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Zieti: Amid Brutal Conflict, A Musical Friendship Survives
And if you're just joining us, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. And it's time now for music.
RAZ: This is a band called Zieti, and it's a band that was torn in half by war and geography and whose first recordings were actually lost forever. This album, Zieti's debut, was 13 years in the making. It's called "Zemelewa."
RAZ: Zieti is made up of four musicians: two from the U.S. and two from Ivory Coast, the West African nation that's still recovering from the civil war that raged off and on for the past decade. The name Zieti refers to that struggle in Ivory Coast.
YEOUE NARCISSE: (Through translator) Zieti is the baton of courage. You have to be courageous in life to accomplish everything you want to do. When you have courage, you could get there.
RAZ: That's Yeoue Narcisse, the lead singer of Zieti. We reached him on the line in Abidjan. More from him in a moment. Right now, let's turn to the American part of the band. Guitarist Michael Shereikis and drummer Alex Owre were living in Ivory Coast back in the late 1990s before the violence began. And that's where they met their future band mates living in a shantytown.
MICHAEL SHEREIKIS: That's a little Katiere, a little neighborhood, which is just corrugated cardboard, you know, random wood, tin, you know, your typical developing world shanty.
ALEX OWRE: The shanty, actually, it's right between a railroad track and the beach. It's like, you know, this land that just wouldn't be used otherwise so it gets used. That's Africa for you.
RAZ: Tell me about your Ivorian band mates.
SHEREIKIS: Narcisse has been in Abidjan. He lives in a shanty near the airport. Meanwhile, Laurent's story is more dense. It's - he comes from a family that was pretty well-to-do in the western part of the country. His father was an important man out there. And so Laurent's coming to the city to live in a shanty and play music was frowned upon...
OWRE: Frowned upon.
SHEREIKIS: ...by his family, very much so. Alex and I would get in his car and drive out to their shanty and pick them up and grab some instruments, battery-powered amps, and go out and find a little camping site - le camping.
OWRE: Le camping.
SHEREIKIS: And we would set that stuff up with Alex's drum kit, and then we'd just start playing out there out by the beach.
RAZ: Was there a particular song that you started to perform with these guys or write with them that made you think that this was the real deal, this was coming together?
SHEREIKIS: The obvious choice is "Zion Do."
SHEREIKIS: We went out to the western part of the country where they're from and played a show in Gengolo. And they loved that song. Everyone danced, like an old 90-year-old man and little kids, and they got in a big circle and were dancing around. And when we finished the song, they forced us to play it again a second time.
OWRE: Forced us to play it again. And then the skies opened up...
SHEREIKIS: And then it rained.
OWRE: ...and it poured.
SHEREIKIS: Yeah.
RAZ: For those of us who do not speak Gere, can you tell us what the song is about?
OWRE: It's basically a musician's creed, you know, our faith in music and that faith lights the way to God and the eternal.
SHEREIKIS: Yeah. It's acknowledgment that, you know, as he says, creativity, spirituality, knowledge, inspiration, all those are divine. And it's through our faith in music that our path is shined towards the divine.
RAZ: So you decide, let's cut a record together with these guys. How did you do it?
OWRE: Oh, it was easy.
SHEREIKIS: No, we were - there were many steps here.
OWRE: Yeah, many steps.
SHEREIKIS: We did a lot of demo recording with an eight-track cassette recorder that my brother brought me. And then we - right before we left in 1999, we recorded 10 songs in a studio in Abidjan. And that recording was lost. It was not backed up and destroyed.
RAZ: So you two begin this process in '97. Both of you left Ivory Coast in 1999, but those recordings were lost...
SHEREIKIS: Yes.
RAZ: ...within months. What happened to them?
SHEREIKIS: Well, studio soft was not apparently a solid record (unintelligible).
OWRE: Yeah, right.
SHEREIKIS: It's really soft. After we left the country, I met somebody here in the D.C. area who was building a studio back in Abidjan - and a foreign man - and we became friends, and I helped him out a little bit. And so then they recorded some tracks in his studio and sent them to me, and we started building them back up here in my studio. So that's been the process. It's been this back and forth across the ocean.
RAZ: This long transatlantic collaboration came close to never happening. A few years after Michael and Alex returned to the U.S., Ivory Coast civil war broke out. Narcisse and Laurent went missing. Michael and Alex couldn't reach them. They had no idea if their band mates were alive or dead. Eventually, they were able to locate Narcisse, and he picks up the story from here.
NARCISSE: (Through translator) The two armies were approaching on either side of where I was staying. When they got there, they battled for three days. Where I took refuge, there was even more trouble. I was lucky just to get out of there.
NARCISSE: (Through translator) My friend Laurent, when he was trying to get by, everything was burned down. He had to escape to a village - not even a village, into the bush. He couldn't stay where he had been living.
RAZ: Again, drummer Alex Owre.
OWRE: We were worried. We wouldn't speak with Narcisse in Abidjan. You know, so, we all, you know, Laurent (unintelligible) but he didn't really have any news from him either. So we were hoping for the best, fearing the worst. And luckily, it worked out. And we actually just spoke with him today on the phone, so it was great to, you know, to tell him that we were coming in and talking about the work that he did years ago.
SHEREIKIS: We hadn't spoken to him for five years until today. We called him. We finally got in touch with...
OWRE: Laurent, yeah...
SHEREIKIS: ...for Laurent today, and five years later we get to hear his voice. He's on his way to Abidjan to reach Yeoue Narcisse.
RAZ: Was there a point where you almost gave up on the idea of this band, of this record?
SHEREIKIS: The thing is that just always remembering those - the way they sounded when we're playing, you know, acoustic guitars and literally coconut husks. That sounds corny. That sounds Gilligan's Island, but that's what we started off playing - acoustic guitars and hitting on the back of coconuts and singing. And it was so beautiful. And that's what has kept this momentum going the whole time is just remembering that and trying to recapture it in some measure.
RAZ: Any plans to bring Laurent and Narcisse to the United States and maybe tour with them?
SHEREIKIS: Absolutely love to.
OWRE: I think that road begins with us going back there to do another recording. We're taking one step at a time at this point, got this album out finally. And then we'll certainly be looking towards how we can get them over here. We'd love to.
SHEREIKIS: I think setting them up over there is a great step towards bringing them over here. And so that's part of the plan is making sure they have a stable situation that they can support themselves through music over there and so it's not just an adventure for them to come here. It's something solid and working towards the future.
RAZ: And as for Narcisse in Ivory Coast, he's been separated from his American band mates for 13 years, so the release of this record almost seems unreal.
NARCISSE: (Through translator) I had confidence in my brothers on the other side, Mike and Alex. But I also had lost a little bit of hope, frankly, because of everything that had happened in my country. I couldn't imagine a day when I would see my music played throughout the world. I thought I had lost something real. And with the courage of my brothers on the other side, God is in control.
NARCISSE: (Through translator) I'm very, very, very, very happy.
RAZ: Yeoue Narcisse, Michael Shereikis and Alex Owre are three members of the band Zieti. The fourth member is Tiende Laurent. Zieti's debut album is called "Zemelewa." You can hear a few tracks at our website, nprmusic.org.
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"An organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive business advantage."
– Jack Welch, chairman, General Electric
No technology in history has grown as quickly as the Internet. Backbone bandwidth demand has been doubling, not every 18 months (Moore's Law) but every 3.5 months. That's 10 times more growth or 1,000 percent a year.
With it has come a complete change in with whom we communicate, the way we communicate with them, and how and how long we work. While life here in Silicon Valley is akin to working at the edge of disaster, the rest of the country, in fact the globe, is in much the same state of chaos.
Education Environment Has Changed
When I went to college eons ago, we sat in a classroom, listened to the instructor, took copious notes and regurgitated the information on a test. With two degrees we set forth to conquer and change the world. Unfortunately, we didn't change the world; technology changed the world. The rapid changes in technology are so prolific that it has forced us to become life-long learners. Rather than a rigidly structured process, learning is becoming a self-directed process.
There has been more information produced in the last 10 years than during the previous 5,000 years. A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to encounter in his lifetime in the 1900s. The Internet as well as the value of and how we use information has caused this change.
To understand how quickly life has changed and continues to change for us, consider a recent study regarding e-mail conducted by Forester Research and John Carroll University, which reported the following results.
- 1.1 trillion e-mail messages are sent annually worldwide.
- 3 billion messages are sent worldwide daily.
- 150 million users send messages daily.
- There are more than 200 million corporate e-mail addresses.
- There are 95 million personal e-mail addresses.
- There are 20 million subscribers to America Online.
- There are 15.6 million users of Lotus cc:Mail.
- The average cost of e-mail per user per year is $750.
- Average value of e-mail per user per year in terms of productivity is $2,800.
- Average cost of a company to send 20 messages is $1.05.
- Average time spent daily reading e-mail is 50 minutes.
- Average time spent responding to e-mail is 60 minutes.
In addition, according to a recent issue of BusinessWeek, every day 10,000 new websites are added to the Internet. All of this has forced technical people to broaden their knowledge areas and forced people to deal in a rapidly changing environment of uncertainty.
New Type of Worker
Peter Drucker in his book Post Capitalism Society, notes that already an estimated 2/3 of U.S. employees work in the service sector. Knowledge is becoming one of our most important products. This calls for a different type of worker because a degree and technical experience are far less important than your current business skills.
No one can say which technology platforms will dominate the next century or what lies beyond the Web and enterprise resource planning. As a result, corporations and educational institutions must adapt their training programs to prepare workers for unseen changes. Experts who track technically based career development and training see some trends emerging including the following.
- Business skills are becoming as important as technical skills in defining the success of professionals.
- New technologies such as Web-based learning and video-on-demand coursework is rapidly supplanting classroom training.
- Technical professionals must view education as a continuing and self-directed process.
Many organizations have begun to identify core business competencies for technical professionals and make learning them mandatory. Increasingly, employees have to learn communications skills, budgeting and finance, and strategic planning as well as project and performance management. Firms are rapidly adding on-the-job training by matching people with appropriate learning tools. Online video-on-demand courses, workshops and seminars are required for people at all levels and of all disciplines. Some firms have gone so far as to establish required courses, electives and degree certificates.
Addressing Larger Issues
While selected technical skills in almost every organization continue to be in critically short supply, organizations also understand that they must help employees comprehend larger business issues including finance and marketing. However, earlier this year, Gartner Group reported that corporate technical staff skills will shift from 65 percent technology to 65 percent business and management skills by 2002. While technical skills will continue to be important, much of that work will be outsourced and key internal personnel will be involved in business and technical management.
Because of the growing supply vs. demand problem, traditional business schools are beginning to shift to competency-based education.
For example, the governors of the 14 western states and chief executive officers of major corporations created the Western Governors University in Salt Lake City two years ago. The university enables students to earn credits toward a diploma by taking skill assessment tests rather than courses. The goal was to respond to business and industry needs by providing a means of certifying that an individual can do the job rather than simply prove that he has a diploma.
Educational Shift
Gartner Group predicts that training delivery will shift from 25 percent technology and 75 percent instructor-based to 50–50 by 2002. Video-on-demand and Web-based training will grow rapidly over the next two years. Organizations of all sizes are beginning to view training not as a cost but rather as an investment in key members of the organization.
For many, the accelerated pace of technology change over the past 10 years is straining their ability to keep up. Fortunately, our "Generation X" workers view skill development quite differently. For them, ongoing learning is a reality and part of the cost of participating in the world. They have become very adept at gathering, processing, analyzing and interpreting information, and retaining and discarding data as needed. It is all part of the "normal" day.
Employees who are planning their future in an uncertain environment have to realize that just as they need money for food, rent/mortgage and utilities, they also need to have money for education. When firms "re-engineered" themselves to become "lean and mean" they reduced their training programs. As a result, those who plan on being productive realize that they must invest in themselves.
While some may disagree, the shift is healthy. Today, employer and employee loyalty is dead. As a result, employees don't have to feel guilty or obligated to pay back the organization for the training since the individual is paying for tomorrow's training himself.
Expanding, Changing Skills
As we move into the 21st century, traditional technical workers will have to expand their business skills while other office workers will have to become more proficient in their understanding and use of technology. People across the board will need to know not only how the applications work but what the data mean.
Increasingly, the lines between technology and business practices will blur.
Good management skills will be more valuable and more respected as we move into the new century because they are a combination of courage and strong, genuine care for individuals, the company, society and the customer. Good management skills are based on the individual and how he executes programs. As a result they are more difficult to acquire than course-taught capabilities.
In today's global business environment, business skills, knowledge of your company, its mission, the industry and your competitors are becoming vital survival skills. They are skills that change with every tick of the clock.
Everyone today is under pressure to leverage knowledge and information in everything that they do. People must diligently leverage knowledge in innovative ways on an ongoing basis, and people must become a critical resource of creating, maintaining and making available knowledge and information.
About the Author
G.A. "Andy" Marken is president of Marken Communications, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. He may be reached at [email protected].

