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The following were recorded at the Bureau County Courthouse:
Marriage licenses
John R. Larios of Ladd to Katherine E. Wiesbrock of Granville.
Jeffrey P. Crickman of Cherry to Lynsie M. Koehler of Cherry.
Toby J. Harper of Hollowayville to Jessica M. Holloway of Streator.
Keith W. Jarosz of LaSalle to Lexanne E. Brooke of LaSalle.
David C. Weidner of Buda and Christine M. (Thompson) Weidner of Buda; married Aug. 19, 1995; divorced Sept. 17, 2013.
Steven D. May of Princeton and Lisa A. (Smith) May of Princeton; married May 25, 1991; divorced Sept. 13, 2013.
Vince T. Rapp of Princeton and Kristen (Parrott) Rapp of Walnut; married Sept. 5, 1995; divorced Sept. 13, 2013.
Thomas R. Leach of Princeton and Rebekah R. (Barlow) Leach of Princeton; married Aug. 20, 1994; divorced Sept. 11, 2013.
Nicholas Pinter of Arlington and Heather (Barrett) Pinter of Mendota; married April 28, 2007; divorced Sept. 11, 2013.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/air_bnb_crashpadder/
US rent-a-room biz swallows Blighty's Crashpadder
Hopes to grab some of the London Olympics rental moolah
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American rent-a-room service AirBnB is hoping to grab a slice of the lucrative London Olympic-time rentals by buying out smaller British rival CrashPadder.
AirBnB bought out the British company yesterday for an undisclosed sum. Both sites provide a social network cum advertising service for short-term and holiday rentals. A posting on the Crashpadder homepage today informed users that all listings and personal profiles on CrashPadder will be shifted onto the Air BnB platform as of today.
CrashPadder had 7,000 members across the world, mainly in the UK where Dan Hill and Stephen Rapoport founded the company in 2008.
The most significant difference for users will be Air BnB's £30,000 host guarantee, free professional photography for properties and 24/7 support.
The buyout will help Air BnB expand in Europe – one of its ambitions for 2012 – and take advantage of the boom expected from Olympics-related rentals.
Air BnB has built a business by connecting people interested in short-term rentals. By charging fees to list a property and taking a cut of the rentals paid, the start-up has created a lucrative business from what sites such as CouchSurfer and Craigslist run as a free service.
AirBnB have attracted $120m in venture funding. The ride hasn't been entirely smooth however, in one horror story from summer 2011, an AirBnB landlord had her house thoroughly ransacked by thieves who snatched her locked-up jewellery, computers and Bed Bath & Beyond tokens; wore her clothes; and photocopied her birth certificate and social security card. ®


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To the Editor:
Next Monday night, voters in Chilmark will have the opportunity to decide whether the town should better protect the community's character by regulating the size of new residential construction.
Many people are increasingly concerned that Chilmark is in danger of being transformed from a unique, rural community into a town of McMansions, a Vineyard version of the Hamptons, with disproportionately large, poorly sited new houses that mar the landscape and make excessive demands on the environment. In fact, in response to the 2008 Chilmark Master Plan survey, 82 percent of respondents stated that they wanted the town to consider a bylaw to limit the size of new homes. The planning board's challenge, then, was to address this concern without creating either unreasonable size limitations (either too high or too low) or a process which would unnecessarily burden most property owners wanting to build or renovate.
A team of volunteers (including the signatories to this letter) worked intensively over the past 18 months to draft a bylaw that carefully balances these concerns. They consulted widely with town boards, architects, builders, and concerned citizens. They considered alternative approaches adopted in other Island towns and across the country and came up with the current proposal. The proposal, based on lot size, sets an upper limit for residential living area and a project review process for large construction proposals below that limit but above a specified threshold.
The upper limit for a three-acre lot is 6,000 square feet of living area. This 6,000 sq. ft. cap is more than two and a half times the existing average size house and almost twice as large as the average size house built in Chilmark in the last 12 years.
If the proposed project on a three-acre lot exceeds a 3,500 sq. ft. threshold, it must be reviewed by the zoning board of appeals, considering such issues as visual impact, energy conservation measures, and impact on water quality.
Both the cap and the review threshold increase by 250 sq. ft./acre, so a much larger lot could accommodate a much larger house. On smaller lots, the limits decrease by 250 sq. ft./acre. The cap on a typical one-acre lot in Menemsha would be 5,500 sq. ft., with a review triggered at 3,000 sq. ft.
The bylaw only applies when someone is seeking a building permit. There is even a "wiggle room" provision allowing small additions that exceed the review threshold or cap by five percent or less.
Most construction projects will not be affected at all. Only 19 existing houses are bigger than the cap for their lot size under the new bylaw, and the majority of those could have been made to fit with a small reduction in size. The main aim of the bylaw is to deal with large outliers. Today, Chilmark has six houses over 8,000 sq. ft. and one is nearly 14,000 sq. ft.
Based on the past decade's experience, only two or three projects per year would need review and only one project every two years would have to be downsized to fit within the cap. This should have little if any impact on construction jobs, property values, tax revenues, or the administrative burden on the ZBA and staff.
The proposal being put to the town's voters is a balanced approach and a reasonable solution to a thorny issue. While no one wants to be told what they can do with their property, the proposed bylaw recognizes that we — as a community of Chilmark-loving citizens — are the custodians of something very special that needs protecting. In our view, a yes vote on the proposal will benefit the entire community of Chilmark.
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Marcus "Notch" Persson has created a mini-empire out of Minecraft, using its success to create a bustling studio juggling multiple projects. But he isn't expecting to turn out gold constantly, and thinks that the studio's smash hit will probably be the exception rather than the rule.
"If people are expecting [another game as popular as Minecraft], they will be disappointed," Persson said in a Reddit thread (via Beefjack). "Minecraft is a one in a million fluke." Persson will be able to prove if he's right with the upcoming releases of Cobalt and Scrolls.
He also said he's hands-off with Minecraft now (except "broad strategy decisions"), and so he has "no idea" what the future holds for the game now. "Sales keep going up all the time, and there's an infinite amount of stuff we can do," he said. "Hopefully modding will become easier soon, too."


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ICO HD Cheats :
Unlockable - Queen's Sword / Lightsaber
This only works in the original North American version of the game. It may not work in other versions.
Complete the game in all 8 save files (save at the last possible point). Once you have a completed game in every save file, start a new game overwriting the first game file you have. In this new game you will have the Lightsaber, or "Queen's Sword" from the start of the game.
This works in the original PAL and Japanese versions of the game. It may not work in other versions.
Beat the game and wait for the credits to finish. Once you gain control again, search for Yorda along the shore. You should now see the real ending and get a chance to save. Save and restart the game. Yorda should be a controllable second player. Make your way through the game to [[The Waterfall]]. Play until you get the mace by throwing a ball in a box. Instead of a mace you'll get the Lightsaber! It kills shadows in 1 or 2 hits.
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Patchiness in groundwater nitrate removal in a riparian forest", J. Environ. Qual., vol. 27, p. 146-155, 1998., "
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Using geophysical information to define benthic habitats in a large river", Freshwater Biol., vol. 51, p. 25-38, 2006., "
High-resolution mapping of the Hudson River estuary reveals new insights on sedimentary processes and benthic habitats", EOS, vol. 86, p. 225-229, 2005., "
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A man charged with killing two people in a head-on crash recorded an alcohol concentration of between .225 and .226 after the collision, a Melbourne court heard today.
Nathan Long, 28, is also alleged to have been a disqualified driver speeding at 108 km/h in a 40 zone at the time.
Chuong Tran and Huong Tran died near the Western Ring Road at St Albans on October 15 last year.
