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2007: John Hodgman '94
John Hodgman is a contributing writer for publications including The New York Times Magazine. He wrote an advice column for McSweeney's for over a year entitled "Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent." He now appears regularly on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Hodgman's first book, The Areas of My Expertise, was published in 2006.
2006: Keith Ferrazzi '88
Keith Ferrazzi, who is widely hailed as one of the world's most "connected" individuals, is CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, which provides sales force and leadership development, as well as marketing consulting, to some of the world's most respected and best-known companies. Ferrazzi's national-bestselling book is NEVER EAT ALONE: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, and besides being an instant hit, it caused Tom Peters to say, "Don't walk…RUN to your closest bookstore...[NEVER EAT ALONE] is the most extraordinary & valuable book I've come across in a long, long time!"
Before founding Ferrazzi Greenlight, Keith Ferrazzi served as Chief Executive Officer for YaYa Media, a leading interactive entertainment consultancy. Prior to that, he was the youngest Chief Marketing Officer in the Fortune 500 upon joining Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. At Starwood, he oversaw all marketing activities for global brands such as Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, and W Hotels. In his posts at YaYa and Starwood, Ferrazzi drew heavily from his experience as Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte Consulting, where he was the youngest ever to be tapped for Partner. While at Deloitte, Ferrazzi developed and managed the industry's first globally integrated marketing organization. His creative marketing strategy contributed to the ascent of Deloitte's "Consulting" brand recognition from the lowest in the industry to a primary position.
Ferrazzi was an early leader in the quality movement as the youngest examiner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He has been named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders by Crain's Business, one of the most distinguished young Californians by the Jaycees, and one of the most creative Americans in Richard Saul Wurman's book, Who's Really Who. Ferrazzi's extraordinary rise to prominence has even inspired a Stanford Business School case study.
In addition to his book, NEVER EAT ALONE, Ferrazzi has authored numerous articles for leading business publications, including Inc., Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. He has also been a commentator on CNN, CNBC, and NBC's TODAY Show.
Ferrazzi actively supports numerous civic, charitable, and educational organizations. He serves on Yale University's Board of Alumni Governors, is a Fellow of the Berkeley College at Yale, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kiski School in Pennsylvania. Additionally, he founded and chairs Equality 1st, a foundation focused on assuring that everyone has an equal chance at success in the workplace. He is particularly interested in the relationship between leadership success and spirituality. Ferrazzi earned a BA degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
2005: Mark W. Everson '76
Mark W. Everson was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on May 1, 2003, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Mr. Everson is the 46th commissioner since the agency was created in 1862. Mr. Everson was appointed by President Bush to a five-year term.
As IRS commissioner, Mr. Everson presides over the continued reorganization and modernization of the nation's tax administration agency. His priorities include strengthening enforcement of the tax laws and improving services for taxpayers. From Aug. 1, 2002, until his confirmation, Mr. Everson served as deputy director for management for the Office of Management and Budget.
Prior to joining the Bush administration in August 2001, Mr. Everson was group vice president — finance, of SC International Services, Inc., For 10 years, from 1988 until 1998, Mr. Everson was an executive with the Pechiney Group, one of France's largest industrial groups. While with Pechiney, he held various financial and operating positions in the United States, France and Turkey.
Mr. Everson also served in the Reagan administration from 1982 until 1988 holding several positions at the U.S. Information Agency and the Department of Justice, where he was deputy commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. While at INS, he oversaw implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, landmark legislation providing for sanctions against employers hiring undocumented aliens and granting amnesty to millions of qualifying illegal aliens.
2004: Anne Applebaum '86
Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. Her latest book is Gulag: A History, which was released this past April. The work narrates the origins, development and daily life of the Soviet prison camp system that incarcerated over 30 million citizens in its 60-year history. A graduate of Yale and a Marshall Scholar, she has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for The Economist, and as a columnist for the on-line magazine Slate and for several British newspapers. Her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Radek Sikorski, and two children.
2003: David Milch '66
David Milch graduated "Summa Cum Laude" from Yale and was awarded the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the outstanding senior in English. In 1982, he was a lecturer in English literature at Yale when he wrote his first script for "Hill Street Blues." That episode, "Trial By Fury," premiered Hill Street's third season and won the Emmy that season. The success of his first script marked the end of his nine years teaching at Yale and the beginning of a career in dramatic television. In 1992, Milch co-created the acclaimed police drama "NYPD Blue." This highly rated series set a record by garnering 26 Emmy Nominations its premier season, winning the award for Best Drama. He currently has several projects in development, including a feature film and two dramatic series for television. HBO has just announced that it has acquired the rights for 13 episodes of the new Milch series "Deadwood."
2002: Anthony Williams '79
Anthony A. Williams began serving as the fourth Mayor of the District of Columbia on January 4, 1999, 25 years after the city was granted Home Rule in 1974. Mayor Williams' commitment to the citizens of the Nation's Capital is to build a city government that works for everyone. He has a clear vision for Washington, DC: safer streets, better schools, clean and healthy neighborhoods, affordable housing, accessible and affordable health care, and a vibrant downtown. His commitment to bring prosperity to neighborhoods throughout the District has led to the infusion of more than $2.5 billion in private investments, and has attracted major businesses, including the Newseum and Freedom Forum Headquarters, Kmart, XM Satellite Radio, and Qwest Communications.
2001: Sandra Boynton '74, '79 DRA
Sandra Boynton '74, '79 DRA. Ms. Boynton has become internationally known for her animal illustrations and the unique sense of humor to be found in her greeting cards, children's books, mugs and calendars. She has recently begun to explore new creative paths with her collection of children's songs entitled "Rhinoceros Tap" and with her album "Grunt," described as "a good-natured satirical response to the Gregorian Chant phenomenon." For this recording, both humorous and beautiful, Sandra called on her friendship with former Yale Glee Club Director Fenno Heath '50 and a group of his favorite singers. Sandra herself is also an alumna of Calhoun College and the parent of a current Calhoun student.


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CINCINNATI, Ohio (March 20, 2010) - On Sunday afternoon the Lady Bucs will be making their third straight NCAA Tournament appearance when ETSU squares off with third-seeded Xavier at 2:30 p.m. inside the Cintas Center.
However, ETSU (23-8) looks for a different outcome from its previous two trips to the Big Dance when facing the Atlantic-10 regular season and tournament champions on their home floor. Xavier enters Sunday's game with a record of 27-3 and the Musketeers went 14-0 in conference play this season.
In their two NCAA Tournament appearances, the Lady Bucs were defeated by No. 3-seed Oklahoma State, 85-73 in 2008 inside Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. Then, a year ago, ETSU saw fourth-seeded Iowa State drain a tournament-tying 16 three-pointers in the 85-53 rout inside Western Kentucky's E.A. Diddle Arena.
This time around ETSU hopes to send shockwaves around the basketball world and defeat the fifth-ranked Musketeers.
