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DescriptionNb.BtsI is a nicking endonuclease that cleaves only one strand of DNA on a double- stranded DNA substrate.
Product SourceAn E. coli strain that expresses only the large subunit of the BtsI restriction gene from Bacillus thermoglucosidasius (X.Pan).
Reagents Supplied
The following reagents are supplied with this product:
|Store at (°C)
|CutSmart® Buffer
Properties and Usage
Unit DefinitionOne unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to convert 1 µg of supercoiled plasmid ΦX174 RF I DNA to open circular form in 1 hour at 37°C in a total reaction volume of 50 µl.
Reaction Conditions
1X CutSmart® Buffer
Incubate at 37°C
1X CutSmart® Buffer:
50 mM Potassium Acetate
20 mM Tris-acetate
10 mM Magnesium Acetate
100 μg/ml BSA
pH 7.9 @ 25°C
Activity in NEBuffersNEBuffer 1.1: 75%
NEBuffer 2.1: 100%
NEBuffer 3.1: 75%
CutSmart® Buffer: 100%
Diluent Compatibility
Storage Temperature-20°C
Storage Conditions
10 mM Tris-HCl
50 mM NaCl
1 mM DTT
0.1 mM EDTA
200 μg/ml BSA
50% Glycerol
pH 7.4 @ 25°C
Heat Inactivation80°C for 20 min
Methylation Sensitivity
dam methylation: Not Sensitive
dcm methylation: Not Sensitive
CpG Methylation: Not Sensitive
Heat InactivatedYes
Quality Control
Quality Control AssaysThe following Quality Control Tests are performed on each new lot and meet the specifications designated for the product. Individual lot data can be found on the Product Summary Sheet/Datacard or Manual which can be found in the Supporting Documents section of this page.
- Exonuclease Activity (Radioactivity Release):
The product is tested in a reaction containing a radiolabeled mixture of single and double-stranded DNA. After incubation for 4 hours the exonuclease activity is determined by the % release of radioactive nucleotides.
- Non-Specific DNase Activity (16 hour):
The product is tested for non-specific nuclease degradation in a reaction containing a DNA substrate. After incubation for 16 hours there is no detectable degradation of the DNA substrate as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.
This product is covered by one or more patents, trademarks and/or copyrights owned or controlled by New England Biolabs, Inc. For more information, please contact NEB's Global Business Development team at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Supporting Documents
The Certificate of Analysis (COA) is a signed document that includes the storage temperature, expiration date and quality control's for an individual lot. The following file naming structure is used to name these document files: [Product Number]_[Size]_[Version]_[Lot Number]
- R0707S_L_v2_0021305
- R0707S_L_v2_0021311
- R0707S_L_v2_0021408
- R0707S_L_v2_0021503
- R0707S_L_v2_0021509
- R0707S_L_v2_0021601
The Specification sheet is a document that includes the storage temperature, shelf life and the specifications designated for the product. The following file naming structure is used to name these document files: [Product Number]_[Size]_[Version]
The following is a list of Safety Data Sheet (SDS) that apply to this product to help you use it safely.
The Product Summary Sheet, or Data Card, includes details for how to use the product, as well as details of its formulation and quality controls. The following file naming structure is used to name the majority of these document files: [Catalog Number]Datasheet-Lot[Lot Number]. For those product lots not listed below, please contact NEB at email@example.com or fill out the Technical Support Form for appropriate document.
- Nb.BtsI is very efficient. Under most conditions a one to two hour incubation with 1 µl of enzyme and 1 µg of DNA is recommended.
- Nb.BtsI is 100% active at 55°C.
- To run on an electrophoresis gel, add loading dye containing a final concentration of 0.4% SDS.
- Song, Q. et al. (2010). Anal. Chem. [Epub ahead of print].
- Zhang, P. et al. (2010). Protein Expr. Purif. 69, 226-234. [Epub 2009 Sep 9].
- What effect does BSA have on the performance of NEB's restriction enzymes when included in the new buffers?
- How can I access the old NEBuffer Activity Chart?
- Why is my Restriction Enzyme not cutting DNA?
- Why do I see a DNA smear on an agarose gel after a restriction digest?
- Why do I see additional DNA bands on my gel after a restriction digest?
- How many nucletotides do I have to add adjacent to the RE recognition site in order to get efficient cutting?


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The Linguistics Major
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics.
