Diatonic, single reed harmonicas feature reeds tuned to produce the natural notes of the musical scale - without any additional sharps & flats (a diatonic instrument). They are ten-hole instruments with the four middle holes comprising a complete eight-note octave - the holes on either side permit chord playing. They are capable of producing bending & overblowing, which will allow the player to achieve sharps and flats. The MS harp with the wood body - and old favorite! Wood body construction gives the blues harp the raw blues sound that so many professionals demand.


Mary: Rejection as a lifestyle
I’ve had my fair share of rejection in my life. I used to traipse around the Boston area, auditioning here and there for parts. Probably, I was a little out of my league. In fact, in the words of the Magic Eight Ball, it is decidedly so. Fresh out of college, quite “green,” no experience in the professional theatre (as an actress), and with many stars, and a stray eyelash or two, in my eyes, I picked my audition pieces with the aplomb and insight of a politician dealing crack.
Still, I hoped for the best, and bravely strode to the doors of one such audition, piece in hand (or in my head, actually). It was Emily’s last monologue in Our Town, a role I did not ever play, and although I did play Mrs. Webb in my high school production, that mere fact does not mean that I was capable of producing an efficient rendering of the scene. In retrospect, let’s just say I was a little ill-prepared.
But it was a serious monologue, and I produced it poignantly, I imagined, PAR cans in my face, to the faceless souls out there watching. I finished. They said, “Thank you.” I turned and pushed open the double doors, and as they swung closed behind me, I heard them burst into laughter.
Oooh, that killed me. I think that might have been the proverbial straw, although I should have brushed myself off and kept going. But I think, at that moment, I somehow felt that I just didn’t have it in me. I couldn’t do it anymore. It felt personal.
Of course, being a writer, one faces rejection all the time. Every day. It is an aspect of the writing life that is reliable, like an old coat, like that pair of “go-to” jeans. Some people even sort of thrive on it. Or at least, make it into a joke.
My old college professor, and mentor, of sorts, told us he used to wallpaper his room with all the rejection letters he received. They almost became sort of badges of honor for him. All those rejections. All those submissions.
I’m not sure why I don’t submit more. I have many articles and essays that, if only fleshed out and worked up, might amount to something. It’s always the last thing on my to-do list, the editing and researching and sending out of material. I sometimes wonder if maybe I have a fear of rejection. Or fear of success, which is even more puzzling. Maybe I have a fear of rejectful succession. I think that’s probably the case.
Pseudo-self-analysis aside, I think sometimes rejection is our greatest friend, as writers. It can really give us a fresh look to our writing — it can give us Perspective and Objectivism. It can also give us a major migraine, but that can easily be solved by a good sound nap and the formulation of a long heated letter stating why said rejecter is talking out of his or her ass. (Shredded right afterwards, of course).
I do think rejection can be constructive, especially if the criticism is given that way. I am reminded of a graduate writing class I took, where one of my fellow students declared, “I don’t like your story, and I don’t know why.” (Believe me, HE got an very heated, unsent letter later on that evening). Some criticism is not helpful, nor is it necessary. I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?
I don’t expect much in the way of personal feedback from magazines, journals, publishers, etc., who have rejected me. I mean, these hard-working people have their share of relentless reading to do – much of it crap, in all likelihood. So I don’t expect a small novelette in response, for goodness sake.
Still, it is difficult not to take it personally, at times. Writers — and all artists, I think — must have the ability to shake off negativity, and keep heads up and egos in place. At times, writers must appear to have monstrous, in-your-face, stocking-up-at-the-all-you-can-eat-counter-and-then-going-for-seconds types of egos, that continually need to be fed; that need the affirmation, the nod, the, “Yes, you’re doing great! Yes, you are GOING places!” In actuality, I think writers are some of the most insecure people around, needing the boost that comes with encouragement and positive feedback.
I’m not sure I’m insecure. I might be so insecure that I am secure in it. Or that I just don’t see it, because I’m so deluded. Hopefully it’s neither one, and I happen to be someone who is developing a secure sense of self (but if delusion is the case, than how would I know)? I’ll tell you, no matter what state of self-possession I might be in, I surely need to get back to it, and start sending stuff out again.
I’m adding in here a letter I found in an old box of my childhood writings, which I must have received when I was eight years old. It appears that I had sent in a poem to the publishing company Ramapo House, and they were kind enough to send me a rejection letter back, which my parents astutely kept. It’s my first one. * sniff *
Thank you very much for your wonderful poem. We have hung it up in my office and everyone who visits my office will read it.
You are a very good poetess. You should save a copy of all your poems and perhaps someday a publisher will print them in a book with your name under them. When I see lovely poems like this I am sorry that our company only publishes textbooks for schools!
Thank you again.
Thanks, Ramapo. Maybe someday a publisher WILL print them in a book. With my name under them, and everything. I can only hope.


Sprint has finally joined the Android market and has officially added the HTC Hero to their list of phones.
The company’s first Android-based smartphone is now available for purchase on the Sprint website and the Sprint stores. It will also soon be available in Best Buy. Users will have to pay $180 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate.
The Sprint version has some differences on the European version though. Instead of having the “chin”, the Hero has a rounded tablet shape. It also lacks a hardware keyboard.
Specs of the mobile phone include a 3.2-inch capacitive AM-OLED multi-touchscreen, an 800 MHz processor, an optical joystick and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Users get the standard Google apps and other popular applications such as Twitter, MySpace Mobile, ShopSavvy and the carrier’s Sprint TV. Not satisfied? You can also choose from over 10,000 applications accessible on the on-device store, the Android Market. 😉


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Whether or not a friend or loved one is in jail is a question that can occur at some point. People are ordinarily brought to jail right away upon arrest. They will stay in detention till their arraignment is final. The arraignment for an inmate will happen a day after an inmate is taken into custody. If the arrest occurs on the weekend, they may likely need to wait until the next business day for their arraignment. The Texas jail inmate will know at their arraignment if paying bail is mandated for their release. If the court specifies bail, the inmate may pay for it and await their court date in the outside world. If the individual doesn’t make bail or the court does not allow for it, they will stay in jail till the trial.
- Recently Arrested: After an arrest, the inmates are taken to the regional jail in Texas. If the crime took place in the same county as the arrest, they will more than likely remain in that jail until their hearing or unless another person posts bail for them. If they were arrested on a warrant from another area, the offender would likely be transported to that area. Until the inmate’s transfer is complete, there might not be much information available online, and a phone call might need to be made to the local authorities.
- Awaiting trial: The suspect will not be released from jail before trial except if they post bail or are released because the crime isn’t severe. Most individuals will be released on bail, but a small minority will be in a Texas jail until the entire case has been concluded.
- After sentencing: Guidelines vary between states and counties. Nonetheless, the punishment awarded to an individual will play a significant role in establishing where they serve their time. People with more than a year to serve are generally sent to a Texas state prison, while inmates that receive short sentences commonly stay in county jails.
- Inmates apprehended for federal criminal activities can be held in a county jail temporarily following the arrest. But eventually are going to be sent to a federal prison to await trial.


