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CPE News (6/24/2021) – Rebelstork has completed a $5 million private capital raise brokered by investment dealer Haywood Securities. K2 & Associates and venn growth partners participated in the financing.
Reelstork will use new funds will be used to accelerate growth of baby gear resale into new markets and expand the team.
Founded in 2019, Toronto based Rebelstork is North America’s original tech driven price-reduced baby gear marketplace, giving parents access to buy and resell high quality overstock, open-box and used baby gear for a fraction of the retail price.
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Rebelstork Raises $5M to Continue Building Price-Reduced Baby Gear Marketplace
TORONTO, June 24, 2021 /CNW/ – Rebelstork, North America’s first tech driven and price-reduced baby gear marketplace today announced a $5M raise to accelerate growth of baby gear resale into new markets and expand the team. This round of funding was led by Haywood Securities with participation from K2 & Associates and venn growth partners, and brings Rebelstork’s total funds raised to $7M CAD.
Rebelstork is led by Emily Hosie, formerly of TJX, Saks Fifth Avenue and Holt Renfrew. In addition to city expansions the funding is being used to welcome former Poshmark CFO Mannan Latif to the team, CTO Ajay Sirohi, and former TJX executives Tatum Nolan as Head of Merchandising and Jennifer Patel as Head of Resale. With their previous raise, they welcomed Joe Mimran to their advisory board.
“More than 40% of new parents today factor in the resale value of an item before they make the decision to buy, and are placing more value on sustainability in the products they buy,” said Emily Hosie, founder and CEO of Rebelstork. “Parents want to extend a product’s lifecycle and are increasingly demanding an easy, transparent and safe way to buy or resell their baby gear.”
Using Rebelstork’s online platform, parents can seamlessly buy and resell overstock, open box and used baby gear, backed by a safe and hassle-free experience. Items are picked up directly from the Seller where they are quality checked, condition-rated and given a fair market value and resale price using Rebelstork’s pricing algorithm.
“Traditionally, the baby industry has lagged behind other verticals in providing customers the level of convenience that Rebelstork offers, and parents are taking notice,” added Hosie.
Rebelstork will be announcing expansion plans throughout fall 2021. For insights into trends in the baby durables space, visit the Trends in Baby Gear Resale Report on rebelstork.com.
Founded in 2019, Rebelstork is North America’s original tech driven price-reduced baby gear marketplace, giving parents access to buy and resell high quality overstock, open-box and used baby gear for a fraction of the retail price. By helping parents empty their nest of outgrown baby goods, Rebelstork removes the hassle of buying and reselling used baby gear, with a simple pickup or drop-off. On site, inventory is quality checked, condition rated and priced using the Rebelstork proprietary pricing algorithm before being listed for sale. For more information rebelstork.com or via Instagram @Rebelstork
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Toyota, PNNL, Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.
Toyota triplet at Le Mans: The Japanese will send a third hybrid to compete in the WEC racing series this year. Reportedly, Porsche plans to conquer the 24 hours with two 919, while Audi left the series.
Fastest synthetic catalyst to make H2? Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have now developed a synthetic catalyst producing 45 million hydrogen molecules per second by controlling the structural dynamics of the molecular catalyst. Instead of platinum, this catalyst has nickel at its core. The principle was inspired by bacteria.
Shuttle interrupted: European researchers say they found an approach to convert Li2S into sulfur without the polysulfide shuttle, which usually leads to self-discharge and problem with efficiency and cycle life in lithium sulfur batteries. Their idea is direct and involves carbon enwrapment.
Brilliance Bus, Continental, Lithium-sulfur, Cambridge University.
Aluminium buses from China: China Zhongwang is developing frames and bodies for electric buses by Brilliance Bus, using mainly aluminium alloy and thus reducing the weight of the buses by 40 percent compared to their steel counterparts. Two prototypes have already been built. The aluminium buses will commence mass production after passing road tests.
Efficient 48 V technology: Continental will present an enhanced version of its 48 V Eco Drive system with predictive energy management at the IAA. Cloud-based road data via Continental’s eHorizon will help increase fuel savings of now 21 percent by another two to three percent.
Lithium-sulfur research: Chinese researchers have designed new ionic-liquid-based electrolytes with binary lithium salts, said to increase performance of Li-S batteries. Meanwhile, U.S. researchers have created highly crosslinked polymer-electrolyte coating layers to overcome the challenge of soluble polysulfides in lithium-sulfur batteries.
greencarcongress.com (China), greencarcongress.com (U.S.)
Solar racer at the start: Cambridge University Eco-Racing (CEUR) will take part in the World Solar Challenge in its solar-powered racer Evolution. Its predecessor had been unable to compete in the 3,000 km race in 2013, as it crashed during road testing ahead of the event.
automotive-business-review.com, uk.cars.yahoo.com, techtimes.com
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Most clicked link on Monday was Detroit Electric’s announcement of two versions of the SP:01 electric sportscar.
Scania, Rogue Rovers, Graphene ESD, Lithium-sulfur.
Scania to charge inductively: Together with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Scania will be testing a plug-in hybrid bus in the Swedish city of Södertälje from June 2016. The bus is based on the Scania Citywide and will be charged inductively at a bus stop.
Autonomous electric ATV: Rogue Rovers from Oregon has completed a prototype of an autonomous EV which could be used in agriculture to i.e. apply pesticides without a human driver. Potential customers could start testing the electric ATV by January.
Supercap investment: Lomiko Metals will invest in a new venture named Graphene Energy Storage Devices. Graphene ESD has been formed to commercialize graphene-based supercapacitor technology.
Lithium-Sulfur research: Researchers from Cambridge and Beijing have devised a three-dimensional hierarchical sandwich-type graphene sheet sulfur/carbon composite to address performance-related issues in Lithium-sulfur batteries such as low efficiency and capacity degradation.
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Most clicked link on Wednesday was the new electric mini bus service that now travels through the Old Town of Geneva, Switzerland.
Lithium-air, Lithium-sulfur, Supercapacitors, LG Chem, Sakti3.
Lithium-air research: Scientists at the universities Graz, St. Andrews, Oxford and Amiens, as well as Collège de France have been able to better clarify the discharge process of lithium-air batteries. They say the key to increase capacity is an electrolyte with high donor number like i.e. sulfoxides or imidazole.
idw-online.de, science.apa.at (all articles in German)
Next-gen lithium-sulfur cells: Battery specialist Oxis Energy says it developed such a cell with an energy density of 300 Wh/kg, increasing its capacity twelve fold to 25 Ah within 18 months. The company believes it can develop cells with an energy density of 500 Wh/kg by 2018. According to Oxis, vehicle manufacturers are already reviewing and evaluating the cell technology.
Supercapacitors for EVs: Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology have developed a lightweight supercapacitor, that was made into a thin film with a high power density. The supercaps could be embedded in a car’s body panels, roof, doors, bonnet and floor. The scientists say that once they increase energy density, the supercapacitors could allow for a range of around 500 kilometres.
