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What would be more useful for teaching in Japanese unis?
Does anyone know any good online courses in these?
What would be more useful for teaching in Japanese unis?
Does anyone know any good online courses in these?
Most colleges ask for either of your two choices. Though I am guessing that TESOL/TEFL will probably edge Applied Linguistics nowadays.Originally Posted by scoopa
Of course your question should be "What would be more useful for getting into Japanese unis"? seeing as all TEFL theory goes out of the window once you are teaching college students.
In Japan, its not going to make a lot of difference. However, if you wanted to go back home, the Applied Linguistics might be more benefitial than the TESOL.
A lark on a punk
Applied Linquistics will be more marketable outside of Japan and i dont know if your considering a doctorate or not but I've only seen Ed.D's in TESOL and I've only seen Ph.D.'s in Applied Linquistics. Then again it might not be an issue.
Originally Posted by scoopa
You are talking about distance learning, not really online. the only online I use is email to talk with my supervisor in the UK. It all depends on the depth of your wallet.
I have links on here
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Originally Posted by scoopa
If you are thinking of part time both are OK. They just get you into the interview.
Full time you had best have some publications, japanese ability, college teaching experience and connections.
Good luck.
Or more importantly be a gaijin sycophant with some j relatives already working in uni that can get your foot in the door.Originally Posted by paulh
Remember that teaching in japanese uni can really mess up your teaching, when you have to go out in the real world to teach.
The apathy is contagious, should come with a health warning.
'If Jesus had been killed today, people would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks.'
Right teaching in the real world is all about being macho and tough. Your not a real man until you have left Japan and slummed it with the big boys.Originally Posted by scipio
Teaching part time on low wages and no benefits overseas is for suckers.
Universities in japan, bad or not pay real salaries which pay real rent and real mortgages and buy real food and real clothes and buy real houses, and pay for real overseas holidays.
Really I must have been thinking I was in teaching Disneyland all this time. Cant have us getting too comfortable and actually enjoying our lives, can we.
I guess if I wanted to be a law professor I would havs studied Law, isnt that right Scipio?
Last edited by paulh; 2006-04-07 at 06:13 PM.
If your going to go out in the real world and think you're gonna get away with the Grammar Translation method, you're in for a big hurt.Originally Posted by paulh
If you think that an advanced uni class, anywhere else apart from NE Asia, is pre interm level who get dizzy with 'Headway', then get ready for the struggle.
Paul, you ain't cut the cheese until you have experience of language instruction in at least three countries.
Some of the cherries who write on this site are doing nearly that in a day.Originally Posted by paulh
Enjoy the experience, next year some dispatch coy 20 something drone will be doing your job for a quarter of the salary.Originally Posted by paulh
It is Disneyland, jeeeeeeeeeeeezus where do you think you've been for the last 15 years???????Originally Posted by paulh
I don't quite get this one, but if you're saying that it's ridiculous how someone can become a judge in japan without ever having experience of being a lawyer, I agree.Originally Posted by paulh
Also I would again repeat,'you ain't cut the cheese until you have experience of language instruction in at least three countries'.
The original post was written without you in mind,it was stating a fact about a lot of uni jobs in Japan, but you are always interesting, even when you're paranoid.
'If Jesus had been killed today, people would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks.'
cut the cheese = fart
cut the mustard = achieve the required result
But I know what you meant.
BTW in my experience teaching P/T at uni here, there's absolutely no supervision or anyone forcing me to use Grammar-Translation. So your methodology or professional development can be whatever you make of it. If you're into research, the homogeneity of Japanese uni classes makes them ideal for doing studies that could help out a career teaching outside Japan. If you sit on your ___, well then you're right it could lead to becoming professionally obsolete.
You're right, I am humbled. Jesus, 20+ years out of my country and I'm forgetting my idioms.Originally Posted by aha yes
Luckily that one has not come up in any lesson.
Hiroshi to Homestay family. 'When you were younger, did you feel fulfilled, did you cut the cheese?
Host family. No, flatulence has never made us feel that way.
Last edited by scipio; 2006-04-07 at 06:50 PM.
'If Jesus had been killed today, people would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks.'
Grammar Translation is used in high school. Japanese professors teach the English Lit classes and translate word for word in Japanese and teach seniorsOriginally Posted by scipio
Advanced in what? ESL classes? ESP? teaching English to doctors? I have taught returnee students in my time. Free or guided conversation. Content courses taught only in English. Can be done in Japan. How is an advanced class overseas different from one in Japan, apart from differnet ethnic groups and motivation?If you think that an advanced uni class, anywhere else apart from NE Asia, is pre interm level who get dizzy with 'Headway', then get ready for the struggle.
I have seen and heard of ESL classes for foreign students, they have them for foreign students at my home campus.
I have also taught reading classes, writing and TOEIC, not just oral communication classes to freshman
Theres a good debate on this topic going on at Daves cafe between two PhDs about Japanese EFL courses Vs overseas ESL courses (Saudi Arabia and Korea)Paul, you ain't cut the cheese until you have experience of language instruction in at least three countries.
Maybe you dont know unis have 90 minute lessonsSome of the cherries who write on this site are doing nearly that in a day.
They will be there till midnight, mine are 90 minutes long 13 classes is an equivalent of 20-25 high school classes. So I suppose teaching so many classes is just a walk in the park, go through the motions etc.
they are already doing it but i will always be on a higher salary than those guys. Work is getting more competitives though and standards are going down the toilet with ECC and NOVA getting in on the act. Perks are pretty nice too while they are on 6 month temporary contracts.Enjoy the experience, next year some dispatch coy 20 something drone will be doing your job for a quarter of the salary.
supporting wife and kids.It is Disneyland, jeeeeeeeeeeeezus where do you think you've been for the last 15 years???????
No Im saying if I wanted to teach overseas or other countries I would have got a teaching licence t home and become a high school teacher. Obviously you dont get an MEd in TESOL so you can teach back in NZ or Australia.I don't quite get this one, but if you're saying that it's ridiculous how someone can become a judge in japan without ever having experience of being a lawyer, I agree.
If I want to teach in Australia I will have to get state certified first.
You are simply saying that People working in Japanese universities arent real teachers, but someone with a teaching licence in NZ is.
Also I would again repeat,'you ain't cut the cheese until you have experience of language instruction in at least three countries'.
well im not going to drag my familuy around the world to prove a point. You make your bed you lie in it. I guess you are not married yet.
Yes Im a certified basketcase.The original post was written without you in mind,it was stating a fact about a lot of uni jobs in Japan, but you are always interesting, even when you're paranoid.
Last edited by paulh; 2006-04-07 at 07:23 PM.
You think you're being cute here and you'll never realise that you actually really, really are a basketcase. You're just a loser who couldn't make it anywhere else doing anything different but somehow you feel the right to put down the efforts of everyone else who comes to Japan and wants to have a little fun and have a little go at enjoying the country and culture.Originally Posted by paulh
Originally Posted by Emil Minty
Emil Minty, I dont know what rock you crawled out from under, but seeing as you put so much stock in what jobs people do i will let you in on a little secret.