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Quinoa. Ever taken a stab at pronouncing it? Don't worry; its' a tough one. It is pronounced KEEN-wa. With or without being able to pronounce it, have you ever tried it?
Quinoa is a nutty brown grain that sounds intimidating, but is packed with nutrition and is as easy to cook as rice. Bring it to your next dinner party and impress your friends with your new, exotic (but oh so easy) ingredient.
Quinoa plants are colorful, flowering plants grown primarily in South America. In areas where it's grown, people eat the leaves as well as the abundant seeds that we are more familiar with.
It is a great source of folate, manganese, B vitamins and zinc; however, the unique part of quinoa is its protein content. Quinoa includes all eight essential amino acids, making it a complete protein source. Almost all other complete proteins in our diets are animal products. This makes quinoa a sound protein source for vegetarians and infrequent meat-eaters.
Cooking Quinoa
As previously promised, quinoa is simple to cook. As you make it more, feel free to experiment with adjustments and additions to the recipe. As you will find, quinoa is quite forgiving for even inexperienced cooks.
Basic quinoa recipe:
- Rinse Quinoa – If you do not have a colander with small enough holes, lay cheese cloth inside your colander to keep the quinoa seeds from escaping.
- Add one part quinoa to two parts liquid to a medium-size pot. (Chicken broth works well as a liquid over water for added flavor.)
- Bring to a simmer, and then turn on low. Cover and simmer for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Turn off the burner and allow to sit for five to 10 minutes. Uncover, fluff with a fork and serve.
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Phoenix (city, United States)
Phoenix, city (1990 pop. 983,403), state capital and seat of Maricopa co., S Ariz., on the Salt River; inc. 1881. It is the largest city in Arizona, the hub of the rich agricultural region of the Salt River valley, and an important center for research and development, electronics, telecommunications, semiconductors, and the aerospace industry. Food processing and the production of aircraft parts, electrical appliances, agricultural chemicals, machinery, tools, plastic and wood products, cosmetics, and leather goods remains central to its manufacturing base. Greater Phoenix is a popular resort area, and tourism is also important to the economy.
The city was founded on the site of ancient Native American canals; hence its name, signifying a new town which had risen from the ruins of an old civilization. In 1868, pioneers developed what remained of the Native Americans' irrigation system; water was diverted from the Salt River, and farming began, supplemented by mining and ranching in the surrounding desert and mountains. The completion (1911) of the Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River brought power and abundant water to the community, and opened a new era of farming in the valley.
Phoenix grew as an important trade and distribution center. It boomed during World War II, when three airfields were opened. The phenomenal growth continued after the war; veterans who had been stationed in Phoenix returned to stay, and manufacturing concerns moved there to utilize the large labor supply. The expanding metropolitan area includes the suburbs of Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, Glendale, Chandler, and Peoria, all of which are among the fastest-growing cities in the United States.
Among the area's many outstanding parks are the Desert Botanical Gardens, Camelback Mountain, and the nearby South Mountain Park, which has an active gold mine. Also in the area are a number of Native American communities and reservations, national monuments, and state parks. Among its museums are the Heard Museum, with Native American art of the Southwest; the Phoenix Art Museum; the Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum, with pioneer relics; the Pueblo Grande Museum, containing excavations of Native American ruins c.800 years old; and the Arizona Capitol Museum. Other attractions are the Phoenix Zoo, the Arizona Science Center, and the Mystery Castle, built of native rock.
Phoenix is the seat of the Univ. of Phoenix, Arizona State Univ. West, Grand Canyon Univ., and Southwestern College. It has a symphony orchestra, as well as opera and ballet companies. The Phoenix Suns play in the National Basketball Association and the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League (baseball). The Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League play in adjacent Glendale, as do the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League. Several major-league baseball teams have spring-training camps in the area.
See J. E. Buchanan, Phoenix: A Chronological and Documentary History, 1865–1976 (1978); G. W. Johnson Jr., Phoenix (1982); B. Luckingham, Phoenix: The History of a Southwestern Metropolis (1989).