Long appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with two counts of culpable driving causing death.
He faces a total of nine charges that include driving in a dangerous manner that caused the two deaths.
He is also charged with driving while disqualified.
At a filing hearing this afternoon, prosecutor Julian Ayres told magistrate Amanda Chambers that Long would be remanded to appear at a committal mention in April.
His lawyer, Jonathan Miller asked Ms Chambers to note that Long had suffered a traumatic brain injury and had been released from a rehabilitation hospital in December.
Mr Miller said that Long was being treated weekly as an inpatient at the hospital and was vulnerable in custody to injuries to his head, spine and pelvis.
He asked that he be moved as soon as possible from the Melbourne Custody Centre to be medically assessed.
Long, who appeared in court in a sleeveless black T-shirt, his left arm heavily tattooed, made no application for bail and was remanded in custody.


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Big Angry Z is taking the Shaggy approach to addressing his comments about Miller Park South:
"I didn't say that," Zambrano said Sunday, according to the Chicago Tribune. "I said anybody wants to have a new ballpark," the Cubs' ace said, according to the newspaper. "As a player, you feel like you're trying to be more comfortable. As a player, you want to have the greatest ballpark in the National League, or the big leagues. As a fan, we should stay there."
Then this:
"They don't have to be mad," he said. "I didn't say they have to build a new stadium. If the Cubs do it, we will be much better and more comfortable, as a player. I think it's my opinion. And sometimes when fans say something about a player, you have to respect it. But I didn't say we should move. I love Wrigley Field," he added, according to the Tribune. "Don't get me wrong. It's a nice ballpark, but if the Cubs think some time, some period, 10 or 20 years from now, if they think about [building] a new ballpark, it should be good."
How did he think that was going to play out?
Monday, April 6, 2009
This is the sound of one man digging his way out of a hole.
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2 comments:
- Aaron said...
It sounds to me like once they do decide to build a new park, he's earned a spot on the planning committee. With great ideas like "it should be good" and "much better and more comfortable" he's a shoe-in.
8 hours bro, get pumped.
- April 6, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- The Constable. said...
Maybe they'll add a "Zambrano's Hole" feature, similar to Tal's Hill, that totally screws the pitcher. It can be a 6" gopher hole right in front of the mound that ensures a pitcher charging for a bunt will step in and get a High Ankle Sprain.
Totally beside myself...
- April 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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Teasing between you and BD can be sweet, and funny, and cute and relationship-y. But once you add in an outsider, things need to shift. Inside your relationship you and BD are individuals but outwardly you are a couple, a unit, a team. So when someone outside the unit gets a dig in, you (and DB to you) need to defend, not join in, on the teasing. You need to be on his team.
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More from the book project, the line of characters are dancing across 2 spreads, I think it will look great in the book (how it looks on the web is another question, you will have to click on the images in order to see it larger). In order to see it larger yet, you can check here for the first and here for the second one.
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I noticed a post a while back about looking for a hs zoology course. Has anyone found anything or have any recommendations? Jr. college is not an option at this point.
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David Murray invites Macy Gray, the soul music star (more than 14 million albums sold), to sing in his Big Band. For her, he writes a new repertory that includes famous soul hits from Macy gray, and offers to them new sharp and bright arrangements. He also offers to Macy some brand new original compositions completed with insightful lyrics by Ishmael Reed. The perfect combination of a unique voice and sophisticated jazz arrangements make this project one of the most exciting sound of this New Year. Surprising and wonderful, the project has already conquered audiences from famous festival such as: Jazz A La Villette (Paris), London Jazz Festival (London), North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands).
David Murray / Sax Lead & Direction
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Few musicians in jazz history have proven more vigorously productive and resourceful than David Murray. During the past 35 years, from the moment he first visited New York as a 20-year-old student, playing in a walkup loft, in 1975, David has careened forward in a cool, collected, rocket-fueled streak.
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Chelsea have been handed a potential transfer boost over Radamel Falcao, with Atletico Madrid expressing their interest in bringing Fernando Torres back to the club.
'El Nino' became a hero at the Vicente Calderon stadium, spending six-years with the club as a professional before leaving for Liverpool in 2007.
The Blues then spent £50million on the Spanish international three-and-a-half years later, but his time at Stamford Bridge has been a major disappointment despite success in the Champions League last season.
And, his spell in west London could come to an end when the season finishes, with his former employers keen on bringing the player back to La Liga.
"Despite all his problems at Chelsea, Torres is still held in great affection at Atletico and he would be welcomed back," a Spanish source told The Sunday Mirror.
The paper goes on to claim that Blues owner Roman Abramovich will pursue Falcao's signature at the end of the season, but that the club's valuation of Torres may hold the key to a move.
Torres has weekly wages in the region of £175,000, whilst Falcao has a £46million minimum fee release clause in his contract.
Bayern Munich are also interested in the Colombian international's services, and Chelsea still have plenty of negotiating to do if they are to bring the 27-year-old to the King's Road.
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Dad's Diary 1989-1999 [lightly edited]
Wednesday 1983 - Virginia (Jean's sister) passed away. [Virginia Ballantyne Dailey born in New Cumberland on August 22, 1914, died at the age of 68 at the Sky View Terrace Nursing Home in Pittsburgh PA. Funeral was held at the Stephens Funeral Home in Pittsburgh on Saturday, August 13. Her husband, James F. Dailey, originally from Steubenville, died July 27, 1965 at the age of 55.]
Thursday 1989 - [Hawaii for ABA to airplane to mainland] Went for AM swim, had breakfast in the room (Miramar Hotel, Room 1204, $60), made good use of the refrigerator. Took #2 bus to 'Iolani Palace for tour at 9:30, $4 each. Jean got free bus pass, regular fare is 60¢. Visited the Capitol, had courtesy phone in Lt. Governor's office. Jean thought she had lost her billfold but found it in the luggage here in NV. Airport bus is $5, took 20 minutes. Brought pineapple and papayas back.
Friday 1990 - The C.J. Moore's invited us out to dinner, went to Deer Creek Lodge. Jean had Orange Roughy, $12.95. The Moores were married there in June 1985. Double room rate is $78, after 11/1 through 3/31 is $68.
Saturday 1991 - Had to get flange on wheel chair fixed. Met John at 2:30 at Granville Inn for place settings. Checked in at Best Western Inn, #301 for $53/night. Rehearsal at 5:30 and reception at 7, very nice buffet meal. Bill Moore gave a toast. John and Julie each introduced their friends.
Monday 1992 - [San Francisco for ABA] Went to Bar Meeting, also Wells Fargo museum which was interesting with the old stage coach there. Jean was about walked out. Went to WRU [Western Reserve] Law School open house at Pan Pacific Hotel, their 100th year. Tuition is now $15,000 compared to $300 when I went there [~1947-49]. Had soup at Salmagundi and then cake at David's next door.
Tuesday 1993 - [Newport to McMinnville OR] Went for a walk on the black beach then breakfast. Nice visit to aquarium and then supper in Lincoln City at the Dory Cove, a good value. Then a "long drive" to the Flying M. Ranch with a McMinnville address, but actually some 20 miles from there, mostly on gravel roads, but we did make it. Quite a big place once we got there.
Wednesday 1994 - Services for Bill at 11:30. Don and Ed Johnson had the sermon, MV sang two songs and Larry gave a "summary."
Thursday 1995 - Went to Wilmington for court hearing, Jean to District Office to help. Had lunch with the Bailey's at Bob Evans. They have a number of $3.99 lunch specials.
Saturday 1996 - Went to Wilmington, got new razor (Braun) at Walmart. Had supper at Samuel Walker's, just opened. City chicken $13.95, dried beets on top of salad.
