1/23/07 Nightmare...talk about being behind!

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1/23/07 Nightmare...talk about being behind!

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Running through the basics yields the following grid:

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357  1   8  | 57  9   67   | 4      2    3567
257  9   6  | 4   3   12   | 157    17   8
2357 57  4  | 18  567 128  | 13567  167  9
------------+--------------+-----------------
9    568 2  | 3   157  4   | 15678  1678 567
1    56  3  | 578 2    78  | 567    9    4  
45   458 7  | 6   15   9   | 1258   3    25
------------+--------------+-----------------
4678 3   19 | 2   467  167 | 6789   5    67
4678 2   5  | 79  467  3   | 6789   4678 1  
467  47  19 | 19  8    5   | 23     467  23


Some 3D coloring of the 3’s cluster, plus the locked 7’s and 4’s in c2, leads to AIC1:
(3)r1c1 = (3)r1c9 – (3=2)r9c9 – (2=5)r6c9 – (5=4)r6c1 – (4)r6c2 = (4-7)r9c2 = (7)r3c2 => r1c1 <> 7.
AIC1 yields a second elimination by replacing the first node with (3)r3c7 to form AIC2:
(3)r3c7 = (3)r1c9 – (3=2)r9c9 – (2=5)r6c9 – (5=4)r6c1 – (4)r6c2 = (4-7)r9c2 = (7)r3c2 => r3c7 <> 7.
And the new (35)r1c1 bi-value then allows for AIC3:
(5)r3c5 = (5)r1c4 – (5=3)r1c1 – (3)r1c9 = (3)r3c7 => r3c7 <> 5.

QUESTION 1: Is it possible to combine the first two AIC's using notation something like:
(3)r1c1|r3c7 = (3)r1c9 – (3=2)r9c9 – (2=5)r6c9 – (5=4)r6c1 – (4)r6c2 = (4-7)r9c2 = (7)r3c2 => r1c1|r3c7 <> 7?
QUESTION 2: Would the notation, (3)r1c9|r3c1, be OK to designate alternate paths available at the fourth node in AIC3?
QUESTION 3: Any suggestions for alternative techniques to get these same three eliminations (e.g., ALS’s, Wings, etc.)?

The resulting grid now appears as:

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35   1   8  | 57  9    67  | 4      2    3567
257  9   6  | 4   3    12  | 157    17   8
2357 57  4  | 18  567  128 | 136    167  9
------------+--------------+-----------------
9    568 2  | 3   157  4   | 15678  1678 567
1    56  3  | 578 2    78  | 567    9    4  
45   458 7  | 6   15   9   | 1258   3    25
------------+--------------+-----------------
4678 3   19 | 2   467  167 | 6789   5    67
4678 2   5  | 79  467  3   | 6789   4678 1  
467  47  19 | 19  8    5   | 23     467  23


And I hit a brick wall at this point.
QUESTION 4: Can anyone provide a hint or two to manually advance from here?
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Here is a (somewhat) cryptic hint:

Too bad George Clooney left ER in season 5. :(

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George Clooney

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QUESTION 5: Is it possible that the site owner is having just a little too much fun with all of this? :)

Edit: And BTW...thanks! If it'd been a Turbot SNAKE it would've bit me! :oops:
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