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The Township Board of Commissioners created the Cheltenham Police Department in February 1903, with an authorized strength of one Police Chief and "not more than seven officers." Duties included patrolling the small villages, large estates, and open countryside comprising the Township in those days.
Today, the Cheltenham Township Police Department is the third largest Police Department in Montgomery County, PA. The Department serves a population of approximately 37,000 residents and responded to over 30,000 calls for service in 2018 alone.
The 73-member Cheltenham Township Police Department responds to thousands of resident calls each year, maintains round-the-clock street patrols, investigates crimes and serious accidents, conducts traffic studies, maintains special situation units, offers safety education and crime prevention programs for community groups and much more.
The innovative character of the Police Department is as much in evidence today as in earlier times. Specialization of certain key functions is an example. The Department has 73 full time sworn officers, the third largest Police Department in Montgomery County. Included are: ACT teams, Canine Teams, Highway Safety Unit and Officers specially trained in Civil Affairs, Crisis Negotiation and a SWAT Team, each providing specialized support to police operations in dealing with problems of particular concern to the community.
Our Department has a fully staffed Detective Division, including a group of Detectives specially trained to deal with youthful victims and offenders. Our Community Policing Unit brings a wide variety of police and social services to residents in targeted areas of need. The Unit includes specially trained Crime Prevention Officers who instruct citizens in ways to avoid being victimized by crime.
A mobile mini station van and bicycle patrols are among the tools utilized by the Community Policing Unit to bring them into closer, more effective contact with citizens. It is through these Officers that most citizens have contact with the Police Department. The Community Policing Unit offers a variety of programs and services to our residents. Please check our Web site and Channel 42 / Verizon 1960 for information concerning upcoming special events offered by the Community Policing Unit.
While specialization is desirable in some areas, many of the most vital day to day police functions are performed by the regular uniformed Patrol Officers. Regardless of the hour of the day or night, these are the Officers who are often first on the scene of most emergencies, aiding victims of crime, accidents and medical emergencies; arresting fleeing criminals; performing preliminary investigations; and making reports involving a multitude of major and minor incidents. Our Patrol Officers are readily identifiable in their award winning uniforms and distinctively marked cruisers. Equipped with state of the art Mobile Data Terminal computers and communications equipment, our Officers provide a broad range of services, assistance and advice to the public, while helping create a general sense of order and well-being in the community.
The Officers and civilian employees working in our Administrative Services Division, provide a host of support services, not the least of which are: managing the record keeping function, and providing secretarial assistance. In addition, an Animal Control Officers are assigned to the Administrative Services Division, along with 22 School Crossing Guards and a civilian Parking Enforcement Officer.
The fourth Division in the Police Department is the Professional Standards Division. This Division is responsible for up dating and developing Department Directives, all departmental training, and internal investigations. The Professional Standards Division also maintains the Department's Accreditation status though the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission, or PLEAC. The Cheltenham Township Police Department has been PLEAC Accredited since 2012.
In addition to our sworn Police Officers, the Police Department is assisted by an important group of civilian volunteers who comprise our Auxiliary Police Unit. These men and women assist at the scenes of serious accidents, fires, other emergencies and special events, volunteering hundreds of hours of crowd and traffic control service each year.
In addition to our Auxiliary volunteers, the Police Department is always looking for residents to assist the Department in maintaining community security through volunteer Town Watch assistance. Town Watch members conduct mobile patrols of their neighborhoods alert for suspicious activity, functioning as additional trained "eyes and ears" for the Police Department.
During the Police Department's first century of service to Cheltenham Township, faces have changed; police vehicles, uniforms, equipment and electronic technology have evolved into the present modern, well trained and equipped police force which, today, is so familiar and accessible to Township residents and business persons. However, the basic nature of the police mission remains unchanged: unfailing service, twenty four hours a day, every day of the year, protecting the lives, property and rights of all citizens within the Police Department's jurisdiction.


Emerging from the Panton Street Odeon after seeing The Seventh Seal again (I see it once every fifty years). I realise that I now have something in common with the knight (the amazing Max Von Sydow) and his squire (Gunnar Bjornstrand) - I will fail to reach the same destination ... since they are bound for Elsinore.
And I am emerging also from an exchange of messages between my Peckham studio and the very castle in which the story of the Gloomy Dane is set. The author of the official guide to Hamlet's home contacted me a year ago having heard of my work the Ghost Library (which came down this week from the walls of the Royal Academy). His enquiry sounded friendly and was accompanied by a copy of the interesting guidebook: he intimated that Elsinore might welcome a showing of my work when it was done; a cherished idea optimistically announced as a probability earlier in the blog.
What in fact ensued was the most frustratingly tedious correpondence I've ever entered into. Not only were my sometimes light-hearted exegeses of the work (was it Mao or Lenin who said you can't make a Hamlet without cracking jokes?) crushed by page after numbing page of wilfully obtuse pedantry, but it transpired that my correspondent lacked the authority to accept the work and moreover would not support any plan to show it in the castle at all.
A Polonius of Perga or a Polonius of Tyana. Oh wait, that's Apollonius.
Tom, sorry to hear about the troubles. My fingers are crossed for better luck on the west side of the Atlantic.
Sorry to hear of the disappointment, but the work itself is certainly a success.
And I sure wish I had someplace cool to visit every fifty years...!


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In a recent survey*** 65% of respondents said they booked to stay at a university residence partly because it offered better value for money than hotels. Whilst it also offers twin and double rooms, solo travellers can avoid hotels' single supplements by staying in its single study style bedrooms: the perfect, budget city break option with prices as low as £25 per night.
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The survey also highlighted unique experiences: "On the Sunday night there happened to be a concert in the chapel by a world-class organist – you don't get that in a chain hotel," revealed one traveller.
Another recent guest concluded: "It was a wonderful experience to stay in the 2nd quad of Jesus College in an excellent guest room with an oak door from 17th century and have breakfast at the high table in Hall. I was even able to wash my clothes in the College laundry".
And another added: "I met a retired professor from one of the other university colleges over breakfast. It was a most enlightening conversation".


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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis that killed reportedly 33 in Japan seen in dramatic images
By: ABC NEWS
Dramatic photos show the destruction in Japan caused by heavy rains and flooding brought by Typhoon Hagibis, which has killed as many as 33 people.
The typhoon made landfall near Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka prefecture in central Japan -- south of Tokyo -- just before 7 p.m. local time Saturday, according to local officials.
Heavy rain caused 14 rivers around the country to flood, public broadcaster NHK reported, according to The Associated Press.
Several people were stranded in their homes, and rescue operations continued into Sunday, AP reported.
A woman in her 70s was killed after she was dropped about 130 feet to the ground while being transported by a rescue helicopter in Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture, which was devastated by the storm. She had not been strapped in property, officials with the Tokyo Fire Department said in a news conference.
The number of fatalities from the storm was conflicting. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 14 people had died, 11 were missing and 187 were injured, but the agency tends to be conservative in its counts, according to AP.
However, Japanese media agency Kyodo News reported that 33 people had been killed and 19 were missing as a result of the typhoon.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said that more than 1,200 homes were flooded and 517 were damaged. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters early Sunday that some 376,000 homes were without power and 14,000 homes did not have running water.
ABC News' Anthony Trotter contributed to this report.
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Катастрофа Boeing 737 в Дарьене — авиационная катастрофа, произошедшая в субботу 6 июня 1992 года на Дарьенском пробеле. Авиалайнер Boeing 737-204 Advanced авиакомпании Copa Airlines выполнял плановый рейс CMP201 по маршруту Панама—Кали, но менее чем через 24 минуты после взлёта потерял управление, рассыпался на части и рухнул на землю. Погибли все находившиеся на его борту 47 человек — 40 пассажиров и 7 членов экипажа.

