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This beautiful male Boat-tailed Grackle is on lookout at the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive. He is a permanent resident of Florida. The bright sun makes the beautiful iridescence of his feathers glow for all to enjoy. Females have a brownish coloration and a smaller tail. Boat-tailed Grackles breed abundantly in salt and freshwater marshes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. These birds forage on the ground, in shallow water, or in shrubs. They eat arthropods, crustaceans, mollusks, frogs, turtles, lizards, grain, seeds, fruit, and tubers. At times they have been known to steal food from other birds, animals and humans. They overturn shells and stones with their beaks, dunk their heads in water to catch their prey and pry open mussel shells. Just like us, they will dunk food like rice, dogfood or bread before eating it.
Fetterbush Lyonia
Lyonia lucida, the fetterbush lyonia, was blooming away in Wekiva Springs State Park. Their flowers can be white, pink, or red. This is an evergreen shrub and reproduces both by rhizome or by seed. If the soil is very poor, it will reproduce only by rhizome. They like acidic, damp soil and can be found in swamps, wet savannas, and saw palmetto prairie habitat. The white one was seen in a hardwood swamp and the pink one was seen in a damp, saw palmetto prairie.
Momordica charantia
Also known as the balsam apple, balsam pear, bitter melon, bitter gourd, or bitter squash, is a Category 2 invasive plant species in Florida. People have used this plant for medicinal purposes and this has contributed to its spread. The bright red seeds are attractive to birds, who then spread this vine outside of cultivation. The red seeds can be toxic, especially to children.
This is a common invasive plant in Florida. You will often see it showing up along your fence lines. As of 2017, it was still considered a Category 2 invasive. Let's all do our part to stem the spread of this invasive, non-native vine in our beautiful state.
Southern Carpenter Bee
What could be nicer than a native pollinator and a native flower. This southern carpenter bee, Xylocopa micans, is stopping by a flowering pennyroyal, Piloblephis rigida. The carpenter bee is a solitary bee that lives for one year. They nest in the wood of dead trees. Like other pollinators, carpenter bees are important to the survival of many species of plants. Pennyroyal is a member of the mint family and can be found in sunny areas of sandy soil along forest edges. It can be brewed into a tea as well.
Get ready for spring. The woods are beginning their transformation now and in a few weeks should be all dressed up in the spring attire!
Blue-Eyed Grass
Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) is a common flower throughout the U. S. and is found in most counties in Florida. This little wildflower is also used for landscaping. It prefers damp conditions near wetlands. The roots were used by Indigenous people for tea and to help soothe an upset stomach. These little flowers should be appearing as we enter the spring months.
Pileated Woodpeckers
Did you know that the Pileated Woodpecker, aka Dryocopus pileatus, is one of the largest woodpeckers in North America? With a black body, a red crest, white stripes on its neck, and black and white stripes on its face it is hard to miss. Pileated Woodpeckers love to eat insects, fruits, and nuts. A large part of their diet is made up of carpenter ants and beetle larvae. This is why they are always knocking on trees and wood sensing a 'hollow area' where the insects may be. Once they have located their dinner, they use their bill to drill into the wood and use their long sticky tongues to drag out the insects. Sometimes they will expand the holes that they create looking for food and make a roost inside the tree to lay their eggs. Tended by both mom and dad, the little hatchlings will be ready to fledge within 1 month. Males and females are similar, but males have a red forehead, and females have a gray to a yellowish brown forehead. If you hear knocking outside, be sure to look up and see if you can spot a stunning Pileated Woodpecker.


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Home buyers who end up most satisfied with their purchase decision are also the ones who know how to prioritize their needs. They use a secret weapon every house hunter should have in their hands — a list of needs vs. wants.
Why you need to prioritize your needs and wants.
Being clear on your needs is the most important thing you can do when you start shopping for a house (other than getting pre-approved).
Here's why:
You want to avoid problems and pain when you buy a home.
Here are some icky things that are less likely to happen while you shop with your needs and wants prioritized:
- Fights with your spouse or partner
- Making a bad investment
- Missing out on a great home
- Bad neighborhoods/neighbors
- Daily discomfort
- Buying a money pit
- Overspending on your house
What's the difference between a need and a want?
Needs are essential to your wellbeing or safety. They are worth spending money on because not having them will hurt your quality of life in some way.
It's easy to say, "I need a gourmet kitchen in my next home." If you're a famous chef, you might "need" a top of the line kitchen with all the bells and whistles.
If you eat takeout most nights, that fancy kitchen is probably a "want."
Needs are non-negotiable.
...bad knees? You might list single story as a need.
...don't drive? A grocery store within walking distance might be a need.
...have 7 children you stay at home with all summer? You might actually need a pool to keep them entertained.
Sit down and look at the listings on Realtor.com, then list all the description details of the houses you like.
Even if you don't think you'll run into a house with a pool during your hunt, list it anyway. This way you won't miss something important because you forgot you needed it.
