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Chapter Two: The Offering
Canalave City Square, about 8:00PM
Every time he went into town, Marvin had some fresh offerings waiting for him from what few townsfolk that remained. Most of the time, he even left supplies of his own behind, to compensate for the generosity of whoever left them.
Mostly, it was food made that morning, or even some fine clothes on occasion, both of which were widely known to make him very happy, and usually leave without taking someone's life. On some occasions though, a criminal condemned by the townsfolk was chained to the city square, and the crimes he had committed were placed on a notice nearby. Along with said notice, he would almost always see the same seven signatures, all from the latest in the city's notable leaders.
Today was no such day. Today, there was nothing. And the lack of any sort of material was something that Marvin detested, for it meant only one of three things: A thief stole his offering, his subjects were revolting, or an outsider was killing his subjects. Starvation was scarce at worst in this place, and murder rates were low, as it meant more competition for food...
Competition which needed to be eliminated at all necessary costs.
He looked at the crime scene quickly, and discovered that a body wasn't there this time -- only scraps of food were lying around, which meant that the thief might not be a cannibal -- only a thief or scavenger... which all came back to the one fact that someone was threatening to eventually starve someone out, at the very least. Not good.
By the looks of it, the theft was very recent, so he did the one thing he knew best: fly around town, and bring down the foe rapidly. I'll find you, as I find everyone else who dares to trespass on my territory. Justice is swift, and it is coming for you.
Chapter Three: The Challenge
Canalave City, outskirts. About 10:30 PM
Marvin had been flying around for two hours now, only taking occasional breaks to keep himself at full strength. He was determined to find the thief, and he was determined to do so fast. Someone with enough guts to steal his stuff wasn't about to get away without even a "proper goodbye," as he liked to call it.
After a while, he saw a small figure moving around town, making motions to get out. Hah, I've got you!
He wasted no time in getting to the ground, and made a very loud landing in front of the thief he was pursuing... which just so happened to be a Pokesprirt wielder. By the looks of it, his spirit was a Poliwrath. His skin was blue, and the whirls that would be found on a Poliwrath were found on his bare chest.
"What are you doing in my territory?" Marvin got straight to the point, and stepped into his foe's comfort zone. He assessed his poorly clad foe, who only wore a pair of torn jeans.
"I saw some food here, and I ate it." The Poliwrath wielder stood straight, puffing out his chest. "What do you have on that?"
"That was my food. The people of this town pay me with rations, in order for me to protect them from predators and thieves." In the background, clouds began to form as Marvin began to concentrate. "In other words, you stole my food."
"You left it there--" The agitated wielder was interrupted by his angry foe.
"They left it there. And you stole it." By this time, the rain began to fall hard. "You know who I am?"
"Some well-fed rich kid?" The wielder began to back off. "You know who I am?"
"I am the Sea Dragon. Have you read the wanted posters in the surrounding region?" Marvin stepped forward, noticing that by now the water was everywhere.
The wielder stepped back. "So you're the self-proclaimed Overlord of Canalave? So what? I'm a member of the Bane of Arceus. I've been scouting this area to make sure our targets were in order."
"What the hell's the Bane of Arceus?" Marvin was annoyed. Most competitors would have taken off running, and that would be the end of it. This one would have to be dealt with using conventional means -- by the use of force.
"We're here to wipe out the adults and anyone not able to possess a spirit. They're inferior beings that do not deserve to exist." The wielder's face started to sprout a wicked smile. "You can join us if you want. If you're the one responsible for locking down this entire city by himself, you'd be a top member in no time."
"I prefer to stay close to my food, which you're evidently here to destroy. I don't like those who come in and destroy my food sources." Marvin prepared for his next attack, and glared at the competition. "So there are plenty of you, if they're bold enough to send you up against me."
"Oh yeah, there are a lot of us all right, and before long every adult will be dead... hahaha...." The wielder looked at ease, as if Marvin wasn't a threat -- a fact that annoyed him beyond all reason.
"Then your organization needs to be eliminated. Why would anyone wish to destroy a valuable food source?" Marvin clenched his fists, which began to charge with electricity.
When the other wielder saw what was going on, he released a Hydro Pump attack from his chest, and hit Marvin dead-on. Unfortunately for him, due to his great affinity to water, the attack did little more than blow Marvin back -- giving him enough range to promptly cut loose and let off a short burst of lightning, in the form of a brief Thunder attack.
Marvin watched the other wielder fall over, partially numbed by the sheer force of the effective attack. Seizing the moment, he let off another, more prolonged burst of electricity, letting the power flow through his hands as he usually did as he was levelling derelict parts of the city.
For a moment, he enjoyed the position he was in, standing over his foe, after launching a decisive attack that he knew could turn fatal for his foe at any given moment, but he snapped himself back to reality quickly. If his enemy had fired off a Blizzard attack or an Ice Beam, he would be in dire straits, in spite of his very high tolerance for cold temperatures. After all, ice magic isn't something to be trifled with.
"You shouldn't kill him. If you do, you'll be forced to take his spirit, and I personally doubt it'll welcome your presence, just after killing his former master in cold blood." The Dragonite chose the right moment to chime in, and Marvin saw the truth in Battlestar's words.
"You're right, but what solution is there? I can't kill him because of his spirit, and yet I can't let him get away to tell his friends." Marvin let up on the barrage of electricity, and instead chose to keep striking his enemy at intervals to keep him down and out. "Surely there's some sort of middle ground."
"Cripple him..." The Dragonite's voice sounded somewhat sad at the prospect of leaving another being in that sad state of things.
"And let the townsfolk take care of the problem after the fact. since they will want revenge at their life's blood being stolen, I shall provide them with it." Marvin's face turned resolute. "I'll have my problem taken care of, and theirs at the same time. But what of this organization he spoke of? It means trouble, and I don't want it around."