Battery talks: Autoline Network airs a discussion between (among others) the CEO of LG Chem’s North American unit and the founder of Sakti3 about the future of batteries. The experts agree that for at least the next 10 to 15 years, nothing will be able to replace lithium cells.
youtube.com (Video) via greencarreports.com
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Most clicked link on Tuesday was Italian e-bike manufacturer Velorapida that has adopted the ZeHus Bike+ kit for an unlimited range.
Quimera, Icon, ETH Zürich, Lithium-sulfur.
All-electric race cars: When Spanish Quimera presented their AEGT Evo2 electric racer last year, they created quite a stir in the world of motor sports. Quimera keeps moving and now published first renderings of its AEGF which is said to come with “Formula 1 specifications.”
Dream big and electric: Icon has come up with the Helios, a rather iconic looking road cruiser which the company seeks to commission. Founder Jon Ward is hoping for Elon Musk to share his Model X platform with him while designer Ralph Lauren would be Ward’s favoured first customer.
Swiss win: The Formula Student Electric team from ETH Zürich took the first place at the recent competition at Hockenheim. Second-best was the team of German Stuttgart Uni leaving the Dutch three-time winner Delft University of Technology behind.
More Li-sulfur: Researchers at the University of Texas say they increased the capacity of lithium-sulfur batteries by using titanium disulfide and sulfur for the cathode. Meanwhile, British OXIS Energy and Multi Source Power Technologies (MSP) will jointly develop Li-sulfur batteries for ships and boats and aim to launch by spring 2015.
greencarcongress.com (Texas Uni), greencarcongress.com (OXIS/MSP)
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Chelsea Clinton knows how awkward it can be to talk about topics like menstruation or breastfeeding — after all, she was a teenager once, embarrassed to carry tampons into the bathroom stall with her and dragging her whole backpack with her instead.
“Remember how awkward you felt in school each time you carried a tampon or pad to the bathroom?” Clinton writes in a new essay for Well+Good on removing the stigma surrounding women’s bodies.
“Far too many girls and boys alike are socialized to think these are shameful topics — only to be discussed with our family and doctors, and we’re certainly not supposed to let anyone else see us dealing with them,” she writes.
Clinton, the famous first daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, is an ardent advocate for gender equality. She says that a key component to girls’ success around the globe is removing the cultural stigma around topics like menstruation and breastfeeding.
In many parts of the world, she said, girls can’t disappear into bathroom stalls — even with their backpacks — when they are menstruating because there are no clean bathroom stalls where they are, and often no pads or tampons either. For girls that are too embarrassed to deal with menstruation publicly, or don’t have a clean way to do so, they often miss school for days every single month. The piece notes that one out of every 10 girls in Africa misses school when she’s menstruating, according to UNICEF.
“Menstruation shouldn’t stop education — and with access to safe period products and clean water, girls would have one less barrier to gender equality,” she writes.
Even girls in the US face a barrier when it comes to menstruation: pads and tampons aren’t covered by government food vouchers, which means that girls may struggle to pay for the supplies they need to attend to school. Even worse, these supplies are subjected to sales tax in many US states.
Clinton’s also familiar with the discomfort and stigma that can come with breastfeeding. As a mom of two, she’s had to pump milk and breastfeed in airport bathrooms and hidden by buildings outdoors when there was nowhere else to find privacy.
“Sometimes I mistimed feeding or pumping and I could feel the milk leak out and soak the pads in my bra—and yes, I was lucky because I could afford disposable pads so I could at least know the leakage wouldn’t be visible as I was standing on a stage,” she wrote. “Do you feel awkward reading this? I hope not—and if you do, I hope you’ll think about why.”
Clinton was breastfeeding as she campaigned on behalf of her mom last year during the presidential campaign, she wrote, and was happy she didn’t have any embarrassing leaks while doing so. But women who cannot afford pads or breast pumps aren’t so lucky, and don’t have private places at work or flexible schedules to accommodate their breastfeeding and pumping needs.
So long as women and girls are missing work and school because their bodies are merely functioning as they’re meant to, gender equality cannot be achieved, Clinton writes.
Laws around the world, including the US, need to account for these topics that are tough to talk about: women should be given access to privacy and flexibility for breastfeeding at work and in public, and menstrual supplies should be treated as necessity items and not taxed as luxuries.
Global Citizen and CHIME FOR CHANGE campaign for countries around the world to change their laws to give women equal treatment; you can support the #LevelTheLaw campaign by lending your voice to the cause.
“We need to change the conversation, the practices, and the policies that too often punish women for being women—and prevent mothers from being the moms they want to be for their kids,” Clinton said in her essay.
“We shouldn’t be embarrassed by breastfeeding or menstruation, but we should be ashamed that women are suffering in silence because too many people refuse to speak out.”


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Startup entrepreneurs find it hard to maintain the longevity of their businesses. Even after using all the necessary tools and techniques, still, they ran out of money, resulting in an unwanted shutdown. There are multiple businesses starting and failing within a span of a few months only because of bad budget management. Failure can be a result of bad marketing, failed strategy, and bad pricing or even a poorly developed item. The common reason has to be the bad business budget. So, there are 7 simple yet essential steps available, used for drawing up budget proficiently for helping your business grow.
Essential tips to follow:
Right from minimizing unexpected cash flow to control spending, there are so many essential tips and plan to create a budget. So, without wasting time any longer, head towards the right top 7 tips now!
1.Research your costs:
You have to research your business cost to avoid getting hit by unexpected expenses. These unexpected expenses will not just get you out of a track but will make it difficult to accomplish your goal. If your budget has been set for a certain cost and you later realize that you need more money that will reduce the profit made on sales. It will put your business in a bad position. You have to determine ways to increase profit and revenue to offset higher expenses. So, before you start operating your business, your budget needs to be created beforehand for variable and fixed costs.
2.Tally income sources:
The major element of running a good business budget is checking out the money you bring in your firm on a monthly scale. You can head off with your sales figures by using the profit and loss report. After that, you have to go further by adding some extra income sources you might need for successfully running your business. A proper business budget will help in making rooms for you to accommodate things you need for growing your firm.
3.Questions to ask clients:
After you have done your task of a detailed breakdown of cost involving projects, head towards clients and clarify more about the project. Office costs travel expenses and more; you have to discuss it all. You need to discuss these points before you even create a quote. Remember to double check exact specifications of the brief before finalizing on a quote. This schedule might have the impact on costs. In case the deadline is tight, contracting some more freelancers might make the task expensive. So, remember to ask about timescales before agreeing on anything. You might further ask clients if they want a breakdown of cost.
4.Determine your fixed costs:
Fixed costs are described as expenses, which are charged the same every month. So, incorporating these points is the easiest way to create the preferred business budget. For that, start reviewing your past bank statements or any other business budget reports, if you have any. This will help you to spot fixed bills easily and the total amount of fixed rates cost you daily.
5.Checking on variable expenses:
The items without any fixed price tag are known as variable costs, with flexible changes every month. Most of these purchases can be scaled down or up, depending on the current business state and using monthly profit. The profit each month will be determined by your earnings left after paying all selected costs. So, if your current business can perform better than expected, try using that extra revenue for increasing variable spending. This step will help your business to grow faster and expand within a few years’ time.
