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And so, Christie goes on, forced to cut more than $1 billion in local aid in order to balance the budget, he asked the teachers not only to accept a pay freeze for a year but also to begin contributing 1.5 percent of their salaries toward health care. The dominant teachers' union in the state responded by spending millions of dollars in television and radio ads to attack him.
"The argument you heard most vociferously from the teachers' union," Christie says, "was that this was the greatest assault on public education in the history of New Jersey." Here the fleshy governor lumbers a few steps toward the audience and lowers his voice for effect. "Now, do you really think that your child is now stressed out and unable to learn because they know that their poor teacher has to pay 1½ percent of their salary for their health care benefits? Have any of your children come home — any of them — and said, 'Mom.' " Pause. " 'Dad.' " Another pause. " 'Please. Stop the madness.' "
By this point the audience is starting to titter, but Christie remains steadfastly somber in his role as the beseeching student. " 'Just pay for my teacher's health benefits,' " he pleads, " 'and I'll get A's, I swear. But I just cannot take the stress that's being presented by a 1½ percent contribution to health benefits.' " As the crowd breaks into appreciative guffaws, Christie waits a theatrical moment, then slams his point home. "Now, you're all laughing, right?" he says. "But this is the crap I have to hear."
Acid monologues like this have made Christie, only a little more than a year into his governorship, one of the most intriguing political figures in America. Hundreds of thousands of
While Christie has flatly ruled out a presidential run in 2012, there is enough conjecture about the possibility that I felt moved to ask him a few weeks ago if he found it exhausting to have to constantly answer the same question. "Listen, if you're going to say you're exhausted by that, you're really taking yourself too seriously," Christie told me, then broke into his imitation of a politician who is taking himself too seriously. " 'Oh, Matt, please, stop asking me about whether I should be president of the
There is, in fact, something astonishing about the ascent of Chris Christie, who is about as slick as sandpaper and who now admits that even he didn't think he would beat
It may just be that Christie has stumbled onto the public-policy issue of our time, which is how to bring the exploding costs of the public workforce in line with reality. (According to a report issued last year by the Pew Center on the States, as of 2008 there was a $1 trillion gap, conservatively speaking, between what the states have promised in pensions and benefits for their retirees and what they have on hand to pay for them.) Then again, he may simply be the latest in a long line of politicians to give an uneasy public the scapegoat it demands. Depending on your vantage point, Chris Christie is a truth-teller or a demagogue, or maybe even a little of both.
To say that New Jersey has a budget problem wouldn't really be accurate. The state has at least three major budget problems related to the costs of the public workforce, all of which contribute to a shortfall that the state's legislative accounting office projects to be almost $11 billion this year — an amount that's more than a third of the state's total budget. And in order to understand what's happening in statehouses all over the country, and what Christie is trying to do about it in New Jersey, it helps to have some sense of how these problems tie together.
First, there's the local aid. New Jersey sends 40 percent of its annual budget to an overlapping tangle of 566 municipalities and 600-plus school districts, in order to help them slow the mutantlike growth of local property taxes, which are among the highest in the country. Each of these little hamlets and districts negotiates its own labor contract with the police and firefighters, sanitation workers and, most consequentially, teachers, which means the contracts established by the most affluent communities end up setting a statewide standard — a process that drives up everyone else's costs to a level that the local governments simply can't sustain by themselves.
Second, in the long term, New Jersey doesn't have nearly enough money on hand to cover its pension obligations to teachers and other state workers. At no time in the last 17 years has New Jersey fully met its annual obligation to the pension fund, and in many of those years, the state paid nothing at all. (That didn't stop one governor,
Finally, the state will pay close to $3 billion this year in health care premiums for public employees (including retired teachers), and that number is rising fast. New Jersey has set aside exactly zero dollars to cover it. All told, in pensions and health care benefits, New Jersey's "unfunded liability" — that is, the amount the actuaries say it would need to find in order to meet its obligations for the next 30 years — has now passed the $100 billion mark.
There was little in Christie's uninspiring campaign to make anyone think he would address these issues with more tenacity than the governors who preceded him. A U.S. attorney whose only overtly political experience entailed serving on the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders (seriously, they still call it that), Christie had only a fraction of Corzine's public exposure or personal fortune. About the only thing he had going for him was that Corzine was pervasively unpopular. And so rather than come up with a lot of actual ideas, which Corzine would then be free to oversimplify and distort in a barrage of television ads, Christie simply offered up a bunch of conservative platitudes and tried to make the campaign a referendum on the Democratic governor. (When we talked during the campaign, Christie could articulate little by way of an agenda, except to say that he would "get in there and make it work.") Even a lot of Republicans thought Christie was underwhelming as a campaigner.
In the end, Christie won by about four points on Election Night in 2009, with little notion of what he was going to do next. When I asked him if there was any one moment of clarity that put him on the path from cautious candidate to union-bashing conservative hero, Christie pointed to a meeting about a month into the transition, when his aides came to him brandishing an analysis of the state's cash flow produced by
The centerpiece of Christie's frenzied agenda, which passed the Democratic-controlled Legislature last July, is a strict cap on local property taxes, which will be allowed to rise no more than 2 percent every year. When combined with a reduction in state aid, what this means, practically speaking, is that New Jersey's townships and cities will have to hold the line when negotiating municipal labor contracts if they want to remain solvent, because they can't rely on either their residents or the state for more money.
To help them do that, Christie has put forward 33 measures that are part of what he calls his "toolkit" for reform. These include, for instance, a proposal that would allow localities to opt out of the civil-service system altogether, giving them more control over hiring and firing local officials, and another that would limit the cash payouts that retiring workers can take for their unused sick days. On the pension front, if Christie has his way with the Legislature, most union members would contribute more to their plans than they have up to now, and all of them would retire later and receive lower benefit payments.
The crux of Christie's argument is that public-sector contracts have to reflect what has happened in the private sector, where guaranteed pensions and free health care are becoming relics. It's not surprising that this stand has ingratiated Christie to conservatives in Washington; advocacy groups and activists on the right have carried out a long campaign to discredit the ever-shrinking labor movement in the private sector, and what Christie has done, essentially, is to blast his way into the final frontier, taking on the public-sector unions that have come to wield enormous political power. More surprising is how the governor's proposals are finding sympathy from less-partisan budget experts, if only because they don't see obvious alternatives. "I've tried to look at this objectively, and I just don't know of any other option," says Richard Keevey, who served as budget director for a Democratic governor,
Union leaders, on the other hand, are howling. The heads of the police and firefighters' unions say that Christie's cuts to local aid have already cost the state several hundred firemen and police officers, and they warn that his 2 percent cap on property taxes will have dire effects on public safety, as more towns and cities try to shave their payrolls to conform with the cap. "I don't think they're going to get it until the body bags pile up," Anthony Wieners, president of the police union, warns darkly.
Leaders of the teachers' union, meanwhile, are apoplectic about Christie's proposed changes to their pension plan, which they say will penalize educators for the irresponsibility of politicians. After all, they point out, it wasn't the unions who chose not to fund the pension year in and year out, and yet it's their members who will have to recalibrate their retirements if the benefits are cut.
When I made this same point to Christie, he simply shook his head. What's done is done, he told me, and it's time for someone to tell these workers the truth, which is that the state is simply never going to have the money to make good on its commitments. "Listen, if they want to travel in the
Chris Christie is fat. You can use nicer words if you want — rotund, portly, big-boned — but it is what it is, and the governor will be the first to tell you so. And because he's fat, a lot of people, consciously or not, tend to assume certain things about Christie — that he's undisciplined and impulsive, graceless and bullying. (Corzine's most brutal campaign ad accused Christie of "throwing his weight around.") At times, Christie seems to exploit this persona. He likes to present himself as the proverbial bull in the china shop, the ungainly, somewhat boorish guy who lacks the artifice to keep from saying whatever obvious truth pops into his head. "I don't think you elected me because of my charm and good looks," Christie likes to say, just to show he's in on the joke.
