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—and y'know, personally I like playing as the mages. Rita was good.
i understand your opinion but i do not agree with it, aside from agreeing about rita being good
Who do you play as, then?
I can't believe you have to ask me that. I mean, consider the roster of Vesperia. Who do you even think.
Right, right, you're a dyed-in-the-wool Patty main. Chisa's vanilla, she just used Yuri.
of course she did
Had I been more tuned into this conversation, I would've had to actively stifle saying something on the subject, but my mind as elsewhere at the time.
Mio, I'm sorry to ask you this out of the blue, but have you gotten Mr. Ayafumi those labs, yet?
Think you me one who might not, Apostle of the Angelic Gauntlet?
Yeah, I'm gonna get them turned in today. Why does he want labs on me, anyway?
Richter looked away with an awkward grimace that said he was trying to avoid explaining how scientifically interesting he, and by extension Kirino, found her, because it would make him look weird.
He probably just wanted an excuse to get your measurements.
Excuse you. Even if I didn't already know her measurements, I would have no need to go about it in such a devious, underhanded manner.
No no, I get it, Richter. I mean, if you asked Chisa she'd say my measurements were pretty worth knowing—
So you're self-taught, right, Youka?
You see, my mind had been on Youka, who'd been taking the monsters in our path to the cleaners to facilitate casual conversation. She wiped the dust off of her legs and turned around amidst the awkward silence.
That I am. Why do you ask?
Well, it's just... knowing you were a pit fighter makes that all the more impressive. You didn't learn on the fly in the ring?
Sure I did. Not for all of it, of course, but I had to do a lot of on-the-fly learning. Why, some of my signature moves the announcers would call out as though it were from some sort of anime, I'd never even considered before I stepped into the ring.
...wait, was there a time where you weren't buff?
I'm hurt. You think I've been this buff my whole life?
I'm just having a hard time picturing it is all.
Well, no, I'll have you know I used to have the sort of physique you'd imagine of a high school girl, back when I was, y'know, a high school girl. Mostly I was just tall. A bit top-heavy.
Yes, I can see that. Why are you asking about this, Chisa?
Well, I was just wondering how she does it. I'd say she has the best grip on the fundamentals of combat of any of us, so I was thinking about trying to...
Um, pick her brain? Is that weird?
...I see.
I will be expecting you to pay in full once we return, Youka.
Never should've agreed to this bet.
Okay! Gather around for Pit Fighting 101 with Miss Youka, everyone!
So, the first thing you need to understand is that in order to win in a fight, you've got to go in fighting like it's your last. You take every punch like it doesn't even happen, or you lose. The person who flinches the most usually winds up on the floor. See, that's what getting in shape like this teaches you—you push through that pain, so you can push through a knife in your side, too.
What they don't tell you is how hot it feels when you get stabbed. How much it feels like everything in your guts are trying to escape you, the cold sweat, the shivers. You've gotta push through that, too.
And then you've gotta hit them right back. You can't win a fight without fighting. So you hit 'em hard.
That's how I'd lived my life up until then, anyway. Taking it a step further wasn't that big a deal, even if half the time I'd come home covered in sweat, about to vomit whatever I'd eaten on the floor from exhaustion.
And that's how the burly, indomitable lady you know and love came to develop her physique!
Wow, okay, cool. Now I know what to avoid.
Be glib all you like, kiddo, you seem like you're more of a wizardly type anyway.
You got that right!
Innate Ability
All attacks from the user, both normal attacks and attacking skills, attempt to inflict one stack of D-Depth on their target, with a 100% base chance.
D-Depth lasts 3 turns by default. The duration is reset to 3 turns if another stack is inflicted. Once a target has 3 stacks of D-Depth, more cannot be inflicted—and, by extension, the duration cannot be reset—until the stacks are either forcibly removed, or naturally wear off.
D-Depth lasts 3 turns by default. The duration is reset to 3 turns if another stack is inflicted. Once a target has 3 stacks of D-Depth, more cannot be inflicted—and, by extension, the duration cannot be reset—until the stacks are either forcibly removed, or naturally wear off.
Alright! So, here's the basic fundamental of fighting with your fists.
Now, the advantages of your fists are pretty obvious. They're about as strong as you can make them, they don't weigh anything you're not used to lugging around, easily portable, and they're fast—you don't need to get used to them like you need to any other weapon. Plus you can augment them with knuckles, gauntlets, and the like.
On the other hand, they're short-range, can't output too much stopping power, and you need to be really damned strong to get them to work on anything tougher than flesh. If fists were all people needed, we wouldn't have needed weapons. But what people don't tell you about fistfights are what they teach you.
What would that be?
Say I were to throw a jab at your face, Chisa. What would you do?
I'd... probably try and dodge it, if I could...
No, no. On a more basic level.
...I'd throw up my hands, or my sword, to try and defend myself.
Right. You've thrown up your weapons into a defensive stance. Your body's considering your weapons—the amount of things you can react to is limited by what you're already doing.
You wield your sword with your right hand as the dominant hand, but you're ambidextrous, so either way would work. Whichever way, if you were defending you'd have both of your hands on the hilt of the sword to angle it to defend yourself, and that means one of your hands is away from your side—it's a perfect opportunity to strike there with a mid-height kick.
Oh, I—
Then you'd react to that, and you know that side is hurt now, you know it's slightly less powerful so you angle to try and keep it safer—and that limits what you can do, too. The more you guide your opponent's movements by how you hurt them, the heavier your offense can be.
Jab to face to throw the sword up leads to a kick to the side. As I advance, you try and swing, and I hook into your other side. Since your torso's hurt, your sword's a bit low, and I deliver a jab into your face, and then while you're reeling from the headshot I spin a backhand in there, too. You're staggered, so I have a moment to go for a gut shot, or to capitalize on the headshot with a couple more, maybe throw in a headbutt if I want to finish you off and send you to the mat.
All that from a single jab. See? Fighting with your fists teaches you the value of capitalizing on your opponent's instincts.
My word.
Uh-huh. Okay. Now I have marked down how to floor my girlfriend with my bare hands. Thanks.
Oh, you can just do that by shoving her lightly and flirting with her.
Very true!
This is another one of those lovely little side benefits you should consider on any attack—whatever you're fighting, you're likely to escalate its D-Depth any which way you go about it.
Tier 1 Skills
Forward Punch
Requires that the target have at least 1 stack of D-Depth to use. Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy.
So, your basic forward punch here—
Like this!
It's higher-investment than you'd think, but can be pretty rewarding. It's a basic move, sure, but it can really hurt, especially if you go for the head. Or the balls, though that's even higher investment. You're gonna be doing a lot of these starting out, but you shouldn't rest on your laurels—sticking and moving is the way of things.
It's a basic damage option that gets outclassed by later moves, but early on it's great.
Depth Charge
Increases the user's ATK-based damage for a set number of turns. Additionally, for the rest of the battle, the user's innate ability to inflict D-Depth becomes guaranteed, instead of a 100% base chance.
