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Today I will be flying to Amsterdam to lead two of the longest and most ambitious European garden tours I have yet designed, with visits to more than 20 world-class gardens across four countries, starting in Holland, moving into Belgium, across to England and then up to Scotland.
This month-long adventure will also include visits to two of the most famous international gardening events - the once-every-decade Floriade in the Netherlands and the Chelsea Flower Show in England, rated the best garden show in the world, plus time at Europe's Mecca of floriculture, Aalsmeer, where 20 million flowers are sold every day.
You can follow along with me each day on this grand tour by visiting my In the Garden blog, where I'll be posting stories and pictures. I will also be filing specialty stories for this section on the highlights of the Floriade and Chelsea show and a lot more.
Seventy people will be coming on this adventure. One group will journey with me from Holland to England, where we will visit Kew Gardens, Hampton Court, as well as the iconic English gardens of Great Dixter and Sissinghurst and concluding with Chelsea.
A second group will kick off a four-star tour with a day at Chelsea and then visit Sissinghurst and Great Dixter, before launching into a journey through the heart of England, visiting beautiful and historic gardens all the way up through Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland and into Scotland, where we will drop into renowned gar-dens during our stay in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Beautiful gardens are the main linking theme. We will start each day in some fabulous garden. I have found that walking in these pictures of beauty is not only an education, but amazingly relaxing and inspiring.
But the adventure is designed to provide plenty of opportunity to visit art galleries, museums and places of historical interest, as well as time to check out restaurant and theatre culture. We will, for instance, be spending a non-garden day just exploring Bruges, one of the most picturesque cities in Europe.
In the Netherlands, I am particularly excited about revisiting two wonderful garden complexes that are unique to Europe - Appeltern and Nunspeet.
In Appeltern, we will see more than 200 model gardens in one brilliantly compact 15-hectare complex with an amazing diversity and styles of gardens, small and large, traditional and contemporary, artistically linked.
At Nunspeet, we will see cutting-edge designs by one of Holland's top landscape architects, L. J. Goedegebuure, ranging from a shade garden, shrub garden, moor garden, grasses garden, herb garden, rock garden, rose courtyard and Alhambra-style garden, all within a stylish 4.5-hectare complex.
We will, of course, visit Holland's most famous "kitchen" garden, the Keukenhof and stand on top of the windmill to survey the glorious fields of tulip colour.
Jacqueline van der Kloet, the Keuken-hof's leading designer, has also agreed to show us her private garden, the Tea Garden in Weesp. I am told the village of Weesp is a stunning work of beauty in its own right.
Jacqueline is heavily involved with the Floriade, a gigantic world horticultural expo held only once every 10 years. This time, it is in Venlo with "theatre of nature" as its central theme. Jacqueline will meet us there to pass on tips and point out the must-see parts of the immense 66-hectare site, which has been broken up into five distinct garden zones.
For a complete change of pace, after the razzle dazzle of the Floriade, I will take my group as we travel to Bruges into two of the prettiest private gardens in Belgium, in Assenede, west of Antwerp.
When I was putting this tour together, I realized we needed something more for the second half to make it equally exciting and stimulating ... and I hit on the idea of jumping quickly across the North Sea to my homeland for a glorious finale with London at the centre of the crown and Chelsea, Sissinghurst, Great Dixter, Kew and Hampton Court as the jewels.
Both groups will meet for the first time in London; one will have just returned from Chelsea, the new arrivals will be getting ready for it.
From London, we will head into Oxford-shire, Herefordshire and Warwickshire to visit three all-time classic manor house gardens - Rousham, Hatfield House and Upton - while staying in Oxford, the city of spires, there will be time to visit the superb botanical garden there.
Next, we travel very close to Notting-ham, my hometown. In fact, I believe we will stop on route for tea and crumpets with my nephew in Lichfield, before reaching two exquisite historic gardens I used to visit regularly in my youth - Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.
Then it's off to York to see the minster and the Shambles and deeper into Yorkshire to see Harlow Carr, one of the Royal Horticultural Society's flagship gardens, and up and up into Northumberland to visit Alnwick Castle garden.
Crossing the border into the land of the men with short arms and deep pockets (I'm kidding! Sassenach, I know) to taste the water of life (uisge beatha) and visit the prestigious Edinburgh botanic gar-den and the "secret garden" of Malleny, noted for its peace and tranquillity.
Whew. I'm exhausted. And I haven't even told you the half of it. It'll be an education. I know it's not the same, but it could be fun to follow this via my blog. See you there.


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Galileo: The Slowest Fast Computer Around?
A few weeks ago I mentioned I had picked up an Intel Galileo. I spent about $60, and for that price I got a pretty interesting little board. Based around an Intel x86-based system on chip, it sports a 400MHz processor with 512K of onboard memory, an additional 256MB of external RAM, USB host and client ports, Ethernet, an SD card slot, and a mini-PCIe card slot. On top of that, it has all the same I/O pins as an Arduino, using the same "shield" layout and can use the Arduino software.
Sounds amazing, right? An Arduino on steroids for $60. Sort of, but not quite. The problem is that the Galileo actually runs a form of Linux.
If you know me at all, that last sentence should have made you do a double take. When have I ever been against Linux? I'm not. However, trying to marry Linux and Arduino together isn't giving me a good feeling and I'll tell you why.
I tried plugging an LCD daughterboard (I hate saying shield) into the device with an eye to porting an Arduino operating system project over to the new board. The LCD simply didn't work. A little surfing online turned up that it may or may not be a library problem, but that there was some consensus that the Galileo may be too slow to drive the LCD using the Arduino code. Too slow? The thing has a 400MHz processor, right?
It does have a 400MHz processor running Linux. It emulates the Arduino using some method I haven't dug into yet and it is substantially slower than a real Arduino. How much slower?
I wrote a very simple program to just toggle a digital I/O pin quickly. I know there are lots of tricks you use to make a real Arduino go faster, but I didn't really care. I just wanted some point of reference. Here's the code:
void setup() { int bit=0; pinMode(2,OUTPUT); while (1) digitalWrite(2,bit=!bit); } void loop() { }
It is hard to imagine a simpler program. The figure below shows a standard Arduino Leonardo running that program (I hate to say sketch).
Now here's the exact same sketch on the Galileo:
Do they look almost the same to you? They might at a glance, but look at the time scale on the oscilloscope. The Leonardo is pulsing the pin at just under 100kHz. The Galileo with the same code is managing 223 Hz. That's not a typo. The Leonardo is not quite 500 times faster than the Galileo.
There is an old saying that less is more. I prefer the saying that just enough is more. Sometimes the Arduino — or a similar small embedded processor — is just what you need. Sometimes you need a Linux computer. It is hard to see where a Linux box with a very slow Arduino onboard gets you.
Maybe I'm just too early to the party. If you told me this is a Linux box with support for Arduino daughterboards — er, shields — then I get that. There are plenty of inexpensive daughterboards for Arduino. Of course, then you need to pony up Linux driver support for those devices, too, and that could be a mess.
If you told me you have a full-featured Arduino that could cooperate with running Linux programs, that might be another thing. I'm told you can do this, but with the fake Arduino onboard running at 1/500th the speed of a standard Arduino, I've lost interest.
In time the board could become a competitor to things like the Raspberry Pi or the Beaglebone (both of which I've used and like). Even so, it has a slightly different niche. The Pi and the Beagle are both a little I/O anemic but offer niceties like video output and sound (the jack on the Galileo that looks like audio is actually for a serial port). So a media center project is still going for a Pi. A project that needs a mini-PCIe card and no real display might look at a Galileo.
Will you use a Galileo? What's your dream mashup for an embedded Linux board? Leave a comment and share your thoughts.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Alejandro Bedoya remembered back four years ago, when he walked onto the field with his American teammates to face Mexico at the Rose Bowl and saw the crowd of 93,000-plus.
"A sea of green," the 26-year-old midfielder said, referring to the Mexican jersey color.
While American soccer fans are outnumbered by visiting supporters at many venues, the U.S. team has found a home at cozy Columbus Crew Stadium.
It's become the traditional site of the Stars & Stripes' World Cup qualifier against regional rival Mexico following 2-0 victories in 2001, 2005 and 2009.
And on Tuesday night the Americans hope to emulate their performance of four years ago, when they clinched a World Cup berth by beating El Tri.
"We have history here. And for soccer in our country, that's not always the case," said midfielder Michael Bradley, who will miss the match because of a sprained left ankle. "Soccer is still in its growing stages, and so for us to feel like we walk into a stadium and there's history is a special feeling."
Coming off a dismal 3-1 loss Friday at Costa Rica on Friday night, the U.S. can assure its seventh straight World Cup appearance with two games to spare if it beats Mexico and Honduras defeats or ties visiting Panama -- a game that kicks off about the time the second half gets under way in Columbus.
Costa Rica (4-1-2) leads the final round of the North and Central American and Caribbean region with 14 points, one ahead of the U.S. (4-2-1), four in front of Honduras (3-3-1) and six in front of Mexico (1-1-5). Panama (1-2-4) has seven points, and Jamaica (0-4-3) is last.
The top three nations qualify for next year's 32-nation field in Brazil, and the No. 4 finisher winds up in a playoff with New Zealand.
Mexico will be playing its first game since coach Chepo De la Torre was replaced by Luis Fernando Tena following Friday's 2-1 defeat to Honduras at Azteca Stadium.
After this, the Americans play Jamaica at Kansas City, Kan., on Oct. 11 and finish four days later at Panama.
"You don't want to be waiting until the last game and wanting other teams to do you a favor because you're not able to get the job done," U.S. captain Clint Dempsey said. "So ideally, we'd like to get that wrapped up as soon as we can."
The U.S. is 23-0-2 in home qualifiers since losing to Honduras in September 2001 at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., and 37-1-7 in qualifiers on American soil since losing to Costa Rica in 1985 at Torrance Calif.
The defeat to the Catrachos prompted then-coach Bruce Arena to pronounce: "Only in America, I guess, we're fighting for a home-field advantage."
Since the 2001 loss, the U.S. Soccer Federation has focused on selecting sites for home games likely to produce a pro-American crowd, sometimes giving up revenue that could have been collected at larger grounds.
Earlier qualifiers this year included a 1-0 win over Costa Rica at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in suburban Denver, a 2-0 victory over Panama at Seattle's CenturyLink Field and a 1-0 win over Honduras at Rio Tinto Stadium outside Salt Lake City.
"If every time we came here, the crowd was great and we lost, it wouldn't mean nearly as much," American goalkeeper Tim Howard said.
"It's a raucous crowd. There's very few places in America that we can get a full house, a pro-U.S. crowd, a city that's really hungry for national team games. This is probably one of three or four venues that we have the ability to do that."
The 2001 win, on goals by Josh Wolff and Earnie Stewart, came on a 28-degree February night and became known as "La Guerra Fria" (The Cold War).