I have lasted in this country longer than many of you newbies have been to formal school. I started out with one suitcase and $1500 in student loans.
I have successfully raised two balanced bicultural children in this country.
My marriage while not perfect has lasted 15 years. Im still married to the same woman.
I speak the language to a high intermediate level.
I have a job here that does not require I speak or use English.
I have two graduate degrees.
My last job paid me over $US75,000 a year.
I own real estate.
I am also employable in whatever country i choose to emigrate to because of my qualifications and experience. Jobs with my experience and qualifcations currently pay around $AUS40,000 in Australia. What can you expect to earn if you went back.
I dont know where you have been recently but now people come here wanting a little fun and they cant get a job. this is not 1990 and the bubble era.Originally Posted by Emil Minty
i was here then too.
They work for the likes of GABA, NOVA, Interac and work for 170,000 yen, a month, no benefits, no insurance, no transportation. 3 -6 month contracts. Fired on a dime by greedy bosses. Work in a foreign country for less than they can earn at a fast food joint back home. Going rate at GABA is 1400 yen a lesson.
I dont put people down, I just tell them what to expect when they come here as thats all they can get Newbies who think the world owes them a living on the JET program. Comes as a rude shock when they get here and realise what language teaching is all about now.
What do they do? tell me i'm f--king old and jaded. Fine. At least i dont have to do their jobs.
(From Australia's Sydney Morning Herald daily newspaper)
Last edited by paulh; 2006-04-08 at 08:06 PM.
Pompous know-it-all. Your posts speak for themselves.
'Newbies' to Japan - as you know there's adventure to be had out there. Don't let the likes of this guy spoil it for you. It's not about salaries, degrees or how long you've been here comparative to anyone else. It's about learning about a new country, making new friends and enjoying yourself through all of the ups and downs. Good luck!
Originally Posted by Emil Minty
Im not spoiling for anybody dipshit. I back up my posts with credible evidence and years of experience. I have not been proven wrong so far.
If you dont want to believe me fine. Better they know what to expect and go anyway than have this 'come in the waters fine make millions of yen get laid tomorrow' line that circulates on this forums.
Too many people have yen signs in their eyes when they hear about teaching jobs here but the yen they will get will put them on the poverty line in japan. Better get used to it buster.
Originally Posted by Emil Minty
what adventure can you have on earning $10 an hour? A big Mac will cost you $5. a movie and popcorn $20. landlord gouging you for rent. A beer costs about 500 yen here. thats about $US4. gasoline if you afford a bike is 4 times US prices.
Airfare to Hong Kong during peak periods is about $1000 bucks.
here are some more prices in Tokyo from the pompous know-all. Make your own mind up...
Good luck with the adventure.
If Im a loser what are you doing in Japan as well?Originally Posted by Emil Minty
Are you a loser too? Can you not do anything with your life or do you have some exotic reason like having a girlfriend studying the culture or learning the language? Or is it just because muppets like you get paid so f--king much for teaching English at an eikaiwa?
F--king hypocrite.
Originally Posted by Emil Minty
I also think that if companies didnt dangle a 250,000 yen a month paycheck in front of you 90% of newbies wouldnt even come here. Is Japan that fascinating you would come regardless of what language schools paid you? get real.
Would they come for the adventure and new friends (pretty difficult seeing as most cant speak the language) if salaries were half what they are now?
Making money is what makes 90% of "teachers" come here. 10% come for non-work reasons.
Originally Posted by Emil Minty
I've felt for a while that Paul is a little negative sometimes when dealing with those who want to come to Japan, but he does give some people a useful dose of realism. It ain't all beer and skittles in Japan, and sometimes newbies have expectations that don't match with reality.
I'll take your point that some people are more career minded than others, and that's something some of us need to remind ourselves of when dispensing advice.
Originally Posted by J.T
J.T This is not aimed at you, but a lot of people dont seem to realise the actual cost of living here, the costs involved in setting up an apartment, the costs of domestic and international travel, the costs for a night out on the town. You have to factor in the cost of air travel in and out of japan and key money which can be 4-5 months rent.
Yes you can do all these things and travel and meet people, but it must all be done on what is by international standards a meager entry-level salary.
If you work at NOVA or one of the big chain schools, once you have taken out your utilities, rent, transportation, medical insurance, food, some basic entertainment costs you are looking at a surplus of 40-50,000 yen or about $350-400 at the end of the month. How does $300 go in Japan? Not far.
I spent that one weekend going up to Nagano by train and back and included hotels and food. No sightseeing. Maybe one weekend at disneyland or 1 day skiing. One way to Osaka from Tokyo is 11,000 yen or 8,000 yen by overnight bus.
If you buy a cellphone it will be up to 10,000 yen for a new model and 3000-4000 yen. An Internet connection will set you back 4000 yen a month,
A NOVA apartment at 72,000 yen will eat up 30% of your pre-tax salary. NOVA will take out 30,000 yen for health insurance in your second year.
Go and see a movie? 1800 yen or $15. A pint of Guiness will cost you 800 yen or about $7. Time magazine costs 500 yen if you get it delivered, 800 yen at the bookstore.
By all means do what you want in Japan, But I would like to hear from anyone who thinks they can live high off the hog, go out drinking three nights a week, travel all over japan and Southeast Asia on just $2000 a month, which is the going rate at the moment. Either you spend less or you earn more, and the average person will take on a couple of part time jobs, teach privates (say good bye to your free time) and you end up teaching English, 6, maybe 7 days a week. Current salaries at some places like GABA are now 1400 yen per lesson which is about $US12 a lesson. 5 of those a day is $60. Dispatch companies pay 10,000 a day. If you are lucky you will work 20 days a month or 200,000 yen a month. Some pay as little as 170,000 for FT work or $US1450 a month, GROSS. on a 170,000 yen salary you will likely break even on your expenses and have NOTHING left at the end of the month. Maybe you can save money by living in a 6 mat room in a 40 year old unheated dormitory or gaijin hostel. Cheapest I have seen is $40,000 yen a month. AEON rent is 40,000 yen a month for a small apartment.
If you want to travel during the peak periods airfares go up by 1/5 to a 1/3. Hotels also are expensive during Golden Week and Shogatsu, the prime holiday periods in japan. Airports are chocka with people. If you dont mind crowds, long lines i say go for it. Best time to travel is off-peak but its often hard to choose when to go on holiday.
None of this is to put people off, but simply tell you that Japan is an expensive country to live in and to travel. It s even more than that if you have dependents. Expect to need a minimum income of 350,000 yen a month or 4.2 million yen a year (US$36000) just to pay the bills.
