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Surname Saturday... Hoppe, Grener, Puesecker, Brown
I wanted to catalog some of my research as a way to help remind myself of steps that I've taken. In so doing, perhaps others can either a) learn from what I've done or b) help me know the next steps or other secrets I've missed.
The majority of my nearest relations lived in Franklin County, Ohio. I have used RootsMagic to organize the information from my family. I have used FamilySearch.org connect to other family trees as well as researching records they have made available (for free). After exhausting their records, I've paid for a membership to Ancestry.com research more records for these individuals.
For individuals who died between 1867 and 1908 in Franklin County, Ohio, their death records are not currently available on either website. However, the FamilySearch.org catalog has a listing for the index to the Death records, 1867-1908. They have an index split between two microfilm reels and death records split between two other reels.
I ordered one index reel to look for death records. Perhaps I should have ordered the death records and bypassed the index. Since I haven't done microfilm research in this area before, I thought an index search would be best. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to the fact that I really needed both index films to cover all the years in this series. When I loaded the index film, I only saw the years 1899-1908 and didn't know where the 1867-1908 years were. Oops! I'll have to order the first part of this series. But I've learned the lesson of paying close attention to what the films actually will contain.
In any case, I was searching for the following individuals who I believe died in Columbus, Ohio based on other information that I have on these individuals.
- Ludwig Pusecker b. 1844 d 1905
- Conrad Grener b 1822 d 1899
- Conrad Grener b 1853 d 1905
- Samuel Curtis Brown b 1821 d 1900
- Martha Gordon Brown b 1827 d 1901
- Christian Christopher Hoppe b 1859 - 1900
I was able to locate both Conrad Greners in the death index. I'll want to look up their death records on the film from Salt Lake City. I might have found the record for Samuel Curtis Brown. I will look that record up as well.
I was unable to find Ludwig Puescker (possible alt. Lewis Pusicker), Martha Gordon Brown or Christian Christopher Hoppe.
I decided to take a peak into the final three. Ludwig Puescker's death date of 14 May 1905 was obtained through FamilySearch.org's Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997. This index was derived from some county and church records but also from individual submissions to the LDS Church. Since his death doesn't appear in the death record index, I'm curious as to why. I suspect several possible reasons a) he didn't die on that date or in Franklin County or b) it wasn't reported to the proper officials. It's possible the name was indexed as something else. So, I'm a bit stuck with verifying this person's death.
Martha Gordon Brown... Martha's death date was recorded in a family bible. When church or government records are not available, a family bible can represent a primary source. I'm still not sure why her death was not recorded in the Franklin County death index. I'll have to see if the Samuel I found (her husband) is truly the Samuel I seek. Perhaps that may or may not give me clues.
Finally, Christian Christopher Hoppe. He is a tricky young man to track down. I received his death information from the family records of a cousin who also does genealogical research. I'll have to ask for the source information next time I think of it. I also have Mr. Hoppe (he used both names without consistency, so I'm not sure which one to refer to him as) found Mr. Hoppe on a website that lists the names of people who are buried at Green Lawn Cemetery. It's not the official cemetery record, so I'll have to see what the cemetery actually has on Mr. Hoppe.
I have seven more names to look at in the 1867-1899 film. At $5.50 a film, that's kind of pricey on a per name basis. So perhaps I'll just order the full records and hunt rather than spend $11 for the index and then the actual records. Hmmm... decisions, decisions.


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Lindsey Vonn left herself a mountain to climb.
And motivation.
Skiing with an unaccustomed conservatism in Sunday's season-ending giant slalom in Schladming, Austria, Vonn wound up a non-scoring 24th among 27 starters.
So she finished with 1,980 World Cup points, missing Hermann Maier's all-time record of 2,000.
To beat the Austrian, Vonn had needed just a 12th.
Her worst finish in eight previous World Cup giant slaloms this season was 12th.
"I'm definitely disappointed in the way today's race turned out," Vonn said. "I'm going to try really hard to beat the record next year. That's not my main goal but I'm motivated for another season."
Vonn was 16th after the first run, just .14 from 12th.
But she lost a pole at the start of the second run and then much more time during her 73 seconds on the slope.
She wound up 1.17 seconds from 12th and a whopping four seconds behind winner Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany, who took the giant slalom season title.
"I was a little conservative in the first run but I was still in a good position to get the 20 points I needed," Vonn said.
"I've never had that happen in entire life, never lost a pole in the start. (Stuff) happens. I just have to look to next year."
Sunday's race was a rare failure for Vonn in the best World Cup season of her career.
She won a U.S. record 12 races, a fourth World Cup overall title, a fifth straight season downhill title. fourth straight Super-G title and third straight Super-combined title.
She also won the first two giant slalom races in 11 seasons on the World Cup circuit and finished second in the season standings for that discipline. Her best previous standing had been eigth.
The 1,980 points broke the women's World Cup season record of 1,970 set by Croatia's Janica Kostelic in 2006. They also were nearly 200 points more than Vonn's old personal best of 1,788 from 2009.
"The season has gone incredibly well," she said.
It also should have a lingering positive impact because, at 27, Vonn found she had even more mental strength than she might have imagined.
One month into the season, Vonn confirmed she and her husband of four years, Thomas Vonn, were divorcing.
"I feel like in difficult times you can push yourself and see how strong you really are," Vonn said. "I think I have proved a lot of things to myself this year."
In Vonn's shadow, as she has been most of her career, teammate Julia Mancuso quietly put together her best season in five years.
Mancuso, 2006 Olympic gold medalist, had six podium finishes, one victory and wound up fourth in the overall standings. Her best career overall finish is third in 2007 - the last time she was ahead of Vonn (6th) in those standings.
Mancuso, whose relationship with Vonn had been distant at best in recent years, became part of her teammate's support group this season.
"Julia and I have been hanging out a lot," Vonn said. "She and all my teammates have supported me more than I could have asked for."


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Futures rising after Syria offers to give up chems
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures are rising and the price of oil is falling for the second consecutive day with a U.S. attack on Syria no longer appearing imminent.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 91 points to 15,127. S&P futures have added 11.2 points to 1,680.30. Nasdaq futures are up 22 points to 3,187.
The price of crude, which closed above $110 per barrel Friday, has been trading below $109 since Monday.
Syria said Tuesday that it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control so that it can be dismantled. The West has accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of using the weapons on civilians in the country's civil war.
Also on Tuesday, the government reports on job openings and labor turnover for July.


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This guest post is by Ryan Barton of The Smart Marketing Blog.
As I was sitting at a café over breakfast, the couple nearby flipped through their Sunday paper. As I tend to do, I eavesdropped on their conversation.
"Will you look at that bedding? That's wonderful!" "Oh my God, I'd die for those shoes." "I love that movie, and it's on sale!"
Aside from my habitual eavesdropping problem, the conversation's simplification of the "want" impulse is vital to your online success.
