tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35622821730692745722024-03-13T17:53:07.176-07:00Lost in Bretton WoodsYou are now reading ramblings of a nomadic economist married to an FSO.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this blog and those contributing through comments, are personal opinions only and do not represent those of my employer, the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. government. With that said, the author reserves the right to remove comments that she deems offensive to others.Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-32856198316991130482013-12-17T14:09:00.000-08:002013-12-25T16:59:18.788-08:00Education in Turkey Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I found this great quote
from Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey. I would like
to start off with this post with this quote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Milletleri kurtaranlar, yalniz ve ancak öğretmenlerdir” “Teachers are the one and only people who save nations”</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This post will have two parts. The first will go into more detail of
the impacts of the 1997 law which extended the period of compulsory education
of Turkey’s children to eight years. The second half of the post will look at
the new compulsory education law which was passed in April 2012, its changes to
Turkey’s educational system, controversy, and its potential impacts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While the 1997 Basic Education Law has not been around for
very long and there is a limited number of studies evaluating its impact – the problem
being that this reform is relatively recent, which limits the ability to conduct
a decent assessment of its impact on the quality of education in Turkey. However,
the World Bank together with the Turkish Ministry of Education looked at the
state of education in Turkey as shown by data collected by PISA testing. PISA
is the Programme for International Student Testing, conducted by the OECD, evaluating
educational attainment in both member and non-member countries, by looking at
the performance of 15 year olds in math, science, and reading. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The analysis has found that enrollment of 15 year old students
in Turkey rose from 50% in 2001-02 to 67% in 2009. If one looks at just female
15 year old students in the same years, enrollment rose from 43% to 66%. Turkey
added approximately 1.5 million students to its rolls in secondary schools.
PISA data also shows that children of disadvantaged backgrounds improved at a
higher rate than students of privileged backgrounds. This means that access to universal
education supports disadvantaged in succeeding academically and economically. Furthermore,
analysts have found that socio-economic background has become less important in
2009 than in 2003, meaning that basic universal education could potentially
reduce socio-economic inequality in the next generation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The differences between the 1997 Basic Education Law and the 2012 “4+4+4”
law include: the 2012 law expands compulsory education to 12 years from 8 years
as mandated in 1997, the 2012 law now allows parents to choose whether to send
their kids to religious schools (called Imam Hatip schools), and lowers the age
apprenticeship from 15 to 11 years old.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2012 “4+4+4” reform, divides a child’s educational
career into three parts; elementary, middle, and high school. The 1997 reform
eliminated the middle school and mandated that the eight compulsory years of
schooling be in the same school. The 2012 reform also brings back the option
for parents to enroll their kids in vocational or religious classes prior to
the 9<sup>th</sup> grade (at the age of 15) back to the 5<sup>th</sup> grade (at
the age of 10/11). Critics of the new
law say that the 5<sup>th</sup> grade is too early for children to leave a
basic curriculum in favor of a more specialized one, be it religious or
vocational. This law could lead some parents to pull their daughters out of school
permanently in favor of the religious schooling, an option offered by the 2012
law.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Furthermore, the “4+4+4” reform may potentially handicap students
from urban poor and rural parts of Turkey, since students must compete to enter
high school by taking standardized exams. By opening up an option withdrawing
from a basic curriculum in favor of religious or vocational training in the 5<sup>th</sup>
grade, those students will not have the educational background to compete with their
colleagues on high school entrance exams. By choosing vocational or religious
classes at such an early age, children are locked into a vocation without the ability
to change their minds about their professional future. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lastly, one can also debate the issue of informed consent.
Is a child as young as 10 or 11 really mature enough to make a decision about
their educational and professional future? I believe children that young are
not mentally equipped to make informed decisions, then is it up to the parents
or the state to make the decision? While this is a separate discussion, it is
important to mention this issue. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While young Turks are enrolling and staying in school in
greater numbers, Turkey can still has room to dramatically improve student performance.
According to Guven Sak, a columnist for the Hurriyet Daily News and head of the
Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), Turkey’s
population still “… has only 6.5 years of schooling on average.” According to the
same PISA test results discussed earlier, Turkey placed 32<sup>nd</sup> among
34 OECD countries and 40% on Turkey’s 15 year old students are not able to
obtain basic competence level in mathematical literacy. So, educational reform
is necessary for the benefit of Turkey’s children. The type of educational
reform that is necessary for Turkey is a far more difficult question to answer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2012 educational reform law was passed in Turkey’s
parliament after street protests, fist-fights between opposing politicians, and
severe criticism from teachers. Time will show how this new education law will
impact Turkey’s educational system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sources:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cameron-Moore,
Simon “Feature - Turkish school reforms raise debate on Islamism,”<u> Reuters</u>,
20 March 2012. Can be found at the following address:</span> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/20/uk-turkey-education-idUKBRE82J0GB20120320</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cameron
– Moore, Simon “Turkey passes school reform law viewed by critics as Islamic,” <u>Al
Arabiya</u>, 30 March 2012. Can be found at the following address: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/30/204265.html">http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/30/204265.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span>Finkel, Andrew “What’s 4+4+4?” <u>The New York Times</u>,”
23 March 2012. Can be found at the following
address:<b> </b><a href="http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/turkeys-education-reform-bill-is-about-playing-politics-with-pedagogy/?_r=1">http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/turkeys-education-reform-bill-is-about-playing-politics-with-pedagogy/?_r=1</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mocan, Leyla “The Impact of Education on Wages: Analysis of
an Education Reform in Turkey,” <u>Wharton School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania</u>, 24 February 2013. Can be found at the following address: <a href="http://www.aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/LMocan_AEFPPaper.pdf">http://www.aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/LMocan_AEFPPaper.pdf</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Naqvi,
Naveed Hassan “Closing the Gap in Turkey: Evidence of Improved Quality and
Reduced Inequality in an Expanding Education System” <u>The World Bank</u>, 17
July 2013. Can be found at the following address: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/closing-gap-turkey-evidence-improved-quality-and-reduced-inequality-expanding-education-system">http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/closing-gap-turkey-evidence-improved-quality-and-reduced-inequality-expanding-education-system</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span>Nihan Köseleci Blanchy & Aytuğ Şaşmaz, “PISA 2009: Where
does Turkey Stand?” <u>Turkish Policy</u>. Can be found at the following
address: <a href="http://www.turkishpolicy.com/dosyalar/files/nihan_aytug.pdf">http://www.turkishpolicy.com/dosyalar/files/nihan_aytug.pdf</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 107%;">Sabral, Jody “New Education
Bill Revives Koran Studies In Turkish Schools” Al-Monitor, 16 May 2012. Can be
found at the following address: </span><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/turkish-education-reform-passed.html##ixzz2nlnkEFkv">http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/turkish-education-reform-passed.html##ixzz2nlnkEFkv</a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span>Schliefer,
Yigal “Turkey: Proposed Education Reform Bill Gets Failing Grade,”<u> EurasiaNet</u>,
27 February 2012. Can be found at the
following address: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65058">http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65058</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span>“Turkey police break up education bill protest,” <u>Al
Jazeera,</u> 28 march 2012. Can be found at the following address: <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/201232920153676163.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/201232920153676163.html</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Turkish MPs fight as controversial schools bill
passed” <u>BBC</u>, 31 March 2012. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Can be found at the following address:
</span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17571131"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17571131</span></a></span></span></div>
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<u>Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development</u>, <a href="http://www.oecd.org/edu/EDUCATION%20POLICY%20OUTLOOK%20TURKEY_EN.pdf">http://www.oecd.org/edu/EDUCATION%20POLICY%20OUTLOOK%20TURKEY_EN.pdf</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those of you that have
read my posts before, I am somewhat oriented towards jobs outside of the USG
mission where my husband serves. With that said, my employment prospects are
governed by agreements signed by the government of the host country and the government
of the United States of America. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
about six months we will be moving to Turkey. The Turkish government agreed to
issue work permits for those spouses that wish to work in the education and
educational sectors, while permits to work in other sectors are issued on a
case by case basis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since education is one of
the fields where I can work locally, I decided that I will start with the state
of education in Turkey. I would like to start with a few numbers first. Turkey
has just under 80 million citizens. Just under 21 million of those citizens are
between the ages of 0 and 14 years old. The Turkish government spends about 2.9
percent of its GDP on education. When looking at overall literacy in Turkey it
is 94.1 percent. When broken up by gender, the literacy rate of the female
population is 90.3 percent (a 2011 estimate), while the literacy rate of males
is 97.9 percent. On average, boys will spend 14 years in school, while girls
will spend 13 years in school (a 2010 estimate).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the early 1970s successive
Turkish governments attempted to extend compulsory education for all children
from five to eight years. Success came with the passage of a law in 1997 which created
a new eight year compulsory education system which included funding for
education, additional infrastructure, teachers and administrators, as well as
incentives for families to convince them to send their children to school.
During the first four years implementation, the government spent approximately
$2 billion dollars, enrolled 1.1 million children, and raised enrollment rates
from 85.63 to 96.30 percent. Girls in rural areas benefitted especially,
enrollment of girls rose by an impressive 160 percent (when looking at areas
where schools had the greatest gender disparities) in the first year of the
program’s implementation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To improve access and
quality of education, the Turkish government focused on building and
rehabilitating school buildings, closing of ailing village schools and
implementing bussing and boarding schemes for affected students. Additionally,
low income students were provided schoolbooks and meals free of charge. In
order to keep kids in school past the 5<sup>th</sup> year, the government also
moved the primary school diploma award from the 5<sup>th</sup> to 8<sup>th</sup>
grade. Apparently, the majority of Turkish parents believe that receiving a
diploma is not just prestigious, but also signals to the market that their child
is ready to start working. Therefore, changing qualifications for receiving a
diploma from completion of fifth grade to completion of 8<sup>th</sup> grade,
incentivized parents to keep their kids in school longer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The government also moved
the minimum apprenticeship age from 12 to 15 years, thus removing the incentive
to pull a 12 year old out of school to join an apprenticeship program. While
introducing a uniform curriculum, the government cancelled all religious and
vocational electives, in favor of a broad based education for all school
children, creating a broad and uniform educational program for all children
irrespective of where they go to school.</span></div>
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the new compulsory education program also attracted private donations in favor
of better education for all children. The biggest beneficiaries of the
educational reform were children from rural and poor urban areas of Turkey. Within
that rural and poor urban group, girls gained the most since the reform provided
them with access to additional years of education, which in turn opened doors
to more and better paying jobs, higher income levels, and a better life
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On April 17, 2012 the
Turkish Parliament, the Grand National Assembly, has passed a new law on
compulsory education. I will discuss the new law’s changes and potential
impacts on compulsory education in Turkey in my next post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dulger,
Ilhan “</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Turkey: Rapid Coverage for
Compulsory Education—The 1997 Basic Education Program,” <u>The World Bank</u>, 2004.
