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Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and college students.Sun SPOT kits are available for price down to USD 300/kit for students and teachers/professors. The discount can ask about on the Sun SPOT Forums. There is a competition to submit a proposal for a Sun SPOT idea and you could receive a Free SPOT to implement it.The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.Rick opined on this advancement by saying that nvesting in resources for students is the best way to ensure another generation of well-equipped young developers and extend the lifetime of a platform like Java.

Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and college students.Sun SPOT kits are available for price down to USD 300/kit for students and teachers/professors. The discount can ask about on the Sun SPOT Forums. There is a competition to submit a proposal for a Sun SPOT idea and you could receive a Free SPOT to implement it.The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.Rick opined on this advancement by saying that nvesting in resources for students is the best way to ensure another generation of well-equipped young developers and extend the lifetime of a platform like Java.

Van Diemen’s Land is a fresh and sparkling account of
the first generation of British settlement in Tasmania that also
makes an important contribution to Australian colonial
historiography. The product of seven years’ research and writing,
and a longer time talking about and walking across the island, it
focuses attention and admiration on the convicts and their children
- Tasmania’s founding mothers and fathers.
The book bears some of the characteristic signs of an adapted
doctoral thesis. Attached to the main body is a 56-page section on
the Aborigines, anomalously called an appendix, which many readers
will find the most important part of the book.
The material was added to the original thesis both because of
current interest in the subject and James Boyce’s important
contribution to the debate that followed the publication of Keith
Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History in 2002
and the answering Whitewash edited by Robert Manne the following
year.
Boyce follows the well-travelled interpretive track cut in the
19th century by historians John West, James Bonwick and James
Erskine Calder that Windschuttle quixotically assailed.
With such depth of research behind him, Boyce bolsters that
tradition while adding colour and nuance and along the way posing
questions that we still find troubling. He has no doubts about the
violence that accompanied the Black War in Tasmania and if anything
believes that traditional accounts “probably underestimate
fatalities”.
He extends the duration of the “Killing Times” to take in the
early 1820s and importantly amends the accepted view that the
settlers were no match for the Aborigines in the bush.
He argues, I think convincingly, that the frontier stockmen,
shepherds and hunters had, over the first 20 years of settlement,
acquired the bushcraft to seriously threaten the Aboriginal bands.
By the 1820s these men “knew the Aboriginal seasonal gathering
places, camping sites and movements and paths that ran between
them. Aboriginal communities that still included small children,
pregnant women and the elderly were highly vulnerable to armed
parties guided by such men”.
Boyce discounts the impact of disease in the destruction of
Aboriginal society before the 1830s, observing that there are
literally no accounts of sickness in the records of the
colonists.
The policies of the administration of Governor Arthur are also
examined anew, Boyce reminding us that at one time, serious
consideration was given to partitioning the island, giving over a
“remote quarter of the island” to the Aborigines, a proposal that
had the potential to provide “an alternative model of Australian
land settlement”.
But intensifying conflict overtook the policy and eventually the
momentous decision was taken to exile the surviving Aborigines to
Flinders Island. Boyce argues that the remaining bands in the
eastern half of the island had entered into negotiation with G. A.
Robinson and Governor Arthur and had been assured that their
sojourn in Bass Strait would be a short prelude to their return to
their homelands.
“As the Aborigines sailed from Hobart Town in early 1832, they
undoubtedly believed that their time on Flinders Island would be
short.”
Arthur’s desire to remove the hostile bands was, at least,
understandable but Boyce turns his attention to the much more
questionable policy towards the tribes on the West Coast who were
still largely undisturbed and whose country was largely unknown to
and of little interest to the settlers. This was an entirely
different matter - much harder to justify either morally or
legally.
“There was no economic justification for the forced removal that
made it unique among the tragedies experienced by indigenous people
during the 19th century,” he writes.
Boyce considers the question of why there was such a strong
desire for the settlers to have an island free of Aborigines . . .
to ethnically cleanse the whole colony. It was an objective admired
by the young Charles Darwin who, when visiting the island in 1836,
observed that the colonists enjoyed the great advantage of being
“free from a native population”.
In asking these questions Boyce brings us to the heart of the
desire expressed all over Australia to be rid of the Aboriginal
presence - overtaken in the late 19th century by the certainty that
nature herself was sweeping them away following the iron laws of
evolution. All too often settlers expressed the view that only with
the “passing” of the Aborigines would the process of colonisation
be complete.
While Boyce has important things to say about the tragic fate of
Tasmania’s Aboriginal tribes, the central focus of the book is on
the first generation of the overwhelmingly convict settlers and
their adaption to the island environment that, with its mild
climate and abundant resources, was “a veritable Eden” - far more
welcoming and amenable than the land around Sydney.
He argues cogently that there needs to be two quite different
narratives about the original colonisation of Eastern Australia,
explaining that “how the early British settlers of Van Diemen’s
Land experienced the Australian continent is thus greatly at
variance with the standard opening of the national story”. The Van
Diemonian convict settlers were, indeed, Australia’s first
successful hunters, pastoralists and colonisers of the bush, which,
with its abundant wildlife and fresh water, provided the convicts
with a vast common where they could escape the constraints of life
under the surveillance of police and soldiers a generation before
Russel Ward’s nomad tribe traversed the outback of New South
Wales.
The hills, mountains and sea-shore “ensured a sanctuary for the
poor where a degree of independence and freedom could long be
maintained”. That freedom, once gained, could never be totally
rescinded by the free settlers or the governments they dominated.
The old spirit of Van Diemen’s Land lived on.
Boyce is unashamedly an island patriot who celebrates those
aspects of the past that were long shunned as being part of the
hated stain of convictism. The convict pioneers were the first to
illustrate the fact that, as Boyce recently told The Mercury
newspaper in Hobart, “there is something distinctive about this
land that people connect and belong to”.
Henry Reynolds holds a Personal Chair in History and
Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. He is co-author
with Marilyn Lake of Drawing the Global Colour Line, to be
published next month by Melbourne University Press.

Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and college students.Sun SPOT kits are available for price down to USD 300/kit for students and teachers/professors. The discount can ask about on the Sun SPOT Forums. There is a competition to submit a proposal for a Sun SPOT idea and you could receive a Free SPOT to implement it.The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.Rick opined on this advancement by saying that nvesting in resources for students is the best way to ensure another generation of well-equipped young developers and extend the lifetime of a platform like Java.

Van Diemen’s Land is a fresh and sparkling account of
the first generation of British settlement in Tasmania that also
makes an important contribution to Australian colonial
historiography. The product of seven years’ research and writing,
and a longer time talking about and walking across the island, it
focuses attention and admiration on the convicts and their children
- Tasmania’s founding mothers and fathers.
The book bears some of the characteristic signs of an adapted
doctoral thesis. Attached to the main body is a 56-page section on
the Aborigines, anomalously called an appendix, which many readers
will find the most important part of the book.
The material was added to the original thesis both because of
current interest in the subject and James Boyce’s important
contribution to the debate that followed the publication of Keith
Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History in 2002
and the answering Whitewash edited by Robert Manne the following
year.
Boyce follows the well-travelled interpretive track cut in the
19th century by historians John West, James Bonwick and James
Erskine Calder that Windschuttle quixotically assailed.
With such depth of research behind him, Boyce bolsters that
tradition while adding colour and nuance and along the way posing
questions that we still find troubling. He has no doubts about the
violence that accompanied the Black War in Tasmania and if anything
believes that traditional accounts “probably underestimate
fatalities”.
He extends the duration of the “Killing Times” to take in the
early 1820s and importantly amends the accepted view that the
settlers were no match for the Aborigines in the bush.
He argues, I think convincingly, that the frontier stockmen,
shepherds and hunters had, over the first 20 years of settlement,
acquired the bushcraft to seriously threaten the Aboriginal bands.
By the 1820s these men “knew the Aboriginal seasonal gathering
places, camping sites and movements and paths that ran between
them. Aboriginal communities that still included small children,
pregnant women and the elderly were highly vulnerable to armed
parties guided by such men”.
Boyce discounts the impact of disease in the destruction of
Aboriginal society before the 1830s, observing that there are
literally no accounts of sickness in the records of the
colonists.
The policies of the administration of Governor Arthur are also
examined anew, Boyce reminding us that at one time, serious
consideration was given to partitioning the island, giving over a
“remote quarter of the island” to the Aborigines, a proposal that
had the potential to provide “an alternative model of Australian
land settlement”.
But intensifying conflict overtook the policy and eventually the
momentous decision was taken to exile the surviving Aborigines to
Flinders Island. Boyce argues that the remaining bands in the
eastern half of the island had entered into negotiation with G. A.
Robinson and Governor Arthur and had been assured that their
sojourn in Bass Strait would be a short prelude to their return to
their homelands.
“As the Aborigines sailed from Hobart Town in early 1832, they
undoubtedly believed that their time on Flinders Island would be
short.”
Arthur’s desire to remove the hostile bands was, at least,
understandable but Boyce turns his attention to the much more
questionable policy towards the tribes on the West Coast who were
still largely undisturbed and whose country was largely unknown to
and of little interest to the settlers. This was an entirely
different matter - much harder to justify either morally or
legally.
“There was no economic justification for the forced removal that
made it unique among the tragedies experienced by indigenous people
during the 19th century,” he writes.
Boyce considers the question of why there was such a strong
desire for the settlers to have an island free of Aborigines . . .
to ethnically cleanse the whole colony. It was an objective admired
by the young Charles Darwin who, when visiting the island in 1836,
observed that the colonists enjoyed the great advantage of being
“free from a native population”.
In asking these questions Boyce brings us to the heart of the
desire expressed all over Australia to be rid of the Aboriginal
presence - overtaken in the late 19th century by the certainty that
nature herself was sweeping them away following the iron laws of
evolution. All too often settlers expressed the view that only with
the “passing” of the Aborigines would the process of colonisation
be complete.
While Boyce has important things to say about the tragic fate of
Tasmania’s Aboriginal tribes, the central focus of the book is on
the first generation of the overwhelmingly convict settlers and
their adaption to the island environment that, with its mild
climate and abundant resources, was “a veritable Eden” - far more
welcoming and amenable than the land around Sydney.
He argues cogently that there needs to be two quite different
narratives about the original colonisation of Eastern Australia,
explaining that “how the early British settlers of Van Diemen’s
Land experienced the Australian continent is thus greatly at
variance with the standard opening of the national story”. The Van
Diemonian convict settlers were, indeed, Australia’s first
successful hunters, pastoralists and colonisers of the bush, which,
with its abundant wildlife and fresh water, provided the convicts
with a vast common where they could escape the constraints of life
under the surveillance of police and soldiers a generation before
Russel Ward’s nomad tribe traversed the outback of New South
Wales.
The hills, mountains and sea-shore “ensured a sanctuary for the
poor where a degree of independence and freedom could long be
maintained”. That freedom, once gained, could never be totally
rescinded by the free settlers or the governments they dominated.
The old spirit of Van Diemen’s Land lived on.
Boyce is unashamedly an island patriot who celebrates those
aspects of the past that were long shunned as being part of the
hated stain of convictism. The convict pioneers were the first to
illustrate the fact that, as Boyce recently told The Mercury
newspaper in Hobart, “there is something distinctive about this
land that people connect and belong to”.
Henry Reynolds holds a Personal Chair in History and
Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. He is co-author
with Marilyn Lake of Drawing the Global Colour Line, to be
published next month by Melbourne University Press.

Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and college students.Sun SPOT kits are available for price down to USD 300/kit for students and teachers/professors. The discount can ask about on the Sun SPOT Forums. There is a competition to submit a proposal for a Sun SPOT idea and you could receive a Free SPOT to implement it.The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.Rick opined on this advancement by saying that nvesting in resources for students is the best way to ensure another generation of well-equipped young developers and extend the lifetime of a platform like Java.

Van Diemen’s Land is a fresh and sparkling account of
the first generation of British settlement in Tasmania that also
makes an important contribution to Australian colonial
historiography. The product of seven years’ research and writing,
and a longer time talking about and walking across the island, it
focuses attention and admiration on the convicts and their children
- Tasmania’s founding mothers and fathers.
The book bears some of the characteristic signs of an adapted
doctoral thesis. Attached to the main body is a 56-page section on
the Aborigines, anomalously called an appendix, which many readers
will find the most important part of the book.
The material was added to the original thesis both because of
current interest in the subject and James Boyce’s important
contribution to the debate that followed the publication of Keith
Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History in 2002
and the answering Whitewash edited by Robert Manne the following
year.
Boyce follows the well-travelled interpretive track cut in the
19th century by historians John West, James Bonwick and James
Erskine Calder that Windschuttle quixotically assailed.
With such depth of research behind him, Boyce bolsters that
tradition while adding colour and nuance and along the way posing
questions that we still find troubling. He has no doubts about the
violence that accompanied the Black War in Tasmania and if anything
believes that traditional accounts “probably underestimate
fatalities”.
He extends the duration of the “Killing Times” to take in the
early 1820s and importantly amends the accepted view that the
settlers were no match for the Aborigines in the bush.
He argues, I think convincingly, that the frontier stockmen,
shepherds and hunters had, over the first 20 years of settlement,
acquired the bushcraft to seriously threaten the Aboriginal bands.
By the 1820s these men “knew the Aboriginal seasonal gathering
places, camping sites and movements and paths that ran between
them. Aboriginal communities that still included small children,
pregnant women and the elderly were highly vulnerable to armed
parties guided by such men”.
Boyce discounts the impact of disease in the destruction of
Aboriginal society before the 1830s, observing that there are
literally no accounts of sickness in the records of the
colonists.
The policies of the administration of Governor Arthur are also
examined anew, Boyce reminding us that at one time, serious
consideration was given to partitioning the island, giving over a
“remote quarter of the island” to the Aborigines, a proposal that
had the potential to provide “an alternative model of Australian
land settlement”.
But intensifying conflict overtook the policy and eventually the
momentous decision was taken to exile the surviving Aborigines to
Flinders Island. Boyce argues that the remaining bands in the
eastern half of the island had entered into negotiation with G. A.
Robinson and Governor Arthur and had been assured that their
sojourn in Bass Strait would be a short prelude to their return to
their homelands.
“As the Aborigines sailed from Hobart Town in early 1832, they
undoubtedly believed that their time on Flinders Island would be
short.”
Arthur’s desire to remove the hostile bands was, at least,
understandable but Boyce turns his attention to the much more
questionable policy towards the tribes on the West Coast who were
still largely undisturbed and whose country was largely unknown to
and of little interest to the settlers. This was an entirely
