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|Alto x VF 171
|Ozma x Bobby
|Ranka x Sheryl
|Sheryl x Alto
|Yasaburo x Alto
|Ranka x Ai-kun
|Alto x Klan
|Ranka x Alto
|Ranka x Brera
|Klan x Michael
|Ozma x Cathy
|Luca x Nanase
|Wilder x Monica
|Alto x VF25
|Yasaburo x Alto's father
|Alto x Brera
|Grace x Ranka
|Nanase x Ranka
|Sheryl x Klan
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|2008-09-07, 06:34
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The first Sheryl Song in Ep 22
GG Fansub translation:
Everyone calls me a fairy.
And I answer them.
I don't feel it because of the burden in my heart.
I flew into the sky...
I met you, and quivered in love
I've shed the feathers of my confusion
Soaked by the rain I've come back to life and fly away.
Call for me...
For another day...
With your voice...
There's nothing to regret since it's just our secret love.
Tell me that you love me...
A different translation (source)
Everyone calls me by the name "Fairy".
And I live up to my name.
I sense no heaviness in my heart.
So I could fly across the vast space.
Ever since I came to know you, I have been quivering in love,
As I stood in bewilderment, feeling vulnerable, with my wings soaked in rain,
I woke up to my calling. Fly away. (Call out to me)
For another day. (In your own voice)
With no regrets. Just secret love.
|2008-09-07, 08:21
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Who seriously thinks that Ranka is beautiful as she is now(except the ones for who the beauty is in the eye of the beholder) ?
Everybody knows she is cute but not beautiful. Maybe she will become one when she comes back , though.
All the term " mature, determined, selfless "were used by the ones who support Sheryl to describe her character.
I take them to show how this is by far easy to stick up for a character who is already beautiful, mature,determined,selfless , unlike Ranka who has a lot of defects but that's what make her being the original one in this show.
I even made an allusion to Kawamori, knowing he is the one who wanted to make Ranka's character as she is now.
Since the start, he made her look like, under her age, not confident in herself...
So in doing this, he knew perfectly that, it would be more easy for the people to blame her character than it would be, to do so with Sheryl.
It's clear that people who do not want to see her character's growth beyond the little girl who just knows how to stickpeople like glue, are indeed taking the bait here.
This is not because I prefer Ranka's character that I automatically think she is perfect, beautiful, mature...
I even add " she is the most popular girl of the show" ....
Everybody knows here, Sheryl is the one popular, not Ranka.
It was a understatement, I thought it was obvious but looks like it was not.
|2008-09-07, 08:36
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|2008-09-07, 08:54
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|2008-09-07, 09:13
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OK, this is maybe too little too late or a second season is a must to acknowlodege her character's growth, BUT :
Spoiler for Ranka:
The plot is already resolved for them since a long time. The statement which say that , there are more sheryl fans so at least even if she is cured, she will end up with alto is not a obvious choice ....
|2008-09-07, 09:58
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|2008-09-07, 10:29
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Ranka had been given a lot of options. More so than Sheryl ever had in the show's entirety. Sheryl had one thing, her career, but otherwise nothing. Ranka had everything, friends, family, career, and even mysterious powers that nobody else had. Throughout the show, we saw her steadily climbing up the social ladder, but never really fallen. Yet, when she encountered a slight setback, she faltered almost immediately. To many of us, she had taken her success, as with everything else, for granted. As if what she possessed throughout this entire series were hers by default, but she can not deal with a little disagreement (to put it nicely). Then she made a relatively irrational choice at the end of 21. It was a decision seemingly made on the go, without the consultation of those around her, even leaving her best friend behind without saying goodbye. While she left notes for Ozma and informed Alto at the last minute, she made no such effort to leave anything for Nanase, who had been a staunch (perhaps too much) supporter for her throughout the series. Perhaps she made the right decision by going to the Vajra home world, unfortunately, she also picked the worst time to do so, and at the end, left Alto confused to the excess. Yet, we were never told why she wanted to go to the Vajra planet.
Sheryl on the other hand, fell from grace in one of the most dramatic way I've yet seen in fiction. In addition to a frail body, she had nothing else but herself (although at this time, she at least has Alto) and her songs. Moreover, unlike Ranka, she never took the world or anyone and anything around her for granted. Nonetheless, Sheryl's determination allowed her to climb back up from point zero with her own two feet, and to resume the position as yousei of, at least this time, Frontier.
You also have to understand that this is a woman deceived from childhood to become a weapon. It was unfortunate that the experiment gone terribly wrong. Yet, she never complaint about her situation even after learning the truth. She was shocked, yes, but she continued facing each day with fierce determination and as much positive outlook as she can muster. She knew her life was short and she had nothing, but that did not stop her from continuing living without entering a state of depression. She remained a person who exercised logic, not only did she fought on in face of certain death, she also demonstrated that through her selflessness, she still cared for others around her and the person she loves. It was clear that Mike, and especially Klan, found her qualities to be most admirable. We too, found her qualities to be most admirable.
Regardless, if she had the power, given her character, she would have done everything that Ranka could with precision and professionalism.
In fact, I think it is with much justification if I say, in the catalogue of strong (physically or mentally) female characters, Sheryl Nome stands out from the rest of the crowd by being the most emotionally determined and the most emotionally powerful character ever to appear in a work of fiction.
Thus, why the majority preference for Sheryl over Ranka not only here, but in the opinions of Japanese fandom and fandom from overseas? The desire for her well-being and the union with her love at the end of the series? I believe the reasons are quite obvious. At the end, it matters not who wins the love triangle, Sheryl will always be a better woman.
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|2008-09-07, 11:17
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Spot on analysis.
