#Sanriku coast

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Michinoku Coastal Trail by Walk Japan Pte Ltd

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日本のトリビア���とめ #0027

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三陸海岸 岩手の名所

三陸海岸（さんりくかいがん）は、岩手県沿岸部から宮城県南部にかけて広がる、美しい海岸線で知られています。その特徴と魅力を以下に示します。 1. 美しい海岸線 三陸海岸は豊かな自然が広がり、岩礁や断崖絶壁、砂浜など多彩な景観があります。特に太平洋の荒々しい波と岩場が見事な景色を作り出しています。 2. 観光名所 観光スポットも多く、中でも「旧田老村」「鵜住居崎」「鳥取海岸」などが有名です。これらの場所は美しい景観や自然を堪能できるスポットとして訪れる人々に人気です。 3. 海の幸 海岸沿いの漁港や市場では新鮮な海の幸が楽しめます。特に三陸の海の幸は新鮮で美味しいとして知られています。 4. 津波の記憶 2011年の東日本大震災で大きな被害を受けた地域でもあり、津波の記憶が残っていますが、復興が進みつつあります。 5. 歴史的・文化的な価値 三陸海岸周辺には歴史的な観光スポットや民俗文化の遺産も多く残っており、それらを巡ることも魅力の一つです。

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Sanriku coast Iwate attractions

The Sanriku Coast is known for its beautiful coastline that stretches from the coast of Iwate Prefecture to the southern part of Miyagi Prefecture. Its features and charms are listed below. 1. Beautiful coastline The Sanriku coast is rich in nature, with a variety of scenery including rocky reefs, cliffs, and sandy beaches. In particular, the rough waves and rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean create a spectacular scenery. 2. Tourist attractions There are many sightseeing spots, and among them, ``Old Taro Village'', ``Usumaizaki'', and ``Tottori Coast'' are famous. These places are popular among visitors as spots where you can enjoy beautiful scenery and nature. 3. Seafood You can enjoy fresh seafood at the fishing ports and markets along the coast. Sanriku's seafood is especially known for its freshness and deliciousness. 4. Memories of the tsunami The area was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, and memories of the tsunami remain, but reconstruction is progressing. 5. Historical and cultural value There are many historical sightseeing spots and folk cultural heritage sites around the Sanriku Coast, and visiting them is one of the attractions.

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[2024.03.11] Yuzuru Hanyu sends a message to victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Noto Peninsula Earthquake

(Before the interview, while arranging the camera and lighting, I asked Hanyu, "the three days ice shows just finished you look a little tired." Hanyu replied, "Although there is a reason for this, but as expected all sorts of thoughts come to my mind on this day.")

How do you feel about the day of 3.11?

It remains the same every year. I will feel pain and recall the experience of that day. Although many things have changed, there are still things that remain unchanged, and emotions that have not changed actually exist. How to say, every emotion is actually very complicated.

Do you still remember the situation at the time of the disaster?

Yes. I have never forgotten, nor have I ever thought about forgetting. No matter what I do, these memories come back over and over again. I think they will not fade away and will always exist in my mind.

Was it during practice when the earthquake occurred, right on the ice?

Yes, it was on the ice. There had been several earthquakes before that (*a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of Sanriku on March 9), so I thought that would be the end of it. At that time, it happened to be the holiday period after school exams, so I practiced during the normal business hours of the ice rink. When the initial shock started, I tried to reassure the guests on the ice that “it’s okay” and provide guidance. I have to say that I am actually somewhat used to earthquakes.

You went back to your home?

I walked back, but my home was not in a habitable condition at all (note: it was later judged to be in a completely destroyed state). Although I went to a shelter, it was closed and I couldn't stay overnight. So, I walked for about thirty to forty minutes to another shelter.

Have you ever felt the fear of having your daily life disrupted?

