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Setup integration with Zendesk
Zendesk helps companies to build customer relationships that are more meaningful, personal, and productive. With Nicereply integration for Zendesk you will be able to build an effortless customer experience and track the happiness of your customers.
Measure customer satisfaction using Zendesk + Nicereply
- Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) – How was your experience with our support?
- Customer Effort Score (CES) – Did the company make it easy for me to handle my issue?
- Admin access to a Nicereply Account
- Admin access to a Zendesk Account
Connect your Zendesk with Nicereply
- In Nicereply, click on the Integrations -> Add new Integration and choose Zendesk from the list of systems.
- In the next step add your Zendesk URL, (e.g. gorgeous.zendesk.com) and your Zendesk credentials (login & password). In some cases Zendesk doesn't allow you to use your login & password. Don't worry. You can still integrate with a Zendesk API token:
- Go to your Zendesk Settings > Channels > API
- If disabled, enable the "Token Access" option
- Click on "Add new token" link and use the label "Nicereply" to create a new token
- Copy the API token (a long string of mixed chars & numbers) to your clipboard
- Go back to Nicereply integration setup and check the "Use token access" option
- Paste the Zendesk API token instead of a password
- Hit Connect and continue to activate your agents in the next step
- Activate your Zendesk agents in Nicereply
- Finish the setup
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To collect CSAT customer feedback, we need to place Nicereply rating links (smiley faces) into your Zendesk email templates.
In Nicereply go to CSAT > Rating Page Settings, click on the Rating link button. Switch to code tab and copy code into your clipboard.
As a next step we will update your Zendesk Trigger template. Go to Zendesk > Admin> Triggers and edit "Notify requester of comment update" trigger:
Paste the Nicereply code from clipboard into trigger Email body and add {{ticket.latest_comment_formatted}} as a placeholder before the inserted Nicereply code. Your trigger template should then look like this:
Don't forget to save your changes on trigger by clicking the Submit button.
Good job!
Your email templates will now contain Nicereply rating links (smiley faces) and all collected ratings will be stored in Nicereply and pushed into your Zendesk ticket:
CSAT Integration options
You can change integration options in Integrations > (Zendesk integration) Edit settings.
Within integration there are options to:
- enable/disable push of CSAT rating value into Ticket custom field
- enable/disable push of CSAT rating & comment as Note into Ticket
CES Activation
Before you are fully able to use CES with your Zendesk you need to Setup Nicereply & Zendesk integration (see above). If you have already done the integration, you can simply activate the CES by clicking the button " Activate CES":
After CES activation Nicereply will:
- Start scanning the status of your Zendesk tickets on a regular basis
- Send the CES email survey to the ticket requestor for all tickets:
- created via Email channel,
- with status Resolved and
- without ticket update for 48 hours (by default),
- Collect the CES rating and push the value & comment into Zendesk ticket
CES Integration options
You can change integration options in Settings > Integrations > (Zendesk integration) Edit settings.
Within integration there are options to:
- enable/disable push of CES rating value into Ticket custom field
- enable/disable push of CES rating & comment as Note into Ticket
- change the period after which Nicereply will send the CES survey
- activate/disable the sending of CES

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Jan. 10, 2006
San Diego sophomore swimmer Joy Miller received the Western Athletic Conference's Xbox Live Athlete of the Week. Miller scored 22 points, second highest for USD in their meet against LMU over the weekend. She also captured two 1st place finishes as well as a 2nd place finish.
Miller swam a 2:11.19 in the 200 yard butterfly taking first place more than three seconds ahead of the second place finisher. In the 100 yard butterfly she clocked a 58.92 for first place. Then was added at the last minute to the 200 individual medley taking second place in 2:13.26 behind teammate Ashley Swart.
This is Miller's first time being honored as WAC Athlete of the Week, and the second Torero swimmer this season.
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I got a welcome card in the mail from my new school district. Professional, but thoughtful and kind. As schools should be, I think. (Actually, I got it last week, but I just opened it this morning because it didn't say who it was from and I thought it was one of those Jehovah's Witness invitations to right my life and worship the one true God…I've gotten them in my mailbox at this apartment complex before and I think they're ridiculous. If there truly is a one, true God named Jehovah, he/she/it isn't going to need a human being's announcement sent to all the other human beings randomly in the mail with a plea-like demand to worship him/her/it or be forever doomed. That's the kind of crap the IRS pulls.)
I've had some issues (obviously, if you've been reading here) with a friendship over the last few weeks. I had to reeeeally think about what I wanted and why. How far offtrack I'd gone. And why. Things I'd allowed and said were okay but actually weren't (and why we'd gone down this road). I've read a blog written by this person–two actually–and I think my friend and I need to have a really big talk. But I don't know that I'll get the honesty and forthrightness I'm seeking. Maybe this will just turn into one of those arm's length friendships that eventually die. I hope not.
At any rate, this whole thing actually led me to do a lot of thinking about some ex-friends, people I've shut out for very specific reasons and won't ever let back in (for specific reasons). Because this blog is shutting down – probably over the summer – and moving (and there will be no announcements here–I'll make them on social media, so if you care enough to keep reading, then you can find out where I am when I announce it on those places)…because this blog is shutting down/moving, I'll just go ahead and say: the dude who stalked me? He was a much older man who lived in Baltimore and basically wanted me to be his girlfriend down here in Georgia. Meanwhile, he was going to have the marriage and the family life up in Baltimore. He wanted me to live with my daughter down here and meet his needs, while staying alone without any male friends he'd feel were "competition," and so he'd get his emotional needs met distantly, via me, and occasionally his physical too when he could save enough money and then create an elaborate lie for his wife about why he needed to travel to Atlanta…AGAIN. I was supposed to be fine with this set up, because he loved me. (But what he felt for me wasn't love–it was control.)
His entire life was being lived on a lie–a lie that he loved his wife, a lie that he loved me, a lie that he was a nice guy. He'd get upset with me if he felt I lied to him. One of his last texts to me went like this: LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!
I find it so interesting when liars get upset about…being lied to.
When I'd had enough of his demands and needs and hopes and expectations, I said good-bye. Aaaaand he got so disturbing with me I ended up calling the police. The police in my part of Atlanta now have this man's name, address, and phone number. And a written report of all that he said and did to me. How much he upset and scared me. How deeply disturbed he turned out to be. How entitled, how angry, how abusive.
The other friendship was with a woman I have very little in common with, other than a mutual admiration for an actor. But her admiration is out of hand. I knew it was, for a long time, and I probably needed to speak up a lot more firmly and loudly and strongly much sooner than I did. She thought they have a spiritual connection and God is going to keep crossing their paths until the actor is willing to finally sit down over dinner with her and hear her out. She's certain once he does this and listens to her, he'll see it too. She mixes a form of erotomania with very very conservative religious fervor. (From being stalked now horribly myself, I know: he will not…he SHOULD not…if my stalker came back and wanted me to listen to him, I probably wouldn't scream at him again, but I'd very calmly and firmly send him a copy of the police report number I still have on file. Do not engage. Do not engage.)
I knew she was kooky went it came to him, and I spent a lot (A LOT) of time behind the scenes going: But how do you know that? Why do you get to have an opinion about that? You can't possibly know that for sure…and way back in the summer of 2014, I had to end the friendship the first time because she sought him out and what I was being told, in the format it was coming to me, freaked me the F out, y'all. Should have listened to my gut instinct the first time (this has ALWAYS been an issue for me), but I felt bad. I felt guilty. I felt terrible at hurting her. Since then, I've learned: we do not go back to everyone. Not everyone is go backable to. Really, really CONSIDER if you go back. Some people have issues that are above and beyond what you can handle.
