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Friday, April 4, 2014
William (Jay) G. Austen, Jr., MD, was appointed chief of the MGH Division of Burn Surgery on March 24. In addition to his new appointment, Austen will continue to serve as chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Austen succeeds Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD, who has led the Division of Burn Surgery since 1990. Tompkins will remain at the MGH and lead the newly created research innovation unit, The Center for Surgery, Science & Bioengineering.
"I am honored to lead this extraordinary team," says Austen. "This division has been an international leader in the evolution of burn care. I am very excited to be a part of the continued excellence and innovation for which they are well known."
Austen has served as chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery since 2007. Under his leadership, novel clinical programs have been established including composite tissue transplantation and nerve decompression to treat patients with migraines.
In addition to his clinical expertise, Austen is an authority on device innovation and has led the development of numerous patents and prototypes related to anti-aging, rejuvenation and scar therapy. He also routinely treats patients at the Shiners Burn Hospital for Children.
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They didn't hash the passwords with something decent like SHA2? Really?
I mean if they encrypted them weakly or used SHA1 or MD5, that's about as bad as going plaintext. I'd expect far better from them.
According to the announcement, they were apparently brute-forced, so nothing to do with the hash-function used.
[ ] Implement crypt-md5 support (like
/etc/shadow, strong and LDAP-compatible) hashes, or possibly crypt-sha2
Holy shit, they're actually seriously considering MD5. This is embarrassing.
Guys, there's a reason [cert.org] for why I'm saying that MD5 is a Very Bad Idea.
[ ] Implement crypt-md5 support (like
/etc/shadow, strong and LDAP-compatible) hashes, or possibly crypt-sha2
Holy shit, they're actually seriously considering MD5. This is embarrassing.
Guys, there's a reason [cert.org] for why I'm saying that MD5 is a Very Bad Idea.
That's straight MD5. Password hashes, using PHK@FreeBSD's algorithm, is a bit more complicated (e.g., a thousand iterations with a salt):
Most Linux distributions still use the MD5-based hash for their shadow files. Of course using a new algorithm is probably better, but we're (hopefully) not talking about straight MD5, but rather the crypt/PHK variant.
Various Unixes, including Linux distributions like RHEL / CentOS include a modern algorithm inspired by PHK that uses the later SHA family algorithms, and has variable rounds.
But keep in mind that despite all the tutting from know-nothings on Slashdot who react to keywords like 'MD5' even the original DES-based Crypt remains remarkably secure. While a Windows password or MD5 rainbow table is something you can get from any Torrent site, crypt tables still don't exist. While Windows brute forcers can chew thr
It's actually not *that* bad. You can't actually remotely crack MD5 passwords.. or even plain text since you can't access them.
When you can access them it usually means the system is already fully compromised (not in all cases, but in most).
Then, you'd better not be using the same password or key for several systems (Arnold S. says: big mistake.)
Most don't even know, that you can capture plain text passwords from the SSH server when using password authentication, even with nice SHA2 passwords behind SSH. (u
You'll find dozen of matches and you won't know which one is the actual password if it's not dictionary based.
Just pick any match with characters enterable on the keyboard.
Using MD5 is however MUCH worse when used as a security checksum: file checksum, certificate checksum etc. Because there's no salting, and there's no need to find the *original* data here.
Neither is there for passwords. As long as the MD5 matches, and is enterable on the keyboard, it would work on that system. Think about it...
So, it's really only a matter of protecting other, unrelated systems, on the off chance that the user uses the same password elsewhere (there, only the real password picked by the user would work, as they would probably have a different algorithm and/or a different salt).
You'll find dozen of matches and you won't know which one is the actual password if it's not dictionary based.
Just pick any match with characters enterable on the keyboard.
Which doesn't help finding the real password, if you have access to the hashes, you have most likely already compromised that system. So the point of being able to login is kinda moot. I did specify that.
Getting a file to match a checksum or a certificate to match a checksum is much more dangerous.
You can upload a trojan and make it appear legitimate. You can forge a fake SSL certificate and make it appear legitimate.
They did specify they want to use shadow with MD5 here tho (and those are certainly salted). Not that it's all that advisable, it's just not as horrible as some maybe think.
Nice bullets M. Lupin !
[ ] Implement crypt-md5 support (like
/etc/shadow, strong and LDAP-compatible) hashes, or possibly crypt-sha2
Holy shit, they're actually seriously considering MD5. This is embarrassing.
Why are they limiting themselves to crypt-compatible hashes? Why not just move passwords out of applications/RDMBS to LDAP (OpenLDAP already has sha-2) or Kerberos? And if they are considering crypt-md5 an improvement, what *were* they using?
You kidding? That has absolutely everything to do with the hash function used!
SHA1 is highly vulnerable to brute force through optimized attacks. That's why NIST (among others) are recommending moving away from SHA1. Ditto for MD5.
That's if you want to intelligently brute force a SHA1 hash. If however the test material is short (e.g., passwords), then it doesn't matter if you use SHA1, SHA2, whatever. Just do a simple dictionary attack first to see if you can get easy passwords.
Actually this depends on what context "brute force" is used in.
In the traditional definition of a brute force attack:
Hashing is used to store the password so you can't read it simply by looking at the table data. When entering your password to log in, it's hashed then compared against the hash in the database.
How easy a password is to brute force depends 100% on how good the password is. Like he said, it doesn't matter what algorithm is used to hash the passwords for purposes of a brute force attack you are
A salt + a good hash will prevent against bruteforcing. Encryption will allow the attacker to get the original password back which can be used on other websites etc. Any web site worth it's salt (pun unintended) hashes the passwords instead of encrypting them. Cmon, this is Web Security 101 stuff.
Salts protect against rainbow tables, not brute forcing. The salt is stored in plaintext with the crypted value (eg $type$salt$hash for the Modular Crypt Format) "Good" hashes are just those where someone hasn't yet figured out a way to calculate that "X#4!./,V3zm" has the same hash that "password" does, and ideally that take a relatively long time to calculate in order to slow down brute force attacks where someone throws a dictionary at the hash and sees if any matches pop out.
Protection against brute f
A salt + a good hash will prevent against bruteforcing.
No, it won't. A whitelist of ip addresses helps, adjusting the timing of acceptance helps, but eventually, brute force works.
Add to that that gcc is hosted. Compromise gcc's source and you get access to everything you ever want. Obligatory Ken Thompson compiler trojan article link http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html#fig6 [bell-labs.com]
The actual bug I planted in the compiler would match code in the UNIX "login" command. The replacement code would miscompile the login command so that it would accept either the intended encrypted password or a particular known password. Thus if this code were installed in binary and the binary were used to compile the login command, I could log into that system as any user.
Such blatant code would not go undetected for long. Even the most casual perusal of the source of the C compiler would raise suspicions.
The final step is represented in Figure 7. This simply adds a second Trojan horse to the one that already exists. The second pattern is aimed at the C compiler. The replacement code is a Stage I self-reproducing program that inserts both Trojan horses into the compiler. This requires a learning phase as in the Stage II example. First we compile the modified source with the normal C compiler to produce a bugged binary. We install this binary as the official C. We can now remove the bugs from the source of the compiler and the new binary will reinsert the bugs whenever it is compiled. Of course, the login command will remain bugged with no trace in source anywhere.
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect.
Add to that that gcc is hosted.
GCC's code respositories are hosted on gcc.gnu.org, a machine also known as sourceware.org, which is owned and operated by Redhat and provides hosting for basically the entire GNU toolchain (automake, autoconf, binutils, GCC, gdb, glibc, and libstdc++)[1].
This attack therefore would not be able to modify the GCC sources.
[1] Notably not present are GNU's bison, libtool, m4 and make.
Little Bobby tables!
An attacker could insert an exploit into GNU software, which would be executed downstream by users who expect Savannah software to be safe to use.
Why not just retcon it as a WikiLeaks release and turn this event into a PR opportunity?
"enabling the attackers to access restricted project material."
So? I though it was all about free & open source. Therefore, what restricted material?
Personal contact info for copyright assignees beyond the legally required minimum?
Private GPG keys?
Just making some good guesses.
Does it look to you like this GNU code [gnu.org] was written by a wise old neckbeard? It's 780 lines of unreadable crap. This [bell-labs.com] is what the code of a wise old neckbeard looks like.
Your AT&T example will fail on systems with interruptible system calls: it has no mechanism for distinguishing EINTR from any other failure mode.