Its a great country to visit to meet people etc but you will pay through the nose for everything and it costs money to do anything. Newbies have these romantic visions of rich expat lifestyles but are in fact on a paupers salary. Reality hits you about 3 months after you arrive when the bills start piling up. Either spend less or earn more, and thats not always an easy thing to do these days.
Its not negative its REALITY, and if you cant handle reality then maybe you should stay home.
FAQs on living in Japan
Last edited by paulh; 2006-04-09 at 02:00 PM.
This is sooooooo true.Originally Posted by paulh
These days I know some newbies who work for eikaiwas that are supplementing their income with savings they earned in their home country.
Really people, you must believe that the goood old rich days are long gone.
'If Jesus had been killed today, people would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks.'
I just found this on LetsJapan.Org . Anti-NOVA rant, has a few nuggets of truth.
Why is Nova a sub-standard place to work? Why should you make the decision not to work there?
The Primary Cause of all Evils: The Basic Rules of Supply and Demand
When a commodity is in ample supply, it comes cheaply.
Virgin employees are drawn from an overseas supply that in many ways the company views as being inexhaustible. Fresh blood (predominantly in the form of young and naive University graduates) is what keeps the wheels of Nova turning. The absurd work conditions that teachers have to endure can all be linked backed to this one crucial fact.
The harsh reality is that there is no economic incentive to make change or provide normal or mentally healthy work conditions, because the company at all time remains fully aware that there is always another lamb, smiling and standing in the queue, waiting to be slaughtered.
Factually, Nova is all about the lining of pockets, predominantly those of one man (whose own language skills and level of international empathy are alarmingly and classically elementary). Unless there is a monetary reason to make a shift in policy, with the supply of new "machines" with fresh batteries limitless, the simple facts are that policy will not change and Nova will remain an institution that is fundamentally exploitative.
Most companies that call themselves a corporation (which Nova astoundingly does), public or private, also operate on the basis of a bottom line. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money. However, other companies (due mainly to the product that they produce, but also because of government rules and regulations that enforce workers rights, migrant or native), do not have the luxury of an inexhaustible supply of skilled workers, and from the outset, offer work conditions that are primarily focused on the retention and cultivation of staff. Why? Because usually the loss of staff and retraining of new employees has an enormously negative effect on efficiency, output, quality of output, and thus profitability.
It is not the case with Nova, and the absence of such a fundamental obstacle that other businesses must address and overcome, is soullessly and immorally exploited by Nova Corporation, and has made one man incredibly rich.
Our dear founder at Nova is often referred to by indoctrinated Nova employees (until they wake up of course) as being a genius. There is nothing genius about his formula at all. The only thing extra-ordinary about is that a) he actually applies it to begin with, and b) he gets away with it.
It is purely and simply cheaper for Nova to burn old staff out and replace them with fresh faces. This works for four basic reasons:
New foreigners, with little exposure to professional teaching environments, workers rights and workers conditions in their own countries, let alone Japan, simply do not know any better. The combination of lack of language skills, and being in an exotic and thus exciting location, means not only will they initially swallow all of the bullshit that is thrown at them, but more importantly, there is X amount of time that will transpire before the worker wakes up and becomes disgruntled and leaves (that time being Nova cash-in time). Bringing them in and letting them go when they are sad and sorry, is cheaper for Nova than bringing them in and retaining them--sad, but true.
The Japanese Government does not adequately regulate the quality of foreign teachers allowed to teach in Japan, creating a vast pool of workers that are prepared to initially tolerate sub-standard work conditions (the main one being the now infamous amount of contact hours a Nova teacher must endure, which is fundamentally insufferable in the medium to long term, without considerable psychological impact). This policy is created by the enormous demand for native English Instructors, being managed in the most cost effective manner.
The Japanese government has faith that, in the high school system, Japanese students have been successfully taught the necessary grammatical building blocks of the English language, and thus what non-proficient speakers of English in Japan really need is simply practice, rather than lessons with fully qualified and gifted ESL teachers (who are available, at greater cost, and are usually found in Japanese tertiary institutes). The JET program offers comparatively good working hours and salaries, but the Japanese Government's aim there (unlike Nova, who rely more or less purely on the mystique of Japan outside the work environment to retain employees for at least a year) is also very much PR, and each and every year, expired JET teachers return home with glowing reports about their marvelous and care free time in Japan. Are JET teachers qualified ESL teachers or even teachers for that matter? No, they are not, but working in tandem with a Japanese English teacher is still cheaper than hiring a professional. The only good point about Nova that I have ever been able to identify is that, while their instructors real knowledge of English teaching is often too shallow, the lessons are structure based, with the crude basics of what is to be taught at least having been identified in some form of training (albeit a very small amount of training).Surprisingly, there is rhyme and reason behind the Nova teaching methodology. A JET teacher, while enjoying the luxury of a very small work load, usually simply follows directions, without really understanding why.
The Japanese Government does not adequately regulate or monitor the work conditions of foreign nationals full-stop.
Call them students, call them customers, call them what ever you want, but what is it that the majority of language school addicts actually want? It is really to gain English Language Proficiency, or is it something else? Like them or dislike them, you are in demand by the customer, nine times out of ten, only while you are new, fresh-faced, humorous, and "genki." The Nova machine knows this, is fully aware that your human spirit has a shelf life, and is thus economically driven to create an environment where you will choose to leave after X amount of time. Why? Because they need to replace you with what the customer wants, because without the customer, our fat cat does not get to buy his next new yacht. The better looking you are, the more chance there is that the time before the students become bored with their toy will be extended, and your inevitable grief, from the people you at first fell in love with, will be deferred. Yes, it is not always the case (when individual students are examined). However, the primary root of this phenomena is Japanese culture itself, where people are unable to comparatively emotionally express themselves, and are often chronically fatigued and pent up, craving for stimulation where they are free (in a synthetic and anesthetized setting) to let their hair down. They become addicted to "English" lesson rather like we become addicted to internet chat-rooms (which are widely recognized as unhealthy places to hang out in). What at first you thought was a delightful and child like person (a fully grown adult none the less), often becomes the person who ends up grinding the axe to fall upon your head. You can't solve the puzzle of Japan, and you can't make any serious impact on the dark side of Japanese culture. For sure feel some pity for the 45 year old house wife, or 55 year old burnt out company executive, leaning on you as if they were patients lying on the psychiatrists couch, but rest assured, once your emotional energies are drained and exhausted, and you become less and less animated and comical, the vampire will look for a fresh neck to stick its fangs into. Nova makes it its business to provide what the blood suckers want, because after all, it is Nosferatu who pays the cold hard cash to begin with. What do they want (both the clients and the Company)? Fresh blood in the form of a newly graduated, happy faced nit-wit, with nothing better to do, innocently looking for a worldly adventure.
If you are in Nova cut your losses and get out. If you are thinking about working for them, my advice don't do it. Don't given the arrogant, immoral and soulless prick that runs the show the satisfaction.
Last edited by paulh; 2006-04-09 at 03:14 PM.
