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Why do some patients object to vaccinations?
It's easy to be confused about vaccinations. On one side, you have a chorus of medical professionals saying, "Vaccines are safe! Everyone should be vaccinated!" And on the other side, an equally loud chorus shouts back, "Not so fast! Not everyone needs to be vaccinated!"
In part 2 of The Great Vaccination Debate, Dr. Brady Pregerson and Nurse Rebekah Child analyze some common objections to vaccination.
Dr. Brady: My brother probably won't get vaccinated or have his one-year-old vaccinated, either. I don't think his child has had any vaccines at all. I feel terrible about it. But I got tired of arguing with someone I love over the health of my only nephew (so far). My brother is smart, but he's a lawyer, not a doctor. He also doesn't trust the system. He's a believer in conspiracies—not the type we wrote about last month, but the type where the harmonious cooperation involved is meant to take advantage of others. All the science in the world either goes in one ear and out the other, or just polarizes him further toward his outpost.
Sure, people are making money off vaccines, but they make it off antibiotics and x-rays and cars and food, for that matter. I try to convince my brother, but it seems there's no use arguing. It's just a waste of time. I give up—I say uncle. I don't want to alienate him. I want to be approachable when he does have medical questions. But am I really doing the right thing or just taking the easy way out?
Nurse Rebekah: Ah yes, the age-old "herd immunity" mind-set. If you live in a tiny town in Missouri, herd immunity—relying on everyone else to get their vaccines so you or your children don't stand a chance of getting the disease—might work for you. However, if you live in a big city, especially one with lots of immigrants, beware! Herd immunity is not for you! Living in Los Angeles, I couldn't and wouldn't rely on herd immunity because the herd is full of nasty, preventable, communicable diseases. I remember one of my first pediatric deaths was a 13-year-old who died from Influenza A. I don't know if he had his flu shot that year or not, but I cringe to this day thinking his death may have been preventable.
As a health professional, how do you help your patients separate the fact from fiction? How do you help them realistically assess the chances of disease vs. the likelihood of a serious side effect? In part 3 of The Great Vaccination Debate, Dr. Brady and Nurse Rebekah discuss the benefits of vaccination.
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Brady Pregerson, MD, a returned Peace Corps volunteer and winner of the 1995 Wise Preventive Medicine Scholarship, completed his medical school at the University of California, San Diego, and his residency at Los Angeles County General Hospital. He has authored three medical pocket books for nurses and doctors, as well as the educational web sites erpocketbooks.com and gotsafety.org.Dr. Pregerson currently works as an emergency physician in Southern California. He writes, "Although the ED environment may be quite different from working on the hospital floor or in an office setting, I am hopeful that you can take these tips and apply them to your own specific work situation." You can buy his books on lessons from the ER, including Don't Try This At Home: Lessons from the Emergency Department and Think Twice: More Lessons from the ER, at amazon.com.
By Brady Pregerson, MD
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There are two schools of thought in every debate- and convincing arguments on either side. I have to say that most people in the medical profession that I have encountered willingly received and welcomed the flu vaccine this year. However, many more people have resistance to the H1N1 vaccine- I think it's viewed as a second flu vaccine, or unnecessary. But like Nurse Rebekah said- you won't question twice the benefit of the vaccine when you see a child decompensate from the seasonal flu. When it spreads rampantly through populations, it seems as though the benefits of vaccination may indeed outweigh the risks. But the burning question is how do you convince those that are so reluctant?


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I went to bed early last night thinking we had done well but were going to be about $200 shy of being able to completely pay off the lab bill. This morning's email proved a shock to my heart. Almost $1400 in donations overnight, including a couple of donations from people who had donated once before. This will pay off the lab bill mentioned the other day and most of the next largest lab bill -- they will be paid today. I'd like to thank everyone who donated, whether it was 5 dollars or 725 dollars -- every little bit helped. While we did not raise as much money as we did last July when foundations got involved, every donation came from a gamer and every giveaway item will go to someone who will enjoy it. I'd like to thank Jamie G. for making this drive possible with his gift of OD&D goodies to giveaway.
At the moment, I'm not sure if there are any ties. I know there aren't for the first three giveaway items, at least. I'll be contacting folks who are receiving a donor giveaway item or are in a tie this evening. Thanks again to everyone who donated, who spread the word, or sent us their prayers and good thoughts.


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The Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei was one of the most famous prisoners in recent history. Now he's taking on one of the most infamous prisons of all time, using Alcatraz as the inspiration and site for a series of new artworks to debut next September.
It's an unusual chapter for Alcatraz, the first time the former penitentiary is opening its extra-strength, tool-proof steel doors for a major contemporary artist, according to the National Park Service. It also promises to be a high-profile project for Mr. Ai, who said by phone from Beijing that he has never visited Alcatraz but is interested in exploring conditions in which individuals are stripped of basic human rights: "The idea of loss of freedom as a punishment raises philosophical questions."
"I have too many friends today who are still in jail," he added. "The fact that people who are fighting for freedom have lost their freedom being incarcerated is more than ironic."
Mr. Ai himself was detained for 81 days in 2011 on tax evasion charges, following his lengthy investigation into the Chinese government for shoddy construction that contributed to the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in their classrooms during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Supporters of Mr. Ai said the tax inquiry was a pretext to silence one of the most outspoken critics of China's government. The 56-year-old artist remains subject to travel restrictions. (Do not, for example, expect him at the grand opening of the Pérez Art Museum Miami this week, where his retrospective is the big inaugural show.) "My passport has been in the hands of police for almost three years now," he said. "I've lost my ability to travel."
For the Alcatraz project, he is working closely with Cheryl Haines, a San Francisco gallery owner who founded the nonprofit foundation For-Site to help realize site-specific public-art projects in the Bay Area.Continue reading the main story
Besides noting the art's use of sculpture and sound, Ms. Haines said it was too early to provide specifics on the works. But she did describe some themes that are likely to emerge. "I think it's a really rich site that allows him to address the most basic human rights, like freedom of expression and its importance in building a culture," she said. "We're also hoping to address parallels between forms of imprisonment and governments that use restrictions in communications to control people."
Mr. Ai said that he is "not thinking about work that will directly connect to my own detention," as he was recently for a set of six dioramas shown in a church in Venice. (Those sculptural tableaus recreated painfully cramped scenes from his own detainment, like his being interrogated or showering, all under the watch of two guards.)
The plan is to install some artworks in the building that served as a maximum-security penitentiary from 1934 to 1963. Other works are intended for an adjacent laundry building, where inmates like Al Capone were once put to work.
Ms. Haines said she has long been interested in the multilayered history of Alcatraz — as federal prison, a military prison before that, and later as a site of American Indian protests. She said she first mentioned the place to Mr. Ai during a visit two years ago to his studio on the outskirts of Beijing.
"He was talking about how interested he was in reaching a broad audience, beyond the art world," she said by telephone. "It was just four months after his release from incarceration, and this thought popped into my mind: 'What if I brought you a prison?' "
After the artist expressed interest, Ms. Haines worked to gain support from the National Park Service, which oversees the island, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, which provides funding and programming for it.
Frank Dean, a National Park Service superintendent for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said there was serious interest in Mr. Ai's work from the start but also practical issues his group had to review before issuing approval. The island, which measures only 22 acres, receives 1.5 million visitors annually — up to 5,000 daily during peak season.
"We couldn't do something like this lightly, because the island is so popular — and small," Mr. Dean said. "There are also logistical challenges: The island is not connected to the electrical grid, and we have to bring water out on the barge."
He described a careful selection process for determining the particular sites for artwork, with an eye to not disturbing the architecture, the natural seabird habitat or the standard flow of visitors.
Then there were political concerns. Given the artist's embattled history with the Chinese government, Mr. Dean said his group didn't want to give its go-ahead until it heard from the State Department.
"If this were a standard educational exhibition," he said, "we wouldn't need Department of State clearance, but considering the situation — that the artist remains under a sort of house arrest — let's just say we wanted to make sure that nobody was surprised in Washington."
Mr. Dean said that clearance came from the State Department in the form of an email from a public diplomacy coordinator the day before Thanksgiving.