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BOTHELL, Wash. – Although gas prices tend to spike and then recede, consumers react as if the spikes were permanent, altering spending patterns and curtailing other expenditures, and creating an artificial strain on the economy, according to new research from University of Washington Bothell.
Historical data shows that gas prices regularly shoot up and then drop back down, much like a roller coaster. While it is true that the baseline trend for gas prices is generally on the increase, the rise has been on par with many other, larger expense categories, such as health care and housing.
John Godek, researcher in the Business Program at the University of Washington Bothell, wanted to gain a better understanding as to why consumers react so strongly to spikes in the price of gasoline. Godek's research indicates that consumers view gasoline price surges as long-term, broad-based shocks to their discretionary income. As such, individuals tend to account mentally for the spikes in a manner that impacts much of their other spending instead of seeing the spikes as the short-term changes they have historically proven to be. "In other words," says Godek, "consumers seem to forget that price surges are normal and are typically followed by somewhat equivalent price slides."
This behavior, though, has serious side-effects. When consumers overreact to spikes by tightening their belts, it creates an artificial strain on the economy. According to Godek, "Understanding this mental accounting framework might help policy leaders communicate more effectively about gasoline price spikes, partially buffering negative impacts on the economy."
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Guitar Pop Restaurant Volume 10
I've drifted from the music scene for a bit, for various reasons, going to only a few shows and not having any idea what events are coming up at the Que, the O-Nest and all the usual haunts. It's a situation I hope to change.
In the meantime, events like Guitar Pop Restaurant help me keep in touch with the good bands out there. Organized by a guy named Nakamura Kazumi, who as far as I can tell isn't a musician himself and is involved in this venture solely for the satisfaction of bringing together on stage bands he likes, the event has been held ten times now, which is an accomplishment. I remember seeing after one of the first shows a veteran musician scolding him about some problem with the event--he's come a long way.
Volume 10 was held at the small Shibuya Home, made more cramped by the chairs laid out at the front of the hall, and it was stuffy until the air-con kicked in. It was another eclectic Guitar Pop Restaurant pick of bands--advantage Lucy-inspired Humming Parlour; saccharine-sweet songstress Marino with her excellent backing jazz ensemble, the Teapot Orchestra; Ruby Chouette, a whispering pop singer getting her inspiration from Shibuya-kei; and a collaboration of Mayumi Ikemizu's Three Berry Icecream (photo above) and Hozaki Mayumi and Lepus from Osaka--friends of mine who make mellow, creative music with flute, viola, xylophone, piano, in addition to guitars and drums.
I changed the weblog layout. I liked the one before, but it was getting old, plus the comment service I used suddenly changed its system so that all my old comments appeared to be lost and the new ones were presented in an unsightly, expanded dialogue box, so I decided to ditch it and try a new layout. Maybe I'll change this one too, though I'm usually lackadaisical about that sort of thing...
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- Chris/Hideki said...
nice to see you make a new post.
I really adored marino's lollipop+ album but I think she was produced by Nakata...is jazz what she's up to these days? That'd be interesting.
Hi Ken!
As usual, it is nice to read your live reviews.
Can't wait to get back to Japan and hear some shimokita flavored guitar pop ^_^
PS: Congrats on the new blog design.
- Unknown said...
Just listened to the Teapot Orch/Marino combo at their YouTube page. I like the mix. But then I also enjoyed Coco d'or, so I'm no jazz purist.
They sound like they're having fun playing, and that's always great.
p.s. I like your new layout.
- Ken M - Japan Live said...
Hi, a very delayed thanks for the comments. Glad you like the new layout!
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These are shots of Spanish model Nereida Gallardo topless in Ibiza. You may remember Nereida from the bikini shots a few weeks back when she was vacationing with soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo – who just dumped her on her ass. Some say she's prancing around topless to show him what he's missing. While others say she's just demonstrating Europeans less puritanical view of nudity. Allow me to provide my educated assessment: Whoopee! NOTE: Pics link to NSFW versions. But, seriously, who needs a job when you can look at nipples? Words to live by, folks.
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The European Union saw an acceleration of economic growth, according to new figures. Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.2% in the Eurozone and by 0.3% in the European Union in the third quarter of 2014, according to Eurostat.
That growth rate is a surprising acceleration from the second quarter, when growth rose by 0.2% in the 28-nation union and by merely 0.1% in the Eurozone. The results come a week after the EU cut its growth forecasts, citing political tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East as headwinds to European growth. The European Commission warned that Eurozone inflation would remain below 2% target, and full year growth in the Eurozone would be 0.8%, down from its spring forecast of 1.2%.
Mixed Regional Health
The most distressed economies in the Eurozone are showing signs of improvement, with depression-stricken Greece now in its third quarter of economic growth, which rose to 0.7% in the third quarter. That is up from 0.3% growth in the second quarter and marks the third quarter in a row for positive economic growth for Greece. Similarly, Spain saw 0.5% growth and Portugal grew at a 0.2% rate. However, recessionary conditions in Italy continued with a 0.1% contraction of economic growth, which was still an improvement from the 0.2% fall in the second quarter of this year. Italy's trailing twelve-month year-over-year economic growth remains negative, with four straight quarters of year-over-year contraction.
Cyprus also saw its fourth quarter of economic contraction as the island nation struggles to recover from the combination of bank bail-ins and exposure to Russian wealth, as the island was a popular place to store funds amongst rich Russians and eastern Europeans. In 2013, the troubled banks forced the Cypriot parliament to approve a levy on bank deposits of 6.7% for all deposits below 100,000 euros and of 9.9% for all deposits above that amount. The levy was later ratified to focus on uninsured deposits, but the nation's economy has floundered since then, while EU pressure on wealthy Russians has made Cypriot banks substantially less attractive for wealthy foreigners.
EU Deflation Fears Subside
Deflation, the greatest threat to the European economy in recent months, appears a less urgent concern, thanks to a 0.4% inflation rate in October that was higher than the 0.3% price growth in September. Economists had feared that disinflation and sharp negative inflation rates in recent months could yield a liquidity trap throughout the Eurozone.
Only five EU nations are still stuck in a deflationary spiral. Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Poland, and Hungary saw negative inflation rates in October, but deflation ended for Italy, Slovenia, and Slovakia. Romania saw the highest inflation rate, at 1.8%, followed by Finland at 1.2%.
Despite the improvement in inflation rates, the Eurozone has seen inflation rates remain below 0.5% since the summer, well below 2013 rates. A year ago, Eurozone inflation was 0.7%. Economists believe inflation rates are likely to remain muted thanks to low energy costs, but a lack of liquidity could mean these energy savings will not translate into greater capital expenditure throughout Europe.


