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Just reading up on the latest blue notes regarding Patch 5.2.
I think it'll be interesting to see how the "buy the farm" system works in the new Patch. For those of you already working your farm, it may be a good time to start stockpiling your wares. If you're not working the farm yet, I highly suggest that you at least start the questline to get your farm started.
I'm excited to see which factions you can get work orders from. The money possibilities are here if there are issuing factions that also sell BoE items and rare pets. Anyone on PTR seen this yet? Maybe this is a good reason for me to start checking out the PTR.
Another exciting addition is Battle-Stones dropping from PvP Pet Battles. I've seen these going for as much as 10k on my server and I can't wait to have more opportunities to pick these up and make some bank. Also, the possibility of picking up a Lesser Charm of Good Fortune from pet battles is another opportunity for more gold. So, train up your best team now to start racking those babies up.
Unfortunately for those of you who use the "flee 'til it's rare" method of pet gathering, this will now inflict damage to your pet team. I can't say that I'm stoked about that, but it's a minor inconvenience for my pet battle strategy and doesn't impact my gold making at all.
For those of you in the Transmog market- I gave this up because I got tired of the endless reposts and felt it was costing more to post than I was making- you'll have a bigger market as now Two-Handers can be Transmog'd to each other, same for One-Handers and Staves to Polearms.
This brings me to crafting. Blacksmiths listen up! There are some pretty cool looking weapons available for the Lightning Forge. Ghost Iron Bars (for Lightning Steel Ingot) and Living Steel is a major component for almost everything. So stock up now! Oh by the way, some of these are BoE & ilvl 463+. For you Engineers out there, there's finally a legit item to sell. Meet Pierre! Pierre is a pet that resembles a pot-bellied stove and functions as a campfire. Since he functions as a campfire, there's reason to believe that he will give the campfire's standard Spirit buff which will make him a high demand pet for casters. The only uncertainty is whether he'll be cageable since he's currently BoP. Lastly, for you Scribes in the audience, there's another opportunity to increase your ever expanding purse of jingling coins with the new glyphs being introduced in this patch (too many to name here and now).
If you've been playing on the PTR and have something to contribute regarding these new money-makers, I'd love to have your input. Until then, I guess I'll have to split my gameplay to get the inside scoop on 5.2. Expect an edit/update when I have further info.
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I haven't been doing much in traditional genealogy the past few days. I'm continuing to cite my sources for the Stephens-McCullough family. Not much done on that, though. I did complete a project for my grandmother.
My grandmother is soon to be 90 years old. She lives in a nursing home and has decorated the wall next to her bed with oodles of family photos. When I visited her a couple of weeks ago, she wanted a picture of her old high school to add to her collection. So my brother and I have been looking everywhere. She graduated from Central High School in Ft Worth in 1933, so we didn't know if the building even still existed! I finally found a small photo in a book of old Ft Worth post cards that I found at Border's Books. I bought the book and scanned the photo, then hunted around the Internet to find some green (her favorite color!) graphics. I found a nice plaid, then opened up my Paint Shop Pro and created a collage of the school photo, my grandmother's graduation photo, and her graduation announcement. It turned out really well, so I got a frame at Walmart and was off to visit Nanny. She was thrilled, and now has one more photo for her "wall of memories"!


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The research is the latest in a number of different activities the team has been monitoring using low-power radio waves. Thanks to new AI technology, the system is now able to translate subtle movement into meaningful information about the subject's sleep patterns, including sleep stages (light/deep/R.E.M.), movement and breathing rate.
Testing was conducted on 25 volunteers over 100 nights of sleep. Study lead professor Dina Katabi tells TechCrunch that the system was able to detect sleep patterns with around an 80 percent accuracy rate — roughly the same as industry-standard EEG sleep tests.
While little conclusive research has been done on sleep tracking through wearables like Fitbit and the Apple Watch, those products rely almost exclusively on movement detected by an accelerometer to determine sleep patterns.
