A man stopped war, Tébily Didier Yves Drogba

A man stopped war

TIME 100: The Most Influential People in the World

African Footballer of the Year: 2006, 2009

Tébily Didier Yves Drogba, known as Didier Drogba, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Galatasaray in the Süper Lig.

He played football every day in a car park in the city when he was young with happiness. After playing in youth teams and professinal teams, In the summer of 2004, Drogba moved to Chelsea for a club record £24 million fee, making him the most expensive Ivorian player in history. In his debut season he helped the club win their first league title in 50 years, and a year later he won another Premier League title. In 2006–07, Drogba scored 33 goals, won the Premier League Golden Boot and scored the winning goals in both the League Cup and FA Cup finals. He won the FA Cup for a second time in 2009, scoring the equaliser in the final, and in 2009–10 was instrumental in Chelsea clinching their first double, winning his second Golden Boot and scoring the only goal in the 2010 FA Cup Final.

 But what makes Drogba special is Didier’s humanitarian efforts.  He is a class-act as a man, and that trumps the fact that he is a football legend.
Weeks before the World Cup 2006 in Germany, his native Ivory Coast was in a state of upheaval as civil war spread throughout his homeland. Drogba announced that he would not compete in the tournament unless the fighting would stop.  Quite a bold move when you consider the violence, and how he might just have put himself in the crosshairs.  The citizens of Ivory Coast responded to his request and put down their weapons.  Quite literally, he had the star power to make a difference, and did just that, saving countless lives along the way.  We will never know how many generations in Cote D’Ivoire owe their lives to Didier Drogba.

This week Drogba was at it again.  Pepsi endorsed him $3 million USD for his MVP role in helping Chelsea FC to a Champions League title.  Drogba had plans for the money, but they weren’t to buy a car or fund the purchase of a yacht or some other high-falutent purchase.  Rather, on the same day he received the money, he donated it, all $3 million, to help build a badly-needed hospital in his hometown of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

These selfless acts prove his character.  He truly believes in helping others.  In the world today, I believe athletes in major sports are making way too much money, and as a result, I think it becomes increasingly important that they give back to their community. I wish more athletes, celebrities and CEO’s would give back to the community like Drogba has done, whether that is through financial contributions as Drogba has done, or by acting as role models for our children.  If they did, the world would be a better place.

source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Drogba
http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/05/26/didier-drogba-more-than-just-a-player/

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I miss taste of the sweet life

I miss the conversation

I’m searching for a song tonight

I’m changing all of the stations

I like to think that, we had it all

We drew a map to a better place

But on that road I took a fall

Oh baby why did you run away?

I was there for you

In your darkest times

I was there for you

In your darkest nights

But I wonder where were you

When I was at my worst

Down on my knees

And you said you had my back

So I wonder where were you

All the roads you took came back to me

So I’m following the map that leads to you

The map that leads to you

Aint nothing I can do

The map that leads to you

Following, following, following to you

The map that leads to you

Aint nothing I can do

The map that leads to you

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to moonn6pence from papayeverte

I hear your voice in my sleep at night

Hard to resist temptation

Cause all these strangers come over me

Now I can’t get over you

No I just can’t get over you

I was there for you

In your darkest times

I was there for you

In your darkest nights

But I wonder where were you

When I was at my worst

Down on my knees

And you said you had my back

So I wonder where were you

All the roads you took came back to me

So I’m following the map that leads to you

The map that leads to you

Aint nothing I can do

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Oh In you darkest times

Oh I was there for you

Oh In your darkest nights

Oh I was there for you

Oh In you darkest times

Oh I was there for you

Oh In your darkest nights

But I wonder where were you

When I was at my worst

Down on my knees

And you said you had my back

So I wonder where were you

All the roads you took came back to me

So I’m following the map that leads to you

The map that leads to you

Aint nothing I can do

The map that leads to you

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The siege of Mosul: What's happening? Why is it significant?

(CNN) -- For a while, Iraq faded from the collective consciousness. But what's happening there should make people sit up and take notice.
Extremist militants have overrun Mosul, the country's second-largest city. As many as half a million civilians have fled their homes to escape the violence, and the brazen incursion has highlighted all the weaknesses of the government's ability to maintain security.
Here's how things got to this point.