There's a significant, actionable difference between admiration and buying intent.
The first is an attraction, a respect, a good feeling. "That car has beautiful lines." "Wow, a front-facing camera and it supports Flash?" But regardless of all those positive thoughts, admiration lacks a fulfilled need.
The second says, "not only do I admire this service or product, but it's exactly what I'm looking for." "My New Year's resolution was to focus on marketing, so this is perfect!" The product satisfies a real need—not a flighty want.
Earlier this year, Lemon and Raspberry subscribers said they'd absolutely love to win my ebook, Smart Marketing, during Amy's New Year's blog party.
"Ooooh I'd LOVE to win this! I'm always up for some good marketing insight!!," said one reader. Another agreed, "I would love to read this book. Maybe I can count it as one of the many books I resolve to read this year."
That's flattering; really, lots of kind words. Yet, after the contest ended and the book was awarded, some readers suddenly didn't want the book; or, more accurately, they didn't want to pay for it.
This is the "want" gap in action—the difference between liking a product and actually wanting to pay for it.
Amy's readers may have liked the idea of reading my book, but they didn't realize a present need for it. It's a great idea, and it'd be a nice addition to a library, but there wasn't enough of an internal need to get them to pull out their wallets.
We see the same principle, but to a greater extent, with larger giveaways. Sure, I'll take the car, the free cruise, the year's supply of coffee—but I'm not going to pay for it.Image by Austin Kleon
Friend and artist John T. Unger experienced something similar with a book of poetry he wrote; the "want" gap was later brilliantly illustrated by Austin Kleon.
John's poems had a real, emotional impact on a reader; the reader admired the author. Yet all the admiration in the world couldn't compete with the prospect's lack of buying intent.
Businesses tend to forecast and allocate advertising monies based on consumer feedback, which is unfortunately more "do you like?" than "will you buy?"
That's what focus groups have become, haven't they?
"Do you like this new and improved artisan sandwich? How 'bout this car? Pretty isn't it? Would you go on vacation with this airline?"
None of those questions ask, "would you buy?" And that's the question that makes or breaks most launches.
Understanding this gap and how you can bridge it is your way to converting admiring prospects into paying, satisfied, and loyal customers.
What you may not realize is that admiration is a big step forward in closing the sale. The prospect has already indicated they appreciate you and your product, but they don't think they need it. That doesn't mean you're out of luck; you can fix this.
Here are five steps I use to effectively bridge the gap between admiration and convincing a prospect to buy.
Chances are, before reading this article, you'd never heard my name. If you're launching a product of your own, you may face the same challenge—obscurity.
If I had released my ebook under Darren's name instead of my own, the sales would've been drastically different than my initial figures. Darren's an established figure in the industry. Over 167,000 subscribers and 19,000 Facebook fans are testament to this. His community buys into his history of success. My own success isn't global like Darren's, but that doesn't mean it's not as relevant.
That's why the endorsement of Hall of Fame speaker and bestselling author, Scott McKain, was so powerful. Scott had a lot ofkind words about my book—and his review told new prospects my book wasn't a scam, it was real and unique, and they needed it.
That's the power of word-of-mouth marketing. But it's leveraging these words that helps you confirm legitimacy and close the sale.
It's pompous to assume that because you have a product, it'll be bought. Give prospects a reason to buy. What's in it for them? Show them value and security in their purchase.
For my own book campaign, my value offering included free quarterly updates. Every quarter, I send my customers an updated digital file that highlights new industry trends and developments. This makes my ebook a living book—it doesn't gather digital dust, it's a constant resource.
Plus, it maintains my personal brand awareness among my clientele in a most personal manner.
I also went so far as to include a 100% results-and-satisfaction guarantee with every purchase. Yes, I'm that confident in my content. It works, so why wouldn't I offer a guarantee?
And as for the prospect, why wouldn't they buy? There's absolutely zero risk in making the purchase. If they were apprehensive or worried they'd get burnt, this guarantee eliminates those fears. What's more, I've never had a request for a refund—it's a guarantee I've never been called on.
What type of value-added element can you include in your launch that convinces your prospect that they can't afford to not buy from you? Can you offer a limited-time price reduction to create a sense of urgency? Or a creative incentive to reward multiple purchases?
You launched your product for a reason: you recognized a demand, a need. So don't be ashamed to tell your audience that you know it. Speak directly to them.
In my case, that meant telling small business owners and first-time entrepreneurs that I understand the daunting challenge they face in marketing themselves. What's an effective strategy? What offers the greatest ROI? I know the thought of their business failing keeps them up at night. Moreover, I understand that heavy feeling—I've been there. And it's difficult to navigate through new business decisions.
But simply telling prospects you understand their need isn't enough. You also need to satisfy it. Which brings us to your solution. In my case, I hold the marketing road map to their success.
For my small business owner audience, it wasn't enough to say, "Don't worry about your business failing, I wrote a book on marketing."
I needed to take a step back and detail the topics I'd covered—targeted marketing, brand differentiation, social media ethics, blogging, and so on—and explain how each topic plays into their success.
Andy Nulman uses the analogy of "virgin contact lenses" as a great way to remove yourself from something you're deep into, to gain valuable perspective. You, yourself, are in-the-know. You understand what you offer, since you're the product creator. But for the first-time prospect, you need to say exactly what you do. Assume nothing on their part. Look at your product the way a first-time prospect would, taking nothing for granted.
You've highlighted their need, and you've detailed exactly what you're providing. Now, explicitly tell your prospects with confidence, "I am the solution. My product will fix your problem."
You're at the mall; you're hungry. You walk towards the food court, and as you get closer, you begin to smell the variety of foods. "What do I want? What am I in the mood for?" you ask yourself.
And as you arrive at the food court entrance, before you stand 15 different restaurant choices, people with trays of food rushing to and from tables. Your gaze moves across the large room, scanning the signs and lines of each of the restaurant choices. Asian food? Not bad. Pizza place: ghost town. Sandwiches … not really in the mood. But the burger joint is hoppin'.
Without saying a word, every person in each line is telling you their preference—the majority favored the burger over the pizza. And that makes you wonder, what is it about the burger that everybody loves so much? You don't want to miss out on what the people in the burger line are enjoying. Now, your decision is made: burger it is.
In the digital food court, it's similar; it's the online equivalent of, "I'll have what she's having."
Show prospects how much your customer base supports you. Show them you're popular, show them what other customers are buying and how they're benefiting from it, and force the inactive community to buy in and be part of the "next big thing."
The hype, the tangible energy in your community, your popularity—they're all extremely powerful selling tools.
Your blog, your business, your campaign, your new product—should be less about what you think people want, and more about what your prospects will actually act on. Want to be profitable? Then that's your focus: what people want.
Save yourself time and money. Understanding this "want" gap and bridging it—conquering it—improves your conversion rate, it motivates you through your new-found success, and it takes your efforts to a competing level.
