The contraption sits in a basement lab at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, a mish-mash of hoses, wires, whirring pumps
and a 12-foot high plastic tower filled with dripping water,Welcome to
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looks like a high school science project, but it was developed by two
post-doctoral mechanical engineers at MIT. And it just might be a
breakthrough that creates wealth and jobs in the United States and
transforms the white-hot industry of oil and natural gas hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking.
That is, as long as the foreign-born inventors aren't forced to leave the country.
Anurag
Bajpayee and Prakash Narayan Govindan, both from India, have started a
company to sell the system to oil companies that are desperate for a
cheaper, cleaner way to dispose of the billions of gallons of
contaminated water produced by fracking.
Oil companies have
flown them to Texas and North Dakota. They say they are about to close
on millions of dollars in financing, and they anticipate hiring 100
employees in the next couple of years. Scientific American magazine
called water-decontamination technology developed by Bajpayee one of
the top ten "world-changing ideas" of 2012.
But their student
visas expire soon, both before July, and because of the restrictive
U.S. visa system, they may have to move their company to India or
another country. "We love it here," said Bajpayee, a cheerful
27-year-old in an argyle sweater and jeans.Find the best selection of
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available anywhere. "But there are so many hoops you have to jump
through. And you risk getting deported while you are creating jobs."
Much
of the current immigration debate in Washington has centered on the 11
million undocumented migrants in the country. But, from the halls of
MIT to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, business and academic leaders
are more focused on what they call an even greater threat to the U.S.
economy: immigration laws that chase away highly skilled foreigners
educated in U.S. universities, often with degrees funded by U.S.
taxpayers.
While other countries are actively recruiting
foreign-born U.S. graduates, the United States has strict limits on
visas for highly skilled workers that often lead to waiting lists of
many years. And unlike Canada and other countries, the U.S. offers no
specific visa for young entrepreneurs like Bajpayee and Narayan who
want to start a new business in America.
"These are bright
people who want to stay and make this country more competitive, and we
treat them like dirt and drive them away," said Vivek Wadhwa, an
entrepreneur and academic who writes frequently about immigration and
the "reverse brain drain."
President Barack Obama supports
making it easier for foreigners who earn master's degrees or Ph.Ds at
U.S. universities to get green cards, and so does a bipartisan group of
U.S. Senators who recently announced their immigration reform
proposals. The idea has wide support, but it is stuck in partisan
infighting over how to craft comprehensive reforms that address both
skilled and unskilled immigrants.
Republicans have proposed
increasing the number of visas for skilled immigrants by cutting the
number available for unskilled immigrants--a trade-off that Democrats
oppose. The situation is an emblem of Washington gridlock: Even when
both sides agree on something, they can't agree on how to make it
happen.
Obama and some in Congress have also proposed creating a
new "start-up visa" for foreign entrepreneurs. Many applaud this plan,
but not all.
"It's a stupid idea," said Mark Krikorian of the
Center for Immigration Studies, who supports tighter immigration
controls. "What is an entrepreneur? Businesses come and go."
That
kind of talk is heresy in Silicon Valley, where business leaders have
begged the government for more welcoming immigration laws. The biggest
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they say, is a desperately acute shortage of highly skilled workers in
the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"No
matter how many visas they gave out, those people would all get jobs
and we would still need more," said Margit Wennmachers, a partner at
Andreessen Horowitz, a major venture capital firm in Silicon
Valley.Willkommen im virtuellen Zuhause der Lercher Werkzeugbau GmbH. "It's not like we need 10,000. I think we could do with a million and still be hungry."
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is all the rage.Ds working in science and technology are foreign-born.
And about 40 percent of all MIT graduate students are from other
countries.
Leon Sandler, executive director of MIT's Deshpande
Center for Technical Innovation, said it costs about $250,000 to
educate a single Ph.D student and the U.S. government pays for at least
80 percent of all MIT's graduate research.
"Essentially we are
funding their research, spending a quarter-million dollars in taxpayer
money, then we make it hard for these people to stay here," said
Sandler, whose group helps start up and provided nearly $150,000 to
support Bajpayee and Narayan. "If you want more innovation in this
country, fix the visa situation."
Countries from Canada to
Germany to Australia to Singapore are enthusiastically courting foreign
entrepreneurs with relatively easy visas. Some countries offer cash.
China
has given bonuses of up to $150,000 to thousands of highly skilled
expatriates who have come home to work or start businesses. Chile is
luring top talent with $40,000 in capital, free office space and a
quick visa through its "Start-up Chile" program.
2013年2月19日 星期二
2013年2月18日 星期一
Northeast commuters struggle with icy roads
The workweek opened with a white-knuckle ride Monday in the
snow-clobbered Northeast as drivers encountered unplowed streets,
two-lane roads reduced to a single channel and snowbanks so high it was
impossible see around corners.
