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Bought this to replace the stock Avid rotor that came w/ my Elixirs. I was getting the dreaded "turkey warble" sound and bad shuddering under hard braking. Nothing would fix it--sanding the rotors, new pads, re-bedding, etc. Bought the Alligator rotor based on some web reviews that said it was a good fix for the problem. Success--works like a charm. No more noise--just nice/smooth, quiet braking with no shuddering. The rotor does seem a little thinner that the Avid rotor, so it took several stops before the calipers adjusted themselves. But once broken in they feel great. I assume the thinness means it won't last as long either, but for the price who cares. I can't tell a difference in braking power--seems the same. Better modulation since the shuddering has disappeared. Great price--no complaints.
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Fernie is just a one hour drive east of Cranbrook, BC and the Canadian Rockies International Airport (YXC). This airport has daily flights to and from Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on Air Canada, and daily flights to and from Vancouver on Pacific Coastal Airlines.
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Another close option lies in Kalispell, Montana in the United States. Kalispell is only a two hour drive to the south of Fernie, across the USA border (Roosville Border Crossing - open 24hrs). The Glacier Park International Airport in Kalispell receives daily flights from numerous US cities and airlines.
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When a meteorite from outer space hits a young California girl named Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland), on a desperate order from The President (Stephen Colbert!), the motley crew of Monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction!
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Pokéblocks (Japanese: ポロック Polock) are colorful candy blocks made for Pokémon and are primarily used to increase a Pokémon's condition in one of five areas: Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart, and/or Tough, for Pokémon Contests. The Generation IV equivalent of Pokéblocks are Poffins.
Pokéblocks are used to prepare a Pokémon for Pokémon Contests by raising its condition in the category it will participate in, as well as the two adjacent attributes. The better its condition in those areas and the better its luster, the better the Pokémon will perform in the preliminary judging. Pokéblocks are also used in Hoenn's Safari Zone in feeders to attract Pokémon of certain Natures. Also in the Safari Zone, Pokéblocks can be thrown at a Wild Pokémon to make it less likely to escape.
A Pokéblock case is required before Pokéblocks can be made. It stores them for later use, and can be obtained by speaking to a small girl in the Hyper Rank Contest Hall in Slateport City in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and in the Contest Hall in Lilycove City in Pokémon Emerald.
Making Pokéblocks
Pokéblocks are made by mixing Berries with one to three other people in a Berry Blender, found at Contest Halls. Once Berries are selected, the center of the blender will spin. When the blender's arrow points to the player's marker, the player can push the A button to make it spin faster. The faster it spins, the better the Pokéblock. If the button is pushed outside of the player's marker, the arrow will spin slower, resulting in bad Pokéblocks. Once it is done, each participant receives a Pokéblock.
Flavor and Color
The flavor and color of Pokéblock depends on the Berries used to make the Pokéblock. In the process of blending, Berries with a sour flavor cancel out bitter, bitter cancels sweet, sweet cancels dry, dry cancels spicy, and spicy cancels sour. Pokémon of different Natures will prefer different Pokéblock flavors. If the Pokémon happily eats the Pokéblock, its condition will increase faster, whereas if it disdainfully eats the Pokéblock, its condition will rise slower. In the anime, like in the games, the Pokémon react on whether they like the flavor or not.
The Level of a Pokéblock depends on the Berries used and the speed of the Berry Blender. One can make higher-level Pokéblocks using different Berries with the same kind of flavor. The Level will also increase as the speed of the blender increases. A higher level Pokéblock will increase the Pokémon's condition more than a lower level Pokéblock.
The Feel of a Pokéblock depends on the Berries used and the number of people using the Berry Blender. The more people blending together, the lower the Feel. The Feel is determined by the average Smoothness of the Berries used, subtract the number of people blending. Often the more rare Berries (which typically have a stronger flavor) will have a higher Smoothness. A Pokémon can only eat so many Pokéblocks, as indicated by stars that eventually circle the Pokémon when checking its condition in the PokéNav. The higher the Feel of a Pokéblock, the faster it will fill a Pokémon up. More low-feel Pokéblocks can be fed to a Pokémon than high-feel ones.
