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Top 10 Forgotten Anime List (part 1)
Anime series tend to have subjective life spans. That is to say, some series are evergreen hits (aka Dragon Ball Z) while others are quickly forgotten and put to rest. But since demand and supply play an important role in a series' life span, ill-received series which not many buy can actually stick around longer than those hit series which everyone and their sister bought a copy of. Not only that, the sad truth is some of the best anime series out there are currently out of commission and cannot be bought easily. These shiny gems were once highly praised and sought after. They now lay forgotten, covered in the dust of time, and are not licensed due to varies reasons. Today I've decided to share with you my list of top 10 forgotten series which should get a new breath of life and be reachable again. Because the whole list will fill the entire blog space if posted at once I've decided to divide it into 3 parts. Moreover, since this is a list of series that I strongly believe should be rereleased, and not a "best of" list, the series in it are not numbered. That said, I did include each and every title because in my humble opinion they are the best forgotten anime series out there. The series' titles are linked to their respective entries over at anidb.net, so click on them for more information about the series. Let the listing begin!
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A beautifully animated series with great plot and many surprises to keep you watching, Scrapped Princess was a very high profile series both in Japan and in the U.S. It aired in Japan during 2003 and was later released in the U.S. in 2005 by Bandai Entertainment. Above all it was a very balanced anime, with a completely believable fantasy world. It even touched on political and religious issues.
Current State:
The series is unlicensed, and a bit forgotten. You can still find copies of the entire series on the net, but the price tags are in the hundreds.
Chance of revival:
Very high. This was a well-received series and it still has potential to sell today. Its license only expired recently so another company might license it soon. Scrapped Princess will probably resurface in a year or two.
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The most successful and memorable magical girl series to date. Despite being a shoujo series it managed to cross demographics and genders, and was highly popular. The secret to CardCaptor Sakura's success lay in waving a complex backstory which slowly unfolds and matures as the series progress. CardCaptor Sakura aired between 1998 and 2000 in Japan. It arrived on U.S. shores in 2000 and was released by Nelvana across several years. Two very different series exist: (the original) Cardcaptor Sakura and Cardcaptors. Cardcaptors was a heavily censored and altered version, in which several episodes were omitted, the main character changed and themes recompiled to portray a different story. Cardcaptors was supposed to be the definite CardCaptor Sakura iteration in the U.S. However, due to demand by fans, the original CardCaptor Sakura was also simultaneously released. Eventually CardCaptors bombed, while CardCaptor Sakura became a huge success.
Current State:
The series is unlicensed despite lingering love from the fans.
Chance of revival:
Very high. CardCaptor Sakura was retouched and released on Blu-ray in Japan during 2009. As of now it is bound by an exclusivity contract that forbids its distribution outside of Japan. Nonetheless, U.S. anime distribution companies are probably on their toes and will snatch it up the moment the exclusivity contract expires (which should happen soon).
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A very charming and touching love story. While it seemed like a typical harem series at first it has been recognized for its complexity and lack of offending fan service. Ai Yori Aoshi was praised for its art and interesting characters. The series aired in Japan during 2002 and was released in the U.S. by Geneon Entertainment USA in 2003. A second season titled Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi was also created.
Current State:
The series is licensed by Funimation Entertainment, but no release date is available. The old Geneon DVDs have become very rare and expensive.
Chance of revival:
FUNimation received the licensing rights to Ai Yori Aoshi from Geneon when Geneon went under. However, FUNimation received it as part of a large bulk of series and has yet to announce whether it intends to release it or not. It remains to be seen if FUNimation will rise up to the challenge and bring Ai Yori Aoshi back at an affordable price.
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A pumped-up action series about lawless pirates, this series seemed frivolous yet retained a very realistic feel. Black Lagoon is the only anime series in which you can find people cursing each other in Japanese, Spanish, Russian and English!
Black Lagoon also had an unintelligible English opening theme. The main characters of the series managed to be likable despite being dirty scum bags to their cores. Black Lagoon aired in Japan during 2006. It was released as singles by Geneon in the U.S. starting 2007 and later picked up by FUNimation, which released it as a box set. A second series, as well as an OVA were later created.
Current State:
The Geneon singles are now a thing of the past. FUNimation's box sets have gone out of print, and FUNimation has yet to reissue them. Legal copies can still be found around, but the prices are through the roof.