Steve Ralston and DaMarcus Beasley scored in the more temperate 2005 match, played in early September, and Bradley got both goals four years ago -- a game preceded by a tornado watch, lightning and gusts of up to 61 mph.
The U.S. is 6-0-3 at Columbus Crew Stadium and 4-0-2 in home qualifiers against Mexico since a 1972 defeat at Los Angeles.
"The fans have been amazing when we come to Columbus," Beasley said.
In addition to Bradley, three Americans will miss the match because of yellow card accumulation: forward Jozy Altidore, midfielder Geoff Cameron and defender Matt Besler.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann was critical of the yellow card on Besler, assessed by Mexican referee Marco Rodriguez after the Ticos' Joel Campbell fell down, acting as if the defender had hit him.
Replays appeared to show that Campbell was untouched, but Rodriguez was nonetheless advised to give the caution by one of his linesmen.
"It kind of just confirmed my fears before the game with the yellow card issue," said Klinsmann, who complained that a Mexican referee could impact the U.S. roster against El Tri.
Because of Bradley's injuries and the cards, Klinsmann called in four additional players. Clarence Goodson could start in place of Besler in central defense along with Omar Gonzalez. Midfielders Joe Corona and Jose Torres brought to five the American players from Mexican clubs.
The U.S. knows it has to play far better on defense than it did in Costa Rica, where the hosts scored twice in the first nine minutes.
"We want to punch our ticket man," Howard said. "We want to get this thing finished."


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Hartford — Family members of Newtown victims, Second Amendment supporters and gun control advocates all weighed in at the state legislature's gun violence prevention working group meeting on Monday.
"If you make a change to the existing gun laws you will take away my legal ability to protect myself and my children at a reasonable price," said Elizabeth Drysdale of Waterbury.
People on both sides of the aisle said they wanted to be safe. Whether safety comes from more guns or fewer will be one of the questions for the legislature to solve in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy that took 26 people's lives.
Drysdale said she should be the one to decide the firearm and magazine size she needed to keep herself and her children safe. That belief was echoed by many including Michael Anderson of New Hartford who said, "Having certain tools to protect your family does not make you a criminal."
Many gun advocates said it wasn't the inanimate object that caused violence. A person's mental state and the increasing culture of violence in America is what needed to be examined, they said.
"Adam Lanza committed murder and many people are trying to blame his action on guns but by that same logic I can blame forks for my being overweight," said Karen Zalewski of Meriden. She said it made sense that the legislature wanted to find a solution after Newton but that the legislature was getting ahead of itself because it did not have the full investigation from Sandy Hook. It would make more sense to impose the gun laws that are already on the books, she said.
Many gun-rights advocates agreed with her on this point. One law many gun-rights advocates said they could support was improved background checks.
A number of gun-rights advocates also said they had to have guns to protect themselves from the government.
"The Second Amendment has zero to do with hunting, zero to do with target shooting or sport," said Lindy Urso, an attorney from Cos Cob. "The primary reason as has been said before was to protect the country from foreign invaders as well as a federal tyrannical government with a standing army."
But gun control advocates, such as Alice Stokes of Southport said, "more guns do not make us safer."
Nancy Lefkowitz of Fairfield, the co-founder of March For Change, which will hold a rally against gun violence on Valentine's Day, said, "I don't support the gross misinterpretation of the Second Amendment and the irresponsible suggestion that it is the right of every citizen to own what are essentially killing machines."
More than 3,000 people have died across the country since Sandy Hook, she said.
"Some of you have asked us to wait while you weigh your options; don't you think we have waited enough?" Lefkowitz said.
State Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, also directed her comments to gun rights advocates who have said they feared "knee-jerk reactions" from the legislature.
"There is plenty of distance now to act capably, and these are issues we have been dealing with for years," she said.
A number of victims of gun violence spoke about their personal experiences to get their message across.
Steve Barton of Southport, who was shot in the Aurora movie theater attack while traveling across the country, said, "My body is laced with scars, and I still carry eight pellets within me, sobering reminders of the worst moment in my life."
The population of gun violence survivors is growing, he said.
"It is feeling more and more that it could be anyone in this room, anywhere at any time," he said.
Family members of Newtown victims also made their presence known at the gun violence prevention meeting.
Neil Heslin, the father of 6-year-old Newtown victim Jesse Lewis, said he dropped Jesse off at 9:04 a.m. at Sandy Hook Elementary.
"He gave me a hug and a kiss, and I gave him a kiss back, and he said goodbye, he said I love you, he said I love mom, too," Heslin said. "We were supposed to go back and make gingerbread houses that day; we never made it. Twenty minutes after that my son was dead. There is no reason for it."
Background checks for everyone who purchases a weapon, even if it is a resale, would be a place for gun legislation to start, Heslin said. A ban on high-capacity magazines and assault-type weapons also needs to be in place, he said.
Veronique Pozner, mother of 6-year-old Newtown victim Noah Samuel Pozner, said she and her husband would like to see a comprehensive ban on assault weapons, no grandfathering of banned weapons, high-capacity magazine limits and firearm registration, she said.
But one of the Newtown families who lost a child said more gun laws weren't the answer.
"I believe in simple, few gun laws. We have enough on the books," said Mark Mattioli, the father of 6-year-old James Mattioli, who was killed during the Sandy Hook shooting.
Gun manufacturers also wanted a place at the table.
"This industry is a livelihood for many employees and their families … in the state of Connecticut," said Joyce Rubino, chief operating officer of Colt Manufacturing.
Five years ago they had 100 employees in their handgun operation — now 200 — and they have gone from a $20 million operation then to more than $125 million now, she said.
