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Someone should send it to Z'ha'dum to die.
"When we spoke about it, he laughed, and said, "Now that I'm dying I've never felt better!""
Oddly enough, that unscripted statement happens to be *quintessential* G'Kar..
He also said he really liked the G'kar makeup and that he felt it made him look sleek and sexy. I'm not sure if that's from the heart or if he's just having a go at us. The practical jokes on the B5 set are the stuff of legends. On the set they used to call Andreas Two-Pack G'Kar on account of how much he smoked.
The practical joke battle I remember the most involved Andreas and Peter getting to a con presentation a little early. JMS hates public speaking and is always nervous. Those two rogues coached the
No indication that it's going to be aired, from what I saw, on Sci-Fi or TNT/TBS/Whoever had the series for most of it's run. That was
Richard Biggs tragically died at age 44 because of an aortic dissection.
What? You mean somebody cut him open and took pieces of his heart out, like something out of "Hostel"? That's wild!!
Or do you maybe mean aortic distension
It oughta also be +1 insightful. What ol' Zathras said is absolutely true; it is easier to get things done when everyone else's forgotten about you.
I always like Zathras. But even more than that, I liked his younger brother Zathras, who reminded me of myself. I just wish I could get the hang of the pronounciation differences among the Zathras brothers' names.
Yes he did.
JMS's Jeremiah series was incredible problem was the second season Showtime wanted to change the show and JMS told them to pound sand, showtime still had a contract for season two so they forced it and season two is 100% crap.
rent and watch the Season 1 of Jeremiah. It will suck you in with the same vigor that B5 did.
Well, that gets back to my point. Shows have two big challenges: first, be good; second, survive the meddling of the networks. Jeremiah sounds like it was killed not long after the cradle, the main difference between it and Crusade is that at least Jeremiah had an intact and good first season. I never got to watch Crusade but I heard what JMS had planned was very, very good and the unmeddled episodes bear that out. Babylon 5 easily could have snuffed it at the end of any of the first four seasons. The mira
The show stands up so strongly because of that. Seems like hardly anyone plans shows out these days so you just get a bunch of random meandering and shark-jumping before the plug gets pulled.
Yes. This.
This is why B5 has such a fan base.
It's not because it's a perfect show. It's not because there haven't been characters or individual episodes in other sci-fi series that totally outshined those in B5.
It's because it just told a story. There are few or no episodes where you finish and think, "fucking writer
It's because it just told a story. There are few or no episodes where you finish and think, "fucking writers are just killing time before the cliffhanger season finale, which will be quickly and easily resolved in one episode of the next season, after which we'll likely get more of this crap!"
Exactly. Take what many consider to be the worst episode ever, TKO, season 1. The A plot was what everyone hated bt the b story involved susan coming to terms with the death of her father. That b plot was one of the best of the season. Even when the show is bad, it's great.
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PEABODY — Jane Heil has seen it all.
She's guided the Peabody girls' basketball program to 26 appearances in the MIAA North state tournament, 17 Greater Boston League titles, and a Northeastern Conference title. She coached her team to a 24-1 record in 1984-85, as the Lady Tanners captured the Division 1 state title and unseated five undefeated teams along the way.
The storied coach, in her 32d season at the helm, has had five 1,000-point scorers: Kristen Foley ('82); her sister Kim ('85); Jen Webster ('93), who then played for Kristin Foley at Drexel University; and DeAnn Larrabee and D'yana Delpero , who both surpassed the plateau in their senior season on the 2003 squad.
And on Thursday, Peabody defeated Everett, 45-28, and Heil recorded her 500th career coaching win. For Heil, reaching 500 wins is gratifying. But even before that achievement, the season has been extraordinary.
There is not a senior on the Lady Tanners' roster. But behind the leadership of junior captains Alexandra Lomasney and Carolyn Scacchi , Peabody is off to a 4-0 start after compiling a 14-26 record in the last two seasons.
"The last two years were difficult," Heil said. "We definitely felt we were more talented than we were showing. [This season], in the scrimmages, we were off to such a slow start. But since game one, it's like a whole new group of kids."
On Dec. 21, in their third game, they thumped Lynn Classical, one of the Northeastern Conference's strongest teams, 54-28.
"I can't tell you I'm surprised," Heil said. "But maybe the difference is they know they have to go out and get the job done. Things are falling into place, and the girls have goals — legitimate goals that were missing."
Lomasney, a 5-foot-10 guard and three-year starter, senses the team has a different temperament.
"I feel like there's been an attitude change," she said. "We've been doing well at practice and trying, instead of just going through the motions. There's a new determination to win."
The enthusiasm comes straight from Heil. It's the same passion that drove her to 309 victories from 1977-1995, before she retired to watch her daughter, Kristin, play at Beverly and Trinity College, only to return to coaching in 2000.
It's the passion and determination that carried Heil to a 19-2 record in 2003-04, despite being stricken with breast cancer, which has since gone into remission.
"I bleed blue and white," Heil said. "[In 2003-04], I was able to keep busy and able to focus on living and doing, and not feeling sorry for myself. Everything I've given to the program, I've gotten back."
Scacchi, who scored 16 points and had 12 rebounds against Classical, said she admires Heil's intensity.
"She gets other teams scared," Scacchi said. "I was scared of her at first when I was a freshman. She can yell at us, but she can be nice. It's tough love."
Diane Broughton , the junior varsity coach and Heil's assistant, played for her and nearly passed the 1,000-point plateau. When Heil retired, Broughton, who graduated in 1989, coached the varsity until she returned.
"The advice I got from my father about coach Heil was to listen to her words, because she has different octaves," Broughton said, fighting back a smile. "She's still intense, and she wants to get the best out of the girls."
Thus far, Heil has extracted exactly that from junior forward Olivia Summit and junior Amanda Matthews , who worked her way into the starting lineup this season.
With the two together, Heil said, "we have a pretty good high-low post game and for the first time in a couple years."
Freshman guard Sara Hosman , who had 12 points, six steals, and six assists in the Tanners' second win of the season against Beverly, rounds out the starting lineup.
"She picked up that guard role and she's awesome at it," Scacchi said. "If we didn't have her, we wouldn't be winning that much."
The Lady Tanners are climbing toward another run at the MIAA state tournament, and Bob Heil will be on the bench for every victory along the way.
Since they married in 1978 at the start of Jane's coaching career, Bob has been her assistant, helping draw the X's and O's and scouting opponents.
Bob, the freshman girls coach from 1979-83, even helped coach the varsity to a win when Jane was giving birth to their son, Bobby.
"She gets credit — she did all the prep work for that," Bob said. "Basketball has just been in the family. It's in our blood. We're getting older, but this keeps us young."
Reading's O'Brien given a final start
Just eight days after Reading senior Morgan O'Brien committed to Assumption College, on the day after Thanksgiving, she tore her ACL in a preseason tournament, ending her senior season before it even started.
O'Brien, just shy of the 1,000-point scoring plateau, would not get to help her team defend its Division 2 state championship. But despite the injury, O'Brien was going to start her senior season — she just didn't know it.
On Dec. 18 at the Rockets' home opener against Burlington, Reading coach Kim Penney told O'Brien to bring her uniform for a team photo. Before the opening tip-off, Penney told O'Brien she was starting.
Confused, O'Brien took the floor. Center Olivia Healy won the tap, the ball was passed to O'Brien and, following her coach's instructions, she threw the ball out of bounds.
O'Brien left the court to a standing ovation and watched her team cruise to a 55-39 win.
She can proudly say she started in her senior season.
"It was a complete surprise," said O'Brien, who will have surgery Jan. 2. "They were planning it for two weeks. It was amazing because I saw so many people in the stands to support me. I'm so thankful for everyone who took part in it."Anthony Gulizia can be reached at email@example.com.

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text: Jules Maes Saloon originally opened in the late 1800s, serving Georgetown's factory workers—who probably never would have guessed that the neighborhood would one day become an artist enclave. By its 100th birthday, it was as good a place as any to watch the occasional punk band, down cheap beer, wrestle a greasy pork chop, and intercept stink eyes from the regulars. Tragically, however, by mid-2000, just as Georgetown was starting to play host to more than the occasional punk band and offer something other than greasy pork chops to residents and visitors, Jules Maes' mother-son ownership team had had enough. Fast-forward to last year, when the proprietors of Belltown's Shorty's Coney Island swooped in and saved the day. Now with a decent-sized band room, a fully loaded bar, a calendar full of special events and DJ nights, and a general sense of old and improved (which in this case is preferable to new and improved), Jules Maes is definitely back in action. 5919 Airport Way S., 206-957-7766, www.julesmaessaloon.com.


