text: Answers inline. On 12-05-18 5:00 AM, Ovid wrote: > Hi there, > > We've a system that run across 75 servers and needs to be highly > performant, fault-tolerant, scalable and shares persistent data across > all 75 servers. We're investigating Erlang/Mnesia (which we don't > know) because it sounds tailor-made for our situation. As mentioned earlier in this thread, 75 servers is a bit much, but people have done it before. > > We are not using Erlang for our first implementation, but are instead > hacking together a solution from known technologies including Perl, > MySQL and Redis. We're considering Erlang for our future work. > > We have two primary needs: Each box can bid on an auction and > potentially spend a tiny amount of money and each of the 75 boxes will > receive notifications of a small amount of money spent if they win the > auction (the auction notification will probably not be sent to the box > bidding in the auction). > > Use case 1: If the *total* of all of those small amounts exceeds a > daily cap or an all-time cap, all 75 boxes must immediately stop > spending bidding in auctions. It seems that each box can run a > separate Erlang process and write out "winning bid" information to an > Mnesia database and all boxes can read the total amount spent from > that to determine if it should stop bidding. > > This seems trivial to set up. It isn't trivial. You have think about what happens when a box is seen as crashing. How strongly consistent do you want things to be? There is always a risk that a box didn't crash, but was cut off in a netsplit. You might get divergences in budget that will be hard to explain. There is also a definite timing issue depending on how your data is being observed. For example, you ask permission to bid on an item, but you do not get instant feedback; by the time you sent maybe 5-10 bids, the cap is finally reached and broken at once because the delay to the other network made you keep on bidding without a final result. How much tolerance do you have for this? You mentioned in another post that "We need to ensure that were all 75 boxes to mysteriously crash, we could bring them back up and not worry about data integrity.", Possibly, but what about 1 node only? What about 5? What about 30 or 35? What if they crash and you missed winning bids because you went out after bidding but before getting your notifications back (if that is possible by the bidding rules of whatever exchange you're dealing with). The most solid synchronous database setup might not give you the guarantees you expect in the first place. > > Use case 2: we periodically need to reauthenticate to the auction > system. We MUST NOT have all 75 boxes trying to reauthenticate at the > same time because we will be locked out of the system if we do this. > Having a central box handling reauthentication is a single point of > failure that we would like to avoid, but we don't know what design > pattern Erlang would use to ensure that only one of the 75 Erlang > instances would attempt to reauthenticate at any one time (all 75 > boxes can share the same authentication token). That depends on: 1. how many times you can try to re-authenticate before being blocked, 2. how close together they have to be. Central points of failures are definitely something to avoid. Leader election across 75 boxes might not be the funnest thing in the world either. I could see a scheme where you use some distributed cached value that can say "I am currently being logged" that can time out at some point, visible to all readers. When you read that timeout value from each box (possibly from an OTP Application that only handles auth), each reading of that value adds or subtracts a random number to the timeout. This is to try and avoid a cluster-wide synchronization on the timeout value, and instead have them happen at different times. You could add an "I'm updating" flag related to that value and that could give you good probabilities that only a fraction of all the nodes attempt an authentication at any point in time close to the timeout value. Again, this would depend on how often your authentication needs to be done, and to what frequency you're allowed to do it. If it's too tight, you might need a central server or node that takes care of it, with one or two fail-overs to add some reliability. Note you will still have to care about netsplits ruining your day with this whole scheme. -- I had nothing to add on the rest of the mail, so cut if off. Hope this helps, Fred. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/attachments/20120518/70a9f141/attachment.htm>


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The editorial board of H-LAW has the sad duty of informing H-LAW's membership that Professor Christopher Waldrep of San Francisco State University, H-LAW's founding editor, head moderator, and chief book review editor, has suffered a stroke. At present we neither can nor will speculate on his condition, his recovery, or his return to H-LAW. We wish him and his family well, and we are keeping all of them in our thoughts and prayers.We at the Legal History Blog are saddened by this news and wish Professor Waldrep a speedy recovery.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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Recent Events At Prashanti Nilayam – Sathya Sai Baba Ashram
Curtesty RadioSai:
Sunday, October 26, 2008
If yesterday it was the chance of the Iranian student to chant Vedam onstage, today it was the turn of the two American brothers, one in the school and one in the college. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba came onstage after His darshan round in the car at 4.30 pm, and asked Prof. Anil Kumar to announce that the Vedic hymns are not limited to any country or religion, and then called up the two American boys to chant onstage. After ten minutes of their chanting, Swami sat for a few more minutes while everyone chanted together, and then moved to the Bhajan Hall and then to the interview room. During the Bhajans which began at five o'clock in the Bhajan Hall, Swami asked for the two bhajans with Alap to be sung – 'Sri Raghavam' and 'Allah ho Akbar'. At 5.45, He accepted Arati and returned to His residence.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
This evening, Bhajans began at five o'clock and Bhagawan arrived for darshan a short while later. He sat onstage and blessed many students with letters and gave a chain to one of them. Ten minutes past six, He asked for the Bhajans to stop, and collective chanting of the Rudram began. The Iranian student from the Primary School was asked to stand onstage and chant into the microphone. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba asked Prof. Anil Kumar to announce after the chanting that the boy was from Iran, and that he was the first to learn Vedam there. After a few more minutes of chanting, Swami accepted Arati at 6.35 pm and returned to His residence.
Friday, October 24, 2008
This evening, youth from the North-Eastern states Assam and Manipur presented some dances. At four o'clock, Swami went to the Stadium directly from His residence in the car, and returned directly to His residence after half an hour. Later, He came onstage at 5 pm after His darshan round in the chair, and the programme commenced shortly thereafter. Youth from Assam presented Sattriya dance and Guru Vandana followed by Krishna Vandana. Manipur youth then presented Thougal Jagoi dance. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba sent clothes for the participants and Bhajans began by the youth at 6 pm. Prasadam was distributed during Arati at 6.20 pm, following which Swami came down from the stage and blessed all the participants with group photographs before returning to His residence in the car. See: "Vandana", Saatriya Dance Presentations by Assam Youth and a Thougal Jagoi Dance Presentation by Manipal Youth
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This evening, youth from Kerala presented a dance followed by a music programme. Bhagawan came onstage after His darshan round by 4.30 pm, and in ten minutes, asked the Kerala State President Prof. Mukundan to introduce the programme. After the 20 minute dance, Swami went to the interview room briefly before coming out to begin the musical performance. Forty minutes of popular devotional Carnatic and Hindustani songs were followed by bhajans by the students for twenty minutes before Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba accepted Arati at 6.10. He Blessed the singers with clothes and the dancers with a group photograph. The main dancer was blessed with a ring, and Swami interacted with him for a few minutes before returning to His residence in the car after granting padanamaskar for all the performers at 6.30 pm. See: 'Sivashtakam', a Classical Dance Ballet and Classical Music by Sri Prasanna Venkataraman and Kum. Lakshmi
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Bronx Eats: 14 Must-Eat Dishes in the Bronx
In my inaugural Bronx Eats column, I dubbed New York's northernmost borough a land of hidden secrets. We set the tone with a review of one Pioneer Supermarket's homemade mangu, cooked and sold at their deli station; an undistinguished corner market's Albanian veal jerky, smoked north of the Bronx in Pelham, and bodega bites followed. We went on to cover a celebration of the Khmer New Year in Bedford Park and an evening of celebratory food at Bangladeshi stalwart Neerob, all the while singing the praises of creamy boccocini and heart-melting lechon.
While the Bronx doesn't have the crazy diversity of globetrotting Queens, much less Manhattan's ultra high-end fine dining or Brooklyn's trend factories, there are plenty of good, largely ignored bites. So why don't we let the place stand on its own merits? That's what this article is all about: celebrating some of the best the borough has to offer, delicious food that's the work of people striving to celebrate their communities and heritage.
A number of these dishes are hardly secrets, and all of them have been covered here in some form of another. Nor is this a definitive "Best of the Bronx" list, but one that is only reflective of my eating experiences and tendency to bypass the canon in favor of finding something new. But given how much time I've devoted to eating in this borough, I'd say it's fair to call this a "14 of the Best Dishes In The Bronx Right Now" list, with a nod to some places with special sentimental value or cultural significance. From a West African stew thickened with pumpkin seeds to a classic New York pastrami sandwich, they cover a good swath of the borough's myriad offerings.
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So without further ado, here are 14 dishes you should eat before year's end. Hit them all up in the slideshow above or head to a specific dish below.
- Dried Shrimp and Chili Bharta at Neerob
- Crab Pastelillos at Lechonera La Piraña
- Sauce Clare at Bate
- Egusi at Ebe Ye Yie
- Burek at Dukagjini
- Carnitas at El Atoradero
- Mole Poblano at Estrelitta Poblana III
- Pastrami at Loeser's
- Pollo Frito at Nanno Billiard Cafe
- Pizza at Mario's
- Fahsa Salta at Arth Aljanatain
- Pumpkin Burek at Tony & Tina's
- Chotpoti at Starling Coffee Shop
- Hot Flat Soppresatta at Calabria
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Getting Isaiah Berlin Wrong
Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal
A marvelous raconteur famed for his opulent intellect and brilliant wit, Isaiah Berlin could easily give the impression of being an intellectual dilettante. He often endorsed such criticism self-mockingly; asked by his biographer about the source of his serene well-being, he replied that he was happy because he was superficial. In a letter to a close friend he presents a very different self-image:
The only truth which I have ever found out for myself is, I think, this one: of the unavoidability of conflicting ends…. The contrast between my cheerful and feckless façade, and unquiet constant perturbations and apprehension within, is too odd.
This truth became the basis of a liberalism deviating sharply from the Anglo-American tradition. What the philosopher John Gray has termed Berlin's "tragic liberalism" inspired his seminal Four Essays on Liberty, directed against the faith (common to liberal and radical doctrines founded on European Enlightenment optimism) that all rational goals can ultimately be harmonized. To this monistic vision he opposed the notion of value pluralism: the necessity of difficult choices between ultimate ends equally good but incommensurable and often irreconcilable.
Writing in 1994, Gray argued that the full originality and subversiveness of this view had yet to be appreciated. The process continues even sixteen years after Berlin's death. A 2011 symposium in Beijing on Berlin and contemporary China drew a mixture of speakers from East and West, including a generation of scholars not yet born when his essays on liberty were first published.
Arie Dubnov, an assistant professor of European Intellectual and Modern Jewish History at Stanford, belongs to this generation. His study begins with a sweeping rejection of previous attempts to define Berlin's legacy, which, he claims, have turned him into "a sacred cow, revered by students and epigones, and gleefully butchered by foes." Critics and worshipers alike are "missing a key point" by ignoring the unresolved tension in his thought between his defense of individual freedom and his recognition of humans' need to belong to a larger whole.
Since philosophers such as Gray and Bernard Williams have identified precisely this feature of Berlin's work as the source of its enduring interest, this is an astonishing claim, even if allowances are made for the hyperbole of a young scholar anxious to proclaim the originality of his biographical approach to Berlin's thought up to the early 1950s, an approach aimed at reconstructing the intellectual journey leading to his essays on liberty. Berlin's plural identity—Russian, Jewish, and English ("the three strands in my life," he called them in an article published in the Jewish Quarterly)—is often cited in this regard. Centrally for his argument, Dubnov reduces the number to two, insisting repeatedly on a "dual perspective" for Berlin's thought via British philosophy and Zionism.
Born in Riga in 1909, Berlin moved with his family to Petrograd in early 1916…
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Blue Pottery is widely recognized as a traditional craft of Jaipur, though it is Turko-Persian in origin. The name 'blue pottery' comes from the eye-catching blue dye used to color the pottery. Jaipur blue pottery, made out of Egyptian paste, is glazed and low-fired. No clay is used: the 'dough' for the pottery is prepared by mixing quartz stone powder, powdered glass, Multani Mitti (Fuller's Earth), borax, gum and water. Being fired at very low temperature makes them fragile.
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What an opportunity for all. Whether you are a homeowner, renter, student, business, or employee there is a place for you in making the earth a better place and reducing our dependance on foreign energy sources. Everybody wants to know more about sustainability, efficiency and alternative energy but if you really want to learn, get involved.Homeowners: If your electric bill is $100 or more consider having your home evaluated by a home performance contractor or alternative energy company. With current incentives you can get an outstanding return on your investment. If you are a big user of electricity you can save even more. Visit your utilities website and find out about available incentives and rebates.Renters: If you rent a house read the above. If you rent in a complex suggest to the owners going "green" with pools and outdoor lighting. It is good for the earth and their pocket books.Students: Volunteer and learn at the same time. The CCSE is always looking for volunteers. Also check out GridAlternatives and Habitat for Humanity.Businesses: You get the biggest break of all. Not only do you get incentives that homeowners get but you get huge depreciation benefits. Imagine a solar investment with parity to your bill for five years and after that little or no electric bill for twenty, thirty years or more. What are you paying in electric utilities now? Don't forget the incentives for other improvements including HVAC, insulation, solar thermal and clever new technologies combining all. Have a competent assessment of your building by a professional to illuminate it's full potential for sustainability.I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to go "green" so let us know what they are.
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So the Black Key's swept for all Rock categories:
Best Rock performance, song and album.
(But Mumford & Sons won Best Album.)
But the best for TBK is Auerbach won a grammy for "best non-classical producer"
But today I really see such a soul movement, with a classic band edge:
Miguel, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly... suits and love songs!
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Good news for Raphael lovers…
The cataloguing of the John Shearman library is proceeding apace and a jewel of the library is his Raphael collection. The Raphael books number just over 250 volumes and are, except for the occasional stray volume, fully catalogued. The collection encompasses second copies of many of the books we already have but, more importantly, there are a lot of titles for which I was unable to find other copies in the UK and, in very rare cases, was not able to find other copies anywhere.
There are multiple editions in English, French, Italian and German of staple 19th-century Raphael biographies by Quatremère de Quincy, Passavant, Müntz, and Crowe & Cavalcaselle. There are early copies of Carl Ruland's catalogue of Raphael works in the Royal Collection, as well as an 18th-century catalogue of engravings after the Raphael cartoons also in the Royal Collection.
Bellori's 1695 Descrizzione delle imagini dipinte da Rafaelle d'Urbino nelle camere del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano has an interesting provenance, having been part of the libraries of two reknowned 19th-century bibliophiles, Gustavo Galletti and Baron Horace de Landau at Villa-Landau-Finaly, both in Florence.
And the Le pitture delle Stanze Vaticane di Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, published in 1838 in Rome, bears the evidence of provenance by at least 4 art historians – A.E. Popham, Jim Byam Shaw, John Gere and, of course, John Shearman. What a pedigree!
About 20% of the Raphael books were published before 1900, including my favourite paper binding, on the Elogio storico di Raffaello Santi, 1829, which complement our later editions and reprints. We are able to see how the views of scholars have changed and how earlier scholars' own works have been reinterpreted in the 20th-century, gaining a fuller picture of Raphael scholarship almost right up to the present.
Where a Shearman book is a duplicate of reference books we have on the open shelves, we are making the open shelves copies available for loan, so some important texts can be taken home now, but we still have a reference copy in the Special Collections.
