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April 6, 2011
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -
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Matadors Battle 49ers in Pivotal League Series
The Cal State Northridge softball team (13-22) hits the road for a crucial three-game series at Long Beach State April 9 and 10. The Matadors and the 49ers will play a doubleheader on Saturday starting at noon and then a single game on Sunday at 49er Softball Complex. Both teams enter the weekend at 1-2 in the Big West Conference and will be looking to improve their standing towards a league title and an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Having lost eight of its last nine games, CSUN hopes the Pacific Ocean breezes help wake up its offense. The Matadors generated just five hits and one run, courtesy of a solo home run, in being swept in a home doubleheader by San Diego State on April 5. Carly Wade nearly made a 1-0 score stand up in game one, only to give up a grand slam with two outs in the top of the seventh. Game two saw a stunned Northridge squad muster just one hit in a 13-0, five-inning loss to the Aztecs.
Before the troubles with SDSU, Northridge went 1-2 in its opening league series at UC Davis. The Matadors stormed out to a 7-3 victory in the first game of the series behind six doubles and three stolen bases. However, the bats went silent in the next two games and the Matadors totaled four runs and eight hits in the two losses (3-1, 5-3).
Individually, CSUN continues to be led by the quartet of Jaci Carlsen, Madeline Sale, Tracy Allen and Mikayla Thielges. The foursome has combined to account for 59 percent (111/188) of CSUN's hits, 72 percent (79/110) of the team's RBIs and 43 percent of the team's runs. Thielges now has 10 home runs on the season while Allen and Carlsen are tied for ninth in school history with 16 career round trippers.
In the circle, Wade has improved throughout the course of the season despite her win-loss record. She leads the team with a .285 batting-average-against and 45 strikeouts. Hannah Fraijo is now 9-7 on the season with a 5.27 ERA in 102.1 innings of work.
Long Beach State has dominated the recent results in the series between the two schools, having won 21 of the last 24 meetings with Northridge. The last time the Matadors won a three-game set with the 49ers came in 2002 when CSUN swept the Beach at Matador Diamond in a Big West series. The last time CSUN won a road series with LBSU came in 2001 as Northridge took two of three games with the 49ers.
The 49ers boast the league's best pitching staff, led by freshman Erin Jones-Wesley. The rookie is 12-4 on the season with a 1.33 ERA, 102 K's and .197 opponent batting average in 110.2 innings of work. She has won the Big West Pitcher of the Week honors on four separate occasions and has thrown several no-hitters. Joining her is a senior, Brooke Turner, and a junior, Taylor Petty, who have combined to go 11-8 with a .201 opponent batting average.
Offensively, Nalani St. Germain paces the 49ers with a .352 batting average, six home runs and 19 RBIs. Megan Denio leads the Big West Conference with 22 walks and owns a .434 on-base percentage with seven steals. As a team, LBSU is hitting .267 and has out-scored its opponents 128-86.
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Junior Jaci Carlsen continues to lead the Matadors in batting average, checking in at .371 for the season. Having started every game at second base for the Matadors, Carlsen also ranks among the league leaders in multiple offensive categories: slugging percentage (.660, fourth), on-base percentage (.446, 10th), hits (36, fourth), doubles (8, second), home runs (6, third), total bases (64, first) and stolen bases (8, second). Carlsen's home run against San Diego State on April 5 was the 16th of her career, tying her with teammate Tracy Allen and two other former Matadors for the ninth-most in school history. She tied a career high with four hits at San Diego and three runs scored against Ohio on Mar. 20. She owns a .951 fielding percentage in 164 chances. Carlsen was named Big West Player of the Week on Mar. 28.
Thielges Do Us Part
Sophomore Mikayla Thielges is among the Big West Conference leaders with 10 home runs, a .688 slugging percentage and 31 RBIs on the season. She had seven RBIs in the Matadors' doubleheader sweep over North Dakota, including a three-run walk-off home run in CSUN's game two victory. She also had three RBIs in the Matadors' win gainst Ohio. For the season, Thielges is hitting .260 with a .429 on-base percentage. She has a three-hit game (Nevada) and driven in a career-high four RBIs on two separate occasions (San Jose State, North Dakota). For the season, Thielges owns a .962 fielding percentage in 104 chances.
Allen Wrenches Her Way into Offensive Fixture
Senior Tracy Allen cranked her fifth home run of the season and 16th of her career in the Matadors' victory over UC Davis on April 2. The 16 career deep flies ties her with teammate Jaci Carlsen and two other Matadors for ninth in school history. She now has 79 career RBIs, two shy of tying Jan Mosier for 10th in school history. Allen has started all 30 games for Northridge at third base and owns a .961 fielding percentage.
Run Forrest Run
Senior Jennifer Mosier leads the Matadors and Big West Conference with 10 stolen bases on the season and giving her 31 for her career, the fifth-most in school history and a new program Division-I record. In her three seasons at Northridge, Mosier has been successful on 89 percent (31-of-35) of stolen base attempts. Mosier tied a school record with three steals in the Matadors' win over Portland State on Feb. 13 and set a school Division-I record with 18 stolen bases in 2010. She also adds 12 runs scored, two triples and eight RBIs on the year.
Time for Madeline
Freshman Madeline Sale is second on the team with a .311 batting average through the first 35 games of her collegiate career. A rookie from Yorba Linda, Calif., Sale has 28 hits, four doubles and 11 RBIs on the season. She has produced two three-hit performances (Nevada, Southern Miss) while drawing 13 walks to raise her on-base percentage to .394 for the season. After starting the year as the team's Designated Player, Sale has now played the majority of games at first base for CSUN and owns a .981 fielding percentage in 155 chances.
Carly's Wade With Words
Freshman Carly Wade has been a reliable force for the Matadors in her rookie season. She picked up her second win in the Matadors' dramatic comeback victory over North Dakota on Mar. 15 and then tossed five innings of relief work in the win against Ohio State on Mar. 19. Finally, Wade tossed 2.1 innings of one-hit softball to nail down the Matadors' 7-6 decision over Ohio on Mar. 20. For the season, the rookie is 3-13 with a 5.75 ERA, 45 strikeouts and a team-best .285 batting-average-against. Wade is also tied for the league lead with her two saves.
