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Archive | March 5, 2017
The Woman Giving Refugee Kids Free Lawyers*
The Woman and Others Giving Refugee Kids Free Lawyers*
By Jaime Alfaro
Alexandra Rizio
Defending children from deportation
Alexandra Rizio has long fought for refugees in her professional life, starting as a volunteer with the Refugee and Immigrant Fund in Queens, New York. Today, she is a senior staff attorney at Safe Passage Project, where she also serves as co-coordinator of the Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (ULAMP), a collaboration with City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice that provides pro bono legal assistance to children in deportation proceedings.
In 2014, when parts of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala saw a brutal uptick in violence and poverty, many children fled, some without an adult to shepherd them to safety. After making it across the U.S. border, says Rizio, children often are detained immediately, then sent to foster homes or relatives elsewhere. And their journeys are just beginning.
"We'll show up on their first day of court with volunteer attorneys and translators," Rizio says.
"If it weren't for organizations like Safe Passage and others, they would literally be on their own facing the judge."
Since ULAMP teamed up with Safe Passage in 2014, attorneys have represented 830 children in New York state and spared 208 children from deportation.
Enrique Morones
An angel to immigrants on the border
For years, Enrique Morones helped Mexican immigrants by leaving water bottles, food, and blankets along the California border, through the Imperial Valley desert and mountainous regions of San Diego County.
Then in 2001, Morones, then an executive with the San Diego Padres, left his job and took his involvement to a higher level: He established the volunteer organization Border Angels and began speaking out across the country for immigration reform.
Since then, Morones has seen the U.S.-Mexico border transform into a national flashpoint for immigration, from protests to the formation of vigilante militias that threaten to shoot people crossing the border. Over the past 18 years, more than 6,000 people have died making the dangerous trek.
Meanwhile, Border Angels has expanded its mission by providing food to immigrants at day-laborer sites and, with the help of Border Patrol, organizing "Opening the Door of Hope" events that enable families who are separated by the border to visit.
Since the election, volunteer interest in Border Angels has soared.
"People are scared," Morones says.
"But our organization is standing by [migrants] to make sure they're protected."
Gader Ibrahim
Bringing necessities to young refugees in need
In 2014, a few years into the Syrian civil war, there were 1 million people in refugee camps in Jordan. That same year, Gader Ibrahim visited one of those camps and saw children sleeping in the snow and wandering idle and scared. So she organized blanket and toy drives and personally delivered the supplies to children on both sides of the border. After the war in Syria escalated, she moved from Jordan to the United States and, in 2015, founded Operation Refugee Child (ORC), a program that delivers backpacks full of necessities to refugee camps in Greece.
"We're focusing on the kids and giving them backpacks because we know they have nothing and they have a long way to go," Ibrahim says.
Ibrahim stages part of her effort in Athens and two other Greek cities, home to large refugee camps for people fleeing to Europe and Canada. There, Ibrahim and her team of four volunteers distribute backpacks with items like toys, blankets, toothbrushes, protein bars, raincoats, and underwear. And through its Hope Box program, ORC has sent 10,000 pounds of donations, most in the form of food. To date, Ibrahim and her team have given 6,000 backpacks in the United States and overseas.
Argentina Trumps U.S. on New Immigration Laws*
European Parliament Votes to End Visa-Free Travel for Americans*
Decades of Evidence Finds No link Between Immigration and Increased Crime*
Congress Just Passed Part of Donald Trump's Immigration Plan in the Budget Bill*
Immigrant Designer Goes From Homeless to Wealthy, Then Sells Everything to Help Others*
Giving Thanks for a Nation of Migrants, Refugees, and Immigrants*
U.S. Judge Orders Release of ILLEGALLY Imprisoned Immigrant Children From Detention Centres*
Soros Partners with MasterCard to Profiteer from his Engineered Mass Migration**
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Activism, Humanities, The Americas and tagged capitalism, children, civil rights, colonialism, global governance, globalization, human rights, natural resources, NWO, oppression, secularism, society, sovereignty, U.S..
Hundreds Dying from Hunger as Severe Drought Grips Somalia*
110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in just one region of Somalia as severe drought gripped the country, causing hunger crisis. The death toll was announced by Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire today and it comes from the Bay region in the southwest part of the country alone. Humanitarian agencies report worrying similarities to the 2011 famine, in which nearly 260 000 Somalis lost their lives. Somali elders say they have never seen drought as severe as this one.
On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, just a week after his inauguration, President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has declared the drought a national disaster. The declaration comes amid an ongoing war with al-Shabab and is expected to be a trial for all those involved in Somalia's struggles. It will test the international community's response, the government's ability to assist, and the strength of security provided by the African Union forces, Al Jazeera explains.
In the far north of Somalia, three years with little rain has had increasingly disastrous effects for a population reliant on the land. The parched earth has failed to produce food for the camels and goats that the people depend on for their income, meat, and milk for their children.
Critical health services are needed for 1.5 million people currently affected by drought conditions and a worsening food crisis, according to the WHO.
The humanitarian situation in Somalia continues to deteriorate, the organization said, and there is a high risk that the country will face its third famine in 25 years. More than 6.2 million people – half of the total population – are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, including almost 3 million facing a food security crisis. Nearly 5.5 million people are at risk of contracting waterborne diseases, more than half of whom are women and children under 5 years of age.
Acute drought in many parts of Somalia has reduced the availability of clean water sources, and the food crisis has given way to malnutrition. More than 363 000 acutely malnourished children and 70 000 severely malnourished children are in need of urgent and life-saving support, it said. According to United Nations estimates, if the current situation food and security continues, these numbers are estimated to double in 2017.
Drought conditions have also increased the spread of epidemic-prone diseases such as acute watery diarrhea, cholera, and measles. In the first 7 weeks of 2017, over 6 000 cases and 65 deaths by acute watery diarrhea/ cholera have been reported, and a total of 2 578 cases of suspected measles were reported as of September 2016.
"Somalia is now at a critical point as a result of this drought and environmental hazards and lack of basic services," said WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr. Mahmoud Fikri.
"We named this (2017) drought 'Odi Kawayn,' which is Somali for 'something bigger than the elders.' None of our elders has ever seen a drought as severe as this one," said drought victim Halima, as reported by the International Organization for Migration.
Somalia, however, is not the only African country currently dealing with severe hunger crisis, Ethiopia and Kenya are too.
These three countries in the Horn of Africa are currently suffering a severe drought that is threatening the lives of more than 11 million people.
"Unfortunately, the international community is responding very reluctantly. People don't have any reserves left, as in recent years their harvests have failed and animals died because of the lack of water and fodder. Every donation helps us save lives," said Till Wahnbaeck, Welthungerhilfe chief executive officer.
According to U.N. figures, more than 20 million people in Africa are dependent on humanitarian assistance for survival.
Obama Just Expanded the Global War on Terror to Somalia*
U.S. Expands Army Presence in Somalia*
Once a Somali Refugee, She's Now Running as Somalia's First Female President*
Somalia a Failed State by Courtesy of the State Department and CIA*
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Africa, Environment, Health, Humanities, The Americas and tagged capitalism, civil rights, colonialism, global governance, globalization, human rights, indigenous, natural disasters, NWO, oppression, society, Somalia, sovereignty, U.S..
Kenya Says No to GM Maize Trials*
By Samuel Gebre
Kenya is withholding approval for field trials of genetically modified (GM) maize because some officials argue that a ban on GM imports applies to controlled growing tests as well, according to a person familiar with the deliberations.
Talks involving representatives from the health and environment ministries and the Kenya's National Biosafety Authority (NBA) reached a deadlock in meetings held to discuss applications last week, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private.
The National Environmental Management Authority halted the applications to test seeds from Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (Kalro) and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) last year in October, after the two science research bodies had received the go-ahead from the NBA.
A spokesman for Kalro was not available to comment on the application. A representative from AATF declined to comment on Thursday.
The impasse is preventing Kenya from becoming the second nation in sub-Saharan Africa, after SA, to allow cultivation of GM maize, which is a staple food throughout much of southern and eastern Africa. The committee will need to seek guidance from Kenya's cabinet on the way forward, the person said.
The trials would have been conducted by the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service in multiple locations on small plots of about two acres, and would have lasted about one growing season, or about six months. Kenya is importing maize from Mexico and approved shipments of yellow maize from Ukraine for the first time since 2011, due to a drought. Maize yields in Kenya this season have halved because of the drought, the country's National Drought Management Authority said on February 6.
Monsanto, U.S. and Gates Pressure Kenya to Reverse GMO Ban*
Embedding Transnational Agribusiness and GMO's into African Agriculture*
Nestlé Removes GMOs from South African Baby Foods not U.S. Baby Foods*
When Unacceptable Elsewhere, Defective GM Maize Goes to Africa*
Is South Africa Waking Up to the Innate Poison of GM Technology?*
GM Food Legislation to Be Introduced in South Africa
E.U. Bullies its Way through an Reciprocal Trade Access in Africa*
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Africa, Environment, Health, Humanities and tagged civil rights, colonialism, environment, global governance, globalization, health, human rights, indigenous, Kenya, mental health, nature, NWO, oppression, pharmaceutical industry, secularism, society, sovereignty.
GM Potato Varieties Approved by U.S.*
By Doug Harris
* The three new potato varieties — the Russet Burbank, Ranger Russet, and Atlantic — were approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration, according to the Associated Press. They were previously cleared by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
* In addition to being resistant to the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, killing a million people in Ireland in the 1840's, they are less liable to bruise or develop black spots. The potatoes also have better storing capabilities and create a lower amount of a potential carcinogen when they are cooked at high temperatures.
* The new strains, to be planted this spring and marketed in the fall, use 50% less fungicide to cut the pest population in potato fields. They "have the same taste and texture and nutritional qualities" as conventional potatoes, Simplot spokesman Doug Cole said.
