the EuroMaidan movement, and would do whatever was necessary to suppress it. He tried to suppress it, and failed, and now Putin is very unhappy.
I have been reading many comments from Ukraine to the effect that we are only now seeing the true end of the pax sovietica, the true collapse of the USSR. The first collapse was partial, it let loose those republics, like the Baltics, that had only been seized in the chaos of World War II, and those of Central Asia, that always remained culturally and demographically very distinct (with the exception of major portions of Kazakhstan). Russia continued however, after the collapse, to perceive the world beyond its borders in terms of two distinct kinds of foreignness: the true abroad, on the one hand, and the ближнее зарубежье, or 'near abroad' on the other. Nowhere did this latter category apply more fully than to Ukraine. The very name 'Ukraine' suggests that it is 'at the border': u kraya.
In the early 1990s, when the final arrangement had yet to take shape and we were hearing strange acronyms like CIS ('Commonwealth of Independent States'), exiled Russian nationalists like Solzhenitsyn were unequivocal: let the 'Stans go, let the Baltics go, but keep greater Russia, historical Russia, together. This would include the RSFSR, 'White Russia' or Belarus, and 'Little Russia' or Ukraine. When that could not quite be realized at a formal level, Russia, at least since the beginning of the Putin era, did everything possible to make it a de facto reality. And it was, more or less, until now.
Left-leaning analysts in the West, including Stephen F. Cohen writing for The Nation, have appealed to the same ancestral ties that excited Solzhenitsyn's patriotic imagination in order to argue that we must not rush to suppose that Ukraine has a right to be independent from Russia. This is ironic. Solzhenitsyn used to be the arch-conservative Western progressives could tolerate because of his truth-to-power exposure of the excesses of the Soviet Gulag system under Stalin and Khrushchev. Now there are echoes of Solzhenitsyn in the left's defense of Russia's neo-Soviet clinging to what's left of its imperial power. But, again, this unlikely twist can be explained in large part by the fact that the left is far more Stalinist, mostly unknowingly, than it was a generation ago. (It also was not reading a magazine called Jacobin, a detail that seems to trouble me a lot more than it does my peers.)
We should not be talking about Ukrainian independence tout court. There are real political, economic, and cultural ties between much of Eastern Ukraine and Moscow, and it would seem to be a violation of the popular will of this region to break those ties by force or decree. There also does not seem to be any natural reason why Sofia, say, belongs any more in Europe than Lviv does. Many borders are artefacts of historical contingencies, and it would be ridiculous to seek to set them all just right once and for all. But as I've been arguing elsewhere, the current uprising in Western Ukraine is not primarily about geopolitical reorientation or about chasing the glossy consumerist dream of the EU.
Indeed, to suppose that this is what it is about, as many who are eager to abandon the Ukrainian revolution have argued, is a direct contradiction of the view that what the revolution is really about is ultranationalism, fierce defense of Ukrainian soil, etc. Again, ultranationalism is one of the elements in the current events, and so, admittedly, is Euro-optimism (on this latter point, the Russian line is of course a compelling one: there is no good reason for such optimism; Russia is richer by far than, say, Romania or Bulgaria, and only fools would rush to join the EU on similar terms). But I would conjecture that a deeper historical reason for what is happening right now is the desire in Western Ukraine for a free and independent society, and this means, most importantly, a final end to Russian domination.
I hope they attain this, and I declare my antipathy to any Westerner who does not have the same hope, or does not believe that this is something to which the Ukrainians have a right. I believe mutatis mutandis that this rift is the same as the one that separated defenders of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 from those who saw it for what it was. Again, one great difference between 1956 and today is that Putin is not even pretending to hope to bring about a better world (or, if he is, it's only in the same obviously disingenuous way Alex Jones and other guests on the Russian propaganda network are). Were there craven Hungarian antisemites who resented those Soviet tanks coming and interrupting their plans for an independent Hungary? Of course there were! Does anyone today doubt that the Soviet Union overreached its legitimate exercise of power? I hope not.
And again, I declare that in this hope I look most of all to what the dissident Russian left is saying, and I don't care much at all about the opinion of Americans who think Fox News is the only media outlet capable of lying, or that Obama is the only world leader prepared to kill innocents. The Russians I know look to Ukraine, and they see a glimmer of hope that they too might soon be free of the old prejudice that validates and excuses their being ruled by an iron fist, and that the pax sovietica might collapse even within its core of power in Russia. I'm on their side.
Yes, there are fascists playing a central role in the Ukrainian revolution right now. And yes, the US and the EU are trying cynically manipulate the revolution for their own geopolitical interests, just like Russia is. Don't let these parties prevail. Don't abandon Ukraine.
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The law is about justice---not grace. But perhaps ranger Annie Pederson can find a way to have both.
As if the last few months haven't been hard enough---complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon---Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie's eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what's going on in her mother's life---but there are some stories Annie doesn't want uncovered.
As Annie grapples with how to heal the gulf between her and her would-be sister and make room in her daughter's life for Jon, she's professionally distracted by the case of yet another missing hiker in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A woman named Michelle Fraser has now been abducted, and though the woman's estranged husband is at the top of their suspect list, Annie and her colleagues will need to dig deeper to determine whether these recent mysteries are truly as unrelated as they seem.
In this second novel of bestselling author Colleen Coble's latest romantic-suspense series, Annie and Jon must fight for the future---and the family---that could once more be theirs.
"This fresh, addictive mystery delivers thrills, compassion, and hope." ---Publishers Weekly for Edge of Dusk
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By Camila Barbeito October 24, 2022 at 10:39 am
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Chapter XLII.—Christmas.