"This is an exciting time for basketball fans," said head coach Karen Kemp, who has guided the Lady Bucs to all five of the Lady Bucs' postseason appearances in program history. "Three years ago this program had never played an NCAA Tournament game, and now we have done it three years in a row. So it's really, really special.
"With that said, we have a different type of attitude this year. I noticed after we won the A-Sun Championship - we were excited of course because we advanced back to the NCAA Tournament - but now we are focused and ready to compete and compete hard tomorrow against Xavier."
These teams have some similarities as both won their conference regular season and tournament titles, each program is riding long winning streaks into Sunday's game (ETSU 10 straight; Xavier 18 straight), ETSU's Siarre Evans was named Atlantic Sun Player of the Year; while Xavier's Amber Harris is the reigning A-10 Player of the Year, and both schools have a pair of 1,000-point scorers and each team supplies a 1,000-point/1,000-rebound player.
While there are some quirky similarities, one difference maker surely stands out - Xavier's height advantage. As the Lady Bucs go with a small starting line-up - all under 6-feet - three of the five Musketeer starters are above 6-feet. Of those three, junior center Ta'Shia Phillips stands at 6-feet, 6-inches and Harris measures in at 6-feet, 5-inches. Phillips - who has currently scored 1,318 points and grabbed 1,096 rebounds through her first 95 games - is averaging 13.7 points and 11.3 rebounds this season. In addition, Harris has netted 1,520 points in 97 career games and she is the team's leading scorer at 15.4 points per game.
The Lady Bucs also have their two standout players in Siarre Evans (Griffin, Ga.) and TaRonda Wiles (Danville, Va.). Evans - who has tallied a Division-I leading 21 double-doubles this season - is only the third player in ETSU history to reach the 1,000-point/1,000 rebound plateau this season. Evans currently ranks fifth on the all-time scoring chart with 1,809 points and third with 1,109 rebounds. Wiles also hopes Sunday isn't her last game in a Blue and Gold uniform, and she has also complied an impressive resume over her playing career. The Danville, Va. native sits behind her senior teammate for sixth all-time on the scoring charts (1,489, and she has scored 1,045 of those points over the last two years).
This dynamic duo has led the Lady Bucs to their best season in ETSU history - setting program best for wins (23), consecutive wins (10) and 3-point field goals made (207). ETSU has also won 19 of its last 20 games and some of these current players have faced this Xavier squad.
Back in 2007, the Lady Bucs dropped a nine-point game, 76-67, inside the Cintas Center. Evans, Wiles and now junior point guard Tara Davis (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) were in the starting line-up that day, as Evans led the way with 21 points and 13 rebounds. Davis added 10 points and six assists as a freshman, but Phillips' 17-point, 12-rebound effort, along with Harris' 21 points were too much for ETSU to handle.
On Saturday, ETSU met the media and used its full-hour practice session to prepare for tomorrow's game inside Cintas Center.
Fans unable to make the trip to Cincinnati can catch all the action live on ESPN with Bob Wischusen handling the play-by-play and Stephanie White doing the color analysis.
Voice of the Lady Bucs "Don Helman" will also be courtside handling play-by-play duties on the Buccaneer Sports Network. To access live audio and live stats, click on the links above.
The winner of ETSU/Xavier will face the winner of Vanderbilt/DePaul on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
For more information on Lady Buccaneer basketball, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Everyone knows I like great TB stories, and the story of one of our Maine Chickadee Plate TB's continues (this is the one that recently went back to Germany after visiting China).
I got a notice of a "discovered" log entry yesterday from a guy in Norway, saying that he had seen my TB in a magazine article on geocaching. Apparently the TB as pictured with the contents of a geocache, and the TB number was showing.
This morning I got notice of another "discovered" log from another Norwegian, plus an email from the first guy saying he's sending me the magazine!


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Jamaal Charles releases Jovan Belcher statement
The wife of Jamaal Charles and Kasandra Perkins, the woman slain by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher before his suicide Saturday, were cousins.
Charles and his wife Whitney said Monday she and Perkins were related.
"Our family has suffered a personal tragic loss," Charles and his wife said in a statement posted on his website, JC25.co. "Kasandra Perkins was in-fact first cousin to my wife, Whitney. As this is a very tough time for our family, I ask that we are respected as we grieve. Kasandra was not only family, but a friend and a loving mother. As my actual family and my Kansas City Chiefs family have been altered forever, we ask that you keep us and most importantly their child in prayer.
"Thank you all for your continued support."


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Spending a vacation in Queensland, Australia is such a unique experience, it makes sense that it exists half a world away. Occupying Australia's north eastern corner, Queensland is home to famous cities like Brisbane and Cairns, and of course the fabulous Gold Coast.
With world class beaches, exotic rainforests and wildlife, not to mention a party scene that you simply can not prepare for - Queensland is a playground for all types of travelers. The climate is hot in the summer and slightly less hot in winter, so if you like soaking up the sun, this is the place for you.
Some of the more popular areas to visit are:
Brisbane: For the more metropolitan travelers out there, Brisbane is your spot to visit. With 2 million residents, Brisbane is Australia's third largest city. The "River City" is divided into distinct neighborhoods, each with its own cultural and style. The year-round subtropical setting is optimal for getting outside and being active. The city also has high culture, but with a laid back approach. No haughty city dwellers here, just friendly locals who want to show you a good time.
Cairns: Nestled up against the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns is a massive tourism spot for professional and amateur divers alike. The marine life is unbeatable, and the view from above (aka in a helicopter) is worth the price. You can also explore vast rainforest in Cairns. The fishing in this area is top notch for any visitors who want to catch their own dinner.
Gold Coast: Surfer's Paradise (literally and figuratively) has some of the wildest nightlife in Queensland, and also some waves that only the most experienced should tackle. There are numerous theme parks in this area including Sea World and Dreamworld, so it is a fantastic choice for families. Hit the iconic beaches that give this area its name, and get out of the sun by shopping or visiting cafes.
Queensland is a massive tourism destination for both local Australians and travelers from abroad. Hotels can be extremely expensive and crowded. On the other hand, the vacation rental industry is booming in Queensland and could be an ideal alternative for your party. With all the amenities of home, plus the privacy of a stand alone space, a vacation home is a much cheaper alternative when visiting. For big groups and families, you can't beat the convenience of a vacation rental, plus you get to experience Queensland like a local, in the mix of all the action while still having a luxury experience in Australia.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Top draft prospect Star Lotulelei will undergo more extensive heart tests when he returns to Utah.
Doctors at the NFL's scouting combine found the star defensive tackle and likely high pick has a heart condition, Lotulelei's agent, Bruce Tollner, confirmed in a series of emails with The Associated Press.
Tollner said Lotulelei would not take questions regarding the diagnosis yet. But the 6-foot-2, 311-pound defensive tackle still plans to do a full workout in front of scouts at his regularly scheduled Pro Day on March 20. The Tonga native was scheduled to fly to Utah on Monday night, Tollner said.


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Drivers meandering along Route 247 near Ogden have been known to do a double take. That's not surprising. Two seemingly identical farmhouses, one behind the other, stand alongside the road. Clad in clapboard with wraparound verandas, these houses, so typical of the Eastern Townships, appear to be exactly the same, but close up they have their own distinct characteristics.
The house closest to the road, a former stagecoach inn, was built in the 1840s. Known as Bodwell Hall, it was a stopover on the Montreal to Boston run and in later years functioned as a post office. The other farmhouse was constructed recently – in 2006 – but its style harks back to the same era as the inn. Today the property is collectively known as the Davis-Kell Farm.
Up until the 1960s, it was a thriving enterprise. Owner Arthur Davis kept dairy cattle, pigs, hens and a team of horses. He also grew mixed crops. After his death in 1972, the family continued to visit the farm, using it as a rural retreat on weekends and during vacations.
In the late 1990s, the present generation, Terry Kell and his sister Linda Keymer, who by then had inherited the property, decided that they would like to renovate their country home. It was still being used a gathering place for the Kell and Keymer clan (25 strong when they're all together) but they realized the building needed to be renovated.
"We drew up plans to restore the house," said Terry. "but unfortunately, none of the contractors we approached wanted to do it. They all tried to talk us out of it, because of the cost."
Kell then approached Alain Bellavance, a well-known Bromont architect who specializes in historic buildings, to ask if he could design a new house, in a style sympathetic to the old one. That was no problem for Bellavance, but unfortunately, another problem lay in wait.
The municipality told Kell that they would have to demolish the old house first, because under the local zoning laws, they were not permitted to have two residences on the same property. Terry and Linda were unwilling to do that for sentimental reasons. The old building held many happy memories for the family.
Happily, a solution to this new dilemma was found. Having mulled over the matter, the municipality informed the Kells that they could keep the old house, provided it was converted into an exhibition space and interpretation centre for private and public events.
Having gotten clearance to proceed with their plans, the family went full steam ahead to construct the new house. To oversee the renovations, Linda Keymer and her husband, Ron, moved back from Texas where they'd worked for over 30 years and Ron, who runs a technical company in Ottawa, commuted on weekends. Between them, they organized a team of artisans, a stonemason and several construction workers, who set the wheels in motion.
"We discovered that the area was full of talented workmen and they became very passionate about the project," recalled Linda. "They gave us some great suggestions and we would go back and forth with ideas, which just evolved as we went along."
Since Linda and Terry were starting from scratch, their vision for the new house was to make it as environmentally friendly as possible – even though from the outside it would look old. The woodlot was logged to provide timber ("we cut thousands and thousands of trees"), recycled materials were incorporated wherever possible and huge fieldstones, uncovered when the foundations were being dug, were used to build a wall around the property and the fireplace in the living room – the work of local stonemason Jean d'Arcy.
"If we ever need to go back to living off the land, everything is here," Terry said. "We have an excellent supply of water. We've installed a geothermal heating/cooling system and once solar energy becomes more efficient, we intend to incorporate that as well. We've planted crops and built a barn and a greenhouse. In fact, we're pretty close to being self-sufficient."
The house is, however, a far cry from a back-to-the-land makeover. Furnished with a mix of contemporary furniture and family heirlooms, it is a 5,500-sq-ft luxury home with an open plan kitchen/dining/living area, a smaller kitchen-cum-pantry, five bedrooms, four bathrooms (and one powder room), a home office and a study. (The original farmhouse is 3,000 sq ft, so this one is much bigger, even though from the outside they look almost the same.)
The living area has floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors trimmed with butternut harvested from another farm. The floorboards came from the former carriage house, as did the wooden beam that serves as a mantelpiece on the fieldstone fireplace.
The kitchen is designed in such a way that lots of people can stand or sit around the work area. According to Terry, the family likes to cook and socialize at the same time, so a priority for them was to install a large countertop, a slab of mellow grey and white marbled soapstone.
"I chose soapstone to give the kitchen counter an antique look,'" explained Linda. "It's antibacterial, low maintenance – I just have to treat it with mineral oil from time to time – and it tolerates very high heat. You can place a cooking pot on it, directly from the stove at 500ºF!"
Once the house was complete (August 2006), the family turned its attention to transforming the original building into an interpretation centre and rebuilding the carriage house that lies between the two.
The old farmhouse had to be lifted, to construct a new foundation – a stage that led to some trepidation about what might be revealed. To their relief, the family discovered that the structure was actually quite sound and while some sills had to be replaced and support beams added to the basement, there was very little to do, other than repair the walls.
When you walk into the renovated building, a pleasant, earthy odour emanates from the interior. It comes from the new walls, which are made of American clay sourced from Albuquerque, New Mexico, by Linda, who is fond of this fragrant organic material.
Since restoring the former inn, the family has staged several exhibitions and art shows, most notably "Art and the Automobile/l'Art et l'automobile, which drew visitors from across Canada, the United States and Europe. Held in the fall of 2008, it showcased luxury vehicles and their designers, as well as the work of well-known Townships artists such as Louise Abbott, a documentary film maker, and her husband, Niels Jensen, a master cabinetmaker.
The reconstructed carriage house has been repurposed as a meeting place for small groups and corporate events. It incorporates planks and hand-hewn beams from the original building and the front, which faces Route 247, is clad in 19th-century-style wooden siding. The back, however, is ultra-modern. Walls of glass and steel look out over the surrounding countryside – an innovative design that blends the old and new architecture of the Davis-Kell Farm.


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MELBOURNE, Jan 22 (Reuters) - It is a long-standing cliche in men's tennis that French players have an abundance of flair but would rather look good than get results.
Joie de vivre? Tick. Style over substance? Tick. Grand slam singles titles. No tick.
It is almost 30 years since Yannick Noah won the French Open, a victory that many hoped would open the floodgates for a generation of French grand slam champions.
But since then, the country that provided 13 men in this year's Australian Open singles, second only to Spain (16), has failed to win any grand slam singles titles.
Amelie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce won two grand slams each but despite a generation of outstanding players, Frenchmen have come up short.
Since Noah's triumph, France have had four men reach five grand slam singles finals. Australian Open quarter-finalists Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Jeremy Chardy will be hoping to make it six in Melbourne on Sunday.
Guy Forget, the former France Davis Cup captain and now tournament director of the Paris Masters, believes the reason for the lack of success has nothing to do with cliches.
"I think you're born a champion," Forget told Reuters. "I don't think any programme in the world will make you win a grand slam, otherwise China would have won a few majors already.
"I have lived in Switzerland for more than 20 years now and they have a good programme, but you don't say that because of that programme Roger Federer was the best player that ever lived.
"I think if Federer was born in Cape Town or Buenos Aires, he would have won. If he was Argentinian, people would have said they had the best programme in the world. Roger was born a champion, he was born and raised to become that incredible player."
France is not alone. Andy Murray's U.S. Open victory last September gave Britain a first male grand slam champion for 76 years. Australia dominated the sport in the 1960s and 1970s but has won just five titles since 1983. Andy Roddick was the last American man to win a grand slam, the U.S. Open in 2003.