So, what happened?
Monday night into Tuesday, militants seized Mosul's airport, its TV stations and the governor's office. They freed up to 1,000 prisoners.
Police and soldiers ran from their posts rather than put up a fight, abandoning their weapons as they went. The militants took their place in the city's boulevards and buildings.
"There was no presence of any government forces on the streets, the majority of their posts destroyed and manned by (Islamist militants)," resident Firas al-Maslawi said.
An audio recording purportedly from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria promises more fighting in more Iraqi cities, including Baghdad.
"Continue your march as the battle is not yet raging," a voice said to be that of ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani says.

Why is this significant?
Mosul is the nation's second-largest city. What's happening here doesn't bode well for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's administration. It calls into question whether he has a handle on the country.
The devastating militant advance, which had been building for some time, is proving an object lesson of much that is wrong in Iraq and the region -- growing sectarian tensions at home and a festering civil war over the border in Syria.
It also shows that the extremists are seeking to extend their influence and can strike swiftly and effectively against Iraq's American-trained security forces.

Who are the militants?
They're part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, an al Qaeda splinter group. Here's how extreme the militant group is: Even al Qaeda has disowned it.
The Mosul siege has made ISIS the single most dangerous, destabilizing radical group in the region.
The group is also known by some as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Its members include Europeans as well as Chechens, Turks and many fighters from other Arab countries, some attracted by the conflict in Syria.
How to respond to the ISIS threat

What do they want?
They want to establish an Islamic caliphate, or state, stretching across the region.
ISIS has begun imposing Sharia law in Syrian towns it controls, like Raqqa, forcing women to wear the full veil, or niqab, in public and banning music.
Have they made such incursions before?
Yes. In past months, they've wrested control of Iraqi cities like Falluja and parts of Ramadi from authorities, just as they've done with Syrian towns over the border.
Militants believed to be from ISIS have also taken control of two villages in Iraq's Kirkuk province and seized parts of the oil town of Baiji in Salaheddin province, authorities said.
Have they been able to keep their control?
Not really. Despite the territorial advances it has made in Sunni-dominated Anbar and Nineveh provinces, ISIS still has "significant weaknesses," a U.S. counterterrorism official says.
"It has shown little ability to govern effectively, is generally unpopular, and has no sway outside the Sunni community in either Iraq or Syria."

How is all this tied to Syria?
ISIS grew out of al Qaeda in Iraq. In the west of Iraq, its militants were responsible for killing and maiming many U.S. troops. In 2006, their commander -- the bloodthirsty Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- was killed in a U.S. strike.
In the years afterward, with American help, Iraqi tribal militias put the al Qaeda upstart on the defensive.
But when U.S. troops left, the extremist militants found new leadership, went to Syria, grew stronger and returned to Iraq, making military gains often off the backs of the foreign fighters drawn to Syria's conflict.
Now the group has footholds in both countries and is blamed for destabilizing both.
In Syria, where its forces have clashed with other Islamist groups, observers say the internecine fighting has played into the hands of Bashar al-Assad's regime by distracting rival factions from their campaign against the Syrian military.

What's the situation in Mosul right now?
More than 500,000 civilians have fled since the fighting started over the weekend, according to the International Organization for Migration.
The northern city's four main hospitals are inaccessible because of fighting, and some mosques have been converted to clinics, the IOM said.
There's a lack of drinking water in the western part of the city since the main water station for the area has been destroyed by bombing. Food is running low and few areas are receiving electricity, while fuel for generators is also running out.
What does this mean for Iraq?
While Iraq is plagued by multiple daily car bombings and suicide attacks, the sheer scale of the attack on Mosul -- and the brewing humanitarian crisis tied to it -- bodes ill for the country's stability.
According to the United Nations, last year was Iraq's most violent in five years, with more than 8,800 people killed, most of them civilians.
Already this year, almost half a million people have been displaced from their homes in central Anbar province by fighting between the same extremist group and government forces.
One major reason Mosul made headlines is how swiftly the city, to all intents and purposes, fell.
What does this mean for the United States and the West?
The last U.S. military forces left Iraq at the end of 2011, after nearly nine years of deadly and divisive war in the country.
Talks that might have allowed a continued major military presence broke down amid disputes about whether U.S. troops would be immune to prosecution by Iraqi authorities.
Iraq's security forces, trained by the United States at a cost of billions of dollars, have proved unable to dislodge the militants from strongholds in Anbar province and have now been routed in Mosul.
The result seems likely to be continued or growing instability in Iraq and the wider region.
This, at a time when the global economy is recovering, could have an unwelcome impact on oil markets.
There's also concern that foreign fighters with ISIS may go back to their native countries, in Europe and elsewhere, and carry out terror attacks there. That worry was heightened last month by the shooting deaths of four people at a Jewish Museum in Belgium; the suspect, according to French officials, recently spent a year in Syria and is a radicalized Islamist.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/11/world/meast/iraq-mosul-explainer/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

We are living in this time, but some people are fear and some people are comfortable things.
It's a inconvenient truth. I wish all of people pass off calmly.
The War should be abolished in the world.
 I want PEACE, We want PEACE. PEACE for all over the world.

