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Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
Canopy, Campo Reserve, Cameroon Photograph by David Olson
The Atlantic Equatorial Coastal Forests ecoregion has exceptionally high levels of species richness and endemism, contains large blocks of evergreen lowland moist forest, and the central portion has one of the lowest human population densities in Africa. Most of the floral and faunal assemblages are intact, including assemblages of threatened large mammals, such as the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), and sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus). Important centers of endemism are found in this ecoregion, particularly in some of the coastal mountain ranges.
Location and General Description
This ecoregion extends from the Sanaga River in west-central Cameroon south through Equatorial Guinea into the coastal and inland areas of Gabon, the Republic of Congo, and the Cabinda Province of Angola, ending in the extreme west Democratic Republic of Congo, just north of the mouth of the Congo River. At its southern extremity, the last 400 kilometers (km) of the ecoregion is a tongue of forest lying inland of the coastal plain and surrounded by the Western Congolian Forest-Savanna Mosaic.
Low undulating hills and plains characterize the topography of the northern portion of the ecoregion. Altitude increases gradually inland from the coast up to 800 meters (m) on the eastern margins. Coastal mountain ranges are also found, particularly in the southern sector of the ecoregion. These include Monte Alén, Monts de Cristal, and Monts Doudou which have altitudes in excess of 1,000 m.
The ecoregion lies within the wet tropics and receives high rainfall with limited seasonality throughout its extent. Rainfall is approximately 2,000 millimeters (mm) per annum, falling to 1,200 mm in the southern sector. Temperatures range from an annual mean maximum of 24 to 27°C, to an annual mean minimum of 18 to 21°C, and there is little seasonal variation; in fact, diurnal temperature variation often exceeds the annual range. Humidity is typically high throughout the year, except in the south.
The geology of the ecoregion is characterized by Precambrian metamorphic rocks such as schists, amphibolites, quartzites, and gneiss. The southern extent is delineated by the limits of these Precambrian rock outcroppings, with younger rocks on either side. In the northern part of the ecoregion the soils are ferrasols, whereas towards the south they are replaced by cambisols and some nitosols.
A number of important river systems cross the ecoregion. The Sanaga River, a significant biogeographical boundary comprises the northern limit. Further south, because of the lowland coastal alignment and heavy silt loads, many of the rivers form extensive coastal deltas and are prone to significant flooding, including the Ogooué, the Nyanga, and the Kouilou just north of the Congo River. These rivers and their associated habitats are an important component of this ecoregion.
Human population densities are low through much of the ecoregion. Densities of only 1-10 persons per km2 are typical, with an exception in the southern mountains where there are more than 50 persons per km2. Gabon and the Republic of Congo rank first and second as the most forested countries in Africa, with an average of one person per 19.3 and 12.6 hectares (ha) of national territory, respectively.
The ecoregion falls within the Lower Guinea Forest Block of the Guineo-Congolian regional center of endemism. Coastal evergreen moist forests characterize the vegetation, with mixed semi-evergreen moist forests in the drier southern extension. The lowland forests are multi-layered, with tall trees and canopies up to 60 meters (m) high. Near the coast the vegetation is somewhat different, especially in Gabon, where there are long strips of coastal savanna mosaic known as Guineo-Congolian edaphic grassland. These coastal savannas intergrade with low coastal forest and scrub, which gradually give way to continuous moist forest cover further inland. On the mountain ranges embedded within the ecoregion the vegetation is also somewhat different, and has floral elements more typical of montane forest habitats elsewhere in Africa.
Biodiversity Features
This ecoregion supports exceptionally high species richness and has many endemic species. The endemics are concentrated in the mountains in the southern part of the ecoregion, although there are other strict endemic and near-endemic species in the lowland forest habitats. Some of these are found only in the western and eastern margins of the Congo Basin, and are apparently absent from the central Congo Basin forests.
In terms of the flora, this area and the adjacent Cross-Sanaga-Bioko Coastal Forests ecoregion to the north support about 50 percent of the 7,000 to 8,000 plants endemic to tropical West Africa, mainly in the coastal area of Cameroon. Three of the four families of plants endemic to tropical Africa (Huaceae, Medusandraceae, and Scytopetalaceae) are also abundant in the same area. Sites of importance for plant conservation include the Monts de Cristal of Gabon, a Pleistocene refuge for xerophytes and orophytes and one of two distinct Centers of Plant Diversity in this ecoregion. The Monts de Cristal are characterized by wet evergreen coastal rainforests and the site is estimated to have more than 3,000 species of vascular plants; over 100 of these are strict endemics. Another montane site is the Monts Doudou with more than 1,000 vascular species, of which 50 are strict endemics.
The second Center of Plant Diversity is the Mayombe region, occurring along the borders of the Republic of Congo, Cabinda Province (Angola), and western Democratic Republic of Congo in the southern sector of the ecoregion. A mosaic of lowland semi-evergreen forests, savanna, and wetlands characterizes this region. Over 1,100 species of plants occur, with well-represented families including Apocynaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Rubiaceae.
The species richness of forest mammals is exceptional. Several near-endemic and restricted-range mammals occur, including the sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus, VU), long-footed shrew (Crocidura crenata), lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus grandis, DD), and African smoky mouse (Heimyscus fumosus). This is a critical area for the conservation of large forest mammals of Africa. Globally important populations of gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, EN) occur, along with those for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, EN) and forest elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis, EN). Other important larger mammals include mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx VU), black colobus (Colobus satanas), bongo (Tragelaphus euryceros), forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), and various duikers (Cephalophus spp.). A number of other small mammal species restricted to the Congo Basin forests also occur.
The avian species richness is high, particularly for forest restricted species. The ecoregion forms part of an Endemic Bird Area, the Cameroon, and Gabon lowlands. Although no strict endemics are known, eight near-endemic, and restricted-range species occur: Verraux's batis (Batis minima), black-necked wattle-eye (Platysteira chalybea), forest swallow (Hirundo fulginosa), Rachel's malimbe (Malimbus racheliae), Ursula's sunbird (Nectarina ursulae), African river martin (Psuedochelidon eurystomina), Bates' weaver (Ploceus batesi, EN) and the Dja River warbler (Bradypterus grandis, VU). Most of these species are shared only with the Northwestern Congolian Lowland Forests, and a few only with the Cross-Sanaga-Bioko Coastal Forests ecoregions.
