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Sorry dude but that much power is NOT boring.ladajo wrote:And another boring launch...
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Point out news stories, on the net or in mainstream media, related to polywell fusion.
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Yes, however the measure to which it has been harnessed makes it "boring".
That said, fair point, it is amazing to watch and consider what it took to get here. And, then consider what is next.
I would also hope that you know me well enough by now to understand the humor I intend by <yawn>...
That said, fair point, it is amazing to watch and consider what it took to get here. And, then consider what is next.
I would also hope that you know me well enough by now to understand the humor I intend by <yawn>...
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
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More notable, the judges who have been bored with so many recent launches just slept in.
This is victory. Space travel is becoming routine.
This is victory. Space travel is becoming routine.
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SpaceX to build BFR factory in Southern California
Artist's concept of SpaceX's planned spaceship on the moon. Credit: SpaceX
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/21/s ... alifornia/
Artist's concept of SpaceX's planned spaceship on the moon. Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX plans to build its massive BFR rocket boosters and spaceships inside a cavernous new factory at the Port of Los Angeles, officials announced this week.
SpaceX plans to build its massive BFR rocket boosters and spaceships inside a cavernous new factory at the Port of Los Angeles, officials announced this week.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti confirmed Monday during a State of the City address that SpaceX will produce its Big Falcon Rocket at a site at the Port of Los Angeles.
"This vehicle holds the promise of taking humanity deeper into the cosmos than ever before," Garcetti added on Twitter.
SpaceX and port officials have discussed the aerospace company's use of a 19-acre waterfront parcel at the harbor since 2015, and the parties wrapped up lease negotiations last month. The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners on Thursday approved the agreement with SpaceX.
SpaceX's huge new rocket will tower nearly 350 feet (106 meters) tall and span 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter, according to information presented by company founder Elon Musk last year.
The reusable vehicle will come in two pieces.
A booster stage, powered by 31 methane-fueled Raptor engines will produce nearly 12 million pounds of thrust and be capable of returning to Earth for propulsive vertical landings like SpaceX's existing Falcon rockets. An upper stage that doubles as an interplanetary transporter will carry people, supplies, satellites, and huge propellant tanks that can be refilled in space.
Bruce McHugh, SpaceX's director of construction and real estate, told the Board of Harbor Commissioners on Thursday that the 19-acre site at Berth 240 "is the perfect spot to build our big rocket."
SpaceX examined potential factory locations in Southern California, Florida, Louisiana and Texas before settling on the Port of Los Angeles location, according to Michael DiBernardo, the port's deputy executive director of marketing and customer relations.
Artist's illustration of the BFR in flight.
McHugh said SpaceX needed a location with access to the water because the BFR is too big to transport on trucks, as the company currently moves its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters. A barge will pick up the BFR booster and upper stage, also known as the Big Falcon Spaceship, and transport them to their test sites and launch pad.
The huge vehicle's design is still in the early stages, and SpaceX revamped the design of its mega-launcher over 2016 and 2017, ending up with a smaller rocket than Musk originally envisioned. But the BFR — in its current iteration — dwarfs all rockets currently flying in dimension and capability, and would measure roughly the same size as NASA's Saturn 5 moon rocket, while producing nearly twice as much thrust at liftoff as the Apollo-era launcher developed in the 1960s.
"We don't know exactly what we're building, but we know it's big, and we know it can't be trucked," McHugh said Thursday. "So that's why this spot has enough land, it's near the water, and we know that we could produce our product there."
SpaceX already leases land at the Port of Los Angeles as a base for the company's recovery fleet, which deploys into the Pacific Ocean to pick up Dragon capsules returning from the International Space Station and retrieve rocket boosters and payload fairings from Falcon 9s launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles.
SpaceX's headquarters and current manufacturing site is in Hawthorne, California, around 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of the port.
McHugh said SpaceX intends to build an 80,000-square-foot (7,400-square-meter), 80-foot-tall (24-meter) fabrication hangar at the Berth 240 location within about a year.
"When we add onto it, it'll wind up being a total of a 200,000-square-foot (18,600-square-meter) building, assuming everything works out for us," McHugh said. "We are building a ship that's never been built before. We are doing research and technology that's never been done.
"We're also doing this in a parallel path. We are working on the means and methods of how we're going build this product. So far, it's going to be a composite-type rocket."
McHugh said approximately 20 engineers and 20 production technicians are currently working on the BFR project. By the time the BFR is ready for full production, in roughly three-to-five years, McHugh estimated around 700 people will be working at the new factory.
"Elon wants it way faster, but I think it's three-to-five years," McHugh said.
Known for setting optimistic schedules, Musk set an "aspirational" goal last year to have the BFR ready for a robotic mission to Mars by 2022, and a human voyage by 2024. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, said last month the BFR could be ready for test flights into Earth orbit in 2020.
McHugh said the rockets built at the Port of Los Angeles will be shipped through the Panama Canal to Cape Canaveral for launch preparations.
SpaceX officials have said in recent months that early atmospheric tests of the spaceship part of the BFR could begin next year, likely at the company's launch base in South Texas, which is still under construction.
A manufacturing tool for the BFR's interplanetary spaceship
"The ship part is, by far, the hardest because that's going to come in from super-orbital velocities, like interplanetary Mars transfer velocities, moon transfer velocities," Musk said last month. "These are way harder than coming from Earth orbit."
The spaceship's high-speed returns will stress the craft's heat shield and structure beyond the temperatures and pressures experienced by a capsule re-entering the atmosphere from Earth orbit, or by a descending rocket stage.
"Testing that ship out is the real tricky part," Musk said Feb. 6. "The booster, I think — I don't want to get too complacent — but I think we understand reusable boosters. Reusable spaceships that can land propulsively, that's harder. We're starting with the hard part first."
The spaceship design Musk revealed in September had a cluster of six Raptor engines — he later said the ship could have seven engines — and methane and liquid oxygen tanks containing almost a quarter-million pounds (1,100 metric tons) of cryogenic propellants for deep space burns and landing maneuvers. The spacecraft would stretch 157 feet (48 meters) long and have an internal pressurized volume exceeding that of an Airbus A380 jumbo jet, enough room for 40 passenger cabins.
Musk revealed a tool that will be used to build the BFR's interplanetary spaceship in an Instagram post April 8.
SpaceX will pay the Port of Los Angeles $1.38 million per year under its lease agreement for the Berth 240 location.
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Get ready to yawn again
SpaceX confirmed the target launch date in a tweet Monday, and the launch window Thursday opens at 4:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT) and extends until 6:22 p.m. EDT (2222 GMT).
"Block 5 basically summarizes all that we learned on reusability," said Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX's vice president of build and flight reliability, in a briefing with reporters last month. "Whenever we recover a booster and then it goes through refurbishment, we find things that are giving us … lessons for the next block. In this case, we tried to summarize all of these lessons learned into a booster that then is able to fly, and be recovered and fly again multiple times without a lot of refurbishment.
Also not very news worthy, another dragon reentry just fine with no problems 3 days ago...Yawn.
SpaceX confirmed the target launch date in a tweet Monday, and the launch window Thursday opens at 4:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT) and extends until 6:22 p.m. EDT (2222 GMT).
"Block 5 basically summarizes all that we learned on reusability," said Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX's vice president of build and flight reliability, in a briefing with reporters last month. "Whenever we recover a booster and then it goes through refurbishment, we find things that are giving us … lessons for the next block. In this case, we tried to summarize all of these lessons learned into a booster that then is able to fly, and be recovered and fly again multiple times without a lot of refurbishment.
Also not very news worthy, another dragon reentry just fine with no problems 3 days ago...Yawn.
I am not a nuclear physicist, but play one on the internet.
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design*
39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:
1) No new launch vehicles.
2) No new launch vehicles.
3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
2. To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong .
3. Design is an iterative process. The necessary number of iterations is one more than the number you have currently done. This is true at any point in time.
4. Your best design efforts will inevitably wind up being useless in the final design. Learn to live with the disappointment.
5. (Miller's Law) Three points determine a curve.
6. (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.