На 2021 год катастрофа рейса 201 остаётся крупнейшей авиакатастрофой в истории Панамы.

Самолёт
Boeing 737-204 Advanced (заводской номер 22059, серийный 631) был выпущен в 1980 году (первый полёт совершил 15 января) и на период испытаний получил бортовой номер N8985V. Оснащён двумя турбореактивными двигателями Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15, пассажировместимость салона составляла 124 места. После проведения всех необходимых тестов лайнер был перерегистрирован и получил бортовой номер G-BGYL, после чего был продан авиакомпании Britannia Airways, в которую поступил 18 февраля и получил имя Jean Batten. В 1992 году был продан авиакомпании Copa Airlines, в которую поступил 17 апреля и получил бортовой номер HP-1205-CMP. На день катастрофы совершил 17 845 циклов «взлёт-посадка» и налетал 45 946 часов 47 минут.

Экипаж и пассажиры
Самолётом управлял опытный экипаж, состав которого был таким:
 Командир воздушного судна (КВС) — 55-летний Рафаэль Карлос Чиаль (). Очень опытный пилот, был квалифицирован для полётов на одно- и многодвигательных самолётах, в том числе: Douglas DC-3, HS-748, Convair CV-240, CV-340, CV-440, Boeing 727 и Boeing 737. На Boeing 737 был квалифицирован в августе 1980 года. В марте 1990 года (либо 1991 года, в отчёте имеются расхождения) перенёс инфаркт миокарда, в связи с чем кратковременно был отстранён от полётов, но позже вновь допущен с ограничением не более 45 часов налёта в месяц с перерывами между полётами в 48-72 часа. Налетал 23 750 часов, около 7000 из них на Boeing 737.
 Второй пилот — 25-летний Сесарео Техада (). Опытный пилот, был квалифицирован на одно- и многодвигательные самолёты, в том числе на второго пилота Boeing 737. Для коррекции зрения носил очки. Также в 1985 году проходил специальные лечебные курсы и упражнения по избавлению от высокой чувствительности к головокружениям. После этого, по имеющимся данным, чувствительность к головокружениям не наблюдалась. Налетал 3450 часов, около 1600 из них на Boeing 737.

В салоне самолёта работали пятеро бортпроводников:
 Ирис Караманьитес (),
 Флор Диас (),
 Ванесса Льюис (),
 Ксения Гусман (),
 Рамон Буше ().

Хронология событий
Boeing 737-204 Advanced борт HP-1205CMP выполнял регулярный пассажирский рейс CMP201 (позывной — Copa 201) из Панамы (Панама) в Кали (Колумбия). В Панаме в его баки было залито 10 тонн авиатоплива и в 20:36 EST лайнер с 7 членами экипажа и 40 пассажирами на борту взлетел с взлётной полосы №21L панамского аэропорта Токумен. Согласно плану, полёт до Кали на первом участке должен был выполняться по вектору 149°, но в 20:37 экипаж в первый раз связался с Панамским центром УВД и запросил курс 120°, чтобы обойти Панамский залив, где в это время стояла плохая погода. После этого запроса экипаж сделал ещё один, но уже на курс 90°, что диспетчер и разрешил. Также согласно плану полёт должен был проходить на эшелоне FL270 (8250 метров), но этот эшелон на тот момент был недоступен, так как по нему в юго-восточном направлении следовал другой самолёт. Диспетчер сообщил экипажу о занятости эшелона FL270, но предупредил, что эшелоны FL250 (7600 метров) и FL290 (8850 метров) свободны; экипаж в итоге выбрал подъём до эшелона FL250. В 20:45 (через 9 минут после взлёта) экипаж запросил у диспетчера разрешение на занятие воздушного коридора A321, что диспетчер разрешил.

В 20:46 экипаж запросил у диспетчера дополнительную информацию о погодных условиях на маршруте полёта. Диспетчер сообщил, что на радиолокаторе в 48-80 километрах от аэропорта наблюдаются сплошные облака, а от 80 до 96 километрах от аэропорта уже наблюдаются прояснения. Также диспетчер предупредил, что из-за возможностей радиолокатора он не может определить погоду далее, чем в 96 километрах от аэропорта. так как уже свыше этого расстояния радиолокатор может отображать только вторичные цели — сигналы ответчиков самолётов. В 20:48 экипаж доложил о занятии эшелона FL250. Это был последний зафиксированный радиообмен с рейсом CMP201. Впоследствии сотрудники авиакомпании опознали по голосу, что радиопереговоры осуществлял КВС, исходя из чего, с учётом распространённой в компании практики, управление самолётом выполнял второй пилот.

В 20:57 метка рейса CMP201 неожиданно исчезла с экрана радиолокатора. Диспетчер попытался связаться с самолётом, но ответа не было. Тогда диспетчер попросил о помощи экипаж самолёта авиакомпании , но и те не смогли связаться с исчезнувшим самолётом. Тогда панамские диспетчеры связались со своими колумбийскими коллегами, которые контролировали воздушное пространство на севере Колумбии и запросили уже их попытаться связаться с рейсом 201. Когда уже и колумбийские диспетчеры не смогли установить связь с исчезнувшим лайнером, были начаты поисковые работы.

Утром следующего дня в 160 километрах северо-восточнее Панамы на территории провинции Дарьен были обнаружены обломки исчезнувшего рейса CMP201. Согласно показаниям очевидцев, находившихся неподалёку от места падения, в это время стояла ясная ночь без признаков дождя или грозы. Затем в 21:00 EST с неба упали горящие обломки, при этом никаких звуков не было слышно. Основная часть фрагментов лайнера , включая значительную часть фюзеляжа, упала в точке координат . Все 47 человек на борту самолёта погибли.

Расследование

Данные параметрического самописца
Были найдены оба бортовых самописца самолёта, записи на которых практически не пострадали. Однако речевой самописец не мог помочь в расследовании, так как его микрофон оказался сломанным, и поэтому последняя запись была сделана за 9 дней до катастрофы. Согласно же параметрическому самописцу, полёт проходил нормально, пока за 95 секунд до конца записи лайнер, не меняя курса, начал медленно входить в левый крен, опуская левое крыло. Это продолжалось в течение 70 секунд, а за 25 секунд до конца записи, когда левый крен составлял 35°, самолёт начал быстро входить уже в правый крен; его нос при этом опустился вниз на 15°. Запись прекратилась на высоте 3,02 километров, когда рейс 201 в правом крене 63° летел по курсу 356° со скоростью 900 км/ч. После этого самолёт из-за запредельных перегрузок разрушился в воздухе. Анализ положения ручек в кабине и травм с ранами на телах пилотов свидетельствовал, что пилоты во время развития аварийной ситуации пытались на протяжении как минимум 10 секунд вернуть управление самолётом. Токсикологическая экспертиза их тел показала отрицательные результаты. Также не было обнаружено признаков сердечного приступа или инфаркта у членов экипажа. Экспертиза тканей пассажиров не обнаружила признаков отравления угарным газом.