This collection is already being used, judging from the number of slips for books waiting to be reshelved and we hope it complements all our material on the artist and for the broader study of Renaissance art. If you are interested in viewing the records for the John Shearman's Raphael collection on the library catalogue, you need to select the multi-field search option and use the drop-down menus to isolate search words such as Collection code – SPECL and Former owner, provenance – Shearman, and combine them with Raphael in the Any words field (see search below). Once you know the books you would like to see, you can complete request forms at the issue desk.
Erica Foden-Lenahan
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Marvel's Phase Two is already well underway with production on Iron Man 3 nearing an end and filming on Thor: The Dark World just getting started. The next film on the studio's docket is Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Chris Evans recently revealed that filming on the Cap sequel begins in March of next year. Though the title of the film gives fans a pretty big hint as to where the follow-up will go, we're still pretty in the dark with regards to plot specifics.
Steve recently sat down with Evans at the Toronto Film Festival to talk about the serial killer drama The Iceman, and the actor talked quite a bit about Winter Soldier. Evans revealed that the film will get into a lot of stuff that was explored in cut scenes from The Avengers, talked about how far in advance he knew that the sequel would delve into the Winter Soldier storyline, and even teased a possible cameo in Thor 2. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
Fans of the comics know that The Winter Soldier subtitle refers to a comics arc that finds a brainwashed Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) as the Russian assassin antagonist for Captain America. Steve asked Evans if he's read the Winter Soldier storyline, to which the actor responded:
"Oh, I am fully up to date with my comics. I know all about it. Kevin Feige was talking about [Winter Soldier] when we were filming the first Captain America and well before The Avengers. During the first Captain America we were talking about potential futures and, you know, I don't want to give too much way."
Steve followed up by asking if Evans knows, hypothetically, where the third film might go, to which the actor slyly replied, "Maybe."
Though Evans was remiss to get into plot details, he did reveal that much of Cap's scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor of The Avengers is fodder for the sequel:
"The most I am looking forward to is exploring a little bit of Steve's…they had all those deleted scenes with The Avengers because a lot of those scenes are for Captain 2, you know what I mean? It was good stuff, but it all felt like that was his story. It is a different movie. With The Avengers there was so much to cram in. Like I said, it was a long movie anyway. So I think making it any longer would have just been exhausting."
We'll see a lot of Joss Whedon's deleted scenes on The Avengers Blu-ray, but one cut sequence that landed online a little early was wholly centered on Steve Rogers adjusting to the modern world. We saw him going through files of all his deceased friends and thinking about the still-alive Peggy, and the dramatic scene was a nice touch but it did feel like something that would be best explored in Cap's own sequel:
"A lot of that stuff [that was cut] is for Captain America 2. That is his story. It is him trying to on a personal level adjust to the fact that everyone he knows is gone and the whole Peggy Carter of it all. There are a lot of things that he kind of has to come to terms with. So I don't know. I am excited to kind of see flashes of the first Captain, if you know what I mean, and to see his memory of what we now know as an audience of who he was."
It's no secret that Marvel has locked their actors down to appear in a large number of movies, and the studio makes full use of those contracts by having characters pop up in different films. Evans is locked for six, and he told Steve that he'd like to make a cameo in Thor: The Dark World:
"[Chris] Hemsworth and I even talked about that. I would love to do a little thing in Thor 2. It is obviously going to be tricky trying to work out the plot, the reason why I am not there to help him, and why he is not there to help me. But the best thing about Marvel is that, like I said, the movies were so good and we had such a good time making them."
Obviously this is in no way a confirmation that Captain America is going to show up in Thor 2, but it's nice to see Evans enthusiastic about playing around in the Marvel universe. Look out for Steve's full 20-minute interview with Evans later this week. Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens on April 4th, 2014.


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Reese Witherspoon Is Pregnant with Baby Number Three
Reese Witherspoon and her talent-agent hubby Jim Toth have only been married for about a year, but they apparently didn't waste any time starting a family — sources confirm the actress is pregnant.
The Oscar-winning star of 'Walk the Line,' who turns 36 on Thursday and has been seen in recent weeks sporting loose shirts and dresses, is apparently due this fall. She's already mom to two children from her first marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe — daughter Ava, 12, and son Deacon, 8 — but had previously said she'd like to have more children.
An inside source said Witherspoon's new husband "has always wanted kids" and "adores Ava and Deacon," adding, "Jim and Reese are looking forward to having a bigger family at this point in life. They can take the time to enjoy the next stage and make sure the transition for all is easy and joyful."


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Fushigi Yûgi
|Fushigi Yûgi
Cover of the first manga volume
(Fushigi Yūgi)
|Fantasy, isekai, romance[1][2]
|Written by
|Yuu Watase
|Published by
|English publisher
|Shōjo Comic
|Original run
|May 1992 – July 1996
|Anime television series
|Directed by
|Hajime Kamegaki
|Produced by
|Written by
|Yoshio Urasawa
|Music by
|Yusuke Honma
|Licensed by
|Original network
|TV Tokyo
|English network
|Original run
|April 6, 1995 – March 28, 1996
|Original video animation
|Directed by
|Hajime Kamegaki
|Produced by
|Written by
|Genki Yoshimura
|Music by
|Yusuke Honma
|Licensed by
|October 25, 1996 – August 25, 1998
|25 minutes (each)
|Light novel
|Written by
|Megumi Nishizaki
|Illustrated by
|Yuu Watase
|Published by
|Original run
|January 30, 1998 – September 26, 2003
|Original video animation
|Fushigi Yûgi Eikoden
|Directed by
|Nanako Shimazaki
|Written by
|Hiroaki Sato
|Music by
|Ryo Sakai
|Licensed by
|December 21, 2001 – June 25, 2002
|30 minutes (each)
|Related works
Fushigi Yūgi (ふしぎ遊戯), also known as Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play or Curious Play,[3] is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Watase. It tells the story of two teenaged girls, Miaka and Yui, who are pulled into The Universe of the Four Gods, a mysterious book at the National Library. It is essentially based on four mythological creatures of China. Shogakukan published Fushigi Yûgi in Shōjo Comic in its original serialized form from May 1992 through June 1996, and compiled the series into eighteen tankōbon volumes.
Studio Pierrot adapted the series into a 52-episode anime series. The show originally aired from April 6, 1995 through March 28, 1996 on TV Tokyo. The anime series spawned three Original Video Animation releases, with the first having three episodes, the second having six, and the final OVA, Fushigi Yûgi Eikoden, spanning four episodes.
A thirteen-volume Japanese light novel series also followed Fushigi Yûgi. Shogakukan published the novels from January 30, 1998 to September 26, 2003. On October 25, 2003, Watase began releasing a prequel to the manga series, Fushigi Yûgi Genbu Kaiden, and ended in May 2013. Another prequel to the manga series, Fushigi Yûgi Byakko Senki was published on August 27, 2017.
In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga series for an English-language release in 1999. The anime series was first licensed by Geneon Entertainment and re-licensed by Media Blasters in 2012.
The series describes the various trials of Miaka Yūki and Yui Hongo, two middle-school students. While at the library one day, Miaka and Yui encounter a strange book known as The Universe of the Four Gods. Reading this book transports them into the novel's universe in ancient China. Yui is transported back to the real world almost immediately, but Miaka finds herself the Priestess of Suzaku. Miaka is destined to gather the seven Celestial Warriors of the god Suzaku in order to summon Suzaku and obtain three wishes. She falls in love with the Celestial Warrior Tamahome, who eventually reciprocates and Miaka's desire to use a wish to enter the high school of her choice begins to shift towards finding a way to be with Tamahome. Yui is also drawn into the book when she tries to help Miaka to come back to the real world; becoming the Priestess of Seiryuu, working against Miaka out of jealousy over Tamahome and revenge for the humiliation and pain she had suffered when she first came into the book's world.
Written and illustrated by Yuu Watase, Fushigi Yûgi originally appeared in serial form in the monthly manga magazine Shōjo Comic. It premiered in the May 1992 issue and ran for over four years, with the final chapter appearing in the June 1996 issue. The series was simultaneously published in eighteen collected volumes by Shogakukan, with new volumes being released on a quarterly schedule.
In 1992, Viz Media licensed the manga for an English language release in North America. The series was originally released in a flipped trade paperback format, starting in August 1998.[4] Several characters have both Japanese pronunciations and Chinese pronunciations. In 1998 Watase visited the United States and met with Viz staff members at their San Francisco headquarters. Viz kept the original Chinese names of characters at the request of Watase. Bill Flanagan, the editor of the English version, asked Watase if he should use the Chinese names for popular characters such as Tai Yi-Jun (Taitsukun) and she also asked for the Chinese names to be used there. The characters with names remaining in Japanese in the English version are the characters such as Tamahome who have Japanese pronunciations of ancient constellations; there was never any intention of them having Chinese names.[5]
This caused some confusion for fans as the anime version uses the Japanese names. For example, in the manga, Hotohori's country is named "Hong-Nan" rather than the "Konan" found in the anime series.[6] After eight volumes, Viz stopped publication of Fushigi Yûgi, reviving it in June 2003 when it released the first two volumes in unflipped standard manga size volumes. The remaining volumes were released on a quarterly schedule, including the remaining ten volumes. The final volume of the series was released in April 2006. The dates and ISBN numbers given for the first eight volumes in the table on the link above are for the second edition releases.[7]
Viz also serialized Fushigi Yûgi in their manga anthology magazine, Animerica Extra, starting with the October 1998 debut issue and running until the December 2004 issue, the magazine's final issue.[4] In 2009 and 2010, Viz re-released the series as part of their "VIZBIG" line, combining three individual volumes of the original release into each single, larger volume.[8]
Produced by Studio Pierrot, the fifty-two episode Fushigi Yûgi anime series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 6, 1995. The series aired weekly, until the final episode that was aired on March 28, 1996.[9] The series was licensed for English-language release to Region 1 DVD and VHS format by Geneon Entertainment, then named Pioneer, under the expanded title "Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play." It has been suggested that Geneon chose to license the series based on its popularity among the fansub community.[10] The main series was released in eight individual volumes and as two box sets, the "Suzaku" and "Seiryū" sets. Media Blasters license-rescued the series, and released the first season to DVD on June 19, 2012.[11] Season 2 was released on February 12, 2013.[12][13]
Original video animations[edit]
Following the anime adaptation three original video animation (OVA) works appeared. The first, spanning three episodes, takes place a year after the events of the main series and has no ties to the original manga. It was released to DVD on October 25, 1996. The second OVA, which has 6 episodes, animates the last four volumes of the manga series that had been left out of the main series. The episodes were split across two volumes, with the first released May 25, 1997, and the second coming over a year later on August 25, 1998.
The final OVA, Fushigi Yûgi Eikoden, spans four episodes and is based on two of the light novels written by Megumi Nishizaki. Released on December 21, 2001, it focuses on a new character, Mayo Sakaki, a sixteen-year-old girl who attends Yotsubadai High School. Upon finding "The Universe of the Four Gods" in a trash bin at the park, Mayo soon discovers that the story remains incomplete. In the unfamiliar world of the book, Mayo must come to terms with her own life and the unhappiness within it.
Geneon Entertainment also licensed the OVAs for Region 1 DVD release. The first two OVAs were released together in a set titled "Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play OVA". Fushigi Yûgi Eikoden was released as a single disc volume. The OVAs were released with similar packaging as the main series, to give them a consistent look.[14] All three OVA series have also been re-licensed by Media Blasters.
Over a series of five years, Megumi Nishizaki wrote thirteen Japanese light novels based on Fushigi Yûgi. Illustrated by Yuu Watase, Fushigi Yûgi Gaiden primarily explores the lives the various Celestial Warriors before they are seen in the manga. The only two novels to be set after the manga, Eikō Den (Jōkan) and Eikō Den (Gekan), later became the basis for the third Fushigi Yûgi original video animation, Fushigi Yûgi Eikoden. Originally published by Shogakukan, none of the novels have been licensed for English release.
|Release Date
|Transcription: "Genrō Den" (Japanese: 幻狼伝)
|January 30, 1998
|Details Tasuki's life between joining the Mt. Reikaku Bandits and Miaka's appearance.
|Transcription: "Shōryū Den" (Japanese: 昇龍伝)
|July 23, 1998
|Chichiri's life shortly after the accident when he loses his eye to his first meeting with Miaka.
|Transcription: "Yuki Yasha Den" (Japanese: 雪夜叉伝)
|February 2, 1999
|Details how Nuriko became a cross-dresser and entered the imperial harem.
|Transcription: "Ryūsei Den" (Japanese: 流星伝)
|April 23, 1999
|Details Amiboshi and Suboshi's tragic past.
|Transcription: "Suzaku Hi Den" (Japanese: 朱雀悲伝)
|July 1999
|The story of emperor Hotohori, his brother Tendō and their relationship with Hōki. This story is later told by Hōki herself to Mayo Sakaki in the Eikoden OVA.
|Transcription: "Seiran Den" (Japanese: 青藍伝)
|December 1, 1999
|Details Nakago's past and his rise to power within the Kutō army.
|Transcription: "Eikō Den (Jōkan)" (Japanese: 永光伝(上巻))
|February 1, 2000
|Set ten years after the final events in the manga, Mayo enters The Universe of the Four Gods. Unhappy with her own life, Mayo wants to achieve a storybook ending with Taka, whom she has a crush on.
|Transcription: "Eikō Den (Gekan)" (Japanese: 永光伝(下巻))
|March 1, 2000
|Continues Mayo's story as she is tricked by a false Suzaku, and saved by Miaka.
|Transcription: "Shugyoku Den" (Japanese: 朱玉伝)
|December 21, 2001
|Tamahome's life from his training under Tokaki to when he first meets Miaka and Yui. This novel also tells Miaka's backstory and her connection with Tamahome during the years of the manifestation of his powers.
|Transcription: "Hōmei Den" (Japanese: 逢命伝)
|March 1, 2002
|Details Mitsukake's romance with Shōka.
|Transcription: "Yūai Den" (Japanese: 優愛伝)
|April 26, 2002
|Recounts Chiriko's whereabouts before he joined the rest of the Suzaku Warriors.
|Transcription: "Sanbō Den (Jōkan)" (Japanese: 三宝伝(上巻))
|July 1, 2003
|Explains how Tenkō used his powers to influence people to do his bidding to break the seal the Four Beast Gods placed on him, as well as to gather the Shinzaho of Genbu, Byakko, Seiryuu and Suzaku. The two main characters are Chichiri and Tasuki.
|Transcription: "Sanbō Den 2 (Gekan)" (Japanese: 三宝伝(下巻))
|September 26, 2003
|Continues story from part 1.