7. At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it.
8. In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.
9. Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis.
10. When in doubt, estimate. In an emergency, guess. But be sure to go back and clean up the mess when the real numbers come along.
11. Sometimes, the fastest way to get to the end is to throw everything out and start over.
12. There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though.
13. Design is based on requirements. There's no justification for designing something one bit "better" than the requirements dictate.
14. (Edison's Law) "Better" is the enemy of "good".
15. (Shea's Law) The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up.
16. The previous people who did a similar analysis did not have a direct pipeline to the wisdom of the ages. There is therefore no reason to believe their analysis over yours. There is especially no reason to present their analysis as yours.
17. The fact that an analysis appears in print has no relationship to the likelihood of its being correct.
18. Past experience is excellent for providing a reality check. Too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile design, though.
19. The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, you may have invented warp drive, but the chances are a lot better that you've screwed up.
20. A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
21. (Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
22. When in doubt, document. (Documentation requirements will reach a maximum shortly after the termination of a program.)
23. The schedule you develop will seem like a complete work of fiction up until the time your customer fires you for not meeting it.
24. It's called a "Work Breakdown Structure" because the Work remaining will grow until you have a Breakdown, unless you enforce some Structure on it.
25. (Bowden's Law) Following a testing failure, it's always possible to refine the analysis to show that you really had negative margins all along.
26. (Montemerlo's Law) Don't do nuthin' dumb.
27. (Varsi's Law) Schedules only move in one direction.
28. (Ranger's Law) There ain't no such thing as a free launch.
29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.
30. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Engineering Design) If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept.
31. (Mo's Law of Evolutionary Development) You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees.
32. (Atkin's Law of Demonstrations) When the hardware is working perfectly, the really important visitors don't show up.
33. (Patton's Law of Program Planning) A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.
34. (Roosevelt's Law of Task Planning) Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
35. (de Saint-Exupery's Law of Design) A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
36. Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is elegant. A good engineer designs systems to be efficient. A great engineer designs them to be effective.
37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.
38. Capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say.
39. Any exploration program which "just happens" to include a new launch vehicle is, de facto, a launch vehicle program.
39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:
1) No new launch vehicles.
2) No new launch vehicles.
3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.
40. (McBryan's Law) You can't make it better until you make it work.
41. There's never enough time to do it right, but somehow, there's always enough time to do it over.
42. Space is a completely unforgiving environment. If you screw up the engineering, somebody dies (and there's no partial credit because most of the analysis was right...)
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Looks like todays launch was aborted at T-58 seconds, and is rescheduled for tomorrow (11 May). Not sure on the time, however.
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From what I have read it is 16:14 eastern.krenshala wrote:Looks like todays launch was aborted at T-58 seconds, and is rescheduled for tomorrow (11 May). Not sure on the time, however.
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Per: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/c ... k_v_first/
I found the plan for 30-50 boosters extremely surprising if they are really going to be able to re-fly in 24 hours without refurb and with BFR in the wings. Wouldn't this completely undercut BFR?SpaceX on track to double their 2017 launch rate. Source
Arguably version 6 of Falcon 9. There will be minor changes here and there but no major block changes going forward. Source 1 | Source 2
Falcon 9 Block V will be the mainstay of SpaceX's business and is expected to fly 300 or more times total. Source
Block V designed to fly 10 or more times with no refurbishment at all between flights. Scheduled maintenance after the 10th flight. Source
SpaceX intends to demonstrate flying the same booster twice within 24 hours as soon as next year. Recover booster -> retract legs -> go to hangar -> attach second stage -> attach payload -> go to pad -> fuel -> launch. Source
Hardest part of making Block V was human-rating it. Literally thousands of requirements to do so. Met or exceeded all requirements. Designed to be the most reliable rocket ever built. Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3
Block V Merlin engines see an 8% thrust increase over Block IV. Thrust is now 190,000 lbf. SpaceX believes there is still more room to improve the Merlin engines - perhaps up to 10% more thrust and an improvement in ISP. Source 1 | Source 2
Block V has a lot of new added thermal protection. Black interstage, raceways, and landing legs don't need paint. Thermal protection composed of a material that is hydrophobic and therefore doesn't attract water. Source
Octaweb for Block V is much stronger. Better thermal protection on the inside. Each engine contained within a bay which should allow for an engine to have a "bad day" and not affect the other 8 engines. Thermal protection on the inside is to protect against an engine fire. Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3
Landing legs are much easier to stow. Internal latch mechanism can be closed and opened with ease. New landing gear can be retracted via an actuator. Old landing gear took hours to retract. Source 1 | Source 2
Titanium grid fins are now standard on Block V and will be used going forward. Can withstand temperatures of 2000 degrees F. Source
There is active cooling on the titanium heat-shields at the base of the Block V. Source
Confidence in fairing recovery in future flights. Source
SpaceX will be gathering data about the re-entry experience of the second stage. They will try to transmit data to the Iridium constellation during re-entry. Source
SpaceX will be adding heat shields to the second stage until they can recover it. Question is payload penalty. Elon is confident that full reusability of the second stage is achievable. Source 1 | Source 2
Falcon 9 cost breakdown is roughly 60% booster, 20% second stage, 10% fairing, 10% for launch. Propellant is only $300,000 to $400,000. Source
Re-use of the entire vehicle could bring down launch cost by an order of magnitude. Source
Ironically B1046, this first Block V, needs to be taken apart after its first launch to confirm that Block V doesn't need to be taken apart after a launch. Won't fly again for a couple of months. Source
3rd and 4th flights of a given Block V booster should occur in late 2018. By late 2019 they should have cores reaching their 10th flight. Source
Elon is stressed about the first Block V launch. Getting a rocket that can re-fly 100 times is "crazy hard". Source
Boca Chica, Texas launch site will be dedicated to BFR launches. Source
SpaceX's inventory of Block V boosters expected to eventually reach 30 to 50 boosters, depending on the demand for brand new cores. Source
SpaceX has acted as a "forcing function" to drive down launch costs - China looking at reusable rockets. Source
Block IV flights probably could have been pushed to a 10 day increment but with Block V coming it was unnecessary. Source
Gigantic amount of research and testing went into creating the new COPVs for Block V. Most advanced pressure vessel ever developed by humanity. Source
Falcon 9 pricing is now $50 million for a flight-proven booster. $60 million for a brand new booster. Source 1 | Source 2
Elon loves NASA. Source
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Depends on the payload. If its big enough then F9/FH won't cut it (though possibly only if they aren't willing to 'throw it away').
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Because BFR will be less expensive to launch than the F9, the F9 cannot undercut the BFR. It won't matter how cheap the F9 is to refurb or fast to recycle for launch--it's costs are still higher.Maui wrote:Wouldn't this completely undercut BFR?
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Per above info, they are aiming for F9 2nd stage reusability. If they can achieve that, not sure how BFR could possibly be cheaper to launch.
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Less ground crew and far less expensive fuel. Also, 100 minimum launches before refitting means the not10x R&D cost is spread over far more flights.Maui wrote:Per above info, they are aiming for F9 2nd stage reusability. If they can achieve that, not sure how BFR could possibly be cheaper to launch.
Fuel cost is only a little higher for far more capacity.
Ground crew cost is far lower.
R&D $$$ to be amortized per flight is far lower.
Total cost to fly is lower.
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And time required to recover and re-launch is much lower. It will take a great deal of time to recover and return the second stage of the F-9 to the launch site.


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UK property purchase tax is called Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT). SDLT is payable by the purchaser of property or land over a certain value in the UK. It is payable on the purchase of both commercial and residential property.
Non-residential property
Non-residential property includes commercial property such as shops or offices amongst other things.
The current SDLT threshold for Non-residential properties is £150,000 and is charged on a sliding scale as follows:
Property value SDLT rate
Up to £150,000 0%
The next £100,000 2%
The remaining amount 5%
Residential property
The current SDLT threshold for residential properties is £125,000 and tax is charged on a sliding scale as follows:
Property value SDLT rate
Up to £125,000 0%
The next £125,000 2%
The next £675,000 5%
The next £575,000 10%
The remaining amount 12%
Following the Summer 2015 budget an additional 3% SDLT is charged on purchases of residential property acquired as second a home or on buy-to-let properties. This therefore increases the top rate of SDLT on these properties to 15%.
