The Italian African Police (Italian:  Polizia dell'Africa Italiana, or PAI), was the police force of Italian North Africa and Italian East Africa from 1 June 1936 to 1 December 1945.

Characteristics

Towards the end of the war in Ethiopia (late 1936 and early 1937), Italy created a corps of Polizia Coloniale ("Colonial Police") for law enforcement in Italian North Africa (Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI; Libya). The corps was created by reorganization of public safety units operating in Libya. By March 1938, it was issuing license plates. The corps was later expanded to operate in Ethiopia and the rest of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana; AOI).

In 1939, the corps was renamed Polizia dell'Africa Italiana ("Police of Italian Africa"; PAI). At this time, the corps was supplied with motor vehicles (including armored cars, light tanks, motorcycles, motor-tricycles, and automobiles). The PAI received about 1,000 vehicles and as many motorcycles.

The new corps was initially subordinated to the Ministry of the Colonies and, then, to the "Ministry of Italian Africa" (then held by Alessandro Lessona). Its first commander, from 1937 to 1943, was General Riccardo Maraffa, replaced for a brief period in 1943 by General Quirino Armellini.

The PAI had a reputation for discipline and high training levels, and for being provided with good equipment. Even after the collapse of AOI, the PAI were able to keep the peace in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

During World War II, the Italian colonies in Africa were conquered by the Allies; PAI in the colonies were captured. Some PAI were stationed in Italy, for training and administrative functions.

In September 1943, Italy surrendered to the Allies, but German forces occupied northern and central Italy, and established a puppet government, the Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Italian Social Republic; RSI). The RSI then moved the remnant PAI to the city of Rome, where they helped enforce RSI control and maintain public order.

On 4 June 1944, Rome was liberated by the Allies. The PAI was disbanded and its equipment was given to the regular State Police (Polizia di Stato).

Origin
The Royal Decree of 10 June 1937, n. 1211, established its organic regulations, for which it was a militarily organized civil body and making it part of the Italian Armed Forces, with functions of political, judicial and administrative police.

Organization
The force was a racially mixed organization, made up of Italian agents and many native askaris. It was located  in police headquarters of major cities like Tripoli, Benghazi, Asmara, Addis Ababa, Mogadishu, Gondar, or in small commissariats otherwhere.

The PAI training school was in Tivoli.

Part of the PAI personnel was mounted on Moto Guzzi motorcycles, with many armed with the Beretta M1938A 9mm sub-machine gun.

Strength
At the outbreak of World War II the PAI had 7,672 men, of which 6,345 were in AOI (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somalia) and 1,327 were in ASI (Italian Libya). The bulk of the force consisted of indigenous personnel who were trained and equipped to the same standard as Italian personnel. There were 5,146 indigenous personnel, 4,414 from AOI and 732 from ASI.

World War II
The PAI fought during World War II in the Italian colonies and in Italy.

Africa
During World War II, the PAI fought as a combat unit alongside the Royal Italian Army. For the garrison of the Libyan littoral way, at the outbreak of the conflict two companies on motorcycles and an armored car were  assigned to the Exploring Unit of the CAM (Corpo armato di manovra) Battalion "Romolo Gessi". They had little fortune since, after a sudden enemy attack, numerous soldiers were hit by friendly fire from German aircraft. The battalion repaired in Tripolitania and was converted into a mixed company. Several units participated in war actions, at Tripoli, Benghazi, Barce, but the details regarding effective employment are insufficient.

Defense of Italy
After the Armistice of Cassibile, the evening of 8 September 1943 the PAI participated to the defense of Rome engaging the first conflict with the Germans at Mezzocammino, near Castelfusano, with troops of Carabinieri, in aid to a garrison of Grenadiers of Sardinia. On the other side of Rome, at the same time, some troops protected the escape of the King Victor Emmanuel III along the Via Tiburtina, the King and the Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio; once accomplished the task, they were sent along the Via Laurentina. On 9 September the PAIRS, with the Bersaglieri and cadet police officers, forced for a while the Germans to  retreat from the Magliana area; however, after some hours, they had in turn to withdraw in direction of Fort Ostiense, which was later stormed by the Germans.

The commander and founder of the PAI, General Marraffa, was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Dachau concentration camp, where he died.

Salò Republic
Later, there was a reorganization attempt in northern Italy, with the opening of a PAI school at Busto Arsizio in the autumn of 1943. However, the troops were absorbed by the Republican Police Corps of the Italian Social Republic, and finally by the Republican National Guard.

Ranks
Ranks were as for the Italian Army with enlisted rank being the older style larger pattern of red chevrons worn on both upper sleeves.

Uniform
Personnel wore the standard Italian khaki tropical uniform but with a blue aiguilette fixed from the right shoulder strap to the second button down the front of his tunic. Personnel also wore a small gold PAI badge on the front of their headgear and small brass fasces pinned directly to their collars.

Motorcycle mounted personnel wore a brown leather crash helmet, light khaki breeches with brown leather boots and leather leggings to protect the lower legs.

See also
Carabinieri
Zaptie
Dubats
Law enforcement in Italy
Polizia
East African Campaign (World War II)

References
 Crocaini, P. & Viotti, A. Le Uniformi dell'AOI (Somalia 1889-1941).
 Girlando, R. P.A.I. Polizia dell'Africa Italiana.

Notes

See also

Defunct gendarmeries
Italian East Africa
Italian Libya
Military history of Italy
Defunct law enforcement agencies of Italy
Defunct military provosts
Police
1936 establishments in the Italian Empire
1941 disestablishments in the Italian Empire


Ouvrage La Séréna is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line.  The ouvrage consists of one entry block at an altitude of . Two more blocks were planned but not completed before the invasion of France in 1940.

Description
Block 1 (entry): one machine gun embrasure planned but not installed. A short section of gallery lies behind the block.
Block 2 (infantry block): two machine gun embrasures planned but not installed, no connections to the ouvrages galleries.
Block 3 (infantry block): one twin heavy machine gun embrasure and one heavy machine gun/25mm anti-tank gun embrasure planned but not installed, no connections to the ouvrages galleries.

The ouvrage controlled the Col del la Séréna.

See also
 List of Alpine Line ouvrages

References

Bibliography
Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., Jancovič-Potočnik, A. and Lang, P. The Maginot Line: History and Guide, Pen and Sword, 2011.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 1. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 4 - La fortification alpine. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 5. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.

External links
 Séréna (petit ouvrage du col de) at fortiff.be

LASE
Maginot Line
Alpine Line


Jim Furlong (born March 24, 1938, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former professional Canadian football outside linebacker and punter who played thirteen seasons for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League from 1962 to 1974.

College football
Jim Furlong played college football at the University of Tulsa.

Calgary
Jim Furlong played outside linebacker and punter for the Calgary Stampeders  throughout his 13-year career from 1962 to 1974. Furlong was a part of the Stampeders' 1971 Grey Cup championship team which defeated Toronto,. Furlong was also a member of the team that played in the 56th Grey Cup of 1968 and the 58th Grey Cup of 1970, losing to the Ottawa Rough Riders and to the Montreal Alouettes.

References

1940 births
Living people
Canadian football people from Winnipeg
American football punters
Tulsa Golden Hurricane football players
Players of Canadian football from Manitoba
Canadian football linebackers
Canadian football punters
Calgary Stampeders players


Ouvrage Col du Caire Gros is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line.  The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks at an altitude of .  Additional blocks were planned but not built.

Description
Block 1 (west entry): unarmed, protected by Block 2.
Block 2 (infantry): one machine gun embrasure, protects Block 1.
Block 3 (not completed): one observation cloche planned.
Block 4 (unbuilt): one machine gun embrasure and one twin heavy machine gun embrasure planned.

The ouvrage blocks access to the Col du Caire Gros from the north.

See also
 List of Alpine Line ouvrages

References

Bibliography
Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., Jancovič-Potočnik, A. and Lang, P. The Maginot Line: History and Guide, Pen and Sword, 2011.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 1. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 4 - La fortification alpine. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 5. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.

External links
 Col du Caire Gros (petit ouvrage du) at fortiff.be
 Infos, localisation et photos de l'ouvrage de Caire Gros sur  at www.wikimaginot.eu

COLC
Maginot Line
Alpine Line


MTV Unplugged is the second live album from Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz, which turns him into the first Spanish artist in recording an unplugged for MTV, and in this opportunity he resorts to Humberto Gatica's talent as producer and arranger. This album contains an inedit song, "Y Sólo Se Me Ocurre Amarte" dedicated to his daughter Manuela, the song "Aprendiz" that Alejandro composed for the Spanish singer Malú, a different version of "Cómo Te Echo de Menos" and a flamenco song, "Todo Es de Color" by Manuel Molina.

