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Bad economy continues to hurt university students' lifestyles and graduates' job searches in Japan
1. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100117TDY02305.htm 73% of university grads have jobs waiting for them The Yomiuri Shimbun excerpt: >> A record-low 73.1 percent of university students have jobs waiting for them after graduation this year, a figure that also marked a record year-on-year fall and highlighted the bleak employment situation, according to government statistics. The figure was down 7.4 percentage points from a year ago, as of Dec. 1, and was the lowest since...
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A single leg Boston Crab with arm lock will win it.
Well the Colts didn't win. Peyton Manning did throw a winning touchdown pass ? but it was to the other side which didn't help much at all. I didn't see the second half because the game did not start until midnight Vienna time so by about 2:00 Am and had to call it quits because I had a monster day planned for Monday.It's their own fault. Indiana turned blue for the first time (ever') at the last election and will turn red again at the next one.This is god's retribution in advance ? although he...
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stop-lossed soldier punished for speaking out: please help
I've blogged before about Marc Hall, a stop-lossed soldier who has been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the unjust policy that led to his involuntarily re-enlistment. Hall - on his own time - wrote and played a song protesting stop-loss, and for that, he's feeling the full wrath of the US military. He faces court martial - a "trial" staged by his accusers - and either a lengthy prison sentence or forced deployment to Iraq.Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War,...
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Becoming THAT Guy
Being a native English speaker is sort of a blessing that you never stop to think about. Obviously, when you live in a country where everyone speaks English, you take it for granted that you can speak it too. It's just normal that you can understand everyone and everyone can understand you. When you leave your country and travel around a bit, you, undoubtedly, come across other English speakers, native and non-native alike. At that point, you start to realise just how many different "Englishes"...
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French singer killing from the grave
Disturbing: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord Claude François' grave in Dannemois (near Paris). Click for bigger. In 1967, French singer Claude François wrote a song in French called Comme d'habitude ("As Usual"), which became a hit in Francophone countries. Canadian singing star Paul Anka reworked it for the English-speaking public into the now legendary hit most [...]
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for Vietnamese learning English
One of the many reasons that Vietnamese and other foreigners need a teacher that can speak the language is because it is difficult to read English words and pronounce them correctly without first having somebody read them to you. This is because English orthography, the spelling system, is very inconsistent and contains many words from other languages such as French and Latin. Many Vietnamese students studying English rely on electronic dictionaries that can say the words out loud but these...
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Living in the Ghetto
There is small progress in my house, this thing with locking the door at night seems to be working now. But as I suspected, it doesn't change much since there are still pieces of tinfoil laying around on the stairs, meaning that the smokers have been there.Then this, a man gets stabbed to death. First the news only mention in which district of Vienna it has occured, which happend to be mine. But it is quite big so that doesn't mean much. Then they publish the streetname, which happens to be my...
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Two in five Japanese thinking of doing two jobs
Having seen at the end of last year that over three in four are hurting financially, iShare followed up with a look at taking on a second job. Demographics Between the 4th and 7th of January 2010 495 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.4% of the sample were male, 33.5% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 34.5% in their forties. 16.1% of the men unemployed seems a very high percentage, and with only 4% between the...
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Variations on a Mall
The girls and I are just back from four days in the the snowiest mountain village I have ever seen, and I will post pictures from that soon. But right now I want to tell everyone in Vienna (and anyone else who can see ORF 2) that a film by my brilliant wife will be showing on Austrian TV tomorrow night, the 7th of February, at 23.05. It's called The Gruen Effect, and it's about Victor Gruen, the inventor of the shopping mall. It's a great, smart, groovy movie and if you watch it you might even...
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TEFL Forum/ELT - J Issue #2 Preview Article: Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests
ELT - J Issue #2 Preview Article: Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests Issue 2 of ELT in Japan will consist of four articles: (1) "Teaching English [l] sounds vs. [r] sounds: Integrating applied phonology into the EFL classroom"; (2) "Devising multiple-choice questions, quizzes and tests"; (3) "Semantic mapping activities for the speaking class"; and (4)"Semantic mapping activities for the writing class". Full article at the link below....
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