Archive for May 2009
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Interview with Charles Tackney
Charles Tackney is professor of Industrial Relations and affiliated with the Centre for Business and Development Studies in CBS. On Thurday 23rd of April I got to sit down with yet another asian scholar for a talk about lifetime employment, the students at ASp and how a former jesuit ends up teaching at CBS. I [...]
Kodomo no Hi
Kodomo no Hi means Children’s day and is a national Japanese holiday taking place annually on Mayh 5th, which coincidently is also part of the Golden week. I shall give you not only a brief outline of Kodomo no Hi but also of Golden week. Let’s get to it! Kodomo no hi has a noble [...]
Chinese Dream#3
As a committed pursuit of exports has pushed China to touch record high growth rates, a large amount of the population has been left behind. Besides the social affects, the high growth rates have also had an environmental impact. India does not, like China although the Chinese is very limited, have a welfare system, so [...]
ASP FC – FC Krydsrum (May 5, 2009)
With lots of excitement and anticipation the ASP FC players ran on the field for their first home game of the season. Heavy investments had been done in order to secure the ASP FC fans better facilities at the new stadium than at the old home ground in Kløvermarken. The upgrade seemed to be paying [...]
Sichuan earthquake- one year later
A year ago, on 12 may 2007, a 8.0-magnitude tremor hit Wenchuan county in Sichuan-province. Large parts of China felt it too, me included. Being in Kunming, Yunnan province, I was about 1000 km from the epi-center. The quakes were also felt in kunming were minor, but still large enough for certain apartment blocks to [...]
Dell AS/ Dell FC – ASP FC (April 28, 2009)
After a tough start on the season with a loss to I.F. Gullfoss ASP FC had made some adjustments to both the organization behind the team as well as new players were brought in for the difficult second round away game against league favorites Dell AS / Dell FC. With two weeks between the two [...]
Finding YOUR martial art
The Japanese have been practicing martial arts for centuries. In Europe we have not had nearly the same focus on it. However, things are about to change and practicing martial arts has never been more popular in the West. Are you ready to join the movement?
The Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty began in 1368 with a man called Zhu Yanzhang, a man of peasant origin. In the time of his youth, the country’s former government system had disintegrated, ending the rule of the Yuan dynasty. China lay in disorder, with militant organizations struggling for power. Zhu grew up as a witness to the [...]
Miyavi desu
“Miyavi”. You might have seen this name before while surfing the net, or when you stumbled over a picture of a beautiful and freaky looking… man? Or maybe you have heard and seen some crazy fan-girls crying out his name while hugging a poster of this guy? Anyway, this guy is something quite special. He [...]
Citation management – Keep track of your research
Zotero is a research management tool – think of it as your bookmark button in your webbrowser on steroids. It is aimed at university students, professors and anyone doing research with a relatively large bibliography to keep track of. We’ve all tried rummaging through journal printouts, re-visiting bookmarks and googling for that article that you know [...]