Additionally, where owners come under the charge to the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED), SDLT is charged at a flat rate of 15% upon purchase. ATED is explained in more detail here.

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We use a technique called Mentalization to help couples who face a range of challenges and difficulties. These include parents locked in entrenched conflict about their children, and couples/parents who are involved in domestic violence/couple conflict (also known as situational couple violence).
Our way of working is inspired by the original work of Professors Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman on mentalization, which they initially developed as a way of helping individuals.
Our mentalization approach helps couples/parents to:
- Focus on, and think about, not only the feelings and emotions they are experiencing, but those of their children too, learning to modify their behaviour
- To appreciate that their partner's thoughts and feelings may be different to their own, and that their partner may have a different perspective than they do
- To be curious about possible differences between themselves and their partner, and especially about the reasons why people may behave as they do.
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Decision Transnational meeting Amsterdam
During the Amsterdam Transnational Meeting it has been decided that the first Training Module will be organised in Paris. It is a one week training module, presented in the first half of October. This will be the module to train the trainers. Trainees will come from the partner organisations in the project. Details will follow later. Organisator of the module is AEDE-France.


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Having diabetes doesn't limit you to eating bland food. You need to try to to your research and find out which foods are good for your body and which foods can cause fluctuations in your blood sugar levels. You would like to make a healthy diet plan that can feed your body and keep your heart and circulatory system healthy.
What is really dangerous for the diabetic to eat? This can be what would be a unhealthy diet for everyone else. The answer could be a diet that is high in fat, salt, sugar and also the over processed foods that you can find. This sort of foods is often stuffed with poly saturated fats or trans fat, which can't be burned off through exercise. They're going to stay in the body and clog up the arteries. If you have got diabetes it can be the worst thing for your diet and this will increase your chances of getting heart disease, stroke, and other heart issues that may result in complications.
This can not mean that you have got to chop out the fat forever, but some fats are healthy and necessary. It is terribly necessary if you have got diabetes to know which fats and foods are good for you and which fats are harmful for you too. Fats are found principally in processed foods and found in most of the {fast} food restaurants and are not healthy. Omega 3 fatty acids are found more in fish and are very good for diabetics thanks to the very fact that they'll facilitate decrease the risk of sudden heart attack. When you are operating on your diet, you would like to recollect that you can still have some sugars and fats but in lower amounts. The way that these foods act along with your body will increase the probabilities of health problems happening in your body. You wish to eliminate them from your diet so that you can have the great effects for your health that your body desires for a certain quantity of fat to be healthier.


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What would be the best place to save jar files of libraries I want to use in a project, that are not in any repositories, and how should I set permissions?
Should I put them in /usr/share/java, or is it better to store them somewhere in my home folder?
What would be the most usefull access rights? Does it make sense to follow the convention in /usr/share/java of making a symlink with the package name to the specific version of the jar, and follow the permissions as used there?


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Auspex Pharma raises $35 million
Auspex Pharmaceuticals has raised $35 million for its drug development program, including a drug for a movement disorder associated with Huntington's disease. In connection with the funding, Auspex added to its board Gerald Proehl, the former president and chief executive of Santarus.
The La Jolla biotech said Wednesday it received $20 million in equity financing from venture capital investors led by Deerfield Management Co., along with existing investors. Auspex also got a $15 million, four-year loan from Oxford Finance.
More money is on the way. Privately held Auspex filed on Dec. 20 to raise up to $69 million in an initial public offering. The company's technology makes drugs last longer in the body, potentially allowing them to be safer and more effective.
Auspex's drug for Huntington's, called SD-809, is in a Phase 3 trial. The drug is derived from an existing compound, tetrabenazine. The Auspex version is modified in certain places to contain deuterium, a nonradioactive isotope of regular hydrogen that is nearly twice as heavy. This substitution makes the drug, also called dutetrabenazine, more resistant to being metabolized.
Tetrabenazine must be taken twice or even three times a day, and produces side effects. Only about 3,500 to 4,000 patients are prescribed tetrabenazine in the United States, the prospectus says.
An earlier trial in healthy volunteers found that SD-809 ER has a half-life of 8.6 hours in the body, compared with 4.8 hours for tetrabenazine. That prolonged half-life means levels of the drug should vary less, according to First HD, a trial run by Dr. Samuel Frank of Boston University School of Medicine. Information on that trial can be found at www.huntington-study-group.org.
If the new trial meets its goals, Auspex plans to submit a marketing application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the fourth quarter. If the FDA approves, sales are expected to begin in 2015. Information on the new trial can be found at clinicaltrials.gov under the identifier NCT01897896.
Auspex also plans tests of the drug for similar movement disorders, such as tardive dyskinesia and Tourette's syndrome, the prospectus stated. All these disorders are characterized by involuntary, repetitive motions such as facial tics.
Data from a Phase 2/3 trial for tardive dyskinesia is expected by mid-2015, according to the prospectus. Auspex is also starting a preliminary Phase 1b clinical trial of the drug in adolescents with Tourette's; data from this trial is expected this year.
Proehl's addition to the Auspex board brings a biotech veteran with a record of success in clinical trials at Santarus. The San Diego pharmaceutical company brought a series of specialty drugs to market to treat ailments such as ulcerative colitis, diabetes and excess stomach acid. Part of the company's appeal was its focus on markets not considered worth the attention of big pharmaceutical companies, but still highly attractive for a smaller company like Santarus.
Santarus announced on Nov. 8 it had been sold to Salix Pharmaceuticals of Raleigh, N.C., for $2.6 billion.
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Wal-Mart is fighting to maintain an on-line presence and fight off Amazon. The Walton family should be worried. I'm expect some of the youngins might be wanting to sell.
Wal-Mart does rule bricks and mortar for now in selected parts of the world. They are buying technology to catch up. Highly unlikely this configuration of Board Directors and executives really know how to manage technology and on-line.
Quite simply Amazon does and so do several other companies.
Oh and another thing Wal-Mart has about $7.7 Billion in cash and alike. Amazon has a private ATM with $16.5 Billion and no obligations to family trusts and dear old aunts.
Strategic things are sometimes that simple.


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Minor Characters
This is a list of minor characters appearing in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and related media.
Characters in this section have very little information to warrant a character page, usually due to lack of relevance or backstory.
Phantom Blood
Anime Debut: Episode 5: The Dark Knights (Mentioned only)
Namesake: Lord Darnley (Scottish king consort)
Anime Debut: Episode 5: The Dark Knights (Mentioned only)
Anime Debut: Episode 5: The Dark Knights (Mentioned only)
Namesake: Jeff Beck (English guitarist) and Jan Hammer (Czech-American musician)
Dan Hamar (ダン・ハマー Dan Hamā) was a fisherman who reported to the police that his boat was stolen by some easterners the night of the incident, but his boat has yet to be found. Police are investigating if these two cases have any relation to the missing people of Windknight's Lot.
Game Debut: Phantom Blood (PS2 Game)
Winzaleo (ウィンザレオ Winzareo), Eijkman (アイクマン Aikuman), and Caineghis (カイネギス Kainegisu) are three of the only five knights who survived the 77 Rings knights challenge, winning the challenge years before the dark knights Tarkus and Bruford, who won in 1563. Winzaleo, known as the Lion King, won in 1327, Eijkman the Lightning Knight won in 1389 and the one-eyed Caineghis won in 1408.
Anime Debut: Episode 9: The Final Ripple!
Namesake: Styx (American rock band)
Voice Actor: Masayuki Katô (Japanese), Chris Hackney (English)
Father Styx (スティクス神父 Sutikusu-shinpu) is an alcoholic priest who discovers Dio's coffin in the boat Jonathan and Erina board. Sent to Mexico to convert the locals, the unhappy priest drops his cross which falls through a grate and lands near the coffin. Just as Wang Chan arrives to open the coffin, the curious priest triggers a booby trap, causing a metal ball to shoot out and obliterate his face.