6.Figuring gross margin profits:
Gross margin profit mainly indicates the financial health of a business. Gross margin profit is money left after the cost of doing business is paid off. Sometimes, you fail to realize the amount to use for operating your business, leading to wastage of money on services and products, which don’t have any effect on business beyond costing you more money. So, it is highly advisable to start analyzing business operations completely for discovering the expenses to be eliminated. For that, you have to list all costs of sold out goods, subtract costs from entire sales revenue, and consider entire business versus individual departments. It helps to create a budget for business without any extra unwanted costing addition to it.
7.Predict your one-time investment:
If you can create a proper business budget, you can factor one-time purchases better. Even though some items might come unexpectedly, but others can be well budgeted in advance for months. It helps in protecting your business from any financial burden if you are going through. It is advisable to use your own knowledge while establishing a business budget. You can try checking on the tips, but using your independent knowledge can help your business big time. It is important to know more about your company, your set budget and your goals first, before finalizing any result.
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Exposing the truth
I couldn't help but notice a few letters to the editor that were well-laced with the usual Hasbara-peddled propaganda and the negative portrayal of the victimized Palestinians (letters collected under the headline "Good call, NDP," Reply all, October 31). Allow me to respond with some factual information on the colonial cruelty committed against the Indigenous people of Palestine.
Zionists "have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism and racial superiority" (Einstein, 1948). The Zionists who were haphazardly shoehorned into the Middle East made numerous promises to the Palestinians when they began to ethnically cleanse and colonize Palestine, but they kept only one: They promised to take their land, and they took it.
Since March 2018, the people of Gaza have been protesting the appalling conditions they have been forced to live in by the apartheid regime of Israel. Laying in wait for these non-violent unarmed protesters are trigger-happy Israeli snipers who have targeted anyone in their crosshairs with lethal force, including women and children, medical personnel and journalists. Recently uncovered videos show celebrating Israeli snipers shooting into crowds as protesters innocently stood and waved flags, socialized and shared food with family and friends, sang songs and danced, took care of the wounded, or panicked and ran as the snipers opened fire. Taking into account the extreme level of Israel's provocative brutality, these protesters—and their government as well—should be applauded for their resilience and restraint.
Most of the world's media and governments have neglected to recognize these weekly occurring events. However, the public is increasingly able to shake off the shackles of misinformation and exaggerations perpetrated by the manipulated media and their stooges who promote such mendacity. The Zionists have gotten away with their distorted spin on events for far too long. There are more and more people waking up to the truth as time goes on and as more honest information sources become available. The days of having to listen to the Zionist version of events is rapidly coming to a close, and it can't come soon enough, especially since the leader of the racist regime of Israel is once again calling for yet another mission of mayhem and murder.
For the record, more people die from peanut allergies in Israel than from anything the besieged Gazans lob back into their former ancestral homeland, including the makeshift projectiles that the brutally imprisoned population of Gaza retaliates with. Most of these so-called "rockets" fall harmlessly on the desert sand, while the modern military weaponry of the Zionists have repeatedly and brutally rained hell down upon the defenseless Palestinian civilians trapped in the world's largest hemmed-in open-air prison. Those who justify or excuse the vicious bombing and wholesale slaughter of civilian neighbourhoods in Gaza by the Israeli regime terror squads as "defensive"—and then dismissively respond by saying the deaths were "unfortunate"—need to have a thorough humanity check.
Blaming the victim is reprehensibly offensive to anyone who has been to Palestine and witnessed Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity firsthand. Journalist Henry Siegman once called it "the most spectacular deception in modern diplomatic history."
Condemning the illegal occupation is not hate. Defending it is. Peace will come only when Israel grants to others that which it demands for itself—a right to exist.
—D.T. McPhee, Halifax
John Cheever had it right on when, in his book Falconer, Farragut says "Opinions are like assholes, Everybody has one and they all stink." This was beautifully exemplified in the "Good call, NDP" letters by Maureen MacDonald, Larry A. Riteman and Don Chard.
Resolutions by the UN condemning Israel's occupation of Palestine and the illegal settlements on the West Bank have been met by nods of assent by countries around the world but little else. Hence, Israel has continued to ignore these resolutions and the Palestinians have been left on their own.
Because of the cowardly reactions of people and governments around the world to the plight of the Palestinians, I laud Judy Haiven—who wrote the "NDP mistake" letter, October 24—and anyone else for speaking out about the plight of the Palestinians.
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The hardest decision in life is deciding whether to “walk away” or “try harder.”
The first time I read this quote was in high school. Full of piss and vinegar towards my home life allowed me to be a spastic loveable nerfbag to the rest of the world.
I was admired and adored by everyone who would let me shower them with compliments, hugs and a listening ear.
I used my trauma to get ahead and hold me back at the same time. An interesting show to perform day in and day out.
At the peak of my success, I was also at the lowest of my self worth and depleated of hope.
Creative juices and the attention from adults and peers wanting to save me from the demonic stories I’d tell, dug me into a hole that carried me all the way to 22; I came to realize my life was nothing like T-swifts song.
There were several inspirational quotes I adopted when I was growing up.
This was one of them.
I became obsessed with being the person for everyone else that they felt they never had growing up. To be the one person to everybody that didn’t walk away.
It was a journey that I believed was selfless. I was convinced that I could be best friends with everyone forever.
Year after year I got lost in the chaos of trying harder. Not just in my relationships but in everything. Water polo and swim team. School and church.
I consumed myself with so much bullsh*t, always telling myself I wasn’t going to be the one to walk away, because walking away meant quitting.
And mama didn’t raise no quitter.
But the trying harder deepened my belief that I wasn’t trying in the first place. That I wasn’t enough.
This quote needs SERIOUS context and key questions.
Walking away will always be the answer.
Because trying is a waste of time.
In the words of our beloved Star Wars character, Master Yoda: “There is no try, only do.”
But wait! Do? Every successful person under the sun says actions make your dreams a reality.
So I did more. I tried harder.
What I wasn’t doing was giving myself credit.
What I was doing was creating panic about not walking away. I came to believe that if I tried harder, in my actions, it would fix everything.
Because I’m a fixer. That’s what I do, I fix things, people, situations.
What no one told me until much self sabotage and self destruction patterns developed, was that it’s okay to walk away.
Walking away got highlighted, defined, reassessed, and redefined so many times in the last few years I’ve lost count.
Here’s what I’ve learned.
I can’t fix anything when I’m out of alignment with my inner being.
Lamans terms: I can’t fix anything or anybody. I can’t help others unless I help myself first.
If I am out of sync, then the answer is always to walk away. Because what I’ve learned is that when I tried harder without being okay with me first, my efforts became obsolete.
There needs to be fine print underneath that says: once aligned and in sync with your higher power.
I’m not here to fix anything because nothing is broken.
Everyone and everything around me is exactly the way it needs to be until inspired otherwise.
My reality now is the manifestation of all of my past thoughts, so in all fairness, I ALWAYS receive what I am thinking and feeling.
I learned that walking away gives me the opportunity to come back to people if we are in sync and supposed to be together.
I released the idea that I had any control over anybody else. Like at all.
This made walking away from arguments, people, places, events, jobs, and even family members do-able.
And I won’t say easier because I am a people pleaser and we tend to feel it’s easier to stay and accommodate.