Murray has won 45 of his past 49 matches against French players and faces another, Chardy, in the quarter-finals in Melbourne on Wednesday. He believes there is a French stereotype.
"They have all got a lot of flair," the Briton said. "They can normally play some drop shots, slice and are good athletes but they can make mistakes.
"Because I play solid all of the time against them, I think that is why my game has matched up pretty well against them."
Many have suggested that it is a French trait that their players are content to play well but are not driven by the desire to win. Forget disagreed.
"We've had gold medallists in the Olympics, we won the World Cup in soccer, we have a great rugby team, we have world champions in every sport, in swimming and in track and field," he said.
"Probably in 10 years down the road, we'll be speaking to each other and we'll have maybe three of the top five, one guy will win a few majors and people will try to analyse and say 'what's so special about French food?'
"We would say: 'the food is the same, the programme is the same, but we have these incredible players'.
"Although we like to complain, although we like to be on strike and although French are very different people, that's not the reason why we don't produce any grand slam winners."
In 2004, France had renewed hope that they had found a future champion when Gael Monfils won three of the four junior grand slams and was junior world number one.
But though he has reached one grand slam semi-final and been ranked as high as seventh, Monfils has been affected by injuries throughout his career and his attitude has been in question.
"At this stage, I don't think Gael has the maturity to win a grand slam," said Fabrice Santoro, who won two grand slam doubles titles.
"He has the talent and if he works hard for the next year, two years then maybe he could do something in Paris, but right now, I don't think he is ready."
Forget said Monfils had the talent to win one but whether he does or not has nothing to do with the French Federation or the fact of being French.
"He has to dig deep within himself and make that commitment. I think he's trying but he hasn't found the right answers yet.
"Roger probably does it very easily and doesn't know why. Mozart was composing operas when he was eight years old and it's not because his father taught him how to play the piano.
"He was born that way and hopefully one of the French guys will win a major some time soon." (Editing by Patrick Johnston)


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The latest blast of wintry weather dumped about a half foot of snow in the area.
Schools closed throughout Stark County Wednesday as salt-and-snow plows did their thing.
The latest blast of wintry weather dumped about a half foot of snow in the area and more was on the way, according to the National Weather Service.
The weather service website listed the chance of snow Wednesday at 60 percent falling only to a 50 percent chance Wednesday night.
Up to 3 inches could be expected during the day with "blustery" conditions and winds out of the northwest at up to 21 mph, the website said. The temperature was expected to reach 31 degrees before falling to an overnight low of 15, and then rising on Thanksgiving Day to 29 degrees.
Troopers at the Ohio Highway Patrol's Canton post did not have an unusually high number of crashes to run through. At 7:30 a.m., however, they were on Mount Pleasant Street NE, where a car had struck a pole, downing wires, a dispatcher said, adding that no one was trapped or seriously injured.
Dave Torrence, chief deputy engineer for the Stark County Engineer's Office, said that all the county's plow trucks had been on the roads since 4 a.m. Tuesday and that, at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, "Everything's going fine."
No roads were closed. While no one area of the county had been experiencing tougher conditions than any other, on Tuesday it appeared that the northeastern part of Stark County was hit harder than anywhere else.
Kirk Lombardy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland, said 5.6 inches of snow fell between 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, and that another half inch had fallen up until just before 8 a.m. Wednesday.
"We have lake-effect (snowfall) going on right now, so there's a possibility we can get a few more inches out of that today," he said about 8 a.m.
Light snow was falling at the Akron-Canton Airport at the time and the temperature was 32 degrees with winds out of the northwest at 7 mph making the wind chill feel more like 25, the weather service's website said.
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(MoneyWatch) Rents across the nation are creeping up. But in some cities they're not rising slightly so much as skyrocketing.
Although the average rent across the U.S. is $1,231 per month, in certain areas it can be triple that number. Landlords can afford to charge such daunting prices because there are so few apartments available in high-demand cities.
"We're experiencing some of the lowest national vacancy rates since the mid-80s," ApartmentList.com CEO John Kobs said.
The rental vacancy rate has been falling over the past few years. In 2009, the vacancy rate was 12.3 percent, but it fell this past year to 9.3 percent, according to the National Multi Housing Council. And it doesn't look like this trend will change anytime soon.
Buying a home is getting more expensive and more difficult. With mortgage rates and home prices rising, and with mortgage lenders still demanding high down payments and pristine credit scores to get a loan, more potential homebuyers are content to rent.
These factors are combining to push up rental prices, Kobs said. Prices are no steeper than in these 10 cities, where rents can go up to $4,000 per month.
ApartmentList.com calculated the most expensive cities for renters across the U.S. by looking at the 50 most populated cities, which all exceed 350,000 people. The apartment search service then compared the cities' median rental prices for studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units.
Of the 10 cities on the list, six are located on the West Coast, while the other four are on the opposite side of the country on the East Coast. Of the six out west, five are located in California, with three of those clustered in the northern end of the state.


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Well, this looks like the ship we're all going to bitch about.
It doesn't look as bad as I thought, but Hasbro has to milk the SW license for another 10 years so...........there will be another. I'm sure of it.
So either that guy has some seriously huge mitts, or the ship's really underscaled.
There will never be another Infiltrator besides this one.
You're not surprised, are you? Surely, (being you handle every single QNA from Hasbro) you knew that it'd small enough to fit in the $20 starfighter box...
You're right on that. Outside of the Titanium version of course!
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The Lady Tigers, under first year head coach Larry Joe Inman, returned 10 letterwinners from last year's squad and added freshman Brianna Lawrence to the roster.
TSU finished last season with an overall record of 9-20 and a 5-11 conference mark. In an Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll that was released in October, TSU was predicted to finish fifth in the East Division. Jasmin Shuler, an all-OVC preseason selection, led the team in scoring.
In CU's most recent victory over Hiwassee, four players scored in double-figures led by Jessica Pace's 18 points and 10 rebounds. TaCouya Allen also tallied 18 points followed by Josette Campbell with 13. Calamity Jane Coley posted 12 points while Samantha Harper also registered 10 rebounds.
In their first three contests, the Bulldogs have averaged 76.3 points per game behind a .455 hitting percentage. CU is shooting 26.1 percent from three-point range and 68.3 from the free-throw line. Jessica Pace (16.7), TaCouya Allen (14.0) and London Elie (12.0) are averaging double-digits in scoring for the Bulldogs.
Jessica Pace was the only Cumberland player to post double-digits with 10 points and nine rebounds.
TSU shot a scorching 50.8 percent (33-of-65) from the field, including 36.4 percent (8-of-22) from three-point range. The Lady Tigers held the Bulldogs to just 36.7 percent from the field and 25.0 percent from long distance.