Track listing
"Cuando Nadie Me Ve" – 5:06
"Y Sólo Se Me Ocurre Amarte" – 4:35
"Amiga Mía" – 5:03
"Se Le Apagó La Luz" – 5:13
"Quisiera Ser" – 4:41
"Aprendiz" – 5:02
"Quiero Morir En Tu Veneno" – 4:30
"Cómo Te Echo De Menos" – 4:29
"Corazón Partío" – 5:00
"Siempre Es De Noche" – 4:50
"Toca Para Mí" – 4:13
"Lo Que Fui Es Lo Que Soy" – 5:24
"Todo Es De Color" – 4:26

Chart performance

Album

Singles

Personnel

 Cheche Alara – Director
 Tim Barnes – Viola
 Luis Bonilla – Trombone
 Chris Brooke – Assistant engineer
 Huifang Chen – Violin
 Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums
 Helen De Quiroga – Background vocals
 Txell Sust – Background vocals
 Justin Douglas – Assistant
 Brandon Fields – Flute, saxophone
 Scott Flavin – Violin
 Orlando J. Forte – Violin
 Humberto Gatica – Arranger, engineer, mixing, producer
 Chris Glansdorp – Cello
 Kevin Guarnieri – Assistant engineer
 Chad Hailey – Assistant engineer
 Ross Harbaugh – Cello
 David Heuer – Assistant engineer
 Harry Kim – Arranger, trumpet
 Audrey Morrissey – Producer
 Kenny O'Brien – Arranger, background vocals, digital editing, co-producer

 Scott O'Donnell – Viola
 Alfredo Oliva – Strings contractor, violin
 Rafael Padilla – Percussion
 Bill Ross – Arranger
 Kamil Rustam – Guitar
 Armand Sabal-Lecco – Bass
 Javier Salas – Photography
 Alejandro Sanz – Vocals, cajón, Spanish guitar
 Rafael Sañudo – Design
 Eric Schilling – Engineer
 Charlie Singer – Executive producer
 Ramon Stagnaro – Guitar
 Heitor Teixeira Pereira – Guitar
 Ludovico Vagnone – Supervisor
 Rick Valero – Guitar technician
 Javier Valverde – Assistant engineer
 Randy Waldman – Piano
 Pete Wallace – Hammond organ

Awards

Sales and certifications

References

Alejandro Sanz live albums
Mtv Unplugged (Sanz, Alejandro album)
Albums produced by Humberto Gatica
Latin Grammy Award winners for Album of the Year
2001 live albums
Warner Music Latina live albums
Spanish-language live albums


The 1994 Suisse Open Gstaad, also known by its sponsored name RADO Swiss Open, was an ATP men's tennis tournament held on outdoor clay courts in Gstaad, Switzerland that was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It was the 49th edition of the tournament and was held from 4 July until 11 July 1994. Sergi Bruguera won his second title of the year, and 13th of his career. It was his third time winning the event after in 1992 and 1993.

Finals

Singles

 Sergi Bruguera defeated  Guy Forget 3–6, 7–5, 6–2, 6–1
 It was Bruguera's 2nd singles title of the year and the 13th of his career.

Doubles

 Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez defeated  Menno Oosting /  Daniel Vacek 7–6, 6–4

References

External links
 Official website
 ITF tournament edition details

Swiss Open (tennis)
Suisse Open Gstaad
Swiss Open Gstaad


Rameshwar Nath Mehta (7 August 1923 – 29 May 2012) was an Indian playwright, director, actor and translator.

Biography
Mehta moved to Delhi in 1942 in search of a job after his graduation. His farce Under Secretary has been translated into many Indian languages, including Tamil, Malayalam, Sindhi, Bengali, and Gujarati. Mehta was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for acting in 2007. Mehta died on 29 May 2012, at the age of 88.

References

1923 births
2012 deaths
Dramatists and playwrights from Jammu and Kashmir
Film directors from Jammu and Kashmir
20th-century Indian translators
Indian male dramatists and playwrights
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Indian male writers


Ouvrage Col du Fort is a lesser work (petit ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line.  The ouvrage consists of one infantry block and one observation block at an elevation of .  An additional block was planned but not built.

Description
Block 1 (entry, not completed): two machine gun embrasures, never armed.
Block 2 (entry): one machine gun embrasure and one heavy twin machine gun embrasure.
Block 3 (observation): one observation cloche.
Block 4 (unbuilt): one heavy twin machine gun embrasure. Only an opening to the gallery exists, work was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1940.

The Granges-de-la-Brasque barracks is located nearby.

See also
 List of Alpine Line ouvrages

References

Bibliography
Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., Jancovič-Potočnik, A. and Lang, P. The Maginot Line: History and Guide, Pen and Sword, 2011.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 1. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 4 - La fortification alpine. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 5. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.

External links
 Col du Fort (petit ouvrage du) at fortiff.be

COLF
Maginot Line
Alpine Line


"Wildcat" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published posthumously in The North American Review in 1970. It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories.

In this story, the main character "Old Gabriel," a blind, elderly African American man, is afraid of a wildcat, which he can supposedly smell. He remembers a story from his childhood of a wildcat killing someone he knew, and does not want to be left alone for fear that it will attack him. The story portrays Gabriel's struggles with his impending death. Stephen Stam calls it a "terse piece, one rich with authentic dialect that rings true to a time when the educational gap between rich and poor, black and white, created a linguistic gulf."

References

Short stories by Flannery O'Connor
1947 short stories
Works originally published in the North American Review
Southern Gothic short stories


Third Street is a north–south street in San Francisco, California, running through the Downtown, Mission Bay, Potrero Point, Dogpatch, and Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods. The road turns into Kearny Street north of Market Street and connects into Bayshore Boulevard south of Meade Avenue. It was formerly called Kentucky Street in the Dogpatch and Railroad Avenue in the Bayview.

Background
Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants play at Oracle Park on the intersection Third and King.

The majority of the street is served by the T Third Street light rail line. It was the first new light rail line in San Francisco in more than half a century, and the first fully accessible line in the system. It is also the first true light rail line in the mostly streetcar Muni Metro system, as it operates primarily in the median.

In 2009, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed Third Street be renamed for former mayor Willie Brown. The proposal was not adopted.

In the 1960s, the downtown section of Third Street was known as San Francisco's "skid row", with most of its (then much smaller) homeless population concentrating there.

The street featured as a filming location in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, when Bond escapes from police in a fire engine by jumping over the rising Lefty O'Doul Drawbridge.

References

Streets in San Francisco


Danielle Ruth Fotopoulos (; born March 24, 1976) is an American soccer coach and former player. Fotopoulos holds the all-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I records for goals and points, and was a member of the University of Florida team that won the 1998 NCAA women's soccer championship, and also the United States national team that won the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was the head coach of the Eckerd women's soccer team until 2022.

Early life
Fotopoulos was born in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania in 1976, the daughter of Bill and Donna Garrett.  She grew up in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and attended Lyman High School in Longwood, Florida from 1990 to 1994.  While in high school, she was a varsity letterman in six different sports—basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, swimming and track & field.  Her high school soccer team won three Florida state championships during her four years on the team.

College career
Fotopoulos initially attended Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, where she played for the SMU Mustangs soccer team from 1994 to 1995. After her sophomore year, she transferred from SMU to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Becky Burleigh's new Florida Gators women's soccer team for two seasons. She suffered an ACL injury before the start of the 1997 season and returned to the Gators for her senior year in 1998. She helped the Gators win the 1998 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, scoring the winning goal against North Carolina in the final of the NCAA soccer tournament.  During her 1996 and 1998 seasons with the Gators, the team also won both the Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season and tournament championships, and she was twice recognized as the SEC Player of the Year.  Fotopoulos finished her college career as the NCAA's all-time leader in goals (118) and points (284).  She was the 1998–99 recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Soccer, recognizing her as the outstanding collegiate women's soccer player of the year.

She graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in 1999, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2008.

Professional career
Fotopoulos played professionally with the Carolina Courage of the Women's United Soccer Association, winning the league championship in 2002. She was also a member of the United States Women's National Soccer team.

Coaching career
Fotopoulos is married to former Louisiana State University (LSU) women's soccer team head coach George Fotopoulos. In 2004, she served as co-head coach with her husband at LSU. They finished with an 8–11–1 overall record (2–8–1 in the SEC). In 2006, she became an assistant coach for the Florida Gators soccer team at the University of Florida, her alma mater.  She currently lives in Tampa, Florida with her husband and their four children.  She coached multiple teams at the Tampa Bay United Soccer Club and currently coaches at Florida Premier FC where she is the GIRLS ECNLR Director.  She is also a partner for the semi-pro team, Tampa Bay Hellenic; her husband is currently the head coach.  From 2010 to 2022, Fotopoulos was the head of coach of the NCAA Division II women's soccer team at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida from 2010 until stepping down in August 2022.

Honors

Individual awards and honors
 WUSA All-Star team selection: 2003
 Second-team All-WUSA: 2002
Honda Award: 1998
 NSCAA National Player of the Year: 1998
 ESPN.com/Soccer Times National Player of the Year: 1998
 Soccer America Player of the Year: 1998
 NCAA Final Four Offensive MVP: 1998
 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year: 1996, 1998
 All-American: 1995, 1996, 1998
 SEC Tournament MVP: 1996

Team honors
 FIFA Women's World Cup (1999)
 Women's United Soccer Association Founders Cup (2002)
 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship (1999)

Statistics

College

WUSA

W-League

National team

See also

 Florida Gators
 List of Florida Gators soccer players
 List of University of Florida alumni
 List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members

References

External links
" Danielle Fotopoulos, Soccer, Sports Illustrated (February 11, 1999).  Retrieved May 6, 2010.
USSoccer.com, " Danielle Fotopoulos Retires from International Soccer," press release (February 22, 2007).  Retrieved May 6, 2010.
Soccer Times profile
University of Florida coach bio
University of Florida player bio

1976 births
Living people
Carolina Courage players
Florida Gators women's soccer coaches
Florida Gators women's soccer players
LSU Tigers women's soccer coaches
SMU Mustangs women's soccer players
Sportspeople from Seminole County, Florida
People from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
People from Altamonte Springs, Florida
United States women's international soccer players
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players
Female sports coaches
American women's soccer players
Women's association football forwards
American soccer coaches
Women's United Soccer Association players


"The Crop" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published posthumously in Mademoiselle in 1971. It also appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories.

