Audition Online (), also known as X-BEAT in Japan and popularly called AyoDance in Indonesia, is a free-to-play multiplayer online casual rhythm game produced by T3 Entertainment. It was originally released in South Korea in 2004 and has been localized by various publishers around the world. Audition Online is free to play, but earns revenue by selling virtual items such as clothes for the player's avatar.

History
Audition Online was developed by T3 Entertainment and was released to Korean publisher 'Royworld' during July 2005. During June 2006, YeDang Online took Audition Online and named it Club Audition. The game also saw its first release outside of Korea in 2006 in the South-East Asian region, the Japanese region under the name Dancing Paradise and the Vietnamese region. In 2007, major publisher Nexon localised the game for the American audience. The game was then also localised for the UK and European audience where publishers 'Alaplaya' and 'G4' had an agreement to have a joint server. In June 2008, Audition saw the first release of the Season 2 update where the new game mode "Beat Rush" was added, updated graphics and adjusting the aspect ratio to 1024x768.

Nexon, in 2009, decided to not renew its contract with T3 Entertainment in order to operate Audition Online, thus having the Japanese and American servers shut down. In order to resolve this issue, T3 Entertainment subsidiaries Redbana and Hanbitstation published the game. American players could migrate their accounts and characters from Nexon over to Redbana.

On 30 September 2015, T3 Entertainment did not allow YD Online to renew its contract. This decision was made in order to allow T3's subsidiary HanbitSoft the ability to publish Audition Online. YD Online held the databases to Audition in South Korea, however, which prompted a server wipe. HanbitSoft, however, rewarded players with free CASH, cheaper CASH shop items, an exclusive indefinite outfit and more frequent updates. On 1 October, HanbitSoft was officially the publisher of Audition Online and Hanbiton was the official publisher of Audition in Korea.

Gameplay
A player is allowed to create a room or join a room. The "DJ" (the player who creates the room) is given power to choose the settings for the room: song, "chance," and game mode. The song's BPM (beats per minute) usually will determine the song's difficulty and speed (with certain exceptions e.g. beat up mode). While the "DJ" has the power to kick people out of the room and close the dance floor off, this generally has no benefit. After all, the most appealing part of the game is its social aspect: playing alongside others whether for fun or competition.

The basic game is played by pressing the arrows displayed on the screen (with the exception of red "chance" arrows) and pressing the spacebar or the control key on every 4th beat of the song.  The more accurately the spacebar or control key is pressed, the higher the score. A grade of "PERFECT" will provide players with the greatest score, a grade of "GREAT" and "COOL" will provide players with decent scores, a grade of "BAD" will provide players with very little score, and for "MISS" will provide players with no score for the turn. A player who receives a "MISS" will not get the chance to play for the next move.

The "Finish Move," a special move during most gameplay modes, can be said to be the hardest move. A player who does not miss the move before the "Finish Move" has the option to do it. Finish moves issue a lot of points and can often be the key to success.

A player who does two or more PERFECTs consecutively gets bonus points for doing so. These PERFECT combos (or "Perfect chains") enable players to interfere with the opposition. A blue circle indicates that the player made a PERFECT move and acts as a shield. When a player performs a PERFECT X1 (or perfect X2 in some cases), the players ahead of and behind him or her in score standings receive a yellow circle. Players with the yellow circle will not receive points if they do not achieve a PERFECT (in a Finish Move, it reduces score by a percentage rather than the whole score).

Players can increase their score by playing "chance." "Chance" can be activated by pressing the delete key or the "." key on the number pad whereby red keys appear and players have to press in the opposite direction of the red keys.

At the end of the dance battle, the person with the most points is the winner. That player's character is presented at the front of the stage. Each player will receive experience points and Den/BEATS according to their finishing positions.

If a single/group game (not including NPC, One-Two Party and Beat Up modes) is full, a random event (also called a mission) may occur. Bonuses are given for accomplishing these challenges. Some of the challenges are, but are not limited to: getting a specific beat judgment (e.g. no COOLs or no BADs), getting perfect combos (e.g. PERFECT X3), or getting a standing (e.g. getting number 1). The music can be random, random (new), or random from any range of tempos.

There are also different game modes such as:

Beat Rush - where there are four ovals around the bottom of the screen with different keys. The user must press all of the keys at the precise beat in order to gain a "Perfect." Pressing all the keys at the correct beat will gain a Great, whilst pressing all keys at a bad beat or pressing a moderate number of keys at the correct beat will gain a Cool. Bads and Misses can be earned by pressing the fewest keys either at the correct beat or at the incorrect beat.

Beat Up - where individual keys come in six keys divided two different sides. Players must press each individual key at the correct beat to get a higher score. At 100 Combos and 400 Combos, a bonus score multiplier will be given.

Block Beat - where players team up and hit the three individual keys at the correct beat.

Boy's & Girl's - where boys and girls team up 2v2 or 3v3 in their respective genders and play the normal key mode in order to battle.

Couple Mode - where a boy and a girl must team up. Both characters will have the same move; however, their normal mode blue keys will be separated by random grey keys.

Club Dance I/II/III - where boys and girls team up to be couples for the game. I, II, and III each have their own unique quirks where players will generally provide each other with hearts, flowers, or gifts while switching between couple mode and normal mode.

Guitar Mode - where the individual notes come down and the player must hit the notes with the corresponding keys. The Guitar Controller can be bought in the Korean version or earned from events in the North American regions. However, the Guitar can be used throughout all servers. The Guitar Controller gives players an extra 20% EXP.

Shooting Stars - This mode plays similar to Beat-Up in which players strike notes when they move into their windows, but instead of a fixed two lanes, the notes are now all over the screen and it moves freely in many directions (an element similar to modern rhythm games like Osu!). There are three difficulty to choose from, with higher difficulty adding more notes to the screen and double-lanes that require players to press both Space Bar and notes at the same time.

Mouse Mode - Located in Normal Mode, you need to play with your own Mouse and you need to control the mouse movement and click some notes by left click or right right. The notes contain 2 kind of color which is Blue and the other is Red. This mode kind of different from other Casual Games, this Mode is a new refresh that created in Audition Online History.

Lyrics
Lyrics are available in a vast number of servers, such as Korean Audition, Chinese Audition, Ayodance and AuditionVTC. Not all songs contain lyrics, and a lyrics item must be bought using in game currency (DEN/BEATS) in order to utilize the lyrics system in-game.

Clothing
There has been an amount of exclusive clothing and accessories throughout different versions. X-Beat (the Japanese version) seems to be the most distinguishable, with Hanbit Ubiquitous designing most of their clothing, limited to their server. However, the clothing obtained from this server is locked behind either Fashion Boxes (boxes that earn random fashion items, from a random duration) and Re-Make Up boxes (step above Fashion boxes). Fashion Boxes often earn you two items per box, whilst Re-Make Up boxes earn one.

Redbana (the American version) has had its share of exclusive clothing/accessories, examples are during anniversaries, where clothing was exclusively made for Redbana and events when users were allowed to draw an accessory, where the winner will have its accessory in game.

Korean Audition initially had branded clothing from Sanrio, but in 2015, Vietnam Audition and Ayodance followed suit. Items that are branded can only be purchased for a maximum of 30 days (not the usual indefinite time period).

Fashion Mall
The Fashion Mall section is where users can purchase clothing, accessories or items that can boost their in-game experience.

Couple Mall
Items exclusive to Couples are found here. These include clothing, pets, love licenses and rings (when users get married in game) and items such as the Date Planner. Players can also gift items to their partners here. If a couple breaks up, items will be locked and players not be allowed to wear them until they couple another person.

Make-Up
Make Up accessories can be assembled here, the user has to purchase a make-up accessory and a make-up item such as colours, sparkles, or colours + sparkles costing CASH. The user can then make up their item. Users can also level up their accessories by using MakeUp points, learnt in game. Leveling up accessories can give different designs of their wings. In X-Beat, the Re-Make Up boxes can be used to earn exclusive X-Beat clothing.

Mascot Salon
Shop for players' Mascot, containing exclusive clothes and accessories for the Mascot System. There are functional items such as foods and drinks, Name Change Card, Personality Change Card or Skin Color Lotion in order to customize Mascot further once players have bought them.

Available regions

Controversy
There have been some controversies server-wide on Audition.

For example, the axeso5 version of Audition Online has to name all their new songs - Month Year - Song no. (e.g. Febrero 2015 - Tema 04) while listing on their website the actual music title and artist it is by. Users can then find the title song by Tema 01, Tema 02, etc. While particular people in the game have pointed out that this method is used by axeso5 probably trying to avoid copyright claims whilst still adding more popular songs, their claim still remains a speculation and has not been proven.

The North American/Global version of Audition Online recently had a Vote Up event, asking users to write reviews during their launch on the Steam platform in exchange for 40,000 BanaCash (equivalent to US$40). Even though Redbana did not break any of Steam's regulations and did not intend to force users to vote up on Steam (as it was running for a limited time and Redbana claims that they just asked for the reviews of the game, not positive reviews), it caused player conflict including in the reviews and other forums. The event was closed down and every entry given before June 9 was given 40,000 BanaCash.

Even though the North American/Global version is also known as the Fashion Capital of Audition regions, receiving new and updated Fashion Mall items before any other server and also receiving some X-BEAT (Japan's Audition) exclusive items, the North American region has had misfortune with patches. There has been a drought with the number of songs the server has received, with waiting for at least two to three months in order to get three new songs. In order to help restore the game, the community has been helping getting songs with three of Redbana's new songs received in August's update being requested in the Community Choice's thread.

The South East Asian version of Audition used to provide an unban system for hackers by paying real money towards the Asiasoft team. However, the page seems to have been removed and the service is no longer there.

