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TopLaxRecruits.com, Posted 3/27/14
Get your team ready for the only Beach Lacrosse Tournament in the United States on July 19-20 at Morey's Piers in Wildwood. This tournament gives lacrosse players of all ages a chance to enjoy the game in a new and exciting way.
Teams from all over the East Coast and beyond compete on the beaches of Wildwood, NJ, as well as enjoy the waterparks and beach during the day and the famous Wildwood boardwalk and amusements in the evening.
Questions? Contact us: firstname.lastname@example.com or 609-729-3700 extension 1195. Click here to register.
Click here to download the full official rules.
Games are 5v5, 4 field players plus a goalie, with a maximum of 10 players per team. Each game will have two 18-minute halves with a 4-minute break. Each team will play a minimum of 3 games. Divisions will run from Boy's & Girl's U8 – U18, Men's & Women's Open. Beach Lacrosse is played with NO SHOES (except goalies).
Click here for an article from Phillylacrosse on last year's U15 boys' champions, the Young Bucs of Interboro.
All Teams: $810
• Includes all Tournament Fees AND 10 Morey's Piers Amusement AND Waterpark Passes good for unlimited access to both Ocean Oasis and Raging Waters Beachfront Waterparks PLUS unlimited rides on all 3 Amusement Piers all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday! The 10 wristbands may be used for any 10 individuals, whether players or family. Remember, the wristbands may only be used for one individual and are not transferable.
All non-player Amusement and Water Park wristbands include Morey's Piers Amusement and Water Park Pass good for unlimited access to both Raging Waters and Ocean Oasis Water Parks plus unlimited rides on all three amusement piers all day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! These passes are only available to accepted teams and will be purchased directly from Morey's Piers. You will be notified how you can pre-purchase these passes online when your team is accepted.
Non-Player Amusement and Waterpark Wristband:
$75 BEFORE June 20, 2014
$80 between June 21, 2014 and July 17, 2014
$85 if purchased at Coach's Registration at the Wildwoods Convention Center
Wristbands are valid for access to Raging Waters Waterpark and Ocean Oasis Waterpark and Beach Club, plus the amusement rides on all 3 Amusement Piers (daily wristband restrictions apply: go carts, SkyScraper, SkyCoaster, Climbing wall, Screamin' Swing, High Flyer and Springshot are not included) all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday during operating hours. Check Morey's Piers operating hours.
Wristbands must be placed tightly on the right wrist. Please count your wristbands and meal tickets prior to your arrival to make certain that you have received the amount for which you paid. Lost, stolen or forgotten wristbands or meal tickets cannot be replaced without repurchase. Coaches are responsible for distributing wristbands to all members of the team. Players are responsible for obtaining wristbands from their coach.
Wristbands are NOT TRANSFERABLE. You may not give your wristband to another person. Attempting to sell or transfer Beach Blast wristbands will result in removal of wristband with no refund and you may be banned from the tournament. You must have a wristband for admission to the amusement rides.
Waterparks may close for periods of time due to capacity. No refunds, additional time, etc will be granted if this occurs.
Wristbands must be WORN the entire weekend. Wristbands must be placed on the right wrist tight enough so they cannot be removed without breaking the band. Wristbands that are broken, tampered with, held in a pocket, loose on the wrist, or fixed to something other than a human being, will not be accepted for admission to the amusement rides or waterparks. Wristbands must remain on all guest's wrists throughout the entire event.
Spectators are NOT permitted in the waterparks. In order to enter Raging Waters Waterpark or Ocean Oasis Beach Club and Waterpark, you must be wearing a wristband.
There are no rain checks or refunds for event wristbands. Morey's Piers will attempt to operate during inclement weather as long as conditions are safe which will be determined at the sole discretion of Morey's Piers management. Passes are non-transferable.
Guests must adhere to all ride requirements, obey all written and verbal instructions, and conduct themselves in a safe manner at all times. Failure to do so will result in immediate removal of your wristband without refund. This is a zero tolerance policy, and violators have no recourse. Tournament personnel have agreed not to involve themselves in any manner with interceding or understanding or influence Morey's Piers management with respect to violations of safety procedures at Morey's Piers and Beachfront Waterparks. Morey's Pier staff is trained to enforce all policies and procedures at all times, and immediately report violations to management. State Law requires that each rider must obey all written warnings and directions regarding any ride and refrain from behaving in a reckless manner which may contribute to injury of the rider or others. Failure to comply is a violation of law and subject to a penalty under the New Jersey code of Criminal Justice.
ALL applications will be done online, all payment will be done via credit card online and your credit card will be charged at the time of acceptance. Once you apply, you will receive an email notifying you that your application has been received. This is not acceptance into the tournament. If accepted, you will receive a second email notifying you specifically that you have been accepted and that your credit card has been charged.
Teams are accepted on a first come, first served basis. We strongly recommend you do not make housing reservations until after your team has been accepted.
Questions? Contact us: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A Shiny Pokémon (Japanese: 光るポケモン Shiny Pokémon), previously officially known as alternate coloration or rare coloration (Japanese: 色違い differently colored), and called Color Pokémon in Pokémon Stadium 2, is a specific Pokémon with different coloration to what is usual for its species. It is one of the many differences that a Pokémon can have within its species.
The term "Shiny Pokémon" was first created by fans to refer to the sparkling sound effect and animation made at the start of an encounter with one in the games. Eventually, this term fell into official usage in Generation IV, used on promotional material promoting Shiny event Pokémon. The term Shiny Pokémon was first used in-game in Pokémon Black and White in Nimbasa City.
Shiny Pokémon can differ in color from their normal counterparts very little or very much. Some Pokémon, such as Glaceon or Pichu, have a Shiny coloration only a few shades darker or lighter in color. However, many Pokémon have a spectacular difference between their normal and Shiny variations; even extremely common Pokémon like Caterpie show a dramatic difference. An evolutionary line is not necessarily guaranteed to have similar Shiny colorations even if their standard colorations are the same; both Ponyta and Rapidash have orange flames, but a Shiny Ponyta has blue flames while a Shiny Rapidash has gray flames (this is switched in Generation II). Sometimes, two Pokémon in an evolutionary line with different standard colorations will have the same Shiny coloration, as in the case of Skitty and Delcatty.
Form differences, such as that of Shellos and Gastrodon, are not normal/Shiny variations of one another, but the individual forms can be Shiny.
- 1 In the core series games
- 1.1 Determining Shininess
- 1.2 Generation II
- 1.3 Generation III
- 1.4 Generation IV
- 1.5 Generation V
- 1.6 Generation VI
- 1.7 Generation VII
- 1.8 Appearance
- 1.9 Unobtainable Shiny Pokémon
- 2 In the side series games
- 3 In the spin-off games
- 3.1 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
- 3.2 Super Smash Bros. series
- 3.3 Pokémon Rumble series
- 3.4 Pokémon Conquest
- 3.5 Pokémon Shuffle
- 3.6 Pokémon GO
- 3.7 Pokémon Duel
- 3.8 Pokémon: Magikarp Jump
- 3.9 Pokémon Quest
- 4 In the TCG
- 5 In the anime
- 6 In the manga
- 7 Trivia
- 8 In other languages
- 9 See also
- 10 References
In the core series games
|Gen II
|Stadium 2
|Gen IV
|Gen V
|Gen VI
Shiny Pokémon were introduced in the Generation II games. When a Shiny Pokémon appears in the wild or from its Poké Ball, it is surrounded by a flash of stars or light, which is accompanied by a pinging sound effect.
Individual Pokémon cannot change their Shininess. A Shiny Pokémon will always be Shiny, and a regular Pokémon will never become Shiny. Upon evolution, a Pokémon retains its Shiny status; for example, a Shiny Charmander, if leveled up, will eventually become a Shiny Charmeleon and then a Shiny Charizard, while a regular Charmander will become a regular Charmeleon and then a regular Charizard.
An icon (seen in the table above) appears on the status screen of Shiny Pokémon in most games. In Generation II, this icon appears in the top-right corner of the screen, by the gender symbol, while in most other games, it appears in or near one of the corners of the Pokémon's image; however, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald do not have any icon. In Generation III, the Pokémon's Pokédex number will be colored gold instead of white and the background of the Pokémon's image has a lighter shade; likewise, in Generation IV and V, the color of some elements of the status screen differ for Shiny Pokémon.
The table below summarizes the rates at which Shiny Pokémon can be found by the methods that will be detailed below. The Shiny Charm can directly add to the odds for most methods, with hidden Pokémon being affected uniquely.
|Gen. II
|Gen. III
|Gen. IV
|Gen. V
|Gen. VI
|Gen. VII
|Base rate
| Breeding a Shiny Pokémon
if the offspring is the opposite gender
|Masuda method
|Poké Radar chaining (single patch): ≥40
|Shiny Charm
|Friend Safari
|Consecutive fishing: ≥20
|Hidden Pokémon: Search Level 200 + X
|SOS Battles: ≥31
Determining Shininess
In Generation II
In Generation II, being Shiny is determined by a Pokémon's IVs. If a Pokémon's Speed, Defense, and Special IVs are all 10, and its Attack IV is 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15, it will be Shiny. Because of this, a Shiny Pokémon traded to a Generation I game and then traded back to Generation II will retain its Shininess, and a Pokémon obtained in Generation I whose IVs meet the requirements for Shininess will also become Shiny when traded to Generation II.
Since the HP IV is calculated from the other four IVs, a Shiny Pokémon's HP IV will always be either 0 or 8. Shiny Pokémon are generally above average in terms of IVs, but only slightly.
The probability of a Pokémon encountered in the wild or obtained as a gift, in-game trade, or event in Generation II having its IVs line up in the above manner is 1/8192 (assuming every IV combination has the same probability, which is usually the case).
The probability differs for bred Pokémon, as their IVs are partially influenced by their parents. Specifically, a parent passes its Special stat (plus or minus 8) and its Defense stat to its children that are the opposite gender from it. (If Ditto is one of the parents, it is always the one that passes these stats.) This means that if a Shiny parent passes its IVs to a child, the child's inherited Defense IV will always be 10, its inherited Special IV will have a 1/2 chance of being 10, its randomly generated Attack IV will have a 1/2 chance of being an appropriate value, and its randomly generated Speed IV will have 1/16 chance of being 10. This results in a 1/64 chance that such a child will be Shiny. These breeding mechanics also mean that if a child inherits its IVs from a Pokémon that does not have a Defense IV of 10 and a Special IV of 2 or 10, it cannot be Shiny.
In Generations III and later
Generation III saw an overhaul of many aspects of the game, which included the calculation to determine a Pokémon being Shiny. Shininess in these games is determined by a calculation involving the Original Trainer's ID number and secret ID number, as well as the Pokémon's personality value. The exact calculation is:
(TrainerID xor SecretID) xor (PersonalityValue31..16 xor PersonalityValue15..0)
where the latter two values represent the highest and lowest 16 bits of the 32-bit personality value respectively. More details on this calculation can be found here.
The above formula can result in a number ranging from 0 to 65535. In Generations III to V, if this result is less than 8, then the Pokémon is Shiny; starting in Generation VI, this threshold was increased to 16. For Generations III to V, this gives an overall probability of 8/65536 or 1/8192, exactly the same as in Generation II. For Generations VI and later, the probability is doubled.
Transferring from Generation I Virtual Console games
Pokémon transported to Pokémon Bank from the Virtual Console releases of the Generation I games via Poké Transporter may be Shiny after being transported. Since Version 1.3 of Poké Transporter, this is determined by following the same criteria as for Generation II games, as described above. Prior to Version 1.3, the roles of the Attack and Defense IVs were swapped, meaning that the process did not properly correspond to Generation II.
The same quirks that apply to transferring Pokémon from Generation I to Generation II games also apply.
The Mew that were distributed to the Generation I Virtual Console games have IVs of 15 in every stat, meaning they can never be Shiny.
Generation II
In-game Shiny Pokémon
In Generation II, any Pokémon can be Shiny, but the game includes a red Gyarados that the player must encounter at the Lake of Rage during the course of the story. In Pokémon Crystal, the Odd Egg also has a high chance of hatching a Shiny Pokémon: 50% in Japanese games, and 14% in all other languages. [citation needed]
In the Game Boy mode of Pokémon Gold and Silver, the sprites of both regular and Shiny Pokémon use the same shades of gray. A Shiny Pokémon can still be identified by the stars on its status screen or the animation shown when it comes into battle.
Pokémon that are transferred from Generation I games may also be Shiny, depending on their IVs. Due to correlations between pseudorandom numbers in the Generation I games, Pokémon encountered in those games in tall grass, on cave tiles, or by Surfing on water cannot have a set of IVs that would allow them to be Shiny in Generation II. Fishing encounters, gift Pokémon (including from Pokémon Stadium), stationary Pokémon (such as Snorlax and Mewtwo), and in-game trades can have any set of IVs, so they always have the same 1/8192 chance of having a Shiny IV combination.[1]
Additionally, in Generation I, if a wild Pokémon transforms again while already transformed, when caught it will be a Ditto with the same IVs as the first Pokémon it transformed into, allowing Ditto's IVs to be manipulated so that it is Shiny in Generation II by having it initially transform into a Pokémon with Shiny IVs.
Generation III
In-game Shiny Pokémon
In Generation III, some Shiny Pokémon appear on NPCs' teams. In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, three Trainers in the Trainer Tower have Shiny Pokémon: the Trainer on the seventh floor in the Single Battle mode has a Shiny Meowth, the pair of Trainers on the first floor in the Double Battle mode have a Shiny Espeon, and the second Trainer on the fourth floor in the Knockout Mode has a Shiny Seaking. Several Pokémon Battle e Trainers also have Pokémon which are preset as Shiny.
A bug with the way Shininess is handled for Eggs can cause the Shiny status of a Pokémon hatched from an Egg to differ from the Egg hatching animation. This means that a hatched Pokémon may appear to be Shiny during the hatching animation, but actually not be, and vice versa. This happens because an Egg is initially given the OT, Trainer ID and secret ID of the game in which it is generated, and if it is hatched in a different game, the hatched Pokémon will be given the Trainer details of that game's player; the problem originates in the fact that this update does not occur until after the cutscene of the Egg hatching, so while while it may be Shiny for the player who hatched it, it may not be Shiny for the player who obtained the Egg (or vice versa). This also allows Eggs obtained from event distributions (which in Generation III were only distributed in Japan) to hatch a Shiny Pokémon when they would otherwise be non-Shiny Pokémon. This bug was not fixed until Generation VI.
Unown also has an uneven distribution of Shiny probability depending on its form. This is because Unown's form is also determined by its personality value. The exact probability for any given form depends on the player's Trainer ID and Secret ID, but it can have the values 1/5120, 1/6144, 1/9216, 1/10240, or 1/18432.
Generation IV
In-game Shiny Pokémon
In the Generation IV remakes of Generation II's Pokémon Gold and Silver, Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the player once again must encounter a red Gyarados at the Lake of Rage during the course of the story.
In HeartGold and SoulSilver, a Shiny Pokémon's coloration is reflected in the overworld if it is used as a walking Pokémon.
Methods of increasing Shiny rates
Generation IV introduced the first ways to increase the chances of finding a Shiny Pokémon.
The Masuda method refers to breeding two Pokémon originating from games of different languages to increase the chances of breeding a Shiny Pokémon. Under these circumstances, the game generates up to five total personality values to attempt to find one that will be Shiny. Foreign language Pokémon obtained via in-game trades, such as the Meister's Foppa and Lt. Surge's Volty, still count as being from the same game, so they do not activate the Masuda method unless traded to a different language. This mechanic is retained in all subsequent games.
The Poké Radar slowly improves the odds of finding a Shiny Pokémon as the player builds a chain. The odds can reach a maximum of 41/8192 (approximately 1/200) for a single patch of grass for a chain of length 40 or higher; since up to four patches of grass can shake, the total odds become approximately 1/50. If the Poké Radar forces a Pokémon to be Shiny, it constructs a semi-random personality value that will fulfill the requirement for the Pokémon to be Shiny.
Cute Charm can make it possible for players with certain Trainer ID number and Secret ID combinations to manipulate the chance of Pokémon with specific gender ratios being Shiny to be as high as 21.34% (while making the chance lower for all other players and Pokémon with different gender ratios, while using the Ability). This is due to how Cute Charm forces a wild Pokémon to be a specific gender when it activates, which is accomplished by modifying the Pokémon's personality value to be one of an extremely limited set of values.
The bug from Generation III that can cause a Pokémon's Shiny status to differ from the hatching animation persists. This again allows Eggs obtained from event distributions (which in Generation IV were only distributed in Japan) and the Manaphy Egg to be Shiny after hatching.
Generation V
In-game Shiny Pokémon
Generation V introduced a mechanism often referred to as a "Shiny lock", preventing wild Reshiram, Zekrom, and Victini from being Shiny. Any Pokémon obtained in Entree Forest (i.e., from the Pokémon Dream World) are also prevented from being Shiny. Reshiram, Zekrom, and Victini still have Shiny sprites in the games' data.
In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, the player can obtain three specific Shiny Pokémon (but only two per version). If the player registers every non-event Pokémon in the New Unova Pokédex, they can receive a Permit that allows them to travel to the Nature Preserve, where they can encounter a Shiny Haxorus. After defeating Benga in the Black TowerB2 or White TreehollowW2, Benga will give the player a Shiny GibleB2 or Shiny DratiniW2.
Starting in Generation V, Pokémon in the Pokédex will appear Shiny if the first specimen of that Pokémon encountered was Shiny.
Methods of increasing Shiny rates
The Masuda method now generates up to six total personality values instead of five. This remains the case in later games.
Generation V also introduces the Shiny Charm, a Key Item that causes the game to generate up to two extra personality values in an attempt to make a wild or bred Pokémon Shiny. This effect can stack with the Masuda method's effect. This item is also available in all future games.
The bug from Generation III that can cause a Pokémon's Shiny status to differ from the hatching animation persists. This again allows Eggs obtained from event distributions to be Shiny after hatching.
Generation VI
In-game Shiny Pokémon
Generation VI slightly changed how Shiny Pokémon are determined to double the default chances that a Pokémon will be Shiny. The basic formula remains the same, but the threshold for a Pokémon to be Shiny is now 16 instead of 8. This results in a base Shiny probability of 16/65536 or 1/4096.
The following Pokémon are prevented from being Shiny when encountered as wild Pokémon in Generation VI games: the Legendary birds, the aura trio, Mewtwo, the weather trio, and Deoxys. The in-game gift Cosplay Pikachu also cannot be Shiny.
Methods of increasing Shiny rates
The Poké Radar returns for Pokémon X and Y. The exact mechanics of the Poké Radar in these games are not confirmed, but the Poké Radar can still force a Pokémon in a shaking patch to be Shiny.
In X and Y, in the Friend Safari, Shiny Pokémon are more common. The game achieves this by generating up to four extra personality values when checking if a Pokémon will be Shiny. This effect can stack with the Shiny Charm's effect.[2]
Consecutive fishing can increase the odds of finding a Shiny Pokémon as the player builds a chain of reeled-in Pokémon by fishing from the same spot. For every Pokémon added to the chain, the game tries two extra personality values to attempt to make the Pokémon Shiny, up to a chain of 20 Pokémon, at which point the chances reach a maximum of 41/4096 or approximately 1%. This effect can stack with the Shiny Charm's effect.[3]
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, hidden Pokémon have a chance to be forced to be Shiny. Unlike most other methods that increase the odds of finding a Shiny Pokémon, this does not increase the number of personality values that the game tries, but instead executes a custom algorithm to decide whether to force a Shiny personality value. In brief summary, the chances of forcing a Shiny Pokémon grow steadily from 0% at Search Level 0 to 0.06% at Search Level 100 (only surpassing the natural odds of finding a Shiny Pokémon at Search Level 41), then grows steadily to 0.08% at Search Level 200, after which the rate of growth becomes 0.01% for every 100 Search Levels. Certain factors can increase the odds further by performing the check extra times. There is a random 4% chance it will be performed four extra times; if the player has the Shiny Charm it will be performed two extra times; and if the player is encountering the 50th or 100th Pokémon in a chain of hidden Pokémon, it will be performed five or ten extra times respectively. All of these bonuses stack.[4]
Generation VII
In-game Shiny Pokémon
In Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon, after entering the Hall of Fame, Sightseer Marcus appears at the Seafolk Village Pokémon Center, battling the player with a Shiny Exeggcute. This marks the only time a Trainer outside of a battle facility uses a Shiny Pokémon (excluding capture tutorials).
Methods of increasing Shiny rates
Sun and Moon
In the Pokémon Sun and Moon, as well as Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, as Pokémon in SOS Battles continue calling in allies, the chance that they will be Shiny increases. At chain lengths of 11, 21, and 31, the game will check up to four extra personality values to find a Shiny Pokémon (meaning the maximum number of personality values checked will be 13 for a chain of 31 Pokémon or more). In Pokémon Sun and Moon, the chain length resets to 0 after 255, but in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, it does not reset. This effect can stack with the Shiny Charm's effect.[5]
Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Pokémon encountered through the Ultra Warp Ride (excluding Legendary Pokémon and Ultra Beasts) have a chance to be forced to be Shiny. The Shininess of these Pokémon is determined when the player arrives at the Ultra Space Wilds. The probability that a Pokémon encountered this way will be Shiny depends on the rarity of the wormhole and the distance traveled.[6]
|Distance (ly)
|0 rings
|1 ring
|2 rings
|3 rings
Note that 3-ring "blooming" wormholes will always contain Legendary Pokémon (which do not have increased odds of being Shiny), unless all Legendary Pokémon that could be encountered in that particular wormhole have already been caught.
Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Shiny Pokémon rates can be increased dramatically with catch combos and lures. However, combos past 31 will have no additional effect on shiny chance.
|Catch Combo
|Shiny Rate
|Shiny Charm
|Lure + Shiny Charm
|1 in 4096
|1 in 2048
|1 in 1365
|1 in 1024
|1 in 1024
|1 in 819
|1 in 682
|1 in 585
|1 in 512
|1 in 455
|1 in 409
|1 in 372
|1 in 341
|1 in 315
|1 in 292
|1 in 273
Catch combos effect all Pokémon, so if the player has a catch combo of 31 Pikachu, all Pokémon have a 1 in 314 chance of being shiny. However, the Pokémon the player has a catch combo for will be more common. With a catch combo of 31 or higher, a Shiny Charm, and a Lure, the highest chance of 1 in 273 can be reached.
|Generation II
|Generation III
|Generation IV
|Generation V
|Generation VI
|Stadium 2
|Battle Revolution
Unobtainable Shiny Pokémon
In all generations since Shiny Pokémon debuted, there are a few species that cannot be legitimately obtained Shiny. This can happen if the Pokémon cannot be Shiny in the wild or as an in-game gift (or cannot be obtained this way at all) and has never been distributed as Shiny.
- Generation II
- ↑ Mew distributed to Generation II games cannot be Shiny. All Mew distributed to Generation I games have a fixed set of IVs that do not match the requirements to be Shiny.[citation needed]
- Generation III
- Generation IV
- Generation V
- Generation VI
- Cosplay Pikachu
- Celebi
- Victini
- Keldeo
- Meloetta
- Fancy Pattern Vivillon
- Poké Ball Pattern Vivillon
- Zygarde
- Hoopa
- Volcanion
- Generation VII
- Cap Pikachu*
- Partner Pikachu and Eevee
- Mew*
- Victini
- Keldeo
- Meloetta
- Ash-Greninja
- Fancy Pattern Vivillon
- Poké Ball Pattern Vivillon
- Hoopa
- Volcanion
- Tapu Fini
- Cosmog
- Cosmoem
- Solgaleo
- Lunala
- Necrozma
- Magearna
- Marshadow
- Zeraora
In the side series games
Pokémon Stadium
In Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2, Pokémon with a nickname can be colored slightly differently, whether or not they are actually Shiny. The colors a nicknamed Pokémon has are determined by the Pokémon's nickname and the Original Trainer's Trainer ID number and name.
In the Ekans Hoop Hurl game in the Kids' Club, there are golden Diglett that are worth extra points.
In Stadium 2, there is an option while viewing the list to exclude any non-Shiny Pokémon from the listing (i.e. Group Color Pokémon/Cancel Color Pokémon). This will show Shininess, even if the player is currently viewing a Generation I cartridge in the Lab.
It is possible for Challenge Cup Pokémon to be Shiny.
Pokémon Colosseum
In Pokémon Colosseum, non-Shadow Pokémon obtained in the game (such as the player's starter Espeon or Umbreon and Duking's Plusle) are ensured to be unable to be Shiny.
There is a 1/8192 chance of a Shadow Pokémon being Shiny, but when a Shiny Shadow Pokémon is captured it is highly improbable that the Pokémon will remain Shiny. Conversely, when an ordinary Shadow Pokémon is captured, there is still the 1/8192 chance of that Pokémon becoming Shiny when it is sent to the player's party or the Pokémon Storage System. Shininess is retained through purification.
In Pokémon Colosseum, the color of a Shiny Pokémon can differ drastically from the handheld games.
Pokémon XD
In Pokémon XD, the game ensures that all Shadow Pokémon are not Shiny by recalculating the Pokémon personality value if it would result in a Shiny Pokémon. However, non-Shadow Pokémon (such as the starter Eevee, in-game trades, Mt. Battle Johto starter Pokémon, and Poké Spot Pokémon) can be Shiny.
Like in Pokémon Colosseum, the color of a Shiny Pokémon can differ drastically from the handheld games. Shiny Pokémon have a different profile icon next to their health bar than their normally-colored counterparts.
My Pokémon Ranch
In My Pokémon Ranch, Pokémon's Shininess is visible. Pokémon traded by Hayley—except possibly Phione and Mew[citation needed]—cannot be Shiny.
Pokémon Battle Revolution
In Pokémon Battle Revolution, Shiny Pokémon have face-sprites which show their Shininess. Random Pokémon in Colosseums can be Shiny, but have the same chance of being Shiny as wild Pokémon. This is due to the RNG, which generates a random PID.
In the spin-off games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Sky, a Shiny Celebi is part of the story, although Shiny Pokémon are not obtainable normally in the game.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon WiiWare
In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games for WiiWare, Shiny Pokémon can be found in dungeons. Unlike the core series, only 36 different species of Shiny Pokémon are obtainable. The chances of finding one in a dungeon is the same as finding one in the wild in the core series. Unlike Shiny Pokémon in the past however, the Shiny Pokémon found in these games have an added bonus: their Belly stat is 200 as opposed to the 100 of normal Pokémon. A Red Gyarados can also be obtained at Level 30 via Wonder Mail password, as a reference to the one found in the Johto-based games.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Ho-Oh can be uniquely encountered as a Shiny Pokémon at Eternal Ruins through a Legend of the Mysterious Ruins job request. This Shiny Ho-Oh has a slightly different moveset to the regular Ho-Oh that can be met. It also has a unique animation that plays before the battle begins.
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
The Shiny Celebi from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky makes an appearance. She is rescued as part of an expedition and subsequently connects with the player. She has a unique animation that plays when entering a dungeon.
Super Smash Bros. series
In the Super Smash Bros. series, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, Lucario, Greninja, and Incineroar each have several different colorations exclusive to the series. One of Pikachu's alternate colorations is its Shiny coloration wearing Red's hat, one of Jigglypuff's in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is its Shiny coloration wearing a straw hat, and one of Incineroar's alternate colorations greatly resembles its Shiny coloration; Mewtwo also has its Shiny coloration in Super Smash Bros. Melee. All other playable Pokémon in the series do not have their actual Shiny coloration as an alternate coloration.
Pokémon Rumble series
Pokémon Rumble
In Pokémon Rumble, Shiny Pokémon may rarely appear. They will always tip over when defeated. The chances of their appearance are unconfirmed, although they appear to occur more often than in the core series. Shiny Pokémon are always given a special trait, a blue name in menus, and a star below their picture on the Collection screen. Some Shiny Pokémon can be obtained by the use of passwords.
Pokémon Rumble U
Shiny Pokémon return to the Pokémon Rumble series in Pokémon Rumble U and function similarly to how they did in the original Pokémon Rumble.
Pokémon Conquest
A Shiny Rayquaza is featured in Pokémon Conquest, sharing a Perfect Link with Nobunaga, and is his Pokémon of choice during the final battle of the main scenario. Nobunaga's Black Rayquaza was distributed over Wi-Fi for Japanese Black and White players to commemorate the release of the game.
Pokémon Shuffle
There are 15 Shiny Pokémon, including Mega Evolved Pokémon, in Pokémon Shuffle: Charizard, Gengar, Magikarp, Gyarados, Mewtwo, Tyranitar, Ho-Oh, Gardevoir, Metagross, Rayquaza, Genesect, Hawlucha, Xerneas, Yveltal, and Diancie. Shiny Pokémon are treated as alternate forms of the standard Pokémon, sharing its Pokémon list number but not its Skill, experience, level, Mega Effect (where applicable), and sometimes type.
