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How to Create an Alien Ecosystem
Part 6: Finishing Your First Species
Welcome everybody to the final part of this series! In part 5 we hired an artist to draw a page of preliminary sketches of one of our alien Orders (plus one finished, coloured drawing) to create a set of species, and then wrote short species bios for each one based on their unique characteristics.
In this section we're going to split the species into a few taxonomic Families, put them on the map of my sci-fi planet Kaleida, and name them by drawing from these naming strategies.
Overall Name for the Order
So far I've been calling the Order of aliens we have been focusing on 'hares and rabbits' or HRs. Now that we've almost finished with their development we can give them a name as alien as they are.
To do that I need to work out what words describe them as a whole. I'd say 'quick', 'hungry' (they probably spend much of their time eating), or 'timid'. I don't have any languages yet for Kaleida, so for now I'll settle for using Arabic, Latin, and Greek*, and put my chosen words through Google Translate to see which words sound best.
Quick: bsre (Arabic), celer (Latin), grigora (Greek).
Hungry: jawean (Arabic), esuriit (Latin), peinasménos (Greek).
Timid: khajul (Arabic), timidis (Latin), ntropalós (Greek).
I'm liking the idea of calling them something that means 'timid runner' or 'hungry runner', since like rabbits they can run, are prey to many other aliens on Kaleida, and are always grazing. Given that many animal names include influences from more than one language, I'm going to combine the Arabic word for hungry and Greek word for quick: jaweangrigora, and contract and adjust it (the way Old English often did to make a word easier to say in English) to jawagora.
I think that'll do nicely: my aliens definitely look like jawagoras! A quick Google search told me that nobody else has anything of the same name, so jawagora's what we're going to go with!
*Many animal names are drawn from Ancient Greek, not modern Greek, but Google Translate doesn't offer translation to Ancient Greek so I'm settling for the modern equivalent of the language.
Next I want to look over all of the sketches Gij gave me and put them into a handful of groups based on their similarities. For my jawagoras, I'd suggest:
True jawagoras
These three are the most faithful to my original description: two pairs of fins, and one pair of legs.
HR-1 - True
HR-2 - True
HR-3 - True
Finless jawagoras
Quite a few of them lack fins, so this seems a fair basis by which to group them. I was happy to accept finless jawagoras, as limbs can evolve away in real life. That's what happened to dolphins and is in the process of happening to seals. It's even starting to happen in my HR-1!
HR-4 - Finless
HR-7 - Finless
HR-9 - Finless
HR-12 - Finless/has pseudo-fins?
Tailfin jawagoras
These two species have rear fins. I never specified to Gij which two sets of fins the aliens were meant to have so they made some sketches with two pairs of pectoral fins (perhaps on a par with western dragons, which have forelegs and wings on the front half of their bodies), and these ones with two sets of rear/tail fins.
In-universe, this would be a significant enough evolutionary divergence for them to be part of a different branch of the jawagora Order. Imagine humans compared with a kind of primates that mostly used their feet instead of their hands to travel, and how we might classify those.
HR-8 - Tailfin
HR-10 - Tailfin
Predator jawagoras
There's only one in this Family. It's the only one with forward-facing eyes, compared to all the others, which have side-facing eyes.
HR-6 - Front-facing eyes
Who's Left?
That leaves us with two, who I don't have much information about because Gij only drew head-shots of these. Since I have a Family of 'true' jawagoras, I think I'm going to put them there. If I ever commission an artist to draw full portraits of them, they would need to give them two sets of pectoral/pseudo-pectoral type fins.
HR-5 - ? (assigned to True)
HR-11 - ? (assigned to True)
Putting my Species on the Map
Our next task is to give each species a home range. This will help us get a better sense of their locations, which might influence how we name them, and will help us if we expand the ecosystem further so that we can refer back and see what flora and fauna exist in a given location.
I used this excellent tutorial to make a world map for Kaleida, and will be using a lineart version of it to show where each of the species live. I decided to put all the members of each Family on the same continent to add plausibility to their similaries, and the differences between them and the other Families.
Jawagora 1
Family: 'True' jawagora
Range: Jawagora 1 lives on the grasslands around the River Genn. I think these creatures could get across the Genn, perhaps during a dry year, or the more adventurous individuals could swim over - they may be better adapted to live on land than some of the other species, but they're aquatic enough to be capable.
Jawagora 2
Family: 'True' jawagora
Range: More suited to aquatic living than Jawagora 1, #2's population is more restricted to the Genn itself.
Jawagora 3
Family: 'True' jawagora
Range: An inhabitant of the northern Blisters, particularly the lakes that form in this area. The Blisters are hills and mountains, which means they generate wet weather. This in turn creates lakes and tarns that the semi-aquatic jawagora are adapted to thrive in. Being able to shock predators into losing their footing would be a helpful adaptation for these jawagora, which may explain their spiny skirts.
Jawagora 4
Family: Finless jawagora
Range: Native to the coast of Boverok. This species looks so perfectly adapted to coastal life that I don't believe they would work their way inland - they find food in rock pools and are made to stand their ground against the constant buffeting of the surf, so where better to put them than here?
Jawagora 5
Family: 'True' jawagora
Range: Restricted to the River Stou and the lakes of the foothills of the southern Blisters, where it can hide in the water to escape predators. This species' proximity to the ocean may also go a way towards explaining its particularly fish-like features.
Jawagora 6
Family: Predator jawagora
Range: The only member of the jawagora Order to survive on the continent of Onar, it has the whole continent to itself.
Jawagora 7
Family: Finless jawagora
Range: Favours the wetter parts of the foothills of The Hot Rains. The heavy shadows in which it frequently finds itself have led it to evolve rich, iridescent colours that allow it to signal to others of its species.
Jawagora 8
Family: Tailfin jawagora
Range: This jawagora lives in a small range within a portion of the Cranny River that runs through the desert and a nearby lake, where the ground is wet enough to create silt. It digs through this for food and rolls in it to keep cool and free of bugs.
Jawagora 9
Family: Finless jawagora
Range: Another jawagora well-suited to the rainforest. Thrives in the lakes in the foothills of the Hot Rains and the source of the Rivers Reaven and Eest.
Jawagora 10
Family: Tailfin jawagora
Range: This jawagora lives in almost the whole length of the Cranny River, favouring the warmer section. The flow of the river heads north from the Southern Glow, and carries these animals along. They use their fins to maximise the distance they can drift.
Jawagora 11
Family: 'True' jawagora
Range: The grassy land around the River Stou and the wetter parts of the surrounding areas.
Jawagora 12
Family: Finless jawagora
Range: This robust creature thrives in the River Eest and the surrounding wetlands, where its barbs and bristles make it difficult to tell apart from the foliage. Its crest makes it visible during mating season or when warning off a rival.
And Finally... Names!
We've come a long way and this is all that's left for us to do now. Let's take a look at the characteristics of the twelve species and make a decision about their names. I'll be using naming strategies from the Naming Your Species blog post.
Jawagora 1
They live on in a grassy plains terrain, so I think plains jawagora is just fine.
Jawagora 2
In my caption for HR-2 last week I described this species as bare-tailed, and as such, bare-tailed would make a perfectly serviceable name. But they're pretty, slender and graceful, and I keep thinking fairy jawagora when I look at them. I also have a mind to make them very small, so that's the name I'm going to use.
Jawagora 3
Spiny-skirted jawagora? It seems as good a name as any to me.
Jawagora 4
My fully-developed species! Looking at it, I think I'm happy to call it a surf jawagora.
Jawagora 5
I want to call these guys fish jawagora because of that huge, pronounced fishy eyeball, except for the fact that fish don't exist on Kaleida, so I won't call them that. I'm also inclined to give them a name without jawagora mentioned in it, much like most species of bat are called bats, except for the pipistrelle. 'Pipistrelle' is an Italian derivative of 'bat', so I'll follow a similar track here and name these guys khajule, a slight twist on one of the Arabic words we looked at.
Jawagora 6
I'm just going to go for hunter jawagora. I'm not quite satisfied with that, but it'll do for now.
Jawagora 7
I feel like I've been too disparaging about this species! While I still don't fancy the look of its monofin, I've started to quite like its quirky little forest-dwelling self. I've decided it should be brightly-coloured to help it out as it lives its life in the shadows, so why not give it an ostentatious name - shimmering jawagora.
Jawagora 8
Given its hunting grounds and habit of covering itself in fine, wet mud, I think I'll call this one silt jawagora. This is another name that feels too straightforward, so maybe I'll retcon this at some point.
