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A reflection on the challenges and joys of practicing medicine as a Catholic physician: God often leads us on paths we could not have imagined, and there is a beauty in the surrender to His will. The practice of medicine is increasingly challenging and yet we are called to shine brightly and to live out our vocations without fear, as stumbling blocks to our colleagues. Written from the perspective of a first-year resident in general surgery, this essay is a collection of experiences aimed at inspiring hope and providing encouragement to other Catholic physicians on our collective journey through the practice of medicine as a vocation. Summary: A collection of short stories from medical school, graduate school and the first year of residency, with reflections on the personal transformation that occurs along the journey of practicing as a Catholic physician scientist.

This article discusses whether a recognition mechanism based on a relationship of trust sustains surrender under the EU-UK tca. Having framed the main features of the new judicial cooperation arrangements, the article firstly shows that the EU-UK Arrest Warrant entails a brand-new form of recognition of custodial decisions, labelled as recognition à la carte. Secondly, the article underlines that this form of recognition is grounded on a specific relationship of trust, different from the one governing the afsj, framed as mutual core trust. Finally, the paper discusses the enhanced role of the ECtHR in reviewing the application of the EU-UK Arrest Warrant, thus illustrating why ecj case-law concerning the eaw system could play a major role in shaping the Strasbourg Court’s reasoning.

During spin class, the author of this paper thinks into her resistance to letting go of her marriage. She finds herself thinking about a politics of surrender that is not necessarily the opposite of resistance but rather a necessary precondition to a particular quality of resistance that has the potential to lead to a more expansive and inclusive activism. As she looks around the class, and falls into rhythm with those around her, she realized that this inclusive activism could lead perhaps to a more intimate solidarity.

Case overview Odds & Edge, a micro venture based in Ahmedabad, India, has created a niche for itself in the affordable designer wear segment. Covid-19 induced lockdown pushed Odds & Edge to the brink of collapse. And because of the severe cash crunch partners need to take a call regarding the continuation or closure of the venture. The case is intended to be discussed in an entrepreneurship class for post-graduate level participants. The case setting is inside Odds & Edge and it was May 01, 2020, when Ms Jheel Jain - a partner & the protagonist, needed to decide the future of the venture. Participants will have a brief understanding of entrepreneurial traits and will also learn about the Ansoff Model of expansion in case of continuation and the different exit choices for an entrepreneur. As Odds & Edge operates in the fashion industry, students will be able to understand the concepts such as Ecopreneurship, Circular Economy, and Trashion. The case follows through the background of Ms Jain, the ideation stage, and the players in the Trashion Industry. It then moves on to the operation of Odds & Edge narrating the process, products, and partners of the venture. The case ends with the decision dilemma for Ms Jain i.e. should she continue? If yes then how could Odds and Edge expand & grow? Or Should Jheel surrender and exit? If yes then what are the probable exit choices for her? Learning objectives 1. to understand the concept of Ecopreneurship, Circular Economy and Trashion; 2. to identify and discuss common entrepreneurial traits; 3. to analyze the Ansoff Matrix for exploration of various expansion/growth strategies; and 4. to understand different exit strategies available to an entrepreneur. Complexity academic level The case is intended to be discussed in an entrepreneurship class for post-graduate level participants. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CCS 3: Entrepreneurship.

Disaster events – which can arise from meteorologic, geologic, technologic, or biologic hazards – have long served as sites to investigate socio-behavioral phenomena. Their disruption to and suspen...

Independence and critical thinking are crucial for survival in our contemporary world. Learners and new teachers in training should be trusted to discover and develop their own voice in teaching and learning and be encouraged to surrender expectation to produce predetermined outcomes by strictly following scripted curriculum because it is detrimental to learners and teachers alike as it does not foster independence and critical thinking. Through engaging in creative teaching and learning practices that encourage imagination, questioning, observation and reflection we can see beyond what is perceived as normal and understandable and seek new ways to interpret reality and experience things of everyday life as well as learn to listen to our students and support them in their own discovery., L’indépendance et la pensée critique sont cruciales pour la survie dans notre monde contemporain. Il faut avoir confiance que les apprenants et les nouveaux enseignants découvriront et développeront leur propre voix en enseignement et en apprentissage et qu’ils seront encouragés à abandonner l’attente de produire des résultats prédéterminés en suivant strictement le programme d’études, qui ne favorise pas l’autonomie et l’esprit critique. En nous engageant dans des pratiques d’enseignement et d’apprentissage créatives qui encouragent l’imagination, le questionnement, l’observation et la réflexion, nous pouvons voir au-delà du normal et compréhensible. Nous pourrons alors découvrir de nouvelles façons d’interpréter la réalité et de vivre le quotidien ainsi qu’apprendre à écouter à nos étudiants et les accompagner dans leurs propres découvertes.

The Ministry of ATR/BPN organizes land registration innovations based on the national strategic program, namely PTSL. The implementation of PTSL aims at accelerating land registration in a fair and equitable manner, including anticipating disputes in the field of utilization and spatial planning. One important issue is the dispute over road access. The Land Office of Bekasi Regency applies a policy of implementing servituut rights in land registration activities as an anticipation of disputes related to road access. This research was conducted to understand the implementation of servituut rights as the actualization of the social function of land in the PTSL program at the Bekasi Regency Land Office. This study uses empirical legal research methods. The results of the research show that the implementation of the servituut rights policy is motivated by the dualism of road status, the existence of regional development and land acquisition, and the relatively high land value. The implementation of the policy has undergone a change in meaning, from restrictions on land use to the obligation to surrender some land rights. For PTSL participants who agree to give up part of their rights for roads, the administration of the transfer of rights is carried out in a Declaration Letter on Land Boundaries and Land Areas. For those who disagree, the plot of land is included in the K3 category and a land register is made.

The denuclearisation of North Korea is unlikely. Neither pressure nor rewards will persuade North Korean decision-makers to surrender their nuclear weapons because they have good reasons to see den...

Reverse mortgages are a financial tool for lower-income seniors to release home equity and increase their retirement income. In the United States, reverse mortgages are generally insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) through the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, which protects borrowers from owing more than the value of their house. Previous research on reverse mortgage valuation typically focuses on mortgage termination risks related to mortality and morbidity, but few studies explore the impact of early surrender on the entire risk profile of reverse mortgages. To fill this gap, we propose a utility approach to investigate borrowers’ surrender behavior. We explore how a surrender-and-refinance strategy affects the cash flows of the HECM insurance program and also assess its tail risk.

This study aims to review the totality of love in Rabia'ah Al Adawiyah's poetry based on the semiotic perspective of Charles Sanders Peirce, namely icon, index, and symbol. The research process was carried out using a descriptive-qualitative method. The results found that there were two forms of icons, eight forms of indexes, and three forms of symbols which were analyzed from the seven poems mentioned in the study. The form of totality of love by Rabi'ah's love is described by of index and symbol. The author concludes that from the eight indexes, the totality of love described by sacrifice, willingness, a sense of closeness, fear of making mistakes, unwillingness to rewards, and unwillingness to another. The totality of love in symbols form is described by word "drunk" which sometimes makes self forgetting and also “prayer” as an effort to completely surrender to God. Keywords: Poetry, Semiotics, Totally of Love, Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengulas bentuk totalitas cinta dalam sya’ir Rabi’ah Al-Adawiyah berdasarkan perspektif semiotika Charles Sanders Peirce, yaitu ikon, indeks, dan simbol. Proses penelitian ini dijalankan dengan metode deskriptif-kualitatif. Adapun hasil yang ditemukan bahwa terdapat dua bentuk ikon, delapan bentuk indeks, dan tiga bentuk simbol yang dianalisis dari tujuh syair yang disebutkan dalam penelitian. Adapun bentuk totalitas cinta Rabi’ah tergambarkan melalui bentuk indeks dan simbol. Penulis menyimpulkan bahwa dari delapan indeks, tergambarkan totalitas cinta berupa pengorbanan, kerelaan, rasa kemelekatan, ketakutan untuk berbuat salah, ketidakpedulian terhadap imbalan, dan ketidakinginan untuk beralih kepada yang lain. Adapun totalitas cinta dalam bentuk simbol ditandai dengan adanya kata “mabuk” yang kadang kala membuat lupa akan diri sendiri dan juga ibadah sebagai upaya berserah seutuhnya kepada Allah. Kata Kunci: Syair, Semiotika, Totalitas Cinta

Purpose: The turbulent times created by the recent uncertain events give only two solutions – either surrender or fight-out. It has been the story so far for the MSMEs in India. Three events that changed the business scenario include the implementation of demonetization & GST and the pandemic-related restrictions. Survival became the only viable factor for businesses. This study dwells deeper into these three events and their influence on the adoption of digitalization by MSMEs in rural India. Methodology: Responses of the rural MSME owners were collected through a structured questionnaire containing multiple-choice questions on a 5-point Likert scale. To have better clarity, responses of 274 rural MSME owners were finally considered for the data analysis. For factor analysis of the data, the process of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was adopted with the help of IBM SPSS 25.0. To find out the validity of the model, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was performed by using IBM AMOS 21.0. Findings: It is found that the pandemic effect has the strongest significance followed by the demonetization effect on MSME owners towards the adoption of digitalization for their business. GST was implemented within a year of demonetization, so its effect is found to be non-significant. Practical Implications: The results of the study will help the government as well as IT solution providers to chalk out their strategies, products, or reforms taking into consideration the particular problems faced by MSMEs related to demonetization and pandemic closure. The outcome will also help in better implementation of the ‘Vocal for Local’ initiative. Originality: The results of the proposed study indicate that during all the three major events, the importance of digitalization has been witnessed by the MSMEs. These uncertain times have prioritized the use of digitalization not only for their survival but also to match the consumers’ demands during those periods. This study shows the importance of digitalization and will help the cup to reach the lip and both the economy and the MSME owners will be benefitted from it.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the theological meaning of Dangding Kinanti Ngahurun Balung by using Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical analysis. The method used is a type of qualitative research with literature study. The results and discussion of this research include the biography of Haji Hasan Mustapa, the text of Dangding Kinanti Ngahurun Balung and analysis of the theological meaning of Dangding Kinanti Ngahurun Balung. The conclusion of this study is that the theological meaning of Dangding Kinanti Ngahurun Balung is aware of the limitations in the quest to know God, so that humans are required to be humble before God and surrender to Him as a servant. This research is recommended for further studies on Haji Hasan Mustapa's dangding texts and the use of hermeneutics as an analytical tool, especially Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics and studies on theology.

