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Cultural Heritage & Arts Review Call for Articles
SAFECORNER is pleased to pass along this call for entries:
The Cultural Heritage & Arts Review is seeking articles for its upcoming edition. The focus of this issue will be looting and crimes against cultural property, but articles on all topics related to cultural heritage and the arts are welcome!
The Cultural Heritage & Arts Review is a publication of the Cultural Heritage and Arts Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. It is published biannually. Noted scholars and practitioners in the cultural heritage and arts field contribute to and receive this publication.
To have your article considered for publication, please submit it to Co-Editors-in-Chief, Elizabeth Varner and Betina Kuzmarov, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2011. Submissions should be limited to 3000 words, although longer submissions may be considered. Please include an abstract and bio with your submission. Authors are required to obtain all legal permission for any images that they seek to use in this publication.
If you have any questions please contact Elizabeth Varner or Betina Kuzmarov.
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Made whole, the "Weary Herakles" reunites in Turkey
At last, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has returned the top half of the "Weary Herakles" to Turkey, as previously suggested here. The agreement to transfer ownership of the statue was signed on September 23, between the Museum and the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey.
According to the Museum's press release, the "agreement acknowledged that the MFA acquired the object in good faith and without knowledge of any ownership or title issues[italics added]. It also provided for the transfer of the object, which took place after the signing."
The return of the Weary Herakles to Turkey, preceded by the repatriation of antiquities from Italy by the Metropolitan Museum (shortly before the publication of the 2006 book The Medici Conspiracy by SAFE Beacon Award recipients Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini) and the return of antiquities to Greece and Italy by the Getty Museum (as discussed in the book Chasing Aphrodite by 2011 SAFE Beacon Award recipients Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino), confirms the long-held belief at SAFE that ownership "without knowledge of any ownership or title issues" is not a position that a principled institution or collector can maintain or defend. See our Statement of Principles. Let's hope the practice of acquiring unprovenanced artifacts without asking questions is truly coming to an end.
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Getty to return two antiquities to Greece
The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return two antiquities to Greece. Both were acquired during the 1970s. Two fragments of a funerary relief have long been known to fit a third fragment in the Kanellopoulos Collection in Athens. The reunification of this monument would justify this return. It should be noted that the source for the fragments was Nikolas Koutoulakis whose name appears in the infamous organigram cited in The Medici Conspiracy. The source of the Athens fragment has not been given.
The more intriguing return is the religious calendar from Thorikos in southern Attica that was acquired in 1979 [Getty]. This appears to have been seen in Greece by David F. Ogden, a student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1959-61). Ogden was conducting research in the area of Thorikos. The cutting on the block suggested that it had been used in a later building, perhaps a Late Antique Christian basilica.
The usual benchmark for acquisitions is 1970, the date of the UNESCO Convention. So why has the Getty decided to return an inscription that appears to have been known some time before? When did the inscription leave Greece? What is the full collecting history?
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And the SAFE Beacon Award Winners are…
2011: Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino - SAFE honors investigative journalists and co-authors of Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (read Professor Senta German's review here) for assembling "an extraordinary array of sources with which they tell a story the Getty wants no one to know" and for educating the public about how museum practices affect the preservation of cultural heritage.
2012: David Gill – Professor Gill has worked tirelessly for decades to shed light on the multiple threats to cultural heritage through teaching, research, publication and the trailblazing Looting Matters. An archaeologist and scholar of ancient history and the classics, Professor Gill is also a SAFECORNER Contributor.
Established in 2006, SAFE Beacon Awards recognize individuals who enlighten the public about the devastating effects of looting and the illicit antiquities trade. Awards have been presented to authors, professors, law enforcement professionals, and archaeologists. We look forward to honoring others who lead the way in the fight to protect cultural heritage.
Previous winners include:
2005 – Matthew Bogdanos 2006 – Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini
2008 – Neil Brodie and Donny George
2010 – Robert Goldman, David Hall, James McAndrew, and Robert Wittman
To learn more about the SAFE Beacon Awards and to stay up to date with the latest awards news, visit and "like" our SAFE Beacon Awards facebook page.
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Rescuing Cultural Assets
A decade on from the devastation of 9/11, the loss of life is just as sorrowful and the loss of cultural property and personal artifacts just as important as the day it happened. Not only were tangible things lost—people, buildings, planes, sculptures, paintings—but also our memories of these artifacts were altered. With natural disasters occurring all around us—quakes, tsunamis, hurricanes—the need to identify, rescue and restore damaged cultural property is ever greater. But we also need to protect our cultural heritage, which in turn preserves our collective memories.Japan has taken steps in that direction after the huge earthquake and tsunami on March 11. According to Heritage on the Wire (the news service of the Global Heritage Fund) the tally of damaged cultural properties in Japan stands at 714, with Sendai Castle and the Buddhist temple Zuigan-ji, and its more than 100 cultural artifacts, sustaining significant damage. One of ...
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A Fresh Coat of Justice
Good news on the front to protect Southwest US rock art sites from vandalism. This article details the arrest and prison sentence of another rock art vandal; a man who shot up a petroglyph panel with red and green paintball pellets in March of last year! More detail can be found here. Grapevine Canyon, in the Lake Mead National Park, has long been a sacred site to Colorado River Native American tribes, and is home to at least 700 petroglyphs. The perpetrator and two others were turned in by a witness, and the ring leader was sentenced to 15 months prison and a $10,000 dollar bill to help in restoration. Let justice be served!
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The ethics of "tomb raiding?"
This rather shocking article needs to be further exposed. Cultural internationalism and a demand for antiquities justified for aesthic and "preservation" related reasons appears to be alive and well, at least where open-air purchasing of potentially authentic pieces of Angkor Wat in Thailand are conserned! Closing the article by stating how much they purport to have learned regarding the "rights, wrongs and grey areas" of tomb raiding is especially galling. My personal response to the article can be found here.
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My son has AIED [Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease, a syndrome involving progressive hearing loss]. He began losing his hearing a little over two years ago at the age of 10. He currently has a profound to moderate sensorineural, bilateral loss. The loss is progressive. He obviously has acquired speech and language as a hearing child. What impact am I looking for as we go forward? Prior to the loss he tested at or above for reading levels, now his reading scores are below grade level. He still makes A's and B's in all subjects except math. He does struggle. He attends a small public school with no deaf education resources.
With any child with hearing loss, it is important to monitor different areas of development. The first is language. Based on your description, I am assuming he is using auditory/oral skills. You have indicated that his expressive (spoken) language is on target, but it is also important to monitor his receptive language skills. With the progressive nature of his hearing loss, does he still have good access to spoken language? This may impact his overall functioning, especially in school.