Jawagora 9
I would probably mention its face if I was inclined to keep its face looking that way, but since I'll have that retconned into a more standard jawagora face if I ever have this species drawn again, I'll reference the bristle on its tail instead. Hello, bristle-tailed jawagora!
Jawagora 10
I'm really taken with its broad fins, so why not broadfin jawagora?
Jawagora 11
Given where it lives, river jawagora seems like an obvious choice. It's by no means the only jawagora that lives in rivers, and I wonder whether I might get mixed up at some point in the future. Let's go for fake-eye jawagora.
Jawagora 12
Let's go for crested jawagora!
And that's it - we're finally done! We now have one finished species with coloured and shaded artwork, 11 more with sketches, and a whole ecosystem of aliens at various stages of completion, but crucially, developed enough to each have their own place on Kaleida. Here is a profile of all the information we've generated so far for this Order: Jawagora Species Profile.
I hope you enjoyed the ride, and if you want to work with us on your own worldbuilding, why not request one of my questionnaires? Alternatively book a consultation with us and we'll be happy to help you.
So what's next? This series was designed to take you through the process of making an alien ecosystem as quickly and easily as possible, but worldbuilding is extremely non-linear so there are many directions you could take from here, including:
- developing the rest of your ecosystem (if you want to show off what you're making, why not drop into our Discord server? We have a small, friendly group with a passion for worldbuilding)
- creating your own map (here's the link to that fantasy map tutorial again)
- adding more detail to your existing species, including establishing colours and other special effects
- establishing which of your species will be the most intelligent, so most likely to develop their own civilisations
I'm still adding to the TCC blog and have plans to write more series like this, about:
- creating and developing your fantasy planet
- making ecosystems for your plants and fungi, and
- developing all aspects of culture including languages
so be sure to stay tuned! Whichever direction you take, enjoy yourself!
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SESAC Plans $20 Million Building
SESAC is building a new $20 million home on Music Row. The 110,000-square-foot space will be located at 35, 37, 39 and 41 Music Sq. E., reports the Tennessean. Groundbreaking could take place in the next two months. SESAC is expected to use about 35,000 square feet of the complex and lease the remainder. Completion is scheduled for 2015.
The properties on Music Sq. E. were purchased from The BBR Music Group owner Benny Brown and his wife Carolyn for $3.5 million according to reports. In turn, the Browns bought a 25,000-square-foot property at 65 Music Sq. W., formerly home to Sony/ATV's administration division, for $4.1 million and will move BBR operations there.
The admin arm of Sony/ATV recently moved downtown to the Fifth Third Center at 424 Church Street. Sony/ATV's creative division remains at 8 Music Sq. W.
SESAC is currently in two buildings at 55 Music Sq. E and 66 Music Square W.

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Iohannis: No reason why not use all EU approved vaccines
President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that there is a stage of growth in the number of infections with the novel coronavirus, and the situation is still "under control", but "things can evolve rapidly in a negative direction", saying that there are no reasons not to use all vaccines approved at European level.
"Unfortunately, we are again faced with a stage of visible growth in the number of infections reported daily and in increasing pressure on intensive care units. This new wave may be the very last, given that the vaccination process is in full process and the number of people vaccinated increases from day to day. The situation is still under control, but things can quickly evolve in a negative direction. There is a need for responsibility and a new national effort now," Iohannis said.
He said the chance to escape the pandemic is closer every day, adding that prudence cannot be given up right now.
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What Pieces Like This Never Address Are the 800,000 Missing American Children EVERY Year….Where Do the Missing Children Go???
This is a typical shill piece protecting the perpetraitors of these crimes:
David Icke Answers Question About Missing Children….Child Trafficking to Elite
page 108: Where have all the Children Gone?
SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE: Where Have All the Children Gone? by David Icke, Dec 16, 2007 |
David Icke ello all …I have a crew from Belgian national television coming to see me on Monday to talk about the global trafficking of children. This is especially significant in Belgium after the child kidnappings and murders in the mid-1990s that threatened to implicate the country's political establishment and other famous names.How they got away with it and pinned it all on a sick and pathetic paedophile and child-supplier called Marc Dutroux was the classic establishment response to danger that is repeated constantly across the world.Often I hear people say that if child abuse, kidnap and murder was happening on the scale I suggest then 'they' would not be able to keep it under wraps. What happened in Belgium shows that they can. Missing ChildrenAs I have said so many times, people generally don't get their views and opinions from researched information, but from an 'image', an 'impression', of how things are. With regard to missing children, this 'impression' is heavily influenced by the number of lost children stories they see in the media.If we are talking the national media there are very few. The enormous coverage of the missing British girl, MadeleineMcCann, who was abducted while on holiday in Portugal, is a rare example compared with the number of children who disappear every year.While people get their impression of scale from the lost children featured in the media, staggering numbers of children go missing never to be seen again. I remember calling many American states a few years ago to ask for their missing children figures and it was truly extraordinary. On average, around 3,000 children a day are reported missing in the United States, never mind those the authorities never hear about. Add them together and you are talking hundreds of thousands of children.Belgium is a small country of some ten million people and yet in the Brussels region alone it was revealed that 1,300 minors disappeared between 1991 and 1996. Around the world you find the same repeating story and multi-millions of children go missing every year never to be found.Where do they go? More Missing ChildrenAfter researching this subject in multiple countries for the best part of 20 years, I can tell you what happens to many of them. They become sex objects for the rich and famous; they are trafficked around the world by rings connected to the rich and famous; and they are sacrificed in the satanic rituals of the rich and famous. Others are enslaved into government and military mind-control programmes which abduct children to genetic order.This is covered up by controlling the system at all levels: government; law 'enforcement'; social services; the courts; and the media. The Pedophile NetworkThis is the pyramid system which the perpetrators employ to both abduct children and cover up their monstrous crimes against humanity. The point is that you don't have to control everyone in these organisations and institutions – only those few with the power to stop the truth being investigated and established.This structure operates in every country and the Belgian case is a textbook example of how it works. Belgium is particularly important to the child trafficking, sex and murder rings because of the sheer demand in that country for the 'services' they provide. Belgium only became an 'independent'entity in 1830. It was conquered and re-conquered many times after Julius Caesar arrived to impose the Roman province of Belgica, named after the Belgae, a people of ancient Gaul. Major Illuminati bloodlines like Charlemagne and the Habsburg dynasty have ruled this land and today it has a royal family from the German house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha – the same as the 'British' House of Windsor. BelgiumBelgium is a major global centre for the Illuminati and that's why they have established the headquarters there of both NATO and the European Union (EU).The country may be only about the size of the State of Maryland, but its influence on world affairs through NATO and the EU is massive.Now, here's the nub with regard to children. The number of paedophiles among people in power is absolutely extraordinary for the many reasons I outline in my books. The incest that goes on in the 'elite' families is part of the story, but there are other reasons that include genetics.So here we have this small piece of land that is home not only to the Belgian bloodline establishment, but also to the vast military and political elite attending and administering NATO and the European Union. And where the bloodlines go, so do the child trafficking rings – supply and demand.This is the background to what happened in Belgium and why it was so blatantly covered up. The names involved would have threatened not only the Belgian power structure, but that of NATO and the EU.The story began publicly in 1995 when two eight-year-old girls, Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo, were kidnapped and they were later found dead in a dungeon under the house of Marc Dutroux, the country's most notorious paedophile, who, with his wife, Michelle Martin, had already served a jail sentence for child abduction and rape.But this prime suspect wasn't arrested for 14 months, by which time the girls had died of starvation and been buried. Sabine Dardenne, aged 12, and Laetitia Delhez, aged 14, were also kidnapped by Dutroux and an accomplice in 1996. Months later they were found alive in the dungeon. Two other girls, 17-year-old An Marchal and 19-year-old Eefje Lambrecks, were murdered after being kidnapped by Dutroux in 1995 while on a camping trip. Marc DutrouxWhenever the establishment want to cover up a crime, or hide the real power behind it, watch for police 'incompetence'. You see it over and over – not least in the case of Britain's Madeleine McCann, which has the hallmarks of a professional kidnap to order.Long before his arrest, police went to Dutroux's house and heard the sound of children 'whimpering', but took no action. They said the voices sounded like they were outside. They also found videos at the house – which they didn't watch – and failed to develop film they discovered. Had they done so, they would have seen Dutroux building the dungeon in which the girls were kept.Dutroux and his accomplice, Michel Lelievre, were kidnapping children to order for the Belgian establishment in its many forms. After several of the disappearances Dutroux paid large sums of money into several bank accounts and even when his only income was supposed to be a welfare cheque he was worth an estimated six million francs. It was money for supplying children.Michel Lelievre told police that Dutroux answered to a Brussels 'businessman' called Jean Michel Nihoul, but as the network began to be revealed Lelievre said he had been threatened and refused to cooperate further.Nihoul became known as the 'Monster of Belgium', but he told a BBC reporter that he would never appear in court because 'the information he has about important people in Belgium would bring the government down'. In fact, he was brought to trial, but convicted on far lesser charges.Now the race was on to ensure that Dutroux and his fellow gofers took the blame for everything to protect the big names that were really running the network or being supplied with its kidnapped children.A major block to this cover up was the original investigating judge, Jean-Marc Connerotte, who appeared to be determined to find the truth whatever it was and whoever it exposed. He became a national hero when his actions led to Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez being found alive in Dutroux's dungeon.The establishment required no laxatives at this point, but they seized on the fact that Connerotte attended a fundraising dinner organised by the parents of the victims and this was used to claim that he had compromised his impartiality. It was a lie and a sham, of course, but the elite-controlled Supreme Court ordered him off the case. Phew!From that moment, no new information about the child kidnap and murder ring has been discovered because it was simply not meant to be. Three hundred thousand people protested on the streets of Brussels and workers went on strike at the dismissal of Connerotte. They knew why it had been done, so blatant had the cover up become. StrikeEight years later at Dutroux's constantly-delayed trial, Connerotte broke down in tears as he described the bullet-proof vehicles and armed guards needed to protect him against 'shadowy figures' determined to stop the full truth coming out.'Never before in Belgium has an investigating judge at the service of the king been subjected to such pressure. We were told by police that [murder] contracts had been taken out against the magistrates. As the danger mounted, emergency measures were taken.'The delay in arresting Dutroux, and those eight years before he was brought to trial in 2004, also gave the cover up time to ensure that 20 potential witnesses died in mysterious circumstances that have never been credibly explained. Then there were the 'X-witnesses', especially Regina Louf. Before his dismissal, Judge Connerotte appealed for victims of paedophiles to tell the police in confidence what they knew. Regina Louf was the first of ten to come forward and they were known as the 'X-witnesses'. Regina Louf Their evidence was so devastating that they had to be discredited – especially Louf. The despicable controlled media leaked her name and began the systematic destruction of her character and perceived credibility, not least via the government-owned TV station RTBF, which has asked to interview me on Monday. That should be interesting. The vicious attacks on Regina Louf were not only to stop her evidence being believed, but to warn anyone else of the consequences of speaking out.She told police how she had been 'given' by her parents at the age of 12 to a family friend called Tony Van den Bogaert. He would collect her from school and take her to weekend sex parties where she was forced to have sex and make child porn movies. The parties involved sadism, torture and even murder and they were attended by judges, politicians, bankers and the 'elite' – the dregs – of Belgian 'society'.Louf gave police the names by which she knew these men and described in detail the houses, apartments and districts where it all happened. One of the main organisers, she said, was Jean Michel Nihoul – known to her as 'Mitch' – who was 'a very cruel man'. She said he abused children in 'a very sadistic way'. Also with him was … Dutroux:'Dutroux was a boy who brought drugs, cocaine to these parties – he brought some girls, watched girls. At these events Nihoul was a sort of party beast while Dutroux was more on the side.'This was ten years before the Dutroux murders of the mid-1990s. Jean Michel Nihoul Guess what happened next? The police team that interviewed Regina Louf and found her to be credible were dismissed from the case. They also interviewed the other 'X-witnesses' and had already verified parts of Louf's story, including details of a murder she had witnessed that was still in the unsolved file. Nihoul, she said, took part in the murder while Dutroux watched.The victim was a 16-year-old called Christine Van Hees but her murder had not been investigated for 12 years on the orders of a Judge Van Espen. It turns out that Van Espen had a close relationship with Nihoul and his then wife. The corruption and deceit is fantastic and yet the judge was not sacked when this connection came to light. It's much worse to attend a dinner with the parents of missing children, of course.This police team working with Regina Louf and the 'X-witnesses' were getting too close for comfort and so they had to go. In the spring of 1997, they were sent home without explanation and a new team assigned. Surprise, surprise, they said that Louf and the rest were making it up. As a result, they were not called to give evidence at Dutroux's trial.The police 'investigation' has been simply an exercise in elite protection. Little Mellissa Russo was raped repeatedly over a long period according the autopsy report, but no DNA evidence or forensics have been produced to confirm who did it. Anne Thily, the Prosecutor General of Liege, even lied to a BBC documentary reporter when she said there had been DNA tests, but they were inconclusive because the bodies were too decomposed. The autopsy clearly states that this was not the case. Anne Thily, the Prosecutor General of Liege. No words necessary. Some 5,000 hairs that were found in the Dutroux dungeon were never sent for DNA analysis and this was Thily's extraordinary explanation: 'There was no need to get the hairs analysed as no one else entered the cage. There was no network so there was no need to look for evidence of one'. She then contradicted herself and said all the hairs had been analysed and nothing of significance found, but this was another lie because BBC sources 'at the centre' of the investigation said the hair had not been tested. Carine Russo, mother of the murdered Melissa, was not even allowed to see her daughter's body. She recalls:'I begged and pleaded. I went with my lawyer but they refused. They told me the law did not permit it. "But who will identify my daughter?" I asked them. "Who will confirm that it's her?" "Dutroux has identified her," they told me.'Callousness comes so easy to these people.Three crime reporters published a book about the affair called the The X-Files: What Belgium Was Not Supposed to Know About the Dutroux Affair, which claimed that the truth was covered up to protect the Belgian establishment. One former prosecutor, Judge Guy Poncelet, called the book 'brilliant and convincing'. He said that 'certain political and judicial authorities', with the help of the state radio and television and much of the press, had deliberately played down disturbing evidence uncovered in the Dutroux investigation.What he said was correct, but so monumentally understated.In 2004, Dutroux was jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of young girls; his former wife, Michelle Martin, was given 30 years for kidnapping and rape; and Michel Lelievre got 25 years for kidnapping and drug-dealing. Businessman Michel Nihoul was outrageously acquitted of kidnapping, but jailed for five years for drug-dealing and counts of fraud.The Belgian establishment, along with those at NATO and the European Union, had been spared exposure and now it was business as usual – child abuse on a massive scale. Techniques of suppressionThe techniques of suppression deployed in Belgium have saved people like serial paedophile and child torturer, Father George Bush, from exposure decade after decade. The infamous Franklin Cover-Up case in Omaha, Nebraska, which involved paedophile parties attended by Bush, was a mirror of what happened in Belgium.The ring involved the chief of police, leading politicians and the owner of the local media and when the victims spoke out they got the same treatment as Regina Louf. It's the same the whole world over when the establishment is facing the threat of exposure: Police 'incompetence'; the removal and discrediting of honest police officers; killing and discrediting key witnesses; rigging the courts; using the media as a propaganda machine to mislead the public.How sad it is that the people of Belgium, after all the promise of that mass demonstration, have gone back to their slumber and pretty much forgotten all about it. What's most sad, is that what they were so outraged about more than a decade ago is still going on … every day.CLIPS FROM THE BBC DOCUMENTARY ABOUT REGINA LOUF AND THE DUTROUX AFFAIRPart One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg61N86dUIEPart Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6BhqEarLfo&feature=relatedPart Three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGwJ4RjUWjA&feature=relatedPart Four http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2CVh_kFy0&feature=relatedPart Five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t70jspXSAwg&feature=relatedPart Six http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLHGC0Pwdhs&feature=relatedPart Seven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN2TiNCPnIE&feature=relatedDOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE FRANKLIN COVER-UP THAT WAS BANNED AFTER IT WAS MADEClick here to watch …Wes Penre is the owner of the domain Illuminati News and the publisher of the same. Please also check out his MySpace website: http://www.myspace.com/wespenre.Source: David Icke's Newsletter |


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De De by Gerilson Insrael Ft Rayvanny was released around August 2022. A smashing record that made it well to music charts and still rocking it till date.
The song by the incredibly skilled Angolan performer known as Gerilson Insrael on stage is titled "De De"
Gerilson Insrael Ft Rayvanny recently dropped his new single "De De" and here's the amazing visual.
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Voted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution as the best Atlanta Suburb in 2020 is the little town of Tucker. Centered on its public high school, churches and locally owned and operated businesses, the unincorporated Tucker in DeKalb County is known as a livable city. In 2005, the Atlanta Regional Commission issued Tucker, also known as Main Street Tucker, a grant to develop a Livable Cities Initiative.