Среди причин, почему самолёт вошёл в крутой крен, рассматривался десяток вариантов, из которых были определены 4 основные версии катастрофы:
 диверсия,
 взрывная декомпрессия,
 сложные погодные условия,
 отказ авиагоризонта.

После проведения анализа этих версий комиссия отклонила первые три из них.

Окончательная причина катастрофы

В итоге комиссия пришла к заключению, что причиной катастрофы рейса CMP201 стало нарушение в работе авиагоризонта, вызванное коротким замыканием и последовавшим затем отказом вертикального гироскопа. Полёт выполнялся ночью на крейсерской высоте, из-за чего экипаж не мог видеть естественный горизонт, а потому руководствовался только показаниями авиагоризонта, пока не потерял контроль над самолётом. Перекрёстная проверка показаний основного и резервного авиагоризонтов при этом не проводилась. Катастрофе способствовало и то, что парк самолётов авиакомпании не был стандартизирован, так как Copa Airlines закупала лайнеры у других авиакомпаний: Britannia Airways (разбившийся самолёт), Lufthansa, Air New Zealand, Gulf Air, Malaysian Airline System (MAS) и Thai Airways International. В результате пилоты, принимая очередной самолёт, прежде всего, определяли расположение тумблеров. Также в проводимых авиакомпанией тренировках лётных экипажей недостаточно внимания уделялось вопросу о взаимодействии между пилотами в кабине.

Культурные аспекты
Катастрофа рейса 201 Copa Airlines показана в 14 сезоне канадского документального телесериала Расследования авиакатастроф в серии Пропавший над джунглями.

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Июнь 1992 года
1992 год в Панаме
Авиационные происшествия в Панаме
Авиационные происшествия 1992 года
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Авиационные происшествия Copa Airlines
Авиационные происшествия вследствие отказов систем навигации
Авиационные происшествия вследствие потери управления в полёте

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Watch a Video from J Mascis's New Supergroup Sweet Apple
By Miles Raymer
For a genre that was more or less explicitly founded on the principle of reversing rock and roll's worst and most excessive traits, indie rock sure does love itself that most bloated of rock cliches: the supergroup. The most recent one of note is Sweet Apple, which unites indie guitar god and Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis, Tim Parnin from Cobra Verde, John Petkovic from Cobra Verde and Guided by Voices, and Dave Sweetapple who also plays in Mascis's heavy metal project Witch. Their debut album, The Golden Age of Glitter, out April 8 on Tee Pee Records, is a ten-song set of throwback power pop that should soothe the soul of just about any riff-loving rock fan.
According to Petkovic, "We're scattered all over the country so every get-together is an adventure, an escape. It gives us a different perspective on being in a band from different regions, parts of the country. Every get-together is basically a reunion." That's the theme of the first video from the album, "Wish You Could Stay (A Little Longer)," which he directed and which we're premiering here, along with a playlist that the group assembled for us, made up of a number of songs about traveling.
Glen Campbell, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
It's about driving a while while looking in the rear-view mirror. The title points elsewhere — Phoenix — but the sentiment and lyrics are focused on the place and person left behind. Glen Campbell's poetic delivery is a perfect fit for Jimmy Webb's lyrics, which parallel the destination ahead with what the person back home is doing.
Hawkwind, "Silver Machine"
Rudimentary, driving tune about traveling through the skies in a silver machine. Dave suggested this one, but it's a unanimous choice.
Harry Nillson, "Everybody's Talkin'"
Like all great escape songs, it isn't about a specific destination, but leaving where you are. This song is one of the greatest and also one of the most cinematic, thanks to its use in Midnight Cowboy.
Cobra Verde, "Underpants"
J wanted to include this one because he liked playing it when he was the guitarist in Cobra Verde for a while. He insisted on it because it reminds him of "going to Target to buy underpants."
Led Zeppelin, "Down by the Seaside"
Great tremolo/Leslie guitar arpeggios in this one. The guitar sounds and feels like it was recorded underwater. I hate the beach, but this song makes me miss it.
Radio Birdman, "Descent into the Maelstrom"
The ultimate metaphor of traveling through life and having it spin out of control by one of Australia's greatest bands.
David Bowie, "Moonage Daydream"
The moonage daydream — the thing, not the song title — is man's greatest collective escape. Like most destinations, once you get there you think, "So that's all there is?" Bowie never took it that far, but Ziggy Stardust was a pretty cool disaffected alien.
The Replacements, "Another Girl, Another Planet"
The only version of this Only Ones track that ever I owned was a live version by the Replacements. A perfect fit for the Replacements, with its searing guitars, raggedy vocals, and hooky chorus.
Free, "Catch a Train"
The journey in reverse.
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Proud Mary"
Everyone has heard this one a million times, but it still remains the ultimate highway driving song. Lots of CCR tracks are about a band on the move — "Travelin' Band," "Born on the Bayou," etc. Many "traveling" songs tend to sound corny — never the case with CCR.
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Ureaplasma urealyticum is bacterium belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. U. urealyticum consists of 14 serovars that can be divided into two biovars, biovars 1 and biovars 2, on the basis of genotypic characteristics. Evidence has been presented that the species currently known as U. urealyticum should be separated into two species, namely, U. parvum (previously, U. urealyticum biovar 1) and U. urealyticum (previously, U. urealyticum biovar 2). The majority of human Ureaplasma isolates belong to the new species U. parvum. Ureaplasma sp. is the main cause of non-gonococcal, non-chlamydial urethritis, acute prostatitis and acquired arthritis in men. In pregnant and non-pregnant women, Ureaplasma can cause chorioamnionitis and pre-term delivery, abortion, pre-term birth, vaginitis and cervicitis. Clinical studies have demonstrated that infants born to infected mothers become infected with these bacteria, and colonization of the respiratory tract of infants has been associated with pneumonia, respiratory distress and meningitis.
Allam AB, Alvarez S, Brown MB, Reyes L. 2011. Ureaplasma parvum infection alters filamin A dynamics in host cells. BMC Infect Dis. 11:101.
Pinna GS, Skevaki CL, Kafetzis DA. 2006. The significance of Ureaplasma urealyticum as a pathogenic agent in the paediatric population. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 19(3):283-9.