The company has 670 employees in total and works with numerous suppliers in Connecticut, she said.
Law enforcement officials told legislators they wanted the permitting process strengthened. Cromwell Police Chief Anthony Salvatore, the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association representative, said his group wants the legislature to require permits for long guns. The chiefs want permit applications limited to one per year per person. If an individual were denied a permit, he or she would not be eligible to reapply for at least one year.
Salvatore said police chiefs want more time to evaluate gun permit applications. They have eight weeks to issue a permit under current law and would like to have 12 weeks for more time to get fingerprints back from the state and federal governments, he said.
More than 2,000 people walked through metal detectors Monday at the state's legislative building, and about 400 people signed up to speak. Legislators have numerous and strong opinions to consider in the coming days as they prepare to provide comprehensive legislation on gun violence, school safety and mental health.
Sandy Hook turned many residents in Connecticut into single-issue voters," Lefkowitz told legislators.
"We are now paying attention to your every move," she said.
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What ranks and titles have you held? I held the Victory Fighting Championships welterweight title, 2 time IFC world welterweight champion.
Do you have any heroes? My Brothers Joe and Adam, my parents and my Uncle Stu.
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Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I went to the University of Nebraska at Omaha for 3 years, where I studied psychology and was an assistant coach for wrestling.
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September 2007 Django sprint
On Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, we're going to have a sprint to try and reduce the open ticket count. See the original announcement to django-dev for some details.
Developers around the world, both new and experienced, have already expressed much interest in participating, so there should be people available to help in most time zones.
We'll use the IRC channel #django-sprint on Freenode to coordinate activities. Watch this space for more information.
What is a sprint?
Basically, a Django sprint is an excuse for people to focus their undivided attention, for a set time frame, on improving Django. We'll communicate via the Internet, and the people in Chicago and Mountain View (if, indeed, that option pans out) will just have a focused place to gather, along with better communication and the other benefits of face-to-face interaction.
Anybody can participate and contribute, and there's no obligation or expectation. If you've never contributed to Django before, this is the perfect chance for you to chip in.
To do
Between now and next Friday (or on the day), we need to
- Write up a list of things that newcomers can do, particularly how to help triaging bugs.
- Work out a way to easily pass "possibly ready" bugs to people with commit privileges.
In person (Chicago, USA -- at Google Chicago)
- Matt Dorn
- Adrian Holovaty
- Deryck Hodge
- Adam Jenkins (if it's at Google)
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Joseph Kocherhans
- Chris McAvoy
- Paul Smith
- Clint Ecker (if at Google)
- Jake Elliott
- Tamas Kemenczy
- Andrew Myers
- Matt Dennewitz
- David Eads
- John Melesky
In person (Mountain View, Calif., USA -- at Google main HQ)
- David Cramer
- Brian Harring
- Jason Yan
- Sean Wang (in the evening)
- Patrick Boyd
- Samuel Hsiung
In person (Copenhagen, Denmark) - at No House IT
- Nis Jørgensen
- Niels Sandholt Busch
In person (Lawrence, Kansas, USA) — likely somewhere downtown
Note: This location will likely be virtual until evening Friday, CDT (UTC-5).
- James Bennett
- Matt Croydon
- Christian Metts
- Tom Tobin
In person (Lima, Peru) - at Aureal Systems HQ
- Fernando Gutierrez
- Gustavo Picon
- Jackson Torres
- Jean-Pierre Chauvel
- Raul Santa-Maria
In person (Boulder, Colorado, USA) - Matt's house Friday?, bivio office Saturday
- Brian Rosner (On IRC Friday and in-person at bivio on Saturday)
- Ian Kelly
- Jim Baker
- Matt Boersma
- Paul Hummer (available Friday and/or Saturday)
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- Honza Král
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- Aaron Lee (Shanghai, China)
- Alexander Solovyov (Kiev, Ukraine)
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- Florian Apolloner (Klagenfurt, Austria)
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- Fredrik Sundqvist (Sweden)
- Gallego Pang (China)
- Gary Wilson (Texas, USA)
- Gregor Müllegger (Near Munich, Germany, GMT +1)
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- Nicola Larosa (Italy)
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Pokémon Black and White Versions 2
Pokémon Black Version 2 (Japanese: ポケットモンスター ブラック 2 Pocket Monsters Black 2) and Pokémon White Version 2 (Japanese: ポケットモンスター ホワイト 2 Pocket Monsters White 2) are the second paired versions of Generation V and are the sequels of Pokémon Black and White, respectively.
Both games were revealed on Pokémon Smash! by Junichi Masuda, and subsequently the official Japanese and international[5] Pokémon websites, on February 26, 2012. They were released in Japan on June 23, 2012. It is scheduled to be released in North America on October 7, 2012, Australia on October 11, 2012 and in Europe on October 12, 2012.
The games feature two new formes of Kyurem that serve as the version mascots of the games: Black Kyurem (Japanese: ブラックキュレム) for Black 2 and White Kyurem (Japanese: ホワイトキュレム) for White 2.
- 1 Plot
- 2 Changes from Pokémon Black & White
- 3 Features
- 4 Pokémon
- 5 Compatibility
- 6 Gallery
- 7 Trivia
- 8 Reception
- 9 In other languages
- 10 References
The games take place two years after the events of Pokémon Black and White. The Unova region appears to have changed significantly. New locations are accessible in the southwest and northeast of the region, one of them being Aspertia City, the player's new hometown, while a few previously existing locations such as Challenger's Cave are not accessible anymore. New Gyms and Gym Leaders are also introduced, and the Unova Pokédex is expanded to include Pokémon foreign to the region, much like in Pokémon Platinum.