Pokémon GO
In Pokémon GO, Shiny Pokémon may be encountered randomly in the wild, from hatching Eggs, by completing Limited Research, or by winning Raid Battles. During Community Day events, featured Pokémon have an increased chance of being Shiny in the wild. All Pokémon seen in the overworld appear non-Shiny, but when a player attempts to capture a Pokémon, it may appear as a Shiny Pokémon. Likewise, during a Raid Battle, the Raid Boss always appears non-Shiny during battle, but it may become Shiny during the bonus challenge. Shiny encounters are random for each player, meaning that if two players attempt to catch the same Pokémon, one player may encounter a Shiny Pokémon and the other may not.
Shiny Pokémon are represented by a icon. When a Shiny Pokémon is encountered in the wild, the icon appears at the upper left of the Pokémon's CP. When browsing the Pokémon Box, the icon appears at the upper left of its sprite. Upon capturing a Shiny Pokémon in the wild, its name is shown in yellow text instead of white.
Only the Shiny forms of certain Pokémon have been released. Those families that have been released are listed below.
|Release date
|001, 002, 003
|March 25, 2018
|004, 005, 006
|May 19, 2018
|007, 008, 009
| July 8, 2018 (worldwide);
August 4, 2018 (Japan)
|010, 011, 012
|November 1, 2018
|016, 017, 018
|February 27, 2019
|019, 020
|February 27, 2019
|025, 026, 172
| August 9, 2017 (Japan);
August 14, 2017 (worldwide);
November 23, 2018 (Alolan Raichu)
|027, 028
| December 6, 2018 (Japan);
December 22, 2018 (worldwide)
|029, 030, 031
|October 11, 2018
|035, 036, 173
|February 13, 2019
|039, 040, 174
|April 16, 2019
|054, 055
| January 25, 2019 (Brazil);
January 26, 2019 (worldwide)
|056, 057
|March 5, 2019
|058, 059
|September 1, 2018
|066, 067, 068
|March 5, 2019
|074, 075, 076
|September 13, 2018
|077, 078
|November 5, 2018
|081, 082
|November 16, 2018
|088, 089
|September 13, 2018
|090, 091
|June 7, 2018
|092, 093, 094
| November 3, 2018 (Gengar);
November 4, 2018 (Gastly and Haunter)
|096, 097
|October 5, 2018
|098, 099
|October 1, 2018
|104, 105
|November 5, 2018
|123, 212
|April 2, 2019
|124, 238
|February 13, 2019
|125, 239, 466
|November 14, 2018
|126, 240, 467
| March 22, 2018 (Magmar and Magby);
November 14, 2018 (Magmortar)
| November 1, 2018 (Taiwan);
November 3, 2018 (worldwide)
|129, 130
|March 22, 2017
|133, 134, 135, 136, 196, 197
|August 11, 2018
|138, 139
|May 24, 2018
|140, 141
|May 24, 2018
|May 24, 2018
| July 7, 2018 (worldwide);
August 4, 2018 (Japan)
|July 21, 2018
|September 8, 2018
|147, 148, 149
|February 24, 2018
|152, 153, 154
|September 22, 2018
|155, 156, 157
|November 10, 2018
|158, 159, 160
|January 12, 2019
|175, 176, 468
| March 22, 2018 (Togepi and Togetic);
November 14, 2018 (Togekiss)
|177, 178
|August 20, 2018
|179, 180, 181
|April 15, 2018
|183, 184, 298
|December 18, 2018
|191, 192
|August 20, 2018
|198, 430
| March 31, 2018 (Murkrow);
November 14, 2018 (Honchkrow)
|200, 429
|December 1, 2018
|202, 360
|March 22, 2018
|204, 205
|August 20, 2018
|209, 210
|August 1, 2018
|220, 221, 473
|February 16, 2019
|December 18, 2018
|228, 229
|August 1, 2018
|246, 247, 248
|June 16, 2018
|March 16, 2018
|May 19, 2018
|252, 253, 254
|March 23, 2019
|261, 262
|February 15, 2018
|263, 264
|January 15, 2019
|270, 271, 272
|March 30, 2019
|276, 277
|January 15, 2019
|278, 279
| August 25, 2018 (Japan and Australia)[7];
August 29, 2018 (worldwide)
|296, 297
|May 1, 2018
|October 20, 2017
|December 8, 2017
|304, 305, 306
|January 23, 2018
|307, 308
|May 1, 2018
|July 13, 2018
|July 13, 2018
|315, 406, 407
| June 30, 2018 (Roselia and Budew);
November 14, 2018 (Roserade)
|320, 321
|April 24, 2018
|325, 326
|February 4, 2019
|333, 334
|February 9, 2018
|March 19, 2019
|March 19, 2019
|349, 350
|January 19, 2019
|March 30, 2019
|353, 354
|October 31, 2017
|355, 356, 477
| October 26, 2017 (Duskull and Dusclops);
November 14, 2018 (Dusknoir)
|December 8, 2017
|361, 362, 478
| December 22, 2017 (Snorunt and Glalie);
January 31, 2019 (Froslass)
|366, 367, 368
|February 23, 2019
|February 13, 2018
|371, 372, 373
|April 13, 2019
|374, 375, 376
|October 21, 2018
|February 22, 2019
|April 15, 2019
|June 7, 2018
|January 15, 2019
|403, 404, 405
|October 16, 2018
|425, 426
|October 23, 2018
|427, 428
|April 16, 2019
|808, 809
|February 5, 2019
Pokémon Duel
There are several figures that are Shiny Pokémon in Pokémon Duel.
Pokémon: Magikarp Jump
A Shiny Magikarp, referred to as a Gold Magikarp, is one of the possible Magikarp to fish in Pokémon: Magikarp Jump. Shiny Feebas, Luvdisc and Corsola may also appear in random encounter events during feeding.
Pokémon Quest
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Pokémon can appear Shiny in Pokémon Quest.
In the TCG
Shiny Pokémon have appeared in the TCG as well, first as Shining Pokémon in Neo Revelation and Neo Destiny, and later as Pokémon in EX Team Rocket Returns - EX Power Keepers. Players can only have one Pokémon per deck. The Stormfront, Platinum, Supreme Victors and Arceus sets include three cards each with alternate coloration artwork and a reverse holo effect, but are not classified as an entirely separate rarity. Unlike Shining Pokémon and Pokémon , these newest alternate coloration cards are not limited by special gameplay and deckbuilding rules, and since the names of the cards are not changed to indicate the alternate coloration, they can be evolved into non-Shiny Stage 1 Pokémon, or, in the case of Shiny evolved Pokémon, from normal Basic Pokémon.
Shiny versions of several Legendary Pokémon were also featured in the Call of Legends expansion as secret rares under the SL numbering subset.
From Next Destinies until XY, all secret rare cards depicted Shiny Pokémon.
Sometimes, cards with Shiny Pokémon are tied to ongoing events in the games or anime, such as the Shiny Gengar distributed in October 2014, or the appearance of the Red Genesect in Genesect and the Legend Awakened.
List of cards featuring Shiny Pokémon
|Other cards with Shiny Pokémon
In the anime
- Main article: List of alternately colored Pokémon in the anime
Although the games had not premiered alternate colored Pokémon until Generation II, several Pokémon seen beforehand were colored differently. One such example is the pink Butterfree, the mate of Ash's Butterfree, which appeared as early as the twenty-first episode. This is, however, not the standard alternate coloration for a Butterfree, and therefore may not be counted as a Shiny Pokémon. Likewise, the first appearance of a Generation III Pokémon in The Kecleon Caper featured a non-standard alternately colored Pokémon, this time a purple Kecleon. Another example would be in Fighting Back the Tears!, where a non-standard alternately colored Mareanie (who happens to be James's Mareanie's first love) appears, and later evolves into a Toxapex.
In the Orange Archipelago, certain Pokémon have a different coloration because the climate is different than that of the mainland. For example, a Butterfree, instead of the normal white with black markings, would have gold wings with red spots on them. On Pinkan Island of the Orange Archipelago, all of the Pokémon are colored pink because the Pinkan Berries they eat make them that way.
The first true Shiny Pokémon that appeared was a Noctowl in Fowl Play!. Ash eventually captured it, and, as in the games, sparkles surround it as it comes from its Poké Ball. Several other Shiny Pokémon have appeared later as well, often used to make them stand out more, or be the focus of an episode. The term "Shiny" was first used in Working on a Right Move!.
In the manga
Because most manga series are published in black-and-white, Shiny Pokémon are few and far between. One major exception, because of its importance to the plot of Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold, and SoulSilver, is the red Gyarados.
In the movie adaptations
A Red Genesect appeared in Genesect and the Legend Awakened.
A Shiny Rayquaza appeared in Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. It had the ability to Mega Evolve into a Mega Rayquaza.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In Pokémon Adventures's Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter, Silver captured the raging leader of a group of Gyarados, who had been on a rampage since Team Rocket took control of the Goldenrod Radio Tower and sent out their evolution-inducing radio waves.
Crystal mentions that she caught a different colored Pineco as part of the Pokémon sent to Professor Oak in Off Course with Corsola.
In the Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure manga
In Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure, Jō and his Totodile befriend the red Gyarados by calming its rampage and feeding it berries. It later appears to help Jō and Lance battle Ariana and Petrel.
In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga
The Red Gyarados makes an appearance in Stop That Strange Sonic Sound!! where Team Rocket plots on catching it by luring it out of hiding using sonic waves while at the same time, Clefairy went fishing for it. The Red Gyarados is darker than any normal-colored Gyarados in this media.
- In Generation III onwards, it is possible for an Egg to hatch Shiny on one game but not another. This is because Shininess is partially determined by the Original Trainer ID and Secret ID number. Eggs have the ID and SID of the game they were originally bred on, but change to the ID and SID of the hatcher immediately after hatching. It is this change that affects Shininess.