List of Pokéblock Colors
Red Pokéblock | A spicy Pokéblock that raises Coolness. | ||
Blue Pokéblock | A dry Pokéblock that raises Beauty. | ||
Pink Pokéblock | A sweet Pokéblock that raises Cuteness. | ||
Green Pokéblock | A bitter Pokéblock that raises Smartness. | ||
Yellow Pokéblock | A sour Pokéblock that raises Toughness. | ||
Purple Pokéblock | A mostly spicy Pokéblock that raises Coolness and another attribute. | ||
Indigo Pokéblock | A mostly dry Pokéblock that raises Beauty and another attribute. | ||
Brown Pokéblock | A mostly sweet Pokéblock that raises Cuteness and another attribute. | ||
LiteBlue Pokéblock | A mostly bitter Pokéblock that raises Smartness and another attribute. | ||
Olive Pokéblock | A mostly sour Pokéblock that raises Toughness and another attribute. | ||
A low level Pokéblock that is created when at least 2 of the same type of Berry are blended, or when their flavors cancel out. | ||
Gold Pokéblock | A high level Pokéblock (above 50) that raises one or two attributes. | ||
Gray Pokéblock | A three-flavor Pokéblock that raises three attributes. | ||
A four-flavor Pokéblock that raises four attributes. |
Blending with NPCs
Pokéblocks may be made with friends or with the assistance of in-game NPCs. In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the player may find one NPC who will assist in Berry Blending at the Verdanturf Town or Fallarbor Town Contest Halls, two NPCs in Slateport City's Contest Hall, and three NPCs in Lilycove City's Contest Hall. In Pokémon Emerald, there are three Berry Blending machines with one to three NPCs who will assist in Berry Blending all in the Lilycove City Contest Hall, and the Blend Master will occasionally appear as well.
The table below describes the Pokéblocks that will be produced if the player adds a given berry when blending with a given number of NPCs (excepting the Blend Master). Clicking on any column's header will sort that column.
Berry name | 1 NPC | 2 NPCs | 3 NPCs | Grade |
Cheri Berry | Red | Red | Red | C |
Chesto Berry | Blue | Blue | Blue | C |
Pecha Berry | Pink | Pink | Pink | C |
Rawst Berry | Green | Green | Green | C |
Aspear Berry | Yellow | Yellow | Yellow | C |
Leppa Berry | Red | Purple | Purple | B |
Oran Berry | Blue | Indigo | Indigo | C |
Persim Berry | Pink | Brown | Purple | C |
Lum Berry | Green | Purple | Indigo | C |
Sitrus Berry | Yellow | Indigo | Brown | C |
Figy Berry | Red | Purple | Purple | B |
Wiki Berry | Blue | Indigo | Indigo | B |
Mago Berry | Pink | Brown | Brown | B |
Aguav Berry | Green | LiteBlue | LiteBlue | B |
Iapapa Berry | Yellow | Olive | Olive | B |
Razz Berry | Purple | Purple | Purple | C |
Bluk Berry | Indigo | Indigo | Indigo | C |
Nanab Berry | Brown | Brown | Purple | C |
Wepear Berry | LiteBlue | Purple | Indigo | C |
Pinap Berry | Purple | Indigo | Brown | C |
Pomeg Berry | Purple | Gray | Purple | B |
Kelpsy Berry | Indigo | Gray | Indigo | B |
Qualot Berry | Brown | Gray | Purple | B |
Hondew Berry | LiteBlue | Gray | Indigo | B |
Grepa Berry | Olive | Gray | Brown | B |
Tamato Berry | Purple | Purple | Purple | B |
Cornn Berry | Indigo | Indigo | Indigo | B |
Magost Berry | Brown | Brown | Brown | B |
Rabuta Berry | LiteBlue | LiteBlue | LiteBlue | B |
Nomel Berry | Olive | Olive | Olive | B |
Spelon Berry | Purple | Purple | Purple | A |
Pamtre Berry | Indigo | Indigo | Indigo | A |
Watmel Berry | Gold | Brown | Brown | A |
Durin Berry | LiteBlue | LiteBlue | LiteBlue | A |
Belue Berry | Olive | Olive | Gold | A |
Liechi Berry | Gold | Gold | Gold | A+ |
- Pokéblock bears some similarity to the popular candy Pez. They are both small candies that are stored in a dispenser.
In other languages
Pokémon Contests | |||
Necessary Spoils Pokéblocks • Poffins Contest Categories Cool • Beauty • Cute • Smart • Tough Rounds Appeals • Battle • Dance • Visual |
Participation Contest • Super Contest Coordinator • Contest Hall • Contest Pass Grand Festivals Kanto • Hoenn • Sinnoh | ||
Others Combinations • Opponents • Double Performance Ribbons (List) • Ribbon Cup • Seals • Capsules • Ranks |
This game-related article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games. |


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"Show me what democracy looks like!" shouts a young lady in front of the BB&T building. The larger group responds: "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!"