Basepaths Beware
Under head coach Tairia Flowers, CSUN has been aggressively attacking the basepaths. The Matadors are second in the Big West Conference with 28 stolen bases and Jennifer Mosier leads the league with 10 steals and Jaci Carlsen is tied for second with a career-high eight. Korinne Randazzo adds three steals and Kristen Mihm and Tracy Allen each have two. Mosier is now the school's Division-I career leader in stolen bases, having swiped 31 in her two-plus seasons at CSUN. She set a school Division-I record with 18 steals in 2010 and then tied another school record with three steals against Portland State on Feb. 13, 2011.
Flowers Named Team USA Assistant Coach
Cal State Northridge softball head coach Tairia Flowers was named an assistant coach for the 2011 USA Softball season on Mar. 3. A member of the 2004 and 2008 US Olympic team, Flowers will work be a part of Team USA head coach Ken Eriksen's staff at the World Cup of Softball July 21-25 in Oklahoma City. In addition to that experience, Flowers will work at the team's selection camp in Chula Vista, Calif., from June 13-17. She will then be part of tour stops in Salem, Virginia (June 29) and Bowie, Maryland (July 1). Flowers is one of two newcomers to the Team USA Coaching Staff for 2011. Joining her as rookie assistant coach is former UCLA teammate and current San Diego State assistant head coach Stacey Nuveman.


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In the past I have provide you with resource lists of iOS and Android applications for the cinematographer, some still are free offering basic software and others are paid, offering more professional software like the Depth of Field (DOF) Calculator that can help you get a job done a little better or a little faster than before.
The false-color picture lets you define allowable contrast ranges, and see instantly which shadows are underexposed and what highlights risk clipping:
How To...
Check exposure: aim the camera at the scene, and read off the exposure (use the spot meter if necessary to narrow down the area of interest). You can tap EXP to freeze the reading, and then vary ISO and shutter to see how aperture changes even if you are no longer pointing the camera at the scene.
Compare exposures: aim the camera at a gray card or other reference target, and tap EXP. Cine Meter will hold that exposure, letting you walk around the set and look at the waveform monitor and false-color displays to compare light levels to your reference.
Compare white balances: aim the camera at a white or gray card under your reference lighting, and tap EXP to lock the white balance. Cine Meter will hold that white balance, and you can use the RGB mode of the waveform monitor to examine the color balance as you walk around the set. (The range of color temperatures and lighting spectra that Cine Meter will properly white balance to is entirely dependent on the camera in your iDevice: some accommodate a wider range of white points than others do.)
Check lighting evenness: when you need flat, even lighting (on a greenscreen, white cove, test charts, or flat art), Cine Meter's waveform monitor shows you the relative light levels across the camera's field of view in a single glance. It's a lot quicker to use the waveform monitor than to spot-meter several points across the field of view, or to take multiple incident readings to get the same information.
Match color temperatures: using WB and the RGB waveform monitor makes it very simple to compare LCD displays, different LED lights, or any other combinations of radiant or reflected lights. If you use WB on a known-good source (or a white card illuminated by it), the differing RGB levels when looking at another source will indicate how you have to color-correct it to make it match, without the subjectivity of the human eye.
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Hoo Boy! If your spouse or boss does not drive you insane, the Super Bowls and Super Tuesdays will.
Hoo Boy! If your spouse or boss does not drive you insane, the Super Bowls and Super Tuesdays will.The ubiquitous lineup of TV prognosticators repeatedly predicting biased sports and election outcomes/strategies, coupled with those questionable political polls, seem to be transforming our society into a mindless mass.
Do we really need multi-millionaire basketball players to tell us to wear Hanes or Nike, or a few town councilors urging us to vote for one of their comrades? Do we require celebrity senators like Ted Kennedy telling us to vote for fledgling candidate Barack Obama? Can't we figure out what to buy that suits us, or who to vote for without interference from patronizing celebrities?
We know, for example, that when personalities hawk a product, they do it to line their pockets with your gold. When sports, entertainment and political stars lend their name recognition to politicians as they do products, you already have cause for doubt because you suspect they have their own agendas that could have less to do with solving national problems.
For example, Sen. Kennedy -- whose family by the way is split between Obama and Hillary (Arnold went for McCain) -- is reported to have jumped on Obama's bandwagon not only because Obama is the second coming of Christ as Ted would have us believe, but because Ted was reportedly infuriated at a purported slight of the late President Kennedy by the Clinton Camp.
(Some of Kennedy's fans here in Barnstable are upset with him over his Obama theatrics. "He should have just kept his mouth shut," said one couple that attends Kennedy compound tent parties.)
"Sources" told Mary Ann Akers in the Washington Post (The Sleuth), Kennedy was "privately furious" at Hillary for praising President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act that was proposed by JFK in 1963. Fact is, JFK's assassination left the act of signing to Johnson, but Ted saw it as an "implicit slight" of President Kennedy, according to Akers' sources.
Akers also mentioned Kennedy dissatisfaction with the Clinton camp's southern strategy as another purported reason.
The celebrity endorsement is the burr under the saddle for voters who prefer listening to the issues, the proposed solutions offered by candidates, and to judge for themselves which candidate can actually get it done. Celebrities simply interfere with that process, particularly the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Jack Nicholson and those of their ilk with overstuffed egos.
The "secret ballot" isn't much of a secret in these cases. Public endorsements target the lethargic voter who is easily influenced by the glitterati.
Now that the numbers are in, it's clear that Bay State Democrats, as those in many other states, are about equally divided and anguished over their choice between Hillary and Barack. Clinton voters chose experience over inexperience. They evidently weren't willing to be led by the nose into the voting booth by their servants -- Gov. Deval Patrick and Sens. Kerry and Kennedy, who endorsed Obama.
But the close Cape and state vote signaled that Obama endorsements by those three Democrat heavies helped the Obama camp significantly reduce Clinton's delegate count.