Now, one thing you need to understand is that there's a good reason instincts work like that. Injured spots hurt more. You get punched again in a spot, that hurts! It's more likely to cause injury.
You hit someone in the gut one, two, three times, and he's horfing up his lunch!
So sometimes it's good to get the lay of things and make sure you're getting the lay of where someone's weakest points are.
For instance, Richter's weakest point is his upper left leg.
Relatively. You're a pretty even man, Richter.
This comes in handy more often when you aren't running a Hacker in the party. It doesn't stack or anything, but you do get the guaranteed D-Depth either way, though. So that's neat.
Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy. Inflicts 1 stack of D-Depth on the target.
So this jab. What does it look like?
In response, Youka's fist rocketed out at lightning speed, then retracted.
Good lord.
It's a great way to open 'em up for a pounding!
Similarly, this gets outclassed later, but that doesn't mean it's not a good deal for offensive Destroyers in the earlygame.
Counter Stance
Increases the user's chance of being targeted by enemies for the rest of the turn. When the user is user is targeted by an enemy, they will deal melee ATK-based damage to the enemy.
Now, here's what you need to understand. I'd say this is the foundation of the Fudoji Style—can I call it that?
I don't see why not. It's a martial arts style and you're the lead practitioner.
When you're in the ring with a strong opponent, they know everything I just said, too. They're looking for openings, trying to lead you into a trap. When I started out in the pit, I wasn't as strong as I am now—plus, I was going up against an army of men, and that put me at a disadvantage.
The 'Fudoji' Style has one simple tenet. You plant your feet on the ground. If you can feel the ground, know that there's a line from the platform you're on all the way to your head, then you're in good shape.
...You'll have to forgive me. I like to think my conversational Japanese is passable, but my knowledge of kanji—
'Fu' (不) is a prefix meaning a negative. 'Do' (動), in this context, means 'motion'. 'Ji' (寺) is used in this context as a method of counting temples—the character itself specifically means a Buddhist temple.
'Stalwart temple'. A building which remains unmoving... I see.
If your feet are on the ground, and your opponent is leaning into attack you, then you're steadier than they are. You have the ability to twist their momentum back at them. The more you understand this basic philosophy, the more ability you have to fight back against foes who are stronger than you. So long as you don't crack, the enemy's offense and their defense are both opportunities to strike.
Here we are, folks, the bread and butter of Destroyer. Reading the LP up to this point should be plenty to get across what a good skill Counter Stance is, but to be clear—in a game where action economy is so paramount, a move that lets you redirect aggro to your tank and also regularly allows that tank to take two actions in a turn? It's amazing. It's the cornerstone of Destroyer's tanking ability.
Tier 2 Skills
Double Hook
Requires that the target have at least 2 stacks of D-Depth to use. Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy. Reduces the target's damage dealt for a set amount of turns.
Spinedge Blow
Requires that the target have at least 2 stacks of D-Depth to use. Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy. Increases the target's damage taken for a set amount of turns.
Now, when you start really laying into 'em, that's when you can start hitting them multiple times. The more you hit someone, the weaker they get, obviously. Now, what I've found is a nice one-two hook combo—sock 'em with your off hand, then your dominant hand—it makes people scared to fight back. Their hits have less power because they're starting to consider running away.
But I'm a big fang, as you've seen, of the spinning backhand. Open 'em up with a jab, then whirl around and slam into their skull with your arm—it's flashy and it hurts like a bastard. It's the kind of move people don't quite believe before they've been hit with it, and knowing that they can hit you that hard makes your presence a bit stronger. People's pain tolerance goes down, I guess, when you hit 'em with the spinning backhand.
I see, I see. So is this some manner of infophysical—?
I'm going to stop you right there. I don't know anything about that. I just know the look of fear in someone's eyes when I hit 'em with the double-hook.
Well, I'm just curious about the scientific implications—
Richter, I think the scientific implications are that Youka is scary.
Oh, well yes, I do know that. That makes sense.
These are two sides of the same coin, and which one you use more is usually a question of which debuff you value more. Both of them are awesome skills, and work to bolster any other party member, since they're physical and magical debuffs wrapped into one. Plus they do a truckload of damage.
Fang Breaker
Increases the user's chance of being targeted by enemies for the rest of the turn. When the user is user is targeted by a fang attack, they will deal melee ATK-based damage to the enemy. Additionally, the user has a chance to evade fang attacks that target them. If the user does not successfully evade the attack, its damage is reduced.
Claw Smasher
Increases the user's chance of being targeted by enemies for the rest of the turn. When the user is user is targeted by a claw attack, they will deal melee ATK-based damage to the enemy. Additionally, the user has a chance to evade claw attacks that target them. If the user does not successfully evade the attack, its damage is reduced.
Breath Render
Increases the user's chance of being targeted by enemies for the rest of the turn. When the user is user is targeted by a breath attack, they will deal melee ATK-based damage to the enemy. Additionally, the user has a chance to evade breath attacks that target them. If the user does not successfully evade the attack, its damage is reduced.
This is all well and good, but how do you transfer that over to dragons?
Easy as pie! Dragons have instincts like any other living being, don't they? You just have to move it over a bit. For instance, take those puppy dragons from the subways. The other day, I slammed my arm into the crook of its mouth as it was trying to bite me, dodging its teeth, and then grabbed it by the back with my other hand so I could swing around, grab both halves of its jaw with my fists, and tear it open.
Is that what happened to that one?!
It's about the same principle as how I took out this one guy who tried to come at me with a beartrap. I tore it in half and started wielding the halves as claws, and the guy pissed himself and ran away.
Speaking of claws, there's another thing. Claws are sharp in close range, and that's technically superior in many regards to blunt damage. On the other hand, they limit your options—to deal damage with them you've got to pierce straight on or swing with them to slash. They're pretty easy to counter if you can get a word in edgewise—you can predict the arc they're going to swing if you're not dead on in front of them.
And how do you deal with their breath attacks?
That's not so much battlefield experience as it is working experience. I mentioned I worked in sanitation for a while, right? Well, you get a lot of bad smells in that business that come up and blast you, and you've gotta learn how to stand it and bounce back. Same with an oven in a restaurant, or—
Those aren't pressurized, though.
I'm just telling it like it is.
Situational, but all very useful in those situations. Negating damage entirely for a brutal counter is hot, and great for survivability. It does require a bit of foreknowledge, but thankfully this game's systems are pretty conducive to that.
Parry Shield
Reduces the amount of non-elemental damage the party takes for the rest of the turn.
If a party member is revived after Parry Shield takes effect, they will not be affected by Parry Shield.
If a party member is revived after Parry Shield takes effect, they will not be affected by Parry Shield.
By the way, speaking of. I've been considering something. Why don't you all just stand behind me?
When there's an attack on the way, I mean. I'm tougher than you all. I could probably take at least some of it.
Well, because what if you get blown back? You're heavy, Youka.
That's a fair point.
Still, your protection in the event you couldn't stop an attack from hitting us entirely would be appreciated. You are quite burly, Youka.