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Scientists get funny at Bright Club
9 January 2012
Turning science into stand-up comedy, three scientists in the division of Natural Sciences at the University of Sydney will take to the stage as part of Bright Club at the Sydney Festival over three nights in January. James Heathers, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, Associate Professor Dieter Hochuli, from the School of Biological Sciences, and Professor Alex McBratney, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, have been selected for their comic skills and ability to make science snigger-worthy.
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James Heathers, from the School of Psychology, will speak at the first Bright Club on Wednesday 11 January which has the theme 'Testosterone' for all four stand-up comics. James will find the humour in his PhD research area of psychophysiology - the interplay between the body and the mind.
Associate Professor Dieter Hochuli, from the School of Biological Sciences, will make the audience laugh at the second Bright Club on Wednesday 18 January, which has the theme of 'Sex'. As an entomologist, Associate Professor Hochuli will share amusing stories from the insect world, from his "time spent watching insects and spiders do stuff in the name of solving our great environmental crises".
Professor Alex McBratney, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, will attempt to share his musings on 'Getting the smutty dirt on soil' at the third Bright Club on Wednesday 25 January, with the theme of 'Earth, Sea, Sky'. Professor McBratney is a soil scientist who will bring satire, schtick and general silliness and hopes to survive the experience only slightly scathed.
All the participating academics have been hand-picked by Sydney Festival organisers for their comic ability and then coached by Bright Club host, James O'Loghlin, who is also a University of Sydney alumnus. James O'Loghlin is one of Australia's leading comedians and media personalities, having performed stand-up comedy around Australia for decades and presented The New Inventors on ABC TV from 2004 until 2011.
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The country's gas prices have hike significantly over the past few weeks and experts tell why.
You wish you could quit, but you can�t.
There it is, on the street corner: gasoline. It was cheaper when you started, but you need it to keep going, and the price just keeps heading up, taking a bigger cut of the household income.
Around Christmas, local gas prices were below $3.20 � but then they started inching up. Prices leveled off during late January, but since the beginning of February it�s hard to keep track with the cost of a gallon of regular unleaded, even for the stations themselves.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Victor Kosinski pulled into the Kangaroo on Plaza Boulevard and Herritage Street looking to fill up his tank.
�They had $3.79 on the marquee, and when I was pumping the gas, I didn�t realize that they actually had a different cost for the gas on the pump,� Kosinski said. �I just grabbed the pump to put in the car, and I was in a hurry, and didn�t realize it was $3.86. I mentioned that to the person behind the counter, and she said about 40 minutes before I pumped my gas, the company made the change at the corporate level.�
According to GasBuddy.com, regular unleaded prices in the Kinston area as of late Friday afternoon ranged from $3.73 to $4.25.
Kosinski continued, �I wasn�t very happy about that, but there wasn�t much I could do about it at that time. Then, overnight, I saw on the sign they made it $3.90-something, but you couldn�t tell what it was. A little later that same morning, they changed it to $3.95. So, the gas jumped from $3.79 to $3.95 in less than 16 hours.�
And while Lenoir County has some of the highest overall prices of any county in the region, it could be worse.
�As troubling as that may seem, believe it or not, there are a couple of markets in the U.S. where they�ve seen prices go up by more than 60 cents a gallon during the same period,� GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Gregg Laskoski said. �Chicago, Detroit and I think Miami have seen similar increases. It�s just extraordinary. At the same time, while the North Carolina average is $3.79, the U.S. average is $3.72, and a month ago it was $3.28.�
Last year, the trend was similar � prices bottoming out in late December, then rising through the rest of the winter and into the spring. The issue, it turns out, is refinery capacity. The federal Environmental Protection Agency mandates refineries make a summer-blend gasoline, which is supposed to be a purer blend with less volatile organic compounds.
VOCs tend to evaporate quicker and are worse for the environment, hence the reformulation. Since those compounds don�t evaporate as easily during winter, there�s a cheaper, less-pure winter-blend gasoline. Though, depending on regulations and average temperatures state-by-state, the gas you�d buy in Central Florida isn�t the same as what you�d put in your tank in Western New York.
Generally, refineries distribute summer-blend gas from May 1 to Sept. 30, and vice-versa for the winter blend. Of course, that means a transition period in which supply tightens up.
�At this time of year, what happens is the refineries are all basically trying to do the same thing at the same time, and it requires them to shut down part of their operations,� Laskoski said. �What they�re doing, they�re trying to reduce their inventory of winter-blend gasoline so they can get ready to produce the summer-blend gasoline.
�The two are totally different formulations, so it�s not like you can just take a couple of additives and add it to the winter-blend gas, and now, all of a sudden, you have summer-blend gas.�
Also, since it�s prudent to conduct annual maintenance during a transition period, that�s underway as well. Nationally, from Dec. 19 to Thursday, refining capacity dropped from 91 percent to 82 percent. East Coast refineries are running at 72 percent capacity and Gulf Coast refineries dropped from 96 percent capacity to 81 percent. There�s less gas to go around.
And that�s even with a drop in demand. As prices have gone up from the heady days of sub-$1-a-gallon gas in the last �90s, Americans have cut back in the amount used. But global demand stepped in and more than filled the gap.
�While U.S. exports of petroleum products continue at a robust level, the relationship between product exports and domestic gasoline prices is quite complex and exports do not appear to be contributing to rising U.S. pump prices since the start of the year,� said the U.S. Energy Information Administration in the latest edition of This Week in Petroleum.
It continued, �As U.S. demand for gasoline and distillate has declined, robust global demand for petroleum products has provided Gulf Coast refineries with an export market for gasoline and distillate produced using capacity that would otherwise have been operated at lower utilization rates.�
And don�t look for prices to come down any time soon. Statewide regular unleaded prices peaked at $3.91 a gallon in April of 2011, just as the switch-over to summer-blend gasoline was starting. Prices fell until late June.
�We�re projecting that prices will peak in April, with the national average between $3.80 and $3.95,� Laskoski said. �After the peak, we think the prices are only going to come down gradually � we�re not going to see a sudden drop in gas prices, because we (would be) at the beginning of summer driving season. That�s when consumer demand is greatest, so realistically, it could be a year that�s similar to last year, when we saw elevated prices for much of the summer.�
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The Dalai Lama says Tibet is "hell on earth," but China's central government is boasting that $45.4 billion in aid to the region over the past nine years has helped "boost Tibet's leapfrog development" and achieve "lasting stability."
The announcement came during a high-level planning conference on Tibet from Jan. 18 to 20, attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
Whether Tibet is currently stable now, or will remain so, is of course a hotly contested topic. In 2008, rioting erupted in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, after the arrest of Tibetan monks seeking to commemorate a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Last April, China executed two Tibetan men for participating in that riot.
But China is claiming phenomenal economic growth in the region. "Tibet has been able to maintain double-digit growth in terms of GDP for 17 straight years, outpacing the national average," reports official Chinese news agency Xinhua. Tibet's GDP was expected to top $5.85 billion in 2009, up 12.1 percent year-on-year and up 170 percent from 2000, according to Xinhua.
This emphasis on economic development, reports The New York Times, "indicates that Chinese leaders still see the solution to the problem of Tibet as one of supplying creature comforts." But the issues of cultural suppression and political restriction must be addressed to change Tibetan attitudes toward the state, says Robbie Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University in New York.
"As far as one can tell," he wrote by e-mail Monday, "Tibetans certainly appreciate improved economic conditions and greater opportunities for consumption and commodities, but this doesn't explain why Tibet has to have mass tourism, widespread mining, unrestricted migration of non-Tibetans, or religious and cultural restrictions."
Ethnic Han Chinese civilians today outnumber Tibetans in Tibet's capital, Lhasa. Longtime Han migration to the region sped up in 2006 with completion of a $4.2 billion railway linking Lhasa to Beijing, leading some observers to question whether Tibetans or Han Chinese have benefited more from the region's economic growth.
"They're developing the territories they have conquered. No one would dispute that," says Ganden Thurman, executive director of Tibet House, a New York-based organization dedicated to preserving the country's cultural heritage. "The point is that ... it's not being done to help the Tibetans. It's being done to exploit the natural resources of the area."
Mr. Thurman cited the bloody riots that broke out in Lhasa in March 2008, sparked by the police suppression of monks protesting to mark the 49th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising in 1959.