I am not sure what kind (if any) of hearing technologies (hearing aids, cochlear implant, FM system, etc.) he is using, but unless he is using a signed-based language, making sure that he has good audibility is key. If audibility is a concern, providing information in a visual form may be beneficial. His educational needs should also be monitored. It sounds like he continues to do well in school and that is great! If you notice that he is starting to struggle, it is important to question why. Is he understanding what goes on in class? Could support services be provided to help him stay on target? It is important to work with his school to make sure his needs are met. I would work with them to see if he is eligible for an IEP or 504 plan (if he doesn't already have one). Talk with his teachers, administrators, speech-language pathologists, deaf educators, etc. See if they can work to support his need for deaf education resources.
Finally, it sounds like your son may have had an stressful few years. Often overlooked, it is important to monitor the psychosocial impact of his hearing loss. Does he have a good understanding and acceptance of his hearing loss? Does he have a support system of friends, especially any with hearing loss? Feelings of isolation or questions/concerns about his hearing loss may impact his life. Working with a school psychologist may be beneficial. I hope these suggestions are helpful as you work to provide the best for your son!
I'm a pediatric occupational therapist who only occasionally works with deaf children. I don't have time (or a library) to read papers and books about deaf children. Is there something like Cliff's Notes on deaf kids?
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How many children between the ages of 2 to 3 years old are deaf or have hearing loss? Are there hospitals for these kids?
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH), 2 to 3 children out of 1000 are born deaf or hard of hearing (at least 95% of them born to hearing parents). Another 2 to 3 out of 1000 will become deaf or hard of hearing by age 3 due to severe otitis media (ear infections) or other illnesses/accidents.
It is unclear why you might think they need hospitals, other than for the usual medical reasons, but there are audiology (e.g., for hearing aid fitting) and speech-language clinics (for those who will use spoken language rather than or in addition to sign language) in a variety of settings including medical centers, universities, and private practices.
I am living in India and fostering a 6 year old boy who has 95% hearing loss. He used to live in an orphanage and came into my foster care in July. Prior to this no one noticed that he was deaf. I want to look into getting cochlear implants for him, but have been told that because of his age and that he has gone 6 years having no auditory input, the CIs won't work. Thoughts?"
Amazing that this child went six years until his hearing loss was discovered. This used to happen more than we would like to admit here in the United States, but thanks to newborn hearing screening we are usually able to diagnose hearing loss much earlier now.
Several things that make me curious relate to whether or not to pursue the option of cochlear implantation. I am curious as to whether this little guy has any vocalizations and how he makes his needs known. Do you have a sense whether he is bright and learns quickly? The reason I ask this is that sometimes children who are quick learners are able to slide under the radar and perform well in many arenas and their hearing loss gets over-looked. Alternatively, children who have multiple developmental delays in motor skills, learning, self-care, and if they have a lot of health issues as well, their hearing loss goes undetected as other health issues are the focus of intervention. I am also curious as to whether he ever had some hearing. If he does have the ability to vocalize he may have had hearing at one point in time.
First of all, I think you need to assure that this boy has access to language. As a child with profound hearing loss without amplification/implants he will need to have access to a signed language so that he can learn to communicate with the world. At this point, access to language (sign) is a main priority. In addition, I would also encourage you to advocate for a cochlear implant evaluation. He may indeed be a wonderful candidate. We know that children who learn quickly, who have had hearing, who have support to learn to listen and who are exposed to speech consistently will learn to produce the sounds of their language and within 4 years of CI listening experience, they may be able to produce a majority of the sounds, even if they get a relatively late start.
My 11 year old son has only become deaf over the last two years, the result of a neurological condition. He has good vocabulary, great speech and rounded communication skills following 10 years of growing up in the hearing world. His reception method is primarily speechreading, supported by some residual hearing. (His deafness is Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder – which for him particularly impacts speech perception).
Some professionals are recommending that he fully embraces Total Communication, becomes more integrated with Deaf peers and in particular learns British Sign Language. I am not sure. He has no experience of signing (other than basic alphabet), and has a preferred an oral/aural approach. I want to help him learn more about Deaf culture, but I'm keen that we take advantage of his 10 years of open communication to make sure that he doesn't lose the 'advantage' he's had.
Is anyone aware of any research on "late" presenting deafness in children, and the pluses and minuses of investing in BSL at this age.
It might be useful to separate out the two issues in this questions, that of diversity of language support and Deaf culture.
In terms of the language issue, the first thing to stress is that there are no 'minuses' of learning some BSL or Sign-Supported English (SSE) at any age. Nothing will be lost; there can only be gains if you opt for this type of environment. Your son may find BSL useful for learning or for socialising at some point (or a bit of both) or, more likely, find that SSE is a useful mediating tool for mixed deaf and hearing interactions and some support for listening and also literacy development (now or in the future). In either case, learning BSL and meeting and learning with other deaf children will be supportive and will not change his spoken language trajectory, only add a layer of support. Most children that he meets will probably also be using a mix of sign and spoken language for different purposes at different times and you will find in any TC setting that this flexibility is normal and expected and managed by the hearing and deaf adults.
With regard to the other question, about Deaf culture, entering into some sort of TC environment will immediately offer your son access to diverse deaf children and adults. In itself this will extend his understanding of deafness as he sees other ways of being and interacting in an environment where deaf and hearing children and adult rub along together. This is perhaps a more natural way to engage with Deaf community and culture which is entirely contextualised and nowhere near as overwhelming as seeing Deaf culture as a very separate land.
Given, as you say, the advantage that your son has had, I would suggest that keeping his communication options open would be linguistically and culturally positive and enriching if this would sit comfortably with family routines, practices and preferences.
My boyfriend has a 3 year old son who was late on his speech, so we decided to take him to see a doctor. He has seen a neurologist and taken a BAER test which indicated that he had profound hearing loss in the left ear and severe in the right. He is very smart and his motor skills have always seemed high for his age. Were just confused on what are all the options it could be… we have been referred to the children's hospital, but it wont be for a while. If any one has dealt with this or has any advice we would appreciate it. We're just kind of lost on where do we go from here. (When he was born he passed his hearing test.) Also he seems to have behavior problems, and the docs say its just his age, but we feel it could be more. He has really bad anger problems and is very moody. Could that be because he can't hear or should we look into other things like ADHD or bipolar syndrome?
Based on the basic information provided, my thoughts are that your 3 year old boy's anger and moodiness is related more to his hearing loss and communication frustrations. His behaviors may look like he has attention difficulties (i.e., easily distracted, impulsive, daydreaming). However, these behavior may because he cannot hear and uses his vision for information. Sometimes parents have a difficult time differentiating whether the child's hearing loss is contributing to disobedient behavior, or, whether the child's attention and willfulness is creating communication difficulties.