See Also
- See also: Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Adams, Doobie, and Page, Jones, Plant, and Bornnam
Battle Tendency
Namesake: Bluto (Popeye character)
He had an information base set up in Mexico where Rudol von Stroheim had already learned about Straizo's actions and was investigating Santana.
Stardust Crusaders
Anime Debut: SC Episode 6: Dark Blue Moon (Mentioned only)
Namesake: Captain & Tenille (American pop duo)
Anime Debut: SC Episode 9: Yellow Temperance
Anime Debut: SC Episode 21: Judgement, Part 1
Namesake: Prince, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Ritchie (American musicians)[1]
Anime Debut: SC Episode 29: Anubis, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
Namesake: Caravanserai (Santana album)
For a character with the same name, see Caravan Serai (SBR).
Anime Debut: SC Episode 34: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 1
Namesake: Gary Moore (Irish musician)
Namesake: Christian Vander (Magma drummer and vocalist)
His name isn't shown in the anime.
Anime Debut: SC Episode 35: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
Victoria Kerr, Lee Kingston, Allan Olsson, Mrs Flercher, Gaspar Espino, Lisa Drewjov, Claus Ametsch, Colin Truman, and Mike Wheeler. After Jotaro defeated D'Arby, their souls were all freed.
Anime Debut: SC Episode 38: The Gatekeeper of Hell, Pet Shop, Part 1
Anime Debut: SC Episode 40: D'Arby the Player, Part 1
Voice Actor: Juri Kimura
Telence made her into a doll wearing Versace that he himself designed, although she preferred Chanel. In her doll form she constantly called Telence's name while crying.
Anime Debut: SC Episode 40: D'Arby the Player, Part 1
Anime Debut: SC Episode 40: D'Arby the Player, Part 1
Voice Actor: Kengo Kawanishi
Diamond is Unbreakable
Anime Debut: DU Episode 6: Koichi Hirose (Echoes)
Namesake: The Police (English rock band)
As the Hirose family already has Police, Koichi isn't allowed to have another pet and has to take him for walks. He is seen sleeping at the beginning of Tamami Kobayashi's and Yukako Yamagishi's fights and is taken for a walk during Yuya's fight.
Anime Debut: DU Episode 7: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 9: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2
Voice Actor: Tarō Kiuchi (Japanese), Lucien Dodge (English)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 11: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1
Anime Debut: DU Episode 1: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata
The Yamakura (山倉) residence sought by Lady Murakami may also be in the ghost alley since it is not on Morioh's map.
Anime Debut: DU Episode 17: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure (Mentioned only)
Film Debut: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 (Mentioned only)
Reimi's parents are only named and aged in the film. Takashi, the father of the family, was 45 years old when he died. Kazuko, the mother, was 39 years old.
Anime Debut: DU Episode 18: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 19: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2
Voice Actor: Isamu Yusen (Japanese), Richard Epcar (English)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
Voice Actor: Tarō Kiuchi (Japanese), Stefan Martello (English)
Seemingly nervous, Yoshioka agrees but his phone is stolen by Josuke immediately. Unaware of what just happened, he continues talking to his hand before he notices his phone is gone, and is then anguished over the loss of one billion yen and his job. As Josuke grabbed the phone too hard, it ended up breaking.
Anime Debut: DU Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
Voice Actor: Mutsuki Iwanaka (Japanese), Matthew Mercer (English)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
Anime Debut: DU Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
Voice Actor: Minami Shinoda (Japanese; Reiko), Juri Kimura (Japanese; Yoshie), Aoi Koga (Japanese; Akemi), Jennifer Losi (English; Reiko), Allegra Clark (English; Reiko), Deneen Melody (English; Akemi)
With his heightened smell, Yuya could tell that the peach Akemi was going to give him was rotten and that Yoshie was on her period. He also thought that Reiko was mad at him because of the adrenaline he smelled, but the smell was from Josuke. When Josuke asks Yuya to help him find Koichi, Yuya smelled that the three girls were coming from the arcade with chocolates for Yuya won by Akemi. They threaten to attack Josuke, but Yuya tells them they are on good terms now. In the battle against Terunosuke, Yuya is inspired by Josuke's attempt to save Koichi, putting his own life in danger, and realizes he would do the same for his three fangirls.
Anime Debut: DU Episode 30: Cats Love Yoshikage Kira
Anime Debut: DU Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3 (1st mentioned) (Photo only) / DU Episode 34: July 15th (Thursday), Part 4 (1st full appearance)
Voice Actor: Tasuku Hatanaka (Japanese), Tony Oliver (English)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 34: July 15th (Thursday), Part 4 (Mentioned only)
Anime Debut: DU Episode 38: Crazy Diamond Is Unbreakable, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
|Anime/CD Drama/Film Characters
Vento Aureo
Anime Debut: GW Episode 2: Bucciarati Is Coming
Voice Actor: Matthew Greenbaum (English)
Antonio Rossi (アントニオ・ロッシ Antonio Rosshi) is a Neapolitan civilian who Bruno Bucciarati uses as a hiding spot by using Sticky Fingers on him when fleeing from Giorno. Giorno lures Bucciarati out by transforming Bucciarati's tooth into a small fly, which the boy tries to swat away. He successfully hits the fly but gets himself hurt and ejects Bucciarati out of him. Later, Bucciarati uses the boy's arm and hesitates to attack with it when he notices it has needle scars, pointing out that he's a drug addict. Giorno checks his student ID and finds out that he's only 13 years old. He is only named in the anime since his student ID can be seen.
Anime Debut: GW Episode 5: Find Polpo's Fortune!
Voice Actor: Nariko Morimoto (Japanese), Cindy Robinson (English)
She is named only in the anime adaptation.
Anime Debut: GW Episode 11: Narancia's Aerosmith (Flashback)
Voice Actor: Serika Hiromatsu (Japanese), Tiana Camacho (English)
She is fully shown and given the name "Mela Ghirga" in the TV anime adaptation. Mela is "apple" in Italian, echoing Narancia's vaguely fruit-themed name.
Anime Debut: GW Episode 34: The Requiem Quietly Plays, Part 1
He is only named in the anime adaptation.
Anime Debut: GW Episode 38: Gold Experience Requiem
Voice Actor: Airi Ootsu (JP), Julia McIlvaine (US)
Stone Ocean
The guard was fired because of his laziness and supposedly went home. But, in reality, Gwess used her Stand to shrink him. Adorning the skin of a dead parakeet, he is forced to act like a cute animal and eat scraps that she feeds him. She forces him to fly and stand on her finger, but the man remains immobile since it would be a difficult task to do within his costume. Gwess yells at him to try and the man actually ends up successful, but makes a "whoa" sound upon landing. Angered that he slipped out of his role, Gwess begins to squeeze him but Jolyne rescues the bird with Stone Free. However, Jolyne takes off the parakeet's head only to find the man was already killed with his limbs torn apart by Goo Goo Dolls.
Namesake: Etro (Italian fashion brand)
In prison, Atroe was regularly bullied. She volunteers to go into the swamp to look for disappeared inmates but was killed by Foo Fighters, her body eventually serving as the latter's host.
Namesake: Savage Garden (Australian pop duo)
They both start severely injuring each other, utterly confusing Jolyne. It's later revealed they were fighting under Survivor's influence. Westwood ultimately beat down Sonny and he was reported missing after the Green Baby's birth.
The cop with him then points out another spider which is half-dead. Ron greets the half-dead spider while flexing and picking his teeth. Jolyne has no idea how the comic is supposed to be funny but the guy sitting beside her thinks it's hilarious.
Mickey is manifested by Bohemian Rhapsody when Anasui and Weather Report are nearby Disney World Resort. While getting a ride on a man's truck, Anasui notices that Mickey is missing from a guidebook for the resort. Frustrated that it can't be Disney without Mickey, Anasui notices Mickey's tail hiding behind a cart in the back of the truck. However, the mouse quickly disappears and Diver Down grabs Pinocchio instead.
Araki originally wanted to have Mickey Mouse fully appear, but his editing department rejected it so he could only have the tail showing.[4]
Eventually he is sent back to his books.