I began to see more and more, with the help of wise teachers and therapists, that walking away is actually a really healthy thing.
I walked away from a sport that I was incredible and passionate about for a solid 8 years of my life. And even though I didn’t totally understand how this was the best decision of my life, the whole world around me thought it was the worst.
It took a long time for me to see the power I was claiming for myself by walking away.
I didn’t love it anymore. What I could not sleep for with anticipation at night for the next day work outs became the very same reason by the end I literally let insanity kick me out.
Nobody could see why I didn’t want to play anymore. Out of all of the choices to use that quote, others assured me this was the end all be all moment – that trying harder was the answer.
So I did. And every day I continued to deny my inner beings calling me to the bigger and better things, the crazier I got and the less people wanted to help.
They began labeling me.
Child Abuse Victim
Binge eating disorder
SSI (Seriously Mentally Ill)
Schizo Affective Disorder
Adult Child of an Alcoholic
And with every new label, came new medication to fix my wanting to walk away. Every label came with a new medication that added to the problem and created an even worse diagnosis.
Folks. I was exercising enough. As a student athlete, in highschool and college, I worked out 6-7 days a week 6-10 hours a day. We maybe had 2 or 3 days off to rest thrown in there every few months before big events and holidays but I was a full time athlete.
So if what they say is true about stimulation and endorphins and all this other stuff about exersice being the best anti depressant, than why am I still so fucking miserable?
It’s because I didn’t know that I could listen and trust myself.
I was told it’s selfish. Others could do that but not you, kid.
You don’t want to become an addict like your parents. It starts with selfish acts.
Hahahaha OMG NO!
Every single addict I know can be the most selfless human being when they aren’t using. They use because they were told it’s bad to be selfish too! So the substance gives them an excuse to fill the void that people said they weren’t allowed to fill. Cuz it’s selfish!?
Think about it!
Walking away from water polo saved my life because I walked away from most of the labels put on me there by people trying to fix me.
I wasn’t broken. I was done.
I had other people to meet, other things to do, experiences to have. I have had so many incredible jobs where I am a better person because of who I was working with.
I am a different person. And I LOVE the person I am today because I walked away from the one thing that EVERY single person in my life at the time thought I needed to try harder at.
The mental illness’ are in my genes. That part was inevitable. But they got worse when I let people diagnose me, and then try to save me from walking away.
So you know what labels I’ve gained since then?
But the ones I value the most are the ones that have come from the healthiest people.
The people who never would have met if I had tried harder.

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Uganda Safaris are incredibly popular because Uganda is one of the top African safari destinations. With an amazing array of safaris to choose from, that is the most desirable safari that is gorilla safaris in Bwindi Impenetrable forest, Chimpanzee trekking safaris in Kibale national park, chimps in Kyambura gorge and Kalinzu found in Queen Elizabeth national park and Murchison falls national parks respectively. More safaris to choose from include Uganda wildlife safaris, Uganda bird watching safaris including a visit to see the rare shoebill in Mabamba Bay swamp and Murchison falls, Mountain Hiking / Mountaineering safaris on Mountain Rwenzori and mountain Elgon, Cultural safaris that has many options either to visit historical sites of Buganda and Uganda like the Tanda Caves, The source of the Mighty Nile, Kasubi Tombs, Palaces, Namugongo Shrine , Ssemuliki hot springs or Visiting the people that has unique cultures like the Batwa people, the Karamojong people.
Uganda is located in Eastern part of Africa bordering Kenya, Rwanda, Congo Sudan and Tanzania. Uganda is well known for mountain gorillas which brings a number of tourists to the country to see these rare creatures. Tourism is important to this country, and with the amazing gorillas and wildlife, tourists are drawn to this area of Africa. You can look forward to viewing all types of wildlife including: Tree climbing lions, Leopards, Elands, Uganda Kobs, Elephants, Hippos, Buffaloes, Water bucks, Buffaloes, Zebras, Giraffes, Impalas, Warthogs among others.
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When the thought of death and getting older are present, it becomes easier to realize the shortness of life.
And I would strongly recommend you becoming a photo-journalist; that way you can combine your two loves: Get working on your goals, then open your letter with pride a year from now. Would he even remember. You won't sustain it past your 20s. Use the second person to make it more personal and direct.
I challenge you to try to think farther ahead. What goals do you have that you aspire to. What are your professional goals. Getting ready to embark on the next part of your journey probably has you feeling exhilarated and more nervous than I can imagine, but honestly.
Is the concept even right for you. I can't wait to get there. I will never forget reading that letter when it came back to me, exactly five years later as she had promised.
You will never be able to win, so don't even try. The second letter was to my future self 5 years later, on February 10, Do I embarrass you. It is indeed a very moving reflection from a man who is not comfortable with being in the limelight each and every time he steps through the door.
When the thought of death and getting older are present, it becomes easier to realize the shortness of life. The letter should be on paper, and you should sign and date it yourself. Put the papers in an envelope. They seduce you with their promises of a better, more exciting life, but it is all smoke and mirrors.
Email him at scotthughes. It was a simple creative writing assignment from when I was fifteen. It was a rare chance to reflect honestly on the passage of time and on my own personal growth over that formative period in my life.
Back in the early s, I came across the Yahoo.
It reduces stress and helps you realize what you have. When I opened my own letter after five years, I was blown away by two things— how much I had changed, and how little I had changed. All rights are reserved, however permission is granted to use the example letter as a template or starting point for your own letter to yourself.
Don't ever lose that. Make sure you don't lose that adventurous spirit of yours. Dec 30, · Dear Me: Letter to My Year-Old Self. By Diane Lee. Dear Me, Wow. You are almost It's just not worth tying yourself up in knots over.
I. What Would You Say? All week I’ve heard about this article that Dale Earnhardt Jr. wrote to his 16 year old self. A CBS News project that aired September 12, As reported by the media, other Nascar fans and friends, it’s a very moving insight from one of racing’s premier drivers.
I know you’re anxiously reading this letter, so concerned about who wrote it that you’re considering scrolling to the end to see the signature — well, surprise, it’s you, four years into. In my opinion the risks of writing a letter to yourself are very small, and the potential benefit to yourself and to the people around you, is very large.
Customize the Letter. Write your own, or use mine as a template, but make sure it's meaningful to you. Write a letter to the future: set goals for yourself, make a prediction about the world.
Envision the future, and then make it happen. Try not to jump around too much between ideas in the letter, so before you write it find a piece of scrap paper and just write down everything about you that you can think of and would like to share.
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One of my very favourite Christmas books this is a total delight and does truly feel like a Christmas classic. A fabulous story with equally fabulous illustrations this would make a brilliant present. The trilogy would be even better!
It’s almost impossible to resist a story that begins by telling you that it is the true story of Father Christmas. Inspired by Matt Haig’s son wondering aloud what Father Christmas was like as a boy, far from spoiling the magic this story simply increases it. There are poignant moments and several times reading it as an adult it makes you stop and think but the author never preaches just subtly nudges the reader in the right direction.