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Among node-negative breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy with TAC (docetaxel, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide), use of granulocyte-colony stimulating factors (G-CSF) significantly reduced the risk of febrile neutropenia. These results were published in the Annals of Oncology.
Although chemotherapy improves outcomes for many patients with breast cancer, it is associated with unpleasant and sometimes life-threatening side effects. Chemotherapy destroys not only cancer cells, but also normal cells that grow rapidly. These include blood cells forming in the bone marrow, cells in the hair follicles, or cells in the mouth and intestines.
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Prophylactic (preventive) treatment with antibiotics or G-CSF has been shown to reduce the probability of developing febrile neutropenia (neutropenia accompanied by fever). G-CSF stimulates the growth of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that fights infections.
The benefits of prophylactic treatment with G-CSF are likely to be most apparent for chemotherapy regimens that carry a high risk of febrile neutropenia. In women with early-stage, node-positive breast cancer, chemotherapy with TAC (docetaxel, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide) results in better survival than chemotherapy with FAC (5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide), but also results in higher rates of febrile neutropenia.
To explore the effects of adding prophylactic G-CSF to TAC chemotherapy, an international group of researchers evaluated information from a phase III clinical trial comparing TAC to FAC in high-risk, node-negative breast cancer patients. Some of the patients treated with TAC received prophylactic G-CSF and some did not.
Febrile neutropenia occurred in 24.6% of patients who received TAC without prophylactic G-CSF and 6.5% of patients who received TAC with prophylactic G-CSF. Febrile neutropenia occurred in 2.3% of patients treated with FAC.
All patients experienced a decline in quality of life during chemotherapy; this decline was more apparent for patients treated with TAC than patients treated with FAC. Quality of life improved after completion of chemotherapy.
Prophylactic G-CSF moderately improved health-related quality of life in patients treated with TAC.
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Monk Kyprian: Being in Battle Is Easier Than Being a Monk
How a Hero of the Soviet Union Became a Monk
Valeria Mikhailova | 09 February 2017
Valery Anatolievich Burkov is known as the last officer to receive the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, the title Hero of the Soviet Union. A professional soldier in the second generation, air combat officer, he lost both legs in the war in Afghanistan, clinically died three times, survived, and returned to combat. In the nineties, he made a brilliant career in politics, worked as a consultant to the President of the Russian Federation, was a member of the Duma. Then, Burkov vanished. Disappeared from public view. There seems to be a gap in his biography from 2009 to 2016. He returned in 2016, but as Monk Kyprian. When asked, what happened during those years, he answers, "I was learning to be a Christian."
Valery Anatolievich Burkov
Getting ready to meet father Kyprian (Burkov), studying his earlier interviews, listening to the songs of the Afghan war he had written and sung, I think I expected to see someone different. Valery was only tonsured recently, in the summer of 2016, so most of his life he was a military-man, an officer, and a politician.
We saw a man of colossal height, with bright twinkly eyes and a grey beard. Our cameraman kept forgetting himself, he kept trying to get a blessing from father Kyprian as if he were a priest – there was almost nothing worldly left in his appearance. By the way, you would never have thought that father Kyprian has walked on prostheses for over twenty years!
Though monasticism was a logical step in the life of the Hero of the Soviet Union, yet, he is now a different person, very different from the man awarded the highest military distinction, the Gold Star (an insignia worn by recipients of the title Hero of the Soviet Union), in 1991.
War is unnatural
"A person's path to God goes through the whole life," says father Kyprian, "Christ said, 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, I will come in to him and dine with him.' (Rev. 3:20) I heard many "knocks at my door" in my lifetime, and obvious ones at that!"
One of the most serious reasons to stop and think, to re-evaluate life was obviously the war.
When he was still a young officer, a graduate of the Chelyabinsk Red Banner Institute of Navigators, he had a nightmare. He dreamt he got blown up on a landmine. "It can't get any worse than that," he thought to himself. Burkov told a friend about his dream. "God forbid! I'd rather shoot myself!" said he back then…
1979. The war in Afghanistan begins. Valery's father, Colonel Anatolii Ivanovich Burkov, sets off for Afganistan as part of a restricted contingent of Soviet troops. In October 1982, news of his death reaches home. While on a mission to rescue the crew of a helicopter that was downed, Burkov, Snr. was hit and went up in flames in his Mi-8 (the crew were saved).
Anatolii Burkov was awarded the Gold Star posthumously.
Valery served since the mid-seventies. A graduate of a military university, he served in the Russian Far East, but after the death of his father he literally forced the army command to send him to Afghanistan, though he could have avoided going on medical grounds. Some thought he sought revenge, but, in fact, having made a promise to his father the last time they spoke.
Father Kyprian can look at war from only one angle – it is not a game, nor a place to flex one's muscles, it is something terrifying, something completely alien to man.
"When I saw the dead and the wounded in my first offensive, I felt sick, nauseous, it was very unpleasant. War is psychological trauma in any case, because you see death, blood, and tragedy every day. You cannot get used to death, but some sort of inner defence mechanism kicks in, and you begin to look differently at what's happening. In war, you're constantly faced with a choice of whether to overstep the moral law implanted in us by God or not."
Once Burkov did not stand by when he could have, thus saving a man's life. War is war, they captured a dushman (rebel), who turned out to be no dushman, but a regular Afghan, but to avoid having to drag him along or doubting whether to free him or not (you should never let an enemy go, yet it is also dangerous to take him along), the command decided to get rid of him.
Burkov would not let the battalion commander do it to the immense relief of the soldiers who had been ordered to execute the man. To this day, he considers it to be the only worthwhile act in his whole life and in the war.
Any soldier, says he, hates war:
"No one can hate war more than soldiers do, especially those who've experienced fighting. I would not wish it on anyone to participate in combat! War is tough, unnatural."
Wretched prophetic nightmare
…The nightmare came true in April, 1984. During a Panjshir offensive, the young major got blown up on a land mine. It was mountainous terrain, with great difficulty he was evacuated by helicopter. Awaiting help on top of a cliff, in pain, he thought only of how his mother would take the news. His father had died first, now the son got blown up – how would she bear it?
Military hospital, three clinical deaths, the doctors managed to save the officer's arm by a miracle, his legs had to be amputated. "In the morning, when I came to after being wounded, my right arm was in a cast, so I lifted up the bed sheet with my left hand and saw the remnants of my legs in a cast. Suddenly, as some kind of icon, there appeared in my mind a vision of Alexei Maresiev, the pilot of the Great Patriotic War who having lost both his legs, returned to flying his jet. I thought, 'He was a pilot; I am a pilot; and I am a Soviet man, too. Why can't I achieve what he did?' And I stopped worrying, 'It's going to be fine! They'll make me new legs!' Since then I worried no more. I was positive I would stay in the military and return to combat."
Once, when Burkov was already on prostheses, the very friend in whom he had confided his nightmare came to see him. "So, what now?" – he asked. "Are you going to shoot yourself?" "Of course, not!" That nightmare turned out to be prophetic, and it was a "knock on the door" from the other world, because such coincidences made you think, where did that prophetic communication come from? And the light at the end of the tunnel he saw when he was clinically dead, where did it come from?
– Father Kyprian, – I ask, – Did you ever ask yourself, "what have I done to deserve this?"
– I did ask it in song, but it was more of a metaphor, "Why do gods punish me so? I lay there on the cliff, crucified, grinding my teeth, straining my nerves." No, I never had those emotions. I made a conscious choice in going to Afghanistan, I knew how serving there might end.
And the military service ended. The father was dead, the son lost limbs, what was it for? Afterwards, Burkov answered his question himself and wrote a song,
"So, what can I say, what did I understand?
Yes, for the happiness of youth,
Though they're from a foreign land,
It is worth to live and die."
Though in a radio interview, father Kyprian, at that time still Valery Anatolievich Burkov, let it slip that the war in Afghanistan was not necessary and that those who had spent some time there realized it, nonetheless, military service is service to an officer, duty is duty, and both he and his father were raised that way,
"Motherland said, 'The Afghan people need our help,' and we went to help the Afghan people."
I never thought I could weep like that
The Afghan phase of his life was drawing to an end. Father Kyprian says that despite all its horrors the war gave him a kind of inner strength he had never had before. He describes how he re-evaluated his whole life there. He remembers the people who sacrificed themselves there,
"I'll give you a simple example, more eloquent than any description. It happened during a military operation. According to regulations, our sappers walked before us. All of a sudden dushmani jumped out from behind a mud brick fence and opened fire at them.
"Our commanding officer, the First Lieutenant, with whom we sat around having tea only the day before, got a bullet right in the stomach. The Sergeant walking next to him was shot in the head, half his skull was gone, you could see his brain. And in this condition, he pulled his commander aside and only then he died. Basically, he would not let his commander get killed, but died himself."
Father Kyprian admits to becoming sentimental after the war – the emotions that were being forcefully contained there came rushing out.
