To put simply, there is a lot of shonen manga out there. The genre is one of the industry's most popular, and readers of all ages eat up its action-centric stories. When it comes to shonen, readers can get their fix pretty easily, but few magazines are as popular as Weekly Shonen Jump.
The publication got its start in August 1968 under Shueisha, and it has since become a powerhouse of manga readership. Many of the industry's biggest series got their start at Weekly Shonen Jump, and its declined readership has not prevented it from housing newer top-tier titles.
From Dragon Ball to My Hero Academia, the manga and anime fandom owe plenty to Weekly Shonen Jump. So, ComicBook is here to breakdown the magazine's top ten franchises of all-time. You can learn more about the publication's must-read series in the following slides!
Did you favorite series make our list? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics, k-pop, and anime!
Our first title takes fans back to the 1980s when manga was all about big hair and even bigger muscles. In 1983, Tetsuo Hara and Buronson came together to create Fist of the North Star, an epic title that delved into one martial artist's violent life. The series ran 1988 after 245 chapters were released, and it is considered a classic shonen title by most manga lovers.
The series tells the story of Kenshiro, a human warrior who lives after a nuclear war ravaged the Earth. The man is trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, a secret and deadly martial arts style which uses anatomical vital points to kill opponents. Kenshiro uses his rare skill to take down corrupt ravagers who prey on Earth's weak survivors, and he finds himself at odds with classmates from his former training school.
There are few things which bond people together like sports, and the shonen genre knows that very well. Over the years, dozens of sport-centric series have been released, and Haikyu!! is one of the genre's shining stars. Its colorful cast and charismatic leads are ones you just have to stan.
The manga made its debut in Weekly Shonen Jump under Haruichi Furudate in 2012. The title, which is still being published, tells the story of Shoyo Hinata. The short boy loves volleyball, but he is often overlooked because of his height. When he enters high school, Hinata tries out for Karasuno's team, but he is thrown off when his rival Tobio Kageyama does as well. The pair discover they can pull off a near-invincible play when they work together, and the series follows the entire Karasuno team as it tries to regain its former glory.
JoJo's Bizarre Adeventure is pretty — well — odd. The story was created by Hirohiko Araki back in 1987, and Weekly Shonen Jump housed it for much of its run. The series finally upped its age group n 2005 when Shueisha's Ultra Jump began publishing the title for seinen readers. However, the title is still considered a shonen classic amongst fans.
The franchise is a bit hard to explain, but that is because it is split into eight parts. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure tells the winding story of the Joester family, a clan who is destined to fight all sorts of supernatural begins. Each part follows a different member of the Joestar brood throughout time, and its timeline kicks off in the 1880s with some street thugs and vampire.
You cannot talk about popular sports titles in manga and not mention The Prince of Tennis. The series, which was created in 1999, is all thanks to Takeshia Konomi. The shonen title was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump until 2008, and its sequel is housed under a new magazine with the same publisher.
You can probably guess what The Prince of Tennis is about. The series is set in Tokyo and follows a prodigal athlete named Ryoma Echizen. The boy attends a school known for its tennis club, and Ryoma quickly secures a regular spot on the group. Determined to win the National Middle School Tennis Championship, Ryoma partakes in dozens of matches to hone his skill and learns how the sport has influence him.
Death Note may look too dark to be considered shonen, but the supernatural thriller is a vetted member of the genre. Weekly Shonen Jump published Takeshi Obata's series back in 2003 until it ended several years later. With 12 volumes to its name, Death Note is one of the magazine's shortest complete series, but that has made it no less popular.
Death Note follows a student named Light Yagami after the high schooler stumbles upon a death note. The book, which is watched over by a shinigami, gives its owner the ability to kill anyone whose name is put in its pages. Light intends to weed out corrupt criminals with the book, but he gets drunk on the death note's power. But when a prodigal detective named L and his team are tasked to stop Light, things get messy real fast.
When you think of Weekly Shonen Jump, Son Goku may be the first character who comes to mind. The hero is a truly international star as Dragon Ball launched Goku and his crew back in 1984. Creator Akira Toriyama published his fan-favorite series with Weekly Shonen Jump until 1995, and Dragon Ball was split into two acclaimed anime titles.
Dragon Ball is nearly 520 chapters, and it follows the life of a boy named Son Goku. The series, which is loosely based on Journey to the West, follows Goku as the young boy trains in martial arts and searches his world for seven mystical items called dragon balls. However, as Goku gets older, he learns he is really a warrior from the Saiyan race. The discovery pushes the hero to train even harder and become the strongest fighter in the entire universe.
My Hero Academia is one of Weekly Shonen Jump's newer series, but its popularity is equal to plenty of veteran titles. The manga debuted back in 2014 under Kohei Horikoshi, and it still has a long way to go. With 16 volumes under its utility belt so far, the hero-centric series is poised to become the next big shonen classic.
The manga is set in a world where superheroes are the norm. Most of the population is born with powers known as Quirks, but Izuku Midoriya is not one of those gifted individuals. The boy wants nothing more than to be a hero, so when the world's top superhero shares his Quirk with Izuku, he is thrust into a whole new world. But, if he wants to become a full-fledged hero, Izuku needs to enroll in a high school for heroes-in-training.
Shonen fans should be vey familiar with Yoshihiro Togashi. The manga creator hit it big with Yu Yu Hakusho back in the day, but his on-going work with Hunter x Hunter is hard to top. The new series debut under Weekly Shonen Jump back in 1998, and fans are excited every time a new chapter drops.
Hunter x Hunter is set in a world where Hunters are tasked with doing lots of dangerous tasks. A boy named Gon Freecs is determined to become a top Hunter to find his father, but he must become licensed first. On his way to become a Hunter, Gon creates a squad of his own before passing the exam, but the hero learns the test was perhaps the easiest part of his journey.
Naruto is not series which other manga can easily compete with. In fact, few shonen titles have reached its level of international popularity. The series, which was created by Masashi Kishimoto, debuted back in 1999 before ending in 2014. The action-adventure series introduced fans to a world of ninjas, and its main hero has become a global star in recent years.
The manga is set in a world where ninjas exist and undergo missions for their village. Naruto Uzumaki is its main star, and the series follows the eccentric boy as he works to become the Leaf Village's strongest ninja. Naruto's dream is challenged at every turn thanks to his orphan status, his (literal) inner demons, and all sorts of bad guys. However, the knuckle-headed hero never gives up on his ninja way.
There's no way around it. One Piece is the biggest manga series in Japan, and Weekly Shonen Jump is lucky to call the title its friend. Eiichiro Oda kicked off the pirate-loving story in 1997, and it is still being serialized. With over 800 chapters, One Piece cannot be beat when it comes to sales or sails.
The long-running series tells the story of Monkey D. Luffy, a teenager who wants to be a pirate. Driven and curious, the hero wants to become the King of the Pirates because he loves adventuring. To do so, Luffy sets sail with a growing crew to find a mysterious treasure called One Piece, but the world government and other nefarious pirates never fail to blow holes in his ship.


