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Majdy Halabi
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$10m reward for Halabi's whereabouts
After investigations into case of missing IDF soldier Majdy Halabi hit dead end, Born to Freedom Foundation offers $10m reward for information that will help locate the soldier
Ahiya Raved|Published: 08.06.07 , 21:45
The Born to Freedom Foundation has offered a $10 million reward for information on Druze soldier Majdy Halabi, who went missing in May 2005 from a hitchhiking post.
The decision to offer a monetary reward was made after investigations reached a dead end, Ynet has learned.
Halabi, then 19 years old, apparently left his Dalyat al-Karmel home to head back to his base in Tirat Ha-Carmel, south of Haifa. On the way, he stopped at an ATM and withdrew some money, then bought a soft drink and waited at the hitchhiking post, where he was last seen.
Halabi is 170 cm tall (5'6) and of slim build, with brown eyes and brown hair.
His family only found out a few days later that he never arrived at his military base. Soon realizing that his failure to appear was not a disciplinary issue, the army declared him officially missing.
Since then the military has intensively investigated the case, along with police and private investigators hired by the soldier's friends and family, however to no avail.
All parties involved agree that the investigation has hit a dead end.
Announcing the reward offer, Born to Freedom's director-general Ori Chen said, "We are trying a way that hasn't been attempted yet in Israel, of offering a high monetary reward to whoever provides information that will lead to finding the missing soldier.
"We are working in Israel and abroad, and spreading the message especially to places where there may be a chance to find information. Almost every night, we broadcast films to Iran, we publish notices in Islamic community's newspapers in Iran where activists from Syria and Lebanon live."
The Born to Freedom Foundation was originally established to help locate Israeli air force navigator, Captain Ron Arad, who was taken hostage in Lebanon in 1987. Since then, the organization has aided in attempts to gather information on other missing soldiers Yehuda Katz, Zvi Feldman, Sultan Yakub, Guy Hever and Majdy Halabi.
Halabi's family believe the boy was kidnapped and held hostage in Syria, Lebanon or the Palestinian territories. However, the defense establishment has not confirmed this theory.
There are currently $10 million rewards offered for information that will lead to the location of the other missing soldiers as well.


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Getting to the point: Reducing gun and knife crime in Britain: lessons from abroad
By Jonathan McClory, Dr Bob Golding Edited by Gavin Lockhart
Since the first report in this series was published in July 2008, gun and knife crime has stubbornly remained in the headlines – and on the political agenda. Murder is always shocking; never more so than when both perpetrator and victim are young. Twenty-seven people were killed as a result of gun and knife crime on London's streets in 2008 and 380 people in England and Wales as a whole. And there is a wider economic cost to this human loss. The economic cost of all murders with firearms amounted to more than £200 million. When murders with knives are included, the cost is approximately £628 million. The number of knife murders has increased by 23% over the past ten years; injuries caused by knives have increased by 30% from 1997, and police arrests for carrying a weapon with a blade or point in and near schools went up 500% from 1999 to 2005. Culprits are younger, and the fear that they spread is driving more young people to carry knives for self-protection.
Injuries and deaths from knives far outstrip those from firearms: knife crimes are four times more common than gun crimes; and the risk of serious injury is more than double that for gun crime. Guns are strictly regulated but restricting the supply of knives is impossible. So, what should the Government do?
Dr Bob Golding and Jonathan McClory build on the findings of their first report, and discuss four case studies from international cities that have successfully reduced violent gun and knife crime.
Jonathan McClory
Research Fellow, 2006-2009 Read Full Bio
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Head of Crime and Justice Unit, 2006-2009 Read Full Bio
Going Ballistic: dealing with guns, gangs and knives
Going Ballistic's findings support four primary arguments: that official crime figures do not reflect the experiences of many communities in England and Wales; that information and intelligence sharing between agencies is lacking; that early intervention and prevention work needs to be targeted and expanded and that the relevant legislation governing gun and knife crime is a mess.

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Saudi Arabia appears to be laying the groundwork for another attempt to kick-start the Arab-Israeli peace process, with the kingdom's powerful crown prince stating that both Palestinians and Israelis deserve their own land.
"I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation," Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz told the Atlantic magazine.
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"I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to assure the stability for everyone and to have normal relations," the crown prince added.
Crown Prince Mohammed was basically restating the main terms of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, the brainchild of the late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, then crown prince.
The plan, first mentioned during an interview with the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, was formally announced at an Arab League Summit in March 2002 and dubbed the Beirut declaration. It was re-endorsed during an Arab League meeting in 2007.
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Crown Prince Mohammed told the Atlantic that Saudi Arabia had "religious concerns about the fate of the holy mosque in Jerusalem and about the rights of the Palestinian people" but stressed that the kingdom did not have "any objection against any other people."
While the crown prince's statements recognising the rights of Palestinians and Israelis to "their own land" drew international media attention, recognising Israel's right to exist is not a novel notion in the Middle East. Several Arab leaders have done so, including the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, whose country maintains relations with Israel, as well as Jordan's King Abdullah II and his father before him, not to mention the late Yasser Arafat, former chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the movement's spiritual godfather.
During the interview with the Atlantic, Crown Prince Mohammed dispelled misconceptions about anti-Semitism in the kingdom, stressing that his country has no issue with followers of the Jewish faith.
"Our country doesn't have a problem with Jews. Our Prophet Mohammad married a Jewish woman. Not just a friend — he married her. Our Prophet, his neighbours were Jewish," Crown Prince Mohammed said.
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Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, speaking by telephone April 3 with US President Donald Trump, "emphasised the necessity of moving the peace process" forward, a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency said.
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Distinct bacterial microbiomes associate with the deep-sea coral Eguchipsammia fistula from the Red Sea and from aquaria settings.