Rather than the fear of daily life being destroyed, it is better to say that there is no sense of reality at first, and that daily life is destroyed before I realize it. I spent four days in the elementary school gymnasium that was used as a refuge centre at the time. “Was this reality?” To be honest, I felt that I couldn't tell the difference at the time. In the blink of an eye, my life, surrounding environment, and the time I had experienced were all changed. So easily destroyed. So, in the short term, my feelings were closer to the feeling of "what happened" than to fear.

Do you remember when it started to feel real?

Everyone was thinking about the disaster-stricken areas, support was becoming closer and closer to people, and I was also allowed to perform at charity ice shows, so it gradually became more and more realistic. It's almost like a feeling that came to me. Whenever I saw videos on the news or photos in newspapers, no matter how I looked at them, they just looked like CG. I myself am not one of those people who actually lost someone close to me. The numbers were so big and so far removed from me that, to be honest, it didn't seem real to me.

You won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, and when you were told that you didn't smile at a press conference, you said, ``It's difficult to talk about the earthquake.'' Do you still remember what you felt at that time?

Honestly, if you ask me if things have changed since then, there are some things that haven't changed. Of course, I'll donate money, or if I feel like I can help even a little, I'll do my best to help. However, in reality, even if we provide support, nothing will directly change; for example, in the case of a major disaster like this, even if one person aspires to do something and does something, it will not really change anything. So, if you ask me if the hearts of all people in that area will improve after all, I know that it is honestly difficult to do that. In that sense, there are some things that have not changed since then. However, what has changed over time is that through the ice shows and actually visiting disaster-stricken areas and seeing the smiles on the faces of many people, I have come to realize that I have worked hard, and seen the results of my efforts, the feelings I want to convey, the way I skate, and so on, I was able to feel that there was meaning.  

You were also called the star of the disaster area. For a teenager, though, it feels like a burden.

I would say it was a heavy burden. When I was 16 years old, I would say it was heavy. After all, at that time, I was constantly asked about the earthquake, and even if I had achieved results in a competition, for example, I would be asked, “Well, do you have any message for the people in the disaster area?” No matter what I did, I was always asked about the disaster, and at that time I felt the weight of it all. The earthquake happened at the age of 16, at a time when it was easy for me to feel many different things, and I was told many things by many people, and I personally felt that it was very difficult. It's not like I became famous because of that, but as I achieved the results, I was asked about the earthquake in various places, and I couldn't help but associate Yuzuru Hanyu with the earthquake. To be honest, there were times when I wondered why I had to say something like this. However, because of that, I started to connect my skating, and my life itself, with the disaster, and I have come to think that it is one of the missions of my skating.

There are also people who feel afraid and confused about speaking out about the earthquake disaster.

Yes. The same is true today. No matter how hard we try, it is difficult to make everyone empathize. As an individual from the disaster-stricken area, I can be considered one of the victims. However, I did not suffer damage from the tsunami, nor did I lose any relatives at the time. Under such circumstances, I cannot face those who directly suffered the death of relatives and friends, and were displaced. The same is true today. Even if I want to simply convey that reconstruction is progressing, in fact, there are still uninhabitable and abandoned areas around the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, so I cannot make a blanket statement. However, I feel that I have always chosen my words in the midst of this conflict and contradiction to convey what I want to say.

You still struggle with the choice of words. This has not changed.

Yes. Fundamentally speaking, it’s not like I can get close to everyone's heart. Although I don't want to give up...how should I put it? Really, no matter how hard I try, no matter how much I want to be there for you, in the end it is still just my own one-sided feelings, and I can feel that there is still something like a boundary. In that sense, rather than words, I think it’s better to focus on figure skating. Compared to language, physical expressions such as figure skating that are not bound by language can allow people to see different things based on their own values ​​and allow people to think more.

Continuing from last year, the ice show "notte stellata" will be held in Miyagi Prefecture in March this year. You had a desire to do it around the time of March 11th.