On Plan 9, that may be a valid assumption. Under SuS, SVR4, and POSIX, it's not.
GNU Savannah was hacked in 2003 also. http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344-5117271.html [cnet.com]
"We expect to take measures in the aftermath of the Savannah incident," said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, which maintains the GNU Project, a source of freely available software for Unix and Linux systems. Among the measures, the project leaders will force developers to digitally sign any code they submit, and they plan to introduce additional features to freely available source-code maintenance systems--the best known being the Concurrent Versions System, or CVS--to check developers' digital signatures before accepting changes.
"We believe (adding digital signatures) is the single most useful technical change to tighten these systems to assure the integrity of the code they contain," Moglen said.
Does anyone know if the changes described here came to be? Did they help at all in this attack?
They changed CVS and other version control systems hosted on savannah to require ssh key based logon for write access. It's not quite what is quoted, but a big step in that direction that was immediately achievable without waiting for the changes in CVS and other programs. They did change the FTP upload process to require GPG signatures for all uploads.
However the web based system that was hacked this time around has a password based login, and allows users to change their authorized SSH keys. It also allow
This can only be the precursor to the wikileaks post where they blow the lid off the GNU world by releasing a torrent of source code! Run for the hills!
Nah, wikileaks only seems interested in harming the US government and the US economy.. That would seem to be beneath them as it could potentially help.
If you have a sign on your back that says "kick me", and people kick you, it isn't an attack. It is a response to an invitation.
A net-facing program which just blindly passes whatever crap is input into another programming language (sql, in this case) is simply stupid, broken, and wearing a "kick me" sign.
If my net facing program just bundled user input into 'cmd', and did "system(cmd)"; you would hardly consider that a "shell injection attack". It is simply really bad software. No need for fancy term
"GNU free software archive" and "access restricted project material"
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford

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On Nov. 29, 2006, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited Adam K. Foster, 26, of Sulphur, for allegedly killing two wild turkeys on Thanksgiving Day in Beauregard Parish.
Agents received a tip that Foster had been deer hunting on the morning of Nov. 23 and shot two turkeys from his deer stand. Agents conducted an investigation and questioned Foster at his residence in Sulfur on Wednesday, Nov. 29.
Foster admitted he had killed two turkeys on Thanksgiving Day and that one of the turkeys had already been consumed. The remaining turkey was seized as evidence along with the shotgun that was used to commit the violation. Agents cited Foster for two counts of hunting turkeys during a closed season. He was also issued a civil restitution penalty for the replacement costs of the two illegally taken turkeys.
Louisiana does not have a fall turkey season. During the spring season in portions of the months of March and April, hunters may harvest gobblers only. The limit is one per day and two per season.
The penalty for taking turkeys during a closed season is a fine up to $950, up to 120 days in jail, or both plus court costs, and forfeiture of anything seized for each count. The civil restitution value is $802.50 for each turkey.
Agents involved in the investigation were Sgts. David Liles and Keith Aucoin.
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What pulled me out of the Labor Day Slump of 2012 was a wonderful seminar sponsored by the San Diego Genealogical Society featuring Lisa Alzo yesterday. It was top quality and I couldn't have asked for more... or taken it because my head was full! Lisa was a wonderful speaker and for just $40, including lunch, what's not to like?
I love the intellectual stimulation and challenges a day like this brings. Sitting there listening to a well-crafted presentation and having my mind feel like it's free to roam and come up with other thoughts, other solutions as I look into each of the concepts presented. I keep a list going during times like this where I capture all of the random thoughts that come so freely flowing: blog topics, places to look for brick wall ancestors, new strategies to employ.
Here's an example something Lisa included in her first presentation that might apply to my recent quest looking for Jane James Williams my GGGM. Birds Of Passage, or those who come to a country and later go back to their homeland. Some stay put, wanting nothing more to do with The New World. But Lisa expanded that definition for me to include individuals who might have gone back and forth bringing over relatives and helping them get settled in America, then going back for others. This brought a new thought to the Williams family and had me thinking differently about some ships lists.
At lunch I randomly sat next to a fellow attendee and we got chatting about our interests. I mentioned the Williams people from Wales and she reminded me of a film Mom had talked about but I'd forgotten: How Green Was My Valley. Made in 1941 in black and white and directed by John Ford, it tells the story of hard life in a Welsh mining community. I saw it a number of years ago but I wanted to revisit it now in light of the Williams people. My luncheon companion said that she'd read the book and it was really nice... so when I got home I popped on Amazon and bought it for -- are you ready -- a penny!! Can't wait to read it:)
It did me a world of good to go to that seminar yesterday. Now I'm all charged up and ready to go:)
Photo of the day from Aunt Betty:
The Congregational Church of
Frostburg, Maryland, about 1928.
Frostburg, Maryland, about 1928.
Photo below cropped and numbered by Aunt Betty,
in an effort to identify everyone.
All identified except for about two dozen, mostly boys.
Good work, Aunty Betty!!
Mom thinks this might be the church choir
of which she and her sister were members.
Mom is number 31 and her sister, Dorothy is number 1.
Stained glass window in memorial to
Johanna Harris, Aunty Betty's GGM.
Beautiful and still there, special and precious.
Johanna Harris, Aunty Betty's GGM.
Beautiful and still there, special and precious.
The URL for this post is: http://nutsfromthefamilytree.blogspot.com/2012/09/recharging-charging-forward.html


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Talk:Wu Zi Mu
I have decided to rename this page to "Woozie" as it is the more common name. Chimpso (Talk) 05:04, July 10, 2010 (UTC)
- If that's merely your basis, then we should move The Truth to Truth, Jizzy B. to Jizzy, Ken Rosenberg to Rosie (in GTA SA, at least) and Carl Johnson to CJ. The reason why Sweet's article is name as such is that he barely mentions his real name, or he doesn't even use it, apart from occasional uses of "Johnson", but he mainly uses "Johnson" referring to both him and Carl. I don't think "Melvin Harris" or "Lance Wilson" was even used at all; only mentioned in the credits. Woozie is simply a nickname, and a shortened version of "Wu Zi Mu". It's a short form. By the way, I think "Mu" is a surname; if we did it like this, we would disregard his surname. If this is such, we then shouldn't give other character article surnames. Move will be undone. Masterpogihaha 05:46, July 10, 2010 (UTC)
Wu Zi Mu's "Blindness"
I DON'T THINK WOOZIE IS ACTUALLY BLIND HE IS FAKING IT TO LURE HIS ENEMIES INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY AND FOR HIS OWN SAFETY ENEMIES ARE LESS LIKELY TO ATTACK HIM IF THEY THINK HE IS BLIND. MY THEORY IS BACKED UP BY TWO PIECES OF EVIDENCE: EXHIBIT 1 WU ZI MU DRIVES A CAR IN THE MISSION HE IS INTRODUCED IN, HE DRIVES LIKE A PERSON WHO ISN'T BLIND. IF HE WAS BLIND HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DRIVE WITH THAT SKILL. EXHIBIT 2 WU ZI MU FIRES A GLOCK AT DA NANG BOYS IN THE MISSION MOUNTAIN CLOUD BOYS HE CAN ACCURATELY SHOOT AT THEM LIKE A PERSON WHO IS NOT BLIND. IF HE WAS BLIND HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO OPERATE A GUN. SO IN CONCLUSION I DON'T THINK WU ZI MU IS REALLY BLIND.Andrew nicholson 21:37, August 28, 2010 (UTC)


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First Team
G Tiesha Flagler
School/Year: Menendez, sr.
Stats: 23.3 ppg, 8.9 rbg
Why she's here: Flagler pieced together one of the best scoring seasons in recent memory and led the Falcons back to the playoffs almost single-handedly. The powerful combo guard was a force inside the paint and one of the top rebounders in the county at any position. She was unstoppable during stretches this season and was also a tenacious defender.
G Niki Perez
School/class: Nease, sr.
Stats: 17.9 ppg, 5.8 apg, 6 spg
Why she's here: Perez finished off a memorable career with her best season yet. On a team dealing with injuries and graduations, she carried the Panthers to their first district title since 2000 with a 27-point performance and led Nease to the second round of the playoffs. Her outside shooting and ability to run a team are among the best around.
G Allie Mano
School/class: Bartram Trail, sr.