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This is a really gutsy snack, served on toasted French bread, and redolent of sunny picnics in Provence!
If you're wondering what to do with the rest of the anchovy fillets, cover them in a bowl with clingfilm and store to use later for Pizza Amalfitan.
This recipe is from Delia's One Is Fun!. Serves 1
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Start off by pounding the anchovy fillets to a pulp, either by using a pestle and mortar or else by putting them in a basin and crushing them with the end of a rolling pin.
Then spoon them out into a bowl, and add the garlic, chopped olives and onion, and the tomato and parsley.
Now sprinkle in the oregano and a seasoning of pepper, and add the tomato purée, vinegar and a few drops of oil. Use a fork to mash everything together until thoroughly combined.
Next heat up the grill, and slice the French bread in half horizontally. Place both pieces under the grill, crust-side up, to crisp them a little (but not brown them).
Then spread half the anchoïade mixture on each of the slices – on the untoasted side – bringing the topping right up to the edges of the bread.
Put them back under the grill with a little drizzling of oil on each piece, to heat through for 5 minutes.
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Who else is playing this? The first NieR was one of the most interesting games of the last generation in my opinion, and with Taro Yokoo joining forces with Platinum Games for Automata this pretty much turned out to be a match made in heaven. Really enjoying the combat in the game, which was one of the weaknesses of the predecessor. Also love how meta the whole game is.
If you're like "what the hell is NieR??", think a sci-fi mix of Ys, Metal Gear Rising and Dodonpachi.
From an interview with the director:
"I love side-scrolling shooting games! All these middle-aged men come up with these ideas, and the young creators are at a loss as to what to do with it. In order to educate them, I got them to take reference from Cave shooting games. That was my only direction..."
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A sad day in the annals of hipster athletics, as a 23 year old Brooklynite was unceremoniously pancaked by a falling tree limb during a game of dodgeball. Time to start thinking of the perfect post-modern tattoo to commemorate.
I vote for a weeping Ent.
Tree branch clocks Brooklyn man playing dodgeball (NY Daily News)


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Google Glass appears to have inspired another attack in San Francisco.
Kyle Russell, a Berkeley-based tech reporter for Business Insider, had his Google Glass ripped from his face and "smashed on the ground" near the 16th and Mission BART station on Friday, he says.
The attacker, a woman, shouted "Glass" before taking off with the $1,500 computer glasses, Russell said. Russell gave chase but before he could catch the assailant, she smashed the Glass on the ground.
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She then "vanished," the Chronicle reported.
Just had Glass torn off my face and smashed on the ground in the Mission — Kyle Russell (@kylebrussell) April 12, 2014
Russell had been in the Mission District covering an anti-Google protest, he said on Twitter. There had been a tech bus blockage that morning as well as a protest at an apartment building supposedly bought by a Google lawyer, who had moved to evict the tenants.
@tarintowers the worst part is that I had just covered an anti-Google protest http://t.co/S3Mu0AGhrB — Kyle Russell (@kylebrussell) April 12, 2014
Reaction to Russell's fate -- or, to be more accurate, the fate of his Glass -- ranged from solace-giving to outright schadenfreude, with perhaps a bit more of the latter from the anti-tech set.
Russell told NBC Bay Area he's amused that critics seem to believe he was "flaunting" his wealth "as a techie, which is funny because I'm a journalist who lives in Berkeley."
However, "I can see why the person who smashed my Glass did what they did," Russell said in a post summarizing the run-in and the subsequent reactions.
He recognizes that tech-fueled gentrification has pushed people out of their homes, and that his "love for gadgets" like Glass "makes me look and sound like one of the" oppressors, he wrote.
Earlier, a woman reported having her Google Glass snatched off of her face at a San Francisco bar. Sarah Slocum, a self-described tech PR writer, recovered her device.


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A cheese-producing farm used RDP support to set up a new plant for producing speciality cheeses and ensure its long-term financial sustainability.
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RDP support helped a family farm to generate added value by applying a sustainable model of production through biodynamic agriculture.
A land consolidation project helped restore the functionality of vineyard terraces and thus maintained a landscape which is a habitat of rare species.
A modern hen farm producing eggs for human consumption, set up a new unit to process non commercial eggs and therefore increase its competitiveness.
A series of seminars to improve the economic performance and viability of agricultural enterprises, by offering information and training on risk management tools.
Amstelland Natuurzuivel is a cooperative of farmers in the Amstelland region who set up a milk factory to produce regional dairy products for the Amsterdam area.
An agricultural business used RDP support to improve its capacity to process and store its produce, while producing renewable energy from the sun.
A young farmer invested in precision farming through the acquisition of a new sprayer; combining cost savings and environmental protection.
A pilot project to create an innovative pig farm based on the principle of processing fresh manure to minimise GHG emissions and increase the farm's profitability.
RDP support enabled a home-based business that sells quality vegetarian food products to increase its production capacity and reach out to an international market.