She hates me now, and that's fine. As an example of how far out her thinking is–she sent me an email accusing me of tweeting about her and being immature, and she thinks the actor and I are in collusion (I don't even know this man, but god bless him he's got a weird life, constantly having to field people like this). And the harasser dude who wanted to have an emotional and physical affair with me? I don't know how he feels about me, and either way I don't care. He's done plenty of damage, and so I hope he's happy. Maybe he's found another vulnerable woman to prey on, to fill his voids and meet his needs. As for this one, I'm smarter now. Less trusting. Less open. But stronger and smarter. And out of the void-filling business. Shop's closed.
But neither of these people are demons, and I don't hate either of them no matter what they think or feel about me. They aren't allowed back in, because they've proven themselves unsafe humans. They certainly know how to behave like demons, but neither are. Because they are also able to behave like angels. And that's what I learned from a journey with both of them–people are neither all good or all bad, all sane or all crazy. We're all made of light and dark, and we all have the ability to go off the deep end when put in the right situation. If your life is really awesome and together and you wake up each morning with problems and stresses but mostly you go through life feeling blessed and pretty okay and generally happy with your choices, then I think you should wake up and go to bed each day and night thanking God or the stars or your great-grandma Ida or George Lucas or whoever/whatever.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. On the surface, I know it probably looks to my agnostic/atheist friends like I'm having some kind of religious conversion: "Amy, wtf?! Are you radicalizing into a Jesus freak??? What is HAPPENING???"
No, I'm not radicalizing into anything. Or at least not anything more than I've always been. I've always been a feminist. I've always been a Jesus fan. I'm just not going to maybe be YOUR kind of feminist or YOUR kind of Jesus fan. Because I'm not here to have an experience for you, I'm here for me. But I'll support you as you have the experience you need to have here for you. I view God/Jesus/Allah/YHWH/Buddha/Jehovah/The Light/The Universe/Huwa/Ishwar/Krishna/the Sky Spaghetti Monster as all one, all the same–no gender, no agenda, not able or willing to take any sides of anything except the side of Love and the advancement for everyone here on Earth to succeed and get to a place of Okayness. If you're there already, you are blessed. You are so blessed.
On Thursday, I went to a Tenebrae service–tenebrae comes from the Latin word "darkness." This is a time of year Christians celebrate the risen Savior, the one who died and sacrificed for them, to forgive their sins. With all due respect, I kind of still feel like a vast majority of my Christian friends are missing the point to what actually Jesus endured. Full disclosure: I read the Bible metaphysically…I WANT to believe in a real, living man who walked the Earth and was called Jesus. I don't know that I do but my heart wants it so badly that me and my heart just talk about Jesus like he really did walk the streets of Jerusalem 2,000+ years ago. And I celebrate him either way, as a Master Teacher, Someone part of All That Is (and Ever Will Be) to believe in and pray to. Because of his metaphysical representation of who he was, is, and what he showed all of us we can be. We all have the ability to be a Christ, we all have that kind of love inside of us…you just have to be willing and patient and learn how to access it. At any rate, the story of Jesus Christ's crucifixion is one of death and darkness, with an ending of hope and love. In summary, this was Jesus' hero's journey–he answered a call, battled dragons (or, you know…Pharisees and Romans) along the way, met enemies who were friends (prostitutes and lepers and Romans and priests) and friends who were enemies (Judas and priests and Romans)…and in the end he had to make a change, a big drastic change to who he was, to alter his very being in the hardest fight of his life, to live through his worst Dark Night of the Soul and come out on the other end alive, awake, and stronger. Risen. In the end of most Hero's Journeys, the hero wins, and is welcomed back, forever changed and forever celebrated.
Every culture has these tales. Every tribe tells their own stories and they are all versions of the Hero's Journey.
So as I'm sitting in the Tenebrae service, having had my hands washed (just a pouring of warm water and someone gently, lovingly drying your hands), having the cross made on my forehead, where my third eye would be located–if you believe in that sort of thing–with anointed spikenard oil brought here from the Holy Land by the kind minister as he said, "You are a Daughter of God, you are one with the Light, God loves you, go in peace," and then accepting a communion wafer and a thimble of grape juice with blessings, I just sat thinking about all that I've been through over the last five years of my life. All that I've seen, all the people I've welcomed into my life and/or my heart, and the conflicts we've had or the good-byes we've said. I've thought about my blessings and my tragedies, the good things I've said and done and the bad.
And then I got to hear the Tenebrae service–the tale of Jesus' Hero's Journey, his Dark Night of the Soul. He knows he will be abandoned, he knows a battle with Death is waiting ahead. He knows he will be the loneliest and most afraid he's ever been. As each portion of this part of Jesus' journey is told, a candle's light is snuffed out. At each part of Jesus' Dark Night of the Soul, his light is diminished as he gets closer and closer to what it was he was put here to do. And Jesus knows this. Every step of the way. And he is deeply afraid.
This is what courage really is–to be afraid, but keeping going anyway. To not give up, to sit with the loneliness and the abandonment and the Dark Night of your Soul, and choose to fight. Choose to change.
There's the abandonment, the betrayal, the beating and bullying and torturing of Jesus's physical being–bleeding and suffering, carrying his own method of death on his back. Then there's his choice–his choice to choose grace and forgiveness and die so others might learn how to live, and live better. Then the waiting. And then The Light. The Rising. There is one candle during a Tenebrae service that isn't snuffed out, and that's the Light of God. Because The Light never ever diminishes; it was always within Jesus. As It is always within us.
Last year at this time, I was just drifting along…in many ways, I still am. Right now as I type this it's 11:00 AM and I have to get Melissa to swimming lessons by 12:00. I have to leave by 11:30 but I'm still in my pajamas, glasses on and unshowered and so now I'll take her to swimming lessons in thrown on yoga pants, unshowered, no make up, feeling like I CANNOT get it together, no matter what I do. I spent 2 hours on my phone this morning, tweeting/facebooking/internet surfing. Now I'm writing a blog entry about 5 people will read. I'm still unfocused. Still fighting. Still on my journey.
But I know about darkness vs light now. I know what real friendships look, sound, and feel like. I know how important it is to think about other people's hearts. I know how important my heart is, too. And I know how imperative it is to say good-bye to someone who is so damaged they can't see their Light. Or they spend a lot of time using The Light to get what they think they want and deserve. (This is not how Light works.)
But mostly I know about Dark Nights of the Soul, the waiting, and the rising.
Happy Easter, happy Rising. Take care of your hearts.


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The It Gets Better Project is on Moovz!
By McKenna Palmer, Project Intern
I'm so excited to share with you that the It Gets Better Project is now on Moovz, a free social networking app where primarily LGBT young people can make connections and update others on their lives. We have over 4,000 followers from around the world already! Some of our international affiliates are on there, too.
As you probably already know, there are some amazing advantages to social media - it's fast, it's fun, and it's the first place young people go to for information. So naturally, social media is a great place for the It Gets Better Project to spread awareness and support on many different platforms.
Moovz plays a very important role in all of this. Through pictures, text posts, and videos, it's become one of the fastest growing LGBT social networking app on the market! This application becomes useful to young LGBT people as they can be 'out' without any real risk of their parents or friends discovering their account. This app offers support, messaging, and other great features to demonstrate to LGBT youth that they are not as alone as they may sometimes feel. Check out the video below for an example (and this one, too):
This year, the It Gets Better Project is celebrating five years as a nonprofit organization, so each month we're sharing some of our best content on Moovz through the hashtag #ItGetsBetter, like the Women's History Month graphics below.