Schools remained closed across much of New England and New York, and more than 80,000 homes and businesses were still waiting for the electricity to come back on after the epic storm swept through on Friday and Saturday with 1 to 3 feet of snow that entombed cars and sealed up driveways.
The storm was blamed for at least 18 deaths in the U.S. and Canada, and officials warned of a new danger as rain and higher temperatures set in: roof collapses.Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing.
In hard-hit Connecticut, where some places were buried in more than 3 feet of snow, the National Guard used heavy equipment to clear roads in the state's three biggest cities.
"This is awful," said Fernando Colon, of South Windsor, Conn., who was driving to work at Bradley International Airport near Hartford on a two-lane highway that was down to one lane because of high snowbanks.
Most major highways were cleared by Monday,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. but the volume of snow was just too much to handle on many secondary roads. A mix of sleet and rain also created new headaches. A 10-mile stretch of Interstate 91 just north of Hartford to Massachusetts was closed briefly because of ice and accidents.
In New York, where hundreds of cars became stuck on the Long Island Expressway on Friday night and early Saturday morning, some motorists vented their anger at Gov. Andrew Cuomo for not acting more quickly to shut down major roads, as other governors did, and for not plowing more aggressively.
"There were cars scattered all over the place. They should have just told people in the morning, 'Don't bother going in because we're going to close the roads by 3 o'clock.' I think Boston and Connecticut had the right idea telling everybody to stay off the roads and we got a better chance of clearing it up," said George Kiriakos, an investment consultant from Bohemia, N.Y.
On Monday morning, he said, conditions were still miserable: "It's just as slick as can be. You've got cars stuck all over like it's an obstacle course."
Cuomo has defended his handling of the crisis and said that more than one-third of all the state's snow-removal equipment had been sent to the area. He said he also wanted to allow people the chance to get home from work.
"People need to act responsibly in these situations," the governor said.
The number of homes and businesses without power was down from a peak at 650,000. More than 70,000 of those still waiting were in Massachusetts.
Jim and Brenda Stewart, of Marshfield,A chip card is a plastic card that has a computer chip implanted into it that enables the card to perform certain. Mass., were using their fireplace to stay warm. Brenda, a nurse, said that they were getting a little bit bored but that she was reading and painting snow scenes to pass the time.
"When you're a New Englander,Find the best iPhone headset for you you kind of hunker down and just do it," she said.
In Scituate, Mass., Richard and Ann Brown were among about 50 people at a shelter set up at a high school. The couple, married 65 years, spent the previous three nights sleeping on side-by-side cots.
"It's disrupting when you're older," said Ann Brown, 88. "You've got to be careful to keep your spirits up."
Flights resumed at major airports in the region. Boston's transit system resumed full service Monday but told commuters to expect delays. The Metro-North Railroad was mostly up and running in suburban New York City, while the Long Island Rail Road said riders could expect a nearly normal schedule.
In the long weather history of the Northeast, the snowstorm wasn't that bad — it ranked 16th on one scale and 25th on another, according to initial data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The measuring systems take into account the size of the snowstorm, the amount of snow and how many people were in its path.
The weekend storm ranked a 3, or a "major" storm, on a 1-5 scale, with 4 being "crippling" and 5 "extreme."
While many people tried to resume their workweek routines, others remained hopelessly stranded.
In Hamden, Conn., which received 40 inches of snow, nurse Sandy Benoit said she could not leave the house because her driveway had not been plowed. She didn't think her street was plowed either, but she couldn't be sure because she had to turn back after walking part of the way in knee-deep snow.
Across the region, big piles of snow blocked sight lines at intersections and highway ramps, making turning and merging hazardous. Some drivers decided the safe thing to do was to stay in the tracks cut by the cars ahead of them.
Peter Starkel, chief of the volunteer fire department in Columbia, Conn., said was difficult to maneuver emergency vehicles on the snow-narrowed roads. During one emergency medical call, "we physically could not turn the vehicles around," he said. "So we had to back about a half-mile down the road to the closest intersection just to get out."
In North Haven, Conn., First Selectman Michael Freda said that with many driveways still to be cleared, people were running out of heating oil and prescription medication.
"What this is creating, particularly in the senior citizen sector, is a bit of psychological anxiety with is creating a lot of emotion," he said.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said there have been about six roof collapses involving barns and other structures.
Officials said people should try to clear flat or gently sloped roofs to relieve the weight — but only if they can do so safely.
"We don't recommend that people, unless they're young and experienced, go up on roofs," said Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in a custom keychain.