In the story, the main character, Miss Willerton, is trying to write a book. She comes up with an idea about a man who is attacked by his wife with a knife, but then Willerton inserts herself into the story to save the man. Miss Willerton is then interrupted to go to the grocery store where she is disgusted by the people there. Upon returning home, she decides to change the topic of her work to something about the Irish.

References

Short stories by Flannery O'Connor
1947 short stories
Works originally published in Mademoiselle (magazine)
Southern Gothic short stories


The Brogo Reserve is a  nature reserve, owned (since 1995) and managed by Bush Heritage Australia, located at the north-eastern end of the Bega Valley in south-eastern New South Wales— south of Sydney and  north of Bega.

Features

Landscape and vegetation

Brogo encompasses three forested ridges, with granite outcrops, separated by fern gullies. Habitat types include riparian oak forest along the Brogo River, dry grass forest, dry rainforest and wet shrub forest.

Fauna

Mammal species present on Brogo include the sugar glider, common wombat and long-nosed bandicoot. The reserve is home to 70 indigenous bird species, include the powerful owl.

See also

 Protected areas of New South Wales

References

External links
 Bush Heritage Australia

Bush Heritage Australia reserves
Nature reserves in New South Wales
1995 establishments in Australia
South Coast (New South Wales)


is a Japanese manga written by Mako Komao and illustrated by Mizuo Shinonome (characters) and Reine Hibiki (scenario) which was first serialized in the now-defunct yuri josei manga magazine Yuri Shimai on June 28, 2003 under the title . The manga was transferred to Comic Yuri Hime, Yuri Shimai'''s successor, published by Ichijinsha.  The final chapter was published in the eleventh issue of Comic Yuri Hime, and three bound volumes have been released, with the final one on April 18, 2008. The manga has been licensed by Los Angeles-based company Seven Seas Entertainment and the first volume went on sale in January 2008, but the series is now on hold due to rights issues. Three drama CDs based on this series have been released, the first two under the title Koi Shimai and the third under the title Hatsukoi Shimai''.

Plot
During a visit to Tsunojo Girls' Academy, Chika Matsuzato meets the girl of her dreams, cool upperclassman Haruna Kizaki. Even though they spent only one short day together, Chika will never forget Haruna's kindness, and has made it her life's goal to study hard and get accepted into Tsunojo Girls' School so that they can be together. However, things do not go as smoothly as Chika had planned when she finally arrives.

Characters

A cheerful and energetic girl, Chika is shown around Tsunokamizaka Girls' Academy by Haruna, and decides to apply there in order to see Haruna again. She gets easily depressed when she can't understand Haruna's feelings, or feels she has made some kind of mistake.

A cool upperclassman, she meets Chika when giving her a tour around the school. Haruna uses her handkerchief to clean Chika's wound when she falls over, prompting Chika to promise to return it when she enters the school. Haruna was previously in a relationship with an upperclassman which did not end well, leaving her unsure about new relationships.

Chika's classmate and friend, she is always looking out for her. She is Haruna's younger sister.

Drama CD cast
 Chika Matsuzato - Mai Nakahara
 Haruna Kizaki - Saeko Chiba
 Akiho Kizaki - Ai Nonaka
 Touko Hiiragi - Romi Park
 Kirika - Rina Satō
 Miyu - Sayaka Ohara

References

Further reading

External links
Seven Seas Entertainment's First Love Sisters official website

Advocate article

2003 manga
Drama audio recordings
Ichijinsha manga
Josei manga
Romance anime and manga
School life in anime and manga
Seven Seas Entertainment titles
Yuri (genre) anime and manga
2000s LGBT literature


Live at Low End Theory is a live album by American electronic music producer Daedelus. It was released on Alpha Pup Records in 2008. Recorded live at Low End Theory in July 2007, it was mixed and mastered by Daddy Kev.

Critical reception
Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Although Daedelus certainly relies on a lot of computer wizardry when he crafts his albums, the producer proves that he's just as capable of putting on an energetic and dynamic live show as anyone else, be they electronica artists or not." Tim O Neil of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying: "It's casual, almost scattershot in a charming way that offers up an entirely different vantage on the man's music."

Track listing

References

External links

2008 live albums
Daedelus (musician) albums
Alpha Pup Records live albums


Victor Mitchell (born December 12, 1965) is an American businessman and former legislator in Colorado. Since 2008, he has been CEO of Lead Funding, a national real estate lender. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2006, Mitchell represented House District 45, including Teller County and southern Douglas County, Colorado. Mitchell served one term in office and did not stand for re-election in 2008.

In February 2017, Mitchell filed papers to be a candidate for Colorado Governor in 2018. However, he lost in the primary election to fellow Republican Walker Stapleton.

Early life and education
Born in Edison, New Jersey, Mitchell attended San Diego State University, earning a bachelor's degree in finance in 1988.

Business career
Mitchell's career centered primarily in business starting from the age of 21.

In 1987, while in college, he started a transportation business, and, over the course of his career, founded and served as CEO and chairman of five companies: Advantage Advisory Service (1989–2004), Advantage Cellular (1991–1995), Advantage Wireless (1996–2004), Motion Telecom, (2002–2004), and Ricochet Networks (2003–2004). After selling Advantage Cellular to AirTouch (later part of Verizon) in 1995, Mitchell moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1996 and founded Advantage Wireless, a wireless distributor. After expanding to 114 branded locations and thousands of independent retailers across the US, Advantage Wireless was sold to a private equity consortium in 2004. Advantage Wireless, Inc. was named "Colorado Business of the Year" by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce in 2000. Mitchell has also served on advisory boards of the Denver Metro Chamber and the Denver Better Business Bureau.

In 2003, Mitchell acquired control of Ricochet Networks, a data service provider that had suffered multiple bankruptcies. The following year, after turning its first annual profit under Mitchell's leadership, Ricochet was acquired by Young Design, Inc. Mitchell was named by the Denver Business Journal as one of their "top 40 under 40" for business executives of Colorado, and was a finalist for Ernst and Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year" recognition. Mitchell also returned to school to earn a Master of Public Administration degree in 2005 from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

In June 2008, Mitchell founded Lead Funding, a private lender to real estate investors, homebuilders, and developers across the United States.  He still serves as CEO of that firm.

Political career
Politically, Mitchell chaired the Douglas County arm of the political committee opposing Colorado's 2005 Referendum C, and was a director of the Colorado Leadership Program of the Rockies. In 2000, he attended the Capitol Conference in Washington, D.C., on behalf of U.S. Senator Wayne Allard.

2006 election
In 2006, Mitchell faced Democrat Linda Constantine in the overwhelmingly Republican district. Mitchell campaigned on his opposition to Referendum C, and on his support for education reform, including support for charter schools.

2007 legislative session

During the 2007 legislative session, Mitchell served on the House Education Committee, the House Finance Committee, and the Legislative Audit Committee. Mitchell expressed his frustration with the pace of educational reform as a minority member of the Education Committee, blaming the lack of substantial reform on teachers' unions.

Building upon his work with Project Lifesaver, Mitchell sponsored successful legislation to encourage the project's expansion, including $380,000 in grants to counties to provide tracking bracelets for cognitively impaired people and coordination with law enforcement agencies.

2008 presidential election

In 2007, as a state legislator, Mitchell was named a member of the Colorado Legislative Leadership Team for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Shortly before Super Tuesday in February, he was announced as a Douglas County chair for Romney's campaign. After Romney dropped out of the presidential race a few days later, Mitchell offered support for Arizona Sen. John McCain.

2008 legislative session

In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Mitchell sat on the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee and the Legislative Audit Committee.

After joining with moderate Republicans to criticize an executive order issued by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter allowing collective bargaining for state workers, Mitchell unsuccessfully attempted to amend a Republican proposal for punishing striking public employees to moderate fines; both his amendment and the Republican version of the proposal failed in committee. Mitchell criticized the Democratic version of the bill for not having sufficiently high penalties for striking state employees.

Mitchell has also proposed legislation to require students to pass a high school proficiency exam before graduating, and to enhance the ability of the state to inspect public school buildings by giving the Division of Oil and Public Safety the power to delegate building inspections to other parties, a measure which passed the state house.

Retiring from legislature
Citing business responsibilities and frustration with advancing legislation while a member of the minority party in the legislature, Mitchell announced in January 2008 that he did not intend to seek re-election to a second term. Carole Murray succeeded him in the District 45 House seat.

2011 Election
Mitchell formed and self-funded a campaign committee–Save Colorado Jobs–to oppose Democratic State Senator Rollie Heath's Prop 103 that would have raised both the state sales and income taxes to help fund education. It would have been the largest tax increase in Colorado history at that time. Prop 103 was defeated by a wide margin, 64% NO to 36% YES.

Personal life
Currently a resident of Longboat Key, Florida, Mitchell has three children, Lauren a New York City educator, David a United States Army Lieutenant, and Emily, a college student.