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Earlier today, Helen Mirren was a guest at the Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse. Pictures from the event have been added to the photo gallery.
Helen Mirren has attended the Epsom Derby Festival together with Taylor Hackford yesterday. Some fun pictures have been added to the photo gallery, alongside pictures from the BFI screening of "McKellen Playing the Part" which was held last week. McKellen and Mirren are currently shooting "The Good Liar" in London.
"The Leisure Seeker" has been released on Blu-Ray earlier this month in Germany and various European countries. I'd recommend it to everyone who enjoys seeing two acting greats – or a film that takes its time to tell a story. While it was running a bit long with 2 hours and its pace is off-putting at times, this is a charming, sometimes funny and otherwise deeply moving story. While it might be missing the brilliant magic of "The Straight Story" or the wit of "Little Miss Sunshine", "The Leisure Seeker" has its heart at the right place, and a truly outstanding acting duo in Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren, whose Golden Globe nomination for the role was fully deserved. Over 1.500 screencaptures from the Blu-Ray have been added to the photo gallery. Please be aware they might contain spoilers.
Helen Mirren is currently visiting the 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival. There have been various sightings as well as an attendance of the screening for "Girls of the Sun". Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.


Nico Hulkenberg says his Renault Formula 1 team must get on top of its reliability problems "sooner rather than later" after a second consecutive retirement in the Chinese Grand Prix.
Renault had provided an upgraded MGU-K in China and Ricciardo had a trouble-free run to seventh place and his first points of 2019.
The team believes that Hulkenberg's retirement was a result of a software problem related to the change of MGU-K spec and that the revised hardware itself is not at fault. Hulkenberg has urged Renault to resolve its problems.
"It's not good news," said Hulkenberg. "We really have to get on top of these things, because we're costing ourselves results, experience and points.
"I think we know that we have homework to do on that side. We need fixes rather sooner than later." Hulkenberg said he had attempted to resolve the problem by making adjustments suggested by his engineer.
"It happened a couple of laps before I stopped, but we couldn't fix it, so the team asked me to park the car," said Hulkenberg.
"I lost power and it didn't go anywhere. It looks like it's related to the MGU-K again, unfortunately.
"So it looks like we have more work to do there."
Hulkenberg had qualified eighth behind Ricciardo and then lost a place to Racing Point's Sergio Perez at the start.
An early stop then dropped him down the field before his retirement and Hulkenberg admitted he was set for a difficult race.
"It wasn't looking entirely OK. Unfortunately, I lost a position to Checo during the first lap, and then just sitting in traffic was really tough for me," said Hulkenberg.
"Following another car today was impossible, you were just sliding. We all kind of had the same pace, so it was really difficult.
"Then I pitted, a slow pitstop, and I came out on traffic, so it would have been a difficult recovery anyway."


Congratulations to Sony Artisan Caroline Jensen for winning Best In Category for Beautiful Light in the 2016 VOICE collection contest. The photo was chosen from more than 35,000 entries!
Jensen describes how she created the winning photograph.
"This photograph was taken last April after my husband took me on a romantic weekend to Chicago. We went to the Art Institute of Chicago to fill my love for the visual arts, and I was immediately taken with the 2000-year-old Greek statues they had on display. I was fascinated at how heavy marble could seem so delicate and marveled at the intricate way the carver crafted each fabric fold in the stone. The light play on the surface mesmerized me, and so I sought to replicate that feeling in an image.
"My daughter agreed to model for me, and we chose a dress that had sweeping folds of neutral colored material. The statues all were either faceless or headless, so I chose to hide her face so that the light play on the material and hair took center stage. The image was shot at my studio in Heron Lake, MN, which is a 1911 bungalow with rich wood and beautiful windows. I placed my model near a window that was covered with soft sheers and angled her so that the light illuminated the outline of her hair and left deep shadows within the folds of the material.
"My lens choice was the 85mm G Master shot wide open at f/1.4 and my camera was the α7R II. I absolutely adore the EVF, which lets me get my creative vision straight out of the camera. The sharpest point of focus was on a few wisps of hair escaping her soft bun. This gave the rest of the image a bit of an ethereal feel, which I love. I barely had to edit this image. I warmed the white balance slightly, and it was good to go!"