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(CBS/AP) The suspects in deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon also planned to attack Times Square in New York, authorities announced Thursday.
"The surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during an afternoon news conference. "He told the FBI, apparently, that he and his brother had intended to drive to New York and designate additional explosives in Times Square."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his older brother had decided spontaneously Thursday night to drive to New York and launch an attack with their five pipe bombs and a pressure-cooker bomb like the ones that blew up at the marathon.
Kelly said that the city was notified by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force Wednesday night about the intentions of Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The plan fell apart after the Tsarnaev brothers were intercepted by police in a stolen car and got into a fierce gun battle that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead, Kelly said.
"We don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from Boston," Bloomberg said. "We're just thankful that we didn't have to find out that answer."
Dzhokhar, 19, is charged with carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260, and he could get the death penalty.
Tsarnaev traveled to New York at least once last fall. There is a photo of the suspect in Times Square.
On Wednesday, Kelly told reporters that he was told Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have been intending to come to New York to party, or for a party, sometime after the bombings. But Kelly said it's not clear if any specific plans were made.
Investigators said the brothers may have headed for New York City if not for the shooting death of Tamerlan in a police standoff last Thursday night and the eventual capture of Dzokhar Friday night, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reported on "CBS This Morning" Tuesday.
Investigators gained the insight from the carjacking victim allegedly held hostage by the brothers, Miller reported. The victim speaks little to no English, but authorities pressed him to remember recognizable words from his exchange with the bombing suspects.
The suspects openly boasted to the victim in English about their role in last week's bombing and carried out the rest of their exchange in Russian, Miller reported.
Miller reported that the victim said, "The only word I recognized was Manhattan," a word which "tripped a lot" of alarm for authorities, who quickly halted Amtrak service from Boston to New York and searched the trains.
The tip prompted the New York Police Department to "flip on its network of license plate readers at all bridges and tunnels coming into the city," Miller said. "They loaded all the license plates associated with these guys" to prevent possible entry into Manhattan.
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- Carl Froch v Yusaf Mack
Dominant Froch puts Mack on deck with ease
Carl Froch utterly outclassed a woefully over-matched Yusaf Mack to easily defend his IBF super-middleweight world title in Nottingham on Saturday.
The 35-year-old, returning to the ring after his career-revitalising victory against Lucien Bute at the same venue in May, got the win that was expected but in even easier fashion than even the most optimistic pundits had predicted - knocking the American down in the first round before finally finishing him off with a thunderous body shot with less than a minute left in the third.
It was a clinical blow to the chest that left Mack prostrate on the floor, with a couple of follow-up punches to the head nothing more than emphasis as Mack failed to get back up before the ten count.
"Yusaf Mack tonight did not really have much of a chance tonight. I'm a level above," Froch said afterwards. "I was a bit cautious early on, and then I found my range and could see what was coming back. I did what I had to do."
'The Cobra' will now turn his attention back to more lucrative - and presumably competitive - fights, with a rematch against Bute most likely before he will search out rematches against Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward, the only two men ever to have beaten the three-time world champion.
Mack never looked like adding his name to that very short list, going down to the canvas after his first first taste of Froch's prodigious power after the opening bell sounded. To his credit he regained his composure and then raised his defences to keep going, surviving the second three minutes and even landing an encouraging shot on Froch - perhaps checking his progress fractionally.
But the third round saw everything come crashing down, as a flush body shot left Mack gasping for air - unable to clamber back up as the referee ended the contest.
"He's taken some weight off him," Froch noted of Mack, who had not fought at the weight in five years, "and to be fair those who take weight off, those body shots hurt even more."
After the bout, Froch's promoter Eddie Hearn suggested that Bute will be next up for the veteran fighter - but is hopeful Mack will not be the last opponent he faces on home turf in his career.
"We willing to go over there and happy to go over there," Hearn said of the contractually-obligated second Bute fight, which is expected to take place in Canada.
Hearn added: "I don't think there is one super-middleweight - including Andre Ward - who can beat him in Nottingham. We want the big fighters next year, preferrably in Nottingham.
"2013 is the year of the rematch for Carl Froch."
Prior to Froch's appearance, Tony Bellew overcame a nasty cut above his right eye to defeat Argentina's Roberto Bolonti on points.
When the Liverpool fighter knocked down his opponent in the opening round it looked like an easy knockout was on the cards, but Bolonti opened up a huge gash over Bellew's eye in the third round that threw everything in doubt.
But Bellew's cuts man, Mick Williamson, kept his fighter in condition to fight, and the light-heavyweight made sure to protect his injury over the remainder of the match as he picked up a hugely one-sided unanimous points verdict.
"I've got the best cut man in the game, and I knew if you don't panic you'll be fine," Bellew said afterwards. "I came through a huge crisis tonight.
"He's more difficult than he looks, he's got a great chin - but I came through it."


text: I want to have my little "SQ" set-up metered with the ported enclosure before I switch up to a sealed box and sell my old box to my friend. He's getting an FI SSD and Alpine MRP-M1000 to go in his Charger with the Boston Acoustics system. I'd say it's pretty decent for a stock system (especially for him), but he wanted more bass and he had a $500 budget. So I suggested the SSD and MRP-M1000 from woofersetc. I don't have very high expectations for my set-up, but just want to know what I'm running at and then I will meter again after going to a 1.2 cube sealed box. Thanks.


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Wikipedia isn't much help here....
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Have you read this thread yet? It seems that something sinister may be going on, although we await the final diagnosis. Hint: if you've got adblock plus installed, add '*.ru' as a filter rule. Worked like a charm for me.
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This article was written by Robert Milburn.
An occasional blast of extravagance could indicate that the worst of the global slump is over and a more normal level of risk-tolerance and silliness is returning. No one sane wants the return of that self-indulgent decadence that signaled the dying days of the 1990s, or even the gorging of 2007, but after five austere years of bunker-hunkering, an occasional burst of exuberance is welcome – and probably a sign that the world is back, spinning normally on its axis.
That's what we were thinking when we got wind of The Baha Mar Casino & Hotel's "topping-off" ceremony yesterday down in the Bahamas, a good-luck building ritual signifying the "roof," or in this case the highest floor, has been completed on the 1,000-acre, $3.5 billion resort project called Baha Mar.
Sounds like a hell of a bash: the guests, including the Bahamian prime minister and chief justice, tore through 300 pounds of truffles and a special designed drink, the Baha Mar Blue, made with rum, blue curacao, pineapple juice and vodka. A painting by five Bahamian artists was hoisted to the hotel's 25th floor.
The hootenanny continued on the resort's grounds with hard hats bobbing and headdresses flailing to a 50-man Junkanoo street parade. That's a traditional masquerade, normally held on New Year's Day, when Bahamian men in eye-catching costumes beat goatskin drums and wail on horns. The Bahamas National Youth Choir then took to the stage to belt out the Bahamian national anthem, followed by Lenny Kravitz, the rock-and-roll artist. A firework-lit sky was choreographed to Kravitz' 1998 hit tune, "Fly Away."
Lenny Kravitz? The U.S.-born Kravitz has a home on Eleuthera, an island of the Bahamas, which is also his mother's birthplace. His firm, Kravitz Design, will design the interiors of the Baha Mar Casino & Hotel Ultar Villa and the resort's Signature Nightclub. "This is the first commercial project my firm Kravitz Design has been involved with in the Bahamas," he tells Penta. "It has great meaning to me as I spent a good deal of my childhood in the Bahamas and today, I still have a house and recording studio there."
Robert Sands, a Baha Mar senior vice president, tells us this $3.5 billion resort project, half-way to completion and scheduled to open December 2014, "is the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere and we see it as an international accomplishment which is not regional in scope." Seventy percent of the project's financing came from the Export-Import Bank of China, but the driving force behind the project is Baha Mar's chairman and CEO, Sarkis Izmirlian, a Bahamian said to have been raised in Switzerland.
We suspect some marketing fluff in this claim it's the "largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere," but we'll concede it's pretty ambitious. The resort's four hotels and 2,200 rooms, some to be run by Grand Hyatt and Mondrian, will be festooned with artwork curated by The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. The surrounding gardens will be filled with native Bahamian flowers and trees, as well as luxury shopping, an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, thirty-plus restaurants, the largest casino in the Caribbean, ocean-view spas, and a 200,000 square-foot convention center. A fifteen-minute boat ride will take guests to the resort's private island, which can be booked for everything from fully catered affairs to lazy afternoon picnics.
