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Gibbs's Rules are an extensive series of guidelines that NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs lives by and teaches to the people he works closely with.
It was revealed in the last few minutes of the Season 6 episode, Heartland (episode) that Gibbs's rules originated from his first wife, Shannon Gibbs, where she told him at their first meeting that "Everyone needs a code they can live by". The only rule of Shannon's personal code that is quoted is either her first or third: "Never date a lumberjack."
Years later, after their wedding, Gibbs began writing his rules down, keeping them in a small tin inside his home which was shown in the Season 7 finale episode, Rule Fifty-One (episode). Though he uses it often we almost never see the tin.
The knowledge of the rules's origins is left as a mystery to the people that Gibbs works with, though some of them do make concentrated efforts to find out. Anthony DiNozzo makes several attempts to find out who taught Gibbs the rules, though he has not yet met with any success.
On one occasion, during the Season 1 episode, Missing (episode) DiNozzo quoted Rule Nine as a rule that "they teach you in the Marine Corps", but the Marine in question was unaware of what he was referring to.
On another occasion, during Heartland (episode), Tony asked Jackson Gibbs if he had taught the rules to his son, but the older man denied any involvement.
On the other hand, during the Season 2 episode, Forced Entry (episode) when Rule Twenty-Three was once referred to during a case, a nearby MP quoted the rule correctly.
At the beginning of her tenure with NCIS, during the Season 3 episode, Switch (episode) Gibbs informed Ziva David that there were approximately fifty rules that were his job to teach her.
Some years later, Gibbs added the "51" Rule to the tin he kept the rules in while according to Tony, seven of the rules directly concern lawyers, and that the eighth rule was inspired by a lawyer as revealed during the Season 6 episode, Collateral Damage (episode). Rule forty and above are not rules necessary for everyday life, they are for emergencies.
The Rules
Rule 1: "Never let suspects stay together". - revealed in the Season 1 premiere episode, Yankee White (episode).
Rule 1: "Never screw over your partner". - revealed in the Season 4 episode, Blowback (episode). McGee also stated this rule to Ned Dorneget in Need to Know (episode). McGee also mentioned to Abigail Borin in Ships in the Night (episode) that rule number one has been taken twice, showing that he knows that there are two number one rules.
Rule 2: "Always wear gloves at a crime scene". - revealed in "Yankee White".
Rule 3: "Don't believe what you're told. Double check".- again revealed in "Yankee White".
Rule 3: "Never be unreachable", - revealed in the Season 3 episode, Deception (episode) although Gibbs has been known to be intentionally unreachable but normally when going undercover on a whim to maintain cover. The rule was shown in Rule Fifty-One (episode) in the background when Gibbs opens the box.
Rule 4: "The best way to keep a secret? Keep it to yourself. Second best? Tell one other person - if you must. There is no third best." - revealed in the Season 4 episode, Blowback (episode)
Rule 5: "You don't waste good." - revealed in the Season 8 episode, Baltimore (episode).
Rule 6: "Never say you're sorry. It's a sign of weakness." - This rule has been mentioned throughout the series, but it wasn't given a specific number until Flesh and Blood (episode). The rule is also a direct reference to John Wayne's catch phrase in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, Director). Wayne said: "Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness." to subordinates in a military situation. DiNozzo notes the connection in Hiatus Part 1 (episode). Mark Harmon's career has paralleled John Wayne's. They both were quarterback of their southern California college football team, both went into acting. (Harmon's father, Tom Harmon, was a Heisman Trophy winner and actor & announcer as well.) Note: This is continuously told to Tony, Ziva and Tim through a smack to the back of their heads.
Rule 7: "Always be specific when you lie." - revealed in the Season 1 finale episode, Reveille (episode).
Rule 8: "Never take anything for granted." - revealed in the Season 3 episode, Probie (episode) although Gibbs also quotes it as being "Never assume" during the Season 9 episode, Rekindled (episode).
Rule 9: "Never go anywhere without a knife." - revealed in the Season 1 episode, One Shot, One Kill (episode) although it's sometimes quoted as "Never leave home without a knife" or "Always carry a knife."
Rule 10: "Never get personally involved in a case." - revealed in the Season 7 episode, Obsession (episode) and again referenced by the new SECNAV Clayton Jarvis in the Season 9 premiere episode, Nature of the Beast (episode) as the number one rule in Washington politics. It was used again in She (episode) and Gibbs burned the piece of paper he had written it on at the end of the episode.
Rule 11: "When the job is done, walk away." - revealed in the Season 6 episode, Semper Fidelis (episode).
Rule 12: "Never date a co-worker." - revealed in the Season 1 episode, Enigma (episode).
Rule 13: "Never, ever involve lawyers." - revealed in "Collateral Damage". Rule 51 is written on the back of the card containing Rule 13 in "Rule Fifty-One".
Rule 14: "Bend the line, don't break it." - revealed in Anonymous was a Woman (episode).
Rule 15: "Always work as a team." - revealed in Leap of Faith (episode).
Rule 16: "If someone thinks they have the upper hand, break it." - revealed in the Season 8 finale episode, Pyramid (episode).
Rule 17: "Never, ever interrupt Gibbs during an interrogation." - revealed in the Season 14 episode, Privileged Information (episode).
Rule 18: "It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission." - revealed in Silver War (episode).
Rule 20: "Always look under." - revealed in The Artful Dodger (episode)
Rule 22: "Never ever bother Gibbs in interrogation." - revealed in Smoked (episode).
Rule 23: "Never mess with a Marine's coffee... if you want to live."- revealed during "Forced Entry".
Rule 27: "There are two ways to follow someone. First way, they never notice you. Second way, they only notice you." - Jack-Knife (episode) and "Rule Fifty-One".
Rule 28: "When you need help, ask." - revealed during Blood Brothers (episode).
Rule 35: "Always watch the watchers." - revealed in "Baltimore".
Rule 36: "If you feel like you are being played, you probably are" - revealed in Nature of the Beast (episode).
Rule 38: "Your case, your lead." - revealed in Bounce (episode) placing Tony as temporarily in charge of the team, and also in Phoenix (episode) with Ducky as leader.
Rule 39: "There is no such thing as coincidence." - revealed in Obsession (episode) although DiNozzo states that Rule 39A is "There is no such thing as a small world" during Canary (episode).
Rule 40: "If it seems like someone is out to get you, they are." - revealed in Borderland (episode).
Rule 42: "Never accept an apology from someone who just sucker punched you." - revealed in Psych Out (episode).
Rule 44: "First things first, hide the women and children." - This rule number was mentioned in Patriot Down (episode) but was not stated until Rule Fifty-One (episode).
Rule 45: "Clean up the mess that you make." - revealed in "Rule Fifty-One" although it's also stated as "Never leave behind loose ends" in Hiatus Part 2 (episode).
Rule 51: "Sometimes you're wrong." - Created by Gibbs in "Rule Fifty-One" by writing it on the back of the card containing Rule 13. It is unknown if his coworkers are aware of this rule. Gibbs also refers to this rule in Keep Your Enemies Closer (episode) just before talking with Leon Vance.
Rule 62: "Always give people space when they get off an elevator." -- revealed in Double Back (episode)
Rule 69: "Never trust a woman who doesn't trust her man." - revealed in Devil's Triangle (episode).
Rule 73: "Never meet your heroes." - Revealed in A Thousand Words (episode)
Rule 99: "Never tell Gibbs he's been audited." - Revealed in Once Upon a Tim (episode) (although Nicholas Torres claims it wasn't an actual rule).
Unnumbered Rules
- "Never date a woman that eats more than you do." - as said by Tony in Singled Out (episode).
- In my country, on my team, working my cases, my people don't bypass the chain of command"- revealed by Gibbs during a talk with Ziva in Switch (episode).
- The Unspoken Rule-as revealed by Franks: You do what you have to do for family - revealed in Spider and the Fly (episode).
- Don't work the system when you can work the people -revealed in Hung Out to Dry (episode).
