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Today's Sports Stat: April 30, 2018
By Jerry Tapp on April 30, 2018 | 1 Comment
After being swept by the Chicago Cubs in a four-game series this past weekend, we have to ask:
Are the Cubs the Brewers "kryptonite"?
In fact, if we add the St. Louis Cardinals to the discussion, you can make a good case that if the Brew Crew wants to make a serious charge at a playoff spot this season, they better figure out a way to beat these two division opponents.
Let's go back to 2016. Since then, the Brewers are 38-52 against the Cubs and Cardinals, a winning percentage of .422. From the 2016 season through games of April 29, 2018, the Brewers are 18-28 versus the Cubs (.391 winning percentage) and 20-24 (.455) versus the Cards.
Compare that to all other teams since 2016… the Brewers are 137-126 (.521) since 2016 in games against all other MLB teams other than the Cubs and Cards. That's a difference of about 100 percentage points (99 to be exact)… .422 versus the Cubs and Cards and .521 against all other teams.
This season is no different. MLB standings show the Brewers at 16-13 this season. Ten of their 13 losses this year have come to the Cubs or Cards (1-7 versus the Cubs, 3-3 versus the Cards). That's 4-10 versus the Cubs and Cards (.286 winning percentage) and 12-3 (.800) versus the rest of the league.
Any way you look at it, it's a disturbing trend that the Brewers will need to figure out if they hope to challenge for a post-season spot in 2018.
Posted in: Baseball	| Tagged: Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, St. Louis Cardinals
Today's Sports Stat: March 24, 2018
By Jerry Tapp on March 24, 2018 | Leave a comment
In less than a week the 2018 MLB regular season begins. Getting off to a good start can be very important for teams looking for success; in fact, just playing .500 or above in April is an important key to possibly making a post-season run and even a World Series title. Consider these three stats:
Of the eight teams that won the World Series since 2010, seven had a winning percentage above .570 in April the year they won the championship.
Of the 16 teams that won the A.L. or N.L. pennant since 2010, 14 had an April winning percentage above .500 that season.
Of the 76 teams that made the playoffs since 2010, 56 of them (just under 74%) had an April winning percentage above .500.
Two teams in particular seem to have this April thing figured out, especially this decade. The New York Yankees are the only team of the 30 MLB teams to have a winning percentage above .500 in seven of the eight Aprils since 2010. Their only sub .500 April this decade was an 8-14 record (.364) in 2016.
(Note: For the sake of this article, regular season games played in March are considered April games.)
Over in the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals have been above .500 in six of the eight Aprils since 2010. Even more impressive is that in the two seasons they were not above .500 this decade, 2016 and 2017, they were 12-12, exactly .500 in those two Aprils.
Here's a look at how many Aprils each of the 30 MLB teams have been above .500 since 2010.
7: Yankees
6: Cardinals
5: Mets, Nationals, Rangers, Rockies, Royals, Tigers
4: Dodgers, Giants, Orioles, Rays, Red Sox
3: Angels, A's, Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Indians, Phillies, Pirates, Reds
2: Astros, Brewers, Marlins, Twins, White Sox
1: Blue Jays, Mariners, Padres
For the record, the Yankees have the best April record over the past eight seasons. They were 110-77 (.588) from 2010-17. They are followed by the Cardinals at 114-82 (.582) and the Nationals at 111-86 (.563).
Posted in: Baseball	| Tagged: April records for MLB teams, baseball teams records in April, MLB, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals
Another 100-win team fails to win the World Series
For the first time since 2011 when the Phillies won 102 games, the St. Louis Cardinals reached the 100-win mark this past season. It was the 15th time this century that a team reached the 100-win milestone.
While winning 100 games is a great accomplishment, 100-win teams have not had great success as they entered the post-season. Of the 15 teams that reached 100 wins since 2000, only three (the 2003 Yankees, 2005 Cardinals and 2009 Yankees) went on to play in the World Series that year… and of those three, two won the title (2005 Cards and the 2009 Yanks).
But even getting out of the first round of the playoffs has been a chore for the 100-win teams. Of the 12 teams since 2000 that did not reach the World Series, only three made it to their league's Championship Series meaning that nine of the teams lost in the A.L. Division Series or N.L. Division Series… their first round in the playoffs.
Of the 15 times since 2000 that a team won 100 games, four of those times it was the New York Yankees. The Cardinals franchise has done it three times, and the Oakland A's and Atlanta Braves have each won 100 or more games twice since 2000. Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco and the Los Angeles Angels are the other teams to win 100 games in a season since 2000.
One other quick stat about these teams that won 100 games from 2000-2014: Of the 14 teams, 11 won fewer games the following year, two won the same number of games, and one actually won more games than the previous year (the Oakland A's went from 102 wins in 2001 to 103 wins in 2002). On average, a team that won 100 or more games in a season since 2000 had 7.4 fewer wins the following year.
Looking back to the start of the World Series in 1903, there have been 82 teams that have won 100 or more games in a year with 28 of those teams making it to the World Series.
It's also interesting to note that the team that holds the MLB record for most wins in a season, the Seattle Mariners with 116 wins in 2001, did not win the World Series that year; the M's lost in five games to the Yankees in the ALCS that season and never made it to the World Series.
Eighteen teams have won 105 or more games in a season in MLB history. Ten won the World Series that year… the last to do so were the Yankees in 1998 when they won the title after winning 114 games that season. Eight teams that won 105 or more games in a season failed to win the World Series in that year; the last team to do so was the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals who won 105 games that year but were swept by the 95-win Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
Posted in: Uncategorized	| Tagged: 100-win teams, MLB, St. Louis Cardinals
NL Central: MLB's best division in 2015
By Jerry Tapp on October 2, 2015 | 1 Comment
If the Chicago Cubs can get at least one win on the road this weekend against the Milwaukee Brewers they will become the third team in the N.L Central Division to reach 95 wins in the 2015 season. This would be the first time since 1994 (when baseball went to a three-division in each league format) that three teams from one division won 95 or more games in a season.
From 1994-2014 there were 13 times when two teams from the same division won 95 games. It last happened in 2010 when the Tampa Bay Rays (96) and the New York Yankees (95) each reached the 95-win mark that year.
Here's a look at the 13 times when two teams from the same division won 95-plus games since 1994.
1999: N.L. East (Atlanta 103, N.Y. Mets 97)
1999: N.L. Central (Houston 97, Cincinnati 96)
2002: N.L. West (Arizona 98, San Francisco 95)
1997: A.L. East (Baltimore 98, N.Y. Yankees 96)
2001: A.L. West (Seattle 116, Oakland 102)
2002: A.L. West (Oakland 103, Anaheim 99)
2003: A.L. East (N.Y. Yankees 101, Boston 95)
2005: A.L. East (N.Y. Yankees 95, Boston 95)
2006: A.L. Central (Minnesota 96, Detroit 95)
2008: A.L. East (Tampa Bay 97, Boston 95)
2009: A.L. East (N.Y. Yankees 103 Boston 95)
2010: A.L. East (Tampa Bay 96, N.Y. Yankees 95)
In eight of these 13 occasions listed above, one of the teams from that division made it to the World Series that season. Only three won the World Series that year (Anaheim 2002, Boston 2004 and N.Y. Yankees 2009). The five teams that lost in the World Series that year were Atlanta-1999, San Francisco-2002, N.Y. Yankees-2003, Detroit-2006 and Tampa Bay-2008.
Posted in: Uncategorized	| Tagged: Chicago Cubs, MLB, National League Central, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals
Are we headed for a 'same-state' World Series in 2015?
By Jerry Tapp on August 7, 2015 | 2 Comments
Could we see a Missouri World Series in 2015?
If you opened up this morning's paper and glanced at the baseball standings, you discovered something very interesting. Did you see that two teams from the same city are leading their divisions (the Yankees and Mets), two teams from the same state are leading their respective divisions (Missouri's Royals and Cardinals), and while the Dodgers sit atop the N.L. West, their in-state rivals, the Angels, are just a couple games behind the Astros in the A.L. West race?
What does all this mean? Not only could we see a World Series with two teams from the same state, but for the first time in MLB history there could be three pairs of teams from three states winning the six divisions.
In 1994, baseball went to a three-division format in each of the two leagues. Since then, teams from the same state have won a division title in the same year several times. Considering that there are five teams from California, it's not surprising that several of those pairs have been west coast teams. Here's a look at the other state pairs that have won divisions title in the same year since 1969 when MLB went from two leagues to two divisions in each league.
(New York) New York Yankees and New York Mets: 2006
(Missouri) Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals: 1985
(Illinois) Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox: 2008
(Ohio) Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds: 1995
(California) Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers (2004, 2008, 2009, 2014)
(California) Oakland A's and Los Angeles Dodgers (1974, 1988, 2013)
(California) Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants (1971, 1989, 2000, 2003, 2012)
(California) Oakland A's and San Diego Padres (2006)
(California) Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres (2005)
In addition, there are two pairs from the same state that have never won a division title in the same year: Florida's Tampa Bay and Miami franchises, and the Los Angeles Angels and San Francisco Giants from California.
There have been 20 times when two teams from the same state (and in many cases, the same city) have faced each other in the World Series. The last time it happened was in 2002 when the San Francisco Giants faced off against the Anaheim Angels. The current 12-year drought of not having two teams from the same state play each other in the World Series is the fourth longest in MLB history. The longest drought was from 1956 to 1974, 17 years.
Posted in: Baseball	| Tagged: Cardinals-Royals World Series, Kansas City Royals, MLB, St. Louis Cardinals, World Series


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Home Interviews Other related interviews Captain Sensible - May 26th, 2007 - with Brain Damage
Captain Sensible - May 26th, 2007 - with Brain Damage
Written by Dave Batchelor and Matt Johns
One of the big surprises of the recent Syd Barrett tribute concert was the stunning interpretation of Astronomy Domine by ex-Damned singer and guitarist, Captain Sensible. We chatted with the Captain about the show and got some great insights into the event, and also asked him about Nick Mason's production of The Damned's 1977 album (which they wanted Syd to produce)...
How did you get involved with the show?
It's a mystery to me but I think that the people who ran the show asked Chrissie who, out of the people that she knew in show business, was a Syd Barrett fan and aficionado. She obviously suggested Robyn Hitchcock, of whom there is no greater Syd Barrett fan in the world, I don't think, and myself, because when Chrissie and myself were in a band together - the Johnny Moped Band - we would often after a few drinks end up singing stuff like Bike and See Emily Play, so she knew I was a big fan.
What got you interested in Syd and/or Pink Floyd?
Well I was definitely interested in the Syd-period Pink Floyd more than the subsequent band, which for me was a different entity entirely. I think there's a charm to the Syd Barrett period Pink Floyd that I don't think any other band has got. At the time, nobody sang with an English accent in Britain, everyone was pretending to be American: The Move, The Kinks, The Who... much as I love their stuff, they were singing with pseudo-American accents.
But Syd Barrett changed all that. And he didn't write songs about Route 66 or any of that old nonsense, he sang peculiar songs about Cambridge and Britain. That's what turned me on to them.
I remember Tony Blackburn playing See Emily Play on the breakfast show on Radio 1, which had just started. I was on my way to school - I remember it distinctly - I was late for school, it was 9:10am, I was going to get detention anyway but I just couldn't be arsed, because I was listening to my transistor radio.
Tony Blackburn played See Emily Play, and I just sat down on somebody's front wall, and for those three minutes I was just transfixed and taken into a different dimension. I was never the same again. At that point I fell in love with music.
I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life - I wanted to do stuff like Syd was doing.
What influenced your choice of track (Astronomy Domine) and were there other songs that you'd have liked to have played on the night?
Everyone was bartering for the gig, we all tried to get our first-choice song - mine was Astronomy Domine, but my second choice, funnily enough, was Lucifer Sam, which I absolutely love but I was told that couldn't do that one as someone else was doing it. And in actual fact, on the night, nobody did. Because, whatever the backstage politics were, somebody who was going to do it pulled out or ended up not doing it, so I would have done Astronomy Domine and Lucifer Sam, that was my choice.
But I wanted to do Astronomy because I remember at the time, when I first heard it, it had a big effect on me because the instruments in the whole middle section - the guitar, and the organ - well, all the instruments were played unlike I'd ever heard them played before. Almost like an... extra-terrestrial kind of way, if you like, very psychedelic. The guitar sounded like it was being played on another planet! I couldn't work out at the time what on earth the chords were that they were playing. Syd was playing with a bottle or a lighter, or a slide of some sort. He wasn't playing a G and a C and a D chord, he was making these fantastic noises with a slide and an echo pedal. I wanted to have a go at that, basically!
Was it the first time that you'd covered a Syd/Floyd track?
Well, the Damned used to cover Arnold Layne. Unlikely for a punk band I know, but the whole band knew that material, and we used to do it live for an encore or something. There are bootlegs of it about, floating around.
The one I covered on record, was Rick Wright's affectionate tribute to Syd - his rehashing of Syd's style, called It Would Be So Nice. It's a lovely, lovely pop song and it sounds really as though Syd had written it, but of course it wasn't Syd's. A beautiful song, I love it:
[Sings] Everybody wakes and in the morning
Hot tea, can't stop yawning
Pass the butter please...
What did you think of the event?
It was amazing for me to have been invited, and amazing also to hear all those wonderful songs being interpreted in such different ways by the respective artists. But it was also fantastic backstage to meet everyone, and everyone was there for the right reasons, and everyone had left their ego's at home, including Roger Waters and the rest of the guys in Pink Floyd. Everyone was just really nice, I know it's an old cliché but everyone was genuinely friendly backstage.
I couldn't believe how nice a bloke Kevin Ayers was. I had a bit of a headache, I'd been out on the sauce the night before, and he said: "Captain, let me sort you out. I've got some potions and things..." I thought, "Kevin Ayers is offering me drugs! This could be a dubious experience!" but it was mainly legal stuff he had in his bag. These days he's cleaned his act up, God bless him!
In May 2006, Nick said the following about his production of The Damned's 1977 album 'Music For Pleasure': "That was a funny misunderstanding. As a matter of fact, they wanted Syd Barrett, who at that stage, hadn't been with us for a long time. But our publisher simply said: 'Syd won't happen, but Nick might be interested.' That's how we got together, and I had great fun. Recording four tracks with this band was faster than setting up the drum kit for Pink Floyd. I always said: 'Do you want to work on that track a bit?' and they always answered: 'No thanks, that'll do!' This uncomplicated approach most probably affected me as well. I believe that you can see this influence on our 'Animals' album: the production was less pompous." What are your memories of those sessions?
[Laughing at Nick's comments] Well, unfortunately The Damned was imploding at the time. Nobody wanted to work with Brian any more, because he was believing his own publicity that he was the brains of the band and that the rest of us were like cannon fodder. So, nobody else's material was getting considered, pretty much. I wouldn't have minded if Brian was writing material of the calibre of Damned, Damned, Damned, but that wasn't what was happening. I think he had knocked the material together in a couple of weeks before the recordings. I don't want to slag Brian off, because I love the bloke, I think he's brilliant, and without him I'd probably still be cleaning toilets now.
But we were a band that was on auto-destruct at the time and there wasn't a lot of communication. So, poor old Nick Mason came in to a scenario that wasn't ideal for him, I wouldn't imagine, and I think he the best job he could really. Of course, we did want Syd Barrett, and the reason that we thought there might be some chance that Syd might turn up, was because Pink Floyd and The Damned - I know it sounds unlikely - but we shared a publisher, Peter Barnes, the bloke that Nick was alluding to earlier.
Peter thought there might be a chance of Syd turning up, and twiddling the knobs, and making us sound... I thought it would have been a wonderful thing, a psychedelic punk album. That was my dream. It didn't unfortunately happen on Music For Pleasure but we... When Brian had left the band, we were working on our third album, which is called Machine Gun Etiquette, we did the Syd production that we thought should have been done on the previous album ourselves. And I think Machine Gun Etiquette is pretty much the way we would have liked Syd to have done the one before.
Nick Mason, nice enough bloke, we had a jam with him. It was quite funny to have a jam with Pink Floyd's drummer. He plays in a certain style, and we play about five or six times faster! I think we managed to do a Chuck Berry song, which was quite interesting! He's a nice enough bloke, but he does like his Ferrari's though. I mean, we were going to the studio every day on the top deck of a number 38 bus, and he was getting there on some swanky, expensive transport of his...
Your performance at the Syd tribute won a lot of plaudits from Floyd fans who were there. Would you consider doing more covers of their songs in the future?
[Laughs] Probably not, no. Much as I love the Syd stuff, if you say these days you're a Floyd fan people think "Christ, he used to be a punk rocker, what's happened to him?!" As I said before, it's two different bands.
Gilmour, as well, he slapped me on the back and said "Well done, Cap'" as I came off after doing Astronomy Domine, which was good enough for me, because I love his interpretation of the song as well. Bear in mind it's not his song, and he wasn't there when they recorded it. His version of the song on Ummagumma is amazing. They doubled the length of it, they doubled the verse and the front end of it, and that for me is the definitive version.
Rick Wright as well, absolute genius. For me it was Syd and Rick Wright that were the creative [heart]... those organ solos were fantastic, all that dreamy space twiddling that he did on the Hammond organ. Just amazing, and no-one else has done it better since.
So, doing any more Floyd covers, probably not. I've done Astronomy Domine and that's the one I wanted to do. [Laughs] That's the big one for me! They did a version of Careful With That Axe and Green Is The Colour, a medley on Sounds of the Seventies, that I love. A tape of that floats around, and I've got a copy of that at home... I love that as well, but I don't think you can beat the version that they did with Gilmour.

