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Tokimeki Memorial Only Love
|Tokimeki Memorial Only Love
Left to right: Mina, Sayuri and Tsukasa
|ときめきメモリアル Only Love
(Tokimeki Memoriaru Only Love)
|Romantic comedy, Harem
|Anime television series
|Directed by
|Nobuhiro Takamoto
|Written by
|Akira Watanabe
|TV Tokyo
|Original run
|October 3, 2006 – March 27, 2007
|27 (25 TV broadcast + 2 DVD)
|Written by
|Published by
|ASCII Media Works
|Dengeki Comic Gao!
|Original run
|2007 – 2008
Tokimeki Memorial Only Love (ときめきメモリアル Only Love Tokimeki Memoriaru Only Love?) is a Japanese anime series produced by Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., based on Konami's popular Tokimeki Memorial dating simulation series, specifically Tokimeki Memorial Online. It premiered October 3, 2006 across Japan on TV Tokyo. The anime series ended its run on March 27, 2007 with 25 episodes. The DVD release includes an additional episode (occurring between episodes 17 and 18) and a special compilation episode for a total of 27 episodes.
The anime main line story revolves around a second year high school student, Riku Aoba, who has just recently transferred to Holy Cross High School, where he notices, upon joining, several unique and funny occurrences, often being the target of a series of events and races administered by the student council and its fun-seeking president.
While at the academy, Riku meets the original Tokimeki Memorial Online characters and the story begins.
Main characters
- Riku Aoba (青葉陸 Aoba Riku?)
- Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano
- An anime original character as the main protagonist of the story. A second-year student at class 2-A and Sayuri's classmate. Before transferring to Tsugumi, Riku used to live in a snowy harbour in the northeast of Hokkaido. He is often a target of a series of bizarre events and races administered by the school council. Tsukasa, Sayuri, and Mina compete for his affections.
- Sayuri Amamiya (天宮小百合 Amamiya Sayuri?)
- Voiced by: Yuki Makishima
- One of the main heroines. A second-year student at class 2-A. Graceful and intelligent, Sayuri is an extremely popular girl at school, and is talented in academics and sports (and surprisingly video games) , often being the subject of admiration from several of the school's male students. Numerous legends have been told of the greatness of her actions in the past year. She falls deeply in love with Riku after noticing he treats her like he treats everyone and she can be her self around him, though she has been hiding her true feelings from everyone's knowledge, including Riku's.
- Tsukasa Kasuga (春日つかさ Kasuga Tsukasa?)
- Voiced by: Yukako Yoshikawa
- One of the main heroines. A second-year student at class 2-B, Tsukasa is a highly skilled member of the school's volleyball team. She is a believer in destiny, and falls in love with Riku almost immediately after bumping into him one day, declaring that Aoba is her boyfriend from that point on. She is also a bad cook. She successfully changes this by learning from the home economics teacher. However she skips several of the classes afterwards and her cooking becomes terrible again.
- Mina Yayoi (弥生水奈 Yayoi Mina?)
- Voiced by: Saki Fujita
- One of the main heroines. A first-year student at class 1-C, Mina is a member of the school's swimming team. She loves dolphins and is quite shy. She appeared first in the school library, Aoba helped her reach a book about dolphins. After Aoba agrees to become her coach, she falls in love with him. She is very nervous to confess her true feelings to him. Also because of her love of the sea life she quite reluctant to prepare food from the sea.
Second-year students
- Yūsuke Kayama (加山優介 Kayama Yūsuke?)
- Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino
- Aoba's classmate and friend. He collects and stores data on several girls of the school on his laptop, and often has numerous legends about Sayuri to share with Riku and his friends. He appears to be the typical anime otaku. He also has a strange fascination with girls who are in sports.
- Itta Suzuki (鈴木一太 Suzuki Itta?)
- Voiced by: Anri Katsu
- Aoba's classmate and friend, nicknamed Icchi, often seen with Yūsuke.
- Ayame Shiina (椎名あやめ Shiina Ayame?)
- Voiced by: Saori Gotō
- Sayuri's classmate. She is a member of the school's volleyball team, and is good friends with Sayuri, Tsukasa, Yūka, Sakura, and Tsubaki, often concerned with their well-being.
- Yūka Fujikawa (藤川優花 Fujikawa Yūka?)
- Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi
- Sayuri's classmate. She is good friends with Sayuri, Ayame, Sakura, and Tsubaki.
- Sakura Shinjō (新条さくら Shinjō Sakura?)
- Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi
- Sayuri's classmate. She is a member of the school's swimming team. She is good friends with Sayuri, Ayame, Yūka, and Tsubaki.
- Tsubaki Yoshino (吉野椿 Yoshino Tsubaki?)
- Voiced by: Ai Shimizu
- Sayuri's classmate. She is an honor student. She is good friends with Sayuri, Ayame, Yūka, and Sakura.
- Kyōhei Dōjima (堂島凶平 Dōjima Kyōhei?)
- Voiced by: Takashi Nagasako
- Aoba's classmate, who sits next to Riku in class. Very large and muscular, he often wears a shirt with the name Maddog etched on it. Swearing to protect Sayuri from other boys, he introduces himself to Riku by trying to hurt him, (but is instead severely beaten by Hiyokokko), thus being convinced that Riku is worthy enough to protect Sayuri. Before hand, Aoba and his friends were afraid of him, however, later on he became very close with them and vice versa. He shares Yusuke's fascination of girls who play sports.
- Kōya Inukai (犬飼洸也 Inukai Kōya?)
- Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi
- Sits next to Riku in class. He appears to be cold and distant from his other classmates even to his teachers, but is far kinder and warmer than he appears. His hobbies include painting and caring for small animals. Riku and him become good friends, which the latter won't actually admit but subtly.
Third-year students
- Haru Sakurai (桜井晴 Sakurai Haru?)
- Voiced by: Ryōhei Nakao
- The school council president, who is often engaged in arranging several strange and bizarre events, often involving Riku as the target. He appears to be much lazier or less responsible than expected as he tried to avoid work concerning the Cultural Festival and asked Riku to take part with helping in the Festival (This was possibly to lessen his own work load).
- Ichirō Ishiuchi (石打一郎 Ishiuchi Ichirō?)
- Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama
- The captain of the school's baseball team. Extremely hyperactive, he is an extremely determined sportsman not willing to concede defeat to anyone. He has a very dangerous fastball pitch.
- Ryōichi Kamino (神野領一 Kamino Ryōichi?)
- Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi
- The captain of the school's track and field team. An extremely fast runner, Kamino is a narcissist who thinks extremely highly of himself.
- Koayu Utsumi (内海小鮎 Utsumi Koayu?)
- Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki
- The captain of the school's swimming team. A fast swimmer, skilled in the butterfly stroke, she is quite sensitive on the subject of her large and plump breasts, which are often the object of deep admiration from several of the school's male students, who queue up behind the swimming complex inching to get a glimpse of her. The extra episode on the DVD release is focused on her.
- Hiromi Otama (大珠裕美 Otama Hiromi?)
- Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi
- The captain of the school's female volleyball team. A strict leader, she is highly skilled in volleyball and has a very powerful spike. The least eccentric of the 3rd year sports captains (for instance, when the other 3rd year sports captains schemed on recruiting Riku Aoba by any means necessary, Hiromi refused to participate, however, this was due to the fact that Aoba is a male and her team is a FEMALE team).
