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The Nebraska Medical Center has been named one of America's best hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's 2008 publication of America's Best Hospitals. For the first time, the medical center is ranked for two services, Cancer and Neurology & Neurosurgery. The July 21st edition of US News hits news stands Monday, July 14, but is available online on July 11 at www.usnews.com/besthospitals
In the list of America's Best Hospitals for cancer care, The Nebraska Medical Center ranked 39th. On the list of best hospitals for Neurology & Neurosurgery, the medical center is 41st.
"Our cancer and neurology rankings in U.S. News & World Report provide national recognition of specialized expertise, quality, technology and reputation from our peers around the country," said Glenn Fosdick, president and CEO of The Nebraska Medical Center. "We're proud of this accomplishment and our talented team at The Nebraska Medical Center, who provide the highest level of care to our community."
"Our patients get the best of both worlds – the clinical expertise of our academic and private practice physicians and the work being done by the researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center," said Fosdick.
Out of 5,453 hospitals across the country considered, only the top 170 medical centers were selected for the 2008 America's Best Hospital's report. The report focused on 16 areas of specialty from cancer to urology.
"The cancer ranking is a reflection of the comprehensive quality of our care and the most cutting edge cancer treatments available at our medical center," said Theresa Franco, executive director of the Cancer Care service line at The Nebraska Medical Center. "We are the only National Cancer Institute designated cancer center in the five-state region from North Dakota down to Texas. It is a true team effort of all our clinical staff that combines oncology & hematology headed by Dr. Julie Vose, radiation oncology headed by Dr. Charles Enke, and surgical oncology directed by Dr. James Edney, coupled with the strength of the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center and its status as a leading national cancer center."
"This cancer ranking confirms our commitment to cancer patients and we are humbled by the recognition," added Franco. "However, this recognition does not mean we will stop striving to be better in the care delivered everyday. We take the journey to excellence very seriously."
"The neurology & neurosurgery ranking is a reflection of the clinical expertise, state-of-the-art technology and research available at our medical center," said Deb Istas, executive director of the Neurological Sciences service line at The Nebraska Medical Center.
"Our epilepsy center has been recognized by The National Association of Epilepsy Centers as a level four regional center for the treatment of epilepsy – the highest designation possible and our stroke program is the first program in the state to receive certification from The Joint Commission, a nationally and internationally recognized leader in health care quality evaluation. Our neurosurgeons provide state-of-the-art care to patients throughout Nebraska and the surrounding region offering highly specialized treatment of the spine and the spinal cord, brain tumors, cerebrovascular disease and disorders of peripheral nervous system."
This neurology recognition is the result of a team effort that combines the expertise of both academic and private practice neurologists and neurosurgeons. Leading this team is Dr. Pierre Fayad, Chairman Department of Neurological Sciences, and Dr. Ken Follett, Chief of Neurosurgery along with their private practice partners.
The 16 ranked specialties ranked by U.S.News & World Report are cancer; gastroenterology; ear, nose, and throat; endocrinology; geriatric care; gynecology; heart and heart surgery; kidney disease; neurology and neurosurgery; ophthalmology; orthopedics; psychiatry; rehabilitation; respiratory disorders; rheumatology; and urology.
"The America's Best Hospitals rankings provide readers with trusted material during some of life's most concerning times – hospitalization," said Brian Kelly, editor of U.S.News & World Report. "Our rankings highlight the internal culture of excellence embraced by caregivers in the great hospitals throughout the U.S."
"Talent and money alone don't put hospitals in the rankings," agreed Best Hospitals editor Avery Comarow. "The truly best hospitals are never satisfied," he said. "Of course they have high medical standards. But the emphasis is not only on doing well, but always doing better–squeezing another few percentage points out of the infection rate, improving the quality of life of elderly patients besides helping more of them survive."
The rankings in 12 of the 16 specialties weigh three elements equally: reputation, death rate, and a set of care-related factors such as nursing and patient services. In these 12 specialties, hospitals have to pass through several gates to be ranked and considered a Best Hospital:
- The first gate determines whether a hospital is eligible to be ranked at all by requiring that any of three conditions be met–to be a teaching hospital, to be affiliated with a teaching hospital, or to have at least six important medical technologies from a defined list of 13.
- The second gate determines whether a hospital is eligible to be ranked in a particular specialty. To be eligible, the hospital had to either have at least a specified volume in certain procedures and conditions over three years, or had to have been nominated in our yearly specialist survey.
The third gate is whether a hospital does well enough to be ranked, based on its reputation, death rate, and factors like nurse staffing and technology.
In the four other specialties–ophthalmology, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and rheumatology–ranking is based solely on reputation, derived from the three most recent physician surveys.
About The Nebraska Medical Center: With a reputation for excellence, innovation and extraordinary patient care, The Nebraska Medical Center has earned J.D. Power and Associates' Hospital of Distinction award for inpatient services for three consecutive years. It is a US News & World Report 2008 "Best Hospital" for Cancer, Neurology and Neurosurgery. It also received the 2007 Consumer Choice Award, a mark of patient satisfaction as selected by healthcare consumers and has achieved Magnet recognition status for nursing excellence, Thomson 100 Top Hospitals Performance Improvement Leader recognition, as well as the Award of Progress from the state of Nebraska's Edgerton Quality Awards Program. As the teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, this 624 licensed bed academic medical center has an international reputation for providing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation services and is well known nationally and regionally for its oncology, neurology and cardiology programs. The Nebraska Medical Center can be found online at www.nebraskamed.com
About the U.S. News Media Group: The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and analysis which includes U.S.News & World Report magazine, www.usnews.com and www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature franchises include its News You Can Use® brand of journalism and its "America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, health plans and more.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (Aug. 21, 2013) – Continuing a preseason abound with accolades, ETSU senior midfielder Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) has been named a candidate for the Senior CLASS Award, one of the most prestigious awards in college athletics.
Fubara joins an impressive cast of NCAA Division I student-athletes who have excelled on the field, in the classroom, and in their communities. Sixty of the nation's most outstanding student-athletes, 30 men and 30 women, have been selected as candidates for the award.
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If you have lost power and you are running a generator, the Garage is not the ideal place to site your generator. Carbon monoxide and all that.
But you all knew that already, right?