Herpetofauna species richness and diversity is pronounced, particularly among the amphibians where there are over 13 endemic species. Of these, seven are considered strict endemics, including the Apouh night frog (Astylosternus schioetzi), Perret's shovelnose frog (Hemisus perreti), Gabon dwarf clawed frog (Hymenochirus feae), Ogowe River frog (Phrynobatrachus ogoensis), and Andre's clawed frog (Xenopus andrei). Among the reptiles there are also many endemics, eight of which are considered strictly endemic. These include the French Congo worm lizard (Cynisca bifrontalis), Haugh's worm lizard (Cynisca haughi), Boulenger's feylinia (Feylinia boulengeri), and the Cameroon racer (Poecilopholis cameronensis). In the Gamba complex of protected areas, it is noteworthy that all three species of African crocodiles are found (Crocodylus niloticus, Crocodylus cataphractus, Osteolaemis tetraspis) and at least four species of marine turtles frequent the beaches during the nesting season (Lepidochelys olivacea, Eretmochelys imbricata, Chelonia mydas, Dermochelys coriacea).
Extensive areas of forest also remain, and because human populations are often low, the fauna can be largely intact, especially in the southern parts of Equatorial Guinea and in Gabon. Migrations of forest animals still occur between this and adjacent ecoregions. Important elephant migrations are likely. Portions of the ecoregion are included in one of the world's largest remaining wilderness areas. Top predators, such as crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), leopard (Panthera pardus, VU) and golden cat (Felis aurata) are still found at levels close to their natural range of variation.
Current Status
Although considerable areas of rainforest still remain in southern Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo, most of these areas have been selectively logged, some several times over. Logging has been particularly severe in Equatorial Guinea, which has lost approximately half of its forest cover, and logging is now becoming widespread in Cameroon and Gabon. Logging has even occurred within protected areas and only recently was an agreement reached to halt the logging of Gabon's Lopé Reserve core area. It is unlikely that any substantial areas of unlogged forest remain outside of protected areas, and the area of untouched primary forest is small. However, most of the logged forests have not suffered extensive human infiltration and thus are recovering.
In Gabon, apart from the logging camps, the forests are inhabited at low densities by agricultural and fishing people as well as small groups of forest dwelling Bakola and Bagyeli peoples. The total area under protection is 28,664 km2 or 15.1 percent of the ecoregion. This is higher than in most other forest regions of Africa. Major protected areas in the northern part of the ecoregion are the Campo-Maan National Park and Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve in Cameroon, and the Monte Alén National Park in Equatorial Guinea. Further south in Gabon, protected areas include part of the Lopé Reserve, the large Gamba complex of protected areas and the Wonga-Wongué Presidential Reserve. An additional 13 forest National Parks are in the process of being established in Gabon. The Republic of Congo contains the Conkouati and Dimonika-Mayombe Reserves. However, given the vast forest areas remaining in the ecoregion and its exceptional importance, the number of protected areas is insufficient, their level of legal protection too low, and they are not representative of the entire range of existing habitats. Proposals have been made as to where additional protected areas should be located within areas of high biological priority.
Despite widespread logging and other human-related conversion, the degree of fragmentation in this ecoregion is much less severe than that of the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa, or the forests of eastern and southern Africa.
Types and Severity of Threats
The current distribution of logging concessions covers almost the entire ecoregion, including many protected areas. This seems to indicate that logging will continue intensively. Extensive logging poses a serious threat to the continued existence of primary stands of rainforest. In the southern and northern areas of the forest where human population density is higher (Cameroon, northern Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Republic of Congo), logging has opened up the forest and native agriculturists have colonized some areas. The human population is low in the central portion of this ecoregion, and the threat from agricultural conversion is not as pronounced.
The main threats to the larger mammals of the ecoregion come from hunting for both bushmeat and fetishes, including the supposed magical properties of certain species. In the Gamba complex of protected areas, a large portion of protein and iron in the human diet is provided by protected species. Large, charismatic mammals such as mandrill, forest elephant, and lowland gorilla are relatively easy to hunt but reproduce slowly, and populations do not increase quickly after hunting. The logging and oil industries facilitate hunting, poaching, and the trade in bushmeat, by providing markets, transport, and access to remote forests. Recently some logging and oil companies have shown willingness to address some of the major environmental impacts of the industry. There are also oil exploration and production facilities in Gabon, that are fragmenting the forest to some extent and favoring human settlements.
Elephants are poached throughout the ecoregion for their meat and ivory. In the past, elephant poaching was less pronounced in Gabon than elsewhere, but now seems to be on the increase. The trade in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) is also highly developed in some parts of this ecoregion, especially in Cameroon, where the trade is seriously threatening the survival of this bird.
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
The Atlantic Equatorial Coastal Forests ecoregion is a part of White's Guineo-Congolian regional center of endemism. The southern boundary of the ecoregion follows White's delimitation of lobes of rainforest stretching into the forest-savanna mosaic to the south. The northern limit of the ecoregion is bordered by the Sanaga River, which represents a significant biophysical boundary for many vertebrates (e.g., Mandrillus sphinx). The ecoregion stretches approximately 200 km inland, and encompasses the ranges of some large mammal fauna. The coastal littoral forest and the forests on the mountain ranges in the south of the ecoregion both contain distinct biological features, and may be separated into new ecoregions in the future.
Additional Information on this Ecoregion
- For a shorter summary of this entry, see the WWF WildWorld profile of this ecoregion.
- To see the species that live in this ecoregion, including images and threat levels, see the WWF Wildfinder description of this ecoregion.
- World Wildlife Fund Homepage
Further Reading
- Barnes, R.F.W. 1987. A review of the status of elephants in the rain forests of central Africa. In A. Burrill and I. Douglas-Hamilton (eds.): African Elephant Database Project. Nairobi: GEMS, UNEP, pp. 41-46.
- Barnes, R.F.W. 1989. The status of elephants in the forests of central Africa: results of a reconnaissance survey. In S. Cobb (ed.): The ivory trade and the future of the African elephant. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
- Barnes, R.F.W., M. Agnagna, M.P.T. Alers, A. Blom, G. Doungoube, J.M. Fay, T. Masunda, J.C. Ndo Nkoumou, C. Sikubwabo Kiyengo, and Martin N. Tchamba. 1993. Elephants and ivory poaching in the forests of equatorial Africa: results of a field reconnaissance. Oryx 27:27-34.
- Barnes, R.F.W., K.L. Barnes, M.P.T. Alers, and A. Blom. 1991. Man determines the distribution of elephants in the rain forests of northeastern Gabon. African Journal of Ecology 29:54-63.
- Barnes, R.F.W., A. Blom, and M.P.T. Alers. 1995a. A review of the status of forest elephants Loxodonta africana in Central Africa. Biological Conservation 71:125-132.
- Barnes, R.F.W., A. Blom, M.P.T. Alers, and K.L. Barnes. 1995b. An estimate of the numbers of Forest elephants in Gabon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 11:27-37.
