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The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Sudan, Mr. Ali Kerti, told national media outlets that President Omar Hassan Al-Beshir’s 3-day working visit to Eritrea is part of the previous visits and consultations on the part of both countries, and that it served as a stepping stone to a new phase of bilateral ties both in depth and vitality.

The Sudanese Official went on to point out that the latest visit of President Omar Al-Beshir gave rise to a new chapter as regards enhancement of the Eritrean-Sudanese relations and fostering

Mr. Mohammed Omar Mahmoud, the Eritrean Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and non-resident Ambassador to Lebanon, yesterday met President Michel Suleiman of Lebanon.

In the course of the meeting, the Ambassador delivered President Isaias’ message to the Lebanese leader, and the two sides conducted discussion on bilateral relations and ways of its development.

Meanwhile, Eritrean community members in the Saudi city of Riyadh asserted that they would enhance activities with a view to raising their input in national development activities. They made the pledge at an assessment meeting, during which it was stated that gratifying accomplishments have been registered by the community as regards patronizing members of families of martyrs and enhancement of community organization as well as collaboration

Speaking at the meeting, Ambassador Mohammed-Omar Mahmoud gave briefings pertaining

A total of 150 females comprising new staff members of the Ministry of Tourism who have been attending a training course in Tourism and Hotel Management graduated with Certificate on the 17th of January.

Speaking at the ceremony at Embasoira Hotel during which the Minister of Tourism, Ms. Askalu Menkerios, was present, Mr. Tekle

The Managing Committee of NUEW’s branch in Asmara city last Thursday conducted Second Assembly in the presence of heads of sub-zonal Administrations and the Union’s representatives.

Speaking at the meeting, Ms. Zaid Mesfin, Chairperson of the committee, pointed out that a number of accomplishments could be registered over the past years pertaining to educational promotions, communal undertakings, visit to historical sites and organization of new youth members. She further called on the members to extend a helping hand towards reinforcement of the Managing committee.

Likewise, Ms. Teberih Mebrahtu, member of the committee, indicated

President Omar al-Beshir’s latest visit tO eritrea stePPing stOne tO new Phase Of eritrean-sudanese relatiOns,

says sudanese fOreign minister mutual partnership. He further indicated that the two leaders extensively discussed ways and means of ensuring free trade exchange across the borders of the two countries.

Mr. Ali Kerti explained that both states share similar understandings and stances as regards resolving domestic conflicts and regional issues, and that the necessary awareness has been nurtured in connection with the fact that unwarranted external interventions open the door to deterioration. Resolving the political difference the Republic of South Sudan is witnessing and thereby preventing its development towards racial conflict demands patience and coordinated collaboration, he added.

In the same vein, Mr. Yemane Gebreab, Head of Political Affairs at the PFDJ, stated that the Sudanese leader’s latest visit to Eritrea comprises a continuation of

President Isaias’ visit to the Republic of Sudan last November, and that it made remarkable input pertaining to deepening the relations between both countries. He also said that there exists common consensus on the part of Eritrea and Sudan pertaining to achieving peaceful solution to the crisis in South Sudan as it negatively affects not only South Sudan but also Eritrea and the Republic of Sudan, as well as the countries of the region in general.

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to the cultural, economic, social and political activities carried out in the course of the year 2013, besides explaining the work plan for the current year.

Also speaking at the meeting, Ms. Weini Gerezgiher, the Eritrean Consul in Riyadh, presented a report on the service provided by the Embassy, especially in the wake of the issuance of the proclamation issued by the Saudi government in connection with residential and work permit.

The participants of the meeting expressed satisfaction with the service thus provided, and put forth views on several issues.

Firezgi, Head of Human Resource Development in the Ministry, pointed out that the training was organized with a view to giving impetus to the process of tourism services standardization. He further disclosed that it involved aspects dealing with crime and danger prevention such as that of fire extinction, as well as prevention of narcotic drugs, besides immigration

regulations.A representative of the graduates

asserted that they would step up efforts towards furthering national tourism development.

In closing remarks, the Tourism Minister said that the trainees are due to demonstrate commitment vis-à-vis the customer satisfaction factors and promoting the nation’s image in the domain of tourism.

tOurism ministry trains 150 females in tOurism and hOtel management

Mr. Ali Kerti

Mr. Yemane Gebreab

that Eritrean women uphold gratifying political and other virtues, and that they have been exerting stepped-up efforts towards nurturing such virtues.

Also speaking at the meeting, Mr. Zerit Tewoldebirhan, Managing Director of the Administration of the Central region, asserted that gender equity in Eritrea is anchored on patriotic life sacrifice in connection with the armed struggle for independence. He also expressed the Administration’s readiness as regards popularization of this value.

The participants of the meeting exchanged views focusing on issues, and elected a new committee that would serve this year.

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Why deficit of water supply? Why construction of houses has been delayed? Let’s get the answers to these questions from seminars by Tesfai Ghebreslasie, Minister of Land, Water and Environment.

Seminars recently held by Tesfai Ghebreslasie, Minister of Land, Water and Environment, have opened a venue for discussions on issues of vital concern. As ev-erything discussed in the seminar has an immediate connection with the very living condition of every national, constructive suggestions

were forwarded from the partici-pants.

As part of the efforts that have been exerted to ensure sustainable, safe, and sufficient amount of po-table water throughout the country,

402 water reservoirs of different size have been constructed. How-ever, the amount of water these reservoirs could impound has been confined between the range of 300 and 400 m3.

The ultimate goal envisaged to be achieved is to daily provide every individual with 30 liters of potable water. According to Mr. Tesfai, Eri-trea needs a supply of at least 1.4 million m3 of water that could be used for domestic consumption as well as agricultural and industrial purposes among others. However, the amount of water that have been

collected has never met the coun-try’s overall demand.