A couple of good posts there Paul. As I have always said, it's excellent that you provide a dose of realism for people.
I saved $50k Australian in 4 years in Japan, but many people won't. You can't if you're on 200000 yen a month.
As for Nova, need I say anymore. Somehow they still get a fresh supply of muppets coming in all the time, but they must surely be scraping the bottom of the barrel of muppetdom.
From the Japan Times
Times get tough for teachers
The rock star teaching days are well and truly over
By TREVOR CLARKE
English teaching in Japan is not what it used to be. Conditions are changing; the work is harder to come by, wages are falling, and staff are increasingly taking their employers to court.
Phoenix Associates vice president Peter Owans has experienced the changing face of Japan's teaching industry over the years.
It wasn't always like this; for many that arrived in the bubble era, Japan was heaven.
Phoenix Associates vice president Peter Owans is one industry figure still around from the glory days and remembers the so-called "rock star" teachers well.
"In the train someone would just walk up to them, a dentist say, and ask 'do you want to teach me English,' and pay them 10,000 yen an hour," Owans says.
"When they say rock stars making big money it wasn't really the schools paying them big money. It was the privates, you know, people they met on the street. Or the companies would hire them directly . . . and that is where the money was."
But certain stereotypes prevailed. "If the rock star was blond, blue eyes, and regardless of whether they spoke English very well, then basically they got hired," says Owans. "From a black person's point of view I would say it was depressing. English teaching wasn't really for us because it wasn't your intelligence or how much English you could speak."
If you did fit the bill however, you were likely to be paid in star proportions, especially the girls, as many also held hostess jobs.
"The female instructors benefited more than the others," according to Owans. "Teaching in the day time, night time in Ginza. They could make 100,000 yen a night."
So have the teachers and clients lost out over the years? For the corporate instruction sector, Owans doesn't think so.
"I think the teaching conditions have improved a lot over the years. Simply because after the bubble, especially for us in corporate instruction, it wasn't a benefit anymore it was a need," he explains. "That means you have to have the right trainers and need to retain them."
Simul Academy's David Yenches is another veteran of the corporate instruction sector who experienced the boom years and agrees with Peter. "In the 1980s, I don't remember many teachers hurting for lack of work," says Yenches.
"I think in many cases today, client expectations and the quality of service are both higher than in the 1980s.
"From the end of the bubble days through the first half of the 1990s, a lot of business dried up and schools started to go under," he explains.
"Some teachers left Japan, and some decided to stay but do distance master's degrees to get into universities or to upgrade their qualifications, which more and more schools became choosier about."
Popular online information portal GaijinPot.com's Percy Humphrey agrees.
"We have noticed more employers are now looking for teachers with past experience or teaching qualifications, such as TESOL or TEFL certificates, instead of just native English speakers," says Humphrey.
"Although there are hundreds of teaching jobs that do not require extensive experience or qualifications currently on GaijinPot, when compared to when we first started, the number of positions requesting it have grown astoundingly."
Not such good news for the numerous unqualified teachers that used to come to Japan.
But is it any better for career teachers who have the qualifications?
For those in the larger eikaiwa and ALT sector, where most teachers work, it doesn't seem so. Comparing the average wages of the eikaiwa and ALT sectors to past years and also the corporate sector paints a grim picture.
In corporate instruction teachers can earn on average around 4,000 yen an hour -- a good wage but it hasn't increased in many years. But in some eikaiwa the wages have fallen from an average of about 2,500-3,000 yen per hour during the bubble years to as low as under 2,000 yen per hour (some report 1,400 yen for 40 minutes).
The contrast is striking: higher qualifications are needed, but lower wages given.
Brett Fennessy is one long-term Japan-based English teacher who has ample experience with the industry changes.
After working for one company and being paid well for 20 years Brett is now working for one of the ubiquitous eikaiwa at a lower wage. He believes that form has won out over content.
"It is well known . . . that 'genki' is prized far above competence or knowledge," he says.
Fennessy is not alone with this opinion. Talk to many long-term teachers and it seems large and small eikaiwa alike are making things tougher.
There are increasing instances of teachers taking their employers to court. The recent case of Kara Harris who after having disputes with her manager over several issues sued Nova for wrongful dismissal and won a little under 7 million yen is indicative of the extent to which many teachers are willing to now fight. But why is this happening now? Peter Owans explains that in the bubble era employment benefits and compliance with labor laws basically didn't exist.
"There was no protection at all, you could just hire and fire how you pleased basically," he says. "I guess people did not complain because you could fire me today and I could walk next door and start another job."
Things are not so easy now.
And, unlike the bubble era days there are now more and more foreign English teachers looking to make Japan their home who are seeking greater job security and benefits. It is to this increase of long-termers that some attribute a rise in union activity and awareness of conditions in the industry.
NUGW Tokyo Nambu deputy general secretary Louis Carlet believes that because Japan is now more familiar to Westerners it has become a more attractive place to settle. "Many people now actually come here, specifically just to find good work. Which I think is very different from the bubble economy when people came because it was interesting," says Carlet.
"The honeymoon is over and now it's down to reality for both sides." Carlet says there are currently two main trouble areas.
The first is the alleged attempts by many English-teaching companies at skirting their responsibilities for enrolling their full-time teachers in the NHI scheme. The union claims the companies are acting illegally and teachers' job security will suffer.
They allege many companies are revising teachers' job descriptions to categorize them as nonfull-time workers, which would mean they do not have to enroll them in the NHI and pay the contributions. Thus the teachers miss out on the benefits of insurance and the security of a full-time contract.
The second issue, that of the increase in the amount of Assistant Language Teachers, is one that according to Carlet has caused the industry conditions to go way down.
Since the government announced its push to increase the nation's English language ability, schools around the country have been employing ALTs, mostly through dispatching companies, in a highly competitive environment.
"It's (the ALT industry) getting bigger and bigger, but as it gets bigger there is a race to the bottom in wages," says Carlet.
"In the bidding process the schools are desperate to decrease their bid and so of course they squeeze wages and take away all benefits and increase work hours."
So the teachers, and eventually the students, are the ones that suffer. "More teachers take it because there is nothing else available. The reality is they are terrible jobs, with no job security."
Not exactly the rock 'n' roll material of former years.
'Teach' for ten years (as I have done) with ZERO supervision and guess what happens?Originally Posted by aha yes
What I do now is something, but I woudn't call it teaching. 'Running around shouting', perhaps.
(By the way, there is no supervision in colleges, but an awful lot of informal spying.)
Thank you for your valuable posts Paul H. I was looking for answers regarding the matter of Applied Linguistics vs TESOL among the expletives, verbose monologues and petty swipes at other members and now feel extremely well-informed.
Hi Jamesm,
I studied Masters at Victoria University, Wellington and they have a good distance programme.
There are some pretty fine lecturers / professors there including Paul Nation and Janet Holmes. I did a Masters in Applied Linguistics because I already had a CELTA and lots of ESOL experience and wanted a broader, but still practical, degree.
