From trade at rolomail.com Thu Mar 20 01:22:54 2008 From: trade at rolomail.com (Trading Department) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:22:54 -0400 Subject: [Japanophiles] Weakening Dollar vs Yen Message-ID: <2C7C34D5-4606-4BE7-9678-8F3BD26A526C@rolomail.com> To all those interested in Japanese language and culture... Kanji Wall Chart Prices As you know, there is much talk about the economy these days, and not much of it good. One aspect which we are concerned about at Rolomail Trading is the nearly 20% drop in the value of the dollar against the yen since our last major import of Kanji Wall Charts. While the weakening dollar makes nearly everything we offer less expensive to people purchasing in Euros, British Pounds, Australian Dollars etc, when it comes time for us to purchase products actually made in Japan, the dollar's dilemma will make our costs significantly higher. For that reason, if you have been sitting on the fence trying to decide when to buy kanji wall charts, I strongly suggest you do so now. All of our charts are in stock, but when they have to be reordered, prices will almost certainly be raised. http://www.rolomail.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?wall_charts New Stroke Order Diagram and Animation Licensees The number of websites using our stroke order diagrams and animations continues to rise. We would like to point out the websites using our diagrams under license or which have a license to use when they wish: Norman Lin granted special license to use 4 Stroke Order Diagrams (SODs) in one chapter of a book on mobile learning systems, strictly for illustrative purposes. Michael Hominick's RenShuu.org at Duke University's Dept. of Asian & African Languages and Literature. Nicholaus Shupe's jTango for the Web. Jarkko Huijts's Jarkko's webhoek (in Dutch). Jim Breen's WWWJDIC in Australia. Cyril Bele's KanjiRoushi Japanese Language Tools (in French and English). Eloy Villasclaras's Hating Kanji Java based software package, which has a special additional license grant such that Eloy Villasclaras may use the SODs as a raw data for determining correct stroke order using machine logic in the Hating Kanji (ihatekanji) software package. He must maintain a notice that the SODs are used under this license for the purpose of calculating correct stroke order in the stroke order testing program's display. Dana Contreras's jlex. Her version of Kanji Lookup-by-Multi-Radical is only the 3rd in the world, and has some unique innovations. Paul Goins, in Hyogo-ken, Japan, is developing a free software packaged called J-Ben which would allow users to incorporate the SODs and SODAs. Olof Sjobergh in Sweden has created a Swedish-Japanese dictionary site called Japanska.se. Grzegorz Bober at the University of Warsaw Institute of Oriental Studies has developed Tangorin which makes use of AJAX and incorporates the SODs. Professor Jouji Miwa at Iwate University in Japan is using the SODs and SODAs in his uPal project (United Portal for Advanced Learning). Ted Cory has received a commercial license for his Kanji-A-Day site and Kanji-Mail email course. License grants permission to collect advertising revenue. Howie and Akiko Hayman in San Diego have obtained a commercial license for their site Japanese Language Culture Food. License grants permission to collect advertising revenue. Jan Kasprzak in the Czech Republic has obtained a license for his new Japanese learning project Zkou?en? slovn? z?soby (in Czech). Links to these licensees in good standing can be found on the License Page: http://www.kanjicafe.com/license.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: