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This drama tells the story about Do Bong Soon (Park Bo Young) who is a woman born with Herculean strength, anything she touches with too much force crumbles in her hands. Ahn Min Hyuk (Park Hyung Sik) is her love interest and he is an extraordinary second-generation chaebol with crazy tendencies. Meanwhile, Gook Doo (Ji Soo) is the guy who's harbored a one-sided crush on the heroine.
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Revised romanization: Himssenyeoja Dobongsoon
Hangul: 힘쎈여자 도봉순
Director: Lee Hyeong-Min
Writer: Baek Mi-Kyeong
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Ah, the good old corner grocery store. Famous for candy, cookies, sodas, beer and cheap wine. At least that's how everyone has thought of the corner grocery store, many of which populate neighborhoods where low and lower-middle income residents live.
Now, however, that's beginning to change in Santa Clara County, thanks to The Health Trust and Google's Bay Area Impact Challenge, which in June selected the nonprofit agency to receive $500,000 for its campaign to develop new distribution channels for affordable produce and quick, healthy snacks in the county.
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Obituary: Ernest Borgnine
With his stocky build, bulging eyes and gap-toothed, pugnacious features, Ernest Borgnine, who has died aged 95, was one of Hollywood's leading character actors.
His looks meant he often ended up playing the heavy, so it was, perhaps, a mark of his versatility that his only Oscar came for his role as the good natured Marty, in the 1955 film of the same name.
He added longevity to that versatility, being nominated for an Emmy when he was in his 90s.
Ermes Effron Borgnino was born on 24 January 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut, the son of Italian immigrants. His parents moved to New Haven in 1923 and changed the family name to Borgnine.
He had no early ambition to be an actor and, on leaving high school in 1935, he enlisted in the United States Navy. Discharged in 1941 he joined up again after Pearl Harbor and served until the end of the war.
On his return to civilian life he began working in a number of factory jobs until his mother suggested that his forceful personality might find more fulfilling expression on the stage.
Borgnine promptly enrolled at a drama school in Hartford and then joined the famous Barter Theatre in Virginia, so named because local people paid for their seats with produce from their farms.
His performance as the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie provided Borgnine with his first breakthrough, when several New York critics attended the off-Broadway production.
"I thought I was terrible in the part," he recalled, "but it brought the house down."
Soon he was appearing on Broadway as a male nurse in the play, Harvey, and broke into movies after a screen test in which he competed with 140 other actors.
Ernest Borgnine made a big impression in 1953 in his first major role, as the sadistic sergeant, Fatso, in From Here to Eternity, who terrorises Frank Sinatra's character Angelo Maggio
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It led to numerous supporting roles as "baddies" in dramas and Westerns, including Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy.
But in 1955, he broke free from typecasting with his most memorable role, the shy, sensitive butcher, in Marty.
When he auditioned for the role and saw tears rolling down the cheeks of the writer, Paddy Chayefsky, he knew he had won the part.
"I played myself because I, too, had been a wallflower at one time," said Borgnine. "I was always the shy one. I was more of a boy scout than I was a man about town. So when the time came I just played myself and it was the easiest thing in the world."
Against strong competition from Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, James Dean and James Cagney, Borgnine's performance won him the Oscar for best actor, as well as a Bafta.
Among Ernest Borgnine's other notable films were The Vikings, The Dirty Dozen and The Poseidon Adventure. And, although he purported to dislike television, his series, McHale's Navy, was a major success in the United States. Another well-remembered TV role came in the 1980s, in the action series Airwolf.
Despite the violence in some of his films, notably The Wild Bunch, he refused to play real historical villains, rejecting a substantial sum to portray Al Capone.
Borgnine believed this character should be seen to be adequately punished for his crimes. He also frowned upon films with swearing and explicit sex.
He was still acting into his nineties. In 2009 he guest starred in the final series of the hospital drama, ER, winning an Emmy nomination for his role. He also starred in the film Another Harvest Moon, released the same year.
Ernest Borgnine was married five times. His last wife, Tova, was a cosmetics entrepreneur. He had a daughter with his first wife, Rhoda Kemins, and two children with Donna Rancourt, his fourth wife.
He was also married to the Mexican actress, Katy Jurado, and the musical star, Ethel Merman, the latter marriage lasting barely a month.


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Renée Hemmings and Sophie Povey reflect–well, maybe enthuse is a better word–on Shipping Lines, the first Liverpool Literary Festival.
Seven days, fifty events, over thirty writers and two thousand literature lovers! The Liverpool Literary Festival has been marked as a great literary event for the Capital of Culture year.
We've had many emails already and here are some of the wonderful comments we've received:
"It was a memorable event and I am glad I didn't miss it."
"My 15 year old niece travelled up here for a weekend of Shipping Lines, missing school on Friday because "it's educational and my English teacher is going to be SO jealous."
"Congratulations … for a wonderful weekend. It was a real privilege to attend the literary events and listen to such encouraging and stimulating discussion about books and writing."
There were many highlights over the week and the busy weekend, including the wonderful workshops and children's events by Walker Books. The weekend part of the weekend was launched by Philip Pullman on the evening of Friday 7th November, to a packed out audience. The book signing queue at the end of the event took 45 minutes to clear, and Pullman took the time to chat to everyone which endeared him to all. Carol Ann Duffy was also very popular, and the audience was moved by her inspirational reading. And another long book signing queue!
There was something for everyone, whether it was a poetry reading, discussion or panel group.
It was a long road in the preparation of the festival, but the measure of sucess is that everyone had a brilliant time working on it, participating in it and watching it.
Thanks to all that was involved, and if you managed to get to see an event, we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.
[Renée, Project Manager for the Liverpool Literary Festival]
The Shipping Lines Festival has come to an end, and oh what an outstanding success it has been! Thanks to the huge amounts of support and effort from everybody at The Reader Organisation and beyond, the week flew past without any hitches, leaving audiences, writers, staff and volunteers feeling fantastic! I was based at the Bluecoat for the majority of the week, and with the welcoming support of Francisco and the rest of the team there, all events ran smoothly. The 'Scary Scribes' workshop, led by children's author Tommy Donbavand, saw over 120 primary school children piling into the performance space for a gory session involving witches blood, a werewolf's finger and other 'relics' too gruesome to mention, but it was a brilliant day and everybody left excited about returning to school to write their own spooky stories.
The highlight of my week has to be Simon Armitage's poetry reading on Saturday, the second sold out event that day after Roger McGough in the morning. He was very pleased to be at the festival, and thrilled the audience with incredibly moving readings – most notably 'You're Beautiful' and 'Causeway'. All the events were incredible though, and just skimming over some of the evaluation forms, it is clear that this opinion was shared by all. So well done everybody! Muffins all round!
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The Queen's Classroom
English Name: The Queen's Classroom
Korean Name: 여왕의 교실
Other Name: Class of The Queen
Genre: Comedy, School
Episode: 16
Broadcast period: 12 June 2013 To 01 August 2013
Air Time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
This drama is about a elementary teacher of the 6th grade, Ma Yeo Jin (Ko Hyun Jung) and her students who are reveling against her.
Teacher Ma is very realistic and to her elementary students, she shows how tough it is to live the world. Instead of being a shield for her students, she herself becomes the authority. She often pushes her students to the edge by blackmailing and mischief-making.
