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Name: Kuroda, Chouko (黒田蝶子)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Single
Origin: Kyoumeiseyo!! Shiritsu Todoroki Koukou Tosho Iinkai
A member of the Todoroki High School Book Committe, Kuroda Chouko is the perfect student, skilled in both academics and sports, reliable, and blessed with good looks. Unknown to most, however, Kuroda is also an extremely rotten fujoshi who is particularly fond of super sentai. Fantasizing over pairings of imaginary characters and fellow club members, Kuroda has also created some BL doujinshi herself.
Fujoshi Level:
While most fujoshi are satisfied with thinking of pairings in terms of the traditional "Character A x Character B" or "B x A" scenario, Kuroda has come up with a whole system of pairings using additional mathematical symbols to represent different concepts. These include A ∞ B, A ≠ B (which creates something of a tsundere relationship), and A ≡ B.
Note: This post contains spoilers.
When you look at the manga Mysterious Girlfriend X, it's hard to believe that it lasted for over eight years. Sure, it's not much compared to Ah! My Goddess, which also ran in Monthly Afternoon but for an astounding 25+ years. Yet the everyday romance of a boy and a girl connected by, of all things, a literal swapping of saliva, feels less like it should have been a consistent presence in manga and more an odd one-off (which it originally was). But last Mysterious Girlfriend X has, getting over the years not only an animated adaptation that is available both streaming and on home video in the US, but even seeing the actual manga itself available in English.
Given its long publication history, I've found that my life has naturally progressed since I began reading it all those years ago, and that when I come back to the title it's from a different place. Yet, I still remember my feelings towards Mysterious Girlfriend X from back then, and it's interesting for me to compare both the feeling of reading it one month at a time versus all at once, and from a person about 8 years younger to where I am today.
Mysterious Girlfriend X is the story of a young couple. Tsubaki Akira one day meets the eccentric Urabe Mikoto, and on some bizarre impulse decides to taste some of her drool that had been left on her school desk. Afterwards, he finds himself ill in a way inexplicable to doctors. Eventually, he learns the cause from Urabe herself: he's having withdrawal after not being able to taste her saliva after a few days. The reason? Love, simple as that. According to Urabe, Tsubaki has fallen in love with her, and their only choice is to become a couple, especially given how Urabe herself reciprocates his feelings. However, their relationship is an unconventional one, and though they won't even kiss or hug, they'll taste each other's drool. For some strange reason, this "bond of drool," which allows them to communicate unspoken thoughts and feelings with each other, is a connection beyond typical human comprehension, brought about by love and desire.
Given this description, it would be very easy to assume that Mysterious Girlfriend X is some kind of saliva fetish manga, but in that regard the title is often misunderstood. What I described above is the initial premise to get things moving, and rather than having the manga consist of different ways to present drool lust as some sexual deviancy, it's more a means to an end to explore various facets of their relationships, from Tsubaki learning about Urabe, to Urabe understanding her own feelings better, to the growth of their relationship in comparison to others'. In Bakemonogatari, the character Senjougahara comes up with a word to describe the main character Araragi's feelings towards her: not moe or whatever, but captivation. Tsubaki's view of Urabe is a similar phenomenon.
Having re-read the entire series recently, I noticed that marathoning it results in quite a different experience. This is obvious to a certain extent, but what I mean more specifically is that when I originally read the series month to month, it was easier to notice long trends (some might even call them ruts) that the manga was going through. However, reading it all at once made me aware that Mysterious Girlfriend X has rough arcs and turning points for Tsubaki and Urabe. I doubt the series had some kind of intricate forethought behind it (Legend of the Galactic Heroes this manga is not), but some seeds were sowed along the way, and by the end they bear fruit.
At the start of Mysterious Girlfriend X, the narrative is mainly about Tsubaki trying to learn about firstly what it means to have a girlfriend and secondly the utter enigma that is Urabe. Here, both he and the reader get to see for the first time not only the bizarre "bond of drool," but also Urabe's superhuman skill with a pair of scissors that she tucks into her underwear, her willingness to swap spit but not kiss, her refusal to ever let Tsubaki have a photograph of her smiling, and other eccentricities that separate her from others. She comes across as alien both literally and figuratively, perhaps even occult, especially when compared to the relatively normal relationship between Tsubaki's best friend Ueno Kouhei and his girlfriend Oka Ayuko. We also learn about Tsubaki's family, particularly his very motherly sister.
Gradually, the layers of mystery surrounding Urabe are peeled back. The first major turning point comes amidst this relationship between Tsubaki, Urabe, and the reader, as we learn about Tsubaki's late mother through the fact that Urabe can read his latent memories from when she passed away (through his drool of course). Though Tsubaki is unmistakably a reader-insert character to some degree, here he becomes an individual of his own, and the connection between the two deepens.
From there, we get to see how Urabe herself changes, how she sees the relationship from her perspective. In particular, the manga begins to present Urabe's own character flaws, such as her possessiveness (which turns out are also shared by Tsubaki), as well as her own growing desire to be with Tsubaki. Here, she becomes more human, and while still an unusual person is less mysterious by virtue of how much time the two spend together. The most notable events in this part of Mysterious Girlfriend X occur when Tsubaki's bond with Urabe is put to the test. First, an old crush of Tsubaki's comes back to try and seduce him. Second, an idol who bears a striking resemblance to Urabe (and thus a source of jealousy for Urabe when Tsubaki begins to secretly collect magazines of her) trades places with Urabe. When I first read these storylines, they felt like mini-arcs much like what came before, but now I realize that they are more or less milestones for Urabe and Tsubaki, the points at which their feelings resonate more strongly than mere appearances or past loves.
At the same time, the introduction of the Urabe look-alike, Imai Momoka, also signals another turning point for the series, towards what might be the most meandering and out-of-control part of the manga. Here, Mysterious Girlfriend X begins to enter a realm of fantastic occurrences and even stranger fetishes. While Mysterious Girlfriend X is not exactly a realistic series in certain key aspects, it starts off feeling somewhat grounded in an almost palpable sense of intimacy and desire between Tsubaki and Urabe. In early chapters, the dark attractiveness of Urabe is expressed in moments such as this, which are weird but understandably are thrilling for Tsubaki:
In contrast, immediately after Imai Momoka we get, of all things, "eating bacon while wearing cat ears":
Other questions from this part of the manga include "Wouldn't it be great to count the moles on your girlfriend's body?" and "What's more attractive, droopy eyes (like Nozomi from Love Live!) or slanted eyes (not in the racist sense, but like Ogiue)? Eventually the series is able to parlay this into some forward progression between the two, introducing another rival for Urabe in the competition for Tsubaki's affections (the aforementioned "droopy eyes"), but when you're reading from month to month it can feel like a kind of narrative limbo. I do want to point out once again though that all of this has more or less nothing to do with saliva, further reinforcing the fact that the drool in Mysterious Girlfriend X is more a kind of means to an end, and representative of many more things than simply a fetish. It's a substitute for kissing but also much more, a way to access each others' feelings and to capture the otherworldly feeling of being young and in love.
Even with the holding pattern that the series suffers, one thing that becomes especially clear during thatmost unusual section of Mysterious Girlfriend X is the evolution of the creator Ueshiba Riichi's art style, which becomes less round and cute as was his way in his previous manga, and a bit sharper and more angular. Whereas his characters looked shorter and roundrr, by the second half of the series they begin to look not only more mature but more expressive as well, especially with Urabe's cat-like eyes. Even Ueshiba himself points out this change when he discusses how his changing art style might make things difficult for the character designers.
Another clear indication of Ueshiba's improved character drawing skills is Oka, who physically is supposed to be as small as an elementary school student but with the body of an adult. The way this is originally portrayed is rather jarring, as Oka looks more like a human being who was hit by a shrink ray, but as the series progresses she ends up looking more properly like a girl who's simply really short.
Eventually though the series begins to wrap up, and I think the most telling thing about Mysterious Girlfriend X and its motivations as a bizarre romance come from how it builds up towards its conclusion. The most significant developments at this point are not characters taking the next step physically so much as them sharing more information with each other. We learn how Oka and Ueno became a couple. More and more characters learn about Urabe and Tsubaki's relationship, notably Tsubaki's sister, who throughout the series has run into Urabe multiple times under the pretense that she is merely one of Tsubaki's classmates. As Urabe reveals the truth about her connection with Tsubaki (conveniently leaving out the drool thing), there is a passing of the torch as Tsubaki's sister, who has pretty much been a mother to Tsubaki all his life, acknowledges Urabe as the one who will become the most important woman in his life. Whether reading on a monthly basis or altogether, the way in which Mysterious Girlfriend X heads towards its ending is somehow surprisingly tame yet still quite appropriate for how the series has been throughout.
There's a bit of controversy surrounding the ending to Mysterious Girlfriend X, as the manga throughout its 92-chapter run has teased a kiss between Tsubaki and Urabe while also showing many other couples kissing. Even in the final chapter a kiss never happens, as while Urabe finally asks for one, Tsubaki refuses upon learning that it would mean the end of the ritual that has defined their relationship up to this point (kissing is basically exchanging saliva, so there would be no need to do it the other way). Instead, Tsubaki asks if they can't just keep doing their routine as they always have, at least until they graduate high school. For some readers, this ending is the ultimate denial of what the series had building towards, and indeed the series appeared to be working its way towards their first kiss. However, I find that it's clear, given how much their relationship grows over the course of the manga, that their first kiss will happen, they will have sex for the first time at some point, but these events will happen off the page, in a future that the manga does not allow us to witness except in our imaginations. By keeping their kiss away from readers' eyes (but at the same time showing plenty of other characters kissing throughout the series), it is the final emphasis the bond of drool as representative of their strange love as indicative of not just how love looks when you're young, but also how it feels. Following that, one might say that the point of those almost-kisses is purely in the tease and enjoying that tease is fun in its own way.
The final chapter also has a number of callbacks to significant events throughout the series, including Tsubaki's late mother, and the excitement that sparked Tsubaki and Urabe's relationship in the first place. The example below also of course shows off the difference in art mentioned above.
Ueshiba writes at one point that he never had a high school romance, let alone something as unusual as the one depicted in Mysterious Girlfriend X, but as I've gotten older I've begun to find that the quirks that were seemingly brought forth through sheer fantasy on Ueshiba's parts are closer to reality than perhaps he even realized. Moments which seemed ridiculous five to eight years ago are not so far from actual reality as I've witnessed it. Sure, I haven't seen anyone stick their finger into someone's mouth and eat their drool, but the meaning and intent behind those actions also exist in reality, or at least the "realness" of one's emotions.
Naruto final chapters SPOILERS.
As an anime fan, I don't have a lot of character pairings to which I'm super devoted. However, the closest I come to having a true "ship" is Naruto x Hinata. Based on how their relationship began and has developed over the course of Naruto, I find that it makes the most sense, and had hoped that Hinata would have her happy ending. After all, Hinata saw before anyone else how hard-working Naruto is, and was the first to understand his pain, wile Naruto is the catalyst for Hinata's own growth.
Now that the final chapter of Naruto all but confirms that Naruto and Hinata not only end up together but even have a couple of kids, all I can say is…
That said, I never actually participated in any "shipping wars" or whatever. However, I finally understand on some level the joy that more dedicated shippers feel when their desired pairing ends up being canon. There's a strange satisfaction in knowing that all of the little moments that caught my attention as a reader ended up bearing fruit.
Now all that's left is for me to someday feel the agony of defeat, but for the time being:
Oh, and for all of the confusion and convoluted plot developments, it looks like Naruto ends just fine.
In preparation for the American bluray release of Genshiken: Second Generation (aka Genshiken Second Season, Genshiken Nidaime, Genshiken II), Anime News Network and NISA are accepting questions from fans for an interview with creator Kio Shimoku. Keep in mind that Kio has historically given very few interviews even in Japanese, so this is a very rare opportunity for anyone who's a fan of Genshiken and the man himself.
I of course will be submitting my own question, and it will most likely be Ogiue-related. Also, I may have bought the Japanese blurays already, but I definitely plan on picking these up as well.
(Thanks to Patz for telling me about this.)
Name: Tanaka, Haruna (田中春奈 )
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: N/A
Origin: Fujoshissu!
Tanaka Haruna is a professional manga author and an alumnus of Ryouhoku High School, where she was a member of the manga club 10 years ago. Because her manga had been doing poorly as of late, she visits her alma mater in an effort to find her early amateur work and to rekindle her passion. Haruna's specialty is shoujo manga.
Haruna is boyish in appearance to the extent that she is easily mistaken for an approximately 14 year old male. Haruna's old classmates are a little envious of her youthful looks, while the current Ryouhoku manga club members, especially the girls, find her incredibly moe.
Fujoshi Level:
Little is known about Tanaka's fujoshi side, though she is shown in the past discussing various pairings with her fellow club members.
This month, we have our first ever Madarame and Sue-exclusive chapter. Sue tries to jettison her feelings for Madarame as only Sue can, by handcuffing him to a chair and putting funny masks on him until her perception of Madarame changes and encouraging him to date Hato. At the same time, Madarame, still reeling from his nearly physical encounter with Keiko, is trying to comprehend women's behavior, which might as well be an ancient and inscrutable language to him. In the end, a poor of choice of words on Madarame's part, a comment on breast size, may have resolved Sue's problem for her.
Back in 2010, I wrote a small post on how interesting it is that Sasahara and Madarame essentially "traded preferences" when it came to their real-life vs. anime love interests. Namely, despite Madarame being into the character Renko (who is closer in personality and looks to Ogiue), he was head over heels in love with Kasukabe, who was closer to Sasahara's favorite character Ritsuko. In Chapter 105, Madarame mentions the fact that, in a harem series, Sue's type, a young-looking westerner with slender limbs and small proportions, is his favorite kind of character, and I think it's quite notable that Madarame is only now realizing this himself. The explanation Madarame gives in this chapter is that Keiko and her attempted sexual advance on him has messed with his view of the world and how he approaches the subject of women, and it makes total sense, seeing as how the worlds of 2D and 3D have begun to blur in his head.
This is not to say that his confused behavior is Keiko's "fault," however, as Madarame himself sees it, but that the younger Sasahara putting the moves on Madarame has forced him out of the warm and comforting shell of his 2D complex. To Madarame, his former distinction between 2D and 3D is that 2D is where he can channel his desires both emotional and sexual, and 3D, the land of the mysterious creatures known as "actual women," was so inaccessible to him that the best he could do was fawn over Kasukabe from a distance. When Angela was trying to get in his pants, Madarame likely saw that as so far outside reality that it might as well have been a dream within a dream. Keiko's actions introduced the word "possible" to his real-world (meaning real women) vocabulary, and so in a way his protective layer of ignorance has been shattered in a manner different from Kasukabe rejecting him. Now, Madarame is conscious of the idea that women might be trying to send signals, but he's basically a man who has been living in a cave all his life seeing sunlight for the first time. It is probably to his benefit that he becomes aware that women who like him can exist, but for now he's merely blinded and clawing at open air.
Thus, Madarame tries to "read" Sue, given his limited context. "She's on my bed! We're by ourselves!" It's very possible Madarame could have made a big mistake if not for Sue immobilizing him with those handcuffs, but it's also understandable in that, when it comes to the opposite sex, he's more or less a baby who has just learned to crawl, let alone walk. His comment to Sue that, well, Hato doesn't have any breasts, is born from a brief moment of overconfidence (one might say even hubris) and a relative lack of interpersonal communication skills. Earlier in the chapter, Madarame notices that Sue is not completely flat-chested, and so in stating that Hato "doesn't have any breasts, huh," he tries to make a distinction between Hato and Sue. However, Sue has been shown to be sensitive to this subject, so it comes across as more of an insult. And even then, this sort of detail which otaku can elaborate upon extensively, the difference between an AA and an AAA cup or whatever, is not exactly going to win any points when talking to an actual girl.
As for Sue, I find that she's trying to do what Hato himself had attempted before. Sue asks Madarame to date Hato, much in the same way that Hato was pushing Madarame towards being more assertive with his feelings for Kasukabe, and in both cases they were ways to distance themselves from their own feelings. "If he's in a relationship, I can get over him!" For that matter, Madarame sort of did the same thing to himself with respect to Kasukabe, and even Yajima, who is not in this chapter, has been shown cheering for Hato x Mada as a way to keep her own attraction to Hato bottled up. With Sue specifically, however, it looks like this is her first ever crush, unlike the others who appear to have some unrequited feelings in the past, and so much like Madarame it is also Ms. Hopkins who is learning to crawl. However, Sue is arguably even more of an otaku than Madarame is, and in that way I can really see the perspective of Sue x Mada supporters. They even have that consistent interaction where Sue will pull out a reference and Madarame will instantly recognize it (this chapter it was Saitou Hajime from Rurouni Kenshin). While there are those who believe this swing and a miss on Madarame's part is the death of this pairing, much like Keiko x Mada I find that it only opens things up more.
I don't know if this actually a reference or not, but I find Sue's "funny mask therapy" to be similar to one of the storylines in Space Brothers. At one point, the younger brother Hibito suffers from panic disorder due to a near-death encounter on the moon, which leaves him unable to wear a spacesuit. The treatment recommended to him is to wear various outfits, from football uniforms to animal mascot costumes, in order to gradually lighten the pressure his mind puts on him when in a spacesuit. Obviously, it doesn't work the same way seeing as Sue is not the one wearing those ridiculous masks, but a similar effect is desired on her part.
The chapter ends with Hato struggling to draw manga. It might be setup for the next chapter, but what I find interesting is that Hato is having difficulty making his manga more interesting, as opposed to being unable to draw BL. Progress!
As an anime and manga blog largely focused largely on commercial output, it is rare that I will report on and review an Art Show in all of its capitalized glory. However, I feel it important to discuss the "Empty God Core" show at the B²OA Gallery, featuring the works of Japanese artist Umezawa Kazuki.
I am well aware of the fact that anime and manga have been subjects of exploration, self-discovery, and exploitation since at least Murakami Takashi and his "superflat" movement. Often times challenging and presenting the exoticism of Japan's visual culture, artists like Murakami tend to feel as if they come not from the otaku subculture itself, but are reacting to it as it has grown over times. While I would not go so far as to say that this is some unforgivable flaw in his work, that he may not be a "true" otaku, it does make me notice when a piece of art conveys the perspective of someone who has embraced the lights and sounds of anime and manga as almost existential hazes.
That is the impression I received from Umezawa's work, though even before I saw the actual show itself I had an opportunity to meet him for the first time thanks to our mutual friend, Ko Ransom. If there is anything that stood out to me most about him at first glance, it would have been his A Certain Scientific Railgun pins adorning his clothing. The one most prominent could be seen on his chest, a chibi version of Nunotaba Shinobu, my favorite character in the Index universe. A teenage scientist with a propensity for interlacing her speech with English, Nunotaba comes nowhere near the default choices for popular characters in her series, so I knew that Umezawa was serious business.
That being said, while I was aware that Umezawa was an otaku before I saw "Empty God Core," I would have jumped to that conclusion almost immediately if I had come in without knowing a thing. Umezawa's works consist largely of collages of anime characters, scrambled to the point of almost losing all recognizable qualities, and then rearranged to create futuristic, apocalyptic landscapes and large, god-like figures. I say "almost," because the first thing I spotted in one of his digital paintings was the characteristic blonde poof of Cure Peace from Smile Precure! Soon after, I spotted bits of other characters as well, but it made me realize how distinct Precure hair is designed to be, so that, even divorced from the very bodies on which they sit, one can see that, yes that over there is a piece of Cure Blossom, and down by the side is Cure Beauty. The iconic nature of anime and manga characters jumps to the forefront, and their fragments are used to construct worlds.
There is a general idea when it comes to anime fandom that a lot of its qualities arose from the perception of 1980s Japan as a kind science fictional space. Like Blade Runner, which envisioned a future city amalgamated from Tokyo and various Chinatowns, the common discourse positions otaku as products of their time, and their subculture a result of changes to the world, the economy, and the degree to which societal values crumble or ossify in response. In this environment, otaku have historically been viewed in a negative light, people who cannot confront reality, loners who can only consume their media in ways which reinforce their divorce from society, while anime and manga become increasingly shallow and lacking in any real substance. What Umezawa's work does is flip that script on its head, and show how this otaku subculture and its inhabitants can utilize the "vapid" qualities of anime and manga and its devotion to signs and icons of cuteness, beauty, and sexuality as building blocks, as atoms to form universes. Rather than a dystopian cityscape creating the otaku, the otaku creates the dystopian cityscape. He turns lemonade into lemons.
This post is regrettably a little late, but if you're in or around New York City, the show is running until November 15th. The B²OA Gallery is at 515 west 26th street in Manhattan, and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am-6pm.
Name: N/A
Aliases: Daigouin Pyonko (大豪院ピョン子)
Relationship Status: N/A
Origin: Hanaukyou Maid Tai
"Daigouin Pyonko" is a doujinshi artist who wears bunny ears and ends all of her sentences with "-pyon." She is a friend of the Hanaukyou household's maid Suzuki Ikuyo, though their relationship is somewhat antagonistic. She created the doujin Kappa Buta, a yaoi doujin about a kappa and a pig (likely a reference to Journey to the West or one of its adaptations).
Fujoshi Level:
Other than the unusual animal content of her doujinshi, nothing else is known.
New York Comic Con 2014 was my first in five years. I wasn't around for the dissolution and complete integration of New York Anime Festival. I did not see the claustrophobia-inducing crowds created by people sneaking in that nearly drove some of my friends to never, ever go back. I was not around as the aging Jacob Javits Center itself expanded as best as it could to account for not only this convention but others as well. My experience with NYCC 2014 is almost that of a time traveler, as what I have to mainly compare it to is an old existence, before this convention was being labeled as the San Diego Comic-Con of the east coast.
As much as a convention should be about being a magical and informative experience where fans connect to the media they love as well as to their peers, the first thing worth mentioning about NYCC 2014 is its use of RFID badges. I was informed of their inaugural usage last year, but seeing them in action made me fully aware of the boon they provide to both the convention goers themselves and the staff running the entire thing. Essentially, attendees must use a card to check in and check out of the convention area, which not only cuts down on the number of people who shouldn't be there but means that there are plenty of opportunities to actually relax and take in the con experience. Just having a space that is outside the convention building itself but still part of NYCC was so beneficial, as it allowed attendees to catch some fresh air if they needed it. Though I didn't know anyone personally who had difficulty handling large crowds (and the NYCC attendance population is around a staggering 100,000), I suspect having not only the front entrance but other outside spots may have been a life saver for some.
Of course, all of this is not to say that New York Comic Con 2014 was neither magical nor informative, as I found it struck a fine balance as a convention of industries, artists, and fans in terms of activities and opportunities. New York Comic Con is a for-profit venture, designed to make money and to benefit all of those who take part in it on the industry. For one thing this means greater industry presence in both the panels and the showroom floor, and fewer fan panels where enthusiasts can analyze and discuss particular interesting angles of the things they love. However, as much as I'm used to industry panels being fairly by the numbers affairs about shilling products (not that there's anything wrong with it), at NYCC these panels, although different from fan-run events, still carried with them a lot more meta-discussion of the industry and what it means to be "in" comics. You have to expect the sales pitch to some degree, but it was rarely much of an issue.
For example, I attended a couple of panels about women in comics (be they characters or creators or fans or anything else), and it involved industry professionals of all sorts who didn't necessarily all agree with each other discussing an important topic in a way that encouraged further conversation instead of necessarily having as their primary agenda the sales of their own products. In the "Women of Color in Comics" panel, for instance, you had both industry veterans and independent creators. One veteran emphasized the idea that if you want to change how the big companies see women, you have to know how to communicate in their language, bring portfolios that old white men would understand, while some of the freelance artists stressed the importance of being able to work for yourself to create the characters you want.
The women in comics panels were illuminating and informative overall, though I do have one criticism for a prevailing sentiment I saw: when asked about how to deal with men who aren't even aware that there is sexism and discrimination in the industry and its fandom, the answer I saw most often was "who needs those guys, forget them." I understand that dealing with ignorance getting asked "what sexism?" for the 1000th time is a trying, perhaps soul-draining experience, but I do think that it's still a group of people who need to be addressed and who might honestly just not know.
It's actually quite impressive how supportive of female fans and creators New York Comic Con was. In addition to the panels, there were large "Cosplay is Not Consent" signs that were noticeable but not terribly intrusive which aimed to prevent sexual harassment of cosplayers by appealing to the human brain's ability to think ahead. I hear it was largely effective, though without context I do wonder if some people thought that the signs were saying that cosplaying was not okay.
Maybe this has to do with the number of artists, writers, and creators as guests instead of marketing folks, but in a lot of the panels I attended I felt that the audience was let in on their creative processes at least to some extent. Obviously they're not taking advice from attendees, but it seemed like the answers reflected the personalities and styles of those who gave them. Notably, when manga artist Obata Takeshi (Death Note, Hikaru no Go) spoke, it was clear that he was not a people person, and was unaccustomed to the spotlight. When he explained how he worked, his answers were muddled like so many other artists I've met. In contrast, at one of the Image panels, Matt Fraction could talk up a storm and really present the job of comics writer as something not so much glamorous but intense and personal. While obviously I can't agree with their sentiments, seeing the panelists at the European Comics Artists panel thinly veil their displeasure towards manga was also similarly revealing.
Before going to the con, I received some useful advice for attending panels: always line up an hour beforehand. It doesn't matter how small a crowd you think a panel is going to get, because more likely than not you'll be on the wrong end if you don't play it safe. Bizarrely, the lines felt rather relaxing. They were times to rest one's feet, to chit-chat with friends and sometimes strangers, and in my case to play against other people in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. I matched my Mega Man against others and had an exciting time. More importantly, though, the fact that the lines were able to remain these fairly civil affairs (aside from The Walking Dead panel according to what I heard at con feedback) indicates how effective this year's organization was. At Otakon one year, I had a friend from England who found it mind-boggling that a place could be so bad at queueing. While I don't know if NYCC could hold up to his superior English line standards either, I think it would have at least gotten a higher grade.