The new potato varieties are the latest variety to gain approval from the U.S. government. The approvals apply to the second-generation of potatoes from Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. The first generation, which received final approval about two years ago, didn't include protection from late blight or enhanced cold storage. So far, McDonald's has decided not to use Simplot's genetically engineered potatoes for its French fries.
Despite their initial reluctance, it may not be surprising if McDonald's and other potato users rethink their stance on the spud. Research shows Simplot's fries contain 14% to 27% more potato solids and less water than many other varieties, making it possible to serve more people per case of fries. The chance to serve potatoes that last longer and result in less food waste also could be enticing.
Opponents of genetically modified crops have expressed concern about the safety of the crops even though the FDA has shown no difference between these varieties and their traditional counterparts. Still, those ongoing concerns could continue to minimize growth of the promising food technology.
Analysts estimated the GMO food market has increased in recent years because of the nutritional value those items offer, according to Research Nester. The global GMO food market will rise at a compound annual growth rate of 3.2% by the end of 2021.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents Kellogg, PepsiCo and other food and beverage companies, estimates that as much as 80% of packaged foods contain genetically modified ingredients.
GM Potatoes: They Keep Finding Ways to Poison or Kill Us*
GM Sweet Potato: Forcing the Unnatural on Nature
The Potato Royalty to Be Paid!?
GMO Wheat Trials to Begin in Europe*
GMO Golden Rice Shows Stunted and Abnormal Growth with Reduced Grain Yield*
GMO Arctic Apples to Hit Shelves Without Clear Labeling*
FDA Approves New GM Pineapple*
Iraq's Agricultural Industry was Pillaged, Its Farmers Devastated, But It's Still Free of GMO Seeds*
Canada's New Food Labels won't Include GMO Info.*
India's Organic Rice Revolution Proves GMOs Are Unnecessary*
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Environment, Health, Humanities, The Americas and tagged capitalism, civil rights, colonialism, global governance, globalization, GM Foods, GMOs, human rights, mental health, natural resources, NWO, pharmaceutical industry, secularism, society, sovereignty, U.S..
Syria's Water Cut off by Turkey Following McCain, Erdogan Meeting*
By Whitney Webb
Kurdish Fighters take positions at the top of Mount Annan overlooking the Tishrin dam, after they captured from ISIS militants, south of Kobani, Syria December 27, 2015. (Photo: Rodi Said)
While some measure of stability has returned to pockets of northern Syria following the Syrian Army's recent liberation of al-Qaeda from Aleppo and elsewhere, external forces seem determined to keep the region volatile, regardless of the cost. In the latest example of aggressive foreign intervention in Syria, Turkey, which has long played an antagonistic role in Syria's nearly six-year-long conflict, has now cut off the flow of the Euphrates River into Syria, depriving the nation of one of its primary sources of water.
According to the Kurdish Hawar News Agency, Turkey cut water supplies to Syria around Feb. 23, which subsequently forced a hydroelectric plant at the Tishrin Dam to shut down while also significantly reducing water levels on its associated reservoir. The dam supplies both water and power to key parts of northern Syria, such as the city of Manbij and other parts of the predominantly Kurdish Kobani Canton.
The dam is one of several major dams along the Euphrates River. Just downstream from Tishrin lies the Tabqa Dam and its reservoir Lake Assad, which supplies Aleppo with most of its power and drinking water, as well as irrigation water for over 640,000 hectares (2,500 square miles) of farmland. A city official in Manbij told Hawar that the city would provide generator fuel to civilians to help cope with the blackout that has resulted from the river being cut off. The same official added that Turkey had "violated the international conventions of water and rivers energy by cutting off Euphrates water."
This is not the first time Turkey has deprived Syrians of water as a means to advance their political goals in the region. Turkey previously cut the river off in May of 2014, causing water levels on Lake Assad to drop by over 20 feet and creating the potential for genocide by means of dehydration. By blocking the river, Turkey threatens Iraqi civilians as well. Major urban centres like Mosul, whose water supplies largely depend on reservoirs fed by the Euphrates, could be gravely impacted if the river continues to be blocked.
The act of cutting off the river is not unprecedented, but its timing is peculiar. Just days prior to Turkey's act, U.S. Senator John McCain "secretly" visited the Kobani Canton, the very region that now finds itself without water, before heading to Turkey, where he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the senator's office, "Senator McCain's visit was a valuable opportunity to assess dynamic conditions on the ground in Syria and Iraq." It adds that McCain looks forward to working with the Trump administration and military leaders "to optimize our approach" on fighting the Islamic State.
While the U.S. has backed the Kurds in their fight to keep their territories along the Syrian-Turkish border free of terrorist influence, it has come at the cost of greatly complicating diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Turkey. For example, in early 2016, Erdogan dramatically demanded that the U.S. choose between an alliance with Turkey or with the Syrian Kurds. The diplomatic stand-off has since reached new heights of tension, with Turkey threatening to invade Kurdish-held Manbij less than two weeks ago. Manbij is suffering the most from Turkey's blockage of the Euphrates, suggesting that the move could be intended to destabilize the Kurds before something more drastic takes place.
It also warrants mentioning that despite Erdogan's and McCain's claims that they are eager to "defeat" the Islamic State and other terrorist factions, both have close ties to those very same groups. This, of course, suggests that McCain's visit, as well as recent moves by Turkey, have ulterior motives that have yet to be publicly expressed.
For example, McCain has been so intent on removing Assad from power that he has fostered relationships with the Syria's "moderate rebels" and its more notorious opposition factions such as the Islamic State. Photographic evidence has confirmed this, with one infamous photo showing McCain posing with Khalid al-Hamad – a "moderate" rebel who gained notoriety after a video of him eating the heart of a Syrian Army soldier went viral online. McCain has also admitted meeting with ISIS on national television, going so far as to acknowledge that he is still in contact with the infamous terrorist group.
Senator John McCain in Syria with members of the U.S.-backed rebel group Northern Storm
Erdogan, for his part, was revealed to be a major player in the smuggling of Islamic State oil out of Syria for sale on the global market. It was these oil sales that enabled the Islamic State to grow into what it is today and to become one of the world's most well-funded terror groups.
With such connections now well-documented, it seems unlikely that McCain and Erdogan discussed how to defeat the Islamic State. Based on the evidence, it seems much more likely that both remain eager to destabilize the region due to their shared goal of deposing Assad. With Turkey already working to destabilize Northern Syria by cutting off key resources, we will soon see what other measures may have been discussed during this "secret" meeting.
U.S.-U.K. Paid "White Helmets" Help to Block Water to 5 Million Thirsty Syrians*
Pentagon Re-Packages Al-Qaeda as 'Khorasan Group' to Sell Attack on Syria*
U.S. Intensifies Operations in Syria and Iraq amidst Syrian Truce*
Clean Water Returns to Damascus as Syria Reclaims Key Water Source from Terrorists*
Who's Paying Amnesty Int'l to Lie about Syria?*
Amnesty Int'l Admits Syria's 'torture prison' Report Fabricated Entirely in U.K.*
Turkey Continues Repeated Violations against the Sanctity and Unity of Syria's Sovereignty*
USD 8 million is the Value of Syrian Fruit and Vegetable Exports to Belarus in Past 3 months*
Syrian Education Ministry Launches the Psychological and Social Support Guide*
Aid Shipments Arrives in Lattakia from Armenia and Syrian Communities in Italy*
U.S. Admits Using Radioactive Weapons in Syria that Left Thousands of Iraqi Babies Deformed*
ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the U.S. Waging War on Syria's Public Utilities*
Israel Bombs Syrian Military Airport near Assad's Presidential Palace*
Drastic Changes in the Middle East Happen Unbelievably Fast*
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Asia, Environment, Health, Humanities, Middle East, The Americas and tagged capitalism, civil rights, colonialism, global governance, globalization, human rights, indigenous, natural resources, NWO, oppression, secularism, society, sovereignty, Syria, Turkey, U.S..
Five Signs When a Man is Connected to his Heart*
By Bryan Reeves
What Does it Take to Be a Real Man?
Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.
Our rational brains are supposed to do all the figuring out, while our testosterone-filled balls supply the driving force.
Intelligence. Determination. Courage. Sheer force of will. These are the masculine convictions of our brains and our balls. And they're absolutely valid and essential in their own way. But when used in isolation from our true power source for too long, they leave us dead inside, unable to deeply connect with life – including our intimate partners.
When I was a U.S. military officer, I was trained to use those masculine brains'n'balls convictions to accomplish whatever the mission; whatever the cost. After 10 years of operating purely on brains and balls alone, I was completely dead inside. I couldn't really laugh. I couldn't at all cry. I had an amazing girlfriend I couldn't really love. I couldn't feel much of anything.
I didn't realize then that the military takes to the extreme what modern culture idolizes: the prioritization of rationality over emotion; the worship of intellectual understanding over embodied knowing. The military intentionally disconnects the brains and balls from embodied knowing because that's our direct connection to the actual, tangible, visceral life we're immersed in every moment, regardless of what our brains have to say about it.
The military knows that you can't take life when you feel connected to life.
The military knows that you can't take life when you feel connected to life
Men, particularly, routinely deny this powerful, embodied connection to life that we cannot experience through our thinking brains alone. Yet this power centre is what enables us to deeply feel our own lives, to feel the world, and to then create truly extraordinary relationships with other people and lives in which we thrive every day.
Truly, when we live from this innate power source which connects us to life itself, we can make entire worlds thrive. This power source isn't in our brains or our balls. It's in the heart.
We men tend to think of 'heart' as merely something to help us win the game or appeal to a woman's romantic side. That's like thinking the sun is only good for heating bath water.
A man genuinely connected to his heart, who lives each day with his brain and balls in proper service to his heart's deeper wisdom, is a man that breathes life into the world. He can inspire and lift up the world, even if it's only one person's world.
How does a man connected to his heart show up every day, not just when his team is down 5 points, with only a minute remaining? What does such a man look like?
1) He's Deeply Patient
With himself. With others. With life.
When we're connected to our hearts, we're able to be patient with, and authentically love, life, ourselves and other people, even when they don't do what we want them to do – which is almost always.
When we are connected with our hearts and life, we can easily cultivate patience
In the military, I was so disconnected from my heart that I hated life. I was imprisoned in my brain. Sex was my only escape. The day I left base for the last time, I headed for the open road with only a backpack and pent-up rage. Little did I know, I was also heading into the darkest night my soul has ever experienced.