"The people have nothing to lose," he said by telephone Monday. "People are fleeing the country. That's voting with your feet."
By 2020, President Hu reportedly said, the per capita income of Tibetan farmers and herders should be close to the national average. Investments in Tibet have already expanded roads, electricity, and safe drinking water. Beijing also credits itself for increasing the supply of Tibetan-made products, such as the first batch of Lhasa Beer that was exported to the US in May 2009.
But Hu added that greater emphasis must be put on increasing environmental protection and improving the livelihood of Tibetan farmers and herdsmen. And further growth must still overcome the "separatist forces led by the Dalai clique," he said. "Hu asked to substantially prevent and strike 'penetration and sabotage' by 'Tibet independence' separatists, in order to safeguard social stability, socialist legal system, the fundamental interests of the public, national unity, and ethnic solidarity," Xinhua reported.
In October, President Obama became the first president not to welcome the Dalai Lama to the White House since the Nobel Peace Prize winner began visiting Washington in 1991. The decision drew ire from some quarters, as Obama-the-presidential-candidate had called on former President Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in protest of the government's response to the March 2008 riots.
However, Obama has said he will meet with the Dalai Lama early this year. This, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent call for worldwide Internet freedom, is expected to increase bilateral tensions with China.
Websites that post content about the 2008 riots or the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile are blocked in China, and it is against the law to have a picture of the Dalai Lama in China. Tibetan monks are especially wary of the government's presence, as many monks are believed to be undercover police, the Christian Science Monitor reported in September.
Even monks and workers at Lhasa's Potala Palace, a UN World Heritage Site and home to the Dalai Lama until 1959, are believed to be undercover Chinese officials.
"If I go to Potala Palace, the monks there listen to what I tell the tourists," one government-approved tour guide told the Monitor then.


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HILLSVILLE –– For the second time in three years, Carroll County entered regional tournament play undefeated as the Cavaliers took down Richlands for the Southwest District tournament championship Thursday at CCHS.
After winning a sloppy first game and seeing Richlands take the second game, the Cavaliers (22-0) regrouped and coasted the rest of the way for a 25-22, 25-27, 25-14, 25-15 win.
Richlands bolted to a 10-1 lead in the first set on three aces and five Carroll County errors before the Cavaliers got things turned around and gradually began reeling in the Blue Tornado.
Maleah Neely's push into an open spot and three straight net plays by Lauren Roper finally put Carroll County into the lead for the first time, 19-17. The teams traded points the rest of the way until Neely's smash ended the game and put the Cavaliers up by one set.
Sarah Singleton's kill and a block by Neely had Carroll a point away from taking a two-set lead when Richlands rallied with kills by Chelsea Asbury and Jordyn Cole to knot the game at 24.
An errant Richlands serve put the Cavaliers once again at game point but Catherine Smith's tip and a missed Cavalier hitting attempt gave the Tornado the game, squaring the match at 1-1.
From then on it was all Carroll County. The Cavalries used kills by Neely, Lexi Hodge and Dionna Reece to jump out to a 9-4 lead and gradually pull away, then capped the night with an easy 10-point win in the fourth.
Carroll County owned the net with 60 kills and 19 blocks, led by double-digit hitting nights by Neely, Reece and Roper.
Neely finished with 19 kills, three blocks, 15 digs and 17 assists while Reece had 13 kills and our blocks. Roper was big in the middle with seven blocks and 10 kills.
Morgan Dickens put up 19 assists and Honesty Rogers had 15 digs, while Singleton provided 14 service points, eight kills and eight digs.
Carroll def. Tazewell 3-0:The Cavaliers rolled in their SWD semifinal match, dispatching the Bulldogs 25-12, 25-8, 25-19.
Neely led the way with 10 kills, seven digs, 17 assists while Reece put away six kills.
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Bagpipe Blues - Or How I Met the Mayor of Siena
O Snaptains! My Snaptains!