The Vietnamese version of Audition almost underwent a publisher change back in 2009 due to a mistake from VTC Online, who failed to renew the contract with T3 Entertainment as of Sep 26 2009. Four days later, VinaGame (a competitor of VTC Online and publisher of Hot Step) announced that they have acquired the right to publish Audition in Vietnam, and will soon open a portal to allow players to transfer their accounts to VinaGame Service. Even though VTC kept denying the claim, they eventually announced that it was indeed their fault and the three companies have worked behind the scene to solve this issue together. In the end, VinaGame agreed to back out of their contract and allowed VTC Online to retain publisher right for Audition and T3 Entertainment agreed to keep on their contract with VTC Online.

The Chinese and Hong Kong version of Audition has had trouble as well, some controversies including using the game and the game's forum board as a prostitution/sex service, using the forum board to sell drugs, having a child murder another child over 'virtual love' and a 15-year-old girl getting pregnant meeting up a 20 year old guy on Audition. The game has also been criticized by the Ministry of Culture in China.

Because of a disagreement between YD Online and T3 Entertainment, the Korean version of Audition has suffered. YD Online had signed up for a 10-year contract to Audition Online (thus named as Club 오디션) from 2005 and was looking to renew their service. However, midway, T3 Entertainment acquired HanbitSoft and owned Hanbiton. Now, T3 Entertainment is hesitating to renew YD Online's contract or even make YD Online one of the portals toward Audition (portals are owned by different companies, allowing users to register or login to which company they want, and then connect to the one Audition server). YD Online also owns the databases to the current Audition. Because of T3 Entertainment's negligence towards the Korean version of Audition, the game will undergo a full server wipe with UI changes, new fashion items and more. To compensate, Hanbiton is offering 100000 CASH (equivalent to 100000 WON) to players who pre-register their IGN (In-Game Name) before the 30th of September. T3 and Hanbiton have done a very aggressive marketing strategy which was successful and has received a big percentage of their users back.

Audition Portable
Audition Portable is a PlayStation Portable port of the game, released in South Korea in 2007. It features over 100 songs and includes a multiplayer modes for 6 players, online ranking, along with new songs, maps and dance motions that were released as downloadable content.

References

External links
 Audition Redbana (North America)
  Audition Hanbiton (South Korea)
 Audition Daum (South Korea)
 Audition Hangame (South Korea)
 Audition Forever (China)
 Audition Next Level/Audition Thailand (Southeast Asia) (Redirection by Region)
 Audition VTC (Vietnam)
 Audition Taiwan
 Audition Latino (Latin America)
 Audition Brazil (Brazil)
 Audition Ayodance (Indonesia)
 Audition Hong Kong

2004 video games
Dance video games
Massively multiplayer online games
Video games developed in South Korea
Asiasoft games
HanbitSoft games
Redbana Corporation games

Audition Online


Yousaf Ali Khan is a British film director. He wrote and directed Skin Deep (2001), a short film about racism, and Talk With Angels (2003), another short film about a young boy whose mother had schizophrenia, a film that was partly autobiographical and which was nominated for an Oscar. He also directed Angels of Mercy? (2006), a Channel 4 documentary about Keith Mann and the Animal Liberation Front, and Almost Adult (2006), about two teenage girls who emigrate from the Congo and Kenya to the UK.

The Guardian reported in 2005 that he was working on two further films. The Children's House is based on the book by Jewish writer Hetty Verolme, The Children's House of Belsen. Khan himself is a Muslim. His producer, Sanjay Kumar, is a Hindu, and one of the film's major backers is a Palestinian. Some Enchanted Evening, also at the development stage, will explore a mixed-race family growing up in a red light district. In 2010, the script Giant Land, written by Yousaf Ali Khan won a place at the Tribeca Film Festival, and is due to be produced in 2012 with chris richmond, uk production designer.

Early life
Khan was brought up in Salford, Greater Manchester. He lived for a time in the Ellor Street estate before moving to the Langworthy estate. His film Talking with Angels examines his own childhood experience of living there with his mother, who had schizophrenia, through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy, played by local actor Stephen Buckley. There are only four professional actors in the film; most of the casting took place in local schools and community centres.

Notes

Further reading

Khan, Yousaf Ali. "Angels of Mercy?", Channel 4, 24 June 2006, accessed 29 October 2010.

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The Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) is a central engineering services group A cadre of the Indian railways. The officers of this service are responsible for managing the Signal and Telecommunications Engineering Organization of the Indian Railways.

Recruitment
The incumbents who were Graduates in Engineering used to get selected by the Union Public Services Commission, the apex gazetted recruitment body of the Government of India. In 2020 Railways separated itself from Engineering Services Exam (ESE) and made Indian Railway Management Services (IRMS). Earlier the recruitment used to be through UPSC Engineering Services Exam for Engineers but now after 2 years halt it's through UPSC Civil Services Exam from 2022 ; an all India written test followed by interview for selected candidates. Earlier Top rankers of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering only used to get the chance to join IRSSE cadre, but now it has become General Cadre or Cadre for all Civil Services aspirants. They are inducted into the service after One and Half years of rigorous training at Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication (IRISET) at Secunderabad and National Academy of Indian Railways (Formerly Railway Staff College) at Baroda and different parts of India.

The Indian Railway Management Services is merged into Civil Services in 2022 which now on will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India.  The UPSC is responsible for recruiting middle and top-level bureaucrats for the Government of India.

Role and function
Functional Role : The service abbreviated as IRSSE has the job of managing the vast Signalling and Telecommunication (S&T) infrastructure of the Indian Railways.  This basically is techno-managerial in nature. Signalling principles and operating rules.

The Signalling is a function essential for Safe Train operations and Maximizing the utilization of fixed and moving assets (Train rakes, locos, Track, Over Head Power Equipment etc.) through interlocking, which is the single most important aspect for ensuring safe train running.  Telecom on the other hand caters to Safety related, Operational and Administrative communication needs of the Huge IR network.  The Copper Cable, Optical Fibre Network and Microwave Links span several Lakh km.

Incumbents of IRSSE are also involved in Construction Projects like New Line, Gauge Conversions, Doubling of Lines in Indian Railways. They can also go on deputations to different Metro Rail Corporations like Delhi Metro, Chennai Metro, Bangalore Metro etc., Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Railtel Corporation of India Limited, RITES, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited etc.

General Management: Like all other IR Engineering (IRSE, IRSEE, IRSME) and Civil service Cadres (like IRTS, IRPS and IRAS), the IRSSE has the responsibility of contributing to the General management of railways. In IR, the general management posts are GM (general manager), AGM (Addl. GM), SDGM (Senior Deputy General Manager), CPRO (Chief Public Relations Officer), DGM (Deputy General Manager) etc. at Zonal level and DRM (Divisional Railway Manager), ADRM (Addl. DRM) at Divisional level. They have also to contribute for posts of  CSO (Chief Safety Officers),  Sr. DSO and Sr. EDPM.

Organisation

APEX LEVEL :The S&T Organization is headed at apex level (i.e. Railway Board, Ministry of Railways) by Member (Infrastructure) ex-officio secretary to Government of India. He is assisted by two Additional Secretary to Government of India rank (equivalent to GM) officers v.i.z Additional Member (Signal) and Additional Member (Tele), Who are in turn assisted by Joint Secretary to Government of India rank officers viz. Advisor (Signal) and several Deputy Secretary to Government of India rank executive directors and directors. S&T Officers may go to general management or ex- cadre posts like AM-IT, AM-Plg etc. The posts of Menmber(Staff)-till date is also ex-cadre in Railways, and an IRSSE may also get to become Member(Staff) also. The posts of CRS and CCRS are also ex-cadre for Technical and Traffic wing, and an IRSSE may opt for becoming CRS or CCRS also at the apex level.

ZONES :The Indian Railways has 17  Zonal Railways  with an average Track length of about 4000 km and average staff strength of about 80,000 headed by GMs. The Zonal Organizational structure of Signal Engineers is headed by HAG/SAG grade IRSSE officer designated as PCSTE (Principal Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer) who is assisted by various SAG officers designated as CSE (Chief Signal Engineer), CCE (Chief Communication Engineer), CSTE (Planning), CSTE(Projects) and CSTE(Construction) and SG/JAG, SS & JS grade officers designated as Dy CSTEs, SSTEs and ADSTEs. In ex-cadre establishment, the General Manager, Addl.GM, SDGM, Secretary, CPRO posts are also ex-cadre, and an IRSSE Engineer may occupy these posts also. The post of CSO(chief Safety Officer) has also been made ex-cader for Technical and Traffic Officers in Indian Railways, and on-time, two of the posts of CSO in two Zonal Railways are for S&T cadre. Zones do have posts of CM(IT), DyCM(IT) and SrEDPM, looking after the IT functions of respective zones, and S&T have a fair share in these posts now. In SECR, newly formed Zone, Lokesh Vishnoi, an IRSSE-1992 was posted as SrEDPM and DyCM(IT) totaling a tenure of 7+ years, and he is praised for establishing  the Zone-wide network, with implementing all known MIS at that time, and further, in his next tenure as DyCM(IT), upgrading them to the then latest versions of Oracle DB again. His  interview was published on ORACLE's website, and further, he collected multiple awards by the GM/SECR, by IE(India) headed PES/R, and multiple IT awards by leading IT societies of India.

DIVISIONS : Each Zone is divided into 3-7 Divisions each with an average track length of about 1000 km and staff strength of about 15000 headed overall by DRM (Divisional Railway Manager).

At this Level the Signal and Telecomm Department is Headed by a JAG/SG grade IRSSE officer designated as Sr.DSTE (Senior Divisional Signal & Telecom Engineer) who is in turn assisted by SS & JS grade officers designated as DSTE (Divisional Signal & Telecom Engineer) and ADSTE (Assistant Divisional Signal & Telecom Engineer). An IRSSE officer starts his career as an ADSTE who is the Team leader of about 100-200 staff with jurisdiction of around 200 km and can rise up to the level of General Manager in a Railway Zone or Member (Signal & Telecom) in Railway Board. The post of safety officers also has been made ex-cadre for technical and traffic officers in Indian Railways, and almost every division shall have a post of DSO or ADSO/S&T, with at-least one division in each zone having a SrDSO, belonging to S&T.

Namesake
The IRSSE is not to be confused with the IRSE or Institution of Railway Signal Engineers.

Training
The initial and refresher training of all incumbents of IRSSE is done at Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications, Secunderabad.

References

Centralised Training Institutes of the Indian Railways

Indian Railways organisational structure

Indian Engineering Services

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Railway signalling in India


The Staurozoa are a Class in the phylum Cnidaria. It includes the stalked jellyfish. It was an order within the Class Scyphozoa, but recent genetic work has shown it to be a class of its own. This is a small class of about 50 species, mostly inshore and quite small. The recent discovery of some Staurozoa near deep sea hydrothermal vents was a surprise, and makes it clear that there is much more to learn about them.

The Staurozoa are unique in not having an alternation of polyp and medusa life cycle phases. They have an attached medusa stage, with a life style looking rather like polypoid forms.

Members of this class are commonly found in relatively cold waters, close to the shoreline. After the larvae crawl across the sea floor and find a suitable place, they attach themselves to rocks or algae.

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Er fattaccio is a 1952 Italian film.

Plot
In Trastevere, in Vicolo del Moro, Sora Emma, a widow lives with her two children: Bruno, the eldest, is a carter; Gigi, the youngest, is an apprentice to a watchmaker, Sor Venanzio. Of the two, Bruno is the more willing, disciplined and affectionate with his mother. Gigi loves to have fun, neglects work by attending idle companies and, despite being engaged, runs after every girl. When he meets Lulu, a singer, he becomes her lover and for her he commits a theft in the shop where he works. Sor Venanzio notices the theft and Gigi, to compensate him, steals his mother's savings. Lulu brings Gigi into the gang of Lemme Lemme, her protector, but one evening he has him put out by the latter and Gigi goes on a rampage. At home, she mistreats her mother who, aware of the theft suffered, she suffers for not being able to lead him back on the right path and silently suffers her abuses. One evening, Bruno surprises his brother during yet another scene with his mother and the two come to blows; Bruno is wounded by Gigi with a knife and Sora Emma, at the sight of her blood, faints and dies. Bruno, immobilized his brother's right hand, forces him to hit himself and then goes to turn himself in.

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1950s Italian-language films
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Eugen Merzbacher (April 9, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American physicist.

Merzbacher was born in Berlin.  Being a Jew, he emigrated in 1935 with his family from Germany to Turkey, where his father worked as a chemist. He received his licentiate from University of Istanbul in Turkey in 1943 and taught high school in Ankara for the next four years. In 1947 he moved to the United States to attend Harvard University, where he earned his M.A. (1948) and his Ph.D. with Julian Schwinger in 1950. During 1950/51, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1951-52, Merzbacher was a visiting assistant professor at Duke University. In 1952 he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.  In 1959/60, he worked at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, where he became closely acquainted with Niels Bohr; in 1967/68 he was visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.  In 1977 he was the recipient of a U. S. Senior Scientist Humboldt Award at the University of Frankfurt.  In 1986 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling in Scotland. He was an active member of the American Physical Society (APS) and in 1990, he served as APS President. In 1991 he was Arnold Bernhard Visiting Professor at Williams College.  In 1992 he received the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers.  In 2009 Merzbacher was the recipient of the Francis Slack Award from the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society.

Merzbacher's research has been in applications of quantum mechanics to atomic and nuclear collision theory.  He was a co-founder of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.

From 1977 to 1982 he served as chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC).  He was named a Kenan Professor in 1969. He received UNC's 1972 Thomas Jefferson Award.  Merzbacher is probably best known for his influential graduate level quantum mechanics textbook, which has so far seen three editions, the most recent in 1998. He married Ann Townsend Reid and together they had four children: Celia, Charles, Matthew and Mary (deceased). Merzbacher retired in 1991. In 1990, he was President of the American Physical Society. In 1993, UNC presented him with an honorary doctorate in science.

Books
Quantum Mechanics, John Wiley, 1961, 1970, 3rd edition (completely revised) 1998,

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Stefan Czmil (, Stepan Chmil; 20 October 1914 – 22 January 1978) was a Ukrainian Eastern Catholic known for his missionary work in Argentina as well as for work in his native Ukraine and Italy. According to Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Pope Francis was mentored by Czmil and therefore knows the Eastern Rite well.

Early life
Father Czmil was born in Sudova Vyshnya a small town in western Ukraine, some 30 kilometers from the present Polish border Rawa Ruska/Medyka. His parents, Stefan and Julia Szydlowska (, Stepan ta Yulia Shydlovski), were Ukrainian patriots and Christians, who instilled into their son a love of Ukraine and the Greek Catholic Church, as the Ukrainian Catholic Church then was officially known. After the first school years in his native town, in 1925 he was sent to the Ukrainian all-boys gymnasium in Peremyshl [now Przemyśl, Poland], whose catechist was Father Petro Holynskyj. Stefan Czmil joined the Salesian Congregation. It was his goal to educate poor youths in Ukraine in the same manner as Saint John Bosco did in his time in Italy.

Career
In 1930 the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Cardinal Cicognani, turned to Pope Pius XI asking him permission for Eastern rite candidates to the Salesians to retain their rite and Church traditions; it was granted. At the same time, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (1901–1944), designated Josafat Kotsylovskyj, bishop of the Diocese of Peremyshl, to inform the Gymnasium's students of his intentions to send to Italy those willing to become Salesians. When the Salesian Superiors adhered to the projected plan of accepting candidates from Ukraine to the Salesian brotherhood, allowing them to retain their rite and Church traditions, Stefan Czmil and nine others expressed their intention to become Salesians. In 1932 they went to the town of Ivrea, in Northern Italy, where the Salesians had their school for candidates to the Salesian brotherhood.

After graduating from the school of Salesian aspirants Czmil was admitted to the Salesian Novitiate in Villa Moglia (Chieri) in 1935. He took his three-year temporary vows in 1936.

Education
He studied philosophy (1936–39) at the Salesian College of Philosophical Studies in Foglizzo (Turin), then interrupted his studies for a two-year educative stage amongst the novices of Villa Moglia, after which he was admitted to the Salesian House of Studies in Bolengo for his Theology (1941–45), during World War II. Ordained a priest in 1945 by the Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian émigrés in Western Europe, Ivan Buchko, he followed up his studies with a baccalaureate in Pedagogy in 1947 at the Salesian Pontifical Athenaeum in Turin. Before that he was assigned as a tourist guide at the Catacombes of Saint Callistus in Rome under Salesian Administration, where he met scores of Ukrainian refugees unable to return to their homeland, who he helped to find new abode. He was also a teacher in the Salesian school of Valdocco (Turin) and an assistant in the Salesian Motherhouse of Valdocco to the Salesian Missionaries who came from overseas for a period of rest.

Missionary work
In 1948, with the assent of his superiors, Czmil was sent by the sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches for a 12-year period of apostolic and missionary work with Ukrainian immigrants in Argentina (Haedo and Ramos Mejia, suburbs of Buenos Aires). There the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later to become Pope Francis, rose early to serve Divine Liturgy for him. The local political authorities were not willing or ready to accept a different religious rite to the Roman Catholicism of Argentina.
Czmil's health started to deteriorate: liver problems.

Italy
In 1961 Czmil became the new Director of the Ukrainian Pontifical Minor Seminary, Via Boccea 480, Rome, 00166 which by then had 110 seminarians (from all over the Western world) and approximately 10 teachers. It was under his Directorate that the school received the title of "Pontifical", mainly due to the intervention of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, head of the Greek-Catholic Church. His position as Director of the Seminary ended in 1967 after which he took on a more spiritual role as pastor to the students. However, he also continued as a teacher, educator and confessor to the seminarians. He acted as spiritual lecturer and confessor to the Ukrainian religious communities in Rome. He was lecturer of Italian language and literature at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome: He supervised and edited the second volume of the Ukrainian-Italian, Italian-Ukrainian Dictionary.

He was also member of the Commission for annulments of matrimony for Ukrainians in Italy, assigned to the cases of mixed marriages.
In 1976 he was assigned once again to the position of director of the seminary.

He was endowed in the Basilica of Saint Sophia in Rome with the title of Archimandrite on 8 December 1977, with the traditional mitre, pectoral cross and crozier.

Illness
Czmil's health deteriorated dramatically, and he had to be hospitalized. After a medical check-up it was decided he need an operation for gallstones. He seemed to be recovering, but on the morning of 22 January 1978 he fainted after celebrating the Divine Liturgy, and died.

The funeral service was held that afternoon. Bishop Stefan Czmil, the first Ukrainian Byzantine-rite Salesian lies buried in the crypt of the Basilica of Saint Sophia in Rome.

The following day it was revealed that he had been consecrated a bishop. The secret episcopal ordination took place in the Studite monastery in the town of Marino near Rome on April 2, 1977.

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The Polyphonic era is a term used since the mid-19th century to designate an historical period in which harmony in music is subordinate to polyphony. It generally refers to the period from the 13th to the 16th century. Most notated music consisted of the simultaneous flow of several different melodies, all independent and equally important, or polyphony. Usually made of four or five different choral parts, the music was originally for unaccompanied voices and was used mostly in the mass and motet of church music and the madrigal in secular music.

Gothic period (1200–1550)

Earliest forms of notated polyphonic music are developed known as Ars antiqua or Ancient art.

Ars nova (14th century)

New techniques of rhythm and melody brought more feeling to the music, paving the way for the first important polyphonic music schools. "Ars nova" means "new art".

Important polyphonic schools (15th–16th centuries)

Netherland (Flemish) School: Guillaume Dufay (1400–1474), Josquin des Prez (c. 1450–1521), and Orlande de Lassus (1532–1594)
Venetian School: Adrian Willaert (c. 1488–1562), and Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1557–c.1612)
Roman School: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525–1594), and Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548–1611)

Secular polyphonic music (16th century)
William Byrd (1543–1623)
Thomas Morley (1557–1603)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)

Baroque period

During the Baroque period, forms become more elaborate, attention paid to dramatic effect, choruses combined with arias, duets and quartets with choral music accompanied by instruments. New church forms developed such as the oratorio, the passion, and the cantata.
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)
J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
G. F. Handel (1685–1759)

20th century
As a designation of an historical period, the term has become less convincing as polyphony increasingly reasserted its dominance over harmony in 20th-century music.

References

Sources

Further reading
 Ewen, David (1954). The Home Book of Musical Knowledge. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Early music

Polyphonic era


Maria Tamiko Pozzi (born 1 June 1963), best known by the stage name Baby Pozzi, is an Italian former pornographic film actress.

Born in Genoa, Liguria, she is the younger sister of the pornographic actress and television personality Moana Pozzi. She started her career with some shows in clubs, while attending school to become a chemical analyst. After entering Riccardo Schicchi's agency, "Diva Futura", as a secretary, she debuted in the adult industry in 1987 and retired in 1991. She then moved to France, where she volunteered in an orphanage. In 1995, after the death of her sister, she briefly rejoined the industry but only for some live shows. Outside of her adult career, she had a leading role in the erotic film Abat-Jour, which was directed by Lorenzo Onorati.

In 2009, a character based on her was played by Elena Bouryka in the miniseries Moana.

References

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Living people
Italian pornographic film actresses
Actors from Genoa
1963 births
Italian film actresses

Baby Pozzi


Bosque Real Country Club is a country club near Mexico City, Mexico. Since 2005, it has been the venue for the MasterCard Classic, an annual tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour.

The Robert von Hagge-designed golf course plays to a par of 72 and is 6901 yards long. Lorena Ochoa and Louise Friberg jointly hold the course record for ladies with 65 (7 under par).

External links
 Bosque Real Country Club – official site (in Spanish)

Golf clubs and courses in Mexico

Bosque Real Country Club


Dame Moura Lympany DBE (18 August 191628 March 2005) was an English concert pianist.

Biography
She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother originally taught her the piano. Mary was sent to a convent school in Belgium, where her musical talent was encouraged, and she went on to study at Liège, later winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM) in 1948.

After auditioning for the conductor Basil Cameron, she made her concert debut with him at Harrogate in 1929, aged twelve, playing the G minor Concerto of Mendelssohn, the only concerto she had memorised up to that point. It was Cameron who suggested that she adopt a stage name for the concert and a Russian diminutive of the name Mary, Moura, along with an old spelling of her mother's maiden name, Limpenny, were chosen. She went on to study in Vienna with Paul Weingarten, and in London with Mathilde Verne, who had been a pupil of Clara Schumann and Tobias Matthay. In 1935, she made her London debut at the Wigmore Hall, and in 1938 she came second to Emil Gilels in the Ysaÿe Piano Competition in Brussels. By the Second World War, she was one of the UK's most popular pianists.

On 13 April 1940 she gave the British premiere of Khachaturian's Piano Concerto in D-flat, one of the pieces most closely associated with her. She had been approached when Clifford Curzon pleaded he would not be able to learn it in time.

On 25 February 1945, with Adrian Boult, Lympany was the first British musician to perform in Paris after the Liberation. She performed Alan Rawsthorne's Piano Concerto No 1 and the Khachaturian Piano Concerto with Boult conducting the orchestra of the Conservatoire de Paris.  Although around this time she performed the Rawsthorne with Boult several times, including with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London on 12 October 1945, it was not until 1958 that her recording of it with Herbert Menges and the Philharmonia Orchestra was issued on HMV.

In 1944 she married Colin Defries, 32 years her senior, but they divorced in 1950. In 1951 she married Bennet Korn, an American television executive, and moved to the United States. Lympany very much wanted to start a family but she had two miscarriages, and a son who died shortly after birth. She and Bennet Korn divorced in 1961. Some years later she became a close friend of the British Prime Minister and amateur musician Edward Heath; mutual friends expressed hopes that they might marry, but this did not happen.

After the war she became more widely known, performing throughout Europe and in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. When living in New York, Lympany continued her concert and recording career. Lympany was a Steinway pianist and participated in the Steinway Centenary Concert on 19 October 1953 in which ten Steinway pianists played a Polonaise by Chopin.  The rehearsal of this piece was recorded and broadcast on Ed Sullivan's television show, at that time called Toast of the Town. Lympany also gave a recital at Carnegie Hall on 20 November 1957, for which tickets sold for 75c to $1.50. The flyer announcing her appearance contains a quote from the Los Angeles Herald & Express: "Since the days of Clara Schumann and Teresa Carreño, there have been few women pianists who could be counted among the great. Last night Moura Lympany gave evidence of possessing qualities which place her high among her historic colleagues."

In 1969 Lympany was diagnosed with breast cancer and her left breast was removed. Three months after the operation she performed Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand at the Royal Festival Hall, London. She later had a second mastectomy but continued working and gained renewed popularity. In 1979, fifty years after making her debut, she performed at the Royal Festival Hall for Charles, Prince of Wales. That year she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

In 1981 she established the annual Rasiguères Festival of Music and Wine, near Perpignan, France (for which the Manchester Camerata was resident orchestra), which ran for 10 years and also assisted Prince Louis de Polignac to establish, in 1986, the Festival des Sept Chapelles in Guidel, Brittany. From the mid-1980s she was based in Monaco.  Moura - Her Autobiography, written with her cousin, author Margot Strickland, was published by Peter Owen in 1991. In 1992 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She also received honours from the Belgian and French governments. One of Lympany's last public functions was as a juror for the Ninth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition held in Texas in May/June 1993.

Death
Dame Moura Lympany died in Gorbio near Menton, France, in 2005, aged 88. Her archive was deposited in the International Piano Archives at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Legacy
A succession of reissues of Lympany archive recordings has contributed to both maintaining her reputation and introducing her to post-LP generations including CDs issued by Dutton (Mozart K.414 and K.467), Ivory Classics (Mendelssohn, Litolff, Liszt), Olympia (Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev), Pristine Audio (Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2), Eloquence (Rachmaninov Preludes recorded 1951-2) and Documents (10 CD boxed set of all Lympany's recordings 1951-1961).

Notable recordings
 Brahms, Intermezzi (EMI)
 Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor), Stadium Concerts S.O. Cond. Thomas Scherman (1957)
 Chopin, The Complete Nocturnes (Angel)
 Chopin, 24 Preludes, Op. 28 (Erato)
 Khachaturian, Piano Concerto (Decca)
 Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Angel)
 Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 (Decca)
 Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Angel)
 Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 (HMV)
 Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 (Decca)
 Rachmaninoff, 24 Preludes (Erato) This (1994) was her third recording of the set. Her first and the first full set ever recorded was recorded from 1941 to 1945 for Decca. Her second recording of the full set was for Decca in 1951, later reissued on vinyl, then Ace of Clubs and by Everest Records.
 Alan Rawsthorne, Piano Concerto No. 1 (HMV)
 Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jean Martinon.  (Decca 1951) (Pristine Audio)
 Schubert, Piano Quintet in A "The Trout" – with principals of the London Symphony Orchestra (EMI)
 Litolff, Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor (Ivory Classics)

References

1916 births
2005 deaths
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People from Saltash
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20th-century classical pianists
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Women autobiographers
20th-century women pianists

Moura Lympany


Svein Urdal (born 28 November 1941) is a Norwegian jurist.

He was born in Horten, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1970. He was a sub-director at Ullersmo prison from 1972 to 1977, police superintendent in Vadsø from 1977 to 1980, police inspector in Hamar 1980 to 1987 and chief of police in Troms from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 he was appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency, but had to resign already in 1991, as it was discovered that the agency had permitted Mossad to interrogate PLO defectors on Norwegian soil. Urdal instead served as chief of police in Tønsberg from 1992 to 2002, and chief of police without portfolio in the National Police Directorate from 2002.

References

1941 births
Living people
Norwegian police chiefs
Directors of government agencies of Norway
People from Horten

Svein Urdal


Alfred Bettman (1873 – 1945) was one of the key founders of modern urban planning.  Zoning, as it is known today, can be attributed to his successful arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1926 decision in favor of the Village of Euclid, Ohio versus Ambler Realty Company.

The concept of the "Comprehensive Plan," as used in most cities across the U.S., was in no small part due to the work of Bettman and Ladislas Segoe on the "Cincinnati Plan." (See City Plan for Cincinnati) Bettman also created the "Capital Improvements Budget."

Bettman's planning work was interrupted in 1917 when President Wilson appointed him as a special assistant to Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory. Assigned to the War Emergency Division, he was in charge of Espionage Act cases with John Lord O'Brian. At the end of the war, President Wilson granted clemency to over 100 prisoners on Bettman's recommendation.

References
 Land Use Planning Law in Tennessee: Alfred Bettman
 The Comprehensive Plan in the 20th Century, Laurence Conway Gerckens
 Lessons from a pioneer in planning, Steven Wright
 Alfred Bettman, Laurence Gerckens
The American planner: biographies and recollections By Donald A. Krueckeberg

External links
Finding Aid for Alfred Bettman papers, Archives and Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

American urban planners
1873 births
1945 deaths

Alfred Bettman


Henry Edward Clonard Keating (13 December 1871 – 1898) was a Nova Scotian and celebrated military officer who served Royal West African Frontier Force on Niger River in Nigeria (British West Africa) during the Scramble for Africa.  Clonard was killed in the line of duty.

Career
Keating began in the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment. From there he requested to be seconded to the West African Frontier Force. As part of the 1st Battaltion, Lieut. Keating arrived at Lokoja on 2 May 1898.  He made the trek up river approximately 400 miles to Lafagou, reaching his destination on 12 September 1898.  By October, the attrition rate was reported to be 63% of the Europeans, officers and NCOs, dead or invalided home because of the climate and disease.