- Haruka Wakatake (若竹遥 Wakatake Haruka?)
- Voiced by: Hekiru Shiina
- The homeroom teacher of class 2-A. Very supportive and gentle, she gets along very well with her students. She plays the Community Game Tokimeki Online (A play off the series itself and the original online game). She fell in love with one of the online players named Adachi Sumio. However, she believed that the player was Sayuri after noticing the same character on the computer screen that Sayuri was using and her initials are the same as the character. She finds out straight from Sayuri it wasn't. In actuality it was Matsuoka-sensei who created the character. This, however, is unknown to her. Naomi, Harinui, and herself are shown to be good friends.
- Yūko Harinui (針縫由布子 Harinui Yūko?)
- Voiced by: Mai Kadowaki
- The home economics teacher, who is quite supportive and gentle. She has helped Tsukasa improve her cooking skills. She apparently loves to drink alcohol. Haruka, Naomi, and herself are implied to be good friends.
- Ryuichi Yagen (薬研粒一 Yagen Ryuichi?)
- Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio
- The science teacher. Often wearing a surgical mask, he is apparently quite concerned with the students' health, often designing numerous experimental drinks to assist them. He's also quite the inventor, as he made an advanced robot sphere-shaped garbage collector, but it went out of control and was possessed by an evil spirit. He is also tends to over do any task given to him as he made the haunted house tent five times bigger than it should have been.
- Misao Kurotokage (黒十影操 Kurotokage Misao?)
- Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita
- The drama and music teacher. A cross dresser. Quite harsh on the assessment of his students' singing and acting abilities, he believes Riku has potential to be a talented actor.
- Fumihiko Kinosaki (城崎文彦 Kinosaki Fumihiko?)
- Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka
- The literature teacher, who appears to be quite ill almost everyday. However this could be a ruse as Naomi, the school doctor, pointed out that he appears to be in good health.
- Hiromi Akaboshi (赤星浩美 Akaboshi Hiromi?)
- Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka
- The gym teacher. Armed with a massive temper and a wooden kendō stick, the students have nicknamed him Akaoni-sensei (赤鬼先生?, lit. Red demon teacher) including the teachers such as Haruka.
- Jun'ya Matsuoka (松岡純也 Matsuoka Jun'ya?)
- Voiced by: Takashi Mito
- The computer science teacher. Very supportive and intelligent, he gets along very well with his students. Appears to be the most sane amongst the school staff. He is a user of the Community Game Tokimeki Online using a character named Adachi Sumio (A Japanese take on the name Adam Smith). After playing online with Haruka's character, he becomes interested with her. However, he does not know it is Haruka controlling the character and neither does Haruka know it is Matsuoka.
- Naomi Hoshina (保科直美 Hoshina Naomi?)
- Voiced by: Masumi Asano
- The school's female doctor, who is quite calm and composed, yet with an attitude. Haruka, Harinui, and herself appear to be good friends. She always butting in people's business.
- Chairman's secretary (理事長秘書 Rijichō hisho?)
- Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga
- The woman with the largest chest in the whole school and is actually in charge of the high school instead of the headmaster. She always cutting off the vice principal when he tries to make a statement or speech
- Vice-Headmaster (教頭先生 Kyōtō-sensei?)
- Voiced by: Kunihiro Kawamoto
- The school's headmaster. An old man with thick glasses and a reddish nose, he is often interrupted by the secretary when trying to speak.
- Shop lady (購買部のおねえさん Kōbaibu no Onēsan?)
- Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō
- The young cafeteria lady, who often wears a kind smile while making lunches for all the school's numerous students, who affectionately call her Onē-san (おねえさん?), a respectful word for sister. She can be subject to a dark streak of anger when her food is damaged. She tends to con the customers and students into buying faulty merchandise or jobs.
- Chairman Bakuretsuzan ( 爆裂山理事長 Bakuretsuzan Rijichō?)
- Voiced by: Hazama Michio
- The school's chairman who gave the commencement speech in the graduation ceremony in the last episode. As the Secretary and Vice-Headmaster opposed the final event, the Chairman allowed the event to pass as the students enjoyed it. Kazumi Bakuretsuzan is also the headmaster of Hibikino Highschool from Tokimeki Memorial 2.
Other characters
- Hiyokokko (ひよこっこ?)
- Voiced by: Mai Kadowaki
- A tiny, intelligent and extremely strong baby chicken, which has the ability to speak by saying Peeyo. It often helps and assists Riku, who is the only one can understand its speech. Also, it shows up various times throughout the show to beat up Dōjima; eventually being feared by him.
- Momo Aikawa (愛川桃 Aikawa Momo?)
- Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
- A first year female student and Mina's classmate. She was saved by Inukai from a group of delinquents, who tried to accost her in a park, and thus seems to have developed a crush on him. She tries to win his affections, but he continuously rejects her. She is affectionately called Mo-chan (もーちゃん?) by her friends. She is good friends with Mina.
- Goddess of Incineration (焼却炉の女神 Shōkyakuro no Megami?)
- Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue
- A mysterious magical goddess who has a mission to cleanse evil spirits away and helps people in need. Kind of a klutz, she accidentally bumps or tips the piled-up garbage and falls on her, which she lost her memory from shock according to Naomi Hoshina, who took care of her. She recovered her memory when one of the robotized, sphere-shaped garbage collectors, which it was possessed by an evil spirit, discharged an old T.V. set at her, knocking her down almost senseless. Later, she cleanses the evil spirit from the robot by using her magic, when it was about to harm Tsukasa, Riku and Mina. Later, she is asked by Riku if she could summon ghosts for the Super Haunted House for their cultural festival. She has an afro, however this was possibly caused by the robot who gave afros to those it attacked. During the preview for Episode 13, she is asked by Mina her age which she responds she is seventeen years old. This is an inside joke to her voice actress who gives the same answer whenever asked of her age.
- Yukari Higashino (東野ゆかり Higashino Yukari?)
- Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
- Riku's childhood friend and very popular teen magazine cover model who just "transferred" to Tsugumi. However this was a ruse created by Kurotokage in order for Sayuri to experience how express one-self in acting. With that said, Kurotokage was Yukari's original drama teacher. Yukari claims that she had a great and memorable childhood with Riku, but Riku objects and say otherwise about his childhood with her. Also claims, when speaking with Sayuri, when she quits being an idol, she might make Riku her boyfriend, despite her supposed original treatment of him. She appears in episode 14.
- Metal Ryuk (メタルリューク, Metaru Ryūku?)
- Voiced by: Metal Ryuk
- A rockstar in the school's cultural festival. He appears in episode 17.
- Natsumi Nishida (西田奈津美 Nishida Natsumi?)
- Voiced by: Natsumi Nishida
- A female singer in Metal Ryuk's concert. She appears in episode 17.
|Original air date
|"An Exciting Encounter"
"Tokimeki no Deai" (ときめきの出会い)
|October 3, 2006
|Riku Aoba transfers to a new school and quickly finds out many of the bizarre customs associated with the school. In the same episode, Riku meets Sayuri and Mina for the first time.
|"An Exciting Destiny"
"Tokimeki no Unmei" (ときめきの運命)
|October 10, 2006
|Three of the Big Four Sportsmen have taken an interest in Riku and all devise separate plans in order to get him to join their clubs. They belong to the track team, the swimming team, and the baseball team. Fortunately for Riku, he manages to escape from each of their challenges, and receives a special headband from the student council as a reward. In the same episode, Riku meets Tsukasa for the first time by bumping each other. Riku offers to help her up from the ground. Tsukasa noted she felt her heart beat faster when she met her eyes with his and declared that he is her destined lover, much to Riku's surprise and chagrin.
|"An Exciting After School"
"Tokimeki no Hokago" (ときめきの放課後)
|October 17, 2006
|Riku starts a (forced) relationship with Tsukasa. She tries makes a traditional bento (boxed lunch) though it's so bad that Riku has to force himself to eat it so as not to hurt Tsukasa's feelings. Tsukasa later realizes that her cooking is horrible, and spends time to improve her culinary skills with the home economics teacher to prepare a decent lunch for her "boyfriend". In the same episode, Mina and Riku meet for the second time, only this time, she introduces herself to him properly. Mina gives Riku a handkerchief after he sneezes. Mina leaves in a nervous haste when Riku finds out that she knows his name.
|"An Exciting Water Surface"
"Tokimeki no Minamo" (ときめきの水面)
|October 24, 2006
|Riku is set on trying to give Mina back her handkerchief, but his two good friends keep on dragging him around. Eventually he is able to give it back to her at which point Mina asks him to be her psychological coach in order to keep her mindset when swimming.
|"An Exciting Accident"
"Tokimeki no Jiko (Akushidento)" (ときめきの事故[アクシデント])
|October 31, 2006
|The school's sports festival has finally arrived where each class competes against each other in sports related games. However, when Sayuri injures her ankle halfway through the day, Riku must step in and take her place as the coordinator for the day's activities.
|"An Exciting Rain"
"Tokimeki no Ame" (ときめきの雨)
|November 7, 2006
|Inukai, in Riku's class, goes missing one day after apparently getting arrested for fighting against a group of thugs. Rumors start to grow about him and his rebellious nature. While Inukai doesn't reveal much about himself to others, he usually lets his actions speak louder than words. Riku starts to wonder why Inukai acts the way he does.
|"An Exciting Confession"
"Tokimeki no Kokuhaku" (ときめきの告白)
|November 14, 2006
|Riku is coerced by the student council to forfeit half of his summer in preparation for the upcoming cultural festival while he plans it out with Sayuri. At the same time, he is also coerced by the drama club's teacher to audition a play for the festival. During the audition, to Riku's surprise, he accidentally confesses to Sayuri when she shows up to see his audition when he states line from the play. Sayuri is confused by the sudden confession. Meanwhile, Tsukasa is beginning to see the depth of Riku's feelings or lack thereof.
|"An Exciting Time"
"Tokimeki no Hitotoki" (ときめきの時)
|November 21, 2006
|After yesterday's surprise event in the drama room, Sayuri is uneasy about hanging around Riku for a while. Riku and Mina find a temple shrine while on their way home. Riku gives an offering and a prayer for Mina so she can improve her swimming times before the big swim meet. But Mina requests her own prayer that leaves Riku very surprised. Meanwhile, Tsukasa's volleyball talents are beginning to be adversely affected by her feelings for Riku.
|"An Exciting Sea"
"Tokimeki no Umi" (ときめきの海)
|November 28, 2006
|Tsukasa and Riku go to the beach to have fun together, but Tsukasa is finding it difficult to be alone with him when almost the entire school shows up.
|"An Exciting Nightfall"
"Tokimeki no Maiyuugure" (ときめきの夕暮れ)
|December 5, 2006
|During the summer vacation, Riku and his friends get part time jobs but soon find out how difficult they can be. Meanwhile, Sayuri is working very hard in the oversight committee for the up-coming school cultural festival all by herself, whom Riku is very concerned.
|"An Exciting Memory"
"Tokimeki no Kioku (Memori)" (ときめきの記憶[メモリー])
|December 12, 2006
|After a swimming tournament, Mina's popularity has skyrocketed. However, several members of her own club become jealous of her and her growth of followers start to stress her out. Mina tries to find Riku to tell him how she feels on the whole situation, though she's finding it just as difficult just to simply get his phone number. Riku at the same time tries to reach Mina but not without obstacles.
|"An Exciting Night"
"Tokimeki no Yoru" (ときめきの夜)
|December 19, 2006
|A rumor has been going around that a ghost appears at night at the church on school grounds and before long the school is closed at night, making it even harder for the students working to prepare for the upcoming cultural festival to finish their jobs. Ultimately it is discovered that a large black sphere with one large red eye has been terrorizing the school. Meanwhile, a mysterious young lady shows up at school, who turns out to be a magical goddess.
|"An Exciting Secret"
"Tokimeki no Himitsu" (ときめきの秘密)
|December 26, 2006
|The cultural festival is only one month away and things are not going well for Riku's class. Class 2-A has not decided on their main theme and both boys and girls are fighting each other over creative differences. Riku is very worried of Sayuri being overworked with abundant paperwork, being surrounded by other students with different issues, and lacking help from other students. At the same time, Riku is coerced again by the drama club's teacher. Only this time, she wants Sayuri to audition a play for the festival and have Riku to ask Sayuri for her answer. Meanwhile, Sayuri shows Riku her "secret place" as a hideaway from every day school work.
|"An Exciting Transfer Student"
"Tokimeki no Tenkousei" (ときめきの転校生)
|January 9, 2007
|A pretty blonde haired girl transfers to Tsumugi Private High School. Excitement sparks when it is learned that she is the popular teen magazine model Yukari Higashino, and more so, when she turns out to be Riku's childhood friend. However, Riku says otherwise of their "happy" childhood together. Mina and Tsukasa don't take Yukari's advances to Riku well and decide to challenge her. The twist: Yukari chooses Sayuri as her partner in the challenges.
|"An Exciting Reality"
"Tokimeki no Genjitsu (Utsutsu)" (ときめきの現実[うつつ])
|January 16, 2007
|Class 2-A's homeroom teacher Haruka Wakatake is feeling down from various problems, such as believing herself not to be that good a teacher, not being as "perfect" as Sayuri Amamiya, and still being single, just as her twenty-seventh birthday is approaching. Her hopes begin to rise when she meets a nice new friend in an online video game she plays on a daily basis.
|"An Exciting Moment"
"Tokimeki no Shunkan" (ときめきの瞬間)
|January 23, 2007
|In this episode, Riku Aoba has been placed in charge of his class's cultural festival project, a haunted house. But, building the house is a huge task, so he asks the science teacher for help. When the class sees the tent, however, they're surprised to see it has taken up a space as big as the school, and they don't have enough decorations for it. To make up for this Riku asks the Goddess of the Furnace to summon real ghosts (Harmless, yet mischievous) for the tent. At the same time Sayuri notices Riku's new popularity and feels slightly jealous.
|"An Exciting Cultural Festival"
"Tokimeki no Bunka Sai" (ときめきの文化祭)
|January 30, 2007
|It's the day of the culture festival, and Riku hopes to watch Sayuri's performance at the play. However his hopes are dashed when his priorities for the Cultural Festival take over. Tsukasa and Mina try to cheer him up around campus by trying out all the games and activities the festival has to offer, but things are aggravated by their own rivalry with each other over Riku's affections. Meanwhile Sayuri tries to find Riku to apologize for lashing out at him the previous day for being jealous of his newfound popularity.
