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"These eyes of mine show me many things. One thing they've shown me… people's limitations are set, fixed, and unchangeable. Only a fool wastes his time trying to become something he can never be! The only destiny that everyone shares… is death."
Basic Information
Name: Neji Hyuga
Nickname: The Most Talented Hyuga | The Genius of The Hyuga Clan |
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Clan: Hyuga
Neji has noticeably long, black hair, which is usually depicted as dark brown in the anime. In Part I, his hair reached the middle of his back and was tied back a few inches above the end, while two straps attached to a smaller headband underneath his ninja forehead protector frame the sides of his face. In Part II, he got rid of these straps, and allowed his hair, which is now longer, to frame his face instead. Like the rest of his clan, he has very fair skin and possesses the renowned Byakugan, which when activated, stimulates the veins and arteries immediately around his eyes to protrude more prominently. In the anime, his eyes are depicted with a slight tint of lavender to them. In Part I, Neji was seen with a black forehead protector that he wore snugly over his forehead. He wore a khaki shirt, dark brown shorts, blue shinobi sandals. He also had bandages wrapped around his right arm, chest, and right leg. In Part II, Neji abandoned the bandages and is clad in traditional Hyūga robes: a white shirt with loose sleeves, closed on the right shoulder, with a fastener running down the right part of the chest, matching pants, with a dark navy grey apron tied around his waist and black shinobi sandals. This may or may not have been to facilitate easier execution of his techniques, or to symbolise his warming relations with his clan. Neji is also usually seen with a large tan and black drawstring bag, which he carries over his shoulder. In Part I, he was also seen wearing a dull blue shirt with a mesh t-shirt under it. Before his fight with Naruto during the Chūnin Exams in Part I, Neji's facial expression was stern, hard, and cold. As the series progressed, however, his expression relaxes. He is even seen smiling and chuckling at times. While still composed, Neji looks to be more calm, confident, and mature, rather than challenging.
Personality :
Neji is extremely serious and mature for his age, and has great self-control. Before and during the Chūnin Exams and his fight with Naruto, he was cold and somewhat arrogant.
While under the belief that his father had died because he was a member of the branch house, Neji concluded that fate is something decided at birth and that no matter what one does, people cannot escape their destiny. Neji often applied this to people he viewed as weaker than himself, such as his cousin, Hinata. During his match in the Chūnin Exams, he told Hinata that she was unfit to be a ninja, due to being too kind and not confident enough. When she was eventually able to turn his philosophy against him, telling him that she believed that he was suffering from trying to become worthy of the main house, despite him being born into the branch family, Neji became enraged, and attempted to kill Hinata. He was stopped by multiple jōnin, but Hinata nevertheless was left in critical condition from his earlier attacks.
Neji displayed similar efforts to condescend others during his match with Naruto Uzumaki who, despite being repeatedly struck down, continued to try and fight him. While Neji tried to show Naruto that fate cannot be fought, and that someone who is weak will always remain weak, Naruto was unwilling to accept this mindset, arguing that Neji, for all his belief in fate, had not accepted his own destiny. Naruto went on to defeat Neji, suggesting that, if a "failure" like himself could change his destiny, think of what a "genius" like Neji could, too.
With this example of overcoming "destiny", as well as finding out the truth about his father's death soon afterwards, Neji abandoned the concept of inescapable fate. No longer bound by the idea that he was stuck at his current status, Neji resolved to become strong enough to never again lose in a battle. To do so, he began putting more emphasis on working well with his team, and started to value a mission's successful completion and his team-mates' safety over his own betterment, even encouraging Rock Lee to continue pursuing his own dream. Also, he has shown to have more concern towards his team. His abandonment of the concept of inescapable fate was most prominent during his fight with Kidōmaru, where despite the Oto-nin's discovery of the Byakugan's weak spot and Neji being severely wounded, he was still able to fight on and eventually defeat Kidōmaru, because he remembered what Naruto had said to him.
In addition, Neji began trying to remedy the estranged relations between himself and the main house members, most particularly by being kinder to Hinata and his uncle Hiashi. It was also shown that since then he has been training with Hinata, sparring with each other in order to hone their skills. During the Fourth Shinobi World War the two cousins protects each other's back as well as the great concern Neji showed for her safety on the battlefield.[4] He similarly has great confidence in Naruto's capacity to change others, as he stated that the latter could redeem Sasuke and bring him back to Konoha. However, it seems that he gave up hope for Sasuke, and gave up his thoughts that even Naruto could bring him back.
In battle, he is able to stay relatively calm in most situations and carefully look at the situation at hand. He has shown himself to be a bit stubborn, as seen during the Fourth Shinobi World War, when Kiba told him to go the medic corps, he refused, telling that he is fine, despite the fact he was barely able to stand.
"No one can determine… another's destiny."
Village Information:
Village of Birth: Konohagakure
Village of Alliance: Kumogakure
"Naruto… sometimes your eyes are even better than mine."
Rank & Chakra Information:
Shinobi Rank: Sannin
Specialty: Fire Release | Lightning Release | SnakeSummoning | Jyuuken
Fire Release - Mastered | Wind Release - C Rank| Earth Release - Mastered | Water Release - Mastered
Ninjutsu | Genjutsu | Taijutsu | Kenjutsu | Jyuuken
Ninjutsu - D
Genjutsu - D
Taijutsu - B
Kenjutsu - D
Summoning: Snakes
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In his younger years, Neji was kinder, optimistic, and he appreciated things more and smiled often. He even told his father he thought Hinata was "cute" when the two branches of the Hyūga clan met for her third birthday. He also loved his father very much and would tell him many things. He even promised his father that he would always protect his cousin Hinata and never forget his duties.
Neji was born with an unmarked forehead, but when Hinata turned three years old, he was branded with the Hyūga Main Family's Juinjutsu by his uncle Hiashi. All branch members carry this curse mark, as it is a symbol that one lives only to serve and protect the main branch.
Neji's father, Hizashi was well aware of Neji's natural talent, and he was frustrated that despite Neji's skill, he still carried the fate of a servant. Hizashi openly showed his anger; consequently, he was punished through Hiashi's activation of his curse seal. Around this time, the Konoha and Kumogakure had signed an alliance treaty. However, the treaty only served as a means into Konoha and a way to lower the village's guard so the Head Ninja of Kumogakure could abduct Hinata and steal the secrets of the Byakugan. This attempt failed, however, as Hiashi intervened and killed the man within moments.
When word of the murder reached Kumogakure, they demanded Hiashi's body as compensation (as his body would hold the Byakugan as well). Konoha wasn't prepared to comply to this request until Hizashi stepped in and offered to give himself up instead. Due to him being bound by the Hyūga Main Family's Juinjutsu when he died, the Byakugan would be sealed away, thus protecting it. Hizashi made this sacrifice willingly in order to protect his brother, family, and village. However, Neji came to believe that the main branch had forced him to do so. This misconception became the primary basis of his nine year grudge against the main branch and of his concrete view on one's unalterable fate.
Part One:
During the first phase of the Chūnin Exams, Neji used his Byakugan to read off of other examinees' tests. During the second phase, Team Guy split up to find weak rival teams. Neji ran into Team 10, but thought them too weak to bother with. When Team Guy later reunited, and Neji and Tenten realised that Lee was uncharacteristically late, they went looking for him. They found him after having been defeated by Team Dosu. Angered, Neji threatened to fight them, but decided not to, after noticing that Sasuke Uchiha had woken up. Once Sasuke drove off the Otogakure genin, Neji and Tenten took Lee away to recover, still managing to pass the round.
In the preliminary matches, Neji was paired up against Hinata. He attempted to have Hinata forfeit the match stating that people would never be able to change no matter how hard they tried, though Naruto snapped Hinata out of her rising panic and with this, the two cousins begin fighting. After exchanging blows using the Gentle Fist-style of their clan, Hinata seemed to defeat Neji, only for Neji to reveal that he had closed Hinata's chakra points, rendering her Gentle Fist useless. He also hit a chakra point close to one of Hinata's vitals moments beforehand, putting Hinata in critical condition. However, Hinata refused to back down, insisting that Neji was also was fighting against what could not be changed. Enraged, Neji attacks Hinata, intent on administering a killing blow when most of the jōnin in attendance stepped in to save Hinata. After the fight, Naruto, angered by Neji's philosophy and treatment of Hinata, swiped up some of Hinata's blood, and swore to defeat Neji during the finals. Neji dismissed his threats, and watched Lee's match with Gaara. He was surprised by Lee's strength, but, after the fight, thought Lee foolish to try to win by using a self-sacrificial method. Neji was pitted against Naruto in the first rounds of the finals. Although Neji soon gained the advantage, and cut off Naruto's chakra flow, Naruto was determined to fight against Neji, and prove that fate was not predetermined despite listening to Neji's past. Naruto tapped into the power of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed within him, and was able to keep up with Neji for a time. Neji's Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven protected him from Naruto's attacks, but when he approached a supposedly defeated Naruto, Naruto sprang out of a tunnel he had dug in the ground, and delivered an uppercut to Neji in the jaw, defeating him. Neji was angry with himself for falling for Naruto's signature technique, but Naruto revealed that the technique used to be his worst one, and that he only became good at it through practice. Neji then heard of his father's fate from his uncle (in the anime, it was changed to Neji reading a scroll written by his father, which explained everything), and broke down in tears. When Hiashi bowed before Neji, entreating his forgiveness, Neji asked him to rise and forgave him. Neji then silently told his father that he wished to finally have control over his destiny, and that he hoped to never lose again.