Röthig, Till; Roik, Anna; Yum, Lauren K.; Voolstra, Christian R.; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (Frontiers Media, 2017-08-10)
Microbial communities associated with deep-sea corals are beginning to be studied in earnest and the contribution of the microbiome to host organismal function remains to be investigated. In this regard, the ability of the microbiome to adjust to prevailing environmental conditions might provide clues to its functional importance. In this study, we characterized bacterial community composition associated with the deep-sea coral Eguchipsammia fistula under natural (in situ) and aquaria (ex situ) settings using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. We compared freshly collected Red Sea coral specimens with those reared for >1 year at conditions that partially differed from the natural environment, in particular regarding increased oxygen and food availability under ex situ conditions. We found substantial differences between the microbiomes associated with corals under both environmental settings. The core microbiome comprised only six bacterial taxa consistently present in all corals, whereas the majority of bacteria were exclusively associated either with freshly collected corals or corals under long-term reared aquaria settings. Putative functional profiling of microbial communities showed that corals in their natural habitat were enriched for processes indicative of a carbon- and nitrogen-limited environment, which might be reflective of differences in diet under in situ and ex situ conditions. The ability of E. fistula to harbor distinct microbiomes under different environmental settings might contribute to the flexibility and phenotypic plasticity of this cosmopolitan coral. Future efforts should further assess the role of these different bacteria in holobiont function, in particular since E. fistula is naturally present in markedly different environments.
Microbial community composition of deep-sea corals from the Red Sea provides insight into functional adaption to a unique environment
Röthig, Till; Yum, Lauren K.; Kremb, Stephan G.; Roik, Anna; Voolstra, Christian R.; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (Nature Research, 2017-03-17)
Microbes associated with deep-sea corals remain poorly studied. The lack of symbiotic algae suggests that associated microbes may play a fundamental role in maintaining a viable coral host via acquisition and recycling of nutrients. Here we employed 16 S rRNA gene sequencing to study bacterial communities of three deep-sea scleractinian corals from the Red Sea, Dendrophyllia sp., Eguchipsammia fistula, and Rhizotrochus typus. We found diverse, species-specific microbiomes, distinct from the surrounding seawater. Microbiomes were comprised of few abundant bacteria, which constituted the majority of sequences (up to 58% depending on the coral species). In addition, we found a high diversity of rare bacteria (taxa at <1% abundance comprised >90% of all bacteria). Interestingly, we identified anaerobic bacteria, potentially providing metabolic functions at low oxygen conditions, as well as bacteria harboring the potential to degrade crude oil components. Considering the presence of oil and gas fields in the Red Sea, these bacteria may unlock this carbon source for the coral host. In conclusion, the prevailing environmental conditions of the deep Red Sea (>20 °C, <2 mg oxygen L−1) may require distinct functional adaptations, and our data suggest that bacterial communities may contribute to coral functioning in this challenging environment.
Stable mucus-associated bacterial communities in bleached and healthy corals of Porites lobata from the Arabian Seas
Hadaidi, Ghaida; Röthig, Till; Yum, Lauren K.; Ziegler, Maren; Arif, Chatchanit; Roder, Cornelia; Burt, John; Voolstra, Christian R.; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); New York University, Abu Dhabi (Nature Research, 2017-03-31)
Coral reefs are subject to coral bleaching manifested by the loss of endosymbiotic algae from coral host tissue. Besides algae, corals associate with bacteria. In particular, bacteria residing in the surface mucus layer are thought to mediate coral health, but their role in coral bleaching is unknown. We collected mucus from bleached and healthy Porites lobata colonies in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG) and the Red Sea (RS) to investigate bacterial microbiome composition using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. We found that bacterial community structure was notably similar in bleached and healthy corals, and the most abundant bacterial taxa were identical. However, fine-scale differences in bacterial community composition between the PAG and RS were present and aligned with predicted differences in sulfur- and nitrogen-cycling processes. Based on our data, we argue that bleached corals benefit from the stable composition of mucus bacteria that resemble their healthy coral counterparts and presumably provide a conserved suite of protective functions, but monitoring of post-bleaching survival is needed to further confirm this assumption. Conversely, fine-scale site-specific differences highlight flexibility of the bacterial microbiome that may underlie adjustment to local environmental conditions and contribute to the widespread success of Porites lobata.
Transcriptomes and expression profiling of deep-sea corals from the Red Sea provide insight into the biology of azooxanthellate corals
Yum, Lauren K.; Baumgarten, Sebastian; Röthig, Till; Roder, Cornelia; Roik, Anna; Michell, Craig; Voolstra, Christian R.; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (Nature Research, 2017-07-25)
Despite the importance of deep-sea corals, our current understanding of their ecology and evolutionis limited due to difficulties in sampling and studying deep-sea environments. Moreover, a recent reevaluation of habitat limitations has been suggested after characterization of deep-sea corals in the Red Sea, where they live at temperatures of above 20 °C at low oxygen concentrations. To gain further insight into the biology of deep-sea corals, we produced reference transcriptomes and studied gene expression of three deep-sea coral species from the Red Sea, i.e. Dendrophyllia sp., Eguchipsammia fistula, and Rhizotrochus typus. Our analyses suggest that deep-sea coral employ mitochondrial hypometabolism and anaerobic glycolysis to manage low oxygen conditions present in the Red Sea. Notably, we found expression of genes related to surface cilia motion that presumably enhance small particle transport rates in the oligotrophic deep-sea environment. This is the first study to characterize transcriptomes and in situ gene expression for deep-sea corals. Our work offers several mechanisms by which deep-sea corals might cope with the distinct environmental conditions present in the Red Sea. As such, our data provides direction for future research and further insight to organismal response of deep sea coral to environmental change and ocean warming.


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Egypt organizes cycling marathon to spread awareness on adolescent mental health
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 - 08:14 GMT
CAIRO – 27 August 2021: The Ministry of Health and Population announced the launch of a cycling marathon this Friday morning as part of spreading awareness on mental health concepts among adolescents, coinciding with the start of the year of adolescent mental health 2021/2022.
Assistant Minister of Health and Population for Information and Awareness and the official spokesperson for the ministry Khaled Megahed explained that 100 citizens participated in the marathon, which started from Abbasiya Hospital for Mental Health, to Maryland Park in Heliopolis, which is a distance of 12 kilometers back and forth.
He noted that this marathon was launched under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, and all anti-COVID preventive and precautionary measures were taken during the participation in the marathon. He added that, during the event, participants were keen to take photos to celebrate the Year of Adolescent Mental Health.