The player is able to choose to play as the boy Kyouhei, or the girl Mei, as they travel across the region against their rival, Hugh.
Changes from Pokémon Black & White
Aesthetic changes
- The opening is drastically different from the one in Black and White, now featuring the new game characters, the Tao trio and the legendary musketeers. Also, the title screen shows either Black Kyurem or White Kyurem, depending on the version.
- The bar that shows a Pokémon's level, Exp. Points and HP has been redesigned. It is black in Black 2 and white in White 2.
- The area eyecatch has also been redesigned and shows the location in the top left of the screen and season in the bottom right. It is black in Black 2 and white in White 2.
- New locations, such as Aspertia City and Sangi Town, have been added to the game.
- New characters are introduced, such as Hugh, Colress, Roxie, Marlon and Banjirou.
- Cheren, Bianca, Elesa, Ghetsis and Iris all receive redesigns.
- All Unova gyms receive redesigns.
- Most of the Black and White music has been slightly remixed, in addition to the Gym Leader and Champion music from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh.
- There have been several changes made to existing locations, such as Driftveil City and Nimbasa City.
- Every trainer has their own fully animated sprite.
- Several attacks have received new battle animations.
- The battle menu has been redesigned.
- The C-Gear has been redesigned.
- The Unova Pokédex has been expanded tremendously to accommodate older Pokémon.
- It also receives a slight aesthetic change, now having a red background instead of green.
- All returning Gym Leaders and Champions receive new sprites.
- Route 4 has changed drastically and also differs between Black 2 and White 2.
- Victory Road changed drastically from Black and White to Black 2 and White 2 as well and differs in appearance between Black 2 and White 2.
- Challenger's Cave's entrance collapsed while Route 10 was locked off due to landslide on Victory Road, making both areas inaccessible. In place of Cold Storage there is now the Pokémon World Tournament.
Storyline changes
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
- The player no longer starts in Nuvema Town, instead starting in Aspertia City.
- Instead of the usual 5 Poké Balls, the player is given 10 at the start of his or her journey.
- Chili, Cress, Cilan, Lenora and Brycen are replaced by Cheren, Roxie and Marlon as Gym Leaders.
- Bianca gives the player a Starter Pokémon.
- A new Team Plasma has formed, and is run by Ghetsis.
- Colress, a Team Plasma member, is battled frequently throughout the story.
- Rood, Zinzolin and the Shadow Triad are battled as part of the story.
- The Gym Leader order has changed to Cheren, Roxie, Burgh, Elesa, Clay, Skyla, Drayden, Marlon.
- Iris is the new Champion of Unova.
- Ghetsis returns and plans to freeze Unova with Kyurem.
- N returns to Unova with either ZekromB2 or ReshiramW2, who is fused with Kyurem to form either Black KyuremB2 or White KyuremW2.
- Unlike Pokemon Black and White, the version mascots Black KyuremB2 or White KyuremW2 can't be caught within the story, but can be obtained post-game by following certain requirements.
- Several tag battles take place throughout the game: one with the other player character, two with Cheren, four with Hugh, one with Bianca and a daily tag battle with one of Chili, Cress or Cilan (against the other two).
- A new attraction known as the Pokémon World Tournament opens up in Driftveil City, where the player battles Gym Leaders and Champions from all five regions, among others.
- Another new attraction introduced is the Pokéstar Studios, located in Virbank City, where the player takes part in many different movies. Brycen and Sabrina appear here.
- Lenora revives the player's fossils.
- Several new key items exclusive to Black and White 2 are introduced.
- During the post-game, the player may find N at his castle and on the first visit, battles his ZekromB2 or ReshiramW2, who is free for capture after defeating N. Subsequent battles can be done once a season and feature N using a team of Pokémon centered around that season.
Gameplay changes
- The new Unova Link is introduced, which makes way for new features.
- Challenge Mode and Assist Mode are introduced, which raise and lower the strength of opposing trainers respectively.
- A new feature called the Memory Link is introduced, which has flashbacks from the NPCs that shed light on events that happened between Black and White and Black 2 and White 2.
- Many TMs and all but one HM are received in different locations.
- The Xtransceiver adds two new mini-games called Balloon Catch, where the player needs to catch balloons of their face or an NPC's, and Balloon Smash, where the player needs to inflate the balloons as large as possible without bursting them.
- A number of legendaries from Hoenn and Sinnoh (excluding the Weather trio and Creation trio) can be found in the post-game.
- Zorua, Zoroark and TM95 (Snarl), which were previously accessible through Nintendo events only, can now be found within the game without any special requirements.
- The Kami Trio are notably the only Unova regional Pokémon absent from either game and must be obtained through the Pokémon Dream Radar and then transferred or alternatively they can be traded from Black and White. The Dream Radar is also necessary to obtain their new forms.
Pokémon World Tournament
- Main article: Pokémon World Tournament
A new facility featured in Black 2 and White 2 is the Pokémon World Tournament, where the player is able to battle every Gym Leader and Champion (except Koga and Iris) from the main series games in various types of battles.
Pokéstar Studios
- Main article: Pokéstar Studios
Pokéstar Studios is a new feature in the games that allows the player to take part in making films involving Pokémon. The player chooses from various scenarios and acts them out.
- Main article: Seasons
Seasons once again return to the games. In addition to covering the entire screen upon starting the games, a text box appears at the bottom of the screen presenting the current season every time a new area is entered.
