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Drug Rehabilitation and Substance Abuse Resources in New York
With 2,754 opioid-related deaths in 2015, New York State ranked No. 15 in the nation for overdose deaths. Between prescription painkillers and illicit substances like heroin, the addictive properties of opioids can and do impact people from all walks of life. Whether you're located upstate or in the middle of Manhattan, drugs and alcohol are a real threat that can destroy lives and families. But the deadly trend doesn't have to continue. There are convenient resources throughout the state, along with several drug treatment centers in New York and beyond. Addiction doesn't have to dictate your life. Treatment can range from full-service rehabilitation programs to local Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. No matter what your struggle, there are resources available to help you overcome substance use disorder.
New York's Opioid Crisis
The Empire State is sadly not immune to the horrific effects of the opioid crisis sweeping the country. Opioids, both prescription and illicit are easily accessible across the state, but it's prescription opioids that are wreaking more havoc. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2016, 42 out of every 100 New Yorkers held prescriptions for opioid medications. But in the same year, 2,316 New Yorkers died by opioid overdose — one of the highest opioid-related death rates in the country. But despite these grim statistics, hope and healing are available to all in New York. If you're struggling with addiction, the below resources can guide you toward treatment.
Our Closest Facility:
The Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper
761 Cuthbert Boulevard Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
The Recovery Village does not operate in the state of New York. Our closest facility can be seen in the map above.
Choosing a Rehab Facility
Get the help you need in a healthy environment.
Selecting a rehabilitation facility is one of the most fundamental steps on the road to recovery. But with so many drug and alcohol rehab centers in New York, choosing a place that meets your needs can be a daunting task. Some people decide to undergo drug and alcohol treatment in New York, while others seek out-of-state options to more fully separate themselves from the people and places that fuel their substance use. Because there's no one-size-fits-all solution to recovery, it's important you choose the option that works best for your individual needs, whether that be drug and alcohol rehab in New York or elsewhere.
The Recovery Village is a nationally recognized treatment provider with facilities across the country, including one in nearby Groveport, Ohio and several in sunny Florida. These centers all aim to provide comprehensive, individualized care that caters to each patient's unique strengths and weaknesses. Each center:
Addresses substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders simultaneously
Uses a comprehensive, multilevel treatment approach that includes detox and residential treatment
Offers a wide range of evidence-based therapies
Provides individual and group opportunities for therapeutic learning and cognitive-based healing
Tailors care programs to individual needs and goals
Is staffed with an experienced team of clinical, medical and therapeutic professionals
Keeps treatment completely confidential
If you're looking for alcohol or drug treatment facilities in New York, it's worthwhile to consider traveling out of state for the best possible care. New York drug rehab centers are not hard to come by, but depending on your (or a loved one's) specific situation, you might need a level of care that's not offered locally. The Recovery Village offers a full spectrum of treatment programs covering all types of substance use, mental health and eating disorders. This renowned rehab facility has locations across the country, now open in Groveport, Ohio to serve the northern states and beyond.
New York Drug Abuse
You're not alone, many struggle with drug abuse in New York.
Alcohol and drug addiction do not discriminate. Substance use disorder impacts people of all ages, races and financial backgrounds. With an uptick in deadly opioids like heroin and fentanyl, it's more important than ever to seek help for drug treatment in New York and beyond. While the statistics surrounding substance abuse are alarming, the efforts to combat the negative effects of addiction are just as strong and more determined.
Heroin death rates
FROM 2010–2015
Opioid-related deaths
Of the 1,234 opioid-related New York deaths in 2014, the two age groups that had the most victims were 25-34 and 45-54. The youngest victims were between 10 and 19. The oldest were over 85.
Drug overdose deaths
INVOLVED HEROIN IN 2015
Cocaine ER visits
In 2012, the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) reported that there were more emergency room visits for cocaine than for any other drug. These visits increased by 36 percent from 2004–2011.
These statistics reveal the reality of substance abuse in The Big Apple, but resources for drug and alcohol treatment in New York are growing in number every day. If you or someone you love is struggling with a substance use disorder, mental health issue or eating disorder, help is out there. Recovery is possible. To learn more about the different options of drug and alcohol rehab in New York and beyond, reach out to The Recovery Village today. You can talk with caring addiction specialists for free, and get advice on which mode of treatment is right for you or a loved one.


Mount Sinai Hospital developed Family Integrated Care (FICare) model where parents are viewed as an integral part of the NICU team providing active care for their infant, instead of being in a passive support role. We encourage parents to take care of their infant while in our unit and become primary caregivers for their infant in the NICU.
Several studies have suggested that parents can play a larger role in providing direct care of infants in the NICU and that there are many short and long-term benefits of this practice. The ultimate goal of FICare is to support parents in becoming engaged as part of their infants care team, becoming empowered, comfortable, and confident in caring for their baby in the NICU. During their participation in the FICare program, parents learn how to provide care for their infants in the NICU, while the nurses became educators and coaches for the parents.
What are the benefits of Family Integrated Care?
Research suggests that infants admitted to the NICU and cared for under the FICare model grow faster and have less stress, spend fewer days in the NICU, and are less likely to be readmitted to hospital after discharge, compared to infants cared for primarily by staff. These infants are also more likely to be breastfed and for a longer time, which provides a host of long-term health benefits.
The goal of Family Integrated Care is to partner you with your nurse and the medical team which will help you feel more confident and comfortable caring for your infant. We hope that by the time your baby is transferred to another hospital, or discharged home, you will feel more secure taking care of and understanding the needs of your baby.
What is my role in Family Integrated Care?
If you are present and participate in medical rounds, you will have a better understanding of the care that is provided to your baby. These rounds occur every day in the morning.
With the support provided by your baby's nurse you will learn to feel more comfortable caring for your baby and holding your baby skin-to-skin as much as possible. The medical team, especially the nurses, will continue to act as coaches to assist you in taking over most the care of your baby as your baby gets better and closer to discharge or transfer to another hospital.
Mount Sinai's clinical team provides training and resources internationally to promote its Family Integrated Care model. Visit the Family Integrated Care website.


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Лауро Амадо (;  15 березня 1912, Луґано —  6 червня 1971, Луґано) — швейцарський футболіст, що грав на позиції нападника. Виступав, зокрема, за клуб «Грассгоппер», а також національну збірну Швейцарії.

П'ятиразовий чемпіон Швейцарії.

Клубна кар'єра

У дорослому футболі дебютував 1931 року виступами за команду клубу «Янг Бойз», в якій провів один сезон. Згодом з 1932 по 1940 рік грав у складі команд клубів «Серветт» та «Лугано». Протягом цих років двічі виборював титул чемпіона Швейцарії.

1941 року перейшов до клубу «Грассгоппер», за який відіграв 7 сезонів. За цей час додав до переліку своїх трофеїв ще три титули чемпіона Швейцарії. Найвлучніший гравець чемпіонатів Швейцарії 1943 (31), 1947 (19). Завершив професійну кар'єру футболіста виступами за команду «Грассгоппер» у 1948 році.

Помер 7 червня 1971 року на 60-му році життя у місті Луґано.

Виступи за збірну

1938 року дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Швейцарії. Протягом кар'єри у національній команді, яка тривала 11 років, провів у формі головної команди країни 54 матчі, забивши 21 гол.

У складі збірної був учасником чемпіонату світу 1938 року у Франції.

Титули і досягнення

  Чемпіон Швейцарії (5):
 «Серветт»: 1932-33
 «Лугано»: 1937-38
 «Грассгоппер»: 1941-42, 1942-43, 1944-45

 Кубок Швейцарії (4):
 «Грассгоппер»: 1940-41, 1941-42, 1942-43, 1945-46.