For her part, Dr. Menan Abdel-Maqsoud, Secretary-General of the General Secretariat for Mental Health, affirmed the ministry's keenness to take care of adolescents and their families, and to provide all means of psychological support to improve the level of mental health for adolescents.
The year 2021/2022 was declared the year of adolescent mental health, pointing out that the General Secretariat of Mental Health Psychological aims to address the negative psychological effects of the Corona pandemic on adolescents, prepare them for the post-pandemic stage and facilitate their integration through the organization of sports events.
Dr. Menan indicated that after the marathon, an educational symposium was organized inside one of the Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital halls, discussing how to deal with these psychological crises in healthy ways, pointing out that the symposium tackled the symptoms and causes of mental illness hyperactivity (ADHD), where its symptoms are: (excessive activity, attention deficit) poor memory, and excessive impulsivity).
Dr. Menan added that a field tour was conducted inside the Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital, to familiarize the participants in the marathon with the history of the establishment of the hospital, and its pivotal role in containing and providing care for patients with mental illnesses, in addition to its role in providing psychological support services in various ways.


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Kllair and her crew had followed the ion trail from the second ship to a small space station. There had been several other ships that had come and gone since the one they were looking for had arrived here. There wasn't any way to tell one ships trail from another. Kllair would have to have Novuh put the ship down and then continue the search on the ground. After landing Kllair sent Novuh and Elith out to find out who was in charge of this facility.
"He's gone. He left yesterday." Elith reported back to Kllair.
"Who is he?" Kllair asked.
"He's a Duros. Goes by the name Ghildan or something. He was taking a supply shipment to a gas mining operation about a day or two away. They said he was doing a favor for a friend of his, he even used the friend's ship to take it." Novuh said.
He left in Ghildan's ship. They're not sure were he went." Elith said.
"I guess the question before us is "Why did he make the delivery instead of his friend. The friend could have done it but he must have had to do something more important." Kllair said.
"So the friend was going to make a delivery to that gas mine. Something happened so he came here instead. This guy Ghildan had to take the delivery because the friend had something urgent to do I'm guessing." Novuh added.
"If I had some fugitive girls that I helped to escape or I found that had stowed away on my ship I might find that more important than making a delivery." Kllair said. Everything seemed to point to the girls being with the friend. Now they had to figure out where they went. They were close now. Just one more piece to the puzzle to figure out.
Hudd flew over the tree tops looking for some sign of a settlement or habitation. The trees were gigantic, some almost three hundred feet tall. This part of the planet was cold and mountainous. Farther up he could make out snow on the mountain tops.
"I can't see anything down there. I'm not sure where to land." Hudd said.
"Look, what's that?" Timtam asked. Just ahead in the distance she could see what looked like smoke rising from far below.
"Good job Timtam, where there's smoke there has to be people." Hudd looked at her and smiled.
Timtam smiled back. Soon they would get Pep better and they would be able to go home. They could make the long trip back to Feloid space and be dropped off at the base. It made her sad when she realized that would be the last time she would see Hudd. He would go back to his simple life and soon forget all about her.
"There's a clearing below us. I'm going to set the ship down. Keep an eye out for branches so I don't snag on anything." he said.
Hudd put the ship down with ease. Once on the ground the ship leaned slightly to the left. Since it was a long range scout ship it didn't have any landing gear. This way it could land just about anywhere. It could even float on water.
"You wait here with Pep. I'll go out and see if I can make contact with anybody." he said.
"Okay Hudd." she said. Timtam wanted to go with him but he was right. Someone needed to stay with Pep and the ship.
She watched trough the cockpit window as he walked into the dark forest. Timtam went back to check on Pep. She was asleep in the bunk. It didn't look like she was getting any better but at least she hadn't gotten worse. She walked over to the port hole and looked out. Everything was green and lush. Hudd could easily get lost out there if he wasn't careful. He had been a trained soldier so he knew how to navigate through the wilderness. She looked at Pep again and saw she was still sleeping. Timtam walked to the access hatch and opened it. The sudden blast of chill air caught her by surprise. She was still wearing only the shirt Hudd had given her and had only that day found a thick pair of warm socks to walk around in. She noticed a locker next to the door and opened it. She saw some womens clothes inside and pulled out a heavy hooded coat and tried it on. It fit so Timtam fastened it up and sat in the open doorway waiting. Not much longer after that Hudd came walking back to the ship. Timtam waved as Hudd got closer.
"Did you find anyone?" Timtam asked as he got to the ship.
"Where did you get that coat?" Hudd asked. His tone was cold and stern.
" It was in the locker, I just put it on for a second…" She realized then that it must have been his wife's coat.
"I'm sorry…I didn't think who it might belong to." she said as she started to take it off.
Hudd realized he sounded angry. " No, no, keep it. I think she would have liked you to have it." He said.
"It's okay, I'll put it back." she said as she continued unfastening the clasps.
Hudd stopped her and began to fasten them back up. " No, keep it. It looks nice on you. Besides you're going to need something warm to wear. I found an old man that says he'll help us but we have to bring Pep to him. Go ahead and take anything you need from the locker. We can't have you running around like that outside in this cold air can we." He said as he fastened the last clasp.
Timtam smiled and looked in the locker. She found some boots and gloves and a pair of pants. Hudd handed her a small knife. She looked back confused.
"For your tail. You need to cut a hole for it." He grinned.
"Thanks." she said taking the knife. He was letting go of his wife's belongings. He was giving them to her. Timtam felt special that he wanted her to have them.
They put Pep on the stretcher and carried her into the woods. It was colder than Timtam thought it would be as they started down the trail. They only had to carry Pep about one hundred yards and most of the trail was down hill. As they turned the corner of the trail they saw a cleared out area in front of a large cave opening. Back inside the opening about twenty feet was a stone work wall with windows and a large door. A stone chimney came out from the upper floor of the stone wall and was supported by a large wooden buttress made from a dead tree. It supported the end of the chimney that rose above the cave mouth. Timtam understood why they couldn't see the homes from above now. They all must be tucked back inside of these caves like this one.
