Inmany scenarios, beginning again (or starting over) can feel overwhelming. It is exhausting to think about what it takes to begin again. It is as though you are back at square one. When preparing to start over, you can feel bogged down by your past and by all the other times that you have attempted to start over. Doubt creeps in because of all the other times where beginning again failed.
There are so many ways for us to begin again with our Lord. It could be going to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and asking the Lord for His forgiveness so that we can be renewed in our relationship with Him. Perhaps it is time to revitalize your prayer life and deepen your relationship with God. Are there relationships that our Lord is asking you to heal and tend to?
Mi Chong (Leon Leong) is a young man with crippling social anxiety. He is so unsatisfied with his miserable existence, which mainly involves staying at home all day, frozen with fear about social interaction, that he finally decides to end his life....
When Lin Yang (Sierra Li) was a young girl growing up in the countryside, she formed a close friendship with a boy from the neighborhood named Lu Zheng An (He Yi Qian). Despite the fact that she was seven years his senior, their bond was close, and...
Having spent her entire life dreaming of the day she would land her first role, Ruan Nian Chu (Yu Yue) has worked hard to get where she is today. An actress whose bright smile and quirky personality quickly steals the hearts of everyone she meets,...
Fu Jiu Yun (Zheng Ye Cheng) is an immortal deity who falls in love with a mortal woman and longs to begin a relationship with her. Although he is very powerful, he finds himself repeatedly unable to win her heart, and instead ends up following her...
The oldest of friends, Third Prince Pang Yu (Tan Jian Ci) and Minister Feng Xi (Jin Han) have spent a lifetime caring for each other as brothers. As different from each other as night and day, the two friends were an unlikely pair but their...
Jian Bu Zhi (Tim Yu) is a talented, resourceful young man who is plagued with amnesia. His father was killed by a mysterious murderer, and Jian Bu Zhi vows to turn detective and solve the case.But as he digs deeper into the mystery, he uncovers a...
Queen of Qing Qiu, Bai Feng Jiu (Dilraba Dilmurat) is the only known nine-tailed fox in the world. As such, she grew up pampered by those around her but it was only in front of those she truly loved that she showed her more spoiled side. To the...
Cheng Shao Shang (Zhao Lu Si) es una joven que se vio obligada a crecer sola despus de que la mayor parte de su familia tuviera que marcharse a luchar en una sangrienta guerra. Como resultado, ha crecido sola, en un entorno implacable, y se ha...
Word of Honor: Addicting and I loved the (b)romance and one of the male leads. Even though it had a very low budget, I would dare say that it was much better than some much more expensive series, like the recent Who Rules the World.
Rakuten Viki Word of Honor Mainland China Drama Watch with English Subtitles & More...As leader of an elite unit, tasked with protecting the imperial family, Zhou Zi Shu (Zhang Zhe Han) was not a man to be taken lightly. A man of great honor, who commanded much respect, he served the royal family with the utmost loyalty and was...
Under the Skin: Very interesting series that deals with forensic art. Well-written plot, amazing male lead and very interesting cases that deal -once again- with quite a few sensitive topics.
Rakuten Viki Under the Skin Mainland China Drama Watch with English Subtitles &...Once a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, young artist Shen Yi (Tan Jian Ci) had all of the skills required to become a great painter. But when an impromptu commission while sketching on the streets lands Shen Yi in the middle of a police case gone...
The Untamed: Well-written characters, interesting plot and a very entertaining ride. To be honest, I love all the characters and I will probably remember them for a while.
Rakuten Viki The Untamed Mainland China Drama Watch with English Subtitles & More...In a land dominated by the mighty Wen clan, a young man named Wei Wu Xian (Xiao Zhan) strikes up an unconventional friendship with justice-loving Lan Wang Ji (Wang Yibo of boyband Uniq).When the duo unexpectedly stumbles across evidence implicating...
Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms: One of the best romance series I have ever seen. It has a special place in my heart, even though it took me a while to get into it.