 Найкращий бомбардир Чемпіонату Швейцарії (2):
 1942-43, 1946-47.

Примітки

Література
 Mario Agliati, Bianconeri Bianconeri. Nel sessantesimo del F.C. Lugano 1908-1968, Arti grafiche Gaggini -Bizzozero S. AS. Lugano 1968.

Посилання
 Статистика виступів на сайті national-football-teams.com

Швейцарські футболісти
Гравці збірної Швейцарії з футболу
Футболісти «Янг Бойз»
Футболісти «Серветта»
Футболісти «Лугано»
Футболісти «Грассгоппера»
Тренери ФК «К'яссо»

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Philippines: Killing of Mr. Bernardino Patigas and death threats against Ms. Cristina Palabay and Ms. Clarizza Singson
PHL 001 / 0519 / OBS 040
Killing / Death threats
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the Philippines.
Brief description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the killing of Mr. Bernardino Patigas[1], founder and Secretary General of the North Negros Alliance of Human Rights Advocates, a member organisation of the Negros chapter of the human rights non-governmental organisation (NGO) Karapatan - the Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights.
According to the information received, at around 4.30pm on April 22, 2019, Mr. Bernardino Patigas, aka 'Tatay Toto', was fatally shot twice by a gunman while driving his motorcycle along the highway of Barangay Washington, Escalante City, Negros Occidental Province. Mr. Patigas died on the spot.
Mr. Bernardino Patigas was a well-known human rights defender who called for land reform and denounced the militarisation of communities and ongoing human rights violations in Negros. As a result of his human rights work, he repeatedly received threats and was subjected to harassment. In April 2018, his name and picture, together with that of human rights lawyer Mr. Benjamin Ramos, who was subsequently murdered on November 6, 2018[2], and 60 other individuals and rights advocates, were included in a poster of alleged communist personalities.
On the same day, following reports of Mr. Bernardino Patigas' killing in the media and on social media, a death threat via text message from an unknown person was sent to Ms. Cristina Palabay, Kaparatan Secretary General, Ms. Clarizza Singson, Karapatan-Negros Occidental member, and various other community leaders in Negros, insinuating that the names included in the message were targets to be killed within the year.
The Observatory condemns in the strongest terms the killing of Mr. Bernardino Patigas and the subsequent death threats against Ms. Cristina Palabay, Ms. Clarizza Singson, and other community leaders in Negros, and urges the authorities of the Philippines to carry out an immediate, thorough, impartial, and transparent investigation into the above-mentioned events, and to identify all those responsible, bring them before an independent tribunal, and sanction them as provided by the law.
The Observatory further reiterates its utmost concern over ongoing killings and attacks against human rights defenders in the Philippines, and calls upon the authorities to adopt effective measures to ensure the protection of human rights defenders in the country, as well as to ensure proper investigations into such killings and attacks.
Actions requested:
Please write to the authorities of the Philippines asking them to:
i. Guarantee in all circumstances the physical integrity and psychological well-being of Ms. Cristina Palabay, Ms. Clarizza Singson, and all members of Karapatan, as well as all human rights defenders in the country;
ii. Carry out an immediate, thorough, impartial, and transparent investigation into the murders of Mr. Bernardino Patigas and Mr. Benjamin Ramos in order to identify all those responsible, bring them before an independent tribunal, and sanction them as provided by the law;
iii. Put an end to all acts of harassment against all human rights defenders in the Philippines, and ensure that they are able to carry out their legitimate activities without any hindrance and fear of reprisals;
iv. Conform to the provisions of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1998, especially its Articles 1 and 12.2;
v. Ensure in all circumstances respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with international human rights standards and international instruments ratified by the Philippines.
· Mr. Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Republic of the Philippines, Fax: +632 742-1641 / 929-3968, Email: op@president.gov.ph or send a message through http://president.gov.ph/contact-us/;
· Mr. Teodoro Locsin Jr, Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, Email: osec@dfa.gov.ph;
· Hon. Menardo Guevarra, Secretary, Department of Justice of the Philippines, Fax: (+632) 521-1614, Email: communications@doj.gov.ph;
· Hon. Jose Luis Martin Gascon, Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, Fax: +632 929 0102, Email:chairgascon.chr@gmail.com;
· Police General Oscar Albayalde, Chief, Philippine National Police, National Headquarters Building, Camp BGen Rafael Crame, Quezon City, 1111 Philippines. Fax: +632 724 8749 Email: pnpo.adm1n@gmail.com;ocpnp@pnp.gov.ph; srocpnp@yahoo.com
· H.E. Mr. Evan P. Garcia, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, Fax: +41 22 716 19 32 Email: mission@genevapm.ph;
· Embassy of the Philippines in Brussels, Belgium, Fax: +32 02 345 64 25, Email: brusselspe@gmail.com.
Please also write to the diplomatic missions or embassies of the Philippines in your respective country.
Geneva-Paris, May 10, 2019
Kindly inform us of any action undertaken quoting the code of this appeal in your reply.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (the Observatory) was created in 1997 by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH. The objective of this programme is to intervene to prevent or remedy situations of repression against human rights defenders. OMCT and FIDH are both members of ProtectDefenders.eu, the European Union Human Rights Defenders Mechanism implemented by international civil society.
To contact the Observatory, call the emergency line:
· E-mail: Appeals@fidh-omct.org
· Tel and fax OMCT +41 22 809 49 39 / + 41 22 809 49 29
· Tel and fax FIDH +33 1 43 55 25 18 / +33 1 43 55 18 80
[1] Mr. Patigas was a survivor of the Escalante massacre of 20 farmers and farmworkers, which occurred on September 20, 1985. He subsequently joined human rights advocacy especially in favour of the Sakadas of Negros as well as fact-finding missions in the region. At the time of his killing, he was running for re-election as a Sangguniang Panglungsod (city council) member in Escalante City.
[2] See Observatory Urgent Appeal PHL 005 / 1118 / OBS 132, published on November 9, 2018.
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Kościół katolicki Podwyższenia Świętego Krzyża w Lidzie – rzymskokatolicka świątynia wybudowana około 1770 roku w stylu późnego baroku. Kościół jest czynny nieprzerwanie od czasu budowy.

Historia
Przywilej na założenie w Lidzie kościoła parafialnego został podpisany przez króla Jagiełłę 17 lipca 1387 roku w lidzkim zamku. Ale pierwszy drewniany kościół zbudowany na podzamczu spłonął w 1392 roku podczas ataku krzyżaków. Odbudowaną świątynię 3 czerwca 1397 roku poświęcił pod podwójnym tytułem św. Franciszka i Świętego Krzyża pierwszy biskup wileński Andrzej Wasiło. Kościołem nadal opiekowali się franciszkanie. W 1406 roku kościół został ponownie spalony podczas ataku na miasto smoleńskiego księcia Jerzego Swiętosławowicza, a w 1414 odbudowany i poświęcony pod potrójnym tytułem Najświętszej Maryi Panny, Wszystkich Świętych i Świętego Krzyża. W 1466 roku franciszkanie opuścili Lidę.

7 lipca 1616 roku fundusz lidzkiej Fary potwierdził król Zygmunt I. W czasie "najazdu moskiewskiego" starożytna świątynia została zniszczona. Ostatni drewniany budynek Fary został wzniesiony w 1674 roku biskupem pomocniczym Mikołajem Słupskim. W 1644 roku przy kościele powstała altaria. Przy kościele działała szkoła parafialna.