Whole class of 6-3 (class 3 of the sixth grade) is rebelling against teacher Ma's educational attitude which is incomprehensible. Sometimes they would betray each other, sometimes they help each other and gradually they realize secret of the reality and make on their own views of the world. This kind of setting of the drama is totally new compared to the previous drama where the teachers were always the protectors of their students.
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Jin Kyung as Jung Hwa Shin
Ricky Kim as Justin
Students of Class 3rd of 6th Grade
Kim Hyang Gi as Shim Ha Na
Chun Bo Geun as Oh Dong Goo
Kim Sae Ron as Kim Seo Hyun
Seo Shin Ae as Eun Bo Mi
Lee Young Yoo as Go Na Ri
Kim Ji Hoon (2000) as Kim Tae Sung
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Marilynne Robinson ["Humanism," Nov. 9] seems to misunderstand what scientists do. Unanswerable questions are the province of philosophy and religion; science is limited to answerable questions, in the sense that reasonable people can eventually agree that experiments favor one answer over another. Obviously, both types of question are important to people. (Which category the untestable theories of modern cosmology fall into is debatable.) Whether the soul, or nonphysical "self," is real is an unanswerable question, but Robinson wants neuroscientists to address it. That is not their job.
Sometimes scientists replace a difficult question with an easier one; this is called "reductionism." For Robinson, this is tantamount to genocide, but for most of us it is simply a strategy for approaching difficult problems. Deferring the difficult parts is not the same as denial. Trying to understand an average brain before Shakespeare's is merely common sense.
At least since the 1944 publication of Schrödinger's book What Is Life?, people have considered the possibility that quantum mechanics may be important for understanding brain function (Schrödinger thought not)—but, thus far, this has not been a productive line of inquiry. Classical physics often provides useful insights into things as small as molecules and atoms, so the need for neuroscientists to use quantum mechanics is not at all obvious.
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Visual Kei (ヴィジュアル系; Vijuaru Kei) is a Japanese music movement and subculture that has been popular since the 1980's. The artists wear makeup, have elaborate hairstyles and costumes, usually coupled with androgynous aesthetics.
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The term "visual kei" is said to have originated from X JAPAN's slogan: "PSYCHEDELIC VIOLENCE CRIME OF VISUAL SHOCK". The first time the term has been officially used in the press is in an article by Sheiichi Hoshiko for the SHOXX magazine in 1992. The word used was "bijuaru shokku kei" (visual shock style). Other terms often used at that time was "okeshou kei" (make-up style).
Visual Kei began in the mid-1980's, with bands such as X JAPAN, D'ERLANGER and COLOR. Inspired by the punk, glam metal, and gothic rock movements, the first wave of bands put emphasis on shocking visuals, often done through elaborate stage performances, eccentric hairstyles, and flamboyant attire, traits that would become staples of the entire movement.
The musical peculiarities of visual kei in 90's have been defined by popular bands LUNA SEA (initially produced by X JAPAN 's leader YOSHIKI) and Kuroyume. While LUNA SEA had a melodic and decadent approach in their music, Kuroyume were known for their aggressive and punkish groove. In 1990 the first visual kei only music magazine SHOXX was launched.
The mid-90's has been known as the band boom period. Indie labels (mostly FREE-WILL and its subsidiaries) and artists started receiving mainstream attention, and most prominent bands of the decade had major debuts. Visual kei television program such as Break Out (introducing indies bands) and Hot Wave gained several bands popularity, and major artists started appearing at popular variety shows and mainstream music programs. Influential bands in this period have been Dir en grey, L'Arc~En~Ciel, SHAZNA, PENICILLIN, Pierrot and MALICE MIZER.
Visual kei came back to be an underground subculture in the early 2000's after most popular bands in the movement had disbanded or toned down their trademark visuals and music. The increasing popularity of modern underground genres such as metalcore, hardcore punk and alternative metal had a major influence on new bands, leading to a bigger variety in the genre. Many bands in the new wave of visual kei perform a wide variety of music styles (including non-rock genres like dance music or hip-hop), and bands adopting LUNA SEA or Kuroyume-alike aesthetics and music started being labeled as "kote-kei" (コテ系, "old school").
Osare-kei (or oshare-kei) was probably the most promiment wave in the 2000's. Completely opposite to the oldschool bands, osare-kei bands were known for their colorful and fancy aesthetics closer to the Harajuku street fashion. Their music was usually closer to pop-rock, dance-pop and sometimes hip-hop. Prominent bands were An Cafe and Ayabie.
In contrast, some visual kei bands like The GazettE and Nightmare have transitioned into heavier musical styles inspired by American nu metal and melodic metalcore bands. Their visuals also lost the gothic influences of the 90's for a style closer to the most recent fashion trends. These bands have been often labeled as "neo-visual kei".
As described by magazine SHOXX, neo visual kei was comparable in many ways to Japanese idols. A strong focus was put on the entetainment and the members' looks and personality, with many handshake and talk events, official blogs, gadgets and sometimes even regular programs and short movies. Live performances are usually intense and at the same time filled with MC's to showcase the band's character. However, most of these bands' activity is restricted to visual-kei specialist shops, programs, websites and livehouses, with little exposure to mainstream audience.
Even though CD's sales saw a rapid decrease in recent years, gadgets such as "chekis" (チェキ, instant camera taken polaroids) are said to be selling more than the band's music, and the members themselves started appearing at merchandise stands after concerts to help sales and gain new fans. The boom of neo visual kei bands was mostly lead by the label PS Company (label that signed and managed popular artists such as Alice Nine and The GazettE as well as several indie acts).
In the mid 2000's visual kei gained a large international following among anime fans and people interested in Japanese culture. Many bands started touring and releasing music abroad, the most popular examples being Dir en grey (signed by the American label The End Records), Versailles and Moi dix Mois (signed to the German gothic label Trisol).
The end of the 2000's and the beginning of the 2010's has been seen as a transitional period for visual kei. While major bands kept their popularity steady, the independent scene saw a strong decrease of interest that lead to the cease of activities of many bands. Popular visual kei magazines like Zy, FOOL'S MATE and Neo genesis were also suspended.
Both Osare-kei and neo-visual gradually lost popularity due to band saturation, and air-band Golden Bomber gained most mainstream attention which however could not reinvigorate the movement.
Currently, Visual Kei has acquired a large international following among rock and heavy metal fans, with a handful of non-Japanese bands drawing inspiration from the movement. (see "Popularity" below)
While visual kei is not bound to a specific music genre, the whole movement is generally associated with several styles of music, including, but not limited to, rock, pop, electronic music, neoclassical, industrial and heavy metal. More often, bands draw influence from a number of disparate musical subgenres in order to create a distinct sound. Many bands revolve around a concept that guides their musical and visual approaches, a notable example being the vampire story themed band Versailles, with a neoclassical metal sound in line with their rococo-inspired visual style. It is rather common for long-running visual kei bands such as X Japan and Dir en grey to undergo numerous stylistic changes in terms of their sound, with the former example venturing into progressive metal and the latter eventually leaning into metalcore.
