Irene " Renie " Sulaweyo, an instructor in " virtual engineering " at a polytechnic institute in Durban, is devastated when her younger brother, Stephen, falls victim to this disease.

But it soon becomes apparent that she has made powerful enemies: Renie is dismissed from her job, the apartment complex where she and her unemployed father Long Joseph live is burned down, and Professor van Bleeck is murdered.

Renie is headstrong, and other characters constantly refer to her tendency towards action over contemplation.

* Florimel — A German woman who is just as strong-willed as Renie, although not as forthright with her story and motivation.

* Jeremiah Dako — the former housekeeper of Susan Van Bleeck who joins Renie and her father after Susan is murdered.

In Durban, a VR programming instructor named Irene " Renie " Sulaweyo is teaching a Kalahari Bushman named! Xabbu how to create such environments, while providing for her family, who are her alcoholic father Long Joseph and her ten-year-old brother Stephen.

* Irene " Renie " Sulaweyo: A South African computer teacher, whose younger brother Stephen falls into a coma, prompting the research that leads to her discovery of the Otherland network.

His spiritual guidance keeps Renie sane, as well as providing her with a viewpoint that does not take the technology of her civilization for granted.

Finally, van Bleeck is brutally assaulted, and dies after leaving Renie and! Xabbu with three names: Martine Desroubins, Blue Dog Anchorite, and Bolivar Atasco.

* Jeremiah Dako: Susan van Bleeck's butler and cook, who joins Renie and! Xabbu after van Bleeck is murdered.

Their most bizarre and horrifying discovery is a very powerful hypnotic entity, which Renie nearly dies trying to escape from.

Renie,! Xabbu, Martine and Singh plan to break into Otherland ; Renie and! Xabbu, along with Long Joseph and van Bleeck's assistant Jeremiah Dako, travel to Wasps ' Nest, a mothballed military base in the Drakensberg mountains, where there is equipment allowing Renie and! Xabbu to stay connected to the Net for extended periods.

Renie,! Xabbu and Martine manage to enter Otherland, and make their way to the golden city, which is called Temilún.

He is responsible for putting Stephen into a coma, and nearly succeeds in doing the same to Renie and! Xabbu.

He helps Renie,! Xabbu, and Martine hack into the system, but is killed by a malevolent aspect of the Otherland security system when he tries to enter with them.

Renie turns to two of van Bleeck's acquaintances: a retired security expert and hacker called " Blue Dog Anchorite " and the French researcher Martine Desroubins.

With the help of Martine and Blue Dog, Renie,! Xabbu, Long Joseph and van Bleeck's assistant Jeremiah Dako break into Wasps ' Nest, a mothballed military base in the Drakensberg which nevertheless contains equipment facilitating extended stays online.

Renie,! Xabbu, Martine, Orlando and Fredericks, along with several others, find themselves in an uncomfortable situation.

Renie,! Xabbu, Martine, Orlando, Fredericks and four other people in similar situations find themselves imprisoned in a virtual reality world so complex that it rivals reality.

* Martine Desroubins: an acquaintance of Susan van Bleeck who lives in France, and who assists Renie and! Xabbu and enters Otherland with them.

Two very influential 20th-century teachers of this approach were Henriette Renie and Marcel Grandjany, who both studied with Alphonse Hasselmans.

* Bringing Up Father ( 1946 ) Monogram Pictures ; directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Cline, Barney Gerard and Jerry Warner, starring Joe Yule as Jiggs, Renie Riano as Maggie, George McManus ( as himself ), Tim Ryan as the stingy and belligerent Dinty Moore, and Pat Goldin as the ever-silent Dugan.

* Irene ( Renie ) Sulaweyo — a South African Zulu woman and a college professor in Durban.

*! Xabbu — a Kalahari San and a friend of Renie.

Renie goes to him asking for help, unaware of what the help will cost him.

*! Xabbu: A bushman from the Kalahari desert, and a student of Renie.

For Linda knew how to help her husband, not just the Stuart-family contacts but also the little dinners for Reuben Lovejoy.

However Elizabeth Gaskell, who believed that marriage provided ' clear and defined duties ' that were beneficial for a woman, encouraged Charlotte to consider the positive aspects of such a union, and even tried to use her contacts to engineer an improvement in Nicholls ' financial situation.

On the basis of Ruddock's contacts, MI5 suspected her of being a communist sympathiser.

Bowman contacts his former girl friend, Betty Fernandez, appearing on her television screen by manipulating the tube, and in a more physical way to his elderly mother, who lies dying.

Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ).

She also is what I consider a classic Indian beauty .... her natural, distinctive Indian looks set her apart from many other heroines ( I say heroines because many have yet to learn to act, and cannot justfully be called actresses yet ), she proves that she does not need blatant blond / red highlights, tons of body paint and makeup, blue contacts, and scraps of clothes to look beautiful ... and that the complete following of Western trends isn ´ t worth sacrificing traditional Indian beauty, grace, and respect for popularity ... a mixture of both that remains respectable ... it ´ s quality rather than quantity ( or lackthereof, in the clothes department ).

While Stein had earlier contacts with the Roman Catholicism, it was her reading of the autobiography of the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila during summer holidays in Bergzabern in 1921 that caused her conversion.

After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor.

A reverse view was expressed by Virgil, and it is probably true that cultural contacts with the mainland brought Cybele to Crete, where she was transformed into Rhea or identified with an existing local goddess and her rites.

When O ' Shaughnessy contacts Spade, he senses a connection between her and Cairo, and casually mentions that he has spoken to Cairo.

Ever resourceful, Modigliani ’ s mother used her social contacts to establish a school and, along with her two sisters, made the school into a successful enterprise.

Louise contacts her boyfriend Jimmy Lennox ( Madsen ) and asks him to send her life savings via Western Union.

It has Coca-Cola, Merck, Dubai Ports World, and Marsh & McLennan Companies among its clients, who benefit from the access that Albright has through her global contacts.

The Second World War and the occupation of Denmark by the German army hampered Lehmann's work and her international contacts significantly during the following years.

She picked Pelosi as her designated successor, guaranteeing her the support of the Burtons ' contacts.

During her visits, she established contacts with the " Volumen Uno " artists, created works in natural settings, and exhibited at the National Museum in Havana.

While Rand was working as a script reader for Paramount Pictures, her boss there, Richard Mealand, offered to introduce her to his publishing contacts.

Ken counts on her to present a sophisticated image for his new high-society friends and contacts, but her alcoholism worsens, so secretary Martha Gray comes to Ken's aid.