The Treaty of Amiens, which brought an end to almost a decade of Franco-British warfare in March 1802, has long been understood as a flawed attempt at peace making. The British government’s surrender of most of its wartime colonial acquisitions, combined with a failure to push for guarantees on the Continent, has been interpreted as a meek acquiescence in France’s domination over Western Europe. The recommencement of war in May 1803 simply seems to confirm the supposition that the treaty was fundamentally inadequate. This article questions that interpretation by examining Britain’s relations with and policies towards Europe, and above all towards the Netherlands, during the period of negotiation and subsequent peace, 1800-3. It suggests that the British government did not conceive Amiens as the surrender of key interests, but as a base from which British influence could be reasserted. By looking at the context of Britain’s historical connections to the Netherlands, their experience of previous periods of relative diplomatic isolation, and the wider framework of European treaties, it is shown that British ministers had every reason to believe that the Treaty of Amiens left Britain in a reasonably strong position to limit French dominance.

Informal caregivers have a vital role in supporting and caring for family members with dementia. Caregiving is complex and may lead to psychological, physical, social and financial stress for caregivers. This article reports the findings of an integrative review that explored the literature on the psychological effect of caring for a family member with dementia at home. The article discusses four themes that were identified in the literature: 'the world shrinks'; 'surrender to the unknown'; 'robbed of the future'; and 'torn between relief and guilt'. These themes provide insight into the holistic experience of caring for a family member with dementia, revealing the positive and negative psychological effects of the role.

The type of research used in this research is normative legal research. The transfer of ownership rights to the Fiduciary Collateral Objects is handed over in a constitutum possessorium, which means that the trustworthiness of the guaranteed property (the debtor's property) is transferred to the creditor, with physical control over the goods remaining with the debtor. Where it’s agreed that the owner of the object will surrender his/her right over the object to the Fiduciary. But with a promise that the owner of the object may still use it and then hold onto the object for the Fiduciary. So the status, the person who was originally the owner, is now a borrower. In this incident, there was no real surrender, but only based on an agreement.

This study investigates valuation of guaranteed minimum maturity benefits (GMMB) in variable annuity contract in the case where the guarantees can be surrendered at any time prior to the maturity. In the event of the option being exercised early, early surrender charges will be applied. We model the underlying mutual fund dynamics under regime-switching volatility. The valuation problem can be reduced to an American option pricing problem, which is essentially an optimal stopping problem. Then, we obtain the pricing partial differential equation by a standard Markovian argument. A detailed discussion shows that the solution of the problem involves an optimal surrender boundary. The properties of the optimal surrender boundary are given. The regime-switching Volterra-type integral equation of the optimal surrender boundary is derived by probabilistic methods. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis is performed for the optimal surrender decision. In the end, we adopt the trinomial tree method to determine the optimal strategy.

The article shows that during the two decades of the 21st century, a new reality of trade and economic relations between the Russian Federation and Latin America (Latin-Caribbean America – LCA) has been formed and filled with concrete content, which, it can be argued, has passed the test of complementarity, and in a number of cases reached the level of large-scale partnership. According to the author, these relations are not artificially done geoeconomic construction, but a consequence of both objective factors that bring Russia and the LCA closer together (including in approaches to achieving the sustainable development goals and restructuring of the existing system of world economic relations), and the efforts of state bodies, business circles, representatives of the expert community interested in the development of Russian-Latin American cooperation. Of course, over the past decades the dynamics of trade and economic relations between Russia and Latin America has not always been stable, at some point it was largely lost, there was some pullback and “surrender” of some significant positions. This happened in large part because in the conditions of increased turbulence in the international markets and rapid global changes, the parties sometimes lost a promising vision of the future of Russian-Latin American economic cooperation, did not find opportunely new areas of cooperation attractive to both sides. In fact, positive introductory approaches to strengthening relations on the principles of strategic partnership have been periodically tested, especially in times of renewed international instability that has eroded the established world order. But each time the parties mobilized existing internal reserves and offered extraordinary areas of interaction. An example of the most recent time is the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, which has crossed political boundaries on the map of Latin-Caribbean America, became the core of the so called “vaccine diplomacy” and opened a “second breath” in the relationship between Russia and the LСA in the key area of business cooperation.

One year after the German surrender in World War II, an exhibition about the “Great Patriotic War” opened its doors in the regional museum of Chelyabinsk. The curators presented the visitors with a geological take on the war events: the exhibition employed a geological time frame, which started with the genesis of planet Earth, and displayed a large introductory section on natural resources of the Southern Urals, the museum’s home region. The exhibition makers reasoned that the Soviet war effort was inextricably linked to the region’s inanimate environment with its rich deposits of minerals and metals. Based on archival documents and published sources, this article explores how a narrative focusing on minerals and metals could find a place in an exhibition about the Soviet war effort. It argues that the museum director’s personal background as an earth scientist, the short-lived regional diversity of war memory in the postwar Soviet Union, and a particular vein of environmental thought that was widespread in Soviet and international geology influenced this remarkable exhibition.