Next step? Prioritize your needs.
Look at your entire list and decide which 3-5 aspects of your future home are most important to you.
Those go on your needs list.
Here are examples of some common needs-list items:
- Neighborhood (good neighborhood, favorite neighborhood)
- Number of bathrooms
- Number of bedrooms
- 1 story vs. 2 story
- Central heat
- Air conditioning
- Attached garage
- Good school district
Once you have your needs items identified, put them in priority so you have a pecking order of importance.
Next stop? List your wants.
With your list of needs prioritized, you can begin listing your wants.
Write down items that would be nice to have, such as a pool, or a half-bath downstairs for guests.
For this list, go crazy!
It's fine to have as many 'want' items as you can think of, as long as you keep in mind the reality of your situation. If your budget is on the small side, the home you end up with probably won't have all your wants.
Common items on a 'wants' list often include:
- Countertop material
- Fixture colors
- Closet styles
- Flooring
- View
- Fenced yard
- deck/patio
- Gas stove vs. electric
Items on your "wants" list can often be overlooked and accepted, or added later.
Prioritize your "wants" list like you did for your "needs" list. If you find multiple houses in your budget that fit your needs list, you'll have a prioritized wants list to help you choose the winner.
Not sure where to start? We help our clients prioritize their needs for home shopping all the time. It's the best way to ensure a smart investment, and feel great about your purchase.

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Sarah Jessica Parker found out that she was related to Esther Elwell, an innocent woman, accused of heresy in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. A lady who signed up for the Ancestry.com test learned that her great-grandmother ten generations before is also George Washington's aunt. Ancestry is the fun part of genetics.
I am colorful!
Majority of the people who can trace their roots 3-4 generations back would have gone all their life thinking that they have always been Europeans or Indians. Our genes are a lot more than that. I may be 33% Scandinavian, 28% Irish, 13% Italian, 8% Lebanese and 18% South Asian. I am an Indian and have lived here all my life. Let alone speak, I don't even know what Irish sounds like. Yet when someone asks me where I am from I will say I am part Irish and show my genetic report as proof. Yes mate, I am telling the truth, there is no arguing with the DNA.
People are discovering to their disbelief, their rich ancestry around the world and how colorful they actually are. An individual with Asian features may have ancestry pointing them to the heart of Europe and this is just one example.
We are all from Africa
Modern humans emerged from 300,000 years ago in a number places across Africa. According to researchers, our origins were not in one civilization. Many different populations are represented in the ancestry of your DNA. Your blood and distance relatives have ancestry from each of those populations. Would you continue labeling sections of people if you knew that we are all direct descendants of a single woman who lived in eastern Africa somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago? Ethnicity is not something that always existed. It started as a way to identify people from different parts of the world during the time civilizations began to spread around. Dividing people on the basis of their background took on a full swing when wars began happening. This further deepened the segregation but it still does not change the fact that we are all mixed and nobody is a pure line of people from a single population. You might be dominated by the geographical choices of your predecessors but the fact remains that all of us have ancestors who moved out of Africa eons back and our genes are going to tell us that story. Good old James Watson himself got a shock of his life learning of his 16% African ancestry.
We have all been everywhere. We have different parts of the world in us. So who cares where anyone comes from. Learning about your genetics will widen your perception of yourself. You have a bit of everyone in you. We are all after all born of a single cell.


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Here it's been talked about all month, and I'm going to miss getting to see it. But I'm not in the least bit upset about that, because it's raining, and we need rain so badly.
However . . .
Because it's Blue Moon time . . .
Because it's a holiday weekend . . .
Because it's the start of my favorite month of the year . . .
And just because because . . .
I'm having a weekend special in my shop.
If you use the code BLUEMOON, you can get 10% off any purchase.
The only trick is, you have to use the code to get the discount.
This is effective immediately, and runs thru September 3. So if there's something you've been wanting, now's the time to save a little and get it!
Thanks, Shelly. My blog reader is not updating for some reason. I'm going out and hand checking everything. Grrr….


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When my dog, Pumpernickel, first found a stray grape on my kitchen floor, she licked at it, tumbled it around in her mouth and spat it out. She accepted a lot of food from my plate not traditionally thought of as interesting to dogs: carrots, broccoli, bagels. But she would not eat grapes, nor was she fond of raisins.
More than a decade later, I included this anecdote in my book about dog cognition, to open a chapter on domestication. I had subsequently learned that raisins — and grapes — "are now suspected of being toxic to some dogs, even in small amounts (though the mechanism of toxicity is unknown) — leading me to wonder whether Pump was instinctively averse to raisins," as I added in a footnote.
A footnote. I did not include the facts about the toxicity of grapes in the anecdote itself, because, well, it's not part of the anecdote. I did not include it in the main body of the chapter because, well, it has nothing to do with domestication. But I thought it was note-worthy and maybe even important, so I assigned it to the small type at the bottom of the page.