– Did you ever cry? I ask.
– I never cried because of the war or because of anything worldly. But I burst out crying at my father's funeral when I read his last letter and reached the words, "Do not pity me, mother, I do not suffer, and my life isn't hard. I've been burnt and still am burning, but I will give you no cause to be ashamed of me." He literally went up in flames in that helicopter. Afterwards, I wept and wept much more before God. I never knew one could cry so much – torrents were coming from my soul, purifying torrents…
It is 1985. Valery Burkov does return to the army after a year spent in hospital. He enrols in the Gagarin Air Force Academy where he meets his future wife Irina.
That's when doubts that had assailed him in hospital dissipated, "I used to think, will girls look at me with this wound? I was single back then. Later on, I found out they still did – they were fine with it!"
They got married after the first year of studies. Answering some journalists' questions about how long Valery had courted her Irena said, "Are you kidding me! It was I who courted him for six months to prove to him I would make a good wife!" Finally, Burkov gave in and believed her.
Years later, his wife gave her consent to Valery becoming a monk.
Metropolitan Pitirim and Patriarch Alexy
1991-1992. Valery deals with issues of the disabled as President of the Liaison Committee of the Affairs of People with Disabilities under the President of Russia. From 1992 to 1993 he is the President's advisor on the issues of persons with disabilities. Russia is very much behind in this sector, they basically had to start from scratch. For example, the current concept "bezbar'ernoe prostranstvo" (access for people with disability) was introduced at that time.
Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechaev)
But the Lord is knocking at the door… Valery heads a delegation heading to a conference in Rome on the issues of people with disabilities. Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechaev) was also part of the delegation. During their free time, His Grace spoke to Valery of Orthodoxy, of its differences from Catholicism, they visited churches, both Catholic and Orthodox, spoke on different topics. Then he got to meet Alexis, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, so "the knocking got really loud!"
Then there was another memory, the image of an old lady who once lived next door, dressed in black from head to toe, reading a thick, old Bible.
Valery was about ten at the time, but since then he always really wanted to read that mysterious Bible. But, says he, as usual, there was never enough time, vanity of vanities (Eccl. 1:2)…
"Chocolate covered" on the outside, lonely on the inside
2003. Burkov returns to politics, he heads the party "Rus" at the National Duma elections. In 2008 he becomes a member of the Kurgan regional Duma. Back to doing social work in an attempt to help people.
2009. Burkov has everything that a normal man can dream of. His career is on track – in the Office of the President he is seen as one of the main candidates for governorship. He has a family with a grown son, a vocation, he is successful – all goals are achieved, life seems full. "However, inside, my soul was empty," recalls father Kyprian. "I had reached a complete dead end in my worldly life, a void, a loneliness, and an absolute disappointment in life, though on the outside I seemed to be "covered in chocolate."
Online there are some wild stories about his turnaround to the faith: through meeting psychics and then monks; through a poltergeist in his house and a miraculous blessing of the house with holy water from Theophany, fatal to the enemy of the human race; through a car accident. Whereas, actually, according to father Kyprian, he could no longer ignore the "knocking", because God's call was too obvious, too personal.
There was a car accident, however: once again he was an inch from death, for the fourth time, and again the Lord saved and protected him. But the accident happened later and, according to father Kyprian, it was obviously demons' vengeance who wanted him beat up and killed for baptising Muslims…
But back in 2009, even before he lay down his deputyship, Burkov set off on his path to God. Diligently he began studying the New Testament, spiritual literature, the holy fathers. In 2010 he had his first Great Lent and then he says he took a sort of oath of allegiance to the Lord on Pascha.
Father Kyprian speaks of his first confession with irony and laughs at himself,
"I brought a list seven-page long to confession – a fabulous report of the sins committed! I went about it as a military man, as an analyst – all the sins listed by line, pluses, minuses, basically, all as it should be!
"Hieromonk Panteleimon (Gudin) (today, the acting Abbot of the patriarchal metochion in the church of the icon of the Holy Theotokos "Multiplier of Wheat" in the Priazov Stanitsa) who took my confession glanced at my table of sins and said, "Wow, I've never seen anything like that before!"
I ended my confession with, "As for pride, I don't really see it in me…" The hieromonk glanced at me affectionately and smiled, "Don't worry! The Lord will show you some day." The following morning, I communed, then went to the church bookstore. The moment I stepped on the threshold I saw a book "Lord, help me rid myself of pride." I bought it and spent the remainder of the day laughing at myself – I hadn't seen the forest for the trees!"
For many of the military people he knew it was enough to "have God in their souls." But it wasn't enough for him. "To this I always replied, 'Friend! What makes you think it's true? Did you at least ask God or did you just stuff Him inside your soul?'
"Many Soviet officers find it hard to switch from something they believed in since their infancy to a new outlook on life. He did switch however, "The obstacle is only internal – we are used to living in a certain way and we do not want to renounce our opinions – there's nothing else! We're just too lazy to think. Vanity of vanities!"
"It was hard to renounce one's false understanding of things. I found myself resisting and doubting every single line of the New Testament: who says Christ is God? Why on earth should I believe this?
"But that is how the Word of God works," explains father Kyprian. "No matter how much you resist it, deep down you know, the Truth is there!"
Father Kyprian recalls watching a priest on a television talk show for the first time.
He listened and thought, "But why were they executed during the Soviet times? They preach love!"
Another time, the priest, appearing on the show, turned out to be very young, and combat officer Burkov chuckled,
"What could this young priest, this beardless lad, teach me? I've been to hell and back. What about him? Rookie, he knows nothing of life!" Yet, I kept on watching and then, "at some point, I felt like a complete idiot with all my life experience compared to this young priest through whom spoke God! A little later I understood that that was because the priest spoke not from himself, but the Word of God, which is where real strength is!"
They are like my children!
2010. Valery Burkov resigns from his deputyship.
He no longer gives interviews, refuses to appear on radio and television shows, "A person getting to know God can no longer be bothered by such vanities." He started refusing to speak before schoolchildren – something he had got used to during those years – because he no longer knew what to talk to them about. Before he used to speak to them of patriotism, of the love for their homeland, of morality, afterwards he realized it was all meaningless without God, that even love wasn't love without God, it was nothing but feelings, and feelings tend to change.
Once, they managed to talk him into appearing on television. They said a married couple, war veterans, would appear on the Channel One show coming out on May, 9, Victory day. He agreed only because he had admired war veterans since childhood, because he respected these men of incredible courage, nobility, and patience, hard as a rock. He went there only because of the veterans only to realize that he was a "completely lost cause for television!"
A new phase in his life had begun, "I was discovering God, the Holy Scriptures, I took theological courses, I was adjusting my mind, repenting by any means known." However, since faith by itself, if it doesn't have works, is dead (James 2:17), he finds himself a new occupation…
His country house in the suburbs of Moscow becomes some kind of rehabilitation centre for people with serious problems: alcoholics, victims of religious sects, people who dabbed in magic, psychics, as well as people who simply felt lost.
"There were some," recalls father Kyprian, "who got to the point where they hated everything: Russia, people, children, in short, everything that should have made them happy. Their life was nothing but hatred, it was hell and constant pain. It is not a condition a person reaches easily, they are driven over the edge. As a rule, it all starts with the parent-child relationship, which means, it's not someone's fault, but their misfortune… And the only thing that can conquer hatred is love, it's a long, slow process."
Oddly enough, even Baptists came, there were quite a few Muslims, of whom twelve got baptised.
"They are all like children to me," says father Kyprian, "They call me, 'dad'."
The former deputy gave them room and board, studied Orthodoxy with them, told them what they should read or listen to, and watched them change,
"I can only marvel at the mercy of God! How much does the Lord change people! Afterwards, they would ring me, 'Thank you, father Kyprian, everything is different now because of your prayers," and I would be wishing the ground would swallow me up – what prayers?! I don't even know how to pray properly. It was obvious to me that the Lord worked the miracle, I was only a transponder.
When a person opens the door to Christ, everything in their life begins to change drastically. People are amazed, and at one time I used to be amazed: when a person opens their heart to God, they become happy! The same thing happened to me: I had felt empty and lonely, then my life was full and happy, and full of enjoyment!"
"They say physical flaws are nothing compared to 'flaws' in the soul, 'What does it matter if I don't have legs? So, I don't have any, but I have prostheses. To me personally it doesn't matter at all. However, what is on the inside, that is what a person's happiness or misery depends on."
Seven years went by in this quasi monastic life.
Yet, something was missing… "Obedience was lacking!" says father Kyprian. There was a want of something more, a feeling that something else has to happen in life. There were always anywhere from three to nine people living nearby, whereas he craved solitude.
Is it God's will that I become a monk?
Schema Archimandrite Ilii (Nozdrin)