Come find us on Moovz to learn more by clicking the image below. We can't wait to see you!


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Ivey, durrrr, and other poker pros play ultra-high-stakes in Asia
With stakes not seen since 'The Corporation' took on Texas Billionaire Andy Beal, a number of poker's top talent took part in a wild cash game during the PokerStars.net APPT Macau tournament. Matt Savage posted on the 2+2 poker forums that the stakes of the game had risen to $5,000/$10,000 HKD (which translates to roughly $1,200/$2,400 USD) with somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million on the table.
Amongst the participants were some of poker's biggest names including Chau Giang, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, and Tom Dwan. Their foils were a group of Chinese businessmen, who regularly partake in the semi-private game but decided to open it up to the visiting poker pros –a decision they may come to regret if the rumors of the money changing hands are true.
Poker pro Tom Hall who is a participant in the game off-and-on gave his insights on what is taking place, telling 2+2 the following: "These "businessmen" are generally involved in the gaming industry in some form, casino junkets, sports betting etc and instead of losing tens of millions playing bacarrat every year discovered poker 2 years ago and have taken to it. Some have become very, very good… They like action and thats why people like Tom Dwan they find very fun to play against. They do not like nitty pros and have been known to change a game from a 10k / 20k (HKD) game to a 10/20k with 20k ante to force the pros to play."
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Anime Review: TsuritamaPosted: September 2, 2014 Filed under: Anime, Review | Tags: anime, review Leave a comment
Tsuritama (12 episodes, 2012, Studio: A-1 Pictures, Director: Kenji Nakamura, aired on noitamina).
Tsuritama (which as far as I can tell translates roughly as "fishing ball") is a goofy sci-fi fishing comedy from a couple of years back, which I have wanted to watch for a while but just now managed to finish (I'm not much of a video person, although that seems to be changing now that I have an iPad…). It's available streaming on Crunchyroll (free with ads, or ad-less by subscription), and has a physical release from Sentai complete with dub (although I can't imagine that it sold well enough to justify a dub – which is an indictment of the US anime market, not of the series).
Red-headed high school boy Yuki has had to transfer schools often due to his grandmother's career (which is never specified but appears to involve gardening). This has left him with severe social anxiety, which he experiences as drowning in a spontaneously-generated pool of water but which everyone else sees as him making scary faces.
As the story opens, Yuki and Grandma are in the process of moving to the small island of Enoshima. (Which is a real place; most of the landmarks featured in the series actually exist.) Also just-arrived (via train – or maybe not) is a super-genki blond cutie with a mind-control squirt gun and a talking goldfish that calls him Nii-san.* (Apparently, Haru speaks weird Japanese, but the Crunchyroll subtitles do not attempt to replicate this, which is probably for the best).
Cutie spots Yuki's car passing by and is instantly mesmerized; he tracks down the house they've moved into (by telepathy or something, since they've been there all of 30 minutes), adds his name to the nameplate with a magic marker, and chirpily announces that his name is Haru, he's an alien, and he's going to live there. (Grandma is, amazingly enough, totally cool with this.)
Immediately afterwards, Haru shows up at Yuki's high school with a fishing pole, insists that Yuki has to go fishing with him in order to save the world, and mind-control-squirts a grumpy classmate, Natsuki, into teaching them to fish. And there's a turbaned guy with a pet duck and a personal SWAT team watching mysteriously from afar.
That's just episode 1. It gets weirder.
It's immediately clear that one of the main plot threads of Tsuritama is going to be Yuki and Natsuki learning to unbend and make friends with the aid of their own personal magical pixie dream boy.** It is also very quickly apparent that there is going to be A LOT of detailed information about fishing, from how to tie on a lure to what to do when you've hooked a tuna that's stronger than you are. And for a while, Tsuritama is indeed all about fishing and friend-making and Haru's indomitable genki-ness, with the weird burbling along happily in the background. Around the halfway point, though, the weird takes over: mass-hysteria goofy dances, Bermuda Triangle phenomena, a shady paramilitary organization in yellow rubber bunny suits, sightseeing aliens, and, yes, saving the world (or at least Enoshima) by going fishing.
If you prefer fiction where everything wraps up neatly and all is explained, Tsuritama is not for you. If, on the other hand, you are comfortable with a certain amount of nuttery and dream logic, it's a fun little series. The gently absurdist humor comes with a side of adolescent male bonding, family problems, lots of fishing, and in the late episodes some fairly heavy drama, although it's not likely that a series starring a glomp-happy fish boy is going to end in tragedy. It's got cute boys, an ED that looks made from a calico quilt, and a well-endowed secondary character in a bikini top (in case you can't watch an anime without boobies). The story moves along nicely in both the slice-of-life and the sci-fi drama segments, although, even allowing for the sci-fi comedy aspect, there are some obvious plot holes (the biggest of which is what is Grandma doing that lets them afford a house that nice? I want that house.).
Visually, Tsuritama looks great, with clean lines, swirling schools of fish, and candy-colored backgrounds heavily indebted to the Photoshop posterize filter (although this style is notably more successful on cityscapes and flower gardens than on low-contrast domestic interiors). The animation is mostly smooth, although towards the middle the budget starts to run low and there's some reused sequences and off-model moments. And the shy alien boy that shows up at the very end is super-cute.
So if you enjoy brightly colored eccentricity and/or detailed descriptions of fishing, check out the first episode and see if its brand of genki fishy nuttery appeals to you. (And if you do watch the whole thing, make sure to watch the bit after the credits in the last episode.)
*OK, it looks like a betta, not a goldfish, but I thought fewer people would know what a betta was, and anyway technically it's neither of the above. Back
**Despite the fact that Haru is totally uke, there is no BL in this series. Although he does hang off of Yuki enough that there is room for rotten interpretations. (I would offer to bet my lunch money that there are doujinshi out there, but that's a safe bet for nearly anything with more than one guy in it, so I won't bother.) Back
Fun with ukiyo-e: Parody of EbisuPosted: July 16, 2014 Filed under: Fun with ukiyo-e | Tags: Edo era, furisode, Suzuki Harunobu, ukiyo-e Leave a comment
I came across this Suzuki Harunobu mitate print of Ebisu, which I quite like. (Original at the Tokyo National Museum; I've tweaked the color balance and brightness of all the images here.)
Ebisu is the god of fishermen, among other things, and is usually represented as a jolly old man with big earlobes and a fish, generally of unusual size.
Mitate (parody) pictures are based on a famous composition or traditional subject (gods, historical figures, characters from literature or fable); some are relatively straightforwards illustrations, but they frequently change the personages into children, animals, etc. Here's one of Ebisu reinterpreted as a child (one of a set of the Seven Lucky Gods as children).
One of the most popular types of mitate-e turns the subjects into beautiful young women (possibly a forerunner of the "genderswapped historical male characters as cute moe girls" dude-otaku thing). This print, however, turns Ebisu into a beautiful youth (possibly a forerunner of the "revisionist historical male characters as hot young guys" girl-otaku thing).
(Suzuki Harunobu did unusually many prints of attractive young men, compared to other contemporary artists. Perhaps he personally liked the topic, or perhaps he was merely willing to cater to buyers' tastes; both men and women purchased images of pretty boys, and some contemporary reports indicate they sold well.)
