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Hyatt Zilara Cancun - Adults Only - All Inclusive lies along Cancún's resort boulevard, with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the calm of Nichupté Lagoon on the other; downtown is 12 km (8 mi) away. Plaza La Isla and Plaza Kukulcan malls are located nearby.
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All meals and beverages at 6 restaurants, a 24-hour snack bar, 7 bars and lounges, plus room service, as well as nightly entertainment and use of recreational facilities are included in The Hyatt Zilara Cancun's room rate.
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Resort Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included.
Food and beverages
- All meals, snacks, and local beverages included
- 24-hour room service
- In-room minibar (all beverages included)
- Meals and beverages at companion properties
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports, land activities, and use of recreational facilities and equipment are included.
Water activities
- Snorkeling
- Surfing/boogie boarding
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Volleyball
- Pilates
- Yoga
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Onsite live performances
Not included
- Use of golf cart
- Use of golf equipment
- Motorized water sports
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Airport transfers
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Activities and services offered by independent operators
- Offsite tours
- Transportation to offsite activities
Resort Amenities
The lobby blends Mediterranean style, as seen in tall columns, blue-tinted arched windows, and wrought-iron chandeliers with Mexican touches such as lamps made of local onyx and umber leather lounge chairs. Both the lounge chairs and the canopied day beds tucked among the potted plants are large enough for two.
A fitness center features cardio and strength-training equipment as well as Pilates, Yoga, spinning, aerobic, and stretching sessions. Metal sculptures of a Mexican band oversee the freeform pool, with its swim-up bar, two spa tubs, and infinity-pool area.
Guests can relax on in-water pool and deck chaise lounges--each with cushion and adjustable sunshade--or in canopied and curtained day beds that line the pool and the private beach. Butlers stroll through both areas with books, magazines, sunscreen, and drinks.
Dining choices can be found at 6 restaurants and include Asian and Mexican cuisine and low-calorie and vegetarian menu items. A coffee shop serves pastries and fruit; the sommelier hosts wine tastings. Guests help themselves to hors d'oeuvres, snacks, and beverages in the 24-hour Lounge; room service is available 24 hours a day.
Meeting, conference, and banquet facilities are on site. Wireless Internet access is complimentary in the lobby area.
- Express check-in
- Picnic area
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Poolside bar
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Porter/bellhop
- Free self parking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free valet parking
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Designated smoking areas
- Shopping on site
- Total number of rooms - 307
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 8
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- 24-hour health club
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Beach bar
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of bars/lounges - 5
- Full-service spa
- Beach umbrellas
- Swim-up bar
- Free breakfast
- Billiards or pool table
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Year Built 2007
- Coffee shop or café
- Free pool cabanas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Steam room
- Free WiFi
- Sauna
- Free wired Internet
- Spa services on site
- Number of restaurants - 6
- 24-hour business center
- Beach towels
- Spa tub
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
- Garden
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Fireplace
- Premium bedding
- Furnished balcony or patio
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Minibar (stocked, free items)
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Rainfall showerhead
- Pillowtop mattress
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Free bottled water
- Ceiling fan
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Iron/ironing board
- Jetted bathtub
- Cable TV service
- In-room massage available
- Free newspaper
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Turndown service
- Room service (24 hours)
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
- Free WiFi
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
Dress is casual; wet clothes are not allowed.
La Adelita Mexican Cantina - Serves Mexican snacks and authentic Mexican tequila. Open for lunch and dinner; located in same building as Maria Marie.
Chef's Plate - International haute cuisine with new five-course menu created each day; the leisurely pace of the meal allows time for guests to discuss dishes with the chef and wine with the sommelier. Dinner only.
Royal Coffee House - Serves espressos, cappuccinos, teas, light sandwiches, and pastries. White and dark chocolate fountains. Sugar-free choices available. Open from early morning to late night.
24-hour Lounge - Features Ping-Pong and billiards tables, plasma TVs, appetizers, snacks, and a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Lobby Bar - Overlooks the infinity pool and sea, with live music nightly. Features hanging bed lounges and upholstered and leather seating. Hosts the Tequileria and Cigar Bar with Mexican tequilas and hand-rolled and imported cigars; the Wine Corner Bar where wine-tasting is held; and Royal Martini Bar.
Tradewinds - Swim-up bar with both in-pool seating and a platform with swings to sit on while cooling off.
Room service - Available 24 hours; items are delivered to and picked up from the suite's private box next to the guestroom door.
Spice - International cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Show-cooking stations and à la carte menu with nightly themes. Located off the lobby, with indoor seating only and views of the pool and sea.
Pelicanos - Fusion of Caribbean and Mexican food served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Indoor and outdoor seating overlooking the beach and sea.
Asiana - Features a koi pond and serves Asian food such as Cantonese, Thai, and Japanese for lunch and dinner. Two teppanyaki tables and sushi bar. Buffet or à la carte. Overlooks the palm-lined boulevard.
Maria Marie - Mexican and French cuisine served à la carte for dinner. Restaurant is on two levels, with a brick ceiling and two-story window overlooking Kukulcan Boulevard and Nichupté Lagoon beyond. Bright, wall-sized flower and landscape murals.
The resort provides daily entertainment, which incluces games, actitivies, live music in the lobby bar, and live shows with music and dancing. Once a week a professional tequila and wine sommelier and bartender leads tequila, wine, martini, and coffee tasting sessions.
Nearby Things to Do
A freeform pool winds the length of the property, offering in-water and deck chaise lounges with cushions and adjustable shades. White-curtained cabanas with space for two line the beach and both a beach butler and pool butler are available with books, magazines, drinks, suntan lotion, and towels. Introductory scuba lessons, snorkeling equipment, and boogie boards are provided.
While spa products, treatments, and services incur surcharges, all guests are free to use the men's and women's indoor spa tubs, plunge pools, saunas, steam rooms, showers, and locker rooms without charge. One outdoor spa tub looks out over the sea and four additional spa tubs are in a quiet area lined with pots of bougainvillea.
A fitness center includes an array of strength-training and cardio equipment, along with free weights; towels and water are stocked at each machine. Classes in Pilates, yoga, and spinning are offered. Billiards and ping-pong tables are found in the 24-hour lounge.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Pilates classes on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Water skiing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Volleyball on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Scuba diving nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
The hotel's spa, The Spa, offers signature Maya-inspired Saas, or clarity and light treatments, which match earth, wind, fire, or water elements to individual massages, masques, and exfoliations. Ingredients include clay from the crater Chicxulub and banana leaves. Included on the general menu are Japanese Shiatsu, chocolate mint exfoliation, and algae body wraps.
The Spa also features a spectacular hydro facility equipped with whirlpools, cold plunge pools, outdoor and rain showers, steam and dry sauna, and a temazcal steam hut. Men and women have separate areas with individual lockers; robe and sandals are provided. Fruit and beverages are supplied in the relaxation area.
- Detoxification wrap
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Resort Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children 18 and younger are not allowed at this adults-only property. All guests older than 18 are welcome.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 150 per vehicle (roundtrip)
Resort Name
- All Inclusive Hyatt
- All Inclusive Hyatt Cancun
- Cancun Zilara Hyatt
- Hyatt All Inclusive
- Hyatt Zilara
- Hyatt Zilara All Inclusive
- Hyatt Zilara Cancun
- Hyatt Zilara Cancun Adults All Inclusive
- Zilara Hyatt
- Zilara Hyatt Cancun
- Royal Cancun Resort
- Royal Hotel Cancun
- The Royal Hotel Cancun
- The Royal In Cancun Hotel Cancun
- Hyatt Zilara Adults All Inclusive
- Hyatt Zilara Cancun Adults
- Hyatt Zilara Adults
- Hyatt Zilara Cancun Adults Only All Inclusive
- Hyatt Zilara Cancun All Inclusive
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Guests under 18 years old are not permitted at this adults-only property.


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Elk Mountains > "Lightning Pyramid" > Climber's Log
"Lightning Pyramid" Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
| Thunder and Lightning
Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2017
|4000 ft of nice solid snow, great climb, this peak will test you for sure, Some amazing vies of Elk Mountains from top.
|Posted Jun 5, 2017 8:08 am
|Traverse from 13,631
Date Climbed: May 26, 2017
|This traverse is tough with snow. Trip report.
|Posted May 27, 2017 12:10 pm
|South Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2010
|From UN 13,631 with Kiefer and John. Cliffed out a couple times, but otherwise fun scrambling on incredibly loose rock. Continued on to Thunder Pyramid and Pyramid.
|Posted Aug 29, 2010 11:38 pm
|South Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2010
|Second summit of this complicated mountain. Traversed from 13,631 on a challenging but worthy ridge.
Very loose.
Continued on to Thunder Pyramid and finally Pyramid Peak.
|Posted Aug 14, 2010 8:34 pm
|Thunder and Lightning
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009
|Climbed as an out-and-back from Thunder Pyramid. The class 2 gully was snow filled, then traversed some ledges back to the saddle with a little class 3 mixed in to avoid some snow in places.
|Posted Jun 29, 2009 10:12 am
|Ski Descent
Date Climbed: May 17, 2008
|Skied the East Face of Lightning. Fun climb, sketchy snow conditions (wet, new snow), long descent (4K).