A utility skill that's useful if there's a big bomb on the way. How nice! Thank you, Mama Fudoji.
Tier 3 Skills
Mach Drop
Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy. Inflicts 2 stacks of D-Depth on the target.
Now, this is where we get to things I'm not allowed to do yet, so don't tell anyone, alright?
We all nodded.
Now, when your fists start moving fast enuough, you can ready up some pretty violent moves with less. The less speed you're spending on needing to reposition yourself, the more you can spend on a single action. Here, watch—
Youka found a trash can, and in the span of time she'd managed one jab beforehand, now there were three craters in the trash can.
Then you can get right into breaking them a bit harder rather than working with basic stuff.
Oh my god, she is agile.
You're looking for your car but you're all turned around. She's almost upon you now, and you can see there's blood on her face. My god, there's blood everywhere!
The upgrade to Jab. There is an edge case for using Jab instead of Mach Drop, but overall it's just an easier way to get right to the stronger techniques. It's good.
Requires that the target have at least 3 stacks of D-Depth to use. Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy.
I remember one time I was facing this really fast ninja type—knives in his hands, running all around trying to get a lick in on me. I got pissed off, plus I'd already been having a frustrating day, so when I landed enough punches to almost knock him down, I got a little violent.
I started raining down blows on him, then vented my frustration from a bad client by rearing my head back and slamming it into his. I swear I could hear his ankles snap from the hit, and he fell right the hell over and the match was over. The announcers started taking to calling that move the 'Bloody Quintet', and it was pretty effective.
Mmhm, mmhm.
Youka demonstrated for us, and I felt a chill run down my spine at seeing her face turned into another extension of that weapon.
The strongest skill on the D-Depth line, Quintet does absolutely absurd damage. Its raw damage multiplier outdoes Chisa's EX skill at max level (though Sakura Cyclone does have the EX 1.5x boost to consider), and it's coming off of Superwoman over here. It doesn't have any side effects, but does it need them?
Otoshi Mae Joto
When the user takes damage, they have a 12% chance to deal melee ATK-based damage to the attacker at the end of the turn. The attack also inflicts 1 stack of D-Depth.
If the target dies before Otoshi Mae Joto activates, a random enemy is targeted instead.
If the target dies before Otoshi Mae Joto activates, a random enemy is targeted instead.
Now, if someone hits you pretty hard, and you counter them once, they usually expect that to be it—so every so often, if you capitalize on that the next instant, you really tear into them. It's not always feasible, but when I've done it it works damn well. People have gone down faster than you can say 'uncle' when I've torn into them with this one.
...Pit fighting is a scary place.
Yup. You should be glad you never had to go there.
It's free real estate. If you're banking on a certain later skill, it might be problematic, but otherwise it's free real estate.
Fiend Shifter
Increases the user's chance of being targeted by enemies for the rest of the turn. When an enemy attempts to inflict an ailment on the user, they will deal melee ATK-based damage to the inflicter. Additionally, the user has a chance to nullify the infliction, independent of their normal resistance to the ailment.
Every so often you get some wise guy who thinks he's gonna take you down by playing dirty. Breathing poison gas in your face, maybe, or hitting you in the eyes with pocket sand, or hitting you with acid.
I won't lie and say I didn't get hit with that sort of thing a few times, but you've got to understand that tricks like that are just another part of seeing what's going on. If you pay attention, you can get past that. Once I learned that, even if I did get hit, it stopped being as much of a big deal. You could probably throw sand in my eyes in the middle of combat and I'd barely even blink. Just gotta prepare yourself first.
There was this one real fuckin' wise guy, actually. This was all happening in this underground red-light district, see, and this punk thought he'd sneak into the brothel where I worked and poison the food to try and give me a stomachache or something. I see a little window open in the place where the girls who didn't have anywhere else to go lived, and I hold up my hands and yell, "Hold the phone!" and I walk over and I look at the poisoned soup we had and I shake my head.
"That's bad for you," I tell them. I'd bought ingredients for the next week or two of making Cocona bentos, and I'd brought them with me, so I pulled them out and started whipping out bentos for a couple dozen. Took me about half an hour, I'd say, but they all said it was one of the best meals they'd had in ages.
The kid who'd done it had come in and bought some time with someone around his age to make sure it went alright, but I wasn't standing for it. See, I don't care if you try and mess with me, but these girls were family to me, so I tore in before anything could happen and I pulled the kid by his hair, dragged him out of the room, and I gave him the receipt for the ingredients I'd bought.
"Listen here, you little shitstain," I said, "I'll give you two choices. Either you forfeit the match and pay me back for these, or I drag you into the ring right now and they'll find you a bloody fucking pulp."
He chose the former, and everyone lived happily ever after.
This one's less situational. A lot of enemies have ailment skills, and skills that deal damage and have ailment riders. This doesn't reduce damage, but it does make Youka more defensive against ailments, and it can proc a lot more often than you might think. Great skill.
Destroy React
For a set amount of turns, when the user inflicts D-Depth on an enemy, they have a chance to gain an extra turn.
You worked for a brothel as a bouncer?
Well, by the time I got in the ring I'd been working there for a while. Technically I still was, but a lot fewer people came in requesting me after I went into the ring and started breaking people in half. It was an informal role, but people respected it, and I got a pretty decent wage and the ability to protect the girls there.
You really have worked every job under the sun, haven't you?
Hu hu hu. I am a worldly woman.
Anyhow, I remember another match I won in twenty seconds. I countered a strike from this guy—huge guy, had a big ol' axe I had to catch and then yank on to get him in, but then I hit him and I just kept hitting him. Uppercut, full-in punch, spinning backhand, then I blasted him with a Bloody Quintet and he was down.
If you're moving into a combo, you want it to be fluid. You don't want to start and stop—every motion is part of your attack, so you keep going.
A great React skill—it can allow you to get extra actions quite easily, or guaranteed with a bit of setup. It's a really easy way to lay in for some of the higher D-Depth skills, and reminder that EVERY skill Youka has has a chance to inflict D-Depth.
Destroy On Sight
The user has a chance to deal melee ATK-based damage to all enemies, and inflict 1 stack of D-Depth on them, at the start of battle.
Sometimes I'd just stomp my foot and the panel under me would crack and whoever I was fighting would run away.
You've got impressive footfalls! You could probably take out monsters that way, honestly.
Ooh, good idea! Couldn't hurt to try.
I try.
It's free real estate.
Death's Door
If the user takes fatal damage, they will avoid dying, and have their LIFE set to a certain value.
Death's Door does not have a set duration, and will last until it activates. Upon activation, the buff is dispelled.
Death's Door does not have a set duration, and will last until it activates. Upon activation, the buff is dispelled.
Sometimes, you'll go up against an enemy who's stronger than you. An enemy who can kick your ass to kingdom come. But remember—it's the one who toughs it out who wins in the end. That's the fundamental core of the Fudoji Style—you don't give up, not ever. Even if it seems like you're going to die. Even if there's no hope left.