Stats: 17.4 ppg, 4.3 rbg, 5.8 spg
Why she's here: The Record's top player was the unquestioned leader on a Bears team that reached the state title game for the first time in school history. Relentless is a word coaches and players use to describe the speedy guard, a four-year starter who her coach Ben Windle calls the "best he's ever coached." Mano began the year scoring in bunches, and ended it that way, lighting up some of the state's best teams in Bartram's playoff run.
G Jasmine Kearse
School/class: St. Augustine, jr.
Stats: 14 ppg, 4.3 apg, 3.3 rbg
Why she's here: Even with her best season yet, Kearse is only beginning to tap her potential. The true point guard has arguably the highest ceiling of any county player and didn't back down from any team this season as the Yellow Jackets reached the regional finals. Coaches pointed to Kearse's cool demeanor and ball handling as reasons to set her apart. She could be in line for a massive senior year.
F Ajanai Edwards
School/class: St. Augustine, sr.
Stats: 13.5 ppg, 5.3 rbg, 3.5 spg
Why she's here: Perhaps no player made as much progress in four years as Edwards. She went from a great athlete to a terrific basketball player this season. She was a dominant force on the glass and was nearly unstoppable driving the lane. Her speed and leaping ability made her a nightmare for opposing offenses, while her defense remained as strong as it's always been.
Second Team
G Cassidy Bailey, St. Joseph, sr.
Stats: 15.7 ppg, 3.7 apg
F Briana Maxwell, St. Augustine, jr.
Stats: 11.4 ppg, 4 rbg
F Sarah Ragland, Bartram Trail, so.
Stats: 7 ppg, 9.8 rbg, 3.7 spg
G Jeanie Verderese, Creekside, jr.
Stats: 8.1 ppg, 2.6 apg
G Melissa Coggins, Bartram Trail, sr.
Stats: 7.5 ppg, 11 of 24 from 3-point range during playoffs
Honorable mention
G Leandra Franklin, St. Augustine, fr.
F Sam Paczkowski, Nease, sr.
F Jada Harris, Nease, jr.
G Megan Piggott, Ponte Vedra, fr.
G Taylor Runge, Ponte Vedra, jr.
F Heather Volk, St. Joseph, sr.
G Amber Crowder, Menendez, sr.
G Brooke Barlow, Bartram Trail, fr.
F Madison French, Bartram Trail, so.
F Lindsay Stevens, Creekside, sr.
G Jazzmin Washington, FSDB, jr.
Former top players
2011: Emmalee Schill, St. Augustine
2010: Madeleine Roberts, Bartram Trail
2009: Barb Karlovich, Bartram Trail
2007-08: Karen Wilkens, St. Augustine
2004-06: Steffi Sorensen, Bartram Trail
2003: Kristal Ferrell, St. Augustine
2002: Brittney Garmon, St. Augustine
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Writing at the Weekly Standard, William Kristol offers a little advice to the Republican Party as it looks for a path forward. He outlines four steps for the GOP to take, but it's the second one that stands out:
The second step is to recall Bill Buckley's famous words, at the founding of National Review. The magazine—and by implication the conservative movement—would "stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." A little willingness on the part of Republicans to sometimes stand athwart History would also go a long way.
Kristol has not just woken up from a four-year coma. But if he had, this advice would make much more sense. After all, he would have missed the GOP's decision to adopt the mantle of "no," and oppose the whole of President Obama's agenda, beginning in January 2009, and continuing—with few exceptions—to the present. Republicans offered near-categorical opposition to the stimulus, health care reform, cap and trade, financial reform, and early efforts at immigration reform. And in the last two years, it has used its majority in the House of Representatives to provoke a series of crises, all with the goal of breaking Obama's agenda and forcing him to acquiesce to theirs.
Republicans have done nothing but follow Kristol's advice, and they're worse-off for it; President Obama is still in the White House, Democrats still control the Senate, and liberals have built a foundation for renewed government activism. Contra Kristol—who, we should remember—lived through the last four years, it might be better if Republicans tried an approach that hasn't caused the public to reject their leadership and disparage their brand.


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I got back from Solvang last night (early this morning?) and am reflecting on what an amazing trip it was. I tried to blog on the trip but couldn't…there was too much other stuff to be done. Too much riding, gawking, and hanging out with Chad. Too much eating. Too much scenery. Don't get me wrong–there wasn't "too much" of any of those things…there was just too much of them to make sitting at a computer seem palatable. I'm going to revisit Day 1, to give a better report.
Chad is, of course, Chad from North Central Cyclery, in DeKalb, Illinois. Through North Central Cyclery, I was able to go on this trip–which was a unique and amazing opportunity appropriate from a unique and amazing shop.
The Trek Travel trip I did was a bit unique in that it incorporated some presentations and demos from Trek bikes–rather than just being the riding and training experience that it might ordinarily be. Over the next several days, I'm going to talk about these things separately–covering both Trek Travel and Trek Bikes. I'm going to revisit Day 1 now, to give a slightly more informed perspective on the riding.
We were shuttled up to the Marriott–which was honestly the nicest, cleanest Marriott I've ever stayed in. We were fitted out with glorious bikes. In advance of the trip, you provide your measurements and anticipated bike size. Based on my time on the Madone, I knew I wanted a 56cm bike. Fortunately, Chad (my good friend and tripmate) was also a 56. For the sake of permitting back to back evaluation, we requested a 6 Series Madone and a 6 Series Domane. As it turned out, our ideal measurements were just a quick saddle adjustment away from each other, so swapping was easy. My bike had Ultegra, and his had Ultegra Di2. I'll talk in detail about the bikes another day.
The Trek Travel folks were pro. Bikes were perfectly tuned, tires pumped, ready to roll. They had an assortment of stems and seat masts available for customization, and the bikes had seatbags with tubes, flat kits, and CO2. The bikes also had computers on them–which was handy. I used my trusty Garmin.
I'm going to re-emphasize that last point–the Trek Travel people were great. Fun, energetic, knowledgeable people. They were prepared for every contingency, the trip was well-planned and well-supported, and it was amazing. For anyone considering Trek Travel, I would give it my highest possible endorsement.
Day 1 had an unstructured ride. They had a number of options for us, and we selected one of their proposed routes. When we were getting ready, we met Drew from Bike World in San Antonio Texas, and the three of us headed out.
The views went from pretty good to amazing.
Here's Chad, motoring up a hill on his Domane.
The Solvang area was awesome to ride. Motorists were friendly–people would wave with all 5 fingers. If you got too much into the lane, or if a car snuck up behind you, you'd get a very gentle quick tap on the horn from an approaching car to let you know they were there. We rode ~150 miles and didn't have a single bad interaction with cars. Most of the roads had nice, wide paved shoulders to ride.
Here's Chad and Drew on another climb. (It's steeper and longer than it looks).
Yours truly, flying the North Central Cyclery colors.
You could ride this all day.
Many shoulders had ample width for comfortable, 2-abreast riding.
Speed on descents was limited only by your bravery.
Chad climbing a little roller.
We took a long loop, and then after some poor direction following on our part (no fault to the clear directions), we rolled back to a waterfall park. This was a windy, 2-lane rural profile road through trees, with a good climb. It was beautiful.
Verdant green in January? Check.
The road rolled out in front of us like a welcome mat.
As we neared the steeper part of the climb, I assumed a place at the front of our trio, and pushed off.
At this point, I was on the Domane, and it climbed like a rocket. The stiff BB translated every sweep of the cranks into forward momentum, and up the hill we went. Gear changes were ridiculously easy with the Di2, and I tried shifting around a bit, even under load, to see how it handled. It could not be fooled.
The Sun was shining, and in late January, the temps were in the low 70s in the afternoon.
We rolled back to the waterfall park, and saw what there was to see–more brilliance.
And then we looped back to the hotel for a shower, and got ready for dinner.
Dinner as a group was at a steakhouse in a nearby town, and was delicious. We had an opportunity to sit and chat with Mike (Trek road bike) and Chris (Trek mountain bike) about things that have come, and things that are yet to come, and to gain some insight into how thoughtful Trek is. They have their head in the game. More on that later, too.
For now, I'll say that Day 1 was amazing in every regard. Trek Travel could not have been any better, and at the conclusion of Day 1, I thought the roads couldn't get any better, either.
I was wrong. Stay tuned for Day 2.
(If you're interested in finding out more about Trek Travel, get in touch with Tobie at North Central Cyclery).


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I got 20 bucks that says Old Church Guy has a freezer full of severed heads in his garage or somethin'. I'm on to you OCG! You hear me!? I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!
Who the hell is Kyle D Williams? The brother of the black dude from Star Wars?