- Confusingly, this means that if a player hatches a traded Egg that would have been Shiny on the game it was originally bred on, it will appear Shiny on the hatching screen (since it still has the ID and SID of the original game), and then suddenly no longer be Shiny afterward (once it has obtained the ID and SID of the hatcher's game). Conversely, it is also possible for a newly hatched Egg to not appear Shiny on the hatching screen and then suddenly become Shiny afterward, if the Egg has been traded.
- While all (Generation III onward) event Eggs are set to prevent or force Shininess, if a player other than the one who obtained it from the event hatches the Egg, this prevention is bypassed, allowing an event Egg to hatch Shiny. This is the only way to obtain a Shiny Manaphy.
- Due to Shininess being determined by IVs in Generation II, several odd quirks arise:
- Since gender is also determined by IVs in Generation II, it is impossible to have a Shiny Pokémon with a gender ratio of seven males to one female that is female in those games, as the highest Attack IV a female Pokémon with a gender ratio of seven males to one female can have is 1, while the lowest Attack IV a Shiny Pokémon can have is 2.
- Since Unown's letter is also determined by IVs in Generation II, only Unown I and V can be Shiny.
- Since Hidden Power is determined by IVs, a Shiny Pokémon's Hidden Power type in Generation II can only be either Grass or Dragon, with a power of either 49 or 69.
- As Generation II does not allow two Pokémon to breed if they are likely to be from the same family, two Shiny Pokémon can never breed in Generation II.
- Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 have the most in-game event Shiny Pokémon available, with two.
- It is possible for all of the following to be Shiny:
- The Poochyena/Zigzagoon that attacks Professor Birch in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
- The Zigzagoon that Wally uses in the capture tutorial in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
- The Ralts that Wally catches in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald (but only when he catches it and not in subsequent battles).
- The Pokémon that the old man encounters in FireRed and LeafGreen.
- Rental Pokémon found in the Battle Factory in Pokémon Emerald.
- Wild Pokémon that appear in the Battle Pike and Battle Pyramid in Pokémon Emerald.
- Battle Frontier Pokémon used by the AI in Pokémon HeartGold, SoulSilver, and Platinum.
- The Minccino that appears in the "world of Pokémon" intro in Pokémon Black and White.
- The Cinccino that appears in the "world of Pokémon" intro in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
- The Purrloin that Bianca catches in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
- The Fletchling that the rival, Calem or Serena, uses in the capture tutorial in Pokémon X and Y.
- The Bunnelby that the rival, Calem or Serena, captures in the tutorial in Pokémon X and Y.
In other languages
Shiny Pokémon
Different-colored Pokémon
See also
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text: prue~c 0 Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) Most people love babies, but everyone, apparently, loves twins. Since the boys were born, we seem to have become public attraction number one, drawing comments, clucks and adoring glances from people including the local mad cat lady, to the cooler than cool barista who makes my morning coffee and never even bothered to look in my direction pre-babies. But it would be nice if someone came up with a few new one-liners when it comes to comments on twins. Lord help the next person who thinks they are being oh so clever, and trots out that tired old cliché - Double Trouble. In the early days, I just smiled and gave a tight laugh. Then I came up with a few little jokey retorts - Twice as Nice, The Dynamic Duo, Double the Joy - but now I don't bother being cutesy about it. I just tell them that no, my children are very good boys and are the lights of my life. Oh and that Teddy has slept through the night since he was 16 weeks old. But they are determined to ruin it for me. But how old are they? Just you wait! Followed by a maniacal laugh. Another favourite: Are they twins? Umm, no, I just had them really close together. Or Did you know you were having twins? Really? Does anyone with access to current, first-world medical care, not know they are having twins? Do they think they are having just a really, really big baby? I have read the trash mag stories that tell of the doctor announcing a surprise second baby after the first comes out, but if that was my obstetrician, I would be asking for a refund on my pregnancy and management fee. Close to $10k and s/he can't tell that there are two babies? I suspect we are also featuring heavily in the holiday footage of many Chinese tourists. When it's not raining, as it invariably is in Sydney these days, the boys and I spend a lot of time in the park, with Bondi being one of our favourites. But the white sands and crystal blue waves hold no attraction for the tourists when Teddy and Hugo are flailing around on their blanket. I have had, I kid you not, an entire busload of Chinese men and women crowd around us, snapping away with their cameras, taking video, chatting animatedly at the boys, one woman was so excited she even tried to pick Teddy up before being reprimanded by the tour leader, while I sat there a sort of stunned amusement. The boys, of course, loved it. They are such little show-offs and will mug for any camera or stranger who shows the slightest bit of interest in them. But for few exceptions (a not so gentle-man commenting on the size of my tandem pram. I have twins, what can I do? You either go long or wide, and I chose length) most people have been exceptionally kind and helpful with their lovely, if sometimes silly, comments about the boys. One interesting trend I have noticed is the comments about Double Trouble or Don't you have your hands full? Almost exclusively comes from non-twin parents, while mums of twins have all had positive things to say, with the overriding message that parenting twins is an amazing experience. I get to hear lots of stories, with one elderly woman telling me she had two sets of boy twins within a year of each other ("Darling, my husband just couldn't keep his hands off me"). And I was almost brought to tears with another woman telling me she felt like only half a person since her twin sister had passed away a few years earlier. I know twins are not the desired outcome from IVF treatment - my difficult pregnancy and subsequent early delivery of the boys at 31 weeks is a prime example of why clinics aim for singleton pregnancies, but I truly love being a mother to twins. Watching them interact with each other - usually in the form of kicking scratching and eye gouging, but increasingly with smiles, squeals and their own little language, is the most fun I have ever had. I don't usually go in for twee little nonsense sayings, but one thing I am often being told, and I agree with it 100% - I am truly blessed. Happy New Year to everyone and see you in 2012! Edited December 28, 2011 by EBKatie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Adelitas Way Collaborate With Theory of a Deadman On 'I Wanna Be'
Adelitas Way have been making a lot of noise with their latest release, 'Home School Valedictorian' with their first two singles, 'Sick' and 'The Collapse.' There's even a special appearance from Theory of a Deadman's Tyler Connolly on the release and lead singer Rick DeJesus recently told Loudwire all about it.
The song, 'I Wanna Be,' was a collaboration between Connolly and DeJesus after being denied access to a bar in Los Angeles, Calif. Some guys would pick a fight, others write songs. DeJesus shares the story, "One day I was out in L.A. with him, we were just hanging out, had dinner, and we were going to go to this little bar." He continued, saying, "So we walked up the door, and the door guy put his arm in front of us and told us we couldn't come in, to go to the back of the line. We were like "No, thanks," and bolted."
Who knew that's all it took to inspire a great rock tune? DeJesus and Connolly hit the road, went back to Connolly's place, and busted out the the song together. "We went back to Tyler's house and we were both kind of laughing about the situation and how much of a d–khead the door guy was and we decided we should write a song about it. That's kind of how 'I Wanna Be' started," recounts Dejesus.
The rest, as they say, is history according to DeJesus, "We wrote it together, then he [Connolly] came into the studio and sang and played guitar, and that's how the song came about."
Having toured with Theory of a Deadman quite a lot over the past few years, Adelitas Way are thankful to the band, saying, "Tyler and Theory of a Deadman have really taken us under their wing. They've taken us out on tour a lot, they're just good guys."


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St Peter & St Clare serves the parish of Avon Dassett with Fenny Compton, which is part of the Dassett Magna Group of Parishes.
You will receive a warm welcome at any of our services and events, which include 'Just A Bite' lunches on the last Monday of the month in Fenny Compton Village Hall, a regular Home Group and social events - please see our website for more information.
Regular Monthly Services
1st Sunday: Morning Prayer 10:30am.
2nd Sunday: Communion at 10:30am and Messy Church at 3:30pm (in a village hall - see website for this month's information).
3rd Sunday: Family Worship at 10:30am and Songs of Praise with Communion at 6:00pm ( in one of the Dassett Magna Churches - see website for this month's information).
4th Sunday: Tradional - language Communion at 9:00am.
5th Sunday: Communion at 10:30am (in one of the Dassett Magna Churches - see website for this month's information.
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Soaking Prayer: Thursday 7th December at 7:30pm at the Chapel of Ease in Northend. In the very busy time leading to Christmas Soaking Prayer is a space and time for you. Whilst as Christians we understand that God's presence is always with us, sometimes we need to set aside times of quiet prayer, contemplation, and relaxation for us to be present with God.Weekly Compline Services: Throughout December the Dassett Magna Parishes will be celebrating Advent with weekly compline services. Each with start at 7:30pm, and last for about half an hour. Northend: Wednesday 6th December; Farnborough: 6th December; Fenny Compton 13th December.Christmas Crib Service: This will be held on Sunday 17th December at 10:30am in Fenny Compton Parish Church. In this service the children create the church Christmas Crib as the familiar carols about the Christmas story are sung.Christmas Day Service: Please notice that the time of the Christmas Day Service at Fenny Compton has been changed from 10:30am to 9:45am.P@thway: P@thway is a new afternoon tea, craft and worship gathering for families in the Community Centre at Temple Herdewyke. It starts at 4:15pm on Sunday 7th January with tea and while the children follow with crafts their parents continue with a discussion on a similar topic in the room upstairs.Messy Church: Fenny Compton Village Hall Sunday 21st January at 3:30pm. The theme will be A New Beginning and we will have crafts, songs and a talk. Tea, coffee and cake will be served through the afternoon.Evensong: In Fenny Compton on the evening of Sunday 21st January there will be a sung Evensong in the church at 6pm. Everyone is welcome.
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Hi folks,
I'm a university student from the UK looking to improve my knowledge of Java . Admitedly, up until undertaking my Computer Science based course I had very little experience in anything resembling programming - but as soon as I came across it I was enthralled! I love anything involving logic and puzzle solving and this seems to be a a great outlet for it.