Now, Tucker is an interconnected and pedestrian-friendly town. As one of the oldest and largest unincorporated communities in Georgia, it offers many great things to do. With a population of over 35,000, many residents work at the Cofer Brothers building supply business or the Tucker Federal Savings and Loan Association.
Zillow lists 18 homes for sale, starting from $135,000. Rentals on Trulia run from $1,113 to $3,200 per month. About 86.6 percent of these homes are single-family.
Children residing in Tucker attend Nesbit Elementary, Tucker Middle and Tucker High. The high school features the Tucker High School Foundation, which bridges the community and school to assure academic, athletic and artistic excellence. Its sports teams have even won a total of 20 state titles.
Below is a list of things you and your family can do in Tucker, just 14 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Shopping and Dining
- Matthews Cafeteria is a Tucker favorite. Matthews Cafeteria offers catering and menu items such as fried chicken, Salisbury steak, bar-b-q ribs, chicken livers, dried peas, stewed tomatoes, grits, pies, banana pudding, cobbler and so much more.
- Hot Betty's Breakfast Bar is Located on 2316 Main Street. Hot Betty's serves breakfast all day long and dinner on Fridays and Saturdays. Enjoy some fried chicken stacked between two Belgian waffles or an "anything goes" menu for dinner.
- The Local No. 7 is Tucker's classic local bar that serves up everything you need to enjoy a Falcons, Braves or United game with the whole town. While you're there, enjoy the John Henry challenge: seven half pound burgers, seven slices of cheese, bacon and a fried egg. If it's finished in an hour, it's free!
- Ford's BBQ opened in late 2020 and quickly gained major popularity throughout Tucker. Known for it's Texas-style barbecue, enjoy some tasty brisket or St. Louis-style ribs.
- Tucker Brewing Company offers the largest beer garden in Georgia coming in at 8,500 square feet of enjoyable outdoor space. Come in and enjoy a German-style beer and delicious food with all of your friends!
Entertainment and Recreation
- Tucker Nature Preserve is a nine-acre green space located in downtown Tucker. The park contains a half-mile walking loop, a large grassy area and a family picnic area.
- Kelley C. Cofer Park is a park that is sure to please the whole family by offering softball fields, a swimming pool, playground, picnic area, lake and trails. Plus, it is named after the prominent local family, the Cofers of Cofers Brothers.
- Located at 4445 Britt Road, tee off at Heritage Golf Links today. Be sure to host your next golf outing, business meeting or fall event here. Enjoy the beautifully decorated clubhouse with views of the golf course, lake and patio with outdoor fireplace for your next big event.
- Get back in front of the big screen at Tucker Cinema. With low contact online ordering, enjoy a delicious snack or meal at the next movie night.
- The Tucker Recreation Center offers classes in martial arts, acting, dance, Zumba, Pilates, pottery, gymnastics and more. The recreation center is located at 4898 Lavista Road and has something for everyone. Community members even gather to play Scrabble, ping-pong and other games.
- As the home of Discover DeKalb, residents take pride in showcasing their wonderful town. This website is full of fun things to do, places to shop and dine and many other fun facts about Tucker and surrounding DeKalb County.
- Located at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on 4482 Lavista Road is the Tucker Farmers Market. Come and enjoy live music, food trucks and over 25 different vendors. This event happens every Thursday afternoon starting in April and ending in December.
- In 2014 a group of talented volunteers came together and founded the Main Street Theatre. What started as a way to bring more performance and arts to the area has grown to be a favorite among the community. Enjoy the socially distanced past performances online or enjoy future unperson performances happening soon!
Historical Attractions
- The Historic Browning Courthouse is the only standing building of its kind in DeKalb County. The courthouse has been a prominent landmark since 1860, long before the area was established as Tucker. The courthouse is now a small museum, so visit to learn more about the history of Tucker.
Now that you know how livable Tucker is, it's time to take a trip to see it for yourself! For more information about Atlanta new homes in the area, visit www.AtlantaRealEstateForum.com.


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Brett Snowball Design is a full-service creative agency that encompasses graphics, identity and strategy.
At BSD we build highly detailed brands and communication channels, so you don't have to. We specialize in companies operating in complex, regulated industries, seeking a competitive advantage.
Brett Snowball Design is a Creative Agency in Vancouver. Our focus is creating high value brand identity. Three main areas of work include: Creative Services, Production, and Strategy
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Far more than a communications conduit between - customers, members, and employers - BCMEA provides: training, employment advocacy, negotiation, human resources, and developing waterfront culture. Brett Snowball was contracted to help provide visual direction, and undertake graphics & special projects to help support the communications department throughout 2023.
Office Pools Bets [OPBets] is an online sports betting platform operating out of Ontario, Canada. They exist to elevate traditional gambling for the betterment of Canadian bettors, sports fans, and our local communities.
Providing concept strategy for Merrell's OOH advertising campaign, for the Moab 3 launch. I was contracted by a Los Angeles agency [Wheel+Spoke] to assist in concept development for digital strategy, and OOH advertising campaigns with Merrell.
The premise for PacifiCan's project was simple: the previous identity didn't capture the diverse economic regions of BC effectively – this needed to change. Brett Snowball was contracted to create a identity that felt authentic, connected with federal mandates, and worked through challenging legislature to communicate economic empowerment.
I can always count on Brett to give me honest feedback, he has a gift of being able to deliver constructive criticism that moves projects along. Brett is a self starter, he keeps himself motivated and works hard.
As a start-up company, we knew that one of the most critical aspects would be branding. Right from the first conversation, we knew we had found a winner. Brett's approach was creative, insightful and professional.
Brett is responsible for two of our previous branding concepts. We felt like we could really trust him because he truly took our briefs to heart. His technical ability is second to none, and he was an absolute pleasure to work with.


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Koren drama Big Mouth on Disney+ UK
October 3, 2022
By Nik Roseveare
Disney+ has announced that all 16 episodes of new Korean Original thriller series, Big Mouth, are now streaming on Disney+ in the UK.
The series tells the story of Park Changho, one of Korea's most incompetent and unfortunate lawyers. Plagued by a never-ending streak of bad luck and boasting a pitiful 10 per cent success rate in court, his life goes from bad to worse when he is hired to take on a high-profile case and finds himself imprisoned with the murderers he's been investigating. Accused of being the notorious conman 'Big Mouse' after a substantial cache of drugs, money, weapons and phones are discovered in his office, Changho will be forced to become that which he has been accused of if he is to have any hope of surviving life in prison and clearing his name, rather than being the 'Big Mouth' he was known for.
Starring Lee Jongsuk (While You Were Sleeping, I Hear Your Voice) as lawyer Park Changho and Lim Yoona (Hush, The King In Love) as his tenacious wife and nurse. Big Mouth also stars Kim Joohun (Soundtrack #1), Ok Jayeon (Mine), Yang Kyungwon (Crash Landing on You), Kwak Dongyeon (Vincenzo) and is written by Kim Ha Ram and directed by Oh Choonghwan (Start-Up, Hotel Del Luna, While You Were Sleeping).
Big Mouth is the latest series set to join the range of Korean dramas available on Disney+. Fans of Korean storytelling can also enjoy the mystery thriller Grid, about a shadowy figure who once saved humanity but who has now been identified as an accomplice to murder; as well as breakout drama Snowdrop, starring BLACKPINK's Jisoo, in a story about a university student who goes against her family and her country to help the man she loves.


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June 25, 1956 - July 4, 2020
Memorial Gifts & Donations
Michael J. Russell having professed that by the grace of God and faith in his Savior and having the assurance of his salvation, redemption, and a new life after the end of his mortal life, entered into the presence of his Lord and Savior around 4 July 2020 after an extended battle with chronic health issues. We are forever grateful to the family of the liver donor who provided us with 12 more Christmases together. Mike is survived by his parents John W. and Yvonne M. Russell, sister Laura A. (Kenneth) Carter, brother Doug (Karen) Russell and many close friends. Mike will be remembered as a precise and principled Naval Architect and Marine Engineer and an engaged naturalist and environmentalist who respected and appreciated God's handiwork. A man of many talents, he was a master craftsman at all he undertook from baking bread to woodturning to gardening. Mike was a thoughtful and loving brother and son whose impact will be felt for generations to come. Although he will be missed dearly, precious memories of days gone by will be cherished for a lifetime. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia at foodbankonline.org or The Union Mission Ministries of Norfolk Virginia at unionmissionministries.org.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) video generators are revolutionizing the ways people make videos. They offer a fast and affordable method of creating high-quality videos which can be utilized for educational, marketing as well as entertainment purposes. One example of a video Artificial Intelligence generator (AI) is Synthesia that has gained significant popularity over the years. In this report we will look at how Synthesia operates and the advantages of using it.