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UQ peace fellows ready to make a difference
The next generation of peace builders and diplomats have graduated from The University of Queensland with a Masters in Peace and Conflict Resolution – the only degree of its type in Australasia.
The graduates are the third group of Rotary World Peace Fellows to complete their studies at UQ – the sole Australian university and one of only six worldwide selected to host a Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.
UQ Senior Lecturer and Rotary Centre Director Dr Richard Devetak said the course had been created to inspire and train future leaders.
"The curriculum is particularly designed to educate fellows in the sources of conflict, theories and practices of conflict resolution, and peacebuilding," Dr Devetak said.
"These are essential in training future generations of diplomats and peace-builders.
"Given that many fellows come from conflict zones themselves, they have an interest in contributing to conflict resolution and peacebuilding efforts."
This year's graduating class included students from Thailand, Israel, Uganda, Finland and Argentina, whose professional backgrounds were as diverse as journalism, law and the performing arts.
2006 Rotary Peace Fellow Karla Castellanos said the program allowed like-minded people from around the world to focus on building a better future.
"The wonderful thing about this program is that it brings together people of completely different walks of life with completely different aspirations for what they will do as professionals and as individuals, and yet they all come here with the same goal of promoting goodwill, peace and understanding," Ms Castellanos said.
As a course requirement, students undertake on-the-ground training to complement the research side of their studies.
Among projects this year, the fellows contributed to the United Nations earthquake relief effort in Pakistan, facilitated conflict resolution programs in South Africa, and worked with the Department of Information and International Relations in Dharmsala, Tibet.
An architect from Florida, Ms Castellanos spent three months in Tamil Nadu, India, where she assisted community development projects and participated in an initiative to help children living with HIV/AIDS.
Ms Castellanos said the experience had inspired her to use her skills and studies to help others.
"My dream come true would be to work for an organisation like the one I was working for in India," she said.
"I cannot describe how great I felt when I was over there, working with the people and interacting, it was gratifying to me.
"I hope my work did something to help their community."
Dr Devetak said the combination of research and field experience allowed the fellows to assist the global peace process in the long term.
"The aim of the Rotary Centre program is to promote peace through education," Dr Devetak said.
"My hope for the graduating fellows is that they achieve their ambitions, whatever they may be.
"I know that many aim to put into practice what they have learned here at UQ to make small steps towards a more peaceful and just world."
Media: Dr Richard Devetak (07 3366 7318) or Cameron Pegg at UQ Communications (07 3365 2049, c.pegg@uq.edu.au)
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è il protagonista di Stardust Crusaders, terza serie del manga Le bizzarre avventure di JoJo di Hirohiko Araki. È figlio di Sadao Kujo, un musicista jazz giapponese, e Holly Joestar, la figlia di Joseph Joestar, il protagonista della seconda serie, Battle Tendency, di cui è dunque il nipote.

È l'unico JoJo che si presenta in quattro archi narrativi della serie (dal terzo al sesto), oltre a comparire anche nell'OAV del 1993 e nei videogiochi tratti dal manga. Il personaggio è stato molto apprezzato dal pubblico e dalla critica. Al gruppo di mangaka al femminile CLAMP Jotaro è piaciuto così tanto da inserirlo come protagonista in una storia breve comica come il riluttante "padre" di Jōta Kujo, figlio ideale tra lui e il compagno Noriaki Kakyoin, e da inserire quest'ultimo anche nel loro filmato CLAMP in Wonderland.

Creazione e sviluppo
Il cognome di Jotaro, Kujo, è un riferimento al romanzo di Stephen King Cujo. In occasione di una sessione di domande e risposte presso un istituto scolastico di Nagoya, Araki ha riconosciuto una certa somiglianza tra il personaggio di Jotaro e Clint Eastwood: entrambi non corrono, limitano i movimenti al minimo indispensabile e sono taciturni.

Storia

Stardust Crusaders

Jotaro nasce nel 1971 in Giappone in una famiglia benestante. Inizialmente cresce in maniera del tutto irreprensibile, eccellendo nello sport e nello studio, per poi diventare un teppista e venire arrestato nell'estate del 1989. Quando la madre, Holly Joestar, si reca in carcere per visitarlo, scopre che il figlio è stato rinchiuso per sua stessa volontà, in quanto asserisce di essere posseduto da uno spirito maligno. In seguito il nonno, Joseph Joestar, con l'aiuto di un suo compagno, l'indovino egiziano Mohammed Avdol, convince il nipote a uscire dalla prigione, spiegando al ragazzo che ciò che crede essere uno spirito è in realtà il suo stand, Star Platinum, corrispondente al diciassettesimo arcano maggiore.

Lo stand di Jotaro è stato risvegliato dal ritorno del vampiro Dio Brando, che al termine di Phantom Blood, prima serie del manga, si era impossessato del corpo di un antenato di Jotaro, Jonathan Joestar, per rimpiazzare il proprio corpo, distrutto dallo stesso Jonathan. Per lo stesso motivo, tutti i discendenti della famiglia Joestar sviluppano strani poteri. Anche Holly, la madre di Jōtarō, sviluppa uno stand: ma non disponendo delle qualità necessarie per controllarlo, questo si manifesta in forma nociva. Per salvare la madre, Jotaro parte per l'Egitto in compagnia di Joseph e di Avdol, con lo scopo di stanare e di uccidere definitivamente Dio Brando. Al gruppo si uniscono dapprima Noriaki Kakyoin, la cui volontà era stata controllata da Dio attraverso un germoglio di carne impiantato nel cervello, e poi il francese Jean Pierre Polnareff e il cagnolino Iggy. Alla fine, dopo aver sconfitto altri numerosi portatori di stand nemici, Jotaro riesce ad arrivare alla capitale egiziana, il Cairo, dove aveva sede il nascondiglio di Dio. Jotaro e i suoi compagni dovettero affrontare in uno scontro 3 portatori di stand, nel quale Avdol e Iggy persero la vita. Arrivarono al cospetto del potente Dio, il Portatore dello Stand The World, uno stand capace di fermare il tempo, ma per un periodo limitato. Dio sfutta la sua abilità per eliminare Noriaki Kakyoin, che pur morente riuscì a capire il segreto di The World e a farlo capire a Joseph Joestar. Dio utilizzò di nuovo la sua abilità per sconfiggere anche Joseph, arrivando allo scontro finale contro Jotaro. Dopo aver nuovamente fermato il tempo, Dio notò che nonostante abbia attivato il suo potere, Jotaro riuscì a muovere leggermente il suo dito, infatti gli stand Star Platinum e The World condividono gli stessi poteri. Anche se Dio riusciva a fermare il tempo più a lungo rispetto a Jotaro, quest'ultimo ebbe la meglio.

Diamond is Unbreakable
Nel 1999 Jotaro si reca nella cittadina di Morio-cho per incontrare Josuke Higashikata, che nonostante sia molto più giovane di lui è suo zio (è infatti il figlio illegittimo di Joseph Joestar). Jotaro lo avverte dell'esistenza di un pericoloso portatore di stand nella cittadina in cui vive. Anche dopo aver sconfitto quest'ultimo, Anjiro "Angelo" Katajiri, Jōtarō si trattiene a Morio-cho (dove viene raggiunto da Joseph) per aiutare Josuke nella lotta contro un pericolosissimo serial killer dotato di stand, Yoshikage Kira.

Dopo il termine della serie, a Jotaro, da sempre appassionato di biologia marina, viene conferita una laurea ad honorem in scienze naturali per un saggio che ha scritto durante la sua permanenza a Morio-cho.

Vento Aureo
Venuto a conoscenza dell'esistenza di un figlio di Dio Brando che vive in Italia, Jōtarō invia Koichi Hirose a Napoli per incontrare il ragazzo, che si fa chiamare Giorno Giovanna, e appurare se si tratti di un portatore di stand e soprattutto se sia un amico o un nemico. Nel prosieguo della serie Jotaro non gioca più alcun ruolo.

Stone Ocean
Jotaro fa il suo ritorno nella sesta serie, Stone Ocean. È l'anno 2011 e scopriamo che Jotaro si è sposato (con una donna di cui non viene rivelata l'identità), ha divorziato, e ha una figlia, Jolyne Kujo con cui ha un rapporto burrascoso essendo stato lontano da lei per non coinvolgerla nelle sue avventure. Jotaro verrà inizialmente messo subito fuori gioco dallo stand Whitesnake di Padre Enrico Pucci, e la prima parte della serie verterà sui tentativi di Jolyne di salvare il padre, recuperando i dischi che contengono la sua memoria e i suoi poteri. Verrà ucciso nello scontro finale con Pucci, per poi tornare in vita nel nuovo universo creato da Made in Heaven con un aspetto leggermente diverso: dopo la morte del prete per mano di Emporio e il secondo conseguente reset dell'Universo non viene più mostrato, ma viene fatto intuire da Irene, la versione alternativa di Jolyne, che questi sia ancora vivo e che i due siano in ottimi rapporti.

Personalità
Jotaro Kujo è caratterizzato non solo da uno stand passato alla storia come uno dei più potenti, di fatto quasi invincibile, ma anche da un carattere freddo e calcolatore in ogni situazione. È dotato di un autocontrollo senza pari ed è molto intelligente.