Ermeni alfabesi ile Türkçe yazılan, bilinen ilk Osmanlı romanı olarak kabul edilen Hovsep Vartanyan’ın (Vartan Paşa) yazdığı Akabi Hikâyesi, bugüne kadar pek çok araştırmaya konu edilmiş ve eser çeşitli yönleriyle ele alınmıştır. Dönemin yaşayışını yansıtması ve bir mesaj vermeye çalışması nedeniyle Ahmet Midhat Efendi’nin romanlarına benzetilen eser, Katolik papazı tarafından bir “şeytan” olarak algılanan Gregoryen / Ortodosks Akabi’yi, Katolik Hagop Ağa’dan kurtarma seferberliği olmasının yanında, bir teslimiyet hikâyesidir. Romanda iki çeşit teslimiyet söz konusudur. Eserin bir kısmını Allah’a teslim olanlar oluştururken diğer kısmını ise parayı putlaştırıp/ilahlaştırıp ona teslim olanlar meydana getirir. Aslında eser, iki farklı şeye kendilerini teslim etmiş insanların mücadelesinden ibarettir. Bir tarafta, Yaradan’a sımsıkı tutunup hayır ve şerrin ondan geldiğini düşünenler dururken diğer tarafta parayı bir değer olarak görüp toplumda iktidar unsurunu bu şekilde elde etmeye çalışanlar vardır. Roman, Hristiyan bir Katolik tarafından yazılmasına, eserde bahsi geçen tüm kişilerin Hristiyan olmalarına karşın okuyucu, kimi zaman İslam düşüncesiyle paralel cümlelerle karşılaşır. Roman kişilerinin Allah’a, teslimiyet ve tevekkül noktasında kimi zaman bir Müslüman gibi konuşmaları, eserin Müslümanlar içinde yaşayan azınlıktan bir Ermeni tarafından yazılması ve yine Osmanlı Ermenilerine hitaben kaleme alınmış olması ile ilgilidir. Her ne kadar romanda Müslüman unsurlar yok denecek kadar az olsa da kişilerin bakış açıları ilgi çekicidir. Bu noktada, on dokuzuncu asrın ortasında İstanbul’da yaşayan Ermenilerin dünyaya ve ahirete bakış noktasında birlikte yaşamak zorunda oldukları Müslümanlardan etkilendikleri söylenebilir. Romanın olumsuz anlamda sunulan ögesi ise paradır. Paranın ve ekonomik koşulların toplumsal yapıyı belirliyor olması, eserde eleştirilen hususlardandır. Makalede roman, Allah’a ve paraya teslimiyet açısından ele alınmıştır., Akabi Story, written by Hovsep Vartanyan (Vartan Pasha), which is accepted as the first known Ottoman novel written in Turkish with the Armenian alphabet, has been the subject of many researches and the work has been discussed in various aspects. The work, which is likened to the novels of Ahmet Midhat Efendi because it reflects the life of the period and tries to give a message, is a story of surrender as well as a campaign to save the Gregorian / Orthodox Akabi, who was perceived as a “devil” by the Catholic priest, from the Catholic Hagop Ağa. There are two types of surrender in the novel. While a part of the work is created by those who surrender to God, the other part is created by those who idolize/deify money and surrender to him. In fact, the work consists of the struggle of people who have surrendered themselves to two different things. On the one hand, there are those who hold fast to the Creator and think that good and evil come from him, on the other hand, there are those who see money as a value and try to gain the element of power in society in this way. Despite the fact that the novel was written by a Christian Catholic and all the people mentioned in the work are Christians, the reader sometimes encounters sentences parallel to Islamic thought. The fact that the Romani people sometimes talk like a Muslim at the point of surrender and reliance on God is related to the fact that the work was written by an Armenian from the minority living among Muslims and was addressed to Ottoman Armenians. Although there are hardly any Muslim elements in the novel, the perspectives of the people are interesting. At this point, it can be said that Armenians living in Istanbul in the middle of the nineteenth century were influenced by the Muslims they had to live with in terms of their view of the world and the hereafter. The negative aspect of the novel is money. The fact that money and economic conditions determine the social structure is one of the issues criticized in the work. In the article, the novel is discussed in terms of surrender to God and money.

This case study focuses on the treatment of a 44-year-old Dutch man presenting with an anxious God representation and religious struggles according to DSM-5 criteria. Having received prior treatment for a panic disorder and alcohol use disorder, the patient was given a 60-day treatment in which the Jesus Prayer intervention was used to address his religious and spiritual problems. To our knowledge, this is the first case study involving the Jesus Prayer in the treatment of a patient. The intervention had positive effects on the patient’s religious and spiritual problems concerning an anxious God representation, religious struggles, stress levels and surrender to God. The intervention may also play a supporting role in decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety and in promoting global mental health, as reliable change index analyses revealed symptom reduction between baseline levels and at post-assessment levels for all measured symptoms, with a semi-gradual decrease over the course of treatment. These improvements were continued in a 3-month follow-up assessment, suggesting promise for the Jesus Prayer as an effective treatment method for religious and spiritual problems. Recommendations regarding the importance of assessing the religious life of patients and implementing spiritual interventions are discussed, as well as the relevance of the therapist’s own assumptions when treating a religious or spiritual problem.

Field Marshal Count Terauchi’s personal surrender of swords to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in November 1945 highlights some of the complexities related to the Japanese surrender in Southeast Asia. Japanese swords served as important symbols for both their owners and the Allies. Mountbatten’s determination to dispossess the Japanese of their swords reflected his views on Japan’s militarism and a desire to impress upon soldiers their subservience to British authority when most had not been directly defeated in battle. On the other hand, Mountbatten was constrained by the huge area placed under his command, the lack of resources at his disposal and rising nationalist resistance. In these circumstances, Mountbatten sought the co-operation of surrendered Japanese personnel in British interests. The issue of surrendering Japanese swords underlines Mountbatten’s conflicting objectives and Count Terauchi’s efforts to manipulate the situation.

