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After saying during a debate Tuesday night that a pregnancy caused by rape is "something that God intended to happen," the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana is arguing that it is "twisted" to suggest he thinks God wants some women to be raped.
As The Indianapolis Star reports, "Republican Richard Mourdock ignited a controversy over rape and abortion in Tuesday's final Senate debate that lit up the Internet and prompted GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to disavow his words."
While explaining why he would only support an abortion if the mother's life was in danger, Mourdock said he opposes the abortion of a pregnancy caused by rape because: "Life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
After the debate, according to The Associated Press, "Mourdock further explained ... that he did not believe God intended the rape, but that God is the only one who can create life. 'Are you trying to suggest somehow that God preordained rape, no I don't think that,' Mourdock said. 'Anyone who would suggest that is just sick and twisted. No, that's not even close to what I said.' "
His Democratic opponent, Rep. Joe Donnelly, said he doesn't believe "my God, or any God, would intend that to happen."
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul issued a statement saying that the nominee "disagrees with Richard Mourdock's [debate] comments, and they do not reflect his views."
President Obama's campaign quickly linked Mourdock's comment to those earlier this year by Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri. "Mitt's man Mourdock apes Akin in Indiana debate, reflecting a GOP that is way out of mainstream," tweeted David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama.
Akin said in August that "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Critics said he was implying that some women lie about being raped in order to justify having abortions.
For continuing coverage of the 2012 campaign, see It's All Politics.
Update at 11:47 a.m. ET. Mourdock Clarifies His Comments:
"I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones," Mourdock said during a press conference just moments ago.
He added: "I absolutely abhor violence. I abhor any kind of sexual violence. I abhor rape. And I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence."
Mourdock said that "humility was an important part of his faith." He said that he was a more "humble man" after last night's debate.
"If because of the lack of clarity in my words, that they came away with an impression other those that I stated a moment ago... I truly regret it. I apologize that they came away and I have certainly been humbled by the fact that so many people think that that somehow was an interpretation," he said.
Mourdock said that his words are being "distorted" and "twisted" and that is what's wrong with Washington.
"The comments have been misunderstood," he said.
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A while back,I didn't even know making this was a laborious task and it was made only on special occasions.If left on my own,I don't think I'll ever go"I feel like eating Jambool,let me make some".I'd rather call up amma or my grandmother who make this extraordinarily tasty!!
Rava – 1 cup
Sugar – 1 cup,divided
Milk – 1 cup
Water – 1 cup
Cardamom seeds – 2 or 3,crushed
Oil to deep fry
Ghee – 1-2 tsp
Boil together water and milk.
When it comes to a rolling boil,add the rava and stir continuously[just as you would for Kesari or Upma].
When it starts drying up,add ¾ cup sugar-keep stirring.
Add a tsp of ghee and mix well.
The rava mix would leave the sides of the pan and come together as a single mass.
Switch off the flame and let it cool.Add crushed cardamom seeds to the mix.
Using a masher,or the back of a spoon,mash this mix adding a tsp of ghee.
Make into small balls and flatten a bit[you could shape into round balls or oval shapes too]
Deep fry this in oil until dark brown on both sides.
Make a sugar syrup of one string consistency using the remaining ¼ cup sugar.
Add crushed cardamom seeds to this and immediately add the fried jambools into this and mix well so that the syrup coats the jambools evenly.
Let it cool to room temperature.
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1 packet (2 1/4 teaspoon) dry active yeast
2 tbsp olive oil (to oil the dough)
Gorgeous and impressive, for both the cook and other people.
I'll do a test batch. That's it. Just to make sure they're as good as they look. Yes, that's the ticket. It has nothing at all to do with the thought that a batch before entertaining means I get to enjoy them in overabundance.
Thanks Chef!
Good thinking ;)
Could one freeze these just after the balling stage to make them in advance? I have a small kitchen and I'll have a few other food wishes recipes going at the same time. We're doing the goose again because it was simply awesome last year. Also, my wife would like to thank you for the gingerbread whoopee pies I made her. Thanks again, Chef.
Chef John, would the rolls came out as great if we use instant yeast instead of dry active yeast?
I still have couple packages of instant yeast in the fridge, might as well use 'em now that I have a chance. ;)
Chef John I have a question for you :) You always seem to use active dry yeast, why do you like it over instant yeast where proofing is unnecessary?
For the love of god, thank you so much for putting a temperature for the water to stand the yeast in. The hardest thing (as an amateur cook/chef/baker)is finding out what the right temperature for the water would be. Every baker I asked, the answer I got was a shrug and "warm".
One mans luke warm was another mans tepid....
Is there a way to do a egg wash without using eggs for people with allergies?
This looks so easy! If I want garlic rosemary rolls, how would I alter the recipe?
This looks fabulous! If I want garlic-rosemary rolls, how do you suggest I alter the recipe? I don't have much experience with breads.