This show itself was not planned by me, but I actually visited the disaster-stricken areas and told the people around me that even before I turned professional, I wanted to be able to support the disaster-stricken areas. However, there was someone who made it a reality, and in fact, it is still happening today. That’s why that person took into consideration what I had always thought and put it together to make this work. Thank you for making the show a reality. So, I'm skating with the mindset that I want to give my best performance here.

When you were a competitor, the World Championships were coming up, and you said that it was difficult to provide direct support. By becoming a professional, you can reach that goal.

To be honest, I don't think that my feelings for the disaster area or the time I spent thinking about that time has changed much. However, I think that my ability to actually take action has changed. I think I have changed in terms of being able to actually take action, rather than just thinking directly about the disaster and practice on my own without taking any action. However, year after year, I had painful feelings and various memories, but I never actually expressed them in front of people or delivered anything, so I think things have changed a lot since I became a professional.

A comment published on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake said, ``I think I am the person who has been supported the most by these words, so I am the person who knows the meaning and power of these words the best.'' So let me say this, “Please do your best.” What are the words that you want to convey now?

I want to continue to support them. It's no different from what I said at that time, but I myself received a lot of support, and in the course of various activities like this, I received support from many people, and there were people in the disaster-stricken areas who supported the activities themselves, so I really want to continue to support the people in the disaster-stricken areas for a long time. More than that, I would like to express my gratitude and support to the people who are supporting the disaster-stricken areas.

Do you feel that you are entrusting that feeling to the ice show you held until yesterday and the solo tour performances since last November?

With 'notte stellata', yes, basically. To be honest, I'm a little bit detached from solo performances, but no matter what I say, when I’m saying something or skating, I think that the earthquake disasters are something that inevitably comes with me, so I'm sure there are many words that come to mind in the story of ``RE_PRAY'' (a solo ice show performance). However, with regards to the earthquake disaster and 3.11, I am entrusting all my feelings to 'notte stellata', such as wanting to do something directly, supporting, and cheering people up.

You put your thoughts into the songs you skated this time: “Notte Stellata,” “Carmina Burana,” and “Danny Boy.”

In the first place, people's emotions are different depending on their values, and when it comes to the earthquake disaster, each person has a different sense of distance in how they deal with it. So, in my opinion, there is no general rule that says how I want people to think about the earthquake. So, to be honest, I don’t think I should tell you everything what I want you to think about Danny Boy, notte stellata and Carmina Burana. However, after seeing each of the performances, each with its own themes, after watching the performances in this time’s notte stellata, I want the audience to feel a sense of hope, and I would like to express my wish that, even if it's just for a moment, the people who were suffering in the disaster area, those who are currently suffering, and those who are actually suffering in Ishikawa right now, can have a moment of happiness. I've continued skating with the hope that those people will be able to forget reality and have some kind of happy moment, even just for a moment.

Having seen not only the Great East Japan Earthquake but also various disasters such as torrential rain disasters, what are your common thoughts?

Regardless of the severity or scope of the disaster, I think people’s grief is the same. During the Great East Japan Earthquake, we always unconsciously pay attention to some quantitative things, such as the number of casualties, areas and scope in need of rescue. We tend to think that we feel pain because it caused so much damage, because it was such a tragic disaster, but even a disaster like a landslide is very difficult for the victims. Therefore, behind the number, whether it is "1", "1000" or "10000", there is also pain and hardship behind it, which will not change depending on the size of the number. I wish I could convey that.

Yuzuru Hanyu and the earthquake disaster are inseparable. How do you want to face it?

Honestly, the way we deal with the earthquake, the way we interact with it, and the way we think about it changes every day depending on the situation at the time, and in fact, people who are thinking about various things after the Noto earthquake in 2024, including myself, may change their way of thinking when they think about 3.11 again. I think that the way in which those vivid memories are revived is different for each of us, so I can't generalize what it will be like five years from now, but as I go about my daily life and skate again, I realize that I must never waste that experience, and because I have felt that experience closely, I am sure that there are feelings and a mission that I can convey. I think that's why I want to be involved in the process, searching for ways that only I can provide support.