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Rev. Kenneth Ross Northcutt
Rev. Ken Northcutt was called home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, at his home in Sweetwater. Services will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, at Avondale Baptist Church in Sweetwater with Rev. Terry White officiating. Graveside services will follow at 3 p.m. at Richland Springs Cemetery in Richland Springs, Texas under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home. Family visitation will be on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 from 6-7:30 p.m. at McCoy Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Wesley Barnes, Robert Bowen, T.L. Dickerson, R.D. Moore, Homer Grimes, Glen Wilson, Raymond Reves and Tim Kirby. Honorary Pallbearer is Lowell Williams. Ken is survived by his wife of 24 years, Sue; a daughter, Connie Dove of The Colony, Texas; a daughter-in-law, Sheila Dove of Fairfield, Texas; two grandsons, Brett Dove and wife Carolyn of Arlington, Texas and Brady Dove of The Woodlands, Texas; and two great-grandsons, Clark Alan Dove and Joseph Dove of Arlington with numerous other family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Joe "Shorty" and Christine Northcutt; a son, Winfred Alan Dove; a brother, Bob; and a nephew.He was a graduate of Colorado City High School, receiving a track scholarship to attend and graduate from Baylor University. Ken married Nelda Sue Wood Jan. 29, 1988, in Roscoe. He retired from Wood's Boots in 1994, surrendering to the calling as a minister. He served as Pastor to the Dorn Methodist Church for four years and was founder of New Life Bible Ministries in Colorado City. Ken became an ordained Baptist Minister and was a member of Avondale Baptist Church in Sweetwater. He had owned Ken's Shoes in Brady, Texas and other locations. He served two terms in Vietnam in the U.S. Navy and graduated from Officer Candidate School to become a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Ken loved sports, the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, NASCAR and track and field events.Memorials may be made to one's favorite charity.Online condolences may be expressed at www.mccoyfh.com.


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By DAVE LEDER
News staff writer
April 23
Only two weeks remain before the Big Sky Conference district golf tournament, and the more time the Horizon Christian Hawks spend on the course, the more excited they are about the high-stakes competition awaiting them at Wildhorse Resort on May 9-10.
Thursday was no different, as the Hawks took on the Hood River Valley High School JV team in a mixed-format match at Hood River Golf Course (best ball on the front nine; scramble on the back nine).
Sophomore No. 3 Colin Swick teamed up with junior No. 4 Jason Borton to tie for the best score of the day (89), while sophomore No. 1 Stephen Stenberg teamed up with freshman No. 6 Hannah Wessner to shoot a round of 90.
Sophomores Josh Boyden (No. 5) and David Rovianek (No. 2) paired up to shoot a combined score of 99, which helped give Horizon a victory of 278 to 293.
"If we can get two guys in the 80's and two in the 90's at district, we have a chance to finish second," said Stenberg, who shot a season-best round of 89 on April 15 in Umatilla.
"We will all need to bring our 'A' games, though, because the competition in our league is pretty good."
Stenberg believes Rovianek can match him hole-for-hole, and says that Borton and Swick should both be able to crack 100 at the district tourney.
Regardless of where Horizon's district scores end up, everyone on the team is having a blast playing for this first-year program, coached by Kevin Eakins, Pat Graham and Eric Sletmoe.
"Josh (Boyden) and I are having a pretty good battle for the fourth spot," said Borton, the eldest member of the team. "He keeps saying he's going to catch me, but it hasn't happened yet."
Horizon took to the course again on Friday at China Creek Golf Course (results NA).
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Report: Goodell Wants $50 Million, Lifetime Private Jet
There are reports that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants a new contract that will pay him nearly $50,000,000 a year. ESPN reported yesterday that Goodell also wants lifetime use of a private jet, and lifetime health insurance for his family. The NFL's compensation committee is scheduled to discuss a contract extension for Goodell today.
Last week, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reportedly told the committee he'll sue to block an extension of Goodell's contract.
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Student, 14, arraigned in murder of Mass. teacher
A 14-year-old student is facing a murder charge in Danvers, Mass., after the body of a math teacher was found in woods near the high school where she taught. (NewsBreak, USA TODAY)
For the second time this week, a math teacher has been killed by a student.
Authorities in the quiet Massachusetts town of Danvers are trying to determine why a beloved young math teacher was murdered Tuesday in the bathroom of her high school.
A judge on Wednesday ordered Philip Chism, 14, held without bail on a murder charge at an arraignment hearing in adult court, just hours after the body of Colleen Ritzer, 24, was found in woods near Danvers High School 20 miles north of Boston.
Ritzer's death came just a day after a 12-year-old armed with his parents' handgun killed Sparks, Nev., middle school math teacher Mike Landsberry and wounded two students before shooting himself.
Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said a search began for Ritzer Tuesday after police were notified that she had not returned to her Andover home from work and was not answering her cellphone.
Investigators found blood in a school bathroom and soon located her body. Blodgett said the teen, who transferred to Danvers High this year, stabbed Ritzer, then dumped her body in the woods behind the campus. Investigators said in court documents that Chism's arrest was made based on his statements and corroborating evidence at multiple scenes. They said they also recovered video surveillance.
"This is a terrible tragedy for Colleen Ritzer and for the entire Danvers community," Blodgett said.
Chism is due back in court Nov. 22 for a probable cause hearing. The youth, a leading scorer on Danvers' junior varsity soccer team, had been reported missing Tuesday after failing to return home from school, Blodgett said. He was found about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Kyle Cahill, a junior, said he knows Chism from the soccer team. He said the 14-year-old moved to Massachusetts from Tennessee before the school year. "He wasn't violent at all. He was really the opposite of aggressive," said Cahill, who called Chism a nice, quiet kid.
Blodgett said Ritzer was "a very respected, loved teacher." She often used Twitter to stay in touch with her students, last tweeting geometry homework links two days ago.
Ritzer graduated from Andover High School in 2007 and earned a math degree in 2011 from Assumption College in Worcester. She had taught for two years, and still lived at the family home with her younger brother and sister.
Chris Weimert, 17, was a student in Ritzer's geometry class last year. She was a warm, welcoming person who would stand outside her classroom and say hello to students she didn't teach, Weimert said.
"She was the nicest teacher anyone could ever have. She always had a warm smile on her face," he said.
Ritzer's Twitter profile: "Math teacher often too excited about the topics I'm teaching."
She often tweeted encouragement to her students, such as "Good luck to sophs/juniors on PSATs tomorrow :) I hope there's a proof on there...that would be so much more fun!"
She had a few hundred Twitter followers, with whom she also shared personal shreds of her life — usually punctuated with exclamation points. "Attempting to make my first apple crisp!" was a recent one; "Lots of Full House episodes on Nick tonight!!" was another.
A more serious tweet in a time of tragedy: "This world is a crazy place. Love who you love and live every day. Thoughts and prayers to those affected at the Boston Marathon."
Mary Duffy, who lives next door to the Ritzer family, told the Boston Herald she knew Colleen for almost her entire life.
"If every family had a daughter like Colleen Ritzer, it would be a wonderful world," Duffy said. "She always wanted to teach math.
"She was a quiet, pleasant girl with many friends. She was just like the ideal daughter. She is. This family is a family of America. They are the ideal family, they are friendly, they are loving, close."