More and more, as the tranquil years went by, Percy found himself able to draw a quiet satisfaction from the regularity, the even sureness, with which, in every year, one season succeeded to another. In boyhood he had felt always a little sad at the approach of autumn. The yellowing leaves of the lime trees, the creeper that flushed to so deep a crimson against the old grey walls, the chrysanthemums that shed so prodigally their petals on the smooth green lawn—all these things, beautiful and wonderful though they were, were somehow a little melancholy also, as being signs of the year's decay. Once, when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he had overheard a friend of the family say to his father "How the days are drawing in!"—a remark which set him thinking deeply, with an almost morbid abandonment to gloom, for quite a long time. He had not then grasped the truth that in exactly the proportion in which the days draw in they will, in the fullness of time, draw out. This was a lesson that he mastered in later years. And, though the waning of summer never failed to touch him with the sense of an almost personal loss, yet it seemed to him a right thing, a wise ordination, that there should be these recurring changes. Those men and women of whom the poet tells us that they lived in "a land where it was always afternoon"—could they, Percy often wondered, have felt quite that thankfulness which on a fine afternoon is felt by us dwellers in ordinary climes? Ah, no! Surely it is because we are made acquainted with the grey sadness of twilight, the solemn majesty of the night-time, the faint chill of the dawn, that we set so high a value on the more meridional hours. If there were no autumn, no winter, then spring and summer would lose, not all indeed, yet an appreciable part of their sweet savour for us. Thus, as his mind matured, Percy came to be very glad of the gradual changes of the year. He found in them a rhythm, as he once described it in his diary; and this he liked very much indeed. He was aware that in his own character, with its tendency to waywardness, to caprice, to disorder, there was an almost grievous lack of this rhythmic quality. In the sure and seemly progression of the months, was there not for him a desirable exemplar, a needed corrective? He was so liable to moods in which he rebelled against the performance of some quite simple duty, some appointed task—moods in which he said to himself "H-ng it! I will not do this," or "Oh, b-th-r! I shall not do that!" But it was clear that Nature herself never spoke thus. Even as a passenger in a frail barque on the troublous ocean will keep his eyes directed towards some upstanding rock on the far horizon, finding thus inwardly for himself, or hoping to find, a more stable equilibrium, a deeper tranquillity, than is his, so did Percy daily devote a certain portion of his time to quiet communion with the almanac.
There were times when he was sorely tempted to regret a little that some of the feasts of the Church were "moveable." True, they moved only within strictly prescribed limits, and in accordance with certain unalterable, wholly justifiable rules. Yet, in the very fact that they did move, there seemed—to use an expressive slang phrase of the day—"something not quite nice." It was therefore the fixed feasts that pleased Percy best, and on Christmas Day, especially, he experienced a temperate glow which would have perhaps surprised those who knew him only slightly.
By reason of the athletic exercises of his earlier years, Percy had retained in middle life a certain lightness and firmness of tread; and this on Christmas morning, between his rooms and the Cathedral, was always so peculiarly elastic that he might almost have seemed to be rather running than walking. The ancient fane, with its soarings of grey columns to the dimness of its embowed roof, the delicate traceries of the organ screen, the swelling notes of the organ, the mellow shafts of light filtered through the stained-glass windows whose hues were as those of emeralds and rubies and amethysts, the stainless purity of the surplices of clergy and choir, the sober richness of Sunday bonnets in the transept, the faint yet heavy fragrance exhaled from the hot-water pipes—all these familiar things, appealing, as he sometimes felt, almost too strongly to that sensuous side of his nature which made him so susceptible to the paintings of Mr. Leader, of Sir Luke Fildes, were on Christmas morning more than usually affecting by reason of that note of quiet joyousness, of peace and good will, that pervaded the lessons of the day, the collect, the hymns, the sermon.
It was this spiritual aspect of Christmas that Percy felt to be hardly sufficiently regarded, or at least dwelt on, nowadays, and he sometimes wondered whether the modern Christmas had not been in some degree inspired and informed by Charles Dickens. He had for that writer a very sincere admiration, though he was inclined to think that his true excellence lay not so much in faithful portrayal of the life of his times, or in gift of sustained narration, or in those scenes of pathos which have moved so many hearts in so many quiet homes, as in the power of inventing highly fantastic figures, such as Mr. Micawber or Mr. Pickwick. This view Percy knew to be somewhat heretical, and, constitutionally averse from the danger of being suspected of "talking for effect," he kept it to himself; but, had anyone challenged him to give his opinion, it was thus that he would have expressed himself. In regard to Christmas, he could not help wishing that Charles Dickens had laid more stress on its spiritual element. It was right that the feast should be an occasion for good cheer, for the savoury meats, the steaming bowl, the blazing log, the traditional games. But was not the modern world, with its almost avowed bias towards materialism, too little apt to think of Christmas as also a time for meditation, for taking stock, as it were, of the things of the soul? Percy had heard that in London nowadays there was a class of people who sate down to their Christmas dinners in public hotels. He did not condemn this practice. He never condemned a thing, but wondered, rather, whether it were right, and could not help feeling that somehow it was not. In the course of his rare visits to London he had more than once been inside of one of the large new hotels that had sprung up—these "great caravanseries," as he described them in a letter to an old school-fellow who had been engaged for many years in Chinese mission work. And it seemed to him that the true spirit of Christmas could hardly be acclimatised in such places, but found its proper resting-place in quiet, detached homes, where were gathered together only those connected with one another by ties of kinship, or of long and tested friendship.