- Barnes, R.F.W., K. Beardsley, F. Michelmore, K.L. Barnes, M.P.T. Alers, and A. Blom. 1997. Estimating forest elephant numbers with dung counts and a geographic information system. Journal of Wildlife Management 61:1384-1393.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International. ISBN: 0946888396
- Blaney, S., and M. Thibault. 2001. Utilisation des ressources naturelles pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle des populations d'une aire protégée du sud-ouest du Gabon. WWF, Central Africa Regional Program Office, Libreville.
- Blom, A., M.P.T. Alers, and R.F.W. Barnes. 1990. Gabon. In R. East (ed.): Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans Part 3. West and Central Africa: IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group. ISBN: 2831700167
- Blom, A., M.P.T. Alers, A.T.C. Feistner, R.F.W. Barnes, and K.L. Jensen. 1992. Notes on the current status and distribution of primates in Gabon. Oryx 26:223-234.
- Bowen-Jones, E., and S. Pendry. 1999. The threat to primates and other mammals from the bushmeat trade in Africa, and how this threat could be diminished. Oryx 33:233-246.
- Castroviejo Bolivar, J., A. Blom, and M.P.T. Alers. 1990. Equatorial Guinea. In R. East (ed.): Antelopes: Global Survey and Regional Action Plans Part 3. West and Central Africa. IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group. ISBN: 2831700167
- Cheek, M., S. Cable, F.N. Hepper, N. Ndam, and J. Watts. 1994. Mapping plant biodiversity on Mount Cameroon. Pp. 110-210. In Van der Masen, L.J.G., van der Burgt, X.M. and van Medenbach de Rooy, J.M. (eds.). The biodiversity of African plants. Proceedings XIVth AETFAT Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht. ISBN: 0792340957
- Fa, J.E. 1991. Conservacion de los ecosistemas forestales de Guinea Ecuatorial. IUCN, Gland & Cambridge. ISBN: 2880329930
- Gartlan, S. 1989. La conservation des ecosystémes forestiers du Cameroun. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge. ISBN: 2880329906
- Happold, D.C.D. 1996. Mammals of the Guinea-Congo rain forest. Pp. 243-284. In. Alexander, I.J., Swaine, M.D., and Watling, R. (eds.). Essays on the ecology of the Guinea-Congo rain forest. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Series B 104.
- Hecketsweiler, P. 1990. La conservation des ecosystemes forestiers du Congo. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. ISBN: 2880329914
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 1998. The IUCN 2000 Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN: 2831705657
- IUCN 1989. La Conservation des ecosystemes forestiers d'Afrique centrale. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.
- John, E.FA. 1991. Conservación de los ecosistemas forestales de Guinea Ecuatorial. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge. ISBN: 2880329930
- Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals. Associated Press, London, U.K. ISBN: 0124083552
- Luling, V., and Jc. Kenrick. 1998. Forest Foragers of tropical Africa. UK: Survival for tribal peoples.
- Michelmore, F., K. Beardsley, R.F.W. Barnes, and I. Douglas-Hamilton. 1989. Elephant population estimates for the central African forests. In S. Cobb (ed.): The ivory trade and the future of the African elephant. Oxford: Ivory Trade Review Group.
- Said, M.Y., R.N. Chunge, G.C. Craig, C.R. Thouless, R.F.W. Barnes, and H.T. Dublin. 1995. African Elephant Database 1995. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. ISBN: 283170295X
- Sayer, J.A., C.S. Harcourt, and N.M. Collins. 1992. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa. IUCN and Simon & Schuster, Cambridge. ISBN: 0131753320
- Stattersfield, A.J., M.J. Crosby, A.J. Long, and D.C. Wege. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series No. 7., BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 1560985747
- Tutin, C.E.G., and M. Fernandez. 1984. Nationwide census of Gorilla (Gorilla g. gorilla) and Chimpanzee (Pan t. troglodytes) populations in Gabon. American Journal of Primatology 6:313-336
- White, F. 1979. The Guineo-Congolian Region and its relationships to other phytochoria. Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg./ Bull. Nat. Plantentuin Belg. 49:11-55.
- White, F. 1983. The vegetation of Africa, a descriptive memoir to accompany the UNESCO/AETFAT/UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa (3 Plates, Northwestern Africa, Northeastern Africa, and Southern Africa, 1:5,000,000). UNESCO, Paris. ISBN: 9231019554
- White, F. 1993. Refuge theory, ice-age aridity and the history of tropical biotas: an essay in plant geography. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica 2:385-409.
- Wilks, C. 1990. La conservation des ecosystémes forestiers du Gabon. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. ISBN: 2880329884
- WWF. 2003. Biological Priorities for Conservation in the Guinean-Congolian Forest and Freshwater Region. Proceedings of Workshop held on March 30 - April 2, 2000 in Libreville, Gabon. Kamdem Toham, A., D. Olson, R. Abell, J. D'Amico, N. Burgess, M. Thieme, A. Blom, R. W. Carroll, S. Gartlan, O. Langrand, R. Mikala Mussavu, D. O'Hara, H. Strand, and L. Trowbridge (Editors). Available from WWF
- WWF and IUCN. 1994. Centres of plant diversity, a guide and strategy for their conservation. WWF and IUCN, Oxford, UK. ISBN: 2831701988
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In addition to information on the wiki, add some explanations and definitions contained in RFC 4106 "The Use of Galois/Counter Mode (GCM)" (AES-GCM) can help them better understand the working of the mode.
The GCM
authenticated encryption operation has four inputs: a secret key, an initialization vector (IV), a plaintext, and an input for additional authenticated data (AAD). It has two outputs, a ciphertext whose length is identical to the plaintext, and an authentication tag. In the following, we describe how the IV, plaintext, and AAD are formed from the ESP fields, and how the ESP packet is formed from the ciphertext and authentication tag.
ESP also defines an IV. For clarity, we refer to the AES-GCM IV as a nonce in the context of AES-GCM-ESP. The same nonce and key combination MUST NOT be used more than once.
Because reusing an nonce/key combination destroys the security guarantees of AES-GCM mode, it can be difficult to use this mode securely when using statically configured keys. For safety's sake, implementations MUST use an automated key management system, such as the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) [RFC2409], to ensure that this requirement is met.
ESP Payload Data
The ESP Payload Data is comprised of an eight-octet initialization vector (IV), followed by the ciphertext. The payload field, as defined in [RFC2406], along with the ICV associated with the payload.
Initialization Vector (IV)
The AES-GCM-ESP IV field MUST be eight octets. For a given key, the IV MUST NOT repeat. The most natural way to implement this is with a counter, but anything that guarantees uniqueness can be used, such as a linear feedback shift register (LFSR). Note that the encrypter can use any IV generation method that meets the uniqueness requirement, without coordinating with the decrypter.