The growth of inequality over the past half century is closely connected to the rise of neoliberal policies and institutions, the latter of which shield capital from state actions that might limit wealth accumulation. Economic nationalism since the global financial crisis has slowed or even reversed this, yet this same era has seen the emergence of a new form of instrument in the neoliberal mold, in a stronghold of state sovereignty: taxation. Under mandatory binding tax arbitration, states cede sovereignty over the interpretation of international tax agreements to panels of transnational tax adjudicators. Focusing on the pivotal role of the United States, we use historical documents, including from the congressional archive and interviews with key actors to ask why tax arbitration emerged late in the neoliberal era, and at a counterintuitive time. We demonstrate that this outcome is the result of instrumental business power driving a process of incremental change through layering, to overcome states’ preference to retain sovereignty. This experience sheds light on the historically structured ways that business power constrains sovereignty in an era of high inequality.

Contrary to widespread belief, reparations imposed on Germany by the economic provisions of the Treaty of Versailles did not undermine the German economy, nor push it into a vicious cycle of crises and backwardness, from which emerged National Socialism and Adolf Hitler’s power takeover. In the first decade after the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany’s economy prospered, with high growth rates. In the same decade, German National Socialists managed to win over only a negligible segment of the constituency, and Franco-German relations even improved. The turn took place with the Great Depression, which was, however, not related to the Treaty of Versailles whatsoever. Thus, it is a myth that the Treaty, predominantly through its economic provisions, led to the Second World War. The shortcomings of the Treaty of Versailles, with regard to providing sustainable peace in Europe, should be sought in the framework of the outcome of the First World War, which ended in an armistice, not German surrender. It was only after the Second World War that German unconditional surrender, full occupation of the country and dismemberment of German militarism created the grounds for political stability and sustainable peace in Europe.

Reverse mortgages have been an important financial tool for cash poor seniors to release home equity. In the United States, most reverse mortgages are insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) through the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. Previous literature on reverse mortgage insurance often considers mortality as the main loan termination risk, and less attention has been paid to terminations due to loan prepayment, such as refinancing, repayment, and move-out. However, prepayment of reverse mortgages presents a significant risk to lenders and the HECM program. The Report to Congressional Requesters (United States Government Accountability Office, 2019) shows that about 28.5% of the total known reverse mortgage terminations in Fiscal Years 2014–2018 were attributed to loan refinancing, repayment, or move-out due to non-health reasons, whereas 48.6% of known terminations were attributed to mortality. In this paper, we employ an exogenous intensity-governed surrender model to study prepayment risk in reverse mortgages. The proposed model captures both macro-economic and non-economic drivers in surrender decisions. This paper complements existing studies of surrender behavior in reverse mortgages and provides a novel approach to incorporate prepayment risk into reverse mortgage pricing.

As the man appeared in the world, the native speakers of Tamil language Originated. Humans worship God on religious grounds They went further. God divided worship according to the land Were. Vegetarian and Vaishnavas are two of the greatest religions in Tamil Nadu Both were terrifying. Worship and worship Thirumala as the God of Vaishnava Maui. In the book Nallaira Divya Prabandham sung by twelve persons Four thousand songs highlight the glory of Perumal. Andalus contributes to the Lord in the order of the subordinates Thiruppavai has sung the script for surrender. Awakened in the thread Thirty passions of love to the Lord and to the Lord Sung to surrender. Not just during the dawn of dawn She also mourned the women of the Archdiocese Invites. If the women observe the fasting of the month it is about three months It is raining and the country is thriving. Their life Have a good husband. Everybody lives and lives Should. We use 'Namo Narayana' with her tongue as we pronounce daily, the evil that comes upon us is in the fire burned ashes. Those who surrender to Tirumala for fasting. The body must regret and follow the rules regularly. Women should not eat ghee and beautify themselves. Do as much charity as possible for others. He also sang as a child of universal integrity. Andal, all fasting bearers are clean, fasting with purity in the Lord is easy to surrender. Not just his country and his people Andal Thiruppavai Various benefits of fasting Through the sense of community.

In Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), the Irish playwright describes the last joyful moments in the lives of five unmarried Irish sisters who live together in a poor cottage in the fictional small town of Ballybeg in North Ireland. The retrospective tale that is narrated by the adult Michael, who is also the illegitimate son of Chris –one of the five sisters- portrays the forces that led to the collapse of the family in the 1936 summer during the Lughnasa festival celebrations. The hybrid form of drama and storytelling is Brian Friel’s device to escape mega narrative and focus on the stories of individuals and small families. This de-familiarization of traditional literary conventions enables him to surrender grand history to personal stories. Furthermore, Friel is experimenting with the memory play form as he believes that man’s memory anamnesis should not be trusted as factual. Furthermore, dance also plays a significant role in the play where almost every character dances at a certain point, but it is how every character involves in the act of dancing that illuminates him/her to the theatergoers. Indeed, dancing in the play is a release that connotes unfulfilled desires and hopes that cannot be expressed in words. In short, Brian Friel is the playwright who most probably defines Ireland to the outside world through analyzing the complexities of Irish culture

Islamic boarding schools and dormitories are one of the clusters with a high spread of COVID-19. The high intensityof clustering activities in these clusters can increase the potential for the spread of COVID-19. This study aims todetermine the differences in the level of risk perception, protective behavior, and tawakal (surrender to God) betweenindividuals living in Islamic boarding schools/dormitories and the general public. This present study is a mixed-methodresearch with scales and an open-ended question. All participants (N = 91) were Muslim with an age range of 18-24years. The data were analyzed using t-test and correlation tests for the quantitative data, and thematic analysis forthe qualitative data. The level of risk perception among participants living in Islamic boarding schools/dormitories islower than that of participants who do not live in these two places. The protective behavior between the two groups ofparticipants did not have a significant difference. We found a positive correlation between protective behavior andtawakal attitudes among participants living in Islamic boarding schools/dormitories. This study provides a deeperunderstanding on the dynamics of attitudes and behavior in Islamic boarding schools and dormitories during theCOVID-19 pandemic. Protective behavior among muslims is not only related to risk perceptions of a pandemic, butalso to tawakal as a religious manifestation in dealing with calamities.