The archetypal visual kei sound, however, is more or less rooted in hard rock and heavy metal, featuring loud, distorted guitars, vigorous vocals, emphatic drumming, and melodic hooks. Guitarists would often employ melodic power riffs and palm muting, and solos are fairly common. Guitarists may play in standard tuning or in Drop D, with oshare kei and tanbi kei artists keeping a standard sound or tuning higher for guitar solos, and less mainstream acts tuning lower than Drop D or Drop C. Extreme metal acts, particularly Nagoya and angura acts, will go as far as tuning to Drop B or A, or even eschewing traditional six-string guitars for seven or eight-string guitars, resulting in a thick, hollow and heavy tone similar to djent/mathcore acts.
Visual kei singers often have moderate to high vocal ranges, with vocal lines sung clearly. A few bands, especially those in the oshare kei and nu metal subgenres, employ distorted or auto-tuned vocals. Screamed vocals are very common in the genre and can range from faint, breathy vocals to inhuman shrieking. Frequently emulated vocalists in visual kei include Kiyoharu (ex-Kuroyume), Gackt, and Kyo (Dir en grey)
It is fairly common for drummers to employ fast rhythms using double bass pedals or, as with many bands, two bass drums. Metal-influenced bands such as X JAPAN play pounding beats and rapid bass drumming similar to thrash or power metal bands. Even more uncommon, but not unheard of, are blast beats. Visual kei drummers often employ complex fills and shuffled beats to add variety and, in live performances, signal mosh pits.
As with any popular style of rock or metal music, it is common for the bass guitar to be faint. Bassists in visual kei, unlike bassists in other musical styles, are as important and noteworthy as the lead or rhythm guitarists. They would often play savage riffs with great speed and technicality, usually timed with the rhythmic patterns of the kick drum or the rhythm guitar. Some bassists employ fingerstyle techniques or in some cases, slapping.
AestheticsEditVisual Kei artists are easily identified by their outward appearance, consisting of shaggy or spiky anime-esque hair, gothic or punk-inspired attire, makeup, and accessories, traits that form the basis of the archetypal VK look. However, like the music, the style has no limits. Visual kei fashion draws influence from a wide variety of well-established fashion styles and can range from the subtle to the extreme.
Many VK artists have dyed hair, often colored red, brown, blonde, or even blue. VK artists also opt for straightened hair, as it allows for a wide variety of hairstyles. Layered cuts have become the norm, as it makes the hair easier to style and maintain. The hair is often flipped out, curled, shaped into tufts, or molded into spikes, and is usually backcombed/teased to ensure a soft, loose, and feathery look that would allow the hair to flow but retain it shape, even while headbanging. Visual kei artists may also opt for extensions. Punk hairstyles like mohawks, fanned hair, devilocks, and liberty spikes are also employed, especially by older bands such as X JAPAN and BUCK-TICK. Mainstream artists opt for looser, more natural styles such as side-swept emo bangs or slicked-back surfer hair. Some visual kei metal artists wear long, thick dreadlocks, a notable example being Ruki of The GazettE. In some cases, visual kei artists may not style their hair at all, instead, they may let their hair fall freely or have their hair heavily texturized for a shaggy, messy look.
Clothing and ImageEdit
Visual kei fashion is characterized by individuality, aesthetic appeal and different clothing combinations. Visual kei fashion is based around an ecletic fusion of rock, punk, metal, and contemporary fashion, however, there are very few, if no rules or limits at all, as to what visual kei artists can wear, and it is very common among the subculture for artists to experiment with different fashion styles. Common outfit choices include vests, formal suits, skinny jeans, jackets, capes, and coats. Bondage gear and leather clothes are popular choices as well. Some bands, wear anime-inspired attire, even going as far as wearing costumes.Visual kei puts a huge empasis on artistic freedom, shock value, and metrosexual aesthetics. It is a unisex style, and as such, many artists opt for an androgynous look, which adds shock value and fan appeal. Male artists in visual kei often have lean, slender figures to fit the demands of the style, and it is not uncommon for male artists to adopt a semi-feminine appearance, complete with long, stylish hair and feminine-looking attire. It is quite popular among visual kei artists to cross-dress or take an entirely feminine appearance, with examples like HIZAKI and the late Jasmine You of Versailles, Mana of Moi Dix Mois (ex-MALICE MIZER), Isshiki Hiyori of Kiryu and, formerly, Toshiya and Shinya of Dir en grey.
On the other end of the spectrum, VK bands such as The GazettE opt for more aggressive stylings, characterized by dark, BDSM-inspired clothing, spiky hair, pale/natural-looking makeup and a more punk/metal image.Some bands, especially major acts and may go for a more toned-down, semi-casual visual approach. Many acts also opt for a more westernized appearance, often done through the use of minimal make-up, unstyled hair, and western outfits such as business suits, military uniforms or jackets. Extreme metal acts such as Dir en grey take it a step further, dropping most, if not all, of the flamboyant attire, heavy makeup, and androgynous aesthetics in favor of a highly distressed, shocking, and rugged look similar to western death metal or black metal bands.
Generally, the clothing choices of visual kei artists and musicians are based around, if not directly inspired, by their musical stylings. This is observable in long-running bands that undergo multiple musical changes, as they would change their appearance to match the current style of their music.
Subculture and FandomEditWhile Visual kei is sometimes seen as a distinct musical genre, akin to shock rock and glam metal, many enthusiasts see it as a unique subculture, associated with rock music, elaborate attire, and a distinct set of aesthetics. As a direct offshoot of the heavy metal subculture, Visual kei shares a lot of traits with the metal culture, including a mostly young, white, middle-class demographic, ritualized activities such as attending concerts, collecting albums/songs, maintaining a non-mainstream image, and online activities such as contributing to websites and forums. It should be noted, however, that not all fans (espacially male) are "visible members" of the subculture.
To extend their visual appeal, visual bands and artists who perform live would often engage in headbanging and display expressive hand gestures, often involving slow arm movements and reaching out to the audience. Such gestures are commonly referred to as "furitsuke" by fans. The "metal horns" gesture is also widespread, even among some non-metal artists. Similar to non-visual rock and metal concerts, fans may sometimes hold glowsticks or other items connected to the band concept. Often, certain gestures will be associated with certain bands, a notable example being the "X" symbol associated with X JAPAN. In some cases, band members would engage in displays of affection such as hugging and in some cases, kissing each others (often referred to as "fan service"). Instrument smashing and self-mutilation are uncommon, however, it is widely practiced by a few bands, most notably Dir en grey and X JAPAN.Fan participation in visual kei live performances are equally spetacular, often involving massive groups of people performing the same actions in unison. In a typical concert, the saizen, or front row of the audience area, has the highest activity, although the back area is also a place of very high fan activity. Fans in the saizen would often show participation through violent headbanging or arm-thrusting, the latter usually observed by female fans. Jumping, shoving, and piggybacking are very common as well. It is commonly observed that the saizen is usually dominated by loyal fans who decide each fan's position and role, however, many bands discourage or outright forbid this exclusivity. Outside the saizen, fan activity involves audience members jumping in unison, spinning or running around in circles (the latter commonly referred to as a "circle pit" outside the visual kei community). Moshing is not allowed in Japanese live houses, but a similar, more guided and choreographic version of it has been found in gyaku-tai 逆タイ. Most fan movements occur simultaneously, usually in response to a signal by the performing band. Concert etiquette, as with the rock and heavy metal subcultures, is based around an unwritten code of conduct. Members of the audience may also talk to others, and at times may involve them in group activities for the band. Fan participation in visual kei, like rock and metal, often goes on even after live shows, with some fans offering gifts to their favorite artists, meeting up with band members, and buying official merchandise from live venues. In many cases, fan participation can go as far as attending J-culture conventions, applying for official fanclub membership, forming cover bands with fellow fans or engaging in cosplay, dressing up as their favorite bands. Visual kei cosplayers have gained some popularity for their meticulous attention to replicating the image of their favorite artists, often resulting in surprisingly accurate cosplays, as well as their very active participation during conventions and live performances Commonly imitated bands among cosplayers are Versailles, early Dir en Grey, MALICE MIZER, Kagrra, Phantasmagoria and The GazettE.