What is Synthesia?
Synthesia is an online video AI generator that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) to produce high-quality videos. It is an online platform with a wide range of features and tools that enable users to create videos quickly and quickly. Synthesia utilizes a deep learning algorithm to analyze images and videos, which helps it to create realistic and engaging videos.
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What is Synthesia? Synthesia work?
Synthesia uses a combination of algorithms for machine learning as well as natural language processing and computer vision. The process begins with the user selecting a script and uploading their voice-over or selecting one from the Synthesia voice library. The software then analyzes the voice-over and script to identify the proper motions and gestures required for the video.
The software then creates a 3D model of the presenter which matches the voice of the user and their facial expressions. The software then overlays the 3D model on the virtual set and then creates the video with realistic motions and gestures.
The benefits of using Synthesia
One of the main advantages that comes with making use of Synthesia is that it is cost-effective. Creating high-quality videos can be expensive, especially when hiring performers and crews for production. Synthesia eliminates the need for these expenses, making it an affordable option for businesses and individuals looking to produce professional-looking videos.
Making video content can be an lengthy process. It requires a lot of planning, coordination and execution. Synthesia can make the process faster by automating the majority of the video creation process. With Synthesia it is possible to create a high-quality video in just a few minutes.
Another benefit of using Synthesia is the ability to customize the videos. Users can select from a variety of backgrounds, virtual sets, and characters. They can also modify the colors, fonts, and logos to fit their brand's visual identity.
Easy to use
Synthesia is an easy-to-use platform that is user-friendly. It does not require technical knowledge or previous video editing expertise. The program has a simple drag-and-drop interface, which makes it simple to upload voice-overs and scripts.
Synthesia creates videos that are both realistic and engaging. The software uses advanced AI algorithms to create movements and gestures that correspond to the voice of the user. This provides a more exciting as well as a more immersive and enjoyable experience for the viewers.
Use cases to protect Synthesia
Synthesia is a great tool to make marketing videos. Businesses can utilize Synthesia to create promo videos, products demonstrations as well as explainer videos. These videos can be posted on websites, social media as well as other channels for marketing to promote brand awareness and drive sales.
Synthesia can also be used to aid in education. Education professionals and teachers can make instructional videos, training courses as well as online courses. These videos can be used to improve the learning experience and create a more enjoyable and engaging experience for students.
Synthesia can be used to produce entertaining videos like comedy sketches, music videos, and short films. It is a cost-effective method for small production teams to create quality content.
Synthesia is a powerful video artificial intelligence generator which offers a range of benefits to users. It is cost-effective, time-saving and easy to use and creates realistic videos that are engaging for viewers. The platform offers a broad range of features and customization options that make it appropriate for a range of use cases, including education, marketing and entertainment. Synthesia constantly improves and developing new features that enhance the user experience. accessible and user-friendly.
In the end, Synthesia offers a powerful solution for video creators, offering the most efficient, cost-effective as well as high quality video creation platform. Its use of AI and machine learning technology has enabled it to create videos that are ever more realistic and immersive, making it a perfect tool for marketers, educators and content creators to connect with their audiences. The benefits of Synthesia are evident it's popularity only increasing as video continues to be an integral part of marketing and communication strategies.
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JonBenét Ramsey Ransom Note Holds Coded Clues To Murder Mastermind
Nearly 22 years after the brutal murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, the case has been blown wide open by the mysterious ransom note left at the scene of the crime — which is believed to contain coded messages that identify her killer.
RadarOnline.com has learned the 350-word note is filled with a bizarre series of lettered patterns and words written backward that investigators have been analyzing with CSI-like forensic lighting.
Now the cryptic ransom note has sparked a fresh manhunt in Boulder, Colo., where a crack team of cold case investigators is assisting detectives.
"Without a doubt this is a breakthrough for the teams working on this case," said a top law enforcement source. "It's another step toward revealing the identity of those responsible."
A leading forensic investigator with long-standing ties and influence in the Ramsey case, Roscoe Clark, who has assisted cops in their investigation, strongly believes unraveling the ransom note's hidden message will solve the crime.
Clark has used state-of-the-art Polilight PL500 equipment, a device that utilizes high-powered infrared and ultraviolet bulbs, to filter out the different shades of gray water-based marker used to write the letter.
The tests have also revealed handwriting pressures, drafts and mistakes in the note.
"What's important is that by using CSI lamps I can see the overlap of the ink so that I can tell which words were written in reverse," Clark told RadarOnline.com. "It points to a code or a hidden message."
Roscoe has a chilling theory on why the note was written in code.
"I think the mastermind of the murder does want people to know who he is, but he doesn't want to give away his identity because he's too proud and believes he's smarter than the police," he said.
Clark's assessment is corroborated by renowned forensic document expert Brenda Anderson — who studied the three-page ransom note and explained such letters are typically short and to the point.
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"I've never seen a three-page ransom letter," Anderson told RadarOnline.com. "If someone goes to great lengths to write three pages there has to be a motive. Why go to all that trouble?"
"Maybe this individual was so twisted he left the clues behind in the note and it's somehow coded," she continued. "It's something that needs to be pursued because the handwriting is very unusual."
Ramsey was sexually violated and strangled inside her family's ritzy home in Boulder on Christmas night in 1996.
Cops suspect the killer broke a basement window, crept into the house and knocked the 6-year-old out with a stun gun.
Ramsey was carried to the basement, bound, silenced with duct tape, molested, strangled with a garrote and smashed in the head with a baseball bat.
After her body was discovered by her dad, John, the ransom note demanding $118,000 was found on the kitchen staircase.
"This is a giant step in the right direction," said renowned attorney Peter Gleason, who once ran for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
"There is no such thing as over-analyzation of evidence when it comes to criminal matters. This could definitely lead to new suspects!"
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Newly discovered ankylosaur species had bizarre armor unlike any other
The Natural History Museum has announced the discovery of a new ankylosaur species that, the scientists discovered, had a unique type of armor that hasn't been observed on any other vertebrates — extinct or living. What makes the armor so unique? Not only did this particular dinosaur have large spikes protecting its ribs, the spikes were also attached to its ribs.
The unique armor was revealed by a fossil discovered in Morocco; it is estimated to be between 167 million and 163 million years old, making it the oldest ankylosaur discovered. The dinosaur was herbivorous and, adding to its notability, is the first time an ankylosaur has been found in Africa.
The ankylosaur had bony spikes around its body to help protect it from the giant predators that lived during the same time period. Unlike its peers, however, this particular dinosaur had large spikes that were fused to its rib bones rather than embedded within the skin.
Typically speaking, ankylosaurs featured bony plates in their skin, some of which grew outward to form protective spikes. The researchers identified the unique armor as belonging to an ankylosaur by cutting up the fossil bone, making thin sections of it, and studying the bone structure. During the time period from which the fossil originates, only ankylosaurs had the same signature found in the bone. Why the spikes formed this way remains a mystery.
The researchers say it is possible the ankylosaur was one-of-a-kind among its peers, but it is also possible the fused rib-spike armor was a variation in the early evolution of the species' armor. Natural History Museum armored dinosaur expert Dr. Susannah Maidment commented on the discovery, explaining:
Having armour fused to a rib is just totally bizarre. It is totally unlike any extant or extinct vertebrate that we are aware of. We don't see this phenomenon of an osteoderm fusing to a rib in any other vertebrate, living or dead. It is difficult to come up with analogues, really, because there aren't any.


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Twitter has begun testing a new feature that lets you follow topics in addition to people. There will be a list of topics curated by Twitter which you'll have to pick from, starting with sports, but it should expand to include celebrities, TV shows, and other common discussions.
On Tuesday, the company announced that it's trying out a way for users to follow sports topics such as the New England Patriots, cricket or wrestling.
Currently, the test is limited to Android users and includes a companion test that lets you create separate lists to follow individual interests, including keywords and individual users.
Once you follow a topic, you'll see a handful of tweets in addition to those from people you already follow. You'll also have the option to mute topics, so you don't see these tweets all the time, plus to avoid spoilers around TV shows or sports events.
The site is also exploring a way for you to create a separate timeline that includes certain accounts and topics you follow. The topics a user follows will be public, and it will be easy to subscribe or unsubscribe to a topic.
The intent of the new feature is to make it as easy to follow an interest as it is to follow a person on Twitter, said Sriram Krishnan from the Twitter product group.