I make our own bread and buns, but could never get pull apart buns to work- the middle ones would be raw. I'll try the backing sheet method from now on.
Side question- where did you get your massive cutting board from? :)
Wow, that's a lot of questions! :)
Diane & liev-foryou, I've only used dry active yeast since I was 8 years old, so I'm not sure of the differences, but a trip to google should take care of any specific questions. I don't think it really matters though.
SpeedRacer105, Never tried freezing halfway through, so again, can't comment on if it works or not.
Heather, The giant cutting board was a hand-me-down, and looks homemade to me. Very, very old.
Unknown, just add some minced garlic to the dough when you form the rolls or use garlic oil.
ToddGBaker, just brush with milk. Won't be as brown but better than nothing!
would't it be better to cover them with egg wash mixture and salt after the proofing?
You could deflate them.
I didn't think of that :)
However, I was following your recipe and they turned out great! http://instagram.com/p/TQzX2mp9-O/
Can I use dry rosemary? We don't have fresh rosemary where I live
Can I use dry rosemary for this? We don't have fresh rosemary where I live. Thanks chef!
Sure but not as much
Thank you for this wonderful recipe. I tried it fort christmas eve, along with your cauliflower cream with gremolata. My parents were delighted, and my Mom who is very moderate kept eating more rolls... They are extra tasty, wow.
And I want to add that I used instant yeast, in a bread machine, it worked really really well. Thanks !
Chef, I am out of milk. Can I use half and half?
Thanks so much.
Your recipes never account for humidity. this dough never pulled away from the bowl even after adding an extra cup of flour. I had to through all of it in the trash. I had much the same problem with your macaron recipe. it was the worst of the three I tried. I like your videos well enough, but I have yet to find anything that I can actually make. And I can make croissants!
You just need to add more flour! You should never have to throw away a dough for being too wet!! Btw, how would I possible account for humidity?
Most recipes I have for yeast bread have a range of flour measurements to deal with varying humidity. I may try again tomorrow after this stormy weather has cleared out.
Humidity can be a factor, but not so big as to cause a recipe to be so off you are throwing away product. I suspect something else is going on also. I've heard from hundreds that this recipe came out wonderfully (and I've made many time (in very moist San Francisco). Again, if the dough is too wet to form a dough ball in the mixer, then no matter what the humidity is, you still need to add more flour in. Don't understand the part about stopping and tossing everything out.
Hey Chef John, I was thinking about getting a stand mixer and was wondering on what brand you use and is it good
Hey Chef John, I was thinking amount getting a stand mixer, and was wondering on what brands you use and is it good
I use a kitchen aid which is great and most common.
Hi I Chef John,
I have a question for you. I couldn't get the seam on each roll sealed properly and they almost didn't rise or proof at all even after 45 minutes. I think this un-sealed form is letting all the air out. How can I improve this?
Not sure what's going on. Why couldn't you shape into balls? Unsealed bottoms aren't a big deal and would cause odd shapes but not prevent rising. Something else going on I think.
Happy New Year! I tried the pulla part recipe again with an extra cup of flour. They turned out nicely. Here is a link to the photos of the results along with photos of my very successful Tiramisu Mousse and a brioche that is unrelated. Thank you for your patience!
Nice work!!
I've noticed that while you have taken the time to write out the ingredients list, you did not write out the directions. What about doing that so those of us who are hearing impared can make the recipes without having to struggle to hear the directions in a YouTube video?
Sorry, I don't have written recipes, but most are typed on allrecipes.com, so try a search there. Also turn on close captions on YouTube.
Thank you so much for this recipe Chef! I found Food Wishes through a friend and it's becoming an addiction! I've been trying to start baking bread and this was the perfect first recipe. The video format is ideal and really helpful in trying to figure out what the dough should look like.
First of all, thanks a ton for posting this recipe! The ingredients and preparations are just exquisite and so crafted- but I'd like to just suggest something. have you ever thought of using cream honey instead of normal honey?
Thank you so much for your amazing recipes...I have to tell you, I love your voice and your upbeat manner, nice change from the food snobs, it makes me smile everytime I hear you. Anyways, aside from kissing up I was wondering if those rolls could be used as burger buns, I have been searching for a recipe but this is the first one that grabbed my attention. We have mastered the most amazing burgers on the egg but would love to up the ante with some homemade buns. Thanks a bunch!!!
Breathtaking!!! I am speechless!!! I nailed you recipe. They rolls look amazing and I think I ate half of them in less than half hour!!! Thank you so so much!
You crack me up ! These look amazing ! I just plucked a bunch of rosemary off my plant and I am going to try these for a ladies luncheon I have tomorrow. Thanks again for the recipe and the laugh! I really enjoy your videos
Omg, I just made these today and they were soo good, I put sesame seeds on top... Thank you chef John, love your videos they are not boring, you're so funny.
