What is Bioleninism? — Chad Crowley

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King Charles sees 11 of his 12 ‘overwhelmed and underpaid’ gardeners quit Highgrove

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The entire Middle East is undergoing a tectonic shift. There’s regional understanding, and enforcement that all conflicts must end.

GREAT BRITAIN: We Are The Shield. Protecting Children. Standing for the Innocent

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‘Humanism and critical theory as applied to therapy are incompatible frameworks’ — Naomi Best

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Illustrates how easy it is to break down what someone else built

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Trump on sweeping ‘travel restrictions’ on visitors to USA

President Donald Trump has announced widespread bans and restrictions for visitors from 19 countries while simultaneously issuing a warning that Egypt could be next.

Nationals of Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be barred from entering the United States under the new order, which goes into effect on June 9.

Citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted from traveling, removing access to all immigrant visas and several non-immigrant travel options.

Trump also issued a warning that Egypt could soon join the no-fly list in the wake of the Colorado terror attack in which an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa allegedly set fire to pro-Israel demonstrators.

‘We don’t want ’em,’ Trump said bluntly in a video released shortly after the ban was announced.  

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How smiling is understood in Russia

Russians do not smile at strangers

Russia is a collective culture, consisting of ’in-groups’. Russians do smile at people they know. Shop assistants smile at the clients they already know, not necessarily at others.

If you smile at a stranger in Russia, he/she can smile back, but it can already mean an invitation to come and talk. Russians take smiling as a sign that the person cares about them. To smile at a stranger can raise the question:” Do we know each other?”

You see two behaviours in one person in Russia: formal – unsmiling is for ’them’ (strangers); friendly – smiling for ’us’ (friends, people he/she knows). Some Russians skip to friendlier behaviour after a shorter time. You can consider yourself accepted when people you have met begin smiling at you.

Real feeling – not fake

Smiling in Russia usually shows the real good mood and good relationship between people, as it is not used as a form of politeness. When a Russian smiles at you, he/she really cares about you or is genuinely in a good mood.

How to smile

Russians prefer not to show their teeth too much when smiling. Showing your upper and lower teeth when smiling, looks a bit vulgar, a horse grin to Russians.

Smiling without a reason

Others must understand the reason of smiling in Russia. If they don’t, it is considered strange. They start wondering what is behind the smile. Perhaps they interpret that the person who ”keeps smiling” is a bit simple or stupid. All Russians know the saying: “The laugh without reason – is the sign of stupidity” (“Smeh bez prichiny – priznak durachiny”)

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Pretty sure if was in Kumarajiva’s Commentary on the Great Perfection of Wisdom that I read a passage about how a man should not show his teeth when smiling; a smile should be demure or none at all. Smiles can be understood very differently in different places. ABN

Rise, sunshine! Latvian pagan song

The Baltic languages Latvian and Lithuanian have preserved to this day the world’s oldest versions of spoken Indo-Aryan. They are remarkably similar to ancient Sanskrit. This song shows the continuity of culture, language, and spirituality from ancient times to today, still remembered and felt in this part of Europe. ABN