Video game[edit]
Idea Factory released a Sony PlayStation 2 video game based on the Fushigi Yûgi series called Fushigi Yûgi: Suzaku Ibun (ふしぎ遊戯 朱雀異聞). It was released in Japan on May 29, 2008 on the PlayStation 2, and is available in regular and limited editions.[16][17]
Stage play[edit]
A live-action 2.5D musical stage adaptation ran from October 13–21, 2018. The cast features Reina Tanaka as Miaka, Rina Miyazaki as Yui, Ryo Hirano as Tamahome, Mao Miyaji as Nuriko, Yoshiki Tani as Hotohori, Ken Ogasawara as Mitsukake, Subaru Hayama as Chichiri, Kunta Yamasaki as Tasuki, and Daiki Tomida as Chiriko.[18]
THEM Anime Reviews preferred the manga to the anime, criticizing the latter's production values, repetitious dialogue, and reuse of footage in flashback episodes.[19] DVD Verdict criticized the "convoluted" plot and "nonsensical" dialogue.[20] Another review noted that although Miaka "makes out with her boyfriend quite a bit", the climax is "of the heart and soul", despite the many battles that the characters go through. Her strength and belief in herself give her the strength and courage to change the world.[21] Drazen considers the humour in Fushigi Yûgi to be based on super deformed caricatures and therefore strange to Western audiences.[22]
Winnie Chow of Animerica was disappointed by the ending of the anime adaptation, finding the final battle that resolves the series to be "lame at best" that left her cheering more for Nakago than the "good guys". Throughout the series, she notes that the scenes between Miaka and Tamahome became "increasingly sickening" and "overdone".[23]
Fushigi Yûgi Eikoden was panned by THEM Anime Reviews, which considered the animation to be its only strong point. In particular, the reviewer found the new main character to be unlikeable.[24]
See also[edit]
- Ao no Fūin, a manga series based on the same legends.
- ^ "The Official Website for Fushigi Yûgi". Viz Media. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
- ^ Loveridge, Lynzee (August 20, 2017). "8 Anime That Were Isekai Before It Was Cool". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ^ "Curious Play". Animax Asia. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^ a b "Viz Builds Strong Shōjo Slate". ICv2. 2001-09-06. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ Watase, Yû. Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play. Volume 1: Priestess (contains content from Animerica Extra from Volume 1, Issue 1 through Volume 2, Issue 4). Second Printing, May 2004. p. 202.
- ^ Lavey, Megan (2004-04-13). "Fushigi Yûgi (Shōjo Edition) Vol. #01". Anime on DVD. Archived from the original on 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- ^ "Viz Announces Release of Second Edition Manga Titles" (Press release). Viz Media. 2004-03-18. Archived from the original on 2009-12-30. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "Amazon: Viz Adds Gaba Kawa, Heaven's Will, Oishinbo". Anime News Network. 2008-02-24. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ ふしぎ遊戯 (in Japanese). Pierrot. Archived from the original on June 5, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- ^ Of Otaku and Fansubs: A Critical ^·^ Light of Current Issues in Copyright Law
- ^ "Media Blasters Reveals Fushigi Yuugi Boxset for April". Anime News Network. 12 January 2012.
- ^ [1]
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Fushigi-Yugi-Season-Two-Boxset/dp/B008U1AOKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354769819&sr=8-1&keywords=Fushigi+Yugi
- ^ "Sailor Moon Explained, Plus Fushigi Yugi, Cardcaptors, More". ICv2. 2001-08-12. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ Note: ISBNs for all of the novels have been retrieved from Amazon.co.jp. Kanji and rōmaji titles were retrieved from Webcat Plus Archived 2008-02-01 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Fushigi Yuugi: Suzaku Ibun". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Fushigi Yûgi: Suzaku Ibun". Idea Factory. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
- ^ ミュージカル『ふしぎ遊戯-蒼ノ章-』田中れいな、平野良らキャラクタービジュアルを公開. Enterstage (in Japanese). 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
- ^ Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play THEM Anime Reviews
- ^ Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play...The Return Home (Volume 2) DVD Verdict
- ^ "the new stereotypes of anime and manga". Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ Drazen, Patrick (October 2002). Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 281–282. ISBN 1-880656-72-8. OCLC 50898281.
- ^ Chow, Winnie (November 2000). "Best of the West Reviews: Fushigi Yūgi: The Mysterious Play, Vol. 16: The Last Page". Animerica. San Francisco, California: Viz Media. 8 (10): 71. ISSN 1067-0831. OCLC 27130932.
- ^ THEM Anime Reviews 4.0 - Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play: Eikoden
External links[edit]
- Official Viz Media Fushigi Yûgi manga series site
- Official Studio Pierrot Fushigi Yûgi anime series site (in Japanese)
- Fushigi Yûgi (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Manga series
- 1992 manga
- 1995 anime television series
- Anime OVAs
- 2001 anime OVAs
- Fushigi Yûgi
- 1996 anime OVAs
- 1997 anime OVAs
- 1998 Japanese novels
- Animax shows
- Anime Works
- Bandai Visual
- Chinese mythology in anime and manga
- Coming-of-age anime and manga
- Cross-dressing in anime and manga
- Geneon USA
- Isekai anime and manga
- Light novels
- Pierrot (company)
- Male harem anime and manga
- Romance anime and manga
- Sharp Point Press titles
- Shogakukan manga
- Shōjo manga
- TV Tokyo shows
- 5 (TV channel) shows
- Viz Media manga
- Yuu Watase
- 2.5D musicals


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As recently reported, the NetBeans IDE team has decided to drop support for Ruby (and Rails) from NetBeans 7.0.
I have received many good suggestions from readers, with RedCar and RubyMine getting a lot of love.
But wait! What's that? It sounds like trumpets off in the distance... and hoofbeats.
Indeed, Tom Enebo is leading the cavalry to save the day, as he reported in the JRuby forum recently:
I have been talking to Netbeans team about us adopting the project and this is a done deal. Putting together some details and you should see a blog post about this in the next few days. So, if you like using Netbeans dont worry, it will still be an available option in the plugins catalog (not sure about the full Ruby product as an independent download from netbeans site yet).Good news for all those that would like to continue to use NetBeans with Ruby.
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Reason #1 is that I got started making another Woven Plaid Blanket, but this time in KING SIZED.
Reason #2 is that the husband and I got an awesome piece of news this February: We're expecting our first baby in October!!! Yaaaaaay!!!!
The wonders of morning sickness, followed by the feeling of "I'm so fat, why can't I bend forward" also made the weaving of the plaid blanket problematic. So instead, I decided that between me and all of my other friends who were sporting baby bumps, it was time to make ALL the Baby Things!
So, without further delay, here's most of the stuff I've been working on this summer!
|Amish Puzzle Ball
Made for my cousin's baby boy Dylan who is about 1 year old.
Pattern Available Here
|Baby Hat and Airplane
Made for our baby boy! He's getting an aviation themed nursery in these colors.
Hat was freehanded with hdcs, Airplane Pattern Here (requires translation)
|Baby Blanket for Felicity
Pattern Available Here
Made using 5.0mm hook and single strand of Baby Yarn (Loops and Threads Snuggly Wuuggly)
|C2C Baby Blanket for our Little Boy
Corner-to-Corner Pattern Here
Made Using Feza Fantastic Yarn I got on Closeout from the local boutique!
|C2C Baby Blanket for another anticipated Baby Boy
Corner-to-Corner Pattern Here
Made using 11mm hook and 2 strands of worsted, held double
|Genius Flower Headbands for Baby Felicity
Pattern Available Here
I really love this pattern! Very easy, quick, and adaptable. Not to mention STRETCHY!
|Various Baby Boy Scrap Yarn Hats
Left: Textured Newborn Beanie (with pom-pom)
Right: Ribbed Baby Hat
Center: Modified Version of Newborn Beanie
Rnds 5-8: Use DC cluster stitch (dc3tog, ch1, skip 1 st)
Rnd 10-12: hdc in each st
|Scrap Yarn Baby Hats & Booties
Baby Bootie Pattern
Hat Pattern: Modified Version of Newborn Beanie
Rnds 5-9: Use DC cluster stitch (dc3tog, ch1, skip 1 st)
Rnd 10-11: sc in each st
I made 1 hat & pair of booties as a gift, and then I ended up making another SEVEN hats in newborn and premie sizes that were donated to the NICU at the hospital where my birth center is located. I still have enough yarn left over for a few more!