Overall, what might be the strangest thing about my NYCC 2014 experience is that I expected a rushed, frantic time where I would feel overwhelmed to the point of some bizarre euphoria. At times, coming down the escalator and seeing the absolute mob of people in the main lobby made it seem as if I were about to descend into a pit of madness. However, what I actually got was a relaxed, comfortable experience learning about the things I love and trying my best not to spend all of my money. Now if only I didn't have to buy four 1-day tickets because all of the 3-day tickets sold out in like two minutes, then it would've been a lot better.
To conclude, here are some of my convention highlights.
- Attending my first Avatar (Legend of Korra) panel only to realize that it might be the last Avatar panel ever.
- Getting Obata Takeshi's autograph on Volume 1 of Hikaru no Go.
- Obata would have liked to draw Otter no.11 as an actual manga.
- Meeting at last my long-time internet friend David Brothers.
- Asking Juanjo Guarnido (author of Blacksad) about whether the extremely popular comics that the Franco dictatorship in Spain used as propaganda still had any influence today (his answer was no).
- Being like, maybe one of two people to cheer for Tribe Cool Crew at the Sunrise Panel. I yelled so loudly one of the panelists immediately looked at me. Also, watch Tribe Cool Crew. My review of it is pending.
- TURN A GUNDAM LICENSED (also First Gundam). I was actually repeating Turn A Gundam like it was a mantra, as if I were trying to cast a magic spell. I guess it worked?
- Seeing all of the animators' demo reels at the Kakehashi Project (The Bridge for Tomorrow) panel. A lot of the work reminded me of the more visceral art that often appeals to me yet is rarely found in anime. I especially liked the work of Shiroki Saori.
- Watching the US premiere of the Kill la Kill Episode 25 OVA. It was a great revisit of the series, and in one brief moment during one of Mako's speeches I swear she transforms into Baron Ashura from Mazinger Z.
- Playing all that Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS with people.
Name: Fuji (藤)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: N/A
Origin: Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture II
Fuji is a former classmate and fellow art club member of Hato Kenjirou, Konno, and Kaminaga. She still maintains her friendship with Konno, as well as the others to a lesser extent. She is relatively calmer than Konno.
Fujoshi Level:
Little is known, other than that she was a part of the "fujoshi" group in her high school art club.


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Winter season is bathing season!
Come on, face it, the ice bucket challenge was really only a fad designated towards rich nerds to test their latest ice cube dispensor on their new fridge. My message today goes out to all those hard-core, punk-loving, high altitude and H2O-proximity cravers that search for some time off, to relax, to recover, to re-fill the adrenaline tank before heading off again.
Winter is nearing!
Subsidies and costs of EU energy
A new report, by order of the European Commission, studying the Subsidies and costs of EU energy just came out (published by Ecofys. KPMG and the Centre for Social and Economic Research). This study is particular noteworthy since it is one of the first that attempts to provide useful data on energy costs and subsidies for all EU Member States and for all technologies. Here is a quick summary of the most interesting findings as well as some thoughts and discussions.
A Weakends post on weak European institutions
This is a Weakends (pun intended…) post, so bear with me please. I am asking the following: Is the European Institution (Union, Commission, etc.) a weak institution? What lessons should we take away from this?
A sad, sad day for a European Green Growth transition
What a sad, sad day for European Growth Growth transition. "Britain won EU approval for a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point on Wednesday, allowing the government to commit to 35 years of financial support for Europe's biggest and most controversial infrastructure project."
Molly Scott Cato, a UK MP for the Greens, said: "There can be no doubt that the generous terms being offered by the UK government to EDF on Hinkley C amounts to illegal state aid under EU rules." She added: "It is a scandal that one of the final acts of the Barroso Commission is to turn a blind eye to the illegality of the Hinkley deal as some kind of quid pro quo for Germany's renewable energy support scheme."
(Thanks to Mark Johnston for this information.)
Claude Turmes, a politican from Luxembourg, stated in a recent interview that UK threatened to leave the EU if Hinkley Point C is not approved. Thus, it seems the EC gave in to this pressure… If only renewable sources of energy were to be subsidised by the amount that British taxpayers subsidies Hinkley Point C, then the Green Growth transition would not be a myth anymore but it would be well underway.
Why such a rush? More on Hinkley Point C…
People are always in such a rush. US Presidents are always in such a rush to pardon whoever they can get their hands on during the last day of their office. We call this PardonGate nowadays, and I guess they do it to either potentially benefit from those people in the future or simply for some last-minute drop of altruism towards their own kind.
Then there are people in general who are always in such a rush, and they tend to be shoppers on discount days like Black Friday in the US. There is dramatic video evidence showing what consequences a discount day like Black Friday has on people's rational thought and behavior:
And then there are leaving European Commissioners such as Joaquin Almunia, who, on the deeply contested point of the planned nuclear power station Hinkley Point C in UK, propose in their last days of office to
"propose to the college of commissioners to take a positive decision and in principle the decision should be taken during this mandate of the commission in October".
A decision like that is not only incredible because of the extent of the subsidies that the UK government guarantees a foreign company, EDF from France, for the next 35 year. The UK government has agreed to pay EDF £92.50 per MWh for the electricity output from Hinkley Point C – roughly twice the current wholesale price of power, for the next 35 years(!) in addition to a public support to finance the project of (at minimum) £17.6bn.
No, even more incredible is this decision because it is yet another decision which is taken by a leaving politician on his last days in office. Now let us face the issue at hand. Why such a rush?
It is well-known that the new, upcoming commissioner is not as supportive as Joaquin Almunia towards nuclear energy. Thus, a politician, in his last days of office, will take a decision that will potentially affect all British citizens for the next 35 years, unless there is obviously an accident, in which case the whole world will be affected for a long time. And, furthermore, the new commissioner who will come on stage in a couple of weeks is likely to block Hinkley Point C.
So, why such a rush?
Why should anyone be allowed to rush and push through a decision of this severity, knowing that it is not going to be supported anymore only a couple of weeks after it has been taken? How can someone feel this is the right decision to take then? And, given the astonishing subsidies that the UK government is going to pay out for Hinkley Point C, how flexible and bendible must the European competition law be in order to get such an uncompetitive decision pushed through? Do we really need a European competition law if such subsidies are allowed by it? And has the European Commission for Competition actually made a full study of the effect of this subsidy on the Green Growth transition of the European Union and on alternative sources of energy like wind and solar? Also, why do we see diminishing subsidies for wind and solar energy while we at the same time allow never-seen subsidies for nuclear energy? I would love to see answers to these questions at some point, don't you?