"The solution is simple. We find a means to destroy it. They're the ones responsible for the attack on Eterna, quite some ways off. It seems that is what the responsible party's name is." Battlestar let his words drift off, leaving Marvin to his own thoughts.
"It would require our departure." Marvin jolted his enemy again, when he saw the near-unconscious wielder attempt to come to.
"If we stay, they'll eventually come, and we both know that we cannot fight an organization as obviously large as that. Our best solution is to destroy them on their own front, so that we do not have to fight them on ours." Battlestar let his words sink in, and continued. "Besides, you've always liked traveling, and perhaps we will even find allies to keep our holdings even more secure. You know that it'll eventually wear you down, being all alone like this."
"You're right. I'll have to band with others and help bring down this entity. Then I can go back and subdue the town again. I did it once. I can do so again." Marvin then picked up a nearby object and slammed it down on his opponent's leg, bruising the bone. "We should go immediately. There is no need to inform the townsfolk of anything, other than posting a notice that I'm out on holiday, and that this thief is their prisoner, to do with as they please."
"Sounds good to me. So, we head out immediately, then?"
"Yes, as soon as we gather the rations saved up at home. We'll need them for the journey, especially for this foul rain that's been starting to fall lately." Marvin promptly took off, leaving his quickly-vanquished foe in the street. The townsfolk should end up dealing with their latest threat harshly. After two years of brutal rule from me, they'll likely jump at the chance to dispatch one of my kind, with gusto.
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March 10th, 2014 (3:50 AM).
Seeing that the injured girl had not woken up filled Lucy with a sort of disappointment. It wasn't that she was really bothered by the injury so much as she ... well... she really wished her efforts would've paid off! Oh well. She weighed the possibility of exchanging the unknown girl with Amethyst in her stomach. Logically speaking, Amethyst was easily more caable than an unconscious person. That just went without saying!
On the other hand...
Lucy simply picked the unconscious girl up in her arms, bridal style. She looked around and--Hey now... She remembered more people being with her! Her eyes slowly narrowed and she took in a deep breath not at all related to all the extra weight she was carrying.
Her ears twitched searchingly for several moments. She could hear... footsteps, in the distance. They were heavy than your average starving child, but had a certain grace to them. It sounded as if the person were running on their toes. Judging by the sound of their shape, a concept best described as hearing wind wrapping around someone, Lucy very much had reason to suspect it was Lozel.
Why was she running, though..? Nobody seemed to be chasing her, but ghosts had an uncanny way of evading her hearing when they really wanted to. Lucy begrudgingly admitted she couldn't catch the other even if she wanted to. She'd have to trust Lozel knew what she was doing and wasn't ... sabotaging them. A part of her very much worried for the other girl though. She could already imagine some jerk harassing Lozel.
Lucy looked around and began an impromptu head count. ...John was also missing. Biting her lower lip, she turned to those remaining. "Alright... That just complicated things. We're missing people and we need to find them." she explained, heaving the unconscious girl over her shoulder to hold her with one arm.
"He shouldn't be too far, but stay close in case something... sudden happens again." she continued in a lackluster tone, her free hand checking her mid-section briefly to make sure Amethyst was alright out of habit. before turning to stare off into the darkness.
This had turned into a real mess. Lucy silently knew it wasn't going to go smoothly; she just had to trust that it'd go at all!
With a hand motion she waved the others on. Using her sensitive ears she began following voices. She honestly had a hard time recognizing John's, or rather she had a hard time being sure of herself when she thought she did, but she picked up on something rather incriminating sounding and it was the best she had.
And then she came across another unconscious girl!
Lucy stopped, peering at the form in the darkness.
...She vaguely recalled someone similar looking from earlier, but she was pale and clearly not in a good place.
"...Looks like it's a really bad day to be a girl down here." she remarked in a somewhat exasperated tone, utterly unfazed by the development. Sure it was slightly unexpected, but really not /that/ unexpected. She crouched down and set Trinity down, lifting Collette into a sitting position and starting slightly.
She was icy cold! For a moment Lucy pondered how exactly it wasn't a corpse she was holding. If it weren't for her miraculous hearing abilities she probably wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. She pressed a hand to Collette and discharged a pulse of pink energy into the other, attempting to re-energize her. Once again she felt the need to do this twice, as the other was simply in such bad shape that she didn't trust once to do the trick.
She couldn't waste time however. After tending to Collette and making sure she didn't have any actual wounds in need of focusing on she scooped both her and Trinity into her arms, hauling one over each shoulder. She had once again debated the prospect of exchanging Collette with Amethyst. That certainly would've helped the poor girl warm up, but... in all frankness she was okay taking a slight risk to make sure her basically adopted little person wasn't horribly traumatized or worse. Now carrying three entire people Lucy got back up and tossed a look over her burdened shoulders.
The crying o a girl echoed in the distance. Noteworthily however... they'd been traveling away from it. It was following them. Lucy glanced uncomfortably in the general direction but declined to comment. "We're going the right way, I think... Be ready for trouble, though. We're not alone." she added, proceeding onwards in search of their lost companion.
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March 19th, 2014 (9:19 PM).
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Ever since Collette lost consciousness, Marceline had been screaming, shouting and begging for her to get up. Proxy had no idea why she was acting like this. For practically the first time ever, Marceline sounded like she actually cared about Collette's safety. "If I find out that you're dead, I'll... I'll find a way to revive you, just so I can find a way to kill you myself." It almost sounded like she was going to cry. How... interesting. "She's not dead... yet." He assured, certain that the girl was still (barely) alive. "Yeah? How would you know?" Marceline wasn't content with his answer. "Because I've been through that before. We'd have been kicked out of her if she was dead."