References

External links
Company website
Governor campaign web site

1965 births
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Living people
Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
People from Castle Rock, Colorado
People from Edison, New Jersey
University of California, San Diego alumni
21st-century American politicians


The 1994 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, also known by its sponsored name Miller Lite Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino  in Newport, Rhode Island, United States that was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and was held from July 4 through July 10, 1994 Unseeded David Wheaton won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 David Wheaton defeated  Todd Woodbridge 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–5)
 It was Wheaton's 1st singles title of the year and the 3rd of his career.

Doubles

 Alex Antonitsch /  Greg Rusedski defeated  Kent Kinnear /  David Wheaton 6–4, 3–6, 6–4

References

External links
 ITF tournament edition details

Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
Hall of Fame Open
Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
Hall of Fame Tennis Championships


The 1994 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Båstad, Sweden that was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It was the 47th edition of the tournament and was held from 4 July until 11 July 1994. Unseeded Bernd Karbacher won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Bernd Karbacher defeated  Horst Skoff, 6–4, 6–3
 It was Karbacher's 1st singles title of the year and the 2nd of his career.

Doubles

 Jan Apell /  Jonas Björkman defeated  Nicklas Kulti /  Mikael Tillström, 6–2, 6–3

References

External links
 ITF tournament edition details

1994 in Swedish tennis
July 1994 sports events in Europe


Columbus Avenue is one of the major streets of San Francisco that runs diagonally through the North Beach and Chinatown areas of San Francisco, California, from Washington and Montgomery Streets by the Transamerica Pyramid to Beach Street near Fisherman's Wharf. This street is home to several notable venues, such as Jack Kerouac Alley, named for poet Jack Kerouac, City Lights Bookstore, Vesuvio Cafe, Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (in an alley off Columbus), and Bimbo's 365 Club.

The street's original name was Montgomery Avenue, and was built in the 1870s. It was renamed Columbus Avenue in 1909.

References

Streets in San Francisco
Red-light districts in California
North Beach, San Francisco
Chinatown, San Francisco


The geography of Omaha, Nebraska is characterized by its riverfront position alongside the Missouri River. The city's geography, with its proximity to the river was a factor in making Omaha the "Gateway of the West" from which thousands of settlers traveled into the American West during the 19th century. Environmental issues include more than one hundred years of industrial smelting along the riverfront along with the continuous impact of suburban sprawl on the city's west side. The city's climate is temperate.

Geography
Omaha is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 118.9 square miles (307.9 km²).

Situated in the Midwestern United States on the shore of the Missouri River in eastern Nebraska, the Port of Omaha helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of Omaha is built in the Missouri River Valley. Other significant bodies of water in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area include Lake Manawa, Papillion Creek, Carter Lake, Platte River and the Glenn Cunningham Lake.

The city's land has been altered considerably by human intervention, with substantial regrading throughout Downtown Omaha and scattered across the city. Minor land reclamation efforts, along with dams further upstream, have brought dozens of acres along the Missouri into usage. Many of the natural variations in topography have been evened out.

East Omaha sits on a flood plain west of the Missouri River. The area is the location of Carter Lake, an oxbow lake. The lake was once the site of East Omaha Island. In the crux of Carter Drive is an unnamed sulphur spring, and located south of there is Hardwood Creek. East Omaha was once the location of Florence Lake, which dried up at some point in the 1920s.

Cityscape
Similar to many other Western U.S. cities, Omaha was developed on a grid plan with the city center at the Missouri River and Dodge Street. This intersection was initially near the Lone Tree Ferry, Omaha's impetus for founding; today the city's downtown surrounds the area.

Neighborhoods

An expansive city covering a substantial area, Omaha has many different neighborhoods. Dozens of small neighborhoods spread across several distinct areas in the city's core areas of Downtown Omaha, Midtown Omaha, South Omaha and North Omaha. West Omaha, Northwest Omaha, Southwest Omaha and several Sarpy County cities and towns surround the city.

Climate

Though located at approximately the same latitude as Rome, Italy, Omaha, by virtue of its location near the center of North America far from large bodies of water or mountain ranges, has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfa), with hot summers and cold winters. Average July maximum and minimum temperatures are  and  respectively, with moderate humidity and relatively frequent thunderstorms, usually rather violent and capable of spawning severe weather or tornadoes; the January counterparts are  and , though temperatures may easily fall below  or rise above . The maximum temperature recorded in the city is , the minimum . Average yearly precipitation is , falling mostly in the warmer months, as winter precipitation is more often in the form of lower-moisture-content snowfall, averaging  per season.

Omaha has had its share of natural disasters by water and wind. The city's Carter Lake was formed by a massive flood which altered the course of the Missouri River. The Great Flood of 1881 filled Omaha and Council Bluffs with water for almost a month, causing two fatalities and millions of dollars in damage. As many as 1,000 people were displaced by a flood in 1943, which sent the Missouri River, Carter Lake, and the old Florence Lake into homes and businesses throughout East Omaha. The flood of April 13, 1952, led to 40,000 people being evacuated from East Omaha and Carter Lake. President Harry S. Truman personally visited the scene of the flooding in Omaha and officially declared it a disaster area.

Several neighborhoods in Midtown and North Omaha were severely damaged by the Easter Sunday tornado of 1913, which destroyed many businesses and neighborhoods. More than 200 people died during the event. The Omaha Tornado of 1975 cut through 10 miles of streets and residences, crossing the city's busiest intersection at 72nd and Dodge. Three people were killed and 133 were reported injured.

Environmental concerns
A 2004 report named northeast Omaha "one of the most dangerous toxic waste sites in the nation" after the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed that more than 2,600 children in the area have lead poisoning. In early 2003, a large section of East Omaha was declared a Superfund site after thousands of yards tested positive for high levels of lead contamination resulting from a nearby lead smelter plant that operated for more than a century.

Natural disasters

In 1877 Omaha's Carter Lake was formed by a massive flood which altered the course of the Missouri River. The Great Flood of 1881 filled the Omaha and Council Bluffs with water for almost a month, causing two fatalities and millions of dollars in damage. As many as 1,000 people were displaced by a flood in 1943, which sent the Missouri River, Carter Lake, and the old Florence Lake into peoples' homes and businesses throughout East Omaha. The flood of April 13, 1952, led to 40,000 people being evacuated from East Omaha and Carter Lake. President Harry S. Truman personally visited the scene of the flooding in Omaha and officially declared it a disaster area.

Several neighborhoods in central Omaha and North Omaha were severely damaged by the Easter Sunday tornado of 1913, which destroyed many businesses and neighborhoods. More than 200 people died during the event. The Omaha Tornado of 1975 moved across  of streets and residences, crossing the city's busiest intersection at 72nd & Dodge. Three people were killed and 133 reported injured. Over 4,000 buildings were damaged and 287 were destroyed. In terms of damage, it was the costliest tornado in American history to that date, with insurance costs estimated at up to $1.1 billion (in 1975 dollars).

Notes

References


Eriogonum pyrolifolium (Shasta buckwheat, pyrola-leafed buckwheat, alpine buckwheat, alpine eriogonum, oarleaf buckwheat, or dirty socks) is a species of wild buckwheat. It is native to western North America, from British Columbia to the high mountains of California.

Description
This is a small woody perennial reaching a maximum height and width of about 20 centimeters, including its inflorescence. Its rounded or spade-shaped, woolly (sometimes glabrous), petioled leaves are located at the base of the plant; their resemblance to the leaves of wintergreens (genus Pyrola) gives the species its name. The wool on the leaves and petioles sometimes has a pronounced orange color. Clusters of flowers appear on stalks which may be erect or bend to the ground. The small hairy flowers are greenish-white or white to pink.  At certain times during growth and blossoming this plant will emit an odor similar to sweaty, unwashed socks.

Habitat
Eriogonum pyrolifolium often grows on nearly barren dry rocky soil in sub-alpine and alpine locations, including extensive pumice and tephra slopes on Mount Rainier and other Cascade range volcanoes.

Gallery

References

External links

 CalFlora Database: Eriogonum pyrolifolium (Shasta buckwheat)
Jepson eFlora (TJM2) treatment for Eriogonum pyrolifolium
UC CalPhotos gallery for Eriogonum pyrolifolium

pyrolifolium
Flora of California
Flora of British Columbia
Flora of the Northwestern United States
Flora of the Cascade Range
Alpine flora
Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


The following is a list of American football players that have played for the Miami Dolphins.