- Don't stop checking and rechecking evidence until you are satisfied.
- If you want to find something, you follow it. (Said by Gibbs to Mike Franks in Deliverance (episode) with Gibbs adding that he learned that one from Mike).
- Besides Rule 13, Gibbs has 6 other rules involving lawyers, but, according to DiNozzo, "You only need to know number 13; it's the umbrella one."
- Never second guess yourself in a relationship and life.
Other Rules
- Abigail Borin, Gibbs' counterpart at CGIS, also has a set of rules. The only one currently known is her Rule #1: Never make excuses.
- McGee has formed his own set of rules. Only 2 are known:
- Rule #1: Never lie to Gibbs.
- Rule #70: Keep digging till you hit bottom. The San Dominick (episode)
- When DiNozzo was in charge, he made a set of rules.
- Rule #1: Don't sit on the sidelines while your people are in trouble.
- Rule #3: Never underestimate your opponent- revealed in Hiatus Part 2 (episode).
- Abby also has her own rules.
- Rule #1: Do not lie to Abby - revealed during Toxic (episode).
- Rule #9: Always keep a spare - revealed during Jeopardy (episode).
- Jimmy Palmer once had a rule.
- Jimmy's Rule #1: Pipettes can never be too clean. (revealed in Restless (episode))
Although Gibbs has his list of rules to live by, he does not always adhere to them. One example is Rule #3. When Gibbs does not wish to be reached, he has been known to leave his cell phone behind. Except that many believe that to be one of Frank's rules since there are two Rule #3's. The other being 'Don't believe what you're told. Double check,' which sounds more like Gibbs. Also, on the anniversary of his last marriage, he unplugged his home phone and dropped his cell phone in paint thinner after his ex-wife began harassing him with phone calls. Gibbs also admits that rule number 10 is the one that he has had the most "trouble with" in "Obsession".
Gibbs broke Rule #1 (Never let suspects stay together) in "Ships in the Night" in order to get a confession. This also occurred in Caught on Tape (episode) but the suspects turned out to be innocent. Additionally, Gibbs broke the rule in A Man Walks into a Bar (episode) but the suspects were only guilty of covering up suicide, not murder.
Gibbs broke rule #13 (Never involve a lawyer) in Mother's Day (episode) Gibbs's ex mother in law becomes a suspect in a murder of a Navy officer. Gibbs contact Allison Hart, a lawyer, to represent her.
Gibbs also broke Rule #12 with former NCIS Director and partner in Europe, Jenny Shepard. Jenny was Gibbs' probie in their Europe missions and became romantically involved, which was ended by Jenny so she could lead her own team in Madrid. Although, since the relationship ended badly, some people suspect that this rule was created because of this relationship.
Another exception that Gibbs sometimes makes concerns Rule #6. Though Gibbs constantly tells people around him to never apologize, that it is a sign of weakness, he himself has apologized on at least seven occasions:
- To Caitlin Todd for being late to her funeral in Kill Ari Part 2 (episode).
- To Donald Mallard following his return from Mexico in Smoked (episode).
- To Joann Fielding for not being able to protect Shannon Gibbs and Kelly Gibbs in "Mother's Day".
- To Abigail Sciuto for frightening her and not being able to tell her what she wants to hear in "Rule Fifty-One".
- To the victim's lover for her loss, although he originally believes that she was being selfish in "A Man Walks Into a Bar".
- To Timothy McGee for not being with him when he was accused of shooting a cop in "Probie".
- To "The General" (Captain Wescott) in Shell Shock Part 2 (episode) for making him face a former serviceman and teammate, in which the encounter went poorly. Gibbs said, "That was my bad," for making Westcott agree to the meeting.
- To Mike Franks in Hiatus Part 2 (episode).
Though not shown, in "Semper Fidelis" ICE Agent Julia Foster-Yates claims that Gibbs and Fornell apologized to her for accusing her of murdering a coworker. McGee is shocked at the idea that either of them would apologize.
Gibbs also almost never accepts an apology from someone, preferring to simply offer correction to whomever made an error in an attempt to teach a lesson. One exception to this aspect of the rule was when McGee apologized concerning the situation with his sister, Sarah McGee in Twisted Sister (episode). Gibbs has also accepted some apologies because they are covered by rule #18: "It's better to seek forgiveness, than ask permission."
Also an apology isn't a sign of weakness if it's between friends, as Gibbs tells Dr. Mallard in "Smoked".
Although not strictly an exception, Gibbs did add a sort of corollary to Rule 39 concerning coincidences. In Head Case (episode) when Tony says, "We don't believe in coincidences around here," Gibbs added, "However, we do believe in bad luck."
In the same episode that Rule 17 was revealed, it was also made clear that an exception to the rule against interrupting Gibbs during an interrogation is if the information anyone in the NCIS Major Case Response Team uncovered was important and relevant enough to the case at hand that it was worth an interruption. Similarly, in Pay to Play (episode), it was revealed that while directly interrupting an interrogation was not allowed unless whatever information was uncovered was important enough to the case to make it necessary, sending a text to the person with Gibbs and bring him or her out if they uncovered anything in the case is tolerated.
Rule 10 was eventually retired in She (episode).
Throughout the series, there have been two rules referenced as the first and third of Gibbs' rules. For some time, it was believed that the duplications were either continuity errors or that the list of rules was meant to be malleable. Eventually, however, Executive Producer Shane Brennan revealed that the duplication was actually intentional:
"Gibbs lives his life by a set of rules that took root from the first day he met Shannon. Over time, Gibbs added to the rules. When he joined NCIS, Mike Franks told him he didn't need dozens of different rules to be an agent... just three 'golden rules.' And this is why we have double ups on rules #1 and #3. Three of them are Gibbs' rules; three of them are Mike Franks' rules. We are still to reveal the double-up on rule #2. And it's up to the fans to guess which of the rules were Mike Franks' three golden rules and which were Gibbs'." (Shane Brennan's explanation of the duplication of Rules #1 and #3.) In spite of this, however, Franks seems to know Gibbs' rules as well as anyone, as evidenced in the episode "Patriot Down" when Gibbs passed the message "Rule #44" (First things first: hide the women and children) to him through Camilla.
The 40s
While most of the rules are for everyday use, Gibbs' rules 40-49 are considered emergency rules, to be invoked only in the most dire of circumstances. ("Rule Fifty-One") When Gibbs told Abby that rule 40 was in play, and Abby told Tony, he took it to mean that "something unspeakably bad is going down."


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Beginners' Guide/Post-Installation
- 1 Post-Installation
- 1.1 Update
- 1.1.1 Configure the network (if necessary)
- 1.1.2 Update, Sync, and Upgrade the system with pacman
- 1.1.3 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- 1.1.4 Get familiar with pacman
- 1.1.5 Update the System
- 1.2 Adding a User
- 1.1 Update
- 2 Extras
- 2.1 Sudo
- 2.2 Sound
- 2.3 Graphical User Interface
- 2.3.1 Install X
- 2.3.2 Install video driver
- 2.3.3 Install input drivers
- 2.3.4 Configure X (Optional)
- 2.3.5 Testing X
- 2.3.6 Install Fonts
- 2.3.7 Choose and install a graphical interface
- 2.3.8 Methods for starting your Graphical Environment
- 2.4 General Troubleshooting
Congratulations, and welcome to your new Arch Linux base system!
This section will cover various must-do procedures after installation such as updating your new system and adding a regular, non-root user.
Your new Arch Linux base system is now a functional GNU/Linux environment ready for customization. From here, you may build this elegant set of tools into whatever you wish or require for your purposes.
Login with the root account. We will configure pacman and update the system as root.
Configure the network (if necessary)
If you properly configured your system, you should have a working network. Try to
ping example.com to verify:
If you have successfully established a network connection, continue with Update, Sync, and Upgrade the system with pacman.
If, after trying to ping www.google.com, an "unknown host" error is received, you may conclude that your network is not properly configured. You may choose to double-check the following files for integrity and proper settings:
Template:Filename - Specifically, check your HOSTNAME and NETWORKING section for typos and errors.