You have been fighting for more than one and half year since you changed to professional. How do you feel about your own evolution?

Especially when it comes to "RE_PRAY", what I want to express, what I want to show, including the world view I want to convey, I was not able do it alone. Everyone in the team is serious about showing these things. These real professionals have poured their souls into their creations. From this perspective, I feel that I am far behind. In short, this solo tour performances make me feel this way. After all, the concept itself is completely different from an ice show, the approach itself is completely different, and the way of creating it itself is completely different, so in that sense, I have to evolve myself. I must have the figure skating skills to match it, and I must have the depth of thought to match it. And more importantly, since I call myself a professional, I always think that I have to skate at the highest level in the world as a professional and a figure skating expert.

At the press conference in July 2022, you said that you didn't have any feelings of sadness about leaving the arena. Do you still feel the same way now?

To be honest, my true feeling is that there's not much point in returning to competition. What I have been doing now is something that is really unimaginable in competitive skating. I don't have any unfinished business in competitive skating, I've already won two Olympic titles, and in my opinion, I've already gone through all the stages and steps that I should have gone through. That's why I don’t see myself returning.

I would like to see Yuzuru Hanyu continue to reach new heights as a professional, and continue to master his expressive ability.

To be honest, professional figure skaters tend to pay a lot of attention to things like expression, but figure skating is a sport after all, so it is important to have a high level of difficulty, and to challenge the limit of one's physical strength, and sublimate the situation as an expression again. In order to present this, it is necessary to hone my skills and strengthen my physical ability even more. I think that this is a new genre of entertainment that we are creating. So, of course, I want people to pay attention to the expressive aspects, but in order to do that, I always ask myself how much strength and how much skill I have to put into it. Furthermore, while I certainly want to evolve in terms of expression, I want to evolve while always asking myself how much more skill and physical strength I need in order to evolve my expression.

Source: https://twitter.com/kyodo_DeepEdge/status/1777560764976660827

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Poster for  "THE DAYS", dir. Nakata Hideo & Nishiura Masaki

At 2:46 p.m. on 11 March, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake with a maximum seismic intensity of 7 (recorded at Kurihara-cho, Miyagi prefecture) struck approximately 130 kilometers off the Sanriku coast. One hour after this earthquake shook the islands of Japan, a 15-meter-tall tsunami swallowed up the Fukushima nuclear power plant in an instant. But that was only the start of the nightmare. With its cooling function lost, the power plant fell into a dangerous and uncontrollable state.

Over the course of eight episodes, this multi-layered drama faithfully captures a disastrous incident from three different perspectives based on careful research. "What happened there on that day?" This story seeks to answer this question based on the true events of seven intense days from the perspectives of government, corporate organizations, and the people on site risking their lives. This series is developed and produced by Jun Masumoto, who crafted massive hits such as the "Code Blue" series while also delivering powerful social drama series such as "Shiroi Kyoto" series and "Hadashi no Gen." The two directors of this series are Masaki Nishiura, who has worked alongside Masumoto for many years as the director of the "Code Blue" series, and Hideo Nakata of the "Ring" series.

The Netflix Series starts streaming in 2023. Only on Netflix

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Will natural disasters come when we forget? ~Torahiko Terada (Essay)

A giraffe pattern?

Torahiko Terada (1878-1935) was a Japanese physicist, essayist, and haiku poet.

As a physicist, he is famous for his research on the Laue group using X-ray analysis, but his true strength seems to be in shedding light on phenomena that no other physicist pays attention to. He is trying to elucidate the mechanism behind the formation of the horns in a sweet called confetti, and when the water recedes from a rice field, unique cracks can be seen on the surface of the drying rice field. He claims the skin patterns of giraffes may be based on the same mechanism.