And yet, to portray Christie in this cartoonish way, as so many critics do, is to vastly underestimate his skill as a politician. The most sophisticated communicators of the modern era hammer at a consistent argument about their moment and the response it demands, and they choose carefully constructed metaphors to make the choices ahead seem obvious — think of Ronald Reagan's morning in America, or
Take Christie's choice of a somewhat mundane image, the "toolkit," as a unifying frame for his proposals. As a metaphor, the toolkit works on two levels, depending on the audience. You can visualize it either in the sense of screwdrivers and hammers or, if you work in an office all day, you might envision it more as a software suite. Either way, the toolkit symbolizes flexibility and local control. It's a way of saying that Christie isn't putting unwieldy restrictions on towns and cities, as the cops and firefighters charge — he's just empowering those towns and cities with a variety of implements and gadgets with which to attack their budget problems themselves.
In sustaining his assault on the public-employee unions, Christie knows he has to make his subject comprehensible. One reason that leaders in a state like New Jersey haven't been able to get a handle on pension and benefit costs, despite years of dire warnings from good-government advocates, is that the subject is agonizingly dull and all but impossible to explain. There are myriad plans for all the different public-employee unions, various contribution formulas for each one and actuarial projections that require an advanced degree to unravel.
Christie, it turns out, has a preternatural gift for making the complex seem deceptively simple. Last month I saw him hold forth at a town-hall meeting in Chesilhurst, a South Jersey borough of about 1,600. Chesilhurst is about half African-American, and I sensed more curiosity than enthusiasm among the racially mixed crowd as it flowed into the little community-center gymnasium. An unusually large number of folding chairs were empty. About 20 minutes after the program was supposed to start, there came over the loudspeakers the kind of melodramatic instrumental that might introduce a local newscast, or maybe an
When he was a federal prosecutor, Christie told the audience, he got to choose from about 100 health-
" 'You're telling me,' " Christie said he told the woman, feigning befuddlement, " 'that no matter which one I pick, the good one or the O.K. one or the bad one, I'm going to pay 1½ percent of my salary?' And she said, 'Yes.'
"And I said, 'Then everyone picks the really good one, right?' And she said, 'Ninety-six percent of state employees pick the really good one.'
"Which led me to have two reactions," Christie told the crowd. "First, bring those other 4 percent to me! Because when I have to start laying people off, they're the first ones!" His audience burst into near hysterics. "And the second reaction was, of course I would choose the best plan," Christie said, "and so would you.
"Now listen, I don't think this is groundbreaking stuff," Christie added. "I don't think this means that instead of being governor, you know, I should be at
Another thing Christie understands about political messaging, especially when your adversaries are out there portraying you as callous, is that it has to be grounded in the personal. "If you're asking people to do some really difficult things, which I am asking them to do," Christie told me, "then I think they feel more comfortable doing those things if they know you."
And so the 48-year-old Christie makes a point of sharing intimate details of his life and times — that he uses an
"My mother said to me all the time, 'Christopher, you're going to have choices in your life between being loved and being respected,' " Christie told his rapt audience, strains of emotion creeping into his voice. " 'And you should choose respected. Because if you're respected, love can come.' She said, 'But seeking love without also being respected — well that love doesn't last.' " It was as if some weird brain-switching experiment had taken place, and somewhere, at that very moment,
There's one more piece of political narrative that Christie seems to grasp, which is that every story has both a protagonist and an antagonist, someone who stands for change and someone who plays the foil. Christie never had to look far to cast his ideal antagonists. They sit just across the street and one block down from the State House, in the building occupied by New Jersey's major teachers' union.
WITH 200,000 MEMBERS and more than $100 million in dues, the New Jersey Education Association is easily the most powerful union in New Jersey and one of the more powerful local unions in the country. In Trenton, the union's organizing might — and its willingness to use that might to intimidate candidates and lawmakers — has sunk a small shipyard of promising careers. So it's not hard to see why the twilight struggle between Chris Christie and "the bully of State Street," as he likes to refer to the teachers' union, has transfixed New Jersey's political observers for the last year. It's as mesmerizing as an episode of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," only harder to watch, mostly because Christie can be so unrelentingly brutal.
"We have similar personalities," Stephen Sweeney, the Democratic president of the state Senate, told me recently, when ruminating on Christie's style. "The difference between he and I is, I have an off switch and he doesn't. You know, if I knock you down, I'll pick you up, brush the dirt off your back, try to build a relationship and go forward. He knocks you down, like with the teachers, and he'll stomp on you, kick on you until he can kill you."
The war between Christie and the union has two fronts, so closely interrelated that it's hard to separate them. First there's the fight over budgeting issues like pensions and benefits. And then there's the "year of education reform," as Christie has proclaimed 2011, in which he intends to push his case for merit pay,
At times in this epic clash, it can be hard to know where personal animus leaves off and political gamesmanship kicks in. All that's clear is that Christie seems to be winning at every turn. Last April, for instance, Christie claimed to be infuriated by a joke memo circulated by the president of the Bergen County chapter of the union. "Dear Lord," it read in part, "this year you have taken away my favorite actor,
In a 15-minute meeting, the union's president, Barbara Keshishian, apologized to Christie for the memo, but she refused to fire the Bergen County president, which further infuriated the governor. If his chief of staff had sent out such an e-mail, Christie told her, he would have been fired immediately. "That conversation embodies the elitism and the double standard that the teachers' union thinks applies to them," Christie told me last month, recounting the confrontation. We were sitting in the restaurant of the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, where state troopers and aides with cellphones buzzed around the empty dining room. Christie was in town to headline a dinner for the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. "And you know what? I can't entirely blame them for it, because politicians have treated them differently than everybody else, because they've been scared of them. And so part of the blame goes on the political culture of New Jersey that has helped to enable this elitist, double-standard attitude."
The death-wish incident instantly became lore in Trenton and proved politically advantageous to the governor. It gave him a pretense to break off all communication with the union; he has refused to meet personally with Keshishian or her deputies since. And he has repeatedly used the ill-advised memo to portray himself as the courageous victim of unhinged union activists. At least once a week, it seems, he reminds some audience that the union once "wished for my death," as if he were Robert Kennedy staring down the
Perhaps the most consequential episode between Christie and the union, at least as far as public perception was concerned, had to do with the pay freeze. Almost as soon as the scope of the budget problem became clear, the governor called on teachers, who received scheduled raises during the recession, to accept a one-year freeze. He reminded the teachers that a lot of private-sector workers felt lucky if they could keep their current salaries, and he said a voluntary freeze would enable the union to avoid widespread teacher layoffs in cash-poor school districts. Most local chapters of the union ignored him. Ultimately some 10,000 union members — teachers and support staff — saw their jobs eliminated. Christie hasn't stopped talking about it since.
The union maintains that Christie's plea was mere gimmickry, because the layoffs would have happened even if its local chapters acceded to the demand for a freeze. But even if this is true, it would seem to reflect a staggering lack of political calculation. Had the teachers agreed to take the short-term hit by acquiescing to a temporary freeze, it would have been worlds harder for Christie to then run around the state demanding longer-term concessions on pensions and benefits. And when the layoffs did materialize, the governor would most likely have shouldered most of the blame. Instead, the whole affair seemed to prove Christie's point about the union's self-involvement, and it enabled him to blame the teachers themselves for the layoffs.
During our conversation at the Hay-Adams, I suggested to Christie that the teachers had given him a valuable political gift by refusing to compromise. "I don't look at it as a gift to me," he replied. "I look at it as a huge mistake by them, and also a window into who they are.
"Let's assume that they're smart, because I think they are," he went on. "So then, why don't you do it? Because they believe they are entitled to it. They believe they are special and different and that they shouldn't have to share the sacrifice. And that's, I think, what's ultimately driving public opinion against them."
One afternoon last month, at the modern, airy headquarters of the N.J.E.A., I sat with Barbara Keshishian, the union's president, and Vincent Giordano, its executive director, and listened as they tried to puzzle out why it was that Christie seemed so determined to humiliate them.