Three hundred of the resort's rooms are available for purchase, with 20% currently sold. Prices range from $1.2 million to $12 million, the upper range for a four-bedroom beachfront villa. Part of the selling pitch: rental income can be coupled with the fact there is no local capital gains tax at resale, providing buyers a pretty good deal.
Now we get Lenny Kravitz's involvement. The chorus of his 1998 hit, "Fly Away," is, "I want to get away. I want to fly away." That's not a bad pitch for a nervy $3.5 billion dollar development in Nassau, Bahamas.


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Saban Brands and Nickelodeon have announced that Saban's Power Rangers Megaforce will return with all-new episodes on September 7 at 1 p.m. (EST/PST), followed by the season premiere of the all-new Digimon Fusion at 1:30 p.m. (EST/PST) on Nickelodeon. The back-to-back episodes team up to create a power hour packed with action, excitement, humor and entertainment.
The return of new episodes of Power Rangers Megaforce continues the celebration of the franchise's 20th Anniversary, with August 28 marking 20 years since the original series, Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, first aired on television in 1993. Power Rangers Megaforce picks up when a shadow-stealing monster attacks, and the Megaforce Rangers must teach Robo Knight the power of teamwork in order to defeat him.
This past Wednesday, when the Power Rangers turned 20, Saban Brands celebrated by releasing Power Rangers Dubstep 2.0 with the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy Rangers video on MyVortexx.
Digimon Fusion marks the sixth installment of the Digimon franchise, which Saban Brands re-acquired last year. The all-new Digimon Fusion series follows Mikey, a human boy, who is transported into the digital realm and must team up with his new Digimon, or Digital Monster, friends before their world is deleted once and for all. New fusion powers allow Digimon to combine and fuse their abilities to create endless battle possibilities. Unleashing countless Digimon combinations, Digimon Fusion takes today's tech-savvy kids inside an adventure-packed digital world, where the heroes' courage is matched only by the fusion of their teamwork, loyalty and humor.


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Where did dogs come from? That simple question is the subject of a scientific debate right now. In May, a team of scientists published a study pointing to East Asia as the place where dogs evolved from wolves. Now, another group of researchers has announced that dogs evolved several thousand miles to the west, in Europe.
This controversy illuminates the challenges that scientists face as they excavate the history of any species from its DNA.
Scientists have long agreed that the closest living relatives of dogs are wolves, their link confirmed by anatomy and DNA. Somewhere, at some point, some wolves became domesticated. They evolved not only a different body shape but also a different behavior. Instead of traveling in a pack to hunt down prey, dogs began lingering around humans. Eventually, those humans bred them into their many forms, from shar-peis to Newfoundlands.
A few fossils supply some tantalizing clues to that transformation. Dating back as far as 36,000 years, they look like wolfish dogs or doggish wolves. The oldest of these fossils have mostly turned up in Europe.
In the 1990s, scientists started using new techniques to explore the origin of dogs. They sequenced bits of DNA from living dog breeds and wolves from various parts of the world to see how they were related. And the DNA told a different story than the bones. In fact, it told different stories.
In a 2002 study, for example, Peter Savolainen, now at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and his colleagues concluded that dogs had evolved in East Asia. Eight years later, however, Robert Wayne, a geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues analyzed some new dog breeds and concluded that the Middle East was where dogs had got their start.
Savolainen and his colleagues continued to sequence DNA from more dogs, and they published more evidence for an East Asian origin of dogs — narrowing it down to southern China.
While early studies of canine origins were limited to fragments of DNA, scientists are now starting to sequence entire genomes of dogs and wolves. In May, for example, Savolainen and Chinese colleagues reported that Chinese native dogs had the most wolflike genomes. By tallying up the mutations in the different dog and wolf genomes, they estimated that the ancestors of Chinese village dogs and wolves split about 32,000 years ago.
If this were true, then the first dogs would have become domesticated not by farmers but by Chinese hunter-gatherers more than 20,000 years before the dawn of agriculture.
Wayne and his colleagues think that is wrong.
A dog may have wolflike DNA because it is a dog-wolf hybrid. In a paper that is not yet published, they analyze wolf and dog genomes to look for signs of ancient interbreeding. They cite evidence that, indeed, some of the DNA in dogs in East Asia comes from wolf interbreeding.
Now Wayne and his colleagues are introducing a new line of evidence to the dog debate: ancient DNA.
On Thursday in the journal Science, Wayne, Shapiro, and their colleagues report on the first large-scale comparison of DNA from living and fossil dogs and wolves.
They extracted DNA from 18 fossils found in Europe, Russia and the New World. They compared those genes to those from 49 wolves, 77 dogs, and four coyotes.
Scientists are now starting to sequence entire genomes of dogs and wolves.
The scientists examined a special kind of DNA found in a structure in the cell called the mitochondrion. Mitochondrial DNA comes only from mothers. Because each cell may have thousands of mitochondria, it is easier to gather enough genetic fragments to reconstruct its DNA.
The scientists did not find that living dogs were closely related to wolves from the Middle East or China. Instead, their closest relatives were ancient dogs and wolves from Europe.


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Now that Windows 8 has gone gold, Microsoft can move on to other things. With Windows 8, the most important of these is probably to make sure people know how to actually use it. Metro is filled to the brim with hard-to-discover features, but Microsoft has a plan. Will it be enough?
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RE[3]: Usability lab?
by ze_jerkface on Sat 4th Aug 2012 19:58 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Usability lab?"
I have let so far around 400 users that came into the shop try Win 8 on the Athlon dual I set up in the corner for that purpose and so far? NOBODY liked it, not a one. personally i thought it was for the teeners/tweeners but they all said the same thing "I already have a cell phone duh! This is just lame" and walked off.
A couple people have posted similar comments on the Windows 8 blog but they have since been removed.


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1) Fully load the machine
2) Time until battery death
3) Advertise "minimum" battery life
What is wrong with that? Then I can expect at least 40 minutes of battery life and anything more than that is nice. You will generally not be fully loading the machine so it will always be more than 40 minutes anyway..
No it won't... not all batteries are exactly the same, no matter how good the quality assurance may be, and same goes for the hardware itself, every transistor, capacitor, resistor, transformer, etc all have varying degrees of quality/conduction/capacity.
It could even come down to a single resistor that measures the battery output, could be slightly faulty, and turn the PC off sooner.
They could still say "40 minutes" but it would be more like "32 to 48"... other things come into play as well, such as the temperature/altitude/humidity... how much dust is in/on the heatsinks/vents, or possibly a fault in the charger... the list goes on...
It could even come down to a single resistor that measures the battery output, could be slightly faulty, and turn the PC off sooner.
Then the laptop is defective and should be sent in for repair/replacement
...then some "average" which differs depending on how the manufacturer determines "average"?
Isn't that what AMD has been doing? "...depending on how the manufacturer determines"... in this case, determining it to be longer than it actually is.
You could even test, and then claim for each individual battery, and put a sticker on it "[This battery lasted 3.798 Hours in our test]" and chances are very high that when that user uses it, they won't see the same time span, maybe 3.274 hours... you could test every battery, in every computer, which would be more accurate, but still have variance, for inst
I'd prefer to see min and max times. Max being light productivity app usage and min being playing a game that utilizes the GPU heavily.
Consumers will see the 2 numbers and can quickly decide if the performance meets their needs based on how they intend to use the laptop. Consumers are smarter than the average monkey. If they see a laptop advertised as "Battery Life: 45 Minutes - 2.5 Hours", they can guess what might affect battery consumption.
Now try that with every battery off your line, and you have the minimum that you'll advertise. 6 months after selling those machines, the minimum will be even lower because batteries degrade. So maybe you advertise that figure?
And of course, that figure will be something like 10 minutes, which still doesn't give you any kind of an idea of how much time I can reasonably expect my laptop to work off of battery power doing reasonable things.
To be honest, I think they key thing should be that it's standard
3) Advertise "minimum" battery life
What is wrong with that? Then I can expect at least 40 minutes of battery life and anything more than that is nice.
What's wrong with that? What's wrong is that you're telling the customer a number that by and large they aren't interested in. What they want to know is if they can watch a full DVD without recharging. If they can work on their Excel spreadsheet for the entire 6-hour cross-country flight if the plane doesn't have plugs. You tell them "minimum 40 minutes" and they say "Whoa! That's not long enough to do anything!" and you say "Well it's just the minimum, under typical usage conditions it will last much longer," and then they ask "And how long is typical? Long enough to watch Casino Royale on BluRay?"