Keating had 22 men from which to command a sixty mile district from Lafagu, Nigeria to Rofia and Illah. He was stationed in Lafagu and every six weeks had to visit Rofia and Illecon.  He took his first tour of inspection of his own-river posts early in October.  When it came time to return to Lafagu, on October 9, Keating went with 14 of his troops to the island village of Hela, near Yelwa, for additional canoes.  The tribe refused Keatings request. In response, Keating killed the king of the village, expropriated the canoes he needed, and abducted the men required to work them.  The villagers attacked Keating with bows and arrow and spears.  Keating and his men returned fire.  Keating's troops soon ran out of ammunition.  A hand to hand fight ensured in which a number of Keating's party were killed on shore before a remnant of the party was finally able to embark.  Then the men who had been impressed into service overturned the canoes.  The villagers pursued in canoes, throwing spears and shooting arrows at the fleeing patrol. Keating was wounded five times when finally he was killed by a spear to his head.  The rest of the patrol was also killed except for two native soldiers who were severely wounded. In response to the killings, colonial troops arrived at Hela the following week, on 16 October 1898, and attacked and razed the village.

Commemorations

Keating's body was eventually recovered.and buried in the new British fort at Yelwa, a half mile away from Hela.  At Keating's gravesite, Keating's comrades built a memorial with a brass plaque and a tablet erected. (There is also a tombstone for Keating at Saint James Cemetery in Toronto.)

The incident received significant coverage.  In Halifax, on Arbor Day, 8 May 1899, the teachers and pupils of Morris Street School, Keatings alma-mater, planted a tree in his memory in the Halifax Public Gardens.  General Lord William Seymour, commanding the British troops, gave an address. An easel was set up in front of the tree bearing pictures of both Queen Victoria and Keating, the whole draped in the Leinsters' colours.  The Herald headline declared "Planted a Tree for Halifax Hero".   In 1925, a marker was installed at the tree.

In 1900 a memorial plaque was unveiled to honour Keating in Saint Luke's (Anglican) Cathedral, Halifax, subsequently lost to fire.  A second plaque was put up in the parish church at Birr, Ireland (where the Leinsters' depot was located) to honour Keating and other Leinsters killed in Africa the same year.  At Aldershot, England, Keating's name was included on a tablet to the memory of all the men of the West African Frontier Force who died or were killed in Nigeria.

See also
Military history of Nova Scotia
William Grant Stairs

References
Texts
 Pothier Bernard.  A Nova Scotian in West Africa: Lieutenant Clonard Keating, 1871-1898. Nova Scotia Historical Review.

Endnotes

1871 births
1898 deaths
Canadian soldiers
Canadian military personnel from Nova Scotia
Royal West African Frontier Force officers
Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment officers
Canadian expatriates in Nigeria
People from colonial Nigeria
Canadian military personnel killed in action
War-related deaths in Nigeria

Clonard Keating


is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou, Inu x Boku SS, The Case Study of Vanitas and Soul Eater. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as ,  and , which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any  or  in the magazine name and inserting  directly after the word Gangan.

Anthologies

Monthly Shōnen Gangan (since 1991)

 is a monthly manga anthology that regularly has over 600 pages. Shōnen Gangan was launched by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1991, to compete with other magazines such as Monthly Shōnen Magazine, Monthly Shōnen Jump and Shōnen Sunday Super, and is targeted toward the same young, male demographic (shōnen means "young man"). It features manga with much action and adventure; science fiction and fantasy elements in the stories are very common. Square Enix also publishes the related Gangan YG and Monthly Gangan Wing.

Series

Manga and series featured:

 666 Satan (O-Parts Hunter) (Seishi Kishimoto) (completed)
 Akuma Jiten (Shinya Suyama)
 Beelzebub-jou no Oki ni Mesu mama. ()
 B. Ichi (Atsushi Okubo)
 Blade Sangokushi (Ryuunosuke Ichikawa, Taiyou Makabe)
 Blast of Tempest (Kyō Shirodaira, Ren Saizaki) (completed)
 Bloody Cross (Shiwo Komeyama)
 Choko Beast!! (Rin Asano)
 Code Age Archives (Yusuke Naora)
 Corpse Princess (Yoshiichi Akahito)
 Crimson Prince (Souta Kuwahara)
 Doubt (Yoshiki Tonogai) (completed)
 Dragon Quest: Eden no Senshitachi (Kamui Fujiwara)
 Dragon Quest Monsters + (Mine Yoshizaki)
 Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō (Kamui Fujiwara)
 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hatenaki Sora no Mukou ni (Ryunosuke Ichikawa)
 Final Fantasy Type-0 (Takatoshi Shiozawa)
 Final Fantasy Type-0 Gaiden: The Icy Blade of Death (Takatoshi Shiozawa)
 Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakawa) (completed)
 Guardian Eito (Mine Yoshizaki)
 Guardian of the Spirit (Nahoko Uehashi, Kamui Fujiwara) (completed)
 Handa-kun (Satsuki Yoshino) (completed)
 Haré+Guu (Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gū & Hare Guu) (Renjuro Kindaichi)
 Hazama no Uta (Kaishaku)
 Heroman (Stan Lee, Tamon Ōta)
 Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa) (originally Gangan Powered) (completed)
 Hidamari no Pinyu (Misaki Ogawa)
 Flash! Funny-face Club (Motoei Shinzawa)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen (Yoshiki Tonogai, Ryukishi07)
 It's a Wonderful World (Shiro Amano)
 Im: Great Priest Imhotep (Makoto Morishita)
 Judge (Yoshiki Tonogai)
 Kingdom Hearts (Shiro Amano)
 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Shiro Amano)
 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Shiro Amano)
 Kingdom Hearts II (Shiro Amano)
 Kurenai Ouji (Souta Kuwahara)
 Luno (Kei Toume)
 Maboroshi no Daichi (Masomi Kanzaki)
 Mahōjin Guru Guru (Hiroyuki Etou)
 Mamotte Shugogetten (Minene Sakurano)
 Material Puzzle (Masahiro Totsuka) (completed)
 Matantei Loki (Sakura Kinoshita) (completed)
 Megalomania (Daisuke Hiyama)
 Meteo Emblem (Park Sung-woo)
 Ninpen Manmaru (Mikio Igarashi) (completed)
 Onikiri-sama no Hakoiri Musume (Akinobu Uraku)
 Ousama no Mimi Okonomimi (Kei Natsumi)
 Ore no Kanojo ni Nanika Youkai (Karino Takatsu)
 Papuwa & Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun (Ami Shibata)
 Peace Maker (Nanae Chrono) (completed)
 Phantom Dead or Alive (Michiaki Watanabe)
 Red Raven (Shinta Fujimoto)
 Rokushou! (Sakurako Gokurakuin)
 Saga of Queen Knight (Tomohiro Shimomura)
 Shugen Byakuryū Rubikura (Ryūsuke Mita)
 Soul Eater (Atsushi Ōkubo) (completed)
 Soul Eater Not! (Atsushi Ōkubo) (completed)
 Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira)
 Spiral Alive (Eita Mizuno, Kyo Shirodaira)
 Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Aoi Mizuki)
 Star Ocean: The Second Story (Mayumi Azuma)
 Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Akira Kanda)
 Straykeys (Tarō Yuzunoki)
 The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki) (completed)
 Today's Cerberus (Ato Sakurai) (completed)
 Tokyo Fantasy Gakuen Yuushaka: Rua no Noel (Kaishaku)
 Tokyo Underground (Akinobu Uraka) (completed)
 Totsugeki! Papparatai (Natsuki Matsuzawa)
 Tozasareta Nerugaru (Rumi Aruma)
 Tripeace (Maru Tomoyuki)
 Twin Signal (Sachi Oshimizu) (completed)
 UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie (Kaishaku) (completed)
 Umineko no Naku Koro Ni: Episode 07 - Requiem of the Golden Witch (Ryukishi07, Eita Mizuno) (completed)
 Vampire Juuji Kai (Yuri Kimura, Kyo Shirodaira) (completed)
 Val × Love (Ryosuke Asakura) (completed)
 Violinist of Hameln (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
 Watashi no Messiah-sama (Suu Minazuki) (completed)
 Z MAN (Hideaki Nishikawa)

Monthly GFantasy (since 1993)
, also known as Gangan Fantasy, is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine. Launched in 1992 as a special issue of Shounen Gangan under the name Fantastic Comic (ファンタスティックコミック). In 1993 it became its own magazine under the name of Monthly Gangan Fantasy (月刊ガンガンファンタジー). In the April 1994 issue it was renamed to GFantasy.
The manga tend to be set in a fantasy setting with large amounts of supernatural themes and a fair amount of action and/or horror scenes.

Manga featured:
 10-4 (Hashiba Maki)
 A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! (Mai Tanaka)
 Aoharu × Machinegun (NAOE)
 Assistant Teacher at a Girls Magic Academy (Go Todo, Sakura Fujimoto)
 Black Butler (Yana Toboso) (ongoing)
 Crimson-Shell (Jun Mochizuki)
 Cuticle Detective Inaba (Mochi)
 D-Drops (Seana)
 Daisuke! (Hasu Kikuzuki)
 Devil Survivor 2: The Animation (Makoto Uezu)
 Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Comic: Episode of Heartslabyul (Wakana Hazuki, Sumire Kowono)
 Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Comic: Episode of Savanaclaw (Suzuka Oda) (ongoing)
 Durarara!! (Ryōgo Narita, Akiyo Satorigi (volumes 1-10), Aogiri (volume 11-present)
 E's (Satoru Yuiga)
 Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken (Maki Hakoda)
 Fire Emblem: Gaiden (Maki Hakoda)
 Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu (Nattu Fujimori)
 Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (Yūna Takanagi)
 From the Red Fog (Mosae Nohara) (ongoing)
 Gestalt (Yun Kōga)
 Graineliers (Rihito Takarai)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen (Hinase Momoyama, Ryukishi07)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen (Jiro Suzuki, Ryukishi07)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen (Side Story) (Mimori, Ryukishi07)
 Horimiya (HERO, Daisuke Hagiwara)
 I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara (Sōta-kun no Akihabara Funtōki) (Jiro Suzuki)
 Kamiyomi (Ami Shibata)
 Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta)
 Lammermoor no Shōnen Kiheitai (Nana Natsunishi)
 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Ataru Cagiva)
 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Ataru Cagiva)
 Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei (Fumino Hayashi)
 Monokuro Kitan (Kusu Rinka)
 Nabari no Ou (Yuhki Kamatani)
 Pandora Hearts (Jun Mochizuki)
 Pani Poni (Hekiru Hikawa)
 Revenger (Ryūsei Yamada) (ongoing)
 Rust Blaster (Yana Toboso)
 Skate-Leading Stars (Chiaki Nagaoka, Sumika Sumio) (ongoing)
 Tales of Reincarnation in Maydare: This World's Worst Witch (Midori Yuma, Nana Natsunishi) (ongoing)
 The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World (Hifumi Asakawa, Umiharu) (ongoing)
 The Royal Tutor (Higasa Akai)
 Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (Iro Aida) (ongoing)
 Tokyo Aliens (NAOE) (ongoing)
 Saiyuki (Kazuya Minekura)
 Switch (naked ape)
 Teiden Shōjo to Hanemushi no Orchestra (Ninomiya Ai)
 Torikago Gakkyuu (Shin Mashiba)
 Yumekui Kenbun (Shin Mashiba)
 Zombie-Loan (Peach-Pit)

Young Gangan (since 2004)
 is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix twice a month, on the first and third Friday. The magazine was first published on December 3, 2004.