Sunday 1997 - [Cuzco Peru] Sightseeing – those close cut rocks are always interesting.
Tuesday 1999 - Elsie Satterfield's 92nd birthday. Tom Gibson and Ann had lots of goodies, two cakes, cream puffs, celery, stuffed mushrooms, meat, cheese punch and coffee. Carry (only original owner of condo in 1975) is 86. She had brought lady from Wilmington. Kyota [?] was there as were Mike and Shirley Puckett. He teaches Industrial Arts in WCH. He met her when she put a plastic sheet in a sandwich he ordered at a restaurant where she worked. Letter from Holden.
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Aug. 10, 1983,1989-99 Wedding Rehearsal & Funerals
Posted by Catherine Uible Morgan at 8/10/2010 12:01:00 AM
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From Dad: In 1999 that was Holden Village, a place in central WA where we went on an Elderhostel. Quite remote, had to take a boat and then a ride in their bus to get there, which the Lutherans had taken over as a retreat, from an old mining site when the ore gave out.
- Tue Aug 10, 12:20:00 PM 2010
- Mary Uible Crowson said...
Don't remember the dates but didn't Serena Uible Reynolds live in Alaska for awhile and then briefly at Holden Village. Will have to research it but thinking I saw a census or something with that info.
- Tue Aug 10, 10:21:00 PM 2010
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I made some unscientific test shots in the pool the other day, to see how the Tokina 10-17 FE performs on a 24 mp full frame camera behind two different dome ports.
Camera: Nikon D600, Tokina on 15mm, ISO 6400 (ambient light), Aperture priority. Focus point was at the center. I ran the raw files through Lightroom to adjust white balance and lighting. No cropping, sharpening or noise reduction were applied. I sharpened for screen upon exporting to jpegs.
First three shots using the Tokina 10-17FE behind Subal 4" minidome (DP-54 B)
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And for the billions of years since, we haven't managed to do it again. Maybe the simplest version of Hubble is that things don't work as well as they once did...
the Big Cigarette
So a cigar then.
So we need to rename this event the "Lewinsky Event"?
fixed that for you
Did you really have to Godwin the thread so early?
Also, it probably was very weak in heavier elements, so it would have been a very pure collection of hydrogen. So, we're looking at a pretty "pure case" of massive star formation, fuel burning and some kind of hypernova.
This is really interesting stuff.
At the risk of exposing my ignorance, what lead you to conclude that the star was weak in heavier elements? Considering how far away it was, which reduces the chances of "contaminating events" (collisions and the like), what would have kept it from 'fusing' right up to a nickel-iron core?
when that early star exploded it would have had heavier elements, iron has been detected from 900 million years after big bang.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/17403 [physicsworld.com]
It takes time (millions of years) for stars to form, and given the energetic state of the early universe,
Simple. Because all heavy elements (where heavy means heavier than hydrogen) are created in stars.
That early, there were simply no stars before that, so nobody could produce them.
Of course, the star himself did produce them. But the question where my knowledge ends is: Do stars with that size burn right trough to the usual iron stage, or do they explode earlier, and if yes why?
Initially, the star would have been very metal*-poor (only a little lithium left over from the big bang.)
Given that star went supernova only 630My post-big bang, it is reasonable to assume it had a minimum mass of 3-4 Msun, and a maximum of probably 10-15 Msun. Those numbers suggest that it did fuse right to nickel.
The interesting thing (what the parent was probably refering to) is not really the final metallicity (which is merely a function of the star's mass) but the initial metalliticy, which cannot.
Perhaps we can then figure out roughly the size of the star that blowed up, in that it can't have been a star that takes more or less than about 600 million years to do that.
I believe the current guess is that such stars are among the largest stars known.
Also, it probably was very weak in heavier elements, so it would have been a very pure collection of hydrogen. So, we're looking at a pretty "pure case" of massive star formation, fuel burning and some kind of hypernova.
Even the earliest stars would have helium as well. In the earliest universe, there was crudely three parts hydrogen to one part helium (with, I gather, traces of heavier elements like lithium). And massive stars make heavier elements fast. It's possible that hypernova could go off though before the star managed to build up an iron core. I don't think we understand the circumstances of either early universe star formation or the
the star that blowed up
Assuming English isn't your first language: the past tense of blow is blew (one of those irregular verbs we're so fond of) so that should be "star that blew up".
If English is your first language: step away from the internet and read a book!
I'm not an astrophysicist, but isn't the [super]nova itself what *produces* heavy elements?
Everyone knows the Earth and therefore the Universe is only 6,000 years old.
This happened billions of years ago, and Slashdot is just reporting it now?
At least it's not a dupe!
This happened billions of years ago, and Slashdot is just reporting it now?
Slashdot is just reporting from the frame of reference of the gamma photons, who experienced this explosion two days ago.
Yup, one of the funny little twists that result from relativity is something that happened 630 million years ago also happened just now from a different frame of reference, and both are entirely accurate. So from the perpective of the right frame of reference (in this case, it would involve something travelling at 99.9999999999999% of the speed of light from our frame), this is a recent event.
So you are almost as mystical as she is, by thinking that numerology could be hereditary...
It's probably a good thing that you found out that you and that cute girl had such major religious differences.
Myself, I recognise numerology as one of the elements of the set all things that I will not be able to rationally decide with anything I now know or am likely to learn as a human being. Other elements of this set include the why-ness of Pi's irrational value; whether the mathematical expressions on which the theory of thermodynamics rests are truly convergent; whether randomness is a fiction like
I do wonder how far back we can actually see... Is there a time period from which all the light has already passed the Earth?
1) As far as our technology permits
A) No.
Umm, the current working scientific theory is that there was no "before" the big bang... The big bang created what we know as "timespace."
I do wonder how far back we can actually see... Is there a time period from which all the light has already passed the Earth?
Yes. That period is called 'just now'.
[FAR OUT!] Normal(?) trends in town! TERRROOOR!
Yes, you have to be German and know that show to find it funny in the way it was intended to be.
Considering the amount of Anonymous Cowards posting in this thread, you'd think it's a 4chan invasion.
Now cue the 4chan jokes...
So now we've seen the end (or the beginning?) of the first interstellar war. I wonder how much more we'll see in the coming years?
Only 600 million years for a star system with planets to form and one or more civilisations to evolve, then discover and annihilate each other is quite a respectable feat!
Or it could've merely been one battle in a Time War raging for trillions of years.
I've seen this picture a lot of times an it fascinates me.
One question though; why is it an elongated ellipse? Is this supposed to be a "picture" of the entire universe, taken from the vantage point of the 'scope? If so, would it not have to be a 3-d image, with the viewer inside basically a sphere, where the (internal) surface of the sphere is the picture itself?
I'm not doubting what this picture is, I'm just confused over how the 3-d to 2-d projection is done.
Yes, it is a picture of the entire universe when it was 400,000 years old taken today from the earth. But in the same way we take pictures with photo cameras, the object which the picture was taken of is 3D but the resulting picture itself is 2D. In the case of the CMB, we can think of the picture as follows: for each latitude and longitude on the earth, you point a camera straight up and record the CMB photons coming from that direction. Then, for each point on the surface of the earth (2D) you have a num
Truly fascinating. Thanks so much! (If I could mod + reply I would, but alas...)
Congrats to the scientists!
The most distant object I've ever observed was on an astronomy trip to Costa Rica in February. I had set myself the challenge of sighting the nearest star in the night sky (Alpha Centauri C, aka Proxima Centauri), and the most distant object visible in all but the largest amateur-size telescopes, the quasar 3C273.