Officials also warned of the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In Boston, two people died Saturday after being overcome by fumes while sitting in running cars, including a teenager who was trying to stay warm while his father shoveled. The vehicles' tailpipes had become clogged with snow.
Schools remained closed across much of New England and New York, and more than 80,000 homes and businesses were still waiting for the electricity to come back on after the epic storm swept through on Friday and Saturday with 1 to 3 feet of snow that entombed cars and sealed up driveways.
The storm was blamed for at least 18 deaths in the U.S. and Canada, and officials warned of a new danger as rain and higher temperatures set in: roof collapses.Online shopping for luggage tag from a great selection of Clothing.
In hard-hit Connecticut, where some places were buried in more than 3 feet of snow, the National Guard used heavy equipment to clear roads in the state's three biggest cities.
"This is awful," said Fernando Colon, of South Windsor, Conn., who was driving to work at Bradley International Airport near Hartford on a two-lane highway that was down to one lane because of high snowbanks.
Most major highways were cleared by Monday,A lanyard may refer to a rope or cord worn around the neck or wrist to carry an object. but the volume of snow was just too much to handle on many secondary roads. A mix of sleet and rain also created new headaches. A 10-mile stretch of Interstate 91 just north of Hartford to Massachusetts was closed briefly because of ice and accidents.
In New York, where hundreds of cars became stuck on the Long Island Expressway on Friday night and early Saturday morning, some motorists vented their anger at Gov. Andrew Cuomo for not acting more quickly to shut down major roads, as other governors did, and for not plowing more aggressively.
"There were cars scattered all over the place. They should have just told people in the morning, 'Don't bother going in because we're going to close the roads by 3 o'clock.' I think Boston and Connecticut had the right idea telling everybody to stay off the roads and we got a better chance of clearing it up," said George Kiriakos, an investment consultant from Bohemia, N.Y.
On Monday morning, he said, conditions were still miserable: "It's just as slick as can be. You've got cars stuck all over like it's an obstacle course."
Cuomo has defended his handling of the crisis and said that more than one-third of all the state's snow-removal equipment had been sent to the area. He said he also wanted to allow people the chance to get home from work.
"People need to act responsibly in these situations," the governor said.
The number of homes and businesses without power was down from a peak at 650,000. More than 70,000 of those still waiting were in Massachusetts.
Jim and Brenda Stewart, of Marshfield,A chip card is a plastic card that has a computer chip implanted into it that enables the card to perform certain. Mass., were using their fireplace to stay warm. Brenda, a nurse, said that they were getting a little bit bored but that she was reading and painting snow scenes to pass the time.
"When you're a New Englander,Find the best iPhone headset for you you kind of hunker down and just do it," she said.
In Scituate, Mass., Richard and Ann Brown were among about 50 people at a shelter set up at a high school. The couple, married 65 years, spent the previous three nights sleeping on side-by-side cots.
"It's disrupting when you're older," said Ann Brown, 88. "You've got to be careful to keep your spirits up."
Flights resumed at major airports in the region. Boston's transit system resumed full service Monday but told commuters to expect delays. The Metro-North Railroad was mostly up and running in suburban New York City, while the Long Island Rail Road said riders could expect a nearly normal schedule.
In the long weather history of the Northeast, the snowstorm wasn't that bad — it ranked 16th on one scale and 25th on another, according to initial data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The measuring systems take into account the size of the snowstorm, the amount of snow and how many people were in its path.
The weekend storm ranked a 3, or a "major" storm, on a 1-5 scale, with 4 being "crippling" and 5 "extreme."
While many people tried to resume their workweek routines, others remained hopelessly stranded.
In Hamden, Conn., which received 40 inches of snow, nurse Sandy Benoit said she could not leave the house because her driveway had not been plowed. She didn't think her street was plowed either, but she couldn't be sure because she had to turn back after walking part of the way in knee-deep snow.
Across the region, big piles of snow blocked sight lines at intersections and highway ramps, making turning and merging hazardous. Some drivers decided the safe thing to do was to stay in the tracks cut by the cars ahead of them.
Peter Starkel, chief of the volunteer fire department in Columbia, Conn., said was difficult to maneuver emergency vehicles on the snow-narrowed roads. During one emergency medical call, "we physically could not turn the vehicles around," he said. "So we had to back about a half-mile down the road to the closest intersection just to get out."
In North Haven, Conn., First Selectman Michael Freda said that with many driveways still to be cleared, people were running out of heating oil and prescription medication.
"What this is creating, particularly in the senior citizen sector, is a bit of psychological anxiety with is creating a lot of emotion," he said.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said there have been about six roof collapses involving barns and other structures.
Officials said people should try to clear flat or gently sloped roofs to relieve the weight — but only if they can do so safely.