Search For Sasuke Arc
Neji was recruited as part of the five-man team to retrieve Sasuke from the Sound Four. Neji was chosen to be the rear lookout in the single file line Shikamaru organised because of his ability to use the Byakugan. When, during the course of the mission, the team was captured by Kidōmaru's webbing, Neji was able to free them with his Gentle Fist, and sent them after the remaining members of the Sound Four while he fought Kidōmaru. Kidōmaru was able to analyse Neji's defences, and found the blind spot in the Byakugan. At one point in their fight, Kidōmaru summons a giant spider. The spider released many smaller spiders, and Neji used his Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms to stop them. Neji realised that Kidōmaru was more powerful than he was, but was determined to never give up, as he wanted to show those who considered him a genius that their faith in him was correct, and to prove that he no longer surrendered to fate. Neji was severely wounded when Kidōmaru managed to fire an arrow through his chest. However, he was able to keep it from hitting his heart by moving at the last moment. After dodging yet another arrow, Neji realised that he couldn't stop the next one. He allowed the arrow to hit him - however, he prevented it from being fatal, and took advantage of the string attached to it that Kidōmaru used to guide its trajectory by channelling chakra through the web, severely injuring Kidōmaru. He then ran towards him, saying for the sake of those believe that he was a genius he could not lose, caught and struck the latter repeatedly with Gentle Fist.
Before he died, Kidōmaru said that Sasuke was beyond salvation, and couldn't be brought back to Konoha as he had made his own choice to leave. However, Neji proclaimed that Naruto would be able to save Sasuke from the darkness, as Naruto had saved him. Afterwards, Kidōmaru died, and Neji collapsed due to his injuries. He was critically injured after the battle, but was saved with the help of Shizune and other medical ninja with the Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique.
Part Two
Kazekage Rescue Arc
During the timeskip, Neji is the only member of the Konoha 11 to advance to the rank of jōnin. At the start of Part II, Neji and the rest of Team Guy were sent to provide back-up for Team Kakashi. They were intercepted by Pakkun, who redirected them to Team Kakashi's destination: an Akatsuki hideout. Along the way, they were confronted by Kisame Hoshigaki, who quickly captured Neji, Tenten, and Lee in a Water Prison. Neji was able to free them with his Gentle Fist, allowing Guy to finish off Kisame. They discovered that it was not the real Kisame, only a lookalike. When they convened with Team Kakashi, Team Guy was tasked with bringing down a barrier blocking the entrance to the Akatsuki lair. Neji used his Byakugan to find the seals keeping the barrier in place, but the team was ambushed by copies of themselves once the barrier was brought down. They defeated their clones, and reunited with Team Kakashi. Neji spotted Deidara with his Byakugan, and, when Deidara prepared to self-destruct, he warned the rest to run away. Later, when Chiyo began to use a strange technique, he mistook it as a medical ninjutsu, but later realised what it really was. Team Guy returned home when the mission was complete. On the way back, Guy resorted to carrying Kakashi in order to move faster. Lee, seeing this as a new way of training, requested Neji to go on his back, but Neji entirely refused.
Invasion of Pain Arc:
When Pain began his attack on Konoha, Team Guy was away on a mission. During a pit-stop on their return home, they noticed a number of birds apparently escaping from the village. They rushed to the village, Neji using his Byakugan to see what he could find out before their actual arrival. With it, he noticed a defeated Gamabunta, who told them of the village's destruction. Upon their return, they found Hinata badly injured, and they quickly got her medical attention. When they later learned that Naruto had defeated Pain, Neji insisted on going to help him confront Nagato, even though Naruto did not want back-up, saying that it was too reckless for Naruto to go alone when he was exhausted. Despite this, he remained in the village, and greeted Naruto with the other ninja upon his return.
Five Kage Summit Arc:
When news reaches Konoha of Sasuke's recent dealings with Akatsuki, Neji and the rest of the Konoha 11 decide that they should personally kill Sasuke before he involves the village in a war. When Naruto returns to the village, the Konoha 11 try to find out what happened in the Land of Iron. Neji then asks Naruto if Sasuke was in such a weakened state why didn't he kill him, but Sakura notes that Sasuke was not alone and doing so would not have been an easy feat.
Shinobi World War Arc:
When the Fourth Shinobi World War began, Neji was placed in the Second Division. The Second Division was sent to intercept part of the White Zetsu Army. Part of the Fifth Division joined them, and Neji updated them on the plan of attack. When division-commander Kitsuchi unearthed the Zetsu army, the entire division attacked, with Neji joining forces with Hinata to perform the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Wall Palm. The Zetsu prove very resilient to damage and the battle dragged on, with one Zetsu almost managing to trap Neji and absorb some of his chakra. He used Gentle Fist Art One Blow Body to free himself, but noticed that the Zetsu absorbed some of his chakra. As the battle raged on, Hinata and Neji fought side-by-side protecting each other's back. As nightfall approached after the first day of the war, Neji rested alongside Hinata, Kiba, Akamaru and Shino. Exhausted from prolonged use of his Byakugan, Kiba urged him to visit the Logistical Support and Medical Division for treatment but Neji refused, and continued to use his Byakugan until he collapsed, causing Shino and Hinata to take over his scouting duties. Unbeknownst to Neji, the white Zetsu that had absorbed his chakra previously impersonated him and infiltrated the medical compound, killing five medical-nin before being stopped by Sakura. The real Neji was later seen being carried on Akamaru's back. As the second day of war starts, they once again engaged the White Zetsu Army clones who had this time impersonated their comrades. Neji who was seemingly rested, confronted one of the transformed shinobi when Kiba called out to him that Hinata is in danger. Quickly dispatching the shinobi, Neji cursed that he would not make it to Hinata in time and watches on with horror as his cousin is plummeted into a mountain-side only to be revealed as a Zetsu clone. As Naruto passes overhead, Neji wonders if it was really him before following after Kiba and Akamaru. He arrives in time to see that it was in fact Naruto and that he had protected Hinata from an enemy attack. After telling Kiba and an Iwa-nin that he did not realise that it was him because of his change in appearance and chakra signature. Demanding that Naruto prove that he is who he says he is, Hinata said there was no need for that because he came to their rescue. The group then mobilised to finish off the rest of the enemies. After being informed by Inoichi from HQ that Naruto and B were fighting the "masked Madara", Neji and the Konoha 11 rush to his aid.
From a young age, Neji has been hailed a natural genius even amongst the Hyūga clan.] In Part I, he was labelled the top-ranked rookie in his class, and was said by Rock Lee to be the strongest genin to take the Chūnin Exam that year. His father even stated that with his talent, he could potentially surpass all other members of their clan. Over the time-skip, when most of the former Konoha 11 genin reached chūnin rank, Neji was the only one to advance to the rank of jōnin. As stated by Tsunade, Neji has excellent instincts, both on the battlefield and as a leader. When forced to make difficult decisions on missions, he shows himself able to make a decision through keen observation and analysis. In the anime, Neji was also shown to be a capable teacher, have helping Hinata improve and refine her skills, among other things, her Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists.
As a member of the Hyūga clan, Neji possesses the Byakugan, a dōjutsu kekkei genkai which grants him near-360° vision, along with x-ray vision, nearly and ability to see chakra networks amongst other things. The Byakugan however, does have a small blind spot located at the third upper thoracic vertebrae — a weakness of which Neji is actually aware of and takes extra precaution in concealing it from opponents. While the Byakugan naturally has an immediate 50 metre field of vision when activated, Neji is able to increase its range several times that by the start of Part II, to at least 800 metres. He is also noted to have a particularly strong Byakugan relative to other members of the Hyūga clan.