The only problem seems to be that I need to do most of the leg work, my course seems to be geared to reproducing neat examples of code rather than anything that could pass as cognitive. This in itself doesn't pose to much of an issue, I've done plenty of reading and have got some good scores on the exams that have came my way (which mostly pertain to Java syntax & theory ironically)
However I find myself now extremely top heavy in theory, with not to much practical expertise. In other words I can explain to you Polymorphism, Inheritance and Abstraction but will struggle to get a program out that can read and display a database
Cheers for reading, and hopefully I can make some good contributions to this great community


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well may be sewing it is not the solution. there are lot of adhesives that flexible and reliable enough to do the job. after all, kites we are using now more glued together than stitched (apart from LE seem of course)windfreak74 wrote:Interesting to see different opinions on the subject.
I was just speculating to get an answer from someone that has experimented on it.maybe on the material thickness used and sewing it...
i think it is really question of the weight of the different sail cloths with the same strength properties.
well, may be if the sail material is cheap enough to make easy repairable and replaceable kites from the less tough material, it would be reasonable to make kites of that material.


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Object Video signs licensing agreement
There was an update today in video analytics provider Object Video's patent licensing efforts. OV announced today that it has signed a global patent licensing agreement with Tyco Security Products' American Dynamics business division.
You'll recall that at ISC West last year, OV announced in April that it was suing Sony, Samsung and Bosch for alleged patent infringement
And, in June, it filed a complaint with the against the same companies with the International Trade Commission. That complaint seeks to bar Bosch, Samsung and Sony from importing and selling products containing software features and functions that allegedly infringe on OV's patents.
OV CEO Raul Fernandez told me today that he can't speak about the lawsuit, but he said the agreement with American Dynamics is the first of what he expects to be several similar agreements.
He said after the lawsuit and ITC complaints were filed, OV received "a series of inbound calls from [manufacturers] who wanted to understand the our licensing program." He said there are "several negotiations ongoing [with manufacturers, but they're not litigation-based negotiations" rather they're manufacturers who have approached OV because "they've looked inward at their technology to see if there is a technology overlap with some of our patents." This is OV's preferred way to "approach licensing discussions but we are prepared to take another [legal] path if necessary."
Fernandez said that the fact that Tyco is a "multi billion dollar, multi-national, multi-product line company that's been in business a long time recognizes our innovations .. strengthens our case [for pursuing patent licensing] … it's terrific for us."
"Our American Dynamics business is developing a broad range of video analytics-enabled products," said Warren Brown vice president of product management for Tyco Security Products. "As part of our pre-launch process, it was important to ensure that the growth we expect from these products would not be negatively affected by legal issues," continued Mr. Brown. "This agreement with ObjectVideo gives us that certainty, allowing us to focus on the more important tasks of building great products that delight our customers."
Asked how business is going, Fernandez said OV, which is privately held, had a good year with growth in its core software business and growth and backlog in its services side.


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Cramped airline seats and too little leg room rank among flyers' top complaints, so maybe it's not surprising that fights over reclined seats have broken out three times since last week.
"The general public seem to be voting with their fists," said Ranga Natarajan, a senior product manager with TripAdvisor's SeatGuru, a website that helps passengers find the best seats.
Ask passengers or airline experts or even Miss Manners about modern airline travel and a common theme emerges: too little space for too many people. The result is squashed laptops, spilled drinks and when disputes become especially tense, flights diverted on their way to their destinations.
Even as passengers grumble about uncomfortable trips, more space does not seem to be in the offing. Though some U.S. airlines are now the world's most profitable, extra leg room often comes with a fee.
"You want space, I'll make you pay for it," Natarajan said.
The first of the three recent altercations, all of which ended in planes being diverted, occurred on a United Airlines flight out of Newark, N.J., on Aug. 24. A passenger used a gadget called a Knee Defender to prevent the woman seated in front of him from reclining her seat.
Three days later, an American Airlines flight from Miami to Paris landed in Boston after a man angry about a reclined seat allegedly grabbed a flight attendant.
Then Monday night, on a Delta Air Lines flight from LaGuardia Airport to West Palm Beach, a woman who was knitting tried to recline her seat, angering a woman resting her head on the tray table behind.
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Seats Too Small
The likelihood of conflict increases when airlines cram more people into a confined space, Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants union, told NBCNews.com.
And as the airlines squeeze more seats into their planes, seats have become narrower and closer together, says Kathleen Robinette, who worked for 30 years at the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and is now head of the Design, Housing and Merchandising Department at Oklahoma State University.
The minimum seat measurements are typically based on the 95th percentile of men, leaving one in 20 too large for the distance between seats, she said.
Plus, the body measurements being used are the wrong ones, Robinette said. Women are usually wider across the hips than men, and both women and men are wider across the shoulders, she said. The single most important factor for comfort in any seat is the ability to move, she said.
"Virtually everybody on the plane is shoulder to shoulder -- a lot of people with someone else's arm basically in your lap," she said.
Should Seats Recline?
Until now there has been no incentive for airlines to make seats wider or farther apart, just the opposite, she said. The more seats an airline gets on a plane, the less they need to charge per seat.
Some airlines have seats that do not recline, Spirit Airlines among them, a solution popular with some passengers. In a survey from the travel Web site Skyscanner, 91 percent of travelers said seat reclining should be banned or at least allowed only during set periods on short fights.
But Robinette does not think such bans are the solution. Rather, regulations are needed to ensure more room, she said.
"They're still selling the tickets for the seats, but consumers are starting to revolt," she said.
Matt Miller, a spokesman for American Airlines, said that although the airline was retrofitting its aircraft to increase the number of seats on board, the space from one row to another was not shrinking.
"There's not less leg room per se because of the retrofits that we are working on currently," Miller said.
He also said it was rare for the airline to divert a flight because of a disruptive passenger.
United Airlines and Delta Air Lines did not immediately respond with a comment.
Defending the Knee Defender
The Federal Aviation Administration does not prohibit the use of the Knee Defender, though all major U.S. airlines say they do.
"That's their problem," said the gadget's inventor, Ira Goldman, whose company, Gadget Duck, has been in business for 11 years. "It's a customer service issue."
If airlines do not protect passengers from being battered, the Knee Defender will, the company's website says. Business is up since the first dispute was reported last week, Goldman said, but he declined to say by how much.
"I'd rather have plastic stop your seat than my knee cap stop your seat," Goldman said. "That's why I came up with it."
Airlines could solve the problem without reducing capacity by installing seats that move forward when they recline, he said.
According to a survey from TripAdvisor, 73 percent of the 4,300 respondents reported uncomfortable seats and limited leg room as their top complaint. Costly airline fees and ticket prices came in second at 66 percent.
As far as the etiquette concerned, Miss Manners has weighed in, suggesting in a 2004 column in The Washington Post that a compromise providing comfort for everyone would be appropriate, reclining only part way for example.
"The real culprit here is the airlines, who install their seats so closely together that the reasonable attitude of reclining a seat that is designed to recline constitutes a nuisance to the passenger behind," wrote Miss Manners, a pen name for Judith Martin. "However, this deeper problem, of setting minimal comfort standards -- or even minimal health conditions -- for long-haul flights, is not one that etiquette can solve."


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I am confident that the next edition of the Prague international defence exhibition will highlight the current and future trends in defence and security, follow up on the undeniable success of the previous projects and once again offer a venue for the community comprising leading experts from NATO nations and EU member states and other partners for defence and security, defence and security industry leaders, the military and researchers to come together.
Thanks to the project, Prague became one of the hubs for representatives of the international security community – businesses, military, politicians and experts – to meet and interact on high specialist level. The military always benefit from such collaborative efforts, no matter whether they generate improved weapon systems, communications, surveillance technology, new camouflage systems, ballistic protection, defence against weapons of mass destruction, medical equipment or seemingly simple, but indispensable and perfectly functional buckles on our harness.
From the international perspective, the Future Forces exhibition represents a unique opportunity to obtain latest information on future trends, technologies, materials, innovations in future armaments and equipment, interoperability of military, security and Special Forces and services.
NATO, the recent sponsoring committee of NATO national experts (AC/301), and the individual nations who hosted the very successful exhibitions on Combat Clothing and Individual Equipment (CCIE) over the past seven years have expressed their sincere appreciation for the professional way that International Coordination Centre undertook and very successfully discharged this technical and politically high profile NATO task.
Your long-standing effort, for more than a decade, organising CCIE, CCIEP and FUTURE SOLDIER exhibitions is both highly-valued and recognised by soldier system experts. Your International Coordination Centre has undoubtedly secured a solid position for further FUTURE SOLDIER Exhibitions within the soldier system community.
FUTURE FORCES is an excellent venue for sharing technology updates and information amongst the members of the military, academia and industry. The exposition brings together subject matter experts from across a broad range of disciplines in an environment conducive to broadening comraderies and relationships.
Great event for connecting with our customers from all over Europe as well as meeting new customers. We have been exhibiting at this show since the days when it was called Future Soldier.
This event has gained a great reputation within the international community.
This has been an extremely useful and enjoyable experience. It is always pleasant to have an opportunity to exchange information, ideas and examples of clever design within a community of experts and interested parties.
On behalf of the Danish Quartermasters Branch it is a pleasure for me to express my appreciation for doing a great job by arranging CCIE Exhibition 2003. Anything was very well organized and we hope that all other countries got the same good benefits as Denmark did.
Let me express my sincere gratitude for your contribution to organisation of the EMPA Congress in Prague in conjunction with the Future Soldier Exhibition & Conference (FSEC). I believe our cooperation has already proven to be a success. Let me assure you that the EMPA's members will always remember this past congress as well as our cooperation with the FSEC with great satisfaction. During this congress EMPA's members had an excellent opportunity to see and learn new and useful things. I consider this type of a conference very important both to us – the representatives of military mass media as well as to businessmen and government officials.
Exhibition was very nice! I am very glad to visit it!
This is to express my deep appreciation for participating in this year's Future Forces Exhibition & Conference that was held in Prague. The Exhibition and Conference were very interesting and allowed room for networking and stimulating discussions on security topics of the hour.