What's your answer? Hypothetically you should be able to actually say whether it'll last long enough to watch the movie, but how do you answer that question in general? What is "typical"? That's what people really want to know, the minimum number doesn't really do them much good except to say that if they really load down the laptop, it won't last long. Which makes the product look bad, and is still by and large not that helpful.
It's not an easy question, more difficult in many ways than talking about performance. Considering that power has only become a major concern for commodity chip makers in recent times, I'm not surprised that their battery life estimates aren't very accurate. Of course, whatever estimate they do use, no matter how accurate, will be measured in a way that makes their parts look good. That won't change, ever. I'm sure that's part of your motivation for the minimum time metric -- there are far fewer ways to screw with it. Which is nice, but not sufficient by itself.
"Well it's just the minimum, under typical usage conditions it will last much longer"
Incorrect. I would respond, "That is the minimum time under the heaviest possible load it can be put under."
Typical - Hard to pin down because everyone's usage differs for various reasons ( operating system, time of day, intended usage )
Fully loaded - Nearly constant
I'd like to kindly point you to my initial post where I quite clearly said "fully load" and not "typical load"..
Incorrect. I would respond, "That is the minimum time under the heaviest possible load it can be put under."
And they'd say "Okay, is playing a DVD the heaviest possible load, so I couldn't even play half of one movie? Or will I be able to play my movie? What about working on my earnings report?" and then you either have to refuse to give them any other number and lose the sale, or start talking about "typical" usage.
I'd like to kindly point you to my initial post where I quite clearly said "fully load" and not "typical load"..
Yes, I noticed, and I'd like to point you to my post where I clearly understood what you are talking about and said "That isn't very useful to the customer". Just because the minimum battery life has the useful property of being easier to quantify without hand-waving and assumptions doesn't mean it's actually the more useful number. Customers want to know if their lap top will last on a cross-country flight doing what it is they usually do.
I fully load my machine during cross-country flights, you insensitive clod!
Ahem, meme's aside..
1) If a customer doesn't know how much load playing a DVD is, they don't care about advertised battery life.
2) Minimum is a more useful number because it always applies. Typical usage figures can be plucked out of thin air because it varies too much.
1) If a customer doesn't know how much load playing a DVD is, they don't care about advertised battery life.
O_o Seriously?
You think knowing the % CPU utilization of watching a DVD (or BluRay, if this makes you feel better) is a pre-requisite to caring about the question "Will my laptop be able to play a full DVD between recharges?"
And I suppose anyone who doesn't know engine timings and torque curves wouldn't care about the question "Can I get to Grandma's house without refueling" too. That's weird, because I care about MPG but know very little about the engine physics that inform it. Should they scrap the "city/highway" MPG usage models, and instead tell you what MPG you'd get with the accelerator floored the entire way?
You're being ridiculous. Obviously people will care about being able to do the things they want to do without knowing exactly how much load on the system that actually entails.
Of course, even if I accept this premise, you're still not giving them the information they want. Okay, so I know that the fully loaded laptop life time is 40 minutes, and I know that my DVD player uses 5% of my processor. Now what? What's the scaling factor so I can do the math? Oh right it's not that easy, even if you're an electrical engineer. I know what it is you said I should know, and you still can't answer the question I care about.
2) Minimum is a more useful number because it always applies. Typical usage figures can be plucked out of thin air because it varies too much.
Easy to figure out is not the same as useful. Minimum is rarely useful because it rarely applies to what the person is actually doing. When the "typical" numbers can be 6x higher than "minimum", and what people really care about is "typical" for all the difficulty of defining what that means, then no minimum isn't that useful.
Sure the minimum should be specified. That does not get you out of the tricky problem of estimating 'typical' battery life, because that is what the customer wants to know, and for good reason. If you refuse to give them anything more useful than minimum, then you lose sales because you can't or won't answer the questions they care about.
The usefulness can actually be heavily limited. Nvidia and Intel, respectively the largest manufacturers of GPUs and CPUs both have horrible idle-power draws. An Nvidia GPU will typically pull over half of load watts while idle, and intel's processors generally just under half at idle. Pair that with one of the horribly inefficient northbridges from either intel or nvidia and you have a system that together actually uses a good bit more than half of full load at idle. Considering that even moderate usag
Actually its quite simple you need to test and advertise the following:
1)Minimum battery life under full load
2)Minimum battery life under full load after 1 year
3)Maximum battery life at idle
4)Maximum battery life at idle after 1 year
5)Maximum battery life watching a DVD (disc)
6)Maximum battery life watching a DVD (disc) after 1 year
Someone should create some kind of class action lawsuit on this based on some truth in advertising legislation. Something that would force companies to report these kinds of sta
Batteries aren't good enough, is the main problem. (or power-drain is too high, take your pick).
A Nintendo-DS can be played continously for around 20 hours before the battery is dead. At which point it just doesn't matter very much, because it's "atleast a complete day" no matter what you do. (let's assume that the sum of sleeping, eating and such is atleast 4 hours a day!)
2 - 5 hours or something, which is what many laptops get, is just too sucky. It basically means you *cannot* reasonably expect to extens
1) Fully load the machine
How? You've got, at a minimum, CPU, GPU, display, and disk. How do you continuously load the CPU so that all execution units are constantly working at their utmost? Same thing with the GPU. As for disk, are you reading, writing, seeking, or switching from one to the other?
Even if you could come up with such a worst-case scheme, it'd probably get so hot that the hardware would either throttle itslf back, or melt.
Even if you could come up with such a worst-case scheme, it'd probably get so hot that the hardware would either throttle itslf back, or melt.
Then it isn't really fit for use as a computer, let alone a laptop, is it?
Even if you could come up with such a worst-case scheme, it'd probably get so hot that the hardware would either throttle itslf back, or melt.
Then it isn't really fit for use as a computer, let alone a laptop, is it?
That's one opinion.
Suppose you have a design that can run safely at level 10 indefinitely, but only temporarily at level 11. Do you:
A. Set the firmware to run only at level 10
B. Program it to switch between level 10 and 11 depending on level of usage and temperature?
(Hint: most every manufacturer these days uses some variation of B.
What is wrong is that doesn't tell the whole story because it fails to measure real-world performance except for one rare edge-case -- Max CPU duration.
It would be like automobile MPG being estimated based on full-throttle driving on a race track -- it doesn't mirror how the product is actually used. Instead we have city/highway ratings which attempt to mimic two use cases.
The difficulty with automobile engines is that they must operate efficiently across a variety of RPM ranges and trade-offs must be made
What is wrong with that?
It gives me, the customer, absolutely nothing to work with. There's a reason we don't calculate "miles per gallon" (or km/l over here) for the "pedal to the metal" case.
In an ideal world (you know, where everyone knows basic math and nobody is fooled by politicians' campaign promises) you'd have a bunch of measurements at various loads and simply print a curve that tells me what I need to know because I have a somewhat good feeling for where my average use scenario is on the curve.
That is a much better and useful idea actually.
Unfortunately, most metrics seemed to be measured with only one value but I would really like to see a 'battery life curve'.
because its easy to do side by side comparisons of a number, its hard to do so with a curve (unless they come as transparent overlays).
it seems us humans always end up hunting for a one number description, be it battery life, driving distance or housing loan security (the latter being the reason for the wave of economic issues)...
I thought I was the only one to think that way, considering EPA mileage estimates on cars (yes, the dreaded slashdot car analogy). People say that EPA mileage estimates should be changed to "consider people's driving habits" which must have changed over the decades -- people are getting stupider? They sure seem to drive stupider. Maybe I'm just getting old.
At any rate, the EPA highway estimate for my car is 35 MPG, but if I set the cruise control to 50 mph I get 36, as reported by the car's onboard computer
The problem is that all machines aren't "fully loaded" equally. A system with a given cpu running full tilt at 3GHz at 50W is going to drain a battery faster than the same cpu at 2GHz at 35W, even if the same amount of work is accomplished. A notebook with a powerful GPU running a game like oblivion will suck a battery flat in no time, but isn't comparable to an Intel or lowend AMD/NV system because you couldn't even run the program on them usably. This is also true of minimal use scenarios, of course. Atom
My experience has been that a new battery that gives 3 hours up uptime gives 2 hours after a year and less than an hour after 3 years. Of course, our laptops are used mostly when docked, so we don't cycle our batteries as often as we could.