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Posted by shadowfax at 11:11 AM
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I never use the generator in the garage - it's too loud and ruins my enjoyment of standing in there tending the charcoal grill.ReplyDelete
What happens when you use up all the oxygen in the garage? Does the generator go out? Or, does the garage implode?ReplyDelete
Of course you don't use it in the garage, you put the generator in the basement then call 911 because everyone in the house seems to be nauseated and have a headache.ReplyDelete
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HOA Dues: $308/mo.
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Thought this might be worthy of burbed – $821/sq foot affordable housing
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- An office of the New Orleans Police Department was searched last week in connection with a federal investigation into the shootings of two men on a bridge just after Hurricane Katrina, authorities said.
Katrina evacuees cross the Industrial Canal. The FBI is investigating a 2005 shooting at the Danziger Bridge.
A search warrant was executed Wednesday at the department's homicide office, according to the FBI.
"The FBI executed a search warrant as it relates to the ongoing civil rights investigation into the Danziger Bridge shootings post-Katrina," said a statement from David Welker, special agent in charge of the FBI's New Orleans office. "The affidavit remains under seal."
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, in a story published Friday, cited unnamed law enforcement sources as saying the agents seized the files and computer hard drives of two officers assigned to investigate police conduct in the bridge shooting -- Sgt. Arthur Kaufman and Sgt. Gerard Dugue.
Police Department spokesman Bob Young told the newspaper that federal agents were joined by investigators from the department's Public Integrity Bureau in executing the warrant. The Police Department "is cooperating with the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI in their continuing investigation into the Danziger Bridge incident," Young said in a written statement, the Times-Picayune reported. Young did not immediately return a call from CNN on Monday.
The bridge shootings occurred September 4, 2005, days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. Two men were killed and four were wounded as they attempted to evacuate New Orleans by crossing the Danziger Bridge over the Industrial Canal in eastern New Orleans.
Seven police officers were initially charged in the case. They were responding to reports that rescue workers had heard gunfire and that an officer had been wounded on the bridge. Police have said officers fired shots only after being shot at, although some evidence contradicts that.
Ronald Madison, 40, and James Brissette, 19, were killed. Autopsy results showed that Madison, a mentally ill man with no criminal record, was shot in the back. No weapon was found on or near his body.
In August 2008, a judge quashed indictments against Sgts. Kenneth Bowen and Robert Gisevius Jr., Officer Anthony Villavaso II and former Officer Robert Faulcon Jr., who were all facing first-degree murder and attempted murder charges. In addition, he threw out attempted first-degree murder charges against Officers Mike Hunter Jr. and Robert Barrios, and attempted second-degree murder charges against Officer Ignatius Hills.
In doing so, now-retired Criminal District Judge Raymond Bigelow noted that Bowen, Hills and Hunter were all forced to testify before the same grand jury that indicted them and the four others. Louisiana law says that information from a person's testimony cannot be used against them in a criminal case, the judge said. "The state improperly used the testimony of these officers to indict them as well as the others," Bigelow said. He cited testimony in which a police lieutenant said he had been shown Bowen's grand jury testimony.
In September, however, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the FBI's New Orleans office issued a statement saying they plan to conduct "an independent and thorough review" of the Danziger Bridge incident.
"In the best spirit of law enforcement cooperation, and at the request of the victim's families, the New Orleans district attorney has referred the matter to the United States Department of Justice for review," Jim Letten, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, said in the statement. "... The Civil Rights division, FBI and our U.S. attorney's office will utilize as much time and resources as necessary to determine whether there are any prosecutable violations of federal criminal law in this matter."
Mary Howell, a New Orleans attorney representing Madison's family in a civil rights suit against city officials, said Monday she understands the Justice Department is investigating several incidents involving the Police Department in the days after Katrina, including the bridge shooting.
"It appears that they're serious, and hopefully they will be thorough," she said. "There's a lot that happened during that time that is not known now and frankly may never be known." She called the federal investigation the "best shot" at uncovering the truth.
The federal lawsuit is on hold pending the outcome of the criminal investigation, she said.
Kaufman was a supervising officer who arrived on the scene shortly after the bridge shootings. He and Dugue collaborated on the Police Department's follow-up report on the incident.
Dugue, according to the Times-Picayune, was also assigned to investigate the shooting of a man, possibly by police officers, in New Orleans' West Bank suburb of Algiers in the days after Katrina. The man's charred remains were found in a burned car behind a district police station, the newspaper said.
CNN's Drew Griffin contributed to this report.
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From January through June, only four planes carrying passengers on flights within the U.S. sat for longer than three hours, the Transportation Department reported Thursday.
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The government imposed limits in April 2010 after a series of incidents in which passengers were stranded on planes for more than 10 hours. In the first six months of 2009, for instance, there were 586 tarmac delays of more than three hours.
The rule on domestic flights requires airlines to let passengers off a plane if they have been waiting on a tarmac for more than three hours. Exceptions are made only if the delay is for safety, security or air traffic control-related reasons.
Carriers face steep fines if they break the rule — up to $27,500 per passenger. Only one airline has had to pay up. Last year, the Department fined American Eagle, the regional unit of American Airlines, $900,000 for lengthy delays at Chicago's O'Hare airport in May 2011.
"Our new airline consumer rules and our vigorous oversight of the aviation industry are holding airlines accountable to their customers," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. "We will continue to help make air travel as hassle-free as possible."
Since August 2011, the tarmac delay rule has also applied to U.S. and foreign airlines operating international flights at U.S. airports. The limit in those cases is four hours, however. In June, there was just one long tarmac delay on an international flight.
"Airlines are focused on improving service and efficiency for customers, and thanks to systemic operational improvements, mild weather and 20 percent fewer flights from five years ago, customers are benefiting as airlines continue to set impressive on-time arrival records and dramatically reduce lengthy delays," says Steve Lott, a spokesman for the industry group Airlines for America.
Airlines had opposed the tarmac rule, arguing it would force them to cancel more flights. And while it hasn't eliminated all but the longest of delays, some analysts say it may have prompted airlines to cancel more flights rather than pay penalties.
"The 'three-hour rule' very quickly becomes a 90-minute rule in actual decision-making practice, which indisputably causes more pre-emptive cancellations than otherwise would be the case," says Robert Mann, president of R.W. Mann and Co., which provides industry analysis.
The department has instituted a number of other new consumer protections in recent years, including a requirement that airlines post on their websites the on-time performance of their flights.