He sometimes blamed himself for having tended more and more, as the quiet, peaceful, tranquil years went by, to absent himself from even those small domestic gatherings. And yet, might it not be that his instinct for solitude at this season was a right instinct, at least for him, and that to run counter to it would be in some degree unacceptable to the Power that fashioned us? Thus he allowed himself to go, as it were, his own way. After morning service, he sate down to his Christmas fare alone, and then, when the simple meal was over, would sit and think in his accustomed chair, falling perhaps into one of those quiet dozes from which, because they seemed to be so natural a result, so seemly a consummation, of his thoughts, he did not regularly abstain. Later, he sallied forth, with a sense of refreshment, for a brisk walk among the fens, the sedges, the hedgerows, the reed-fringed pools, the pollard willows that would in due course be putting forth their tender shoots of palest green. And then, once more in his rooms, with the curtains drawn and the candles lit, he would turn to his book-shelves and choose from among them some old book that he knew and loved, or maybe some quite new book by that writer whose works were most dear to him because in them he seemed always to know so precisely what the author would say next, and because he found in their fine-spun repetitions a singular repose, a sense of security, an earnest of calm and continuity, as though he were reading over again one of those wise copy-books that he had so loved in boyhood, or were listening to the sounds made on a piano by some modest, very conscientious young girl with a pale red pig-tail, practising her scales, very gently, hour after hour, next door.
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The capital of tourism in Kazakhstan, now bright metropolis, this city was once a small settlement. Reserved flight Uzbek airlines, you can be in the heart of Central Asian culture, to see the incredible beauty. Although the city itself as a formal settlement, appeared about 150 years ago, people lived here long before that. Before the river Small Almaty grew fortress, which appeared in many art paintings, and became the ancestor of the current city, there lived many nations and tribes, that including built and its fortifications. Tourism in Kazakhstan developed by the same rules as that of tourism in Uzbekistan , offering scenic beauty and rich historical heritage.
According to scientists, the first settlers came here towards the end of the Bronze Age, a period which coincided with the tenth and ninth century BC. These people have grown useful crops and livestock, and lived mainly tribes. Small villages, where houses were built mostly of clay, were in the territory, which is now occupied by the modern northern suburbs of Almaty. Later, these peaceful tribes were driven from their homes had come Sakas. Behind them came after nation Usuns. Scientists have been able to find out about their longer life, culture and way of life, as the location of settlements and Usuns Saxons left a lot of burial mounds, containing, in particular, and various exhibits. Several mounds preserved in the heart of Almaty, in the old town. To explore the beauty, you just find a place in one of the hotels in Kazakhstan, located nearby.
The most famous of the mound found here – a Issyk, owned by the famous Saku is likely the king or queen. It was discovered during excavations in 1969. Scientists dated it about the fifth or fourth century BC. Under the layer of earth deceased soldier lying for years, whose posthumous journey dressed in clothes consisting exclusively of gold plates. His head was adorned with a rich helmet, which was crowned with figures of winged horses. These images are designated the Sun God. Scientists have figured out that a warrior was buried, as in the next world he was accompanied by a long sword and a dagger. In the mound, in addition to a fully dressed in shining armor of a soldier, lay still and all kinds of utensils. This clay jars, precious jugs made of silver and bronze, wooden utensils, and one of the main findings, a beautiful silver bowl decorated with a mysterious inscription, written out 26 mysterious characters. In 1974, the first soldier went a long journey and was able to win many delights of the world public. At the Leipzig Fair «golden man» emerged as one of the most valuable and prominent representatives of the Kazakh Soviet Republic. Moreover, that Kazakhstan had not demonstrated such complete rest of the world. During vacation in Uzbekistan, you will not see these beauties.
When it became clear that the land holds many archaeological treasures, the scientific excavations go regularly. In the late thirties of the last century Dublitsky researcher discovered hidden under a veil of ancient layers of soil settlement, which was built sometime in the period from the tenth to the thirteenth century. It may not even be a peaceful village, but a real fortress, because all the buildings were placed for the protection of rectangular clay wall, in every corner of which rises a circular tower that housed a clock. Inside the fortifications, scientists were able to find many traces of tribal life. This iron knife, and long iron nails, as well as pottery and stone beads collected from red and transparent gems. Taking into account the results of bone, lived here, and pets near the owners. And in one of the houses we were even able to find the remains of the stone fireplace, beside which lay forgotten silver flask on which the sun was depicted. Apparently, at that time already cooked using the oven, here and found fragments of clay tandoor.
Until now, the unsolved mystery of one of the most exciting finds. During the archaeological excavations of the late 19th century academician Bartold was able to discover an ancient settlement. It was studied for decades, and only recently there are two amazing discoveries have been found. This unique silver coins, which partly erased inscription, which can be printed to consider that the dirham was forged in a certain city. City written very illegibly as 'Al … um … that' from what scientists have concluded that it is referred to Almaty. And this, in turn, is a very clear indication of what the city with the same name already existed here in the thirteenth century. Given the form of coins and the method of minting coins were born in one of the oldest cities in Central Asia at the turn of 13-15 centuries. To see the artifacts, it is sufficient to find the cheapest tour in the southern capital of Kazakhstan.
Many archaeological finds have been discovered quite by accident. Most of them belong to the Saka tribes. Among such treasures include a variety of bronze lamps, jars, and various utensils. However, not all masterpieces were found at home, for example, Semirechye altar where sacrifices were offered, the fate of the will was in the Hermitage. Since it found itself before the October Revolution, he was sent to the museum of the then capital of the Russian Empire. The altar is decorated with figures of twenty-five winged snow leopard. The structure itself is a tray standing evenly on four tiny feet.
In the second half of the twentieth century, when the city is actively built, in the vast city's botanical gardens was found many items belonging to tribes Usuns. Rest in Uzbekistan, for example, it does not give an opportunity to see all this. Amazing tribe Usuns that came from somewhere in the territory of present-day China, it was the red-haired people with blue eyes, they clearly stood out against all the inhabitants of Asia steel. Tribes established quite extensive state, whose capital was located at Lake Issyk-Kul. In society there is a clear hierarchy, implies the existence of rulers, warriors and ordinary landowners. Usuns as a result were conquered by the Chinese. However, on the ground of their cities left a number of different artifacts. The most beautiful finds true-glazed ceramics and various ornaments. The most famous is considered «Kargaly diadem».