How have you experienced the "want" gap in your blogging efforts? And how have you bridged it?
Ryan Barton is the author of the "Smart Marketing" eBook and he writes at The Smart Marketing Blog for Small Business Success; you can follow him on Twitter, where he shares entirely too much information. He wrote "Smart Marketing" with the intent that small businesses would glean insightful information and tangible marketing strategies so they too, could compete competitively with industry giants.


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Applications are now being accepted for students desiring to enroll for the fall semester at Abounding Hope Christian School in McPherson. This will be its third year of operation.
Informational meetings will be July 26 and Aug. 2.
The school is set up to serve those for whom traditional Christian education is inaccessible because of emotional, behavioral or severe learning problems.
"The goal of our school is to provide a safe place in which students can grow in their faith, progress academically at their own pace, and prepare themselves to love and serve our Lord," Janet Edwards, school administrator, said. "Additionally, we desire to have a conveyance of the hope we find in the Lord to both students and the parents."
Edwards emphasized the Bible-centered philosophy of the school, which establishes a firm foundation for its academic and character-building goals.
Academic excellence is promoted in a disciplined, success-oriented environment. Studies show that the academic achievement in Christian schools far surpasses the national public school average.
Emphasis is placed on mastering major concepts of all academic subjects as well as the Bible and independent living skills. Students can progress at achievement rates based on their won capabilities.
Biblical integration throughout the entire curriculum teaches students to learn to live more independently as a Christian.
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A Territorial Army soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder could face jail after being charged with stealing a gun from his barracks for what his family believe was a suicide attempt.
The family and friends of Corporal Harry Killick say the father of two feels betrayed by the Army and they have launched a campaign to try to get him urgent professional medical help.
Relatives say Cpl Killick feels let down by the level of care he has received for the terrifying flashbacks he experiences from his time serving in Afghanistan.
A campaign to highlight his situation has already attracted more than 1,000 supporters online.
The 36-year-old was arrested in October at a home in Ditchling Rise, Brighton, by Sussex Police officers after allegedly taking a gun from the TA barracks in Dyke Road, Brighton.
Having been charged at Crawley Police Station, he was then remanded in custody to category B prison Highdown in Surrey.
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He will appear at Lewes Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on January 4 charged with possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear or violence, possessing a prohibited weapon and three counts of theft.
His sister, Linda Killick, said that he is currently on suicide watch at the prison and has been diagnosed by the prison psychiatrist with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Cpl Killick joined the Prince of Wales Royal Regiment in 2008 after serving for five years in the Parachute Regiment, including doing tours of Northern Ireland and Bosnia.
After returning from a six-month tour in Afghanistan in October 2011, his family say he was sent immediately to Cyprus instead of taking post-tour leave and then felt pressurised to attend more training courses after that.
They say that he was struggling to deal with the traumas of his tour where he witnessed the death of several colleagues and was assigned a military community psychiatric nurse.
However, they claim that his treatment involved one session and then no further offers of help were given.
Having visited him this week, his sister said his condition has severely deteriorated over the last month and despite a significant increase in his medication, he continues to suffer from severe flashbacks.
Miss Killick said: "Harry is frightened and cannot understand why his beloved army has abandoned him.
"He is confused and feels he's being tortured by his own people and is again talking about taking his own life.
"He lives in a state of constant flashbacks reliving the horrors that he has endured.
"The help he is getting is minimal, sporadic and perhaps even more damaging.
"We are all struggling to handle the situation, and are also bewildered as to why he'd be treated this way."
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This small and delightful camp is situated in the south-eastern corner of the Kruger National Park, on the northern bank of the Crocodile River, from which it derives its name. After an early morning game drive, one can retire from the Lowveld heat to a lunch of prawns before coming back for late afternoon game viewing. The game viewing area is known as the 'Southern Circle' and is renowned for its concentration of different prides of lion with different hunting techniques and behaviour. It has an abundance of prides, herds, troops, packs and swarms. It is home to a larger percentage of the Kruger National Park's total rhino population. Come and experience humans living in harmony with nature. Here one has the ability to experience the sharp contrast between the wilderness and the world out there.


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I've finally come to the conclusion that not all doormats are created equal. While the $10 coir doormat from Target seemed like a good idea at the time, the cheap price tag should have also clued me into the kind of quality I'd be getting. For those with an entryway that doesn't open immediately into their livingroom, this might not be an issue — but when the fur-balls pale in comparison to the constant vacuuming of shedding coir fibers, then yes, it's time for a change!
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1 Chilewich Shag Doormat/Utility Mat - Tufted from durable vinyl yarns for a textured "looped" look. $45 - $150
2 Diamond Stainless Doormat - A non-rust stainless steel overlay backed with non-skid rubber matting, $68
3 Tree Trimmings Doormat - Formed rounds of small cutaway branches on an EVA backing, $75
4 Lattice Rubber Doormat - Made from 100% eco-friendly rubber with a molded base to keep it in place, $25 - $59
5 Cape Cod Doormat - Made from polypropylene cordage which contains a UV additive to prevent fading, $35 - $80
So while coir mats (also known as coconut fiber) of all sorts will be banned from my front door forever, I will be ushering in doormats of a different kind; vinyl, rubber, even rope. Has anyone else had to deal with coir fibers being tracked throughout their house?
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ClassesNonviolent communication classes, 7-8 p.m. Mondays through Dec. 16 at St. James Episcopal Church, 766 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Facilitator: Jane Reinoso. Info: 693-7458.
Nonviolent communication classes, 7-8 p.m. Mondays through Dec. 16 at St. James Episcopal Church, 766 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Facilitator: Jane Reinoso. Info: 693-7458.
Song of Mary Advent Retreat, 4 p.m. today at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. $20. Info: 684-6266.
"Christmas ... The Dawn of Redeeming Grace" program, 7 p.m. today and 6 p.m. Sunday at Fletcher First Baptist Church, 5 Cane Creek Road, Fletcher. Info: 687-1031.
"Christmas Isn't, a Family Puppet Musical," 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10:30 a.m. and noon-2 p.m. Dec. 14 at Living Water Church, 1284 Sugarloaf Road Hendersonville. Noon-2 p.m., needy family performance. Info: 698-4664.
2013 Christmas Celebration, 4 p.m. Dec. 15 at Mud Creek Baptist Church, 403 Rutledge Drive. Features: the Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra, SYNC Band, Children's Choir, and Sanctuary Handbell Choir. Free.
"An Appalachian Christmas Pageant" musical, 6 p.m. today and 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Grace Lutheran Church, corner of Sixth Avenue and Blythe Street. Free. Info: 693-4890.
Christy Sutherland concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mills River Baptist Church, 689 S. Mills River Road. Love offering. Info: 828-1220.
Unto Us a Son is Given, 10:55 a.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 699 N. Grove St., Hendersonville.