Timtam didn't argue. The man was at least six and a half feet tall with thick white hair and beard. He was an older man for sure but he looked to be in his thirties even though she could tell he was older. He was dressed in finely crafted animal hide clothing. The clothes had fine stitching and embroidery that covered the sleeves and shoulders of his shirt. He wore a belt that had several pouches hanging from it as well as a hatchet and a big hunting knife.
Hudd and the big man took Pep inside the cave. Timtam followed them in. The interior of the cave was also mostly stone work. The outer edges were raised and divided into small areas that Timtam took as rooms for each of the people that lived there. The center was much lower with a large fire pit that was most likely communal. There were several others dressed like the big man doing odd jobs around the area. They continued deeper into the cave and finally came to a stairway leading down. Once they reached the bottom she saw that it opened into a large cavern. There were at least twenty or more people down here standing at various tables and stations working with different plants and herbs. She had expected to see much more primitive equipment being used but most of it looked new and modern.
They placed Pep on a bed in one of the areas to the side. The big man excused himself and told them to wait.
"Who are these people Hudd?" Timtam asked.
"It seems most of them were doctors and scientists that got fed up with all the high tech medical institutions. They have come here to perfect more natural ways of healing. When I found this place they welcomed me and insisted on helping us. I told them about Pep and they were very interested to take a look at her. I'm actually relieved, I was half expecting a shaman wearing a mud hat or something." Hudd said.
Timtam giggled at the mental image of a mud hat on some primitive wearing a grass skirt.
"I'm just glad we can finally get her some help. If anything happened to her while I was protecting her I don't know what I'd do."Timtam said. She slid closer to Hudd and shivered. It was still a little chilly down in this lower part of the cave system. Hudd lifted his arm and put around her shoulders and pulled her close for warmth.
"What are you going to do after you take me and Pep back?" she asked Hudd.
"I guess I'll go back to hauling freight around. I was thinking of buying a bigger ship or going into business with Ghildan, I still have to think about it." he said.
"You should hire a crew, I don't want to think about you out there all by yourself." she said.
"What about you? What's going to happen with you?" Hudd asked.
Timtam thought for a minute. "I think I'll get a position were I can stay at our base. I don't think I want to be in the front lines anymore. I was never so frightened in my whole life back on that ship. If I were to be captured again I would tell them anything they wanted to know. I'd do anything not to go through that again." Timtam felt relieved to say how she really felt but ashamed at the same time.
"I think that's a good idea. I saw a lot of horrible things in the Clone wars. I never want to do any of that again." they both sat silently thinking about the past. They had both suffered a great deal.
Hudd leaned back and shut his eyes, Timtam snuggled up closer and closed hers too. They took the chance to get a little rest. They had finally made sure Pep was taken care of. The past few days had been very stressful and they both could finally get the rest they needed.
Kllair had called Adda for help. Even this far in Imperial controlled space the ships scramblers still kept them from picking up their transmissions. She wanted to know what kind of facilities were in this sector of space. She wanted to know if there was some place out here that they might go. Adda had told her several places that sounded interesting but Kllair decided on trying the medical colony on the fourth moon of Mothmah. They would most likely go there if one of the girls had been hurt. Kllair figured they needed to go there first. If they had gone there because of one of them being hurt maybe they would be able to help. It would be bad if they were there and they went and searched somewhere else when one of them was hurt.
"Set a coarse for Mothmah Four, we'll start our search there. Call Tarin and Matt to let them know to meet us there." Kllair told Novuh.
"I guess it's as good a place as any to start." Novuh said.
One of the healers shook Hudd. "She's awake, it seems our treatment is working." the healer said. Hudd patted Timtam on the shoulder. "Get up, it looks like Pep's going to be okay." Hudd said.
"That's wonderful. Can we see her?" Timtam said rubbing her eyes. She hadn't realized how tired she was. Timtam got up and walked over to Pep. Pep was sitting up and eating some soup from a bowl.
"How do you feel Pep?" Timtam smiled. She could tell she felt a better.
"I feel a lot better, most of the pain is gone now and I feel hungry." Pep said as she wiped her mouth. Her smile was back and she seemed alert and sharp.
Timtam grabbed Hudd and drug him over to where Pep was laying. "This is Mr. Hudd. He's the one who saved us. He put you in the ship after you told me to leave you." Timtam was beaming. It was obvious to Pep that Timtam really liked this man.
"I don't know how to thank you Mr. Hudd for saving our lives." Pep said sincerely.
"It's me who should be thanking you two. Your past exploits have greatly over shadowed anything that I've done." he said winking. She understood that he was talking about their actions that caused the destruction of the Imperial ship. He was letting her know that he supported what they did.
Pep nodded and smiled. She could sense that he was sincere in what he said.
"The healers said I could travel anytime. I just need to keep taking the medication for another week. We should at least get out of Empire controlled space so we can send a message to the others that we are safe and on our way back." Pep said.
" I agree, your friends must be going crazy by now. We can leave as soon as you can move." Hudd said.
"If we can get some of these fine people to carry me on that stretcher we can leave now." Pep said.
"I'll go ask for some help." Hudd said as he turned and left.
"What's wrong Timtam?" Pep saw that she had turned away and was looking down at the floor. Timtam looked at Pep. " I'm going to miss him. I really like him but I don't want to leave all of you. He hasn't said anything about letting me stay but I think he would like it if I did." Timtam said.
"If you're worried about owing me anything you don't have to. You've payed me back a thousand times already. Maybe you should tell him how you feel. You won't know how he really feels until you ask him." Pep smiled sympathetically.
"No, it would never work out between us. He wouldn't want someone that's done what I've had to do my whole life." she was ashamed of her past.
"Listen Timtam, you have to ask him. It doesn't matter to some men. Matt always understood I had no choice. He's always treated me with respect." Pep said.
"I don't want to see the look on his face if he doesn't want me. That " I want to sleep with you but not be with you." look, I don't want to see that, not on him." Timtam said sadly.
Hudd walked back over with two of the healers. Timtam looked away and Pep had an aspect of frustration about her.
Hudd hesitated. "Is everything okay?" he asked.
"Yes, we're just a little anxious to get home is all." Pep said forcing a smile.
" Okay then. If you could jump up on this stretcher Pep we can go." Hudd said trying not to think about why they were acting funny.
