Votoms Pailsen Files Gekijouban

Thx Dorne for noticing it.

Read Votoms: Pailsen Files Prequel Gets Theatrical Release at ANN

Trinity Blood

In the distant future after the destruction brought about by Armageddon, The war between the vampires and the humans continue to persist. In order to protect the humans from the vampires, Vatican has to rely on other allies to counter the situation. The protagonist, a priest called Peter Abel Nightroad, travels through the countries as a representative for the Vaticans. However, he is also part of "Ax", a special operations group controlled by the Cardinal Catherina. His encounter with a young girl called Esther will determine the struggle and survival between the human race and the vampires.

Fitness Motivational Poster - Chocolate Underground ~ ep01

The Chocolate Prohibition law.

Chocolate is now illegal. The story takes place in present day, the Good for You Party has won the election and announced the amazing Chocolate Prohibition law. They prohibit all sweet things, including chocolates, because they are harmful to ones health.

Washoku

The concept of washoku, pervasive in Japan to the point that many people aren't aware they're following precepts dating back at least 800 years, is almost unknown outside the country.

Q: During the past 30 years, sushi has become almost as American as apple pie. What is washoku?

A: "It has several meanings. Washoku is written with two characters. The first, "wa," has two meanings. It can mean indigenous to Japan, so when it is used before another word, it means Japanese. "Shoku," the other character, means anything that is consumed. So washoku means the food that is indigenous to Japan. Western food would be yoshoku. The second meaning of the "wa" calligraphy is harmony. So washoku is also the harmony of food. If you layer those together, you have the harmony of food that is indigenous to Japan.

Five questions For Elizabeth Andoh, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2006

Tytania Trailer shown at Chara Hobby 2008

Anime Fall 2008 : Tytania is out October 9th

Tytania
Tytania is a Japanese novel series written by Yoshiki Tanaka, author of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Plot

The capital of the empire of Euria is attacked by the empire of Titania, a much more powerful enemy that controls a large part of the galaxy.

Первый отряд/First Squad artwork

As Kitsune reminded me the canadian-russian project First Squad, It seems that Communism is not dead yet and that teutonic zombies are summoned from frozen Inferno.

See the nice video trailer at Kitsune blog.

You can find more info about First Squad on Valery Korneev blog (editor-in-chief at russian magazine AnimeGuide)

An Ostfront anime? Holy sh**.

Anonymous 09/01/08@4Chan

Battle of the Ice

The Battle of the Ice was a battle between the Republic of Novgorod and the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights on April 5, 1242, at Lake Peipus.

See Also : The First Squad Music Clip with Legalize

Video : Death Note
Audio : Progenies of the Great Apocalypse by Dimmu Borgir

Zero tolerance must be issued forth
Behind the enemy's line
So it shall be written
And so it shall be done

Group collage by rainy_takako

Allegory of Planets and Continents by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The stairwell at the New Residenz palace in Würzburg

This picture, Tiepolo's largest and most dazzling oil sketch, shows Apollo about to embark on his daily course across the sky. Deities around the sun god symbolize the planets, and allegorical figures on the cornice represent the four continents.

Tiepolo presented this preliminary sketch to Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau, the prince-bishop of Würzburg, on April 20, 1752, as his proposal for the decoration of the vast staircase ceiling of the Residenz, often considered the artist's greatest achievement.

Iconologia

Modern iconography of the continents began to the established in the sixteenth century, drawing on antique precedents and reports of travelers. By Tiepolo's time the subject was so popular in all the arts that the range of accepted images was large. For a painter in the dual tradition of allegorical and monumental decoration, however, that range included a customary iconography with predominant motifs taken from the text and illustrations of Cesare Ripa's handbook of allegorical figures, the Iconologia. Ripa's book had long since standardized the use of female personnification accompanied by indigenous animals and local artifacts; in additio, widely distributed engravings and other sources had contributed some conventions like the mounted positions of the personifications.

Allegory, Fact, and Meaning in Giambattista Tiepolo's Four Continents in Würzburg, Mark Ashton, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar, 1978), pp. 109-125

Allegory

Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Kafuka Fuura

Hyperbole : exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect.
Irony : expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.

Kafka's Rhetoric

Kafka uses hyperbole as a steroid maximizing the metaphoric muscle that society expects males to develop within patriarchal and economic roles
Soy

Raimuiro Senkitan Opening

Raimuiro Senkitan

Raimuiro Senkitan (Lime-Colored Exotic War Story) is a 13 episode anime that aired in Japan between January 5, 2003 and March 30, 2003.

The story takes place in 1904 (37th year of the Meiji Era) during the Russo-Japanese War in which former Japanese diplomat, Shintaro Umakai, becomes the teacher of a secret group of teenage girls, the Raimu Unit, who are based on the flying battleship Amanohara. The girl's Konjiki (supernatural powers) enables them to operate unmanned mecha named Raimu against Russian Raimu units led by Grigori Rasputin who often attack the Amanohara while it's travelling towards Port Arthur for the final battle.

Russo-Japanese War

The Russo–Japanese War (February 10, 1904 – September 5, 1905) was a conflict between the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea.

Japan still at war with Montenegro in 2006 !

Montenegro also declared war against Japan as a gesture of moral support for Russia out of gratitude for Russian support in Montenegro's struggles against the Ottoman Empire.

A peace treaty with Montenegro was not signed by the Japanese and a state of war technically remained with the country until its 1918 inclusion in the State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes which inherited foreign relations of Kingdom of Serbia. The issue resurfaced after the Montenegro's decision to leave the union with Serbia in 2006

World War Zero

While the international community strove to maintain neutrality throughout the war, all of the European powers were implicated in one fashion or another because of treaty obligations to either Russia or Japan. No event made this clearer than the saga of Russia's Baltic Fleet, soon to be known as the 2nd Pacific Squadron as it plodded its way out of the Baltic and North Seas, not to neglect the incident in the English Channel, and then meandered around the glove on its eighteen-thousand-mile trek. The progress of this fleet, including the efforts to keep it in fuel and other provisions, made it a cause célèbre in the press and for international readers. More to the point, however, was how each side managed to finance war. Be it through French loans to Russia or loans to Japan from a syndicate of British and/or American bankers, the belligerent nations needed to reach outside of their own resources to finance this conflict.

Warring nations in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanes War were going to have to developp credit lines to finance future conflict. This opened the door for bankers to have an impact on international events.

Was the Russo-Japanese War World War Zero?, John W. Steinberg, Russian Review, 2008, Volume 67, Issue 1 , p5 ,

Naruto Uzumaki, blue eyes, blond hair, is not a Super Sayan from Dragon Ball Z

Naruto Uzumaki

When creating Naruto, Kishimoto incorporated into the character a number of traits he felt made an ideal hero: a straightforward way of thinking, a mischievous side, and many of the attributes possessed by Son Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise.

 Bruderschaften und Logen, das hatte schon immer etwas Mysteriöses an sich.
Aber eben nur weil niemand so genau weis was in den einzelne fällen dahintersteckt.
Aber nicht hinter jeder steckt eine verschwörungs- Theorie.
Es hast was gutes, man prüft genau wer hinein passt oder nicht.Nicht jeder entspricht dem Ehrencodex einer Bruderschaft 1291 

Die Geheimgesellschaft wurde 1832 in New Haven,
Connecticut von William Huntington Russell,Alphonso
Taft und zwölf oder dreizehn weiteren Studenten gegründet,
die z. T. keine Aufnahme in der Yale-internen Studentenorganisation
Phi Beta Kappa gefunden hatten.Die erste Skull-&-Bones-Klasse
(Bones-englisch cohort oder club) bestand im Jahre 1833.
Der Schädel des Geronimo  Prescott Bush, später Senator von Connecticut,
Vater von George H. W. Bush und Großvater von George W. Bush, soll
im Mai 1918 den Schädel des Apachenhäuptlings Geronimo aus dem Fort
Sill bei Oklahoma eigenhändig mit fünf anderen Bonesmen aus vier
Jahrgängen ausgegraben und ihn als Geschenk der Bruderschaft präsentiert
haben. Diese Geschichte und Fotos aus der Gruft vom Schädel und anderen
gestohlenen Grabbeigaben wurden dem Apache-Indianer und Aktivisten
„Chief“ Ned Anderson zugespielt, der auf der Suche nach den sterblichen
Überresten Geronimos war. Er verlangte die Herausgabe. Das FBI
(damals noch Bureau of Investigation) lehnte es ab, sich in
den Streit einzumischen, so lange, bis Anderson sich nicht aus den
Ermittlungen zurückziehe und seine Belege überdenke; ein Angebot,
welches Anderson ausschlug. Anderson berichtete A. Robbins,
dass ein Treffen mit Jonathan Bush, dem Bruder des damaligen
Vize-Präsidenten George H. W. Bush, nicht zustande gekommen sei.
Bei einem Treffen mit Skull-&-Bones-Anwalt Davison sei ihm der
Schädel eines  zehnjährigen Jungen gezeigt worden. Auf den Vorschlag,
diesen Schädel mitzunehmen und eine Erklärung des Ordens zu akzeptieren,
der Schädel Geronimos befinde sich nicht in der Gruft, ließ
Anderson sich nicht ein. Er veröffentlichte die Begebenheiten des
Treffens mit der Bemerkung, dass es sich nicht um den Schädel aus der
Skull-&-Bones-Bruderschaft gehandelt habe. Seinem Ersuchen, einen
DNA-Test durchführen zu lassen, wurde nicht stattgegeben,
und somit geht die Legende weiter. Yale erhält die Gerüchte jedoch
weiter am Leben,indem sie in einem eigenen Magazin veröffentlicht,
dass die Gruft in New Haven ebenso im Besitz des Schädels von
Pancho Villa sein könnte.

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Drucker's article, found here for those playing at home, outlines the historical legacy of the electronic book, or e-book, and explores options for the future of it.

Often the rhetoric involved stresses the advantages of the e-book over the traditional book, with the common view being "that electronic books will supersede the limitations of paper-based books and overcome the drawbacks of traditional books." Instead, Drucker asks us to view the electronic book as actually very similar to the traditional codex, only embodying one or two extra features.

Because electronic resources often mimic the book, many of the features provided are merely simulations of characteristics of the traditional book and have no other purpose except as nostalgic references to help re-orientate the reader. Even those familiar with the e-book rely on such markers to help aid memory and it seems the public even prefer an appropriated format, with "IBM research suggest[ing] that readers "prefer features in electronic books that emulate paper book functions.""

There is also a tendency to view the printed book as a static object and the e-book as interactive and virtual. However Drucker, in an argument dripping with postmodernist thought, maintains that the book "is not an inert thing that exists in advance of interaction, rather it is produced new by the activity of each reading." So we can see that there are varied readings every time a book is opened according to the subjectives the reader bring and the reliance on multiple points of entry into the text. The book also interacts with us through the use of visual hierarchy, space and colour, hinting to us on how to decode the book. The codex is not static. Instead it is multi-layered and interactive, similar to that way we conceive of e-books and the e-book is more like the printed book than we previously thought.

This leads Drucker to contend that we would be better served if we removed the constraints of the typical book format, allowing the e-book to develop its own set of norms, markers and aids:

"I would argue that as long as visual cues suggest a literal book, our expectations continue to be constrained by the idea that books are communication devices whose form has a static and formal, rather than active and functional, origin."

Experimental structures in e-books have not leaned towards this reformation and it is instead seen growing within the arena of games. This needs to change, according to Drucker. The traditional view that the book should be the guide of design for the e-book is "grotesquely reductive and unproductive." Instead we must let the e-book flourish on its own accord and let it grow into what it rightfully is; a new medium.

References:

Drucker, J 2007, 'The virtual codex from page to e-space', in Siemens, R & Schreibman, S (eds) A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Oxford, Blackwell, http://www.philobiblon.com/drucker, viewed 22nd August 2008.