Template:Filename - Double-check for format, typos, and errors.
Template:Filename - If you are using a static IP. If you are using DHCP, this file will be dynamically created and destroyed by default.
Wired LAN
Check your Ethernet with Template:Cli All interfaces will be listed. You should see an entry for eth0, or perhaps eth1. These examples will use eth0.
Static IP
If required, you can set a new static IP with:
and the default gateway with
Verify that Template:Filename contains your DNS server and add it if it is missing.
Check your network again with
ping -c 3 www.google.com. If everything is working now, adjust Template:Filename as described above for static IP.
If you have a DHCP server/router in your network try: Template:Cli If this is working, adjust Template:Filename as described above, for dynamic IP.
Wireless LAN
Please see Wireless Quickstart For the Live Environment for details on connecting to a wireless network. Although you are no longer running off the installation media, the commands are the same as long as you installed all related wireless packages during package selection. Remember, your wireless device may need firmware in order to operate. For troubleshooting, check the detailed Wireless Setup page.
Proxy Server
If you are behind a proxy server, edit Template:Filename and set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in it.
Analog Modem, ISDN, and DSL (PPPoE)
See Internet Access for detailed instructions.
Update, Sync, and Upgrade the system with pacman
Now we will update the system using pacman. Pacman is the package manager of Arch Linux. It manages your entire package system and handles installation, removal, package downgrade (through cache), custom compiled package handling, automatic dependency resolution, remote and local searches and much more. Pacman will now be used to download software packages from remote repositories and install them onto your system.
pacman will attempt to read Template:Filename each time it is invoked. This configuration file is divided into sections, or repositories. Each section defines a package repository that pacman can use when searching for packages. The exception to this is the options section, which defines global options.
# nano /etc/pacman.conf
Repositories are described below; enable all desired repositories by removing the # in front of the 'Include =' and '[repository]' lines.
Package Repositories
A software repository is a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer. Arch Linux package maintainers (developers and Trusted Users) maintain a number of official repositories containing software packages for essential and popular software, readily accessible via pacman. This article outlines those officially-supported repositories. See Official Repositories for more information including details about the purpose of each repository.
Most people will want to use [core], [extra] and [community]. If you want to run 32-bit applications on Arch x86_64, enable the [multilib] repository by adding the lines below to /etc/pacman.conf:
[multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
The AUR also contains the unsupported branch, which cannot be accessed directly by pacman*. AUR [unsupported] does not contain binary packages. Rather, it provides more than twenty-eight thousand PKGBUILD scripts for building packages from source, that may be unavailable through the other repos. When an AUR unsupported package acquires enough popular votes, it may be moved to the AUR [community] binary repo, if a TU is willing to adopt and maintain it there.
- TU maintained
- All PKGBUILD bash build scripts
- Not pacman accessible by default
* pacman wrappers (AUR Helpers) can help you seamlessly access AUR.
Defines pacman repository mirrors and priorities.
Open Template:Filename in an editor and uncomment (remove the '#' in front) a server close to you. Then issue a complete package refresh:
# pacman -Syy
Passing two --refresh or -y flags forces pacman to refresh all package lists even if they are considered to be up to date. Issuing pacman -Syy whenever a mirror is changed, is good practice and will avoid possible headaches.
Mirrorcheck for up-to-date packages
rankmirrors does not take into account how up-to-date a mirror's package list is, it is important to note that one or more of the mirrors it selects as fastest may still be out-of-date. ArchLinux MirrorStatus reports various aspects about the mirrors such as network problems with mirrors, data collection problems, the last time mirrors have been synced, etc. One may wish to manually inspect Template:Filename, ensuring that the file contains only up-to-date mirrors if having the latest package versions is a priority.
Alternatively, the Mirrorlist Generator can automatically rank mirrors close to your location by how up-to-date they are.
Bash script to update your mirrorlist with the most up-to-date mirrors
If you are in the United States, you can use the following shell script to update your mirrors based on the above rankings:
NOTE: On my system, this script backs up the original mirrorlist, then replaces it with an XML file - not a mirrorlist.
#!/bin/bash # Define tmpfile tmpfile=/tmp/mirrorlisttmp # Determine architecture type archtype=$(uname -m) # Get latest mirror list and save to tmpfile wget -O $tmpfile "http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=United+States&protocol=ftp&protocol= \ http&ip_version=4&use_mirror_status=on" >/dev/null 2>&1 # Wrangle txt in saved file sed -i -e "s/^#Server/Server/g" -e "s/\$arch/"$archtype"/g" $tmpfile # Backup and replace current mirrorlist file if [[ ! -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.orig ]]; then mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.orig && echo "Successfully backed up original mirrorlist!" cp $tmpfile /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && echo "Successfully applied new mirrorlist!" else mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak && echo "Successfully backed up current mirrorlist!" cp $tmpfile /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && echo "Successfully applied new mirrorlist!" fi exit
NOTE: You will need to copy the text above, place it into a file (call it updatemirrors.sh), run chmod +x on the file and then run it with sudo/root privileges.
Get familiar with pacman
pacman is the Arch user's best friend. It is highly recommended to study and learn how to use the pacman(8) tool. Try:
$ man pacman
For more information, have a look at the pacman wiki entry at your own leisure, or check out the pacman rosetta entry for a comparison to other popular package managers.
Update the System
You are now ready to upgrade your entire system. Before you do, read through the news (and optionally the announce mailing list). Often the developers will provide important information about required configurations and modifications for known issues. Consulting these pages before any upgrade is good practice.
Sync, refresh, and upgrade your entire new system with:
# pacman -Syu
# pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade
pacman will now download a fresh copy of the master package list from the server(s) defined in Template:Filename and perform all available upgrades. You may be prompted to upgrade pacman itself at this point. If so, say yes, and then reissue the
pacman -Syu command when finished.
Reboot if a kernel upgrade has occurred.
Pacman output is saved in Template:Filename.
See Package Management FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions regarding updating and managing your packages.
Ignoring Packages
After executing the command
pacman -Syu, the entire system will be updated. It is possible to prevent a package from being upgraded. A typical scenario would be a package for which an upgrade may prove problematic for the system. In this case, there are two options; indicate the package(s) to skip in the pacman command line using the --ignore switch (
pacman -S --help for details) or permanently indicate the package(s) to skip in the /etc/pacman.conf file in the IgnorePkg array. For more information, please see the pacman wiki entry.
Please note that the power user is expected to keep the system up to date with pacman -Syu, rather than selectively upgrading packages. You may diverge from this typical usage as you wish; just be warned that there is a greater chance that things will not work as intended and that it could break your system. The majority of complaints happen when selective upgrading, unusual compilation or improper software installation is performed. Use of IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf is therefore discouraged, and should only be used sparingly, if you know what you are doing.
The Arch rolling release model
Keep in mind that Arch is a rolling release distribution. This means there is never a reason to reinstall or perform elaborate system rebuilds to upgrade to the newest version. Simply issuing
pacman -Syu periodically keeps your entire system up-to-date and on the bleeding edge. At the end of this upgrade, your system is completely current. Remember to reboot if a kernel upgrade has occurred.
Adding a User
Linux is a multi-user environment. You should not do your everyday work using the root account: it is more than poor practice, it is dangerous. Use root for administrative tasks only and instead add a normal user account using the
adduser program:
# adduser
You will be asked to enter some information in an interactive way. In the following example we are creating the user archie:
Login name for new user []: archie User ID ('UID') [ defaults to next available ]: Initial group [ users ]: Additional groups (comma separated) []: audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner Home directory [ /home/archie ]: Shell [ /bin/bash ]: Expiry date (YYYY-MM-DD) []:
As showed in the example, you are advised to enter values only for the Login name and the Additional groups, and leave empty all the other fields.