"Frankly, I for one don't say we're always 100 percent right on every single issue, and certainly neither is the administration across the street," said Giordano, a bald and goateed organizer who has been at the union for 40 years. "The difference is the tone and the mean-spiritedness of the way he talks about us. He has made us basically the whipping boy for anything that goes wrong in New Jersey and the country and in
"I don't know what he's got buried down there inside of him that causes him to be this totally driven," Giordano said. "I don't think he's really supportive of a public-education system. If he was, he might send his kids to public school, which he doesn't." (Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, a bond trader, have four children, ages 7 to 17, and all attend Catholic schools.) "I think he's not very enamored with public services in general. Public employees, public education, public pension systems — somehow he's allergic to the word 'public.' Somebody ought to get him some kind of medication that gets him off of that allergy he has to anything that's public."
The two union leaders made several points in defense of their stances against pension reform and the pay freeze. They pointed out that despite all Christie's talk of shared sacrifice, he refused to renew a tax on millionaires in New Jersey that would have raised about $800 million this year — not enough to solve the state's fiscal problems, certainly, but enough to restore most of the school aid that was slashed from the budget. They noted that they already made concessions on teachers' pensions in 2007 and 2008, when they agreed to increase contributions by 10 percent and to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. They mentioned that the average salary of a New Jersey teacher is about $67,000, and the average pension is between $35,000 and $40,000. "Try living on that in the state of New Jersey," Giordano said. "I don't see why we've suddenly been identified as fat cats."
In the union's view, Christie is simply trying to exploit the downward spiral of the American labor movement. First, greedy companies, claiming pressures from the new global market, began rolling back the pensions and benefits that private-sector unions negotiated over a period of decades. And now, instead of trying to find a way to restore those hard-earned benefits for all workers, politicians like Christie are using corporate America's bad behavior as an excuse to take benefits away from the last set of union members who managed to cling to them — those in the public sector. Christie is pitting one set of middle-class workers against the other, perhaps in the hope that private-sector unions will ultimately turn on their brethren in the public workforce, or that the public unions will turn on one another. And the end result will be that everyone loses.
All of this seems to add up to a reasonable counterargument to Christie's main indictments against the teachers' union, and so I asked Keshishian and Giordano why they thought they were having such a problem making their case to the public. After all, according to a
"He is the governor!" Keshishian said, her voice rising. "People listen to him! You know, he could be in a crowd of people, and they're going to interview the governor! And people, I guess, believe that what the governor says is the truth." Keshishian taught high-school math for 29 years, but her grasp on civics sounded a bit shaky. It doesn't seem especially likely that Christie is breaking through because he is a politician and therefore people take to heart his every word.
What the union's leadership seems not to have considered is that public sentiment around budgets and public employees has shifted in a fundamental way. For decades, as Keshishian and Giordano were rising up through the union, it probably made sense to adopt a strategy of "no surrender," to dig in and outlast the occasional politician who might dare to threaten the union's hard-earned gains. But over the last 10 years or so, most American workers have come to expect less by way of benefits and security from their employers. And with political consensus building toward some kind of public-school reform, teachers' unions in particular have lost credibility with the public. Forty-six percent of voters in a poll conducted by Stanford and the Associated Press last September said teachers' unions deserved either "a great deal" or "a lot" of blame for the problems of public schools.
And so, when the union draws a hard line against changes to its pay and benefit structure, you can see why it might strike some sizable segment of voters as being a little anachronistic, like mimeographing homework assignments or sharpening a pencil by hand. In a
Some unions are more attuned than others to this gradual changing of the climate. The
But the larger and mightier N.J.E.A. has made the decision to hunker down and fight all comers. And because of that, its leaders run the risk of confirming the public's darkest suspicions about them, whether they have salient points to make or not. "They may have dug themselves a hole that will be very difficult to dig themselves out of," Del Grosso says of his competitor. "They are on the menu."
And so this is why Christie has gone out of his way to anoint the teachers' union as the most sinister force in the galaxy — not because he has some long-buried torment with a teacher to work through, but because the union does a very capable job of representing for him everything about the public sector that voters don't like. He knows there is a risk in using this strategy: he has to make sure his war on the union doesn't ultimately come to seem like a war on individual teachers, which is why he tries constantly to draw a distinction between the union and its members. ("I love teachers — I just can't stand your union," is one of Christie's signature lines.) For now, though, even some of labor's strongest advocates will tell you that Christie has the teachers and other public-sector unions backed up against a hard wall of political reality.
"My politics are union politics," Sweeney, the Senate president, assured me when I visited him in his State House office. He reminded me that he is not only the state's top elected Democrat, but also a union ironworker. And yet, he said, "what I think that public-sector employees have to do is look at what's going on around them, look at all the pain around them, and understand that no one hates them, but they want them to sacrifice like everyone else. It's that simple."
THE POLITICAL DYNAMIC in New Jersey tells you a lot about what's driving similar conversations all over the country. Last year alone, 18 states either raised the pension-contribution levels for public employees or reduced benefits for their retirees, according to Susan Urahn, the managing director of the Pew Center for the States. Three states —
Now a new class of governors from both parties is promising to revisit union contracts in order to put their states on firmer fiscal ground. In
In part, the viral movement against public-sector unions is a result of political necessity. In states all over the country, balancing the budget has become an annual exercise in Copperfield-like illusion. Over the past decade, governors have exhausted all the easy options for eradicating, or at least hiding, deficits — building casinos and adding new fees, issuing
It's also true, though, that what used to be unspeakable, politically, simply isn't anymore. It's not as if the problem of public pensions suddenly got so much worse than it was before (the shortfalls have been building steadily for years, after all), nor is this new crop of governors somehow genetically bolder than their predecessors. If politicians of both parties are suddenly willing to go after the pensions and health care plans of teachers and cops and firefighters, it's probably not only because they're out of budgeting options, but also because suddenly they see it as politically advantageous. In other words, not only are public employees' contracts no longer untouchable for any politician who wants to stay in office, but it turns out that the opposite is true; taking the fight to the unions is a good way to bolster your credentials as a gutsy reformer with voters who have been losing faith for years in public schools and government bureaucracies.
This, more than anything else, is the lesson that Chris Christie has impressed on his contemporaries. The question now, and what a lot of these other governors are watching to see, is whether Christie can convert his anti-union riffs into a revised social contract for public servants. While he has enacted several pivotal pieces of his agenda, Christie has yet to pass more than a handful of the measures in his toolkit. This year will mark a major test of his staying power. The question a lot of political observers are asking, in New Jersey and nationally, is whether Christie's argument will begin to lose its resonance as voters inevitably grow weary of the hostility and the rhetorical smack downs. Sooner or later, most people tend to tire of the boorish guy at the party, even if he's entertaining, and even if he has a point.
Christie waves away such concerns. "When I run out of fights to have, I'll stop fighting," he told me. Until then, you will find him out on the town-hall circuit, play-acting, berating and emoting his way toward some kind of public reckoning, leaving nothing unsaid.Continue reading the main story


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The couple's aides had advertised for a housekeeper to help them when they move into the apartment later this month, but the Duke and Duchess have insisted it is unnecessary, because they spend most of their time living in a rented farmhouse in Wales.
Prince William's private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, took the blame for the mix-up when he was asked about the recruiting process during a briefing on the couple's forthcoming tour of Canada and the US.
He admitted he had hastily placed an internal advert among royal staff for the post of housekeeper/dresser without fully consulting the Duke and Duchess.
"It was a precipitous move on my part," said the former SAS officer. "It is the first time I have worked for a lady (in this role) so we are still working out what structures and infrastructures are needed.
"The post of housekeeper/dresser is being put on hold because we don't think there is a requirement for it, given that the couple are living a farmhouse lifestyle."
The Duke and Duchess have no personal staff at their home on Anglesey, near the Duke's search and rescue base at RAF Valley, and made it clear before their wedding that they wanted to carry on doing their own cooking and cleaning once they were married.
Their apartment at Kensington Palace is described as small, and the couple felt there was no need to employ a full-time helper to look after it.
Mr Lowther-Pinkerton said the couple may decide to employ servants in the future, but added: "We'll just see how it pans out over the course of this year.
"There will be no major posts created until we've had time to suck it and see."