In most cases, parents need to address communication issues before assuming defiant behavior. For example, parents must make eye contact instead of talking to the child from a location where the child does not see the parent. There are many more communication strategies and tips for parents. At this time, seeking out professionals who work with children who have ommunication disorders is a suggestion, especially if your community does not have psychologists who have expertise in working with families who have deaf members. You also might check to see if there is a local chapter of Hands & Voices or contact the American Society for Deaf Children for advice.
I am looking for listening comprehension programs for elementary HH/CI students. Again, I find checklists but few programs for what we used to call 'auditory training'. All are either for young, early implanted (Dave Sindrey for example) or teenagers (music and phone use). I have used the SPICE program… but is that all?
I am delighted to see that you are investigating different listening comprehension programs. There are several out there and more that are being developed all the time. It is a bit interesting that many of the materials are now being hosted by the Implant Corporations, but in a way it makes sense. They employ the people who do the work and creative aspects. I know that the cost of developing materials is very high and the market is relatively sparse compared to other products, so this may be why Implant Corps can absorb the cost. (example– you mentioned Sindry, and his work is now available through these websites). Here is a resource list of my favorites for elementary age:
Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation materials—many are developed by Geoff Plant and are very good http://www.hearf.org/Materials.html
Hear at Home
Speech Stuff
Rhythm, Rhyme & Song
Speech Rhymes
Step by Step
Goldberg Stout, G., & Windle J. Developmental Approach to Successful Listening II (DASL)
Tye-Murray, N. (2002). Conversation Made Easy. Three 6-set CD-ROM Training Programs. Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis, MO.
Have you tried the CI company's websites? Each company offers a multitude of materials ranging from reproducible materials, listening logs, listening activities etc, which are not just telephone use or music, and many are free to donload. Activities are appropriate for CI users or Hearing Aid users. See, for example the Listening Room by Advanced bionics http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/preview.cfm?langid=1
Cochlear Corporation offers their HOPE website which has so many resources, some to purchase, some are training seminars, some are apps for IPad (it is WONDERFUL) http://hope.cochlearamericas.com/
MedEL offers the BRIDGE http://www.medel.com/us/rehabilitation/ and this site again has items to purchase items to download for free.
*For many of these sites, you do need to register and login in, but that is a small price to pay for the wealth of information you receive. Do register and you will see so many listening tasks and activities.
My sister is deaf and she needs a job. How can we help her and other deaf boys and girls get jobs?
There are many areas to address, such as getting training or education in the field you are interested in, developing a resume, practicing interview skills, and so forth. "Networking" is also one of the best way to find a job. Networking is making contact with people you know and letting people know what your skills, experience, and strengths are. Research has shown that 75-80% of people find jobs through networking.
Job-seekers can network with everyone, everywhere, and all the time. It is important for job seekers to network with friends, relatives, businesspeople, doctors, clergy, clubs, teachers…etc. It can be scary and a challenge for deaf individuals to know what to say. Here are some suggestions, "I'm looking for a job, do you know anyone whom I could contact?, can you think of 5 companies where I should apply?, do you know other people who could be helpful?".
Networking can help you grow in your area of interest and as a person. Every time you go up to a stranger, talk to them, and get through that little wall of fear, you're boosting your self-confidence. That confidence is what people see in you even before you communicate.
Once a child has been identified as deaf or hard of hearing, what is generally next for his/her parents? Does New York State have a deaf mentoring system in place? What does early intervention (EI) look like for deaf and hard-of-hearing kids in this state? Where can parents turn for information?
Here in New York, after a child is identified as having a hearing loss, the audiology clinic typically provides the family information about contacting Early Intervention for the county in which the family resides. Whether there is a mentoring program or not depends on who the EI service provider is. There is no formal mentoring program run through EI for hearing parents of deaf children.
Parents are approved for EI based on their child's "diagnosis" and need. They work with an EI service coordinator to develop an IFSP (Individual Family Service Plan). Services are approved and parents are guided through the list of service providers with which EI has subcontracts for providing services. Here in Rochester, for example, the Rochester School for the Deaf is one of those agencies.
There is no chapter of a parent support group such as Hands & Voices in this part of New York, but there may be in other areas.
My almost 3-year-old daughter has a moderate to almost severe hearing loss in both ears (55-65 db). She uses ASL and also speaks while signing though her signing is more developed. She wears two hearing aids, since she was 1 year old. We use ASL at home (I am deaf myself) and also speak, at the same time. She is receiving services at a regional program and attends school a few times a month with other deaf children. This will soon increase to 2 mornings a week when she turns 3. We decided to add another school/Childcare, 2 mornings a week, that has all hearing students and the staff all knows a few signs while one staff knows more ASL though not fluent. That one staff isn't always present. My concern is this: I believe she would benefit from more sign support either through an interpreter or a family friend (due to cost) to help serve as a bridge. She sometimes appears lost while looking around the classroom. She has had a difficult adjustment period though they have recently added more sign information and that has helped. Her regional teacher feels this school provides more auditory development for her, to hear and speak. There is a concern she may cling to whoever signs and not socialize much. I question whether anyone truly understands how much she catches with her aids. I wonder if it is best to provide extra sign support in the beginning and then taper off as needed when her abilities are clearly known. People have said she is only at the "other" school about 7 hours each week and all other times, she gets ASL. Will providing more sign support in this environment hinder her hearing / speaking abilities later?
The short answer to your question about whether or not sign language support will interfere with eventual spoken language development is an unqualified – NO. There is no evidence that signing interferes with speech if speech is feasible for a child and supported by her auditory and oral-motor abilities. How lucky for your daughter that she has fluent adult models for both ASL and English at home – and at the same time no less! The bigger issue seems to be what kinds of information your child has access to in the preschool class where less signing is available from the adults and virtually no signing is available from the children. Given your comment about her "difficult adjustment," your child may benefit from more "scaffolding" for both social interaction and vocabulary learning in the new preschool setting. Providing more help in the beginning meets her immediate needs – always a good idea in the long run. It would be unwise to suppose that she is able to function in one modality – hearing, at one school and another modality – vision, in the other. Though she will almost certainly acquire two languages, she is one child with a singular need for optimal, that is to say dual, inputs in every linguistic encounted.