Other data released by the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics showed carriers are continuing a streak of getting passengers and their luggage to their destinations on time.
The 15 largest U.S. airlines were on time 83.7 percent of the time during the first six months of this year, the highest for any comparable period in the 18 years the department has been collecting data. The previous high of 82.8 percent had been set in 2003.
Airlines also canceled the fewest flights in the past 18 years. The 1.1% cancellation rate for the six-month period bested the previous record of 1.3 percent in 2002.
The carriers posted their lowest rate of mishandled baggage for any January to June since the department started collecting the data in September 1987. There were just 2.97 reports of mishandled bags for every 1,000 passengers, down from 3.60 the same period last year.
Alan Bender, professor of aeronautics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, says airlines have been more on time partly because they haven't had to contend with as many major weather events as they've had to in the past.
But he also points out that they have cut back on the number of flights they operate to more evenly meet the demand for travel and to make money.
Still, he says, there's been a fundamental change in operational philosophy because of Transportation Department rules.
"The philosophy before was, above all else, to move airplanes and crews — those were the most important things," he says.
"Today airlines have been forced … to give equal importance to passenger comfort lest they be fined millions and get terrible publicity.
"We can still get an occasional 'snowmageddon' as we did a couple of years ago — and that will foul up everything, but it will also be excused if airlines make their best effort."


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"We are grateful to the Board of Education for recognizing [the property's] value for future generations," said Jennifer Tan-dy, chairwoman of the Mission Bay Cluster. "We completely understand the continuing fi-nancial difficulties within the district, but we also understand the finality of the sale of that property. When SDUSD officials purchased or allocated this land to public education many years ago, it was with the intent to educate our public or generate ongoing revenue to support education."
The school board voted to sell the prime parcel of real estate in June, along with four other SDUSD-owned properties, in an attempt to help plug a
$26.7 million hole in the district's impending $120 million deficit in the coming school year.
"The Mission Bay Elementary School property is one of the most remarkable properties in the world with its proximity to the beach and the bay," said Barnett. "While using proceeds from sales of property for one-time maintenance and other one-time needs — as opposed to using funds for ongoing expenditures —is appropriate, I ideally feel that we need to do everything we can to maintain ownership."
Both the local school cluster and Barnett have pushed for adaptive reuse of the now-vacant site with an aim of generating a steady stream of long-term revenue for the school district.
"While we must keep an eye on the fact that we will be consistently in need of revenues for our schools, we also want to be good neighbors and fit in with the community," said Barnett. "By retaining ownership, we can limit what the developer would propose on a site, as well as receive long-term ongoing revenue streams."
The top bid for the Mission Beach property, which was initially expected to rake in a minimum of $11 million, was bid at $16.5 million by the San Francisco-based Carmel Partners, LLC.
Two properties which the board did vote to sell — a nine-acre parcel at Barnard Elementary School's campus in Point Loma and nearly seven acres of vacant land at Bay Terrace in Clairemont — is expect $3.1 million, respectively, in property sales.
With the Mission Beach property off the market, SDUSD will have to make more tough decisions to help fill the massive 2012-13 school year budget shortfall.
The funds must be available by
June 30, 2013 in order to count toward next year's budget.
"The current year 2012-13 budgeted shortfall from real estate sales is approximately $4 to $5 million after the sale of the two other properties," said Barnett. "There is a smaller property in East Elliott, which my guess will have four [board] votes to sell in November or December. That would fill the current hole."
As for the Mission Beach site, a number of options are available to the community by retaining ownership, said Barnett.
"The ideal goal is to work with private developers to enter into a joint-occupancy agreement to develop properties with appropriate private uses, including public uses, such as a park, parking or community meeting rooms," Barnett said.
Other ideas for the site range from public-private partnerships for high-density apartments, a luxury boutique hotel or high-end condos or town houses — all with varying degrees of impact to the community and rates of return, said Barnett.
The decision must be a community-minded one, he said.
"My No. 2 priority as a school board member — after pushing for the highest quality education for our kids — is to deal with the financial nightmare we are facing for the foreseeable future and try to develop long term, local, consistent revenues which cannot be taken away by the state," he said.
"I am convinced we can do so while being a good neighbor and adding public benefits and uses to a joint development with the private sector," Barnett added.


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By guest author, Charlie Allen
Leif has been kind enough to ask that I contribute a blog or two on artists that I've liked in the past. This comes along later than planned... due to a rather difficult 2010 so far. Won't get into that, but we'll try this out, and hopefully viewers will see something of the past century illustration that is interesting, inspiring and entertaining.
The subject is N.C. Wyeth, one of, if not the very best of the early century illustrators. He hardly needs introduction to most. I grew up admiring and wondering at many of the illustrators in my youth... and definitely wanted to do that... sometime, 'when I grew up'. Luckily I did get in on the last thirty or so years of print media illustration, before TV and computers took over the world.
First, just a brief word about Newell Convers Wyeth, born in Needham, Massachusetts, in 1882.
He began illustrating at 21 and continued until his death in 1954. These illustrations are fine, dramatic works... years before artists used photo reference and 'short cuts'. I'm sure he used reference, but they were composed and painted in oils from his amazing talents, vivid imagination and love of subject.
The scans on this blog are from an old book titled, "The Boys King Arthur" (Charles Scribner and Sons, New York). Opening credits state 'edited for boys by Sidney Lainer'. The above sub-title is 'Sir Thomas Mallory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Roundtable'. The writing is antiquated and very British... purposely, no doubt to give the character of early days.
The first scans, hopefully can be merged together by Leif... maybe not important. The inside cover and facing page, in sepia, an entourage of knights, ladies (Guinevere?), proud horses, swans, et al.
The opening color scan is the title page designed and painted by Wyeth. Who but Wyeth would conceive of a more formidable character than this? Plus design the distinctive title page as well?
This book was recently lent by a friend and former political cartoonist for the S.F. Examiner, and an excellent artist. He grew up with it, and this copy is marked, well loved and worn. I think this illustrated edition came along early in the centrury, the earliest published date being 1908. There were several editions later on. Wyeth completed the illustrations for Robert Lewis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island' in 1911. In his own words, 'I've turned out a set of pictures, without without doubt far better in quality than anything I ever did...'. They are truly a marvel to behold.
Maybe on a later blog!
* Continued tomorrow.
* If you are a new to Today's Inspiration and never read Charlie Allen's blog, this is your chance to get to know him better. Drop by there and peruse Charlie's archives for some great stories and amazing artwork!
