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In the 80s and 90s, I’ve heard that any English speaker could book a flight to Tokyo and find a high-paying job in Japan within mere hours of landing. I know a few people who originally moved here during the Golden Age, and they tell me it was truly a wondrous period.

Even when I took my first few trips here almost 15 years ago, it was great to be a gaijin in Japan (even though there was still only one Starbucks in Shinjuku). Even in Tokyo, the locals went out of their way to make me feel welcome. I was treated like a celebrity wherever I went. Families invited me to visit their homes within minutes of meeting me. I scored a lot of dates.

Sometime during the G.W. Bush Administration, something began to change for folks looking to move to Japan.

For a start, there were a lot more of us. I don’t know the exact numbers, but when I decided to move here in 2003, there were other foreigners everywhere I went in Tokyo. And corporate coffee shops on every corner. There were pockets in the smaller cities and the countryside where non-Japanese were still rare, but you could no longer count on celebrity treatment by virtue of your birth.

Another change was that a lot of Japanese municipalities were in the red. The economic downturn that had hit Japan hard at the end of the 90s didn’t seem to effect the government very much in the beginning, but when it came, it came down hard. Many towns went bankrupt and were forced to ask to be annexed by neighboring cities. These cities were often a lot tighter about expenditures and didn’t see the wisdom of paying 36 million yen a year to recent college grads with no job experience. Private temp agencies began to thrive.

At the same time, the English conversation industry was seeing huge profits. Anyone and everyone who grew up speaking English was finding employment with companies like NOVA teaching cookie-cutter lessons to Japanese students who paid exorbitant prices on long-term contracts. It sounds like a recipe for massive profit in the near view, but eventually, students and staff alike began to take note of what a shifty system it was, and NOVA shifted right into bankruptcy in 2007.

Just when I was looking to return to Japan after a few months back in the States, the market was flooded with thousands of desperate ex-NOVA teachers willing to work for next to nothing so they could afford airfare back home. Let me tell you, it was a challenging job market to be a job seeker in.

To get quality employment in Japan today is much tougher than it was 15 years ago. Hell, even five years ago. There is way more competition, starting salaries are much lower, and being from another country is just not all that special anymore.

So how can you improve your chances? Simple: you have to have a plan.

Beginning next year, English will be a required course of study for primary 5th and 6th grade students. Conversation schools have learned from NOVA’s demise and are adding more targeted services with more flexible plans. They’re also being a little more selective with their hiring.

Thanks to the global economic crisis and the meteoric rise of some of Japan’s Asian neighbors, Japanese companies are placing a premium on language skills. Television programs often feature visits to Chinese and Korean schools full of young children using English at a much higher level than their Japanese counterparts. This is a country that prides itself on its business savvy, and they do not want to lose to China.

Also, you may think this is news, but there’s this thing called the World Wide Web now. Yes, I’m aware it’s been around a while, but for much of the world, instant global communication is a pretty new ability, and most people in Japan are still getting used to it. The exciting thing about the internet is that it’s turning English into the de facto lingua franca of the 21st century (wow, two Latin phrases in one sentence). Japanese people, especially younger ones, want to learn English to communicate online and learn about what’s going on in countries they find more exciting than where they are.

On the subject of excitement, tons of Japanese are really into travel, especially young women. Sometimes it seems as if more than half of the English learners I meet in Japan are young women who hope to travel to places like Hawaii and New Zealand. There is a big demand for people to teach English conversation without all the formal rules everybody hates learning in junior high school.

Maybe you’re not an aspiring edutainment pro. The world is full of various kinds of people who have all kinds of talents and abilities and likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, many Japanese people have the image that all non-Japanese people are white Americans who are born simply to teach English. It isn’t correct, and it isn’t fair, but there’s a reason that the vast majority of non-asian foreign residents of Japan are language instructors. It’s an easy job to find.

Even if you aren’t keen on teaching for very long, I suggest you try it out, either as a stepping stone to something else, or for supplemental income. Japanese people will probably assume that you are an English teacher anyway, so you might at least make a little money from it.

Still, I know that many readers have higher goals for their careers than to be a foreign language teacher. I know I do. The good news is that there are all kinds of jobs available here. The not-as-good news is that quite a few of them are more difficult to find than the glut of teaching jobs.