There will be a new athletics registration service beginning with spring sports through Final Forms.
All students must re-register even if they have played a sport this school year. Please contact the athletic office if you need assistance registering your son and/or daughter.
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Any student who attends a TPS innovative/alternative school (Oakland, SAMI, SOTA, IDEA), private school without athletics or are homeschooled (all non-Wilson students must live in the Wilson attendance area), must contact the athletic office in order to register on Final Forms. For the TPS innovative/alternative students, the parent or student must contact the athletic office to be entered on Final Forms. Any private school or home schooled students (who live in the Wilson attendance area) must contact the athletic office first since there are several steps that must be completed prior to registering on Final Forms.
Just a reminder that admission is charged for ALL Pierce County League contests (including JV and C team contests) starting after 5 PM.
Season passes are available for purchase at the cashier's office for $60. They are good for any contests that charge admission (football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, wrestling, water polo). They are only good at any Tacoma School District school or facility (Stadium and Lincoln Bowls, Mt Tahoma Stadium).
The Wilson athletic pass is a money saving opportunity that will benefit the Wilson athletic program. The athletic pass allows you free admission to all TSD athletic events (football, volleyball, soccer, basketball and wrestling). It is good at all TSD schools anf facilities. It is not valid at schools or facilities outside of Tacoma (Bonney Lake HS, Lakes HS, Bethel HS, Spanaway Lake HS, Sunset Chev Stadium, Harry Lang Stadium and Art Crate Field) nor is it good for postseason (playoff) events.
The cost is $60 per pass which covers one adult. The cost more than covers your admittance price ($6) especially if your child plays more than one sport, including JV and C team contests. When we host a non-league contest or when Bonney Lake, Lakes, Bethel, or Spanaway Lake play at our schools or facilities, the pass is valid for those games.
Please consider purchasing an athletic pass. All proceeds goes to the Wilson athletic budget which helps support our programs and is a worthwhile investment.
Stop by the Wilson cashier's office or any Wilson home contest to purchase an athletic pass through the month of December. We will be happy to help you!
A reminder for all incoming freshmen. Please bring a copy of your current physical when you come in to register for fall sports. We must have a copy of the physical for your file and the physicals are not forwarded to our office from the middle schools. The physicals are good for 13 months.
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MCC's peacebuilding work expands in Middle East
WINNIPEG In a region of ongoing conflict and tension, supporting peace and promoting dialogue between religious communities continues to be a fundamental mission for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). A $500,000…
Two months after Nepal earthquake
As the monsoon season begins in Nepal, the main priority for people affected by the Apr. 25, 2015, earthquake is shelter.
Society aims to make history French
La Société d'Histoire mennonite du Québec is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: www.histoiremennonite.quebec.
Commission meets and awards Katie Funk Wiebe research grant
Rachel Twigg Boyce is the 2015 recipient of the Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission's Katie Funk Wiebe research grant. At the AGM held in Fresno, Cal., (June 12–13, 2015), the Commission awarded the grant to Twigg Boyce, currently pastor of House Blend Ministries, an intentional Christian community in Winnipeg that is now seven years old.
Cultural embrace and cultural resistance
Title: California Mennonites
Author: Brian Froese
California Mennonites is an engaging story of both cultural embrace and cultural resistance – Mennonite style. Brian Froese, associate professor of history at CMU, has completely reworked his doctoral dissertation in this book, narrating the Mennonite experience in California from the gold-rush days of the "Forty-Niners" to 1975.
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Welcoming refugees – a picture of God's kingdom
When you follow God's leading, he often "calls you to things you would never have imagined," says Michelle Knowles. Members of Waterloo (Ont.) MB Church and Forest Grove Community Church, Saskatoon, have discovered a broader view on the world and journeyed farther in discipleship by supporting refugee families.
Church planting in Canada: A life and death venture
About 10 years ago, The Metropolitan Bible Church, Ottawa, was healthy and growing, so they decided to start a congregation on a nearby campus. "How hard can this be?" asked pastor Tim Auld and his leadership team.
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5 gifts we received in the Holy Land
From Mar. 21 to Apr. 4, 2015, parent and chaperone Sheila Peters and I led a group of 10 MB Collegiate Institute students on a study tour of the Holy Land.
On June 2, I joined more than 250 people at the University of Winnipeg to watch a livestream of the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) event, as the commissioners released their findings on Canada's Indian residential school system.
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Devotional album's Scripture-based songs shine
Title: Lost and Found
Author: Cory Alstad
Lost and Found by Cory Alstad is a melodious journey on themes of hope, love and trust. The album is comprised of songs the experienced worship leader has written over the last years.
How to turn an electric toy to evangelistic tool
Title: A Field Guide for Everyday Mission: 30 days and 101 ways to demonstrate the gospel
Author: Ben Connelly and Bob Roberts Jr.
"Build short fences…" – or, in my case, lend out your hedge trimmer. We've all heard that we should view our workplaces, neighbourhoods and families as a mission field, but Ben Connelly and Bob Roberts, Jr., go beyond the "what" to articulate the "how."
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The God-bearing life…of a magazine
I remember the call like it was yesterday. Cam Rowland was on the phone, offering me a job as editor of the MB Herald. That call meant a career change, a…
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Father to gang members
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Bond's satisfaction at being bankrolled by the British government is evident – and infectious: this was the last time that Craig was allowed to be truly relaxed and charismatic in the role.Its star's excellent performance aside, the true hero of Casino Royale is Martin Campbell, a steady directorial hand dating back to 1994's No Escape, a dystopian prison break thriller shot on his home turf of the Seventh Continent, and subsequently on most of the Hollywood genre fare he was offered after Golden Eye. As the director behind two effective series reboots, Campbell surely deserves a little monument in some corner of the Fleming-verse, but where Golden Eye revelled in old-school cartooniness, Casino Royale was calibrated for (relative) seriousness from the get-go – a tone very much in vogue in the mid-2000s after the critical and commercial success of Batman Begins.
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Washington, D.C. (December 3, 2020) – The Fallen Journalists Memorial (FJM) Foundation today thanked the U.S. Senate for passing bipartisan legislation (H.R. 3465) to authorize the Foundation to establish a national memorial that honors reporters, editors, photographers and broadcasters who have lost their lives reporting the news.
The legislation, known as the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act, was passed by the House of Representatives on September 21, 2020 and is awaiting the President's signature. Sponsored by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Representative Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), the bipartisan legislation authorizes the Foundation to begin the process of designing and constructing the first memorial on public land that honors journalists who sacrificed their lives in service to America's commitment to a free press.