Then, suddenly, in 2015, a visit to Elder Ilii (Nozdrin) was organized. The future monk Kyprian did not ask to join in, he was invited. He did not know what to ask father Ilii, but the latter was an Elder, he would probably tell what the will of God was of his own accord. Father Ilii first went up to Konstantin Krivunov, the friend with whom Burkov had come, and said, "Well, you'll become a priest!"
"Konstantin and I had discussed priesthood before," recalls father Kyprian. "His answer to my question was 'You know, Valera, as for the priesthood, I don't know if I'd be able to handle it, as for a deacon, that I probably could do…"
When Burkov's turn came, the only thing that the Hero of the Soviet Union could think of was, "Is it God's will for me to become a monk?" The elder did not reply straight away, but prayed for a minute or two, then slapped him across the head and gave him a blessing.
Half a year went by, and suddenly there is phone call from Hieromonk Makary (Eremenko), dean of the Kazan male hierarchical metochion in the town of Kara-Balta of the Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan Diocese, "Check your email. You have a blessing to become a novice. You will be in charge of the Kyrgyz community in Russia. You will look after religious education and social work."
And eight months later, in June, 2016, another phone call, "Come during the Apostles' Fast for monastic tonsure! The Bishop blessed!"
"I thought to myself," recalls father Kyprian, "My, my! Everything was done without me! But I believe in not refusing anything, except sin, especially when an offer or request comes from a priest, and in not asking for anything myself. Nonetheless, it was very sudden. I was filled with doubt, hoping that maybe they would make me a monk during the following fast…"
It turned out that the Bishop had already signed the ukaz, there was no way of changing the date. So, without any step of his own, Valery first became a novice, then a monk.
And a man who had spent his whole life calling the shots, giving orders, was under another's authority, gave himself fully in obedience,
"At first, when I read the prayer, 'Thy will be done, not mine,' I could not understand it at all, what does it mean? What happens to me now? I always made all my decisions myself and acted upon them. In time, however, I realized there was nothing better than giving yourself up to the will of God and obeying an experienced person. Because no one knows better than God what is best for you!
"You yourself will never be able to arrange your life as God can. And then you act surprised!
"It's better not to plan anything. Before I actually used to plan everything a year ahead. These days I don't know what will happen in a few days times and I don't make plans anymore!"
A monk with a Hero's star
2016. The day after his monastic tonsure monk Kyprian was blessed to wear his insignia, the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He was very surprised! He had thought he was done with his worldly life, and with his insignia as well, as he would no longer have to wear suits. Yet he was told wearing it would be preaching. He could not understand it at first, but during the several months spent travelling across Russia, everything fell into place.
"There is still no solitude, however," smiles father Kyprian. "I used to think, finally, I get to lock up in my cell and pray, but the Lord willed otherwise."
He's been travelling around the country since the autumn of 2016. He admits that even as a politician he spoke less than he does now. It is very different now of course, it is preaching.
And, it seems, studying never ends. A degree in education from St. Tikhon's University to focus on religious education, a degree in psychology from the Russian Orthodox University to assist the suffering, a course in missionary work – it is hard in Kyrgyzstan without special skills and knowledge. "We must bring light to our Muslim brothers, and it must be done intelligently," explains father Kyprian.
There are only six monks in the male metochion in Kara-Balta, in Kyrgyzstan. They live in mudbrick cells with wood heaters, father Kyprian fixed one of them up. The conditions are very basic, there is no heating in church. The restoration of the monastery is not going well. It is hard to provide even the most basic conditions for a Sunday school, for a centre of spiritual and psychological help. There is nowhere for people to stay even if they come for one night, there is nowhere to talk to people who come to the monks for help, except their own cells, which is not really proper.
The Hero of the Soviet Union now has to look up old ties and travel to assist the mission in Kyrgyzstan. Father Kyprian describes the Kyrgyz people as simple, kind, and friendly. He never stops marvelling,
"Interesting! In Moscow who did the Lord send me? The Kyrgyz and the Kazakhs, the non-Orthodox. And where did I become a monk? In Kyrgyzstan! This is how the Lord arranges things. I would never in my life have thought that I would end up here. Yet, if I'm here, it means I am needed here."
Father Kyprian hasn't forgotten about life completely. He mentions the officers in Syria whom he knows, thinks the new generation of the military is estimable and praiseworthy. Says the attitude towards the army has changed, has improved. Many people are now vying for admission to military schools and to serve under contract.
"What is the most important thing for a military man? The home front, to know that if he dies at war, his family will be taken care of. In that case, there is no fear of death, because your family is your homeland."
These days the most important thing in his life has nothing to do with either politics, or the army, or social work,
"Preaching is the most important thing, impressing upon hearts, "Love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your might, and your neighbour as yourself.
"The centre of a person's life is love. God is love, and he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him. Where there is no love, there is no God."
In 1992, when Valery was in hospital, he heard the expression, "faith moves mountains." And these words gave him strength, helped him remain optimistic. These days…
"These days," says father Kyprian, "I do not believe, I know! I am simply a person who knows and who became convinced through knowledge that everything will be well for those who love the Lord. While those who reject Him, are in hell already – those are the people that come to me."
Burkov's war still hasn't ended, but it is a very different kind of war. "Being in the military is nothing compared to monasticism!" smiles the retired Colonel, the new monk. Internal war and battling the spirits of evil is a lot harder,
"Let me tell you something. There are three kinds of endeavour: in war, in the world, which is everyday life, and monastic endeavour. I have experience in all three. I went to war, I lived in the world and was married, now I am in a monastery.
"Let me tell you something, monastic endeavour is much harder than the others. I would rank it as the hardest! Yet I'd rank it as the most joyful as well… They say if people only knew how hard it can be in monasticism, nobody would become a monk. But if they knew what joy belongs to monks, everyone would become monastics."
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Recently, I got to see Jim Jefferies live in Seattle.
Watching him perform live in person is somewhat of an extraordinary experience. In my opinion, with the exception of Louis CK and Eddie Izzard, no other modern comic has such a rhapsodic combination of personality and presence on stage.
He's able to exude all this while telling the audience gross stories about his drug binges, sexual escapades, and the occasional sermons on religion, guns, and misogyny.
His rambling performance personifies a genuine personality, one that I'm still in the process of crafting for myself.
I've taken all the lessons that I've learned about what a dynamic, genuine, and spontaneous personality is and put them all together for consideration.
I have carefully crafted this article not to be a how-to guide. If crafting a personality was as easy as following a recipe to make pasta arrabbiata, then everybody would have a magnetic personality.
But the simple truth is that very few people do. I believe that this is due to the fact that most people don't search for something deeper within ourselves and we miss out on creating the most unique thing that is ours.
These are simply observations that you can consider in your quest for forging your personality through genuine, authentic, and honest self-expression.
1. Genuinely Strong Personalities Are Unique and Cannot Be Copied
Although research has shown that we are primates with highly complex mirror neurons meant for copying the behaviors of others to adapt and survive, I believe that, unlike apes, we have evolved an ability to spot the difference between fake and genuine behaviors.
I'm not suggesting that copying and emulating don't work. It might also be a way to start out.
However, in the long run, you have to create something that you truly own. This is the only way to fully realize your true potentials and maximize the powers of your personality.
Two primary forces are at work here – how you perceive yourself and how others perceive you.
If you prioritize how you perceive yourself over how people perceive you, your personality will be more dynamic and unique. You will develop a keen awareness of yourself. You will become more meta.
While emulating certain personalities is a good strategy to start out with, like when we were children and didn't know how to make others like us, it cannot be the end-all.
Eventually, the act will grow tiresome and you'll be forced to jump from one hermit crab personality to the next.
If you are genuine and act upon your deepest impulses, you are able to adapt and find new ways to show your values.
Speaking of values..
2. Personalities Are Expressions of Deeply Developed Core Values over Time
Although Feud was the first person to suggest that personality is developed over time instead of originating within a person since birth, it was Dabrowski's theory of Positive Disintegration that really led me to believe that the core of our personality lies within a person's deep core values.
The major question is whether personality is innate or it needs to find a medium of expression that is slowly developed over time.
I like to think that it is both – in the perspective that values within an individual are both innate but also need to be realized through a deepening connection with reality.
We have value "markers," if you will, that can be triggered when we encounter something in life that we can strongly connect to.
Without a doubt, personalities are what attract us to each other in the long run. Unlike looks, they retain their attraction and even strengthen it over time.
Since we know that values are what we seek to give and possess, personality must have something to do with values.