Gentle Fist:
As a member of the Hyūga clan, Neji specialises in close-range, taijutsu combat. In battle, Neji has shown tremendous agility and dexterity, capable of simultaneously dodging and striking an opponent with no wasted movement. His attacks are fast and fluid, striking in rapid succession to leave very little time for his opponent to find an opening to counter, but also deliberate. Neji's fighting style is the signature style of his clan, the Gentle Fist, which takes advantage of the Byakugan's insight into people's chakra pathway system. Gentle Fist allows for severe internal trauma with minimal external force as it relies on surgical injection of chakra into an opponent's chakra pathway system. As Neji's Byakugan is stronger than most, and is able to see special nodes on the chakra network, called tenketsu, Neji can use Gentle Fist to not only damage opponents, but control their chakra flow as well. Using the Gentle Fist, Neji can affect internal organs, and is capable of killing an opponent with a single strike should he aim to harm the heart. In Naruto: Shippūden the Movie, Neji was able to incapacitate a person with a mere tap to the forehead. Training in the Gentle Fist style implies superior chakra regulatory control and mastery of the human chakra network. As a result, Neji can eject chakra from any tenketsu in his body as a means to slow or impede incoming projectiles. He can also release himself from chakra-based substances using this technique. Continuously maintaining this expulsion of chakra allows Neji create a sensory barrier around himself to detect anything that enters his immediate area, making up for the Byakugan's blind spot, although it rapidly depletes his chakra reserves as seen when this tactic was employed against Kidōmaru. As a member of the Hyūga clan's branch house, Neji is forbidden to learn the clan's secret techniques, but managed to deduce their workings simply through observation, further exemplifying his status as a genius. He has learned many of the clan's most powerful techniques, such as the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven, which allows him to repel every attack. He can also use the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, an extremely strong offensive move with which he's able to rapidly dispatch enemies by striking many of their tenketsu in fast succession, making it hard for them to both move and control chakra. In the anime, Neji was also trained by his uncle Hiashi, who taught Neji all the other secrets of the Gentle Fist style. Since mastering these techniques, Neji has begun to refine and strengthen them for more specialised needs. In Part II he has learned the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, a more focused version of the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven, with which he can expel chakra from his palm to attack opponents out of his physical reach. In the anime, he was able to increase the number of strikes in Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms by doubling it. He can also collaborate with Hinata, using Eight Trigrams Vacuum Wall Palm. When trapped by an enemy, he could use the Gentle Fist Art One Blow Body, to release chakra from the tenketsu to free himself.
Lightning - Neji is able to perform lightning Jutsu with more speed for lightning jutsu.l
Earth-Neji can use Fire jutsu with one hand sign
Young Neji:
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Victories: Lost count
Defeats: 4 maybe 5
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How did you pick your screen name?
It's my name. Sorry I'm not more creative. LOL
How did you come to read Twilight and which book is your favorite?
My sister bought the 1st 2 books for me at a yard sale for less than a dollar. After reading them I rushed out to buy the other 2. Read all 4 in one week, then started over. Been an addict ever since.
Who do you like best: Edward, Bella, or Jacob?
I am totally in love with Edward, but I like Jacob and Bella also. In truth...one isn't very interesting without the other is it?
Who is your favorite minor character?
Charlie Swan. I love his sense of humor.
What are your hobbies?
Reading, photo editing, gardening. Animal rescue takes up much of my time.
Where are you from (general area like Montana, not exact town!)
How old are you? (In general, like teen, 20's, 30's, 40's etc)
I'm a 48 year old single woman. I've fallen so hard for Edward my adult son teases me about riding around the high school looking for love. LOL
Anything else you would like to share.
I've been fairly unlucky in love, so the romance of these books let me know that my heart is still beating. I had begun to wonder.

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SCHENECTADY -- Carrie Cimma is coming home.
"I'm so excited about coming to Schenectady," says Cimma, who co-stars as Mrs. Lovett the murderous meat-pie maker in "Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," landing at Proctors Theatre beginning Friday night. "It'll be like a homecoming. This is the first time I've been able to play any of the road houses near the Capital District. So this is really exciting for me."
Says the East Greenbush native, "With the exception of one year, when I took off to work at Cohoes" -- in CR Productions' "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at the Cohoes Music Hall -- "and to choreograph a few pieces down in the city" --� including a Drama Desk-nominated off-Broadway "H.M.S. Pinafore" -- "I've pretty much been out on the road ever since I did 'Oliver' in the fall of 2003. I've sort of been touring with the same company for several years. It's been a really great opportunity to travel and see different parts of the country." "Sweeney" is the first of her touring vehicles to make it to her hometown -- though Mom and Dad are frequent patrons at other tour stops.�
Cimma routinely thanks her parents in her program bio for spotting her to music and dance lessons as a youngster. Her performing career began a mile from Proctors -- with Schenectady Light Opera Company.� Just 11 when she was an orphan, and a title-role understudy, in SLOC's "Annie," she went on to "Anne of Green Gables"� and "Into The Woods" there - along with productions at the RPI Playhouse and her alma mater, Columbia High School.
"I felt like I grew up in such a supportive community of the arts," she says. "SLOC was such a great thing, to work with people just purely doing it for the love of the arts. I started getting my first training in the community theater, and I learned a lot about what it felt like to be professional. To go back and see all those old faces from SLOC, it's a chance to say thank you, thank you for being so kind to me when I was a weird little kid."
She studied musical and experimental theater at NYU, and sang with bands in New York City between contracts with regional theaters in San Francisco, Ohio and elsewhere, before hooking up with Networks, producer of the national tour of Cameron Mackintosh's Broadway revival of "Oliver." She has since toured with "The Full Monty" and "The Wedding Singer," and now "Sweeney."
Director Adam John Hunter recreates the recent Broadway revival featuring Patti Lupone as Lovett and a number of wrinkles. Unlike the Grand Guignol staging and gory effects of the original, it presented a stripped-down cast of just 10 performers, all of whom doubled as musicians. Set in a lunatic asylum where the inmates tell the tale some 15 years after it took place, it has been described as "Marat/Todd," echoing the similarly framed "Marat/Sade" psychodrama of the late '60s.
"If you come as an audience member, you have to really participate, to use your own imagination," says Cimma. "The play's a little like drama therapy." It's deliberately cast young - Cimma is nowhere near the age of LuPone much less Angela Lansbury when she created the role. "We kind of get around that by the fact that it's just a character played by an asylum inmate," she says. "I was out of town working when the revival played New York, so I had no idea of the concept when I booked the role. In the end, that sort of served me well in the rehearsal process. It gave me a lot more freedom creating the character. I enjoy playing a villain, but I liked trying to find the good in her. For audiences to spend two and a half hours with someone they can't stand is asking too much."
For Cimma, an experienced pianist who learned rudimentary trumpet for "Gypsy," playing musical instruments here including tuba and glockenspiel was "the hardest part for me. It's all very tricky. Because I sing so much in the show as Mrs. Lovett, I don't have to play as much as other actors. But actors aren't used to having to memorize instrumental music along with their lines. I adapted to that pretty well." In fact, repeatedly striking a triangle in one number unlocked her asylum character: "We joked in rehearsal that I must be catatonic. Then I went home and researched catatonic schizophrenia. It worked."
On the road since fall, the tour is just weeks away from wrapping up in Western New York. After that? "I haven't committed to anything as of right now," she says. "The summer season is already booked up. I'm planning to take some time off, relax, buy a pot rack for my apartment." "Sweeney" will not be a death knell for touring: "Every time my tour is over, I go, ugh, I'm not going to tour anymore," she says. "But the next thing I know, my bag is packed." Still "It would be super beyond super to work at home"� in New York.
Or play for the hometown folks. "I'm sure there'll be a lot of people I worked with at SLOC at Proctors," she says. "And I think my parents should probably get a fee for all the tickets they've sold for the show."


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Is plant virus linked to honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)?
A viral pathogen that typically infects plants has been found in honeybees and could help explain their decline. Researchers working in the U.S. and Beijing, China report their findings in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The routine screening of bees for frequent and rare viruses "resulted in the serendipitous detection of Tobacco Ringspot Virus, or TRSV, and prompted an investigation into whether this plant-infecting virus could also cause systemic infection in the bees," says Yan Ping Chen from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, an author on the study.
"The results of our study provide the first evidence that honeybees exposed to virus-contaminated pollen can also be infected and that the infection becomes widespread in their bodies," says lead author Ji Lian Li, at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science in Beijing.
"We already know that honeybees, Apis melllifera, can transmit TRSV when they move from flower to flower, likely spreading the virus from one plant to another," Chen adds.
Notably, about 5% of known plant viruses are pollen-transmitted and thus potential sources of host-jumping viruses. RNA viruses tend to be particularly dangerous because they lack the 3'-5' proofreading function which edits out errors in replicated genomes. As a result, viruses such as TRSV generate a flood of variant copies with differing infective properties.