Ha un aspetto da duro e un atteggiamento da "bullo", al limite della maleducazione, è molto sicuro di sé e della propria superiorità, ma è anche un ragazzo sincero, sensibile e leale, e dimostra tutta la sua umanità nell'affetto per la madre e il rispetto per il nonno. Convinto che i suoi sentimenti siano talmente palesi da non poter essere ignorati o mal interpretati, non si sforza di trasmetterli ai suoi cari, apparendo chiuso e scontroso. Nel manga è costantemente circondato da ragazzine adoranti, che ignora o scaccia via.

All'inizio della terza parte è perfettamente conscio di non essere la più gentile delle persone, eppure dimostra di tenere agli altri. Non a caso, l'unico motivo che lo spinge all'inizio a rimanere in cella è il timore di fare del male con il suo stand agli altri senza rendersene conto.

Nella sesta serie incontriamo anche il suo lato di genitore protettivo, geloso e fiero ma gentile.

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 è uno stand a corto raggio, potente e preciso. È uno degli stand più forti fra tutti quelli dell'universo de Le bizzarre avventure di JoJo: possiede sensi acuiti, forza, resistenza, accuratezza e velocità. Star Platinum è abbastanza preciso da afferrare al volo The Lovers, una stand di dimensioni microscopiche (è abbastanza piccola da arrivare al cervello passando per le orecchie) e abbastanza veloce da bloccare un proiettile da distanza ravvicinata. È inoltre in grado di osservare piccoli dettagli a grandi distanze. Come bonus aggiuntivo possiede l'attacco "Star Finger", con il quale può estendere il proprio dito per attaccare. È molto simile allo stand di Dio Brando, The World, e come questo può essere usato per fermare il tempo per pochi secondi, abilità che però viene rivelata soltanto nel finale della terza serie, durante la battaglia tra Jōtarō e Dio. A partire da allora, per esempio nel corso della quarta serie, lo stand assume il nome Star Platinum The World.

Star Platinum può fermare il tempo per un periodo limitato. Come Dio Brando, Jōtarō ha dimostrato di poter estendere gradualmente la durata di questa abilità, ma ci sono due importanti differenze. La prima è la progressione. Nella quarta serie Jotaro può fermare il tempo per circa due secondi, nella sesta per massimo cinque. D'altro canto Dio ha dimostrato una progressione molto più repentina. Inoltre, se Jotaro usa per troppe volte di fila Star Platinum The World si stanca troppo, mentre Dio non ha dato prova di soffrire di questo problema, probabilmente legato alla sua natura di vampiro, che gli garantisce una capacità di recupero maggiore.
Nella sesta serie viene specificato che lo stand può fermare il tempo anche per più di 5 secondi, ma essi sono il massimo per un essere umano.

Nel videogioco Eyes of Heaven sviluppa, alla fine, lo Star Platinum Over Heaven, che gli permette di usare gli stessi poteri del Dio Brando alternativo di riscrivere la realtà, seppure non sia in grado di padroneggiarla bene, tuttavia gli conferisce un potere sul livello multiversale, tale da poter riuscire a competere contro Dio Brando in forma over the heaven

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Group Report for Problem Based Learning: Retirement Benefits
3.1. FRS 17: Retirement Benefits Adopted by UK companies, FRS17 sets out the standard of how companies in the UK should deal with retirement benefits. It was introduced to create more transparency and to give shareholders a better idea of the cost to companies of pension schemes. The standard recognises gains and losses in the financial statements as soon as they are paid. Finance directors fear that these volatile pension figures could have major impacts on the profit and loss accounts.
'The main requirements of FRS 17 are:
pension scheme assets are measured using market values,
pension scheme liabilities are measured using a projected unit method and discounted at an AA corporate bond rate,
the pension scheme surplus or deficit is recognised in full on the balance sheet, and
the movement in the scheme surplus or deficit is analysed into:
current and past service costs which are recognised in operating profit,
the interest cost and expected return on assets which are recognised as other finance costs, and
actuarial gains and losses which are recognised in the statement of total recognised gains and losses.'
(http://www.frc.org.uk/asb/technical/standards/pub0206.html)
It was felt by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) that FRS 17 gave companies too much room for manoeuvre in how they calculated expected investment returns on their pension fund, therefore they introduced IAS 19.
Parts 4 and 5 of this report have been omitted for the purpose of this example.
In conclusion, FRS 17 and IAS 19 were introduced to set out strict guidelines on how companies should deal with retirement benefits, so that the treatment of these benefits is consistent with all companies. FRS 17 replaced SSAP 24, because there were a number of problems with the old standard. The main problem was the different valuation methods, which affected costs in the financial statements.
Many companies have decided not to adopt FRS 17. This could be because of the large material effects on the balance sheet, which are caused by the standard. It could also be because IAS 19 will become compulsory in the following year, and therefore it would not be worth changing standards twice.
It is hoped that over the next few years, most companies will adopt IAS 19 rather than using pro forma disclosures, as this will enable financial statements to provide a true and fair view of the retirement benefit funds.
This is a good report: it is full of factual information, much of which is written in the writer's own words although reference is made to appropriate source documents. The student makes good use of quotations and adopts an appropriate style for a report, e.g. bullet points and headings, concise language, and summaries of key points.
This is a good introduction setting out several points: what the accounting standard covers; why it was introduced; how these costs are treated; and the main concern with the standard.
The use of headings here and throughout the report is helpful to the reader, showing clearly the way in which the writing has been organised.
Although this is a long quote it is appropriate in the context of this report, which is to provide a summary of key facts which could be used as a revision document. The writer has correctly judged that this information could not be further summarised..Bulleted lists are appropriate in a report and are very useful in providing an accessible summary of the key points of a subject, in this case the main requirements of FRS 17.
The acronym IASB is here written out in full as it is the first time it has appeared in this document.
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The reference here is in an acceptable format as the requirement stated that the text should be produced as an online document. It is intended that student readers use the web links for revision.
Function: Describe
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This is a good concluding section of the report, largely descriptive and summative as is appropriate for a revision document.
Function: Analyse
This paragraph presents a clear analysis of the reasons why companies have not adopted FRS 17 drawing on evidence included in the report.
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Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors | News | Ethics in scientific writing and journal publishing
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Ethics in scientific writing and journal publishing
8 January 2020, Cairo – In October 2019, WHO and the Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME) held a two-day workshop on ethics in scientific writing and journal publishing for more than 25 biomedical journal editors. The workshop took place at the Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
The objectives of the workshop were to: share and discuss the principles of ethics in health research in general, with a special focus on scientific writing and journal publishing; focus on aligning science journal publishing in the Islamic Republic of Iran with international and regional ethical standards and best practices; encourage participants to draw on existing national, regional and international professional networks and resources; and encourage participants to network among themselves, work together to develop robust policies and standards, and cascade their experience to the authors and editors they deal with.
The first day concentrated on ethics in the research process, including the history and principles of research ethics, research governance, ethics in planning, conducting and analysing research, and research misconduct. The second day looked at ethics in the publication process, including the ethics of peer review, the ethics of authorship, plagiarism, developing publishing policy and useful international, regional and national networks and resources.
The workshop was facilitated by Mr Tobias Boyd, Manager, Editorial, Graphics and Publications, and Dr Ahmed Mandil, Coordinator, Research and Innovation, from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and Professor Farhad Handjani, President of EMAME.
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Mukesh Ambani Memes: When Excess Of Everything Gets Trolled | Wotpost.
Mukesh Ambani memes or Ambani memes started circulating in March, 2014 when the two biggest political parties Congress and BJP joined hands to defend Mukesh Ambani against Lokpal Bill by the AAP government. According to the ruling party 'AAP', these two parties which were considered as rivals came together in support of Mukesh Ambani since both political parties profited from the unethical money games of the Reliance group.
As soon as the news got out, people started commenting and talking about how the parties had sold off their dignity to the Ambanis. Memes were around the lines of how he uses his immense fortune to manipulate even the government. The first troll was by a Twitter user Sachin S. Divekar, who uploaded a sarcastic meme on 15th Feb, 2014. The meme was made on the theme of 'the most interesting man in the world' which was a dank meme during that time.
The spread of Ambani memes again came into trend around the year 2017. Meme makers kept mocking him at different stages for his immense wealth and power display.There were various pictures from numerous occasions that were used to generate a number of memes.
Some were related to the amount of wealth Mukesh Ambani had while some were around him being caught with funny expressions on a social gathering. They were later manipulated using different contexts to create hilarious memes.
Facebook pages like The Youth, The Sarcastic Indian's post and Yahoo India posted memes in different contexts that revolved around how wealthy Mukesh Ambani is. The Youth even posted a compilation of various memes that were circulating on various digital platforms.
Following the same trend of mocking Mukesh Ambani's wealth, comedy platform under FabForm Network posted a meme on 30th Oct, 2018 which was around the Diwali festival.
People clean there houses during Diwali and trow out garbage, but not Ambani's. When they clean their house,this is what they come up with. Apparently, that's what Comedy platform TheComicWallah posted by posting the following meme.
During Priyanka-Nick's wedding, several memes surfaced on various social media platform that were formed around a specific picture. It was clicked at PC's sangeet with Mr. Ambani having a weird expression on his face. The meme used this funny expression where he was shown sitting next to his wife. One of the best meme had the caption," When you fart but feel some liquid too".
Isha Ambani's marriage was a big deal. There were several memes that were circulated on the family picture which was released online. The picture showed Mukesh Ambani with a 'not so good' expression standing next to his family and people across the nation started mocking it through meme. One meme mentioned ,' If constipation had a face'. along with the picture, that aptly made a viral meme.
Another meme was created around a picture that was snapped at Isha Ambani's sangeet. The picture shows a funny expression on Mukesh Ambani' face where he seems to be annoyed at his wife. This sparked a riot of funny memes being made on this picture. From referring Mrs. Ambani as gutka, pan and tambaku and showing Mr. Ambani as Mukesh Harane drooling in the background, it created one of the most humorous memes.
After spending an outrageous amount of money for his daughter's wedding, a picture clicked during the function did rounds on social media. It looked like he finally realized that he had spent gazillion amounts of money by calling celebrities from all corners of the world. Naturally, the internet users took a jibe on this. Fortunately, he was captured with different expressions that fueled the creativity of meme makers and they came up with memes like this.
Ambani launched unlimited free internet on Reliance jio, and the nation went crazy. Using his internet, creators started making memes and started flooding the social media platforms.The speed deteriorated eventually and hence people made several memes around the same thing mocking its slow speed compared to the lightning speed it had before.
Following the tradition of creating innovative ways to mock Ambani's wealth, users in March 2019 started tweeting fake messages from parody account of Neeta Ambani, Mukesh Ambani etc.
Meme makers and internet trolls started creating fake tweets with the theme where any regular incident that is happening with Ambani results into something extravagant for others. Or something that may seem simple enough for Ambani could be a big deal for other people.
Meme creators made sure to exhaust the humor out of the extravagant amount of wealth Mukesh Ambani has. Be it his family function or business ordeals, his announcements or his pictures, everything had the element that can be twisted to a humorous meme. The makers exactly did the same thing and came up with such jokes every person could relate with. As everyone can relate with the unreal amount of money Mukesh Ambani has and enjoy mocking it as well.
Gully boy memes: is this movie actually a rip-off of 8 Mile?