That dark night waxed and waned for 12 years and involved angry women and drugs and heartbreak and financial ruin. I was always impatient for the rest of the world to change so I could finally feel good, and I acted out in countless ways to make it change. By its end, my ego had been gutted so profoundly, as I finally had to accept just how little I am in control of anything, or anyone, and just how messy life is; no matter what I do to keep it clean. With every smash against the rocks I took, every despairing night and furious girlfriend, the heavy armour surrounding my heart cracked and weakened, until I gradually discovered an abiding peace and laughter I had never felt in my body before.
"The wound is the place where the light enters you. ~ Rumi
When I finally emerged from that dark night, I found myself in a new reality that showed me we are all innocent in our ignorance. We are each doing the best we can, all the time, even when it doesn't look that way. If we truly knew how to do things better, we would.
That one insight gave me access to an embodied patience with people, myself, with life, that I had never known; that no one ever taught me.
That insight was borne of a freshly opened heart.
Granted, my patience remains a work in progress, for my brain and my balls still constantly seek to assert their authority.
But my heart is no longer a slave to my brain or my balls. I can move powerfully towards my true heart's desire – whether that be a woman or a trip to the tropics – with patience enough to allow life its surprise curve balls. Curve balls are half the fun, anyway.
That's another way you can recognize a man of heart; he makes most things fun…
2) He Laughs Easily and Authentically
I didn't really know laughter until I was well into my 30s. Oh, I laughed plenty before then. But I took myself, and life, so seriously that my laughter was shallow and intellectual. But I didn't know that until the wisdom in my heart started showing me the wild beauty in all things.
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote:
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
My intellect has always been predisposed to lie to me, by telling me things are worse than they really are. My brain usually says I've got to work harder, be better, and do more just to survive; never mind thrive. It says the same about you. And my balls, well, they're never satisfied for long.
It's hard to fully let go and surrender to laughter when I believe I'm not yet good enough…or that you aren't…or that life isn't.
My heart, on the other hand, is perfectly content to enjoy this moment. It can find the innocence in most any situation, and it can laugh effortlessly at the crazy divine comedy that is life. The heart doesn't laugh in shallow arrogance through a facade of "I'm better and smarter than you".
True laughter comes from the heart
A man connected to his heart knows we're all made of the same stuff underneath the surface gloss. The laughter that erupts from that place is profound; divine. It's like the sound of love tickling itself.
3) He's Kind to the World
A man connected to his heart is kind to everyone. That doesn't mean he likes everyone. It doesn't mean he tolerates everyone. He might even put someone in jail if they prove to threaten the world he envisions. But he can always see the innocence that leads to ignorant, even awful, behavior.
A man connected to his heart can hold compassion for the worst, even as he locks the cell door.
I saw this in my relationships with women who acted in destructive ways, because they did not know how to effectively communicate their pain to me. Stuck in my head, I judged and fought them for their immature behavior, while ignoring the pain at their core.
With an open heart, I'm more able to stay kind with an intimate partner who's acting out her pain.
And yes, like most things, it's work in progress.
4) He's Fully Present
I hear this all the time from women, that their men don't seem to be present with them.
Being fully present is a full-body sport: it requires participation of the head, the heart, AND the balls. When a man lives in his head or his balls alone, his partner won't feel his presence. One way it reveals itself is through the quality of his listening.
We can feel when a person is fully present with us
When I was trapped in the brain-ball matrix, I would only listen to a girlfriend with the singular intent of evaluating to respond. I wanted to keep our thoughts in agreement because that's the only place I figured peace of mind – and sex – could happen. My attempt to intellectualize every argument, however, mostly created chaos.
When a man connected to his heart listens, he listens with his entire body (which includes his brain and his balls). He doesn't just listen for a way into the outcome he wants. He listens with his whole body, for the deeper message beneath the words. He listens at the level of the heart, where the real truth often resides.
His partner can feel this – his presence – when he breathes deeply and listens with his whole body.
5) He's Passionately Living His True Purpose
The work I did in the military felt completely out of alignment with my true purpose. I was miserable. The day I left, I instinctively knew to run fast and run far. Not from the military, but from living inauthentically.
The pain of that situation – where I had money, prestige, comfort, respect, and misery – left me with no choice but to seek my true purpose in life, wherever that journey would take me.
That's why I went through such darkness.
A man on his path is a man of heart
To find my path, I had to break the stranglehold my brain and balls had on my heart. They didn't surrender graciously.
A man connected to his heart lives the truth inside that heart, whatever it looks like. If he's doing work he doesn't love, he's doing it for bigger reasons driven by his authentic heart; perhaps to take care of his family or serve his community.
In my case, after years of running from the imaginary security of a paycheck, in search of authentic work aligned with my heart's desire, I finally found it in writing and coaching. I'm really good at both, and I make a meaningful difference in people's lives every day.
But I would never have come this far if not for the immense power in my heart.
Why Male Immune Cells are from Mars and Female Cells are from Venus*
U.K. Children as young as 4 being asked their Gender Option other than Male or Female*
The Disappearing Male*
Pistorius: The Hegemonic White Male*
Boys in Search of Manhood
A Tradition of Manhood
True Love is a 'Verb'*
War Is a Racket*
Love Misplaced By Capitalism*
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Art & Culture, Gender, Self Development, Spirituality and tagged families, gender, human rights, interfaith, jihad an nafs, laws of nature, life lessons, mental health, self awareness, self development, society, sovereignty.
By Peter Korzun
The situation in the Middle East is changing at an incredible speed. The things unbelievable yesterday, become reality today. Each of the events becomes part of a bigger picture, with the region gradually moving away from abyss to become a better place.
On March 1, Iraqi forces were reported to have taken control of the last major road out of western Mosul, preventing Islamic State (IS) militants from fleeing the city. The route leads to Tal Afar, another IS stronghold that is 40 km further west. They have since driven militants from the international airport, a military base, a power station and a number of residential areas. IS fighters began to flee. Total control over the city by Iraqi forces seems to be a matter of a few days, maybe hours.
Being almost defeated in Iraq, the IS has nowhere else to go but Syria – the country where they have just suffered a defeat, with Palmyra retaken by Syria's government forces. Russia's support has been crucial in the Syrian army's push. Raqqa, the last remaining stronghold of the IS, will be the place of the final battle the extremist group is doomed to lose as many influential actors want it to be wiped away from the earth.
Turkey has announced its intent to launch an offensive to retake Raqqa but only after taking control of Manbij, the town held by the Kurds-dominated Syria Democratic Forces (SDF). The parties were in for a fight to benefit the IS and other terror groups. The US was at a loss as to how to prevent a clash between the NATO ally and the Kurds – the force it relies on in the fight against the IS. That's when Moscow stepped in to avoid the worst, using its unique position as a mediator. It managed to do what nobody thought was possible. The military council in Manbij said on March 2 it will hand over areas west of the flashpoint town to Syrian government troops, after an agreement brokered by Russia.
Now the town is in Arab hands and Turkey has no reason to attack it. Syria and Turkey are not at war.
The United States had promised Turkey that Kurdish forces would withdraw from Manbij to the east of the Euphrates, but it never happened. Now Russia did what America had failed to do.
As a result of Russia's effective mediation, Turkey can double down on its plans to advance to Raqqa, while Syria's government has greatly strengthened its position. Turkey's President Erdogan has just said he is ready to fight the IS together with Russia. He is coming to Moscow on March 9. It means no clash between Turkey and Syria will take place.
Many things are changing for the Syrian government and it has been going on for some time. It's not a coincidence that voices get louder, calling for inviting Syrian President Assad to the March 29 Arab Summit in Amman – five years after Syria was expelled from the 22-member organization. Russia, Jordan and Egypt are applying efforts to reconcile the Arab community with the Syrian government. Last month, Egypt's parliamentary committee for Arab affairs called for the return of Syria to the Arab League. This would signify the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia which backed the Syrian rebels – something unthinkable some time ago.
In 2015, then U.S. President Obama predicted Russia would get stuck in Syria's quagmire. He appears to have been wrong. Thanks to Russia's involvement, one can see the light at the end of the tunnel to make the quagmire a thing of the past.
Moscow can facilitate the process of Iran joining with Arab states in the effort to reach agreement on Syria, bringing it to some mutual understanding with Saudi Arabia. Not much has been reported about some recent events of special significance. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited Kuwait and Oman on February 15. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir made a trip to Iraq on February 25, to be received by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. The trend is visible – Shia and Sunni are on speaking terms again and they are discussing something very important. It would have sounded incredible a short time ago but these are the facts.
All these events and emerging trends are taking place against the background of the ongoing U.N.-brokered Geneva talks on peaceful settlement in Syria. Here too we have an unexpected turn of events – the Syrian opposition seeks to meet with Russian officials!
According to Paul Vallely, a retired US Army Major General and senior military analyst for Fox News, Russia-US consultations on Syria are to start in two months after the presidents hold a summit. He said Russia is to play a key part in any scenario.
The recent days have literally shaken the Middle East. So many unexpected things happen to push things forward. Right in front of our eyes the impossible becomes possible.
As said before, Moscow is in a unique position to act as an intermediary and it plays its role aptly to achieve tangible results. If the current trend continues in the same direction, leading to the desired outcome, Russia's effort will go down in history as an extraordinary achievement of military success combined with effective diplomacy.
How a United Iran, Russia and China are Changing the World For the Better*
U.S. Keeps Stealing Iraq's Oil*
Ex British Ambassador Tells How U.K., US, and George Bush Sr. Scripted Iraq and Afghanistan Wars*
Egypt's U-Turn on Iraq and Syria*
This entry was posted on March 5, 2017, in Activism, Asia, Humanities, Middle East, People, The Americas and tagged capitalism, civil rights, colonialism, global governance, globalization, human rights, indigenous, Iran, Iraq, Muslims, natural resources, NWO, oppression, Russia, secularism, society, sovereignty, Syria, Turkey.