"On behalf of all journalists who put their lives on the line each day fulfilling their duty to deliver the news, I want to thank the Congressional sponsors for their support in shepherding the measure through the House and Senate," stated FJM Foundation President Barbara Cochran. "Once completed, this memorial will demonstrate to our citizens and visitors from around the world that our country values a free press, honors the sacrifices of journalists, and supports the family, friends and colleagues of the fallen."
On June 28, 2018, the deadliest attack on journalists in U.S. history took place at the office of the Capital Gazette, the local newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, when a gunman shot and killed five employees and wounded two others. The memorial will honor those victims, along with journalists who have lost their lives while reporting in dangerous conditions across the globe.
"Every year, journalists are attacked, imprisoned and murdered around the world," stated former U.S. Representative David Dreier, Chairman of the FJM Foundation and former chairman of Tribune Publishing. "No matter the circumstances of their deaths, these journalists and their sacrifices deserve to be remembered by a free society that values a free press."
The FJM Foundation operates under the auspices of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, which is the non-profit educational affiliate of the National Press Club. It was launched in 2018 with significant funding from the Annenberg Foundation and the Michael and Jacky Ferro Foundation.
Upon the legislation being signed into law, the FJM Foundation will lead a multi-year process to raise funds to design, develop, construct and maintain the memorial in compliance with the Commemorative Works Act of 1986, which established detailed standards and procedures for new memorials on federal land. No taxpayer funds are authorized for the project, and the legislation precludes the building of the memorial on what is known as the "Reserve," the area of the Mall in Washington, D.C. where new commemorative works are prohibited.
Other organizations supporting the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act include the News Media Alliance, National Newspaper Association, National Association of Broadcasters, Military Reporters and Editors Association, National Federation of Press Women, Committee to Protect Journalists, Freedom Forum, News Leaders Association, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Radio Television Digital News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Squirrels, Queer Lions, and James Franco: Today's Recommended Reading
By Shane Barnes
Here at Flavorwire, we pride ourselves on not only writing some of the best content on the internet, but keeping an eye on all of the great writing that other folks on the 'net are doing, too. We've got a beautiful explainer from Slate, which debunks the notion that the recently internet-famous "gay lions" are actually gay. Also: an interview between James Franco and critic Jerry Saltz, which is fascinating for many reasons, but primarily because Saltz and his wife, Times critic Roberta Smith, have not been very big fans of Franco's artwork. Lastly, two odes: one to squirrels, and the other to Lisa Simpson, unheralded jazz icon.
At Slate, writer Christina Cauterucci takes on the unforgiving task of explainer-ing gay lion sex to a world that is currently in love with gay lion sex. It sounds like the sort of the thing that would warrant plenty of eye rolls, and maybe it does: can't we all just have some fun with some pictures of gay lions making love? No, not if the gay lions are not gay, and are not even both of the same sex! Don't live in a world of lies in which gay lions roam free; read this piece, and be educated.
Meanwhile, the lion world has already moved on to debunking the notion of abiological sex binary. National Geographic notes that a genetic aberration or surfeit of androgens in the womb may have given one female lion the secondary sex characteristics of a male, which were then passed down and repeated across Botswana. Female does not mean the same biological thing, point blank, across an entire species or animal class. Female spotted hyenas, for example, have clitorises that are larger than the penises of their male counterparts, which help them exhibit dominance in a matriarchal social structure.
Pitchfork's old-school (but newish) publication, The Pitchfork Review, is coming out with a fancy jazz issue soon, and so the site seems to be beefing up its jazz content to prepare its readers for classy stuff like this great piece by Quinn Moreland about Lisa Simpson, an unheralded jazz icon. What's impressive is not the fact that Moreland even though to write about this — as it deserves to be written about, absolutely — but that it's gone unsaid for so long that Lisa's jazz playing was not just a gag, but was utilized in a way to emphasize the power of music in times of grief, among other things.
But Lisa's sax playing is less a tool for laughs than a prime mode for "The Simpsons" to explore serious topics beyond the realm of most animated sitcoms. The pint-sized player is able to access emotions that she may not be able to express through her physical form. Season six episode "'Round Springfield" reunites Lisa and Bleeding Gums to teach the former how to deal with the death of her hero. After initially covering Carole King's "Jazzman" at Bleeding Gums' bedside, the highlight is when Lisa and the ghost of her idol play the song once more, creating a living testament that jazz can take the blues away.
The New York Times Magazine runs Letters of Recommendation every week in what seems to be an effort to get younger writers to write odd things for a magazine that excels in harnessing all of the oddities cast aside by its parent publication. This week, they're recommending squirrels, which is amazing, because squirrels are just rodents with nice tails. I once saw a squirrel try to jump from a dumpster to a ledge with a full bagel in its mouth. It didn't make it.
Writer Avi Steinberg argues that squirrels are the friends of humans. I'm not so sure about that, but they are cute.
Squirrels, though, are right there with us. They live on our level and toil on the same schedule as humans, in every season. They share our approach to life's problems: They save and plan ahead, obsessively. They make deposits and debits (of nuts and seeds, mostly); build highways (returning to well-known routes in and around trees); manage 30-year mortgages (they can inhabit a single nest for that many years); refrigerate their staples (in their case, pine cones); and dry their delicacies for storage (mushrooms, as we do). They work the day shift and live in walk-up apartments. And like stock traders, they gamble in the marketplace.
James Franco is a love-or-hate figure in Hollywood, and it's been that way for a while. It's ramped up recently, though, as Franco has immersed himself more and more in the world of Art, and so he's been subjected to hatred from critics in both industries. Jerry Saltz, who writes for New York Magazine, has been one of his harshest critics, so it's compelling to read the lengthy conversation between the two, which recently graced the cover of the magazine. In it, Franco questions whether or not it's possible for an actor's artistic endeavors to be viewed outside of the lens of his fame, and Saltz insists that, no, it probably isn't possible. Franco maintains the tone of a kid who wants praise, and seems to only be making art in order to get that praise, or recognition, or whatever you want to call it, rather than trying to achieve any kind of artistic greatness.
I've read the thing that you wrote about celebrities going to the art world2— you talked about seeking a certain credibility that maybe we don't get in our own professions. There was also an interesting idea you had in there that the celebrity persona shrinks the closer it gets to the art world. Celebrity nowadays is built on the idea of mass reproduction. We are put in front of these cameras and projected around the whole world. The art world is smaller. You have to go into the temple — you have to go into the gallery and be in the presence of it. Yes, we can put it across on Instagram or whatever, but it's not the way that the art world works, at least right now. There are still temples — the museum, the galleries. When celebrities go into that world, they are shrinking. On the other hand, people can't help but comment about it endlessly.