This archaeological excavations that took place here over a century, helped to create a more or less accurate history of Almaty, with the appearance of the first people here. It was found here and the various findings, both underground and under water, and in local caves. Many archaeologists have studied not only find, but also the origins of Buddhism and Christianity.
By studying all the artifacts found, as well as exploring the documentary sources, scientists have concluded that a settlement on the site of the modern city appeared in the tenth century BC, and many archaeologists have suspected that a metropolis worn current name back in the days when there was a small village. The first tribes arrived here in the Bronze Age.
Based on the data contained in the written sources, coins and other archaeological sources, we can say with confidence that the modern city of Almaty emerged under the same name in the X – XI centuries. A Almaty area was inhabited by nomadic tribes in the Bronze Age.
The history of the modern settlement of Almaty started the hot summer 1853, when the government curb the expedition of the Russian Empire, which was composed of a military unit under the command of Major, leaving behind the village to dig and the beginning of a long, full of fascinating events of the journey to the Central Tien Shan. Their way lay through a desert scorched hot sun of the earth, wild mountain streams and through the Turgen Gorge. The aim of the expedition was to establish diplomatic and trade relations with the peoples who inhabited these lands. The result of the campaign was to be the signing of various agreements important for Russia, as well as the introduction of the empire in alliance with these people.
Intrigues in this amazing journey there – the perfect conclusion of the negotiations has allowed the Russian representatives to return to the area next year. And when spring came into its own, painted in bright colors slopes of the mountains, the valley seemed a squadron of hussars, led by Lieutenant Glahirinym. The expedition began with a study of the Trans-Ili Alatau, it has built up through the water streams and Kurt Shi bridges. The next challenge was the construction of the fortress near the river Small Almaty.
Fortress construction project was drafted and received the highest approval, the benefit of that worked on it the most famous architects of the empire, already engaged in designing fortresses. A large team of builders, engineers and surveyors examined all the cross land and find the ideal point for the construction of fortifications. What was originally a fortress featured other similar settlements, it is that the Emperor Nicholas I ordered not to send the exiles here – so the city was open to free people only. When all the bureaucratic construction went so quickly have been overcome, that amazed even the journalists who arrived at the place. Originally a fortress called the Trans-Ili, but after it was christened Werne. Five years after the start of construction in the settlement arrived Golubev, a well-known astronomer and surveyor who helped cause and the settlement itself and another 17 important geographical points. By this time, the city has lived for more than five thousand inhabitants, was carried out rapid construction throughout, as well as the assimilation of the surrounding land. Ebullient rapid pot growing populations, to failure filled with people scurrying literally transformed almost beyond recognition desert valley for several years. The local region has hitherto not seen such a large number of settlers, previously lived here only nomadic tribes. As noted by a visiting journalist soon faithful must become one of the largest cities, compared with that not only Siberia, but also major European settlement may fade.
The Right was not only fortifications and space for future settlements. It is from here were to start research expedition, wearing not only scientific but also practical purpose. Due to the base Faithful scientists were able to study the traditions, relationships within the tribe, as well as the lifestyle of the people who lived in the region of the Tien Shan. These works are carried out well-known researcher Ciocan Valikhanov. By region Semirechye carried out more than one trip. Subsequent generations were able to learn the details of these trips, because Ciocan Valikhanov kept a detailed diary, where he not only recorded his observations and learn everything, but left alive and detailed watercolor sketches telling about the natural beauty and features the life of local tribes. In addition to the well-known researcher Valikhanova local land at different times studied Semenov-Tyan-Shan and Nikolai Przewalski, who were interested not so much who lived on these lands people how rich and hitherto undiscovered flora and fauna. A well-known cartographers exploring the surrounding area, in order to put the brightest objects in the map. Thus it was prepared a detailed map of the Trans-Ili Alatau.
The new town attracted not only known scientists, and not so famous adventurers and artists, because nothing affects the inspiration so much as a brand new life, bubbling over with energy and pressure. Arrived at the expanse of the settlement artists Znamenskii Kosharov and reflected on his canvases vivid and immediate picture of the new and amazing city. Above all, the three famous paintings depicting the main square, dominated by a small church, built of wood. This first church consecrated in 1858, Senior Priest Evtikhii Vysheslavsky.
Active and full of energy the inhabitants of the city with vigor and enthusiasm are taken for improvement of the city. On the streets there are weather stations and organizations seismologists. And to the lives of local citizens was more varied and interesting, there were built museums and libraries, health services.
Fourteen years after the first expedition Faithful finally received city status. In addition to this faithful awarded the title Semirechensk center area, located in the Turkestan region. And after ten, it was decided to organize the local Duma, and held its first elections in the history of the Faithful. Unanimously to be the first mayor chosen Zenkova. This extraordinary man, who managed to seem all the science and activities such as painting, architecture, sculpture and music, appeared in the city back in 1867. Zenkov including those involved in thinking through the first city plan and closely supervise the construction operations.
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An 0-2-2, in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, is one that has two coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels. The configuration was briefly built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Equivalent classifications
Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification: A1 (also known as German classification and Italian classification)
French classification: 011
Turkish classification: 12
Swiss classification: 1/2