The list of Additional groups in the example is a typical choice for a desktop system, hence it is recommended especially for beginners:
- audio - for tasks involving sound card and related software
- lp - for managing printing tasks
- optical - for managing tasks pertaining to the optical drive(s)
- storage - for managing storage devices
- video - for video tasks and hardware acceleration
- wheel - for using sudo
- games - needed for write permission for games in the games group
- power - used with power options (e.g. shutdown with power button)
- scanner - for using a scanner
Now you will be presented with a preview of your new account, and the ability to cancel or continue operations:
New account will be created as follows: --------------------------------------- Login name.......: archie UID..............: [ Next available ] Initial group....: users Additional groups: audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner Home directory...: /home/archie Shell............: /bin/bash Expiry date......: [ Never ] This is it... if you want to bail out, hit Control-C. Otherwise press ENTER to go ahead and make the account.
After pressing Template:Keypress the account will be created, and you will be prompted to enter additional, optional informations for the new user:
Creating new account... Changing the user information for archie Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: Other []:
Finally, you will be asked to enter the password for your account:
Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Account setup complete.
Your new non-root user has now been created, complete with a home directory and a login password.
See Users and Groups for further information. If you want to change the name of your user or any existing user, consult the Change username page. You may also check the man pages for
usermod(8) and
Deleting the user account
In the event of error, or if you wish to delete this user account in favor of a different name or for any other reason, use
# userdel -r [username]
The -r option will remove the user's home directory and its content, along with the the user's mail spool.
You should now have a completely functional Arch system which will act as a suitable base for you to build upon based on your needs. However, most people are interested in a desktop system, complete with sound and graphics. This part of the guide will provide a brief overview of the procedure to acquire these extras.
Install Sudo:
# pacman -S sudo
To add a user as a sudo user (a "sudoer"), the visudo command must be run as root.
By default, the visudo command uses the editor vi. If you do not know how to use vi, you may set the EDITOR environment variable to the editor of your choice, such as in this example with the editor "nano":
# EDITOR=nano visudo
If you are comfortable using vi, issue the visudo command without the EDITOR=nano variable:
# visudo
This will open the file /etc/sudoers in a special session of vi. visudo copies the file to be edited to a temporary file, edits it with an editor, (vi by default), and subsequently runs a sanity check. If it passes, the temporary file overwrites the original with the correct permissions.
In the previous section we added your user to the "wheel" group. To give users in the wheel group full root privileges when they precede a command with "sudo", uncomment the following line:
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Now you can give any user access to the sudo command by simply adding them to the wheel group.
For more information, such as sudoer <TAB> completion, see Sudo.
If you want sound, proceed to Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for instructions. Alternatively, proceed to the next section first, and set up sound later.
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is included with the kernel and it is recommended to try it first. However, if it does not work or you are not satisfied with the quality, the Open Sound System is a viable alternative. OSSv4 has been released under a free license and is generally considered a significant improvement over the older OSSv3 which was replaced by ALSA. Instructions can be found in the OSS article.
If you have advanced audio requirements, take a look at Sound for an overview of various articles.
Graphical User Interface
Install X
The X Window System (commonly X11, or X) is a networking and display protocol which provides windowing on bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Now we will install the base Xorg packages using pacman. This is the first step in building a GUI.
Install the base packages: Template:Cli
Install mesa for 3D support: Template:Cli
The 3D utilities glxgears and glxinfo are included in the mesa-demos package, install if needed: Template:Cli
Install video driver
Next, you should install a driver for your graphics card.
You will need knowledge of which video chipset your machine has. If you do not know, use the
/usr/sbin/lspci program:
For a complete list of all open-source video drivers, search the package database: Template:Cli
Use pacman to install the appropriate video driver for your video card/onboard video. Example for the Savage driver: Template:Cli
NVIDIA Graphics Cards
NVIDIA users have three options for drivers (in addition to the vesa driver):
- The open-source nouveau driver, which offers fast 2d acceleration and experimental 3d support which is good enough for basic compositing (note: does not fully support powersaving yet). Feature Matrix.
- The open-source (but obfuscated) nv driver, which is very slow and only has 2d support.
- The proprietary nvidia drivers, which offer good 3d performance and powersaving. Even if you plan on using the proprietary drivers, it is recommended to start with nouveau and then switch to the binary driver after you have X set up and working. Nouveau often works out-of-the-box, while nvidia will require configuration and likely some troubleshooting. See NVIDIA for more information.
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ATI Graphics Cards
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- The proprietary fglrx driver provided by the catalyst package located in the AUR. It supports only newer devices (HD2xxx and newer). It was once a package offered by Arch in the
extrarepository, but as of March 2009, official support has been dropped because of dissatisfaction with the quality and speed of development of the proprietary driver. See ATI Catalyst for more information.
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Udev should be capable of detecting your hardware without problems and evdev (xf86-input-evdev) is the modern, hotplugging input driver for almost all devices so in most cases, installing input drivers is not needed. At this point, evdev has already been installed as a dependency of Xorg.
If evdev does not support your device, install the needed driver from the xorg-input-drivers group.
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Non-US keyboard
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Testing X
This section will explain how to start a very basic graphical environment in order to test X. This uses the simple default X window manager, twm.
Install the default test environment:
The default X environment is rather bare. This section below will deal with installing a desktop environment or window manager of your choice to supplement X.
If you installed Xorg before creating your regular user, there will be an empty .xinitrc file in your $HOME that you need to either delete or edit in order to start a graphical environment. Simply deleting it will cause X to run with the default environment (twm, xclock, xterm).
Message bus
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Start X
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A few movable windows should show up, and your mouse should work. Once you are satisfied that X installation was a success, you may exit out of X by issuing the exit command into the prompts until you return to the console.
If the screen goes black, you may still attempt to switch to a different virtual console (CTRL-Alt-F2, for example), and login blindly as root, followed by <Enter>, followed by root's password followed by <Enter>.
You can attempt to kill the X server with
/usr/bin/pkill (note the capital letter X):
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If a problem occurs, look for errors in Template:Filename. Be on the lookout for any lines beginning with Template:Codeline which represent errors, and also Template:Codeline which are warnings that could indicate other issues.
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Errors may also be searched for in the console output of the virtual console from which X was started.
See the Xorg article for detailed instructions and troubleshooting.
Need Help?
If you are still having trouble after consulting the Xorg article and need assistance via the Arch forums, be sure to install and use wgetpaste:
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- /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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Use wgetpaste like so: Template:Cli Post the corresponding links given within your forum post. Be sure to provide appropriate hardware and driver information as well.
Install Fonts
At this point, you may wish to save time by installing visually pleasing, true type fonts, before installing a desktop environment/window manager. DejaVu is a set of high quality, general-purpose fonts.
Install with: Template:Cli
Refer to Font Configuration for how to configure font rendering and Fonts for font suggestions and installation instructions.
Choose and install a graphical interface
The X Window System provides the basic framework for building a graphical user interface (GUI).
- Window Manager (WM)
- Controls the placement and appearance of application windows in conjunction with the X Window System. See Window managers for more information.
- Desktop Environment (DE)
- Works atop and in conjunction with X, to provide a completely functional and dynamic GUI. A DE typically provides a window manager, icons, applets, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers, a suite of applications and abilities like drag and drop. See Desktop environments for more information.
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Methods for starting your Graphical Environment
You might prefer to start X manually from your terminal rather than booting straight into the desktop. For DE-specific commands, please see the wiki page corrosponding to your DE for more information. For more generic X commands, please see the section on the Xorg page.
You might prefer to have the desktop start automatically during boot instead of starting X manually. See Display Manager for instructions on using a login manager or Start X at Boot for two lightweight methods that do not rely on a display manager.
General Troubleshooting
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From Broadway to Hollywood. On stage and on screen. There is no other voice like the phenomenal Maureen McGovern. With a voice that is a beacon for American song, Ms. McGovern returns to join Peter Nero and the Philly Pops to wind her way around the songs of the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring hit after baby boomer hit by Paul Simon, James Taylor, Carole King, Bob Dylan, and more, don't miss this unforgettable evening of timeless classics that sing to the heart!