I enjoyed it a lot, but it was hard work!! (I did it by course-work, rather than a thesis, which I think may have worked out as more work in the long run).
An MA Applied Linguistics and an MA TEFL are, at least in the UK, effectively the same thing. Some Universities call it one, some the other and some offer one course, one set of lectures, one set of papers and one set of exams and the student gets to choose what they want written on the certificate.
TESOL is an aspect of Applied Linguistics. Although doing TESOL shouldn't preclude studying any aspect of applied linguistics, you'll probably find an Applied Linguistics course would offer more diverse modules than one focussed specifically on language teaching. Useful if you want to branch out into other areas, or at least have the option of learning about them. As for their usefulness in getting TEFL jobs, they're both exactly the same.
The MA programs have different (but sometimes overlapping) coursesl. For example:
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Hey, just because I can get laid a lot here doesn't make it paradise. Or a "free" society.
You usually get the choice of what to specialise in, so on an Applied Linguistics course you could specialise entirely in TEFL/TESOL if you wanted but at the same time could specialise in something unrelated to teaching. A TESOL MA is, by definition, focussed on education.
Applied Linguistics? You mean you would pay to study something that most people master by the age of 6? ie how to speak and communicate?
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David Lee Eades, 57, of Rutland, Ohio, went to be with the Lord surrounded by his family on January 16, 2013. He was born on August 1, 1955, in London, Ohio.
He is survived by his wife, Sara Eades of Rutland; children, Aaron Eades of Ravenswood, W.Va., and Amber (Corey) Darst of New Haven, W.Va.; step-children, Max Bratton and Marjorie Bratton of Middleport, Ohio, and Stefan (Carrie) Stamper of Fort Lewis, Washington; mother, Ruth Martin Eades of London, Ohio, and Shirley Roush of Ripley, W.Va.; grandchildren, Carson, Logan and Brody Eades, Hailey and Katelyn Darst, Sawyer Bratton and Travis Broderick; brothers, Doug (Susan) Eades of Letart, W.Va., Darrell (Connie) Eades of London, Ohio, and Rick Tier of London, Ohio; sisters, Mary (Mike) Hopkins of London, Ohio, and Diana (Sam) Hindman of Kentucky; special nieces and nephew, Jonathan (Cortney) Diddle, Kayla and Latosha Diddle; several nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
In addition to his father, William Eades, David was preceded in death by his brother, Danny Eades; grandchildren, Rilliah and Cash Stamper; nephew, Jason Scott Thomas Eades.
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FRESNO, Calif. – Fresno State Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh announced Monday that Trisha Ford has been hired as the next head coach of the Bulldog softball program to continue the legacy of the nation's second-winningest program of all-time.
Ford becomes the fourth head coach in the history of the 35-year program. She comes to Fresno State after serving the last nine years at Stanford, including the previous four seasons when she held the title of associate head coach.
In her nine years with the Cardinal, Ford helped guide Stanford to a 385-155 (.713) overall record and to the NCAA Tournament each and every year she was with the team. Stanford made six Super Regional appearances, ended a season ranked in the top 10 four times and reached the 2004 Women's College World Series.
"Trisha's extensive leadership role within one of the nation's most prestigious softball programs has helped her to develop extraordinary technical expertise as well as a keen understanding of the nuances of the game, both on and off the field," Boeh said. "Her deep California roots, Division I head coaching experience and demonstrated commitment to the daily experience and development of student-athletes make her a premier selection to build upon and expand the distinguished tradition of Fresno State Softball."
At Stanford, Ford served as the primary pitching coach and worked with the infielders while also being responsible for recruiting, community outreach as well as camps and clinics.
"I'm excited to be joining the Bulldog program and the great tradition that the program has," Ford said. "I would like to build upon the tradition that coach Margie Wright has established continue the program's success. I'm looking forward to getting out on the diamond and meeting the team to establish the plan for the upcoming season."
Ford helped Stanford average 43 wins per season and mentored two of the best pitchers in the history of the Cardinal program.
"Trisha has proven to be an outstanding coach for many years at Stanford," said Bob Bowlsby, former Director of Athletics at Stanford and current Commissioner of the Big 12 Conference. "She will do a tremendous job leading the Fresno State softball program into the future. She is ready in every aspect to become the next head coach for the Bulldogs."
Most recently she has guided Cardinal pitcher Teagan Gerhart, who over the past three seasons compiled an 80-32 overall record in the circle with a 2.14 ERA. In just three seasons of work under Ford, Gerhart already ranks No. 3 in the Stanford record books with 628 career strikeouts, third in career victories and is fourth in shutouts with 23.
In 2012, a year in which Ford helped lead the Cardinal to a 40-19 record and a No. 20 ranking to end the season, Gerhart ranked ninth nationally with 32 victories.
Before Gerhart took over in the circle in 2010, pitcher Missy Penna enjoyed the most decorated career of any Cardinal pitcher in program history, and it all came under Ford's watch.
Penna was a two-time NFCA All-American (2008 and 2009) and an Academic All-American in 2009. She set new school records in wins (119), strikeouts (1,267), shutouts (50) and innings pitched (1,086.1) while owning a 1.84 career ERA.
In 2004, her first season at Stanford, Ford helped direct the team to a 49-19 record, a regional title and its second appearance in the Women's College World Series. Under Ford's guidance, All-American pitcher Dana Sorensen set new program bests for wins (34) and strikeouts (358), while posting a 1.41 ERA.
The next year Ford helped lead Stanford to a 43-16 record and its first-ever Pac-10 championship.
Prior to joining Stanford's coaching staff, Ford spent two seasons as the head coach at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, her alma mater. In 2003, Ford's squad finished the season with a 25-27 record and a .481 winning percentage, the best in school history. Prior to being named head coach, Ford served as an assistant at Saint Mary's in 2001.
Arguably the best softball player in Saint Mary's history, Ford, the former Trisha Dean, is the only female student-athlete in school history to have had her number (9) retired.
In the spring of 2007, Ford was among six former athletes and coaches to be inducted into the Saint Mary's College Hall of Fame. Ford graduated from Saint Mary's with a degree in politics in 1999. A native of Fremont, Calif., she earned nine varsity letters in softball, volleyball and basketball during her prep career at American High School. An All-East Bay pick as a senior, Ford was also a four-time All-Mission Valley Athletic League selection.
Ford and her husband, Eddie, married in the summer of 2005. Their first child, Emma, was born on Aug. 16, 2007. The couple welcomed their second child, Eddie, on Dec. 8, 2011.


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I'm not into the "Apple vs. Google" or "Android vs. iOS" arguments. I use whatever tech works best to get the job done; to me, that's all that matters.
That said: I wonder if commentator John Gruber really thought about the implications of this observation, published in a post called "Google Versus":
"Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, and now a subscription music service after Spotify ... Gmail? Webmail but better. Think about even web search: Google search wasn't something new; it was something better ... Google Maps entered a market where MapQuest and others had been around for years."