Your recent "Lost in Translation" episode spurred me to dig up my own story from a few years back when I was in Italy. Some friends and I who were working in Europe as bike tour guides headed to Tuscany for a break, and to take some Italian lessons at the 'University for Foreigners' in Siena. I play the bagpipes, and I'd brought them along with me. I find they can be a good – if somewhat loud – way to break the ice with people when travelling. But I was in no way expecting the reception they got in Siena.
Here's how it played out, as I explained it to family and friends back home at the time:
Love the show!
Yesterday was definitely one to tell the grandkids.
It was the last day of class, and it started out great. Got my exam results back -- thought I hadn't done all that hot, turned out I was at the top of my class -- 30 outta 30! Forza!
But the best was yet to come. Myself and my classmates -- a truly international group: German, French, Irish, Venezuelan, and a buncha Taiwanese, headed to the 'Piazza del Campo' in the centre of town (where practically everyone in Siena converges in the afternoon to soak in the sun) to celebrate and drink a little vino. It's a beautiful circular brick plaza that slopes down to a large medieval tower and building – city hall, it turns out, in which I was to find myself a few hours later, speaking in broken Italian to the mayor, his chief of staff, and a host of Carabinieri police officers...
Here's what happened.
My German friend Arnim had made me promise several days before that I would bring out the pipes on the last day of class, as he was heading back to Germany that night. True to my word, I headed down to the bottom of the piazza under the tower. Arnim said it was too far from our group sitting at the top of the piazza, no one would hear me: I assured him that once I struck up everyone in the entire piazza and beyond would be tuned in, whether they liked it or not. But I was not at all prepared for the response that ensued. A large crowd rushed down to the base of the piazza and began whooping and hollering. People started coming up one at a time and throwing coins into my box, taking pictures, dancing. Two taxis full of tourists slowed and stopped as they passed. And then, somewhere in the middle of 'Bonnie Dundee', a small squad car with two Caribinieri pulled right up to me and ordered me to cease and desist immediately.
They then got out of the car, told me in halting English that "This is not Africa" (???!), and that I was in violation for playing an instrument in the Campo without a permit. They instructed me to get in the vehicle. When the crowd saw what was happening, they started booing loudly.
"Non voglio problema" ('I don't want any trouble'), I told the Caribinieri in my newly-acquired basic Italian, raising my hands..."Non capisco que ho bisogno d'un permeso" ("I don't understand that I need a permit"). As the officer led me into the back seat, a few Italians broke from the crowd and began loudly confronting the Caribinieri.
Cries of 'Fascista!' and other colourful Italian terms began to circulate. Then one guy got in between the open door of the car and the one officer and refused to move. He began swearing in his face and challenging the officer to arrest him (this was relayed to me by Arnim afterwards). I kept telling the officer in the driver's seat who was busily taking down the info off my driver's license that I didn't want any trouble. Then people began banging on the car, pushing it, rocking it! As I sat in the back a collective chant of 'Liberta! Liberta!' ('freedom!') rose up from the crowd, which was now pressed up against the windows. I was starting to feel a little like I was Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon.
The officer in front angrily told me that if "my friends" caused any damage to the car I would be paying for it, so I better call them off. I tried to explain that technically they weren't my friends. He shot back angrily once again for me to call them off. I asked if I could get out of the car to talk to them, and with typical bureaucratic logic he shouted at me to stay where I was and rolled up his windows -- essentially, sit still and do something. Then an official-looking woman emerged from the crowd and began talking with the officer who was being blocked from entering the car. She began motioning at me and looked like she was asking if she could get in back with me. I thought she was a lawyer and was wanting to represent me or something. After talking with the officer for what seemed like a pretty long time, she leaned in and gestured for me to take her hand and follow her out. I got out of the car and was greeted by huge cheers and handshakes from the crowd. The woman led me through a door into the building I had been standing in front of.
"This is the mayor of Siena", she said, introducing me to the man standing in the entrance. I was led into an office, followed by the two Caribinieri who began busily explaining the situation to the mayor, who listened attentively.
Occasionally they would gesture at me, to which I would simply respond that, "'scusi me", I didn't want any trouble. I understood the one officer tell the mayor they didn't have any problem with me, i was "molto tranquilo", it was the crowd who were causing the problems. I said to the officer very formally and very politely that I understood they were just doing their job, which seemed to please him. He seemed to be explaining that I looked suspect – he used the word 'terrorista' (I had dawned a black toque and black goggles before I started playing). Then everyone left and I was told to wait.