Kllair had ordered them to wait. This is what she had hoped would happen. She was certain that they had found Pep and Timtam on the moon below them. They were waiting for Matt and Tarin to arrive. Once they did they would all go down together and find them. Kllair would let Matt be the one who found Pep. It would be like in a story book. The hero arrives to save the girl. It couldn't be more perfect of an ending. Matt would be the hero to Pep once again…and he would owe it all to Kllair and her crew. She didn't like things to be this way but that's just how life was. It was great to have friends you trust but better if they owed you a favor.
Hudd lead the way back up the path. He was carrying the front of the stretcher that Pep was on. One of the healers carried the left rear and the other the right rear handle. Timtam walked next to the stretcher just behind Hudd.
Hudd felt the two healers behind him stop suddenly. He turned to see they each had a beautiful young woman behind them. The women had jabbed their pistols in the healers backs causing them to stop. He realizes they were twins. They both had blood red hair and smirking evil grins that showed they were capable of doing anything. He suddenly became frightened for Timtam and Pep. He spun to look back ahead of him on the path. From out of nowhere emerged a tall blonde woman wearing a cape. Next to her was a second woman. She looked slightly younger. They both had on a dark blue one piece form fitting outfits. The younger woman also had a cybernetic arm and a well crafted metal plate that covered the upper left side of her face. She had a cybernetic eye as well.
"Matt !" Pep yelled as she saw a man run out of the underbrush to her left. He ran straight to Pep's side and dropped to his knees. Matt grabbed Pep's head tightly and smothered her in kisses. Both were crying and laughing at the same time.
"Your friends I take it?" Hudd said relieved.
"It's okay everybody, we're all on the same side here." Timtam wanted to make sure no one did anything wrong.
"Nya, Vyra, put your guns away. You're making them nervous." Kllair smiled.
"I don't know how you did it but you did, nice job Kllair." Tarin said. She was truly impressed. Kllair and her crew had found these two women against all odds.
"Thank you." Timtam had run up to Kllair and gave her a hug. Normally Kllair would have stopped her but for a reason she didn't know Kllair had aloud Timtam to do it. Maybe she wanted to show the others how human she still was. Maybe she understood that Timtam wouldn't do anything to harm her. She wasn't sure.
Timtam sensed Kllair's tension about hugging and released her.
"Okay the reunion's over. Let's go. The rest are waiting to hear from us." Novuh said crossing her arms. Displays of affection and happiness made her uncomfortable.
"She' right. There's no sense in us hanging around in Imperial space. We need to get going." Kllair said.
"Just remember one thing boys, we were never here." Nya said pointing at the healers.
"Just remember that and we won't have to come back." Vyra added as she turned and put her arm around her sisters shoulder.
"Never mind those two, we thank you all very much for what you've done." Tarin said.
"And especially you…" Tarin waited for Hudd to give her his name.
"It's Hudd, most people call me Hudd." he replied.
"Is there anything we can do for you for saving our friends lives?" Tarin asked.
Hudd looked around for Timtam but she was gone. He saw her walking quickly down the path. She didn't even say good by. She had used him and he had fallen for it.
"No, I don't want anything." he said coldly.
Tarin wasn't sure why he was so angry. " Fine, okay everyone let's get back to the ship." Tarin said.
"Timtam !" Pep yelled. She was blowing it. She had a chance at happiness and she was just walking away.
"Matt, she needs to stay. She needs to be with Hudd. Go bring her back." Pep pleaded.
Matt looked at Pep and knew he had to bring Timtam back. He trusted Pep.
"No, forget it. She doesn't need me any more. Let her go." Hudd said and started walking back to his ship.
Matt looked at Pep. "What do you need me to do?" he asked.
Timtam wanted to go down the hill towards Kllair's ship first. She had pulled the hood up over her head, she didn't anyone to see her crying. She couldn't stay with Hudd. She loved him but he deserved better than her. She was just a stupid little slave that no decent man should have. Even if he wanted her he would always have to deal with someone making comments or remarks about her. He would be the man who loved a whore. It wouldn't be fair. It was different with Matt and Pep. If anyone said anything about Pep, Matt would always make them pay for it. Hudd wasn't a killer. He would just have to live with others saying those things until he started to believe them too.
"What's going on? What's up with those two?" Matt asked.
"It doesn't matter. She could have been happy. They could have been happy." Pep said sadly.
"Are we going or not?" Novuh asked.
"We're ready." the twins said as they cart wheeled in unison down the path too the ship.
Tarin and Matt grabbed the stretcher and carried Pep back to the ship. Novuh headed back also. Kllair holstered her pistol she had been holding behind her back. She took one last look around, it was over.
Kllair and her crew flew back in their ship leaving Matt, Tarin, Pep, and Timtam to fly back in the ship they had used for the search.
Kllair had sent a scrambled transmission back to Adda. She was sure that it was made clear that they had been instrumental in the recovery of their friends. She was sure not to over play the heroism, just a lot of , I, and my crew, type references were added to her statements.
Everyone at the base was thrilled to hear that they had been rescued. They had beaten the odds once again.
to help her. Matt had changed and was much more attentive to Pep now. She had always been the one to take care of him and do what he said. She never argued with anything he wanted to do. It wasn't that he took advantage of her it was just that she enjoyed making Matt happy. She had real love for this man that had saved her and did everything he could to improve her life.
He had seen her die and felt the crushing pain of loss. Now she was back from the dead. He had a second chance that he had been lucky enough to get once before when the real Matt Mazin had given him when he died. A chance for a second life.
Timtam spent most of the time alone in her room. Most of the time she slept. She had walked away from a chance at happiness. "It never would have lasted." she told herself over and over again. There was too much against them . He needed a woman that wouldn't draw negative attention to him. He needed a woman that could give him children and be like he was, respectable.
Timtam knew what she did may have hurt him but she had to make sure he wouldn't come after her.
If it was all for the best. Why did it hurt so much then? All she could think about was their time together. When he jumped in the hole in the floor and lifted Pep out right in the middle of the hangar bay it almost made her faint. It was the most heroic thing she had ever seen. He didn't even know these girls but he did it anyway. Most men would have taken advantage of her because she was a slave and trained to please men. They might even have turned them over to some slavers. She knew that Cat girls fetch a high price in the markets and houses were those commodities are traded. He was a good man. He deserved better. He should have a normal life with children and a wife he could walk down the street with and not hear people laugh and make crude jokes.