Since typing that small type, I have received dozens of angry and concerned queries about the anecdote. Why had I fed her grapes? Did I not know they were toxic? After some back-and-forth, I was surprised to discover that these incredulous comments often came from readers of the electronic version of my book, where the footnotes are shunted off to the end of the text, relegated to being mere endnotes. If footnotes are at risk of going unread, endnotes are even more so.
All this is discouraging for a champion of footnotes like myself. The footnotes are among the first things I look at when I pull a book from a store shelf. My editor gamely tolerated my inclusion of many in my own book (though we removed more than we left in). I would be proud to be a footnote in someone else's work.
Of course, scholarly books are still full of footnotes. The prototypic footnote is the source note, providing a citation for each proclamation in the text (early annotations were sometimes called "proofs"). These footnotes range from useful to pedantic, sometimes lending an air of authority, sometimes providing a map of the writer's path. Legal writing in particular is rife with these footnotes, perhaps an acknowledgment that law is built on laws-past.
But I champion another species of footnote: the wandering footnote. These digressive notes, seeing a sentence that some might consider complete, determine to hijack it with a new set of ever more tangential facts. In the wayward note, the bumps and curves of the author's mind seem to be laid plain on the paper. I came of intellectual age hearing the author's sotto voce asides in the philosophy essays I loved. I still recall footnotes that begin, enticingly, "Imagine that . . . "; "Consider . . . "; or even, in one of J. L. Austin's famous thought experiments, "You have a donkey. . . . " I had the feeling of being taken into confidence by a wise fellow during an erudite lecture, and being told something even more clever and lucid.
In fiction, I was spoiled by Nicholson Baker, whose novel "The Mezzanine" is largely footnotes — including a four-pager that starts: "And escalators are safe. . . . " (A door has popped up unexpectedly and opened! I'm going in!) Smitten with the small type, I sought out the broader history of the footnote, covered to within a millimeter of its life in Anthony Grafton's study "The Footnote: A Curious History" and Chuck Zerby's "Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes" (both are heavily footnoted). Grafton led me to such rollicking footnoters as Edward Gibbon, whose judgmental, conversational and explicatory notes in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" lighten a weighty read. Such digressions and asides were so enthusiastically used in the 18th century that one satirist wrote a mock dissertation consisting entirely of footnotes. Pierre Bayle's best seller "Historical and Critical Dictionary," first published in the 1690s, charmingly used footnotes to point out the errors in the scholarship of others. I'll take Grafton and Zerby's word for it that John Hodgson's mighty "History of Northumberland," published a century and a half later, is at least worth flipping through for its footnotes on footnotes on footnotes, including one traversing 165 pages.
I have since found that attitudes on footnotes tend toward the hyperbolic. One scholarly writing handbook celebrates the "cartwheel" of the footnote, while Grafton compares the drone of the historian's footnote to "the high whine of the dentist's drill," a sign that we are in the presence of professionals. Legal footnotes — the subject of particularly contentious debate — are "a mother lode, a vein of purest gold," one judge gushed, while another legal writer called them "lead feet below the line." Footnotes are "a rhapsodic grace note" in a master's hands, a journalist wrote. More often, however, footnotes are slandered as "forbidding," "unsightly," "like a fungus"; and even, as one footnote-weary professor put it, a "subversive breed of mice." I have come across more than one author who chose "excrescence" to describe footnotes. Noël Coward reputedly said that "having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love."
The footnote jousting could soon be moot, as the e-book may inadvertently be driving footnotes to extinction. The e-book hasn't killed the book; instead, it's killing the "page." Today's e-readers scroll text continuously, eliminating the single preformed page, along with any text defined by being on its bottom. A spokesman for the Kindle assured me that it is at the discretion of the publisher how to treat footnotes. Most are demoted to hyperlinked endnotes or, worst of all, unlinked endnotes that require scrolling through the e-reader to access. Few of these will be read, to be sure.
I admit to being somewhat mystified that technological innovation is imperiling footnotes. Computers would seem to solve what I see as the main problem they pose — to wit, edging in the superscript numbers on a typewritten page and measuring just the right amount of space to leave at the bottom. Footnotes really presage hyperlinks, the ultimate interrupter of a stream of thought. (But footnotes are far superior: while hyperlinks can be highly useful, one never finds oneself looking at an error message at the bottom of the page where a footnote used to be.) Even the audio book has solved the problem of how to convey footnotes. Listen to David Foster Wallace reading his essay collection "Consider the Lobster," with its ubiquitous show-stealing asides: at a certain point, his voice is unnaturally distant, the result of a production trick intended to represent the small type of a footnote. Wallace's e-book was not immune to de-footnoting, though; all these crucial asides now appear at the end of the book in the Kindle and iPad versions. Even the Kindle edition of Zerby's history of the footnote is now full of endnotes instead.