In context, he's arguing that there's something a little naive about Larry Page's weariness over seeing "hyper-competitive" Google positioned as "versus" someone else."
The more important insight here is that Google tends to watch as competitors identify markets ... and then come up with products designed outperform the competition. (Many companies do this, including Apple. The iPhone, after all, was a rethinking of what existing cell phones could be.)
Lately, Apple's track record with this approach isn't as impressive as Google's. Consider Maps, which was panned as a stinker. Google Maps existed, and provided a level of service everyone loved. Apple made an effort to replicate that ... and failed. The new Google Maps, announced yesterday, widens the gap between Apple's sub-par copy and Google's product even more.
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The search continues for a Washington County teen who was last seen over the weekend. Our Matt Hunter has more from Greenwich.
GREENWICH, N.Y. -- "It's breaking them to pieces," said Robert Norris, a longtime friend of the Cale family. "I called this morning and he [Cale's father] was sobbing on the phone. You've got to expect that, that's everything to him."
More than two days after his disappearance, friends and family of Jesse Cale are still searching for answers. Friends say around midnight Saturday, the 18-year-old went looking for firewood while camping with his father and friends and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
"Roughly five minutes, it could have been longer than that, they started calling his name and they didn't get any response," Norris said.
Search and rescue crews were out early Monday morning. A New York State Forrest Rangers air boat combed the banks of the Hudson River, while a State Police helicopter provided an aerial view. After more than an hour of unsuccessful searching, both we're called off.
A short time later, a team of more than two dozen troopers, rangers and firefighters searched an area off of Route 113 that included a more than century old mill. Ropes and ladders were needed to explore a deep underground pit.
"It's certainly a risky assignment for them to do, but we needed to clear it and they did, they did a great job," said Lieutenant John Solan with the State Forest Rangers.
After nearly two hours, that search also turned up empty, making an already dire situation more urgent. As the rescue team worked, Cale's father and a friend entered an underwater tunnel with a small canoe but were also unsuccessful at locating the lost teen.
Cale, who recently went on a class trip to Florida, was due to graduate from Schuylerville High School next month.
"I got to spend a lot of time with [on the trip]," Schuylerville Junior-Senior High School principal Matt Sickles said. "He just really enjoyed himself. To be in this situation a few weeks later is really tough."
As the search now continues into the week, rescue team leaders acknowledge the mission could soon shift from search and rescue to search and recovery, but friends and family are holding out hope their efforts will lead to a safe and happy ending.
"I'm extremely saddened, worried and I wish Jesse would show up," Norris said.
"Certainly the uncertainty of the situation is difficult for all of us and the kids," Sickles said. "We're just trying to be there and help them through it as we go through it at the same time."
Solan said crews would continue to search until dusk Monday and then decide where, if anywhere, to resume their search on Tuesday.
Grief counselors were made available for Schuylerville students Monday morning. Sickles says they will continue to offer that service as long as the student body needs it.


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Taipei, Taiwan - October 31, 2011- Thermaltake, being the industry pioneer brand in thermal solutions with the mission of "delivering the perfect user experience," carrying the corporate vision of "building Thermaltake Technology into a cultural brand for the enjoyment of entertainment, e-Sports, technology, and lifestyle," featured the Contac CPU air cooling Series that aids in fulfilling various needs in the market as well as the corporate mission of "delivering the perfect user experience." This fall adding the shimmering Thermaltake Contac 39 and Contac 30 CPU air cooling to the series, providing a wider range of solution for bargain hunter who desire value and performance equally.
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Detroit, MI., October 31, 2011 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, owner and producer of the International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, announced today its record number of automotive exhibitors at the upcoming 2012 International CES. At least six of the industry's top ten manufacturers will showcase their latest technologies among CES' enhanced lineup of automotive technology exhibits, TechZones and conference sessions. The 2012 International CES will run January 10-13, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Lithium-air batteries are the coming thing. They have the potential to hold ten times the capacity per unit volume of lithium-ion batteries and are lighter, since one of the charge-carrying materials is ambient air. These air-breathing monsters look great. But, as with all monsters, they have their vulnerable spot. In this case, the vulnerability is something akin to asthma—the inability to get enough air into the battery. Medical scientists don`t seem to be too interested in making inhaler products for batteries, though, so scientists have been trying to come up with ways to keep the air flowing...
(Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc expects fourth quarter sales to fall as much as 10 percent from the previous three months and will raise prices as flooding in Thailand disrupts supplies of hard disk drives for PCs.
The company told an investor conference on Friday that it hopes to see some improvement in the supply of hard disks in the first quarter of next year, but added that with prices for disks rising up to 20 percent, it needs to take action....
Prices of large-size flat panels are expected to stabilize in November at the earliest as flat panel makers are unwilling to further cut product prices due to mounting losses, according to panel makers.
The deteriorating finances of Taiwan's panel makers has caused them to become reluctant about further cutting large-size panel prices, they said. 32-inch LCD panels for TVs have reached cash cost. Makers said they would rather not take orders than buy materials to produce products while still losing money.
Despite still harsh economic conditions in the fourth quarter, panel makers said there will be no further cuts in large-size panel prices so they can deal with their financial situations. Large-size panel prices are expected to stabilize as early as November and no later than December 2011,...
Forty-one percent of enterprises do not allow employee-owned Macs access to any company resources, even Web-based e-mail, according to the results of a new Forrester survey of IT executives at North American and European companies.
Forrester asked 590 IT executives and technology decision-makers if employee-owned Macs are granted access to resources like Web-based e-mail, hosted applications and virtual desktops, internal networks, and native e-mail applications. Forty-one percent answered "none of the above."...
China has once again been accused of commit acts of cyber-warfare, with a congressional commission claiming evidence of interference with US government satellites.
According to the annual report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, due to be released in its final form next month, Chinese hackers used a ground station in Norway to interrupt the operation of the Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1 satellites in 2007 and 2008 for reasons unknown....
Summary: Now that HP is officially keeping its PC division in the company, maybe the TouchPad is next in the revival line.
Updated: The web is reverberating with news from HP today that is will keep its PC division. The official release from HP makes it clear it will stay behind the Personal Systems Group (PSG):
"HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It's clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees," said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. "HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger."...
Federal regulators on Thursday approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service — instead targeting money to finance the spread of high-speed Internet to an estimated 18 million Americans who don't have it.
The FCC voted 4-0 on the makeover of the Universal Service Fund, which helps provide phone service to rural America and to those with low incomes. Regulators approved the new Connect America Fund in a bid to boost U.S. broadband to rural America. The FCC also started a new Mobility Fund to build out mobile broadband....
