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March 19, 2014
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Junior Annie Thomas tallied a career-high eight point and led eight Greyhounds in scoring as the No. 16 Loyola University Maryland women's lacrosse team earned a 16-5 win over Bucknell at William A. Graham Field Wednesday night.
Thomas finished with a personal-best five goals and three assists for a career-high eight points, while senior Marlee Paton added five points on four goals and one assist. Junior Taryn VanThof tacked on two goals for Loyola (5-4, 2-0 Patriot League), and senior Ali Habicht, juniors Kara Burke and Sydney Thomas, sophomore Maddy Blakeman and freshman Cami Whiteford all contributed one score. Junior Molly Hulseman rounded out the scoring with an assist.
For Bucknell (0-8, 0-3), Katelyn Miller and Sam Rickels had two goals each, while Maddy Molinari had one.
Annie Thomas assisted VanThof to get the game started at 29:03, but Bucknell was able to even the score at one with a goal at 27:16. Thomas then tallied two of the game's next three goals, pushing Loyola ahead, 4-1. Thomas' first score came at 23:24, followed by a Burke goal at 21:28. Hulseman then set Thomas up for a fast-break goal at 21:13.
The Bison scored their second goal at 20:30, but the Greyhounds responded by scattering seven goals throughout the remainder of the half, while allowing just one Bucknell goal, to take an 11-3 advantage into halftime. Paton had back-to-back goals in just over two minutes to start the streak, followed by a goal from Sydney Thomas and back-to-back goals from Annie Thomas, putting Loyola up, 9-2 at 5:50. Thomas' goal at 8:01 marked her 14th career hat trick.
Following a Bison goal at 4:36, Blakeman and Habicht found the back of the net to account for the 11-3 halftime advantage.
Paton completed her 25th career hat trick - and fourth of the year - at the 25-minute mark of the second half before assisting VanThof at 23:43 and sticking a fourth goal into the back of the net, assisted by Whiteford, at 21:03.
Annie Thomas followed it up by notching her career-high fifth goal at 18:59 and Whiteford recorded her first collegiate goal, assisted by Habicht, at 17:09, giving Loyola a 16-3 lead.
Bucknell closed out the game by tallying back-to-back goals to bring the final score to 16-5.
Defensively, sophomore Maddy Lesher had a game-high three ground balls, while Paton had two ground balls and a game-high three caused turnovers. VanThof won five draw controls and Habicht had four.
Loyola will return to action on Saturday when it hosts Lehigh for Alumnae Day in the second game of a doubleheader with the Greyhounds' men's lacrosse team. The women's game is slated for 4 p.m., followed by the program's first annual HoundRaiser
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Nexus of Age, Diversity and Boomers
Torres-Gil, Fernando M., Aging Today
Dear Mr. President:
You have arrived at a propitious time in the history of the United States. The period from 2009 to 2013 may well influence this nation's domestic direction for the next 20 to 30 years. Alongside the pressing issues you will face - energy and environmental concerns, national security, the economy - you will find that this country is in the midst of profound demographic changes: the confluence of rapid aging and increasing' diversity.
By 2030, this nexus of aging and diversity will likely give us a large retiree population (predominantly white and English-speaking) supported by a mainly young immigrant and minority workforce (heavily Hispanic). The U.S. Census Bureau, for example, now projects that before 2050, the majority of the U.S. population will comprise etiinic minorities.
What might these trends portend for a new administration? One presidential candidate talked about "the psychodrame of the baby boom generation" and implied that boomers' politics no longer matter in a nation transitioning to younger generations. Yet, if the historically high voting pattern of older people holds, your administration will have up to 75 million aging boomers in the electorate. Their concerns and insecurities will weigh heavily on the body politic.
At the same time, emerging populations of minorities and immigrants are seeking their part of the American Dream. Latinos, in particular, exemplify this country's growing dependence on the vitality, entrepreneurship and productivity of these'groups. Thus, your administration will face the twin challenges of responding to the needs of a large retiree population mat may be as vulnerable and insecure as elders in the Great Depression and satisfying a younger, more diverse population's demands for social and economic opportunities.
To answer these challenges, I believe that an intergenerational compact is in order for the 21st century. This new version of the social compact of the last generation will stress the responsibility of all ages and groups to each other and will' focus on the common concerns tiiey face: healthcare security, educational and jobtraining improvements, and safe and secure homes and communities. …

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Bellevue Memorial Gardens is awash in red, white and blue as hundreds of flags wave in the sunshine. More than 50 volunteers from American Legion Riders, Post 192, and Boy Scout troop 43 spread out over the cemetery over the weekend in search of veterans' graves to make sure that former members of the armed services are honored this Veterans Day.
Residents in Grovetown and Harlem can head to the polls today to vote to elect leaders in their respective cities.
On the non-partisan ballot are three people vying for two open seats on the Grovetown City Council currently occupied by Lee Briggs and Bruce Stoddard.
Briggs is a John Deere operations manager. He was appointed to fill the more than four months remaining of former Councilman Sonny McDowell's term. Briggs is seeking a full term. Stoddard, who has served 12 years on the council, is not seeking reelection.
Seeing Sparks
Best selling author Nicholas Sparks spoke for more than an hour Saturday during "An Evening With Nicholas Sparks". Sparks has written 18 novels beginning with the bestselling book,"The Notebook" . After his performance Sparks spent three hours signing his latest book "The Longest Ride". More than 2,000 people pre-registered to attend the event at the amphitheater in Evans Towne Center Park. Ten of his books have been adapted for films.
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After winning the South Carolina Independent School Association Class AAA championship in 2012, the Augusta Christian Lions find themselves in waters they haven't had to tread for a few years.
Following their 49-26 loss to the Hammond Skyhawks Friday night, the Lions (2-6, 2-5) find themselves in a battle for a playoff spot with two games left in the regular season, but they can clinch a spot with a win at Heathwood Hall on Friday.
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When have I ever said anything nasty about your research? I've only asked if you really want to turn into another one of the data hoarders, going "I know something you don't know, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!" But I've always held your research in the highest regard, mainly because you've never been afraid to
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The Munster U-19s were first to threaten to scoreboard, maintaining possession and territory for the opening minutes. However, the UCC defence managed to hold them out.
The opening try of the game came in the first half when number 8 Valerie Mitchell crashed over the line for an unconverted try for the Munster side.
Some great passages of play on a night made for expansive, free-flowing rugby, with some fantastic individual displays. None topped that of Shannon winger Nicole Cronin whose tremendous break up the touchline was richly applauded by the crowd.
Cronin's lightening pace saw her cut through the UCC defence in the closing minute of the game, and her well-timed offload to fullback Danni Delahunty of Clonmel RFC, who was up in support, resulted in the clinching try.
Eimear Carey sadly passed away in January 2008. She played rugby with UCC during her time in the college as she qualified as a doctor. She was living in Manchester with her boyfriend at the time of her unexpected death.
Eimear played 'anywhere' and 'everywhere' for UCC but she really was at her best when she wore the number 7 jersey. She epitomised the ideal rugby player, with a high skill level and work-rate on the pitch and off the pitch she was very welcoming to new members, always suggesting to organise the social 'bonding' nights out which always involved plenty of fun!!
Eimear was always smiling, and a really remarkable individual. Her saying in life was 'Carpe diem' - seize the day.
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Plasmid Vectors
Methods and Applications
The Function and Organization of Plasmids
1. Introduction
In 1952, Joshua Lederberg coined the term plasmid to describe any bacterial genetic element that exists in an extrachromosomal state for at least part of its replication cycle . As this description included bacterial viruses, the definition of what constitutes a plasmid was subsequently refined to describe exclusively or predominantly extrachromosomal genetic elements that replicate autonomously. Plasmids are now known to be present in most species of Eubacteria that have been examined, as well as in Archaea and lower Eukarya .