I nailed them both in a single night with patience, finder charts and an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain. 4.2 light years and 2.5 to 3 billion, depending on which reference you use. Proxima is in a cluttered Milky Way field, while 3C273 appears to form a double star with a star in the Milky Way, not far from Gamma Virginis.
Would the Andromeda galaxy be visible from Costa Rica? I thought CR was too far south of the Equator for anything in that part of the northern night sky to be visible.
M31 is an easy naked-eye object if you have good dark skies. If your skies are really dark you can try for M33, though it just looks like a piece of sky that isn't as dark as the rest of the sky. I've seen both from northern Canada.
Both are theoretically visible from Costa Rica, but are pretty low in the northern sky.
Too bad not one article said how distant it was. Still working on that one, but at least we know it's the "most" distant.
As shown by follow-up observations performed with ground-based telescopes, it was a very distant event, and soon it looked like this was the farthest GRB ever observed. A team of international astronomers led by Swift Italian Team and CIBO, using the AMICI prism with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, was able to compute its redshift at about 8.1, corresponding to a distance of more than 80 Gpc, when the universe was only slightly more than 600 million years old (Figure 2).
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Metallica: The Complete Illustrated History (Book Review)
January 2014
Released: 2013, Voyageur Press
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviewer: JP
In one sense I'm almost overwhelmed trying to review these Voyageur Rock/Metal coffee table series. I've read and reviewed almost of all them (AC/DC, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Rush, Art of Metal) in the past couple of years and I never cease to be impressed by the quality of these publications. Because they are so similar in style, layout and design, I feel there are only so many ways to describe the same thing over and over. Metallica was the next, somewhat predictable candidate, although I might have put money on Kiss, Black Sabbath, or Deep Purple being the next band in the series, or maybe Judas Priest on a long shot. As it stands Metallica gets the nod for book #8 and I'm sure Voyageur books about those other Metal titans are not far behind.
The cover of METALLICA THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY is very eye-catching. As per usual the oversized hardcover is printed in full-colour on nice glossy paper and the book is just under 200 pages long. There are 10 chapters divided into roughly into an album era of the band. Each album has an extended review and/or commentary by some guest writers including some of the usual suspects in this series, Bukszpan, Wall and Daniels. I've read so man reviews of the classic albums that oddly enough I enjoyed reading the reviews of the …shall we say, less popular albums, namely LOAD, RELOAD and LULU. Andrew Earles in his review of LULU comes off as a bit of an apologist without touching on how really bad the album supposed was but he writes for Vice, Spin, The Onion and Decibel so what would you expect? With a band as huge as Metallica I'm sure there could have been more info packed into the book but there are already several comprehensive biographies on the market, loaded with the minutiae of the day-to-day existence of the band.
One of the primary components is the visual aspect. There are countless photos of pieces of memorabilia scattered through the book, T-shirts, posters, ads, ticket stubs, passes, you name it, much of it from the authors collection I suspect. There is also a nice, intimate intro penned by Popoff as well as a pretty comprehensive discography, mini-bios of the contributing authors. Many, many of the interviews are directly attributed to Popoff as well during his decades long reign at Brave Words and these add an air of authenticity and intimacy, we all know Lars has never met a microphone he doesn't like! For being 'just' a drummer he is arguable the most high profile non-frontman in Metal and I for one admire his passion to promote his band and vision at every chance he gets. He says some odd things without thinking first but he rarely comes across as abrasive as Mustaine or as crazy as an Ozzy. Like the later era Metallica (or not) you can't deny his passion and vision and that comes through in the many quotes and interview in this book.
The decision to purchase METALLICA is an easy one. There are so many publications about the band on the market (about 20 by my count) that only the most die-hard Metallicats will own them all. The rest of us mere mortals will have to choose wisely and this is the safest bet thanks to it's expansive coverage, readability and gorgeous visuals. Eventually this book series will grow in such stature that bands will not care about admission to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, but their career credibility will be measured by the following criteria; Do they have a Voyageur book written by Popoff?
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Sunshine State has failed miserably in living up to its slogan over the past week - at least down here in southwest Florida and the greater Fort Myers metropolitan area - as the Perfect Game 15u and 13u BCS Finals attempt to wrap up their six-day runs on Friday.
Finally, at about 10 p.m. (EDT) on Thursday the final four in each PG national tournament had been determined, about six hours later than originally scheduled.
Once play was able to continue at fabled Terry Park - the only venue in the entire metropolitan area that somehow escaped heavy rain on Thursday - three of the top five seeds in both the 15u and 13u BCS Finals brackets had survived to play semifinal games Friday morning - weather permitting.
The top-seeded Columbus Sharks (8-0-0) and No. 5 Elite Baseball (7-1-0) will meet in one 15u semifinal at 9 a.m. at City of Palms Park while the No. 2 and defending champion East Cobb Astros (8-0-0) will face No. 11 Team IMPACT (6-2-0) in the other 9 a.m. semi, also at COP. The 15u BCS Finals championship game is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at COP's main stadium.
Because Terry Park missed most of the rain Thursday, the 13u BCS Finals playoffs weren't delayed nearly as long as the 15u BCS Finals games, which were rained out at both the JetBlue Complex and the Player Development 5-Plex.
The semifinalists had been determined by 7:30 p.m. and include No. 8 Mizuno Tampa Boltz (5-2-1) playing No. 5 MBA Pride Elite (7-1-0) and No. 2 Team Florida (8-0-0) against No. 3 Team Elite White (8-0-0) in Friday morning's final four. The semis will be played at 9 a.m. at the Player Development 5-Plex and the championship game is slated for 2 p.m. at COP.
Remarkably, all eight of the top seeds won their first-round playoff games to advance to the quarterfinals.
All the rain made for a long day, especially for the 15u's. Bill Kegler, the head coach of the final four-bound and top-seeded Sharks said it took its toll.
"It's very difficult, especially on the kids because they've been up since 9 o'clock this morning ready to go, and they're going to be up and ready to go for almost 12 hours by the time the (quarterfinal) is over," Kegler said before his team beat No. 8 Twelve Black in the round of eight.
"It is tough on them. It doesn't matter (that they're 15) they're tired; the humidity has taken it out of them, and you worry about arms, and catchers and pitchers and everything like that."
Justin Stone, the head coach of Elite Baseball, said the long delays can have an effect on 15-year-olds, but not noticeably more so than any other age-group.
"I don't think it has any more effect as what it has on any other level," Stone said before Elite Baseball upset No. 4 Boca Thunder Baseball, 5-3, in the quarterfinals. "You go to the college or the professional level, you're fighting the same thing, and it's the manager's or the coaches job to get their kids ready to play under circumstances.
"Whether it's a 162-game season when that becomes a grind, or a college season where you fight a lot of outside distractions or a 15 year old kid where you're fighting maturity, you still have the challenge of getting a guy ready to play whether it's 9 o'clock in the morning or after a 4-hour rain delay."
Team IMPACT calls nearby Naples, Fla., its home base and head coach Charlie Mauer readily admitted that the long weather delays probably had less affect on his team than some of the other playoff qualifiers.
"Luckily, we're a local team, and we have the luxury of being 30 or 40 minutes away and getting on our couches and sleeping in our own beds, and getting off our feet and not working out of a hotel room and everybody having dry clothes" he said. "I think that's a big benefit to having such a hot-spot for baseball (Fort Myers) so local, and it's a lot easier when you're at home with all the creature comforts instead of sitting in a hotel room."
The states of Ohio, Illinois, Georgia and Florida are represented in the 15u BCS Finals final four, with the Columbus, Ohio-based Sharks facing Chicago-based Elite Baseball in one of the semis. They're both thrilled to be representatives of northern programs.