Sprite animations
Just like in Pokémon Black and White, the Pokémon sprites are fully animated and move throughout battles. However, unlike Black and White, every Trainer in the game has battle animations, as well as more frames which allows for smoother animations.
The game also introduces new entry sprite animations for Pokémon, much as if it were a Shiny Pokémon.
- N's Pokémon, which are obtainable through Memory Link, (with the exception of N's Zorua, who is obtainable during the main plot) have a green/yellow diamond shine, along with their own sound.
- Also, in the Pokéstar Studios, when a player successfully completes a movie with their Pokémon in an unusual matter by deviating from the script, their Pokémon will become a star and during battles, when the Pokémon is summoned, a star will bounce upwards and then back downwards. This is the only entry animation that can be added manually by the player.
Within the two years separating Black 2 and White 2 from their predecessors, some of the past Gym Leaders have passed on their positions to others or retired the Gym from the Unova League. The eight Gym Leaders of Unova are now: Cheren (Normal), Roxie (Poison), Burgh (Bug), Elesa (Electric), Clay (Ground), Skyla (Flying), Drayden (Dragon) and Marlon (Water).
Elite Four and Champion
Like Black and White, the Elite Four can be battled in any order; after battling all four, a path to the Champion is unlocked. The Elite Four members are Shauntal (Ghost), Marshal (Fighting), Grimsley (Dark), and Caitlin (Psychic). The new Champion is Iris.
Each game features a Pokédex of 300 different Pokémon species, many of which are from previous generations such as Growlithe, Psyduck, and Marill.
Version-exclusive Pokémon
Black 2 and White 2 can connect with the Pokémon Dream Radar, which transfer Pokémon found to the player's game. The Pokémon Global Link has also been updated to make way for the release of Black 2 and White 2. The games are compatible with Black and White, much as Platinum is to Diamond and Pearl. The games can connect as with games of the same generation, and they operate on the same Global Trade Station server. Pokémon from the Generation IV games Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver can be transferred to these games using the Poké Transfer.
Hugh in the opening
With Roxie
With Hugh and Marlon
With Colress in Castelia City
- These will be the first main series games since Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen in September 2004 to be released in North America in the fall months, as opposed to spring months.
- The localization period for Black 2 and White 2 is the shortest worldwide, lasting about three and a half months.
- These are the first main series Pokémon games to officially be a direct, numbered sequel to games from the same generation.
- This also makes them the first main series Pokémon games to have numbers in their titles.
- However, Pokémon Gold and Silver were initially advertised to be direct, numbered sequels to Generation I, originally dubbed "Pocket Monsters 2". This was changed later, thus making Black 2 and White 2 the first official direct, numbered sequels.
- These are the first main series games in which the player starts at a location with the denomination of "City", as all previous versions had the player starting at a Town.
Gaming magazine Famitsu gave Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 a score of 36 out of 40, which is lower than its perfectly-scoring predecessors.
According to Famitsu and Yahoo Japan, the game sold 1,618,621 copies during its first weekend on sale, making it the third best selling DS game of all time.[6][7]
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I should like to start a thread on the subject of kamma and vipāka as they are conceived in the Abhidhamma. To introduce the subject as gently as possible, I'll begin with a Q-&-A article by Nina van Gorkom, to be posted in three parts. Here's part I.
Best wishes,
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
by Nina van Gorkom
A. When people have an unpleasant experience they are inclined to ask: "Why did this have to happen to me?" One might be very good and kind to other people and yet receive unkind words in return. Could you tell me whether it is true that good deeds will bring a good result? I sometimes doubt it.
B. People ask this question because they do not always understand the reason why they have to suffer in life. It is difficult to know which cause in the past brings about this or that unpleasant experience at the present moment. The Buddha said that everything that happens must have a cause. When we suffer it must have a cause either in the far past or in the proximate past. If we know how causes and effects in our lives are interrelated, it will help us to develop the right attitude towards unpleasant experiences and sorrow.
A. Are the bad deeds one did in the past the cause of unpleasant experiences at the present moment? The deeds which are already done belong to the past. How can those deeds bring a result later on?
B. In order to have a deeper understanding of how cause and effect are interrelated it is necessary to know first what motivates good and bad deeds; moreover we should know how we accumulate wholesome tendencies in doing wholesome deeds and how we accumulate unwholesome tendencies in doing unwholesome deeds.
A. Why do you use the words "wholesome" and "unwholesome" instead of good and bad?
B. The words "good" and "bad" generally imply a moral judgement. The Buddha would not judge people as "good" or "bad." He explained about the conditions for their behaviour and about the effects of wholesomeness and unwholesomeness. An unwholesome deed is a deed which brings harm to oneself or to other people, either at the moment the unwholesome deed is done or later on, whereas a wholesome deed is one which will lead to happiness. Unwholesome is in Pali akusala, and wholesome is kusala. With unwholesome mental states or "akusala cittas" one can perform unwholesome deeds or "akusala kamma"; and with wholesome mental states or "kusala cittas" one can perform wholesome deeds or "kusala kamma."
A. What is a citta? Is it a soul or "self" which directs the deeds? Is it under one's control whether one will have a kusala citta which can perform kusala kamma, or is it beyond control?
B. A citta is not a soul or "self." There are many different cittas which succeed one another, there is no citta which lasts. Each citta which arises falls away immediately. We can experience at one moment that we have an akusala citta. However, this does not last, it falls away again. At another moment we might experience that we have a kusala citta; this does not last either, it falls away again. There can only be one citta at a time; we cannot have an akusala citta at the same moment as a kusala citta. Cittas replace one another continuously. How can we take something for self if it does not even last for a second?