I moved to LA a few years ago when my wife, Lilli, and I decided to start a family. We now have two little guys, Harley and Dash.
We love camping and breakfast for dinner. We also sing and dance a lot.
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The Argyle Sweater. By Scott Hilburn. Andrews McMeel. $12.99.
Dogs Don’t Brush Their Teeth! By Diane deGroat and Shelley Rotner. Orchard Books/Scholastic. $14.99.
Was Peter Pan the boy who wouldn’t grow up, or was it Scott Hilburn? Hilburn’s single-panel comic, The Argyle Sweater, often comes across as humor in an arrested-development vein. The cover of the first collection, for example, shows two frontiersmen wearing animal-tail hats sitting at a bar – and, on the next bar stool, a bear wearing a hat made of human buttocks. Juvenile, but funny. Hilburn has a thing about bears and buttocks, actually. Another of his panels has two bears about to break into a beehive, warning a third bear not to touch the next tree’s “hiney bees” – whose “hive” is a roll of toilet paper. A little of this sort of thing goes a long way, but thankfully, there is more to The Argyle Sweater than buttocks humor. One super-crowded panel shows two cowboys drawn so large that they barely fit into the square – and one of them is saying, “All right, Hutchins – this ’toon aint big enough for the both of us!” Another panel has the Loch Ness monster showing off his photo album, but being unsure whether the pictures are of him or of floating logs. Then there are the two snake construction workers checking out a female snake slithering by and commenting, “Nice asp.” And the man who takes his dog to the vet because it has three tails, only to be told “that’s just the international cartoon symbol for movement.” And the elevator full of porcupines inviting one more passenger to come in – but the hapless invitee is a balloon animal. And Captain Kirk discovering that Spock’s famous hand sign actually translates as “die soon and suffer.” And plenty of panels reinterpreting children’s stories and fairy tales, everything from “The Three Little Pigs” (a recurring theme) to Disney’s version of “Snow White” (Hilburn has Doc under arrest for prescribing medications for the other dwarfs without a license). Hilburn’s cartoon got its start on the Internet and has some of the edginess of the electronic medium along with some of its tastelessness. On balance, The Argyle Sweater is more than funny enough on its good days to make up for its occasional misfires. And it takes a certain kind of delightfully twisted mind to change the old patient-on-a-psychiatrist’s-couch setup to one featuring “Puff, the manic dragon,” complaining that “I’m up, I’m down…I just can’t seem to get control of my emotions.”
Dogs Don’t Brush Their Teeth! is intended for kids rather than (ostensible) grownups, but one wonders whether Diane deGroat and Shelley Rotner are themselves, at heart, women who never quite outgrew being mischievous little girls. That would explain the many foldouts in this book, whose text consists entirely of “Dogs do” contrasted with “Dogs don’t.” For example, “do” shows a dog with a stick in its mouth; lift the flap, and “don’t” shows one with a different kind of stick – a baseball bat – grasped in its paws. “Do” shows a dog mouthing a tennis ball; open the flap and “don’t” shows the same pup playing the game. “Do” shows a dog carrying a puppy in its mouth; “don’t” shows the puppy being pushed in a baby carriage. “Do” shows howling at the moon; “don’t” shows enthusiastic keyboard playing in a band. The entire book uses photo illustrations, not drawings or cartoons, and that is a big part of the fun: the “do” pictures show real dogs doing things that dogs actually do, while the “don’t” ones show the same dogs doing impossible things in impossible poses. There are a few non-foldout pages, too, such as one in which “do” shows a dog riding with head out the car window and “don’t” shows the dog driving the car. And there is even one bit of mild bathroom humor, with “do” showing a dog squatting in the street and “don’t” showing the same dog in the same position on a toilet in the house. Diane and Shelley, meet Scott. Maybe you can all avoid growing up together.


Luxury Train Holidays in India
India is replete with wonders and attractions. There are various destinations in India that one can explore during one’s holiday to make it the most exciting experience. The county is prominent for its fascinating ethnicity, cultural diversity, natural prosperity and striking history. These aspects of India are recognized all over the world. The country is beautifully adorned with these features that score of travelers from all over the world visits the place every year. India has been a unique destination in terms of tourism. The above stated factors make it distinct from other tourist destinations of the world.
The best aspect of India is its royal history and cultural heritage. The magnificent forts, glorious palaces vibrant fairs and festivals are the features that make India a royal destination. Besides the fact that India has something for every traveler, it is known best for its luxury holidays. The luxury holidays in India are uniquely organized. Luxury in India has a different definition. Luxury holiday in India means an exploration of the incredible cultural diversity with the royal luxury trains. The luxury trains are the best way to traverse the prosperous attractions of India. These royal trains provide a perfect blend of luxury and comfort. They even endow an amazing merge of Indian hospitality with traditional infrastructure.
Luxury trains are a means where the travelers can live a royal life of Maharajas. They are treated and served like the imperial kings of India. These trains are designed to bestow the luxuries of life with the royal Indian touch. Such trains take travelers to a royal sojourn where they can live like the kings and can traverse the incredible Indian terrain royally. Every coach is fascinatingly architected with royal embellishments. They are well equipped with world-class facilities and infrastructure. Many Travelers fall for the majestic ambiance of the train. The superlative services of the attendant surely bestow a king-like feeling throughout the journey.
The luxury train holidays in India will include the fascinating destinations of the country where the travelers can be at their royal-best. The train would seem to be your palace and the destinations replete with forts and palaces, cultural heritage and architectural marvels would seem to be your kingdom during your sojourn. Rajasthan is the best destination to explore the royal heritage and rich history of India. However, there are other imperial destinations too which one can explore with these India trains. One can extend its one’s trip with extension tours. Palace on wheels, Deccan Odyssey, Royal Rajasthan on Wheels, The Maharajas’ Express, Golden Chariot are some of the luxury trains in India which takes traveler to a royal sojourn that they might not be able to forget in their life.


We are very excited to announce that two of our titles have been nominated for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards! Congratulations to Susin Nielsen, Eric Walters, and Eugenie Fernandes!
Children’s Picture Book Award Category
Today Is the Day
Written by Eric Walters
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
Hardcover | 32 Pages | Ages 6-9
Mutanu is excited. As she goes about her chores, she thinks about the day to come and what surprises it might bring. For today is no ordinary day at the orphanage she lives in. Every year, the orphanage honors its newest arrivals by creating a birthday day especially for them. From that moment forward, the orphans have a day that they know is theirs–a day to celebrate, a day to enjoy, a day to remember. And today is the day!
Based on real children in an orphanage in Kenya, this lovely story shows how something as simple as a birthday, something most of us take for granted, can mean so much in another part of the world.
Young Adult / Middle Reader Award Category
We Are All Made of Molecules
Written by Susin Nielsen
Hardcover | 256 Pages | Ages 12+
Thirteen-year-old Stewart Inkster is academically brilliant but “ungifted” socially. Fourteen-year-old Ashley Anderson is the undisputed “It” girl of grade nine, but her marks stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. “The Brady Bunch” it isn’t. Stewart is trying to be 89.9% happy about it, but Ashley is 110% horrified. She already has to hide the truth behind her parents’ divorce; “Spewart” could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder. They are complete opposites. And yet, no matter their differences, they share one thing in common: they – like the rest of us – are all made of molecules.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Schwartz Children’s Book Awards – the only Canadian literary award where student juries work together to choose the winning books.
This year’s winners will be chosen by student juries from Toronto’s Scarborough Village Alternative Public School. The announcement will take place during a school assembly on Wednesday, June 22.