Main SubgenresEdit
Chikashitu Kei (地下室系) / Angura Kei (アングラ系)Edit
"Angura kei" or "Chikashitsu-kei", (both meaning underground style) usually rejects the androgynous beauty of the mainstream visual kei bands, and mostly features scary or disturbing aesthetics and themes. Sometimes called "Eroguro kei" (エログロ系) or "Misshitsu kei" (密室系). The term is said to have been taken from the cali≠gari event 東京地下室 Tokyo Chikashitsu ("Tokyo Underground").
Many bands use to wear corpse paint alike makeup (inspired by the Japanese kabuki tradition), and their concepts are often connected to the Japanese late Taisho and early Showa imaginery (first half of the 20th century) or "eroguro nonesense" literature and cinema.
Due to their differences with traditional visual kei bands, it has been debated whethere these bands actually belong to the visual kei culture or not. Several bands described themselves as not being visual kei, but are still considered to be part of the movement by most fans.
Representative angura kei bands are cali≠gari, Mucc, Inugami Circus-dan and グルグル映畫館.
Kote Kei (コテ系)Edit
Kote kei (old school) usually refers to the original visual kei bands of the early and mid 90's and later bands emulating their styles. It is usually colorful and shocking, characterized by wild hair, exotic attire, heavy use of enamell and accessories. Even though kote kei was originally referring to the glam rock inspired style of early X JAPAN and COLOR, it is now mostly connected to the dark and decadent looks of mid-90's bands like early LUNA SEA, Kuroyume and Dir en grey.
Bands from the indies labels Matina and Soleil can be cited as the clearest example of kote kei sound and aesthetics. Bands inspired by Kuroyume were often called "kuro-kei" (black) or "dark kei", while bands closer to the melodic and atmospheric sound and looks of early LUNA SEA were called "shiro-kei" (white). Due to their extreme visuals, kote kei bands receive little attention by mainstream audience and rarefly get to major debut. Representative kote kei bands are DAS:VASSER, La'Mule , Phantasmagoria and Madeth gray'll.
Tanbi kei (耽美系)EditDrawing inspiration from classic European fashion, tanbi kei ("aesthetic school") is a subset of Kote kei that adds a more elegant, formal and neoclassical twist to the visual kei look. It is often cited as an influence to the Japanese gothic lolita fashion trend.
Even though it started as a more baroque version of the trademark old school visual kei sound, many bands started adopting a highly technical style much closer to power and symphonic metal in recent years, with symphonic arrangements, complex guitar solos and long instrumental interludes. Tanbi kei is also notable for having an abundance of male-to-female crossdressers and extravagant stage settings.
Because of its easily recognizable image and the elaborated costumes, it is one of the most popular visual kei styles among cosplayers.
Original tanbi kei bands are MALICE MIZER, Raphael and LAREINE, while modern examples can be D, Versailles and Kaya.
Nagoya kei (名古屋系)Edit
Nagoya kei refers to bands inspired by Nagoya acts such as Laputa, Kuroyume, Merry Go Round, and ROUAGE. Close to both kote kei and angura kei, these bands usually wear black clothes and dark, disturbing makeup. Songs are known for their dark and decadent atmospheres, and can be both slow and fast paced.
Kote kei and Nagoya kei are often confused, but while kote kei is known for its raw and unpolished sound, recent Nagoya kei bands feature a refined and experimental music, sometimes reminding American and European alternative rock. Another difference with kote kei is the rare use of colors: while kote kei usually features vivid hair colors and enamell outfits, Nagoya kei bands show are more mature and toned down look. Many bands use to wear black suits, and light hair colors are rare.
Modern Nagoya kei examples can be Lynch. , deadman and 9GOATS BLACK OUT.
EditLiterally meaning "fashionable style", osare kei (or "oshare kei") is a trend focused on light, colorful and appealing aesthetics as opposed to the dark and shocking image traditionally associated with the rest of the movement. Other names for the movement include "pop kei" and "soft kei". Being a more mainstream-friendly scene, it has been the fastest-growing visual kei movement in the mid-2000's, and probably one the most popular in recent years. Oshare kei's sound has more in common with pop and punk than hard rock and heavy metal, characterized by catchy riffs, fast drumming, which may or may not incorporate dance/jungle beats, electronic sounds and highly melodic singing, which may or may not include screaming. Some bands may incorporate nu metal and hip hop elements such as rapping, sampled sounds, raspy vocals and scratching. Lyrical themes are usually lighter and brighter, often dealing with topics such as love, happiness, positivity. The oshare kei image is characterized by more casual-looking attire, a stripped-down, contemporary image, anime-inspired haircuts or, with some bands, unstyled hair, and the use of bright colors such as red, yellow, pink, or white. Bands with heavier punk influences may also include black and blue among their color choices. Some bands have crossed over into the kote kei or Nagoya kei in the form of the so-called "alter-ego bands", a notable example being Ayabie, whose members are involved in a Black Visual shock alter-band called Deathbie.
Some of the most popular and well-received bands in the genre are An Cafe, SuG and LM.C.
Neo-visual / KoteosaEdit
As the name says, koteosa is a mixture of kote kei and osare kei which had its peak in the mid-to-late 2000's. Bands adopt a fashionable look usually close to the Shinjuku and Harajuku street fashion, and showcase a genre characterized by catchy and mainstream appealing tunes framed into a more aggressive, live oriented band sound. Koteosa bands usually put a strong focus on the members' look and personality, and have fans perform both furitsuke (coreographies, hand movements) and traditional headbanging/moshing at concerts. Popular koteosa bands are The GazettE, Alice Nine and Nightmare.
Soft VisualEdit
Soft visual usually refers to those visual kei bands who were originally old school or tanbi kei bands but consinstently toned down their sound and visuals after gaining popularity. Other soft visual kei bands do not look nor sound like a visual kei band, but are somehow connected to the visual kei scene (mostyle due to one of the members' past bands or the livehouses they usually play concerts at). Soft visual examples are Janne Da Arc, late LUNA SEA and Waive .
Other GenresEdit
Even though these are the main subgenres in visual kei, there are many other minor trends usually depending on each band's costume concepts and aesthetics. For example, bands who wear white gowns are called "Iryokei" (医療系 medical style), cyberpunk looking bands are called Cyber kei, etc.