The best jobs for smart, but lazy people

Relax lazy bones. It might be time to embrace your inner underachiever.

In a world where work-related stress has rocketed could the most intelligent option be simply to find the least-taxing, most lucrative job on offer? Could the smartest choice for a future career be the path that requires the least amount of effort?

And what’s so wrong with applying yourself to seeking out a low stress option anyway? We looked to question-and-answer site Quora for some suggestions for the best jobs for smart but lazy people. Here’s what the masses had to say:

English, anyone?

Computer game designer, Andy Lee Chaisiri wrote: “Perhaps one out of every three English teachers I've met in Beijing describe themselves as intelligent, but very lazy.”

He wrote that teaching roles in China are often lucrative and high demand means ” entry standards are not restrictive”. In some cases, the only requirement is that an applicant was born in an English-speaking country.

Chaisiri explained that because English teaching has flexible hours “lots of people are English teachers only part time ― they are there to supplement [their education], or a brief vacation, or find another job ― which means that if you do decided to turn English teaching into your career, you will be steadily moving up.”

He added: “Your income levels will match the middle class college graduates that work 50 hours a week and do overtime until they die.” And Chaisiri wrote: “So go forth and teach English, you lazy guy!”

Keyboards and pyjamas

For those who prefer to "lean away" rather than "lean in" (Thinkstock)

If you’re disinclined to venture far from your home office, Paul Denlinger suggested: “Computer programmer: It is a continuous learning process, but you really don't have to work that hard , and gradually you learn that many of the challenges are repetitive.”

Even the nature of the work itself lends itself to doing less, he indicated.  “Good programmers write as few lines of code as possible, and it is one of those professions which pays well, while at the same time, encouraging laziness, Denlinger wrote. “At the same time, you get to work with other reasonably intelligent, technical people, while the investors throw money at you for their next great idea.”

However, Chris Leong a programmer in Sydney suggested “working for the government — most roles have 35-hour weeks in Australia — unless you become senior. “

Ask me, I’m an expert

Matthew Kuzma wrote: “My personal opinion is that the best possible job for someone who is intelligent but lazy would be to be a professional ‘expert’ at something, to get paid to just share your thoughts and opinions about things with people who will do the heavy lifting.”
He advises the idle to “identify the activities you don't consider work and find a career that will pay you for those.  Chances are, the things you consider fun and easy are things someone else finds so hard that they're willing to pay you to do them.”

There's always Windows

As it happens, taking a laid-back approach to tackling a project is not always a negative either. Arvind Krishnan quotes billionaire Bill Gates as saying "’I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it’."

So lazy-but-intelligent people of the world:“Looks like you have a shot at Microsoft,” wrote Krishnan.


source: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140228-jobs-for-the-smart-but-lazy

The uncomfortable role white people play in diversity

Susan Bodnar writes that she wants "live in a society where dignified difference constitutes our common core".