Alto needs to stop taking the path of least resistance and fight for a future with Sheryl.
|2008-09-07, 11:24
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|2008-09-07, 13:00
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Spot on analysis Tak. Great job, speaking for the rest of Sheryl's fans and supporters.
|2008-09-07, 13:15
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The problem with Alto is that he's passive throughout the series. Altos choices in life are based on the life he lead previously as a child. It was influenced by his mother early in his life. Even after he joined S.M.S his 'sky' was still far away. Up until this point in the series he did nothing to change that.
In the residence scene we get to see the picture of him as a boy standing beside his mother. It's shown right in the middle of his monologue to Sheryl. In my opinion this is the representation of his earlier situation. The same thing has happened before, when he was a boy. Back then all he could do was to let his mother stay in the residence and watch the sky. I agree that as a boy he had no other choice, still, in the current situation he has all the power to do the oposite.
The picture shows us that Alto really does not know right now that his current way of acting will lead to the same thing as in the past. At that moment he acted as that passive boy that could do nothing but to accept the facts he was faced with. It may seem cruel but in supporting her that way he's sentencing her to the same fate as his mother.
The confirmation of that are the words of Ozma. Alto is doing nothing but floating around on his current momentary emotions. Furthermore, it's indirectly implied that Alto's still a boy right now. On the contrary, Ozma is presented as a man that knows exactly what he has to do in order to protect women he loves.
It may be farfetched but I'm guessing Ozma represents Altos situation in the triangle. Ozma has a sister to get back and a woman to protect. And yes, right from the very start i couldn't see Ranka as anyone more then a sister figure for Alto
If that's the predicament of Episode 22, then I'm guessing that Frontier is heading for Alto x Sheryl ending, at least in a way. Anyway, all the possible Ranka x Alto endings don't convince me at all. Most of the current Frontier story and character development would have to be scrapped in order to do that. On the other hand the 'surprise' factor we're given in one nasty interview is ruining my mood while thinking about the ending.
|2008-09-07, 13:15
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I still think the audience is being rolled by the SxA situation.
The triangle looks all nice and fluffily tied up right now. Alto has a "Man's contract" with Sheryl and cannot leave her without suffering ultimate dishonor.... But my gut tells me there is going to be an out and either it will end up an RxA ending with Sheryl going off to be the Galaxy Fairy once again, or a double suicide ending so popular in Japanese period plays...
In any event, I really am hoping for a second season. This series is just too good to end it all at eps 25.
|2008-09-07, 13:28
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I don't think we can even compare Sheryl and Ranka anymore versus each other. They are two completely different paths as characters.
Sheryl was an idol that helped Ranka discover herself then fell from the top because of her illness and now founded new strength turning to be a motivational singer to lift the spirits of the citizens.
Ranka started as nothing then became an idol singer and movie star and then became the savior of the people then became an anti-hero by failing and leaving and is now on the course to become a possible mediator between two races.
I'm sorry if I'm flamed for this but while Sheryl is probably the most likely heroine due to her popularity and relationship with Alto, Ranka has had more ups and downs and accomplishments with her time in the show.
So who has been the most pivotable character in the storyline? By my count it's Ranka. Regardless if she failed or not the storyline changed due to her actions the most.
Who is the most likable and popular character in the storyline? Easily this is taken by Sheryl as she is the struggling heroine who found the courage to keep on trucking.
Each has great position in the story be it good or bad at times. Each is the winner in different aspects. One simply can not hate one without acknowledging that the other had a hand in that emotion at some point in the storyline.
Alto, as I've seen it, supported both characters and was generally non observant. Which led to certain results. He has become a ping pong between two paddles (Sheryl and Ranka) and was constantly being hit back and forth. At any time he could have stopped the game but he instead kept getting hit back and forth.
So the real story is between Ranka and Sheryl. Everyone else at this point are supporting characters. Alto's action in these coming episodes will show us if he man's up and affects change.
Note: Being a support character does not mean that they do not have some effect on the story nor does it mean that they did not have substantial air time and character development. What it means that over the course of the entire story the flow did not revolve around the supporting character as a main character. At one point or another the over all storyline has flowed to the beat of Ranka and Sheryl hence I refer to them as main characters. This is my opinion and it can be viewed as wrong. I welcome such view points as discussion stems from conflicting viewpoints.
|2008-09-07, 13:29
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Seriously :'D? I still think MF is filled with unnecessary plotholes, and information left just floating around for no reason.
It wasn't well planned enough >_> They spent too much time catering fanservice and obsessing over the romance rather than actually making a good tied up world. A lot of the characters are kind of glazed over too >_O With Luca only reaching puberty an episode ago, and everyone following Ranka like sheep.
|2008-09-07, 13:43
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Sheryl started out at the top of her game. By Seifield's evaluators: Beautiful, yes. Mature, may be. Determined, yes. Selfless, no. She fell from stardom along with her sickness, to which were none of her own faults. But she climbed back up through her own will and determination to sing for the people's hopes despite her own hopeless future. Along the way, she also learned to be selfless and placed her trust in other people. To me, those are real ups and downs and accomplishments.
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|2008-09-07, 13:49
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I agree with you kilroy
The character story is driven by the events they must face and in some cases conquer. The 'great series and storytelling' is when the writer can intervene it with the emotional development. F is like that. It's not only a story of 3 people but the whole Frontier story. Ranka is an important aspect like it or not.
I can't bring myself to judge him like that, mainly because his passiveness is bound to turn the events of Frontier at some point. Should we call it - "becoming a man". I assume his final choice will be his choice as a man. This is my general idea about Alto's role. Even if we love one heroine there is no point in taking it out on him as it's his choice in the end
|2008-09-07, 14:14
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Ranka's ups and downs and accomplishments, from memory so I may miss something, takes on many forms. I have included Sheryl's turning points as well. Keep in mind I am looking at story flow as well as character development in this.
1. She was put upon the path of becoming a star first by Sheryl hearing her song while she was out and about disguised. This was luck. Sheryl is at the height of her career.