Even though it started as an underground movement, visual kei received mainstream attention in the mid 90's. The platinum-selling success of visual kei pioneers X JAPAN, LUNA SEA and Kuroyume led to a general interest in the visual kei subculture, and the raise of extravagant looking bands like MALICE MIZER had a strong impact on the strict Japanese society of the late 90's.
In 1998, the death of former X JAPAN guitarist hide (Hideto Matsumoto) had a strong mediatic impact, with an attendance of over 50,000 fans at his funeral and a queue of over 3 km outside the ceremony venue. A hide museum was even opened in his hometown Yokosuka in 2000.
The mid-2000's saw the birth of a second wave of visual kei artists, fueled by a renewed interest in the subculture, greater recognition by major rock labels, and the growing popularity of PS Company bands like The GazettE. Even though the indies scene had a minor role compared to the 90's, several bands established themselves as leading artists in the movement.In recent years, Visual kei has experienced globalization and widespread reception among the rock, underground pop, and metal communities. Visual kei has been moderately popular in Southeast Asia and Europe, with some underground bands being described as visual kei or inspired by the visual kei image. One such band, a Swedish alternative metal group called Seremedy, has gained some attention as one of the first active non-Japanese visual kei acts.
Outside Japan, there has been some confusion among rock fans between visual kei and other related subcultures such as goth, punk, glam and emo, partly due to the scene's nature of drawing inspiration from other subcultures. Visual kei, unlike the aforementioned scenes, is often met with positive reception by members of the metal community, due to its non-mainstream sensibility and shock value. X JAPAN has recently embarked on an international tour, and before their hiatus, Versailles has gained widespread international popularity, attracting audiences from places as far away as North America and Europe.
The VK scene has been a mostly androcentric scene, however. Despite appealing to both gender demographics through the use of eye-catching performances, many VK artists are men, and although the fandom has a large female population, a sizeable portion of the subculture is male. Recently, however, Visual kei has seen the rise of a few notable female artists that draw influence from or are associated with the movement, with notable examples such as Kanon Wakeshima; a baroque pop artist produced by Mana, Yui Itsuki, the frontwoman of the post-Visual Kei project Yousei Teikoku, and the all-female VK bands Danger Gang and Exist Trace.
Main LabelsEdit
Free-Will GroupEdit
- Free-Will / FIREWALL DIV. (DYNAMITE TOMMY)
- Soleil (KAIKI)
- Matina / UNDER CODE PRODUCTION (KISAKI)
- APPLAUSE RECORDS / Sherow Artist Society (KAMIJO)
- Loop Ash (未散)
- Sequence Records / DUAL CORE SOUND ENTERPRISE (TOMOZO)
- Eternal / CLIMAX ENTERPRISE / ROCKSTAR RECORDS (YAYOI)
HOLIDAY/BURNS GroupEdit
Live-house Owned LabelsEdit
- Kreis (YUKIYA)
- Starwave Records (Kiwamu)
- FUJI PRODUCTION / marder suitcase
- Timely Records
- Death Trap Records
- Real Style Creation
- Red List Entertainment
Main MediasEdit
TV ProgramsEdit
Radio ProgramsEdit
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- Visualize Zone
- Cure
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In Jones v. All Am. Auto Prot., Inc., No. 314CV00199LRHWGC, 2015 WL 7566685 (D. Nev. Nov. 24, 2015), Judge Hicks granted Defendant Royal Administrative Services' ("Royal") Motion for Summary Judgment.
Royal is a provider and administrator of vehicle service contracts, and supplies its products to independent and franchise vehicle dealers and to direct-to-consumer marketing companies. Royal did business with Defendant All American Auto Protection ("AAAP"), a direct marketing vendor. Plaintiffs alleged that they received auto-dialed phone calls from AAAP in 2014. Plaintiffs argued that even though Royal did not physically place the calls itself, Royal was still vicariously liable under the TCPA because AAAP placed the calls on Royal's behalf.
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With respect to actual authority, Judge Hicks held that while Royal did provide materials, training, and scripts, Royal did not direct AAAP as to when, where, and how many people to call. Judge Hicks also found it persuasive that Plaintiffs never alleged that any of the callers identified themselves as calling on behalf of Royal, and that AAAP sells products from multiple companies.
Judge Hicks held that there was no apparent authority because Royal did not make (or cause to make) any direct communications to end-users such that they might think a vendor or dealer was acting on Royal's behalf. Indeed, Judge Hicks found that the undisputed facts demonstrated that Royal did not market to end-users, but only supplied its products to dealers and direct-to-consumer marketing companies, who, in-turn, sold the products to consumers. Thus, in Judge Hicks' view, Plaintiffs failed to produce any evidence from which one could trace their belief as to AAAP's apparent authority to Royal's conduct or statements.
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HANOI – If you happen to be in Hanoi for a couple of days and are craving some delicious, high-quality Vietnamese dishes, you may want to check out the Le Club piano bar at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel.
Built in French-colonial style in the Old Quarter of the city, the historic luxury hotel opened more than a century ago, in August 1901. The Metropole is not only the first of the six Sofitel Legends worldwide – the others are in the Netherlands, Colombia, Morocco and Egypt, where there are two – but it has also been witness to much of Hanoi's tumultuous history.
When the Metropole was first built, Hanoi was the capital of French-ruled Tonkin. Five decades later it saw the fall of colonialism as Vietnam fought towards independence in the 1950s. Later, the hotel rose to prominence as a base for journalists and diplomats to meet during and after the Vietnam War, known here as the American War.


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The first English speaking wedding show on the Costa del Sol took place last weekend. The Perfect Wedding Expo was held at the Palacio de la Paz in the Fuengirola fairground. It was the first wedding fair I have attended and I was pleasantly surprised by the atmosphere and the great turn-out of both exhibitors and visitors. There were suppliers present for everything from delicious chcoolate fountains, beautiful wedding dress and evening gown designs to diamonds and jewellery as well as florists, planners and photographers, making it the one stop shop for any bride to be, planning their wedding on the coast. Myself, Claire – our wedding co ordinator and Kerry – our wedding planner looked after the Sunset Beach Club stand, click here to take a look at our stand!
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Caspar Electronics At Cafe Fixe, Brookline, MA June 9th, 2013
Pete Edwards is an electronic music instrument designer. He has been working on some new synthesizer designs during his research at STEIM. We are very fortunate to learn that he will be giving a performance right here on the East Coast during his brief time in the U.S. We are looking forward to hearing his music and picking his brain in person about music instrument design.
A few years ago, Pete mentioned that he was introducing in focusing on the rhythm in his music. He mentioned to me on the phone a few weeks ago that he was researching unifying voltage levels in digital, analog and modular synthesizers. You can read a recent article on him and Phillip Stearns over at Synthtopia
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Man Proposes to High School Sweetheart on Her Last Day of Chemo
She said YES!!! Watch Lucas' heartfelt proposal after his high school sweetheart's final chemotherapy session.
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Warning: this video is super sweet and may turn you into a sniffling mess.
Boca Raton native Lucas D'Onofrio has shared the moment he proposed to his high school sweetheart, Tamara, on June 6 – an occasion which coincided with her last chemotherapy treatment for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
In Lucas' message accompanying the above YouTube video of the event, he explains: "My girlfriend (now fiancé) was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma on February 13th. The doctors outlined a 6 session course in which she has done great and over the weekend when she came in for her last chemo session, I threw a big surprise proposal at the hospital."
