Summary of Episode 1(Jigoku Shoujo): From Beyond The Twilight

In the beginning of the story… there is one junior high school student named Mayumi Hashimoto. She is framed for embezzling class money and going out with a salaryman by her classmate Aya Kuroda, because of being envy of her. Because of this trauma, she then founds out about the website to hell, and then asks for Jigoku Shoujo to send Aya to hell.

Which is which?

Here are some of the IT career paths to take after you graduate from this course:

• applications developer
• system analyst
• database administrator
• technical support specialist
• database analyst
• information security specialist
• network admin
• web admin/web master
• web developer
• technology instructor

New Moon Movie Soundtrack

One of my favorite soundtracks of a movie.

Lists of the songs:

1	“Meet Me on the Equinox” by Death Cab for Cutie	Credits
2	“Friends” by Band of Skulls	Bella rides a motorcycle with a stranger
3	“Hearing Damage” by Thom Yorke	Victoria escapes the wolf pack
4	“Possibility” by Lykke Li	Bella sits and thinks while months go by
5	“A White Demon Love Song” by The Killers	Credits
6	“Satellite Heart” by Anya Marina	Edward drives Bella home
7	“I Belong to You” [New Moon Remix] by Muse	Bella and Jessica go to the movies
8	“Rosyln” by Bon Iver and St. Vincent	Edward breaks up with Bella
9	“Done All Wrong” by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Members from the wolf pack take Bella to Emily’s house
10	“Monsters” by Hurricane Bells	Edward arrives at school
11	“The Violet Hour” by Sea Wolf	Bella’s birthday party
12	“Shooting the Moon” by OK Go	Bella and Jacob spend time in his garage
13	“Slow Life” by Grizzly Bear featuring Victoria Legrand	Bella jumps off a cliff and nearly drowns
14	“No Sound But the Wind” by Editors	Edward drives Bella home from the Cullens’ house after the vote
15	“New Moon (The Meadow)” by Alexandre Desplat	Opening credits

Website to Suffering

Jigoku website: http://roffel.at/jigoku/

Also known to the story as the website to hell…in order for you to avenge someone at the stroke of midnight.

Reaction about penelopetrunk’s post – What makes a blog successful?

The way penelopetrunk talks about her blog is something interesting to read. It is like her hobby, and also her way of making money. In this topic, she tried to explain things about blogs that can be successful…in her way. But, she’s open minded to other people who has more positive ideas than her. She stated there that one way of making your blog a success is to make conversations…in order to make money. You should state topics that you think is interesting to other people, as well as you. If more people visit your site, you can make lots of money.

In my own opinion, making a blog is easy…but maintaining the success of your blog is quite hard to do. There could be circumstances that, you cannot maintain anymore your blog because of a busy schedule, or topic that you’re not interested anymore because of personal problems.

It is very important to stick to your topics…and try to improve more, so that every blog could be a success.

Difference: CS vs IT

What could be the difference between Computer Science and Information Technology? Well, here’s a little something for you:

 

Computer Science(CS) – it is mainly concerned with the invention and development of new software and hardware. It refers to the science or details of computers, includes the design of software, design of hardware, networking, etc.

 

meanwhile…

 

Information Technology(IT) – it mainly concerns with the selection and use of already-available software and hardware. It is the application of computers towards organizing and efficient retrieval/reporting of information.

 

See the difference?

Information Technology

A little “information” about “Information Technology”:

Information Technology is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and or disseminate information.

It is also the branch of technology concerned with the dissemination, processing, and storage of information, esp. by means of computers.

I am also giving out some of the duties of IT professionals:

• Data Management
• Networking
• Engineering Computer Hardware
• Designing a Database
• Software Design
• Management and Administration of entire systems.

Reactions – Machine is Us

The HTML video was full of information about web pages, websites and other topics related to it. I was quite absorbed with it as he discusses things about we do at the World Wide Web, and how it affects all the users. He also compares the old times (writing using a paper and pencil) and by using a computer…it makes work easier. That is how useful the net is. The video shows the benefit of having so many websites that makes us do many things: chatting, surfing, uploading, researching, almost everything can be done in the internet! But there’s like a warning for those who don’t mind what they are doing like copy writing, authorship, identity, ethics, and many others. As the last part of the video has said, “Web is linking people… people sharing, trading and collaborating…”

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), “(art) of the Muses”.[1]

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within “the arts”, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.