Made these a few weeks ago, so delicious! I was wondering how to modify the recipe to make the richer version. You mentioned tossing in an egg or two or upping the butter, how would that affect the rest of the ingredients, or do they stay the same? Also how much more butter should you add?
Hi Chef John. These came out amazing. I didn't think i'd ever mess with bread again without proper instruction.... thank you for the great play by play playa!!
if you were to stuff these suckers with a filling, would you do it during the corner tucking, and would it prevent the proofing?
The hamburger buns and no knead bread was delicious and perfect! My husband love it and thank you...your recipies are the only ones i made right..im a married asian girl in norway with no experience with baking and most of all cooking western food...thank you very much :)
Chef John this recipe is a life saver!! I was given the task of making HOMEMADE dinner rolls for my work's annual Thanksgiving potluck. I never felt my skill level was up to par for making bread/rolls but this recipe and your video helped so much. I was very nervous because my reputation as a competent cook was on the line. The rolls turned out even better than I expected, which was confirmed by my coworkers' praises. This is definitely a keeper. Thank you again. You are awesome!!
Hey Chef John, been watching your videos for a couple years now and have made quite a number of your recipes. I made this in the past but I was wondering if using "better for bread" flour would change the measurements at all? Or what exactly does bread flour do differently than All Purpose? Trying to make this for a potluck on Sunday.
Not sure the difference, but both should work. Enjoy!
My yeast wont rise I did it exactly how you did I checked the temp and it was at 105 I added 1/4 cup water and it wont get creamy like yours. What am I doing wrong.
Hello, Chef John!
I tried this recipe for this Thanksgiving I cooked for my boyfriend's family. They loved them! I made the mistake of not letting them proof for 30 minutes, and they remained just a bit too small. Somehow they still loved them immensely, and I was wondering. Would it be possible to just bake the dough as one large bread? His family normally eats bread on the side with their dinner, so it was an idea. I may just try it and see what happens.
Thank you for all of your incredibly easy instructions, blogs, and videos and endless sass! Because of you I so terribly want to own and operate my own diner!
Happy Holidays!
I now use these as slider rolls for pulled pork or shredded beef. I just leave out the rosemary.
Hello chef john, everytime I make this recipe it turns fabulous, thank you for always share great recipes!
Rosaline from Panamá
Could you let the dough rise overnight?
These rolls were fantastic! The hint of rosemary with the slightly salty top made them a real winner. I had to add a little more flour as it was very humid, but I just kept adding until the dough pulled away from the sides of the bowl. Chef John this recipe is a winner - I really enjoy your videos too. Well done!
Hi Chef John!!! I love you! Your recipes are amazing and I just love that they're quick to the point and all about the food. Love the humour and cheekiness too! Okay my question, can I make this into one large loaf? I've made these rolls several times with huge success and I wanted to make a loaf for my kids sandwiches, toast etc. Also, how do I adjust time? Thanks!
Sorry, not sure, i'd have to test! Prob same as a loaf bread recipe though.
Thanks so much for this recipe! My 12 year old son and I did this today. We do not have a dough mixer so I made him knead the dough. Of course he loved it because the texture is soft and pliable. Anyways, he could not wait until it was done and once it was...well so was half the batch!
Made these this past weekend. Very good but could still use some enhancements. You could add pineapple juice to this recipe and have a Hawaiian role or you could add eggs for a brioche roll. A very good baseline recipe.
Hi Chef John. Love your channel. I've tried so many of your recipes and have pretty much loved them all.
Quick question.
Does baking and proofing time change if I wanted to make these into several large rolls instead of the 36 or so smaller rolls?
Every time I try one of your recipes it seems it's the best ever. Your rolls were the hit of Thanksgiving dinner!
Even the turkey didn't have a chance. They were gone in five minutes! I knew I should have made two batches.
All that balling was worth it, here's a shout out to you Chef John!
Do these freeze well?
What can I substitute for milk?
I have finally gotten the courage to start baking
and the first attempt was this recipe. I failed miserably.
The bread was dense and flat.
I bought a thermometer on Amazon and my yeast was finally alive !
It was a success. Although, I used Bread Flour instead of All Purpose.
I did have to add on a little extra flour for the dough to pull away from the bowl.
I hope these are a hit for me this Thanksgiving because they turned out absolutely delicious.
Loved these rolls. I decided to make these on Thanksgiving, last minute. I had them lined up on the silicone pad and cookie sheet. They proofed in the 1 hour drive to my aunt's house. These were so great! Thank you Chef John!
Hi chef John, I was wondering, if I could replace the water with beer and it would still work out?
Hi there! Just made these and they turned out very tasty, though I had to rush the rise, so they were a bit small and dense, as I expected they would be.
Just a note — I followed the recipe on allrecipes.com and it specifies 2.5 cups of flour, rather than 3 cups, as you have here. My dough wasn't anywhere near ready after 2.5 cups, so just kept slowly adding flour, though was so confused as to why my attempt would need so much extra flour (I probably ended up with 3.25 cups total). Not sure if you drafted the allrecipes.com version, but you might want to update it!