The government is not providing any financial support for the project. Rather, For-Site is in the process of raising funds through private donors and foundations and possibly corporations, as it has in the past for works in San Francisco by the artist Andy Goldsworthy and a suite of projects relating to the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The foundation declined to disclose its budget for "Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz," as the show is to be called. It has confirmed, however, that the artist is not receiving any commission and that access to the exhibition will be free to anyone who purchases a regular Alcatraz tour ticket (now $30, including ferry rides).
Alcatraz tickets generally go on sale three months in advance. It is not yet clear whether the tickets for the time period of Mr. Ai's show, Sept. 27, 2014, through April 26, 2015, would be made available any earlier than usual.
In the meantime, Ms. Haines is busy sending Mr. Ai resources on Alcatraz Island, the history and the myth. In October, she took him a stack of books and DVDs, including such classics as "Birdman of Alcatraz" and "Escape From Alcatraz."
Mr. Ai may not be able to escape from China to visit the prison — at least not before the show opens."I would love to regain my rights to travel before that," he said, "but I have no idea if it's possible."Continue reading the main story


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As Windows NT Server charges into the server and enterprise computing market, Windows NT Workstation is quietly becoming a major force in computer graphics. The release of Windows 95 has given rise to a crop of inexpensive and accessible 32-bit 3D graphics programs. Until now, these same features required high-end workstations and expensive, proprietary software.
3D modeling, rendering, and animation place tough demands on hardware and operating systems, and the memory requirements and complexity of this class of software can easily cause system crashes. Windows NT has become the ideal platform for many graphics professionals because of its stability, memory management, and multithreading capabilities, as well as its low cost and versatility. You can render images and animation in the background of your NT Workstation while you work with other graphics in the foreground.
Before NT, all but the most high-end workstations could be tied up for hours while you tried to render a single image. The straightforward networking capabilities of NT help with distributed rendering, meaning you can farm out an animation to a number of workstations and each one can produce different frames.
These new programs bring workstation capabilities to the average user and power and flexibility to experienced designers. In some cases, you can even perform modeling, rendering, and animation in a single view.
Any one of these programs is suitable for product design, architectural visualization, illustration, and short animation, and street prices are between $200 and $500. I tested these programs on a 133-MHz Pentium system with 32MB of RAM and a 2MB video card, minimum requirements for this type of work. Although all the programs will run on a 486, they showed some strain even on the Pentium with 3MB or 4MB projects. With the exception of Visual Reality, these programs only run on Intel platforms.
3D/Eye's TriSpectives is a solid modeler. It is based on the ACIS engine, a new 3D file interchange standard developed by Spatial Technology, which makes TriSpectives an attractive addition to computer-aided design/manufacturing (CAD/CAM), scientific visualization, and games development. This standard allows you to retain your models' spatial and physical property information while you exchange them between programs.
The tutorials offer a good introduction to the modeling and placement tools you use to build accurate models. TriSpectives has two metaphors for the workspace: Scene and Page (see screen 1). Scene is a 3D workspace where you build and render models and create animation. Page is a 2D view into a 3D world, where you arrange models to create illustrations.
You can store your objects, textures, and animation movements in "catalogs" and drag and drop them into a Scene. Users can even build their own catalogs so that they can use elements in other projects. TriSpectives uses IntelliShapes, which are basic geometric objects that have innate "knowledge" of gravity and position. This knowledge makes it easy to use them as building blocks for complex models. You can set anchors on objects to determine where they align with or link to other objects. You can then modify or combine the shapes with Boolean operations and Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS), which are curves with greater control and complexity than Bezier curves. You can also modify the shapes by changing values in the property sheet, by dragging parts of the model, or by using 2D drawing tools. You can drag and drop textures on objects or on individual surfaces, and you can drop animation on individual objects or on the entire Scene.
Two nice features of TriSpectives are its abilities to bevel an object's edges from the property sheet and to hollow out, or "shell," an object to give it an inner and outer wall. You can add Smart Dimensions for precise placement of objects, but you are limited to technical drawings with these dimensions because font, letter size, and arrow types are not configurable except by editing the Registry.
You do all your work in a 3D window, which you can split if you want to look at more than one window at a time. Actually, split windows are essential because you can't save camera angles or views. Once you zoom, pan, or roll the view, you need to manually enter its coordinates or play with the view tools if you want to return to it.
You can create multiple scenes, but you have to individually populate each one with the objects. You can also use TriSpectives in a 3D Page mode to create a page layout with 2D and 3D elements. This is useful if you want to produce illustrations and brochures.
TriSpectives will import and export Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) files, the new virtual-reality 3D format for the World Wide Web. You can even configure the program with Netscape to act as a VRML viewer. TriSpectives is Microsoft Office-compatible: This means you can embed data from any Office application in the program, and you can embed TriSpectives data in any Office application.
TriSpectives can quickly generate final output renderings. However, setting up a final rendering is confusing because the dialog for defining output size and resolution doesn't appear until after you choose File/Export Image and name the output file. Other programs let you set the parameters first.
I found the program's initial performance painfully slow. I called the company's technical support and they told me to change the Registry setting for HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/3DEYE/TriSpectives 1.0/Raster/DeviceRaster Type from 5 to 6. Although technical-support representatives are helpful and knowledgeable, you are billed on a per-incident basis after the first free call. You can find free support and a 30-day trial CD-ROM on the 3D/Eye Web site. The trial product is free, but you will need to pay shipping and handling.
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System Requirements: Windows NT Workstation 3.51, Pentium or higher, 32MB of RAM, 2MB video card
3D/Eye * 800-946-9533
Web: http://www.eye.com
Price: $495
Visual Reality
Remember those times you've opened a new software package and discovered that the program was so huge it required seven floppy disks? Well, Visual Reality 2.0 ships with seven CDs. The first one contains the program, and the other six contain 2.5GB of models, textures, animation, video clips, and complete projects.
Visual Reality includes a number of separate applications. The core is Renderize (see screen 2), which was the strongest rendering product I reviewed. Other modules are Visual Model, Visual Image, and Visual Font. Visual Reality has a long pedigree of NT development, and you can see the results in the program's speed and output quality. Even though it's not a ray tracer, Visual Reality produces more realistic renderings than do the other packages.
The Visual Reality interface is unusual, to say the least. At first it seems confusing, but excellent tutorials walk you through every nook and cranny of the program. You'll be able to produce beautiful images after you complete them. The keys to using the interface are three "wells," called View, Move, and Edit. You can drop objects, views, lights, materials, and animation into the wells, which will then bring up the modification options. With a little practice, the system becomes very efficient. Users can control every aspect of a rendering, ranging from how an image is wrapped around an object (mapping), to the transparency and reflectivity of a surface, to the degree of fog in the air and the density of the shadows. You can export your projects to VRML if all the textures are .GIF or .JPG images.
The program offers alpha-channel masks for converting your 2D images into 3D objects. For example, if you have a photo of a tree against a solid blue background, you can make the blue transparent by setting blue as the alpha channel. The leaves and branches will cast accurate shadows, and you have given the tree the illusion of being 3D by setting the bump depth. You can create elaborate, detailed renderings from simple models with this technique and can populate them with realistic people, animals, and plants.
You've probably heard the adage: "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." Well, Visual Model is the weak link in the package. Although it's a competent and precise module, all the basic tools and some unusual features (including the surface-deformation tools in the Munge menu) make it confusing. Even experienced designers will need to keep the manual close at hand.
All the packages I reviewed allow you to extrude text into 3D forms, but Visual Font is by far the most sophisticated (see screen 3). The well-designed interface lets you instantly preview extrusions, bevels, offsets, and other deformations. You can fit the text to a path and export it directly into Renderize. You can return to Visual Font and edit the text as long as your Renderize session is open. Visual Font comes with eight predefined bevels, which you can invert and stretch. The information on bevels is stored in an ASCII text file so it's available for user customization.
The animation features in Visual Reality 2.0 are vastly improved from the previous version. Users can move any object, camera, light, or texture individually or as linked items. You can assign separate texture and bump maps to an object and animate them separately. For example, you can use one image as a texture map on water for the color and pattern while you use another as the bump map to create the waves. For some spectacular animation, users can set the texture map to undulate slightly while the bump map moves diagonally. The manual is thorough, and Visual Software offers free telephone technical support if you do run into problems.