Chance of revival:
Very high. To commemorate the release of its brand new OVA (Black Lagoon: Roberta`s Blood Trail) both the first and second seasons of Black Lagoon were retouched and released on Blu-ray in Japan between 2009 and 2010. FUNimation will likely be issuing their own Bly-ray version of the series based on those Japanese masters in the near future.
That's it for today. Look forward to the second part in a few days. Want to offer a different list or guess what I'll be adding next? Head over to the comments section and write it up!
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Mimesis, madness, and modernity: Robert Musil and the ethics of being without qualities
|Mimesis, madness, and modernity: Robert Musil and the ethics of being without qualities
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|Erwin, A. F.
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|Wellbery, David E.
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|The University of Chicago
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|Comparative literature, Germanic literature
This dissertation is a study of the novelistic aesthetics and ethics of Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities ; MwQ ). Whereas previous scholarship has tended to treat MwQ as an outlier in the history of the novel, reflecting the peculiar style and philosophy of the scientist-turned-author Musil, my study argues that the MwQ 's aesthetic and ethical unity coheres around a problem that is central to the history of the novel from Cervantes to Dostoyevsky and Proust. Following the critic René Girard, I call this problem "metaphysical" or "mimetic desire"--a specifically modern condition in which subjects desire and imitate an Other who appears to possess the authenticity and autonomy that are the normative ideals of modern identity. Developing Girard's notion further through an engagement with theories of modernity and the novel, I show how the concept of mimetic desire helps us understand the way Musil binds the diverse political, social, and psychological strands of his narrative into a coherent diagnosis of modernity's ills. Yet, as I show, Musil's novel contains not only a critical diagnosis of modernity but also a positive ethical project, which I read as a mystical response to the problem of mimetic desire. Challenging critics who have interpreted Musil's mysticism as a form of escapism that reinforces the social and psychic structures of modern political ideologies, I argue that the particular contours of Musil's mysticism (which I show is informed and illuminated by Daoism) make it both a compelling ethical response to the ills of his modernity and a powerful vision of what an ethical life might look like in a world that has abandoned some of the founding assumptions of modernity. This vision, I suggest, involves cultivating a way of being that abandons modernity's quest for radical autonomy (from nature and from others) and embraces a demystified scientific view of human beings as social animals for whom lack of an inherent, "authentic" identity--lack of qualities of one's own (the double meaning of ohne Eigenschaften )--is a natural condition that serves as the basis of ethical comportment in the world.
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text: Current and former Essendon players are banned for this AFL season because of doping, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport handed down a stunning verdict on Tuesday. CAS upheld the World Anti-Doping Agency's appeal against the AFL tribunal decision to clear 34 players of taking the banned substance thymosin-beta 4. It is understood half those players from Essendon's 2012 list are still in the AFL - 12 with the Bombers and five at other clubs. While it was always felt that the final decision could go either way, the severity of the ban is another unexpected twist in the saga. There had been speculation that the players' two-year bans could be backdated so heavily that they would only miss a handful of games or even none at all. Essendon had always been confident any punishment would be minimal. The CAS verdict is most likely the last step in the official anti-doping process that started on February 5, 2012 when Essendon announced they were coming under a joint AFL and ASADA investigation. The three-man CAS panel was comfortably satisfied that the players took thymosin beta-4 as part of the club's controversial supplements program. It is the biggest anti-doping scandal in Australian sporting history and the guilty verdicts and bans will have massive ramifications. "The 34 players concerned are sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years, commencing on 31 March 2015, with credit given for any individual period of ineligibility already served," CAS said in a statement. "Thus, most of the suspensions will come to an end in November 2016. "The panel found to its comfortable satisfaction that Clause 11.2 of the 2010 AFL Doping Code (use of a prohibited substance) has been violated and found by a majority that all players were significantly at fault." Essendon and the AFL had made contingency plans about top-up players, who also were used during last year's pre-season competition as provisional bans were served. Essendon captain Jobe Watson is known to be among the banned players and one immediate question is whether he will keep his 2012 Brownlow Medal. Essendon great Matthew Lloyd said the verdict and penalty was disastrous. "It opens a pandora's box - it's Essendon's and the AFL's worst nightmare," Lloyd told the Channel Nine Network. "Players have lost their careers, lost their livelihoods, the stress on the families, themselves." Lloyd noted Watson had contemplated retirement at the end of last season because of the ongoing stress of the supplements saga. Essendon's season last year went into freefall once WADA announced in May they were appealing against the March AFL anti-doping tribunal verdict. CAS held the appeal hearing last November in Sydney. "Probably another write off for Essendon in regards to playing finals football - how much can the supporters take it anymore?," Lloyd said. "That's devastating for everyone involved in the AFL fraternity." Former WADA president John Fahey said the anti-doping code was clear on each sportsperson's responsibility. "The reality of the matter is that the individual player is the responsible party," Fahey told the Seven Network. "The strict liability applies to every athlete in the world, including Essendon players or any football player. "That's the simple facts of how the code works." The AFL, Essendon and the AFL Players' Association are all expected to hold media conferences on Tuesday in the wake of the CAS verdict. AAP http://www.sportsfan.com.au/cas-uph...t.aspx?cid=BP_ARTICLE_SPT_Essenden-BAN_120116