The plaintext input to AES-GCM is formed by concatenating the plaintext data described by the Next Header field with the Padding, the Pad Length, and the Next Header field. The Ciphertext field consists of the ciphertext output from the AES-GCM algorithm. The length of the ciphertext is identical to that of the plaintext.
Implementations that do not seek to hide the length of the plaintext SHOULD use the minimum amount of padding required, which will be less than four octets.
Integrity Check Value (ICV)
The ICV consists solely of the AES-GCM Authentication Tag. Implementations MUST support a full-length 16-octet ICV, and MAY support 8 or 12 octet ICVs, and MUST NOT support other ICV lengths. Although ESP does not require that an ICV be present, AES-GCM-ESP intentionally does not allow a zero-length ICV. This is because GCM provides no integrity protection whatsoever when used with a zero- length Authentication Tag.
Packet Expansion
The IV adds an additional eight octets to the packet, and the ICV adds an additional 8, 12, or 16 octets. These are the only sources of packet expansion, other than the 10-13 octets taken up by the ESP SPI, Sequence Number, Padding, Pad Length, and Next Header fields (if the minimal amount of padding is used).
For more information you can contact to another RFC for examle 5647 which describe AES Galois Counter Mode for the Secure Shell Transport Layer Protocol. (AES-GCM in the TLS)
The best explanation is in Dan Bernstein's Poly1305 paper, where he provides references to the original works on Carter-Wegman authentication. AES-GCM works by viewing the message as a polynomial and evaluating it at a random point. The sole way to forge is to blindly chose a polynomial which is zero at that point, but you have no information to do so, since the tags are encrypted.

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The Euros is a rare sports car in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Clearly resembling a Nissan 300ZX (Z32) with rear lights resmbling an Audi Quattro Spyder Concept, the Euros is a sleek, contemporary sports car, appearing as one of the most modern vehicles at the time of the game's 1992 setting. The Euros is also the only car featuring a panoramic sunroof.
Despite its suggestive designs, the Euros is one of the slowest sports cars in the game, as its acceleration and speed are far inferior to all other sports cars in the game. Nevertheless, the Euros still has better speed and acceleration than most other cars in the game. Handling and braking are also fairly good. The Euros is a front-engined, 4 wheel drive car, and sounds as though powered by a V6.
Being a conventional sports car, the Euros can only be modified to a limited extent at any Transfender garage.
- Colors
- Car color 1 ($150)
- Nitro
- 2x Nitrous ($200)
- 5x Nitrous ($500)
- 10x Nitrous ($1000)
- Wheels
- Import ($820)
- Atomic ($770)
- Ahab ($1000)
- Virtual ($620)
- Acess ($1140)
- Off Road Wheel ($1000)
- Mega ($1030)
- Grove ($1230)
- Twist ($1200)
- Wires ($1560)
- Car Stereo
- Bass Boost ($100)
Hydraulics ($1500)
- The Transfender in Las Venturas charges 20% more for every modification except colors.
The Euros is considered one of the rarest vehicles in GTA San Andreas:
- In front of the entrance of The Camel's Toe (Only when wanted for export), usually locked and alarmed.
- Importable from Easter Basin for $28,000 on Thursdays.
- Spawns rarely in Los Santos International Airport's lower floor.
- Can be seen driving around Easter Bay International Airport. (It will spawn more rare).
- Sometimes in vigilante missions (lvl 1 & 2).
- Spawns more when sports cars cheat is activated.
- In GTA San Andreas, the default radio station in the Euros is SF-UR.
- The Euros has a unique horn.
- It's probably manufactured by Annis due to being based on a Nissan model.
- The name of this model is odd because the Z32 300ZX is a Japanese car.


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Carol Grace was born with wanderlust. She was raised in Illinois but longed to go other places so she spent her junior year in college at the Sorbonne in Paris. After grad school in L.A. she went to San Francisco to work at the public TV station where she met her future husband.
At KQED she was the switchboard operator and did on-the-air promos (in French) for her idol, Julia Child, thus proving to her parents that French was a useful major after all.
She left TV and went on board the hospital ship Hope for 3 voyages Guinea, Nicaragua, and Tunisia. Then after finally marrying, she and her husband went to Algeria and Iran to work. They loved the excitement of living abroad but eventually came back to California to raise their two children in their mountain-top home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Carol says that writing is another way of making life exciting.


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Every year about this time, you start noticing the little forests of political signs popping up on every greenbelt in the neighborhood. The reason is that there's a candidate who would like your vote. And according to those who scrutinize politics and media, there's also an unspoken message in the signs' color and design. Jennifer Mitchell reports.
You may notice this season that a growing number of political sign designs out there stray beyond the classic American palette of red, white, and blue.
"I think in some cases they represent the presence of deliberate third parties," says Jon Ippolito, a media and design specialist with the University of Maine. He says that it's increasingly common to see lawn signs clad in purple, orange, and yellow. And green especially, he says, seems to be gaining traction as a symbolic campaign color.
"Green being a symbol both of environmental consciousnes, growth also, and money, in the sense of economic boon," Ippolito says. "So we associate green with a company like Starbucks that represents both the economic and the kind of ecological, you know, Seattle vibe."
That color symbolism within political campaigns may have had beginnings with Jimmy Carter, says Daniel Shea, director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civil Engagement at Colby College in Waterville. For his 1976 campaign, Carter surprised some by rolling out green signs in order to portray himself as a candidate of peaceful values.
The color scheme of choice for Republicans, say experts, has always been, and remains, some variation on red, white, or blue - sometimes all three. All these colors, says Shea, can have psychological impacts on voters.
"Red can mean excitement and energy," Shea says. "Blue is often used as a calming color. White is often thought to denote purity and integrity. Of course very few candidates pick yellow, right? Because yellow is danger."
Nevertheless, yellow has a role to play for some candidates. Robert Caverly is campaign manager for U.S. Congressional candidate, Kevin Raye. "The Raye name out in Washington County is synonomous with mustard, and that did play a role in the selection of the colors," he says.
Then there are Arthur Verrow's lemon-colored signs for the District 21 State House race. Verrow's opponent, Will Rogers, has also chosen a non-traditional color schem, black and orange - chosen, he says, because he wanted to make sure that his signs "stood out a mile" from everyone else's.
Orange on a sign, says Jon Ippolito at the University of Maine, may imply industry and energy - reminiscent of road crews or a big business like Home Depot, which also uses an orange color scheme. The color is also a hard one to ignore.
"I'm of the opinion that signs are really for the campaign itself - you know, I don't think any campaign was ever won or lost on the basis of signs," says Dennis Bailey, a political marketing expert and former spokesman for Gov. Angus King.
Bailey's not a big fan of signs. He says too much time is spent planning them, putting them out and engaging in what he calls "sign wars." There's also no evidence, he says, that they tell voters much of anything. But he puts them up anyway because a candidate's supporters insist on them.