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System Requirements: Windows NT Workstation 3.51, Pentium or better, 32MB of RAM, 2MB video card
Visual Software * 800-669-7318
Price: $200
Extreme 3D
Macromedia is preparing Extreme 3D, the successor to MacroModel. It should be shipping by the time you read this. Extreme 3D is a polygonal surface modeler that uses spline-based modeling and familiar 2D drawing tools to create its models (see screen 4). Although it's billed as CAD-accurate to 15 decimal places, the strength of Extreme 3D is really in organic modeling. The accuracy and drawing tools in Extreme 3D are serious competition for the other programs in this mini-roundup, but the program's interface in the Beta 3 version I reviewed seriously hampers it.
An important consideration Macromedia developers had when designing Extreme 3D was its compatibility with the Macintosh version and Macromedia's other products. Thus, the product is a good choice for anyone who uses Director or Freehand or works in a mixed-platform environment. It uses an old Macintosh interface that has trouble adapting to the 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution displays most designers use for their graphics. Dialogs and the status bars use a painfully small proprietary screen font, and important commands are buried beneath several menus. These commands are available via hot keys, but some of the key combinations, such as Ctrl+Z for undo, come from the Mac background and not from Windows. The developers are aware of these problems and promised to try and address some of them in time for the final release.
A single window can support multiple render styles for different objects. This means that once you've set the textures for an object, you can switch it to display as a bounding-box or a wire-frame for improved display speed while you work on other objects in shaded mode. The animation tools are easy to use and allow you to have independent control over any object, light, camera, or material property. Users can edit all the paths and objects in their animations. For example, paths can be edited as splines. The program also supports time-based and frame-based animation, as well as cross-platform distributed rendering. This means that an animation can be rendered across multiple machines in a network, including the Mac and Windows. Extreme 3D uses the same "score" as Macromedia Director to control the time and frame aspects of an animation and will produce high-resolution images, up to 8000 x 8000, for output to print.
If developers bring the interface up to the usability level of CorelDream (see the sidebar "3D by Corel" on page 87) and TriSpectives, Extreme 3D will be a strong competitor. For instance, CorelDream and TriSpectives allow users to click on an object and bring up an editable properties dialog where users can scale, move, rotate, stretch, and otherwise modify the object. Extreme 3D allows some of this in a properties box you can access with a hot key, but the other two programs offer more control. All three programs offer tree-structured hierarchical views of the objects, lights, and cameras in a project, but CorelDream and TriSpectives let you edit the objects directly from the tree.
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System Requirements: Windows NT Workstation 3.51, Pentium or better, 32MB of RAM, 2MB video card
Macromedia * 800-326-2128
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There are other 3D products that are ready to challenge these four. Ray Dream did not sit still after letting Corel have the core of its Designer 3.0. The company has just shipped its latest offering, Ray Dream Studio 4.0. The product is designed around the Windows 95 user interface and features a simplified command structure, improved camera and light manipulations, and a variety of wizards. The wizards include a Modeling Wizard and a Scene Wizard, which are used to create indoor, outdoor, and studio scenes ready for the placement of objects. Studio incorporates Ray Dream Animator and features high-end tools such as rotoscoping and inverse kinematics. With rotoscoping, you can use movie clips as texture maps or backgrounds to create sophisticated animations. Inverse kinematics is a method of linking objects so that pulling on one will pull another. For example, if you pull a dog's leash, its head will turn toward you and it will dig its feet into the ground to resist you.
TrueSpace 2.0 from Caligari is a well-designed and well-rounded product. It includes Boolean capabilities, rotoscoping, procedural textures, Adobe Photoshop plug-in support, and interactive rendering with Intel's 3DR application programming interface (API). It has excellent surface deformation tools, and navigating the 3D workspace is easy. Similar to TriSpectives, TrueSpace 2.0 will produce VRML files. Its unusual interface is almost entirely based on icons, the sheer number of which can cause problems if you're trying to use the program on a high-resolution display. This 16-bit application requires a fast machine for designers who want to use it under NT. The company is also working on a Windows 95 version of TrueSpace 2.0. Unfortunately, Intel is steering away from development of 3DR in favor of Microsoft's Reality Lab/Direct 3D, and this could leave Caligari in the lurch.
Real 3D Version 3 from Realsoft International is a 32-bit that program that includes extensive modeling, animation, and rendering features, including spline modeling, rotoscoping, collision deformation, and inverse kinematics. You can draw a spline on an uneven surface and build a new object from it while conforming to the initial surface.
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Each of these programs has its strengths and its weaknesses. TriSpectives is best at quickly creating accurate and complex models, is well-suited for engineering and architectural visualization, and can quickly output rendering. Visual Reality is best suited for creating stunning renderings and animations from its 3D clip art and images or from models you create in other programs. The output it generates will rival that of any product available on any platform. A combination of Visual Reality for rendering, and any of the others for modeling, will bring excellent results.
Windows NT is taking over where the Commodore Amiga left off and going head-to-head with the high-end graphics workstations. A $4000 computer can produce the same graphics you used to output on a $30,000 workstation just a year or two ago.


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National Escargot Day is celebrated on May 24th of each year. Escargot is a dish of cooked land snails, usually served as an appetizer in France and in French restaurants. The word is also sometimes applied to the living snails of those species which are commonly eaten in this way.
Escargot, IPA: [ɛs.kaʁ.ɡo], is the French word for snail. It is related to Occitan escagaròl and Catalan cargol, which, in turn, may derive from a pre-Roman word *karakauseli. Similarly, Spanish and Portuguese use the term caracol.
Not all species of land snail are equally edible, and many are too small to make it worthwhile to prepare and cook them. Even among the edible species, the palatability of the flesh varies from species to species. In France, the species Helix pomatia is most often eaten. The "petit-gris" Helix aspersa is also eaten, as is Helix lucorum. Several additional species, such as Elona quimperiana, are popular in Europe; see heliciculture.


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BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States Monday underscored their close economic relationship and called for its healthy growth.
"China and the United States share very close economic ties," Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan told a U.S. delegation led by two Missouri senators - Christopher Bond and Claire McCaskill.
|Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) meets with U.S. senators Claire McCaskill
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Wang said bilateral cooperation in trade, economy, investment and finance generate substantial benefits for both peoples.
"Both sides should work together to create a sound environment for a positive, cooperative and comprehensive China-U.S. relationship in the 21st century," Wang said.
Bond and McCaskill echoed Wang's comments, calling on the two countries to oppose trade protectionism.
On global economy, Wang said the recovery of the global economy would be bumpy.
"All countries are confronted with the common challenge of seeking robust, sustainable and balanced economic growth."
Wang also said the Chinese government would "make efforts to strike a balance between maintaining steady and fast economic growth with the restructuring of the economy and the curbing of inflation."
The two senators are leading a delegation of nearly 20 leaders from a variety of Missouri businesses, trade unions and universities.
During their stay in Beijing, the delegation will meet with officials from the commerce, foreign affairs, civil aviation and agriculture departments.
They will also travel to Shanghai on east China's seaboard, where they will call on local officials and tour the ongoing World Expo.


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|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Oct 16 2017, 06:17 PM
It was about time they found a city that they could get supplies at and maybe a good long bath too. It had been away since she had taken a nice hot bath and she wanted one. So when they finally got a inn room that was the first thing she did and she stayed in there for awhile before coming out. They had decided to go 'clothes' shopping the next day for now it was off the to local tavern to get a meal.
Est pulled her hair back after she had placed her hairbrush down and followed Rufus out of the room and out of the inn as she placed it up in her ponytail. Traveling with him was so far going well at least she thought it was. She had been catching onto what he was showing her and she had to admit falling asleep in his arms was nice the last few weeks. She straightened out her jacket and walked closer to him and reached out and grabbed his hand with hers before slipping the other one inside her pocket.
Once they was at the tavern they moved and sat down at one of the empty tables and she finally let go of his hand and looked over the menu that the barmaid came and placed in front of them. She glanced at the menu for a moment or so trying to decide what to eat and what she hadn't had in awhile. She tapped her finger against the table slightly and looked up to Rufus for a moment has the barmaid looked between her and Rufus and longer at Rufus for a second or so.