It's a style that's a lot like you, Youka.
Well, it is mine.
This skill is deceptively good. I mean, I know, it obviously seems good, but it's deceptively good because it's a perfect lead-in to a later skill on the list, provided you don't level it up too high. Well, more specifically, if you value the defensive option more, you level it up, and if you value it more as setup to said later skill, you keep it at level 1. Either way, it's very useful.
Tier 4 Skills
Drill Crawler
Requires that the target have at least 3 stacks of D-Depth to use. Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy. Heals the user for a percentage of the damage dealt.
Here's where things get a little messy. One thing I specialize in is gut shots. People don't often think about the gut as a killing point, but if you barrel your fist in there hard enough, you can blow open someone's stomach, or even get to their spine.
Sometimes you'll draw blood. Sometimes you'll do more than that—you'll rip an open hole in them with your fist, cave them in like they're a crater. The bloodthirsty bastards who watch these love to see it—they love to see violence. So the crowd cheers, and you tune it out, and you know that leaving this hell means making your enemy dead.
I guess you could say I'm a bit disgusting. Drawing blood tends to make me stronger.
Don't feel bad, Youka. Drawing blood makes me stronger, too. You're just using your fists, whereas I use the unholy venom within my fangs.
Sure, Mio.
Ku hu hu hu hu.
It deals less damage than Quintet, which is to say it deals a truckload of damage still, and it heals you. It's a really nice survivability skill and it's sure to heal you for a buttload because... big damage number. Good skill.
Hard Target
Increases the user's chance of being targeted by enemies for the rest of the turn. When the user is user is targeted by an enemy, they will deal melee ATK-based damage to the enemy, and inflict 1 stack of D-Depth.
I was an only child, y'know. That meant my parents scrutinized me a lot. Obviously—I did get disowned and all. But it made me want to rebel in small ways. It built something up in me.
Similar principle. To be honest, I've been holding back on my counters for a lot of this. I could go a lot harder—I could really rip into something. No chance about it—I'd just tear them to pieces. You all saw...
Well, you saw a bit of that.
It makes me want to let loose. I'm hoping that sooner, rather than later, I can completely let loose on something.
Do any of us have siblings?
I don't.
My parents didn't stay together long enough to have more than one.
I guess not, huh?
Anyway, what's next?
Hard Target is fundamentally an upgrade on Counter Stance, so much so that they roll the two skills into one ten-level skill in 2020-2. Higher damage and guaranteed D-Depth? Sign me up!
Rage Bomber
Deals melee ATK-based damage to one enemy at the end of the turn. The damage increases based on how low the user's HP is.
You know, they never called me the 'Ghost of Yotsuya' in the ring. They called me the 'Raging Bomber'.
Why is that?
It has to do with the first time I got in the ring. This guy had been fucking around with some of the girls at the brothel, really treating them like shit, and I was pissed. I was so pissed that I just kept standing and standing even where other people might've fallen down, because he was damned tough. But I got back up on my feet after everyone thought I was out, after I'd drawn a hell of a lot of blood.
I gave him a jab, then I followed up with a spinning backhand, and then I saw my opportunity and I aimed my fist right for his stomach. I blew a hole in him, like I mentioned, and I reached through and I grabbed his spine. Before he could react, I shoved my other hand in there too, blowing another hole in him, and then I grabbed his spine and I squeezed and I squeezed and I gripped and I tore until I felt him snap under me, felt my hands crack his spinal column and watched this guy become an object in an instant.
I roared and I finished the job by snapping it in two, and letting his corpse fall to the ground broken. His guts, or what was left of them, all started falling out of him. People always said it looked like a bomb had gone off inside of him—hence, 'Raging Bomber'.
After that, people said that the scariest time to face me was when I was almost dead, because every time I'd be nearly out of it I'd turn it around and rip whoever I was facing to pieces. There wasn't any mercy for those sons of bitches.
Sorry. I guess that was a little graphic.
No moreso than I'm used to with you.
It's a little moreso!!
Here it is, folks. An EX 10% HP Rage Bomber is the single strongest skill in the entire game, its raw multiplier even outdoing Chisa's EX Skill charged. It does ungodly amounts of damage, and there's no D-Depth requirement. This is why you might want to leave Death's Door at level 1—at 1 HP you're always going to have that full multiplier, and that damage is hideous. On the other hand, you're... at really low HP, so it's balancing act. Still, if you can get a full-strength Rage Bomber off, whatever you're facing is having a bad day.
I'd say that's about it. I've been getting a bit tougher with all the fighting we've been doing, but I haven't managed to figure out anything else yet.
what if you had like an anime supermove. like a serious anime supermove. like you'd yell out the name and then everyone would go whaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! get out of the way mama fudoji's gonna do the thing!!!
That would be neat!
EX Skill
Skyhigh Meteor
Deals melee ATK-based damage to all enemies. Inflicts 3 stacks of D-Depth.
lol 1950%
So! That enough to satisfy you kids?
Yes, I feel very enlightened. If a bit terrified!
Oh, you're always terrified.
You don't have to be so honest about it...
Alright, well, if we've had enough, let's keep on keeping on. People are waiting for this stuff, y'know!
...you good, Mio?
Huh? Oh, yeah.
This was a conversation that occurred later that night.
Wah?! Youka!
You're looking pretty distracted, and not in a productive way. Something wrong?
It's uh, not your fault or anything! If you were worried!
No, it's fine. I'm not busy right now—what's up?
I guess... okay, this is kind of hard to explain, but... I guess I just got reminded of something. Something pretty bad.
Well, a few things. I get bummed sometimes. You know how it is.
Mmhm. Mmhm.
I was thinking about... I think it was five years or so ago now at this point. You know Chisa's no contact with her bio-family, right?
Chisa has a younger brother.
Chisa has a younger brother. About six or seven years younger—I think he'd be starting his last year of high school this year. The last time she saw him was five years ago, at the Inomiko manor.
...And I've tried... telling her he exists. That she had a brother. That she loved her brother. I've tried. But she diverts the conversation and then acts like the conversation never happened, or she starts hyperventilating... So I just sort of have to pretend he never existed, because the circumstances she left under scarred her so bad.
And I just wish I had your ability to persevere, because it's... hard. I mean, it's—it's hard, you know? It's hard having to be in that kind of position. It's...
It's hard having to pretend that the woman I love is okay when I know it isn't true. And I don't know what to do, and I just... I'm scared. I have this awful feeling like reality's gonna set in, even nine years out, like even just being happy is going to vanish.
Come here.
Youka embraced Mio in a hug. Mio was a better crier than I was.
I just, I—aw, beans, not again—I—
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Siemens aims to manufacture a workaround for EV-charger property electrical-panel updates. Florida bulks up on EV charging infrastructure. And a re-upped EV tax credit history could give an rapid enhance to GM and Tesla. This and additional, below at Inexperienced Auto Reports.