In is not doubtable that impres-

sive achievement has been regis-tered in the provision of portable water. But, it is also important to notice the huge gap between the demand and supply of water. The amount of water that has been col-lected in the reservoirs so far con-structed compared to the overall demand has not yet been balanced.

With an increase of population and with expansion of the other in-frastructural activities, the demand of water supply would, according to Mr. Tesfai, increase from 1.4 million to 2.5 or 2.6 million m3 by 2020. Thus extensive efforts in wa-

ter conservation and also judicious utilization of the available resource are required so as to meet the ever

increasing demand. Before independence, access to

potable water used to cover 7% of the rural and 30% of the country’s urban population. So, meeting the country’s demand of water would ask for strenuous efforts. So far, water obtained from the 2111 of the 3092 wells drilled in the post-inde-pendence period have been con-sumed in households. So, no how huge or how minimal the amount of water is, judicious utilization of such a resources which symbolizes life and growth of life seeks alert-ness of every beneficiary.

What Mr. Tesfai said about the country’s water resource is that the government of Eritrea has been working hard to ensure that every national gets an access to potable water as a basic right. The supply of water would be improved by far than its current situation but, prop-er management of such a resource need to be implemented. Taking in

Judicious Utilization Of Natural Resources For Sustainable Growth Part II

to account that Eritrea is situated in a semi-arid geographical area, making a wise use of the available resources is also a message which the minister delivered.

Why construction of houses has been delayed is a question which a number of participants of the semi-nars asked about. This question has not been answered until the recent seminar was held. There could be various reasons which became causes to the delays of houses con-struction. Let’s see some pointed which Mr. Tesfai shared with par-ticipants of the seminars held in central, Anseba and Gash-Barka regions.

According to Mr. Tesfai, a rise in the prices of construction ma-terials has been the main cause for discontinuation of houses constric-tion. Insufficient supply of electric supply has also negatively affected production of cement. Hence, ce-ment price has by far increased.

It is then to find ways of getting access to cost effective building ma-terials that construction of houses has been discontinued. Fortunately, Mr. Tesfai indicated that a new generator that has been installed at Ghedem cement factory would enable the cement factory resume its activity at its highest possible production rate. A new brick factor is also under construction. Besides, the government of Eritrea has been exerting efforts to ensure that all nationals get an access to cost ef-fective construction materials.

Therefore, once all the deficits that have been causes for the delay of construction works are solved, the construction of houses would resume in a way that ascertains its sustainability. What the Govern-ment is diligently working is to ensure that a lasting solution to the deficits of construction materials so as all activities would be carried out in an accelerated manner.

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Former World Cycling Centre trainee Natnael Berhane contin-ues to blaze a trail for African cy-cling with his win in the Tropicale Amissa Bongo, au Gabon, at the weekend.

The Eritrean’s historic victory makes him the first black African to win a professional stage race. The rider with Team Europcar kept the peloton on its toes throughout the event, gradually moving in on the leader, one of cycling’s big names Luis Leon Sanchez (Caja Rural – Seguros SGA). Thanks to bonifications in the last two stag-es, Berhane finally stole the show, taking overall victory by a mere second.

WCC trainee for two seasons A trainee at the World Cycling

Centre in Aigle, Switzerland, in 2011 and 2012, the 23-year-old Eritrean was near speechless after

Eritrea’s Natnael Berhane - Makes History Among

The Pros In Gabon

the breathtakingly exciting last stage: “This is a victory for Eri-trea and all of Africa,” he beamed at the waiting press. “I don’t know what to say. It was a good result. I am so happy. I couldn’t believe it was possible to beat a rider like Luis Leon Sanchez who has won so much. But I did it fi-

It is to be recalled that Eritrean Natnael Berhane registered a historical triumph in the Gabonese Tour as an African cyclist and representing EURO CAR Club that was concluded on the 18th of January 2014. The professional racer cruised a total of 22 hours 52 minutes and 24 seconds in the course of the Tour’s 7 tournaments, preceding by a second to Spanish Wallis Leo Sanchez who registered remarkable achievements in Tour de France. Accordingly, Natnael has held the record for first victorious African cyclist in Tour de Ga-bon, which accomplishment has been long-cherished by the steadfast competitor. After the Natnael’s triumph a number of media outlets are making their headlines about this young shining African star. One of these media outlets is the web site for the UCI - www.uci.ch. Here is excerpts of the article posted on the website.

nally, which means I’m starting to make a place for myself amongst the pros.”

Berhane’s performance is no bolt out of the blue: in 2011 he had already beaten UCI World Tour riders to win a stage of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo-Tour du Gabon. He is two-times African road race champion (2011 and 2012) and part of the Eritrean Na-tional team that has won the Af-rican team time trial three years running. Last year he made head-lines when he won the third stage of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey and spent three days in the leader’s jersey. “

Extreme intelligence” For WCC Director Frédéric

Magné, Berhane’s success is due not only to his obvious physical ability, but also to his intelligence and his drive.

“What struck us all when he was training at the WCC was his extreme intelligence coupled with a real desire for victory,” explains Mr Magné. “He rides to win and is a real fighter. He has everything it takes to succeed.”

The WCC Director underlined the young athlete’s maturity and long-term vision which saw him refuse initial offers from several teams, preferring to remain ama-teur until he received the profes-sional offer he had set his sights on: “He took his time, thought carefully and waited to enter a very high-quality structure.”

Berhane keeps in frequent con-tact with Jean-Jacques Henry, his coach at the WCC throughout the 2012 season, and phoned him shortly before the race in Gabon.