"Name Above All Names" cantata, 11 a.m. Dec. 15 at Boylston Baptist Church Choir, Hughey Drive, Mills River. 7 p.m. Children's play with finger food follows. Everyone invited.
Christmas music, 10:30 a.m. Dec. 15 at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1735 Fifth Ave. W. and White Pine Drive.
Christmas cantata, 11 a.m. Dec. 15 at Shaw's Creek Baptist Church, 91 Shaw's Creek Road. Info: 692-4430.
Christmas cabaret, 2 p.m. Dec. 15 at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Music: Songs of the Season. $5 tickets, children younger than 18 free. Info: 891-8700.
Bluegrass Bash, 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at First Presbyterian Church, 699 N. Grove St., Hendersonville. Music: Bobby and The Blue Ridge Tradition. Info: 692-3211.
Gospel Jam, 7-9 p.m. the first Saturday of the month at First Baptist Church of East Flat Rock, 227 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville. Free. Info: 243-8100.
Advent worship services, 6 p.m. Wednesday and Dec. 18 at Grace Lutheran Church, Highway 64 and Blythe Street, Hendersonville. Supper reservations required. Info: 693-4890.
Compassionate Friends holiday remembrance service, 6:30 p.m. Monday at Grace Lutheran Church, Highway 64 and Blythe Street, Hendersonville. Bring a picture of loved one. Info: 693-4061; 243-5876.
The Bible In 90 Days study, 3-4:30 p.m. Thursdays through Dec. 19 at First Presbyterian Church, 699 N. Grove St., Hendersonville. Leader: Pastor Bill Campbell. Info: 692-3211.
Morning Bible study, 10 a.m. Tuesdays at Fletcher First Baptist Church, 5 Cane Creek Road. Info: 687-1031.
Men's Majestic Humanity of Jesus Bible study of Mount Pisgah Lutheran Church, 8 a.m. Friday, breakfast at Denny's with Bible study. For directions and info: 692-7027.
Calvary Kids Club, 3-4:30 p.m. the first and third Sundays at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. Info: 684-6266.
Celebrate Recovery group, 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at Mud Creek Baptist Church, 403 Rutledge Drive. For those in addiction recovery. Info: 692-1262, Ext. 135.
Extended Family, 6 p.m. the third Mondays at Blue Ridge Prison and Jail ministries house, 410 E. First Ave nue. For families facing the trauma of incarcerated family members. Info: 696-0607.
Freedom That Lasts, 7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Sunday at Progress Baptist Church, 1935 N. Rugby Road. For those who are hurting or have fallen. Info: 419-0722; 545-9177.
Open Sanctuary Prayer, 12:15-12:45 p.m. the last Monday of the month at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. Prayers and thanksgiving together. Info: 693-4890.
Taize worship, 6 p.m. the second Sunday of each month at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. A quiet and reflective worship. Info: 684-6266.
MemoryCaregivers Network meeting for caregivers (Fletcher Group), 1-3 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at Fletcher Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1141 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher. Info: 645-9189 or 230-4143.
Free children's ministry, 1-5 p.m. the first and third Thursdays of each month at Cummings Memorial United Methodist Church, Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe. Free children's clothes for up to 6 years old, along with diapers, supplies and equipment at the BEAR closet. Info: 891-9413 or 891-1557.
My Sister's Closet is open from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays at First Methodist Church, 204 Sixth Ave. W. Clothing of different styles for work. Info: 693-4275.
Bread ministry — free bread from 3-4 p.m. Mondays at Balfour United Methodist Church, Highway 25 North, across from Hunter Chevrolet. Info: 692-5501.
Ministry for Separated and Divorced Catholics support group, 5-6:30 p.m. every Sunday at Immaculate Conception Church, at Seventh Avenue and Church Street, in meeting room 1, lower level of the church. Info: 329-4026 or 702-1249.
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In the article "Holding a Mirror to Race" posted on the New York Times Lens blog, Maurice Berger writes that Philosophy Chair Gregory Fried's Mirror of Race project "addresses a drawback in dealing with racism: Most Americans would rather not talk about the racial anxieties, suspicions and stereotypes that keep them apart. But the website shows that photography can be an effective way to jostle even well-intentioned people out of denial."
The Mirror of Race is a Web-based project that uses 19th century photography to challenge viewers' attitudes about race. The interactive website also includes scholarly essays and video. An exhibit at the University's Adams Gallery offers a close-hand look at the original daguerreotypes and other photography used on the website.
In a Guardian blog post, "Antique photographs show the history of race in black and white," Jonathan Jones writes: "There's no cosy nostalgia here. As its name indicates, the site is concerned with the history of race. It brings together a large number of photographs that reveal experiences and ideologies of racial difference in 19th-century America. Not only are they haunting and troubling but the way they are presented is sophisticated and subtle."
The Lens article quotes Fried on the project: "Photography has the paradoxical ability to allow us to contemplate intimately from a safe distance, and so, like an anesthetic, photography can give us the opportunity to confront the historical reality of race without recoiling in anger, guilt, or fear. It gives us the chance to reflect and to think without immediately turning away from what is uncomfortable."
Fried collaborated with storyteller and Distinguished Visiting Scholar Derek Burrows and collector Greg French on the Mirror of Race project.


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Targeted support vital to future of renewables
Brussels, Belgium – Targeted financial support policies at EU and Member State level, such as feed-in tariffs, create needed certainty for renewable energy investors, in a way that carbon pricing alone would fail to do, according to a WWF UK report – 'On Picking Winners' – launched today.The report comes at a turbulent time. Uncertainty about future policy support for renewable energy in key markets such as the UK and Italy has contributed to a notable drop in investment levels across the EU [1]. However, this money is going further than ever before as key technologies such as wind and solar power cost significantly less year on year. WWF's report is, therefore, particularly relevant to ongoing EU discussions on the need for post 2020 renewable energy targets.
'On Picking Winners: The need for targeted support for renewable energy', written by Dr Rob Gross of Imperial College London, argues that given the numerous benefits of renewable energy, it is vital that the EU and its Member State governments provide the support needed to ensure it plays its full part in decarbonising the EU's energy system.
"Without targeted and proportionate policies supporting our renewables industry, we will miss out on the opportunity rapidly to reduce the costs of emerging renewable technologies, and will fail to capitalise on the promising economic growth opportunities that the sector has to offer in the EU", said Imke Lübbeke, Senior Renewable Energy Policy Officer at WWF European Policy Office.
Several commentators, the report notes, have argued that a single, economy-wide carbon price is the most effective way of addressing the climate change challenge. However, although carbon pricing has an important role to play, it is far from sufficient on its own to bring forward investment and accelerate cost reductions in emerging renewable technologies, or to avoid lock-in to high carbon infrastructure [2].