Two dark brown eyes briefly fluttered open, only to see the ground in front of them. The eyes immediately shut themselves in a (futile) attempt to protect their face. After 10 seconds of bracing herself to hit the ground, Collette briefly opened her eyes again. She quickly noticed that the ground was in the same place as before. Was she being held by something? She glanced to her right, allowing her eyes to see what appeared to be another person. The other person appeared to be unconscious... or dead. After seeing the possibly dead girl, Collette decided to stay absolutely still. She wouldn't want to alert the potentially hostile person that was carrying her. Closing her eyes once more, Collette finally addressed the voices in her head.
"What... What happened?" She groggily thought, hoping that one of them knew what was going on. "We're not entire-Took you long enough." Marceline interrupted, with a much harsher attitude than the concern she voiced earlier. Normally, Collette would've yelled at Marceline for interrupting them in the middle of something important, but for whatever reason she was feeling much too tired to do that today. "Go on, Proxy." She sluggishly said. "We know about as much as you do... You appear to be being carried by someone. For what reason, we don't know." Collette was disappointed with the answer she was given. Proxy was normally able to tell her much more about these kinds of things, she kind of depended on that.
"They're probably going to try eat you... or something." Although she probably meant it as a joke, Marceline actually made a good point. Whoever's carrying her wouldn't be doing so without some ulterior motive. And since she was stripped of all of her 'valuables', the most likely thing they could use her for is as a source of food. That's probably why they are carrying that unconscious girl as well... "Well then, I guess I'll have to ensure that that doesn't happen... Proxy, you to need to be ready to analyse whatever's carrying me. I'm going to need its appearance instantly." Collette commanded, preparing to get off the person's shoulder.
Slowly opening her eyes once more, Collette tried to look at her presumed captor. Unfortunately, all she was able to see was a pair of pants. "Are you ready?" She asked, wanting to ensure that she would be able to transform in time. "Yes" Proxy confirmed nearly instantly. Slowly, Collette began to raise a hand, making sure to keep her movements subtle. Although, she found it a lot more difficult than she expected too. Her body felt stiff and almost numb, which nearly caused her to swing her arm pre-emptively. Luckily, she was able to stop it before her fist slammed into her captor's back.
Once Collette felt that she couldn't bring her fist any higher without getting caught, she began to swing it down into the person's lower back. Probably out of shock more so than anything, Collette and the unconscious girl were dropped onto the ground. Unfortunately, being dropped on the hard, cold ground of Sinnoh's underground wasn't the smartest idea. As soon as she had hit the ground, Collette could truly feel the full effects of the 'swim' she had been forced into taking earlier. She hurriedly tried to get back onto her feet, but her ice-cold body wouldn't allow her to get any higher than her knees. While she was trying to get onto her feet, Proxy was able to take in some aspects of the girl who carried Collette.
The girl had messy blonde hair and wore a green jacket and a pair of jeans. Unfortunately, he was unable to get a look at the girl's front forcing him to... improvise. "I've got all I can get..." He said, with the slightest hint of disappointment. That wasn't a very good sign, but it was too late for Collette to cancel her escape plans. Pink goo began to ooze out of her scalp and back, slowly beginning to change her appearance into that of her captor's. However, before she could even change her hair-style fully, Collette began to feel incredibly weak. She quickly began running out of breath as her body started to shiver. She collapsed back onto the ground, unable to expend any more energy. The transformation wasn't exactly a complete failure though. Dotted throughout her hair were patches of messy blonde hair, while her jacket became a lot tighter and slightly green.
Unfortunately, Collette's disguise wouldn't be fooling anyone. "Damnit..." Collette said through gritted teeth.
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You see that guy over there!? He's so sweet must be a Marquez!
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Marquez is a last name that comes from various places. It is of Italian, French, English, Slovak, Spanish, Danish, Jewish, Swedish, Hungarian, Greek, Portuguese, Czech, Slavic, German, Irish, Scottish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, welsh, Korean, Dutch, and much more of ancestry.
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Giveaway unique customized tumblers like this soda pop style tumbler at your next event to draw attention to your logo!
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The application is a file manager that can connect to many popular Cloud Services.
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Flanagan's Village Hostel is a small, friendly hostel located on a working family farm in Doolin, Co. Clare. A seaside village famous for its proximity to the awe-inspiring Cliffs of Moher, Doolin is probably best known for its lively pubs where live Irish music can be heard each night and where musicians from all over the world flock to join in the spontaneous sessions. Your host, Gerard Flanagan, a Doolin native and musician, is known locally as a proponent of Doolin's music tradition, and many evenings in Flanagan's feature music sessions, lessons and impromptu set dances around the turf-burning stove in the hostel's flag-floored common room. Having a keen interest in local history and heritage, Gerard is delighted to share information and stories about Doolin that give his visitors a unique perspective on their stay
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We are located approx 400m from the nearest bus stop and are less than 5 minutes walk to pubs, restaurants, cafe, craft shops, and Doolin Cave Visitor pick-up. Boat trips to the Aran Islands from Doolin Pier, Burren walks, Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience, are just a few of the local attractions. Aillwee Caves, Burren Centre, Burren Perfumery, Lahinch Leisure Centre, are some of the possibilities for daytrips by car making Doolin the ideal base for your holiday in Clare.
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By EMERSON VERMAAT
In July 1999, he was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands for drug trafficking. In March 1986, Bouterse's assistant Etienne Boerenveen, a close associate of Desi Bouterse, was arrested in Miami. Posing as Latin American drug dealers US Drug Enforcement Administration officials had set a trap for him. In exchange for ten million dollars Boerenveen told them Surinamese airports, roads and ports would be made available for drug transports.
Together with Dutch camaraman Paul Ferguson and I traveled to Brazil and Colombia in March 2000 to make a TV report on Bouterse's drug connections. In the preceding year, Bouterse had appeared on Dutch TV claiming he had become a Christian. I had serious doubts over it. After all, as coup leader Bouterse was responsible for the so-called "December murders" on December 8, 1982 when 15 defenseless regime opponents were executed in cold blood in Bouterse's own "Zeelandia Fortress" in Paramaribo. If he would have converted to Christianity in the 1990s, he should immediately have faced justice and apologize to the murdered victims' families.
