Hi, ladies!
Thank you for your quick response, Alice.
I’ll tell you about organ transplants from children.
According to research by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, there are cases of children under six who have become brain-dead because of abuse from their parents. Another research shows that about 10 to 20 % of all children with head injuries are suspected of being victims of abuse.
So, organ donation with only the permission of parents would be a problem in many surgical cases. In addition, consequent organ traffic would be a potential problem. It is crucial to make a solid system for distinguishing child abuse brain-death cases from non-child abuse cases.
It is a controversial issue, isn’t it?
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Hi, Cherry!
Thank you for answering my question. I understand the situation.
Child abuse and DV are both serious problems. The problem is that such cruelty always happens within a family and we can't find them easily. It's sad to call it a family, though.
A friend of mine e-mailed me often about her friend hit by her husband. We found they have divourced recently. I hope he would not take a grudge on her and she can escape from him forever.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. How are you?
How was the weather in Nagoya?
In Toyohashi, it rained on and off. What nasty weather!
I've come back from the library. I submitted the thesis yesterday and therefore gave back all the relevant books to the library today. Whoof. Now, I should forget about the thesis. They might reject mine eventually so I should not care about the result.
Since Mother got two free tickets for kakigori (flavored shaved ice), she asked me to go to the shop with me in the evening but I would rather stay at home. She went there by herself and asked them if she could bring them home. Although she didn't expect it, they said she could do it. That's why, I had a cup of uji kintoki (green tea flavor with two scoops of bean paste) at home. Bean paste was too much for me, but the ice tasted good. I'm sure they have enough bean paste because they sell both cake and manju (Japanese sweets). The name of the shop is Bon Toraya, of which Bon is probably French meaning good.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi, how are you?
As you have already known, I moved our website to:
http://www015.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nwsrg/
English page is:
http://www015.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nwsrg/English1.html
I hope you like it.
Editing html files is not very difficult these days. What I have struggled the most was to choose the pictures. I know I’m too fussy about its design. But you know, this is part of my job: arranging logos and pictures. This time I chose them from this one:
http://kaze-sora.com/sozai/1icon.html
Although I didn’t set a link to it, I left a short message, telling it’s nice.
The reason why I am thinking to add our history page is to promote our activity. If it’s available any time, we can use it whenever we apply for subsidies. It’s only a small step but it’s, I think, important.
Besides, isn’t it nice to look back our footsteps?
If I have forgotten important events, please tell me.
Thanks.
Dear Cosmos and Sunflower,
Thank you for encouraging us to send sympathy messages to Magnolia and Gloriosa. I wrote to Magnolia today but it's too late to send a mobile message. I'll do it tomorrow.
Good night.
Hi, Cherry and ladies!
It seems that the rainy season has passed over. We have a clear blue sky today. We have really fed up with the wet muggy days.
Some people have already expected poor rice harvest of this year because of bad weather. Little rice on the market and high price of it will come in this autumn. Even though such harsh expectation, nobody think that rice riot would occur, because Japanese today have lived on less rice. Some young people love breads rather than rice as a daily staple diet. Now we are under sluggish economy, but we are still enjoying a variety of food every day. Let’s not give in coming fierce summer heat after the rainy season.
Well, have a nice summer vacation, my dear friends! See you.
Dear Cherry and friends
Good evening!
How are you?
I hope you are alive.
I was surprised to find this preview function has changed while I was being lazy.
Gloriosa, thank you for sending us the list of our activities. I will include your information and bring it to the meeting on Tuesday.
I started to listen to Michael sensei’s lectures last week. So far, he talked about seventeenth century England, Thomas Hobbs, John Locke, and some philosophical points of views.
Hearing someone talk about something is extremely effective for rapid understanding and memorizing. I wondered why I couldn’t do this by simple reading of books or information available on the Internet. Come to think about it, reading gives us information endlessly. The most difficult part for a novice like me is to choose what is important and what is not.
There is another thing I noticed. To remember something, connecting things together, and finding some relations between them are enormously helpful. Well-prepared lectures like his cover this aspect of learning. We sometimes call this situation learning like pulling sweet-potato vines, don’t we?
To sum it up, if I want to study something without depending on someone, I should study by linking words and facts.
Good night.
Dear Cherry and friends
Good evening. How are you?
Since being set to the strictest level of checking, my spell-checker warns me even when I use First Person or casual expression like good evening.
Well, let’s ignore it. Oops, again, it warns me.
When Cosmos called me to ask about something, she told me she was very busy. Especially this month, she is involved in organizing some meetings of Toast Masters.