Although most of the genetic material that directs the structure and function of a bacterial cell is contained within the chromosome, plasmids contribute significantly to bacterial genetic diversity and plasticity by encoding functions that might not be specified by the chromosome. For example, antibiotic resistance genes are often plasmid-encoded, which allows the bacterium to persist in an antibiotic-containing environment, thereby providing the bacterium with a competitive advantage over antibiotic-sensitive species.
Under laboratory conditions, plasmids are generally not essential for the survival of the host bacterium and they have served as invaluable model systems for the study of processes such as DNA replication, segregation, conjugation, and evolution. Moreover, ever since their utility was evinced by the first gene-cloning experiments in the early 1970s, plasmids have been pivotal to modern recombinant DNA technology as gene-cloning and gene-expression vehicles, among other uses .


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The Cut (2005 TV series)
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|The Cut
|Reality Television
Game show
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Craig Piligian
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|June 9, 2005– September 7, 2005
The Cut was a television reality show for world class fashion designers hosted and sponsored by fashion designer and billionaire Tommy Hilfiger. Sixteen designers split into new teams each week to complete tasks, with a player eliminated each round. The show debuted on CBS, and shifted timeslots through the summer. Of note was the catch phrase Hilfiger used for each elimination ("you're out of style"), celebrity appearances, and the New York City setting. The winner had the opportunity to design a clothing line for HIllfiger. [1]
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The girls have been kept at an unidentified location, away from their parents, to protect their privacy. Dulshia Korram, the mother of another victim, who was in class two, doesn't even have enough money to find out where her daughter is and only knows that she has been sent to a better hostel. Medical tests have confirmed the girls were raped.
As more details emerged of the latest rapes, following a report filed by the local women and child welfare officer for Kanker, Shail Thakur, former Congress CM Ajit Jogi claimed that one of the girls, just 10 years old, had become pregnant and had committed suicide. But Kanker collector D. Alarmelmangai denies this, saying the girl died of jaundice and typhoid. BJP MP and adivasi leader Nand Kumar Sai says, "In a state whose 32 per cent population is tribal, this is not the first instance of atrocities against tribals. The President must intervene in this latest crisis."
Not far from the state capital, the twin towns of Durg-Bhilainagar, an urban agglomeration with a population of almost 10 lakh and set to become the state's education hub, is being billed as the country's "rape capital". It has the highest number of rapes per 1,00,000 persons. According to ncrb figures, the area recorded 5.7 rapes per 1,00,000 people in 2011 as against 2.8 rapes registered in Delhi. The rate was 1.1 for Bangalore, 1.2 for Mumbai and 0.3 for Calcutta.
This is an area where a war has been waged and rape has often been the weapon men have used to fight that battle. It is at the heart of an India—quite an "ancient" India—that is brutish, nasty and terribly violent to the weaker sex.
Thank you to all those who have taken the trouble to read the article and share their thoughts. Out of the arguments made here, there are two that perhaps need answering. So here they go.
1. The first part of the article compares outcomes (relative percentages of population of the religions concerned) irrespective of the process that led to those outcomes - whether immigration, relatively faster population growth or conversions. This was for two reasons. One, to put the figure of 2.3 per cent in "numerical perspective", as the article itself explained. The second reason was that outcomes are ultimately what the crux of debate is about. The rest of the article in any case dealt with process - or conversions in this case, from both a contemporary and historical perspective.
2. Some commenters have tried to cast doubts on the reliability of Census 2001. Those who do this should bear in mind that Census 2001 was conducted by a BJP government. Considering the extreme importance that BJP gives to this issue, it would be reasonable to expect that IF it had perceived a problem with the methodology that was distorting the numbers, it would have fixed it. As the article mentioned, BJP or BJP-supported governments have been in power for 10 of the last 40 years, or about a quarter of the time, and the only reasonable conclusion one can arrive at is that any misreporting of numbers, real or perceived, would be marginal and hence, not of importance.
To all other arguments made, my answer is the following: Please read the article again, with particular focus on the quotations of Vivekananda and Monier Williams, and the history of the missionary efforts in Bengal and their outcome.
Don't think we don't notice the bagging of BJP ruled states for rapes as if the same don't happen in socialist ones!!
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December 2013 Archive
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
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- WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance
- Jacob Appelbaum: Futuristic-Sounding "Radar Wave Devices" Can Help NSA Monitor Your Computer Usage
- Looking Back: A Year of Struggles on Climate, Education & Marriage Equality Inspire Hope for 2014
Monday, December 30, 2013
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- Orwellian or a Blunt Tool?: Conflicting Rulings on NSA Spying Set Up Likely Supreme Court Showdown
- Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can "Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make"
- Jobless Benefits Cut for 1.3 Million, Despite Highest Long-Term Unemployment Since World War II
Friday, December 27, 2013
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- U.S. Rushes Weapons to Iraq Amidst Bloody Sectarian Conflict Set Off by 2003 Invasion
- The Other 98% Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis
- How Can the Philippines Recover from Typhoon Haiyan While Forced to Pay Off Ex-Dictator's Old Debt?
Thursday, December 26, 2013
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- Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
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- "Ties That Bind": Tales of Love and Gratitude from the Past Decade with StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
- Headlines for December 24, 2013
- Beyond Plan Colombia: Covert CIA Program Reveals Critical U.S. Role in Killings of Rebel Leaders
- Did Covert U.S. Program Targeting Rebel Leaders Help Undermine Colombia's Peace Process?
- Ex-Rebel Leader Faces Ouster as Bogota Mayor After Longtime Advocacy of Reconciliation
- Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor of Eponymous Assault Rifle That Shaped Modern Warfare, Dead at 94
Monday, December 23, 2013
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- Time for Compassion? Aging Political Prisoners Suffer From Illness, Decades in Solitary Confinement
- "If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go": Elderly Prison Population Skyrockets Despite Low Risk to Society
Friday, December 20, 2013
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- Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution
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- Live from Prison: Jason Hernandez Thanks Obama for Commuting His Drug Sentence, Hopes "More to Come"
Thursday, December 19, 2013
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- Vindication for Snowden? Obama Panel Backs Major Curbs on NSA Surveillance, Phone Record Data Mining
- NSA Whistleblower Kirk Wiebe Details Gov't Retaliation After Helping Expose "Gross Mismanagement"
- Morsi Charged with Terrorism as Egyptian Military Widens Crackdown on Journalists, Activists
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
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- Debate: Is Academic Group's Boycott of Israel a Victory or Setback for Justice in Middle East?
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
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- As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance "Almost Orwellian," Obama Prepares to Leave Spying Program Intact
- The Selling of ADHD: Diagnoses, Prescriptions Soar After 20-Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma
Monday, December 16, 2013
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- "Makes Absolutely No Sense": David Cay Johnston on Budget Deal That Helps Billionaires, Not the Poor
- Nikki Giovanni on 1 Year Since Newtown: Where is the Political Leadership on Gun Control?
- Nikki Giovanni on Poetry, Grief and Her New Book, "Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid"
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Friday, December 13, 2013
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- Polaroid & Apartheid: Inside the Beginnings of the Boycott, Divestment Movement Against South Africa
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
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Sour flavours from underripe tomatoes and star fruit, with coriander, chicken stock and prawns make a glorious dish.