I can see more variance in cellphones because those are devices that are on 24 hours on battery and usage patterns are reflective of how many minutes a person has. So someone with 1000 minutes and unlimited sms/data is going to use theirs a lot faster than I, with 550 shared minutes and no data.
On laptops, I think we can get a little more predictability. First of all, I'd venture to say that at least 80% of the time, if the laptop is on battery, it's being used. I don't know of too many people who fire up a laptop and walk off. However the variance is in the type of use. A photoshopper or developer is going to put a lot more stress on the battery than a Word/IE user. A teen is going to stress it more than a octogenarian. And a gamer is going to beat it down more than anyway. Well, maybe not as someone folding@home.
I think the solution for this is for someone with enough clout to develop a standard test that cycles through heavy/light load every 20 minutes. Let it run until it powers off. I think this should be a 'measurement company' such as futuremark. HP/Apple/Dell are never going to agree on a test, but if futuremark creats 'wattmark' and it becomes standard, they'll all use it.
At that point the consumer can say, "Ok, this machine gets 6 hours on wattmark, I'm a LIGHT user, and I usually get 20% more than wattmark" or "I'm a gamer, and I only get half what wattmark says"
But with the vendors publishing their own magic numbers, and consumer has NO idea what THEY can expect out of that machine/battery.
I can see more variance in cellphones because those are devices that are on 24 hours on battery and usage patterns are reflective of how many minutes a person has. So someone with 1000 minutes and unlimited sms/data is going to use theirs a lot faster than I, with 550 shared minutes and no data.
I'm on a 60 minute plan with 100 txts, you insensitive clod!
If there's anything that annoys me more than the rest of the world complaining about their internet, it's the rest of the world complaining about their cellphone plans.
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you! You mean the phones/laptops don't run as long as advertised? I can't believe this! It's impossible! Next you'll tell me a 8GB pendrive/SSD holds less than 2^33 bytes.
Yeah, well they did something a little sneaky there - which is they don't use the same definition for "Gigabyte" as computer scientists often do...
Specifically, in this case, they made each byte only 7.45 bits instead of the full 8 bits. Hence, when you boot up your OS and check the drive capacity, it'll say 7.45 GB instead of 8GB.
From my understanding of flash chips, it actually should be holding the proper number of bytes. Unlike hard drives (where they redefined a kilobyte as 1000 bytes - and so on), I'm reasonably certain flash chips can only be manufactured in a "binary" scale - explaining why you end up with 8 GiB, 16 GiB, 32 GiB, etc. in SSDs, phones, SD cards, etc.
The discrepancy should only be coming from the formatted capacity - whatever is used in the formatting is gone.
I like memory manufacturers. They usually give me more memory than I am buying. For example, last time I bought 1GB (10^9) memory I got a 7% bonus. Very nice of them.
Most operating systems seems to have bugs in them though that count memory incorrectly. I hear that it has something to do with some wierd fundamentalist cult.
Most folks are not going to tap their machines to run 100% on battery, like the 3dmark tests do, but they sure as hell won't leave it sitting idle. So what is the answer? Simple, what DO most folks do while they are on their laptop? Well, from what I have seen that is web browsing, webmail, IM, and document creation/editing.
It really shouldn't be hard to simulate those uses. Since you can get an Open Source app to do each of these jobs you could just build a testing suite consisting of FF3,OO.o, and pidgin and run it, having those apps fed some simulated work(a document fo Writer,a few tabs for FF3, and some basic chat for Pidgin) and see how long the batteries last. I don't know about you but I would rather have a number based on "average Joe" usage than the crap numbers they pushed before or the even more pointless numbers they will be pushing now. Then I would have a real rough estimate of what to expect and could shop accordingly.
Certainly seems like a better way IMHO than some 50/50 split between 3dmark and idle, don't you think?
Some percentage of people "surf" CPU-intensive websites, such as hulu, while others read news. Some save their work frequently, requiring the drive to spin up, while others save less often. Some like to watch DVDs in background, requiring a spinning optical drive and CPU- or GPU-intensive decoding, while others don't. Even naive users will have different power utilization profiles. There is no "average joe".
Give us "real" numbers like how long the battery will last sitting in a drawer or under "full load" in a particular device, and how long the battery will last under a variety of scenarios.
An "emergency" phone user is more interested in how long they can leave their phone in their glove compartment before recharging.
"Light" users want to know standby time and how many minutes of standby time they lose for every minute they talk.
"Heavy" users are more interested in talk time and how much "talk time" they lose
I wrote a battery driver for a Windows CE device once. Here's how we did that.
There is an A/D line on the AC97 codec that we use as a measurement probe to the battery. Used that to determine the actual voltage being seen. Charged the device 24 hours, and ran a program that dumped that output to a file until it died.
Then fit a third order polynomial to the data. We use that to predict where you're at percentage-wise on the draining curve. Then we made the mistake of looking at the metrics for other batteries we got from the manufacturer.
As it turns out, the characteristics from one battery to the next varied wildly. Even after you average a dozen or so batteries you'd still get better results throwing darts at a dartboard.
In short, that 3DMark06 test is probably reading battery capacity from something similar. That would be worth looking at for another source of possibly bogus readings.
I'm sure the 5% or so of laptop users that have an AMD chip are absolutely crushed.
(feel free to check my figures, as I pulled them from the nether -- my nethers.)
base your battery life figures on full consumption specification of all the components at operating temperatures.
simple math which instantly gives you the worst case scenario, which is probably more reliable than current methods.
also provide a scaled estimate based on battery age from an average number of charges.
... isn't some developer's idea of benchmarks, but estimates based on actual Real World Use.
For example - my laptop* will last a day or two unplugged in sleep mode. There's one metric for you - how long will it last if you stick it in your bag and forget about it?
My laptop will last maybe an hour - if that - running Photoshop. That stresses the disk, the ram, pegs the processor, etc.
It might last through a DVD if I'm not doing anything else. Optical drive is the big drain here - newer machines can handle
So What?... As long as they begin to publish true measured figures (Idle & Loaded) as opposed to some guess that they would make, then spin in the marketing department, no-one can complain if their own results vary. All the manufacturer can do is publish what they can measure. Any specific user who claims that their performance differs needs to
Battery life figures are utterly useless. CPU load varies from user to user (consider the guy who is checking email, vs the guy who is gaming) to the point where any attempt to measure battery life, other than full tilt 100% cpu utilization, is doomed to failure.
It'd be better to produce the 100% CPU battery life figure since then everyone's expectations are managed and all will perform at or above the published battery life numbers in the field.
The industry is ridiculous and opens itself up to class actio
of being honest with your mistakes and PR lies ? well. thats something new alright. intel, nvidia, microsoft would have taken a different approach than what you have done though.
We have effective laws against false advertising now. If battery claims cannot be verified under the same conditions, companies should be sued out of business. The same goes true for automobile manufacturers. I have yet to see a car that gets even close to published MPG figures under normal conditions.
How can these companies continue lying to us and get away with it? Even if there is some kind of special estimate that they do (I don't know, removing certain services that come with the laptop, running
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Pokémon Soul Silver is a remake of the original 2nd Generation of Pokémon, Pokémon Silver. It will be released along side with Pokémon Heart Gold, the remake of Pokémon Gold. Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver, contains Pokémon from the 3rd and 4th generations. These generation Pokémon can be found in a variety of ways. The game was created to celebrate the 10th aniversery of Pokemon Silver.
1. Migrating Pokémon off either Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red, Leaf Green, or Emerald.
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- Graphics of the quality featured in the fourth generation (Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Pearl and Pokémon Platinum)
- New Pokéwalker device bundled with either version of the game. It has been confirmed that the Pokéwalker is coming to the USA.
- Lugia and Ho-oh figurines will be given out when you pre-order their respective game. (Lugia for SoulSilver and Ho-Oh for HeartGold) In addition if you pre-order both games an Arceus figurine will be given. It has been confirmed that the Arceus figurine will not be given out in the USA, but they will be in Japan.
- The new female character is now called Lyra instead of Kris, likewise, Gold has been named Ethan.
- Similar to D/P/Pt, a National Dex may be obtained.
- New customizable option for the Safari Zone, so you are able to catch different types of Pokemon.
- New event called Pokéathlon. This is where the player may take part in various events such as speed, jump, strength, stamina, strength, and skill.
- Game Mechanics brought up to Generation IV standards.