"We don't recommend that people, unless they're young and experienced, go up on roofs," said Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.Our premium collection of quality personalized keychains generously offers affordability in a custom keychain.
Officials also warned of the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In Boston, two people died Saturday after being overcome by fumes while sitting in running cars, including a teenager who was trying to stay warm while his father shoveled. The vehicles' tailpipes had become clogged with snow.
2011年6月20日 星期一
Sir, do not have to keep the world safe from war?
NATO is slowly no one takes seriously, a series of errors committed by the military in Libya by the Western Allies (see the weekend, claiming civilian casualties by bombing). Meanwhile, combine the military forces of Syria and Iran, Israel, therefore you start to feel too extreme danger. Some European countries, Greece is indeed a threat of social explosion. This recognizes Klaus Naumann, NATO's most important strategic advisory body, the Military Commission, recently resigned president of the former German chief of staff, yet the hvg.hu has an exclusive interview, but there is basically optimistic.
Zentai Peter: Sir, again over the weekend had a dramatic failure of the Western allies in Libya, two months after the third time bombed by mistake. Again, helpless, innocent children, women, old people were killed. Do you think that this whole problem of deer Libyan intervention?
Klaus Naumann: simply impossible to correctly carry out such a large operation. Unspeakable pangs of conscience we feel on such occasions, I know this because at the time of the NATO Chiefs of Defence as the first man I had to coordinate military operations in Kosovo, and certainly no small number of innocents killed there - our fault. But the spot really making sure that unless we can contribute from outside the system and the overthrow of Milosevic, the bloodshed has continued for years have been. The NATO intervention finally - yes, claiming innocent lives, despite misconceptions - ten thousand times more lives saved than are killed because of us. The South Slavic peoples of the region live in peace once again thanks to external intervention, Europe and the world in a rid tűzfészektől war, not least Milosevicstől. Libya is a case of errors, mistakes, despite the military and political objectives to be reached, both the Western and Muslim countries as a coalition.
I have to say is that the biggest failure of the military career, I feel that urge, despite the claims in Rwanda is not formed an international alliance of military action, so he could not stop for almost a million old people, woman, child destruction.
ZP: When you felt supported by the NATO intervention in Libya, home of the government of Germany is still not included in this action. To take note of this?
CN: I resented it that the Libyan government's campaign has stayed green light to the UN ballot. This is the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of West Germany I think. It was the impression in the world that we are no longer trusted members of the Western alliance system. This has weakened the global prestige of NATO.
ZP: I think NATO's prestige, already in ruins. It is no coincidence that what a bitter article in the journal that published several world will soon be retiring American Minister of Defense. Robert Gates considers it shameful that the North Atlantic Alliance, the European members simply do not want to spend money on defense, just waiting for America to victims. Also, how elbagatellizálják the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistani-Indian nuclear potential conflicts created by the challenges. He did not take seriously enough to have followed one another on critical IT systems against, they are partially paralyzed can attack the whole world wide web. Robert Gates agrees with pessimism?
CN: I think it is untenable that a number of NATO member states governments only to the profits they want lefölözni, but victims are not willing: expect trouble in the United States to protect them, but the economic and political reasons can not do almost nothing in common defense of enhancing a . One day, even in the near future, we really woke up to the members of the American legislation, "bemondják boring" and I megnyirbálják spending on the military, they are only and exclusively be adequate to protect the United States. Well, you see yourself in this world!
ZP: You can also view up to now, Iran, Syria, Pakistan and even China and Russia, the leaders are now rubbing their hands because they feel the end of Western military dominance, but only while it ensured the dominance of the past two decades, the world's peace. Now, however, fatally debilitated they see us. You are here, for instance the case of Syria. The regime there since I systematically murdering its own people, not even a sign not that the West would want to command a halt Asszadéknak. Libya is still gone, no longer in Syria?
K.N.: a moral sense, I agree with you. But the bombing of the Syrian army post, or any other kind of external military intervention in Syria, the Libyans compared incomparably more serious risks, assuming it would require. The Syrian military is one of the most feared throughout the Middle East, Syria, moreover, a growing number of Iranian troops are stationed as well. The result of an intervention is very likely would enter the war on Iran, Israel is the punch at the end of military conflict. Western intervention would also be triggered by a boomerang effect can the Arab peoples of the intervention is generally against them, or even more generally as an aggression against the Muslim world will be, put aside all claims of the democratic struggle and the realization is behind the Assam sorakoznának up. China and Russia are also supposed to evaluate the intervention as Western aggression. Simply follow each other in unpredictable dramas in Syria, the Arab world and ultimately around the world.
Zentai Peter: Sir, again over the weekend had a dramatic failure of the Western allies in Libya, two months after the third time bombed by mistake. Again, helpless, innocent children, women, old people were killed. Do you think that this whole problem of deer Libyan intervention?