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Q: How to get the 'execution count' of the most recent execution in IPython or a Jupyter notebook? IPython and Jupyter notebooks keep track of an 'execution count'. This is e.g. shown in the prompts for input and output: In[...] and Out[...].
How can you get the latest execution count programmatically?
The variable Out cannot be used for this:

*

*Out is a dictionary, with execution counts as keys, but only for those cells that yielded a result; note that not all (cell) executions need to yield a result (e.g. print(...)).

The variable In seems to be usable:

*

*In is a list of all inputs; it seems that In[0] is always primed with an empty string, so that you can use the 1-based execution count as index.

However, when using len(In) - 1, in your code, you need to take into account that the execution count seems to be updated before execution of that new code.  So, actually, it seems you need to use len(In) - 2 for the execution count of the most recent already completed execution.
Questions:

*

*Is there a better way to get the current execution count?

*Can you rely on the above observations (the 'seems')?

A: After more digging, I found the (surprisingly simple) answer:
from IPython import get_ipython

ipython = get_ipython()

... ipython.execution_count ...

This does not show up in the IPython documentation, though could (should?) have been mentioned here: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/generated/IPython.core.interactiveshell.html (I guess attributes are not documented). Here you do find run_line_magic (which was mentioned in a comment to my question).
The way I found this attribute is by defining ipython as above and then doing code completion (TAB) on ipython. (but it does not have documentation).
help(ipython)

gives you documentation about InteractiveShell, and it does mention execution_count (though it does not confirm its purpose):
 |  execution_count
 |      An int trait.

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using UnityEngine;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using HappyFunTimes;

namespace HappyFunTimes {

[AddComponentMenu("HappyFunTimes/PlayerConnector")]
public class PlayerConnector : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject[] players;
    public int timeoutForDisconnectedPlayersToReconnect = 0;

    [Space(10)]
    [Header("advanced")]
    public HFTGameOptions happyfuntimesOptions = new HFTGameOptions();

    // two accessors for the same thing
    public GameServer server
    {
        get
        {
            return m_connectionManager.gameServer;
        }
    }
    public GameServer GameServer
    {
        get
        {
            return m_connectionManager.gameServer;
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Call this to rotate an active player out and start the next waiting player.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="netPlayer">The NetPlayer of the player to return</param>
    public void ReturnPlayer(NetPlayer netPlayer) {
        m_playerManager.ReturnPlayer(netPlayer);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Returns all the current players to the waiting list
    /// and gets new ones if any are waiting
    /// </summary>
    public void FlushCurrentPlayers()
    {
        m_playerManager.FlushCurrentPlayers();
    }

    public void StartHappyFunTimes()
    {
        if (!m_started)
        {
            m_log.Info("Starting HappyFunTimes");
            m_started = true;
            enabled = true;
            m_connectionManager.StartHappyFunTimes();
        }
    }

    public void StopHappyFunTimes()
    {
        if (m_started)
        {
            m_log.Info("Stopping HappyFunTimes");
            m_started = false;
            enabled = false;
            m_connectionManager.StopHappyFunTimes();
        }
    }

    void Awake()
    {
        m_connectToServerOnStart = enabled;
        m_connectionManager = new HFTConnectionManager(gameObject, happyfuntimesOptions);

        m_playerManager = new HFTPlayerManager(m_connectionManager.gameServer, gameObject, players.Length, timeoutForDisconnectedPlayersToReconnect, GetPlayer);
    }

    void Start()
    {
        if (m_connectToServerOnStart)
        {
            StartHappyFunTimes();
        }
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (m_playerManager != null)
        {
            m_playerManager.Update();
        }
    }

    GameObject GetPlayer(int ndx)
    {
        return players[ndx];
    }

    void OnDestroy()
    {
        StopHappyFunTimes();
    }

    void OnApplicationExit()
    {
        StopHappyFunTimes();
    }

    private bool m_started;
    private bool m_connectToServerOnStart;
    private HFTPlayerManager m_playerManager;
    private HFTConnectionManager m_connectionManager;
    private HFTLog m_log = new HFTLog("PlayerConnector");
    private HFTRuntimeOptions m_options;
};