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Almost guaranteed to net one or two KOs. commented Jun 20, 2013 by alexander757575 [email protected] Ability:Shed Skin Harden String Shot Bug Bite Tackle This ain't a joke... commented Jan 20, 2014 by ChewyDonuts I never thought this question would ever exist... commented Nov 16, 2014 by Bob Mcfluffykins the only reason i came here is for the metapods commented Jul 6, 2015 by superash Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 14 Answers 2 votes Gen V Butterfree (F) @ Focus Sash Trait: Compoundeyes EVs: 248 SAtk / 16 SDef / 244 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) Bug Buzz Quiver Dance Giga Drain/Psychic Sleep Powder Okay, this is a reliable sleep inducer that also happens to be fast after Quiver dance. Sleep Powder will have high accuracy thanks to Compoundeyes, and after Quiver dance, you'll be like the darkrai of NU. I mean, the Spore users aren't very fast. You won't get outped by Amoonguss or Parasect, and even Breloom has below average Speed. So put the foe to Sleep. You can also do pretty nice damage with Bug Buzz (STAB) and Giga Drain (type coverage and healing). Psychic can be used over Giga Drain to deal with the Poison types of NU, especially since Bug Buzz deals with Dark types. However, you won't get the benefit of Giga Drain's healing. The EVs are focused at providing enough Speed and Special Attack after Quiver dance to do some damage. answered Jul 1, 2011 by trachy edited Jul 1, 2011 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes WHO NEEDS BUTTERFREE? WHEN IT'S PRE-EVOLUTION IS 21 TIMES BETTER!!! [email protected] Shades Ability: Badass-ness EVs:69 Hp, 69 Atk, 69 Def, 69 Sp.A, 69 Sp.D, 69 Spd Nature: Serious -HARDEN -HARDEN -HARDEN -EARTHQU- wait, thats a weak move, when you have HARDEN!!! This is meant for a joke, not to be taken seriosly answered Mar 26, 2015 by Almighty Aggron I cried when I read this! commented Mar 26, 2015 by Toucanadian LoL XD commented Mar 26, 2015 by Almighty Aggron LOL! It is funny b/c it is true! commented Mar 29, 2015 by NicoDiAngelo classic commented May 27, 2015 by madhur18raja Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Gen V Butterfree (F) @ Focus Sash Trait: Tinted Lens EVs: 252 SAtk / 36 SDef / 220 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) Bug Buzz Quiver Dance Energy Ball Psychic Okay, you set up Quiver Dance with the help of your Focus Sash, then hit with your attacks. Bug Buzz gets STAB, while Energy Ball and Psychic provide type coverage. Especially helpful for Psychic in particular is Tinted Lens, which will allow you to get at least a neutral hit against pretty much every foe. However, this is just a weaker Venomoth, and even a weaker Mothim. answered Jun 30, 2011 by trachy edited Jul 1, 2011 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Evoilite Metapod (M) @ Eviolite Role: Annoyer who bosses of physical moves. Trait: Shed Skin EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk) Iron Defense Bug Bite String Shot Tackle With like 1 Iron Defense it's hard as crap to touch this thing with anything physical, which is hilarious! Then you can use things like String shot to be a butt hole, or bug bite to do barely anything.. answered Sep 19, 2011 by Josh little cup caterpie FTW commented Sep 20, 2011 by Ninja Just pointing out, I walled someone's Garchomp, who knew Stone Edge with this, Luckily Stone Edge missed and I get to set up Iron Defense! commented Sep 30, 2011 by Josh OMG TACKLE ATTACK commented Jul 6, 2015 by superash Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Double/Triple Battle Butterfree (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Tinted Lens EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) - Safeguard - Tailwind/Quiver Dance/Swagger - Air Cutter - Bug Buzz/Stuggle Bug Yeah, Butterfree sucks in multi-battle. This is because stat boosting does not work well at all, so Quiver Dance is going to be almost impossible to pull off, especially since the foe will be targetting Butterfree to stop you from using Quiver Dance. Safeguard provides some status protection for the team. Tailwind also provides support. There isn't much else Butterfree can do. You can be incredibly risky and run Quiver Dance, use it for all of one turn. Swagger can be used to help out Own Tempo Pokemon. Air Cutter is STAB and can hit multiple Pokemon. It won't do much, but Butterfree does not have much else. Bug Buzz is more powerful STAB, but it still won't do much, so you can use Struggle Bug to lower the Special Attack of the foes, while doing a tiny bit (tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny) of damage. answered Jan 16, 2012 by trachy edited Jan 16, 2012 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Butterfree (M) @ Focus Sash Role: Sunny Sweeper Trait: Tinted Lens EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) SolarBeam Hidden Power [Fire] Bug Buzz Quiver Dance Hey! Its that NU Volcorona! Well, There have been many times that people have made NU weather Teams. SolarBeam is amazing in the Sun, While HP Fire basically gets STAB from the sun. Bug Buzz is STAB. While Quiver dance is to Make him into a sweeper. Its a pretty simple pokemon, very nice in the sun. answered Jul 15, 2011 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Gen III Butterfree (M) @ Leftovers Ability: Compoundeyes EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) Sleep Powder Dream Eater - Special Giga Drain - Special Nightmare Sleep Powder gets much better accuracy with Compoundeyes, making for a reliable Sleep Powder. Dream Eater covers those annoying Rock Slide Fighting types, and anything that dares cross this Butterfly's path. Giga Drain is more coverage, and agaisn't rock too! And Nightmare is added on Sleep kills, So overall he's not too bad, but still not a favorite of mine. answered Sep 9, 2011 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Doubles / Triples Butterfree (M) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Compoundeyes EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Air Cutter - Bug Buzz - Sleep Powder - Tailwind Yes, I suggested Choice Scarf + Tailwind. At least it will accomplish something before it dies. No, it won't faint. IT WILL DIE. Piece of crap taken to a new level... And I like butterfree! It gets 100% accuracy Air Cutter, so that's a treat. Sleep Powder as well. Heck, it would be worth it to just have something really fast alternating putting opponents to sleep right? Despite sleep clause, if it isn't active... good! To be honest, this thing is most likely going to take down 1 pokemon, or clean 2 up. OR Use Tailwind to support pokemon that can actually do something, or put a decent threat to sleep. answered Jan 27, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes First off, you need to be listening to this while you read my set http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEA_hodDXBg&feature=related It's borderline essential. Now that we have that out of the way, I'm going to listen to something different while I write this set out :P Butterful the Butterfree @ Life freakin' orb Ability: Tinted Lens Nature: Modest EVs: 4 HP / 252 SP ATK / 252 SPEED Quiver Dance - Let the boosting begin. Try to use this when you're pretty darn sure your opponent will switch out. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND using Stealth Rocks as team support before bringing this thing out ( and spinning away any rocks on your side ) so that you can land OHKOs on opponents that are abusing sash. They are out there! Bug Buzz - STAB. Tinted Lens makes your not very effective hits neutral. That's pretty darn awesome if you ask me. This will be your primary attacking move. Sleep Powder - Even though I'm not running the set where this is accurate ( the ability I mean.. whatevs ) it's still ridiculously useful for boosting. Taking the risk normally pays off..... normally. Psychic / Shadow Ball - Choose your coverage. Both work remarkably well. Both hit Gengar / Haunter for super effective damage ( he 4X resists Bug buzz, so he'd still 2X resist you even after Tinted Lens. ) answered Apr 24, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes So, it seems your Butterfree has Modest as its' Nature. As for a set, I have been tinkering all kinds of different ideas for sure to make use of Butterfree. Here's one I just had in mind Nature: Modest (Special Attack up, Attack down) EVs: Emphasis on Special Attack, HP, and Speed. Ability: Compoundeyes Attacks: Bug Buzz/Psychic/Energy Ball/Quiver Dance Held Item: Wise Glasses This would be a set mostly to have Butterfree get in with some quick special attacks and sweep them. With this set, Butterfree'd cover Grass, Psychic, Dark, Fighting, Poison, Water, Rock, and Ground, with Butterfree having a quadruple weakness to Rock, so that helps. Here is another Set Nature: Timid (Speed up, Attack down) Ability: Compoundeyes EVs: Emphasis on Speed, Special Attack, and HP Attacks: Bug Buzz/Sleep Powder/Dream Eater/Quiver Dance Held Item: Big Root Put the enemy to sleep with Sleep Powder thanks to its accuracy going up due to Compoundeyes, as well as the Big Root giving you more HP from Dream Eater than normal. Bug Buzz for Same Type Attack Bonus, as well as Quiver Dance to raise Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed so Butterfree can do more damage with Bug Buzz and Dream Eater, as well as perhaps the pre-emptive strike too. answered Aug 16, 2012 by Bryon Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Butterfree Trait:Compoundeyes Nature:Bold (+Def,-Atk) Quiver dance Sleep powder Bug buzz Dream eater I'm surprised anyone had this idea yet. Amazing fact, Compoundeyes gives 100 accuracy to sleep powder, what is very useful. answered Aug 7, 2013 by TsubasaRC edited Aug 8, 2013 by TsubasaRC finally someone gets it. giga drains nice but against rock im either faster or i run! and try to imagine waking up while a giant butterfree sits on your chest eating your dreams. i wish venomoth was dream eater compatible ... sigh. commented Jun 25, 2014 by Captain-Pyro Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Butterfree @ Choice Scarf Ability: Tinted Lens EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP Timid Nature - Giga Drain - Silver Wind - Ominous Wind - Twister answered Mar 29, 2014 by YHN Butterfree cannot legitimately know Twister and or Ominous Wind with its HA. commented May 8, 2016 by Soundwave Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Butterfree (F) @ Focus Sash Trait: Compound Eyes EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) Bug Buzz Electroweb Energy Ball Quiver Dance answered Nov 15, 2014 by frczen Please log in or register to add a comment. –2 votes item:wide lens nature:hardy/docile/Serious/Bashful/Quirky ev:252 attack; 152 sp.atk; 152speed with butterfree, its defences arn't the best. decent speed, you go in, hit first, get it to sleep. hopfully not taking a lot of damage. its attack stinks, so put all you can into it. sleep powder-may not have alot of accuracy, but with the zoom lens its not that bad. dream eater-when its asleep. get back some health. protect-use when you think it will wake up or when you know somethings coming u-turn-if all else fails, get this in first and switch. answered Aug 13, 2012 by amethyst3552 Please log in or register to add a comment. 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Peter D. Kelly's Hobbs ran down Fan Base in the stretch to
post a length and a quarter victory in the $46,000 allowance/optional claiming
feature at Monmouth Park on Friday.