The undergraduate major in Linguistics focuses on how the human mind structures, processes, and acquires language, as well as how similar communication goals are met by diverse means in the languages of the world.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics
Honors Program
The Linguistics honors program requires students to complete the requirements for the major with a GPA of 3.5 or above and to complete LING 497 – Honors Thesis or relevant course in affiliated programs for the combined majors with a grade of B or better. Students intending to complete the honors program should register with the undergraduate advisor no later than the second semester of their junior year.
Combined Programs
In addition to the major and minor in Linguistics, the Linguistics department offers five combined programs: Linguistics and Philosophy; Linguistics and Psychology; and Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Courses of Instruction
Study Abroad
Undergraduate Linguistics majors and minors can participate in university-wide international study programs administered through the USC College Office of Overseas Studies. 53 semester or year-long programs are offered, and you can find Linguistics courses in 14 countries.
Learn more about undergraduate international study programs.
Career Opportunities
An undergraduate major in Linguistics provides a strong foundation and a highly respected preparation for professional schools, for careers that are either scientific or humanistic in orientation, and for graduate study in a wide range of fields. Graduate programs in Education respect a background in Linguistics, and the students wishing to pursue graduate study in English or a foreign language will find their application enhanced by a Linguistics major or minor. Schools of business, law, and medicine looking for applicants with a broad intellectual background recognize the analytical skills and scientific rigor which a major in Linguistics represents. To graduate schools and respective employers in computer science, a Linguistics background will be especially attractive. The Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics can thus be the starting point not only for careers in Linguistics, but also in a number of diverse areas, such as education, law, government, business, and computer science.
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics. Program Learning Objectives
Specific learning objectives of the B.A. in Linguistics program are:
1. Understanding the Generative Linguistics Program
Students completing a B.A. in Linguistics will develop a clear understanding of why the generative modeling of language initiated by Noam Chomsky has become the dominant paradigm in modern linguistics. Students will be familiar with arguments relating to language acquisition, issues of language complexity and the poverty of the stimulus as foundations for a generative, modular approach to the modeling and scientific analysis of language.
2. Developing knowledge of broad range of sub-fields of theoretical linguistics
Students in the B.A. in Linguistics will engage in courses representing a broad range of different sub-fields of modern, formal linguistics. Four major areas in which students will be able to develop intermediate to advanced skills and knowledge are: syntax, semantics, phonetics, and phonology. With a strong foundation in these areas, students will be able to approach and gain knowledge of other linguistics' sub-fields such as psycholinguistics, language acquisition, field linguistics, sociolinguistics, neuro-linguistics and the study of contact linguistics. Students will learn to appreciate the major achievements, debates and controversies in each sub-discipline, as well as develop the skills necessary to engage in analysis of novel data within each mode of linguistic description.
3. Practical applications of knowledge of research methodology
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Fresno State announced Friday that former Duke quarterback Brandon Connette has signed a grant-in-aid athletic aid agreement with the Bulldogs. Connette will be eligible for the 2014 season after graduating from Duke this past December.
"Our staff is fired up to have Brandon join our team this summer and strengthen our competition for quarterback," Fresno State head coach Tim DeRuyter said in a press release Friday. "He is a high-character, very intelligent young man that I think will fit in very well with our team. Given his experience in helping Duke and their spread offense go to the ACC championship, I think he is well positioned to compete to be our starting quarterback this fall."
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For the eight lakh subscribers of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation, managing their retirement savings could soon be as easy as operating their bank accounts.
Nearly 15 years after it began computerisation of its offices, the EPFO has gone back to the drawing board as it tries to take the exercise to its second phase with a central database of its members.
The country's largest retirement fund manager has now set up an internal taskforce to truly modernise its functioning and work out a roadmap for its future computerisation needs.
The committee, which will include regional provident fund officers, will review the software requirements for the current functioning of the EPFO.
But more importantly, it will also examine technology options for the next phase of computerisation.
The deliberations may include considering the option of a central database, cloud computing and other available options, the EPFO has said in an internal circular.
Though the report is expected to take some time, the move will fix a major technology flaw in the EPFO and help make member data more credible.
Though at present, all the 120-odd branch offices of the EPFO are computerised and have their subscriber data in an electronic format, they are not inter-connected through a central server.
There is no centralised database and so subscribers data in one office can not be electronically accessed by another office, pointed out an official.
With the initial computerisation, the EPFO has been able to provide online services for transfer of claims, but the second stage of computerisation will help reconcile members data across the country and possibly also give a unique PF account to each subscribers.
A central database will also give anytime, anywhere access to subscribers of their PF accounts, help reduce the transaction time and also cut down the workload of the EPFO that covers over nearly 7 lakh establishments across the country.