The EV tax credit rating growth is again, and it is the moment all over again a probability. Underneath a Senate proposal predicted to move, this time the 200,000-motor vehicle cap would be lifted—bringing GM, Tesla, and Toyota cars back to whole qualification—while car-price tag and household-revenue caps would be used. Despite the fact that the credit history would maintain at $7,500—with $4,000 for utilised EVs—it would be made a place-of-sale volume below a system but to be labored out.
Citing info suggesting that nearly 50 percent of U.S. homes could possibly not be able to guidance the installation of a normal (40- to 60-amp) Stage 2 AC charger without a costly panel update, the global supplier Siemens has announced a partnership with Virginia-based ConnectDER to produce a proprietary adapter that can just be plugged into the household's utility-meter collar.
And up until eventually now, Florida has boasted 1 of the best quantities of registered electrical cars amongst U.S. states, whilst the charging infrastructure has remained sparse and underwhelming. But ideas from a newcomer, IUC, will set up 80-amp Level 2 chargers throughout the point out inside of the future 18 months, efficiently doubling the variety of chargers.
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Classical Numismatic Group Announced as Official Auction Partner for the 2022 National Money Show®
CNG will be conducting an Official ANA Auction at the National Money Show® to be held at the iconic Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 10-12, 2022.
The American Numismatic Association (ANA) is pleased to announce that Classical Numismatic Group, LLC (CNG) will be conducting an Official ANA Auction at the National Money Show® ( NationalMoneyShow.com ) to be held at the iconic Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 10-12, 2022. CNG also has been selected to conduct an Official ANA Auction at the Phoenix National Money Show in 2023.
Established in 1975, CNG ( cngcoins.com ) is an international firm with offices in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and London, England with a focus on ancient, medieval and British numismatics, as well as U.S. coins.
The CNG auction will be online only, with lot viewing available at the show. (The date of the auction is yet to be determined.) The first part of the auction will be the sale of the Ken Bressett collection of Roman coinage. Bressett, the editor emeritus of A Guide Book of United States Coins (the official Red Book), was careful not to collect anything featured in the Red Book to avoid any conflict of interest, according to CNG Managing Director Mike Gasvoda. Bressett's Roman coinage collection will comprise 300 to 350 lots.
"We are thrilled to be conducting an official ANA auction and hope that this is the first of many," says Gasvoda. "As an ANA member for more than 40 years, it gives me great pleasure to be a part of furthering the mission of the Association."
To consign items with CNG for the National Money Show auction, collectors can contact Gasvoda at firstname.lastname@example.com .
The 2022 National Money Show offers collectors access to hundreds of dealers offering extensive numismatic inventory at all price levels, exhibits of rare and historical treasures, and educational programming for both beginning and seasoned hobbyists. The show is hosted by the nonprofit, Colorado Springs-based American Numismatic Association, which is dedicated to encouraging the study and collection of coins and related items. The ANA helps its members and the public discover and explore the world of money through its array of educational and outreach programs.
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Pentagon Chief Outlines What Is to Be Discussed during Ramstein-Format Meeting
Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin has outlined the main issues to be considered during the Ramstein meeting on 15 June.
According to the correspondent of European Pravda from Brussels, Austin, opening a meeting at NATO headquarters in the Belgian capital, stressed that the participants of the Ramstein-format meeting continue their efforts to protect Ukrainian citizens from Russian air strikes. He mentioned the Patriot, IRIS-T, and NASAMS air defence systems already delivered to Kyiv.
"I have asked that the members of this contact group continue to work to provide Ukraine with the air defence assets and ammunition that is essential to protect its citizens," he said.
Furthermore, the meeting will focus on the training of Ukrainian pilots on Western fighter jets.
"During our last meeting, we announced a new initiative led by the Netherlands and Denmark to train Ukrainian pilots on fourth-generation fighter aircraft, including the F-16s... We look forward to hearing more about your progress today," Austin said.
Additionally, Germany and Poland will inform their partners about the next steps in the key task of supporting and maintaining Ukrainian Leopard tanks, the Pentagon chief added.
A separate issue will be to ensure that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are able to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression in the future.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that Ukraine needs a force that is mutually compatible with our military. So today we will hear from US Commander Cavoli (Supreme Allied Commander Europe – ed.) and some of our colleagues about future training plans and our work to support that," Austin added.
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More about TEKKEN 3 for Mobile
Tekken and its series, a world-famous fighting game, have been brought to mobile! Join famous warriors in a deep, intuitive combat system that incorporates fighting tactics from all across the world. Assume the role of Dojo Master, gathering, improving, and battling with your favorite TEKKEN fighters!
CHALLENGE and LIVE EVENT challenges that rotate!
Regardless of whether the game is fantastic or horrible, many Tekken fans would be ecstatic. Although this fighting game lacks the depth of its console or PC versions, its superb controls make it one of the finest mobile fighting games.
This version of Tekken casts you as one of the colorful contestants in the King of Iron Fist competition, just like the other versions. It does a fantastic job of recreating this popular and long-running game with simple controls, especially since it adds a card system that allows you to deploy special attacks.
It also has a number of unique locales and a lot of colorful characters to play with. However, your characters' health does not regenerate between fights; you must restore them using pickups that you purchase or earn.
In addition, unlike the console versions, this version lacks a deep combo attack system. Even so, when you have nothing to do, it's an excellent time to pass the time.
Tekken 3 Gameplay
You'll be fighting in the King of Iron Fist tournament in this mobile edition of TEKKEN. Players take on the role of a variety of colorful characters and use simple touch controls to land a series of punches and kicks in an attempt to defeat their opponents. However, while this version adds cards that can activate special attack actions, it is simpler than earlier versions of the brand.
Ads are annoying, and it appears that sharing with friends is required in order to gain power-ups. If you're a fan, however, these may appear to be minor roadblocks to enjoying the nostalgic characters and settings.
New players may struggle to acquire a true feel for the game, especially if they haven't played Tekken 3 on a console. With so many high-end brawl games on the market, try the classic Tekken 3.


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Adventures with Van Gogh
Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories will range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. © Martin Bailey
Ten reasons why we love Van Gogh
It's not only the art, but also his extraordinary life story
Revealed: How Tate briefly considered acquiring a Van Gogh self-portrait—which was later exposed as a fake
The gallery couldn't afford the price, of just under £20,000
New publication sheds fresh light on brothel scenes by Emile Bernard and Van Gogh
Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum this week publishes a catalogue focused on Bernard's rarely seen drawings featuring prostitution and sexual allegories
The Van Gogh painting that was stolen—and recovered in an Ikea bag—goes on show
Research reveals that the artist began the work as a winter scene and transformed it into a spring landscape
One of Van Gogh's finest early watercolours is coming up for sale, estimated at up to £3m
Woman Sewing was inspired by a soulful English poem, "The Song of the Shirt"
A Dutch museum wants to buy a Van Gogh painting from an English collector
The portrait of Gordina, whom Vincent was accused of getting pregnant, is worth around £5m
Van Gogh 2024 highlights: London's National Gallery takes the lead
There will be other exhibitions in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Taiwan—plus a topical book and a plethora of immersive experiences
Van Gogh in 2023: the best-ever series of exhibitions
Other highlights include the dramatic recovery of a stolen painting and an astonishing donation
When Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' was bought by the National Gallery it was snubbed as one of its top 100 acquisitions of the decade
Omitted from the 1920s book, next September the masterpiece will star in a London blockbuster on Vincent's art of Provence
Van Gogh's 'Starry Night over the Rhône' will return for the first time to the city where it was painted
But did Vincent really wear a hat fringed with candles when he was working?