UFC president and self-confessed Conor McGregor fan Dana White has described the fighters behaviour this week as "despicable" and "disgraceful," but troublingly, 'The Notorious' seems to be showing little signs of remorse for his egregious actions.
Even after the moment of madness that saw McGregor launch a steel dolly through a bus filled with fighters, cornermen and UFC staff at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn earlier this week, there was no indication in the immediate aftermath that the troubled star realized he'd taken things far too far.
In fact, footage from the UFC Embedded crew actually catches McGregor encouraging the mob of over a dozen thugs that had joined him in the attack to smash in more of the bus windows, while he can also be seen laughing out loud as he later flees the scene.
What really beggars belief however is that even hours later as McGregor prepared to turn himself in, during a conversation via text with Dana White, he still firmly believed that his actions were justified in retaliation for a verbal confrontation between Khabib Nurmagomedov and the Irishman's long-time teammate Artem Lobov earlier in the week.
"It's not that I don't think he understood what happened, it's just that he justified it." White told ESPN of his interaction with McGregor.
"'I'm sorry about Mike [Chiesa]. I'm sorry about Rose [Namajunas], and whoever else, but this had to be done,'" White claimed McGregor told him.
Since then McGregor has been charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of criminal mischief and spent some time behind bars before being released on a $50,000 bail yesterday, so it remains to be seen if that will have shaken some sense into him.
However, right now all the signs point to that not being the case, and that leaves the UFC with a ticking time bomb on their hands.


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Q: Is my proof of Abel's Theorem correct? Abels Theorem says that if $f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_nx^n$ converges for $|x|<1$ and if $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n$ converges then $f$ is continuous at $x=1$.
Proof.
Suppose $f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_nx^n$ converges for $|x|<1$, and $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n$.
Subtract a constant from $f$ so that we may assume $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n=0$.
Let $A_n=\sum_{j=0}^{n} a_n$
We wish to show that $\lim_{x\to 1^{-}} |\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_nx^n|=0$
$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_nx^n=a_0+ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} a_nx^n= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (A_n-A_{n-1})x^n+a_0$
$=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} A_nx^n - \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} A_{n-1}x^n +a_0 = (1-x)\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} A_nx^n$
Now, $|(1-x)\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} A_nx^n| = |(1-x)\sum_{n=0}^{k} A_nx^n + (1-x)\sum_{n=k+1}^{\infty} A_nx^n|$
For the first chunk, $|(1-x)\sum_{n=0}^{k} A_nx^n|$, since this summation is a finite quantity we choose $\delta_1$ such that $|x-1|<\delta_1 \implies |(1-x)\sum_{n=0}^{k} A_nx^n|<\epsilon/2$.
For the second chunk, $|(1-x)\sum_{n=k+1}^{\infty} A_nx^n| \leq |(1-x)Sup|A_n|\sum_{n=k+1}^{\infty} x^n| \leq |Sup|A_n|x^{k+1}|$
But $\lim_{n\to\infty} A_n = \lim_{n\to\infty} \sum_{j=0}^{n} a_n = 0$, so the second chunk can be made small as desired.
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I have been trying to understand this proof for quite a long time so any feedback is greatly appreciated. I am particularly concerned with the step that involved subtracting a constant from $f$ in order to suppose the summation converges to zero.

A: Given $\epsilon >0,$ take the least (or any) $k$ such that $\sup_{n>k}|A_n|<\epsilon /2.$ This is possible because $\lim_{n\to \infty}A_n=\sum_{m=0}^{\infty}a_m=0.$
Let $M_k=\max_{n\leq k}|A_n|.$ For $x\in (0,1)$ we have $|(1-x)\sum_{n=0}^kA_nx^n|\leq (1-x)(k+1)M_k.$
Take $\delta_k \in (0,1)$ such that $\delta_k(k+1)M_k<\epsilon /2.$ Then for all $x\in (1-\delta_k,1)$  we have $$|(1-x)\sum_{n\leq k}A_nx^n|<\epsilon /2$$ $$\text {and also }\quad |(1-x)\sum_{n>k}A_nx^n|\leq (1-x)\sum_{n>k}(\epsilon /2)x^n=$$ $$=x^{k+1}(\epsilon/2)<\epsilon /2.$$
So the theorem holds  in the first case, which is when $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_n=0 .$ For all other cases observe that if $a^*_0=a_0-\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}a_n$ and $a^*_n=a_n$ for all $n>0,$ then the first case applies to $f^*(x)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a^*_nx^n.$ That is, $f^*$ is continuous from below at $x=1.$ But $f(x)$ differs from $f^*(x)$ by a constant so $f$ is also continuous from below at $x=1.$
We can do  a direct proof for all cases at once. It's basically the same proof, but the intermediate formulas get a bit "messy" or confusing.