Should footnotes fully disappear, I would grieve their loss. I do not find it disagreeable to bend my nose south and find further information where it lands. Surely the purpose of a book is not to present a methodically linear narrative, never wavering from its course, with no superfluous commentary set off by commas. In my mind, footnotes are simply another punctuative style: a subspecies of parenthesis that tells the reader: "I've got something else here you might like! (Read it later.)" What better thing? You get to follow the slipstreams in the author's thinking at your own leisure.
A footnote: I've kept this essay annotation-free. But every sentence could have had a footnote, providing a source, further reading, a tangent, an explanation. Is the essay really better without them?


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Babylon 5: Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps is a novel by J. Gregory Keyes.
Humans face-to-face with alien races, they discovered
an extraordinary breed among their very own...
The year is 2115. Shock waves follow in the wake of astonishing news: science has proven the existence of telepaths. Amid media frenzy, panic, and bloodshed, Earth's government steps in to restore order - and establish tight control over the newfound special population...by any means necessary.
Ambitious senator Lee Crawford spearheads the effort, overseeing the creation of the Psi Corps - an elite unit charged with tagging and monitoring all telepaths "for their own protection." But the real agenda behind the crackdown is one of government control. Many question the telepaths' origins, while others view them as a coveted weapon. As the Corps tightens its iron grip, the stage is set for a cataclysmic confrontation - one in which the future of Earth will be decided.
In 2115, existence of telepathy has been proven. The resulting media frenzy, panic, violence, and bloodshed lead to the creation of the Metasensory Regulation Authority, the precursor of the Psi Corps, largely due to the efforts of Lee Crawford, an Earth Alliance senator. Much effort is put into establishing the events that had triggered appearance of the telepaths. Crawford's closest aid and successor, Kevin Vacit, continues the search and establishes an ambiguous relationships with the rogue telepaths who refuse to join the tightly regulated Corps.
Kevin Vacit is a telepath prodigy who masks his abilities from the Corps and Crawford. EarthGov has ruled that the director of Psi Corps can not be a telepath and Vacit is able to hide his ability from the Psi Corps tests. A relationship with his bodyguard leads to the birth of his daughter Fiona, who Vacit hides with the Telepath Underground. Fiona does not know who her father is and so she fights to bring down Psi Corps along with other Underground leaders.
Fiona is captured by the Psi Corps and undergoes reeducation at the telepath concentration camp where she meets Stephen Walters. With the aid of Stephen she escapes the camp and rejoins the underground. Unknown to Fiona is the fact that Stephen is actually a Psi Corps special operative sent by her father (Vacit) to break her out of the camp. Fiona marries Matthew Dexter, a man she met while inside the telepath concentration camp and gives birth to a baby boy who she names Steven.
Vacit and Ms Alexander (his aide) travel to Venus investigating the reports of a ship found on the surface. Leaving their ship and venturing alone into the atmosphere of Venus, the pair encounter a Vorlon who tells them about the coming of the Shadows and why telepaths were created among the younger races. The Vorlon leaves a telepathic command in the mind of Ms Alexander for her or her descendant to come to the Vorlon homeworld when the time is right. Lyta Alexander, her granddaughter, carries this embedded command.
On the return to Earth, Kevin changes his plans about assisting the underground after realising that the only way they can be ready for the Shadows is if the Psi Corps can control the evolution of telepaths on Earth and to reproduce the best of the best who will be needed to defeat the coming of the Shadows.
Vacit's daughter Fiona and her husband Matthew are killed in a Psi Corps attack on their home base and their child is given to Stephen to look after. Stephen gives the child to a girl to look after while he goes back to assist Fiona and Mathew. After he realizes that they have both been killed he returns to where he left the girl but she and the baby are gone. Baby Steven is picked up by PSI cops and adopted by the Corps. Little Stee is given a new name by his Grandfather, the now director of Psi Corps Kevin Vacit. The book ends with the reveal that the new name given to Stevie Dexter is Alfred Bester.
The story continues in Book 2 of the series Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant.
See alsoEdit
|Babylon 5 franchise
|Babylon 5 & Crusade Episodes by Season
|Signs and Portents The Coming of Shadows Point of No Return No Surrender, No Retreat Wheel of Fire Crusade: Season 1 Unfilmed Episodes
|The Gathering In the Beginning Thirdspace River of Souls A Call to Arms The Legend of the Rangers Voices in the Dark
|Printed Media
|Novels Comic Books Short Stories Reference books Magazines
|Other Media
|DVD Releases VHS Home Video The Official Guide to Babylon 5 Babylon 5: Into the Fire
|Babylon 5 Novels
|Stand-alone Novels:
|"Voices" "Accusations" "Blood Oath" "Clark's Law" "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name" "Betrayals" "The Shadow Within" "Personal Agendas" "To Dream in the City of Sorrows"
|The Psi Corps Trilogy:
|"Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psi Corps" "Deadly Relations - Bester Ascendant" "Final Reckoning - The Fate of Bester"
|Legions of Fire:
|"The Long Night of Centauri Prime" "Armies of Light and Dark" "Out of the Darkness"
|The Passing of the Techno-Mages:
|"Casting Shadows" "Summoning Light" "Invoking Darkness"
|"In the Beginning" "Thirdspace" "A Call to Arms"


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Lately, lately, lately.. All I can think about is going to the beach. Maybe it's the giant snowstorms and flurries of wind and rain, maybe it's the spring beachwear collections that keep appearing on every site. Whatever it is, the Spring 2010 catalog from Urban Outfitters is not helping!