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Rocket
The 0-2-2 or Northumbrian wheel arrangement was first used for Stephenson's Rocket, their entry for the Rainhill Trials of 1829, a competition to choose a locomotive design for the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Stephenson recognised that the rules of the competition favoured a fast, light locomotive of only moderate hauling power. Although George Stephenson's previous designs had been heavy four-coupled freight locomotives, Rocket was almost entirely new. Stephenson was an advocate of the adhesion railway, against the fashion of the time, and believed that the light loads for Rainhill would even allow just a single driving axle. This allowed the simplification of not requiring either a chain drive between the axles or Stephenson's invention of the external coupling rods.

Achieving adequate traction required more of Rocket's weight to be over the driving axle than the carrying axle. The heavy boiler was placed forwards, with the axle beneath it, giving a 0-2-2 layout rather than 2-2-0. The cylinders were set at a steep angle, as used the year before for Lancashire Witch, rather than the typical vertical cylinders of this period. The cylinders were thus over the firebox and both driver and fireman shared a footplate at the same, rear, end of the engine. Previously they had often been separated to their own ends of the engine.

Novelty
Ericsson and Braithwaite's entry for the Trials, their Novelty, was an 0-2-2 well tank locomotive. Both the driving wheels and trailing wheels were the same size, and there may also have been the facility to fit a coupling chain drive to give better adhesion "when needed". Novelty has also been described as a 2-2-0WT design, as there is no clear "front" or "rear" to this design.