Satisfying social interaction is the most natural and powerful motivation for language learning. If socializing is a goal – and it should be at age 3, then having supportive adults to help navigate interactions with age peers is a good idea. This help could come from an interpreter or family friend as you suggest, if their role is clearly defined and reinforced by the other adults in the classroom. If learning language through listening and auditory skills are a goal, but the context is a preschool with hearing children who cannot sign, some kind of adult mediation is certainly warranted. Though always a risk when using interpreters, the signing adult need not be the sole source of either auditory or signed language input. Perhaps activities could be devised wherein the signing adult teaches a hearing age peer to be a partner in listening games. Similarly, the signing adults could serve as on-the-spot tutors for the hearing children to learn signs for key words that support spoken language vocabulary in the course of play-based interactions.
That your child is looking around confused, though distressing emotionally, is a good indicator that she knows that she does not know, and she is looking for a way in – an access modality. This sensitivity to needing language input is hard to teach, but something that her teachers can exploit every day. Given that the limits of her auditory-only reception are uncertain for now, and that she is looking for input on the hands, she should be given routine access to concurrent, or at the very least sequential, signed and spoken English whenever ASL is not being used. Routine access means that the speech she cannot perceive is supported by signs on the spot and the signs she knows are associated with spoken English words that will eventually become the basis of her ability to develop text literacy i.e., reading and writing.


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Use F# on Windows
Option 1: Install the Visual F# Tools from Microsoft
On Windows, F# programmers commonly use the Visual F# Tools from Microsoft.
- Install the free Visual Studio 2013 Community; if you already have Visual Studio 2013 Professional or above, you can use that. Visual Studio 2013 Community and above come with the Visual F# Tools.
The Visual F# Tools include the command-line compiler (fsc.exe
) and F# Interactive (fsi.exe
See Visual F# Resources for more information about the Visual F# Tools from Microsoft.
Visual F# Power Tools
Optionally, install the community-provided Visual F# Power Tools, for use with Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 (Community or higher, not Express, see above). They include source code formatting, auto-generating XML Docs, navigation bar, highlight and find references, rename refactoring, depth colorizer, implement interface, record stub generation, union pattern match case generation and the navigate-to command.
Note to ReSharper users
With some versions of ReSharper, the Alt+Enter
shortcut key for the Execute in Interactive
command of the Visual F# Tools doesn't work, as ReSharper overrides this for its own purposes.
To fix this, either upgrade to ReSharper 184.108.40.2069 or greater, or install the resharper-fsi-friendly plugin.
If you are using Visual F# Power Tools along side with ReSharper, there is a known issue where some F# commands are hidden by ReSharper. This is fixed in ReSharper 9.0. For previous versions, you can workaround by disabling the ReSharper option "Hide overridden Visual Studio menu items" (ReSharper -> Options -> Keyboard & Menus).
Option 2: Install F# and Xamarin Studio
Xamarin Studio is a free IDE for general purpose development with commercial add-ins for mobile development. MonoDevelop is a free and open source IDE based on the same code. F# can be used with either.
- Install the free standalone F# compiler tools, following Option 1 above or Option 3 below.
- Install Xamarin Studio or MonoDevelop for Windows
Option 3: Install the free F# compiler and tools alone
If you're just looking for F# command-line tools, e.g. for a build server or cloud VM image, then use the following requirements and installation steps:
Requires .NET 4.5:
On Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server, this is already present by default
On Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server, install .NET 4.5 from Microsoft
Requires the Windows SDK:
On Windows 8.1 use the Windows 8.1 and .NET 4.5.1 SDK from Microsoft
On Windows 8 or Windows 2012 Server use the Windows 8 and .NET 4.5 SDK from Microsoft
On Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server use the Windows 7 and .NET 4.0 SDK from Microsoft
Install the free Visual F# Tools 3.1.2 from Microsoft
Alternatively, do a quiet install from a PowerShell administrator prompt (the URL is the redirect of the above).
$webclient = New-Object Net.WebClient $url = 'http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/A/3/EA38D9B8-E00F-433F-AAB5-9CDA28BA5E7D/FSharp_Bundle.exe' $webclient.DownloadFile($url, "$pwd\FSharp_Bundle.exe") .\FSharp_Bundle.exe /install /quiet
The compiler tools are installed at
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Tsunami is an innovative fully featured F# IDE. It is capable of being embedded directly into other desktop applications and websites.
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Law Enforcement Agencies Offering Explorers Program
POSTED: Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 2:26pm
UPDATED: Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 8:42pm
Several Valley students, representing different law enforcement Explorer posts, gathered on Wednesday at Tony Gonzalez Park in Brownsville.
The law enforcement Explorers Program provides educational training for young adults learning more about law enforcement careers. The Explorers Program is open to people ages 14 to 21 years of age. Explorers from Border Patrol, Brownsville Police and Brownsville Fire and Rescue competed in several basketball tournaments and officials hope to raise awareness of the program and recruit more adults. Any teen who is interested in joining can call the Southmost Community Network Center at 956.548.7045.


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Linton Knights of Columbus held awards night on Feb. 10
St. Anthony's Council 5955 of Linton held the annual sweetheart supper and awards night on Sunday, Feb. 10, at the KC Hall in Linton. The 50 year awards were presented to the following; Michael Dietz, Joe R. Glasser, Joe G. Gross,Linus Horner, Frank Jacob, Michael Jacob,Tom Jacob,Valentine Jacob and Michael Wickenheiser.
Honorary membership was awarded to Robert M. Brindle.
Twenty-five year membership awards were presented to; Darius Aberle, Alfred A. Bosch,Greg T. Bosch,Larry J. Fettig,Max F. Gross, John A. Ibach, Brian J. Jacob,Marc J. Kress,Tom Ohlhauser, Paul P. Richter, Kenneth Schlosser, Cletus Schmidt, Myron I. Schneider and Michael L. Wickenheiser.
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...lock it in
The just played in LA at the palladium a week ago. But Their schedule is open....
Grizzly Bear 2010 tour dates
JAN 04 Melbourne, Australia
JAN 05 Melbourne, Australia
JAN 07 Brisbane, Australia
JAN 08 Perth, Australia
JAN 09 Busselton, Australia Southbound Festival
MAR 13 London, UK Roundhouse (w/ Beach House)
I am neither foxy, nor a lady.
Neil Young - Kanye West - Beck - PJ Harvey - The Knife - Basement Jaxx - Tom Waits - Shpongle (Live) - Flying Lotus (Live) - The Avalanches - Autechre - Eels - Fat Freddy's Drop - Liquid Liquid - OFWGKTA - Freddie Gibbs - Big K.R.I.T. - Phantogram - Christian Scott - Nosaj Thing - Gold Panda - James Blake
For 2011
they already played at least 3 shows in LA this year and have already toured the US festivals for Vekatimest. I'd be pretty doubtful.
as i said...lock it in
signed, sealed, (almost) delivered
They should've been at Coachella last year (alongside Dirty Projectors and Phoenix) since Veckatimest came out only a few weeks after. Bonnaroo and all the other festivals locked those bands up when the pinnacle of hype was there. Since they played LA so many times already and I had a chance to see them, I'd see them being on the lineup as a sign of organizers dropping the ball. They're last year festival leftovers and I'd prefer something fresher on the mind.
dropping the ball? or a sign that their touring schedule didn't work with the coachella schedule? i'll go with the latter.