One consequence of such high replication rates is populations of RNA viruses thought to exist as "quasi species," clouds of genetically related variants that appear to work together to determine the pathology of their hosts. These sources of genetic diversity, coupled with large population sizes, further facilitate the adaption of RNA viruses to new selective conditions such as those imposed by novel hosts. "Thus, RNA viruses are a likely source of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases," explain these researchers.
Toxic viral cocktails appear to have a strong link with honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a mysterious malady that abruptly wiped out entire hives across the United States and was first reported in 2006. Israel Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV), Acute Bee Paralysis Virus (ABPV), Chronic Paralysis Virus (CPV), Kashmir Bee Virus (KBV), Deformed Wing Bee Virus (DWV), Black Queen Cell Virus (BQCV) and Sacbrood Virus (SBV) are other known causes of honeybee viral disease.
Read more at the American Society for Microbiology.
Honeybee image via Shutterstock.


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SPU-Tube: The MFA Videos
Many people who visit our website miss the link to the seven informative videos we've put together to give you up close and personal insights into our MFA program.
Here's your chance to hear directly for students and faculty in the program about every aspect of the degree.
Watch the introduction from program director Gregory Wolfe now:
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Twins players are dedicating this week to giving back to their community. In celebration of Twins Hope Week, Justin Morneau hosted his annual Casino Night to benefit the Arthritis Foundation (TwinsBaseball.com), and Michael Cuddyer led his Twins teammates in a pros vs. kids wiffle-ball game with youth from the North Side Boys & Girls Club (TwinsBaseball.com). On Wednesday, the team will surprise military veterans with a visit to a Twin Cities VA hospital. (TwinsBaseball.com)
Joba Chamberlain shared a secret handshake and a playful day of putt-putt with his son, Karter. "It's awesome [being a dad]... He runs and he gives me a hug, but then sometimes he reminds me that I can't throw my fastball for a strike or something like that, so he's wise beyond his years," laughed Joba. "I guess the competitive edge doesn't fall too far from the tree." (Yankees.com)
In Tuesday night's action, Justin Verlander made a close bid for his second no-hitter of the season (MLB.com), and Adam Lind walked off in extras for the Blue Jays (MLB.com). Ryan Ludwick added some style points to his diving catch (MLB.com), and Shin-Soo Choo was robbed of a home run by Austin Jackson. (MLB.com)
Bill Hall gave the inside story of the Brewers' most memorable walk-off antics, including the famous 2009 "bowling-pin" celebration after a game-winning home run by Prince Fielder. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Want to eat like the Reds' human highlight reel Brandon Phillips? Start off with a breakfast of champions at Roscoe's in L.A. (Twitter), stop by Johnny's Pastrami for a quick lunch (Twitter) and snack on a Krispy Kreme doughnut (Twitter). Then roll through In-N-Out Burger for an animal-style double-double with cheese and fries (Twitter: 1 / 2) and finish the night with some ice cream-topped chocolate chip pancakes.
Computer freezing up lately? You need a reboot from 'Tek Support! Jason Vari-'Tek Support, that is. (MLB FanCave)
Red Sox stars Carl Crawford (Twitter) and Jacoby Ellsbury (Twitter) tweeted a little crosstown support for the Bruins, who will be taking on the Canucks in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday night, and the Rangers' C.J. Wilson showed some Lone Star love for the Mavericks' NBA title. (Twitter)
Tweet of the Day: "Good afternoon... Bout 2 hit up Rodeo Dr. 2 get my shop on hopefully people won't give me the same treatment they gave Ms. Vivian Ward! LOL" -- Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips (@DatDudeBP)
Quote of the Day: "I couldn't ask for a better night to get a win. It was cool. I got a lot of support from back home. My parents were here. My girlfriend was here. My girlfriend's whole family. There were a lot of people here. That's how my hometown is." -- Royals pitcher Danny Duffy who earned his first Major League victory in his home state of California in front of more than 100 family and friends (MLB.com). It was a perfect early Father's Day gift for his dad, who recalled taking father-son trips to Dodger Stadium and admitted that he shed a tear listening to the applause as he watched his son warm up from the second row. (MLB.com)
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Selig not inclined to expand video review
Umps have come under scrutiny in wake of contested calls
By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
"I don't really have any desire to increase the amount of replay -- period," Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal on Monday.
In August 2008, MLB instituted a limited program that allows umpires to review home run calls -- fair or foul, over the fence or not. It does not permit the use of replays for other calls, such as plays on the bases or fair-foul calls of non-homers.
Selig remains convinced that it should stay that way, even as others debate.
"We need to do a little work, clean up some things," Selig said. "But do I think we need more replay? No. Baseball is not the kind of game that can have interminable delays."
Some umpires have acknowledged missed calls in the various Division Series. Home-plate umpire Jerry Meals said Sunday night that he missed a call in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the NLDS between the Phillies and Rockies, when Chase Utley hit a bouncer that struck him on the leg in foul territory. Instead of a foul ball, it went for an infield hit, and it pushed the go-ahead runner to third base for Ryan Howard's game-winning sacrifice fly.
Two nights earlier, Game 2 of the ALDS between the Twins and Yankees included a since-disputed call by left-field ump Phil Cuzzi, who ruled what would have been an 11th-inning leadoff double by Minnesota's Joe Mauer a foul ball. Replays showed that the baseball bounced off the glove of Melky Cabrera in fair territory and then landed several inches inside the foul line, and Cuzzi later said he made a mistake.
"This goes on every time there's a controversial call," Selig told FoxSports.com. "I understand the Phil Cuzzi call and others. But frankly, I'm quite satisfied with the way things are."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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SC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college basketball team are preparing for another weekend of tournament games.
The Lady Generals are coming off a three game trip to Colorado Springs and will host a two day event Friday and Saturday Head coach Frank McCarthy says the games in Colorado Springs did them a lot of good.
They will host a tournament this weekend sponsored by the McCoy Agency of Sheridan.
Teams coming in include North Idaho community college, Salish-Kootenai and the College of Great Falls. Games will be at 5:00 and 7:00 Friday and 1:00 and 3:00 Saturday.
The Generals lost their first game of the year against the 12th ranked team in the country, Monroe college beat the Generals at the Buzzer Head coach Steve Smiley says it was good for the Generals to be in a game like that.
And he says they have several more games against some of the best teams in the country over the next few weeks and gives him the opportunity to evaluate the players and the players are gaining more confidence as they face good teams each night out.
They will be in Powell Friday and Saturday they play NJC from sterling, Colorado and Williston, North Dakota.
They come home for a single game against Eastern Wyoming next Tuesday then join the Lady Generals as the host teams for the annual Sheridan Lions club Thanksgiving classic.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The Bronc and Lady Bronc basketball teams will open the regular season hosting the Green River teams in a double header at Sheridan high school Friday, November 30th.
BRONC WRESTLING - The Bronc wrestlers will open the season at a tournament in Powell starting on the 30th.
COWBOY BASKETBALL - The Wyoming basketball Cowboys are hosting a three day tournament at the Double "AA" starting tonight against North Carolina-Central. All three Cowboy games will tip at 7:00 and can be heard live on KWYO and 87.7 FM.
COWGIRL BASKETBALL - The Wyoming Cowgirls will play their next regular season game at home game with Denver University Friday.
COWBOY FOOTBALL - The Wyoming football Cowboys have won two straight they play at UNLV Saturday afternoon then end their season with a home game against San Diego state on the 24th.
BRONCO FOOTBALL - The Denver Broncos are back at home taking on San Diego Sunday afternoon. You can hear it live on KWYO and 87.7 FM pregame is at 12:05 kickoff at 2:00.


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There will be face painting, pictures with Santa, live music by the Billy Rice Band and the Jacobite Pipe & Drum Band, beer-and-wine samples and more.
The event starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, on Lakewood Ranch Main Street. Proceeds benefit the Wobbly Feet Foundation.
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Discussion in 'Gaming' started by PsychoPere, Dec 10, 2010.
I think people get too hung up on the physical Reaper and neglect to take into account their minds. As we learned in ME2 they're more like Geth in a lot of ways in that their bodies are only shells that house a mass of individual consciousnesses (or programs) though while the Geth programs seek consensus from differing viewpoints, the Reapers are at the same time many minds and one; "We are each a nation. Independent, free of all weakness."
For a being like this the body is just a shell, it's the mind that matters. Remember that the Reapers' greatest weapon isn't that molten metal gun or it's barriers, it's indoctrination. A weapon of the mind and even a dead Reaper can continue to indoctrinate. How this all ties into injecting their young with human paste, but I suspect it's something along the lines of imbuing the new Reaper with the collective minds of the species they're "ascending." There's probably more to it than that, but I think that's about the shape of it.