“His performances last year, particularly in Turkey, already showed what he was capable of,” says the coach. “He is concen-trated, studious, knows what he wants and goes after it.”

Founded in 2002, the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Swit-zerland, has trained more than

620 athletes from more than 120 countries in cycling’s different disciplines. Natnael Berhane is the second Eritrean athlete to turn professional on graduating from the WCC: Daniel Teklehaymanot

trained at the WCC from 2009 to 2011 before joining Orica Green Edge in 2012 and now rides with MTN.

Sources: www.uci.ch

Huge Media coverage - one of Gabon’s news papers made Natnael’s triumph in the Amissa Bongo its front page news

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Job vacancy The embassy of the State of Libya in Asmara Eritrea is seeking to

appoint qualified two secretaries to provide administrative and clerical support and perform numerous duties

Main responsibilities and duties:

Receives, screens in- routes incoming calls and visitors.

Composes, receives and directs incoming hard and electronic corre-sponds.

Receives and directs incoming vouchers, receipts, bills etc

Establishes and maintains hard and electronic filing and records man-agement systems.

Makes travel, procurement and other services arrangements.Computer types documents and reports.

Operates office equipment such as fax machine, photocopier, scanners etc..

Schedules and coordinates appointments, meetings and events and alerts about changes and conciliations.

Relay directives, instructions and assignment to staff.Languages: Arabic, English and Tigrinia in descending order.Work experience: no less than two years as secretary.

Education: twelfth complete.Gender: female

Interested applicants are requested to submit their applications, C.Vs, support documents to the embassy at Str. 171-1 during working hours within 10 days from the appearance of this announcement in the news paper.

Applications must be submitted in closed envelopes. And the phrase “application for secretary job” must be written on the envelope.

Only short listed applicants will be called for interview.

SrBG Hamelmalo ProjectPost: Masons and Plasters (for mortar, putty and paint plastering& ceramictiles and terrazzo tiles fixing)Working Place: Hamelmalo Agricultural CollegeSalary: 400-500Nkf/day& food allowance (anyone that reaches the requirementand qualification from the engineer on site)Valid Time: Within five monthsContact Person& Tel: Yekealo 07250746

IMPORTANT NOTICE

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office in As-mara is in the process of updating its Consultants’ Roster and is seeking qualified national consultants in diverse fields of interventions.

Minimum requirements:

. Post Graduate - Masters or above levels in Economics, Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Development Studies, Water Engi-neering, Construction and any other development related fields ( please indicate area of preference):

. A minimum of 7 years of experience in relevant professional out of which 5 years in consultancy services.

. Excellent in Written and Spoken English Language.

Professionals are invited to submit a duly filled out P11 form available at the UNDP reception desk, located at the UN Offices in Asmara, and a detailed CV with supporting documents. Applicants must submit a letter indicating exemption from or completion of national service obligations to: UNDP,P.O. Box 5366, Asmara, Eritrea.

UNDP will contact those who are considered potential candidates. Closing date for the application is 14 consecutive days from the date of announcement.

N.B. Those who have submitted their CVs and interviewed before are required to provide only an updated CVs (you can send through e-mail address procurement.er@undp.org).

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lose the respect and attention of your company thus you should al-ways have to be careful with what you say and how you say it, or you might end up earning that ‘boring’ title. Chronic boredom constitutes one of the major psychopathologi-cal phenomena in contemporary technetronic society. By the very success in inventing labor-saving devices, the contemporary soci-ety has managed to manufacture an abyss of boredom that can’t be healed easily. Paradoxically the advance in technology and in standard of life seems to cultivate boredom in everyday life. Getting easily irritated has become one of the hallmarks of today’s society. It takes one silly mistake to lose your interest in something. I tell

you again and again- be carful out there it is a very sensitive society out there.

There is a new definition for the word bore these days, so one has to be extremely careful as not to gain ‘the bore’ or ‘the boring’ title. These days a bore is a man who, when asked how he is, tells you. When people ask you how you are, you have to know that they are do-ing so out of empty formality not because they care. Nobody cares so don’t bother going into details. The other time I asked a girl how she is doing and she surprised me by giving me the most detailed an-swer that should break the record of ‘longest answer for the short-est question’ if it ever exists in the book of records- she went on and on and finished her answer by tell-ing me that she died her hair blond.

Maybe it is the side effect of the hair perm but all she the things she told me as an answer for my simple and formal question was totally ir-relevant, childish and boring.

As a conclusion, I advice you to read your company, friends and ac-quaintances or even strangers you met for the first time. “Boring” is the most worst nickname you could get in the 21st century. I hate the prospect of people shying away from you when they see you from afar and change tracks just to avoid the atmosphere of boredom you might bestow upon them with your presence. Boredom can indeed kill and you could be a murderer with-out you knowing your crime, hell, you could be a serial killer for that matter; maybe you have hospital-ized and injured so many more. So take care.

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Boring than ...

The Ministry of Defense pointed out that it would step up endeavors as regards upgrading professional competence of personnel.

Brig. General Teklemichael Habtu, Head of Communications and Dissemination in the Ministry, expressed conviction that previ-ously organized training courses would make major input as regards acquiring experience thereof.

Likewise, Maj. Tesfazgi Habtai, Head of the Ministry’s sports ac-

defense ministry tO steP uP endeavOrs as regards uPgrading PrOfessiOnal COmPe-

tenCe Of PersOnneltivities, disclosed that a number of trainings on coaching and referring have been conducted in collabora-tion with National Sports Federa-tions. The fact that the beneficiaries of the training could win gratifying recognition from the CAAF attests to such efforts, he added.