Covid 19 has had quite a complex impact on various areas such as the health, education and industry sectors. Termination of employment by the company has an impact on the psychological health of workers such as depression. Mindfulness and tawakal play a role in minimizing depression due to the termination of employment as well as being a barrier for terminated employees to stay psychologically healthy by submitting their difficult situation to Allah. The purpose of this literature study is to determine the positive impact of mindfulness and tawakal in reducing depression due to layoffs. This literature study is an attempt to develop psychological studies including Islamic psychology in the Covid-19 pandemic era. The reviewed literature includes scientific journals and popular articles on trusted sites. The results of the review of several references state that mindfulness has a positive impact on reducing depression due to layoffs. The nature of tawakal has a positive impact on individuals to remain surrender to Allah and keep trying their best, and this behavior can also reduce depression due to layoffs (layoffs). The results are expected to be applied as a preventive measure to minimize depression due to layoffs.

When you store your belongings in a private locker, does the owner of the locker pay you? On the contrary, you pay the owner, for he is providing you with a service called safe-keeping. In effect, the owner holds your belongings safe until you take them back. So, why is it that you accept money from a bank to hold your money for you? The obvious answer is that the bank is not holding your money; it is lending it out and rewarding you with a portion of what it collects in interest. If you are happy with this arrangement, you have likely sought out a bank in your neighborhood that provides you with the greatest return on your deposit. Unfor tunately, there are several things very wrong with this type of transaction. Most important is that you are engaging in a tran saction that is commercially unsound. You and your bank engage in a legally non-binding agreement when, on the one hand, your bank promises to return your deposit on demand, and on the other hand, loans a portion of it to others for a specified period of time. Contractually, these two acts are incompatible, as the same money cannot be both a de-mand deposit and a loan simultaneously. Either, you deposit your money, reserve the right to de-mand it back at any moment, and pay the bank for holding it on your behalf. This is called a demand deposit. Or, you surrender your right to your money for a specific period of time, permit your bank to lend it to others, and receive interest for your risk and sacrifice. This is called a time deposit. Commercially, treating your demand deposit as money that can be loaned to others is not an enforceable contract, for the law insists that there must be mutual assent when two parties enter into an agreement. You and the bank are simply at odds when you expect to retrieve your money at any moment on demand, and the bank lends a portion of it to others for a fixed period. Legally speaking, both parties to the transaction do not agree to the same contractual terms in the same sense.

Appointing a United Nations (UN) mediator to work in tandem with the United Nations Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in March 1964 led to fundamental shifts in how the UN Secretariat inner circle orientated the organisation’s presence in Cyprus. The escalating crisis between the two communities in Cyprus and political pressure from UN member states to respond before Cold War superpower nations became engulfed, prompted the creation of UNFICYP and the recruitment of a UN mediator on 4 March 1964. This article argues that the UN leadership intended to restore member state trust following the controversial Congo mission (ONUC) and expand the organisation’s diplomatic agency through the innovation of deploying the dedicated mediator alongside the armed mission. However, the success of the meditator was diplomatically limited by the localised dynamics of the Cyprus conflict and the willingness of the Guarantor parties to surrender their sovereign imaginaries of post-colonial Cyprus. Ultimately, the experiment in field-based mediation forced the UN Secretariat leadership to acknowledge the incompatibility of appeasing all member states on one hand whilst leading field-based political negotiations with the other.

Throughout the past couple of decades, the surge in the sale of equity-linked products has led to many discussions on the evaluation and risk management of surrender options embedded in these products. However, most studies treat such options as American/Bermudian style options. In this article, a different approach is presented where only a portion of the policyholders react optimally due to the belief that not all policyholders are rational. Through this method, a probability of surrender is obtained based on the option moneyness and the product is partially hedged using local risk-control strategies. This partial hedging approach is versatile since few assumptions are required for the financial framework. To compare the different surrender assumptions, the initial capital requirement for an equity-linked product is obtained under a regime-switching equity model. Numerical examples illustrate the dynamics and efficiency of this hedging approach.

[Image: see text] Psychedelic drugs are increasingly being incorporated into therapeutic contexts for the purposes of promoting mental health. However, they can also induce adverse reactions in some individuals, and it is difficult to predict before treatment who is likely to experience positive or adverse acute effects. Although consideration of setting and dosage as well as excluding individuals with psychotic predispositions has thus far led to a high degree of safety, it is imperative that researchers develop a more nuanced understanding of how to predict individual reactions. To this end, the current systematic review coalesced the results of 14 studies that included baseline states or traits predictive of the acute effects of psychedelics. Individuals high in the traits of absorption, openness, and acceptance as well as a state of surrender were more likely to have positive and mystical-type experiences, whereas those low in openness and surrender or in preoccupied, apprehensive, or confused psychological states were more likely to experience acute adverse reactions. Participant sex was not a robust predictor of drug effects, but 5-HT2AR binding potential, executive network node diversity, and rACC volume may be potential baseline biomarkers related to acute reactions. Finally, increased age and experience with psychedelics were individual differences related to generally less intense effects, indicating that users may become slightly less sensitive to the effects of the drugs after repeated usage. Although future well-powered, placebo-controlled trials directly comparing the relative importance of these predictors is needed, this review synthesizes the field’s current understanding of how to predict acute reactions to psychedelic drugs.