|"The Excitement of Courage"
"Tokimeki no Yuuki" (ときめきの勇気)
|September 21, 2007
|Koayu walks home from practice and runs into several people starring at her breasts much to her embarrassment and runs. In the process she knocks a kid's soccer ball into a river. It is rescued by a soccer coach who later helps Koayu rebuild her courage, just in time for the University's athletic testing which Koayu is planning to attend. (This episode takes place between episodes 17 and 18 according to the story line. Thus in the DVD, it is labeled as episode 17.5)
|"An Exciting Field Trip"
"Tokimeki no Shuugakuryokou" (ときめきの修学旅行)
|February 6, 2007
|All of the second year students go to a field trip in Hokkaido. Tsukasa during the trip is sick and tries to hold it back in order to spend time with Riku. After fainting in front of Riku, he rushes her to the hospital. Meanwhile Mina is unable to contact Riku with her mobile phone due to him not checking his phone and taking care of Tsukasa. During this time, Riku ignores Sayuri when he believes that both her and Sakurai are in a relationship thus complicating his own feelings.
|"An Exciting Message"
"Tokimeki no Dengon (Messeeji)" (ときめきの伝言[メッセージ])
|February 13, 2007
|While Riku, his class, and the rest of the sophomores are away in Hokkaido, Mina starts to feel lonely from not seeing Riku. When her text messages to Riku go unanswered, she begins to fall into a depression. Meanwhile Riku still believes that Sayuri and Sakurai are in a relationship and continues to ignore her. After returning home, Riku finally checks his phone revealing the numerous emails/texts and a heartbreaking voice message from Mina.
|"An Exciting Feeling"
"Tokimeki no Omoi" (ときめきの想い)
|February 20, 2007
|After finally realizing Mina's and Tsukasa's feelings for him, Riku does not know how to respond. He also deals with his feelings for Sayuri and if he should still keep them. Unfamiliar with the situation, he falls into a depression. After bumping into Inukai, who gives him some advice, he finally cheers up and gives Mina and Tsukasa his response, which they seem content with for now.
|"An Exciting Christmas"
"Tokimeki no Seiya (Kurismasu)" (ときめきの聖夜[クリスマス])
|February 27, 2007
|It's Christmas time and Sakurai has planned another Student Council event, requiring participants to form couples, one guy and one girl each, as well as having a random exchange of Christmas gifts. As many guys vie for Sayuri, Ayame teases her about choosing Riku, which Sayuri denies. To spice things up, Ayame chooses Riku for herself in the event, much to everyone's surprise and to Tsukasa's and Mina's dismay. Secretly, Sayuri picks a present for Riku, while Tsukasa and Mina excitedly pick theirs for him as well.
|"An Exciting New Year"
"Tokimeki no Shinnen" (ときめきの新年)
|March 6, 2007
|It is learned that Riku will be spending the New Year's at home alone. Hoping to spend time with him, Sayuri, Tsukasa, and Mina decide to drop by at his house, each of them not aware they are planning the same thing.
|"An Exciting Present"
"Tokimeki no Okurimono (Puresento)" (ときめきの贈り物 [プレセント])
|March 13, 2007
|It's Valentine's Day, and, by Japanese custom, girls will be giving chocolates to the guys they like. While all the guys are hoping to get chocolates from girls they like, it is learned that Sayuri has never given any chocolate to any guy on Valentine's Day her whole life. Sayuri decides to finally give her first Valentine's Chocolate, to Riku, just as Tsukasa and Mina prepare theirs for him as well. However, everything comes crashing down when Riku reveals the bad news: He's transferring to a new school.
|"An Exciting Farewell"
"Tokimeki no Wakare" (ときめきの別れ)
|March 20, 2007
|It turns out Riku is transferring out of Tsugumi High School due to his father's work, just like he had to transfer schools a number of times before for the same reason. The whole class decides to throw a going away party for him. However Sayuri is still disappointed that she was unable to give her chocolate to Riku and his planned departure aggravates her despair. Tsukasa and Mina are just as depressed by this news. All three girls hope before Riku leaves he will tell them how he feels about them.
|"An Exciting Wish"
"Tokimeki no Negai" (ときめきの願い)
|March 27, 2007
|The last day of school has come and Riku is leaving. However, Sayuri does not want things to end the way they are. Sakurai helps her by having Riku and the male students participate in a hasty final event. The students must catch Riku before he reaches Sayuri and if they do they receive the homemade chocolate that she made for Riku. With a plead from Sayuri and a little help from his friends (including Hiyoko), Riku reaches Sayuri. She confesses her true feelings to him and Riku (with a little push from Inukai once more) accepts by asking her number/email in front of all of their classmates.
|"An Exciting Choice"
"Tokimeki no Sentaku" (ときめきの選択)
|September 21, 2007
|This episode was to summarize the main heroines' confessions to Riku from clips of previous episodes before the finale.
Production team
- Executive producer: Kuniaki Kinoshita
- Planning: Kengo Nakamura, Shiro Sasaki
- Original plan: Konami Digital Entertainment
- Director: Nobuhiro Takamoto
- Series composition: Akira Watanabe
- Supervision: Metal Ryuk (Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.)
- Original character designs: Taro Mino
- Character designs: Kiyotaka Nakahara
- Prop designs: Kyouma Aki
- Main animator: Masami Nagata
- Art director: Minoru Maeda
- Color design: Chieko Hibi
- Photography director: Kosuke Tanaka
- Editor: Takashi Sakurai
- Sound director: Miwa Iwanami
- Music: Hajime Mizoguchi, Teruyuki Nobuchika
- Music producer: Kazumi Saitou
- Music production: Konami Digital Entertainment
- Music coordination: TV Tokyo Music
- Sound production: HALF H·P STUDIO
- Producers: Kenichiro Horio, Shigeaki Komatsu
- Animation production: AIC A.S.T.A.
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As late as 18 months ago, people who talked about recovery were regarded as optimistic at best and seriously deluded at worst. But, after 5 positive quarters, and with a forecasting consensus of solid, energised growth for the next year or so, recovery is a fact and there is growing impatience for it to translate into higher living standards.
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These issues overlap to the extent that productivity growth depends on capital investment and on the growth of manufacturing, which in turn drives the export of goods.
Productivity remains weak, but is key to rebalancing
The productivity issue has polarized debate. Some regard the currently depressed productivity levels as a temporary, cyclical phenomenon while others believe there is a deeper structural problem.
I incline to the latter view. Ian McCafferty, for example, has attributed 60% of the decline in productivity from its pre-recession peak to fundamental changes in several specific sectors: oil and gas, where it is proving more difficult and costly to extract resources from new fields; banking, where high productivity investment banking has severely contracted as regulation has intervened; and aviation where tighter security has reduced productivity.
Those high productivity sectors which we need to expand, like advanced manufacturing, are constrained by a damaged banking system which is providing limited credit to small and medium sized enterprises – as well as by skills shortages and a lack of investment. The implication is that, beyond the current recovery, it will be difficult to sustain rapid growth in output and living standards without a major spurt of productivity.
There is a further link here to the wider question of rebalancing. In the first stage of recovery, it mattered little that growth was driven by consumption. But sustained, rebalanced recovery will only happen if growth is driven to a greater extent by private investment, and by the externally traded sectors of the economy – exports in particular.