Capt. Fissehaye Lemlem said on his part that various promotional activities have been carried out pertaining to the Ministry’s sports, cultural and arts activities as well

as documentation. He also indi-cated that pertinent personnel have obtained a range of trainings in this connection.

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Daniel Semere

Youth development is the on-going growth process in which all youth are engaged in order to meet their basic personal and so-cial needs to be safe, feel cared for, valued and useful. It also involves building skills and competencies that allow them to function and contribute in their daily lives. This definition accurately describes youth development as a process that all young people go through on the way to adulthood. As the definition implies, it is a process or journey that automatically in-volves all of the people around the youth, which basically mean family and community. A young person will not be able to build es-sential skills and competencies and be able to feel safe, cared for, val-ued and useful unless their family and community provide them with the supports and opportunities they need along the way. Thus, youth development is also a process in which family and community must actively participate. It is only to this that efforts from government and its institutions can be added so that the end product will be the youth we all want to build and de-velop.

In Eritrea youth development in-volves people, places, supports, op-portunities and services that most of us inherently understand that young people need to be healthy and successful. There are many efforts to define the outcomes of youth development, and most ex-press the results that we want for our youth. However, people, pro-grams and institutions should in-

volve in a coordinated manner in youth development toward positive results in the lives of our youth. The target and outcomes should also in-clude but move above and beyond the academic skills and competen-cies which has been the focus tra-ditionally. Some like the National Union of Eritrean Youth and stu-dents (NUEYS) have clearly de-fined these desired positive results or outcomes in an attempt to more effectively work toward the youth. The union has identified those out-comes to be comprehensive as to include the physical, mental, and intellectual health of our youth with the intention of securing their employability and involvement in the civic and social affairs of the nation.

It is generally known that there are a number of factors in youths’ lives which contribute to reaching these positive developmental out-comes. And it is imperative that people, programs and institutions that work with youth or are engaged in youth development should make sure they are fulfilled. The first and the foremost thing here is support: motivational, emotional and strate-gic supports to succeed in life. The supports can take many different forms, but they must be affirming and ongoing and should be offered by a variety of bodies, such as par-ents and close relatives, communi-ty social networks, teachers, peers and institutions who are involved in the lives of young people. This support can also include creat-ing opportunities and chances for young people to learn how to act and contribute in the world around them, to explore, express, earn,

belong, and influence. Opportuni-ties give young people the chance to test ideas and behaviors and to experiment with different roles and hence it should be treated as a pri-ority. It is also important to stress that young people, just like adults, learn best through active partici-pation and that learning occurs in all types of settings and situations. Hence creating the environment for them to do so is essential.

Another indispensable factor in youth development has to do with the provision of quality services. In fact no development can be com-plete without services in such areas as education, health, and employ-ment which should incorporate rel-evant instruction and information in our social and national priorities. These services should also create challenging opportunities for the youth to express themselves, to

contribute, to take on new roles, and be part of a larger group so as to direct and merge our effort toward the aforementioned priori-ties. Having provided these servic-es we must then set high standards and expectations, guidance and af-firmation to young people as they must know or have an idea of what is expected of them that will con-tribute positively to the growth of their society.

Youth development is not a high-ly sophisticated and complicated prescription for rearing a fit youth we all aspire for the nation. Youth development is about people, pro-grams, institutions and systems that provide youth with the sup-ports and opportunities they need to empower themselves. For a na-tion like ours endowed with such a disciplined and versatile youth, this requires youth development

at all levels to be vigorously and tirelessly pursued so that it will en-dure and become a culture. And in the end these effort toward youth development, all the supports and opportunities, could only be mean-ingful and have the impact we de-sire as long as and only when all of our youth can be able to take advantage of it. In many societies the ultimate challenge is to make such supports and opportunities the rule rather than the exception for all youth.

The National Union of Eritrean Youth and Student (NUEYS) as a representative and agent of youth has been playing a enormous part in this huge task and has been do-ing a great effort in various ways. This will be to no avail however, if the task is left only to this office. There is no doubt that the NUEYS has been and can play a crucial role in coordinating the hard work made toward the youth but it is only the participation of the society as a whole which can have a decisive contribution whose holistic effort is the precursor of the desired out-come we aspire for our youth.

Support System For Our Youth

Listen for possibilities

“If you should try to understand me

Through the eyes of your experiences,

Your only understanding will beMisunderstanding.

For we have walked different paths

And have known different fears.And that which brings you

laughter justMight bring me tears.

So if you can learn to accept meAnd the strange things I say and

do,Maybe through your acceptanceYou will gain understanding.”

Anon.

Youth

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The New Mindsetof Life and LivingPart I –The Struggle Foridentity

Teklehaimanot Yemane

Crawling all along the long way of questing my personal identity and my personal mastery, I have never felt frustrated. Instead I have felt satisfied at the cost of my exhaus-tion. I have never failed doing what I aspired to do. But, it was most of the times at the cost of my own life and living. It seems I paying back my life in return to the quest. With-in the right mindset of life and liv-ing, however, my life would have gone like an automatic pilot device. I would not need to think and de-cide on all the way I go. If I could challenge all the puzzlements of the coincidences of life within the frame of my own mind, I would not have faced to another dilemma. In my deepest contemplation about life, I say a dilemma is one and only one in life. The fact that a man is facing to a number of dilemmas (it is very intolerable to come to know it has a plural form) is that because we are not accustomed to the art of mastering the right human personality withina right mindset. There is no doubt that we are not conscious of the paths we creep