The pastel colors scattered throughout the catalog are perfect for spring and right on target trend-wise. Similarly, the catalog is very print-heavy and very feminine, which is great for the coming season and takes its focus straight off the spring catwalks. What do you think of the catalog? Do you see anything you might like, whether it is a product or just some style inspiration?


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"There are few experiences quite so cruel as, when after having made a well-argued, even elegant and moving case to someone, you lean back expecting the warm sparkle of shared insight and understanding, only to encounter the flat opaqueness of complete and utter incomprehension." John Livingstone
"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats
THAT (the quote by John Livingstone), I feel, is the result of centuries of religion where the only people being religious were the priests. They stand at their pulpits proclaiming the word of God, whilst the believers that they serve sit in their pews passively listening hoping some of the religiousness of the priest will wear off on them (Pew Potatos, like the Couch Potato but religious). But that's not my way, I don't want to be a passive listener, I want something more intelligent than that. Nor do I want to be the active proclaimer talking to a passive audience but I can't help thinking that maybe I am. I mean, here I am writing things, hoping that my words will be more than just passive two-dimensional monologues but there's no way of telling because, although I can see how many people have visited this blog, I don't know who's reading it and what they're (you're) thinking and feeling, what sort of dynamic responses is going on in the brains of the readers.
It's only in active dialogues that words come alive, they take on the quality of vitality, not just something that's known but something that's experienced and developed into something that can be applied to life. Words can change things, that's why talking, writing, conversing are arts, they can reach into minds and connect synapses that weren't connected before, opening doors of realisation and comprehension. Or, if misused, words can create the opposite; ignorance and denial. Which is why we need to be wise enough to be careful with words; with who we speak to, what words we speak to them and how we speak to them.
Still, I don't need comprehension here. I'm sure lots of people understand my words, and it's easy to agree to words, but the real challenge is when someone disagrees or doubts (or doesn't understand but wants to understand). For me that would be the real work with my words, to grapple with them (the grit in the oyster to create the pearl), give them dynamism by introducing them to other minds where they are expanded into dimensions beyond the original two they were written in. When that happens words then become an organic experience, growing, rooting, branching, like I said before, coming alive. Evolution happens! Synergy happens!
Synergy is a word I was introduced to a little while ago (last year I think), and it's really opened my eyes to the sort of relationships we can have with people. A synergistic relationship doesn't have an active part and a passive part, an energy giving and an energy taking part, no way! All "components" (or individuals) in a relationship of synergy are active parts (energy giving), and this positive contribution by all involved builds up momentum by itself, as long as there is energy being put into it and doesn't become victim to energetic leaches.
Going back to the beginning, where I talked about active proclaimers and passive listeners; it doesn't just happen in churches or other religious places, it also happens in schools and in present day entertainment. Students just passively "eat" what they learn, there's no way of learning how to use their learning. And also there's the TV, which has produced the well know Couch Potato (although if you're lucky some synapse triggering stuff might appear lol). This is "filling a pail" when what we really need is "the lighting of a fire."
Now, I'm not saying "come on have a dialogue with me," although you can if you want to. What I really want to say is don't be passive in reading this, use these words to light a fire inside you and make reading this blog, in fact any blog (or even any writing) a dynamic activity.
And finally, the only potatoes I want reading my blogs are the ones that you stick in the ground that grow more potatoes. Well, my dinner's got to come from somewhere LOL 😉
And finally finally (no really, finally) a note on the image. That is from Smith and Jones, a British sketch comedy in the 80s and 90s. The image is of them in deep conversation (a well know "head to head" sketch), usually about some deeply inane subject. An image of the type of dialogue I DO NOT want. As it says in Wikipedia "Smith was the idiot who knew everything, Jones the idiot who knew nothing."


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Red sky in the morning, Sailors Warning!
OMG! Just one more day until the new round of Enchantment opens and there is so much pretty fantasy stuff swimming round I don't know what to do next! The Little Mermaid is the theme, from the Disney version to the tales of old. Today I've based my look on the idea of the mermaids of old English folklore, who were responsible for causing stormy seas and luring sailors to their destruction (for the record, no sailors were harmed in the making of this feature!)
Azoury had created some amazing tentacled headpieces for the event. There are 3 colours available and what a shock, I'm wearing the black :P
The texture work is fab as always by Azoury and these really are gorgeous pieces.