Northumbrian
Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials successfully and Stephenson became the supplier of locomotives to the L&MR.

The 0-2-2 arrangement was subsequently used by Robert Stephenson and Company on eight locomotives supplied to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway after 1829:, Meteor, Comet, Dart, Arrow, Phoenix, North Star, Northumbrian, and Majestic. Like the rebuilt Rocket, these had their cylinders set low in a near-horizontal position.

The Northumbrian type was superseded by the 2-2-0 Planet type. These reversed the layout, placing the cylinders inside, between the frames, and below the smokebox at the front. The inside cylinders were closer together, giving less of a rocking couple and so were less prone to yawing oscillation at speed. Placing the cylinders below the smokebox also permitted shorter steampipes and exhaust pipes to the blastpipe, giving better efficiency.  Northumbrians were the last, and only, production locomotives with this wheel arrangement.

After the Planets, most passenger locomotives began to use a 2-2-2 arrangement, with an additional front carrying axle to give better riding at speed.

Tank engines

In the early 20th Century a number of railmotors were built by various railway companies in the UK where the locomotive section had an 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, but they were designed to operate semi-permanently coupled to a coach unit.

The LSWR C14 class used a similar layout, but reversed as a 2-2-0T. Their low adhesive weight gave them a poor performance and half of them were rebuilt as the 0-4-0T S14.

References

0-2-2 locomotives
2,0-2-2


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Global Thinker 2016' by Foreign Policy for unplugging technology, so kids can learn
When educating poor youth, which are more effective: laptops and iPads, or rings on string and plastic blocks? Vineet and Anupama Nayar are betting $100 million that it's the latter. Through their Sampark Foundation, the former HCL Technologies executive and his wife are on a mission to revamp rural India's primary education system with low-tech teaching tools.
India's Vineet Nayar Seeks To Transform Primary Education With A $100 Million Philanthropic Outlay
A big part of the solution to getting young children to learn math in the poorest, most educationally backward parts of the world may be just simple items such as colored rings on strings, plastic blocks of different sizes and multihued circles, triangles and squares. "The kids take a lot of interest when we use these things.
"India Inc Must Move To The Forefront Of Creative Destruction"
The Inspiring India series, hosted by Vineet Nayar, former HCL CEO and founder of Sampark Foundation and Gary Hamel, the world's leading business thinker, was held earlier this year to drive business practitioners to think about leapfrogging global companies trapped in old, obsolete organisation architecture.
'Disruptive innovation key to become world beaters'
With rapid growth, india's $2 trillion economy can quintuple to $10 trillion in the next 10 years, say Vineet Nayar, founder, Sampark Foundation, and management expert Gary Hamel. They, however, believe that this will bring multiple challenges. In an interview to Samar Srivastava, Nayar and Hamel pinpoint areas where India Inc needs to focus. Excerpts:
India's problem solver
Vineet Nayar has spent his life challenging attitudes to leadership and management. Here he talks exclusively to douglas morrison about his work at tech giant HCL, his philanthropic foundation and why employees should come before customers


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A DeMolay is built on seven cardinal virtues. These virtues we believe round out and complete our character.
Filial love, the bond between parents and their children, is ranked first since this virtue has taught millions of DeMolays to strive to repay the care, so often under appreciated, our parents give to us.
The sixth principle of DeMolay is cleanness, not the bodily cleanness that we all practice, but cleanness in every thought, word, and deed. This principle encourages us to maintain a civil tongue and polite manner while avoiding vulgarity and hurtful pranks.
A courteous person is admired, serves as an example for others, and elicits respect from adults and peers. This allows more opportunities since courteous persons gain the attention of others.
Jacques DeMolay and his companions held true to each other until death, and each of us should never forget this great example of true comradeship. Our common goals, pledges, and vows bond all DeMolays into a fellowship that cannot be broken.
DeMolay's second principle, reverence for sacred things, teaches every member to honor his promises and to respect the religious beliefs of others, while keeping his own.
Fidelity is the essence of every DeMolay's promise to remain loyal to every other DeMolay. Many of us will never be confronted with a situation such as Jacques DeMolay faced, yet each of us should be ready to take the necessary measures to live up to the vows we take as DeMolays.


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ConAgra CEO says cost-cutting likely to include layoffs
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - ConAgra Foods' chief executive says employees will learn next week about upcoming changes, including likely jobs cuts and a shuffling of operations that could boost the company's presence in Chicago and lower it in Omaha.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) � ConAgra Foods' chief executive says employees will learn next week about upcoming changes, including likely jobs cuts and a shuffling of operations that could boost the company's presence in Chicago and lower it in Omaha.
CEO Sean Connolly said Friday that Omaha will continue to play a sizable role for the company. The company has around 3,000 employees at the headquarters campus in Omaha, in Lincoln and across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The Omaha World-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1iQ2O0B ) that Connolly is in Omaha for a shareholders meeting.
On Tuesday, ConAgra reported a fiscal first-quarter loss of $1.2 billion, or $2.85 a share. Connolly told the World-Herald that day that the company had to be willing to embrace change in order to cut expenses and improve performance.