I wish she could take a rest.
As for me, I am editing the thesis, again. The editors said my conclusion was contradictory and they would not accept it unless I change it. I appreciate they are sincere and severe readers. So I’m doing this. The next due date is Wednesday. I happened to reach the idea that writing comments on this blog can be good mental diversion. I actually want to ferment my thesis before proofreading it again. I don’t have THE time to do so. Is ferment an appropriate expression for the Japanese nekasu? Nekaku is Plum’s idea, right? Commenting on this blog will spare a little time for quick fermentation.
As you have already known, we visited Cosmos to discuss our history. Editing the history is also in my to-do list. Yes, I remember it. On that day, I was asked, “what’s Michel sensei’s lecture?”
And I was told to explain it more precisely; “otherwise, nobody understands what was happening”. Thank you for the advice, Plum.
Ok, for those who didn’t understand, which means, everybody except Plum, Cosmos, Sunflower, and Magnolia (?), I will explain.
This is originally Plum’s plan. I asked Michael sensei to give me private lectures on English modern social theories. His major is 19th century English and American politics. He is teaching English at university and YWCA in Nagoya. Both Violet and I are currently attending his class at YWCA. We are reading Oliver Twist, there. If asked what his lecture is like, I would answer, “we are like a spellbound audience”. But it’s good. We are paying for his immense knowledge and crisp speech.
Next time, I will write what I am learning.
Good night.
Have a good Sunday.
Hello, everybody!
How have you been? August is going out soon, isn’t it? I have again realized that time is flying. Recalling this summer, I haven’t done anything special, only complaining the muggy weather and idling away many hours in front of TV. Alice, you have stepped forward to improve your ability, haven’t you? Fine! I am very glad to hear your positive attitude. Today, I watched an interesting interview program on TV, where the Bangladeshi Nobel- prize winner, Muhammad Yunus was talking about how to deal with poverty. He argued that we can change the social structure, which has caused the classes, a large number of poor people, and a handful of rich people. He insisted that human had wanted to the moon, and we could make it, thus we really want to eradicate the poverty, we, human can do it. It seems to be a too innocent theory, but he has showed that his belief is absolutely right by his social business like “Grameen Bank Project” for the poor.
Next Sunday is the Voting day. I’d like every candidate to listen Mr.Yunus’s lecture.
Well, I’ll wrap it up now. Take care and stay cool, my precious friends. Bye.
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
It’s September 1. It is Tuesday. How have you been getting along during your summer holiday? I’d like to restart to pose my short recent news on this Cherry’s blog after a month interval.
Four members, Cosmos, Rose, Peach and Sunflower have started an English conversation saloon at Chikusa Eon once a month. We enjoyed practicing speaking English over any topics from our everyday happenings to controversial current issues.
We’re going to get together at Food Court on the third floor at at Eon around 12 o’clock on September 30. Why don’t you join us? It’s so amazing to know that we can communicate easily and endlessly in the second language.
Have a good night sleep.
Dear Sunflower,
I'm glad to hear from you. I wondered what you are doing. Well, I'm kidding.
I met you just yesterday, didn't I?
Thank you for inviting us for the conversation saloon in the food court. It's interesting to hear saloon and food court happen at the same time. Kidding, again. Sorry, I've been influenced by a sarcastic friend.
Dear Cherry and friends
Good evening. How are you?
Yesterday, I met Sunflower and exchanged some information in English before attending Michael sensei's class at YWCA. I haven't taking his private lessons for a moment. He has not been very fine these days.
I need to review the lessons lest I forget what I have learned.
On the first day, Michael sensei told me about seventeenth-century English society. His way of talking is so dramatic that it is as if seeing pictures.
The two big events happened in the seventeenth century was the English Revolution (Civil War) between 1642 and 1649 and the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
The first one can be described as the world upside down because the king was executed. People were appalled. People's response came in two ways. Some were afraid of mob-ruling society, and others expected a utopia would be realized.
Dissenters were in the happy group. Some dissenting groups appeared in that century. They are not necessarily religious denominations. Such groups are:
Quakers
Levellers
Diggers
Ranters
Adamites
The Fifth Monarchy Man
Anabaptists
Puritans
Some groups like Anabaptists and Puritans are purely religious.
They were dissenting against Anglicans, which were making the same mistakes that Catholics made. The Anglican Church began when Henry VIII rejected the power of Pope. He kept all the tradition of the Catholic Church except the papacy.
Next time I'll explain what those dissenters are.
Good night.
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