Klaus Naumann: simply impossible to correctly carry out such a large operation. Unspeakable pangs of conscience we feel on such occasions, I know this because at the time of the NATO Chiefs of Defence as the first man I had to coordinate military operations in Kosovo, and certainly no small number of innocents killed there - our fault. But the spot really making sure that unless we can contribute from outside the system and the overthrow of Milosevic, the bloodshed has continued for years have been. The NATO intervention finally - yes, claiming innocent lives, despite misconceptions - ten thousand times more lives saved than are killed because of us. The South Slavic peoples of the region live in peace once again thanks to external intervention, Europe and the world in a rid tűzfészektől war, not least Milosevicstől. Libya is a case of errors, mistakes, despite the military and political objectives to be reached, both the Western and Muslim countries as a coalition.
I have to say is that the biggest failure of the military career, I feel that urge, despite the claims in Rwanda is not formed an international alliance of military action, so he could not stop for almost a million old people, woman, child destruction.
ZP: When you felt supported by the NATO intervention in Libya, home of the government of Germany is still not included in this action. To take note of this?
CN: I resented it that the Libyan government's campaign has stayed green light to the UN ballot. This is the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of West Germany I think. It was the impression in the world that we are no longer trusted members of the Western alliance system. This has weakened the global prestige of NATO.
ZP: I think NATO's prestige, already in ruins. It is no coincidence that what a bitter article in the journal that published several world will soon be retiring American Minister of Defense. Robert Gates considers it shameful that the North Atlantic Alliance, the European members simply do not want to spend money on defense, just waiting for America to victims. Also, how elbagatellizálják the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistani-Indian nuclear potential conflicts created by the challenges. He did not take seriously enough to have followed one another on critical IT systems against, they are partially paralyzed can attack the whole world wide web. Robert Gates agrees with pessimism?
CN: I think it is untenable that a number of NATO member states governments only to the profits they want lefölözni, but victims are not willing: expect trouble in the United States to protect them, but the economic and political reasons can not do almost nothing in common defense of enhancing a . One day, even in the near future, we really woke up to the members of the American legislation, "bemondják boring" and I megnyirbálják spending on the military, they are only and exclusively be adequate to protect the United States. Well, you see yourself in this world!
ZP: You can also view up to now, Iran, Syria, Pakistan and even China and Russia, the leaders are now rubbing their hands because they feel the end of Western military dominance, but only while it ensured the dominance of the past two decades, the world's peace. Now, however, fatally debilitated they see us. You are here, for instance the case of Syria. The regime there since I systematically murdering its own people, not even a sign not that the West would want to command a halt Asszadéknak. Libya is still gone, no longer in Syria?
K.N.: a moral sense, I agree with you. But the bombing of the Syrian army post, or any other kind of external military intervention in Syria, the Libyans compared incomparably more serious risks, assuming it would require. The Syrian military is one of the most feared throughout the Middle East, Syria, moreover, a growing number of Iranian troops are stationed as well. The result of an intervention is very likely would enter the war on Iran, Israel is the punch at the end of military conflict. Western intervention would also be triggered by a boomerang effect can the Arab peoples of the intervention is generally against them, or even more generally as an aggression against the Muslim world will be, put aside all claims of the democratic struggle and the realization is behind the Assam sorakoznának up. China and Russia are also supposed to evaluate the intervention as Western aggression. Simply follow each other in unpredictable dramas in Syria, the Arab world and ultimately around the world.
2011年6月14日 星期二
Hello! German police officers stand up to the Hungarian colleagues next?
The German police officers just 62 years old, they can go to retire, but is already starting salary of 800 thousand HUF and will not be dismissed. Therefore, some colleagues of the Hungarian demands Rüdiger Reedwisch difficult to understand, the leader of the largest German rendőrszakszervezet. But if the legitimate demands of the Hungarian rendvédelmisek find stand beside them, said the union leader, who is also the Presidency of the European Union is a member of the Police.
Zentai Peter: Can you imagine a situation in Germany or France, police officers and demonstrators against them orchestrated by the police authorities?
Rüdiger Reedwisch: Yes. Such can not happen. But I know that in Hungary and Romania, the situation was so intense the law enforcement personnel and the respective governments, so that it happens.
Z.P.: strike also converted. Know about this?
R.R.: Sure. But this is even more unthinkable in our country. Because there is no right to strike. The German alaptörvényből result of law enforcement personnel and non-members may not show sztrájkolhatnak. I hear the nearby Hungary, a German police officer from a very distant prospect ...
ZP: You also know that we have police officers retired early again like to re-activate, and they want to eliminate the early retirement?
RR: We a priori unknown to the institution of early retirement. A German police officer is required to work until the age of 62 years. Assuming he is healthy. Now that you have dug myself into this whole problem, not Hungary, but also because of Romania, the Romanian colleagues expert assistance is requested from the European Union Police - I realized that almost összevethetetlen a German, usually a Western European and Eastern European law enforcement állományos a situation.
The obligations imposed on us on us and the privileges it was immutable, flowing from the Constitution.
ZP: So my obligation is to the age of 62 before nyugdíjaztathatják themselves. What a privilege to have you, what is the charge?
RR: The fact that the police can not be dismissed. Never. Only when ordinary sins. This is a career here, which is literally the end of the normal life a living. The state - the law says this out - you never can take away this privilégiumunkat. In exchange, however - at least for the professional staff members - there is no possibility béralkukra, the topic of this Act to pay for overtime up to the order, clarifying every detail. The staff are not civil servants, non-police employees working in positions, however, this does not apply. They are not "life" of a body of work in law enforcement.
ZP: Still looking for that one policeman in Germany? Leave him much time acting?
R.R.: This rangfüggő. The vocational college after completing mandatory minimum of 3 000 euros (about 800 thousand HUF) should receive an initial police force. This gross amount, which is almost the same as are net, if we take the example a family man. I'm already pretty high level position, Director of Police (Polizei Direktor) my rank, I only have two superior. Accordingly, the salary of EUR 7,000 - per month. Retired and then - like every other police officer - this involves 71 percent of basic salary for me.
Zentai Peter: Can you imagine a situation in Germany or France, police officers and demonstrators against them orchestrated by the police authorities?
Rüdiger Reedwisch: Yes. Such can not happen. But I know that in Hungary and Romania, the situation was so intense the law enforcement personnel and the respective governments, so that it happens.
Z.P.: strike also converted. Know about this?
R.R.: Sure. But this is even more unthinkable in our country. Because there is no right to strike. The German alaptörvényből result of law enforcement personnel and non-members may not show sztrájkolhatnak. I hear the nearby Hungary, a German police officer from a very distant prospect ...
ZP: You also know that we have police officers retired early again like to re-activate, and they want to eliminate the early retirement?
RR: We a priori unknown to the institution of early retirement. A German police officer is required to work until the age of 62 years. Assuming he is healthy. Now that you have dug myself into this whole problem, not Hungary, but also because of Romania, the Romanian colleagues expert assistance is requested from the European Union Police - I realized that almost összevethetetlen a German, usually a Western European and Eastern European law enforcement állományos a situation.
The obligations imposed on us on us and the privileges it was immutable, flowing from the Constitution.
ZP: So my obligation is to the age of 62 before nyugdíjaztathatják themselves. What a privilege to have you, what is the charge?
RR: The fact that the police can not be dismissed. Never. Only when ordinary sins. This is a career here, which is literally the end of the normal life a living. The state - the law says this out - you never can take away this privilégiumunkat. In exchange, however - at least for the professional staff members - there is no possibility béralkukra, the topic of this Act to pay for overtime up to the order, clarifying every detail. The staff are not civil servants, non-police employees working in positions, however, this does not apply. They are not "life" of a body of work in law enforcement.
ZP: Still looking for that one policeman in Germany? Leave him much time acting?
R.R.: This rangfüggő. The vocational college after completing mandatory minimum of 3 000 euros (about 800 thousand HUF) should receive an initial police force. This gross amount, which is almost the same as are net, if we take the example a family man. I'm already pretty high level position, Director of Police (Polizei Direktor) my rank, I only have two superior. Accordingly, the salary of EUR 7,000 - per month. Retired and then - like every other police officer - this involves 71 percent of basic salary for me.
2011年3月30日 星期三
'Day of Honey': Memoir of comfort, food in Mideast
By her own admission, Annia Ciezadlo is "always, always hungry." A journalist who spent years covering the Middle East, she once scuttled along the floor to stir a pot of pasta as bullets whizzed by her window in Beirut. She braved the streets of Baghdad for a taste of masquf, roasted fish she describes as "a giant, edible fishy halo."
In her memoir, "Day of Honey," Ciezadlo finds that food -- both the cooking and the eating -- is one of "the millions of small ways people cope" during times of war. The book is not a traditional war memoir, although there are scenes of breathless tension. Rather, Ciezadlo's focus is the view from the tables where people carry on with their lives.
"Food can provide a purpose and structure to your life when you don't feel like you have one," she said in an interview from her home in New York City, where she lives with her husband, journalist Mohamad Bazzi.
The couple, who met in New York City, were married in 2003 and moved immediately to Iraq, where Bazzi was assigned as the new Middle East bureau chief for Newsday. They spent their honeymoon in Baghdad and the early years of their married life in Beirut, the city where Bazzi was born. Over six years, Ciezadlo, 40, found freelance work writing for publications including the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, covering the wars, the assassinations and the violence that have helped shape the main narrative of the Middle East. She interviewed soldiers, militiamen and warlords. She met families and refugees. But she also found food. Loads of it, everywhere she looked.
"Other people saw more, did more, risked more," Ciezadlo writes. "But I ate more."
Her writing about food is both evocative and loving; this is a woman who clearly enjoys a meal. Upon tasting makdous, which are pickled and stuffed baby eggplants, she writes: "What god leant down and whispered in what mortal ear to put walnuts inside an eggplant? And then to eat it with wine? I wanted to cry."
A glass of Iraqi tea, under Ciezadlo's gaze, is a thing of beauty. A warm brew made with sun-dried limes is "oily, dense and yellow, like a glass of melted topaz."
Besides the simple pleasure of eating, the region's culinary offerings helped her understand the places and the customs she was covering -- a sensitivity that has drawn early praise for the book, her first, which was released last month with a modest print run of 14,500.
A glowing review in The New York Times called Ciezadlo's book "among the least political, and most intimate and valuable, to have come out of the Iraq war."
A gateway into different lives
Ciezadlo was enchanted with Iraq from the start, watching as the "women wearing abayas billowed along the sidewalks like black jellyfish." But in her quest to find the stories outside Baghdad's protected Green Zone, food always seemed to take center stage, or to provide a gateway into lives so different from her own.
She even finds the language of war ultimately boils down to food. "During peacetime, when we need metaphors, we raid the language of war," she writes. "But the idiom of wartime is food: cannon fodder, carnage, slaughterhouse. Buildings and people are pancaked, sandwiched, sardined. Perhaps it is because the destruction reminds us of the knowledge we spend our lives avoiding -- that we are all meat in the end."
But focusing on food also gave her the welcome opportunity to show that there is more to the Middle East than conflict. She wanted to offer another side of Lebanon than the images in guidebooks, which show either a battleground scarred by war or a frivolous playground where impossibly perfect women go club-hopping until dawn.
Inspiration struck one day as she stood at the sink of the Berkeley Hotel in Beirut, washing dishes in the tiny kitchenette and trying to think up something to make for dinner. "You can say the inspiration for the book literally came from the kitchen sink," Ciezadlo said, thinking back on the mounds of food she kept in her humble hotel room. There was zaatar, a blend of herbs, sesame seeds and salt that is a staple in Lebanon. There was wild fennel and garlic and Swiss chard and piles of "gorgeous little tiny cherry tomatoes."
"I wanted to show the complexity of Lebanon in a way that would be much more concrete that just saying, 'Oh yeah there's good stuff to eat and there are pretty girls'," she said. "I wanted to show that there is this lingering hangover from the war, but there is also this amazing generosity and culture and vibrance."
The Middle East is a world away from Ciezadlo's own upbringing. Born a "Polish-Greek-Scotch-Irish mutt from working-class Chicago," Ciezadlo is the daughter of a bitter divorce who spent a transient childhood in Indiana, Arizona and California. For a time, she and her mother lived in a homeless shelter in San Francisco where they found "livid, gelatinous little squares of something called 'tofu'."
Bazzi, her husband, was born in Lebanon but left when he was 10, fleeing Lebanon's disastrous civil war, and moved to New York. Unlike his wife, he had no interest in expanding his palate. A partial listing of the foods he refuses to eat includes fish of any kind and "beef that hasn't been cooked to resemble linoleum."
Ciezadlo took solace in cooking, but Bazzi, 35, refused to eat her "fancy food." "That provided a huge impetus for writing this book," she said. "I thought, if Mohamad wasn't interested in exploring this stuff, then maybe other people will be and I should go and try to find them."
The lesson, she says, was clear: "You may love somebody but nowhere does it say that they have to love everything that you love and eat everything that you eat."
The two lived through a tumultuous time in the Middle East, including Israel's 2006 war with the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Beirut street battles in 2008 that raged outside the door of their apartment building.
Eager to be done with his assignment and move home to the United States, Bazzi watched helplessly as his wife insisted on staying in Beirut. "It was important for me to understand what he had grown up with and what the civil war was and had been about," Ciezadlo said. The couple soon moved back to New York, though, and now spend their time in the city and in Lebanon.
In her memoir, "Day of Honey," Ciezadlo finds that food -- both the cooking and the eating -- is one of "the millions of small ways people cope" during times of war. The book is not a traditional war memoir, although there are scenes of breathless tension. Rather, Ciezadlo's focus is the view from the tables where people carry on with their lives.
