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Yay for the Xbox people. Maybe we should make our own thread... Anyone else here Call of Duty fiends? Just saw the new multiplayer vid for Modern Warfare 2... wowsers.

Inawashiro has awesome views and is a fair size. Alts is more for young people who like jumps, rails etc and is very well run and modern, has the Burton Nippon open in February. Nekoma is pretty good for park too, with nice snow. Gran-deco is good for families, has the best snow but gets packed out and isn't very interesting. If you are looking for a nice quiet day try Ura-bandai ski-jo. Old lifts, hardly any people, great snow and awesome food. Really good friendly atmosphere. But my local in Fukushima is Hatori. Couldn't really recommend it if you don't live close but you can't b

speaking of classics... well, maybe not classic but old anyway- Does anyone find themselves watching those old episodes of Alf and Full House and NHK here in Japan? damn æ‡ã‹ã—ã„.

exactly! works well in theory hey. Here in Japan they are guaranteed to buy back excess electricity at double the normal price for 10 years. It would work so well in a country like Australia, which sees a lot more sunlight than Japan. They need to make a law requiring all new houses built to have solar panels that produce a certain amount of electricity and a water tank too. As you said, produces most when the load on the system is at it's peak, in the middle of summer when everyone's got their airconditioners on. I guess the power companies would be worried about loss of revenue and

the new 200V electric cook tops are just as good as gas i think. it's nothing like the old electric stove i had back in Aus..

okay so i should have looked it up before i posted but i just found some more info on the fuel cells - there are 6 companies at the moment who sell them and cost around 3,200,000 yen (about 40K AUS) but up to 1,400,000 can be subsidized by the government. They are calling the system Ene　Farm （エãƒãƒ•ã‚¡ãƒ¼ãƒ ） Once these things get a bit cheaper i'm sure they are gonna take off.

Just to take this informative thread in a different direction... a lot of ads on tv are promoting solar panels for new houses. there seems to be some goverment incentives and the electricity company will buy your excess electricity for double the price. i've also noticed a push for the fuel cells ï¼ˆç‡ƒæ–™é›»æ± ï¼‰to store up electricity during the day and use it the heat your hot water etc at night. at the moment i'm living in an all electricity apartment (オール電化）and it's so much cheaper than gas cause of the cheaper night rates you can get. (about 1/4 of the price from 11-7).

I would sing it if I knew the words... now that Waltzing Matilda is a hit in Spain I wonder if there will be another push to make in the national anthem.

it's the Australian national anthem... great to see Webber finally get a win. he has finally got himself in a fast, reliable car. good to find some other F1 fans around here. Now if I could only find some NHL fans i would never have to leave this site!

Thanks Go Native. I still think I'm a few years off landing a job there. Gotta get myself up to scratch in that time.

I am currently living in Japan and will be here for a while now. I'm teaching English in Fukushima at the moment but I dream of one day getting a full-time job in Niseko and moving the family up there (I met my wife there!). To all the peope with full-time jobs there; what kind of qualifications and experience are sort after? I passed 2kyu on the JLPT a few years ago and would be close to 1kyu level now. I only have a Bachelor of Arts from uni so would it be worth taking up a post-grad business course? I hope some of the people who have full-time jobs in Niseko could give us an insight in