It is often difficult to identify the sex of children and adolescents in pre-Meiji art, because clothing for sub-adults was not as strongly gendered as it is now (as I have discussed before), and the standard of fashionable beauty called for a sleekly elegant appearance in young people of both sexes. For this young man, as for many pictures of richly-dressed young hotties, the strongest clue to his sex is his hairstyle. Although the best indicator of adolescent maleness in the 17th-18th century, a shaved portion under the forelocks, is hidden under his headscarf, a portion of his topknot with distinctly male wrapping just peeks out at the back.
Another version of this print, in the Museum of Fine Arts, is pulled from a different carving of the key block. Many ukiyo-e prints exist in multiple versions from different blocks. On the one hand, woodblocks eventually wore out; the carving wore down, or the wood became brittle and split. The delicate lines of faces were especially prone to wear, and were often repaired by cutting out the section and replacing it with an insert of new wood. On the other hand, if a print or artist was popular, knock-offs could appear, with or without the artist's consent (if they were contemporary; many were produced years or decades later to feed the collector market).
Because of the elaborate patterning on the young man's stylish (and appropriately nautically-themed) outfit, the MFA print would have required about 5-7 blocks. The TNM print, with its more coordinated color scheme, would need fewer; aside from this, the color blocks seem almost identical, but the black linework in the key block has some details that differ.
The main differences are in the face and left hand: the MFA print has smaller features, especially the eyes; a fuller lower face; and a rather poorly-drawn hand. The Tokyo print is cleaner and in better condition, which might suggest that it's newer. However, comparing other prints by the artist leads me to believe that the TNM one is closer to Suzuki's style (IANA art historian, so take that with a grain of salt); perhaps it was produced from a very careful copy of the original print, or perhaps it was just very well cared for. The MFA one might therefore be a later, somewhat clumsy repair. The other major difference between the two prints is that the cutie in the TNM print has a white fan tucked into his belt, while the MFA print has removed it, leaving only a little bit of the tip visible near the ties of the headscarf, again suggesting that the MFA print is the more recent state of the block.
Interestingly, both prints bungle the layering of the furisode. In the MFA print the layering at the neck and hem is dark grey, over dark pink, over light pink, but where they show along the edge of the sleeve it is light pink, light grey, and then light grey again; in the TNM print the layering at the hem is dark orange, reddish-orange, and light orange, while at the neck it's dark orange, reddish-orange, and yellow, and at the sleeve it's reddish-orange, yellow, and pinkish-grey. (In both cases the innermost layer at the neckline is an undergarment, which would not have had furisode sleeves.)
Why the fish is a toy fish, I have no idea. Maybe because he wouldn't want to get his swank outfit all fishy.
Digital Delivery: Three shoujo one-shots you can't get anymorePosted: July 8, 2014 Filed under: Digital Delivery | Tags: digital delivery, manga, review, shoujo 3 Comments
I'm pleased that initiatives like DMP's Digital Manga Guild exist to help bring over some less-commercial manga. Unfortunately, Japan isn't completely up on the concept of digital, and so digital manga is subject to some weird restrictions that don't make any sense, like going out of "print". Today I'll look at some digital-only releases which aren't being released anymore (TL;DR: you didn't miss much), but are mildly interesting for other reasons.
All of these titles were serialized on the web in Japan, rather than in a traditional magazine (so they're digital x2). This is still quite unusual in Japanese publishing (cellphone manga is fairly successful financially but it leans heavily towards porn and webcomic-ish stuff), and it's kind of interesting to see what kind of material publishers think will work in this model. The web-magazine in question, COMIC CYUTT, is described as targeting "females in their teens to twenties", so they might be considered josei, but DMG has them as shoujo so I'll stick with that. There once were six manga from this imprint on eManga, but apparently PAPYLESS and/or Media Factory (who jointly run COMIC CYUTT) decided to pull their titles after about a year (not making enough money? change in direction? disagreements with DMP?). (Incidentally, PAPYLESS also runs Renta!, which has all kinds of hilariously trashy cell-phone and digital-first manga in English, including lots of "Teens' Love", AKA het josei smut.)
I bought all six before they went offline, so as a peek into Japan's digital publishing efforts and a memorialization of the fallen, here's the first three I looked at:
Seiwa High School Bento Club!, art by Umitamako, Script Advisement by Yuhmi Yamada (Seiwa Gakuen Bentou Bu!, originally serialized in Comic Cyutt. Comic Cyutt edition 2011; Digital Manga Guild edition, 2013)
As a child, our heroine Sayoko was adopted into a large but poor family that never has enough to eat. In order to leave food for her siblings, she eats only the minimum at home, which is a problem for her because she has a ravenous appetite. Furthermore, her high school has a culinary-school track that she was unable to get into, so she's tortured by the delicious smells coming from the cooking classes. But fortunately she soon has a run-in with the school's Bento (lunchbox) Club, composed of four of the school's best cooks, who, in an amazing and totally unexpected plot twist, are all hot guys (one of whom occasionally crossdresses, because shoujo). Impressed by her ability to detect subtle flavors and appreciate the fine nuances of their cuisine even while plowing through immense quantities of food at lightning speed, she becomes sort of an honorary member (even though she can't cook at all), in charge of taste-testing, critique, and making sure there are no leftovers.
The manga does not have nearly as much food-porn as it initially appears that it will; most of it is split between exploration of the various guys' family problems, and their rivalry with the equally hot and talented but much jerk-ier men of Ike Culinary School's Epicurean Club, which is the top pick for the annual national Box Lunch competition that the Bento Club is also competing in. (In the manga's one best joke, the Ike group dubs their bento "Ike-Ben", which is a pun on ikemen, "hot guy".) Of course, although the Epicurean Club's haute-Japanese cuisine is amazing, our protagonists come to realize that traditional home cooking is the best.
The manga ends very abruptly, just as the bento competition reaches its final round. Either the mangaka was unable to get the story to fit into the space allotted, even with the help of a "script advisor", or the series was cancelled without the usual grace of a chapter or two to wrap it up. It's somewhat unsatisfying not to find out whether the Seiwa gang won, although Sayoko does manage to get off the obligatory "making food that ordinary people can appreciate is the most important thing!" speech in the final pages.
The art is decent, but with some issues about faces, especially eyes, and the translation is slightly awkward in spots. There's not enough focus on the food to make this a satisfying foodie manga, and the other plot elements are a little too generic. Add in the abrupt ending, and I couldn't recommend it even if you could still get it.
Pandra Restaurant!, by Riri Sagara (Pandra Restaurant!, originally serialized in Comic Cyutt. Comic Cyutt edition 2010; Digital Manga Guild edition, 2014)
The title is weird: "Pandra" is quite obviously supposed to be "Pandora". Whoever on the Japanese end romanized it needs a good talking-to and maybe an unabridged English dictionary.
This is an example of one of the stranger fads in Japanese pop culture over the last few years: stories about anthropomorphized random stuff. In this case, kitchen implements. That look like cute guys.
The main character is Manaita ("cutting board"), a plastic cutting board who has been hired at a small restaurant; it's his first job, so he's nervous, especially about how he's going to get along with the knife. Unfortunately for him, knife-guy is bad-tempered, sadistic, and looks down on plastic cutting boards (who he regards as much inferior to wooden cutting boards). The rest of the cast doesn't get along very well either; frying-pan is constantly bickering with spatula, everyone picks on saucepan because he's a simple traditional style, and only sponge is capable of keeping the others in line (by threatening not to clean them).
The chapters are divided into episodes so short that it feels like a 4-koma manga even though it's not. Most of the stories revolve around sitcom personality differences and arguments, and the utensils' resentment of the stylish bishounen tableware (who need to look good because they interact with the customers), but some do trade on the kitchen-utensil premise, with predictably odd results. There's almost no BL elements, even though the utensil-pairing setup would seem to be ideal for it, but there is a random episode of crossdressing, because shoujo.