That depends. You actually believe a single 900 year old dude somehow got 60,000 species of beetle onto a 450 ft wooden boat?
That boy done prayed himself retarded.
Don't try to take the high ground with me grasshopper. You're the one insinuating it's a-okay to murder little kids such just as long as it's approved by something significantly powerful.
Well, life. Truth doesn't do me a damn bit of good if I'm worm food.
Oh yeah? Wow. That's nice. Sucks your imaginary friend has COMPLETELY FAILED TO PROSPER AND NOT HARM AND GIVE HOPE AND A FUTURE TO LIKE 90% OF ALL HUMANITY FOR THE PAST 2,000 YEARS. You unbelievably dim-witted weirdo.
If somebody is going to sit across from me, and seriously try to convince me that a talking snake (who was really a red, hooved goat man and the incarnation of evil) got a rib lady to eat a wisdom-giving fruit, and THAT is why babies in Africa get devoured by vultures...You bet your ass I'm going to mock them.Why? Because, real talk, that's one jaw-droppingly stupid thing to believe. You're a grown ass adult living in the 21st century. Get a fucking GRIP.
Family circus can suck a dick! That's right! I said it!Most milquetoast, vanilla, whitebread, balless, unfunny, braindead, mouth-breathing, lowest-common-denominator pandering, football-shaped-head-having, shamelessly MILF agrandizing, infantile-assed, limp-wristed follow-the-footsteps-straight-into-the-mouth-of-mediocrity endorsing pieces of over-fluffed theocratic s**t in the history of Ever.f**k JEFFY. That's right, f**k that dumb little bastard right in his nostrils!!! All that fucking ink stain ever did is take up valuable paper space that would have been infinitely better occupied by a 2nd Calvin & Hobbes.
And yes, thank you 1,000 times for writing something I can read without my lungs trying to punch my heart valves closed. I actually gave you a golf clap.
Oh for the love of f**k. Could you at least make an attempt to write something that doesn't hurt to read?
If you really think ancient desert-wandering, camel-ass smelling Jewish rabbis had some kind of leg up on science over the Roman Empire, you're on some high powered crack my friend.
Retardsville. You're the mayor. Wear your sash with pride.
And I swear, impotent gods are the worst kinds lol. STRIKE ME DEAD, JESUS! YOU TAKE DICKS UP THE NOSTRILS!!!!Still here. One impotent god mocked, and I'm about to head home to enjoy a beer and play some videogames. Ahhhh! I blasphemed the holy spook! I'm doomed forever! But don't cry for me Argentina. If your religion was real, I'd take a thousand hells over bending a knee to the vile child-killing, slavery-endorsing, mysognist homophobe pedophile you call a god.
But no, Yahweh just goes nanners and dramatically displays the single greatest over reaction in the history of popular fiction. Kinda like punching a retarded kitten in the face forever because it chewed on your shoes when you told it not to, in full knowledge that your roomate is the one who soaked your Nikes in Catnip.
Actually it doesn't. One could conceivably be all-powerful but not exceptionally intelligent.
I bet this sounds REALLY compelling if you're already a Christian. Very dramatic in an after-school special kind of way. Especially the part about panting in the bathroom mirror lol. Because everybody knows that great revelations always make you pant in the bathroom mirror. s**t, I've seen it in at least two dozen movies. I do it myself for effect every time I collect on a property in Monopoly. "Baltimore Ave!? TWO HOUSES!? WAHHH!" <runs to the bathroom to pant in mirror>It makes for very long games... But boy are they *INTENSE*!!!
What happened to Raymond?
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
I promise you, most of us here know more of the bible than you do. You really should NOT assume that just because we don't believe in space elves, we've never read up on them. That's exactly WHY most of us are not Christians, in fact. Because we actually read the bible in it's entirity and are find it to be.... Lacking. A GOD should have done better.That you guys can sit there, regurgitating feel-good propaganda and saying "love lovey love love! X luvs u! Y luvs u! Yahweh luvs u more than u can even IMAGINE!! .... Now THAT is insulting. Because with VERY little effort, I can imagine love that doesn't involve TORTURING THE SUPPOSED "LOVED" ONE *FOR ALL ETERNITY!" And ANY kind of love that doesn't involve eternal torture is better than Yahweh's love. A PEDOPHILES love, is better than Yahweh's love.
As an aside, personally I've always loved the way Jesus is tenderly cupping his cosmic space junk. Like "No, don't look at my sensitive little holy balls! I've never made love to a woman before so they're totally unkempt, like two chestnuts glued to a porcupine!" It's like "Dude, you're dead. Who are you hiding your sack from?" Answer? The tight-assed medieval rubes that were the intended marks in this con. No way you'd sell them on a Jesus shroud that had a giant god-kawk just chillin' there on his thigh. Ya know? And Set forbid you show some buttock. Very considerate of the artist to blur that part out altogether!
This whole post ...http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php/topic,17952.msg398851.html#msg398851
What, you can't relate? Shiiiii. I genocide all the time.The atheist spirits compell me.Hell, just last week I went to town on about 13,000 various Mexicans and Eskimos.I liked to dismember them and then mix and match the pieces. You know... So I can make Meximos.
And that s**t he said to the paperback chick was bitchslap worthy where I come from.
Atheists are spectators in a grand battle of stupid ideas. Sadly, these ideas get people killed in the name of a loving god on both sides of the delusion.


text: and what has the left called Sarah Palin? links pleaseThe left is going way too far in this kind of thinking. Rush should not have called her names but they are being hypocritical for trying to silence him. Have you looked at what the left called Sarah Palin? What Rush did pales in comparison, but that doesn't justify his words either.


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FATAL ACCIDENT — A Boyd man has died as a result of injuries sustained in an early morning wreck Monday. Toby Baker, 39, was transported via ground ambulance to Wise Regional Health System in Decatur following an accident about 6:40 a.m. near the intersection of Texas 114 and County Road 3241, one mile west of Paradise. According to DPS Trooper Bridgeman, Baker was westbound on Texas 114 when his Hyundai Elantra collided with an International truck, described by the trooper as a "pump vac" truck that sprays water on construction zones. The truck was driven by John C. Harvey of Fort Worth, according to Trooper Lonny Haschel, and had just pulled onto Texas 114 from CR 3241 when Baker's car struck its passenger side. Trooper Haschel said Baker died at WRHS at 8:40 a.m. The accident remains under investigation. Funeral for Baker is pending at Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home in Boyd.
ROBBERY VICTIM DIES FROM INJURIES — Marvin Zimmerman, 81, has died from injuries sustained in a brutal home invasion robbery last June near Briar where he was bound and gagged and left alone in his home. Officers found the man lying on the floor of his home and believe he had been tied up for several days. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office has ruled the death a homicide and the cause of death as "complications of subdural hematoma, dehydration and renal failure due to being assaulted, bound and abandoned in residence." Zimmerman died Sunday at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Bedford.
FUTURE OF HOSPITAL UNCERTAIN — In a Fort Worth courtroom, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn Monday afternoon ordered the sale of North Texas Community Hospital to Wise Regional Health System. Whether the Bridgeport hospital can remain open until the deal closes is still up in the air. "We are running out of cash," attorney Stephen Roberts told the court. Roberts said the hospital's business declined significantly in November, December and January after the bankruptcy filing was announced Nov. 8. Wise Regional made a bid of $20 million, including a $1 million loan and $19 million to purchase the hospital's assets. Although 15 potential bidders contacted NTCH and asked for information, the bid deadline of Jan. 28 came and went and Wise Regional's bid was the only one on the table. Last week NTCH made its first draw on the $1 million loan, getting $650,000 to keep the hospital operating. "We are prepared to turn over control," NTCH Chief Executive Officer Max Ludeke said after the court hearing. "Our number-one priority is the interest of the community." Wise Regional CEO Steve Summers said the two groups would begin talking and working together soon on a plan to make the Bridgeport hospital part of the Wise Regional Health System.
SECOND THEFT SUSPECT ARRESTED — The second suspect in Sunday's trailer theft, which led to a manhunt near Chico, was arrested Sunday night in Tarrant County, according to Captain Kevin Benton with the Wise County Sheriff's Department. David McMurry, 28, of Chico was found hiding in a motel room in Blue Mound, Benton said. He was booked into Wise County Jail and charged with theft of property $1,500-$20,000, criminal mischief less than $1,500 for tearing down a fence where animals are kept, and evading arrest with a vehicle, all of which are felonies. He was also charged with evading arrest, a misdemeanor. Shannon Hood, 36, of Sunset was arrested Sunday. Read more in the midweek Wise County Messenger on news stands Wednesday.