Gauguin's shocking claim: Van Gogh painted the Sunflowers 'following my advice'
The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death
A stolen Van Gogh drawing recovered outside a public lavatory 20 years ago goes on show
The Whitworth's watercolour will be a highlight at the Royal Academy's exhibition
Van Gogh's 'Night Café': a haunt of prowlers, not a brothel
Vincent felt that the café he painted was where you could "ruin yourself, go mad, commit crimes"
How a fake Van Gogh encouraged Barbra Streisand to buy the real thing
The star's autobiography reveals her admiration for a "self-portrait" owned by a Hollywood producer
Van Gogh's sunflowers blossom in Japan
The masterpiece is celebrated in a show at Tokyo's Sompo Museum
Where did Van Gogh shoot himself?
It may have been near the inn where he stayed—not in a more distant wheatfield
Van Gogh paints by the River Seine, a stepping stone to Provence
A revelatory exhibition in Amsterdam on Vincent's landscapes from the outskirts of Paris—along with those of his avant-garde colleagues
Experience Van Gogh's final weeks—through a blockbuster exhibition in Paris
After seeing the Musée d'Orsay show, continue on to Auvers, to enter the room where Vincent lived and died
Van Gogh would have loved to see the National Gallery's exhibition on Hals
We spotlight eight paintings in the London show that Vincent singled out for special praise
Revealed: Van Gogh's unknown period, exploring the landscape of the remote north
The first exhibition on Vincent's visit to Drenthe, where art consoled him after a failed love affair
Recovering the stolen Van Gogh: the museum director recalls the emotional moment
Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer
Brighter than a thousand suns: atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer and his three Van Goghs
The awesome nuclear test explosion at the heart of the new film seems prefigured by Vincent's sunrise
What paintings did Van Gogh hang above his bed?
"Pictures within pictures" reveal more about life in the Yellow House
How Van Gogh inspired his artist friends to exchange self-portraits
But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin's painting arrived at the Yellow House
Van Gogh's cypresses are the focus of an exhibition opening at the Met in New York
How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif
Inspired by the Seine: an ambitious exhibition with Van Gogh's Parisian landscapes opens in Chicago
Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera
Van Gogh's last paintings go on show in Amsterdam and Paris
The two exhibitions are the first to highlight the artist's productive final months in Auvers
Van Gogh's spectacular output: 60 paintings in six weeks, but he could not sell them
Amsterdam exhibition reveals more about Vincent's final days in Auvers
A Van Gogh Montmartre scene with sunflowers is coming up at Sotheby's—and could fetch $30m
Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family
Van Gogh's thwarted dream: a painting by the artist blocked from display in a French café
A plan to show the €75m "Garden at Auvers" in the village inn where the artist died has been halted at the last minute, although hopefully temporarily


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'Forty Years On: At the Metropole.' A single page mimeographed poem.
Undated - circa 1946. First Edition thus. Mimeographed (or otherwise mechanically reproduced) on a single 8 x 10 inch buff colored sheet. Crowley published a slightly different version of this poem under the title 'Forty Years On: To Angela Constadine' in his Olla (1946). The version published in Olla appears to have been slightly bowdlerized, thus the lines which appear in the books as 'The tarts quite a little bit tartier; The road-hog more pushingly present," appear in this broadsheet as the more racially-offensive ''The tarts undeniably tartier; The Semite more pushingly present.' Crowley apparently had a small number of this version 'printed' for recipients of copies of Olla who he thought would be appreciate it. VG condition. Item #31902
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My heart, my wallet and my dignity took an absolute beating last week. The column got humbled, as last week's picks failed to deliver in spectacular fashion.
The matchup between the University of Maryland and The Ohio State University got canceled due to "an elevated number of coronavirus cases within the Terrapins' program," according to ESPN. If anything, this cancelation should have been a red flag to stay away from the weekend slate of games, but I did not heed that warning.
Instead, I took a chance on Southern Methodist University to cover the spread against The University of Tulsa. The Mustangs decided to spite me, as they blew a 21-0 lead and ultimately failed to cover, as they lost by four points. The Denver Broncos decided that they would much rather throw interceptions than score points during Sunday's loss against the Las Vegas Raiders, resulting in the over missing by just three points — it was demoralizing.
The underdog parlay was a long shot at best, so although it was not surprising it didn't hit, the fact that the New York Giants were the sole winners while the Buffalo Bills and the Seattle Seahawks lost was tough and very surprising.
Really cool of SMU to blow a 21 point lead, love that. 🙃 https://t.co/utF6n5wK2O
— Scott Nies (@scott_nies98) November 14, 2020
The most heart-wrenching loss of all of last week's picks, you ask? Definitely the Colorado State University Rams failing to cover the 13.5 point spread. The Rams got dominated against the Boise State University Broncos and really just set the precedent for a tough weekend of gambling to follow.
At the time of writing, the CSU game this week seems to be shrouded in uncertainty, so out of caution, there will not be a pick for the CSU game. If the game does end up going along as planned, look to my Twitter page for a spontaneous live bet."
Now, the column stands at a record of 14-16, with the parlay ultimately going 1-2. Morale was low going into this week, but through sheer grit and determination, we will try to battle back into the positives.
Sports betting has provided me with added levels of entertainment but only because I bet within my means. If you feel you need help, call the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-522-4700.
College Football
At the time of writing, the CSU game this week seems to be shrouded in uncertainty, so out of caution, there will not be a pick for the CSU game. If the game does end up going along as planned, look to my Twitter page for a spontaneous live bet.
Indiana University Bloomington Hoosiers vs. The Ohio State University Buckeyes
Spread: IU +20.5 points, OSU -20.5 points
Moneyline: IU +650, OSU -1115
Over/Under: 66 points
The Big Ten Conference has been full of crazy endings this year, most notably the Indiana University Bloomington Hoosiers' incredibly controversial two-point conversion to upset Pennsylvania State University in their opening game of the season. That upset kick-started the Hoosiers' currently undefeated season, as they sit at 4-0 going into this week's game.
The Hoosiers may be hot right now, but The Ohio State University, currently ranked number three in the Associated Press top 25 ranking, is once again putting together an incredible season. Ohio State is also undefeated, sitting at 3-0 going into this game, but due to the cancelation of their game last week, they sit below the Hoosiers on the Big Ten Conference table.