Here's last year's itinerary from the beginning of the year through May, and oh what's this? Not a single date in April. Bands do one-off dates for this since its one of the biggest festival in the world, so it looks like I was right.
May 31 Brooklyn, NY
SOLD OUT: Music Hall of Williamsburg (w/ Here We Go Magic)
May 29 New York, NY
SOLD OUT: Town Hall (w/ Here We Go Magic)
May 28 New York, NY
SOLD OUT: Town Hall (w/ Here We Go Magic)
May 26 Vancouver, BC
Commodore (w/ Foreign Born)
May 25 George, WA
Sasquatch Music Festival
May 24 Portland, OR
SOLD OUT: Aladdin Theatre
May 20 CBS
Late Show with David Letterman
May 09 Minehead, Somerset, UK
ATP UK Weekend 1: THE FANS STRIKE BACK
Mar 20 Austin, TX
SOLD OUT: SXSW: Cedar Street Courtyard
Mar 19 Austin, TX
SOLD OUT: SXSW: Central Presbyterian Church
Feb 28 Brooklyn, NY
SOLD OUT: BAMs Howard Gilman Opera House (w/ Final Fantasy)
Feb 14 Brooklyn, NY
The New Yorker Speakeasy
which means what? do you know what they were doing leading up to the tour? possibly putting the finishing touches on the album? readying their plan for world domination? enjoying time with their loved ones before heading around said world? goldenvoice cannot make a band play, maybe they just said "no". for a festival that is at the leading edge for breaking talent i'm sure there was an offer put out to them.
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It looks like they took the month off to prepare for their big tour, but whoever is their tour manager would've been smart in making Coachella among their first stops. I saw them already since and will just watch another band I haven't seen already if they play.
Outdoor Theatre for Grizzly Bear. If not, I don't wanna see them there. That's the only and best fitting place for them.
2/28 - Caribou - Fonda
3/05 - Swervedriver - Roxy
3/06 - Viet Cong - Echo
4/08 - Drive Like Jehu - Glass House
4/14 - Ride - Fox Pomona
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
Doesn't it seem like GB's wave has already kind of crested for now? It seems like Coachella gets acts that are just about to get huge, not the other way around.
2/28 - Caribou - Fonda
3/05 - Swervedriver - Roxy
3/06 - Viet Cong - Echo
4/08 - Drive Like Jehu - Glass House
4/14 - Ride - Fox Pomona
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
2/28 - Caribou - Fonda
3/05 - Swervedriver - Roxy
3/06 - Viet Cong - Echo
4/08 - Drive Like Jehu - Glass House
4/14 - Ride - Fox Pomona
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
I was in the front row for Grizzley Bear at the Palladium. Awesome show. I heard a Fleet Foxes song on the speakers while I was eating at Hometown Buffet, mixed in with other "softer" bands. I got so excited that I got another plate!


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Erica Sakurazawa — Her Works
Posted in Manga Reviews on February 9, 2006 by Johannaby Erica Sakurazawa
published by Tokyopop
(This overview was originally published in The Comics Journal #269.)
Earlier this year, Tokyopop announced a promotional push called "Manga After Hours", an attempt to market some of their more mature female-oriented titles to "chick lit" buyers. Some of the first titles in this line are the works of Erica Sakurazawa.
From 2003 to early 2004, six of her books were released. Although manga publishers do cross-promote based on creators — a recent volume of Maison Ikkoku shipped with a sticker attached reading "from the creator of Inu-Yasha" — this series is unusual in being connected solely by the artist and titled with her name instead of featuring continuing characters or storylines.
Marked for mature readers, these are not shôjo (girl-oriented) titles. They're josei, manga for twenty-something women, and their push indicates a desire both to reach a new audience and to continue providing current readers with material of interest as they grow up.
Apparently, there's a rule that says that any story about adult women that doesn't shy away from the physical side of romance must be compared to Sex in the City. There is sex in these books, and they do take place in the city, but the mood and approach are nothing similar. A customer looking for a hot read would do better to look elsewhere.
The nudity is matter-of-fact realism instead of nipple-flashing titillation. A guy stands naked in front of the fridge while his girlfriend sits topless in bed. A woman pulls on an oversized t-shirt after sex. Couples embrace out of need or desire or loneliness.
Many readers became fans of the artist due to her style. Sakurazawa's delicate line creates a spare page that gives the story room to breathe. As with much other female-oriented manga, the emphasis is on the figures and their expressions, although her work lacks the fussy details and decorations of shôjo. It's lovely, airy work, even when dealing with more earthy subjects.
Between the Sheets was the first book released, perhaps because of its juicy premise. Minako and Saki are bar-hopping best friends. When an undesirable guy hits on them, they tell him they're a couple. Their kiss to prove it starts Minako seeing her friend in a new light, although she phrases it to herself as "if I was a guy, I would definitely be in love with her!"
Minako's the small, cute one, with her unruly short dark hair curling around her face. Saki is the tall, long-haired blonde, the model-like figure that women are supposed to want to look like. Smoking has never looked uglier, with a thick cylinder disturbing the graceful line of Saki's lips as she's introduced to the reader.
Minako's attraction stems from a variety of desires: appreciating Saki's looks and kissing skill; wanting to be her in many ways; and her uncertainty about Saki's relationship with her boyfriend Ken. Ken's nothing special, and yet Minako sees Saki's personality change when she's with him. Saki seems more herself, more interesting when they're just girls together.
Minako's innocence — friends speculate on whether she's still a virgin — contrasts with Saki's casual physicality. Saki's just this side of uncaring about her boyfriend's feelings, while Minako speculates that she would worry too much, becoming obsessed over her hypothetical lover. Yet Minako is willing to welcome love between the two of them, while Saki can't consider life without a man. For all her outer wildness, she's wired traditionally, making eyes at a guy at a bar just minutes after saying, "The last thing I need right now is a guy."
The characters glance, touch, stare, talk, look away with just the right moment selected to demonstrate their emotions. Small head shots drive conversation, with larger panels expanding meaningful moments into timeless significance. Sakurazawa captures the day-to-day details of women's lives; some of her best moments take place in the bathroom while her characters prepare for a night out or clean up afterwards. Dialogue captures the search for the right shade of nail polish or how easily beauty can be faked with makeup techniques.