Eliza Dushku Named Ambassador for 2012 CES Entertainment Matters Program
Fast-Growing Entertainment Matters Program Provides Content-Focused CES Experience for Film, Television and Digital Entertainment Professionals
Arlington, Va., October 27, 2011 –The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced today that actress Eliza Dushku will join the Entertainment Matters Program as the Entertainment Matters Ambassador at the 2012 International CES®. Back for a second year, Entertainment Matters at CES is designed by and for Hollywood's film, television and digital communities. Owned and produced by CEA, the 2012 International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, will be held Tuesday, January 10-Friday, January 13, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a part of her ambassadorship, Dushku will contribute to Spike TV's "CES All Access Live" broadcast coverage throughout CES and will also host the network's exclusive VIP CES party at Tryst Nightclub in the Wynn Las Vegas.
Intel's Paul Otellini to Deliver Keynote Address at the 2012 International CES
Arlington, Va., October 27, 2011 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced today that Paul Otellini, president and chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, will deliver a keynote address at the 2012 International CES®. Owned and produced by CEA, the 2012 International CES is the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow and will be held January 10-13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sennheiser Announces Key Executive Appointments in U.S. and Latin America, Completing Leadership Restructuring in The Americas
Greg Beebe named President of Sennheiser Electronic Corporation in U.S., while Markus Warlitz is named General Manager of Sennheiser Latin America effective January 1, 2012.
Old Lyme, Conn.— October 27, 2011: Audio specialist Sennheiser announces two key executive appointments within its U.S. and Latin American regions, completing the company's leadership team in the Americas. Effective January 1, 2012, Sennheiser veterans Greg Beebe and Markus Warlitz will be appointed to the positions of president, Sennheiser Electronic Corporation and general manager of Sennheiser Latin America, respectively. Meanwhile, Jean Langlais remains president of Sennheiser Canada. All three executives will report directly to John Falcone, president and CEO of Sennheiser Electronic Corporation, who heads Sennheiser's business in the Americas region.
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Both received "iF product design award 2012"
Taipei, Taiwan, October 27, 2011?The Thermaltake Level 10 GT professional gaming chassis and Toughpower Grand Power Supply Unit are celebrating a brilliant victory in the huge design competition organized by Germany's iF Design.
Well here's a bit of a shocker. A company called LSI has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SandForce, makers of all those high-speed solid state drive (SSD) controllers that are so popular in the performance category. Most people assumed it would be a company like Intel, or even Corsair who would eventually swoop in and scoop SandForce up, just as OCZ did with Indilinx.
But it was LSI who made the move, agreeing to pay approximately $322 million in cash and assume in the neighborhood of $48 million of unvested sotck options and restricted shares held by SandForce employees. In recent years, LSI has focused most of its attention on networking and storage solutions for the enterprise....
Windows Media Center has finally made its appearance in Windows 8.
Users at the My Digital Life forum apparently discovered the application in the latest pre-beta build of Windows 8, dubbed 8141. One poster said it seems to be the old Windows 7 version, while WinRumors noted that it appears to be a standalone desktop app.
The debut of Media Center in the latest Windows 8 build should comfort users who noticed that it was missing from the earlier builds. In response to concerned feedback sent to Microsoft, Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky confirmed in an early September blog that Media Center would indeed be part of Windows 8....
(Reuters) - Asian chipmakers, including the world's top contract chipmaker TSMC, reported sharply worsened quarterly earnings and braced for another uncertain quarter as a weak global economy hits demand for computers, though roaring growth of smartphones and tablets offered a bright spot. On Thursday, Taiwan's TSMC reported a worse-than-expected 35 percent decline in profit to T$30.4 billion ($1 billion), its fourth straight quarterly drop.
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc, the world's No.2 computer memory chipmaker, reported its first quarterly operating loss in two years.
In Japan, Hynix's rival Elpida Memory Inc also tumbled to a quarterly loss....
Microsoft and Mozilla have announced a special release of Firefox that integrates with the Bing search engine. The build, which is called Firefox with Bing, is available for users to download from a Microsoft-hosted website.
When Firefox 4 was released last year, it added Bing as one of the available options in the browser's built-in search box. Google remained the default, but Bing became easily accessible to users who prefer Microsoft's search engine. Microsoft and Mozilla also took the opportunity to establish a revenue-sharing agreement around the search integration....
Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, facing weak market demand in Europe, the US and China, are expected to fail to achieve their motherboard shipment goals for 2011 and only ship 22 million and 17.5-18 million units, respectively, about one million units less than their original targets, according to sources from motherboard players.
Although Intel is already set to launch its upcoming Sandy Bridge E-based CPUs and X79 chipsets for the high-end market in the middle of November to help attract consumers, due to leaked information that Intel will launch upgraded Sandy Bridge E C2 CPUs and upgraded chipsets only two months after, consumers are likely to wait until the upgraded models are launched....
Silencio 450: Peaceful Computing
Chino, CA – October 25th, 2011 - Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, power supply, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer, today adds a new sibling to the Silencio Case Series, the Silencio 450.
Corning, the developers of Gorilla Glass, announced the launch of a new display material named Lotus Glass for use with LCD and OLED screens today in a press release. The company says Lotus Glass has more "thermal and dimensional stability," which will allow it to better withstand the process of attaching high-resolution displays and implementing "tighter design rules."
LCD glass substrates can require intense heating and cooling cycles to create screens, particularly for higher-resolution displays, Corning says. Lotus Glass has a higher annealing point than Gorilla Glass, meaning more heat is required for the material to relax internal stresses and forces....
Visitors to the Rockstar Games website likely received a huge jolt when hopping onto the home page.
That's where the studio has confirmed through a simple logo the existence of Grand Theft Auto V.
The only other detail featured is a Nov. 2 launch of the game's first trailer.
To say Grand Theft Auto V is a highly anticipated game is perhaps a gross understatement. The open-world action title serves as a follow-up to the successful 2008 release of Grand Theft Auto IV, where players watch Niko Bellic strike it rich after leaving Eastern Europe for the U.S....
NEW YORK – Although tablet owners spend more time consuming news than poking around on Facebook, they're reluctant to pay for news content.
That's according to a study from the Pew Research Center's Project for the Excellence in Journalism, due out on Tuesday. It found that 11% of American adults own a tablet of some kind, and a majority of them spend 90 minutes a day using the device.
Consuming news is one of the most popular activities, up there with e-mail and more popular than social networking. Only general Web-browsing proved more popular on tablets than news and e-mail....
While Nvidia and AMD are poised to use Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) 28nm technology to produce the GPUs Kepler and Southern Islands respectively, most Taiwan-based graphics card makers hold a conservative attitude about the new GPUs with some makers cautiously watching the market status before making any further decisions, according to industry sources..
Compared to the makers' eagerness for the previous-generation GPUs, graphics card makers are rather conservative about the upcoming 28nm chips due to concerns such as TSMC's weak 40nm process yield rate issues may re-occur in its 28nm process and weakening demand for graphics cards and lower-than-expected gross margins....
(Reuters) - Nokia unveiled two sleek new Microsoft Windows phones Wednesday, a first step in the ailing cellphone maker's fightback against Apple and Google.