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Third term senior year. So many exciting things to look forward to - our senior class trip, exploring LA, and most importantly...graduation! Our senior class trip this year is to Las Vegas, which I've never been to before. My friends and I also got tickets to the LA Museum of Ice Cream, a pop up museum that debuted in New York this past summer. We also want to try as many restaurants and see as many cool places as we can before we graduate. Of course, we can't forget about school and classes.
I am still torn between learning as much as I can while I still have the chance to take classes here and taking a chill term because I think deserve it. I've already finished all of my major and institute requirements, so I'm free to take whatever I want. Here is an overview of what I have temporarily decided on. Let me know what you think!
Japanese - Well, I might as well finish the year of Japanese and take it this term too. I really enjoy the class, and I hope to go to Japan this summer for my senior trip with my friends.
Entrepreneurial Development - In this class, we are going to learn how to build a start up in high tech. As a CS major, this is something I may want to do in the future, so I figured this class would be a good start.
Hack Society - Hack Society is a project course with good social implications. We are matched with a nonprofit or government organization and help them with one of their tech projects, whether it be building a website or a mobile app.
Golf - My whole family plays golf except for me, so I figured now would be a good time to learn. My mom even lent me her old clubs. :P
Silk Screening/Screen Printing - I decided to take this course because I wanted to make my own cute t-shirts. I'll keep you guys updated. :)
Ceramics - I already took ceramics last term and posted about it a couple of times. I want to get better at it, so I'm taking it again.


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-> Actually, this one is from Woo Ree at Sussex Centre, not The Galleries Victoria.
Pad Thai Gai
-> (Chicken Pad Thai) from Chat Thai @TGV
Pad Krapao Goong
-> (Stir-fried prawns with basil) from Chat Thai. Always a favorite.
Monday, June 4, 2007
The Galleries Victoria, Sydney
Posted by Erique Fat Owl at 10:57 PM
Labels: Bibimbap, pad krapao, pad thai
2 comments:
- cla said...
two words...... Satang Thai
- June 7, 2007 at 9:28 PM
- Erique Fat Owl said...
Satang Thai haymarket?? bahahaha...sempittt
Sekarang lagi ketagihan thai sausage Isan-style...(menurut temen gw yg orang thai, itu makanan kampungan and low class abis!! tapi bodo ah!! hahahahahah)
- June 7, 2007 at 10:27 PM
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Friday, December 11, 2015
We Are Still Here
Of course it's 65 here and sunny but I digress.
The Sachetti's are moving into a new house in a new town in the year 1979. Their son died on the way back home from college and they think that a change of venue will do them a world of good.
They may have miscalculated that last bit.
From the moment them move in, things don't seem right around the house. Anne (played wonderfully by the talented Barbara Crampton), thinks that Bobby, their son, has moved into the house with them in spirit and that explains the strange goings on. Paul, her husband, just thinks that it's an old house with accompanying old house problems, like a furnace that turns the basement into a sweltering hellhole whenever it is on and power that flickers regularly.
It doesn't help things that the townsfolk are rather put off by the newcomers to the town and are giving them the cold shoulder, save for a man named Dave and his quiet wife Cat, who are friendly but still a little off.
Enter Larry Fessenden and Lisa Marie as Jacob and May, who have a way of communing with spirits and will help reveal what exactly the presence in the house is trying to do and what dark secret the townsfolk don't want them to know.
This is a beautiful little film from first time director Ted Geoghegan. Even thought it's a period piece, it could play in any time with it's rural New England setting that I've seen many times in my trips up and down the coast. You can see the pedigree of 70s horror that runs in its veins, with a heavy nod towards the films of Lucio Fulci (House by the Cemetery in particular), though I don't think it gets as weird as some of those. It shares that dreamy quality that I recall from Let's Scare Jessica to Death but still has grounded scenes like the bar scene that bring to mind The Wicker Man, among others.
There is a slow burn to it, ramping up with the happening until all hell breaks loose in the third act, that keeps you on the edge of your seat, wondering what is going to happen to the couple and if they'll be able to make it out of the house before the previous occupants force them to stay--permanently. Of course I would be remiss if I did not mention the copious gore in the film. I should have expected it in a movie that people had described as "Fulci as fuck" but it surprised me as to how much there were. The majority of it is set in the last act but it was well worth the wait.
We Are Still Here is beautifully shot and acted and well worth seeking out if you are a fan of haunted houses and horror movies. It's nice to see a homage to the movies that I grew up with that, while steeped in the, works as its own movie and doesn't rely too heavily on your love for the past to win you over. I'm looking forward to see what else Mr. Geoghegan comes out with in the future, as this movie has definitely put him on my radar as a talent to watch.
Check it out.
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Here is an easy resource page for finding the reading activities you need. I've divided them into categories to make your search even more helpful!
Reading Activities
Need a good overview of activities to grow a reader at each developmental level? Just click on the age range below.
Kindergarteners and Early Elementary Students (Beginning Readers)
Looking for specific topics? See the categories below for activities, tips and ideas.
Alphabet Activities
So many great ideas that we now have a whole page dedicated to the topic! Click here: Alphabet Games and Activities
Beginning Readers
Comprehension Activities
Asking Questions While Reading
Sensory Play Ideas to Extend Stories
Modeling Comprehension Strategies
Texts for Modeling Comprehension Strategies
Creating a Print Rich Environment
Literacy Benefits of Family Dinners
Environmental Print Billboards
Being a Mom of a Growing Reader
Learning Games and Toys that Promote Pre-Reading Skills
5 Ideas for Organizing Books to Promote Toddler Interaction
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Encouraging Reluctant Readers to Read
Building a Library on a Tight Budget
Decoding Activities
10 Strategies When You are Stuck on a Word
Fluency Activities
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Spring Printable Easy Reader Books
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Library Activities and Tips
Teaching Kids How to Treat Books
Getting the Most Out of Your Library Visit
5 Tips for a Successful Trip to the Library with a Toddler
Literacy Bins to Extend Stories
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Sensory Bin
Phonemic Awareness Activities (rhyming, letter sound games, etc.)
What is Phonological Awareness?
Rhyming Pigeon Race to the Bus
Beginning Sounds Summer Themed Cookout Bath
Beginning Sounds Easter Eggs Game
Clapping and Counting Word Parts
Read-Aloud Activities
Tips for Reading with Newborns through Age 5
What to Do if Your Child Can't Sit Still?
How To Choose the Best Books for Kids
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Book Collector- Gumball Machine
Father's Day Book Giving Tradition
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With Earth Day just around the corner, we are looking for a lot of ways we can learn about the earth and integrate Earth Day not only into our science studies, but into other times of our day too, like math! These printable Earth Day math games are great for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st grade students, as there are 3 levels of play. You can easily make these games eco-friendly and save paper by slipping the sheets into a sheet protector (using fun manipulatives to cover answers instead of color) to re-use multiple times as well! However you play, kids will love practicing their number sense and celebrating the earth at the same time.
Free Printable Earth Day Math Games
We have a ton of plans for a lot of hands-on Earth Day fun (see some of our favorite ideas for Earth Day with kids here) and these printables are one way to bring the element of Earth Day into math workshop!
With my Early Entry Kindergarten class, we enjoy building our number sense with the roll and color option.
This allows us to work on our subitizing skills with dice (recognizing quantity instantly without counting), find the matching numeral, and color the earth.
Another option that is a bit more challenging is the Earth Day spin and add.
Grab a paperclip and pencil to form a spinner by placing the pencil in the center and flicking the paperclip.
Add both of the numbers together, using the provided number line for help if needed, and color the earth with the sum.
This is great for kids who are ready to give addition to 10 a go, and is a great fit for most Kindergartners in the spring.
Finally, if you have a child ready for the challenge of subtraction, they can take their makeshift spinner to play Earth Day Spin and Subtract.
After subtracting their second spin from their first (they can use the number line for help if they need to) they color the earth with the answer.
You can print copies of the game to use, or, since this is Earth Day after all – you can also slip this into sheet protectors, or print on cardstock and use manipulatives like these fun earth erasers to cover your answers instead of color.
This lets you save paper and use the games over and over again without running to the copy machine – score!
Grab Your Copies
Ready for some Earth Day fun and number sense building all in one? Grab your copy of the differentiated Earth Day math games by clicking the yellow button below.
