From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #452 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Fri, 12 Oct 2001 Vol 08 : Num 452 In this issue: eskrima: Re: karambit eskrima: RE: Pilot's MA eskrima: EPAI eskrima: We the Militia in action eskrima: . ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. 1200 members strong! Copyright 1994-2001: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The premier internet discussion forum devoted to Filipino Martial Arts. Provided in memory of Mangisursuro Michael G. Inay (1944-2000). http://InayanEskrima.com http://Inayan.com Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe eskrima-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of the Eskrima-Digest at http://MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Pentjakker" Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:42:30 -0400 Subject: eskrima: Re: karambit Hi Tuhon Bill, Atlanta Cutlery had one in a recent catalog for around 8 dollars. A good representation of a short bladed karambit no matter what they call it ... actually now listed as a "Black Ninja" LOL!!! ... item # 3-306 $7.95 1-800-883-0300. Regards, Travis >I am looking for a kurpaz(?). It is a small karambit like knife with a >finger ring at one end. I used to see it in the knife catalogs I get, but >haven't seen it lately. I know it is still being sold, I just don't have the >right catalog. ------------------------------ From: "Neil Hawkins" Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:08:27 +0800 Subject: eskrima: RE: Pilot's MA Gentlemen, there is an interesting discussion about this "Pilots MA" over on E-Budo, with some good suggestions and comments... http://204.95.207.136/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=5e4389c5de0cb03700d617 585108139&threadid=8263 Regards Neil ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:17:54 PDT Subject: eskrima: EPAI Wonder if someone will create a Butt Kicker Index (BKI) available at www.buttkicker.com? :) ==================================================================== Employment Possibility Testing System Developed October 11, 2001 Korea Labor Institute (KLI) president, Lee Won-duck, said on Thursday (Oct. 11) that they have developed the world's first Employment Possibility and Aptitude Index (EPAI) testing system. The EPAI is an indicator that determines the job applicant's chance of getting any particular job, according to the KLI. The KLI developed the employment possibility calculation software jointly with Hellojob, an Internet employment agency, after 18 months of research. The two will start providing the service later this month. Jobseekers can check their chance of getting hired by using this program online. They must answer a number of questions posed by the EPAI testing system. The system considers an applicant's employment capability and the details of their employment preparation. The KLI developed the EPAI by systematically classifying and rating a total of 325 factors that enterprises consider when hiring new staff. They rated the factors according to importance, and then considered data on job market trends and various corporations' volume of personnel recruitment throughout the year. The EPAI testing system rates a jobseeker's competitiveness for a position by assigning her or him a numerical rating. This rating is based on the number of points out of 1,000 the job seeker has earned on the index. The index denotes the employment possibility for a job hunter by calculating the applicant's data. A jobseeker with 700 points or more has a high possibility of winning a job, said the institute. The KLI's system is designed to distinguish a jobseeker's EPAI, according to the occupation and company for which they apply for employment. For instance, the EPAI would differ when an individual is applying to a world-class firm with a fine work environment, or when she is applying to companies that are less professional, even when the applicant is the same person. Moreover, aside from the EPAI, clients can learn their strengths and shortcomings in five subject areas -- paperwork competitiveness, interview competitiveness, work performance capacity, work attitude, and vocational aptitude -- by using the testing system. By first going through this process jobseekers can find out which companies have a high possibility of accepting them, as well as methodically preparing for a job by making up for their weaknesses in advance of any testing or interviews. The KLI plans to provide the service to students at Dong-A University within the month to examine their employment competitiveness ahead of graduation. "The government's unemployment policy is inefficient, as can be seen by the jobless vague employment strategy that is focused only on getting hired. By utilizing our EPAI testing system, the unemployed can now systematically design their employment plans and the government will be able to make use of the data in reeducating the number of jobless," said Lee. People wanting to test their EPAI competitiveness can log onto www.hellojob.com or other major job agencies' websites. ------------------------------ From: "Marc Denny" Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:14:31 -0700 Subject: eskrima: We the Militia in action A Howl Etc: A follow up to Bill's great post (the Bert one was pretty good too :-) ) New Carry-On Item: A Sense of Courage Sam Howe Verhovek New York Times Service Friday, October 12, 2001 U.S. Passengers Voice Their Determination to Act Against Hijackers SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Up at 30,000 feet, the rules have changed. "You can't just sit there anymore," said Tony Lanier, 33, a tall and hefty former high school football linebacker who makes an average of four trips a week as a field support specialist for a medical device company based in Minneapolis. Mr. Lanier added: "You've got to be prepared. If someone rushes that cockpit, absolutely, I'm up. I'd do anything I can to stop it." Donald Avery, an auto mechanic aboard a Delta Airlines flight to Las Vegas on Tuesday night, said he felt the same way. "It's a sorry man that would sit still during a hijacking now," said Mr. Avery, another big former high school football player. "It would be a bad idea for someone to try to hijack a plane while I'm on it, I'll tell you that. I think the American citizenry as a whole, especially males, are pretty pumped about this now." Horrified by the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, inspired by the passengers who apparently took on the terrorists in one of the four doomed flights, a new breed of traveler is in the skies - passengers who vow to "do whatever it takes, or go down fighting," in the words of Gordon Langford, a circuitry inventor and licenser on his way to a business meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Before Sept. 11, the general advice was not to confront people trying to hijack a plane, especially if they claimed to have a bomb, as the terrorists did on that day. The Federal Aviation Administration and the airlines have no standard set of policies for what passengers should do when there is a disturbance, aside from the cardinal rule of flying: The pilot is in charge of the plane; if the captain and co-captain are indisposed, then passengers should follow instructions from the flight attendants. But flight crews and passengers are already writing their own rules. On an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Chicago on Monday, passengers gang-tackled a mentally disturbed man who had knocked open the cockpit door and was screaming about his fears that the plane was about to crash into the Sears Tower. "I loved what I saw," one passenger, JoAnn Rockman, said as she disembarked in Chicago. "The stewardess yelled, 'Get that guy,' and half the plane got up." Interviews with passengers aboard a flight to Salt Lake City from Seattle, and those headed on to a dozen other destinations, suggest that most people now believe that passengers have the right, indeed the obligation, to act. The advice applies to women as well as men, for, as Mr. Avery said: "Any woman can grab a leg and bite pretty hard." For pilots and flight attendants, the surge of fear and adrenaline in the skies poses potential dangers. If hijackers had no intention of crashing the plane, a struggle on board might put more lives at risk, though many passengers now seem to view that as an acceptable risk. "In the past, we allowed ourselves to be passive victims because we figured it was safer," said Nina Baker, flying from Seattle to Salt Lake City. "Now we know it's not safer. I think anyone who's out to hijack a plane now should expect to be killed." At least one incident involving a mentally disturbed person and his fellow passengers has proved fatal. In August last year, a 19-year-old Las Vegas man who tried to kick down the cockpit door of a Southwest Airlines plane died when he was restrained by a crowd of people who sat on him. No charges were filed in the man's asphyxiation, but a lawyer for the man's relatives says the death could have been avoided if flight attendants had been properly trained in restraint techniques. But, said Herb Hunter, a United Airlines pilot and a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, passengers remain a major line of defense. "We used to have a saying at the air force that security is everybody's business," Mr. Hunter said Tuesday, praising the passengers on the American flight the day before. "That could never be more true than it is right now." Andy Deane, a Delta pilot, said by telephone: "There is a presumption on my part that male passengers will not sit in their seats and just allow something to happen and be passive about it. "Everyone recognizes that the traditional hijack scenario of 'I want to go to Cuba' or 'I want money,' or something of that nature, the extortion scenario - that has all changed. Everyone recognizes that once you're in the air, everyone's welfare depends on pilots being able to fly that airplane." Although the vast majority of commercial pilots do not talk to passengers about hijacking possibilities, at least a few have done so since Sept. 11, advising people to throw shoes, books and other objects at the hijackers and to try to subdue them with blankets and clothing. The Federal Aviation Administration and airlines are discussing possible changes in defense training for flight attendants, including new guidelines for whether, when and how to seek help from passengers. Many passengers say they would take matters into their hands regardless of what flight attendants told them to do. Joel Sybrowsky, 32, a telecommunications consultant, said that when he was flying from Salt Lake City to Toronto the other day, he introduced himself to his seatmate and struck a pact before the plane left the ground. "You know, we'll get those guys," Mr. Sybrowsky said they agreed, in the event anyone tried to take over the plane. Paul Venturella, a telecommunications manager who was with Mr. Sybrowsky on the flight from Seattle, said he would like to think that he and his fellow passengers would know what to do. But Mr. Venturella, a Marine veteran who served in Vietnam, also acknowledged: "To say I know what I would do, I'd be lying. You can't know until it happens." ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 7:41:28 PDT Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V8 #452 **************************************** To unsubscribe from the eskrima-digest send the command: unsubscribe eskrima-digest -or- unsubscribe eskrima-digest your.old@address in the BODY (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2001: Ray Terry and the Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply.