title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: At first, with the unhappy Seibu Lions suddenly changing their approval vote, Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe and Seibu owner Yoshiaki Tsutsumi voiced their concerns over the move. They believed that Nippon Ham's choice to move the team would spur a decentralization in Japanese professional baseball, and they threatened that a decrease in the number of teams in the Kantō and Kansai regions should merit a one-league system instead of two. As a matter of fact, the question of reorganizing baseball's league structure eventually became a bigger issue than the sale and renaming of the Kintetsu Buffaloes. The issue eventually settled down, though, and the Fighters' relocation was eventually approved by the league. The response from the people of Hokkaidō was weak, but NPB fans welcomed the move, noting that the Fighters could now be free from the Tokyo Dome's high rent and perpetual second-billing to the Giants. Out of respect for the Tokyo-based Fighters fans, the team decided to schedule a few "home" games per season at the Tokyo Dome.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: After the move finally was complete in 2004, the Fighters signed former-Tigers superstar Tsuyoshi Shinjo, who came back to NPB from MLB after playing with the New York Mets and nearly winning a World Series title with the San Francisco Giants and a revitalized Fernando Seguignol. American manager Trey Hillman led the team to success in his second year on the job, and at the end of the season, the Fighters were in a fierce race with the Chiba Lotte Marines for the final spot in the new P.L. playoff system. With a vital win over the Orix BlueWave on September 24, the newly moved Fighters earned a trip to the postseason, advancing to play Seibu in a three-game series. Though they put up a strong effort against Seibu ace Daisuke Matsuzaka, the Fighters lost the first game of the series 6–5. They took Game 2 by a score of 5–4. In the decisive third game, the Fighters fought back in the ninth inning after trailing for the whole game but ultimately fell to a Kazuhiro Wada walk-off home run, losing 6–5. The Fighters would have to wait for another chance for the P.L. pennant.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: During the pennant race, the Fighters began selling tickets for infield reserved seats at a low 1,500 yen price point, in an attempt to draw fans to the park. At and after 7:30 pm, usually well after the first pitch, the team began selling special child-fare tickets called "730 Tickets" (they started the same promotion at the Tokyo Dome in 2005). In addition to these, in 2005 they added extra-low priced tickets, discount parking passes and beer coupons to attract more fans. As a result of these promotions, and partially due to the rising popularity of young pitcher Yu Darvish, drafted the year before, the left field stands became constantly sold out for exhibition games, regular season games and playoff games, filled with loud and raucous Ōendan. Even the right field stands, usually occupied by the visiting team's fans, began to fill with Fighters supporters. In 2005, the Fighters drew over 1,000,000 fans for the first time since 1993, ranking second in the P.L. after the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: Also in 2005, a previously unknown manager, Shigeru Takada, became the club's first general manager. On April 27, owner Yoshinori Ohkoso died. The Fighters retired the number 100 in his honor, a first in club history (also the first retired number for owners in NPB; in North American Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (Gene Autry, 26) and St. Louis Cardinals (August A. Busch Jr., 85) have retired numbers, and in Minor League Baseball, the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers (Dale Earnhardt Sr., 3) are the most notable team owners with retired numbers). Yukio Tanaka reached a career 1,000 RBI total, and Makoto Kaneko joined the 1,000 hit club in the same year. On September 20 the Lions smashed the Fighters at home, crushing the Fighters’ hopes of making the playoffs for the second year in a row. In the offseason, the Fighters acquired Major League veteran José Macías, and as former number one starter Yusaku Iriki tried his luck in America the club attempted to sign Kazuhisa Ishii, but failed. In the draft, the team selected pitchers Tomoya Yagi and Masaru Takeda. And, before the 2006 season Shigeyuki Furuki and Kazunari Sanematsu were traded to the Giants for pitcher Hideki Okajima.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The 2006 season would turn out to be a monumental one for the Fighters. After defeating the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on the final day of interleague play, the Fighters went on an eleven-game winning streak, the best such streak for the franchise in over 45 years and tying the team record. After achieving the feat, the team had a six- and a seven-game winning streak, demonstrating to the rest of the P.L. that they were a dangerous club.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: A fierce struggle for first place developed between the Fighters, Lions and Hawks. On September 27, the Fighters emerged in first place, earning the title "Regular Season Champions." They also boasted the best team ERA (3.05) and the best team home run total (135) in the NPB. Yu Darvish had an especially impressive year, winning 12 games and posting an ERA of 2.89, establishing himself as the ace of the Fighters’ staff.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The Fighters swept the Hawks in the second stage of the P.L. playoffs to earn their third pennant. In the Japan Series, the team won their first Japanese championship in 44 years, defeating the Chunichi Dragons in five games. Fittingly, Darvish pitched for the win in the final game of the series. The series' MVP honors went to Fighters' outfielder Atsunori Inaba, who hit for a .357 batting average during the series with one home run and six RBIs. The championship win was especially fitting for OF Tsuyoshi Shinjo, who was a longtime veteran of the Hanshin Tigers (who were perennial losers), and also had played for a brief time in the United States' Major League Baseball. It was Shinjo's ultimate desire to win a championship, and he did in the final year of his illustrious career in Japan with Nippon-Ham.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: This victory gave the Fighters a berth in the four-team Asia Series, in which the team went undefeated in the round-robin and won the final 1–0 over the La New Bears.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The 2006 offseason saw the departure of two of Nippon-Ham's best players, both via free agency. First baseman Michihiro Ogasawara was signed to a blockbuster contract with the Yomiuri Giants, and left-handed reliever Hideki Okajima departed to the Boston Red Sox. At the start of the 2007 season, Nippon-Ham had a lot of trouble scoring runs, relying far too much on their pitching, despite the continuing maturation of Yu Darvish, who had back-to-back complete game, 14-strikeout performances early in the season. At one point, Nippon Ham was second-to-last in the Pacific League, but recently has been able to turn it around. With the start of Interleague play, Nippon-Ham began a 14-game winning streak, which ended on June 9 with a 3–2 extra inning loss to the Yakult Swallows, with the bullpen wasting another great performance by Darvish.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The Fighters went on to win the Pacific League championship and went through the Climax Series to earn a second consecutive trip to the Japan Series to once again face the Chunichi Dragons. But in a reversal of roles from last year, the Fighters took Game 1, but the Dragons took the next four games to defeat the Fighters; the last of which being a combined perfect game by Dragons pitchers Daisuke Yamai and Hitoki Iwase.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: In 2007, Yukio Tanaka's final season, he recorded his 2000th career hit, during a May 15 game against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The Fighters would win the Pacific League championship again in 2009 and 2012, but they would lose both times in the Japan Series to the Yomiuri Giants.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: In 2012, the Fighters drafted Shohei Ohtani, who made his debut in 2013. Despite Ohtani wanting to play in MLB, the Fighters drafted him anyways as they would have lost him to an MLB team. Ohtani signed with the Fighters nonetheless. Ohtani, with his ability to both pitch and hit, quickly became a star for the team. He was selected as an NPB all-star five times and was named Pacific League MVP in 2016. Behind Ohtani, the Fighters returned to the Japan Series in 2016, facing the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. After dropping the first two games on the road, the Fighters rallied to win the next four games en route to their first championship since 2006.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: In 2017, the Fighters drafted Kotaro Kiyomiya, a child prodigy entering the draft with high expectations and a number 1 overall pick. The Fighters got his contract negotiation rights after winning a lottery in the draft between 6 other NPB teams. As Japan would soon find out however, he became a draft bust. What made it even worse was Munetaka Murakami, also on Kiyomiya's draft class, who was drafted by the Swallows after losing out to him, was hitting more home runs than him at a rapid pace and already won a Japan Series title with the Swallows. As of 2022, Kiyomiya only had 21 home runs, while Murakami already had 104, and became the youngest NPB player to hit 100 home runs, at only 22 years old. Kiyomiya also did not play on the first squad in 2021. Kiyomiya was also being plagued by injuries, whilst Murakami managed to stay healthy and has played the full 143 game schedule with the Swallows.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: On January 8, 2018, the Fighters signed a partnership agreement with the Texas Rangers that they will exchange scouting info with each other and the Rangers will be sharing advise to the Fighters for their plans to help the Fighters build ES-CON Field Hokkaido and it would be similar to the then-under construction Globe Life Field in Arlington. Both ballparks would have mixed use community districts, and similar structure, hence why both ballparks look very similar.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: In October 2021, the Fighters replaced longtime manager Hideki Kuriyama, who went to become manager of Samurai Japan, with former player Tsuyoshi Shinjo. He is best known for winning his first Japan Series title in his last game before retirement.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: On January 21, 2022, new manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo unveiled a new logo and uniform for the Fighters. The response from fans was mixed to mostly negative. Fans often compared their jerseys to the Toronto Blue Jays due to the font they used.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The upcoming 2022 season would be the Fighters' last season in Sapporo, as their new stadium in Kitahiroshima would be ready by opening day 2023. Their supposed first scheduled game at the new stadium would be an opening day game against the Eagles.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: On September 28, 2022, the Fighters played their final game at Sapporo Dome, a 11-3 loss to the Chiba Lotte Marines. After the game, it was announced that Tsuyoshi Shinjo would continue being manager for the 2023 season, but he will not wear "BIGBOSS" on his jersey.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: On April 13, 2020, ground broke on ES CON Field Hokkaido, the team's new ballpark expected to open in 2023. The idea of a new ballpark for the Fighters began in early 2016 when Nippon-Ham wanted a new ballpark because their current stadium, the Sapporo Dome, was owned by the city of Sapporo themselves and charged the team about ¥16 million a game to play there, which is ¥1.3 billion a year. That, combined with in-stadium loss of revenue, and the inflexibility of a multi-purpose stadium would contribute to Nippon-Ham's decision to build a new stadium made for the Fighters. Sapporo would try and make bids from keeping the team leaving the capital city, but in the end, most of their proposed land was unusable due to certain and various circumstances. Also, the third and final proposal from Sapporo, which was redeveloping Makomanai Park was majorly opposed by local residents. Plus, Kitahiroshima's bid included 36 hectares of land, perfect to build the stadium and the planned entertainment district now known as Hokkaido Ballpark F Village. In January 2020, ES-CON Japan acquired the stadium's naming rights.


title: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

text: The Fox Dance is a tradition of the Fighters to do during the middle of innings, in which they encouraged fans, alongside cheerleaders, to dance similarly to the moves of a fox, set to the iconic Ylvis song The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?), which began in May 2022. The origins of this tradition came from Fighters staff member and former Fighters Girl member Sari Ogure, who watched the music video 2 years prior. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic disallowing any cheering or singing at games, she wanted to make a choreographed dance that would be simple for anyone to memorize, especially children. She had planned to propose this dance, but waited until it was right for her to do so, which came at the hiring of Tsuyoshi Shinjo. The dance became a major hit at Fighters games, and despite the team struggling in 2022, it became an entertaining part of games. It became so popular that on September 19, 2022, Ylvis went to Japan and performed the song live prior to a game against the Chiba Lotte Marines.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard is held on a separate database server instance, to spread load.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Some data within a database remains present in all shards, but some appear only in a single shard. Each shard (or server) acts as the "single" source for this subset of data.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Horizontal partitioning is a database design principle whereby "rows" of a database table are held separately, rather than being split into columns (which is what normalization and vertical partitioning do, to differing extents). Each partition forms part of a shard, which may in turn be located on a separate database server or physical location.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: There are numerous advantages to the horizontal partitioning approach. Since the tables are divided and distributed into multiple servers, the total number of rows in each table in each database is reduced. This reduces index size, which generally improves search performance. A database shard can be placed on separate hardware, and multiple shards can be placed on multiple machines. This enables a distribution of the database over a large number of machines, greatly improving performance. In addition, if the database shard is based on some real-world segmentation of the data (e.g., European customers v. American customers) then it may be possible to infer the appropriate shard membership easily and automatically, and query only the relevant shard.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: In practice, sharding is complex. Although it has been done for a long time by hand-coding (especially where rows have an obvious grouping, as per the example above), this is often inflexible. There is a desire to support sharding automatically, both in terms of adding code support for it, and for identifying candidates to be sharded separately. Consistent hashing is a technique used in sharding to spread large loads across multiple smaller services and servers.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Where distributed computing is used to separate load between multiple servers (either for performance or reliability reasons), a shard approach may also be useful. In the 2010s, sharding of execution capacity, as well as the more traditional sharding of data, has emerged as a potential approach to overcome performance and scalability problems in blockchains.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Horizontal partitioning splits one or more tables by row, usually within a "single" instance of a schema and a database server. It may offer an advantage by reducing index size (and thus search effort) provided that there is some obvious, robust, implicit way to identify in which partition a particular row will be found, without first needing to search the index, e.g., the classic example of the 'codice_1' and 'codice_2' tables, where their zip code already indicates where they will be found.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Sharding goes beyond this: it partitions the problematic table(s) in the same way, but it does this across potentially "multiple" instances of the schema. The obvious advantage would be that search load for the large partitioned table can now be split across multiple servers (logical or physical), not just multiple indexes on the same logical server.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Splitting shards across multiple isolated instances requires more than simple horizontal partitioning. The hoped-for gains in efficiency would be lost, if querying the database required "multiple" instances to be queried, just to retrieve a simple dimension table. Beyond partitioning, sharding thus splits large partitionable tables across the servers, while smaller tables are replicated as complete units.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: This is also why sharding is related to a shared-nothing architecture—once sharded, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server / data center / continent. There is no ongoing need to retain shared access (from between shards) to the other unpartitioned tables in other shards.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: This makes replication across multiple servers easy (simple horizontal partitioning does not). It is also useful for worldwide distribution of applications, where communications links between data centers would otherwise be a bottleneck.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: There is also a requirement for some notification and replication mechanism between schema instances, so that the unpartitioned tables remain as closely synchronized as the application demands. This is a complex choice in the architecture of sharded systems: approaches range from making these effectively read-only (updates are rare and batched), to dynamically replicated tables (at the cost of reducing some of the distribution benefits of sharding) and many options in between.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Sharding a database table before it has been optimized locally causes premature complexity. Sharding should be used only when all other options for optimization are inadequate. The introduced complexity of database sharding causes the following potential problems:


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: These historical complications of do-it-yourself sharding were addressed by independent software vendors who provided automatic sharding.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: In a database context, most recognize the term "shard" is most likely derived from either one of two sources: Computer Corporation of America's "A System for Highly Available Replicated Data", which utilized redundant hardware to facilitate data "replication" (as opposed to horizontal partitioning); or the critically acclaimed 1997 MMORPG video game "Ultima Online" which set 8 Guinness World Records and was designated by "Time" as one of the 100 greatest video games produced of all time.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Richard Garriott, creator of "Ultima Online", recollects the term being coined during production phase when they attempted to create a self-regulating virtual ecology system, whereby players may leverage new internet access (a revolutionary technology at the time) to interact and harvest in-game resources. Although the virtual ecology functioned as intended during in-house testing, its natural balance failed "almost instantaneously" due to players killing off every living wildlife across the playable area faster than the spawning system could operate. Garriott's production team attempted to mitigate this issue by separating the global player base into separate sessions, and rewriting part of "Ultima Online" fictional connection to the end of "", where the defeat of its antagonist Mondain also led to the creation of multiverse "shards". This modification provided Garriott's team with the fictional basis needed to justify creating copies of the virtual environment. However, the game's sharp rise to critical acclaim also meant that the new multiverse virtual ecology system was quickly overwhelmed as well. After several months of testing, Garriott's team decided to abandon the feature altogether, and stripped the game of its functionality.


title: Shard (database architecture)

text: Today, the term "shard" refers to the deployment and use of redundant hardware across database systems.


title: Receptionist

text: A receptionist is an employee taking an office or administrative support position. The work is usually performed in a waiting area such as a lobby or front office desk of an organization or business. The title "receptionist" is attributed to the person who is employed by an organization to receive or greet any visitors, patients, or clients and answer telephone calls. The term front desk is used in many hotels for an administrative department where a receptionist's duties also may include room reservations and assignment, guest registration, cashier work, credit checks, key control, and mail and message service. Such receptionists are often called "front desk clerks". Receptionists cover many areas of work to assist the businesses they work for, including setting appointments, filing, record keeping, and other office tasks.


title: Receptionist

text: The business duties of a receptionist may include answering visitors' enquiries about a company and its products or services, directing visitors to their destinations, sorting and handing out mail, answering incoming calls on multi-line telephones or, earlier in the 20th century, a switchboard, setting appointments, filing, records keeping, keyboarding/data entry and performing a variety of other office tasks, such as faxing or emailing. Some receptionists may also perform bookkeeping or cashiering duties. Some, but not all, offices may expect the receptionist to serve coffee or tea to guests, and to keep the lobby area tidy.


title: Receptionist

text: A receptionist may also assume some security guard access control functions for an organization by verifying employee identification, issuing visitor passes, and observing and reporting any unusual or suspicious persons or activities.


title: Receptionist

text: A receptionist is often the first business contact a person will meet at any organization. Organizations usually expect that the receptionist maintains a calm, courteous and professional demeanor at all times, regardless of the visitor's behavior. Some personal qualities that a receptionist is expected to possess in order to do the job successfully include attentiveness, a well-groomed appearance, initiative, loyalty, maturity, respect for confidentiality and discretion, a positive attitude and dependability. At times, the job may be stressful due to interaction with many different people with different types of personalities, and being expected to perform multiple tasks quickly.


title: Receptionist

text: Depending on the industry a receptionist position can have opportunities for networking in order to advance to other positions within a specific field. Some people may use this type of job as a way to familiarize themselves with office work, or to learn of other functions or positions within a corporation. Some people use receptionist work as a way to earn money while pursuing further educational opportunities or other career interests such as in the performing arts or as writers.


title: Receptionist

text: While many persons working as receptionists continue in that position throughout their careers, some receptionists may advance to other administrative jobs, such as a customer service representative, dispatcher, interviewers, secretary, production assistant, personal assistant, or executive assistant. In smaller businesses, such as a doctor's or a lawyer's office, a receptionist may also be the office manager who is charged with a diversity of middle management level business operations. For example, in the hotel industry, the night-time receptionist's role is almost always combined with performing daily account consolidation and reporting, more particularly known as night auditing.


title: Receptionist

text: When receptionists leave the job, they often enter other career fields such as sales and marketing, public relations or other media occupations.


title: Receptionist

text: A few famous people were receptionists in the beginning, such as Betty Williams, a co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. A number of celebrities had worked as receptionists before they became famous, such as singer/songwriter Naomi Judd and Linda McCartney, photographer, entrepreneur and wife of Paul McCartney. Other famous people who began their careers as receptionists or worked in the field include civil rights activist Rosa Parks and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.


title: Receptionist

text: Some small-to-medium-sized business owners hire a live remote receptionist in lieu of a full-time, in-house receptionist, thanks to advances in communications technology. As the phrase itself suggests, a live remote receptionist deals with phone calls for a company in another location using telephony private branch exchange (PBX) servers. Most modern receptionist services can take messages, screen and forward calls, answer basic FAQs, and fill out web forms. Many services can also schedule appointments and take credit card orders. Some of the older receptionist services have been around for decades, but these often operate very differently from modern services.


title: Receptionist

text: Advances in touch screen and 2-way video technology is changing the way some receptionist work. New types of virtual video receptionist systems now allows for live, in-house or remote receptionists to manage office lobby areas from remote locations. These virtual receptionists not only answer phones but also greet walk-in visitors by utilizing a motion detection camera to "see" visitors as they enter the building. The remote receptionist is then displayed in a video window on a wall-mounted LCD, kiosk or desktop all-in-one computer. The video receptionist and visitors can then communicate via 2-way video, allowing the receptionist to manage one or many office lobby areas from a central location.


title: Receptionist

text: The advancement of office automation has eliminated some receptionists' jobs. For example, a telephone call could be answered by an automated attendant. However, a receptionist who possesses strong office/technical skills and who is also adept in courtesy, tact and diplomacy is still considered an asset to a company's business image, and is still very much in demand in the business world.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. ( ) (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for "Tales of the City", a series of novels set in San Francisco.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maupin. His great-great-grandfather, Congressman Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, was from North Carolina and was a railroad executive and a confederate general during the American Civil War. His father, Armistead Jones Maupin, founded Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, one of the largest law firms in North Carolina. Maupin was raised in Raleigh.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin attended Ravenscroft School and graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote for "The Daily Tar Heel."


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin worked at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, a station managed by future U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. Helms nominated Maupin for a patriotic award, which Maupin won. Maupin said he was a typical conservative and segregationist at this time and admired Helms, as a hero figure." Maupin later changed his opinion and condemned Helms at a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol. Maupin is a veteran of the United States Navy and served several tours of duty including one in the Vietnam War.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin worked at a Charleston newspaper and the San Francisco bureau of the "Associated Press" in 1971. In 1974, he began what would become the "Tales of the City" series as a serial in a Marin County-based newspaper, the "Pacific Sun," moving to the "San Francisco Chronicle" after the "Sun" San Francisco edition folded.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: In 1978, Maupin publicly accused San Francisco Police Inspector Dave Toschi of faking one of the Zodiac Killer's taunting letters to the media, seriously and irreparably damaging Toschi's career and reputation. Maupin claimed to have noticed a similarity between anonymous fan mail Toschi had sent him after Maupin based one of his "Tales of the City" characters on him, and a Zodiac letter received by the San Francisco Chronicle on April 24, 1978. Although the USPS crime lab cleared Toschi of being the Zodiac letter's author, Toschi was removed from the case and his chances of succeeding Charles Gain as chief of the San Francisco PD were destroyed. The incident is portrayed in the 2007 David Fincher film "Zodiac".


title: Armistead Maupin

text: "Tales of the City" is a series of novels, the first portions of which were published initially as a newspaper serial starting on August 8, 1974, in a Marin County newspaper, "The Pacific Sun", picked up in 1976 by the "San Francisco Chronicle", and later reworked into the series of books published by HarperCollins (then Harper and Row). The first of Maupin's novels, entitled "Tales of the City", was published in 1978. Five more followed in the 1980s, ending with the last book, "Sure of You", in 1989.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: A seventh novel published in 2007, "Michael Tolliver Lives", continues the story of some of the characters. It was followed by an eighth volume, "Mary Ann in Autumn", published in 2010 and a ninth and final volume, "The Days of Anna Madrigal", in 2014. In "Babycakes", published in 1983, Maupin was one of the first writers to address the subject of AIDS. Of the autobiographical nature of the characters, he says "I've always been all of the characters in one way or another."


title: Armistead Maupin

text: The "Tales of the City" books have been translated into ten languages, and there are more than six million copies in print. Several of the books have been adapted and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: The first three books in the series have also been adapted into three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney. The first airing was on PBS; subsequent miniseries appeared on Showtime. Dukakis and Linney reunited for the 2019 "Tales" miniseries on Netflix.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: He collaborated on "Anna Madrigal Remembers", a musical work written by Jake Heggie and performed by choir Chanticleer and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade on August 6, 1999, for which Maupin provided a new libretto. He also participated in a concert series with the Seattle Men's Chorus entitled "Tunes From Tales (Music for Mouse)", which included readings from his books and music from the era.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: In May 2011, a theatrical musical version of "Tales of the City" had its premiere at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. The musical has a score and lyrics by Jake Shears and John Garden of the rock band Scissor Sisters, and a book by Jeff Whitty. It was directed by Jason Moore.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin wrote two novels, "Maybe The Moon" and "The Night Listener", which are not part of "Tales", though both books occasionally glance in that direction.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: "Maybe The Moon" is a story Maupin describes as "partly autobiographical", despite the main character being a female heterosexual Jewish dwarf. The character was also based on his friend Tamara De Treaux, who played the title character in the 1982 film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".


title: Armistead Maupin

text: "The Night Listener" is a roman à clef, inspired by Maupin's experiences concerning the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax. He says he wanted to create a psychological thriller, while being able to put autobiographical elements in it. The issues he addresses include the ending of his relationship with his long-term partner and his relationship with his father. The book very lightly references the "Tales" world via Gabriel Noone's assistant, who is one of DeDe Halcyon-Day's twins from "Tales". It was serialized on the internet, on Salon.com, prior to its print publication. "The Night Listener" was adapted into a movie that was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in late January 2006 and released by Miramax the following August.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Prior to the 2007 release of "Michael Tolliver Lives", Maupin had been quoted on his website as saying that another "Tales of the City" novel was unlikely. Although Maupin originally stated that this novel was "NOT a sequel to "Tales [of the City]" and it's certainly not Book 7 in the series," he later conceded that "I've stopped denying that this is book seven in "Tales of the City", as it clearly is ... I suppose I didn't want people to be thrown by the change in the format, as this is a first person novel unlike the third person format of the "Tales of the City" books and it's about one character who interrelates with other characters. Having said that, it is still very much a continuation of the saga and I think I realised it was very much time for me to come back to this territory."


title: Armistead Maupin

text: The novel is written from the first-person perspective of "Tales" character Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, now in his fifties and living as an HIV-positive man. It also features appearances by familiar "Tales" characters, such as Anna Madrigal. Maupin said: "I was interested in pursuing the life of an aging gay man, and Michael was the perfect vehicle ... However, as soon as I started writing, I found that, one by one, all the other characters stepped forward and asked to be present. It felt natural, so I went with it." He calls it "a smaller, more personal novel than I've written in the past." The book was released on June 12, 2007, which was declared 'Michael Tolliver Day' by the mayor of San Francisco.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: "Mary Ann in Autumn" was published November 12, 2010 by Harper/HarperCollins, continuing the series. It was reviewed by Joseph Salvatore in the "New York Times" Sunday Book Reviews on November 14. It was followed in January 2014 by "The Days of Anna Madrigal", which Maupin says will be the final novel in the series.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin said he knew he was gay since childhood, but did not have sex until he was 26 and decided to come out in 1974.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin married Christopher Turner, a website producer and photographer, after seeing Turner on a dating website. Maupin and Turner were married in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 18, 2007.


title: Armistead Maupin

text: Maupin's former partner of 12 years, Terry Anderson, was once a gay rights activist, who co-authored the screenplay for "The Night Listener". He lived with Maupin in San Francisco and New Zealand.


title: Inuyasha: The Final Act

text: The episodes of the Japanese anime series are based on the last twenty-one volumes of the "Inuyasha" manga series by Rumiko Takahashi, continuing where the first adaptation left off. The series follows the half dog-demon, half human named Inuyasha, the fifteen-year-old junior high school student Kagome Higurashi and their close companions Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara as they search for the last fragments of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls and approach their final battle with Naraku. Viz Media licensed the series as "InuYasha: The Final Act". The original staff and cast from the first "Inuyasha" anime adaptation were brought back together for the new series. The series premiered on Yomiuri TV on October 3, 2009, where it ran for twenty-six episodes, concluding on March 29, 2010. It is the first series to be produced and broadcast in 16:9 widescreen.


title: Inuyasha: The Final Act

text: Viz Media licensed the new adaptation before it premiered and aired its English subtitled version online through Hulu, releasing episodes within a day of their original Japanese air dates. As of April 14, 2013, the entire series remains available for free on Hulu in the United States. As of episode 14, the English episode aired first. Animax Asia aired the series with their own English subtitles, on its television stations and its online video service. As of September 23, 2022, the series has not been made available for streaming online in Canada.


title: Inuyasha: The Final Act

text: Voice actress Kelly Sheridan was the first to announce through her Facebook fan page on May 11, 2010, that work on the English dub for "The Final Act" had begun. However, many of the cast were laid off: Moneca Stori was replaced from her role of Kagome Higurashi by Kira Tozer, David Kaye was replaced as Sesshomaru by Michael Daingerfield, Pam Hyatt was replaced as Kaede by Linda Darlow, and Danny McKinnon was replaced as Kohaku by Aidan Drummond. Kirby Morrow, the voice of Miroku, said on "Voiceprint with Trevor Devall and guests" that Michael Daingerfield was able to mimic David Kaye near perfectly. On December 17, 2010, Paul Dobson announced on a podcast episode of "Voiceprint with Trevor Devall and guests" that he would be going back to the Ocean Productions studio for his final recording session of "Inuyasha: The Final Act" on December 23, 2010. Viz Media released "Inuyasha: The Final Act" set 1 on Blu-ray and DVD on November 20, 2012, and set 2 was released February 12, 2013.


title: Inuyasha: The Final Act

text: The English dub, "Inuyasha: The Final Act", began broadcasting in the United States on Viz Media's online network, Neon Alley, on October 2, 2012. On October 24, 2014, Adult Swim announced that "Inuyasha: The Final Act" would air on the Toonami programming block beginning Saturday, November 15, 2014. Previously, on March 1, 2014, Adult Swim had announced they had lost the broadcast rights to the original "Inuyasha" series.


title: Inuyasha: The Final Act

text: Four pieces of theme music were used, one opening and three endings. "Kimi ga Inai Mirai" by Do As Infinity was the opening theme song for the series, used throughout the series. "With You" by AAA was the first ending from episode one to nine. The second ending was "Diamond" by Alan from episode ten to seventeen. The third and final ending theme was by from episode eighteen to twenty-six.


title: God Eater (TV series)

text: In 2071, an organization known as Fenrir, located in the post-apocalyptic nation of the New Asian Union (NAU), helps humanity protect itself against monsters known as Aragami using divine weapons called "God Arcs". Composed of biological material called "Oracle Cells", God Arcs are wielded by a group of soldiers called, "God Eaters". The original (or "Old-Type") Arcs could initially only hold one form, either melee or ranged, but soon a new type of God Arc is developed that could switch between cannon and blade form.


title: God Eater (TV series)

text: A 12-minute prequel original video animation was made by Ufotable and aired on September 28, 2009. Ufotable later animated an anime television series directed by Takayuki Hirao with character designs by Keita Shimizu. The anime is part of the franchise's fifth anniversary. The series began airing on July 12, 2015 on Tokyo MX, BS 11, and other stations after the first episode was delayed by a week due to production issues and a special short titled "God Eater Extra" aired in its place. Four extra episodes have preempted regular episodes that were previously scheduled. After episode nine aired as the final initial run televised episode, the remaining episodes aired in March 2016. The opening theme is "Feed A" by Oldcodex and the ending theme is "Ruined Land" performed by Go Shiina feat. Naomi. Ufotable used hand-drawn animation to animate the God Arc weapons as opposed to computer animation.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: The Joy of Sex is a 1972 illustrated sex manual by British author Alex Comfort. An updated edition was released in September 2008.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: "The Joy of Sex" spent eleven weeks at the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list and more than 70 weeks in the top five (1972–1974).


title: The Joy of Sex

text: The original intention was to use the same approach as such cook books as "The Joy of Cooking", hence section titles include "starters" and "main courses". The book features sexual practices such as oral sex and various sex positions as well as bringing "further out" practices such as sexual bondage and swinging to the attention of the general public.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: The original version was illustrated with specially commissioned illustrations by Chris Foss (black-and-white line drawings) and Charles Raymond (colour paintings) mixed with classical Indian and Japanese erotica to emphasize historical precedents for erotic illustration, out of concern of possible obscenity suits. The two artists based their work on photographs taken by Chris Foss, of Charles Raymond and his wife.</ ref name=""bbcill"> The illustrations have become somewhat dated, mainly because of changes in hairstyles. Both the illustrations and text are titillating as well as illustrative, in contrast to the bland, clinical style of earlier books about sex. More recent editions feature new artwork, and added text emphasizing safer sex.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: "The Joy of Sex" did not address homosexual sex, bondage, other BDSM activities beyond a definitional level. The book played a part in the sexual revolution.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: Newer versions reversed previously-supportive positions on topics such as swinging, due to extensive textual changes made at the height of the 1980s AIDS panic.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: A pocket book version entitled, "The Joy of Sex, the Pocket Edition" was also published. The book won the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year in 1997.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: In 1984, "Joy of Sex" based on this book was released, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Kathleen Rowell & J.J. Salter.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: In 1993, a video game adaptation of the book was released for the Philips CD-i. It is one (possibly the first) of only 27 video games to have received the Adults Only rating from the ESRB due to its strong sexual content.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: There has been controversy over "The Joy of Sex" in the United States. Religious groups have fought to keep it out of public libraries. In March 2008, the Nampa, Idaho, public library board ruled in favour of removing "The Joy of Sex" and "The Joy of Gay Sex" from the libraries' shelves, making them only available upon request in the library director's office. The books were restored to shelves in September 2008 in response to ACLU threats of litigation.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: Publisher Mitchell Beazley released an updated edition of the book in September 2008. The new edition was rewritten and reinvented by relationship psychologist Susan Quilliam and approved by Nicholas Comfort, the original author's son.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: More material has been added to the book, and the remaining text has been rewritten from both a factual and psychological viewpoint to take into account social shifts since 1972. The new edition presents a more balanced female/male perspective and also contains 120 completely re-shot photographs and re-drawn illustrations.


title: The Joy of Sex

text: The quirky style—and the message of the book, that sex is fun—remain the same. Mitchell Beazley has marketed the "New Joy" with the subtitle "a thinking person's guide to sex".


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, tumbu fly, tumba fly, putzi fly, or skin maggot fly, is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage. "C. anthropophaga" has been endemic in the subtropics of Africa for more than 135 years and is a common cause of myiasis in humans in the region.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: The mode of infection by the Cayor Worm. Doctors Rodhain and Bequaert conclude, from their observations in the Congo Free State, that "Cordylobia anthropophaga" lays its eggs on the ground. The larvae, known generally as Cayor Worms, crawl over the soil until they come in contact with a mammal, penetrate the skin and lie in the subcutaneous tissue, causing the formation of tumors. On reaching full growth, the larvae leave the host, fall to the ground, bury themselves and then pupate. This fly is said to be the most common cause of human or animal myiasis in tropical Africa, from Senegal to Natal. In the region of Lower Katanga where these investigations were made, dogs appeared to be the principal hosts, although "Cordylobia" larvae were found also in guinea-pigs, a monkey, and two humans. The larvae are always localized on those parts of the hosts which come in immediate contact with the soil."


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: The larvae of the tumbu fly, "Cordylobia anthropophaga", were first described in Senegal in 1862, and Blanchard first described the adult and gave it its name in 1872. In 1903, Grünberg placed the tumbu fly in a new genus, "Cordylobia".


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Female tumbu flies deposit around 300 eggs in sandy soil, often contaminated with feces. The hatched larvae can remain viable in the soil for 9–15 days, when they need to find a host to continue developing. If a larva finds a host, it penetrates the skin and takes 8–12 days developing through three larval stages before it reaches the prepupal stage. It then leaves the host, drops to the ground, buries itself, and pupates. It then becomes an adult fly able to reproduce and begin the cycle all over again.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Successful penetrations in humans results in furuncular (boil-like) myiasis, typically on the backs of arms or about the waist, lower back, or buttocks.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: "C. anthropophaga" rarely causes severe problems, and mainly causes cutaneous myiasis. Geary et al. describe the presentation of cutaneous myiasis caused by the tumbu fly: "At the site of penetration, a red papule forms and gradually enlarges. At first the host may experience only intermittent, slight itching, but pain develops and increases in frequency and intensity as the lesions develop into a furuncle. The furuncle's aperture opens, permitting fluids containing blood and waste products of the maggot to drain."


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Female tumbu flies lay their eggs in soil contaminated with feces or urine or on damp clothing or bed linens. Damp clothing hanging to dry makes for a perfect spot. The larvae hatch in 2–3 days and attach to unbroken skin and penetrate the skin, producing swelling and infection. If the larvae hatch in soil, any disturbance of the soil causes them to wriggle to the surface to penetrate the skin of the host.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: A natural reservoir is defined as an organism that can harbor a pathogen indefinitely with no ill effects. Although "C. anthropophaga" larvae can cause ill effects for animal hosts, relative to myiasis in humans, animal hosts are reservoirs.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Many animals are hosts of "C. anthropophaga". The dog is the most common domestic host and several species of wild rats are the preferred field hosts. Domestic fowl are dead-end hosts; the larvae cannot develop when they enter the tissue of a fowl.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Humans are, in fact, accidental hosts; tumbu fly larvae do not usually infect humans and are not necessary for the transmission cycle of the fly.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: A vector is an organism that carries the parasites (the larvae) from one host to another. The tumbu fly itself is the vector in a loose sense, because the female deposits the eggs in soil or on damp cloth, where the larvae can hatch and attach to human or animal skin.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Cutaneous myiasis caused by the tumbu fly should be suspected when a patient who has just spent time in Africa presents with ulcers or boil-like sores. Definitive diagnosis is only possible when the larvae are found. They should be removed and allowed to develop into adult flies for identification and examination purposes.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: When "C. anthropophaga" causes cutaneous myiasis, the larvae more often than not can be removed without any incision. Covering the punctum (the breathing hole) with petroleum jelly or similar substances cuts off the air supply and forces the maggot to the surface, where it is easy to capture with forceps. If this does not work, local anesthetic can be administered and an incision made to widen the punctum and remove the maggot. Another treatment discussed in the March 2014 "Journal of the American Medical Association" is to inject a combination of anaesthetic and epinephrine into the insect's chamber. Less drastically, because larvae of "C. anthropophaga" have smaller hooked bristles on the cuticle than those of "Dermatobia hominis", it often is practical just to push on each side of the hole to squeeze the maggot out, especially after first enlarging the punctum. It is important not to burst the larva to prevent the risk of granulomatous or serious inflammatory reaction.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: Patients should be monitored for additional and subsequent lesions, as development does not occur in unison and some larvae may take longer to reach the prepupal stage. Antiseptics or antibiotics may be useful to prevent bacterial infection after removal of the larvae, but in practice are not often necessary; the secretions of the larva tend to discourage bacterial growth. As a rule, the wound may be expected to heal readily.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: The tumbu fly is endemic to the tropical regions of Africa, south of the Sahara. Myiasis caused by "C. anthropophaga" is the most common cause of myiasis in Africa, but can be seen worldwide because of air travel, as human movements carry infestation outside endemic areas.


title: Cordylobia anthropophaga

text: The fly commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry. The eggs hatch in one to three days and the larvae (which can survive without a host for up to 15 days) then burrow into the skin when the clothes are worn. A prevention method is to iron all clothes, including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.


title: Drops of Jupiter

text: Drops of Jupiter is the second studio album by American pop rock band Train, released in 2001. The album's title is derived from "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)", its lead single, which was a hit internationally and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.


title: Drops of Jupiter

text: The album contains elements of rock, country and indie rock. Besides "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)", two other singles were released from this album: "She's on Fire" and "Something More", both of which also achieved some success on the Adult Top 40 chart.


title: Drops of Jupiter

text: Debuting at #6 in the United States upon its release, it has since been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA in the United States and 2× Platinum by the CRIA in Canada. It is the band's best-selling album to date.


title: Drops of Jupiter

text: The album received mixed reviews. AllMusic writer Mark Morgenstein said that "There is nothing cutting edge about Train's Sophomore Effort". He also stated that "Train is a classic rock wannabe band in the mold of Counting Crows, although that's not always a bad thing". Another mixed review appeared in "Billboard", which wrote that "The music fails to gain any momentum until track seven, and by then, Train's lucky the listener's still spinning the CD...Let's hope that if Train's given the chance to make a third album, it'll finally fill it with clearly discernable songs."


title: Drops of Jupiter

text: "Rolling Stone" Writer Aidin Vaziri had this to say about the album: "Drops of Jupiter, conjuring vivid memories of "Recovering The Satellites". The anthemic song is the centerpiece here, showcasing the singer's yearning voice and band's swooping, string-laden melodies, but Train has more to offer. The brooding "Mississippi" presents an intoxicating mix of acoustic guitars and dreamy horns, while "Let It Roll" mixes mournful slide guitars and loose-limbed rhythms in the perfect meeting of blustery earnestness and unapologetic commerciality."


title: 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

text: The 2020 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in South Africa from 17 January to 9 February 2020. It was the thirteenth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the second to be held in South Africa. Sixteen teams took part in the tournament, split into four groups of four. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Super League, with the bottom two teams in each group progressing to the Plate League. India were the defending champions.


title: 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

text: In the first Super League semi-final, India beat Pakistan by ten wickets to advance to the final, with Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring an unbeaten century. In the second Super League semi-final, Bangladesh beat New Zealand by six wickets, with Mahmudul Hasan Joy scoring a century. The third-place playoff match between Pakistan and New Zealand was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain. Therefore, Pakistan finished in third place, after scoring more points than New Zealand in the group stage of the tournament.


title: 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

text: In the final, India batted first and were all out for 177 runs in 47.2 overs. Due to a rain interruption, Bangladesh were set a revised target of 170 runs from 46 overs, per the DLS method, which Bangladesh chased down in 42.1 overs. Bangladesh beat India by three wickets to win the tournament. It was Bangladesh's first win in an ICC event at any level.


title: 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

text: The top eleven full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at the 2018 World Cup qualified automatically for the 2020 tournament; Ireland were the only full member to fail to qualify automatically. They were joined by the winners of the five regional qualification tournaments. Fifty teams took part in the qualification pathway matches during 2018 and 2019. The first qualification matches took place in the Europe Division 2 group at various club cricket grounds in Essex and Hertfordshire, England, on 31 July 2018. The final round of qualification fixtures took place in the Netherlands in July & August 2019.


title: 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

text: Nigeria became the first team to win their regional qualification group, and qualified for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the first time in their history. Japan also qualified for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the first time in their history. Japan were scheduled to play Papua New Guinea in their final qualification fixture, but Papua New Guinea forfeited the match. The Papua New Guinea Cricket Board later suspended ten of the players for a year, after bringing the game into disrepute following a shoplifting incident. Canada, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates were the remaining three teams to secure qualification.


title: 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

text: On 7 January 2020, the ICC appointed the officials for the tournament. Along with the sixteen umpires, Graeme Labrooy, Shaid Wadvalla and Phil Whitticase were also named as the match referees.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: As of January 2021, The manga franchise as a whole has 25 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In a twist on the classic Chinese tale "Journey to the West", It was a time of chaos, when Heaven and Earth were as one, and humans and demons - the youkai - lived together in peace. The foundations of civilization and religion were raised and reinforced in this land of Togenkyo, the paradise known as Shangri-la. But now, a great evil threatens harmony in this great land. Far to the West, in India, someone is attempting to resurrect the youkai lord Gyumaoh by mixing human science with youkai magic. This forbidden practice has created a Minus Wave of negative energy that is spreading across Shangri-la, poisoning the souls of the youkai and turning them into mindless monsters. The only hope lies in four legendary heroes: Genjo Sanzo, a high priest with low morals. Son Goku, the hungry and mischievous Monkey King, just released from 500 years imprisonment. Sha Gojyo, a water sprite with an addiction for good smokes and bad women. Cho Hakkai (formerly known as Cho Gonou), the legendary demon slayer, and his transforming dragon Hakuryu. To save Shangri-la, these unlikely companions, united by fate, must travel together ... INTO THE WEST!


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The "Saiyuki" manga comprises five separate series. The original series comprised nine volumes, and was serialized in the manga magazine "Monthly G-Fantasy" from 1997 to 2002. Ichijinsha reprinted all nine volume from October 26, 2002, to June 25, 2003. Also a new edition of all nine Volumes of "Saiyuki" has been published by Ichijinsha in 2015.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The first English License was Tokyopop published all nine volumes of the manga from 2004 to 2005. beginning in 2020 Kodansha Comics is re-releasing Minekura's Saiyuki manga in 400-page hardcover volumes with new translations. The company released the second volume phsyically and digitally on August 18. Also Madman Entertainment releases Saiyuki (Manga) The Original Series - Resurrected Edition on March 13, 2020. The manga releases in North American From February 20, 2020, to January 23, 2021.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The second series began in June 1999, and was called "Saiyuki Gaiden". Saiyuki Gaiden comprised four volumes and ran for ten years.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The manga have been serialized in Enix's "Monthly GFantasy" from 1999 to 2002, and Ichijinsha's "Comic Zero Sum WARD" Resume the series since 2003.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The new edition of first volume released by the Ichijinsha On December 28, 2005. Gaiden work, It is a story of an era that dates back 500 years from the main story, and three volumes have been published On May 16, 2009. The final volume, Volume four had been released on July 25, 2009. A Special edition named "Saiyuki Gaiden memorial"was also released On July 16, 2009. In September, 2012, new series "Tenjou no Ari" from "Saiyuki Gaiden" will be released as a one-shot. "Saiyuki Gaiden Heavenly Ants" is the story of the first platoon of the heavenly western army led by Tenpo.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In 2009 Saiyuki Gaiden Manga gets OVA green-Lit, A Three episodes OVA Licensors from Sentai Filmworks and Aired by Studios Anpro in Mar 25, 2011 to Nov 25, 2011 and The May issue of Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero Sum magazine is announcing that a special edition release of the Saiyuki Gaiden original video anime OVA name Saiyuki Gaiden: Tokubetsu-hen - Kouga no Shou Aired in Apr 26, 2013, All 4 volumes of OVA "Saiyuki Gaiden" are finally converted to Blu-ray BOX by completely new HD digital remastering,


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: Full of luxurious benefits such as the original sleeve box drawn by Kazuya Minekura and his acrylic stand.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In 2002, a third series was made entitled "Saiyuki Reload" that lasted 10 volumes long. The third series was serialized in the monthly Japanese Josei manga magazine "Monthly Comic Zero Sum" and completed its run in 2009 in the August edition.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On September 27, 2010, Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero Sum magazine has announced on Tuesday that Saiyuki (manga) creator Kazuya Minekura is putting her manga serial work on indefinite hiatus due to her poor health, She explained that she is undergoing one medical check after another for a possible surgery, so she cannot maintain her work schedule, Until her hiatus.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: Tokyopop has published the original Saiyuki manga and Saiyuki Reload in North America, and ADV Films and Geneon Entertainment (USA) have released their various television and film anime adaptations.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The serialization started from the February 2010 issue of the monthly comic ZERO-SUM (Ichijinsha), and is currently serialized every other month in the same magazine. After a year and a half of Minekura's writing break, "Saiyuki RELOAD BLAST" serialization resumed from March. Volume One was released On July 25, 2012. On June 25, also a limited edition with a mini art book of Volume One has been released.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On July 27, 2013, Saiyuki Reload Blast Manga Slow Down Due to Creator's Health. Ichijinsha published the manga's second compiled book volume in 2014. In April 2016 Saiyuki Reload Blast Manga Goes on Hiatus Because Kazuya Minekura, the manga's author, is suffering from poor health, and put the manga on hiatus. On July 13, 2017, revealed that The third compiled volume of Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Reload Blast manga is slated to ship on August 31. It will be the first compiled volume for the series since the second volume shipped in July 2014. A special edition with an all-color illustration and sketch booklet has been also released. The Series went on hiatus in October 2017 and Resumes After 18-Month Hiatus.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The fifth and final series made titled "Saiyuki Ibun" started in 2009, and is currently running in "Zero Sum Ward", Saiyuki Ibun recounts how a man grew up to become the pivotal character Kōmyō, years before the first Saiyuki storyline. The fifth series follows Priest Koumyou Sanzo in his days before inheriting the Sanzo Title.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On 2012 "Kazuya Minekura" resumed her Saiyuki Ibun manga in the 30th issue of Ichijinsha's Zero-Sum Ward magazine on Friday After 28-Month Hiatus. The last chapter of the manga before the hiatus was published in Zero-Sum Ward's 16th issue in July 2010 — two years and four months ago.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: Minekura had put her manga series work on hiatus in 2010 due to surgery for "ameloblastoma", a noncancerous tumor on her right upper jawbone. In addition to Saiyuki Ibun. In February 2013 in The 32nd issue of Monthly Comic Zero Sum magazine revealed on Saturday that Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Ibun manga is going on indefinite hiatus.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In January 2021, Ritsuhiro Mikami Draws Spinoff One-Shot for Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Manga, The manga will appear in a special supplement in the magazine dedicated to Minekura's Saiyuki Reload Blast manga. Minekura's Saiyuki Reload manga is inspiring a new television anime titled , which will cover the manga's "Even a Worm" arc.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On October 27, 2022 announced that Saiyuki Manga Makes the Journey to Three Cities for 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The exhibition begins its long journey first in Osaka at Namba Marui from December 30, 2022 to January 15, 2023, followed by Yurakucho Marui in Tokyo from May 12 to May 28 and Hakata Marui in Fukuoka from August 11 to September 3. Additional events in other regions are also planned.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: There are currently five series in the animation version: including three TV animation series, produced by Studio Pierrot, with 50 episodes of "Fantasy and Magic Legend", 25 episodes of "Most Travels Reload", and 26 episodes of "Most Travels Reload Gunlock", in TV Tokyo broadcast. several OVA series, "Most Travels" 2 episodes, "Most Travels Burial -burial-" 3 episodes and "Most Travels Biography" 3 episodes. In addition, there is a set of theatrical version of "Theatrical version of Fantasy and Magic, the most travel notes Requiem's Requiem for the losers".


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The first adaptation of "Saiyuki" was a two episode OVA by Tokyo Kids. The first episode was released on April 23, 1999, while the second episode was released on August 27, 1999. A television series was created by Studio Pierrot titled Gensomaden Saiyuki. The series aired on TV Tokyo from April 4, 2000, to March 27, 2001, on Tuesdays at 18:30, spanning 50 episodes. Enoki Films holds the US license to "Gensomaden Saiyuki" under the title "Saiyuki: Paradise Raiders".


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: the first animated film title produced by Pierrot, directed by Hayato Date and written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa and was first released in Japanese theaters on August 18, 2001. "Saiyuki: Requiem" adapted into English licensed by ADV.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: Another series, Saiyuki ReLoad was created by the same companies and it adapts from the manga of the same name. It aired on the same network from October 2, 2003, to March 25, 2004, on Thursdays at 18:30. A sequel titled Saiyuki Reload GunLock was also created by the companies and aired on the same network from April 1, 2004, to September 23, 2004, on Thursdays at 25:30. ADV Films licensed "Gensomaden Saiyuki" and the movie. The sequels "Saiyuki Reload" and "Saiyuki Reload Gunlock" are licensed by Geneon in North America, and consist of 25 and 26 episodes respectively.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In February 2006, Geneon and Tokyopop have agreed to cross promote several properties for which Tokyopop is releasing the manga and Geneon the anime. For Saiyuki Gunlock, the two companies will promote each other's products with advertisements. Geneon will advertise Tokyopop's manga on their DVDs, and Tokyopop will advertise Geneon's DVDs in the manga.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: "Saiyuki Reload" is faithful to the manga from the fourteenth episode and onward, having deviated from it for the first 13 episodes. "Saiyuki Reload Gunlock" also starts off deviated from the manga, until midway into the series, but strays from it during its finale. A new OVA has been released by Studio Pierrot, which covers the "Burial" arc of the "Saiyuki Reload" manga; it is called "".


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In 2011, a new original video animation (OVA) series, "Saiyuki Gaiden" was created based on the same name manga series written and illustrated by Kazuya Minekura, and it is a prequel to the manga series saiyuki which ended in Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine in 2009.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: An anime television series adaptation of the "Saiyuki Reload Blast" manga series aired from July 5 to September 20, 2017, on Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, BS11, Sun TV. It ran for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll has licensed the series, and Funimation released it on home video as part of the two companies' partnership. Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia; they aired it on Animax Asia and later released on their YouTube channel.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: A new anime series produced by Liden Films titled "" has been announced. It is directed by Misato Takada, with Michiko Yokote and Aya Matsui writing the series' scripts, Noriko Ogura designing the characters and serving as chief animation director, and Yūsuke Shirato composing the music. The main cast members reprised their roles. It aired from January 6 to March 31, 2022, on AT-X and other networks. Granrodeo performed the opening theme "Kamino Hotokemo," while Shugo Nakamura performed the ending theme "Ruten." Sentai Filmworks licensed the series outside of Asia. In South and Southeast Asia, Muse Communication licensed the anime.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: HIDIVE Streams Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN- Anime's English Dub, Dub premieres on February 24 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Scandinavian countries, and the Netherlands. The show premiered on January 6 on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime, and HIDIVE is streaming the series as it airs in Japan. The four main cast members of the previous Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Saiyuki Gunlock, and Saiyuki Reload Blast television anime are reprising their roles.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: Saiyuki Reload Sanzo's Song Collection Released on October 24, 2007, published and distribute by Frontier Works.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: Saiyuki complete collection (Blu-ray) (contains episodes 1-50 of the original anime series directed by Hayato Date all in standard definition on 3 blu-ray discs) Release in march, 26 2019.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On November 30, 2021 Discotek Media distribute Saiyuki Reload Blu-ray contains episodes 1-25 of the anime directed by Tetsuya Endo in standard definition on a blu-ray disc. This complete collection also included is the original Japanese language, English subtitles and the English dub. On September 27, 2022, Also Discotek Media Distribute Saiyuki Reload Gunlock contains episodes 1-26 of the anime directed by Tetsuya Endo in standard definition a Blu-ray disc.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: A Blu-ray of all three volumes of "Saiyuki Reload: Burial (OAV) " based on Kazuya Minekura "Saiyuki Reload" has been released on December 21, 2018.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On September 28, 2018 Frontier Works Released All 4 volumes of OVA "Saiyuki Gaiden" Blu-ray BOX by completely new HD digital remastering.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On July 24, 2018 FUNimation Entertainment released Saiyuki Reload Blast (BD+DVD) contains episodes 1-12 of the anime directed by Hideaki Nakano, Also FUNimation Entertainment distribute Saiyuki Reload Blast [Essentials] (Blu-ray-A) on January 28, 2020.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: "Saiyuki RELOAD -ZEROIN-" Blu-ray BOX Volume 2 Released on June 29, 2022, Meanwhile, campaign to commemorate the release of Volumes 1 and 2 of the Blu-ray BOX "Saiyuki RELOAD -ZEROIN-" was held at Animate nationwide!.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The musical adaptation of Kazuya Minekura’s Saiyuki started its history with its first show “-Go to the West-” It was performed at the Tennozu Galaxy Theater in Tokyo from September 13th to 21st, 2008, and has been loved by the fans of the series for more than ten years. DVD of "Saiyuki Kagekiden -Go to the West-" Released on January 25, 2009.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The story takes place 3 years before Journey of sanzo and his group to the West and Rikudo arc. Since "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Go to the West" in 2008, the musical "Saiyuki Kagekiden" has been performed in nine works.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: "Saiyuki Kagekiden" "Go to the West" & "Dead or Alive", has the same cast and a man in drag playing the role of Kanzeon Bosatsu.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: A DVD reprint for the 2009 stage plays Go to the West and Dead or Alive as a limited-edition set was announced for 10 May 2017 in conjunction with the 20th-Anniversary of the manga series.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In 2014 the third musical of "Saiyuki Kagekiden" will be performed for the first time in about five years since the previous work title "Saiyuki Kagekiden: God Child", performance begun on May 2 to 7, 2014, The story is set on Saiyuki: Kinkaku Ginkaku Hen and Saiyuki's Kami-sama arc from "Saiyuki" Volumes 6 to 9.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In 2015 "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Burial" musical show will run from September 17 to 23, 2015, the story takes place in the Burial Arc. In September 2015 "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Reload' musical show will run from 17 to 23.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On July 20, 2015, On the event of Saiyuki Kagekiden, Cast members Included Hiroki Suzuki and others sing the theme song of singing "Go to the West" from "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Burial" passionately in the background of the DVD video based on Kazuya Minekura's "Saiyuki".


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: "Saiyuki Kagekiden the Movie: Bullets" starring Hiroki Suzuki and others screened at "Saiyuki FESTA 2017" being held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba from January 7 to today 8th, released on DVD and CD on June 28, 2017. The film is based on an original short story featuring the cast of "Saiyuki Kagekiden", Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Kazuya Minekura 's manga "Saiyuki".


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The 2014/2015 stage cast were also involved in a compilation of 8 original short stories shot for a film release, shown across three screenings (two of which included cast appearances) at the SaiyukiFESTA 2017 event at the Makuhari Messe International Convention Centre on 8 January, commemorating 20 years of publication for the manga.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: A behind-the-scenes promotional documentary "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Over the Bullets" for the movie/event featuring cast insights on their journeys with the show was broadcast on Tokyo MX1 and online via mcas on Christmas Day 2016.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: On January 3, 2019 "Saiyuki" Manga Gets 2 New Stage Musicals based on Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki manga, musicals titled "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Darkness" and Following its eighth show "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Oasis". "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Darkness" will run at the Hulic Hall in Tokyo from June 6 to 14, 2019, while Saiyuki Kagekiden: Oasis will run in February 2 to 9, 2020. Kaori Miura is Scripting and directing both musicals.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The story for "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Darkness" will center on the Sanzō party encountering a foreign priest named Hazel who can resurrect the dead. The priest is accompanied by his follower Gato.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The story for "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Sunrise" begins with the party being attacked, and Son Gokū suddenly contracting a deadly illness. Genzo Sanzō goes to Hazel in an effort to track down who is responsible. Meanwhile, Son Gokū, Sha Gojō, and Cho Hakkai stay in a peaceful yōkai village, but are soon dragged into a conflict centering on the waters of an oasis that will pit yōkai and human against one another.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: In February 2021 its latest ninth show "Saiyuki Kagekiden: Sunrise", which follows "Darkness" and "Oasis", which will be the final chapter of the Hazel Arc, to be performed from February 11 to 14, 2021 at COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA WW Hall in Osaka, and from February 18 to 24 at Shinagawa Prince Hotell Stellar Ballo.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The Saiyuki franchise has become a mainstay of manga/anime culture, and its various entries have continually garnered critical praise and accolades. "Gensomaden Saiyuki" won the Animage Anime Grand Prix Award in 2000, also Genjo Sanzo won the best Male Character. On January 17, 2001, "Gensomaden Saiyuki" It was ranked 4th on Animage magazine list of top 100 most important anime ever published. On August 13, 2001, issue of Newtype Magazine lists their top 10 Anime titles and the first anime of Saiyuki "Gensomaden Saiyuki" It was ranked 9th as well Genjo Sanzo as top ten male characters It was ranked 6th. On May 10, 2002, The brand new June issue of Animage Magazine includes a list of the top 20 anime programs of 2001, as chosen by Animage readers and "Gensomaden Saiyuki" It was ranked 4th. During the third quarter from 2003, "Saiyuki" ranked at the top of ICv2's Top 50 Manga Properties. On March 30, 2004, Saiyuki was the top 10 of Shōjo manga Series on ICv2 site. On October 8, 2004, It was reported Research has shown that in recent years Saiyuki anime has become extremely popular among Japan's young women fans. Saiyuki manga was top Manga Publisher of the Year in "ICV2 2004 manga awards", came in a very close second for 2004 Award. On January 16, 2005, "Saiyuki" Vol. 6 ranked at the top of ICv2's top 10 selling-manga. and Saiyuki Vol. 8 was also ranked 8th of top 10 selling-manga of Tokyopop on June 13, 2005. During its premiere as a television series the "Saiyuki" manga sold more than 3,200,000 as of Volume 6 estimation by "ComiPress". In 2004, on 26th Anime Grand Prix Award, "Saiyuki Reload" was the top ten Anime titles It was ranked 4th, Meanwhile, Genjo Sanzo was the top of ten best Male Character It was ranked 7th. In 2005, on 27th Anime Grand Prix Award, "Saiyuki Reload Gunlock" was the top twenty Anime titles It was ranked 17th. "Saiyuki Gaiden" and "Saiyuki Reload" continued to be at the top 10 weekly Japanese ranking chart whenever a manga volume debuted. "Saiyuki Gaiden" manga volumes were frequently ranked in the top manga like the "Saiyuki Reload" manga. In 2006 "Saiyuki Reload" was listed by PUFF (also known as Manga Oscars) known by many fans as one of the definite study guides for those who appreciate manga, as 10th in "Long Stories" categories.


title: Saiyuki (manga)

text: The manga has received critical praise and accolades criticism from various publications. "Manga News" described; ""Saiyuki" may be a quest, at its core, but it acts more as a motor for humor and development. atypical charisms. Against the backdrop of a mythological story, not very innovative, the mangaka indeed plays a lot on flashbacks, which give depth to the characters while bringing the essential dramatic side, and the experience accumulated by our heroes. These learn from their mistakes and overcome their weaknesses. "Anime UK News" described "Saiyuki" as "there’s no denying the raw energy and compelling storytelling it delivers. The glimpses it affords of tragic backstories for each of the protagonists draw the reader in, eager to learn more about what lies beneath their self-confident, worldly-wise swaggering; bad boys, traditionally, have had to develop tough exteriors to conceal their raw inner wounds. The excellent translation from the original Tokyopop edition (2002) by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley captures just the right tone of voice for the members of the Sanzo party, constantly arguing and joshing each other".


title: Cedric Benson

text: Cedric Myron Benson (December 28, 1982 – August 17, 2019) was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and was recognized as a consensus All-American. He was selected by the Chicago Bears with the fourth overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft and also played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson began to emerge as a football stand-out in the eighth grade while attending Abell Junior High School in Midland, Texas, under Coach Chris McKinney. Benson attended Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas, and finished his high school playing career with 8,423 rushing yards (the most in Texas 5A history, largest classification at the time, and the fourth most in Texas high school football history). He led his team to three consecutive State Championships, and rushed for a total of 15 touchdowns in the three championship games. Benson rushed for more than 1,900 yards in only 9 games. He rushed for over 3,500 yards (51 touchdowns) his junior year in an undefeated State and National Championship season. He was the first high school player ever to make the cover of Dave Campbell's Texas Football annual magazine. Benson was also a center fielder on the baseball team. As a senior, in District 4-5A games, he hit .361 with 4 home runs and 14 RBIs.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a four-year starter for the Longhorns football team. As a senior in 2004, he received the Doak Walker Award as the nation's top running back and was recognized as a consensus All-American. He finished his college career with 5,540 rushing yards to rank tenth all time in NCAA Division I-A history, and second only to Ricky Williams in Longhorns team history.


title: Cedric Benson

text: He has often been compared to Williams, due to their similarities in running style, college choice, legal complications, and superficial appearance (roughly the same size and build coming out of college, and both had dreadlocks early in their careers), and the fact that they had both been minor league baseball players.


title: Cedric Benson

text: While attending the University of Texas, Benson majored in social work and sociology. During his latter years, he earned membership into the Texas' Athletics Director's Academic Honor Roll, and the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll in fall of 2003. Also, while in college, Benson was arrested twice, once for possession of marijuana and the other for criminal trespass. The marijuana case was dropped after a friend came forward and claimed ownership. He received 8 days in jail for the trespass conviction although he spent no time in jail other than the day of arrest due to overcrowding in Travis County Jail. He was forced to serve a one-half game suspension against Baylor University.


title: Cedric Benson

text: The Chicago Bears selected Benson with the fourth overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft. Benson was visibly upset upon being drafted by Chicago, as the two parties disagreed on contract terms prior to the draft. After a 36-day contract hold-out, Benson and the Bears finally agreed to a five-year contract worth $35 million, with a $16 million signing bonus. The Bears wished to make Benson their feature running back, but his lengthy contract impasse had caused him to miss the team's entire training camp. Benson claimed that he received a cold reception upon his return because he claimed he would be starting by the third game despite holding out and not practicing. Jay Glazer reported that certain players even attempted to intentionally injure him during practice.


title: Cedric Benson

text: The team temporarily made Thomas Jones their featured running back for the beginning of the 2005 season. Jones' performance impressed the Bears' coaching staff, and earned him the top spot on the team's depth-chart for the next two seasons. Benson occasionally received playtime, and he rushed for eighty yards on sixteen carries against the New Orleans Saints during his best game. However, shortly afterwards, he suffered a medial collateral ligament sprain and missed most of the remaining season.


title: Cedric Benson

text: After the 2005 the Bears considered making Benson the team's starting running back after Jones was unhappy with his current contract status. The team's plans went astray when Benson injured his shoulder after colliding with Brian Urlacher during a routine scrimmage. Although the injury was not serious, it placed Benson on the sidelines for a majority of the preseason.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Although Benson fully recovered from his injury, head coach Lovie Smith selected Jones as the Bears' starter. Benson scored his first two touchdowns during week five of the 2006 season, against the Buffalo Bills. In a game against the New England Patriots during week twelve of the season, Benson collided with linebacker Junior Seau, causing Seau to fall down and fracture his forearm.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Days later, Benson challenged Smith's coaching by remarking, "the NFL is not like high school or college, but the best players don't always get on the field." The following week, Benson out rushed Jones and scored a vital touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings on 4th down. However, when asked about it after the game, he said he didn't know that it was 4th down. He began to receive more carries as the weeks progressed, and managed to rush for over 100 yards against the Green Bay Packers.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson became the Bears' secondary running back again during the playoffs. In the 2006 NFC Championship game against the New Orleans Saints, Benson scored a fourth-quarter touchdown and totaled 60 yards. Though he was given a majority of the team's carries, his counterpart, Jones, amassed two touchdowns and 123 rushing yards. In the team's following game, Super Bowl XLI, Benson sustained a knee injury in the first half, and missed the remainder of the game.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Smith named Benson as the Bears' starting running back after the team traded Jones to the New York Jets. Benson struggled throughout the preseason, but received enough support from his teammates and coaches to retain his starting position. He amassed only forty-two yards in his first regular season game and committed a costly turnover. However, Benson rebounded with a 101-yard performance during his next start. After several inconsistent games, Benson began to stabilize after the bye week. In one of his best games of the season, Benson rushed for eighty-nine yards and scored one touchdown on eleven attempts. He averaged 5.8 yards in his next game, but sustained a season-ending ankle injury. Benson, who had amassed 647 yards and four touchdowns, was eventually relieved by Adrian N. Peterson.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Jerry Angelo, the Bears' general manager, had expressed interest in acquiring a new running back to revitalize the Bears' running game, which finished last in yards in the league. Upon hearing the news, Benson commented, “You all know the competition that goes on around here. It doesn’t matter to me. Maybe somebody else can get some criticism.” On June 9, 2008, Benson was released by the Bears following his second alcohol-related arrest in five weeks.


title: Cedric Benson

text: In October 2009, Benson confirmed that shortly before he was released by the Bears, he had been diagnosed with Celiac disease.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Shortly after the grand jury failed to indict him on both incidents in Austin, Benson signed a one-year, $520,000 contract with the Cincinnati Bengals on September 30, 2008. DeDe Dorsey was placed on injured reserve and Chris Perry was the starter. Benson's season began in a loss to the Dallas Cowboys, rushing 10 times for 30 yards. He became the starting back for the Bengals in Week 7 against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Benson rushed 14 times for 52 yards in his first career start as a Bengal. In the following 35–6 loss to the Houston Texans, he totaled 49 yards on 13 carries and had two receptions for 20 yards. The Bengals picked up their first victory of the season in a 21–19 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, with Benson carrying 24 times for 104 yards and a touchdown. Benson hit his stride in the Bengals' three-game winning streak at the end of the season, gashing the Washington Redskins in week 15 with 161 yards from scrimmage, including 88 yards receiving (79 of which came on a screen pass). In week 16, Benson dominated the Cleveland Browns, rushing for 171 yards. In the final game of the season against the Kansas City Chiefs, Benson had 111 yards on 25 carries. In the twelve games he was active during the 2008 season, Benson had 932 yards from scrimmage: 747 rushing and 185 receiving.


title: Cedric Benson

text: A free agent after the 2008 season, Benson visited with the Houston Texans before signing a two-year, $7-million contract with the Bengals on March 3, 2009.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Entering week 8 of the 2009 season, Benson had 164 carries for an NFL best 720 yards (4.4 per carry average). In week 5, he became the first 100-yard rusher against the Baltimore Ravens in 40 games, when he rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown. In week 7, Benson faced his former team, the Chicago Bears, and rushed for a career-high 189 yards and a touchdown.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson went on to record his first 1,000-yard rushing season and he set a Bengals franchise record with six games with over 100 rushing yards. He finished the season as the NFL's 8th leading rusher with 1,251 yards, despite playing only 13 games. He then set a Bengals postseason record with 169 rushing yards in their 24–14 loss to the New York Jets.


title: Cedric Benson

text: The Bengals declined to resign Benson in 2012. Coach Marvin Lewis later recounted how he explained the decision to Benson: "'Ced, it's not that I didn't think you could do that on the football field, it was the other [stuff] that I got tired of. When I would go to you and say we're going to rotate the backs [and Benson would take it poorly]. I don't need that anymore.'"


title: Cedric Benson

text: On August 12, 2012, Benson signed with the Green Bay Packers. The deal was reportedly a one-year contract worth $825,000.


title: Cedric Benson

text: On October 7, 2012, Benson suffered a Lisfranc injury to his foot and was later placed on injured reserve.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 12th round (370th overall) of the 2001 MLB Draft. While Benson did not play in the major leagues, he spent his time with the Dodgers playing in their summer league at Vero Beach. He also played with the Gulf Coast League Dodgers. In 25 at-bats he had 5 hits, 1 run, 3 doubles, 2 triples, and 2 RBIs.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson's cousin, Aaron, played linebacker for the University of Texas from 2010–2013, but gave up the sport in his redshirt senior year.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson had celiac disease and attributed his adoption of a gluten-free diet to giving him more energy.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Before the start of the 2008 season, Benson was arrested for allegedly operating a boat while intoxicated and resisting arrest. On May 3, 2008, the incident occurred near Austin, Texas, by the Lower Colorado River Authority during a late night safety inspection. The official police report cited that Benson had failed a field sobriety test, and became hostile towards the police. The officers arrested Benson, and proceeded to use pepper-spray after he forcefully resisted arrest. Benson was later detained for the night, and charged with boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson later refuted the charges against him, and stated he requested to take a follow-up field sobriety test on land after failing the initial one. Benson had further accused the officers of abusing him, stating, “I’m not handcuffed. I’m not under arrest. I’m not threatening him. I’m not pushing him. I’m not touching him. And he sprays me right in the eye.” He also asserts that officers continuously struck his ankles and feet to prevent him from walking properly. A female passenger on Benson's boat also claimed to have witnessed the abuse and called her father out of fear for Benson's safety. Her fiancé, also on the boat, may have had dozens of pictures confirming Benson's account.


title: Cedric Benson

text: Upon hearing about the incident, Bears' head coach Lovie Smith stated, “I haven’t had a chance to speak with Cedric yet, but anytime we’re talking about one of our players getting arrested, you’re disappointed in it,” and added “What we’re going to do from here, I’ll go back and try to get as much information as I possibly can and go from there.”


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Austin, Texas, on June 7, 2008. While returning from a restaurant with his girlfriend, police claimed that Benson drove through a red light, and failed a field sobriety test. Police claimed he later refused to take a breath or blood test to determine his blood alcohol level. Police proceeded to detain Benson, and later released him on bond. Benson denied the police officers' allegations and insisted that he "aced" the field test. Bears general manager Jerry Angelo commented, "It's unfortunate. Disappointment is too much an often used word when we're talking about Cedric. The No. 1 lesson for every player is protect your job. We're all held accountable for our actions. I'm not going to say any more than that until we know for sure what the facts are." On the following Monday, Benson was waived from the Bears. Angelo commented on the release, stating ”Cedric displayed a pattern of behavior we will not tolerate... As I said this past weekend, you have to protect your job. Everyone in this organization is held accountable for their actions."


title: Cedric Benson

text: Benson was later ordered by a county judge to put a built-in ignition interlock breathalyzer in his car. He was also told to start drug counseling classes. Benson was cleared of all charges in September, after appearing before two grand juries in Travis County.


title: Cedric Benson

text: On June 29, 2010, Benson was arrested for assault with injury after reportedly punching a bartender in the face. Benson himself denied committing the crime. Almost a month after the ordeal, the NFL announced that Benson would not be suspended.


title: Cedric Benson

text: On July 17, 2011, Benson was arrested in Austin, Texas, for a misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury to a family member. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine. Benson was released from jail on September 3, after only five days of his sentence. He received a one-game suspension, enacted in week 8.


title: Cedric Benson

text: On February 18, 2017, Benson was charged with driving while intoxicated in downtown Austin, Texas. According to court documents, Benson refused to take a field sobriety test and could not recite the alphabet from G to Z nor count past the number 3. Benson was released on the same day after posting bond.


title: Cedric Benson

text: On August 17, 2019, Benson and a female passenger, Dr. Aamna Najam, were killed when his motorcycle crashed with a minivan on RM 2222 in Austin, Texas. Benson and the woman were pronounced dead at the scene, and two passengers in the minivan were not seriously injured.


title: Cedric Benson

text: On the two year anniversary of Benson’s death, his family and the Austin Independent School District launched a mentorship program in his honor at Gus Garcia Young Men’s Leadership Academy.


title: Legally Blondes

text: Legally Blondes is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD comedy film. It is a spin-off of the "Legally Blonde" film series. It was directed by Savage Steve Holland and co-produced by Reese Witherspoon, who played Elle Woods in the first two "Legally Blonde" films. The film stars Camilla and Rebecca Rosso as Elle's British twin cousins.


title: Legally Blondes

text: British twin sisters Izzy and Annie Woods move in with their cousin Elle Woods in Southern California after Elle becomes a successful lobbyist and moves to Washington, D.C. Awaiting the girls are a pair of chihuahua dogs who are the nephews of Bruiser, Elle's chihuahua. The twins are dismayed to learn that they will be attending Pacific Preparatory (Pac Prep), Elle's alma mater, a private school that requires uniforms.


title: Legally Blondes

text: The twins meet Chris Lopez, a scholarship student who is smitten with Annie, and Tiffany Donohugh, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy donor of Pac Prep. Tiffany pretends to befriend them, but later reveals to their classmates that the twins are attending Pac Prep on a partial scholarship, embarrassing them. Izzy and Annie then form friendships with other scholarship students, and they all begin making ways to change Pac Prep's culture. Izzy also tries to help Chris get closer to Annie.


title: Legally Blondes

text: Chris and Izzy are later accused of cheating on a history test and set out to prove their innocence. After learning that Chris has access to a master key that opens all doors in the school and that Tiffany has a master passcode that grants access to all of the school's computers (which had been donated by her father), the twins suspect that she and her boyfriend Justin Whitley framed them by gaining access to the test answers on their teacher's computer.


title: Legally Blondes

text: They then make their case in student court. Izzy is locked in the bathroom by Justin in an effort to silence her during the hearing, forcing Annie to overcome her fear of public speaking and impersonate her. As Izzy returns, Annie must continue making her case while impersonating her sister to keep up the ruse. As Annie finishes her summation of Tiffany and Justin's plot, supporters of the twins click their pens to anger Justin, who is irritated by the sound. Out of rage, Justin admits to framing Chris and Izzy on Tiffany's behalf. Tiffany admits to masterminding everything, but claims that she cannot be punished because of her father's status as a founder and donor of the school. Despite this, headmistress Elsa Higgins expels both Justin and Tiffany.


title: Legally Blondes

text: In the end, Annie and Chris dance together and Izzy does the same with Brad, a scholarship student who had assisted the twins in student court. The twins and their friends become popular at the school, while Tiffany and Justin are cut off from their families' wealth and sent to public school.


title: Legally Blondes

text: On Cinemablend.com, the film earned three stars out of five and received a moderately positive review.


title: Legally Blondes

text: David Nusair of "Reel Film Reviews" gave the film 1/4 and called it "As ineffective as direct-to-video sequels come" and "never quite able to justify its very existence." David Cornelius of "DVD Talk" wrote: "Reimagines the franchise in the tone of a Disney Channel sitcom. Oh, my."


title: Christian views on alcohol

text: Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper. They held that both the Bible and Christian tradition taught that alcohol is a gift from God that makes life more joyous, but that over-indulgence leading to drunkenness is sinful.