This doesn't mean that all organic life is unintentional, merely that the Reapers view themselves as special and they don't feel that organic life is special. It's pretty much the exact same crap you'll hear a creationist say in a poor attempt to discredit evolution, and they say it for the same reason that the Reapers do; they don't want to view themselves as being the same as what they consider to be lower forms of life.
Which is a contradiction itself as you cannot be eternal and evolve.
Sovereign/Nazara is grandstanding, it views itself as superior to us, but that doesn't mean that it actually is and it certainly doesn't mean that we should believe it. It had an agenda, its agenda at that time was to kill us, what possible reason do we have to trust it?
I thought that the Reapers drove our technological advancement in a certain direction and any adjustments we make to their tech is relatively minor. I always considered the galaxy in ME to be in a state of technological stagnation, which is how humanity caught up with the other races in a relatively small time-frame. The Asari should be almost 3,000 years ahead of humans technologically, but instead they appear to be barely more advanced at all.
^That's more or less how I see it. The Reapers are billions of years old and have reached the pinnacle of what technology can do; they don't need or want more toys, especially not cheep knock-offs of their own stuff.
As to what they ARE after exactly , it's still a little unclear but as I said above, it seams to have something to do with whatever make a race unique. I suppose you could call them soul stealers and you'd probably have the basic shape of it, though that's probably still not quite the right terminology....but close enough.
As for the Asari, while I'd certainly agree they're resting on their laurels a bit, it should be noted that because they're so long lived, they've "only" been on the Citadel for what amounts to a couple of Asari lifetimes. That really isn't a very long time from a cultural standpoint. Human civilisations have certainly gone more or less unchaged for (relatively) longer without completely stagnating.
Mind you, apply that logic to the Salarians and it's a wonder they make any progress at all!
That's how I looked at it too after this game but...logically it doesn't make any sense for machines to be Reaping flesh if they are eternal, view as inferrior and they have always had existed. Everything about their actions is contradictory after ME2.
That's the best I could do to put it together.
He said Organic life is nothing but a mutation....Nothing but.
That means it's all unintentional unless they manipulate it.
Why not..their not antithesis to each other they mean different things. One means length of time the other means change.
I guess...
The Reapers didn't have Stealth or Cloak.
The Reapers didn't have Asari abilities
The Reapers didn't have Normandy's powerful Turian canon that broke the back of a vessel that was 20 times larger and powerful.
I think they are reaping just before the galactic tech becomes enough to truly overwhelm their technology but just enough for their to be advancement. I think the reapers lack a certain creativity and imagination. Perhaps that is the concept behind the Human form Reaper.
The concept behind the human Reaper is that it was just the core of what would be a new, full-sized Reaper with a normal Reaper shell. Concept art has already proven this. They weren't going to have a giant metal human flying around like Superman.
I don't see how the story can be called "contradictory" when we only have 2/3rds of it so far.
Agreed. It's not contradictory, it's just not going in the direction some people expected/wanted it to go.
Personally, I still think they're just preserving worthy species and exterminating the rest, and using whatever technology the galaxy had developed to maintain their own functionality during the long 50,000 year gaps between harvests. Maybe they started out doing this for a specific reason, but have since forgotten in the millions of years since the cycle first began.
That's great you guys agree with each other. But that doesn't explain the contradiction of GOD machines that have always existed that view the organic as inferior and yet need organic material to exist.
IF that was true they would have found that in Sovereign, but they didn't and said it was merely Geth Tech. Are we watching the same game and reading the same quotes because I'm seeing full contradictions across the board. (or close to it)
Just saw the ME3 preview....
"Is it normal for your balls to catch on fire while watching this?" I know mine did...
Yeah, a link to the VGA trailer was already posted.
As for the "contradictions," again, you're seeing "contradictions" in a story that isn't even finished yet.
That's fine.
But the contradictions still exist. If the Third Game bridges those contradictions later...that's fine but for now they are still directly opposed concepts.
You must know that because while you put the bunny ears on the word contradiction you didn't explain how Hanukkah Solo's information can possibly be resolved since we know Sovereign had no BIOLOGY in it according to the Council that identified it as truly Geth to support their incredulity.
There are many problems between ME1 and 2 that start with the story attempting to explain why the Council didn't believe the Reapers existed that I suspect will never be resolved.
1. They said Sovereign was all Geth Tech but the Geth but in ME2 a Reaper is partly biological.
2.They say Vigil lacked the power to activate but they can power other prothean devices such as at the Prothean Ruins Liara was found at.
3. Why wasn't the conversation recorded with Vigil such as Tali did in ME1 with a tech tool?
4. Sovereign being a Geth doesn't explain how he used the Relay Monument to bypass Citadel defenses, nor how he had direct control of the Citadel even though the Station personnel could not. The Geth had never been on the Citadel. How could they known about the Monument?
5. What about the mind control Indoctrination that Krahae's Men were subjected to? There were survivors, the doctor and Salarian Shepard let go (if you did it) That wasn't a Geth Technology. There were bodies..evidence to this...the Matriarch and others...
It's hard to believe with all this evidence both the Human Council and the Alien Council dismissed the attack on the Citadel as Geth. They should be able to verify that the Citadel is nothing more than Massive mass relay two years later. I think if you're looking for an explanation for all this in the third game, you'll be disappointed. ME2 was simple in constructed...a shooter but it wasn't the well designed story line of ME1. And it seems unlikely they can pull it all together in a seamless single construct that makes sense for the end game.
They had that opportunity in the Downloadable content.
I think the only way to look at the saga now after the second game is like how we look at much of trek. Inharmonious but a good product nonetheless.
You're taking an insane, genocidal machine on its word.
If you were to ask a creationist to describe the evolutionary process then they would likely use words like "mutation" and "accident" too because they're either ignorant about how the process actually works, or they willingly distort the truth to support their preferred philosophy. The Reapers are the same, they have a philosophy that drives them to do whatever it is they're doing, and they're willing to distort the truth of how organic life actually works to excuse their evil agenda.
Well, unless you think that a fleet of giant machines flew out of the singularity that existed "before" the big bang, they're not eternal. If they formed naturally over the billions of years that followed... well, so did we, just by a different method. They could be eternal if they originate from outside our universe, but there's no evidence to suggest that.
Most humans consider our species to be special somehow and that animals animals are inferior, but most of us eat meat. Hell, even vegetarians have no qualms with eating plants, and there's not many people that are going to tell you we're inferior to a head of lettuce.
And once again, the Reapers aren't gods, they're just machines with a god complex. The only beings that worship them are a group of Geth that were infected with a rounding error.
The three main council races have a vested interest in pretending that the Reapers aren't real; to stop the rise of humanity. They fear us, especially the Turians, and they don't want us gaining more influence by leading a crusade against the ultimate enemy. Whether the Council believes their own lies or not remains to be seen.
But that's humanism. Just because he doesn't share the importance of human centric thinking doesn't mean he's being dishonest.
Evolution doesn't know how evolution works. This is theory. We're talking about machines that according to the story would know. There really no sense in taking this into an evolution vs creation is there?
If you believe in the Big Bang which apparently even if they did it had no effect on them. That's why I called them "God Machines."
That's an awful analogy! You can't possibly think this is a proper response to the primary contradiction?
I'm just going by what was said and nothing else, dude. Always existed and claim to always will.
We weren't told that they were wrong... Shepard never questions the evidence. He never fought them on the points...so as far as the story is concerned there is no problem with the councils verdict.
It's as though the only difference is a point of view. But you explanation doesn't even answer why the human council is just as ignorant of the evidence...
I understand you guys like this game but I'm really shocked how you're willing to just close your eyes and ears here to these plot problems as though pointing out these logistical problems are going to spoil your enjoyment....com'on at least if you're going to attempt to explain it lets not ignore the Human council has no reason to distrust Shepard.
The shuttle ride to nowhere was a legitimate plot problem.
Taking Sovereign literally when it says it's kind have no origin and deriving plot issues from that is stretching.
It doesn't mean it's being honest either, and considering that it's trying to kill my entire species because it "demands it" I have no reason to trust it at all.
I'm not planning to, unless you want to defend the supposed merits of creationism. My point was that any idiot can abuse reality to support their philosophy, it happens in the real world all the time, so why should I trust Sovereign when it could be doing exactly the same thing?
You can't just accept what Sovereign says at face value, it is a villain, they're not well known for telling the truth.
Except the Reapers would have been infinitely bigger than the universe itself. Not to mention that the Reapers, like all physical objects, are composed of atoms, and atoms didn't exist at the beginning of the universe.