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Multi-colored Aromatherapy Pendant with Essential Oil Aroma Pad
Choose from a wide selection of necklace shapes and styles and aroma ball. Each necklace comes with a random selected aroma ball. Packs of 10 aroma balls are available for sale in this product list.
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Friday 20th December
Friday morning and my plans to visit Mouldon Hill has been side by our lovely weather . Definitely a day to be in a hide so it’s off to Lower Moor Farm nature reserve, and a very waterlogged and even muddier reserve , something I thought was impossible after Sunday’s visit. Once again the rain gods shined on me so to speak , and once again the rain held off just long enough for me to get into a hide and thankfully back to the car park. Another outing for the new winter jacket from a company called Country Innovations, again all nice and cosy and for once due mainly to the weather I had the hide to myself. Not a great day for photography, but still a better view from my office window !
Wildlife sightings today , Robin , Blue tits , Great tits , Blackbird , The now usual fly past from the Kingfisher . New for me a Water Railand Bull Finch who was definitely camera shy and for the first time at Lower Mill , a Jay.
Shot of the day , not a great one by any means but my first camera shy Bull Finch
Here’s the full details of Lower Moor Farm……
Lower Moor Farm is one of my favourite reserves to visit. Owned and managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust the site includes Lower Moor Farm , Sandpool and Oaksey Moor Farm Meadow and Clattinger Farm and covers 126 hectares of land , including three Lakes.
The reserve is at the western edge of the Cotswold Water Park , easy to find and with good level parking and toilets. Most of the paths are easy to navigate but do become a little bit more difficult in periods of wet weather.
Lower Moor Farm opened in 2007 and is the gateway to Clattinger Farm, Oaksey Moor Farm Meadow and Sandpool nature reserves. From LM you can walk into the other reserves and explore a landscape of fascinating contrasts. The reserve comprises three lakes, two brooks, ponds and wetland scrapes linked together by boardwalks, ancient hedges, woodland and meadows. The lakes were created by gravel extraction in the 1970s. Mallard Lake is a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to its distinctive aquatic plants, which include rare stoneworts. The visitor centre is a resource for education groups and volunteers and a replica Iron Age hut is a focus for our educational activities. Large populations of wildfowl swim in the lakes – great crested grebe, teal, shoveler duck and goosander to name a few. You can enjoy the birdlife from hides at Swallow Pool and Cottage Lake – the latter is accessible for wheelchairs and pushchairs. Water voles and otters use Flagham Brook. On sunny days see if you can spot the emperor, southern hawker and downy emerald dragonflies.
The reserve supports a wide range of birds and mammals, with Kingfisher , Otters and the Heron among the highlights .
Cricklade SN16 9TW OS map 169 grid ref: SU007939
Wheelchair access to one bird hide and across the boardwalk to Mallard Lake. From this point, footpath can be muddy.
Dogs on leads welcome
Total complex 126.18 hectares
Toilets, including disabled, available for events
From Oaksey go in direction of Somerford Keynes for about one mile, crossing the railway line and round an S-bend. About 75 metres after S-bend the entrance is on right. From Cricklade drive northwards on A419, then turn left onto B4696 towards Somerford Keynes. Continue straight over crossroads and then for a further 2.5 miles until you see the entrance on left. There is parking at the visitor centre.
Wildlife sightings at Lower Mill Farm….
Otter, Fox , Brown Rat, Water vole, Pheasant, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Robin , Blue Tit, Great Tit, Kingfisher, Marsh Tit, Wren, Galwall, Gideon, Mallard, Swan, Cormorant, Heron , Jay , Bull Finch
All images on this page taken at Lower Moor Farm. Last update 20/12/2019
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To get access to your Netgear PTV1000, you need the IP of your device, the username and password. You'll find such information in the Manual of your Netgear PTV1000 router. But if you do not have the manual for your router or you do not want to read the whole manual to find the default login information then you can use the quick guide below. To get to the router login page it's necessary that you are connected to the router.
Netgear PTV1000 Login Guide
- Open your web browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Opera or any other browser)
- Click HERE to auto detect your router IP. After some seconds our tool will show a link to your router login page. Click on the shown link.
- You should see 2 text fields where you can enter a username and a password.
- Check the bottom of your router. There you will find your login credentials. If not then have a look at the manual of your router.
- Enter the username & password, hit "Enter" and now you should see the control panel of your router.
If above login credentials doesn't work with your Netgear PTV1000 router then try this method
Try different ID/password combinations that are widely used by Netgear that you'll find below. In this list are the most popular default username and password combinations used by Netgear. Sometimes the username and password doesn't work that we mentioned in the top of this guide. Then you can try these username/password combinations below to get access to your Netgear PTV1000 wireless router.
|11||admin||(specified by the user)|
|25||admin||(specified by user)|
|31||(blank)||printed on router|
|32||voo||WPA key on the label, uppercase|
Default login IPs for my Netgear router
You tried different router IPs but nothing worked? Did you try the following IPs? In the list below we listed all known router IPs for the manufacturer Netgear. Maybe this will work for you.
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Manuals for Netgear PTV1000
Nothing of the methods worked for me and I still not get access to my Netgear !
All you need to do is to reset your modem. This can be done easily by clicking on the reset button at the back or at the bottom of your router. If you hold down this small button for approximately 20 seconds, (you may have to use a toothpick), then your modem will get restored to the factory settings. What you need to keep in mind is that when you reset your modem, you will lose your connection online. It is therefore better to take an expert's assistance in this regard. Note: If you have not enough information, it is obviously recommended that you should get help from a person who has all the knowledge about this topic.


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Achensee running shoe guide
The perfect running shoe not only gives you a better feeling when you’re running, it also has an enormous impact on your performance. In our Achensee running shoe guide, we have rounded up insights into the technical features and tips for choosing the right shoe at the running store.
The first important feature of a running shoe is its weight. In most cases, lightweight models have an advantage over "clunky" shoes. On runs that are longer than 20 minutes, lighter running shoes can even increase your running time by a few minutes. At the same time, the shoe should be flexible to support foot mobility and to help build muscles. A thin sole and a low offset for normal runners - the majority of athletes – ensure a proper technique and optimal body balance.
The search for the right running shoe highly depends on the area of use. A fast shoe for the road? A model with a good grip for fell running? The demands on technology could not be more different. In addition, running enthusiasts are always on the move individually. Here are some tips for an economical running style:
- Arms stay compact and close to the body
- Lean forward to move your center of gravity in front of your feet
- Increase your cadence to build efficient speed
- Run with a midfoot or forefoot strike
Once you master the proper running form, the search for shoes can begin. It is best to divide them into asphalt and trail running shoes and to rely on the experts among the outfitters: for example, Salming for asphalt and Salomon for variable terrain.
There is a huge range of shoes available for the various types of road running, and it is primarily a matter of distance. Marathon runners need more cushioning, sprinters need ultralight material.
Overview of the categories:
- Intervals: Runners who focus on intervals and tough tempo runs on the road should choose a lightweight shoe. Special technologies such as rebound systems ensure that energy is not wasted but feeds back into the running motion. This is a useful feature, especially for short distances. Running shoe example: Salming Speed 6
- Five to ten kilometres: Short to medium distances demand a running shoe with all-rounder characteristics. Here, too, weight is important, but there are additional requirements. Flexibility to be prepared for all running situations, light cushioning, resistance for longer distances and comfort features such as breathability. Running shoe example: Salming Distance D6
- Half marathon to marathon: For most runners (ultra runners excepted), the marathon is the supreme discipline in endurance running. Distances ranging from 21 to 42 kilometres demand a lot from the running shoes and make durability an essential factor in the material mix. Cushioning is usually stronger than in short & middle-distance shoes. Running shoe example: Salming EnRoute
There are just as many choices for trail running as there are for road running. Due to the different types of surfaces, the sole is particularly important.
- All-rounder: It's all in the mix: A good all-rounder for trails has cushioning that also dissipates the impact of sharp gravel, a grip that also provides hold on wet roots, and upper material that also protects against falling rocks. Running shoe example: Salomon Sense Ride
- Long distance: Probably the toughest challenge for a running shoe is long-distance off-road running. Grip and fit are essential to ease the strain. Weight is also important to ensure that your muscles do not tire too quickly. Running shoe example: Salomon S/Lab Ultra
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ATVO S.p.A. offers you a connection service from Venezia, Mestre, Treviso to Cortina d'Ampezzo and the place of Dolomites such as Tai di Cadore or San Vito di Cadore in summer, there are connections, with Dolomitibus, at "La Secca" to Cansiglio and Puos d'Alpago and at Longarone to Colle Santa Lucia and Caprile. From Cortina d'Ampezzo you can resume to Dobbiaco (Toblach) and San Candido (Innichen), using the SAD Company bus service.
For departures from Venice P.le Roma at 10:20am and 15:20pm a change at Marco Polo Airport is scheduled. When you get off there you will have to walk following directions to the parking named "P-Bus" (about 400 mt.). Our staff at the bus drop off stop will give you anyway information how to reach it. The other way around, for trips departing from Cortina at 8:30am and at 1:00pm a change is scheduled at Marco Polo Airport to reach Venice P.le Roma. Once you have got off the bus at the airport, you will have to walk from the parking named "P-Bus" to the public bus lanes. Our drivers will give you all useful information to reach them.
In the weekend and holidays, when traffic is heavier, we advise our customers to leave well in advance in order to reach in good time their flight, train or other means of transport for the continuation of their journey.
The buses employed are new with air conditioning and spacious luggage holds.
Booking is obligatory. You can purchase the ticket on line click the button near the timetable. The tickets can be purchase from the ATVO S.p.A. ticket office or specific/authorized travel agencies.
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The Sports Car That Allows A Paralysed IndyCar Driver To Race Again
During testing in 1999, IndyCar driver, Sam Schmidt, had a crash that left him completely paralysed from the shoulders down, and was told he'd never race again. 22 years later, we caught up with the Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar team owner at Goodwood Festival of Speed to watch him drive The Hillclimb in a specially modified Corvette C8 that he controls using his breath. Here's Sam and the SAM Car's incredible story.
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Friday, 28 May 2010
Bolton School Arts Centre was transformed into a kaleidoscope of colour as some marvellous models, also known as Junior Girls, paraded down the catwalk for the Parents Association Fashion Show.
64 girls took to the runway to show off the current fashions, and spectators were mesmerised by the array of different outfits provided by 'Clothes Horse Kids'.
Two brave boys (younger brothers dragged along from Beech House!) also got involved, and wowed the crowd dressed in the boys' range of T-shirts and denims.
The main purpose of the Junior Girls' PA is to provide curriculum enhancing activities and other fun events appropriate to the age of the Junior Girls and this event was certainly a huge success!