BRIDGEPORT COUNCIL MEETS — Bridgeport council members have plenty talk about at their regular meeting at 7 tonight at City Hall. During the workshop portion, council members will weigh in on repairs to the Law Enforcement Center, improvements to Lawdwin Ball Fields, the establishment of a recreation center as proposed by three high school students and the need for assistance with the city's information technology program. Council members will also consider renewing routine contracts for services such as Ebooks at the library, ball field use and wrecker service. New contracts to be discussed are radio advertising to promote tourism in Bridgeport and records management with a different provider.
CHICO CITY COUNCIL — The Chico City Council meets at 7 tonight at Chico City Hall. Agenda items include consideration and action on a TCEQ enforcement order, annexation of land, discussion on renewal of TXU/Oncor franchise agreement, updates on the new purchasing procedures and utility billing software, appointment of Chico Community Volunteer Fire Department officers and reports from various city departments.
FUNERALS — Service for Katie Marie Calhoun Stevens, 58, of Decatur is 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Decatur with burial at Oaklawn Cemetery. Family visitation is 6-7:30 tonight at the church. Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home in Decatur is handling arrangements.
SERVICE for Paul Randle, 70, of Newark will be held at a later date. Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home in Boyd is handling arrangements.
SERVICE for Donald Eugene Silver, 88, of Bridgeport is 9:15 a.m. Thursday at DFW National Cemetery. Family visitation is 6-8 tonight at Hawkins Funeral Home in Bridgeport.
MEMORIAL service for Judith Forson, 69, of Poolville will be held at a later date. Jones Family Funeral Home in Bridgeport is handling arrangements.
SERVICE for Anita Robinson, 68, of Bridgeport is pending at Jones Family Funeral Home.
FUNERAL for Bert "Bo" Edwin King, 80, of Newark is 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Mount Olivet Chapel in Fort Worth. Family visitation is 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.


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Lady Monarchs Open CAA Championship Play Friday at Pinehurst
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April 21, 2011
PINEHURST, NC--The Lady Monarchs of ODU compete in the 2011 CAA women's Golf Championships which begin on Friday morning at The Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, N.C. The 54-hole tournaments will conclude on Sunday afternoon with the winners earning an automatic berth to the NCAA Championship.
The Lady Monarchs will be led by senior Emma Gilmore, sophomore Samantha Morrell, freshmen Eliabeth Haycock and Kimberley Bradbury.
Gilmore has a 78.8 spring stroke average, Morrell, 76.8, Haycock, 76.8 and Bradbury at 77.8.
Morrell was fourth at C&F Bank and sixth at Tina Barrett in the Spring while placing second at Great Smokies, third at lady Pirate and seventh at Sea trail in the Fall.
Haycock tied for second at UNCW, and 16th at Barefoot at the Beach, while Bradbury was fifth at UNCW and seventh at Tina Barrett. Gilmore finished second at Tina Barrett in the Spring and 15th at the Spider Classic in the Fall.
Ten women's teams will battle at the par 72, 6,002-yard Pinehurst No. 6 course. Just three teams have ever won the CAA women's golf championship title: James Madison, Georgia State and UNC Willmington. Defending champion Georgia State came away with a nine-stroke victory to claim its third, and second stright, CAA title since joining in 2006. The Panthers are on pace to battle for another title as they enter the tournament ranked No. 1 among the team standings. GSU is led by 2010 CAA Individual Medalist Charlotte Lorentzen, who enters the tournament a top all CAA players, Charlotte Guilleux and Jenny Haggblom.
Other top contenders include James Madison, which is led by Ginger Mak, Nicole Sakamoto, and Mary Chamberlain and third-seeded UNC Wilmington, which won back-to-back championship titles in 2007 & 2008, will be led by Sofia Hagsund, Lori Beth Adams and Laverry Kumar. Old Dominion will open the tournament as the fourth seed and Xavier will be the fifth-seeded team.
The three-day event will open with split tees each day and live scoring will be available. The tournaments will conclude on Sunday afternoon and award ceremonies will be held at the respective courses.


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Law west of Fort Smith: a history of frontier justice in the Indian Territory, 1834-1896
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Centering on the career of "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker, this book is "a startling reminder of what really went on in the Old West."-The New YorkerFor twenty-one years, from 1875 to 1896, Isaac C. Parker, Judge of the U.S. Court of the Western District of Arkansas, was the law west of Fort Smith, holding exclusive jurisdiction over 74,000 square miles and 60,000 people in Arkansas and Indian Territory. In this colorful yet carefully researched account of the "Hanging Judge," Glenn Shirley also traces the careers of such famous criminals as the Daltons, Belle Starr, the Buck gang, and Cole Younger; records the processes of the court; and tells how the district's 200 deputy marshals worked against overwhelming odds to bring justice and order. The appendix includes a chronology of the 79 hangings ordered by Parker; a list of commutations and pardons, reversals and acquittals, and bonds fortefied; and two of the Judge's famous charges to the jury, in themselves notable documents of legal history. Glenn Shirley, who has written widely on western law and outlaws, is also the author of Pawnee Bill: A Biography of Major Gordon W. Lillie and the editor of Buckskin Joe: The Memoirs of Edward Jonathan Hoyt."This is far the best and most readable book on Judge Parker and his hanging court."- Stanley Vestal, Daily Oklahoman"A startling reminder of what really went on in the Old West before the dime novel and Hollywood turned it into a kind of primrose path." -New Yorker"This book is top-quality and exciting history engagingly told."-New York Times Book Review
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|2010-06-04, 11:43
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Okay, I was reading EP1 lately and I read carefully the second twilight part.
First of all : Let's settle the red :
*plays Core in the music room*
1.2.3 and I-II- : Genji could have set the letter before heading back to the kitchen. and
Kanon, Kumasawa and Nanjo could have done this too, when Genji was calling for Natsuhi. However, it will means that the distance between the kitchen and the bedroom is smaller that the distance between the parlor and the kitchen, because it would be impossible to come back without running or without knowing that Genji would not immediately head back to the kitchen.
4.5. and III- :VERY VERY VERY VERY suspicious part here, how can they don't even notice the corpse ? .The part where they see the corpse is omitted. or
Kumasawa is involved in the 1st twilight. or even more foolish
Go in the storehouse, which is far in the rose garden, pick a tool, and going back next to the door, running with Kumasawa falling here and here, IN 5 MINUTES ?...There is maybe another storehouse somewhere else.
And for the rest of the game :
When they unlocked the storehouse, it was possible for Shannon or Krauss to escape from it, and due to III-, Kanon and Kumasawa propably didn't notice.
4.5. and VI- : Genji went in the parlor, where Natshui and the cousins were. Kanon and Kumasawa were in the storehouse...so...only Nanjo could have drawn the magic circle that is not a circle. However, 7. !
It takes more time to Nanjo and Genji to call for Natsuhi than Kanon and Kumasawa. Genji could have drawn it before getting in the parlor, who knows.
6. : The chain might be a fake chain.
7. -IV : Maybe it wants to tell us that "Hideyoshi was actally taking a bath, the corpse didn't get moved here afterwards." (I can't use red, so I made "faint" red).
So...to sum up...
Who put the envelope ?
Kanon, Kumasawa, Nanjo or Genji are the only one without alibis.
Who drew the sign on the door ?
Nanjo or Genji.
Was it possible for someone in the parlor to leave ?
Only if Natsuhi or Battler fall asleep. Natsuhi have a gun and Battler is our RELIABLE person, as the detective. (but incompetent)
But...I will go with Knox's 8th here.
Was it possible for someone in the storehouse to leave ?
Even if they faked their death, with the locks, they could leave only after Kanon and Kumasawa unlocked it. And if Krauss of Shannon did that, they had to run fast to reach the room of the murder before Kanon and Kumasawa.
So...who killed them ?
I can make a theory with Genji/Nanjo as the killer
I can make a theory with Kanon/Kumasawa as the killer
The first one :
When Genji knock on the door, Eva was alive and Hideyoshi was taking a shower. However, as shown with the recipe scene, Eva was doubting the servant to hide Kinzo death, so she was suspecting the servants. It's why she didn't open the door first. Kanon left.