The paper was presented at the ‘Scaling Up Poverty Reduction: A Global Learning
Process and Conference’ Shanghai, May 25–27, 2004 and can be found here: </span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/12/06/000090341_20041206151725/Rendered/PDF/30801TUR0Basic1ion01see0also0307591.pdf">http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/12/06/000090341_20041206151725/Rendered/PDF/30801TUR0Basic1ion01see0also0307591.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The World Factbook: Turkey, <u>Central Intelligence
Agency</u>, 13 November 2013. Can be found here: <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Turkey Demographics Profile 2013” Index Mundi, 21
February 2013. Can be found here: <a href="http://www.indexmundi.com/turkey/demographics_profile.html">http://www.indexmundi.com/turkey/demographics_profile.html</a></span></div>
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Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-17504938195011434772013-09-10T11:33:00.004-07:002013-09-10T11:38:20.733-07:00Time to dust off the blog... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the spirit of Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Jewish day of Atonement), I would like to apologize for not writing for quite a long time.<br />
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Work and work related travel got quite busy and then my husband and I had a baby. When our child was about 10 weeks, we decided that the offspring and I would stay in the DC area and my husband would go back to India to finish out his tour - a very long five months. Let me emphasize, a long and trying five months!<br />
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Since I last blogged...<br />
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I left India last fall, had a child, left my old job, started networking found a new job while on maternity leave. The networking and looking for a job really happened while my loving and supportive husband was still stateside. Then the husband left, my mom and dad stepped in for the first two months of the five month stint on our own and took vacations to hang with our newly minted offspring. Mom drove from the north to hang with us in DC and dad flew in from Israel. I really can't thank them enough. When my mom ran out of vacation, my mom and step-dad drove down every weekend to spend time with us. My new job started sooner than I anticipated, but they were flexible and I got to work from home, after the offspring went to bed.<br />
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India professional opportunities<br />
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While the local wages were pretty spectacularly low, I am so grateful for the professional opportunities and experience I gained while working as an economist in India. I can only hope, my boss who basically hired me after talking to me on the phone a few times did not regret his decision.<br />
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I spent a significant share of my time doing analysis of regulatory frameworks of India's infrastructure sectors. I wrote expert reports and memos. My work offered the opportunity to collaborate with senior civil servants, interview executives from public and private sector oil and airline companies, and present to regulators, bureaucrats, and even a minister. I have made presentations and led research on reports which were submitted to the Parliament of India, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, the Ministries of Civil Aviation, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Finance, and Corporate Affairs. Additionally, regulatory agencies such as Airports Economic Regulatory Authority, Airports Authority of India, as well as the Director General of Civil Aviation.<br />
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India social opportunities<br />
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I met great people in Chennai and miss them terribly. I miss my friends from outside the office and those that I met while working. I am grateful to you for taking me in and showing me what India and Chennai are all about, the variety of cultures, languages, outlooks, and of course amazing food. Thanks for laughing at and together with me and by the way my spice tolerance did grow, tremendously...<br />
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What else can I say that has not already been said? India is an fascinating place to see and explore, a challenge to live in, and an amazing place to find yourself. Thank you for hosting my family.<br />
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We are in DC now, preparing for our next adventure as a family of four, with our kitty and offspring.<br />
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Watch out Ankara, here we come!<br />
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If you are interested, below you will find some press coverage of my work in India (yes, my professional brag list):<br />
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Economic Survey of India 2012-2013: Chapter 11 "Energy, Infrastructure, and Communications" page 244, <http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp><br />
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"Air India should be partly privatized: study" 30 September 2012, The Hindu, <http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/air-india-should-be-partly-privatised-study/article3951407.ece><br />
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Aggrawal, Smita "<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Oligopoly of PSU oil cos reason for high ATF prices" 30 April 2012, The Indian Express <http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-oligopoly-of-psu-oil-cos-reason-for-high-atf-prices-/943191/#sthash.Lszs7hhN.dpuf></span><br />
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"Change the way ATF is taxed, suggests survey" 25 May 2012, The Hindu, <http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/change-the-way-atf-is-taxed-suggests-survey/article3452194.ece><br />
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"Civil Aviation Ministry Permits Scheduled Airlines to Charge Fees for Certain Unbundles Services Services Separately" 29 April 2013, Government of India Press Release, <http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95218><br />
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"India's Civil Aviation Sector: Turbulence Today, but Opportunities to Soar" 20 November 2012, Albright Stonebridge Group <http://www.albrightstonebridge.com/civil_aviation_nov12/><br />
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"India Economic Survey: viability of airline operations in India has come under stress" 28 February 2013, CAPA Centre for Aviation <http://centreforaviation.com/news/india-economic-survey-viability-of-airline-operations-in-india-has-come-under-stress-210483><br />
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Pandathil, Rajesh "Cut aviation costs before forcing expansion into smaller cities" 18 October 2012, First Post Business <http://www.firstpost.com/business/cut-aviation-costs-before-forcing-expansion-into-smaller-cities-494665.html><br />
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Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-71193351433693963022012-07-30T10:56:00.000-07:002012-07-30T10:56:31.929-07:00India: loving it or hating it?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have heard from a large number of people that, you either end
up loving or hating India. My husband likes to say, he is different because he
does not love or hate it here. I have my days, some days I enjoy India and some
days I want to scream…I think you can guess why I want to scream.</div>
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Last night tipped the balance for me. India is loud and in
your face, all the time, at all hours of the day and night. Most of the time I don’t
mind, although I tend to be somewhat of a quiet and gentle person, I really don’t
mind in your face India during the day. During the night I put in ear-plugs,
something I have been doing since I have lived in big and loud cities such as
New York, DC, Budapest, Tel Aviv, and Damascus. Earplugs work, for the most part. </div>
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In every city you will have obnoxious neighbors, garbage
pick-up at odd hours, street vendors, guys that knock on your door to wake you
up for your breakfast before sunrise (during Ramadan), church bells and call of
the muezzin, and oh those parents that think their kid is truly talented and
therefore encourage him to practice his/her drums and off key singing at 7 AM
on a given Saturday or Sunday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
usually roll with the punches on the above mentioned aspects of city life.</div>
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However, the following situations tip the balance and make
me want to scream (listed in order of scream factor):</div>
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span> Having one’s neighbors have parties in the yard
with drums, really bad but nevertheless loud sound amplifying equipment,
electric key board, and awful pitch from 9:30 PM – 12:30 AM<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li>
<li> Having one’s neighbors do the same as in 1. at 3
– 6 AM</li>
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Number 2 makes me want to scream, literally. If we lived
next to a religious establishment, that would be one thing. In Damascus, I
lived in a house adjacent to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyidah_Ruqayya_Mosque"><span dir="auto">Sayyidah Ruqayya</span> mosque</a> and heard the call to
prayer every morning at 4 AM. The difference is that the call to prayer is beautiful,
and as far as I know, people with no sense of music and pitch are not allowed
to perform it. The call to prayer is rhythmic, which does not disturb your sense
of internal balance and does not last very long, therefore you are able to fall
asleep again. </div>
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We live in a residential neighborhood with neighbors that
think its perfectly fine to fire up their amplifiers and sing their hearts out
for the neighborhood to enjoy at 3 AM in the morning. I found out today after
attempting to complain that, yes there are zoning laws that prohibit noise from
10PM – 6 AM and no, even if I call the cops, I will not be able to prevent this
event from taking place whenever my neighbors feel like firing up their awful
sound system, electric keyboard, drums and not particularly talented lungs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So, I guess this post is about the pendulum swinging to the
dark side. I hope to swing the other way soon.</div>
</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0Cresent Air Cargo Services Private Limited, Thousand Lights West, Aayiram Vilakku, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600027, India13.060422 80.24958312.8129375 79.933726000000007 13.307906500000001 80.56544tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-3620639784122757922012-04-01T05:42:00.002-07:002012-04-02T21:41:51.026-07:00Why we can't have nice things: the Jaguar is still in the shop...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The toilet in our bedroom has not worked in more than a week. Oh, wait, did you actually believe we have a Jag? Well...you'd be right, but not in the way you think.<br />
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So back to our commode, our loo, or toilet - whichever name works well. Our toilet would not stop running. Since both A and I are overachievers, our problem was not just limited to our own apartment, but we've actually succeeded in draining our entire complex - made up of four flats of a day's water supply. The jokes practically write themselves, but hold off on those for just a short few minutes, you'll thank me later.<br />
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In the past week and a half we have had a crowd of plumbers and their various associates and assistants make their way to the toilet in our master bedroom. The first couple of plumbers suggested that our flusher (a rather large button inserted into the wall) was stuck and all it needed is a bit of coconut oil, go figure right? Sadly, that did not work.<br />
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Through the email correspondence, we found out that our toilet is Jaguar brand, if I had to guess, not related to the car manufacturer. I am pretty sure this is the model we have in our home (pictured below)<br />
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...but personally I think this one is a pretty sweet Jag - kind of looks like an egg doesn't it?<br />
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Feel free to browse the company's website - its pretty spiffy. Website: <a href="http://www.jaquar.com/home/">"Jaguar - experience bathing"</a><br />
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So yes, the State Department lent a Jag to us and we broke it. This is why, we can't have nice things. Let the jokes commence - I will even start you off with a few:<br />
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<i><b><span lang="EN">Born to perform.</span></b><span lang="EN"><br />
<b>Unleash a <span class="il">Jaguar</span>.</b><br />
<b>Don’t dream it. Drive it!</b><br />
<b><span class="il">Jaguar</span>. The art of performance.</b><br />
<b>Grace…. space… pace.</b></span></i><br />
<span lang="EN"><b> </b></span><br />
There is no better time to engage in bathroom jokes and channel the second grader somewhere deep inside of all of us.<br />
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Feel free to contribute, but for now, ladies and gentlemen, our Jag is in the shop...<br />
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Cheers!</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-57498516718861828632012-03-25T04:43:00.000-07:002012-03-25T04:43:24.724-07:00Foreign Aid - The Debate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I am returning from a long hiatus. While I work quite a bit of hours, I can't say that the hiatus resulted from a higher workload. I have traveled for work quite a bit in the past few months, but I can't say this directly contributed to my lack of motivation to blog. I guess I have no real excuse, but I am back and I hope this post will serve to start a discussion.<br />
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A few weeks ago, the head of the international development practice of my firm visited from DC. He did a whirlwind tour of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. We set up meetings for him with NGOs, diplomats, law firms, and entrepreneurs. When he was in Chennai, we began an interesting debate, which has stayed with me since. Foreign aid and its purpose. Let's face it, funding for foreign aid is one of the first things on the proverbial "chopping block" when a government tries to reduce spending. The debate of governments' responsibilities to their citizens vis a vis foreign citizens inevitably ensues.<br />
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Questions of "why should we pay for the building of schools and hospitals in less well off countries, when our own schools and hospitals are struggling with shrinking budgets?" "Why if country X has a perfectly functional government, should we help pay for the poor children of country X to read?" "We have lots of problems at home, why should we support foreigners' whose government is not capable of or does not care to adequately support them?" All are perfectly reasonable questions.<br />
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Here are a few other things to consider - poverty alleviation, improving education, and job creation are both domestic and international issues. While we hope and work towards improving the situation at home and abroad the situation not ever be perfect. However, a wealthy country's purchasing power abroad is much higher than at home. The impact of a bit of aid coming from a wealthy country is much higher than at home. If we can help using relatively little funding and make a big difference to multitudes, why not do it? Foreign aid, when administered through cooperation with the beneficiary government is good foreign policy, which results in improved bilateral relations. I know this may be a bit simplistic, bu better relationships between countries lead to trade, which results in job creation jobs and economic growth on both sides of the border. <br />