"I don't know if the public wants to see them so much, but as something to give the volunteers to do, and something to sort of rally the troops, they're a big part of a campaign," Bailey says.
They work rather like advertising jingles, says Jon Ippolito at the University of Maine. Studies have shown that the more annoying the jingle, the more people remember it. Both Daniel Shea at Colby College and Ippolito agree that there are many ingredients that go into a successful political sign recipe - it's just not clear which ingredients resonate with wich voters, and exactly how many signs do the trick.
Then there's the matter of retrieving all those political signs post election. They need to be taken down from most places within a week after the election. And for candidates who are not successful at the ballot box, all those signs can be recycled for a future run for office. But, on the other hand, they might want to rethink their designs.
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Khan Noonien Singh (or simply, Khan), was the most prominent of the genetically-engineered Human augments of the late-20th century Eugenics Wars period on Earth, considered even over three centuries later to have been "the best" of them. Reappearing with a cadre of Augment followers in the 23rd century, Khan was to become a notorious enemy of James T. Kirk, as well as a warning of the danger in attempting to create "supermen" through technological means.
20th century origins
Records of the period, including Khan's origins, are vague. He was the product of a selective-breeding and genetic engineering program, based on the eugenic philosophy that held improving the capabilities of a man improved the entire Human race. Augments produced by the program possessed physical strength and analytical capabilities considerably superior to ordinary Humans, and were created from a variety of Earth's ethnic groups. Khan's background was suspected to be Sikh, from the northern region of India.
Khan would live up to the axiom coined by one of his creators, "superior ability breeds superior ambition". By 1993, a wave of the genetic "supermen" including Khan, had simultaneously assumed control of more than 40 of Earth's nations. From 1992 to 1996, Khan was absolute ruler of more than one-quarter of Earth's population, including regions of Asia and the Middle East. Considered "the best of tyrants", he severely curtailed the freedoms of his subjects, but his reign was an exception to similar circumstances in Earth history – lacking internal massacres or wars of aggression.
In the mid 1990s, the Augment tyrants began warring amongst themselves. Other nations joined in to force them from power in a series of struggles that became known as the Eugenics Wars. Eventually, most of the tyrants were defeated and their territory re-captured, but up to 90 "supermen" were never accounted for.
Khan escaped the wars and their consequences along with 84 followers (including Joachim, Joaquin, Kati, Ling, McPherson, Otto and Rodriguez) who swore to live and die at his command. He saw his best option in a risky, self-imposed exile. In 1996, he took control of a DY-100-class interplanetary sleeper ship he christened SS Botany Bay, named for the site of the Australian penal colony. Set on a course outbound from the solar system, but with no apparent destination in mind, Khan and his people remained in suspended animation for Botany Bay's (nearly) 200-year sublight journey. (TOS: "Space Seed")
23rd century return
The USS Enterprise discovered the Botany Bay in the Mutara sector in 2267. The boarding party's arrival triggered Khan's stasis unit to revive him, but the ancient mechanism faltered. The decision of Captain James T. Kirk to remove him from the stasis chamber, and Dr. Leonard McCoy's subsequent ministrations, saved Khan's life.
Twelve of the stasis units failed during the voyage. Kirk, taking the Botany Bay in tow, left the remaining 72 sleepers for disposition at Starbase 12 following their leader's successful recovery. The Botany Bay's undocumented departure, and the fragmented records of the period, initially obscured the identity of the sleepers from the Enterprise crew; but the man with incredible recuperative powers in sickbay led Kirk to suspect their genetically-manipulated nature.
Khan took advantage of Kirk's hospitality, catching up with his lost history by absorbing the ship's technical manuals and finding a weakness in the attraction he engendered from the pliant and submissive ship's historian, Lieutenant Marla McGivers. At a dinner given in his honor, Khan regaled the Captain's table with a romantic interpretation of the Eugenics Wars, until he was finally prodded into declaring, "We offered the world order!"
Eventually, Kirk and Spock identified their guest as being the deposed tyrant from Earth's past and Khan was confined to quarters. He soon began his takeover of the Enterprise, starting with his influence of McGivers. With her help, Khan escaped to the Botany Bay and revived his followers. Re-boarding the Enterprise, he took control from engineering and cut life support to the bridge. With the crew subdued and Kirk held hostage, Khan asked the officers to spare Kirk's life by joining in his quest to take the Enterprise to a colony "willing to be led" by himself (more correctly, to be conquered by him, a task which the arsenal of the Enterprise would make most simple). The officers' recalcitrance led McGivers, unwilling to go so far as to participate in murder, to betray Khan and release Kirk. Once the Augments were disabled with anesthetic gas, Khan attempted to destroy the Enterprise with a warp core overload as Kirk engaged the tyrant in physical combat. Khan's superior strength nearly won him the battle, but Kirk used a broken piece of equipment piping to defeat him.
Kirk retained some admiration for the determined, capable man of history. The prospect of imprisoning and rehabilitating the Augments seemed a waste. Instead, Kirk granted an opportunity for Khan and his followers: to colonize the dangerous but habitable world of Ceti Alpha V. McGivers was given the choice of facing court martial or joining the new colony. Khan accepted McGivers' company, and took up Kirk's challenge to "tame a world", citing Milton's Lucifer, "It is better to Rule in Hell, than Serve in Heaven". (TOS: "Space Seed")
Second exile
Along with Starfleet-issue cargo containers, Khan and his people settled in to life on their new world. Only six months after their landing, a cataclysm on Ceti Alpha VI shifted the system's orbits, causing massive ecological devastation on Ceti Alpha V. Khan's ingenuity and the meager shelter of the cargo containers kept his people alive while most of the indigenous life perished. The rugged Ceti eels survived, however, and as the only hosts available for their young, Khan's people were beset by the creatures. Over time, Khan lost twenty of his people to the slow, maddening death caused by the eels, including his "beloved wife."
Neither Kirk nor Starfleet followed up on the colony's progress. The starship USS Reliant, attached to Project Genesis to find a suitable proving ground, finally arrived at the apparently lifeless world in 2285. Captain Clark Terrell and Commander Pavel Chekov, the latter of whom himself was a former Enterprise crewmember, beamed down to survey the planet they assumed to be Ceti Alpha VI, where they were captured by Khan. After inflicting inchoate, mind-altering "eels" on his captives, Khan demanded to know the nature of their mission and the whereabouts of James Kirk.
The beginning of vengeance
Using his captives' vulnerability to suggestion, Khan and his followers hijacked the Reliant, and marooned the crew on Ceti Alpha V. With knowledge of the awesome potential of the Genesis project, he used Chekov to notify spacelab Regula I of Reliant's pending arrival and their intention to retrieve all Genesis information, 'as ordered by Admiral Kirk.' Khan's lure proved successful. The Enterprise, engaged in a training cruise at the time, altered course to investigate the odd reports from Regula I.