Trained by
Kathy Mongeon, Hobbs
stepped the mile and a sixteenth over firm turf in 1:40 3/5 and paid $4.20, $3,
$2.40 as the 6-5 choice in the field of seven colts and geldings. Fan Base completed the $23.60 exacta and paid
$4.20 and $2.80. It was another length
and a quarter back to Midnite Silver, who paid $2.40 to show.
"He put me
in the perfect spot," said winning jockey Kendrick Carmouche. "Joe (jockey Bravo aboard Fan Base) swept
past me around the 3/8ths pole, but that was alright since I had so much
horse. After that I made my move and he
was gone."
4-year-old gelding by Put It Back from the Dehere mare Minister Abbey, Hobbs has now won six of
16 lifetime starts.
Live racing
continues at Monmouth
Park on Saturday, June 29
– gates open 11:30 a.m., first post 12:50 p.m.


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COLUMBUS -- Powered by a strong performance from junior Jack Mancinotti, the St. John's boys golf team kept its composure and put itself in contention for the Division I state boys golf championship heading into the final round on Ohio State's Scarlet Course.
Mancinotti shot 35 on the front nine and 38 on the back for a 73 that leaves him second overall.
The Titans also are second after carding a 321 that leaves them three just three strokes behind Cincinnati St. Xavier (318).
"We relaxed," "Mancinotti said. "Our team came in here obviously wanting to win, and we put ourselves in good condition. It was pretty tough today with all of the wind."
Mancinotti trails only Dublin Coffman senior Nick Sparling, who is the defending champion and shot 70 in the opening round.
St. John's freshman Tommy Sullinger is tied for 14th (80). Also competing for the Titans were seniors Jack Meredith (82), Nicholas Graf (86) and Luke Campbell (90).
"I made my first birdie on hole No. 10 and that got me pretty pumped up," Mancinotti said. "We just have to stay concentrated and try to do the same things we did today. We have to stay composed."
Also competing as a team is Findlay, who is 11th (359).
Junior Spencer Shoemaker shot 87 for the team's best opening-round score. He was followed by sophomore Sam Griffith (88), senior Jarrett Quanrud (90), sophomore Trevor St.-Jean (94) and senior Alex Schumaker (99).
"Conditions were really tough and scores were definitely higher," coach Bob Soellner said. "The greens were fast. We definitely had higher expectations but the kids battled."
Competing individually were Bowling Green junior Trey Walker (89) and Maumee senior Mitchell Kontak (90).
"(Kontak) missed some three- to five-footers early and only hit four greens," Maumee coach Todd Ery said. "It's his first time here which was an amazing accomplishment and it was such a huge relief to see him play well at district. He's definitely deserving (of being at state)."
In the Division I girls tournament on Ohio State's Gray Course, St. Ursula Academy is 10th (347) and Perrysburg is 12th (382) heading into the final round.
Rocky River Magnificat is first (310) and two-time defending state champion Dublin Jerome is second (313).
Sophomore Lizzie Win turned in the best opening-round score for St. Ursula with an 80 that has her tied for 19th.
Columbus Watterson junior Erin Harper is first (71).
"I came down here my freshman year and it was my goal this year to improve," Win said. "I played all right. It was a great experience getting here and we did a lot better as a team."
Also competing for St. Ursula were senior Jessica Antypas (93) and juniors Kathryn Young (83), Emily Antypas (92) and Monica Torda (92).
Senior Monica Dorner led Perrysburg with an 87, followed by sophomores Macy Tudor (92), Katie Diehl (93), Madison Williams (100) and Sonia Krolak (103).
Competing individually were Northview freshman Ashley Knight (90) and Anthony Wayne sophomore Maria Connelly (92).
According to Northview coach Andy Roth, Knight is the first girl from the school to advance to state.
"She made it as a freshman so we're very proud," Roth said. "She played in a lot of tournaments over the summer. Between the course and the emotions of being here, she struggled a little bit today."


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Germans are hot!
Germans are hot!
30th JUBer!
[QUOTE=thatgirl;8590926]Sometimes, it's not even Americans we're seeing.
Like in In Bruge when they got Irish actors to play overweight American tourists.
The fake American accents...
lol! "In Bruges" (do not forget the 's') have 2 Irish killers in Belgian city of Bruges. Why did you expect "American" accents?
"American" is an accent - not a language dear. Did you understand the movie? It is meant to be simple - not brain surgery....
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It seems this simple presence is messing with your mind? They are "Irish" with "Irish" accents - me thinks rocket science is wishfull thinking....
I don't like smelly cocks ...
Ever seen those boxes for Calvin Klein underwear in department stores, with a shirtless guy wearing the underwear but you never see his head? I always wonder if any of those guys are Asian or Latino or maybe even Native-- you never know because you can't see their head and the photography is done in a gray black and white tone. So I think most people just presume they're white dudes and I think that's what you're meant to presume.
First, the OP's Premise question invites the selection of Beautiful vs. Ugly, so please stop hating on people who were honest enough to try and answer to the best of their abilities. It is a baiting question that people have tried to get beyond to be fair about.Re: Which country has the most beautiful guys and which most ugly?
Next, we have a genetic predisposition to be attracted to people of a similar background to ourselves/our parents - but not 100% - there's that genetic diversity thing that's hardwired into us.
Third, then there's the exotic attraction - but that, too has limits. See Pareto Theorem for further generic details.
As to the statement that Indians and Africans are the same other than culture and religion - that is a false statement.
Indians fall into the Caucasian Race, ethnically speaking, while SubSaharan Africans are Negroid in Race. There are genetic differences. That's not a racist statement, it's a strictly scientific statement, and has nothing to do with my preferences one way ro another. I'm just trying to correct one mis-statement. And, that's also a generic statement. From Pygmy to Watusi, there is certainly a wide range in genetic diversity within the Negroid Race, just as there is in the Caucasian Race.
I'd say that White, Anglo-Saxon Males have been attracted to black females since before the Civil War in the United States. Lord knows Thomas Jefferson was certainly attracted to one of his slaves, since he fathered many MANY mixed race children. One has to question how many "black" people in the United States, today, are pure blood Negroids, versus mixed race. And, skin colour can vary, widely, within a family - I know of two brothers who are mixed race White/Black - the older is light skinned, barely determinable as having Negroid blood (hair is kinky, but not the jet black of negroids), while his kid brother is several tones darker.
Nora Roberts, writing under her nom de plume J D Robb, writes about a society in America in the not-too-distant future. In it, she routinely describes the attractiveness of mixed race people - much as "mutts" in dogs are more even tempered and better pets than a lot of purebred lines are.