The program would be complete if it was able to monitor the folder where i save my nzb files. THE download will start automatically when a nzb file is placed in this directory.
That any many other great features are build in the next major release.
That's good news Andre, any idea when this will be released?


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Q: The @edit Route is not working... showing 404 not found the @edit route is not creating. everything is ok but showing 404 not found
the problem is on the last route. I ran the php artisan route:list code but not showing any route named /profile/{user}/edit
the web.php code ->>>>>
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use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\ProfilesController;
/*
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| Web Routes
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| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
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*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/p/{post}','App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@show');

Route::get('/p/create','App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@create');

Route::post('/p','App\Http\Controllers\PostsController@store');

Route::get('/profile/{user}', [App\Http\Controllers\ProfilesController::class, 'index'])->name('profile.show');

Route::get('/profile/{user}/edit','ProfilesController@edit')->name('profile.edit');

the profiles controller code ->>>>>
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namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class ProfilesController extends Controller
{

    public function edit(User $user)

    {
            return view('profiles.edit', compact('user'));
    }

    public function index(User $user)

    {
        return view('profiles.index', compact('user'));
    }

}

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@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')

here is a big design

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        Add New Post

    id }}/edit">Edit Profile

{{$user->posts->count()}} posts

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A: Change your route to
Route::get('/profile/{user}/edit',[ProfilesController::class, 'edit'])->name('profile.edit');

Your way 'ProfilesController@edit' doesn't take use App\Http\Controllers\ProfilesController; into account.