Khan's lieutenant, Joachim, called out his superior on the beginnings of his obsessive behavior, insisting that he had already beaten Kirk by foiling his plans. Khan's reply gave the first indication of the price that exile on Ceti Alpha V exacted on his ability to reason or, more accurately, to govern his overpowering passions:
- "He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares maelstrom and 'round Perdition's FLAMES before I give him up." – Khan, paraphrasing Ahab from Moby Dick, Or--The Whale.
Arriving at Regula I, Khan raged through the space station, seeking the now-missing Genesis data, and tortured those station crew members unable to escape the suspicious return of Reliant. When they proved uncooperative, he slaughtered them. He then left Terrell and Chekov behind, as they might prove a useful means to monitor Kirk's communications and follow his lead to Genesis, in the event that the Enterprise reached the station.
Khan intercepted the Enterprise, which was en route to Regula I. Concealing her intent, Reliant approached, feigning communications trouble, and mounting a devastating surprise attack using the Reliant's phasers to cripple the Enterprise. Khan hailed to gloat over his triumph and discuss terms of surrender. His only reward proved to be Kirk's initial open-mouthed stare of surprise. The parley allowed the more experienced starship commander to override the Reliant's tactical systems using the ship's prefix code to access them. With a few weak phaser shots from the Enterprise, the Reliant lost photon control and warp power (which would also disable the phasers), forcing Khan to retreat to Regula I.
After the Enterprise limped to the space station, a landing party led by Kirk rescued Terrell and Chekov from the storage locker Khan had imprisoned them in. After Kirk discovered the Genesis device in the bowels of the Regula planetoid, Terrell contacted Khan, who beamed the device to the Reliant. However, Terrell, fighting the effects of the Ceti Eel, refused Khan's order to kill Kirk and committed suicide. Despite the turn of events, Khan felt some small satisfaction, since Kirk and his party were now marooned within Regula, and the Reliant was on its way to find and destroy the Enterprise.
- "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity at the center of a dead planet. Buried alive...buried alive." - Khan, to Kirk.
- "KHAAAAAAAAN!!!" - Kirk, in enraged response.
In an open communication with Kirk, Spock's simple coded message (beginning with the signal, "Hours would seem like days") led Khan to believe Enterprise would need two days to effect basic repairs, unaware that Spock was actually telling Kirk that those repairs would be complete in two hours. After discovering his prey under way at full impulse power and bound for the obscuring clouds of the Mutara Nebula, Khan's pursuit faltered on the advice of Joachim, who knew that pursuing the Enterprise into the nebula would disrupt shield and sensor functions for both vessels. A surprise hail from Kirk, alive and taunting from the Enterprise bridge, threw Khan into a rage, and his passions overcame him. Ignoring the consequences of engaging his enemy on the level playing field of the nebula, Khan spurred the Reliant after Kirk.
The Battle of the Mutara Nebula was the last action of Khan's life. The two starships, barely able to discern one another due to interference within the nebula, exchanged a series of near misses and solid blows, until Kirk's experience finally trumped Khan's will; unused to fighting in a starship, Khan thought of the battle in terms of sailing ships, rather than submarines: he failed to realize until it was too late that he could have fought in three dimensions. After Kirk's new strategy allowed the Enterprise to catch Khan off-guard by descending and then rising to attack the Reliant from behind, Reliant was crippled and adrift with Khan's followers either dying or dead. Rather than surrender, Khan activated the Genesis device, hoping to take Kirk and the Enterprise along with him to oblivion. Unfortunately for him, Captain Spock managed to repair the damage to the Enterprise's engines which allowed the starship to escape at warp seconds before the Genesis Device detonated, destroying the Reliant and Khan with it. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
- "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee... For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee..." - Khan's last words, from Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
The geneticist Arik Soong believed Augments like Khan could be created without exhibiting his more vicious instincts. Soong's "children", created from augment embryos stolen in 2134, failed to live up to the hopes of their "father". Soong believed Khan and the Botany Bay to be nothing more than a myth, although his "children" believed differently. After his imprisonment in 2154, Soong, convinced by his creation's actions that his theory was dangerously wrong, redirected his efforts to the perfection of artificial humanity. His descendant, Noonian Soong (possibly, given Arik's admiration for him, named after Khan Noonien Singh) continued the effort with the invention of Soong-type androids, including B-4, Lore and ultimately, Data. (ENT: "Borderland", "The Augments"; TNG: "Datalore"; Star Trek Nemesis)
Khan's theft and premature detonation of the Genesis Device alarmed the Klingon Empire who mistakenly believed the device was the result of the Federation's development of an "ultimate weapon", increasing tensions between the two powers until the détente of 2293. Immediately, though, a group of renegade Klingons led by Kruge tried to steal the "Genesis torpedo" for themselves, but were unsuccessful. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
In 2368, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D agreed with faux historian Berlinghoff Rasmussen that saving an endangered planet could allow "the next Adolf Hitler or Khan Singh" to come into being. According to the Captain, first year philosophy students had been asked the question ever since the first wormholes had been discovered. (TNG: "A Matter of Time")
Khan and his augment brethren were considered so dangerous that by the late-24th century, genetic engineering was banned throughout the United Federation of Planets (except as treatment for serious medical conditions) in order to avoid creating another tyrant like Khan, although Doctor Sara Kingsley and her colleagues continued genetic engineering research in the 24th century. A black market in the genetic manipulation of children with limited abilities continued, however, resulting in the enhancement of Humans like Dr. Julian Bashir. (TNG: "Unnatural Selection"; DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume")
Upon facing Khan in 2259 of the alternate reality, the prime universe's Khan was the subject of a discussion, via viewscreen, between Spock from the alternate reality, who was aboard the USS Enterprise, and his counterpart from the prime one, who was on New Vulcan. The version of Spock from the prime universe - so alarmed upon hearing the name that he chose to break his vow never to tell his younger self anything about the future - recalled that, in that timeline, Khan had been "the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced", and that defeating him had come at a great cost. In this timeline, Khan was defeated by Spock and Uhura, but Kirk died saving the ship in Spock's place. However, that universe's McCoy discovered that Khan's blood had regenerative properties and was able to use it to resurrect Kirk. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Background information
In Carey Wilber's original draft of "Space Seed", Khan is a blonde criminal named Harold Erickson, who was placed in stasis aboard the Botany Bay as a means of getting rid of prisoners during an overpopulated era of Earth's history. Gene L. Coon's rewrites transformed the character into Ragnar Thorwald, the genetically enhanced leader of the "First World Tyranny", who hides behind the pseudonym John Erickson.