He added, " I hope you all enjoy it as I put lots of time and work on all of this with the help of my family, 2nd family, friends, and nurses at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital!"
Congratulations go out to the happy couple, and our thoughts to Tamara for a speedy and successful recovery.
Check out Lucas' celebratory Facebook post below… Cute!
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Mark Tomasulo, 15, of Sunrise, looked around him at the model boats racing on a lake at Okeeheelee Park on Sunday, and pointed out that children were outnumbered three to one by adults at the tournament.
``Yeah, there are a lot of adults here, but it gives them something to do in their spare time,`` he said matter-of-factly during a mid-afternoon heat in which four miniature powerboats zipped around the lake.
The boats, scaled-down replicas of full-size powerboats and complete with engines and commercial logos, were steered by remote-control from a bank by their owners -- all grown men.
``Some of the parents think it`s a little toy to grow out of, but you don`t,`` he added. ``You get more into it. And they do too.``
He should know. The teen-ager talked his father into letting him buy a model boat after he happened across a race on Mission Lake in Lauderhill one day.
``I saw them racing and wanted to get into it,`` he said. ``I saved up my money and got a boat.``
His father, against the idea at first, soon began joining his son in racing the tiny 2 1/2-foot long fiberglass craft dubbed the Red Devil. Then dad bought his own model boat -- a hydro-plane design.
``You can get addicted to it,`` admitted his father, Rickey Tomasulo, 45, now vice president of Broward County`s 75-member model boat club. He served as his son`s one-man pit crew when his own boat wasn`t in the water.


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My econ prof just gave me a shot glass because I was the "randomly picked" winner of the lecture. Ties into our supply and demand lecture, supplied with a shot glass, demand a thirsty thursday
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Anyone who says this is a bad night is dumb. Drinking, lectures, thirst and Thursdays and shot glasses are all good things
This is a stupid tfln and likely fake. I can't see any college prof tossing out shot glasses to his students baring tenure and a tenured proffessor wouldn't be teaching an econ 101 (the only place you might get such an asinine example of supply and demand) course to a bunch of pissant freshmen.
If there are free shot glasses, stupid freshmen show up for your boring class. This is totally possible.
Anyone who said this was a good night is dumb. Alchohol should be illegal and instead of drinking you should be studying!!!!!


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Drain a large lake in America, and you'd likely be taken to court. But when half of scenic Glen Lake in the Irish midlands was drained to open up farmland, there was only bureaucratic embarrassment.
Glen Lake is described in the region's tourism booklet as "an underdeveloped jewel." The lake is one of the prime winter roosting places in Europe for rare Whooper swans and a favored habitat for other birds such as the lapwing and golden plover.
However, plans to exploit the tourist potential of the 125-acre area are on hold, after much of the lake vanished in September.
Local people initially put out a "missing lake" appeal, only to discover that the disappearance was the result of a communications breakdown between two government agencies.
The member of Parliament for the area, Willie Penrose, says "people are furious with the incompetence displayed. We were actually attempting to increase the size of the lake, not drain it away." For the past five years, the National Wildlife Service has been working to protect the lake, which straddles the borders of Westmeath and Longford Counties. In 1994, the service got the European Union (EU) to designate the lake as a special conservation site.
When the lake overflowed into surrounding farmland each winter, the EU compensated farmers who did not drain off the floodwater. Local journalist Barry Flynn says that in the area, "they say the Glen Lake farmers are 'on the REPS' - the name given to the EU-funded Rural Environmental Protection Scheme."
The plan also provides money for farmers to fence off Glen Lake waterways and encourages practices to reduce pollution in the area, including methods for the disposal of animal waste.
The policy was very different 30 years ago, when the Office of Public Works (OPW) was in charge of Glen Lake. It put in a drainage plan to try to increase the amount of dry land for farmers to use. Every few years, the OPW has upgraded this effort, in the process reducing the lake's water level.
Mr. Flynn says this year, "the trouble was nobody seems to have told the OPW about the new environmental status of Glen Lake, so they simply moved in as normal and drained off half the water."
Environmentalists are furious. Jackie Hunt of Birdwatch Ireland says, "The primary objective was to conserve the lake's special status for wildlife. To drain this wetland area is completely contrary to any hope of protecting it for the birds."
The lower water level has already destroyed much of the flora along the edge of the lake, and Ms. Hunt claims the number of wintering birds there has fallen dramatically. Birdwatch, which counted 450 Whooper swans on the lake last December, says that number is now down by 80 percent.
Local people hoped to develop outdoor leisure facilities on the lake. Talks had taken place with another government agency, the Tourism Board, about securing funding. John Rodgers of the Rathowen Community Development Association says that now, "the original money to develop 'hides' for birdwatchers and lakeside walks for other tourists will probably be spent undoing the damage done by the OPW."
A clearly embarrassed OPW has said very little. A spokesman says it was "merely undertaking routine work" on the lake but will pick up the tab for any restoration work that is needed. Mr. Penrose, the politician, says the OPW should have consulted locally before starting this work.
He adds, "Next time we hope they'll pick up the phone."
That they probably will, not least because the lack of consultation last September could, according to Birdwatch Ireland, produce a restoration bill of $1.5 million.


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There's ostensibly not much point at putting Android on a multitouch-incapable laptop or netbook these days, but Acer seems morbidly intent on experimenting with just that.
The latest variation of Acer's Aspire line of netbooks officiates a shotgun wedding between Windows XP and Google Android on a dual-boot netbook called the Aspore One AOD255… and we've got to admit, their use for the Android half of that operating system equation is pretty ingenious.
In Acer's configuration, you're not supposed to use Android as your day-to-day operating system: rather, it's the instant-on option for light tasks like email and browsing. That's probably the best use of Android we've seen on a netbook yet, and since it's free, Acer doesn't have to pass on the cost of a licensed alternative like Splashtop's InstantOn.
Otherwise, this is a pretty sub-standard netbook, sporting a 10.1-inch display, an Intel n450 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a 160GB hard drive, as well as the usual gaggle of ports and connectivity options and a 3-cell battery. That's not really all that impressive for the $375 asking price, but Android initiates might sit up and take notice anyway.


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Odessa, Ukraine—The Ukrainian government and the president certainly have much to answer for. They permitted radicals to build a heavily armed encampment smack in the very heart of the nation's capital and in violation of three separate court orders, all just a few yards away from the main government buildings. They have repeatedly given in to the intimidation of roving bands of armed and masked hooligans who, having now become a law unto themselves, endanger the lives of peaceful citizens. Just before the most recent spate of violence, during the "peaceful" interlude that followed the president's last amnesty offer, for example, law enforcement officials stood by as a civic initiative known as "Kievans for a Clean City" was brutally assaulted near the Maidan.
The parliamentary political opposition (Yatsenyuk, Klitschko and Tyahnybok) also has much to answer for. Its contempt not just for the current constitution but for the parliamentary process itself, as manifested by its routine seizure of the Speaker's podium to prevent parliament from functioning, has only further weakened and discredited the political process.