Moreover, personalities can drive us away as much as they attract us, so they must also be a polarizing phenomenon. They must indicate some sort of potential compatibility on a deeper level.
The upshot is that you might not have to worry about what a personality is or even how to develop it.
If you find something in life that you are deeply passionate about, your core values will find their own way of expressing themselves. That will automatically become your personality without you knowing it.
3. Personality Comes from a Sense of Strong Identity, and Also the Willingness to Lose That Identity for Something Greater
M. Scott Peck talks about the willingness to give up your identity, no matter how painful, in his book "The Road Less Traveled."
He mentioned that one has to work to build and strengthen his identity before he can truly lose it.
Yet how do you know when you have an identity worth losing? A strong indication of such an identity is the personality of which it finds its way through the surface of your persona.
The caveat here is that you have to determine if this identity is real or idealized. As Karen Horner postulated in her book Neurosis the Human Growth, it's very easy and tempting for a person to develop a false persona based on his idealized image and beliefs.
This idealized image actually suppresses personality since it is supported by fear and anxiety.
However, once the true self begins to grow, it will show itself as a strong unshakable personality.
Yet the conundrum of showing your identity honestly is that you also have to be willing to have it be modified by reality (not by other people). This is not a bad thing. Nobody with a strong, polarizing, and memorable personality retains it for long.
The continual process to gain and lose identities is how we evolve our personalities. Just like how a flower blooms to attract bees only to wilt away will eventually give way to more beautiful flowers later on.
That said..
4. Strong Personalities Never Stay the Same for Long
Our values change.
Our identities change.
Our environments change.
The only people who retain their personalities through the ages are the ones clinging onto outdated values or faking it.
If you find yourself being predictable and the same person as you were the same time last year, chances are that you haven't been able to develop your value realization engine.
It's this ability to develop new values, and yourself, that come through a dynamically changing personality.
You must constantly seek new ideas, values, and styles of self-expression. Without overdoing it, your maturity rate will come through in the form of an appropriately changing personality.
5. Personality Is the Rebellion against Conforming Forces Instead of Something That Is given to Us
You alone stand against forces conspired to standardize people's behaviors in this world.
You develop your own internal set of value drivers and beliefs.
From these drivers, you express either love for the values that you treasure or contempt for the values you dislike.
In short, it's through these polarizing forces that you find your true personality. If personality is laughing at what everybody is laughing at or crying when everybody cries then it wouldn't be much of a personality.
Personality rebels and persists. It indicates the internal search for something deeper and stranger in life. It stands out when the greatest temptation is to fit in.
6. Personality Welcomes Any Feedback, but It Grows Stronger with Negative Feedback
Because personality is expressed freely, it needs no validation by definition.
However, feedback from the environment is an important factor developing a personality. This feedback comes in the specific form of the reflection of our values.
Since we have established that personalities are simply expressions of values, then they need to find their reflections in reality. These reflections come in the form of feedback. If you are playful and sarcastic, you will find the greatest joy in interacting with somebody who laughs at sarcastic jokes.
This type of feedback is important for a polarizing force to know that it's really doing its job.
But there is also another type of feedback that accelerates the development of such personality – a negative feedback.
In a moment of contempt, you will know where your values stand internally and externally. Don't be afraid of these moments. Even seek them out. They will show you that it's okay to be polarizing and honest. That world doesn't end.
Case in point: When a comedian faces a heckler.
If he ignores or stands down from the heckler, he will lose his bite. If he stands up to the heckler and blows him away, he will find newfound confidence in himself. So it is with your style of expression. If you come across people who show a great dislike for your personality, find ways to become stronger in it. Weathering this storm, you will find that your personality will be even stronger than you first started with.
7. Humor and Contempt Are Part of a Value-Based Personality
Find something that you consider distasteful and bash on it all day long.
This may be off-putting for some people, but it shows signs of a strong internal compass.
Ask Adam Carolla about anything and he'll find ways to complain about it. It's genuine and it's funny. It also shows personality in an otherwise boring person with a boring life. When a man gets fired up about something he can attract so many people no matter how ordinary he seems.
This is because when he finds quirky things about something that he doesn't like, he can express his internal compass.
He expresses what he feels is right or wrong never mind if it's rational or not. This true expression often comes across as humor. Whether this humor was intended it to or not, it doesn't really matter.
8. Strength of Personality Is Deeply Correlated to Self-Esteem and Sense of Ease
If anxiety and depression kills personality, then self-confidence develops it.
This doesn't happen easily or automatically but with the right amount of courage and effort, it will find a way. Here are the ways in which personality and self-esteem are correlated, using the six pillars of self-esteem as suggested by Dr. Nathaniel Branden:
Awareness – Personality comes from an awareness of self and the environment. It's the deep inner self connecting with reality. A person cannot have a personality when he is detached from reality and his true sense of self.
Responsibility of self – self-expression implies responsibility for one's realization of values – It also signifies the trust in oneself to handle any hot situation that may come up. If a person doesn't trust deep down that he can manage himself in any environment, he wouldn't dare to show his personality openly.
Purpose – A personality may seem random and spontaneous, but it ultimately comes with a purpose behind it. This purpose is the expression of values and the seeking of the reflection of values.
Acceptance – The stronger the sense of acceptance of all that is reality and his connection to it, the more developed his personality is. In fact, a well-developed personality is the ultimate form of acceptance of the what-is. If a man holds out for a rosy future or dreaming of having some tremendous quality, he will hold himself back waiting for those moments that will never arrive.
Genuine integrity – A person willing to act and speak as he is and thinks, must have the strongest conviction and ease about his state of being.
Assertiveness – Not much needs to be said here.
9. Personality Is the Product of Living Life Courageously, and Cannot Be Forced or Faked
Of course, it's one thing to identify your values and tell yourself that you believe in them and it's quite another thing to live them out with the greatest persistence every day.
It's heroic. It's lonely. It's mature.
Doing so will develop a true and genuine personality within you.
People with strong personalities are not childish or immature. They have been through the worst that life has to offer. They have withstood the weather of hate and misfortune. Even Jim Jefferies got punched while he was on stage, never mind the courage of getting on stage in the first place.
Society usually rewards comformists. The world doesn't really seem to be made for people who take initiatitve and become courageous, but when they do, the personal reward for their hard work is immeasurable.
10. Personality Shows the Struggle and Contradictions of an Individual through Growth
This one is personal to me. Through my personal struggle for growth and maturity, I had always been afraid of losing my identity and personality.
However, as I continue to make the climb past my layers of fear, something emerges within me.
I find myself arguing, fighting, and making fun of myself.
Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry.
Slowly and surely, a personality starts to emerge naturally and without coercion. I no longer feel the need to show off something I don't have. I simply want to speak my mind and act according to my values.
Then almost magically, people start to respond positively to it. People also start to respond negatively to it, but that's just how polarization works.
In essence, in my personal struggle, paradoxes, and contradicting tendencies, I find a natural personality that's truly part of me.
That's what I strongly suggest you do too.
What are your personal struggles? Which areas do you find difficult developing and evolving? What are your sticking points when it comes to creating a genuine personality?
Share your thoughts in the comment section below and I will make sure to share some valuable insights.
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This radio contains a crafted in memory letting you to programme and set it in your most widely used radio programmes.
This system is generated with a front loading CD participant making sure that it can be genuinely simple to work.
It truly is usually handy to get a clock shut by as a way which you do not indulge on your own far too considerably while you are during the bathroom and to be a result you're likely to be in a position to maintain on timetable.
It is usually aggravating when you'd like to have a look in the mirror some drinking water vapor has produced it unclear. This fog no cost mirror will continue to be absolutely regardless of the vapours developed for your warm water in the bath.
You will find that when you pick out to utilize this radio in other places, it is really attainable to pay attention to it without having aggravating everyone all over you.
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This is just one example of the variety of factor that you just could pick to place as part of your bathroom. It will also generate a amazing reward plan for anybody that has just moved into a new home or perhaps in the event your youngster is off to school. Determine around you can and you are certain to make a decision about the best shower radio in your requirements.