Miguel Arias Cañete – EU's new climate and energy commissioner?
(Dutch translation by Marco Ploeger HERE)
A couple of days ago, Jean-Claude Juncker, the new President of the European Commission, sent Miguel Arias Cañete a mission statement:
Dear Miguel,
… blah blah blah… Following our recent discussions, I would like you to be the "Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy"… blah blah blah… I strongly believe in the potential of "Green Growth" and I want the EU to become the world number one in renewable energies… etc…

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You know how I used to have lists and lists of great things that Gigi said? Well, things are changing and although her imagination is blooming at the Emerson Waldorf School and she can play for hours in a pretend world, in other ways her understanding of the world is maturing and we're losing some of her quotables. I even tried to do an interview with her a few months ago, and although her interviews used to be full of completely far fetched but confident statements and opinions about the present and the future, modern-day Gigi is seeing the grey areas of life instead of just blacks and whites. When I asked her what she was going to be when she grows up she said something like, "I don't know yet" and when I asked her what color was her favorite she responded with something vague like, "I can't decide because they are all so pretty".
But every once in a while I am still running over to get my trusty pad of paper and pen to jot down word for word what spills out of her mouth.
Sometimes it's sweet....
"Why can't we just be close together like that so I can reach out my hand and comfort him?" said Gigi when her and Orion's beds were temporarily pushed together for vacuuming purposes.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Futbol Soccer
This fall we signed Gigi up to play with Rainbow Soccer, one of our local leagues. It was perfect - the four and five year olds only meet once a week, from 5 to 6pm on a Friday, and each week we brought a picnic dinner and enjoyed eating outside together on the field. It has been such a nice connection time for our family.
Gigi has not demonstrated the same physical prowess and interest in balls as Orion has, but we were confident that she would warm up to the idea. At soccer practice numero uno, things were not very promising - every ten minutes Gigi was over asking about eating a snack, and during the practice scrimmage at the end of the hour, she preferred to sit near the goal and chat with her new friends than to actually play. But over the fall season she learned so much, thanks to the world's best volunteer dad coach - Eamonn Fitzgerald, who is originally from Ireland. We really lucked out with him, because he was so energetic and well-prepared for the kids each week.
And what comes next? Well, I gave Gigi the choice of playing again next Spring, or taking a break and starting again next Fall, and she opted for Spring, which surprised me, since she's been kind of ambivalent about the whole thing. And it sounds like Coach Eamonn will be signing up again to Coach the kids, so we may very well be doing this routine again much sooner than I thought. Gooooo Rocket Dragons!
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Birthday Boy!
Today Orion turned two years old and although it was not a flashy day, these days mark a moment in a parent's life when we get to think about how fast time is flying and how much we love our children, and how much they add to us as growing humans. Marcos had a work dinner tonight, so we will do a family celebration on Saturday, but luckily Marcos delayed his departure for work this morning and had a big oatmeal breakfast with us. We've really scored in the breakfast department - the kids think that oatmeal with apples and raisins, cinnamon and a little bit of brown sugar is the absolute best recipe in the history of mankind.
We gave Orion one big gift this morning (a big box of duplo legos) and he received a few cards. Here he is, reading through his love notes.
After dropping Gigi off at school, we headed over to the lower school to drop off some crafts for the Holiday Faire, and when I turned my back Orion grabbed a slice of banana cake from the coffee table where parents congregate and chat each morning after drop-off. They loved it, and insisted that I take pictures of him enjoying his first slice of birthday cake for the day! So here they are.
We love Orion so much! He has a huge silly bone like Gigi does, he is starting to be more empathetic, and we think he is pretty clever. He loves to talk, and sing, and play with balls and things that go. He is strong, and active, and loves a good stick or rock. And most of all, he makes us so happy! Thank you sweet boy for being part of our family. Here's to many, many more years of togetherness with you!
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
Carolina BalloonFest 2014
A few years ago I decided that I love hot air balloons, and last year we decided to check out the Carolina BalloonFest in Statesville, North Carolina. It is about two hours from our home, so it was a bit of a drive, but the idea of hot air balloons launching in those long hours before sunset had such ripe potential to be magical. And it was. It was an incredible evening last year, and this year we decided to do it again.
Hot air balloons are at the whim of the wind, so weather conditions need to be favorable before pilots will risk a flight. When we arrived the wind was too strong, and the launch was delayed long enough that part of me started to feel discouraged. Luckily, a loud horn sounded, which was the go ahead, and immediately balloons started to take shape, and mounded forms stretched and rose from the ground. When the first hot air balloon took flight, there was hollering and applause - we were all relieved that the launch had taken!
Our dear friends (and nearly family), the Hills. They are our partners for so many of our adventures in this state as we are growing up our kids together. Traditions are always happy with these guys around!
Isn't this incredible? It's like a valley of sleeping giants, all waking up together. Below is one of my favorite photos of the day. Orion was only 11 months last year when we came last year, so this experience was like seeing it all for the first time. He kept running off towards the balloons, absolutely fascinated by the flames, the colors, the giantness of it all...
A few more favorite photos. A sweet one of Marcos with the kiddos, and Orion and I with that look on our faces. (What were we even looking at?)
One thing particularly special about this year was the bubble man. A vendor selling light up sticks and bubble machines walked around with a demo bubble machine, whirling hundreds and hundreds of bubbles into the air at one time, and it was so much fun for the kids. Between the balloon launch, fair foods and funnel cake, free bounce houses for the kids, the bubble man and Albannach - my favorite Scottish band who plays a concert every night during the balloon festival - it was the perfect fall celebration.
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Orion Bo Bion
I haven't talked about Orion for a while, and I think it is time for an update. At this age, he changes and develops so quickly that every two months he seems to be an entirely new little being. I think that part of me is very anxious for him to grow up past this stage (he is almost two), because he is so physical and only nominally rational, which is another way of saying "impossible to discipline". But a slightly older and much wiser friend told me recently that if she had known how difficult raising older kids would be, she would have enjoyed the younger years more. I find myself coming back to her comment time and again, and it helps me to enjoy this stage, despite wanting to pull my hair out sometimes.
Or getting it pulled out for me, by my son.
For my update on Orion, I decided to recruit some assistance from the kids. First, my conversation with Gigi...