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Reverie Season 1 Episode 4: Blue Is the Coldest Color Recap
July 4, 2018 July 4, 2018 ~ Metacrone
This week's episode picks up right where last week's last off, with Mara in her sister's burning apartment. As it burns, the apartment, and Derealization Ghost Brynn, shatter and dissolve away from Mara, leaving her standing in the middle of the street with a car about to run her down. A man jumps in and pushes her to the side of the road, just in time.
Mara is left stunned, trying to figure out what's real and what isn't, as she clutches the grass she's lying on. The man who saved her introduces himself as Oliver Hill and says they need to talk. He also needs to eat, so they go to a diner.
At the diner, Oliver explains that he started Onira Tech with Alexis. He's the brain part of the brain computer interface, or BCI, and Alexis is the computer. Oliver fidgets nervously with his Zippo lighter as he eats. Mara can tell that he should be on psych meds, but he says that he isn't. Oliver says that despite what Paul told her, they don't help with Reverie 2.0 derealizations, so he stopped taking them.
Oliver tells Mara that he's been keeping an eye on her situation for a while, because before her, he was the person who had spent the most time in 2.0. Because of that, he knows that she's in danger of losing her mind. He's been stuck going in and out of derealizations for years, without being sure which is real. Sometimes he burns himself to figure out if he's in reality or not.
According to Oliver, Onira Tech wants to sweep this potential complication under the rug and release the new implant anyway, with the hope of attracting 100 million users within 5 years. All of those people could potentially be doomed to the same derealization nightmare that Oliver and Mara are experiencing. That's why Oliver wants Mara to help him stop the release by being his ally inside Onira Tech, since he's not allowed inside.
Mara is overwhelmed by what he's told her, and needs to leave. Before she can go, Oliver stops her and says that they've already removed his name from all publicity materials for the company and from the product, even though he was a founding partner. She's never even been told of his existence. They don't want to hear what he has to say about 2.0.
Mara can't believe that Charlie, a man she's trusted for years, would go along with something like this conspiracy. Oliver says, "Except that he did."
That much is obvious just based on what's happened to Mara so far.
Oliver asks her to think about what he's said, and not to mention it to the Onira Tech people, because they'll just say that he's lying and crazy. She knows that neither of them is crazy.
The next morning at Onira Tech, security is collecting IDs and everyone is under suspicion. A BCI set was stolen from their facility 4-6 weeks ago, but it was just discovered during inventory last night. The thief had to be one of the employees. Mara wonders why someone would bother to steal a BCI set when Onira Tech tries to make them as easy to acquire legally as possible.
Time to meet the case of the week, an anxiety-ridden shut in named Glenn. His OCD means that he needs everything in his environment to be arranged perfectly, or he'll have overwhelming anxiety. He has a shelf full of meds in his bathroom cabinet. Glenn lives across a courtyard (with fancy fountain in between) from a 9 year old boy named Quincy and his mom, Liz. Quincy has a severe, terminal respiratory disease.
Glenn is friends with Quincy and Liz, but their relationship hasn't progressed because Glenn is unable to leave his apartment due to his many phobias, including his inability to go out in sunlight or be in the presence of the color blue.
We meet Glenn, Quincy and Liz when Quincy brings Glenn a large envelope that was left too far from Glenn's front door for Glenn to retrieve it comfortably. Glenn lets Quincy open the letter, which contains a classic Roberto Clemente baseball card. Liz arrives to take Quincy to the doctor for his regular treatment. Glenn gives Quincy the card so that Quincy will have something to read at the doctor's office. Liz thanks Glenn, then invites him to stop by their place sometime, if he can find a way to get past his phobias and make his way there. Glenn says that he's working on it. There's clearly a mutual attraction between the two.
After Liz and Quincy leave, Glenn picks up his stolen Reverie device and enters his library. He opens a door that leads to a loading dock and parking lot for MRL delivery trucks. The sun is bright in the parking lot. Glenn screams in pain or terror as soon as he steps out into it. He tries to walk across the parking lot, but only makes it a few steps.
Mara looks up Oliver Hill on her work computer, then asks Dylan for more information. You'd think someone who'd worked with the cops would understand how to be more stealth about the black sheep of the company. She finds photos that show Oliver and Olivia posing together as the cofounders of Onira Tech.
Dylan says: Oliver Hill is a neuroscientist and was a founding partner of Onira Tech. He left the company 19 months ago. That's all the information I'm authorized to disclose.
As Mara says, that's not suspicious at all. Does Charlie have a special group of henchmen who scrub the web of references to Oliver? Otherwise, what's the point of trying to hide the known history of a public figure?
At this point, Charlie and Paul just happen to interrupt Mara's investigation. They've found someone in Reverie using an unregistered BCI, and since there's only one that's unregistered, it has to be the thief. They need her to go in and get an ID on the thief right this very minute.
Mara sits there gaping at them, trying to change gears. She's just discovered that there is a potential conspiracy, and now they're being weird about the stolen BCI. Charlie asks if something is wrong, because she needs to go in and find the crook, RIGHT NOW.
But how about that timing, huh? It's not like the device was stolen more than a month ago or anything, and the guy/gal could have been using it the entire time, and will probably continue to use it. Nope, gotta drag Mara away from asking questions about Oliver Hill as quickly as possible.
Mara goes to her reclining nook and enters Glenn's Reverie. She starts out in his library, with four doors, each to a different fantasy. The first door opens into a clinical corridor with blue and white tile on the floor. The blue tiles look like they're made of water. The second door lead to his apartment courtyard, including fountain. Mara enjoys the fountain for a moment, then moves on.
The third door takes her into a factory storage room filled with shelves and boxes. Glenn is there, and becomes upset with her for being in the wrong place. Mara's presence ruins whatever scenario Glenn wanted to act out, so he exodus's out of the program before Mara even finds out his name.
Once Mara leaves Glenn's Reverie, she goes to Paul. Between them and Dylan, they quickly figure out that Glenn is trying to steal something from Medivax Research Laboratories in Huntington Beach, a pharmaceutical company that makes treatments for respiratory and circulatory diseases.
Charlie turns up again at that moment to tell them that a BCI tech has confessed to stealing the missing set and selling it to a buyer on a Dark Reverie site for $50k in Bitcoin. Mara is confused, so Paul explains that name brand Reverie has built in limits to what the avatars will do. There are certain moral boundaries built into the code. Paul seems quite passionate about that.
But some people think that there shouldn't be any rules about what the avatars can or can't do. They think Reverie is the best place to act out their worst impulses and darkest fantasies. They illegally break into the Reverie code to alter it so that the prohibitions are gone. The Reverie designers call it the Dark Reverie.
The Onira thief didn't get the name of the buyer, so Charlie orders Mara to go back into Reverie and get any identifying information she can. Mara asks why he's not bringing the case to the police. Charlie explains that press and publicity come with the police, and he's trying to avoid those.
Mara asks if there's a secret he's trying to protect. She's upset that Onira Tech is riddled with secrets that she's only told when she stumbles onto them, like Dylan being Alexis' brother and the risk of derealizations. Now she discovers that there's a Dark Reverie that no one mentioned. When Charlie wonders why this is all coming up now, Mara asks about Oliver Hill.
She explains how she met Oliver the night before, when she had a life threatening derealization and he saved her life. Charlie balks at the thought of Mara going to her sister's house, and is angry at the idea of Oliver following Mara, but has no reaction to her near death or the fact that it was caused by Reverie.
He got her this job and is a father figure to her. Shouldn't he be more worried about her, rather than expressing concern over everything that has to do with Reverie, which is what we've seen him do so far? At this point, I never believe that his concern is without a secondary, but probably actually primary, agenda.
They go see Alexis, who is also unsympathetic. She orders Mara to restart her medication. According to Alexis, the severe derealization happened because Mara went off her meds. Once she's back on them, everything will be fine. Alexis is as dismissive of Mara as ever.
There's no discussion of the fact that this product requires a strict medication regimen or it becomes life threatening. The 1.0 version has also become life threatening to a significant number of people for other reasons. Does the FDA know about this?
Mara says that Oliver told her the derealization episodes would get worse. Alexis dismisses Oliver as not knowing what he's talking about. Mara asks if Oliver was lying about his own worsening episodes, and about being a founding partner in the company. Charlie jumps in and says that it's true that Oliver and Alexis were partners in founding the company, but Oliver was unstable long before they formed Onira Tech. He's brilliant, but mentally ill.
Mara tells them that Oliver said they'd try to discredit him. Charlie replies that they had to fire Oliver and get a restraining order against him, which is why he went to Mara. Charlie conveniently doesn't make the case for why they needed the restraining order. Because he knows Mara would be on Oliver's side?
Mara says that Oliver told her they were going to release 2.0 to the public. Charlie says the release is years away. They'd never release a product that wasn't fully tested and proven safe. He says that Oliver is trying to manipulate her.
As she leaves the office, Mara wonders if Oliver is really the one who's trying to manipulate her. Once she's gone, Alexis tells Charlie that Mara didn't believe their story. Charlie says that Mara didn't believe the story because it wasn't true. If Mara were told the truth, she'd believe it.
Charlie follows Mara to her office to continue his damage control campaign. The man is a tireless administrator, I'll give him that. He's also the chief secretkeeper. But he's really nice to everyone for as long as possible while he's enforcing the skullduggery, and a great listener (which is part of how he knows the secrets).
Charlie pulls out the trust card, making Mara recite how long she's known him (10 years) and confirm that he's always been there for her, through every tough time. He tries to get her to concede that he'd obviously never knowlingly do anything that would hurt her, but Mara stands her ground. She reiterates that what happened to her last night was a big deal. Brynn specifically said that Mara was there for a reason. Charlie says that if that's true, they'll figure it out, and he'll still have her back.
Mara changes the subject to the BCI thief. She's tracked down the fountain in the thief's Reverie to a downtown apartment complex. She and Charlie determine which apartment must be the thief's according to the angle Mara was seeing the fountain from when she looked through the library door. She assumes that the library door mimicked the angle of the thief's apartment door.
They run into Liz and Quincy in the courtyard before they get a chance to knock on Glenn's door. Liz lets them know about Glenn's quirks so that they don't have an issue with Glenn before he even opens the door. Charlie hides his blue pocket square.
Glenn opens the door, but threatens to call the police. Mara and Charlie threaten to call the lab that Glenn plans to rob. Given the stand off, Glenn decides to talk to Mara, but he won't let Charlie in. He tells her that he's a freelance coder. Glenn quickly puts things away and turns off monitors so that Mara won't see his preparations for the robbery, and tells her not to touch or move anything because of his OCD.
Mara and Glenn bond for a minute, but just when Mara is beginning to make progress with Glenn and starts to ask him about the heist, Charlie interrupts and becomes intrusive, disrupting Glenn's space. Glenn escapes by going into his Reverie, passing out on the floor. They take him to the Onira Tech hospital ward, where Alexis can't wait for him to come out of his coma so she can send him to prison. When Mara worries that he'll die in prison due to his OCD, Alexis stays unfeeling and says, "You reap what you sow."
I'm getting the sense that everyone who works for Onira is a sociopath and the only differences between them are how well they cover it up. Alexis isn't even trying, while Charlie is a master of disguise.
Seriously, he bought a stolen implant that's widely available, and Alexis wants to sentence the guy to death? It seems like something worth a fine and some community service.
Paul is the only one that I even remotely trust, and he's already told us that he literally has a room full of secrets. Mara goes straight to him with the news that they've caught the thief. He figures out that she's also still conflicted about Oliver, and worried about what Oliver's condition means for her.
He tells her that he shouldn't be showing her everyone's private medical files, which is true- major bad HIPAA violation, bad Paul- but then he closes his clear glass office door so that no one can see what he's doing, and shows her anyway.
Paul pulls up brainwave files from himself, Alexis and Mara from before Reverie use and during the use of Reverie 2.0. There's slight variation and volatility in the Reverie files, but they're all within normal range. Then he pulls up Oliver's files. Oliver's brainwaves were strikingly abnormal before he went into Reverie, then absolutely chaotic once he had the implant.
Paul: Oliver was unstable long before he got a BCI. And, he's wrong. He hasn't spent more time in the program than anyone else. Since he left, Alexis and I have spent much more time in there. And we're not insane. Are we? Don't get me wrong. 2.0 can be a profound experience. If you have issues, it can find them. It did for me. But it finds them. It doesn't create them.
Mara says that she wants to believe Paul. For now she's going to keep working. It's good to focus on other people's problems because it helps you forget about your own. A light bulb turns on in her head. She knows what Glenn is doing.
Glenn is still unsuccessfully trying to leave his library by walking through that sunny parking lot. Mara confronts him and says that she's figured out that he's not robbing the lab for himself. He's robbing it for Quincy. Glenn says that Quincy has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, which he says is, "Doctor speak for 'Your lungs suck, and we don't know why."