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<i>UK and India</i><br />
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In the past few months, UK and Indian press have been replaying a quote by Pranab Mukerjee, India's Finance Minister saying that British aid is no longer necessary and is "peanuts." The quote fueled controversy in the UK over the role of DFID, British aid agency, in India - the top recipient of British aid. By the way, this quote is actually from 2010 and was taken up by two MPs who are making the argument for a reduction in British foreign aid. <br />
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Sure, India's economy has shown robust growth, growing up to 10% a year. Was no one really left behind during this blockbuster economic growth spurt of the past five years? The latest data released by India's Planning Commission indicates that poverty in urban India declined by 20.9%, in rural India by 33.8%, and at all-India poverty level declined to 29.8% in 2009-2010. While states such as Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttarkand saw a decline in the poverty ratio of 10 percentage points, states such as Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland saw their poverty ratio increase. Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have only seen a marginal decline in the poverty ratio.<br />
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However, these census figures do not capture the whole picture. For example, data shows that minorities and marginalized community groups - scheduled castes and scheduled tribes - still predominate the least well to do. Casual or temporary laborers in urban areas - those that come to cities for better opportunities - also have a very high incidence of poverty. According to the data released by the Planning Commission, poverty among casual laborers in Bihar is 86%, Assam is 89%, Orissa is 58%, Punjab is 67.6%, and West Bengal is 53.7%. Data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), indicates that while 2009-2010 is characterized by significant economic growth, this type of growth generated a rather small number of jobs. Furthermore, while the number of temporary workers grew by 21.9 million, the number of regular or full time workers only grew by 5.8 million, meaning that people have less opportunities to find stable and steady employment.<br />
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The last piece of statistic I wish to bring up is the measurement of inequality. Latest data released by the Planning Commission indicates that all-India inequality worsened - the Ginni coefficient (which measures inequality) went from .35 to .37.Inequality worsened in rural areas of ten states and urban areas of 18 states across India. If you want to compare to inequality in the United States', the Ginni coefficient in the US in 2009 was 46.8.<br />
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So we can see that while overall poverty declined, a closer look at the data indicates that India is experiencing a widening of the space between the proverbial "haves" and "have-nots." True, India is one of the world's fastest growing economies, with immense yet-to-be-realized potential, is home to the largest number of billionaires, but it also home to a large population in need of home and foreign government assistance.<br />
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Sorry, I veered into India-specific statistics, but I feel there a case to be made for foreign aid to the world's most vulnerable. What do you think?<br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Mishra, Asit Ranjan “Fewer poor, but still a long way to go” <u>LiveMint</u> 20 March 2012 <http://www.livemint.com/2012/03/20003512/Fewer-poor-but-still-a-long-w.html?h=A1></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-88641709213095938262012-01-15T06:48:00.000-08:002012-01-15T06:51:28.004-08:00Documentary - the kind that pulls at heartstrings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I someone post this preview of a documentary about an Israeli school. The documentary is called "Strangers No More" and was nominated for an Oscar. When I began watching the preview, tears came to my eyes, because I realized that I know that school, those rather unattractive walls, and those administrators - I was a volunteer English teacher there about six years ago - Rogozhin - the school that takes everyone who asked for an education irrespective of color, immigration status, age and religion.Tikkum Olam "fixing the world" at its finest.<br />
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The title is taken from Exodus - the Hebrew looks like this:<br />
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<span class="heb">וגר לא־תונה ולא תלחצנו כי־גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים</span><br />
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<span class="heb">The English translation: </span><br />
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"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."<br />
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Enjoy the preview:<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/19453440">http://vimeo.com/19453440</a><br />
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Sadly, I won't be able to see it for a while, but if you get a chance, please do. </div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-68173640455791313592012-01-01T00:25:00.000-08:002012-01-01T01:12:36.079-08:00Happy 2012!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9JDjcwSU5jU/TvW-FrvRgBI/AAAAAAAADvI/xa6K8-O2bcc/s1600/IMG_5241.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9JDjcwSU5jU/TvW-FrvRgBI/AAAAAAAADvI/xa6K8-O2bcc/s320/IMG_5241.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N9S4dtbOigU/TvXDc4Ah5_I/AAAAAAAAD2E/im94KIFlt7w/s1600/IMG_5495.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></div>Since the last time you folks tuned in a few things have happened. My parents came for a visit. A and I met them in Delhi and took off on the tour of the Golden Triangle - the best of the best and most memorable that North India has to offer. Pictured above is Humayun's Tomb in Delhi. A beautifully restored UNESCO World Heritage site. Humayun conquered Delhi in the 1500s, because that was all the rage, ruled for about a year and died. His wife commissioned the tomb in 1562 and thanks to the efforts of the Agha Khan Foundation, it is a beautiful sight. The Persian architecture of this tomb serves as the model for the Taj Mahal.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N9S4dtbOigU/TvXDc4Ah5_I/AAAAAAAAD2E/im94KIFlt7w/s1600/IMG_5495.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N9S4dtbOigU/TvXDc4Ah5_I/AAAAAAAAD2E/im94KIFlt7w/s320/IMG_5495.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> It was a good time all around. Aside from our own digital memories, pictures of our family grace many a facebook and physical albums of fellow Indian tourists. At one point, my parents sat on a platform at Agra Fort for a rest and no fewer than 10 families got a shot sitting next to them. They just shuffled through in a rather surprising calm and organized manner - it may have been the first time I saw this phenomenon. I think my parents were deeply uncomfortable with their new found celebrity status, but hey this is India and we don't blend in around these parts. They enjoyed hanging out in our apartment and going to Adequate...oops I mean Ideal Beach. <br />
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On 24 December 2011 there was a Hanukkah or Christmas miracle and we got our Ford figo. We named the new arrival the "phantom," since it took the Ford corporation a mere 4 months to manufacture the car, get our color, model, and price (prepaid 100%) wrong. The Ford Corporation also sent us a German diplomat's tax application as a "sample," and proceeded to lose our tax paperwork several times...but I digress, we are very happy to have our little "phantom." Sadly, my husband did not take up my suggestion of calling our figo - "red tape." The diver that we hired 4 months ago, who has been waiting so patiently, is also very happy the car finally came. I am thinking about our next sketchtastic destination and whether it is possible and legal to export our little bundle of joy - we shall see! Incidentally, our driver's name means "happiness" (contentment or delight). The three of us are very happy with the arrangement.<br />
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The auto drivers across the street and I separated amicably. They wave to me when I pass them in our "phantom" on the way to the office. No hard feelings, we still use their services when A wants to have a drink at a party. Just last night, we used an auto to go to a New Years Eve party at a friend's house.<br />
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Before wishing all a great 2012 I would like to give you a short rundown of 2011. I guess I need to reach a little further, since life changed for us dramatically in May 2010 a few minutes before we left for our graduation from <a href="http://www.sais-jhu.edu/">SAIS</a>, A "got the call" and by "the call" I actually mean an email inviting him to join the a foreign service training class. We got married a few months later, moved to Northern Virginia (which was really a lot less painful than anticipated), and A started his training. As A, began his training I became obsessed with my professional options and started a bridge consulting job in DC. My professional obsession helped me come out of my shell and reach out to many wonderful and interesting professionals working in DC and in South Asia. My interactions helped me gain a better understanding of India's economic and social history.<br />
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In 2011, I got an awesome job offer to work as an economist for a DC consulting firm with an office in - you guessed it - Chennai! SAIS mafia power. We both studied Tamil at the Foreign Service Institute. Many zip car rentals, exhausting shopping trips, and spreadsheets later, we packed up our life in the DC area. We saved up and went on our honeymoon in Spain. We moved to India. I learned to value access to an electrical generator and internet. I discovered that I have been under-utilizing my body's capacity to sweat. I went to Israel witness the marriage of a wonderful friend, met new friends and spent time with family. I spent a wonderful weekend in Dubai together with my best friend, who is currently based out of a much less prosperous and stable South Asian country.<br />
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After a rather shockingly short brush with Indian bureaucracy - getting a work permit six weeks after submission to the Ministry of External Affairs, is pretty much unheard in this country - I started a new job. I got to know wonderful co-workers and members of the diplomatic community. My work has taken me to Delhi to meet with senior members of the Indian civil service and industry experts. A and I both started doing yoga - A occasionally joins me for a practice. Yoga became my oasis from obsessively stressing about things that I cannot control as well as a gateway for a healthier lifestyle. My commitment to keep kosher has turned me into a de-facto vegetarian, which made for some interesting conversations. We hosted my parents' first foray into India and our little "phantom" arrived at our doorstep on Christmas Eve. All in all, a pretty incredible, challenging and fun year (technically year and a half).<br />
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Happy New Year to all! I hope your 2012 is filled with lots of love, friends, family, adventures, and of course good health! Since I don't believe in keeping New Years resolutions - I sincerely hope to be more consistent in posting to this blog and keeping up my personal research.<br />
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com1Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-87210701015205580372011-11-19T00:23:00.000-08:002011-11-19T00:33:43.410-08:00Consumer Urges<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ever wonder how you go to the grocery store with a list and come back with lots of unplanned purchases and a much larger bill? This really applies to any sort of shopping - clothing, electronics, toiletries, and souvenirs. <br />
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When my husband moved into my lovely DC share in Dupont Circle we talked about food shopping and budgets. He knew that grocery shopping ranked lowest on my list of things that I don't like doing but need to do in order not to starve. Yes, for me grocery shopping ranks below cleaning the bathroom. My husband had a brilliant idea, developing the grocery store map! Yes, it may seem funny at first, but hell it works. He scoped out my favorite grocery store, Trader Joe's - ah I miss it so - and created a map of the store based on the things that we usually need and buy. He spent a few hours compiling the map, but it made shopping a lot less excruciating and expensive. Each time we would go to TJ's we would create our shopping list on this map - putting fruit and veggie, hummus, and meat in the corresponding spots on the map. I mean, sure you still buy things impulsively, but mapping out your grocery list created big savings in time, stress, and financial management.<br />
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A whole science exists on how things are placed in your local grocery store. Store owners tend to place most expensive items at eye level, while less profit generating products at customers' feet and at tops of shelves. Store owners tend to group complementary products together as customers will buy more products - you know how salsa and chips always end up conveniently located next to each other? You know when you come into the store after work and you encounter that divine smell of fresh baked bread - yes, it makes you hungry and more likely to buy more food. Ever notice how staple goods like milk, cereal, bread and yogurt are at the back of the store - right, that's to make you walk through entire aisle's worth of stuff that you really don't need to get to the essentials. If you are a fan of Trader Joe's you will notice the kiddie sized shopping carts and the wonderful scavenger hunt offered for kids - they entice pint size consumerism! My favorite is the selection of a variety of trashy and not so trashy magazines with gum and candy next to the checkout clerk, standing in line longer encourages a greater number of poor buying decisions. I mentioned a few strategies used in placing items in a supermarket, but there are obviously many more ideas on how to get consumers to spend more time and money in shops.<br />
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There are a few instances where I observed a number of really interesting business models of store managers/owners maximizing our instincts to shop. First, I have a friend from undergrad which loves and raves about this wonderful supermarket which she and her husband discovered in upstate New York. They live in the city, so driving to the supermarket is already a sunk cost. Once there, as a consumer, you will want to maximize your time and buy everything in one place. This supermarket had a snakelike layout. My friend raves about the fact that the whole store is made up of one winding aisle, thus relieving the anxious consumer of the stress of running between different specialty aisles. Brilliant! Consumer walks through and sees all the offerings of the store; not completing their trek through the store will mean that they will never get out. From the store owner's perspective, by forcing all customers to look at every item they have on offer will encourage a greater number of impulse buys, thus maximizing his/her return on investment. I don't feel its great for the individual consumers, but from a marketing standpoint, this idea is pure gold, ahem...literally.<br />
