Someone out there might be interested in this:
students interested in applying for this scholarship for
3rd year students to study in Canada, a scholarship that includes free
tuition, accommodation, air fare and a stipend, please direct them as
follows:
The Canadian Embassy in Japan is pleased to announce that Queen's
University (located in Kingston, Ontario, CANADA) is accepting
applications for the 2005-2006 Prince Takamado Visiting Student
Scholarship. The Scholarship, created in Honour of His Imperial Highness
Prince Takamado, is open to a second or third year undergraduate student in
any discipline, who is presently enrolled at a Japanese university. The
Scholarship is comprehensive covering tuition, room and board and round
trip economy airfare from Japan.
[...] Interested students should apply directly to Queen s University by
March 15, 2005. [...]
All inquiries about the Scholarship can be made to Queen's University at:
mailto:awards@post.queensu.ca
The application form is available here:
http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/awards/Japan.html
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Obviously China is the place to watch for news as this one that follows shows:
CHINATECH ON THE RISE
Journalist Evan Ramstad notes that China's 250 million users (about
one-fifth of the country's total population) far surpass those of any other
country and that China's technological rise is happening faster than it did
elsewhere in Asia: "China passed the U.S. in unit consumption of TV sets two
years ago as household penetration of TVs passed 90%, closing in on the near
ubiquity of TVs in developed countries. If population trends hold, China is
unlikely to be challenged as the world's largest market for TVs until the
middle of the century, when India is expected to become the most populous
country. And when final figures emerge shortly, we're likely to learn that
China passed the U.S. this year as the world's top PC maker, another change
unlikely to be challenged for years to come." (Wall Street Journal 20 Dec
2004)
CHINATECH ON THE RISE
Journalist Evan Ramstad notes that China's 250 million users (about
one-fifth of the country's total population) far surpass those of any other
country and that China's technological rise is happening faster than it did
elsewhere in Asia: "China passed the U.S. in unit consumption of TV sets two
years ago as household penetration of TVs passed 90%, closing in on the near
ubiquity of TVs in developed countries. If population trends hold, China is
unlikely to be challenged as the world's largest market for TVs until the
middle of the century, when India is expected to become the most populous
country. And when final figures emerge shortly, we're likely to learn that
China passed the U.S. this year as the world's top PC maker, another change
unlikely to be challenged for years to come." (Wall Street Journal 20 Dec
2004)
A new media slant from Apple:
The Incredible Edible iPod
By Cynthia L. Webb
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, December 20, 2004; 10:11 AM
2004 is turning out to be the year of the iPod. Last week retailers reported that they're running short on the popular digital music players. This week brings news of novel ways that people are putting their iPods to work.
No. 1: Homemade broadcasts. The Boston Globe today wrote about "podcasting," a digital twist on the ham radio world: "Richie Carey has heard the future of radio. It's on an iPod music player. Carey, a 38-year-old website developer and marketing consultant from Sandwich, is among an early wave of fans for a new broadcast medium dubbed 'podcasting' -- audio content that listeners download from websites to iPods or similar digital music player devices. ... Carey is not just a daily consumer of podcasted talk shows about technology and politics but a fledgling podcaster himself. He has a regular audience of about 50 people who download his 'definitely not polished' spoken musings about life, personal electronics, and even the importance of getting your brakes checked -- a 'podcast' he made and instantly posted from his cellphone while sitting outside the Sears repair shop one day recently. 'This is technology that gives me a voice I never had a month ago,' Carey said. 'It's amazing how someone can now make a cellphone call that can be heard all around the world.' If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become a radio commentator."
• The Boston Globe: Computer, Microphone, IPod Make Broadcasting Personal
The Incredible Edible iPod
By Cynthia L. Webb
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, December 20, 2004; 10:11 AM
2004 is turning out to be the year of the iPod. Last week retailers reported that they're running short on the popular digital music players. This week brings news of novel ways that people are putting their iPods to work.
No. 1: Homemade broadcasts. The Boston Globe today wrote about "podcasting," a digital twist on the ham radio world: "Richie Carey has heard the future of radio. It's on an iPod music player. Carey, a 38-year-old website developer and marketing consultant from Sandwich, is among an early wave of fans for a new broadcast medium dubbed 'podcasting' -- audio content that listeners download from websites to iPods or similar digital music player devices. ... Carey is not just a daily consumer of podcasted talk shows about technology and politics but a fledgling podcaster himself. He has a regular audience of about 50 people who download his 'definitely not polished' spoken musings about life, personal electronics, and even the importance of getting your brakes checked -- a 'podcast' he made and instantly posted from his cellphone while sitting outside the Sears repair shop one day recently. 'This is technology that gives me a voice I never had a month ago,' Carey said. 'It's amazing how someone can now make a cellphone call that can be heard all around the world.' If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become a radio commentator."