I’m sure you’ve seen the memes on social media that reference not wanting to “adult” on any given day. Typically, I don’t mind “adulting,” but recently, with Mother Nature’s dose of hot weather and memories of how much I loved summer break as a kid, I’ve realize how I, and probably most youngsters my age, didn’t appreciate things as they were.
Most days would start at the pool. We always went early – just about the time it was opening. Sometimes I had the whole pool to myself for a short while. A few hours and a piece of pizza and some ice cream later, we would head home in time for my mom’s “stories” - better known as afternoon soaps. Yes, that was during the whole Luke and Laura saga.
More often than not, an afternoon trip to the local library was typically on my agenda following General Hospital. It was just around the corner from my house and they had big, comfy bean bag chairs – perfect for reading books for the summer reading program. Judy Blume always provided perspectives for the adolescent mind to ponder.
Following a supper that was usually prepared on a grill, evenings were commonly spent riding bikes with the other neighborhood kids, playing kickball in the street and after dark, catching lightning bugs. I truly didn’t have a care in the world, but yet was so anxious to grow up. My friends at the time shared those same sentiments – we just wanted to make our own rules and not have to be home when the street lights came on.
Years later, with bills to pay and job responsibilities to be concerned about, the days of the care-free summers are long gone. “Adulting” is very much a part of daily life, but it is fun to think back, though. It makes me realize how very blessed I am to have such good childhood memories.
I�m sure you�ve seen the memes on social media that reference not wanting to �adult� on any given day. Typically, I don�t mind �adulting,� but recently, with Mother Nature�s dose of hot weather and memories of how much I loved summer break as a kid, I�ve realize how I, and probably most youngsters my age, didn�t appreciate things as they were.


Nice shots of an unidentified French town - including a cinema owned by Pathe Freres.
Originally listed as "FRENCH TOWN STREET SCENES"
Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown
Street scenes of trams and carriages moving about in the streets of an unidentified French town. People are walking about. Shots of a cinema owned by Pathe Freres. - Spacing -
Shots of large church / cathedral. Shots of fountain and parkland. - Spacing -
Closer shots of statues in fountain.
Amendment - November 2011: A visitor to the site has pointed out that this is Marseille.


Stoking the flames of manlust and passion are Nash Lawler and Spencer Stone. Engaged in a game of poker, Nash emerges the winner which inspires Spencer to acknowledge the grinning victor by sucking on his hard dick, thoroughly enjoying each precious inch of manmeat. His appetite for more of his handsome partners fleshy bounty soon has him rimming his hole, jabbing his tongue deep inside Nash's crack. This drives Nash so crazed and horny that he goes down on Spencer to suck on his cock. Then Nash has Spencer upended and balancing on his shoulders, his ass in the air ready to be poked. The excited and muscled fireplug fucks his buddy up the whazoo. The action is so hot, so intense, neither man can stop exclaiming back and forth how good it all feels. Nash continues to fuck Spencer in different positions until they each climax and shoot their wads.
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I don't like having a guy on the panel, as long as it's handled like it is right now. The show is not called the Women's View, but if you go back to the original opening and the original intent for the show, Barbara did say in the intro way back when "I've always wanted to have a show with women of all different points of view". So the original design was for it to be all women. The topics they discuss, and the audience they focus on is women. If they want to totally re-vamp the show and have a more diverse panel, I'd be okay with that. But then I think they should really go for diversity. Instead of having a token man, have a few men. Go for people who are married, single, gay, straight, various races, etc. At the same time, diversify the topics they talk about. Instead of making it all pop culture and gossip, talk about things men care about too. Talk about BCS rankings, and politics, and cars, and video games. Talk about parenting. Talk about divorces and child support. If they are going to go for diversity, go all in. If not, recognize what the show was designed to be - a show with women of all different points of view, and go back to that. Because the point that has been made here is true -- two ditzy women, Barbara and a guest is not varying points of view. It's a mess.


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First of all I love the shot which was taken high over the Ohio River near Ripley, Ohio.
Second of all, last summer was really the first I could be free. I could wear sleeveless fashion, tees, etc. Finally, Liz and I were enjoying a sort of a mini-vacation, the weather was wonderful and I could enjoy the world as I was always meant to do it.
Best wishes for wonderful holidays!
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The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing claims that Ford’s latest hybrids aren’t living up to their fuel economy ratings, The Detroit News reports.
The official move comes after several automotive media outlets found the 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid and 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid failed to live up to their 47 mpg ratings in real world testing.
In a story posted last week, Consumer Reports said the Fusion Hybrid and C-Max Hybrid were only able to deliver 39 mpg and 37 mpg, respectively. In November, a FoxNews.com review of the Fusion Hybrid noted similar results.
Most automakers self-certify their fuel economy ratings based on testing procedures dictated by the EPA. Only 15 percent of the new cars sold each year are directly tested by the agency at its National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The system has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks after Hyundai and its sister company Kia were found to have reported overstated fuel economy ratings due, they said, to a calculating error during their in-house testing. The automakers have promised to compensate owners of the affected cars, over 900,000 of them, for the extra money spent on fuel compared to the advertised ratings. The EPA investigation into the matter is ongoing, and the agency could still decide to level civil penalties against the automakers.
Neither Ford nor the EPA has yet confirmed if the hybrids currently in question were self-certified by Ford or previously tested at the EPA laboratory.
A Ford spokesperson tells FoxNews.com that the company is “aware of the EPA’s comments” that it will review the Consumer Reports findings and says Ford will “fully cooperate” if it becomes involved. He adds that “early C-MAX Hybrid and Fusion Hybrid customers praise the vehicles and report a range of fuel economy figures, including some reports above 47 mpg. This reinforces the fact that driving styles, driving conditions, and other factors can cause mileage to vary.”
Ford is also introducing plug-in hybrid versions of the Fusion and C-Max under the Energi name, which have larger batteries that can be charged from an electrical outlet, giving them the ability to travel up to 21 miles on battery power alone, according to Ford. The upcoming Fusion Energi has yet to be certified, but the C-Max Energi, which is currently on sale, has been given an EPA fuel economy rating equivalent to 100 mpg. It is not known if this model is being included in the current review.
Ford posted its best ever monthly sales electrified vehicle sales in November, delivering 3,589 C-Max Hybrids, 1,259 C-Max Energis and 1,834 Fusion Hybrids.


DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria's state TV says an explosion has targeted the Interior Ministry building in the capital.
There was no immediate word on casualties or damage from Wednesday's blast.
Syria has been bloodied by a devastating civil war. The conflict has been raging for more than 20 months. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed.


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How it came about: Once Sega dropped out of the console race in 2001, it quickly began publishing titles for all the other platforms, including Super Monkey Ball, a launch title for the Gamecube. Soon enough SMB developer Amusement Vision was tapped by Nintendo to make a new F-Zero title not only for the Cube but the new Gamecube-based Triforce arcade board co-developed by Sega, Nintendo and Namco. While Namco made an adequate Star Fox title, Sega and Amusement Vision made one of the best racing games of last generation.
Why it was great: F-Zero GX/AX boasted impressive graphics that even today put most Wii games to shame. It had some of the most intricate, well-designed courses in racing history and we recently named it thesecond fastest game of all time. And let’s not even get into thelovably cheesy soundtrack. It didn’t hold your hand either, as GX was notorious for some really punishing courses, an incredibly steep learning curve and one of the most punishing story modes around.
Those that mastered the game hold it in high esteem and F-Zero GX is remembered very well. However, turns out Nintendo, and Shigeru Miyamoto in particular, weren’t fans of game, which may explain why we’ve yet to see a sequel. In 2006 Miyamoto said in anEntertainment Weekly interview, “In the past we've worked with some outside development houses on titles like F-Zero and Star Fox — and let me just say that we were disappointed with the results.” Seriously? What’s the matter, not enough blue koopa shells?
How it came about: Founded in the early ‘80s, Rare had been a very productive developer during the NES days, making Battletoads, Snake Rattle and Roll, and more licensed games than you can shake a money stick at. In the early ‘90s, as fancy CG graphics were becoming all the rage, the British company found a way to create 3D, polygonal, pre-rendered characters on the SNES, something many thought wouldn’t be possible on a home system until the next console cycle. Nintendo was impressed and gave Rare the keys to their oldest franchise, and we ended up with Donkey Kong Country.
Why it was great: Some may call us graphics whores now, but if you weren’t there at the time, you’ve no idea how great this looked. As game magazines showed off what the Saturn and PlayStation might be able to pull off, here was a SNES game in 1994 that was already doing it. As players took Donkey and Diddy Kong through the lovely yet dangerous jungles, players were treated to tons of visual flourishes, be it in mine cart levels, animal assists, or just listening to old Cranky Kong talk about the good old days.
That’s not to say it was all looks, as DKC had its own spectacularly fun style of platforming action, as well as some funny dialogue and a truly memorable soundtrack. It may not have been the easiest game, but that didn’t stop it from being one of the best-selling titles of all time, shifting more than 8 million copies total. Donkey Kong Counrty and its two sequels kept the SNES relevant until its end, despite newer, more powerful challengers. It’s no wonder that Nintendo quickly became part owners of Rare, which they had a stake in until selling it to Microsoft in 2002.
How it came about: Developer Hal Laboratory barely counts as a third party these days. It’s made games exclusively for Nintendo systems for decades now, and created franchise superstar Kirby. And their former President, Satoru Iwata, now runs Nintendo. Despite all this, when HAL employee and Kirbyco-creator Masahiro Sakurai wanted to make a four-player fighting game for the N64, there was some doubt it would be popular. Even once the devs were given permission by Nintendo to have the fighter include nearly every major Nintendo star, some doubted that game’s chance for success outside Japan. How wrong they were.
Why it was great: The original Super Smash Bros seems like such an obvious idea, it’s amazing that nothing like it had really happened before. Until that point Nintendo’s many franchises had been pretty separate, but SSB brought them all together in a one incredibly frantic brawler. Dream matches like Mario vs Link, or Pikachu vs Samus were played out over and over in levels slathered in Nintendo love and nostalgia.
Fighting game purists may complain that SSB is a cheap, shallow affair that has no right being called a fighter, but the fans know better. The cheapness, the insanity, the unbalanced nature of the fights, all of it adds to the total chaotic pleasure of the whole thing. SSB has become one of Nintendo’s most successful franchises, and thankfully they haven’t milked it to death like Mario Party. Of the two sequels released in the last decade, both added tons more of what Nintendo fanboys love, making Super Smash Bros fans some of the most dedicated in the world.