Offtopic suggestion: since you already named your routes I suggest you use the named routes in your blade files instead of hardcoding them:
Edit Profile

instead of
id }}/edit">Edit Profile

This way, should you decide to change a URL some time later, you only need to change it in your web.php file once, not all of your hardcoded occurences

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Balham Comedy Festival To Go Ahead
Despite restrictions not being eased, The Balham Comedy Festival at The Bedford will still go ahead from 9th -18th July.
The event will now be socially distanced to comply with Covid 19 safety regulations. Balham's Banana Cabaret, the longest running UK comedy club in its original venue, was adamant covid couldn't stop comedy any longer.
Festival organiser, Banana Cabaret's Dave Vickers said: "We've been at The Bedford for 38 years. Stand up is our lives and our livelihood. We didn't want to miss a moment more. Londoners deserve a serious dose of comedy after the last year and we can't wait to give it to them!"
Comedy goers are also strongly encouraged to make a night of it and enjoy dinner and drinks in The Bedford's iconic club Room which has previously hosted top music as and comedy performances from the likes of Ed Sheeran, Jorja Smith, Eddie Izzard and Jack Whitehall. There are even 15 luxury hotel rooms should comedy fans wish to stay the entire evening.
Balham Comedy Festival tickets can be purchased from balhamcomedyfestival.com. Prices start at just £10 plus booking fee. Please note show times and prices do vary.
Actsthis year include Henning Wehn, Dane Baptiste, Naomi Cooper, Rich Hall, Janey Godley, Marcus Brigstocke, Kae Kurd and Maisie Adam with the superb Rhod Gilbert bringing the festival to a close with his full tour show.
BALHAM COMEDY FESTIVAL 2021 / 9-18 JULY / FULL LISTINGS
FRIDAY 9th - BEST OF BANANA CABARET - Door 7pm / Show 9pm-11pm / £16 + bf
ANDY ASKINS
Andy Askins is a distinctive, original talent and highly sought-after headliner. And comics love him! A talented musician with an expertly crafted routine, Andy has audiences in the palm of his hands.
TV appearances include Comedy Central's The Comedy Store & The World Stands Up, The John Bishop Show & The John Bishop Christmas Show. Andy is also one of a very select group to be awarded the Afghanistan campaign medal for his contributions which included several tours to soldiers operating on the frontline.
"One of my all-time favourites." - JASON MANFORD
Catch the highly-anticipated return of Australian comedy legend Steve Hughes, known the world over for his hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners stand up. Free-thinking, intelligent, opinionated; Steve will be doing what he's always done best; making the uncomfortable acceptable and the horrifying hilarious.
"His insights are spot on, his opinions intelligent, his jokes top class." - THE GUARDIAN
SPECIAL GUEST – A comic who cannot be named…
SATURDAY 10th - BEST OF BANANA CABARET - Door 7pm / Show 9pm-11pm / £16 + bf
PAUL TONKINSON
The invincible and versatile Paul Tonkinson has long held his esteemed reputation as one of the finest standups in the business. Paul has travelled extensively to all the major international comedy festivals and, as Michael McIntyre's special guest on UK and world tour, played to millions across the globe. Erstwhile presenter of Chanel 4's Big Breakfast, TV credits also include Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Comedy Central's The Comedy Store, and The World Stands-Up.
"Excellent, extremely talented, brilliant." - TIME OUT
MAISIE ADAM
Rising star Maisie Adam's anecdotal material and witty charm quickly won her recognition. She is only the fourth woman in its 30 year history to win the prestigious So You Think You're Funny. She then went on to win the Amused Moose National Comic Award. Maisie appears on Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You, QI, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Hypothetical, The Stand-Up Sketch Show and The Last Leg.
"Go see Maisie now and have bragging rights for years to come." - THE HERALD
KAE KURD
Praised for "championing the alternative voice", smart, sharp and brilliantly astute, Kae Kurd is a young British-Kurdish standup recognised as one of the UK's fastest rising stars.
His debut special, 'Kurd Your Enthusiasm' received over 100k views on YouTube and his new tour 'The Spoken Kurd' has dates selling out in record time. Seen on Live at the Apollo, Don't Hate the Playaz, The Tez O'Clock Show, Know Your Rights, Comedians Solve World Problems, Three Guys Eat and Big Comedy Night.
"Soon to be a household name." - EVENING STANDARD
Ola is a young, driven and hugely talented artist, renowned for his intelligent, edgy humour. He is eminently likeable, his calm gravitas commanding attention as if by mesmerism.
Ola has also built an enviable presence on TV, and social media platforms, winning fans far and wide. His most recent special 'The Comedian and his Future Wife' received 5 stars at the Edinburgh Festival. He's also a core cast member and writer on London Live's pilot 'Sniggers with Attitude'.
"An infectiously playful spirit." - CHORTLE
MONDAY 12TH - SOLO SHOWS
SHAPPI KHORSANDI - Work in Progress - Door 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm-8.30pm / £12 + bf
Comedian, author, columnist, cultural icon, Shappi Khorsandi is a woman of many parts. Brandishing her 'spit and sawdust comic' credentials proudly, the live stage is her natural element.
You'll have seen and heard Shappi on countless TV and Radio shows, like Mock The Week, QI, Have I Got News For You and 8 Out of 10 Cats, but it's on a live stage where she truly shines. Top comedian and all-round delight, Shappi's a one-woman rollercoaster of irrepressible fun.
"Makes live comedy thrilling." - EVENING STANDARD
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE - We're back baby! - Door 9pm / Show 9.15pm-10.15pm / £16 + bf
Balham resident and master of satirical comedy Marcus Brigstocke has A LOT he wants to talk about. He is blisteringly funny over a wide range of topics including; climate change, religious extremism, immigration, loans companies, the Special Relationship, compensation culture, women's magazines, The EU and David Blaine, not to mention his own personal battle against his middle class roots.
A major comedy, writing and acting talent, BBC Radio 4 has become a second home to him, he has impressive list of TV credits, and critical acclaim in the West End.
"If you haven't seen him live, then you haven't seen him at his very best." - THE MIRROR
TUESDAY 13TH - SOLO SHOWS
PAUL FOOT - Baby Strikes Back! - Door 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm-8.30pm / £12 + bf
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances. Baby has a plan. Baby never lose. Baby bounce back!
Paul has been described as a 'comic genius' by no less than six national newspapers, and 'surreal' by pretty much everybody who has ever seen him. He is a multi-award-winner and -nominee, with uncountable appearances on TV and radio and an international following.
"Sublime, original and brilliant." - THE INDEPENDENT
HENNING WEHN - Das Neuen Materialen Nachten - Door 9pm / Show 9.15pm-10.15pm / £16 + bf
Join the German Comedy Ambassador for Teutonic jolliness at its best. Expect some old favourites and an unbiased look at everyone's favourite topic of conversation: a certain virus. Some might call it work-in-progress but Henning prefers to describe it as masterpiece-under-construction.
Henning's most recent television and radio appearances include Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You, Live At The Apollo, Question Time, 8 Out Of Cats Does Countdown, Radio 4's The Unbelievable Truth.
"Dazzlingly funny." - THE TIMES
WEDNESDAY 14TH - SOLO SHOWS
DANE BAPTISTE - Work in Progress - Door 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm-8.30pm / £10 early bird + bf
Original, provocative and exceptionally prolific, Dane is now one of the hottest names in British comedy, making history in 2014 as the first Black British act to be nominated for a comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His smash hit pilot "Bamous" aired on BBC1 in 2021, charting in the Top 10 comedy TV ratings the week of its release.