Minako becomes more aggressive, hitting on guys to drive them away from Saki in order to keep her for herself. Her knowledge of Saki becomes an obstacle, as she reinterprets events to find non-existent evidence for returned feelings. She blames Saki for not loving her back when Saki doesn't even recognize the extent of Minako's attraction.
Minako's internal emotional world begins moving further away from the physical. She's creating drama for herself when nothing's visibly changed between the two friends, and her devotion becomes disturbing. The reader senses that the two will never have the same relationship again after the events of this book, and yet, as the story continues, they see what attracts Minako to Saki in spite of her selfishness and shallow fickleness.
Somewhere during the story, what began as innocent friendship turns into a twisted competition, with the women cheating on those they supposedly love for thrills or revenge. Internally, they blame others for their choices in the same way abusers do. Love and caring are divorced from sex. A character collapses when others do to her what she's been doing thoughtlessly. It's not whether someone's having an affair but whether they successfully hide it from their partner.
Sakurazawa's attitudes, read through this story, are complex but immature, as suits the characters' time of their lives. Post-adolescence, people are treated as adults even though they don't know how to be one. They treat sex like a toy, something to be played with without consequence, something to be used as a substitute for the much scarier emotions they don't have the maturity to handle.
The book ends with the message that life is a process of learning to settle, of making choices that get you close to what you want but can't have. The reader is left unsettled, just like life.
Next up were two books with the same premise: an angel affects everyday lives. Angel starts with the story of Kato, an ordinary guy who picked up a girl at a bar. She turns out to be an angel who moves in with him. Silent, she exists on Bombay Sapphire gin and lime, and when they kiss, he grows wings, which no one else notices.
This isn't very subtle symbolism, with an unearthly fantasy figure making a guy feel special in ways shared only between the two, but the added alcohol detail freshens it up. The subject is a good choice for Sakurazawa's elegant minimalism. At times, it's reminiscent of the work of CLAMP, especially the Chobits title.
The short chapters are patchworked together, allowing space for the reader's interpretations and connections. Next comes a suicidal 14-year-old girl with a single working mother. The girl, who resembles Minako, is too afraid to take action but so depressed that she's even tired of being apathetic.
Dragged along by casually cruel schoolmates, she sees Kato and the angel at the club and is the only one to notice the wings. Her sighting gives her the curiosity she needs to find a purpose in life, if only to know more about the angel. It's good timing, since jealous girls start picking on her. Her response to becoming an outcast is avoidance, choosing not to attend school.
Her desire to watch the angel becomes more one night when her frustration returns. She meets the angel and is kissed by her. The next day, the angel (carrying her favorite teddy bear) follows her to school. The invisible presence gives her an unexpected strength.
The volume's episodic nature makes it easy to pause and ponder, or to take a break if the supernatural becomes too gooey. With Sakurazawa's art style, the glowing spirit angel looks right, but so does the schoolroom full of everyday kids bursting to be more. The angel isn't a character so much as a lucky charm, hanging around people until they themselves make a difference.
The classically romantic (almost platonic) relationship between Kato and the angel and the story about teen peer pressure make this book feel younger than the previous. The rating has similarly been lowered for the two Angel titles, from Mature to Older Teen (a difference of 2 years, from 18 to 16 as the bottom of the recommended age range).
The third and longest section in the book tells the story of Chi, a girl forced to take care of herself even though she's too young to do so. Her mother tends to drink too much after her father leaves, so Chi has to get herself ready for nursery school while not disturbing her mother's hangover.
Chi's little and cute in her actions and dialogue, trying to be a normal kid and talking about herself in the third person. Her irrepressible urge to share her experiences with neighbors and teachers makes her even more sympathetic. Of course, Chi sees the angel, who follows her home from a convenience store (Mom's source for purchasing dinner).
The two play in a park under the moon, causing Mom to panic at her disappearance and find new appreciation for the child she previously saw only as a noisy detriment. Sakurazawa makes the tough decision of having the mother be honest about her perception of Chi as a burden she doesn't want and can't cope with. It would be easy to build a two-dimensional "bad mom" villain, but her portrayal isn't that simple. Sakurazawa draws her tired eyes as she shushes Chi while she's on the phone, calling in absent from work, and her resigned lighting of a cigarette. The angel watches curiously, unseen, this put-upon woman who wound up where she didn't want to be and doesn't know how to make it better.
The angel represents a bridge, building connections among people who need to learn how to care for others more than themselves. She can't be cared for herself, since she appears and disappears unexpectedly, but she starts those she encounters looking outside themselves.
The book ends by returning to Kato, who's developed a crush on a neighbor with a lost cat. She's new in town, and he's the first person to notice her. They work together to find the pet, and Kato is torn between his angel and the new girl.
These stories have the feel of fables, with well-known and familiar morals: It's better to have one person you can talk to than to seek popularity with false friends. Suicide is never the answer. Raising children is more important than work. You can count on your family, regardless of what happens. Real-life relationships require putting aside fantasies. The endings are reassuring, comforting the reader about the way the world should work.
Angel Nest continues the premise of Angel but focuses on only one story, that of a woman about to be divorced. Natsu gets off work early one day, returns home to surprise her husband of five years, and finds another woman in their bed. He'd previously blamed her work for keeping them apart, deflecting attention from his infidelity and accusing her of his crimes.
His mistress is a former student of his, and he chooses her blasé youth (when caught, his protestations of love for her surprise and displease her, because she was just out for uncomplicated kicks) over Natsu's more challenging life. His request for a divorce surprisingly doesn't bother her — she realizes that he's more of a habit than a lover. Her concern is more over being single again than in losing him.
She finds the angel on her balcony when she can't sleep and steps outside for a moonlight drink. Convinced she's dreaming, she goes back to bed, and the angel follows her, hanging around like a stray cat. Complications result when another stray, the husband's new girlfriend, comes to visit. She's complaining about him stalking her, and she figures, in a burst of twisted logic, that he'll never look for her at his ex-wife's place.
Emi, the girlfriend, can also see the angel but thinks it's a ghost, so Natsu lets her in to avoid a scene. The girlfriend and the angel resemble each other; both are young blondes with big eyes who attach themselves to Natsu. Both give her something she needs: someone to care for who depends on her goodwill.
Emi stays, cleans, and cooks for them, creating a parody of a traditional family: Natsu the breadwinner, Emi the housewife, and the angel as perfect child. Additional comments on family structure arise when Natsu goes to interview a famous cookbook writer, an up-to-date single mom. It turns out that Emi's her daughter and the secret recipe creator; Mom can't cook for beans. Emi is treating Natsu as a surrogate mother, trying to please her with food as well.