Of course, it is possible that the consciousness of the Reapers existed from the beginning and that their ships are just physical constructs that came later, but that goes into a realm of science that I'm not willing to delve into without hallucinogens on hand.
I do, but only because I disregard the notion that the Reapers are gods or eternal. I just consider them to be a different form of life, albeit a very condescending one. (Which is actually the same way I'd view any so-called gods that ending up being real.)
I walked past a guy in town a couple of weeks ago that claimed I was going to burn for eternity in a fiery pit. Doesn't mean he's right. I'm almost certain that he's not.
No, it just means that Shepard knows it's pointless to confront the Council once they've made their mind up about something. If Shepard being proved right continually in the first game isn't enough to convince the Council, what hope would he have now? It doesn't mean that there's no evidence that the Reapers are real, just that the Council are going to deny it for as long as they can get away with it.
I think it's perfectly explained by Udina in ME1 when he sided with the Council in grounding the Normandy so as not to risk the influence humanity had gained. Even if Anderson is chosen to join the Council, one man cannot overcome the bureaucracy inherent in the system.
There are problems with ME2, I'm perfectly willing to admit that. The narrative structure wasn't as good as in the first game, it was a little absurd how each character had a personal errand they wanted you to go on, the human Reaper looked silly... but overall, I felt it was a better game. I don't see the contradictions you mention as I do not believe they exist, at least not in the way you explain them.
You mean you don't believe him on the basis of incredulity.
...that's not enough...at least not for me. I'm searching for a more reasonable explanation.
It's testimony. To invalidate it you must have opposing testimony or evidence to the contrary. Incredulity is the most thinnest vapor-less reason for disbelief. I'm sorry I see no other choice given the evidence to take him at his word.
I don't know what you're talking about, honestly.
Do you have any real reason other than your dislike of Sovereign's behavior to find his statements false?
As an objective observer I have no choice.
Untill he says something contradictory to previous statements are what I know is true in the game...I must take it at face value. That's the nature of a unbiased judgment.
How do you know this?
How do you know that their form hasn't evolved or that they they've changed themselves to enter our universe? They maybe Avatars.
ah so you do understand what I'm saying.
I understand but this just took the form of a belief and how am I supposed to compare a belief to testimony of Sovereign as anything more than an opposing opinion?
That's just as much a confidence statement as his proclamation.
...eh...that' not a direct inference and the syllogism would have a hard time standing up to logic. Like my statement it's merely a possible meaning.
Without the contradiction by Shepard it's an acquiescence to the facts they've given. He may not think it's worth contradicting but there is no basis now to say the council's objections are false.
Ugh...that's far from perfect as explanations go. You had to regress all they way back to ME1 to explain a completely independent decision in ME2 of a clear and present danger that isn't acted upon.
You see you're looking at a New Yorker Suit jacket that's full of lose threads and saying" That looks good." when I rather see shoddy workmanship and bad tailoring. This isn't air tight.
Hmmm....you don't believe...they exist.
Oh, well. I laid it out as objectively as I could. There were some interesting theories but the mesh isn't perfect. The first game will be a classic for what seems to be a perfectly composed plot, reveals and twist. I think it's too bad that the Second Game couldn't at least hold the continuity. On it's own ME2 is an good game made better by the downloadable content but it's barely a match for the perfection of the first game because of these contradictions and like you said these character quest that were nothing more than high artillery errands. But still worth the play and many many ways.
But they weren't using flesh, they were using a paste of raw genetic material. Essentially, genetic material is just the organic way of carrying information. So with that in mind, it seams far more likely that they were after the information contained in human DNA and as much of it as possible.
Really? A ship that large creeping around and nobody spotted it on sensors until they actually saw the thing land on Eden Prime? I'd call that pretty damn stealthy. As for a cloaking system; that's a bit of a straw man argument as the only one we know about is the one used by infiltrators (i.e. people) not ships.
You mean this thing? It's based on Sovereign's weapon. You know, the one that cut Alliance cruisers in half like they were made of paper?
As for having "Asari abilities"; for one thing, biotic abilities are the result of a body exposed to element zero and have little nodules of the stuff throughout it's nervous system. What it basically mean is the body becomes a mass effect field generator, like the ones that power shields, fire projectiles and propel ships. So yes, Reapers DO have "Asari abilities."
Or you can call into question the character of the witness and expose any biases they may have. For example, if OJ Simpson were to testify for a friend of his that is accused of murdering his wife, the jury are going to have a hard time taking him seriously.
The Reapers have an agenda, and their agenda is mass genocide. I have a very hard time accepting Sovereign's account as being impartial considering that fact.
Given the evidence, I see absolutely no reason to take him at his word and I fail to understand why any person would.
I don't know why, I always make perfect sense. Just look at my sig.
Okay, I'm about to Godwin the thread, but here goes:
If an alien arrived on Earth in 1944, with almost no understanding of human societies, and found themselves in a Nazi concentration camp where they were told that they had to be killed for the purity of the German race, should that alien accept the testimony of the Nazis as being the objective truth?
You should never take information from a single source as being objective truth, especially when that information comes from the villain in a piece of fiction.
Because that's what all the evidence and mathematical models derived from peer review suggest at present. The models could be faulty and we are almost certainly lacking important evidence that will alter the theory over time, but it would take major new evidence to disprove some sort of big bang event as being the origin of the universe's current form.
They certainly could be, but I don't remember any suggestion or evidence in ME1 that pointed to an extra-dimensional origin for the Reapers. And if they do come from outside our universe, what use would our technology be to them?
No, belief is when you trust a person or an idea with no evidence backing it up. Not trusting someone because they don't have any supporting evidence is not belief.
Not exactly because I said I'm almost certain, I always leave open some room for doubt. However, given the lack of evidence to support his proclamation, I feel relatively safe in disregarding his claim, and I feel the same way about the Reapers.
Certainly, the Council's claims could be true, and they could have reached their judgement that Sovereign was a Geth ship based on the evidence available to them. But given the incompetence of the Council as displayed in the first game, and their willingness to disregard Shepard's claims even though he kept being proven correct, I believe there is precedent for my point of view.
And you remind me of that priest in Father Ted that kept on breaking things to "prove" the shoddy workmanship.
"They're cowboys, Ted!"
That's true.
Yet it's not equivalent to testimony. It's discrediting the witness and it often doesn't lead to reasonable doubt in favor of convictions.
1-Nazi Germany would have the considerable burden of proving their race was pure to being with.
2-The only way one could threaten the perceived purity is to mate with a German. Which the mere act of existing does not quantify in of it's self.
Since these assertions are false the testimony is not only discredited but countered by reason and logic.
I do not know.
There is not enough information to make a more accurate speculation.
I'm afraid belief describes a state of mind that is irrelevant to having evidence or not, according to the definition. Any cognitive content held as true. You're speaking of a philosophy.
I'm not sure of the difference between using flesh and using genetic material you're trying to make but I've seen some BIOWARE information that says these human form reapers are indeed the heart of real Reapers and that every Reaper has reaped species inside.
That means there is a fundamental change between Sovereign and the other Reapers. Even the Second Reaper found at the edge of the Gas Giant under the study of Cerberus didn't reveal anything organic.
I hope for the sake of the story that you're right that their extracting information as absurd as that is. (So many better ways to do it) Because there is no way to keep that genetic material viable for 50,000 years let alone Billions of years.
I'm sure it's "stealth" as far as being discreet but the Turian Fleet had no problems tracking it's approach to the Citadel.
And no it's not a Strawman to exemplify a technology which combat forces have shown to use which the Sovereign/Saren form did not use while yet using many other forms of tech.
Big ship destroy small ship: Sure it has the power.
Small ship destroy big ship: Now that's special.
If Fire power wasn't a factor then the only use for the Geth is Canon Fodder but clearly Sovereign couldn't handle the offensive requirements for destroying a whole fleet. His armament was at least limited in number. But there was no rapid fire from Sovereign. It's likely he wasn't a true offensive weapon at all. Perhaps he merely had Offensive weaponry.
According to the wiki, biotics of other races are produced by exposure to element zero. The Asari biotics have a natural ability independent of element zero to manipulate dark energy. This is done by eezo nodules and while technology might be able to create the same effects on ships we mostly haven't seen it but technology certainly hasn't produced the same effects on a human level without that element zero exposure. (not that we've seen)
For instance the Heretic Geth had no such ability
Yet the Collectors did.
They seemed to have drawn a strict line between biology and technology.
Asari biotics are not developed independent of exposure to element zero. That's impossible in the Mass Effect setting. It's more likely that Thessia, the asari homeworld, has element zero in its planetary makeup (in addition to the standard stuff like iron, nickel, etc.), exposing all life on Thessia--including the asari--to element zero and thus giving them biotic abilities. That means asari probably even have a little element zero in their own bodies, similar to how humans have iron in theirs.