The EPFO had started its experiments with computerisation way back in 1999 and in 2001 launched a programme called Reinventing EPF.
The agency had tied up with Siemens Information Services Ltd for the exercise that included computerisation of records, distribution of smart cards and access to online accounts, as well as faster processing of withdrawal claims.
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QUIRINO province's most wanted drug trafficker is finally in jail after he was arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a buy-bust operation last Tuesday, PDEA chair Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac Jr. said yesterday.
John Ryan Montemayor, 29, of Bgy. Andres Bonifacio, Diffun municipality, who is included in the PDEA and Philippine National Police's 'order of battle' of drug traffickers in Cagayan Valley, is now facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, said the PDEA chair.
Cacdac said the suspect was arrested at 2 p.m. Tuesday by members of the PDEA Regional Office 2 under Director Juvenal Azurin and a team of officers from the Diffun Municipal Police Station shortly after he sold two plastic sachets of shabu to an undercover agent in General Antonio Luna St. in Purok 2, Bgy. Andres Bonifacio.
The suspect also yielded two pieces of marked P1,000 bills paid to him by the poseur.
"We are steadily chipping away drug personalities who are included in the PDEA's order of battle nationwide. It bodes well to the equation that the higher the level of the arrested target, the bigger its impact on the illegal drug trade," Cacdac said.
In La Union, local PDEA agents arrested Kenneth Allen Buccat, a 24-year-old resident of Bgy. Ilocanos Norte in San Fernando City, after he sold shabu to a poseur last Tuesday.
Cacdac said Buccat, a suspected member of the Maso Drug Group operating in the Ilocos-Pangasinan region, is considered as the 6th top drug personality in La Union.
Combined agents of the PDEA Regional Office 1 headed by Director Adrian Alvariño, the San Fernando City Police Station and the La Union Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group seized two sachets of shabu, several drug paraphernalia and the buy-bust money from the suspect.
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'Foundlore' exhibition at the Vine Arts Center
Three brothers and two roommates have been working together in one studio to create an art exhibition that comments on our media-saturated and recycle-saturated world. The collaboration, "Foundlore," is exactly what it sounds like: a combination of found-object art and folklore. But it's not folklore in the traditional sense of the word; their re-use of materials presents a reinvented style of Americana.
Along with found objects, the exhibition presents visitors with a wide selection of mediums including wood sculptures, photographs, mosaics, and functional art. It's a colorful show that's even more intriguing when the specific materials reveal themselves.
For instance, Ryan Sweere uses bottle caps from numerous beverages--paying close attention to the red, white, and blue tops--to create Bottlecap Old Glory, a large mosaic of the American flag.
His brother Michael Sweere seems tantalized by tin as well. He creates landscapes and other collages using recycled tin from food canisters he's collected from thrift stores. He attaches the cut-out shapes to plywood canvasses with hammer and nails.
Jonathan, another Sweere brother, has found his way toward more non-traditional materials as well. Although he is trained in the style of classical realism, he frequently explores other artistic mediums. For this show, he is showcasing ceramic and glass clocks, as well as other types of glass works, including his melted or "slumped" glass bottles.
Photographer Matt Flueger shows a side of Ft. Snelling that is rarely seen. His photographs focus on the textures and wayward imagery of abandoned buildings on the outskirts of the Fort.
Kristoffer West Johnson creates large-scale iconographic-style paintings usually associated with religious imagery, though his subjects aren't necessarily religious. According to the artist, his acrylic and varnished pieces may not be recycled, but the ideas expressed on his canvases allude to a reinterpretation of ideas.
"Foundlore" will be on display at the Vine Arts Center, located at 2637 27th Avenue South in Minneapolis, through May 7, 2011.
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Food patterns, inflammation markers and incidence of cardiovascular disease: the Malmö Diet and Cancer study
Version of Record online: 4 MAY 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02382.x
© 2011 The Association for the Publication of the Journal of Internal Medicine
Journal of Internal Medicine
Volume 270, Issue 4, pages 365–376, October 2011
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Hlebowicz, J., Persson, M., Gullberg, B., Sonestedt, E., Wallström, P., Drake, I., Nilsson, J., Hedblad, B. and Wirfält, E. (2011), Food patterns, inflammation markers and incidence of cardiovascular disease: the Malmö Diet and Cancer study. Journal of Internal Medicine, 270: 365–376. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02382.x
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- Issue online: 19 SEP 2011
- Version of Record online: 4 MAY 2011
- Accepted manuscript online: 28 MAR 2011 01:00PM EST
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Abstract. Hlebowicz J, Persson M, Gullberg B, Sonestedt E, Wallström P, Drake I, Nilsson J, Hedblad B, Wirfält E (Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden). Food patterns, inflammation markers and incidence of cardiovascular disease: the Malmö Diet and Cancer study. J Intern Med 2011; 270: 365–376.