Finding employment in Japan is different from finding employment where you are now. Besides the difficulties resulting from issues with international communication, travel, and etc., you also have to interact with Japanese people and their culture (and their stereotypes of your culture).

I’m going to just tell you the bad news first, because it may save you some time if you can’t handle it. The bad news is: you will probably be unable to land your dream job in Japan unless you’ve already been here.

I’m not telling you that you can’t get the job you want, but you can’t expect to apply from overseas with no experience and no Japanese ability and be given a great job with great pay and benefits in an area you want to live in. You wouldn’t expect such a deal at home, so you’d be silly to expect it in Japan, wouldn’t you? I knew you’d see it my way. That’s why I know you want to prepare the best possible strategy to get yourself over here so you can start looking for the job you really want.

Things aren’t how they used to be, and it’s no longer enough to simply fly over and begin living the dream right away, but don’t think it isn’t possible to live a totally fulfilling life teaching English in Japan. It is possible, and with the right preparation, it’s inevitable.

A great resource: Stop Foreclosure Houston

To Stop Foreclosure in nearly any city in the United States of America, there are basically only a few legitimate options. Some of these you’ll know, and some will be brand new to you.

Here are a few directions you can take:

• Sell your house prior to the foreclosure auction. The value of this idea will vary heavily depending on the nature and quality of your local real estate market. If you’re in a market that still has very slow resale rates, selling your home could be a challenge. Ask a local real estate agent to determine the average number of days on the market for properties in your area.
• Initiate a loan modification. A loan modification is a process through which your lender changes the payment terms of your loan to more closely match your ability to pay. While this is not a guarantee, loan modifications have become more popular in the last 12 months.
• Refinance the property. If you are not yet fully into the foreclosure process but have reason to expect you will fall behind on your payments, it may be wise to try to refinance your mortgage to a lower rate. If your property is worth less than the balance of the mortgage, you’ll want to inquire regarding a “short refinance”, which is when a lender forgives a portion of the debt against you in order for you to refinance your property and pay off the remainder of the debt you owe.

When you’re trying to stop a foreclosure, the key is fast action.

Warning: Be very wary of people who aggressively attempt to purchase your home for investment purposes. While there are many legitimate real estate investors, there has been a significant amount of fraud with “Stop Foreclosure” scams, and it is wise to be very, very careful.

Please remember: The crisis you now face will soon be over. As a foreclosure survivor myself, I’d like to encourage you to remain hopeful, and to understand that your future does not equal your past!

Thanks for reading this information about how to stop foreclosure. I hope you’ve found value here.

A great resource: Stop Foreclosure Houston

To Stop Foreclosure in nearly any city in the United States of America, there are basically only a few legitimate options. Some of these you’ll know, and some will be brand new to you.

Here are a few directions you can take:

• Sell your house prior to the foreclosure auction. The value of this idea will vary heavily depending on the nature and quality of your local real estate market. If you’re in a market that still has very slow resale rates, selling your home could be a challenge. Ask a local real estate agent to determine the average number of days on the market for properties in your area.
• Initiate a loan modification. A loan modification is a process through which your lender changes the payment terms of your loan to more closely match your ability to pay. While this is not a guarantee, loan modifications have become more popular in the last 12 months.
• Refinance the property. If you are not yet fully into the foreclosure process but have reason to expect you will fall behind on your payments, it may be wise to try to refinance your mortgage to a lower rate. If your property is worth less than the balance of the mortgage, you’ll want to inquire regarding a “short refinance”, which is when a lender forgives a portion of the debt against you in order for you to refinance your property and pay off the remainder of the debt you owe.

When you’re trying to stop a foreclosure, the key is fast action.

Warning: Be very wary of people who aggressively attempt to purchase your home for investment purposes. While there are many legitimate real estate investors, there has been a significant amount of fraud with “Stop Foreclosure” scams, and it is wise to be very, very careful.

Please remember: The crisis you now face will soon be over. As a foreclosure survivor myself, I’d like to encourage you to remain hopeful, and to understand that your future does not equal your past!

Thanks for reading this information about how to stop foreclosure. I hope you’ve found value here.

I hate assessment tests. They are after all, very useful in a many ways. A well structure aptitude test can really help you discover if you are fit for a certain level of class or if you probably need to start at a lower level.  In the area of high stress jobs where people tend to get burn out, a psychological assessment test can be very useful.