Mid-way through the book, the focus switches to Emi's mother issues as though Sakurazawa didn't know what else to do with Natsu. Once you've created a woman who's happier out of a relationship and broken up her marriage, there's a lack of plot points that suggest themselves.
Emi's lack of involvement with her mother has soured her on a career, so she's killing time until she can marry and become "an ordinary housewife". The two women despise the ex-husband for promptly picking up another girlfriend, saying he's too lonely and scared to be on his own, but they adopted each other fairly quickly as well.
Living with Natsu, Emi gains the strength and understanding to face her real mother again. As in Between the Sheets, Emi created a relationship with a man in order to learn about and spend more time with another woman. (It's boyfriend as transitive property.) Natsu's angel was really Emi, because sometimes a silent alcoholic can only teach you so much.
Angel Nest also contains three short stories: God Only Knows, Tea Time, and A Gift from the Heavens. In the first, Tobio is gay and best friends with straight Haru. They're at a bar, where Tobio tries to pick up a girl for Haru, only for everyone involved to wind up with hurt feelings.
It feels similar to the opening of Between the Sheets, only more abbreviated and with stronger language. Due to the smaller space, the motivations are baldly laid out and somewhat sketchy in believability. Following Sakurazawa's themes, sex is separate from love and considered a way of getting revenge.
Tea Time follows a woman on vacation by herself after her lover had to work. She wants to take the trip alone to make some decisions, since her relationship is one of habit. The incident is predictable, and the resolution uncertain to the reader.
In the last story, a bored teenager impulsively steals a car, only to find a drunk girl recovering in the back seat. Sakurazawa's work is better suited to a longer length; she needs the space to build her characters slowly through the reader's observation. Without living with them for a while, they seem too stereotypical.
Compared to Angel, Nothing But Loving You is another kind of fantasy. Nanako, a top model, has just been fired. While commiserating, her best gay friend tells her the hard truth: her unprofessional attitudes make her too much trouble to deal with.
When she meets a male model, it's love at first sight for her. She brazenly asks if he's seeing someone, but he's already involved. With a guy. The idea of a male model being gay surprises her (only one of the reasons this story seems unrealistic), but just as she wouldn't avoid a guy with a girlfriend, she continues hitting on him. He turns out to be bisexual, unconcerned with gender when it comes to love.
The art here is looser compared to the earlier books, sometimes going beyond minimalism to flat and sketchy. At times, it even appears to be unfinished, rather like a fashion drawing. Prominent lip lines can give characters a clownish look, but most of the time, they're easily beautiful enough to fit the setting of the story.
Although these stories were originally published in Japan from 1994-2002, their attitudes toward homosexuality stem from earlier decades. Being gay is shown as one step beyond being best friends with little reference to sex. Nanako questions whether love between two men can be real. Gay characters are willing to just be friends in order to be near the people they love who don't love them back.
The most prominently out character is a stereotypical bartender with a 70s mustache in God Only Knows. Mincing and dishing, he hits on the straight boy, creeping him out. Gays are considered promiscuous, but all the reader sees is kissing. They're set dressing (especially for the fashion industry) or plot devices.
Nanako has another guy in the mix, an aspiring actor who's crazy about her. Although she espouses the idea that sex should follow love, she sleeps with the guy she doesn't love and claims to love the guy she can't have. Good sex is more important to her than emotional compatibility.
Nothing But Loving You reads like a shôjo plot with more nudity and sex. Which boy will Nanako choose? Will she get her modeling career back or find satisfaction in simply being loved? Her internal monologue is full of self-doubting questions, and the male model talks about seeing the real, sweet, gentle her behind her tough exterior. The book ends with a "follow your dreams" message and happy ending that comes as something of a surprise, given the story start and Sakurazawa's previous work.
The Rules of Love continues in a similar vein, only with a male lead. Taku is having a terrible summer. He got kicked out of his apartment after a girl slit her wrists there. He's trying to crash with one of his many girlfriends, but they're all preoccupied with pets or work or the men who pay their bills.
Chizu sees him at a bus stop and later a club. She wants to fall in love, so she invites him home with her. It's something of a backwards relationship, where moving in together leads to sex leads to getting to know each other. Like all summer romances, it won't last.
Taku can't stop hooking up with rich women who pay his bills. He's described as a player, but if he was female, he'd be a call girl. Trying to go straight isn't as easy as he hopes, and drama from his past isn't so easily forgotten.
The thin-line art reads quickly and clearly. The lightest of Sakurazawa's work, this would make a great beach book, especially with the reminders throughout that the leads are spending summer together.
The Aromatic Bitters returns to the style of the first book in both art and subject matter. Sayumi is taking a separate vacation from her live-in boyfriend due to schedule complications. She's staying with her friend Hide, whose husband is cheating on her, at her mountain place. The setting is gorgeous, the kind of dream house suited for a getaway vacation.
A lost hiker stumbles by and stays to fix the ladies dinner. Food is a theme throughout the books. If one loves someone, one cooks for them, and all the cooks are terrific at it. Several say that they learned to cook because they like eating good food. It's only one of the appetites satisfied by the characters.
Hide sets up the other two, helping out what she calls destiny. Sayumi's back-home steady boyfriend can't compete, since they've become almost roommates to each other instead of lovers. Returning from vacation means wondering if the magical romance that happened can continue in real life.
At first, it's Sayumi's story, and it's understandable why she'd want to ditch the dull guy for someone with more spark. Later chapters, though, explore his feelings of confusion and uncertainty. Lots of these characters want someone else to decide their relationships for them, because they don't understand themselves, let alone their own wants and needs. Hide goes through a similar problem with her husband. Unfortunately, the book ends with "to be continued", although that seems unlikely at this point. It's almost too realistic, not knowing how any of the relationships will work out, or who will choose to be with whom.
Sakurazawa's characters push the boundaries — of relationships, perhaps of sanity — but ultimately comfortably return to the traditional expectations for them. Even if their feelings disagree, they maintain the societal status quo in appearance and convention, although hints of lesbian relationships spice up the journey getting there.
Only children are faithful to those they love; even angels come and go as they please, taking up with other people when you need them with you. Her characters drink and have affairs, giving them a worldly air, but underneath, they're old-fashioned in attitudes and gender roles. Although claiming to want love, few of them wind up there. The "Romance" label is misleading; these aren't manga "chick lit" books but stories about how romantic love is ultimately unnecessary.