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Seen on the Classicists list:
Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance:
Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Professor Alison Findlay
Professor Edith Hall
5-6 September 2012, University of Bristol, UK
Revenge is often thought of as a quintessentially masculine activity, set in a martial world of blood feuds and patriarchal codes of honour. However, the quest for vengeance can also be portrayed as intensifying passionate feelings traditionally thought of as feminine. In such instances revenge does not confirm a man's heroic valour, but is a potentially emasculating force, dangerous to his reason, self-mastery, and gender identity. Such alternative ways of viewing revenge are also relevant when the avenger is a woman. To what extent is revenge deemed to be natural or unnatural to a woman, and what is its effect upon her psyche and perceived gender? Does the same impulse which effeminizes a man make a woman dangerously masculine? And how should we view the indirect ways that women influence retribution, such as through mourning, cursing, or goading? Are these an important means of female agency, or do they suggest women's exclusion from active revenge, reinforcing traditional gender roles? Are certain acts of violence interpreted differently if the perpetrator is a man or woman, father or mother, son or daughter?
This conference aims to explore these questions, reevaluating the complex and varied ways that gender impacts the performance and interpretation of revenge. Proposed papers may take up any intersection of revenge and gender in texts from Classical to early modern literature, and can focus on individual texts and periods or take an interdisciplinary or cross-temporal approach. Topics may include, but are not limited to: the ways in which revenge bolsters, threatens or transfigures an individual's gender identity and/or role within the family; how individual acts of vengeance reinforce or undermine homosocial or female bonds; personifications of revenge; how the relationship between gender and revenge are reconfigured in a text's translation, reception, and reinterpretation over time; the ethical, cultural and social implications for the ways in which revenge is gendered.
We invite proposals (250 words) for papers addressing these questions. Submissions from postgraduate students, and early career researchers are welcomed. Pre-formed panel proposals will also be considered. Abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract. Please send your proposals or any queries to Lesel Dawson: lesel.dawson AT bristol.ac.uk
Deadline for proposals: 31 May, 2012.


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The Tennessee State women's tennis team dropped their final two contests of the 2013 season this past weekend losing 4-2 at Southeast Missouri State on Saturday and dropping a 6-0 decision at UT-Martin on Sunday.
The Tigers picked up a pair of points against SEMO in singles action as Kryston Mason took care of Sarah Uptmor in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 at #3 Singles. London Thomas at #4 Singles picked up the second point of the day for TSU as the sophomore defeated Lauren Schaper 6-2 in set one. Schaper retired in set two after Thomas was up 2-0.
Mason and Thomas battled their singles opponents Schaper and Uptmor in #2 Doubles. The Tigers nearly pulled off the victory, but SEMO duo edged TSU 9-8.
On Sunday, UT-Martin ended the Tigers season winning all four singles matches in straight sets. TSU ends the season with an 0-18 record, 0-10 in the OVC.


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The Human Resources Department has a staff of 52 employees and a FY 2017-2018 budget of approximately $11.6 million. The Department is organized into three Service Units that provide a full range of personnel services to County Departments, employees, and the public. These Service Units are responsible for the following activities:
Administrative Services Unit
The Administrative Services Unit prepares the annual Human Resources Department budget; directs and monitors department-wide budget activities; and handles purchasing transactions, payroll, staffing, position control, safety, and the data processing needs of the department. The Administrative Services Unit is also responsible for formulating policies and procedures, administering the County-wide Contracted Temporary Help Program, providing consultation on human resources and Merit Board issues, and providing other needed administrative support.
Employee Benefits Services Unit
The Employee Benefits Services Unit develops and recommends long-term, cost effective benefits strategies and policies to the County Administrator and the Board of Supervisors that assist the County in maintaining an overall competitive compensation package. This Unit also coordinates the resolution of benefit disputes, and participates in identifying, selecting and negotiating with vendors for employee benefits. Other Unit responsibilities include providing communication, education, training and consulting services (including mental health consultation and employee assistance services), and analyzing and recommending benefits changes and enhancements.
Personnel Services Unit
The Personnel Services Unit develops, recommends, implements and administers human resources program activities in the areas of recruitment, examinations, compensation, classification, and records management. Among other services, this Unit produces and distributes job announcements; conducts outreach recruitment; develops and administers merit system examinations; certifies eligible candidate lists to departments; conducts salary surveys and job audits; prepares class specification and classification reports; and processes various personnel transactions.
Labor Relations Services Unit*
The Labor Relations Services Unit develops and implements the County's labor relations goals, policies and priorities and manages the negotiations process with the employee associations/unions. Formerly a Unit of the Human Resources Department, the Labor Relations Service Unit was moved to the County Administrator's Office on July 1, 2014.


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The Central Connecticut men's track and field team opened 2014 at the Yale Invitational Saturday and were led by junior Jordan Watkins. Watkins placed second in the 60m hurdles finals with his time of 8.26, besting his own CCSU record of 8.27.
Senior Craig Hunt also had an impressive performance. The defending NEC Indoor Champion in the 3,000m placed first overall in the event with his time of 8:33.29.
The Blue Devils performed well overall in the one mile run. Sophomore Matt Walker claimed third place with his career-best time of 4:26.62. Walker was followed closely by freshman Tyler Raymond (7th, 4:29.01). Central also added Thomas Lupoli and Derek French in the race. The two freshman finished back-to-back in 17th (4:40.53) and 18th (4:40.82), respectively.
In the 4x400m relay, CCSU crossed the finish line eighth out of 23 squads. The team, consisting of sophomore Malcolm Connor, junior Ryan Budd as well as freshmen Kendall Walker and Tommy Pytel, finished in 3:26.81.
Budd also competed in the 400m dash where he finished 16th of 64 runners with his career-best time of 51:39. Budd was followed by Pytel (18th, 51.42), freshman Will Ribiero (26th, 52.37) and sophomore Brian Beckwith (31st, 52.78).
In the high jump, junior Jamie Tobias finished fifth overall, clearing a height of 1.89m.
Junior Michael Ficorilli placed ninth in the weight throw with a toss of 14.03m. He also placed 16th in the shot put in a field of 31, registering a distance of 13.22m.
Other notable field performances include freshman Kwency Crittenden who placed seventh in the triple jump with his distance of 13.38, and sophomore John Sudol who finished 16th of 28 in the long jump with his distance of 6.04m.
The Blue Devils are set to return to action Friday, Jan. 17 at the Great Dane Classic.


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On November 16, 2012, Turtle Rock Elementary celebrated Crossing Guard, Darlene Hoag's 90th Birthday. The parents and students showered her with flowers, cards and gifts of thanks. Her decision to work after retirement is remarkable and the parents wanted to make sure she knows her dedication is not taken for granted. Looking at Darlene, you know that 90 is just a number. Her heart is full as she exhibits youthful enthusiasm for her service to the kids at Turtle Rock Elementary.
The celebration took Darlene by surprise, but not the Irvine World News! They were on hand and documented the occasion with a local news story. Chief Maggard was not available the day of the celebration but didn't want to miss out the opportunity to participate it the celebration. Wednesday morning, January 16, he dropped by her corner for a visit and gave her another surprise.