}   // namespace HappyFunTimes

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The Hungarian Legend of the Wondrous Stag is one of the oldest legends of the nation. It is so old that it is found in various forms among those nations who were the distant relatives or neighbors of the Hungarians, long before their settlement in Hungary. The meaning and the wording of the legends may have changed slightly but they all have much in common. Today the remaining legend is relatively short, whereas in the past it was probably much more extensive. However the Hungarian legend despite it's brevity includes in it many important points some of which can be found in most of the related legends found in other cultures. It is these points which show that once, in the remote antiquity, these people were neighbors or some were even related.
The symbol of the cosmos and the mother of the sun was symbolized as a large horned female doe. The great horned doe often was shown carrying the sun in her horns, in some cases the sun itself was symbolized as a stag the son of the doe of the legend. The following Christmas song told by the Hungarian regos (bards) illustrate the stag as the carrier of the sun.
7. A teremtö és gondviselö istenünkröl.
The hind represents not the sun, but it's mother, the heavenly firmament, the cosmos, which carries the stars, the sun and the moon in it's "horns". For these reasons the Scythian stags often represented the horns of the stag like flames.
A long time ago, thousands of years ago, in a distant land in Asia there was once a great and powerful kingdom. It was bordered by tall mountains in the north and a great southern sea in the south. From the mountains, two mighty rivers flowed southwards to the sea watering the flat lowlands. The people who lived there were famous for their arts, sciences and wisdom. They lived in abundance and plenty.
It was following the great flood that the people from the northern mountains settled here and founded a new land. The king of the land was the giant hunter Nimrod, the descendant of the great king Etana. (Tana in Hungarian, Kus-Tana in Kushan-Scythian, or Etana in Sumerian, the king who lived in the 3 rd millenium B.C. and according to the legend of Gilgamesh he established the city of Kish and the first Messopotamian empire, following the flood) Nimrod founded great buildings and cities and founded the great pyramid of the city of Babilon 201 years after the flood as a haven against future flooding (Simon Kezai, Gesta Hungarorum, ca 1282) and as a temple to god.
Nimrod was a mighty warrior king who also expanded his empire to include much of the northern and eastern territories and he and his people moved there, to the land of Evilath, following the confusion of languages. (Simon Kezai, Gesta Hungarorum, ca 1282) (according to Berrosus the Babilonian historian, Belas [Bel Nimrud] ruled for 56 years 130 years following the flood, and built the tower of Babel in the land of Sinear to the height of a mountain.) This land was latter called east Persia, and lay next to Northern India.
Here he married his first wife Eneth and she later bore him two twin sons called Hunor and Magor. He later had other wives and from them were born other sons and daughters who became the ancestors of the Parthians/?/Persians. (In the medieval version it was the Persians, the inheritors of the land of Iran, that are mentioned instead of the aboriginal Scythic Parthians. In other medieval references though it is the Parthians which are mentioned as being related.) The language of these people was similar to the Hungarians but not quite the same.
Enchanted by the heavenly beast they gave chase to it. The animal lead them across glades and medows onward toward the west. At dusk the beast vanished so the two princes and their men camped for the night. At dawn the hind reappeared and the chase continued afresh. It lead them through foreign lands and across the mountains of Adjem (western Iran), through wild and dangerous swamps of Meotis (The Sea of Azov, an inlet of the Black Sea, was associated with Meotis because of the common ancient name of this sea and because the Magyars and Huns lived there before their settling in Hungary. It is unlikely however that this was the original sea of the ancient legend) until they entered a beautiful bountiful country. Here the hind lead them to a lake and jumped into it and disappeared. This swampy land, called Meotis, is surounded by the sea on all sides except one where a shallow swampy land connects it to the mainland making it difficult to enter. It is rich in birds, fish and game and is situated on the borders of Persia.
The two young men were so enchanted by the two princesses that they resolved to marry them, so they and their men kidnapped all the women and married them according to their custom. They settled on a great island in the lake, which was well protected. Their descendants multiplied and populated the nearby lands, founding the 108 clans of the Scythian nation. (108 was a "holy number" related to the astronomical rate of precession of the equinoxes. Its also a holy number among Buddhists and the Buddha himself was of the Scythian Sakia tribe.) The descendants of Hunor and one of the princesses became the nation of the Huns, while the descendants of Magor and the other princess became the nation of the Magyars.
This is but the tip of the iceberg, because there is a lot more corroborating information about this legend from ancient Messopotamia. also from Assyrian and Babilonian records. The legend amongst our language relatives including FinnUgor, Huns, and others varies but is generally a star myth where the "great hunter" hunts the heavenly stagg (Ursa Major) and kills it around Christmas time. The sun which is held in its horns now escapes and becomes stronger, ushering in spring. However the calve of the stagg repeats the event every year.
(Taurus) show the hunt. The myth is Asian and Scythian but even Babilonians and others had the twin hunters part of their star lore.
that these were also related to the Magyars and ruled over them, since the Mauger name of the "Hun" prince could have been derived from the people/nation which he ruled, the Magyars.
Remnant of a Hun painting from Mongolia and stone carving from a column representing the heavenly stag.