2. She enters the Miss Macross contest but doesn't win. This is her first time in the public eye.
3. Her next opportunity was at the mall where she was encouraged to sing by Michael and then found courage by the chance of seeing Alto's airplane. She was discovered by Elmo. This time it was her ability that drew him to her.
3. He then he puts her on a more aggressive path to stardom. From her little gigs and recordings a media production company notices her.
4. She is able to go to the movie set where through the unlucky demise of the other actress and due to her own singing ability, she was noticed by the director. She was then cast as Mao Nome and due to her own performance ability she became a super star.
5. Due to her popularity from the movie Elmo is able to set up the first concert for her.
6. Then Gallia IV happened and her popularity goes up even more due to her view heroism. This was done by her own will to save Alto. Popularity was a secondary bonus. This is where Sheryl start her downhill travel due to her illness.
7. Ranka and Sheryl sing to Alto in the hospital. Grace discovers Ranka's fold ability in her voice. (not sure about the Grace thing here)
8. Elmo is replaced by Grace and Ranka officially becomes a weapon for the Frontier against the Vajra. This was kind of forced on her and while Ozma asks her if it's ok she really had pressure to continue by the government. Her ability proves to be powerful and the government raises her to the title of "Savior". Sheryl hit's rock bottom.
9. Her first concert is sold out from her advertisements and her recent story about her mission to Gallia IV and her new found position as "Savior". Her popularity from this concert, which is her own singing and performance ability, gives her the option to be involved in more projects. Ozma nearly dies.
10. She goes out again on her own to sing and drive the Vajra into confusion. The Frontier is in trouble and decides to do an emergency fold. Ranka is vaulted into super stardom, fame and is considered an Angel of Hope by the people. You can't get much higher than this in accomplishments. Ranka also discovers that the death of Vajra really hurts physically for her.
Edit add: At this point in her career Ranka is above Sheryl at the height of her career. She is not just an idol at this point but a savior and angel of hope. This goes beyond superstar.
11. There is a parade in her honor which she doesn't show up for because she is looking for ai-kun. She figures out why she is singing (For Alto) and does her concert at the school.
12. The Vajra attack hardcore and Ranka fails in her singing to defend Frontier. Thus begins her downward spiral in the series and with the fans. People wonder where their savior is. Sheryl sings and this starts her uphill travel from her lowest low.
13. Ranka sings one last time to draw all the Vajra to one of the islands and then they use that fold bomb to take it out. Ranka feels more pain from the destruction of Vajra. Figure out there is something important she doesn't quite know yet. She regains her memories.
14. Ranka tells everyone on TV that she is not going to sing anymore and after confessing somewhat to Alto she leaves Frontier to find out more about her own origins and the 117th fleet. She is deemed a Traitor for doing so and now is at her rock bottom.
15. Sheryl begins to rebuild her career by singing with pure emotion in her songs. Her fame is beginning to recover. She is discovered to have slight fold ability and is then promoted by the government. Elmo is her new manager. Ranka find a unique planet with the symbol of the Birdman in orbit around it. It is at this moment that Sheryl not achieves a pivotable role in the direction of the story when taking the entire future of Frontier into account.
This is all that I can remember. If I forgot something then please forgive me.
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Had purchased the 2009 version of this tea from a friend's shop in Korea and thought that it was alright. After scouring the house for balhyocha, one stumbled on a box of this 2010 Jukrim balhyocha that had not been opened. So it found its way into the teapot and seemed to be a bit more engaging than the 2009 version. This is not completely uncommon as small hand made productions from single estates in Korea often change quite a bit from year to year. With a new found excitement for this tea, one decided to dig around for a bit for information on Jukrim.
Jukrim's teamaster, Lim Won, claims that this balhyocha is all hand produced in Bosong from tea plants in a valley surrounded in a bamboo thicket. According to the Cha Sin Jeon these are ideal conditions for tea plants. Jukrim's tea is certified "No Agrichemicals" as denoted with the Korean blue label certification. This means that the soil, water, and tea have been tested by the Ministry of Agriculture and have found to have no pesticide residues and the soils has less than half the industry norm for chemical fertilizers. Lim Won also claims that many prominent Buddhist monks including the late Beop Jeong Sunim, the once head of the Joygae Order of Buddhism in Korea, used to enjoy his Woojeon. There is no website for Jukrim but there are a few Korean blog posts that feature Lim Won and show pictures of his tea garden and all hand production (see here and here).
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The long gangly dry leaves are a dusty grey colour. They smell of faint pungent pine wood and beach sand. The pre-warmed pot is stuffed half full of these leaves.
The first infusion is prepared and a sweet, juicy brown sugar and deeper honey sweetness arrives with spicy prominent persimmon, cinnamon, and baked apple tastes. This tea is juicy and flavourful. The mouthfeel is very light and thinly coats the mouth. The aftertaste is sweet and trails off with these tastes.
The second infusion presents with sweet, juicy cinnamon-persimmon tastes with a slightly cool pine wood finish in the mouth. There are also the much more obvious spicy prominent persimmon, cinnamon, and baked apple tastes encountered in the first infusion. The mouthfeel has a very slight, thin dryness which develops on the lips, tongue, and cheeks. The qi feels warm and climbs up to the head, flushing the cheeks.
The third infusion is the same arrangement of tastes with more cool, dry wood infused into the delicious taste profile. The throat feel is also noticed here as it has rounded out with a slight dryness in the mouth and tingle in the upper throat.
The fourth infusion is much the same with a notable sweet, fruity aftertaste and qi that is very mild, very relaxing on the mind, and slightly warming on the abdomen.