Imke Lübbeke concluded: "Our report exposes deep flaws in the argument that carbon pricing can do it all. Whilst the simplicity of this argument may sound appealing, in practice relying on carbon pricing alone is likely to lead to carbon-intensive gas plants continuing to dominate our energy mix – thereby preventing newer and cleaner technologies from realising their potential and locking us in to a risky reliance on largely imported fossil fuels".
Source of the article
Note to the editors:
1. Bloomberg New Energy Finance: World clean energy investment heading for a drop in 2012, after mediocre Q3, October 2012
2. The report highlights a number of limitations which could arise if carbon pricing was the only policy driver to support investment in renewables:
- A carbon price will rarely be set at the level necessary to attract investment in newer clean technologies like renewables. Instead, it is more likely to drive investment from coal to gas.
- A carbon price set high enough to drive investment in emerging technologies which cannot yet compete with established fossil fuel generation would risk a windfall for operators of existing low carbon plant and higher prices for consumers. Targeted financial support policies combined with a lower carbon price provides an effective way of providing certainty to renewable energy developers whilst driving investment away from high carbon technologies across all sectors.
- At the global level, fossil fuels are more often subsidised than taxed, which also undermines carbon pricing. The effect of fossil fuel subsidies is therefore to create, in effect a 'negative carbon price'.
- Carbon pricing does not do enough to overcome the non-financial barriers that hinder the deployment of emerging technologies such as compatibility with existing infrastructure, incumbent lobby interests and skill shortages.
Further information:
Imke Lübbeke
Senior Policy Officer Renewable Energy
WWF European Policy Officer
Phone:+32 2 743 8818
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Peter CramptonProfessor Peter Crampton is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Division of Health Sciences and Dean of the Otago Medical School at the University of Otago.
Peter started his professional life as a GP at the Porirua Union and Community Health Service, and later specialised in public health medicine. His research is focused on social indicators and social epidemiology, health care policy, and health care organisation and funding.
He has served on numerous government advisory panels in a variety of policy areas related to public health, health services, and health workforce, and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to public health, health systems and health services management.
When not at work he is kept busy with his family, riding his mountain bike, climbing mountains, playing music and chopping firewood.
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Professor David W. Haslam is a full time GP with a special interest in obesity and cardiometabolic disease, Physician in Obesity Management, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, and Chair of the National Obesity Forum (NOF). The NOF is a charity whose aim is to increase awareness of obesity, diabetes and weight related illness, and improve their management.
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He is visiting Professor, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, visiting Professor Chester University, and is the Obesity Specialist at 76 Harley St.
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He was also National Information Director for health and care in England and Chair of the National Information Board which advises the Secretary of State on national priorities for data and technology.
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We're all familiar with the ability to restore a database to point in time using the RESTORE WITH STOPAT statement.
But what if we have multiple databases that are accessed from one application or are modifying each other? And over multiple instances? And all databases have different workloads? And we want to restore all of the databases to some known common relative point? The catch here is that this common relative point isn't the same point in time for all databases. This common relative point in time might be now in DB1, now-1 hour in DB2 and yesterday in DB3....
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When I was pregnant with my third child, I accidentally wandered into a conversation in which two mothers I'd recently met were extolling the virtues of homebirths and water births, midwives and doulas. When the well-meaning moms asked about my birth plan, I told them I was having a scheduled C-section. Their faces conveyed self-righteous disapproval and my mind was immediately awhirl in disclaimers: I was having the scheduled C not because I wanted the convenience, not because I was afraid of labor, not because I didn't want to miss my manicure appointment.
"My oldest son would have died if I didn't have a C-section!" I said instead.
It was unfair to pull the "my kid almost died" trump card, and if I hadn't skulked off in annoyance and then embarrassment at having reacted so defensively, I could have told them about my first pregnancy and the months of bleeding, followed by the morning at thirty-two weeks in which there was no kicking; then the hours on the monitors where the heart rate was at first fine, then shockingly not fine, which provoked the careening stretcher; the epidural which didn't have time to take effect, so instead the general anesthesia and the intubation. It was birth as highly medicalized and impersonal as critics of the C-section claim, one in which I had no voice and no control.
I also could have admitted that I've occasionally felt a twinge of loss that I'll never give birth more naturally. Having never experienced labor, I sometimes feel like a little girl eavesdropping on the grown-ups' tales of childbirth. I pore over pictures my husband took during one of my C-sections, to convince myself that this was my body, my baby. When I watched a friend's video of her home birth – in water, no less – I felt as I do when watching Olympic figure skaters: as much as I would love to do that, it's never going to happen.
But that loss is nowhere near what I would have felt had all those highly-interventionist, medical-establishment doctors not been exactly where I needed them. After a month in the NICU, when we were finally ready to take our son home, the resident who'd been on call the night of my C-section told us how blue our baby was. He held his fingers imperceptibly apart and told us we'd come "this close."
Those words followed me for the four years in which I worked up the courage to get pregnant again. I went back to the same OB, who warned me I would be closely monitored. But this pregnancy was so uneventful that by my third trimester, my doctor raised the possibility of a VBAC. I was aware of the spate of newspaper articles decrying the increased rate of C-sections and moved by a relative's joy at having a VBAC. Mostly I was tempted by the opportunity to prove to myself that I could do it. My mother used to tell me about her paternalistic male OB who, in the days of twilight medication and fathers in the waiting room, had instructed her to "lie back, sweetheart, you don't have to do a thing," to which I'd always rolled my eyes, confident of my physical capabilities and glad for all that had changed in the world.
If I'd tried, and all went well, perhaps this would be an essay in praise of VBAC. But that of course would only be evident in hindsight, when the result of the birth was cradled in my arms. Not yet having crossed over to that safe other side, what my prior experience taught me most starkly was that birth was not a process that I could control. The incision scar fades after a year or two, but the scars of near-tragedy are etched more permanently, making it hard to care about the experience, rather than the result, of birth.
My scars also make it hard not to hear a tone of triumphalism on the part of some who are lucky (because that, after all, is what it is) enough to have the birth of their dreams. Or to hear narcissism at the wishful fantasy that it is simply a matter of "trusting my body," or to hear folly at the idea that what matters most in a birth is your own experience of it. Surely the current obsession with the process of birth comes in response to the many years in which women were told to lie back and do nothing, yet it reminds me of the bride fixated on the wedding, not the marriage, the bride bedecked with a breathtaking array of flowers, as if the abundant beauty can serve as a talisman against the harsher realities that lie ahead.
For me, the question of VBAC was easily decided when at thirty-seven weeks, my doctor saw a heart rate deceleration. While this wasn't necessarily cause for alarm, she wanted to do a C-section that evening. Was this the much-maligned elective C, which I was choosing because I was distrustful of my body? Was this the voice of the medical establishment, belittling my capabilities, trampling my rights? Was this an example of a doctor rushing to surgery, for fear of malpractice? What I heard was the voice of my doctor, wise, capable and kind, who had saved the life of my first child. My desire for a certain experience, my image of who I thought I was or wanted to be, mattered least of all.