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SHRM Newsletter: NLRB Proposes New Employer Posting Requirement
January 5, 2011
This is Utah SHRM Legal-mail no. 2011-1 prepared for Salt Lake SHRM, the Human Resources Association of Central Utah (HRACU), the Northern Utah Human Resources Association (NUHRA), the Color Country Human Resources Association (CCHRA), the Bridgerland Society for Human Resource Management and Utah at-large members of the national Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
NLRB PROPOSES NEW EMPLOYER POSTING REQUIREMENT: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently proposed requiring most employers to post a notice in their workplaces telling employees about their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Among other things, the NLRA gives employees the right to act in concert to seek to improve working conditions, form a union, seek help from a union and engaged in various union activities once a union is formed and/or recognized. The rule would apply to all employers covered by the NLRA, which basically means all private employers. The NLRA does not cover the following: agricultural laborers; persons employed in the domestic service of any person or family in a home; persons employed by a parent or spouse; independent contractors; supervisors; employers subject to the Railway Labor Act, such as railroads and airlines; federal, state, or local government employees; or any other person who is not an employer as defined in the NLRA. Failure to post the required notice would be considered an unfair labor practice subject to sanctions. Interested persons should comment on the proposed rule before
February 20, 2011. Thereafter, the NLRB will finalize the nature and scope of the new posting requirement. You can read a copy of the proposed new rule here: http://www.nlrb.gov/About_Us/news_room/Notice_for_Rulemaking/2010-32019_PI.pdf.
NEW ADA REGULATIONS PENDING: In late December of 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) approved draft final regulations under the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA). The EEOC also sent them to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. OMB can take up to three months for this review, but the EEOC has asked for an expedited process. The EEOC will not publicize the new regulations until the OMB review is completed. There is speculation that the EEOC has changed its proposed regulations made public in 2009.
ANOTHER UTAH LOCAL GOVERNMENT PASSES ANTI-BIAS ORDINANCE: Grand County in eastern Utah has joined the growing list of local governments to enact ordinances prohibiting workplace discrimination, based on sexual orientation, within the boundaries of the County. Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Park City, Summit County, Murray, Moab and Logan also have adopted similar measures at the municipal level. Employers within all ten of these local governmental boundaries are subject to claims for discrimination and should take steps to manage that risk. These steps should include adding sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes listed in employee handbooks and policy statements and training supervisors and employees about the new legal requirements. Ogden City is also considering passing such an ordinance.
COMMENTS SOUGHT ON NURSING MOTHERS MANDATES: Congress recently amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to require, as of March of 2010, that covered employers provide nursing mothers with reasonable time and private space to express breast milk while at work. Parts of the new requirement are clear, but parts are somewhat confusing. The United States Department of Labor (DOL) likely will issue some kind of guidance clarifying the requirements. Thus, DOL has asked employers and other interested parties to provide comments to DOL about the requirement. Here is a link to a DOL Q & A describing its request for comments and its plans for guidance: http://www.dol.gov/whd/nursingmothers/faqsRFI.htm A DOL fact sheet further describing the requirements for break times for nursing mothers is available here: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs73.htm
JETS/FAVRE SUED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT: As further proof of my oft-stated warning that no employer is immune from either actionable misbehavior by workers or from employment lawsuits, there is the recent news that future Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre and the New York Jets have been sued by two female employees employed by the pro team when Favre was the QB in 2008. The women allege that Favre made sexual requests and comments and sent them sexual texts while he worked for the team. Favre and the Jets deny the claims. I could easily make comments about the risks of making passes on the job or trying to score while at work. However, it is awfully early in the new year for such puns, so I will refrain. I am sure 2011 will bring us many more opportunities for puns and other humor in the employment law world and I look forward to enjoying them with you. Happy New Year!