Tourists seem mostly bemused. As the light fades, approaching the square becomes an exercise in caution for drivers trying to anticipate just how rowdy the crowd will get. A man with a large sign leans into traffic, shouting, "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!"
At the other end of the park, a praise-and-worship concert is cranking up. It's likely one of the events City Council cited when denying the Occupy Asheville movement permission to camp in Pack Square Park. Between the Vance Monument and the courthouse, the sounds of the two rallies mix in the air. Church-going folk quietly watch the band, though occasionally hands are raised in testimony, silhouetted against the stage lighting.
Amid all the noise, in the long stretch of the public space, people move off by themselves, alone or in couples, to seek some space of their own.
I make my way back to the Monument, but the Occupiers are gone. There's no way to tell if their protest was busted up by the cops or if they disappeared of their own accord, back to wherever it is they go. In any event, the balance of noise is upset, and Pack Square seems strangely empty.
But, of course, it isn't. Traffic chokes the street, tourists crowd into restaurants, and a group of teenagers hangs near the concrete benches by the Merrill Lynch building. One of them has a protest sign and is slamming it against the ground. I ask if he's one of the protesters, and the group laughs. "No," he says, indicating the sign. "A girl just gave it to me."
I tell him that if he's going to destroy it, he should at least let me get pictures. He's very eager to oblige. From the corner of my eye, I can see a policeman approaching. The kid smashes the sign to bits against the bench. I shoot the photos, make my exit.
From across the street, among the tourists posing with the metal pigs and turkeys in the last of the light, I see the cop approach the kids. A few words are exchanged politely, and the cop looks down at the obliterated sign. After a moment he walks away.
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Rain is more of an issue here do to the lack of grass, My course is a whopping 20 feet from the Gulf of Mexico. So when it rains it gets nasty slippery in places. Now I have never fell, but almost did a few times. Im going to call a meeting after this weeks league and let everybody say there peace before I make some league rules.
You ever fill the hole by 5's teebox with dirt, that things dangerous ;b
Why would your league allow for the Ace pool to be "in play" for a playoff in the first place? The ace pool should only be up for grabs during the regulation round period. Why? ....Simple......does everyone participating that day have the same chance or number of attempts at hitting an Ace during a playoff? No they don't.
Keep it simple by only allowing the pool to be in effect during the regulation round.
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Ouch! That sucks!
Every time my brother applied they shot him down with the same reason, but always without a hard pull. Then he applied in December and approved after ID verification.
Amex certainly does "forgive" bad debts, but just not sure how they decide whom or what amount to forgive. On the other hand, for some are still on the list after 30 years over a relatively small charge off of $650.
There seems to be a lot of forgiving going on these days. I am thinking that getting smacked over the head by the CFPB et. al. lately has triggered something at AmEx.
I know they didn't use loss amount in my brother's case. Their loss was over $150k so you would think that would be the last person in the world to forgive.
That's amazing. I can't imagine charging up that much! What the heck did he use it on?
He didn't use it.
It was a case of identity theft, but AmEx wouldn't accept that. Even though the ID thief was arrested, convicted and made complete restitution AmEx had my borhter blacklisted for over 20 years. Go figure.
That explains it, then.
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Last night Jeremy Roenick cried as the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup.
Many people considered this a powerfully emotional moment that truly represents how much the Stanley Cup means.
Those who dared to find humor in the situation were considered insensitive jerks.
However, the talented team of veteran researchers and skilled reporters that the Pensblog is known for have once again discovered the shocking truth.
That wasn't the first time Jeremy Roenick cried.
In fact, Roenick cries frequently.
Below are a few other things that made Jeremy Roenick cry.
Once he lined up at McDonalds craving an Egg McMuffin. He got to the cashier and ordered one. It was 11:05. He was forced to settle for a Quarter Pounder.
When his Rinkotology team performed poorly.
Last night Roenick remembered a child 18 years ago that was upset when the Blackhawks lost in the '92 finals. Not shown on camera was Roenick crying as he remembered a day 22 years ago when he stubbed his toe.
When he signed with the San Jose Sharks, thereby admitting his Cup dream was dead forever.
Whenever the Trix bunny was denied cereal.
When re-watching the clip last night he broke down again when he realized that Mike Milbury attempted to console him.
When Law & Order was cancelled.
Realizing he owes Patrick Kane 20 cents.
Upset that he didn't receive royalties when Vince Vaughn mentioned him in Swingers.
He was concerned for Patrick Roy's health during the '96 playoffs after believing he really had stuck his Stanley Cup rings in his ears.
Realizing he had no such rings himself.
