JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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Triumvere
What does this even mean? I'm sorry but I my top concen is that my police be effective. If Bill Bratton can help them do that, then nuts to their "dignity." They sound insular and petty, bristling that way at the thought of an "outsider" coming in. Nothing dignified about that at all.
Posted in: British PM clashes with police over 'zero tolerance' strategy, hiring U.S. cop
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Triumvere
As progressive as the UK is, I would be surprised if this line of thinking was erradicated; it may not play as well with the courts as it used to, but it seems to show up pretty much anywhere in the world you go, and may serve to intimidate a victim or sway a juror. Ironically, it is often women who are pushing it - there is a sort of unconcious calculus that says: "If she was raped, that must be because she was a "bad" girl. I'm a good girl, so therefore this could never happen to me; I'm safe."
As to the slutwalk itself - I really don't know what to think about it. I'm not sure if it effective, ineffective or even detrimental as a strategy to fight rape and rape apology, Mostly, I'm thinking: "I'm not a woman, nor have I been raped. It's not my place to tell these women what they should or should not do."
Posted in: SlutWalk comes to Washington
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Triumvere
This is certainly true. But it is also true that rape is about sex as well. There are commonalities, but we need to be honest about the fact that there are different sorts of rape and different kinds of rapists.
Posted in: SlutWalk comes to Washington
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Triumvere
That's not really the point. The point is that a woman's attire is often used against her, post-rape, to damage her credibility, dismiss her trauma, and to excuse her rapist.
Posted in: SlutWalk comes to Washington
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Triumvere
Cabin service? Guess I am flying the wrong airline...
Posted in: Aircraft sex scandal costs Cathay Pacific pair their jobs
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Triumvere
I've heard this man speak, and he was amazing. We are used to reading this sort of "us vs. them" narrative regarding immigrants, especially when those immigrants are South Asian/Middle Eastern/North African and Muslim. There is something fundamentally Britsh about him; something which stands in stark contrast to the rioters.
Posted in: British PM unveils tough anti-riot measures, including social media controls
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Triumvere
Hrmmm.
I'm going to go with Lord of the Flies.
Posted in: British PM unveils tough anti-riot measures, including social media controls
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Triumvere
Too Big to Fail.
Posted in: Japan, China to keep buying U.S. debt despite downgrade
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Triumvere
Interesting marketing strategy:
"She did a lot of drugs and died, and so can you!"
Hrrmm.
Posted in: Brazil pushers use Winehouse pictures to sell cocaine
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Triumvere
Interestingly, the "rioters" and "looters" seem to be distincly seperate factions;
The guys burning police cars are angry young men. The guys looting shops and hauling away TVs are considerably older. They appear to have taken the crumbling of police control as an opportunity for profit.
Posted in: Police arrest over 160 in weekend London riots
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Triumvere
Heh. Guess we are "too big to fail."
Posted in: Asia moves to calm U.S. debt downgrade fears
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Triumvere
Well, this is stupid.
Posted in: Qantas axes Travolta video as union battle heats up
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Triumvere
Well, this is a can of worms.
Posted in: Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture
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Triumvere
Molenir -
Given the choice of financial disaster now vs. financial disaster later, I'll take later.
Posted in: Debt is a done deal, but peace truce already fades
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Triumvere
What a cock-up. China appears to be Fubar.
Posted in: Chinese lawyers told not to take train crash cases
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Triumvere
Really coming down to the wire here. Hopefully now congress understands it has to make a compromise. I am afraid that the damage already (partially) been done; international investors (read China) have lost confidence in US treasuries, and even a compromise may not save our AAA rating. (...and the specter of default still looms...)
Posted in: Late stab at debt-limit deal to avert U.S. default
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Triumvere
What did your economics teacher tell you happens when the country with world's biggest economy defaults on it's debts?
Posted in: Lawmakers wage see-saw battle in U.S. debt default stalemate
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Triumvere
The senate is willing to compromise, but the house seems to be hell bent on destroying the nation. I can't believe this is happening. Please, please, please come to your senses before it's too late.
Posted in: Boehner delays vote on his debt-ceiling measure
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Triumvere
It's so nice that people here haven't lost sight of what this tragedy is really about - not ~90 people, most of them kids, being masacred by a madman, but rather scoring political points against the "other side." Naturally. Glad to see we have our priorities straight.
Posted in: Norway suspect wants open hearing so he can explain massacre to public
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Triumvere
... only Islam in Saudi isn't "pure" - it's been completely corrupted by Wahhabism (the worst branch of Salafism)... which is, incidently, the same noxious brand of Islam which underpins AQ and a lot of other militant Islamist groups. They are "fundamentalists," and as with all other religions, fundamentalists are always dagerous nut-jobs.
Posted in: Afghan insurgents hang 8-year-old boy