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To actually be capable of handling rain and lower temperatures you are probably going to have to buy something a bit ski like. Sartorial coats don't tend to be much use at multi tasking.
I have a vintage Navy issue peacoat from the 40s that is fantastic; it weighs an absolute tonne but is totally wind proof and can deal with pretty heavy rain. Might be worth investigating I suppose?


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You hear about it on the news every day -- criminals and profiteers have made the internet into a war zone. From bank intrusions, to assaults by massive botnets, to coordinated attacks by foreign nationalists, there seems to be no end in sight to cybercrime.
Indeed, the internet, according to Symantec, is becoming the high-crime district of the next century as hackers find themselves part of a thriving market with little fear of serious repercussions if they play it by the book.
The Symantec Report on the Internet Underground Economy, to be released today, details the hale and hearty internet black market. A keystroke logger might run you $23, a host for your phishing scheme $10. If you want a botnet, it will cost you $225. Want a tool to crack bank security using a known vulnerability? It will cost an average of $740, and could cost you as much as $3,000 for a good one. However, for both the buyer and the seller, the reward for online crime is proving to be equally lucrative, according to Symantec's report.
For over a year, from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008, Symantec monitored cybercriminals on IRC channels and internet forums. Through the extensive research, they generated one of the most cohesive pictures of the modern state of internet crime, including the tools used, the average prices, and even the flow of stolen financial information.
Credit card information was the most commonly requested good or service, accounting for approximately 30 percent of sales. Bank account credentials were a hot seller, priced anywhere from $10 to $1,000 depending on the amount of money in the account and where it was located.
Apparently cybercrime does pay; Symantec found that sellers' total goods had a combined sales price of around $275M USD. Adding in the extra income from emptying victims' accounts and maxing their credit cards, this total could soar to a $7B USD business.
Aside from tracking hackers and cyberthieves, the study also tracked another form of illicit internet activity -- software piracy. The study tracked sales of pirated software between July and December. The most commonly pirated type of software was desktop games, followed by utility applications and then multimedia software, such as photo editors, 3D animation, and HTML editors.
It appears that people within the U.S. are making most of the money off the sale of pirated software. Of the underground sales, 41 percent were uploaded by people within the U.S., with Romania a distant second with 13 percent. North America had by far the largest underground economy of servers.
One intriguing trend that Symantec noted was the rise of cybergangs in Russia and Eastern Europe. These gangs typically consist of acquaintances met online and in IRC chats and were much more coherent and aggressive than their western counterparts. For this reason Russia has often been cited as a haven for illegal internet activity.


text: Hot on the heels, or wheels, of the announcement of the black Mario Kart bundle for Europe, Nintendo UK has today announced that Europe will also be getting a new and exclusive Wii Fit Plus bundle, featuring a black Wii console, a black Wii Balance board, Wii Fit Plus software and Wii Sports. Wii Fit Plus provides a fun work-out solution for both body and mind, all from the comfort of your own living room. It's jam packed with over 60 activities including fun games which help to improve your balance, numerous strength training exercises, and yoga-based activities. The Wii Balance board is a vital part not just of Wii Fit Plus but also of the many other Wii games that it's compatible with. It has built-in sensors measuring weight and detecting shifts in balance, both from side to side and front to back, making it extremely responsive to your every move. You'll have a lot of fun turning it into a skateboard or snowboard or even a bicycle during the course of the game. And of course, the golden oldie ever-popular Wii Sports is also included, offering up lots of fun sports such as golf, tennis and boxing. The bundle will hit the shelves in Europe on December 3, for an RRP of £199.99.


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Two killed in head-on Route 7 collision
BENNINGTON -- Two people were killed and one airlifted to Albany Medical Center Monday when a vehicle tried to pass a tractor trailer on Route 7 and collided with an oncoming car.
Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said at 10:35 p.m. a 2002 Oldsmobile being driven by Jamie R. Sorel, 36, of Bennington, was headed north on Route 7 and attempted to pass a 2006 Freightliner tractor trailer being driven by Steven D. Klatt, 57, of Weare, New Hampshire.
Doucette said it is believed Sorel was traveling at an excessive speed and attempted to pass the truck in a no-passing zone.
Sorel collided head-on with a 1998 Volkswagen Jetta being driven by Danny C. Thomas, 26, of Pownal, who had come around the bend south of Carpenter Hill Road. The impact collapsed both driver side compartments, lifted Sorel's vehicle off the ground and spun it into the side of the tractor trailer.
Both cars ended up in the southbound lane while Klatt brought his vehicle to a stop.
Sorel and Thomas were killed, while Klatt was not injured.
Tori Green, 19, of Pownal, was a passenger in Thomas' vehicle. She suffered significant injuries and was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York.
Sorel, Thomas, and Green were not wearing seatbelts, police said.
Alcohol is suspected to be a factor in the crash, but Doucette said no specifics would be released until autopsies are completed.
Bennington Rural Fire Department, the Medical Examiner's Office, and Mahar and Son Funeral Home were at the crash scene along with Bennington Police. Route 7 was closed for four hours.
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A cousin who lives in San Diego first got me started with half-triathlons a few years back. He told me about the different facets to the race -- the cycling, the swimming and the running -- and encouraged me to come back out to California during the offseason to try it.
I was still in the Minors back then and I decided to train with him. When I came back, I went to the gym, ran on the treadmill, swam in the pool and biked on the stationeries. The thing was, he wanted me to actually get out there and participate in a race with him.
Now I'm glad I finally gave it a shot. It's something I really like doing because of the challenge provided by the individual components of the race. I love to swim. I'm not that into biking, but it's somewhat fun. I'm not a big fan of running, but as a pitcher, I do a lot of running.
The full triathlon is a two-mile swim, 120-mile bike ride and a marathon run. I compete in the half-triathlon. It's about a half-mile swim, a bike ride of 30-60 miles and a 10k run to finish.
At the end of the day, you're just exhausted from head to toe, but it's one of the best feelings in the world. You see all those people cheering for you and it just pushes you even harder.
The mental aspect of the triathlon is harder than the physical competition. Anybody can do the physical portion of the events; you don't always have to be going fast. I never really cared about my time. Mentally, it was more challenging.
Competing in triathlons is a great way to increase your mental strength because it forces you to maintain your focus. I think that helps in baseball, especially when I'm on the mound and I need to persevere and work through a situation.
I hope to play baseball until I'm 40, but I'm going to try and compete in full triathlons when my career is over. I'd like to see if could qualify and compete in a full triathlon.
If I had to pick out two of my Mets teammates who I think would be strong triathlon competitors, I'd go with Billy Wagner -- he's very strong, both mentally and physically -- but the player I think would do the best would be Tommy Glavine. He's mentally tough. He knows what it would take.
Heath Bell, a 29-year-old right-hander from Oceanside, Calif., had 35 strikeouts over 37 innings of relief work for the Mets this season.
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Thanks to Yankees Universe, fan wins ALDS tix
By Tim Britton / MLB.com
That was the plan on Saturday night for Yankees fan Lauren Vasil, who won a pair of tickets to Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Yankees and Twins. Vasil's free ride to the game came courtesy of Yankees Universe and some personal persistence.
Like a lot of people, Vasil fills out online sweepstakes all the time. Like a lot of people, she never wins. Well, until now.
"One day, someone called and said I got tickets. I didn't believe them," Vasil said. "It's awesome."
Vasil wisely decided to take her boyfriend -- "a pretty big Yankee fan" himself, in her words -- to the game, the first postseason contest held in the Bronx since the Bombers clinched their 27th World Series championship against the Phillies last November.
The seats in the upper deck along the third-base line provided a nice view of the action on a perfect autumn night.
"I wouldn't sell these tickets for anything," Vasil said. "How else do you get a chance for tickets for free to a Yankees game? I don't care where you sit; it's always a good seat in the house."
As proof of her dedication to the Yankees, she made it to the game in the middle of the first inning -- all the way from Pennsylvania after running a 5K race earlier on Saturday. It promised to be a long day for the resident of Bayside, Queens, but one well worth it with a possible Yankees victory.
Don't infer anything from where Vasil lives now, by the way; growing up in Hamilton, N.J., she was a tried-and-true Yankees fan.
"In my family, when you're born, you're born Yankee and Giants fans," she said.
As such, Vasil joined Yankees Universe this season, mainly so she could -- don't tell anybody -- listen to day games at work as an online marketer. She took advantage of the ticket discounts as well, making a number of trips to Yankee Stadium with family and friends.
Along with MLB.com At-Bat and Gameday Audio, members in Yankees Universe receive fast-track entrance at the Stadium and the Yankees Museum, as well as discounts at the online shop at yankees.com.