Kościół pod wezwaniem Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego, który działa do dziś, został zbudowany w stylu dojrzałego baroku. Budowa trwała w latach 1765–70, ozdobienie stworzył znany architekt Jan Krzysztof Glaubitz. Wzniesiono świątynię w centrum miasta, nieco dalej od miejsca, gdzie stał drewniany kościół, przy centralnej ulicy Wileńskiej. Stary drewniany kościół rozebrano na materiał do miejskiego kościoła unickiego. Kamienny szpital w pobliżu kościoła zbudowany w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku.

Kompleks kościoła z oddzielnie zbudowaną dzwonnicą został otoczony kamiennym ogrodzeniem z barokową bramą. Dzwonnica zniknęła jeszcze w XIX w., ogrodzenie rozebrano w okresie powojennym.

W 1928 roku kościół został poświęcony przez arcybiskupa wileńskiego Romualda Jałbrzykowskiego. Przed II wojną światową lidzka parafia liczyła prawie 14 tys. wiernych (nie biorąc pod uwagę parafii Lida-Słobódka).

Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego działał również w latach panowania władzy radzieckiej. Został zaliczony do zabytków architektury o znaczeniu krajowym.

Architektura

Kościół jest trójnawowy, na rzucie prostokąta z kwadratową absydą, flankowaną dwoma niskimi zakrystiami (dołączone później, wraz z gankiem). Świątynia z niskim trójdzielnym przedsionkiem, czworobocznym prezbiterium i przylegającymi do niego niskimi zakrystiami. Fasadę zdobi barokowy szczyt zwieńczony klasycznym trójkątnym frontonem z "Glorią". Wszystkie elewacje zdobią pilastry. Świątynia bezwieżowa, ponieważ flankujące fasadę dwie trzykondygnacyjne wieże zostały rozebrane po pożarze w 1821 roku. Ściana ołtarzowa absydy dzieli się pilastrami na trzy części, przy czym środkowa ma segmentowy kształt. Kościół przykryty wysokim dachem z dachówki ze skrzydłami nad prezbiterium, zakończonymi niewielką sygnaturką.

Wnętrze

Wnętrze jest bogato ozdobione rzeźbami, ornamentami stiukowymi i freskami.

W kościele mieści się osiem ołtarzy. Ołtarz główny w stylu rokoko jest najcenniejszym elementem wyposażenia. Jest ozdobiony kolumnami i pilastrami, z drewnianymi rzeźbami Marii, świętego Jana, świętych Piotra i Pawła. Nad wejściem znajdują się chóry z organami dziesięciogłosowymi z trzema miechami.

Uznawany za cudowny obraz Matki Boskiej z Dzieciątkiem, zwanej Matką Bożą Różańcową lub Matką Boską Lidzką znajduje się w jednym z ołtarzy bocznych lewej nawy. Obraz ten według tradycji przywieźli do Lidy pierwsi zakonnicy franciszkanie w 1376 roku z Wizny.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Габрусь Т. Мураваныя харалы. Мн., 2001.
 Кулагін А. Каталіцкія храмы на Беларусі: Энцыклапедычны даведнік. Мн., 2001.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Radzima.org
 slowo.grodnensis.by
 Archiwalne widoki kościoła w bibliotece Polona

Architektura baroku wileńskiego na Białorusi
Architektura I Rzeczypospolitej (województwo wileńskie)
Kościoły diecezji grodzieńskiej
Kościoły w obwodzie grodzieńskim
Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego
Świątynie pod wezwaniem Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego
Zabytkowe kościoły na Białorusi


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Palacios de Sanabria es un municipio y localidad española de la provincia de Zamora, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León.

Geografía
Integrado en la comarca de Sanabria, al noroeste de la provincia de Zamora, se sitúa a 108 kilómetros de la capital provincial. El municipio está atravesado por la autovía de las Rías Bajas A-52 entre los pK 71 y 77, así como por la carretera nacional N-525 y la carretera provincial ZA-125 que comunica con Espadadeño. En su término municipal se encuentran las localidades de Otero de Sanabria, Remesal y Vime de Sanabria.

El relieve del municipio tiene dos partes diferenciadas, más montañosa al norte y con el valle del río Tera al sur, donde forma el embalse de Cernadilla. La altitud del municipio oscila entre los 1230 metros al noroeste (Monte de Vime) y los 900 metros en el embalse. El pueblo se alza a 971 metros sobre el nivel del mar.

Historia
Durante la Edad Media Palacios quedó integrado en el Reino de León, cuyos monarcas habrían acometido la repoblación de la localidad dentro del proceso repoblador llevado a cabo en Sanabria. Tras la independencia de Portugal del reino leonés en 1143 Palacios habría sufrido por su situación geográfica los conflictos entre los reinos leonés y portugués por el control de la frontera, quedando estabilizada la situación a inicios del siglo XIII.

Posteriormente, en la Edad Moderna, Palacios fue una de las localidades que se integraron en la provincia de las Tierras del Conde de Benavente y dentro de esta en la receptoría de Sanabria. No obstante, al reestructurarse las provincias y crearse las actuales en 1833, Palacios de Sanabria pasó a formar parte de la provincia de Zamora, dentro de la Región Leonesa, quedando integrado en 1834 en el partido judicial de Puebla de Sanabria.

Por otro lado, entre 1840 y 1860, el municipio de Palacios de Sanabria amplió se extensión territorial, al integrar en su término las localidades de Vime de Sanabria y Remesal. No obstante, la extensión actual del término no llegó hasta 1965, cuando el municipio de Otero de Sanabria se integró en el de Palacios.

Respecto al gentilicio de los habitantes de Palacios de Sanabria, el más aceptado actualmente es "arguselo/a", aunque existen indicios y testimonios de los mayores del lugar que indican que el gentilicio original es "matiego/a".

Monumentos y lugares de interés

En la parte alta del pueblo se sitúa la ermita de Santo Cristo, cuyo recinto lo forman tres naves y en su cabecera destaca un retablo barroco presidido por la imagen del Crucificado. De su iglesia parroquial, el otro edificio eclesiástico de esta localidad, de su exterior llama especialmente la atención su campanario y, de su interior, el retablo neoclásico que preside la estancia.

En Palacios también son significativos los palomares que, a diferencia de los de Tierra de Campos, han sido construidos en mampostería oscura y cubiertos con pizarra.

Demografía

Núcleos de población
El municipio se divide en cuatro núcleos de población, que poseían la siguiente población en 2019 según el INE.

Administración y política

Galería de imágenes

Véase también

 Sanabria
 Lago de Sanabria
 Leyenda del Lago de Sanabria
 Camino de Santiago Sanabrés
 Puebla de Sanabria
 San Martín de Castañeda

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Localidades de Palacios de Sanabria
Localidades de Sanabria
Localidades de la provincia de Zamora


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La rivière Kolavinarak est un cours d'eau d'Alaska, aux États-Unis situé dans la région de recensement de Bethel.

Description

Longue de , elle prend sa source dans le grau de Baird, et coule en direction du sud-ouest jusqu'au détroit Etolin formant la frontière sud-est de l'île Nelson, à  au sud-ouest de Bethel, dans le delta du Yukon-Kuskokwim.

Son nom eskimo, qui signifie envasement, a été référencé en 1949 par l'United States Geological Survey.