Investment is beginning to recover
On the first of these factors, there is some encouragement from recent figures suggesting that business investment has been growing strongly, with growth of more than 8% forecast for 2014 and 2015. But investment levels are still well below where they once were. As a share of GDP, business investment has fallen over the last 15 years (-3% in real terms); fixed investment is at its lowest since the mid-1980s (1986), while – for more than 2 decades – the UK has consistently been at or near the bottom of the OECD range for fixed investment. The current upturn in business confidence and investment have improved the medium term outlook, but to change the structural picture, the barriers to greater business investment need to be overcome. For example, we still have more to do here to promote long-term, investment-oriented decision-making in corporate boardrooms.
But exports remain weak and the current account deficit is of concern
There is, though, little sign yet of recovery in exports which fell in 2 of the last 4 quarters and grew by only 0.5% in 2012 and 2.1% in 2013, despite the competitive benefits of a 25% depreciation in Sterling (on an effective exchange rate measure) in the wake of the financial crisis. Around half of exports go to the EU, where demand has been contracting. And although a great deal of marketing effort is bearing fruit in double digit annual growth in some important and rapidly growing emerging markets, this is often from a low base and there are serious, short-term supply constraints: inadequate supporting sales infrastructure, which requires long- term investment in local networks; export credit availability; supply chains weakened in the financial crisis and during the preceding years. Moreover, incomes in emerging market economies are, in most cases, yet to reach the levels necessary to demand the UK's world-class services offering.
We must be realistic about the scale of the challenge – in 2013 our trade in goods deficit stood at 6.7% of GDP (deficit including services was 1.8%) and so far in 2014 we have imported £44.5 billion more in goods than we have exported. Moreover, the deficit on the current account of the balance of payments, at 4.4% of GDP in the first quarter of 2014, remains high by historical standards and a concern. The cause of the recent deterioration is the fall in investment income from overseas assets – until 2012, deficits on trade in goods and services were offset to some extent by repatriated income from UK investment overseas.
The economic orthodoxy of recent decades has been that a current account deficit of the balance of payments does not matter, so long as the prospects for financing it are sustainable. Traditionally a current account deficit used to worry governments since, under fixed exchange rates, a prolonged and large deficit could presage a devaluation and a 'run on the currency'.
We now recognise that exchange rate movements owe more to expected interest rate differentials as determinants of capital flows, since capital movements are far more substantial, and volatile, than trade flows. This is why, despite the weakness of the trade and current account balance, there can be an appreciating currency, as has happened in early 2014 (a 4% effective rate appreciation since January 2014). Similarly in the period from 1998 to 2008 there was a weak trade and current account balance and a very strong currency, which in turn did severe harm to export competitiveness.
This year's appreciation of Sterling might prove to be a short term issue. But business is concerned and I believe we should not simply ignore what is happening in the balance of payments. We need to understand it. The deficit may not be a problem in itself but it could be a symptom of a larger one, reflecting the damage during by a long period, before the crisis, of growth driven by domestic credit expansion and non-traded activities like property. This is not a good platform for export-led recovery and the challenge for more balanced growth.
The role of the exchange rate
How much should we worry about Sterling's appreciation? Recent experience suggests that the connection between exchange rates and exports may have begun to slip – there has been a weaker connection between Sterling's crisis-driven depreciation and the strength of UK exports than we might have expected and hoped for. One potential explanation of the UK's exports becoming less price sensitive could be the growing dominance of services in our export mix.
And of course the picture is different for different sectors of the economy. Some are far more price sensitive than others, and many export goods are reliant on imports of components. This is a point worth underscoring – recent work by the OECD and WTO shows that the UK is linked in to regional and global supply chains. Our export success depends on imported intermediary goods for our own exports, and our exports provide intermediary goods for others' exports.
So the extent to which further rises in Sterling will hit our export potential is unclear, but we are aware of the concerns of industry.
Improving productivity can soften the exchange rate challenge
It's important to remember that business can respond, and this is yet another part of the debate around productivity.
Boosting productivity, notably in the manufacturing sector, can reduce unit labour costs and therefore help to keep prices lower in the face of a rising exchange rate. Indeed there are signs that manufacturers are succeeding in doing this, with output per hour worked up by 1.4 and 1.5% in the last 2 quarters respectively. This, in part, reflects the broader capacity for productivity to recover in the UK, which remains 16% below its pre-crisis trend.
And there's an important link to the investment outlook I mentioned earlier. A significant proportion of the UK's productivity lag with the US (a third or more) and particularly Germany and France (more than 2 thirds), is down to lower investment in fixed capital, and therefore lower capital available per worker. So a brighter fixed investment outlook, coupled with businesses focused on making productivity gains, can provide some buffer against the exchange rate outlook.
But clearly there is a limit to business' ability to absorb a stronger pound. And I recognise that while changes to exchange rates happen immediately, driving change in productivity is a long-term project. A particular concern to businesses seeking to grow their exports is the unpredictability of the outlook in the short term, as well as the broad direction of appreciation.
The policy response
This raises the question of the policy response, and in particular how we should view changes in the exchange rate. The role of the exchange rate is important for macroeconomic policy. In the boom period before 2008 a strong currency contributed to meeting the MPC's inflation objective while the post 2008 depreciation complicated it. Exchange rates are impacted in turn by movements in interest rates and currency appreciation reflects expectations that interest rates will begin to rise soon. Forward guidance has an important role in managing expectations and can potentially lead to less sudden appreciation as there are fewer surprises. A strengthening exchange rate, whilst still significantly below the peaks of 2007, keeps a downward pressure on imported inflation.
Unfortunately, an uncompetitive exchange rate also frustrates the objective of removing imbalances in the real economy. We cannot risk repeating the damaging experience of the so-called boom period before 2008. This means challenging the rather flippant economists' mantra that the exchange rate is nothing more than the price which reflects the supply and demand for foreign exchange. True but trivial. The exchange rate does matter for the real economy.
In practice, a sustained improvement in the external position has to be based on consistent, long-term policies which support exporters and import-competing activities. A centrepiece of these policies is the Industrial Strategy. This has established a long-term partnership arrangement in the main sectors for traded goods (cars, aerospace, pharmaceuticals) and services (creative industries, professional services, education) and seeks to address major areas of market failure which are inhibiting performance – especially access to finance, which is being tackled through the Business Bank.
In relation to exports, what specifically can be done to boost them? A lot depends on external conditions. The evidence suggests that the relationship between UK exports and the external demand environment is stronger than that between the exchange rate and our export prospects. Whereas a fall in exchange rates of 10% might see our export share increase by 4%, an improvement in export market demand of 10% might generate an equivalent 10% increase in exports. But this does not in itself equate to a boost to GDP growth from net trade, as imports are expected to roughly keep pace with export growth, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
We can't control the external demand environment – the prospects of the Eurozone, of the US, and of the rest of the world. But we can work with partner countries, for example at the G20, to deliver an open, growing and rebalanced global economy.
What we can affect is the environment in which growing, exporting businesses operate in the UK and the support they can get from government and its agencies. UKTI has helped over 40,000 businesses to export and helped UK companies win £22.6 billion of new business. And this support is available for every kind and size of business. Since April 2014, for example, every MSB in the country has been offered tailored trade advice and an intensive programme of support to help them start exporting or to break into new markets.