Anasui first encounters Pinocchio after he his manifested by Bohemian Rhapsody, Diver Down attempts to attack Pinocchio when he interrupts and says that children all around the world would be sad if he gets hit. When Anasui asks him if he's working together with the other character they found, Pinocchio lies and says he's alone, causing his nose to extend which hits Anasui in the face. He apologizes and reveals he wasn't completely lying since Mickey already left the truck.
Pinocchio later asks Weather who he's a fan of, but Weather tells him to go away before he beats him up. He reveals that Anasui's soul was separated from his body, and it happened because Anasui wished it to happen, as would anybody who ever wished to visit a fictional world. Since Pinocchio wouldn't answer Anasui's question, Diver Down decapitates him and destroys his face. Anasui's soul then returns to his body.
Eventually when all of the characters return to their books, Pinocchio remains the only one missing as Anasui killed him.
In response to Pinocchio's question to Anasui of who he was a fan of, one says he like the T-2000, another stating he like one of the Dwarfs and Chewbacca, the aforementioned dwarf claims that he likes Snow White the best. The same three Dwarfs complain about bad rumors claiming that they do sexual acts with Snow White in her sleep, stating that their relationship is is completely platonic.
They point out to Anasui who is yelling Weather Report to stop eating the apple and reading the book, that he is the one who told Weather Report to do so. They also show concern when Anasui's body is seen under the truck.
After the truck crashes all Seven Dwarfs are shown to have survived thanks to Weather using his stand. They set off to go rescue Snow White who had been thrown off by a nearby Burger King, just before being able to point out Astro Boy, Mazinger Z and Tetsujin 28-go.
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs can be seen with Prince Charming right before Anasui is attacked by Mother Goat and the Seven Young Goats celebrating that Snow White is awake. The Seven Dwarfs also tell Anasui that Wolf of the story is always the bad guy making him realize that he is turning into the Wolf.
Three of The Dwarfs also jump in excitement as The Mother Goat appears out of her book.
Eventually all of the characters return to their books.
Eventually all of the characters return to their books.
Eventually all of the characters return to their books. However it is undetermined if The Old Man returned to his body or stayed dead.
Eventually he returns to his books.
Eventually all of the characters return to their books.
The Other Six Young Goats cry out to their mother Anasui's stomach. As Anasui is distracted by The Youngest Goat's joy to hearing his brothers are still alive, The Mother Goat uses her scissors to cut two out of the six Young Goats out of Anasui's Stomach enraged at him. Anasui uses Diver Down to try and attack The Mother Goat only for her to tell him that he cannot change the story by killing her since the story is already written. The Youngest Goat exclaims that there are still more Goats in Anasui. Anasui then tries to escape by running behing a door and fusing it to the wall with Diver Down, the door quickly folds over like pages of a book allowing the Goats to attack. Since, you cannot change the story.
The Mother Goat and Three of her Children chase Anasui down, however he uses Diver Down to escape onto a police car. This is found to be ineffective since when Anasui opens the car door, it reversals itself to be the cover of a book that allows The Goats to cut two more Goats out of Anasui. They also continue to fill him with rocks regardless of the fact that there should be two more Goats.
Anasui falls off the car along with the Goats into Weather Report. The Goats start to fill nasui even more, and sew him up as he starts to drown. They all celebrate due to the story playing out.
Eventually all of the characters return to their books.
It is presumed that the Character is returned to his books, while the Store Clerk returned to his body.
After being manifested by Bohemian Rhapsody, the self-portrait of Van Gogh asks Weather Report for directions to Saint Remy's. Upon realization that Weather has admired his work before, he asks Weather if he knows him. Weather tells Van Gogh that he doesn't know him, however Van Gogh explains to Weather how he is attracted to Van Gogh revealing himself, as Weather's soul separates from his body.
Van Gogh goes on to quiz Weather about how many self-portraits the real Vincent van Gogh had made, Weather responds aggressively taking Van Gogh's razor. The razor quickly morphs into a brush. Van Gogh goes on to explain that since Weather is now a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh he will continue to cut off his own ear and shoot himself twice, the second killing him. Suddenly Weather's Ear fell off and the paint brush shot a bullet into Weather's Head morphing into a gun. After the first shot Weather releases his stand to take out the user.
Weather warns Van Gogh to not shoot him with the gun, Van Gogh goes on to say he would never go near it to protect his own life. However Anasui knocks Weather into the gun, which fires immediately into Weather's Head. Van Gogh states he will live in Weather's place, However Weather threatens Van Gogh his life in exchange to make Weather "Put Back" Hero defeating Bohemian Rhapsody.
Eventually he returned to his paintings.
Eventually all of the characters return to their books.
Once Put Back is brought to life Peter Pan and Tinkerbell being in a book instead of next to Ungalo is what tells him that he has been defeated.
It is also believed that he had returned himself as well.
Namesake: Blumarine (Blufin fashion line)
Namesake: Blumarine (Blufin fashion line)
Steel Ball Run
Namesake: Muhammad Avdol (Part 3 character)
Paula Abdul (American singer)
Coming from Egypt, Urmd Avdul (ウルムド・アブドゥル Urumudo Abuduru) was said to have crossed the Sahara desert three times annually. Unlike the other contestants in the race, Urmd's choice of transportation was a camel, which made him a prime candidate for winning the race. Due to the camel's long legs, it had the ability to keep up with a horse's speed, but at the same time crush any other racers with its 800 kg body. During the 1st stage of the race, Urmd attempts to knock Gyro out from the race by crashing into him. However, Gyro uses his Steel Ball to locate a hidden cactus cluster and lure Urmd into it. The nomad crashes into the cacti and is unable to continue the race.[5]
Race StandingsAvdul dropped out during the 1st Stage, leaving him with a score of 0 points.
Dot Han (ドット・ハーン Dotto Hān) is a Mongolian[6] competitor in the Steel Ball Run. A descendant of Genghis Khan, Dot Han is renowned for being an Equestrian master and is deemed one of the race's favorites. His horse is named #1. He consistently ranks well in the Stages, but in the fifth Stage, Sandman covers him with sound bombs to attack Gyro and Johnny. He is eventually obliterated by Sandman's powers.
Race Standings
Baron Roocatugo (ロッカチュゴ男爵 Rokkachugo-danshaku) is a German racer who decides to drive an automobile instead of riding a horse. Believing his primitive car to drive him across the USA faster than a horse, he dropped out during the 1st Stage due to its fuel consumption.
Race StandingsThe baron dropped out during the 1st Stage, leaving with a score of 0.
Namesake: Gaucho (Steely Dan song and album)
Gaucho (ガウチョ Gaucho) is a Spanish[7] competitor in the Steel Ball Run. He rode on a horse named Peg. During the third stage of the race, he is shown going the long way around a lake to reach the finish line. During the fourth stage of the race, Gaucho is among those who become trapped in the orchard surrounding Ringo Roadagain's cabin. Overcome by frustration, he tries to take Ringo out, but is promptly killed. Gaucho appeared to be quite level-headed when he's first introduced to Hot Pants, Gyro, and Johnny. However, he quickly shifts into being impatient and quick to anger which leads to his downfall against Ringo.
Race Standings
|Outside point range
Namesake: Walter Becker (Steely Dan member)
Mark Becker (M・ベッカー Māku Bekkā) is one of the three men killed by the Boomboom Family during the 1st Stage.
Race StandingsHe died during the 1st Stage, while ranked in the 200's, leaving him with a score of 0.
Namesake: Donald Fagen (Steely Dan member)
David Hagen (D・ヘイゲン Debitto Heigen) is one of the three men killed by the Boomboom Family.
Race StandingsHe died during the 1st Stage, while ranked in the 200's, leaving him with a score of 0.
Namesake: Steve Lukather (Toto member)
Paul Lukather (P・ルカサー Pōru Rukasā) is one of the three men killed by the Boomboom Family.
Race StandingsHe died during the 1st Stage, while ranked in the 200's, leaving him with a score of 0.