Articles connexes
 Liste des cours d'eau d'Alaska
 île Nelson

Sources

Cours d'eau dans la région de recensement de Bethel


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Argument: Will the Sun Set on the Boris Empire? Will the Sun Set on the Boris Empire?...
Will the Sun Set on the Boris Empire?
The new British prime minister's vision for a Global Britain gets history—and the present—all wrong.
By Edoardo Campanella
| July 23, 2019, 7:50 PM
Boris Johnson waves in front of a British flag at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Oct. 6, 2015. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Boris Johnson, Britain's incoming prime minister, is the quintessential nostalgic leader. Since the Brexit referendum, in order to make Britain's future outside the European Union appealing, he has played on London's past, inflating the true power and influence of his country. Little does it matter that Britain no longer rules the waves, that a former colony such as India aspires to become a great power, that continental Europe is no longer a military battlefield. In his telling, the sun will never set on the Boris Empire.
Just a few days before the Brexit vote in 2016, he urged his fellow citizens to back leaving the European Union in order "to take the chains off the giant, unshackled Britannia and let the Lion roar again" and win the "battle for British democracy." He even claimed that Prime Minister Winston Churchill—his political hero whose life he celebrated years earlier in the book The Churchill Factor—would have joined him on his campaign bus. Amid the referendum campaign, he was so immersed in the past that the Labour MP Yvette Cooper asked in the Guardian, "Can the prime minister invite him to return to the 21st century?"
Carried though, Brexit would indeed transport the country back in time. At a minimum, a divorce from Brussels would bring it back to 1973, when it first joined the European Economic Community. But the late 1960s and early 1970s do not represent the United Kingdom's golden days. The economy was stagnant, the empire was collapsing, Europe was coming together, and Britain was slowly moving to the margins of the international system.
It is really the Victorian and Edwardian eras, when the empire was at its apogee, that Johnson has in mind. He's been explicit about that; when he left his job as foreign minister in July 2018 over his disagreement with the so-called soft Brexit deal Prime Minister Theresa May reached with Brussels, Johnson said that the spirit of Brexit had been lost. Britain had to rediscover the dynamism of the Victorian explorers and go back out into the wider world "to find friends, to open markets, to promote our culture and our values."
Johnson's historical ramblings coincide with a concrete, albeit utopian, political project: rebuilding Global Britain. The strategy roughly consists of rekindling old friendships in the Commonwealth, rediscovering the special relationship with the United States, and strengthening links with Asian economies. The Global Britain grand strategy is part of a national mythology that emphasizes the country's status as an island nation. To better understand Johnson's view of the world, it is important to start from that story
The "island nation" idea encapsulates the defining features of the United Kingdom: internal unity, military security, global reach, and continental separation. It is a symbol both of openness and closedness, independence and resilience. Great Britain was, and is, both stubbornly inward-looking and relentlessly international.
It is Britain's isolation that has led to its exceptionalism: Not only does the country stand apart geographically from a crowded continent, it also stands out historically. The British pride themselves on their country's exceptional history of continuous freedom, self-government, and rule of law (which it sometimes had a supposed civilizing duty to spread to the rest of the world). From this self-glorifying perspective, the legal structures imposed by the European integration process contaminated British institutional purity.
Geographical isolation also implies that the Anglo-Saxons are something different from their continental peers. And before the idea of a unified West arose during the Cold War, there were almost three centuries of military confrontations between the Anglo-Saxon world and continental Europe.
For Britain, being different has meant being powerful. Every time would-be European or Eurasian hegemons—from Charles V, Philip II, Louis XIV, and Napoleon Bonaparte to Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler, and Leonid Brezhnev—threatened to disrupt the global balance of power, the Anglo-Saxons intervened to restore order. As Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put it in her famous speech at the College of Europe in Bruges in 1988, when discussing Britain's special contribution to the European project: "Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now—but not in liberty, not in justice."
Given the island nation myth, a no-deal Brexit does not scare Johnson. It would align with a clear and distinct worldview that sees British interests as lying away from Europe's.
The Global Britain strategy clings nostalgically to the idea that Britain would go from being an ordinary European Union member state to a modern version of the old imperial power. Thanks to the diplomatic legacy of its colonial era, the U.K. would find itself at the center of a dense network of relations with its true kin, while enjoying a position of greater influence than it ever had within the EU.
Outside of Europe, Britain could work on building an Anglosphere with the English-speaking countries that are committed to common law, democracy, and free markets. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States would be the natural candidates for open trade and exchange of people.
Beyond the Anglosphere, Britain would revive its relations with the Commonwealth—a legacy of its empire, with its 53 members spanning five continents and containing almost 2.5 billion people—on which Britain turned its back when it joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Johnson and his hardcore Brexit fellows depict the Commonwealth as an underutilized business asset, which contains one of the world's fastest growing economies, India, and would allow the U.K. to have a globe-spanning presence.
Within this strategic framework, Europe would play a secondary role. To Johnson's eyes, the EU is a doomed project. As in the past centuries, continental Europe will only be a source of problems for the U.K. It will certainly remain a key market to absorb British goods. But its relative importance will decline over time as a result of the emergence of more prosperous markets and more assertive global powers. Better for Britain to cultivate its own interests abroad independently.
The idea of Global Britain rests on many false assumptions. First of all, the British Empire was certainly global, but it was first and foremost British. Unlike Britain, its former colonies are less nostalgic for its return. If anything, their memories of the colonial era are distinctly negative.
Moreover, the special relationship with the United States might turn out to be much less special than Johnson seems willing to acknowledge. It is true that both U.S. President Donald Trump and the Brexiteers catalyzed similar forms of discontent, but with different purposes in mind. Brexit was predicated on free-market multilateralism; Trump endorses protectionism and America First. Meanwhile, each other member of the Anglosphere has its own priorities and interests. Australia and New Zealand are torn between their Western identities and positions in the Asia-Pacific. For them, a post-Brexit Britain may lose its appeal as a trans-Atlantic intermediary and Anglo-Saxon balancer in European affairs.
Finally, the Commonwealth, which comprises both democracies and autocracies, emerging and advanced economies, does not offer a viable economic alternative to the EU. The Commonwealth absorbs less than 10 percent of British exports and imports. The United States alone is about twice as important to the British economy—and the European Union, in turn, more than twice the United States. A 5 percent drop of British trade with the EU could be offset only by a 25 percent increase with the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
However, the greatest challenge facing Johnson's Global Britain vision will be domestic. Within the U.K., Scotland and Northern Ireland are more committed to the European project than to the establishment of a modern empire. And even many Brexiteers outside of Johnson's elite circles, in particular those living in rural and industrial areas, have much more inward-looking attitudes. They want to stem global forces at the border to live a more secure and quiet life at home.
Johnson will soon realize that nostalgia is not a good compass for 21st-century politics. A past, especially a glorious one, can hardly suit an ordinary present.
Edoardo Campanella is a Future World fellow at IE University's Center for the Governance of Change in Madrid.
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«Неуловимые», оригинальное название — «Красный рассвет» () — американский военный боевик режиссёра Дэна Брэдли по сценарию Карла Эллсуорта и Джереми Пассмора, ремейк одноимённого фильма 1984 года. В главных ролях Крис Хемсворт, Джош Пек, Джош Хатчерсон, Эдрианн Палики, Изабель Лукас и Джеффри Дин Морган. В центре фильма группа молодых людей, защищающих свой родной город от северокорейского вторжения. Премьера в США состоялась 21 ноября 2012 года, в России — 14 марта 2013 года. Оригинальный сценарий был написан в разгар холодной войны и носил ярко выраженный антисоветский характер. В варианте 1984 года в США вторгаются советские и кубинские войска. Спустя почти 30 лет фантастический сюжет вторжения переработан с участием северокорейских войск (при поддержке русских).

Сюжет
В результате экономического кризиса развитые западные страны оказались в упадке. США подвергаются массированному военному удару со стороны Северной Кореи. Противник высаживает десант и быстро захватывает ключевые элементы инфраструктуры страны. Оборона США оказалась бессильна против секретного оружия корейцев, отключившего связь в войсках, пытавшихся оказать сопротивление.