The Hoosiers are better than what would have been the Buckeyes' opponents last week, but the spread is only four points smaller. Indiana is also conceding fewer rush yards, pass yards and points per game than Ohio State, even though they have played one extra game. That being said, Indiana has not gone up against a quarterback as legit as Ohio State's Justin Fields yet. According to Bleacher Report, Fields is projected to go second overall in the upcoming NFL draft.
Verdict: IU +20.5 points. I don't think the Hoosiers have a chance to win this one, but much like the Maryland Terrapins last week, I think they will play a better game than what the spread indicates. It might be close, but I really like Indiana to cover this week against the Buckeyes.
Appalachian State University Mountaineers vs. Coastal Carolina University Chanticleers
Spread: App. State +5.5, CC -5.5
Moneyline: App. State +170, CC -210
Over/Under: 47.5 points
If you haven't been following the Coastal Carolina University Chanticleers this year, you are missing out because they have been extremely fun to watch. Also, they have built quite an impressive resume this year, as they currently sit undefeated at 7-0. At a glance, the Appalachian State University Mountaineers seem more than ready for the challenge, as their record isn't far behind at 6-1.
However, both of these teams have played a bunch of the same teams, and their past score lines can give us a hint at who to pick for this game. Both schools have played Arkansas State University and Campbell University. Appalachian State secured a 28-point victory over Arkansas State and a 31-point victory over Campbell. Coastal Carolina also won both of these games, beating Arkansas State by 29 points and Campbell by 22 points.
These score lines are pretty even, but most recently, both schools played Georgia State University, and this is where it gets interesting. Appalachian State beat Georgia State last week with a tight four-point victory. On Halloween, Coastal Carolina also beat Georgia State, but the outcome was quite different. The Chanticleers dominated and won 51-0.
Verdict: Coastal Carolina -5.5 points. Coastal Carolina's domination over Georgia State as opposed to the nail-biter that the Mountaineers experienced makes this an easy pick for me. When you throw in the fact that this will also be the Mountaineers' first game against a ranked opponent this year, I think it makes Coastal Carolina the obvious choice.
NFL Sunday Parlay
After the Arizona Cardinals beat the Bills by way of Kyler Murray's insane game-winning, last-second, desperation touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins, I have lost all hope in my ability to accurately predict games. Do stats even matter in this crazy 2020 season? Probably, but it's the intangibles that are the most fun to argue for. Last week, the parlay was centered around underdogs; this week we are going to take three different overs and root for points, and points only.
Tennessee Titans/Baltimore Ravens over at 49 points with odds of -110, the New York Jets/Los Angeles Chargers over at 47 points with odds of -110 and the Houston Texans/New England Patriots at 48 points with odds of -110.
These three picks combine for odds of +597, meaning if you bet $5 you will return $34.84. It was a tough week last week, so here's hoping that luck is on the side of the column going into the weekend.
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A brand new paper in Evolution, Drugs, and Public Well being signifies that antibiotic resistance could outcome from poor hygiene practices in hospitals or different medical services.
Correct hand hygiene in scientific work is a cornerstone of affected person security, however compliance remains to be poor. That is though hand hygiene is straightforward, secure, and low cost. Antibiotics save lives and make a lot of recent medication attainable. However micro organism that evolve resistance in order that they're not killed by antibiotics threaten these medical positive factors, notably after they unfold from sufferers in well being care settings.
When a affected person takes antibiotics, that inhibits any drug-sensitive micro organism within the physique. If that affected person carries micro organism immune to antibiotics, that is an surroundings the place they'll thrive. Good hygiene, in each well being care and the neighborhood, is central to an infection management. That is well-known. However what's much less clear is how hygiene (or different transmission management measures) impacts the evolution of antibiotic resistance.
Researchers right here addressed whether or not hygiene weakens the impact of antibiotic strain on resistance evolution. The authors first developed a mathematical mannequin of resistance to foretell how good or poor hygiene may have an effect on how quickly resistant micro organism enhance in abundance as a consequence of antibiotic therapy.
Then they examined this mannequin towards antibiotic resistance info from the European Middle for Illness Prevention and Management. Knowledge collected at 691 long-term care services in 19 European international locations in 2013 counsel that that is the case. Nations the place employees at such services made higher use of alcohol-based hand rubs noticed much less enrichment of antibiotic-resistant micro organism, right here resistant E. coli micro organism, for his or her antibiotic use.
This means that employees maintaining hospitals and different services like nursing houses clear, utilizing coaching and procedures, will stop sufferers from buying resistant micro organism from others—and thereby stop the explosive amplifications that speed up the unfold of drug-resistant ailments.
"Well being care hygiene is a cornerstone of fine scientific observe," mentioned the paper's lead writer, Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft. "It is also key to the administration of antibiotic resistance by defending sufferers from the acquisition of resistant strains. The significance of hygiene, particularly hand hygiene, is properly appreciated by well being care professionals, however compliance has nonetheless been proven to be poor. There's thus alternative to enhance on this essential, but easy, facet of resistance administration."
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Magnus Aspenberg et al, Hygiene Could Attenuate Choice For Antibiotic Resistance By Altering Microbial Neighborhood Construction, Evolution, Drugs, and Public Well being (2023). DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoac038
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If you want to know about Jake Borelli's real phone number and also looking for Jake Borelli's email and fanmail address then, you are at the correct place! We are going to give you their contact information of Jake Borelli like his phone number, email address, and Fanmail address details.
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NAME: Jake Borelli
DOB: 13 May 1991
BIRTHPLACE: Ohio, United States
BIRTH SIGN: Taurus
NATIONALITY: American
HEIGHT: 1.68 m
FATHER: Mike Borelli
MOTHER: Linda Borelli
PROFESSION: Actor
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Who is Jake Borelli?
Actor Jake Borelli was born in the United States on May 13, 1991. He is recognised for his performances as Dr. Levi Schmitt on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy and Wolfgang on the Nickelodeon comedy series The Thundermans Linda and Mike Borelli gave birth to Borelli in Columbus, Ohio. Ben and Zack, his older brothers, are also male. He enjoys drawing and painting, and after winning a national art competition in his senior year of high school, he thought about going to art school.
He graduated from Upper Arlington High School in 2009 and was admitted to Ohio State University and University of California, Los Angeles, but he chose to relocate to Los Angeles in order to pursue acting. While in Columbus, Borelli also appeared in over a dozen productions with the Columbus Children's Theatre, including roles in Holes, Wiley and the Hairy Man, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Cheaper by the Dozen, and The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Borelli found supporting roles in television series like iCarly, Parenthood, NCIS: Los Angeles, True Jackson, VP, Greek, and Suburgatory shortly after relocating to Los Angeles. He has also acted in a number of short movies. Grey's Anatomy's Feb. 23 winter return, "I'll Follow the Sun," which will see Meredith Grey leave Grey Sloan Memorial, has received additional details and a new commercial from ABC.