Namesake: Dixie Chicken (Little Feat album)
Dixie Chicken (デキシー・チキン Dekishī Chikin) is an American racer with the horse Ramblin' Man (ランブリン・マン Ranburin Man). Dixie Chicken ranked 8th place in the first stage, 19th place in the second stage, and 9th place in the fifth stage.
Race Standings
Namesake: Zenyatta Mondatta (The Police album)
Zenyatta Mondatta (ゼニヤッタ・モンダッタ Zeniyatta Mondatta) is an Indian racer with the horse Roxanne (ロクサーヌ Rokusānu). Zenyatta Mondatta ranked 12th place in the first stage, 7th place in the second stage, 10th place in the 4th stage, and 8th place in the sixth stage.
Race Standings
Namesake: Caravan Serai (Part 3 character)
Caravanserai (Santana album)
Caravan Serai (キャラバン・サライ Kyaraban Sarai) is a Mexican racer with the horse Moon Flower (ムーン・フラワー Mūn Furawā). He ranked 13th place in the first stage, 18th place in the second stage, 11th place in the 4th stage, and 7th place in the 5th stage.
Race Standings
SBR Chapter 32: Third Stage: Cannon City (1st full appearance)
Namesake: The Hut of Baba Yaga/The Curse of Baba Yaga (Emerson, Lake & Palmer songs)
Baba Yaga (バーバ・ヤーガ Bāba Yāga) is a Russian racer with the horse Nut Rocker (ナットロッカー Natto Rokkā). He wears a full black army uniform, has long flowing white hair, and sports a black hat. He ranked 14th in the first stage, 15th in the second stage, 8th in the third stage, 10th in the fifth stage, and 5th in both the 6th and 7th stages before retiring in the 8th stage.
Race Standings
|Outside Point Range
SBR Chapter 93: High Voltage, Part 4 (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Nellyville (Nelly song and album)
Nellyville (ネリビル Neribiru) is an American racer with the horse Country Grammar (カントリーグラマー Kantorī Guramā). After 116 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes, and 23 seconds, they completed the race, ranked 5th with a total result of 122 points and a prize money of 120,000 yen.
Race Standings
SBR Chapter 93: High Voltage, Part 4 (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Sloop John B (Bahamian folk song, covered by The Beach Boys)
Sloop John B (スループ・ジョン・B Surūpu Jon Bī) is an American racer with the horse Catch a Wave (キャッチ・ア・ウェイヴ Kyatchi A Weivu). He ranked 20th place in the first stage, 10th in the second stage, 8th in the fourth stage, 6th in the fifth and sixth stages, 4th in the seventh stage, and 1st place in both the eighth and Final Stages. After 116 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes, and 16 seconds, his total result was 314 points and he ranked 3rd place overall. He won the Final Stage's 10 million dollars prize after Diego was disqualified from the race.
Race Standings
|Outside Point Range
Namesake: Billy Idol (English musician)
White Wedding (Billy Idol song)
Billy White (ビリー・ホワイト Birī Howaito) is an American racer with the horse Love Unlimited (ラヴ・アンリミテッド Ravu Anrimiteddo). He ranked 22nd place in the first stage, 19th place in the 2nd stage, and 14th place in the 5th stage. His results afterwards are unknown.
Race Standings
Namesake: Julio Iglesias (Spanish singer)
Iglesias (イグレシアス Igureshiasu) is a Portuguese racer with the horse Natalie (ナタリー Natarī). He ranked 23rd place in the first stage, 16th place in the second stage, and 12th place in the 5th stage.
Race Standings
SBR Chapter 25: Tusk, Part 1 (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Rudol von Stroheim (Part 2 character)
Erich von Stroheim (Austrian-American actor)
Fritz von Stroheim (フリッツ・フォン・シュトロハイム Furittsu Fon Shutorohaimu), or F.V. Stroheim is a German racer. Adjusted for Gyro Zeppeli's penality, he finishes the 1st stage in 7th place and is awarded 20 points. His horse is named Europe Express (ヨーロッパ・エクスプレス Yōroppa Ekusupuresu). F.V. Stroheim is introduced as a cyborg, and attempts to kill Gyro and Johnny Joestar, but is quickly taken out by Gyro's Steel Balls.
Race Standings
Namesake: Kanye West (American rapper)
Kanye (カニエ Kanie) is a racer who ranked 13th in both the 2nd and 5th stages.
Race Standings
Namesake: Shigekiyo Yangu (Part 4 character)
Shigechi (シゲチー Shigechī) is a racer who ranked in the 2nd and 5th stages.
Race Standings
Namesake: Tarkus (Part 1 character)
Tarkus (Emerson, Lake & Palmer song and album)
Tarkus (タルカス Tarukasu) is a racer who ranked in the 2nd and 5th stages.
Race Standings
SBR Chapter 93: High Voltage, Part 4 (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Georgie Porgie (nursery rhyme)
Georgy Porgy (Toto song)
Georgie Porgie (ジョージー・ポージー Jōjī Pōjī) was a French racer, being one of the 39 finalists of the race, ranked 4th, with a total score of 123 and a 250,000 yen prize.
Race Standings
SBR Chapter 32: Third Stage: Cannon City (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong song)
Mack the Knife (マック・ザ・ナイフ Makku Za Naifu) was a racer who managed to arrive before Gaucho in the lat stretch of the 3rd Stage. What happened to him after the 5th stage is unknown.
Race Standings
Namesake: The Rotters' Club (Hatfield and the North album)
Rotters Club (ロッターズ・クラブ Rottāzu Kurabu) ranked 9th in the 4th stage.
Race Standings
Namesake: The Nightfly (Donald Fagen song album)
Nightfly (ナイトフライ Naitofurai) ranked 8th in the 5th stage, with an overall rank of 14 due to a total score of 25 at that point.
Race Standings
Namesake: Mr. Mister (American pop rock band)
Mister. (ミスター・ Misutā.) ranked 18th in the 5th stage of the race.
Race Standings
Namesake: Dario Brando (Part 1 character)
She was only named in the Joestar Family tree seen in JoJolion.
Namesake: Danny (Part 1 character)
Danny's Song (Loggins and Messina song)
During the Steel Ball Run, just as Funny Valentine is about to kill Johnny, he notices a white mouse nearby and wonders why a mouse would be drawn by Ticket to Ride's powers, before realizing that he is being drawn back when Lucy is taken by Gyro Zeppeli. It is unknown whether the mouse was Danny or simply another white mouse that happened to be nearby.
SBR Chapter 61: Both Sides Now, Part 2 (Flashback) (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Erina Pendleton (Parts 1 and 2 character)
Steven Steel showed up to his farm one day and convinced him to tell the mafia that his daughter was damaged goods and married to Steven so that they wouldn't want her anymore. Adam was furious and started crying at first, but listened to Steven in order to save his daughter.
Namesake: Erina Pendleton (Parts 1 and 2 character)
Namesake: Erina Pendleton (Parts 1 and 2 character)
Namesake: Erina Pendleton (Parts 1 and 2 character)
Namesake: Wekapipo (SOUL'd OUT song)
JJL Chapter 22: Morioh 1901 (Flashback)
Namesake: George Joestar (grandfather)
George Joestar II (Part 2 character)
As an adult, he is the father of two daughters and two sons, one of them being Joseph Joestar.
Namesake: Lisa Lisa (Part 2 character)
Namesake: Joseph Joestar (Part 2 Protagonist)
Namesake: Suzi Q (Part 2 character)
Suzi Quatro (American singer)
Susie Q (Dale Hawkins song)
JJL Chapter 29: Norisuke Higashikata, Tsurugi Higashikata, and Yotsuyu Yagiyama, Part 3 (Flashback) (1st full appearance)
Namesake: Tomoko Higashikata (Part 4 character)
Miko (ミコ Miko) was an unseen girl whom Yasuho knew when she was younger. It is implied that the two of them were friends. One day, Yasuho was supposed to come to Miko's birthday party, but completely forgot about it because she was distracted by her new hair clip. The moment she realized, she received multiple insulting texts from the many party attendants.