2-3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 small tomatoes, preferably slightly unripe, peeled and quartered
2 tbsp nam pla (fish sauce)
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 star fruit, preferably slightly unripe, thinly sliced
1 small pineapple, preferably slightly unripe, peeled and cut into chunks
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp tamarind paste
1-2 tsp sugar (to taste)
500ml/18fl oz chicken stock (see above) or ready-made fresh chicken stock
3 spring onions, including green parts, sliced thinly
1 kg/2lb 2oz raw king prawns, shelled and de-veined
1 large handful fresh coriander leaves, roughly chopped
1 fresh long red chilli, seeds removed, sliced thinly
If making your own chicken stock, rinse the chicken well under running water. Place into a large stockpot and add enough cold water to just cover the chicken. Bring to the boil, uncovered, skimming off any scum with a spoon.
Add the ginger and leeks, reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 1½-3 hours, until the broth has taken on the flavours of the ingredients. Strain into a clean bowl and leave to cool.
For the soup, place a large saucepan on the heat and add the oil and one of the chopped tomatoes. Cook for three minutes until just softened.
Add the fish sauce, lemon juice, star fruit and pineapple and stir well. Add the freshly ground black pepper, tamarind, and sugar, to taste.
Add the chicken stock, spring onions and remaining chopped tomato and bring to a rolling boil. Boil for two minutes, then add the prawns and cook for a further minute, or until the prawns have turned pink and are cooked through.
Remove from the heat and stir in the coriander leaves and chilli slices. Serve immediately.
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Tuvix was three poeple.
Tuvok, Neelix and Tuvix.
Janeway killed three people to make two people.
A couple weeks later, Kes dumps Neelix under the thrall of an alien Warlord. Off screen, after the credits (I hear Ethan supposed at a convention once.), she must have confirmed Neelix that the Alien symbiont controlling her, didn't give a shit so well about his feelings as to be more honest about her own waning feelings for Neelix, which she cared too much for him to be so honest as to mention aloud that the site of him was beginning to make her sick.
What if Tuvix occurred after Warlord?
No Kes in Neelix's corner, browbeating Janeway.
Hang on.
Kes must have loved him less after the Tuvix incident, because of the Tuvix incident.
Is it because Neelix was less Neelix than he used to be?
NUlix was still too much Tuvix and Tuvok that he was not the same magnificent man that she fell in love with. that this half Neelix they were trying to pass off as the real McCoy did not cut the mustard.
Which could have just been her imagination.
A months separation led into Kes creating an idealized version of Neelix in her mind, An UBer Neelix (Imagine a hedgehog that was almost supersonic.), who she prayed would return from that Quantum entangled mess and make her toes curl and... An impossibly cutting figure which Neelix could not possibly compete with.
Neelix liked being Tuvix and resented Kes for murdering him, and that resentment made him treat her differently and it pissed her off to the point that the Warlord expressed the little girls distress for her, and they're broken up.
kes couldn't forgive Neelix for wanting to be Tuvix and for abandoning her. You know like how idiots blame rape victims for being raped and think of them as damaged or unclean (i'm looking at you "Everyone in India".). Westly clearly said that death doesn't stop true love, it just slows it down a little, and the hedgehog wasn't even dead but he still preferred to snuggle into Tuvoks DNA rather than her warm embrace,
Mingling with Tuvok like that, was in a sense cheating on her. And I don';t mean that Neelix was cheating on Kes. I mean that Tuvok was cheating on T'Pel, and more importantly that Tuvok wasn't cheating on T'Pel with her. She clearly wanted the Vulcan bad but had respect for his nuptials that she didn't tap that, but have you ever been in a threesome and somehow found that you're just playing with your self as the rest of the menage a trois rolls over towards the other side of the bed?
She loved Neelix enough to kill for him, but not enough to let him be happy.
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BRIAN SHACTMAN: On this 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic Roe v. Wade decision, the bitter cold and the blowing snow are not keeping protesters off the national mall today for the annual March for Life. Today's march takes place on the heels of a year when some 24 states passed 53 restrictive abortion laws. That's a whopping 205 laws in just the last three years, which is more, for perspective here, than all the restrictive laws passed in the last decade. And as the Republican National Committee holds its winter meeting today in D.C., chair Reince Priebus said, "We thought it only fitting our members attend the march." Joining me now to discuss, Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, which just last week came out with a new report on reproductive rights. Ilyse, thanks for coming on the show.
ILYSE HOGUE: Thanks for having me, Brian.
SHACTMAN: You know, Rick Santorum, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, they are going to be there, along with a handful of other congressmen. Organizers say they're not going to give these long speeches, they're going to try to involve social media a little bit more, even support for the pope. They're trying to get hip, I guess. I mean, what's the impact of the March for Life? Does it have one?
HOGUE: Well, I mean, I think it's clear that they felt the need to cater to this extreme piece of their base, and, in fact, if you can read the tea leaves, 2014 is going to be more of the same in terms of catering to that base. The good news is that we know that the majority of Americans support the rights enshrined by Roe – in Roe – and are actually sick of our political debate being dominated by what most people accept as settled law. We'd like to have a conversation about a real women's agenda that supports women throughout our lifetime, both when we are not ready to be parents, but also when we are, and that's nowhere on the GOP's agenda.
SHACTMAN: Well, how do you reconcile all these laws are getting passed at the state level, yet the public sentiment is what it is?
HOGUE: Yeah, it's amazing,
isn't it? I think what we're seeing is the culmination of three decades of
strategy by anti-choice – the anti-choice minority. They were very savvy about
taking over state houses, leveraging redistricting to their benefit in the
House of Representatives, and definitely paying attention to judicial nominees.
The good news is, 70 percent of Americans actually support the rights enshrined
in Roe and we're starting to see the momentum shift back in our direction. We
saw it in 2013 with the
SHACTMAN: You know, it's
funny, but the Republicans are sort of changing their rhetorical angle on this,
and I just want to get to a couple things and then put a question to you. The
president did release a statement saying on this anniversary, "We recommit
ourselves to the decision's guiding principle: that every woman should be able
to make her own choices about her body and her health." Meanwhile, this
debate over women's rights has taken on even greater meaning in the midterms
and you just touched on it, there are red state Democrats up for re-election.
They're hoping that that success in
HOGUE: No, I actually, you know, look, we agree. Reproductive freedom is ground zero for women's ability to determine our economic security. There is nowhere in the world that you see a place that doesn't have access for women to family planning that does well on any other socioeconomic factor, and women in this country experience it the same. The GOP is wildly out of step. I said this morning in Politico, they're not anti-abortion, they are anti-women living any kind of life that is different from the one that they determine. That's why they vote against contraception. That's why they vote against comprehensive sex ed. If they were really anti-abortion, they would embrace all of the preventative measures and education that we know give women power to make decisions about our reproductive freedom. We believe that when we expose the fact that they also vote against helping low-income women who are parents – in fact, Governor John Kasich took money out of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and moved it into fake clinics that lie to women – that we'll see that not only are they out of step on these issues, but they're out of step on the real economics that allow women to get ahead in this country.
SHACTMAN: It is the – one thing that is amazing through all this, Ilyse, and thanks for the insight, is that 41 years later, it's still a huge battleground issue and a lot of people had hoped that it wasn't. NARAL president Ilyse Hogue, we appreciate the time.
HOGUE: Thank you.
SHACTMAN: Alright, I'd like
to bring in today's agenda panel. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, an MSNBC contributor, professor at the
SABRINA SIDDIQUI: Sure. Well, we have a new poll done in collaboration with YouGov that shows that while Americans continue to be fairly evenly split in terms of how they view abortion from an ideological perspective, a growing number of Americans don't believe that the government has a place in determining what a woman's access to abortion should be. So 64 percent of respondents actually said that decisions on abortion should be made between a woman and her doctor, whereas just 24 percent of respondents said that the government has a right or obligation to pass new restrictions on abortion. Moreover, it was only 35 percent of respondents that said that they would favor Congress passing new restrictions on abortion. So while it's true that Republicans have a state-level advantage that has enabled them to pass a growing number of laws that would restrict women's access to abortion across the country, those views are increasingly out of step with the American public.