Another descendant of the Huns are the Uygur (Yugor, Ugor) of eastern China which even in their name appears to be related to the Hungarians. In their legend a once great emperor had two sons called Tartar (Hunor) and Mungli (Maugor) who became the ancestor of the Tartars and the Mongols. [Abul Ghazi Bahadur, a 17 century historian of Khiva] This recalls the close association that the Caucasian Ujgurs had with the Mongol royal family and is tied to a later historical event, rather than to the original ancient legend of origin.
great stag. Dr Bobula Ida's essay on "The Great Stag, a Messopotamian Divinity", Buenos Aires is an excellent analysis and comparison of similar words and customs with Hungarian Regös customs of the end of the year and the traditions of the stag. For those who would like this sent to them by EMAIL, drop me a note.
In Hungarian knowledge, wisdom is based on the root word Tan, Tud, while god is also Is-Ten. Therefore Tana is associated with Hea in meaning as well as Pisces. In the Sumerian legends of the antediluvian kings the legend of Etana is prominent. Etana's legend includes the visiting of heaven. In Hungarian mythology Nimrod is the son of Etana, just as in Kushan-Scythian "Kush-Tana" is the ancestor of the nation. In Asia Ten, Tien means god or heaven also and Teno was the title of Hun emperors as in early Egypt S-Ten. Similarly in Japanese.
In Persian legend of the very early (pre Arian) period when Iran was civilized by a western Mesopotamian ruler, Takma Urupi (Tana=Takma) whose wife was also Eneth. Eneth or Nana are names of the mother goddess of waters, rivers, and fertility among Mesopotamian and Scythian peoples. She was symbolized by Virgo.
In the legends of Iran the ruler Feridun, a Scythian king who was a descendant of Takhma Urupi (Nimrod), has three sons Tura, Sin, and Iredj. The first two stick together against the third son who inherits Iran. Tura becomes the ancestor of the Turanians, that is Scythians and Huns. Nimrod was known by several names in the Near East and was also symbolized by the constellations Sagitarius and Orion amongst the Turanian/scythian nations.
The Persian Legend of the stag is Scythian in origin: Prince Rustvan-shad (Rustam?), the son of the Chinese? emperor (an eastern emperor, more likely the HUNs not the HANs) was hunting while he came across a wondrous stag: his fur was blue (heavenly symbol), and his eyes looked like rubies, his hooves shone as though they were of gold.
Whether we illustrate the story as the chase of the Stag or Ram is irrelevant because the name of the stag is based on the word horned, and can be any horned animal which is the symbol of the rebirth of light. The Egyptian Cushite version of the chase explains the chase of the "Horned" by the national ancestor-god-hero Osiris as follows.
As to how the ram became the symbol of Ham, the following tradition survived. –When Osiris was returning home after his triumphant African tour, he and his army were unable to find water and were in a terrible state of dehydration. They were on the verge of death when a ram appeared in front of them. They viewed the appearance of the ram as a heavenly sign and they at once gave chase. To their great astonishment and relief the ram lead them to the shade and cool waters of an oasis. Osiris (Dionisus) explained the event by saying that the ram was Amon (who is symbolized as a ram) and to show his gratitude he raised a temple to his honor on the spot. Amon was elevated to the stars as the constellation of Aires (the ram) so that when the sun is in the house of Aires in spring, nature shall revive it's life. The Egyptian dictionary explains the word Cush to also mean tomb RAM, and this word is in accordance with the Hungarian word for ram KOSH. Nimrod and his people were Cushites and they also ruled Egypt at one time before founding Babylon.
The Greeks also inherited many legends from their Scythian neighbors, which included distorted versions of this story. Many Scythians were hired into Greek armies, and some were servants. Certain Scythians became prominent teachers in Greek cities.
In the Greek story the twin sons of Zeus and Nemesis are known as Castor and Pollux. (GEMINI) Cas-tor and his brother Pollux steal the daughters of Leukepius. (LEUK=white) Cas-tor is the Cushite Tura, a son of Nimrod after whom northern Mesopotamia (Eturia) and the Aral and Caspian lowlands (Turan) were named. Pollux or Poly-deuces is Polly=Apolo is the sun god whose other Near Eastern name is Makar (MAGOR). Zeus was once a king in the Near East, a Kushite king (NIMROD) which the Greeks deified.
Another Scythian legend recorded by the Greeks states that the sons of the Scythian king named SCYTHES were Palos (Polux) and Naes (Castor, Nesus are ancient ancestors of the Cushites). The meaning of SAKA, from which Scyth comes from means Chief, Lord.
In the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, the stag is the favorite animal of the queen of the underworld (Yumala), which leads the hero to his doom. Kaleva is the mythical kingdom where much of the epic takes place. It could be equated with Kalama of the Sumerians, the name of their country.
In northern Siberia, the heavenly raindeer, symbolized by the big dipper, steals the sun, and that is why there is no sun for half a year in the arctic. When the mythical hunter, who is often symbolized by a bear, kills the female reindeer, it starts the new days.
This is an important key to the stories, for the chase after the stag is a hunt for the return of the sun, which during winter is taken away by the stag. The hunters are searching for it's light and heat. Perhaps a southern migration from northern pastures with the coming of winter? The recapturing of it (the sighting of the southern constellation?) then brings back summer. The girls of the legend are the does, the daughters of light (Leukepius in Greek), who return the light and fertility of the sun. For that reason they have names which indicate "light, white, burning.." Dula=Gyula,Gyul…, Sar=gold,light, stag. Bular or Bugur=stag in Turkic.
The twin brothers chase the stag. They get into an argument, probably about which way the stag disappeared, and one brother goes east and finds Japan, while the other goes west.
The sons of Hun Hun-apu, the god of the hunt, are the heavenly twins [GEMINI],known as Hunapu (HUNOR) who is warlike like his father and Ixbalenque (MAGOR), who is more peaceful. Their adventures, with their 400 warriors includes the kidnapping the women. Their jealous half brothers chased them, but they turned them into monkeys (i.e. make monkeys of them?).