Written by: Employment Attorney, Michael Patrick O'Brien
Utah State and Salt Lake SHRM legal director
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NE: "It hasn't even been a month since the last Nintendo Direct, but the Big N is already planning on streaming another broadcast... tomorrow. "
I can't wait! I love these Directs, hopefully this one will concentrate on third party support or maybe(fingers crossed!)anything(even the smallest tid bit!)about what Retro is working on, whatever it is it's gonna be HUGE!
probably the Nintendo Direct about 3rd party games, mentioned by AnnoyedGamer in one of his vids. hope so.
Won't get too excited as yet. It'll take A LOT to top the last Nintendo Direct. But if this is about third party stuff, I'm hoping for a reveal that Bravely Default is coming to North America. After the confirmation that we're getting Project X Zone, anything is possible.


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A newspaper cutout in the window of a Chinese restaurant declared how ethnically diverse Canterbury's cuisine is now becoming. Cantonese cuisine is hardly cutting-edge cooking, in fact it is one of the oldest 'exotic' cuisines to hit our fair pie and mash shores. The article nonetheless does have a point, even if the medium that I found it did not best illustrate it, and the citizens of Canterbury are abound with a choice that rivals London (that is to say, Crouch End, maybe).
Nobody in Canterbury walks anywhere or knows where anything is in the city. If something is off the High Street or Westgate, I find myself buggered when trying to explain the location of something. Zeus is between the library and Siesta, and the person that suggested we try it lives off Palace Street and has only just discovered this "hidden gem".
I noticed that it had been open for at least as long as I have moved back to Canterbury. The space it occupies used to be a terrible bar, another terrible bar, and, I think, an office supplies store where my friend worked when she was fifteen. At least seven months on, Zeus is still open and seems to be doing a-okay, if TripAdvisor is to be believed. Back in January I had tried to go with my mother but it was closed for a refurb and we went to the ever-reliable Deeson's (round the back of Debenham's, near Siesta) instead. Here is an apples and oranges review of both.
"It is no bad thing that Zeus is closed because they use a lot of hashtags."
Never judge a restaurant by their branding is not a saying to live by. Tacos Locos, for example, tastes exactly how it looks. If you are the marketing director of Zeus, come talk to me as I would like to know why various hashtags (#Souvlaki, #EatGreek) painted on the window of an otherwise perfectly good storefront is enticing. You're better than this, Zeus, or I'm too judgmental of hashtags.
Deeson's is classy British, respectability on the outside and in, though the interiors of the two restaurants are more similar than I would have expected from their branding strategy. A lot of wood. Canterbury likes wood. It shows that our restaurants are rustic and use local produce and remind us of home and what not. Far better than neo-industrial which teaches us to be cool. I don't want to be cool when I eat, I want to be fed.
I sit by the window in both restaurants. It is not quite al fresco weather yet. There are only two other tables occupied in Zeus, and in Deeson's our side of the restaurant is empty, though around the corner it is nearly full. Zeus is peaceful, as is Deeson's until they spend ten minutes repairing the coffee machine.
"Most people go for the lunch menu. The Souvlaki is very popular."
"But it's just Souvlaki."
Will, my dining companion, spends half the year in Crete. He wondered out loud whether this is more of a restaurant or a taverna. The giveaway is the full name of the restaurant: 'Zeus – Ouzeria and Taverna'. He then wondered if it was Greek or Cypriot, concluding Cypriot, it's always Cypriot. Good, next: the food. My experience with Greek food is limited to being perturbed at being charged €1 for a single bread roll then later getting several free courses at Italian and burger restaurants in resort towns (Stalis and Malia, because everyone needs a tacky girls holiday at least once in their lives). Will and the waitress talked me through the menu as I was evidently too lazy to read the menu which is one of the most descriptive menus that I have come across; there is even a key.
The Deeson's menu is simple for English people to decipher and among the best representations of British (when is food British and when is it English?) cuisine that I have come across in restaurants or otherwise. The more I travel the more I realise that I have no real connection with British food, no nostalgia stories where I come close to tears praising the relative merits of a beef stew and Sunday lunches that never were. British food is widely derided. This is incorrect, but it isn't much of a stretch to see why other cultures may write it off as "stodgy" or "boring".