SHACTMAN: Well again, let's build on this, Irin, because msnbc.com has some graphics on the website with some of these statistics. One compares abortion laws in the year 2000 compared to 2013. Now the dark color represents states most hostile to abortion rights and you can see it's about doubled. Now if, as we've talked about, more people want the government to stay out of this issue, and again I'm going to ask the same question I asked – why is this happening?
IRIN CARMON: Right, well I mean, I think Ilyse mentioned that there has been a strategy. A lot of places in which the anti-abortion movement first tried, especially at the Supreme Court, it failed. What they realized is that the Supreme Court did open the door for them to pass a certain number of restrictions that would place roadblocks in women's ways. So technically, even in states where it's technically legal, there are all sorts of restrictions that fall into a legal gray area where abortion is legal but it's extremely onerous and difficult, particularly for low-income women, women who live in remote places, like the Rio Grande valley where clinics have closed thanks to the restrictions passed in Texas, so I think that they're realizing that with federal gridlock, with a certain limit to what they can do from the court's perspective, they can – there's a lot that they can do to make life more difficult for women who are seeking abortions.
SHACTMAN: Right, and how they frame it – Vicki, I don't know if you saw this, and you can chime in on what you just heard, but also a Louisville radio station reported that Kentucky state Rep. Joe Fischer, who's a Republican, he amended a domestic violence bill to include language limiting abortions at 20 weeks. He says abortion is, "The most brutal form of domestic violence." How do you react to that?
VICTORIA DEFRANCESCO SOTO: You know, Brian, abortion, like with most issues, is a local issue. Again, echoing what Irin said, and I think that what we need to do going forward is slug it out at the state level. I think Democrats sometimes tend to not focus so much on the midterm elections and we see our big turnouts for our presidential elections, especially among Latinos and youth – core constituencies of the Democratic party that don't turn out. So if we want to see the essence of Roe V. Wade recaptured, we need to start at the state house level and we need to uber-mobilize these constituencies that don't tend to turn out, because this is the only way we're going to have a blockade toward those infringement of choice rights.
SHACTMAN: Well and, you know – I could talk more about this, but I want to take a bit of a turn, because it's obviously related. At least one of you mentioned how out of touch you think the Republican party is. And so Sabrina, I'll put it to you: how is the Republican party going to appeal to more contemporary women with this kind of stance? I mean, how are they going to win those votes?
SIDDIQUI: Well, I think that the Republican National Committee has certainly talked about the need to appeal to women. At the same time, they are also considering a resolution this week that would urge candidates to stand their ground on abortion and defend their position on abortion. I think, you know, with respect to congressional Republicans, one of the problems they face is that lawmakers are under a constant threat of facing a primary challenge and a very real primary challenge, so that has prevented them from sort of moderating their position on abortion. At the same time, I think that they are sort of trying to train their candidates not to at least make comments that would offend women. We've all heard about, you know, the training to not talk about rape and come up with other ways to talk about why they are pro-life and sort of defend that stance. I don't think we're going to see any shift in policies, certainly not in a midterm election year, which as others mentioned is a turnout election. It's about making sure that the base comes out and votes.
SHACTMAN: You know, I think the rhetorical change to make it more of an economic issue as opposed to social, in some ways, you know, it makes more sense, because when they talk about the social side of it, that's when they get into real trouble with the average American. But Irin, I want to put this to you because Americans United for Change, they brought out a Tea Party score card that's described as a tool for voters to hold Republicans accountable for aligning themselves with the Tea Party, and basically it seems like that's another way to get people who are more moderate to not be moderate. I mean, it's almost getting impossible for a Republican to be in the center, right?
CARMON: Right. Well, and I think that one way in which our two discussions mesh is that abortion is an issue that they all agree on. You know, they have tactical problem – they have tactical issues amongst themselves, even some of those quote-unquote "more moderate Republicans" don't have such ideological differences from the self-avowed Tea Partiers. It's more how willing are they to put grinds – to put to a grinding halt the functions of the government, as we saw last year, so I think one of the reasons actually even in the House of Representatives, which knows that it's going to get roadblocked by the Senate and the president on many measures, including those restricting a woman's right to choose, is that it's one of the few consensus items in which there isn't a lot of ideological or strategic disagreement. It's really just a matter of rhetoric and focus. And as for, you know, abortion as an economic issue, which absolutely reproductive freedom is an economic issue, so far all I've really heard from Republicans is that they think that restricting a woman's access to abortion is going to create more jobs because there are going to be more babies, and that's not necessarily what I would consider a sound economic theory, but I'm open to being persuaded.
SHACTMAN: I mean, Vicki, you think that the Republicans, they're not done here, that they could get some real traction in the midterms, isn't that right?
SOTO: You know, with the issue of women, they definitely have a black eye there, but they're going to be trying to distract the general electorate from the issue of women, and I think two of those issues are immigration, where we see some signals that the Republican party wants to move forward. Of course, it's not going to be a comprehensive reform type of immigration, but some movement. Also recent talk about school vouchers and these are two elements that George W. Bush put into place during the 2000s and was able to moderate the party. Obviously, it's not going to be a 180, but we do see some movement. But I think the most important factor is that we see some establishment Republicans getting ready to play offense toward that Tea Party extreme. I don't know if it's going to be effective or not, we'll know in March, but we do have the Roves and the other moderate Republicans saying don't keep turning us further right, because we're never going to win elections at the national level.
SHACTMAN: Well you know, I just want to say, you know, I've said this before on air when they had the budget deal with Paul Ryan and Boehner slapping back at the Tea Party, it looked like there was an opening there for some moderation, but then it seems like it hasn't gotten a whole lot of momentum. Guys, we appreciate it. MSNBC contributor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Msnbc.com's Irin Carmon, and The Huffington Post's Sabrina Siddiqui.
MSNBC Live
RICHARD LUI: Forty-one years
ago today, a Supreme Court ruling recognized a woman's constitutional right to
an abortion. In that case, Roe v. Wade has become among the most famous and
divisive in the high court's history. The president put out a statement earlier
saying, in part, "As we reflect on the 41st anniversary of the Supreme
Court decision in Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to the decision's guiding
principle, that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her
body and her health." And 40-plus years after that decision, the issue is
still surrounded on both sides by a great deal of passion. Some of that passion
is on display this afternoon, as anti-abortion marchers brave the cold to
gather in
TERRY O'NEILL: You know, I think what's really striking about the past year is a growing disconnect between what voters want in terms of women's health policy and what legislators, particularly legislators in states around the country. But also what courts are doing. So the voters on the one hand, support for women's abortion rights and women's access to the full range of reproductive health services is actually growing right now, for the past two to three years it's been growing. And yet the attacks on women's access to abortion care, to birth control, to women's health clinics where they can get STD treatments, those attacks have escalated by elected officials. So there's this huge divide.
LUI: So you've also got the
divide reflecting more restrictive laws, and we're seeing that on the local and
state level.
O'NEILL: You know, a part of it is the way we do voting anymore. Ever since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for corporate funding of elections, what we have seen is Tea Party extremists flooding into state legislatures and even into the United States Congress, particularly the U.S. House of Representatives, where Tea Party extremists hold sway on most policies over John Boehner and Eric Cantor. So I think money and politics is a huge problem.