She missed him so badly it hurt.
Hudd had returned from his little adventure two weeks ago. Ghildan had made the delivery for him and was able to collect his money. Everything had gone back to normal.
One day Hudd received a visitor. He was a handsome young Feloid that wore the uniform of the Ty clan. He introduced himself as Captain Destriss. He was one of Lionette Ty's personal attendants charged with carrying out special missions for her.
"My Lady has heard of your bravery and kindness given too two of her people. These two women are very important to her and her friends. She would like to give you a small token of her thanks."He had said and gave him a small holo disc. He bowed politely and left. Hudd wasn't sure what to do. Should he throw it away or watch it. Eventually his curiosity got the better of him and he placed it in the holo projector.
The image flickered on and he saw an image of Lionette Ty herself. " Mr. Hudd, I am Lionette Ty leader of the Ty clan. It has been brought to my attention that you were the person responsible for saving the lives of two of my people. For this heroic act I have deposited the sum of one million credits into an account that has been opened in your name. You also have been given honorary citizenship in the Ty Clan thus giving you all the protections that offers. If you wish it you are now under my Clan's full protection and may call on me for any help you may need in the future. Once again I thank you for you heroics and the lives of these two free citizens." the projection flickered off.
Hudd watched the recording several times. He wanted to find the part that said all of this was a joke. It wasn't. He checked his accounts and found a new one with one million credits in it.
Hudd knocked on the door of Ghildan's house.
Ghildan opened the door. "What's wrong Hudd, it looks like you just saw a ghost." he said.
"More like a Million of them." Hudd held up the print out he made of his accounts. "The Feloids sent it to me. I'm stinking rich Ghildan…What do I do now?" he was in shock.
"I think we need to get drunk. You're buying." Ghildan said.
They made their way down to the local bar. Hudd started buying drinks for everyone. They drank and laughed all night. Ghildan and him could finally start that business they wanted. Everything had worked out. He had stuck his neck out for two women who had no one else to help them and in one of those rare instances of life it paid off. He had won. If only he had some one to share it with.
Hudd left the party. He felt good. He was sharing his good fortune with his friends and he would be able to help them all with his new wealth.
He sat on a crate at the landing field and watched people coming and going from one of the transport ships. New arrivals and the ones who had lost hope and were leaving. The ship left and little by little so did the people. All except one. A lone woman wearing a hooded coat. She stood all alone under a light, she looked like she didn't know where to go. He could see one of the ends of her coat's belt blowing in the wind behind her. He suddenly realized they were under a huge dome, there was no wind. It was a tail. He stood up. "Timtam ?" he yelled it before he even thought. He began to run across the field. The woman pulled back her hood to reveal a bright pink head of hair.
"Timtam !" he yelled again. He was smiling.
The woman opened her arms beckoning him closer.
He grabbed her and kissed her on the lips. The woman kissed him back hard. Hudd pulled back to look at her face. It wasn't Timtam but a different pink head. She could have been Timtam's sister she looked so similar.
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The 13-million-year-old infant skull, which its discoverers nicknamed "Alesi," was unearthed in Kenya in 2014. It likely belonged to a fruit-eating, slow-climbing primate that resembled a baby gibbon, the researchers said.
Kenyan fossil hunter John Ekusi discovered the skull in 2014 in the Napudet area, west of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. He suggested its nickname, "Alesi," because "ales" means "ancestor" in the local Turkana language.
It remains uncertain how Alesi died. However, perhaps the infant was killed by the thick layers of ash from huge volcanic eruptions that covered the fossil, the researchers said.
The lemon-size skull still had the roots of its baby teeth, and none of the adult teeth had erupted from the jaw yet. The three-dimensional X-ray images taken of these adult teeth were so detailed that researchers could count their enamel layers, which were laid down over time like rings inside a tree, helping the scientists estimate that the baby primate was 16 months old when it died.
"From the teeth, we can tell it generally ate fruits," Miller said.
Determining that the last common ancestors of living apes and humans originated in Africa is important because it helps scientists better understand how ancient climate, ecology, geography and other factors were key to their evolution. "It helps us understand and reconstruct how and why a certain lineage might have evolved," Gilbert said.
The researchers cannot tell if Alesi was male or female, as the infant was too young for the features of the skull that distinguish the sexes to have emerged, the researchers said. However, the size of the skull and teeth do suggest that if Alesi had reached adulthood, it would have weighed about 24.9 lbs. (11.3 kilograms) at maturity. The researchers also noted that Alesi's 6.16-cubic-inch (101 cubic centimeters) brain was about as big as that of a modern lemur of the same size.
The small snout of the skull would have made Alesi look like a baby gibbon. "Because they are probably close to the ancestor of all living apes, the specimen may help give us some sort of idea of what the common ancestor of all living apes and modern humans might have looked like, and because our specimen looks most similar to gibbons among living apes, it would potentially support the idea that the common ancestor of living apes and humans looked like a gibbon," Gilbert said.
However, the shape of Alesi's inner ear, which contains the balance organ of primates, suggests that Alesi was not capable of the rapid, acrobatic tree-swinging associated with gibbons.
"It probably had a more slow-climbing form of locomotion, more like [that of] a chimpanzee," Miller said.
The scientists detailed their findings in the Aug. 10 issue of the journal Nature.


The death toll from flash floods in Papua has climbed to at least 97 with dozens of people still missing, an official said on Thursday.
Rescue workers were still searching for survivors from floods which hit West Papua province's Teluk Wondama district on Monday following torrential downpours, a rescue official said.
"At least 97 people were killed and more than 800 people were lightly and badly injured," Papua search and rescue official Mochamad Arifin said.
"We are still searching for dozens of missing people," he said.
Experts warned such events will become more common across the country due to a combination of climate change, land conversion and logging, which can contribute to landslides and flash floods after monsoonal downpours.
Most parts of Indonesia, including Bali, have experienced torrential rains, strong winds, high waves and flooding due to extreme weather this year.