The fifth infusion has very sweet and spicy persimmon and cinnamon notes. The spiciness is such that you can feel a warm tingle in the nose. This is apparent throughout the infusions. It is nicely balanced with a slight woody, cool aftertaste. The mouthfeel holds and even becomes more round and full here. It drys the tongue just slightly resulting in a cool tingling sensation.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – An 11-1 run during the final 19 minutes of the first half helped power the MIT women's lacrosse team to an 18-7 victory over the University of Southern Maine in a non-conference tilt on Saturday afternoon. Laura Wacker scored three of her game-high five goals during the Engineers' pivotal spurt while Shelby Turcotte led the Huskies with three goals.
Turcotte opened the scoring by connecting on a feed from Samantha Purcell just over four minutes into the contest. Wacker tallied the equalizer 28 seconds later, but free-position shots from Mary Vaughan and Purcell put the Huskies in front, 3-1, with 22:31 on the clock.
From there, MIT took over, rattling off eight unanswered goals en route to its game-changing run. Stephanie Leger registered a trio of free-position goals while Kelly Duncan and Katie Kauffman both found the back of the net twice. Erica Little rounded out the scoring spree with a goal and an assist.
Rosie Forster's unassisted goal late in the half had briefly trimmed Southern Maine's deficit to five (9-4), but the hosts ultimately entered the intermission with a 12-4 advantage.
MIT carried the momentum into the second stanza as it posted four straight goals, three of which came on free-position attempts by Leger, Duncan, and Marie Rice. Wacker notched her fifth and final goal of the day by redirecting a feed from Little.
Lauren Santo's solo effort midway through the frame ended the Huskies' scoring drought, however, Kauffman responded with back-to-back goals, the latter assisted by Molly McShane. Turcotte closed the game with a pair of goals to complete the hat trick.
Leger finished with five points with all four of her goals coming on free-position attempts. She also registered a game-high five groundballs. Kauffman notched four goals while Duncan totaled three goals and four groundballs. Little chipped in one goal and two assists as Lauren Rodda collected four groundballs. McShane contributed three groundballs while Sarah Ritter amassed eight saves.
Jackie Kelly paced Southern Maine with three groundballs as Erica Higginbotham added two of her own. Forster had three draw controls while Samantha Kiesel compiled 12 saves.
Both squads return to action on Tuesday, April 12. MIT (7-3) will host Wellesley College in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) contest while Southern Maine (2-8) will take on St. Joseph's College (Maine) in the Huskies' first on-campus home game of the season.


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Calendar question...even though you have a default calendar, how do you get all of your calendar entries to show on the today screen...i.e., Facebook.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for. What I did was go to options>advance options>default services>calendar (CICAL) set that to Facebook
Thanks, but that's not it. I know that where you set the default calendar, but my question is on the today screen, can you set it so that it sees all of your calendars? Right now it's only showing my default calendar.
I thought I saw a thread a few weeks ago about merging calendars...can't seem to find it.
I asked the same question a few weeks back in a different thread and was told the limitation was by Plazmic Theme Builder 4.7 and that it could not do so (which was disappointing...). Maybe now that the 5.0 Theme Builder is out it will allow multiple calendars to be displayed under the Today secion of any theme. Keep your fingers crossed...
Your today screen will only show the default calendar events and only those events. If you have more than one calendar, transfer your items to the default and they will show.
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You can try that link. It should help you. The section on moving entries:
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Phil Pattee, assistant Bar counsel, said the agency couldn't disclose the nature of the grievances against the attorneys or whether they relate to complaints from outside parties or the Bar's own review of the Righthaven cases or both. But he confirmed the grievances relate to the attorneys' work for Righthaven.One other interesting tidbit in the article: apparently Gibson has a new job -- back to working as a lawyer, now in the Las Vegas office of Detroit-based law firm, Dickinson Wright.
"We'll be asking them about Righthaven," he said.
Gibson, not surprisingly, is outwardly confident that this inquiry is not a big deal:
"I will be responding to the informational requests of the Bar and believe that after such responses and clarifications, the matter will be properly addressed. Miss Lowry indicates her concurrence," Gibson said Thursday.Of course, this is the same Steve Gibson who insisted that the courts believed in Righthaven and believed the company was "genuine," but were just pushing back to "give some guidance" for Righthaven competitors. Of course, in both cases he may turn out to be right. It's just that the "matter may be properly addressed" in a manner that Gibson does not like. And, as for "guidance," it appears that the guidance the courts were giving Righthaven competitors could be summed up as "don't do anything that Righthaven has been doing."


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More than seven years after state and federal officials discovered a lead-contaminated lot near an elementary school in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, the tainted soil has been dug up, trucked to a landfill and replaced with bright green grass.
Gina McCarthy, the new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, flew into town Thursday to celebrate what she called a "quick" response to health hazards at the site of a long-forgotten smelter in the low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood.
But in response to questions about why it actually took years for the EPA to act, she said addressing the staggering number of polluted industrial sites across the nation remains a daunting task for an agency with limited staff and resources.
In this case, community activists pressured the EPA to take action in response to stories in the Tribune and USA Today about the former Loewenthal Metals property.
"I don't want to tell communities that they need to stand up and scream before EPA pays attention to them," McCarthy said. "I'm here to recognize that every community isn't where it needs to be in terms of protecting people from environmental risks."
Nobody knew about Loewenthal Metals and scores of other abandoned smelters until an independent researcher published a 2001 study that relied on historical records to identify potentially contaminated sites. In response, the EPA asked its regional offices and state environmental agencies to conduct testing and take action if the sites posed health risks.
Some sites have since been cleaned up. Others don't pose risks because they were paved over years ago or public access is restricted.
The Loewenthal Metals site at 947 W. Cullerton St. is one of several that fell through the cracks, even though Illinois EPA inspectors in 2006 found it contaminated with up to 5,900 parts per million of lead — more than 14 times the federal safety limit for areas where children play.
State inspectors also reported seeing children walking through the lot on their way to and from Walsh Elementary School a block away.
