Posts Tagged ‘support system’
What this blog is About?
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 2, 2020
What this blog is About?
Updated “About” (August 2 /2020)
I started this blog on September 17, 2008.
This blog is about: “Who I was, what I did, what did I think, how did I grew…”
This blog is about: “Who I am, what I am doing, how I think, what are my positions, politically, economically, fairness and equitability in political systems”
I dabbed in all kinds of jobs, you name it, from the “lowest” in order to pay my fees and lodging for studies in universities, to the higher kinds of jobs. Apparently, none of the jobs gave me this feeling that “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life”: I could Not discover any kind of retaining passions to last in any professional job.
The total number of articles published so far has reached 9,300 posts and the total number of hits has crossed two million views and the average daily hits is over 600 per day. The number of steady followers increased to 550
You have choices among 45 categories to navigate around, included my autobiography and edited as new facts and memories surge. I added the sub-category “Travel/Excursion”
I got a new life of publishing what I had expressed in years of writing for myself. I now have to consider my target audience of readers who patronize my blog: There is a dividing line between writing and publishing, because responsibility to others comes in publishing.
Recently, I added a new category “Daydream Projects“: Just imagine this gigantic brainstorm networking sessions if a small fraction of mankind decides to publish their daydreaming projects with plenty of details. Wouldn’t daydreaming be considered a very productive endeavors?
I also added the categories “Time for Outrage” and Pets
I post on average of 10 articles per week (articles of mine, links from various social platforms after editing and adding my comments). I figured out that every new post generates around 100 hits within a year, and keeps increasing fast.
You may enjoy the category poems (poems of mine, and translated poems from Arabic and French into English). I had posted my autobiography, two novels, short stories, and plenty of detailed book reviews.
I feel blessed confronted with many obstacles: I was for a long time penniless but kept publishing, and was associated with the most abject financial condition I have experienced… I am graced of feeling the same zest in publishing almost everyday.
I do read and write every day in three languages English, French, and Arabic. I read books, small and large, old and current, classical and common, biased and “balanced”. And spend 3 hours per day reading and taking notes in Libraries
I read dailies and their editorials. I read magazines, serious ones and tabloids. I used to keep up to date with the weekly French “Courrier International“, bi-weekly, and monthly issues, including the French monthly “Le Monde Diplomatique“, “Science et Vie”…when they were available.
I uncover nuggets in almost all my readings and then report my notes and comments after elaboration, analysis, and exercising my individual reflection.
Lately, I have been publishing my notes and comments on Facebook and Twitter under the title Tidbits.
The category “Diary” contains the articles I wrote before I got into blogging in 2008.
Recently a few friends decided to post their memories on FB and I shared them on my blog under the title “Mon cher Ado”
My posts are No cut and paste gimmicks, and they lack pictures unless provided by a link, images and videos: I don’t have the tools for recommended visual inputs, and I have no patience for navigating the net.
Whatever I receive, I edit it, comment on it and highlight the main points.
I understand that the task of publishing carries responsibility to the general public and I have to do my due diligence in reading a lot, reflecting, and exposing various views and perspectives before extending my current convictions.
I have been writing for my own pleasure for years, such as short poems, diaries, and got into introspection in order to get in touch with my emotions and my models on life, universe, and a sustainable earth within my history growth context. WordPress.com made it easy to taking the drastic plunge into communicating with the public.
It is a daily communion that starts by receiving comments before offering opinions, and do reply to developed opinions and comments.
I am reminded that life exercises its cyclical rights and I wish your ebbing period would not last longer than necessary, and that it would not affect your optimism.
I wish that you have a support system to remind you that life is wonderful, it is beautiful, and it is exciting. There is a tomorrow but surely not better than today, since you are still alive!
I realized that publishing electronically is not considered by many political institutions as serious matter, since many do not navigate fast communication mediums on a wide scale yet; as if people still read hard copy manuscripts or dailies!
If you are interested in reading biographies of people “Not famous” or “Not glamorous”, then you may also enjoy reading my auto-biography titled “Introspection of a confused man”.
Anyway, most of my categories that are Not related to politics, history, religions, sciences, engineering, health, or book reviews are about myself.
It appears that my Book Reviews category is the most favored so far; closely trailed by political articles, social articles, sex/seduction categories, and religious topics.