Clinton voters obviously agree the presidency is too important a post for an apprentice, while Obama voters are smitten by the word "change" and the candidate's charisma and locution. As to "change," it takes two to tango and a lot more than one president to bring a meaningful transformation, the Constitution notwithstanding, in the way Washington does business. As one wag put it, " ... the change voters want in Washington is going to occur no matter who wins -- removing George Bush and his oil cronies."
Campaign commentators are telling us Obama has rallied the young voter, reminding us of Oscar Wilde's observation that, "In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
From the experience viewpoint, one can envision Hillary getting things moving on Day One because she's been there and done that (and was badly burned by the great universal health care effort) and Obama asking his cabinet, "So, what do I do now?" while the cabinet responds, "Gee. We were about to ask you the same thing."
As to the Super Bowl: An overhyped business. The Beli-Brady Bunch is imperfectly human after all.
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The Associated Press reports that victims of Northern Ireland's deadliest bombing began Monday their lawsuit against five alleged leaders of the Irish Republican Army. The lawsuit, seven years in the making, seeks at least 10 million pounds ($20 million) in damages. "It represents the first time in legal history that victims of Northern Ireland terrorism have sought justice through a civil action", reports AP.
Think about that! How many suits would there have been if the IRA bombings had taken place stateside? Too many, I can hear readings thinking. But one is surely too few, as well. Perhaps as in all good things there is a moderation that both we and the Brits can emulate. [Sorry for calling the Irish Brits...]


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North Dakota Residency Rules
I wouldn't say that Universities in North Dakota are just giving away in-state tuition to anyone who wants it…but kinda; it's there for the taking. In-State Angels considers it the easiest state in America in which to earn in-state tuition. That definitely does not mean that you just all of the sudden automatically get it without doing anything. You definitely must do things! The things are pretty straightforward though, the paperwork is pretty minimal, and people aren't really required to sacrifice much or even make lofty commitments to North Dakota. The process does definitely still require forethought, execution of a plan, and follow-through. This is evinced by the fact that there are lots of people paying out-of-state tuition in North Dakota.
Why is it so easy here? We think it's because people don't flock from all over the country to live in North Dakota as they do to live in trendier states like California, Florida, Arizona. Well maybe they should, it's like the Scandinavia of America and if you want to move to North Dakota, live a simpler life, watch some NDSU football, and get a great and fantastically affordable education…maybe you should. The low living expenses will blow your mind.
North Dakota Reciprocity Agreements:
North Dakota is a member state of the Midwest Student Exchange Program which is a limited regional reciprocity agreement among select Midwestern States. Favorable college tuition rates in nearby states are sometimes possible through reciprocity although many restrictions apply.
See Tuition Reciprocity Agreements Explained
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University-Specific Overviews Below:
Policies and implementations of the rules vary by university, so you're encouraged to explore the links below to in-state overviews for universities in North Dakota. If your college is not highlighted, then please consider buying a University-Specific Nutshell Report or see all available university-specific in-state overviews.
Popular Universities in North Dakota:
North Dakota State University-Fargo
University of North Dakota-Grand Forks
Other Universities in North Dakota:
Dickinson State University-Dickinson
Mayville State University-Mayville
Minot State University-Minot
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and HS-Grand Forks
Valley City State University-Valley City
Every College in North Dakota Is Unique
Just as every state has its own in-state regulations, each college in the state has its own interpretations. Learn everything important about how to actually earn in-state tuition at the university in North Dakota you're most interested in.


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I have listed the Nobel Laureates and their books I have read so far. I have not reviewed all of those on my blog as I read a few long time back. If I do, I will link those here. I am in the process of reading another book by Steinbeck, three by Marquez and one by Orhan Pamuk.
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book
Collected stories
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
Binodini-a novel
The Fugitive
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man
1936 - Eugene O'Neill
Desire Under the Elms
1938 - Pearl S Buck
The Townsman
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1948 - T S Eliot
Prufrock and Other Observations
The Waste Land
Murder in the Cathedral
The Confidential Clerk
1950 - Bertrand Russell
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
In Praise of Idleness
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Islands in the Stream
1962 - John Steinbeck
The Moon Is Down
The Pearl
East of Eden
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don
1971 - Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda : The Early Poems
1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories
Strange Pilgrims : Twelve Stories
2001 - V S Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
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'New' Minds for New Business
The Mitsubishi Corporation is Japan's largest diversified trading company, so its manager for recruitment and development, Kazuaki Hikida, has little trouble finding qualified applicants for the 150 managerial-trainee positions he fills each year. More than 1,000 recent college graduates apply.
But like a growing number of Japanese businessmen, Mr. Hikida is less than satisfied with the graduates he interviews. "I see a lot of narrowly focused, standardized individuals," he says glumly. What is more, the new graduates seem to Mr. Hikida "exhausted already" by the test-laden climb through the academic hierarchy.
"We have to ask ourselves," he says,ll this applicant have enough fuel to burn?"'
Until very recently, corporate leaders in Japan had nothing but praise for the nation's schools. They were grateful for the superbly skilled workforce that had powered their economic miracle. Now they are singing a slightly different tune.
Search for 'a Creative Mind'
Business has joined government in looking for "a new type of educated person," says Noritake Kobayashi, a Keio University business professor. Today's ideal job candidate, he says, is a person the schools have not been geared to produce, one whose strengths are "a creative mind and an independent way of thinking."
But instead of the creative independence they seek, business leaders are finding independence of a very different sort in today's graduates. Increasingly, corporate recruiters must ask themselves not only about burnout but also about stability. Their question is one seldom heard before in Japanese industry: Will new employees stay with the company, or will they become what Mr. Hikida calls "jumpy"?
With a secure and lucrative lifetime-employment system, Japan has not experienced the kind of corporate job-hopping common in America. Workers are paid and promoted on the basis of seniority within the organization. They receive handsome retirement benefits after long service with a corporation, and, until now, most of them have been happy to remain with the likes of Sony, or Honda, or Seiko throughout their careers.
Demise of the 'Mitsubishi Person'
But today's young employees have "different value systems," according to Mr. Hikida. They no longer want to go through the required transfers within the company, he says, or to become "a Mitsubishi person" like their predecessors.