It's Our 15th Anniversary Together!
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It's Our 15th Anniversary Together!
This week, I'm celebrating the 15th anniversary of 'Patrick's Place.' It's hard to believe that I've been at this for a decade-and-a-half now!
February 7, 2004, was a fairly ordinary day on which I decided to start something new. That certain something is what's now celebrating a 15th anniversary: This little blog.
I try to think about what was on my mind when I decided to start a blog. I viewed it as a way to have a creative outlet. I hoped it'd be a place where someone might come to be entertained. I dared not think, however, that anyone would actually come here and read what I have to say.
And I would never have dreamed that over 15 years, several hundreds of thousands of people would have dropped by…and that some of them would keep coming back for more year after year.
Realistically, I think that I set out to experiment with this crazy thing called blogging, something that was still fairly young back in 2004.
I wanted to see if I'd like it.
I assumed I probably wouldn't…at least not for very long.
But by a twist of fate, I happened to find an audience.
You see, this blog didn't begin on WordPress. It began on a small platform that hasn't been around for nearly a dozen years or so: AOL Journals.
Yes, AOL. America Online. It had its own blogging platform. It was a tight-knit group of bloggers (most of whom hated the word blog at the time). We read each others' posts. We commented on each others' journals.
To make a long story very short, I eventually left AOL for Blogger, and then, in 2007, launched this domain with self-hosted WordPress. By then, I already had some semi-regular readers.
In a way, I was lucky: If I hadn't found an audience in a smaller pond as quickly as I had, I may well have abandoned the entire idea before the 1st anniversary.
I certainly would never have reached a 15th anniversary for this blog.
So whether you've been reading for 15 years now or just about 15 minutes, and even if you've never left a single comment, your presence here is still inspiring me to keep writing.
And I hope you'll enjoy the next 15 years! Who knows what we'll be talking about by then!