Performances of Winding Around the '60s and '70s with Maureen McGovern take place May 12 at 8:00 p.m., May 14 at 8:00 p.m., May 15 at 3:00 p.m., and May 16 at 3:00 p.m.
In October 2009 Grammy Award-winning pianist and conductor Peter Nero was honored with lifetime achievement awards from the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and the Philadelphia Musicians' Union Local 77, AFM. He also received the Mario Lanza Award, in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of music, in November 2009.
"If the perfect pops conductor could be conjured, ... he might answer to this description," wrote Philadelphia Inquirer music critic Peter Dobrin: "Huge talent with polymath abilities and catholic tastes. Musician who actually enjoys giving audiences what they want. Plays piano like a dream. ... [H]e might look something like Peter Nero."
"Peter Nero is, of course, known for his piano playing, covering a range from classical concert repertoire to straight-ahead jazz. His fingers stretch as far as Art Tatum's, and he practically knows no limits on the Steinway. He is also a fine conductor ... Philadelphia is lucky to have him and his, by now, trademark Philly Pops," said All About Jazz's Victor L. Schermer on May 8, 2009.
"Nero ... plays with the energy of a 20-year-old rock and roll drummer," noted the Palm Beach Daily News on March 26, 2008. "His Juilliard training shows in the cleanliness of his technique and in his control of the tone of the piano. His technical arsenal includes brilliant passage work, rapid bass lines, arpeggio-like figures ascending and descending, and subtle dynamic variations. His fast playing is thrilling, and his slow playing is marked by a beautiful lyricism."
A two-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, Peter Nero leads his unrivaled Pops orchestra blending classical, swing, Broadway, blues, and jazz-all performed with virtuosity, authenticity, and an inviting sense of humor. The Washington Post has called him "the epitome of the Pops Conductor/Performer."
One of his greatest achievements is being the founding Music Director of the world renowned Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. On January 27, 2007, Mr. Nero joined Rod Stewart from the piano for a performance of "They Can't Take That Away from Me" at the Academy of Music 150th Anniversary Concert. Mr. Nero's recent guest performances include engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony, the National Arts Centre Symphony in Ottawa, the Charlotte Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony, among others. His complete concert schedule can be found at www.peternero.com.
As a Steinway artist for close to 50 years, he recently returned to New York's Carnegie Hall to perform at a gala celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Steinway with many noted pianists, including Dr. Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and Michel Legrand.
Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Nero began his formal music training at the age of seven. By the time he was 14, he was accepted to New York City's prestigious High School of Music and Art and won a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music. Constance Keene, his teacher and mentor, once wrote in an issue of Keyboard Classics that "Vladimir Horowitz was Peter's greatest fan!"
Peter Nero recorded his first album in 1961 and won a Grammy Award that year for "Best New Artist." Since then, he has received another Grammy, garnered 10 additional nominations, and released 68 albums. His early association with RCA Records produced 23 albums in eight years. His subsequent move to Columbia Records resulted in a million-selling single and album-The Summer of '42-now available on CD.
His recordings over the last 13 years include two CDs with the Philly Pops, Holiday POPS! and Broadway Showstoppers, and three CDs with full symphony orchestra: On My Own, Classic Connections, and My Way. He also recorded Peter Nero and Friends, which contains collaborations with Mel Torme, Maureen McGovern, and Doc Severinsen, among others. His latest CDs are romantic albums titled Love Songs for a Rainy Day and More in Love. By popular demand, four of his earlier vinyl recordings have been re-issued on CD. Music lovers of all generations can now hear him on Rod Stewart's album As Time Goes By ... The Great American Songbook, Volume II.
Mr. Nero's first major national TV success came at age 17 when he was chosen to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on Paul Whiteman's TV special. He subsequently appeared on many top variety and talk shows, including 11 guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and numerous appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Hailed as one of the premier interpreters of Gershwin, Mr. Nero starred in the Emmy Award-winning NBC Special "S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous, S'Gershwin." Other TV credits include performances on PBS-TV's "Piano Pizzazz" and with the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., on its July 4th special titled "A Capitol Fourth." He served as music director and pianist for the PBS-TV special "The Songs of Johnny Mercer: Too Marvelous for Words" with co-stars Johnny Mathis, Melissa Manchester, and the Philly Pops.
Among Mr. Nero's long list of honors are six honorary doctorates (the most recent from Drexel University in 2004) and the prestigious International Society of Performing Arts Presenters Award for "Excellence in the Arts." He is also included on two historic walks of fame-one in Philadelphia, and one in Miami, Florida. In 1999 he received the Pennsylvania Distinguished Arts Award, presented by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. Previous honorees include Marian Anderson, James Michener, Andrew Wyeth, and Riccardo Muti. In February 2009, the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia presented Mr. Nero with its prestigious Lincoln Award as part of its Lincoln Day 200th Anniversary celebration. The Award is given to persons of distinction who, through their actions, have significantly contributed to the United States of America.
Peter Nero is an active supporter of many important causes, including the funding of school music programs, fundraising for the building of new arts centers across the country, as well as research for cancer, dystonia, and autism.
When not touring the world, Peter Nero makes his home in the Philadelphia area. He has two children-Beverly, a successful film producer residing with her husband in California, and Jedd, a commercial real estate entrepreneur residing with his wife near New York City. Both children have made him a grandfather.
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops
Recently hailed by allaboutjazz.com as "arguably the best pops ensemble on the planet today," Peter Nero and the Philly Pops was founded in 1979 under the musical leadership of pianist and conductor Peter Nero. Maestro Nero's unique talents and innovative programming ideas blend all musical genres making their concerts widely popular in the pops world. POPS concerts run the gamut from great classics to jazz improvisation, big band to Broadway hits, ragtime to rock 'n' roll. Peter's participation as piano soloist is always received with boundless enthusiasm and acclaim. Guest artists-both established stars as well as outstanding new vocalists from Broadway and the concert stage-join The POPS each season. The Voices of The POPS, the resident vocal group, has become a member of the Philly Pops family as well.
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops is the Official Pops Orchestra of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a significant part of Philadelphia's cultural scene. The POPS has produced continuously growing and loyal audiences and performs to regularly sold-out crowds as a resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops has played a role in the City of Philadelphia's Fourth of July celebration for over 25 years. On July 3, 2009, for the sixth consecutive year, Peter and The POPS performed a free outdoor concert in front of Independence Hall. This immensely popular annual event, which includes a musical tribute to all branches of the armed forces, draws thousands of attendees. The 2008 concert also featured Peter and The POPS performing music for the wedding of premier historic re-enactors Ralph Archbold and Linda Wilde, better known to Philadelphians as Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross. On July 4, 2006, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops performed a free outdoor concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Their concert on the Parkway the previous Independence Day, featuring Sir Elton John, Patti LaBelle, and Bryan Adams, reached over a half million people. Other notables who have joined them for past city celebrations include James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Ray Charles, Boyz II Men, and Dionne Warwick.
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops celebrated its 30th anniversary during the 2008-09 season. Their Holiday POPS! CD featuring vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway is available on DRG Records.
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops had the honor of performing at the opening of the National Constitution Center in 2003, and participating in National Public Radio's nation-wide radio broadcast on July 4, 2002. Another highlight took place in April 2002, when Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn made a guest appearance with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, in a special performance of Peter's original composition Voyage into Space at the Kimmel Center. Peter and The POPS was featured on ABC-TV's "Independence Day 2001," a live, star-studded national broadcast, sharing the stage with such luminaries as Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Garth Brooks.
Other memorable moments through the years include a performance at the Republican National Convention during the summer of 2000; a Washington, D.C., gala performance to commemorate NASA's 40th anniversary in 1998; Philadelphia's "We the People" concert, the 1987 celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, which was broadcast nationally on CBS-TV; and a debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall in 1984, with a return visit in 1997.