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Second, in Chennai, I have had to also stop and appreciate marketing brilliance of a retail business idea. Meet <a href="http://www.anokhi.com/anokhi/anokhi-home.html">Anokhi</a>, my happy place. This two story compound appeals to four shopping tendencies among young upper middle class women; clothing, home textiles (nesting), jewelry, and coffee/dessert. The Anokhi compound houses a clothing and home textiles store on the ground floor and a jewelry/tchotchke/cosmetics and coffee shop on the second floor. They have been expanding the ground floor for another retail venture, which I feel will just enhance the draw of the shopping compound. A deceptively simple idea shines in its brilliance. I mean think about it, you want to meet a girlfriend for dessert and coffee. Inevitably, one of you will be running late. Sure, there are newspapers at the coffee shop, but who will peruse the news if you can peruse the latest offerings in beautiful prints and organic cotton? Gotcha! The more late your girlfriend runs, the more likely you will buy something.<br />
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Alternatively, you are American and don't want to make your friend wait, so you arrive early. The clothing and textiles store is on the ground floor, thus you have to pass it on the way to the coffee shop, since you are early, why not stop and browse right? Lastly, on the way to the coffee shop you have to pass the tchotchke, jewelry and cosmetics shop on the second floor - who can have constant iron will not to want to spoil oneself just this once, right? I take my hat off to the designers of Anokhi, they definitely get what drives our consumer urges.<br />
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-2188003918475157922011-11-11T05:36:00.000-08:002011-11-11T05:36:04.001-08:00My Frenemy: the Auto(rickshaw)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEXtUYfp7cIurpYOGeLxGcriEUJMiSjaShshreaZM_Z9WM9g35NqkJv5EnQlr9ezxLY6Q-Kv1euutX14VqfJDwl2fzCOdQ8aLDQVU9Y6BFQhC_SNFnKioefaUn7ByUd0va0zBvPzmaZ-S/s1600/IMG_5217.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEXtUYfp7cIurpYOGeLxGcriEUJMiSjaShshreaZM_Z9WM9g35NqkJv5EnQlr9ezxLY6Q-Kv1euutX14VqfJDwl2fzCOdQ8aLDQVU9Y6BFQhC_SNFnKioefaUn7ByUd0va0zBvPzmaZ-S/s320/IMG_5217.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Oxford dictionary defines frenemy as "a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry." Meet my ubiquitous frenemy - the auto and its fearless driver. You will find my frenemy prominently displayed above the text.<br />
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Things between Chennai auto drivers and I, are complicated. We maintain a symbiotic relationship - I use their driving services to get to places in lieu of safe public transport and the auto drivers try to skin as many rupees off me as possible. I am not saying Chennai auto drivers only try to skim as much as possible off my humble person: no, auto drivers tend to maintain democratic standards - they attempt to fleece everyone equally. In the Lonely Planet's India country guide - Chennai auto drivers are affectionately described as sharks.<br />
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To be fair to these distinguished professionals - auto fares in Chennai are currently artificially low. The government has not allowed auto drivers to raise basic fares for many years, resulting in auto drivers negotiating fares in lieu of using their meters. Furthermore, recently petrol prices began to steadily increase as a result of the Indian government's removal of petrol subsidies, further reducing the auto drivers' profit margin. These circumstances lead to a unique challenge as a consumer of auto services - one must learn accurate fares for various destinations as quickly as possible. Failure to do so results in grossly overpaying and acquiring the reputation of a consumer that grossly overpays for auto services.<br />
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Over time my frenemy has developed an interesting business model of calculating fares. Each driver bases fares on answers to the following questions: <br />
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1. Does the potential passenger look like they come from Chennai? In my case, the driver assumes I am a tourist - the biggest prize to fleece. I do not blend in - making the case that I know fares and my way around this city - is particularly difficult.<br />
2. Is he or she in a hurry? Showing stress, impatience, and fear will raise the fare accordingly.<br />
3. Is it raining? Alternatively, is the potential passenger sweating profusely after spending a few minutes in the blazing sun? Fares fluctuate depending on the strength of the rain or heat/sun.<br />
4. Does the passenger speak Tamil? Sadly, my Tamil skills melted into the haze, the only exception - I am can still give directions and bargain in Tamil.<br />
5. Are there other autos around? Fares fluctuate according to the number of other auto drivers hanging around. However, if other drivers decide to help their buddy negotiate, the passenger loses ground quickly.<br />
6. Is it after 10 PM? Fares at night arbitrarily rise. If there are no other auto drivers around, your bargaining power does not exist.<br />
7. Is the passenger a regular customer? A passenger that engages an auto driver regularly, contributes to the auto driver's income regularly, thus creating a disincentive to fleece more than acceptable.<br />
8. Does the passenger have change? Lack of change will result in very expensive auto rides as, inevitably, no auto driver is willing to part with his change - most claim not to have any change even as early in the morning as 7:15 AM. <br />
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I generally like the auto guys that hang out across the street. We agreed on prices to my yoga place and work. The drivers at the auto stand down the block from our house will usually give us really crappy deals, thus I stay away from that auto stand. I usually return from work during rush hour with many autos passing my office-building and tend to negotiate with moderate success. To avoid very expensive auto rides, I've began hoarding change, which makes my wallet really full - even though I am not carrying much cash in terms of absolute value. I've generally failed at negotiating rides that take place less regularly even if I need to go pretty close to my house. Every new route, even if the auto driver I am negotiating with knows me and takes me somewhere on a regular basis, turns into an epic battle of the wills. Since I am usually in a hurry and running late, I lose.<br />
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I've recently noticed that I have a much less sunny personality when negotiating fares, but a girl must do what a girl must do, to get from point A to point B.<br />
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In the great words of Ostap Bender of The Golden Calf by Ilf and Petrov:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"<span style="color: windowtext;">Автомобиль не роскошь, а средство передвижения</span>"</span> = "The auto is not a luxury but a means of transportation"<br />
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Since we are still waiting for our car - rumor has it we will get it soon - I live to fight...I mean negotiate, another day.<br />
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-49442599340688937952011-10-23T02:16:00.000-07:002011-10-23T03:31:22.631-07:00In the Land of Yoga: This White Girl Sweats (Profusely)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As some friends observed to me recently, I have been rather stingy on the posts. I apologize, life got hectic and sadly blogging fell by the wayside. I am trying to make it up, hence the flurry of posts. Currently, I am in a reflective mood - possibly because we are working out the details of a trip to Kerala aka G-d's Country coming up with two wonderful friends serving in the Gulf. In 2 weeks, when we see them, it will be about a year since our eyes welled up seeing them off to their respective destination. Our friends, posted in the Gulf miss greenery and us, of course - so they are super excited to explore post-monsoon Kerala. This will also be our first venture into G-d's Country. Additionally, my parents arrive in just 6 short weeks and I am in charge of planning our extended foray into the North of the country. My boss is not amused at the moment - I am taking more vacation days than the company allows - but who are we if we are not surrounded by the love and warmth of family - sad, lost souls.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Right, this white girl discovered Ashtanga Yoga. Following in the footsteps of a few foreign service spouses that joined this, for now lets call it "studio," I discovered a wonderful fitness routine. The Orion Health Centre is my happy place, the place where everyone knows my name - in four short months, mainly because the instructors admonish me on forgetting the sequence of my routine - my peaceful place, my balance restoring place, and the only place where I have been able to shed my New York OCD frame of mind. I love going to Orion and am so grateful that a spouse that recently departed India for an onwards assignment discovered this wonderful space.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Orion Health Centre does not stray far from the usual business structure - one can get their dental checkup, get an ultrasound and cardiogram, get their blood-work done, and finally get their yoga routine at the very top floor of the complex. This place is not your yoga studio in the Western sense - organized classes with instructors calling out each move, while monitoring how the students move - Ashtanga Yoga at Orion is a place where people go regularly, not so regularly, drop in and out, and people are comfortable sharing recent aches and pains and health issues with the three instructors. You find very few ex-pats at Orion. What you find is a sense of chosen family. Although, I remember VERY few things from Hebrew school, I remember this proverb "G-d chooses your family, but to make up for your lack of choice in that respect G-d lets you choose your friends" - please don't quote me, but this is the gist. I feel this way about Orion - the three people running this place create an atmosphere of comfort, acceptance, and family. I don't know how to explain it exactly, but I tell you whatever they are doing works!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since I am an economist, I also look at pricing. I've dabbled in yoga in the US, but the price tag of this type of routine is high. In DC a 16 class card costs your $200 USD per month. In NYC you will pay $460 for a 30 day class card - if you go 5 times a week this covers 6 weeks. Now that I started going 5-6 times a week for the month I pay a mere 3000 INR ($ 60 USD) - this buys be 20-24 classes a month. Hot yoga - all the craze in the US - since there is no AC - no extra charge. For 60 USD you get access to three wonderful yoga instructors, who watch over you like hawks or if you want to be less dramatic private teachers. For example, I sweat profusely - someone told me it takes about a year to get used to a different climate - at first this made the instructors nervous - so they would make me lie down and nap for 10-20 minute increments - just to make sure that I don't collapse and hurt myself.I still sweat profusely, but the yoga instructors got used to my dripping form, which does not serve as a precursor to passing out.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benefits? The 12 unattractive pounds that I put on working comparatively long and sedentary hours in DC as a consultant are now history! I feel more energetic and focused at work - I go at about 7:15 AM every workday - and I feel stronger and less out of breath walking around Chennai. I look more toned and am happier. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.S. My husband voluntarily - don't let him fool you into thinking otherwise - joined me for yoga on Saturday mornings. I observed a serious temperature difference between coming at 7:15 and 9:00 AM. </span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samantha needs no yoga for balance</td></tr>
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-5326546170089381332011-10-22T06:40:00.000-07:002011-10-22T06:41:42.714-07:00Working in the local economy - not impossible and rewarding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So here I am, on Saturday following in my mother's footsteps - I am using amazing Trader Joe's Brownie Truffle Baking Mix to bake. I am not sure TJ's will appreciate this, but my mom made some substitutions. A few years ago my mother one of her moments to brilliance and replaced butter with Disaronno which resulted in out of this world fluffy, light and delicious - sadly not kid friendly - brownies. Thanks mom! Unfortunately Disaronno is unavailable in our commissary I had to substitute with Baileys and am experimenting with adding little pieces of pineapple for a little zing. While mixing the brownies I found myself musing about where I am and what it all means.<br />
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While my browser is open to about 20 different Indian microfinance articles - the subject of my next past - I want to step back and think about my life. When my husband decided to join the foreign service, I was rather apprehensive. We were getting a great life - my husband his dream job and we both would get a chance to explore the world in ways that many people cannot even fathom. Great! So here is the hitch, my own job prospects and earning potential would plummet as we crossed the border. You think unemployment in the US is bad - as far as I remember from my spousal orientation session out of all spouses and partners that want to work, about 45% actually succeed in securing jobs. However, I make up a tiny positive part of that statistic, because I am part of the tiny minority that works in the local economy. When asked about local employment, most people sigh and say that finding a job is impossible and working in the local economy turns out to be more difficult lower paid than its worth.<br />
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I am here to present the opposite case. Working in the local economy has its tradeoffs and is not for everybody. Personally, I feel I traded pay and vacation for my dream job. In the local economy you don't get both local and US holidays. Your pay, will likely not much lower than you are used to. I mean hell, I think I make less than a pimply teenager flipping burgers in DC. However, in my opinion, if you are willing to look at working in the local economy the payoffs, are tremendous. You can find your dream job, you can reinvent yourself professionally and your education and skills if you are outside of Western Europe - lets get real how many diplomats get to serve in Western Europe - are in high demand!<br />
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When I worked as a consultant in DC, I met with my former employer's India expert. She condescendingly informed me that my job prospects were severely limited. According to her, the best I can do for myself in India; teach English and write press releases for a company with business interests in the West. I was devastated, but when I got over the ego blow, I thought logically. I have a MA in international economics from a top tier US graduate school. English is one of two of India's languages of business, surely more opportunities exist in addition to teaching English? I worked really hard. I got out of my shell and networked like a crazy person. I spoke to anyone willing to listen and think about job options in India. I learned about the local job market. I learned about bilateral employment agreements - especially the one between India and the US. I bugged the local mission about work permit procedures. I went on informational interviews.<br />
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Finally I hit my professional jackpot - I was connected with a SAIS alum at a DC economic consulting firm and he passed on my resume to the firm's office in Chennai. The alum and one of the senior staffers from the India office interviewed me in DC and offered me a job - as an economist! This all happened before my arrival, so I advise; fulfilling your professional dreams takes time so its never too early to start. While the spouse trains in DC, the capital of networking - talk to people, think about your options, contact your mission's community liaison officer and local US trade representative. I love that I get to get out of the community to do something both challenging and rewarding. I am growing professionally and am satisfied with my choice.<br />