LUI: You know, the Supreme
Court last week, they declined to hear an appeal and overturned
O'NEILL: You know, I'm very concerned about where the Supreme Court is
heading. Yes, it's a small, possibly a temporary victory. There are nearly a
dozen states that have outright criminalized abortion at 20 weeks gestation.
LUI: Terry --
O'NEILL: Yes?
LUI: – thank you so much. I'm sorry, we've got to go to breaking news. Terry O'Neill on the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
MSNBC NOW with Alex Wagner
ALEX WAGNER: Roe v. Wade turns 41 years old today. Forty-one years and one day ago, on January 21, 1973, abortion was only legal in a handful of states. The next day, it was legal in the entire country after the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a legal right, one protected by the Constitution. But 41 years later the fight is hardly over. This morning, thousands of anti-abortion protesters marched on Capitol Hill for the annual March for Life. They then made their way to the Supreme Court to protest a woman's right to choose. Seven in 10 Americans think Roe v. Wade should stand, but that hasn't stopped efforts throughout the country to restrict abortion at the state level. In the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Janet Reitman chronicles what she calls the stealth war on abortion being waged by "highly coordinated and so far chillingly successful nationwide campaign, often funded by the same people who fund the Tea Party, to make it harder and harder for women to terminate unwanted pregnancies and also to limit their access to many forms of contraception." Joining me now is contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine Janet Reitman. Janet, I said this to you before the segment began. This is one of the most important pieces I have read about women's health and reproductive freedoms and what is actually happening behind the scenes to restrict choice. Let's start first about the broad change in strategy from, as you write in the piece, the focus of being on the unborn to putting the focus on women and women's safety and health.
JANET REITMAN: Right. Women's health.
WAGNER: Tell us more about how that strategy – the iteration of that strategy.
REITMAN: Well I think the thing was is that the pro-life movement realized over the years that casting women's – excuse me, casting abortion as a matter of fetal murder was just a completely unsuccessful strategy and it made them look kind of like extremists, if you're waving like the bloody fetus pictures and kind of holding these massive rallies and blockading the clinics. None of this really worked and it just actually marginalized them, I believe. So what they – and actually according to some of these people, that is exactly what they've felt. And so over the years, people who were looking at this from a more strategic level were thinking, well, how can we chip away at this at the state level? And let's try to pass legislation that will restrict abortion and we'll do so in a way that makes it seem like we're protecting women's health, and that's exactly what they've done.
WAGNER: And you point out in the, you know, we talk about the safety issue and you compare abortions to colonoscopies. The mortality rate for abortions is less than .67 per 100,000 procedures. For colonoscopies, it's 20 out of 100,000. You do not see a huge sort of anti-colonoscopy lobby. This is not about women's safety. This is about restricting choice. But this is not just a couple of sort of well-organized individuals. I mean, the most shocking, I think, part of the piece is the behind-the-scenes funding of organizations like the National Right to Life Committee and the Americans United for Life, AUL, which in terms of drafting this legislation are a lot like the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, which has been a huge driver in voter suppression laws and a host of other conservative principles. Tell us about how these groups operate.
REITMAN: They operate in much the same way that ALEC does. They write model legislation. They send this out to legislators across the country, state and federal. They attend ALEC conferences. People from the Americans United for Life go to ALEC conferences and they don't present, but they do sort of pass out their literature and make this available to the people – to legislators who go, and many of those people – most of them, in many regards, are pro-life anyway. And so these agendas are very much connected. And the thing is is that most reporters don't really cover this enough or know this enough to make these connections, but if you talk to enough people, specifically those who cover the Religious Right, they have been documenting the ways in which the Religious Right has formed a real union with the fiscal conservatives. And personally, I think that's the story, is the stealthy connection between the two.
WAGNER: In the piece, I'll quote, you say, "Some abortion-rights advocates have compared the Americans United for Life, AUL, to ALEC, the secret corporate-funded organization responsible for many of the country's voter suppression and stand your ground laws. Each year, AUL sends state and federal lawmakers across the country a 700-page-plus pro-life playbook featuring a 50-state report card on the state of anti-abortion legislation as well as a step-by-step guide to help lawmakers understand that Roe v. Wade doesn't preclude them from passing common-sense legislation." They have been incredibly effective in this as you point out, again, in the piece. Over the past three years, 205 abortion restrictions were enacted. That number just seems to be going up.
REITMAN: Yeah, it does. And I think that it's going to keep getting -- you're going to at least see these attempts in more and more states and more and more of these attempts as we get closer and closer down the line. I mean, I think that 2014 will be interesting because this issue is now becoming a real issue for progressives and, you know, I'm not the only journalist who have made these connections and have written stories like this. I mean, I think that more and more people are asking these questions and looking at this more closely, so we'll see what happens.
WAGNER: Just before we let you go, in terms of the response from progressives, do you sense that there are the beginnings of organizations and sort of networking around this that can be a progressive pro-choice answer to what's happening in the religious, conservative, anti-choice world?
REITMAN: I mean, I'd like to say yes. I hope so. But I think that what we're – I think the real problem is funding. And I think they're just really massively out-funded by the Right. And in some ways they have an organizational structure on the Right that is just – it's bigger and it's extremely targeted. And I just think that progressives are having to wake up to this very quickly and get themselves mobilized, and I hope they do.
WAGNER: Well, the first step to mobilization is awareness. Janet Reitman from Rolling Stone, thank you so much for your time.


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The Amars/The Nuns
The inhabitants of "Nunnery" who are Otaku in some way or another. Their apartment is owned by Chieko's mother, who has gone abroad to follow her fangirl crush. Although Chieko is the manager, Mejiro-sensei the resident Mangaka enforces a strict "No Men" rule and employs the other inhabitants as assistants.Tropes applying to all of the "Nuns" are:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In the presence of their respective obsessions they can't focus on anything else.
- Beautiful All Along: They all eventually get makeovers.
- Christmas Cake: Most of them are over thirty, with the exception of Tsukimi.
- Deer in the Headlights/Taken for Granite: Parodied; they turn to stone when confronted by men and/or stylish people.
- Does Not Like Men: More like scared stiff by men.
- Food as Bribe: Kuranosuke has made use of this in the past, such as when he takes Banba and some of the others for meat.
- Gonk: None of them are conventionally attractive. This is a rare example where the gonks are the main characters (though Tsukimi, the protagonist, is more plain than gonkish).
- Limited Wardrobe: They are always seen wearing the same outfits in contrast to Kuranosuke's Unlimited Wardrobe.
- Lovable Nerd: They are portrayed sympathetically, though the narration doesn't completely gloss over the fact, that they are childish freeloaders.
- NEET: Though referring to them as as such is a major Berserk Button.
- Nerds Are Virgins: Strongly implied. It's the number one thing that shouldn't be mentioned in the Nunnery.
- Nerd Glasses: Tsukimi, Chieko, and Jiji wear glasses.
- No Social Skills: They can't move in the proximity of anyone "stylish".
- Otaku: Each of them have something they're obsessed with in a rather nerdy way.
- Serious Business: They all take their hobbies very seriously.
- Starving Artist: As Mejiro-sensei's unofficial assistants by inking the pages of her manga.
Tsukimi Kurashita
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (JP), Maxey Whitehead (EN)An 18-year-old illustrator who has been obsessed with jellyfish since she was a child. She is the youngest resident.
- Betty and Veronica: The Archie for Kuranosuke's Veronica and Shu's Betty and the Betty to Inari's Veronica for Shu's Archie.
- Blind Without 'Em: Without her glasses she can barely see a few feet in front of her, and everything past that gets blurry.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Passes out after a single glass of "sweet sake," which has little to no alcohol.