Chief Maggard presented Darlene Hoag with a plaque that beautifully displays and will forever preserve her feature birthday story written by the Orange County Register. The plaque is the Chief's way of personally thanking Darlene for her care for the children and for the outstanding way she represents the Irvine Police Department.To read the original article in The Irvine World News visit here


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Haifa, the city in which the campaign is based, is a 'mixed' city. Palestinians and Israeli-Jews reside in it, and there are some advanced political projects in the city that helped in choosing it as the group's center of action. Many of Haifa's Palestinians and some Jews participate in anti-Zionist activity on different occasions, such as Nakba day (May 14-15) and Land day (March 30), and there are regular vigils against Israeli war crimes, as well as various forms of direct action against the occupation and the Zionist regime.
Through the various discussions, it was found that there is broad agreement that support by Israeli citizens, particularly Jewish-Israelis could be very useful to the international BDS campaign. In addition to helping counter the crude characterization of Israel's critics as anti-Semites, the usefulness of organized Jewish-Israeli endorsement for the campaign helps respond to the charge that progressive Israelis, or the Israeli left, do not support BDS. Less clear are the prospects or opportunities for such a movement to exist in a meaningful way.
An important unresolved issue is the legitimate reluctance of many anti-Zionists in Palestine to identify as Israelis. In a movement dedicated to the principle of full equality, the wishes of those who oppose such a label should not be taken lightly. As such, an internal debate has arisen over the simple, but fundamental, question of what to name the group. Does the usefulness of externally projecting ourselves as Jewish-Israeli settlers in Palestine who oppose the settler colonial project outweigh the principled objection to internally and externally identifying one-self as being part of the Zionist enterprise through the use of the 'Israeli' label? Even on the domestic front, while the Jewish society in Palestine will undoubtedly see BDS demands as extreme, identifying as Israelis may help in getting others to listen to our arguments as members of the same society, rather than further alienating BDS campaigners as a foreign body within that society. This is a long-standing question for the Jewish anti-Zionist movement in Palestine, and while it is an unresolved issue, it should not be allowed to become an obstacle to mounting an effective struggle against the apartheid regime.
The first obstacle to the campaign is the fact that support for BDS is very marginalized within Jewish-Israeli society and some of the prominent advocates of the campaign, such as Ilan Pappe and the late Tanya Reinhart, had to endure a great deal of pressure in response to their position. This official and societal pressure is successful in intimidating many potential supporters of the campaign. Secondly, even amongst potential supporters of BDS the discussion is at a pretty early stage. One indication is that people commonly respond to the proposed campaign with the idea that Israeli citizens (including Palestinian citizens of Israel) can not call for a boycott since they can not avoid participating in the Israeli economy.
In addition to potential usefulness for the global campaign, the main reason for wanting to launch the campaign within Jewish-Israeli society is a principled one that stems from a deep opposition to the colonial Zionist project. While some parts of the Israeli left may have called for selective boycotts, notably of settlement products, there currently exists no agent within this society that operates within the framework of the 9 July 2005 Palestinian civil society call for BDS. Thus, it is felt that it is important to join the Palestinians in their call for boycott, accepting their role as the original initiators, accepting the Palestinian call for boycott as it is, focusing on all three demands of ending occupation, equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and implementation of the Palestinian refugees' right to return. Participants see BDS as an essential campaign, potentially the most powerful nonviolent campaign possible to stop the ongoing war crimes committed in the name of Jewish people.
The group is now at a stage of planning activities in Israel and abroad. At first, efforts will be focused on educating potential supporters. In the mean time, the group has already been involved in several initiatives. The first action was simply to translate and endorse the Palestinian civil society call for BDS as Israelis. The direct support of Israeli citizens in the BDS call is an important declaration, and one that will hopefully inspire other Israelis to join the campaign. Recently, the group also took part in a march commemorating 41 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. During the march, BDS activists carried signs that read "Boycott Israel" in Hebrew and English, chanting this slogan loudly. After the march, about 30 Israelis held a meeting that lasted about an hour-and-a-half and discussed the idea of boycotting Israel among themselves. The responses were encouraging and it will be important to have such discussions again at other political events. The group also participated in the panel dealing specifically with the boycott campaign at the 21 June 2008 Haifa Conference on the Secular Democratic State. Since then it issued open letters to high profile artists planning to perform in Israel, such as Snoop Doggy Dog and Cypress Hill, calling on them to cancel their visits and to take public positions against the Israeli apartheid regime.
While discussions have produced the preliminary steps already mentioned, there are larger issues that have emerged as requiring more discussion and need to be thought through with the Palestinian initiators of the campaign. For instance, one way in which Hebrew speakers can clearly be of use to the campaign is research into the corporations and institutions supporting and legitimizing Israel's apartheid system. Such research should not be done in an arbitrary fashion, but would be much more useful if done in coordination with the needs of the global campaign and the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the main reference point of the global campaign. Translation of BDS resources and news from other languages to Hebrew will also be an important part of our work, in order to facilitate outreach in the Hebrew-speaking community.
Another question that has come up in discussions is that of how to relate to groups operating within the framework of a selective boycott. Gush Shalom, for example, calls solely for a boycott of settlement products, but not of Zionist-Israeli institutions in general. The practical aspect of how to relate to such groups creates a dilemma: are supporters of BDS based on the Palestinian civil society call to join forces with those who only support part of the call, and after some gains are made on that front, to go on to advocate a wide boycott and further demands; or should they not cooperate with boycott initiatives which do not follow the call issued by Palestinians. The reason for considering the first option is the potential of reaching a much larger audience and increasing the legitimacy of the idea of the boycott campaign within Israeli society. The reason for considering the second option is that given the disproportionate weight that actors within the international community give to Jewish and Israeli voices, Israeli boycott calls might end up setting the agenda for international initiatives. For example, European groups who might want Israeli support for their boycott policies might follow Gush Shalom's policy of only boycotting settlement products while Palestinian organizations have clearly called for support for a wider boycott. By joining forces, even temporarily with those who offer only partial support for the Palestinian call, one may inadvertently give credibility to Israeli decision-making power in what is and should continue to be a Palestinian-led campaign.
A pivotal issue is that of the role and relationship vis-à-vis Palestinian citizens of Israel who are central to the campaign. For instance, does the usefulness of having a Jewish-Israeli group calling for boycott, outweigh the potential perpetuation of 'apartness' and 'separation' characteristic of Israeli apartheid by having an exclusively Jewish group? These questions cannot be answered without a longer process of discussion with Palestinian BDS activists on both sides of the green line.
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The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dunbarton Oaks have recently made available online fourteen films from their collection. Of greatest interest to Courtauld staff and students will be those dealing with the restoration and conservation, during the first half of the twentieth century, of Byzantine art and architecture at the Red Sea Monastery of Saint Anthony near Cairo and Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii in Istanbul.
The restoration work was carried out by the Byzantine Institute of America under the direction of the archaeologist and scholar Thomas Whittemore. The work at the Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii was enabled by Whitemore's friendship with Mustafa Ataturk, founder of the Republic of Turkey. At the Hagia Sophia, many mosaics previously thought lost in the earthquake of 1894 were uncovered and Laurian Douthett suggests that this may have led to the conversion of the mosque into a museum. The films provide a fascinating early use of the medium to document the restoration process as well as giving a glimpse of life in Turkey in the 1930s and 1940s.
Whittemore's four volume preliminary reports on the mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul can be found in the Book Library at classmark A3780 BYZ. An exhibition catalogue from the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University detailing the Byzantine Institute restoration at Kariye Camii can be found at Z5020 NEW WAL (2004).
Another film gives an insight into the history of the garden at Dunbarton Oaks. The aging 16mm films were themselves in need of urgent conservation which resulted in their digitisation and publishing on the Dumbarton Oaks website.