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With that said, I could not have done it without a few wonderful people. First of all my loving, supportive and patient husband - he was there cheering me on even when I felt completely insecure. My wonderful co-worker from my DC consultancy - who is now getting his MIPP at the Kennedy School at Harvard - who connected me with a SAIS alum at my current job. The SAIS alum that made time for me and passed on my resume to the firm's Chennai office. The US Department of Trade officer and his spouse who both pointed me in the right direction, provided me with local economy information, salary levels and negotiation options, and took me step by step through an Indian employment contract, and supported me in my endeavors - even though they knew me via email. I could not have done this without kind and supportive people that I met in my journey to Chennai.<br />
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My point - don't give up your dreams and ambitions and settle. Look at your choices and frankly weigh each option's pros and cons. Don't let people tell you that you are not good enough and finding what you want is impossible. You have choices as a diplomatic spouse and choices outside of the mission might be more interesting and rewarding than you expect. <br />
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-65086533212583587262011-10-18T09:19:00.000-07:002011-10-18T09:20:19.558-07:00India in photos - Bangalore September 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;">I accompanied my husband to Bangalore - he went for work - I went to network and explore the city. Ahh, the first place in India where I felt a - gasp - chill, for the first time in 4 months. Here are some pictures:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you are a male politician and you want to get elected - you kind of need a mustache...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">patriotic steps</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a bit disconcerting - and we could not figure out where he was pointing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...just in case you really needed to...spit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virgin...keeping it classy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bull temple</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">prayers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shiva</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bangles and prayers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">looking at this photo - it somehow felt wrong</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Idlee - healthy and delicious - competition at its best</td></tr>
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-67061112140339853402011-10-18T09:04:00.000-07:002011-10-18T09:04:36.447-07:00India in photos - Hyderabad August 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In August we flew to Hyderabad for the weekend and we absolutely loved it! Hyderabad is gorgeous, the food is amazing and it was so much fun to ramble around for a few days. Here are some of my pictures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golconda Fort - gate<span id="goog_1192181663"></span><span id="goog_1192181664"></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we made some friends</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tombs of the Nizam kings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">an old hospital</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Charminar - so beautiful</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">view from the Charminar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Makka Mosque</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Makka Mosque up close</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">State Supreme Court</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tombs of family close to the Nizam rulers - check out your Planet guidebook - this complex is really hard to find, but really worth the search.<span id="goog_1192181719"></span><span id="goog_1192181720"></span></td></tr>
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-2602243430794397122011-10-18T08:36:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:38:08.638-07:00India in photos - Mahabalipuram July 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Our first adventure after arrival in Chennai was a weekend at Ideal Beach Resort in July 2011. My loving husband renamed it Adequate Beach Resort, because...well it was adequate if nothing else. Luckily adequate beach was close to the Shore Temple, stonemasons, and other sites. I posted some of the pictures below:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY came to South Asia - this is it.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For some reason this complex was never consecrated</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shore Temple - the only one that survived the tsunami in 2004</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> - truly spectacular</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the most lifelike depiction of an elephant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am kind of embarrassed to admit this, but the reason there is a flood of photo posts is because I figured out how to post photos on my blog...</td></tr>
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-39327990853757068732011-10-18T07:58:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:02:55.182-07:00India in photos - view from our roof in Chennai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right before a rainstorm</td></tr>
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-63155099870161115762011-10-18T07:52:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:39:28.811-07:00India in photos - Delhi June 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Red Fort during the hottest part of the day - scorching!</td></tr>
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</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-56695817634881326842011-09-21T11:07:00.000-07:002011-09-21T11:18:01.333-07:00News at 11: Used Car Dealer Disappoints Consumer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I feel like the title of today's blog should be a headline in "The Onion." My husband tried to buy a used car. Since most diplomatic vehicles were already sold, we asked some questions, asked for recommendations of a reputable used car dealership, did our homework and ventured into the local used car market. <br />
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We looked at cars, we rubbed our chins and discussed cars. Although, I don't want to fool you, I know nothing about cars, besides the fact that their purpose is to get you from point A to point B. We engaged a mechanic to look at finalists and finally made up our mind. We settled on a modest 2008 Hyundai Xanto(?) with fairly low mileage. Relieved that we found a suitable vehicle to get us from many point A's to just as many point B's. We bargained and settled on a used car price that would infuse between 4 and 5 times an average Indian annual salary, which hovers at around $1200 USD. We gleefully gave a deposit of - gasp 50000 INR or just over $200 and started filling out an application with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to get permission to buy a car. The MEA permission is tied to the person, you say? Well, no that is not the case in India. MEA permission to buy a car is tied to the car. So we wait, and wait, and wait. We are told, "well, just another few days and everything will be settled." We hire a driver for when we receive...may I say it out loud....our car?<br />
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Approximately, seven weeks later we finally receive a "preliminary" approval for the sale. The MEA approval depends on one little thing. Nothing really, a document which the legal owner of the car has to obtain from his local police precinct. Basically, this document will say that there are no open investigations, tickets, ect in relations to the car. Indian law requires this document to approve sales of used cars to everyone living in the country foreigners and Indian nationals. A fairly straightforward and logical procedure, unless the owner will "under no circumstances" go to the police to get the aforementioned document, which invalidates our purchase. Since the MEA permission was tied to the car and not the buyer, to buy another car we start at the beginning.<br />
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After we found out we were not getting the 2008 Huyndai Xanto, we thought again. We looked at options that minimize our risks, albeit more expensive. We decided to buy a new car - from a factory. A few of my husband's co-workers traveled down that particular car acquisition road and we decided to follow them. This is where the situation gets more Kafka-esque. We need permission from the MEA for a car that does not yet exist. The factory cannot build this non-existent car without us obtaining permission to buy this non-existent car. We will also have to pay up-front before the non-existent car gets built. Sigh.<br />
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So here we are, waiting for permission from the Indian government to buy a non-existent car. <br />
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In other news, I got my work authorization from the same agency lightening fast - faster than getting permission to dump 4 times the average annual salary into the local economy. The funny thing is that the MEA permission to buy a car was processed in the local MEA office in Chennai and my work permit went through Delhi. Go figure right? Government bureaucracies work in mysterious ways.<br />
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I will do a write-up on my employment process begging to end, because you know what fellow diplo dependents, there is a great big world outside of your local mission and I am living proof that finding a job in the local economy is in fact possible.<br />
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Stay tuned folks!</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-73588048457241007782011-07-11T04:58:00.000-07:002011-07-11T04:58:39.747-07:00A few personal observations of India<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>TA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">A few of you wrote to me asking for my impressions on India. Full disclosure, I left to go see my amazing friend S. get married to the love of her live E. in Israel about a week after my arrival in Chennai, so my observations, while personal and authentic, cover only a brief stay in India. So here goes…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Darwinian driving rules & maximization of available space</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So remember that game from the ’80 – I don’t remember the name, but the interface was pretty simple and the player needed to wade through oncoming cars. I describe driving, walking and biking in Chennai as a happy mutation between this game, whose name escapes me, and Tetris. On the other hand, if you happen to be the pedestrian in this environment, you are basically packman’s prey. The rules of driving in Chennai are simple, survival of the fittest and largest. Buses yield to no one, and I mean NO ONE, while trucks yield to buses. There exists a separate hierarchy among trucks depending on size gasoline and refuse carriers are at the top of the hierarchy, while small TATA made trucks and auto rickshaw trucks exist at the very bottom. Cars yield to trucks and buses, although this also depends on their size. SUVs have freer rein on the road than, let’s say ford fiestas. Auto rickshaws, or simply “autos”, yield to all cars, trucks and buses. Motorcycles and Mopeds yield to buses, trucks, cars, and “autos.” People who ride bikes yield to motorcycles, mopeds, “autos,” cars, trucks and buses. The pedestrian, as you may have already guessed occupies the bottom of this Darwinian road hierarchy. With sidewalks virtually non-existent, life of the pedestrian, yours truly, is at the same time adrenaline-inducing and terrifying. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">People don’t usually wear seatbelts. “Autos” do not have any seatbelts at all. Commuters make use of every available inch of seating in all vehicles. Pretty often one can spot a man, his wife and infant on the same moped, sans safety belts and helmets. Considering the Darwinian driving environment, families on bikes take serious risks getting on the road. Ahh, the “auto” quite comfortable in the heat while moving, sticky and not so fun when your driver stops at a gas station, about 25 m from when you got on and negotiated your destination and fare. Fare negotiations are a challenge. Don’t get me wrong, I am not fooling myself into believing I am getting a fair price, I am as pale as any human you may encounter in life. However I take offence at getting highway robbery rates. Having spent significant time periods in the Middle East, haggling for a moderately fair price is a way of life; otherwise the person providing you with the service will not respect you. I stand on principle. Speaking a few words of Tamil both generates good will and easier rate negotiation with “auto” drivers. Even though, the stakes of this price negotiation are minimal, I haggle with pride. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pants optional</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Due to the extremely hot and humid climate in Chennai and other parts of India, some men wear lungi instead of pants. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungi">lungi,</a> also known as a sarong, is a long garment worn around the waist by South Asian men. I knew that, but what I did not know is that there is a summer knee length lungi, also popular in town. Rewrapping your lungi in the middle of the street is also perfectly acceptable. Watch out girls, if your legs are not covered, you get stares from men. With that said, unlike in Delhi men will not harass you. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Malls & Bathrooms</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The malls in Chennai encompass more space than I noticed in any other public or retail spaces in this city. Malls here take up significant space and feature a wide selection of Western-style women’s clothing. However, most people you encounter on the streets, including expats do not wear Western-style clothing. The very humid and hot climate of Chennai and its surrounding areas makes it virtually impossible to wear fabrics and styles which we wear in the West. Besides the lack of comfort in with type of clothing, Western-style clothing does not hold up to the number of washes needed to keep clothes fresh and clean. So who actually buys these clothes? How do these stores justify paying their rent? I am not sure yet, but when I find out, I will definitely share my findings. Oh, we also passed a store exclusively for grooms; I offered to get married to A. once again just to see him with in full South Indian wedding regalia on a white horse. Also I believe I can totally rock the red and gold sari, with my weight in gold jewelry.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Last weekend A. and I went to our first movie in India and we went to see X-men. The movie theater felt like a nightclub, complete with a bouncer at the door, wonderful AC, and pumping techno. The screening rooms had seats for couples and singles, a first for me. Halfway through the movie we got an intermission followed by about 20 minutes of ads from local merchants. I went to the toilet and felt like a queen. I literally sat on a toilet throne, installed on a raised platform. The stalls also featured a yet to be connected sink, dryer, and a decorative fountain. The working sinks in the more public area of the ladies’ room were pretty cool. There were no sinks per say, just a solid slab of marble with water spouts positioned just above the slab. The motion activated water spouts and water drained behind the slab of marble to a hidden drainage ditch. Oh yes, our tickets cost $6 for the two of us.