"It's getting to be that success in competition and in the corporation is not equated with real success in life," he says. "Now students want more time for relaxation and the family."
Like Mr. Hikida, Hisashi Umehara, a Nissan Motor Company executive, is worried about the new workers' attitudes. He fears that the high level of teamwork Japanese corporations have depended on may be slipping away because the schools no longer provide enough of what he calls "social training." Such skills as communication and cooperation, he says, have been the victims of the excessive emphasis on testing.
Mr. Umehara believes teachers, obsessed with transferring test knowledge, slight the intangibles that build the group ethic. "From kindergarten through elementary and secondary school, students are always preparing for entrance examinations," he complains.
Signs of the Times
Contradictions, such as this search for creative mavericks in a country built by team players, are emblematic of modern Japan. It is a strong, rooted society with growing pains. Its people revere their heritage but enjoy the fruits of an ultra-modern lifestyle.
In today's Japan, poverty is minimal, racial and ethnic discord practically nonexistent, and unemployment--for the moment--almost nil. National surveys suggest that more than 90 percent of the people considers themselves "middle-class." The young are urbanized, upwardly mobile, and leisure-oriented. For those who can withstand the pressures of schooling well enough to graduate, there are twice as many jobs as competitors for them.
And yet, the Japanese are aware of the future's uncertainty. Their leaders tell them they are at "a major turning point." Their scholars and journalists give them these facts:
Japanese economic growth has begun to stabilize; young workers can look forward to fewer job openings as the decade wanes. To make matters worse, the country's population is aging so fast ("at a rate unprecedented among modern nations," one scholar says) that multiplying social and financial burdens await the coming generations. Today, there are 15 Japanese workers supporting every senior citizen. Thirty years from now, there will be only three workers for each retiree.
A corresponding age shift in the workforce will have grave implications for the nation's economic competitiveness. In a strict seniority-based employment system, where pay scales correlate with age, the payroll demands of such a steep rise in average worker-age will surely mean higher prices for Japanese goods.
Ingenuity and the Knowledge Economy
The only way for the Japanese to keep ahead, say their experts, is through brainpower. But not the brainpower that built their industrial prowess. The present Japanese worker is well-schooled and scientifically literate. But to build a knowledge-intensive economy that will lead the world in high technology, which is the goal of Japanese industry, a new superworker must emerge--one who possesses the creative ingenuity to spark new product lines and production processes.
This will be an industrial reversal with tremendous consequences for the education system. As the scientist Masanori Moritani explains in Japanese Technology: Getting the Best for Least, there are "fewer epochal technologies coming out of America and Europe" for Japanese industry to refine and apply. The skilled workforce will not be enough to fill that void; innovative minds will have to create the substance of Japan's second-wave industrial surge.
Yet, statistics show that every year since 1975 Japan has increased, rather than decreased, the amount of technology it imports.
This is why so many businessmen, like Mitsubishi's Hikida, are supporting the government's education line. "Creativity" and "diversity" are the code words. What is actually sought is nothing less than a new approach to learning, one that minimizes the pressure to retain mountains of facts for entrance examinations and maximizes the opportunity to stand out in the academic crowd.
Corporations and Meritocracy
Ironically, however, the corporate world has helped to build and perpetuate the educational practices it now wants changed.
Isao Amagi, a special adviser to the minister of education, says the "priority-hiring" practices of both business and government have been a major factor in increasing the competition for slots at elite schools. Both private industry and the public sector use the examination system as a kind of screening device, he says. The most powerful companies and the most prestigious government agencies recruit almost entirely from the best colleges.
Employment statistics dramatically testify to this fact. Japan's first Imperial universities, established during the Meiji reign, were those at Tokyo and Kyoto. They remain the most prestigious institutions in the country, and to be a graduate virtually assures success, particularly in the case of Tokyo University. Half of Japan's postwar prime ministers have been Tokyo graduates, as are about one-fourth of the presidents of the top 100 corporations. And in a 1978 survey, more than 62 percent of the government officials at the level of section chief or above confirmed that they were Tokyo graduates, including 89 percent of the top Ministry of Finance officials and 60 percent of those in the Ministry of Education.
Mitsubishi's recruiting manager, Mr. Hikida, suggests that one way to ease the problem of "standardized" white-collar workers would be to hire students from a greater variety of colleges. Over the last decade, he says, Mitsubishi has opened up its application system, considering candidates from all Japanese colleges and hiring from as many as 30 different institutions.
Contradictory Messages
Though the recruitment pool has been wider, however, the results have been basically the same: Some 60 percent of the 150 managerial-level trainees still come from four elite universities, with Tokyo University leading the group.
With such well-entrenched management practices, corporations have had a hard time convincing the Japanese public of their sincerity in seeking diversity, independence, and creative flair. Two surveys of Japanese corporate attitudes released this past fall by Japan's Nippon Recruitment Center, a large employment-information agency, show that, despite what industry says it needs, its pool of potential young employees thinks it wants something vastly different.
One of the Nippon surveys queried more than 6,000 male and female college students; the other questioned officials at 888 corporations. Among the findings were these:
Only 8 percent of the students thought that basic academic abilities were a major consideration in corporate hiring decisions, but almost half of the corporate executives said they were of prime importance.
Almost one in three of the corporation officials said they put heavy emphasis on a student's expertise, but less than 10 percent of the students thought their expertise would win them a corporate job.
Most of the students said that, in a job interview, they would stress sociability and cooperativeness more than any other traits.
Toshiyuki Watanabe, a city-council member in Kudamatsu, a small city on the inland sea near Hiroshima, voices the skepticism of many Japanese: "Corporations say they want a person who is an innovative, creative individual who can accomplish great things. On the other hand, they want students who are broadly trained. It's a contradiction. And the message that has been passed down is that corporations don't want innovative or talented people. They want 'yes men' who obey everything."
The Virtue of Adaptability
Mitsubishi's top recruiter casts the seeming contradictions in a more positive light. He says the way Japanese companies are run makes adaptability essential for both employer and employee.