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Hugh Hefner is fighting back against charges from a former Playboy bunny that his famed mansion is a dump where dogs do their business on the floor.
The pajama-wearing octagenarian, who just got engaged to 24-year-old Crystal Harris, blasted claims by Izabella St. James in her new book, "Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion." In the tome, St. James describes Hefner as a cheapskate who let his dogs poop on the carpet, gobbled Viagra and "lay there like a dead fish" during sex. Excerpts of the book ran in last weekend's London Daily Mail.
"It sounds horrible," Hefner told The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove. But the porn king says St. James wrote the book several years ago and that it is only being published to spoil his pending nuptials.
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"Quite simply, Izabella—and her name is not St. James; her name is Polish, it's Kasprzyk—was one of a number of girls that I dated and lived at the house in the early part of 2001," Hefner said. "Despite what she writes, she didn't leave of her own volition. She left because she was asked to leave because she didn't get along with some of the other girls. She was in conflict with some of the nicer girls like Holly and Bridget [Marquardt, along with Kendra Wilkinson, and I kind of cleaned house."
Hefner did not dispute some of St. James' charges. He said he does pass out $1,000 weekly "allowances" to his harem, so they can buy clothes. He does indeed impose a 9 p.m. curfew on them "so they wouldn't be running around on me."
Hefner has been married twice before and even seemed surprised himself when he got engaged for a third time.
"I did not find frankly in marriage the romantic connection I was looking for so I really was not anticipating a marriage again," the 84-year-old Playboy founder told E! Online. "I'm essentially a romantic, and love is what it's all about, and marriage is not always consistent with romance."
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Let's get one thing straight: just because people have been repeating an argument for 2,000 years or more doesn't mean that they are right. It could simply mean that they haven't learned by their mistakes.
For example, speaking about the Jamaican Patois Bible Project, Bishop Alvin Bailey, of the Portmore Holiness Church of God near Kingston in Jamaica:
"I don't think the Patois words can effectively communicate what the English words have communicated," he says.
"Even those (Patois) words that we would want to use to fully explain what was in the original, are words that are vulgar."
Of course, the question that I would immediately wish to ask the good Bishop is what makes him think English is such a good vehicle for expressing the nuances of Biblical text? Excuse me if I dip into a bit of simple linguistics. English has a really rich and flexible vocabulary, which is great. But it also has a very inflexible word order: "man bites dog" does not mean the same as "dog bites man". Koine Greek, on the other hand, has an amazingly flexible word order, which allows it to express all sorts of subtleties of emphasis and focus that English can't even begin to dream about. If you want to be really picky, no language – English included – can really grasp all of the nuances of the text!
Of course, the good Bishop has lots of precedence in his remarks. Until the 1400s it was illegal to own a Bible in English, because the Church authorities believed that Latin was the only language that was adequate to capture the nuances of the Bible message.
Going back even further, in New Testament times there were many who believed that to be a Christian meant to adopt Jewish culture. I'm sure that there were people on the sidelines on the day of Pentecost complaining that people shouldn't hear the message of Jesus in their own language – only Hebrew and Aramaic were good enough!
There are two concepts tangled up in all of this. The first implies that one language is superior to all others as a vehicle for the Christian Gospel. In the middle ages, Latin held this privileged position in Europe and even today, there are those who believe that the only authentic language for Christianity is the English of the Authorised Version. The other, linked, idea is that some languages are inadequate for expressing the Christian message – this is what the bishop is implying about Patois.
The origins and subsequent history of the Christian faith show that these ideas are simply wrong. Christianity cannot be tied down to one language, however high-flown and culturally rich that language might be. Equally, the Gospel can be expressed in all languages – this is the message of Pentecost, not to mention the experience of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
There will always be people like Bishop Bailey who insist that a given language is not good enough for the Gospel and others like David Cameron who believe that only archaic language is adequate. But the God who translated himself into human on the first Christmas day and who opened up his word to the languages of the world at Pentecost won't be constrained by our linguistic snobbery.
Just because people have been saying something for 2,000 years doesn't make it right!


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Have you been finding yourself feeling like your workstation and office chair are lower than your fellow coworkers as of late? There is quite possibly a reasonable explanation for this, as a new unique form of seating has quickly emerged into more workspaces with its growing popularity. This new wave of ergonomic seating is known as sit stand seating. What once began as a trend in industrial work places with assembly or production lines where workers are required to stand for multiple hours throughout the day has now been making its way into more traditional office settings where employees are required to sit for the majority of their work day. The negative health effects associated with sitting for extended periods of time quickly brought upon the need for a healthier work station set up and along came the sit stand stool.
A sit stand stool enables the user to relieve stress when standing for long durations of time. With its small footprint, this stool takes up a limited amount of space making it a viable option for those that have a small office space to work with or spaces where employees work within close proximity of one another. These stools are designed to allow the user to lean back against while standing when they need a break or to sit on when their legs become fatigued. They are armless and comes with stationary rubber glides to keep the chair in place when the user leans back.
With the dramatic growth in popularity over the recent years combined with the increase in demand, there are now many different sit stand models available for purchase. The most popular type is the industrial model, a solid choice for industrial environments where assembly lines are used. Industrial sit stand stools typically feature adjustable seat height, steel frame design, seat angle adjustment, and a puncture resistant seat. Another popular version is the upholstered ergonomic sit stand stool. These are more common in the office environments with their ability to blend in with pre-existing furniture designs and office decor. They also have the ability to adjust the seat height along with the seat angle. A newer model that has been released recently is the saddle sit stand stool allowing the user to lean against the stool or sit in a widened stance to fit the saddle curved seat.
Sit stand stools are best used at extended height work stations or sit stand desks where workers have the option to sit or stand throughout the day. By making it possible to both sit and stand while working, you are then able to gain much more movement and variation throughout the day thereby creating a healthier work environment. This additional movement relieves aching muscles and changes the focus from feeling uncomfortable in an office chair to what should be your main focus, your work! Key benefits of using these specialized stools include better health by pressure relief on the spine and pelvic area, higher energy levels, improved work comfort, higher productivity, better blood circulation, and stronger muscles.
Whether you are looking to find an alternative solution for your uncomfortable outdated office chair or simply want to take part in the ever-growing trend of working at a sit stand work station, a sit stand stool is both a healthy and ergonomic option.
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Ciro de Quadros: Harnessing the Power of Vaccines to End Polio
Today, Sabin Executive Vice President Dr. Ciro de Quadros published an op-ed in the Huffington Post discussing the power of vaccines in the fight against polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
"Now is the time to harness the power of vaccines to end polio for good. Today, I'm proud to join hundreds of scientists, doctors and technical experts from around the world to endorse the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication. The Declaration urges full funding and implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s new Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan, which provides a clear path forward to achieve polio eradication by 2018," he says.
He also emphasizes the critical role polio eradication will have in strengthehing immunization systems:
"The true legacy of eradicating polio will be to boost immunization across the board."


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Jill Stuart Patisserie Collection Available Online
Jill Stuart's Patisserie Collection is now available from E-bay seller AlphabeautyUK.
I'm not affiliated with this seller, they do not know I'm doing this post. I've purchased from them in the past numerous times and enjoy their excellent customer service and fairly reasonable prices so I thought for those wanting to indulge in this collection that this is a very good seller to go with.
They have the new shades of Patisserie Mix Blush as well as the Custard Lip Pots and Glitter Eyes Liquid Eyeshadow.
I've checked in at the Soho store and they do not have this collection in stock sadly and according to sale associates at the store they won't be getting it. However, they do have a good deal of products from the general catalog and they do ship within the US.