Pyramid group completed.
|Posted May 18, 2008 5:47 pm
|Thunder Pyramid to UN 13631 traverse
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2008
|Climbed "Thunder Pyramid" via its standard route, traverse to "Lightning Pyramid" had a few 4th class moves, traverse to UN 13631 was considerably more difficult staying near the ridge crest. There were two extremely loose downclimbs involved and one very airy low 5th class move.
|Posted Feb 29, 2008 3:15 pm
|on the way to Thunder
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2007
|Climbed the south ridge route to the Thunder/Lightning saddle and then climbed to the summit of Lightning before heading to Thunder
|Posted Sep 23, 2007 5:22 pm
|Traverse to Thunder
Date Climbed: Apr 26, 2007
|Climbed the Class 4 route to the Thunder/Lightning saddle. Fun scrambling to the saddle and an easy Class 2+ hike to the summit. Great views all around. Then Traversed over to Thunder.
|Posted Aug 26, 2007 10:39 pm
|thunder-lightning traverse
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|traversed from thunder. a rough, airy and tedious class four traverse, maybe even more difficult than the one of the bells. great adventure on an unforgettable day.
|Posted Jul 16, 2007 10:00 pm
|Traverse from Lightning
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|Climbed w/ Skasgaard, Shanahan, and Jamie N. Long, tedious traverse over mostly crap rock. Fortunately, for the really nasty moves, the rock was decently solid. Pyramid ridge is finally closed in my book!
|Posted Jun 24, 2007 9:10 pm
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|Traversed over from Thunder Pyramid. A nightmare of a traverse but oddly, a good route as long as you stayed ON the ridge crest. This stuff is SOLID class-4 with frequent class-5 moves on loose, rottn rock. Lightning has a small summit but the views of the Bells are amazing!
|Posted Jun 24, 2007 10:09 am
|Brian Kalet
|South Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006
|From UN13,631.
|Posted Jul 31, 2006 11:25 pm

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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 13, 2012, 12:00 AM
Town Square
School board gives tentative nod to drug dogs at schools
Original post made on Jan 15, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 13, 2012, 12:00 AM
Comments (19)
a resident of Downtown
on Jan 15, 2012 at 1:47 pm
I think its a really good idea, but think about it, if the kids are going to bring drugs onto campus and then get expelled for them, its going to 1. give pleasanton a bad reputation along with all of the highschools. 2. If the kids see that there are dogs and police raiding their cars and what-not they're going to rebel and keep doing them. Hearing that there have been 26 expulsions by foothill already for "drug busts" thats honestly pathetic and sad for the younger generations. Only a few years ago my graduating class realized there was a "fad" of drugs that the younger generations were getting themselves into. It's scary and sad. The kids think its "cool" to do them, when its absoultely trashy and white trash. It's smart to try and prevent the kids from drinking and doing drugs but when it comes down to it, its their choice. Yes, instrict rules and punishments for them but having drug dogs? its making pleasanton look really ghetto and trashy.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 15, 2012 at 7:46 pm
PUSD can count on an expensive lawsuit if they move forward with this policy. Please read my comments on the other threads where I explain my objections.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 15, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Interesting commentary when we just straight to lawsuit threats when we dont like a decision. Actually before a decision is even made! Its the new "I'm telling on you" except along with it goes the threat of financially ruining a school district and police force over something that is within their legal rights.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 15, 2012 at 9:50 pm
"over something that is within their legal rights. "
Are you sure about that? I do not know why you can say it is their legal right to bring dogs to school when the courts have not made a decision yet.
Various states are challenging canine sniffs. In Montana, the ACLU is looking into the sniffing of students' cars in the school's parking lot (2011).
Read about the most recent challenge to canine sniff, a case that is currently going to the Supreme Court, even though many were so sure that the 2005 Supreme Court decision would have applied:
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 6 decided it would review Florida v. Jardines, that addresses whether a dog sniff at the front door of a home is a search that requires probable cause"
"The case follows another involving a traffic stop and a canine search of a vehicle, Illinois v. Caballes, in 2005. The Supreme Court held in that case that a dog sniff around a car during a routine traffic stop was not a search."
"However, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Caballes was inapplicable in the Florida v. Jardines case. In Florida v. Jardines, a drug detection dog sniffed the outside door of a suspected marijuana grow house, which lead to the house being searched."
"The Florida Supreme Court said the dog's outside odor detection was "a substantial government intrusion into the sanctity of the home and constitutes a 'search' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment." "
"The U.S. Supreme Court could hear oral arguments on the case in April, with a decision possible by the end of June."
Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 16, 2012 at 8:39 am
How about checking the courts here, locally, such as cases against Livermore, and Dublin since they are currently using the same tactic to help keep illegal drugs off their school campuses.
"The key is that the dogs are not sniffing a student's body, which begins to bring up Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues, they said. A "locker sniff," however, is not considered a "search," under the U.S. Constitution, since the school common areas are considered public space."
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on Jan 16, 2012 at 9:03 am
mooseturd is a registered user.
Wake me when it's over.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 16, 2012 at 9:34 am
"How about checking the courts here, locally, such as cases against Livermore, and Dublin since they are currently using the same tactic to help keep illegal drugs off their school campuses. "
No one in Livermore or Dublin has challenged the canine sniffs.
But in another district in California, La Canada, a parent who is an attorney sued the district in 2009 because the students' backpacks were sniffed. The case never went to court because the district backed off and withdrew the dog sniffing, because of the threat of lawsuit (with their superintendent quoted as saying that what they did was not legal and therefore they were revising their dog sniffing policy).
And the last time the ACLU of Northern CA got involved was in 1996, and again, the case never made it to court because the district decided to stop the canine sniffs rather than go to trial against the ACLU.
We only have the ruling of the 9th circuit court, and a case from Florida that is now in the US Supreme court challenging the court's 2005 ruling.
A legal challenge in California is possible and will happen.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 16, 2012 at 10:04 am
I see that patriot and resident are on this thread too and are threatening to bankrupt the school system with their lawsuits.
Do they have a life? It appears not, unless their job is with the ACLU to monitor these boards.
Blah blah blah
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 16, 2012 at 11:03 am
I'll just repeat what I wrote when this bad idea was first floated, and then leave you to it.
As the former head librarian at Foothill High (2003-2011), I can say this:
The drug most often abused by high school students in Pleasanton is alcohol. They get the alcohol from their parents' supplies. Do the drug-sniffing dogs also detect vodka? Students who abuse alcohol often carry vodka in their water bottles because it's a clear substance that looks like--well, water in a water bottle.
There are already security cameras in the parking lots and common areas of the schools. You cannot have security cameras in the classrooms because students have the right to opt-out of being photographed or videotaped outside of the common areas (privacy concerns). Most teachers would also object to constant video surveillance in the classroom because we have to do things such as discipline students, etc., and that is a private matter that is not to be videotaped and shared with the world.
Teenagers will live up to--or down to--your expectations. The drug-sniffing dogs are an intrusive and a heavy-handed tactic that will just anger and alienate the vast majority of good kids while doing little to stop the drug dealers/users (hint: if the dogs won't go near the students, the students will just find another place to hide the drugs other than gym lockers or their cars--one of our custodians at Foothill found drugs stashed under the liner of a trash can, for example. If classrooms aren't going to be searched, then if there are any teachers in possession of drugs on school grounds, they'll just put them in their desks or hide them in another place on campus).
A better way to find out who's using/dealing drugs (including alcohol) is observation of teen behavior and relying on tips from other students. I reported odd student behavior to the administration at Foothill when I was a member of the faculty. Oh, and who deals drugs on the campuses is often widely-known by the students; it's getting the students to tell us that's the problem. You'll not get their cooperation through these useless, counter-productive sweeps. Education, dialog, and trust are better weapons, but parents and the out-of-touch central office administrators (as well as some principals) don't want to hear that.
I wonder if Kevin Johnson will have drug dogs searching the parking lot of the PUSD administration? After all, those people work for the district, too, and shouldn't they be included in the drug sweeps? Or are only classroom teachers and the students they serve presumed to be guilty until proven innocent?
I would also ask if PUSD plans to use the drug-sniffing dogs on the cars of the Board members when they meet. We don't want the Board voting on important matters after they've been snorting coke or eating psychedelic mushrooms. I presume that all the Board members are doing so unless they can prove to me that they're innocent.
Happy Martin Luther King Day, Pleasanton.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 16, 2012 at 11:08 am
To "blah blah blah",
You seem to be monitoring these blogs too. Do you have a life, or do you just like to insult people with whom you disagree? Oh, and you forgot to mention Stacey, she frequently chimes in on this subject too.
I'm no big fan of the ACLU, but they have their purpose.
"How about checking the courts here, locally, such as cases against Livermore, and Dublin"
Just because they don't have lawsuits in Dublin and Livermore doesn't mean we won't or can't have a lawsuit in Pleasanton.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 18, 2012 at 7:41 am
Would it really be so bad if the kids medicating with drugs were identified and helped by this additional effort to deter the use/spread of drugs in our schools?
Daniel: The use of pot often goes hand-in-hand with vodka or prescription drugs. Some kids already tip admin on drugs/theft, etc. The use of dogs is an additional vehicle to deter the use/spread of drugs on campus. Users may think of this as heavy handed but the non-users are actually thrilled that the school is committed keeping drugs off their campus. And yes, what is good for the goose should apply. They should sweep all lots, especially since some kids have access to the teachers lot and it's clear from recent news reports that adults also make poor choices and those that do shouldn't be in the classroom with our kids.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 18, 2012 at 8:46 am
"but the non-users are actually thrilled that the school is committed keeping drugs off their campus. "
My child does not use drugs and does not have an opinion one way or the other. As a parent, however, I do object to the dogs on campus. I do not want to see measures that have the potential of violating civil liberties being used. Find another way.
There is a reason people in many states are challenging the canine sniffs: once you allow the civil rights of a few to be violated, it can lead to an ugly path.
Look at what happened in Florida. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that canine sniffs of a car were legal and not a violation of 4th amendment rights. So in Florida, they took that ruling too far, and sniffed the outside of a home and based on the dog's cues, they searched the house without probable cause (only cue was the dog's).
The 2005 US Supreme court precedent was used as justification but the Florida Supreme Court said nonsense, it is a violation of 4th amendment rights, and ruled that the search was illegal and a violation of constitutional rights.... so now the case is in the US Supreme Court.
In Montana, the ACLU is looking into the sniffing of students' cars in the school parking lot (2011).
In California, a parent sued the school district in 2009 because of canine sniffs and the district backed off rather than going to trial.
In Washington, the issue was dealt with, the ACLU got involved, the districts stopped canine sniffs....... across the nation canine sniffs are being challenged.
Find another way to deal with the drug problem.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Jan 18, 2012 at 9:39 am
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 18, 2012 at 11:47 am
"They should sweep all lots, especially since some kids have access to the teachers lot and it's clear from recent news reports that adults also make poor choices and those that do shouldn't be in the classroom with our kids. "
Sniffing dogs are not the solution. That being said though, let's assume dogs are indeed use and a teacher is caught, then what? The Foothill teacher recently involved in a drug issue got a slap on the wrist, and to the best of my knowlege, there were no civil rights violations. Read about it:
""I'm not going to find you guilty -- yet," said Pleasanton Superior Court Judge Hugh Walker, who ordered her to complete a drug diversionary program."
Web Link
Now imagine if civil rights are violated and the arrest itself is challenged.
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 20, 2012 at 8:47 pm
I don't understand how come some people get so sniffy about a few dogs on campus? go figure...
a resident of Downtown
on Jan 21, 2012 at 11:08 am
Having the drug sniffing dogs on campus is absolutely ubsurd. The kids are going to do the drugs regardless. Yeah its bad to have them on school grounds and they should be punished for them but going to the damn extreme is stupid and unecessary. The students are only going to rebel and STILL not care.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Jan 21, 2012 at 2:31 pm
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 22, 2012 at 6:27 am
Are the PE lockers tamper-proof? Are the kids automatically expelled or suspended if even they deny the stash is theirs? What happens to the kids who are busted? Do they become drop-outs or are they given any chance of getting an education elsewhere? Will drugs like ritalin and other stimulants the kids are buying from each other be part of the search? Seems the DARE program is ineffective. The police department should find a program that works with helping kids stay drug-free.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jan 22, 2012 at 10:26 am
I expect at least a few will take the opportunity to "get back" at someone by planting a bit of drugs in their locker or car. Then they can watch them get expelled and laugh at having the school screw their enemy over for them...
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text: Quark, because odds are, if you paid him enough, you're going to have a good time. Barclay is too much into pre-modern fantasy. The Doctor would probably involve a lot singing. Tom Paris is a close second because he tends to be modern and creative. groovy weapons-- in the 21 century, dealing with situations common today, would you rather have a hand phaser that stuns, an impenetrable personal force field, a personal cloaking device, or a personal transporter device?


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Aw, check out the old school pic - say "Vampire"!
And the nominations are:
Actor Fantasy: Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Actor Fantasy: Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Movie Fantasy: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Movie Drama: Remember Me
Movie Drama: The Runaways
Actor Drama: Robert Pattinson – Remember Me
Actress Drama: Kristen Stewart – The Runaways
Actress Drama: Dakota Fanning – The Runaways
Romantic Comedy: Valentine's Day
Movie Horror/Thrillers: Nightmare on Elm Street - Kellan Lutz
Villain: Rachelle Lefevre as "Victoria"- New Moon
The show airs on Fox, August 9th at 8pm EST / 5 PST / 1am GMT - come on live stream *fingers crossed*
Vote at Teen Choice Awards - especially for Rachelle because it was be E-PIC if she won!
P.s. Kristen didn't get nominated for Fantasy Actress? Ouch! That's a first for the saga...


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"Is it the shrewd October wind
Brings the tears into her eyes?
Does it blow so strong that she must fetch
Her breath in sudden sighs?"
William Dean Howells – Gone
October is a dull and dreary month for us Muggles, but not so for the students of Hogwarts. Not only do they have Halloween to look forward to, but the excitement of Quidditch is rapidly gaining pace. The first match of the season may be in November, but training begins in earnest in October.
The challenge for the next two weeks is to write a drabble involving October and Quidditch. It doesn't have to be a match. It doesn't have to be at Hogwarts. But there must be a Quidditch theme and it must be in October. Be creative!
A note about drabbles. You are allowed to use a beta (we beg you to use a beta) because it's always a great shame when we read fantastic drabbles but have to discount them because of SPaG errors.
All drabbles should be between 300-500 words. All MNFF guidelines must be followed.
Five points for participation – that is per entrant not per entry.
First – 15 points
Second – 10 points
Third – 5 points
The barmaids reserve the right to award more or less points and places depending on the quality of the drabbles. We have not cake-womaned anyone yet, but it could very well happen. **
Use this form for your entry:
This competition will close on Monday 15th October at 9PM. And then I shall hand you over to the newest member of the team.PHP Code:
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Good Luck!
~Madam Carmerta~
** And just what is 'cake-womaning'? The explanation is here.


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OCEAN CITY – A unique sound will be hitting Fager's Island's Monday night deck party next week that aims to switch up the sound from the traditional cover band.
"Fager's is bringing something new into town, something people don't really get a chance to see, and create some excitement," musician Bryan Russo said. "They want to bring in some new sound. Some new bands, and continue to grow off of that success with their special events. We are really excited that Fager's is becoming known as a place where people can see not just the cover bands."
Russo has organized a night of eclectic tunes at Fager's for the second deck party of the season on Monday, May 6, starting with Chester River Runoff at 6 p.m. on the deck.
"They are fantastic," he said. "I have seen them so many times. There has been such a draw towards blue grass music, not just in this region but nationally."
Chester River Runoff is an original bluegrass band from Maryland's rural Eastern Shore. The band's honest, unaffected sound features big harmonies, insightful songwriting, and tight instrumental work, and band members are proud to preserve in their live shows the warm spirit and humor of friends who first started playing together just to learn their instruments.
Following Chester River Runoff, The Fleeting Ends from Philadelphia will take the floor starting at 9:30 p.m.
"There is so much excitement surrounding this band. They are really good … they are one of the best and tightest young bands I have seen in a long time," Russo said. "Their sound is right where it needs to be for that [Fager's] sort of demographic and they will be different from the bands people traditionally see down here. It is a really fresh sound … just really good dance music and good song writing."
According to The Fleeting Ends, the band's sound has been described as "upbeat and poppy" with an emphasis on two-part vocal harmonies and catchy hooks. Most recently The Fleeting Ends have been catching attention with their latest full length album "Our Eyes Are Peeled".
The final act of the night will be Russo and the Tragic Figures. Russo is an acclaimed songwriter whose big bluesy voice wallops audiences with soulful lyrics that bite.
"My stuff is really stomping blues music," Russo said. "It's somewhere in between Tom Waits, Jack White and the Black Keys. What I do has always been a lot different than the kind of music that is consumed and enjoyed at a live venue here [Ocean City] but I think that's what has been able to keep it working."
Russo, along with Fager's, has a mission to offer a variety of musical genres to Ocean City's night life.
"We have a very unique sound, and it's a really good fun live show," Russo said of his group. "Coupling us with a band like The Fleeting Ends, individually I think our sounds are very unique, and when blended together it will be a very cool evening … I am really looking forward to this show. I just think people want something different, and the people who like other music can come enjoy us, too. You can like more than one thing, and I think that creates a community, that creates a scene where everybody can exist and work and enjoy themselves, and really when it comes down to it you are just trying to have a lot of people come into one room and have a hell of a time."


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Samsung Galaxy S III bootloader will remain locked, confirms Verizon
12 Comments
1. FrostyDanny (Posts: 90; Member since: 15 Jul 2012)
Can someone please explain to me what makes "unlocked" so special?
2. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3130; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
In short its easy to root and throw on a custom rom and there's also the ability to over clock the processor as well.
3. eDiesel (Posts: 142; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
Do you live in a closet?
Not surprised. Seems like a Verizon thing to do.
9. dsDoan (Posts: 235; Member since: 28 Dec 2011)
No need to be a d**k. Not everyone is in to this stuff.
4. tedkord (Posts: 15718; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Essentially, most bootloaders are locked. The issue with Verizon's is it is signed, and checks that signature of the boot sector on boot up.
That means we are stuck with the stock kernel. No custom kernels means no voltage control, no overclocking, no changing versions of Android (meaning no Jelly Bean until an official release).
The PDA section is not signed, do we can have some customization. We can have roms with no Verizon bloat, and some tweaks.
The recovery partition is also not signed, so we can replace that. It also means we can set up a custom Rom and kernel in the recovery, and bypass the normal boot by booting directly into recovery. That can work, but is not ideal because you lose your recovery ability.
6. speckledapple (Posts: 892; Member since: 29 Sep 2011)
I will probably end up unlocking my thunderbolt once I upgrade but still for Verizon to lock it represents just one more thing consumers are forced to deal with. At times it makes going to other carriers seem like the best idea in the world but they all have their quirks and limits. They want you to use their services for everything. I just might consider buying a phone for full price to eliminate this problem.
5. Phullofphil (Posts: 1174; Member since: 10 Feb 2009)
What I want to know is two things really. When the developer audition comes out what's stoping using the whole entire Rome of that device and loading it on the locked one. I would imagine if there is a developer out there determined enough it could happen I hope.
The second thing is I really don't understand why with all the brilliant developers out there why can't we find a way to unlock the boot loader ourselves. After all if Samsung wanted to they can releas a string of command code that can do that. So what's stopping our best from doing that. Is there that kind of talent in the developing community. Or am I asking to much.
I guess I have a third. Which is of I paid in full for my gs3 or finish my two year contract should I be alowed to unlock my phone it's mine. Don't I have all rights to that device. Shouldn't I have the right to do what ever I want to my phone it's already out of warranty or as soon as I unlock the boot loader it will be. I would be willing to trade in my warranty for a unlocked boot loader but I really don't really understand why Verizon cares that much considering there is such a small amount of people that care to do the root and rom or kernal change compared to the amount of people using it normally. I think a good developer community is a free way to get quality research and development at no cost. All they have to do is read the forums that there on enjoy
7. maxican16 (Posts: 364; Member since: 29 Sep 2011)
This is what you get for copying articles from other websites without fact checking. Nice work phonearena.
8. JunitoNH (Posts: 1938; Member since: 15 Feb 2012)
Verizon's attitude is my way or the highway, plain and simple. I guess they figured you can switch service and try, AT&T, Sprint, Tmobile, or the other clone carriers. But eventually you'll come back.
10. FrostyDanny (Posts: 90; Member since: 15 Jul 2012)
Hey I still am keeping unlimited data for $30 a month with my S3 so I ain't complaing
11. tedkord (Posts: 15718; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
I'm keeping unlimited for $10 per month per line. No way they will let me keep that through another phone after this two years are up.
12. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
With the RAZR, you can use SafeStrap which creates a second partition to flash on - and with that you can flash customer ROMs....


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A galaxy of sci-fi stars and cars will beam into Doncaster this weekend at an event that promises to be truly out of this world.
A glittering array of Hollywood and TV greats will land at Doncaster Racecourse for Knightcon - a huge gathering of vehicles, sets, memorabilia and a cavalcade of actors from a host of classic films and programmes.
Topping the bill will be original Star Wars legends Dave Prowse, who appeared as Darth Vader, and actor Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 inb the orginal 70s and 80s run of the sci-fi franchise.
They will be joined by actress Sarah Douglas, who appeared as the villainous Ursa in the first two Superman films, actor Dan Starkey, who appears as Strax the Sontaran in the current series of Doctor Who as well as Rebecca Holden who featured in 1980s television favourite Knight Rider.
And KITT, the all-talking all action car from the much loved show, which turned David Hasselhoff into a household name, will also be there along with an original 1966 Batmobile, the bat car from the 1989 franchise as well as host of other showbiz vehicles, film sets and exhibitions.
And organiser Rob Ormondroyd is hoping film and TV lovers from across the region descend on Doncaster for Saturday's spectacular, the ninth staging of the event in Yorkshire and which he hopes will be the biggest and best yet.
He said: "It is going to be huge this year and we are really excited about the special guests we have coming along. There will be something for all the family.
"Because we are very passionate about what we do we are determined to bring things to life for as many people as possible."
As well as costumed characters, stalls, a huge exhibition of Lego and signing sessions, there will also be film sets for visitors to explore from blockbusters movies such as Iron Man, Star Wars and Doctor Who.
Added Rob: "Normally, sci-fi conventions have characters walking around, meeting people in and among paste tables and it takes away the magic. When I see Iron Man, I want to see him on an Iron Man set - and that's what we do.
"You can see dads and their lads wandering around and everyone is getting something from it. The dads are going around pointing out stuff from their childhood while the kids are in awe at seeing some of their heroes. We try to create a Disneyland style experience that leaves people in awe."
Knightcon began nine years ago with a meeting of Knight Rider enthusiasts ago and has grown rapidly since. It takes place between 10am and 5pm and tickets are £7 for adults and £4 for children under 12. More details at http://knightconuk.co.uk/


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Ernst Haeckel: a hostile witness to the truth of the Bible
Published: 3 March 2011(GMT+10)
History is an interesting subject. Some people naturally love history while others would for instance find all the facts and dates a nuisance to memorize for an exam. To the Christian, the single most important piece of history is that revealed in the Bible, as this is the key to the Christian faith. Furthermore, the history presented in Genesis 1–11 holds many important answers to understand the world around us today.
Sadly, many people in our modern culture, including Christians, think that 'science' has disproven the Bible's clear history given in those early chapters of Genesis, not realizing that science, and especially historical science, is heavily dependent on one's predetermined worldview and on the many assumptions made. People are often misled to think that they have to choose between 'hard' science and the Bible, but an interesting piece of history shows us that the science based on a biblical worldview has been quite accurate in comparison to our modern knowledge, and that an evolutionary worldview has actually done harm in getting closer to the truth.
Some years ago, CMI's Dr Carl Wieland gave a very important talk to a popular audience called Dynamic Life: changes in living things (available on DVD). Near the end of the talk he made a fascinating statement that would stun many people. It was something like: 'if science does not agree with the Bible, then it means that science has not caught up with all the facts yet'.
Haeckel: 'Darwin's Doberman'
One person in history who made a huge effort to undermine the clear history of the Bible is the German professor of zoology named Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919). Not only is Haeckel largely responsible for turning Germany into an evolution-believing country, he also sought to replace all traditional religion and Christianity with his invented philosophy called Monism.
Ironically, more than a century after Haeckel published many of his popular books that were designed to draw people away from Christianity and the Bible, Haeckel can be used as an excellent example of why it is better to trust science performed under a biblical worldview, than science based on a secular (and often atheistic) worldview.
In the abovementioned talk by Dr Wieland, he makes it clear that the Bible is staunchly anti-racism. This, critics might say (ignoring all the scriptural evidences of course) is just conveniently politically correct. However, Haeckel serves as a very good hostile witness that the Bible was known to be anti-racism even in times when so called 'racial equality' was not at all as politically correct as today. In his misnamed book called The History of Creation1 (original German title: Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte) which should really be 'The History of Evolution', we find that Haeckel rants against the biblical model:
"All these five [speaking of an earlier classification than Haeckel's own] races of men, according to the Jewish legend of creation, are said to have descended from 'a single pair'—Adam and Eve, and in accordance with this are said to be varieties of one kind or species. … The excellent paleontologist Quenstedt is right in maintaining that, "if Negroes and Caucasians were snails, zoologists would universally agree that they represented two very distinct species, which could never have originated from one pair by gradual divergence." pp. 412–413 (Emphasis added)
The rest of the chapter and book where this quote is found is heavily racist, and evolutionists today would be embarrassed about it. Yet today, we know from molecular biology that all the different groups of people are indeed very closely related and only varieties of one species or kind!2 Blood and organ transplants can even take place successfully between members of different so-called 'races'. The Bible is right and Haeckel's 'science' (based on his evolutionary views) was wrong. This also documents how evolution can be quite a stimulant for racist ideas and thought. It is interesting to note the 'scientific' sounding bluff by referring to "the excellent paleontologist Quenstedt" (this was Friedrich August von Quenstedt [1809–1889]). It is also ironic to notice that many evolutionary anthropologists believe the 'Out of Africa'3 model for evolution today, which also teaches that humans all descended from a very small group of people (in Africa) despite Haeckel's ridicule of the idea of a single pair. Here Haeckel actually does us a huge favour in trying to ridicule the biblical model, because he shows us that it can easily be seen that the Bible is anti-racism, even when it was not so politically correct as today. Besides the above, the Bible makes it clear that we are all of 'one man/blood' (Acts 17:26).
Interestingly enough, none other than Haeckel himself documents for us in the same work Vol II, that there were other anthropologists who strongly disagreed with him in those early times on his views of human 'races'. He gives one of their arguments:
" … there can be no doubt that the innumerable races and varieties of our domestic dog differ in a much greater degree from one another than the different genera and species distinguished by the zoologist in his systematic arrangement of the Dog-tribe. And yet they are generally regarded only as varieties of one single species – Canis familiaris. In the same way most anthropologists dogmatically and firmly hold to the so-called 'unity of species' for all the races of Men, and unite them into one species, as Homo sapiens. However, the unprejudiced and critical enquirer, when carefully comparing them, cannot rid himself of the conviction that the morphological differences between them are much more important than those by which, for instance, the various species of bears, wolves, or cats are distinguished in the zoological system." pp. 433–434 (italics in original, bold added.)
So according to Haeckel himself, most anthropologists held firmly and dogmatically to humans being part of only one species. Haeckel divided humans into twelve different species, which are in their turn divided into 36 different races. Haeckel's books became immensely popular bestsellers. It is far more historically realistic to argue that Haeckel helped to create those much lamented racist times in Germany (and other European countries as well), instead of just being a product of it, as some modern-day romanticizers of Haeckel would want to have us believe. Again, notice the scientific-sounding bluff of Haeckel such as: "However, the unprejudiced and critical enquirer, when carefully comparing them…" (emphasis added). It is not really surprising that many anthropologists did not have Haeckel's views. Many scientists heavily rejected Darwinism when Darwin's book first appeared in German (see quote later).
Furthermore, Haeckel documents for us in his work called The Evolution of Man4 (original German title: Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, literally "Anthropogenesis or the evolutionary history of Mankind") how a professor before Haeckel's time who based his thinking on the Bible was again right. This time it was about heredity. Haeckel held to the false theory of Lamarckian inheritance (this basically means that characteristics that an individual acquires during his lifetime can be passed on to offspring, which is not true), because he believed Darwin's theory needed it. In volume II5 of the same work, Haeckel tells us:
"I hold, with Lamarck and Darwin6, that the hereditary transmission of acquired characters is one of the most important phenomena in biology, and it is proved by thousands of morphological and physiological experiences. It is an indispensible foundation of the theory of evolution."7 (Emphasis added)
In the light of the above statement, it starts to make sense why Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976) for example, an important figure in the Soviet scientific community so staunchly opposed Mendelian genetics. Indeed, it was exactly because he believed the latter to be un-Darwinian. Lysenko used his power as Stalin's chosen scientist to eliminate his opponents,8 and was ultimately responsible for famines.
Professor Albrecht Haller (1708–1777) from the University of Göttingen made several discoveries in biology with his encyclopedic work called Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani (8 vol., 1757–66; "Physiological Elements of the Human Body"). It was a landmark in the history of medicine.9 Haller disagreed with these Lamarckian ideas more than a century earlier and made far more accurate observations with his biblical view of science. Yet Haeckel had other ideas and tells us:
"He [Haller] thus denied that there was any evolution in the proper sense of the word, and even went so far as to say that the beard existed in the new-born child and the antlers in the hornless fawn; all the parts were there in advance and were merely hidden from the eye of man for the time being. Haller even calculated the number of human beings that God must have created on the sixth day and stored away in Eve's ovary."10
"Haller maintained all this nonsense, in spite of its ridiculous consequences …"11
But what Haller believed was not nonsensical in the light of modern genetics, and was much closer to the truth than the views of Haeckel (with his Lamarckianism). We know today that all the properties of humans and animals are indeed stored in the DNA, albeit in coded form, and that many like beards are hidden from the human eye at birth.12 We also know that the human genome, even in individuals, is highly heterozygous13 (thus having potential variety in traits and genes, in layman's terms) and could produce a vast number of different sperm or egg cells, and ultimately combinations of humans. So again, Haller was the 'more correct' one, and Haeckel's evolutionary dogma caused him to be wrong.
This also documents how many scientists for a long time had a biblical worldview without stopping them from doing good and productive science. This is contrary to the cliché that science and medicine need evolution. Haller believed in a young Earth and yet was often called 'the father of physiology'.14
Haeckel also blamed other scientists for disagreeing with him and his Lamarckian ideas, which he felt were essential for his evolutionary ideas. For instance, Haeckel tells us:
"One of the most distinguished and most narrow-minded of these opponents, Wilhelm His, affirms very positively that 'characteristics acquired in the life of the individual are not inherited'."15
But again, Wilhelm His was correct with his assertion, yet Haeckel calls him 'narrow-minded'. Haeckel even goes as far as to reproach August Weismann (1834–1914), who made breakthroughs with his 'germ plasm' theory in embryology and heredity, by saying:
"…he [Weismann] has with great success advanced the opinion that 'only those characteristics can be transmitted to subsequent generations that were contained in rudimentary form in the embryo.' However this germ-plasm theory, with its attempt to explain heredity is merely a 'provisional molecular hypothesis'; it is one of those metaphysical speculations that attribute the evolutionary phenomena exclusively to internal causes, and regard the influence of the environment as insignificant"16
It becomes patently clear how the evolutionary dogma has done harm to sound ideas in science; the latter ideas of Weismann are seen as correct to this day. It is nothing less than astounding that Haeckel calls heredity at the molecular level 'one of those metaphysical speculations'. The last part reveals how he was driven by the evolutionary dogma, rather than by objectivity. If organisms could not respond to the environment, then evolution could not be driven, he thought. So like today, facts must bow to whatever the prevailing form of the evolutionary ideology.
Multiple (especially German) scientists strongly rejected Darwin's theory when it was first published. One admiring biographer of Haeckel informs us of the following:
"Darwin's ominous book [Origin of Species] had been available in Bronn's translation for two years. The German professional zoologists, botanists and geologists almost all regarded it [Darwin's theory] as absolute nonsense. Agassiz, Geibel, Keferstein, and so many others, laughed until they were red in the face…"17
Haeckel's books became immensely popular. To take one example, he was forced by the popularity of his book called The Riddle of the Universe (In German: Die Welträthsel) to write a sequel to the book as it sold more than 100,000 copies in its first year of appearance in Germany.18 Haeckel wrote more than 40 books, dealing mainly with evolution and also his Monism. Sadly, Haeckel was largely responsible for turning Germany into an evolution-believing country with his popular books. Yet we can clearly see that many of the ideas which Haeckel ridiculed were quite correct! This especially includes those ideas derived from a biblical point of view. Besides the above-mentioned examples of false ideas, Haeckel committed fraud with embryo drawings and invented (out of nothing) the first primitive organisms which he called "Monera". These never existed and were never found. More shocking, versions of Haeckel's embryo drawings are even found in many biological textbooks of the late 20th and 21st century!19 We can also see how ideas based on the evolutionary worldview actually did harm to science.
The above lesson in history demonstrates to Christians a very important principle: It is better to trust in the infallible Word of God than the corrupt inventions and opinions (or popular 'science') of man. People in Haeckel's days gave up sound ideas for false ideas. Many theistic evolutionists argue that the Bible needs to be adapted and reinterpreted in order to catch up with 'modern science' (though in this context they really mean the non-science theory of evolution). In the above examples, we can actually clearly see that it was 'science' that eventually had to catch up with the Bible, and ideas based on it.
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References and notes
- Haeckel, E. The History of Creation, or the development of the Earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes: A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular, vol II, English edition translated from the 8th German Edition by Prof. Ray Lankester, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1909. Return to text.
- Here it is important to point out that we are not implying that a 'species' is the same as the biblical 'kind', although the variations of humans alive today can be seen as both same species and kind. See also Speciation Questions and Answers. Return to text.
- Indeed, because of the obvious racist implications, it can be argued coherently that expunging some racist ideas is one of the major motivations for pushing the 'Out of Africa' model for human evolution as much as it is being done today. Return to text.
- Haeckel, E. The Evolution of Man – A popular scientific study. Vol I Translated from the fifth (enlarged) edition by Joseph McCabe (1867–1955, a vocal apostate and leading atheist campaigner), 1907. Return to text.
- Haeckel, E. The Evolution of Man – A popular scientific study. Vol II Translated from the fifth (enlarged ) edition by Joseph McCabe, 1906. Return to text.
- We must observe however, that Darwin did not believe in direct Lamarckism, but in something called "Pangenesis". On the other hand it can be noted that his theory was still very close to Lamarckianism, it just had another mechanism for passing on learned characteristics of an individual. For more information see: Bergman, J. A century-and-a-half quest for the source of new genetic information, J. Creation 17(2):20–21, 2003. Return to text.
- Haeckel ref. 5., p. 349. Return to text.
- Weinberger, L., A controversy in a nutshell: A review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Jonathan Wells, J. Creation 22(2):19, 2008; creation.com/pig-darwinism-id. Return to text.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. "Haller, Albrecht von". Encyclopædia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite (CD-ROM version). Return to text.
- Haeckel ref 4 p. 12. Return to text.
- Haeckel ref 4 p. 13. Return to text.
- Haller held to a type of 'preformationism', in which all the parts of the mature human were there already in the embryo. He is often ridiculed for believing in a literal homunculus or 'mini-human' which just grew larger to become the adult human. But in fact he did not hold to a literal homunculus, holding rather that the parts were there in principle, changing drastically during embryonic development, So his notion is not too far from the notion that they are there in a code or recipe of some sort. Return to text.