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 Mike Iaquaniello
 Noah Igbinoghene
 Richie Incognito
 Mark Ingram Sr.
 Mark Irvin
 Heath Irwin
 Tim Irwin
 Danny Isidora
 Qadry Ismail
 Rickey Isom
 Larry Izzo

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L

M

N
 Legedu Naanee
 Jamie Nails
 John Nalbone
 Tony Nathan
 Ikechuku Ndukwe
 Ray Nealy
 Joe Nedney
 Nik Needham
 Bob Neff
 Billy Neighbors
 Nate Ness
 Ed Newman
 Keith Newman
 Kendall Newson
 Robert Nkemdiche
 Scott Nicolas
 Rob Ninkovich
 Troy Nolan
 Tom Nomina
 Karl Noonan
 Rick Norton
 Don Nottingham
 Jeff Novak

O
 Nick O'Leary
 Cliff Odom
 Jared Odrick
 John Offerdahl
 Emmanuel Ogbah
 Jeff Ogden
 Alfred Oglesby
 Adewale Ogunleye
 Louis Oliver
 Muhammad Oliver
 Igor Olshansky
 Tom Orosz
 Ralph Ortega
 Brock Osweiler
 Louis Oubre
 Greg Ours
 David Overstreet
 Chris Owens
 Morris Owens
 Rich Owens

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Q
 Robert Quinn

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S

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U
 Jeff Uhlenhake
 Jim Urbanek
 Iheanyi Uwaezuoke

V
 Andrew Van Ginkel
 Kyle Van Noy
 Craig Veasey
 Alterraun Verner
 Olivier Vernon
 Marcus Vick
 Tom Vigorito
 Troy Vincent
 Rick Volk
 Uwe von Schamann

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Y
 Billy Yates
 T. J. Yates
 Will Yeatman
 Garo Yepremian
 Steve Young
 Willie Young

Z
 Dave Zawatson
 Rich Zecher
 Zach Zenner
 Jeff Zgonina
 Scott Zolak

External links
 Miami Dolphins All-Time Roster

References

Miami Dolphins

players


Centennial Tower  may refer to:

 Centennial Tower (Atlanta)
 Centennial Tower (Philadelphia), a planned but unbuilt 1000-feet-tall tower for the Centennial Exposition 1876
 City Center Building, briefly known as the Centennial Tower, Hayward, California
 Centennial Tower (Philippines)
 Centennial Tower (Singapore)
 Centennial Tower (Midland), a highrise building in Midland, Texas
 Centennial Memorial Tower in Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park, Hokkaidō, Japan


This Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) page is used for splitting purposes to prevent this list from becoming too large. The following list articles have been created for easier navigation among all-time PBA players:

Alphabetical

List of Philippine Basketball Association players (A–E)
List of Philippine Basketball Association players (F–J)
List of Philippine Basketball Association players (K–O)
List of Philippine Basketball Association players (P–T)
List of Philippine Basketball Association players (U–Z)

Specialty

List of Philippine Basketball Association career steals leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career scoring leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career rebounding leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career minutes played leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career games played leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career free throw scoring leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career blocks leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career assists leaders
List of Philippine Basketball Association career 3-point scoring leaders
40 Greatest Players in PBA History
List of Philippine Basketball Association imports

players


The 1994 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation () was held in January 1995. It is part of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation series held in Hong Kong.

Top 10 song awards
The top 10 songs (十大勁歌金曲) of 1994 are as follows:

Additional awards

References
 Top ten songs award 1994, Tvcity.tvb.com
 Additional awards 1994, Tvcity.tvb.com

Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, 1994


Jean-Paul Beaulieu (January 22, 1902 – November 14, 1976) was a Canadian and Québécois politician and chartered accountant.

Background

He was born on January 22, 1902, in Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Montérégie. He studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University. He obtained a license degree in commercial sciences from McGill. He has received honorary doctorates from Université Laval and Université de Montréal

Member of the legislature

Beaulieu won a by-election in 1941 and became the Union Nationale Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the provincial electoral district of Saint-Jean–Napierville.  He was re-elected in the district of Saint-Jean in the 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1956 elections.

He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1944 and served as Minister of Trade and Commerce, until his defeated in the 1960 election.  He was defeated again in the 1962 election.

Federal politics

He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville in the 1965 federal election. He lost in the 1968 election.

Death

Beaulieu died on November 14, 1976.

References

1902 births
1976 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs
McGill University alumni
Université de Montréal alumni


The 2007–08 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa and the Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball program in the 2007–08 college basketball season.  Coached by Todd Lickliter, they played their home games at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa.

Personnel

Schedule

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References

Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball seasons
Iowa
Hawk
Hawk


The following is a list of characters from the Japanese manga series Kodomo no Jikan, written and illustrated by Kaworu Watashiya and published in Japan by Futabasha in the monthly seinen manga magazine Comic High!. As of January 2008, thirty-three chapters have been published since serialization began on May 22, 2005, of which twenty-eight have been collected in four bound volumes to date. At one point, an English language version of the manga was licensed for distribution in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment under the title Nymphet, but the Los Angeles–based company ultimately decided not to publish it due to controversies over its content. An anime adaptation of the series with twelve episodes aired on Japanese television between October 12, 2007 and December 28, 2007. Since the animated version only covers events from the first twenty chapters or so, is self-contained, and had an original ending, there exist significant differences in characterization between the manga and anime incarnations of the characters.

The main story revolves around newly graduated, twenty-three-year-old teacher Daisuke Aoki, who has just landed his first teaching job as an elementary school instructor at . He is placed in charge of class 3-1, where one of his students, a mischievously precocious eight-year-old girl named Rin Kokonoe, develops an intense crush on him. Though he does his best to discourage her efforts, she nevertheless continues with her aggressive campaign to win his affections in spite of the problems that ensue that are her attempt to get closer to him. The situation is further complicated not only by the often complex, intertwining relationships existing between them and their respective friends, families, and peers, but also by the everyday life lessons they all learn together, as well as from each other.

Major characters

Daisuke Aoki

The bespectacled, good-natured homeroom teacher of 4-1 (originally 3-1) at Futatsubashi Elementary School and protagonist of the series. By his own accounts the product of a normal, uneventful childhood, Daisuke Aoki was an above average student and athlete in his youth and served as a substitute for members of the track and field club in university. While there, he fell in love with an unnamed female peer of his, but she married one of her seniors before he got a chance to confess his feelings to her. Aoki never harbored any resentment or negative emotions over this development, however, and was glad that she had found happiness with someone he believed to be a better man than himself.

After landing a position as a mid-trimester replacement for class 3-1 at Futatsubashi Elementary School, the freshly graduated, twenty-three-year-old Aoki quickly found several of the preconceived, idealistic notions he held about being an elementary school instructor put to the test by his first teaching job, literally from day one: his complete lack of previous experience as an educator left him poorly prepared for controlling or maintaining the interest of a classroom filled with unruly, disobedient students, inheriting a legacy of mistrust from the former teacher, Nakamura. Most significantly, he has to deal with the shameless flirtations of an eight-year-old determined to win his affections. His enthusiasm, positive-thinking, hands-on attitude, and emotional attachment to his students have made it difficult for him to maintain professional objectivity on occasion, often resulting in his butting heads with strict fellow teacher, Sae Shirai, whose distant, traditional teaching style is the polar opposite of his own. In his struggle to come to terms with the demands of his job and become a better educator, he has found an ally in his attractive coworker and direct senior, Kyōko Hōin, who has been an endless source of practical advice, teaching suggestions, and moral support.

Daisuke's lack of life experience has been his biggest obstacle as a teacher. While this fact has never discouraged his desire to help his students, it nevertheless complicates his efforts to grasp the hardships faced by some of them. His lack of experience with women has also rendered him far more vulnerable to Rin Kokonoe's sexual innuendo and Kuro's barbed remarks about his virginity than he otherwise might have been. His tendency to overthink and overanalyze things, obliviousness to female romantic interest, and his inability to read a person's mood have not proven beneficial, either, as evidenced by his ongoing attempts to start conversations or engage in discussions with Shirai in spite of her dislike for him.

From the moment they first met, Aoki's relationship with Rin Kokonoe has been a complex one. Though initially troubled by her actions and unrestrained affection for him, his attitude softened after learning that she was an orphan, and he has done his best to understand the reasons behind her unusual and outrageous behavior. Though they had developed a kind of affectionate working relationship — with Rin subtly using her influence over the other students to help him maintain classroom discipline, among other things — in a dramatic confrontation with her towards the end of his first school year, he was forced to acknowledge the existence of a strong attraction to her. While the initially undefinable nature of these feelings troubled him greatly, even after his reunion with Rin several months later, a chance comment by Mimi Usa led him to realize that he had developed a father's love for the girl (although he tends to have doubts whether this is what he really feels about her). This realization has increased his protectiveness of Rin and led him to become increasingly suspicious of the motives of her legal guardian, Reiji Kokonoe. When Rin and Reiji start to fall out, he decides to move in with them to keep them in check. However, he later moves out on the request of Shirai who saw him leave the house one night. In the end, Aoki comes to terms with his feelings and admits to himself that he does indeed have a romantic attraction to Rin. Though he has come to this resolution, he chooses to stick to his principles and decides that it is for the best to not confess to her and is fine with maintaining Rin's happiness until she is able to grow up and follow her own path, though it may lead to her eventually forgetting or moving on from their relationship and finding someone else. However, once Rin turns 16, she reunites with him and they finally start dating.

Rin Kokonoe

A mischievously precocious young girl in class 4-1 (originally 3-1) at Futatsubashi Elementary School. Born and raised by her single mother, Aki Kokonoe, for the first five years of her life, Rin Kokonoe was an affectionate, happy child. Though normally shy around strangers, she immediately warmed up to her first cousin once removed, Reiji Kokonoe, when he moved in with them after being orphaned, and accepted the relationship that developed between her mother and him. Her joy at finally having a complete family to call her own, however, was short-lived: Aki was diagnosed with lung cancer, and, while she tried to stay alive long enough to see her daughter enter first grade, died several months later. Rin, who had been folding paper cranes incessantly in the hopes that Aki would recover if she made enough of them, was at her mother's side during her last moments. The event was so traumatic that Rin became a silent and emotionless girl.