In September 2013 we launched a Direct Lending Facility, which means that £3 billion is now available to lend to overseas buyers to purchase UK exports. In December (2013) we doubled UK Export Finance's capacity to support UK exports to £50 billion. And we will broaden UKEF's statutory powers to support exports through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.
UKEF is the former ECGD and until recently was largely concerned with underwriting big long-term contracts – for arms exporters, in particular. In 2011, I introduced a suite of new short-term export credit products targeted at smaller and medium sized companies. We initially had difficulty raising awareness of these products but they are now better understood and better used, thanks to close collaboration between UKTI and UKEF.
So the offer to business eager to export is a strong one. And there are encouraging signs that entering new markets is firmly on the British business agenda. Introducing new products or expanding into new markets was the top corporate priority in the next 12 months, according to Deloitte's quarterly CFO survey. Converting this ambition into the reality of a rebalanced outlook captures the policy challenge facing us.
To conclude, the trend in the external deficit, its magnitude, and the persistence of our trade imbalance mean that we must devote sustained attention to external competitiveness if we are to rebalance the economy. The government is focused on doing everything it can, through UKTI directly and also through our Industrial Strategy, to support growing exporting businesses, which have the power to drive our recovery, tackle our trade deficit and underpin our nascent recovery.


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Don't forget the conventional warfare part of Russia's aggression against Ukraine!
[What] is often lost in the discussion of the technological innovation of Russian hybrid warfare is that a conventional line of effort resides just below the surface. The Donbas campaign of the Russo–Ukrainian War (2014–present) highlights this idea. The Donbas campaign showcases innovations in Russian land warfare through the actions of Russian land forces—working in conjunction with separatist land forces—throughout the campaign. Most notably, these innovations include the development of the battalion tactical group (BTG)—a formation that possesses the firepower to punch at the operational level of war—coupled with a reconnaissance-strike model not seen on contemporary battlefields. Furthermore, the BTG and reconnaissance-strike model work in tandem to create siege warfare opportunities for the Russian and separatist forces, allowing them to generate high levels of destruction while operating beneath the notice of the international community. [emphasis added]
As I understand it, one reason for the use of the BTG is that Russian brigades are not capable of being committed, requiring the Russians to tap brigades across the entire Russian expanse to pick out the acceptable troops in those brigades (the RUSI report link is broken):
Russia is compelled to bring in troops from all over Russia, compel draftees into becoming "contract" soldiers, putting troops from different units together to form battle groups for the Donbas, and even using Interior Ministry troops behind the lines to keep Russian troops from retreating.
As for operating beneath the notice of the international community, that's just BS.
We know the Russians invaded Ukraine yet the West has chosen to ignore the blatant invasion. How on Earth are multiple battalions with hundreds of tanks directing massive and sophisticated firepower so subtle that we can't notice it?
And as much as I hope the Ukrainian lawsuit works, even the Ukrainians go along with the fiction by asserting that Russia is "'sponsoring terrorism' by financing pro-Russian separatists and failing to stop military aid from seeping across the border into eastern Ukraine's Donbas region."
It's not only financing separatists--it's an invasion.
And it isn't "failing to stop military aid" from crossing the border like it is a problem to be solved by tougher border controls--it is a deliberate policy to send aid into the Donbas.
Face it, hybrid warfare is just Russia invading a country with conventional and special forces at the side of an astro-turfed secessionist movement while denying Russia is responsible, and the West going along with that fiction. The Russians could commit entire numbered armies to the fight with that kind of thinking on both sides.
And if the Russians could do that kind of large invasion, they would have. This "hybrid warfare" theory is just dressing up Russia's inability to do a fast smash and grab with overwhelming force.
Do you really think the Russians chose from ingenious thinking to stretch out the war in the Donbas this long and wouldn't have preferred to pull the bandage off fast if they could to avoid the Western sanctions that were imposed when it became embarrassing to ignore Russia's aggression any longer?
That's how Russia avoided sanctions over attacking Georgia in 2008 and cementing their control of that country's breakaway provinces. Heck, that's how Russia has gotten away with seizing Crimea with a direct attack bolstered by reinforcing troops, special forces, and astro-turf local rebels. Who talks about getting Russia to relinquish that conquest as the focus remains on Russian-occupied Donbas?
There is a full report at the first link. I'm so disgusted with the willingness of the West to go along with Russian fiction that I'm not inclined to read it (although I know I will eventually when I get a paper copy).


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This week the Competition and Markets Authority has published its final guidance on the unfair contract terms provisions in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which come into force on 1 October 2015.
CMA publishes retail banking market investigation working papers
The Competition and Markets Authority has published two working papers as part of the retail banking market investigation. They are:
- Actual and perceived behaviour of personal current account customers
- Business current account and personal current account pricing analysis
The working papers include findings on the use of and charges for overdrafts. Comments can be made on the working papers by 21 August 2015.
CMA, 7 August 2015 FCA Firms website launches
The FCA has launched its FCA Firms website, which acts as a resource for all authorised firms and makes it easier for firms to find content that is relevant to them and their type of firm or business.
FCA, 6 August 2015
HM Treasury launches financial advice market review
HM Treasury has launched a review looking at how financial advice could work better for consumers and has also published accompanying terms of reference. The review is expected to report in time for the 2016 Budget. Amongst other matters, it will make proposals on the proportionality of rules and their impact on the affordability and availability of financial advice and products, while considering the opportunities and challenges presented by new and emerging technologies to provide cost-effective, efficient and user friendly advice service (e.g. robo-advice for lower value clients). The review will not consider debt advice and its focus is not expected to be on consumer credit.
HM Treasury, 3 August 2015
CMA Unfair contract terms guidance
The Competition and Markets Authority has published its final guidance on the unfair contract terms provisions in the Consumer Rights Act 2015. This follows a consultation earlier this year and is in readiness for the coming into force on 1 October 2015 of those parts of the Act which concern unfair terms. Consumers entering into contracts on or after 1 October 2015 are protected under the Act, while those entered into it before remain protected under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations 1999. The guidance is issued by the CMA as the UK's national competition and consumer authority.
CMA, 31 July 2015
Court of Appeal finds no unfair relationship
In this case it was claimed that an unfair relationship had arisen between the borrower and lender because of the borrower's previous credit history and the fact that her business coach was a co-owner of the lender. The Court of Appeal upheld a decision at first instance that, on the facts, there was no abuse of position, undue influence or non-disclosure on the part of the lender. It did, however, allow the appeal as regards the award of interest at the contractual rate of 4% per month finding that the Judge had misapplied Section 93 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Post judgment interest was payable only at the statutory judgment rate. McMullon v Secure the Bridge Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 884


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Thursday, November 16th
Thomas Beauchamp (Philosophy, Georgetown)
"Moral Problems in the Quest for Human-nonhuman Chimeras with Human Organs"
This lecture is on the ethics of uses of human stem cells to create human-nonhuman chimeras with human organs. It may smack of science fiction, but it isn't. It's happening and is a real problem in both Japan (which has banned it) and the NIH (which is trying to decide whether to lift its ban). His analysis is oriented to some questions NIH is probing (probably not very well) about the ethics of the research and about animal welfare. Dr. Beauchamp deals with some interesting questions in ethical theory about moral status, person theory, and the like.
