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John Bul Dau has experienced challenges in his life that most people never imagine. Born in war-torn Sudan, Dau is one of 27000 "Lost Boys of Sudan," driven from their villages when the northern Arab government attacked the ethnic minority population of Southern Sudan in 1987. For the next five years, John Bul Dau led groups of displaced boys across Sudan for hundreds of miles facing starvation, disease, and violence. While living in a Kenyan refugee camp, John Dau attended school for the first time at the age of 17and earned a prestigious Kenyan Certificate for Secondary Education. In 2001, Dau was selected to immigrate to the United States and settled in Syracuse, New York. Following his initial culture shock, John Bul Dau took on two jobs, earned an associate's degree and has become an American success story. Currently the President of the John Dau Foundation, he is an influential part of many efforts to bring hope and peace to the people of Southern Sudan, founding three nonprofits and raising over 0000 to build a medical clinic in his home village. John Bul Dau co-authored his first book, God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, in 2007 and has received many prestigious awards including the National Geographic's "Emerging Explorers" award. John Bul Dau is also featured in the award-winning documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. John Bul Dau's life provides the ultimate example of a ...

Michelle Ren began training in artistic gymnastics at the age of six. At China's National Artistic Gymnastics Competition she took fourth place, and at Liaoning Province's Peach and Plum Cup Dance Competition took first place in her division (youth). Ms. Ren was later second runner-up in the national Popular Culture Award Competition of China. In 2007, she won first prize in the Adult Female Division of New Tang Dynasty Television's International Chinese Classical Dance Competition. Ms. Ren currently serves as a choreographer and principal dancer with Shen Yun Performing Arts.

Rachenica

Who speaks for Earth? "In our tenure on this planet, we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage; propensities for agression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders; all of which puts our survival in some doubt. We've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children, a desire to learn from histroy and experience, and a great soaring passionate intelligence; the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity." "National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatic ethnic, or religious, or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars." - Carl Sagan. This clip comes from Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode 13, "Who Speaks For Earth?"

Movie from from the archives of the Greek National Television

Record from ethnographic expedition to Dagestan. Folk song "Daglar" (Mountain). Singer - ashug (akyn). Record has made Bulat Gafarov. Этнографическая экспедиция в Дагестан. Настоящий архаичный дагестанский фолк. Песня "Даглар". Исполняет ашуг (акын). Запись сделал Булат Гафаров

This mini-report from Tunisian TV station, Delta TV, shows an interview with a 29-year old Tunisian man who traveled to Syria and fought alongside the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) against the Syrian Army. He explains why he stayed there for slightly over a month and decided to return back to his home country instead of remaining there for Jihad, as is the case with other young Tunisians who were sent to Syria mainly by their imams (clerics). The interview corroborates some of other eyewitness accounts that accuse the FSA of committing massacres in order to frame the Syrian Army. He also states that no medical treatment was given to any foreign (Arab) Jihadist, which meant that any injury could end up in death. He also acknowledges that these Jihadis are being used as cannon fodder to fight a war by proxy.