After the barmaid excused herself to look at another table, Est slowly raised her eyebrow towards Rufus. She didn't know if she wanted to know if something happened between the two of them or not just yet. She would let it go for now and turned back to the menu. "Oh look hey offer turkey, something we haven't been able to find out in that swamp." She teased slightly and shook her head some. She leaned back in the seat she was sitting and and looked around a bit more. "How long are we going to be staying here in this town?" She asked and looked back down to the menu to decide on a drink.
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Oct 18 2017, 11:21 PM
It had been most of a month since Estrela had thrown herself into his life once more and honestly, he wasn't complaining. It had been difficult at first, but he was getting more and more comfortable with having her constantly with him. It was hard to complain about having the affection of a beautiful woman, nor would he find an issue with waking up next to her. While he sometimes wanted a bit more, he was pretty satisfied with what they had.
It had taken a few weeks, but they reached a larger town, much to Est's relief it seemed. He checked them into the inn, and the first thing she did was go for the hot bath. So he was forced to wait while she soaked in the bath, knowing that he would be stuck with colder water. Despite having more conveniences than many of the smaller villages, there were limits. He'd have to talk to Est about that later. But for a while, he simply reread a book called The Ways of War, and earlier piece on how to properly conduct a successful war. Many said it had modern applications, but he just enjoyed reading it. It was a good thinking book.
But as much as he enjoyed the book, he was happy when she
They were seated by a young woman he'd seen the last time he was here. He'd been to the town a few times since graduating, and the staff here hadn't changed much. Which was fine, so long as a certain woman wasn't working today. If possible, he'd rather not explain that to Est just yet.
He glanced briefly at the menu as the waitress waited on them, before Est seemed to give her a signal to leave. He supposed she needed more time to look for what she wanted. Probably turkey if she actually followed though on her joke. He could help but sigh and grin at what had been a recurring joke for the past two villages. Perhaps now she could lay it to rest. "Probably a couple of days at most. We'll see if there's any work to be done, and if we're lucky, we can tag along with a passing caravan." He didn't tell her his two desired locations they'd be able to ride to, hoping to keep that a surprise.
"Well hello there Ruffy." A feminine voice spoke up behind him, a brown-haired barmaid walking up to their table. 'Shit.' He really hoped he could have caught a break. He must have used all his luck getting Estrela, he supposed.
The woman looked between the two of them before resting her eyes on Rufus. "Its been quite a while before you've been here deary. Whose your friend?" She had a charming smile as she spoke, mainly to him, with a slightly flirtatious tone.
Rufus sighed, expecting this to end poorly for him. "This is Estrela. My......girlfriend." It took him a moment to associate them with that word. She'd used it when she first found him, but he didn't think about those terms too much. Just didn't think about it too much. The barmaid looked Estrela over before giving the girl a warm smile. "Sierra. Pleasure to meet you. Now what can I get you two?" Her smile had stretched into a playful one as she waited to take their orders.
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Oct 19 2017, 09:13 PM
The thought of saying here for a couple of days was okay with her for the most part. It was just a small village after all, but it did have a bed and basic things you might need on the life in the wood. She had missed the communications and everything else while she was with him, but being with him talking, cuddling at night, and kissing was pleasing as well. She would have to send a message to her siblings while they was here to let them know she was okay after a month. Plus she might get a picture or two of the new twins in the family and she could show them off to Rufus.
She looked up towards the new barmaid when she came around and she blinked at the name she called Rufus. At that moment she had to refrain from slapping her palm into her face. She sat there has she spoke to him and noted how she was flirting with him and only paying attention to him for the most part. Maybe for a better tip? Yeah, she would go with that for now and glanced back towards the meal to see what else they had that she hadn't had for a while.
She did look up when Rufus introduced her, and smiled a bit more when he called her his girlfriend after a moment of thinking. She shook her head slightly at his lack of knowing the word, but in a way it was the first time he called her that and it made her happy to be introduced that way in front of someone he knew even if it was a waitress.
"Nice to meet you too." It was a little force on her part, but well for her the waitress was just the hired help at the moment that was pushing into boundaries, but she would let that go and glanced at the drinks at the moment. "Glass of your red wine and the chicken dinner for me." She handed the menu back to Sierra and glanced back to Rufus with a smirk on her face. Oh she was going to poke and prod at him calling her girlfriend that was for sure, but for now she would focus on someone else calling him a nickname.
"Ruffy?" There was a hint of amusement and jealous in her voice at the moment. He never told her she could call him that and she slightly did want to know where the nickname came from.
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Oct 21 2017, 02:17 PM
This was not going to end well, and he knew it. He knew Est well enough to know that she was not happy about this at all. Sierra was a flirt that knew what she liked. And he knew that she would continue to flirt with him just to mess with him. And it would probably make Est even more annoyed. He gave a silent prayer to his ancestors, asking forgiveness for whatever he did to piss them off.
The tension coming off Est was clear to him, and he knew the waitress wouldn't miss it. It was probably her goal, part of her amusement. She was a playful girl after all....Rufus took an internal moment to refocus. "You have good taste Estrella." Sierra gave a playful, sidelong glance to Rufus, licking her lips a little. "Very good taste." Jotting down the order, she turned her attention back to him, a friendly smile on her face. "I'll...I'll have have the same, but with some honey mead instead of wine. Thanks Sierra." He gave her his menu, hoping that she would just let him be in peace.
He was really banking on something he knew would never happen. "Perfect. I'll be back with your drinks soon. I'll make sure they make your chicken just the way you like it Ruffy." With a flirtatious wink and tone, she left the two. God, he would be surprised if he lasted the night.
He swallowed as she questioned him. He could hear both her playfulness and jealously in her voice, knowing a single word was saying quite a bit. "As I told you yesterday, I've been here a few times. We.....we got on friendly terms on my first visit and I asked her for directions to the next town. She gives a lot of people nicknames. It's just a way of expressing her friendship...." He wasn't......entirely lying. He had asked for directions, and the nickname was a form of endearment. Why she called him it though....the story was a bit different. "Um, how are you liking the place so far? Nice place, right?"
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Oct 30 2017, 01:08 PM
Estrela continued to tapped her finger against the table ever so lightly has the woman commented on her taste and licked her lips together. She didn't like how she was pointing stuff out to her at the moment and deciding to make it her personal game to annoy the shit out of her. Yet, she was calm about it for the time being has she and Rufus both ordered the same thing with different drinks.
Once Sierra had walked away though she rolled her eyes and folded the menu back and watched as Rufus went to explain why the person was calling him Ruffy of all name. She tilted her head slightly and sighed some. Jealous? Yea, she was slightly jealous at this point mainly because of how the waitress was acting and she could even see that he didn't want any part in this if a fight was going to happen, she was going to make sure she kept herself out of in serious trouble though that was the last thing she needed was stuff getting to her sister.
"Don't play dumb with me...so what? You slept with her. We wasn't together then was we….I was back in Haven after all. Don't sugar coat it Rufus….yea she bugging me only because of her attitude at the moment, but I will get over it. I am not going to take out my weapon and dice her that would be overkill." She placed her hand on the table with her palm out towards him with a smile on her face.
"Besides, I think this if the first time I have actually heard you call me your girlfriend. So you are warming up to me." She teased slightly and reached up with pushed her hair out of her face for a moment and continue to smile for the time being. "I am happy to be traveling with you I really am and I have learned a lot in the last few weeks. She smirked slightly though and blew a kiss towards him. [b]"Besides we both know who's bed you will be in tonight." She said it has soon as she saw Sierra walking back towards them.
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Oct 31 2017, 11:31 PM
He actually released a sigh of relief at how well she handled it. "I wasn't sugar coating it. She really does give out nicknames. As for the sex thing, yes. We've had sex a few times over my two visits. I glossed over it because I didn't think you wanted to hear about that." He placed his hand on hers, gently coiling his fingers around hers. "I didn't think you were going to until the end there. Unfortunately, I started laying with an aggressive woman. Should I warn the rest of my mistresses?" He teased a little, though his voice remained calm though it all.
"She really doesn't mean any harm. She'd just having some fun at my expense. She'll probably stop now that she bugged you so much. I think she's a little jealous that she can't have me anymore." As he finished, Sierra returned with their drinks. "I hope the two of you are enjoying yourselves. If you need anything else, just wave me over. Otherwise, I'll be back with your food soon." She left after directing a wink at Estrela.