TV credits include Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Black, British and Funny, Frankie Boyle's New World Order, Roast Battle, Live from the Comedy Store and more.
"Powerful and persuasive." - FEST MAGAZINE
RICH HALL - Live - Door 9pm / Show 9.15pm-10.15pm / £16 + bf
Described as a transatlantic messenger, award-winning Montana native Rich Hall is renowned for his expertly crafted tirades, quick-fire banter and musical sequences.
He fronted the hugely successful BBC 4 documentaries Rich Hall's Red Menace, Rich Hall's Working For The American Dream, Rich Hall's Countrier Than You, Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match, Rich Hall's California Stars, Rich Hall's You Can Go To Hell, I'm Going To Texas, and Rich Hall's Inventing the Indian.
As seen on QI, Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You, he also wrote and starred in the reoccurring Radio 4 show Rich Hall's (US Election) Breakdown, and has penned articles for The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
"Blissfully funny." - THE GUARDIAN
THURSDAY 15TH - SOLO SHOWS
JANEY GODLEY - Unlocked - Door 9pm / Show 9.15pm-10.15pm / £14 + bf
Godmother of Scottish comedy Janey Godley does standup like you've never seen before!
The multi-award-winning comedienne, playwright, award-winning blogger, best-selling author and former Scotsman newspaper columnist has performed around the world including off-Broadway in New York.
A regular on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute, and hot from appearances on Have I Got News for You and Scotland's Breaking the News, Janey boasts over 40 million hits online and regular sold out shows at Edinburgh and Glasgow comedy festivals.
"A fu%king great comedian." - BILLY CONNOLLY
BOOTHBY GRAFFOE - Untitled - Door 9pm / Show 9.15pm-10.15pm / £12 + bf
Boothby Graffoe is a surreally funny man and a formidable musician. No comedian quite has his knack for leading an audience up the garden path or more consistently leaving them literally aching with laughter. No comedian will pass up the chance to watch him in action.
Boothby has written for Omid Djalili's two award-winning BBC series and toured with him as well as with superstar guitarist Antonio Forcione. He also frequently tours as support with Canadian supergroup Barenaked Ladies.
"Watching this guy is just a really great way to spend an evening." - NEW YORK TIMES
FRIDAY 16th - BEST OF BANANA CABARET - DOOR 7pm / SHOW 9pm-11pm / £16 + bf
It's primarily Ed's live work that has built up legions of fans both in the UK and abroad. He's widely considered the observational standup to see.
Ed Byrne became a household name from TV, radio and stage appearances now including, The Pilgrimage, Top Gear, QI, Dara & Ed's Road to Mandalay, Dara & Ed's Big Adventure, Mock the Week, Graham Norton Show, Have I Got News For You, and Live at the Apollo. He presented Comic Relief Bake Off, and was a contestant on BBC 1's Celebrity Best Home Cook. With a passion for the outdoors, Ed has recently launched his walking and talking podcast: Ed Venturing on YouTube (also on his website).
"At the height of his powers" - THE OBSERVER
NAOMI COOPER
Naomi Cooper has really hit her comic stride over the last year becoming a viral sensation with her Yummy Mummy Philippa videos. A multi-talented performer, she's a seasoned standup comedian, accomplished improviser and classically-trained actor. Her star is most definitely in the ascendant.
She performs across the UK and Europe, appeared at various prestigious comedy festivals, and supported Jeff Garlin, of Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Goldbergs, for the duration of his extended sold out Soho Theatre run, and the Laugh Factory and the Hollywood Improv shows in LA.
"A comedy badass. Naomi Cooper is funny." - JEFF GARLIN
BEN NORRIS
Renowned for his incredibly relaxed stage persona, Ben is a highly experienced and highly well-respected standup. He consistently delivers sharply crafted material, and his innate, exquisite improvisational skills are the envy of his peers.
Ben has written and performed solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival, and acted in the play "The Last Minutes", broadcast on Radio 4, developed with the Comedians Theatre Company. TV credits include Mock the Week, The Comedy Store, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and They Think It's All Over.
"Unbelievably brilliant" - JASON MANFORD
TOM LUCY
With a relaxed and easy stage presence and likeable, chatty style, Tom Lucy has established himself as one of the most exciting new comedians around.
At 16 he quickly rose through the comedy club circuit to become one of the youngest professional standup comedians in the world. He tours internationally, picking up rave reviews and boasting a sell-out show at the Leicester Square Theatre during his first headline UK tour in 2019 and supported Jack Whitehall on his enormous UK arena tour.
As seen on Dating No Filter, Stand Up For Live Comedy, Roast Battle, Stand Up Central and many more.
"Believe the hype, this guy is hilarious." - JACK WHITEHALL
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YURIKO KOTANI
Effortlessly appealing as she steps on stage, Yuriko Kotani is a UK-based Japanese comedian giving a wry take on the British, our mannerisms, language, and fondness for the adverb "-ish".
Named "One To Watch" by Time Out, Yuriko also won the BBC New Comedy Award.
TV credits include Russell Howard's Stand Up Central, BBC3's Please Like It, CBBC's The Dog Ate My Homework and Paul Hollywood Eats Japan. Radio credits include The Comedy Club, The Arts Hour International New Year Comedy Celebration, The Verb and Loose Ends.
"The left-field rising star." - TIME OUT
ADAM BLOOM
Multi-award-winning Adam Bloom is one of Britain's most original and inventive comedians, hugely in demand and performing the world over.
With seven sell-out solo runs at The Edinburgh Festival, and a 29-date sell-out tour of the UK, Adam broke box-office records for any comic's first ever appearance at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He's Banksy's go-to comedian and writer on a range of collaborations, and has many TV credits too.
One of the UK's most prolific comedy writers, Adam has written and performed three series of 'The Problem with Adam Bloom' for BBC Radio 4, and provided additional material for over 40 comedians, including an Oscar and BAFTA nominee, a Perrier Main Award Winner and Royal Variety Performance acts.
"A light-speed wit, focused over years at the pinnacle of stand-up." - CHORTLE
IMRAN YUSUF
Renowned as a skilful raconteur who can seamlessly weave socio-political satire with heartfelt introspection into his charming and endearing trademark style, Imran Yusuf is a languid, punchy, cheeky and utterly loveable comedian. He has been a pioneering voice in the world of modern British comedy and across the world, racking up 7 million hits on YouTube!
"Sharp, passionate and uplifting." - THE TELEGRAPH
SUNDAY 18th - FULL TOUR SHOW - DOOR 6.30pm / SHOW 7.30pm-9.30pm / £20 + bf
RHOD GILBERT - (Blowing the cobwebs off) THE BOOK OF JOHN
Following a seven-year break from stand-up the multi-award-winning comedian returned to the stage in 2019 with his acclaimed new live show; The Book of John. After a further hiatus (for obvious reasons), join the Welsh wonder as he blows the cobwebs off ahead of the national tour resuming.
A lot has happened to Rhod since he last toured. Almost all of it s**t. And just when he thought he'd hit rock bottom, he met a bloke...called John. This show sees Rhod raw, personal and brutally honest. As funny as ever, this is Rhod, but different, the same, but not.
As seen on Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience, Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains, Would I Lie to You?, Taskmaster, Qi, Live at The Apollo, Have I Got News for You? and much more.
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Although the region is known as Middle Asia or Inner Asia, the term "Central Asia" is famous for its "stan" countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Being a region of Asia it borders on China in the east, the Caspian Sea in the west, the Russian Federation in the north and Afghanistan in the south. Being a region of Asia it borders on China in the east, the Caspian Sea in the west, the Russian Federation in the north and Afghanistan in the south.