Have any of you read about the beauty of Helen of Troy? Do you know what made her so beautiful in the eyes of those who saw her? Her absolute AVERAGENESS - her features struck that unique balance of EXTREME balance/average. THAT is what defined the ultimate beauty. Kind of ties back to my original statement about being genetically predisposed to people just like our own nuclear family. So, it stands to reason that those who have features significantly different would be less attractive, by and large, to a specific set of eyes.
I, personally, think it's a testament to our shrinking world and the web that people are developing attractions for a much wider spectrum of features. JustaGuy posted a picture of someone he thought might be Maori (in lieu of his Rawiri) the other day - he's certainly not my ethnicity, but I wouldn't mind getting to know him a bit more intimately. The same can be said for many other people from around the world.
When you say Brasilian, I have to chuckle. I used to do business with a major company from Brasil - WHICH Brasilian are you speaking of? The Aryian Race tall, Blue-eyed Blonds, the Portuguese, or the mixed Portuguese/Native Brasilian?
As for Indians - I've been fortunate to know a few in my years on Earth. I found some younger guys to be quite attractive.
As someone else said about a different race - haven't seen too many who aged well.
Of course, I look in the mirror, frequently, and can't say as I have aged all that well, myself.
BUT, I have to say I DO meet all of Taz's requirements, so I must be HIS perfect mate. Don't tell his Latin BF, though.
And I know, if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest . . .
Have not read the complete thread so forgive me.
I say: USA
For both categories.
^Lord knows there are enough of us to fill both bills.
And I know, if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest . . .
Damn, I thought I'd gotten all of my pics off the web.
I guess it's true what they say . . .
Where's that bugger Matt Damon. It had to be either him or Leonard diCaprio who put my mug out there.
And I know, if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest . . .
Oh no....Matt Damon?????
Hi, Mike. How are things in Calgary?
And I know, if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest . . .
Best - Brazil, USA, Greece, Australia, Italy, Dubai (Arab Guys in general).
Not saying my least preferred.
But isn't USA just a melting pot so not a "pure" item in a way....a dilution of all the rest?
That may be our one path back to the Garden of Eden - until we are "one" how do we get past Isaac and Ishmail, Cain and Able?
And I know, if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest . . .
But then the suggestion might be that the monocultures like Korea have the ugliest guys and it isn't true...
^ Well it's common for westerners to think of Asians as a monolithic group. There are like a hundred or more ethnic groups just in China that have mixed since pre-history. But if you ask most people to describe Chinese they'll describe Han Chinese, which is just one ethnic group.
Korea's been invaded so many times throughout history not just by China but by Turkic-extracted nomads, Manchurians, Jurchens, Japanese, etc. There's more ethnic interplay throughout Asia than I think non-Asians generally know.
The Orient has certainly had its share of invasions and conquering nations. I knew there was "bad blood" between Koreans and Japanese from centuries past - something about the Japanese considering the Koreans as second class humans - the poor cousins of the Japanese, or something like that.
I think they are overcoming that - at least in the South, but I'm not an expert by any means, and I certainly don't mean to stir any pots of misinformation.
And I know, if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest . . .
Brazil has amazing looking men
i dont know about most beautiful but i would for sure say this area has many beautiful guys...not a week goes by that i don't see the most beautiful man that ive ever seen. lots and lots of eye candy. the prettiest don't have girlfriends...or if they do they would rather play with me
The uk and the Czech Republic have the sexiest guys. I want to be too nice to say who's the ugliest because every nation has hot and ugly guys.
Oh we'll ok then. The French
Alabama. For both.
What a weird thread!
But since Zayn is 1/2 English 1/2 Pakistani, I'm going to go England/Pakistan for most beautiful.
Omg..tis threas how can I missed it? ^^ smh...
I know you're a long gone Johann but if I can share this to you..
I was like yay! Asian^^ but then... naw..Im no included
you brought the issue that really close to my core- or development in general.
When I was young..I always have mixed feeling whether I should be accepted as oriental looking or more pacific islander looking???
Because Im 1/4 Chinese and the rest are native (Indonesian)
Sometimes I felt it's advantageous that my skin isn't too dark and I could achieve kawaii- looking pic like those Korean boybands did but other times I think my face isn't passable as true oriental because of my humongous nose and lips there. I think even in my country- orient beauty are more appreciated (we didn't compare to white as standard srsly) Around 2002 just before I flew- there were a huge boyband craze over Taiwanese male vocal groups known as F4.
with their frontman panties dropper- ..forgot the name, pick the cutest 2 upfront ^^
No kd, all my classmates were crazy about them and they (F4) even overthrown previous heartthrob boyband; Westlife from Ireland.
when I think..why did those girls switch to F4- I think it's because of relatability (is that a word!?)..factor.
But personally...geez...those F4 guys and Han Chinese guys that people drawn much are not giving me much jivvies..idk- I appreciate their artistic appearance but they're not necessarily turning me on and... I would be insecure if I think myself as not desirable right? So that's why Im in team tan Asians ftw..notice I already made a tribute post to Hawaiian guys and Filipino guys in general.
I think it's better to forget my oriental look as that make me not desiring myself..later on being unconfident.
it's actually true that self-love could make you confidence- there is unwritten rule floating in the air somewhere for gay man that gay guys who achieve/emulate certain looks are hitting his own attraction- a stereotype thinking in shell, not absolute truth but generally is working 'that' way


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With the win, the Nationals move to 8-3 on the season, while Ohio slips to 1-10. The Nationals were led on the night by the six-point performances of Joe Walters (3 goals, three assists) and Cody Jamieson (2 goals, 4 assists). Logan Schuss led the visitors with three goals and an assist.
In the last minute, Nationals goalie Dillon Ward stopped a two-point shot that would have given Ohio a one-goal lead, but an illegal contact foul was called on a Nationals defender during the clear and Ohio got the ball back. On the ensuing possession, Tucker Durkin made a game-saving check on a streaking Steele Stanwick, who had an otherwise clear path to the cage for what would have been the tying goal.
After Ohio's Brian Phipps did well to deny two great Kevin Crowley opportunities, Walters got the scoring started with the first two goals of the game to give the Nationals an early 2-0 advantage.
The Nationals then got their second man-up goal of the game when Martin Cahill took a feed from Walters and ripped an outside shot past Phipps' left shoulder. Cahill scored again on a nearly identical shot before an Ohio clearing error led to an open goal score for Kevin Cunningham to close out the first quarter at 5-0.
Crowley finally beat Phipps for the first goal of the second frame on a smooth behind the back goal. Logan Schuss finally solved Ward for Ohio's first goal of the game, but Crowley answered shortly after with his second goal of the night to extend the Nationals lead to 7-1.
But the Machine would not go down without a fight, and rattled off four consecutive goals to reduce the Hamilton advantage to 7-5. Greg Downing scored two goals during the run, while longpole Kyle Hartzell and faceoff man Eric O'Brien added one apiece.
It seemed like Ohio would go into the intermission with all the momentum, but a Josh Amidon goal with 12.9 seconds remaining in the half pushed the lead to 8-5 and shifted the momentum back in Hamilton's favor.
Hamilton started the second half similarly to how it started the game, scoring the first three goals of the quarter to extend the lead to 11-5. Jamieson assisted on all three goals, as Brodie Merrill, Walters and Cunningham all scored during the run.
Logan Schuss scored consecutive goals to make it 11-7 and keep the Machine in the game heading into the final quarter.
The final frame was the most exciting of the game, and it got started when Downing notched his third score of the game before Jamieson responded with a highlight-reel between the legs goal to push the lead back to four.
But Ohio still wouldn't throw in the towel, as Steele Stanwick scored his only goal of the night on a beautiful behind the back shot. Jamieson once again stretched the lead back to four with his second goal, but Marcus Holman scored a two point goal and and assisted on a man-up goal by Joe Cummings to make it 13-12 and set up the thrilling finish.
Next, Hamilton will look to continue its winning ways in the Youtube game of the Week when the Boston Cannons come to town for a 7 PM faceoff. Ohio will try to get back in the win column when it hosts the Charlotte Hounds in another 7 PM Saturday matchup that will be broadcast regionally and will be available nationally on ESPN3.
Game Notes
- Dillon Ward earned his first win in goal on the season, filling in for an ailing Brett Queener
- With the win, the Nationals improve their record of wins in a season to eight
- Crowley's second goal of the game marked his 100th career point.
- Even though he got another loss in goal, Phipps made several highlight-reel saves of his own, and was the only thing keeping the Machine in the game early on.


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