For many years Peter Nero and the Philly Pops performed in the historic Academy of Music. In December 2001, they became the second largest resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, a state-of-the-art, world-class venue on Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts.
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops is presented by Encore Series, Inc., a non-profit organization enriching the cultural life of Philadelphia through the performing arts. For more information, please visit www.phillypops.org.
Maureen McGovern's nearly 40 year career includes Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist, Best Traditional Pop Vocal, and Oscar Award-winning Gold Records "The Morning After" (Billboard #1) and "We May Never Love Like this Again." Grammy nominated in 1973 and 1998, she shares a Grammy Award for Best Musical Recording for Children (2005) for her participation in the CD/DVD Songs from the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers. Her most recent disc, released on PS Classics, is A Long and Winding Road. Other critically acclaimed CDs include musical tributes to George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers, and Marilyn and Alan Bergman, among others.
On Broadway Ms. McGovern has appeared in the musical Little Women in the role of Marmee, for which she received a 2005 Drama Desk Award nomination; The Pirates of Penzance; Nine; The Threepenny Opera; and national tours of Little Women and The King and I. Her off-Broadway credits include originating the role of Mary in Brownstone. Regional appearances include Maureen McGovern: A Long and Winding Road, Elegies, Dear World, Letters from 'Nam, The Lion in Winter, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Of Thee I Sing, Let 'Em Eat Cake, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, and I Do, I Do. She co-created, composed the music, and starred in The Bengal Tiger's Ball. Ms. McGovern can also be seen in the film Airplane! (as the guitar strumming nun), The Towering Inferno, and in the DreamWorks animated movie Joseph: King of Dreams.


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|2010-11-06, 07:47
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[manga] Sage of the Six Paths General Discussion
It's been said that the sage of the six paths was the first ninja to create modern ninjutsu (what ninja uses today in present). It is unknown how he came to this world. Was he born like all humans or is he a product of some demonic intervention (is he half human and half demon). Considering his vast powers I would place my bet on him being half demon or at least have some connection with the juubi (meaning perhaps one of his parents was demon). His powers are able to control bijuu's now maybe he got his bloodline after sealing the juubi into himself, but I remember a information about him meeting the juubi after he started his traveling to spread ninjutsu around the world.
He had or maybe even invented the greatest has power in Naruto world called izanagi. He was literally able to create reality into an illusion and illusion into a reality. He was also able to create thing out of nothing and give them life. This is how he created the nine bijuu's using juubi's chakra.
My theory is that he also left some part of himself within bijuu's when he crated them. Why else would Naruto received his psychical powers when he absorbed the nine tails chakra. He had to sons, it would seam that Naruto is the decanted of the second son (ether by blood or some other way). But it is confirmed that Sasuke and Madara are the decedents of the first son.
There are currently four people who are in possession of his power or some of it...
Madara, Nagato, Danzou, Naruto, Sasuke (he is optional, we don't know if by having EMS you can gain some of sage powers, that's why I didn't numbered him among this four). But to use his power to max level it seams you need power from both sons (Senju and Uchiha), only then will they be capable of using Izanagi without any consequences. Sage was the only who was able so far to use this power without giving anything in return (Danzou had to sacrifice one of his eyes every time he used this. And if I remember he also had the time limit before he can use it again. Also Danzou only had the power to create reality into an illusion).
In reality his powers were so great that on his death bad he was able to extract the juubi from himself and separate it into the nine parts. He did this to save the world, but this also confuses me as to what he thought that by separating one monster into nine would save the world. Wouldn't nine beings destroy world faster then one?
His psychical form was what made me believe that he is in fact half demon or maybe half of something else like gods, angels etc. Why else would he have horns on his head? While Naruto now has horns as well leads me to believe that it was not helmet (for the lack of better word) that he had but those horns were the part of his body.
Also there is about his necklace that to showed on Naruto's new form and I now that necklace was not part of his body. This also may be true about horns not being part of his body, but maybe I am wrong.
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|2011-03-31, 15:13
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You forgot to mention The Gold and Silver Brothers . It was mentioned that they're very close to the Rikudo Sennin, IF so, then Naruto is very close to the Rikudo Sennin as well, cuz he's an Uzumaki and has 6 scratches on his cheeks.
I wonder what they're for.
|2011-03-31, 17:05
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Down to business:the 3 points I wanted to talk about are quoted.
1. I was looking, but I couldn't find where it was stated that the Rikudo sage started the Ninju religion, which was then evolved (or devolved) into Ninjutsu. Being a precursor to Ninjutsu would fit very well into my next point.
2.The Rikudo sage was able to make illusion into reality. As it is said that he is the creator of the tailed beasts (from the splitting of the one beast) it would be safe to assume he re-created the 10 tails as several different entities as to keep them from wanting to unite into one being again. Such an act would be far beyond simple Ninjutsu, and would really be like Creating a reality from raw energy.
3. My final point is about his eyes. In your own picture if you look at the eye painted above the sage's head it's a combination of Rinengan and sharingan and it has 9 tomes. It looks like 3 sharingan combined into one eye with 3 tomes along each circled line. I had always assumed that this is what his eye looked like, and that the 6 tome necklace was the signifigance of the Tomes (totaling 6) in the pair of sharingan eyes, and
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|2011-03-31, 18:56
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Please correct me if i'm wrong, but what you called as "tome" is a "Tomoe" and those things in the Sage's Chest aren't Tomoe but Magatama.
The answers about #1 are on the first mentions about the Sage, i believe that it was Jiraiya the first one to mention him. #2 is simple, Kishi doesn't think to that level, to him is Ninjutsu because the sage used some skills where ninjutsu is involved and that's all. This is fiction,
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About the thread itself... i believe that's beyond any analysis... Madara was crystal clear:
Sasuke: Sage's elder son.
Naruto: Sage's younger son.
And that's all you need to know. They're natural born enemies. Madara even respects Hashirama, but in the end they are enemies.
|2011-04-01, 06:06
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But who knows, currently it seems that we are at Cell saga
I mean Madara reavealed that he wants to become "complete". What will be android 16 and 17 here?
One thing is the rinnegan eyes from Nagato, the other may be the demons being sealed in Madara. And there we have Perfect Madara.
After the Cell saga however came some superhuman crazy magical stuff in DB, so if Naruto continues the same pattern maybe demons and death gods and mighty magicians who control them may appear.
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|2011-04-01, 11:02
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I think we're waaaay past superhuman 'threshhold' .. chakra and pretty eyes (or other genetic mutations) can do anything, from levitation, telerportation, intangibility, deatomisation, lava & stone spitting to pure/impure resurrection (and various other means of using the soul .. binds, seals etc.) & *reality warping* (including cheating death) .. I mean the sage made the moon ! the moon ....
|2011-04-01, 13:01
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For example superhuman would be if there were immortal creatures as characters of the story. Sure Orochimaru or Madara are immortal, but they use tricks to prolong their life, and that i would not call true immortality.
Maybe Hidan was the closest to having such an abnormal gift of immortality that cannot be explained in a natural way, i mean a talking head is just abnormal no matter what
So this Hidan tells that his god Yashin granted him immortality. What i meant is that i don't believe that this Yashin god will be one of the characters. But i can imagine him being dragged into the story long after Naruto beats Madara. It may not fit in but if the anime team or Kishimoto himself wants to capitalize on this then he can just change the story so that Naruto and Sasuke fight such godlike creatures like Yashin. But that will look more like a fight between godlike magicians than ninjas, it will be something different from the current Naruto.
|2011-04-01, 16:13
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tailed beasts are just balls of chakra .. although Juubi may be immortal seeing how even Sage was unable to kill him properly (both in a straight fight and after he became a jinchuriki .. I mean, it was said that if Naruto is killed - fox dies .. that wasn't the case with Juubi I assume, since othwerwise Sage could've sacrificed himself - maybe on his deathbed or something if he wanted to live a little longer)
ability-wise I think Naruto has everything, short of an actual universe-creating God, covered
I agree though that Kishi'll stick to ninjas
|2011-04-01, 17:21
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It's the same with Yondaime and Naruto.
|2011-04-01, 19:41
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Remember before the 4th hakage sacrifices himself to seal it, he tells that even if Kushina were to die with the kyuubi it would eventually return to this world and Madara will use it again. If these could be killed then why wouldn't someone like the sage or 1st hokage kill them? Instead of letting them be used to kill people. The story needs such a problem that cannot be resolved by just killing the demons.
|2011-04-01, 19:53
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I'm ok with that, but... i just want to say that Tailed Beasts are weapons... and in wars, if you captured an enemy ship, tank or fighter, you actually use it. This is the same, perhaps the ambition to have such weapons is a huge temptation.