Vasil, who was at Yankee Stadium when the Bombers clinched the AL pennant last season against the Angels, was looking forward to the chance to see them win another clinching postseason game and take a big step toward repeating as World Series champions.
"I'm hoping I'm good luck," she said. "It would be very nice."
Tim Britton is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Born July 7, 1957, in Danville, he was the son of Clarence and Virgie Mott Pyburn. Eddy was retired from Deltic Farm and Timber Mill. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, family get-togethers and cared deeply for his family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father and brother, Jackie Pyburn.
Survivors include his mother of Siloam Springs; daughter, Natasha Raney and husband Brian of Conway; son, Lee Pyburn and wife Felicia of Ola; son, Mick Pyburn of Ola; brother, Kenneth Pyburn and wife Sue of Casa; sisters, Ann Owens of Ringling, Okla., and Linda Ramey and husband Ken of Cave Springs; grandchildren, Whitley and Tyler Raney, Cameron Pyburn and Zach Pyburn; girlfriend, Michelle Smith; and nieces and nephews, Kenny, Mark and Jamie Pyburn, Lorrie Ann Smith, Beckey Short, Jimmy Norwood, Jason Lowery and Michael Tucker.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Ola Freewill Baptist Church with the Rev. John David Keeling officiating. Burial will be at Sandlin Cemetery in Ola. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today at Cornwell Funeral Home in Danville.
Pallbearers include Johnny Summit, Danny Burfield, Johnny Lawrence, Gary Carter, Tommy Adams and David King. Honorary pallbearers include Michael Mullins, Frank Via, Doug Smith, Thomas Damon, Mark Buford, Tommy McGee and Noey.
Arrangements by Cornwell Funeral Home, Danville.
Online guestbook and condolences at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.
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Friday's pancakes and sausage breakfast at the American Legion Hut was pretty damn good.
It was an all-you-can-eat affair to raise money for the American Legion baseball program, but I only had three cakes and three sausage patties. I consider pancakes to be holy food, almost manna from Heaven, so you understand how good I felt when I finished.
At about 7:45 a.m. the old building was full of people eating breakfast, and the take-out line was also busy.
It is always fun for me to see the community come together to do good things. I didn't really talk to many people. Mostly all I did was eat, and watch and listen to all that was happening.
U.S. Rep Tom Cotton was on hand serving pancakes, and Russellville Alderman Martin Irwin manned that take-out counter. Mayor Bill Eaton was in the kitchen cooking. There were many, many folks doing all sorts of chores around the room.
That's the good part about living in Russellville for me. We have a community where people do come together to help one another and do good things for others who live here.
I tip my hat to the good people at the American Legion ... those pancakes were good. Wanna do it again next month?
The talk of the town late last week was how the Russellville City Council sent the zoning question for a new Walmart Neighborhood Market back to the Planning Commission.
If you look at the story on Page 1A of today's paper, some of the players involved in all of this aren't sure just what is happening and why the Council took this action.
Of course, in my seat, down on East Second Street, I see a council that is working pretty hard to dodge making a decision on the topic.
We can talk all we want about comprehensive plans, whether the planned unit development (PUD) Walmart has presented to the Council meets some vague six-point requirement, what is an impact fee and whether it should be $125,000 or $350,000, and any number of other questions that keep popping up over and over again at City Council meetings.
For me, the bottom line is while the people of Russellville deserve due diligence, it shouldn't take months and months to make a decision and vote on the zoning request.
The mayor believes some on the council are stalling. I believe no one is willing to step up to the plate and take a swing.
It is actually getting to be funny. I get these calls from people around the state asking what's going on with Walmart in Russellville?
I always respond to my friends that we have some interesting politics happening here, and that someday, it will all get worked out.
However, it doesn't appear that's going to happen anytime soon.
Coaching kids
My high school buddy from Virginia, Joe Hotter, is involved not only in the lives of his sports-playing children, but also of kids from throughout the community in Fairfax County who play youth sports.
His own experience with his father pushed him toward a lifetime of coaching youth sports.
I look around, and Joe is one of the best dads I know. His teenage daughters are active in sports and all kinds of other activities. The girls are smart, good kids, who have a solid understanding of life that was instilled in them by their father.
On this page is a guest column from Joe about his experiences in coaching and why he volunteers his time and energy to work with kids. It is a good read from a good guy.
While we don't normally publish guest columns from folks who don't live in the area, I believe this is worth reading.


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Lane County Commission, Eugene City Council, are you reading this?
I could make sure the politicians are reading by naming a bunch of names and those commissioners and councilors who I'm pretty sure have Google alerts set up for their names (Jay Bozievich, I'm looking at you) will click right on this.
Citizen involvement in city and county politics is key. But how do you get people to realize that those often deadly dull meetings of mostly older white guys are important and that's where decisions are made about human rights, homelessness, clean water, forests and parks, to name only a few?
You have the community access TV station make a cool video. Go Whitehorse, Yukon Territory! I keep waiting to see Leslie Knope's face pop up, but no, it's real.


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Down economy strategy 1: Outsource pallets and reduce your operating costs
When it comes to outsourcing, most of us think of turning over warehousing or transportation to a third party to reduce operating costs. But outsourcing pallets can deliver the same benefits.
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Leading manufacturers and distributors have been outsourcing their warehousing and transportation operations to third party logistics providers (3PLs) for years. The rationale is simple: The company doing the outsourcing saves on capital expenses and concentrates on what it does best; the 3PL, meanwhile, is able to reduce its customers logistics' costs by concentrating on what it does best, which is warehousing, order fulfillment and distribution.
Those same benefits can be realized by turning over your pallet program to a third party pallet pooling operation like CHEP, PECO or iGPS. Instead of buying new or used pallets that are then shipped from a manufacturing plant or warehouse, never to be seen again, a user rents the pallets, paying a rental fee for each trip. As with a 3PL, you're sharing the cost of the asset across a group of users who participate in the pool instead of absorbing the cost yourself.
The benefit: The quality and consistency of the pallets are assured, and the pallet pooler assumes the responsibility for pallet management issues like repair and disposal.
The savings: An average of $1 per pallet trip in the supply chain.
As with outsourcing logistics requirements, not everyone is a candidate for outsourcing pallets. At least four conditions need to be in place.
First, there needs to be enough volume to receive pallets from a pooler in full truckload quantities. For that reasons, most of the shippers that use pooled pallets manufacturer consumer packaged goods.
Second, the company needs to be able to ship its product on a standard 48' by 40' pallet.
Third, the company ships its products in full truckloads rather than LTL. You need to be able to flow the pallets directly into your customer's distribution network and then back. If you're shipping LTL, it's possible, but it's a lot more complicated because an LTL shipment may go through several transportation depots before it's delivered.
Last, and most important, you must be shipping into supply chains that are already heavily penetrated by a pooler. The reason: Your customer will be responsible for getting the pallet back. If your customers are participants in a pallet pool, they understand how to handle the pallets once they receive them and insure that they're returned to a center.
If you meet those requirements, joining a pallet pool is relatively straightforward.
With CHEP, here's how it works:
Step 1: CHEP assigns an implementation team to set up the administrative controls; that's the process for communicating your pallet requirements by location to CHEP. Usually, that will be done by EDI. Most companies estimate their requirements and establish a shipping schedule for a set period of time.
Step 2. The rental meter begins running when a load of pallets leaves CHEP's depot to be delivered to your plant or warehouse. When the pallets arrive, they go into your production environment just like any other pallets. Each of your customers is assigned a destination code by CHEP. When a load of palletized product leaves your yard, you enter that code and the number of pallets shipped to that destination into the CHEP system. At that point, more or less, your meter stops running and the pallets become the responsibility of your customer. Once they're shipped, they're no longer in your inventory and you're no longer paying for them.
Step 3. Once your customers receive your delivery, they make arrangements to get the pallets back to CHEP. In most cases, the retailer or grocer will ship the pallets to a CHEP center, but in some instances CHEP makes arrangements to pick them up.
In March of 2009, Modern posted three strategies for reducing operational costs in a tough economy on our website. The idea was simple: In good times, distributors and manufacturers focus on processes and technologies that enable growth. In a tough economy like the one we're experiencing now, the focus is on reducing costs to maintain margins. The best improvements will continue delivering results long after business improves. While those lines are now 2.5 years old, they still resonate today.
About the AuthorBob Trebilcock Bob Trebilcock, editorial director, has covered materials handling, technology, logistics and supply chain topics for nearly 30 years. In addition to Supply Chain Management Review, he is also Executive Editor of Modern Materials Handling. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Trebilcock lives in Keene, NH. He can be reached at 603-357-0484.
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