With power seemingly within reach, it has relied on ultraradical and openly neo-Nazi groups to achieve the kind of political control that it probably could not achieve through the ballot box. After all, just as the views of the political opposition have hardened with the escalation of this crisis, so have the attitudes of the supporters of President Yanukovych's party, the Party of Regions, which remains the largest in the country. By carelessly embracing the slogan of revolution, however, it has unleashed forces that it is now powerless to control.
Finally, those Western governments which have taken it upon themselves to intervene in Ukraine's internal political drama also have much to answer for. Their undisguised bias against the popularly elected Ukrainian government and insistence on mutually exclusive demands—protect freedoms and defend the rule of law, but do not defend freedoms and the rule of law if force must be used—has enervated the government, emboldened the opposition and given the most radical elements a free hand to create mischief. By failing to insist that the political opposition distance itself from the radicals, Western policies bear part of the responsibility for the escalation of violence.
There is, however, little sign that anyone in the West is actually listening to average Ukrainians, who are fed up with the current violence. More often than not, political officials, pundits and editorial boards cling firmly to their initial assessments of the unrest as a "tug-of-war" with Moscow, and remain oblivious to the danger that rise of violent nationalism on the wave of popular discontent with the government poses to Ukrainian democracy and national unity.
One reason for this is simply amnesia. Four generations have passed since fascism rose to power in the heart of Western Europe, sweeping aside the weak and ineffective popularly elected governments. It seems implausible for such a thing to happen in Europe today. Understandably, Europeans would much rather dwell on how postwar fascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal gradually became reconciled to the basic principles of liberalism and constitutional democracy, than to accept the idea that they are witnessing a slow-motion replay of the March on Rome organized by Italian fascists in 1922.


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Do you know what today is??
The first day of soccer season!!!!!!!! That's right, the boys start
soccer practice today, and so that means my life starts to revolve around soccer......
I do have a confession to make here though. Over the years I have come to love the game,
please though don't let my boys know that........
Above is my cherry tomatoes that my brother in-law gave me.
The garden is ready for them to go into now.
Below is part of my herb garden. I have only just planted some
basil out as every-thing had died off.
The mulch around the plants is my first attempt at making compost.
It hadn't all broken down, the bottom was full of the most lovely compost I've ever seen. T he
top still had leaves but that's O.K as I used that as mulch on top of the garden.
As the days get cooler here it is a joy
to be out in the garden and getting it ready for the
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Agency: Leo Burnett, Beijing
BEIJING--Li Ning Co., China's leading local sportswear manufacturer, has tapped the National Basketball Association's Damon Jones to promote a new shoe series, Fei Jia (Flying Armor). In addition to appearing in ads and taking part in sponsored events, the Cleveland Cavaliers guard will wear Fei Jia shoes in every game he plays.
Li Ning has launched a marketing campaign to publicize the breakthrough sponsorship deal signed earlier this month, which itself is a milestone for the company. Mr. Jones is the first current NBA player to form a marketing agreement with any Chinese sports brand, and the partnership could give the local company a stronger defense against foreign rivals like Nike and Adidas, who are investing heavily in China.
The agreement "marks a major step in Li Ning's internationalization strategy," said Li Ning's CEO in Beijing, Zhang Zhiyong, and helps the company "advance further to be a world class sportswear brand."
The creative, developed by Leo Burnett, Beijing, stresses Li Ning's Asian roots (its founder, an Olympic gold medal winner, is well-known in China) and original style in an "Ink Ball" spot. The tagline, "Only oriental basketball play-style is our original style," is illustrated with a stylized use of calligraphy to trace the movements of the player. The campaign will also run in print, in-store and outdoor media, supported by court side initiatives and a promotion asking local players to create their own unique style of play via the Internet. Ads featuring Mr. Jones will break later this year.
Bringing American basketball players to China, rather than sponsoring local athletes, has become a common tactic for all sportswear companies. An early Nike ad in China, for example, featured one of the country's best basketball players, Wang Zhizhi, "based on an American mentality about how to create a local hero," recalled Brook Lamar, author of Operation Yao Ming: The Making of a Chinese Hero and His Journey to the NBA.
But Chinese, longtime fans of NBA games on television, prefer to draw inspiration from the best players in the world. "Nike, and the NBA, realized they would have to get someone from the U.S. [into local advertising] to get the sportswear market to explode in China," he said.


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Degrading "Developer Performance"
Michael Otey's Editorial: "Multilingual SQL Server" (December 2001, InstantDoc ID 22997) was right on target in analyzing the advantages and possible potholes of increasing SQL Server's programmability. Although having the ability to write SQL Server code in procedural languages might be good "me too" marketing, it has potential pitfalls. Otey mentioned the possibility of degraded query performance. With more people writing in procedural languages, you'll likely see more use of procedural approaches, such as cursors, when set-based SQL would have been more efficient. But what concerns me more is "developer performance"—how quickly a developer can develop and maintain the needed queries. With their favorite procedural language available, many developers might spend more time developing procedural code when they could have developed an easier-to-maintain solution more quickly by using SQL.
Using Computed Columns
I found Itzik Ben-Gan's T-SQL Black Belt: "Storing Computations" (October 2001, InstantDoc ID 22091) very interesting. Then, I read the news story "SP1 Bug: SELECT Query on Table with Computed Column Generates Access Violation" (SQL Server Magazine UPDATE, http://www
.sqlmag.com, InstantDoc ID 23172) about a problem with using computed columns in SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft's general recommendation against using them. I'm considering using computed columns as a solution in our database, which currently contains columns that have computed amounts. We keep the amounts up-to-date through manual intervention, which has proven an error-prone process. How best can I use computed columns?
I use computed columns when I have long, complex computations or when using them improves performance (e.g., by creating an index on a computed column and using the index in a filter). I wouldn't use computed columns if my computations were short and clear or if using the computed columns wouldn't yield a performance gain. When the computation is lengthy and complex, embedding it in your queries has maintenance implications. Storing the computation as a computed column means easier maintenance and more readable code. As for the SP1 bug, if Microsoft has recognized the problem as a bug, the company will likely fix the problem in a future service pack. I would use a trigger for now, and when the bug is fixed, implement computed columns.
An Oldie but a Goodie
In browsing SQL Server Magazine's online article archives recently, I found Kalen Delaney's Inside SQL Server: "Transaction Isolation Levels" (June 1999, InstantDoc ID 5336). I had difficulty explaining how SQL Server 7.0's row-level locking mechanism worked until I came across this article and its examples. Now, I use similar examples to illustrate the concepts to others I work with. Thanks for the helpful code snippets. For many of us, seeing is believing.


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In 2008, the news burst on the media everywhere: common plastics contained potentially dangerous levels of bisphenol a (BPA) an additive that could be hazardous to consumer health. It leached into food and drinks, especially when plastics were warmed, posing a risk in baby bottles, water bottles, plastic storage containers and more. The plastics industry was reluctant to face the truth on BPA, but under pressure, it gave in — now, many plastic products are proudly labeled BPA-free.
So that means you're safe, right? Your plastics have been guaranteed free of the nasty chemical everyone was so worried about, and you can go back to business as usual.
Not so fast. An environmental researcher in Oakland, California got concerned. He wasn't totally convinced that even BPA-free plastics were safe, and his worries were spurred by his daughter's demands for her plastic sippy cup. He'd tried to get her to use a stainless steel one, but she was having none of it, so Michael Green sent her cup, and samples from a variety of locations, to an independent facility for testing.