Was it the birth of my dreams? Hardly. During my third pregnancy, with a different OB in a different city, there wasn't a conversation about VBAC. November 26, 8 a.m., was penciled in on our calendars, though given a variety of complications, it seemed unlikely I'd go to term. But the weeks passed and the baby grew, until the date loomed before me, and I remembered more viscerally the physical pain of my previous C-sections. When I told my doctor how afraid I was, his nurse happened to repeat the same sentiment my mother once heard. "Lie back, he'll take care of everything."
Beautiful words, those were. Because a C-section is a scary thing in which I was glad to take no active role. Even when it's planned, it doesn't necessarily go according to plan. This time, I knew the date so far in advance that I made sure to complete a major project beforehand; the night before, I packed a few days' worth of school lunches and laid out my kids' clothes. Most of all, I concentrated on not letting my mind wander to the netherworld of all that could go wrong. Yet no matter how much I'd prepared myself, I still felt terror at being wheeled into that operating room. Despite the fact that I'd had every test and an inordinate number of sonograms, the moment my baby was lifted out was unexpectedly fraught with worry as the neontalogist present was concerned about a possible malformation. While my baby was examined across the room, I had to wait helpless and terrified until I was told she was going to be fine.
Was it the birth of my dreams? Hardly. Do I wish it could have been different? Sure. But compared with the result – my daughter, Liana, little sister to my sons Eitan and Daniel – I really don't care. If I've learned anything in ten years of motherhood, it's that the way our children are brought into the world means very little for how they live in the world. Nor do the intense hours in which we become mothers shape the months, years and decades of our actually being mothers. And if the experience of childbirth is in fact a crucial process, then let it be the process of teaching us that our children will emerge in ways varied and complicated, not necessarily in times or manners of our choosing, neither made in our image nor as proof of our prowess. Let birth remind us that, with children, so little goes according to even the most well-drawn plan.


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POPLAR SPRINGS � Holmes County Sheriff�s Office reported the arrest of Zachary Maize Andrews, 25, of Bonifay following a high speed chase on Jan. 5.
POPLAR SPRINGS � Holmes County Sheriff�s Office reported the arrest of Zachary Maize Andrews, 25, of Bonifay following a high speed chase on Jan. 5.
According to the report, the Jackson County Sheriff�s Office initiated a traffic stop on a white Ford Mustang near Graceville on the evening of Jan. 5 and the driver refused to stop, attempting to elude the deputy for several miles, eventually entering Holmes County in the Poplar Springs Community.
After the vehicle became disabled on North Holmes Creek Road, the driver, Andrews, fled on foot, but was captured by the Jackson County Deputy after a short foot pursuit, according to the report.
Deputies then located methamphetamine in Andrews� vehicle and Andrews was then placed in the rear of a Holmes County patrol car, according to the report.
Moments later, deputies discovered that Andrews had escaped from the rear of the patrol car and deputies from Holmes and Jackson County, along with the Graceville Police Department and the Florida Department of Corrections, spend the next several hours searching the area for Andrews to no avail, according to the report.
At 11:15 p.m., however, a 911 call was received from a residence on North Holmes Creek Road regarding a burglary.
The victims had awakened to the sound of Andrews entering the residence through a window and the homeowner retrieved his firearm and confronted Andrews, according to the report.
Andrews then grabbed the keys to the homeowners� GMC 2500 pickup truck and fled with the vehicle, according to the report. A short while later, Graceville Police Department located the stolen pickup and attempted to conduct a felony stop when the Andrews backed the pickup into the patrol car disabling it, then forcing another patrol car into the ditch, according to the report.
With the help of an onboard tracking system, the pickup was located a short while later just north of Bonifay and a Bonifay Police Officer then located the vehicle, however the Andrews once again fled in the pickup.
According to the report, after a short pursuit, the suspect crashed through a fence, traveled through a pasture and crashed into a pond.
The Bonifay officer, in an effort to avoid the pickup, ran his patrol car into the ditch and crashed his vehicle and Andrews then fled into the woods. After an extensive search, Andrews was located several hundred yards away hiding in a swamp.
Also, while responding to assist the Bonifay officer, a deputy from the Holmes County Sheriff�s Office was traveling westbound on State Road 2 when her vehicle hydroplaned and crashed into the woods, according to the report.
Both officers were treated and released for their injuries.
Andrews is being charged with escape, burglary of an occupied dwelling and grand theft auto and remains in the Holmes County Jail awaiting First Appearance, with charges pending in Jackson County, according to the report.
Sheriff Brown would like to thank the Jackson County Sheriff�s Office, Washington County Sheriff�s Office, Bonifay Police Department, Graceville Police Department, Florida Highway Patrol and Holmes Correction Institution K-9 team for their assistance.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - A 21-year-old man has been fatally shot by a police deputy in Richmond County.
The Augusta Chronicle (http://bit.ly/WjYUhQ ) reports several sheriff's deputies were serving Chaz D. Williams, of Augusta, a warrant when the shooting unfolded Friday morning. Additional details on the circumstances surrounding the shooting and details on what Williams was wanted for were not immediately available.
No additional injuries were reported.
Sheriff's officials were interviewing several witnesses Friday, and county coroner Grover Tuten says an autopsy will be performed on Williams' body Saturday.
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It's getting pretty clear that we are nearing the limit of our wireless networking technology in its current form. And not just because of the speed of devices. More so, we are simply running out of space within the electromagnetic spectrum for radio waves.
We can inch into other frequencies, like gamma rays, but doing so without creating the Incredible Hulk, or just causing a lot of cancer, might be tricky.
But there is an entire spectrum that is used every day that computers have only begun to tap: visible light. A researcher named Harald Hass is working at the University of Edinburgh to enable computer devices to begin to use light to communicate, according to CNN. If his plans work out, we may one day dump Wi-Fi for something else, perhaps "Li-Fi," which formally is called VLC, or visible light communications.
Hass says that adding a microchip to a standard LED light can make it blink millions of times per second. Mobile devices with readers could then translate those blinks, essentially ones and zeros, into data. Adding an LED to mobile devices would allow communication in the other direction.
In the world imagined by Hass, every street light could become a high-speed Internet port. The human eye wouldn't notice the difference. Much the same way movies appear to show solid, moving images because the frames are whizzing by at 24 frames per second, nobody would be able to tell the difference between a data-enabled light and a standard, always-on bulb.
Of course, there are some problems. Light communication needs constant line-of-site. Radio waves can travel through a lot of substances without a problem, but if someone walks between a Li-Fi device and a receiver, the communication is broken, not to mention the obvious fact that the signal couldn't travel through walls, or anything that could dampen or stop light from passing.
There is also the potential problem of light pollution, especially in cities where this technology would be most useful. Lots of neon signs and non-communicating lights could interfere with the signal. And what happens if two hubs are close together, or a user is walking from one to the next? How will the handoff take place?