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Miscellaneous</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Before departure, our State Department nurse instructed us to brush our teeth with filtered water as unfiltered water is not so safe in this neck of the woods. We’ve also been ordering drinks with no ice as a precaution. I went shopping with two of my husband’s co-workers and brought my first salwar kameez (kurta and dupatta as its called in Chennai). The outfit includes a fuchsia pair of pants – I think more fabric went in the making of the pants than the shirt (kurta). The pants can comfortably fit three of me. Our cook-maid remarked that I was wearing a lunghi, which is what men wear here in lieu of pants. I was wearing a halter dress which ties around my neck. Watch out ladies, apparently I am now a trend setter!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Enough with the personal stuff, next up – markets!</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-73912223469533422322011-06-17T04:53:00.000-07:002011-06-19T10:25:17.698-07:00Namaste & Vannakam India!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</style>Packing out seems like a distant bad dream. It has been a while since I wrote and I think I am long overdue. Since the last time you tuned in, the following things happened: we packed all of our things and three separate groups of our stuff left our apartment. We put kitty into a minimum-security prison for cat crimes she did not commit and will all be (hopefully) reunited in India on Saturday. My husband and I attended his sister’s wedding at Martha’s Vineyard and left on our deferred honeymoon in Spain. Spain was gorgeous and we got to see Seville, Granada, Cordoba, stay in a little town on Costa del Sol, drove terrifying mountain roads to Malaga, Cadiz, and Ronda. We ended our wonderful vacation in Madrid, where we got to experience a natural phenomenon I don’t anticipate in India – feeling cold in the rain. All in all, the trip turned out wonderfully </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After a minor skirmish with Lufthansa over not having a paper ticket – does anyone travel on paper tickets anymore – we left for Frankfurt. In Frankfurt we boarded another flight bound for Delhi. The crew called for people in need of special help to board, followed by first and business classes, and then we waited and waited as the crowd by the boarding counter swelled. This was no organized line with individuals and families standing neatly behind each other, it was more like a mushroom cloud made up of people shifting and jostling for a space a few inches ahead of each other. We watched the anxious crowd too tired to join. In about 30 minutes however we said to each other, “well we won’t be the suckers” and joined the surging crowd. About ten minutes later general boarding was finally called and the remaining 5 passengers stood up to board. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In Delhi, we stepped out of the Indira Gandhi International Airport at a brisk 1:30 AM, into what felt like a blow dryer set on high. I had a similar feeling in Eilat, although I think it wasn’t as humid. So, no real chance of feeling cold for the next two years! Delhi was oppressively hot, I mean look I’ve been to places where I sweated my share, but the heat was pretty intense. We were in Delhi for tow days, Sunday and Monday. On Sunday we went sightseeing and on Monday both my husband and I met our respective new bosses.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A friend, who just arrived for a job in Delhi a few days ahead of us, joined us for some sightseeing. We booked a car with a driver and AC. The AC worked, but I think it was no match for midday heat. Every time we passed by a traffic police post, our driver strapped his seat-belt across his lap, stopping just short of clicking it in place. We arrived at the <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Red_Fort">Red Fort</a> during the hottest part of the day and encountered a snaking line as far as our eyes could see. On a side-note, entering the museum compound we all went through metal detectors – they were turned off. So yeah, back to that line, enormous. As the three of us faced each other in the midday heat we exchanged the same thought, standing in this line we will drop dead before we reach the fort gates. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We brought tickets at a hugely inflated price for foreign tourists 25 times the cost of a regular ticket. Funny thing, people with diplomatic IDs pay local prices for admission to museums, while diplomatic passports do not grant the bearer the same cost of admission, makes sense right? I actually don’t mind spending more on museums as I see this as a donation for upkeep. With tickets clutched in our sweaty hands we proceeded to go down a lane leading to the entrance of the fort, which had no line - it turned out that we were walking in the “ladies” section of the security line. Nearing the entrance my husband was waved into the men’s security line as we proceeded through another set of switched off metal detectors. Why? I really could not tell you.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Red Fort, built in the 17<sup>th</sup> century by Shah Jahan, the Mughal Emperor and served as the residence for the Shah’s family. The Fort and its gardens are gorgeous, while the complex’s mosque was closed for renovation; we had plenty of ground to explore. There were not that many western tourists, they were probably smart enough to stay away at 1 PM in 115 or 120 degree heat, but there were lots of Indian families hanging out, resting in the shade and picnicking. As we wandered around the complex, a family on vacation invited us to be in their snapshots. I think I caught some Tamil words, so they might have come to the North from Tamil Nadu for vacation. It was sweet and we were flattered. There was quite a bit more staring, not of the pleasant variety. Some teenage boys kept taking pictures of my friend and I, which was a bit annoying, but maybe they have yet to discover the internet in all of its exhibitionist glory, who knows?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On Monday, we headed to the airport once more. Passengers started boarding our Air India flight to Chennai before the flight was actually announced. As passengers spotted someone in a wheelchair taken on board, they surged to the boarding counter. The flight was on time and uneventful, my favorite kind of travel. Sadly, the duration of the flight was too short for us to see the ending of a Bollywood rendition of Back to the Future. I did not even catch the name of the movie, which was deliciously over the top and had a number of well choreographed dance numbers. Bleary eyed and viciously jetlagged we arrived in Chennai at 12:30 AM. I went to the bathroom, which I rate as pretty clean for the late hour and public space. I entered the first stall and did not see toilet paper and went to the next stall, where I saw my old friend, the squat and hover toilet. Its been a while old friend, we have not met since Kyiv. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">My husband’s social sponsor met us at the airport with a rather large van and driver. For those of you that switched schools, the social sponsor is your school assigned buddy; someone that shows you around the new place, explains about how things work and answers your questions. The family that sponsored our arrival is really nice and have been showing us around and letting me use their car and driver during the day for errands. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So far I really like India. I’ve had great food, it is not a problem to find veggie options on the menu and I do not need to explain what does not belong in my meal. I keep kosher and since there are no kosher restaurants and butcher, I plan to stay vegetarian occasionally eating fish. Prior to my arrival, I received a written offer to work as an economist for an economic consulting firm. The bad news is that I can’t start working yet. I need to receive my diplomatic ID and then apply for a work permit. The dip ID takes at least 3 weeks and work authorization from 1-6 months. So for now I am just hanging out and hoping against hope that the administrative process will not take too long. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have been unpacking and making things neater around our fabulously large apartment. After grad school, housemates and our 600 sq ft apt in NOVA, our new place is big enough that if we wanted to we could roller skate from room to room. Our first shipment is supposed to arrive sometime next week while the large shipment will probably come at the beginning of August. I have been trying to set things up around the house, but was surprised to learn that I actually cannot put in maintenance orders or set up our home internet service. “Madam cannot place orders. Madam’s husband must come and speak to me in my office and then send a confirmation email with request.” Hmmm, ok but here is the catch, madam’s husband has a day job with, you know meetings, and trainings, and such, and at the moment madam has the time to take care of these things. Thus far the aforementioned argument has not worked. Recently, our really nice and friendly downstairs neighbor offered to share her wireless with us until we get out internet hooked up and I accepted the offer enthusiastically. Having access to internet feels great. Last but not least, currently in rolling blackout mode, I am quite grateful to our landlord for electrical generators.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On Monday, I leave to attend the wedding of a dear friend S. S. held one of our chuppah (wedding canopy) poles and has been a wonderful friend. I am honored and overjoyed to share her wedding celebrations. I arrive with ample time to see other friends and family. Hopefully, shortly after my return I will hold my brand new and shiny dip ID in my sweaty hands. Speaking of schwitzing, my beautician in NY was absolutely right, humidity does wonders for one’s skin, helping us fight mother - nature and banishing wrinkles for just a little longer. Cheers from India!</div><br />
</div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-85899879136976390752011-05-10T20:38:00.000-07:002011-05-10T20:38:16.826-07:00Summer is in the air…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>TA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Summer means sunshine, frilly dresses, sandals, hats, burgeoning complexes about one’s appearance in a bikini, and of course ample sunscreen protection. I got all those things covered, but let’s face I am not the kind of girl that blogs about that sort of thing. I do however want to establish my nerd-tastic street credibility, so I write about…drum roll please…free trade agreements! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">First things first, definitions; a free trade agreement establishes a relationship of free trade between two or more countries. Free trade agreements eliminate tariffs and hindrances to movement of goods and services between signatory countries. For example, NAFTA the North American Free Trade Agreement became law in 1994 removing most barriers to trade and investment between its signatory states the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada. FTAs do not necessarily mean that capital and labor will move freely between signatory states, as is the case with common market agreements. Signatory states negotiate terms of free trade agreements, with each country aiming for greatest national benefit. Free trade agreements bring with them economic winners and losers, as the case with NAFTA, but most economists agree that free trade creates a net gain for society. I think N. Gregory Mankiw said it best, "Few propositions command as much consensus among professional economists as that open world trade increases economic growth and raises living standards."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Since 2007 India and the European Union have been negotiating a free trade agreement. The two governments completed 12 rounds of negotiations and the FTA may get signed into law either this month or at the end of June. The official name of the agreement, Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement or the BTIA encompasses a number of industries. As much as 90% of bilateral trade would be covered by the BTIA. As part of this pact India will relax its investment rules. In 2009, India and EU’s bilateral trade relationship resulted in a flow of 53 billion Euros in goods and 16 billion Euros in services. The European Union is India’s largest trading partner. While New Delhi already completed FTAs with Japan, South Korea, and ASEAN and is conducting similar agreement negotiations with Thailand and Malaysia, the India – EU FTA is by far the most ambitious trade endeavor. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Gains for both sides abound. Currently, the EU is struggling with economic woes such as slow growth, creeping unemployment, and let’s not touch Greece, Spain, and Portugal’s financial troubles. Through this FTA, the 27 nation bloc gains access to one of the fastest growing and dynamic economies in the world. With bilateral trade in goods and services between the EU and India growing, a free trade agreement will facilitate further expansion of each partners’ economy. For example, recently the EU granted duty free access to Bangladeshi manufacturers, flow of clothes from Bangladesh into the EU increased by an impressive 40% providing the producers with an extra $14 billion USD in a mere eight months. The Europeans recently negotiated an FTA with South Korea and are finishing up another FTA with Vietnam. The Europeans hope that the India FTA will trigger more free trade agreements across Asia.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">As with any free trade agreement, negotiations stalled with regard to several industries. Negotiations regarding European access to markets of auto and auto components, wines and spirits, agriculture, stricter enforcement of property rights, as well as to insurance and banking sectors. First, I will address intellectual property rights and why they matter. Second, I want to focus on access to insurance and banking sectors in India. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The European Union has been pushing for the Indian government to tighten intellectual property laws which will adversely affect India’s pharmaceutical industry. This past week India’s Prime Minister Singh instructed negotiators not to compromise the country’s stand on IPRs (intellectual property rights) with a special emphasis on pharmaceuticals. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">India and Israel are the world’s leading generic drug makers. Canada, South Africa, Brazil and Thailand also developed fairly large generic drug industries. Producing generic drugs in India costs about 35 – 40 % less than generic drugs produced in the US and the EU. Some estimates put India’s pharmaceutical industry at over $20 billion USD. About 50% of generic drugs produced in India leave the country for sale in Africa and Asia. Indian pharmaceutical companies provide antiviral medications to AIDS patients in a variety of African, Asian and South American countries at a fraction of the price of name brand medicines. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">According to Sen Gupta of the Delhi Science Forum, an NGO, from 2003 to 2008 the Indian pharmaceutical industry provided about 80% of medicines used by internationally funded AIDS treatment programs. South Africa, Brazil and Thailand all use Indian made antiviral medicines to run HIV treatment programs.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> Thailand, a country lauded for its expansive public health system may be adversely affected by stricter IPR regulation in India. With a public health system that covers approximately 96% of Thailand’s population, increases in drug prices may put the affordability of such a government safety net system into question. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Implementation of stricter IPR regulation in India will result in price increases of generic drugs that treat heart disease </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">and cancer, as well as managing AIDS. </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">As things stand, the Indian government negotiators will not go beyond domestic law and agreements signed with the WTO. With respect to taking a stricter stance on IPRs, the Europeans want data exclusivity to be part of the FTA. When a drug manufacturer, both name brand and generic, wants to introduce a drug to the market, the company needs to show clinical data that this drug is safe for public consumption. After patents expire generic drug makers use the same clinical data submitted by name brand drug manufacturers to show that their generic drugs are safe for consumption. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Data exclusivity on drugs means that the clinical safety data submitted for approval of a drug belongs exclusively to the company that submits this data. Thus with data exclusivity rules in place, after a patent of a name brand drug expires, generic drug makers will not be able to use clinical trials associated with that drug and patent to prove that the drug’s generic version is safe for consumption. Why does that matter? Generic drug makers will need to conduct their own clinical trials, which take time, labor and expense. Therefore data exclusivity rules will delay genetic medicines from entering the market. The extra expense of clinical trials the manufacturer will pass on to consumers. Additionally, if data exclusivity regulations are put in place in India, generic drugs currently produced by Indian firms will technically become illegal, since no clinical data was previously submitted, putting further stress on consumers that depend on those medicines. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Banking and Insurance Industries</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The EU negotiators also want access to Indian banking and insurance sectors. Since initial market liberalizations of the early 1990s, India’s economy grew at a healthy clip. In 2010 the Indian economy grew by 10.4%. With business booming and growth opportunities opening up every day, the banking and insurance sectors stand at the center of India’s economic growth. Start-up companies need seed money and loans, new entrants into the middle class want loans to purchase housing and other consumer goods, while other people with new disposable income think about extra financing for their children’s school fees and wedding expenses. Owners of new businesses, housing, cars and consumer goods want to insure their properties, thus it follows that demand for insurance products will also grow in this thriving economy.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Access to these growing industries in India will help the Europeans grow their own economy, as they can provide expert financial and insurance services for the growing Indian economy. If India opens up its banking and insurance to the EU opportunities for the Europeans abound. However, India has been very careful about opening its markets, careful at calibrating local employment and industrial demands while taking advantage of opportunities offered by foreign investments and experts. Currently, foreign firms such as large supermarket chains and furniture stores have had no success in accessing local retail markets. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">As any trade agreement, the India – EU FTA will bring tremendous growth opportunities for both the Europeans and Indians, however as any economic policy the agreement will also negatively affect the livelihoods of people in both countries. With that said, the estimated benefit for both partners of this FTA amounts to a boost of 160 billion Euros by 2015, a sizable net gain for society.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span> </span> </span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Balakrishnan, Reghu “</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Pharma MNCs take JV route for India</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">” <u>The Business Standard</u>. 17 April 2011 <<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pharma-mncs-take-jv-route-for-india/432494/">http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pharma-mncs-take-jv-route-for-india/432494/</a>></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Chatterjee, Patralekha “<a href="" name="citation">India-EU free-trade pact could stifle generics industry.</a>” <u>The Lancet</u>. 16 April 2011. Vol. 377 Issue 9774, p1305-1306. </span></span></h1><h3><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Chatterjee, Patralekha “</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/723" title="Permanent Link: India combats confusion over counterfeit drugs"><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">India combats confusion over counterfeit drugs</span></a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">” <u>The Lancet</u>. 13 February 2011 <<a href="http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/723">http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com/archives/723</a>></span></span></h3><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Devraj, Rajeet “INDIA: EU Trade Deal May Curb Affordable Drug Supply | IBSA” <u>IBSA</u>. 24 March 2011 <<a href="http://www.ibsanews.com/india-eu-trade-deal-may-curb-affordable-drug-supply/">http://www.ibsanews.com/india-eu-trade-deal-may-curb-affordable-drug-supply/</a>></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span></span></h1><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">“EU-India free trade agreement and impact on generics”</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><u><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Genetics and Biosimilars Initiative</span></u><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">. 29 April 2011 <<a href="http://www.gabionline.net/Generics/General/EU-India-free-trade-agreement-and-impact-on-generics">http://www.gabionline.net/Generics/General/EU-India-free-trade-agreement-and-impact-on-generics</a>></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></h2><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Gupta, Surojit “India-EU FTA talks in crucial phase” <u>The Times of India</u>. 5 May 2011 <<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-26/india-business/29474428_1_india-fta-eu-officials-senior-eu-diplomat">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-26/india-business/29474428_1_india-fta-eu-officials-senior-eu-diplomat</a>></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">“India v China: The X Factor” <u>The Economist</u>. 23 April 2011. <<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/18586836?story_id=18586836">http://www.economist.com/node/18586836?story_id=18586836</a>></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">India, EU step up efforts to reach FTA this year</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">” The Business Standard. 18 April 2011 <<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-eu-stepefforts-to-reach-fta-this-year/132472/on">http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-eu-stepefforts-to-reach-fta-this-year/132472/on</a>></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>“India not for IPR beyond domestic law in FTA with EU: PM” <u>IBN<span> </span>Live</u>. 30 April 2011 <<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/india-not-for-ipr-beyond-domestic-law-in-fta-with-eu-pm/667668.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/india-not-for-ipr-beyond-domestic-law-in-fta-with-eu-pm/667668.html</a>></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">“India, Mercosur ‘must withstand EU pharma demands’” <u>Pharma Times Online</u>. 05 May 2011 <<a href="http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/11-05-05/India_Mercosur_must_withstand_EU_pharma_demands.aspx">http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/11-05-05/India_Mercosur_must_withstand_EU_pharma_demands.aspx</a>></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Mehdudia, Sujay “PM’s Trade and Economic Committee to review trade treaties” <u>The Hindu</u>. 28 April 2011 <<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/article1818790.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/article1818790.ece</a>></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Mukherjee, Pranab “India not to dilute stand on intellectual property rights” <u>The Economic Times</u>. 2 May 2011 <<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-05-02/news/29496250_1_trade-pact-india-eu-bilateral-trade-intellectual-property-rights">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-05-02/news/29496250_1_trade-pact-india-eu-bilateral-trade-intellectual-property-rights</a>></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">“No compromise in our stance on IPR, says India” <u>Deccan Herald</u>. 30 April 2011 <</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/157977/no-compromise-our-stance-ipr.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/157977/no-compromise-our-stance-ipr.html</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Sen, Amiti “India, European Union closer to free trade agreement” <u>The Economic Times.</u> 13 April 2011 <<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-04-13/news/29413626_1_free-trade-auto-parts-partner-with-bilateral-trade">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-04-13/news/29413626_1_free-trade-auto-parts-partner-with-bilateral-trade</a>></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Sharma, Vijay “PM Committee asks Commerce ministry to go easy on India-EU trade pact” <u>Real Time News</u>. 30 April 2011 <</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><a href="http://rtn.asia/314_pm-committee-asks-commerce-ministry-go-easy-india-eu-trade-pact"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://rtn.asia/314_pm-committee-asks-commerce-ministry-go-easy-india-eu-trade-pact</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Singh, Manmohan “India to talk tough on IPR issue in free trade talks with EU” <u>The Times of India</u>. 1 May 2011 <</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-01/india/29492970_1_free-trade-pact-joint-study-group-largest-trading-partner">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-01/india/29492970_1_free-trade-pact-joint-study-group-largest-trading-partner</a>></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Singh favours strict rules for drug trade” <u>The Telegraph</u>. 1 May 2011. <<a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110501/jsp/business/story_13925562.jsp">http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110501/jsp/business/story_13925562.jsp#</a>></span></span></div><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Srivastava, Shruti “India-EU FTA likely by end of June, says commerce secy” <u>Indian Express.com.</u> 5 May 2011 <<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/India-EU-FTA-likely-by-end-of-June--says-commerce-secy/786075/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/India-EU-FTA-likely-by-end-of-June--says-commerce-secy/786075/</a>></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“The Arab spring’s chill winds” <u>The Economist</u>. 23 April 2011 <<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/18587630?story_id=18587630">http://www.economist.com/node/18587630?story_id=18587630</a>></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Will free trade prevail?”</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> <a href="" title="Search for Pharmaceutical Technology Europe">Pharmaceutical Technology Europe</a>; Apr2011, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p8-8, 2/3p</span></span></div></div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-21562669549611256342011-04-27T15:13:00.000-07:002011-04-27T16:35:07.073-07:00Reflections on Passover<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Monday night was the last Passover Seder. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover">Passover</a> - Jewish holiday recounting the Hebrews' deliverance from bondage of slavery, and it holds a special place in my heart. Passover is my favorite holiday, despite the havoc it wreaks on my digestive system. I am part of a rather large exodus of members of the tribe from the Former Soviet Union. While some tribe members headed for the State of Israel, after a brief and intense altercation with representatives of the Jewish Agency for Israel my mother made up her mind that America was the place for our family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">My earliest childhood memories consist of celebrating Passover by watching our family's matzo emerge from an anonymous paper bag and several pillowcases. Matzoh secretly procured by my grandmother from the only functioning synagogue in Kyiv, the city of my birth, was not technically illegal, but getting caught with the bread of affliction bore dire consequences for its owner. In the privacy of our own apartment, my family gathered, ate way too much, drank the obligatory four glasses of wine, sang, and played while recounting the story of Exodus. I do not recall ever opening the door for the prophet Elijah, which would have most likely cost my parents and grandparents their jobs. So, not so different from how we celebrate Passover in America, well except for that part where discovery of my family’s celebration would have wreaked havoc on our existence in the USSR. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Every year, I think of how my mother and I left the Soviet Union. Our exit visas were creative in their wording. My mom was ceremoniously stripped of her citizenship; I was not old enough to hold citizenship. My mom and I packed our lives into two suitcases, a maximum of suitcases allowed by the Soviet government for the two of us. Blankets, pillows and sheets took up one of these suitcases. The government allowed us to take only $150 USD. Going through customs border patrol officers searched both our suitcases and persons. My mom lost an extra can of coffee during the search. I am not sure how the officer that confiscated the can of coffee survived to live another day, as my mom describes herself as a coffee addict. I am pretty sure, the officer in question made a lifelong enemy. We’ve lived in America for 21 years, but for my mom the coffee can episode feels like it happened yesterday. So there we were, stateless, pretty much penniless, I mean let’s face it $150 was not much in 1989 either; the very definition of refugees. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">While I am leaving out a lot of details of the history of how I became a proud American, I will leave you with the following thoughts. I am proud to be an American, as the country singer croons. America accepted my tiny family and gave us freedom, protection, and opportunity. Instead of making me feel small my teachers encouraged and supported my budding talents and skills. I went to a first rate public high school where I thrived. I received scholarships and government backed student loans to study at NYU. I studied, worked, volunteered and thrived. I paid off my undergraduate debt, saved and was accepted into one of the best graduate programs in the country. Yay for <a href="http://www.sais-jhu.edu/">SAIS Hopkins</a>! I plunked my entire savings into my graduate education. In addition to recieving a first rate graduate education, I met the love of my life. I love my life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">It is funny, that I think about this pretty much on Passover as we read the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggadah_of_Pesach">Haggadah</a>; which documents the story of the Hebrews’ Exodus from Egypt. With each succeeding year I recount more and more wonderful things that would not be possible had my mom and I not lived through our very own Exodus. I am so grateful for my chance. In Hebrew school we learn from the book of Exodus to: “welcome the stranger,” “protect the stranger,” “have one law for the stranger and the citizen among you” because “you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” As our departure swiftly approaches and we pack up our lives, I think about my first Exodus. I think about becoming a stranger in a strange land, well not in the same way that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land">Robert Heinlein</a> put it, well you know what I mean. It is a funny feeling packing up your life. I can’t help but think about how my mom did this all by herself.</span></span><br />