MRL has a treatment for Quincy's illness that's in clinical trials. Patients were chosen for the trial by lottery, and Quincy wasn't picked. Glenn wants to get the medication for Quincy anyway. He's hacked into the security feeds, gotten the layout of the building, and done everything he can to ensure the success of this operation, but he can't get himself to go outside.
Mara tells him that it's time to give up. Glenn tells her that, because of his own illnesses, he watches the world through a window from his tiny life in his tiny apartment. Since the day that they moved in, he's watched Quincy grow up and watched Liz bravely fight to take care of him. He won't give up on them. They're the best part of his life, and this is all that he can give them.
Mara comes up with an idea. Glenn will leave the Reverie and cooperate, as long as Onira helps him complete the robbery. Charlie takes Mara and Glenn's deal to Monica. Glenn knows a lot about Dark Reverie that can be used to shut sites down. They'll need Monica's help for part of the plan.
Glenn walks Mara through his plan. On the day of the robbery, Mara will pick up Glenn before dawn so that he can make it to the car before the sun comes up. Then he makes his way into the lab facility. His next obstacle is a blue and white tiled floor in a corridor. The blue tiles look like deep water to Glenn. Mara shows him that he can hop on the white tiles to avoid the blue. He has to wait until someone opens the correct door, then hop down the hall to catch the door before it locks again.
Now he'll be in a storage room. He needs to take a key card from a security guard's jacket, and use it to get the correct medicine from a climate controlled room. Once he's got it he'll leave through the door to the loading dock and parking lot. He just needs to make if across that sunny parking lot, into his waiting getaway car. But he still can't handle sunlight well enough to make it across the lot.
Mara works with Glenn to get him past his phobia. She gives him a green die to mess with so that he has something for his hands to do, and something for his brain to focus on. He makes it outside a few feet, then turns back in fear.
Charlie confronts Oliver outside his apartment. Oliver asks about Charlie's ex-wife and estranged daughter. Charlie tells Oliver not to upset him. Oliver remembers what happened the last time he made Charlie angry, right?
None of this looks good for Charlie. So far he sounds like a mob fixer.
Charlie tells Oliver that he assumes Oliver's encounter with Mara was a bid for attention, so Charlie's here to find out what Oliver wants. Oliver is mad that he's been erased from the company, and he wants back in. Charlie calmly tells Oliver that they both know that's not going to happen and why. Oliver admits that he made mistakes, and blames the program. He wants to help fix the program. Charlie definitively tells him no, then asks if Oliver's taking care of himself. Oliver becomes irate, and screams at Charlie to stop pretending that he cares about Oliver. Charlie, still with the ever-present calm of someone who has all of the control in the situation and is happy to wield it, looms threateningly over Oliver and tells him to take his meds and stay away from Alexis, Mara and Charlie himself.
He doesn't mention Paul.
Oliver looked maniacal and desperate during parts of that conversation, and he was shaking during a lot of it. This won't end well.
Charlie was like a very scary, threatening, brick wall. When you combine that with his loving, protective father mode, it makes him seem even more like a mobster.
On the day of Glenn's big heist, Mara picks him up at 5:30 AM, while it's still dark. She assures him that it's okay to be scared, and gives him in-ear communicators like all the cool criminals use, then sends him out to commit a felony. The robbery goes off as planned. When Glenn gets to the loading dock, it takes all of his strength and concentration, but he makes it to Mara's car.
Charlie appears at the car window and leads Glenn and Mara inside the lab facility, where they ask Glenn to give the stolen meds back. Monica is inside with the company president, who's been told that Glenn had been using Reverie to test the company's security systems, then offered a real life demonstration of the weaknesses Glenn found. The president is so impressed that he offers Quincy a spot in the medication trial, Glenn's preferred reward for his work.
When Glenn tells Liz that he got Quincy a spot in the trial, she cries and gives him a huge hug. He goes with her, across the sunny courtyard, to tell Quincy the good news.
Oliver approaches an Onira tech security guard and offers him $30,000 to steal a BCI set. Oliver says that he wants to live out his fantasies and get back the girl who got away.
Alexis and Mara talk in Mara's office. Alexis says that Charlie's always right. I can't tell if she's joking or not.
Then Alexis tells Mara a little about her relationship with Oliver. Oliver thought of the brain as a time machine, while Alexis thought Reverie could turn the brain into a teleportation device. Mara says that between them, they'd covered time and space. Alexis says that they worked as a couple, right from the start. They were in love, but he was always unstable. At first all of his good qualities outweighed the difficult ones, but then he started getting worse, and blaming his problems on Reverie 2.0. They had a big fight about it, then later that night he tried to set her house on fire with gas and his Zippo lighter.
She didn't go to the police. She says, "Charlie talked to him, fired him, got the restraining order, and paid him off enough money to get him to go away, at least for a while."
I wonder if Charlie also set up the fire, so that there would be a reason to get rid of Oliver? That zippo lighter detail just strikes me as too specific to be real.
Mara tries to convince Alexis that she has nothing the be ashamed of, and that she doesn't need to keep this a secret. Alexis contradicts her, saying that the higher ups and many of the others at Onira would love to have a reason to discount her. She won't give them that reason. She asks Mara to act as though their conversation never happened. Mara tacitly agrees.
Alexis is a little paranoid, too, but it's probably justified. Or it might be coming from a manipulation by Charlie in order to protect the product's reputation
Wow, that was an exposition heavy episode. Now that the introductions to the basic concepts and characters of the series are accomplished, we're moving on to the 2nd story arc of the season, where the conspiracy/mystery arc is fleshed out. Oliver's story and the Dark Reverie network are sure to be connected in some way. Either he was the creator of what developed into the Dark Reverie, or he figured out the nefarious purposes some of the others were planning to sell Reverie for, and he was purposely pushed into insanity by a faction within Onira Tech.
It felt like parts of this episode were rushed. With all of the creative uses of Reveries and flashbacks in this show, surely the basic facts of Oliver's story and the founding of Onira Tech could have been shown more creatively than in plain rapid fire dialogue. Even if they're having each person give us a different version of events, they wouldn't be the first to show flashbacks of the same event from different points of view, then eventually show what really happened, or to show a Reverie of what Mara eventually pieces together as the truth.
But they probably didn't have time for that, and couldn't afford it, since they were spending so much time in Glenn's world. They tried to do too much in this episode, with introducing Oliver's character and backstory, plus devoting so much time to Glenn's story as a way of introducing the Dark Reverie. It would have been better to introduce Dark Reveries and Oliver in separate episodes.
When Paul explains the Reverie coding and behavior restrictions to Mara, Paul and Charlie stare at each other intensely during the entire explanation. Charlie says that some people disagree with the restrictions. It sounds like this could be an ongoing argument between them, or it could be an issue that comes up frequently from external sources. It may be that their military investors want the restrictions removed. Or that Charlie thinks Reverie would sell better with the restrictions removed, but Paul isn't going to condone abuse and certain types of violence. He's probably more sensitive to certain things since he was abused himself.
It lowers my opinion of Charlie to see him equating Oliver's mental illness with him being a liar and manipulator. Those are two separate things, and one doesn't necessarily cause the other. Alexis stays silent during the "Oliver is crazy and a creep" conversation. Her character is written to be in perpetual silent, angry, damaged victim mode, with Charlie as the overprotective dad who goes too far in trying to keep her from getting hurt again.
Charlie might also be going too far in protecting Alexis because she's the source of Reverie, his cash cow. Mara is apparently someone he can risk sacrificing, because he's just using her to keep Reverie afloat.
Charlie hired Mara knowing that she was still deeply traumatized by her sister and niece's deaths, and knowing that she was using unhealthy means to avoid coping. After finding out about Oliver's history, I think Charlie didn't particularly hire Mara because it would help her out, which is what he told her, so much as because her history would be useful to him if things went wrong. He hired her because she was unstable enough that they could blame her deterioration on her documented preexisting mental condition if she followed the same path as Oliver. That way they could keep Reverie from being blamed for destroying a second person's mind.
But Mara's also fundamentally more stable and experienced than Oliver, so she has a better chance of success with the derealizations in the long run. Charlie was hedging his bets. Mara is test subject #2 in some kind of human experimentation program. The others may have spent time in 2.0, but they were also shielded from the worst of its effects, since they're using it in purely clinical, rather than real world, situations. Paul used a lie of omission in the conversation where he showed Mara the brain waves. The Reverie gang love to leave out crucial information.
Mara is being exposed to all kinds of code and to the implants and brains of other dreamers. There's no telling what effect that cross pollination could have on her. And we know for sure that Reverie is going into the other dreamers' brains, picking out relevant information, then bringing it back to Mara, because we saw it happen in her first Reverie, with the butterfly. It's probably happening more subtly now, with Reverie nudging her to notice the important clues inside the program and out in the world.
Why was Charlie so upset that Mara went to her sister's house? He's hiding some secret about that night. He turned on the sirens to approach the house when Ray was holding Jamie and Brynn hostage, an action an experienced cop would know was likely to set the suspect off. It's starting to feel like Charlie did that deliberately to keep Ray from talking too much. Charlie could be worried that Reverie will help Mara put the puzzle pieces together about the real reason her sister and niece died. The apartment might still be empty because there are clues to what Ray and Charlie were involved in hidden inside somewhere, and Charlie is hoping that mara will eventually lead him to them. He could be angry that she went to the apartment without him.
What did Brynn mean when she said that Mara was there for a reason? Did Brynn mean that she brought Mara to the apartment for a reason? She could have been referring specifically to the fire, Oliver, or Jamie and Brynn's death. Oliver set fire to the residence of the young woman he was involved with, while Jamie was murdered by her husband. Both are suspicious, and Charlie is connected to both. I feel like Reverie has chosen Mara to imprint on and is sending her warnings about ways that some factions within Onira Tech are trying to misuse the product. Some of those Dark Reverie coders could be working for Charlie and Monica Shaw on secret projects for their day jobs.
Crazy thought- Was Ray connected to the Reverie project? When he snapped and killed his family, was he having derealizations from some secret test program gone wrong? Ray could have been trapped in a cycle of Reverie nightmares fading in and out of reality, leaving him paranoid and violent. Or someone could have made him do terrible things while he thought he was in a Reverie, and either the guilt or the trauma sent him over the edge. You could easily turn someone into a Winter Soldier by using Reveries and derealizations as brainwashing/torture tools. Especially since we've seen the way that Reverie can get inside the dreamer's head and send avatars/alter situations in ways that will be the most effective. Imagine if that were meant to harm the subject, instead of help. It could be the most effective torture tool ever created, in the wrong hands.
It's possible that Oliver set fire to Alexis' house to see if it was real, similar to the way he burns himself. Right now, the evidence for who's telling the truth and who is trustworthy is all very confused and confusing.
But it's a fact that the Onira Tech gang have withheld important information until a crisis forced them to reveal it to Mara several times now. It's their standard policy. They also don't seem to have much empathy for actual human beings. They're more worried about protecting the product.
It's also a fact that Mara came back to herself standing in the middle of the road after an extended derealization, and no one at Onira took it seriously. They didn't even examine her or her implant. This is after Charlie's had Paul monitoring Mara's vitals and brainwaves without her consent. The kind of health event that Charlie was supposedly watching for, happened, and his major concern was discrediting Oliver. These things don't add up.
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Gissing Centre MuseumGeorge Gissing, born in Wakefield in 1857, wrote 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Some believe him to be one of the best three novelists of his generation alongside George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. He also enjoyed friendships with fellow writers such as Henry James and H.G. Wells.
The Gissing Centre, George's former childhood home, opened in Wakefield in association with The Gissing Trust in 1990. The Trusts main aims are the acquisition, care and display of objects connected with George Gissing and the literary history of Wakefield.
The centre houses family memorabilia, exhibition material and a large collection of books by and about George Gissing. The centre welcomes visitors who want to learn more about the literary heritage of the area.
George Gissing, born in Wakefield in 1857, wrote 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Some believe him to be one of the best three novelists of his generation alongside George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. He also enjoyed friendships with fellow writers such as Henry James and H.G. Wells.
In 2007 Wakefield Civic Society celebrated the 150th anniversary of Gissing's birth by unveiling a commemorative blue plaque, located a short distance away from The Gissing Centre.
The Gissing Centre is open from May - September every Saturday 2.00pm - 4.00pm.
Visits outside these times can be made via prior appointment.
The Gissing Centre is located in a traditional Georgian yard. Access on foot is down the side of the NatWest Bank on Westgate.