События застают бывшего морского пехотинца Джеда Эккерта в городе Спокан (штат Вашингтон), куда он приехал в отпуск навестить отца, сержанта полиции Тома Эккерта. Увидев в небе десант корейской армии, отец просит сына скрыться в лесу. К Джеду присоединяются несколько молодых людей. Тома Эккерта казнят за отказ сотрудничества с новыми властями. Джед Эккерт клянется отомстить. Его группа называет себя «Росомахи» и начинает партизанскую войну.

После первого же нападения ребята обзаводятся оружием и начинают тренировки под руководством Джеда. В результате успешной атаки на форпост неприятеля «Росомахи» отбивают Эрику, девушку Мэтта. Захватчики проводят минометный обстрел леса, гибнут двое партизан. Ребята переносят свою базу глубже в лес. «Росомахи» выходят на связь с действующей армией США. Оказывается, что противник захватил территорию ближе к береговой линии. В глубине страны, на границе Каскадных гор, армию захватчиков удалось остановить. Сержант-майор Таннер раскрывает секрет быстрого успеха врага. На вооружении корейцев была новая версия ЭМИ-генератора, который вывел из строя все электронное оборудование. За его разработкой стоят российские специалисты. При этом у противника есть мобильные телефоны, способные работать в условиях подавления связи. Росомахи соглашаются организовать нападение на полицейский участок врага и захватить образец подобного устройства для разведки.

Операция проходит успешно. Однако при отходе группу начинает преследовать российский спецназ. Один из «росомах» Дэррил догадывается, что их так легко нашли благодаря устройству слежения, но не может быстро найти «маячок». Дэррил остается прикрывать отход группы и вероятно погибает. Чемодан с телефоном передают Таннеру, и тот собирается переправить его в глубь страны, в «Свободные Штаты». Группа остается в лесу и собирается продолжить свою борьбу.

В ролях

Съёмки
Съёмки проходили в 2009 году в Калифорнии, Мичигане и Спокане (Вашингтон). Изначально по переработанному сценарию в США вторгаются китайские войска, но позже, дабы не потерять китайскую прокатную кассу, национальность захватчиков изменили.

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GREENSBURG, PA – Yesterday the Board of Directors of the National Fraternity of Kappa Delta Rho, Inc voted to grant a charter to both the Iota Provisional Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho at Bucknell University and the Theta Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. The founders of both chapters have shown that they are dedicated to living a life of honor and making a positive impact in their college communities. The Iota Chapter charter will be presented the weekend of April 11, 2014 while the Theta Alpha charter will be presented at a yet to be determined date in 2014. Inquires about attending the chartering ceremony should be directed to the respective chapter.
The Iota Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho was founded on November 10, 1921 and was reactivated as a result of hard work by the provisional chapter as well as a strong partnership between the Iota Alumni Corporation and the National Office that allowed for an Educational Leadership Instructor to be based out of Lewisburg, PA where Bucknell is located. The Provisional Chapter submitted their 78 page petition to the National Office for consideration on November 4th, little less than a year after a Group of Intent was recognized at Bucknell University. The 40 honorable men who petitioned from Bucknell will add new lustre to our name as Brothers of the recolonized Iota Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho.
The Theta Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho was founded on April 4, 1981 and their return marks years of hard work by the membership of the provisional chapter. Their 53 page petition to the National Office demonstrated their successes and growth over the past three years. The 38 honorable men who petitioned from Slippery Rock University on June 17th will add new lustre to our name as Brothers of the recolonized Theta Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho.
Kappa Delta Rho is an American college social fraternity spread throughout the United States. The fraternity places emphasis on Fellowship, Leadership, Scholarship, Service, and Tradition. Kappa Delta Rho's open motto is "Honor Super Omnia", or "Honor Above All Things". More information about Kappa Delta Rho can be found online at http://www.kdr.com. The Iota Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho may be contacted by emailing iota@kdr.com. The Theta Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho may be contacted by emailing theta.alpha@kdr.com.