I earned a PhD degree in Industrial/Human Factors/ system design engineering. That was in 1990 from the USA and a couple of Masters in Physics and Operation Research, but I refused to practice until recently when I decided to teach in universities and had this lovely opportunity to write over 50 engineering articles published in the category “Professional articles“, “Human Factors in Engineering” and lately in the category “Engineering/research”.
I realized that I love best to read and disseminate what I write, and wordpress.com was the ideal platform to initiate people to publishing and expressing their opinions without any kinds of censorship.
I wish the publishers of articles and bloggers to keep in mind the dividing line between writing for comprehending and reflecting on their own positions and feelings, and just publishing.
I read and write daily, a lot, and hit libraries and follow up on news and editorials and feel serious on disseminating what I read. I even summarize controversial books and offer my opinions ; yes, I love to be controversial, otherwise I might just rot.
A sample of a translated poem:
Your blue sea eyes
On the deck of your blue eyes is raining
Audible vibrating lights.
On the port of your blue eyes,
From a tiny open window,
A view of faraway birds swarming,
Searching for yet undiscovered islands.
On the deck of your blue eyes
Summer snow is falling.
I am a kid jumping over rocks
Deeply inhaling the sea wind
And then returns like a weary bird.
On the port of your blue eyes
I dream of oceans and navigation.
If I were a seafarer
If anyone lent me a boat
I would surely ease up my boat closer
To your blue sea eyes
Every sundown.
Note 1: This poem is an abridged free translation from Arabic of the famous late Syrian poet Nizar Kabbani.
Note 2: You may reach me on adonisbouh@gmail.com
Criminal Conditions
Posted by: adonis49 on: June 15, 2009
Criminal Conditions (February 16, 2009)
In critical situations of death (suicide or killing others) two main conditions have to exist. The first basic condition is a physical material one (health problems or financial miseries, or both). The second complementary condition is an idealistic spiritual motivator (revenge, dignity, freedom, and so forth). As the material condition persists in being bad then the spiritual factor develop in focus, in target, and in planning. Committing a crime is not easy at all because you need a network of supporting elements; you need the arm, the close friends’ network, the social and cultural environments, and you need the target to be frequently available. Even what we always label as “crazies” need a support system to carry out their crime.
The spiritual motivator always comes in second in the chronology of a crime but it quickly takes a life of its own and over shadow the fundamental source of the germinating idea. There is this special case where the criminal is dirty rich and yet commit crimes; but we always forget to dig a little in his past before he became rich and how he started his trip to riches, and how he built his support system.
There are ways to deflect the soaring spiritual emotion. First, the material condition is altered temporarily and the second factor is temporarily slowed down on its track because it failed to gel in focus and target. Second, the material base is not changed but the spiritual motivator is redirected to financial crimes. Third, the supporting environment and elements are altered in recognition of the danger and a heightened climate of vigilance may deter a criminal plan.
It really takes a little to change the material condition to deflect the whole process. The potential criminal can be encouraged to ask or “knock on doors” and is shown the techniques for demanding the basic necessities for physical survival, mainly finding a decent and feasible job. The potential criminal can be treated for his recurring health problems that are not fictitious; though many of these health problems could be a fiction of the imagination for lack of a yearly thorough general examination caused by a deficient preventive health system to all the citizens.
It really takes a little to change the supporting environmental/social conditions to deflect a crime in the planning stage. Removing one of the numerous elements or tools in the supporting network can deviate a criminal act. Benevolent or charitable support groups can play a catalyst for behavioral change. A community in a town or district can shoulder many responsibilities when decently funded for social activities.
It really takes a lot to de-focus a planned criminal act once it gelled in specific targets and means. They say human is forgetful and that is why he manages to survive all the traumas. The fact is, even when the far advanced “spiritual factor” has been tamed, it only takes a simple cue in this tumultuous life to re-activate a matured plan.
I might have been describing individual cases but it easily extends to genocide of whole peoples like the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the Lebanese, the Iraqis, the Afghanistanis, and all the people who have been subjugated to miseries and apartheid policies. This is a reminder that the West should not be surprised for revenge activities for a long time, activities that would be labeled “terrorists”.
Police inspectors and investigators in criminal acts have mapped a coherent taxonomy for “individual crimes”. Social and human sciences lack coherent taxonomies for social crimes that reporters and media businesses need to know and learn in their coverage of their “bad news”. It is up to the audio-visual reporters in the front line to taking seriously their jobs in order for society to be exposed to the fundamentals of criminal behaviors and the many facets and conditions of criminal activities.
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