Rin, still in her stuporic state, entered Futatsubashi Elementary School, where she was grouped together with the two other "class misfits", Kuro Kagami and Mimi Usa, during a physical education class, which marked the beginning of their association. Though initially treated as a living doll by Kuro, the latter's attempt to remove one of Aki's homemade dresses triggered a reaction in Rin for the first time. Over the next two years, Rin's personality and reputation experienced a dramatic shift: she went from being silent and emotionless to the rebellious, de facto leader of her class who would not hesitate to stand up to adults by using her intelligence and exploiting her status as an "innocent" minor to outsmart and outmaneuver them. The bond between the three girls grew so intimate over time, in fact, that each became willing to do anything to help, protect, or defend the other two without hesitation. Such was the case when the original teacher of class 3-1, Nakamura, bullied Mimi until she decided to stay home from school. Rin, in turn, harassed Nakamura until he had a nervous breakdown and resigned his post.

Rin developed a crush on Nakamura's successor, Daisuke Aoki, on the first day they met, even proclaiming herself his girlfriend almost immediately after discovering he was single. However, she remained mistrustful of him, as she had become with all adults, and did not hesitate to coerce him into keeping silent about her involvement in his predecessor's fate. When a series of unrelated events, such as Aoki's persuading Mimi to return to class and treating the stray cat Nyaa with kindness, began silently attesting to his kindness and sincerity, however, Rin's attitude towards him began to soften. And, as it became to her apparent over time that his feelings for and dedication to her were unshakable — unaffected by the dark side of her he had seen or her sometimes questionable treatment of him and not borne of pity or her resemblance to someone he once cared for — what had started out as a simple crush blossomed into genuine love. As might be expected of a child of her age, Rin displayed her affection for Aoki mostly through merciless teasing, though her flirtatious nature and vast carnal knowledge invariably resulted in her antics bordering on sexual harassment. Her subsequent discovery that Kyōko Hōin was attracted to him as well, however, slowly drove Rin to commit increasingly desperate acts, which, following a failed attempt to confess her feelings to him, culminated in an emotionally charged confrontation that left her frustrated and depressed, Aoki questioning the exact nature of his feelings for her, and the development of a rift between the two of them that would persist for months.

Taking her "love rival", Hōin's, advice on how to get someone to like her to heart, Rin decided to try and earn Aoki's love with kindness instead of trying to take it by force. This change in strategy was part of what motivated her to volunteer for the position of class representative at the beginning of the next school year, a position which would both allow her to use her influence over the other students to facilitate his job as a teacher and make sure her peers could make themselves heard. While her faith in and dedication to him are such that she has been willing to push herself beyond her limits, even to the potential detriment of her own health, it has been revealed that two other, more sinister elements have served as the driving forces behind her actions. The first is Rin's awareness of Reiji's increasingly unhealthy obsession with her, which has left her in the uncomfortable position of balancing her platonic love for him as a father figure, her romantic love for Aoki, and her desire to respect her mother's memory and relationship with Reiji. The second is Rin's fear of her own dark nature — the part of her that tormented Nakamura, twice led her to blackmail Aoki with false charges of sexual molestation, and came close to seriously injuring her rival for Aoki's affection, Hōin — and that she will be consumed by her inner demons, something which she has slowly started to open up to Aoki about following their reconciliation.

Kuro Kagami

The short-tempered, diminutive classmate of Rin Kokonoe and Mimi Usa's at Futatsubashi Elementary School, who has been close friends with both of them since they were in first grade. Originally the stereotypical spoiled rich kid — egotistical, possessed of a superiority complex, and quick to mock, judge, and deride others — her involvement with Mimi and Rin began after the three of them, the "class misfits", grouped together for physical education class, during which the former two of them discovered that the latter's mute, detached state was the result of trauma from her mother's death. Initially, Kuro's "friendship" with Rin was rather warped, as she viewed the latter as little more than her personal plaything, applying things such as makeup and nail polish to her as if she were a living doll (and getting into trouble for it). However, it was during an attempted "dress up" session that Kuro had her arguably greatest impact on her friend's life: her attempt to remove a dress that Aki had made by hand for Rin prompted the latter to emerge from her stupor for the first time to protest the action, marking the beginning of her long journey on the road to eventual recovery.

While Kuro's attitude improved somewhat in the ensuing years, her friendship with Rin changed dramatically: the admiration and respect she developed for the strength of character that emerged in her friend eventually gave rise to an intimate attraction. In spite of this, she remains fiercely loyal and protective of Rin, a courtesy she extends to any individuals she considers her friends.

One quality of hers that has not changed in the intervening years, however, is her obsession with following the latest, expensive fashion trends, a vice which the wealth of the Kagami family, combined with her only child status and a loving yet overworked and absent mother, has allowed her to indulge in to no end. She often wears clothing in the Lolita style, sometimes combined with nekomimi ears and tail, and has claimed in the past that she purposely chose to attend a public school because of the restrictions on her wardrobe a private one's dress code would have imposed upon her.

Though Kuro frequently serves as Rin "partner in crime" due to their comparable levels of sexual knowledge and mutual disdain for authority figures and adults in general, their opinions differ radically when it comes to Daisuke Aoki. The open contempt she shows for him stems from the erroneous notion that he is a phony, i.e. that any praise he offers or concern for the happiness and well-being of his students he demonstrates is part of either an attempt to flatter kids into his authority or a facetious prerequisite of his job as an educator. That she also believes him to be both incompetent and naïve as well as a pervert, lolicon, and rival for Rin's affection have not helped matters any, and she has become determined to never let him live down the fact that he is a virgin once she learns of it. On the other hand, she has come to idolize Sae Shirai, viewing her strict, no-nonsense attitude towards children as evidence of sincerity, and has managed to cultivate a genuine friendship with her, albeit not without encountering a few bumps along the way.

Kuro's growing concerns over changes in Rin's pattern of behavior led to a dramatic confrontation between her and Aoki during which she, without betraying any confidences, stated in no uncertain terms her belief that he cannot banish her friend's demons simply because he is incapable of providing her with the romantic love she wants from him. Though heartbroken by Rin's decision in choosing him over her, Kuro has tried putting some of her animosity towards Aoki aside — or at least as much of it as she can stand to — for the sake of her friend.

Her mother divorced her father after he cheated on her. This is the reason for Kuro's general distrust of men.

Mimi Usa

The studious, bespectacled classmate of Rin Kokonoe and Kuro Kagami's in class 4-1 (originally 3-1) at Futatsubashi Elementary School, who has been close friends with both of them since they were in first grade. Quiet and shy by nature, Mimi Usa's reluctance to speak her mind was initially mistaken for aloofness by her classmates, resulting in their distancing themselves from her through no real fault of her own. This eventually led to her being grouped together with the two other "class outcasts," Kuro and Rin, during a physical education class, an episode which marked the beginning of a mutual association that would ultimately give rise to an intimate friendship.

Despite being the tallest, smartest, and most physically developed of the three girls, Mimi's knowledge of adult and sexual matters is, ironically, inversely proportional to her level of dominance in these areas: an astonishing degree of her childhood innocence has managed to survive her friendship with Rin and Kuro intact, and the clash of her wide-eyed naïveté with the sheer volume of sexual innuendo she is constantly bombarded with, intentionally or unintentionally, often results in confusion, shock, misinterpretation, embarrassment, or some combination of all four. While Daisuke Aoki has done his best to protect Mimi's purity of mind from Rin and Kuro's impromptu "sexual education" lessons, even her two best friends have, on occasion, stepped in to shield her from some of the world's seedier realities, such as lolicons, sexual harassment, lewd commentary, and underwear fetishes. Aoki, over time, has become something resembling a second father figure when it comes to Usa, and Usa has taken his support to heart and has a great deal of trust in him.

Mimi's biggest problem, however, comes in the form of her struggle to find her own voice and establish a sense of self-identity. While her shyness, lack of assertiveness, and reluctance to stand up for herself make her a prime target for teasing and bullying, her father was always there to defend her until a work transfer necessitated his living far away from his family, resulting in the loss of one of her few outlets for making herself heard. Her mother's preoccupation and preference with Mimi's older brother, with whom she does not get along, and her indifference (or at least inconsideration) towards Mimi have made things worse, as she has often found herself standing alone in the face of such challenges as dealing with the verbal abuse of her old homeroom teacher, Nakamura, and purchasing her first bra on her own after suffering much physical and social discomfort. Her mother's preference for her son over her daughter leads to neglectful abuse; when Mimi tells her about being approached by a molester, she shows no concern and even tells Mimi it was her own fault, and changes topic suggesting that she stop going to cram school and settle for going to a public school like her older brother. While Rin, Kuro, and Aoki have been quick to rise to her protection and are unyielding in their emotional and moral support, since most of Mimi's defining characteristics emphasize qualities about herself with which she is either uncomfortable or that make her stand out — such as her intelligence, height, lack of aptitude when it comes to sports and related activities, and unusually generous physical endowment for a third grader — she has become incredibly self-conscious, emotionally fragile, and increasingly depressed over time. Aoki even posed as her brother so that she could go to a photo shoot for a magazine, a rather ambitious step for her. Her picture was published but it seems that no one has yet noticed that Mimi is the girl in the photo. Even Kuro was not able to recognize her friend when she saw her in the streets with Aoki the night of her photo shoot.

