English Teacher - A Day in the Life

post from Japan Probe on 28 April 2007 11:53:59 PM. © Japan Probe

Here’s a cool and very informative video about a day in the life of an English teacher in Japan. It was created by YouTube user Posatrocible, who had the following to say about it:This was a video I shot and put together to show to the fam and friends a few years back illustrating [...]

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Planet Hollywood Bets Gamblers Will Like New
Design

post from Las Vegas Logue on 28 April 2007 11:00:00 PM. © Las Vegas Logue

With a name like the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, it stands to reason that the gaming areas of the resort would undergo a huge transformation in the changeover from the Aladdin.In new photos released during last week’s press conference with company co-chairman Robert Earl, it can plainly be seen that nothing remains from the [...]

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Have you tried karting

post from Ivan About Town on 28 April 2007 07:57:00 PM. © Ivan About Town

Tonight, I went kart racing at Kart Trax in Boom na Boom. My high school batch is celebrating its tenth year anniversary this year and this was the first in a series of events we've planned. This was the second time my batch organized a go kart enduro. Two years ago, we did it at the Manila SpeedZone in Fort Bonifacio. A go kart enduro can be an individual or team event. Each driver or team must make as many laps as they can in a given period of[...]

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Place of Interest - Tok Bali

post from Travel in Kelantan on 28 April 2007 06:29:00 PM. © Travel in Kelantan

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Big Brain Academy: Wiied Up (Video)

post from Japan Probe on 28 April 2007 05:44:23 PM. © Japan Probe

One of my favorite DS games, Big Brain Academy, has hit the Nintendo Wii. Here’s a commercial featuring a family as they train their brains:

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Vegas Events For Sunday, April 29, 2007

post from Las Vegas Logue on 28 April 2007 03:00:00 PM. © Las Vegas Logue

In any other city, Sunday would be a slow day — but not in Vegas. Here are some events worth checking out for April 29.Concerts:

Taylor Dane at the Suncoast Hotel & Casino - Tickets: $22, $33 and $44

Limited Engagements:

Roseanne Barr at New York, New York - Tickets: $49.95
Wayne Brady at The Venetian - Tickets: $69 [...]

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Guest interview with Jo-Ann Gaidosz of Active
Gourmet Holidays

post from Europe A La Carte Blog on 28 April 2007 12:48:19 PM. © Europe A La Carte Blog

Active Gourmet Holidays is one of the latest additions to our sister site, European Cultural and Activity Tours.1 What is the aim of your business? To be the leader in culinary and specialty travel by sending my guests onunforgettable gourmet and active holidays in Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.2 What prompted [...]

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One Dominant Female

post from Andy HoboTraveler.Com Travel Blog on 28 April 2007 10:46:00 AM. © Andy HoboTraveler.Com Travel Blog

One Dominant Female
Atakpame, Togo West Africa

I learn who Andy is, by observing my reflection in the reactions and behavior of the people I meet.

I often say,
- I am just a Dollar Sign. -

When I enter a room, the people in the room react in many ways, when I talk, they answer in many ways. Every action it reciprocated by a reaction.

I can see who I am; by the way, they interact with me.

Living in the same house, the same city, the same neighborhood, and going to the same job, one slowly decreases the number of new people that enter into their lives. Some people may never meet a new person and shake their hand, or say hello in a whole month.

Reverse this; my life is in many ways an ever-increasing number of new faces, friends, neutrals and enemies. I travel slow, and travel into the cultures of people, often you will read about trekking, mountains, breathtaking view, and blue seas. This is not people; this is nature and is beautiful.

Going to the mountain is good, live up on a mountain or alone in a room and you are either going to learn to love the person in the room or find a way to avoid, stay busy, drink, constant travel, movement, anything to not think.

In the still, in the stillness is where I am, I can only find me in the stillness and quiet of doing nothing.

I thought this was where I learn about me, I also now realize, who I am is reflected in every face, eyes, and reaction of each person I meet.

About 10 minutes ago, I had another African experience, and it is a vulnerable moment in time. There are these reactions, moments and situations that I have not been socialized in my culture to understand.

It is similar to Dian Fossy going and living with the Gorillas, a person has to take great care and learn the rules. A 400-pound Silverback, Dominant Male could be dangerous. However, I suspect what I would feel is dominated, controlled and watched.

About 15 minutes ago, I was standing around, making a cheese sandwich with these eight small pats from a round container of Vache Qui Rit Cheese. The women are in the courtyard, many today, there is three extra younger girls. There are three levels. The lower, temporary girls who are young and quiet. The two reception girls who do all the cooking or eating in the hotel. Then the Dominant Female, who more or less frowns down people and eats.

I was introducing myself, probably on hindsight, establishing my territory, and introducing the three new ones to me. I then try to get the one reception girl to focus.
- I want take a photo of ?
- La Pate Belly -

Pate is a type of traditional food made of corn flour, and high in calories, a complete swim the English channel in a bowl meal, and eaten often, sort of the rice of Africa, that and Fufu.

I start to leave the Dominant Female area of domination, I am saying, I am going to go make my cheese sandwich.

This women is, as best I can tell, and I do not care, is the owner or the main manager of the hotel, she is bad Karma or Mojo to me, nothing about light being inside her soul, I feel the dark.

The Dominant Female, I do not know her name says,
- Give me a wedge of cheese. -

There are eight in the pack, and easy to say yes, I say,
- No -
Quick, fast, no thought, just a no.

The whole group starts jumping around, like the monolith in Arthur C Clarks Movie, 2001 A Space Odyssey. They are jumping, making noise, strange observation of people, and speaking a language, I rather understood.

Then, I walk out.

I walk back in the area, to again focus on the Pate issue, I want a photo of her big belly full of Pate and the future of her body. I can make a blog title - The Pate Belly -

The Second Dominant Female says, and this time in ENGLISH.
- The Mom wants a piece of cheese. -
I say,
- I know - both in English and in French, then I say,
- Pas -
In French and a No in English.

There was not a caesura, no delay, no thinking, go to jail, do not pass go. I am 100 percent clear on this; I do not give this women tokens, tributes and especially a Cadeau or Gift.

They all start jumping around again, I am sure if she did not like money I pay for rent, then you could say I was using a machete to cut the path to a quick departure. I try to say to the girls, I give to people that give to me, I help those who help me.

Dominant Female territory, strange how I just ignore it.

When I walked into my room to start typing this, I thought, this a very strange culture. I am supposed to give tribute and respect to a person that I do not respect. Then her little soldiers all try to induce me give her respect and tribute of cheese. I think, this is very different, there is top down hierarchy and the ones below respect the one above, even though the one above treats them like dogs. I see this every day, very strange, and very common in West Africa, the manager, the Gerer, the Police can talk in a way, that could in a way be closer to a caste system and tribes and religions have this.

I saw who I was by their reactions; it was a very clear view.

One Dominant Female

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Bulletin board supervisor faces charges for not
deleting message calling girl ugly

Just a reminder: it seems that you can be charged with defamation of character in Japan if you aren’t timely enough when deleting an insulting message posted by a third party on your bulletin board:OSAKA — A company executive who supervised an online bulletin board has been reported to prosecutors for allegedly failing [...]

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PBS interview with Sankei Shinbun editor about
the comfort women issue (Video)

Yoshihisa Komori of Japan’s conservative Sankei Shinbun newspaper was interviewed on the comfort women issue for the PBS series Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on March 29. Although Abe has since made additional statements of apology since that date, many continue to insist that the Prime Minister is denying history. In this interview, [...]

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