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Mission Impossible – Fallout: The World Needs Ethan Hunt
December 4, 2018 by Jacob Sahms Leave a Comment
The sixth installment of the Mission Impossible films, and the second directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie (Rogue Nation), arrived this weekend with a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes ratings, the Justice League-impacting Henry Cavill mustache, and the promise of more death-defying stunts by the ageless Tom Cruise. But haven't we seen it all, already?
Blame Lorne Balfe's score, the Michelle Monaghan dreams, or the return of Solomon Lane, but this is not the same old thing you've seen before. This is the best M:I film to-date.
IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) teams with Benji (Simon Pegg) and Luther (Ving Rhames) to go after plutonium and The Apostles – the remaining members of the The Syndicate after Hunt arrested Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) previously. [One of the best parts of the film is that it seems to give the sidekicks more meaningful things to do than before – a throwback to the old show.] Complicating matters are Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) who might be the love that Hunt has been missing since he separated from his wife (Monaghan) to keep her safe, several movies ago. But things are complicated when the broker, White Widow (Jessica Kirby), demands that Hunt re-acquire Lane from the French government in exchange for missing plutonium.
The storyline is complex, thanks to the meddling of various governmental agencies (led by Alex Baldwin and Angela Bassett), and the presence of CIA watchdog/assassin August Walker (Cavill, who literally towers over Hunt). But the action is kept moving by the best motorcycle pursuit since The Great Escape and the best use of helicopters since Airwolf. [Seriously, I am not inclined to 'best' anything, but the film was that entertaining.] I could also point out that it's as if McQuarrie watched Cliffhanger, Die Hard, the complete Sean Connery 007 collection, and Terminal Velocity while he was daydreaming about what to do to Ethan Hunt next, and stole the best looks of each to Frankenstein the highlight of the 2018 summer season.
And then there's this: haunted by what he's lost and what he could lose, Hunt's emotional reverie about his (ex-) wife counts the cost of a one-man war against terrorism. But throughout the film, people keep seeing more or less the same thing: we all need Ethan Hunt because Hunt cares about the individual, the little person (no pun intended, Tom), the greater good never outweighing the life of the few. Sure, there's one almost touching interaction with a French Genderarmie, but it's more than that: Hunt's morality never replaces his love of neighbor.
Having wrestled with this for the majority of the day, I have to say it: Mission Impossible – Fallout is more wildly entertaining than the sixth film in a chronological series should be and it dares to remind us that we can't lose sight of the person next to us while in pursuit of the goal. We must remain empathetic, and compassionate, gentle and tender, even while fighting the world's battles.
Ultimately, Fallout implores us all, to be more like Ethan Hunt.
Special features include commentary tracks by Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie, McQuarrie and editor Eddie Hamilton, and composer Lorne Balfe. Audiences can also watch the film with score-only, enjoy the making of documentary, and unpack deleted scenes.
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Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation: Cruising or Crushing?
December 15, 2015 by Jacob Sahms Leave a Comment
With apologies to Fantastic Four and The Maze Runner:The Scorch Trials, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is the biggest film to hit Blu-ray and DVD between now and Christmas… and it's not even close.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back in his fifth MI film, this time directed from a screenplay written by his collaborator Christopher McQuarrie (Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher, just to name two). In a plot paralleling that of Spectre, Hunt and his posse find themselves up against an unbelievably knowledgeable super team of villains who the CIA doesn't believe exists, putting pressure on the IMF team to prove not only the Syndicate's existence but also their own reliability. But as we've come to expect from Cruise and his MI films, this one stands out in a field of spy flicks and high tech shenanigans. [Seriously, even the Furious series has moved into the high tech/stunt arena, foregoing simpler car chases and bombastic fistfights.]
The MI differ from the Bourne or Bond movies in two major ways. The first is that Hunt is not a lone wolf. While Cruise might be the face that sells the films, he's joined by the goofy analyst Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), the serious, by-the-book chief William Brandt (Jeremy Renner, he of the failed Bourne film), and the deep-throated Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames). These three represent the team approach from the classic television series and resemble more of a mirror to The A-Team than one of these lone spy flicks.
The second difference is the level of humor. While the Syndicate proves to be deadly serious immediately, and Cruise appears to risk life and limb riding on the outside of jets, the MI films still find a way (thanks often to Pegg) to lighten things up. Whether it's the operatic manner in which Hunt lures Pegg into helping his clandestine and highly illegal mission to track down the Bone Doctor (Jens Hulten), or the banter that occurs in the midst of the team's missions, there's more than the average wit to spice this up. [Surprisingly enough, the special features focus on various elements of "Cruise" like "Cruise Control" and "Cruising Altitude" or some kind of vehicle stunt, rather than the humor. I might've gone with a twenty minute gag reel!]
While this wasn't my standalone favorite MI film, it's high points are worthy of re-watching. There's the death-defying plane ride, of course, made much brighter by not seeing it over and over for a month prior to rewatching. There's the beautiful water-entry sabotage scene toward the end of the flick that sets up some seriously tense moments. And there are the new entrants into the MI canon like Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) as an undercover agent with the Syndicate who adds the necessary feminine heroine to a testosterone-dominated film, and the comedic 'villain' in the person of Alec Baldwin's CIA director Alan Hundley, the consummate politician.
But let's be clear: this is an ode to Cruise, a middle-finger-extending caption to his stunts and spectacularly explosive career. It's just as much about Cruise saying to the media and detractors, "I ain't dead yet," as it is about the IMF proving to the CIA that there's still room in the world for this group of people with a specific set of deadly skills. Cruise has been about doing things his own way – from Scientology to the way he does stunts – and while I disagree with his religious position, I must begrudgingly admit that his films still dominate the screen. Just don't ask us to agree on the baptismal imagery of that long, last dive.
Filed Under: DVD, Film, Reviews Tagged With: Christopher McQuarrie, Jeremy Renner, Mission Impossible, Rebecca Ferguson, Rogue Nation, Simon Pegg, Syndicate, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames