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Fox News continues to push myths about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), baselessly claiming it will undermine religious freedom. In fact, ENDA contains explicit language providing for an exemption for religious organizations from the law.
ENDA, introduced in Congress by a bipartisan group of senators and scheduled for a Senate vote as early as next week, would ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. An overwhelming majority of Americans support the law, including a majority of Republicans, Catholics, and senior citizens. Small businesses and Fortune 500 companies alike support policies protecting LGBT employees.
On the October 30 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Bret Baier introduced a segment on ENDA and stoked fears that it could endanger religious freedom, saying, "some people want religious freedom to take a backseat to another kind of freedom":
Correspondent Shannon Bream shrugged off the fact that ENDA includes exemptions for religious organizations and instead pointed to "skeptics" who are unconvinced by "the bill's language on religious exemptions." In fact, ENDA's language on religious exemptions is clear:
This Act shall not apply to a corporation, association, educational institution or institution of learning, or society that is exempt from the religious discrimination provisions of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 pursuant (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) to section 702(a) or 703(e)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 2000e-1(a), 2000e-2(e)(2)).
Baier ended the segment by asking his audience: "Do you think businesses should be forced to hire people whose beliefs conflict with that company's goals?"
When it comes to discrimination against LGBT and transgender people, Fox has a long history of promoting extreme anti-gay, anti-transgender views.
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.


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The Ohio University annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration featured many memorable events that honored the memory of the renowned Civil Rights leader who was killed in 1968.
Carrying the theme, "OHIO's Legacy: Living the Dream," Ohio University faculty, staff and students as well as Athens area community members showed up in large numbers to support the week's events.
Here are a few of the outstanding images captured by the University Communications and Marketing photographers during the 2014 celebration:
Alpha Phi Alpha member Derrick Holifield breaks the silence of the march to yell out names of those who have been injured or killed by racial discrimination such as Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Photo by Olivia Wallace.
Silent marchers cross College Green on MLK Jr. Day. The brunch is held annually to honor the legacy of Dr. King, who participated in numerous silent marches during the Civil Rights Movement. Photo by Olivia Wallace.
MLK Jr. Day Brunch speaker Frederick Harris delivers his lecture to a sold out Baker University Center Ballroom. The professor of political science at Colombia University and director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society earned a standing ovation from the crowd after examining the writings of African American author James Baldwin and their connection to the activism of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Photo by Olivia Wallace.
Members of the Athens Black Contemporary Dancers (ABCD) perform at the 14th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Brunch. Photo by Olivia Wallace.
Kristen Helmsdoerfer (left), Delfin Bautista (center) and Morgan Varner (behind paper) make plans for increased social activism during a Jan. 22 MLK Interactive Workshop at Walter Hall Rotunda. The workshop was led by Thomas Costello, a Glidden Visiting Professor and alumnus who heads the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion in Detroit. Photo by Elizabeth Reyes.
Athens County Public Defender Herman Carson (standing) speaks to the crowd after the Jan. 21 viewing of the 2012 HBO documentary "Gideon's Army" at the Athena Cinema. The documentary detailed the struggles of several young public defenders in the deep south. Carson spoke to the crowd about the accuracy of the film and shared some of the problems that he has encountered in his more than 30 years practicing law. Photo by George Mauzy.
Ohio University student Jacob Chaffin shares his personal views on social justice and community activism during a Jan. 23 MLK Jr. Celebration open mic night at Casa Nueva in Athens. Watching the performance, from left, are Stephanie Sanders, Lisa Harrison, Gerard Grigsby, Chanel Glover, and John Schmieding. Photo by Lauren Pond.
Freshman Leon McCollum freestyles during a social justice-themed open mic night at Casa Nueva in Athens on Jan. 23, 2014. The first-time event showcased the artistic talents of Ohio University employees and students. Photo by Lauren Pond.
Ohio University student Autumn Setzler prepares a pot of soup in the Ohio University United Campus Ministry kitchen on Jan. 25, 2014, as part of the MLK Jr. Day of Service. Unfortunately, inclement weather caused the ministry to cancel the student-prepared meal that had been planned for the afternoon. Photo by Lauren Pond.


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Giants move on after drug suspensions in secondary
EAST RUTHERFORD – The Giants recently learned two members of their secondary were suspended by the NFL for failing drug tests during the offseason.
Starting free safety Will Hill received a six-game suspension, and the Giants quickly waived the talented player on Monday after his third drug-related offense in as many years. On Wednesday, third-year cornerback Jayron Hosley was slapped with a four-game suspension that begins at the start of the regular season.
The loss of Hill and Hosley — players who both started at one point in the Giants' secondary last year — was a blow to the Giants.
"It's as disappointing as heck," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said Thursday at the second set of organized team activities (OTAs) at the team's training center. "But we move on. That's the way it has to be. When you run a business, you depend on people being there for you. It's a sad day for both of these guys. The whole organization is disappointed by them.
"If this is your job and you're willing to jeopardize your job for some other reason, then maybe it's time for you to find a new job. Their minds aren't in the right place."
Third-year cornerback Hosley got six starts in 2012, collecting 40 tackles and one interception. He saw plenty of action as the Giants' fifth defensive back.
"We all make mistakes," said Hosley, drafted in 2012 by the Giants in the third round out of Virginia Tech. "There's a consequence in everything you do. I can't dwell on mistakes. I want to apologize to the ownership of the Giants, because they believed in me.
"My teammates, we go on the field every day, go to battle every day. I didn't want this to be all about me, because it takes away from the team. I have to move on. I dealt with the issues when it initially happened. Right now, it's not about what I'm doing outside of football. My focus is on football."
Hosley reiterated he doesn't have a drug problem and got counseling after it was learned he failed the drug test last season.
"It's something that happened last season," Hosley said. "The ball just didn't bounce my way. I'm dealing with the issue. I'm not going to dwell on what happened. I'm moving on. I'll face the suspension and move on."
Starting strong safety Antrel Rolle, the unofficial team leader of the secondary, expressed his disappointment in both teammates.
"It's too easy to keep doing the right things than to do something wrong," Rolle said. "Will Hill is like my little brother. He's a great guy and a phenomenal talent. But for him to keep moving in the wrong direction is just sad. It stings like hell. Will and I had several conversations about doing the right thing. They're grown men. They should know right from wrong.
"It is a bad reflection on us and does us no good. When you hear about things like this, you're disappointed and it goes a lot deeper than football. It goes to the individuals themselves."
Rolle said he had a conversation with Hill after the Giants released him.
"I tried to encourage him and told him to keep his head up," Rolle said. "Will should take full responsibility for what he's done. It might not be over for him. I hope it's not. If he does get another shot with someone else, he has to know that it's his last shot."
Coughlin said the situation allows for others to get on the field, like second-year safety Cooper Taylor.
"He's a much bigger human being than he was last year," Coughlin said of Taylor. "This is his second time around with us. I think he has an excellent opportunity to contribute in a lot of ways."
Taylor, a second-year player out of Richmond, worked a lot in the offseason in the weight room to get bigger and stronger. He says he's at 232 pounds, up from the 225 he played at last year.
"It's definitely an opportunity for me to play," Taylor said. "It's tough to see Will go. He was a great player for us, but this is an opportunity for me to step up, try to compete and show what I have. I think I keep improving every day. I want to be more of a physical presence."
Coughlin said recent free agent signing Quintin Demps will get the opportunity to gain more playing time in the secondary, both as a safety and nickel back, as well as a possible return man.
"He's going to get a lot of looks," Coughlin said. "He's going to get his chances."
The Giants will hold OTAs next week for three straight sessions.


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By DonalBane of Blakmers
for the Pennsic Independent
After five War points: East Tygers 3, Midrealm Dragons 2
Under threatening skies on Tuesday, the Grand Armies of the East and Midrealm faced off for the first time this Pennsic as the Tyger and Dragon stormed to the top of the Great Wall.
This new battle was fought over one long wall with three "towers" inside, with each side having two breach points to assault the wall. The battle was scheduled for 60 minutes with unlimited resurrections. Ownership of each tower was signified by a raising a blue or red flag on a post at the center of each tower. Holding onto a tower for the majority of the battle earned one War point.
The East's forces mustered on the north side of the wall. The Great Northern Army led the charge at the Tyger's east breach point and was joined by elements from Meridies, Markland and the East's Western Allies. On the Tyger's west breach point, the Ulsterblichen and Black Talon led an international coalition, which included forces from Ealdormere, the Southern Army and the Tuchux.
Meanwhile, the Midrealm forces assembled on the south side of the wall. The bulk of the Midrealm army posted itself on the east breach point and was joined by forces from Calontir and Trimaris. The western breach point was entrusted to Æthelmearc and Atlantia.
At the sound of the cannon, a mad dash from both sides began towards the towers. Being closer, the Northern Army was able to get to the east tower quickly, despite a determined attack by Darkyard. Likewise, the Atlantians quickly rushed the west tower and were able to repulse the first attempts on the tower by Black Talon.
The bulk of the fighting happened around the central tower. Fast-moving troops from the Ultsterblichen were able to seize the tower early, but found themselves under heavy assault from House Clovenshield. As both sides rushed in forces, the central tower became a most pit of spears and polearms. A determined countercharge by the Tuchux gave the East's forces just enough room to claim the tower and organize the defenses.
For the rest of the fight, the lines remained relatively static, with the bulk of the fighting contained on the wall between the east and central towers. The Midrealm forces threw everything they had at both towers, but through they were able to get into the towers, the banners never were changed.
Meanwhile, forces from Æthelmearc and Atlantia took turns manning the front lines in the west tower. They were able to repulse charge after charge from the East's forces.
The battle was scheduled to go for an hour, but the flow of the fight was slowed by numerous holds. Then, at about noon, the battle was brought to an abrupt halt due to lightning.
After conferring with TRMs Dag and Gryffith, Duke Brannos, marshal-in-charge, declared the battle over, giving the East two war points and the Midrealm one for each tower they held.
The ensuing storm was a full-blooded Pennsic beast, which forced all other heavy fighting activities on Tuesday to be cancelled.
Wednesday's Big Battle:
The Field Battle
And now, my lords and ladies, its time for the main event. If Mother Nature cooperates, upwards of 1,500 fighters will meet each other in this last-man-standing affair. There will be three fights this year, each worth one War point, with combat archery and siege weapons allowed in the third.
What to watch for: The first charge. I've heard many say you can feel the first charge of the Pennsic field battle. It remains one of the greatest spectacles in the Known World.


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Barack Obama has selected televangelist Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life" and an outspoken opponent of abortion rights and same-sex marriage, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration Jan. 20. Why? What was he thinking when he picked this particular religious spokesman—a publicity hound who fights against causes of great moral importance to many of Obama's supporters—for such a prominent role in the inauguration?
I consider this Obama's first big misstep, and not only because of Warren's stance on abortion and gay rights. He represents a combination of evangelicalism and boosterism , in the tradition of Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham, that is a particularly repugnant part of American religious tradition. Many have suggested that the choice of Warren puts him in a position to succeed Graham as the nation's best-known pastor. No religious leader should occupy the role that Graham played in successive administrations—as an unofficial counselor to presidents, a predictable functionary on all ceremonial occasions, and a spokesman for one brand of religion. It is a brand of religion that has always been allied with American anti-intellectualism, and that is yet another reason why Obama's choice is so puzzling and disturbing.
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren participates in a panel discussion during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York in this September 26, 2008 file photo. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Warren, who opposes gay marriage, as a speaker at his inauguration, creating a commotion over what inclusiveness will mean for his administration.REUTERS/Chip East/Files
How wonderful it would have been if a humanist had been included in the inaugural ceremony for the first time. Secularists, unlike evangelicals, voted overwhelmingly for Obama. It is truly disappointing to me to see Obama catering those who make up a significant share his enemies and disregarding the views of his friends….
By Susan Jacoby
Washington Post


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NEW YORK — Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered a mechanism that guides the exquisite wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain — gaining unprecedented insight into the faulty circuits that may lead to brain disorders ranging from autism to mental retardation.
In the journal Cell, the researchers describe, for the first time, that faulty wiring occurs when RNA molecules embedded in a growing axon are not degraded after they give instructions that help steer the nerve cell. So, for example, the signal that tells the axon to turn — which should disappear after the turn is made — remains active, interfering with new signals meant to guide the axon in other directions.
The scientists say that there may be a way to use this new knowledge to fix the circuits.
"Understanding the basis of brain miswiring can help scientists come up with new therapies and strategies to correct the problem," says the study's senior author, Dr. Samie Jaffrey, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology.
"The brain is quite 'plastic' and changeable in the very young, and if we know why circuits are miswired, it may be possible to correct those pathways, allowing the brain to build new, functional wiring," he says.
Disorders associated with faulty neuronal circuits include epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia, mental retardation and spasticity and movement disorders, among others.
In their study, the scientists describe a process of brain wiring that is much more dynamic than was previously known — and thus more prone to error.
Proteins Sense the Environment to Steer the Axon
During brain development, neurons have to connect to each other, which they do by extending their long axons to touch one another. Ultimately, these neurons form a circuit between the brain and the target tissue through which chemical and electrical signals are relayed. In this study, researchers investigated neurons that travel up the spinal cord into the brain. "It is very critical that axons are precisely positioned in the spinal cord," Dr. Jaffrey says. "If they are improperly positioned, they will form the wrong connections, which can lead to signals being sent to the wrong target cells in the brain."
The way that an axon guides and finds its proper target is through so-called growth cones located at the tips of axons. "These growth cones have the ability to sense the environment, determine where the targets are and navigate toward them. The question has always been — how do they know how to do this? Where do the instructions come from that tell them how to find their proper target?" Dr. Jaffrey says. The team found that RNA molecules embedded in the growth cone are responsible for instructing the axon to move left or right, up or down. These RNAs are translated in growth cones to produce antenna-like proteins that steer the axon like a self-guided missile.
"As a circuit is being built, RNAs in the neuron's growth cones are mostly silent. We found that specific RNAs are only read at precise stages in order to produce the right protein needed to steer the axon at the right time. After the protein is produced, we saw that the RNA instruction is degraded and disappears," he says.
"If these RNAs do not disappear when they should, the axon does not position itself properly — it may go right instead of left — and the wiring will be incorrect and the circuit may be faulty," Dr. Jaffrey says.
RNAs have Tremendous Power over Brain Development
The research finding answers a long-standing puzzle in the quest to understand brain wiring, says Dr. Dilek Colak, a postdoctoral associate in Dr. Jaffrey's laboratory.
"There have been a series of discoveries over the last five years showing that proteins that control RNA degradation are very important for brain development and, when they are mutated, you can have spasticity or other movement disorders," Dr. Colak says. "That has raised a major question — why would RNA degradation pathways be so critical for properly creating brain circuits?
"What we show here is that not only does RNA need to be present in growth cones to give instructions, it then also needs to be removed from the growth cones to take away those instructions at the right time," she says. "Both those processes are critical and it may explain why there are so many different brain disorders associated with ineffective RNA regulation."
"The idea that control of brain wiring is located in these RNA molecules that are constantly being dynamically turned over is something that we didn't anticipate," Dr. Jaffrey adds. "This tells us that regulating these RNA degradation pathways could have a tremendous impact on brain development. Now we know where to look to tease apart this process when it goes awry, and to think about how we can repair it."
Other authors of the study are Dr. Sheng-Jian from the Department of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Dr. Bo T. Porse from the Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
This work was supported by NIH grant NS56306 to Dr. Jaffrey and a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) postdoctoral fellowship to Dr. Colak.
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Can mechanical engineers build a case for sustainable design?
Perhaps I speak for many of us in sustainability when I say that I've grown slightly jaded about the barrage of headlines in my inbox boasting cheery statistics related to levels of corporate commitment to sustainability.
Many of the survey result reports I read poll CEO perceptions, which not surprisingly, are astronomically high. For example, the excellent UN Global Compact/Accenture study last year said "Ninety-three percent of CEOs believe that sustainability will be critical to the future success of their business."
The new Business for Social Responsibility/Globescan survey results, which I tear open with joyful glee (as much as one can tear open a PDF) each year, point out that among sustainability leaders, "The most important leadership challenge facing business today is the integration of sustainability into core business functions." A respectable 62 percent said this was the most significant challenge.
OK, now we're getting somewhere.
The BSR/Globescan study goes on to say that there is still widespread distrust of businesses by consumers. It asked the survey participants what strategies companies should take to improve public trust in business. Forty-five percent said that they are leveraging products and business models designed for sustainability to combat this distrust. Now we're really getting somewhere.
To extend and examine these trends one step further, let's look at a survey from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). For the past four years, Autodesk has worked closely with ASME to poll professional engineers and mechanical engineering students on sustainable design practices. These are not, for the overwhelming majority, "sustainable mechanical engineers." They are generalist mechanical engineers who may specialize in a particular type of engineering, but not sustainable engineering per se. We poll them because it is important to see these trends to the very tip of a corporate commitment by a manufacturer: the design process, where many environmental and social impact decisions are made and locked in. If requirements for sustainability are not showing up there, the raft of statistics that appear in my inbox are just feel-good pats on the back and not necessarily moving the needle.
Now, with four years of good data from the ASME survey, we can start to make some assumptions. This year's survey consisted of 38 questions, and I'm not going to get into all of them, but if you're curious, the results are compiled here. The things that interested me the most were the following:
- Three-quarters of professional engineers say that they are involved with sustainability or sustainable technologies. This is up from last year's approximate two-thirds—growing despite the economy tanking and manufacturing jobs moving overseas.
- Cost was, not surprisingly, consistently listed as the biggest hurdle to sustainable design implementation, yet the adoption of sustainable design techniques went up even though many commodity prices also went up. Responses like "Convincing industry that this is cost effective," "Cost Control in the face of draconian competition for scarce work," "The mindset that sustainability is a cost, not an investment" and "Capital required to implement any change in the manufacturing process" were pretty representative of the lot.
- There was strong sentiment that sustainable design practices are not too complex to be implemented within a manufacturing firm or company, and the second-most-cited hurdle (behind cost of implementation) was lack of training.
- "Designing products with low carbon footprints" rose from 25 percent last year to 40 percent this year, as a sustainable design objective of importance. I have some guesses as to why this might have increased so substantially—perhaps Grenelle II, PAS2050, or government procurement guidelines? I would love to hear your ideas as well.
These surveys stitched together are like a cloudy sky with bits of blue poking through—the importance of sustainable design continues to grow among engineers. The message does seem to be reflected everywhere, from C-level goals to design briefs. However, the "It costs too much more" myth still permeates the conversation, and that needs to change if we are to make real progress.
I like the way some of my customers are thinking about sustainability within a total-cost-of-ownership analysis of their products, and I'm hoping that this approach will help get us to the "Sustainable design is design as usual" end goal many of us have in mind.
Image by Vectomart via Shutterstock


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After a period of mourning, life must go on. After his wife Zoe's tragic death, Samuel Tong (Francis Ng) takes an extended vacation to put his past behind him. He encounters Holiday Ho (Fala Chen), who also is traveling around after losing her boyfriend in an aviation accident. When Sam decides to finally return to daily life, he goes to work as a pilot with Skylette Airlines, where he butts heads with Captain Jayden "Captain Cool" Koo (Julian Cheung). When Holiday also arrives at the company for pilot training, she becomes entangled with both Sam and Jayden. Jayden's younger sister, Summer Koo (Myolie Wu), works at the airport as an aircraft maintenance technician. Sam's younger brother, Isaac (Ron Ng), is shocked by how much Summer resembles Zoe and is afraid to let his feeling for her grow out of fear of causing additional emotional distress for Sam. As Sam tries to get back into his daily work, can he learn to lessen the pains of his past? "Triumph of the Skies II" is a 2013 Hong Kong drama series. It is a sequel to the original "Triumph of the Skies" from 2003. The "Triumph of the Skies" film adaptation was released in 2015.
- Original title
- Romanized title
- Chung Seung Wan Siu
- Also known as
- Chong Shang Yun Xiao II, Triumph in the Skies 2
- Volunteer Team
- Friendly Skies
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- 07-15-2013 to 09-08-2013
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Is the difference between the world- parts due to religions?
Allah Almighty said in many verses of Quran:
((Who will adopt any religion other than Islam; rightly, he is one of those underdogs))
((The real religion to Allah is the Islam))
Now if we shut any door out of any religious doctrine and keep slightly watching any political practicing whether on west or east, do we find anything related to true religion? I think not because all of politicians work to their behalf
Updated 11-28-2015 at 09:54 AM by Mohammad Ahmad
Sorry, not now
this thread is regional affairs and there is cautions
Updated 09-09-2014 at 10:39 AM by Mohammad Ahmad
I am not advocating the use of any illegal substance, but I do not believe that there should be any illegal substances, certainly not in a supposedly free society. There are fairly good rationales for the existences of some laws that are supposedly intended to save people from themselves, but I question whether it is the business of government to save people from themselves. I realize that there are individuals who are incapable of caring for them, and some laws are intended to protect such people
Peace be on you.
Following peaceful and concrete actions are required to counter the disrespects against the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him - pbuh)
1= Pray to God to get help and have full trust on Him that He will deal with perpetrators.
2= Express indignation at the vulgarirty against Holy Prophet (pbuh).
3= Draw attention of people to desist from committing such vulgarities.
4= Use


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