The adventure is wonderfully told full of magic, snow, elves and the belief that nothing is ever impossible. It would work a treat read aloud one chapter a night as a bedtime story and is meaty enough to satisfy confident older readers too. I really appreciated the humour and the wonderful, witty and clever illustrations by Chris Mould which bring this snowy world to life so successfully.
This is a book that I think is as special as everyone has already said it is. Utterly lovely, the premise, the writing and the feeling of hope all combine to make this a wonderful story. Especially lovely at Christmas time but a satisfying & cheering read at any time of the year. I loved it.
The sequel, “The Girl Who Saved Christmas” is equally magical. When Amelia, a little girl recently sent to the workhouse, wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask – Father Christmas. But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about. Upset elves, reindeer dropping out of the sky, angry trolls and the chance that Christmas might be cancelled. But Amelia isn’t just any ordinary girl. And – as Father Christmas is going to find out – if Christmas is going to be saved, he might not be able to do it alone .
This was a Christmas treat last year, full of jokes but wise too. I’m very much looking forward to reading the final book in the series, “Father Christmas and Me” this year.
This delightful series is a joy for all ages and perfect for lifting the spirits.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Yesterday I saw the film “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer.
I read the book two years ago for class. The experimental nature of it with the addition of photographs and other elements enhanced the story for me. It became one of the novels I’ve recommended others to read.
And I have to say that this is one of my favorite novel-to-movie adaptations. The recurring images of the photographs were part of the film. Even though Grandma’s story was not part of the film, the film was complete in itself with its focus on Oskar and his relationship with his parents.
Not to mention that Alexandre Desplat wrote the original music for the film. He’s one of my favorite film composers, so of course I bought the soundtrack.
If you haven’t read the book or seen the film, put it on your to-read and to-watch list.


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Brothel owners roaming around scot free, while sex workers languish in rehabilitation homes; Freedom Firm NGO has filed a public interest litigation in the High Court.
Anyone who has been entangled in courts of law and the endless judicial processes, knows that the delivery of justice takes its own sweet, er… bitter time. A Pune NGO called ‘Freedom Firm’, that works in the field of human trafficking, has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court regarding delays in the handling of their cases.
The petition filed on January 27, names the Pune Commissioner of Police as Respondent. Greg Malstead, the head of Freedom Firm, said that the writ petition aims to make the police and the judiciary accountable for their leisurely and lax approach to court cases.
Source: ‘Justice delayed is justice denied’,The Golden Sparrow, 14th August 2015, Gargi Verma

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The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) is the premier facility for historical research on U.S. Army history. It is dedicated to "Telling the Army story...one Soldier at a time." The expansive campus includes the Visitor and Education Center, the U.S. Army War College Library, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, and the Army Heritage Trail. Open to the public, key features of the USAHEC include interpretive and interactive exhibits, and the research library and archive.
Visitor and Education Center: The Visitor and Education Center is dedicated to educating visitors about the culture and experiences of American soldiers. This area features special exhibits, an interpretive gallery, museum store, and multipurpose rooms for events, lectures and workshops. The main gallery features the exhibit, "The Soldier Experience," highlighting the history of the U.S. Army from the Spanish-American War to current missions, as well as a changing gallery, currently showcasing World War I. An additional exhibit, Treasures of USAHEC is also currently on display.
Army Heritage Trail: The mile-long outdoor Army Heritage Trail allows visitors to experience history in a new way, through interactive and full-scale military exhibits. Exhibits include a Cobra helicopter, Civil War encampment cabins, WWI trench system and more highlighting the different eras of American military history. The trail is open dawn to dusk everyday; exhibits on the trail are open during normal business hours, weather permitting.
The U.S. Army War College Library, is a component of the USAHEC, and features one library system in two locations.
Ridgway Hall (Military History Institute): Located on the USAHEC campus in Ridgway Hall, Military History Institute library and archives is the Army’s preeminent research facility. The collection located in the Ridgway Hall research facility encompasses over 14 million items, including the largest collection of Civil War photos in the world. Ridgway Hall also feature the Omar N. Bradley Memorial Art Gallery which rotates exhibitions on a yearly basis as well as two other exhibit areas.
The Root Hall Library: Located on the Carlisle Barracks Campus, is the primary research and information source for the U.S. Army's senior educational institution, and plays a key role in the development of military, civilian, and international strategic leaders. The Root Hall collection covers subjects such as military strategy and operations, leadership and management, regional and area studies, international relations, foreign policy, strategic studies, and economics. Please note, the Root Hall Library has different hours of operation from the rest of the USAHEC facility.
USAHEC will be open on the following Federal Holidays: Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Veteran's Day but will be closed for all other Federal holidays.
Groups: Groups ranging from students to seniors, will enjoy the experience at the U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center. This facility allows your group to explore on their own the museum, archive and research area and outdoor military history trail with full-scale exhibits. Facility visits are FREE of charge.
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A grade-separated crossing and bridge at the Washington & Old Dominion Trail at Wiehle Avenue could be coming closer to reality.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will consider a motion tomorrow (July 10) to allow the county officials to move forward with land acquisition and final design plans.
The project, which is expected to cost $10 million, aims to address safety concern at the intersection. Changes include a new bridge, retaining walls and directional access to Wiehle Avenue for trail users.
Wiehle Avenue would be widened from Sunset Hills Road to the properties near the Reston Fire Station. The pavement would be widened for on-road bike lanes in the future.
Improvements were contemplated in Reston’s Metrorail Access Group’s plan to improve access near the new Wiehle-Reston East Metrorail Station. The new fire station planned in the area would be built before the pedestrian bridge.
An exact timeline for the project has not been set.
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Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
2013, Volume 35, Number 1
Vladimir Porus. “INTERDISCIPLINARITY” AS A THEME OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
The article investigates the thematic content of the term “interdisciplinarity” in philosophy of science. The author presents the term “interdisciplinarity” as deeply rooted in discussions within theory of science and argues that it is in need of an adequate philosophical reflection. The object of philosophy of science is presented in terms of the nature and the development of methodological synthesis, introduction of new research objects within the interdisciplinary field of science that embraces the ontologies of particular disciplines. The author argues that philosophy of science makes a transition from the typology of interdisciplinary interactions to the “topology” of the interdisciplinary space, i.e. to the determination of complex non-linear connections among the changes that occur in the structure and in the content of particular disciplines. The theme of interdisciplinarity binds together methodology of science with sociology and psychology of scientific research. The author concludes that whereas a monodisciplinary knowledge about an object can be presented as a two-dimensional projection of this object, a multidisciplinary research every such projection is connected to other projections and the object is thus reconstructed in its multi-dimensional image via concrete methodological procedures (mutual translation of notions, methodological synthesis, elimination of incommensurability of meanings and others).
Keywords: science, interdisciplinarity, non-classical methodology, philosophy of science
Carlos Moja, Tobies Grimaltos. PROPER BELIEFS AND QUASI-BELIEFS
In this paper, we distinguish two ways in which someone can be said to believe a proposition. In the light of this distinction, we question the widely held equivalence between considering a proposition true and believing that proposition. In some cases, someone can consider a proposition true and not properly believe it. This leads to a distinction between the conventional meaning of the sentence by which a subject expresses a belief and the content of this belief. We also question some principles of belief ascription, suggest a solution to a famous puzzle about belief and defend the unity of the semantic and causal aspects of beliefs.