Then, Genji decided to talk about the letter out loud. Eva think it was a letter for her and opened the door. Genji enters, kills Hideyoshi and Eva. Then he use X to fake the chain that Kanon will cut later...or the servants are all acomplice and Kanon never cut any chain at all.
And the second
Kanon killed Eva and Hideyoshi when he entered in the room.
Anyway, if you read all Genji could have SET THE ENVELOPE, DRAW THE MAGIC SIGN AND KILL THEM !
But this method X of "fake chain" is...strange...so Kanon as the killer is more likely possible.
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|2010-06-04, 14:31
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(it was said by Lambda to counter Battler's idea that the three killed each other)
Which isn't really a new theory for the second twilight, but it's one of the more popular ones. Examining each person's alibi again:
Kinzo: Dead
Krauss: Identifiable corpse, and Battler clearly sees it. That means he's dead.
Eva: The victim, and she didn't commit suicide after committing murder.
Rudolf: Unidentifiable corpse, but his identity is guaranteed. That means he's dead.
Rosa: Unidentifiable corpse, but her identity is guaranteed. That means she's dead.
Jessica: With Battler in the parlor at the time. The only time she could have killed them was when Kanon was injured, and she was out of Battler's sight. But Genji locked the room so she would need Kanon's key to enter and kill them. And the victims must have faked their deaths to be killed at that time. So I would say she's innocent.
George: With Battler in the parlor at the time. He was also with Battler until the very end. So I would say he's innocent.
Battler: He's the detective, so he didn't kill them.
Maria: With Battler in the parlor at the time. The only chance she could have killed them was after she was thrown out of the study. But Genji locked the room so she would need Kumasawa's key to enter and kill them. And the victims must have faked their deaths to be killed at that time. So I would say she's innocent.
Natsuhi: With Battler in the parlor at the time. She was also with Battler until the very end. So I would say she's innocent, if EP5 is any indication.
Hideyoshi: The victim, and he didn't commit suicide after committing murder.
Kyrie: Unidentifiable corpse, but her identity is guaranteed. That means she's dead.
Genji: He isn't a murderer.
Nanjo: He isn't a murderer.
Kumasawa: She isn't a murderer.
Gohda: Unidentifiable corpse, but his identity is guaranteed. That means he's dead.
Kanon: He was with Kumasawa at the time, but she could have lied, so it's possible he is the killer.
Shannon: Battler never saw her corpse, even though it is identifiable. Basically she could have faked her death, escaped from the storehouse using the window and killed them.
Jessica and Maria have very small windows of opportunity to kill them, but it makes things much more complicated.
Shannon and Kanon as culprits make it much simpler, but there isn't enough evidence to prove which one of them did it. At least, I haven't been able to find it.
|2010-06-04, 14:41
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...Well...Kanon is just the perfect murderer for EP1 But I don't find a motive for Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo death, George has the most important reason to kill them (by reasoning only them + Kanon could have kill Rva and Hideyoshi, and he think that Kanon is dead).
So...Kanon and Shannon for culprit in EP1...
|2010-06-04, 14:50
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The two most likely people to have faked their deaths are once again Shannon and Kanon, but there actually isn't proof Eva and Hideyoshi are dead... though there still isn't a good motive for them.
|2010-06-04, 15:13
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Euk, reading this thread is like reading a maths textbook all over again. No possible motives, just 'who did it' and that's it. X_X
Since I could not find any other place suitable for what I am going to say, I will post it here. I'd like to express my opinion on why there is a letter from 'Beatrice', why the plaque below the portrait of Beatrice exists.
I believe it has to do with Kinzo's will.
In the very beginning of EP1, Nanjo tries to persuade Kinzo to write a will. Kinzo is very much against that, as he finds his chlidren greedy and grandchildren unworthy. However, he later on seems to agree. (I think this scene really happened, but a year or so preceding the actual events of '86.)
From here on, it's my educated speculation:
Kinzo, knowing he only had a few months left, commissioned a painting of his beloved Beatrice and composed the riddle himself. The painting was to give an image of the witch of the island. Perhaps Kinzo knew about his children's financial problems, or could foresee them.
I'm very much sure that Kinzo himself wrote and sealed the letters, storing them away until a pre-planned date or event.
Kinzo then placed the following in his will - when he dies, during the next family conference, the following must be carried out:
1. Shannon will deliver the first letter bearing Kinzo's crest, to Maria under the guise of Beatrice.
2. Maria reads the letter to the family after dinner has finished, this letter will encourage the family members to put their heads together in order to find the gold.
3. If the family does not succeed, an explosion will occur after 2 days, taking everything of the Ushiromiya family as interest for Beatrice, as well as the gold. (I'm sure Kinzo would have wanted this, if there was no one fit to succeed him. He was a very proud man.)
I'm sure that only Genji, Shannon and Kanon know about Kinzo's will. Hence their one-winged crest on their uniform. Nanjo does not show any signs of knowing anything about this will.
What I don't get is how Kinzo would have foreseen the typhoon. And I'm sure that Kinzo, or whoever composed the letters, did not intend for any of the murders to happen. And of course, please remember this is all speculation.
|2010-06-04, 15:15
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# All of the survivors have alibis! Let us include the dead as well!!
# In short, no kind of human or dead person on the island could have killed Kanon!
# Kanon did not commit suicide *
Nothing was able to KILL Kanon, but just wound him...therefore Kanon didn't die in the boiler room, and could have killed everyone...but...ah...
Kanon revolted. He didn't want to be considered as furniture. He asked Shannon to fake her death to make a perfect alibi for the next crimes. He also asked Genji and menaced Nanjo and Kumasawa to make them do was he wanted. Krauss knew about that, and he is so stupid that he thought it was a good way to make Kinzo death hidden forever.
Shannon, dress up as Beatrice, and gave the letter to Maria. Krauss stole the ring of the head on Kinzo's finger.
Kanon and Genji killed the 4 in the dinning room and Gohda was killed because Kanon hated him (first scene with Kanon, Gohda seems pretty harsh with him). Shannon acted dead.
Second twilight, Genji put the letter near the door, go and find Kanon in the kitchen. Kanon go with Kumasawa unlock the storehouse and free Shannon, Kumasawa is still menaced by Kanon. Genji writes the sign on the door, as he has the key to Kinzo's study it was easy to learn magic symbols. Kanon kills Eva and Hideyoshi, and the three do exactly was Kanon told them to do.
Kanon fake his death. The three are about to say the truth to Maria, Shannon arrives and kill them, dressed as Beatrice. Then she/Kanon kills Natsuhi.
Krauss in EP1 is strange and suspicious...but this theory make sense.
The cousins were not killed because :
Jessica : Obvious reason if Kanon is behind this.
George : Same as above, but with Shannon. Or Kanon knew that George was close to Shannon so...
Battler : Helped Kanon in the rose garden.
Maria : She helped to make the illusion of the witch.
"The difficulty is standard
Shall we first take the easy road ?"
I guess we actually took it.
KANON AND SHANNON WERE IN THE TEA PARTY !!! I forgot that only the survivors at 0:00 and them were here.
Talking about the tea party, when Battler says : "Kanon, you were playacting!" SHANNON and Jessica immediately reacts.
So yeah...can we claim that this theory is truth ?
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Well about Kanon and Shannon.
Kanon thinks that Gohda and Natsuhi are "bad people" for bullying Shannon, and Shannon may or may not agree. Genji and Kumasawa however are admired and respected by both of them. I can see Kanon killing Gohda and Natsuhi maybe, but Genji and Kumasawa is a stretch. Lambda seems to imply after she makes her reds that only some other person could've killed Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo. She doesn't think Battler's blue about them all shooting each other works.
So why would Kanon or Shannon kill people they respect? Unless they were pressured by some other person to do it?
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Because they were going to say the truth to Maria ?
Those 3 were killed by other another person ? How did s/he get the stakes ?
|2010-06-04, 17:00
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To be clear I'm saying that since there are obviously very few people in every episode that can be murderers most of the time they must have their own personal reasons to murder people. And those reasons must be influenced by a person or an idea to get to the point of murder.
|2010-06-05, 00:55
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Maybe we're wrong in assuming there is ever a detective in any of the games except when Erika is involved? I'm rereading EP5, and I can't shake the feeling that the narrator of all of the games isn't Battler... I have a feeling that the true narrator of all games is in fact the Game Master :/
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"Knox's 8th, it is forbidden for the case to be resolved with clues that are not PRESENTED! Until now, you have been the DETECTIVE!"
Maybe "you" wasn't referring to Battler at all!