about. If you know you have mas-tered your mind, there is no wrong to let yourself go automatic. This means the trajectory of your life is already set within the frame of your mind and your auto-running is a pre-calculated. The other way round, which I prefer to call it, the default life is when you let yourself be driven by the strangeness of life. Here you don’t exactly know what the day will bring to you – an op-portunity or a dilemma.From a default installation of a computer program for instance, you will only get the default features of the program. However, you can do a number of pre-settings ranging from tweaking the look and feel (theme) of the program to setting the security of the program in a way that suits your business strategy or institutional policy in the case of an enterprise level. Failing to do these settings at the outset, however, will make a share of you when the bad days arrive – like a dilemma of get-ting or missing your corporate data. When I talk about the mindset of life and living, I mean the pre-set-

ting of our mind so that you would not be facing a dilemma of losing or getting your dreams (the pur-pose of your life). Imagine a single man who has divided himself into hundred plus instances and each instance having his own dreams. At its worst scenario, each instance may have hundred instances too. Now imagine the life and living resulted by those instances. Of course the life is overwhelmingly haphazard.There is no definition to express this. But, here one thing is evident; that is the plural form of dilemma comes alive – dilemmas cultivate.I have never imagined I would shade out all those infinite instanc-es of mine and remain with the last two. Standing at my life crossroads, I saw two clear paths. Both paths were wide and open. After infinite challenging calculations I collected myself in wholeness only to give me these two options: “Do you want to live for the WRONG PURPOSE of life or for the RIGHT PURPOSE?” It was not hard to decide. After all, I was once among thousand indis-tinct options. But, this time my op-tions are as clear as crystal – wrong or right. Another voice from inside said, “Do you want to worship for the master of the demons ORfor the master of the angels? Do you want to go to the west or to the east? It is simple, wrong or right?” It makes no difference. Accompanied by detailed handbooks of Wrongs and Rights,I didn’t struggle much to make a decision. Through the bio-logical and mental channels of my existence, I responded, “This must be the only dilemma in life: to live for the wrong purpose of life OR to live for the right purpose?” No more … no less. That is all.

the New Mindset Of Life and LivingPart III –Dilemma

Nicholas RescherOne of the first among the increas-

ing number of contemporary exponents of philosophical idealism, Rescher has been active in the rehabilitation of the coherence theory of truth and in the re-construction of philosophical pragma-tism in line with the idealistic tradition. He has pioneered the development of inconsistency-tolerant logics and, in the philosophy of science, the logarithmic retardation theory of scientific progress based on the epistemological principle that our knowledge in a field does not in-crease in proportion with the volume of information but only with its logarithm.

Nicholas Rescher was born on July 15, 1928 in Hagen, Germany. Rescher came to the United States in 1938 at the age of nine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philoso-phy from Princeton University in 1951, the youngest person—22 at the time—ever to do so in that department. Then he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during 1952-54, and during 1954-56 worked in the Mathematics Division of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica. During his formative years, Rescher was a student of Carl Gustav Hempel in philosophy of science, of Alonzo Church in logic, Walter Terence Stace in metaphysics, and of Banesh Hoffmann in differential geometry. In 1957-59 Rescher studied Arabic with S.D. Goiten at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, and over the next four years he issued various publications about medieval Arabic Logic.Rescher arrived at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961 where has been a faculty member ever since.

He is now an American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. In a pro-ductive research career extending over six decades, Rescher has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style and author of a system of pragmatic idealism which weaves to-gether threads of thought from continen-tal idealism and American pragmatism. He is the exponent of a realistic pragma-tism which, rejecting the deconstructive approach of some recent pragmatists, construes pragmatic efficacy as an evi-dential index for such normative features as truth and validity rather than being a substitute or replacement for them.

Rescher’s many-sided work has made significant contributions to logic and its history, to the theory of knowledge, and to the philosophy of science. Rescher has also worked in the area of futuristics, and along with Olaf Helmerand Norman Dalkey is co-inaugurator of the so-called Delphi method of forecasting. The En-cyclopedia of Bioethics credits Rescher with writing one of the very first articles in the field.

trigger (Biology toEngineers): More than five teachers were seated in a circle reporting each other’s sport news of the previous day. I was among them. I really do not feel good to talk about or to listen to sport news for more than five minutes in a day. So to change the subject, I said: “have you no-ticed this semester, the engineering students scored higher grades in applied mathematics than the stu-dents for the department of math-ematics by itself”. This has led to a hot discussion when one teach-er form the engineering faculty commented,‘engineering students could have scored better grades in Biology, if they were taking that course too.” In my suggestion, he is right. Because, studying Engineer-ing without being aware of biology would lead someone to be a robot in life. In general, we are all here to make life simple and comfortable. So Engineers are definitely aware of the BIO stuff!

MY LIttLE WOrLDAs a kid I dream

From within my little worldI dream my universe

I wonderHow beautiful is the sunrise

How amazing the earthI wonder

How high is the sky?How bright the day?

All the way I goI wonder,

Why indigo is indigo And why red is colored red?

With all my wonders From within my little world

I dream a universeFull of its own skies and stars

With its own planets My sun brighter than the sun

Very huge and cheerful my moon.Wow, in my universe

I see another seaOceans of beauty

Rivers of gloryEndless happiness

Then in my dream I say,It is not fairIt is not fair

Don’t call me a miniature Now I know

My little world is a universeSo huge and diverse

If you want a clarification Come and follow My expedition

The journey I make In my self-exploration!