Mrs. Takahashi presented the boy with a Fujitsu microcomputer, which retails for about $525.
"America has a system that matches the graduate--already something of a specialist--with the opening," he says. "In Japan, corporations seek generalists whose acquired skills will be company property. This assures great flexibility in the use of personnel.
"Japanese executives don't specialize; they regularly move from one corporate department to the next," he adds. "In the process, they become expert in the structure and internal workings of the company."
Mitsubishi tries to give its top-level employees three different work situations in their first 14 years, he says, varying either job responsibility or geographic location.
"We need people who have basic capability and general talent. It is our responsibility to train them, whether they have studied business, law, economics, or engineering."
Training for 'Acquired Skills'
This preference for "acquired skills" extends all the way down the corporate ladder to include blue-collar workers. It has created a complex network of corporate training programs that both augments and, in some cases, alters the content of formal education.
Some 80 percent of Japanese companies have worker-training programs of some kind, and the larger the company, the more rich and diverse its training options. "Companies employing 5,000 people or more spend about five times more per person on education than small enterprises employing 100 people or fewer," says a researcher at Hiroshima University's Research Institute for Higher Education.
In a 1980 study conducted for the Japan Labor Institute, Haruo Shimada, a Keio University economics professor, found that in the previous decade 70 percent of all corporations had training programs for new employees with college degrees; two-thirds had programs for new workers with high-school diplomas; and 55 percent provided training for middle-school graduates new to the job. About one-fourth of the corporations also offered training programs to workers already on the payroll. (A study released last month by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching indicated that 75 percent of American corporns conduct worker-training programs on both basic and advanced levels.)
The Nissan Motor Company spent more than $3.3 million to train its 18,000 white-collar workers last year and an additional $8.3 million to train 42,000 blue-collar workers. Like several other major Japanese corporations, Nissan operates its own private technical high school, giving accredited instruction to 100 students each year in four professional subject areas: machinery, electronics, sheet metal, and automobiles. (The International Business Machines Corporation, by comparison, spent upwards of $700 million last year on training of all kinds, according to the Carnegie report.)
Mr. Umehara of Nissan is proud of the fact that many of his company's best general foremen were once among the worst students at their public schools. They needed seasoning and direction, he says. They may have lacked the best academic abilities, but they had what Mr. Umehara calls "the human qualities." Nissan training developed these, he says.
Impact on Formal System
The darker side of this corporate education network is its impact on the development of the formal education system. Gradducation in particular has suffered, because Japanese corporations prefer to conduct their own research and train their own researchers.
Toshio Toyoda, a professor at the Institute of Developing Economies, reports that only 1.3 percent of 22-year-olds attend graduate school in his country, well behind the proportion in other industrialized nations. By comparison, the figure is 16.3 percent in the United States and 13.2 percent in West Germany.
This in-house research-and-training orientation of Japanese companies has also left the schools complacent about providing up-to-the minute, technology-based training. Consequently, they have lagged behind other nations' schools in giving students hands-on experience with computers and other advanced teaching aids.
Despite widespread U.S. assumptions to the contrary, the Japanese are "a few years behind" American schools in putting microcomputers in the classroom and in training teachers to use computer-assisted instruction, according to researchers at the country's National Center for New Media in Education.
Even in vocational programs, this lack is felt. Haru-o Otah, the principal of Tokyo Public Industrial High School, says that most of the equipment in his machine and electronics classes is badly out of date and that his school has too few microcomputers to adequately teach students that technology. With recent government budget cuts and no incentive for corporate help, Mr. Otah expects more, not less, obsolescence in his classrooms.
Graduates Industry 'Doesn't Want'
But the future of students enrolled in public vocational or technical high schools is bleak with or without the classroom handicap. Already facing a shrinking blue-collar job market as the country shifts toward service and high-technology industries, they now must compete with graduates from a growing variety of technical-training institutions.
At the peak of the nation's economic growth in the 1960's, there were four vocational-high-school students for every six academic-high-school students. Today the ratio has dropped to three to seven.
"The diploma still has the same value," says Fuku-o Masuda, principal of Kudamatsu Technical High School, "but industry doesn't want to hire our graduates now." Vocational high schools are being "overwhelmed," he says, by growth in other types of education.
In technical training, vocational high schools now compete with the public-sector systems of junior colleges and five-year technical colleges, both postwar innovations, as well as vocational-training centers, higher industrial schools, and other corporate training programs. His graduates, says Mr. Masuda, are no longer recognized by businesses as being "special."
'All Our Workers Can Read'
Yet it is at this lower stratum of the workforce--and not at the rarified heights where creative minds are now sought--that the Japanese system of schooling has had its greatest economic impact. Assembly-line workers receive a public education that is, through high school, essentially the same as their counterparts in management. Unlike the American blue-collar worker, who can earn a diploma with no real grasp of math or science, the Japanese worker is conversant with highly technical matters.
As Thomas P. Rohlen notes in his book Japan's High Schools: "The great accomplishment of Japanese primary and secondary education lies not in its creation of a brilliant elite but in its generation of such a high average level of capability."
Kazoyuki Shindo, a vice president at Toyo Kohan, a major producer of tin plate, confirms this contention, insisting that many of the blue-collar workers at his factory could, with a little training, handle his top-level job. Japanese firms make fewer distinctions between employees than U.S. companies, he says. There is less difference between the ability, deportment, and even salary of managers and workers. "After all, anybody can stamp papers all day," Mr. Shindo says.
Like many other Japanese executives, Mr. Shindo would like to see more emphasis in the schools on foreign languages and international courses. He says that would be an economic plus in an exporting economy. He can also see Japan's overall need for research innovation. He knows the economy is changing. But for now, Mr. Shindo is extremely satisfied with his workforce.
So is Nissan's Mr. Umehara. When asked the main difference between Japanese and U.S. automobile manufacturers, he says simply, "All our workers can read."
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The talent show at Deeping Rangers produced more magic in the FA Cup on Saturday as they defeated Dereham Town 1-0 at the Haydon Whitham Stadium in the preliminary round of the competition.
Scott Mooney's clinical strike seven minutes before half-time proved enough to knock out Ryman League Division One North side Dereham Town.