These topics are being curated with the help of machine learning. "Twitter is about what is happening right now," said Rob Bishop from the company's product group. Human curation would be too slow to curate such topics, he argued. "We think that altogether this will make Twitter a more powerful interest platform," said Wally Gurzynski, a product manager at the company.
Twitter isn't softening on its enthusiasm to test new features. True to rumors and some news we shared with you not so long ago, Twitter is testing an option in Android to snooze notifications. You're limited to one-, three- and 12-hour increments. However, those could do the job if your tweet has gone viral up to a point that your phone tends to blow up with mentions and DMs while you're out on the town.
"The company is also exploring other features such as a search tool for your direct messages and the ability to reorder photos after you attached them to a tweet," reports CNET.
However, the edit button is not expected anytime soon.
None of these are guaranteed to see a widespread release, but topic following stands a better chance than most. Twitter's continuous challenge has been to help newcomers decide who and what to follow.


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Digital Marketing Learnership – Sauce Advertising
Digital Marketing Learnership – Sauce Advertising
Employer: Sauce Advertising
Closing date: 13 August 2021
Stipend: R6500 per month
No of posts: 2 Positions Available
Location: Johannesburg
Start date: 16 August 2021
Minimum Requirements;
- Grade 12 (Matric)
Sauce Advertising invited unemployed youth to apply for Digital Marketing Learnership, successful candidates will receive a monthly stipend.
Sauce Advertising is a forward-thinking creative agency that never goes with the flow. We create innovative solutions that move people and shift brands. We are through-the-line marketing experts that build brands from the ground up. From corporate identity development and fully integrated campaign strategies to digital, social media, and organic marketing, we do it all and we never take a 'one-size-fits-all' approach.
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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program's Southern Great Plains Cloud and Radiation Testbed site central facility near Lamont, Oklahoma, offers unique operational water vapor profiling capabilities, including active and passive remote sensors as well as traditional in situ radiosonde measurements. Remote sensing technologies include an automated Raman lidar and an automated Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), which are able to retrieve water vapor profiles operationally through the lower troposphere throughout the diurnal cycle. Comparisons of these two water vapor remote sensing methods to each other and to radiosondes over an 8-month period are presented and discussed, highlighting the accuracy and limitations of each method. Additionally, the AERI is able to retrieve profiles of temperature while the Raman lidar is able to retrieve aerosol extinction profiles operationally. These data, coupled with hourly wind profiles from a 915-MHz wind profiler, provide complete specification of the state of the atmosphere in noncloudy skies. Several case studies illustrate the utility of these high temporal resolution measurements in the characterization of mesoscale features within a 3-day time period in which passage of a dryline, warm air advection, and cold front occurred.
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Rupat beach in Rupat Island
Pantai Pesona Rupat is the name given to the island of North Rupat, Bengkalis, Riau. Rupat Island elongated and deal directly with the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia.
Rupat beach was once has a name that varies according to the name of the residents of each village, namely Pantai Tanjung Lapin, Pantai Tanjung Rhu and Pantai Tanjung Punak. This beach extends from east to west and dealing directly with Tanjung Rusa in Port Dickson, Malaysia. The beach area which has a group of mineral soil with levels of youth development, either with or without the characteristic hidromorfik traits.
We can see the passing ships, both national and internationl at his northern Beach. it is supported by state of the sea that has a depth of 10-30 meters.
Because of the unavailability of public transportation to this islanf, it finally covered by a society that provides motorcycle taxi to drive the tourist to the location. The transportation to Rupat is actually can be taken from speedboat, Roro Ship or Pompong ship from some of ports.
Rupat island has an area of 1524.84 km2, which is actually a combination of four islands that seemed to coalesce into an island. The island is onsists of two sub-districts; Rupat sub-district and North Rupat. Rupat sub-district located in the south Rupat and it has 10 villages, namely, Makeruh, Batu Panjang, Hutan Panjang, Pangkalan nyirih, Pergam, Sei Cingam, Sukarjo Mesim, Tanjung Kapal, Terkul and Teluk Lecah.
The condition of Rupat beach is similar to Sanur Beach in Bali, with flat sandy beach and additional stunning view from Port Dickson in Malaysia at night
Moving Bats and Islands in Zamrud Lake
Luxurious and quiet. Perhaps this is one of the appropriate nicknames for the calm and spacious beauty of Zamrud Lake. The lake which located in conservation area is located in Siak Sri Indrapura Regency, Riau province. Besides having a large surface, this lake also has islands. There are large and small islands. Uniquely, these islands can move. This island is marshland floating above the lake. Big and deep, of course. You can not imagine how deep this lake is. Not only that. On this big island also live thousands of…
Kerumutan Reserve Forest, Riau
This wildlife reserve forest is spread in an area of ??1,332,169 ha and it inhabited by many species of flora and fauna that typical of lowland forest. Its area of mangrove trees decorated corridor through the Kampar River, that made ??it so special among other forests which spread across the island of Sumatra. Kerumutan reserve forest is a conservation area that located in Kerumutan sub-district and spreading across two districts namely Pelalawan and Indragiri Hulu, Riau Province. The forest boundary is the River of Indragiri, Kampar River, the East Coast…
Rimbo Tarantang, Riau
Rimbo Terantang tourism forest is located in Padang Lawas village. This tourism is having marvelous nature tourism between the genuine forest and it has exotic flora. This tourism object is officially becomes the research area for nature phenomenon for both flora and fauna. This type of tourism for this forest is adventurous tourism; the visitors who come to this place are those who seek for adventure need while enjoy the fresh atmosphere, chilling situation and great sightseeing. www.indonesia-tourism.com
Merbau Island – Riau
Merbau Island Merbau is an Island and a district in the Meranti Islands regency, Riau, Indonesia. The city district is Renak Rungun. Meranti Islands Regency is a result of the expansion area Merbau District, formed on January 26, 2011. Where the Pulau Merbau District is covering the entire island of Pulau Merbau, while Merbau subdictrict covers the entire island of Padang. The island has bordered with Malaka strait in north, west Tebing Tinggi sub district in south, Merbau sub district in west, west Rangsang in east. www.indonesia-tourism.com


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Inherited from colonial powers, borders in the Sahara have divided the pre-colonial territories of some of the main desert communities, including the Tuareg (straddling the borders between Algeria, Mali, Niger and Libya), Tubu and Goran (living in Chad, Niger and Libya) and Zaghawa (in Chad and Sudan). Other communities have moved, or sometimes been forcibly removed, across considerable distances and are now scattered over several territories – for example, the Awlad Suleiman (scattered between Libya, Niger and Chad) and Rizeigat Arabs (spread between Sudan, Chad and Niger).
Except for Chad, where Tubu, Goran and Zaghawa rebel leaders have successively taken power since 1979, none of these pastoralist communities have benefitted from consistent representation or power within central governments in any of the countries where they live. Rather, they have managed, including through their ability to cross borders and thus find rear bases and support for their armed groups, to exert an important degree of control over borderlands and cross-border routes, each community mostly controlling its own traditional homeland.
This largely explains why these communities have, for decades, engaged in smuggling licit or illicit goods across borders, as well as facilitating the journeys of migrants travelling to North Africa and eventually Europe.[3] During Qaddafi's rule, members of those communities were not only smugglers but also took part themselves, alongside members of other Nigerien, Chadian and Sudanese ethnic groups, in 'circular' migration flows to Libya. Most worked in agriculture or construction and sent remittances to their countries of origin before their return, often after several years away. Others remained in Libya and formed diasporas. Many also became back-up combatants for Qaddafi's forces.
Lately, cross-border dynamics and regional similarities have been reinforced by a spectacular series of gold rushes across the Sahel and the Sahara. Beginning in North Darfur in 2012, gold was also discovered that same year to the west in the Chad-Libya borderlands, then in northern Niger and its border with Algeria in 2014.[4] Migrants sometimes worked in gold mines to fund their journey, but gold mines also acted as an economic alternative to migration, while the closure of gold mines encouraged further migration. In addition, vehicles rushing to gold mines transported both workers and migrants, and some cross-border gold mines became new migration hubs, as detailed below in the case of Chad.
Gold mines across five countries (Sudan, Chad, Niger, Libya and Algeria) have particularly attracted more experienced Darfurian miners, including Zaghawa – among them members or former members of Darfur rebel movements. Rebels and former rebels from both Darfur and Chad are also among mercenaries hiring their military and desert skills in Libya, road bandits active in Libya and Niger, drug traffickers between Niger and Libya, and smugglers of both goods and migrants between Libya and the three countries south of it.