The aim of this article is to present the actions of Ik-Tešub, a king of Šubria at the time of Esarhaddon’s invasion, and to explain them as ritual countermeasures. Unlike earlier interpretations, which focused on a scapegoat ritual, a simple substitute ritual or a symbolic act of surrender, my proposal is to interpret the behaviour of the Šubrian ruler as a substitute king ritual based not on Mesopotamian but Hittite magical traditions. Moreover, the shape of this particular ritual might indicate that Esarhaddon was seen not only as the powerful king and governor of Aššur but in fact also as the god of plague himself.

When the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was reached between the UK and the EU on 24 December 2020, it gave extradition practitioners only a few days to identify what, if anything, would remain from the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system before it came into force on 1 January 2021. The article starts by setting out how the EAW was implemented in the UK prior to 1 January 2021, before turning to the TCA itself and what it means for extradition or ‘surrender’ between EU member states and the UK. In short, the EAW system no longer applies. The authors set out how the TCA provides a degree of continuity, now under the watchful eye of the UK–EU ‘Specialised Committee on Law Enforcement and Judicial Cooperation’. There are notable departures from the EAW system however, in both practical and legal terms, that open the door to increased scrutiny of extradition requests. The authors explore the impact these changes may have on the future of extradition with the EU27, to or from the UK.

Indonesia merupakan negara yang rawan terhadap bencana alam, baik bencana yang dapat terjadi secara tiba-tiba maupun perlahan. Bencana alam yang terjadi dapat memberikan dampak kejutan akibat kurangnya kewaspadaan dan persiapan dalam menghadapi ancaman. Salah satu respons yang terlihat dari dampak yang ditimbulkan oleh bencana tersebut adalah pada pola perilaku manusia. Perilaku manusia sangat sulit untuk diprediksi saat berada di keadaan darurat yang menegangkan dan kacau balau tersebut. Perilaku spontan yang terjadi dipengaruhi faktor lokasi keberadaan, yaitu saat berada di dalam bangunan seperti dalam bangunan tempat tinggal dan bangunan umum lainnya, atau di luar bangunan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkap perilaku spontan manusia yang dilakukan saat terjadi bencana alam saat berada di dalam dan luar bangunan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif yang bersifat eksploratif. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan kuesioner daring dengan pertanyaan yang bersifat terbuka (open-ended) dan dibagikan secara bebas. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa dalam merespons kejadian bencana alam, terdapat kecenderungan manusia untuk tetap bertahan saat berada di bangunan umum dan memilih untuk menjauhi bangunan saat berada di tempat tinggal. Sedangkan individu yang sedang berada di luar bangunan, mereka akan cenderung memilih untuk tidak bertindak sama sekali.

The Dominican Republic and its relationship with Dominican America have often been studied in relation to the brutal regime of Rafael Trujillo, tiguere masculinity, and the political sphere. Writers like Julia Alvarez and Junot Diaz, as well as anthologies of Dominican women’s writing, form a literary archive that conceives of women’s writing as a perpetual act of rebellion, mostly against Trujillo and Trujillista models of masculinity. Starting from Lorgia Garcia-Pena’s conception of “contradiction” (2016) and Kevin Quashie’s The Sovereignty of Quiet (2012), this article argues that Angie Cruz’s Soledad (2001) and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street (2017) are a counter-archive of woman-centered, Dominican American narratives of return dependent on feminized forms of expression and belonging—namely art, quiet, secrecy, surrender, and interiority. These novels reclaim the power of these acts and spaces along a spectrum of quietude, ranging from acts of alienation to tools for bonding, healing, and growth.

Shortly after Japan's surrender to Allied forces, the Soviet Union occupied the northern part of Korea, and the United States moved into the south, where it established the US Army Military Government in Southern Korea (USAMGIK, 1945–1948). In the American zone, music played a unique role in forging US hegemony over Korea. Young American pianist Ely Haimowitz (1920–2010) was the central figure in shaping that policy. Associated with “highbrow” culture, Western orchestral music helped restore Koreans’ ethnic pride damaged by Japanese colonial rule, while countering the Soviet emphasis on indigenous music. By fostering Western orchestral music in Korea, and supporting many individual musicians, Haimowitz succeeded in gaining widespread admiration and trust among Korean musicians. Based on unique access to Haimowitz's private archival collection, as well as diverse historical records from Korea, this article develops a complex picture of Haimowitz not merely as a cold-blooded US military officer and propagandist but also as an individual musician who shared friendships with Korean musicians, suffered ethical dilemmas, and often supported Korean voices against the USAMGIK. The relationships he forged provide indispensable context in understanding USAMGIK music policy, Korean musicians’ responses to it, and the post–World War II Korean reception of Western orchestral music overall.