"We've got a group of kids; I mean, they can play," the Sharks' Kegler said. "Just because we're from up north where everybody thinks sometimes we can't play, we can play a little bit. We don't look at that as a disadvantage. It's probably more of an advantage because it gets the kids motivated. They know when they go south they have to be at their best."
Elite Baseball's Stone was a D-I coach at Indiana State University and worked the last eight years in the Chicago White Sox organization. All of his roster spots are filled with Illinois boys, most from the Chicago area.
"When you come from the Midwest and you play on the West Coast and you play in the Southeast, there's always that unknown that's out there - where do you stand, where do you fit in," Stone said. "I think it's a continuation of building these kids' psyche on what their high-end goals are in the of baseball.
"These guys all want to play nationally at Division I schools, some of them are going to play pro ball and it's important that they get down here and compete so that they know they can compete against the best in the country."
No. 14 seed Hit & Run Baseball (4-4-0) pulled the biggest upset of the 15u's first round when it escaped No. 3 Georgia Roadrunners Blue (6-1-0), 4-3. Hit & run lost to Team IMPACT in the quarterfinals, but it was a good run for the Lutz, Fla.-based team coached by ex-big-leaguer Midre Cummings.
"We come in to compete. These kids train to compete and that's what we're going to do," Cummings said before the quarterfinal loss. "But we've ran into six, seven real good teams and we've been in every single game. The tide has been turning for us a little bit and we've been on the winning end instead of the losing end, and the kids have been working hard and they're really enjoying it.
"It's never a surprise. We've been playing well all week," he continued. "It's been a good ride and these kids have been working hard through the whole summer. It's not about winning, it's about playing the game the right way, and we've been playing the game the right way for the last couple of games. Good things happen with kids that work hard."
Mauer is just thrilled to have Team IMPACT still playing on Friday.
"To be able to play against the caliber of teams that pull from the areas that they pull from, to come from a small town like Naples and make a run with these big guys, it's huge to get to the final day," he said. "At the 15 year old level, they're still kids, and you have to take each game game-by-game, That's the easiest way to make a run. Every team here is here for reason ... and it would just be huge for the program to be able to make it into (Friday)."


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(RNN) - When going through Albuquerque, always make a left turn.
Bugs Bunny taught the world this simple geographic anomaly. If you don't turn left in "Albukoikee" you will end up literally anywhere. Apparently, the underground system of tunnels Bugs used in his travels is not as navigable as the Interstate Highway System and Albuquerque serves as a sort of Grand Central Station for the world.
Missing that turn can send you to Antarctica, Canada, the Sahara Desert or the 1700s. Bugs even once ended up in Medieval England while trying to get to the Georgia Peanut Festival, though he mistook it for Pittsburgh.
An early version of Bugs Bunny - one almost virtually unrecognizable - appeared April 30, 1938, in Porky's Hare Hunt where he was named "Happy Rabbit." Aside from saying one of his famous catchphrases - "Course you know that this means war" - there are few similarities between the character and what Bugs Bunny would eventually become. Bugs' name comes from Ben Hardaway, whose nickname was "Bugs" and conceived the rabbit character.
In fact, he acts more like Daffy Duck than the familiar Bugs Bunny and deploys a couple of Wile E. Coyote-esque devices (except they work to his advantage) and he is actively antagonistic towards the hunter rather than using the passive-aggressive techniques he would become famous for.
Bugs' official debut wasn't for another two years in A Wild Hare on July 27, 1940, in a still barely recognizable version before the character had fully evolved. Bugs' voice is slightly different, but he does say his catchphrase "What's up, Doc?" and plays his carrot like a flute, which he did at the end of many of his cartoons after he had bested one of his various antagonists. He later became known for his Brooklyn accent, carrot chomping, garish disguises and brash overconfidence, and was the second fictional character - after Mickey Mouse - to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Appearing in more than 200 cartoons, Bugs never backed away from a challenge and had many competitors - Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig - but it was his rivalry with Daffy Duck for which he is legendary. Perhaps the most famous of Bugs' antics involves "pronoun trouble" where he confuses both Daffy and Elmer Fudd using rhetorical devices and one particularly ridiculous duck disguise to coax the hunter into repeatedly shooting Daffy in three cartoons - Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning and Duck! Rabbit, Duck!.
Bugs, of course, emerged victorious in all three encounters. He further antagonized Daffy in Duck Amuck - one of the most famous cartoons ever made - by taking the role of animator and putting Daffy in many odd and embarrassing situations. Elmer Fudd would later pull the same trick on Bugs in Rabbit Rampage - perhaps the only time a cartoon did not end with Bugs as the victor.
Happy "birthday," Bugs Bunny. You really are a stinker.
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Christine Mattley
Brenda Phillips
Christine Sheets
Apr 21, 2014
By Gretchen Gregory
Three OHIO women leaders have been nominated and selected to attend the prestigious Higher Education Resource Services leadership institutes in Bryn Mawr, Penn. and Denver Colo.
Ohio University's Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Christine Mattley, Chillicothe Campus Associate Dean Brenda Phillips, and Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Christine Sheets will attend the leadership institutes this summer. Mattley will attend the leadership institute in Denver, Colo., and Phillips and Sheets will attend in Bryn Mawr, Penn.
Just 24.53 percent of women hold leadership positions in higher education, according to the Colorado Women's College 2013 Benchmarking Women's Leadership in the United States report. In an effort to help advance women to senior leadership positions throughout the ranks of faculty and staff in higher education, HERS has provided a curriculum of leadership development for nearly 40 years.
Ohio University's Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit is a graduate of HERS and a strong proponent of the program for women leaders at OHIO. "My professional life continues to be positively impacted by my experiences as a HERS graduate," she said. "I am so pleased that my office could partner with Women in Philanthropy, Student Affairs, and Regional Higher Education to send three of our most promising professionals to HERS this year."
Another graduate of HERS is Shari Clark, vice provost for Diversity and Inclusion, who called the experience life-changing and has been asked to return as a guest speaker to speak about diversity in higher education. "I immersed myself completely in the program during the four weeks and left myself open to listen and learn," she explained. "Experts in a variety of fields shared personal insights, success stories and lessons learned in the academy. I became like a sponge to soak in all the learning. I utilized a number of HERS lessons to chart a course for my career and to recognize the importance of working with passion – which I do daily."
Christine Mattley
Mattley is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She began serving as department chair on July 1, 2013 and also is in her second year as chair of Graduate Council. She specializes in social psychology and has expertise in self and identities, gender performance, sociology of the body and embodiment, sociology of emotion, and sex work. Her work has been published in numerous journals and books, and she has received several teaching awards. Most recently, she received the Eric A. Wagner Endowed Teaching Professorship.
Mattley said attending the HERS Institute was an opportunity for professional development and the next natural step in her commitment to the educational mission at the University. Since becoming department chair, Mattley said she recognizes she has a wonderful opportunity to mentor women and encourage them to take on leadership and administrative positions within the discipline and University.
"I was one of the first women hired by my department and at the time there were not many women administrators at Ohio University, but those who were here did a great job of encouraging me," she said. "I now feel that I am in a position to do the same and I look forward to mentoring young faculty members, especially women. I am thrilled to have been selected to represent Ohio University at HERS this summer. Women who have attended HERS talk about their experiences as transformational and I look forward to learning everything I can to become a stronger leader at Ohio University."
Mattley's attendance at HERS is being sponsored by the Institute Tuition Scholarship from Ohio University's Women in Philanthropy.