Objectives. To examine the associations between food patterns constructed using cluster analysis and markers of systemic and vascular inflammation, and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) after 13 years of follow-up.
Design. Population-based, prospective cohort study.
Setting and subjects. Cluster analysis identified six food patterns from 43 food group variables among 4999 subjects, aged 45–68 years, who participated in the Malmö Diet and Cancer cardiovascular programme between 1991 and 1994. Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), C-reactive protein concentration and white blood cell (WBC) count were measured using blood samples at baseline. Incidence of CVD (coronary events and ischaemic stroke) was monitored over 13 years of follow-up.
Results. The fibre-rich bread pattern was associated with favourable effects on WBC count in women, and the low-fat and high-fibre pattern with favourable effects on Lp-PLA2 mass in women, and on Lp-PLA2 activity in men. However, the milk fat and sweets and cakes patterns were both associated with adverse effects; the former on WBC count in women and on Lp-PLA2 mass in men, and the latter on WBC count and Lp-PLA2 mass in women. The milk fat and sweets and cakes patterns were associated with increased CVD risk in women.
Conclusions. The results of this study support the present Nordic dietary recommendations indicating that diets rich in high-fibre, low-fat and low-sugar foods are favourably associated with markers of inflammation and, potentially, with CVD risk.


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With Lucy's first loan from Tujijenge Tanzania, she was able to purchase cooking oil and milk. Having repaid that loan, she will use this one, her second, to restock her milk inventory and add more Irish potatoes. Lucy's dream is that with increased profits from her business, she will one day be able to renovate and expand her family's small home.
Lucy will share this loan with her group, whose 23 members run a variety of businesses including sales of food, charcoal, fish and poultry. They hold each other accountable for paying back the loan.
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Bill seeks to speed up firings of predator teachers
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SACRAMENTO — State lawmakers will once again take up contentious legislation seeking to clear costly and time-consuming obstacles to firing teachers accused of serious crimes against children.
But the measure faces the daunting challenge of protecting constitutionally guaranteed due process rights while moving to make dismissals cheaper and faster at the same time.
"Everybody agrees we need to get predators out of the classroom, but we don't want to punish innocent people," explained Sen. Marty Block, a San Diego Democrat and co-author of the bill.
The measure reopens an issue that dogged Block's fall campaign for the Senate and gave the California Teachers Association, one of his allies, a black eye for having a heavy hand in killing similar legislation last summer.
Nevertheless, Block said he supports pushing ahead, citing the urgency demonstrated by the recent arrest of a Chula Vista Elementary schoolteacher on child pornography and child molestation charges and a scathing report on how Los Angeles schools spend too much money and take too long to take action.
Block will join forces with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles, who said he was driven to act after learning of a case involving a teacher who was charged with 23 lewd acts against children. Rather than go through the expense and time of dismissal proceedings, the district paid him $40,000 and legal fees to drop his appeal of his firing. It was not an isolated case, Padilla said.
Block said compromise can be accomplished.
"Reasonable people understand the CTA's concern about due process," Block said. "The majority of teachers don't want teachers who are predators in the classroom. Members of the CTA would agree we need to do a better job of removing predators."
Jim Groth, the San Diego-based representative on the CTA board, said the union is ready to work with the senators.
"Safety or our students is our No. 1 mutual concern, our No. 1 priority," Groth said. "We're looking forward to working with the Legislature to streamline the process, work on a reasonable timeline and to help reduce the overall cost."
Padilla's Senate Bill 10 was reintroduced on the heels of a state audit released just after Thanksgiving criticizing the Los Angeles Unified School District for mishandling dozens of proceedings and spending millions of dollars on settlements rather than pursuing dismissals.
For example, Auditor Elaine Howle found that 47 settlements involving misconduct with students resulted in payouts of more than $2 million. In addition, 111 teachers and administrators who had been put on paid leave while their cases involving alleged misconduct involving students was being reviewed collected more than $4 million in salary in 2011-12.
Moreover, it cost the district nearly $11 million in salary and benefits for substitutes while those employees were being investigated, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
Not all LAUSD cases ended up in payouts, however. The district did fire 92 teachers for misconduct last year, but at a price. The average dismissal proceeding can run months and top $300,000 in associated costs, the newspaper reported.