Incriminating Brazilian police documents on Desi Bouterse and his son Dino
Why did I travel to Brazil? It was because both the Brazilian Federal Police ("Policia Federal") and a Special Investigation Committee of the Brazilian parliament had large files on Bouterse's drug connections and the so-called "Suri Cartel." I partially gained access to these files. Brazilian police investigators even discovered that Suriname had evolved into a kind of "narco state." It was in November 1999 that the Federal Police rounded up a large drug network in the northern part of Brazil. Colombian cocaine was smuggled into Suriname by using small boats. Among those who were arrested was a Brazilian citizen named Leonardo Diaz Mendonça. His role was so vital that without Mendonça there would not even be a "Suri Cartel."
Police listed 73 names of drug criminals who participated in the Mendonça group. Desiré Delano ("Desi") Bouterse (number 18) and his son Dino (number 19) were among them. One police report describes the Mendonça groups as "posing a threat to state security and the legal order." "By bribing politicians and civil authorities, they undermine society." Desi and Dino Bouterse are described as "partners in the international cocaine trade." Police analyzed Mendonça's international calls. It turned out that he made frequent calls to suspected drug traffickers in Suriname ("Traficantes no Suriname"), Peru and Colombia. Until April 1999 Dino Bouterse was attached as "Third Secretary" to the Surinamese Embasssy in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. It is believed that Dino Bouterse passed on instructions from his father Desi to Mendonça who in turn passed them on to his subordinates. Police traced Dino's calls and discovered that the area codes corresponded to the geographical areas where Mendonça happened to be.
One of Mendonça's subordinates was Sebastiao Alves da Silva ("Saba"), also a Brazilian citizen. Saba operated from the city of Tabatinga near the Peruvian and Colombian border (three countries point). It is not far from the Colombian city of Leticia which was then used as a meeting place by Surinamese drug traffickers. So frequent were Saba's visits to Suriname that the Surinamese Ministry of Justice even issued a national identity card to him (profession "gold digger"). Colombian and Surinamese stamps filled many pages of his Brazilian passport. He made frequent phone calls to Suriname, usually to local drug traffickers.
One of the most important Surinamese drug traffickers was Melvin Linscheer, former intelligence chief under Bouterse. He is described in Brazilian police documents as "Bouterse's right hand man" ("mao dereita"), and "a leading member of the Surinamese mafia," "owner of the Golden Dragon Restaurant." Another Surinamese drug criminal was Bert Mangal, who is described "a radicalized Indian in Suriname." Bouterse, Linscheer een Mangal were the leaders of the Suri Cartel. They were involved in a guns-for-drugs trade: trading arms for cocaine with the notorious Colombian FARC rebels. Brazilian planes landed in FARC territory in Colombia where cocaine was loaded on board and these planes then flied nonstop to Suriname to drop the cocaine. Leonardo Mendonça, described in police reports as "Dino Bouterse's friend" coordinated the effort. He received weapons from Suriname and passed them on to the FARC. The FARC in turn supplied cocaine.
Mendonça and Dino Bouterse had a strong bond of friendship. "Dino was the intermediary between Leonardo Mendonça and his father Desi," a high ranking Brazialian police official told me.
Desi and Dino Bouterse were also on very close terms with Rupert Christopher who was Suriname's ambassador in Brazil at the time. As Third Secretary young Dino was his right hand man. The parliamentary investigating committee DPI ("Commissao Parlementar do Inquérito") accused Christopher in 2000 of complicity with drug trafficking between Colombia, Brazil, Suriname and Europe. Christopher refused to appear before the committee. Committee chairman Moroni Torgan told me: "This kind of behavior confirms the fact that he was an important assistant of Desi Bouterse for whom an international arrest warrant has been issued. Should Bouterse ever try to enter Brazil, he will be arrested forthwith. Christopher's refusal to appear before the committee increased our distrust." "We will ask the president of Brazil to expel him officially."
Christopher also declined to see me and my Dutch camera team. Instead, the Surinamese Embassy sent me a lame fax dated February 29, 2000, lambasting "Brazilian authorities" for "unfounded insinuations against high ranking Surinamese authorities which unnecessarily affect the friendly relations between both countries in a negative way."
That is why I concluded at the end of my TV report: "Should Bouterse ever become president of Suriname, Brasil might then consider to rupture diplomatic relations with Suriname." That, however, was back in April 2000 when my program was aired on Dutch TV. Things have changed since. Brazil's current leftist president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva does not view the Colombian FARC drug dealers and guerrillas as a real threat and even follows Hugo Chávez's example of cooperating with Iranian Islamo-fascists who deny the Holocaust. Fortunately, however, chances are now rather slim that Bouterse will indeed be the next president of Suriname.
"chances are now rather slim that Bouterse will indeed be the next president of Suriname."
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Katharina27 posted...
Here, let me explain the system because you don't understand it. Lets use Vaporeon as an example. A regular Vaporeon with no boosts of any kind would look like this.
Well I doubt you are getting that "perfect" eevee on the first hatch. But I will go with the breeding analogy and assume the other eevees are given away as pets lol.
Anyway I should have put IVs in the title instead of EVs. Sorry.
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IVs have always kind of sucked but they make more sense in a breeding term. IV or individual values are unique to each pokemon. In pokemon x & y they cap at 31 per stat. Breeding a perfect pokemon is a lot easier now thanks to the new mechanics like the Destiny knot and everstone trick added awhile back, but still very time consuming and rewarding for us breeders. Makes us wanna pull our hair out at times but eh, its still fun. W/o it id prolly of put down my game a few days ago since i beat the elite for in 2 days heh...I enjoy it.