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Any time you allege a conspiracy is afoot, especially in the field of science, you are treading on thin ice. We tend to be very sceptical about conspiracies–unless the Mafia or some Muslim radicals are behind the alleged plot. But the evidence is overwhelming and the irony is that much of it is in plain view.
The bad news: the conspiracy is global and there are many vested interest groups. A cursory investigation yields the usual suspects: scientists with a theoretical axe to grind, careers to further and the status quo to maintain. Their modus operandi is "The Big Lie"–and the bigger and more widely publicised, the better. They rely on invoking their academic credentials to support their arguments, and the presumption is that no one has the right to question their authoritarian pronouncements that: 1. there is no mystery about who built the Great Pyramid or what the methods of construction were, and the Sphinx shows no signs of water damage; 2. there were no humans in the Americas before 20,000 BC; 3. the first civilisation dates back no further than 6000 BC; 4. there are no documented anomalous, unexplained or enigmatic data to take into account; 5. there are no lost or unaccounted-for civilisations. Let the evidence to the contrary be damned!
In 1993, NBC in the USA aired The Mysteries of the Sphinx, which presented geological evidence showing that the Sphinx was at least twice as old (9,000 years) as Egyptologists claimed. It has become well known as the "water erosion controversy". An examination of the politicking that Egyptologists deployed to combat this undermining of their turf is instructive.
Dr Zahi Hawass, the Giza Monuments chief, wasted no time in firing a barrage of public criticism at the pair. Renowned Egyptologist Dr Mark Lehner, who is regarded as the world's foremost expert on the Sphinx, joined his attack. He charged West and Schoch with being "ignorant and insensitive". That was a curious accusation which took the matter off the professional level and put the whole affair on a personal plane. It did not address the facts or issues at all and it was highly unscientific.
This brings up the issue of The Big Lie and how it has been promoted for generations in front of God and everyone. The controversy over how the Great Pyramid was constructed is one example. It could be easily settled if Egyptologists wanted to resolve the dispute. A simple test could be designed and arranged by impartial engineers that would either prove or disprove their longstanding disputed theory–that it was built using the primitive tools and methods of the day, circa 2500 BC.
Since the theory of "cultural evolution" has been tied to Darwin's general theory of evolution, even more is at stake. Does this explain why facts, anomalies and enigmas are denied, suppressed and/or ignored? Yes, it does. The biological sciences today are based on Darwinism.
Dr Cabrera accumulated more and more stones, and word of their existence and potential import reached the archaeological community. Soon, the doctor had amassed thousands of "Ica stones". The sophisticated carvings were as enigmatic as they were fascinating. Someone had carved men fighting with dinosaurs, men with telescopes and men performing operations with surgical equipment. They also contained drawings of lost continents.
This case was disposed of so artfully that it would do any corrupt politician proud. The Peruvian government threatened to prosecute and imprison the farmer. He was offered and accepted a plea bargain; he then recanted his story and "admitted" to having carved the stones himself. That seems highly implausible, since he was uneducated and unskilled and there were 11,000 stones in all. Some were fairly large and intricately carved with animals and scenes that the farmer would not have had knowledge of without being a palaeontologist. He would have needed to work every day for several decades to produce that volume of stones. However, the underlying facts were neither here nor there. The Ica stones were labelled "hoax" and forgotten.
The case did not require a head-to-head confrontation or public discrediting of non-scientists by scientists; it was taken care of with invisible pressure tactics. Since it was filed under "hoax", the enigmatic evidence never had to be dealt with, as it did in the next example.
In 1996, NBC broadcast a special called The Mysterious Origins of Man, which featured material from Cremo's book. The reaction from the scientific community went off the Richter scale. NBC was deluged with letters from irate scientists who called the producer "a fraud" and the whole program "a hoax".
But the scientists went further than this–a lot further. In an extremely unconscionable sequence of bizarre moves, they tried to force NBC not to rebroadcast the popular program, but that effort failed. Then they took the most radical step of all: they presented their case to the federal government and requested the Federal Communications Commission to step in and bar NBC from airing the program again.
I think we have some good leads on who "the Brain Police" are. And I really do not think "conspiracy" is too strong a word–because for every case of this kind of attempted suppression that is exposed, 10 others are going on successfully. We have no idea how many enigmatic artifacts or dates have been labelled "error" and tucked away in storage warehouses or circular files, never to see the light of day.
The figure of 25,000 years or less was critical to the Bering Strait "crossing" theory, and it was the motivation behind the head archaeologist's tossing Steen-McIntyre's results in the circular file and asking for a new series of dating tests. This sort of reaction does not occur when dates match the expected chronological model that supports accepted theories.
However, as we will find (and as I promised at the beginning of the article), this is a complicated conspiracy. Scientists trying to protect their "hallowed" theories while furthering their careers are not the only ones who want artifacts and data suppressed. This is where the situation gets sticky.
The Waipoua Forest became a controversial site in New Zealand because an archaeological dig apparently showed evidence of a non-Polynesian culture that preceded the Maori–a fact that the tribe was not happy with. They learned of the results of the excavations before the general public did and complained to the government. According to DoutrÈ, the outcome was "an official archival document, which clearly showed an intention by New Zealand government departments to withhold archaeological information from public scrutiny for 75 years".
National Geographic writer Thomas B. Allen mused in a 1996 article about his finding a potsherd bearing a fingerprint of the potter. When he inquired if he could take the fragment to a forensic anthropologist, the Chinese scientist asked whether he "would be able to tell if the potter was a white man". Allen said he was not sure, and the official pocketed the fragment and quietly walked away. It appears that many things get in the way of scientific discovery and disclosure.
The existence of the Olmec culture in Old Mexico has always posed a problem. Where did the Negroid people depicted on the colossal heads come from? Why are there Caucasians carved on the stele in what is Mexico's seed civilisation? What is worse, why aren't the indigenous Mexican people found on the Olmec artifacts? Recently a Mexican archaeologist solved the problem by making a fantastic claim: that the Olmec heads–which generations of people of all ethnic groups have agreed bear a striking resemblance to Africans–were really representations of the local tribe.