I believe that Kishi is using an analogy for the bijuus close to nuclear weapons. You know that nukes brought certain stability between Nato and Warsaw Pact. In Narutoverse it's the same.
Can you imagine a War with tailed beasts?, Yuugito and Bee against Naruto and Gaara?.
|2011-04-02, 08:32
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The weapon that Nagato wanted to create would be more like it, but since only one side would have it at a time that would also be different from nuclear weapons.
|2011-04-02, 13:26
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So, one thing is the reason to have these tailed beasts and not to kill them and another one is if that reason was correct or wrong (it was proven wrong IMO).
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Vietnam -> USA
Afganistan -> USSR
Falklands -> UK
Pakistan-India -> both of them.
I put those examples precisaly because they didn't resort to nukes.
And how to forget Israel!.
Nuclear weapons don't prevent wars, but there is the temptation to use it, not as a weapon but as a psychological tool. I heard the rumor that M. Tatcher tried to threaten Argentina with nukes.
Here it's the same, hidden villages didnt' use tailed beasts, because they know that the Hell would open and there is no turning point.
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That's not true, as far as I'm concerned. Orochimaru killed the Kazekage, took his position and ordered Gaara to attack Konoha with the Bijuu.
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Also it's probable that Orochimaru killed the kazekage after all the invasion plans were made, you can't impersonate a kage for too long without someone noticing that something is wrong. Orochimaru was there in the forest of death too.
Even in this war the tsuchikage wanted to use Naruto and KillerBee in the war, the only reason they are not used in this war because they are the targets of Madara.
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I've had a wonderful five week break visiting Europe and the US. I had intended sourcing and publishing some GeniMate profiles while I was away but visiting and learning about new places just got in the way.
While dining with an American couple one night on board ship I mentioned that I was obsessed by genealogy. The wife of the couple said that she wanted to get started but that it would be difficult because of her Japanese Heritage. I mentioned that I had a contact that might just be able to give her some assistance so I found Valerie Elkins' details from her GeniMates Profile, sought out the lady and passed them on. The lady was most grateful - I do hope she contacts Valerie.
On my return from overseas I was thriled to hear that my proposal to present on an International Panel with three of my GeniMates, Amy Coffin (USA), Audrey Collins (UK) and Joan Miller (Canada) at the Rootstech 2012 conference was accepted. I look forward to collaborating with these ladies on the presentation.
Early in my trip I spent 2 1/2 days researching at The National Archives in Kew. I was so thrilled that Family History Specialist, Audrey Collins, took time out of her busy day to have lunch with me and to seek me out for a second lunch date. I enjoyed being able to share my enthusiasm about the finds I had made with the chirpy and friendly, Audrey. Having a friend in such a big institution enhances the experience of the visit.


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The highest priority for the Architect of the Capitol is the safety of its employees, Capitol Hill building occupants and visitors.
The AOC has worked diligently to address any safety hazards identified by the Office of Compliance, including reducing the number of safety hazards by 60 percent over a five-year period.
The AOC's worker safety record has shown significant improvement over the past decade, achieving some of the lowest rates of injury and illness in the industry and the AOC continues to make progress in this vitally important area.
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Freeman needs boost from Braves fans in ASG voting
ATLANTA -- Freddie Freeman has not yet garnered the attention he seemingly deserves in this year's All-Star balloting. But Justin Upton is still positioned to represent the Braves in the National League's starting lineup.
When the latest balloting results were released on Sunday night, Upton still ranked second among NL outfielders. He stands a little more than 100,000 votes behind St. Louis' Carlos Beltran and a little more than 100,000 votes ahead of Washington's Bryce Harper, who is currently positioned to fill the third and final starting spot in the NL's outfield.
ATLANTA -- Freddie Freeman has not yet garnered the attention he seemingly deserves in this year's All-Star balloting. But Justin Upton is still positioned to represent the Braves in the National League's starting lineup.
When the latest balloting results were released on Sunday night, Upton still ranked second among NL outfielders. He stands a little more than 100,000 votes behind St. Louis' Carlos Beltran and a little more than 100,000 votes ahead of Washington's Bryce Harper, who is currently positioned to fill the third and final starting spot in the NL's outfield.
While serving as the key offensive contributor for the first-place Braves, Freeman has positioned himself to earn his first All-Star selection. But it appears he will have to wait at least one more year before getting his first start. He ranks fifth among NL first basemen, trailing Cincinnati's Joey Votto, Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis' Allen Craig and San Francisco's Brandon Belt.
Fans can cast their votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or via a mobile device -- using the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot until Thursday, July 4, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Fans may submit 25 online ballots during the voting period but can also earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these additional online ballots, fans must be logged into an MLB.com account when submitting any online ballot. To obtain an MLB.com account, visit www.mlb.com and register in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
Fans can also once again participate in the Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league whom they would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. The 2013 Home Run Derby -- part of Gatorade All-Star Workout Day -- will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, July 15.
Though originally scheduled for July 7, the 2013 rosters will now be unveiled Saturday, July 6, at 6:30 p.m. ET on the 2013 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show presented by Taco Bell. The show will be televised nationally on FOX.
From Saturday, July 6 to Thursday, July 11, be sure to return to MLB.com and cast your 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by freecreditscore.com for the final player for each League's All-Star roster.
And the voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday, July 16. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
Six-time All-Star Brian McCann no longer ranks among the top five vote-getters among NL catchers. B.J. Upton and Jason Heyward are not ranked among the top 15 NL outfielders.
Chris Johnson ranks fourth at third base, but has tallied more than 1.5 million fewer votes than the leader, New York's David Wright. Andrelton Simmons, who is widely regarded as the game's top defensive shortstop, ranks fifth at his position.
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Joey Votto, Reds 2,677,813
Paul Goldschmidt, Diamondbacks 2,270,886
Allen Craig, Cardinals 1,801,138
Brandon Belt, Giants 1,323,511
Freddie Freeman, Braves 1,181,657
Brandon Phillips, Reds 2,597,742
Marco Scutaro, Giants 2,272,484
Matt Carpenter, Cardinals 2,251,248
Chase Utley, Phillies 1,136,890
Daniel Murphy, Mets 1,088,224
Troy Tulowitzki, Rockies 3,104,285
Brandon Crawford, Giants 1,757,255
Jean Segura, Brewers 1,625,753
Pete Kozma, Cardinals 1,354,974
Andrelton Simmons, Braves 965,016
David Wright, Mets 2,917,819
Pablo Sandoval, Giants 2,788,988
David Freese, Cardinals 1,728,322
Chris Johnson, Braves 1,008,552
Aramis Ramirez, Brewers 881,559
Yadier Molina, Cardinals 3,596,858
Buster Posey, Giants 3,506,402
John Buck, Mets 1,087,519
Jonathan Lucroy, Brewers 845,519
Miguel Montero, Diamondbacks 799,837
Carlos Beltran, Cardinals 3,473,030
Justin Upton, Braves 2,453,531
Bryce Harper, Nationals 2,363,965
Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies 2,060,388
Ryan Braun, Brewers 2,010,310
Matt Holliday, Cardinals 1,947,864
Andrew McCutchen, Pirates 1,777,568
Hunter Pence, Giants 1,732,843
Shin-Soo Choo, Reds 1,566,597
Angel Pagan, Giants 1,541,055
Carlos Gomez, Brewers 1,393,464
Jon Jay, Cardinals 1,321,149
Gregor Blanco, Giants 1,210,892
Domonic Brown, Phillies 1,107,632
Jay Bruce, Reds 978,994
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Over the past two years, the university has provided additional leave during the winter break in recognition of the increase demand being placed on employees who received no pay increases. The state auditors who are conducting our current operational audit have questioned the provisions we were using to offer this paid leave. In a survey of other campuses, we find that similar questions are being asked at other universities.