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The are many benefits of microbial insecticides. The toxin is usually specific to a certain species of insect, so it doesn't affect the "good" insects. Good insects might be predators of other pests and do not destroy plants. The microbial insecticide is not deactivated or otherwise damaged by the residue of other insecticides, so it is often used in conjunction with other insecticides, if needed. It could even be sprayed on food crops just before harvest.
There are several botanical insecticides, including Rotenone and Sabadilla. According to Iowa State University, Rotenone comes from South American legumes. It controls leaf-feeding insects such as aphids and beetles because it acts as a stomach poison. It is toxic to mammals and extremely toxic to fish.
Sabadilla comes from the sabadilla lily--a South American tropical lily. It is sold as "Natural Guard" and "Red Dog." It kills on contact and is also a stomach poison. It controls caterpillars, thrips, leafhoppers, stink bugs and squash bugs. It breaks down fast once sun hits it and does not leave a residue. It is toxic to humans and honeybees.
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Paul S. Landau. Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi + 300 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19603-1.
Reviewed by Fred Morton
Published on H-SAfrica (January, 2013)
Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Admixture, Amalgamation, and Anomaly: Tilting at Tribes
Recipient of the African Studies Association’s Melville J. Herskovits Finalist Award (2010) and praised in published reviews and by the noted scholars who peer-reviewed it, Paul Landau’s highly original take on “highveld” South African politics from 1400 to the National Party victory of 1948 deserves close and serious attention. To begin with, Landau demands that scholars in his field rethink and retool their manner of representing Africans (specifically the “Bantu S-group-speaking farmers”) in this region. He is out to win this argument hands down, to transform the literature, not just to add his bit. The immense array of scholarship that he summons is intended to overwhelm. In turn, Landau rejects standard historical vocabulary and moves for the adoption of a new lexicon of naming Africans and their places (abetted by a bevy of words in quotation marks). Moreover he discerns a political process (what he refers to as “one of overlapping movement and the persistence and transmutation of authority-building practices” [p. 246]) that drives political behavior into the early and mid-colonial period. In support he brings on stage and off (and often on again) capsule narratives across a broad space and over four centuries. Landau assumes that his readers are familiar with major events and trends in the region, to which he alludes but briefly. Popular Politics in the History of South Africa is not for the lay reader.
Landau articulates six overlapping arguments, but his book may also be understood as having three distinct segments. My (not Landau’s) rough terms for these segments are pre-tribal, tribal, and post-tribal. The pre-tribal segment begins with early nineteenth-century encounters between the Bechuana (Tswana) of the northern Cape and travelers, officials, and missionaries, most of whom are British or English Cape subjects. Early white visitors revealed a poor sense of the people whom they encountered but readily wrote them into the permanent record as the leaders/members of homogenous, named entities understood stereotypically as tribes. This opening, which foreshadows the second (tribal) segment, serves as Landau’s foil to set the pre-encounter, pre-tribal picture of the people of the Highveld (chapter 2, “History before Tribes”), which is the boldest portion of his argument and the heart of his book.
Landau’s pre-tribal frame of reference is the S-group Bantu speakers who stretch from the Zimbabwean plateau in the north, to the Tsodilo Hills (northwest Botswana) in the west, all the way south to the Orange River and the eastern escarpment. Relying on Tom Huffman’s archaeological publications, Landau charts the emergence of stone-walled settlement builders in the fifteenth century as his starting point, noting in particular the areas in which the (central) Cattle Plan (CP)-type settlements are located. The link between these and the ZP-type structures (typical of Zimbabwe/Leopard’s Kopje) is the Rozwi dynasty, in which rozwi assumed (“instantiated” is Landau’s preferred transitive) a centralizing role that amalgamated peoples of varying progeny into an association governed from a location that he refers to as a “prestige place.” The acceptance of rozwi as “prestige place” or “prestige place association” was transmuted southward into the CP-type settlement areas where it became rotse, linked to the acknowledged senior Tswana-speaking people labeled BaHurutshe and relocated from the southern Highveld to western Zambia by the MaKololo/BaLozi. As Landau remarks, “We can translate all of these, rozi, rozvi, and rotse as ‘prestige place association’ signifying political hegemony and power” (p. 56). All prestige place associations and their many offshoots established themselves on a similar principle that used the “twin court” to attach outsiders or accord junior houses recognition within the prestige place “in the idiom of brotherhood” (p. 70). Genealogies were fudged to import non-related residents into the ranked descent line. In Landau’s words, “Collateral lines of men split off, and others formed new alliances in their own interests; sometimes they achieved their aims with a military posture, sometimes without one.... Genealogies might emerge by consensus and cover the tracks of amalgamations” (p. 56).
In the process, over time, the Highveld farmers “nurtured a political tradition capable of accommodating and embracing strangers, one fully formed even before the arrival of Cape ‘Korana’ and métis into their midst” (p. 73). “Méti” is one of Landau’s terms to displace “coloured,” “griqua,” “bastaard,” “bergenaar,” and other labels current in the Cape that obscure, in his view, the blended quality of their societies and the ease with which they formed relationships among the Highveld farmers. The latter people Landau refers to are well known to us as the Batlhaping, Barolong, Bahurutshe, Bakwena, Bakgatla, etc., but Landau rejects these labels, because in his view the “ethnic or tribal approach results only in a fog of particularity” (p. 64). Instead he uses totemic or place identities, which are related to the terms above, but which he believes were not heard that way by the people to whom they refer. Thus, in the place of Batlhaping, Landau uses “people of the fish place” (tlhapi, “fish,” ing, the locative), or “the crocodile people” for Bakwena (kwena, “crocodile”), etc.
Language means more to Landau than name shifting. He is particularly attentive to what he sees as “analogous morphemes” that signify senior-junior court relationships, which formed the basis of solving problems arising from the inclusion of outsiders or disappointed descendants of royal authority (p. 64). The senior-junior, or twin-court, paradigm spread throughout the Highveld because of what he regards as the constant movement brought by splits, conflict, and other forces leading to relocation and social entry into already settled areas. In his words, “Human struggle fed regional interpretations of the paradigm” (p. 64).
The second, tribal, segment of the book describes what Landau regards as the nineteenth-century process by which tribalization (homogenizing, standardizing) of heterogeneous people--“how Europeans made tribes” (p. 121)--took place. He does this by examining missionary translations of Setswana and by charting land dispossession highlighted by the plight of Moroka’s people at Thaba Nchu in present-day Free State. L.M.S. missionary Robert Moffat, based at Kuruman from 1820 to 1870, had much to do with establishing the Tswana lexicon and English printed translations (“the trellis upon which the ivy of religion grew” [p. 76]), a typical outcome of European missionary work elsewhere. Landau credits Samuel Broadbent and Moffat, in particular, with creating an “orthodoxy” of language that “defined and monitored [religious] pedagogy” in a way that infused meanings that obscured original Setswana terms (p. 86). For example, Moffat’s use of modimo (ancestor ... a man, not a spirit, whose memory “cloak[s] military alliances”) to refer to God everlasting befuddled his Kuruman listeners if not striking them as hilarious. Yet such terms, and idioms in Setswana, became permanent biblical expressions that mirrored European notions of belief and made up for what Moffat regarded as a Tswana deficiency of “theological terms” (p. 103).
The case of Moroka is narrated at length to chart the “regional loss of chiefly power” alongside the imposition by European leaders and officials of labels of tribe, native, coloured, and other “glosses” (p. 128). As Barolong, Basotho, etc, became standard ethnic references, they were equated with stereotypical beliefs and customs that remained in flux as Africans were considered moving in the direction of civilization. “This is still the dominant paradigm,” Landau asserts, “in public discourse for understanding historical change in colonized places ... from tribal base to ‘modernity’” (p. 143). And, from the colonized’s perspective, “tribal allegiances” became acceptable, even though they “den[ied] the circumstances of their own generation..., because they were what was left over” (p. 149).
Briefly, the post-tribal segment pertains to the twentieth century, when submerged notions of chiefly amalgamation at prestige places resurfaced in organizations and movements that aimed to offset if not throw off the veneer of colonial authority. Moroka’s evolving narrative returns here, representing, in Landau’s view, “similar efflorescences of the same political tradition.... South African leaders, Garveyites, ancestor-centered mobilizations, and charismatic Christians, all reintegrated an unnamed ancestor with their pragmatic alliances; and like chiefs to the north, they kept the issue of the land in the forefront” (p. 178). The inclusiveness of the Highveld model was broadly adopted across European-imposed racial lines. The charismatic Andries Le Fleur, of French-Malaysian descent and who led the Christian Kokstad rebellion, “rearticulate[d] the non-racialist and incorporative message, characteristic of past rural highveld politics” (p. 203). Thus in the twentieth century, the tribe assumed a new form, reminiscent of the Highveld tradition, expressed as “the idea of an agglomeration of people clamoring for chiefship and land, who defined themselves by their aspirations” (p. 219). Twentieth-century tribes represent a “drive to unify, according to shared Highveld principles, [and] survived among common people ... albeit almost entirely in encrypted and altered form” (pp. 245-246).
As much as I stand in awe of his scholarship, of the breadth of his historical sweep, and of his impressive command of Setswana, this last phrase captures my misgivings about Landau’s interpretation of South African history. His caveat--“albeit almost entirely in encrypted and altered form”--suggests that Landau sees in historic and recent power-seeking organizations that which he wishes to find while perhaps overlooking other feasible explanations. Landau’s emphasis on the “twin-court” arrangement, for example, does not explain the three-division (kgosing, upper, lower) layout of twentieth-century settlements noted by Isaac Schapera and indicated by such well-mapped, late Iron Age sites as Molokwane and Kaditshwene. These examples are a small sample of wide variations in size and arrangements of stone-wall settlements. Bearing in mind that the archaeological study of stone-walled settlements has still to survey even a small percentage of existing sites across the Highveld, it seems premature to encapsulate these widespread populations into a uniform political dynamic.
The broad landscape that Landau describes includes many settlement areas occupied by people he makes no mention of. Though admittedly something of a thicket to walk through, Landau avoids the ethnographic publications of Paul L. Breutz and Nicholaas.J. Van Warmelo, leaving the major sources for reconstructing Tswana history limited to the western Tswana speakers. Landau’s broad historical landscape is also highly varied in physical terms, yet the differences one may expect when comparing the people of the crocodile (Bakwena), who border the Kalahari sands, with, say, the people of the crocodile at Molokwane in the fertile, well-watered Ngwaritse plain near Rustenburg, has not been considered as a possible alternative factor in political arrangements.
Difficulties also arise in accepting Landau’s extended treatise that “highveld principles” superseded other factors in the exercise of political leadership. The oral literature abounds in struggles for chiefly power; authoritarian regimes; enslavement; multiple group alliances to destroy neighbors; expulsions (including schismatic church members); and failed, not to mention assassinated, chiefs. Rivalries among kin could be deadly. It is fair for Landau to claim that “highland principles” were in play when societies cohered, but he has not demonstrated that they outran the competition for, and exercise of, power.
In general, Popular Politics, though not without some excellent biographical vignettes, sometimes reads like a manual of programmed behavior of its historical characters, who perform according to the Landau paradigm rather than appear as individuals in their own right. And apart from the few white personalities engaged seriously with learning Setswana, it is hard to distinguish among this book’s Europeans, generally held up to scorn. The “Boers” come into the story infrequently, though their interactions on the Highveld with its indigenous inhabitants have been understood as a complex and not entirely one-sided process. Significantly, these Dutch-speaking immigrants, as distinct from the English-speaking colonists, viewed the people they tried to dominate as followers of chiefs (kapiteins), not as ethnonyms or tribes.
Landau is somewhat mischievous in jettisoning ethnic references (Kwena, etc), just because they have been badly mishandled by English-speaking missionaries and officials. The heterogeneous nature of Tswana societies has long been accepted in the published literature (including in Landau’s earlier publications), and there is little reason to think the labels widely adopted to refer to them were concocted by latecomers too myopic to recognize them as amalgamated entities. Landau’s dismissal of the Tswana as lacking a religious system is likewise mystifying, as it ignores Gabriel M. Setiloane’s warning that “the concept ‘religion’ is a Western phenomenon, defining the deity (GOD) whether it be a Supreme Being, Father, Brother or Mother, and even capable of dying. To do this ... would be importing foreign categories and trying to force the African understanding to stand or fall according to whether they make sense to them.”
My criticisms aside, Popular Politics is an excellent work, produced by a scholar of immense talent, scope, and intellect. At present, few Africanists are as capable as Landau of using indigenous language and its translation in sustained historical analysis. His exploration of the manner in which religion was understood and imbedded in language advances our understanding of the nature of Christian influence far beyond the work of Jean and John Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa (1991). For more than two decades, South Africa and Botswana have been the yawning gap left by Leroy Vail’s classic collection, The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (1989), on the creation of tribes in Southern Africa. Landau has managed alone to fill it (apart from the Transvaal lacuna), a herculean feat, and moreover he connects the pre-tribal phase to the colonial panorama. By and large, the creators of tribes in Vail, however, were African actors adapting to the colonial landscape. Landau has reversed and deepened the process. The questions remain, however, are the tribal labels that he dismisses as European figments real and dear enough to the people to which they have long been attached? And are the uniform qualities that Landau perceives among them more revealing than their differences?
. Isaac Schapera, Native Land Tenure in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Lovedale: Lovedale Press, 1943), 70-71; Isaac Schapera, The Tswana (London: International African Institute, 1953), 47; and Isaac Schapera, A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom (London: Frank Cass, 1970), xiii; Julius C. Pistorius, Molokwane an Iron Age Bakwena Village: Early Tswana Settlement in the Western Transvaal (Johannesburg: Perskor Printers, 1992), 17, 48; Jan C. A. Boeyens, “In Search of Kaditshwene,” South African Archaeological Bulletin 55 (2000): 9-10; and more recently, for Marathodi, Mark S. Anderson, Marathodi: The Historical Archaeology of an African Capital (Bozeat: Atikkam Media, 2009), 59.
. Isaac Schapera, “Kinship and Politics in Tswana History,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 93, no. 2 (1963): 159-173.
. Among others, see J. S. Bergh and Fred Morton, “To Make Them Serve....”: The 1871 Transvaal Commission on African Labour (Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2003), 177-184; and J. S. Bergh, “‘We Must Never Forget Where We Come From’: The Bafokeng and Their Land in the 19th Century Transvaal,” History in Africa 32 (2005): 95-115.
. Gabriel M. Setiloane, “How the Traditional World View Persists in the Christianity of the Sotho-Tswana,” Pula: The Botswana Journal of African Studies 1, no. 1 (1978): 27-42, quotation on 38. See also Gabriel M. Setiloane, The Image of God among the Sotho-Tswana (Rotterdam: Balkema, 1976).
. University of Botswana linguist Thapelo Otlogetswe judges Landau’s chapter 3, “Translations,” “an excellent piece,” though he questions a few of Landau’s renderings and regards some of his translations as transliterations. Thapelo Otlogetswe, personal communication with author, November 23, 2012. Matters of dialectical differences among Setswana speakers await close analysis.
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Emmys: Why Actresses With Small TV Show Followings Aren't Likely to Win
For the first time last year, members of individual branches of the TV Academy — actors, the various crafts, etc. — were allowed not only to select the nominees in their respective categories but also to vote for the winners.
Previously, for final voting, each branch was represented by a "blue ribbon panel" comprising a handful of members who were able and willing to watch everything. But the panels tended to be older, conservative and make somewhat esoteric choices. The result of 2015's democratization became clear Emmy night, when there were nearly no jaw-droppers as there had been in recent years (e.g., Jeff Daniels for The Newsroom? Merritt Wever for Nurse Jackie?!).
To the contrary, nearly every winner hailed from a popular show. In the lead drama actress category, the beneficiary was Viola Davis of the ABC hit How to Get Away With Murder. Why is that important? Because it illustrates why a win now is all but impossible for someone on a show with a relatively small following — think Tatiana Maslany of BBC America's Orphan Black — and likelier for someone on everyone's radar.
That might well be Davis again — or possibly another past winner, Julianna Margulies, for CBS' departed The Good Wife. She won twice under the old system, without sentiment on her side.
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Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) is not an obviously Scottish piece of culture. Set in Los Santos, a fictionalised Los Angeles, it has very little in common with the land of Robert Burns. For a start, it very rarely rains in Los Santos. Yet the GTA franchise, which has its roots in the Scottish city of Dundee, has subtley alluded to its orgins over the years.
For the first time in the series' illustrious history, the hype, combined with writers and gamers alike falling over each other to lavish praise on the game, has completely eclipsed the naysayers and detractors. The moral outcry that was meant to greet the game has simply failed to materialise. But why?