Editor's note: Susan Bodnar is a clinical psychologist who teaches at Columbia University's Teachers College and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, two children and all of their pets.
(CNN) -- In my family, I'm always bringing up stories from the past, our family's story, our diversity.
My daughter often rolls her eyes. "We don't need to keep talking about this stuff. We get it."
My son admonishes. "We know!"
In truth, their schools have done of a good job trying to make their population more closely resemble our country and our world. My kids have friends of all races, cultures and social classes.
However, as a female white mom married to a male white dad with two biologically conceived white children, I'm trying to make a different point.
I want them to understand that light skin color is not the norm from which everyone differs. White is not the signifier of normal.
Many white kids take diversity for granted. They have worked hard to overcome stereotypes and bias and to accept other people as different.
The fact that they may be someone else's diversity rarely occurs to them, let alone most white adults.
Three influences have altered my white-centric perspective: my psychology students, the people with whom I work in my clinical practice and the diversity work of both my kids' New York City private schools.
Some of my psychology students wanted to write a children's book where every character had a different identity. Children's books generally feature characters of one race or ethnicity, not multiple identities in interaction with one another. When we finished our first draft, we realized our characters had become very close friends. They each came from a different place but everyone had came from somewhere.
Skin color doesn't define personhood, but since race is a marker of identity in our society, the experience of personhood includes having to deal with the meanings others attribute to racial identity.
Protected by the privacy of a clinical relationship, beautiful black and brown women have shared how ugly they feel. Gentle dark-skinned men convey the humiliation that overcomes them when white people mistake them for dangerous criminals.
Since whiteness has become synonymous with a better life, it is easy for any lighter-skinned person to use skin color as a shield against hurtful stereotypes about social class, gender, sexuality, family history or even mental illness.
When white people deny their own embarrassing identity markers, we perpetuate the hypocrisy that only people of color have these problems.
As a psychologist -- no, as a person -- recognizing status and identity anxiety as a mutual experience lifts the veil that ordinarily separates us from each other.
This year, the parents association at one of my kids' schools named me co-chair of the diversity committee. I felt so self-conscious.
Group leadership called forth a greater reckoning with my identity than simply participating in a committee. It also provided me the chance to experience being a minority member of a group.
Sometimes I sat as the only white person at the table feeling really insecure, worried that I would be seen as a white stereotype instead of as myself.
How did growing up white with financial struggles intersect with racial diversity?
When white people want to "help" people of color, it always reeks of privilege and entitlement as in, "let me help you with your problems." It's a different sentiment than "let's help each other with our problems."
Did people of color trust me? Did they wonder what I was doing on the diversity committee? Was it my job to speak for the concerns of underrepresented minorities? Or did I contribute more by trying to put forth a more multifaceted approach to the question of identity?
How can we sit with each other's differences without feeling compelled to rank one way of being or looking as being better or worse than the other?
Our diversity committee ultimately worked through these questions in our conversations. Although we did not fully answer them, we found that by talking about them, we discovered the theme of our work and developed a friendship.
I now look at diversity as something that is in my interest: I want to live in a society where dignified difference constitutes our common core.
Nuances in how we think, feel, work and love define what it means to be human. Everyone is unusual and unique.
Racism is just another word for hating our realness.
Our commonality as a country derives from the fact that we all have an identity just beneath the surface of our skins.
The variety of stories that inhabit the people who call this country home -- from the brutality of slavery to the flight from genocides to the call to some better god -- enable democracy's creative synergy.
The hands that have built the instruments of modern America have been every color, every nationality and every religion.
I want to be part of a world that loves and embraces humanity as a diverse and interconnected organism. I want to be part of a world that accepts that every difference has a color, and every color has a unique meaning.
How do I do this?
I realized that it starts at home.
Rather than teaching my kids that they are white, I want to impart to them that they are part of a kaleidoscope -- lots of continually shifting colors and shapes.
They don't always want to hear their parents tell another story about grandpa's poverty or the coal-mining relatives. But this history holds our family's painful and joyous truths.
Every family need only peel back the layers of a few generations to find their own story.
Authentic family history exposes everyone's diversity. A society that embraces uniqueness loves the messiness of the human condition. Being loved despite or because of our messy truths creates empathy rather than sympathy.
When we raise children to accept and acknowledge their own story, they learn to listen to someone else's, with respect.


source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/28/living/white-people-diversity-identity/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

What kind of food do you really enjoy?

What kind of food do you really enjoy? Is it meet, vegetables, fruits, or noodles? I hope who is reading this article will start thinking what kind of food yourself likes. Let's think it in another way. What kind of food do you really don't enjoy? There will be some people who hates vegetables or there will be others who doesn't eat meat and many other types of people. In my style for example, when I was born I had an illness; atopicallergy. I don't know why but my eating style was really like a western style. I really hated eating vegetables and only ate meat for a long time. You know when you start to eat your favorite food it is only delicious for that short time before you swallow. But what the problem was my illness atopicallergy was getting worse. I really had a hard time until my illness was cured because I itched my skin all day especially at summer and couldn't sleep well all night. The most complex problem for me was I was really ashamed going outside because I was afraid what other people would think about my skin.
So feeling myself this as a terrible situation, I started to listen my parents what they say to me. I really struggled eating vegetables and decreased the amount of meat. And as time passed, I was able to cure my illness.
Why am I writing this article to you? By having this experience what I realized was as to make our body healthy we should not eat only what we like. I hope everyone agrees that we should eat all the food equally to make our body healthy.
What I really think about this in my life is that without no trial there is no development to ourselves. By eating all foods equally to make our body healthy, we should experience sometimes happiness, sadness, hardness and sometimes scratch in our heart. By experiencing all kind of trials one step and one step, I hope that this makes each of us to develop ourselves and furthermore we will be able to understand others hearts and minds. If this happens to all of us, won't this earth be covered with light understanding all of us? To me there is no more important thing than "understanding and forgiving" other people. By knowing other people, countries and cultures,we will be able to have the same mind. And I hope as the more of us we have the same mind, our desire "peace" will also come to us in reality.