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SC restrains bar association from going on strike, boycotting a judge
As judicial work was hit today in the six district courts here due to a lawyers' strike, the Supreme Court restrained the Delhi's Tis Hazari Court Bar Association from going on strike or boycotting any judge of the court.
The striking lawyers were protesting against alleged false implication of its office bearers in an assault case lodged by a woman lawyer.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud directed the Police Commissioner to provide adequate security, preferably by a woman police officer, to the victim lawyer who appeared in person, along with senior advocate Indira Jaising, that she was scared to record her statements in the court.
The bench said "her apprehension is not in the realm of illusion, but real" and directed that she should be given police security so that her statement can be recorded in the court.
Later, bar association leaders said they had a meeting with Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Gita Mittal after the coordination committee of bar associations of all Delhi district courts decided to suspend their agitation and the lawyers will resume work from tomorrow.
The apex court, in order to avoid any unwarranted situation at the Tis Hazari Court, directed that the statement under section 164 of the CrPC of the woman lawyer should be recorded before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) at Patiala House Court.
The apex court issued notice to President of the Bar association and impleaded its secretary as party in the case.
The woman lawyer told the court that an incident had taken place on May 4 in which she was manhandled and humiliated by members of bar. She brought the incident to the notice of Additional Sessions Judge Prashant Kumar, who directed registration of an FIR.
She said that after the court directed for lodging an FIR, the Bar Association has allegedly boycotted the judge and gone on strike today.
The woman lawyer along with Jaising mentioned the matter before the bench after the court assembled after lunch, which took up of the case later in the day.
After the matter was taken up at 3.45pm, Jaising told the court that there is serious issue of safety and security of women advocates practising in trial court across the country.
She said the court should direct the implementation of Vishaka guidelines in trial courts, while Jaising said the members of Tis Hazari Court Bar Association were on strike and boycotting the judge for an indefinite period for ordering registration of FIR.
The bench posted the matter for further hearing on May 11.
Yesterday, the Coordination Committee of All-District Court Bar Associations of Delhi had called for a strike at the Tis Hazari Courts on May 8 and at all district courts in Patiala House, Tis Hazari, Saket, Rohini, Karkardooma and Dwarka.
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The article is a translation of "Les carnets de recherche en ligne, espace d'une conversation scientifique décentrée" in Lieux de savoir 2. Les mains de l'intellect, ed. by Christian Jacob, Paris, Albin Michel, 2011, 992 pages.
However, even if today the main mode of distribution for academic journals is by Internet, we might well believe the same applies to all documentation used in writing articles. Researchers' data—notebooks, fieldwork, and procedural records—is often entered into a digital support, so with the technical means at our disposal today, it could fairly easily be distributed online. Such records may also come into contact with a recently-evolved and unique type of publication, used by increasing numbers outside the academic environment: the online log, or weblog, or blog . Blogs are effectively a short series of notes classified in chronological order giving their authors the possibility of creating a dialogue with their readers via comments. The blog phenomenon on the Internet has exploded and it has not escaped the attention of a section of the academic community who have adopted this form of communication as a way of lifting the lid on the way their laboratories function. Academic blogs create a conjunction between traditional academic writing practices and a mode of publication born on the web , and for several years academic blogs have been springing up everywhere. The conjunction between the two forms does not imply fusion. Careful observation of academic blogs shows that they do not render laboratory notes word for word. When research notes are made public, they are immediately transformed, producing new types of document, all of which creates a new mode of academic communication.
Antoine Blanchard applied the famous "research compass card" method proposed by Larédo and Callon, and revealed  the flexibility of the academic blog in all research fields: in the production of ratified specialist knowledge, in training and innovation, and in making research relevant to the community at large through simplification. We are a far cry from online procedural records; the academic blog should rather be defined as a multi-use communication tool for use by researchers in all the many different dimensions of their work. The blog therefore constitutes a good way to create a broader vision of academic writing practices in all their diversity, a vision that cannot be reduced to the clearly demarcated research article that is published in a reading committee journal.
While sociologists of science endeavour to slip behind the neutral tones of the academic article and lift the lid on laboratory life, recording the life and passions of the everyday academic, in many respects the academic blog emerges as another locus from which to observe the reality of research.
What is striking is the great diversity of information that researchers publish on their blogs. Blogs are a sort of researchers' bazaar, a real-time showroom of their professional production that is not just limited to the laboratory or library. Academic blogs less relate accounts of experiments and relay instead a whole of information about experiments and research, and their related activities—seminar or conference papers, research policy, the encounter with the academic world at large, meetings, debates and discussions. This is the case, in particular, of the most popular and most widely read blogs. Academic blogs are picked up by the Wikio research engine and those most frequented are often those dealing with the environment or astronomy. Cosmic Variance is one of the best known . The blog is written by a group of seven physicians and contains posts on subjects as diverse as the launch of a universe exploration probe, the discovery of new stars, an account of a series of conferences on gravitational waves, or of science made simple for a broader readership. Real Climate meanwhile is a blog run by four American and Norwegian climatologists. Here again the blog essentially posts articles about the latest news, publications, reports, and debates in the field of climatology and climate change. A quantum diaries survivor is the blog of Tommaso Dorigo, a physician working for the CERN. He posts comments on articles on the open Arxiv archive, but also seminar presentations, and various stances on different events relating to his community. The phenomenon can be analysed in practically the same terms in the humanities and social sciences. Archives de la Recherche en Histoire Visuelle, for example, is a blog run by André Gunthert, a photography historian at the EHESS. In his online notebook, there are announcements for publications and conferences, as well as comments about politics today, theoretical propositions or reflections on academic policy.
The diversity of themes that characterises most academic blogs, and the documentary disorder that disconcerts the reader who is more used to the more regimented forms of traditional academic publications, is the distinctive feature of the online weblog, organised on the sole principle of chronological succession. Unlike a research log written on a paper support, the blog benefits from the flexibility of electronic publication methods and in particular from the advantages of hypertext links. All blogs are therefore equipped with a system for describing their content through categories or keywords, which enable access to a classification of posts by theme, independent to the chronological order in which they were posted. In this way each post is often described by one or several "tags" which means that it can be related to other posts on the same subject. This is a cataloguing system that academic journals have long used. The uses of the same documentary tool are however very different in both cases. In the case of journals, and by extension open archives, the taxonomic systems that enable to attribute a subject to an article are relatively standardised, at least within a specific academic community. These systems reflect the structuring of a discipline or of a research domain. The keywords used in blogs are very different. Keywords are often improvised by the author as he or she is writing the post and there is often no underlying standardised system. They are instead a simple reflection of the slightly chaotic diversity of everyday life. The main concern is not rationalisation but rather to categorise each event by theme so as to be able to find it again later. It is at this level that the researcher's blog resembles a notebook through which he is able to amass information, remarks, and fleeting thoughts at the moment they arrive, with the possibility of finding them again subsequently via keywords that are appended freely for each entry.
We might compare this list with the list of categories that the reference journal of particle physics, Physical Review A, uses to classify the articles it publishes.
In the former case we see a structure-less jumble of references with very different levels of generality, combined with elements that are radically foreign to scientific research. This kind of categorisation corresponds to what the computer scientist, Thomas Vander Wal, has called "folksonomy" , that is to say a categorisation of unconstrained and uncontrolled content. In the latter case we see an ordered taxonomy, systematically covering the full scope of research in physical sciences. This opposition between the jumble of the researchers' blog compared to the cathedral-like structure of the academic journal highlights the liberating character for the researcher of the research notebooks in relation to classic publications . Whereas classic publications impose standards of expression, editorial standards, publication deadlines, and also strict academic validation frameworks, the blog enables researchers to free themselves of all these constraints within the context of the blog.
The various articles posted by the researcher, however, do reveal the researcher's intellectual journey. In history and sociology, in particle physics as in genetic biology, researchers' academic activity is not only directed by its own logic. It is intensely directed by current developments, events relating to his or her discipline or academic environment of course, but also in relation with the preoccupations that affect the society in which he or she lives. This is above all what academic blogs reveal when the lid is lifted on laboratory activity. Contrary to the popular image of the absent-minded boffin who is indifferent to the world around him, research blogs instead show something very different: an open academic practice grappling with the academic, intellectual and political debates of its time.
From this point of view, the development of academic blogs has had a tendency to radically redefine the relationship between science and society. The most obvious phenomenon is that of disintermediation. The communication model is not exclusively that of the translation of scholarly artefacts by this "third man", the academic journalist, who writes for his profane audience. Through the blog, the researcher talks directly to an audience that is no longer segmented. The flexibility of the blog and its varied character enables it to bring together different readerships in the same publication space—the website. Posts relating to a variety of subjects written in different ways and so address mixed types of reader or, more to the point, imply no prejudice about the quality or the expertise of those reading them. There is a clear opposition with more traditional forms of publication here. The opposition between research journals written and read by researchers with their strong segregation, on one side, and reviews written by journalists and read by the public at large, on the other, does not necessarily apply to the world of blogs. There is considerable editorial interference in blogs because they address themselves to all readerships at the same time, and also because they break down the barriers between professional roles. The profiles of science blog writers include researchers and also science journalists, science fans, teachers, and decision makers in science policy. Many have hybrid profiles, like Phil Plait, the man behind the blog, Bad Astronomy, who is described as "an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a sceptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science." This career path may seem unorthodox but it is fairly representative of science blogs.
This type of presentation is significant in that it shows the reputation issues at stake in academic blogs. Here again, this type of communication upsets the classic models that describe an ideal situation where the legitimacy of a researcher or research comes exclusively and initially from peer acknowledgement, and is subsequently confirmed by a form of popularity accorded by society on the basis of this academic excellence. Several studies of science from historical and sociological perspectives have highlighted the entrepreneurial dimension of academic research  where the talents for communication possessed by the major academic figures have played an essential role in their capacity to mobilise the means necessary to conduct their research, from public or industrial sources or other sponsors. The success of researchers' careers and also the theories that they put forward depend largely on their capacity to convince and communicate outside the academic sphere and respond to a form of social demand. This also gives researchers several trump cards, on several levels, which enhance their recognition by the academic community. The process could therefore be described as a game of reciprocal conversion between different forms of credit where academic credit plays an important but not exclusive role. Through its flexibility and its capacity to attract a wide range of readers, and through its own distinctive properties as a social medium , the blog seems to be a fairly efficient conversion instrument. It is also a reputed construction tool within networks and also fulfils this function when used in the academic sphere. Through its enunciative structure it enables researchers to express themselves from unusual and subjective perspectives, which are unacceptable according to the standards of academic publications. Thus it enables an individual researcher or group of researchers to mark out a territory of expertise in relation to their peers as well as in the public sphere. In his conference paper on what blogging has brought science, Antoine Blanchard cites several examples of bloggers whose posts have been picked up within their discipline and who have subsequently been requested to produce genuine publications .
A number of other cases may also be mentioned among them, that of Jean Véronis, a computer linguistics specialist at the Université de Provence who opened his notebook, Aixtal, in 2004 . The notebook was initially aimed at his own students but gradually he made his discipline popular by taking an interest in the search engine, Google, which helped him reach out to a less specialised readership. But it was above al by applying the methods of analysis of his discipline to the discourse of politicians that Jean Véronis became more famous. He has since published several works on the subject and the media regularly appeals to his expertise to decipher politicians' speeches or social debates. His expertise is also recognised in the industrial sector where he intervenes as a consultant. This type of example shows us how the blog has become a form of ego-reference: a communication platform for multiple targets through whom researchers can feed their academic profile.
This initial overview of the world of academic blogs leads the observer into unexpected territory. The hope that raw research data—field work and lab notes—would be made openly available has proved to be illusory and untimely. In any case it is not in the form of online research notebooks that is likely to take place. Outside established databases that collect measurements and standardised information, there exist a small number of experiments into what is sometimes called open notebook science. The Useful Chemistry  initiative in particular encourages chemistry researchers to publish the accounts of experiments they carry out. It should be stated however that the technology and the type of web publication used is not the blog. The online research notebook does not mean transference of field or laboratory work online, even though they are both organised by chronology. Neither is it a publication support in the way that peer-review journals or books are, and it is no replacement. The online research notebook lies somewhere between the two. It is sometimes full, in the best cases, of working hypotheses, which will later give rise to publications. Most of the time, it tells of the monitoring role that researchers carry out in their own disciplines, and on their own research subjects. But above all the online research notebook constitutes an interface between its writer and its environment, in all its diversity and complexity. It possesses a fundamental social dimension that governs and defines both the way it functions and the functions it fulfils. However this dimension appears in a totally unexpected way in the course of analysis. And firstly it seems not to have been anticipated in the multiple reflections carried out on how the effects of digital media have transformed academic writing.
 "A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs". WIKIPEDIA 2009, article "blogs".
Marin Dacos is the Director of the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo). He is the founder of Revues.org, Calenda, the social sciences calendar, Hypothèses, a research blog platform, and Lodel, an electronic publishing interface. Originally a historian of photography, he taught at Avignon University and the EHESS in Paris for several years before founding Revues.org in 1999. He is now a digital humanities specialist and an "information system manager" for the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). He has published a great many articles on digital history and digital publishing and is the editor of Read/Write Book. Le livre inscriptible (Prunel, 2009) and the co-author, with Pierre Mounier, of L'édition électronique (La Découverte, 2010).
Pierre Mounier lectures in the "Digital Humanities" at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Humaines et Sociales (EHESS) and is the director of the research blog platform Hypotheses.org. He is the editor-in-chief and author of Homo Numericus, a blog focused on digital technologies. He was the Head of the digital publishing service of the humanities department of École Normale Supérieure (2002-2008). A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, he has a master's degree in social anthropology (Université Paris X Nanterre) and a teaching certificate in French literature (Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris IV).
English translation by Jonathan Sly.
The second part of the article has been published on this blog .