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home › News › UM x Okami by Yash Gangwal December 8, 2021
We love celebrating Indian Street Culture and we are always on the lookout for cool new artists. Mumbai-based graffiti artist and next-door art nerd Okami - grew up spending most of his time on the Internet, creating digital and conventional art. A computer engineer by profession his art follows an object-oriented approach like software with a heavy influence from Japanese culture.
So, when we spotted Okami's work, on a busy street corner in Mahim, we knew we had to work with him.
Tell us a bit about yourself? How did you develop your style?
Thanks to the media I consumed, I was always aware of graffiti but I had not familiarised myself with the graffiti scene in India. I always assumed that some artists from abroad came here, took some special permission from the government thanks to their reputation/portfolio, and did as they liked. So I never really gave much thought to it. Then as life went on, I focused on my other interest - technology, and eventually became a computer engineer.
The art I made always had this object-oriented approach like software. The code I wrote always had some Easter eggs in the form of ASCII-art or some obscure UI design and so does my art.
How'd you first gravitate towards graffiti and what motivated you when you began?
My experience as a Software Architect made me realize that social media is a simulacrum of the scene on the streets. I decided to document my art and start a social media art account sometime in the mid-2010s. Through that process, I discovered the Indian graffiti scene, and it all clicked.
You put your thoughts out there for the whole world to see and, in effect, leave your mark on society
- Okami
Around that time, I was working on a project abroad in a different timezone and used to leave work by 1-2 AM. Not a single soul in sight. That was the perfect time to make the streets my canvas. I bought a couple of cans and started dropping tags along my work route back home. Eventually, tags became throwies, throwies became fleshed-out pieces, and here we are!
What kept you going and how did it shape you?
There was no social media algorithm to decide my reach or any centralized system to store/monitor my art. I got to choose my walls and set in motion the butterfly effect of who my audience could be. There were only two factors at play- probability and myself.
How was the collaboration with Urban Monkey unique to you?
My collaboration with Urban Monkey has been a unique experience right from the beginning. Since I maintain a rather dystopian,conflict-centric view about the world, they tend to show up in my art, in the form of washed-out colors and expressions of conflict.
For this collection, I learned to incline myself towards positivity and celebrations of street culture, and it's honestly been such a breath of fresh air! That and it also helped me elevate my creation to a whole new standard, where it's not just about expressing myself but at the same time, making it inherently more appealing. Which I haven't done much before.
Graffiti to me is the purest, adulteration-free means of self-expression
What was the concept / ideology behind this collaboration?
I take pride in my South-East Asian background and personally, my inclinations are anti-colonial and anti-oriental in nature with a lot of inspiration from Japanese culture. So, the theme behind the collaboration was to create a fusion of my feudal Japanese-inspired art style and iconic aspects of the hip-hop culture in India - Be it skating, dancing, or simply dressing up with swag for street cred.
What is Indian streetwear according to you?
Now I won't pretend or claim that I am someone who has a deeper understanding of 'Indian Streetwear' or 'Streetwear' at that matter. For me, Indian Streetwear is synonymous with Indian Street Scene. It has its influences from the west, but the desi tadka is what makes it unique.
Indian Streetwear should be raw and experimental with a throwback to western hip-hop while maintaining that desi tadka
What does the word Graffiti mean to you?
Graffiti to me is the purest, adulteration-free means of self-expression. I am not an outgoing or even moderately social person, so I put my name out there for the world to see. It wasn't given to me by anyone, nor do I have any legal right to be called or known as Okami. I built it up from scratch and made it my identity. And for the very same reason, I respect everyone out there who did or is doing the same.
You can view more of Okami's work and contact him via Instagram
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Villages in Mannargudi taluk, Thiruvarur district
List of villages in Mannargudi taluka or tehesil is listed below. Please click on a village link to view every detail of the village. Mannargudi is under the Thiruvarur district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.
141 Nemmeli
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Ethakkudi Ethakkudi is a Village in Mannargudi Taluk in Thiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu State, India It is located 28 KM towards west from District head quarters Tiruvarur 328 KM from State capital Chennai Ethakkudi Pin code is...
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Idayar Embethvi Idayar Embethvi is a Village in Mannargudi Taluk in Thiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu State, India It is located 28 KM towards west from District head quarters Tiruvarur 328 KM from State capital Chennai Idayar Em...
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Lessons from the Company that Figured Out Remote Work On a Global Scale Before the Pandemic Hit
Due to Covid-19, companies were forced to adjust and accommodate working from home for the safety of their employees. One unexpected outcome was the newfound success of remote work, namely increased productivity, which led many business leaders to consider shifting full time to remote or hybrid workplaces. Nevertheless, companies continue to struggle to design a permanent change in their business structure.
Lingble, on the other hand, barely noticed any changes within their company during the pandemic. Why? Because their business was built on the foundation of remote work, far prior to the pandemic.
BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF REMOTE WORK
When Alejandro Vargas and Mahoto Harada, co-founders of Lingble, started the e-commerce solutions company, they consciously chose to build in the remote work factor. As a result, Lingble became a company that can run all sites on their platform for their clients 24/7, with multi-country development team support and round-the-clock customer care in a multitude of languages.
"For a cross-border eCommerce company operating on a global level, a diverse and multicultural workforce literally comes with the territory; we knew that remote work was the only way to get the team that we wanted." said Alejandro Vargas. "We also believed that this was the future of work and we were on the same page about its benefits, including the significant cost savings," added Mahoto Harada.
KEY TAKEAWAYS TO EMBRACE REMOTE WORK
The co-founders of Lingble who successfully built a fully remote company shared the following three key takeaways to help others to embrace remote work:
Throw out your preconceived notions of what a workplace should look like – you have to accept that you will not be able to have full control of your physical environment.
Develop a goal-oriented culture of ownership, with management methodologies such as Agile, even if your company is not in the technology sector.
Remember that there are no "coffee breaks with colleagues" in a remote work environment, making it even more important to provide opportunities for people to connect on a personal level, to not only generate comradery but also to build a unique culture.
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I was going to write something on Political Correctness and Multiculturalism at Petri Dish today but my mood is definitely in Origami Land so we'll come here today.
Maybe it's always been there. Well, of course it has but it was inaccessible much of the time, even though I knew it was there. I am talking about the 'presence' of the divine. A fellow for whom I was developing an incremental degree of affection took me to task for what amounted to a problem of syntax. It could have been gender specific too. Whatever it was, it was an insurmountable problem for the fellow and I regret what followed as a result.
I had apparently given the impression that I did not view the divine as a personality. This, of course, is not true. I talk to the divine and, I can assure you, when I do it is very definitely a being. I talk to the divine ineffable the same way I talk to you. I might say different things and the relationship may be different but it is a 'living being' and I have manifested all the degrees of positive and negative passion in respect of it on my way to the moment I am in.
However, if the divine is all in all, then the divine is in everything; sleeping in the rock, dreaming less deeply, as he goes up through the plant, the animal and the human being, until realized as himself in the consciousness of anyone in whom he awakens and even here, it is a matter of degrees. Not all realization is the same. Some are more fully realized than others and every master, no matter how wise or realized, has a master still and is a master only to the degree that he/she allows the one all pervading master to move freely within. We obtain mastery in only one way... submission. Call it surrender if that seems less obsequious. After all, there's your pride to consider.
I try to stay away from religious terminology because I do not want to alienate anyone who might prefer a different icon or manifest garment in which one clothes the invisible ineffable to suit their upbringing or their tastes. The One is resident in all and therefore there is no conflict. I am partial to Krishna as the supreme personality but that's just me. I am also drawn to Tara and other personifications of the mother, depending on my state of mind and also to the Amitabha Buddha and Lord Ganapati. It's like having a family or a circle of friends. They're all the same being but the seeming differences makes for a larger group. It's like Christmas dinner. It's far nicer to have a dozen people around the table rather than just two.
In one of my songs, "The Love", there is the line, "One love falls and breaks into pieces everywhere and one love collects them all again." This is what is going on. The divine manifested itself into many expressions for the purpose of seeking itself and gathers all the parts of itself back together in the process. Some pieces are gathered earlier and that is the preferable thing for any sane mind. Any sane mind would, perforce, be considered insane by the world and those in whom the world holds sway.
I said in a fairly recent posting that I had been engaged in various spiritual practices over the course of my life. Some of them lasted longer than others. Some I engaged in and then left by the side of the road and some came and went and came again. Over the last several years I have been through a series of relationships that were each intense for their time.
One of the jobs that Tara performs (and this posting is not about Tara), besides protection, is to route you to the Supreme Being. She takes you in hand and arranges for conditions that make you ready for the encounter. She presents you to your guru who is the particular mask worn by the divine ineffable for the purpose of conferring realization.
I have been at pains asking her again and again for this and it has brought me to a curious place for which I have a great gratitude. Over the course of this period I have become more and more aware of the concept of 'presence'. Brother Lawrence wrote a powerful little book called, "The Practice of the Presence of God". It's well worth your time, as is "The Door to Everything" by Ruby Nelson.
During the last 16 months, I have experienced various periods of deep unease and discomfort. I wouldn't know how to describe it but you are all familiar with similar things in your own lives. Recently, I had another one of these inexplicable misfortunes and it came at a time when I was trying very hard to reach the goal. These times have come no matter how devoted or well behaved I might have been seeking to be. It caused a sense of hopelessness now and again as if nothing I could do would make the slightest difference in what happened to me. That may be true. Luckily (if it is luck) for me, I am an irrepressible sort and just can't stay down for very long. It's just not in my nature. So, I always get back up and press forward with confidence and faith.