When breeding dogs for Eukenuba or w/e the dog show is called breeders are very careful when they pick the parents. Making sure every trait is as perfect as can be, and even some of the kids from these near perfect parents might be worse off than any parent. It takes a lot of effort for "marginal" boosts. For instance a pokemon with very high Sp.atk who doesnt use physical moves wont need a perfect Attack IV so u can sorta ignore that particular stat. high/perfect IVs and nature are most important to have in the stats ur pokemon specializes in.
Its still just more depth in favor of the game to have IVs and EVs otherwise all pokemon would be bland clones of each other and lose their individuality. And people would be using cookie cutter builds with most coverage than what they use now, Varied builds with lots of coverage.
Some pokemon are just better than others in terms of stats, not all pokemon are created equal. Its just a fact, but how you use your pokemon is still more important. You could have the most powerful team ever and still be beaten if you don't use your skills well.
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Katharina27 posted...Here, let me explain the system because you don't understand it. Lets use Vaporeon as an example. A regular Vaporeon with no boosts of any kind would look like this.
I mean there is no "Kill this pokemon option" available to you. You can trade it or release it.
Also people within the pokemon game do eat pokemon just fyi. Yes it's cannon. Started in gold and silver with Team Rocket cutting off slowpoke tales and selling them for human consumption and stretches all the way to X and Y and the 3 star restaurants serving you those same delicacies.
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It's an extra thing for rpg to play with. They know that players love getting "higher" stats or ocd to perfection. So they added all these IVs and EVs to make perfectionist players to sink more time. It's optional for me since I can't sink too much time.
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First, Judith Elizabeth Williams took her two cats to the shelter. Then she brought the family dog to the veterinarian, had it euthanized, and wrote a suicide note.
Then, investigators say, the 51-year-old Walnut Creek woman got in the car with her 16-year-old son, Adam Findley Williams, and drove up Mount Diablo. Near the top of the 3,849-foot peak, at a lookout with panoramic views of the Bay Area, she shot the teenager to death with a .357 handgun and turned the gun on herself, authorities said Wednesday.
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Does anyone else appreciative the bibilical allusion? Except that this time there was no divine intervention.
It is amazing that people dig such holes for themselves then pull everyone in along with them. What a selfish hag this woman was to kill her son so the father presumably couldn't "have" him.
Welcome to Obama's America
I've been on Mt. Diablo. Fitting name too - Diablo - Devil.
Lots of nutjobs out in that part of the country. Lots of divorces and acrimonious ones too.
Mom sounds like a typical moonbat lib and dad sounds like a typical RINO.
In the liberal media, the woman must be blameless for these atrocities and a man (preferably the father) is always ultimately responsible.
The boy was 16. The divorce was 13 years ago. I think this is just an attempt to lay some of the blame on the father rather than admit that this "single mom" is another statistic in the mounting evidence that single motherhood is bad for children.
There is some weird trend going on with moms in their 40s-50s killing teenage sons and themselves. There was that story here before of the mom and son that went to an indoor range and she killed him while he was on the firing line, then herself. There were 1 or two more stories like this I've seen in between this latest one and that one.
Mental illness ( and surely you would agree that this woman was deranged) has no logic. While you may think of this as selfish and purposely done to "hurt" her ex, the depth of her pathology wouldn't have allowed her to think that rationally. It is a tragedy of the most horrendous type.
Prayers for the family
Lowlife nutty criminal female... yawn
At least no divine intervention that we know of.
I'll bet both women were democrats.
??? This has never happened before?
Or maybe she was simply insane which means she should have been institutionalized, but the libs threw them out on the streets years ago to mainstream them.
Not unless you believe in reincarnation. I figgered we all had only one life on the earth.
Poor kid.
How are the cats?????
No, I don't, but I don't understand the welcom to Obamas' America reference?
There ought to be a law against that
That's an Abraham and Isaac reference. Always gave me the creeps, the way some people try to defend that one.
Odd that she cared more for the cats than her own son.
At least its odd to someone sane.
The cats were probably female. The dog male.
The ultimate feminist. The Andrea Dworkin of animal lovers.
Welcome to Obamas America
Is that the new "Bush's fault"?
Sounds like Mommy was off her meds? Why would she kill her son but take her cats to the shelter?
Why kill the freakin' dog ??? There are "no kill" shelters around - 'specially in SF ...
Defend what?
Abraham knew that God would raise up Isaac, even if he killed him.
Which is a sense he did, by stopping Abraham from killing him.
You seem to forget that Issac was a miracle baby and that God had promised that he would be Abraham's heir, that is why Abraham told the young men, that THEY would be back.(Heb.11:17)
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Known as Lilly Preserve, it would feature three three-story buildings on 13 acres north of Burleigh Road and west of Lilly Road. The apartments would be developed by Wired Properties, led by Blair Williams, and Phelan Development, led by Sean Phelan.
The buildings would have one- and two-bedroom units, and underground parking. Monthly rents haven't yet been disclosed, but they would be at the "top end of the market," Williams said Wednesday.
Williams said there's a strong market in Brookfield for upscale apartments for older residents who are ready to sell their houses but want to stay in the community, and younger renters who've moved to the Milwaukee area to work for GE Healthcare, Kohl's Corp. and other major employers.
The developers hope to begin construction by late spring if the project wins city approval, Williams said. The apartments would take about one year to build, he said.
Lilly Preserve is the latest luxury apartment development proposed in Brookfield.
Mandel Group Inc. wants to develop two buildings with 36 units and 20 units near Sendik's Towne Center, south of Capitol Drive and west of Brookfield Road. Also, Sutter Creek Residences, proposed by a group that includes Ogden & Co., would eventually have 132 apartments and 12 condos east of S. Barker Road and north of W. Greenfield Ave.
The city's comprehensive plan has been changed to allow more flexibility in considering sites for apartments to address growing demand, said Dan Ertl, community development director.
Lilly Preserve appears to meet that objective, but the proposal "needs to be properly vetted" through the Plan Commission and Common Council review process, Ertl said.