Danvers police were at the school most of the night. Town officials called parents about 4:45 a.m. Wednesday, saying only that there was a police presence at the school. Classes at all seven schools in the Boston suburb were canceled, boston.com reported.
Mark Nolan, who coached Chism in a Clarksville, TN., youth soccer league, said the teen caused no problems on the field or during practice. Nolan said he was "absolutely shocked" to hear Chism had been implicated in a murder.
"I find it hard to believe. He isn't anybody I would have thought would be involved in something like that," said Nolan.
Contributing: Associated Press and Walter F. Roche Jr. of the Nashville Tennessean.


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La Grange Police Arrests
Feb. 24-Megan R. Isaacs, 22, Turners Station, was cited and released for operating on suspended/revoked operators license, failure to produce insurance card and fail of owner to maintain required insurace 1st offense
Feb. 26-Wayne L. Johnson Jr., 22, La Grange was arrested for Theft by Unlawful Taking over $500
A proposed ordinance in front of the La Grange City Council is sparking a debate over the city's business license fees.
The section in question lies with language regarding attorneys and how the license applies to them.
Critics of the proposed law, including Councilman Jason Taylor, say the changes are a precondition to practicing law by placing a fee on attorneys that do not have offices in the city and that there are multiple legal issues associated with the proposed language.
A Shelbyville man charged with recruiting for the Southside Crips gang in Oldham County has been taken back into custody and will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Thomas L. Wenz, 22, was indicted in December on charges of criminal gang recruitment, engaging in organized crime, unlawful transaction with a minor, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana.
Wenz pled not guilty to those charges on Dec. 19 and bailed out of the Oldham County Jail shortly after that court hearing.
On Feb. 18, the Oldham County Sheriff's Office was again awarded with the Kentucky Association of Chief's of Police Certificate of Accreditation. The OCSO initially received this certification in 2009 and was one of only five sheriff's offices in the state to achieve this honor.
The Kentucky Association of Chief's of Police Accreditation Program is intended to provide law enforcement agencies of the Commonwealth with an avenue for demonstrating that they meet commonly accepted professional standards for efficient and effective operations.
Grand Jury Indictments
James F. Barger, one count promoting contraband in the first degree, one count persistent felony offender in the first degree
Steven W. McCormick, promoting contraband in the first degree, one count persistent felony offender in the second degree
Nikko M. Hopson, trafficking in a controlled substance in the first degree
Ameir L. Kashan, two counts trafficking in a controlled substance in the first degree, one count persistent felony offender in the first degree
Two Oldham County High Schools were put on lockdown Thursday after Oldham County Police became aware of a situation involving a former student and current OCS student, police and school officials said.
Oldham County High School and North Oldham High School were put in seperate lockdowns Thursday morning. OCHS was put into lockdown first at 9:30 a.m., while NOHS went into lockdown at 10:30 a.m., Oldham County Schools Communications Director Tracy Harris said. Both schools were released from lockdown at 11 a.m., she said.
A coalition made up of school, criminal justice and health professionals is hosting a forum to increase awareness of heroin in Oldham and surrounding counties.
Heroin Hits Home: Our Community's Response will take place on Thursday, March 6 at 6 p.m. in the North Oldham High School Auditorium.
Presented by the Coalition for a Healthy Oldham County, the community event will feature a panel including an addiction specialist, law enforcement, District Judge Jerry Crosby and others. Court of Appeals Judge Allison Jones will moderate the panel.
Feb. 9 -- Jayme A. Snow, 23, Bedford, was served criminal summons for TBUT shoplifting u/500.
Feb. 9 -- Dusty S. Gilbert, 24, La Grange, was arrested for receiving stolen property u/500.
Feb. 10 -- Jason A. Piurkowski, 31, La Grange, was arrested for criminal trespassing 3rd degree and falsely reporting an incident.
Feb. 10 -- Sandra Saylor, 50, La Grange, was arrested for TBUT or Disp $500 or more but u/$10,000.
On Feb. 7, several residents of Oldham County again began receiving phone calls from an individual claiming to be a Lieutenant with the Oldham County Sheriff's Office Warrant Division. This person claims there is an outstanding warrant and if the person being called will transfer $4,500 onto a Green Dot Card at a local store the warrant will be recalled. These phone calls are scams.
A Louisville man charged with murder and driving under the influence as the result of a 2012 accident has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge just days before he was set to go to trial.
Nicholas W. "Nick" Snoddy pleaded guilty to manslaughter, 2nd degree, in lieu of a murder charge late Friday afternoon. He was set to go to trial on Monday, but he accepted a plea agreement from Commonwealth Attorney Courtney Baxter instead.
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|2012-03-27, 17:35
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|2012-03-29, 09:08
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I don't think Ryuukishi is an idiot who just used a random number to say "huge explosion" without knowing what he was talking about either. Clearly, when he gave us the idea of a 1 kilometer wide explosion, he wanted us to throw realism out of the window, or rather to show us that mystery has to do it as much as fantasy does.
I considered Umineko to be a "coin" with two sides, mystery and fantasy. It'd be silly to consider one side of a coin to be its real side while the other is fake, is basically what I think concerning this.
And OC really seems to fit with this, talking about 3 stories.
Coin side Mystery, coin side Fantasy, and the coin itself, or if you want what is the story of Umineko itself (which seems to be basically a meta love story).
As for the "how dunnit" and "why dunnit" relation, I mostly think like you do, except I sorta think this was Beato's game and the reason she couldn't win it easily :
There is a why dunnit and a how dunnit for both mystery and fantasy. I believe
Beatrice wanted to make a fantasy story that still requires thinking (and thus a how dunnit of mystery).
When fantasy wins, the mystery how dunnit is crushed, and thus reasoning stops, which is not what Beatrice wanted.
When mystery wins, the fantasy story is destroyed and becomes nothing but a lie, removing the tale that Beatrice wanted to write to begin with.
So basically yeah we're supposed I believe to embrace both.
OC only further convinced me I was right about this as it doesn't care about anything in the mystery outside of the how dunnit.
Furthermore, in the vast majority of cases, the mystery answers we were provided are more crazy/insane then the fantasy answers. Nearly everything that concerns Beatrice 2 falls especially into that.
|2012-03-29, 14:20
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So then, have we really been reduced to that? I hate the very idea of shrugging our collective shoulders and saying "Well, he meant parts of it to be thought of this way, and parts of it to be thought of that way, I guess." That's pretty much the last word one can have about the matter, and it ultimately satisfies neither story element. If the idea was to advance a story in which the two are reconciled, I'd say it didn't work out very well.
Of course there are mystery-fantasies and fantasy-mysteries, but that isn't quite the same thing as what's being talked about here.
|2012-03-29, 18:08
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What exactly do you want out of Umineko's exchange between Fantasy and Mystery that is different from this?
|2012-03-29, 21:36
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This normally would sound a crazy way to approach a novel, but the meta-fiction content of Umineko makes this very possible.