But I don't think you can get terribly far with that. Author Theory would, however, suggest that the writer - and thus the "reliable perspective" - is not actually inherent to Battler. The writing in ep1-4 simply chose to make Battler reliable, before perhaps realizing that he need not be (or perhaps should not be). But that doesn't get much traction yet. Ep7 may blow the lid off the whole Author Theory concept, or it may discard it as extraneous outright.
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Battler talks about this in the ???? also. He asks himself if it's possible to solve a mystery written by someone who does not have an impartial perspective. There are only small pieces that might lead to an answer from what he says.
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I don't doubt there's a person there. Was there a person actually there (on Rokkenjima-Prime)? Was it the person we believe it to be? Hard to say right now. There have been hints, but not many about who would have been there instead.
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In ep1, it seems only possible for Shannon or Kanon to be the killer. With most likely either Kumasawa or Genji as an accomplice, or maybe both.
Because for Eva and Hideyoshi's death, as was explained last page. Only Nanjo, Kumasawa, Genji, and Kanon could have commited the crime, unless we can come up with a way for the person who faked their death in the 1st twilight to escape from the shed.
And we know that someone who should be dead is alive and they are the person who kills the three in the parlor and Natsuhi.
Kanon's reaction when they see the letter bugs me by the way. It seems almost fantasy like... I need to reread ep1..
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In an author-theory-wise perspective the "detective" is nothing but a role embedded to a certain character in the story. It's more or less like saying "main character" in a mystery novel.
Basically the "detective" is the character in the story who needs to solve the mysteries and, therefore, is the only one who can move the plot to a true solution. Any other character is either totally clueless, an accomplice, the killer or one of the killers, or someone who knows everything but keep himself silent for various reasons. And even in the case a secondary character, who actively tries to solve the mystery, do manage to find something or the whole scheme, it usually doesn't bring a true advancement in the story. Most of the times such a character gets "silenced" by the killer before he can tell his discoveries to the world (but he might leave an important clue).
So if this perspective is right, there's nothing wrong with Battler being the detective in EP1-4. narratively speaking there are very little reasons to doubt that. The same goes for Erika in EP5 (though EP6 is dubious...).
As for the narrator, it has nothing to do with the "detective". In mystery novels the narrator can be an impersonal voice of the author, the detective himself, the "Watson" of the case or any other character. Sometimes you can even find the murderer as the narrator!
So the fact that Battler isn't always the narrator of EP1-4 doesn't bring any point against the theory of him being the detective.
This brings us to a dilemma: "Even acknowledging that the detective can't see fake scenes, if the narrator is someone else, wouldn't it then be possible for the narrator to tell us that the detective saw things that aren't real even if he didn't?"
Technically I think this should be possible. However when the narrator is the detective himself (and most of the times Battler is the narrator in EP1-4) this shouldn't work.
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That seems about right, and is (unfortunately) the basis for several problematic points of contention. Those points are entirely valid though.
The interesting point about "what happens if the narrator isn't the detective and lies about what the detective sees?" is that it rarely actually applies. Almost all of the jumps to first-person narration for people other than Battler in ep1-4 have nothing to do with the person's present situation and are usually reflections on the person's past (such as Rosa and Eva's narration). There are, or at least appear to be, only two instances of non-detective first-person narration which could actually bear heavily on present events during the game, both of which I believe come in ep5:
1) Battler narrates the infamous parlor gathering scene when he is not the detective.
2) Natsuhi in the closet when Hideyoshi is murdered.
Oddly, we're given no particularly valid reason not to trust both of these narrators. Battler has yet to show any motive for lying about the number of people on the island, and Natsuhi's sincerity of narration is backed by her red text about Shannon. Yet neither one is the detective, so what they see and say is theoretically entirely possible to falsify.
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Presumably, there are people out there who want to leak documents, but want to be sure that wikileaks will properly redact it so as to protect members of the armed services, etc. This policy is probably in place for their peace of mind. If leakers just wanted to dump stuff onto the internet, anyone could do that. This policy is to make sure that the leak is done right.
Discredit WikiLeaks, Shoot the Messenger, Covert Operation Game Plan - as we were warned.
For what it's worth, I don't have a fundamental problem with the confidentiality agreement: There is no real conflict with Wikileak's mission here, despite what many other people might claim in a kneejerk reaction. Wikileaks doesn't advocate the indiscriminate release of all information, and with any organisation dedicated to releasing confidential resources while protecting whistleblowers, secrecy is obviously a central fact of live. More so with an organisation that must be under tremendous, even violent, pressure from the US. And while I found the commercial aspects of the agreement a bit odious -- they talk about the financial damages caused by breaking the agreement -- it makes sense since, even though Wikileaks is not for profit, their media partners (e.g. the NYT, the Guardian, der Spiegel) are.
All that said, Wikileaks is more secretive of their own organisation than is good for them, and it would not have hurt to simply be open about this confidentiality agreement: they could have posted it on their websites for potential volunteers to see, for instance. Of coure, if they had done that, everybody would have started shouting about the supposed paradoxical situation of a whistleblowing organisation having secrets themselves (hurr durr) -- ie. what's happening now.
12000 pound is a bit out of reach for your average basement-dwelling hacktivist.
it smacks of L Ron Hubbard's billion year sea org contracts... a really large number just to guarantee people don't defy you.
Assange really does need to get his paranoia and narcissism sorted out though - they are the two biggest forces working against Wikileaks right now.
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12000 pound is a bit out of reach for your average basement-dwelling hacktivist.
Hence the point of it. Don't break confidentiality agreement.
Think of it like a doctor breaking patient confidentiality. Only in wikileaks case, fallout for "patient" is far more dramatic.
Think of it like a doctor breaking patient confidentiality. Only in wikileaks case, fallout for "patient" is far more dramatic.
Exactly, if a doctor breaks his confidentiality agreement the patient usually doesn't end up in a cia black hole prison being tortured for the rest of their life.
Why exactly would this document hurt Wikileaks image. For people who wish their identities to remain confidential when they release information, this penalty would be very reassuring.
So you have, the 'New Statesman' and a junk journalist DAG, trying to put a negative spin on what many whistle blowers would find very comforting.
So how great is the penalty that many whistle blowers suffer, well you need look no further than the psychological abuse suffered by Bradley E. Manning. So what value does that rag New Stateman and DAG, put on that, apparently nothing.
Obviously the term 'confidential source' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_source [wikipedia.org] means absolutely nothing to that hack DAG or the New Statesman.
EXACTLY. Wikileaks can't seem to win. If they ever leak anything, people scream about how they are "endangering lives". If they do anything to control the level of detail in the leaking to address that issue, people (possibly the very same people) scream about how they limit leaking.
Yeah, right. The very first thing that stood out to me from that wonderful document:
E. By reason of the matters set out in A-D above herein any breach by you likely to cause loss and damage to WikiLeaks including without limitation loss and damage in the nature of:
- Loss of opportunity to sell the information to other news broadcasters and publishers;
So much for the image of selfless anarchists righting the wrongs...
Which threaten court martial and execution for breaching confidentiality, or a lifetime in prison. I'd take a $12 million fine which I can default on, any day of the week.
The Armed Forces, where one takes an legally binding oath after volunteering, then volunteers again for the security clearance while taking another legally binding oath.
Dude knew what he was getting into
You know what you're getting into in legal terms, but you can't possibly know if you can justify keeping quiet before seeing the confidential information. I can easily imagine someone signing a confidentiality agreement in good faith only to find out that the information does warrant whistleblowing, despite the possibility of dire personal consequences.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time? That's a fairly simpleminded way to look at it. You need to be aware of the consequences your actions might have, but you don't have to accept them, you're well within your rights to complain about treatment you perceive as unjust and fight for better treatment (even violently, I suppose, and I don't say this lightly). Dissidents in corrupt countries almost always run afoul of some kind of law. Whether or not this applies to Manning or other Wikileaks-related peo
Yes, if you make an agreement that says you will agree not to do something lest you face consequences and you choose to break it you have little or nothing to complain about. If the guy truly believes in what he did, he should be more than willing to face what is coming.
You're missing the point. Confidentiality agreements necessarily involve agreeing to something the nature and scale of which you can't know at the time you agree to them. The point isn't whether or not you should have to face the consequences -- whatever, maybe you should, maybe you shouldn't, I don't really care to discuss it -- but rather that by it's very nature it's not an agreement any ethical person can agree to with complete confidence. That's very, very different from a typical contract involving, s
Being held in conditions described as torturous does merit "whining"
Given the USG was too scared to even allow the UN Torture commisioner the access required to assess Pvt Mannings holding conditions, it tells you this really isnt "whining" but legitimate criticism of inhuman conditions.