San Diego Unified School District has not compiled data related to teacher dismissals for such offenses, according to Bernie Rhinerson, its chief of staff.
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• Admitting as evidence complaints older then four years.
• Giving the district's board of trustees the final say rather than a hearing board.
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WASHINGTON Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday the formation of a new global coalition to fight emissions other than carbon dioxide that contribute to climate change.
The coalitionwhich includes Sweden, Mexico, Canada, Bangladesh and the U.S. will be funded with $15 million, mostly from the U.S. It hasn't yet determined which actions it will take to reduce the emissions, nor has it identified specific reduction targets.
The administration is also putting up federal dollars for clean-energy investments, unveiling a 2013 budget plan this week that sets aside hundreds of millions of dollars for wind, solar and other clean-energy projects.
The coalition announced Thursday will target emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that is far more potent than carbon dioxide, as well as soot and hydrofluorocarbons. Together, these emissions account for more than a third of current global-warming developments, a senior administration official said.
The coalition's focus on so-called short-lived pollutants won't replace efforts to slash carbon emissions, for which "the world has not yet done enough," Ms. Clinton said. It aims instead to complement those efforts.
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We haven't won by a long shot. The battlefield has simply moved.
OK, we don't know if there is Climate Change, we don't know what emmissions we are going to target (but we aren't going after CO2) - and we have $15 Million of the taxpayer's dollars behind us.
So, let's hoot a lot and jump around in a circle, then demand more money.
Why form a coalition? Just take the 15M. Who's going to stop you?
Fifteen million will only begin to buy first class jet travel, 5 star hotels and lavish meals for this so-called "commission" to go globe trotting and tell the Bengalis they need to purchase methane emission credits with borrowed western money, to grow rice.
When I see stuff like this from an pompous incompetent pantsuit named Hillary Clinton, I don't have to wonder where the smell of methane (ie, bovine excrement) is coming from.
May the farce be with them.
Global Warming is a GIL retirement product for politicians and social engineers around the world. (GIL=Guaranteed Income for Life)
Let's all make a living by declaring that the earth and sun's natural algorythm of changing weather patterns is something we must overcome..........And they thought the Druids were moonbats?
Wonder what out of work Americans think about the Govt. using 15 million to create about the 10,000th commission to study global warming. This is pure graft and pork, nothing else.
Typical and typically led by Ms. Clinton who along with Algore tried to bleed the congress when she was married to what'shisname.
> Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday the
> formation of a new global coalition to fight emissions
She can start by limiting the bilious gaseous emissions escaping from her noxious pie hole.
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In other words, they don't know jack s**t about what they're trying to do or how to do it......so let's just toss $15M of US taxpayer dollars at it for the hell of it.
God forgive me for the thoughts I have.....
More proof that our government does what it wants to, when it wants to. Doesn't matter if we want it or need it.
Neither must we.
"The coalition announced Thursday will target emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that is far more potent than carbon dioxide, ... "
Bovine butt-plugs. Go Hillary!
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INSANITY --- The pathology of trying the same misguided failed policies over and over again, and expecting different results.
Synonym --- Totalitarianism.
More prostitutes for Bill.
Wonder how his son in Australia is doing?
Isn't it about time to repost the Life and times of Maurice Strong? The inventor and promoter of Global Warming/Cooling/Climate Change/CO2/Oxygen/Nitrogen/Hydrogen and CO2 hater?
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This is Turtwig, he was the most under appreciatted starter in Diamond & Pearl. If you picked Turtwig as your starter, put this in your sig . Started by Dax-360
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Argh, now I almost want to use Florges.
The more time I spend on here, the more torn I become in terms of which Pokemon I want to use. It's not that any Pokemon are really growing on me; I still dislike all the ones I've disliked from the beginning. But the ones I do like are competing for my attention, when previously I was fairly certain what my Kalos team would be.
I don't mean to offend anybody. Sometimes I may snark, but please know I don't mean to be rude.
So few Fire types...
I try to use at least one Pokemon that is new to me each time I play through a game.
I don't mean to offend anybody. Sometimes I may snark, but please know I don't mean to be rude.
so our missing mons were:
19 & 20: Taillow & Swellow
141-143: Clamperl line
146: Corsola
14: Shuckle
68: Rotom
99-101: Aron line
109 & 110: Spearow & Fearow
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134 & 135: Lickitung & Lickilicky
145-147: Dratini line
surprised at no beldum line
Spoiler:- Game Teams:
I have a pretty good reputation on these forums... Well i mean I could...