the 'mad scientist' of forced induction. His finger prints are on home-made adaptations, mating blowers onto Ford flatheads. His handy-work is also found on Caddy V-8s and Ford Y-Blocks, all benefiting from vastly improved respiration.
Just take a look at the photos below and see Dean's influence and involvement including the Ford 'Battle Birds' in 1957, early 1960's Ford factory drag racing activity, and a recent fabrication of a Eaton supercharger application for a Morgan sports car.
In 1961 Dean was envolved in the legendary Ford Tri-Power setup. Don 'Sully' Sullivan designed the manifold and Dean designed and developed the rest of the unit at DST.
Dean built the Ford sponsored car that won the 1963 NHRA Indianapolis Nationals in "D" Stock with Milo Coleman driving. Milo got a 1964 Thunderbolt from Ford as a result.
Dean currently gets his kicks in his fully equipped personal machine shop where he modifies and hot rods snowmobiles. Hey, this guy ain't no wimp. He doesn't pack up and go down south when it gets cold. He can't wait for snow to fall in Michigan!
Here's a view of Dean wrenching on a '57 Ford 'Battle Bird'. He managed the team that prepared these racers for Dearborn Steel Tubing (DTS). They won Class A at Road America in 1957.
The legendary Ford Tri-Power setup!
Here's the 'wizard' hard at work in his fully equipped machine shop. Real hot rodders never rest!


Immanuel Kant saw David Hume as an ally or predecessor than an adversary. In his published works Kant has constantly emphasized the importance of Hume. He has said that Hume had interrupted his dogmatic slumber. In his Critique of Pure Reason he confesses that he is pursuing a line of thought that Hume has originally proposed but has failed to fully develop.
1) Assume the causal relation to be rational.
(2) If a relation is rational, it can be thought a priori and on the basis of concepts.
(3) For objects to be causally related, they must stand in a necessary relation, such that if one object is posited, the other one must also be posited.
(4) It is impossible to see by reason alone how the existence of one object necessitates the existence of another.
(5) Therefore, "it is wholly impossible to think such a conjunction a priori and out of concepts."
(6) Therefore, the causal relation is not rational.
7) Therefore, it is impossible to understand "how the concept of such an a priori connection can be introduced."
(8) Therefore, it must have some other source or sources, and the most reasonable ones are imagination and custom.
(9) But imagination and custom can produce only "subjective" necessity.
(10) Metaphysics requires necessity based on intersubjectively valid concepts.
(11) Therefore, metaphysics is impossible.
(12) It is possible to introduce the concept of a priori connections by deducing them from the pure understanding.
One can make a distinction between "local skepticism," or a skepticism that relates only to a certain class of propositions, and "universal skepticism," or a skepticism that involves the doubting of the justifiability of any knowledge claim. Kant believes that Hume essentially establishes a form of "local skepticism," with "universal skepticism" being a hasty conclusion founded upon the former. Moreover, Kant does not see Hume as denying the existence of necessary synthetic judgments, but only as denying a certain way of justifying them. So Kant thought that he needed to give only a limited answer to Hume. All he had to do was justify synthetic a priori judgments, whose existence was admitted by Hume.
Manfred Kuhen also points out that among his friends, Kant was known as the German Hume. Kant did not object to being regarded as close to Hume.