different matter - much harder to justify either morally or
legally.
“There was no economic justification for the forced removal that
made it unique among the tragedies experienced by indigenous people
during the 19th century,” he writes.
Boyce considers the question of why there was such a strong
desire for the settlers to have an island free of Aborigines . . .
to ethnically cleanse the whole colony. It was an objective admired
by the young Charles Darwin who, when visiting the island in 1836,
observed that the colonists enjoyed the great advantage of being
“free from a native population”.
In asking these questions Boyce brings us to the heart of the
desire expressed all over Australia to be rid of the Aboriginal
presence - overtaken in the late 19th century by the certainty that
nature herself was sweeping them away following the iron laws of
evolution. All too often settlers expressed the view that only with
the “passing” of the Aborigines would the process of colonisation
be complete.
While Boyce has important things to say about the tragic fate of
Tasmania’s Aboriginal tribes, the central focus of the book is on
the first generation of the overwhelmingly convict settlers and
their adaption to the island environment that, with its mild
climate and abundant resources, was “a veritable Eden” - far more
welcoming and amenable than the land around Sydney.
He argues cogently that there needs to be two quite different
narratives about the original colonisation of Eastern Australia,
explaining that “how the early British settlers of Van Diemen’s
Land experienced the Australian continent is thus greatly at
variance with the standard opening of the national story”. The Van
Diemonian convict settlers were, indeed, Australia’s first
successful hunters, pastoralists and colonisers of the bush, which,
with its abundant wildlife and fresh water, provided the convicts
with a vast common where they could escape the constraints of life
under the surveillance of police and soldiers a generation before
Russel Ward’s nomad tribe traversed the outback of New South
Wales.
The hills, mountains and sea-shore “ensured a sanctuary for the
poor where a degree of independence and freedom could long be
maintained”. That freedom, once gained, could never be totally
rescinded by the free settlers or the governments they dominated.
The old spirit of Van Diemen’s Land lived on.
Boyce is unashamedly an island patriot who celebrates those
aspects of the past that were long shunned as being part of the
hated stain of convictism. The convict pioneers were the first to
illustrate the fact that, as Boyce recently told The Mercury
newspaper in Hobart, “there is something distinctive about this
land that people connect and belong to”.
Henry Reynolds holds a Personal Chair in History and
Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. He is co-author
with Marilyn Lake of Drawing the Global Colour Line, to be
published next month by Melbourne University Press.

Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and college students.Sun SPOT kits are available for price down to USD 300/kit for students and teachers/professors. The discount can ask about on the Sun SPOT Forums. There is a competition to submit a proposal for a Sun SPOT idea and you could receive a Free SPOT to implement it.The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.Rick opined on this advancement by saying that nvesting in resources for students is the best way to ensure another generation of well-equipped young developers and extend the lifetime of a platform like Java.

Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and college students.Sun SPOT kits are available for price down to USD 300/kit for students and teachers/professors. The discount can ask about on the Sun SPOT Forums. There is a competition to submit a proposal for a Sun SPOT idea and you could receive a Free SPOT to implement it.The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.Rick opined on this advancement by saying that nvesting in resources for students is the best way to ensure another generation of well-equipped young developers and extend the lifetime of a platform like Java.