_TKL.YMN: Thursday, January

23, 2014

[Fantasy In a Travelogue: Monday, January 13, 2014 6:30AM– 9:30 AM]:In my travel to the eastern escarp-ment of Eritrea, I found Nefasit and Maihabar deeply immersed under the White Sea. Yes, to someone who has never seen a fog as dense as the resting clouds above the towns, they would def-initely say, ‘a large white water body is over there.’ As I approached Nefasit,

I was totally occupied by the fear of my own imagination. Soon I was drowning in the depth. The coldness inside the sea already started freezing me. I looked up to the sky, there was nothing to see. ‘I must be at the very depth’, I thought. In the sea, I searched for companions, may be the different types of fishes, tor-toises, or corals that are common in the Red Sea. Instead, I found a small town at the bottom of the sea – people lead-ing they regular life, except that they were under the sea. Then I thought, ‘this must be a new type of sea, where human beings could lead there regular life under the water surface. The den-sity of the sea makes it difficult to see people around you. The very obvious phenomenon in the town is then: you can touch a person before you see him.

The white water of the White Sea does not create difficulty in birthing, eating, drinking …except that you cannot see the sun and the huge sky that we nor-mally see in the other world. I didn’t get the patience to stay long in the town under the White Sea. Naturally hate life without the sun. So my every effort was to swim up in search of the sun. And also, it is breathtaking to see the sea from atop the highest mountain around. With all my effort, I swam and swam upwards. Soon I saw a big bright circular object above me - as bright and peaceful as the moon. As the time was early in the morning, I was sure it could not be the moon by itself. ‘So it must be how the sun appears from under the water surface of the White Sea. Crawl-ing and struggling about a sloppy wa-

ter land for an hour or two, I reached at the water surface and fortunately, I was about to reach at the center of one of the islands of the White Sea. From there it was vividly clear how the ar-chitects of the seas, oceans and clouds were making every effort to demon-strate a universal white sea that con-nects the eastern escarpment of Eritrea and Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the foggiest place in the world.

the White Sea of Eritrea Part II and FINaL

7Eritrea Profile, Saturday 25th of January , 2014

Bethelhem Teame

Some people are not only dull in themselves but the cause of all dullness even in others. You know the kind of person who makes you doze off while listening or perhaps chatting with him or her. There are a number of individuals among us who seem the average Joe but who really are gods of boredom, much more boring than Hermes. For those of you who are not familiar with Hermes, let me humor you with his share of myth from the Greek mythology.

Once upon a time Zeus the god of gods fell in love with Io, the daugh-ter of the god of river Inachus. But they couldn’t pursue their love freely and openly for Zeus already had a wife, the formidable Hera. Fearing Hera’s anger and its con-sequences if she finds out about his affair, Zeus, understanding that hell has no fury like a woman scorned, turned his lover into a heifer to pro-tect her from Hera. Suspecting that the animal was Zeus’s mistress, Hera asked for the heifer as a gift and put the 100-eyed monster Ar-gus as a guard to protect it. It was impossible to pass the notice of the monster even for a split of a second for he never slept with all his eyes shut. Zeus and Io were unable to meet and enjoy their love. No body could pass the tight security of this guard with his 100 eyes all alert and in attention. Finally a solution comes through the messenger god Hermes. Hermes managed to kill the monster and rescue Io. Can you guess how?

Believe it or not, boredom can kill. Because Hermes managed to kill the so-called ruthless and un-defeated monster by suffocating him with a stupefying boredom and after he had put Argus’s 100 eyes to sleep with a series of boring stories. I can only imagine what the stories were but nevertheless they have to be the most boring stories if they could lullaby a man of 100 eyes all drowsy and sleepy. Hermes sounds a lot like a professor I knew back in the university, I am not about to describe him for you be-cause I still need to get my recom-mendation letter from him, but this professor managed to put all of the students in his class into deep sleep whenever we sat for his lectures. This man deserves the title ‘god of boredom’ for he surpasses Hermes’ ability. This man had managed to put about 60 students in the class

to sleep; that means 60 pair of eyes which would make 120 eyes, ears and other senses. And it will only take him 15 to 20 minutes. I re-member taking a shower and then drinking a very strong, black, and non-decaffeinated coffee before I made my way to his class but to my dismay whatever I did I would end up fighting with the majestic power of sleep that I would end up all ex-hausted would finally doze off till the class was over. And I wasn’t the only one who was bored to death when this lecturer teaches but every single student in the class. When I come to think of it, what was he saying all this time when everyone else in the class was dozing off as if infected by Tsetse fly? This per-son should change profession from teaching to a babysitter; he could put any and every difficult child into a sleep within a second just by reading something, just a sec-ond. Because children without the protection of a very strong black coffee would be more vulnerable to his spells so would naturally fall asleep a lot sooner than anyone of us from his class. Now when I hark back the fight every student used to wage just to stay awake in his class I really am convinced that this lecturer is Hermes himself incar-nated in a human body. No one but Hermes can manage to shutdown 100 eyes to sleep.

Conversation, any sort of it for-mal or informal, is an art. It re-quires talent and close observation. One can’t just speak just because he is naturally endowed with a mouth. One needs to know how to hook the attention of the person or persons he/she is talking to; oth-erwise you will only sound like a broken record. A person should read and analyze his or her audi-ence or the person they are talking to. This realization and assessment is the base for the rest of our con-versation and for its rating. Without making such assessment, one just can’t engage others in a conversa-tion. For instance, you can’t pos-sibly talk about Tiger Woods and his involvement in the most scan-dalous affairs of our time with my Grandma. First she has never heard his name before and she doesn’t care to know him either. Second his affairs with more than fifteen women would only confirm her worst fear- that the final days of the earth are approaching and that the Apocalypse is here. (This is if you manage to get her to listen to you at

the first place). But you could easily win my grandma over if you could talk to her about culture, tradition and life of youths back in her days. She will participate in the conver-sation and would pour a generous amount of blessing afterwards for keeping her a company. Now you see what I mean- know your audi-ence. Some people just don’t con-sider such matters and seem to talk just because they are gifted with a mouth and they seem to have audi-ence. One needs to read the mood and signal of the person he or she is talking to. When one, who rides an old bicycle approaches you with ‘I don’t care’ message written all over his forehead you can’t make him interested in the ways a certain Japanese company is applying to improve the engine of Toyota.