Then, hop over and check out our list of Earth Day crafts, printables, and activities that your kids are sure to love this spring!


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I find it a little bit tough to write about Miu Miu's handbags. I love the brand as a whole so much and have such a huge respect for Miuccia Prada, both as a woman and as a designer, that the state of Miu Miu's handbag business pains me a bit. Particularly for a brand that hits it out of the park so consistently with its shoes, it's been a truly unacceptable amount of time since Miu Miu made a handbag that made my heart skip a beat. Prada does it consistently, from its basics to its runway bags, so what's the deal?
Miu Miu Spring 2013 follows that pattern, unfortunately. The runway collection includes some solid choices, but none that are particularly interesting or directional, from a design standpoint. They should be the bread-and-butter bags that sell quickly in stores, not what appears on the runway instead of something more capable of setting a clear, strong tone. Of course, maybe basics are the tone here; if that's the case, the well done, I suppose.
P.S. Please consider supporting our small, bag-loving team by clicking our links before shopping or checking out at your favorite online retailers like Amazon, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, or any of the listed partners on our shop page. We truly appreciate your support!


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Owners can pay for properties bought from UP Housing & Development Board (UPHDB) through the website and see real-time realization of payment in their ledger account.
Earlier, in the offline or e-challan method, a consumer had to take out a print of the e-challan from UPHDB's older website and carry a draft or cheque to the bank to deposit the amount. After the payment was accepted, it would take several days to be reflected in the person's account. Under the new website, payments will be updated instantly.
The board has included around 25,000 properties under this system. These include Awadh Vihar Yojna on Sultanpur Road, Vrindavan Yojna on Rae Bareli Road and a project in Rajajipuram.
The website will have language options of both Hindi and English. An important feature is the audio facility for visually impaired people. Such a person can turn on the audio to listen to the online payment process. Security features for payments have also been enhanced.
The website was launched on Independence Day and has received more than 2,600 hits till now. The board said the number of online payments has doubled in comparison to the older version in the same time with a collection of around Rs 26.7 lakh in just one day.
So far, only around 3500 people in Lucknow are using the online method to pay for their property. The board aims to bring all allottees (around 20,000) under the online payment method. Though the initiative was planned a year ago, execution took considerable time as it had to meet the security standards of standardisation testing and quality certification—a government organisation working under the ministry of electronics and information technology.


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TALENTED: Ras Kwame
A CITY that has recently hosted two of the world's biggest events, the Olympic Games and the Notting Hill Carnival, there is no place quite like London, according to BBC Radio 1 Broadcaster Ras Kwame.
Despite being such a bastion of culture, London is hardly ever praised in musical form, but that is about to change thanks to a new song London City, created by Kwame and electro-swing team Whojax.
Sampling Trinidad's iconic calypso singer Lord Kitchener's 1950 hit London Is The Place For Me, Kwame is confessing his love for the city and resurrecting the music of the late great calypso star, all in time for Trinidad's 50th year of independence.
Life & Style caught up with the Urban Music Award winner to speak about why feels it is important to represent London.
What was the inspiration behind creating the song London City?
The original song was a record that I played when I was in Ghana broadcasting for Radio one and Lord Kitchener's London is the place for me was the last song I played when we were coming back home.
That was in 2009, but I've had the song in mind and I wondered why anyone hadn't remixed it as a modern day celebration of the city. I got countless records in my collection calling out New York, Brooklyn, this place and that place and I've probably got one It's a London Thing.
Why bring out the track now?
Obviously with the Olympics it was the ideal time to bring out a song that celebrates the city. And I thought it was an opportune time to celebrate Lord Kitchener himself, an artist that I had gotten into a lot over the years, and being that it is Trinidad's 50th year of independence.
Is being black and British something that the younger generation really own now?
It's really weird, when it comes to things like football matches and stuff, that's when the tug-of-war begins. Naturally, as member of a minority community you gravitate towards your cultural background. But for the new generation of people, like myself, I've grown up loving being a Londoner and being in Britain.
But there is a strong, no hold barred connection to my heritage, I'm Ghanaian, because obviously we are all British. Unlike my parents who feel more Ghanaian and less British, it was seen as a colonial thing to be British in their days, where as with my generation it's natural.
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Oh, Kenley.
Let's clear something up right off the bat: we know, you know, and everyone in the whole f'ing country knows that the only reason you've made it to Bryant Park is that this season of Project Runway is about two yawns away from being a full-blown nap, and you're the only thing keeping the viewers interested. And we are not interested in the ugly fifties dresses that you design or that trademark bright red lipstick that, by the way, totally washes you out and makes you a lot less attractive than you could be. No, we are interested because we hate you. We hate your lipstick, we hate your voice and your terrible catty little laugh, and we hate the way you stand on the runway and roll your eyes at Michael Kors. At Michael Kors. Seriously, woman. What the hell is your problem.
Oh wait! We know what your problem is. You tell is what your problem is every single f'ing week. Your life has been soo. hard. You've been fighting your whole life, and this experience on PR is just one more fight in the battle that is the existence of Kenley Collins. Please, please, tell us more. Tell us about how hard it is to be a 25-year-old white girl from a loving family in Florida competing on one of the most popular reality shows on the air. Tell us about how you've had to suffer and about the opposition that you've had to face, because we're not gonna lie, Kenley. Unless growing up "on your dad's tugboat" is some kind of super-secret slang term for growing up "in the Haitian ghetto", we're going to have to hold the sympathy for now.
Michael Kors hates you. Nina Garcia hates you. Heidi Klum? Yeah, she hates you, probably because you had an argument with her, Ms. Victoria's Secret, about where a woman's breasts are. We're pretty sure that even Tim Gunn hates you, which really is an incredible feat on your part. We didn't know that Tim Gunn was capable of hate, but we are positive that he has just HAD IT with your pouty little face and every defensive word that comes out of your sarcastic little mouth.
In fact, we've all pretty much had it with everything about you. But we forgive Bravo and the PR producers for leaving you on the show in a desperate attempt to keep the attention of the people. After all, it worked – we're still watching, if only in hopes of viewing your eventual and inevitable demise. Congratulations on making it to the Final Three of the shittiest season of Project Runway yet; we're sure you will find it very satisfying when you find out next week that out of a pool of talentless designers, you came in third.


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Discussion in 'iWork Forum' started by Jdwallace, Jan 18, 2011.
Ok, I bought Keynote. Now how does this pc user move a 12 hr PowerPoint presentation to her iPad?
Don't hold your breath... no app on the iPad has much RAM space, so you will have to break large presentations into ones small enough to run on the iPad.
Well, I don't know how well that big a file will work, but:
iWork for iPad: About iTunes File Sharing
Well, here's a real world example:
I have a 223 slide Keynote presentation that is 880MB due to virtually every slide being a full-slide image. I had to break it into 4 separate chunks to get it into the iPad.
Personally, I can't imagine a 12 Hr presentation. Sounds gruelling!
I think it's a new extreme sport, Tag Presentation. It's only played in countries that have modified their sports centers to allow tag audience attendance.
Sounds like you'd need a catheter and a leg-bag.
Nah, it's a tag team style sport. The trick is to switch speakers in the slight awkward pause in-between slides. Must be done so smoothly that you don't wake the audience.
I also think so.


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Meet The Duckman Drummer
"I just want to make people laugh."
Duckman is waiting. At less than a year old, he is living in an orphanage in Japan. His mother said she would come get him in one week.
He will not see her for three years.
Today, Duckman, born Takahito Nakamura, smiles when I ask him to recount his difficult past.
"I have no problem to talk about this," he says, twirling a pen expertly.
One might not expect Takahito, with his heavy bangs and pedestrian clothes, to identify as the neon yellow unfailingly animated "Duckman" drummer – a celebrity in downtown Toronto. Grinning, flashing peace signs, and dabbing, he drums expertly and furiously in all kinds of weather. He is impossible to miss and wildly entertaining to watch.
These lively, comedic performances make his dark past all the more surprising. Shortly after Takahito was born, his mother became frustrated with his crying and grabbed his neck, choking him.