The translation is pretty clunky, to the point where it's sometimes not clear what's going on (frying pan is steel and consequently needs to "collect oil" before cooking… is that a reference to frying in more oil because he's not nonstick? or needing to be seasoned???). The art is decent and the guys are reasonably good-looking if you can get past the hair-wings on a couple of them, but the stories are mostly lightweight, kind of silly, and/or strange. I suspect it worked better in small doses mixed with other things, as it probably was when serialized, rather than all in a lump as it is here. Also, the English logo does not preserve the adorable crossed-fork-and-exclamation-point of the Japanese logo.
Welcome to Nyan Cafe!, by Kira Nakamura (Nyan Cafe e Youkoso!, originally serialized in Comic Cyutt. Comic Cyutt edition 2010; Digital Manga Guild edition, 2014)
Welcome to Nyan Cafe! is a 4-koma about four anthropomorphic cats that work in a cat café, although as one of the characters notes it's really more like a host club, since the female clients see the cats as cute catboys just like the reader does. The protagonist is a young abandoned cat that has been adopted by the café; initially nameless, he's dubbed Shiro ("white") by his co-workers (each of which represents a different cat breed).
As a 4-koma, it's made up of many short stories, most only a few pages long. Some of the stories make use of the anthropomorphic-cat premise (paper bags are the best thing ever!), and many revolve around Shiro's childish innocence and lack of experience with the world, but most of it is pretty much the same very mild character-interaction sitcom as any moe 4-koma, except instead of "cute girls eating pudding" it's "cute catboys eating pudding" (or accidentally getting drunk on catnip, as the case may be). There's some BL tease (mostly in the form of the older cats sexually harassing each other) and some mild fanservice; be warned that the protagonist is even more shotabait than he looks on the cover, so if you don't want to see the occasional nekkid underage catboy butt you might want to give this one a miss. There's also a couple of doses of crossdressing, because shoujo.
The art is polished if fairly generic, the catboys are cute, and the translation is decent, but unless you're really into catboys, 4-koma, or the low-key nothing-happening-ness of this kind of story, you don't need to stay up at night fretting over missing it. And I never did figure out whether the café's human owner is supposed to be male or female.
So what can we conclude from this about Japanese web-first manga (or at least Comic Cyutt web-first manga)? These three works seem to favor episodic stories with lots of cute boys and a touch of crossdressing (Comic Cyutt knows its audience), but not all that much substance. I've still got the other three eManga releases to work through, and Renta! has a couple more Comic Cyutt titles available on their site, so we'll see if these generalizations hold up.
Fun with ukiyo-e: significant detailsPosted: July 2, 2014 Filed under: Fun with ukiyo-e | Tags: Edo era, furisode, gender markers, shudō, Suzuki Harunobu, ukiyo-e, wakashū 1 Comment
In pursuit of a very desultory attempt to put together a post on furisode and its gender/status implications in pre-Meiji Japan (don't hold your breath), I came across this lovely little item which amused me greatly (for reasons that will become apparent), and so I threw together a quick commentary on some points that might not be obvious to the modern observer.
Above: a woodblock print by Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1765, now in the Library of Congress. (Note this is a later printing and possibly a re-carving of the original block, so I wouldn't put too much faith in the color scheme. The LOC's scan of the print is a little muddy so I've adjusted the color balance and brightness as well. The Met has slightly different, more sloppily printed version that might be pulled from a different block.)
At the barest surface level, the print shows an elegantly dressed young person playing a drum in an equally elegant setting. The player's delicate features, narrow face, and graceful pose correspond to period conventions of elegantly androgynous beauty. Behind the player is an (elegant) alcove with a vase of flowers and a hanging wall-scroll, still a standard feature of traditional Japanese interior design. The scroll features an image of Hotei, one of the seven lucky gods, with his iconic sack.
The top layer of the player's chic and luxurious outfit is a brown jacket with a stylized pattern of birds and gusts of wind (or at least that's what I think those forked things are, don't quote me…); it is worn over three layers of kimono (grey with green stripes, red, and grey again) and an under-kimono with a fashionable red collar. (Three-layer kimono is currently regarded as very formal, but at the time it was merely very expensive.) The jacket and the three kimono are all of furisode cut, with exaggeratedly long sleeves; each layer is cut a little narrower at the center front and the inside of the sleeve to allow the inner layers to show. (The innermost kimono has a subtle stripe pattern; the scan isn't clear enough to tell definitively but I suspect that the pattern was created not on the printing block itself but by embossing the paper afterwards, a decorative touch found on some prints.)
If you are aware of modern kimono etiquette, you would probably identify the subject as a young unmarried woman, which is currently the only class of person entitled to wear furisode. If you are hip to traditional Japanese hairstyles, however, you would be able to spot that this is actually a wakashū, a boy who is no longer a young child but is not yet an adult man. Therefore, as furisode are currently gendered female, you might conclude that this is a portrait of a crossdresser, possibly a kabuki female-role specialist.
But historically, furisode were not categorized as women's clothing; they were categorized as children's clothing. Furisode could be worn from infancy, but boys had to give them up at the coming-of-age ceremony, girls at marriage. This young man is entitled to wear furisode on account of his non-adult status, not because of genderbending. Besides being suitable for his age, furisode also allows him to advertise his family's money and status: furisode was (and is) a form of conspicuous consumption, as the extra length of sleeve was not only completely impractical but also added considerably to the cost of the garment. Three-layer furisode is just rubbing it in.
So what we have so far is a portrait of an attractive and wealthy youth who is perhaps just a bit overdressed for hanging around the house practicing his music lessons. But there are actually other things going on here. Sexy, sexy things.
Under the rules of shudō, the traditional Japanese formulation of male-male erotic relationships, the receptive partner was expected to be within the wakashū age category; once a boy formally became a man he was no longer eligible as an object of desire. Furisode, as incompatible with adult status, emphasizes the player's boy-hood, and thus his suitability as a potential lover. (Ladies also appreciated pretty young things, but I'm classifying this one as a shudō print because of the elements described below.)
Just to make sure you don't miss the point, our rich young hottie is surrounded by visual double-entendres. The drum is a sexual innuendo. The lovely flowers in the alcove are chrysanthemums, a long-established reference to anal sex. And the god Hotei's traditional beneficence to children had by this point become jokingly associated with a taste for beautiful youths.
So what this print is, in point of fact, is a pinup. This is the 18th century gay Japanese version of Betty Grable's ass.
Like Shakespeare, ukiyo-e is so much more fun when you can spot all the dirty jokes.
Digital Delivery: The Beautiful Skies of Houou High, Vol. 2Posted: May 11, 2014 Filed under: Digital Delivery | Tags: digital delivery, manga, review, shoujo Leave a comment
These days it seems like digital manga is finally hitting its stride; between the major publishers finally getting on board, the flood of stuff put out by the Digital Manga Guild, and the few weird platform-limited Japanese projects (Renta!, Manga Reborn, MangaBox, ComicWalker), there's a lot of stuff to (legally) read on (mostly) the screen of your choice. Unfortunately, aside from digital editions of print manga from the aforementioned major publishers, most of it is extremely low profile; you probably don't even know it's available, and even if you did, it's probably not something you're dying to read. Like this one.