- Clark Kenting: Towards Shu, who doesn't realize she's the same person, in combination with Beautiful All Along.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: When exposed to the outside world, she often just can't function.
- Ditzy Genius: She's a walking jellyfish encyclopedia; not so much with other stuff.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her default hairstyle, compatibile with her youth and naiveté.
- Heroic BSOD: Happens to her on a regular basis, with its triggers including, but not limited to: finding out that Kuranosuke is a boy, hearing him tell her that he wanted to see her again, being hugged by Shu in the aquarium, and having Kuranosuke walk in on her when she pretends to dress up in a lacy jellyfish dress.
- A more memorable example is after seeing Shu walking with Inori. She walks back home in the rain and locks herself in her room and cries. Another happens after seeing the photo of Inori and Shu after their "night" together. She struggles to get to sleep without thinking about the picture and results to drinking sake to forget it.
- Kimono Fanservice: Her attempts to get out of one go embarrassingly wrong.
- Let's Get Dangerous: She manages to push her social phobias aside long enough to demand that a single jellyfish be moved to a safer tank. Don't get in her way when she's making a jellyfish dress, either.
- Meaningful Name: The kanji for Tsukimi (月海) reversed can be read as "kurage" (海月), or "jellyfish".
- Meganekko: She wears glasses and is very introverted.
- Messy Hair: Her hair looks messy most of the time.
- Missing Mom: One of the few tropes she has in common with Kuranosuke.
- Nosebleed: Her reaction to being hugged by a man.
- Not Good with People: She tends to prefer the company of jellyfish.
- Oblivious to Love: Tsukimi is beyond oblivious: she's so convinced that no one could ever be attracted to her that she goes out of her way to misinterpret even the most straightforward indications of love such as Shuu saying "I like you" or President Kai's kiss.
- Secret Keeper: She's the only Nun who knows Kuranosuke is really male. Naturally, things get awkward.
- Starving Artist: She wants to be an illustrator and has quite a lot of talent. Kuranosuke helps her out by selling her creations.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Flashbacks show that Tsukimi looks like her mom.
- Talking to the Dead: Narrates through voiceovers with her late mother.
- Write Who You Know: Tsukimi is almost exactly how the author was as a young girl, jellyfish obsession and all, but aged up for extra pathos.
- Youthful Freckles: Though she is 18 years old, she's probably the youngest of the entire main cast.
Voiced by: Kimiko Saito (JP), Cynthia Cranz (EN)
The daughter of the owner of the Nunnery. She is obsessed with traditional Japanese dolls and kimono.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT threaten to sell her dolls, or mess with the settings on her sewing machine. Even if, in both cases, it's part of a plot by Kuranosuke to keep the Nuns from getting evicted.
- Fat Girl: She's not a girl anymore, so it's less glaring, but she once mentions herself being chubby and it's implied it's a complex of her and one possible cause of her reclusion.
- Kimono Is Traditional: Only ever wears kimono. She comments at length on how much easier kimono is to sew compared to Western clothing, since it only uses straight lines in sewing and is not form-fitting.
- Landlady: It's actually her mother who's the landlady, but since she left to follow her fangirl crush to Korea, Chieko fills this role while she's away.
- Only Sane Woman: Of the Nuns, she seems to have the most real-world sense.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Averted, and the only member of the group Kuranosuke doesn't apply this to. It's explained that she doesn't need to, as the other members of the group looking fancier in turn makes her look fancier since she already wears kimono constantly.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She has an uncanny resemblance to her mother, Chiyoko. Kuranosuke and Tsukimi even mistake them for twins.
- Team Mom: She is the acting landlady, has the most social skills of the Amars and generally is the person most often being the adult of the house.
Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (JP), Monica Rial (EN)
Mayaya's obsession is Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: In this case, "Big Girl, Little Girl" and she is this with Banba, as Mayaya is very tall, and Banba is comically small.
- Blinding Bangs: It turns out that she has her bangs like this on purpose, since they hide her sinister-looking eyes, which she's self-conscious of.
- Evil Eyebrows: Shows one such looking pair after her face is shown. Totally non-indicative, though.
- Character Tics: Spasmodic karate-ing, as well as exclaiming "Nuwoo!" when excited.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Her response to a Moe version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "DIE A THOUSAND DEATHS!!"
- Genki Girl: Mayaya is very enthusiastic whenever she speaks.
- Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: She's not evil, bu her having narrow, sinister-looking eyes was — among other things — why she was called 'Contract Killer' in school. Until she started combing her hair in front of them, which was when she was nicknamed 'Bamboo Broom'.
- Hot-Blooded: Complete with No Indoor Voice and very over-the-top dialogue.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She was tall for her age back in school.
- Large Ham: Reacts to the smallest crises in the Nuns' house with loud cries of "EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!"
- She Cleans Up Nicely: She can pass as a model when she is dressed up (though she still has to be silent and refrain from her usual manner of moving to do so).
- Statuesque Stunner: In "After" mode. So much that she gets to be a model in the manga, and even Hanamori, who's usually more obsessed with cars than girls, offers her his services at a first glance.
- Those Two Girls: With Banba, with whom she spends most of the time.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her default hairstyle, and the only thing visually indicating that she is a woman.
- Woman Child: She is one of the most childish residents of Amamizukan, complaining she has to work and often acting as The Load.
Voiced by: Motoko Kumai (JP), Mariela Ortiz (EN)
A train Otaku with a large afro.
- Berserk Button: It's better not to add noodles to the meat in Banba's presence.
- Big Girl, Little Girl: With Mayaya, who is very tall, while Banba is exceptionally small.
- Blinding Bangs: Her hair covers her face.
- Compressed Hair: In "After" mode. "Afro . . . SEALED!"
- Emotionless Girl: She has a very stoic demeanor.
- Felony Misdemeanor: "Don't put shiratake noodles next to the meat! Unless you want it to be hard as a rock!"
- Funny Afro: Kuranosuke eventually gives up on trying to style it and hides its massive weight under a short blonde wig. However, it's surprisingly popular with the Stylish (they ask to touch it) and it's what ultimately inspires a model in Yokohama to accept the girls' jellyfish dresses at a fashion show.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Much of her face is covered, so it's difficult to tell what her gender is.
- Leap Day: Her birthday is February 29th.
- Little Miss Snarker: Subverted due to her age, but she certainly looks the part. And technically speaking, she is both little and a miss.
- Older Than She Looks: She claims to be 8 since she was born on a leap year. She is also the smallest in the group.
- Ore Onna: She uses the masculine, informal pronoun "ore".
- Rail Enthusiast: She has an extensive set of model trains, has subway posters on her wall and draws trains in doodles even when irrelevant to the subject at hand.(when going with Mayaya to Yokohama) The Minatomirai Line will be MINE!
- Stat-O-Vision: Parodied with her "Meat Scope", an ability to scope out high-quality meat.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She really likes meat, to the point that she calls Kuranosuke "Meat" and pesters him for meat whenever she sees him.
- Woman Child: Along with Mayaya, she is one of the most childish residents of Amamizukan, complaining she has to work and often acting as The Load.
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (JP), Leah Clark (EN)
Jiji is one of the Amars who is obsessed with mature, old men.
- Brainy Brunette: She is one of the few nuns exhibiting useful work skills.
- The Chick: She starts out as this, mostly hiding in the shadows, but becomes more of The Smart Girl later on by taking on the role of Product Manager.