Keywords: Belief content, Truth conditions, Belief ascription, Definite descriptions, Kripke’s puzzle
Lyudmila Mikeshina. ECLECTICISM AND SYNCRETISM: ON SYSTEMACY OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
The article is devoted to eclecticism and syncretism, to their meaning and functions in the history of philosophical knowledge: from an interpretation of philosophical knowledge in terms of “natural” eclectic combination of elements from different teachings (Alexandria, I-III centruries) to the reconstruction of the systems of German thinkers (XVIII-XIX centuries) and the overcoming of systematicity that followed, as well as, to the emergence of a new eclecticism in postmodernist philosophy. A need of an understanding from different perspectives and a contemporary reconsideration of the history and the nature of syncretism and eclecticism in philosophy is supported by the modern interpretation of such “classical eclectics’ as Cicero and Diogenes Laertius. The author considers the views of A.F.Losev and G.G.Majorov, who showed that evaluations of the two aforementioned thinkers follow the traditional criteria of the past centuries: whether such-and-such philosopher had or had not constructed a philosophical system of his own (the former being a sign of eclecticism).
The author continues with a consideration of the evaluations given by Diderot in the Encyclopedia, in which an eclectic is viewed as a philosopher who rejects the tradition and authority. Also she discusses the views of such Hegelians as K.Marx, M.Stirner, L.Feuerbach who united the criticism of German philosophy with antropologism and some French socialist ideas. Their philosophical ideas are viewed as eclectic in the positive sense of the term which takes into account all the meanings in the dialogue of different ideas, approaches and conceptions.
The author also considers G.G.Shpet’s discussion of a critical and positive views on eclecticism in the Russian philosophy (A.I.Herzen, P.L.Lavrov). The article ends with a consideration of syncretism and eclecticism as basic methods in postmodernist philosophy on the material of words of such thinkers as J.-F.Liotard, and W.Welsch as well as G.Bataille and J.Baudrillard.
Keywords: syncretism, eclecticism, natural sciences, I. Newton, the humanities, A. Koyreґ, W. Dilthey, U. Eco, the modern, the postmodern
Alexander Nikiforov. ON THE RELATION OF SENSE AND UNDERSTANDING
The article presents an attempt at analysis of the notion of understanding and its relation to the notion of meaning. Understanding is treated as interpretation, i.e. attribution of meanings to linguistic expressions. It is shown that restricting the notion of meaning to reference excessively narrows down the field of understanding a language. It is argued that understanding is intrinsically connected with grasping of sense. The author attempts to reveal the complex structure of the sense of linguistic expressions as consisting of five different levels. It is argued that full mutual understanding among people is impossible.
Keywords: understanding, meaning, sense, semantics, hermeneutics, linguistic analysis
Mark Ratz, Sergei Kotelnikov. THE SCIENCE OF REFORMING AND THE REFORM OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
On the example of the recent reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences the article discusses the methods of reform practiced in Russia and their intellectual coverage. The authors argue that the methods used in Russia have nothing to do with contemporary approaches discussed in the science of politics and management. In particular, these methods go against with the conception of management developed by the authors which treats management as activities aimed at activities (approach pioneered by G.Schedrovitskiy). It is also argued that the choice of the object of reform (Academy of Sciences as a system of production of scientific knowledge) does not solve the problem of technological and economical development. The authors claim that solving these problems demands a change in the state policies towards science as well as in the system of using the results of scientific research in economic activities. The latter demands a development in social sciences and the humanities.
Vladimir Kolpakov, Valentina Fedotova, Ilya Kasavin, Vitaly Gorokhov, Nadezhda Kasavina, Valentin Bazhnov. Commentaries to M.Ratz, S. Kotelnikov “THE SCIENCE OF REFORMING AND THE REFORM OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES”
The discussion on the topic of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences that follows the article by M.Ratz and S.Kotelnikov presented more alternative diagnoses of the reform. V.Kolpakov and V.Fedotova discuss the reform process in terms of K.Popper’s “piecemeal technology”. V.Gorokhov stresses the importance of taking into account for a natural evolution of social systems as well as working out a clear conception of the desired final state of the regulated system. V.Bazhanov addressed the issue of connections between science and education and presented his own ideas on the ways of making the former better. Based on the experience of the post-war university reform in the United States, I.Kasavin argues that the role of the humanities in the field of education and science must be enhanced by the state. N.Kasavina discusses what she treats as a passive state of the civil society in Russia and the difficulties of its interactions with the state. She draws parallels with the Chinese experience of intellectual coverage of an analogous reform.
Ilya Kasavin. SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY, NATURALISTIC ONTOLOGY AND REALISM
Talking about knowledge necessarily involves the notorious Nietzsche’s question: “Wer spricht?” Does philosophical approach to knowledge differ essentially from the common sense one? It was already Plato who demonstrated that an unproblematic appeal to reality gives no foundation for knowledge definition, while the concept of reality is a natural implication of our knowledge. There is no ontology separate from epistemology, and knowledge cannot be deduced from a more general concept of reality. Thus human cognition is not a reflection of reality outside the man and mankind. It represents the content of collective activity and communication since their organization and functioning require the ideal, i.e. possible, tentative, approximate models and perspectives. This network of signs – scientific formulas, moral norms, images of art, magical symbols – is imposed upon the world and at the same time originates from our practical contact with the latter. Knowledge, consciousness, activity and communication represent internally interconnected elements of an open social system and can hardly be analyzed in a strong separation from each other. Hence epistemology is only in abstraction to be detached from philosophical anthropology, social philosophy and requires interdisciplinary interaction with the entire scope of the social sciences and humanities. SE seems to be a kind of synthesis of many different ideas and case-studies in philosophy and beyond. It also shows the poverty of metaphysical or naïve realism and inconsistency of the newest “technoscientific” obsessions. Clever realism always includes at least some SE statements. And in turn the genuine ontology for SE can be dubbed a “communicative realism”.
Keywords: realism, metaphysical realism, communicative realism, ontology, social epistemology, knowledge, sociality, natural-artificial, natural-human
Petr Kusliy. A COURSE IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE FOR A RUSSIAN AUDIENCE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
The article deals with methodological issues of teaching a semester introductory course in philosophy of language to the students with philosophy major in Russia. The author discusses the challenges that an instructor of philosophy of language faces in general and with Russian students in particular.
The general problem for such a course is the broadness of the topic. A more than a hundred year old tradition that influenced almost all parts of contemporary philosophy has to be shrinked into limits of one semester – an impossible objective if one aims to cover or even mention all these topics. The only reasonable stance that is usually taken by instructors is to give their audience a perspective on what can be considered a nucleus of philosophy of language. The question is what exactly is to be treaded as such a nucleus. The most popular choice is to give a brief history of the discipline covering the fundamental texts and issues of the classic of analytic philosophy. This however, according to the author, has its shortcomings. The course becomes historical and deprives the students of an attempt to think and discuss issues in philosophy of language themselves. So, it is argued that a course in philosophy of language must have a focus on a particular problematic within the discipline.