Over the last however long it's been (grin) when I lay down in bed at night my mind turns immediately to the divine and I find myself saying things like, "I know you are there and I know you hear me. I know you have given me distractions the way a mother does with a child when it is pestering her. Sometimes these distractions have worked for a little while but they never last. I am incapable of being distracted for long and you know this.
"It could be that you are testing me to see my resolve and you might be busy but I don't think it's the latter. I have been asking you to give me your presence but I am realizing that you are always present and that I am not asking as precisely as I might. What I want is for you to awaken me to your presence. I want you to make it possible for me to be aware of your presence at all times and in all places. You are already here. Please make it possible for me to perceive that. I don't want anything else. You know this. You know my heart and you know that nothing else will satisfy this need which I realize you placed in me to begin with.
"I understand that you could- and possibly will- create more powerful and attractive distractions but I don't think even they will work now. I have looked at them and I see the downside before I see the upside and there is not much upside to any of it. Grant me the ability to feel your presence. You know it is my inheritance. You know I will be given this, sooner or later, so give it to me now".
There's more than that, of course. It goes on for hours. I find myself waking up as many as six or more times in the night and being immediately engaged in it; coming right out of whatever dream I am in... right back into it. There may be several hours before I fall asleep initially and I am pressing with a strong intensity in this way; the mind is pointed, the heart is inflamed and the body is contracting and digging into itself. The combination of all three is collectively much greater than the sum of the parts.
You have read in various scriptures some permutation of, "seek me with your whole heart, your whole mind, your whole being". In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna says, "Success is speedy for the energetic". Those are powerful words and they are true words. Many people scoff and mock but they have not tested the thing. They have not given it everything or even been capable of small disappointments, much less the greater challenges that take us to the point of letting go of everything, as we must or... we shall not arrive. We shall not arrive otherwise.
The reason I am even mentioning this is because of certain things that have been happening because of it ...and I won't elaborate on them. For some reason, it is much more accessible and much more possible now than it has ever been and I cannot remember many times in my life when I found myself in states of being I could not have visited previously without psychedelic booster rockets.
It really is happening and it is there for any who might desire it more than they do whatever else is available; on a showroom floor, in a room of glitter, in a velvet box, a velvet outfit, wrapped in plastic or made out of it altogether. Many of us are experiencing grave trial and internal torment fueled by the negative emotions we have brought with us in our luggage. Toss your luggage in the sea and set your heart free. Press on within from this dream that holds you captive and see if you are not heard and answered in some fashion. Our difficulties here are of no real matter because all of this is temporary anyway. Some creations are not temporary and you are one of them.
The New Shangri-La (here we build the community in virtual space until the concept begins to crystallize and precipitate down into manifestation).
I don't know if conditions and events come in waves or cycles. Maybe they come in cycles and there are waves within them or maybe there is cycling going on in the waves; like the Tour De France under water or something. What I do know is that things come and go and sometimes the same kinds of events and conditions pop up all over the place. It happens in the world and it probably happens in outer space. I know it happens in inner space and I know it happens at blogs.
I know at these blogs, as I have observed in my life, that sometimes those events and conditions are triggered by me and sometimes not. Sometimes I trigger them intentionally and sometimes not. I haven't figured out what to do about any of it. I haven't figured out what to call the ineffable divine or what shape or personality to keep in mind because that changes too. What I have discovered is that just keeping it in mind seems to work better than running around confused about what he or she is. I've been given to understand that I will never figure that out anyway and that all I do know about the matter usually explains itself in human terms or some element of Nature, unless the super conscious comes into play and then it's all about serpents. They coil up and that could imply cycles but they also move in waves so... let's not get any further up the road with this at the moment.
In the blog world just like in real life, sometimes we're on the mark and sometimes we're not. In these days there are a lot of people running around calling themselves 'healers' but they aren't healing anybody, not even themselves. There are a lot of people running around calling themselves teachers and sometimes they teach you something and usually, in the process, they teach you about themselves too. Hard times are circling the planet and suffering seems to be at an all time high. Hypocrisy and self interest are epidemic and even in the midst of great tragedies you see them as the greatest by product.
It's easy to become depressed and looking forward the indication is that much worse is on the horizon. I've seen these things come and go in my own life and buckled beneath the weight of it a couple of times in recent memory.
In the process of going through what I have had to go through, or put myself through I've resorted to a number of different practices in hopes of keeping certain forces at bay. It's hard to know if these forces are visiting themselves upon you from external locations or rising up from within. We are told that the planets which pass by one another in the solar system create aspects which affect the human condition in positive and negative ways. We are told these planets are also located within us in locations known as chakras or 'interior stars'. Depending on when we were born and where we are at the time, different pressures come upon us. I've looked into this science and come to believe there's something to it but when you consult people who have studied this science of planetary relationships you never hear the same thing from any two of them. What is one to think?
I've studied the various religious traditions and their exoteric and esoteric aspects and I've spent considerable time studying certain hidden traditions and there are similarities in all of them but all of them are different. I've studied with certain teachers from different traditions; in person and at a distance through their written works. Some of them had already departed long before I got here this time so there was no great chance of running into them, although I did manage to meet some of them on other planes of being for brief periods of time and I have had the sense of being overshadowed by entities on occasion who have advised and protected me. At least it seemed so. Still, I don't know much more about any of it; how or why it happens.
These teachers had different perspectives and ways of saying and doing things. I've looked into teachers whose work had no affect on me at all and quite the opposite at other times. Others have gotten a great deal from the former, or say they have and nothing from the latter. Life's a big place. Death is a mystery. Birth is at one end and death at the other and I suppose that implies cycles or waves again. I don't see much that moves in a straight line for too long before it bends one way or another and I suspect that should tell us something if we were inclined to listen.
For as long as recorded history has been around there have been orders, brotherhoods, schools of thought, which have influenced the human theater of operations. Some of them are secret societies that involve initiation rites and levels of awareness that go deeper and deeper into the peculiar path or understanding upon which they are based. These days there are an increasing number of people who think all of these societies are evil. The ancient sign of an awakened kundalini has come to signify evil because certain corrupt leaders are seen flashing what is called, 'the Devil's Horns'. I've been taught that everything the dark side has appropriated, it has stolen from the fellowships of light and then perverted the knowledge for purposes of self-interest or harm to others.
It stands to reason that, if there are dark fellowships, then there must be fellowships of light. It stands to reason just the same way that day follows night. However, these days there are more and more people who believe all these organizations are evil. I've heard people say that the Tibetan lamas were evil and it was a good thing the Chinese got after them; as if the Chinese brought something better to Tibet afterwards.
I've had people get after me for embracing Eastern Thought because there is some kind of rule I never heard of which demands I stay within the precepts of Western thought, which leaves me cold. I've noticed an increasing cynicism, accompanied by a perception of knowing everything, without even having experienced it. I could go on at length about the things I notice and observe but I've done that already more times than I can remember.
What I have found lately and been aware of for a lot of my life is that the real teachers, traditions and fellowships, known and unknown, have only one purpose and that is to bring you into the presence of the divine within you. They accomplish this in many different ways. Sometimes they hit you with a bamboo stick and sometimes they trigger awareness through a sequence of thought. Sometimes they get you there by removing thought altogether. I've noticed that a few people seem to get it but most don't. Most just want to hang around the teacher as if somehow the presence within was the presence without. I can understand how they might be both but it does seem to me that the primary thing of value is what awakens or comes forward from within.
I think I've had several purposes in mind in writing this today/this evening. One of them is to say that I am finding an increasing comfort in simply practicing presence without much attending it in terms of ritual or tradition. I keep bringing my mind back to it whatever I am doing and reminding myself that I'm not actually doing anything; that there's only one primary mover.
I keep reminding myself that I don't actually know anything. I don't know if the hidden government actually caused the Haitian earthquake. I don't doubt their capacity for violence on a massive scale. You can see what they've done in Iraq and Afghanistan. There's no doubt that there are some bad- or miss-'guided' people around. We are in a dark age and the appearance of darkness is greater than the appearance of light. This, by no means, is evidence that the darkness is stronger than the light. Any time light appears the darkness recedes. The trick of it is to have a light. If you don't, then the darkness could appear to overwhelm you, make you believe you were like it or manipulate you through fear of it.
If you had that light, which I think of in terms of the awakened divine within, then you wouldn't need to be concerned with the darkness unless you set your light aside, or didn't have a light... unless you were following someone with a light... like a teacher, perhaps. Still, it's so much better to have your own light, which you only get by a continuous practice of the presence. It's kind of like a bicycle generator if you are peddling around at night, which seems to imply some effort on our part or maybe it only seems like that because as long as we think we're peddling there's effort in it and maybe even personal satisfaction too and maybe that leads into darkness, I just don't know.
I get so tired of hearing about how evil everyone is. I get tired of hearing that everyone I ever mention; someone thinks is a tool of the darkness. They can't all be tools of the darkness. All these societies can't be devilish. It doesn't work like that. I think people are gravely misleading themselves by knowing everything all the time, including people they've never met, places they've never been and things they're never done. I'm going to try to undo my knowing with a little positive unknowing and the greater presence of what we must all be in truth once we let this little self ...and what little it thinks it knows ...let go into that greater self that knows it all.... governs it all and composes it all and is the very essence of light.
There will be a radio show tomorrow night. Follow the usual procedures.