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Sen. Wendy Davis is raising money with the stars in California.
Her Republican opponent for governor, Attorney General Greg Abbott, is making political hay of it back home.
Director Steven Spielberg is among the hosts of the "celebration and fundraiser honoring Davis" on the rooftop of the Bad Robot in Santa Monica, California. Besides Davis, it benefits Battleground Texas, dedicated to making Texas competitive for Democrats.
The tab for hosts is $25,000, while contributions range down to $1,000 at the "friend" level.
The Abbott campaign put out a video Star Wars-themed slam on the trip that begins with the words on the screen, "A short time ago, in a liberal land far, far away... "
"A candidate for Texas governor rubbing elbows with gun-grabbing, ObamaCare-promoting, tax-raising Hollywood elites? It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi fantasy film, but when it comes to Sen. Wendy Davis, it's a reality show," said Abbott communications director Matt Hirsch. "As she heads to a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles with celebrities tonight, it's official; Sen. Davis has gone Hollywood."
Davis, a Democrat in an uphill race for governor, must raise money from outside of as well as within Texas to compete in a state where her party has long been shut out of statewide office.
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This new volume in the award-winning and fabulous Fables series features the familiar, amazing artists Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha, and some well known guest artists with Eric Shanower and Terry Moore. Shanower pencils an interesting introductory tale from fableland, while Terry Moore does the art of the moving final tale of "Waking Beauty."
At the heart of the volume is the story of the "super team." Mr. Dark has Fabletown bowing to his whim, wreaking his evil and darkness, and must be stopped at all costs. He is now growing his dominance in the land of fable, blocked by a protective force field by Flycatcher. They're going to need a crack team of really strong fables, the F-Men, to stop this Mr. Dark. They're going to need the likes of Werewolf Man, and The Golden Knight, and maybe the Green Witch. They'll need training and simulations to be ready, but ultimately someone much stronger will be needed to take down this master of darkness and fear.
Super Team does what every volume since the start has done: furthered the compelling story, as well as introducing new material and new fables, to keep the readers hooked. The fresh art styles of Shanower and Moore add to the magic, making this volume a requirement for any fan.
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With the GRE changing on August 1st, 2011, and an increasing number of business schools accepting the GRE for the application process, we thought it might be a good time to discuss the two to help people make a decision about which test to take.
There are a number of factors that should influence your decision about which test to take. Before we get into those, we'd recommend that your first order of business should always be to contact the admissions office(s) at the program(s) you're interested in to gather information on how each test is weighted in the admissions process. At present, very little information is given about how the two tests stack up in the admissions process (for example, Columbia provides a link to the GRE Comparison Tool on their admissions website, while Darden at the University of Virginia simply says the GRE is accepted in lieu of the GMAT; neither school, it should be noted, gives any specific info on how the tests are weighted). Given this circumstance, any information you can gather from the programs you're interested in would be beneficial in informing your decision on which test to take.
So, here are some considerations in deciding which test to take:
1) The Practical Facts – The GMAT is accepted by 4,800 programs at over 1,500 universities. Comparatively, the GRE is currently accepted by several hundred business schools. Chances are good that regardless of which schools you wish to apply to, they will accept the GMAT, meaning that if you go with the GMAT you only need one test. The same, at present, can't be said for the GRE. Consequently, if you plan to apply to multiple universities, your GMAT scores can be submitted to all of them.
To underscore this point, take a look at the following table, which lists the top-40 business schools according to US News & World Report (2011) and whether each accepts the GMAT, GRE, or both. Several schools on the list currently do not accept the GRE, which means if you're interested in applying to any of those, you'll need the GMAT. Also included in the chart are direct links to schools' respective admissions pages. Simply click on the school name to go to the admissions page.
2) Available Information – Most business schools normally publish the GMAT score ranges and averages for recent incoming classes. However, similar information, at present, is not readily available for the GRE. Knowing what accepted candidates at your choice schools scored is a great barometer for determining what you need to have a reasonable shot at getting accepted. This knowledge allows you to focus on the score you need for a solid chance at admission and to better plan your preparation. Knowledge, as always, is power, and taking the GMAT allows you to work from a place of more knowledge. Below are the published GMAT score ranges for a number of schools around the country:
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|Stanford University
|700 – 750
|Harvard University
|550 – 790
|Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
|660 – 760
|University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
|540 – 790
|Northwestern University (Kellogg)
|University of Chicago (Booth)
|690 – 740
|Dartmouth College (Tuck)
|660 – 760
|University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
|700 – 740
|Columbia University
|690 – 730
|New York University (Stern)
|700 – 740
|Yale University
|Duke University (Fuqua)
|640 – 750
|University of Virginia (Darden)
|640 – 750
|University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
|680 – 750
|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)
|680 – 730
|Cornell University (Johnson)
|660 – 720
|University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
|660 – 710
|Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
|670 – 730
|University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
|650 – 720
|Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
|660 – 720
|Syracuse University
|580 – 650
|Georgia State
|570 – 640
3) Perceptions of Difficulty – For years one of the principal knocks on the GRE was its perceived ease. People routinely score 800 on the Quant, while both the Quant and Verbal Reasoning sections were significantly shorter than those of the GMAT. Whether the GRE is an "easier" test is largely irrelevant. What matters is the perception, and the most recent perception of the test is that it is easier and less grueling than the GMAT. Consider the ramifications for this if you're thinking of taking the GRE. What will an admissions officer or committee think when they have two equally qualified candidates but one took the GMAT and one took the GRE if for years the GRE was seen as easier? It remains to be seen how the changes to the GRE will affect those perceptions, but it's likely that some time will have to pass until people get a better understanding of the GRE and its difficulty.
4) Personal Best Performance – Regardless of all other considerations for which test to take, you always want to put your best foot forward. While the GMAT and GRE do test many of the same concepts and topics, they also differ in a number of ways (click here to see differences between the two). Consequently, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that a person could score significantly better on one than the other. If you've demonstrated a better ability with one test or the other, you'll seriously want to consider submitting your scores from that test. Keep in mind that both tests can be prepared for, however, and scores on both tests can be improved through practice and instruction.
So what's it all mean? Well, at the end of the day you'll have to make a decision about which test will give you the best shot. In most cases schools want one or the other, not both, and often they leave the choice to you. Consider how you've done on each (or how you'd do), what your choice schools ask for, and give it a go. Regardless of which test you choose, keep in mind you can always improve with time, effort, and instruction. Whichever test you choose, make sure you're submitting the best score you can achieve.
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Played by Jerry Garcia as an instrumental with Merl Saunders in the early 1970s. Later recorded with David Grisman and Tony Rice, also as an instrumental. Sung by Stu Allen with Phil Lesh & Friends in 2016.
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
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So, hush little baby, don't you cry
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Angelina Jolie has a spy thriller that's cracked the $100 million mark, and another one on the way. She's also developing a Bosnian War love story in development, and is now considering a remake of a British miniseries.
"Unforgiven" is a three-part drama that aired on ITV1 in 2009 about Ruth Slater, a woman who tries to piece her life abck together after serving 15 years for the murder of two policeman. Now Christopher McQuarrie, the man who co-wrote Jolie's upcoming film "The Tourist" (co-starring Johny Depp), is adapting the story for the big screen," reported Deadline.
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Jolie apparently doesn't commit to projects until there's a script -- which sounds reasonable enough -- but the film is produced by Graham King, the man behind "The Tourist," so it sounds like a reunion is in order.
We haven't seen the original, starring Suranne Jones as Slater, but the trailer looks promising, even if the Metallica soundtrack is a bit much.
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