If the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University is closed because of 4 cases of H1N1 influenza and students are not allowed to go to school or work part time, what about the safety of staff and faculty at school? Does their health and safety count? The closure doesn't seem to be in effect for staff and faculty because they have to goto work. The school as openly admitted that if one student was confirmed infected then most likely many more students have it not just the four confirmed because influenza tends to rest dormant in the body for at least a week. If other students have it then university staff and faculty may also have it. If faculty and staff have to work during the closure the influenza is dormant in staff and faculty currently working so in a week when the students come back to classes all the staff and faculty will be all on sick leave. Can making one work during the closure be considered a danger to ones health working in an infected area? Can staff and faculty demand workers compensation? On another related note, students are handed out free masks in residence but what about the staff and faculty? Students are more imporant than staff and faculty? I would like to know what are the legal implications of this is. Something to think about.

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The Potters Without Borders Spanish site is up at http://www.potterswithoutborders.com/es

Now in five official languages I think the French site really out performs them all in keyword search engine optimization because I see a huge amout of traffic comming from the French speaking African countries. Well the multilingual content is only meant for one purpose as landing pages to get the attention of foriegn language speakers to come further and see what we do.

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This is a very useful one a kind Japanese - Chinese dictionary of computer terms. Even has olympic and fashion terms and is often updated with new words. http://www.qiuyue.com/

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Obon tomorrow heading to a remote island actually the place I used to live and work 6 years ago. Well nothing is really that remote and rural anymore after all there are airplanes, buses, trains and boats everywhere. Kind of hard to find a place that is accessable only by foot. Although I would really like to have that experience.

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