Rangers' success earned the club £1,925 and set up a trip on September 12 to Leek Town or Rocester who have a replay on Tuesday night.
Deeping boss Michael Goode said his side's place in the Emirates FA Cup first qualifying round is "thoroughly deserved".
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"As a player at our level if you win two games in the FA Cup then you've done well.
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On the same day that ITV's singing contest The X Factor returned, it was fitting to see someone called Flack taking centre stage for Deeping as well.
Dan Flack will probably never get the level of publicity which his namesake Caroline receives as the programme's new joint host.
But he certainly deserves plenty of credit for another excellent performance which proved instrumental in this victory.
Alongside skipper David Burton-Jones in front of the Deeping defence, Flack made sure there was no way through for Dereham.
The experienced pair gave so much protection that goalkeeper Daniel Bircham had only a couple of saves to claim a clean sheet.
Burton-Jones took the man-of-the-match award but it was a tough choice to give him the edge over Flack – and these honours should not be shared.
Flack's range of passing kept possession, switched play and put Deeping on the attack.
In the second half, though, he also had to make a series of challenges as the Magpies pushed forward in search of an equaliser.
Burton-Jones was equally happy to get stuck in and do what you might call the dirty work.
On his return to the side, Deeping have not conceded in two wins. That can't be just a coincidence.
Burton-Jones and Flack had key roles in front of the back four, allowing others to support Mooney.
Jason Kilbride, Fraser Sturgess and Mooney failed to hit the target with chances before the deadlock was broken.
Sturgess played a clever pass which found Mooney with time and space to pick his spot with a crisp drive into the far corner of the net.
Mooney's sixth goal for Deeping came soon after Bircham brilliantly tipped over Sam Borrer's lob.
Bircham was only called into action again in stoppage-time during a scramble as Dereham keeper Will Viner came up for three corners.
On the counter-attack Scott Coupland missed an open goal under pressure from Lewis Wallace.
Jack Cotton nodded the ball off the line towards the end but Deeping deserved to hold onto their advantage. It was a hard-fought victory on another magical day.
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My time in Thailand has simply been eye-opening. I feel that I've achieved so much and made so many people happier just by purely saying hello with a meaningful smile. To me this was the most important thing, being able to change young lives for the better, teaching them, and watching them learn from what you do and say is overwhelmingly rewarding. I've learnt so many things about myself and I genuinely feel that I have changed so much since my first day here.
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- Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Congressman Al Green (2013)
- Certificate of Recognition from Harris County Judge Ed Emmett (2013)
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- WTSP reporter Noah Pransky keeps trying to ask Hillsborough County commissioner Ken Hagan about how he plans to pay for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium, and Hagan keeps walking away, and the video of this is fricking hilarious.
- An Atlanta attorney has filed suit against Fulton County, claiming that the Atlanta Falcons are ducking $13 million in property tax payments a year by having the state own their new stadium in name only while the team collects all revenues from it. Which, absolutely that's what's going on, but since that's how pretty much every other pro sports team does it as well, good luck getting a court to rule that it's illegal.
- Baseball America's Tracy Ringolsby, who in recent years has made a specialty of griping that MLB teams should just move if fans won't come out to see them in sufficient numbers, is reporting that baseball could soon expand to Montreal and Portland, according to … "a building consensus." A consensus of whom? That's for Ringolsby to know and you to find out.
- The Golden State Warriors are trying to skip out on $40 million in debt still owed on their Oakland arena, on the grounds that their lease only requires the team's owners to repay it if they break their lease, not if they let it expire in 2019. "This predicament is entirely of the OACCA's own making, as it bargained for a 20-year term in the license agreement while issuing 30-year bonds," wrote the team's attorney. I really need to quit this whole blogging thing and hire myself out as a stadium lease beta tester, don't I?
- California has approved covering up to $270 million in cost overruns from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, if the city runs through its own $270 million first. Not that there will necessarily be this much in cost overruns, mind you, but that's now $540 million that California taxpayers could be on the hook for; the idea that maybe L.A. should have said to the IOC, "Hey, you have no other options, we'll happily host the games but no dice on that cost-overrun guarantee" is sounding better and better.
- Speaking of taxpayers, Splinter has an article on how we should all stop saying "taxpayer money" and say "public money" instead, since otherwise it implies that only rich people should have a say in how public money is spent, since they pay the most in taxes. I get their point, but given that we're largely talking about state and local taxes here, and poor and middle-income people actually pay a way higher percentage of their income in those taxes than the rich, I'm going to keep using both terms, thanks.
- And since we're on the topic of taxpayer money in general, I wrote an article for the Village Voice yesterday on how Amazon is trying to shake down cities and states for massive subsidies in order to be selected to host the company's new second headquarters, and looks to be succeeding. Much like with the Olympics, everyone in the 100 or so cities vying for the prize should probably be hoping real hard right now that they lose, because the price of winning could just bankrupt you.


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An in-depth study of the current revolution in council management has shown that the new structures being set up are not being linked to the change that they are supposed to bring about.The old arrangement of committees and sub-committees for decision-making is being overhauled, with many councils choosing to select a handful of councillors to make decisions in smaller, closed 'cabinet' style meetings.
The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), which has been set up to aid modernisation of local government, has produced a joint study with the DETR of six pioneering authorities which have set up these new cabinets ahead of the rest.
'New forms of political management arrangements' evaluates these developments through case study. The major finding is that authorities cannot simply put the new structure in place and hope that the other modernisation demands that inspired them – to improve local government services, deliver Best Value, community leadership and democratic renewal – will naturally follow.
Other key findings of the report include the potential for cross-cutting portfolios to strengthen corporate capacity, and evidence that councils might be dispatching business more efficiently but with a lack of transparency and openness.
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Panjab University, Chandigarh invites applications from the eligible candidates who fulfill the eligibility conditions for fill up the posts of Programme Co-ordinator (NSS), Sr. Technician (G-II), Drivers, Security Guards, on contract/ regular basis. other details of these posts like age limit, qualification, experience, how to apply, etc. are given below:
Last Date: 12, June 2015.
The Eligibility, Educational &. Professional Qualification and experience prescribed for the above post are as under:
1. Programme Co-coordinator (NSS) -01
Pay Band: Rs. 37400-67000+GP-9000/-
Qualification: Associate Professor in the University or affiliated College. OR
Principal of affiliated College of the status of Associate Professor.
Must have worked as Programme Officer NSS for at least 03 years.
2. Senior Technician G-II -01
Pay Band: Rs.10300-34800+GP- 4400/- with initial pay of 17420/ plus allowances admissible under University Rules.
Qualification: Post Graduation in Fashion Designing/Design Management/Fashion Technology/ Home Science with 55% marks or equivalent grade with relevant subject/trade with 3 year's experience in relevant area after post-graduation. OR
B.Sc. Home Science/B.Sc. Fashion Designing/ Fashion Technology with 55% marks or equivalent grade with 6 years experience in relevant area after graduation.
3. Drivers -08
Pay Band: Rs. 5910-20200+GP-2400 (initially pay of ` 9880/-) plus allowances admissible under University rules.
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Frozen Planet, The Open University and BBC co-production, picked up three more awards at last night's (18 October 2012) Wildscreen Panda Awards. It won best sound, best cinematography and best series jointly with The Human Planet.
The series was also a big winner at the recent Emmy awards (September 2012) in the non-fiction category, where it came top for best series, cinematography, picture editing and sound editing.
The Open University's academic consultants for Frozen Planet were Dr Mark Brandon and Dr David Robinson. The University gave viewers the chance to continue exploring the icy wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctica through OpenLearn, its free interactive study site, which offered geographic information from Arctic and Antarctic experts, videos of the wildlife in each polar region and historical moments in polar exploration.
The OU short course, The Frozen Planet, reveals the wonders of the polar world and explains how ice has shaped – and controls – the planet. It has polar-focused activities and film clips from the Frozen Planet series, and looks in depth at the environment, science and wildlife. Its next presentation date is April 2013.
Editor's Notes
2. The Executive Producer for the BBC was Alastair Fothergill and the Series Producer was Vanessa Berlowitz. The Open University academic consultants for the series were Dr Mark Brandon and Dr David Robinson.


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~Anniversary Giveaway - The Winners~
Thank you very much to everyone who entered. We didn't quite reach the last prize but I do have two winners to announce.
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the winner of this pendant is:
~Prize 2~
The winner of the set of three snowflakes is:
Melissa Hamilton
Congratulations to the winners.
If you didn't win, don't worry as you can still take advantage of my Anniversary Sale in my Esty shop. Offer ends Sunday.
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.... on our first day back at school!
I thought you might enjoy a little tour of our first day back at our school......well my boys' school but I
So school is back. I didn't realise how much my boys had grown over the holidays until I saw them all scrubbed up in their uniforms, hats back on, shoes polished. My big one started in the middle school (yrs 7-9) so he has a different hat and socks and a different winter uniform with blazer. He looks different, taller.... more serious..... more responsible.


text: Antonio Carabillo recently won the International Open of Rio de Janeiro in the veterans section. Antonio was competing in a group stage of six players and he won four games and drew with Argentina's Fabrizio Bertolini. Thanks to a better goal-difference, Antonio was decided as the winner of the tournament. Int he Open category, Antonio ended on top of his group after he beat seeded player Nicolas Lioy (Argentina), Jose Antonio Ramalhete (Brazil) and Gonzalo Gomez (Argentina). In the barrage round, Antonio lost to Matias Lioy (Argentina) on a clear 1-3. Andrea Gasparini from the US won the tournament.


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by Jannika Forester
This year Private Island Entertainment teamed up with the Henry Street Settlement for a Leap Day-themed Costume Party extravaganza. It only comes every four years so why not?
The Henry Street Settlement has a rich history and deep roots in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The Settlement delivers a wide range of social service and arts programs to more than 50,000 New Yorkers each year, challenging the effects of urban poverty by helping families achieve better lives for themselves and their children. Private Island is honored to host this event for the kids of the Henry Street Settlement. As a family owned, New York City-based company, Private Island has a lot in common with the Henry Street Settlement, both are distinguished by a profound connection to its neighbors, a strong record of accomplishment, and a willingness to address new problems with swift and innovative solutions. In Private Island's case we're just talking about throwing the best parties possible, but memory making events do have a lasting impact.
During the day's festivities, participants participated in a costume scavenger hunt, face painting, and green screen pictures.
Catering for the event was donated in part by the Treats Truck and BabyCakes Bakery.
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Our small window stickers feature a black background with a white "Angry Steve".
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Orly Macabre Masquerade is from from the Secret Society Collection. It is a cobalt blue with multi-colored small glitters. It was a little tough to get it very even. It's a touch thicker than the other Orly polishes I'm used to. This is two coats. It is very pretty and catches the light beautifully!
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Snow White & the Huntsman)? I would have put my money on a tryst with her Snow White costar Chris Hemsworth, as most of the tabloids previously had, which adds to the intrigue.
Was her intention to protect her public image while humiliating Pattinson even further? Or perhaps she felt she had no other choice since Us Weekly -- a magazine for which I was a senior editor for two years -- slapped her and Sanders on the cover and ran pictures of them engaging in something far more intimate than acceptable boss-employee rapport.
"I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected. This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry."
So wrote Stewart in her statement, and she's not the first famous woman to feel that way. Women in Hollywood have been not standing my their men for decades, as I pointed out two years ago in the post "Do Famous Women Cheat?". In 1949, when Ingrid Bergman, then married to Petter Lindstrom, had an affair with director Roberto Rossellini (and got pregnant, too!), she became persona non grata in Hollywood and went into self-imposed exile for seven years. Upon her return, she won the second of three Oscars, Best Actress for 1956's Anastasia, and was greeted like a homecoming queen.
When Elizabeth Taylor dumped Eddie Fischer for Richard Burton after an affair on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra, she launched one of Hollywood's greatest love stories ever told (onscreen or off), somehow managing to sidestep any major professional repercussions. Times had changed in Hollywood.