After the incident, Mina's body is found collapsed in between the iron rails of the school gate. Her underwear was stained red from the injury. Although she was merely unconscious and wasn't dead, she wasn't responding. One of Mina's friends blames it on Tsurugi, saying she saw him make the gates move.
Later, the school principal says Mina's injuries were just minor light scratches and she's recovering fine in the hospital.
It is implied that the gates closing in on Mina was actually a calamity caused by the Head Doctor, as Mitsuba saw him standing near the gates moments after the incident on the school monitor.
For unknown reasons in Chapter 91, Mitsuba calls Mina "Miwa" (ミワ Miwa).
Anime Debut: TSKR Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill
Voice Actor: Takeaki Masuyama (Japanese)
After their marriage, he seems to care about her, but she continues to love Gunpei even as a corpse. Their life together was happy, and even though they didn't burn with passion for each other, they were blessed with two kids (actually Gunpei's children, but Shuichi didn't know this).
Anime Debut: TSKR Episode 5: Millionaire Village (Mentioned only)
Some time after Rohan successfully poaches some abalone, he is glad to see Virgina together with Tonio in the kitchen, with her no longer in a wheelchair.
Unbeknownst to them, the family is stalked by a spirit taking the form of a man with a rabbit mask who brings misfortune to anyone in the family who doesn't spend the harvest moon night watching the moon. The family as a whole is incredibly unlucky, but those who watch the harvest moon have had long lives. The family lived like this since the battle of Sekigahara.
Anime Debut: TSKR Episode 9: The Run
On November 4, after disturbing Yoma's strict sleep schedule, Sawaki was pulled into Mika's apartment and brutally murdered. Yoma killed Sawaki by severing the carotid arteries in his neck. His body was hidden in the apartment block's underground parking lot, encased in cement.
Other Works
Anime Debut: Baoh (OVA)
Anime Debut: Baoh (OVA)
Namesake: Julio González (Spanish sculptor)
Julio runs straight to George's house one morning after hearing about Antonio's death and sees George isn't there. He believes Lisa Lisa must have helped George with murdering Antonio, and tells their mother Erina that it must have been those two since they were both missing from their rooms. In school, he accuses George and tells him to provide proof that he isn't the culprit. His teacher, Mr. Fernandes, tells Julio that he and his friends should be ashamed for bullying George. Julio grits his teeth but continues accusing Lisa Lisa since she was missing, believing she used her weird power to kill Antonio.
When Julio's classmate, Tsukumojuku Kato, declares that he solved the case already, Julio says it's impossible because they just found Antonio's corpse less than an hour prior. He then freaks out after Tsukumojuku reveals Antonio's corpse in the classroom. Although George and his other classmates stay home from school after shock from the incident regarding Antonio, Julio still goes to school every day. He takes over Antonio's role as leader of the gang of bullies but decides not to persecute George any more.
Namesake: Fernandes Guitars (Japanese guitar manufacturer)
He is shocked to see Lisa Lisa after she reveals herself hiding inside Antonio's corpse. Mr. Fernandes goes out to the dimly lit hall to take care of the incident, but is suddenly killed by Antonio's father, Alejandro Torres.
Alejandro was a vampire and turned Mr. Fernandes into a zombie. As a zombie, he is forced to close all the curtains in the hallway for Alejandro, until his entire body crumbles from the sunlight.
Namesake: Maria Jurado (Mother of Antonio de Torres Jurado)
Every year on June 16th since Antonio was a baby, Maria peels off his skin bit by bit while leaving his blood, bones, and flesh intact. She then carefully places the pieces together, treats them with a thin-coating of oil to prevent them from drying out, seals them with medical adhesive, and sews the pieces together with very fine thread. Antonio's hair that was shed from prior months would be placed on top of the head of her creation to complete the full body work of art, which she called "This Year's Antonio".
She adapts her technique over time, while Antonio's body adapts to survive the pain. Rather than taking photographs of her child like a normal person, Maria obsessed over the texture of Antonio's skin, and wanted to preserve it each year. Before the police takes her away after they discover Antonio's corpse, Maria rubs her cheek against the final "This Year's Antonio" she created, desperate to savor her last moments with her art.
Namesake: Magical Circle Guru Guru (Japanese manga by Hiroyuki Etō)
Namesake: Nail Peeler (product)
Namesake: Hisao Shimada (Editor of JORGE JOESTAR) / Yohei Soeda (Co-Editor of JORGE JOESTAR)
Hisao (久央 Hisaō) is a horse and Yohei (洋平 Yōhei) is a cat seemingly belonging to the Joestar Family in the 37th universe. They do not actually appear in the novel and are only depicted in a family photo in the novel's illustrations.
Jonda Joestar (ジョンダ・ジョースター Jonda Jōsutā) is the son of Joseph Joestar and the adoptive father of Jorge Joestar in the 37th iteration of the universe.
Jorge describes Jonda's name as a particularly misguided attempt at picking a name that sounds Japanese. Jonda would hear all the stories of the detective cases Jorge went on.In 2014, Jonda marries Penelope de la Rosa after she decides to stay in Nishi Akatsuki. They have a daughter in 2015 named Joeko Joestar.
Namesake: Serika: Toyota Celica | Seshiru: Cecil McBee (Japanese fashion brand)
Serika Kato (加藤
Jorge Joestar rides his bike to the outskirts of Takefu, Fukui, and finds their house burning. Her family was eating dinner in their home when suddenly water started pouring down the stairs. They rushed out of the house and then the house started burning. Seshiru points out that a random stranger, later revealed to be Tsukumojuku Kato, was swimming in the pool of water inside. Their house was filled with sea water, and there were jets of it spitting out of every crack. The water was moving through the house at whirlpool speeds, and Satoshi had shut the front door to protect his family from the current and the furniture hurtling along in it.Jorge asks if Tsukumojuku is related to them but they do not reply, shocked from their recently built house burning. Their family stays the night at a hotel, with Serika reeling from the shock of everything.
Masami Shirai (
Shirai later calls Jorge back and says all of the criminals were shocked when he brought up dreams to them. They had forgotten about their dreams until it was brought up to them, but all of their dreams had a man with a hat pulled down over his eyes. They knew the man's name was Yoshikage Kira and he left them with a message to tell the police officers in case they ever got arrested: "If Jorge Joestar ever comes to Morioh, I'll kill him".Shirai warns Jorge to stay away from Morioh at all costs because of the danger, but it only makes Jorge more interested to go there.
Namesake: Leonor Cortés Moctezuma (Daughter of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II)
Eventually she stops crying when she realizes she has Javier. Tsukumojuku Kato assumes that she was molesting and abusing her son for over ten years, forcing him to sleep in a locked room with her.
Before her husband returns home, Leonora kills herself after the Spanish police kill her son.
Namesake: Juan de Tolosa (Husband of Leonor Cortés Moctezuma)
Javier Cortes starts appearing in Penelope's dreams disguised as a clown and attempts to make Penelope kill her mother. Penelope would resist it but develops a Wound ability that activates after Javier's death. Penelope's Wound causes Isabella to be locked inside her kitchen one day with a clown standing in the corner. Isabella hysterically hides behind a sofa. Penelope manages to break the door open after several repeated tries and saves Isabella, making the clown disappear. Penelope realizes the only one she can talk to and trust is Isabella. However, Isabella blames Penelope for everything and is convinced that Penelope hates her and wants to kill her.
George tries to explain the situation to Isabella and demonstrates how Penelope's ability works, but Isabella remains terrified and convinced that Penelope was possessed by the devil.
Namesake: Eduardo Noriega (Spanish actor)
Edvard Noriega (エドヴァルド・ノリエガ Edovarudo Noriega) is the former boyfriend of Penelope de la Rosa, although he never bothered breaking up with her. He is a thug who would beat up Penelope, treat her like his property, and sell anything she owned of value. Penelope's mother, Isabella, attempts to convince Penelope to break up with him but Edvard turns the two against each other by threatening to ruin Penelope permanently if Isabella interferes. After the case with Javier Cortes, Edvard leaves her without saying goodbye. Penelope would wait for him to come back but eventually realizes her mother is the only one she can trust and starts hating Edvard.