Whistleblowing is something I support, but the data dump that someone exposed is not whistleblowing.
No, he did not. There are some obligations you can't sign away, among them the obligation to not perform human rights abuses or war crimes.
According to Lamo's logs (a known liar who has every reason to demonize Manning, by the way), Manning was asked to assist in a human rights abuse - rounding up peaceful dissidents who merely published a scholarly article criticizing the Iraqi government. You are not allowed to obey an illegal order, so he tried to alert his superiors. When they told him to shut up and get back to work, rather than blowing the whistle on them, he concluded that the whole system was rotten and needed to be exposed.
Now you may disagree about that (though if you have never been in such a situation, I don't value your opinion much) but it was not done "[out of loyalty to] to [the nations's] enemies, to give them aid and comfort" - which is the ONLY definition of treason the US constitution permits short of declaring war. Manning did what he thought was necessary to uphold his obligations to the US constitution and binding international agreements on human rights, and action taken for that reason, no matter how misguided, can never consitute treason in the US.
As I noted later on (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2146120&cid=36100472) it appears New Statesman made up the entire angle that staff would be fined £12,000,000. Read the entire agreement start to finish, and the only penality implied by the confidentiality agreement for a breach is employment termination. Employment termination IS enforceable. The £12,000,000 fine never existed. All smoke and mirrors from folks trying to muddy Wikileaks.
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The 12M pounds would qualify as liquidated damages.
It's a contract issue. It's not a fine, but you could be liable for it and in theory Wikileaks could sue you over it.
However, since Wikileaks is almost universally deemed a criminal enterprise owing to the stuff they are usually involved in leaking, they would probably not have standing.
Really? Can you list one nation which has listed Wikileaks as a criminal enterprise? (including the US).
provides for execution for 'breaching confidentiality'.
my impression is that there are only a few things that get you executed, including
Aiding the enemy
Misprison of treason
bradley manning isnt even charged with treason, he is only charged with aiding the enemy.
every other charge against him about giving out information only provides for jail or fines. not death.
Leaking classified information *is* aiding the enemy. Depending on what information is leaked, and when, it can also be Treason.
would that be treason?
because that information is classified.
i mean, technically, im breaking the law RIGHT NOW telling it to you.
and unless you 'deliver' that information to a government agent 'entitled to receive it', you are breaking the law just by having this information in your computer memory.
i cannot get a foreign service job because of my discussing this fact with you... should i also be in prison?
How, er, ironic.
Well, I guess it's actually just hypocritical, but it sure smells like irony to me...
Actually, it's just a standard confidentiality agreement. It nowhere states that anyone will be fined. The New Statesman just made that up. Sorry to disappoint. It does have a clause stating the agreed value of a significant breach, but the only penalty inferred in the agreement is employment termination.
Sorry, didn't read TFA. Just tickled my funny bone, is all.
It's nice to know that the leaker can 'only' be fired, if we infer correctly...leaving it up to whomever the leaked information was about to take it up in civil court with that handy 'value of a significant breach' number.
Why would they have a dollar value assigned if it weren't intended to be used somewhere? IA*definitely*NAL, so I'm honestly curious here.
Oh, it definitely is so that they can sue, both the leaker (who leaked information with known x value) and whomever is purchasing it. This is primarily to stop staff who recieve leaks from selling information to news organisations themselves, for personal gain.
The point here is that "Clause 5 of this "Confidentiality Agreement" (PDF) imposes a penalty of "£12,000,000 – twelve million pounds sterling" on anyone who breaches this legal gag." in the linked article is not true. There are several sim
It does have a clause stating the agreed value of a significant breach
Not even that - "The parties agree that a genuine and reasonable pre-estimate of the loss to WikiLeaks from a breach of this agreement based on a typical open market valuation for the information for a significant breach of the agreement is in the region of 12,000,000 pounds (12 million pounds sterling)."
So, it's just a "pre-estimate" - useless.
And "based on a typical open market valuation for the information" - good luck with that
and found something damning (like Assange is a paid lackey of Putin), I sure as hell wouldn't hesitate to leak it to the press. Confidentiality agreement be damned.
Why do these groups think these things hold any power? It's just words on a page.
words on a page backed by men with a guns.
Their confidentiality agreement is backed by guns only if they can find a country who will enforce it for them. They don't currently seem to have a lot of countries in such a mood.
>>>words on a page backed by men with a guns.
i.e. Fear the government men with the guns.
This is a great way to owe someone 20 million dollars. Just agree to shit on paper because you think it doesn't mean anything.
and found something damning (like Assange is a paid lackey of Putin), I sure as hell wouldn't hesitate to leak it to the press. Confidentiality agreement be damned.
Why do these groups think these things hold any power? It's just words on a page.
It isn't meant to stop really damning truth.
It's to stop "volunteers" from profiting immensely by pre-leaking the documents for a price.
A monetary fine is not a a deterrent for someone "doing the right thing".
It does deter people from profiting off the compromising of valuable data and the organization itself by altering the reward calculation.
Given that WL 'clean up' the documents before they leak them to the media, don't you think someone who'd leak the top secret information to the media, or the entire batch of uncleaned files... would be both dangerous and would ruin WL's credibility?
That's a point that a lot of people here have missed completely. Wikileaks doesn't release material complete without redactions, the redactions might not be sufficient, but it's hard to say how much should be released when the party that doesn't want them released at all refuses to negotiate or participate.
The measures there are primarily to ensure that they are finished before they make it to the press. I doubt very much that it'll ever get to the point of legal proceedings.
Probably they aren't missing it at all and are just a bunch of CIA agents trying to astroturf on
The idiocy I see in wikileaks deterrents is not something that I would expect form a nerd gathering like this.
It appears nobody RTFPDF.
It nowhere states that anybody is going to be fined any amount of money.
d. loss of value of information
5. The parties agree that a genuine and reasonable pre-estimate loss to WikiLeaks from a breach of this agreement based on a typical open market valuation for the information for a significant breach of the agreement is in the region of £12,000,000.
Nowhere does it state that the signee will be liable to that value. Only that they agree they'll be terminated for a breach thereof. Agreeing to that value of a breach may open the path TO be sued for a figure in that region, however the summation that anyone who breaches will be fined £12,000,000 is a blatant falsehood.
And we can't downvote stories anymore... Great.
So basically the entire submission is bullshit and there isn't a whole lot to be seen.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
if the quoted figure of 12,000,000 was slightly different for each employee. Makes it easier to find out which one leaked the document then.
This is probably the only way for wikileaks to a. survive and b. get exposure through mainstream media. If information is not filtered to avoid imminent damage to life and limb of people on the ground, wikileaks and its sources will be subject to aggressive prosecution, not to mention seriously bad karma. And no newspaper will run a story without some kind of exclusive access agreement. If you truly want uncensored publication, there are millions of way to do so on Internet. You just will not get the same m
a legal document that states leaking our documents will subject you to a fine is leaked.....
...to be shown to whistleblowers who ask "How can I be sure one of your staff won't sell me out"?
Is Wikileaks hypocritical? Is it a false flag op to discredit them? If it's real, why is it there? If it's not, who would benefit from such a (pretty dumb, I have to add) attempt to destroy their credibility?
Personally, I won't make up my mind 'til I hear the other side. What does WL say 'bout it? I don't put one-sided trust into publications from a paper owned by a politician.
Wikileaks expressly discusses the value of the leaked material as material to be sold to news organizations.
Assange's organization is EVIL.
Support open and free alternatives.
sounds like they don't trust their employees
Yeah -- you think there aren't attempts to infiltrate them left and right? How dumb and naive would they be if they *did* trust their employees? Would you want to turn over documents to them if the person to whom you did turned out to be a secret agent?
Or maybe they're just going to happen upon trustworthy employee by an extensive screening process and three rounds of interviews.
How dumb and naive would they be if they *did* trust their employees?
Well, they'd be consistent with the ideology of openness if they did. As it is, Wikileaks appears to be morphing from an open-source intelligence collective into something midway between an independent journalism organisation and a private intelligence agency in the style of "Global Frequency". While either of those are possibly not a bad thing to have, it is a bit depressing to see that the desire for openness evaporates when it faces real secrets with real consequences.
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