Manga featured:
 Amigo x Amiga (Takahiro Seguchi)
 Arakawa Under the Bridge (Hikaru Nakamura) (completed)
 Astro Fighter Sunred (Makoto Kubota)
 Bamboo Blade (Aguri Igarashi, Masahiro Totsuka) (completed)
 Beauty and the Feast (Satomi U) (completed)
 Bitter Virgin (Kei Kusunoki) (completed)
 Black God (Park Sung-woo, Dall-Young Lim) (completed)
 Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana (Yūji Iwahara)
 Dead Mount Death Play (Ryohgo Narita, Shinta Fujimoto)
 Dimension W (Yūji Iwahara) (switched over to Monthly Gangan in November 2015)
 Dōsei Recipe (Towa Oshima)
 Donyatsu (Yūsuke Kozaki)
 Drop Kick
 Front Mission Dog Life and Dog Style/Front Mission The Drive (Yasuo Ohtagaki)
 Fudanshism (Morishige)
 Goodbye, Eden (Zero Ainan) (completed)
 Hanamaru Kindergarten (Yuto) (completed)
 Hohzuki Island (Sanbe Kei) (completed)
 Iroha-saka, Agatte Sugu (Yuto)
 Jackals (Kim Byung Jin, Shinya Murata) (completed)
 Kiba no Tabishounin (Park Joong-Gi), (Nanatsuki Kyouchi)
 Manhole (Tsutsui Tetsuya) (completed)
 Mononoke (Ninagawa Yaeko) (completed)
 Mouryou no Yurikago (Kei Sanbe)
 My Awkward Senpai (Makoto Kudo) (ongoing)
 My Dress-Up Darling (Shinichi Fukuda)
 Nikoichi (Renjuro Kindaichi)
 Rinne no Lagrange - Akatsuki no Memoria (Yoshioka Kimitake)
 Saki (Ritsu Kobayashi) (ongoing)
 Sekirei (Ashika Sakura) (completed)
 Shishunki no Iron Maiden (Watanabe Shizumu) (ongoing)
 Space☆Dandy (Masafumi Harada), (Park Sung-woo), (RED ICE)
 Sumomomo Momomo (Shinobu Ohtaka) (completed)
 The Comic Artist and Assistants (Hiroyuki) (completed)
 The Comic Artist and Assistants 2 (Hiroyuki) (completed)
 The Executioner and Her Way of Life (Mato Sato, Ryo Mitsuya)
 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Ensemble!, Sadoru Chiba & Haruki Kashiba (ongoing)
 Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono)
 Übel Blatt Gaiden (Etorouji Shiono)
 Umeboshi (Maya Koikeda)
 Until Death Do Us Part  (DOUBLE-S, Hiroshi Takashige) (completed)
 Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik (Michiaki Watanabe) (completed)
 Working!! (Karino Takatsu)

Gangan Online (since 2008)
 is a free manga and light novel web magazine and smartphone app published and updated by Square Enix. The online web magazine was activated on October 2, 2008.

Manga featured:
 Adachi to Shimamura (Author:Mani, artist: Non) (manga adaption started in 2016)
 Ai wa Noroi no Nihon Ningyou (Kiki Suihei)
 Alba Rose no Neko (KARASU)
 Asao-san to Kurata-kun (Hero)
 Amanonadeshiko (Haruka Ogataya)
 Aphorism (Karuna Kujo) (originally Gangan Wing)
 Are You Okay With a Slightly Older Girlfriend? (Kota Nozomi, Enya Uraki)
 Assassin & Cinderella (Yuzo Natsuno)
 Barakamon (Satsuki Yoshino) (completed)
 Buyuuden Kita Kita (Hiroyuki Etou)
 Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama) (originally Gangan Wing)
 Cyoku! (Nico Tanigawa)
 Daily Lives of High School Boys (Yamauchi Yasunobu) (completed)
 Day Break Illusion (Kōki Katō) (completed)
 En Passant (Taro Yuzunoki)
 Esoragoto (usi)
 Gōkon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi (Nana Aokawa)
 Hayachine! (Aiko Fukumorita) (completed)
 Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Omake (HERO) (completed)
 How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer (Nana Aokawa) (ongoing)
 Hyakuen! (Ema Tōyama)
 I'm a Maid, but I've Pulled Out the Holy Sword?! (Midori Akino, Genen, Fua Yamazaki)
 I'm Glad They Kicked Me From The Hero's Party... But Why're you following me, Great Saintess? (Renge Hatsueda, Pinko Kurimoto)
 Life is Money (author Asaniji Teru, artist Yaguraba Tekka)
 Karasu-tengu Ujyu (Iwanosuke Neguragi)
 Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku (Kuroha)
 Kyou mo Machiwabite (Ichi Saeki)
 Kyousou no Simulacra (Hideaki Yoshimura)
 Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Izumi Tsubaki) (ongoing)
 The Morose Mononokean (Kiri Wazawa) (completed)
 My Happy Marriage (Rito Kousaka, Akumi Agitogi) (ongoing)
 No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Nico Tanigawa) (ongoing)
 Oji-chan Yuusha (Tarou Sakamoto)
 Pochi Gunsō (Mao Momiji, Akira)
 Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino) (originally Gangan Powered) (completed)
 RealPG (Yuki Domoto)
 Reincarnation of the Unrivalled Time Mage (Shusui Hazuki, Yui Sakumi) (ongoing)
 Ryuushika Ryuushika (Yoshitoshi ABe)
 Seitokai no Wotanoshimi. (Marumikan)
 Sengoku Sukuna (Nekotama)
 Shikisou (Akira Kanda)
 Shougakusei Host Pochi (SAORI)
 Sougiya Riddle (Akai Higasa)
 Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town (ongoing)
 The Gender of Mona Lisa (Tsumuji Yoshimura)
 The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague (Miyuki Tonogaya) (ongoing)
 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Shuffle!! (Kouka Mijin) (ongoing)
 The Lady Likes a Nerd over Princes (Yuma Tosaka, Noyama Carpaccio)
 The Villainess' Butler: Death Flag Destroyer at Your Service (Hiironoame, Shobu, Yuichi Murakami)
 Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi) (originally Gangan Wing)
 Wa! (Akira Kojima)
 You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story (Makiko Nagaoka, Naoyama Carpaccio) (ongoing)

Light Novels featured:

Gangan Joker (since 2009)
 is a Japanese shōnen manga anthology that was launched by Square Enix on April 22, 2009.

Manga featured:
 Akame ga Kill! (Takahiro, Tetsuya Tashiro) (completed)
 Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (Rito Kōsaka)
 Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Rito Kōsaka) (originally Gangan Powered)
 Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki (Eight Chida)
 Corpse Party: Blood Covered (Team Guriguri, adapted by Toshimi Shinomiya) (originally Gangan Powered)
 Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (Maybe) (completed)
 Damekko Kissa Dear (Ryōta Yuzuki)
 Eighth (Izumi Kawachi)
 Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (Mutsumi Okubashi)
 Gugure! Kokkuri-san (Midori Endō) (completed)
 Happy Sugar Life (Tomiyaki Kagisori) (completed)
 Himawari (Blank-Note, adapted by Daisuke Hiyama)
 Inu x Boku SS (Cocoa Fujiwara) (completed)
 Jahy-sama Won't Be Discouraged! (Wakame Konbu) (ongoing)
 Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler (Tōru Naomura, Homura Kawamoto) (ongoing)
 Love x Rob x Stockholm (Hiroki Haruse)
 Manabiya (Akira Kojima)
 Miss Miyazen Would Love to Get Closer to You (Akitaka)
 My Clueless First Friend (Taku Kawamura) (ongoing)
 My First Times with Suwa-san (Yasuka Manuma) (ongoing)
 Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi) (originally Gangan Wing) (completed)
 NEET Princess Terrass (Tomohiro Shimomura)
 Ochikazuki ni Naritai Miyazen-san (Akitaka) (ongoing)
 One Week Friends (Matcha Hazuki) (completed)
 Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Nanasuke)
 Prunus Girl
 Ragna Crimson (Daiki Kobayashi)
 rail aile bleue (Kazuyoshi Karasawa)
 Satsui no Senki (Kobayashi Daiki)
 Sengoku Strays (Shingo Nanami) (originally Gangan Wing)
 Shibuya Goldfish (Hiroumi Aoi)
 My Bride Is a Mermaid (Tahiko Kimura) (originally Gangan Wing) (completed)
 Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo (YAMAGUCHI Mikoto)
 Shitsurakuen (Tōru Naomura) (completed)
 The Case Study of Vanitas (Jun Mochizuki) (ongoing)
 The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses (Koume Fujichika) (ongoing)
 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls New Generations, namo (ongoing)
 The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious (Wakame Konbu) (ongoing)
 Today's Great Satan II (Yūichi Hiiragi)
 Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07) (originally Gangan Powered)
 Watashi no Tomodachi ga Motenai no wa dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui. (Nico Tanigawa)
 Yandere Kanojo (Shinobi)
 Yowai 5000-nen no Sōshoku Dragon, Iwarenaki Jaryū Nintei (Kōichi Muro) (completed)

Monthly Big Gangan (since 2010)
Monthly Big Gangan is a seinen manga publication entry in Square Enix's Gangan imprint.