It is not in our power to have wholesome cittas whenever we want to. People would like to be good the whole day but they cannot have kusala cittas continuously; it is beyond their control.
All cittas are beyond control. We cannot help it that we like certain people and certain things, and that we dislike other people and things. We cannot direct all our thoughts, we may be absent-minded although we do not want to. No two people can have the same thoughts, even if they think of the same object, for example, of a country where they both have been. One's thoughts depend on many conditions, for example, on experiences and accumulated tendencies in the past, on the object which presents itself at the present moment, on good or bad friends, or on the food one has eaten.
As it is not in one's power to have a certain citta at a certain moment, we cannot say that there is a "self" which directs our deeds. Our actions depend on the tendencies that have been accumulated in the past and on many other conditions.
A. I notice that some people always seem to do the wrong thing in life, whereas for other people it is not difficult to be generous and honest. What is the reason that people are so different?
B. People are so different because of different tendencies and inclinations which have been accumulated in the past. People who are very often angry accumulate anger. When the accumulated anger is strong enough they will perform akusala kamma through speech or deeds. Everybody has accumulated both unwholesome and wholesome tendencies.
A. Is it correct that good and bad deeds performed in the past are never lost, that they continue to have an influence at the present moment?
B. That is true. Experiences one had in the past, and good and bad deeds committed in the past, have been accumulated and they condition cittas arising in the present time. If the citta at the present moment is akusala citta, there is a new accumulation of unwholesomeness, and if the citta at the present moment is kusala citta, there is a new accumulation of wholesomeness.
Therefore cittas which arise are not only conditioned by the object that presents itself through eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body-sense or mind, but they are conditioned as well by the tendencies and inclinations accumulated in the past and by many other factors.
Cittas are beyond control; they are, as the Buddha said, "anattā." When the Buddha said that everything is anattā, he meant that one cannot have power over anything at all. Everything in our life occurs because there are conditions, and everything falls away again.
Good deeds and bad deeds which we performed will bring their result accordingly. The result will take place when it is the right time, when there are the right conditions for the result to take place. It is not in anyone's power to have the result arise at this or at that moment. Cause and result are beyond control, they are anattā.
A. I understand that akusala cittas which perform akusala kamma are cause and that those cannot bring a pleasant result; they will bring an unpleasant result, whereas kusala cittas which perform kusala kamma will bring a good result. Each cause will bring its result accordingly. Could you explain how the result is brought about? Is it a punishment or a reward for one's deeds?
B. There is no question of punishment or reward because there is no one who punishes or rewards. It is the course of nature that one reaps what one has sown. Accumulated akusala kamma produces at the right time a citta which experiences an unpleasant object; this citta is the result of a bad deed one did in the past. Accumulated kusala kamma produces at the right time a citta which experiences a pleasant object; this citta is the result of a good deed one did in the past. The citta which is result is called "vipākacitta" There will be different results at different moments. For most people it is not possible to find out which deed of the past produces the result one receives at the present moment. However, it is of no use to know in detail what happened in the past; we should only be concerned about the present moment. It is enough to know that akusala kamma produces an unpleasant result and that kusala kamma produces a pleasant result. The result is produced either shortly afterwards or later on. We cannot blame other people for an unpleasant result we receive. An unpleasant result is the consequence of our own bad deeds.
A. How often during the day is there vipāka? Is there vipāka at this moment?
B. Yes, there is vipāka now, because you are seeing and hearing. Every time you are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and experiencing a tangible object through the body-sense there is vipāka. All impressions that we experience through the five senses are vipāka
A. How can I find out whether there is pleasant or unpleasant vipāka? I am seeing right now but I have no pleasant or unpleasant feeling about it.
B. It is not always possible to find out whether the object is pleasant or unpleasant. When we see or hear we cannot always find out whether there is kusala vipāka or akusala vipāka. When we feel pain or when we are sick we can be sure that there is akusala vipāka. The moment of vipākacitta is very short, it falls away immediately.
When we see, we experience colour through the eyes. Then we like or dislike it, we recognize it, we think about it. The seeing of colour is vipāka. Like or dislike and thinking about the object are not vipāka. Those functions are performed by other cittas, which are akusala cittas or kusala cittas. The cittas that like or dislike, and the cittas that think about the object, are not results but causes; they can motivate deeds which will bring fresh results.
All cittas succeed one another so rapidly that there seems to be only one citta. We are inclined to think that like or dislike and thinking are still vipāka, but that is a delusion.
A. Does everyone receive both akusala vipāka and kusala vipāka?
B. Everyone has accumulated both unwholesome deeds and wholesome deeds, therefore everyone will receive both akusala vipāka and kusala vipāka. However, we can develop understanding of cause and effect and this helps us to be patient, even under unpleasant conditions. For instance, when we understand what vipāka is we will be less inclined to feel sorry for ourselves or to blame other people when there is akusala vipāka. If we feel sorry for ourselves or blame other people, there is a new accumulation of unwholesomeness and this will bring us more sorrow in the future.
A. But I cannot help disliking unpleasant vipāka. How can I change my attitude?
B. You can change your attitude by understanding what is vipāka and what is no longer vipāka. It is very important to know that the moment we feel dislike or regret is not the same as the moment of vipāka. People are inclined to think that the dislike which arises after the vipāka is still vipāka. When they say "This is just vipāka," they do not distinguish unpleasant feelings from the moments of vipāka. If they do not really know what is vipāka and what is not vipāka but akusala citta, or akusala kamma, they accumulate unwholesomeness all through their lives. By ignorance, by not knowing when the citta is akusala, one accumulates unwholesomeness.