Meg Ryan's career nosedived following her fling with Russell Crowe on the set of 2000's Proof of Life, but that had more to do with poor professional choices on her part than bad choices in her marriage to Dennis Quaid. In 2002, Jennifer Lopez upgraded from hubby Cris Judd to Ben Affleck and became an even bigger superstar. More recently, Tori Spelling and LeAnn Rimes have found that there is indeed life after cheating on their husbands with married men. Spelling even got her own short-lived reality TV series, 2006's So NoTORIous, out of it.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but from where I'm sitting (and typing), Stewart actually isn't looking so bad. Not that I'm condoning on-the-set affairs (though I must wonder, what do Hollywood couples expect when actors and actresses spend so much time on movie sets, away from significant others, in close quarters with temptation?), but for the first time ever, I actually find Stewart kind of interesting. Not only because she's human like the rest of us, but because I'm not 100 percent convinced that her public apology was entirely well-intentioned. (Poor Rob!) She's not so snow white, after all!
As I pondered my reaction, it hit me: Oh my God, I'm doing it, too! Would my reaction to this story be the same if Pattinson had been the one caught on camera with his hands in another woman's goodies jar? I doubt that this will have much of a negative effect on Stewart's career. She'll get tons of coverage in the weekly tabloid magazines, and by extension her next films, On the Road and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2, will get a huge profile boost. Not that the latter needed one.
I'm fairly certain that if Pattinson were walking in Stewart's stilettos, he'd be in a far worse place professionally. Any actor would be. Perhaps it's because when men cheat, they tend to do it so much more flagrantly and tastelessly (see Jude Law and the nanny, Sandra Bullock's ex, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, and too many others to list). Women tend to go about their indiscretions less shamelessly, though I'm not sure why Stewart and Sanders didn't just get a room -- and stay in it! -- and why attached Hollywood women almost always seem to go for married men.
But does Stewart deserve the pardon that fictional female cheaters always seem to get? From the coverage I've seen thus far (and from her carefully worded statement, if we are to take it at face value), there is nothing that would indicate that Stewart and Sanders' "momentary indiscretion" -- her words, not mine -- was about much more than sex.
At least Bergman, Taylor, Spelling and Rimes married the guys with whom they cheated. If Stewart is not in love with Sanders, did she wreck her relationship with one of the most desirable guys in movies -- and, presumably, Sanders' marriage -- just for sex? And will the public forgive her for cheating if it wasn't all about love? Stay tuned. Hollywood's battle of the sexes is about to get a lot more interesting.
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That fatigue is present in our daily live is known. Also, that it can be a contributing factor to incidents and accidents in aviation. However, how much the professionals, organisations and regulators know and do about it? Why is such complex? How proactive are organisations about Fatigue Risk Management?
If something I learned last week when I attended to the conference that the RAeS organised at Cranfield (Staying Alert: Managing Fatigue in Maintenace) is that Fatigue Management has three legs: the individual, the organisation and the regulator. I travelled to UK to maintain my currency as Aviation Maintenance Human Factors, but also because it was a unique occasion to learn from professionals and specialists sharing their knowledge, experience and advice about this topic. A great forum; I really congratulate the RAeS, and specially the Human Factors Group, to organise events like this.
In any case, and to be honest, I believe that many delegates as me were attending because the Fatigue Management is not regulated yet for Aviation Maintenance Organisations. And we wanted to know what is going on. And indeed, it has been some movement already. The FAA issued on December 2016 the Advisory Circular Nº 120-115 (Maintainer Fatigue Risk Management). Is not mandatory, but it is a good start to be introduced about the topic, understand how fatigue can be a safety hazard in aviation and how and why organisations should be implementing Fatigue Risk Management. Also, I recommend the FAA website Fatigue Risk Management as it is plenty of material.
During the day, we reviewed different accident reports were fatigue had been a contributing factor. For example, the loss of control in Nevada of an AS30B2 (N37SH) with a fatal end (the report can be found in the NTSB website: NTSB/AAR-13/01). It mentions how the performance of the mechanic and the inspector was degraded by fatigue, which contributed to the improper securing of the fore/aft servo connection hardware, the improper installation of the hydraulic belt, and the inadequate post maintenance inspection.
From the report, both the mechanic and the inspector did not have time to adjust to an earlier shift than normal, which lead experiencing fatigue. Also, the mechanic had an inadequate amount of sleep and the inspector had a long duty day.
These are cases were, between the multiple contributing factors, fatigue is present… again. So, in absence of a regulated time of duty for maintainers, what can organisations proactively do? Speakers from different aviation maintenance organisations shared some measures that have put already in place as:
- integrated Fatigue Risk Management in their Safety Management System
- deliver training about Fatigue Management to everyone in the maintenance organisation (integrate with Human Factors training)
- include Fatigue in risk assessments
- perform analysis of shift patterns
- issue working time policies that consider Fatigue Risk Management
- plan controlled breaks
- design facilities accordingly to facilitate rest
- fatigue reporting mechanisms
- reward schemes for good suggestions.
I left the event having learned how important is considering fatigue as a safety hazard and how important is raising the awareness of professionals and organisations as it is a shared responsibility being "fitness for duty".


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October 22, 2009
Akiba no Usagi Jinja
"Akiba no Usagi Jinja (Bunny Shrine at Akiba)" opened in this year.
"Akiba" means Akihabara.
It is located on chuo-dori(chuo-street) at akihabara.
Of course, it is not real shinto shrine.
You can see lovely characters on that board above that red gate.
Those characters are designed by Aoi Nishimata who is popular illustrator.
This photo was taken on 19 September , 2009.
Posted by nobu at 6:47 PM
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3 comments:
- Cezar and Léia said...
Beautiful shot Nobu, looks a busy day there!
- October 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- Malyss said...
My eyes were attracted by the woman with an umbrella.. She seems to be lost in the wrong time!..
- October 22, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- Vogon Poet said...
Malyss is right the lady in traditional dress with the parosl stands out! A Bunny Shrine must be a joke, I hope it's funny.
- October 23, 2009 at 7:00 AM
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