But, I do feel that it has gone some too far. Assessment testing are used in almost every area. You even got the kindergarten assessment tests that was meant to assess young students when they are too young for this. The test may not be accurate at all.  At such young age, people tend to grow at different speeds.And it can be counter productive when not done correctly. After sometimj.

Fortunately, most jobs do not employ these assessment tests yet. As a matter of fact, you only usually find them at the very big corporations, the ones that hire hundreds of people at a time and need efficient ways to root through candidates. In my opinion, this is why big business is so inefficient. Although the large companies have more resources, more funding, and more connections, they also have backwards hiring practices. Rather than looking at every potential applicant as a person, they view them as a list of scores. No wonder they often do not hire the right people for the job. How can it be, when so many are weeded out based on an arbitrary test assessment?

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Abstract: Calcified tissues, such as bone and tooth, and some other sample types, such as those containing adhesive, present a challenge to standard extraction protocols. We have developed a lysis reagent, BTA™ lysis buffer, which is designed for use with PrepFiler™ Kit reagents. The BTA™ lysis buffer disrupts calcified tissue matrices and achieves effective extraction of DNA from pulverized bone and tooth samples. In addition, the BTA™ lysis buffer mildly but efficiently extracts DNA from challenging substrates like tape, chewing gum, and cigarette butts and, as with bone and tooth, DNA from these lysates is purified using established PrepFiler™ reagent extraction protocols.We successfully extracted DNA from powdered human bone samples, chewed gum and smoked cigarettes using BTA™ lysis buffer. Extraction yields for bone, gum and cigarette samples tested were consistent and reproducible. This extraction method efficiently removed potential PCR inhibitors from all samples tested, and CT values for the internal PCR control of Quantifiler® Human DNA Quantification Kit were consistent and within the normal range. The DNA extracted from these samples also provided conclusive profiles that were free of PCR artifacts when amplified using the AmpF?STR® Identifiler® PCR Amplification Kit. The protocol is easily adapted for automation.

Abstract: In this study, 252 trace DNA samples (from handled surfaces) from 201 burglary, robbery and drugs cases were compiled to assess success rates and to interpret the value of trace DNA evidence in volume crime investigations. The average amount of DNA recovered from the trace DNA samples collected was 1.7ng. Full or major (12 or more alleles) profiles were recovered from 14% of samples. Samples from firearms and burglary points of entry were the least successful. Mixtures were recovered from 21% of samples, presenting a case for the collection of more elimination profiles to enable more samples to be used for database purposes. The research highlighted the difficulties in collecting data relating to the success rates of samples. Computerised automation of this process would be extremely beneficial in the assistance of policy development, method application, training, and investigative usefulness.

Abstract: Y-STR analysis is widely used in many fields, such as paternity testing, genealogy studies and in male/female mixtures. In many rape cases, Y-STRs are also useful for the determination of contributors’ number. Here we described a father/son pair with double peaks at DYS439 and DYS635 loci. This case should focus the attention on forensic interpretation of Y-haplotype profiles, because multiple alleles at various loci do not forcibly indicate that the sample originates from a mixture.We also report a case of two half-brothers with null allele at DYS448.Since DYS439 and DYS635 loci are located in the AZFa region and DYS448 locus in the AZFc region, we performed a molecular genetics study of these regions to evaluate a possible correlation between Y-STR profiles and Y chromosome deletions involved in infertility.

Chicago – Breast Imaging Center Earns Accreditation

The imaging department at Saint Joseph Hospital received 3-year accreditation as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence (BICOE) from the American College of Radiology.

Saint Joseph joins Advocate Illinois Medical Center, Resurrection Medical Center, Diagnostic Imaging Specialists of Chicago, Rush Breast Im

Chicago – Your Thoughts Are Needed

Psychology teaches that beliefs and attitudes have an influence on behavior. Nursing practice is no exception. John Sohocki, MA, BSN, RN, a doctoral student at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, is currently conducting a study that examines how general and sexual health attitudes influence nursing assessments.

Downers Grove, IL – Anderson & Slotwinski Climb Career Ladder

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital congratulates Cierra Anderson, BSN, RN, and Annette Slotwinski, BSN, RN, on their recent promotions.

Both nurses work on Unit 54 and have earned advancement