Remembering that Chicago traded him to the Phoenix Coyotes for Alexei Zhamnov and Craig Mills.
Co-hosted "The Best Damn Sports Show... Period" in 2007. Shocked to learn that during some critics consider other sports shows better.
Mario Lemieux in 1992.
Jeremy Roenick is truly a class act and an American hero. Recall this TSN story from 2005 (which is no longer on the TSN website):
"Everybody out there who calls us spoiled because we play a game - they can kiss my ass."
But, of course, last night wasn't just another night in the life of Jeremy Roenick.
It was about the Chicago Blackhawks man!
This is the team that Roenick always supported, no matter what.
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"I said if you had a gun to my head, I said I did have to [root for the Flyers]," Roenick said on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "I didn't want to leave in 1996. If I have to choose, then I have to choose, that's just what it is."
"I think this is the year of the Hawk," Roenick said. "I think the way they look, I don't think anybody can beat them."
"San Jose has had a tough time beating them. I can't see anyone beating them."
But that doesn't mean his heart is with the Hawks.
"I'm not going to lie to you. I am an analyst. I call it like I see it," he said. "Like it or hate it, I got thrown out of Chicago in 1996 against my wishes. I didn't like that either, so touché."
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He understands that the tough, grueling struggle of the NHL leads to emotional outbursts.
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"I see too many kids going the wrong way," he said. "They don't have the respect or the know-how to treat the sport - even Sidney Crosby. You see him [expletive], whining and crying. He's supposed to be the poster boy of our league and yet every time he gets hit, he's grimacing and complaining to the referees. Veterans teach the kids the right way to play."
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A player that is always loyal to his team and never judges the emotions of others?
A player that cares so much about the fans?
We've just discovered another thing that makes Jeremy Roenick cry:
Looking in the mirror and realizing he's a huge hypocrite.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- With his latest milestone within reach, Alex Ovechkin caught himself pressing and overthinking his play.
All of a sudden, his path to history was clear.
Ovechkin scored his 400th career goal into an empty net after the Washington Capitals had three power-play goals in the second period of a 4-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.
"I had a couple of chances to score, and they were good ones, but maybe I tried to make more moves than I usually do," Ovechkin said. "(An) empty-netter is (an) empty-netter. Of course I (thought) about it, but it's over and it's time to move on."
Troy Brouwer, Marcus Johansson and John Carlson scored with the man advantage and Nicklas Backstrom assisted on all four goals to help the second-place Capitals win for the fifth time in their last seven games.
Ovechkin's empty-netter with 24.5 seconds left in his 634th career game made him the sixth-fastest player in NHL history to reach No. 400 and the seventh active player with that many.
"As we all know, he's a pretty good goal-scorer," Backstrom said. "It's always fun to see a player accomplish something big and I think 400 goals in however many games he has, it's great. We all know he's a great player."
Jordan Staal and Riley Nash scored for Carolina while Cam Ward stopped 25 shots.
The Hurricanes had earned at least a point in six of their previous seven games. But they've dropped four of five with the loss to the Caps.
"Five-on-5, we were all over them," Staal said. "We were the better team, 5-on-5. But three power-play goals, you can't let that happen. That's not good enough, obviously, and that's how you lose games."
Washington's Philipp Grubauer matched a season high with 39 saves -- and got some help from the choppy ice after Alexander Semin's shot with about 6 minutes left trickled just wide of the net.
The Capitals have the league's second-best power-play unit with a success rate of nearly 25 per cent. They converted all three of their chances in the second.
"You don't want to have to rely on it, but whenever it's going to power you through games, absolutely you want to rely on it," Brouwer said of the power play.
A fortunate bounce helped the Capitals reclaim the lead at 3-2 with 4:31 left in the period: Mike Green broke his stick while dribbling a shot up the middle that clipped Brouwer on its way past Ward.
"When it comes slower, obviously I get a better touch on it," Brouwer said. "I had my stick halfway up my body thinking it was going to be a higher shot because that's where he usually likes to shoot. It's almost a weird adjustment where you don't ever practice having to put your stick back down on the ice."
That capped a big period for the Capitals' power play.
Johansson tied it 41 seconds into the second when he stuffed the puck between Ward's left leg and the post.
Carlson put the Capitals up 2-1 with 11:26 left -- and just 14 seconds into a holding minor on Tuomo Ruutu -- when his straightaway blast from just inside the blue line got past Ward.
Carolina, which has the league's third-worst power play, made it 2-all 2:42 later by scoring on the man advantage, with Nash making the most of Andrej Sekera's rebound.
But it couldn't convert late after Carlson went off for hooking with 4:50 to play, despite peppering Grubauer with a barrage of shots from close range.