Me: What are Orion's talents?
Gigi: Throwing balls, he likes balls and stuff... Coloring and doing puzzles. I think he likes to kick around balls. And he talks a lot.
Me: What do you wish he would grow out of?
Gigi: Pulling my hair, and being so fighty! Getting into my stuff and destroying my structures when we're playing legos.
Me: What is the cutest thing about Orion?
Gigi: When he says "So ONO!" when we're eating. And when it's morning time and you tickle him and he laughs, it's really cute.
Me: What is one thing you would like to teach him?
Gigi: How to be more nicer, and how to talk more politely.
Me: Why do you love Orion so much?
Gigi: Because he's cute.
Me: What is Orion going to be when he grows up.
Gigi: I don't know. You better ask him. Maybe he's going to be an artist.
Me: Why do you say that?
Gigi: He colors a lot with me.
And from Orion...
Me: What is your name?
Orion: Orion!
Me: How old are you?
Orion: Almost two.
Me: When is your birthday?
Orion: November fifth.
Me: What is your favorite color?
Orion: Ball.
Me: Hm. What is your favorite COLOR?
Orion: Blue.
Me: What foods do you like?
Orion: Rectangle.
Me: Hmm... what kaukau is yummy?
Orion: Yogurt!
Me: What toys do you like to play with?
Orion: Balls... yogurt?
Orion's favorite things right now are any kind of transportation and balls. He is fairly obsessed. He also loves eating (pretty much anything - sushi, edamame, hummus, gyros are the recent faves...), he still loves knock-knock jokes, and he constantly asks "why?". All. the. time. But in the past few months he has started saying, "Why?" and then if he doesn't get an immediate answer he wanders away saying, "Because!" There we go, problem solved.
Orion is part of a research study at UNC, and so every year at his birthday he receives developmental testing as part of the control group. I am always caught unawares with the questions they ask me about his behavior, so in preparation for our appointment in a few weeks, I have been trying to pay special attention to the things he does and says. Last week he came up with this great sentence and I had to write it down word for word before I forgot it. We were in the car passing a pond and he said, "I go ride a boat right now on the water!" This boy has so much to say.
Another of his recent changes is a big boy hair cut. He looks so much older with his closely cropped do. I like that there is more face visible for me to smooch. Because that's all I do, all day, every day. Love you tons, little son.
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Gigi goes to Kindergarten
And so we've entered into a new chapter of life! Giovanna started her first year of Kindergarten at the Emerson Waldorf School last week, and so far, I think things are going as well as could be hoped for. Last night when I tucked her into bed she said, "I wish I could just be at school already!"
Kindergarten at Emerson Waldorf is a half day affair, so she eats lunch with her pals and then I pick her up. The first few days she was definitely exhausted when I came to get her - I was hoping she would play on the playground so that I could get connection time with the other parents, but she was very ready to go home. In her classroom there are 4, 5 and 6 year olds mixed together, and 8 out of the 12 are on the older end of the spectrum and will be aging up into 1st grade next year. I think it stretched her to keep all of her little emotions together for an entire four hours! Luckily, by day three she was relaxed and ready to play after school with her friends.
Gigi's transition to school was aided by a good roll-out of fun events. Prior to the first day of school, we had some good playdates with a few friends in her class, I organized a playdate for new families at the school playground, and the school organized a number of potlucks and a puppet show for the Kindergarten families. On day 1, Gigi saw many familiar faces and jumped right in! I left her and her little friend Olympia peeling carrots in preparation for their snack that day.
Here she is on Day 1, in front of her Kindergarten doors with her lunch, and in front of her cubby. The kids play outside for a good chunk of time every day, rain, or pouring rain, or shine, so rain boots and jackets are kept in this little space with her name on it.
Our sending Gigi to Emerson Waldorf School has generated a lot of interest from friends and strangers who ask where Gigi is going to school. It must be confusing that we are paying a private school tuition for a non-academic Kindergarten setting that is not about prepping her for college at age 4, but that is exactly what we are doing! And I think that most people who visit a Waldorf Kindergarten see why - it is everything homey and lovely about childhood - play, work, recitation, helping and a wholesome environment. (HERE is a good comparison of Waldorf and Montessori Kindergarten settings, since everybody asks how they are similar or different).
And finally, a glimpse of school through Gigi's eyes.
Me: What have you enjoyed about the Emerson Waldorf School?
Gigi: Playing and eating lunch.
Me: What have you learned at school from your teacher?
Gigi: Some verses and poems.
Me: Who do you like to play with at school?
Gigi: Olympia and Serena, and Danielle.
Me: What has been your favorite snack so far?
Gigi: Porridge and the bread (they make it themselves).
Me: What do you wish was different at school?
Gigi: I wish we could cook in the kitchen instead of at the table in our room.
Me: What kind of person is your teacher Miss Robin?
Gigi: A nice person and a sharing person.
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Summer this Year
Now that we're just a day away from Gigi starting at the Emerson Waldorf School, summer feels officially over. I don't know that there were a lot of summer events that will be seared into my brain because of their stunning and memorable nature, but we spent ample time outdoors, socialized, and as a family we have done a bit of growing up. Our transition (finally) from being a student household to a working household is huge, but we also bought a mini-van, enrolled our daughter in Kindergarten, made a will with an attorney and completed the corresponding documents, bought a fireproof/waterproof box for said documents and our treasured items in our home, systematically de-junked many corners of our house, completed numerous other projects that have been on the back burner for years, and got our finances in order. There are still some projects that we've only touched on but a lot has been accomplished and we feel good about it.
A few of the fun things we did this summer, besides our trip to DC, were horseback riding for the first time...
Camping with friends...
We also enjoyed cooling off on the hot days...
Good bye summer! It's been real.
A few of the fun things we did this summer, besides our trip to DC, were horseback riding for the first time...
Camping with friends...
And celebrating the beginning of summer with some Waldorf families, with a bonfire and little boats that the kids made. We lit tea candles and sailed the boats out into the lake...
And endless hours of playing at the park.
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November 24, 2014
Tickets to the "We Are Marshall" premiere sold out in minutes Monday morning leaving anyone who still wanted a seat just one place to look: the internet. As of Monday evening, one pair of tickets to the Pullman Square premiere was going for more than $300.
According to the West Virginia Attorney General's office, there is no law that specifically prohibits the practice of "ticket scalping", so ticket prices to the premiere could continue to head higher.
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the room is really big and comfortable. the interior design of the hotel is great. the staffs are also very kind and speak good English.
The receptionist is so kind and understanding. If i would come again to Madrid, the Aparto Rosales Hotel would be the first place where i can go.