- Sarfati, J., Refuting Evolution, Creation Book Publishers, 4th Edition, p. 33, 2008. Return to text.
- Both these latter facts are true according to Haeckel's own account. Return to text.
- Haeckel ref 5 p. 349. Return to text.
- Haeckel ref 5 p. 349. Return to text.
- Bölsche, W. Haeckel — His life and work, translated by Joseph McCabe, Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co. Publishers, p.138, 1906. Return to text.
- Ojala, P. J. and Leisola, M. Haeckel: Legacy of fraud to popularize evolution, J. Creation 21(3):111–117, 2007; p. 103. Return to text.
- This is also well illustrated and documented by (but not only): Luskin, C. What do modern textbooks really say about Haeckel's embryos?, Discovery Institute, March 2007, discovery.org, accessed November 2010. Return to text.
It's important to see evidence that science—a fallible, human construct based on objective physical evidence —can be used for unenlightened arguments. We often see science as entirely objective, and forget that it is just our current best guess about how the world works.
Still, for the subject of this article, I think that in the interests of balance you should have mentioned that at the time Haeckel was writing, many American and European Christians did believe that the Bible proved white supremacy; prior to the Civil War, Christians in the South even believed that slavery was God's perfect plan. Religion too is a fallible, human-made construct, based on our imperfect interpretation of God's word. Haeckel's views on the hierarchical classification of races were not an inevitable expression of his evolutionary views, but a conception he shared with many of his Christian contemporaries who based their similar racist beliefs on the very different foundation of Genesis and the sons of Noah.
Your first paragraph is accurate, but the second is historically anachronistic and also reverses cause and effect.
Haeckel in fact was a regressive—long before, Wilberforce and other evangelical Christians had led the battle to abolish slavery—see Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero. And between his time and Haeckel's, the slavery of the American south had also been abolished.
It's also clear that the slavery in America caused the absurd Scripture-twisting, not vice-versa (i.e. these Christians made the same mistake as the Church in Galileo's day and modern theistic evolutionists—re-interpreting the Bible to fit the fad of its day). It was corrected largely by the correct application of the Bible, as shown in the article above. I.e. the post modern "that's your interpretation" was rejected in favour of the objective grammatical-historical approach—see for example The Bible and hermeneutics.
It's important to note that these misinterpretations showed up in America and not in other places with African slaves such as Brazil. This is because America was also founded on "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …." But this was a big tension between that ideal and slavery. Some resolved this with the Scripture-twisting that made blacks lesser humans, such as an imaginary curse on Ham that supposedly produced dark skin. Brazil lacked that declaration, so had no need of such Scripture-twisting.
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As a historian myself, I would like to congratulate the author for writing one of the best history pieces I have had the pleasure of reading on this subject. How refreshing to note that someone else views history, not as a mass of dull dates learnt by rote, but as an enjoyable, informative excursion into mankind's past. More of the same please!
Thank you for your efforts in presenting this article! It is easy to see how the type of thinking espoused by Haeckel led to racism and even to Hitler's 'master race', which in turn led to the mass destruction of human life. Thanks for the mind expansion!
Wow! This is a brilliant article! I think Christians should be aware of the information in this article and appeal to it when discussing with those who are inclined towards evolution. One may not be very familiar with all the intricacies and complexities of the theory (or rather hypothesis?) of evolution; showing however what 'predictions' of evolutionists proved wrong will be useful. "The unprejudiced and critical enquirer", to use Haeckel's words, might understand something about the 'scientific' past foundations of this theory.


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Bourgeois hopes history in NL Central helps this spring
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Outfielder Jason Bourgeois is among the non-roster players in Reds camp this spring seeking a job. Free agents in similar spots are often signing their deals in the days and weeks just before Spring Training opens.
Bourgeois, 32, didn't spend much time guessing the market. He signed his Minor League contract with the Reds early, on Oct. 24, 2013.
"It's been an attractive team to me for the last couple of years because of the atmosphere that they bring day in and day out," Bourgeois said Sunday. "It's been a winning club the last three or four years. It just seemed like a good fit, especially being back in the National League.
"I've had success in this division. I was kind of itching to get back to it."
Bourgeois played for the Brewers in 2009, and 2010-11 with the Astros when they were still in the NL Central. His best season came in '11, when the Houston native batted .294 with a .323 on-base percentage and 31 stolen bases.
During 2012 Spring Training, the retooling Astros traded Bourgeois to the Royals.
"That was a tough situation," said Bourgeois, a lifetime .259 hitter with a .305 OBP. "I really didn't want to leave home. But it is a business. They were doing some things over there, rebuilding wise. The trade was a little shocking. I didn't understand Kansas City's plans for me."
Bourgeois split the 2012 season between Kansas City and Triple-A Omaha. Last season, he spent most of the year with the Rays' Triple-A club in Durham, but played nine big league games and hit .188 (3-for-16).
With the Reds, the right-handed-hitting Bourgeois is hoping to land a spot as the fourth or fifth outfielder. He's comfortable playing at Great American Ball Park, where he has hit .303 (10-for-33) with a .361 OBP.
"I like hitting there. I like playing there," Bourgeois said. "It's good. It's a short ballpark. It's good for defense. I've had some success hitting there. It's a cool little place to play."
Latos continues to progress quickly from knee surgery
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Reds pitcher Mat Latos continues to make speedy progress from left knee surgery. On Sunday, Latos' fourth day of his long-tossing program had him throwing at distances of 100-120 feet.
"I set a goal of the end of next week to start throwing at 100 feet and I've surpassed that today," Latos said.
What really pleased Latos, though, was that he could participate in stretching, throwing and drills with his teammates for the first time this spring. He had a torn meniscus repaired in his knee on Feb. 14, the first day pitchers and catchers reported.
"All in all, today was the best day that I've had," Latos said. "I had been doing my exercises and strengthening stuff, but I wasn't able to actually get out and interact with the guys. This was a huge positive to be able to go out there and throw and run and the other stuff."
Latos backed up the bases during cutoff and relay drills and did some limited fielding drills that didn't require turning on his knee to throw. He also performed some agility drills on his own.
"Backpedaling bothered me a little bit, but that's to be expected," Latos said.
There is no target date known yet for when Latos will begin throwing from a mound. He is not considered to be too far behind the other pitchers, however. He began throwing again quickly after the surgery and had completed his rehab from October elbow surgery that removed four bone chips.
"We're boosting up the cardio where I'm putting in a huge amount of effort real quick, because I have to get my legs under me," Latos said. "The arm has been there. I've already rehabbed that. I haven't taken a huge step back. After four days, I'm already at 100-plus feet. The knee feels good. Dr. [Tim] Kremchek says he's not worried about me reinjuring it."
Reds ask Rolen to return as Spring Training instructor
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Former Reds third baseman Scott Rolen spent the 2013 season out of baseball, although he never formally announced his retirement. Manager Bryan Price said the team has reached out to Rolen to see if he would be a spring instructor.
"We want Scott to be part of our organization," Price said Sunday. "His presence is definitely a positive thing. We've got a lot of really good baseball people in our system as it stands -- a lot of iconic Reds former players that are here and help influence our club. Scott would be another outstanding influence."
Rolen spent 17 years in the Majors, including 2009-12 with the Reds. He was viewed as a lead-by-example type of team leader. Leadership was a noticeable void on the team last season.
If Rolen were to return, Price said he would likely have focus on the player development side. Rolen was apparently receptive to the idea, but as a husband and father of two young children, there are scheduling issues to overcome. Rolen has previously said he is not interested in a full-time coaching career.
"I think he appreciates what he's asked his family to go through. He's making a strong commitment to being a dad and a husband," Price said. "I think there's a way to make it work within his schedule and also help influence our players, probably in our player development system."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Paul Parmer, 47, has been charged with possession of child porn, promoting sexual performance with a child and failure to report an email address after deputies searched his Leesburg home on Thursday.
Deputies said a cyber crimes tip led them to Tumblr account, registered to Parmer's IP address but with a third email address that Parmer didn't provide to deputies as required by law as a registered sex offender.
Parmer had the Tumblr account for approximately 5 weeks before disabled it, during the time which he shared approximately 200 images believed to be child pornography. The youngest child was 14 years old, deputies said.
Parmer was booked into Volusia County jail on $60,000 bond because of two previous incidents, deputies said.
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The Pokémon are incompatible and therefore will not make an Egg.
The Pokémon are incompatible and therefore will not make an Egg.
The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two prefer to play with other Pokémon than each other."
The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two prefer to play with other Pokémon than each other."
In Generation II, the compatibility is instead checked by interacting with Pokémon:
* '''Same species, different ID numbers'''
:''"It appears to care for <other's Pokémon nickname>"''
* '''Same species, same ID numbers'''
:''"It's friendly with <other's Pokémon nickname>"''
* '''Different species, different ID numbers'''
:''"It's friendly with <other's Pokémon nickname>"''
* '''Different species, same ID numbers'''
:''"It shows interest in <other's Pokémon nickname>"''
* '''Different Egg Groups, same genders or Undiscovered group'''
:''"It has no interest in <other's Pokémon nickname>"''
====Receiving the Egg====
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Pokémon breeding is a method of obtaining a new Pokémon by producing and hatching an Egg. In the anime, it also refers to Pokémon grooming and caretaking.