This paper aims to find out how the politics of diplomacy in the early days of independence, especially during the Syarir Cabinet to Hatta Cabinet, and to explain how the efforts of the Indonesian political elite to address diplomatic politics in the face of aggression and to analyze the role of third parties in Indonesian diplomacy. The method used in this research is a qualitative method, namely fact finding with the correct interpretation. Descriptive research is to study problems in society and the procedures that apply in society. The method used is literature study with data collection techniques by conducting a review study of books, literature, notes, and reports that have to do with the problem being solved. The conclusion of this research is that the political attitudes of the various Indonesian elites, the first group is that the government prioritizes the political path of diplomacy rather than armed resistance or 100 percent independence. The attitude of this first group is more influenced by the education they have received since studying in the Netherlands, among the first group are; Hatta, Syahrir, Setiadjid, Abdul Majid and Amir Syarifuddin and Agus Salim. This group believes that de jure the Netherlands is still strong and has the support of its allies such as Britain and America. Meanwhile, the second group who chose the armed or guerrilla resistance method in achieving 100 percent independence among this group was more than the opposition and military figures such as Tan Malaka, Panglima Sudirman and the leaders of the Masyumi and PNI parties. This conflict caused Sudirman to choose Guerrilla as the right way to achieve 100 percent independence. The conflict between Indonesia and the Netherlands ultimately requires American involvement in resolving the dispute between the two countries. This was proven by the US for the second time issuing a UN resolution to pressure the Netherlands to want to surrender sovereignty to the Indonesian republic even though under certain conditions, such as the Netherlands has not recognized the states belonging to the Republic of Indonesia and Papua. Then the independence of the Republic of Indonesia still has the remaining debt to the Dutch. Keywords : Politics, Diplomacy, Revolution, Independence

Burdah Keliling” is an activity in which people of a village walking around the village, led by an ustad or kyai (local religious teacher) while chanting “Sholawat Burdah”. Shalawat burdah is one of shalawat or singing praising Muhammad SAW which is very popular among Indonesian muslim community especially in the rural areas. The lyrics or material of shalawat is religious and the texts are devotional. This paper aims at explaining the discourse of Burdah Keliling as a cultural approach of mitigation of the pandemic Covid-19. The specific question raised in this paper: how is the discourse of submissiveness to God represented through “Burdah Keliling.” This is a qualitative method, using observation, and online interview. The observation takes the online news media, and online interview aims to reveal the experience and opinion of the persons involved in the activity of Burdah Keliling. The writers argue that the cultural activity of Burdah keliling has played important roles in building people’s well-being psychologically. In the pandemic time nowadays, people need an activity that nurture them psychologically so that they can avoid stress and pressure due to the pandemic. The analysis is done through Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis. The study shows that “burdah keliling” is very meaningful for the people involved in the activity. This activity means to express people’s submissiveness, surrender to Allah SWT, so that avoiding them from panic and stress due to the pandemic of covid-19 rampaging across the country.

As one of the literary figures in post-war American literature, Norman Mailer tackles psychological and sociopolitical issues in The Naked and the Dead (1948) that bewildered both critics and readers. He combined them in a complementary way that explained their cause and effect development. The present paper sheds light on the definition of power in comparison with megalomania, its different causes, and its devastating effects on both the victimizers and the victimized. It also aims at revealing the inner thought of the contemporary individual as suffering from the spiritual decadence as a rebellion against the political life that hovers almost every aspect of the American society. These points are rendered through Mailer's major and powerful characters like General Cummings and Lieutenant Croft who represent the victimizers as a part of their megalomaniac attitudes. An emphasis has always been directed to two other powerless characters—Lieutenant Hearn and Troop Red Valsen—whom will be victimized at the hands of the victimizers. Mailer, in this novel, calls that the individual is either supposed to surrender to wrongful forces or to endeavor to attain some spiritual independence and dignity.

This Afterword argues that Neil Walker’s powerful and expansive “sovereignty frame” renders sovereignty with an air of inevitability that risks misrecognizing justifiable claims against sovereignty itself. The frame wraps sovereignty in constitutionalism in ways that gloss over critical attention to both sovereignty’s coercive element and its groundedness in physical space. I argue that the effect of an expansively constitutionalized sovereignty frame reduces, absorbs, or crowds out articulations of other ways to conceptualize relations among and between people in polities and the places in which they are grounded, most notably those examined in Indigenous legal and political theory. The framing of sovereignty may also serve to foreclose its claiming, so that an apparent surplus of sovereignty masks deep and justifiable incompatibilities, tensions, and genuine contestations that cannot be explained as an excess or surfeit.

Young people from the low-income settlements in Kenya's third-largest city, Kisumu, struggling with unemployment refer to their efforts to generate a livelihood as ‘hustling’. At the same time, many of them put art (dance, music, poetry) at the centre of their lives. This article attempts to account for the significant popularity of the arts among Kisumu's youth. It understands the ‘way of the artist’ as an alternative interpretation of work and a framework in which people situate their experiences of unemployment, waiting and insecure work. To examine this framework in action, the article follows Janabii, a poet who has been at the centre of attempts to establish a spoken word scene in Kisumu. Janabii has spent several years in limbo, oscillating between glittering performances and a more discreet daily life, marked by functional homelessness and a refusal to surrender to the violence of Kenya's informal world of work. The article contributes to recent studies about hustling by combining an ethnography of a week in Janabii's life with a literary analysis of excerpts from one of his poems, in order to elucidate how his struggles to get by are narrated and stylized through a spoken word, artistic imaginary that interrelates with his everyday life.