The Beautiful Skies of Houou High, Vol. 2, by Aki Arata (Houou Gakuen Misora-gumi 2, originally serialized in Comic Blade Avarus. Blade Comics edition 2009; Digital Manga Guild edition, 2014)
Back in 2011, DMP released the first volume of this 4-volume shoujo comedy series, and it didn't exactly set the world on fire. I was reasonably sure we'd never see any more of it, but lo, the Digital Manga Guild is fulfilling its promise to bring totally unlicenseable stuff to English-speakers, so here we are with volume 2, available in a selection of digital formats from eManga (including convenient PDF download), or in Kindle and Nook formats from Amazon and B&N, respectively. (The first volume is out of print but very cheap on the secondary market; it's also available digitally, for consistency.)
The first page of the manga is a plot recap, useful for those of us Anglophones who might have lost track in the intervening three years. Kei, our heroine, likes girls and has a pathological distaste of boys. Mom, who is not on board with the gay and wants Kei to snag a rich guy ("If you get pregnant, we win!"), manipulates her into enrolling her into an all-boys school (in the guise of a boy, of course), on the suggestion of cute perky evil-guy Yui, who is Up To Something but we haven't found out what yet.
Most of this volume is fairly episodic comedy. V1 ended with the threat of a physical examination (Kei will be exposed!) and a hint of some new characters; these factors turn out to be connected in the form of that kind of narcissistic, self-dramatizing, occasionally crossdressing guy that shows up in shoujo comedies a lot, and his superdevoted manservant. Then we have the evil-genius shotabait twins playing detective to figure out why the school let a girl enroll (most of the main cast knows Kei's secret); once they discover that Yui's behind it, they start to scheme about how they can get Kei to cooperate in bringing him down (since Kei nixed the idea of just bumping him off – they're evil, remember?) – of course, Yui finds out and lays the smackdown on them, because he's even more evil. Then Kei goes home for summer break and gets harangued by Mom about why she hasn't landed a loaded classmate yet and why she's so unfeminine. Et cetera. And of course her phobia of men gets a lot of play; Kei has earned the title "prince of puke" because of her reaction whenever she is touched, however innocently, by her classmates.
In a certain way, this series reminds me a lot of Oresama Teacher; we've got the heroine who looks good in boy's clothes and schmoozes all the girls (although for Kei's it's because she's hot for them, rather than just getting all of her info on how to relate to girls from hanging out with guys, like Mafuyu), we've got the big scary guy the heroine bonds with over their shared love for a weird animal mascot character (in this case Usasy, a stripper hostess bunny-girl), we've got the masochistic guy who gets jealous every time the object of his obsession abuses someone else, we've got the school administration full of shady secrets, and we've got the cute, ukeish, perkily evil guy who somehow has a lot more control over the school than seems entirely reasonable.
But the plot is completely different; no fighting, a lot less crazy, and higher dose of drama. Aside from wanting a hot girlfriend, Kei really doesn't have any plans for the future; she tells her mother she can support herself and doesn't need to marry ("These days, there are plenty of single women"), but as Mom points out, she has no skills and isn't particularly good at anything. She hasn't even figured out what her concentration will be; Yui casually states that they're going to concentrate in social welfare together, and although she's not happy about him making decisions for her, she doesn't have any better ideas, and she's starting to realize that this is a problem. Aside from Kei's issues, quite a lot of this volume is about humanizing Yui; he's still evil, but we start to get hints that he has reasons for it, and that he is maybe nicer than he seems… maybe.
Arata is still playing Yui's motivation in getting a girl to enroll close to her chest, but at this point the overarching plot for the series seems to be pretty clear: Yui and Kousuke will teach Kei to get over her phobia of men, and Kei will teach Yui to be less evil. There's also slight hints of a possible romantic relationship between Kei and Yui, in which case Yui had damn well better turn out to be a girl in drag, considering that Kei has already busted out the l-word (at least in the English translation).
I do vaguely enjoy this series, and I'll keep reading if and/or when the rest of it comes out, but compared to the really good shoujo comedies out there it's only so-so. I am amused that Kei is the second-butchest "guy" in the main cast (after Kousuke, who's actually a softie), and I like Yui (cute perky evil femme uke dudes, mmm), but the comedy is only mildly funny and the drama is (so far) only mildly engaging. It's a reasonably pleasant diversion, but you'll probably have forgotten everything about it by the time you've put your e-reader down.
From a technical end, the translation and presentation is nicely professional aside from a rendering artifact on one page. But I don't like that the ad pages come before the author's note and omake 4-koma strips at the end of the book; if I hadn't been compulsive-obsessive about flipping through all the pages I would probably have stopped at the first ad and missed them.
Random Review: The Incredible KintaroPosted: March 25, 2014 Filed under: Review | Tags: boys' love, manga, review Leave a comment
I became interested in this title when someone working on the English edition posted on Twitter that it was one of the most ridiculous BL manga she'd ever seen. I spotted a copy on sale at Anime Boston, and as a fan of both ridiculousness and BL, I thought I'd check it out. TL;DR version: disappointing.
The Incredible Kintaro, by Naomi Guren ( Masaka no Kintarō, originally serialized in CitaCita; English edition 801 Media, 2014)
Our protagonist, Makoto (who is a cute uke tidbit of the "perky innocent" variety), is the grandson of the president of a prestigious boy's prep school. The school's motto is "Heart, Lust, Body", representing the three things Granddad decrees essential in a man: a noble soul, a strong body, and being good in bed. On Granddad's deathbed, he announces that the new president of the school will be whichever of the teachers that can ring Makoto's bells, as it were. Makoto, who is not on board with this plan, recruits the help of his childhood friend, the titular Kintaro, to fend off the lecherous contestants.
In the folkloric legends of Kintarō, Kintarō, in his youth, was a super-strong little boy with a woodcutting axe and one of those bib/apron things that Japanese toddlers wore in Days Of Yore, famous for wrestling monsters and other feats of strength and bravery. Guren's Kintaro is a buff dude with a magical axe and superior fighting skills (and he briefly wears that bib/apron thing, although on him it's more of a muscle shirt), but the story has otherwise no connection whatsoever to the folktales, and it's completely unclear to me why the original Kintarō is being referenced at all.
The Incredible Kintaro is trying to run on two things: rude humor and gratuitous smut. Unfortunately, it does neither well. The plot, such as it is, consists of assorted scenarios in which Makoto is captured and molested by one of the teachers, mostly in completely preposterous ways (robot sex! flower sex!); then, at the last second, Kintaro bursts in and lays the smackdown on the molester with his signature martial arts move, the "Shame Strike", which involves mashing his naked gahoolies into the perp's face, leaving them either too disgusted or too aroused to resist. (Both Makoto and Kintaro spend a phenomenal fraction of the book in the altogether, if that's the sort of thing you go for.) Since it is obvious from the very beginning that Kintaro totally wants to jump Makoto's bones and Makoto totally wants to jump Kintaro's bones, you'd think they'd just do the horizontal rhumba and announce that the competition is therefore over, but that would mean the book would end by chapter one. So they don't actually get it on until the very end, after the situation with the school has been resolved in a way that is actually sensible.
To a certain extent, The Incredible Kintaro reminds me of Rize Shinba's Mister Mistress (available digitally through SuBLime), in that the main point of the book is to have the uke molested in ridiculous ways (demoniacally possessed pickled jellyfish strips!). The difference is that Mister Mistress is funny, sexy, and has an engaging central relationship, whereas The Incredible Kintaro is just dumb. All characters are one-note, the relationship between Makoto and Kintaro is bland, the molestation scenarios are not sexy, and even the humor, although certainly over-the-top (and very X-rated), is not energetic or inventive enough to be funny. If the thing you really, really want out of BL is shameless naked-dudeparts-in-the-face jokes, you might enjoy this book. Otherwise, give it a miss.