The Hurricanes were playing for the first time since Dec. 14, when they wrapped up a four-point, four-game western swing with a win at Phoenix.
Staal put the Hurricanes up 1-0 with 2:48 left in the first when he scored on a one-touch pass from Semin, who played seven years with the Capitals before signing with Carolina in July 2012.
"We did a good job of getting after him and getting shots and getting opportunities," Staal said. "We just didn't bury them."
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Daniel Offer remembers the day in December 1947 when he and his schoolmates were excused from class and summoned to the auditorium. "The principal called all us seniors in the auditorium and said they're discontinuing the senior class," remembers Offer. But summer vacation was not about to begin early. With the Palestine partition plan just announced and Israel's independence about to become a reality, the certainty of war loomed large. Offer got in line and waited for his assignment. Offer, a Jerusalemite, learned he would be heading south to the Negev to fight the expected Egyptian forces with the Palmach, the "strike forces," one of pre-state Israel's military units. He was the only one from his class assigned to the desert region. "The Negev was like a foreign land to me," he recalls. Born in Berlin in 1931, Offer and his family emigrated to Palestine in 1936. While they were assimilated Germans who didn't identify as Zionists, Offer's parents realized soon after Hitler's rise to power that their future would be elsewhere. His father, a professor of pediatrics, was ousted from his post along with other Jewish professors. According to Offer, his parents said, "If he can do that, he can do anything. We better get the hell out of here." Offer has fond memories of life in Israel, even though it got off to a rough start. "I remember the first day I went to kindergarten, my mother dressed me in lederhosen," he says. "Everybody laughed and laughed at me. That was not a very good beginning." Despite the embarrassing moments associated with integration into a new society, "it was a very happy life," he says. His mother loved their new country. His father returned to Germany after the war and remarried, to the daughter of a preeminent anti-Hitler military figure who was instrumental in obtaining reparations from Germany for Israel. By the time Offer received his orders to join the Palmach, he was a proud member of the burgeoning state. "I believed it was my duty to fight," he said. "I had zero problems about joining the army. I was very proud of what we did accomplish in '48." As expected, on May 15, 1948, six Arab armies attacked Israel from nearly every direction. Initially equipped with a 20-pound Canadian rifle, Offer, who says, "I was not a big guy, I'm still not a big guy," served as a scout and a member of the submachine gun unit. "Oh, I was very scared," he says. "At that time I was sure that I wouldn't survive the war. My best friend was killed in the war in '48. I saw people get killed. Not many, but enough to scare me. I was amazed and surprised that I wasn't killed." Though roughly 600,000 Jews in Palestine were surrounded by 30 million Arabs, Offer remembers Winston Churchill saying that one Jewish soldier could take care of 50 Arab soldiers, and the Jews would win the war. "And that's what happened," he says. In the Negev, Offer did not see the more traumatic battles, such as those around Jerusalem. He remembers his unit releasing imprisoned Egyptian soldiers from an old British police station after a ceasefire. "They all waved to us," he recalls with a laugh. "It was funny. We waved to them, too. They had no interest in continuing to fight." The Palmach's biggest battle in the south was for Beer Sheva, an Arab-dominated area originally slated in the partition plan for Arab control. "Beer Sheva was only a small town, and the Arabs all ran away," says Offer. "At that time, there was nothing there. We didn't have to fight very hard." From there, they headed down to Eilat for the final battle of the war, only to find that region largely abandoned as well. Offer remembers one of his friends stripping down and diving into the Red Sea. After being sent to Haifa to recover from Hepatitis C, Offer trained in first aid and served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1950. Following his medical ambition (there were no medical schools in Israel at the time), he moved to the United States to pursue a degree at the University of Rochester and medical school at the University of Chicago. He spent his career at Northwestern University specializing in adolescent psychiatry. As for his decision to stay in American, Offer reflects on his success: Eighteen books, 200 articles. "I don't think I could have done that in Israel," he says. "We stand in a crossroads. Some people go right, some people go left. For me I think it was the right thing to do." At 81, Offer still returns to Israel every other year to visit his brother. He continues to admire the country and the people. "Whatever happens, [Israelis] don't feel sorry for themselves. They're terrific hopers. They hope very well," he says. "I really appreciate that. 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Scott Wood scored 22 points and Lorenzo Brown scored six of his 15 in overtime to help North Carolina State beat Virginia Tech 90-86 on Saturday.
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After the teams traded turnovers, Tyler Lewis hit two free throws with 51.8 seconds left to give N.C. State an 85-84 lead.
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