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An excellent premise for a novel and one about which the author clearly is concerned.
Unfortunately, bad editing, clumsy prose and rather two-dimensional, clichéd characters make this a somewhat dull read.


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General Pao Pienlert Boripanyutakit (; November 10, 1893March 4, 1970) was a Thai political figure who served as a Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce.

Biography
Pao was the second oldest of 12 children. He lived and studied in military school in Thailand until the age of 16 at which time he went abroad to continue military study on full scholarship.  He first studied in Germany until World War I broke out, after which he was transferred to Switzerland and later to Paris when Thailand participated in World War I at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr to complete his education. He also served as an assistant to the Defence Attaché at the embassy in Paris during his study and after graduation.

He returned to Thailand at the age of 28 and served as an army official until the King granted his official title as Phra Boripanyutakit at the age of 36. He was named one of the 19 highest-ranking officials in his nation's army, serving as a liaison between the Thai Army and the Allies force during World War I. He spoke fluent French, German, and English.

He served as the Minister of Commerce for 8 terms (February 12, 1935 to February 16, 1942, from May 29, 1948 to November 29, 1951, and again from March 31, 1957 to September 16, 1957).

He served as the Minister of Finance for two different terms, from December 17, 1941 – August 1, 1944 and December 8, 1951 – March 30, 1953.

He also served for a very brief period as Minister of Agriculture in 1951 in the aftermath of the Silent Coup.

His most notable contribution to finance was that he helped established the foreign currency exchange of Thailand in 1955. In commerce, he helped industrialize the enamelling process for porcelain and metals commercially, started the export program for the rice industry in Thailand, and helped to create the first seaport in Thailand.

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