- Comically Missing the Point: When the neighbors of the Nuns' house are evicted, instead of worrying how soon the same fate may come to them, she bemoans the fact that she no longer has an attractive old man, who had been "maturing so beautifully" in her neighborhood.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has pale skin and dark hair, and comes across as a bit creepier than the others due to her quiet voice and fixation on much older men.
- The Quiet One: She barely talks.
- Shrinking Violet: She is the most shy member of the Amars, even without the presence of the "stylish" people.
Juon MejiroThe rarely seen mangaka of Yaoi who advises and regulates the other residents.
- Disproportionate Retribution: When Tsukimi writes her a letter asking what the punishment would be for bringing a man into the house, she covers up Tsukimi's message with a single, giant message: "DEATH."
- Hikikomori: She hardly ever leaves her room, to the point that she's never seen onscreen and communicates with the others by passing written messages under her door.
- The Ghost: Never once comes out of her room during the entire anime series, communicating only in writing through the crack below her door.
- Reclusive Artist: An In-Universe example, to the point that we never actually see her. Perhaps it is this reclusiveness that allows her to, having not argued about it at length, design the final logo for the jellyfish dresses.
- Yaoi Fangirl: She draws Boys Love manga for a living, so naturally she'd be this.
Koibuchi Family
Kuranosuke Koibuchi
Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (JP), Josh Grelle (EN)A college student who enjoys cross-dressing. He fears being pushed into politics by his family, as he considers his true calling to be the fashion world.
- Agent Peacock: Kuranosuke is a slightly more realistic than usual version. He saves the jellyfish for Tsukimi and other awesome stuff.
- Alliterative Name: Kuranosuke Koibuchi
- Annoying Younger Sibling: To his older brother Shu, always stirring some problems and refusing to be The Dutiful Son.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: Other women comments on how attractive Kuranosuke is, not realizing that he's a man.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Shu's Betty for Tsukimi's Archie. He is the flashy, eccentric and outgoing one.
- Bishōnen: Logically, to pass as a pretty girl, one must be a pretty boy first.
- Black Sheep: He's the only person in his family who has no desire to go into politics. Instead, he wants a career in fashion.
- Blithe Spirit: He certainly brings life both in his serious household and to reclused lives of the Amars.
- Camp Straight: Cross-dresses, dreams of entering the fashion world, all his friends are girls...and yet, he really is straight!
- Chick Magnet: Discusses the fact that he has no difficulty attracting the hottest and most popular girls so he's surprised to find himself falling for Tsukimi.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He briefly turns into one when he sees Shu hugging Tsukimi.
- Determinator: He's not one to give up, even when everyone else is.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Enough that, when the Nunz discover his breasts are fake, they instead jump to the conclusion that he's a very flat-chested girl wearing inserts out of insecurity.
- Expy: a flamboyant blonde kid who is the illegitimate son of an extremely rich and powerful individual in Japan and was ripped away from his European mother at a young age. He marvels the poor and nerdy main character with his sense of money, benevolently manipulates her for his own purposes, and eventually falls in love with her. Why does this sound familiar?
- Fake Boobs: When Kuranosuke passes out in the lobby of their apartment building, Mayaya attempts to help by applying Vicks Vapo-Rub to "her" chest, and in the process discovers that Kuranosuke's breasts are fake. Mayaya and the other members of the Sisterhood present completely miss the obvious and instead accuse Kuranosuke of padding "her" bra to hide her A-Cup Angst.
- The Fashionista: He is always seen wearing stylish clothing.
- Gender Vocabulary Slip: Slips into the ore pronoun, but since he's so good at cross-dressing, he still passes as a bokukko (with a bit of help from Tsukimi).
- Heroic Bastard: He is the son of Mr. Koibuchi and his lover.
- Hidden Depths: One of the reasons Kuranosuke cross-dresses, revealed late in the series, is a desire to connect with his absent mother, who often gave him pretty things and showed off her dresses to him; not to mention a half-subconscious belief that, if he had been born a girl instead of a potential heir, his mother might not have left/been separated from him. The series leaves the exact nature of her departure unexplained.
- Innocently Insensitive: Has an unfortunate habit of touching off the Nuns' Berserk Buttons, such as asking if they're virgins or employed.
- Ladykiller in Love: After dating many conventionally hot girls, he falls for Tsukimi, though he's in denial and she's rather clueless.
- Larynx Dissonance: Voiced by a woman in the Japanese version, albeit one famed for being able to sound entirely male. Averted in the dub for the most part, though played straight when he's younger.
- Like Mother, Like Son: He dresses like his mother in order to feel closer to her.
- A Man Is Not a Virgin: Kuranosuke may be a fashion obsessed cross-dresser, but he makes clear that he's popular among the ladies and has had a lot of girlfriends in the past. Also, not being a virgin is one of the things which separate him from the "freaks" of the society like Amars.
- Matchmaker Crush: Kuranosuke does his best to get Shu and Tsukimi together, only to realize a bit too late that he's falling for Tsukimi.
- Sibling Triangle: Both he and Shu like Tsukimi.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With the serious and responsible Shu.
- Sixth Ranger: As an honorary member of the Amars.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Gender aside, he looks like his mother.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: A lot of male fans state-side have really taken a shine to Kuranosuke's "Kurako" persona as of late. Not to mention the fact that both the Koibuchi family's house staff and Prime Minister/Uncle Negeishi's aides have noted that he is quite the looker, and very attractive. Even Inari's assistant/co-worker agrees, much to her vehement chagrin.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: He has a large variety of different outfits.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: He enjoys cross-dressing and is pretty good at it.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Or pink wigs. Or purple, or whatever he decides to wear.
Shū Koibuchi
Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (JP), Ian Sinclair (EN)Kuranosuke's quiet, serious brother.
- Adorkable: Especially when he's crushing on Tsukimi. He's a successful businessman and respected member of the society, but he has no idea of how to function in dating and relationship world.
- The Dutiful Son: Unlike Kuranosuke, Shuu wants to follow in his father's footsteps and be a politician.
- Loves My Alter Ego: Falls for Tsukimi's "After" mode. Doesn't recognize her and ignores her in "Before" mode. In the manga he eventually figures out they're the same person, and decides he still likes her anyway.
- A Man Is Not a Virgin: Averted. He's the closest thing this cast has to a responsible, stable, well-functioning in the society adult man and he's revealed to be a virgin at the age of 30.
- Not So Stoic: He's not as expressive as Kuranosuke, but he's not devoid of any emotion either.
- Only Sane Man: He's the only one trying to reason with his younger brother. Too bad Kuranosuke doesn't listen to him.
- Primal Scene: G-rated version. His phobia of women comes from catching his father cheating with Kuranosuke's mother at a young age.
- Secret Keeper: Kuranosuke's mom calls Shū to ask him to get Tsukimi's original jellyfish dress after seeing her son on TV. Naturally, Shū can't tell Kuranosuke.
- Shrinking Violet: He's fine with talking with business-people and his own family, but he gets very shy around Tsukimi.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Shu is reserved, tactical, and responsible. His brother is loud and flamboyant, very tactless, and irresponsible.
- Would Hit a Girl: Shu proved that if you push him too far, he will retaliate. Though, admittedly, the victim completely deserved it. He later apologizes, which throws Inari and ruins her blackmail scheme speech.
Keiichiro Koibuchi
Voiced by: Mugihito (JP), Charles Campbell (EN)
Shū and Kuranosuke's father, whose delivery is nearly always deadpan.
- Heir Club for Men: The reason why he took Kuranosuke from his mom is because he was born a boy. In the chapter 63 it's revealed that Lina did plan to raise Kuranosuke on her own but realized that she's too young and that task's too big for her, and thus she gave up her son to his father. Kuranosuke still thinks that the reason was that he's a boy.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Toward Kuranosuke. He isn't happy that the second "heir" he brought into the house is a happy-go-lucky cross-dresser instead of the serious, PR-savvy son he wanted.