A. I am inclined to blame people who speak harsh words to me, even when I am so kind to them. Are those people not the cause that I receive unpleasant vipāka?
B. We are inclined to think in this way if we haven't yet understood what vipāka is.
Let us analyse what is really happening when we hear harsh words spoken by someone else. When those words are produced by akusala cittas, it is an unpleasant object we receive through the ear. It is not really we who receive the unpleasant object, but the vipākacitta receives the unpleasant object through the ear. The vipākacitta is the result of akusala kamma performed in the past. This was the right moment that the akusala kamma, performed in the past, caused vipākacittas to arise at the present moment. The person who speaks harsh words to us is not the cause of akusala vipāka; the cause is within ourselves. Someone who speaks harsh words to us is only one of the many conditions for vipākacittas to arise. Our own accumulated akusala kamma is the real cause of akusala vipāka.
A. It seems to me that kamma is a fate which directs our lives.
B. Kamma is not an unchangeable fate outside ourselves, but our own accumulated unwholesome and wholesome deeds, and at the right moment it will produce its results in the form of vipākacittas.
A. If a third person would pass and if he would hear harsh words spoken to me, he might have akusala vipāka as well, although the words are not directed to him. Is that right?
B. If it is the right moment for him to have akusala vipāka, he will receive the unpleasant object as well; he might have akusala vipāka through the ear. Whether the words are addressed to him or to someone else does not make any difference.
A. Is it right that the vipāka might not be as unpleasant for him as for the person to whom the harsh words are addressed?
B. Is it necessary to have aversion every time we hear an unpleasant sound?
A. No, it is not necessary.
B. Aversion has nothing to do with vipāka. Considering whether the words are addressed to oneself or to another person and the unpleasant feelings about it are no longer vipāka. If we feel aversion there are akusala cittas, conditioned by our accumulations of aversion in the past. There are some short moments of vipāka only at the moment we receive the sound, before the unpleasant feelings arise. Kamma conditioned the vipākacittas right at that moment. Kamma is the real cause of vipāka, not this or that person. If we want to have the right understanding of vipāka, we should not think in terms of "I," "those people" and "harsh words." If we think of people and if we consider whether harsh words are addressed to ourselves or to someone else, we will not see the truth. If we think in terms of cittas and if we understand conditions for cittas, we will understand reality. When someone speaks harsh words it is conditioned by his accumulated aversion. It is not really important whether he addresses those words to us or to someone else.
If we understand vipāka we will take the unpleasant experiences of life less seriously. It will be of much help to us and to other people if we try to understand ourselves, if we know different cittas arising at different moments. After we have had akusala vipāka we should try not to think much about it. When we think about vipāka it already belongs to the past. It is therefore better to forget about it immediately.
A. I still do not understand why I have to receive harsh words in return for my kindness. How can the result of kusala kamma be akusala vipāka?
B. This could never happen. Kusala kamma has kusala vipāka as its result; however, the good result might arise later on. It is not possible to tell at which moments akusala kamma and kusala kamma produce results. Akusala vipāka is not the result of one's kindness; it is the result of one's accumulated akusala kamma. Kindness will certainly bring a good result, but that might take place later on.
A. I cannot help feeling sorry for myself when there is akusala vipāka. What can I do to prevent the accumulation of more unwholesomeness?
B. When there are conditions for akusala cittas we cannot prevent their arising. They arise very closely after the vipāka, before we know it. They are "anattā," they do not belong to a "self." However, we can develop more understanding of the different phenomena that arise. The akusala cittas that arise after the vipāka are not the same as the vipākacittas and they have conditions different from the conditions for the vipākacittas.
If we understand that feeling sorry for ourselves and blaming other people is done by akusala cittas and that in this way we accumulate more unwholesomeness, we will be less inclined to do so. If we understand that at this moment we cannot do anything about the vipāka which has its cause in the past, we will be able to forget about it more easily. At the moment we are aware of akusala vipāka, it has fallen away already and belongs to the past.
Life is too short to waste energy in worrying about things of the past. It is better to accumulate kusala kamma by doing wholesome deeds.
We read in the Kindred Sayings (Saṃyutta Nikāya I, Sagāthā Vagga, Ch. III, Kosala, 111, §5) that King Pasenadi came to see the Buddha at Sāvatthi. The king had been zealously busy with all such matters as occupy kings. The Buddha asked him what he would do if he would hear from loyal men, coming from all four directions, about a great mountain, high as the sky, moving along and crushing every living thing. The Buddha said:
- "And you, sire, seized with mighty dread, the destruction of human life so terrible, rebirth as man so hard to obtain, what is there that you could do?"
"In such a mighty peril, lord, the destruction of human life so terrible, rebirth as man so hard to obtain, what else could I do save to live righteously and justly and work good and meritorious deeds?"
"I tell you, sire, I make known to you sire: old age and death come rolling in upon you, sire! Since old age and death are rolling in upon you, sire, what is there that you can do?"
"Since old age and death, lord, are rolling in upon me, what else can I do save to live righteously and justly, and to work good and meritorious deeds?"
Taken from:
Kamma amd its Fruit: Selected Essays
Edited by Nyanaponika Thera
Book Publication No. 413
Copyright © Kandy, Buddhist Publication Society, (1975, 1990, 2003)
BPS Online Edition © (2006)
Digital Transcription Source: Buddhist Publication Society


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