Brenda Phillips
Phillips joined OHIO as associate dean of the Chillicothe Campus and professor of sociology in July 2013 after serving as graduate student coordinator and professor of the fire and emergency management program in the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. Since joining the University, she has developed a campus-wide schedule of all courses for spring, summer and fall semesters and is chair of the OUC Personnel Committee.
She has a doctorate, master's and bachelor's degree in sociology, built a coalition of first-responders and emergency managers across Ross County and strengthened a coalition of university-community members working to end domestic violence. She has been published in approximately 50 book chapters and journal articles, as well as seven books.
"As part of the HERS application, we had to develop our desired professional outcomes. Mine includes advocating for this regional campus and its mission to serve the community and area within the broader Ohio University system," she explained. "I am very excited to have been selected for HERS. I intend to make the most of this experience for my campus, for regional higher education and for Ohio University. I will return the investment made in me by Ohio University."
She was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Women in Emergency Management and Homeland Security in 2013, received the Blanchard Award at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Higher Education Conference in 2012 for excellence in emergency management education, and received the Mary Fran Myers Award in 2010 from the international organization, Gender and Disaster Network, for scholarship and practical application to reduce the impacts of disasters on women and children. She has lectured or consulted in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, India, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada and the People's Republic of China. She has assisted with the development of emergency management degree programs in Mexico, Canada and New Zealand, and her research has been funded several times by the National Science Foundation. Her tuition and travel costs are being sponsored by Regional Higher Education.
Christine Sheets
Sheets is the assistant vice president for Student Affairs and is a native of Athens County and an alumnus of Ohio University. She holds a bachelor's degree and master's degree in business administration from the College of Business. She has been employed at the University for more than 28 years with more than 11 years of experience in the management of University Residential Housing Operations and Residential Education programming. In 2009, she was recognized as one of three for the outstanding administrator's awards. She provides planning and oversight of capital projects encompassing more than 30 percent of the Athens Campus to include Residential Housing, University apartments, campus recreation facilities, Baker University Center, and other event management grounds and facilities under the leadership of Student Affairs.
She serves on a variety of University committees, including the Campus Capital Planning Committee as well as Facilities Planning Advisory Council, Master Planning Committees for Residential Housing, Campus Recreation and the overall Campus Master Planning. Sheets' tuition and travel costs to HERS will be shared by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and Vice President of Student Affairs.
Sheets said attending the HERS Institute will provide an opportunity to learn from top women leaders in the nation and provide an opportunity to expand her network of women colleagues.
"I look forward to understanding their challenges, sharing experiences, and gaining insight," she said. "I have been given many opportunities while employed at Ohio University, both personally and professionally. During my long tenure, I have observed the changing roles of women in leadership in teaching and administration. I have observed the diversity that has allowed women to be involved in campus planning, administrative policy, and future visioning and want to further support women's involvement at Ohio University."


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When candidate qualifying ended May 25, the number of Democratic hopefuls was the smallest since Reconstruction, showing just how much the party has shrunk.
Few contenders stepped up behind the party banner to challenge sitting Republicans, and a growing number of elected Democrats chose to switch parties for this year's re-election bid.
Multiple counties had absolutely no Democrats put their names on the ballot. They're not just suburban counties, either. All the partisan offices in Jones County are now held by the GOP, after two county commissioners switched parties.
Gilmer and Catoosa counties are now all Republican. In Bleckley County, all but one of the elected Democrats changed party allegiance. Three district attorneys switched last month.
The only partisan statewide races this year are for two seats on the Public Service Commission held by Republicans Chuck Eaton and Stan Wise. Only one challenger qualified as a Democrat - Steve Oppenheimer, who's running against Eaton.
In legislative races, 24 GOP senators drew no Democratic challengers. In the House, 62 Republicans have no opponents of either party.
State GOP Chairwoman Sue Everhart crowed about the party's success in a message to followers.
"Among the candidates were 28 Republicans running for U.S. Congress, four Republicans running for the Public Service Commission, 37 Republicans running for district attorney, 59 Republicans running for state Senate and 177 Republicans running for state House of Representatives," she wrote. "For those of you keeping score at home, the Georgia Republican Party qualified more candidates than the Democratic Party of Georgia for every single office on the ballot."
Democrats knew their numbers would diminish when Republicans paired 12 of them in the House and two in the Senate during redistricting. Still, they had vowed to target a few Republicans for special attention, especially party-switcher Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens. In the end, McKillip's only opposition came from within his new party.
Things are so bad that Democratic Party officials, such as the executive director and the treasurer, are also bailing out. Coincidentally, party insiders say the organization's finances are weak, and are currently dependent on a cash infusion from its share of the candidate-qualifying fees for sustenance.
Is the Democratic Party going the way of the dinosaurs, loping slowly into the tar pits and permanent extinction?
Probably not.
For one thing, they'll be aided by the dynamics of one-party rule.
First, there's no one else to blame when things go wrong.
"One thing the Republican right wing has continued to do is unite us," said Roger Sikes, organizer for the Atlanta Jobs With Justice labor group.
Second, ideological groups traditionally sympathetic to the Republican Party will lose patience with the philosophical dilution that comes from having a tent so big that it includes nearly everyone.
That's already starting to happen.
Jerry Luquire, president of the Georgia Christian Coalition, called for Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers' resignation over revelations on an investigative journalism website called Atlanta Unfiltered that Rogers had been a spokesman for sports-gambling companies. And Tea Party activist Debbie Dooley was the one who filed a formal ethics complaint against one of the longest-serving GOP senators, Don Balfour of Snellville. The complaint, which the Senate Ethics Committee believes has merit, regards possible violation of the Senate's per-diem policy.
Republicans spent 130 years in the minority, but Democrats aren't likely to be down that long.
History in other states has shown that dominance tends to swing from one party to another in roughly 10-to-15-year cycles. It usually takes that long for voters to get fed up, and for the hubris of those in power to snare them.
Democrats dominated for so long here because of the unique combination of race, the Great Depression and a stagnant economy. As the economy thawed, lifelong Republicans moved into the state and altered the demographics of the voters. Plus, GOP operatives got smarter.
Long-term migration patterns offer hope that Democrats will bounce back. At some point, the Democratic operatives will stumble upon a better strategy, too.
In the meantime, Georgia is settling into the habits of a one-party state where the debates will be between the ideologues and the pragmatists on the same side of the aisle. Those issues will boil down to questions of degree rather than the bold innovations that come from broader diversity. And Democrats, as the loyal opposition, will struggle to be heard.
• Walter Jones is the bureau chief for the Morris News Service and has been covering state politics since 1998. Email email@example.com.


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Live Ubuntu Gerris distribution
From Gerris
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Using this ISO image, you can boot a complete Ubuntu system with Gerris pre-installed from a USB memory stick. The distribution also includes various utilities which are useful in association with Gerris: emacs, gnuplot, ffmpeg, meshlab, blender, gmsh etc... The base system is a standard Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS distribution.
This image is built to work on any 32 or 64 bits Intel-compatible system.
To test it you need:
- an Intel-compatible machine (or an Intel-compatible virtual machine)
- a USB memory stick with 1Gb or more free space
You then need to download the (large, ~850 Mb) ISO image file. Then follow the standard Ubuntu installation instructions (start from step 2).
When you follow the instructions it is also a good idea to use the "Persistence" option of the installer. This will create a persistent home directory on the USB drive which will hold your data between successive reboots.
Note that running the distribution from the USB stick won't modify the operating system already installed on your machine in any way. If you are happy with the system, you can choose to install it permanently on your hard drive (with the option to share it with the other operating system).