To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as “the harmony of the spheres” and “it is music to my ears” point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, “There is no noise, only sound.”[2] According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, “the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus…. By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is ‘sound through time’.”[3]

History

Ancient music can only be imagined by scholars, based on findings from a range of paleolithic sites, such as bones in which lateral holes have been pierced: these are usually identified as flutes,[4] blown at one end like the Japanese shakuhachi. Instruments, such as the seven-holed flute and various types of stringed instruments have been recovered from the Indus Valley Civilization archaeological sites.[5] India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world—references to Indian classical music (marga) can be found in the ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas.[6] The earliest and largest collection of prehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC.[7]
References in the Bible

Music and theatre scholars studying the history and anthropology of Semitic and early Judeo-Christian culture, have also discovered common links between theatrical and musical activity in the classical cultures of the Hebrews with those of the later cultures of the Greeks and Romans. The common area of performance is found in a “social phenomenon called litany,” a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications. The Journal of Religion and Theatre notes that among the earliest forms of litany, “Hebrew litany was accompanied by a rich musical tradition:”[8]

“While Genesis 4.21 identifies Jubal as the “father of all such as handle the harp and pipe,” the Pentateuch is nearly silent about the practice and instruction of music in the early life of Israel. Then, in I Samuel 10 and the texts which follow, a curious thing happens. “One finds in the biblical text,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation.” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians. This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class–which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.”[8]

Antiquity

Music was an important part of cultural and social life in Ancient Greece: mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual ceremonies; musicians and singers had a prominent role in ancient Greek theater.[9] In the 9th century, the Arab scholar al-Farabi wrote a book on music titled Kitab al-Musiqi al-Kabir (“Great Book of Music”). He played and invented a variety of musical instruments and devised the Arab tone system of pitch organisation, which is still used in Arabic music.[10]
Western cultures

During the Medieval music era (500-1400), the only European repertory which has survived from before about 800 is the monophonic liturgical plainsong of the Roman Catholic Church, the central tradition of which was called Gregorian chant. Alongside these traditions of sacred and church music there existed a vibrant tradition of secular song. Examples of composers from this period are Léonin, Pérotin and Guillaume de Machaut. From the Renaissance music era (1400-1600), much of the surviving music of 14th century Europe is secular. By the middle of the 15th century, composers and singers used a smooth polyphony for sacred musical compositions. The introduction of commercial printing helped to disseminate musical styles more quickly and across a larger area. Prominent composers from this era are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Thomas Morley and Orlande de Lassus.

The era of Baroque music (1600-1750) began when the first operas were written and when contrapuntal music became prevalent. German Baroque composers wrote for small ensembles including strings, brass, and woodwinds, as well as choirs, pipe organ, harpsichord, and clavichord. During the Baroque period, several major music forms were defined that lasted into later periods when they were expanded and evolved further, including the fugue, the invention, the sonata, and the concerto.[11] Composers from the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann. The music of the Classical period (1750-1800) is characterized by homophonic texture, often featuring a prominent melody with accompaniment. These new melodies tended to be almost voice-like and singable. The now popular instrumental music was dominated by further evolution of musical forms initially defined in the Baroque period: the sonata, and the concerto, with the addition of the new form, the symphony. Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are among the central figures of the Classical period.

In 1800, the Romantic era (1800-1890s) in music developed, with Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert as transitional composers who introduced a more dramatic, expressive style. During this era, existing genres, forms, and functions of music were developed, and the emotional and expressive qualities of music came to take precedence over technique and tradition. In Beethoven’s case, motifs (developed organically) came to replace melody as the most significant compositional unit. The late 19th century saw a dramatic expansion in the size of the orchestra, and in the role of concerts as part of urban society. Later Romantic composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Gustav Mahler created complex and often much longer musical works. They used more complex chords and used more dissonance to create dramatic tension.
Non-Western Classical traditions

Indian classical music is one of the oldest musical traditions in the world.[12] The Indus Valley civilization has sculptures which show dance[13] and old musical instruments, like the seven holed flute. Various types of stringed instruments and drums have been recovered from Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro by excavations carried out by Sir Mortimer Wheeler.[14] The Rigveda has elements of present Indian music, with a musical notation to denote the metre and the mode of chanting.[15] Indian classical music (marga) is monophonic, and based around a single melody line or raga rhythmically organized through talas. Carnatic music is largely devotional; the majority of the songs are addressed to the Hindu deities. There are a lot of songs emphasising love and other social issues. Hindustani music was also influenced by the Persian performance practices of the Afghan Mughals.