The site is near an 85-acre former quarry, south of Burleigh Road, between Lilly Road and Burlawn Parkway, where Menomonee Falls-based Super Excavators Inc. wants to dump "clean fill" — soil, sod, rocks, clay and sand — from the Zoo Interchange reconstruction project.
That would create a 70-acre park with a lake. The remaining 15 acres along Burleigh Road would eventually be developed as multifamily housing by Siepmann Realty.
Some residents are opposed to the quarry plan because it would require trucks to transport the fill on Burleigh Road for four years.
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SHEPHERDSVILLE -- One little girl will be following in her mother's footsteps this holiday season.
Nine-year-old Evelyn Flaherty, the daughter of Robert and DeeAnn Flaherty, was recently crowned Miss American Crossroads Sweetheart and will be competing in the National Miss American Coed Pageant in Florida next week.
Evelyn's mother, DeeAnn, said her daughter became interested in pageants after watching some old videos of her competitions about five years ago.
MOUNT WASHINGTON – On Oct. 30, Mount Washington Middle School placed a plaque in the gym to honor Omer Stallings, who passed away over the summer.
Mount Washington Middle School teacher Doug Soards said a few words at the event which was attended by members of the Stallings' family. Soards message that night is included below.
As many of you are aware, on July 2nd of tis year, we lost a vital part of no only our Mount Washington community, but our Lady General family.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - Mike Goldsmith, a former member of the United States Army's 184th Ordnance Company Special C4 unit based in Germany, can be considered a hero like all other veterans.
Now Goldsmith can also be referred to as a Hall of Famer, and it was because of his unit he received such a title.
Goldsmith was selected as a member of the 2014 White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame.
Established in 1921, White Castle is famous for its Sliders, smaller square burgers made with 100 percent real beef.
SHEPHERDSVILLE -- Al Ondreka spent 10 years serving his country in the U.S. Navy.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - Big Blue Nation students in some area schools can rest easier now, knowing that they have now been fairly represented.
Last year University of Louisville player Peyton Siva visited Bullitt County students. This year it was recent UK graduate Jarrod Polson.
A member of the 2011-12 national championship team, Polson visited four schools in Bullitt County, including Shepherdsville and Nichols Elementary, along with Bernheim and Bullitt Lick Middle.
The visits were courtesy of the schools' Family Resource and Youth Services Centers.
HILLVIEW -- One North Bullitt senior has embraced her scars to take her to new heights.
Seventeen-year old Juliauna Wilkerson was diagnosed with scoliosis in 2012. She had to have two surgeries placing two rods and 27 screws in her back.
"The scar makes me unique because no one else has it.'" Wilkerson said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Andy White of Ashland, Ohio, proved his talent as a livestock auctioneer at the first of three qualifying events for the Livestock Marketing Association's (LMA) World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC).
The qualifying event took place at Arcadia Stockyards, Arcadia, Fla., on Oct. 20.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - While neither have served in county government, both contenders for the seat of Second District magistrate are well-known in the community.
And both have served on the Mount Washington City Council.
Democratic nominee Brent Wheeler was unopposed in the spring and had a chance to watch as Gary Lawson survived the Republican primary to set up the November battle.
The winner will take the seat currently held by Robert Hunt, who was defeated by Lawson in the spring.
SHEPHERDSVILLE -- In the battle for First District magistrate, there will be a race between a total newcomer to the political circles and a man who has served several terms on fiscal court.
The winner will replace Ruthie Ashbaugh, the current magistrate in the district that runs from western Bullitt County to Mount Washington.
Michael Thomas was unopposed in the Democratic primary. This is his first political race.
Dennis Mitchell won the Republican primary over Ashbaugh in an attempt to return to fiscal court, where he served 13 years.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - One candidate believes that he could be part of a philosophical difference in state government.
The other believes he is someone that will be seen and be heard both in Bullitt County and in Frankfort.
The race for the newly-revamped 26th District will pit Republican incumbent Russell Webber and Scott Wantland, a Democrat making his first run at office.
A major concern of Wantland the past two years has little to do with what side of a political aisle a person takes.
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Biogeography theory and models. Global change. Biodiversity statistics, biodiversity inventory, biodiversity informatics. Species interactions and coevolution, especially between plants and animals (arthropods, hummingbirds). Evolution in structured populations. Conservation biology. Biology and public policy.
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Colwell, R. K. 2013. EstimateS, Version 9.1: Statistical Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species from Samples (Software and User's Guide). Freeware for Windows and Mac OS. (EstimateS has been downloaded more than 70,000 times by users in more than 100 countries. It has been cited in more than 5600 publications.) See Colwell & Elsensohn (2014).Colwell, R. K. 2012. Biota 3: The biodiversity database manager. Software and 880 p. Manual. As of September 15, 2011, Biota is open-source software, distributed under a BSD-3 Open Source License. You may now freely download, use, and distribute fully-enabled copies of the standalone desktop versions of Biota 3 (BiotaAppWin and BiotaAppMac) at zero cost. More than 1000 users in 40 countries and 48 U.S. states.
Colwell, R. K. 2011. RangeModel, Version 5: a Monte Carlo simulation tool for assessing geometric constraints on species richness. (Simulation and analysis software.) Freeware for Windows and Mac OS. See Colwell (2008).
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Chao, A., T. C. Hsieh, R. L. Chazdon, R. K. Colwell, and N. J. Gotelli. In press. Unveiling the species-rank abundance distribution by generalizing Good-Turing sample coverage theory. Ecology.
Colwell, R. K., R. R. Dunn, and N. C. Harris. 2012. Coextinction and persistence of dependent species in a changing world. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 43:183-203. Download pdf.
Dornelas, M., A. E. Magurran, S. T. Buckland, A. Chao, R. L. Chazdon, R. K. Colwell, T. Curtis, K. J. Gaston, N. J. Gotelli, and M. A. Kosnik. 2012. Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1750). Download pdf.