- 1 In the games
- 1.1 How to breed
- 1.2 Hatching Eggs
- 1.3 Passing moves down
- 1.4 Inheriting stats
- 1.5 Inheriting natures
- 1.6 Inheriting Abilities
- 1.7 Breeding for Shininess
- 2 In the anime
- 3 Trivia
- 4 External links
In the games
How to breed
Pokémon can be bred by leaving two compatible Pokémon at the Pokémon Day Care in Generation II and beyond, located on Route 34 in Johto, Route 117 in Hoenn, Four Island in the Sevii Islands, Solaceon Town in Sinnoh and Route 3 in Unova. Two Pokémon are compatible if they are of the same species, or share at least one Egg Group, and are of opposite genders (see below); alternatively, breeding is usually still possible as long as one of them is Ditto, even if the other parent is genderless. Legendary Pokémon (excluding Phione and Manaphy), baby Pokémon, Unown, Nidorina and Nidoqueen cannot breed whatsoever. Pokémon with gender unknown (besides the aforementioned Pokémon) can only breed with Ditto.
Breeding rate
- Same species, different ID numbers
The chance of getting an Egg is 69.3% (has a value of 70). The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two seem to get along very well."
- Same species, same ID numbers
The chance of getting an Egg is 49.5% (has a value of 50). The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two seem to get along."
- Different species, different ID numbers
The chance of getting an Egg is 49.5% (has a value of 50). The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two seem to get along."
- Different species, same ID numbers
The chance of getting an Egg is 19.8% (has a value of 20). The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two don't seem to like each other."
- Different Egg Groups, same genders or Undiscovered group
The Pokémon are incompatible and therefore will not make an Egg. The old man in the Day Care will say: "The two prefer to play with other Pokémon than each other."
In Generation II, the compatibility is instead checked by interacting with Pokémon:
- Same species, different ID numbers
- "It appears to care for <other's Pokémon nickname>"
- Same species, same ID numbers
- "It's friendly with <other's Pokémon nickname>"
- Different species, different ID numbers
- "It's friendly with <other's Pokémon nickname>"
- Different species, same ID numbers
- "It shows interest in <other's Pokémon nickname>"
- Different Egg Groups, same genders or Undiscovered group
- "It has no interest in <other's Pokémon nickname>"
Receiving the Egg
When there are two compatible Pokémon in the Day Care, for every 255 steps that the player takes, the game will decide whether the old man has found an Egg, with chances depending on the exact compatibility of the two Pokémon. If there was an Egg produced, the old man will be outside (Generation II), out of line with the fence (Generation III), facing the road (Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum), face left or right instead of down and call the player over the Pokégear (HeartGold and SoulSilver), or call the player from a distance when passing by on the road below (Generation V). However, in Black and White, the old man will not call out to the player if the player's party is full, even if he has found an Egg. The man will hand the player an Egg if he or she replies to his question with "Yes" and has an empty slot in the party, and permanently keep the Egg if the player responds "No". If the player selects "Yes" but does not have a spare slot, the man will keep it until the player returns and offer it again. Otherwise, there is no way to refuse the Egg and receive it later.
What will hatch
After walking around for a while, the Egg will hatch into a level 5 (Generation II and III) or level 1 (Generation IV and V) first-stage Pokémon of the female species' (or non-Ditto parent's) evolutionary chain.
|Ditto breeding
|Same species breeding
|Same evolution family breeding
|Same Egg Group breeding
|Undiscovered Egg Group breeding
|Different Egg Group breeding
|Same gender breeding
However, there are two pairs of Pokémon species where the male and female are treated as different Pokémon. In these cases, an Egg produced by the female species may hatch into either the male or female variant; The pairs are the following:
|Poison Pin Pokémon
| Any compatible
|Firefly Pokémon
| Any compatible
There are also some Pokémon which will produce variable Eggs. The Pokémon that is in these Eggs will depend on whether or not the parents held a certain type of incense while breeding.
|Marill and Azumarill
|Sea Incense
|No item
|Lax Incense
|No item
|Roselia and Roserade
|Rose Incense
|No item
|Pure Incense
|No item
|Rock Incense
|No item
|Mr. Mime
|Odd Incense
|No item
|Mr. Mime
|Mime Jr.
|Mr. Mime
|Chansey and Blissey
|Luck Incense
|No item
|Wave Incense
|No item
|Full Incense
|No item
Hatching Eggs
The time it takes for Eggs to hatch depends on the Pokémon's species' required number of Egg cycles. Magikarp is the fastest hatching Pokémon with the fewest Egg cycles required for hatching. Some baby fairies, such as Cleffa, Pichu and Igglybuff hatch quickly as well. Besides these, most Pokémon take considerable time to hatch. Rare and powerful Pokémon, like Dratini, Bagon, Beldum, Larvitar, Gible, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, Spiritomb, Chansey, and Eevee, among others, take a long time to hatch due to high numbers of Egg cycles required for hatching.
"Time" is actually determined by Egg cycle completion, which is determined by in-game steps or biking. An Egg cycle is a counted number of steps that activate breeding related programs in the game. One Egg cycle lasts 256 steps in the third generation and 255 steps in the fourth generation. After 255/256 steps are taken, the game recognizes the completion of the cycle and does a few things; the step counter for the cycles is reset to zero, the game randomly decides if an Egg is to be found at the Day Care (if compatible Pokémon are present in the Day Care at the time), and all (or only a few) Eggs currently in the player's team are taken down one Egg cycle count. If the Egg cycle count for an Egg reaches zero or a negative number, the Egg will begin to hatch. If an Egg hatches, the game stops subtracting an Egg cycle count from the rest of the Eggs in the team. Due to this, since the third generation, no two Eggs can hatch at the same time.
The other way to reset the game counter is to receive an Egg from the Day-Care Man (or in the Manaphy Egg's case, from the Mystery Gift delivery man in the Poké Mart). Every time an Egg is received, the game automatically resets the Egg cycle step counter to zero, and counts as another Egg cycle completion. This can effectively cut 254 (255 in the third generation) steps off the Egg hatching process for every Egg accepted from the Day-Care Man (the Egg must be accepted, not rejected or denied due to a full team to reset the step counter). Although this detracts an Egg cycle from the Eggs, any Eggs ready to hatch upon this type of Egg cycle completion will be denied the ability to hatch until the next Egg cycle completion by steps, perhaps due to the dialogue between the player and the Day Care man following the pickup of an Egg.
For example, a Gligar Egg requires 21 Egg cycles to hatch, a minimum of 5355 steps if not interrupted by an Egg hatching or Egg pickup. After each Egg cycle is completed, this Egg will drop one Egg cycle count, down to 20, then 19, then 18, so on and so forth until the Egg count hits zero. If nothing restricts the Egg from hatching, the Egg will hatch into Gligar. If it is restricted, it will continue dropping into the negative numbers from the Egg cycles, and will continue to try hatching if the Egg is stopped from another Egg pickup.
There are ways to speed this system up. Riding a bicycle (for example) would reduce the Egg's actual hatching time by traveling quickly, raising the step count faster, and completing Egg cycles faster. Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald allow players to use the Mach Bike, which is twice as fast as the Acro Bike. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen gives players a harder time hatching their Eggs due to the Bicycle having the same speed as the Running Shoes. Additionally, in Pokémon Emerald and onwards, if any Pokémon with Flame Body or Magma Armor is anywhere in a player's party, it doubles the Egg cycle count reduction, effectively halving the steps needed to hatch the Egg. In the Gligar example, the Egg would start at 21, and with Slugma in the party, the Egg would drop 2 Egg cycle counts after each Egg cycle, from 21 to 19 to 17 and so on. This feature became standard in Generation IV. Also, if the player finds a sandy slope the players can hold the "up" button therefore trying to go up. The player will fail unless he or she is not on the bicycle's faster speed, counting as one step. If the player somehow holds this button down for an extended period of time, the Egg would eventually hatch. The final way to speed up Egg hatching is to use the Pokétch step counter in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum to attempt to pick up an Egg from the Day-Care Man one step after an Egg cycle completes. This will cut 254 steps off the hatching process (this particular Egg count reduction may not be affected by the Flame Body/Magma Armor Ability, and may only ever reduce the Egg cycle count by one). In the Gligar example, if the player had the Gligar Egg and biked for exactly 255 steps after receiving the Egg, the Egg would reduce one Egg cycle count (down to 20), and the Egg cycle step counter would reset. If the player could then reach the Day-Care Man with only one step, the Egg cycle step counter would read one step taken. Then, the player could receive an Egg from the Day-Care Man, and the Egg cycle step counter would be forced back to zero, and the Egg cycle would reduce again for the first Gligar Egg, reducing the Egg cycle count for the Gligar to 19 in only 256 steps, cutting out 254 steps otherwise.
Passing moves down
The moves obtained by a Pokémon when hatching are as follows:
- The Pokémon will start with any moves that it would learn as a "Start" move in its learnset (In Generation II and Generation III, they learned all moves that are level 5 and below in their learnset.).