Up until yesterday, I have to admit I was a mer-tail virgin, but I've finally dived in with this beautiful tail by JUMO. There are mens and womens versions available in a bunch of colours and each comes with 3 different tail fin options, plus mermaid AO.
The tail came with bra too but I've decided to team it up with the scales bra that .aisling. has created for the event. It's not rigged and the left/right parts are separate. Again there is a bunch of colours available and I love how this could be used for some really different looks, I think it could be a new fave piece!
Finishing off the look today I'm wearing the new eye makeup mask by ARISE. Again, there are multiple colours for this mask and not only does it come in standard tattoo layers, there are appliers for Lelutka, Eve and Genesis Lab mesh heads!
I'll post the LM when the event opens tomorrow, 'till then I'm just gonna tease you with the pic!
Headdress: Azoury - Eledone - Black *ComingSoon@Enchantment*
Bra: .aisling. - Scales Bra - Black/Silver *ComingSoon@Enchantment*
Necklace: Charm - Sorcha Collar - Silver *ComingSoon@Enchantment*
Tail: JUMO - DS Mermaid - Red *ComingSoon@Enchantment*
Skin: Glam Affair - Megan - Opal (On Lelutka Stella & Maitreya Lara)
Tattoo: Things - Ryllae *ComingSoon@Enchantment*
Eye Makeup: ARISE - Mermaid Mask Red *ComingSoon@Enchantment*
Lip gloss: Mons - Lelutka mesh head makeup HUD 03
Hair: Exile - Finding You
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Location & MapThe Bentley London
27 33 Harrington Gardens, London, UK
There is no city that can quite compare to London. With its dedication to the fine arts, a long and fascinating history, and incredible architecture, England's capital city is truly an unforgettable experience.
The Bentley London is just minutes away from some of London's most popular attractions, including the Natural History Museum, Knightsbridge's Harrods, and Royal Albert Hall.
The nearest Underground station is Gloucester Road which is served by the Piccadilly, Circle, and District line.
London Heathrow Airport is 9 mi / 15 km away.
Gatwick Airport is 16 mi / 27 km away.


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What We're Reading: December 30, 2010 Edition
This week we note an upcoming registration deadline for the NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day, new errors found in a Virginia history textbook, history teaching in Britian, and advice for those interviewing for jobs at the annual meeting. We also link to an article on U.S. population migration over the past century, thoughts on citing e-books, some belated holiday history, and a look at the brutality of Medieval warfare.
- 2011 Annual Meeting & Humanities Advocacy Day
Tomorrow is the last day to receive the discounted registration price for the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day.
- Some Va. history texts filled with errors, review finds
The Washington Post digs deeper into the recent Virginia textbooks controversy, over the factually incorrect Our Virginia: Past and Present. Closer scrutiny from a group of scholars turn up of "dozens" of additional mistakes in the textbook. The Post reports that the publisher at the center of the controversy is now planning to hire a professional historian for revisions, but also reports that one county in Virginia just adopted the books, because "Their product is substantially less expensive." Update: AHA Executive Director James Grossman spoke with WTOP reporter Kate Ryan yesterday about the need for professional standards when it comes to writing history textbooks.
- History teaching: 'A total disgrace'
Actor Colin Firth and historians Tariq Ali and Niall Ferguson discuss the "disastrous" state of history teaching in Britain and proposals for reform there. See also the full program that Firth guest edited.
Annual Meeting
- Tell Us About Your Dissertation: And Other Commonly Fumbled Interview Questions
In time for the AHA's Annual Meeting, Claire B. Potter offers some tips (including how to talk about your dissertation and classes you teach) for those interviewing for jobs.
- 2010 Census: South and West Advance (Without California)
This article from Newgeography looks at 2010 census data and the population migration of U.S. residents over the past 100 years. The ratio of residents in the South and West versus the Northeast and Midwest is nearly the reverse of what it was in 1950.
- The future of footnotes
Jonathan Rees contemplates the challenges of reading and citing e-books he's downloaded to his iPad.
- Celebrating This Holiday Season With A History of the Winter Holidays
Even though Christmas is over, check out The National Women's History Museum video, A History of the Winter Holidays, which trackswomen's roles in Christmas traditions, from Queen Victoria to Louisa May Alcott.
- Nasty, brutish and not that short
The Economist takes a look at the gruesome realities of Medieval battles.
Contributors: David Darlington, Elisabeth Grant, and Robert B. Townsend
This post first appeared on AHA Today.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012
New Boats at the HBBR Thames Raid (4)
Paul Hadley's Millibee started life as a conventionally completed Selway Fisher Lynx14 but has become more of an electric cabin cruiser over the years. Paul has spent a goodish amount of time and effort recently tinkering with an electric outboard (a cheapie trolling motor), batteries, Chinese switchgear for an electric bike and, this year, a huge solar panel which you can just see, side on, covering the cabin.