The Pilsen site highlights how lead pollution — from old factories as well as decades of exhaust from vehicles fueled by leaded gasoline until the mid-1980s — can build up in the top few inches of soil and linger for years. Studies show that even tiny amounts of lead ingested or inhaled can damage the brains of young children and trigger learning disabilities, aggression and criminal behavior later in life.
USA Today drew attention to the Loewenthal Metals property in a 2012 series about abandoned smelters. After a November 2012 Tribune story about the contaminated lot, neighborhood groups posted bilingual warning signs and Ald. Danny Solis, 25th, ordered a fence erected around the site.
Another round of testing by the U.S. EPA confirmed the hazards identified earlier by state inspectors. Contractors ended up removing 4,800 tons of contaminated soil, EPA officials said, making the site safe enough for housing.
The freshly sodded lot is open again. But a new fence on the edge of the property marks another environmental problem for Pilsen.
During their testing this year, EPA inspectors found high lead levels in an abandoned railroad right of way between Cullerton and 18th Street that neighborhood groups had turned into a trail and community garden. The city is cleaning up its portion of the property and negotiating with BNSF Railway to address the rest of the contamination, EPA officials said.
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I really hope Zessica is going to seize the little opportunity she has now that Amata has been made aware that Mikono was not realistically the girl who'll wait for him.
Not only because I like her better, but also because she has been a better friend to Amata I think.
She also seems to suffer more from being dejected than Mikono would.
And finally because it would be more interesting plot wise to see the pairing apparently set in stone crumbled into nothingness than Zessica just being some sort of weak pseudo-threats between 2 Kagura attacks. Lame. Go underdog Zess !!
Unpopular opinion I know.
Is the translator sulking ? Where is the sub ? Damn.
|2012-04-09, 14:05
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the problem is zessica is really underdog of underdog. so amata wants to live in present and think of future, great i am all for it but he still might have chosen a girl with past issues. so while this whole jump over fate have mikono who is silvie reincarnated choose a new lover instead of the past one is all good and all but is that really changing destiny?
wouldn't changing destiny be more in lie of creating a new one with a new apollonius-celiane than have a new lead pair up with a past character? i don't know, i can't see mikono just say screw you kagura/apollo i got a new lover, bye. the most easiest solution ofcourse would be amata and kagura are one person which leads to mikono winning again. poor zess :c
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I cannot stand the idea of Amata and Mikono being all lovey dovey while Zessica suffers in the background. So I hope the AmataxMikono thing is at least going to collapse. I'm bitter like that.
I could have been at least neutral to it if they didn't make Zessica feel miserable about it, while she apparently doesn't stand a snowball chance in hell.
At least give her a little bit of a chance. It's like sadist writters are making her suffer just for the lulz while it serves no plot point at all (at least so far). I'd rather have her not involved into that romantic mess at all.
But at least now Amata can feel a little bit of the jelly Zessica is suffering from because of him. I'm still damn butthurt and frustrated.
And I don't really like the idea of Sylvie/appollon getting with anyone else knowing the promise.
As a fan of Greek tragedies and myths I like when the fools trying to go against destiny get bitchslapped by it harshly (I'm opposing a major theme of this anime here. But I don't care.XD)
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Anyways I'm expecting Zessica will bloom soon. I can't believe that they leave her just the way she is now. Surely so far things are going like Mykage predicted in his blossom-less garden analogy.
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Couldn't wait any longer, so I settled for Chinese which surprisingly wasn't that difficult to understand- well except for the Mykage monologue part but that's the same for any language
There's one thing I've learnt from this is that there's a vast difference between what you understand from reading other people's impressions on this thread, and what you understand from actually seeing the episode. In a way it was a very, VERY tense episode pairing-wise, but I don't think anything truly cataclysmic (Though it got close a couple of times) had actually happened so that's good... But damn, my guts are still abit cramped up from the tension
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This episode in general is just way too funny.
Kagura's just soooo charming, too bad for him I think he has even less a chance with Mikono now. With Mikono denying to be Sylvie and her happy seeing Amata in the end, Kagura got friendzoned pretty hard. Zessica continues to suffer, but for some reason I stop feeling sorry for her and find it funny because the staff's just trying way too hard to push this. Amataaaaaa wwwwwwwww. I don't even know what to say anymore, even during your power up episode you still get "NTR'ed" and sucker punched. What I really want to see more at this point is Fudo and Mykage interacting, since those two have the best chemistry with each other.
The highlight of the episode for me is in the beginning when Fudo just teleported away with loli in his arms. I literally died laughing there. On the other hand, I WANT MY OLD ED BACK. OGURA YUI CAN'T SING AT ALL. The new ED is absolutely terrible, so terrible that I have to say it twice. At first I thought it's just character song and argggggghhhhhhhhhhhh all my why when I saw the credits roll on. New OP better make up for it because I'm skipping this one from now on.
Next episode seems like a winner though.
EDIT: Oh god, I forgot the most important thing. KAGURA IS A TOTAL PERVERT. MFW Mikono asked him to "kill" her right there and he started blushing. I literally went from to .
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|2012-04-09, 23:58
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According to some people Mikono is a whore for sparing Kagura one though or 2 (in a pitying non sexual way) but Amata is just a normal healthy boy when he got boners over other girls.
Double standards indeed.
And I agree the new ED is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Horrible painful voice.
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|2012-04-10, 01:37
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I don't have much sympathy for Amata personnally. Though I did feel a little bad for him when he got his ass whooped. But not much.
Kagura isn't that bad. He certainly is not a mass murderer.
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This honestly bothers me: heightened emotions =/= boners, unless you're telling me Amata has a thing for zombies (ep3) and ghosts (ep7). (Sorry, I'm just really tired of seeing this.)