The specificity of Russian philosophy students also has its facets that are discussed in the article in their relation to its main issue. Many philosophy students are equipped with sporadic historical philosophical knowledge, they often have general acquaintance with the content of philosophical teachings of different times and epochs but they very often lack competence in logic and theory of argumentation, they are not focused on one particular problem in their research and are often disposed to speculations in their reasoning. The author argues that it is the responsibility of the instructor to deal with such specifics of her audience and, therefore, she needs to present the content of the course taking these specifics into account. The author discusses handouts (not at all popular among instructors in Russia) as one way to overcome the difficulties in dealing with the audience. The advantages of handouts in the courses in philosophy are discussed.
An example of a houndout is provided. It deals with some fundamental issues within formal philosophy of language: metatheoretical restrictions on semantic theories. Among others such notions as truth-conditional semantics, model theory, compositionality, function analysis, extensionality and contextuality are discussed.
Keywords: teaching philosophy, philosophy in Russia, philosophy of language, semantics.
CASE STUDIES – SCIENCE STUDIES
Elena Dragalina-Chernaya. THE LOGIC OF FORBIDDEN COLOURS
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to clarify Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thesis that colours possess logical structures, focusing on his ‘puzzle proposition’ that “there can be a bluish green but not a reddish green”, (2) to compare model-theoretical and game-theoretical approaches to the colour exclusion problem. What is gained, then, is a new game-theoretical framework for the logic of ‘forbidden’ (e.g., reddish green and bluish yellow) colours. My larger aim is to discuss phenomenological principles of the demarcation of the bounds of logic as formal ontology of abstract objects.
Keywords: abstract logic, formal ontology, invariance criterion, meaning postulates, opponent-processing model, ‘stabilized-image’ experiments, over-deﬁned games, payoff independence, imaginary logic
Nadezhda Kasavina. TOWARDS THE AUTHENTICITY OF HUMAN BEING (ON THE EXISTENTIAL DYNAMICS IN PSYCHOLOGY)
The article dwells on some methodological transformations in psychology and psychotherapy in their relation to the ideas of existential philosophy. The certain features of phenomenological method in existential psychology are characterized. The experience of authenticity and inauthenticity of human existence, inevitable tensions of its formation (content of psychotherapeutic process) are described in order to demonstrate a way of conceptualizing in terms of existential philosophy. Specific forms of dealing with personality in existential psychotherapy using particular existentials or their sets shows that psychological practice requires philosophical conceptualization for grasping the fundamental constituents of the human mind like as experience, meaning, value, and life. The case of alliance of existential psychotherapy with philosophy presents an equal alternative to the naturalistic psychological trends.
Keywords: existence, psychology, psychotherapy, phenomenology, understanding, authenticity of being, role of philosophy, anxiety
Andrey Stochnik, Sergei Zatravkin. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN THE XVIITH CENTURY MEDICINE
The article presents the results of the studies based on the application of the concept of the structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge developed by V. S. Stepin to the analysis of the history of the 17th-century medicine. The scientific revolution in the 17th-century medicine was of a globally-disciplinary nature and involved changes in all of the bases of the medical science of the galenism period. Its mechanism was a "paradigm inoculation" of new methodological principles of scientific knowledge originated from astronomy. The crucial role in the transmission of these statements into medicine was alloted to Galileo`s disciples and followers - S. Santorio and W. Harvey. The works by Descartes provided the revision of philosophical foundations of medical science and the emergence of a new picture of reality in the XVIIth-century medicine. The adoption of Cartesian ideas of kinetic mechanics and their wide-spread occurrence in medicine were connected with the development and implementation of iatrophysical teachings (G. Borelli, L. Bellini) and the teachings of the corpuscular iatrochemistry (F. Sylvius and others).
Keywords: scientific revolution, the foundations of science, the picture of reality, medicine, Galen, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes, iatrophysics, iatrochemistry
Irina Chernikova. COOPERATION BETWEEN THE FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROJECTS OF SCIENCE
The mechanisms of cooperation between fundamental knowledge and technoscience (that is called a contemporary form of science and technology interaction) are covered in the paper. It is highlighted that the essential peculiarity of technoscience is that its’ objects are not substantive reality in Cartesian dualistic worldview, but so called “human dimension” objects socially and practically constructed. NBIC technologies can serve as an example of the contemporary technoscience. The paper attempts to reveal and analyze the philosophical basis of technoscience: ontological, gnoseological and axiological.
Keywords: techoscience, fundamental science, converging technologies, philosophic basis of techoscience, selfdeveloping systems, evolutionary constructivism, “posthuman”, responsibility ethics
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY
Irina Rebenschikova. METHODOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SYSTEM OF VIEWS OF N.G. DEBOLSKY
Multifaceted and rich theoretical heritage of N.G. Debolsky (1842-1918) - Russian philosopher, psychologist, educator - not yet sufficiently known, poorly understood and has not been adequately assessed. This article presents one of the recent attempts to fill this gap. It examines the evolution of Debolsky´s views in 1870 years on the methodological and philosophical problems of psychology. In this context, considers its evaluation activities of such psychologists and educators as: K.D. Kavelin, K.D. Ushinsky, W. Wundt and G. Spencer. Particular attention is paid to Debolsky´s discussion such methodological issues of psychology as questions about its scientific, its relationship with the philosophy (metaphysics) and natural science, its method, the object, structure, objectives and practical application. In addition, special emphasis Debolsky´s understanding the soul and its description of its main features. The article concludes his contribution to the psychology, the development its methodology and its history.
Keywords: psychology, methodological and philosophical problems of psychology, the method, the soul, the inner and outer worlds
Raisa Barash. PEOPLE OF KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR PRACTICAL EFFECTIVENESS
Florian Znaneski. THE SOCIAL ROLE OF THE MAN OF KNOWLEDGE (PARTS 5-8)
Peter Safronov. XXIII WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY: IDEAS AND IMPRESSIONS
Vladislav Cheshev. HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES AS A BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
Review of: Gorokhov V.G. Texnièeskie nauki: istorija i teorija. [Engineering Sciences: History and Theory]. M., 2012.
Irina Tunkina, Sergei Schavelev. THE IDEA OF THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT: COGNITIVE PORTRAIT OF DEVELOPMENT THE WORLD ARCHEOLOGY
Leo Klein. ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGY AT THE THRESHOLD OF SCIENCE
Review of: Schavelev S.P. Ethics and psychology of science. Additional chapters of the course on the history and psilosophy of science. Textbook for post-graduate students. Kursk, 2010.


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Tin Hau Temple
This temple has been restored on numerous occasions and, now painted in bright colours, has a delightfully kitsch feel. Here, the patron saint of fishermen, Tin Hau, is worshipped with fervour, making for a moving atmosphere, as incense is burned and prayers are put in the form of messages and ribbons tied to trees. In the evening, fortune-tellers gather around the temple to read the lines on people's faces or their tarot cards, as karaoke is improvised beneath the banyan trees.