Manga featured:
 ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (Natsume Ono) (completed)
 Akame ga Kill! Zero (Toru Kei) (artist) (Takahiro) (writer) (completed)
 Bamboo Blade C (Takao Jingu) (artist) (Totsuka Masahiro) (writer) (completed)
 Candy Pop Nightmare (Hikawa Hekiru) (completed)
 Deep Insanity: Nirvana (Etorouji Shiono) (artist) (Norimitsu Kaihō and Makoto Fukami) (writer) (completed)
 Dimension W (Yūji Iwahara) (switched over from Monthly Gangan in November 2015) (completed)
 Goblin Slayer (Kurose Kousuke) (artist) (Kumo Kagyu) (writer) (ongoing)
 Gokusotsu Kraken (Toru Kei) (artist) (Takahiro) (writer) (ongoing)
 Ginsai no Kawa (Kurata Uso) (artist) (Kayashima Nozomi) (writer) (completed)
 High Score Girl (Rensuke Oshikiri) (completed)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Hoshi Watashi-hen (Seigo Tokiya)
 Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (Nekokurage) (artist) (Natsu Hyūga and Ikki Nanao) (writers) (ongoing)
 Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (Seigo Tokiya) (artist) (Makoto Fukami) (writer) (completed)
 MonsTABOO (TALI) (artist) (Yuya Takahashi) (writer) (completed)
 Moscow 2160 (Kotaro Sekine) (artist) (Noboru Kannatsuki) (character designs) (Kumo Kagyu) (ongoing)
 Reincarnated as the Daughter of the Legendary Hero and the Queen of Spirits (Yutaka Ohhori) (artist) (Matsuura) (writer) (ongoing)
 Shimekiri Mae ni wa Yuri ga Hakadoru (Saki Sakida) (artist) (Manatsu Suzuki) (writer) (ongoing)
 Shiori Experience (Yu-ko Osada) (Artist) (Machida Kazuya) (Writer) (ongoing)
 Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (Jinushi) (ongoing)
 Songuri! (Fujisaki Yuu) (completed)
 Star Wars: Visions (Kamome Shirahama, Haruichi, Yusuke Õsawa, Keisuke Sato)
 Tales of Wedding Rings (Maybe) (ongoing)
 The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody (Misuho Kotoba) (artist) (Myōjin Katō) (writer) (completed)
 The Mandalorian (Yusuke Ōsawa) (ongoing)
 Tohyo Game: One Black Ballot to You (Tatsuhiko) (artist) (G.O. and Chihiro) (writers) (completed)
 Übel Blatt (Etorouji Shiono) (completed)
 The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess (Riichu) (artist) (Kotei Kobayashi) (writer)

Gangan Pixiv (since 2017)
 A Man and His Cat
 Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
 I Think Our Son Is Gay
 Mr. Villain's Day Off
 One Room of Happiness
 Play It Cool, Guys
 The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague

Manga UP! (since 2017)

Like Gangan Online, Manga Up! is a manga app and website which serializes a lot of popular media mix works with manga adaptations of novels exclusively published on the service. In July 2022, Square Enix launched an English version of the Manga UP! featuring titles from Manga UP! and other Square Enix magazines.

 A Dating Sim of Life or Death
 Academia Eorzea
 Always a Catch
 Beast Tamer
 By the Grace of the Gods
 Cheat Mode Farming in Another World
 Chitose is in the Ramune Bottle
 Demoted to a Teacher, the Strongest Sage Raises an Unbeatable Class
 Do It Yourself!!
 Engage Kiss
 Final Boss Fake-out: The Protagonist Thinks He Killed Me So Now I'm Free!
 From Leveling Up the Hero to Leveling Up a Nation
 How to Survive a Thousand Deaths: Accidentally Wooing Everyone as an Ex-gamer Made Villainess!
 I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand
 I Got Reincarnated as a Son of Innkeepers!
 I Kissed My Girlfriend's Little Sister?!
 I Lost My Adventurer's License, but It's Fine Because I Have an Adorable Daughter Now
 I Time-Traveled and Confessed to My Teacher Crush
 I'm an Alchemist Who Doesn't Know How OP I Am
 I'm Not Even an NPC in This Otome Game!
 In Her Fifth Life, the Villainess Lives With the Evil Dragon -The Evil Dragon of Ruin Wants to Spoil His Bride-
 Ketsugō Danshi: Elements with Emotions
 Killer Alchemist -Assassinations in Another World-
 Level 0 Demon King Becomes an Adventurer in Another World
 My Adventurer Life: I Became the Strongest Magic-Refining Sage in a New World
 My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me!
 My Isekai Life
 Revolutionary Restart for The Blue Rose Princess
 Sabikui Bisco
 Sakugan
 Selection Project
 The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living with the Village Building Cheat Skill
 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
 The Diofield Chronicle
 The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt
 The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend
 The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan: The Alternative
 The Isekai Returnee is Too OP for the Modern World
 The Misfit of Demon King Academy
 The Perks of Working in the Black Magic Industry
 The Reincarnated Prince Becomes an Alchemist and Brings Prosperity to His Country
 The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest
 The Strongest Swordsman Has Zero Equipment Slots, but He Can Equip up to 9999 Items if It's (Cute) Cursed Equipment
 The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids
 The Strongest Wizard Making Full Use of the Strategy Guide -No Taking Orders, I'll Slay the Demon King My Own Way-
 Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
 YoRHa – Pearl Harbor Descent Record – A NieR:Automata Story

Gangan BLiss (since 2021)
In September 2021, Square Enix launched Gangan BLiss, a manga label dedicated to publishing boy's love manga. The manga published under this label will be serialized on the CMOA website.

Mobsters in Love
Ōkami wa Tantei wo Tabetai
Ore no Hanamuko wa Omae Janai
Shota x Oni

Discontinued magazines

Gangan Powered (2001–2009)
 was a Japanese shōnen/seinen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The last release of the magazine was with the April 2009 issue sold on February 21, 2009, and it was subsequently replaced by Gangan Joker.

Manga featured:
 Blan no Shokutaku ~Bloody Dining~ (Tsubasa Hazuki, Shogo Mukai) (completed)
 Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (Miho Takeoka)
 Final Fantasy XII (Gin Amou)
 Jūshin Enbu (Hiromu Arakawa)
 HEAVEN (Aoi Nanase) (completed)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen (completed), Tsumihoroboshi-hen (completed), and Matsuribayashi-hen (Karin Suzuragi, Ryukishi07)
 He Is My Master (Asu Tsubaki, Mattsu)
 Kimi to Boku (Kiichi Hotta)
 Nusunde Ri-Ri-Su (Tinker)
 Princess of Mana (Seiken Densetsu: Princess of Mana) (Satsuki Yoshino)
 Shining Tears (Akira Kanda) (completed)
 Superior (Ichtys)
 Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Kei Natsumi, Ryukishi07)

Monthly Gangan Wing (1996–2009)
 was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Square Enix. The last release of the magazine was with the May 2009 issue sold on March 21, 2009, and it was subsequently replaced by Gangan Joker.

Manga featured:
 Alice on Deadlines (Shiro Ihara)
 Brothers (Yoshiki Naruse)
 Aphorism (Karuna Kujo)
 Ark (Nea Fuyuki)
 dear (Cocoa Fujiwara)
 Chokotto Hime (Ayami Kazama)
 Enchanter (Izumi Kawachi)
 Fire Emblem Hikari wo Tsugumono (Nea Fuyuki)
 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen (Yutori Hōjō, Ryukishi07)
 Ignite (Sasa Hiiro)
 Kon Jirushi (Toyotaro Kon)
 Mahoraba (Akira Kojima)
 Majipikoru (Kanoto Kinatsu)
 Natsu no Arashi! (Jin Kobayashi)
 NecromanciA (Hamashin)
 Otoshite Appli Girl (Kako Mochizuki)
 Sai Drill (Izumi Kawachi)
 Sengoku Strays (Shingo Nanami)
 My Bride Is a Mermaid (Tahiko Kimura)
 Stamp Dead (Kanoto Kinatsu)
 Shyo Shyo Rika (Takumi Uesugi)
 Tales of Eternia (Yoko Koike) (completed)
 Tenshou Yaoyorozu (Kanoto Kinatsu)
 Tokyo Innocent (Naru Narumi)
 Vampire Savior: Tamashii no Mayoigo (Mayumi Azuma) (completed)
 Warasibe (Satoru Matsuba)
 Watashi no Messiah-sama (Suu Minazuki)
 Watashi no Ookami-san (Cocoa Fujiwara)

See also

 List of manga magazines
 List of Square Enix manga franchises

References

External links
 Monthly Shōnen Gangan official website
 Monthly Gangan Joker official website
 Monthly GFantasy official website
 Young Gangan official website
 Gangan Online official website
 Monthly Gangan Wing official website
 Monthly Big Gangan official website
 Gangan Mobile official website
 Gansuma Information Agency official website
 GanganSearch

Monthly manga magazines published in Japan
Square Enix
Comic book imprints
Magazines published in Tokyo
Magazines established in 1991
Disney comics publishers

Gangan Comics


Dynamic Cassette International (DCI) is an internationally recognised Boston, Lincolnshire, UK based ink cartridge and laser toner manufacturing company, producing products under the Jet Tec brand name.  DCI is the sole UK manufacturer of compatible ink cartridges.  DCI is notable for winning the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation in 2004 and the Queen's Award for Export and being one of the biggest employers in Boston, employing over 300 staff at its 40,000 square metres factory. The company is currently Europe's largest manufacturer of compatible inkjet cartridges and has a turnover in excess of £20 million.