Watching her leave, Russet sighed again. "You know, I had this silly fear that you would get mad over me not having asked you for sex yet. I'm glad that you're not worrying about something like that." It was a bit of a relief for him. He didn't want to worry about Est developing some sort of complex over something like that.
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Nov 8 2017, 10:40 PM
Estrela watched him for a moment and noticed how relieved he seemed to handle this whole thing. Maybe she did have a short fuse about things, but that was normal towards her eldest sister, but she believed that she had worked that out with her before coming out here the last few months. She smiled slightly and shook her head. "She still got under my skin about the issue really. I think its just how you was looking also as if you was scared but she just...annoyed me about it. No, I can keep my hands off them for now." She teased back.
She did smirked slightly when he mentioned that Sierra might be a little jealous that she could no longer have him anymore. She didn't let go of Rufus' hand when she came back and dropped off the drinks. She gave a nice fake smile and waved slightly with her free hand when the other woman had winked at her and turned her attention back to Rufus when he admitted his fear about not asking for sex with her.
She tried to hold it in and laughed some and gave his hand a squeeze. "One, there no way I was going to do that in a swamp. No matter how heated we got. Two neither of us had protection to do that...cause I don't want kids right now. Cass just had twins...I am good on the baby front of things. Three...it will when it happens Rufus. Besides you are not treating me like a one night stand are you? Even though I can be a pain in your ass about things and wanting things down my way...you have treated me with respect and I am grateful to you for that."
She smiled and when Sierra brought over their food she thanked her and smirked some. "This might be better than your cooking or mine…." She teased and slowly let go of his hand and took a drink of her wine and poked at the chicken for a moment or so. "Besides tonight might be the night you get some." She teased a bit more and started to eat her meal.
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Nov 8 2017, 11:52 PM
"I had sex with a mischief maker and am dating a hothead. Not sure why I wouldn't be worried." Granted, he hadn't been that worried...for the most part. But his girlfriend was a....complicated woman. He'd definitely seen her as the jealous type since before they were dating. He could just tell that whoever ended up with her would have a tough time if he got cozy with female friends. It just so happened that said guy was him.
He wasn't at all surprised at all that Est kept holding his hand, concealing that smirk of her's. He knew it wouldnt' bother Sierra at all, but if it satisfied Est a little, it was all good. If anything, Sierra would just pick on him more the next chance she got off the job. The woman could be a pain, but man she was capable.
He rolled his eyes at how funny Est thought he was being, listing off the reason why it wouldn't have happened. "First, We left the swamp over a day ago. Second, that's a fair point, but I do have protection....probably. I had some condoms left over from a while back and they're probably still in my bag somewhere. And third, some girls are weird like that. Plus, you can't blame me for worrying. Some girl's worry about that sort of thing. Dating an older man with plenty of experience can be intimidating, especially after some of my precious comments. Its hard to now what the unstoppable Est actually worries about after all." Despite the show of strength she put on, he couldn't help but wonder what worried the girl.
"Ha ha. Very funny Est." He cut off a piece of chicken and bit into it, enjoying the rich taste. Great as always. "Just remember who makes you food while we're on the road. If that's your way of showing appreciation, i may just have you go back to eating ration bars." He playfully pointed a fork at her as he threatened to deny her food. He would never do that though. Not because they were dating, but because she would annoy the hell out of him until he made her dinner. He reciprocated her tease and added a smirk for good measure. "Now that I know you aren't worried about it, I'll let you handle that."
A few hours later, the pair made their way back to their room, the festivities of the bar behind them. The pair had had a good bit to drink, being smart enough to stop before passing into drunk territory. He may have straddled the line a bit more than she had. But he was now a sack of lien richer for it. "That bastard's still mad over that pair of twos I beat him with a few months ago. I hope he thinks twice before taking me on again." He caught himself before he tripped on his own foot, aware that his legs were still coming back into full working order.
After dinner, the pair enjoyed some fun as the tavern became livelier, Rufus introducing her to some acquaintances of his. One of whom challenged him to a bit of a drinking game, which was joined by others. One which Rufus had won, thanks to it not being entirely about out-drinking the other. How the game worked didn't matter, since he won and the others didn't.
And Rufus had spent the past fifteen minutes reclaiming the majority of his senses. But at least Est wasn't too far behind him. Her own pouch indicated that much. As he opened the door, he was glad to be back in their room. They could relax for a bit, then go to bed. Up to now, it involved her in an outfit that left next to nothing to the imagination and the couple in a sleepy embrace. Tossing his winnings on a side table, he sat down on the bed, legs hanging off the edge. "Well that was fun. You enjoy yourself Esty?"
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Nov 9 2017, 12:15 AM
Estrela laughed slightly when he commented about the man that had challenged him to a drinking game. This was one of the first times she had this much to drink without being around her brother and his nagging voice telling her she shouldn't be drinking that much. It was interesting seeing the nightlife of the tavern now whether she remembered much of it in the morning was a different matter altogether. She followed him towards their room and she shook her head. "More like he not going to challenge you to any more drinking games though...what a pity you could have raked up more." She moved and shut the door behind them
She had drunk her share in the game too and got some more lien for her little pouch. She tossed it on the table and moved and slipped off her shoes and tossed them against the wall and she looked up when he asked her if she had fun tonight. She smirked softly and walked over to him and kissed him and nodded some. "We should come to town more often and get money this way….betting in a drinking game….and laughing with everyone." She was typical a very social person most of the time even with dragging people into her pranks. "Maybe sit up a prank or two as well she teases some and ran a hand through his hair gently.
She pulled back away from him slightly and put her arms behind her for a moment and pulled off the sleeves of her red jacket and tossed them in the chair. She glanced back towards him and moved closer to him before turn around and sitting beside him with her legs draped over one of his legs. She wrapped one arm around his neck and smiled softly up at him. [b]"We really should come into town more often. Nice soft bed to cuddle up in." She said and poked him a bit in the chest.
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Nov 11 2017, 11:53 PM
Rufus reciprocated the kiss, enjoying the feeling it sent through his body. He'd slowly been worrying less about some impending emotional doom, adjusting to her companionship rather well. It was nice to have a warm body pressed against your's at night. A warm smile in the morning and a bright personality during the day. "I would say we could spend a while here, but we have an important stop to make next. But we can definitely do this again sometime." His wolf ears popped up as Estrela's hand brushed against them. His own was caressing her cheek before he kissed her. "Let's not subject the locals to your antics. I thought we liked being here."
He watched as she backed away, removing her jacket to reveal the only piece of clothing that you could argue left much of anything to the imagination. While they did need to get her some more clothes, he couldn't say he disliked her style decisions. As she got comfortable, he wrapped a hand around her waist to pull her closer, his other hand resting on one of her legs, rubbing it up and down a little. "I suppose we'll have to make the most of the bed while we have it, won't we Est?" He moved his hand up to gently hold the back of her head as he pulled her into a deep kiss. He held it for as long as she would let him, his tongue prodding from entry.
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Nov 26 2017, 10:57 AM
Estrela smiled softly when his ears popped out away from his hair. She did like tugging on them gently when she could. She did tilt her head to the side for a moment. "Important spot hmm? And what could that be?" She cooed softly and tugged gently on his right ear with her finger tips. She kissed him back and laughed after pulling away from his lips when he sad they shouldn't subject the town to her antics. Her lips curled up into a smirk. "But its because I like it they get the little antics from me….it be amusing….Promise I wont cause too much trouble for you….or me." She teased some.
When he pulled her close to him she wrapped her other arm around his neck and laughed softly about getting good use of the bed. She kissed him back as he deepened the kiss between them and let his tongue gain entrance to her mouth as she slipped her own tongue against his. This was definitely a bonus to having found someone she did care about and being around him like this. Her body was reacting to instintics and wanting to be closer to him at the moment.
When she did finally pulled away from him she lingered close to his lips to kiss them quickly for a moment before pulling away from him and placing her forehead against his own with a smile. "My Ruffy." She teased softly and ran her hand back through his hair for a second. "All mine…" She placed another kiss on his lips.
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Nov 26 2017, 12:45 PM
He enjoyed the way she gently tugged on his ears. He would never deny how good it felt, especially when they were getting a little more...intimate. So far they hadn't done too much because, well...they'd been in the wilderness. As great as that was, this was even better. He rolled his eyes as she pulled away, trying to sell him on the idea. "Keep it tame and leave me out of it." There was no use denying her, so he may as well set some rules.