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I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up, we'll talk with a minister whose latest assignment has provoked unexpected questions about race and faith. More on that in our weekly Faith Matters conversation. But first we return to the issue that's still so much on the minds of the nation and national leaders, which is how to keep citizens safe from gun violence while still balancing this country's historic commitment to gun rights.
Last weekend pro-gun activists staged a gun appreciation day. This weekend, a different group, including a number of well-known celebrities, will be holding a march on Washington for gun control. While all sides say they're concerned about the safety of citizens on the whole in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut, a particular concern is making the schools safe.
And to that end, the president's proposal to curb gun violence includes millions of dollars for school districts to hire trained officers and other support staff.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We will help schools hire more resource officers - if they want them - and develop emergency preparedness plans.
MARTIN: But there are other points of view. The NRA, for example, has said that armed guards should be posted in every school that wants one. We wanted to talk more about these various proposals and what educators are actually doing now. So we've called Emily Richmond. She's the public editor for the National Education Writers Association and she recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic about some states' proposals to arm teachers. Welcome back. Thanks so much for joining us once again.
EMILY RICHMOND: Thank you.
MARTIN: Could you remind us again, just what exactly are some of the president's proposals around school safety?
RICHMOND: Well, what the president is suggesting is a really gigantic comprehensive package that's aimed at improving school climate, school safety, and also improving training for teachers and staff. So we're talking about a package that if Congress approved it, it would hundreds of millions of dollars for things like school resources officers, more school psychologists and sort of a broader outreach to try to look at the root of the violence problem, which in some instances is traced back to a student's mental health.
MARTIN: Well, what exactly are school resource officers?
RICHMOND: Well, it's important that you understand the semantics of it and realize that it's more than just a difference in words. An armed guard is not a school resource officer. You know, people joke and sometimes talk about the idea of a rent-a-cop or a person who is simply licensed to carry a gun but has minimal training.
A school resource officer in most states is an individual who's actually gone through the same kind of academy training as a municipal police officer. They're a sworn peace officer, licensed to carry a gun. But they've also had training in working with children and with students. And in the best case scenario, they become an integral part of the school community. They develop relationships with the students and can help to address and understand their problems.
MARTIN: Isn't this the kind of figure that shows up in movies aimed at teenagers? Like the guy who catches the kids, you know, smooching in the stairwell or that kind of guy? Isn't that kind of the image we have of this person?
RICHMOND: I think so, but I think that's probably a faulty image. I think a real school police officer, school safety officer, the ones I used to cover when I was in Las Vegas, in those cases they are actually doing police work. They are patrolling campuses. They're looking for trespassers. They're breaking up fights.
But they're also talking to the students and finding out what the issues and concerns are. I know plenty of students who told me they actually went to their school safety office with a tip when they knew that a kid was planning to bring a gun to a ballgame or that there was some gang violence planning a fight after school.
In the best case scenario those people can, as I said, become trusted members of the community.
MARTIN: I think it might surprise people to know, as I learned from your reporting, that about a third of states already allow school personnel to carry concealed weapons on campus. According to your reporting, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia have already introduced bills - or lawmakers there have introduced bills to allow educators to carry weapons or to add armed guards to schools.
This whole question of having armed guards in schools or on school property, how typical is that now?
RICHMOND: Well, it ranges. For example, in some school districts like Los Angeles, a principal can use discretionary money to hire additional safety officers to supplement what the local city might provide. And in those cases we are talking more about the kind of armed guard security sort of personnel versus a school resource officer.
I think what's interesting is among all of the debate about these states that are talking about changing the laws, a couple of school districts have already starting doing it. They've already put it into practical application. You've got Williams County, Ohio, which in the wake of Sandy Hook said, we want to let janitors who are licensed to carry firearms bring them to school. They've already started.
In Butler, Pennsylvania they took a really interesting approach, which is they reached out to retired state troopers who were already licensed and own their weapons and said, how would you feel about coming and helping out at the schools a couple of days a week? And they've already put them on the job.
MARTIN: Mm-hmm. There have also been reports that teachers have shown more interest in getting firearms training. And I want to play a clip from Utah special education teacher Kasey Hansen who recently attended one of these classes. And Kasey Hansen told CNN that if she had additional training she would actually consider taking a gun to school and this is what she had to say.
KASEY HANSEN: I would take a bullet for any one of the students in the school, if it came down to it. And I just want extra options to protect myself as well as my students. I believe I would bring one.
MARTIN: You know, I'm wondering whether this is really more of the same kind of regional cultural, philosophical divide that exists already in the country. Because it tends to be that people who live in kind of dense urban areas are more suspicious of the benefit of firearms than people who live in more rural, more Western, you know, areas, less populated areas, whatever, you know, are more open to the benefit of firearms.