The three countries south of Libya differed in their relations with Qaddafi's Libya, and thus in their positions on the 2011 Libyan revolution and their relations with factions which have emerged since. They had a similar history, however, of being main places of origin for those migrants who mostly travelled to Libya, rather than to Europe, in order to work there, often seasonally, and send remittances home. In 2018, according to International Organization for Migration (IOM), Niger, Chad and Sudan were the first origin countries of 575,000 sub-Saharan migrants numbered in Libya (actual numbers are likely to be much higher), representing 18%, 15% and 10% of the total, respectively.[5] However, some of those migrants – mostly Sudanese, with 6,221 arrivals in Italy in 2017 – are now increasingly continuing their journey across the Mediterranean, often without having planned for it initially but pushed by the insecurity and violence they experience in Libya.[6]
Beyond well-established common circular migration patterns, the three states south of Libya are also, to various extents, transit countries for migrants from other countries on their way to Libya and eventually Europe. Niger is the main transit country for West African, largely economic, migrants, with a peak near 400,000 in 2016.[7] Sudan is both a main country of origin and a transit country for a smaller number of migrants from the entire Horn of Africa, largely fleeing wars and authoritarian regimes across the region. Chad is only, although increasingly, a secondary transit country for migrants from central, east and west Africa (as will be discussed in more detail below).
Migrants often do not know for certain their final destination when they leave, and only a few of those reaching Libya are aiming for Europe and travel to Europe. What they do largely depends on the security and economic situation they face once in Libya. Under Qaddafi, Libya was a relatively safe place for migrants, a place where sub-Saharan economic migrants could find work, earn money and send remittances home. It was also a place where political refugees from countries not friendly to Libya could find refuge – despite the fact that Libya had no asylum law – and eventually support for their cause, without necessarily travelling to Europe.
Qaddafi himself had proved a master at regulating migrant flows, sometimes violently preventing migrants from leaving Libya by sea, and at other times opening borders and threatening Europe with an African 'invasion'. The Libyan 'Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution' thus used African diasporas on his soil as a bargaining chip to get both political and financial support from European governments already panicked by the far right's electoral successes. This lesson has been learned by Libyan rival factions, competing to get international recognition and support. Further south, sub-Saharan governments also well understand that the refugee crisis gives them a chance to gain leverage over Europe and obtain further political and financial support.
Indeed, Sudan, Chad and Niger had already excelled at presenting themselves as the West's allies against terrorism in order to get both political and economic support. As early as 2001, following the September 11th attacks, Sudan, although then considered a sponsor of terrorism, was quick to turn this disadvantage into an opportunity, proposing intelligence cooperation with the US against terrorism – cooperation that has been ongoing since. More recently, in 2017, the pursuit or reinforcement of this cooperation has been one, if not the main, criterion for the withdrawal of US economic sanctions against Sudan.
Similarly, both Chad and Niger have been key allies of the West – mostly France and the United States – against jihadi groups in the Sahel. Chadian forces were the backbone of international interventions in Mali and against Boko Haram. Both Chad and Niger also welcomed Western forces on their soil and presented themselves as enclaves of stability in a fragile Sahelan strip. Those activities allowed Niger, Chad and Sudan to become crucial regional allies of the West. The migration issue offers another opportunity to reinforce such support, crucially for three states – Sudan, Chad, and Niger – that are facing economic crises and badly in need of hard currency.
In recent years, migration has led to European financial and economic support to Niger and Sudan, notably with amounts of around EUR 200 million dedicated to migration in each country. However, as the political situation in those countries differs, the funding is not used in the same way. At peace for ten years and more democratic, Niger was seen as a model recipient: European funds there are largely distributed to the government itself, for uses including the reinforcement of security forces, and mostly dedicated to directly stopping migration flows.
But in war-torn and undemocratic Sudan, where conflicts and authoritarian rule have caused the displacement of several million citizens, Europe was arguably more cautious. Its funds are largely aimed at rather classical development projects addressing 'root causes' of migration, and managed through implementing agencies, mostly from EU member states. Yet the EUR 40 million 'Better Migration Management' programme that the EU adopted under the Khartoum Process includes Sudan as one its target countries. Under this programme, the EU invests in 'the provision of capacity building to government institutions' as well as 'harmonising policies' and laws against 'trafficking and smuggling', and 'ensuring protection of victims and raising awareness'.[8]
EU member states, including Italy, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, have also engaged bilaterally with the governments of Niger, Chad and/or Sudan, with a focus on strengthening border control.
The three states south of Libya and Libyan rival powers have their own interests in terms of border management or control, differing from European priorities and among themselves. There has been little cooperation between them so far, with the exception of the Chad-Sudan joint border force created in 2010 to put an end to five years of proxy war and rein in both Chadian and Sudanese rebels.[9] Recently, on 31 May 2018, Niger, Chad, Sudan and the Libyan GNA signed a security cooperation agreement in N'Djaména after several meetings. The agreement mirrors and expands the 2010 Chad-Sudan arrangements. It includes notably a right of pursuit for one country's forces into a neighbour's territory, which Chad has already used to chase Darfur rebels crossing from Chad to Sudan. It also invites the four countries' judiciaries to sign, within two months, other cooperation agreements facilitating extraditions.[10]
This provision responds very much to a Chadian demand to give a legal framework to extraditions of Chadian rebels to Chad, which had already taken place in the past – including from Niger and Sudan, in 2017 and 2018 respectively. While diverging interests reportedly prevented strong practical commitments, there were some common interests, such as the similar Chadian and Sudanese priorities to prevent their respective (and sometimes allied) rebellions to find support in Libya, and the Nigerien concerns about the presence of Chadian and Sudanese armed groups on its territory.[11]
The implementation of border controls and anti-smuggling operations in Niger and Sudan has resulted in the diversification of migration and smuggling routes in the region. One effect of anti-migration policies in Niger, for example, has been the push of West African migrants toward Chad. Although no reliable figures are available, the numbers of West Africans, in particular Malians and Senegalese, crossing Chad into Libya appear to have increased in 2017-18.[12]
Our interviews with newly arrived migrants in Europe and migrants and smugglers in Chad and Niger (see Appendix for this study's methodology) confirm that migration routes have diversified. Some migrants travelled to Chad after being arrested in Niger and expelled. In March 2018, for example, H.S., a Burkinabe migrant, reached the Chadian capital, N'Djaména, by road from Niger. Prior to this, on his way to Libya, he had been arrested in Agadez by the Nigerien police and imprisoned for two days. He had then been given three days to leave Agadez, and threatened, if he did not comply, with a five-year prison sentence.[13] From N'Djaména, he was planning to travel north towards Libya.
Other West Africans now travel through Nigeria and Cameroon to N'Djaména before they head north to Faya. Others cross the Niger-Chad border, either north of Lake Chad, toward Mao, or further north, to reach the Tibesti Mountains at the border with Libya. Some even cross Chad all the way to the Chad-Sudan border, or even enter Sudan, to use routes going from there to Libya.[14] A migrant smuggler in Tina, on the Chad-Sudan border, explained: 'Some West African migrants who have been blocked in Niger try their luck here.'[15] There are also reports of an increase in Sudanese smugglers in Agadez itself, who have come to organise the journeys of West African migrants through Chad and Darfur.[16]
In a similar vein, the increase in border controls on the direct routes from Sudan to Libya has resulted in a number of migrants now first crossing the Sudan-Chad border before heading to Libya through Chadian territory.[17] Since 2017, it reportedly became the most important route between Sudan and Libya.[18] Old and new routes between Chad and Libya have recently been used by migrants not only from Sudan but, more unusually, from the entire Horn of Africa. Ethiopian migrants interviewed in Tina, on the Chad-Sudan border, in March 2018, explained: 'In January, we left Khartoum for Tina because we were informed that this route is easier than the direct route from Khartoum to Libya, on which there are many controls.'[19] Some migrants decide to travel through Chad after being intercepted at border controls in Sudan; one who did so was Y.A., a Sudanese asylum seeker, who reached Tina after being arrested and tortured for ransom by Sudanese government-backed militia forces in charge of controls in the border regions with Libya and Egypt.[20]
In recent years, notably as a result of anti-migrant policies in both Niger and Sudan, Chad has become a new transit country for both West African and East African migrants. Migrants from countries such as Senegal, Mali, Liberia, Somalia and Eritrea, who were rarely seen in Chad in the past, are now crossing the country towards Libya.[21] It does not appear that Chad has become the next big migration hub, but the growing number of migrants passing through Chad does show that nationally focused migration policies tend to result in the displacement of routes rather than in stopping migration completely. This may have important consequences for the stability of neighbouring countries caught unaware by such dynamics, as the case of Darfurian refugees in Agadez (discussed below) illustrates.
