The May 19 Ta Yp' Opsin (Consider These) - Τα Υπ’ Όψιν της 19 Μαϊου

This week on the podcast Ta Yp' Opsin:

- transparency, press freedoms and the Obama administration

- IL legalizes medical marijuana, AZ denies licenses to immigrants

- Greece, China explore greater cooperation and incentives to invest

- commission’s praise and concerns about the Greek economy

- the disintegration and eclipse of the Nusra Front in Syria

- Argentina's 'dirty war' dictator unrepentant to the end

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- debate over: Minoans are related to present-day Cretans

- a World War II tale of sublime asparagus laced with fear

- eco-friendly edible insects with appetizing side benefits

- what we eat: arsenic in our beer and rat hair in our chocolate!

- Thou shalt photograph your neighbors and exhibit the work

- parking meter 'Robin Hoods' and horn-wielding residents

- the cleanest language and the right to bear one's breasts in public

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Ta Yp’Opsin (Consider These) weekly podcast (in Greek) with Chicago journalists Elena Spilioti and George Zorbas. News, commentary and great music!

Στα Υπ’ ‘Οψιν της 19 Μαϊου, συζητάμε:

- Ταξίδι Σαμαρά:Η  Κίνα ενθουσιασμένη, το Αζερμπαϊτζάν το σκέφεται...Λές ;

- Ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ συνιστά ...συνιστώσες.

- Δύο Νάσρες στη Συρία: παρεπιπτόντος, εναντίον του Ασάντ

- Προεδρία Ομπάμα: τα σκάνδαλα της εβδομάδας

- Η νιρβάνα της Μέρκελ ... “χαλάει” τους Γερμανούς.

- Κροατία: μπαίνει στην ΕΕ ενώ η Βουλγαρία αγωνίζεται να μην ..βγεί

- Βιντέλα: στο δρόμο για να συναντήσει τους “desaparecidos”

Και στο δεύτερο μέρος, μεταξύ άλλων:

-Μινωϊκό DNA: και όμως οι Κρήτες είναι από τη... Σκανδιναβία!

- Οι Γιαπωνέζες γυναίκες της «ανακούφιση»: σκλάβες πολέμου ή επαγγελματίες;

- Γιατί ήταν αδύνατο να δηλητηριάσουν τον Χίτλερ

-Σπεσιαλιτέ ή τιμωρία; Συνταγές για ζωϋφια, αρσενικό και τζιτζίκια.

- Καλλιτέχνες στη γειτονιά σας; Μπορεί και να το μετανοιώσετε!

-Οι  πανέμορφοι και ....τσαπατσούληδες ερωδιοί 

Ακούστε Τα Υπ’ Όψιν με τους δημοσιογράφους Έλενα Σπηλιώτη και το Γιώργο Ζορμπά για ενημέρωση, συζήτηση και πολλή μουσική!

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The news roundup podcast Ta Yp' Opsin (Consider These)

This week on the podcast Ta Yp' Opsin:

- the debt limit and healthcare debates are back!

- the fallout of the Benghazi memos and the IRS probe

- the anti-racism legislation delay in Greece

- teachers’ strike and civil mobilization divide Greeks

- Turkey’s cool-headedness in the face of provocations

- Pakistan hopes to end misrule and corruption

- candidates line-up for Iran’s election race

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- Cleveland story sparks hope for missing children

- the weight-loss tradition in the run for the presidency

- the problem of where to bury a terrorism suspect

- Syrian refugees 'sold for marriage' in Jordan

- Mexican Santa Muerte not a Vatican favorite

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This week on the podcast Ta Yp' Opsin:

- European Commission’s predictions for Eurozone

- anti-Semitism in Hungary and far-right hysteria in Greece

- same-sex provision complicates immigration overhaul

- DHS under pressure to reform the student visa system

-  calculating the Israeli attacks against Syrian targets

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- racist slurs against Italy’s first black minister

- red lipstick impairs visual integrity in Turkey

- going overboard and over sharing on Twitter

- invasive predator fish and cat tax suggestions

- lights in the sky and lies on the ground

- Ted Bundy’s ladder and Creepy John’s telescope

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Ta Yp Opsin April 28 2013

Στα Υπ’ Όψιν της 28 Απριλίου, συζητάμε:
-Ανασχηματισμός : ο Αντώνης παίρνει τ’όπλο του ή αλλάζει ο..Μανολιός ;
-ΗΠΑ 2016-κιόλας: στους πόσους Μπούς καιγόμαστε;
-Ομπάμα εναντίον Ανώτατου Δικαστηρίου: όταν οι θεσμοί λειτουργούν
-Ο Λέττα πρώτο βιολί αλλά ο Μπερλουσκόνι μαέστρος 
-Η Μέρκελ εκνευρίζει την ΕΕ - επιτέλους
-Κούρδοι: αφοπλισμός με αντάλλαγμα τον Οτσαλάν
-Τί θέλει ο Γιαπωνέζος στη Μόσχα; 
Και στο δεύτερο μέρος, μεταξύ άλλων:
-«Caffe’ sospeso» Ο καφές της καρδιάς ξανάρχεται
-Ταξίδι στον Άρη χωρίς επιστροφή: η εταιρεία εγγυάται την αποτέφρωση – όταν...
- Τρία εκατομμύρια για μιά ...πεντάρα
- Οι Κυρίες με τα Άσπρα και η εκκωφαντική σιωπή τους

Ακούστε τους δημοσιογράφους Έλενα Σπηλιώτη και τον Γιώργο Ζορμπά στο 
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Listen to the April 28 Ta Yp' Opsin podcast

In this week’s Ta Yp' Opsin (Consider These) news roundup podcast:

- cabinet reshuffle considerations in Greece

- the political risks of Italy's new government

- shifting austerity winds blast Merkel’s image

- "Band-Aid" solutions for sequester

- “red lines” and "game changers" in Syria

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- prosek, prosecco, appellation and irony

- the comeback of the "suspended coffee"

- a space harpoon and one-way trip to Mars

- resistance wears white in Cuba

- a "fisherman" is now just a "fisher” in WA                                         

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The comeback of the 'Suspended Coffee'

by Sylvia Poggioli, NPR

Tough economic times and growing poverty in much of Europe are reviving a humble tradition that began some one-hundred years ago in the Italian city of Naples. It's called caffè sospeso — "suspended coffee": A customer pays in advance for a person who cannot afford a cup of coffee.
The Neapolitan writer Luciano de Crescenzo used the tradition as the title of one of his books, Caffè sospeso: Saggezza quotidiana in piccoli sorsi ("Suspended coffee: Daily wisdom in small sips").
"It was a beautiful custom," he recalls. "When a person who had a break of good luck entered a cafe and ordered a cup of coffee, he didn't pay just for one, but for two cups, allowing someone less fortunate who entered later to have a cup of coffee for free."
The barista would keep a log, and when someone popped his head in the doorway of the cafe and asked, "Is there anything suspended?" the barista would nod and serve him a cup of coffee ... for free.
It's an elegant way to show generosity: an act of charity in which donors and recipients never meet each other, the donor doesn't show off and the recipient doesn't have to show gratitude.
The writer says the tradition is part of the city's philosophy of life. "In other words, it was a cup of coffee," de Crescenzo says, "offered to the rest of humankind." It was a time, he adds, when there were more customers who were poor than those who were well-off.
It's fitting that the tradition started in Naples, a city that prides itself on having the best coffee in Italy. And in a country where the first coffeehouse in Europe opened in 1683 (in Venice), that is no small claim.
Before the likes of Gaggia and Cimbali started producing the modern commercial espresso machines, Italians made coffee at home on the stovetop with a coffee maker known as a Napoletana.
Naples and coffee are inseparable, but the caffè sospeso tradition waned as Italy entered the boom years of postwar reconstruction and La Dolce Vita. For decades, the custom was confined mainly to the Christmas season.
Now, it's made a comeback. Two years ago, with the eurozone crisis already raging, unemployment rising and small businesses closing on a daily basis, more and more Italians could no longer afford the national beverage — an espresso or a cappuccino. (According to the International Coffee Organization, which represents 44 coffee exporting countries, Italian per capita annual consumption of coffee has dropped to 5.6 kilograms, the lowest level in the past six years.)
Then someone remembered the old Neapolitan custom. So several nongovernmental organizations got together and — with the support of Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris — Dec.10 was formally declared "Suspended Coffee Day."
The practice is now spreading to other crisis-ravaged parts of Europe.
In Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest country, where several desperate people have set themselves on fire in recent months, more than 150 cafes have joined an initiative modeled on the Neapolitan "suspended coffee" tradition.
In crisis-wracked Spain, a young man from Barcelona, Gonzalo Sapina, in a few short weeks started a network called Cafes Pendientes ("pending coffees") and promoted the initiative among numerous coffee shops.
In France, several cafes now carry the logo "cafe en attente" ("waiting coffee").
And there is even a site that lists establishments that have joined the "suspended coffee" initiative — the countries range from the U.K. and Ireland and Hungary to Australia and Canada.
The prepaid cup of coffee has become a symbol of grass-roots social solidarity at a time of mounting poverty in what, until recently, were affluent Western societies.
But now, back to Naples, where coffee is not a luxury but is considered, more or less, a basic human right.
And the variety is vast: You can order an espresso "ristretto" ("tightened," i.e., stronger); or an espresso "macchiato" ("stained," i.e., with a little milk); or an espresso "corretto" ("corrected," i.e., with a shot of grappa, cognac or sambuca).
There's only one iron-clad rule: Cappuccino — which takes its name from the white and beige colors of the Capuchin friars' habits — is exclusively a breakfast beverage, and must never, never be consumed after 11 a.m. (OK, let's say noon).