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, June 21, 2010
N.C. Wyeth: "... amazing talents"
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Thanks Charlie - NC Wyeth is a big favourite. This is going to be a great week !ReplyDelete
Nice to see N.C. Wyeth here. I love the mid-century illustrators, but it's nice to tip the hat to the older generation once in awhile. I believe that Wyeth and his grandson died in the railway crossing incident in 1945. The local art museum here in Fort Wayne had an exhibit of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth's work here a few months ago, on loan from the Farnsworth Museum. Wonderful stuff. N.C. worked very large, in luscious, impressionistic strokes of color. Thanks so much, CharlieReplyDelete
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Newbie Guide
New to Zero-K? New to RTS games, even? This Newbie Guide will show you the ropes.
- 1 Chapter 1: Basic Gameplay, Commands and Controls
- 1.1 Zooming
- 1.2 Scrolling
- 1.3 Choosing your Start location
- 1.4 Selection
- 1.5 Construction
- 1.6 Queuing Orders
- 1.7 Multiple Building Placement
- 1.8 Factories
- 1.9 Assisting Factories
- 1.10 Orders
- 1.11 Starting to fight
Chapter 1: Basic Gameplay, Commands and Controls
This chapter will teach you everything you need to know to play the game.
First try to zoom out to get an overview of the map. Use your mouse wheel, or PageUp/PageDown to zoom out/in. You can also press Tab to toggle full-map view.
You can use the arrow keys, hold the middle mouse button, or move your mouse to the edge of the screen to scroll. Middle-click on the minimap in the upper left will centre on that location
Hint: Use zooming to scroll: zoom out, move cursor to the desired position, then zoom in
Choosing your Start location
Click anywhere in the green area to chose your starting location. Assuming it has not been chosen for you, normally, this is first phase of the game. The map will be divided into red tinted and green tinted areas. The green is your start box, the red is the enemies.
Good starting locations are near metal spots, usually depicted as grey marks on the map. Pressing F4 will toggle metal view mode, which makes metal easier to see by circling them along with showing their output below the circle (Alternatively you can mouse over them to see their output value). Grey circles indicate they are unclaimed, teal/green ones indicate that you or your allies have claimed it, and red ones indicate that an enemy player has claimed it.
F4 will also highlight metal sources (such as rocks or wrecks)
Note that the game will only start when all players have placed down their commanders or when a certain amount of time has passed. You can try to speed this up by typing !force in all chat.
To select construction units such as your commander, left click them. Holding down the left mouse button draws a rectangle that selects all units inside the area. Your commander can also be selected with the keyboard shortcut CTRL+C.
To add to/subtract from current selection, hold Ctrl + click on the unit.
First, start your economy by making a Metal Extractor - often referred to as Mex (B-W-W or up).
With your commander selected, hold down the right mouse button or press B to access the build menu.
Move the mouse upwards over the metal extractor or press W to access the economic category, displaying further buildings. Release the mouse button while hovering over the extractor or press W again to select it.
Click the left mouse button to place the building on top of one of the metal spots, right next to where your commander should have spawned. Make sure the blue-green area is inside the metal extractors red circle when doing so, as this shows its range.
You can build any other buildings the same way as you built your metal extractor. Simply move your mouse over them before releasing it, or press the appropriate key (q, w, e, a, s, d, z, x, c).
Queuing Orders
Select the Metal Extractor (B-W-W, up) from the build menu again, and while holding the SHIFT key, place it over the two other metal spots. This will place these orders at the end of his order queue, meaning he will execute them in sequence. Giving an order without SHIFT held cancels the queue in favour of the new order.
To cancel a single order in the queue, hold shift and click on its location- in the case of a build order, you must have a building selected to do this.
You can also insert commands at arbitrary positions in the queue by holding down Space while issuing the order.
Hint: Selecting the Area Mex command and dragging a circle radius over an area will order the commander (or any constructor selected) to place mexes over all spots in the area.
Multiple Building Placement
Select the Solar Collector (B-W-A, up->left) from the build menu. When placing it, hold down Shift again, left click and drag to place a line of buildings. Make at least 4. Solar Collectors produce +2 energy, the yellow resource in the upper right.
Metal Extractors produce Metal, the blue-grey resource in the upper right of the screen. Solar collectors produce Energy, the yellow resource. You need both in equal amounts for construction.
Build the Cloakbot Factory (B-A-A, left). Factories produce new units. Your first factory is free, and is teleported in, just like your commander.
Select your factory. You usually want to make sure it is set to repeat, for constant production. Left Click the repeat button, so that it turns green.
You can add units to your factories production queue by left-clicking the icon of the units you wish to build. The factory will then immediately start production. To remove a unit from the queue, simply right-click the unit's icon.
The repeat option will allow your factory to keep producing units indefinitely at your chosen ratio.
If you need a unit quickly, you can press Alt while clicking and you will make that many units outside of the queued loop (i.e. they will only be made once), after the current unit is finished. Shift click adds/removes 5 of the chosen unit, Ctrl click 20, and Ctrl+Shift click 100.
A good start is to order your factory to produce one construction bot and around five raiders. (remember to put them on repeat)
Assisting Factories
Any constructor, including your commander, can assist your factory's production. To do this, select the constructor and right click on the factory.
This will give a 'guard' order, which makes the unit automatically help to build anything the factory is building. This is much cheaper than building additional factories, so if you want to produce faster, assist.
Only make an extra factory when you feel like you need extra tech (or in a forward position to reduce transit time).
Unit Selection
You can select multiple units of the same type on your screen by double-clicking one of them. You can also press CTRL-Z to select all units of all the unit types you currently have selected.
You can control-group units by pressing Ctrl+# (# being any number from 0 to 9). Pressing the number key will select that group of units.
Unit Movement and Combat
You can order units to move by simply right-clicking at a location. Holding down the right mouse button when having multiple units selected draws a line or curve, which orders your units to spread out and proceed towards their position in the formation with equal spacing.
If you give an explicit order of "Attack Move" (A on keyboard) or "Move"(M on keyboard), you can also draw a line or curve for formation (without bringing up the build menu if the selection includes cons).
You can order units to attack a specific target by right clicking it. Note: Units will automatically fire at enemies in range, so may not fire at the target first.
Nearly all units can shoot while moving.