What he found shocked him: these products exhibited high levels of estrogenic activity, which is not good news. Exposure to excessive estrogen can be a factor in the development of breast cancer. More troubling still, they passively leached estrogen-like chemicals even without being heated or stressed, and the lab's results showed that the chemicals released were, at times, even more potent than BPA.


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How to Build a Successful Career as a Self-Published Author with Sean Platt
Time for another interview from the
7 Superstars in Writing and Publishing Series!
In this video, I chat with author Sean Platt.
Sean Platt is the author of children's books (under the name Guy Incognito), and together with his co-authors Johnny Truant and David Wright, he's written several series for adults. He also hosts the self-publishing podcast, a great show for anyone wanting to know the latest developments in indie publishing!
His recent book (co-written with Johnny Truant and David Wright) is called Write. Publish. Repeat: The No-Luck Guide to Self-Publishing Success.
It's a brilliant, no-nonsense view of self-publishing that focuses on long-term and sustainable strategies rather than tactics and short-cuts that don't work. And that's exactly what we talk about in this video interview: how self-published writers can build a sustainable, future-proof career.
Some highlights of our interview include:
1. How to create books your readers will love
2. Understanding your readership / market (and your ideal reader)
3. The important details – covers, titles, formatting, price etc.
4. Sean scored a traditionally published deal with Amazon Serials and he talks about his experience there vs. his self-publishing experience
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Ouroboros Tom Jacobson's Ouroboros might be one of the most richly textured works Main Street Theater has put on in years. The story is told from two points of view in two productions shown on alternative nights. One, A Nun's Tale, is a comedy; the other, A Priest's Tale, a tragedy. Both stories collide in the middle, when the minister and the nun make love. Faith, death, the possibilities of miracles and the corporal sorrows of human love are all at stake in this strange and fascinating work about two lonely couples who meet in Italy. They go searching for answers to some very heady questions. The story takes us through Venice, Florence, Siena and Rome. The characters make strange and mystical discoveries involving a pair of golden rings, the head of Saint Catherine and a darkly violent priest. Somehow, these odd happenings manage to add up to a story that's perfect for the theater. It touches the kinds of profound mysteries -- death, love, faith -- that only art and spirituality can answer. Both highly dramatic and wonderfully eccentric, the script and this production are intelligent and so provocative, it's hard to see one show without longing to see the other. Through April 9. 2540 Times Boulevard, 713-524-6706.
[sic] In the old days, Melissa James Gibson's comedy of manners would've been called experimental and avant-garde because of its overlapping dialogue, non sequiturs, intimate asides to the audience, flaccid plotline, linguistic flourishes, time bends and slacker characters not knowing which way to turn. It's still that -- the play's even written without punctuation -- but the old-hat unconventionality of its literary pretensions seems fresh and breezy in Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company's winsome production. Three loser friends live next door to one another on the third floor of a ratty apartment building in a nameless big city. These empathetic sad sacks, whose failures are ingrained within them, are joined at the soul; they're thirtysomethings who can't make anything work in their lives. Their constant bickering, teasing and dreaming only draw them more tightly together. Pining for what they can't have, they feed off one another. Hack musician Theo (Eric Doss) stumbles over composing a theme song for the Thrill-A-Rama ride at the amusement park; overly analytical writer Babette (Jennifer Decker) can't finish her magnum opus of "20th-century outbursts"; gay Frank (Alan Hall) obsesses over his ex-boyfriend, who introduced the three to one another, and practices to be an auctioneer by reciting tongue-twisters. Adding to the enchanting disenchantment of their lives are the disembodied angry voices rising from the air shaft and the surprisingly frisky -- and also unseen -- Mrs. Jorgensen down the hall, who may be dead, sleeping or sleeping around. This clever, brainy, constantly amusing play, superbly acted and gracefully directed by Michelle Edwards, may be about failure and dashed hopes, but it succeeds like gangbusters. Through April 15. Midtown Art Center, 3414 La Branch, 832-418-0973.
Sound of Murder English playwright-director William Fairchild, perhaps best known as the screenwriter of Star, the Gertrude Lawrence biopic starring Julie Andrews, wrote this nifty little murder mystery, which has the distinction of being twice adapted into a movie, in 1969 and 1982. The hook in this chamber piece for six characters is not "who done it?" but "will they get away with it?" Esteemed kids' book author Charles Norbury (L. Robert Westeen) hates children, despises his wife (Laura Brown), berates his secretary (Callista Clark) and treats everyone, even the kindly Inspector Davidson (Glenn Dodson), with pompous contempt and sarcastic ill will. No wonder no one can stand him. To top it off, he absolutely refuses, with sadistic glee, to grant a divorce to long-suffering Laura, who has found happiness at last with lover Peter (Dean Dicks). The adulterous pair concocts the "perfect murder" and, after some startling red herrings and tricky plotting, manages to get away with it. Or do they? You'll just have to go to Company OnStage to find out. You'll be pleasantly surprised with both the show's production and its denouement. Westeen, in aubergine smoking robe with white ascot, exudes oily charm as the famous author. Brown gives a Hitchcock-blond interpretation to the wife, all subterranean heat under the cool facade. Dicks smolders with appropriate masculine hurt pride; and Clark comes into her own when her secretarial wiles reveal the conniving little she-wolf beneath those comfy sweaters and sensible shoes. The English do have a way with murder. Through April 15. 536 Westbury Square, 713-726-1219.
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What About Luv? Teddy bear Harry (Jimmy Phillips), who's happiest when he escapes the world around him by encasing his head in a paper bag, arrives at the Brooklyn Bridge to kill himself. But things take a turn when he meets his old school chum Milt (Terry Jones), now rich and successful, who's at the bridge to meet his brainy wife, Ellen (Carolyn Johnson). Milt plans to throw Ellen off the bridge so he can live happily ever after with his new mistress. But in saving Harry, Milt has a better idea: He'll pair him up with Ellen. That works for a while, but soon Ellen is bored to tears from sublimating her intellect with slob Harry, and to complicate matters, Milt wants Ellen back. Now those two hatch a plan. This three-character chamber musical, adapted from Murray Schisgal's 1960s-era play Luv, is a charmer. Jeffrey Sweet's book is witty and sophisticated, Howard Marren's music is snappy, and Susan Birkenhead's lyrics are from the old-pro school. The enjoyable, bouncy cast at Theater LaB puts all this over without mussing their hair, a testament to their theatrical chops and winning ways. Although we'd like to spend more time with these lovable losers, the evening's over in a flash -- or a grin. Clever, tuneful and enjoyable, with just enough meat on its bones to satisfy. Through April 8. 1706 Alamo, 713-868-7516.


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CHICAGO — Illinois State Police officials say their agency is preparing to issue the state's first concealed carry permits.
Police are holding a news conference in downtown Chicago on Friday to provide an update about the soon-to-be-issued permits. They'll also show what a concealed carry license looks like.
Illinois gun owners began applying for the permits in January after the state became the last in the nation to allow people to carry concealed guns. Police have been reviewing the applications.
By the end of January, more than 16,000 people had filed paperwork to get a license.
State officials believe as many as 400,000 people will apply for the concealed carry permits during the first year of the law.