The public does not seem at all aware of the fact that the scientific establishment has a double standard when it comes to the free flow of information. In essence, it goes like this… Scientists are highly educated, well trained and intellectually capable of processing all types of information, and they can make the correct critical distinctions between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy. The unwashed public is simply incapable of functioning on this high mental plane.
In the Fall of 2001, PBS aired a seven-part series, titled Evolution. Taken at face value, that seems harmless enough. However, while the program was presented as pure, objective, investigative science journalism, it completely failed to meet even minimum standards of impartial reporting. The series was heavily weighted towards the view that the theory of evolution is "a science fact" that is accepted by "virtually all reputable scientists in the world", and not a theory that has weaknesses and strong scientific critics.
We have seen this same "unscientific" approach applied to archaeology and anthropology, where "scientists" simply refuse to prove their theories yet appoint themselves as the final arbiters of "the facts". It would be naive to think that the scientists who cooperated in the production of the series were unaware that there would be no counter-balancing presentation by critics of Darwin's theory.
I experienced the witch-hunting activity of the Darwinist police at first handit was deeply disappointing to find myself being described by a prominent Oxford zoologist [Richard Dawkins] as "loony", "stupid" and "in need of psychiatric help" in response to purely scientific reporting.
Dawkins launched a letter-writing campaign to newspaper editors, implying that Milton was a "mole" creationist whose work should be dismissed. Anyone at all familiar with politics will recognise this as a standard Machiavellian by-the-book "character assassination" tactic. Dawkins is a highly respected scientist, whose reputation and standing in the scientific community carry a great deal of weight.
According to Milton, the process came to a head when the London Times Higher Education Supplement commissioned him to write a critique of Darwinism. The publication foreshadowed his coming piece: "Next Week: Darwinism – Richard Milton goes on the attack". Dawkins caught wind of this and wasted no time in nipping this heresy in the bud. He contacted the editor, Auriol Stevens, and accused Milton of being a "creationist", and prevailed upon Stevens to pull the plug on the article. Milton learned of this behind-the-scenes backstabbing and wrote a letter of appeal to Stevens. In the end, she caved in to Dawkins and scratched the piece.
Imagine what would happen if a politician or bureaucrat used such pressure tactics to kill a story in the mass media. It would ignite a huge scandal. Not so with scientists, who seem to be regarded as "sacred cows" and beyond reproach. There are many disturbing facts related to these cases. Darwin's theory of evolution is the only theory routinely taught in our public school system that has never been subjected to rigorous scrutiny; nor have any of the criticisms been allowed into the curriculum.
This is an interesting fact, because a recent poll showed that the American public wants the theory of evolution taught to their children; however, "71 per cent of the respondents say biology teachers should teach both Darwinism and scientific evidence against Darwinian theory". Nevertheless, there are no plans to implement this balanced approach.
It is ironic that Richard Dawkins has been appointed to the position of Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is a classic "Brain Police" stormtrooper, patrolling the neurological front lines. The Western scientific establishment and mass media pride themselves on being open public forums devoid of prejudice or censorship. However, no television program examining the flaws and weaknesses of Darwinism has ever been aired in Darwin's home country or in America. A scientist who opposes the theory cannot get a paper published.
Returning to our bastions of intellectual integrity, Forest Mims was a solid and skilled science journalist. He had never been the centre of any controversy and so he was invited to write the most-read column in the prestigious Scientific American, "The Amateur Scientist", a task he gladly accepted. According to Mims, the magazine's editor Jonathan Piel then learned that he also wrote articles for a number of Christian magazines. The editor called Mims into his office and confronted him.
"Do you believe in the theory of evolution?" Piel asked.
This has the unpleasant odour of a witch-hunt. The writer never publicly broadcast his private views or beliefs, so it would appear that the "stormtroopers" now believe they have orders to make sure "unapproved" thoughts are never publicly disclosed.
So, the monitors of "good thinking" are not just the elite of the scientific community, as we have seen in several cases; they are television producers and magazine editors as well. It seems clear that they are all driven by the singular imperative of furthering "public science education", as the president of the Cambrian Institute so aptly phrased it.
However, there is a second item on the agenda, and that is to protect the public from "unscientific" thoughts and ideas that might infect the mass mind. We outlined some of those taboo subjects at the beginning of the article; now we should add that it is also "unwholesome" and "unacceptable" to engage in any of the following research pursuits: paranormal phenomena, UFOs, cold fusion, free energy and all the rest of the "pseudo-sciences". Does this have a familiar ring to it? Are we hearing the faint echoes of religious zealotry?
Who ever gave science the mission of engineering and directing the inquisitive pursuits of the citizenry of the free world? It is all but impossible for any scientific paper that has anti-Darwinian ramifications to be published in a mainstream scientific journal. It is also just as impossible to get the "taboo" subjects even to the review table, and you can forget about finding your name under the title of any article in Nature unless you are a credentialled scientist, even if you are the next Albert Einstein.
Scientists do not hesitate to launch the most outrageous personal attacks against those they perceive to be the enemy. Eminent palaeontologist Louis Leakey penned this acid one-liner about Forbidden Archeology: "Your book is pure humbug and does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone but a fool." Once again, we see the thrust of a personal attack; the merits of the evidence presented in the book are not examined or debated. It is a blunt, authoritarian pronouncement.
* Cremo, Michael A., "The Controversy over 'The Mysterious Origins of Man'", NEXUS 5/04, 1998; Forbidden Archeology's Impact, Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, USA, 1998, website http://www.mcremo.com.
* Doore, Kathy, "The Nazca Spaceport & the Ica Stones of Peru", http://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm; see website for copy of Dr Javier Cabrera's book, The Message of the Engraved Stones.
* Steen-McIntyre, Virginia, "Suppressed Evidence for Ancient Man in Mexico", NEXUS 5/05, 1998.
* Sunfellow, David, "The Great Pyramid & The Sphinx", November 25, 1994, at http://www.nhne.com/specialrepots/spyramid.html.
About the Author: Will Hart is a freelance journalist, book author, nature photographer and documentary filmmaker. He lives and does much of his research in the Lake Tahoe area in the USA, and writes a column titled "The Tahoe Naturalist" for a regional publication. He has produced and directed films about wolves and wild horses.


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