After a few moments they returned, with even more Carabinieri, and the woman, who it turns out was the chief of staff again gestured for me to follow her, and I was led back out to the Campo where the crowd again greeted me with cheers and handshakes and pats on the back. And as I walked back up to our spot at the top of the Campo, young ladies began coming up to me and giving me kisses! Mama mia!
When I looked back down at the base of the Campo a total of three squad cars carrying at least half a dozen Caribinieri had pulled up. Arnim told me that just before I came out of the mayor's office, one of the officers who had arrested me came out and angrily addressed the jeering crowd. 'This is what happens when we try to intervene!' he shouted.
...Too bad he had to have such a shi**y day to make mine...
Que bello giorno!


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Canadian Weathermen Swept Away by Blizzard
Two reporters for Canada's The Weather Network were blown away by the ferocious blizzard that pounded the Maritimes yesterday, packing wind gusts of over 100 MPH in this Nova Scotian town just before the reporters were knocked off-camera. They were able to quickly get up and hobble back to their spot to finish the report.
Here's the full video:
The intense nor'easter mostly spared the United States (with the exception of Cape Cod and eastern Maine), but pounded Atlantic Canada with a blizzard the likes of which hasn't been seen since "White Juan" in 2004.


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After a very long wait, and a somewhat disappointing second season, Heroes has finally returned for Season 3: Villains.
At the end of season 2, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) had just gotten his powers back, Noah Bennet aka "HRG" (Jack Coleman) had just gone back to work for "the company" in order to spare his family, and Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) had been apparently fatally shot just as he was about to reveal his ability to fly to the world.
BTW, full-on spoilers in the review below.
Heroes is run by folks (led by series creator Tim Kring) who actually listen to the fans, take their complaints to heart, and use that information to improve the show. This season there will be no slow, dragged out story arcs, and Kring says there will not be any new characters introduced (although this episode seems to contradict that). This season will also be comprised of two "volumes." The first half of the season will be called "Villains," but there is no title for the second half yet.
Enough of that... on to the season opener!
The episode opens with Claire (Hayden Panettiere, looking all "Matrixed" out in black leather) trying to kill Peter (Milo Ventimiglia), four years after Nathan's announcement of his powers. Peter goes back in time to change the past, since it seems that things became very bad for super-powered beings after Nathan's revelation.
So yes, the assassin is Peter Petrelli from the future.
Cut to Japan, where Hiro (Masi Oka) now owns his father's corporation. He's quite bored by the whole thing and yearning for a new quest. Of course, the show is happy to oblige. He watches a video left behind by his father stating that he needs to guard the contents of a safe (without ever opening it), the contents of which could lead to the end of the world. It is half of some sort of chemical formula.
Of course, he opens it.
A blonde girl who moves as fast as The Flash promptly steals it. And here lies the first thing that bugged me about this episode: Why didn't Hiro just go back in time 60 seconds and put that piece of paper back in the damned safe?
Instead he goes to the future, sees his best friend Ando (James Kyson Lee) who is now super-powered kill him, and the destruction of Tokyo.
Nathan was dead for all of five seconds, but came back to life somehow - and claims to have seen God. I'm curious how they develop this and how it comes across to fans as he comes across downright born-again. Linderman is also back despite the fact that he seemed definitively dead during last season. Turns out he healed Nathan and has big plans for him.
Sylar finds Claire, intent on once again trying to take her healing power. He does the skull slice trick on her, sucks her powers... but surprisingly, leaves her alive after a very creepy scene in which he talks to her while he has the top of her skull off. Sylar tells Claire that she is not like the others - she is special and she can never die. And now, neither can he.
Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is with Maya (Dania Ramirez, who unfortunately is still on the show) and she still wants to be cured. He flashes on the idea that the abilities are not based in the blood but in the adrenal gland. Suddenly he shifts his research (and ridiculously quickly creates a serum) from curing super-powers to being able to give them to anyone via an injection.
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