Having fallen in love with Rin's cousin, Reiji Kokonoe, at first sight, Mimi received a significant boost in morale when he, recognizing much of who he once was in her, advised her to never lose hope that she would one day find someone who would understand and love her and encouraged her to not succumb to anger and hatred at the world like he did. Though prompted by Rin a short time later into revealing her secret crush on him — which Mimi tearfully did in spite of her fear about adversely affecting their relationship — she was surprised when her friend gave her permission to follow her heart with her blessing. Despite her deep feelings for Reiji, however, Mimi is far from blind: she has noticed subtle signs of his unusual emotional attachment to Rin, and an earlier incident — during which she saw Rin in an uncharacteristically vulnerable, emotionally distraught state just before the two of them shared an unusual moment of non-sexual physical intimacy — have raised her concerns about her friend's continued well-being.

Kyōko Hōin

The young, attractive homeroom teacher of class 4-2 (originally 3-2) at Futatsubashi Elementary School. Little is known about her past, except for the fact that she grew up with only her mother and her younger brother, and has been single since her previous boyfriend dumped her after issuing her an ultimatum: choose between her new teaching assignment or him. One of the first friends Daisuke Aoki made after beginning his new job as well as his direct senior, the friendly, busty, fun-loving Hōin has done her best from the outset to help him out by both offering guidance and advice as well as being his confidante. Though initially amused by the wide-eyed enthusiasm and naïveté with which he approached his job, Aoki's good nature and sincerity slowly grew on her and she developed a fierce crush on him, an attraction that was not diminished in the slightest by her later, accidental discovery that he is a virgin. Though she has made numerous attempts to initiate a romantic relationship with him, a combination of awkward timing and plain old bad luck combined with his uncanny inability to read people's moods and seeming obliviousness to her interest have thus far foiled her attempts, and she has avoided being straightforward about it due to the awkwardness of his being a colleague. Nevertheless, she remains firm in her resolve to keep trying until she succeeds. She is a bit more forward whilst drunk, managing to kiss Aoki whilst he was a sleep. The second time she tries this however, she ends up kissing his sister, Chika.

Hōin's problems with her own class mirror Aoki's own: she has had to deal with her own fair share of gropers, inappropriate remarks directed at her, and children bringing erotic manga to school. Her busty figure had given her the nicknames 'Boin-sensei' ('boin' being a perverse name for breasts) and 'Doin-sensei' (from the sound her stomach fat makes when she begins gaining weight) from her class. Her choice to wear a jumpsuit was, in fact, prompted by her students continuously tugging at her clothing and flipping up her skirt. In spite of all this, her students remain highly protective of her and once angrily banded together to drive Aoki away when they were under the mistaken impression that he was mistreating her.

Though her teaching style is the polar opposite of Sae Shirai's and it has led to (mostly unspoken) differences in opinion on occasion and once made her question whether her most casual style of dressing was detracting from her physical appeal or ability to be taken seriously. Hōin's relationship with her colleague has shown signs of evolving into something resembling friendship. Though she initially used her then-recently acquired knowledge that Shirai was the daughter of the board of education to manipulate her into cosplaying during the school's athletic meet while serving as one of the event's coordinators, Hōin later took advantage of that fact to help her get out of attending a teacher's workshop the principal was insisting she participate in. Shirai subsequently returned the favor by helping her deal with the belligerent mother in charge of the local parent-teacher association that had been causing her much grief and aggravation.

Reiji Kokonoe

Rin Kokonoe's first cousin once removed and legal guardian. The unfortunate product of a dysfunctional home, Reiji Kokonoe grew up without ever receiving any kind of praise from his short-tempered, adulterous alcoholic of a father in spite of his achievements, academic or otherwise. Both he and his mother were often on the receiving end of the father's mean-spirited criticism and vitriol. While he initially believed that his mother's reluctance to leave with him to begin a new life elsewhere and willingness to endure all the verbal and psychological abuse was for his sake, he eventually learned that she was doing it in order to ensure her own continued security and well-being, not his. In that moment, the lifetime of adoration and sympathy he held for his quiet, kind, long-suffering mother curdled into hatred, and he slowly began treating her with the same contempt his father did. Having grown angry and resentful at the world and everyone around him, Reiji began skipping school and locking himself in his room. His hatred for his parents grew so great that, when a freak traffic accident left him an orphan while he was still in high school, he did not shed a single tear for them.

Having grown alienated from his extended family due to circumstances surrounding his parents' deaths, Reiji traveled to Tokyo to live with the other black sheep of the Kokonoe family, his older cousin Aki, and her illegitimate daughter, Rin. Though initially just as cynical towards and mistrustful of her as he had become towards all adults, he was literally moved to tears upon learning that she had chosen to live her life as an outcast rather than have an abortion. Seeing in her the loving mother he always wished he had had, it is perhaps unsurprising that Aki's gentle, quirky nature and visible affection for her child eventually won Reiji over and he fell in love with her. Though still in high school, Reiji worked hard, and after securing a position at an accounting firm, confessed his feelings. While initially reluctant to return his feelings due to their age difference and status as cousins, Aki eventually entered into a relationship with him that was, by all appearances, a happy one. Despite the fact that she never quite managed to help him completely let go of the anger and hatred within him, Reiji's newfound family succeeded in silencing his inner demons and he finally found some measure of peace in his troubled life, one which, unfortunately, was not to last.

Though fiercely driven by his determination to provide for and protect his new family, with money being no object, Reiji did not learn of Aki's advanced stage of lung cancer until well after it was diagnosed. Though he managed to convince her to accept treatment in spite of her concerns over their finances, when she showed no signs of improvement after two months, he respected her wish to return home in spite of the knowledge that doing so was a death sentence. While it was hoped that she would remain alive long enough to see her daughter enter grade school, Aki succumbed to her illness well before then and died. It was Reiji who discovered her lifeless body after returning home from work one day, with a visibly traumatized Rin still diligently waiting by her side.

In the years that followed, Reiji continued to look after Rin, with whom he shared a special bond from almost the outset, as if she were his own daughter. In spite of her frequent objections about needlessly wasting money, he has done his best to give her with everything he had always hoped he could provide for her mother but never had a chance to. His over protectiveness of her has led him to, among other things, encourage her to wear less revealing, more conservative clothing and become extremely wary of any males in her life other than him. This has led, among other things, to the development of a rivalry of sorts between him and Daisuke Aoki, of whom he has grown increasingly suspicious and mistrustful, over Rin's affections.

Recently, Reiji's dedication to Rin has taken a more sinister turn: plagued by nightmares, still wrestling with the anger and hatred from his traumatic childhood, and unable to fully cope with his lover's death, he has begun showing signs of projecting his feelings for Aki onto her daughter and subtly grooming her to take her mother's place when she comes of age. Though he appears to be aware of his inner darkness to a certain extent — at least enough to encourage Mimi Usa to never lose hope and succumb to her inner demons as he did to his — it remains to be seen if Reiji will eventually succeed in dispelling his delusion that Rin is his only chance at salvation, redemption, and a normal life, or whether it will one day consume him utterly and end up destroying them both. There is some general signs that he might have an attraction towards Mimi Usa-chan. Aoki's efforts in reforming Reiji have been successful so far and Reiji has thus been able to control his obsession and has caused him to trust Aoki much more (though he is unable to admit it). In the final chapter, he is finally able to move on with his life and instead finds a new love with Usa whom he decides to marry and have a child with  when she becomes old enough, showing him finally being able to pursue a much better life than before.

Sae Shirai

A strict, by-the-book, bespectacled instructor at Futatsubashi Elementary School, who has gained a reputation as a fearsome authoritarian figure among students and staff alike. As the daughter of two teachers — one of whom has since gone on to become the chief of the board of education — it might come as little surprise that Sae Shirai would become one herself were it not for the fact that she hates children and eschews social interaction. Quiet and studious in her youth, Shirai's years of exposure to her mother's endless criticism combined with being written off as gloomy, serious, and plain by her peers without a second thought caused her to become embittered, asocial, and resentful of the world. Not only did this result in her adopting a highly disciplined, traditional, no-nonsense teaching style — one which clashes horribly with the enthusiastic, positive-thinking approach of Daisuke Aoki and causes them to butt heads on just about every topic imaginable — it all but eliminated any semblance of a social life as she has neither had sexual relations nor even dated anyone despite being nearly thirty years old, the former of which remains a tremendous bone of contention for her.

After exploding at Kuro Kagami for mocking Aoki for being a virgin (unintentionally betraying her own status as one to him in the process), Shirai was completely taken aback when the young girl approached her a short time later, offering her not only fashion tips and suggestions on improving her appearance but also professing great interest in being her friend by dubbing her "Shiro-chan". Though annoyed by the sudden, newfound, and unwanted attention she was receiving, she nevertheless remained remarkably tolerant of it and restrained by her standards. When asked for advice by Kuro on what the best approach for dealing with her unrequited love for Rin would be, Shirai hurt the young girl's feelings by unintentionally implying that her lesbian attraction was somehow less than normal. Only later, following a series of unrelated events in her own personal life, did she realize the full extent of what she had inadvertently done and what a poor judge of normalcy she, of all people, was.

Seeking to make amends by wearing a white hairpin previously given to her as a gift by Kuro, Shirai was privately flattered when her admirer demonstrated her acceptance of the apologetic gesture by beating up a male student who made a disparaging remark about her appearance, the event marking something of a turning point for her. Though hardly transformed into a social animal by the experience, Shirai has shown signs of softening somewhat, once to the extent where she broke her own rules concerning physical contact between students and teachers by offering a comforting hug to a heartbroken Kuro at an athletic meet. She has also recently started rethinking certain aspects of her life — most notably how much she has become like the mother she so loathes — and repaid Hōin's favor of getting her out of a teacher's workshop by helping her deal with the belligerent mother in charge of the local parent-teacher association, achieving some closure and inner peace of her own in the process.