I currently have a book called ``Science and Scientists' Stories: A Collection of Essays by Torahiko Terada'', which also includes an essay called ``Tsunami and Humans.''

In the early morning of March 3, 1933, a tsunami struck the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan, sweeping small coastal villages from side to side and washing them away, resulting in the loss of many lives and a large amount of property. took it away. A natural phenomenon similar to the so-called ``Sanriku Tsunami'' that occurred in the same area on June 15, 1896, repeated itself approximately 37 years after Manchuria.

Similar phenomena have been repeated many times, even if they remain in history. There are probably many more that have not been recorded in history. Judging from current seismology, the same thing will happen again and again.

This essay examines the process by which tsunami preparations are becoming increasingly looser. One is that the number of people who have experienced the damage is decreasing... In the quote above, 37 years makes people less prepared.

Additionally, even if people lived on high ground at the beginning of the disaster, their living areas gradually moved down to the seaside because ``they forget the heat once they get over it.''

Furthermore, even if a disaster monument is erected, it is moved to a less conspicuous location due to road construction, and fewer people read it...For these reasons, tsunami preparations have become looser.

天災は忘れた頃にやってくる？～寺田寅彦

　寺田寅彦（１８７８－１９３５）は戦前の日本の物理学者・随筆家・俳人です。

　物理学者としてはＸ線解析によるラウエ班の研究などで名高いですが、彼の真骨頂は、ほかのどの物理学者も注目しない現象に光を当てる点にあるようです。「金平糖：こんぺいとう」というお菓子の「角：つの」が出来るメカニズムを解明しようとしたり、水田から水が引く時、乾きかけた水田の表面に特有のひび割れが見られますが、これと「キリン：アフリカに生息する大型動物」の肌の模様が同じメカニズムが元になっているのでは？と

考察したり・・・

　今、手許に「科学と科学者のはなし　　寺田寅彦エッセイ集」（池内了：編・岩波少年文庫）という本がありますが、ここに「津浪と人間」というエッセイも収められています。

　昭和８年（１９３３年）３月３日の早朝に、東北日本の太平洋岸に津浪が襲来して、沿岸の小都市村落を片はしからなぎ倒し洗い流し、そうして多数の人命と多額の財物を奪い去った。明治２９年（１８９６年）６月１５日の同地方に起こったいわゆる「三陸大津浪」とほぼ同様な自然現象が、約満３７年の今日再び繰り返されたのである。

　同じような現象は、歴史に残っているだけでも、過去においてなんべんとなく繰り返されている。歴史に記録されていないものが、おそらくそれ以上に多数あったであろうと思われる。現在の地震学上から判断される限り、同じことは未来においても何度となく繰り返されるということである。

　このエッセイのなかで、津波に関する備えがだんだん緩くなっていく過程が考察されています。一つに、その被害を体験した人が少なくなっていくこと・・・前掲の引用で、３７年というタイム・スパンが備えを緩くするのですね。

　また、被害当初は高台で暮らしていても、「のど元過ぎれば熱さを忘る」でだんだん人びとの生活圏が海沿いにおりてくること。

　それから、災害の記念碑を立てたとしても、道路工事などで目立たぬところに碑が移動させられ、読む人も少なくなる・・・これらの事情で、津波への備えは緩くなっていくのですね。

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Sanriku Coast, Tohoku, Japan [OC] [1728 x 2160]

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Sanriku Coast, Tohoku, Japan [OC] [1728 x 2160] https://ift.tt/gdm1Uhi

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Acadia National Park in Maine & Sanriku Coast, Japan

Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences

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7, 21, 22 for the ask thingy :3

7. what color brings you peace?

I really love yellow, but especially a warmer yellow/almost light orange

21. if you could tell your past self one thing, what would it be?

there will be many, many people in your life who you will repel as though they shared a magnetic polarity with you. they'll tense up if you ever express wanting a hug, and your desire for closeness will be at best confusing to them, and at worst garner resentment. you do not have to live like this. there will be people who love you, unimaginably, in the same way you will love them. keep the faith.