Touching Estrela sent electricity coursing through his body. It was like a drug with no negative side effects, an incredible feeling he would never dream of getting rid of. His body demanded contact and intimacy, and the man had no qualms about giving to that desire. As they kissed his hand moved up her leg to her rear, giving it a good squeeze. While she didn't have the curves of some women, he wouldn't trade he for anyone. Every part of her a work of art in his eyes.
He smiled a little as their foreheads touched. After her teasing and kiss, he gently caressed her face with his hand, thumb brushing a few strands of hair aside. "So long as you mine." He quickly kissed her again, looking deeply into her eyes. "My dear Estrela." He ran his hand through her hair and kissed her once more, slowly trailing them down to her neck.[/color]
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Dec 24 2017, 01:36 AM
She laughed softly at his demand to keep it simple and him out of any pranks she played in the future in the little town. She watched him for a moment and shrugged her shoulders gently about it. She wasn't going to promise not to drag him into any of her pranks considering she love pulling people into them it made them just so much more fun and amusing that way. "I will try, but no promises." She was amused, but that was okay one day she would pull a prank or two with him involved.
She wrapped her other arm around his neck as he gave her leg a good squeeze. She smiled and kissed back when he told her that she was his. This felt right not only did he accept her for who she was, but gave her the attention she desired from someone. Of course he expected her to play pranks and everything, but with him it was different he accepted that from her and she couldn't get enough of that feeling and right now him touching her was all she wanted right now. There was nothing she wanted more at the moment.
"I am. Don't worry there. I wont have it any other way." She tugged on his ear for another second and kissed him back. She closed her eyes as he started to kiss down her neck and tilted her neck to the other side. This was like addicting and she could get use to this kind of attention he was giving her and she didn't want it to end right now. She ran her hand through his hair again and smiled before it dissolved into a few giggles escaping her lips. "That tickles...but it feels nice…."
|Rufus Sigilum
Posted on: Dec 24 2017, 02:51 PM
He sighed at her predictable answer. "I guess that's the best I'm going to get, huh?" She was such a hassle sometimes, but he loved that part of her. It was a lot of fun sometimes, but it could be a pain. He wouldn't change a thing though. For all the trouble she'd put him through in the past, he often found himself tagging along, willing or not. He loved her energy and playfulness as much as he loved her beautiful appearance. And to think such an incredible woman had tracked him down in a swamp. Rufus stopped kissing her, moving his face close to her's. "Good. All I want right now is for you to feel good." Sliding his other hand down, he picked her up and adjusted her, so that she straddled him, feet resting on the bed behind him. One hand remained on her rear as the other pulled her in for another quick kiss before placing his forehead against her's. "I love you Est." Rufus stayed like this as he undid her hair, enjoying the peaceful moment.
|Estrela Gwynn
Posted on: Jan 29 2018, 08:43 AM
Estrela smiled when he finally realized that was the best she was going to give him on the matter. There was no way she was going to stop being herself when it came to pranks and whatnot. Having fun around the people she liked the most and get them to smile was one of the better aspects of being herself and to see Rufus of all people smile was a difficult one. She believed he need a smile a few times a days especially after what he had experienced. She at least had six other siblings to deal with.
She watched him when he pulled away and then draw his face back closer to her as he moved her body to straddle him. She wrapped her arms more around his neck and smiled as he kissed her again. She returned it and ran her hand through the back of his hair for a moment and allowed one of her fingers to twist a bit of his hair. "I don't think you have to worry on that front. I am happy and feel good at the moment….."
She closed her eyes as he pressed his forehead against hers. There was a small blush that appeared on her cheeks when he admitted that he loved her. She had heard those words before, but those was from family, this was a completely different experience hearing the words from someone she had found herself close too. It was also her first boyfriend that had offered those words to her, the other ones had tended to air on the side of caution due to her family.
She felt him tug at the ribbon in her hair and her short hair fall to being at shoulder length again. She leaned in and kissed him once more. "....I love you too...Rufus.." She said with a even darker blush on her cheeks now. It didn't feel awkward it was just the first time she had said those words to someone else as her heart pounded.
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My Interview at Art Sippo's Reviews is now up. We talk about two of my books, PANGAEA; EDEN'S PLANET (First Realm Publishing) and COLD WAR HEROES (NTD). Art is a good speaker, and familiar with books. He's a retired Army Lt. Colonel, and medical doctor, and his interviews are always interesting. Ginger and I are not good speakers, so be warned (g). Plus, my southern accent will drive you to drink; and I'm getting very forgetful in my old age. Thankfully, Ginger helps me out when I falter (g). For those who wish to tune in go here http://artsreviews.libsyn.com/webpage
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I'm a mom and I hate sweatpants. Honestly, I can't stand seeing people wear them anywhere but the gym. I especially can't understand why they have become the national uniform for motherhood. Whenever I question my mom friends about this unsightly wardrobe staple they say; sweat pants are so comfortable, I don't have time to dress up, nothing fits, etc., etc.
Newsflash; I'm a mom (with two kids), full-time entrepreneur, crazy busy, and I have image issues like everyone else, but I don't think sweatpants are the solution to my problems. In fact, I think they once caused me a lot of problems. When my son was born almost 7 years ago, I suffered from undiagnosed postpartum depression. Before his arrival I was a busy career woman who got dressed for work every morning, and went out most evenings, but all of a sudden I had nowhere to go and my outfit of choice became sweatpants. Every day I would pull on a pair of fuzzy pants and neglect taking care of myself, because I thought that was the right thing to do. It took me almost 8 months to get out of my "funk" and realize that washing my hair everyday, dressing up, and tea breaks weren't luxuries, but rather necessities for a new mom.
So, I promptly threw away every pair of sweatpants and never looked back. I am in no way a style icon, in fact I might not even be stylish at all. But nevertheless, I am going to document my escapades in eclectic wear on this blog for the next year (at least). I won't be posting every picture here, but I will upload a daily photo to my Project 365 folder on Flickr. Feel free to follow along!
This is my picture from day one. My sister and I headed downtown for lunch in Gastown and then went window shopping at Pottery Barn for some home decor inspiration.
Update: I realized shortly after writing this post that fashion blogging is harder than it looks and it takes a lot of time to shoot, edit, and upload pics. So, I am now trying to load as many as possible on a weekly basis, and am giving myself a break on Sundays!


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Location: Gaints Castle, RSA
The Jackal Buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus) is a 55-60 cm long African bird of prey with three main subspecies.
B. r. rufofuscus, the nominate South African form B. r. augur, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Southern Sudan westwards to the eastern Congo. B. r. archeri, Somalia The latter two forms are frequently given specific status as Augur Buzzard, B. augur, and Archer's Buzzard, B. archeri, respectively. This is a species of mountains (most typically at about 2000 m altitude, but up to 5000m), and adjacent savannah and grassland. It is resident and non-migratory throughout its range
Contents [hide] 1 Description 2 Behaviour 3 References 4 External links
[edit] Description The adult South African Jackal Buzzard is strikingly plumaged. It is almost black above with a chestnut tail. The primary flight feathers are blackish and the secondaries off-white, both barred with black. Below the chin and around the throat is mainly white, and the rest of the underparts and the underwing coverts are rich rufous. The flight feathers from below are white, tipped with black to form a dark trailing edge to the wing.
The juvenile Jackal Buzzard is mainly brown above and rufous brown below and on the tail. It can be confused with wintering Steppe Buzzard, but has broader wings and an unbarred undertail.
The adult Augur Buzzard has white underparts and underwings. The female has black on the lower throat. Juveniles are brown above and buff below, the underparts later becoming white. There is a melanistic form of Augur Buzzard, all black, except for grey and black-barred flight feathers and a chestnut tail. About 10% of birds are melanistic, but the proportion rises in forested areas with high rainfall to as much as 50% in some areas.
Archerâs Buzzard in Somalia, is slightly smaller than the other forms, has more chestnut in the feathers of the upperparts, and in adult plumage has the throat white with black on the sides, with the rest of the under side rich chestnut. Immature birds have white underparts and a barred tail.