Finally saw the episode. Impressions:
- The way they're presenting Kagura's reverse speech patterns is baffling (read: annoying). I was pretty much inching my head away from my monitor that whole time he was talking to Mikono.... Sorry dude, you might look good and cute with the blush but you're still weirding me out. (I quite miss Apollo....)
- Zessica's really breaking my heart here. So is Amata, from what I saw in the preview. Will they ever catch a break? I'm not even hoping for them to end up together. I just want them to not be miserable. And I'm miffed by how Zessica didn't... do anything. And by do anything, I mean like, you know, give Amata a telekinetic hand.
- I was seriously squinting when Mikono showed up at the end... I'm trying, I'm trying really hard to understand but all I have is confusion and pity. Hopefully the next episode will expand on this.
- I like Yunoha but her voice grates my nerves, still. Cute ending song but it felt horribly misplaced... should've been last week's ending, if anything IMO. Now, I wonder if we'll get a song from the characters from now on? Maybe, maybe not. I hope so, just so I can hear Hanazawa sing. Maybe Nakajima too, if we're lucky. Not holding my breath though.
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Media is scary. People only care about how to entertain themselves while not caring about morality or how the characters would feel.
What do you think when you saw an article about a wife who cheats on her husband because he was always working and doesn't spend enough time with her (when she doesn't even work)? Or the wife who divorces her own husband after he lost his job (since now he's useless and he was all ver her to be passive along those married years)? It probably amuses you.
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I'm a boring person why they should even watch me.
We are talking about fiction and in fiction I want something different.
By the way I have no favorite character or pair in this show and I like Mykage and even Izumo, maybe I would ship Kagura and Shushu they are cute together.
Kagura has no bad intentions and he is so dumb that I can't start even hate or take him seriously or even think that he is an enemy.
By the way what do you think of Shrade? He used his music to kill people during his concerts. According to you he should die or live or something else?
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An electroencephalogram or EEG is a recording of electrical signals within the brain. This EEG printout was created in 1958 at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol. It is the first example taken at the institute. This EEG shows the brain activity of an epileptic patient. Electrical signals of areas of the brain were stimulated and recorded by placing insulated stainless steel electrodes directly into the brain. The EEG shows abnormal activity occurring at two points within the brain: the left lateral frontal region and the left lateral temporal region. The left temporal lobe was later removed in an operation called a lobotomy. The Burden Neurological Institute was founded by the Reverend Burden in 1939. It is an independently-funded research unit. It specialises in the human nervous system and human neurological disorders.
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While condo units are often used as primary homes, they can also be investments or vacation spots. Let's take a look at uses for the extra condo, by which I mean a unit that is not your primary residence, but rather one that has a secondary function.
Custom Condo
Many people move from larger homes to condos as a way of changing their lifestyles. Perhaps they intend to downsize or simply want to forgo shovelling snow. They may even want to travel more often and keep a condo to make this an easier feat.
Buyers shopping in new developments may choose to purchase two units and combine them to expand square footage. This is a possible custom upgrade when purchasing a condo in a future development - like opting for granite over linoleum, but on a larger scale.
If you are looking at the penthouse, you can also find out if the developer can increase the size vertically by increasing ceiling height. Such are the advantages of purchasing preconstruction.
Part-Time Condo
A lot of people choose to move or travel more after their children have left home.
It's a given that condo living can make travelling easier as you may have a concierge to check on your unit and retrieve your mail.
You will also not have to clear a front path in absentia. For these reasons, condo living is especially useful if you intend to spend winters in a warmer climate.
It enables you to keep a lowmaintenance space where you can leave your things out and ready for your return.
Of course, someone in this situation can also purchase a time share; however, this necessitates storing things when out of town, adding expense and hassle.
Another option is to purchase a room in a condo hotel suite. This means owning a hotel room that you yourself can use, usually for a limited time throughout the year. These are not usually offered as primary residences, but have the added advantage of hotel amenities such as room service.
Keeping a part-time condo can be especially useful if you plan on returning to a destination time and again.
In a sense, it becomes your "cottage," or second dwelling. For example, I have clients who recently moved abroad but are interested in keeping a condo in Ottawa. This is simply because they know they will return often to visit friends there.
This is also a popular choice for people who have children or grandchildren in another city.
When determining if you should purchase a condo as a second residence, consider the cost of hotels and - if you plan to rent a car or bring your own - public parking.
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Perhaps you are interested in downsizing at a later date, or simply want an investment with a monthly payout (through rental income).
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If you intend to move to a certain city but have not spent a lot of time living there as a local, you might consider purchasing a second home there rather than going all out with a pricey and disruptive move.
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I often refer to Jesus as a quasi-historical figure, a statement which drives the Christians I know into fits of apoplexy. Jerry the Evangelical Neighbor likes to fall back on the most tired of all the basic refutations.
"There is less proof for the existence of Socrates or Plato than of Jesus." He once responded to a Facebook post of mine.
I don't know that to necessarily be a fact. I rather doubt he does either. At least I was a philosophy major in college; he did not go to college. Not that my liberal arts background makes me any more of an expert than him. I just like to toss that dart to get his goat.
Needless to say Jerry's refutation is not unique to him nor does it prove that Jesus existed. It's simply intellectual foolishness on the order of my mother and your mother were hanging up clothes; my mother socked your mother right in the nose…I can't prove my truth so you prove yours, nyah, nyah, nyah. I don't have to prove my "truth" because I am not making extraordinary claims about either Socrates or Plato.
I would imagine that the proof of existence of any of these men is beset by the same challenges, contradictions and missing direct evidence. As Thomas Carlyle quips, "History, a distillation of rumor (I know – I use this quote constantly)."
I will leave the proving of each man's existence in the purview of historians and other antiquarians whose training and intellectual gifts make them better suited to such pursuits. For me, whether or not Socrates or even Plato existed in flesh and blood changes nothing. It doesn't diminish or devalue the Socratic Method as a device of philosophical inquiry nor does it demean the Dialogues of Plato. The same cannot be said of the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament.