There is probably a ways to go on the idea of Li-Fi replacing standard wireless. But at least this technology can already be demonstrated in a laboratory setting. Could a move to the real world be too far behind?
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Why not use heat fluctuations in the higher frequencies
On the surface, this sounds a lot like it will have the same limitations that the IR communications in our early Laptops. I remember being very frustrated when a print job would fail because my dog walked between my laptop and my printer.
This is not new. In the 80's there were microwave type radio communications devices that worked using laser in the visible light range. The issues were never overcome. Rain, fog, snow and other atmospherics took it's toll and would disturb the communications path. Hence the invention of fiber optics and the better utilization of radio spectrum.
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Now, on a different topic, they seem to have portrayed Komari a lot different from the game. Which seems strange to me. My impression from the anime is that she's quite the weirdo, she's downright Fuuko-esque in the way she handles herself, which is great because it's entertaining, but when I played the VN she seemed a lot more naive and her sunny disposition was much more emphasized. The scenes with Komari in the VN made me feel warm because she always seemed to be smiling and spouting one happy-sounding aphorism after another. In the anime she seems to be doing and saying one weird thing after another. By the time we get to the baseball recruiting scene, both scenes in the VN and anime are comical, but I felt like Komari was being portrayed as naive to the point where it was comical in the VN vs her being so awkward in the anime that it's comical by this point. Am I the only one who perceives this difference? I dunno, it seems strange to me that a character would seem so different to the point that her personality and scenes feel different.
I'm curious to know, people who didn't play the VN: How do you feel about Komari?
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I feel Komari is pretty much as naive and sunny as in the VN. I can see how it might be seen that she's more awkward in the anime, that whole scene of Komari's method of responding to Kyousuke's test seemed to be more like something Haruka woulda do (though Haruka probably wouldn't answer guts, bravery and friendship haha).
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But yes, I've noticed very early in the episode that Komari has a much much more bubbly feel to her. In the VN she's the kind of girl that goes at her own...slow, slow pace but keeps everything cheerful, beautiful and pretty but the way she's portrayed in the anime...it wouldn't surprise me if non-VN readers pointed her out as the weirdo of the group...then again this group is full of weirdos...
as for those that have played the VN...well we have the privilege of knowing her background and what happened in her route so our opinion of her differs greatly from any the non-VN readers can have.
Her response to Kyousuke is pretty much the same as the one in the VN if I remember correctly.
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I just think that, if they want to use her as that supporting character and butt of the jokes, it would be more appropriate if they did a better job showing off how friendly and naive she is, otherwise I see those scenes falling flat and maybe even being a little confusing if they only feature her eccentricity.
Edit: I get the feeling that there'd be something missing from the other routes if she got removed, whereas I think the other routes (Barring refrain obviously), would be exactly the same. Perhaps I go too far though...
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In Anego's route she only showed up for the funny scene with the guys asking the girls out as a test, and even then you can not pick her.
In Kud's route she's mostly present during the study session though you can pick others to study with.
Haruka and Mio's route she pretty much doesn't show up.
Honestly, one thing I've noticed is that aside from refrain and such, the other girls can easily vanish during routes other than their own and not affect them in the least.
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Laughed how they included scenes for Kyousuke giving Rin her first 'title' and LOL'd hard the part where Kyousuke needed quotes and jotted down everything everyone said. Silence was a virtue that time.
Really glad they included some of the VN elements in the show.
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Edit: In a group setting I think she helps out a lot in making the other girls feel comfortable. I'm just rambling about the feelings I got when playing the game, so it's pretty refutable, but in my mind her presence makes it more feasible for the girls to be there.
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Kind of forgot what we were talking about. Original point was that Komari came off as more of an oddball than I remembered her. And that this change might affect the group dynamic to the point that we have a slightly different character and feel compared to the VN when we get to the group scenes. At this point I think her oddness makes for a funnier show, but if they dont' show off more of her naivete and optimism, it will be interesting. She comes off as a bit of a spaz now. They did show off other parts of her personality, but like I said, it feels like an "afterthought" instead of a real defining part of her personality which I felt they did well to define in the VN in her intro.
Sort of like how one viewer in the Eps. 2 discussion thread mentioned there being a disconnect between Rin screaming at Masato then acting super shy in front of Komari. Komari going from super spaz to something else might be a lot more noticeable, but maybe not if they build on her more.
Edit: Indeed I do think she adds a lot to the group though. This is sidetracked from my previous point, but once she's added to the group, the feel changes a lot from what I perceived, now we've got a real moe show, now we've got Rin being extra shy. We've got the guys giving some funny reactions that they aren't used to because of this quirky character. It's a much different show with her around.
Anyway to tie the two points together, since she's involved in a lot of the scenes, if they choose to animate those, and stick with this new bubbly Komari, it will be strange and new at least compared to the VN. Maybe not in a bad way.
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Uhh..I'm late to the thread and the mini-discussion about Komari, but have you guys forgotten "that" scene near the end?
And also the description about her: "sociable, easily, gets along with other people", right at the very start, as I remember from the visual novel. If she is indeed portrayed as her character should be, then there's no problem. In a way, she is Rin's polar opposite, and her personality thus runs in a tangent with Kudo's (this is why I suspect they had many common route scenes together). She should be outgoing, a little bit wise, clumsy, sweet, as "normal" a girl as visual novel conventions go.
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After watching a second time Episode 3, I felt its adaptation regarding characters a bit worse than I initially thought.
The first problem I've got with this episode was how Haruka was portrayed. Past the noticeable difference in voice acting (probably due to the direction), Haruka felt quite pushy and demanding. It was already weird for her not to simply ask, her lecture felt quite off. And suffice to say, seeing her only now for only 2 short scenes doesn't really make sense, since she raids quite often Riki's class (a bit like Kyou in Clannad).
Masato was particularly weird was well: checking the VN again, he was shown as downright annoyed after Kengo's setup, and even more with Yuiko's intervention, to the point he was getting serious at it. So seeing the muscle sensation and his pumped side there was off once again.
But like I said, my major gripe in ep3 was how Yuiko felt "plain mischevious" without really the kuudere side to it: past the slow "threats", she was shown "amused" during her fight with Masato, instead of plainly punish him for his foolishness (characterized with her cold profile pose in the VN).
So really, the differences are notable imho.
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EDIT: Okay, after checking the game, I see what happened and I seriously don't like how the anime handled it... Not only did Haruka lecturing Riki did not happen, in the anime, it looks as if Haruka is a bossy character which she is not. They pretty much cut the entire joke short and that subtracted from Haruka's silly nature which will give anime only viewers the wrong impression of her character. Instead of the lecture we get Haruka saying something along the lines "Amazing isn't it? Imagine what my classmates thought when I opened it (with a sincere smile). I'll forgive you since you're my friend, but if a stranger stuck their hand inside your desk they'd be furious." Something like that. It was a very playful scene which sets up what kind of character she is and the anime adaption totally botched it. Oh and the "only put papers in your desk" did happen but in a playful manner, not in a lecturing way like the anime handled it. I understand there are time restraints, but to change up a scene in that kind of way I find unacceptable...