Eren, M. I., A. Chao, W. H. Hwang, and R. K. Colwell. 2012. Estimating the richness of a population when the maximum number of classes is fixed: a nonparametric solution to an archaeological problem. PLoS One 7(5):e34179-e34179. Online open, click here. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K., A. Chao, N. J. Gotelli, S.-Y. Lin, C. X. Mao, R. L. Chazdon, and J. T. Longino. 2012. Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation, and comparison of assemblages. Journal of Plant Ecology 5:3-21. Online open, click here. Download pdf.
Gotelli, N. J., A. Chao, R. K. Colwell, W. H. Hwang, and G. R. Graves. 2012. Specimen-based modeling, stopping rules, and the extinction of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Conservation Biology 26:47-56. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K. 2011. Biogeographical gradient theory. Pages 309-330 in S. M. Scheiner and M. R. Willig, editors. The theory of ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Chazdon, R. L., A. Chao, R. K. Colwell, S.-Y. Lin, N. Norden, S. G. Letcher, D. B. Clark, B. Finegan, and J. P. Arroyo. 2011. A novel statistical method for classifying habitat generalists and specialists. Ecology 92:1332–1343. Download pdf.
Gotelli, N. J. and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Estimating species richness. Pages 39-54 in A. E. Magurran and B. J. McGill, editors. Frontiers in measuring biodiversity. Oxford University Press, New York. Download pdf.
Longino, J. T. and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient. Ecosphere 2(3):art29, doi:10.1890/ES10-00200.1. Online open, click here. Download pdf.
McCain, C. and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate. Ecology Letters 14:1236-1245. Download pdf.
Rahbek, C. and R. K. Colwell. 2011. News and Views: Species loss revisited. Nature 473:288-289. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K. and T. F. Rangel. 2010. A stochastic, evolutionary model for range shifts and richness on tropical elevational gradients under Quaternary glacial cycles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 3695–3707. Download pdf.
Chao, A., R. K. Colwell, C.-W. Lin, and N. Gotelli. 2009. Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators. Ecology 90:1125-1133. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K., N. J. Gotelli, C. Rahbek, G. L. Entsminger, C. Farrell, and G. R. Graves. 2009. Peaks, plateaus, canyons, and craters: The complex geometry of simple mid-domain effect models. Evolutionary Ecology Research 11:355-370. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K. and T. F. Rangel. 2009. Hutchinson's duality: the once and future niche. PNAS (Early Edition), cgi doi 10.1073 pnas.0901650106. Download pdf.
Dunn, R. R., N. C. Harris, R. K. Colwell, L. P. Koh, and N. S. Sodhi. 2009. The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276:3037-3045. Download pdf.
Gotelli, N., M. J. Anderson, H. T. Arita, A. Chao, R. K. Colwell, S. R. Connolly, D. J. Currie, R. R. Dunn, G. R. Graves, J. L. Green, J. A. Grytnes, Y.-H. Jiang, W. Jetz, S. K. Lyons, C. M. McCain, A. E. Magurran, C. Rahbek, T. F. L. V. B. Rangel, J. Soberon, C. O. Webb, and M. R. Willig. 2009. Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecology Letters 12:873-886. Download pdf.
Kumar, A., J. T. Longino, R. K. Colwell, and S. O'Donnell. 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41:338-346.
Carranza, A., R. K. Colwell, and T. F. L. V. B. Rangel. 2008. Distribution of megabenthic gastropods along environmental gradients: the mid-domain effect and beyond. Marine Ecology Progress Series 367:193-202.
Colwell, R. K. 2008. RangeModel: Tools for exploring and assessing geometric constraints on species richness (the mid-domain effect) along transects. Ecography 31:4-7. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K., G. Brehm, C. Cardelús, A. C. Gilman, and J. T. Longino. 2008. Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics. Science 322:258-261. Download pdf.
Sodhi, N. S., L. P. Koh, K. S.-H. Peh, H. T. W. Tan, R. L. Chazdon, R. T. Corlett, T. Lee, M., R. K. Colwell, B. W. Brook, C. H. Sekercioglu, and C. J. A. Bradshaw. 2008. Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms. Diversity and Distributions 14:1-10. Download pdf.
Brehm, G., R. K. Colwell, and J. Kluge. 2007. The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient. Global Ecology & Biogeography 16:205-219. Download pdf.
Horner-Devine, M. C., J. M. Silver, L. M. A, B. J. M. Bohannan, R. K. Colwell, J. A. Fuhrman, J. L. Green, C. R. Kuske, J. B. H. Martiny, L. Øvreås, A.-L. Reysenbach, and G. Muyzer. 2007. A comparison of taxon co-occurrence patterns for macro- and microorganisms. Ecology 88: 1345-1353.
Lees, D. C., and R. K. Colwell. 2007. A strong Madagascan rainforest MDE and no equatorward increase in species richness: Re-analysis of "The missing Madagascan mid-domain effect," by Kerr J.T., Perring M. & Currie D.J (Ecology Letters 9:149-159, 2006). Ecology Letters 10:E4-E8. Download pdf.
Rahbek, C., N. Gotelli, R. K. Colwell, G. L. Entsminger, T. F. L. V. B. Rangel, and G. R. Graves. 2007. Predicting continental-scale patterns of bird species richness with spatially explicit models. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 274:165-174 . Download pdf or read online.
Rangel, T. F. L. V. B., J. A. F. Diniz-Filho, and R. K. Colwell. 2007. Species richness and evolutionary niche dynamics: a spatial pattern-oriented simulation experiment. American Naturalist. 274: 165-174. Download pdf.
Cardelús, C., R. K. Colwell, and J. E. Watkins, Jr. 2006. Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: explaining the mid-elevation richness peak. J. Ecology 94: 144-156. Download pdf.
Chao, A., R. L. Chazdon, R. K. Colwell, and T.-J. Shen. 2006. Abundance-based similarity indices and their estimation when there are unseen species in samples. Biometrics 62:361-371. Download pdf.