If there is no historical Jesus than the whole of Christianity is for naught. As the Apostle Paul allegedly wrote:
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ is lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. [1 Cur 15:12-19 NIV]
Those of you who know me personally or have occasionally read my blogs know that I do believe it quite likely that a historical Jesus existed. It's the mythology of Paul's risen Christ and the traditions of Christianity that I doubt. However, I am not bothered by Christian mythology. Perhaps, it is my long association with it, but I rather see it as just another expression of deep human longing for a meaning in life. The story itself was unique from a Jewish perspective, but not unique to Paul in the ancient world of first century Palestine. Jungians and other depth psychologists might interpret the myth of the risen Christ in archetypal fashion. Again I will leave that to the experts.
Now let's make some important distinctions between Socrates and Jesus.
Socrates allegedly said (paraphrase), "The only thing I know is I know nothing."
Jesus allegedly said (paraphrase), "I am the way, the truth and the life..."
Both men could be argued to have hearts filled with hubris. Socrates comes across as having a sense of cheeky humor where he is poking fun at those discoursing with him. As for Jesus you would need to be filled with arrogance to make such claims as being the "bread of life," and such. You might even say delusional. There are progressive and liberal Christian's who claim that Jesus never actually said that he was the Messiah, but the statements that he makes about himself and Peter's confession that Jesus is the Messiah all come from the gospels. It's a difficult argument to maintain. If nothing else the existence of such possible contradictions speaks volumes about the historical accuracy of the gospel accounts.
The most important distinction between these two men comes from Christians themselves. They claim that Jesus, born of a virgin, was the only begotten son of God and that he was the promised messiah. This despite the fact that he in no way lives up to the Jewish concept of the Messiah, it required Paul's radical reinterpretation which branded him an apostate as far as his fellow Jews were concerned, to get him there.
And, lest we forget the most important part of the Christian creed(s), Jesus died on the cross as a final atoning blood sacrifice for humanities sins (shudder) so that humanity could be freed from the death sentence imposed upon us by original sin (a concept that didn't exist until much later) giving us an access pass to the next life. This was accomplished through Jesus' death and then resulting resurrection. No such claims have ever been made about Socrates to my knowledge.
Indeed, these distinctions are very important. No one claims that Socrates is the Christ or the son of God. No one suggests that Socrates is "the way, the truth and the life" and that we must believe in him and that we must accept him into our hearts as part of God's plan of salvation. So whether or not Socrates existed and Plato's dialogues are a faithful recounting of actual dialogues or Plato is simply elevating his beloved teacher on a pedestal using him to his own ends doesn't change anything. It also makes no difference if Socrates is just a fictional creation, as Jerry the Evangelical Neighbor is for me, used as a foil to present the writer's own philosophy.
Jerry the Evangelical Neighbor's refutation is moot. Proving the existence of Socrates or Plato changes nothing in the philosophy attributed to these men as would be the case if we learned that Shakespeare didn't exist or that Ayn Rand really didn't write Atlas Shrugged. The literary value and philosophical inquiries of these works are separate from the creators.
This cannot be said for Jesus. Paul understood, as do Christians today, that all of what they believe had to have happened in history. Otherwise, their religious beliefs are entirely false and a waste of both time and life. It simply has to be true and, in my opinion entirely, they claim "faith" or some self-validating a priori way of "knowing" to get them around the necessity of dealing with the lack of evidence. Thus even the most intelligent and well educated of people can fall prey to Christianity's charms.
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Somebody has said before, it might have been Hitchens, that it does not matter that Socrates may not have existed, what matters is his method of logical reasoning and argument which will continue to illuminate our path. Unlike Jesus who said you've got to follow me and love me more than your family or else you're going to burn forever.
Socrates or Jesus? Hmm let me see.
Hi Derek...I believe Hitchens made that statment in the video link you sent me when we were discussing C.S. Lewis.
Oh yea the video. I am losing it : )
"This despite the fact that [Jesus] in no way lives up to the Jewish concept of the Messiah"
This is an important point. There's little doubt that Christianity started among Jews in the first century. So what caused these fervently monotheistic Jews to abandon their religion and begin to proclaim that this man, Jesus, was their long-awaited Messiah when he in no way lived up to the expectations of what the Messiah was supposed to be?
I know very little about this group of Judeo-Christians from, which I have been told the term was coined to denote. I wonder how their views would have differed from Paul's? I read somewhere recently (and now I can't find my source) that the Jewish Christians during the middle to late 1st century believed Jesus lived 100 years prior to what standard Christian tradition suggests.
Does this correspond to the Essene Teacher of Righteousness? Does this make Jewish Christians to be more Essene than "Christian?" Does this offer support that Christianity was deeply influenced by the Essene subculture in Judaism or that Jesus himself may have been Essene as some alternate history buffs suggest? Did Paul borrow from Essene tradition?
Mainstream tradition teaches that Paul/Saul was a fervent Jewish man and quite learned in the Torah et. al for a man of his age. That he made a radical shift in spiritual poles following his alleged encounter with the Risen Christ on the road to Demascus is interesting. It turned him into an apostate as far as the establishment was concerned? Was the experience real or did he (or his associate Luke) invent this as a way to justify Paul's radical shit in theology?
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I am looking and can't find anything. I wonder if I had some kind of psychotic break with reality. Even If I did read it this is a field where people are often guilty of making things up. Perhaps, I did too? I am researching Ebionites and Nazoreans and such. So far nothing, nada, zilch, nil, bupkis. But, the minute I do I will post it. :-)


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Scott has commented about Diana West's excellent new book The Death of the Grown-Up. Diana's basic argument is that we have become a nation of perpertual adolescents. We can't say no and we don't know right from wrong (or, what is almost the same, to the extent that we do know we refuse to insist on this knowledge). This state of affairs caused the "conservative" side to lose the so-called cultural wars of the 1980s. And that defeat leaves us ill-equipped, if not unable, to fight the true cultural war we now find ourselves in — the war against the culture of Islamic jihad.