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A Sun Microsystems executive says the OpenDocument format has the potential to change the world.
Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia late last week that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did.
"Now we have the potential to explode the world again, to turn everything inside out again, if we get the widespread use across the office desktops of the world, of a common, open, unencumbered, reusable data format, namely OpenDocument," Bray said at the conference. "So we could see an explosion over the next decade that is like the Web happening again. And that would be fun--I'd love to see that happening."
Bray claimed that although Microsoft Office documents have become the de facto standard, the software giant's applications suite has not caused a revolution because it is not a format designed to be open or reusable.
The OpenDocument format has already been embraced by the commonwealth of Massachusetts and is being considered by some European governments, including Denmark and Norway; by Japan; and by other U.S. state governments. Microsoft has said it will not support the OpenDocument format.
The success of the Web, Bray said, can be attributed to the fact that everyone agreed to use HTML as the standard format data for presenting information.
"For many years before the Web there were many different ways of publishing information. There were many different ways of doing hypertext. There were many different ways of doing online information retrieval and search, and navigation," said Bray.
"But then in the early '90s everyone agreed on one data format--HTML. HTML is not the world's greatest data format, but the power that came when everybody agreed to standardize on one data format--it changed the world. The whole world of online information exploded. It turned the world inside out," he said.
Bray's views on the impact of a standard data format on the success of the World Wide Web could be seen as a simplification. One of the main reasons why the Web succeeded where others had failed is due to the functionality it provided. In addition, other standards were also important for the success of the Web, in particular URLs and HTTP.


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HISTORY 223: Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia (HISTORY 323)
Poetry, novels, symphonic music, theater, opera, painting, design, and architecture: what they reveal about the politics and culture of tsarist Russia.
Last offered: Winter 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 230A: The Witness in Modern History: Memoir, Reportage, Image
The rise of the witness as icon and debates about its reliability as a historical source. The power of eyewitness accounts to convict accused criminals, inspire indignation about war and genocide, and attract attention to humanitarian crises. Their notorious unreliability due to exaggeration and misapprehension. Sources include reportage, photography, and documentary film. Case studies include criminal cases, war, poverty, and natural disasters.
Last offered: Winter 2010 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 231E: Paper, Printing, and Digital Revolutions: Transformations of the Book (HISTORY 331E)
What is a book? This seminar explores the conceptual implications of approximately two millennia of transformations in the physical and material properties of books. How have the meaning and authority we assign the written word changed as technologies of book production and dissemination have evolved, and how have they remained continuous? Topics covered include the rise of the medieval manuscript codex, the emergence of print culture in early modern Europe, and current debates over the nature of text in the digital age.
Last offered: Autumn 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 231G: European Reformations (HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331)
Readings in and discussion of theological and social aspects of sixteenth century reformations: Luther, Radical Reform, Calvin, and Council of Trent, missionary expansion, religious conflict, creative and artistic expressions. Texts include primary sources and secondary scholarly essays and monographs.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
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HISTORY 233C: Two British Revolutions (HISTORY 333C)
Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II.
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HISTORY 233F: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain (HISTORY 333F)
1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.
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HISTORY 236: The Ethics of Imperialism
Can a commitment to liberty, progress, and universal rights be reconciled with imperialism? The ethical underpinnings of empire; how modern Europeans provided ethical and political justifications for colonial expansion. How European ideals were used to defend and justify inequality, violence, and genocide. The ethics of American-driven globalization and humanitarianism. Texts include primary sources, philosophical treatises, and historical studies.
Last offered: Autumn 2007 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 239F: Empire and Information (HISTORY 339F)
How do states see? How do they know what they know about their subjects, citizens, economies, and geographies? How does that knowledge shape society, politics, identity, freedom, and modernity? Focus is on the British imperial state activities in S. Asia and Britain: surveillance technologies and information-gathering systems, including mapping, statistics, cultural schemata, and intelligence systems, to render geographies and social bodies legible, visible, and governable.
Last offered: Autumn 2005 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom | Repeatable for credit
HISTORY 254: Popular Culture and American Nature
Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-century American creation of nature. How Disney, the products of his studio, and other primary and secondary texts see environmentalism, science, popular culture, and their interrelationships.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: White, R. (PI)
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HISTORY 254D: Religion and War in America (AMSTUD 105R, CSRE 105, HISTORY 354D, RELIGST 105)
Scholars have devoted much attention to wars in American history, but have not agreed as to whether religion was a major cause or simply a cover for political, economic, and other motives. We will compare interpretations that leave religion out, with those that take it into account. We will also look at the impact of war on the religious lives of ordinary Americans. We will examine both secondary as well as primary sources, beginning with King Philip's War in the 17th century, and ending with the "War on Terror" in the present day.
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How did humankind come to inhabit a blue marble spinning in black space?
Were we put here by a Creator? Did we evolve from simpler forms of life? Could we have migrated here from another planet or arrived on a comet? In this month's four-page center section we explore the varied chronicles of those earliest days as recorded in the major cultures and faiths. While there is little agreement about our origins, there is much to muse over and meditate about.
Every culture on Earth has pondered the question, "How did we get here?" Profound, divine answers have been formulated through the ages. Several, drawn from the world's oldest and newest cultures and religions, are summarized or retold on this and the next two pages. Today we seem to be on the verge of completely losing our sense of divine origin and purpose as more and more people accept the verdict of Darwinian science--that we are the chance result of billions of years of evolution from single-celled creatures, to sea-born creatures, to reptiles, birds, mammals, to apes and finally to man.
We need not accept at face value this Godless judgment on our origins. Hinduism and other religions hold that there is more to existence than this mere physical reality, and that a transcendent intelligence inheres and instructs the development of this universe, including the observed processes of evolution. This page introduces their poignant quotations from legends and ancient texts.
On the fourth page, we briefly present the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy, and explore the intriguing possibility that man did not originate on Earth at all, but came here from another planet.
The Australian Aborigines are likely the oldest tribe on our planet, with a known continuity of cultural history going back over 50,000 years. They speak of the "Dreamtime" of the distant past when the Gods walked on the Earth and created people, sacred places, animals and the ways of human society. They believe a jivaor guruwari,a "seed power," is deposited in the Earth, "a symbolic footprint of the metaphysical beings whose actions created our world," states Australian author Robert Lawlor. "We have been here since the time before time began," explains an Aboriginal elder. "We have come directly out of the Dreamtime of the great Creative Ancestors. We have lived and kept the Earth as it was on the First Day. All other peoples of the world came from us." "
Hinduismhas several creation accounts, of which the central is found in the Rig Veda[see next page] of the Cosmic Man, Purusha, who was sacrificed by the Gods to create man. The Purusha is a divine emanation of God, and can be understood in at least one sense as the individuation of consciousness, the personal aspect of God. It is this individuated consciousness that is offered and divided by the Gods to create all of the physical universe, men, animals and plants. Three-fourths of the Purusha remains "ascended high" and only "one fourth took birth again down here," as the hymn explains, meaning what we see is only one-fourth of reality, the remaining being in divine form. Further elaborations of the creation are told in the Puranas, Dharma Shastrasand other Hindu scriptures. Manu Dharma ShastraI.11-119, for example, describes the creation of heaven and earth, of the soul, and of individual creatures. Manu, son of the first being, performed tapas,very difficult austerities, to create ten great sages who then created seven other Manus, who are progenitors of the human race in each age.
Sikhismfollows Hindu traditions of origins. The Chinese[see next page] have, in the story of the first man, Pangu, a close parallel to the Hindu Purusha.
Buddhataught that this world will come to an end, but that in time a new world will evolve again. Certain karmaswill cause souls to again seek life in the body, others will follow and become more and more attached to the body, developing passion, selfishness and other evils. The Buddhist scripture Saddharma Pundarikamentions that there are so many worlds beyond this one that no one "should be able to imagine, weigh, count or determine their number."
The Jainshold that the world, souls and time are uncreated, unbeginning and unending. The world exists through its own being and is divided into heaven, earth and hell.
Christiansand Jewsbelieve in the making of man by God on the sixth day of creation (some 4,000 years ago) out of clay and in His own image, as told in the Book of Genesis[see next page]. The Muslimsbelieve, similarly, that Allah created Adam, the first man in Paradise, then the first woman, Hawa (Eve). There they lived a perfect life in a perfect universe, far vaster than ours. They were cast to Earth when they committed the first disobedience of God, after a jealous Satan tricked them. Their children are the ancestors of mankind. The Zoroastrianreligion of Persia also holds to the creation story of Adam and Eve.
There are mystical traditions within Christianity, Islam and Judaism whose teachings go beyond Genesis.For example, the Sufimaster Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani taught, "Do you think there was only one Adam? No. There was not one Adam. In fact, there have been 124,000 Adams. Allah is not stingy; He is generous. His creation is endless." Sufi mystics also hold that there are many inhabited worlds in the universe. The JewishKabbalahtradition teaches of man's descent from the highest spiritual world through a series of planes ending with his reincarnation in a physical body.
The Shintoteaching is that the Japanese people are descendants of the Gods Izanagi and Izanami, who were ordered to "Make, consolidate and give birth to this drifting land [of Japan]." This they did and then produced the many Gods, fire, water and men. Among the Gods, the most important was Amaterasu, the Sun God, whose descendent was Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
The African Dogontribe teaches that the primal Cosmic Egg was shaken by seven huge stirrings of the universe. It divided into two birth sacs, each containing a set of androgenous twins who were fathered by the Supreme Being, Amma. From one set of twins was born the Earth, from the other, mankind.