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Alina Deshpande—Strengthening the fight against pandemics
Strengthening the fight against pandemics
Hailing from the world's second most populated country, microbiologist Alina Deshpande understands how our highly mobile and connected world may be susceptible to pandemics.
Always fascinated by infectious diseases, Deshpande leads a global disease surveillance project at the Lab, a multi-million dollar effort that explores the most critical aspects of international disease awareness. She is dedicated to strengthening the world's fight against infectious diseases by providing new tools for early detection and mitigation of disease outbreaks.
A researcher at Los Alamos, Deshpande left India with her husband to become a student at the Lab and pursue a doctorate in biomedicine.
Her graduate research focused on cervical cancer genetics. She received a post-doctoral fellowship in 2004 to pursue research on host-pathogen interactions, studying cholera and anthrax.New tools aid in early detection
Deshpande and Lab colleagues recently returned from Chicago, where they led a biosurveillance panel to address essential science for public health.
According to the panel experts, it is essential that nations are able to quickly detect and characterize a biological threat affecting human, animal or agricultural health. Detection and characterization enables lives to be saved and offers improved outcomes in various scenarios such as the purposeful release of a biothreat agent, an emerging infectious disease outbreak, pandemic, environmental disaster, or food-borne illness.Persistence is key to success
Deshpande's great grandmother inspired her by leaving her country to obtain a doctorate, a significant achievement for an Indian woman at the time.
Later at Los Alamos, Deshphande learned leadership skills from chemist Kristin Omberg.
Deshphande's advice? "You can be successful in anything your heart desires, but you must be persistent, focused and not impulsive."Dance does more than a heart good
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EAST MIDDLEBURY — The sight of a man splitting wood is common enough during Vermont autumns, and normally attracts little notice. But this fall, people passing the East Middlebury United Methodist Church, at the intersection of Routes 116 and 125, noticed Albert LaBerge.
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LINCOLN — For two Lincoln thespians, the curtain is about to fall. The pair, teachers at Lincoln Community School whose combined teaching experience spans more than half a century, are retiring at the end of this school year.
Alice Leeds and Donna Wood, the dynamic duo who have shepherded Lincoln youngsters through the brookside school for decades, will say goodbye to their final classes June 16.
The pair for many years organized a series of ambitious theater productions (even Shakespeare!) at the school.
LINCOLN — As the saying goes, the show must go on. Not snow days, nor sickness, nor stage fright will stop the fifth- and sixth-grade thespians at Lincoln Community School from putting on their annual play, which they have worked on for three months.
The production, "Mud and Water: Flood Stories from Potato Hill and Downstream," turns a spotlight on Lincoln's history of deluges. It debuted Wednesday and will feature an encore performance Thursday evening in the school gym.
FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh Central School officials in the months to come will consider whether to invest in a new boiler that would burn either wood chips or pellets and could save the school money in its heating bills.
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Geologists have known for decades that the sandstones near Santa Fe and Española contain uranium. The yellow and brown mineral coatings on sand grains will kick a Geiger counter but are not rich enough to be mined at the present time. Most water wells in the area contain detectable uranium. More than 200 private and public wells contain uranium in excess of the drinking water health standard of 30 parts-per-billion and some wells contain hundreds of ppb. The primary health concern of uranium in drinking water is kidney toxicity.
Los Alamos National Laboratory sits west of the Santa Fe-Española area, west of the Rio Grande. A New Mexico Environment Department investigation in 1995 concluded that the uranium in rocks and groundwater east of the Rio Grande, in the Santa Fe-Española area, was naturally occurring and did not come from LANL. These findings have been confirmed by a second study by NMED, LANL and three water-quality businesses in Santa Fe.
One way to distinguish between natural and manmade uranium is by testing for its different isotopes. U-234, U-235 and U-238 are naturally occurring isotopes. U-236 is a manmade isotope that does not occur in nature. The ratios of natural isotopes, and the presence or absence of U-236, can be used to fingerprint sources of uranium.
NMED sampled 52 wells located east of the Rio Grande in 1995, and detected uranium concentrations up to 920 ppb. The well waters contained U-234 to U-238 ratios that were consistent with natural geologic uranium.
NMED, LANL, Good Water Company, Environmental Geochemistry LLC and Indepth Water Testing recently completed a more detailed isotope study that was funded in part by the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program. Thirteen water wells, from Santa Fe north into Española, were sampled and analyzed by the New Mexico Scientific Laboratory Division and by two different labs at LANL. There was close agreement on test results between the three labs. Uranium concentrations ranged from 9 ppb to 776 ppb. Ratios of U-234 to U-238 were similar to the naturally occurring ratios detected in the 1995 NMED study. Ratios of U-235 to U-238 also were consistent with natural geologic sources. Manmade U-236 was not detected in any sample.
By contrast, shallow groundwater impacted by historical LANL waste discharges contains maximum uranium concentrations of less than 10 ppb, sometimes with an enriched ratio of U-235 to U-238 and detectable U-236.
"Given the abundance of uranium in sandstones and granites in this region, it comes as no surprise that the uranium in groundwater is natural," said NMED Secretary Dave Martin. "But natural uranium at high levels in drinking water can pose a health risk."
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Mineral Technology has mapped more than 87 areas in New Mexico where the rocks contain uranium deposits.
"We know that some well waters in Doña Ana County, Grants-Gallup, Santa Fe-Española and Tucumcari-San Jon contain uranium," Martin said. "If you live in one of these areas, and use a private domestic well, we recommend that you test your water for uranium."
NMED does not have the laboratory resources to test well water for uranium on demand. But you can arrange for your own testing, through a local laboratory or water purification company, to determine if your water contains high uranium and, if so, what treatment options are available. Laboratories certified by NMED to perform drinking water testing are listed at this location nmenv.state.nm.us/dwb/sampling/CertifiedLabs.htm.
If your drinking water is supplied by a public water system, your water has already been tested, and you can find out what the uranium concentration is from the NMED Drinking Water Watch website eidea.nmenv.state.nm.us/DWW/.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As the only team in the Ohio Valley Conference that has not absorbed a conference loss on the season, Tennessee Tech will look to improve to 4-0 in OVC play for the first time since the 2004-05 season as it squares off with Morehead State Thursday. This will the first of a two-game road trip to Kentucky, followed by a game Saturday, at Eastern Kentucky.
This will be the 71st meeting between the Golden Eagles and the Eagles with Tech owning the series edge, 52-18. Morehead State has controlled the series of late, however, as it has won six of the last eight contests and has not lost in Morehead since the 2005-06 season.
Tech (9-3, 3-0 OVC) recently improved to 9-3 with a 71-63 win over St. Louis in non-conference play Sunday afternoon. Junior guard Tacarra Hayes and freshman forward Molly Heady led the Golden Eagle offense with 19 points each. Tech has won four of its last five contests including a pair of conference victories against Eastern Illinois and Southeast Missouri.
Morehead State currently owns a 10-4 record and has won seven of its last eight games. In conference play, Morehead State is 3-1 with wins against Murray State, UT Martin and Tennessee State. The Eagles lone conference loss came at Austin Peay.
Morehead State head coach Tom Hodges is no stranger to Tennessee Tech as he served as a student assistant coach under head coach Bill Worrell from 2000-02.
Opening tip between the Golden Eagles and Morehead State is set for 4:15 p.m. CT in Morehead's Ellis T. Johnson Arena.
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