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Chinese Jade ~ Ancient and Modern
Descriptive Catalogue, Illustrating The Most Prominent Pieces Of A
Collection of Jade Articles, With Special Reference to Sepulchral Jades
Compiled BY P. DE TANNER
Late Commissioner, Chinese Maritime Customs Service.
IN TWO VOLUMES * Volume II
This is the most comprehensive book on Jade that I have seen. Published in year 1925 the illustrations and pictures are really amazing. I was very limited in the number of photos I could take however I would be happy to send along additional photos upon request. Towards the end of the book there are 7 fold out pages which extend the pages by 3 3/4". These are all in color and the author organized them in groups of color such as (Yellow, brown, green or red and their combinations.) White, yellow, green, red or red brown and their combinations.) (Green, yellow, brown or grey and their combinations.) Brown, greenish, white or grey and their combinations.) And, White, grey, yellow, brown, red and their combinations.
The descriptions are remarkable. There are literally thousands of examples of ancient and (Modern) Well, modern for 1925.. Each page has the scale and description of the item on the left side and the PLATE (photos) of examples which are all numbered on the right.
There is everything from jewelry, figures, tigers, plates, dishes, various carvings of agate, crystal, amethyst, fish, frogs, baskets, flowers, bats, dogs, fans, fruit, birds, boats etc., etc. The scales are from 1/8 Original Scale up to 1/4 Original scale. The descriptions are absolutely unbelievable and each item correlates with the item. Again, I wish I could use more photos. The book is absolutely fascinating.
Books are not my area of expertise and I do realize that condition really makes a difference. I would judge this book as being in very good condition. There is some wear to the spine as you can see in my photo however it is still bound very well and no pages are loose or falling out. I believe just a bit of glue will remedy this. On the last few pages of the book there are some light brown marks, from age I suspect however it does not effect the integrity of the book in the least. The book measures 13" x 10." It is the best Jade guide I have personally ever seen. I have done some homework on this book and I believe it to be scarce. I was only able to find one other example. It was both Vol. I and II. It is being sold out of the UK and the asking price is E1450 per book. I want the buyer to be very happy with this book. It is being sold in its current condition, which again I will say very good however if you are looking for an absolute Mint copy of this, perhaps this is not the book for you. Again, please feel free to request additional photos. I have about 50 and the old saying "A picture is worth 1,000 words" is absolutely true. This really is the best book I've ever had. This would be a true treasure for the serious Jade collector. Questions are always welcome and encouraged.
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Perch bonanza
- Published: Monday, 21 December 2015 15:40
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Sun is on it's way up. Perch are fun, they are also good eating, but they are small, and you need a lot of them for a meal. Well, that is what they say. Here the perch are not that small. At least not if you know where to look for them. The trick is to find the ponds and lakes that are a little walk from the road. Most of the local anglers are lazy, and don't fish in other lakes than they can walk to. Perch and pike are common fish here, found in virtually everywhere, so why walk 500m or further to get to a fishing spot. Personally I would rather walk that distance and have a great day with lots of fish than to go to the regular spots where everyone else is.
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Airel (The Airel Saga, Book 1)
About Aaron PattersonAaron Patterson is the author of the bestselling WJA series as well as a two Digital Shorts 19 and The Craigslist Killer. He was homeschooled and grew up in the west. Aaron loved to read from a small child and would often be found behind a book and would read 1-3 a day on average. This love drove him to want to write but never thought he had the talent. He wrote Sweet Dreams the first book in the WJA series in 2008. Airel is his first teen series and plans for more to come are already in the works. He lives in Boise Idaho with his family, Soleil, Kale and Klayton. His daughter had an imaginary friend named She.
His latest book is Airel. You can visit his website at StoneHouse Ink or connect with him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1462837115.
About Chris WhiteChris White has an award for reading 750 books in one school year—from the 3rd grade. So yes, he's more of a nerd than Aaron. Chris loves history, Sherlock Holmes, and anything that's not virtual, like old motorcycles and mechanical typewriters. He recently celebrated 9 years of marriage with his wife, April, and has two boys: Noah, age 7, and Jaden, age 2, who inspired the illustrated kid's book series of Great Jammy Adventures. Chris is working on a short story called The Marsburg Diary that will further explore the prologue to Airel, and he is finishing up his first novel, entitled K, due out in 2011. Chris has a major crush on Audrey Hepburn, who is now dead. His wife is okay with all of this.
Chris' latest book is Airel. Connect with him at Facebook at www.facebook.com/whatnorthbetrue.
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Hey Neocities,
Thanks for this free Web space!
I like Kyle Drake's Neocities philosophy (as quoted from the Wiki) of facilitating the publication of small (byte-wise), basic web pages: "I want to make another GeoCities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored." So thanks much Kyle (although in a better world we'd all stand behind our words).
I supported Sanders, then voted for Dr. Jill Stein --despite that
her VP seemed suspiciously intent
on causing Bernie Sanders to lose critical support from the political left.
* My basic Web pages are being painlessly composed and updated with a good old 1999 edition of Netscape (version 4.7): a combination email, browser and GUI composing program, which you can probably find somewhere as a free download. (I don't suggest that anyone use it for email or browsing anymore, however.) I run it on a typical desktop "tower" PC under the XP (with Service Pack 3) operating system.
* I've gotten compliments from folks using old browsers and no complaints about compatibility with new browsers. Although they're composed at 800x600 resolution, I don't advise fiddling with your browsing screen's resolution. To simply enlarge the text, hold down your "Ctrl" key, then tap on the "+" key. (Use Ctrl + 0 [zero] to restore normal rendering.)
Our home computers have been off-line for years now. Paying Charter Communications^ $55/month for Internet service (alone) made me angry. (That's what we pay for water and sewer, and twice what we pay for 4 trash plus 4 recycle pick ups per month.) Since cable cutting we've been going onto the Internet via public WiFi using a new pair of Chromebooks --which painlessly update themselves and have proven bullet proof to on-line attacks. (We of course utterly avoid commercial transactions via public WiFi.)
On the up side of that: we consequently have no headaches about updating our old computers' operating systems, their anti-virus/everything programs, or the myriad applications which clamor to be first in line to suckle down updates/grades when they boot up.
So: when my Web pages look good enough on our home computers, I take them on a flash memory stick to where we find some public WiFi, then upload them to Neocities with one of our Chromebooks. (Actually: only one Chromebook remains. The other suffered the Black Screen of Death.)
Unlike a web page saved by (say) an old copy of Firefox --which places all the image and other non-HTML files into a sub folder ("name_files"), Netscape-4.7 simply parks everything at the "root" of the drive being used, so make that a dedicated flash --and that's how you must work on them. Afterwards you can copy all the files to a folder on the flash stick memory that you take to the library/wherever for uploading.
Again: if you get a copy of Netscape-4.7 for your own use, just make sure that you compose and save at the "root" of a flash stick of memory. Again: when you move the files to another flash stick, sub-folder or drive, copy them over from your composing flash stick/s. Don't open and resave them. (You might want to have a flash stick for each web document that you create, so as to stay out of trouble, but I use just one --plus sub-folders/directories.)
I find that this old HTML stuff has everything I need to express
my thoughts and link to those of others. I use no "frames", special Java
scripts, or even "tables" on my pages (although Netscape-4.7 can do tables).