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Preceding her in death were her loving husband James Stokes Sr., as well as all of her siblings.


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Людмила Андреевна Линькова (род. 1935) — литературовед, театровед, балетовед, преподаватель Санкт-Петербургской консерватории, доцент кафедры режиссуры балета, автор теории по сценарной драматургии балета.

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Людмила Андреевна Линькова родилась в Краснодаре 27 октября 1935 года.

В юности Людмила Андреевна занималась балетом в студии при театре Палиашвили, в 1958 году окончила Тбилисский университет и с 1959 по 1964 годы работала старшим научным сотрудником Пензенской картинной галереи. С 1965 года преподавала в Ленинградской консерватории, где разработала оригинальные курсы истории и сценарной драматургии балета (теория и практика). С 1966 года также читала курс истории хореографического искусства в Ленинградском институте культуры.

Разработка системы сценарной драматургии и её применение на практике является важнейшей составляющей в комплексном обучении профессионала — артиста. Благодаря которой представитель русской балетной школы так отличается от современной европейской, порой опережающей в технике, но отстающей в содержании.

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 Санкт-Петербургская консерватория
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All around Olive Estate there are so many options for people who enjoy an active lifestyle. There are numerous golf courses – your closest is Greenacres on Best Island. You will be immediately adjacent to the Great Taste Cycle Trail that takes you from Richmond into wine country and beyond.
For keen mountain-bikers Nelson features some of the world's best adventure cycle trails. Many of Nelson's rivers are just moments away for keen anglers or just for a swim or a stroll. The beaches are diverse and many; from the golden sands of Abel Tasman National Park to the warm and gentle waters of the Waimea Inlet. The fishing is superb.
Walking trails abound and for those of you that are keen gardeners you will be welcome to create your own piece of paradise in Olive Estate's community gardens.


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It's time to get big money out of Saskatchewan politics: NDP
Posted by Eric Bell on March 14, 2017
With the British Columbia Premier Christy Clark committing to the creation of a non-partisan committee to review the province's campaign finance laws, the Saskatchewan NDP is once again pushing the Sask. Party to get big money out of Saskatchewan politics.
"As the Sask. Party continues to announce its callous cuts and desperate sell-offs, it's become more and more obvious that they often need a reminder that they work for the people of Saskatchewan, not just for big donors and out-of-province corporations," said NDP Ethics and Democracy Critic David Forbes. "Saskatchewan democracy should be left firmly in the hands of Saskatchewan people. Our campaign finance laws are the worst in the country and, under the Sask. Party, we're actually falling further behind. There is no good reason for the Sask. Party's refusal to support our call to improve these important rules."
The NDP currently have a Bill which would put a cap on donation limits and would ban corporate and union donations. Forbes noted that union and business leaders in Saskatchewan also support banning corporate and union contributions and that, until recently, the Saskatchewan Premier was the last in the country to take top-up bonus - funded by party donors - on top of his public-paid salary.
"The people of the province deserve to know how the Sask. Party is funded and be assured that no government access or influence is being bought," said Forbes. "The Premier fought tooth and nail to keep his top-up, all while fighting to cut wages of public workers. By continuing to stand by the out-dated campaign finance laws, the Sask. Party is stomping on democracy and showing their true colours."