22. what would you say to your future self?

maybe the sanriku coast tsunami stones aren't going to be our whole life, but. please don't abandon anthropology. please make a life for us out of studying our fellow people.

also: seriously, please don't ever lose that jacket

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A poem by William Empson

Aubade

Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake. My house was on a cliff. The thing could take Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row. Then the long pause and then the bigger shake. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. And far too large for my feet to step by. I hoped that various buildings were brought low. The heart of standing is you cannot fly. It seemed quite safe till she got up and dressed. The guarded tourist makes the guide the test. Then I said The Garden? Laughing she said No. Taxi for her and for me healthy rest. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. The language problem but you have to try. Some solid ground for lying could she show? The heart of standing is you cannot fly. None of these deaths were her point at all. The thing was that being woken he would bawl And finding her not in earshot he would know. I tried saying half an hour to pay this call. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. I slept, and blank as that I would yet lie. Till you have seen what a threat holds below, The heart of standing is you cannot fly. Tell me again about Europe and her pains, Who's tortured by the drought, who by the rains. Glut me with floods where only the swine can row Who cuts his throat and let him count his gains. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. A bedshift flight to Far Eastern sky. Only the same war on a stronger toe. The heart of standing is you cannot fly. Tell me more quickly what I lost by this, Or tell me with less drama what they miss Who call no die a god for a good throw, Who say after two aliens and one kiss It seemed the best thing to be up and go. But as to risings, I can tell you why. It is on contradiction that they grow. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. Up was the heartening and strong reply. The heart of standing is we cannot fly.

William Empson  (1906-1984)

Listen to William Empson read his poem (20:48)

Author's Note: The same war in Tokyo then was the Manchurian Incident .... When I was in Japan, from 1931 to 1934, it was usual for the old hand in the English colony to warn the young man: don’t you go and marry a Japanese because we’re going to be at war with Japan within ten years; you'll have awful trouble if you marry a Japanese; and this is what the poem is about.

Image: The 1933 Sanriku earthquake occurred on the Sanriku coast of the Tōhoku region of Honshū, Japan on March 2 with a moment magnitude of 8.4.

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TOKYO, Aug 31 (euronews.com) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers enjoyed sashimi fished off the coast of Fukushima at a lunch meeting on Wednesday, in an apparent effort to dispel safety concerns following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.

According to Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who was at the lunch meeting, Kishida and the three lawmakers sat down to a spread of flounder, octopus and seabass as well as boiled pork, fruits and various vegetables in the leader's office.

"We eat in support of the Sanriku Joban region. All seafood items from Sanriku Joban are full of appeal," Kishida told reporters who were invited to film the meal.

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The Days premieres today

The Days, the new TV series from Masaki Nishiura, Hideo Nakata, and Jun Masumoto, is out today.

At 2:46 p.m. on 11 March, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake with a maximum seismic intensity of 7 (recorded at Kurihara-cho, Miyagi prefecture) struck approximately 130 kilometers off the Sanriku coast. One hour after this earthquake shook the islands of Japan, a 15-meter-tall tsunami swallowed up the Fukushima nuclear power plant in an instant. But that was only the start of the nightmare. With its cooling function lost, the power plant fell into a dangerous and uncontrollable state.

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USO Caught on video by a ROV off the coast of Sanriku, Japan

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Tirol, Food Shop(Iwate, Japan) チロル★★

At the end of this trip around Nyuto Onsenkyo and the Sanriku coast, I bought a cheese cake at Tirol to take home (^o^)

Popular cheese cake in Morioka (^o^)

今回の乳頭温泉郷、三陸海岸を巡る旅の締めくくりに、チロルのチーズ•ケーキを買って帰りました(^o^)

盛岡の人気のチーズ•ケーキ(^o^)