I simply insert a GIF or a JPEG of a graph, table or chart when and where
I need it. Sometimes I build up a chart or table by using a monospace font,
so that columns stay straight.
* Even after working with (GUI interfaced) HTML and the Internet for 20 years, the scope of possibilities, the potential reach of our efforts, the connectedness we might realize --is still a "Wow!" factor for me. We share a privileged place in history, where we can internally and externally link/weave our words and images together.
* There's a sense of community with my imagined readers and potential^ responders. The Neocities counter indicates hundreds of visitors daily and Alexa ranks my (collective) pages surprisingly high.
^ I've had about eight responses over the past 20 years --four of them to Giant Bubbles. Perhaps nearly all of the "250,000 unique visitors" have been accidental "stumble-upons", click-throughs and back-outs --by the billion or so folks who are now on the Internet --all whilst looking for something else. ("There's that damned set of craigeroochi web pages again ! " :-)
* I do have a few friends and email circles, for which it's quite a convenience to simply link to a familiar image, comment or reference on one of my web pages.
* Then there's personal and spiritual clarification (as Bruce MacEvoy puts it) --that widely shared experience of not knowing if one is thinking coherently or usefully --until a set of observations, ideas or approaches can be bounced off of another person --for comments, criticisms, amendments and "reality checks". We need to see each other and we need to see ourselves, as reflected and refracted in our others. "Presenting" via these web pages goes a good distance in that direction, even with only imagined readers and potential responses.
^ Even though the fine print cites "Charter Communications" on my latest Internet service offer, the big print is doing business as "Spectrum". The printed offer states that my "address" is "prequalified" to be connected for only $14.99/month, but an earlier such offer indicated that becomes about $20/month to include a WiFi router. (Our Chromebooks are WiFi only). When I asked about these offers at the local Spectrum office, one representative said we'd get "means tested" (which usually means there needs to be a young student or someone in the house on some type of assistance --which is not the case here), but the other implied we wouldn't. When I asked how long that price would last, his answer: "until there's a price increase".


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Marzipan Assortments 14.1oz - 400g A...
Weight 4.23oz 16-20 pieces Clams,...
Weight 4.23oz 16-20 pieces
Clams, cockles, mussels, razor fish markets or scallops, are directly bought at the most prestigious fish markets in the fifferent ports of the "Rias Gallegas" Galician Mouths of Rivers.
Warning: Last items in stock!
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Daporta, selects and chooses de biggest and with most quality product during the recollection campaign (September to November), and therefore having its production limited.
Seafood is much recommended to be included in equilibrated and healthy diets to prevent different kinds of illnesses. They are rich in mineral salts (calcium, iron, potassium, phosphorous and iodine) essential for a complete nutrition.
The taurine is an amino acid found in molluscs, among its qualities we can point out that it reduces cholesterol, helping to prevent cardiovascular affections, and it also fights against diabetes.


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Serving: Residential clients
Scope of projects include: Medium & Large
Areas of operation: Blue Mountain, Caledon, Clearview, Collingwood, Craighleith, Creemore, Georgian Bay Club, Georgian Highlands, Grey Bruce County, Grey Highlands, Lora Bay, Meaford, Mono And King Township, Nottawa, Owen Sound, Southern Georgian Bay, Thornbury & Town Of The Blue Mountains
Areas of service: Decks & Fences - All Products, Grounds Maintenance, Interlocking Paving, Landscape Contractors, Landscape Designer & Water Features
Company summary:
The Landmark Group is a Landscape Design|Build firm creating fine landscapes since 1986.
Located on Georgian Bay's southern shores, we are ideally situated to serve discerning clients who seek our commitment to excellence, value and uncompromised service. As a result we have cultivated rewarding client-relationships and now successfully manage many premium landscape projects.
Rooted in honest values and unparalleled excellence, our creativity, passion and experience are woven into every project we touch. Combining naturalistic style with innovation we help our clients further live and enjoy their Georgian Bay lifestyle.
Request a consultation and set the stage for your outdoor living.


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Retail Space In Junction Triangle
Open a holiday pop-up space in the trendy Junction Triangle!
Located on a busy main street, this 250sq ft mercantile-style storefront shop is available from October 28th, 2017 to February 28th, 2018 {shorter and longer terms are available if needed}.
The store is currently licensed for packaged food, beverages and standard retail. Possible uses can include but aren't limited to a green grocer, clothing, vintage items, record shop, pre-made/frozen food* workshops.
**I may need to come in a few times a week for 15-20 minutes max to pick up things from the kitchen/back storage area.**
The storefront itself features two large bay windows and include two display fridges: one tall silver vintage looking coke fridge and one black grab & go fridge. A desk, two display tables, merchandising props and two shelf sections. The ceilings are tiled in brushed bronze with emerald green marble-looking ceramic floors. There is a two step entrance with a TTC stop just in front and other retail/coffee shops/restaurants within the block.
You can of course demo a new product and have some self-serve options available for those doing food but for the most part, this is not a take out food option as no food can be commercially heated or cooked onsite.
The space has a washroom, sink, microwave, stove top/oven and 1 residential fridge (all other fridges are for our catering operations). Other amenities included with the space are hydro, taxes, internet, lighting, refrigeration (display & concealed) and pest control.
Available Hours
Daily: $300/day
Weekly: $1,500/week
Monthly: $3,500/month
Cleaning Fee: $100
Minimum Booking: 9 hours
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Alcohol permitted
Catering allowed
Fridges may not be moved or disconnected. Commercial cooking is strictly prohibited onsite.
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Location: Palm Beach County, Florida
Completion Date: October 2007
Phillips & Jordan Role: Construction Manager at Risk
The L-8 Reservoir has a storage capacity of 46,000 acre feet of water that can be released in a controlled manner into the regional canals system for restoration under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, for water quality buffering in Southeast Florida's Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs), and for use as a regional water supply. The reservoir will eventually become one of three Flow Equalization Basins in the State's restoration strategies plan, providing 99,000 acre feet of storage for delivery of water flow needed to optimize performance of the region's STAs.
Work scope elements completed by Phillips & Jordan for the L-8 Reservoir project included levee foundation preparation and levee embankment construction; dredging of underwater material and placement into a structural fill; construction of return water canals, cofferdams, and an emergency Roller Compacted Concrete stepped configuration spillway; construction of a temporary bridge across the L-8 Canal; installation of temporary sheet piling, construction of inspections roads and associated storm water drainage, and construction of a bentonite slurry wall to a depth of 75 feet. The contract for the project also included site preparation for three adjoining land parcels which was accomplished by placing dredge material in various areas of the parcels to create more usable property for future development
Reservoirs • Dams • Levees • Waterways
Over the past 60 years, Phillips & Jordan has completed various water resource projects involving the construction for reservoirs, dams, impoundments, canals, and conveyance structures designed for water storage, flood control, transportation, power generation, and recreation.


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Zelda Sears (1873–1935)
Zelda Sears was born on January 21, 1873 in Brockway, Michigan, USA as Zelda Paldi. She was a writer and actress, known for The Divorcee (1930), A Wicked Woman (1934) and This Side of Heaven (1934). She was married to Louis C. Wiswell and Herbert E. Sears (actor). She died on February 19, 1935 in Hollywood, California, USA. See full bio »
Born:in Brockway, Michigan, USA
Died:(age 62) in Hollywood, California, USA