Jackal Buzzard has a weeah ka-ka-ka call like that of Black-backed Jackal, hence its name. It is also reminiscent of the call of the American Red-tailed Hawk. It is very different the barking ku wow ku-wow of Augur Buzzard.
The eggs hatch in about 40 days, and after a further 56-60 days they can attempt flight. At 70 days they become independent of the nest, but young birds may then be seen with the adult pair for some time.
The diet of Jackal Buzzard is mainly small ground mammals, but snakes, lizards, small ground birds, insects, and road-kill are also taken. Typically, the raptor drops on its prey from a perch or hover.
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The Tail of Emily Windsnap
by Liz Kessler
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Naomi, age 10 of Malden, MA
I love it because Emily is a jolly good semi-mer. She is also my favorite character.
The book is really good. I did not really like the last book that much though. Emily's Mom and Dad spend way to much time with each other and not that much time with Emily. The book is good. I would give it 3-5 toes.
Anjolina, age 10 of North Bergen, NJ
i love emily windsnap im going to get her second book this year! 5 toes!
Ainsley, age 9 of Sterling, CO
Loved it, because it had a lot of unusual surprises and it's a good book for a kid who has a lot of imagination.
Littlesinger, age 8 of London
It was pretty good.
Sydney, age 10 of Honolulu, HI
This was such a good book. I could not put it down!!
Ar, age 11 of Apache Junction, AZ
I love this book I just read the first one and all ready looking forward to the other ones
K Jsdc, age 4 of AK
Love the book it's full of adventure
Catie, age 10 of PA
I mean the first book is good, but I think the last one is so bad. The book gives you great ideas for games and stories!
Myra, age 10 of Semmes, AL
BEST BOOK EVER!!! I LOVE to read and I wish she wrote more books!
V, age 7 of FL
best ever!
Maria, age 12
I love these books, I stumbled across the series at my local library. And if any of the younger kids don't like it might be because its to difficult for them to read. Even though it's a simple read.
Maya, age 8
I love the books. If you have not read the rest you have GOT to!
Marilyn, age 8 of Brooklyn
i love it. when I was reading it I felt like I was in the book.
Hannah, age 9 of Madison, AL
Love it! At parts its like I need to read more! Sure not a mermaid fan but its awesome.
Meredith, age 10 of Madison, MS
Camryn, age 11 of Coon Rapids, MN
I love it because when you read it it's like it's popping out at you. I love it so much! I am addicted.
Elizabeth, age 9 of Harrisburg, NC
I read it, I like it alot, but not LOVE it.
Abigail, age 11 of West Chicago, IL
i always dream to be a mermaid. since iwatch the little mermaid. is my favorite book!!!
Elleitra, age 7 of Bloomington
I think its my second favorite. My first favorite is Philippa Fisher.
Meiling, age 12 of Couva, Trinidad
Liz kessler is the best author ever I have all her books
Morgan, age 9 of N.Y.C., NY
i love mermaid books
Rebecca of Cumberland, RI
When I read this book I loved it. Ever since I was little I've been fascinated by mermaids, and so I immediatly fell in love with this book.
Hailey, age 10 of Elida, OH
This book is amazing my favorite book ever! My best friend emily loves them! She has them all and I cant wait to read her knew one!!! Thank you liz kessler your work is swishy!
Lily, age 10 of Wilmington, DE
I totally LOVE this whole series!!!
Ava, age 5 of Sherman Oaks, CA
love it!!! it might just be the best book I ever read. the perfect book for a girly girl that dreams to be a mermaid.
Ayesha, age 12 of Maryland
i love it because when I read it I was thinking that I wished I was because I would like to have some adventure in my life.
Je-Uhn, age 11 of Stuttgart, Germany
I think this story is great! Because this girl (well, Emily, you know) discovers more mysteries and questions when the curiosity of her mind desire to find about her life and destiny, she even is patient, clever, friendly, curious (well, I mentioned it, already), and grows up more each day (includes turn braver). Even finds a friend Shona (becomes best friend), helps her answers her desired questions, but the last one is for Emily herself to solve, and she did! It has a happy ending!
Virginia, age 10 of Birmingham, AL
LOVE IT!!! It is so sweet. I would say more reasons but that would give the book away!
Kianna, age 11 of Birmingham
i like it because it's about adventure
Saredo, age 11 of Boston, MA
i luv it it is so heart breaking in some parts
Erin, age 9 of Philadelphia, PA
I think this book is so great I've read the whole series. Once you start reading you can't stop!
Talia, age 10 of Perrysburg, OH
I LOVE this book and the series. it is a heart warming book that makes me want to cry in some parts.
Valerie, age 14 of Wellington, FL
I read this book a couple of years ago and I LOVED IT. It's probably not the best book for older people just because all of the characters are shallow. I mean that there is not much character depth. For younger kids, I highly recommend it!
Lillie, age 13 of Lithia
I love this book because I like mermaids!
Maria, age 11 of Nashville, TN
I loved it, it was wounderful story. I think it is one the best stories I have ever read!!!
Garhei, age 10 of Brooklyn, NY
I love this book I would recomend this book to anyone it was so exciting and it was awesome I love it, it is so full of imagination
Mickey, age 12 of Crestline, OH
i thought this book was great I cant put it down like two of my friends have read it and said it was great. if you like merimaids and sea creatures you will love it. its my fav. book
Jill, age 12 of Whitinsville, MA
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! it tells how even though the girl is a mermaid shes just like everyone else!!! I recommend it to anyone who likes mermaids!!!
Zoom of Lake Of Tranquility, YT
It was little worse then okay, it was a bit clique. The writing wasn't all that good either.
Jennifer of Orange County, CA
Its awesome because it has great adventures and the rest of the books are awesome!!!
Joclyn, age 12 of Greene, ME
I read 1 book and enjoyed it, I am planning on getting the rest.
Adaiah, age 14 of Pennsauken, NJ
I thought it was okay... I didn't really finish the book. I got it because it was about mermaids, I love magical things, but I just wasn't intrested. I guess it was because it didn't have any fighting in it. Or adventure, from how far I got in the book... it just didn't interest me, but it was okay.
Liliy, age 12 of St. Paul
i ilke this book alot its fun magical and exiting
Jourdan of San Bernardino, CA
AWSOME. one of the coolest storys I have read. for you people who watch h20 its like that
Patricia, age 8 of Gilbert, AZ
I thought TheTail of Emily Windsnap was GREAT!!!
Layla, age 8 of Elk Grove
I love mermaids...
Paula, age 16 of Oklahoma City, OK
LIke it? I loved it! I've read all four books. Liz Kessler inspires me so much and I would love to see more Emily Windsnap. A movie would be a pretty exciting thing.
The Emily Windsnap books are filled with adventure and excitement. I think Liz Kessler does a good job of explaining pre-teen issues. I hope everyone enjoys these as much as I do. Me and my BFF think they are super swishy and fin-tastic books.
Uenjy, age 9 of Bethlehem
Okay! Are you kidding!? She is awesome! They need to make a movie!
Mary, age 9 of Mansfield, MA
The Tail of Emily Windsnap" is a great book and a read aloud. I think that mermaids and mermen are really cool even though they aren't real. I love when she finds out that she is half mermaid, half girl! What I am saying is that this book is a great book that you will read over and over and over again. I recommend this book to girls with high reading levels. It may be a fantasy, but Liz Kessler has really captured the realistic life of a girl's friend/enemy relationship. This is the best book I have read since the Harry Potter series.
Tara, age 14 of Saint Louis, MO
I love it! I hope there is a movie coming out soon!!!
Shannon, age 11 of Hebron, MD
love it!
Emily, age 10 of Fairport, NY
I just got this book from my mom, and it's so cool! Since I first saw the Little Mermaid, (the movie from Disney!), I fell in love with mermaids. Even more awesome is that Emily is just like me! (We even share the same name!) The author, Liz Kessler is really good at telling how preteens feel about life! I'm already on Chapter 3, where Emily meets another mermaid!
I love the fantasy aspect of it, I really enjoy the characters and their different personalities.
I love this book! It was swishy!
Maddi, age 13 of Ephrata, PA
I liked this book, the only two things were: Millie and her "psychic" powers, and when Emily disobeyed or tricked someone to get her way. That's not how we should live; on trickery and lies.