Black 2(8/8 badges): emboar, Vaporeon, roserade, Lucario,fraxure, Magnezone
Leafgreen team: Charizard, Pidgeot, Vaporeon, Zapdos, Mewtwo, Dragonite
Soulsilver team: Feraligatr, Togekiss, Lugia, Mewtwo, Espeon, Dragonite.
Black team: Serperior, Excadrill, Chandelure, Volcarona, Heracross, Tyranitar
Emerald team: blaziken, azumarill, cacturne, delcatty, altaria, salemence, rayquaza
In progress: Diamond (8/8 badges)
Cool, guess there are more people who got the game already.
For people who have the game, any news about the location of Feebas/Milotic, the Firestone and Waterstone (also can i just confirm Eevee is available early like some have been saying?), Petilil/Liligant and Misdreavus/Mismagius in the game? ...or if they are even in the game?
It would really suck to be me if my favorite mons aren't even available in the game...
Also i'm pretty sure Latias has not been spotted anywhere in X and Y right?
I was going to avoid dex spoilers, but screw it. I only will look at the types and names, though.
Only three legendaries, huh. Even gen 1 had more. Harsh contrast from gens 4 and 5.
For those whining about only 69 new Pokemon, look at how many standalone Pokemon Johto/Sinnoh had. Not too much of a difference.
I don't mean to offend anybody. Sometimes I may snark, but please know I don't mean to be rude.
Now just waiting for a compiled list of all the Pokemon not in any of the main three dexes. Then we work out where to get them. Pokeradar is back, so that's a good candidate. Also Friend Safari might be a way to get National Dex Pokemon.
Currently playing: X, completing Pokedex.
Do we know if the Kalos Dex is complete? I mean, does someone tell you that you filled it once you get the Kanto birds? I think it's weird seeing how one the 3 Dexs gets 153 pokes (ending with birds), one has 151 (ending with Mewtwo) and 150 (ending in Haxorus)..
Maybe they all go to 153, each ending with some kind of Legendary? Still hoping..
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That's not to say we didn't get some nice Pokemon, but I just feel so disappointed because I expected a huge amount of Pokemon when information about the games was beginning to come out... just a little bit of a let-down, you know?
I don't mean to offend anybody. Sometimes I may snark, but please know I don't mean to be rude.
How is Audino not a fairy type?
Pokedex: 719/719


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I haven't seen any, but I automatically like the third one the best, from the trailers at least. Punisher is a 1 dimensional character who kills bad guys and thats that. What more do we need?
i tried to watch the last two.. couldn't.
you could watch the first one from the 80's, which btw, he never even put on the punisher costume, but you didn't watch the third one? that was the best out of all three of them. the middle one sucked the most because they fucked with his origin story. fucking cuban drug lords instead of NYC mafia? fuck that.
It started with bad dialog, shitty accents and cheesy special effects (the gore). I found it very boring.
You realize that he said that he tried to watch the last two, and couldn't; not that he watched the first one and could, but then tried to watch the last two, and couldn't? Subtle (like a ton of bricks) difference there. While I'm old enough to have seen the first one in theaters (although I didn't, marvel movies (and superhero movies in general) were crap. Most people have gone through life without knowing about Punisher's (or Captain America's) 80's terrible movies.
The third one is the most true to the comics. Castle is a cold, non-talkative murder machine that brutally slaughters bad guys. Lots and lots of bad guys. It's a triumph of comic movie making that also results in a commercial failure. I love it.
The first two…not bad.
The first one sucked balls hard and deep. The second one was good in it's own right. Solid enough story and decent acting. The third was over the top awesome though. How the punisher was meant to be.
Proving that a badass movie poster doesn't mean shit.
Dolph is never good at anything but I'm willing to recognize him a bit more for his He-Man portrayal than Punisher's.
The Punisher is a fine action movie, no what you want from a comic-book-based movie but if you're willing to ignore the Marvel label, it's an entertaining movie.
The Punisher: War Zone is just all-out fuck-your-mother's-asshole gore-packed action. Which is what Punisher is all about.
I'm still amazed that Dolph Lundgren has a doctorate in chemical engineering, is a two time European martial arts champion, and can act well enough to land film rolls. (Acting is so much harder than you think it is). He reportedly has an IQ of 160.
The dude from Rocky IV. "I must break you." Genius athlete actor. Still have a hard time accepting it.
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