As for the thinking part, Beatrice wanted us to think to reach her hidden answers (that we still cant agree at all on), not the technical truth of her how dunnit. She put foward a how dunnit to force to us to start reasoning.
In the end, the murders and the red text exists pretty much for the same reason. They won't bring you the truth but without them we wouldn't even have bothered to start reasoning and trying to find the truth about Beatrice.
I dont think this results in something as confusing or messy as your post seems to suggest. The only thing that remains really hard and confusing to get is the third story.
|2012-03-30, 08:19
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We're always lead to believe they're a huge mountain but actually they should be a mountain of around 91 cm × 90 cm × 85 cm. Which is a huge amount of gold but not such a huge mountain.
The last, to be honest, seems to be implied also by that forgery that had Battler as culprit merely because people wanted him to be the culprit... and by an ending in Ougon Musou Kyoku in which Battler is again the culprit because Beato said so (or so I've been said) and it can have a sense if we've to consider that this, for Beato was all a game and therefore a piece might have taken the 'culprit' card and be forced to act as culprit.
Through yes, it destroy the mystery or better it destroy the importance of the mystery.
The 'why dunnit' isn't anymore 'why the culprit did it' but 'why Beato wrote character X doing this and that' making more or less meaningless trying to understand the pieces' actions and ask us to understand Beato's motivations.
Considering in Ep 5 Battler wanted to understand why Beato make this or that move it can fit even more... though I'll honestly admit that if that's the case I'm sorry there's not a motive for the mistery side of the story.
|2012-03-30, 09:42
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I think the games are... let's say "overexaggerations that became real".
For example George said that he would eliminate everyone, who would stand before his and Shanon's love (see Alliance o.t.g.W.), but would not really ever do that.
Or maybe Beatrice would kill 6 people, that would be later revived by her magic again and everyone having a happy end. While in the real world they were only playing dead, in the games they really die, because "magic" in another sense becomes true. But this magic is not the one, where you can create fireballs or lightning from your hands, but instead the "human tricks" that she tries to make others believe it's really magic. So if we look at her goal of making others believe in magic, then wouldn't it make more sense to bring the to play dead and then say she "revived them again"? Isn't that more effective than really killing them and putting them in some closed rooms? There are many solutions to closed rooms, but i doubt you could find any explanation for someone "rising from the dead" aside from them having played dead or that "a mircale occured". So what I want to say is, that a big part of the content is metaphorical and has content, that for some people may be more worth, than just finding the murder, his methods and his reasons for murder.
Also if you remember, Battler called the gameboard a "love letter" from Beato to him. But that cannot be the mystery, because that is something that the whole world got to know about. So there must be a "hidden element" in it that was adressed only to him. I think that is the difference between Battler's and Will's reasoning. While Will found the motive of the "killer" on the gameboard, Battler went further and found the motive of the author.
|2012-03-30, 10:51
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Considering the idea that piece Beato is aware of being a fictional character...
I think thats right. That's why Shannon and Kanon consider themselves furniture. They are only roles for a story, fictional character. They do not have any freedom, nor any rights. They clearly do not have any future and must serve and be grateful until they are thrown away.
This fits very well with fictional characters aware of being so.
Beatrice is implied constantly to be partially a furniture as well.
Furthermore, I think the golden land and the meta-world are basically the same thing. Rather the golden land lies in accepting it.
I think its a sort of ultimate breaking the fourth wall world where there isnt any more distinction between fictional and real. I guess, its sorta like some anime that has the entire cast (including all the dead characters) going in vacation after the story is over, or other such thing (actually I just remembered arc 8 does something ridiculously similar to that).
In Uminekos case its more pertinent however as there are various levels of story.
You know like that story about a couple that became animals during the day/night and thus couldnt ever be together? Think about Battler being stuck in the level of mystery and beatrice on the level of Fantasy, seperate world stories, and they can only meet in that upper meta-world where such distinctions doesnt matter and I think it results in an intersting love story.
Edit: Also I think its possible that we got it all wrong. The mystery scenes are as figurative as fantasy scenes.
Beato and Battler not being together, to use my example, is a Meta-truth, and is absolute.
On the mystery side, to keep that relation, a story needs to exist to explain why Yasu and Battler arent together.
The mystery story, however, would be a fiction that represents that above truth.
It only makes sense, because Umineko is a fiction, and writers puts into their fictions stories based on things they lived, not the other way around.
So its like Ryuukishi translated as Beatrice translated as Yasu.
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|2012-03-30, 11:16
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I think that your interpretation of the idea is wandering far afield. It's fine to speculate on it, but what specifically backs it up? "I can't explain it, therefore there was probably a meta-motive" is insufficient; it should be possible to demonstrate that the only motive which can function is a meta-motive. I'm thoroughly unconvinced that such a thing is true for any character, no matter how they're portrayed.
That aside, the mere fact a character is fictional and knows it doesn't actually mean they have to be motivated by meta-fictional elements.
|2012-03-30, 12:03
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Well from my pov its a matter of theme and emphasis of the story.
Even arc 7 that dealt with Yasu's motives had little to do with actual murder.
So it's more I cannot reach a decisive conclusion concerning the pieces' motives and the story itself does not seem to care much about such a thing, and especially Battler who figured things out.
Arc 5 and 6 in particular seems to put a huge emphasis on the murder part not being the motives we're seeking. I mean, did you ever get the feeling that arc 6 was related in any ways to understanding why did piece-Erika murder the ones she murdered or why did everyone fake their death?
I think the problem overall here is more related to thinking that as a meta-fiction, Umineko basically says the obvious in most cases.
But I think that obvious sorta falls into the same category as "people die when you kill them" (Fate) meaning that something being obvious can still be worth to seriously consider and not ridiculised, even tho it's easy and tempting sometimes to do so.
What I do not get tho is why you dislike this considering your theory about the meta-world where Battler was an experiment created by Featherine and what else.
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|2012-03-30, 14:05
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Well, we already compared Umineko to a metaphor more than once.
So we could see it like that. The incident really happened and Yasu and Battler survived becoming Ikuko and Toya. Ikuko began writing forgeries in which ShKannon was the culprit in hope Toya (who was helping her) would guess why she was doing it. Somehow Toya's brain translated it into a meta battle between his Battler self and Beato while the various stories became 'fragments'.
In short the mystery at which Battler/Toya is challenged isn't the murdering one but figuring out the writer's motivations so the motive EP 7 offered (playing a murder game with Battler) would be the motive behind Yasu the writer and Battler is supposed to guess why she's applying to PieceYasu as it's obviously a weak motive to make a mass murder.
And... hum... wasn't it said/implied that in Our Confession the culprit has a meta motive?
Also... has someone even thought the numbers we're given in EP 7 2,578,917/2,578,916 might be some sort of code message/have a meaning?