From an Official PLOS Blog Post:
PLOS is pleased to announce a program to increase the global participation of authors in open-access publishing. On September 4th, 2012, we launched the PLOS Global Participation Initiative, which aims to encourage submissions from researchers around the world who may previously have been prevented or limited in their ability to publish in open-access journals.
Our mission is to reduce and, if possible, eliminate unnecessary barriers (including cost) to the immediate availability, access and use of research while pursuing a sustainable publishing model in which openness, quality and integrity are central.
The first program in this new initiative aims to tackle barriers to publication based on cost, specifically addressing the lack of funding for publication faced by authors in many countries.
PLOS developed the Global Participation Initiative in consultation with its International Advisory Group (IAG), which is a group of eminent individuals from around the world whose aim is to ensure that we address issues that will encourage global participation. We analyzed multiple data sources to establish the parameters of the program by examining Gross National Income per capita and national expenditure on Research and Development.
Addressing the financial barriers to publication is an important first step towards the goal of ensuring the widest possible global participation in open-access publishing.
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This is one more reason why I think George Lucas is a bigot and only uses aliens to reinforce social and ethnic stereotypes.
Welcome to "Prejudice 101: They All Look The Same To Me." I'm Archie Bunker and I'll be your seminar host.
Sure, Geonosians all look the same. They're ugly little bug-like things, with about as much appeal to human eyes as a cockroach. The leader even speaks in an alien dialect that's a cross between some African tribal clicking sounds and the kind of flatulent squirts you'd expect to hear in one of them there Adam Sandler movies.
You see one shoot, you seen 'em all shoot. They're all
bad. Just look at them. Your first instinct as a superior being is to step on them before they bite you 'cuz, hey, that's what bugs do.
Sure, there might be those pinko liberals that'll try to tell you this scene should be viewed more like an NFL game, with seats loaded with decent, upstanding blue-collar bug factory workers just kickin' back to watch some entertainment. Then ZOINKS out come the Jedi, and these innocent spectators just want out!
But that's not the case because this is a world created by your George Lucas here. He's the guy who is trying to get you to believe that because ONE Hutt is bad, they're ALL bad. And that even though there's not ONE shred of evidence in the movies to support the idea that Sandpeople are vicious monsters, they ARE because they LOOK like monsters. Even your negroes can't be trusted. Lando's a turncoat, there's something fishy about that Windu fella
, and Panaka just disappeared, only to be replaced with another colored guy because... say it with me... they all look the same to me.


Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a “camp,” home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals–drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers.
And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it’s starting to really work. The money is pouring in.
Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and the Brethren’s days of quietly marking time are over.
“Gripping … engaging and fast-paced … will hook you from the first page and won’t let you go.”—New York Post
“A crackerjack tale.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Fast-paced and action-packed…you’ll be thoroughly entertained.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune
“The plot is as up-to-date as tomorrow’s newspaper, with allusions to presidential polls and debates, campaign financing, money laundering and offshore financial finagling…. Add to these tantalizing ingredients the steady action, with some clever surprises.”—The New York Times


Dirty Fed Operative Reveals Inflation Is Part of the Scheme
I mean we knew as much but it's always shocking when they actually admit this stuff out loud. Check out Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren:
"While the economy is growing, it is currently growing too slowly to significantly reduce the unemployment rate or stem disinflationary pressures created by the high degree of slack in the economy," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said.
"My firm view is that it is important that policymakers be open to implementing policies consistent with achieving full employment, and an appropriate level of inflation, within a reasonable time frame," he said. "We are missing on both elements on both of our targets," the official said. Given that, "there may be an opportunity to do more," although "our actions should be tied to the situation," the official said.
Rosengren was speaking to The Forecasters Club of New York about all sorts of exciting things like how doomed we are and how his Fed is going to get us out of this mess. Manipulation is always a good shot, especially since that has worked out so well for them lately.
"Views on securities purchases differ within the ranks of policymakers and all manner of observers," Rosengren said. "It is important to keep firmly in mind the goal of such purchases: to stimulate the economy by reducing long-term interest rates to a level that is more consistent with where they would be, were we able to further reduce the federal funds rate."
Rosengren said he was confident the Fed could be effective with asset-buying should it choose to act. "If we are willing to expand our balance sheet, I have no doubt we can influence interest rates," the official said, although he added the troubles suffered by the economy aren't something Fed policy can remedy by itself.
Hahahahahahahaha really? The only influence they've had so far is pushing mortgage rates down to 4% (and, uh, that still isn't fixing the inventory clog because obviously interest rates are NOT the problem - unless you're a saver living off of your savings, in which case you have been sufficiently screwed by these idiot attempts to "fix" the economy) and keeping the US Treasury supplied with fresh cash.
Fed policy can't do shit and they look stupid trying at this point. Why not back away from the securitization slowly and leave the Fed balance sheet as is? See how that works out.
Deflation isn't the end of the world, no use trying to combat it now seeing as how we do not have a solid plan in place to cut off rampant inflation once it starts brewing. But judging by Rosengren's comments they aren't at all concerned with cutting it off. Why would they be? Terminal deflation means an end to the perpetual debt machine that IS the Fed's life blood, why do you think they are fighting so hard to keep that scenario from playing out? Meanwhile the worst case scenario on the opposite side would be rampant inflation which would probably be perceived as beneficial to the idiot unwashed masses. They would appreciate a 20% pay raise without realizing it's the same amount of money as before because goods and services have increased at the same rate. Morons.


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Keen Category: Astrology Advice
When you find out that the man you are interested in is a Taurus, take a deep breath and ask yourself if you have the patience for what lies ahead. You are embarking on a partnership with a force of nature.
The Bull is the second sign of the zodiac and represents our relationship to the material world. A man who is born under this sign considers the material aspects and rewards of all projects. He is always working on one of two types of projects: profitable or potentially profitable.
No matter what your Taurus man is doing, he is thinking of how to make money or how finances are impacting his day-to-day world. This is not a manifestation of greed as much as it is a need for certainty about where the world is taking him. If you partner with a Bull, his deep loyalty will include you in his big picture of where financial security is leading you both.
Taurus men are notoriously consistent. This has its high and low points. You can rely on your man to keep his composure. When he alters from his usual routine, you will know things have truly changed.
The biggest complaint about Taurus men is that they are boring. They repeat daily patterns ad infinitum. On a positive note, they are rarely flighty, which allows their partner to take on a more fluid role. Their solid connection to the way the world works is a blessing on the long-term stability of your love relationship. Choosing a Taurus man as a partner will lead to a life of practicality.
Read below to see how a girl with your zodiac sign gets along with a Bull before you decide to lock horns.
Aries woman, your ability to articulate the vision that a Taurus man sees will create an unbreakable bond between you two. There are opportunities for you to build something meaningful together. Many people benefit from your love and commitment.
The two of you may have too much energy to contain in one relationship. If you have different interests and spend time apart, as a Taurus woman you could have a physical intensity that is difficult to ever top.
A Bull might be living the life the Gemini woman dreams about. Can you dare to make the leap into his world? Are you in love with him or with your illusion of having what he possesses? Be clear, for you will have to submit to the Bull's natural possessiveness.
The Taurus man may tempt you, Cancerian woman, as he offers you a glimpse into a world you could otherwise only imagine. However, if the chemistry is not there, you will be pulled away as his approval of you signals your worth to other men.
The tension between you will either quickly drive you apart or glue you together in an inseparable bond. There is no middle ground here, Leo ladies. The passion is intense, and may manifest as hatred as easily as love.
The travel to places that you both enjoy will be where you fall in love with a Taurus. The question always looms between you two, though: "Can he live in your world and can you live in his?" The answer is yes, Virgo woman, as long as the chaos of love continues to flow.
The Libra woman might experience an initial dread of this man. He will seem disconnected from the things you value. And then suddenly, he will have you in the palm of his hand. How did this change of heart occur? You didn't realize he was seducing you from day one.
The Scorpio woman is the karmic partnership sign for a Taurus. You will learn more about yourself in a relationship with a Bull than from any other sign. Approach this man with an earnest desire to contribute to a partnership. The reward of self-awareness will be transformative.
Your ability to get him to serve you will be the initial attraction. But do not become resentful when you suddenly realize that he is running the relationship and that you are on your hands and knees making him feel good. You might even find this to be fulfilling, Sagittarius woman.
Capricorn woman, is there a reason you are holding back in your pursuit of this man? Perhaps you realize that love can be avoided with your naturally fickle state, but that passion will keep you completely under his spell. Find a happy medium between individuality and submission when it comes to him.
Aquarius woman, oil and vinegar could take notes from you two on how to stay apart. There might be such a fantastic dislike of each other that you both start to enjoy it. And then, the moment may come, when you just cannot live without your Taurus man, the opposite of everything you want, the center of your universe.
Pisces woman, there might be so much for you two to talk about that you never quite get down to the physical side of a relationship. This is a classic karmic friendship relationship, and do not be surprised if you have him more intimately than anyone else, even without ever being physically intimate with him.


A brave young man
1st April 2013
The young boy you are about to watch is Deryn who is 13 from Watton. He has Langerhans Cell Sarcoma AND Leukaemia, he is the ONLY person in the world to have these two cancers at the same time.
He is in a Bristol Hospital at the moment where one month ago today he had a bone marrow transplant, which they 'hope' will work. This is his last and only option!
Despite his situation Deryn is always smiling and this video of his transplant shows his determination and just how amazing he really is.
I've invited Deryn to KL.FM as soon as he is fit enough to perform this song at our studios without the tubes and wires live on the radio.
His story has attracted worldwide media attention already click here for more.
Get well soon fella!
Posted by Simon Rowe at 12:11pm