The arrangement worked well, and Paul rarely had to fire up the petrol outboard. Charging points are gradually spreading along the Thames.
Millibee's evolution has already started afresh since the raid. Paul has taken his jigsaw to the bilge keels and cut the boxes back to the hull, which should improve drag considerably. The next step is to cut the cabin down a bit to reduce windage. Pictures of the process are on the HBBR Forum.
since I first saw her was John 'Ratcatcher' Lockwood's amazing TBA, which had lock keepers boggling from Rushey to Goring.
John had added a yard or so to the stern to create a motor well for a second outboard, by the simple process of epoxying on some extra panels and strengthening the join by bolting on a few ginormous baulks of wood.
Then he put a cabin top on the bow by (this is genius) buying a time-expired boat on eBay, sawing it in half, turning the stern upside-down and epoxying it in place - it is the green thing at the front. Imagine it the other way up....
A few lengths of deal he had in his barn, a bag of bolts he was given by a mate years ago and a tarpaulin, and the cockpit tent was complete.
The final touch (more genius) is a seat consisting of a wooden chair with the legs cut down and epoxied to a bit of plywood so they don't go through the hull.
This is my sort of boatbuilding. Simple, quick, cheap and effective. Aesthetics? Bless you - get well soon.
Posted by Chris Partridge at 19:28
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We will announce the opening date of CINAMON cinemas soon.
Premiere: 31.05.2019
/The Secret Life of Pets 2 (RUS DUB)
Director: Chris Renaud
Illumination's tenth animated feature, The Secret Life of Pets 2, is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2016 comedic blockbuster that had the biggest opening weekend ever for an original film, animated or otherwise.
Packed with Illumination's signature irreverence and subversive humor, this new chapter explores the emotional lives of our pets, the deep bond between them and the families that love them, and answers the question that has long intrigued every pet owner: What are your pets really doing when you're not at home?


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Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside Tottenham police station to hold a vigil for Mark Duggan.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside Tottenham police station to hold a vigil for Mark Duggan.
His relatives and supporters have called for the event to remain peaceful, while the Metropolitan Police warned that some protesters planned to "cause disorder".
The vigil is being staged in protest against what his family have branded a "perverse" inquest finding this week that Mr Duggan, 29, was lawfully killed by police.
Mr Duggan's mother Pamela and aunt Carole were joined by crowds carrying placards which read "Justice for Mark Duggan - 1476 deaths in custody or following police contact since 1990 not one conviction".
His death at the hands of a Metropolitan Police marksman sparked riots across the country in 2011.
Reggae and hip hop music was played from loud speakers as the family of Sean Rigg, a black musician who died in Brixton police station, joined the march.
Trade unionists were also present, while Tottenham Hotspur fans went past the protest to their home game against Crystal Palace at nearby White Hart Lane.
The crowd held a minute's silence before chanting "No justice, no peace".
Later they shouted: "Who are the murderers? Police are the murderers."
Carole Duggan told protesters: "The more we people come together and support each other, maybe we can make a better life for our children, for all of those children who have to live in these communities that are over-policed, where they are not free.
"They don't have the same freedom as other children in other parts of the country and that's not fair.
"What we have got to remember - Mark isn't here and we are doing this for his children.
"So let's show the country that we are not this gangster family that the media has been systematically portraying us as.
"Mark was not a gangster, the media sustained a campaign against him.
"We're just an ordinary family."
Mr Duggan's aunt later called for a new Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation (IPCC) into his death.
She said: "Mark did not get the justice he deserved from the inquest, so therefore we have no alternative but to go back to basics, start at the beginning.
"The beginning was with the IPCC - what we really want the IPCC to do now is what they should have done in the beginning and that is a thorough investigation.
"On numerous occasions during the IPCC investigation they were criticised, they were hauled up and they were accused of incompetence, which they admitted to, so it's nothing they don't already know.
"They know they're incompetent, they know they didn't do a thorough job because they were investigating their own people - 65% of IPCC members are ex-police, and I believe that's why Mark did not get the justice he should have got."
The Metropolitan Police said that extra officers were on standby to respond to any trouble and would take immediate action.
The statement said: "Today is a busy day in the Capital and we have a policing operation in place across London.
"This includes having additional officers on standby that could respond to any incident that occurs.
"Part of this operation includes assessing all available information and intelligence, and we are aware of a limited amount of information that indicates a small number of people are expressing their desire to use this vigil as an opportunity.
"This information includes the intention of protest groups to attend and of people looking to provoke disorder. We will be ready to intervene immediately if required."
The statement added: "The family has expressed that they wish this vigil to be held in a dignified and peaceful manner.
"The MPS has met with the organiser to ensure that we can appropriately facilitate their plans."
The police statement follows concerns that the crowds would clash with football fans going to see Tottenham Hotspur play Crystal Palace.