Dunn, R. R., R. K. Colwell, and C. Nilsson. 2006. The river domain: why are there more species halfway up the river? Ecography 29:251-259. Download pdf.
Watkins, J. E., Jr., C. Cardelús, R. C. Moran, and R. K. Colwell. 2006. Diversity and distribution of ferns along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica. American Journal of Botany 93:73-83. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K., C. Rahbek, and N. Gotelli. 2005. The mid-domain effect: there's a baby in the bathwater. American Naturalist 166:E149–E154. Download pdf or read online.
Bunker, D. E., F. DeClerck, J. C. Bradford, R. K. Colwell, I. Perfecto, O. L. Phillips, M. Sankaran, and S. Naeem. 2005 (20 October). Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest. Science (Express Reports) 10.1126/science.1117682:1-5. Download pdf.
Chao, A., R. L. Chazdon, R. K. Colwell, and T.-J. Shen. 2005. A new statistical approach for assessing compositional similarity based on incidence and abundance data. Ecology Letters 8:148-159. Download pdf.
Mao, C. X., and R. K. Colwell. 2005. Estimation of species richness: mixture models, the role of rare species, and inferential challenges. Ecology 86:1143-1153. Download pdf.
Mao, C. X., R. K. Colwell, and J. Chang. 2005. Estimating species accumulation curves using mixtures. Biometrics 61:433-441. Download pdf.
Romdal, T. S., R. K. Colwell, and C. Rahbek. 2005. The influence of band sum area, domain extent and range sizes on the latitudinal mid-domain effect. Ecology 86:235-244. Download pdf.
Jetz, W., C. Rahbek, and R. K. Colwell. 2004. The coincidence of rarity and richness and the potential signature of history in centres of endemism. Ecology Letters 7:1180-1191. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K. 2004. Biota 2: The biodiversity database manager. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. (Software and 880 p. Manual. Predecessor Biota 1 has more than 1000 users in 40 countries and 48 U.S. states.)
Colwell, R. K. 2004. EstimateS, Version 7: Statistical Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species from Samples (Software and User's Guide). Freeware for Windows and Mac OS. (EstimateS has been downloaded more than 10,000 times by users in more than 100 countries. It is cited in nearly 250 publications.)
Colwell, R. K., C. X. Mao, and J. Chang. 2004. Interpolating, extrapolating, and comparing incidence-based species accumulation curves. Ecology 85 :2717-2727. Download pdf.Colwell, R. K., C. Rahbek, and N. Gotelli. 2004. The mid-domain effect and species richness patterns: what have we learned so far? American Naturalist 163 :E1-E23. Download pdf or read online.
Koh, L. P., R. R. Dunn, N. S. Sodhi, R. K. Colwell, H. C. Proctor, and V. S. Smith. 2004. Species coextinctions and the biodiversity crisis. Science 305:1632-1634. Online Abstract. Online full text.
Longino, J., Coddington, J. A., and Colwell, R. K. 2002. The ant fauna of a tropical rainforest: estimating species richness three different ways. Ecology 83:689-702. Download pdf.
Gotelli, N., and Colwell, R. K. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: Procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4:379-391. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K. 2000. Rensch's Rule crosses the line: Convergent allometry of sexual size dimorphism in hummingbirds and flower mites. American Naturalist 156:495-510. Download pdf.
Colwell, R, K. 2000. A barrier runs through it...or maybe just a river (Commentary). PNAS 97:13470-13472. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K., and Lees, D. C. 2000. The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:70-76. Download pdf. (Related software: RangeModel.)
Oliver, I., Pik, A., Britton, D., Dangerfield, J. M., Colwell, R. K., and Beattie, A. J. 2000. Virtual biodiversity assessment systems: the application of bioinformatics technologies to the accelerated accumulation of biodiversity information. BioScience 50:441-450.
Colwell, R. K., and Naeem, S. 1999. Sexual sorting in hummingbird flower mites. Annals of Entomological Society of America 92:652-659.
Chazdon, R. L., Colwell, R. K., and Denslow, J. S. 1999. Tropical tree richness and resource-based niches. Science 285:1459a. Download pdf.
Longino, J. T. and Colwell, R. K. 1998. Biodiversity assessment using structured inventory: Capturing the ant fauna of a lowland tropical rainforest. Ecological Applications 7:1263-1277. Download low resolution pdf. Download high resolution pdf.
Chazdon, R. L., R. K. Colwell, J. S. Denslow, & M. R. Guariguata. 1998. Statistical methods for estimating species richness of woody regeneration in primary and secondary rain forests of NE Costa Rica. Pp. 285-309 in F. Dallmeier and J. A. Comiskey, eds. Forest biodiversity research, monitoring and modeling: Conceptual background and Old World case studies. Parthenon Publishing, Paris. Download pdf.
Naskrecki, P., and R. K. Colwell. 1998. Systematics and host plant affiliations of hummingbird flower mites of the genera Tropicoseius Baker and Yunker and Rhinoseius Baker and Yunker (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs. Entomological Society of America. 185 pp.
Colwell, R. K. 1995. Effects of nectar consumption by the hummingbird flower mite Proctolaelaps kirmsei on nectar availability in Hamelia patens. Biotropica 27: 206-217. Download pdf.
Colwell, R. K., and Coddington, J. A. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B) 345:101-118. Download low resolution pdf. Download high resolution pdf. [Reprinted in D. L. Hawksworth, ed. Bio-diversity: Measurement and estimation. Chapman and Hall, London.] (Related software: EstimateS.)
Colwell, R. K., and Hurtt, G. C. 1994. Nonbiological gradients in species richness and a spurious Rapoport effect. American Naturalist 144:570-595. Download pdf. (Related software: RangeModel.)
Colwell, R. K. 1989. Hummingbirds of the Juan Fernandez Islands: natural history, evolution and population status. Ibis 131: 548-566. Download pdf.
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