Hey, 

Professor Bass, Breen, Cormier, TT, cindy, Jacobs, Bremner, myaw, Robson, Webster, W, Matsuda, the Onion, gary, cumminsky, Raynolds, Takabayashi And the rest of you! Are you alive? (I don't think so.) 

Please respond if you are still breathing.

P.S. 
Professor, now that we have a good translator, you can speak Japanese like a native Japanese speaker.