Khan was played by Ricardo Montalban in both of the character's appearances. His casting prompted the writers to change the character's name to Sabahl Khan Noonien, after Kim Noonien Wang, a friend of Gene Roddenberry during the Second World War. Roddenberry had lost touch with him and hoped that his friend would see his name on television and contact him. (This was also the origin of the name of Noonian Soong.) NBC suggested changing the character's name to Govin Bahadur Singh, due to the racial implications of the name "Khan", but Roddenbery insisted on keeping Khan and Noonien. [1]
After the release of The Wrath of Khan, Roddenberry (who disliked almost all of the film's many aspects) commented, "Khan was not written as that exciting a character, he was rather flimsy. The Khan in the TV episode was a much deeper and better character than the movie Khan, except that Montalban pulled it off." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
Khan's periodic quotations in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan were paraphrases, or direct lifts, from Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
To account for a discrepancy wherein Khan recognizes Chekov in The Wrath of Khan though Chekov's first appearance on TOS was not until the show's second season, a long-standing joke involving Khan has come about, as told by Chekov actor Walter Koenig. It postulates that, because Chekov left Khan waiting too long to use the bathroom, Khan vowed never to forget his face.
Besides Captain John Christopher in "Tomorrow is Yesterday", and Charles Evans in "Charlie X", Khan, in "Space Seed", is the only other Enterprise guest to be given, during the course of TOS, a Starfleet uniform to wear (although Craig Hundley wore a child's version of a Starfleet uniform in a scene that was cut from "Operation -- Annihilate!"). In accordance with Khan's assertion that he was once "an engineer, of sorts," his uniform shirt is red.
The Starfleet insignia around Khan's neck in Wrath of Khan is a broken, movie-era Starfleet uniform buckle, although the necklace appears on Khan before he actually gets aboard the Reliant. It is known as the "Buckle Necklace", according to Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.
The surname "Singh" suggests northern Indian ancestry (from the Sanskrit simha, "lion") and possibly roots in Sikhism (male Sikhs are obliged to assume the surname "Singh", regardless of their geographical or familial origins); while "Khan" ("ruler") is a name of central Asian origin generally associated with Islam.
Along with Harry Mudd, Khan is one of only two opponents to face Kirk more than once in live-action Star Trek productions.
The portrayal of Khan in The Wrath of Khan immediately appealed to Alex Kurtzman. He later remarked about Khan, "Not only is he scary, but he has an extremely personal and specific agenda that was understandable despite being psychotic. I think anyone who loves Trek would immediately vault Khan to the top of the villain list." [2]
When asked about the prime Khan being mentioned in Star Trek Into Darkness, Damon Lindelof said, "It would have been hubris for us to represent to the uninitiated that Khan was our idea and there was no one better [than Spock] to pop in briefly and say — 'Hey, these guys are just doing their own spin on a bad guy that was around a long time before they came along.' The minute we stop honoring, acknowledging and representing the original Trek, we are bound to lose sight of the enormous gift we have been given in sustaining it." [3]
While filming that scene, Leonard Nimoy responded to Spock's line, inquiring how the prime reality Enterprise crew originally defeated Khan, by quipping, "We picked up a hammer...", referencing how Kirk originally beat Khan into submission. ("Mr. Spock and Mr. Spock" featurette, Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray)
A trilogy by author Greg Cox describes the other events of Khan's life. The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume One chronicles the genetic enhancement project that led to his birth, and shows some of his early childhood from the point of view of agents Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln in the 1970s. The sequel, The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two shows his rise to power and capturing Seven's technology, as well as how he was able to secretly control so much of the world without the average citizen ever knowing. The final part of the trilogy is To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh, which explains his life on Ceti Alpha V after being left there to fend for himself, his followers, and his wife, to the point where Chekov and Captain Terrell encounter him years later.
James Swallow wrote an alternate history novella entitled "Seeds of Dissent" for the Myriad Universes: Infinity's Prism anthology. In it, Khan won the Eugenics Wars and went on to establish an interstellar empire, eventually dying at the age of 213. The Botany Bay is then said to have been launched in 2010 by Wilson Evergreen and carrying Shaun Geoffrey Christopher, Shannon O'Donnell and Rain Robinson to escape Khan's despotism. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Dark Mirror, it is also mentioned that the mirror universe Khan won the Eugenics Wars instead of being forced to leave the planet. In the Star Trek: Mirror Universe novel The Sorrows of Empire, the mirror universe counterpart of Colonel West mentions Ranjit Singh as a descendant of Khan and a potential prospect to replace Spock as Emperor of the Terran Empire, implying that Khan or someone of his bloodline ruled the Empire in the past.
Khan is the protagonist of the comic book Star Trek: Khan - Ruling in Hell, covering the same timeframe as To Reign in Hell.
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I really like the style! Thought, for a river to have so many branches, it is unusual, and no river can be like the one in the middle of the TKN continent.
Here is a world that I made probably 8-10 years ago. I did everything by hand, planned to write a story in it and then got busy with other things (such is life). I plan on working on it again, revamping it using gimp, fixing the many many mistakes that are in this world.
I know right off from the little that I've been lurking this forum that I need to do a major revamp and fix of my river systems and my mountains. But I'm open to any suggestions and critiques as I work on this world and post my improvements. It is my goal to make an awesome world and then write in it.
I really like the style! Thought, for a river to have so many branches, it is unusual, and no river can be like the one in the middle of the TKN continent.
Issues with rivers and mountains aside, have you considered how factors such as axial tilt, latitudinal location, wind currents, mountains and precipitation (or lack of it) all affect the climate zones of your map? The Magical Society put out a great little primar which covers some of these topics here if you are interested.
Avalanche, thanks! yeah, when I made this back in high school, I thought that looked cool... but now I know it isn't possible.
Arsheesh, You truly are an awesome help! All things I hadn't really thought about. That primer looks great. I'll definitely be checking it out to use while updating this map.
First, welcome to the Guild!
Second, river issues aside, I really like your hand-drawn stuff.
Third, with your new computer-assisted revision, there's a couple of things you might want to consider:
-The land seems to float over the ocean due to the cloud effect you've gone with. You may want to add some darker blue around the coastlines to help ground things.
-I'd enlarge your canvas a bit so everything doesn't look so crammed in there. I like the general shapes and layouts you've got, but you need more room around them to let them breathe.
On the positive side, the mountains look very nice, and the overall color scheme you've got looks great. Keep up the good work!
Diamond, thanks for the welcome and the suggestions. The floating land issue is something I hadn't thought about. I'll see what I can do to fix that.
As far as the crammed issue goes, how would you suggest moving around the land shapes without having to go back serval steps and redo things? I'm new to using gimp so I'm not very adept at fixing something like that without pretty much starting over or making a total mess of all the layers and layer masks and such.