Aki Kokonoe

Rin's late mother and Reiji's older cousin. Abandoned by her boyfriend when she became pregnant and refused to have an abortion, Aki Kokonoe chose to carry her child to term and undertake the difficult task of raising her young daughter on her own. Despite the fact that her decision to become a single mother had turned her into the black sheep of the family, the kind-hearted Aki never harbored any resentment towards them or her child's father, believing it better to forgive and forget than risk living a life consumed by anger and hatred.

When Rin was five years old, Aki welcomed her then-recently orphaned younger cousin, Reiji, into her home with open arms. Though initially just as cynical towards and mistrustful of her as he had become towards all adults, her gentle, quirky nature and visible affection for her child soon won him over, so much so, in fact, that he fell in love with her. Though initially reluctant to return his feelings due to their age difference (13 years older than Reiji) and status as cousins, she eventually entered into a relationship with him that was, by all appearances, a happy one, and the three of them became a family.

A short time later, however, Aki was diagnosed with Stage 2 lung cancer during what was supposed to be a routine medical exam, an illness that was later on revealed to have been complicated further by Rin's birth, which was the entire reason why she was pushed by her boyfriend to abort Rin in the first place. Upon learning that the amount of money needed to keep her alive for several months could be used to provide for Rin for many years to come, she decided to make the second great sacrifice of her life for the sake of her child by foregoing treatment in order to be able to financially support her daughter and kept her illness secret from everyone for some time. When her situation finally became known to Reiji and she conceded to treatment in light of the ability to financially contribute to their household he had since gained, her cancer proved to be far too aggressive and advanced to deal with. After two months with no improvement, Aki's request that she be allowed to go home was granted. While she hoped she could stay alive long enough to see Rin enter grade school, Aki succumbed to her illness well before then and died, her daughter having remained at her side until the very end.

Though she died more than two years before the opening of the series, Aki remains very much alive in the hearts of Reiji and Rin, whose memories of her continue to influence their lives and shape their actions, for better or worse.

Minor characters

Nakamura

The original homeroom teacher for grade three, class one at Futatsubashi Elementary School and Daisuke Aoki's direct predecessor, about whom not much has been revealed. While he managed to maintain a far greater degree of control, discipline, and order in his classroom than his successor, he lacked the latter's good nature. Nakamura's severe, open, verbal and emotional abuse of Mimi Usa in front of the other students during class was directly responsible for the latter's decision to quit school in order to protect herself, something which so outraged Rin Kokonoe that she retaliated by scribbling an unending stream of hateful and abusive messages in his workbooks which mirrored his own hurtful remarks to her friend. His inability to resolve the issue by convincing Mimi to return combined with Rin's personal vendetta against him caused his mental and physical health to deteriorate to the point where he finally decided to quit his position.

Nyaa

A black and white stray tomcat whom Rin Kokonoe started looking after he wandered onto the Futatsubashi Elementary School grounds, emaciated and starving, at around the time of Daisuke Aoki's initial arrival. Having apparently suffered abuse at the hands of humans before, he is extremely mistrustful of them — as evidenced by his reaction towards Daisuke Aoki — and Rin has gone out of her way to prove to him that not all people are bad.

Though Aoki assumed responsibility for taking care of him during summer vacation, Nyaa had not warmed up to him at all in the interim and was still, quite literally, biting the hand that fed him.

Kenta Oyajima

An older male teacher at Futatsubashi Elementary School. Oyajima has an easygoing outlook on life and teaching and frequently dispenses advice and words of wisdom to his younger, more easily excitable colleagues. Rarely flustered, he is the senior of Sae Shirai and has a visible soft spot for her, often offering insight to Hōin concerning their mutual colleague's behavior, background, and mindset in his usual, laidback style without coming off as defensive or biased. His good working relationship with Shirai also allows him to present her with alternative points of view or make thought-provoking observational comments in a gentle, nonconfrontational manner without either one of them getting worked up in the process. He later confesses to Shirai, though as she is currently unable to accept his feelings, he settles with a promise that, once a day, they will talk about something unrelated to school work.

The anime incarnation of Oyajima has stated that he is a first grade teacher, though he has not specified which class. Also it is stated that he has a daughter who has recently become a pet owner.

Chuck

Rin Kokonoe's giant teddy bear, whom she has had since she was a little girl. Though not alive, he nevertheless is important, having served as, among other things, a stand-in for Daisuke Aoki for Rin to practice her seduction and kissing techniques on and a strategically placed prop in a naughty photo she sent to him as a Christmas present using her cell phone.

In a non-canonical context, Chuck is something of an unofficial mascot for the series: he appears on splash pages and standalone illustrations in the manga and has made cameos in the eyecatches and animated censorship panels in the anime.

Nogita

A short-haired, bespectacled woman who was Rin Kokonoe, Kuro Kagami, and Mimi Usa's original homeroom teacher in class 1-1 when they first began attending Futatsubashi Elementary School two years before the opening of the series. Though she often had her hands full dealing with the three girls' antics, she was visibly relieved and moved with joy when Rin, as a benevolent, albeit unexpected, result of Kuro's attempt at playing "dress-up", finally emerged from the stuporic state she had been in since her mother's death and began speaking to and interacting with others.

Though seen only briefly in flashbacks in the manga in Class Period 18, and Chapter 60, Nogita made a somewhat more prominent appearance in the anime episode equivalent to that chapter, Class Period 8: Hug Me Tightly, where she was first referred to by name. There, she was revealed to have been an extremely diligent instructor who was close to her students and had been a teacher at Futatsubashi Elementary School until the previous year, having apparently retired after getting married onstage in a glamorous wedding. She was something of a rival for Sae Shirai, with whom she disagreed with on many issues, and offered some friendly advice and encouragement to her successor, Daisuke Aoki, in regards to appropriate levels of physical contact between teachers and students.

Chika Aoki

Chika is Daisuke's younger sister, who resides in his hometown as a kindergarten teacher. Her personality is a direct contrast to Daisuke's, being very outgoing and social as opposed to his timid and quiet demeanor. She generally likes to tease her older brother, but is generally kind to the other girls, if a little forceful whilst fitting Mimi with a tampon. She is rather protective of Daisuke, so she is initially hostile towards Kyōko. She later gets along with her, at least until one night when they both got drunk and Kyōko kisses Chika thinking she was Daisuke.

See also
List of Kodomo no Jikan chapters
List of Kodomo no Jikan episodes

Notes and references

Kodomo no Jikan


Dexter Wayne Lehtinen (born March 23, 1946) is an American attorney, former politician, interim U.S. Attorney for south Florida, and a law instructor. He is the husband of former U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Early life and education
Lehtinen is of Finnish ancestry. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1968 magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then graduated with an MA from Columbia University and an MBA in 1974. In 1975, he graduated first in his class from Stanford Law School. At the University of Miami, he was the Commander of the Corps of Cadets, president of the Florida Federation of College  Republicans, and was inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest owner bestowed at the university.

He joined the United States Army as an officer. He received a Purple Heart in 1971 for severe facial injuries during the Vietnam War.

Florida legislature

In 1980, Lehtinen ran against incumbent Democratic State Representative Gene Flinn in a multi-member southwest Dade County district. Lehtinen came in first in the Democratic primary, garnering 44% of the vote against Flinn and another candidate. In the September primary runoff, Lehtinen defeated Flinn, 64 to 36%. In the general election, he narrowly defeated Republican nominee Chris Ferrer with 51.3% of the vote. In 1982, he won reelection in the newly redrawn 118th district—encompassing parts of rural southwestern Dade and areas stretching from Homestead to Richmond Heights—with 65%. In 1984, he won reelection unopposed.

In February 1985, he left the Democratic Party to become a Republican. This was only a few months before he married Republican State Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Lehtinen and his wife were both elected in 1986 to the Florida Senate; he was elected in District 40—which included large parts of western and southwestern Dade, including parts of Coral Gables—and she was elected in neighboring District 34.

U.S. Attorney for South Florida
In June 1988, Lehtinen resigned his Florida Senate seat after U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese took a "high-risk gamble" in naming him to succeed Leon Kellner as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. His three biggest cases during his 3 ½ year tenure were the cases of former Panama leader Manuel Noriega, religious sect leader Yahweh ben Yahweh, and Hialeah Mayor Raúl L. Martínez.

The U.S. Senate refused to act on his nomination and Lehtinen on January 13, 1992, called a news conference to announce his resignation. Lehtinen said his departure had nothing to do with a well-publicized internal Justice Department investigation of him because of the Martinez case. The Justice Department opened a case against Lehtinen on charges of misconduct and potential conflicts of interest for investigating "a potential political rival of his wife."

Post U.S. Attorney career
Lehtinen served as the general counsel for the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida Indians until May 2010. In November 2011, the same tribe filed a lawsuit against Lehtinen for alleged malpractice regarding tax advice. In return, Lehtinen filed suit and received judgment against the Tribe.  He also served as an adjunct instructor at University of Miami School of Law and at Florida International University.

Personal life
Lehtinen married then-Florida State Representative Ileana Ros on June 9, 1984, while they were both serving in the Florida House of Representatives. They have two children, Rodrigo and Patricia Marie. He was previously married to Donna L. Stevenson and had two children with her, Katharine Natasha and Douglas Hooper.

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