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Đoàn Kiến Quốc (born March 24, 1979 in Nha Trang) is a Vietnamese table tennis player. He won a gold medal, along with his partner Dinh Quang Linh in the men's doubles, at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, Laos. As of November 2012, he is ranked no. 275 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Doan is also left-handed, and uses the shakehand grip.

Doan made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's singles. He lost the first preliminary round match to a Chinese-born Italian table tennis player Yang Min, with a set score of 1–4.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Doan qualified for the second time in the men's singles, after receiving a ticket from the Southeast Asian Qualification Tournament in Singapore. Unlike his previous Olympics, Doan defeated Australia's David Zalcberg and Olympic veteran Christophe Legoût of France in the preliminary rounds, before losing out his next match to Russia's Alexei Smirnov, with another set score of 1–4.

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 NBC Olympics Profile

Vietnamese table tennis players
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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People from Nha Trang
1979 births
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Table tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games
Southeast Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Vietnam
Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Vietnam
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Studying the solution behavior of DNA and DNA sliding clamps using various fluorescence techniques
Solution conformations and dynamics of proteins and protein-DNA complexes are often difficult to predict from their crystal structures. The crystal structure only shows a snapshot of the different conformations these biological molecules can have in solution. Multiple different conformations can…
Solution conformations and dynamics of proteins and protein-DNA complexes are often difficult to predict from their crystal structures. The crystal structure only shows a snapshot of the different conformations these biological molecules can have in solution. Multiple different conformations can exist in solution and potentially have more importance in the biological activity. DNA sliding clamps are a family of proteins with known crystal structures. These clamps encircle the DNA and enable other proteins to interact more efficiently with the DNA. Eukaryotic PCNA and prokaryotic β clamp are two of these clamps, some of the most stable homo-oligomers known. However, their solution stability and conformational equilibrium have not been investigated in depth before. Presented here are the studies involving two sliding clamps: yeast PCNA and bacterial β clamp. These studies show that the β clamp has a very different solution stability than PCNA. These conclusions were reached through various different fluorescence-based experiments, including fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), single molecule fluorescence, and various time resolved fluorescence techniques. Interpretations of these, and all other, fluorescence-based experiments are often affected by the properties of the fluorophores employed. Often the fluorescence properties of these fluorophores are influenced by their microenvironments. Fluorophores are known to sometimes interact with biological molecules, and this can have pronounced effects on the rotational mobility and photophysical properties of the dye. Misunderstanding the effect of these photophysical and rotational properties can lead to a misinterpretation of the obtained data. In this thesis, photophysical behaviors of various organic dyes were studied in the presence of deoxymononucleotides to examine more closely how interactions between fluorophores and DNA bases can affect fluorescent properties. Furthermore, the properties of cyanine dyes when bound to DNA and the effect of restricted rotation on FRET are presented in this thesis. This thesis involves studying fluorophore photophysics in various microenvironments and then expanding into the solution stability and dynamics of the DNA sliding clamps.
Ranjit, Suman (Author)
Levitus, Marcia (Thesis advisor)
Lindsay, Stuart (Committee member)
Yan, Hao (Committee member)
A low-energy, low-cost field deployable sampler for microbial DNA profiling
Filtration for microfluidic sample-collection devices is desirable for sample selection, concentration, preprocessing, and downstream manipulation, but microfabricating the required sub-micrometer filtration structure is an elaborate process. This thesis presents a simple method to fabricate polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) devices with an integrated…
Filtration for microfluidic sample-collection devices is desirable for sample selection, concentration, preprocessing, and downstream manipulation, but microfabricating the required sub-micrometer filtration structure is an elaborate process. This thesis presents a simple method to fabricate polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) devices with an integrated membrane filter that will sample, lyse, and extract the DNA from microorganisms in aqueous environments. An off-the-shelf membrane filter disc was embedded in a PDMS layer and sequentially bound with other PDMS channel layers. No leakage was observed during filtration. This device was validated by concentrating a large amount of cyanobacterium Synechocystis in simulated sample water with consistent performance across devices. After accumulating sufficient biomass on the filter, a sequential electrochemical lysing process was performed by applying 5VDC across the filter. This device was further evaluated by delivering several samples of differing concentrations of cyanobacterium Synechocystis then quantifying the DNA using real-time PCR. Lastly, an environmental sample was run through the device and the amount of photosynthetic microorganisms present in the water was determined. The major breakthroughs in this design are low energy demand, cheap materials, simple design, straightforward fabrication, and robust performance, together enabling wide-utility of similar chip-based devices for field-deployable operations in environmental micro-biotechnology.
Lecluse, Aurelie (Author)
Meldrum, Deirdre (Thesis advisor)
Chao, Joseph (Thesis advisor)
Westerhoff, Paul (Committee member)
The population history of the Caribbean: perspectives from ancient and modern DNA analysis
Although the Caribbean has been continuously inhabited for the last 7,000 years, European contact in the last 500 years dramatically reshaped the cultural and genetic makeup of island populations. Several recent studies have explored the genetic diversity of Caribbean Latinos…
Although the Caribbean has been continuously inhabited for the last 7,000 years, European contact in the last 500 years dramatically reshaped the cultural and genetic makeup of island populations. Several recent studies have explored the genetic diversity of Caribbean Latinos and have characterized Native American variation present within their genomes. However, the difficulty of obtaining ancient DNA from pre-contact populations and the underrepresentation of non-Latino Caribbean islanders in current research have prevented a complete understanding of genetic variation over time and space in the Caribbean basin. This dissertation uses two approaches to characterize the role of migration and admixture in the demographic history of Caribbean islanders. First, autosomal variants were genotyped in a sample of 55 Afro-Caribbeans from five islands in the Lesser Antilles: Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Trinidad, and St. Vincent. These data were used to characterize genetic structure, ancestry and signatures of selection in these populations. The results demonstrate a complex pattern of admixture since European contact, including a strong signature of sex-biased mating and inputs from at least five continental populations to the autosomal ancestry of Afro-Caribbean peoples. Second, ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA were obtained from 60 skeletal remains, dated between A.D. 500–1300, from three archaeological sites in Puerto Rico: Paso del Indio, Punta Candelero and Tibes. The ancient data were used to reassesses existing models for the peopling of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean and to examine the extent of genetic continuity between ancient and modern populations. Project findings support a largely South American origin for Ceramic Age Caribbean populations and identify some genetic continuity between pre and post contact islanders. The above study was aided by development and testing of extraction methods optimized for recovery of ancient DNA from tropical contexts. Overall, project findings characterize how ancient indigenous groups, European colonial regimes, the African Slave Trade and modern labor movements have shaped the genomic diversity of Caribbean islanders. In addition to its anthropological and historical importance, such knowledge is also essential for informing the identification of medically relevant genetic variation in these populations.
Nieves Colón, Maria (Author)
Stone, Anne C (Thesis advisor)
Pestle, William J. (Committee member)
Benn-Torres, Jada (Committee member)
Stojanowski, Christopher (Committee member)
Benn-Torres, Jada 1
Chao, Joseph 1
Lecluse, Aurelie 1
Levitus, Marcia 1
Lindsay, Stuart 1
Meldrum, Deirdre 1
Nieves Colón, Maria 1
Pestle, William J. 1
Ranjit, Suman 1
Stojanowski, Christopher 1
Stone, Anne C 1
Westerhoff, Paul 1
Yan, Hao 1
Environmental engineering 211
Chemistry 210
Educational leadership 201
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