You shouldn't have to move your landmasses around at all, if your ocean is on a layer by itself. In photoshop you can enlarge your canvas (not image, which will just magnify everything, but canvas, which will enlarge the actual area of you piece of art) and I'm guessing there's a similar function on Gimp, though I don't know what it's called.
If that's the case, you can just enlarge your canvas, leave your land layers alone, delete your ocean layer, and redo it so it fills up your new, larger work area.
If you've already merged all your layers, or you don't have an 'expand canvas' function, well... consider my original comment a suggestion for next time.
Yup, Diamond is correct. In GIMP the feature is "Canvas Size" (Image > Canvas Size). Now it's been a long time since I've looked at RobA's tutorial, and I can't recall if you are using the same clouds layer for both the land and the ocean or if these are two different layers. If the latter, then Diamond's suggestion should work without modification. If the latter, you will need to somehow generate a selection of the land (e.g. if Rob's tutorial has you create a Land or Sea mask you could use this to make the selection), Inverse the selection, and delete the clouds covering the sea (and the sea color), alter the canvas size of said layers, fill with new clouds and color and voila.
Diamond and Arsheesh, thanks for the tips to change the canvas. I didn't figure it out before I started working on my map again. I used a different tutorial: the Ascension Atlas one that was converted for Gimp. I think I like the style of this world better than my previous attempt. It has a more realistic feel to it. I changed some of the land masses again but I think that I cut down on some of the crowdedness without adjusting the canvas size but it's still a little cramped.
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People do often say that the greatest ideas are also the simplest. When Nintendo unveiled the four-player mode of the New Super Mario Bros. on Wii, people thought that Nintendo has already lost its creative juices. But now that the New Super Mario Bros. is already here, it's hard to think that the new mode is a downgrade of the legendary game.
The original Super Mario game has a formula that is so easy to understand that its very simplicity became its charisma in the video gaming industry. You just run make left and right turns, and jump until you reach the new level. That's it. There are no sophisticated moves or weapons. Just try one level, do the same moves over and over; and you'd probably get the whole trick. Amazingly, it appears to be the charm that has made the game quite famous to date.
This new Super Mario game on Wii reiterates the same Super Mario world vibe. It has playful ingenuity, lumpy environmental hazards, and power-ups that have been refined almost perfectly. This new Super Mario game might not be totally original but much of the game remains familiar to gamers who have played previous classic games by Nintendo. This new game is infused with Nintendo's trademark of excellence in design, using the traditional Mario figures and giving it a new twist.
Mario has new abilities in this game that have very significant improvements from the DS game's largely superficial inclusions. Here, the propeller outfit and penguin suit play a vital part in the game. These two can grant you abilities that will be to your advantage when used wisely. You can zip over troublesome areas, freeze enemies to become ice cubes and use them to defeat multiple enemies or have better maneuverability underwater.
Also one of the game's favorite characters, Yoshi is back, too! It adds up to the game being skillfully designed; and has remained as family-friendly as ever. Nintendo might be pushing the multiplayer focus on Wii; but it is absolutely a bona fide Mario platform, whether played alone or in groups.
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When New Super Mario Brothers first came out on the DS in 2006, it was the first new side scrolling 2D platformer in the Mario series since Super Mario World 2 came out in 1995. The game was a massive success on the DS, and more importantly than that, it was a fantastic game that brought back a rush of nostalgia for anyone who grew up with the NES and Super NES Mario platformers. Thanks to that success, Nintendo is now releasing New Super Mario Brothers on the Wii, but can lightning strike twice?
New Super Mario Brothers Wii continues the same style that was used in the DS version of the game, and by extension every Super Mario 2D platformer ever made. You'll spend a ton of time running from left to right, grabbing different colors and sizes of coins, and jumping on top of the heads of a lot of goombas.
For the Super Mario connoisseurs out there, if I had to pick a game that this new title feels the most like, its definitely Super Mario Brothers 3, which is considered by many people to be the best 2D Mario game ever created.
Not everything about New Super Mario Brothers Wii is familiar, though. The game adds a number of new power-ups, like the ice flower that serves as the exact opposite of the fire flower and the propeller suit that allows you to fly with just a shake of the remote.
Speaking of remote-shaking, the game thankfully does not make any sort of extensive use of the Wii remote in its controls. You hold the remote sideways, using the d-pad with the 1 and 2 button to control Mario. While certain moves will require shaking or moving the remote side to side, the game does not require the sort of wild movements that many Wii games tend to overuse.
The most intriguing part of New Super Mario Brothers Wii has nothing to do with the single player at all. With this new game, Nintendo has introduced 4-player co-operative multiplayer. This multiplayer brings 4 characters into the single player levels and has them all trying to reach the end of the level. This might sound hectic and out of control, and you would be right. While that level of insanity might seem annoying at first, it is a ton of fun to jump around on top of your friends while fighting to get as many points as you can.
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Do yourself a solid and do clonezone. Its only 8 bucks and you can see the video as well. Cancel afterward if you wont be using it more. 8 bucks is cheap for a game that otherwise wont get seen outside of mediacom.
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It's either music or dead streaming air. I'm pretty sure you have to pay for the licensed broadcast to get it, unless you try that one channel that people mention (which I can't remember).
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I cant stand the ads on the radio either. =(
let's try this
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My guess is that any radio station in the Cyclone network that has a free online stream is supposed black out the game broadcast online per their agreement with the network. Streaming the game audio online for free would defeat the purpose of CloneZone.
You could go through Yahoo and get just the audio stream. I think it's like $4.95 a month or something. I had to do that for a few of our games that weren't on televised or on Clone Zone over the last few years.
It appears clonezone also has a radio only stream for about 5 bucks.
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You could go through Yahoo and get just the audio stream. I think it's like $4.95 a month or something. I had to do that for a few of our games that weren't on televised or on Clone Zone over the last few years.
There is no Yahoo stream. It's all through Clone Zone now.
It was Yahoo last year, apperently that fell apart and is now handled through CloneZone Audio for $5.95 /month like someone mentioned (they do basketball too)
That is the re-broadcast Cyclone Radio Network stream.
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Those on the Cyclone Radio Network are not supposed to carry the game for free...
I think usually one or two stations *forget* to turn their stream off, and they usually rotate, but who that will be tomorrow is anyone's guess and that information is not usually allowed to be publically posted here (though it *may* get passed around via PM)
I guess stations can get in a lot of trouble for carrying it so...
satellite radio if you got it...
IF ISU is charging for the stream over the internet, you won't find it anywhere online. Your other option, as I had to do with a K-State game a few years ago, was find the opposing teams radio station and stream that. It really sucks listening to most opposing teams broadcasters, but when you are stuck and can't remember your yahoo password, what else are you going to do?
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