I had unthinkingly expected Diana to attribute the "death of the grown-up" to the rise of the baby boomers. But actually, she argues persuasively that this phenomenon is traceable to the 1950s, early in the "watch" of the "Greatest Generation" (the GG), and long before boomers could make their (our) distinctive contribution.
The view that exalts the GG over the baby boomers has always struck me as overstated. For one thing, the GG raised the baby boomers and must accept some of the responsibility if we're a generation of wash-outs. For another, how great can a generation that gave us Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and (with and assist from the boomers) Jimmy Carter, plus all the bad policies associated with them, be? It's impossible to read David Frum's How We Got Here: The 70s and retain unadulterated admiration for the Greatest Generation.
I asked Diana why, as she put it in her response, the "GG petered out as an influence for
cultural continuity." Pulling together various stands from her book, she answered as follows:
1. Prosperity/money/– After World War II, Dad was less likely to be sole breadwinner–an economic development that diminished what it meant to be head of the family. More wives had started working during war and many continued. Teens were also working–and contrary to pre-War Depression Days when a young person would contribute earnings to family kitty, they were pocketing their money. They were also getting allowances on a scale unprecedented in history.
2. Newly moneyed youth and the newly emerging youth market were huge factors in the transfer of cultural authority from adult to young people–and infanitlization of the culture.
All this new stuff not only satisfied passing teen tastes, it validated them.
3. New "Authorities" Competing with Parents: In response to youth market, see, for example, explosion of adolescent-targeted magazines, among other newly minted "experts. These titles replaced, tout court, the advice that parents themselves were once expected to give. (Early intrusion of media culture into family life.)
4. In the entertainment industry, the notion of being a gatekeeper in charge of cultural output, or sometime-model of any kind (even sometimes), disappeared. Think about how Louis B. Mayer,
for example, refused to make movies in which a mother was bad character! Contrast this with the repetitiousness of the dopey/evil parent (father) motifs developed in movies and TV by 1950s and on. This stepping down from being gatekeepers was surely partly a response to the lucrativeness of the youth market, but it also reflected the loosenings in population at large induced, no doubt, in response to a couple of decades of mass pop culture –something new, obviously, to the species. Of course, despite the loosening of the population at large, the blunt sexualization of music mainstream, etc. by the 1950s pitted the expanding younger generation and burgeoning media culture against lowly parents (squares). Parents (traditionalists) lost. Another marginalization of GG.
5. Explosion in higher education. Suddenly, for the first time ever, a major chunk of the population's children were getting college and higher degrees–degrees their parents didn't have. This, too, helped marginalize that parental influence (my son the college graduate knows best).
6. I think Peter Berger's observations, too, about the new emotional focus parents could direct on fewer children who tended to survive childhood is no small factor in youth's elevation and adulthood's demise. This may help explain why parents were later so accomodating of their student-revolutionary offspring.
In short, I think the new post-war world marginalized the GG as force of cultural continuity. Unprecedented prosperity was probably the main infantilizing force, but many factors were at work here, and they all tended to push the adults to one side, where, of course, they were busy
making up for lost wartime getting on with their lives and raising their, um, booming families. One of the more interesting explanations I found comes from rock historian Phillip Ennis, whose Elvis theory–in sum, that "Elvis [who, of course, was too young for action in WWII or Korea] delegitimized the adults' command over these kids by making any authority conferred by WWII irrelevant." Irrelevant! I think he's right. It fits into the mix. Of course, I still find the behavior of too many grown-ups who should have known "better". . .to be just plain insane.
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Friday evening me and my sister Christine were to meet up with Fanny and Michael at Medborgarplatsen. I decided to do victory rolls in my hair, and for this do I created my own rats some time ago. I did it the old fashioned way, by saving my own hair that got stuck in my brush, cleaning it thoroughly, and then - after a long time of hair saving - putting my collection in two hair nets. Having something to roll your hair up on when you do victory rolls is so much easier than only using your own hair, especially if you have long hair like me.
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In a dress from Voom me and sis then headed out.
Fanny looked gorgeous (as always) in a dark plum colored vintage dress from the 70s.
After sitting at Kvarnen, drinking wine and playing with Michael's iPad for a while, we went to Nada where we drank Margaritas and arm wrestled.
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Since we were blessed with good summer whether even this day, sister and I took a box of white wine and a blanket and went to Rålambshovsparken to chill. I wore a dress I bought from Tifa DeLeone on the first burlesque flea market that was held in Stockholm a few months ago. It has some stretch in the fabric, so it's really comfortable. The 50s style sunglasses are from HoM. I felt so cool in these shades I even wore them down in the subway. But when we went into a grocery store a had to take them off. Otherwise I would have felt like a celebrity who wants to get recognized and because of that wears sunglasses inside to pretend they don't want to get recognized but know they will because it's not normal to wear sunglasses inside and so everyone will look and then recognize the person who pretends to not want to be recognized and so has accomplished what he/she wanted...
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Sister tried on my red lipstick for the first time. I think she looked gorgeous!
We spent the whole evening there, philosophying underneath a tree.
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One of the first signs of labor is your cervix softening and thinning, or effacing. Most of the effacing happens in the last weeks before delivery, and you won''t feel this preparation happening. Instead, your health care provider might check for signs of cervical change with vaginal exams.
Effacement is often expressed in percentages. At 0 percent effacement, the cervix is typically about 3 to 4 centimeters (cm) long, or very thick. Your cervix must be 100 percent effaced, or completely thinned out, before a vaginal delivery.
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