<h1><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-weight: normal;">On a lighter note... or on second thought not so much, I submit this Passover themed strategic post<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/god-as-a-general-passovers-lessons-for-warfare/"> “God as a General: Passover’s Lessons for Warfare.”</a></span></span></h1></div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-62617704173124651962011-04-19T15:06:00.000-07:002011-04-19T15:06:36.217-07:00Holy Moly I am no Longer in Denial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>TA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I interrupt my weekly sometimes cerebral posts for pack-out prep. So for the past few weeks, whenever I met someone I got the same range of questions from almost everyone.<span> </span>“So you guys are leaving pretty soon?” “Yes, we are leaving___” (insert approximate weekly countdown).<span> </span>“So how is the packing going?” My response “Ummm, err, yeah, A. started consumption excel spreadsheets and has been updating our consumption patterns. Currently, I am in denial.” Yes about that - I am no longer in denial. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So why are you keeping track of your consumption habits, both human and feline, for that matter, you ask? For certain “hardship” posts the FSO in question gets an extra consumables shipping allowance besides stuff that he/she owns, the allowance grows as the family grows, as let’s face it kiddos also come with a lot of stuff. The consumables allowance, includes things that are either not readily available at post or are prohibitively expensive. Where we are going, for example, a block of Philadelphia cream cheese costs $15 USD, while your favorite box of cereal costs around $10 USD. Now look, foregoing your morning cheerios or philly cream cheese in a land free of NY bagels may not seem like a big deal, I can definitely live without cereal as I am anticipating plenty of rocking culinary adventures in India, but things like soymilk for someone that is lactose intolerant will kind of hurt. We are both lactards.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So right, we get consumables. With that said, not everyone in the Foreign Service does, if you go to a post where most things are available at a fairly reasonable premium, then you will not get a consumables allowance. So right, this past weekend, my husband and I decided to go to Spring Fair, an annual celebration of spring at the Jonhs Hopkins<span> </span>Baltimore campus, where A gets giddy reliving the awkward glory days of undergrad complete with Bud in a plastic cup, college bands supported only by friends and visiting family, and giant turkey legs.<span> </span>We decided against going to Baltimore since packing out is looming and we need one day of relaxation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We spent most of Saturday sending off three more friends to far flung places in style. One party had a ton of alcohol and the departing hosts passionately appealed to guests to take intoxicating beverages home with them, as good booze is a terrible thing to waste and there are teenagers in dessert lands which go without drink every day. However, the discussion did not end there. We looked at our calendar and realized that between A’s work commitments, going away parties, and family events, we have two free weekends – including the one that just passed. We did not have an “Aha!” moment, instead it was more like a “holy c&*#” moment.<span> </span>Yes, there is a better substitution, but then I am trying to be all classy, at least in writing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although we don’t have to pack in the traditional sense, the movers hired by the State Department will pack us up, you have to sift, and sift and separate in piles. While you sift you also make decisions on whether or not it is worth it to keep some of your stuff at all. One pile will be stuff to go into storage – which floor length coat that my mom got me in Kyiv to keep me warn and almost all winter clothes, all sticks of furniture (as our future apt comes with furniture) and other miscellaneous items, go to storage. The second pile will be is the consumables shipment, stuff that we potentially won’t be able to comfortably get in India.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The third pile, non food stuff that goes to India – like our ridiculous number of books: economics textbooks, for sentimental and reference value,<span> </span>history, policy, and misc will go on a ship to get to India a few months after our arrival. I keep talking about sifting my books to see how many I can actually put in storage, sorry Russian Law textbooks; I don’t think you are coming on this leg of our adventure.<span> </span>The fourth pile is made up of stuff that will fly in cargo and will be available to us shortly after arrival, people tend to put personal stuff that makes your apt feel like home, you know pictures of your friends and family, chotchkes (knick knacks), extra clothes for work as A will report for work the day after our arrival. The last but not least, pile or if you prefer suitcases filled with stuff that you will need in the next few weeks like clean knickers, clothes, shoes, and consumer electronics such as cameras and laptops. The last pile you get to schlep yourself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Umph, are we having fun yet? So I am wondering, and this is where I get less classy, but yet censored, where the *&(^ are we going to find space for all those piles of stuff in our 600sf apt? My answer, not the foggiest idea – truthfully we don’t have the space. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So yes back to consumption spreadsheets. The funny thing is that we are not really shopping for stuff for ourselves, but the cat. Our entrance is now filled with two years of pet supplies. I have no idea where we will be putting people supplies or how the movers will be maneuver the furniture out of our tiny one bedroom. There will not be that many people supplies, since we are pretty pumped about Indian food for the next two years, but whatever minimum – like jars of nutella, an absolute must, an upgrade on bed sheets and towels, cereal, trusted laundry detergent (buying local detergent no matter where you are, including western Europe is like playing Russian roulette) and whatever I am forgetting - well not sure where we’ll find the place. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Calling all SAISers with extra space in their apartment – “buddy can you spare a” corner of your apt for some kitty litter? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-33433221205558557552011-04-12T18:19:00.000-07:002011-04-12T18:22:24.317-07:00Relationship between voter turnout and incentives or the siren call of fried chicken…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ok, admit to yourself, you are really reading this because you want to find out the relationship between voter turnout and friend chicken. But think about it what incentivizes people to vote? I’ve read about the effects of early and consistent civic education and strength of civil society positively contributes to voter turnout. For example, children that grow up exposed to lessons of why it matters to vote and learn to participate in democracy early – such as voting for class president or hall monitor – grow into adults which vote in greater numbers. Feeling of ownership of your neighborhood, city, state and country, in other words a well developed civil society also predicts higher voter turnout. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Last week Damon M. Cann of Utah State University presented results of his curious study at a political science conference in Chicago. You can read more about the conference in <i>The Atlantic</i> article found <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/the-potentially-revolutionary-political-role-of-fried-chicken/73375/">here</a>. Mr. Cann conducted an experiment on voter incentives. Basically he divided the residents of River Heights, Utah into two groups and then knocked on doors with his two different messages. One group of people that Mr. Cann talked to received a well reasoned argument why it matters to vote in the upcoming election, in other words an argument in favor of participatory democracy. The other group of people Mr. Cann reached out to got the promise of discount coupons for fried chicken, French fries, a Mexican meal and rock climbing, in return for voting in that same election. If a resident that was promised discounts showed up as voted in the polls, he or she received coupons. If that person elected the chicken discount, they got two buckets of chicken at the local KFC. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Which pitch proved more persuasive a well reasoned argument in favor of participatory democracy or incentives presented by the dismal science, aka economics? While a well reasoned argument for participatory democracy created an increase of 4% bump in voter turnout, economic incentives (promise of coupons) bumped voter turnout by a further 9%. Economic incentives are stronger than arguments for civic duty should not come as a surprise. I mean, think of Tammeny Hall and Boss Tweed in early 20<sup>th</sup> century NYC. If you are not a political science junkie from New York, this link might help shed light on my arcane <a href="http://www.albany.edu/%7Edkw42/tweed.html">reference</a>. I mean had we been magically transported back to NYC in 1917 supporting a particular candidate would have gotten you two buckets of chicken – also this type of incentivizing is illegal. Therefore ideas of how to properly incentivize the electorate, shall we say, definitely not new. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While talking about boosting voter turnout numbers with free buckets of chicken is kind of fun, maybe this soon to be published study may shed some light on why we take time out of our day to vote. Why our voter turnout trails so many other industrialized nations? My previous statement includes voter turnout during elections that are perceived as being close contests, where people turn out to vote in greater numbers, in other words you feel that your vote counts more as you possibly cast the deciding vote. Well, I look forward to reading more details of the study, when I can get my hands on it, as it stands: participatory democracy 0, dismal science 1.</span></div></div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562282173069274572.post-14849853277169564882011-04-08T15:54:00.000-07:002011-04-08T15:54:07.672-07:00Writing in the shadow of a government shutdown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>TA</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Please note this post has very few original ideas, but I posted a few fun things at this not so fun time. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Congress haggles over the last six months of this year’s budget and a government shutdown looms – oh and I love DC – the District is crawling with government shutdown pick up lines. You can find shutdown pick up lines tweeted <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%23govtshutdownpickuplines&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=%23govtshutdownpickuplines&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=c2K&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsu&tbm=mbl&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=J4yfTefkOMLJ0QH1iN2iBQ&ved=0CDgQ5QU&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=c761151becc3b1d4">here</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%23govtshutdownpickuplines&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=%23govtshutdownpickuplines&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=c2K&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsu&tbm=mbl&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=J4yfTefkOMLJ0QH1iN2iBQ&ved=0CDgQ5QU&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=c761151becc3b1d4"></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b>Huffington Post</b> also has a list of the best government shutdown pickup lines which you can find <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/-government-shutdown-pickup-lines_n_846827.html#s262610&title=Arantes_S%20%20I%20am%20also%20taking%20the%20liberty%20of%20posting%20the%20following%20Craigs-List%20ad%20%28http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/dmg/2313122683.html">here</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/dmg/2313122683.html"><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Personal Assistant needed: Federal employees only (Washington DC)</span></i></a></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Are you a Federal employee shocked at being furloughed? Does Ron Paul's advice that your landlord will understand not apply to you? <br />
<br />
Starting Monday, April 11th, I will be in need of the following from a down-and-out Fed: <br />
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Duties to include: <br />
~Gentle waking up (preference for a returned Peace Corps Volunteer who can play an "ethnic sounding" musical instrument) <br />
~Breakfast preparations (omelets, assorted fruit from local organic grocer) <br />
~Drawing of bath water/temperature measurement <br />
~Carry my bag to work for me <br />
~Possibly carry me to work <br />
~Preparing press clippings from the "eye openers" and "Lookout" section of the Express <br />
~IT duties to include help with Angry Birds or Words with Friends (must be proficient with Android OS) <br />
~Lunch truck analysis and delivery of goods <br />
~Scheduling of off-site meetings (to include daily 10:00am, 12:00pm, & 3:00pm coffee and cigarette breaks with the friendly HR staff) <br />
~Preparing of evening television schedule, to include highlights of non-scary news stories and at least two (2) back-to-back episodes of Criminal Minds <br />
~Rocking to sleep and promises that this will never happen to us non-federal employees <br />
Finally: <br />
~Providing daily updates, no later than 7:00pm, if you will be coming back the next day to do it all over again <br />
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The ideal candidate will possess the following abilities: <br />
~Strong communication skills (i.e. calm, soothing voice reassuring me I'm right and my boss really was just promoted to get him/her out of the way) <br />
~Attention to detail (does this tie go with the money I’m still earning?) <br />
~Proficient in Microsoft Office, Facebook, and on-line coupon search engines <br />
~Sharp elbows for creating sufficient space on metro platforms and trains <br />
~Must be able to lift at least 20 pounds (for moving of furniture and vacuuming duties) <br />
~Ability to laugh at the fact that while you aren’t getting paid, Congress sure is, all the while knowing they aren't beholden to you DC-ites anyway! <br />
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Salary & Benefits Details: <br />
Commiserate with years of government service and level of clearance, or along the GS-5/Pay Band H/FP-9 scale, whichever is lower <br />
401k matching of up to 0.01% (after six-month probationary period, and two years of employment in order to be "vested") <br />
Generous sharing of stories from my day at the office <br />
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To Apply: <br />
Please email resume and saddest picture of your clothing that you cannot afford to dry clean anymore. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Last but not least, in preparation for <b>Passover </b>here is a quirky card from Aish Center:</span><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Google Exodus - please follow this <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%28http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxToZmJwdI&feature=player_embedded%29">link</a>. I tank my friend E. for bringing this to my attention.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Enjoy and have a nice weekend!</span></div>Lost in Bretton Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14413754785450837660noreply@blogger.com0