Some people feel like they have to fill every silence or gap between conversations with a chat, just be-cause they found a gap. Sometimes silence could say a lot more than words or sermons could, there are also comforting form of silence so retain any urge of opening your mouth just because a silence is prolonging. Resist the temptation of opening your mouth just be-cause you find an audience and no one else is talking. It is advisable to give some moments of silence for a greater effect in between con-versations but this doesn’t meant that you have to be quite for a very exaggerated period of time even when you are expected to participate in a certain conversa-tion. This on the other hand might make you look like a retarded. In conversation, timing is everything and along with that reading the

mood of the person you are talking. Don’t just talk or open your mouth just because you are gifted with a mouth and are endowed with the ability to speak. Refine and purify your thoughts and once again read your thoughts before you say them out loud. This might help you from ending up being the ultimate bore in town.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale, but I have met people who have no or little regard to the other person on the other end lis-tening to the conversation. There is this girl I know who tortures me with the same boring story on how her husband proposed to her. Without exaggeration, I have heard the story more than twenty times. It has been two years since she got married and she still tells me the story every chance she gets. She repeats her story so often that even from miles away, I could follow her conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to her. I stopped visiting her house because of this story; I even change tracks to avoid her if I saw her coming towards me from afar. Okay, I ad-mit that her husband’s proposal is one in its kind and it was the most romantic, most thoughtful and cre-ative proposal ever but its great-ness doesn’t in anyway guarantee it to be told a thousand times more. The other time I heard that she is pregnant and I went to visit her with some friends hoping her preg-nancy would give her some other topic to talk about for instance- ba-bies and all bunch of subjects that revolve around them. But my girl-friend was as eager as ever to still talk about her awesome proposal,

time and again. No talk of babies at all. Even if we tried to divert her attention from that proposal of hers to something else, shifting the topic so many times from wedding proposals to babies, it wouldn’t work at all. Our efforts were to no avail. You wouldn’t believe me but I was only minutes away from cry-ing in distress and boredom. I was afraid that I might suffer the same fate Argus faced. Vexed to drowsy, dying of boredom.

Do you ask yourself now and then if you are boring? Do people listen to you attentively and get hooked to what you have to say or fall into a strong dizziness and sleep whenever you open your mouth? Do you study your audi-ence or just spell out whatever is in your mind? Do you bother to read the mood and atmosphere of the person you are talking to you? Do you bother others and bore them to death with unnecessary details they didn’t ask about?

Which one is worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimu-lus that you are easily bored? Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? But on the other hand there are a lot of impatient people who long for immortality who do not even know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The thing is we don’t know what we want in life and this is mainly our cause of boredom in life. One thing you should know is that the modern society is easily bored and is sensitive to dullness. Touch the wrong button and you

Boring than Hermes

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8Eritrea Profile, Saturday 25th of January , 2014

The human rights situation remains extremely volatile in the Central African Republic, the UN Human Rights Office says, adding that large-scale violations have been conducted in the ongoing sectarian fighting.

At a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged a stronger effort to prevent the African country sliding into an all-out sectarian conflict.

“A strong and concerted nationwide effort is essential to stop CAR crossing the tipping-point into an all-out sectarian conflict,” the UN human rights chief said.

A team of UN investigators who spent nearly two weeks in the volatile and impoverished country last month have also reported a cycle of widespread human rights violations and reprisals, including killings, kidnappings, torture and rape.

“The mission received consistent, credible testimony and photographs supporting allegations that anti-balaka mutilated Muslim men, women and children, before or after they were killed,” Pillay noted.

Targeted killings, shootings at displacement sites, summary

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of the risks of deflation to world’s economic recovery despite a rising growth in the global economy.

“Momentum strengthened in the latter half of 2013, and should strengthen further in 2014 -- largely due to improvements in the advanced economies,” Christine Lagarde said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday, AFP reported.

Lagarde pointed out, however, that deflation in the advanced

The hidden tendrils of dark matter that underlie the visible Universe may have been traced out for the first time.

Cosmology theory predicts that galaxies are embedded in a cosmic web of “stuff”, most of which is dark matter.

Astronomers obtained the first direct images of a part of this network, by exploiting the fact that a luminous object called a quasar can act as a natural “cosmic flashlight”.

Details of the work appear in the journal Nature.

The quasar illuminates a nearby gas cloud measuring two million light-years across.

And the glowing gas appears to trace out filaments of underlying dark matter.

The quasar, which lies 10 billion light-years away, shines light in just the right direction to reveal the

General Electric’s aircraft leasing and financing arm has confirmed that it has placed an order for 40 Boeing planes worth $4bn (£2.3bn) at list prices.

The order includes 20 737 MAX 8 planes and 20 next-generation 737-800 jets.

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) said the new planes would help it meet growing demand for more fuel-efficient aircraft from its customers.

“Our airline customers require more fuel-efficient aircraft to compete in the marketplace,” Norman CT Liu, chief executive of GECAS, said in a statement.

GECAS has now placed total orders for 95 units of 737 MAX 8 airplanes and 387 of the next-generation 737-800 jets making it the biggest buyer of the two models in the leasing industry.

A slowdown in global travel demand, coupled with high fuel prices, has hurt the profitability of

Football participation is a good way to get men to slim down, a Scottish study published in The Lancet shows.

Some 374 overweight soccer fans were invited to take part in a 12-week programme of training sessions at their local football club.

A year later, the men had lost and kept off about 11lb (5kg) each compared with 374 overweight fans put on a waiting list for the programme.

The Glasgow researchers say it proves male-friendly weight loss plans work.

All 748 men in the study were

executions and mutilations were among the atrocities mentioned in the report. Muslims have been the main victims of the most recent attacks.

On Saturday, the humanitarian group Save the Children said that militants killed 22 Muslims, including three children, and injured several others in the African country on Friday.

The group also said that at least 23 people, including children, were injured in the attack on the convoy that was carrying mostly Muslim families from the village of Vakap to neighboring Cameroon.

The Central African Republic spiraled into chaos in March 2013 when Seleka fighters overthrew President Francois Bozizé and brought Michel Djotodia to power. Bozizé fled the country after his ouster.

Djotodia and former Prime

Minister Nicolas Tiengaye resigned on January 10 due to intense pressure over the government’s failure to contain unprecedented levels of violence in the country.

According to reports, more than 1,000 people were killed in last December alone. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says nearly one million people have been displaced due to the violence.

France invaded its former colony on December 5, 2013, after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution giving the African Union and France the go-ahead to send troops to the country.

France has deployed 1,600 troops in the country, but the UN-backed intervention force, which includes about 4,000 African Union peacekeepers, is struggling to restore security in the African Republic.

Paris claims the aim of the mission is to create stability in the country in order to allow humanitarian aid to reach violence-hit areas.

There are many mineral resources, including gold and diamond, in the Central African Republic. However, the country is extremely poor and has faced a series of rebellions and coups since it gained independence in 1960.

UN reports Grave rights abuses In Car, Urges action

economies threatens to derail this fragile recovery, requiring central banks in the US and Europe to keep easy money flowing.

“With inflation running below many central banks’ targets, we see rising risks of deflation, which could prove disastrous for the recovery,” she said.

“Global growth is still too low, too fragile, and too uneven,” the head of the IMF noted, adding, “If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.”

Deflation encourages people to wait for prices to fall further, leading to a reduction of personal consumption and a decline in investment because it can increase the real cost of borrowing.

Lagarde’s projections echoed the optimism expressed earlier in the day by the World Bank, which said the global economy was at a “turning point” but “remained vulnerable.”

Deflation Can Be Disastrous For World Econ.: IMF

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine

Lagarde speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in

Washington

Anti-Muslim militants rest at their base in the Boeing district of the

Central African Republic’s capital Bangui

cold gas cloud.For some years, cosmologists

have been running computer simulations of the structure of the universe to build the “standard model of cosmology”.

They use the cosmic microwave background, corresponding to observations of the very earliest Universe that can be seen, and recorded by instruments such as the Planck space observatory, as a starting point.

Their calculations suggest that as the Universe grows and forms, matter becomes clustered in filaments and nodes under the force of gravity, like a giant cosmic web.

They are the first direct observations of cold gas decorating such cosmic web filaments.

The cosmic web suggested by the standard model is mainly made up of mysterious “dark matter”.

Invisible in itself, dark matter still exerts gravitational forces on visible light and ordinary matter nearby.

Massive clumps of dark matter bend light that passes close by through a process called gravitational lensing, and this had allowed previous measurements of its distribution.

But it is difficult to use this method to see very distant dark matter, and cold ordinary matter remains tricky to detect as well.

The glowing hydrogen illuminated by the distant quasar in these new observations traces out an underlying filament of dark matter that it is attracted to it by gravity, according to the researchers’ analysis.

“This is a new way to detect filaments. It seems that they have a very bright quasar in a rare geometry,” Prof Alexandre Refregier of the ETH Zurich, who was not involved in the work, told BBC News.

“If indeed gravity is doing the work in an expanding Universe, we expect to see a cosmic web and it is important to detect this cosmic web structure.”

An intense quasar can, like a flashlight, illuminate part of the surrounding cosmic web

Cosmic ‘Web’ Seen For First time

Cosmic ‘web’ seen for first time

Football ‘Can tackle Male Obesity’

many airlines across the globe in recent years.

As a result, airlines have been looking to keep their costs in check to try and sustain their profitability.

That has in turn caused a rise in demand for fuel-efficient aircraft.

The 100-200 seat narrow-body - or single-aisle - aircraft market is forecast to generate $20 trillion (£12.8tn) over the next 20 years.

The sector is currently dominated by Airbus’s A320 and Boeing’s 737 aircraft, but other firms are also looking to tap into the market.

Boeing has claimed that its next-generation 737’s offer the “lowest operating costs in its class”.

Boeing Confirms $4bn Order From GE

Demand for more fuel efficient aircraft has been growing amid high

fuel prices

offered healthy-eating advice and tips on weight management, but only half were invited to professional football clubs for weekly training sessions.

Thirteen clubs took part: Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Hamilton Academical, Heart of Midlothian,

Hibernian, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Rangers, St Johnstone and St Mirren.

As well as losing weight when they were on the 12-week programme, nearly 40% of men who participated in the programme maintained a weight loss of at least 5% of their original body weight 12 months later.

Co-author Prof Kate Hunt, from Glasgow University, said: “Weight management and dieting are often wrongly viewed as women’s issues, meaning that some men do not want to take part in existing weight

management programmes.”But given the right circumstances,

men are also keen to slim, she says.

“Participants really enjoyed being with other men like them, with a shared interest in football and similar health issues to address. They loved having the opportunity to spend time at the club, using parts of the stadium that they couldn’t ordinarily access.

“And they appreciated the chance to be encouraged, trained, and informed by the club’s coaches. This model has real potential for the future.”

Football helped men lose weight and keep it off