If you know about this sort of things, the MD5 hash of the image file is:
Under linux/unix you can check that your downloaded image has a matching hash using
md5sum ubuntu-gerris-10.04.2-desktop-i386.iso
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|2009-06-09, 12:14
|Link #1102
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Hmm, I get you what you're saying. Thank you, Jan-Poo, I guess I'm still ticked off how giddy the stakes were when they killed everyone (especially Battler).
As for Kinzo's multiple appearances, I believe there is no one 'true' theory but a multitude of coincidences that helped keeping the illusion alive. Remember, Kinzo and Beatrice are a fans of coincidences and chance keeping the power of their magic alive.
Spoiler for Roger Ackroyd illusion:
Spoiler for kinzo:
By the way, about Maria's father.
Spoiler for maria:
|2009-06-09, 14:04
|Link #1106
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Doesn't this red truth open a whole new way to consider the red truths?
Some time ago I pointed out how the red truths mentioning names could be completely invalid if those names do not refer to the persons we know of.
For example if someone says:
Gohda is dead
It has absolutely no meaning unless it is specified which Gohda died. Because sure there are certainly been a lot of Gohda who died in the past.
This episode4 seems to confirm my fears:
Names are not exclusive
And we know that this trick has already been used. A name of a person we know of has been used referring to an omonymous person we don't know anything about.
Then what can prevent us to question if the various:
Nanjo died
Genji died
Kumasawa died
etc etc, actually refer to the persons we know?
I seriously wouldn't want to resort to that, but it seems undeniable that this has been already done.
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|2009-06-09, 14:24
|Link #1110
Knowledge is the solution
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 33
|2009-06-09, 14:39
|Link #1111
Join Date: May 2009
I wouldn't put too much stock in "soandso was dead and replaced by an impostor and when I say that name in red I'm not referring to the person posing as them." It's possible, but it's bad writing, so I'm going to hope that it isn't the case and that everyone is who they appear to be. Except one anyway.
Regarding Battler in episode 4, let's look at what happened from Battler's own perspective:
Spoiler for What Battler Saw in Ep4:
So here's a point of order: Battler doesn't have a frame of reference for any of the deaths. The only reason we assume people died in a given order is because we were shown the magic world scenes that placed them in one. But Battler didn't! The only thing we know is the order in which Battler found the bodies (George first, then whoever was in the dining room, etc.), and slightly more information from red text. So what I gotta ask is... why are we assuming any of this is even remotely correct?
The person blowing heads apart doesn't care about stealth, procedure, or the ritual. They started killing at around 10:20ish (possibly anyway), they took hostages alive (or pretended to), they used extensive telephone calls (previous killers wanted it to appear to be a witch, or just didn't want to be caught at all) which established at least when someone was probably still alive, they (or someone) appeared physically before Battler and didn't try to kill him, and they made almost no effort to create a closed room situation (the only closed room is the shed, which wasn't done by the same method and suggests another person did it). They seem to have cared nothing for the ritual at all. So why would they only kill six people at the conference? Who says they did that? Who says those people in the dining room died first?
Who are you going to believe? Gohda and Kumasawa, who somehow escaped what they claim was a brutal and unbelievable murder? Krauss and Kyrie, who claimed to be on the phone with Kinzo of all people (an old man with three months to live, supposedly) threatening their lives? Jessica, who knew George was dead when she wasn't supposed to? A random woman calling out of nowhere?
Who shuttered the house so thoroughly and locked it? Why? When did Maria die? How did Maria die? Why was Maria granted a compassionate death (I should note that if the face-smasher is the same person as from episode 1, Maria seems to trust them*)? Why was a set of keys left for Battler, or was it for Battler? Why were Nanjo and Shannon out at a well with a seal on it that is apparently more than just a rush job? Where is Kanon? Why did the staker, who is so meticulous usually, completely halfass his or her work here? And where did "Beatrice" run off to and why did she die? And did any of the order of killings presented in the magic world version of events happen like that at all?
Spoiler for * on Maria in ep4:
|2009-06-09, 15:23
|Link #1113
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
About your facts reconstruction, Renal, I think Jessica left first, then George. At least that's what I remember. And Maria left a lot before Battler, because Battler was still talking at the phone when she left.
You also miss a telephone call, when they just tell the children to barricade themselves in the guesthouse. Only later they tell them to lock Gohda and Kumasawa.
Imho Gohda and Kumasawa are very suspicious in this episode. The people that speak on the phone could be fake or could be forced to do so. But those two aren't. The fact that they accept to be closed in the shed is also suspicious. Imho they are accomplices and the order to shut them was only done so they could freely move after their role in the guesthouse ended.
The third accomplice must have got the shed's key from Gohda and then opened the door for them. It is not clear how the closed room was created though, but there's a lot of usual things that haven't been stated in red about this closed room.
Episode4 overall make me think there is a huge conspirancy performed by the whole servants staff. Kanon was probably the last person to die (if he really exist).
At this point I'm assuming that a natural disaster happens after any game killing off whichever survives after the killings, probably a volcanic phenomena of some sort. That is Beatrice (the Volcano) awakes, no one will be left alive, and then the witch (the volcano) goes back to sleep.
A tragic coincidence so to speak. A natural disaster happens soon after a fierce series of murders.
This would explain the last riddle of ep4, why noone (except Eva) survives, and why the "umineko" aren't around. Also the fall of the torii (that happened in the summer of the same year) could have happened because of a geyser eruption or a tremor that signaled the incoming of a greater catastrophe.
|2009-06-09, 15:29
|Link #1114
Join Date: May 2009
Spoiler for My response:
Spoiler for Maria's test:
If anyone remembers the chapter that Maria calls the rabbits in the forest band by name, or can remember the names offhand, I would love to know what they are because I can't remember.
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|2009-06-09, 16:10
|Link #1115
Senior Member
Various responses~
I've always been suspicious of Gohda, from the very first game. He's been working with the family for the shortest amount of time (2 years). I also think he's the one who picked Maria's flower, but that has little to do with suspecting him >_>;... Anyway, how do we know he's "Gohda"? Kanon, and Shannon came from the same orphanage, which is run by Kinzo, so they were hand picked by a trusted official. Genji had served Kinzo for decades, same with Kumasawa. Gohda, however, could be some assassin/conspirator who is using the name "Gohda Toshirou", of a real cook, to get into the Ushiromiya family. Any time "Gohda has been killed" is said in Red, the real Gohda Toshirou is dead, but not the fake. It was also his body used in the first game first night, whose identity would be confirmed by Beatrice in Red as Gohda Toshirou. Dead bodies do not count as people on the island. Thus, "Gohda dies", and leaves a corpse, but it is never the one we know. In the 3rd game, it is this Gohda who murders Nanjo. In the 4th game, Gohda murdered Kumasawa in the shed, and only made it appear that he himself was dead as well.
I personally think that Maria would have picked "let everyone else die", since she'd want to be together with her mother forever. Then again, since Rosa was already dead, we don't know if she even got the same test... Battler's test was different, slightly, because he didn't have anybody to pick (though, I'm sure "Ange" would show up if the same test was asked in later games)
|2009-06-09, 16:36
|Link #1116
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
at ikth7. The parallelism between the siestas and Maria's bunnies is too evident to be dismissed. However I still believe that the siestas represent guns as well as the seven sisters represent the stakes. it still unclear why guns would be associated with maria's bunnies, but supposing the real culprit (Beatrice) is Maria's friend. Then maybe Beatrice borrowed Maria's power to give "life" from zero to create the entities known as siesta sisters.
It's fantasy isn't it? for the stakes Beatrice only had to read a demonology book, for the guns she asked Maria to imagine the names and personality of such "furnitures". Well this is just a guess.
@squirrellord In truth after reading episode1 I was pretty sure Gohda was the culprit. Ha ha I guess he really is suspicious. However right now I'm suspecting practically all the servants.