In the promo, Meredith is heard saying, "Sometimes change is good, sometimes change is everything." For the Grey's Anatomy Season 19 finale, Pompeo is anticipated to appear once more. She continues to serve as executive producer, and she will narrate every episode this season. Pompeo, like other well-known former cast members like Jesse Williams, might return to the show after this season, according to rumours.
She might carry on providing the voiceover for the show. Pompeo plays Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy, Wilson plays Miranda Bailey, Pickens Jr. portrays Richard Webber, Kevin McKidd plays Owen Hunt, Caterina Scorsone portrays Amelia Shepherd, Camilla Luddington portrays Jo Wilson, Kelly McCreary portrays Maggie Pierce, Kim Raver portrays Teddy Altman, Jake Borelli portrays Levi Schmitt, Chris Carmack portrays Atticus "Link" Lincoln, Anthony Hill portrays Winston Ndugu,
Shonda Rhimes is the series' creator and executive producer. Vernoff is the executive producer and showrunner. Executive producers include Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Allen, Meg Marinis, Zoanne Clack, and Pompeo.This fall, the show made its greatest cast addition yet by introducing a new batch of interns in anticipation of Pompeo's retirement from the role of Grey, the show's titular character.
The change, which has been well received by viewers, increases the likelihood that TV's longest-running medical drama will air a record 20th season. Making new agreements with a number of actors on the programme whose contracts are up at the end of this season, including the final two original cast members Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr., is on the agenda of Grey's studio ABC Signature in addition to finalising a renewal with ABC.
On her last day at the hospital, while she is being toasted by her coworkers, she deadpans, "You know I probably will be back next week."There isn't much information provided about what else occurs to Meredith on her "big last day," but judging from the grins on their cheeks as they part ways, any argument they have ends quite happily. She is carrying a carryon, while Nick is carrying a backpack.
The last two episodes of the show have made it clear that Meredith has made the decision to go to Boston, which has evolved into a Grey's outpost thanks to the presence of Jackson, April, and Koracick. Jackson made Meredith a job offer to work on Alzheimer's research, and she accepted it.As Deadline reported in August, Pompeo will only appear in eight episodes of Grey's Anatomy this season as she transitions to new projects, beginning with a limited series for Hulu that she is executive producing and starring in.
It's Meredith's final day at Grey Sloan Memorial in the episode, which was written by Krista Vernoff, the series' executive producer and showrunner, and directed by Debbie Allen, the show's executive producer. Nick confronts Meredith about the future of their relationship. Meanwhile, Teddy receives a crucial inquiry from Richard, and the interns vie to observe Maggie and Winston's ground-breaking partial heart transplant operation.He was cast in the 2017 Netflix comedy-drama movie Reality High. In the same year, it was revealed that Borelli would portray Grey's Anatomy intern Dr. Levi Schmitt.
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Far from the usual constraints of art history, Nicolas Othman offers a journey into the heart of a mysterious painting. His lively documentary is based on already proven technology The world in a painting, Vermeer's hatreleased in 2020.
1618. I painted Velázquez Christ in the house of Martha and MaryAt first glance, a painting represents two women in the kitchen. The title comes from an inverted composition, in which Christ, Martha, and Mary appear in a window in the background. In the foreground we see in detail, a piece: a small red pepper on the table.
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Trinidadian author, David Chariandy, captured the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award Tuesday at a function at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Canada. Chariandy also collected the C$50,000 purse for winning.
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Low Dimensional Electron Correlated Materials
Pak, Chongin (author)
Shatruk, Mykhailo (professor directing dissertation)
Hellstrom, Eric (university representative)
Albrecht-Schmitt, Thomas E. (committee member)
Stiegman, Albert E., 1953- (committee member)
Florida State University (degree granting institution)
College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (degree granting department)
doctoral thesis
This PhD thesis is devoted to investigation of inorganic materials with low-dimensional structures. Such materials attract significant fundamental and applied interest due to the potential to achieve highly anisotropic properties, which can be controlled by various external stimuli. After brief introduction to this research area in Chapter 1 and description of experimental and theoretical methods in Chapter 2, we describe the study of ternary manganese selenides, Na2Mn2Se3 and Na2Mn3Se4, in Chapter 3. The relationship between the layered crystal structure of these materials and their magnetic behavior is discussed based on the arrangement of magnetic sites in each layer, and results of quantum chemical calculation on Na2Mn2Se3 and Na2Mn3Se4 indicate both compounds are semiconductors. Na2Mn2Se3 does not exhibit magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K, but strong antiferromagnetic correlations were confirmed by field-dependent magnetization measurements. Neutron diffraction study on powder and single crystal samples also did not reveal clear signatures of magnetic ordering. The strong magnetic frustration was confirmed by calculating the frustration factor. A new antiferromagnetic compound, Na2Mn3Se4, was also discovered. It exhibits antiferromagnetic transition at 27 K. Additional magnetic transition is observed at 50 K in single crystal and powder neutron diffraction studies. The magnetic structure of this material shows a complex combination of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions that alternate along the crystallographic a-axis. Strong magnetic frustration due to triangulated spin arrangement is confirmed. Synthesis, crystal structure, and magnetic properties of layered materials ACeSe2 (A = Li, Na) are described in Chapter 4. The unconventional magnetism of these compounds is due to the arrangement of magnetic sites on the regular triangular lattice, which causes strong magnetic frustration. A detailed investigation of magnetic properties reveals no magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K. The Weiss constant, determined from fitting experimental data to the Curie-Weiss law, is –71 K, suggesting a very large magnetic frustration factor for this system. The relationship between the structural and magnetic properties of the geometrically frustrated magnetic system is discussed. The extension of studies of layered structures to potentially two-dimensional magnetic materials, Fe3GeTe2 and Bi2MnSe4, is described in Chapter 5. These crystal structures contain stacks of 2D magnetic sheets interacting through weak interlayer van der Waals forces. Chemical vapor transport method is employed to grow high-quality single crystals. The structural and magnetic properties of these materials, including magnetocrystalline anisotropy of bulk samples, were confirmed by temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility measurement. The potential to modify magnetic behavior for few-layer materials, down to the monolayer limit obtained by mechanical or liquid phase exfoliation methods, is yet to be investigated. Chapter 6 describes the study of one-dimensional structures that contain tubular or ribbon-shaped polyphosphide fragments. Thin nano-ribbons were obtained by mechanical and liquid-phase exfoliation of bulk KP15, due to the weak van der Waals interactions between the polyphosphide tubes. Optical bandgap slightly increases as the thickness of nano-ribbons decreases which is an indication of bandgap tunability in the material. Nevertheless, the results of Raman spectroscopy, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, and selected area electron diffraction studies suggest the decreased stability of the samples that contain thinner nanoribbons (<20 nm).
Crystal structure, Geometrically frustrated, Low dimensional material, Magnetic structure, Magnetism, Strong electron correlation
July 6, 2018.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Includes bibliographical references.
Michael Shatruk, Professor Directing Dissertation; Eric Hellstrom, University Representative; Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, Committee Member; Albert E. Stiegman, Committee Member.
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