White Day: Non-leading ladies of awesomePosted: March 17, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: manga, things I love Leave a comment
For Valentine's Day (sorta) I talked about how much I love ukes. In honor of White Day Weekend (because anything non-work-related that falls on a workday is not happening for me), I'm going to talk about female manga characters that I particularly love.
This won't take long, because there's only two of them. Considering how much shoujo is out there, that's kind of a pain, but you take what you can get.
There's a ton of shoujo heroines that I like, that I sympathize with, that I want to see succeed and be happy, but there's very few that I can relate to in terms of who I am, who I would like to be, or even who I'd like to fantasize about being. I've immensely enjoyed stories about petite girly girls, lovable idiots, and sweet but clueless girls who try really hard, and I'm sure lots of readers relate to all that, but my self-image always revolved around being tall, smart, self-reliant, not particularly feminine, and tall (I'm 5'10", which makes me officially half an inch taller than the average American man). Even when there is a series where the female lead is tall, academically successful, and strong-minded, I tend to relate more to the traits ascribed to the male love interest, which is not necessarily the point of view I want to read from.
There are plenty of shoujo stories about tall, cool-looking girls, but the leads tend to be unhappy about their freakish height and lack of femininity, and spend many pages angsting over not being able to be cute and girly and wear frilly dresses. Many of them end up getting makeover plots, where the lead meets some cooler, taller guys (it's usually guys) who teach her how to be cute and girly and wear frilly dresses. I don't relate to that at all. I want tall, cool-looking girls who are actually cool, confident in themselves, and know what they want. (And not in a yuri series, thanks.) So far I've found two. And neither is a protagonist, dammit.
Hikari from Train★Train (Eiki Eiki, English edition DMP 2005)
The main character of Train★Train is trainee railroad employee Asahi, a cute little tidbit who might as well have "uke" stamped on his forehead. He gets assigned to Minami Kitazawa Station, which turns out to be staffed almost entirely by hot guys, two of whom immediately hit on him. When he accuses them of being gay, they deny it, which turns out to be God's Own Truth; Hokuto is bi, and Hikari is straight – and a girl.
Although Hikari is just one member of an ensemble-cast sitcom, there's enough room over Train★Train's three volumes for her to be awesome; she defends Asahi from a violent customer, rescues a kid who fell onto the tracks, and makes all the fangirls who hang around the station swoon with her suave prettyboy looks. One of the things I really like about Hikari is that she is completely comfortable with herself; she prefers to wear pants, she likes being cool and otokoyaku-butchy, and if everyone mistakes her for a guy, that's their problem, not hers.
One of the other things I really like about Hikari is that she knows what she wants: Asahi on a plate. She takes every opportunity to glomp and / or snuggle him, and constantly suggests that he become her "wife" (to his annoyance). It's very refreshing after all the timid-girl-pursued-by-agressive-guy stories you encounter in shoujo.
There's also a great storyline towards the end of the series in which lays the smackdown on a sexist coworker, and beats him at everything, including being a hot guy. (After getting his ass kicked the dude totally falls in love with her, of course, but she's not having any.)
Hikari also has a cameo (along with the rest of the cast) in a side-story crossover with Mikiyo Tsuda's Princess•Princess manga, in which she and Hokuto hit on the pretty femmy stars of same. (Because pretty femmy guys are the shiznit. Mmm.)
I could talk about Hikari all day (~heart~), but I need to finish some experiments and then go home and make dinner, so let's move on.
Ai from Ai Ore! (Mayu Shinjo, English edition Viz 2011-2013)
Despite her name, Ai is not the star of Ai Ore!, more's the pity. The leads are Mizuki, a tall, cool girl who looks like a hot guy, and Akira, a petite, big-eyed boy who looks like a cute girl. Unfortunately, it's by Mayu Shinjo, so all the potential of this premise is completely wasted: Mizuki is an insecure wimp who angsts constantly over whether Akira can really like her when she's all tall and butch and unfeminine, whereas Akira, despite being an adorable little thing who looks great in a frilly dress, is a typical Mayu Shinjo domineering alpha male. In pretty much every volume of this mess I wished that Ai was actually the heroine, because Ai is great (although I could live without the punk-rock mullet). Alas, Ai is merely one of Mizuki's friends and bandmates and she has the bittiest of bit parts, mostly limited to snarky comic relief and perving over Akira.
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As with Hikari, I love Ai for being tall and unfeminine and totally owning it, and for being clearheaded and direct about what she wants (Akira naked). She's pretty much the complete opposite of dithery idiot Mizuki. There's totally not enough Ai in Ai Ore! (her screentime drops like a rock in the second half), but what there is is great. And she has sexy little glasses. Win.


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Steering Committee meeting was held on Friday, February 26th, at the College of the Holy Cross, Dinand Library from 10:00 am to 1:00pm.
1. In attendance at the meeting were:
Jim Douglas, Nichols College, email@example.com
Amy Francis, Mass College of Pharmacy, firstname.lastname@example.com
Julie Whelan, Mass College of Pharmacy, firstname.lastname@example.com
Betsy Like, NELINET, email@example.com
Jayne Fox, Holy Cross, email@example.com
Chris Cox, Worcester Polytech, email@example.com
Esme Devault, firstname.lastname@example.com
Sarah Prown, Yale, firstname.lastname@example.com
Dawn Thistle, Assumption, firstname.lastname@example.com
Carol Maksian, Assumption, firstname.lastname@example.com
Bob Kudlay, Springfield College, email@example.com
Marilyn Graves, Bradford College, firstname.lastname@example.com
Laurie Sabol, Tufts, firstname.lastname@example.com
2. Dawn Thistle, NEBIC Chair, called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the November 1998 meeting were approved.
3. Program Updates
Esme Devault reported that the program on evaluation of library instruction will be held on June 11 at URI's Continuing Education Center in Providence. The program will run from 9:30-1:00pm. The format and content are still being discussed.
Betsy Like reminded us about the 3/26 NELINET conference. For more information, see http://www.nelinet.net/conf/rtac/rtac99.htm
Dawn Thistle reminded us about the 3/19 ACRL/NEC conference/ FMI, see http://camel2.conncoll.edu/acrlnec/sprconf.htm
4. Web-in-BI Project Update
Bob Kudlay reported that the second program will be held on 3/23. FMI, http://www.samnet.net/bobandjo/nebic01.htm.
Esme Devault also reported on the downtown Boston program that was held in November.
Both programs have met with great success, drawing into an informal setting librarians from various locales to discuss this important issue. It's a great way to meet colleagues who are near by. Bob mentioned how gratifying it is to see new faces in attendance, not to mention speaking in front of the group! Another positive outcome is that these programs are a good chance for librarians to discuss consortial database purchase agreements.
The site for these programs can be a room with a laptop or an electronic classroom, or anything in between. If you are interested in hosting a program in your area, please contact Laurie Sabol at the email address listed above.
5. Guidelines Subcommittee
CORRECTION: The URL for the work this group has done is http://www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/NEBIC/model.htm
Should the subcommittee incorporate ways to work with faculty into their paper?
The initial intent of this subcommittee was to submit its statement to the Instruction Section of ACRL.
If you have further comments, please direct them to Bob Kudlay at the email address listed above.
6. Web Subcommittee
Jayne Fox continues to be NEBIC Web manager. Comments or questions about the website should be directed to her.