"I was a baby, so that was my work," Takahito jokes. "I was just doing my job!"
His parents abandoned him at a hospital in Aomori, Japan, and Takahito was sent to an orphanage.
"I was crying to get attention, to get affection from doctors, from nurses, but no one actually came," he says, "so I didn't really know what love meant."
In elementary school, Takahito discovered his aptitude for making people laugh and, with his grandparents' assistance, attended a school for comedy. He developed as a stand-up comedian in Tokyo and eventually moved to Australia to improve his English and pursue his career in entertainment.
It was in Australia that Duckman was born.
"I wanted to go through the language barrier, so I studied busking," Takahito tells me, "So that deaf people, blind people, poor kids that can't pay for tickets for concerts, they can come see you for free."
Duckman, it turns out, began as Chickenman.
"I am a chicken, which means I'm a coward without a costume," Takahito laughs. "But the very first day … people started calling me 'Duckman,' so I changed."
Takahito tells me he still feels like a chicken sometimes.
"I'm still nervous when I go busking!" he says. "Right before I wear the costume, I get nervous."
He gets his yellow onesies from eBay ("It's custom order, so it's expensive. I have five of them!") and made his signature hat himself. And the drumming? It's all self-taught.
"At first I sucked of course," Takahito tells me. "I didn't watch any YouTube videos or anything. That's why I was pretty different at playing drums."
Takahito also sings and plays the guitar and admits he could make more money if he busked as a singer-songwriter. He says, however, bucket drums are more distinct and inspiring.
"I want to do something that anyone can do but that no one can do," he says. "I had never tried to play bucket drums. So if I can do it, anyone can do it."
His rise to fame happened quickly – Takahito has only been in Toronto for fourteen months. While the majority of people are fans of Duckman, Takahito does encounter animosity and, unfortunately, racism.
"I still get discrimination ... I don't have citizenship," he says.
He tells me much of his trouble comes from other buskers because the competition for prime busking space is so fierce.
"I take the spot and I take the attention," he explains. "I am too loud!"
He also encounters hostility from the homeless community, who resent him for making money on the streets.
"They come up to me and say, 'this is our home. We are making money here. I want to take this spot, so you have to go away. I have citizenship. How about you?'"
Takahito says he responds that he can speak English, so why don't they talk?
It is worth noting that Takahito only learned English two years ago and, like with his drumming, he taught himself. He is undeniably fluent, although, he admits,
"The pronunciation is hard!"
Takahito typically busks Friday nights and weekend afternoons into the evenings. He'll play for three to seven hours with no breaks.
"I am well-trained!" he laughs.
A final surprise Takahito reveals about himself is that he's not that crazy about playing the drums.
"I just want to make people laugh and happy, so it doesn't matter what I do," he says. "I want people to know that there are so many things that are not sad. People tend to look at something that people lost, but they have to look at things that people still have left. People have to move forward."
Takahito's upcoming documentary, When I Was Young the World Didn't Need Me, will screen in Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, and Tokyo. A release date is not yet specified. You can find him on Youtube, Facebook, Instgram and GoFundMe.


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- Allow job candidates to fill out your customized online job application from your website or ours.
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Is Your Cellphone Number Recycled?
Almost 37 million phone numbers are "recycled" each year, making it increasingly common for individuals to get calls for the previous subscriber. Alyssa Abkowitz has details on Lunch Break.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Netanyahu's secret letter to the Iranians
Dear President Rouhani:
For quite some time now, we have been speaking a lot about each other and at each other. Iran's support for my bitterest enemies and call for my destruction, founded on a cocktail of a particular form of Islamic faith and anti-Semitism, has made Iran an object of much concern and worry. I speak about you often, both here in Israel and to our friends in the international community as I warn of the dangers that we and the world would face if and when Iran becomes a nuclear power. You probably don't like me very much, but that shouldn't stop you from at least admitting that my fears are hardly unfounded.
You may find my claims duplicitous and the world's concern with you, inconsistent and a symptom of Islamophobia, for after all, Israel, as well (according to foreign sources), is in possession of nuclear weapons and a potent missile delivery system. I cannot speak for the world, but the fact that we in Israel are not calling for the destruction of any of the sovereign nations of the world may be the cause for this disparity.
Truth be told, I don't really know you and where your presidency of Iran will take your country. I didn't particularly care for your predecessor, and it is important that you understand that you are not exactly functioning from a clean slate.
That said, I am writing to you because your narrative has deviated from that of Ahmadinejad, and your cancellation of the annual anti-Israel New Horizon Conference in Tehran, which offered a platform for Holocaust deniers, while arguably an excellent public relations move, have piqued my curiosity and motivated me to want to explore what may lie behind it.
As the leader of the Jewish State, and as an individual who has learned much from my tradition, I know that the right to self-defense is a moral right and a moral duty. All human life is endowed with infinite value, because we are all created in the image of God. The Jewish tradition teaches us that that applies not only to others, but first to oneself. "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Leviticus 19) I must love my neighbor but I must first love myself. If an enemy arises to kill me, I am commanded to kill him or her first. (Bamidbar Rabbah 21:4)
And so, I make no apologies for my readiness to defend myself and my people, and my calling for the willingness to use military means to do so. That said, my tradition also teaches that the use of force must be a measure of last resort and must be done only in the proportion needed to stave off the danger. (BT Sanhedrin 72a & 49a) The foundation for the value of my life is the same as that of others. All human beings and the emphasis is on all, are equally created in the image of God, regardless of their religious, national, racial, or gender identity.
I and my people belong to a tradition which teaches that whoever takes a life, it is as if s/he has destroyed a whole world, and whoever saves one life, it is as if s/he has saved a whole world. (Sanhedrin 4:5) As a Jew, I am commanded to emulate God, whose attribute is to be merciful over all of God's works. (Maimonides, Laws of Slavery, 9:8). It is God, who when defending the Jewish people from the tyrannical Pharaoh, destroyed him and his forces in the Red Sea, silenced the angels who began to sing God's praise. God argued, "My creation is now drowning in the sea, and you want to sing my praise?" (BT Megillah 10b)
The Jewish people do not seek war, nor do we celebrate the shedding of blood, even if it is that of our enemies who wish us harm. I and my people want to live in peace, freedom, and security here in our homeland. I believe it is our right as a sovereign people. While for much of our short history we have had to fight in order to exercise that right, I am not nor do I want to be a people who get so accustomed to war that we believe it to be inevitable.
And here you come onto the scene, at least initially, armed primarily with a new rhetoric. At first, my stance was to cry wolf. By that I mean, to declare that you are still a wolf in sheep's clothing. I warned anyone who would listen, and many who did not want to, of the dangers of letting down our guard, whether it be the stopping of economic sanctions or the taking of military options off the table. It is too soon, I argued, warning of the profound dangers of confusing our aspirations with reality. (Even you were probably at least a little surprised by Iran's appointment to a key role on the UN's Disarmament and International Security Committee.)
I still believe that, and feel that you must be judged by your actions and not merely your words. I am writing to you not merely to reiterate this claim, but to express my deepest hopes and prayers, that your actions will indeed be different. I am writing to tell you how happy I am that new channels of discourse and negotiations have opened between you and the rest of the world. When nations reach out to each other there are new opportunities which surface, opportunities that I as a Jew embrace.
I do not yearn to go to war with you, nor do I yearn for any harm or hardship to befall your people. I want to live in peace and security, and I wish it for you, as well. There is a time for war, a time for fighting. But there is also a time for talking. I am happy that you and the world are now talking, and am grateful to those leaders who seized on the opportunity. In truth, I am even a little jealous. For I would like to talk, as well. Not about you, not at you, but with you.
Please accept my wishes and blessings on a fruitful negotiation with the world, ones which serve the needs of your people while protecting the rest of the world from a danger we are morally obligated to prevent. There is a time for war and a time for peace, a time for fighting and a time for talking. I hope that you use this time to translate words into actions and move your country onto a new path. We look forward to meeting you there, and hopefully walking together.