The flagship Lumia 800 and more basic Lumia 710 will go on sale in key European markets by the Christmas holiday season.
They are the first fruits of Chief Executive Stephen Elop's big bet on Microsoft software that spooked investors earlier this year. Analysts said the pairing remains well short of finding an iPhone killer....
(Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, said on Wednesday that it expected some constraints on hard disk drive supplies through the first quarter of next year after severe floods in Thailand crimped global supply.
Asia's PC makers have been suffering from a double whammy of an expected weak demand during the year-end holiday season and concerns over components shortage in coming months as the floods submerged Thailand's industrial parks,...
When IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer won its famous chess rematch with then world champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997, the victory was hailed far and wide as a triumph of artificial intelligence. But John McCarthy — the man who coined the term and pioneered the field of AI research — didn't see it that way.
As far back as the mid-60s, chess was called the "Drosophila of artificial intelligence" — a reference to the fruit flies biologists used to uncover the secrets of genetics — and McCarthy believed his successors in AI research had taken the analogy too far. ...
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DJH wrote:So after all of this, perhaps he should have taken some more time with the bike he was originally served up, and tried to modify his style to keep the bike competitive, and tune out the front end issues bit by bit. Instead the sky was falling and everything required a major redesign.. which has ultimately made him even less competitive.
Now that he has officially thrown Ducati under the bus, hopefully the gloves will come off and the laundry can be aired publically once and for all.
DJH wrote:Congratulations to Hayden. He continues to plug away and do what he does in a professional way. Sixth is a respectable result for their first proper outing on the new bike and I'm sure his team will continue to try and get him closer to the battle at the front.
Zaphod wrote:I maintain........looks like tyre wear to me.
Oscar wrote:Stoner had mentioned earlier that due to the back problems recurring plus his (understandable, I think) preoccupation with being a new Dad had impacted his pre-season training schedule, so I also don't believe that there is a lot of reason to doubt his explanation. That doesn't detract in any way from the fact that Lorenzo ran a beautiful race, and it leaves us with the prospect of a great season with, I hope, P.I. as the earliest possible WC decider. We don't want HRC stomping the field relentlessly and it looks as if that isn't likely to happen, so how good a start to the season is that?
However, you know that Rossi will be able to do 1min 56sec laps (at least) all race, so despite all the grief he'll be in the top six even if his crew can't throw in a fix.
Oscar wrote:Oh deary me. Over at Soup, the font of all wisdom, Julian Ryder, after qualifying:However, you know that Rossi will be able to do 1min 56sec laps (at least) all race, so despite all the grief he'll be in the top six even if his crew can't throw in a fix.
I await Michael Scott's and Kevin Schwantz's comments with eager anticipation.
DJH wrote:Oscar wrote:Oh deary me. Over at Soup, the font of all wisdom, Julian Ryder, after qualifying:However, you know that Rossi will be able to do 1min 56sec laps (at least) all race, so despite all the grief he'll be in the top six even if his crew can't throw in a fix.
I await Michael Scott's and Kevin Schwantz's comments with eager anticipation.
I'm sure that Rossi fans must feel like their heart has been torn out of their chests at this point. Still, if I was Ducati I would be fuming at his comments. He has had many, many different versions of bike to make work for him in some way, and has failed each and every time. His attitude is piss poor - you only have to look across the garage at how Hayden is carrying himself. He wants podiums too. He wants wins and championships. But he is prepared to continue working at it to make a competitive package.
The minute Rossi doesn't get a result he likes - it's everyone/thing's fault except his own.
Maybe a few more rounds on the GP10/11 without radical changes would have been more worthwhile than selling their soul and moving away from their own intended direction. At least one former Ducati employee thought so, and to me it's looking more and more like that would have been the more sensible option. Yes they had front end issues, but rational and patient development towards dialling it out and getting parts here and there where needed could see them being far more competitive this year than they are.
I'm a huge Ducati fan, but I have definitely not been a fan of what bringing in Valentino has done to their brand.
Thank the racing gods for Carlos Checa (and Nicky Hayden!)
DJH wrote:Who cares what Nicky thinks. Right?
Nicky also regularly finished in 4th for most of the 2010 season and snagged a podium. What has he achieved since they started chopping up the Duck to Rossi's standards? What has Ducati achieved since they signed him (apart from moving away from their brand that is?).
Absolutely nothing, that's what, and now it's all Ducati's fault again. What a crock of shit.
Zaphod wrote:Both Stoner and Rossi had the same complaints. Stoner kept it in-house a lot longer than Rossi, though in the end was nearly as vocal of his complaints as the Italian....I have the Stoner articles here if you want me to scan them.
Gustav O wrote:Not cool to take digs at other forum members like this just because they like another rider than your preferred favorite. To me you need to drop the bitter attitude and snide remarks to other members that have other opinions than you. Low class.
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Unlike you Gus, I'm sure that both Tourn and Fumi will take it in the way that it was intended.. that is, with tongue firmly planted in cheek.
jihem wrote:By now, isn't everyone just tired of Ducati PR's frankly hilarious quotes, Rossi's love/hate relationship with the Ducati, Preziosi's perpendicular metaphores ?
This year will be just like last year: what can people honestly expect from Estoril ? What can they possibily bring there that will change things ?
A whole new GP which will promptly be called the 12.1 ?
A V at 75° ? Hey, let's dream a bit: at 60° so Burgess can securely put his lunch there while working on whatever he works on ?
A bike with a swingarm longer than a day in rainy Firenze ?
A quantum COG ?
This is a running joke that is now exploding in everyone's face, from Rossi to Burgess to Prosiozi to Corse. And back. Millions of Euros have been spent on a bike that's even slower than last year's bike and the responsible for all these changes isn't even taking responsabilty for it.
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My friend Bruce was by two days ago for coffee and to return my copy of Kirby's Mr. Miracle and over the course of the afternoon he asked two questions. One was "why aren't your paintings more dynamic?" and two was" why aren't you using photoshop?" Anyone who knows Bruce knows he's the nicest guy in the world and he didn't ask those questions that bluntly, I thought it was funnier to write them that way. So, I'm thinking about his questions, staring at the floor in shame and thinking He's right! I'm horrible! Which, of course he wasn't saying at all, just extremely helpful. so this has lead me to my next goal, which is to with with the art itself, I want to be bolder. So, don't laugh at me! Here are some photoshop doodles I attempted, I won't leave them up long because they're not very...good. But it felt really good to be doing something that was pushing the boundaries of my knowledge and abilities and to add another layer to my work. By bolder I mean I want to add new things and make my work more dynamic. If I don't get too frustrated I'll be posting more digital work, hopefully better. And if anyone wants to know the top picture is a portrait of young French pianist Lise da la Salle and the bottom picture is a very groggy Julie having her first coffee of the day. If you have any advice on photoshop or digital work, I'd be more than happy to hear it.
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