On 31 December 2007, DCI / Jet Tec featured on the BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme "You and Yours".  The programme examined what is involved in the production of compatible and remanufactured inkjet cartridges and focused on consumers' concerns about the cost of printing

History

DCI was founded by John Studholme and Helmut Michele in 1983. Originally the company had two production sites, the first one based in Boston, Lincolnshire, UK and the second one in Dortmund, Germany. The company started out by manufacturing cassette cartridges for typewriters and dot matrix printers.

Later Studholme and Michele split and formed two independent companies. Studholme continued under the name DCI and with the introduction of inkjet cartridges launched the Jettec brand. The company today is primarily known under this name.

Michele on the other hand continued under the name DCI Germany, which was then taken over by the French ARMOR group and renamed into Artech under which it still operates. Michele left the company in 2007 and is now retired.

Jet Tec Products

DCI has the capacity to produce over 2 million compatible cartridges, 300,000 remanufactured cartridges and 250,000 refill kits per month, including:

Epson compatible inkjet cartridges
Canon compatible inkjet cartridges
Brother compatible inkjet cartridges
HP recycled inkjet cartridges
Dell recycled inkjet cartridges
Lexmark recycled inkjet cartridges
Canon recycled inkjet cartridges
Ink cartridge refill kits
Epson Cartridge Chip Re-Setter for refill kits
Jet Tec branded Inkjet paper
HP Laser toner cartridges

The Recycling Factory
DCI's The Recycling Factory is responsible for collecting empty HP, Dell, Lexmark and other cartridges for recycling.- Note there are thousands of other companies which collect these empty cartridges also.

International
Jet Tec has international operations in Germany, with distribution agreements in Australia and most European countries.

Queen's Award for Enterprise
DCI won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation in 2004 for developing a new technology which allows 30 per cent more ink to be put in a cartridge.
This innovation has economic and environmental benefits as it lowers the amount of wasted ink in print cartridges.

See also
Queen's Award for Enterprise
Boston, Lincolnshire

References

External links
 DCI Homepage

Companies based in Lincolnshire

Dynamic Cassette International


Harvey Hardaway Jackson III (born February 25, 1943) is the Professor of History at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. He is the author of a number of works on Alabama and Georgia history.

Early life and career
He was born in Junction City, Kansas in February 1943. His father Harvey H. Jackson Jr. was a teacher, businessman, and politician while his mother Elizabeth W. Jackson worked for the US Department of Agriculture. Jackson studied for his B.A. at Birmingham-Southern College in 1965. He obtained an M.A. from the University of Alabama in 1966 before marrying Marcia Flood in 1966. They divorced in 1987. He married Suzanne Brown in 1988. He has three children: Kelly Leigh Jackson  (b. 1968), William Blackwell Jackson (b. 1993) and Anna Elizabeth Jackson (b. 1998).

Jackson taught at South Florida Junior College in Avon Park, Florida between 1966 and 1970 before studying for a doctorate at the University of Georgia completing it in 1973. While studying for his doctorate, Jackson developed a particular interest in the 18th century.

Published Historian
Dr Jackson started work as an Assistant Professor of History at Clayton Junior College in Morrow, Georgia in 1973. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1977. Jackson published his first book on Lachlan McIntosh and Revolutionary Georgia in 1979.

He wrote a second book on Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence with co-authors Harvey Young, Edwin Bridges and Kenneth Thomas, published in 1981. Jackson became Professor of History and Chairman of Social Sciences in 1982.

Jackson worked with Phinizy Spaulding on editing a collection of essays on colonial Georgia published in 1984 and on writing a biography of General James Oglethorpe in 1989.

He published two works on the history of Alabama rivers in the 1990s. In 1990 he became Professor and head of the Department of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University. In 2003, he published a history of Alabama that he had been working on for five years. In 2008 he became Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University.

Written works
Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia University of Georgia Press 1979
(With Harvey Young, Edwin Bridges and Kenneth Thomas) Georgia Signers and the Declaration of Independence Cherokee Press 1981
(Editor with Phinizy Spaulding) Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia University of Georgia Press 1984
(Editor with Phinizy Spaulding) Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder After Two Hundred Years University of Alabama Press 1989
Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Alabama University of Alabama Press 1995
Putting "Loafing Streams" to Work: The Building of Lay, Mitchell, Martin and Jordan Dams 1910-1929 University of Alabama Press 1997
Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State University of Alabama Press/Fire Ant Books 2003
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast University of Georgia Press 2012

References
Contemporary Authors Online Gale 2001 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center Thomson Gale 2005
Alabama Booksmith list of Jackson's works
Article by Jackson in the Anniston Star about his history of Alabama

1943 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of the Southern United States
Historians of the United States
Birmingham–Southern College alumni
University of Georgia alumni
People from Junction City, Kansas
People from Morrow, Georgia
Historians from Georgia (U.S. state)
American male non-fiction writers

Harvey Jackson III


Lawrence G. DiTillio (February 15, 1948 – March 16, 2019) was an American film, TV series, and tabletop role-playing game writer. His creations include He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword and the award-winning Masks of Nyarlathotep.

Education
Larry DiTillio attended the film school at New York University for four years. He then spent an additional two years at UCLA's film school.

Career
After graduating, DiTillio decided to make a career as a Hollywood writer. He knocked on agency doors until he was able to find an agent willing and able to find him work as a film writer. DiTillio wrote for both television and movies in the 1970s, including a stint on Filmation's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. He then became a staff writer for the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series and over its two seasons, wrote 17 episodes, more than anyone else. He also directed one episode.

During a writers' strike in 1983, DiTillio searched for other ways to generate income through writing, so he was hired by Flying Buffalo. DiTillio wrote The Isle of Darksmoke (1984), the final multiplayer Tunnels & Trolls adventure that Flying Buffalo published. DiTillio also collaborated with Lynn Willis to create the world-spanning campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep (1984) for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, which author Shannon Appelcine states is considered one of the best roleplaying adventures of all time, and won an Origins Award. For a few months, DiTillio was also a contributor to Chaosium's Different Worlds magazine, writing about news from the world of film and television in  his "The Sword of Hollywood" column. Other Chaosium titles he wrote or contributed to, include; The Grey Knight, the first adventure for the Pendragon role-playing game, Demon Magic: The Second Stormbringer Companion for the Stormbringer fantasy role-playing game, and the Call of Cthulhu supplement Terror Australis.

Despite his success in the role-playing games industry, once the screenwriters' strike ended, DiTillio went back to screenwriting.

In 1985, he wrote the feature-length film He-Man and She-Ra: Secret of the Sword. Following its release, he and J. Michael Straczynski became writers for Filmation's spin-off show She-Ra: Princess of Power. DiTillio created the show bible for the spinoff show and invented most of the character names. Straczynski later recalled the considerable time DiTillio spent writing character background for the show. "One of the things Larry and I decided, very early on, was that She-Ra couldn't just be 'He-Man with boobs.' The show had to go deeper than that, especially given that we were creating this for a female lead character." However, when Filmation refused to give them credit on-screen, both left, finding work with DIC Entertainment on Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

In 1993, DiTillio worked with Straczynski again, this time on the science-fiction series Babylon 5, with Straczynski as producer and DiTillio the executive story editor. DiTillio also worked on the animated series Beast Wars, writing or co-writing most of the episodes. In 2002, he was a writer for the updated He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series.

DiTillio died at the age of 71 on March 16, 2019.

Filmography

References

External links

 Interview with Larry DiTillio, by Marv Wolfman
 Roleplaying game credits
Creating the Filmmation Generation

1948 births
2019 deaths
20th-century American screenwriters
21st-century American screenwriters
American science fiction writers
American male screenwriters
American television writers
Place of birth missing
Chaosium game designers
American male novelists
Place of death missing
American male television writers
Filmation people
Neurological disease deaths in the United States
Deaths from Parkinson's disease

Larry DiTillio


Radiofrequency targeted vertebral augmentation (also written as RF-TVA) is a form of kyphoplasty that uses radiofrequency heat to control the viscosity of polymethylmethacrylate cement and deliver it into the vertebral body to treat vertebral compression fractures.

Procedure

Radiofrequency targeted vertebral augmentation is a minimally invasive procedure designed to preserve good bone while performing vertebral augmentation (sometimes referred to as kyphoplasty). With traditional kyphoplasty, a balloon is used to create a space within the cancellous bone and then cement is injected into the space. The RF-TVA procedure is different in that a physician directs a small navigational canula into the vertebra and creates a small pathways for the cement as opposed to using a balloon. This process preserves more of the healthy canncellous bone. The pathways are then filled with ultra-high viscosity bone cement which then permeates into the surrounding bone, stabilizing the fracture and restoring vertebral height. As of 2014, the system has been used to treat more than 15,000 spinal fractures worldwide.

History

RF-TVA was first developed by DFINE, Inc., a medical device company based in San Jose, California. Its product, the StabiliT Vertebral Augmentation System received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2008 and is CE marked for commercial sale in Europe.

See also

 Intervertebral disc
 Minimal invasive spine surgery
 Osteoporosis

References

Medical procedures


Levi was a person in the Book of Genesis who was a son of Jacob and Leah. Along with his brother Simeon he killed the men of Shechem for the rape of Dinah. Because of that, his father Jacob told him that his tribe would not have his land as part of their inheritance but would live on the land of other tribes.

Children
Levi had three sons and they were named Gershon, Kehath and Merari.

Moses and Aaron
Kehath had a son named Amaram. Amaram married a woman named Yocheved and became the father of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. Moses became the prophet to the Israelites and Aaron became the High Priest.

Levites
While the sons of Aaron and their male descendants became the priests, the rest of Levi's descendant known as the Levites helped the priests in the sanctuary. Their tribe didn't get any land of their own because they instead had to be the religious ministers to everyone in the other tribes who had to let the Levites live on their land.

Old Testament people

Levi