Sincerely yours,
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister
State of Israel
This is a letter that I dream will come one day out of Israel's Prime Minister. May such a day come in our lifetime. Amen. – Donniel Hartman


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Anil Keshary Shah, CEO of Mega Bank is a well recognized corporate entity who started his banking career as a trainee in 1991 with Standard Chartered. His career advanced rapidly to become the General Manager of the bank in 2004. He then moved to Nabil Bank to become the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. And today continues his career path with Mega Bank.
High ambition, positive attitude, dedication, and commitment are key attributes that have kept him at the top of his game. In November, Shah was elected as President of the Nepal Bankers Association (NBA).
Ashok Thapa from Business 360 º caught up with Shah to learn about his vision for NBA during his term and the current situation of the banking sector among other issues.
As the newly elected President of Nepal Bankers Association, could you give us an overview of the current situation of the sector?
The banking sector of Nepal has come a long way since the first joint venture bank, Nepal Arab Bank and the journey so far has been pretty interesting – interesting in a sense that there have been lots of challenges, opportunities, highs and lows. Nepal has gone through a lot of transformation in social, political, educational and almost in all spheres, and the financial sector has not been untouched with the phenomenon happening around. Talking about the short term events, there are issues like demonitisation of Indian currency, liquidity crunch and ATM frauds, among others. In the medium to long term, the fact that we have now our own constitution which has demarked the country into seven provinces, and we will now have seven Chief Ministers in each of the provinces. What will be their economic vision, how will they economically transform the provinces, and what role does the banking sector have to play in the economic transformation process of those provinces? The questions still are unanswered. So there are interesting things that the banking sector is facing right now.
What I am confident is that whatever the future brings, we will not only be able to cope with the challenges but also capitalise on the opportunities and do more. The confidence I have in this is because we have over 25,000 Nepalis working in the banking sector at present. And these 25,000 are some of the best among the Nepali youths. As long as we are able to attract the best among our youths in the banking sector, we will continue to strive to be one of the best sectors in Nepal.
The banking sector has come a long way post liberalisation in the the 90s, what next?
The next step of the banks would be the adoption and utilisation of technology to enhance the financial inclusion of Nepalis. Even today only around 40 percent of Nepalis have access to banking which means 60% are still beyond the network. Now we have to see how we are able to pull that 60% within the periphery of banking system. And to do that it's not about opening up branches in every village which is not possible due to geographical situation like ours. So we have to use technology whether it is branchless banking, tab banking, mobile banking or internet banking. But we have to make it feasible for the Nepali population at large to be banked. I think the biggest opportunity in this area is remittance. Right now remittance is one of the main pillars of our economy. Millions of Nepalis are working abroad and now we need to open bank accounts for them. The biggest challenge they face is that they live and work in one of the most hostile countries in the world, and they keep sending money back as they can't feel secure retaining money with them. But when they come back to Nepal after three years, they see the money has not been invested or kept safe and there is no money left. So, after a few months, there is no option for them but to go back again to foreign jobs. We want to give them solutions so that they won't face the same problem over and over again. We want them to open accounts. Most banks now have internet banking. Foreign workers will send money to their own account. Their spouse and their parents can open accounts as well. Some money can be used by their family for livelihood and the rest can earn interest in their account so that whenever they come back home, there is money that they can be in-charge of. Innovative initiatives like these are how we can penetrate the market and give more financial inclusion.
Towards remittance, banks are yet unable to offer schemes that can be lucrative investment. Your thoughts…
I have a different opinion in this regard. Whatever money comes in Nepal comes not from knowledge workers. The knowledge workers are based in the US, UK and elsewhere, who have been taking permanent citizenship in those destinations. They purchase house and land and sell their property here in Nepal and want their whole family to go with them. They are not sending money home. People who are sending home money are at the bottom of the pyramid. They are the most deprived people of Nepal who have nothing here but have gone for foreign jobs to ensure their livelihoods so that their families can fulfill their basic necessities. When they go for foreign jobs, neither banks nor the government provides them with any help. They have to sell land, their mothers' gold, pay bribes and what not to go wherever they do. And they earn money and send it back here. And now, what we are saying is take some of the money and invest it in hydro projects so that we can have electricity or build better highways so that we can ride our cars faster? I am completely against it!
It's okay that they are using their money to raise their livelihood from abject poverty to a decent level. They are building nice houses, their children are wearing nice clothes and getting better education. They are investing in health and they are keeping little bit of money so that if their parents fall sick, they can invest in medical treatment. They are buying fridge, TV or motorcycles. We can't see them make their lives better and instead we are saying we have to use that money in projects that will ease the lives of those who are already prosperous and live here. I think it is completely wrong. I think we should let the people raise the quality of their life to a certain level. After they do that, if we provide bank accounts to them, they will themselves save money, and when they are back they will use the money to open a little tea shop or motorcycle repair shop or begin some venture like a grocery store or small agriculture or cattle farming so that they don't have to go back. If we say to them that we will use your money and give you shares, they will have nothing to do here when they are back and will again go back to their previous jobs. So we have to stop thinking from this rich man, urban perspective. We don't have that right.
What are you the main areas of your focus during your tenure as NBA President?
The challenge with NBA is that we are a very diverse group of banks. Even though there are only 28 banks, we have banks like Nabil, Standard Chartered and Himalayan which are older banks. We have middle range of banks like Citizen, Kumari and BOK, among others, while we also have new banks like Mega, Civil, Sanima, Janata and others. Each of us have different set of priorities and each of us have different set of evolution. We have different aspirations, different objectives and different challenges. As an association, how to bring homogeneous vision and strategy that benefits every bank is very challenging. I can't say I am the President and I should do only things that benefit my bank alone. No. The challenge is to bring everyone's point of view together and work to meet them. This is not easy.
As President of any association, there are always the short term and medium to long term issues to address. Like liquidity, ATM fraud, INR 500 and 1,000 issue, etc are short term issues and we have to deal with them as and when they arise. But in the medium to long term, I think these two years term of mine is at a very critical time. The critical issue that we will be dealing with is the issue associated with the provincial provision and its economics, for example, how do seven provinces develop their economic strategy and vision. Because each province will have their own Chief and Finance Minister, they will have Cabinet in each province. Each province will have their own financial issues.
As an association, each of the banks rather than running around their own policy and objectives, we have to see how we can have common vision to take to the provincial government and say this is what we want to do. We have to say this is your vision and this is ours, and this is how we can help you in meeting your vision and let us work together. I think during my tenure as President, this will be the biggest challenge and biggest opportunity as well. And this is the major thing I would be working on.
Has there been any discussion or ground work already done on the financial sector's integration in the provincial system?
I think before we do that we have to give the seven provinces their names. And we have to determine what the capital of these provinces is. Right now we are seeing that streets are burning again because a province has been proposed to be changed from one side – some of the districts from one to the other. There is still a lot of water that needs to flow before we come to the point when the provinces decide what sort of economic model they want. Nobody, unfortunately, is thinking about economics but everybody is occupied with the politics. So there are still things to be done before we think about how we are going to work in the provincial mode.
Do you think banks have done enough to help scale mega projects, or have they been happy limited to serving auto and housing loans?
Banks also have realised that in order to achieve sustainable economic growth, we have to uplift the living standard of mass citizens. In the past, banks were focused on banking the big industries, big businesses and the big businessmen. Money was taken from the mass Nepali public in the form of deposits and a handful of people were given loans who ran big industries. Common people didn't benefit from the banking sector in any way other than getting interest on deposits. But now you can see the difference. At present, more and more Nepalis have been brought within the banking channel. People who did not have vehicles are riding a motorcycle and motorcycle owners have shifted to cars. People who had no place to live have been able to buy a small piece of land and build their own home. Their living standards have come up owing to the access of bank financing. When I, as a banker, look at it, I find it more productive than giving a bunch of people all the loans that the banks have and build industries and so on and so forth.
We have to do both. We have to finance big projects and we also have to finance consumers and common people, that too not only in the urban but also in rural areas. What we need to do from the banking sector is, we have to enhance our capacity, for instance the paid up capital is being raised to Rs 8 billion. This will give us more capacity to finance bigger projects. Along with that, we also have to enhance our technical skills. We also have to, at the same time, look at the bottom of the pyramid and see how we can ensure financial inclusion of more and more people.