On Thursday Britain's most senior police officer and Prime Minister David Cameron both urged supporters to remain calm at the vigil.
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, thanked the Duggan family for their public calls for peace, and said: "A vigil is to commemorate Mark Duggan's death, that's what the vigil is about.
"It's a terrible tragedy that someone's lost a life in this case, and clearly the family want to register, I believe, their protest about the outcome of the inquest.
''They've got every right to do that, and we as the police have got every opportunity to facilitate that so that's exactly what we will do.
''We will continue to talk to the family and others to keep our communications alive, and also to make sure, as I believe, that the protest will happen and that there won't be disorder.''
Mr Duggan's aunt Carole said that she wanted "no more violence".
Unrest erupted after protests during the immediate aftermath of Mr Duggan's death in August 2011. He was shot dead by a police marksman after officers stopped the taxi in which he was travelling.
Police believed he was going to collect a gun from another man, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, and then travel on to Broadwater Farm, also in Tottenham.
More than two years on, anger again spilled over at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday, when an inquest jury found that he was lawfully killed.
They said it was most likely that he had a gun with him in the minicab, but had thrown it onto a nearby grass verge before he was shot.
Family and friends of the father-of-six shouted and swore, and his brother Marlon had to be physically restrained as the conclusions were read.
Outside the court, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley was drowned out by protesters shouting "murderers" and "scum" as he tried to make a statement on Scotland Yard's behalf.


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So that's it. The first cycle of three weeks is over, and only another two to go!
I have mixed feelings about the end of the first third. On hand I am down three weeks and heading toward the finish line, next week is a full week (due to public holiday on Monday I only have four days with a slight increase in dose…) and after that I only will have one more full week to go. On the other hand I know it will start to get worse and my bounce back will take longer if at all between the sessions.
After Thursday I was quiet ill, I went to bed with a bucket as I wasn't sure I would not be sick. That was the worst I have felt the whole time. I don't want to feel that way again but I know I will. Knowing you are going to be sick and still going in for treatment is hard thing. You have to be mentally prepared for the situation and the aftermath. Next week will be hard, but I will get through it and I will do it. I just have to summon up the will and energy.
My parents are coming down this weekend to help out at home and for that I am very thankful. With them here I won't have to think about Anji and all the work she shoulders while I am otherwise engaged (i.e. asleep or at least lying down so I am not sick). They will help out with the girls and also some of the normal household stuff like washing up and cooking etc.
All in all it is like a band aid – rip that sucker off and the pain is only fleeting. Have the treatment feel ill for a few weeks and then it is all over. At least that is the plan!
As for the treatment – well if hair loss means that it is working, then it is working well.
This week saw drifts of hair start to fall out and this morning it reached a point where I looked like a mangy dog.


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Sodexo has formed a consortium with two southwest hospitals to provide pathology services for the NHS, in a deal valued at £300m, the FT reports.
About 160 NHS staff have been outsourced to Southwest Pathology Services – which has opened a new highly-automated laboratory to provide blood tests and other pathology services to the two hospitals on a 20-year contract worth £300m.
Sodexo Healthcare managing director Simon Scrivens told FT he hoped the consortium deal could be used as a model for other NHS services from administration to radiology. The trusts own 67% of the company, while Sodexo owns the remaining share through its joint venture with Labco.


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Now Loading for the week of 4/10/2011: The Glove Edition
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Patapon 3
Michael Jackson: the Experience
Elements of War
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Dungeon Hunter: Alliance
Magicka: Vietnam
Splinter Cell 3D
I guess that it will be another semi-quiet week as we head towards next week's blockbuster release lineup. Nothing "huge" this week, expect for maybe the HD version of the Michael Jackson game from Ubisoft. I can imagine that the Kinect version in particular will be as big of a hit as Dance Central. It seems as if some more 3DS titles are starting to make their ways into stores as well, though Nintendo needs to hurry up and bring some of the bigger titles out instead of waiting for summer.
Some of the new games that you will find this week include:
Rabbids Travel in Time for Nintendo 3DS
Spongebob Squigglepants for Nintendo Wii (uDraw compatable)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
for Nintendo 3DS
Art of Ink for Nintendo DSiWare (800DSi points)
Escape Trick- The Secret of Rock City Prison for Nintendo DSiWare (500 DSi points)
FastDraw Showdown for Nintendo WiiWare (500 Wii points, demo version available)
Play with Birds for Nintendo WiiWare (500 Wii points)
Slingo Quest for Nintendo DSiWare (800 DSi points)
Dungeon Hunter- Alliance
for PlayStation Network
Elements of War
for PC
Fantastic Pets for Xbox 360
LEGO Ninjago for Nintendo 3DS
Magicka- Vietnam
for PC
Michael Jackson- The Experience
for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
Might and Magic- Clash of Heroes for PlayStation Network
Patapon 3
for PlayStation Portable
for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS
Anything in there for you this week?