"Food can provide a purpose and structure to your life when you don't feel like you have one," she said in an interview from her home in New York City, where she lives with her husband, journalist Mohamad Bazzi.
The couple, who met in New York City, were married in 2003 and moved immediately to Iraq, where Bazzi was assigned as the new Middle East bureau chief for Newsday. They spent their honeymoon in Baghdad and the early years of their married life in Beirut, the city where Bazzi was born. Over six years, Ciezadlo, 40, found freelance work writing for publications including the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, covering the wars, the assassinations and the violence that have helped shape the main narrative of the Middle East. She interviewed soldiers, militiamen and warlords. She met families and refugees. But she also found food. Loads of it, everywhere she looked.
"Other people saw more, did more, risked more," Ciezadlo writes. "But I ate more."
Her writing about food is both evocative and loving; this is a woman who clearly enjoys a meal. Upon tasting makdous, which are pickled and stuffed baby eggplants, she writes: "What god leant down and whispered in what mortal ear to put walnuts inside an eggplant? And then to eat it with wine? I wanted to cry."
A glass of Iraqi tea, under Ciezadlo's gaze, is a thing of beauty. A warm brew made with sun-dried limes is "oily, dense and yellow, like a glass of melted topaz."
Besides the simple pleasure of eating, the region's culinary offerings helped her understand the places and the customs she was covering -- a sensitivity that has drawn early praise for the book, her first, which was released last month with a modest print run of 14,500.
A glowing review in The New York Times called Ciezadlo's book "among the least political, and most intimate and valuable, to have come out of the Iraq war."
A gateway into different lives
Ciezadlo was enchanted with Iraq from the start, watching as the "women wearing abayas billowed along the sidewalks like black jellyfish." But in her quest to find the stories outside Baghdad's protected Green Zone, food always seemed to take center stage, or to provide a gateway into lives so different from her own.
She even finds the language of war ultimately boils down to food. "During peacetime, when we need metaphors, we raid the language of war," she writes. "But the idiom of wartime is food: cannon fodder, carnage, slaughterhouse. Buildings and people are pancaked, sandwiched, sardined. Perhaps it is because the destruction reminds us of the knowledge we spend our lives avoiding -- that we are all meat in the end."
But focusing on food also gave her the welcome opportunity to show that there is more to the Middle East than conflict. She wanted to offer another side of Lebanon than the images in guidebooks, which show either a battleground scarred by war or a frivolous playground where impossibly perfect women go club-hopping until dawn.
Inspiration struck one day as she stood at the sink of the Berkeley Hotel in Beirut, washing dishes in the tiny kitchenette and trying to think up something to make for dinner. "You can say the inspiration for the book literally came from the kitchen sink," Ciezadlo said, thinking back on the mounds of food she kept in her humble hotel room. There was zaatar, a blend of herbs, sesame seeds and salt that is a staple in Lebanon. There was wild fennel and garlic and Swiss chard and piles of "gorgeous little tiny cherry tomatoes."
"I wanted to show the complexity of Lebanon in a way that would be much more concrete that just saying, 'Oh yeah there's good stuff to eat and there are pretty girls'," she said. "I wanted to show that there is this lingering hangover from the war, but there is also this amazing generosity and culture and vibrance."
The Middle East is a world away from Ciezadlo's own upbringing. Born a "Polish-Greek-Scotch-Irish mutt from working-class Chicago," Ciezadlo is the daughter of a bitter divorce who spent a transient childhood in Indiana, Arizona and California. For a time, she and her mother lived in a homeless shelter in San Francisco where they found "livid, gelatinous little squares of something called 'tofu'."
Bazzi, her husband, was born in Lebanon but left when he was 10, fleeing Lebanon's disastrous civil war, and moved to New York. Unlike his wife, he had no interest in expanding his palate. A partial listing of the foods he refuses to eat includes fish of any kind and "beef that hasn't been cooked to resemble linoleum."
Ciezadlo took solace in cooking, but Bazzi, 35, refused to eat her "fancy food." "That provided a huge impetus for writing this book," she said. "I thought, if Mohamad wasn't interested in exploring this stuff, then maybe other people will be and I should go and try to find them."
The lesson, she says, was clear: "You may love somebody but nowhere does it say that they have to love everything that you love and eat everything that you eat."
The two lived through a tumultuous time in the Middle East, including Israel's 2006 war with the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Beirut street battles in 2008 that raged outside the door of their apartment building.
Eager to be done with his assignment and move home to the United States, Bazzi watched helplessly as his wife insisted on staying in Beirut. "It was important for me to understand what he had grown up with and what the civil war was and had been about," Ciezadlo said. The couple soon moved back to New York, though, and now spend their time in the city and in Lebanon.
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