The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008:Investors Want More Interest Rate CutsWASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, criticized last year for being too tentative in cutting interest rates, has shown he can act boldly. But the Fed’s two aggressive rate cuts in the past eight days have left investors demanding still more. That may be a sign of how much trouble the economy is facing, with many analysts contending that the country is flirting with a recession and may, in fact, already be in one.—House, Senate at Odds on StimulusWASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is set to begin voting on dueling economic aid proposals, as senators rush to add jobless benefits and tax rebates for high earners, the elderly, and disabled veterans to a House-passed package. Senate Democrats and some Republicans are teaming up to tack $32 billion onto the House measure with a bill that would send rebates of $500-$1,000 to all but the richest taxpayers. Families also would get $300 for each child. Senators could begin voting as early as Thursday in hopes of completing the package by week’s end.—Starbucks Axes Sandwiches As Part of FixSEATTLE (AP) - The scent of ham, eggs, cheese and bacon will soon stop competing with the aroma of coffee in Starbucks stores as hot breakfast sandwiches become the first casualty of the company’s battle to win back customers. The sandwiches, which will disappear by this fall, boost a typical store’s annual revenue by $35,000, so pulling them off the menu will cost at first. Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz said that proves the company isn’t letting the soft economy distract it from committing to big changes that will pay off over the long haul.—Amazon Expects Sales to Rise in 2008SEATTLE (AP) - This year isn’t looking quite as sweet for Amazon.com shareholders as 2007. Despite a possible recession in the U.S. economy, the Web retailer said it expects sales to rise briskly again in 2008. But the gains won’t translate as readily to bottom-line growth. “A lot of old Amazon bears are going to be growling,” said Tim Boyd, an analyst at American Technology Research.—Sony Quarterly Profit Rises 25 PercentTOKYO (AP) - Sony reported a 25.2 percent jump in profit for the October-December quarter Thursday as its PlayStation video game business stopped losing money after six straight quarters of losses. Profit at the Japanese electronics and entertainment company climbed to 200.2 billion yen ($1.88 billion) for the fiscal third quarter from 159.9 billion yen the same period the previous year.—Super Bowl’s Big Day for TV, Pizza SalesNEW YORK (AP) - Super Bowl Sunday may be the biggest day of the year for football fans, but it’s also a big day for people who sell big screen TVs, recliners and pizza. Yes, some sports fans are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a TV just to watch the game. Jim Ferrero, of Yardley, Pa., has done so twice.—Cost Cuts Push Lenovo Profit Up 198 Pct.BEIJING (AP) - Lenovo Group, the world’s No. 4 personal computer maker, said Thursday that profit in its third fiscal quarter rose 198 percent and forecast strong sales this year despite a possible U.S. economic slowdown. Driven by strong sales and aggressive cost-cutting, profit for the three months that ended Dec. 31 was $172 million, or $1.93 per share, on revenue of $4.6 billion, Beijing-based Lenovo said. That was below the average $253.5 million expected by analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires.—Market Turmoil Felt in Central EuropeWARSAW, Poland (AP) - It took years for Andrzej Solyga to muster the courage to invest in mutual funds. But in June 2007, at the urging of a friend, the Polish sculptor invested 200,000 zlotys ($82,000) in a fund that had been earning rich returns of 50 percent a year, joining a growing number of small investors in Europe’s post-communist countries who finally succumbed to the lure of booming stock markets.—$50M Grant Will Finance Plant ResearchPHOENIX (AP) - A collaboration of botanists and computer scientists is being awarded a $50 million federal grant to conduct research into plant biology with an eye toward resolving global problems related to agriculture, environment and energy production. The five-year National Science Foundation grant announced Wednesday will pay for research on topics such as climate change, development of biomass energy, and agricultural land use, said foundation Director Arden L. Bement. The University of Arizona is leading the project.—Mardi Gras Means Money in New OrleansNEW ORLEANS (AP) - That happy, singsong sound heard on Bourbon Street is trickle-down economics at its best as hundreds of thousands of Carnival season visitors spend themselves silly before Fat Tuesday. The city’s tourism industry, getting back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina, is counting on a big weekend crowd to fill restaurants and hotels leading up to Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, on Feb. 5.—Gold PricesLONDON (AP) - Gold opened in London Thursday at a bid price of $923.10 per troy ounce, up from $920.85 on Wednesday.—Japan MarketsTOKYO (AP) - Japanese stocks rose Thursday as reports that a troubled U.S. bond insurer had closed an investment deal helped to ease concerns about the subprime loan crisis. The Nikkei stock index rose 247.44 points, or 1.85 percent, to close at 13,592.47 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The index shed 0.99 percent the day before.—Dollar-YenTOKYO (AP) - The dollar fell against the yen in Asia Thursday amid anxieties about U.S. bond insurers and continuing fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis. The U.S. dollar was trading at 106.46 yen at 2:50 p.m. Thursday, down from 106.95 yen late Wednesday in New York. The euro fell to $1.4879 from $1.4898.