RICHMOND: I think that's an interesting question and I think it would be fascinating to lay out a map of the United States and do a color grid and see where this actually sort of falls out. Are we are going to see this more in the Western and Southern states, which have, as you describe it, more of that sort of open-mindedness in a sense about the idea or the value of a gun.
But I think it's important to note that a lot of the teachers who are going for this training have never touched a gun, in some cases have never seen a gun, except for maybe in a movie or in a display case. So the idea of removing some of that fear over what a weapon is isn't necessarily a bad thing.
And also, it's important to note that that training that teachers are going through in some cases, it's more comprehensive than just sending them out to target practice. It's giving them better ideas of what to do if an intruder comes into a room, how to stop somebody with physical force and how to respond.
And the training that the president was talking about, those scenarios and drills, it's a really interesting issue because what he pointed out from a White House survey that was cited, is that about 85 percent of schools have these plans in place. They have a plan for what to do if a shooter comes to campus.
But just over half of them have actually practiced it. And one of the schools that actually practiced it was Sandy Hook, and it saved children's lives that day. We all saw the photograph of the little kids running across the parking lot crying. You look closely at the picture, they each have their hands on the shoulders of the child in front of them.
That was how they were taught to exit the building. So that kind of practice and training. The teachers at that school put that practice and training into effect when they hid the children as best they could. They locked the doors of their classrooms and they closed the window blinds.
MARTIN: We're talking about proposals to make schools safer from gun violence. I'm speaking with education reporter Emily Richmond. She's been reporting on this. Talk more about that, if you would, what are you hearing from educators about this? I mean, it is interesting that there's been a lot of volume around this from a lot of advocacy groups on both sides of this.
But I am really interested in what teachers have to say about this and who better to tell us than a person who writes and talks about teachers and interviews them all the time?
RICHMOND: The teachers I'm hearing from are really divided. There is a sort of painful reality to this that here's one more thing we're asking teachers to do. Here's one more example of where the burden for societal problems are being shifted back into the schoolhouse. And the idea of a school being a community center where if the children don't thrive the community doesn't thrive.
But at the same time, how do you ask a teacher to - along with studying for the practice licensing exam - to go out and do target practice? How is this going to work in a practical sense? Who is going to be doing the background checks on the teachers, making sure that they're certified? And, really, what is this emphasis going to be?
We have a host of new initiatives coming in right now related to curriculum and instruction. There's the common core state standards. There's all sorts of things we're asking teachers to do to improve their instructional quality. And now suddenly we're also asking them to be armed guards. I think it's a good conversation that's happening because it is emphasizing that, if you don't fix the schoolhouse, you're not going to fix the community and I think teachers appreciate that.
MARTIN: You know, I could - what you said, though, about a lot of teachers pursuing this kind of training simply for exposure. I mean, you wouldn't take kids to the lake if you didn't know how to swim, so you can certainly understand why teachers who are just sort of trained to absorb and impart information would be interested, at the very least, in educating themselves about this issue.
But what about sort of more broadly? Is there any credible body of work or research on this question of why school shootings? Why do they happen at school, near school? The mass shootings that get so much attention, as well as the individual disputes that are actually a bigger deal in the lives of a lot of kids and families in other parts of the country that you don't hear so much about. Is there any research on this?
RICHMOND: Well, what a lot of people have been pointing to is the pattern that we're seeing and the mass shootings that have been most recent have been perpetrated by young men who are believed to have mental illness, whether either diagnosed, undiagnosed.
In some respects, we're, of course, still building the profile of the shooter in Sandy Hook, so we don't know for sure, but indications are that there was a mental illness issue. So the question is then, is it the school's responsibility to diagnose it and treat it? Are they going to be held accountable if they don't? And what is the fallout when that person decides to pick up a gun?
And, of course, if the schools block all of the guns they want on campus, that doesn't stop a kid with mental illness whose mother is a gun aficionado and leaves the case key where he can get it. That's not something that a school can solve.
I think the bigger issue for schools, in addition to how to address those mental health issues, is what kind of places do they want schools to be? In all of these discussions about how to improve school climate and safety, you want to make schools a place where kids want to be. If you want them to learn, they have to enjoy the environment they're in. So how do you balance that against having this sort of lockdown mentality of armed guards at the door, metal detectors at every doorway? How do you still make that a place where students want to come every day and learn?
MARTIN: What do you want to know next? Where is your reporting taking you next on this question?
RICHMOND: You know, I think the thing that I'd like to know next is, is there a practical way to approach this conversation and sort of steer a little bit away from the hysteria? The idea of nursery school teachers suddenly having, you know, Linda Hamilton "Terminator 2" biceps and, you know, double barrel shotguns blazing through the hallways. You know, still, schools are statistically the safest place for a child to be during the day and the idea of putting all of that pressure on teachers to protect them, I think, is unreasonable. There has to be a way to steer the conversation back to - how do you address some of these underlying issues, the climate in the community, the mental health issues and make schools an integral part of that without trying to shift blame.
MARTIN: Emily Richmond is the public editor for the National Education Writers Association. She was kind enough to join us here in our Washington, D.C., studios. Emily, thanks so much for joining us once again.
RICHMOND: My pleasure. Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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If PepsiCo had created an ad for Mountain Dew, for example, she said it might not have been considered edgy or cool. But by handing over control to a celebrity, she said the company ran the risk of having an ad that wasn't appropriate.
PepsiCo Inc., based in Purchase, N.Y., said it understood how the ad could be offensive.
"We apologize for this video and take full responsibility," the company said in an updated statement late Wednesday afternoon. "We have removed it from all Mountain Dew channels and Tyler is removing it from his channels as well."
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On the similarities between baseball and sales
"It's a career where you're rejected many, many more times than you are accepted. And a lot of the really good salesmen thrive on that — knowing that at some point there will be a triumph and that triumph is going to be what validates everything they do.
"Like baseball players, hitting .300 would be tremendous in sales. Hitting 1 out of 100 is tremendous in many types of sales. So to really succeed at it, you have to understand the odds, you have to understand that you're going to be told 'no' more than 'yes' and that's very, very hard. That's psychologically hard. It's one of the things that drew me in. Business can often seem sterile about numbers, about spreadsheets, about strategic reports, but sales makes it really human. It cuts to the heart of who we are, what we're willing to do to make a buck, the masks we're willing to adopt and our ability to persuade. One salesman told me that sales is the greatest laboratory there is for studying human nature, and I completely agree. And that's the antithesis of much of what we think about business."
On the personalities Broughton met
"So I start in a Moroccan souk with a rug seller named Majid El Fenni, who started out selling sheepskin jackets to hippies in the '60s and is now one of the great purveyors of Moroccan carpets, rugs, tiles to hotels, movie stars and rock stars all over the world. I went to Japan, I met a life insurance saleswoman named Mrs. Shibata who's the top saleswoman at Dai-ichi Life, which is one of the great life insurance companies. I met a guy named Guillermo Ramirez — known as Memo — who's a Mexican contractor in Baltimore, who arrived in the United States when he was 19 and now runs a very thriving contracting business in Baltimore. A terrific reader of people, a great enthusiast and a great reader of people."
On playing the sales game
"I'm much more sympathetic to salespeople. A lot of salespeople I met said they are terrible buyers, and I think I may be falling into that trap. When you start to see salespeople coming out at you, you know what they are up to. They know what you are up to.
"You see very, very bad behavior in sales but I think the more you learn about it, the more you can see it as this advanced human game."
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You are sifting through your daily mail or e-mail and open up a demand letter from the attorney for your customer or vendor. You haven't read the contract since you signed it a year ago, if then, but now there is a dispute and the threat of litigation. Complicating the matter is that suit is being threatened outside your county or, even worse, outside your state. Chances are, you may even have a claim or two of your own, but the thought of paying an attorney who you don't know in another jurisdiction is already making you think of settlement. Before you push the panic button or, worse, fire the manager who signed the agreement, consider that there are multiple locations to file most lawsuits. Often times, cases are won or lost by choosing the right venue; starting the fight on your own turf shows the other side that you are not backing down. A pre-emptive filing in your own back yard will immediately put the other side on the defensive and force them to incur the expense of retaining local counsel. However, filing suit is not enough; you need to serve the complaint before the other party does. The court will serve a complaint by certified mail, which generally takes 10 to 14 days, and can be refused by the defendant. A better approach, both from gaining a psychological advantage and getting the case in your own back yard, is to hire a process server. Most process servers will file the complaint, obtain the paperwork from the court, and drive out to the defendant's location the same day. Even better, many out-of-state companies use a corporate statutory agent service, so the process server simply has to drive from the courthouse to some nearby location and serve the complaint. The cost is modest and the pay-off, both financially and strategically, can be significant. Imagine being the lawyer who sent the demand letter trying to explain to his client that, while he was sitting back and waiting for a response, the case now must be defended in another jurisdiction. How well does this strategy work? Quite well, in many cases. For example, our litigation team recently obtained a favorable resolution by filing suit in a state court in Ohio after the opposing party threatened a federal lawsuit in Minnesota. The opposing party in this contract dispute settled for a fraction of what it was owed rather than having to defend the case in Ohio.
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Defectors' descriptions add to evidence of strong but severely persecuted church.
DUBLIN, April 24 (Compass Direct News) — Eom Myong-Heui of North Korea was a loyal communist in the Workers' Party of Korea before she became a Christian under the influence of her business partner — a missionary who was later arrested and tortured into revealing that Eom was a believer.