Address:Yue Shau Tau Square, Temple Street Hong Kong
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The crossing was over pretty quickly, it was smooth but not particularly pleasant, and anyway I was now in France and riding on the wrong side of the road for the first time. In fact I didn’t even notice the difference. The autoroute was billiard table smooth and very quiet compared to UK motorways. I arrived in Dunkerque after a while and stopped to set-up my Sat Nav. It seems however that my French maps were not the best and after an hour of riding around the French Country side at close to midnight I had still not found the campsite. I kept riding and eventually found a place that looked as if it was all shut up for the night. I headed to what looked like a party and got to test my French, well as much as “Parlez vous anglias?” anyway.
€8 later I attempted to put the tent up in the dark – no problem. The plan was for an early get away the next morning, but after showering, packing up and then searching for food, we didn’t leave France until around midday. Belgium flew by on our way to Köln until we hit Brussels. For some reason the main motorway to Köln goes straight through the Belgium capital. Stuck in traffic and sweating in the 30+ degree heat I began to feel quite uncomfortable. The bike must have been feeling the same as it decided to piss its coolant out over the street. After a 45 minute break and some mineral water for the bike and a fanta for me, I reset Sat Nav, checked my map and set off again, eventually making it out of Brussels. After that the miles flew by. There was some congestion on the auto route but the disciplined and courteous Belgium drivers soon dive out of the way for bikes to pass.
Once across the border and onto on the autobahn I decided to give it some beans. Two up with a total of around 100L of luggage I wasn’t expecting much from the little 500cc parallel twin, but it pulled hard up to 100 before tailing off and eventually refusing to budge much past 115mph. Not too shabby for the 12 year old, considering the absolute reported max is rumoured to be 125mph. Even at this speed, which only saw a tank of fuel (15 litres plus 3l reserve) last around 130 miles, cars were flying past as though we were standing still. “We’re going to need a bigger boat” or bike in this case. We arrived in Köln around 7pm and settled into the campsite. I managed to miss most of the football on the bar at the time but I did enjoy a nice fat juicy Angus steak, even if it did cost over €30.


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Event: Stars like Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kunal Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Jackky Bhagnani and many others attended Bachchans Diwali bash hosted by Abhishek & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at Jalsa.
Venue: Juhu, Mumbai
BAAHUBALI actress Tamannaah Bhatia, who looked utterly glamourous, spotted with mother at Mehboob Studios. Anupama Chopra was also spotted.
2.0 actress Amy Jackson was spotted at Mehboob Studios.
Sophie Choudry, Soha Ali Khan, Boney Kapoor spotted at Mumbai airport
Bollywood celebs Shah Rukh Khan, Zoya Akhtar, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Johnny Lever, Rahul Dholakia, Ritesh Sidhwani, HOney Irani and others at RAEES special screening.
Sexy Urvashi Rautela spotted at Mumbai airport and she posed for the shutterbugs.


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If you’ve never had fresh mint in your fruit salad, you are in for a treat! This is the recipe I use at home, which makes about 5 cups; but if I’m going to a potluck or picnic, I will double it. Below the recipe is a list of fruits and “extras” so you can create your own unique fruit salads.
- 1 cup cubed watermelon (remove any seeds)
- 1 apple, cored and chopped (peeled or unpeeled)
- 1 orange, peeled and chopped (remove any seeds)
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 cup sliced strawberries
- 1 peach or nectarine, pitted and chopped
- 1 large kiwifruit, peeled and chopped
- 1½ teaspoons finely chopped fresh mint
- Toss the watermelon, apple, orange, blueberries, strawberries, peach or nectarine, kiwifruit, and mint together in a large bowl. Eat within one or two days.
Herb options: Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of finely chopped fresh basil or parsley.
Zest: Add some freshly grated ginger, or lemon or lime zest to your salad (a little goes a long way). A Microplane grater (which has very small but sharp holes) works best for zesting. Be sure to always zest your citrus before juicing it.
Spices: Sprinkle a little ground cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, pumpkin pie spice, or Chinese 5-spice on your fruit salad.
For a light, juicy dressing, stir 1 to 2 tablespoons of orange, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, or lemon juice into your fruit salad (Meyer lemons are extra flavorful).
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I work with a lot of people who have been in violent relationships. One thing I see time and again is that they continue to beat themselves over what has happened to them.
Mostly it’s guilt. Guilt that they stayed with someone who hurt them. Guilt that they hurt other people by staying. Guilt that they hurt other people by leaving. Guilt for going back. Guilt for not going back. Guilt for standing their ground. Guilt for being weak.
They have absolutely no compassion for themselves.
People on the outside struggle to understand. They wonder why a victim of violence would be so hard on themselves. To them, it makes no sense.
But it does make sense.
Domestic violence isn’t the same as being attacked by a stranger in the street. It’s a betrayal by someone you trusted and loved.
It’s bewildering and incredibly painful to be harmed by someone you love – and it’s natural to try and rationalise it in a way you can understand. There must have been a reason, you tell yourself. I must have done something wrong.
Plus, abusive partners are masters of mind games. They are great at making you feel like you’re going crazy, you’re being over-dramatic or it’s all in your head.
Walking away is the first step, but the confusion and creeping self-doubt remain. Thanks to a phenomenon called hindsight bias, they often get worse.
Hindsight bias (also known as the “knew it all along” effect, or creeping determinism) is an unhelpful habit that humans have of looking back over things that have happened and deciding that we should have seen it coming – even when there’s no reason to think we could.
So strong is the impulse that it can even distort our memories, making us falsely reconstruct the way that something happened to better fit with the outcome.
Hindsight bias is the reason we go over and over events in our minds, berating ourselves for not stepping in to prevent disaster.
You should have been stronger/smarter/better! We scream at ourselves. How could you let this happen?
Do these accusations help? Of course not.
Sometimes they exacerbate our pain to the point that we seek out new drama just to distract ourselves from the trauma and the guilt.
Instead, if you’re struggling with how to leave a violent relationship, to move on and to heal, you need to be gentle with yourself.
Paul Gilbert, developer of compassion-focused therapy (CFT), traces this need back to our earliest experiences as babies. Mammals use gentleness and care to soothe the negative emotions of their infants, calm their threat systems and help them feel safe and secure.
If this care is cut off, we lose the ability to tap into the response systems that handle our negative emotions and painful memories.
We struggle to regulate our emotions, become overwhelmed by self-criticism and shame, and read rejection and hostility into the behaviour of people around us.
Worse, when others do attempt to be caring, we panic. We no longer know how to respond.
This means that the impact of domestic violence goes far beyond the physical harm done to a person. Essentially, it short-circuits their emotional response systems.
Living with a violent partner cuts a person off from the care system that they need to feel secure and to process negative emotions. They may have forgotten how to seek the care they need. They may be distrustful or hostile to any gestures of care that they are offered.
To heal, they need to re-learn how to give and receive care, starting by treating themselves with the compassion they so desperately need.
In the coming weeks, I’ll explain in depth how to care for yourself when cruelty has made you forget how this works. I’ll show you how to model a compassionate image and to use compassion to change the way your mind works.
If you’re trying to rebuild your life after a violent relationship, you don’t have to beat yourself up over the way you feel. Your emotional coping mechanisms have taken a pummelling, but together, we’re going to work out how to heal.
Hang in there – and I’ll see you next week.