Grandma might not have made it, but the parsnip soup was damn fine and here I am actively recommending a parsnip soup, a recommendation that sounds so bland that were it given to me I would be inclined to turn on the jukebox in my mind. And I will and have recommended the steak, the best steak in Canterbury and the third-best steak I've had after Gaucho and Hawksmoor. Good job, Deeson's, good job indeed. I am told they use fresh, seasonal ingredients, many of which are grown/reared in their smallholding somewhere on the outskirts of Canterbury.
With its view of the Cathedral, Deeson's may also have the best toilet in Canterbury.
Back to Zeus, where we have a carafe of wine while taking an inordinate amount of time to decide. The waitress knows the menu well, or is good at pretending that she knows the menu well. She recommends the pork tigania, which I tell her is a good choice.
The lunch menu is quite good but we go for meze because why the hell not, we're already daydrinking on a Thursday. A problem with daydrinking on a Thursday when there is an election is that you go to vote and the polling people know you. Villages are small.
From the menu: talagani saganaki, courgette and aubergine crisps (no zuchhini fritte; apparently not greasy enough to be authentically Greek), dolmades, tzatziki (not garlicky enough to be authentically Greek), and possibly something else. The meal was heavy, too heavy for dessert, but not so heavy that mastika with Greek coffee chasers was too much. Afternoon indulgence in an empty restaurant.
If you like Greek food, why not give Zeus a whirl. I prefer Italian. Or Chinese. Or a whole host of other dining options, including, would you believe it, British. It's a nice restaurant space, but I've been concluding that a lot recently so maybe I'm just pleased to get out the house.
No myths to be made or broken, and please, no more hashtags. A Greek salad is a Greek salad is a Greek salad.
Zeus, 2-3 Orange Street, Canterbury, CT1 2JA. +44 (0)1227 788 072.
Deeson's, 25-26 Sun Street, Canterbury CT1 2HX, +44 (0)1227 767 854.


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Landscapes of Resilience: Queens, NY
The Landscapes of Resilience Project explores the practices of community greening and environmental stewardship in the post-disturbance context of two US cities, Joplin, Missouri and New York City. In May 2011, Joplin was devastated by an EF5 tornado. One year later in October 2012, New York experienced its own extreme storm event, when Hurricane Sandy landed on its shores.
While these cities have distinct features and unique experiences, the common thread of rebuilding life after disaster binds them. This research focuses on the capacity for community engagement in greening to contribute to the social resilience of affected places, as well as the importance of such green spaces in the context of city resilience strategies.
With funding provided by the TKF Foundation's NatureSacred Program, this project couples site design and development with research in action. This means that researchers are uniquely positioned alongside both projects as they emerge and evolve over time. In Joplin, a butterfly garden was created as an open space for reflection and healing at Cunningham Park. In New York, a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) property, B 41st Street Houses, in Rockaway NY is the setting where a community garden continues to undergo recovery in the aftermath of Sandy. The two projects are in different stages of their redevelopment and both provide a unique lens through which to examine the phases of the greening process. Joplin provides the opportunity to observe the outcomes of the new memorial space within an established town park, while the New York site is currently being redesigned through the efforts of committed residents with the support of an interdisciplinary research and design team.
The New York City team includes researchers Lindsay Campbell, Erika Svendsen and Nancy Sonti of the Forest Service and Project Coordinator Renae Reynolds, Landscape Architect Victoria Marshall (Till Design), Lee Trotman and Elizabeth Gilcrest (NYCHA's Gardening & Sustainability Unit) as well as design consultant and natural builder Craig Desmond (Ecotone Building) and collaborators at the New York Restoration Project (NYRP). The intention of the project in New York City is to continue to cultivate a network of people in support and care of this special place.
In order to understand the process necessary to create resilient communities and to further contribute to scholarship that will inform resiliency planning, several core research questions act as guide posts to our research: What helps to inspire, create, shape, operate, and maintain such places? How do these spaces help communities recover and organize in the aftermath of a disturbance?
The LOR project emerged from the work of researchers Lindsay Campbell and Erika Svendsen in collaboration with Dr. Keith Tidball of Cornell University and with inspiration from our colleagues in the City of Joplin, Christopher Cotten, and Tracy Sooter, Nancy Chikaraishi and Jennifer Silva Brown from Drury University.
Follow the design and development of the New York's B41st Community Garden.
Award recipients
Cornell University (Civic Ecology Lab), USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, TILL Design, and New York City Housing Authority
Queens, NY