Theosophyholds that there are countless universes, each the home of numerous solar systems with planets where beings are evolving. Human history is recounted in terms of seven succeeding "root races." The first, descended from residents of the moon, dwelt on a continent named the imperishable Sacred Land. The second, known as the Hyerborean, inhabited a vast territory in the vicinity of the North Pole. Since neither of those races had physical bodies, they reproduced by spiritual means. The third root race lived and died in Lemuria; the fourth in Atlantis--both now at the ocean bottom. The fifth and present root race is the Aryan; the sixth and seventh have yet to appear. When they do, humanity will have run its course on Earth and will move to another planet to begin the cycle again.
Both the Mayans[see next page] and the ancient Babylonianstaught that the Gods created man to honor them. "I will create a savage, 'man' shall be his name," declared the victorious God Marduk in Enuma Elish."Verily a savage man I will create. He shall be charged with the service of the Gods that they might be at ease! Let one of the [lesser] Gods be handed over. He alone shall perish that mankind may be fashioned."
The scientists who developed the Greenbank Equation at left make a convincing case for the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in our universe. Sentient life throughout the cosmos provokes the question, "Could man have originated elsewhere and migrated here, either physically or spiritually?" Most religious traditions that address this question speak of the migration as purely spiritual, but at least one claims the journey was physical. Below are some of mankind's reflections about how we came to be here.
Signs of a Common Heritage
In examining the creation stories of the world's faiths, one thing strikes a Hindu: nearly every account of creation has some parallel within Hindu mythology. Anthropologists explain all these parallels in a psychological fashion--water symbolizes the womb, etc. But perhaps all cultures are harkening back to the experiences of a common ancestry.
The American Indians of California, for example, tell of how God sent an animal down through the waters to bring up the Earth, in the same way that the Boar incarnation of Lord Vishnu rescued the Earth from beneath the waters.
The Chinese Pangu is amazingly akin to the sacrificed original man in the Purusha Sukta. In many cultures, man was originally immortal, and only at a certain time did he start to die--just as Yama in Hinduism was the first man to die, and then became the Lord of death. Another common element is the breath of God being infused into man, bringing him to life.
Did We Come from the Sky?
The authoritative Larousse World Mythologybook states, "There is an almost universal belief in a visit by the first men to the sky, and consequently in the existence of a path between the Earth and the world above that was ultimately destroyed by human wrongdoing." There are common elements in the creation stories which indicate we had a different kind of existence before living in these physical bodies. One example is androgyny; the original people in the creation stories are often both male and female. Another is the absolute harmony of existence in an earlier time when people lived in peace and freely communicated with the animals and plants. A third is the initial absence of death, a fact of life which comes later, as previously described.
Hindu scriptures often speak of the many lokasor planes of existence and dvipaor islands. They talk of beings coming from other lokasto this loka,possibly even of spaceships in which they could travel. These lokas,however, are more commonly interpreted as other dimensions of existence rather than physical planets.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON, addressed this question in his commentary of Srimad Bhagavatam:"According to Vedic understanding, the entire universe is regarded as an ocean of space. In that ocean there are innumerable planets, and each planet is called a dvipa,or island. The various planets are divided into fourteen lokas.As Priyavrata drove his chariot behind the sun, he created seven different types of oceans and planetary systems, known as Bhuloka." Srila Prabhupada also stated that according to the Vedic tradition there are 400,000 species in the universe with humanlike form, many of them advanced beyond us.
Other parts of Hindu scripture refer to travel to other worlds. The Rig Vedahymns on death speak of man's soul traveling to the sun and the moon, then returning to Earth.
Certainly the most dramatic example of a people who believe they came from another planet is the Tana Toraja tribe in the Celebes Highlands of Java, Indonesia. They declare their ancestors came from the Pleiades on space ships. In fact, they continue to build their homes to look like those ships today. This tribe had no contact with the outside world until this century, and had no way of knowing that space travel was even possible.
On a purely materialistic basis, scientists have made the case for at least the very first elementary life coming to Earth from outer space, probably arriving frozen solid inside a meteor. This hypothesis is called panspermia,meaning the migration of living spores from planet to planet throughout space. There is a class of meteors called carbonaceous chondrites with organic compounds in them and microscopic particles resembling, but not identical to, fossil algae of the kind that live in water.
There is another school among the scientists which includes Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, co-discover of the DNA molecule. Crick advocated a theory of "directed panspermia"--the possibility that an older civilization sent a mission to start life on our newly evolving planet. A single capsule of several elementary organisms would, he claimed, suffice to bring life to Earth. "This might suggest," Crick said, "that we have cousins on planets which are not too distant."
In modern times the concept of coming from other planets is advocated by the Theosophists. The first two of their postulated seven root races had nonphysical bodies. They teach that when the last root race has appeared, humanity will have run its course of evolution on earth and will move to another planet to begin the cycle again.
We can now see that there is hope for a more secure future when we put together in our inner mind all the information that we have gathered on these four pages. A future that maybe, yes, maybe there is telepathic communication going on, more than we know. A future that yes, maybe, just maybe there are beings from outer space, physically, astrally and in refined bodies of the soul eager and willing to populate--or if we are not careful in our nuclear age, repopulate--the little spinning planet we have come to know as home. The wise look to the past to know the future. We do hope that by looking at our beginnings we have helped in some way the peoples of the world to forge a fulfilling future. Maybe, just maybe, all the answers are not to be found in our intellects. Some may exist in the old creation stories, or be projected to us from inner and outerspace.
The Green Bank Formula shown above is a way to statistically guess the possible number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is not the result of a UFO conference, but rather sober calculations made when US scientists first set out to detect life elsewhere in the galaxy by listening for coded radio signals from them. The explanation of the equation given below is from the book Cosmosby astrophysicist Carl Sagan.
Who could we talk to "out there" with our present level of technology? The answer, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is that with our present most powerful radio telescope we could send and receive intelligible signals "a rather astonishing 1,000 light years. Within that range are over ten million stars."
nis the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, estimated at 400 billion stars.
fpis the number of planets. One in three stars may have a solar system, averaging perhaps ten planets each, for a total of 1,300 billion planets.Since 1995 more than six
neis the number of planets that can support life. Since life exists on Earth in a wide range of temperature and environment, this is guessed at two per system. That gives a total of 300 billion planets on which life might evolve.
flis the number of such planets which might actually develop some form of life. It is estimated by Sagan (based on the range of scientific opinion) at one in three. That means there could be a 100 billion inhabited worlds.
fiis the likelihood of intelligent life developing. Such a development might be rare, or it might be inevitable. Sagan uses the conservative figure of one in ten. We could have in our galaxy an estimated ten billion worlds with intelligent life.
fcis the number of those planets with intelligent life which develop a technological civilization capable of interstellar communication. This is estimated at one in ten, for a total of one billion technically advancedcivilizationsin the galaxy.
Lis the final factor. Does an advanced civilization destroy itself, as we on Earth seem inclined to do, or does it endure for millions of years? If even one percent survive, states Sagan, "The number of such advanced living civilizationsis in the millions."
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Lakshmi Prasad Devkota is regarded as the propounding father of romanticism in the Nepali literature. Devkota was deeply influenced by the writings of William Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley, Byron and John Keats. He is the pioneer of modernity or modernism in Nepali literature, especially in essays and poetry, and he is also regarded as 'Anshu Kavi'(spontaneous poet). He could write poems in a spontaneous manner and even while signing autographs for his fans, he used to write a poem before putting his signature. Devkota's poetry depicts the romantic characteristics like humanism, metaphysical relationships, aesthetic values, past glories, praise of nature etc. Apart from romantic writings, he wrote some potent revolutionary poems possibly under the impact of P.B.Shelley.
The masterpiece which renders him the loftiest position in Nepali Literature is his 'Muna-Madan' in which he tried to depict the deplorable economic condition of Nepal in the most celebrated characters of two youths Muna- a Nepali village girl and Madan- a Nepali peasant. The short epic can be compared to 'Romeo and Juliet' of William Shakespeare in the context of love and emotion 'Muna-Madan' is written in Jhyaurey prosody, the typical Nepali folk lore. This work of Devkota has been translated into several languages like German, French, English, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese etc. and it has gained same popularity as it gained in the Nepali literary world.
The glorious Nepali poet had once visited the Demasong Valley. He was invited here by the APATAN Sahitya Parishad in November 1952. The Apatan Sahitya Parishad is the pioneer literary association of Sikkim founded by four eminent Sikkimese Nepali poets namely Agam Singh Tamang, Padam Singh Subba, Tulshi Bahadur Chettri and Nima Wangdi Lepcha. This Association has contributed a lot for the propagation of literary ideas among the Sikkimese society. He was felicitated at White Hall, Gangtok on November 15th 1952, where Lt. Kashi Raj Pradhan made an introductory speech about Devkota and Padam Singh Subba read the Letter of Appreciation, which was presented to him. The then Sikkim Maharaja Tashi Namgyal roared in laughter when Devkota recited an English poem in Vedic prosody. His Majesty, the Maharaja of Sikkim Sir Tashi Namgyal was splendidly hailed by Mahakavi Lakshmi Prasad Devkota in a poem which reads like the following:
Hail! Glorious ruler of this mount in state,
Sikkim, the paradise of peaceful peaceful hills,
This lively sweet abode of angels, great,
Great in thy name. Thy well known bounty fills
With plenty of thy kingdom. Stainless soul,
Deeply devoted to the God that thrills
Thy inmost depth, thou findest him all whole
Thy own angelic subjects in their wills
Amassed forever in love to their great good
Selflessly hast thou lived, the Buddha life
In thy keen veins where human love must brood
And multiply, rich and intense to thrive
Thy teeming millions to whom a holy shire
Thou dost with sense of human sacrifice aye in spire.
(The tall man in a coat in the middle of the row is Lt. Rashmi Prasad Alley, to his right Mahakavi Lakshmi Prasad Devkota, Right to Devkota is Padam Singh Subba of 'Apatan' literary association of Sikkim, to the left side of Alley, is Bal Krishna Sama a legendary figure of Nepali Language. The picture was taken at the palace corridor Gangtok in November 1952)