• The Boston Globe: Computer, Microphone, IPod Make Broadcasting Personal
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Thought you might be interested:
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ELT News/eigoTown Xmas Party -- Wednesday, December 22nd in Yurakucho
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The ELT News/eigoTown International Xmas Party will be held in Yurakucho at
the prestigious Foreign Correspondents Club (20th Floor with stunning views
of Tokyo) this Wednesday, December 22nd. (Thursday is a national holiday.)
The party runs from 6:30 to 9:00 and includes food and drink for 4,000 yen.
Don't miss out! Reserve your place now:
http://www.eltnews.com/party/index.shtml#register
We already have over 300 people pre-registered -- this is going to be the
best party yet!
The FCC is at the top of the Yurakucho Denki Building which is just across
the street from Yurakucho JR station and directly above Hibiya subway
station.
More information in English (and a map) here:
http://www.eltnews.com/party/
More information in Japanese (and a map) here
http://www.eigotown.com/party/party.shtml
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ELT News/eigoTown Xmas Party -- Wednesday, December 22nd in Yurakucho
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ELT News/eigoTown Xmas Party -- Wednesday, December 22nd in Yurakucho
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The ELT News/eigoTown International Xmas Party will be held in Yurakucho at
the prestigious Foreign Correspondents Club (20th Floor with stunning views
of Tokyo) this Wednesday, December 22nd. (Thursday is a national holiday.)
The party runs from 6:30 to 9:00 and includes food and drink for 4,000 yen.
Don't miss out! Reserve your place now:
http://www.eltnews.com/party/index.shtml#register
We already have over 300 people pre-registered -- this is going to be the
best party yet!
The FCC is at the top of the Yurakucho Denki Building which is just across
the street from Yurakucho JR station and directly above Hibiya subway
station.
More information in English (and a map) here:
http://www.eltnews.com/party/
More information in Japanese (and a map) here
http://www.eigotown.com/party/party.shtml
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ELT News/eigoTown Xmas Party -- Wednesday, December 22nd in Yurakucho
Frank Dies! I have watch many wonderful magazines launch and sink. This is another good one down the drain.
TORONTO - Frank, the satirical magazine that delighted in afflicting the comfortable, has ceased publication.
Famous for its gleeful mix of gossip and lowbrow humour, the magazine printed its final edition last week.
Frank's demise confirms the rumours, which had been circulating for months, that new publisher Fabrice Taylor was having difficulty turning the magazine around.
When Taylor – a former Globe and Mail columnist – took over from founding editor Michael Bate last year, circulation was 8,500, down from a high of roughly 16,000 during the 1980s.
Taylor had promised to relaunch Frank with a new focus on Bay Street gossip
Never embraced by the mainstream, the biweekly publication prided itself on reporting stories no other news organization would touch.
One of the main audiences for Frank was journalists, who eagerly devoured the Remedial Media section in the hopes of finding out what was really going on in the nation's newsrooms.
To be "Franked" came in some circles to mean that one had been the subject of an unflattering story in the magazine's newsprint pages.
CTV correspondent Mike Duffy was among the people who sued Frank for libel.
In an e-mail interview with the Canadian Press, Bate said that because of his business agreement with Taylor, the Frank trademark now reverts back to him.
"I believe there's still value in the name and I'm going to spend the next couple of months trying to figure out where the future lies," he said.
Bate also hinted that Frank may come back as a web-only publication, saying that "these are good times to be in the satire business."
The magazine was the subject of a 2001 documentary, The Frank Truth.
The much tamer Atlantic Canada Frank, Frank's former sister publication, is not affected by the demise of the national edition and will continue to publish as normal.
Written by CBC News Online staff
TORONTO - Frank, the satirical magazine that delighted in afflicting the comfortable, has ceased publication.
Famous for its gleeful mix of gossip and lowbrow humour, the magazine printed its final edition last week.
Frank's demise confirms the rumours, which had been circulating for months, that new publisher Fabrice Taylor was having difficulty turning the magazine around.
When Taylor – a former Globe and Mail columnist – took over from founding editor Michael Bate last year, circulation was 8,500, down from a high of roughly 16,000 during the 1980s.
Taylor had promised to relaunch Frank with a new focus on Bay Street gossip
Never embraced by the mainstream, the biweekly publication prided itself on reporting stories no other news organization would touch.
One of the main audiences for Frank was journalists, who eagerly devoured the Remedial Media section in the hopes of finding out what was really going on in the nation's newsrooms.
To be "Franked" came in some circles to mean that one had been the subject of an unflattering story in the magazine's newsprint pages.
CTV correspondent Mike Duffy was among the people who sued Frank for libel.
In an e-mail interview with the Canadian Press, Bate said that because of his business agreement with Taylor, the Frank trademark now reverts back to him.
"I believe there's still value in the name and I'm going to spend the next couple of months trying to figure out where the future lies," he said.
Bate also hinted that Frank may come back as a web-only publication, saying that "these are good times to be in the satire business."
The magazine was the subject of a 2001 documentary, The Frank Truth.
The much tamer Atlantic Canada Frank, Frank's former sister publication, is not affected by the demise of the national edition and will continue to publish as normal.
Written by CBC News Online staff