Authorities placed Eom into a detention center in her hometown of Moosan and tortured her into denying her faith — but her incarceration continued under appalling conditions. Officials eventually released her due to her previous national loyalty. Now an assistant pastor at a church in Seoul, South Korea after a harrowing escape from her home country, Eom relates a journey that is part of a growing body of evidence of a strong — and severely persecuted — church in North Korea.
"A lot of people ask me if there really are people in North Korea who believe in Christ," she said. "Do you really think that the missionaries who were there and all the believers who meet underground are all dead?"
Even as the North Korean government this month allowed two high-profile, U.S. Christian bands to perform at a music festival in Pyongyang, the fear of punishment authorities have instilled in North Korean Christians keeps most of them from publicly revealing their faith. As many as 400,000 Christians are estimated to worship secretly in the country, and Suzanne Scholte, head of an association of some 60 groups campaigning for change in the country called the North Korean Freedom Coalition (NKFC), estimates that more than 200,000 North Koreans are held in political prison camps for various perceived "disloyalties" to the regime, including adherence to Christianity.
Christian support group Open Doors estimates that of the 200,000 people incarcerated in political prison camps, at least 40,000 are Christians. Under North Korea's policy of juche, or self-reliance, citizens may worship only President Kim Jong Il and his late father, former ruler Kim Il Sung.
Jung Eun Hye, one of several North Korean refugees expected to speak about conditions in the country at events in Washington, D.C. next week, said that freedom of religion is stipulated in North Korea's constitution, but that "Christians have to risk their lives to have a secret service away from the oppression of the government."
Jung, who faced severe persecution after authorities caught his father and aunt with Bibles in their possession, said he did not know that any churches existed in Pyongyang until he escaped from North Korea. While a handful of government churches do exist in the capital, Jung is one of many refugees who believe that these churches exist only to "deceive the outside world."
"Here is my question," said Jung. "If North Korea has freedom of religion, why does the government arrest, kill or imprison Christians in camps from which they never return?"
Testimony from various sources confirms that the government actively seeks out Christian groups and meeting points and imprisons Christians solely because of their faith. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) last year reported refugees saying that Christianity remained a key factor in the interrogation of people repatriated from China to North Korea. Border guards reserved the harshest punishment for those who admitted having any contact with Chinese or South Korean Christians.
"There is no freedom of belief or religion," one refugee stated. "[We are taught] that if one is involved in religion, one cannot survive."
Former police and security officers interviewed for USCIRF's report admitted that their superiors had instructed them to play the role of Christians and infiltrate "underground" prayer meetings in order to incriminate, arrest, imprison and sometimes execute believers in North Korea.
'Abyss of Death'
A delegation of North Korean refugees recently described their experiences ahead of events on Capitol Hill from Monday (April 26) through Saturday (May 2) as part of North Korea Freedom Week.
Kim Young Soon, a refugee who spent nine years in a prison camp, said North Korean ruler Kim "is pushing the people into the abyss of death. In such a society, no one can trust anyone."
Authorities sent Kim Young Soon and her family to prison camp No. 15, otherwise known as Yodok, after she made a seemingly innocent comment about the regime.
"Every mountain and field in Yodok was covered with dead bodies because of malnutrition and hunger," Kim said. She described waking at 3:30 a.m. to run six kilometers (nearly four miles) to her assigned workplace and surviving on a diet of unripe, salted corn. Her parents and two of her sons died during their incarceration; border guards shot her third son when she fled with him to China shortly after their release.
Former prisoner Jung Gwangil said prison guards sadistically controlled inmates through collective punishment.
"If I did something wrong, all the members of the group I belonged to were punished," he said. "When guards withheld food or switched off heaters in the middle of winter, fellow prisoners would sometimes beat the responsible inmate to death."
Another former prisoner, Kim Tae Jin, described being left naked in a freezing cell and forced to sit on quicklime in the rain, resulting in severe burns to her skin.
"Even now, there are people who cut their own fingers off to avoid hard labor, who disguise themselves as madmen, or who lose their arms from beatings because they believe in a God who supposedly doesn't exist," she added.
While she was in prison, she said, a fellow inmate known only as Park formed a small "fellowship" of seven Christians. Prison guards eventually caught Park, beat him severely and asked him, "Who told you about the existence of God?"
"Do we have to be told about the existence of the sun to know that it's there?" Park replied. "We learn its existence by feeling its warmth."
Perilous Journey
In such conditions, the journey to faith is perilous for North Koreans — or nothing short of miraculous in the case of Eom, an assistant pastor at Seoul's New Pyongyang Full Gospel Church (a fellowship for North Korean Defectors associated with Yoido Full Gospel Church).
She was extremely loyal to the regime until she made contact with a South Korean-Chinese Christian businessman.
"It's very hard to live in North Korea, so if you don't secretly do business, you can't survive," Eom said in sharing her story with members of another large church in Seoul, South Korea. "So for a few days I just kept being polite and agreeing with whatever he said about God, even though I knew he was wrong €¦ but then God started to change my heart."