Hold down the SHIFT key while having units selected to take a look at their current command queue. While doing so you can also add new commands to your selected units, which will then process all commands one after the other.
The Attack Move order will make units stop to engage enemies they encounter (like Attack Move in other RTS games). Additionally, they will also attempt to dodge enemy projectiles and kite enemies automatically; see UnitAI for more information.
If you hold down CTRL while giving an order of Move (right-click) or drawing a line with right click, all these units, whatever their normal speed, will move at the speed of the slowest units, i.e. they will stay exactly in the same configuration while moving.
Area Orders
By holding the key giving the order and dragging the mouse, you can create an area where the order applies. This works for the following orders: Attack (F on keyboard), Reclaim (E on keyboard), Repair (R on keyboard).
Group of Combat Units
If you have a group of units selected, holding down CRTL and giving the order of "area Attack" (holding "F" on keyboard + dragging mouse) will have each of these units attack a particular target in the area selected, whereas if you select this group of units and "area Attack" only (without CTRL), all of these units will together attack one target after the other in the area selected.
If you have a group of units selected, holding down ALT and giving the order of "Attack" ("F" on keyboard) and drawing a line will spread targets along the line (useful for bombardments and laying down mines with Badger).
Starting to fight
You have a choice of several factories, each with its own set of units. Of these, the Cloaky Bot Plant offers the best combination of flexibility and ease of use, and is recommended for new players.
It is strongly recommended that you take a look at the Unit Class guide to get an overview of what different unit types do. For information on specific units, consult the Unit Guide. For further informations check out the advanced guide or other manuals, but before that play a game if you haven't already!


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New York City Steers Limousines Into The Uber Pile-Up
Commentary: Jeff Rose, president of Limousine Association of New York, explains how the permit cap ignores vital for-hire differences.
Related Topics: driver behavior, London operators, passenger safety, regulatory enforcement, Safety, Safety & Insurance, TNCs, U.K. operators, Uber, United Kingdom
This vulture exist ,because of the corrupt politicians of New York ! they want to put an IPO on wall street and after that nobody can touch them, being connected with big money, shame to the Mayor and his dogs TLC !! Wild and inhumane capitalism !!!
Commentary: Jeff Rose, president of Limousine Association of New York, explains how the permit cap ignores vital for-hire differences.
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Calen Carr's 85-minute goal hands Chicago the full three points and snaps the Revs' unbeaten streak at eight games in all competitions I Game Highlights I Postgame | RevsWrap
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – Second-half substitute Calen Carr scored the game-winning goal in the 85th minute as the New England Revolution began a two-game road trip with a 2-1 loss to the Chicago Fire on Wednesday night at Toyota Park.
Marko Perovic gave the Revs (6-10-3, 21 pts.) an early lead with his fifth goal of the season, but Baggio Husidic brought the Fire (6-5-6, 24 pts.) level before halftime to set the stage for Carr's late heroics. Carr – who replaced Brian McBride in the 69th minute – was making his first appearance of the season after recovering from a right quad injury which had plagued him since preseason.
The result separated the Revs and Fire in the standings as the clubs entered the night level on points. Chicago now sits alone in fourth place in the Eastern Conference, two points out of the final playoff spot, while New England is in fifth place in the East.
The loss brought an end to the Revolution's eight-game (6-0-2) unbeaten streak in all competitions, while it also snapped the club's four-game (3-0-1) undefeated run in league play. It marked the first time the Revs conceded more than one goal in a game since a 5-0 loss to Real Salt Lake on July 2.
There was one change to the Revolution lineup which earned a 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo last weekend. Kevin Alston (L hamstring strain) passed a late fitness test and returned to the starting lineup at right back, pushing Chris Tierney to left midfield in place of Khano Smith.
Perovic was bright from the opening whistle and twice came close to scoring in the first 10 minutes. In the seventh minute, the Serb unleashed an optimistic 40-yard blast which forced Chicago goalkeeper Sean Johnson to tip the ball over for a corner kick. Just one minute later, he was nearly played through on goal before Johnson charged off his line to collect with a sliding effort.
It didn't take long for Perovic to find a reward for his endeavor, however, as the 26-year-old scored his fifth league goal in the 16th minute to pull even with Zack Schilawski for the team lead. Fire defender Wilman Conde struggled to deal with a routine back pass and then slipped when put under pressure, allowing Perovic to walk in alone and round Johnson before finishing from a tight angle.
A quiet spell followed, but Chicago responded with the equalizer from a seemingly innocuous play in the 32nd minute. McBride's low effort from outside the box clipped a Revolution defender and landed at the feet of Husidic, who dribbled toward goal before delicately chipping a shot over the charging Matt Reis and inside the left post.
The Revs began the second half brightly and almost restored their lead in the 51st minute, but Johnson got down well to his right to save Shalrie Joseph's long-range blast. Chicago then threatened seven minutes later when the Revs failed to clear Husidic's lofted service into the box, but Dasan Robinson couldn't get on top of the bouncing ball and directed his effort over the top.
With the score still tied at 1-1, the Revs used all three of their available substitutions in the 68th minute. Jason Griffiths, Seth Sinovic and Smith all entered the game, replacing Pat Phelan, Cory Gibbs and Tierney, respectively.
The fresh legs seemed to rejuvenate the Revolution, but it was the home side which found a late game-winner. After buildup play from Husidic and Freddie Ljungberg, Carr cut inside from the left wing and moved across the top of the box before slipping a low shot through the Revs' backline. Reis dove to his right but couldn't get a fingertip on Carr's shot, which slipped inside the left post.
There was one final chance for the Revs in stoppage time when Perovic surged through the middle and appeared to be clipped at the top of the box, but the challenge was deemed fair despite the Revolution's protests.
The Revs will conclude their brief two-game road trip on Saturday, Aug. 21, against the Kansas City Wizards. Kickoff from CommunityAmerica Ballpark is set for 8:30 p.m. ET.
New England Revolution (6-10-3, 21pts.) at Chicago Fire (6-5-6, 24pts.)
August 18, 2010 – Toyota Park (Bridgeview, Ill.)