7. Program discussion
The group continued its discussion of the June program. Evaluation is so important and so hard to undertake. It was mentioned that NEBIC might be a good group to explore putting together a research project on evaluation. Would we evaluate bibliographies or would we use some other determinants of quality? It was also noted that a lot of evaluation that does go on evaluates us, rather than evaluating either the success or satisfaction (or both) of the patron.
Bob Kudlay talked about an interesting project he is involved in with an instructor. Students will keep a journal of the research process, noting especially their failures in some kind of bibliographic format. The legitimacy of their failures will be evaluated by Bob and the instructor.
Betsy Like proposed comparing how students document their research methods both before and after they've had instruction.
Esme Devault suggested giving instruction to all students (we don't want to deny our students!) and advanced instruction to a selected group.
Back to the June program, it was suggested that an interesting activity would be to have (pre or post instruction) surveys that we already use be compared. It would also be valuable to see how the surveys are interpreted by others.
Finally, it was noted that we all want the June program to give us
specific tools to take back to our libraries.
8. Open discussion of Instruction Issues
Marilyn Graves asked a general question: At a small library, how
do you do it all? She is loath to drum up business for the
instruction program, since she also has to serve on the
reference desk several hours each day, process Interlibrary
Loan, and wears a myriad of other hats. Everyone joined in on
the discussion and Marilyn
would be happy to hear from others in the same boat. One
thing we were all in agreement about was to contact faculty about
library instruction rather than market instruction directly to
students. This way, you reach a smaller, yet more powerful audience.
In fact, Holy Cross hosts a popular faculty-only technology seminar
at the beginning of the semester, with invitations sent by the
Dean. It was also suggested to look into outside funding for
part-timers to give fulltime people time to work on special
9. Nominations/elections
We will soon begin the nomination/election process for Vice-chair and Secretary.
The procedure is as follows:
In mid-April, current -soon to be past- NEBIC chair (Dawn Thistle) will issue a call for nominations through the ACRL Newsletter and the NEBIC email list. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE NOW, send the name and library of the candidate to Dawn.
Chair's term of office is one year. Secretary's term of office is one year, and may be renewed once.
Candidates must be ACRL/NEC members.
Regarding elections: in early May, chair will post message to NEBIC email list announcing URL where ballot is to be found. The message will note how long URL will be active.
Only ACRL/NEC members will be allowed to vote.
Winner(s) will be announced at summer program or next planning
10. NEBIC mission/charge
Dawn surveyed to group to determine if we are on the right track as far as our mission in the ACRL/NEC manual is concerned. Many of us reaffirmed how much we appreciate the informality and exchange of ideas that goes on at NEBIC meetings and programs. We thought that for the future, we might want to think about taking on some projects such as bibliographies, collaborative BI courses in consortia schools that allow cross-registration, cooperative programs with other ACRL/NEC groups or NELA.
11. Miscellaneous
ACRL/NEC Listserv
The chapter will be launching a listserv for the membership to announce events of interest. The Publicity Committee, Sarah Wenzel and Marilyn Steinberg, are soliciting email addresses from those interested in joining. If you filled out a form at the Fall Conference at Holy Cross College, there is NO need to send another. However, if you are interested in joining, keeping in mind that the listserv is NOT operating yet, send email to either Sarah (email@example.com) or Marilyn (email@example.com).
Effective Web Design
Jayne Fox would like to hear from you if you have done any research on effective web design. Should the NEBIC web site include more brief listings? Yale is doing a useability study of their web site, which everyone was interested to hear about. Sarah Prown referred us to www.useit.com for general information.
Faculty Status
Julie Whelan is rewriting the faculty manual for her library and would be interested in hearing from other libraries where librarians have faculty status. How do you progress through the ranks? What is your title? Who is on your promotion committee?
Electronic Reserve
Jim Douglas asked if anyone has mounted a "homegrown" electronic reserve system. If so, please contact him.
OUR NEXT MEETING will NOT be on April 23. The two choices for the next meeting are, in order, Friday, April 30 and Thursday, April 29. Please contact Dawn to tell her your preference.
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Back in the 1990s I started mediating. I was hoping it would offset the stress I felt in college, where I was majoring in a field I didn't enjoy or feel very good at. I felt a lot of pressure to get good grades to maintain my scholarship status, else my (single) mom who was paying for college would start freaking out about me losing financial aid. And I would be a disappointment.
When I first began meditating, I was instructed to focus on my breathing as a way to stop my mind from thinking about these sorts of things. Sometimes just bringing my attention to the bodily sensations caused by my inhales and exhales worked, but other times my mind continued to race, calling up a never-ending list of "to do's", worries about the future, and regrets about the past. But as I practiced more consistently, I had a few mediation practices where my mind actually became still.
I remember one in particular. I was living in Rocky Hill Connecticut at the time. I set my cushion on the floor, and sat down. I might have had a CD from Zazen in my boom box: a guy I'd been talking to on email (who was trained in Zen) sent it to me. Almost as soon as I sat down, everything just stopped. The next thing I knew, there was pure…nothing. When I finally realized this, I freaked. How much time had passed? Where had I gone? To this day I don't recall whether I sat for 2 hours or 2 minutes, but there I was. Freaked out. Scared or busy, I stopped meditating very much, and "got on" with my life.
Fast forward many years later. It was about 2011 or 2012. I was married, and had a house with my own meditation / yoga / reading room on the third floor of a fancy house in a suburb of Boston, MA. I would sit on my cushion in front of a little altar I'd built. I would still meditate using my breathing to focus my attention.
One day, an image arose in my mind. It was silver, monstrous and pointy, like one of those magnetic desk toys you'd find at Spencer's. I felt so small and helpless as it loomed over me, with pointy claws and an equally menacing jaw. It moved as if to attack me. I felt my body physically shudder in response. Yet, I knew on some deep level that this was a release of past demons, so I stayed. I sat. I felt my body jerk forward each time the evil metallic monster lashed out at me. I breathed. I stayed. After another unclear amount of time had passed, I recalled something a therapist had told me once: handle only what you can at once. There's no shame in backing out, you don't want to "overload". Sometimes these things must be taken in small doses. And so I opened my eyes to see that I was in fact safe. I left my cushion. I drew the picture of my monster that you see here.
The next few days of meditation, I kept seeing pictures. I'm not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I drew what I saw anyway. And it freaked.me.out. I stopped meditating. I just couldn't take the pictures anymore. I was scared to sit on my cushion. I stopped entirely. And then my (real) life (as I knew it) disintegrated.
It's 2015, at the tail end anyway. I'm back to mediating almost every morning. But with my Yoga Therapy training fresh behind me, I now know it's helpful during meditation to link to an object that has qualities we desire to cultivate in ourselves. I no longer focus on my breath when I meditate. My object (given by my mentor) is the moon. The healing, the cool, the very still…the (ever changing but usually) full moon. After inviting the light of the moon into my body, and moving it through my body, I stay with the feeling of moonlight in my body. And I find a stillness, a peace, that I've never known before.
Many times, as I'm sitting in this stillness, images still surface. But now the images aren't scary. For example, the other day I saw a brown-sandaled foot about to step on a mosaic tile as if frozen in time. I wondered whether what I saw was in the past, in the future, in some other life. My life, or someone else's? A parallel dimension? I don't know, but the images no longer scare me. They're just images of something else, and I'm fascinated by them. I enjoy my meditations because at the very least, time stops, and I'm still in body and mind. At best, I see things that may be useful, or are just interesting and provoke curiosity.
What has your experience with meditation been? Has it just been frustrating, or like me, did you find the stillness terrifying? Did you stay with it? Could I help?


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