imege source: http://henryhargreaves.com/

Mexican could listen to Peace news _ Chairman Man Hee Lee received the Certificates of Appreciation and Medals from the Mayor Ramon Poo Gil

The history of human beings could be considered as the history of wars. It is so true that there has been all the time wars on the earth.
Especially, many countries were satisfied in the wars due to the colonialization in Europe in the seventeenth century.
Among them, Mexico became part of the Spanish colonial empire in the 16th century.
They were gone through terrible exploitation.
After independence, Mexico could not see any stable society because there has been all the time oversea wars, the dictatorial government, and illegality and corruption.

Then in the 21st century, Mexican could listen to Peace news which they have been longed for.
That is, the peace ambassador and activist, Mr. Man Hee Lee received the Certificates of Appreciation and Medals from the Mayor Ramon Poo Gil.
Politicians, city high ranking officials, religious leaders participated in the conferment ceremony, nd congratulated them with thunderous applause.
More than major broadcasting stations and journalists also flocked to report on it.
This news is great to people who have longed for peace.
Moreover Peace Leader Man Hee Lee has worked for peace traveling not only Mexico but also Europe, South Asia, America, and Africa.
I believe that Peace Leader Man Hee Lee and the Chairwoman, Ms Nam Hee Kim could achieve the world peace.
I would support them and their work paying attention to peace work.

"World Peace,” is it possible?

   Nelson Mandela, who moved many people's hearts by his thoughts and his achievements of peace, has passed away recently. I believe the events that honored his death were the result of many people's longing and hoping for "peace". The events were not just in memory of one person, but for peace in general. Everyone has wanted to make world peace, but I've wondered if it is possible. There are many peace activists in the world, and they have been doing peace movements in their own ways. Also, the Nobel Peace Prize, that recognizes peace activists for their efforts in creating peace, has been adjudged to many peace campaigners and leaders of human rights. However, despite their efforts, the world remains fundamentally the same.
   Even until now, wars have continued around the world, and many people have died. People’s beliefs and ideologies are too different to unite people. Also there are too many people who are busy trying to satisfy their selfish desires. With each person believing his or her ideology is correct, is it possible to unite them all with the ideology of peace? Is world peace realistically possible?

   There is one man who inspires my passion for peace. His achievements is stunningly impressive. The day I heard the news about the peace group, HWPL, I became interested in him. My first opinion about the possibility of world peace changed after seeing his achievements in various countries around the world. World peace is not just in our imagination, it’s something that can be done! Fascinatingly, wherever he went, the area was full of peace energy. Youth organizations and women’s organization that wish for world peace would also become energized. They would always want to join HWPL, and were always happy to help.
   His seminars for world peace are never dull or formulaic, they are very ground breaking to say the least! They are able to touch many souls. His great ability to gathered each individual’s thoughts towards peace is incredible. I’ve always felt that some power guided his peace movement whenever I saw his achievement.

 

   A few days ago, I read an article about a conference for world peace in New York. All participants at the conference expressed their gratitude towards his speech, Not only were there representatives of youth groups but also religious leaders from diffeent parts of the world. His speech created a sensation among the audience. It’s definite that he has the answer to achieving world peace! If you heard his speech, and felt his passion about world peace, you would definitely agree with me.

   He is a doer, not a talker. Representative Man Hee Lee has given me the greatest desire for World Peace. I now have a strong desire to join his organization and achieve world peace together. I believe it's possible to achieve world peace after viewing the results so far. His words about "World Peace" have struck my mind. After seeing his peace activities spread not only on a regional or national level, but at an international level, I believe that becoming 'one' is possible. His broad-mindedness helps him call together all religions, ideologies, countries and cultures from around the world. ‘World Peace’ is great to imagine, but it is even greater to believe that it is possible. I feel that it will be achieved soon.