Scoring Summary:
NE – Marko Perovic (Unassisted) 16
CHI - Baggio Husidic (Unassisted) 32
CHI – Calen Carr (Freddie Ljungberg, Baggio Husidic) 85
New England Revolution: Matt Reis (GK), Cory Gibbs (Seth Sinovic 68), Darrius Barnes, Emmanuel Osei, Kevin Alston, Chris Tierney (Khano Smith 68), Pat Phelan (Jason Griffiths 68), Shalrie Joseph ©, Sainey Nyassi, Marko Perovic, Iljia Stolica
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth (GK), Kenny Mansally, Zack Schilawski, Roberto Linck
STATS: Shots: 8; Shots on Goal: 4; Saves: 1; Corner Kicks: 4; Offside: 1; Fouls Committed: 18
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson (GK), Gonzalo Segares, Wilman Conde, CJ Brown, Dasan Robinson, Nery Castillo (Mike Banner 46), Baggio Husidic, Logan Pause, Marco Pappa (Kwame Watson-Siriboe 89), Freddie Ljungberg, Brian McBride (Calen Carr 69)
Substitutes Not Used: Andrew Dykstra (GK), Peter Lowry, Krzystof Krol, Steven Kinney
STATS: Shots: 10; Shots on Goal: 3; Saves: 3; Corner Kicks: 5; Offside: 3; Fouls Committed: 3
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Pat Phelan (caution) 12
NE – Cory Gibbs (caution) 26
CHI – Nery Castillo (caution) 38
CHI – Wilman Conde (caution) 39
NE – Marko Perovic (caution) 43?NE – Emmanuel Osei (caution) 52
NE – Darrius Barnes (caution) 92+
Referee: Michael Kennedy
Referee's Assistants: Chris Strickland, Paul Scott
Fourth Official: Abby Okulaja
Weather: Sunny and 80 degrees?Attendance: 14,056
• The loss dropped the Revolution's record against the Chicago Fire to 13-17-8 all time, and 4-9-6 on the road – including 1-4-2 at Toyota Park since the facility opened in 2006.
• The Revs dropped their second game of the year after going ahead, 1-0 … it was the first instance since a 3-2 loss at Columbus on May 8.
• The loss was also the first time since the Columbus match on May 8 that New England lost by conceding the game-winning-goal after the 75th minute.
• New England lost its first match since July 2 when the club dropped a 5-0 decision at Real Salt Lake … The Revs had gone 6-0-2 in all competitions since that loss in Sandy, Utah.
• Kevin Alston returned to the starting lineup at right back after missing the last two matches with a left hamstring strain.
• Kevin Alston's return to his customary spot at right back meant that Chris Tierney moved back up to left midfield after his first MLS start at right back last week.
• Marko Perovic scored his fifth goal in MLS competition (seventh overall) and has now registered a point in five of the last seven games in all competitions he has appeared in.
• Matt Reis conceded his first MLS goal this month after posting two consecutive shutouts … Reis went 277 minutes since letting up his last league goal – in the 25th minute of the Revolution's 1-1 draw at Philadelphia on July 31.
• The Revs were tied, 1-1, at halftime for only the second time all season in league play … the only other match this season that New England was knotted at one with its opponent at the break was in a 2-1 loss to the Colorado Rapids at home on April 24.
• Steve Nicol opted to use all three substitutions simultaneously on Wednesday night … Seth Sinovic replaced Cory Gibbs at left back, Khano Smith came on for Chris Tierney at left midfield and Jason Griffiths replaced Pat Phelan at central midfield – all in the 68th minute.
• Seth Sinovic made his first MLS appearance since he started at left back against LA on July 2 when he replaced Cory Gibbs on the back line in the 68th minute.


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Two newly published articles in the journal Evolution investigate the evolution of sexual dimorphism in pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses). One paper by Kruger et al. (2014) examines it largely from a modern biological perspective, while the other paper by Cullen et al. (2014) incorporates fossil data. We'll start with Kruger et al., and then move on to Cullen et al.
But first, some introductory remarks. Sexual dimorphism, for the uninitiated, is the condition where males and females of a particular species are of different sizes, color pattern, or proportion (or, all of the above). Naturally this doesn't apply to anatomical differences in sex organs, as that is something that characterizes practically all vertebrates. Humans are somewhat sexually dimorphic – generally males are taller and more robust than females, and are characterized by some subtle skeletal differences (wider pelves in females, for example). As compared to humans, gorillas are a bit more extremely dimorphic – the males are quite a bit larger, and sport large sagittal crests for jaw muscle attachment on their skulls. Extreme sexual dimorphism has often been linked with reproductive behavior – in particular, "harem" size. In pinnipeds, the males of the least sexually dimorphic species tend to mate with only one female, while males of the most extremely sexually dimorphic species tend to arrange and defend large harems (dozens to hundreds of females) and engage in male-male combat, such as the dramatic fighting commonly seen in elephant seals.
The paper by Kruger et al. (2014) analyzed data on modern pinnipeds including male and female body size, harem size, latitude of breeding, and the length of breeding and lactation, using several phylogenetic comparative methods including phylogenetic independent contrasts and phylogenetic confirmatory path analysis (neither of which I am very familiar with). Their analysis reconstructed ancestral pinnipeds as non-dimorphic and polar in distribution (e.g. Arctic). They further found that sexual dimorphism probably preceded increases in harem size (polgyny); in their words, sexual dimorphism originated first and facilitated polygyny, rather than being a consequence of it. They identify ice breeding as the ancestral reproductive behavior for pinnipeds, rather than aquatic or terrestrial breeding.
Hypothesized sequence of events in the evolution of sexual dimorphism and polygyny in pinnipeds, from Kruger et al. (2014).