Saburouta Negishi
Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (JP), Jerry Russell (EN)The Prime Minister of Japan and Kuranosuke's uncle.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He'd rather be a hyperactive teenage girl than the leader of the country.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While he's shown to be quite capable at his job (though by episode 11 his approval rating is an insanely low 5%), he tends to be rather...strange sometimes.
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Christopher Bevins (EN)The Koibuchi family's chauffeur. He really likes Benzes.
- The Casanova: He is a real lady killer , but either his quirks make his girlfriends walk away in frustration or he just doesn't want to commit. Or both.
- Childhood Friends: With Shū. Even with that in mind, Hanamori is willing to sell out Shu if it means protecting his precious car.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Aside from being a Benz enthusiast and his uncomfortable lack of consideration to social situations, Hanamori thinks that he should follow Banba's orders over Shū's because he naturally can't defy orders from people with afros.
- He also loves taking part in protests regardless of who or what is being protested and even if the protests are against his own employers!
- Comedic Sociopathy: He has absolutely no morals when you use the Benz argument for manipulation and his tendency to put cars above people is entirely Played for Laughs.
- The Comically Serious: He wears a serious expression while saying/doing something hilarious.
- The Driver: He is Koibuchi family's chauffeur and is really into his work, as it means he gets to spend more time in a Benz.
- Not So Different: He is just as a hardcore Otaku as the Amars. They notice quickly, call him "Benz otaku" and let him into their house, despite Hanamori being handsome, "stylish" and male.
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: Breaks out in hives from eating manila clams, which he knew would happen anyway when he attempted to save Shu from Inari's advances.
- Too Much Information: When Hanamori is surrounded by the "24 Ophelias" he blurts out that he's so obsessed with cars that his girlfriend left him because he loves cars more than her. Later, he lets it slip that if he's bribed with cars he'll reveal anything to anyone and at the fashion show goes into great detail that Kuranosuke is just a cross-dresser, not transsexual.
- Watch the Paint Job: He really pampers those Benzes. Lucky for him, none of them have been wrecked... yet.
- He's mentioned that he broke up with his own girlfriend because he preferred to spend more time with his Benzes than her.
Shōko Inari
Voiced by: Junko Kitanishi (JP), Jamie Marchi (EN)
The person in charge of renovating the Nunnery's district. Not a very nice person.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Tsukimi's Betty for Shu's Archie, as the sexy, worldly woman opposed to a clumsy virgin. Unfortunately for her, Shu is also a clumsy virgin and therefore is put off by Inari.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She can be sweet and polite as can be when it benefits her, but is nasty and ruthless underneath.
- Driven to Suicide: Subverted. She pretended to be upset by Shu's rejection and decided to "end it". It turns out to be a very cruel joke and she just shrugs it off. Shu doesn't respond well to this.
- Femme Fatale: Uses her good looks to make men bend to her will. It doesn't work on Shu, though.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple/Purple Is Powerful: Wears purple outfits with matching lipstick and nail polish, and is an elegant (well, in terms of presence) "career woman".
- The Love Slap of Epiphany: Falls for Shu after he slaps her for jokingly faking having an overdose and this makes her realize that her methods of blackmail have gone too far.
- Manipulative Bitch: She makes it look like she and Shu spent the night together and threatens to expose the pictures if he refuses her.
- Meaningful Name: The kanji for Inari's name is shared with a Shinto deity who is closely associated with Kitsune. What do the Nuns call her? "The Vixen."
- Sleeping Their Way To The Top: She admits to having slept her way to the top which makes her "relationship" with Shu such an issue when it doesn't work out in her favor.
- Smug Snake: She is over-the-top villainous and is much less effective than she would like to think.
- Totally Radical: At one point her assistant points out that her slang makes her sound like she's from The80s. She politely tells him to shut up.
Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (JP), Cris George (EN)A private investigator and childhood friend of Hanamori. He's hired to spy on Shu and Inari.
Voiced by: Kaoru Katakai (JP), Cynthia Cranz (EN)The owner of Amamizukan and Chieko's mom. A groupie of South Korean actor Bae Yong Joon.
NomuA Blythe doll maniac and Chieko's friend. She views as her dolls as her daughters and real people as "worthless little worms." Becomes a pattern maker for the Amars.
- Girlish Pigtails: The hairstyle she usually sports is two pigtails with ringlets and her interests and fashion taste are quite feminine.
- Lonely Doll Girl: She considers her dolls a better company than humans and prior to joining the Amars in their fashion friends she doesn't appear to be a part of any social group.
- Not Good with People: She's as socially inept as the Amars and also appears to be a bit on the rude side.
- Verbal Tic: "Doffu!", the noise she occasionally makes when she talks.
NishaAn Indian woman who works with her brother in a sewing workshop. She agrees to help Kuranosuke and Tsukimi, though she is constantly telling them they're idiots for going into a industry they know nothing about.
- Brutal Honesty: She has no problem with sharing her opinions with others, and they're not of the kindest sort.
- But Not Too Foreign: Nisha is Indian but speaks fluent Japanese since her ex-husband was Japanese.
- Catch Phrase: "Are you stupid?!"
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's prone to snarking at everybody around but she does help the main characters.
- Kansai Regional Accent: Her ex-husband was a picture framer in Kishiwada.
Tsukimi's Mother
Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi (JP), Wendy Powell (EN)
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: He daughter's flashbacks depict her as an angelic figure. Also, Tsukimi appears to talk to her mom in her mind a lot more than to her dad in reality.
- Ill Girl: She was of a fragile health and died young due to an unspecified illness.
- Posthumous Character: She's been dead for years, but she is still present in Tsukimi's thoughts.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She was quite beautiful, a quality that her daughter has not inherited (at least in the latter's own opinion).
Voiced by: Seiko Yoshida (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)Kuranosuke's mother.
- Glamorous Single Mother: Kuranosuke's father didn't divorce his wife and Lina never married him.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: She wanted Kuranosuke to be a girl so he wouldn't have to be taken away from her by the Koibuchi family. It's implied this is one of the reasons why he cross-dresses.
Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (JP), Lara Woodhull (EN)
The jellyfish that Tsukimi rescued in the first episode.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Sometimes she'll pop up and address the audience in order to explain some detail about the Amars.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Her cutesy way of talking in the Japanese version.
- Eye Catch: She's featured in them.
- Punny Name: Clara's transliterated spelling (Kurara) is one character off from Kurage (Jellyfish, but you should know that by now).
- Spell My Name with an "S": Clara/Klara/Kurara.


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Air conditioned villas (1266)
"Keep cool - 99% of our villas have free air con."
Villas with WiFi (1232)
"Over 90% of our villas have free WiFi."
Villas with gated pools (245)
"A selection of over 240 villas where you can pay for a pool fence."
Villas with tennis courts (10)
"For the more active, sporty types we have a selection of villas with tennis courts."
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Plus! Pool fences available by request at an extra at over 240 villas.
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Another of our most popular resorts and it's easy to see the appeal: Theme parks, nature reserves, enchanting caves, mountain top fortresses or explore inland through villages and vineyards, the Costa Blanca truly has something for everyone. White sandy beaches and warm Autumn days are big draws to the area and our villas can provide the perfect base for exploration.
We have over 60 villas in 3 resorts – Javea, Calpe, and Moraira.
The Costa Blanca has an enviable year round climate staying warm into late Autumn, perfect weather for exploring over 3,000 years worth of history and beautiful scenery both coastal and inland.
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