I mean, Umineko is full of number messages (Toya's name and penname, the same is applied to Ikuko, there are numbers involved in the epitaph riddle and there's a number in Ep 3) so is it possible that those numbers in Japanese might be read in a way that is meaningful?
|2012-03-30, 14:07
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Feel free to correct me if I am wrong but wasn't that a counter of Eva-Beatrice in EP3? That Eva-Beatrice plunged Kirie's motive into fantasy by saying that she as a witch controlled her since Kirie's motive for leaving was not to gather food.
That Battler needed to find a proof and make the correct deduction about Kirie's motive otherwise Eva-Beatrice as part of the witch side could still win due to upholding a part of the witch's illusion. The detective needs to also work out motive with clues, hints and analysis of character. In fact Will the detective has emphasized that point more than anyone.
Basically what you are saying that Nanjo's motive is pure fantasy. No different than if he were to be controlled by a witch.
I don't know, it just feels odd to base the motive on fantasy.
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It could have been a motive we would have accepted hadn't we believed they were smarter than that.
In the same way someone who doesn't know Nanjo can accept he would lie over the people being dead or not, if offered money or that Shannon would kill everyone to get Battler's attention.
It's Battler who's supposed to figure out this is not what the REAL Shannon would do and wonder why she was given such a OOC motive.
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That's right. I tried to make the point plently of times already, that the character's behavior differ a lot between WTC3 and WTC4.
And even the "protagonist" of the story, Battler, did so.
Erika stated in EP6, that the witches game toughed Battler up, however she realized that she was talking to PieceBattler then, who did NOT go through the witches' games. In other words, even the PieceBattler from the first Episodes is different from the latter Episodes.
Same for Beato and Kinzo. In WTC3 they were the really, really "bad guys" and then both suddenly made a "Heel Face Turn".
And this is a point that is not only reduced to "reliable scenes vs fantasy scenes". Even when comparing the scenes with the detective present, there are changes in behaviour between the Episodes.
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Motive is large part of that, in fact the heart of all the games. The motive for the murders is within the first four EP like Will said IIRC.
Also why is it is OOC for Shannon keep in mind that the person who we know as Shannon shares a heart and body with Kanon and Beatrice.
Given that they serve Beatrice and always seem to get killed when confronting her that she is the personality in control as far as the games. As shown that Beatrice can kill and resurrect them like she did in EP3. Interestingly enough on the Meta level, it was also shown that Meta Beatrice is extremely good at acting to fool others like she did to Meta Battler.
What is OOC for Shannon like murder is possible for Beatrice. While other actions like a lover suicide is in character for Shannon for example in EP2.
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I think it's relevant to the fantasy/meta motive discussion, so here's the end of Our Confessions (translated/summerized by LyricalAura):
There are a couple things I would like to mention about it, though. First: It was Eva-Beatrice, not Beatrice, who made motive a game issue. Beatrice had ample opportunities to post similar challenges to Battler, but never did. Second: I'm not saying that all motive is based on fantasy, just Yasu's motive for murder (and perhaps that of her accomplices in helping her). Kyrie's case in EP3 would likely be different.
To basically restate what jjblue1 has just recently suggested, you could say that Beatrice is ignoring the murder motive on purpose, specifically so that Battler could realize that there actually isn't one. In other words, the fact that Battler is directed to think about motive, and that Will places so much attention to motive is precisely because the reader is supposed to realize that the fictions lack a satisfying motive and that there is no "better" answer than "Nanjo was controlled by a witch". After all, Yasu/Hachijou unilaterally wrote Nanjo that way without the real Nanjo having any kind of say in the matter. And let's also not forget he's called a "piece": Pieces in games don't control themselves; they are controlled by the people playing the game.
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If Bern forced Rudolf and Kirye to act that way for a motive that's not realistic enough why shouldn't Beato do the same with Shannon, giving her a motive that, simply put, is weak?
I'm not saying he did the good thing at lying previously but I can understand his actions... while if he were to aid the culprit... well... the gravity of his lie changes radically...
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Motive was never an issue because Battler was having enough trouble with the Whodunnit and Howdunnit. Even with when the issue of Whydunnit came up, Beatrice helped him through it.
Like I said, saying that motive is fantasy within the very story it is trying to tell is more like what the witch side would do.
The whole games that Beatrice made was made to understand the heart of Beatrice. Understanding the heart of Beatrice allows one to understand the mysteries of all of the games. That is why Battler kept antagonizing over Beatrice's mindset throughout EP5 on why characters acted as they did.
Nanjo is a piece but piece of the puzzle to solve Beatrice's puzzle that she presented to Battler. Or better said that the author presents to the readers.
The games are portrayed as both mysteries and fantasy that is meant to direct one towards an overall truth. If the first four games have the same characters and same game master, why should the motives be made up as well?
If the motive is weak then perhaps it is because you lack love
Possible it was out of loyalty for Kinzo or Nanjo with enough pressure has no problems to aid such actions.
Basically if someone were to put enough pressure on Nanjo, why wouldn't he aid a serial murderer?
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I'm still working through the Weaverthorpe microfilm. I've already renewed it once and still haven't made it all the way through for the first time! The film does not have its own index, but the FamilySeach entries online have helped me find some of the entries. Otherwise, I'm basically reading the entire film page by page. I've certainly seen films with poorer quality images, but some of this film is very hard going. So, I'm expecting to renew the film again next week; and, that will keep it at my local FHC indefinitely.
There are several GRICE entries and I am extracting each one. I've started to make family group sheets for them all in an attempt to confidently sort out all the Grice's.
The baptism of Rachel Grice
Online, unsourced notes show her birth and/or baptism on 2 June 1816 in Weaverthorpe or West Lutton. With this film, I now have my own real source for Rachel for a specific event with a specific location!
This image is fairly easy to see on the microfilm reader; my photo here does not do it justice. Transcription of the entry on a page of baptisms for the Weaverthorpe parish, Yorkshire, in 1816:
June 2 / Rachel Daughter of / John & Sally / Grice / (abode) West Lutton / grocer / (performed by) Abm Ashworth
Perhaps the most significant information here is that specifying an occupation for her father John. There are clearly two John Grice's in town in this time period and this entry will certainly help correctly determine Rachel's line.
The Marriage of Rachel Grice and Joseph Ethell
Again, all I had here were unsourced notes from other genealogists. But, now I have this beauty:I've read about 60 years' worth of Weaverthorpe BMD entries now, and this is the only ETHELL in the lot! Joseph may have been "of this Parish" at this time, but he was not part of any extended family raised here! This entry is unusual in Weaverthorpe in that, where only one of the couple signs their own signature, it is usually the groom. I'm assuming the witness, Charles Grice, is Rachel's older brother, but that could change as I proceed with all the other Grice's!
- I think I will still need to look at the original parish records, rather than relying only on these Bishop's Transcripts. The original entries could well have additional or even different information.
- I'm feeling more confident about the potential for keeping the different Grice families straight. I think I am going to be able to present a fairly solid line of evidence to confidently identify Rachel's parents and at least her paternal grandparents.
- I'm still proud that I've stayed focused on Weaverthorpe for several weeks now. But, I must admit, even with all this success, I am getting bored and am eager to change to researching and writing about something else!
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