There are a few problems with this hypothesis, and most of them revolve around the lack of fossils incorporated into the analysis. Of course, many of the data categories are unknown in fossils (e.g. length of breeding period). However, many fossils indicate that early pinnipeds were in fact sexually dimorphic (Berta 1994; also, see remarks upon Cullen et al., 2014 below). Secondly, simply because many modern pinnipeds breed on ice now doesn't necessarily mean that they always have, and suggest that this trait is probably unreliable to work with. Tusked walruses, for example, were until only one or two million years ago nearly completely temperate and even subtropical in distribution – only with the evolution of Odobenus rosmarus have walruses been confined to the arctic. Furthermore, Pliocene fossils of Odobenus sp. from Japan indicate that even Odobenus was only cold temperate in distribution roughly 2-3 million years ago. The majority of the walrus fossil record not only reflects sexual dimorphism but also ~20 million years of temperate distribution – in other words, no ice. The early Miocene – the period of pinniped diversification – was substantially warmer than present with smaller icecaps; it makes me wonder if the abundance of modern ice breeding seals is due to recent (Pliocene-Holocene) diversifications into Arctic and Antarctic niches alongside rapidly expanding ice caps. Consider this: the basalmost phocids – monk and elephant seals – are all terrestrial breeding, and several members of the Phoca-Pusa-Halichoerus species complex are terrestrial breeders. It makes much more sense to me that Antarctic lobodontines and Arctic phocines evolved ice breeding habits since the Pliocene during rapid cooling and ice cap growth, rather than all pinnipeds evolving from an ice breeding ancestor and retaining that behavior for 27 million years (in fact, the complex distribution of ice and terrestrial breeding within phocines suggests that if anything, this behavior is really flexible at a macroevolutionary level). A further problem is that the most primitive known fossil pinnipeds, the enaliarctines, are all known from temperate ice-free latitudes. The moral of this story: fossils are important!
New specimen of Enaliarctos emlongi described by Cullen et al. (2014) and interpreted as an adult female.
The new study by Cullen et al. (2014), on the other hand, does incorporate fossil data. They report on a new skull of the early pinniped Enaliarctos emlongi from the Nye Mudstone of coastal Oregon, and performed a geometric morphometric analysis of sexual dimorphism in modern and fossil pinniped skulls. The skull was in fact initially tentatively referred to Enaliarctos emlongi by Annalisa Berta in her 1991 paper on Enaliarctos material from the Emlong collection. The skull is a bit squashed, but appears to be smaller and a bit more gracile than the adult male holotype. Berta (1991) originally considered this specimen to represent a juvenile, although Cullen et al. argue that the sutures are fully closed in the referred specimen, although it's not immediately obvious from the photographs (a common problem with material in the Emlong collection is that it is consistently dark in color; generally it's a good idea to coat specimens with ammonium chloride, as has been done by Barnes, Fordyce, Deméré, Berta, and others working on that collection). Sexually dimorphic features they highlight include a narrower rostrum in females, more strongly pronounced nuchal and sagittal crests in males, a proportionally wider palate in males (this probably goes hand in hand with a narrower/broader rostrum in general), and more widely flaring mastoid processes of the squamosal.
Sexually dimorphic features in modern and fossil pinnipeds: Enaliarctos emlongi (left) and Arctocephalus (right); first and third columns are females, second and fourth columns are males.
Morphometric analysis indicated strong sexual dimorphism both in skull size and shape for most pinnipeds, with the exception of numerous extant phocids (true seals - Pusa, Monachus, Erignathus, and Leptonychotes) – of the phocids analyzed, only the gray (Halichoerus) and hooded seals (Cystophora) were strongly dimorphic (Elephant seals, although extraordinarily dimorphic, were not part of the analyzed data set). All otariids, the walrus, and all fossil pinnipeds investigated were dimorphic. When plotted on a cladogram of modern pinnipeds, the ancestral character state is ambiguous owing to widespread lack of dimorphism in the true seals. However, when they incorporated fossil taxa – Enaliarctos and Desmatophoca only – it indicated that sexual dimorphism was primitive for all pinnipeds, and secondarily lost in phocids – and secondarily regained in gray and elephant seals.
Ancestral character state reconstruction of sexual dimorphism in pinnipeds; black=extreme dimorphism, white=little to no dimorphism. Top tree includes extant pinnipeds only, and bottom tree shows the influence of the inclusion of fossil taxa.
Overall, this publication by Cullen et al. is vastly superior in its treatment of sexual dimorphism in pinnipeds, particularly for its inclusion of fossils – which is unsurprising, since the authors are all paleontologists. I strongly suspect that Cullen et al. are correct, and this paper serves to reinforce earlier suggestions that enaliarctines were sexually dimorphic. However, there are a few minor nitpicky things that bear mentioning.
First, it is important to note that this study is not the first to propose that enaliarctines were sexually dimorphic. In fact, the first study to demonstrate sexual dimorphism was the reevaluation of Pteronarctos by Annalisa Berta (1994) – in that paper, she examined a large collection of material from the Emlong collection and concluded that Pteronarctos piersoni and Pacificotaria hadromma were prematurely named, and fall within the range of variation expected for a single species of pinniped (based on examination of variation in extant Callorhinus ursinus), and synonymized both species with Pteronarctos goedertae (regardless, later works by Barnes have been uncharitably dismissive of this hypothesis). Berta (1994) ascribed much of the variation between species to sexual dimorphism, and identified the holotypes of P. piersoni and P. hadromma as females (also dismissed by recent work by Barnes), in addition to figuring and describing additional female specimens of Pteronarctos goedertae from the Emlong collection. Curiously, this acknowledgement of sexual dimorphism in Pteronarctos was not mentioned or cited by Cullen et al. (2014), despite citing the paper. Sexual dimorphism in enaliarctines has also been suggested in various papers by Larry Barnes (1989, 1990, 1992, 2008), and demonstrated in the enaliarctine-like proto-walrus Proneotherium repenningi (Deméré and Berta 2001).
Secondly, the entire crux of this paper hinges upon the identification of the referred skull, USNM 314290 as being conspecific with Enaliarctos emlongi. I've never seen the specimen (it was on loan in Canada when I visited the USNM to examine their pinnipeds in 2012), but a few things struck me with the description. For starters, it was only compared with Enaliarctos emlongi, Enaliarctos barnesi, and Enaliarctos tedfordi. What about Pteronarctos? Pteronarctos is, after all, known from really low down in the Astoria Formation – around the same level as some Enaliarctos material reported by Berta (1991). No comparisons with Pinnarctidion are made, and most problematic, no comparisons with Enaliarctos mitchelli are made – Enaliarctos mitchelli is tiny, with a transversely narrow rostrum (consistent with USNM 314290) and known from the Nye Mudstone of Oregon (Berta 1991) in addition to Pyramid Hill in California. I could easily see this specimen representing another E. mitchelli specimen – but that possibility was not evaluated.
This study by Cullen et al. (2014) is certainly an excellent contribution, and a great starting point. Future analyses can (and, should) utilize other fossil pinnipeds for which males and females are known: Allodesmus gracilis/kernensis, Dusignathus seftoni, Imagotaria downsi, Neotherium mirum, Proneotherium repenningi, Pteronarctos "spp.", Thalassoleon mexicanus, and Valenictus chulavistensis (some of these are known from male and female mandibles only (e.g. Neotherium). And of course, there's also canines, postcrania, and that curious baculum.