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They've had a couple of Sakurazawa's books on sale in my local shop for a while, now. I'd passed on them, thinking that they were bargain basement shojo. Guess I'll give 'em another go!
I REALLY like these books, especially "Between The Sheets", because is was so everyday and real. Sakurzawa's art is a fresh breath as well, pulled from her fashion illustration background, it provides a nice alternative to the more wild, stylized shojo stuff out there. The other books were OK, but I say "Between The Sheets" is definitely worth a look. Kind of a "Optic Nerve" meets shojo thing!
- James Schee
02/09/2006 at 10:57 PMI wonder if we'll ever see any more of her work over here in the States? I really enjoyed it, and hope someone releases her newer work. (if there is any, I'm not sure if there is)
- Ed Sizemore
02/11/2006 at 7:06 PMWhat every happened to the "Manga After Dark" line? It looks like Tokyopop gave up on this idea in favor of Disney Cinemanga. I enjoyed the Sakurzawa books, but was hoping they would continue the line with more authors. Ponent Mon had a couple of books that would have fit well in this series.
Tokyopop never really promoted is series very well. I would have like to see them get behind this concept and this author and give both the time and attention they deserve.
[…] Johanna has an overview of Erica Sakurazawa's works. I think I've read around 3 of the Sakurazawa volumes, I wish some of the manga companies would translate some similar works, because there's not a whole lot of manga out there aimed at a 20something audience. […]
[…] that was influenced by my favorite of Erica Sakurazawa's works ending with "to be continued", a book that never […]
- mecglo
02/13/2007 at 4:01 AMi really liked their outlook in life and the messeges that they intend to implement….
- Trevor
10/07/2007 at 2:57 PMI have all but Nothing But Loving You, and I have to say that Erica Sakurazawa is probably the best manga-ka I've ever found. I first read between the sheets, because it was recommended to me by another website. I now have 5 that were released in America, and read a scan-lation of Love Vibes. As an aspiring comic artist, I'm constantly inspired by her pacing, her dialogue, and her characters. The books will make you cry, no doubt about it. They aren't happy stories, but they aren't really tragic either.
[…] works of Erica Sakurazawa, although the last of the six books ends in the […]
[…] sex comedy about a Tokyo twenty-something craving a boyfriend, and a series of six books by Erica Sakurazawa. The latter were stand-alone stories branded, unusually, under the author's name. […]
[…] more), as well as other, non-manga-related topics. I contributed an overview of the six books by Erica Sakurazawa published by Tokyopop. Overall, an excellent overview of and introduction to shojo manga, which […]
[…] Overview by Comics Worth Reading: http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/02/09/erica-sakurazawa-her-works/ […]
- Luv Luv: Make More Love & Peace, Sounds of Love, Object of Desire » Comics Worth Reading
03/28/2009 at 11:49 AM[…] This collection of six unrelated stories by the same author has a more distinctive look than the other Luv Luv books. It feels more "indy", as the characters have darker eyes and more solid presence. It reminds me of the work of Erica Sakurazawa. […]
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11/20/2009 at 11:13 AM[…] year old Momoko Ando has adapted her debut film from Erika Sakurazawa's best-selling Manga novel 'Love Vibes'(1996) – itself categorised as Manga style Josei, aimed at mature female readership portraying […]
[…] I owe Dirk a debt — while he was editing The Comics Journal, he commissioned my piece on the works of Erica Sakurazawa, one of my few substantial articles in traditional print. I hope Dirk finds some welcome outlet for […]
[…] Shodensha. (I'm sure I'll have occasion to mention this again, but Johanna Draper Carlson wrote a piece on Sakurazawa's translated manga for The Comics Journal that she's made available at Manga Worth […]
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06/11/2011 at 7:43 PMHey is there anywhere i can find The Luxurious Childbirth by her ive read a couple of her other works(btw thanks for showing stuff i hadent discovered) and just the plot naration of this one seems interesting but when i look for it i cant seem to find it anywhere any help would be much apreciated
[…] Tokyopop publishes six books by Erica Sakurazawa, in an attempt to create creator awareness by branding unrelated books prominently under her name. […]
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McLaren tester Pedro de la Rosa dominated the timesheets in Jerez on Tuesday, as this week's three-day test got underway at the Spanish circuit. De La Rosa clocked a quickest lap of 1m 20.111s - over a second faster than Toyotas Franck Montagny.
After enduring wet conditions at the previous multi-team test at Spa, the days runners enjoyed bright sunshine and track temperatures of over 50 degrees Celsius, as they began preparations for the forthcoming Hungarian Grand Prix.
De la Rosa completed 69 laps, carrying out set-up and aerodynamic work. The Spaniard also spent some of the day running without traction control as the team looked ahead to the 2008 regulation changes.
Toyotas Montagny, meanwhile, covered 73 laps in the TF107. The French tester concentrated on brakes, systems and start work, but also ran without traction control for some of the day. The Japanese teams race driver Ralf Schumacher will replace him on Wednesday.
Apart from shakedowns and straight line tests this is the first time that I have driven this car for over two months, explained Montagny. But Ive trained hard in the meantime so it didnt feel any different to usual, even despite the extreme heat today, so that is good. We spent much of the day running without traction control in preparation for 2008. That meant the car was sliding a lot but we put in some useful laps and found a good direction to take.
Williams' test driver Kazuki Nakajima clocked the third-quickest time and was the day's most productive driver, covering 104 laps, as he worked on the FW29s set-up. Just over two tenths down on the Japanese was Super Aguris test driver James Rossiter, who completed 92 laps in the SA07. Rossiter ran through initial set-up work and also carried out some longer tyre runs.
Christian Klien ended the day fifth after kick starting Hondas programme. Klien covered 41 laps as he ran through a front aero test in the morning and after lunch completed a further 29 lap as he evaluated new mechanical parts. The Austrian will hand over to race driver Rubens Barrichello on Wednesday.
Renault tester Nelson Piquet Jr finished sixth fastest. Piquets primary objective was to accumulate mileage on the R27s low-downforce package, which the team plan to use at the Italian Grand Prix in September. Though the cars set-up was not ideal for the high-downforce Jerez circuit, the young Brazilian covered 68 laps. He also completed a basic set-up programme in the afternoon. Race driver Heikki Kovalainen will be in action for the French team on Wednesday.
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I have driven the F1 car before, but only in a straight line, so this was the first time I have experienced corners as well, he explained. The power out of the turns feels good but the most impressive elements of the package are the way the car goes through the quick corners, which is so much better than anything else Ive experienced. Towards the end of the day, my neck was beginning to get a bit sore, which I guess is normal, but Im sure it will be fine by Thursday when I hope to have another run in the car.
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