Edvard later shows up in front of Penelope and George Joestar on their way to Penelope's workplace. He says he just wanted to see how Penelope was doing, although she replies saying she never wants to see him again and not to expect any money from her. Edvard panickingly mentions about how he had seen something strange. His desperate and terrified demeanor confuses George, as he appeared nothing like the "alpha male" he was when George and Tsukumojuku had spoke to him before. Penelope assumes he's acting and tells him to shut up, but Edvard continues describing the mysterious Moth Man with wings he saw one night while he was in bed with his new girlfriend, Prunella. He worries that the Moth Man would do something awful to him. Edvard also mentions that he doesn't love Prunella as much as he loved Penelope.Penelope goes berserk from her emotions and summons a locked room surrounding Edvard with her Wound's ability. However, Edvard continues mumbling about the Moth Man, deep in thought. He ends up being strangled with a noose from Penelope's clown within the locked room and almost dies until George saves him. Edvard is unconscious afterwards but still alive.
Namesake: Namahage (Japanese oni)
Namesake: Lucky 8
Sachiari Hakkyoku (
Namesake: Neko Nyan Nyan Nyan (Japanese song)
Nekoneko Nyan Nyan Nyan (
Chomaru Bariya (
Bariya is a blond man who is both a detective and an Italian chef. Jorge Joestar had seen him on TV several times. Bariya recruits the other detectives on short notice to hold an emergency press conference regarding the mysterious murders of the three detectives in Morioh, Sachiari Hakkyoku, Nekoneko Nyan Nyan Nyan, and Tsukumojuku Kato. He is the speaker in the press conference and declares the murders as an act of terrorism against the detective profession. He also offers prayers to the citizens of Morioh because the town had mysteriously detached from the country and become its own island.Bariya addresses that they know Yoshikage Kira isn't the murderer and they will not go after him at this time. The real killer was framing Kira by using his name. Bariya asks for Kira's assistance in providing any information to solve this case so that Kira can demonstrate that he is cooperative. Bariya assumes that Kira's power must have developed to detach Morioh from Japan and was trying to ease Kira's fears by assuring him that all of the detectives were not going after him, in hopes of getting Morioh to stop moving further away.
Denta Shishimaru (
Due to mass hysteria caused by the Moth Man, Morioh's citizens are locked in the school gym and attempt to kill themselves by pouring gasoline on each other. Shishimaru pours gasoline on his secretary Chien Kunimido, who does the same to Shishimaru as well. Koji Hirose saves them by breaking down the front wall of the gymnasium and letting light shine in, causing everyone to return to their senses.
Shishimaru thanks Koji and the others for saving them and calls the fire department. He also wonders how they were all able to fly there but Jorge denies it, thinking that talking to Shishimaru is like having hot air blown in your face. Jorge decides not to tell Shishimaru about Funny Valentine's message because it wasn't the time for quibbles. Shishimaru scowls when seeing his election rival, Takumi Kumoi, is also there. Jorge and the others fly away on Grand Blue and Shishimaru chases after them, shocked that they can fly after all.Later, Passione takes Shishimaru hostage and uses him to relay orders from the mafia. Shishimaru had put himself on the line to protect his residents and Jorge mentions his head is swollen in weird places as a result.
Jorge describes secretaries of the mayor as individuals who put themselves on the line for politicians and would answer all questions for them, but Kunimido was nowhere to be found after the Nero Nero Island invasion.
After a deduction from Jorge, Bruno Bucciarati learns that the real Kunimodo was killed at some point and Yoshikage Kira took his place using Aya Tsuji's ability.
Namesake: Michael Faraday (English scientist)
Faraday (ファラデイ Faradei) is the butler of the Motorize family and often serves George Joestar tea whenever he visits, which George considers delicious.
Before George leaves their home one day, Faraday mentions that a young friend of George had come over looking for him. Faraday leads George to another room and then takes his leave. Faraday later testifies in George's trial about where George was on the day of Kenton's murder.
Two years later in 1907, George asks Faraday about the boy who came looking for him. Faraday reveals he saw a Spaniard boy with no eyes who he thought was terrifying, rather than Tsukumojuku Kato who George saw. When Faraday learned about George suddenly being in Rome after that, he assumed that devil had done something to George but was too afraid to tell anyone.In 1920, George visits the Motorize home on the day of his wedding, wondering why Steven is late. Faraday doesn't answer the door like he usually does. He was presumably killed by Antonio Torres and turned into a zombie like the rest of the family.
Daibakusho Curry (
Jorge describes them as good looking men who look like they had been through a lot. They know Italian and are able to communicate with Bruno Bucciarati. Bucciarati assigns Leone Abbacchio to partner with Daibakusho. As Daibakusho is not that tall, Abbacchio looms over him. Guido Mista partners with Runbaba 12. Mista apparently smelled a bit since Runbaba 12 sniffed once, makes a face, and then keeps his distance.
Daibakusho takes the filthy rubber ball and Runbaba 12 takes the lone shoe for communication purposes, as they were objects that were turned into phones by Vinegar Doppio's Stand. Runbaba 12 tries to convince Daibakusho and Jorge to trade with him since he doesn't want to carry a shoe around, but Bucciarati angrily screams for him to stop.Jorge later tells Bucciarati to have Daibakusho and Runbaba 12 investigate what happened to Denta Shishimaru's secretary, Chien Kunimido. The two are quickly able to find Chien at his house, learning that he is actually Yoshikage Kira.
Namesake: Charles Rolls (Motoring/Aviation Pioneer)
Charles and John are both all about adventure. Charles decides his company would start making airplane engines, and John is excited to take part as well.
In 1910, Charles dies in an airplane crash and John decides to never fly again.
Namesake: Wilhelm Beer (Prussian astronomer)
Johann Heinrich von Mädler (German astronomer)
Frank Dimarest (フランク・ディマレスト Furanku Dimaresuto) is the navigator of George Joestar for the first two weeks after George joins the Royal Naval Air Service. Frank frequently mutters "It's your fault I'm out here risking my life" over George's shoulder the whole time they fly. George eventually has enough of it and punches Frank when they land. He then fires Frank, but Frank seems grateful for it.
Namesake: Peter Fraser (British photographer)
Jodoh Joestar (ジョドー・ジョースター Jodō Jōsutā) was the son of Jonathan Joestar and the father of Joseph Joestar in the 37th iteration of the universe. Joseph did not get along with him, as they were exact opposites. He was apparently a gloomy man of few words and it was difficult to tell what he was thinking.
Namesake: David Seymour (photographer)
Rupert rides a Farman III plane named Mary (メアリー Mearī) and David rides a Farman III plane named Emma (エマ Ema). They die in combat during the war.
Along with about three hundred other members in the club, they are all turned into zombies by Antonio Torres. John cries to see what his friends have become but is convinced by George to destroy them.
Namesake: Vincent Lecœur (French actor)
He is killed by Antonio Torres and turns into a zombie. Even as a zombie, his thirst for speed is unabated and he shoots past George's plane like a bolt of lightning. George doesn't chase him but Vincent later flies toward George again and crashes directly into George's wing, splitting it down the middle.
Steven Motorize flies onto Vincent's plane and then throws him out of the cockpit. Steven then occupies the empty cockpit and fires its machine guns at Vincent and other enemy planes.
Joeko Joestar (ジョエコ・ジョースター Joeko Jōsutā) is the daughter of Jonda Joestar and Penelope de la Rosa, born in 2015 in the 37th iteration of the universe. She is the little sister of Jorge Joestar.
- ↑ Death 13 - Vol.5 "Shueisha Jump Remix Stardust Crusaders Edition" P152 The Secret of JOJO Characters
- ↑ SO Chapter 51: Kiss of Love & Revenge (1)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 SO Chapter 33: Foo Fighters (3) p.7
- ↑ Araki's JOJOVELLER Stand Commentaries
- ↑ SBR Chapter 5: First Stage: 15,000 Meters pp. 12-20
- ↑ SBR Chapter 1: The Steel Ball Run Press Conference
- ↑ SBR Chapter 12: First Stage: Disqualified from Victory
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