Asian music covers the music cultures of Arabia, Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Chinese classical music, the traditional art or court music of China, has a history stretching over around three thousand years. It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres. Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave (5+7 = 12) as does European-influenced music. Persian music is the music of Persia and Persian language countries: musiqi, the science and art of music, and muzik, the sound and performance of music (Sakata 1983). See also: Music of Iran, Music of Afghanistan, Music of Tajikistan, Music of Uzbekistan).

The music of Greece was a major part of ancient Greek theater. In Ancient Greece, mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons. Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara. Music was an important part of education in ancient Greece, and boys were taught music starting at age six. Greek musical literacy created a flowering of development; Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, eventually became the basis for Western religious music and classical music. Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed Greek music.
20th century music

With 20th century music, there was a vast increase in music listening as the radio gained popularity and phonographs were used to replay and distribute music. The focus of art music was characterized by exploration of new rhythms, styles, and sounds. Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and John Cage were all influential composers in 20th century art music.

Jazz evolved and became a significant genre of music over the course of the 20th century, and during the second half of that century, rock music did the same. Jazz is an American musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style’s West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note.[16] From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music.[17] Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, ranging from New Orleans Dixieland (1910s) to 1970s and 1980s-era jazz-rock fusion.

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed in the 1960s from 1950s rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, and country music. The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, digital synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are used as soloing instruments. In its “purest form”, it “has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.”[18] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, rock music branched out into different subgenres, ranging from blues rock and jazz-rock fusion to heavy metal and punk rock, as well as the more classical influenced genre of progressive rock.

- from wikipedia.org

Anime

Anime (アニメ^?, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of “animation”, pronounced [anime] ( listen) in Japanese, but typically /ˈænəˌmeɪ/ (help·info) or /ˈænəˌmə/ in English) is animation originating in Japan. The world outside Japan regards anime as “Japanese animation”.^[1] Anime originated about 1917.^[2]

Anime, like manga (Japanese comics), has a large audience in Japan and high recognition throughout the world. Distributors can release anime via television broadcasts, directly to video, or theatrically, as well as online.

Both hand-drawn and computer-animated anime exist. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents most, if not all, genres of fiction. Anime gained early popularity in East and Southeast Asia and has garnered more-recent popularity in the Western World.

 

History

Main article: History of anime

Screenshot from Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors (1944), the first feature-length anime film

Anime began at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques also pioneered in France, Germany, the United States, and Russia.^[3] The oldest known anime in existence first screened in 1917 – a two-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat.^[4][5] The first talkie anime was Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released^{[by whom?]} in 1933.^[6][7]

By the 1930s, animation became an alternative format of storytelling to the underdeveloped^{[citation needed]} live-action industry in Japan. Unlike in the United States, the live-action industry in Japan remained a small market and suffered from budgeting, location, and casting restrictions. The lack of Western-looking actors, for example, made it next to impossible to shoot films set in Europe, America, or fantasy worlds that do not naturally involve Japan. Animation allowed artists to create any characters and settings.^[8]

The success of The Walt Disney Company‘s 1937 feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influenced Japanese animators.^[9] In the 1960s, manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation-techniques to reduce costs and to limit the number of frames in productions. He intended this as a temporary measure to allow him to produce material on a tight schedule with inexperienced animation staff.

The 1970s saw a surge of growth in the popularity of manga – many of them later animated. The work of Osamu Tezuka drew particular attention: he has been called^{[by whom?]} a “legend”^[10] and the “god of manga”.^[11][12] His work – and that of other pioneers in the field – inspired characteristics and genres that remain fundamental elements of anime today. The giant robot genre (known as “Mecha” outside Japan), for instance, took shape under Tezuka, developed into the Super Robot genre under Go Nagai and others, and was revolutionized at the end of the decade by Yoshiyuki Tomino who developed the Real Robot genre. Robot anime like the Gundam and The Super Dimension Fortress Macross series became instant classics in the 1980s, and the robot genre of anime is still one of the most common in Japan and worldwide today. In the 1980s, anime became more accepted in the mainstream in Japan (although less than manga), and experienced a boom in production. Following a few successful adaptations of anime in overseas markets in the 1980s, anime gained increased acceptance in those markets in the 1990s and even more at the turn of the 21st century.

-from wikipedia.org