Is there a sustainable solution to the liquidity issue?
I think the main problem is there is no depth in the liquidity market. If there was a depth, such would not be the case. The reason that it happens is not logical and it's not healthy for the economy and the market. It's because till now the biggest spender in the market is the Government of Nepal.
Unfortunately, for the last many years, the government has not been able to spend as per its budget and this year too the spending is even less. And because the liquidity that should have come back in the market, because government picks up liquidity from the market in the form of excise, VAT and other taxes but it needs to come back through the spending in roads, highways, schools and others. But when it does not spend, the liquidity dries up in the market. And that is what is happening. But at the end of the fiscal year, government spends a lot of money. And there is too much liquidity in the market. And everything repeats again. Therefore the government has to have a planned and systematic spending strategy which would help maintain liquidity throughout the fiscal year.
The paid up capital of the commercial banks is to be raised to Rs 8 billion by the end of this fiscal as per the directives of NRB, how does this effect the banks?
Lots of banks have already completed mergers and acquisitions. Many banks have decided that they won't go for merger and acquisition but to issue right shares. So banks are pretty much on track to enhance their paid up capital to Rs 8 billion by this end of this fiscal.
As a banker, how do you respond to the Indian Government's recent demonetisation of INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes? Does this pose any threat to Nepal's banking and economic sector?
First of all, which economy? If you are talking about the formal economy, there is no impact at all. For example when Nepal Rastra Bank asked us how much banned currency do we have in the banking sector, we said we don't even have Rs 35 million and that's the formal sector status. Until the day that the Indian government announced demonitisation, I, all the CEOs and Rastra Bank were receiving a lot of calls saying 'There is not enough Indian currency in the market and that Nepalis are having tough time when they go to India and to trade, so you need to bring more Indian rupees and put it in the market.' We thought there was no Indian rupees in the market. But right after demonitisation, we got calls and people said 'We have so much Indian rupees, what are we going to do? The economy is not going to sustain this way, you have to do something.' Now which version of the thing should we trust?
Towards the informal economy side, being a Nepali I am proud of my own currency as much as I am proud of Buddha and the Everest. I trust my currency and I save in my own currency. But when you hold another country's money in huge amounts and all of a sudden there is this unfavourable policy, then I think you should go to that very country and ask for a solution. That's my recommendation. Because we can't solve that problem as it's not our money. We can't help unless the Reserve Bank of Indian asks us to take the money from the public and they ensure its convertibility. Otherwise, why had you trusted another country and its economy previously? We are hearing that the whole far western region had IC economy. Why is this? Isn't this against the law of the land? Holding that much of money is not legal. It had been clearly said that an individual could hold IC worth 25,000 when one had to travel to India, but also had equally been clearly said that come back and change it to NC. Who had told them to hold on to the Indian currency? If you have pride in your country, you also have to have pride in the Nepali currency.


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Part 1: Overview
By Lawrence Gavin, Head Geek, SolarWinds®, Virtualization & Storage Management
Storage management will likely be the most important near-term consideration for organizations looking to invest in virtualization. The importance here is to select the correct storage methodology for the virtualization environment being built (there are more choices available today than there were five years ago), and to ensure that the correct management tools exist for managing both the storage infrastructure and the hosts and virtual machines utilizing those services. More to the point, the key is to not get locked into the wrong storage methodology.
Many VMware® environments started off as large-scale clustered environments and are typically backed by SANs. Hyper-V environments, on the other hand, typically have been organically grown, one standalone host at a time, and built on top of direct attached storage (DAS). This works fine for organizations with just a few hosts, but beyond that, managing individual DAS environments on a per-host basis becomes tedious, burdensome, and inefficient.
Storage performance has typically been driven by one major factor: spindles. Historically, SANs were needed to get large quantities of spindles. Spindles cost money. So does a SAN infrastructure. Equally as relevant are the constraints in the storage fabric itself. You can only attach so many spindles to a 16Gb Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) before you run out of bandwidth in the I/O channel. Bottom line: implementing and growing a SAN is expensive.
However, with the advent of 40Gb and 100Gb Ethernet connections, there's a whole new world available from iSCSI—and now, Windows Server® 2012 Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 and all of its associated improvements in file services. As a result, virtualization hosts are no longer beholden to the "power of the SAN." Shucks, even dual-port or quad-port 10Gb Ethernet NICs can be teamed to provide 2-3x the available bandwidth of a 16Gb FC HBA.
More significantly, Windows Server 2012 file servers can be incrementally added to a file services cluster as more resources are needed, rather than having to invest the full Monty up front (as is often necessary with a SAN infrastructure). In this three-part series, we're going to take an in-depth look at two key considerations for using file services as a storage methodology for Hyper-V.
• Part 2 – File Services Enhancements: Part two will provide an overview of new file services in Windows Server 2012 that improve the value for virtualization. This new version of Windows Server brings significant improvements in failover clustering, cluster shared volumes, scale-out file servers, cluster-aware updating, storage migration, improvements in the SMB protocols, and for those who do have SANs, the addition of fibre channel adapters in the guest OS for VM storage performance.
• Part 3 – Cost Comparison of SMBv3 vs SAN Expansion: In the final part of the series we will provide a cost comparison of adding incremental storage with Windows Server 2012 file services versus adding additional fabric and disks with a SAN. In this article, we'll look at acquisition and implementation costs involved in adding additional storage capacity to a SAN environment compared to expanding a Windows Server 2012 file services cluster using scale-out file servers.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, a style of cooking of particular region, and the science of good eating.[1] One who is well versed in gastronomy is called a gastronome, while a gastronomist is one who unites theory and practice in the study of gastronomy.[citation needed] Gastronomy can be subdivided into four main areas, which are practical gastronomy, theoretical gastronomy, technical gastronomy, and food gastronomy.[citation needed] Practical gastronomy is associated with the practice and study of the preparation, production, and service of the various foods and beverages, from countries around the world. Theoretical gastronomy supports practical gastronomy. It is related with a system and process approach, focused on recipes and cookery books. Food gastronomy is connected with food and beverages and their genesis. Technical gastronomy underpins practical gastronomy, introducing a rigorous approach to evaluation of gastronomic topics.[2]
Etymologically, the word "gastronomy" is derived from Ancient Greek γαστήρ, gastér, "stomach", and νόμος, nómos "laws that govern", and therefore literally means "the art or law of regulating the stomach". The term is purposely all-encompassing: it subsumes all of cooking technique, nutritional facts, food science, and everything that has to do with palatability plus applications of taste and smell as human ingestion of foodstuffs goes.[citation needed]
Gastronomy involves discovering, tasting, experiencing, researching, understanding and writing about food preparation and the sensory qualities of human nutrition as a whole. It also studies how nutrition interfaces with the broader culture. Later on, the application of biological and chemical knowledge to cooking has become known as molecular gastronomy, yet gastronomy covers a much broader, interdisciplinary ground.
The culinary term appears for the first time in a title in a poem by Joseph Berchoux in 1801 entitled "Gastronomie".[citation needed]
The derivative gourmet has come into use since the publication of the book by Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste. According to Brillat-Savarin, "Gastronomy is the knowledge and understanding of all that relates to man as he eats. Its purpose is to ensure the conservation of men, using the best food possible."[3]
Works on gastronomy[edit]
There have been many writings on gastronomy throughout the world that capture the thoughts and esthetics of a culture's cuisine during a period in their history. In some cases, these works continue to define or influence the contemporary gastronomic thought and cuisine of their respective cultures.
- Apicius: A 5th Century collection of Roman recipes by the gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius. Contains instructions for preparing dishes enjoyed by the elite of the time.
- Suiyuan shidan (隨園食單) : An 18th Century manual on Qing dynasty Chinese Cuisine by the poet Yuan Mei, which contains recipes from different social classes at the time along with two chapters on Chinese gastronomic and culinary theory.
- The Physiology of Taste: A 19th Century book by Chef Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin that defined classic French cuisine. The work contains a large collection of flamboyant recipes from the time, but goes into the theory on preparation of French dishes and hospitality.