I don't know if the parallelism between fantasy and reality works, but let's suppose it is.
Ronove is Genji
Gohda is Goat Man
Kumasawa is Virgilia
Gaap is Shannon
The seven sisters are the stakes
The siestas are the guns
Certainly Kumasawa and Genji are no murderers however that also goes for the fantasy, they don't really kill anyone. So in the real world they are accomplices.
I'm still not sure about Nanjo. However the mastermind (Beatrice) must have used them all for something, promising them money in return. That is probably the reason behind those mysterious letters. Yet it is not clear why the name of their sons was used. Maybe because they thought the sons after receiving those letter would automatically give them to the parents since their names were stated as the receivers. They couldn't imagine they would die... still this is a very roundabout method...
Who the hell is this fake Beatrice who befriended Maria and taught her magic? Who could disguise herself (himself?) so to looks exactly as the woman in the portrait? Who would remember and have at heart Battler's sin even thought she isn't related to it? Who would posses such amount of money? Who would go that far to make everyone believe in the witch's existence, at the point to send messages in bottles thus creating a legend and various witch hunters over the world?
|2009-06-09, 19:45
|Link #1117
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Ontario
So one theory is Ange saw a Sakutaro doll or something in the futon store, but did Beatrice ever say that the one Rosa made was the only one in red? And I think it's kind of strange that Juuza or the boat captain didn't notice, especially Juuza. I thought he knew about Sakutaro? Or did she keep everything in the diary a secret?
Is there any lyrics for the song "Happy Maria!"? Such a fitting song for Beato.
|2009-06-09, 19:55
|Link #1118
do you know ベアトリーチェ様?
Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 29
Keys, a password, all kinds of stuff can be placed on the back of a portrait, without it having to be a secret door. In fact, it's possible that the Enoura theory yields a partial solution, with the next part of the puzzle stuck behind the portrait in some form or another.
|2009-06-09, 20:05
|Link #1119
Senior Member
Nothing official, and multiple different ideas. Just read them as you listen to the song, and see what fits best
|2009-06-09, 20:39
|Link #1120
I'm almost there!
Just want to point out a few theories and stuff I have, but first off a response to Squirrellords Kanon theory...
Spoiler for Kanon:
And heres my far-stretch theory.
Spoiler for theory:
I don't know what I'm thinking exactly..... everything will probably be disproven in a matter of posts anyway :P
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Anyone watching NBC's "The Voice" -- and there are a lot of you this season -- knows he has a killer voice. Turns out Nicholas David Mrozinski also has an uncommonly upbeat attitude and calm, spiritual mind.
Those qualities might become equally crucial as the Twin Cities area's highest-profile TV talent contestant of the past decade enters "The Voice's" final weeks. They certainly helped the Eagan-reared singer, 32, get through a half-decade of hard-knocking his way around Twin Cities music venues, according to his friends and family.
"Anytime things were looking kind of hopeless, he'd say, 'Dude, relax, we're still planting seeds,'" longtime bandmate Dylan Nau recalled.
How true that proved to be. Mrozinski's run on "The Voice" continues Monday after he was voted one of the show's final four.
A few days before his latest victory, the bearded, bespectacled, slightly Cousin Itt-looking vocalist -- a clear benefactor of "The Voice's" blind-audition opening -- spoke at length by phone from Los Angeles. If there was any doubt he's not your average contestant, his talk of Buddha and sobriety and the joys of fatherhood all sounded as sincere as anything he has voiced on TV.
"If you had told me a year ago that I'd be on a show like this, I'd have laughed," said the deeply soulful vocalist, known simply as Nicholas David on "The Voice" and Nick "The Feelin'" Mrozinski in local circles (the Feelin' is also his band's name).
He's not laughing now, though: "I feel like I'm in the best music school I ever could've enrolled in." What's more, he added, "I do believe everything in my life has led me to where I am now."
Power of love
One pivotal point came at age 8, when he played piano for his grandfather on his deathbed. "Tell him to never stop playing," Grandpa said -- a story that both Nick and his mother have to fight back tears to tell.
"It deeply touched him, and I think it's something that's still with him when he performs," Jennifer Mrozinski said.
A three-sport jock in high school, Nick was impressed by how music brought together different cliques at Eagan High when he and his classmates performed in their parents' basements.
He skipped out on college plans and relocated to Colorado for a few years. On his return, he joined the White Iron Band, a popular country-rock group, on keyboards. Its rowdy shows were a little too wild for him.
"I wound up being the sober guy in the White Iron Band, which didn't really work out too well," he said with a laugh. "Still, those were some great times."
He quit and started his own band, a funky hippie-soul group that never reached White Iron's level of popularity but worked hard, bouncing around Minneapolis' West Bank from the Cabooze to the Nomad to Palmer's Bar, where it had a regular Sunday gig, along with a weekly set at the Happy Gnome in St. Paul.
"It's funny to think that just a year and a half ago, I was stressing about how to fill up the calendar and find work," he said. "Honestly, I just left it up to God and said, 'Your call.' Things just sort of fell into place."
The Feelin' mostly played original tunes and not the classic songs Nick has performed on "The Voice," such as Bill Withers' "Lean on Me" and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" -- although it did do a version of Huey Lewis' less-than-classic "Power of Love," which Nick sang on TV.
"Ours was a little more groove-oriented," quipped Mrozinski, who went on to sing the praises of his hometown.
"I have nothing but total respect and admiration for the music scene we have in Minnesota. There's just this great cast of characters there, and so much talent and experience to be had. Being away from it has given me more of a perspective on it, and I know I carried a lot of it with me out here."
All in the family
Around the time he started his band, Mrozinski met the future mother of his two boys, ages 5 and 1 1/2 (he asked to leave their names out for privacy). He credits Krista for helping him stay sober and eat healthier, while adding greater purpose to his music. His ever-growing beard is a gesture of solidarity with the fact she's now pregnant with their third child, due in February.
"It's amazing how much meeting the right girl can change you," he said.
The couple had plans to get married this year, but "The Voice" put a wrench in that. However, they went ahead and bought a house in St. Paul. Krista and the boys moved in without Mrozinski, who left for L.A. in early October and was unable to return home until a publicity-driven visit late last week that included an event at the Mall of America.
"That part of it has been really hard for him," said his mom, who usually watches Nick on TV with his sons. "They get really excited about it."
Said Nick, "The amount of support I've had back home has been incredible -- not just family and friends helping [Krista] with the boys but helping her with the move.
"The timing of this has just been so surreal," he added, welling with emotion again. "It's like two dreams coming true at the same time: I got my own place and my own big, beautiful family, and I got this incredible opportunity to further my music career."
This is where the level head and positive heart come in handy. His bandmate Nau visited him in Los Angeles two weeks ago and was shocked by the less-than-glamorous life he's leading. "They basically keep him holed up in his hotel most of the time," Nau said, "but he's obviously holding up well."
"I frickin' miss my family," Mrozinski said, before he finally got to come home ever so briefly Wednesday and Thursday to film local segments, including a two-song set at the Mall of America in front of a couple thousand fans.
"I take comfort in the idea that my success [on the show] could mean I wind up getting to spend more time with my family after this is over," he said.
Nicholas David doesn't plan to go lightly, in other words, a point proven by the bold performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that got him through last week's elimination round. Win or lose, contractual obligations leave him uncertain about his post-"Voice" career, although he happily reports that the rest of the Feelin' is rehearsing without him and says he hopes to rejoin the band in the near future.
"Honestly, I just put my faith and trust in the experience of this whole thing, and whatever happens I believe was meant to happen," he said.
Sounds like he's already a winner.
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