Eventually the missionary gave her a small New Testament.
"I enjoyed it," she said. "The teaching to love your enemy, give him food if he's hungry, give him water if he's thirsty. I also took to heart the words about loving each other."
Eom asked a superior why North Korea didn't have a religion other than worship of the Kim family.
"His eyes got big and he told me that religion was poison," she said, "and that if I tried to learn about Christianity I would automatically become a traitor."
As a teacher, Eom knew what happened to children of traitors and immediately began to worry about her two daughters. When police arrested the missionary and someone warned her that she could be next, Eom packed a small bag and assured her youngest daughter that she would return in three days.
"At the time," she told the Seoul congregation, "I didn't realize that this trip would bar me from ever entering the country again."
Detained by police, she said, she could not understand why the authorities were so concerned about whether she was a Christian instead of asking about her business activities. After her release and unable to rescue her daughters, she escaped to China, where she was arrested twice and told, "If we arrest you again, we will kill you."
From China Eom made a dangerous journey via Myanmar to Thailand, where she spent six months in a detention center before being granted asylum in South Korea in 2002.
"This is a most critical time for the North Korea human rights movement," said Scholte, head of the NKFC and president of the Defense Forum Foundation. "We either advance these issues now with the opportunity that comes from a new administration and a new Congress, or we see another decade of death and despair for those whose great misfortune was to be born under the Kim Jong Il dictatorship."
For the seventh year in a row, North Korea tops the Open Doors list of countries in which Christians are being persecuted
Silence is Death for North Koreans: North Korea Freedom Week, April 26 — May 2, 2009. Among other things includes the following information:
– The Situation: Persecution in North Korea
– 7 Day Prayer Guide
– FAQ – North Korea Freedom Week 2009
– Open Doors Fact Sheet


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President Obama's trip through Africa is turning out to be political and also personal. The Obama family is visiting three countries in vastly different regions of the continent.
Today, they fly from the West African nation of Senegal to South Africa, where the beloved anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized in critical condition. Nobody knows for sure yet whether the two men will meet on this visit.
But as NPR's Ari Shapiro reports from Senegal, Mandela was a main focus of the president's press conference yesterday.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: The last time Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela saw each other was briefly in 2005 when Obama was a senator. But Obama says Mandela's influence on him stretches back much farther than that.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: He's a personal hero, but I don't think I'm unique in that regard. I think he's a hero for the world.
SHAPIRO: At a news conference in Dakar, Obama reminisced about his first experience with political activism, working against apartheid as a college student. And he described his wonder as a law student when he saw Mandela step free, only to embrace his former captors and work for peace.
OBAMA: It gave me a sense of what is possible in the world when righteous people, when people of goodwill, work together on behalf of a larger cause.
SHAPIRO: That theme came up repeatedly yesterday. Obama told a group of African judges that it's their responsibility to stand up for the defenseless. He praised a group of civil society leaders for supporting the voiceless. And on Goree Island, Obama walked in the steps of the powerless.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: So that white slave house was one of the last to be built on the island of Goree.
SHAPIRO: A tour guide showed the Obama family through the slave house, a small two-story building where thousands of Africans were crammed into dark rooms before being shipped across the Atlantic.
Obama peered out to sea through the Door of No Return. Then he stepped back onto the dusty path and described what visiting this place means to him.
OBAMA: Obviously, for an African-American, an African-American president, you know, to be able to visit this site, I think gives me even greater motivation in terms of the defense of human rights around the world.
SHAPIRO: As he walked back to the port to catch the ferry to the mainland, crowds of people thronged the walkway, singing songs about Obama.
SHAPIRO: Kids wore T-shirts with Obama's face that said, Welcome Home. This is Obama first major trip as president through a continent where many consider him one of their own.
Yet as president, he's been much less engaged in Africa than his two immediate predecessors, both of whom spearheaded major aid programs to the continent.
At the presidential palace in Dakar, Obama said it's time for a change.
OBAMA: Yeah, what I want us to do is to have a shift in paradigm where we start focusing on trade, development, partnerships, where we see ourselves as benefiting and not simply giving in the relationship with Africa.
SHAPIRO: At this press conference, Obama also spoke about the domestic news of the day. He described the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling this way.
OBAMA: Not simply a victory for the LGBT community, I think it was a victory for American democracy.
SHAPIRO: He said his team is now trying to figure out how to apply that ruling across a patchwork of state laws. And he was harshly critical of this week's other major Supreme Court ruling. The court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act, a law the president described this way.
OBAMA: It was the cornerstone and the culmination of years of struggle. Blood, sweat, tears, in some cases deaths.
SHAPIRO: That struggle for equality will continue to be a major theme of this trip - as President Obama flies to South Africa today, a place that has gone through its own share of bloodshed on the path to democracy.
Ari Shapiro, NPR News, Dakar. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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