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|2010-06-18, 08:33
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Before EP5 no one really wanted to believe that people just faked their death and Battler fell for it, because it was too ridiculous and needed too many people to be part of the playacting.
Of course the same applies for guns, it is ridiculous to think they are fake. But if the dead bodies are fake, then so can the guns.
|2010-06-18, 09:06
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The one or two times he sees people who might later have been faking it at the time that I can recall, he's prevented from entirely seeing what's going on by circumstance. See also the way Erika doesn't get to see the bodies properly in ep5.
|2010-06-18, 10:32
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However, think about it.
If the winchesters aren't real guns or they are loaded with blank bullets, then you can easily explain the scenes on EP1.
Natsuhi fires, but it just makes a big sound, some gunpowder smell and nothing else.
Battler also fires at the shape he sees and which Maria recognizes as Beatrice, however no damage is done.
That I know of there has never been any sign or proof of a fired bullet, nor any sign of bullet holes anywhere beside the bodies. And it was never made clear that the cause of their wounds was a bullet.
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For instance, Natsuhi is armed with the Winchester, "Beatrice" has a pistol. Even if Natsuhi did shoot, if it was a blank it probably posed little threat to "Beatrice," who could casually shoot Natsuhi back.
I think ep3 and ep6 heavily suggest the Winchesters are fully-functional guns, or at least can be loaded with real ammunition. The behavior of everyone with respect to them makes no sense if the "fake" faction knows the guns aren't functional or aren't loaded.
|2010-06-18, 11:05
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As a side note, blank rounds are visually quite distinct, anyone loading them would notice if they ever saw a real round before.
Though this brings me back to the interesting metaphor of raising a staff in the scene with Natsuhi/Beatrice duel. It's clearly a metaphor for aiming a firearm. Yet Dress-Beatrice, mentioned in the next scene, is never described or drawn with a staff, but Suit-Beatrice and Eva-Beatrice are.
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As to the "staff" and Suit/Eva-Beatrice... could "inheriting" the witch's power mean stealing their gun?
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It's actually been written already. Viktor Pelevin, "Fuhrer's Pipe". (Or whatever the official translation of the story would be -- I'm not sure one exists.) In that half-joke/half-scifi short story, Soviet Union is controlled from an underground bunker, in which Stalin's Pipe is not actually a smoking implement that Stalin is normally depicted with, but a weapon, the absolutely only weapon in this completely enclosed environment, a blowgun with poisonous needles. Whoever possesses the Stalin's Pipe is in control of the closed environment since he can kill anyone who opposes him inside it and there's no way in or out. The closed environment is actually treated by everyone else as a black box government control centre from which orders to be followed without question emerge, so they by extension are in control of the country itself, even if they don't care about it or see the results of their orders.
More to the point, I suspect that the transfer of an actual physical weapon from one Beatrice to another may indeed occur in some circumstances, in particular Ep3. But whether it's "stealing" or "being given" or "taking from a dead body", I don't think we have enough information to say.
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Maria, Witch of Origins, also has a staff?
Also, since the gun came up, lemme post this (although you all probably know it hahaha)
a) It has to be somewhat close range (for it to be lethal, that is),
b) its lethality, although it's a rifle, is more comparable to a handgun then a true Winchester (.45 Long Colts, or sometimes just .45 Colts are more typical in handguns and pistols then rifles. There is no difference between a Colt and a "Long" Colt. The "Long" is typically said to differentiate between Colts and the shorter Schofield rounds),
c) its lever action is unique, so if you want to shoot quickly (think Arc 4 when the Gold Arrows shoot everyone in the room quickly [ps 45 Long Colt bullets have a gold hue to them]) you have to be able to handle lever action rifles.
and d) You can only shoot it about 5 times (you load 5 bullets with 1 in the chamber and 4 in the internal magazine) before having to reload.
It's EXTREMELY important actually. Notice the 4+1 magazine size. First Twilight is 6 people. Small little holes open with that tip that don't have easy answers. If people get shot for the first twilight, then what happens to the 6th person?
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Also, another thing I was thinking about is that,they always find 6 "bodies". But if that's true then there is no one at the end to kill Natsuhi in EP1. However, if only 5 bodies and a fake show up, the Winchester tip supports it as evidence.
I propose this kill list/howdunnit for EP1 which employs Shkanon and this tip:
Spoiler for Crackpot Theory:
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P.S. Oops, and then I saw you suggesting the exact same thing.
I'm not well aware of how lever action reloading works, do you know if it can be reloaded before the magazine is empty? Then there may be a lot more reloading windows. What bothers me about the whole sequence is that no shots ever miss. I don't think anyone on the island was ever an expert shooter, with limited quantities of ammo available and everything, so this would imply every shot is taken at a non-moving target who either freezes in place seeing the gun pointed at them, or does not expect the shot at all.
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Sorry for the diversion,
When I re-read EP4 last scene of Ange on Rokkenjima, Ange said to Eva (not Evatrice) that " you are not witch, you are human, aren't you?"
Previously I thought it was her clone, but as anyone acquainted with science would know that personality and memory could not be cloned, at least not in foreseeable future.
Now I realize I should turn the chessboard. It was true that Eva did not really die, because the one Ange saw was the original Eva. And it was actually she killed the men-in-black and Kasumi. Of course, her gun was shot by Amasuka at the end.
(Obviously she had a very good reason to declare herself dead legally, as we all know, she despised her life at that time)
How does this relate to Umineko? Well, it has to do with the tea party in EP6, when Okonogi said something about "for the peace of world".
So how did Eva come back in life? Organ-transplant. From whom? Her clone. How can that be clones? Kinzo's final invention. And we know why Kinzo wanted to do complete cloning. It was the true treasure Eva acquired from Kwadorian, as well as explaining her wealth even though she did not use the 10ton gold.
Why Okonogi would worry about Ange being head of the family? Because if this techonology slipped into the wrong hands, world order could be disrupted.
Sounds crazy?
BTW, when I searched on the net, I found that there was a real princess called Maria Beatrice of Savoy. An italian one. Of course, she could not be Kinzo's lover as she was born in 1943.
Ahh. For the current discussion of using rifle to shoot six people, shouldn't the culprit use sedative first? They drank quite a lot of tea.
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so crazy enough to work that's what!
Anyways I'd think that the victims would have to be sitting down or in some situation that required them to be stationary if every shot were to hit. Like let's say Rudolph was sitting across from the killer and then the killer pulled out the rifle from underneath the table and bam. Something like that is what I'm guessing.
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