A parting comment is necessary, and this should not be misconstrued as further criticism, but a word of caution for any study regarding the phylogenetic position of fossil pinnipeds: We currently do not have a robust up-to-date phylogeny for modern and fossil pinnipeds. It's now been twenty years since Berta and Wyss (1994) published their seminal analysis of modern and fossil pinniped phylogeny, and nobody has taken up the challenge of adding more characters and taxa to that dataset (or, even putting together a new dataset of equivalent breadth). Most subsequent studies have incorporated taxa only from a single family (and this is something I am definitely guilty of). Although not stated by the authors, the phylogenetic position of Enaliarctos and Desmatophoca are probably from Berta and Wyss (1994). Morgan Churchill and I have talked about these issues at length, and we wouldn't be surprised if 1) desmatophocids were more closely related to otarioids than phocids, 2) morphological evidence could be mustered to support an odobenid-otariid clade, and 3) enaliarctines might actually be more closely related to otarioids than to phocoids. What can be done about this? Cullen et al. (2014) rightfully point out that enaliarctines are greatly in need of a taxonomic enema (my paraphrasing): they are probably greatly oversplit, and a detailed comprehensive study of enaliarctine morphology is in order – this is especially true if Berta's (1991) lumping of Pteronarctos goedertae, Pteronarctos piersoni, and Pacificotaria is any indication. In addition to a better treatment of enaliarctines, we need a larger analysis of pinniped phylogeny, with more taxa. Morgan and I started a such a project several years ago and presented it at SVP, and then decided it would be best to treat each family one at a time before doing anything comprehensive – but, more on that in the future.
References and further reading:
L. G. Barnes. 1989. A new enaliarctine pinniped from the Astoria Formation, Oregon, and a classification of the Otariidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). Contributions in Science 403:1-26
L. G. Barnes. 1990. A new Miocene enaliarctine pinniped of the genus Pteronarctos (Mammalia: Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation, Oregon. Contributions in Science 422:1-20
L. G. Barnes. 1992. A new genus and species of middle Miocene enaliarctine pinniped (Mammalia, Carnivora, Otariidae) from the Astoria Formation in Coastal Oregon. Contributions in Science 431:1-27
L. G. Barnes. 2008. Otarioidea. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, M. D. Uhen (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 2:523-541
A. Berta. 1991. New Enaliarctos* (Pinnipedimorpha) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Oregon and the role of "enaliarctids" in pinniped phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 69:1-33
A. Berta. 1994. New specimens of the pinnipediform Pteronarctos from the Miocene of Oregon. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 78:1-30
A. Berta and A. R. Wyss. 1994. Pinniped phylogeny; pp. 33–56 in A. Berta and T. A. Deméré (eds.), Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29.
T.M. Cullen, D. Fraser, N. Rybczynski, and C. Schroder-Adams. 2014. Early evolution of sexual dimorphism and polygyny in Pinnipedia. Evolution DOI: 10.1111/evo.12360
T.A. Deméré and A. Berta. 2001. A reevaluation of Proneotherium repenningi from the
Miocene Astoria Formation of Oregon and its position as a basal odobenid
(Pinnipedia: Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21: 279–310.
N. Kohno, L. G. Barnes, and K. Hirota. 1995. Miocene fossil pinnipeds of the genera Prototaria and Neotherium (Carnivora; Otariidae; Imagotariinae) in the North Pacific Ocean: Evolution, relationships and distribution. The Island Arc 3:285-308
O. Kruger, J.B. Wolf, R.M. Jonker, J.I. Hoffman, and F. Trillmich. 2014. Disentangling the contribution of sexual selection and ecology to the evolution of size dimorphism in pinnipeds. Evolution DOI: 10.1111/evo.12370


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Post subject: Do you think David really LOVES Reese ??
Do you think David really LOVES Reese?
Can you say "love" to the feelings of David to Reese in the movie ??
I neither can say "yes" nor "no".
I think that Reese is for David like a puppet or a teady bear for a child - nobody is allowed to have cuddle with the teddy but the child itself because the toy only belongs to it and not to sombody else.
Or did you give something like a teddy bear or a your favourite puppet to another child when you're young?
In my opinion David thinks that Reese's father or her school friend named ...(?) wanted to take away him Reese. But I donnot know the whys and wherefores for the terrible things David does with Reese's friend and family in the movie.
Why don't he realize that the result of this is the fear that Reese feels.
And why do David have to have with other s in his house although he donnot allowed Reese to have any relation with other boys or friends ??
I would be really interested in YOUR opinions about all these questions.
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i think in a way he does. and then in a way he dont because he is so possesive.
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Plus he's a psychopath, and they view "love" in a very different self centered way.
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no its just that he loves her but unfourtunaly guys will be guys and well margo was there and he was horny so you gotta think of course he will do something i mean he grew up around guys who treat girls like s**t in the movie so ya kno.........
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I dont think it is possible for someone like David to truly love anyone because love is when you remove yourself from the throne and place someone else on it. People who are obsessed with someone sees things in one way only, there way. They think they are always whatching out for that person in a loving way but they are protecting thereselves from pain and getting hurt.
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i think david did love her.. i just think he didn't really know how to show it.. he didn't really know any better since he had a pretty messed up life- he just wanted her all to himself.. which didn't really help the situation...
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i dont think that david really loved nicole because he would have never tryed to kill her family and sleep with margo (best friend). thats not love in my catergory. but i believe that nicole really loved him. i mean she wasnt the one going around killing his family (if he had one) and sleeping with his best friend. but nicole is stupid because she didnt handle it the right way. because you know the part where nicole sees david forcing margo to have sex with him from the glass door and nicole just runs into her car and drive away, see if that was me i would have went in there and bust his head open!!! lol. in other words i would have beat the hell out of him!!! that is my way of handling things!!!!
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I think he loves her because when you love somebody you never give up.You keep going for love.
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He's a total psycho and wants to control everything...a flaming hot psycho, but a psycho nonetheless!
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hehehehe a flaming hot psycho, I love that description Emat!
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True, right?
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I think he very much loved her but in a very cRaZy AsS way
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David has b lover from Nicole.... I think to he be craZ... Yes... He loves her...
Sorry mistakes of laguage!!!
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