Since December 2017, there has been an unexpected influx of Sudanese in Agadez, reaching close to 2,000 people in May 2018.[22] Most are Darfurians coming from southern Libya. Some also came through Chad, from Darfur itself, from Darfur refugee camps in Chad, or from gold mines in northern Chad.[23] Those who came through Chad include the wives and children of men who had come earlier from Libya. Most of those Sudanese were moving through Libya or Chad, and its seems their movements were redirected to Agadez by UNHCR's presence there, particularly with the opening of 'guesthouses' in January, and more crucially with the possibility that asylum seekers evacuated from Libya would be resettled in Europe.[24]
'Until the end of last year, we didn't have any idea to go to Niger, until we heard the UNHCR opened camps in Niger to resettle people outside Africa, in Europe and America', explained a Sudanese refugee in Agadez.[25]
These rumours referred to the more than 1,000 migrants, notably Darfurians, identified as possible asylum seekers, which had been evacuated from Libya to Niamey after November 2017. EU member states had promised to grant them asylum.
The Sudanese influx in Agadez is another unintended consequence of migration policies based on a country-specific than a regional approach. Beyond the 'pull factor', it seems the fact that crossing the Mediterranean has become increasingly difficult has acted as a push factor to Niger for Darfurian refugees in Libya.[26] 'I just wanted to cross the Mediterranean to go to Europe,' explains B., one of the Darfurians in Niger, who left Sudan to Libya in 2017. 'But it's difficult. Now people know everyday the EU prevents people to cross. As Darfurians, we are refugees and we thought it would be better to come to Europe legally. We heard the UNHCR offered good services in Agadez and could take us somewhere else, in Europe. Some of us also heard the French government gave asylum in Niger.'[27]
An additional pull factor is indeed that, since October 2017, French asylum authorities sent officers to both Niamey and N'Djaména, in order to interview asylum seekers there, after pre-selection by UNHCR – the first time such missions have been sent to Africa. The aim is to resettle 3,000 refugees in France.[28]
Both the Nigerien government and local communities in Agadez viewed the Sudanese presence with suspicion.[29] Before their arrival, there had been, since 2016, an increase of carjacking in north-eastern Niger on the road between Dirkou and Libya. This was largely attributed to Darfurian and Chadian Zaghawa, including rebels and former rebels operating from Libya. Members of the Chadian army based in Tibesti were also accused. Those new foreign armed groups also attacked drug traffickers before being asked to escort drug convoys across northern Niger, thus competing with local Tuareg and Tubu youths involved in this activity.
Prior to this, since 2014, there had also been an influx of Darfurian and Chadian Zaghawa gold miners in the newly discovered Djado gold mines mid-way between Dirkou and Libya, and to a lesser extent the Tchibarakaten mine on the Niger-Algeria border. Those miners included rebels, former rebels and Chadian soldiers. With more experience in gold mining, the Darfurians aroused jealousy from Nigerien miners and local residents, triggering some deadly incidents.
As soon as the Sudanese asylum seekers arrived in Agadez, Nigerien authorities characterised them as 'criminals', 'fighters', 'possible members of armed groups in Libya' and 'ex-mercenaries who fought in Libya', and claimed they were transiting to Niger on their way to other conflict theatres to offer their services as mercenaries.[30] To the EU, they were even presented as 'jihadists'.[31]
In May 2018, some of those (unconfirmed) allegations were used by Niger as a justification to deport 135 of the asylum seekers back to the Libyan border, which constitutes a violation of the non-refoulement principle.[32] They were forcibly driven to Madama, the northernmost Nigerien (and French) garrison, 80km from the Libyan border. Those left in Agadez managed to contact Sudanese traders in Um-el-Araneb, in southern Libya, who sent trucks to drive the expelled Sudanese to Libya, for the price of XOF 6,000 (EUR 9) each. This incident goes completely against EU policies aimed at preventing migrants from entering Libya and also questioned the EU's depiction of Niger as a 'safe country' in which to relocate migrants returned from Libya.[33]
Sudanese refugees in Niger were also reportedly threatened with deportation to Sudan – which, according to B., 'is the great fear'.[34] Fearing new arrests, many reportedly returned to Libya or Chad of their own volition. By late June 2018, the number of Sudanese in Agadez had decreased to 1,200.[35]


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The Cuban chefs helping defrost relations with the US
Four entrepreneurs are in Miami to share their knowledge and learn management skills
The date August 14, 2015 will soon enter the history books. That is when United States Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to travel to Havana to reopen the US embassy that closed there 54 years ago. The event will be another important step in normalizing diplomatic relations between these neighbors who regarded each other with mistrust for over half a century.
That is the big story. But getting there required many small stories to help smooth things over, initiatives that paved the way for this historic reestablishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba to proceed without major problems.
Calvo says he feels less good "about the amount of stuff thrown into the trash" in US restaurants
One of these initiatives is taking place this week in Miami, Florida, home to the largest community of Cuban exiles in the US. Four Cuban chefs who have started small businesses on the island will be in the city until Friday to share their experiences, recipes and knowledge with Cuban chefs working in the United States.
The four business owners will take advantage of the small window of time the Raúl Castro administration has allotted for this private event to learn. They will work in various Miami restaurants from Monday to Friday to observe how they function, prepare menus and are managed. On Wednesday, Michael Alejandro Calvo will be working at Área 31, housed in one of Miami's most renowned hotels, the EPIC.
"Vision is important," he says. "I am seeing how they manage the numbers to make sure they are profitable. Small business owners think it's about opening up, putting out tables and food, but if it's not well-managed, you go bankrupt," says the 37-year-old cook who manages the Atelier restaurant in Cuba.
Standing next to him is Steve Acosta, an American born of a Cuban father and a Costa Rican mother. Acosta reckons he can smell a real chef who is willing to put in hours and hours in the kitchen to learn and get better. And Calvo is one of those. The sheer amount of raw material available to him in Florida is what has most caught his attention. "We miss that in Cuba," he says. But he feels less good "about the amount of stuff thrown into the trash" in American restaurants.
"The truth is we do not appreciate what we have," admits Acosta.
Yamilet Magariño, a chef whose specializes in making delicious desserts, says she, too, lacks raw materials and the ability to buy in bulk back home. But she refuses to give up. Instead, she recommends using imagination, experimenting with new flavors and produce found on the island.
"We lack many products but we have many local products, too," she says. "There are interesting fruits such as guava, which is used to make spirits, as well as tetí [a small fish found in some of the waters around Cuba] that are not as appreciated as they should be. Or the flowers to make creams."
The 36-year-old chef will work at Wynwood Kitchen & Bar this Wednesday. Back home in Cuba, she and two other people create desserts in the small hours of the morning and then, at dawn, begin to deliver to their restaurant clients.
We lack many products but we have many local products that are not as appreciated as they should be" Chef Yamilet Magariño
"My fellow chefs do not agree with me," she says. "I create with what I have, I combine. Desserts are very complicated. They are the finishing touches to a meal and you have to be clever to make them combine well with the menu."
Chefs Calvo, Magariño, Gilberto Smith and Luis Alberto Alfonso Pérez have come to Miami thanks to an initiative sponsored by the Cuba Study Group, an organization that works to encourage reconciliation among Cubans, no matter where they live, and seeks to make peaceful changes toward democracy on the island. This is the third trip the organization has sponsored to bring Cuban entrepreneurs from the island to the United States to learn the basics of good business management. According to the group, the Cuban government has approved half a million licenses for new business and there are already a million people working in this nascent private sector.
Magariño underscores the impact the initiative has had in breaking down barriers, adding that her Cuban colleagues have asked her to teach them "the tricks" she is learning in Miami when she returns. She will go back feeling happy with the experience she has had and feeling "respected" for her work. There are "many talented chefs" with a future in Cuba, she says. "We have to join together not just in the kitchen, but as a people."
Translation by Dyane Jean Francois.


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Abstract: In this study, the influence of activities carried out by benthic invertebrates on microplastic redistribution is investigated. Sediment reworking activity of two marine polychaetes (H. diversicolor; A.marina) representing different bioturbation types resulted in considerable differences in microplastic transport. Size-selective feeding activity of A. marina caused a long-term retention of larger microplastic particles in considerable sediment depths down to 20 cm, emphasizing the ability of certain bioturbation types to facilitate deep or fast particle transport.
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