Got the Calendar Page All looking spiffy! WOOT! Just one more page to do and the whole journal is updated at last!
Now that I got the hang of it, it's going pretty quick. The tweaking here and there and actual making of the page graphics takes the longest, time wise now.
PLEASE Look, I'm so proud of myself for figuring this out with my feeble brain power.
Main Page, Friends Page, Calendar Page.... Working on the day view page now.
I'm mainly proud because I finally mastered the stinking code and I've not taken any stock graphics for ANYTHING including the backgrounds, I made all those little tiles from scratch too. I've never been able to do the seamless tiles before.... I just played around until I got my patterns to match up.
All the art gets posted here too. It's just for the peepe who don't want a peek into my psychosis.
^^ But feel free to haunt it too. I don't mind.


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#ifndef libspi_psoc_wrapper_h_
#define libspi_psoc_wrapper_h_

#include <stdint.h>

#include "libspi.h"

#define libspi_is_psoc_wrapper  0x8000

typedef struct libspi_psoc_wrapper
{
    void (*libspi_start)(void);
    void (*libspi_stop)(void);
    uint8_t (*libspi_read8)(void);
    void (*libspi_write8)(uint8_t);
} libspi_psoc_wrapper_t;

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

void libspi_create_psoc(spi_t* psoc_dev,
                        void (*start)(void),
                        void (*stop)(void),
                        uint8_t (*read)(void),
                        void (*write)(uint8_t));

#ifdef __cplusplus
};
#endif

#endif // libspi_psoc_wrapper_h_

/* [] END OF FILE */


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Colorado Culture
Moon's updated travel guidebook on Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs includes multiple sections of marijuana tourism. (Ricardo Baca, The Cannabist)
This major publisher of travel guides now includes sections on marijuana tourism
Published: Jul 1, 2016, 3:06 pm • Updated: Jul 5, 2016, 11:34 am
By Ricardo Baca, The Cannabist Staff
The ever-crowded travel guidebook industry has plenty of challenges — including keeping establishments' information up to date and presenting vibrant and current opportunities for a wide cross-section of general-interest tourists without crossing lines of taste or politics.
But the Avalon Group, publisher of the Moon and Rick Steves travel guidebooks, made a bold decision in putting together its latest edition of Moon Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs. The new book, written by Mindy Sink and released in May, includes multiple sections on marijuana tourism in Colorado's most tourist-friendly cities.
Moon Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs (Avalon Travel)
Moon says it's "the first general-interest travel guide to be published with marijuana tourism included in its listings," and we thought it might be — until we heard from Colorado-based travel writer Kyle Wagner over the weekend, who pointed out that the most recent edition of Fodor's Colorado (which she contributed to and published in March) also includes a section on legal cannabis.
The more legitimate, vetted information, the merrier.
"Colorado has the oldest and most established recreational marijuana retail network in the U.S.," Avalon Group publisher Bill Newlin told The Cannabist, "and both tourism statistics and guidebook sales to the state have been rising sharply over the past year."
Moon tapped journalist Joel Warner, the marijuana writer at the International Business Times until earlier this week, to pen the cannabis segments. The information is bright, current and relevant including shops and 420-friendly events in the areas.
It's a smart, if brave, move for Moon, which has always read younger than its competitors Fodor's and Frommer's. Even though cannabis is legal in Colorado and a handful of other states, it remains federally illegal. And even though public opinion is now firmly rooted on the side of marijuana legalization, it remains a controversial issue among much of the American public.
We talked with Newlin about Moon's future 420-friendly plans for Colorado and other states — and about how he firmly believes that legal cannabis has played a legitimate role in Denver and Colorado's thriving tourism numbers.
The Cannabist: This is a big first step. But do you think you might add more pages dedicated to the topic of cannabis in the next edition?
Bill Newlin: Our coverage is already quite substantial, and it's doubtful it would increase in subsequent editions. Right now it's presented under its own topic heading, but over time it might be incorporated into our Entertainment and Shopping listings, depending on the establishment.
Cannabist: Did Moon include marijuana tourism information in any of its updated guides for other legal markets — Seattle or Portland or Anchorage or D.C.?
Newlin: No, because those markets aren't nearly as developed as Denver/Boulder, although we expect they will all mature substantially in the next year or two. As marijuana establishments become a normal part of the tourism landscape, like bars or specialty food shops, we'll include them in our coverage.
Cannabist: You're an expert in tourism. Do you think tourists take legal cannabis into consideration when picking a destination?
Newlin: Yes, since all our data indicates that travel and tourism to Colorado has increased relative to other states since recreational marijuana was legalized.
Ricardo Baca is a contributing editor for The Cannabist. He was appointed The Denver Post's first marijuana editor in November 2013 and spearheaded the formation of The Cannabist, a division of the Post. Fortune magazine ranked Baca as one of the...


Simple grace and a bold presence, surely two fitting attributes for this wheel. The seven rounded spokes receive an individual accent to finish the overall look. On top comes the winter-ready surface of the wheel which makes it even more valuable.


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module ActiveMerchant #:nodoc:
  module Billing #:nodoc:
    class PaypalExpressNvResponse < Response
      def email
        @params['email']
      end

      def name
        [@params['firstname'], @params['middlename'], @params['lastname']].compact.join(' ')
      end

      def token
        @params['token']
      end

      def payer_id
        @params['payerid']
      end

      def payer_country
        @params['payer_country']
      end

      def address
        {  'name'       => self.name,
           'company'    => @params['business'],
           'address1'   => @params['shiptostreet'],
           'address2'   => @params['shiptostreet2'],
           'city'       => @params['shiptocity'],
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Mad Max: Fury Road scores six Oscars, misses out on Best Picture
By Nick Pino published 29 February 16
Sweeps audio and visual categories
While Leonardo DiCaprio winning his first Oscar is the story of the night, I thought - half joking and half seriously - that he might lose Best Actor to the cast of Mad Max: Fury Road.
In a tremendous show of force, the film won a whopping six awards, all in the audio and visual categories: Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hair, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Its six statues were the most for any movie Sunday night.
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At one point, after Fury Road had won three awards in a row, it became a running joke, with comedian and presenter Louis C.K. quipping, "And the winner for Best Documentary Short is … Mad Max: Fury Road? I'm kidding. It's A Girl in the River."
Social media also had a field day with its success:
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The hazing will surely continue well into the morning, but many of Fury Road's wins were well deserved. Costume, production and makeup and hair design were all on-point, and helped to usher the series' signature post-apocalyptic look into 21st century film.
And though six wins are incredible, Fury Road did miss out on the biggest award of the night: Best Picture. George Miller also lost to Alejandro González for the Best Director nod. It's a bitter pill to swallow considering how well received the film was, but it is going home with some shiny new hardware.
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Nick Pino
Senior Editor, Home Entertainment
Nick Pino is the Senior Editor of Home Entertainment at TechRadar and covers TVs, headphones, speakers, video games, VR and streaming devices. He's written for TechRadar, GamesRadar, Official Xbox Magazine, PC Gamer and other outlets over the last decade, and he has a degree in computer science he's not using if anyone wants it.
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Ann Eva Margareta Melander (born 18 June 1961 in Lund) is a Swedish former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics.

External links
 sports-reference.com

1961 births
Swedish female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Sweden
Sportspeople from Lund
Living people
20th-century Swedish women

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