Rakuten Viki Eternal Love Mainland China Drama Watch with English Subtitles & More...Can two star-crossed lovers find their happy endings in their mortal and immortal lives?When an evil ghost lord tries to cause destruction, the beautiful High Goddess Bai Qian (Yang Mi) risks her life and loses her memories in her attempt to seal...
Word of Honor
I am still baffled at how this drama passed the Chinese Censorship with everything. Like How? In the Board Daylight? I am still flabbergasted. Aside everything, it is a drama I loved. Friendship. Love. Family. Development. Each scene was phenomenal and each character had a long story attached to it.
As society shifts, the art world shifts. We are on the cusp of change. This is a time to stop, reflect, create dialogue, and put our words into positive action. To begin again we must shoulder each other, listen to each other, work together and collectively change together. As the newest generation of art collectors, we urge you to collect from this exhibition. The revenue made will support The Free Black University and the newest generation of artists.
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And about halfway through, I was awarded a short term Fulbright Fellowship, called the Fulbright Hayes to return to Russia for summer, where I studied for about eight weeks at the School of Higher Economics in the summer of 2007, which was just a phenomenal experience. And then when I finished my Ph.D., the prospects for Russian studies specialists were relatively low.
But shortly afterwards, the Crimea incursion occurred and there was all of a sudden a renewed interest in Russia as a security issue. And so I ended up back in Montgomery working for Air University shortly thereafter.
I had a phenomenal time. I really enjoyed myself. You know, this was still pre everyone has a cell phone age. And so the life of a student in Russia was fun. I lived with an exclusively Russian speaking host family. We went to school with the equivalent of Russia as a foreign language kind of curriculum. So most of our teachers would not speak to us in English even if they could.
And then when I moved to Moscow, I was living in the center of the city. The Bolshoi Theater was about a ten minute walk, one direction. The Moscow Conservatory was about a ten minute walk, the other direction. The campus where I was going to school actually had a number of buildings all over the city. So once a week we had to run through Red Square in order to get to class on time because the commute schedule was relatively tight between classes.
So I was literally walking through the Red Square in the Kremlin at least three times a week. And just being in the middle of all of that history and political tension. But the Russians were very welcoming. They were very, very warm. They were very friendly. And that is in stark contrast to a lot of what we even see now, kind of the assumptions for how the Russians behave.
That was previously. And then more recently, being able to be assigned to JAO has given additional opportunities for advancing, you know, my Air Force work in the International Operational Law division. Also prior to JAO, I worked at Fifth Air Force and U.S. Forces, Japan, at Yokota Air Base, and was also to work with able to work with Japanese partners with the Japanese Air Self-defense Force.
That major did require I take another language and Russian happened to make sense to me. Prior to entering or starting at Marquette, I had attended high school on an exchange in Berlin, and this was shortly after the wall fell. So it very much still had that East Germany and then the different sectors of Berlin still very much in place, even though the wall had come down by that point.
And so Russia, as the Soviet Union collapsed around it and inside of it even, was faced with a particularly difficult set of circumstances in terms of their security focus and outlook and capabilities. They still had this enormous nuclear arsenal, but they did not have a direct threat, a specific state they were trying to deter. There was a lot of potential conflict around the borders of the former Soviet states and within some of the former Soviet states that they were concerned about.
And the Russians were also concerned about, you know, their own border, secure security and stability. So they began to issue national security strategies in about 1993/1994. And those strategies very much reflected the concerns of the day, that because Russia was in a weakened state, that they were concerned that other states might take advantage of them, that states might not live up to treaty obligations with the Russian Federation because of the inability to enforce some of those treaty actions.
And then in about 2015, the language in the Russian NSS began to shift dramatically. This is where we see the Russian state calling for a new kind of international security architecture and framework, one that is in stark contrast to what we refer to as the U.S. led liberal international system. Which is essentially what the United States stepped into at the conclusion of the Second World War to rebuild Europe and to create a security framework and an alliance structure to particularly provide stability and security in the North Atlantic.
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