- The Pokémon will start with any moves that it would learn by leveling up only if both parents know the move. This does not apply to moves that later evolutions can learn (such as Breloom's Mach Punch, which Shroomish cannot learn for obvious reasons).
- The Pokémon will start with any TM or HM moves (and in Crystal, Move Tutor moves) that the father knows and the baby can also learn by machine.
- The Pokémon will start with any Egg moves that the baby can learn and the father knows.
The moves will take precedence in the order listed, and if there are more than four moves to learn, the moves will start being overwritten much like when leveling up at the Pokémon Day Care.
From Pokémon Emerald and onwards, there is a specific method to produce a Pichu that knows the move Volt Tackle: When breeding a Pikachu or Raichu holding a Light Ball, the offspring Pichu will know the move Volt Tackle. The parent need not know the move itself, and is not required to be of any specific gender; however, a male Pikachu or Raichu has to breed either with a female counterpart or with Ditto so that the offspring is, in fact, a Pichu.
Inheriting stats
A Pokémon's individual values are also passed down. This is determined differently between Generation II and Generation III games.
Generation II
In Generation II games, the baby inherits its stats from the parent of the opposite gender, unless one parent is Ditto, and in that case it inherits the stats from Ditto. The Defense IV (Individual Value) is passed, and also either the Special IV or the Special IV plus or minus 8 (plus for values in the 0-7 range; minus for values in the 8-15 range); the Special IV has a 50% chance of remaining the same. Attack and Speed IVs are determined entirely at random, whereas HP is determined by the IVs of the other four stats, using the same formula for wild Pokémon. The probability of a Pokémon inheriting all of its opposite-gender parent's IVs is therefore 1/512.
When determining if two Pokémon are compatible, their Egg Group is only one criterion. For Pokémon of the same Egg Group, if the Defense IVs are the same, and either the Special IVs are the same or 8 off, they are incompatible. This is due to the high likelihood of a family relation, hence the inability to breed.
Generation III
In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed and LeafGreen, exactly three of the baby's IVs are inherited from either parent (which is to say that one parent can contribute a number of IVs that ranges from 0 to 3, and its mate will contribute the remaining number of IVs from other stats). The other three are determined at random, in such a way that it is possible that more of the offspring's IVs will coincide with those of its parents.
In Pokémon Emerald, the process is similar but more complicated. First, a random IV is passed from one of the parents to the baby. Afterwards, a random IV of any stat, other than HP, is inherited from either parent to the baby. If this IV is from the same stat as the first IV (not necessarily the same IV value, depending on whether or not the same parent passed it on), it will override it. Finally, another random IV of any stat other than HP and Defense, is passed from one of the parents to the baby. This IV will override any of the previous two if it is from the same stat. The remaining stats (a number ranging from 3 to 5) are determined at random, again with the possibility of one or more IVs coinciding with those of the parents.
Generation IV
Inheriting IVs in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl is determined in the same way as in Pokémon Emerald.
From Pokémon Platinum on, the baby will inherit three IVs, each from a different stat and from a random parent. In addition, a new mechanic was added to breeding, where if either or both parents holds an EV item, instead, the baby will receive the IV of the corresponding stat from one of those parents and the baby will then inherit two other different random IVs, each from a random parent. For example, if a parent is holding the Power Anklet, the baby will inherit a Speed IV from that parent, and it will also inherit two other different IVs from its parents, for example, Attack and Special Defense. As another example, if one parent holds a Power Anklet and the other parent holds a Power Weight, the baby will inherit either a Speed IV from the first parent or an HP IV from the second parent, and it will also inherit two different IVs from its parents other than Speed or HP. This system is retained in HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Generation V
Inheriting IVs in Generation V is determined in the same way as in Pokémon Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Inheriting natures
Another change introduced in Emerald is the ability to inherit nature, which also influences stats. If the mother (or Ditto) is holding an Everstone, the baby has a 50% chance of inheriting that Pokémon's nature. It should be noted that Ditto always acts as the "mother" in a breeding match-up, so in Emerald, a female breeding with a Ditto does not have a better chance of passing down natures to its offspring; the Ditto does.
In Generation IV, in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, inheriting natures remains the same as in Emerald. However, in the Johto remakes, HeartGold and SoulSilver, inheriting nature was changed a little. Whichever Pokémon is holding an Everstone will pass down its nature, regardless of gender, or whether it is breeding with a Ditto. Another minor change that is present in all Generation IV games, is that the passing on of natures via an Everstone will not work if the Pokémon are from different real-world countries (e.g. Argentina and Spain). This restriction is lifted in Generation V.
In Black 2 and White 2 the odds of passing down the nature of the parent holding an Everstone is now 100%. If both parents are holding an Everstone, the odds are 50/50 between each of the parents' natures.
Inheriting Abilities
From Generation V, female Pokémon with Hidden Abilities have a 60% chance of passing on the Hidden Ability to their offspring when bred with a male Pokémon from the same Egg Group. For example, if a female Darmanitan with Zen Mode bred with a male Simisage, the offspring Darumaka may have Inner Focus instead of the usual Hustle, and would evolve into a Darmanitan with Zen Mode (instead of Sheer Force).
Hidden Abilities cannot be passed down from male or genderless Pokémon, and will not be passed down if the female was paired with a Ditto.
When breeding with non-Hidden Ability females in Black 2 and White 2, there is an 80% chance that the Ability slot of the female will be passed to the baby. For example, when breeding a female Venomoth with Shield Dust, the resultant Venonat has an 80% chance of having Compoundeyes rather than Tinted Lens. This change does not apply if Ditto is used as either parent. Hidden Ability breeding is same as it is in Black and White.
Breeding for Shininess
Generation II
In Generation II, a player can breed for "Shininess." Due to the method the Generation II games use for calculating whether a Pokémon is Shiny or not, an Egg bred from an alternately-colored Pokémon has a chance as high as 1/64 of being alternately colored itself, but only if the offspring is of the opposite gender as the Shiny parent. This does not apply in later games, however.
Generation III
In Generation III, a bred Pokémon has the same chance of being Shiny as any Pokémon met in the wild.
Generation IV
In Generation IV, a new mechanic was added to breeding: there is now a five fold increased chance (5/8192 or 1/1639 as opposed to the regular chance of 1/8192) of hatching a Shiny Pokémon when both parents are from different language games. This is due to special coding written into the game by director Junichi Masuda. Aside from this addition, the means of breeding for Shininess are otherwise unchanged.
Generation V
In Generation V, the Masuda method's success rate increased from 5/8192 (1/1639) to 6/8192 (1/1366)
In the anime
In the anime, Pokémon breeding refers to an entire line of work practiced by Pokémon Breeders, such as Brock. So far, the anime has shown and discussed little about the literal breeding of Pokémon to produce Eggs, but it is assumed this is part of a Pokémon Breeder's work. It has been shown that Professors get their starter Pokémon from breeders who specifically raise and breed them, like Old Man Swamp from A Mudkip Mission. There are also a few farm-like facilities that produce Pokémon Eggs of various species. Ash received his Eggs from such locations, as did May and her Egg.
Pokémon breeding in the anime focuses heavily on raising healthy Pokémon and keeping them in top condition by grooming them well and feeding them nutritious food.
- Some aspects of breeding in the games have spawned debate and confusion, in particular, Pokémon which breed differently depending on whether they hold an incense item. However, the necessity for an item that wasn't available in previous generations explains why the resulting baby Pokémon wasn't available either.
- Some unusual pairings of Pokémon can be found within the Egg Groups, such as Seviper and Zangoose (which are even said to be mortal enemies), and the most famous pairing: Skitty and Wailord. Indeed, the characters in the game make special mention of the fact that no one has seen Pokémon breed.
- One particularly unusual oddity is that Nidorina and Nidoqueen cannot breed, despite the fact that their pre-evolution and male counterparts can.
- Although there is no known way for legendary Pokémon to be bred, there is evidence that it can occur somehow, since Eggs with Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres can be hatched in Pokémon Snap and a baby Lugia has been seen in the anime. Likewise, Manaphy can be hatched from a special Egg from Pokémon Ranger in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Furthermore, Manaphy is the only legendary Pokémon who can breed with a Ditto. However, the offspring will always be Phione, who doesn't evolve into Manaphy.
- When a Pokémon hatches from an Egg during both Generation II and Generation III, it is at level 5. However, many Pokémon from the wild can be found between levels 2 and 4, which is below the level of newly hatched Pokémon. This oddity had since been addressed in Generation IV, where all hatched Pokémon started at level 1.
- Despite conventional wisdom, no negative effects occur from inbreeding Pokémon in Generation III onward. Conversely in Generation II, it is not possible for related Pokémon to produce any Egg with one another, despite related animals in real life still being able to produce offspring despite their genetic relationship; this was simply due to the manner of which individual values were stored in the Generation II game's data structure.
- The Pokémon Mansion journals (which predate Generation II's introduction of breeding) describe Mew giving birth as opposed to laying an Egg. These were not retconned in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
External links
- Legendary Pokémon's advanced breeding information
- Smogon's detailed guide on breeding and Egg-hatching
|Pokémon training
|Catching • Nicknaming • Battling • Evolving • Trading • Breeding • Releasing
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