Uenjy, age 9 of Bethlehem
Okay! Are you kidding!? She is awesome! They need to make a movie!
Emily, age 10 of Vancouver, WA
I lov it it is a book of mystery and eximent. I also like it because the main charecter has my first name!
Madeleine, age 12 of Branford, CT
I love the emily windsnap sieries. the author makes it soo realistic it' really fun to read. if you like this book you'll like the harry potter siries too. I LOVE both
Eliana, age 11 of Summerfield, FL
I really like the Tail Of Emily Windsnap, because it has mermaids in it, and I love books that have dragons and other creatures like mermaids in them!! And I also like it because it doesn't have any magic in it, and I can't read books that have magic in them! So I am always excited when I find a good book that has no magic in it!
Leia, age 12 of Los Angeles, CA
I am reading it right now, and it is an amazing book so far! I love it!
Sushi, age 10 of Oak Hill, VA
I LOVE it 'cause its mysterious and has mermaids in it!
Jacie of OR
Luv it! Very exciting fantacy.
Melissa, age 13 of Poulsbo, WA
It was very intence, I couldn't put down the book!
Bre, age 12 of Ooltewah, TN
i absolutely love it it is totally the best book I ever read I suggest to everyone of all ages!!!
Stephanie of Garret County, MD
i love this book! its so amazing!
Shelley, age 11 of Montazuma
I LOV THIS BOOK SO, SO, SO MUCH!!! ever since I was born I was obssessed w\ mermaids!!! this is a WONDERFUL book, keep them coming!!!:)
Brooke, age 11 of Los Angeles, CA
Liz Kessler is an amazing author. I love these books. Just last week I read it for the first time. I love it, it is an amazing story. I loved the part when she went back to her school swimming pool and turned into a mermaid. Looks like some memory wiping is taking place. This is my favorite series. I give this book 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 toes infinity.
Yemaya, age 9 of St. Helena, CA
I LOVE it why I, ll tell you why it is exiting! " And every step of the story's ". And when you read a chapter you just want to know what happens next."And I wish that there was more Tails of Emillywindsnap".
Sydney, age 10 of Dunkirk, IN
I can't tell you how much I love it
Anna, age 10 of Chesapeake, VA
I couldn't put it down!
Brooke, age 11 of Los Angeles, CA
Liz Kessler is an amazing author. I love these books. Just last week I read it for the first time. I love it, it is an amazing story. I loved the part when she went back to her school swimming pool and turned into a mermaid. Looks like some memory wiping is taking place. This is my favorite series. I give this book 100, 000, 000, 000 toes infinity.
Yemaya, age 9 of St. Helena, CA
I LOVE it why I, ll tell you why it is exiting! " And every step of the story's ". And when you read a chapter you just want to know what happens next."And I wish that there was more Tails of Emillywindsnap".
Erin, age 13 of MI
I love this book! Liz, you did a great job and I'm getting close to reading the last books. Thanks for making this awesome edventcher!
Liv, age 10 of ID
Iove this book.
Alexis, age 10 of CA
I know the saying, don't judge a book by it's cover but I just don't really like it. I'm sorry.
Maylen, age 12 of Keizer, OR
It's swishy!
Leah, age 10 of Lansdale, PA
I thought it was a great idea for a book! I've been reading it. Trying to finish it!
Alyssa, age 13 of Harrisburg, NC
I love Emily Windsnap because she is smart, and not afraid to try to fix her problems and find her dad. I also like the way the book is written
Destiny, age 9 of Manila, AR
It talks about some girl and her secert and tells you about what happen to her.
Steph, age 12 of Parma, OH
liz kessler you are amazing! I wish that you would never stop writing the emily windsnap books! it is my favorite series and I have the hardest time putting it down! when I finish one book, I hunt for the next one. I would like to give you the greatest of complements and tell you that your by no dought my favorite writer! you helped to inspire me to write my own books and I hope one day they get published! I dont know if I can do that but either way it's because of you that I even tried. when I finish the last emily windsnap book I think it will be hard for me because I love them so much. when I read them I get lost in the book, the characters, and their world! the book makes me want to swim! also, I never liked reading-i always enjoyed writing though- until I read the very first emily windsnap book. I first got it in 3rd grade and I'm now in seventh and I still LOVE them!
Justyne, age 12 of Blackwood, NJ
I loved it!! I just finished book 1 and I am now in the middle of book 2. I have book 3 n I cant wait to read that one soon... hopfuly the auther Liz will make a 4th book to add on to the cerise!
Alex, age 11 of Highland Hts., OH
i love it because it expresses the way of a fairy tale and it is something that any one would like to read.
Anushkla, age 10 of Newmarket, ON
I love the book!!! I wish it was a movie ever since I read the book I wanted to read all of them each night I would stay up to midnight to read them. I just love it!!!
Isabella, age 10 of Racine, WI
The Tail of Emily Windsnap is one of my favorites! I love mermaids so it is one good book for me. Plus Emily is a girl with every day problems like normal girls. I can really relate!
Ally, age 10 of San Diego, CA
loved it! loved it! LOVED IT!!! Favorite book EVER!!!
Kelby, age 16 of Los Angeles, CA
Love it! Love iT Love it! Because it is about meramids! Awesome.
Abigail, age 9 of Bangor Maine, ME
i loved it because I like fantasys and emily and everybody else had sooo much character best book in a long time!!!
Helen, age 13
I really liked this book, since it was full of imagination. It got me really thinking about how life would be like if I was a mermaid, which I would think of as awesome! I guess most people don't enjoy it because they don't like mermaids or anything like that, but if you do, you would love this book!
Lauren, age 9 of Canton, MI
I liked this book because I like mermaids and fiction. It was exciting and I look forward to reading the next book.
Lae, age 11 of Dallas, TX
I love it I have the whole series!
Ana, age 10 of Los Angeles, CA
i loved this book because is full of adventure. and if you are really in it you feel you are really there.
Nat, age 10 of Norfolk, VA
I love it! It has so much adventure!
Amber, age 10 of Maccley
love it its a great book its fun to read I never want to stop it is so cooli wish I was a mermaid cant wait to read another book that she wrote
Rachel, age 11 of Taos, NM
I loved it so much that I couldm't put my book down!!!
Grace, age 12 of Shawnee, OK
Loved it! Best book ever. So want the other three. Liked it so much that I gave it to my best friend. Has the positive message of believing in yourself.
Zainab, age 10 of Glendale, AZ
I love it. my friends keep talking about it.
Hannah, age 13 of Waukesha, WI
I loved this book! It was very creative how she shows everyone she's a mermaid and wipes out their memories!
Elizabeth, age 14 of Andover, MA
I love the third book because it was a great story. I thought it was a lot better the the 2nd and the 3rd one.
Claire, age 9 of Manama
i love it. its one of the best books I read. you shold get the book its amazing. i cant wait for the movie to come out!!!
Paige, age 12 of Revere
I love this book!! I needed a summer reading book so I just grabbed that one and surprisingly it was awesome
Doris, age 13 of FL
I love it!!!
Abbey, age 11 of CA
i only read this book because it was easy and I neede to write a book report for school. I didnt like it personally becuase I am not really into mermaids. I think this book is targeted for kids younger then me. all I can say is if you like mermaids you like this book. otherwise you might not.
Kaela, age 10 of Town Of Canmore, AB
I love this book because Ive always loved water all my life it feels magical and it makes you feel special also. My point is that I've always wanted a tail and now it makes me feel anything can happen its also very descripteve and I love it.
Ciara, age 10 of Philadelphia, PA
I loved this book!!! It was so, so, so great!!!
Mary Jane, age 11 of Fairfax, VA
i'll bet all of you 1, 000, 000 dollars its all a dream. I liked it at first, but it got too big, and it's rotten.
Lauren & Christina, age 11 of MD
love it because, we like mermaids and this book is great for best friends.
Christina, age 11 of Baltimore, MD
I love this book. me and my friend are reading the whole sereis.
Omarri, age 11 of Cleveland, OH
the tale of emily windsnap is such a good book! I love it so much! its so cool!
Jennifer, age 12 of Rockwall, TX
I love this book! It's one of my favs. The only thing I don't like is when Mystic Millie does all that "psychic" stuff. Other than that, it's a great book!
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