Very nice, quiet location, clean rooms, renewed cafeteria. Helpfull staff. Walking distance to the main areas. Close to the metro station. Different cafeterias and restaurants around the corner.
Little bit old (still very clean) bathroom design. Poor breakfast, but it's probably because that is what Madrid citizens eat (croisant, juice and cofe). Elevator acting weird ;)
Bath room required some renovation.
We are repeat guests, so that should say it all.
No complaint
location, cleen and silent rooms
Location is more or less ok - not far from plaza de Espana. Good for its price. Room was clean.
There is no lift from the basement, we had to go from B2 to the ground with suitcases. Very weird system for wifi - you have to enter username and password almost every half an hour.
Nice staff
Works in lobby inhibit use of 1st elevator.
Walk distance to the main places. Very nice room decoration. Clean. Quiet.
Wifi was bad: don't try to upload your photos from the hotel.
Spaciousness of the apartment. Great location in a very nice area of Madrid.
There were some steps to get to the apartment, not wheelchair/buggy friendly, although the staff was very helpful.
Had parking available
They turn the AC off at nights - very hot in the rooms!!!
Despite the look from outside, the rooms are really luxurious and spacious. Also the inside patio is really nice. And all at a really reosonable price (60 EUR!)
No breakfast included in the price, but available at the bar right next door. Minor thing though...
The hotel is close to the city centre and located in a nice neighbourhood. The room is spacious and and overall good value for money. The staff is friendly. Check-out time at noon is awesome. We would stay again.
The breakfast option in the cafeteria (which apparently is somehow connected to the hotel) makes no sense at all as it is not clear what the standard option (3.20) actually includes. You need to request the wifi code everyday as it is changes every day. The mattress is not the best quality.
Charming and very helpful reception staff. Nice, quiet hotel, very situated, close to Metro, bus station and city centre.
Perfect for a longish stay, microwave, fridge etc for snack meals, tea/coffee etc., but also cafeteria on ground floor (Punto Basico) excellent value and quality breakfast and set menus lunch and dinner. Will be back.
Bed (mattress) very noisy.
Kept clean every day. The cleaning lady also does the dishes. Close by a metro station and a supermarket. Free Wifi
Don't let you fool by 'Balcony, City view'... The balcony is minuscule and quite dirty from exhaust gasses. 'City view' means looking out on the grey buildings opposite of a busy and noisy street. Maybe the rooms on the backside are even worse, that I can't say. Little kitchen equipment to cook. No English channels that aren't dubbed. Only one device able to connect to Wifi simultaneously.
We had a very quiet room, the staff were friendly, the room and the premises were kept clean. It was relatively near the metro station and some distance to the city center but it wasn't a problem travelling back and forth. Suoermercados were nearby.
The radiator was on all the time and we couldn't control the temperature in the room except by leaving the balcony door open.
Staffs are extremely friendy and helpful. Location of the hotel are terrific, only three mins to the subway. Near to city center, easy to go to any places breakfast, department, zara are around the hotel.
However, the hotel is a bit aged but remain ok for stay. If you are not a pickky person and have concern about the price and searching for the good location. It would be a nice choice.
Helpful staff Good facilities Nice decor Good location
Impossible for someone who does not speak Spanish to order breakfast or food in hotel cafeteria. Cafe across the street called Joven with English translation. We ate there twice.
The room is spacious and clean
The water flow from the shower tap was not steady in temperature. It cycled through normal-cold-hot. I had to be careful not to burn myself
Friendly staff, clean and big hotel rooms, location close to the metro station Argüelles
Slow wifi and staff a little short on English
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Monday 3rd November -S.S.T Week (Classes VI-XII)
Wednesday 5th November -Hurdle Race(Kindergarten),S.S.T Week (Classes VI-XII)
Friday 7th November -S.S.T Week (Classes VI-XII)
Saturday 8th November-S.S.T Week (Classes VI-XII)
Tuesday 11th November -Origami(Classes III-V), Ikebana (Classes VI-VIII)
Wednesday 12th November-Quiz on Animals and Their Young ones(Kindergarten)
Thursday 13th November-Hurdle Race(Classes I & II)
Friday 14th November -Children Day Celebration
Tuesday 18th November- Limericks(Classes III-V)
Wednesday 19th November -Pattern Making(Kindergarten)
Thursday 20th November -Mask Making(Classes I & II)
Monday 24th November - Skating Week(classes VI-XII)
Tuesday 25th November- Colour Splash(Classes III-V),Skating Week(classes VI-XII)
Wednesday 26th November- Memory Game (Kindergarten),Skating Week(classes VI-XII)
Thursday 27th November - Quick Snack(Biscuit Topping)(Classes I & II)
Friday 28th November - Scrutiny of Note Books(Classes III-V)
Saturday 29th November - Scrutiny of Note Books(Classes VI-XII)
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A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Prather has been in the service for 25 years: 18 months on active duty; the rest in reserves. In her civilian job, she is the service line director for the Center for Women's health at NorthBay Healthcare.
I've never met her, but was directed to her blog (http://newsroom.northbay.org/blogs/homefront/) and subsequently e-mailed her to pose some questions of my own regarding her deployment and her military duties.
Because of my own involvement with greeting the wounded warriors who pass through Travis Air Force Base and supporting the many members of the Air Force who have deployed to serve in a medical capacity in Afghanistan, I was interested to learn more about the front lines of medical care and the soldiers and airman who provide it.
More important, I wanted to know how someone in a leadership position guides and mentors those under her command in a deployed environment. My questions were not detail-specific, so as to avoid challenges with operational security issues, but were more general in nature.
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She will tell you that it is difficult being away from home and having no control over your own environment, and that some of the toughest challenges she and her soldiers faced was the loss of a patient, or sending home the wounded, especially with amputations.
Prather will also tell you that the health care being provided in Afghanistan is comparable to any trauma center in the United States, and that service members are the most honorable of Americans. She emphasized that the backing of the American public is critical to every service member and is absolutely appreciated. She said it has been her absolutely privilege to serve the brave Americas fighting over there.
Today, I salute Col. Jane Prather and the commitment of hundreds of medical personnel who understand the true meaning of duty. Those wounded in the field of battle may never know the names of the people who took care of them, but they will know that they were cared for by some truly selfless Americans.
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BlackBerry's Q10 is its first next-generation smartphone, running the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, to have physical buttons for typing texts and emails and for other applications. BlackBerry built its brand on selling mobile phones with small Qwerty keyboards. The rounded buttons on the handsets even resembled the surface of blackberry fruit, hence the name.
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